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'BATTLE OF FREE FOOD DRAMATIC
- American press correspondents In Berlin agree that the
free food parcels distributed by the United States to the
half-starved people or East uermany, wen over o muum.
to date, constitute one of the most effective means in the
xnll tcnr" wafred hv Russia.
The crowds flocking- to the western centers constitute
the largest sample of the Eastern tone the West has
seen. They are described as a shabby lot, emaciated, ill
clad, shod and fed, a poverty stricken and destitute peo-
PlAnne O'Hare McConnick, a foreign correspondent and
columnist of New York Times, writing irom Benin in
her column "Abroad," remarks:
m.. - 4hmmnita tit neanla trekking lone dis
tances and running great risks to get a 10-pound package
of food la a sad one: nevertheless, a thrill of cneeriui excite
ment nma through the busy distribution centers. The recipl
nit ara eager aa children to receive their gifta and equally
' riper to talk, and everyone questioned expressd his opinion
nf ta Communist regime." .
T American feature of giving food to anybody in
Tsl Germany who comes and get it has received con
wttan&te criticism, especially from the British. But it
fcra tpfci a tztost favorable impression on the Germans
i both EAik and West Germany, and behind the Iron
Curtail Air. 0 Bare says
products.
Tint, tt taxf-ac many Germans to come to Berlin who have
sever btlot area the difference between the Eait and West
Zone. It establish the wider communication envisioned in
last week request by the Western powers to the Soviet high
eommisisoa to aooUsa interzonal passes ana restore iree travel
throughout Germany. Meantime ' the 16 food distribution
centers in West Berlin have become a place of reunion and
comparison for separated Germans.
"Secondly, the East Germans get a taste of freedom. They
all speak of what it means to be able to breathe again. More
over the influx of workers confirmed vague reports of the
extent of the June riots. Now dubious West Germans are
convinced that their brothers In the East share their senti
ments. The food distribution, looked on as a postscript to the
revolt, not only supplies fresh evidence to the pro-westerners
that the East Is with them but diminishes suspicion among
Easterners that the West has abandoned them."
But Soviet opposition and British criticism have had
little effect although some of the people caught carrying
food have been arrested and fined, lost their ration cards
and otherwise penalized by the loss of their jobs, but the
people have remained defiant and the opposition half
hearted. The distribution is being carried on with speed
and smoothness. The Berliners regard themselves as
front line soldiers In the cold war and regard "the battle
of food parcels" as a dramatic episode.
As expected, the entire Soviet state, party and propa
ganda, is being utilized along
Communist goons to "interfere
defeat Adenauer and support East German Beds, and as
Pravda gays, make it "the bulwark of the peace-loving
lorces m uermany.
It looks as though Malenkov'g policy may have a boom
erang result and merely unite Communist opposition
eventually in behalf of a free and united Germany. G. P.
SUBURBAN STORE FOR PORTLAND
Meier and Frank, Oregon's largest retailer, is decen
tralizing on a large scale. The announcement of a big
new department store for Salem a few months aeo is
now followed by revelation of plans for a shopping center
to be built on a 50-acre site in the northeast section of
Portland adjacent to Sandy boulevard. .
It is announced that a complete department store will
go in, together with other stores and of course a big park
ing area, somewhat similar to Northgate, a big shopping
center north of Seattle. Whether others are to follow is
not revealed, but it will occasion no surprise, now that the
course has been set.
We doubt this means that
ness district is to become the
or even to become noticeably
surprised if the main Meier and Frank store suffers much
loss of volume. But it does suggest that Meier and Frank
thinks the parent site has about reached the saturation
point where little if any more business can be handled.
and that it is time to take the
ers.
The trend is general in the
wnere tne need is greater
However Portland is handicapped by her narrow, pre
Civil war model streets, which can be only partially re
lieved by one way traffic. Salem, fortunately, has wide
streets, designed a century ago with a prophetic eye to
conditions a cenxury nence.
