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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1953)
I Pat 4 Capital AJournal An Indcpandant Nwtpopr Estoblishwl 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher , GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Ch meketo St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont Ads. 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409 r Immt WM Santa mt takHl ha m TtW AUUUIM PTH U Melialnlf WHIM U IM W 1 MUKM W Jl eUMUM rMlU MUM UMfMM HSUUS M IM MM M elM ml eusutaaS Ibantt. FROM PHINEAS FOGG TO PAM MARTIN It waa Just 80 years ago when Jules Verne, noted French romancer, startled the world by his fictitious ro mance of "Around the World in 80 Days," a trip then deemed Impossible. In it he described the exciting ad ventures of Phineas Fore, an English gentleman who on a wagrer left London on October 2 and returned from circling the globe on December 20. It became a best eller and set the pace for many future trips around the world to beat the fictitious record. , Verne waa a French writer originally of plays and li brettos, later of enormously popular semiscientific ro mances of adventure in which many later technological developments were forecast with remarkable accuracy. It was before the days of international copyright and his works were universally pirated in America and became best sellers. The first to challenge Phineas Fogg's record was Nellie BIy, newspaper woman, who In 1889-90 whirled around the glove in the then Incredible time of 72 days and 6 hours for the New York World. It made her famous. It was Jong before the Invention of the airplane, the au tomobile, the streamliner trains or the luxury ocean liners. Nothing shows better how the world has speeded up than the record world trip just made for global trips by 23-year-old Pamela Martin, who made a 21.878-mile trip from Chicago circling the globe in 90 hours and 59 min utes, less than four days. She beat the record made last June by Horace C. Boren of Dallas, Texas, also on a pas senger plane. Miss Martin, a model and advertising opy writer, left Chicago last Friday, flew to New York, London, Borne, Cairo, Bahrein, Karachi,. Delhi and Calcutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Manila, Okinawa and Tokyo. Her plane had to make a refueling atop at Anchorage, Alaska. Then came the hop to Vancouver, Seattle, Denver and finally home to Chicago. She wins another but leisurely trip for her achievement. Other record trips around the world were made by the following: 1890 George rrsnels Train of New York, 67 days, 12 tinuri. a minutei. 1901 Charles Fllimaurice later chief of police of Chicago, so days, 13 noun, za minutei. 1901 J. W. WUlls Sayre, Seattle, Waih., 84 dayi. houri, 42 minutei. Henry Frederick, 04 dayi, 7 hours, 2 minutei. 1907 CoL Burnuy-Camobell. 40 days. 19 houri. 30 minutes. 1911 Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, as lecondi. 1913 John Henry Mean. 35 1924 U.S. Army alrplanei, actual uying time). 1928 Edward S. Evans and Linton Wells for The World of New York, 28 dayi, 14 houri, 38 minutei, S lecondi. Mileage by train and motor car wai 4,100: by plane, 6,300; by aleam ship. 8,000. 1928 John Henry Mean and Capt. C. B. D. Collyer, 23 dayi, IS houri, 21 minutei, I aecondi. , They left New York June 29 by seaplane and overtook the Olympic of( Lone Island. From Cherbourg, July 5, they Hew acrota Europe and Alia, reaching Tokyo July 11. They traveled by ateamer to Van couver, Britlih Columbia July 20, and flew thence to New xora uiiy, arriving juiy n. 1929 German dirigible Graf Zeppelin, left Frledrichshafen. Germany, Auguit 14, reached Tokyo, Jin pen Auguit 19, left there August 23, reached Loi Angclei, Calif., Auguit 28, left there Auguit 27, reached Lskehurat Auguit 29, left there September 1, and reached Frledrlchihafen September 4. Ap proximate dlitane eovered, 21,700 miles; time from Frledrlchi hafen to Frledrlchihafen Auguit 14-September 4, 20 dayi, 4 houri. These do not Include Arctic Circle flights around the northern circumference by plane, a distance of only 15, 600 miles or many other army and air force test flights around the glob In warplanes, none of which equaled Miss Martini record. G. P. THE PRESIDENT'S BOLD MOVE President Eisenhower has seized for the United States the diplomatic initiative of making a far-reaching pro posal for avoiding the worst scourge that could afflict the human race, atomic warfare. He spoke from a position of two-fold atrength. He had just secured the support of the other two principal western powers, Britain and France. And he was able to say that the U.S. now holds the aces in this deadly game. We have atomic stockpiles of many times more explosive power than all the oi tne worm in World War II. It is a capacity for dp. etructlon that staggers the keenest imagination. The president does not seek or expect miracles. Under our earlier atomic plan it was necessary for Russia to agree to international inspection of her facilities. Nego tiations broke down on this point. All that is necessary now is for Russia to agree to talk, to