IKN'AL, Salem. Oregon
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McCarthy and the 'subsidy'
Senator McCarthy's angry tirade about the alleged
post office "subsidy" to newspapers sent through the
mail makes some headlines, throws some additional light
on the senator's methods, and deserves some answer or
explanation by the press.
First, McCarthy's methods. You will notice whenever
he is criticized by anyone, be it by another politician, a
private citizen of any prominence, or a publication, he
promptly retorts with a smear. Many of the leading pub.
Jications of the country, including some very conservative
ones, have been dubbed as "the - edition of the Daily
Worker." The Worker is the principal Communist news
paper in the United States,
So the other day when McCarthy got into a ruckus
with the Washington PoBt, he called for an investigation
of mail postage rates on newspapers, as if the very men
tion of this supposedly terrible scandal would drive every
editor to cover and protect the senator from future press
criticism.
McCarthy's attempts at intimidation are despicable
generally and if they succeed would seriously undermine
our whole American way of life. But we don't think they
will succeed and if they do it will be because Americans
have become such a feeble breed that their doom as free
men is sealed anyway. So we regard McCarthy as a pain
in the neck rather than a menace, and we also recognize
that he frequently does some good.
But this newspaper mail "subsidy." What is it? The
post office apparently carries newspapers at less than
cost, as it does most of its other business to the tune of
a total annual deficit of half a billion or so. Biggest
moocher is trovemment mail which is carried free, includ.
ing millions of pieces of propaganda for senators. But
only the newspaper rate is ever called a subsidy.
This newspaper recognizes the postage rate on news
papers as too low. We do not believe it has been raised
since prewar, and it should be. Congress is at fault, and
so is the post office department which has failed to pro
vide congress with a cost study and a feasible rate sched
ule. -
But who gets the benefit of the low rate? Not the
newspapers so much as their readers. Production costs
make prices, and delivery costs are among them. Ad
vance the rates, which we think ought to be done, and
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
With Ike and Adlai in Big
Town Seemed Like Old Times
!y RELMANMORIN
For Hit Boyle
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Renowned Fortune Teller
Drops in at White House
jcalling list, but a renowned for
tune teller hai heen Hrnnnlnff
the readers will pay, if they continue to receive their jin at the White House during
newspapers in this manner.
The postage rate has become rather a minor issue with
most daily newspapers, which have sifted to the more
speedy but much more costly home delivery by newspaper
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Her name has-1 price supports.
n't appeared on the official The cattlement's delegation
included blunt-spoken Stanley
E. Furrow of Greeley, Colo.,
whom Ike immediately recog
the Spring and Summer, car-lnized as having come to call
rying her crystal ball. She is on him during' the election
vivacious Jeanne Dixon, wholcampaign last summer,
foretold the Korean truce, "The last time I saw you,"
forecast that Native Dancer chided the President, "you told
carrier. This newspaper is now approximately Si) per 'would place in but not win the j me you wanted just one thing
cent home delivered and would not be seriously affected i Kentucky Derby and, for ten' to keep the government out
by any increase the government might make. years, has been telling the lu- jof the cattle business,
Let Senator McCarthy turn his energy in this direction.
It will be O.K. with us. Particularly if we can eventu
ally hear the last of that word "subsidy."
PRISON REVELATIONS
It was an astounding revelation that Warden Clarence
Gladden of the Oregon state prison made to the state
board of control Friday of conditions existing in the in
stitution previously to his appointment, conditions which
were largely responsible for the turmoil and disturbances,
strikes, mutinies and incendiary fires that had kept the
penitentiary on the front pages of the nation's newspa
pers for the past two years.
A brief summary of Warden Gladden's statement,
made in a request for 25 additional guards to insure proper
supervision of the 1560 convicts, for the population of the
penitentiary has grown proportionately with that of Ore
gon and will continue to expand, reveals that:
One prisoner, with an Intelligence quota of 129, ruled with
n iron hand as boss of the prison, sold liquor and narcotics,
gave out jobs to convicts, assigned lieutenants to key jobs and
corrupted even a deputy warden.
It was a custom to hold big drunks every Saturday night,
some 700 gallons of "pruno," made by the convicts themselves,
have been confiscated since April 1.
There is evidence that $10,000 was collected by this prison
leader and spirited out of the prison. And for lack of ade
quate supervision both -liquor and narcotics are still being
smuggled into the institution.
