Pac 4 Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper-Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 22441. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon Wednesday, January 6, 1954 BACK TO THE JOB aw tm.ri.U4 Praia mm) Twa tomtit mgrnm. Tha Aaaoclalaw Pfttta U aleJaalralF aamiaa It UM M ! UBUaUwa l all am. OUpaUQc tnam It U at 1WIW VOdlUa la Ihla NM aM 41M mmwrn Bliajabaw UMIB. SUISCRIPTION RATES: Bi cumi Uoutt. susi su mult lis om tut. turn aua m Orwosi atoovUs. mi UM UeaUa, U Mi Oaa Tor. DN.ll tun Owld Oram: MMiur. 1JI; An Hutu Si-Mi Oh ru. lia FOREIGN OR U.S. GENERATORS General Electric has written the Army Engineers at Walla Walla protesting the award of a contract lor the largmt rotating electrical generators ever to be built, to ' an bnglish company on a lower bid than was made by G. E. They will be used in the power plant of the new jHcMary dam on the Columbia. Protests against contract awards to foreign companies are not new, but General Electric s protest is based on an especially interesting angle. It is that although the English bid was considerably lower the taxes government agencies in the United States would receive if G. E. built the generators would more than offset the immediate saving. U...s bid was 4,29Z,701. The English bid was $3,651,476. In addition the English company will pay the government an import duty of $422,000, bringing the im mediate saving on this bid to $1,062,225, which was the reason the Army Engineers gave the English company the job. iienerai Electric argues that if the generators were made in the U. S. taxes amounting to approximately $1,159,000 would be paid to federal, state and local govern mental units, leaving a substantial net saving. Probably G.E.'s letter will have no effect on the genera tor contract, already awarded, t or we doubt that our laws authorize an agency buying materials to consider taxes in bids. Congress might well consider making such consid eration mandatory on future jobs, for it is a cost factor. But we are chiefly interested in the claim. Drobablv only too well based, that taxes amount to about a fourth of what General Electric, or presumably any other manu facturer charges for its products. Here is a major factor in living costs wnicn the average citizen is prone to forget, tnougn wen aware oi wnat tie pays to the government directly. . And we also wonder: If an English company can pay our janii ana sun unaerDia an American company by 15 percent on equipment in which the U. S. is supposed to lead the world, what chance have we for export business in tne luturej particularly lr our companies keep on 1 increasing wages to workers and do not get at least an offsetting cut in taxes. Exports are only a small percent of American industrial ' output, but they have been slipping steadily in the past year or two. This is one of the principal reasons for factory layoffs. We have enough foreign business that its loss could push us into a sharp recession. And production costs that do not permit us to meet foreign competition clearly mean the loss of this business, to say nothing of such losses as the McNary generator job right here at home. rjf office L tggg nvKS,wiTIN(j FOR. HIM.' POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Card System in Offices Held as Means of Cutting Down Gossip By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK The avenge wife complains her huiband doesn't talk enough at home. The average employer complains that lame husband spends too murn time exercising his vocal cords at the office. Both the wife' and the boss are absolutely right Naturally. But what can be done about it? How can the boss get this husband to gab less while he's on the job, and the wife make him give with a littlo more conversation after he remes Home and takes off his shoes? The nroblem as I see it is quite simple. ' j'he hired hands come to work full of overnight woes they are eager to pour into any ear. Ail day long iney lope from desk to desk telling their troubles. But when they return at even tide to their little castles and the good wife begs, 'Tell me what s new at the office?" Well, what 'ROrAANMIN&L WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Liberal Advisers Now Have The Ear of Pres. Eisenhower as much power as before. Instead, here are the men who are chiefly charting the Eisenhower program through Congress in this most crucial year of his administration: THE PALACE GUARD Kevin MeCann, president of When Nebraska's Curtis was made chairman of the subcom mittee to study Social Security. Defiance college, Ohio, a lib-1 he carefully avoided nuttine oral on domestic issues, one of j Bob Kean of New Jersey, a Re- me s cniei speech writers and ' publican who is an expert on advisers. the subject, on his committee. Washington If you Jalk to Kf-ll . - . nmi oireec or to certain con servative GOP leaders today you would almost think that Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House. This results from the liberal advisers now Influencing Ike and is the big gest change to come over the administration as it prepares to do battle with Congress. One year ago the President leaned almost exclusively on millionaire businessmen for ad vice. Gen. Lucius Clay of Con tinental Can, Sidney Weinberg of the Goldman-Sachs invest ment firm, Alton Jones of Cities Service, were not only goinng partners but business advisers. Today