Anyway, a new, Jaster, more competitive merchandis
ing era is on in the Willamette valley, in which Salem will
play a larger role, assisted in stopping mid-Willamette
shoppers here where we have wide streets and fairly
good parking by the coming construction of two big de
partment stores. So we may do our bit to relieve con
gestion in the over-burdened state metropolis.
TROUBLE AT TRIESTE
The world has always had' Its hot sparks, its points of
tension. The Rhine was such while Hitler was rearm.
ing Germany. Since World
eral, and Trieste has been
Warfare almost flared up
the Adriatic several times immediately after the end of
the war in Europe, and only the presence of U.S. and
British troops prevented it -Since Tito broke with Mos
cow and began edging over toward the western camp
Trieste has been quiet, but the dispute was never settled
and perhaps never will be. It has just flared up again.
The international boundary runs through the town,
rt of it Yuiroslav and part Italian. The conulation i
mainly but not entirely Italian. Both countries passion
ately want It ail, xo sausiy iung neiu nationalistic ambi
inn and for reasons of international prestiire.
whatever imDortance Trieste has for foreism trad
could be adjusted by making the port free to both coun
tries but only complete possession will ever satisfy either
country's feelings, which are distinct and apart from its
Interests.
. tv. fianum la embarrassing because both countries are
nreaently rated as members of the western group. Pre
sumably the dogs will b. called off before they start bit
ini but the issue will remain lika a festering sore, one of
inanr that work against Europe ever having an enduring
rTeace Politicians of course play on these old ambitions
.d wimosiUei for their own aelfish endg.
that it has two valuable ny.
with a forced invasion of
in the German election to
the Portland west side busi
proverbial "deserted village'
less congested. We shall be
stores closer to the custom
great cities of the country,
than m a city like Portland,
(Vt was it just plain luck?)
War II there have been sev
one ot these.
at this city at the heart of
WASHINGTON MERRY
Secret Army Order Permits
Liquor Sales on
By DREW
Washington A red border
around a military documett
means the document is "claw
fied," or secret therefore off
limits to the eyes of Washir g
ton newsmen. The forbiddi. g
red border, however, doesn't
always mean that the military
document deals with national
security. ' " ...
Sometimes it involves opera
tions which Pentagon bran
hats don't want the taxpayer
to know about, as, for instance.
the army's recent secret order
dealing with the nonsecuntv
matter of imbibing, liquor oi
military posts. . - - -.
. A perusal of this Interest
ing secret document leaves no
doubt about why military
chiefs wanted it kept secret
especially from church an
temperance groups. For the
order is interpreted by son e
as putting the army almost on
the verge of the night-club bus
iness.
Ever since a law passed in
1901, the sale . of liquor hat
been forbidden on military
posts. Though this law is still
on the books, the secretary ot
the army has set it aside to
permit . on-the-spot sale of
liquor. The secret order, sign
ed by adjutant general ot the
army Major General William
E. Bergln, and effective Sent
1, i53, states:
"It will be noted that srovl-
slona ot the inclosed regula
tions represent a major change
In the existing policies and pro
cedures applying to alcoholic
beverages. It is believed that
the privileges extended under
these new regulations will, if
used with moderation and re
straint, serve to enhance the
morale of all. concerned.
"It is important to note that
the sale of alcoholic beverages,
as authorized in the inclosed
regulations, is a proper open
mess activity. However this
activity must not become the
major open mess activity.
MODEST DECORS
"Bars or lounges must be
constructed and located so that
there is no suggestion of a
saloon or gaudy night club.
Furthermore, the location of
the bar or lounge must be, in
sofar as possible, located so
that persons not desiring to
partake ot alcoholic beverages
are not forced to use or pass
through the room where the
bar is located.
