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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem. Oregw.
Wednesday, November 25, 1951
Capital AJournal
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McCarthy's right on one point
Little we like to agree with Senator McCarthy, we
agree with him that communist in government win oe
an issue in next year" elections, irrespective of President
Eisenhower's expressed hope that this will not be an
Issue.
This is already an issue of course and it will continue
to be, lor three reasons. First, It is now aomiuea inougn
it wax Inn denied: There were communists in the U.S.
government during the Roosevelt and Truman adminis
trations. There were many of them. We are hearing
about new ones all the time and it is unlikely tnat we
are yet at the bottom of that deep swill barrel.
Further, they were harbored. White's commission as
U.S. director of the International Monetary Fund was
signed by Truman after Truman had both the advice of
the F.B.I., obtained from 30 different sources, that White
was a spy and advice against moving him to the new posi
tion. Twice after that Truman wrote extravagantly
worded letters praising White to the skies. Truman im
peded the investigation of Alger Hiss, terming the case a
"red herring."
Second, Truman is still utterly unrepentant. He is
barked by Adlai Stevenson, the titular head of the Demo
cratic party and its likely nominee for president in Uob.
Stevenson assails the Republicans for what he terms
rough tactics in exposing and cleaning out Reds in the
government. He leaves little doubt that they would be
relatively safe there with him in the White House, as
they were when Truman was president.
Neither has any communist sympathies, of course. No
body has alleged or implied this, and no responsible per
son will. It is that they do not consider the presence of
communists in the government, even when they are in
high places, as very important. Britain has until re
cently taken the same view. Truman and Stevenson
speak for one powerful wing of the Democratic party, not
for all of it, but enough of it to assure that much of the
party leadership will defend the Truman attitude toward
the communists and assail the Republican attitude.
Third, the more belligerent leaders on both sides,
Brownell and McCarthy, Republicans; Truman, Hum
phrey, Stevenson, Democrats, will be sure to keep the
explosive question alive. There isn't the slightest chance
of it disappearing from politics prior to the 1954 cam
paign, even if the Eisenhower administration succeeds,
which is unlikely, in dislodging every Communist suspect
from his place in the government by then. There are too
many of them and they are hard to detect in many cases.
It is the attitude of Truman, Stevenson and other big
Democratic leaders that make reds in government a
major issue. If Truman had admitted the facts and ad
mitted that he was less vigilant than he should have
been the issue would soon disappear. But so long as this
attitude is vigorously defended, with the strong infer
ence that it will again be the attitude should the Demo
crats return to power there is a vital issue which will
continue to stir millions of Americans. They remember
inside the U.S. government and they will be genuinely
only too well how the loss of China was engineered from
alarmed at any prospect that this could happen again,
perhaps on a larger scale.
.
But we do not follow McCarthy in his egotistic attempt
to make himself the chief issue of the coming election
fight "If you disprove of me vote Democratic," he
declared in effect in his talk last night. If this advice
were to be taken literally we could expect a Democratic
congress for most people disapprove strongly of McCar
thy's tactics even when they admit that he has performed
useful services at times.
McCarthy is a little man with a tremendous sense of
his own importance and a tremendous capacity for self
promotion. He will be a factor in the campaign of course,
the one Republican bar room fighter who can success
fully meet Harry Truman with Truman's own weapons.
As such he will contribute to the campaign excitement.
But as "the" issue, or a major issue, definitely no.
The country has many important matters to decide in
the 1954 elections of which communists in government
is one, but only one. Attitude of government toward
socialism is probably the most Important, and there are
several others fully as important as this one which will
generate so much sound and fury. The wise voter will
try to keep all these confusing matters in their proper
perspective and not be carried away by his emotions.
NO THANKSGIVING IN KOREA
Only thin.- the Koreans can be thankful for this
Thanksgiving day is that the hot war has ceased for the
time being, though the cold war still continues. Instead
of being a monument to world peace, Korea is a continu
ing symbol of frustration and strife.
The conference called to arrange a permanent peace
for Korea, including withdrawals of foreign troops and
eventually a free and unified Korean nation seems each
day to be bogged down further in the daily communist
hymn of hate of the allies, their stalling and propaganda
blasts the orthodox Kremlin way of settling disputes. J
The peace conference was to have started October 25
but its start has been indefinitely delayed and each day
makes more it unlikely that a united Korea will be real
ized and the communists seem determined the Korean ;
dream will never be.
