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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Ortfim
Saturday, December 19, 195
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CHARITY RACKETEERING PROFITABLE
A New York legislative committee has been holding
public hearings which have exposed a fantastic amount
of fraud and racketeering in so-called charity campaigns
of fund raising which benefit professional fund raisers
far more than they do the sirk or needy or the institu
tions in whose names the solicitations are made. It is
estimated that such operations prey on American gener
osity to the extent of hundreds of millions of dollar
annually.
The committee hopes to see new laws enacted in New
York next year, and possibly other states or on the
federal level, to provide ironclad control of the charity
racketeers.
The recommendations were set forth by representatives
of bona fide charity organizations, public welfare officials
and the Better Business Bureau at a closing public session
of the committee.
They included compulsory registration of professional
fund raisers with a state or federal agency, filing of
annual financial statements by all charity organizations,
st standardized accounting system, regular police checks
on fund raising activities and a ban on mailing of unso
licited merchandise.
In four days of hearings the committee heard testi
mony indicating that many nationwide and local charity
drives ended with professional fund raisers receiving as
much as 80 per cent of the collections. The majority of
charitable organizations are worthwhile and favor official
regulation of solicitation for self protection.
Testimony at the hearings included the following re
port on financial affairs of some chanties
National Kids Day Foundation: raised $3,252,000 in three
years period, with only 1302,000 going toward ita stated pur
pose of helping underprivileged children.
Disabled American Veterans, Inc.: Collected f21.480.000 In
three-year period, of which $14,529,000 or 68 per cent went
for cost of fund-raising. The DAV used $3,837,000 or 18 per
cent of the collections to finance a Washington lobby seeking
legislation favorable to veterans, but spent nothing in direct
financial aid to disabled veterans.
A professional fund-raiser testified that he sometimes Im
personated a priest or a police representative. Other witnesses
testified about their "boiler rooms" batteries of telephone
solictors with the promoters taking most of the harvest, the
use of the names of prominent people without their sanction,
Including presidents of the U. S., and getting as much as 80
per cent of the collections.
One professional admitted raising $630,000 for a mythical
hospital, the "National Cancer Hospital of America," but
$438,000 of the amount went for expensese of the promoters.
Another admitted raising a substantial fund for the "widow
of the Unknown Soldier'
So gullible are the people that such racketeering flour
ishes and protection is necessary, at least in densely
populated areas. u. r.
A MOVE FOR BETTER EDUCATION
Some 60 Oregon educators met in Salem Friday to take
stock on a western regional program which promises two
important benefits: More and better education in special
ized fields at the graduate level, and a cash saving to
the suffering taxpayers.
The project is called Regional Cooperation in Higher
Education. Ita purpo:ie is to secure the maximum develop
ment in higher education by having each state select
ita fields for development, and to accept students in these
fields from neighboring states, these sometimes partially
paid for by the states themselves.
' Under an informal ' arrangement of this kind made
when Prince L. Campbell was president the University
of Oregon became the first institution in the Northwest
to offer medical training. It was not until a few years ago
that the state of Washington opened a medical school.
Oregon now has a dental school too, the only one in the
whole region.
Meanwhile other states have pioneered in other fields.
Washington State and Colorado A. & M. have the only
training available for students 'of veterinary medicine.
Most Oregon youths go to one or the other. Washington
State college has the only school for training police
administrators. And so on.
It is hoped that the present program, which the Oregon
legislature ratified in 1951, will eventually include all
11 western states, Alaska and Hawaii. One major obstacle
has been the failure of California and Washington, the
two most populous states in the region, to ratify, evi
dently on the theory that they can provide their own
facilities and need not cooperate with anyone else. This
may be true of California, but isn't true of Washington.
And California could amply afford a little cooperation
with neighbors like Nevada and Arizona, neither of which
can afford to maintain many professional schools.
The idea has made further headway in the south than
elsewhere, and evidently for two reasons. The south is
poorer and therefore harder put to provide facilities for
professional education and the need for providing facili
ties for negroes as well as white students. The south
clings for the most part to segregation, therefore finds
the burden doubly hard to bear, and is forced to a pooling
of its limited resources.
But all states, including the most populous, can benefit
by such a program, which makes a much larger field of
opportunity available to the ambitious student, provides
the public with better service later, and keeps educational
costs at a figure the public can pay. In some cases the
state pays part of the cost of its student's training.
Oregon has taken a broadminded attitude toward this
program, which costs little and promises much.
