THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Sale a. Ortfoa
Friday, December 11, 1953
Capital AJournal
An Independent Newspoper Established 1888
BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus
Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che
meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont
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DISCRIMINATION IN COLLEGES
The Pacific Northwest Committee on Human Relations
In Higher Education hai just released the results of a
survey of 40 colleges and universities in the Pacific
Northwest, revealing that there is very little racial and
religious discrimination. . ;
Questionnaires went to institutions in Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana. They were answered by
85 of them. They included tax supported, Protestant and
Catholic church schools. The answers seem to have been
given freely, with no effort to hide anything.
To summarize, there is virtually no discrimination at
any point where the institution itself has anything to
say, in dormitories, eating places, athletic teams, etc,
Such discrimination as exists seems virtually confined
to fraternities and sororities.
Here the survey shows a little but not very much
discrimination in the honorary societies, but considerable
In the social groups, both men's and women's. The trouble
Is principally that national organizations still enforce
rules against admission of persons of certain races. In
some instances local chapters are seeking to change these
regulations. In some cases the discrimination la against
all non-Caucasians, in others only against Negroes.
Only a little discrimination in the placement of grad
uates in teaching or other positions showed up in the
answers, and it is clear that this is diminishing. There
la virtually no discrimination in the employment of mi
nority races as college faculty members.
The survey as a whole reveals a wholesome condition
in the Northwest colleges, which is still improving. The
changes in the past quarter century are nothing short
of miraculous.
O&C GRANT TIMBER SALES
Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay's report on
the administration of. the O&C grant forest lands in
Western Oregon the past '15 years should silence the
critics clamoring for drastic changes that would upset
the region's apple cart. It cost nearly $8 million to run
their administration but they returned nearly seven
times as much money.
Timber sales have brought in $53.5 million, of which
$29.6 million went to the 18 counties where the timber
is located. The federal government has spent only 14.5
percent of O&C revenues on administration, although the
law .permits 25 percent to be used for management
purposes,
The lands have been under jurisdiction of the Bureau
of Land Management since 1937. There are 2.5 million
acres, once given to the Oregon and California Railroad,
but later re-taken by the government because the rail
road violated Its agreement with the government.
Land Grant Oregon counties have been entitled to 75
percent of the sale proceeds, but legislation in the put
two years nas required the counties to pay the cost of
access-road construction, without which the timber can
not be marketed.
So the counties got $6,422,026 in the year ended last
June, while $1,238,000 went for administration and
$2,750,000 to access roads.
Edward Woozley, BLM director, states he expected
sales to increase from the record 611 million board feet
sold in the past fiscal year. Those sales brought in
$12,229,868, of which $1,819,842 went to the U. S. Treas
ury. Recent sales have been at record prices. G. P.
RAVER'S NEW JOB
Paul J. Raver, adminlstritor'of the Bonneville Power
Administration for many years, Is evidently soon to leave
the federal service to become superintendent of Seattle's
municipal power system. He has been offered the position
subject to council confirmation and has agreed to accept.
Confirmation is considered certain.
The public doesn't know as yet whether pressure was
exerted upon Raver to leave Bonneville, but it does not
appear so, for he and Secretary of the Interior Douglas
McKay have apparently worked together harmoniously.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
White House Insistence
Irritates G. O. P. Leaders
By DREW PEARSON '
Washington Looks like a year: Alice Hill. SSD03
trouble ahead In Congress. The! year; George Shigekawi. $8400.
White Houe has been asking I Curtis'a navroll. however i
vanum congressional cnairmenjno less astounding than the
for a complete agenda ol the , p r o c e d u r e at subcommittee
legislation they expect to take ; hearings, which is carefully
up next year. The idea of the contrived to build up a deadly
White House keeping such a case of damaging evidence
close check on them has so against the Social Security ays
rankled some chairmen that I tern.
u.y naverauseaio answer tne Witnesses who testified
icurr. ici iney re mil
bert of the Mm party
Salem 41 Years Ago
y IEN MAXWELL
December 11, 111
State house personnel were
trying to interpret Governor
west a cheerful mood durine
the past two days as aDDlied
to the four hangings scheduled
at tne pentitentiary for Friday.
