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Friday, January 1. 1954
TIME'S 'MAN OF THE YEAR'
Time MaKazine has built its selection of the "man of
the year" into a major event which millions of persons
In foreign countries as well as our own eagerly anticipate.
Some years Time has flubbed its responsibility, but
usually it picks shrewdly and well, a foreigner quite as
often as an American. For Time is here choosing that
man who of all the men in the world has exercised the
most infuence upon the course of events for good or
Past winners are a galaxy of the world's top men, good
and bad. Thev include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston
Churchill, George Marshall, Stalin, Hitler and Eisenhow
er. "Ike" was the winner last time and we believe in
1944, the year he successfully invaded the European con
tinent. .
Time has just announced its 1953 winner and he is the
man this newspaper hoped would be named. Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer of the West Germai. republic, who was
chiefly responsible for that key nation lining up with
the west in the struggle with the east for mastery in
Western Europe and the whole world.
West Germany swung in the balance. The battle for
Europe would probably go the way West Germany went.
Had it not been for Adenauer and the kind of leadership
he provided West Germany might have swung to Russia.
But under Adenauer the country recovered faster than
any other on the continent and the 1953 German elec
tions gave the rugged 78-year-old chancellor a landslide
majority that assures him a free hand to continue his pro
western policies.
You could say with much truth that if Churchill, Eisen
hower or most other leaders in the free world dropped
out a man of somewhat similar views would take his
place, but Adenauer personally made the difference.
Hence his contribution, it seemed to us. and Time con
firms It, was the greater in this past tremendously im
portant year.
Time remarks in commenting on its choice that had
Adenauer died at 70, after a long, useful life that in
cluded the mayoralty of the great city of Cologne, no
American newspaper would have printed more than a
paragraph about him. His impact on world affairs could
not have been foreseen by anyone a scant eight years ago.
The free world should hail its doughty Teutonic ally
and hope for him several more years of effective
strength. Scarcely any man anywhere is so desperately
needed.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Pearson Sees No War, Drop
In Business for Next Year
Salem 38 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
January 1, 1915
British battleship
Formid
able had been sunk in the Eng
lish channel. There were 71
survivors out of 780 officers
and men.
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Here are my I for example, will save half a
predictions for the vear 1954: billion in excess profits taxerj
World Peace The Russians alone. I Clocks In downtown Phoenix,
can't afford an attack on the: Therefore I predict that the Arizona, nad Been set back six
western world for some time, I White House will demand that hours on the evening of De-
duc to unrest in the satellite i Congress postpone the Social cember 31, 1914, to enable ho-
Security tax increase until af- tels, cafes and saloons to serve
ter election, but that Congress- tardy tipplers on the eve of
man Dan Reed of the ways and 'state-wide prohibition.
'HAPPY NEW YEAR'
Today we look back upon 1953 as another year that is
gone. Whether it brought joy or sorrow and to most
of us ft brought both, it is now a closed book, an experi
ence to be remembered. Eventually it will take its place
in the American saga as "the good old days," whether or
not anybody noted this at the time.
But now our look is forward. We turn a new leaf. The : man
mistakes of the past are gone. We need not make them
again. Or we so hope on this day of optimism. A new
year begins. A new page is as yet unsullied with our
scribbling.
The new year is symbolized by cartoonists at this sea
son as a sturdy young infant with a cheerful look of
anticipation on his face, often glancing with pity at the
doddering old man who portrays the outgoing year. The
hopeful infant of only 12 months before.
This is only a cheerful custom, but it symbolizes the
American attitude of looking forward each year to better
things. These are never all realized but some of them
always are. and through the years manv of thpm .
In our opinion the optimism of the season is fully jus
tified if tempered with realism, as it is with most of us.
means committee will stand in
the way. Finally, I predict.
Congress will give way to po-
Celebrants had loaded and
primed the old brass cannon at
Salem armory and when the
nations and a severe crop set
back this year inside Russia.
Therefore peace, though pre
carious, will continue. There
will, however, be sporadic
trouble in the Near East, the
Far East and North Africa. i litical pressure, repeal the Soc-1 gun wadded with naper dis-
Korea Trucc-peacc talks ia Security tax increase, and charged at midnight Capital
will drag on interminably the Treasury Department will 1 journals were distributed all
throughout the entire year of ; make refunds to lower-bracket i the way to Willamette univer
1954. They will give no satis-1 taxpayers just before Novem-Uity. Even the gun itself took
faction to anyone. The Chin-lber elections. off and when it descended the
ese Reds will duck out of ev-l Wire-Tapping For years 'tailpiece was broken off.
ery basic issue and Dr. Syng-the public has considered wire- ...
