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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Saleta, Orego
Thursday, November 12, 1953
Capital AJournal
An Independent Newipoper Established 1888
BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus
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OLD NUMBERS RACKET AGAIN
Readers of Oregon's two metropolitan newspapers have
been amazed and disgusted this month to find a major
portion of their front pages customarily devoted to the
most important news of the day, utilized for a legalized
version of the old demoralizing "numbers racket" that
enriched the lords of the underworld in larger cities and
- has nothing to do with news.
The Oregonian started this something for nothing give
away which it calls "Roto Treasure Hunt" by offering
cash prizes for those holding serial numbers of $1 bills.
There are now two $500 prizes and 40 $25 prizes each
day, double the amount fitst offered. The Journal fol
lowed the Oregonian s lead, perhaps to speed the spend
ing of Oregonian funds.
The Oregonian's stated objective was to advertise the
new rotogravure section, and increase circulation, and
hence charge the cash spent to advertising. This is a
device borrowed from the tabloids, to stimulate circula
tion growth by taking advantage of the popular "some
thing for nothing" craze which flowered nationally in the
New Deal doles to secure votes.
The New York Daily News started its "Bonanza Bills"
program September 14 and had in 61 days paid out $67,
900 to lucky number holders. The New York Mirror
started its "Lucky Buck" scheme July 8, but costs have
not been listed, though it "stopped summer slump in cir
culation." The News claimed an increase in circulation
but "whether it will hold is a $64 question."
Both tabloids have stopped the bills give-away cam
paign, but being tabloids, other cash awards will prob
ably follow as "circulation stimulants." They are in a
vicious circle and must continue the something for noth
ing racket or their artificially padded circulation will
lump.
A newspaper should be sold on its merits as a newspa
per and it will always hold its own if it deserves it. G. P.
HOPE FOR THE PHILIPPINES
Election of Ramon MagRaysay as president of the Phil
ippines locks from this distance like the best thing that
has happened to those far off Pacific islands since the
Japanese invaders were thrown out.
The present administration of President Elpidio Qulr
Ino had grown old, feeble and corrupt. There was no
hone for better than "more of the same" had he been
re-elected, and that was a dreary prospect from which
the people rightly recoiled.
Their new leader has come up from the bottom, a black
smith's son. He is truly a man of the people. During
the war, unlike some of the post-war leaders, he was 100
per cent loyal to his country, a leader in the resistance
movement against the invaders.
Since then as minister of defense he won fame for the
vigor and skill with which he conducted the campaign
against the outlaw Huks. This work took him all over
the islands, made him known to millions of Jils country
men and developed his leadership qualities. Subsequent
ly he broke with Quirino and became an opposition lead
er. He has been a consistent friend of the United States,
incidentally.
We imagine most Americans suspected the Quirino
forces would try to steal the election with intimidation,
crooked counting and other none too subtle means of per
petuating regimes in power in Spanish countries. Maybe
this would have happened had the vote been fairly close,
but it wasn't. It was a landslide and no way of stopping
landslide- has yet been devised.
Magsaysay faces a tremendous task in rehabilitating
his misgoverned country. Whether his capacity will be
equal to his hopes and his people's faith in him remains
to be seen, but he starts under favorable auspices and
should have the full cooperation of the U.S.
IKE MORE THAN FAIR TO HARRY
President Eisenhower was more than fair to his pre
decessor in his press conference Wednesday, when he
said the issuance of a subpoena on Harry Truman went
against his grain and that he was certain Truman never
knowingly did anything against the interests of the Unit
ed States.
This is a nice thing to say, but James Byrnes who was
secretary of state at the time, declares that he personally
called the FBI report on Harry Dexter White to Truman's
attention before Truman signed White's commission as
director of the U.S. international monetary fund in 1946,
though after White was appointed and confirmed. He
asked Truman to refuse to sign the commission but Tru
man signed it anyway.
Subsequently, on April 7, 1947. Truman wrote to White
after White"s resignation as follows:
"You have filled with distinction your present assign
ment . . . and your unfalterinir efforts have horn a
source of great pride to us."
Truman now says that "as soon as we found out that
White was wrong we fired him." This is contradicted
by Byrnes' statement and by the letter Truman wrote
the next year after he was told of the FBI report on
White as a Communist spy.