(Frank Garrison, Mike Mor
gan, H. E. Roberts and Noble
Faulder were hanged. The sen
tence of John W. Taylor was
commuted.)
White House is now treating
New York's cantankerous Rep.
uan Heed, all-powerful chair
man of tht House ways and
means committee, with kid
gloves. Formerly Ike wrote
letters to Reed, proposing spec
ific legislation. Now the let
ters courteously ask Reed what
ne has in mind . . . But the 78
year-old New Yorker seems to
enjoy being ornery. He even
reversed his stand on the Social
Security tax apparently Just
to be obstructive. The White
House has been trying to coax
Congress into postponing this
tax increase which will auto
matically counteract the Income
tax decrease next month for
most low - Income families.
Previously Reed has been
against the Social Security tax
rise. But now he's reversed
himself and is fighting to keen
It In order to hamstring the
New owners of the Canit.1
Journal the Barnes-Taber
company were advocating a
mem- against tha nentlnn.retirom.nt better and ereater Commercial sign.
The nrnffrnm InelnHln - ., I fltlh tha renl.r ih Kna-l . Go
OPEN FORUM
Answers Scio Critic
Of One Woy Traffic
To the Editor:
la a letter to the Capital
Journal, A. D. Bender of Scio
i is much displeased with Sa
lem's belatedly Installed but
very successful one-way traf
fic system. Bender takes some
wild swings at everybody con
cerned with one-way, eon
eluding with r threat not to
trade in our fair city unless
we go back to old ""guess
where I'm going" traffic.
It so happens that the Ben
der letter appeared on the an
niversary of Pearl Harbor.
That sad date marks a step
up in the killing and maim
ing of thousands of innocent
by-slanders, men, women and
cnuoren.
One-way traffic control
saving dally many, many
more lives than the daily
losses of World War II. OWT
is the carefully planned solu
tion of the deadly results of
congested streets resulting
from Increased automotive
usage.
Has Mr., Miss, or Mrs. Ben
der so quickly forgotten the
hectic, slam-bang, "take your
me in your own bands" traf
fic situaiton here less than
two years ago.
Take these locations for ex.
ample: Commercial, Liberty,
State and Court streets and
the old Center street bridge.
in tnese bad traffic areas
there was a traffic accident
reduction of over 60 per cent.
This life Saving record is lm
proving as many of us learn
how to use and appreciate
this fine protection.
Of course, not even the
most capable and comprehen
sive efforts of .experienced en'
llneers and traffic- safety
planners can eliminate the
selfish damn fool driver. Not
even the fool killer, for usu
ally the DFD escapes and an
Innocent person is the victim,
And, Bender! Why, oh why.
pick upon the overworked
and usually underpaid police
officers. OWT has not meant,
as you assert, an added oppor
tunity for arrests and fines.
No, it Just adds another head
ache for law enforcers, be
cause of the few drivers who
can read the fine print In a
grouch book at SO feet but
who can't read a five-foot
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
N. Y. Apartment Means
Cage Life for the Occupant
New York t-As our life
crows more crowded, we lose,
one by one, some of the things
that give it deepest meaning.
The price of lack or space
In New York City Is tne trage
dy of the one-room apartment.
It affords a cage-like exu
tence for thousands of couples
who cook, live, eat, sleep, n
tertain, fight and sometimes
die in a single room.
The difference between an
ordinary house and one of
these box-like apartments is
the difference between a pi
ano and a closed accordion.
But even many of the larg
er luxury apartments in Man
hattan now include no sepa
rate dining room. You eat in
the living room- or, perhaps,
in something called a dining
alcove. This is a landlord's
term for a leftover area so
small that even he doesn't
have the courage to call it a
room or the sense to wall it
up and make it a closet.