A feature of the situation was this week's Pciping !
announcement of a 10-year economic assistance pact be-'
tween Red China and North Korea communist regimes.
The Chinese reported they had written off North Korea's
war debt and in addition would advance North Korea'
$317 million in the next four years. i
Two months ago the Russians announced a similar aid I
program for North Korea. They said they would ad-1
vance $250 million in aid and would reduce, but not for-
give the North Korean war debt.
Whether either Red China or Russia can carry outj
their promises of machinery and other supplies of which
there is a desperate shortage in both countries is beside '
the point. Both are merely propaganda moves, scraps of
paper for communists never live up to their pacts.
It is more apparent than ever that the original commu
nist plans for Korea have never been changed Korea
must be totally communist or forever divided. And that
will force the United States to go ahead with its own
plans to spend nearly a billion in the next four years to
rehabilitate South Korea.
Real peaco would be cause for world thanksgiving but
it is apparently not in the cards. And even if a compro
mise peace was declared, the communists would not live
up to it any more than they have lived up to their cove
nant in the United Nations by waging a continuous
aggressive cold war against the non-Red world. G. V.
THE TURKEY OWNER MUST- BE ALERT
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Humphrey and Wilson Fight
Over Armed Forces Slashes
By DREW PEARSON
Washington It was Secre-1 coming more and more impor-
tary of the Treasury Humph- tant to atomic warfare. A a
rey himself who leaked the sop, the air force was given
story to newsmen that the 1 seven more wings to keep It
Eisenhower a d m 1 nistration . happy.
would slash the budget by an- Hi,. Supports Humphrey
other $6,000,000,000 next; Secretary Humphrey can
year most of It out of the! be forceful without pounding
armed services. ; the table or losing his tem-
The Identity of the news per. He made it clear to the
leak in this case la important.
For it took only a few min
utes for Humphrey' identity
to become known a couple of
miles down Constitution ave
nue and across the Potomac ; couldn't afford both
river at the Pentagon, where ; rcy emphasized.
it caused that labyrinth of of-1 Since Humphrey ts close to
military chiefs that the Unit
ed States couldn't build
atomic weapons on one hand
and continue conventional
weapons on the other. We
Humph-
-the largest in
-to seethe with
the
activ-
ficen
world-
ity.
A few hours later, the activ
ity had its effect Secretary
of the Treasury Humphrey
hedged just a little on his leak.
He did not hedge on the $8,-
000,000,000 cut. But he did
tell newsmen two things: 1.
That the military would not
be cut at the expense of na
tional safety; but 2. Since the
military spend about 75 per
cent of the budget, they will
have to bear that proportion
ate share of the cut.
Actually, the above Jockey
ing between the treasury and
the Pentagon merely brings to
the surface a debate that has
been going on backstage for
weeks. It also puts in direct
Biased British
Reporting
By ftAlMOND MOLET
Some Americana, verexer-
clsed about the unpopularity of
uncle Sam In Britain, arc dis
posed to place all the blame on
our Congressional Investigating
committees. It might be better
It they would suggest to their
British friends that some of
their newspapers get some
more accurate and unbiased re
porters over here. From time
to time I have commented in
these articles on the bias in the
reporting of news from the
United States, particularly In
the London Times, the Man'
Chester Guardian, and the
weekly Economist I offer today
some specimen ts from the
Times report on the White
case from the Brownell
speech in Chicago to and in
eluding November 20. These
are cited to show (a) bias, (b)
ignorance, (c) both.
"Our own correspondent," in
his Times dispatch on the
President's Armistice day press
conference said: "The FBI is
said to have had 500 agents at
work on the case from then
(February 1046) until the
spring of 1947, by which time
they had found nothing new
and had only the unsupported
word of Miss Bentley." This
was not reporting. It was reck
lest surmise hidden behind that
refuge of all gossips, "it Is
said." According to J. Edgar
Hoover, the original warning
in 1946 was based upon 30
sources. "Our own correspond'
ent" then says: 'The hunt was
called off," a statement for
which he could have had no
credible evidence. Even Tru
man admitted that the "hunt"
went dn.
