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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1953)
Capital AJournal An Independent Newspopay Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING. Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketo St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom. Wont ' Ads. 2-2406; Society Editor. 2-240V -55 "? " rf-u mi n. b.iw M UCUU4 TM U ucjulnll rallUM UIMMto .MUnlUs ! SUISCKIPTION RATES; Br CurMrt MoalhU. SUtl CM ttaaUu, ITUl CM TUT, IIM Mia t Oram: Moult. Mt: au Mwia. MMi Ou lw, lim a Mil OaUM. Onus: maun, H4ii w vwtt tusi oh m. tan ONE OF THE 22 SAYS' GOODBYE' Pfc Richard B. Tenneeon, the Minnesota prisoner of war who la one of 22 Americana to refuse repatriation. has been rivaling President btate JJulies as an attention getter in the newspapers these past few days. , Tenneson's mother, Mrs. Portia Howe, has gone to the Far East in an effort to persuade her son to come home, but she will apparently not be able to aee him. Nor does it appear that anything would be accomplished if she were to go on to Korea and interview the youth, whose attitude is well expressed in the following words from a letter he Bent to her. - . "I know that you want to take me home with you but I have made ud my mind and I am not soinr. "During my life I have witnessed both peace and war In the United States. I love peace, I love mankind, I !ovt them enough to fight for them that is what I am doing right now that is why I am not going home. Don't misunderstand me, I still love my family, my people and my country, and whether you are able to understand It now or not, lelleve me when I aay that it is for them that I am fighting and it is impossible for me to live in the United States because I want to live as 1 wish. "Actually though I don't believe the United States author! ties will allow you to SDeak to probably told you that I was some other horse manure that people like myself who will stand up for his own rights and the rights of man. "What would they have to say if they did allow you to talk to me and you were to see me i leit you wun the exception and a reason in life. "Also as soon as you resd this you had better go over to GHQ and take a loyalty oath or you are liable to be arraigned before the House Un-American Activities Committee." The public does not know whether Tenneson has been "brain washed," or what that operation consists of. But It is clear that he has been thoroughly indoctrinated and has as warped a concept of the world and of the United States as any communist who has sounded off anywhere. He does not speak from terror, for he could surrender himself to the Indian guards and be whisked off to the U.N. zone in Korea at any time. He is doing what he does voluntarily from all indications. The normal person does not know what has happened to make young Tenneson act the way he does, particularly toward his mother. But there he is, take him or leave him. Our notion is to leave him to the Reds, who are welcome to him and the other 21 who think as he does. Fortunately there are only 22 out of all the thousands who have fallen into Communist hands, in contrast with thousands of Chinese and North Koreans who express preference for death rather than to return to Communist slavery. The U.S. makes a pretty good showing after all. Ninety-nine plus per cent of our citizens like us all right. And we can spare the others. But the sympathy of all will go out to Mrs. Howe, who la going to have a pretty rotten sort of Christmas, which o far as the record shows she has done nothing to de serve. , - next a Mckenzie' valley authority? The Eugene Water and Electric board has announced plans to expand into an area already served by the Moun tain States Power company and to build new power gener ating facilities. The municipal board, which now serves Eugene has de cided to take over the Willakenzie and Glenwood areas adjacent to Eugene. The approximate 2,200 customers in that area now are served by Mountain States Power com pany. It !a proposed to secure the Mounutain States electric system by filing condemnation suits in the circuit court soon. This consists of 60 miles of primary distribution lines plus secondary and service lines. The annual gross revenues collected in the areas the board estimates about $270,000. The EWEB plans for new generating facilities call for a new dam on the Upper McKenzie river and installation of generators in the Cougar dam, proposed by the federal government on the south fork of the McKenzie. This is a long-range plan with costs estimated now at $18 million. Financing plans have not yet been made public. The Cougar project if authorized by congress would cost the local utility about $11 million. The powerhouse