Pat 4 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Sales, Oregon Saturday, December IX Capital AJournal An Independent NtwspopwEstoblishad 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor Emeritus Published cvtry afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409 tma liml DM Santa Um HadiM Twm tm TH Trwm. Th. iiutuw Ptm u MdMirtlr BUUi II tM HI Ifl NIMtlM f II am UMICh TMlU4 HUM MfcUTIM (laCUS 1 MM M AIM MVS fUfeUftB' tAUtlS. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: r CurUrl MMlblT. 11411 ai MIM STtsi On Taw. HIM. Br sua I ma: lUaUUs, SMi au Moatbi, HHi oh Tw. II -M. (r lull OaWdf Onm: status. UM: au Matt r Mi M Tw. II M. 'EARTH MOTHER' SUBSTITUTES FOR VENUS Another acutature of modernistic art has been offered to Salem for consideration under the will of the late Car roll Moo res as a memorial to the early Oregon pioneers for which ha left some S35.000 in trust The creator is Spanish born Manuel Izquierdo who is a oroteire of Architect Fietro Belluschl wnose previous selection for the Moores' memorial, Renoir's Venus Victorieuse, nude fat lady, was rejected by the people of Salem. Izquierdo' plaster model now in the Portland museum is 6li feet high, woman with a pin-like head and a goose neck and holds in her massive arms a baby according to the photograph. The Oregonian quotes the tculptor as aaying: It ( hard for mi to describe mv Idea in words." he x plained. "That's why I made the sculpture, you see.'' He vis ualizes the mother as "the earth, or aa something very large. The child then ia lomethlng amall that will develop and grow. The protective ahawl ii to demonstrate the protective feeling of the mother lor her child the courage or the motner toward saving her child from harm." The Idea of the mother carrying the child "is muoh closer to human sentiments than It the father had been holding it, Izquierdo explained. To the eyes of the average layman, who hasn't the ar tistic "visualization, the "Earth Mother" is a ridiculous, crude caricature without even such artistic merits as Venus may possess, the rejection was her unfitness "as an Oregon symbol She never was designed for that. The ghost of Carroll Moores, if it still haunts the earth, must be exceedingly troubled and wonder why no. real effort is being made to fulfill his bequest and how many gargoyles of decadent art will be volunteered to ridicule the pioneers and make the bequest a travesty. The popular rejection of the "Earth Mother" will be even more emphatic than it was of Renoir's Venus. The people echo the battle cry of General Anthony McAuliffe to the Nazi commander's demand for surrender at the Battle of the Bulge, "Nuts to you." G. P. THE NEW PENAL INSTITUTION Who was it who said: "Somebody is always taking the Joy out of life"? The Board of Control probably feels that, way about Attorney General Robert Thornton's opinion questioning the constitutionality of the legislative act for the new intermediate penitentiary. The Board has already re ceived bids for providing the state with ground for a site and is probably about to make a selection and com plete the purchase. This opinion throws the whole proj ect into a confusion of legislative doubt and could con ceivably delay even its commencement until 1955. Thornton notes that the legislative act did not express ly authorize the Board of Control to purchase a site, nor did it spell out which prisoners were to be confined in the new institution. Probably other details were left to be worked out by the Board of Control and the prison man agement which is responsible to the board. We have no wish to enter into a legal dispute if there is to be one. But it seems to us that an authorization for a building project implies authority to purchase ground for it, also to employ architects and do everything else necessary to carry out the legislature's instructions. It was the legislature's intent that a new institution sep arate and distinct from the present prison be created, so it could hardly have expected that this would be located on the present prison property. But a legal question has been raised and it should be ruled upon by the supreme court as soon as possible. So it appears that a friendly suit should be brought at once in order that a decision can be secured which will permit the project to proceed with the least possible delay, if the ruling is favorable. Otherwise a delay until after the next legislative session seems unavoidable. GETTING MORE FOR OUR MONEY Encouraging note for the suffering taxpayer: AU seven bids on the 12.16-mile grading job on the Portland-Salem expressway, opened Friday by the State Highway Commission, were below the engineers' esti mates and the low bid of J860.694.50 was far below the 1,01S,045 the state had estimated the job would cost. There has been no reduction in labor costs, and this is principally a labor job, so the contractors must be sharp ening their pencils, trimming the profit margins, possibly close to the vanishing point, for the highway department is an old hand at estimating costs. This is good news to the taxpayers, who are going to get more roads for their money from now on if this trend continues. Incidentally this highway project is making a splendid progress. It is now expected that it will be completed and open to travel from a point on the Tacific highway near Hubbard by July 1954, almost a year in advance of the original estimates. This partial completion will give the motorist a saving of four of the five miles to be saved between