Rhee will constantly! tapping a low form of eaves- tu ,..Qra iv ,,:., ;
thrnaloi. n 1,11 !., i
" V ,. Marion county during 1914.
However, the chances are he police states. Despite this, ; During this mtervaI the coun.
wont carry out his threat. imany government agencies tv ais0 spent $179,35819 im-
Business Industrial pro-1 have been tapping phones and : proving roads
duction will be down about 10; there is probably more wire- ' . .
per cent with retail prices also tapping in Washington today Durin 1914 automobile, lie-
l.rT LTh rTrf r , 'ial 'han V bef"e- ""-"'ensed in Oregon totaled 16.347.
much for the first definite dc-i General Brownell now pro- .T, n... i u oo in
cline since the end of World poses to legalize wire-tapping I "
war II. Unemployment will under certain conditions, but 1 ...
be about 3.000.000 by the end predict his request will fail. Caij ... T . .
of the year. As a result of un- Senator McCarthy and the'Hn?'?. 'TSL ,J"T 'f
emDlovment insurance. nlH.ace Demorrati After the Iltmn. . , al e.'u" 15
' ;., i"; ...,n,.j ...... n..-.v... I lne natural time for a new
year, aw ening of the earth
pensions, federal deposits, in- crats walked out on McCarthy
...J .K. 1. 1 .1
there should be no depression, a one-man investigation Dingel,.mt iL hwliL .Pj
thrill of a new life then begins,
not only in the fields and
l Senator Taft's Successor embarrassing the Eisenhower
l he most missed man in wash- administration just about as
ington will be the late Senator murh as the Democrats. In
Taft who was able In ride herd 19S4 I predict the Democrats
on rebellious Republicans. To-'will propose coming back to
day, with the Republicans fac- his committee, provided and'J
woods but In man himself."
Panama - Pacific exposition,
years under construction
ny-:gation is supposed to be con-ifnrl'f (Its U Alnrta
his ducted by all the committee. rU" 1 V3 " M,One
lir- j. I j xi . . .
mi nave goon mings to iook lorward to. a progressing
country, adding public and private improvements stead
ily, and a free country ruled by its people when most of
the world is ruled by tyrants.
So we join the popular chorus of the dav.
New Year." We hope yon will have one. and manv more
to follow. And we fully believe you will in this favored
wuiamciie valley.
ON E'HERO' AMONG THE TWENTY-TWO
There has been more silly emotional fuss over the 22
American pro-Red prisoners of war who refused to return
home and sneered and derided the L'.N. officers beseech
ing them, snake-danced to communist hymns and spat on
Old Glory and cursed the land of their native birth than
there were for thousands of GI patriots who immediately
accepted the chance to come hack to the I'nited States
Now that one of the 22 has recanted, a voting Texan
Cpl. Charles J. Kachelcr changed his mind and graciouslv
consented to be shipped back home, he can expect to be
and doubtless will be heroized throughout the country'
And this, despite that his conversion was probablv due
to the entreaties of his Japanese wife in Tokyo, not to
love of hi., native land and Parents at h.mn w .
fleaf to their Mlmlini ' son ' P'-1" "'r flexible supperl no itical moncv tn snend lhan
Such laudation is nerhans the frn i t,. ;.. , P"ces will he vci..,d bv Con- any other member of Congress.' snoum "avc taught us that
- ----- - 1 "pi"'"' "mi mi- pin- win parrn oui mis moncv tOiv" I,M H"uiy win even-
with Ike needing every vote he his dictatorial control over!.?- naa .openea Wl,n
can get. the man who takes committee investigators. Thev e,aDorale ceremonies.