A dining alcove here In the
paradise of the modern cliff
dweller is usually described
by the rental scents as "cozy,
Well, Tom Thumb and his
wife might find it cozy. But
all a person of average size
gets from a dining alcove is
haunting sense of clsustro-
phobia and Jail cramp.
How can you ever nave a
real home without a dining
room? After nearly 17 years
in this concrete Jungle, where
your success is largely mess
ured by the number of bath.
rooms you can afford, the thing
miss most is a plain, old-
fashioned dining room.
Some of the pleasantest
memories of my life go back
to the dining room in the big
old frame house of my youth in
Kansas City, a house so durable
it finally even wore out the
mortgage on It.
The dining room was more
than Just a place to eat. It
was a wonderful place to play
on rainy days. It wss the fam
ily forum, where we talked out
our problems around the table
at dinner, known in those days
as supper. It was also the fam.
ily courtroom, where Dad dis
pensed Justice as well as boil-
ly HAL IOYLE
the department of health and trade that had outgrown lts!ment-
uselulness.
welfare, were given advance
copies of "loaded" questions
iney were to be asked at hear
ings. In some eases, the wit
nesses even rehearsed their an
swers with subcommittee staff
members before testifying.
This msy have been why Ar-
wur J. Aitmeyer. former Social
Security boss, who testified In
defense of the oension program,
angrily remarked to Counsel
Winn:
Outside of the chairman
(ReD. Curtis), vou ara Hnlno
more to destroy the confidence , lven " mother.
ol the American people in the
social security program than
anybody in the country."
POLITICO-GO-ROUND
Senator Kefauver will nrob-
ably look twice before he ac
cepts another invitation from
Democratic Governor-elect Bob
Charles Schladiti, 58, a vege
tarian, had walked across the
continent, a distance of 3343
miles in 132 dava. Ha r.rrioH
a 30-pound pack, subsisted on learn and there are plenty of
nothing but bread, cheese, fruit "a" "na signals io am. xour
ana water.
to our police depart.
They will gladly show
you tha factual record. We
are certain that here you will
not find one arrest or penalty
of those who Inadvertantly or
absent - mindedly made the
wrong turn. We all have to
President ... If Senator Mc- Meyner to spesk in New Jer-
carthy rinds the crowd seems sey. Kefauver stuck his neck
Dorea wun what he is saying, out, went all the way to New
he abruptly lnterrupta his Jersey to mw . .,);.,.,
speech and hauls his lovely wife1 tour of the state to elect Mey-
... .... ,,..,, . , ,. cr. men meyner turned
duced . . . Massachusetts' grand- around, held a press conference
mommy oniresswoman taitn urging Adlal Stevenson for
" nuiB.1 noiicta several president,
Arilai Hirin't r n-
However. Raver may consider his future .mrertain ,,nH, ::;i?n. "?.rln,. "ound.ture into New Jersey. . . . Sen-
a Renublican administration whieh will ..kii J V PJL ' ,n oiner;Mor Duff of Pennsylvania, the
, . i'"-". o quicuy rounded Kepublican who first
power oeveiopmeni as its predecessors did. Raver is them up
aincujr a punnc power man, though ready to administer iluncn
H. E. "Jack" Roberts, about
to be hanged at the peniten
tiary, had asked that his body
be sold to Willamette Medical
college for $100 and the money
W. W. Chadwlck's O.K. groc
ery, ISO South 12th street, hsd
ham for lSe a pound, choice po
tatoes for 55c a sack and
smoked salmon, two pounds for
25c.
E. H. Whiteside. 860 Ferry
street, hsd the local agency for
Lozler and R. C. H. motor cars.
Salem Furniture company,
533 Chemeketa street, adver
tised hall trees.
v.uUf,,iiii, in. j us uciifr Buucu io ncau ifnnne
ville from now on.
One angle particularly interests us : What will Repub
lican politicians gripe about now, with Raver gone?
