Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1953)
Pact 4 TUB CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salera. OrcfM Tuesday, December 8. 1953 Capital AJou rnal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus . Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che .' mekefo St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, WonN Ads. 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409 r Iwtml Ikl SmtM lk AiMctoM ttmt tmi Tkc- OaltM mm. Tto AuMiftUd Prau u titlMivtlf totltM l tbt Im nUlMllw ( all im timuht trtixu U It f tUowIM aMUi la iha mk M SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Cwrlwi V !hir. tl.Ui tlM UcstU. 17 Ui Om Iw, tiitt. (r UW Omm: liaatkl. ; Sis llMlhc MM) Out Tor. U N. Bf sun OUMa Orww MMUU7. II JS; U Hunt II Hi oat Tw. Ill M. POWER PARTNERSHIP Tubllc and private power companies joined forces at Seattle Monday to put President Eisenhowers power plan into effect in the northwest. A policy committee of 21 members was created to take Op the "partnership" offer for developing more electrical energy, made up of representatives of public and private power forces in the four Pacific Northwest states and British Columbia to work out development plans. It was announced at the meeting that six and probably even power companies plan to join forces for construc tion of additional generating facilities in the Columbia Basin area to take care of the electric power needs of all their customers for the next 20 years. These companies hive already formed in Informal organ ization to develop partnership with the federal government They are Idaho Power company, Boise; Pacific Power and Light company, Portland; Portland General Electric company, Portland; Mountain State Power company, Albany, Ore.; Washington Water Power company, Spokane; Montana Power company, Butte, and possibly Puget Sound Power and Light company, Seattle. Public and private power producers are in agreement that unless new generation is created the cower shortage In the Pacific Northwest will reach six million kilowatts in a water shortage year by 1973 and seriously curtail industrial and agricultural progress. The purpose of the policy committee, established on I voluntary basis, will be to encourage both public and pri vate power development to meet rapidly increasing re. gional demands, recommend sites of hydroelectric plants and priority of construction. The partnership plan will enable the building of projects too large for any one of me companies to nandie by itself. Most of the projects being considered would involve multipurpose dams. And under the plan the federal gov entrant would be expected to contribute flood control, navigation, irrigation and other benefits other than power. The policy committee Includes Gov. ten Jordan of Idaho, who presided at Monday's conference, Governors Arthur B. Langlie of Washington, Paul Patterson of Oregon, Hugo Aran aon of Montana; representative of British Columbia, repre sentatives of the Army Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, Federal Power Commission, the Interstate Compact Commit tee, the Northwest Public Power Association, and one repre sentative from each of the utilities allied in the Northwest Public Utilities Conference Committee. In its present financial plight the federal government cannot be expected to carry on alone costly dam building as in the recent past at taxpayers' expense but the pro posed partnership offers a feasible and practical plan for Columbia basin power projects needed for development of the vast region served. G. P. TWELVE YEARS AFTERWARD Twelve years ago today, December 8, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan, following the attack on Pearl Harbor the day before, and entered upon the great est military effort in all its history. By May 7, 1945, we had defeated Germany, and by August 14, -1945, the Japanese had layed down their arms, a complete military victory for ourselves and our allies. But modern wars may be won on the battlefields and lost in the conferences and cold wars that follow. How have we fared since December 8, 1941? The anni versary is a good time to take stock. Many will say we lost the war because we helped to raise up a more dangerous enemy than the two we over threw, but this is not true. The United States emerged s the most powerful nation, all things considered, in the world, and as the undisputed leader of the free half of the world, a position we had never held before. Further, we have held our own with the Russians in the cold war that