Tafts plate is all-important will point out that an investi-
ana tne big question is is an
one tug enough lo fill his ducted by all the committee.
shoes'.' Knowhmd of C'alifor- not bv one man. If McCarthy Bend Bulletin
nia inherited Tail's title and refuses. I predict the Demo-I A number of members of the
has increase,! m stature, but crats will move to cut off Mc-: Senate and House of Repre-
la-.-ks his power. Bridges of Carthy's operating funds Iscntatives some of them from
New Hampshire. Ferguson nl which they can do with the our wn state are showing
Michigan arc possibilities to help of independent Sen. Wayne t s'8ns of having recently been
fill his shoes. Uul I predict Morse of Oregon. , afflicted with recurring nat-
that the Senaie will be run ;il McCarthys Future McCar- ionalitis of the "we can do it
first by a coalition ot Repul,- tin's greatest asset tcrtav is the alone without help from any-
licans, with brainy. wiu Ku- c.i-h that pours in from H. R onc" school,
gene Millikm i f Colorado Hunt and Texas millionaires. Th'' rather disturbs us. It
emerging as the real leader of from certain oil companies in is- we ee'. a dangerous atti-
Senate Republican California, such as Bill Keck ll,Ae t0 develop in view of the
Farm Future -F..rm pr ,v ot Superior Oil, from Robert f:ct ,hat ,he biggest present
will continue pretty mucii on Woods of Sears. Roebuck and ,nIvat to our national securiy
their present level though with others of the old America First. is Communism, a true world
some declines Secretary Hen- crowd. As a result he has more conspiracy,
son's plan for flexible support political moncv to spend than And the last two world wars
Hidden Third Party
By RAYMOND MOLEY
Once more, in the Congres
sional session that lies ahead,
we shall witness t h e sharp
Ideological divergence that
lies between the President
and Congress. The President
will propose; Congress will
dispose. And all the confer
ences at the While House by
Republican and Democratic
Congressional leaders will not
alter that condition. With the
exception of a few short
periods, such as the honey
moon days of Wilson and
F.D.R., that condition has pre
vailed for at least half a cen
tury. Why, one might ask. should
there be this difference? The
same peonle elect the Presi-1
dent and Congress. The same
Party labels are attached to
both. i
One explanation is the great ;
difference in the mode of
nomination and election, j
Members of the House arei
elected in 435 Congressional
districts. Senators arc elect
ed on a statewide level, but
they are not in more than half
of the cases elected at the
same time at which Presiden
tial electors are chosen. And
their campaigns must of ne
cessity be directed at the is
sues and preferences of their
own particular states. Presi
dents are elected by electors
chosen at the state level. And
the candidate whose electors
get the most votes gets all the
electors of the state. It Is true
that to a degree the people
who nominate a Presidential
candidate are selected at the
level of the Congressional dis
tricts. But Presidential pri
maries have profoundly af
fected the plan of district rep
resentation, and the unit rule,
so far as it prevails, negates
the plan of district represen
tation. To a greater extent than
any other President. Franklin
D. Roosevelt grasped that dif
ference. Beginning after the
election of 1934 he played for
statewide majorities by an ap
peal to the blocs and minori
ties resident in the big urban
centers. Progressively after
1936 he carried fewer and
fewer counties in the big in
dustrial states and still piled
up a majority from the cities.
The trend in the elections
of Presidents is toward more
democracy and away from
Republicanism. The House
has always been built in the
image of a republic. That is
as the makers of the Consti
tution decreed. Congress re
mained in the Republican pat
tern. The Presidency broke
away. In fact, there are some
deluded people who would
elect the President by a
straight popular vole over the
nation. That would be "de
mocracy" with s vengeance.
It would also destroy the two
Party system and put us at
the mercy of minorities.
Congressman Frederic R.
Coudert, Jr., calls the present
method of nominating and
electing a President the con
trol of "a hidden third Party"
in the "narrow constituency
of the Presidency, composed
of pressure groups and splin
ter political parties." In New
York state, where there are
two splinter parties and a
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
'Happy Mew Year' Has a
Different Meaning to Each
By HAL
New York iA1 "A happy
new year!'1
This fine old greeting will be
said billions of times today.
Some will bellow it merrily;
some will whisper it through
the filter of the dark brown
taste of the morning after the
night before; some will mumble
it with the piofessional solem
nity of a hired pallbearer at a
cut-rate funeral.
"A happy new year!"
The words have a leaping
sound to some, a doleful sig
nificance to others. For many
a man now is caught in a val
ley of despondance the peak
of Christmas joy is behind him,
and before him he sees a new
year mountain of bills and du
ties and doubts.