Tighter Tax Policy
Boise Statesman
A House ways and means
subcommittee has made a re
port urging that tha income
tax laws be enforced more
strictly. It recommended less
leniency to tax evaders, more
Jsil sentences for frsud, and
requirement of better record.
keeping by taxpayers and
closer accounting of deduc
tible business expenses. The
latter two points might re
quire congressional action to
wr.te more requirements into
the law for accounting rec
ords. Such a move would
certainly bring some jKotcits
from business people, for the
volume of records already re
quired solely for tax purposes
. -vine camtAi umri Fn, .tM
in emorcing tne law. In- 'j". - m.B r..,. ri..i....u-. r. ....
atanrx nf hnth h.... tv" ,luay me oia-age pen- ; vm,vmn u io
stances of both hsve been re- lion ,,.,m .,, IK . in the warm-up. toaether with
timj rr, assistant to sen.
if a tihafantial n.irrin ...u.
dally for the small business ! 0,i Brown. 48 and her I
which csnnot afford a staff
warmed-over antn-iBi ti
The suggestion might well monv. the mnr...m.n h.J Stuart Symincton. and chair.
be added that income tax in- j lined up the following fabulous1 m,n ' the friendship Xrsln
vestigation be kept more cur-! psyroll: I committee from Truman's home
rent The normal expectation Robert Winn, an attorney is ,0Wn"
Is that the Investigation of a , being paid $5000 for serving as ( Sl'PREME OVKT
tax return will take place a chief counsel of the subcommlt- CONVERSATION
year or two after it was filed. tee from September 21 to De- Mr' HnrX Schultz was all
This time lag Increases the,cember 31 or at the rate of ' ,Iu,ter hn she learned that
burden of record-keenlne for about S20 000 a v tt. I she would sit between two
the tsxpsyer snd the difficul- scale paid to a Justice of the',uch n.oUbIes s Chief Justice
ry or catcning tne willful de- supreme court. .n rrn ana nuociaie jus-
'rsuder. I George R. L,,Bhlon . .. "' ' r"n"u the
. . . - : recent H'nal H'Plfh riinna- K
Most taxpayers, being hon- "nr writer lormerly connected -.i. o u . V
est, want the tax law to be en- ,witn l" Stntle GOP policy I t, ' , T- L.J . J'
vnu n. uiuuuri. , . - ..... ill. ., .,.- ,,,, i...
worn tor a six-month period 1 " r "
irom juiy i io December 31 ,,,
siso at the rate of $20,000 a
year
Somers, Conn., was original
ly incorporated as a Massachu
setts town in 1734 but survey
ors later found it was in Connecticut.
Women hsd been declared
Ineligible to serve In Juries in
Oregon despite the equal auf-
quictly rounded Republican who fir.t ifrage amendment
and Invited all to Eisenhower for president, has-
int vet hMn in.,l!.l t.
Whatever policies the administration and ennirri mv FAST MOMT.SrPvnm White Houei. H h..
determine. GOP Congressman Carl Cur- ,he White Hu, but always on
Our understanding in that Raver has done an excellent ;'' ' Nebraska Is quietly set-' Si" own suggestion Seversl
administrative job for the government and doulitlesi will ,ln nFW record for spending P''mocrti sre Jockeying to run
for Seattle, which may consider itself fortunate to have i ln,xp'"' money. -.hBr . 'cm H"ry Tru
fci a.j il... iu nme centlem.n from MinX.. mans home town, now renre
frfou
probing the Social Security i "Pr but honest'' grocery
program. He was voted $100 -c' ,nd immediately aftet
000 for this probe, and Curtis I 'lectlon married into the Goetz
could hardly dissipate it faster 2fwln fortune. Margaret
if he took a bushel basket of'Trum,n h" ,0''d wi,n run
$10 bills and scattered them to Dlng but now " looks " she
the nn u-inrf. r . luruuauiy won I. U-Lnnvnu,
r '". rwi m -nil . -
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fellow drivers snd passing po
lice will signal if you happen
to Ret In wrong.
The writer made a blunder
on the second day of OWT in
this city. His face was extra
red but an officer kindly set
him right.
It's not your policeman, it's
you.