The convicts controlled the leather Industry at the prison,
bought the leather then distributed it perhaps at a price to
other prisoners, who used it to manufacture novelties a profit
able business for them.
Thievery was rampant. Inmates stole turkeys and food sup
Mies, sugar from the dining room and cannery, meat out of
he commissary,' leaving only poor cuts for the prisoners.
Between 70 and 80 truckloads of contraband were seized
following the prison revolt last month, which was quelled by
isolating the prisoners in the baseball field until the leaders
surrendered and 120 of them placed in solitary confinement.
The board of control trimmed the warden's request for
extra guards to $100,000 emergency appropriation?, which
will provide 20 employes instead of the 25 asked for,
which mav suffice for the nresent. '
Thus another noble experiment to make the peniten-lbf,0l:" by Profession and does
: ..:.. v.. in't charge for her psychic serv-
the sentimental sob-sisters, as well as politicians in the
legislature, has collapsed. Some people will never learn
that the golden rule will not work with hardened crim
inals and ranesters.
The countrv club exnerimcnt was tried In the 20'a in lu,t the means of communica
Oregon and ended in bloody escapes and pursuits. It
has been tried in many fine new "model prisons" and only
produced bloody riots.
Warden Gladden deserves commendation for his restor
ation of discipline and the board of control for its cooper
ation to end the rule of near anarchy. G. P.
ture for Mamie Eisenhower.
Since Mamie moved into the
White House, the psychic Mrs.
Dixon has been called in oc
casionally to keep the first lady
up to date on her future. Fur
thermore, she has done some
crystall-ball gazing for
President, himself.
"I can use three psychic me
diums the crystal ball, palm
istry, and aerology," Mrs. Dix
on acknowledged to this col
umn. However, her usual pro
cedure, she explained, is to
touch the subject's fingertips
and simultaneously peer over
her shoulder into the crystal
ball.
Asked what she saw In the
mystic crystal, she replied that
the images varied sometimes
symbols, sometimes pictures.
In the case of Native Dancer,
for example, she saw a clear
picture of the Dancer running
behind an "unknown long
shot." Once she even saw a
number in her billiard-sized
crystal. She didn't know what
the number meant,' but a gam
bling friend won $10,000 play
ing it. To show his gratitude,
he brought Mrs. Dixon a brand
new $800 crystal ball.
PREDICTED IKE'S
GOLF SCORRS
Though she chatted freely
RELEASE OF SANDERS
Edgar Sanders, British representative of an electrical i 1852.
company in Hungary, who has been in prison there three
and a half years on a charge of espionage, has been par
doned by the satellite Hungarian government and allowed
to leave the country
"Well, conditions have
changed," replied the Colorado
cattleman. He explained that
feed prices he had to pay were
supported by the government
at 90 percent of parity; as a
result, it was only fair to sup-
t he! Port cattle prices, too.
"If we do that," countered
the President, "we would have
to support dairy products,
too." .
There was an . awkward
pause. The cattlemen present
didn't like to embarrass the
President of the United States.
But Senator Kerr of Oklahoma
leaned forward, looked over his
'glases, and pointed a long
finger at General Eisenhower.
"But, Mr. President, you al
ready are supporting dairy pro
ducts," he drawled. "All the
cattlement want is equal treat
ment." Another cattleman, H. H.
Mogue of Dalhart, Tex., saved
the day by interrupting to say
he had a plan for solving the
cattle crises. He would have
the government support cattle
prices up to the surplus point,
then cut off supports as soon
as a surplus developed and
leave it up to the cattlemen to
get rid of their overproduction
at world market prices. The
name vhAma pnuM Ka fnltntuAH
about her work, Mrs. Dixon lhe suggcsted, for all form com
refused to identify her clicn- jmodities
tele or to talk about the Eisen-1 The prcsidcnt was ,0 im.