One may sympathize with Harry Truman in his pres
ent embarrassment and have full faith in his patriotic
intentions, but the record plainly shows he was indiffer
ent to Communist infiltration, evidently ignorant of its
dangerous implications, content to dismiss it as a "red
herring." For this he must answer at the bar of Ameri
can history, even if we now give him the benefit of a
doubt we can't feel.
FIRST VOTING MACHINES
We welcome the purchase by Polk county of the first
voting machines to be bought in this area, four in num
ber. They w ill be used in the Dallas precincts.
Purchase of the machines was authorized by the
1953 legislature and may be expected to continue as
counties can find the funds. They cost about $1600 each.
Mayor Loueks estimated that it would cost $96,000 to
equip all the Salem precincts with machines. So it is
evident that the switch to machines won't be fast in
these days of rising protest against the cost of govern
ment. But we think the voting machine is coming. It is fast,
accurate, eliminates the disagreeable all day plus all night
counting job, gives the public what it wants most on elec
tion night, quick results. i
From a strictly financial standpoint It would take a
long time for the saved wages of the counting boards to
offset the $1600 cost, but the other advantages strongly
argue for the use of machines when the money can
be spared for their purchase.
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WASHINGTON MERRY
Fuse on Powder Keg at
Trieste Is Burning Short
By DREW
Washington Worried state
department officiali admit pri
vately that the lute is burning
horter on the Trieste powder
keg.
The army It pressing to de
clare martial law in order to
prevent additional bloodshed.
However, the itate department
lean this move would only
heighten the tension.
What has the state depart
ment really worried, however,
ii that our Trieste policy has
driven Yugoslavia back to the
strict neutralism it followed
Immediately after Marshal
Tito's break with Russia.
This will mean that Yugo
slavia's rugged army cannot
be tied Into western defense
plans. Up to now, Gen. Al
Gruentlier, the supreme com
mander in Europe, has counted
Tito's forces as part of the 80
divisions he has reported can
be mustered to meet a Russian
attack.
Meanwhile, British-Ameri
can intelligence has uncovered
20 Soviet agents' working in
side the rioting student groups.
On the other side, Moscow
agents have also been discover
ed on the Trieste police force.
Their orders from the Krem
lin have been to use brutality
against the students in order
to keep the trouble boiling.
Headlines and Footnotes
Russian mountain climbers
will try to plant a bust of
Lenin on top of Mt. Everest
next year . . . the army has
quietly brought several high
South Korean officers to this
country officially for "study "
Unofficial reason, however, is
that Syngman Rhee was plan
ning to purge them. The foxy
old South Korean leader fear
ed the officers were too sym
pathetic to the U. S., misht
not be loyal to him in case of
a showdown . . . Southeast
Asia has become a hotbed of
intrigue and espionage. The
I IT Q hm ti.nl i1 ht npentt
to Thailand, the Russians are
operating out of Burma and
the Chinese communists have
set up spy headquarters in In
donesia . . . The Cattlemen's
caravan, which failed to per
suade Secretary of Agriculture
Benson to support cattle prices,
will take their case tc the pub
licvia television Clarence
Randall, who has been trying
I to sen low taring to nis 1 1-
man foreign economic policy
commission, kept remarking
during recent hearings that his
Imported Sw iss watch kept bet
ter time than the clock on the
hearing-room wall . . Athletes
i from foreign countries will
demonstrate their skills at an
'international sports exposition,
!to be held in Washington next
I spring during cherry blossom
I week . . . The national aecur-
ity council will decide today
whether to give up coaxing the
j aviation gas producers to ex
pand their facilities. For sev-
eral months, the government
I has been trying to persuade
the private companies to in
crease their capacity for pro
ducing aviation gas. Now it
looks as if the government will
have to build the new plants
Itself
Japan Doesn't Want Arms
Backstage conversations re
garding the new Japanese army
BEWARE OF BENSON!
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Y P a I ABOUT H
- GO - ROUND
PEARSON
and navy make It quite clear
that the Japanese government
is not nearly as anxious to
build up a defense force as the
United States Is to have it
built.
In private conferences held
in Japan, the Japanese govern
ment Indicated It would like
a navy of 300,000 tons, all
small coastal craft; an army
of 290,000 troops; and an air
force of four wings, three to
be F-B4 fighter bombers and
one to be F-86 Jet intercept
ers. '
The Pentagon agreed on the
300,000 naval tonnage, recom
mended a 300,000-man army
and approved four air wings,
except they should all be in
tercepted and no fighter
bombers. Specifically, the air
force recommended 1,000 com
bat planes and S00 supporting
planes, mostly trainers, for
Japan.