here and Portland when the entire project is opened in 1955. ANOTHER CHRISTMAS LIST mo S 1 TRAFFIC CUTH 2tk POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Mother-in-Law's Advice Brings Success and Wealth New York WV-Never disdain the advice of your mother-in-law. Gerry Coughlan, a stranger in a strange land, took a tip from his wife's mother -and it started him oa the way to butineas success. - "It was a good thing I listen ed to her," recalled Coughlan, who parlayed hit Irish accent, his elbow grease, and $ 4,000 of borrowed money Into a two million - dollar-a-year business in household chemicals, i Coughlan, president of the East-Aid Co, and one of the world's top sports fishermen, ia among America's leading spokesmen for small business. He thinks the big frog in the small puddle not only has fun, but ia alio smarter, than the little frog in the big pond. At If he sailed around the world as a British merchant marine cadet He then Joined the irun army, rose to the rank y HAL BOYLI nothing new. So I Just kept traveling and talking. I expect ed a customer to say no, so whenever one said yes, it was a surprise sometimes to both of us." Coughlan added new kitchen items to his line, systematically began advertising it When the second World War cut off his supply of metals, he switched to household chemicals and de veloped a soot-removing com pound, a silver dip cleaner, an oven cleaner, a house de- humidifier, a solvent to keep paint brushes from hardening. He still hit the road six months year, but has found time to win the outstanding angling achievement award of the Miami metropolitan fishing tournament five years in a row. Coughlan believes business success depends more on "bill ty to deal with personalities than with figures, and that is of captain, and then was de-'11' verybody in our execu- McK(uttit8nBttU.lM, WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Ike's Plan for 'A' Swap Could Be Break for Britain By DREW PEARSON Washington Grumpy Win ston' Churchill groused and grumbled backstage over Ike's atomic-energy speech, because it emphasized Bermuda do nothingness. But actually the speech should be a great break for England . . . Wl.at England needs most is cheap power. Her coal, once the backbone of British factories, is getting low Iranian oil has been taken away. But cheap atomic pow er could revolutionize British industry ... England and U s. A. were ready to swap atomic secrets again, just be fore the Harry D. White ex pose broke. This made Ike shy away from it. (Bad political reaction.) However, if Russia turns down the atomic-energy pool as expected the United States and England can go full steam ahead . . . Australia, France, Belgium and South Af rica would also be included in an atomic pool of raw material and scientific information op erating Just as the automobile companies swap new patents. Lanky, publicity-minded C. D. Jackson, the White House psychological expert, master minded the U. N. atomic en ergy speech. The speech was written and rewritten so many times, Jackson described it privately as a "mice nest" nothing much left of it but tatters ... He argued first that It must be delivered, second that it must be delivered dra matically, so the entire world would listen. Hence the idea of cutting short the Bermuda conference and the brilliant idea of flying direct to New York . . . This also served to cover up the futility of the Bermuda meeting which Ike never wanted In the first place and which was held only "to please Winston." finally accepted senate activities at Salem, plus his newspaper and magazine writings, have made him fam iliar to people all through Oregon. Neubrrger has positive and Candidate Neuberger? Astorian-Budget It appears more and likely that State Sen. Richard emphatic views and his attitude K.,,K.ro-,ni . r i.Jn most issues is well known him, they would know well what they were voting for. Neuberger has his handi caps. His strong opinions and his constant needling have senatorial candidate next year, aeeklng the post now held by Republican Sen. Guy Cordon. Columnist Drew Pearson put the question right up to Neu berger with a column reporting Mpti make hlm lnithem, 4o a conversation with Sen. Wayne ,h, Prnnhiir.n. ,..m benefit from the use of federal money to the exclusion of oth ers, caused an order that the bus service be stopped. The order to Colonal Galloway came from the Pentagon. Within a matter of hours, the White House stepped in, coun termanded the Pentagon's or aers. Colonel Galloway was told to continue the transpor tation of Catholic children. Importance of the incident lies in the fact that the army was preparing to cancal all bus transportation for Catholic schools at all army posts, part ly tor economy, also in accord with earlier court rulings for separation of church and state. The New Jersey court rul ing that a Protestant Bible can not even be distributed in schools where parents request it nas heightened the issue. The army is passing all queries on to the White House. Warren vs. Segregation Those watching the vital su preme court debate over seg regation figure that the death of Chief Justice Vinson and the appointment of Earl Warren may possibly spell the differ ence one way or the other. Chief Justice Warren's record as governor of California shows that he is likely to vote against school segregation. In San Bernardino, Calif., when a Catholic priest of Mexi can ancestry was barred from a public park, Governor Warren acted promptly. Writing to U. S. Appearls