Far 4 Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Ettobjishtd 1888 . BERNARD MAINWARING. Editor ond Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor Emerrtui Published every afternoon except Sunday ot 280 North Church St. Phone 22441. mi lmm4 m' knxi m u i I tnm rw a-ius eras. . fit, AIMCMU4 Prut. I, welaMrtlv ttlM4 I IM M H tuMUltM if It M 41iMltbM rdltS t N f MkrlW traSHa SB Ik. aaf 04 . SUISCRIPTION RATES: m eunm ttmua. si.as la in nm oh fwr. e ' Own: IMSIklt. Ml U UUk MM. OM rm Hit. t MM OMHtt) om MaaUUJ tJ: au Maataa. tl.Wi Oat Tmt. (MM WHY THE CONSOLIDATION? The Capital Journal in published today in unfamiliar surrounding's, in what will henceforth be known as the Statesman-Journal building at 280 Church street. Print era, reporters and advertising men are scurrying; around trying to find things not in their accustomed places now, all hoping that somehow this first issue in the new plant will come out this afternoon. We write this in the confi dent hope that it will somehow. Many must be wondering why this comes about in Sa lem.which since far back into the last century has had its newspapers published competitively in separate plants. The answer is: Rising costs. It is costing more each year to publish newspapers of equal quality. But the de mand is not for equal but for improved quality. The Salem papers, like others, try narrow steadily, yet the need techniques Just to keep up with the procession, let alone lead it. Publishers are therefore under growing pressure to eliminate all wastes possible, to make each dollar buy more newspaper. Publication in separate plants is a very large waste, every advertisement run In both papers, as most of them are, . omposed twice, two buildings and plants to maintain, etc. . To meet this situation the two papers in one plant setup has evolved. It was pioneered many years ago, proved feasible and was widely copied. So widely that Salem was prior to today the only city in the United States west of the Mississippi river of fewer than 100,000 population with competing morning and evening dailies published in eparate plants. Save only for two or three cities where new papers were started as a result of strikes. Colorado Springs and Las Vegas are Cities like Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City, Des Moines, San Diego, Long Beach, Spokane and many others have only one newspaper plant. Large cities like Omaha. Akron, Oakland, Calif, Tacoma and others as large now Jiave only one newspaper. . Two plant operation has lasted longer in Salem than in almost any comparably sized city because the publishers prized their independence and sought to retain it, as they still do. The present operation was embarked upon reluct antly, as it involved many concessions 'all around, but with confidence based upon successful experience elsewhere that it will prove good for everyone involved, the public, the employes and the publishers. .r J . -r . ' . In the meantime the indulgence of the public during a brief period of readjustment END OF "JUDGE LYNCH x "Judire Lvnch." that odious survived so long is now officially dead. There wasn't a lynching in Ur in 1952. I wo years without one, so TUsKepree Institute the famous negro college founded by Booker T. Washing ton, which has kept lynching century, will keep them no more- Instead Tuskegee will devote its attention to record keeping on other phases of race relations which are far from ideal, but which are im proving steadily. The worst phase by far is licked. Lynching was a common practice, even in the north, but particularly in the south where a negro was virtually al ways the victim. It represented mob rule and like as notj the victim was innocent If so that was too bad, but there was no way of undoing the wrong. Many years ago public spirited men and women in the south began attacking lynching. This took a lot of cour age and some of them paid dearly for their efforts in the form of. social ostracism or more violent reactions. But they kept up their efforts and eventually grand juries began to indict and trial juries to convict persons guilty of these depredations, to treat them like any other murder or murder attempt. When this happened old "Judge Lynch' was on the skids and now he is gone, though we doubt not that there may yet be a very rare instance. America is coming of age, shuking off customs that mark an immature