at the dam plus another at a re-regulating structure a short distance downstream would give the EWEB an additional 28,000 kilowatts power capacity. Beaver Marsh would produce another 30,000 kilowatts of power and cost $6.5 million The Eugene Water and Electric board was organized about 1915 to supply both water and electricity to the city of Eugene which was shy on both. It has expanded plant and operation immensely since then with the growth of the city. It was not contemplated at that time that it en ter the power business outside the city. What business has a city in the power business outside its city limits? There is something about so-called public power, that breeds typical bureaucratic fever of expansion, especially when either Uncle Sam or the taxpayers foot the bills and pay the salaries. The PUDs are an example, and under Wall Street inspiration have attempted many gradiose schemes. It need surprise no one if the Eugene scheme for a monopoly ef power in the McKenzie river area expands into another Tennessee Valley Authority especially if the taxpayers pungie up. u. r. ANOTHER STRIKE THAT FAILED How long will the rash of are wondering. Perhaps the answer is: For not too long after they cease to pay off. Most of them did, you know, for a period of years. But two recent big ones didn't. The New York news paper strike didn't. It was settled after many millions of loss on the same terms it could have been settled on without a strike, $3.75 a week and a "fact finding board" to report if hours should be shortened, but not on a fur ther wage increase. Since then a much bigger strike has ended on a note of futility. Thirty-three thousand workers at North American Aviation'a California plants have been on strike nearly two months for a 26-cent an hour wage increase. Now they have gone back to work on the four per cent in crease the company originally offered. The loss is tremendous, to the company, to the workers, to the government in planes ftr national defence and in lost revenues. But it will not all be in vain if the lesson it can convey links in. Eisenhower or Secretary of me. thev are afraid. Thev have forced, doped, brain washed or they use to slander and defile that I was still your son If ever perhaps that now I nave a goal strikes continue? Millions Y "4 H Loll OWRCWU 1 453?v pM - AKICE a" V J WASHINGTON MERRY Lodge's Talent for French Songs Improves Relations By DREW Washington Those who have watched Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge sitting stern and dignified at the United Nations could never picture him sitting cross-legged on the floor singing French boulevard songs. That was what happened at the apartment of French Am bassador Henri Hoppenot the other day, however, and the result was a new camaraderie between Lodge and other U.N delegates. The U.S. envoy knew more songs and sang them In better French than the French envoy himself. It began at a dinner given once a month by the president of the security council who holds office for bne month only, and gives a party at the end of the month for his col leagues. . Andrei Vishinsky was at this particular party, given in the Hoppenot apartment, and he didn't look anywhere near as glum as usual. Lodge was also present, together with Sir Gladwyn Jebb of England, Charles Malik of Lebanon and Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations. The informality began when Dag Hammarskjold walked into the living room, found ev ery chair occupied and sat down on the floor. His hostess, Madame Hoppenot joined him. I "Let's sing something," said the secretary general of the United Nations. "I feel like singing." 'Good, encouraged Mme. Hoppenot, "You sing." 'But I can only sing off key." "That would be charming," said the lady. "Then the near est of us can try to drown you out." Ambassador Lodge, also sit ting cross-legged on the floor, came to the rescue. He broke forth with "Quatre Vingt Chas seurs." Mrs. Lodge joined him. The wife of the Colombian am bassador sang in Spanish. A Yugoslav lady sang "Tarn O Deleako." American song: fol lowed. In brief, the staid old secur ity council, rent with wrangl ing over world problems, re laxed into a good old songfest, Delegates agreed they hadn't had such a good time since the U.N. was formed in San Fran Cisco. ' BEHIND IKE'S. A-POOL Inside story of how Preil dent Eisenhower developed his dramatic appeal for an atomic energy pool is gradually leak ing out. One phase of the story goes back some weeks to the admin istration's decision to build an atomic reactor for civilian uses. Behind this, announce ment was the fact that our chief sources of uranium, the Belgian Congo and South Afri ca, have long been irked that they are not in on atomic se crets. And the possibility has always' been latent that If not let in on atomic secrets they might cut off our uranium The Belgians and South Af ricans are not particularly In terestcd in secret atomic Tvei pons, but are tremendously in. tercsted In peacetime atomic energy. Both are deficit coun tries when It comes to coal and THC CAPITAL JOURNAL, galea. Orem Gift Suggestions FORTRlifAW4,rW4 ; f. ACA.RTHy, eUrWCTlE, ..... 