Court Judge Wil liam Denman, he said: "I do not see how we can carry out me spirit ol the United Nat ons if we deny fundamental rights to our Latin-American neigh bors." Warren also appointed a Ne gro, Walter Gordon, as chair man of the vitallv imixirtant . . Churchill California parole board. War thc atomic rent had claveri fnothall nn th Salem26 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL December 12, 1927 Seattle-Alaska steamer North' western had (rounded on the British Columbia coast to be come a total wreck. Passengers to the number of 112 hsd been rescued. Residents of North Salem had vigorously opposed the erection of a garbage incinera tor in that locality. Amity high school students had the pleasure of seeing an airplane land on their ball grounds. The landing had been accomplished to the ruination of the back-stop and damage to the plane. Kafoury Brothers were fea turing a store sale that had rayon bloomers, a regular $1.49 grade, in pink, maize and black for $1. Hiram U. Ely, Salem con tractor and builder for 40 years, had died. Ely had built the Minto building, the Steusloff building, two Bishop buildings and the Willamette sanitarium. He had charge of remodeling Reed's opera house when that building was converted into merchantlle usage around 1900. A memorial to Earl Kilpat- rlck. Red Cross reconstruction director who had been killed while directing Mississippi flood relief, had been designed for Columbus, Kentucky. Kil patrick was principal of Salem high school in 1913. I Dr. B. Blatchford. Fred A. Erixon and George F. Vick had been nominated for the presi dency of the Salem Chamber of Commerce. This Man Thinks Success Or Failure Whim of Fate By REV. GEORGE H.SWIFT Rtctor, bx. Pftui'a ipueopki cnnrcn rPHChin,,;1H t An,try -"'n-d on IWS. Column 11 Eden insisted. To please Win- - portions referring to H-bomb! THE FIRESIDE PULPIT damage in Europe, or rather he let Churchill tone it down. Both Churchill and Premier Joseph Lanirl called attention to the fact that American atomic cannon were already in Europe and there was no use scaring Western allies with too many headlines on the holo caust of hydrogen warfare. Arm and School Buses White House advisers are walking on eggs since the New Jersey supreme court handed down its decision that the pro testant St. James Bible could not be distributed in schools even when parents request In writing that their children have it. The court ruled that this infringed on the separa tion of church and state. Reason for White House skit- GOT SELF ARRESTED Washington (U.pj Fred Weems, 53, told police he de liberately got himself arrested for vagrancy so he could get in on the jail's annual Christmas feast of turkey and all the trim mings. Judge Leonard P. Walsh sentenced him yesterday to stay in jail until Dec. 24, the day before Christmas. moted to lieutenant when "the trouble" with England ended In Eire's freedom. "I was the Irish army's all around athletic champion." Coughland said, "but the army was full of comparatively young colonels and generals, and I couldn't see where the hell young lieutenant could go in it so I got out and started a physical culture school." Gerry, a star middle distance runner, competed in the 1928 Olympics, then came to Ameri ca in 1932 to help manage the 3-man Irish Olympic team. He promptly fell in love with a New Jersey girl, and decided to settle in America. But what should I do?" he asked his bride's mother, who was laboriously slicing green beans in her kitchen. "Make something to slice beans," she said. Coughlan took her at her word. He borrowed $4,000, then with the help of machinist designed a kitchen tool to stem, string and slice green beans. put a small factory to work making the tools and set out in a car himself to sell them. "I traveled 85.000 miles the first year," he said. "It was 1933. the depression was on. and a lot of people were Jump ing out windows. But nobody had told me it was the custom to meet a depression by Jump ing out a window. "In Ireland hard times were tive set up has to get out on the road part of trie time and sell. "Anybody in successful small business is more capable than a man in a similar position in a large corporation. He has to be better all-around man to survive, because he has to oe able to fill several lobs. "In a big corporation they specialize. They have to call in a committee to get window closed." Coughlan feels young college graduates who choose the se curity of job with a large corporation rather than the big ger gamble and adventure of a career in small business are turning their backs on real op portunity. "Any young man can make a real success of small busi ness in this country," he said, "if he has guts, enthusiasm, common aense and the competi tive spirit and isn't looking for a handout." OPEN FORUM 1 Thinks Oregon Ui Harsh in Liquor C To the Editor: f I am a newcomer i gon. I was Justice of tbi in the midwestern tow. which I came and oil someone brought into for drunken disorder! duct for which I assess merited fine. So I t dined to post myself : ing the law regarding here. I have a friend m lived here many yeans, will relate his experiem the law as he told it Ho informed me that are now two state stores in Salem and M place where hard liq sold. So the state has nopoly In the liquor b which makes it very; able. S e This is his experien dropped into the state store, bought a quart or key, took drink, got t car and started home. O that a state highway i man saw him take the into his car and Jumpe a motorcycle and cau$ with him, smelled his J (which is enough, act to law to brand him as breaker) and ordered '1 drive to the city Jail wt was held until he could a friend to come wltt bail demanded for his r He was ordered to app court at a future date, realized that the cards stacked against him, so ) felted his bail, whict probably expected, mat in the nature of a fine t swell the liquor profits, state. i The whole procedure to have been according t out so different from tin of any other state in w have lived, and I have In several, that I feel it of comment. WM. H. HIB1 Salem. 