"How will I ever make it
through this onc," he groans,
thinkini! of his past mistakes.
And whenever a friend says;
"HaDDV new year! he feels
more like breaking out in tears
than cheers.
How can such a weight be
comlorted in his woe? Well?
How better than by reading
what some wise men of the past
have said on the subject of time
and the problems it brings?
So, if the new year threatens
to get you down, here are a
few famous sayings to paste in
your heart and head and help
you weather this difficult
time:
"I will not let the years run
over me like a juggernaut car."
Thoreau.
"Years have hardier tasks
than listening to a whisper or
a sigh." Stephen Vincent
Benet.
"From each of us each pass
ing year takes something."
Horace.
"All sorts of things and
weather must be taken in to
gether, to make up a year."
Emerson.
"We spend our years as a
tale that is told." Old Testa
ment. "A thousand years in Thy
sight are but as yesterday when
number of self-conscious mi
nority groups. Presidential
candidates of both parties
mus play mostly to these mi
norities for they constitute
the balance of power. The 10
to 20 per cent take precedence
in the solicitation over the 80
to 90 per cent. Other states,
where labor groups are
strong, face the same peril of
minority rule.
Coudert's remedy is a pro
posed Constitutional amend
ment which bears his name.
It would provide for the elec
tion of the President by 435
electors chosen at the district
level and two electors In each
state chosen at the statewide
level. That would make the
constituency electing the
President identical with that
which chooses Congress.
This would bring the Presi
dency back into the pattern
of a republic. For to seek de
mocracy directly is to lose the
very essence of democracy to
strategic minorities.
BOYLE
it is past, and as a watch hi
nigni. uia lesiamem
"In masks outrageous and
austere
The years go by in smjli
nic;
"But none has mentiu m,
tear,
"And none has quite esi.iped
my smile. tiinor Wy.
lie.
"The good old year is with
the past, O be the new as k.nd:''
Bryant.
"New year comes but bucv (
twelvemonth." W. E. Heuley.
"Yesterday's errors let yes.
terday cover." Sarah C. V ool
sey. "Bine out the old, rii - jn
the new." Tennyson.
"A man should never be
ashamed to own he has been in
the wrong, which is but saving
in other words, that he is wiser
today than he was yesteroay."
Swift. '
"Never tell your resolution
beforehand." John Seldcn.
"Be as a tower, that, firmly
set, shakes not its top for any
blast that blows." Dante.
'Resolve, and thou are free."
Longfellow.
"There is no such thing in
man's nature as a settled and
full resolve either for good or
evil, except at the very moment
of execution." Hawthorne.
"Hast thou attempted great
ness? Then go on; back-turning
slackens resolution." Rob
ert Herrick.
"The road to resolution lies
by doubt." Francis Quarles.
"Childhood may do without
a grand purpose, but manhood
can't." J. G. Holland.
"When a man does not know
what harbor he is making for,
no wind is the right wind."
Seneca.
"AH things are what you
make them." Plautus.
Hawaiian Statehood
Bend Bulletin
Apparently, political pres
sure is going to do something
in the next few months that
logic has been unable to do for
a number of years.
We are talking about the ad
mission of Hawaii to the Uni
ted States, making it necessary
to add a star to the existing
48 in every American flag.
Here's the reason Hawaiian
statehood probably will go
through early in the next ses
sion of the Congress:
The Senate, where statehood
for Hawaii has been bottled
up several times, now is com
posed, for organizational pur
poses, of 49 Rcriiblicans and
47 DcmocratsaA.o Republi
cans stand an vSjUllent chanc
of losing at leaV,ne and may
be more of their 49 places in
the elections next November
If, however, they admit
Hawaii as a state, the ratio
probably will become 51 Re
publicans to 47 Democrats.