seek agreement for curtailing the destructive phase of atomic development peaceiui ends. The expectation is that once the first agreement was made it would lead to others and that international inspection and present stockpiles in all countries would come after mu tual confidence had made this possible. Neither side would consider such a move under present conditions. The climate for it has to be created, and the president offers a practicable means of accomplishing this. The one big "if" as in all negotiations with Rnwia !. Russian good faith. Does Russia want a cessation of atomic rivalry, with its prospect for destruction of civi lization 7 Russia might, in view of the commanding U.S. lead. But what Russia Is more likely to want is a plan for cutting down American atomic strength without cut ting down Russian. The U.S. and Its allies will have to be watchful If Rus ela agrees to meet with them for a solution of the atomic problem. For the prospect for peace depends strictly upon the Russian attitude toward the western world. Re verse this and the making and keeping of peace agree ments will present no serious problem. N. Y. PAPER STRIKE ENDS 'This newspaper commented several days ago on the New York newspaper strike, the biggest of its kind on record, noting the temporary loss of jobs by 20.000 per aona on a pro-strike vote of 216 engravers! the disloca tions caused by depriving the world's greatest city of its newspaper service. It is easy to see who loses, we noted, but added: "Who gains?" The strike is now over and the answer is at hand. It is as we suspected in the first place: Nobody. The strik ers received exactly what they were offered before the atrike, a wage increase package of $3.75 a week, with a fact-finding board to determine if more should be added. They were offered arbitration before the strike, which amounts to the aame thing, actually a better chance of gaining additional advantages. 39 days, 19 houri, 42 minutei, days. 21 houri, 38 minutes. 17S dayi (14 days, 15 houri explosives used in all parts and for channeling it into finally the destruction of W i you "33 ' jrfTbs MIGHT INVENT r t 4mMjI ' f TREATy L i kS1 THAT TH' RUSSIANS J r )JrD COULDN'T BREAK W WASHINGTON MERRY 'Background' Gets Cabinet ly DREW Waihington Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey got a mlichlevous phone call the oth er day from Secretary ol De fense Wilson, ribbing him about "background" presi con ference!. Humphrey was still burning over a press teuton at which he remarked that the budget would have to be cut about $6, 000,000,000, three-quarteri of which would probably have to come out of the military budget. Newimen were told that the ecretary could not be quoted directly and that he wai talk ing tor "background" only. So when Humphrey saw hli quotes on the United Press ticker afterward, ha hit the celling. The U P. had attrib uted the statements to a "high treasury official," and there fore it was not a violation of the background agreement. However, Humphrey thought his remarka had come out much stronger than intended, to he called in U. P. reporter Dick Mooney and bawled him out for halt an hour. Next day, the aecretary of the treaaury got a phone call from the aecretary ot defeme. "Welcome to the club," greeted the secretary of de feme. "What club" aiked the sec retary of tha treaiury. "The club that hai been stung by background press conferences, chortled Wilson I imagine Foster will issue you your membership card Wilson referred to John Fos ter Dulles, who, as lecretary of slate, wai the lint to. get into hot water through a back' ground preaa conference. Red Tape-Bound Drugs Behind glowing public state ments about U. S. aid to the stricken people of South Ko rea, there's a tragic, totally senseless itory of governmental red tape. It'a a story of bung ling in Washington and death in South Korea. Today an estimated 1,300.000 South Koreani, of whom more than 150.000 are orphans, are victims of tuberculosis. Yet two Important drugs. In plenti- fuljupply in this country dl hydrostreptomicin sulfate and ambistryn are withheld fromjlru', because a few ounces South Korea except under 'might fall into the hands of icvere restrictions. I the communists. But at the American manufacturer! "me time the reit of the free and exporter! are anxioui to ! world ia ahlpping the aame ship both theie drugs, and ' drus to the communists and Korean importers, with money , ven our own country Is put- in hand, are becoming desper ate waiting for the shipments to arrive. But most shipments are be ing held up, largely because ot a squabble between the itate department and the commerce department. Both are so "com munist conscious'' that they're going far out of their way to insure that none of the drugs fall into North Korean com munist handa. And both are ao "economy minded" that they've fired the technical experta cap able ot ascertaining whether the shipments would fall into communist hands. Result: De lay, confusion, snd death. Meanwhile, Japan, through agreement with the United States, la now shipping sulfa! cepted It rather thar charge drugs