In his dispatch dated Novem
ber 15 the correspondent said
that Vinson and Clark, after
getting the advice of Hoover,
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
ing the closing days of the Ko
rean war.
Soon after the Dicture sot
underway General Dean be- suggested that White be left as
came restless, ne could see;cctullvc rcv-iur wi me u.a.j
that some members of the pa-
Ike, he did more than lecture
the military. He also talked
to the president, induced him
to order the military to cut.
They are now supposed to be
cutting, but so far haven't
come up with a single, soli
tary countersuggestion.
That was why the secretary
of the treasury decided to
force the Pentagon's hand,
made them tear their hair
over his leak that the- budget
must be cut another $8,000,
000,000. Since then, not only Secre
tary of Defense Wilson, but
some GOP politicos plus dip-
. i,i, n,..i.ii Capitol Journal s Round-Up
rj:'Jt"lCI, Column" said that Oregon had
trol were exposing themselves
to enemy fire. At one drama
tic point in the picture, the
General became so absorbed
that unconsciously he whis
pered orders to the G.I.s on the
movie screen. "Get down!
Keep your head down!" he mut
tered. "Don't bunch up for
God's sake, don't bunch up!"
When the movie ended the
General was wet with perspiration.
"It's Just too realistic," he
said. "I hope I didn't annoy
anybody, but I just couldn't
keep quiet when that patrol
bunched up. That's always a
fatal mistake in combat, but it's
also the most common mistake.
I guess my reflexes just would
n't let me sit still while those
boys on the screen were in
trouble."
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Salem 42 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
November 25, 1911
Ralph Mulford, driving a
Lozier car, had won the Van
derllp cup race finishing the
289-mile drive in three hours,
nine minutes and 56 seconds.
Ralph De Palma driving a
Mercedes had come in second.
I never hanged a woman and
' had now stopped hanging men.
Adair Lockwood and Mark
Skiff, Jr., two Salem boys,
were successful wireless operators.
they agree with Humphrey that
the budget must be balanced
But here are some of the fac-
opposition to each other two tors they're considering on the
of the ablest and biggest busi- other side:
nessmen in the Eisenhower I Economic Clouds
cabinet, i 1. With the domestic econ-
numpnrey, who demands omv already looking a bit sour. I .
the military cut, was a presl-this is a poor time to cut gov-1 R- A- Higby had purchased
dent and director of 30 dif-j eminent orders further. Wilh'tne Capital rooming house in
ferent corporations compris-1 steel production, automobiles ! old Murphy block.
ing the Mark Hanna company, and farm equipment off, and
founded by the famed GOP j credit restricted, economic ad
boss who elected President j viscrs would prefer to increase
McKinley. He is the cabinet defense orders rather than cut
member Ike listens to most.
Secretary of Defense Chas.
them.
2. With Eisenhower ready to
E. Wilson, who opposes him, . sit down opposite Premier be green and b!a-k
where he could do little
harm." Hoover made no such
recommendation. A spy in that
position could do incalculable
harm because he would have
complete information concern
ing the currencies and finances
of many countries.
Of course, McCarthy is drag
ged in to note that the sena
tor's "dramatic spy hunt at
Fort Monmouth seems to have
fizzled out." The extent to
which it had fizzled out will be
demonstrated, perhaps before
this article appears in print.
On November 20, "Our own
correspondent" reports, in con
nection with the request for an
opportunity to interview Gou
zenko: "It is thought that pub
lic opinion in Canada would
not soon forgive its government
for doing anything to help one
of these investigating commit
tees." Here hidden again be
hind a gossip's formula, "It is
thought," is a flat statement by
the correspondent that our
friendly neighbor is unwilling
to cooperate with the congress
of the United States.
Incidentally, "our own cor
respondent" reported in the
Times last spring that the Jow
itt book on the Hiss case had
been withdrawn by the pub
lishers under pressure exerted
by the "long arm" of Senator
McCarthy and his colleagues.1
The fact was that McCarthy
never had heard of the book.
Nora de Toledano, whose hus
band Ralph wrote the book
"Seeds of Treason" on the Hiss
case, wrote to the publishers
when the book was sent to re
viewers, pointing out 100
errors. She was thanked by the
publishers and the book was
thereupon withdrawn.