has raged almost constantly since 1945, with one very important exception. We lost China to the Russians, the most important international event aince 1945. These years have aeen a complete about face in our relations with three other great nations. Russia our "dauntless ally" of 1941-45 Is now our implacabln enemy, as determined to detrny in any country enpaged in war ever was determined to destroy an enemy belliger ent. Our deadly enemies of World War II, Japan and Ger many, are now our allies. We disarmed them in 1945. Now we are wring them to rearm in their defense, par tially reiinring us of the responsibility. Curiously, these great mTliuinstic powers are now reluctant to rearm and mj-im mudraije urging. But they are definitely on oar C4 it ti ntrrvr.t division of the world. E.si ' irpitf s :iy in spirit, for her aims were Cfiewiurtw7 vut. as we should have realized all a.sT.. B a.a vr.ly because we were both attacked by r&r-wvs aw t.f totalitarian nations. twMmatr A. IV f.rjis us in a grim, forbidding world In wh.irtt out atnst be strong and brave in order to remain fra. fc.r tr.re are those who will destroy the freedom ef all sn are nnt able and determined to defend it. But th Sun and Stripes fly high in this dangerous wor,d. the kipe of those who are free and those who long to be free, the foe of tyrants as they have been ever since 1776. All in all, it could be a lot worse. WIRE TAPPING EVIDENCE One of the battles to be fought in the coming congres sional session will be over Attorney General Rrownell'a request to use evidence gained by wire tapping against uuvprsives. Brownell win be opposed by all leftists, of course. But ne win aiso be opposed by many who see a threat to Der mal liberty, an entering wedge for something that lurn out. eventuauy to resemble the police state it is pointed out that chance remarks over the phone might be misinterpreted, as might any other evidence lor that matter. We dislike the Police state murh invnna hut u are inclined to favor Brownell's proposal if limited to cases involving the security of the United Ststes. We make the distinction with the feeling that perhaps we can still continue to fight the garden varietv of law breaker with the padded gloves of traditional rules, but that the subversive, out to destroy the United States, w iUR 1 wllh Bom' of hU own WP 4k. "tand that a number of persons against whom cuted a t lronRest v'cnce cannot be prose EVERYBODY ELSE HAS TRIED IJsBW M DON'T WAHTA W A K&VC A KILLJOY LAy- &MW BUT yoOMAVHAFTA I U" ' HIRE A BOOKKEEPER. ) W , y ' T'&O PAPER. WOR.K p vV ' 1 FOR GOVT ReP0RT4JTtW WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND McCarthy Talked Out of Alfout Attack on Dulles By DREW PEARSON vldanc. .mi i:'.". . . l . Iree oecause wire tapping McC , -.... ...uawoiy uuc, cannot be used in court,1waa caruuu reviewed b Pia-l Washington Inside story of the McCarthy-Eisenhower con troversy Is that the Wisconsin fire-eater had planned to come out In his last statement shoot ing from the hip with a devas tating blast against John Fos ter Dulles and his law partner. Arthur Dean, now In Korea trying to negotiate peace. It was placid, rolly-poly Len Hall, chairman of the Republi can National committee, who finally went to McCarthy's of fice and persuaded him to call off the dogs. Hall had to min gle threats with persuasion be fore McCarthy agreed. What Senator McCarthy had got hold of was the record of Arthur Dean as a vice presi dent of the Institute of Pacific Relations. This is the group which published Amerasia and in which certain Communists infiltrated during the war. McCarthy was ready to pub lish certain records which ac cording to some Interpreta tions might have linked Dean with U. S. appeasement toward Red China. He had prepared ripsnorting statement blast ing the Secretary of State and his law partner, now in Korea. When Len Hall heard about this, however, he went to see McCarthy. At no time did he lose his temper. It was always Joe and Len. However Len told Joe that If he went ahead with his blast, he. Hall, and ev ery Republican leader would luue statements against him. Hall argued that McCarthy's attacks on Eisennawrr were merely helping the Democrats. He also promised that it Mc Carthy would tone down his statement, the Republican lea ders would drop their battle against him. McCarthy agreed. He even submitted his greatly watered- down statement to Hall. Hall read it, and, while he didn't approve it, he said he didn't think it would offend the White House too much, Hall then went to the White