"Since the manner in which
the army governs the posses
sion, use, and sale ot alcoholic
beverages is subject to critical
public scrutiny, it is impera
tive that all commanders ex
ercise constant supervision to
insure that no unfavorable
publicity or criticism la ten
erated through the exercise of
the privileges extended."
Temperance croups, learn
ing of the army's order, are
planning to challenge the state
ment that the new system con
tributes to "morale" and that
the sale of alcoholic beverages
is "proper open mess activity."
They claim that the universal
military training act of 1051.
which authorizes the secretary
or mm army to Graft new. on-
tne-pott drink nc reiulatlnna
does not supersede the act of
iwi. which ha never been
repealed.
Some of the legal experts
point out that In the Rosen
berg spy case, where the m
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Sale. Orecoa
IS THIS MY ROOM?
- GO - ROUND
Post Limits
PEARSON
atomic energy act conflicted
with the -1917 espiooage act
requiring the death penalty,
the supreme court held that
the older statute still applied
and was not repealed by the
1948 law which did not re
quire the death penalty.
i
McCarthy gambling
When Joe McCarthy hauled
a bookie before his senate in
vestigating committee and
claimed that bets were taken
in the government printing
office, Joe must have been
very hard up for headlines.
Furthermore, his tongue must
have pressed very hard in bis
left cheek.
Tot, if there is one senator
who has gone in for gambling
on Capitol Hill and elsewhere,
It ii the lumping gentleman
from Wisconsin. Just a couple
of days before Joe posed as
the righteous eleaner-up of
gambling in the government
printing office, he himself was
playing the ponies at the Del
Maf . race track near San
Diego along with J. Xdgar
Hoover,. Clint Murcheson, the
Texas oil king, and Sid Rich
ardson, also of the Texas oil
aristocracy.
Joe is quite right, gambling
should not exist at the gov
ernment printing office. But
here is the record of the man
who throws stones from glass
houses.
Puerto Rican Roulette
Last December McCarthy flew
to San Juan where he fre
quented the Caribe-Hilton ho
tel gaming tables. His chief
specialty was roulette. Some
times he lost. But sometimes
he ended up $1,000 or so ahead
for the evening.
Senate Betting McCarthy
once admitted to my associate
Jack Anderson that he placed
bets regularly with a bookie
in the senate office building
Exactly what was done in the
government printing office.
Law ana Poker As a
young lawyer In Waupaca
Wis., McCarthy is credited
with making more money at
poker than at law.
Betting wltn Lnstron
While McCarthy's committee
was probing the Lustron loan
from the RFC, he turned up
frequently at Fimllco and
other Maryland race tracks
with the head of Lustron, Carl
Strandlund. And according
to aenate testimony by Merl
Young: "McCarthy is a funny
man when it comes to betting
. . . he will go ahead and bet
on a tip from anyone." At
Pimlico, Young testified, Mc
Carthy "Lost his wad" on the
first race, then cashed a check
with Strandlund, head of the
company McCarthy was sup
posed to be investigating.
Later, Young testified,
Strandlund tore up the check.
Strandlund gave a different
version, denied he was in the
habit of tearing up checks for
McCarthy, though he did tear
up two. McCarthy, he said,
replaced them.
Craps at Colnmbos Ac
cording to testimony in a
bankruptcy hearing at Colum
bus, Ohio. McCarthy Inst
$3,500 in a crap game to Ro
bert Byers, Jr., a real-estate
operator, then welshed on his
debt.
Some peopi wonder how a
senator whe makes only
11111
OPEN FORUM
No Courtesy Shown ,
In Burbank, Calif.
To the Editor: I was not sur
prised at Mr. Freeman's amaze
ment at the courtesy he re
ceived from our police depart
ment. At Burbank, Calif., I re
ceived a very different wel-
ne. I was not familiar with
curb markings and I parked
improperly. When my family
and I returned after eating
lunch I found a ticket on my
car. The officer on duty told
me the fine was $3.75. I paid
it Then told him of our cour
tesy plan in Oregon. His an
swer was and I quote: "That is
a damn good place to go and
stay."