SLOW KIND OF DEATH
Public power agitators are fond of charging that the
Eisenhower administration plans to murder the Bonne
ville government power system, especially now that Raver
1 to leave for greener pastures up tauie way,
Yet we read that Bonneville will let contracts for
$11,126,000 worth of new construction within the next
year, in addition to millions of dollars worth of work
that will continue on the new dams in the northwest.
It is clear that the administration has ne thought of
abandoning Bonneville to the greedy private interests,
r ven of stopping its expansion. The change of policy
is that the right of private power to fill an important
place in the economy of the region is now recognized
tm. Th B-overnment doesn't intend to do it all.
- So if Bonneville is dying it will be an extremely slow
kind of death.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Dean Returns to Warn Ike
War in Korea May Resume
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Inside reason
for Arthur Dean's dramatic
flight from Korea to Washln
ton was to carry an urgent
warning to President Eisen
hower that the Korean war
will erupt wide open again
unless some drastic decisions
are made by January 22. Dean,
who is John Foster Dulles' law
partner, abruptly broke off
haggling with the communists
and flew straight to Washing
ton to report to the president.
State department expert
Kenneth Young was left be
hind to keep a foot in the door
in case the communists change
their minds.
Meanwhile, Dean has
warned Washington in blunt
terms that the Korean truce is
threatened by two ominous
storm clouds:
1: The communists reported
ly will resist with force if the
U. S. goes ahead - with Its
pledge to release on January
22 to the 22,000 Red prisoners
who still refuse to be repatri
ated.
2. Stubborn South Korean
President Syngman Rhee won't
be talked out of launching his
own offensive against North
Korea if a peace conference
hasn't been called by January
22.
Dean has based his warning
partly on an incident occurring
between the communist nd
Indian guards. The Reds in
formed the Indians they
planned to attack if the 22,000
Red prisoners who refuse to
go home are released. The
communists further offered the
Indians safe withdrawal into
North Korea.
As a result, the alarmed In
dians have asked both sides
to present written statements
on what they intend to do if
the prisoner-explanation pro
gram Is still bogged down on
January 22.
No "Gas" to Rhee
U. S. commanders have be
come to worried that restless,
cantankerous 78 - year - old
Syngman Rhee may strike
across the 38th parallel with
ROK troops, that they have ac
tually rationed Rhee's gasoline
supply. However, Rhee s-rug
ged troops can walk to war as
easily as ride, and the lmplaca-
ble South Korean loader could
light the fuse to the Korean
powder keg at any moment.
Everyone from President
Eisenhower on down has
pleaded with Rhee. He has in
dicated that he would give a
peace conference time to op
erate once it got started, but
he demanded that it get start
ed by January 27.
Meanwhile, U S -Korean ne
gotiations for a peace confer
ence are not too far apart
Only major stumble-block,
Dean reports. Is whether Rus
sia shall attend as a neutral or
belligerant. So far, the U. S.
has flatly refused to allow
Russia to play the role of a
neutral.
Note The Pentagon is
alarmed over Intelligence re
ports that Russia has moved
58 divisions and most of its
tactical air squadrons into Si
beria, an ominous move in the
direction of Korea. If the
Russians openly try to mop up
Korea, the Pentagon has dratt
ed plans for hitting back with
A-bombs.
Coco-Cola support
When Adlai Stevenson. spoke
in Atlanta, home of one-time
democrat Bob Woodruff of Coco-Cola
fame, he could not be
seen by the surrounding
crowd, so someone brought out
a Coca-Cola case. Adlai stood
on the case and delivered his
speech, which caused Gov.
Herman Talmadge to remark:
"That's the most support Bob
Woodruff or Coca-Cola has
given a democrat for 20 years."
O'KONSKI RENTS FROM
O'KONSKI
Good old Congressman
O'Konski of Wisconsin has
found a new way to take a
little more money from the
taxpayers. And it's all proper
and legal! He does it by rent
ing office space in his own ra
dio station and letting Uncle
Sam pay for it.
Congressmen are permitted
$73 from the government to
rent office space in their home
districts if there's no space
available in a federal building.
With no federal building
space available in his area, the
congressman from Wisconsin
rented office space in radio sta
tion WLIN in Merrill, Wis.
And who owns WLIN? None
other than Congressman
O'Konski. Thus Uncle Sam
pays Congressman O'Konski,
who in turn pays radio station
owner UKonsKi, ana Air.
O'Konski is $73 to the good.