people. Now let our foreign enemies find something else to damn us for. Not that it will take them long, even if they have to invent it. A HOPEFUL SIGN . There is a hopeful sign to those who are old fashioned enough to prefer comfort and convenience to style not only In furniture but in houses as well funished by a preview of the annual Winter Furniture Show at Chicago for 1 054 styles. Chairs have recovered backs and arms, and tables are really tables again. The less prominent Part in house ine nign anu zany gimcracks of the post-war period are . Z . in fcornmiiiff Thn ,! i 1 . . is taking a walkout on Uncle Dan. ? trend is toward modernistic furm-, when Reed was invited to the ' 5 the consumers revolt against ultra low pieces ere- three-day sessions attended only ted for modern apartments and ranch houses has had its by GOP leaders to shape the leg effect. ; islative program, he sailed off on Chairs and sofas shown at Ch ieago are still low and ' cruise to Panama. Privately, he loungy, out mere is less emphasis 011 the squatty low lung oriental type. That is because they are well suited to television viewing. So some manufacturers produced Identical designs in different sizes to accommodate three or four persons. It is hoped the new architecture h h.l it- .luv .l.n and that new dwellings will hen-coop and shed type that DuiKling projects and the i) I; in uusiness structures. tractive or beautiful alniut 1:- j 1 .l periodic decadence of the "new art" in painting, sculpture ml music as well as architecture that permeates the na- nauon, a passing I HO 11 is Human Pilots j Obsolete in Era : Of Space Travel . PHILADELPHIA oPi The era ef space travel will make human ,' pilots obsolete, says Dr. 1. M. I Levitt, director of the Franklin , Institute'! Fela Planetarium. I As he sees It man la incapable ef handling present-day speeds. "Yet the speeds which art on in noruon lonav." nr. i,tt points out, "are 1 small fraction J of those needed to leave the earth." Solution? Mechanical controls which act as the hrain for the (pace craft, Dr. Levitt says. to meet it. Profit margins is for new machinery, new two examples. ... is earnestly solicited. American character who the united (States in 1053. statistics since early in the "bucket of stilts' furnishim.- is playing get away from the flat-topped dominates so many of the new window leas barn and morgue 1 here is nothing artistic, at-; them, thev merelv reflect the . J '".- v"-l.1 to he hocd.- (i p ' . .,,. . . . "When space travel becomes a rrahty.- the seen,,,, TT then man will to ilonu tw th o n.. . j ride, since he is eanahu physically nor mentally of coping with the problems this tvp ot . ., speeo win pose MAN PAYS W T K.5&0 TARKAliONA. Spain iP Pe dro Ramim Olastrgui has a cul- 1 irc.iun 01 .amuus cigar oui.s. l( has cost him about 2 SOO lie ha 1 1 network of theatre ushers, hotel 1 bellboys and nightclub and res 1 taurant waiters working for him. The butts are enclosed in glass piim with eardt namina fh. nun. er and where the find was m de. Most expensive so far was one ex King Farouk of Tgypt smoked in Rome. II cost $12. IF YOU WASHINGTON MERRY Ike to Move to the Left In 1954, Pearson Claims By DREW Washington President Eisen hower definitely plans to move to the left in his forthcoming State of the Union message by 'proposing a ten-dollar acrnss-the- M..,i.i.. t i. r.A - . age pensions. ne move annum win Democratic support but will nring a nowi irom some oi nis own riffht-wins oartv members.' nariiroiartv rnnirntmin Carli Curtis of Nebraska and the U. MsJI";i ... l . . . Chamber ot Commerce. Details of the pension increase nave not oeen worked out, but in general way the $10 will be paid for by broadening the tax payer's salary base. At present, m per cent is deducted from eacn salary up to 53.600 annual ly. Above $3,600 there is no de duction. It's now proposed to in crease the S3,00 limit to $4,600 or $4,800. From this larger sal ary there would be payroll de- I ductions, but not beyond. Ike also proposes to drop the increased social-security deduc tion from payrolls, which went into effect automatically on Jan uary 1. Administration leaders are extremely anxious to get rid of this added payroll deduction, since among lower-bracket tax payers it would offset the auto matic 10 per cent income-tax de crease. Many Republican congressmen are muttering that a $10 increase in old-age