However, Prime Minister
Shigeru Yoshida's special ne
gotiator, Hayato Ikeda, threw
a bombshell into the talks by
asking for only 200,000 naval
tonnage and no air force at all.
Instead he admovacted a long
range goal of 300,000 to 400,
000 troops.
The final decision will prob
ably depend on what policy
the Eisenhower administration
adopts toward Red China.
H-Bomb Deters War
Carleton Smith of the Na-
j tional Arts Foundation asked
j Premier Naguib of Egypt who
' he thought should get arts
I foundation prizes for service
, to humanity.
Naguib replied:
I "The man who Invents
I something which prevents
; war."
"Do you have any candi
dates?" asked Smith
"Yes," replied Egypt's strong
, man. "The man who Invented
I the H-bomb."
Reduced Air Force
It s not that Eisenhower, an
old army man, doesn't like the
a . force. He's just determined
to balance the budget. At any
rate it was he personally, and
I PEARSON Gal 2 . ..
' no one else, who blocked the
1 air force from going to the
137 wings.
The joint chiefs of staff had
set 127 wings as the air force
goal by July 1. 1958. but agreed
to let Gen. Nat Twining, air
force chief of staff, go one step
further and appeal to the
, White House for 137 wings. Ike
vetoed the plea immediately.
j It would take money out of
! next year's budget, he said.
Note Sen. Burnet Maybank
of South Carolina blames Ike
for the dangerously low de
fense budget of 1949 passed
just before the Korean war
caught us partly napping.
Though Louey Johnson got
credit for this budget. May
bank says It was Eisenhower's
testimony before the senate ap
'propriations committee which
1 really put it across.
Intense GOP Activity
The Republican Nationtl
: committee, shaken by upsets
In Wisconsin. Connecticut, New
I York and New Jersey, and
! worried over President Eisen
i Mower's declining popularity,
is planning the most high-pow-I
ered congressional election
campaign in history . Thty
f SOIL, C
Salem 31 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
November 14, 1922
Salem hospital had need of
$17,500 to complete the first
unit now under construction at
a cost of $25,000.
Hon. George H. Burnett, chief
justice of the supreme court,
had expressed doubt that the
initiative law had been a suc
cess. Forman's Georgia Minstrels
had been booked for a Salem
performance.
Price for Ford cars (model
T) delivered in Salem had been
reduced: Chassis, complete,
$420.32; Roadster, complete,
$462.56; Touring, complete,
$492.72; Sedan, complete,
$702.80.
Kafoury Brothers, 468 State
street, had distinguished look
ing dresses direct from Paris
that were decidedly appropri
ate for dance and evening wear.
Petticoats, symbol of wom
an's submission, are coming
back declared a Capital Jour
nal fashion note of 31 years
ago.
Along State Street, Capital
Journal's editorial page local
column, commented: Just say
ing every day and In every way
I am growing older and better
does not apply to the flivver
built In 1910.
Police Judge Earl Race had
reported a surplus of labor in
Salem, the first time In many
months.
Judge Rand had held In an
opinion handed down by the
supreme court that the courts
are not at liberty under the
law to experiment with the
welfare of a child.
Not Hurt by Bypass
Albany Democrat-Herald
A short time back this news
paper noted a statement by the
Jefferson Review's co-publisher
Indicating that the town's
business had not suffered since
Jefferson was by-passed by
the main north-and-south high
way, 99 East. Now we note
that the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce has published a booklet
on the general subject, "Do By
, Passes Hurt Businness?" The
publication contains results of
a survey of public opinion cov
ering all parts of the country.
, According to the survey.
I eight cities, all under 100.000
I population, reported business
improved after the towns were
by-passed by through high
ways. Thirteen others, ranging
jfrom 200,000 to 800,000, indi
cated no noticeable effect In
only two of the cities surveyed,
both under 50,000 population,
did business men report anv
bad effect.
Business houses catering
largely to travelers are the ones
most likely to suffer from the
changed routings.
will concentrate on the mar
ginal districts, using all the
advertising gimmicks that
worked so well in '52 . . .