J. R. Workman, ..
. 1908 N. Summer.
Our Unreformed Bureaucracy
By RAYMOND MOLEY
Los Angeles The new es
timates ot spending and re
ceipts just issued by President
Eisenhower's Budget Bureau
are no doubt designed to cheer
us. At any rate, they have
been accompanied by loud
huzzas by such loyal Republi
cans as Speaker Martin and
Leader Halleck. But the words
ot praise must have seared the
well-worn throats ot those
statesman. For they must know
that, despite these figures, the
progress toward relieving the
aching backs of taxpayers has
been meager. In fact, I have
found in my travels over the
country this summer a dawn
ing conviction that much of
the talk last year about econ
omy was mere campaign ora
tory. I am convinced that un
less something drastic is done,
neither this Administration
nor any other that we may
elect will ever reform itself.
A careful examination ot the
earlier budget figures sub
mitted by the President and
his Budget Director shows that
most of the cuts below the
earlier Truman estimates were
in defense requests. This was
easy to do for two reasons.
First, Truman inserted into the
budget certain requests that he
knew would perish In January.
He put in everything he could
think of to show his good will
to grasping communities and
politicians. If there were to be
aching hearts, he was determ
ined that somebody else would
get the blame. Second, eighty
billions had already been ap-
$12,500 a year from Uncle Sam
can afford to throw around
such wads ot money on the
gambling tables. That Is some
thing a senate committee also
was interested in knowing one
year ago. Finally it published
a whole volume on McCarthy a
intricate and unusual finan
cial setup, dealing in part with
McCarthy's record ot gambling
on the soybean market
One transaction was a
$10,000 parlay with money
contributed to fight commun
ism by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Bentley. When interviewed
by senate agents, Bentley said
he had not given the money to
McCarthy to gamble on the
commodity market.
This is the man who pointed
the accusing finger at $2 bets
made In the government print
ing office.
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Salem 11 Years Ago
yIEN MAXWELL
September 4, 141
Allied forces bad wrested the
initiative from Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel thereby reliev
ing axis pressure on the south
ern El AUmein line.
Hop grower around Indepen
dence, largest producing area
In the world, had advanced the
picking price to 3c i pound,
highest price ever paid.
Tax experts had told the aen
ate finance committee that a
five per cent retail sales tax
would be feasible and would
produce approximately $2,500,-
000,000 annual revenue.
USO canteen at Salem had
been opened for use by service
men. A Tacoma woman had been
arrested for hoarding a half ton
of sugar in her home.'
Organization of the top eon.
trol board under the new fed
eral marketing agreement had
been completed. '
Women making their own
clothes had discovered that new
patterns also restricted their
silhouette since they, too, had
been brought under the same
restrictions that the govern.
ment applies to clothes bought
in stores.
Military p e r t s had ex
pressed fear, of another Japa
nese attack on Dutch Harbor,
Alaska, as a prelude to an at
tack on Siberia.
Oregon Shipbuilding corpo.
ration had launched its 68th
liberty ship, the Andrew Car
negie.. Hitler was reported scouring
Europe for manpower with no
source too small to tap.
Chapels at Camp Adair were
to be dedicated Sunday, Sep
tember 6, 1942.
Consumers of Brown Derby
beer (a Salem product distrib
uted by a chain store) were
urged to buy quarts instead of
stubbies and save two bottle
caps for other needs.
Tune Changes
(Yakima Herald)
Travel is broadening. Take
the case of James Caesar Pe-
trillo, president of the Ameri
can Federation ot Musicians.
Recently he returned from a
trip to Europe. Previously he
had opposed the importation of
foreign records. Hed held
them to be a threat to the live
lihood ot American musicians.