House and reported to Ike. When he left he was confident he had arranged a truce. But he hadn't counted on one thing. McCarthy put an extra kick. er in his statement The typ ed statement was so milk-toast that the Baltimore Sun cor. respondent Phil Potter asked Senator, could this be de scribed as a perfumed note to the administration That was before McCarthy added the kicker which was verbal. He urged that the Am crican people write letters to the white House urging that Ike cnange Ms foreign policy regarding China. And the White House, despite any re ports to the contrary. Just did not appreciate this a bit McCarthy va. Elsenhower Prior to the Brownell blast at Truman in Chicaso. the White House had not intended to fight McCarthy openly, but to take the ball away from him, thus push him out of the head. lines . . Whltehouse aides claim that Attorney General Brown' ell's controversial Chicago talk on Harry Dexter White was not aimed at ex-President Tru man but at Senator McCarthy. The Eisenhowec administration wanted to demonstrate that it could handle the Communist issue without any help from MrCf rthy. . . Browne" sldentlal Press Secretary Jim Hagerty the morning before Its delivery, but unfortunately, Hagerty didn't sense the impli cations of the sentence reflect ing on Truman's loyalty. As a result, the speech backfired, and Brownell was forced to call on G-man J. Edgar Hoov er to bail him out. . . Actually, the White House didn't want In rile Truman nor involve the FBI in politics. The whole idea had been concocted as a mas ter strategy to neutraliie the irresponsible senator from Wis consin. . . After Senator Mc Carthy's radio blast accusing the Eisenhower administration of "perfumed notes" diplom acy, Secretary of State Dulles was so furious that he inter rupted President Eisenhower's Thanksgiving vacation with a phone call to Augusta. . . When Ike returned to the White House, he found not merely Dulles but his aides angry as hornets over McCarthy's chal lenge to the President's leader ship. Hence, the double-barreled Dulles-Eisenhower blast at McCarthy. WASHINGTON WHIRL President Eisenhower's statement that every American has the "right to meet his ac cuser face to face" was made off the cuff. Before delivering the speech, Ike told Jewish leaders: "I am not going to use a script. I want to speak Just straight from the heart" ... In spite of its sincerity, the state ment backfired in Washington, where more than 300 employes have been dismissed by the Ei senhower administration with no opportunity to face their accuser , . . Furthermore, gov ernment security officers ad mit privately that thev have no intention of changing their procedure. They hope the pub. lie will forget what the Presi dent said. ... This is another example of what Propaganda Chief C. D. Jackon calls "bad orchestration." He has been upset over the "different tunes" played by admUlstra. tlon spokesmen, who are sup posed to be members of the same orchestra . . . For exam pie, GOP National Chairman Leonard Hall said Communism would be an issue in the 1934 elections; President Eisenhow er said it shouldn't be. . . At torney General Brownell de clared that ex President Tru man Knowingly promoted a Russian spy; Ike said it was "inconceivable" that Truman had knowingly promoted a spy. . . Mobilizer Arthur Flem ing announced that the Soviet Union could could drop an H bomb upon the United States without warning. Secretary of Defense Wilson claimed that Russia won't have a "deliver ance" H-bomb for three years. Secretary of the Air Force Tal bot announced in Madrid that the U.S. Intended to send A- bombs to Spain; both1 Secretary of State Dulles and Secretary or Defense Wilson denied it Wilson also indicated that the United States planned to pull some ot Its troops out of Eu rope; the President told a press conference that the U. S. has no such plan . . . These are a few of the discordant notes that have Jackson holding his ears and crying for more "harmonizing" Ne ral Walker Idaho a Senator U arm a a Welker, a rabid Republican, was mistaken the other day for Minnesota's Seqator Hubert Humphrey, a liberal Democrat "Aren't you Senator Hum phrey" asked a lady tourist standing next to Welker on the senate elevator. "Lady," retorted Welker Ici ly, "I don't look like Senator Humphrey, act like him, talk like him, or vote like him. I am Just as far from Senator Humphrey as the moon." Salem 12 Years Ago December t, 1941 "Congress Votes War on Japan" was Capital Journal's red banner headline tor this date of 12 years