As a final flourish. The
Times published a bitterly . ar
tisan leading editorial. Two
statements in that editorial
show how utterly that once
great paper's editorial writers
seem to misunderstand the ele
ments of American government
and practice. The editorial says
Auto tags for 1912 were to that after White had been con-
Guns Are Silent on This Day of
Harvest Holiday of Happiness
By HAL BOYLE
New York ( America
looks forward today to the
best Thanksgiving since the
twentieth century reached mid'
die aie.
The guns at last are silent
on this harvest holiday ol hap
piness for the first time since
1940. No American is snooting
off anything except his mouth,
which in our land remains not
only the national pastime and
a form of exercise but a God
given right
There may be fly-specks in
the economy, but the great ma
jority of our people have more
to he cheerful about than they
have had in years.
Peace may be a mirage, but
the nightmare of Korea la end
ed at least for a time. The foe
is halted. The atom and hydro
gen bombs remain in their
darkened stables. We may for
get the guided missle as we
reach for a turkey drumstick
with a guided muscle.
Most every man who wants
to work still has a job, a table
to put his feet under k and
something to eat on the table.
As a nation we have reason
to celebrate with a full heart
as well as a full stomach.
It has been a good year, now,
hasn't it? Particularly if you
forget the weather. The weath
er man has given us a long
series of tornadoes, floods, and
droughts, and in the cities now
his theme song is "Smog Gets
in My Eyes."
Bute it isn't his fault. Every
once in a while the climate
Evangelist Gypsy Smith had
made his appearance in Salem.
Portland
attempting
authorities
to compel
were
street
car companies to install heat
ers in their cars.
This is not true. The Presi
dent could have refused to is
sue a commission, and it goes
beyond comprehension that
White would have resorted to
the courts for a writ of man
damus, as did Marbury in his
famous case against Madison,
Truman could have called in
White and demanded his resig
nation. Or he could have fired
him.
A second statement makes
one wonder whether the Times
editor really knows the ele
ments of Anglo-American jur
isprudence. He says that the
evidence against White was
'not conclusive, as its later fail
ure before a grand jury show
ed." Are we to believe that the
Times holds that anyone who
can escape indictment was
qualified to serve in the Tru
man Administration?
In R. F. Harrod's monumen
tal and adulatory biography of
the late Lord Keynes, published
in 1951, there is this comment,
among many others on White:
"He was a very remarkable
figure, who should be accorded
an honorable place in British
annals." The Times reporters
and editors must have taken
that suggestion seriously.
just geta out of his control
Let's hope the weather fellow
gets piece of turkey tomor
row, too even , if it Is only
the neck. He's been sticking
his own neck, out all year.
Who doesn't have some thine
to feel grateful for?
The nation's health keeps ea
getting better. We took a long
step forward in the conquest
of polio.
Somebody built a doughnut
with a smaller hole, and an
other fellow found a way to
put a lime flavor in popcorn.
Rita Hayworth got a new
husband. The movie industry
came up with a new screen
wide enough to give a full
view of Marilyn Monroe. Tela,
vision discovered and began to
feature a bright new play,
wright William Shakespetr,
and put en "King UiJ
without having old Lear du a
beer or razor blade commer
cial. The Republican Party could
feel grateful all its defeats
were local in nature, as there
was no national election, one
of the really nicest things about
1953. The Democrats were
equally grateful that Harry
Dexter White hadn't been bora
twins.
The sports world had its mo
ments of bliss to look back on,
too. The St. Louis Browns, aft
er all these years, got a chance
for a new start in life under a
new name. Notre Dame's foot
ball team managed to a make
a few lucky first downs, a feat
Coach Frank Leahy had ex
pressed doubt they could pull
off at the start of the season.
The laboring man and the
tired businessman were
cheered by a Philadelphia
heart specialist's statement
that a woman today is now
strong enough to raise kids,
take care of the house, hold
down an outside job and also
protect her poor ' weak hus
band. The average man saw a
more hopeful future also in the
fact more stores began featur
ing the two pants suit again.
Mortgage money became
more plentiful, so that a fel
low again could start borrow
ing to buy the things he
couldn't afford.
Yes, peace and general plen
ty bestride America which, a
survey shows, pulls down 40
per cent of the total Income
in a hungry world.