The GOP National Committee
will organize the regular Re
publicans, and the old citizens
for Eisenhower will be re
vived to campaign for the In
dependent vote. This will be
renamed the Citizens for Ei
senhower Congressional com
mittee, and will try to run Ei
senhower, In effect. In each
congressional district. Ike
himself, of course, won't open
ly Stump the districts.
(CWTISM Utll
Death of a Party
By RAYMOND MOLEY
During the recent campaign
In New York City I had the
opportunity to witness at fire
hand the death of a politic.'
party. I am not referring to
the Republican party In the
city which, except for a chronic
case of malnutrition, is ctlll
possaessed of a firm constitu
tion. I refer to the American
Labor party, in which the Reds
have become so troublesome
that even Vito Marcantonio,
the high priest and once the
patronage saint of the outfit,
has given it up. My own know
ledge is based upon active par
ticipation in political affairs
in my home district, which was
the fatherland of the A. L. P.,
and the constituency which
Marcantonio represented for
seven terms. In 1950, we all
joined and defeated him with
a Democrat, James G. Dono
van. The year before Marcan
tonio's defeat for. Congress, he
was a candidate for mayor and
received 356, 122 votes over the
city. In 1950, his candidate for
mayor received 149,182 votes.
In the recent election his can
didate for mayor fell to 54,372.
In the Twenty-second coun
cilmans district, which was
the cetner of the old American
Labor party strength, the drop
has been even more drastic. In
1949, Its candidate for the city
council received 27,853 votes.
This time, the score was 1,943.
An examination of what hap
pened makes it clear that the
Communist group decided to
move into the Democratic
party. The Daily Worker told
its readers to vote for Wagner,
the Democratic candidate for
mayor. They apparently feel
that their evil purposes can
best be accomplished in the
Democratic party rather than
by standing out in a smaller
splinter party where they can
be more easily identified.
On the day after the election,
Marcantonio gave up the ghost.
He resigned from the state
chairmanship of the A. L. P.
His statement accompanying
the resignation was very signi
ficant. He explained that a
"minority" in the party had
insisted that its objective was
to defeat the Republican candi
date for mayor. This explains
the Daily Worker endorsement
of Wagner.
''For too long now," con
tinued Marcantonio'! state
ment, "the American Labor
party has been a 'house divid
ed against itself,' between us
who believed in the American
Labor party as an effective
political party nominating and
electing candidates and those
who, I charged last April, were
attempting to force upon us the
role of a pressure group."
One very important general
conclusion can- be adduced
from this statement and the
events which brought it about.
The communists in this coun
try, at least as represented in
this virile center of their opera
tion, are not a legitimate poli
tical party, do not intend to
operate as one should, and are
not interested In a fair elec
tive contest for public offices.
Marcantonio's designation of
them as a "pressure group" is
an absurd understatement.
What they are is a conspiracy
to destroy free elections and all
the rest of the institutions of
our government. Why should
they be given any of the pri
vileges and Immunities of a
legitimate political party?
Some of them have always hid
den behind the contention that
to belong to the communist
party is admissible because it
is a lawful party. Why should
we provide this screen?
I To be sure, it has been con
tended by many well-meaning
'people, including Governor
j Dewey, that to outlaw the
party will drive its members
underground. But it is under
gitmnd already for all its sinis
ter purposes. The only reason
it maintains its public identity
is to avail itself of privileges
which it uses only to recruit
new members and to mess up
uic i-uvuiFs oi oiner parlies.
It snouid be outlawed by state
law wherever it now exists.
IRtltutd br Tht Aiocttt.4
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Long Wet-Dry Fight
Albany Democrat - Herald
Now that the Cor vail is
liquor-by-the-drink controver
sy has been passed along to the
Oregon liquor control commis
sion, which probably will issue
the requested licenses, ending
nearly forty years of official
alcoholic drouth in the college
city, the next move by the drys
is to be a countywide local-option
appeal.
If the needed signatures are
received on petitions already
out, the question of a wet or
dry county will be submitted a
year from now at the general
election. This is a good, demo
cratic way to settle such ques
tions. The bad feature is, that
a long and probably bitter cam
paign faces the people of Ben
ton county. True, it may in
crease the number of voters
who go to the polls, but unfor
tunately a lot of needed politi
cal Interest will be diverted to
the wet-dry issue, to the ne
glect of other Important mat
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Machine Tingles Muscles in
Body-Building Demonstration
By HAL
New York WeU, I was
Just sitting there with my feet
on the desk, contentedly
watching spider spin a cob
web between my two shoes,
when the phone rang.