HEADLINES AND
FOOTNOTES
CIO leaders tried to drum
up a debate between tne cniei
economic advisers of the Eis
enhower and Truman adminis
trations. The CIO invited Dr.
Arthur Burns, Ike's top econ
omist, to discuss economic is
sues with Leon Keyserling,
Truman's ex - consultant. Dr.
Burns declined. . . . West Ger
many is waiting for the go-
ahead to launch its own atomic-energy
program. For the
first time since the war, the
Germans will be permitted to
mine uranium but only nine
tons annually. . . . Senator Mc
Carthy is sore about allied
trade with Red China. How
ever, Japanese firms, with our
okay, are now trading, not
only with Red China, but also
North Korea. . . . Egypt's de
posed King Farouk has hired
a battery of international law
yers to block a $13,000,000
auction of his personal goods in
EevDt. including pictures of
scantily draped females. Far
ouk is buying ads in the world
press warning foreign buyers
to keep hands off his former
possessions or risk legal action.
. . . Meanwhile, Egyptian Pre
mier Naguib has been bringing
pressure upon the Italian gov
ernment to declare Farouk
persona non grata and force
him to leave Italy, in hopes he
will get as far sway from
Egypt as possible. . . . Gerald
L. K. Smith, the apostle of hate,
slipped into Washington last
week on a mission to help Sen
ator McCarthy. He pulled
strings to block certain unfav
orable information from leak
ing out against McCarthy. . . .
Smith also held a secret meet
ing at the Statler hotel, ad
mitting only those who carried
OPEN FORUM
Fluoridation Easy to
Get if You Want it
To the Editor:
As to fluoridation: All the
mothers who want this for the
children need do is to go to the
drug store and make their pur
chase. But, to treat all water
for the benefit of one-tenth of
one percent of the population is
ridiculous and a pure waste
of thousands of dollars.
Regarding the grid system: I
fully agree with the Jason Lee
letter. We should be grateful to
Founder Willson for his won
derful foresight in giving us
our wide streets. The grid is
bad enough for us local peo
ple, but for outsiders it is noth
ing short of a nightmare. We
should have left good enough
alone.
Sam J. Harms.
1740 State Street
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Boyle Suggests Books to Read
During TV Commercial
y HAL BOYLE
New York, W) These long
winter evening commercials
on television have revived the
lost art of reading.
There is no better time to
pick up a good book and set
tle , back for a reunion with
the printed word than during
those cherry interludes on
your video screen during
which the announcer tells
you how you can avoid body
ordor and protect your lungs
by drinking only filtered beer,
packed in a king-sized refrig
erator that can be thrown
away after using only once,
"During one long commer
cial I read my way through
three feet of Dr. Eliot's old
five-foot book shelf," a man
bragged recently. "My wife,
who has read alt our books,
knitted a sweater during an
other commercial.
So, if you want to do your
friends a real favor this
Christmas, why not refresh
his ears ' by giving him a
heart-warming, old fashioned
present a book? If he has
forgotten how to read, sur
prise him with a color pic
ture book.
To guide you In making the
right choice, here is our an
nual list of Christmas book
suggestions Just in Jest for
folks in and out of the pttblic
eye:
"How to Make Doll Clothes"
Marilyn Monroe.
"All Done from Memory"
Harry S. Truman.
"How to Play Your Best
Golf all the Time" President
Ike.
"A Practical Guide to Job
Hunting Sen. Joe McCarthy.
"The Boy Who Saw Tomor
row" Vice President Nixon.
'Our Animal Neighbors"
To the family next door.
'The Borrowers" To the
other family next door.
'For More than Bread" -
To your favorite employer.
the boss.
You Must Relax" Ditto.
'Brother to the Dragons"
The boss's assistant.
'Some Enchanted Evenings"
June Lockhart
I reached for a Star"
Frank Sinatra.
Notes Without Music"
Johnny Ray.
So Noble a Captain"
MaJ. Gen. Bill Dean of Korea
presented with a salute.
"The Truants" Arthur
Godfrey.
"The Caine Mutiny" Jul
ius La Rosa.
"A Pail of Oysters" Mil
ton Berle.
"Kiss Me Again, Stranger"
For Penelope, the Bronx
zoo's old maid Platypus.
"A Mingled Yarn" Que
tin Reynolds.
"What Can a Man Believe?"
Publisher Bennett Cert
The Age of Suspicion
Marlene Dietrich.