?w?"i, ""l" cl0SC to th? P w"h the idea that he
White House, however, report ijumped up from his chair,
that she has amazed the Presi-,.. ..Listen." he declared, "when
dent by reading his golf scores any gr0Up will take responsi
in the crystal ball. bmty for disp0sing of their
Mrs. Dixon is a real estate nwn .rt, r. tnr iht-
iU.i ..a uurs-, However, New Mexico's
psychic serv-c r-ii a-.
ices. ,f unnermore, sne taxes onetime
no personal crecm ior ner oc-10
.JToik,' .u . tion- He recalled that a South
"The Bible says that all ev- Dakota editor w R, RnaId
ents are foreshadowed. I am h,h h . .j .,,i '
ICS ' o em Kut ttrt nnuihnra tarttk It
tion." she observes Tfte b,em w , lix how
Pointing to a starlike 1m- jmuch each Jarmer indivldually
print in her own palm explain-1 overproduced. In other words,
ed was the mark of the "true ! Anderson poi,,,,,, out, lt wa,
. j . . impractical to ascertain how
Her past record of accurate mu.h . farm.,
..... . . i'i- much was surplus and had to
man s surprise victory in 1948, V ,u ,.,., j
and republican sweep in, t the end. the President . Booth at State Fair
democratic secretary
agriculture, aavisca cau
OPEN FORUM
Salem Man Who Knew
Boss Flynn Comments
To the Editor: Your editorial
on the passing of Ed. Flynn,
popularly known as the "boss
of the Bronx," was quite ap
propriate. With its general
theme I quite concur How
ever I must call attention to
the fact that Flynn was never
a Tammany leader and fre
quently engaged in bitter con
flict with the Tammany lead
ers. Popularly . speaking, Tam
many Hall is the sobriquet ap
plied to the Democratic or
ganization of Manhattan alone.
Ed. Flynn was - the chief
power of the Democratic party
in the Bronx, as Carmine De
Sapio is in Manhattan (Tam
many.) Other leaders are
found in the three other New
York boroughs. .
Flynn and De Sapio were
very similar personalities
Flynn was an extremely suave,
gracious and persuasive per
son, as is De Sapio. Flynn rose
steadily througl the ranks of
local and state office until he
reached the position of secre
tary of state for New York.
From there he went on' to the
national : leadership of the
Democratic party.
In 1948 he accepted an In
vitation to talk to one of my
classes In local government t
the ' Bronx campus of N.Y.U.
Unfortunately his main contri
bution was a very able con
demnation of civil service and
advocacy of the spoils system.
His case was made with con
vincing sincerity and grace.
The tragedy of "bossism" as
one sees it in our Flynns,
Hagues, Crumps and Pender-
gasts, seems to me to lie not in
the character of the bosses but
in the fact that .people are
willing to be bossed. Flynn
wrote a book not so long ago
called "You're the Boss." I
think he sincerely wanted to
serve the people but the peo
ple preferred to be bossed.
When the average citizen
takes an active interest in the
affairs of his political party
the county chairman must be a
Servant, not a boss. Flynn can
not be criticized for filling a
p"lit!cal vacuum. The people
of the B-cnx pb-iicated their
responsibilities.
Here in Oregon the same
type of party leader can em
erge unless all of us maintain
eternal political vigilance.
When citizens stop exercising
their citizenship they get--and
deserve political bosses.
Willamette University,
Homer A. Freeman Direc
tor Oregon Citizenship
Clearing House, Willam
ette University, Salem.
Raps Critic of Nudist
1952. She also foresaw thelgcstcd 'the cattle growe;.'
struggle inside the Kremlin af- ,"k. un th,ir PM-m. ... Et!Uor-
, c.ii. ft j . v. Iae up tneir proDiems with t have lust n
l",S,illn,tde,th' nd. .h e Secretary of Agriculture Ben-fJU.V.
'V "rrson.
of the next vrvrv m...,i.:i.
nussiau uinaiur wiiu will S(?ize
claims to have
crystal the face
'aid to drought-stricken cattle-
snopii ntinn rtvpi T n a mpnmnir rtT lhi mnv tvhiph ft- ..11 cu- ju.
lows the release of the American Vogeler is general. Is jcognize the face, though she!"' "d Vi.7rHtd
it part of a "peace offensive" or has there been a real jdescrlbes lt as fat and rather rdtrh" panicky iCg wve
change of heart by the Reds? It followed a formal appeal (quare. 'and firmed up cattle prices.
to the Hungarian government by Mrs. banders, a similar
cattern to the Vogeler case.
However, one item in the British announcement prob
ably touch.es the real reason. It is that a trade embargo
which was placed on Hungary in reprisal for the Sanders
confinement will now be raised by Britain.