pensions is reminiscent ; of New Deal, ham-and-egg, pie-in-the-sky days. Fact is, however, that, with increased prices, U. S. oldsters have a hsrd time making both ends meet. Grumpy Uncle Dan Relations between the White House and grumpy Congressman "Uncle Dan" Reed of Dunkirk, N. Y., chairman of the tax-writing ways and means committee, are drifting from bad to worse. First. Uncle Dan took a walk- out on the White House legisla- nve conicrcncrs just Dcinre told friends his committee had decided on what kind of tax bill to write, and he didn't need to have any White House advice. ve any White House advice. I limitations run on any federal P"? du?ng he president s re-j. "There is too much heat in; ten. half a chance of being cor Understandably, the W h H e j ,utu. . , h, ' k,,nlnt visit was Harold Lieber 1 this room," Adams said. "I want 1 rect. The estimate bv the exoen- ,u. 11.. h,k aides made up the list of both ,, D , 1.. 1 Democrats and Republicans to be' . liC? Z'g .omorr"ow (Jan 5. Reed's name was omitted Ike didn't want to be stood up twice i Th 78-year-old congressional j- t ;PT i rtoni"': ' J , i,iiirvr, m nave For. in addition to taves. Riri"a rnmmitl hnlH lha ' - - My 10 ,he new social serunt I,w ,n" ,nr reciprocal-trade pro- i.., .. " 1 i . . , nn three issues as Congress con- ' lmost impossible for,..,, stratecv nn the confirm.. iZn,' of Robert E Lee from the Fed - '"" " " and thereby avoid a nasty knock- down ficht with the Democrat. The latter are sore over Lee's ap pointment after they had shown up his strange activities (or Sen ator McCarthy in the Mrrvland election of 1950 They hv!;evt they can defeat Lee'a confirr-.a Hon in the senate. On , . l . 1 . ., , ".: . ""A"" " 1'rrsident Sherman Adams thinks Ike has to go through with the 1 .. ..Intm-nl . . it . . that the Dehocrals (inally deleat his confirmation Adams confides that a deal was I made only he calls it by the THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salea, Oregoa WANT TO GET ANYWHERE wLX .aAI-P" ''M' HLX. 1. V .TPT - GO - ROUND PEARSON more highfalutin term of "quid pro quo." Anyway, the deal, or whatveer you want to call it was with Sen. Styles Bridges of New!papeni lnd we fee) it j, worthy nimpsmre ana vonKrmn John Taber of New York, pow- erful chairmen of the senate and i h .nnmm-iaiinn. n,. wanted Lee, who was work-i jn(, wjtn Taber's committee, an- i pointed comptroller general of the United States. This is one of the most imnnr-iucn K i icinmem. im appointment IS inr - 14 . ...n. v... the President, and t s the lob of the comptroller general to scru - tinize all government expend!- tures. ne la tne watchdog of the treasury. Senators Are Sore - The post is now held by able old Lindsay Warren of North Carolina, who has saved the tax- payers minions, warren, not in good heaUh. is not averse to re-, signing, uut balked at the idea 01 acting a mccariny man, wno nao oeen nnacr lire in a senate investigation, take his place. He wanted his career assistant, able Frank Weitzel, to suceed him. So, to appease Senator Bridges and Congressman Taber. the White House appointed Robert E. Lee to the Federal Communica tions Commission. "It was a case where thought he would be less dan- gerous over there," Adams ex- Plained to a friend. However, Democratic senators don't see why Lee has to be ap pointed to any post unless qual ified. And his chief qualifications to sit on a commission which i hands out TV and radio licenses worth millions is that he has been a producer on the McCarthy-Hunt TV program, "Facta Forum." Lee also handled a check for $5,000 in the McCarthy campaign against Senator Tydings and used the money to mail 300,000 postcards to Maryland voters. He did not, however, properly record the check, which came from Con gressman Alvln Bentley of Mich igan, and a senate committee fo cused aucn severe attention on various campaign operations that pch consultants at Augusta 1 "8ive me tne hei' eradicator." economists on the course of busi a Maryland court convicted Jon wor't on tn Sla,e of the Un- It developed that Adams' 1 ness and found them to be only Jonkel, campaign manager fori' message. He erformcd a ! room was too hot and he wanted ! 33 per cent correct. This sug- GOP Senator Butler. Attorney General Brownell. on th. nik.. k,-.! i., ik. violated, instead, Lee was pro- . ,k. i.