ago. Governor Charles - A. Sprague had apointed Briga dier General Thomas E. Rllea as adjutant general of Oregon succeeding the late Major General George A. White. A Nazi military spokesman had announced that Germany had abandoned the attempt to capture Moscow this winter. In a matter of minutes fol lowing the first bulletin an nouncing the Japanese attack on Honolulu Marion county civilian defense and Salem city administration were in session at the courthouse oil ing up their organizations to meet the emergency. The Japanese attack in Hawaii, the White House de clared, had cost American forces two warships and 3000 dead or wounded. Honolulu had been attacked by wave after wave of Japanese planes for an hour and 15 minutes. William C. Durant. creator f Ger.eiol Muiurs, had gained specific puolicity for itself. The The Businessman In Politics By RAYMOND MOLBT Aside from communism, which is sure to be an issue of great importance in 1934, there will be injected Into next year's campaigns by Truman and oth er leaders of the left side of the Democratic party the argument that businessmen are a bad In fluence in government In deed, we hear the premonitory warning ot tnat in the oratory of Senators .Humphrey and Morse, and In' the speeches of labor bosses. I do not predict that there will be a reversal ot the 1932 trend In 1954 or In 1938, but If it comes, the chorus will arise in pronouncing the final Judg ment on the failure of the bus inessman In politics. We can easily remember the dour benedictions over the Hoover administration. "After all, they said, "he is a fine man, but an engineer has no business in public office." And ao the "practical" people took over; ihe businessman was consigned to the political doghouse; and the nation went merrily on the road to a $275 billiou debt ' If things go wrong, I already smell the identity of the goat It will be the businessman, and he will be consigned by Re publican and Democratic pol itician! to a more dismal exile than he occupied before. And his spirit, bent before, will be broken this time. He will give over his political affairs to his lawyers, his checkbook to the political bosses, and his voice to his public relations coun selors. He will retire to the counting-house and the work shop, and the next thing he knows be and all the rest of us will be working for the govern ment In the current "Harvard Bus iness Review," Robert F. BradJ ford, who served a term as gov ernor of Massachusetts before the Truman sweep ot 1948, comes to grips with the prob lem of the businessman in pol itics. He warns business exec utives that willy-nilly a web of political relationships is being woven about him and that he had better find a way to live within it or it will live without him. Quite helpfully Mr. Brad ford draws from -his own ex perience a number of whole some lessons for the business man who wishes to Instruct himself. I am not sure, however, that any series of words woven into lessons can teach the business man what he needs to know to become effective in protecting his Interests in the political arena. Politics is an art taught only by practice. Aristotle said that twenty centuries ago. It is just as true today. There are two courses open to the businessman with cour age and the determination to become effective in politics. The first is to enter party af fairs, openly, actively, and per sonally. The idea prevails that this will bring upon himself and his company seriously dan gerous political reprisals. That sort of thing has been alto gether too generally believed. The fact Is that politicians are less likely to attack the fellow! who is out there slugging than the timid soul who invites ex tortions by his very detach ment. Another way Is to organize the leaders of many small com panies into a sort of political auxiliary force. Such a group need not take a name or let POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Many Want Personality, Be It Good or Bad, If It Has Impact y HAL BOYLE New York W Would you like to develop a forceful, win ning personality? A lot of people wouia. urn there are some who would be clad to settle for a forceful losing personality. Win or loae, they would like to have any kind ot personality that bad some Impact Count me among them. Some people are born with the power of decision. The rest of us ac quire It. We acquire it from others. We are always ready to meet any emergency if there is someone around to make up our minds what to do. We are the guys who can t say no. We would rather nave our teeth knocked out than re turn a, negative answer. In fact ibis happened to me sev eral times in grammar school. The class bully would ask me: "Do you want to fight?" Well, I would look at his dou- bled-up fists, and think, "I can't tell this fellow no, no mat ter what he asks me. On the other hand, if I say yes . . ." And while I stood there, try ing to make up my mind what to do, bang!