1 OPEN FORUM Who Can Now Doubt Fluordiation Benefit? To the Editor: I was certainly sorry to find that even after your wonder- i ful editorial explaining the I true facts about fluoridated wa ter, (hat George Graham still feels his stomach or kidneys might be upset or in some wsy poisoned. I It is really pathetic to me that anyone would continue to think such things when such a large city as San Francisco has added fluroide to its ws ter. It is so completely ob-1 vious that no one or any city would ever add any chemical to anything without the cor-! rect amount and proven re sults. We can and will have j the correct amount and proven . beneficial results to all of Sa-1 lem s children, nor just my ; own, and with harm to no ' one when fluoride ia added to 1 Salem's water. I BETTY LOU COUGHAN ' Jribute to Out Scltooi Readier), Todoy, o$ no time before in history, the school teacher is recognized as the builder of tomorrow's America! With juvenile delin quency increasing apace, and foreign ide ologies creeping into our school books, it 1$ high time that glowing tribute was paid to these patient men and women who instruct our young. Let's remember that teachers are human beihgs, not machines. Let's give them the support and confidence they so richly deserve. Let'$ attend P-T-A meet ings and contribute something more than children. This community is fortunote in having such fine schools and outstanding educators. We applaud their work ond their good American achievements! CAPITAL DRUG STORE 405 State St. at Liberty Phone 331 SoJem, Ore. We Salute Our Tovii Morse in which the latter supposed to have urged Neu berger to run. Neuberger, queried by Portland newspa permen for a statement, said he would announce his Intentions in February. Neuberger has been acting like a candidate lately. He has been a busy speechmaker, all over Oregon. The Portlander would be a potent candidate. He is "'work perhaps harder against I across the Potomac river at mm than against another can- rort myer. vs., recently, dldate. He has a faction In his I There, the commanding of- own party which dislikes him. VOLUNTEER TRAFFIC COP Lot Angeles U Municipal Judge Gerald G. Keeple sug gested that William Monte, 43. apply for a job with the police department if he enjoys direct ing tralfic. Monte was riven a his i fve-day tail sentence ilttr party's best known individual pleading guilty to being drunk la the state, ana veteran poi-and directing traffic at an in iticians say that being well , tersection, waving a wine bottle known is half the battle. His I at motorists. ficer, CoL Donald Galloway. has been using government owned and -operated buses to transport Catholic children to local parochial schools. About 100 Catholic children of army officers and enlistcC men at Fcrt Myers have been trans ported dally across the river to Catholic schools in Washing ton, or to Arlington. Va However, defense depart ment moves, plus belief that no one religious group should A friend of mine believes that he has the key to success or failure. He says that if fate decrees that one be born with a silver spoon In his mouth, or perchance a rich relative dies and leaves him a fortune, or just that "the Lord smiles on him," he is In luck and success will be his. He says that it matters not how he cuts the cards, he will win the hand If fate so decrees. He is prepared to cite several ex amples to strengthen his the ory. This man has the same Ides in regard to spiritual success as he has to material success. He compares religion to a slot machine. "When you pray," he says, "You don't get results every time any more than you get results every time you play the "one-armed bandit." Re sults, success or failure, are determined by the decree of fate or God, ao he says. Using a slot-machine to illustrate re ligious phenomena sounded blasphemous to me. but the sincerity of the man made It seem at least tolerable In his case. My friend's thinking of re ligion in terms of a gambling device perhaps reflected a lack of deep-rooted reverence for sacred things which earlier re ligious training would have engendered. And it also re vealed somewhat, his present habits and associations. After all, it Is easier for us to ex press ourselves in familiar terms and phrases of everyday usage when talking about re ligion. As far as my friend Is concerned, his esrnestness and sincerity revealed his desire to find some way to solve the problem of an evident empti ness in his soul. Of course I did not chide him for his slot-machine compari son. What he needed was en couragement and definite help. And so It is with all people who feel like the young ruler In the Gospel felt when he ap proached Our Lord, telling Him of his wealth and power and asked Him, "What lack I yetf aaaysassaasassassaaasjaaya tatsSjaBBi-A. ; Serving Salem ond Vicinity os Funeral Directors for 25 Year i Convenient location, S. 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