and other pharmaceutic up another desk to the taxpay cala into communist China, era . . . President Eisenhow while West Germsny is send-ler's'bridge partners diplomst- THE CAPITAL JOLTlNAu'sajesm, OrefM EVERYBODY ELSE HAS TRIED - GO - ROUND Press Talks in Trouble PEARSON ing valuable drugs, including antibiotic!, behind the other side of the iron curtain. In ihort, countries under Amerlcsn Influence are ship ping these precious drugs Into Russian-controlled areas, but shipments of the same drugs to our most severely hurt allies are snafued in bureaucracy. Children Die While the Korean war raged, American drug companies had no trouble getting export 11' censes from the commerce de partment. But recently the itate and commerce depart' menti tightened their regulS' tiona and demanded that the American embassy In Korea give clearance to Korean im porters. Thii means that the embassy must check on the Korean company and make sure It's doing business in South Korea, not tram-ship- ping to China. To this end, Koreans were tint told to go to the Am erican embassy in Seoul and fill out forms to identify them' aelves. But when Korean lm. porters trooped to the embassy to comply, they got word that they must operate through the commerce department i n Washington 6,000 miles away. They were told to re quest the commerce depart' ment to check them as secur ity risks. Accordingly, Korean Import ers tent cables to the commerce department. But this lystem promptly broke down. The commerce department lacked sufficient personnel to handle the requests. As an alternative, the com merce department asked U, S. exporters to cable the Amer ican embassy in Seoul to check on the security of their Korean customers. But after a few daya this system was also aband oned. "We don't have the staff," explained the American embassy in Seoul. Today the whole matter Is stymied, with the itate and commerce departments each urging the other t( aupply the "necessary" staff to handle the job of checking the security of import firms. Said frustrated exporter Peter Michelson: "We can't ship the necessary ting its o. k. on German and Japanese shipment! to the com munists. This sounds like a Gilbert and Sullivan comedy except that Korean klda are dying while we flounder." Note Communist China li currently getting so much di dydrostreptomicin to fight TB that it recently rejected a fresh British shipment of the drug. Merry-Go-Reund Assistant Secretary of De fense Charles Thomas ordered a brand new desk the other day, because he didn't like the desk left by his predecessor. The old desk, however, was plenty good enough for his fel low assistant aecretary. Fred Seaton of Nebraska, who ac- Salem34 Years Ago y BEN MAXWELL December f, 1(11 Train service hsd been dis rupted, wire service threat ened and street traffic ham pered as a result of the great- eat mow itorm in Salem for years. Following a lurid sunset, snow hsd started fslling at one o'clock in the morning with the temperature at 30 degrees. Governor Olcott had called a special session of the legis lature for the purpose of con sidering workmen's compensa tion legislation and ratification of the suffrage amendment to the constitution. Women's Marlon County Re publican club had gone on rec ord favoring reinstatement of capital punishment and discon tinuance of pardoning life sen tence prisoners unless evidence of their innocence had been tabllshed. Miu Winifred Byrd, Salem musician, had met with a royal welcome in Portland when she appeared in concert at the Al cazar theater In that city. Said a Capital Journal edi torial: "Those whose principal occupation in life ia minding other people's business are pre paring for a nationwide cam paign to destroy the tobacco industry and make it a crime to amoke, chew or snuff . It is pasting itrange that auch comparatively insignificant re forms will cause mch a waate ot energy which might be ao much more advantageously and beneficially expended for hum an welfare." Rlgdon company had in- italled a new motor hearse. Weather forecast: Rain or snow, (Snow continued until it reached a depth of 22 or more lnchea. City schools were closed end the Capital Journal was delivered by tractors.) Ically try to lose most of the time, but have to put up enough competition ao Ike will enjoy the game. One White House aide deliberately lost by such a lopiided score that he wasnt' Invited to play with the president again ... At the nat ional convention of the Young Democrats, the name of Harry S. Truman brought the greatest applause. Next in order of pop ularity were Estes Ketauver, then Adlai Stevenson. C07TllM. ltl! WE OFFER (?6ec6i'(tp rfcaxuaU, 1. REGULAR CHECKING ACCOUNT for personal, business end farm use. Saves time and steps. Lew cost. Provides rec ord of all disbursements. Open Miie.aee errs ix. Wire Tapping By RAYMOND HOLET Judith CoploB, who was, ac cording to the evidence as eval uated by the courts ot the United States, guilty of giving material entrusted to bar as aa employee of the govern men to an agent of the Soviet, is living In complete freedom. She has escaped just punish,, ment for ber offense