1 OR MEW Hi RATHtRTIl '! IN KNOT HIMSELF 4BL' - GO - ROUND PEARSON oil, so that cheap atomic ener gy could revolutionise, their In dustries. Last fall, therefore, when U.S. intelligence picked up ap parently reliable reports that Russia was developing a peace time reactor, the Eisenhower administration Immediately de cided to do the same. It was re alized that the nation which made the most progress the fastest in this direction would have the bargaining power for the uranium supplies of the world. Simultaneously, Eisenhower learned that 12 European coun. tries had decided three years ago to combine their resources to develop peacetime atomic energy. Already they have built a plant at Geneva, Swlt zerland, and are constructing an atom smasher about a doz en times more powerful than anything in the United States. Cooperating countries in this atom pool include not only Bel gium with its tremendous urs nium resources, but England, France, West Germany and the Communist government of Yu goslavia. Thus it became apparent to the president that the days when the United States could be the world's No. 1 atomic power would soon be over, if indeed they are not over al ready. The move for a world pool of atomic energy under the United Nations was, there fore, the next step and a very natural one. ' , MERRY-GO-ROUND Ex-Senator ; Harry , Darby, the Kansas palomino horse breeder and one of the most popular men Kansas ever sent to the senate, confides to friends: "Secretary B e n i o n and Undersecretary True Morse are to high-and-mighty they can't understand the farm picture. Yet Ike believes them. Frank Carlson, who does un derstand the farm picture, can't persuade him otherwise" . . . At a meeting of the democratic state committee in New York, mere men showed up with pri vate airplanes than since 1948. Most of the private airplane democrats had .earlier gone over to Eisenhower. . , . John ny Cahill, who was given a big lift up the ladder to his lush law practice by the new deal, came back to the democratic fold at the recent New York meeting. Most of his clients are Wall street republicans. . . . Stanley Woodward, the ex-am bassador to Canada and great friend of Mr. and Mrs. Truman, doesn't quite know whether to be congratulated or com miserated with over his elec tion as treasurer of the demo cratic national committee. It's an even tougher job than rul ing where diplomats and su preme court justices should sit at dinner, a job he once had and which caused plenty of head aches. , . . Millard Tydings, the ex-senator from Maryland, looks as if getting out of the senate agreed with him. His wife says he's now younger and a lot easier to live with. INSIDE THE PENTAGON Russian Migs attacked an other navy patrol plane off the China coast the other day but failed to shoot it down. Meanwhile, the air force has Disloyalty Firing Los Angeles Timet The decision of the Su preme court that disparage ment of an employer by an employe, even a striking em ploye, justifies discharge In dicates a swing of the pendu lum. ...... The Supreme court, in an opinion by Justice Minton, with . Justices Frankfurter, Black and Douglas dissenting, aeciares that there 1 t no more elemental cause for dit- charge" than disloyalty to an employer. This makes tense. The case arose out ot a dis pute by television technicians with a station at Charlotte, N.C. The pickets distributed circulars criticizing the pro grams offered by the station; they were fired, and the NLRB upheld the firing. The Dis trict of Columbia court ot ap peals reversed the NLRB and the Supreme court hat now reverted the court of appeals. The dissenters held that dis loyalty is not mentioned as a cause for discharge by the Taft-Hartley at; but the ma jority said the act permitted discharges "for cause.1 HE WENT SLUMMING San Francisco u. Eddess Teo, S3, was jailed and fined $100 for dumping refuse into the street in the exclusive Twin Peaks area from his new, Cadil lac. ... issued orders to shoot down any marauding Russian planes that ttick their noses into our territory, . . . Russian now has in production a giant airplane, the size of the American B-52, capable of a round trip to De troit, Chicago, New York, and back to Moscow. . . . Pilferage has Increased so alarmingly in Korea since the armistice that the army has posted vicious dogs to help guard supply de