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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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