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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL; 8ka, Or
Tuesday, August 25, 1951
Capital AJournal
An lndpendnt Ntwtpopr Established 1888
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WEST GERMANY'S COMING ELECTION
The election to be held in West Germany September 6
may be the most important held on the continent of
Europe since the end of the war and the result may deter
mine the winner and loser in the cold war. It may also
? determine whether this war will continue cold or change
to hot
At stake is the government of Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer, who is vrobably the outstanding political leader of
western Europe at the present time, including Britain,
He has wisely piloted what began as a virtual puppet
government into a virtually free government which the
western allies do not control. He has also piloted West
Germany to the fastest economic recovery of any nation
in Europe bar none. ' He has been both a shrewd politician
and a wise statesman.
Since Adenauer's sympathies are 100 per cent western,
Moscow has a tremendous stake in his defeat, just as we
have a tremendous stake in his success next month. We
have been showing our sympathies in the food donation,
which Adenauer's government is distributing and for
which it receives credit from the East Germans, just as
we do. '
Moscow has ahown its alarm by two recent moves.
First. Malenkov made a bitter attack on Adenauer, ask
ing West Germany to defeat him, charging that he is
leading his country into war. This is a threat that Russia
will attack if Adenauer remains in office. It is at once
an order to West German Communists to vote against
Adenauer, which they would have done away, and a threat
to the Others to vote against him or risk a Russian inva
sion of their country. It really puts German courage to
the acid test
Then Moscow made a conciliatory gesture in the form
of an agreement with puppet East Germany for a relaxa
tion of restrictions that have maddened tne East oerman
people to the point of desperation. The inference of this
forced "generosity" is that it will be possible for a West
German government friendly to Moscow to secure union
with East Germany by accepting a neutral, disarmed
status similar to Switzerland's.
The obvious risk of this course is that Russia can move
an army into a disarmed West Germany -at any time
after the American and British occupation forces are re
moved. West Germans with any political sense will avoid
RUSSIA A KOREAN-PEACE DELEGATE?
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Ike Hastened to N. Y. to Placate Baruch
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Brace Yourselves; Here's
Another Report on Women
New York W) Brace your-
thi pnurse bx thev would a nlairue. but the Russians as- i lelves men. Here comet an-
sume many to lack Dolitical sense. Unfortunately oast I other "Prt on American
Germany history gives them only too much ground for women.
feeling this way.
If Adenauer wins, West Germany Is virtually certain
to be rearmed and to become an active partner either of
the NATO group, or if it falls by the wayside, a military
ally of the United States, with whom itwill share respon
sibility for the defense of Western Europe. The U.S. is
said to have given assurance to Adenauer of equipment
for all the divisions Germany is willing to arm.
The danger of this to Russia is obvious. A rearmed
Germany hostile to Russia means the end of Russian
hopes to occupy and communize West Europe. Whether
Russia would fight now to prevent this happening no one
knows, but probably not, as the riots in East Germany
have shown a desperate internal situation that would
become steadily worse if Russia went to war.
Russia's danger is our opportunity. If Adenauer wins
we can probably create enough military strength to dis
courage a Russian move at any time in the foreseeable
future. If he loses to a political group willing to "do busi
ness with Russia" our program for the defense of West
ern Europe may collapse, for France and Italy have be
come worthless as allies and Britain much less reliable
than she was.
So September 6 is the next big date te watch for. His
tory will be made.
By R ELM AN MORIN
For Hal Boyle
mediately
FORESTALLING A RECESSION
Appointment by President Eisenhower of Walter Wil
liams, Seattle banker, undersecretary of commerce as
special economic full time advisor, and trouble shooter to
warn the administration of any developing trouble in the
nation's economy to head-off any trend toward a business
recession, emphasized the president's objective of keeping
the country and its people prosperous.
Williams is to put together a nationwide network of
businessmen, industrialists, labor leaders and others
whose task is to give warning of any economic weakening
in their areas; To this will be added information from all
other areas and those from government bureaus, such as
the commerce department, the federal reserve board and
other agencies to prepare counter measures to offset any
impending economic slump.