Apparently Hungary wanted British goods it wasn't
getting, so got big hearted after receiving the appeal of a
heartbroken wife. The moral is that the Reds can be
hurt and sometimes brought to time in small matters at
least by trade reprisals. It's a fact worth remembering.
read Isabell Dit-
ter's letter stating that she and
Avornl V)thfrA wouldn't on tn
federal ' tne state Fair If the "nudists"
ICoprrliM
Bl'RMNG FEWER BARNS
Vienna U. Praca, the or
gan of the Slovak trade unions,
praised the fire brigades today
because "the number of barns
set on fire in harvest time hv
their problems. The last dele-Idas enemies was 57.5 per cent
Ration that came to see him ! lower than last year" and those
found Ike extremely alert on actually set on fire were "cx
one personal-political angle. tinguished in a very short
but woefully ignorant about! time."
As tor the future, she de-
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IKE'S COW KNOWLEDGE
Now that the President is
out near the western cattle
ranges, cattlemen are hoping
he'll get better acquainted with
are having a booth there.
The manager clearly stated
that there will be no nudists at
the fair booth. So what? No
body is forced to go into any
of those booths or look at any
thing he doesn't want to. This
is still a free country and its
not against the law to be a nud
ist However I'm not one.
HAZEL NELSON.
2170 Trade St
New York 11 It wai like
old timet in New York this
week. .
First, the President came to
town for a day, and then Adlai
Stevenson touched down, re
turning from his trip around
the world. Before you could
say "national committee," a
fair copy of the spasms and
convulsions that shake this re
public every four years was
taking shape all over town.
The hotel corridori were
neckdeep in politics. The news-
reelmen, hoarse voiced and
croaking, pleaded with people
to get out of their foreground.
Patient New York gendarmes
were trying to keep order,
usually with a wisecrack, some
times with an arm. The usual
cranks and hangers-on invaded
the news conferences. And
there was that pleasantly fa
miliar sensation of trying to
take notes on a carefully word
ed statement with a photog
rapher's elbow In your eye.
Yes, sir, it was exactly like
last year when Eisenhower and
Stevenson were warming up
for the decision that came in
November.
Neither seems to have suf
fered much from the effects
of erection day.
The President was bouncing
around in his suite on the 32nd
floor of the Waldorf with the
easy, 4ree-wheeling grace of a
professional athlete. He was
still wearing a pair of Army.
issue officer's shoes, the buckle
over type they sell in the PX.
He looked a little thinner,
mucn sharper, and very much
more sure of himself. He sat,
talking deeply with Col. Har
old Riegelman, the GOP candi
date for mayor of New York,
apparently oblivious to the
bedlam going on around him.
The deep furrow that runs
horizontally across the top of
his nose, in moments of keen
concern, never appeared once
during the day. He whipped
through a crowded schedule
like a very old hand at crowded
schedules.
In fact, it seemed to amuse
him when Jim Hagerty, his
press secretary, gave the news
reel men "just two seconds
more" for their pictures. 1
"First Sergeant Hagerty," he
said. "Hagerty'd make a areat
first sergeant."
Adlai Stevenson looked a lit
tle tired, as well a man might
after six months aboard. He
said he would be glad to un
pack now.
But he had the same huh.
Wing, spontaneous wit which
may have been a political han
dicap last year and he got
the laughs, lust as he alwavs
did.
When somebody asked him
to comment on the situation in
Iran, he said he understood
that Mosadcgh also had fled
the country, pondered for a '
moment, and added: -'
"There might be a good
opening there for a politician."
And when the radio men
asked him to sit down, to be
nearer the microphones on the
desk, he said, "Certainly, a
politician always likes to keep
his seat."
He stuck a thin stilletto be
tween the sixth and seventh
ribs of Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles when he answer
ed question. A reporter, recall
ing what Stevenson had written
abou the Middle East, asked if
his views did not coincide with
those expressed by Dulles.
"I don't know what I can
answer that," Stevenson said.
"I know what I think, but I'm
not at all clear as to what Mr.
Dulles thinks."
All of which suggests, to this
reporter, anyway, that the'gen
tleman from Chicago may be
more in the center of the Dem
ocratic picture than his cagey
remaks sometimes Indicate. He
has sarid, you recall, that he
doesn't know whether lie will
run for the presidency again
in 1958.