because the circuit court of appeals de clared that her conviction In the lower courta could not stand because some of the leads which led to it came from wire tapping. This contemptible creature has enjoyed every advantage of life, even her present un deserved freedom, because of the country she conspired to betray. She enjoyed a first- class education under tha aus pices ot a capitalistic system. She received in college what amounted to gratuitous edu cation. She received from the government a job almost im mediately, paying more than those of full professors in the college from which she grid uated. I asked a professor who knew her in college what seemed to be the matter with her there. He said that she complained that "nobody loved her." In her case it would seem that the country she betrayed loved her to the point of blind indulgence. The attorney general propos es that others of her ilk shsll not enjoy the blessings of lib erty simply because congress failed in 1034 to pass a crook- proof communications act That act provides that: 'No person not authorized by the sender shsll intercept any communication and di vulge or publish its existence, contents, or the substance of such intercepted communica tions to any person. This is a sound law in the generality of cases snd occa sions. The attorney general does not propose to change it except to permit the introduc tion in court of evidence ob tained by wire tapping in cases involving national security and defense; and in cases where wire tapping is done, there shsll be written permission to tne FBI by tne attorney gener al. No constitutions! question is Involved in the present prohi bition of the use of wire-tapping evidence. That wai estab lished in the Olmstead case in 1028. In 1940, President Roosevelt authorized wire tapping, and it ii being done continually by the FBI. The evidence thui ob tained can be used for the re- moval of persons ai security risks snd for other purposes, but it cannot be used to con vict a person of a crime In the federal courts. Wire-tapping evidence is admissible in the courts ot 30 states in state cases. The argument against the permission now requested by the Attorney-General are of the ssme character as those used whenever there is pro posed sny weskening of the safeguards of the accused in crtminsl esses. They suggest those which were slwsys used when it wss proposed to let state judgei comment upon ev idence In the minner per mitted to Federal judges. Most of luch objections are rooted in fear ot possible exe cutive tyrsnny. But in fsct much of the power now exer cised by executive authority could be misused by bed peo pie in government. There are some, like former Judge Thur msn Arnold, who indulge in sbsurd exaggerations. Arnold, who hai always been a wild and windy user of language says that if this legislation Is passed, "everybody" will be afraid to uie a telephone. The late Justice Holmei once declared that wire tap ping wai "dirty business." Well, it li dirty business al ways to track down dirty peo ple. But it must be done if good people are to be safe. For the life of me, I cannot see why there li sny difference in essence In the use of evi dence hesrd by eavesdropping on a telephone wire or through a keyhole or from table to ta- YOU A At the Valley Bank you checking account that your checking account now at Salem's home-owned bank. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Every Man Must Have a Hero But It's Best to y HAL New York UPi A hero is ss necessary to a human being as oxygen. Today, a man is known, not so much by the company he keeps, as the heroes be holds. There is a two-way relation ship between any man and his hero. The hero helps mm, ana the man through belief adds a lustre to the hero's fsme. When you sre young, al most any hero will do. But as you crow older you cnoose your heroes more carefully. Usually, they are people who have risen above problems that OPEN FORUM Thinks Fluoridatied Water Is Poisonous To the Editor: If the person who signed her name as Betty Lou Cro gan to a letter published in Friday's issue of the Journal is so desirous of adding another poison to our city water, why does she not visit s drug store and obtain all the fluorine she wishes and add same to her own family'a milk and drink ing water? and not try to force this chemical upon those who may suffer from stomach or kidney ailments which would be aggravated by the use of fluorinated water. If, aa a watchful mother, this misguided women would pay careful attention to the food and drink o her children, banning the use of devital ized, bleached grains, etc., and the huge amount of sugar consumed by most children of this age, and forbid them such harmful sweet carbonated drinks ss the colas, which sre said, by no lesi authority than Dr. Clive McCay, professor of nutrition, Cornell University, to be able to dissolve the en amel of childrens' teeth even in a few weeks' time, then, I think, that when ahe found that proper attention to such details would actually prevent much early tooth decay, she would recover from this ob session, and become as strong