Then the loss of one, or even
two, seats in the next election
won't be the catastrophe it
would be under the present
ratio.
aanVt!... . .i . ' 4 "1F" ' ' Ur- F in- oupi'wi i HUH lilt'
ft Mvin P shepherd, quotes Jesus "nment already inwstins fur various less fortunate Republi-! tually involve the United
1 "y unto joii. that likcwi tov .hall h n.,. Program 1 predict that, withm vided they follow the McCar
mn ... ' " wirr iiiiir
one tinner that repenteth. more
i"n. wnicn need no repentrncr
lhan over nmctv and n ne , .".k . " . y "nc onV mrv " BLIND DRIVER FINED
As a result I predict McCarthy
Come
exa!
fill In.i4. t:-u ...m
So those of the 2' TOW black sheen , . , j Tb law-i,n.d, "'a' ?mr- will build up a national po- Harlow Ebenstcin, 23. was fin
me home tn TL P ,hl,t repent nd.will increase the Commodity litical machine that will boom ed S10 vesterdav for drivin,
iu mamma can m'rhaps expect to he nnnularlv I Credit Corporal Hill's eroll.hiix . him fnr cipa niailAn in IntG - ....'.i . ..
a Pwhapa awarded IMstillfruished Service Powers to right billions or and president in ' 1-160 "
B.llltlltl I'lMIIIU
u""" ana adeuuate neini.m Tint ih.. i,.i i i more
n eye on the eom.l.i....rm. ... iL.. ......... ...i:,.T. r"' Ratf-
durance vile G. P. - .'.', nn in v
-Connie.-.:
The Old
Southern-Re nuhll-
..in tan .ii.iii un rnr Hnnm p D 11 ..
eto the proposed inere.ise ot vers Consrrss has been d.,,. soulnrn democrats will veto;
the most conservative
first class mail to four cents, mated hrl..i h . ..i.L" Republican coalition this'
ll . l i but will increase sreend class of southern Democrat mil R Cit' -
Wet Year 'n"R!S W INSECTS 'm.l tnewspaper, and maga- publican, Z Ren can tJ"! ?. PW -
SU,to. M.H I fka Kan .u Horses ime tlurtv per cent, and SireeinK lo bark the 'outhern V handwritine on the Krem-.
Addmg up rami." f0, n0 voni" Mdered in- third class mail fifty per cent ers regarding clot,u-e "and Zi m" f ' ""' Fign
.lnd.r yetu we find th Th l toitay Ta-As of today ineome rcgation. the southerners m m"'" Mlo,OV on '"e
was 7.79 wet Inrhei x0 d..?' Ju'J , ! ' ,'uU,ur fi" e automatically reduced turn backing the Republican" "ma,nJ"1 'd Bolsheviks
Sureljr much above Vr.. -i 1 .11 -f.m. '"" rquir-' 1 0 per cent while the excess- in opposing public cower and , .flprt Plot
the Russian
tlmu.h i..... ' ,1in stallions be registered ' profits tax expires altocih.-r v,t. vw n-.i 1 revolution, is now on th .kirl.
rH for the past ear tor r'iu. ..S!!rd 0 AW . Simultaneous), . Social Secnr- day, however, the south i, boit " ,ppfar8 ,0 hve been de
rarimn r -
ItV tflXCl Art' aiil.tmntic alU ....
crrasrn. um.-n
Sain si the
big over three issues-
Hcpu;lj!Ls'- -en,
;th; viiTutt .,.. i "in oig ever inree issues- Segregation L "u-ura as ne
W'U) NAI GHTT SAILORS 'saving for upper bracket !. r.rvo t u... . "J , " : ."' has appeared to be at
pan ion
Southern California
why inur inrhn rn it,. i
dr year could well hop. lor ..1 . - . ,ld'rIsr P"' but li,,le Mvln the on Protestantthe latter re- 'l conference,, Mol-
some of our exec mouTure I mounH JSlMd 'v ' 'Wrr b"Ckc" F"m,1,r' i,h 'arflM, V manv southerne" ?0V "'"""les, came from
The record .1 Lo, An.efV v" .n '"e of $3000. for ,n- as deliberate campai in to -Te , fhool that believed
ine lowest of anv sine ih. ...i , , '. ' """ " "n" " c
we,ther bureau hr.n ,,. " ,o, ine miiom are cent reduction e
tlonlnf f rev. ul 1 gj.trange ,rl, and k,
10 per embarrass Protestant rhr,.h. "u!s,i col'a along with the
.ounterbal.ineed and mil lh r.ik-li. u ,' west Without War. I nraili.l
,by the increased Soc.al Srcur- ixiwcr. Therefore its an .T ,h,l! bWor' tn nd M he
lty payment. General Motors,. most certain prediction thatl"1 purged i
Funtral Servict Sine 1878
M; Chrh it Hny
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