-.i.i - ; moled to tne rederal (ommuni- - ,--,.:; cations 1 nmmissinn Democratic sena.or, believe j Ihis is an excellent chance to test 1 ,nrlr ""-ngin on an issue wnere the facts are clear-cut. and where ntih or nnninn will hi- tlrnnc-lv in : ' . - ,nr,r Ia4"r- i .... 1 nnri inr iromB , c.,. rv -,. -m tion fight against FCC Commis sioner Robert E. Lee; alleged II- '' "ring of postmaster, with ; crN Yum'ber of Demoi crats on senate committees, now that the Drms have a majority in the senate. . . . Potent Sen. Dick Russell of Georgia can get his view of U. S. military strategy if he wants it. Senator Saltonstall of Massachusetts. GOP chairman of the Armed Services committee, has been blocking the review, but U ...... 1 1 1.-. ,k. ...... . ( I .m."?vii 1 imp inr i'it-a 11 wuu i l push his probe. r.nnn cinv m - ' ' Memphis, Tenn. wV-Classilicd ad in a Memphis newspaper "rate for sale . . . Owner has ulcerated stomach." What's Ahead Bend Bulletin In today's Bulletin you will find the opinions of a number of Central Oregon business and civic leaders 'on the outlook for the coming year. This, we believe, is an unusual practice in small daily news- ..--. ,,., For almost as long as we can iremember, it has been the prac- ' "ie newspaper editors ,0 preview the coming year in "" ,MUC ""-" The Bulletin, however, feels statements might better . ..." Z irrZ ----; ." " . ' much of the news of interest to " """- in ,he last year- In today'a paper, therefore. you will find opinions of such persons as the general manager of the region's largest aingle em ployer and officials of various civic and other groups, as well as a comprehensive report of 195S in the area and state. We heliev th.ir nnininn the whole showing optimism for the coming year, are well worth reading. Backstairs at ByMERRIMAN SMITH Washington tu n Backstairs , at the White House: President Eisenhower probab ly will do no more extensive travel until spring. And nothing could be more welcome news to the staff. His Augusta, Ga , holiday which ended yesterday just about had the staff on the ropes because ot the early working hours. Mr. Eisenhower tried to get some of his work done during the early morning hours to leave his afternoons free for crnlf fnn. scquently, some members of his entourage had to he at work be- fore 7 o'clock in the morning on papers for his inspection j new! te Lieberman. , erraneous. Even in economics, starting about 8 a.m. The day showed signs of the most highly developed of the Most Harried Man j brightening until Sherman Ad- social studies, there has been John Jessup, chief editorial I an, tne assistant to the presi-' plenty of error. A very distin writcr for Time magazine, j 0fnl- Picked up his telephone guished economist made a check joined the stable of Eisenhower and barked at the operator, of the various nreHietinm nf similar chore last year. ' . v j , . ! The most named man in Au man, manager of the Bon Air notei wnere tne president s statf 1,1 , tormujm interest on savings in Save in a 2 fa m tie om . I O I c. Senatorial Diet Beae Balktla Oh correspondent recently suggested The Bulletin was fit material for a congressional in- vestleation because we are against the tactics followed by Senator McCarthy. The same person gave ua hell because we occasionally question tome of the statements of Sena tor Morse. We didnt know it was possi ble to be for both of the good senators at the same time. But on looking over our edi torials for the past few months we realize we've been getting sort of weighty on the subject of senators. So we're going on a senatorial diet, and aren't aoing to mention either of the gntlemen oftener than once a week in the future. Salem 14 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL i January 4, 1M President Roosevelt had asked Congress to slash farm relief and public works spending in a budg et message requesting wu.wu, 000 in special defense Uses. WPA employment by terms of - Dissident's budget would be oi th presidents budget would be reduced from 1.850.000 this year. to an average of 1.350,uuu next vear. Beginning July 1, 1 had been proposed to spend 300,000 for relief. German and English seamen, .n .... """" ""'.ended ' engaged in naval combat off Men-; when prediction, an busting out He kicked tevideo last December 13, 1939 aj over, I shall make my mod-. rubber-toed shoes designed to were now drinking toasts to one erf cor,tribution and then, in line cause s minimum of pain and