All of these precautions are being taken when the news
reports are filled with accounts of prosperity. Almost all
the figures being released tell of good times, of new
record highs being set in employment, in sales, in per
sonal income, in total production of goods and services.
These government reports show how things were in the
first half of the year and during July, but they give
faint indication of how business will be in the future. The
stock market has been trying to guess though still a bull
market But in the midst of glowing reports on earnings,
dividends, sales and production, stock traders have taken
a cautious view of the future of stock prices, fearing that
production will exceed demand and force a slow-down as
business inventories are at record highs.
If a slump should start there are several things that
could ie done to try to lessen its impact. Tax cuts, such
as those already srhedulcd for next year, would offer a
measure of quick relief. The supply of money and credit
now being kept fairly tight, could be eased. Government
spending could be channeled to areas and to industries
most affected.
In the meantime inflated prices, higher labor cost.
farm and other subsidies and prolonged strikes and de-
Almoit a week ago, the re-
porti oh Doc Kinsey'i new
book hit the public prints.
Since it is about women, and
hai statistic and things, you
would Imagine they would
be talking of nothing else
these fine summer days. That
Just goes to show how much
we know about them.
A brief little announcement
from Paris, a while back,
about Dior's dictum on the
length of skirts still seems to
be topic A among the ladies.
It appears that silhouettes,
not sex and dresses, not didoes
are still uppermost in their
minds. - r
Well, this column today was
going to be about reactions to
Klnsey, but if they want
dresses and Dior, here goes:
Brother Dior, as I under
stand it, is an Interesting re-
fault of some factors 'which, at
first sight, have very little to
do with bodices and necklines.
A combination of war, politics
and the hard facts of econom
ics put him in a position
where, today, he can hand
the word that skirts are go
ing up and they go up.
The Second World War prac
tically blanked out Paris as a
style capital. It you've ever
seen the price tags on the
models in "collection," you
have a rough idea what that
meant in terms of dollars and
French economy.
So they set out to regain the
pre-war position. Dior, a very
able guy with the drawing
board and a mouthful of pint,
was picked to spearhead the
operation. French backers
gave him enough money so
that he didn't have to worry
whether his creations were im-
WHT WE LIVE LONGER
Rose burg Newt-Rcvlew
Often we read how medics!
science has lengthened the
life span. Man's life expec
tancy in the United States has
increased steadily. Credit is
given improved medical skills,
discovery of new drugs, anti
bodies, serums, etc.
But some measure of con
sideration also must be given
telephones, ambulances and
hospitals. How many lives
must have been prolonged, to
be counted in longevity sta
tistics, because we have am
bulances and hospitals and
telephones. How many lives
must have been shortened
successful on the
market.
The important thing was ef
fect, something new and spec
tacular, and he gave them
that. -
He took over where Vionnet
and Paul Poiret left off and
the . result was that when he
came out with the "tulip til-
nouette," Madame wasn't
happy until she went around
looking like a walking- tulin.
Now what about the higher
snirts tnis year? ,
Clare Potter, one of the
hottest American designers,
says it win nave an effect on
fashions over here. "But not
as much in America at else
where," the said.
"Skirt lengths have almost
alwayt been higher In this
country. The reason is ner-
fectly simple, American girls
nave tne oest-looking legs in
ine world." ,
Mme. Potter It a devotee of
what, I discover, is known as
"the American look." She
iayt women all over the wprld
are more or lest envious of
our ladies and the way they
can wear clothes. Hence, in
raising skirt lengths, Dior Is
not only reversing a trend, but
falling in with a prevailing
trend. ...
But she agreed with Mich
elle Murphy, research
Salem 39 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
August 25, 1914 ! '
Namur had fallen into Ger
man hands, ending all hopes for
a tpeedy
war.
termination of the
Austria had declared war on
Japan. . t
Beaten in the first mighty
battle of the European war the
Franco-British allies were on
the defense. ,
A forest ' fire nprtheast of
Foster in Linn county had been
burning for 12 days and had
covered 5000 acres to become
the largest one reported for
1914.