"Time and Time Again"
Ava Gardner. .
v "Ways of Mammals" Tallu
lah Bankhead.
"Until Victory" Adlai
Stevenson.
"The Future of Architec
tuse" Betty Grable.
4-Meet Me at the Morgue"
Premier Malenkov.
"Songs for My Supper" i-
Guy Lombardo.
"Pocket Guide to the Birds'
Your favorite politician.
"What Time Is It, World?"
Winston Churchill.
"Live Them Again" Ber
nard Baruch.
"The Enchanted Cup"
Your favorite bartender.
"Lord Vanity" Many wives
are buying this for their hus
band, although I don't know
why. Others prefer "The Man
Who Wouldn't Talk."
The Heart of the Family"
Your wife.
"A Law for the Lion" Dit
to.
Flying Saucers from Outer
Space" To a butter-fingered
waiter.
"By the Dawn's Ugly Light"
Fine for throwing at alarm
clocks.
Life is Worth Living" and
"The Power of Positive Think
ing" Buy 'em for yourself,
and give your own mind some
fresh air and exercise.
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Christian Attitude Makes
The Bumps Easier to Bear
By REV. GEORGE H.SWIFT
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Before another week rolls
around we shall be celebrating
the Nativity, or the birthday
of Jesus Christ. In thousands
of churches and millions of
homes, miniature stables with
mangers and shepherds in papier-mache
will attempt to re
capture the scene of that first
Chritma i-y. The simple
dramatization of this holy
event should stimulate our
minds to see again the under
lying meaning of it all, which
is of course, that Jesus Christ
is "God with us."
Besides this, one of the les
sons we might learn from the
Bethlehem visit is the evidence
of cheerfulness and gratitude
under trying conditions that
prevailed. Think of that young
couple in a strange city, with
no friends on whom to call tor
aid, with the night coming on
and no-vacancy signs in ho
tels. Then too. the added re
alization that a third member
of the family is about to have
to be provided for, makes a
difficult situation more ur
gent.
There being no room in the
inn, they did not stand in the
street and curse the keeper of
the inn, nor their hard luck.
but made the best of whatever
solution presented itself at tne
time. They sought the warmth
and shelter of the nearest
barn. They didn't say, "No,
we'll never stoop to this," but
accepted without hesitation
the beckoning comfort of
manger filled with straw, and
probably praised God for their
good fortune.
Some people in straitened
circumstances are surprisingly
letters signed by himself. This
column got hold of a letter and
sent a representative to the
meeting. Smith spent the whole
time ranting against Eisenhow
er, Jews and Negroes, and
praising Senator McCarthy.
He wants a new anti-Jewish
party, headed by McCarthy.
. . . Incidentally, McCarthy's
appeal for letters to the presi
dent flopped so badly that the
White House has lost soma of
its fear of McCarthy's politi
cal pulling power.
IC0P7TU&I 1M)
happy because of their attitude
toward conditions over which,
for the time being, they have
no control. Other families, in
like circumstances, fret and
quarrel, and curse the system
under which they live, and
would die before they would
stoop to take a family to the
shelter of a barn.
A Clu uiian aitiiude toward I
living in general can make a
lot of bumps feel easier, (even
though the bumps may still be
there).
Salem 29 Years Ago
y BEN MAXWELL
December If, 124
Temperature In Salem had
dropped to six degrees above
Governor Pierce had an.
pointed Judge William M
Ramsey, McMinnville attorney
as circuit Judge of the twelfth
Judicial district to succeed
Harry Belt of Dallas who ht4
been elected associate Justice
of the supreme court.
Impressive funeral services
had been held for Samuel Com.
pers at the Elks club in New
York City.
A portable school on Wash
ington school grounds had bcea
closed due to prevailing cold
weather.
Superintendent Hug of Sa
lem's public schools had issued
a warning against a threatened
epidemic of diphtheria.
Victor Talking Machine com
pany had expanded its plant
by addition of two new factories.
Ten gallons of beer or wine
and two gallons of other li
quors had been established as
the maximum quantity a Sas
katchewan governor liquor
store might sell to any person
at one time.
Cooley & Pearson, Salem
grocers, were selling standard
brands of coffee in cans for
57c a pound and fancy hams
for 28c a pound.
SPIKED CAKE DANGEROUS
Baton Rouge. La. U.B The
Louisiana Commission on Al
coholism warned today that a
spiked fruit cake or brandied
fruits "can be as harmful as a
drink of straight liquor" to
alcoholics.
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