WILL CARVIR, Bslem.
out we should give them our
wholehearted support.
I simply can't understand
Mr. Putnam's bitter rampages
gainst Senator McCarthy, and
suggest that if he can't find
anything else to talk about, he
might try the weather.
MRS. R. A. TILLMAN
Gervals.
ing beef to his five children.
"What do you think that
child did today!" Mama would
ask.
"What child?" Dad would re
ply placidly.
"John, Neil. Edwards. Dol
ores, Harold," said Mama. She
alwaya made a roll call of the
children when vexed, but ev
erybody knew that the last
one she named was the one she
meant. And no matter what
my crime was, I could look
around the table and see an
interested expression in the
faces of my Dad, sister, and
brother that aaid:
Well, well, let's sea if Har
old csn talk bis way out of
this one."
Usually the punishment was
no more than a stern rebuke,
forgotten by the time the boil
ed beef was gone. We all
knew Dad didn't like to spank
a child on a full stomach. Dad
knew it, too.
As the children grew older
and exercised more voice in
family affairs, supper became'
as noisy as meal time at the
zoo. Everybody tried to talk at
once, and the price of being
heard was that somebody else
got more of the boiled beef.
How I wish I could go back
to that dining room now with
a magic recording machine able
to pick up the vanished echoes
that bounced off its wells
through so many years the
shouted accusstions, the Indig
nant denials, the bragging, the
ocasional weeping, the praise
all the stormy history In sound
of a happy family around a
dining table.
Once a playmate of mine, a
poor little rich boy who lived
all alone in a big apartment
with his father and mother, sat
in our living room waiting for
me to finish supper. He lis
tened in amazement to the ton
rent of laughter, quarreling.
shouts, chuckles, snd happy
debate with which our fam
ily waded through the meal.
Gee, I never heard so much
noise," he said later, and added
wistfully:
"We don't have fun like that
In our house."
People need room to laugh in
Maybe it is possible to have as
much fun eating in an alcove
as in the spacious dining rooms
that brightened the old homes
and now are going out of fash
ion. But somehow I doubt it.
Nothing Is added, and some
thing is missing.
Of the earth's total of 36,480
million land acres, about 6,400
million acres might be arable
says a Twentieth Century Fund
estimate.
McCarthy Criticisms
Irritate This Writer
To the Editor:
I'm getting awfully sick and
tired of Mr. Putnsm's rages
against Senator McCarthy, and
his scurrilous statements thst
the senator has not proved his
charges. I think the senator is
ooing s very necessary Job,
and in spite of lack of coopera
tion on the part of govern
ment officials and the refuge
of the fifth amendment he is
doing a very creditable Job.
Comunists have infiltrated
in a large way in government
offices, in our schools and in
our businesses, and instead of
fighting the people who are
doing their best to root them
Distinguished for
CHARM AND GOOD TASTE
0ir Neil Gtltf l Pilau W0DIN6 SINGS
THEY GOT OFF EASY
Columbus. Ohio (US) Police
The rest of the staff fnr im.
husband, Dewey, 43, they were j obscure little subcommittee Is
lucky to get off with an ordl-1 composed of actuariea, research
nary aruns: cnarge insteaa Ol woraers, and clerks. Including:
the more serious oirense oft James E. Finke. $7500 for m
m.viw Ktivu. -i ihi-j c. r inae, a3UU lor SIX ' 4 ,,7
drunken driving. Officers found months; Howard Friend, $7500 j m
none in a wneeicnair wun a ior six months: Howard Metr.
of accountants,
Most taxpayers will agree,
however, with the objective of
preventing fraud and favorit-
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r " " "'"w , toi on n iri sno nrr nuiMiio ! ju lor three months; W. R Colored
hurt, when m few am..! u. i a - iu. il wnn . ' " I vjiuiwm
Justice Frankfurter, how
ever, opened the conversation
by sheepishly inquiring:
"When I come home, my wife
always asks me what the wom
en wear at these affairs. Do
you mind describing your dress
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