Ladies of the G.A.R. had hon
ored R. R. Ryan's 68th birth
day with a fine banquet dinner
in R. R. Ryan's Market build
ing. . -
A German dirigible dropping
bombs on Antwerp had been
shot down by an aerogun and
its entire crew of 25 captured.
At the Toggery men't suits
were priced at SIS, $20 and up.
A 150 barrel oil
capltol heating had
stalled.
tank
been
The Louvre had received an
art collection worth $20,000,
000 frqm the estate of Baron
Schlichtlng, a Russian noble
man long a resident of Paris.
Work on repair of Lausanne
hall to make it presentable as
sultant for design at the hom ior Willamette Univer
Brooklyn Museum, about the : ,lty glrU durin tn winter had
effect!. Nflth.r nl h.m ... : iwrieu.
ex
pect skirts to be elevated
very much over here, no mat
ter what Brother Dior says.
"The American woman is
pretty solid," Mme. Murphy
Mm. one aoesn i go to ex- turet were charged with herd
uemra. u anyming, mere It , ing salmon away from t h e
a tendency among women to 'mouth of the river.
Duy wnai looks best on them,
Washington There was
an interesting backstage fac
tor behind the President't long
flight from Denver to New
York to dedicate the Baruch
bousing project.
Bernie Baruch, the 83-year-
old elder statesman, who sup
ported Eisenhower last fall.
has been wavering. Irked at
some of the Eisenhower eco
nomic policies, especially the
Increasing price rise and high
er Interest rates, Baruch hat
been reverting to hit original
democratic laiU,.
And shortly before congress
adjourned, elder statesman
Baruch held a secret break'
fast conference with 16 demo
cratic senators at which he had
tome scathing things, to say
about the administration t fit'
cal policiet and the fact that
the national debt was being
Increased by the treasury pol
icy of paying higher Interest
rates on government bonds.
Baruch was particularly
critical of Randolph Burgess,
special assistant to. the secre
tary of the treasury, whot in
charge of floating government
loans and who has recom
mended the increased interest
on government loans.
Burgess is a former official
of the National City Bank, and
Baruch told Ihe democratic
senators that when he had
learned of certain Burgess pol
icies, he withdrew his account
from the National City Bank.
The account was for $1,500,
000 and the next day. Baruch
said the bank telephoned to
ask the reason for the with
drawal. The elder v statesman
replied that if a bank followed
the policies of a man such at
Burgess he could have no con
fidence in it. I
BARUCH SEES DEFLATION
Baruch also warned the sen
ators that the United States
faced a deflationary per
iod, and that deflation could
alwayt be dangerout. How
ever, he taid that if the gov
ernment waa cautiout and
careful, we Could weather the
storm.
He laid special emphasis on
the importance of building up
our defense pacts with Europe
and felt that NATO could be
not only a steadying influence
from the point of view of at-
fense but from the viewpoint
of heading off too drastic de
flation.
The 16 democratic senators
came away from the breakfast
conference convinced that
Baruch' had definitely return
ed to the democratic fold, that
his economic wisdom wai as
sound as ever and that be had
his fingers crossed about the
Eisenhower administration.
Though ttie breakfast was sup
posed to be secret, news leaks
quickly in Washington, and
this was the biggest reason
why Ike flew back from Den
ver to New York.
BARUCH SLUM
CLEARANCE
During the Baruch dedica
tion ceremonies, N. Y. City
Planner Bob Moses, a repub
lican, let out some scorching j
criticism of Eisenhower hous
ing policies right in front of
the president.
"I take this occasion to
plead for the courageous,
clean-cut surgical removal of
all our. old slums," Commis
sioner Moses taid just before
Ike spoke.