While abroad he was impress
ed with the sales of American
records. Now he says, "If we
stop foreign records coming
here, we stop our records go
ing there."
propriated and not spent. For
in previous years the capacity
of Congress to appropriate had
far outrun the capacity of our
economic system to produce.
And so an Administration
would have to be blind and
deaf not to be able to cut bil
lions from the Truman esti
mates. It was the House of Rep
resentatives that did the really
serious cutting. For the boys
there have to face angry tax
payers at home.
The real determination of an
Administration to cut spend
ing is reflected in the number
of civil employees it is willing
to fire.NThat is not the fuU
measure of the cost of govern
ment, but it reflects the extent
to which spenders are going
to be allowed to hold their
Jobs.
The record in reducing such
employees is not so good. The
able and indefatigable Senator
Byrd released figures at the
end of July which show that in
five months the Administra
tion has reduced the burden of
2,550,000, civil employees by
only three per cent and most
of those were in the Defense
Department
In June, I wrote an article
concerning the failure of the
absurdly overgrown State De
partment to reduce its waste
ful employment An official of
that department wrote a letter
to a friend of mine complain
ing that I had been unfair to
the new people brought in by
the President and Dulles. He
said that they had cut a great
deal specifically, 827 employ
ees. However, that figure
amounted to about two per
cent of the number employed
by the department in 1952.
Now, the department says that
it will have got rid of about
1.100 by November. That will
still be less than three per
cent.
The American people are not
going to be happy about two
or three per cent economies.
Not when taxes compel them
to deny themselves far more
than that in what they want
to spend or save.
Drastic compulsion Is what
bureaucracy needs. In another
article I shall call attention to
the violent opposition, includ
ing propaganda, that has greet
ed the cuts already made. Af
ter that I shall describe what
seems to me the only way to
hold a bureaucracy In check.
Friday. September 4, 1981
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Live in Tenement, But
They Had Their Party Too
y HAL
New York WV Helen sat
on the tenement stoop st twi
light waiting for Joe.
. The heat from the great
summer stove of Manhattan
hammered at her, and she
tried to fan it away with a
folded newspaper.
When she saw Joe coming
down the sidewalk, his collar
open, his coat dangling limp
ly over one arm, she put the
paper on ber knees and bent
her head over it, as though
absorbed.
Joe slumped down silently
at the other end of the stoop
and watched her. After a mo
ment Helen lifted her eyes,
faked a squeal and aaid, "Oh,
Joe, you startle me."
"Don't give me that stuff,"
said Joe, crossly. "Why do
you girls sit around thinking
up phoney things to say? You
saw me coming."
They looked at each other
warily, trying to decide wheth
er it was too early in the eve
ning to quarrel. Then both
decided it was too hot
"What're you reading?" ask
ed Joe.
- "Oh, about the big party
that rich old bird, the Mar
quis" she glanced down at
the newspaper and spelled the
name Marquis de C-u-e-v-a-s
in Biarritz. That's a place on
the Riviera."
"Yeah," said Joe. "but
which place the one on the
East Riviera or the Hudson
Riviera?"
Helen laughed. t Joe always
said such crazy things.
' "Oh, it must have been won
derful," said Helen dreamily.
"Hundreds of famous people
were there, and they wore
costumes." They had lace
covered benches to sit on. And
they even had pedigreed cattle
and sheep wandering around
among the guests on the lawn.
Wasn't that a cute idea?"
"Sure," said Joe. "People
get tired of seeing nothing but
pedigreed pink elephants at
parties."
"It must have been excit
ing," Helen went on. "Elsa
Maxwell rode in on a donkey,
and a French dancer arrived
on a camel. But if I could
have gone to the party, I'd
have come on a big pale white
horse, the kind you see at the
circus and arch their necks
and look so proud."
"Not me," said Joe. "I'd
have galloped up on a boa
constrictor." -
; "I thought boa constrictors
are something like snakes," re
plied Helen. "Do they have
legs?"