an another in the bars and clubs of , with , wellsUblished praCtice, ger. In calling no names, he Buenos Aires (A British k ' lbnAy ., ... d.nIer,W out insurance deliberately force had destroyed the German warn everybody oi me dangers .e,int keine ..ii-j ., ' pocket battleship Admiral Graf and fallacies In making any pre- "Crn Anri he st"l wore SP'- 1 dictions at all. 1 armor of his immense oonularitv. Professor W 1 St'lev had died 1 My predictions are: He had aome practical reunns and hundreds of his former pu- 1. There will be lots of bust- for aticking to his policy of pa pils who had attended his Cap-'nesa in 1934. - tience, restraint, and mildnrss: ital Business college during the' 2. The rate of baby produc- with congress so evenly divided past 50 years were present at his 1 tion will be normal whatever between both parties he'd need funeral services. Engineers at Willamette Falls locks at Oregon City had report ed the greatest volume of busi ness since the locks were built 70 years ago. A total of 142.1ZU.00U board feet of logs, the equivalent of 17.750 carloads, had passed through the locks in 1938. Salem centenial conmmittee had met to consider a pageant appropriate for Salem's 100th anniversary in 1940. Fred Zimmerman, Capital Jour- n,i jhuiu niiuii, imu m i ,i ii.i noisiing tnose luu toot ur poiesi at George E.' Waters baseball park 1 : 1 ai- : -t j 1 "'r l".e..!y , ". " L...Z duty truck. W. R. McKay, born at St. Paul, Oregon. December 30. 1849. had I celebrated his OOth birthday. A WEIGHTY PROBLEM Bend Bulletin Having started on our annual weight-losing diet this morning, we were wondering on the way to work why the holiday seasnin almost always means an extra five pounds around the Waist- line. It;s too baw we can't take,ences at all is contained in a re - the weight off as easily as we put it on. White House lived, along with the reporters and photographers assigned to the White House. Lieberman's b'ackest day was New Year's Day. One guest, a man of quite some national dis tinction, reported indignantly that his toilet was supplied boun tifully with hot water, but he could get nothing but icy water in his wash basin. Day Gets Duller Then a child darted into one of the rooms, scooped up an crmtul ot valuable news cam- ! eras n(' ma'e f with them. The boy became contrite a few, hours later and turned over his j loot t0 Io"' clergyman who 1 luickly telephoned the good ' something done about the ' ',or, Tne "P"10' connected him with the hotel engineer. ; you to come here and remove ! it.' . J lillameue f Walley Dank BOMS SAVINGS ACCOUNT interest is paid on Vallcv Bank Bonus Savin o Arm,,nr, To qualify for this greater interest earning, simply add $5 Of more each month to your account. Stirt tkt Niw Vter kf saving systematically .t Salem's km-wnee bank. Deposits en or before Jos). 10 earn interest from Jan. I. Ike Must Decide Whether To Be Liked or Esteemed By JAMES Washington OPhr-In his talk to the nation tonight President Eis enhower steps across the line dl Tiding his first and second years In office and two periods in his life. By the calendar his first year doesnt end until Jan. 20. But his second year actually begins to night with his broadcast report which is preliminary to the re turn of congress Wednesday. For Eisenhower 1033 was a neriod of Dreparation. The pub- lie, regarding him with high es teem and patient expectation, waited while he postponed action nn anme maior issues and got ready the program he would hand congress in 164. Now the period of performance begins. Because of the wide differences in congress on almost any ma jor issue, Eisenhower will have to fight for his program. Allan Nevins, a historian, in a nf the adminis - itration in Nation's Business, a a- Vnmo rallOCieS rear - SjOf Forecasting Br RAYMOND MOLEY .l.. .u- j. k.u normal may be. 3. The professors will contin- ue to denounce McCarthy. 4. The campaign for the con - trol of Congress will be hotly contested. 5. The Boston Red Sox will not win the pennant This is based upon the fact that for a long time the BRS were regu larly picked ond did not win. Now lor an explanation oi my i technique. As you will see, I am safe on four of these, so 1 snail. in any event, be able to claim a rate of -accuracy of 80 per cen'- As to the Red Sox. I really stick o,.t ,t... u.n Biiha, !" '. pennant or they will not .v ' "u " "' .L... . :ii w fi 1 rip npnnani. 