pots against prowlers. tcsprficm, mil make CHRISTMAS MUSIC "The Spice of the Season" Whether you're buying for your, own enjoyment or as a gift re corded music is a source of col orful entertainment and sooth ing relaxation. WE CARRY SUCH FAVORITES AS ; MBERACE'S ' Christmas Mule MANTOVAMH Christmas Mnle ' ARTHUR GODFREY'S Christmas Album BING CROSBY'S Christmas Music CHRISTMAS CHIMES (Chimes and Organ) Christmas with JIMMY BOYD and many, many other selections in elastic, popular and children's records MANY, MANY MORE! Wills Music Store OPEN EVERT EVE. TIL I (Except Sunday) 4U State Phone i-itit Socialist Planning By RAYMOND MOLIT President Eisehower's plan for the control and use of atomic energy suggests one field where an international agreement can be of greatest value. For this property, this source of energy, it too dang erous to civilization to be en trusted to any authority ex cept the government Perhaps ultimately private enterprise can share the responsibility, but for the time being here it a spot where nationalization can be justified. Such dependence upon Inter national agreements in most other fields, however, presents a real and present danger to economic liberty. That danger Ilea in the effort of collect! visit in the government, not ably in the Department of State, to manipulate inter national agreements and treat ies in a manner which will col lectivize our economy. ' The patterns of revolution, like the shape of the clouds, are subject to rapid but almost imperceptible change. Twenty years ago, those members of Roosevelt's so-called brain trust who were the more ex treme advocates of concentrat ing power in the Government were strong nationalists. Rex Tugwell, for example, used to say that most of the younger, "forward-looking" economists believed in intrarather than Internationalism.. The socialization of the eco nomy could more easily be accomplished by keeping the gates closed against the influ ences of international trade and finance. For a wholly dif ferent reason I held to a belief in a rather strict nationalism. Those were the daya when Wall street, dominated by in ternational banking, regarded both Tugwell and me at dang erous influences, and free traders like Secretary Hull considered our views in terms inmentionable in polite soc iety. The great surge toward In ternationalism which accom panied our participation in the second World War and the confusion attending the proli feration of agencies operating in the foreign field gave all ranges ot the left wing, from L, ,ctuil members of the Corn- moderately socialistic people munist conspiracy, exactly what they needed. For under the guise of fine-sounding in' ternational agreements they were able to add one after an other restriction on our free economy. Some of the influen tial people in government dur ing those years, like Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White, were masters at thit technique, ; At the present moment some ot the top policy people in the government who have been brought in by President Eisenhower are awakening to this danger. Others are still unable to comprehend it. There is, in fact, a conflict at the moment o v e r an inter national tin agreement. Other such agreements will follow if that one la adopted, The controversy over the Bricker amendment hat brought out the fact that the power to make treaties and in ternational agreements opens great holes in the constitution. That amendment arose largely because the fears of many lawyer! . were twtkened by the U. N. Convenant on Hu man Rights. But that is only one ot the proposed agree ments which are susceptible to the devices of retolutlontsts. In hit testomy before the Jenner committee, last June, J. Anthony Ptnuch, who, in 1945, terved at coordinator In the State Department of the many agenciet dumped there this a POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Office Christmas Parties Hoyc Tamed Down a Lot, Says Boyle y HAL New York 11 A cry Is sweeping the land for the abo lition of wild office Christmas parties. This It Indeed a worthy cam paign, and I am glad to enlist in the eauae. It will be remem bered I waa among the first to point out last year it was high time we got rid of the growing Salem 51 Years Ago v IEN MAXWELL December 1, IMS Jot. Meyers It Sons, the White Corner "Stlem't Greatest Store" offered a phonographic concert - every evening except Saturday.' On Saturday evening Gesner't or chestra and Santa Claus had their performance. W. F. Ketchuip had the dis tribution of Sun typewriters In Marion and Polk counties. Potential customers were urg ed to tee the Sun typewriter in ute at the Capital Journal office. , Phillip Fisher of Lewsvllle had a sawmill under construc tion there with a potential ca