"Well," said Joe grimly.
"They will have by the time I
get Invited to a party like that
one."
"They had more than 2.000
bottles of champagne real
champagne. And simply tons
of caviar. Do you like caviar,
Joe?"
No. The kind of money
they charge for that stuff, they
ought to be able to get rid of
the fishy flavor."
"Well, I think I'd give a vear
of my life to go to a party
line tnai, signed Helen "The
memories would be worth it.
It said in the paper that old
Mr. . . uh . . . old Mr. de
.C-u-e-v-a-s must have spent
about $100,000 on the party.
Can you Imagine spending
$100,000 in a single night."
Joe couldn't At the mo
ment he was fingering the
two subway tokens in his
pocket.
"Honey, I got bad news for
you," he said. "We can't go
to the movies tonight. I lost
my last $5 on a bet in the of
fice." The dreams of Biarretz re
ceded. Helen began fumbling
in her small purse and said,
"Let me treat, Joe." .
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It's a combination of
many skills and many
little things that have
caused people to speak
so complimentary of us.
Funsral Service Since 1171 '
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BOYLE
"No," he said stubbornly
"You've done that too many
times already." . .
- "Please," she whispered.
"You can pay me back when
we're married. It's such a
good picture tonight All
about adventure in Africa.
And on the way home we can
stop for a beer and a sand
wich." "Corned beef or cheese?" '
"Cheese," said Helen prac
ticaUy. "That's all we can af
ford tonight"
"It;s a deal," aaid Joe. "if
you let me drink the beer from
your slipper. I hear they al
ways do that in the big lea
gues." "If you do, all youH get is
foam, goofy. I'm wearing toe
less sandals."
As they stepped from the
stoop, Helen put her hand In
Joe's arm, and he squeezed it
Joe looked up at the" same
stars that shine on tenements
and Biarritz.
"I wish he was h-re" he
said.
"Who?" " : '
"Old Mr. ' de, C-u-e-v-a-s,"
spelled Joe. ,
"What for?"
"Because" said Joe,' "He
sounds like a guy who enjoys
parties and he's sure miss
ing a wonderful one tonight."
Helen reached up and took
his face in her hands and
pulled him down and kissed
him and didn't care what
the neighbors thought. "
Pay Up or Shut Up
Yakima Herald -Before
the United Nations
General Assembly proceeds
with further business, the na
tions behind with their dues
should be directed to pay up
or leave the halt -.,..
The latest report shows thst
only 15 of the 60 members
have paid their 1953 dues in
full, that a dozen of them owe
for membership last year and
that four are still behind on
their 1951 assessments. Soviet
Russia, the most vociferous and
troublesome nation of the
bunch, is nearly $3 million in
arrears and Nationalist Chins,
which assertedly has a big
hoard of gold, owes $2.4 mil
lion for this year and is also
behind on its -1951 and 1952
payments.
The United States, which has
nursed the UN along from the
start and which pays 35 per
cent ot the UN budget of $48
million, has met its share of
the obligation aa usual. The
members that can not or will
not bear their parts of the op
erating expenses should have
neither voice nor votes at the
assembly sessions. - . ...
Human Rival
Twin Falls Times-News ,
Some scientists up at ' the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology have succeeded in pro
ducing an electrical robot
which virtually duplicates the
sounds of the human vocal
tract.
The Idea is to give science a
chance to study how man's vo
cal cords developed and how
they operate. This new appar
atus, six feet tall, has parts
which correspond to all the
elements in man's speech-making
system: lips, vocal cords,
windpipe, etc.
These ingenious fellows real
ly ought to be complimented
for their work. But they could
have solved their problem much
more simply. All they had to
do was hire out Sen. Wayne
Morse ot Oregon, who has the
most tireless set of vocal cords
in America. Certainly no ma
chine could surpass him in the
regular and automatic produc
tion of speech.
Si,. -;Ai1
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On at fane