11 inev ao noi. i ' shall be the oeerles, nredictor. If they do, I shall have that nice soft 80 per cent to fall back upon. in case anyone wno wants to adoDt - mv svitem of neerless prognostication has a tender men-1 "on. oui me oivorce raw went tality and wants a softer 90 per UP instead of dowa It has been cent accuracy to fall back upon, repeatedly predicted that im simply increase the number of I provement in the standard of predictions i.e., add five sure living would reduce the divorce things to my list , rate. The standard went up, but A devastating attack not only so did the divorce rate ... It on the pretensions of most pre-'has hen predicted that education dictions in th an-alln in-i.l anH imnrnvcri standards nf liv. ! ences but on the basic assump- tion that such iWinlin. .... cently published book which on : livinc than ever before and my calendar is the book of the j more delinquency than ever be month, possibly of the year. It is I fore." "Social Problems and Scientism," I I cannot do better than to by Professor A. H. Hobbs, of the i end this New Year's message University of Pennsylvania. Among me many nooks on the social studies that I have read over the years, this ranks near ! the top. As in the caae of many nooks that represent conserva-l tive thinking these days, it found ; FRENCHMAN FREED hard going before a publisher p"s Javques Benoist- Me was willing to bring it out. And ' cnin- secretary of state in Pierre as is true of many of the current ! Lava' s Vichy government, has sound bonks, it ultimately was!0011 Parolled after serving nine accepted by a small publisher, ! 'ears of 20-year treason sen the Stackpole Company, of Har-!t'nce- risDurg, Fa. Professor Hobbs makes the most important point that most of the justifications for radical revisions of the social order, in cluding socialistic planning are on th hai nt hir.hu. ... dictions. But when checked later, most such predictions are found' to ho 1 radi-lgesls that the simple method of guessing on the turn of a coin : mieht he heller m- that nf. sive Bureau of Labor Statistics of 7,000.000 unemployed in 1949 Monday, January 4, 1954 MA RIO W magazine published by the United States ChamDer oi commerce, nude this remark: . "Every true national leader has to take for his motto: 'I do not wanted to be liked; I want to be esteemed' Our best administra tions have been desperately un popular in wide circles." He used the administration's of Lincoln. Cleveland, Wilson and the two Roosevelt as examples, and added' "If President Eisenhower thus tar has shown a salient weakness, it is that he wishes too much to be' liked. In the long run, the mass of the people admire. a pres ident most for the enemies he has made.' I This observation may within bounds, be sc but a ' curate course of action by which a pres ident makes enemies of the mass of the people is guaranteed to make dead ducks of him and his administration. The aame state ot political ex- 1 Unction could be arrived at by a pics.uciu imuugii CAacuy oppos ite means: by being so anxious to please everyone that be made compromises that pleased no one. So far Eisenhower seem to have made few, if any, enemies. But the truth of Nevins' opinion that Eisenhower wants too much to be liked will get more of a : iMt fn ins than in thm vat 4i.f help from men on both sides to put his program across. Moreover, nothing could have ! tarnished his luster so quickly as 'a few cat and dog fights with a politician. It'i possible he can pursue that policy through the four years of his administration, get his pro gram through as he wants it, make no enemies, and have to endure no personal attacks. But j it isn't likelv. ' is well remembered. I In the more immature social studies, such as sociology, "the rccorn is isnustic. rroiessor Hohhs points out several ex rmples. of which the following are typical "Social scientirts have pre dicted that increased education would reduce the divorce rate. We have the increased edura ina would reduce delinquencv. h.n- more education than i ever before, higher standards of with the suggestion that the Hobbs' book is an excellent way to gain measurable immunity acainst the claims of fraudulent I prophets. PRINTING . . . for Quality Work and SpeedT Service DIAL 3 8853 W ALLY'S PRINT SHOP Masonic Bldg. State & High 1954. . . 990 Pif9f4i lootf WHAT IS iMfiiAixrr GOING TO DO? itAMCHt 1JI0 Stot