"Are you one of those lazy
men who hate exercise?" de
manded a voice.
"No," I said honestly. 'Tm
just one of those lazy men who
hate people who exercise
and brag about it."
"How would you like to ex
ercise while you loaf?" asked
the voice. "How would you
like to build a tiger-trim fig
ure without even moving
muscle yourself?"
"Can I do this lying down?"
I asked cautiously.
"Sure," said the voice. "You
can even read, eat. watch a
TV program, or fall asleep
and all the time you are get
ting to look more like Hercu
les. We do it with a machine.
Come over and cee."
So I climbed out of my leth
argy and into a taxi and trun
dled over to a Fifth Avenue
salon that said on the door:
"Relax-A-Cisor."
A brunette named Louise
Simonet led me into a small
room where a pretty blonde,
Charlotte Rakay, lay stretched
on a table. Miss Rakay wore a
bathing suit and a aeries of
damp felt pads that looked
like an old-fashioned truss ad.
Wires led from the pads to a
small radio-like machine with
knobs at her side.
"This machine takes the
place of your nerve centers
and electrically flexes your;
mimrles for von " nlH ti '
Simonet, "at the rate of 20
contractions a minute or 1,200
an hour. It does all the work
for you. All you have to do is
It Isn't Copyrighted
Bend Bulletin
For six national elections the
Democrats insisted on running
against Herbert Hoover. Dur
ing the last few months a num
ber of them have given signs
they intend to run against the
old gentleman again in 1954.
Now that the Republicans
are "in" after being "out"
for such a long time they
show signs of having learned
something during their period
of being "out."
Atterney General Browncll
has disinterred Harry . Dexter
White and is making a big
issue of him. Looks like the
Republicans intend to run
against the Truman-Acheson-Communism
platform they
used so effectively a year ago.
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THAT IS THE KIND OF
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Why Pay 60 to 100
In ground floor stores, when it's so easy to walk upstairs
to the 2nd floor, where you can buy the finest
quality clothes at
Joe's Great Money-Saving Prices
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$2250 $j295
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Above Morris Optical Co., Neit to Nohlgren't
Restaurant Look for the Flashing
Save $10 Sign Abova Entrance
BOYLE
plug it in and turn the dials.
It can tone up your muscles la
your body while you relax."
"How about, that old serrat
us anterior muscle?" I asked
cynically.
She adjusted a pad on tha
blonde girl's left rib section,
and tuned it In. Immediately
Charlotte's splendid serratus
anterior began a rhythmic
twitch.
"How docs It feel?"
"Tingly . . . Just tingly," re
plied Charlotte reservedly.
"Now, we'll test it on the
muscle we sit on the gluteus
maximus," said Misa Simonet.
She put a pad under each of
Charlotte's hips, and a mom
ent later the blonde lady was
giving a completely relaxed
imitation of Gypsy Rose Lee
at her best.
"Wonderful thing elec
tricity." I murmured. "How
does that feel?"
"Tingly . . . just tingly,"
said Charlotte cooly. "There is
no feeling of shock at all."
Well, maybe not from her4
viewpoint. We went on from
there, testing muscle after mus
cle, and Charlotte's pectoralis
major responded as famely as
her vastus externus. I had a
feeling of regret when Miss
Simon switched the machine
off without giving Charlotte's
adductor magnus and sartor
ius magnus a workout. I hate
to see any good muscle slight
ed. "You can get the effect of
exercise without breaking your
arm." said Miss Simonet. "Now,
would you like to try the ma
chine?" Bashfully, I agreed to test
the only muscle 1 had on dis
play at the moment those in
my triple-threat chin. She held
a pad under my chin like a
buttercup, and immediately
the muscles began automatic
ally twitching. I had a wild
sense of power as if I could
chew the biggest hunk of bub
ble gum in the world.
"How docs it feel? asked
Charlotte.
"Tingly . . . just tingly," I
told her.
A spokesman for the firm
a big fellow with powerful
muscles said sports figures
like Sal Maglie, the pitcher,
and entertainment notables
such as Robert Q. Lewis,
Frankie Lane and Judy Holli
day used the Relax-A-Cisor to
keep in shape painlessly.
But they had to turn down
one customer who wanted a
machine for the head.
"I got a fat headed girl
friend," he explained, "and
this dame really needs help to
exercise it."
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