an advocate for "purity" in food,' water, and other drinks as she Is for the use of a chem ical, the ultimate good or harm of which no one yet un derstands and which Webster define! as "a pungent, poison ous, corrosive, greenish-yellow gas. Geo. Graham, Salem. Sees Society Sinner In Mrs. Taber's Case To the Editor: I have been following Mrs. Tsber's case closely. I read where the woman would be friend her. Who wouldn't? In my opin ion, lociety hai sinned against Mrs. Taber, not the other way around. The Community Chest hai a driva and gets thousands, but when a needy case comes slong wnere is tnst worthy organize tion Someone In Hubbard ahould otter Mrs. Taber a job; she is no criminal, Just a desperate mother. MRS. D. L. FOWLER, Aumivllle. FALSE ALARM Detroit U Police rushed to the home of Police Commia sioner Donald S. Leonard when hie wife telephoned that their three-year-old son, Eddie, wai missing. After a 20-minute aearch of the neighborhood, Mrs. Leon ard noticed Eddie's cost hang ing on a closet doorknob. Eddie wai asleep inside the I closet. ble in a saloon. The practical fact that only an infinitely imall number of telephones! could be tapped ihould dispose of any general fear. And in the final analysis only the guilty and the abnormally sen sitive can fear such a threat. An honest man is Just as hon eit over a telephone as any where else. ogcrosoF to meet your may choose the type of best meets your needs: 2 BUDGET CHECKING ACCOUNT fat e these who write an occasional check. Ne minimum balance required to avoid service charge. .Ten checks for $1.00. Convenient. Wednesday, Peetsaber t. 53 a Human One I0YLI are a kind of Mt Everest la your life. The nice thing about heroes is they never outgrow you. You outgrow and discard them. For example, if you like football, you etart with Frank Merriwell snd his triumphs st Yale and go one to Coach Frank Leahy and his present problemi at Notre Dame. Frank Merriwell always won the game, but to make s first down is Frsnk Leshy's only announc ed goal. Our goals, like our he. roes, grow smaller as we grow older. Every msn has to hsve a military hero. My firat one was Alexsnder the Greet who most people think died from trying to drink s gallon oi wine in his early 30s while despairing there were more worldi for him to conquer. I admired him not for hii despair or his vic tories but because I had never met a man in his 30s who could afford s gallon of wine. When I read later that Alex ander the Great had died of brain fever, I lost interest in him. He became too remote. It wai the same wsy with Stonewsl! Jackson. He died at 30. Atfer my 40th birthdiy, even reading of Stonewall Jackson disturbed me. I could n't forgive him his youth, his early death with a beard. Hs made me feel too old. At present, I have enly three real military heroei. They are Robert E. Lee, Gen. Omar Nel son Bradley, snd Ernie Pyle. Of the three, I think Gen. Bradley snd Ernie Pyle hsva survived the most rugged test. It Is hard for a man to be a hero in his lifetime. But si we grow older, I sup pose thst is the kind of heroes we look for those who hsve helped up by their exsmple in our lifetime. This is why sn old msn sdmlres from the vantage point of his years the father whom he as a boy took for granted. Our heroei grow clos er to us as we mature, because as we grow older we pick heroei cloier to our needs. A msn needs msny heroes, one for every mood. But he should have a human hero, one with human faults, one not so high thst the tog of his perfection obscures him. A hero without faults is not a hero. He is unbelievable. Some heroes stay with you sll your life, changeless and changeful ss the climate. I sup pose if I had to name the heroes who have worn best with me, they would be the literary heroes of my youth William Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy and Emily Dickinson. Yet one must also have an un known hero. To me, it is tha person who wrote the lines, that of all lines written, I would most like to hsve my nsme beneath. They are the lines, spoken on lome night of splendor by every child who speaki the English tongue and looks up at a sky. snd says: 'Starlight, star bright, tint star I have leen tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might have this wish I wish this night." You have to have a hero to be a human being but it's more comfortable to have a human hero. Then you can even admire the flashbacks on his clsy leet. Healthy Shakeup Corvsllls Gnette-Timee "You've got SO people at the top now who want their 'money's worth when they spend a nickel," says Assist ant Defense Secretary W. J. McNeil, who handles the Pen tagon budget. McNeil hai served every Pentagon regime for the last 13 years and he ii convinced ine unai enect of the new administration has been to give the lethargic military establishment lti healthiest shaking in years. From this report it looks as if we are getting tome fat boiled out and not losing any money In the operation. May be we won't feel the affects in our taxes immediately, but the relief will come. NEEDS win im tmnnurr mamcni nto tie st i..t ImMH. e SS kMti,,