Let us, when the steaming
turkey is put on the table to
morrow, bend our heads in
thanks for what we have, and
not forget to mention in our
prayers, as the old Irish moth
ers say, "The onea that are in,
and the ones away."
It is a Thanksgiving to re
member, now in our pilgrim
age.
was head of the world's largest
corporation, General Motors.
He. too. is close to the presi
dent, but not as close as Hum
phrey. Backslare Battle
The backstage battle be
tween these two men and
their subordinates actually
got down to brass knuckles at
a meeting of the National Se
curity Council about six weeks
ago, at which the military
men brought In their "new
look" for the armed services.
Joseph Lanicl at Bermuda next
month and demand a big
French army, diplomatic ad
the following officers: E.
viscrs don't think this a good ! Hofer, president; A. Kehrberg
time for the U.S.A. to cut back er, vice president; W. M. Hum
firmed "it would have been
nrartirallv Imnnasihle to take
German society had elected i8nv action other than that
which Mr. Truman did take."
on its own military budget.
3. Vice President Nixon has
been barnstorming through the
Far East, urging Japan, the
Philippines and French Indo
china to arm, which makes it
diplomatically difficult for us
to do just the opposite here at
home.
4. The Democrats have al-
burg, secretary; John Stillman,
treasurer; F. G. Deckabach,
delegate, and Fred Hcyser, alternate.
U. G. Shipley Co. had a com
plete assortment of puffs,
transformations, center parted
wavy, grey front pieces and
other stylish hair goods for el
derly ladies.
Bligh theater "where every
body goes" had billed exact
moving pltctures reproductions
of Pendleton Round-Up for
1911.
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GEORGE ' SID
HL'GGINS BOISE
"So you're one of those insurance fellers," he began. "Your
policy Is probably Just like aU the rut the big print gives
it to you and the small print takes It away!" "Hoi Hot" we
laughed. "That's a food one!'' (Boy! Is this guy going to get
it. We've been waiting tor the next person who wanted to
make Jokes ) "You know, sir," we smiled in our most affable
manner. "There seems to be a popular misconception about the
size of the print in an Insurance policy. Let's refer to the In
surance Code of the State of Cregon. a copy of which we
ust happen to have handy) and on page 101, paragraph 101
803, sub-paragraph No. 6 we read as follows: "No policy of in
surance against loss or damage . . . shall be Issued or delivered
. . . unless the exceptions be printed with the same promuience
as the benefits to which such exceptions apnly." "So you see.
sir, the law requires that the print Uiat takes it away must
be the same site as the rest of the print."
i Boy! Did we fix him We didn't aell any insurance with that
approach, but boy! Did we fix him!)
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"The Cisilal fleck taps st rsterrts lata"
This "new look." supposed a-v m P Pat ol
to permit sizable budget cuts. ,ne hcvy d:fen5e cuU and r
in reality did no such thing. "5" to m' mo"- " ,act
and Secretary Humphrey quite "dangcring the national secur
rightly scoffed at it. ' ' ,'rwm,de "sue
"All you've done U put ,he, V k . .k
some cromium pl.t. on j -our ' " 'r SiCj P"U ?l"n"
bumper," he chlded. "You've 1 ?o0""''"u'
il. ij ji .u;.j toughest predicament its faced
got the same old model shined f Tne rulUn, debg, ,
up a 11 tie bit but how are we lot mo important ,, "
going to fight atom.c wars hcadlincs, forn ,u outco
with the same old car plus a wi acpfnl ,wuritv of (ne
chromium bumper. , nation and to anme .ti tK.
What teed off Humphrey!..,., , , .u.
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coming year.
was the fact that the military
chiefs had merely split mili
tary spending three ways with
no regard to military need or
General Dean Can't Relax
Ma). Gen. William Dean, who
spent three years in a Korean
strategy. The navy took Its j prison camp, relived some of
usual share, regardless of thelhii wartime experiences in
fact that all It ships can Just j Washington the other day
about be put out of commis- j General Dean h. honor
ision oy a single a-oomo. merest at a special preview of
army took lis usual snare, re-, the new movie. "Cease Fire."
' gardless of the dubious value Shot in Korea, the cast la com
of foot-soldiers. And the air posed of nothing but genuine
force took its usual share G I s. and is the story of a sin
I despite the fact that air is be-(le "minor" patrol action dur-
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