pacity ot 13,000 feet dally. i Mist Bertha Kay had ar ranged for her debut at an elocutionist at Grand Ooera house. A scarcity of cord wood In thit locality had left state In stitutions with no alternative other than paying (3.80 a cord for oak, $2.25 for second growth fir and $2.83 for old fir. Journal's X-Ray had w r 1 1 -ten: "Gervais it arising like a Phoenix from the ashes of her recent disaster but with beautiful brick blocks under construction. The belle of French Prairie hat the money and can afford to wear dia monds if the teet tit. ' "Force" the ready to serve cereal had a breakfast food treat ot tweet, crisp flakes ot wheal and malt that leaves no unpleasant memories. Goodale Lumber company near the Southern Pacific do- not dianlaved m Una if A. vertisement ot Santa Claus lugging in the Christmas log, Capital City brewery showed Santa drinking beer with a couple of fetching damsels and Salem Steam laundry showed Santa reaching for a clean shirt. after the war, clearly pointed out the danger. He said among other things: . The historic change initia ted by our entry Into the U.N.O. was to place "a large part of our foreign policy on an international basis rather than on the traditional coun-try-to country or bilateral basis." The extent to which thit shift in the pattern of our foreign policy can move into the domestic field it truly alarming. We may ultimately be ruled not by the well known strictures of the consti tution, but by the fine print in a multitude of Internation al agreements. W V400 I are the baguette! thai glisten on each side of the large center tlones. Still and cool-lo iking, they emphasize the brilliance of the round diamonds by direct contrail. The baguette settings shown vary in cuttingi lapttti. straight and bullet Prices Include Federal tax Charge or budget rn Tt;.r fra Wednesday, December IS, 1953 OYLI menace of the buttle and alto contributed heavily to a fund to wipe out the dinosaur and the sabre-tooth tiger. And what about the wooly rhinoceros in America? It no- body going to attack him? The trouble with our current crusade against the wild office Christmas party it one that it-. flict many drives against oth. er forms of sin. By the time wo get our dander up about it, w find it already quietly hat ex. pired, and the only way we can show our virtue is to go out and kick the tombstone. It teems to me it's about that way with the annual Christmas office orgy. A recent Sunday magazine article claimed they, are getting rowdier each year. But, frankly, I no longer would . know where to look to find one, in order to denounce it And nothing takes the fun out of any campaign against tin like the inability to find it - - Wives and other bosses began toning down office parties soma years back. The first thing they did was throw them out of the office and start holding them in - restaurants and rented halla. . , The year the first wife show. ed up at an office Christmas prty spelled the downfall of its mad revelry. Who wants to play that merry old game- Let's chase the ttenogranher around the water cooler," with a wife looking on? That cooled down the office bargain bate, ment aatyrs but quick. Sura ruined Christmas for many a homely stenographer, too. The average office party to day it about at sinful at an Easter egg rolling or an old. fashioned lawn social. It haa ; no more of an antic note than a high school spring prom. Mama leadt papa to the frolie like a tame bear on a leash. and hit eert echo with her stern ultimatum, "Take one" trip too many to that punch. bowl, Buster, and home yoi go." They search you at the doc; to be sure you haven't hlddei any mistletoe in your pocke There la a dance band to pla; civilized music, and the offtcd quartet tlngt a sedate number; from the floor Instead ot lead ing college cheers from the top of a desk. As a matter ot fact, they don't even have a desk In the joint a fellow can fall I m ana oreax leg, ana get a well-deserved rest on full pay. The other evening I looked in a restaurant room and saw a ' , group of bank employe! weerA ing paper hat! and lookia glumly at one another. Or oldtimer wat crying toftlyr I asked him respectfully: "It thit a memorial te lor one of the bank officials 4 No, ' ne said, at the teaaa rouea aown nis cneexs, rnu it our annual office Christmas party." ' "Don't you hold it in thai bank?" I inquired. "We used to," he said, "until the year one of the fellowt be- gan making paper airplanes out . of $100 bills and tailing them out a window." That wat what was wrong . with the old office Chrlttmat parties tome guy always went just a bit too fir, and ruined it for all time. A friend, who tor. ' merly enjoyed joining in the annual chase to catch the boss'a (Continued an Pan a Celumn I) let 5 t