"Unfortunately recent cuts
by congress have indicated a
deplorable resurgence of hard
boiled reactionaries to whom
acreage is more important
than people. As a result,
. Br DREW PEARSON
slum clearance act, which
Senator Taft championed to
vigorously, was gutted shortly
before he died, first by an ap
propriations cut, second by
Eisenhower's appointment of
ex-Congressman Albert Cole
of Kansas, who When In con
great not only voted against
slum clearance but made
speech calling It commun itic
WASHINGTON WHIRL
Europeans are more curiout
about Senator McCarthy than
anyone tince Adolph Hitler,
The book, "McCarthy: The
Man, The Senator. The lam,
received tne wlldett reviews
in the history of British jour
nalism and is now telling like
notcaket throughout England
Publishers lr, Germany and
Israel have alto contracted to
translate the book and put it
out in those two, countries
The state department it urging
itt foreign service officers to
ship their household goods by
air freight, pointing out that
it actually costs lest to fly a
refrigerator from Washington
D.C., to Havana. Cuba, than to
tend it by rail or truck 100
miles to Richmond, Va. . . .
American tourists have found
that they can actually buy
American - model automobiles
in Europe and ship them ome
cheaper thn the US. market
price. Explanation: The autos
are built at European subsid
iary plants, where labor is
dirt-cheap , . , Guards now
have orders to stop bird-lovers
from feeding the birds around
government buildings.
order declares: "Feeding pig
eons and other birds from the
windows and other parte of
building encourages them to
roost in and about the build
ing in greater numbers and
creates cleaning problem "
WAVERINGS GXa
The joint chieft of ttaff a,
most went through the roof
when Attorney - General
Brownell announced that he
wat ready to prosecute any
American POWS who collab
orated with the Reds.
The joint chieft feared ex.
actly what they later learned
happened namely, the com
munists thowed Brownell'!
statement to wavering prison
ers still in enemy hands and '
warned them that they would
be tried for treason if they re
turned home. In this way. the
Reds hoped to intimidate our
weaker ooyt into goins be.
fore the armistice commission '
and declaring that they want
ed to stay with the commun
ists. '
Tragic' fact is that many of
our boys were tortured or
brain-washed into tigning
peace petitions, attending in.
doctrination lectures and even
making propaganda broadcast!
for the enemy. But the army "
feels they should be given -
tympathy, not tried for trea
son. There are, of course, ex.'
ceptions, such as those who -
spied on their own buddies in
order to get favors from the
prison guards. However, the
joint chiefs fear Attorney tren.
eral Brownell played risht :
into communist hands with
iniu cummun
e hit ttatement.
(Coprrltht, IMS)
Filipinos Play Politics for
Blood, Reporter Learned
By DAVE CROMWELL
Romulo, former i ' To thit writer's mind, this
wat an excellent example not
only of the tensitivity the Fili
pino nas to
regardless of what happens in
Parit."
They both felt that Dior's
announcement, as well, was
Siuslaw Fisherman's associa- Baruch Houses, among others,
tion had asked Dermissio.i to have been cut in two."
use dynamite to destroy a seal Moses referred to the fact
herd camped at the mouth of! that the Taft public housing
the Sisulaw because the crea-:
Something Wrong
Corvallls Gazette-Times
Someplace Secretary of
Commerce Sinclair Weeks is
E. M. Barstow. manaffer nf
th P W. Wnnlwnrth lnr. nn I Off base
Commercial street for a num- Frioy evening he announc-
hrr nf vrari hiri hn nrnmnt. ed the reappointment Of Dr.
aimed to cause a sensation, ed to another store in Tacoma. I Allen V. Astin as head of the
and they said he has gotten a A. H. Fox had been named his National Bureau of Standards.
lot of mileage out of it.
successor here.
i when we had no mechanical
mand for doles hnrrass the economic structure based on communication, slow trans-
unbalanced budgets.-
Gunman Makes Three Visits
Denver (V Denver hat a
persistent gunman.
He returned three timet to
rob an Eatt Denver gasoline
station last night, once while
the attendant wat telephoning
police and again while police
were closing in.
The first time the robber ap
peared, Miron J. Ritchie, the
station attendant, grabbed for
a pistol. The weapon dis
charged grazing his linger. Tht
bandit fled, Ritchie said, after
he grappled with the man.
As he phoned police, the ban
dit came back, picked up his
cap, pointed a gun at Ritchie
and scooped up $25 in the cash
drawer. A few minutes later,
as police and nearby residents
converged on the station, the
bandit came back again. Thit
time he only waved hit pistol
'and fled.
porta! ion and only limited hos
pital facilities. How different '
It is today, with aid only as
far away as the telephone,
compared with thosr days
when one must wait hours or
even days to obtain needed
medical help.