-r4ut went another of my front teeth. Later In life this same in ability to say no has got me into trouble with ladies. "My. did you ever In your life see anybody who looks old er than I do today?" a lady asked me just the other day. And she almost bit me when I told her, "Oh, sure several." That Is the trouble .with peo ple wno nave strong winning personalities. Whether you agree or disagree with them, they end up by getting mad at you. Being afflicted with a weak. loaing personality is a terrible handicap in this world, a world in which self-assertion wins re spect, whether the cause th which it is put forward is wor thy or despicable. , You are the prisoner of pee. pie with greater will power be cause you can't for sorna strange reason, offend them. Clothing salesmen, bus drivers, waiters, and doormen ant brushed aside by the strong, willed. But they dominate n completely. And how they can tell at a glance that I am lUu a door with a sign saying "push" Is beyond me. I havit met scoundrels who go Into a strange bank and cash a $100 rubber check with no trouble at alt But if I went into the bank where my wife has traded tor years and offered $1.30 check signed by John d Rockefeller Jr., himself, th cashier wouldn't cash it until I went home and got my social security card to prove my ides, tity. 4 "Are you going to stand far this nonsense?" I'd be saying inside myself. "Veil, I am the kind of guy ,j can't wen no to himself, o I'd end up by apologizing to the cashier for being such a nuisance. Panhandlers can tell this In terior indecision at once. They never ask me for a dime. They start by demanding a dollsr, and I feel like a bum because I negotiate them down to s quar ter. ' The same way with i.n dogs. They follow me home oi rainy nights for a handout, and they would stay there the rest oi tneir lives except our land, lord has a forceful, winning personality that overawes dop and me, too. , My wife has often comment, ed on my Jellyfish character. . "You know, there is a king of strength in weakness," she (Continued en Para I. Catau 1) and lost several fortunes. In 1941 he was proprietor of a bowling alley In Flint, Mich. "I haven't a dollar," Durant had declared, "but I'm happy and I'm carrying on because I find that I cannot stop. . . . Many people value money too highly. . . . After all money Is only loaned to I man. He comes into the world with nothing and he goes out with nothing." JUDGE'S HOME ROBBED Miami (U.B A thief showed no respect for judicial dignity when he broke into the home of Circuit Judge William C. Herrin last night. The thief stole $490 worth of jewelry and a pair of the judge's pants. group can create a working al liance with the party organiz ation, can give it some funds, and can recognize its candi dates. But it should operate In dependently, get out the vote the right vote and plan and finance publicity for its favored candidates. This suggestion is not a mere theory. I have seen it work in at least two great cities. In both instances its results have been substantial and, what is more important, continuing. The businessman contemplat ing politics "has nothing to fear but fear." OIL SOUGHT IN SEA Aden (P) Exploration for underwater oil deposits In the Persian gulf have been started. First time on Coupe! Blue jewel-enomeling en brown poises. 3-piece place setting, $21 .95 i 13 J REGISTERED JEWELERSf American Gem Society (7J I I TosiowT yrt, T Twr nniHn Tr i Tin a Tn f As Qufomafcf $f sccurafe.' ZMMk dale Modtl I7SM9. xMach timHm as atiii sinn 4it.ss ZMMkCkWvWk SUM HTI7I an tea VUMr "" amiutli tt.ek-.iitMod.l45)JI. - im TV.hftogrsph cofft kiMtiaaj 17.91 'r Iht fiMit UHF iioollo chMU lh "loWMI" UMF VMS IM v. tow pind wH, It Mmnf UHF tww Ikwk i Mr CM). MOII TO SHI Mora dttoil-omoiing dtp e"d cWiy a Initrttranca is icrstned out. powtr itappad ip-oirfoflwticol'r. Th picture ' vivid, accurate, ever t tnhri- lurfaca of th Krn. IIS TO 001 a lass dialing - ifi oulomcrtici Turn a Imob-CllCK-rhtra'i vow ttctiool' a Itu odjusiing-the ascluiiva "Magic Momtoc" circuit tyiitm outoflioMa1 bnngi in and holdi It al pic MILLER'S SELLING QUALITY PRODUCTS FOR 51 VlARS TV Deportment Open Every Night Til 9 Except Saturday ' .