Also, he declined to answer,
directly, when he was asked
whether he considers himself
the leader of the Democratic
party.
But along with this, he said
be intends to speak out on Sen.
Joseph McCarthy and on for
eign policy. And, In his own
way, he will work for his
party. If these are pieces of
the . jibsaw, they fit pretty
neatly.
Well, anyway, it was nice to
have the champion and the
challenger in town again ,
Just like old times.
PAY AS YOCSEE TV
Medford Mall-Tribune
Four new television stations
with ultra high frequency con
struction permits have peti
tioned the Federal Communi
cations Commission for per
mission to program a certain
amount of subscription or
"pay as you see" TV. Accord
ing to those who know about
such thinks, subscription TV
will be one of the first major
headaches of the new session
of congress.
Hearings will soon be sched
uled by the FCC for inquiry
into the merits of the various
subscription systems but it
will be up to congress to de
cide who has the final author
ity in the granting of permits
to subscription and theater
TV companies.
The stations, in asking the
FCC for permission to charge
viewers for at least tome of
their programs, point out that
they must face competition
from other 'larger stations.
Subscription TV, they argue,
would enable airing selective
programs which people would
be willing to pay to tee.
Salem 21 Years Ago
y IEN MAXWELL
August 21, 1932
Promise had been made that
come autumn 1933 and auto
traffic .between .Salem .and
Portland would be rollin.
along at high tpeed over a
smooth, level highway at least
20 feet wide.
Reconstruction finance enr.
poration, between July 21-31
had loaned Woodburn bank
$31,000.
About 500 persons had it-
tended the jmnual picnic of
Oregon Pioneer and Sons anri
Daughter of Oregon Pioneers
at Champoeg park.
...'
A successful test flisht nf
the monoplane powered with a
model A Ford motor had ben
made at municipal airport by
Lee Eyerly.
A buying price of St a ton
for green prunes had become
pretty well established in the
Willamette valley.
-
Commons laborers in Doug,
las county prune orchards
would receive $2 a day and
driermen $2.50. Pay for pickers
in '1932 was 3c a bushel for
Italians and 4c for Petites.
Marion county court had re
ceived ' a request from Road
master Johnson to improve the
Elkhorn road above Mehama.
.
American Legion carnival
and dance had been planned
for Mellow Moon hall (washed
away and crushed against the
west approach to the Center
street bridge during the flood
of 1943).
Dates for the fall flower
show had been set for Septem
ber iq.
Last Willson square band
concert for the 1932 season had
been set for August 27.
Winston Churchill had been
denied permission to speak over
British Broadcasting system on '
his chosen topic. The Monetary
Policy of the World." ,
GETTING BIGGER
Chicago HUB Passavant hos
pital officials said today their
patients are growing. They in
stalled 99 motor-driven beds,
all six inches longer than the
old models. The officials said
more and more patients are ex
ceeding the six feet measure.
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Degrees Not Essential to
Understanding of Subject
By REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT .
Rctor. et. paal'i ipucopn cnuren
Some time ago I was with a
group at an art exhibit. One of
the young men present express
ed an opinion about a Rem
brandt which seemed to have
impresed him greatly. -This
young man had visited many
galleries, read many books on
! art, attended lectures on paint
ings whenever possible, and did
a little creditable work with
brushes himself. But another
member of the party, whose
major in college was art, be
littled the young critic because,
she said, he had no master of
arts degree, so "how could he
possibly be qualified to express
an opinion!"
It is a notable fact that not
all great inventors, scientists,
business executives or painters,
have majored in the respective
fields in which they have at
tained success. My curbstone
opinion is that it is possible
to have a fine appreciation of
music without having graduat
ed from a conservatory of
music or a fine appreciation of
religion without having several
degrees in theology.
There is too great a tendency
today for professionals in any
field to look down their noses
at all who are not "profession
als" (laymen). Words of gen
uine wisdom, works of imper
ishable art, fine qualities of
the soul are not commodities
which God has reserved only
for those who have attended
our own pet schools of thoughtl
Intolerance in a most irritat
ing a.id unpleasant form it
found among many people who
look contemptuously down
their noses at any one who
dares to express an opinion on
any subject unless he has gra
duated from their school, or
belongs to their church!
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