HOW TO FIGHT FIRE
Cincinnati, O. U.B Robert
St. Clair discovered a tire In
hit basement yesterday and
reached for the handiest sub
stitute for an extinguisher. He
scooped up an armload of
laundry -toaklng in a tub and
dumped it on the blaze.
jHENRY By Carl Anderson
I ' " r tT-W t , ax I II llll Jlj. I
Wcekt fired Astin last March
for saying a battery rejuvena
tor known as AD-X2 had not
the stuff in it to back up itt
claimt.
At the time the postal de
partment put the AD-X2 on
the spot for using the malls to
defraud saying if the manu
facturing company could not
back up the claims it was de
fraudlnt the public. '
Now, Weeks has rehired
Astin who taid the battery
booster It no good and the
post office has dropped the
order which would have bar
red use of the mails for pro
moting the product
It is a cinch the government
can't be right in both in
stances. Either Astin was
I right and the promotion
'should be excluded from the
mails or Astin wat wrong and
i it wat all right to promote the
product In the mailt.
TO VEND POLITELY
Chicago (UB The National
Automatic Merchandising As
sociation reported today that
a "polite" vending machine
may toon make itt appearance.
When a person buys a cup
of coffee or a package of cig
arette, the machine iayt:
"Thank you."
It' tan a f.ru a..
Carlos P.
president of the U. N. General
Assembly and Ambassador from
tne Philippines to the United
States, Friday withdrew from
the presidential race in the
Philippines.
Thit makes the second well
known and highly respected
Filipino politician to bolt Presi
dent Elpidio Quirino't Liberal
party, the other being Ramon
Magsaysay, recently resigned
secretary of defense,
There is probably no other
place in the world where poll
tict it taken at aeriously as in
the Philippine!. Yet, there are
few in which there it more
graft and corruption.
Talk of forthcoming election!,
and for that matter, campaign
ing itself starts to roll not
months before an election as in
the United States, but years
before. And It's not passive and
polite conversation and cam
paigning either. Politic! in the
PI is always "dead serious." It's
not a business for the timid or
the meek.
This writer can recall an oc
casion last November in which
the Filipino political temper
was well demonstrated.
One afternoon while resting
in the large open air lobby of
the Manila hotel, MacArthur's
headquarters before the Japa
nese invasion, an American air
lines employee was observed to
have walked up to President
Quirino and to have made a
mildly caustic remark. No soon
er had the words left his mouth
than a nearby Filipino body
guard charged the American
while at the same time reach
ing for his pistol in a shoulder
holster. The American instinc
tively started to run, and had
not the Filipino accidentally
dropped the gun while attempt
ing to take aim, there would
have been one less American in
the PI. I
Domical mi::r
but even more so of their In.
credibly short tempers.
Magsaysay himself reported,
ly resigned from hit position
as defense secretary because his
life was .threatened, presum
ably by Quirino forces. For, in
the Philippines, politician! or.
either "rubber stamp yes men"
or eise hire themselves body
guards. And thit is no exag
eration. There la no middle of
the road in the Philippine!.
But the Magsaysay intimida
tion backfired. Magsaysay,
much to Quirino's consterna
tion, became the presidential
candidate for the powerful op
position party, the Nacional--istas.
.
Then recently, Romulo re
signed as ambassador to the
U. S. in order to organize a
thid party, the Democratic
Liberals, and became their
presidential standard bearer.
Now Romulo has decided to
throw his support to Magsay
say, who became prominent
and popular in the islands for
his crusades against the dissi
dent Huks.
"We know that by fighting
alone we would only divide the
strength inherent in people
which is needed to overcome
entrenched power of that clique
which the people want removed
and repudiated," Romulo told
a news conference Friday.
Perhaps these two liberals,
pulling together, can win the
presidency. If fair elections
were held, their chances would '
be good.
11 the ballot boxes are not
tampered with, and if the Quir
ino forces do not use the army
and the constabulary for their
own gains, then the political
future of the Philippines will
certainly become brighter.
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