he still sees big-businesa advisers, but relies more on his White House staff. STRAW VOTE ON THE GRID We note that our journalistic comrade, the Stutenmnn is to conduct a straw vote on Salem's one way grid. We considered doing, this ourselves, but decided against it oecause our past experience in otner cities suggested that in an issue of this kind several dissatisfied nprann vnitld lane ine irouoie to mi out a coupon for every satisfied person wno wouio vote ior tne grid. The result would be. .... L : i . . l ct.i ...in ' i ..... . ' us we iijuiA me oime.imun win una, a distorted expression oi uib popular auiiuae. We hope there will be a full discussion of the pros and eons of the grid during the coming weeks and months. We are sure there will be, for everyone who Hves in or viHiis owem is interested, we ve Heard lots said on both sides, and we feel mixed reactions ourselves, generally well pleased but sometimes irritated when we have to travel six blocks with a car in order to get to a place two blocks away. If Salem's grid is to be ultimately decided by the puhlic which is right and proper, once it has been tried long enough for people to make up their minds, the place to settle it is by an advisory ballot at the coming May or November election. A large percentage of all the people vote then, and the result means something. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAW December issue of the Oregon Historical quarterly con tains an interesting article on the state's "Workmen's compensation Law; ioies on the Beginning" by William n. luursntui, long a resiaeni oi rortiand Out now of Seattle Wn. Mr. Marshall was a member of the committee that drafted the act, was on the first administrative commis sion, served under five governors. He was later Hom.tv commissioner of the Federal longshoremen's and Harbor workers' Act in charge of the five Pacific Northwest suites ana Alaska The Workmen's Compensation Act was one of the mra. ures enacted during the administration of Governor Os wald West that' modernized Oregon, and made the state a leader in welfare legislation. In his first message to the legislature in January, 1911, he stressed the necessity of providing aid to industry workers suffering accidental injury on their jobs. The legislature passed the act and at a special referen dum election confirmed the action of the legislature forty years ago on November 4, 1913. Mr. Marshall has pre- ... UA in jH.imry, iMouiHt'auon.H ana expansions in the years since. Preparatory was an initia tive bill sponsored by the American Federation of Labor, modifying and repealing old common law rules passed November 10, 1911, the employers' liability act, also sug gested by West. The Workmen's Compensation Act was bitterly fought by some employers at first and hv ambulnm-o rWi.,.r damage case lawyers, but its beneficial results were thus summarized in a supreme court opinion written by the late Thomas A. McBride some years after its enactment in a case invoking the act: "In fact It may be doubted whether any subject of labor lega tion has ever made surh Droereu r n,n.j i t. of its principles throughout the world in so brief a period. It has Party If Ike swings too far to been a boon both the employer, the unemployed men and com- ithe left. munity, wnicn ine i.uer coum only offer to the Injured laborer the charity of the almshouse. Instead of that just compensation which he may now receive without the humiliation of pauperism or the loss of self respect" By DREW PEARSON ial Security bill with a $10 in crease of old-age pensions, but paid lor by spreading the sal ary base on which the wage earner is taxed. Faction No. I Is headed by Congressman Curtis of Nebras ka with the quiet support of Congressman Dan Reed of New York. They want liberalized pensions, but have adopted the U. a. Chamber of Commerce plan of paying for them by dipping into the trust fund al ready accumulated. This would make farmers and oth ers, who originally said they amn i want pensions, now benefit from the funds deduct ed from the salaries of wage- earners. important for the V. s Chamber of Commerce, this Even millionaire Secretary plan would reduce the general of the Treasury Humphrey, j tax burden Daid by hneins rated the closest cabinet mem- However, not vn ti pi. ber to Ike, does not have quite; publican members of Curtis'a Lively Race Ahead Astorlan-Budget Gov. raul Patterson's an nouncement he will run for the Republican nomination to suc ceed himself is no surprise to most Oregonians, who expected him to do so. His announcement ensures a lively primary cam paign between Gov. Patterson and Secretary of State Earl New- Dry, wno was several weeks ahead of Gov. Patterson in an nouncing candidacy intentions. . com tne governor and secretary- of state are ooliLicallv strong, and their contest is going to be one of the most interesting primary races in Oregon in a good many years. WHAT IS FAST? Bend Bulletin An Air National Guard pilot took a jet plane off at Los An geles the other day and touched his wheels down a little over four hours later in New York for a new national tranxnn. tinental apeed record averaui nl around 618 miles per hour. His accomplishment becomes a little less significant1 when! Key Senators for Debt Limit Hike By JOE HALL WASHINGTON vn-Sen. George (D-Gai said today he had let the administration know he would go along with "a reasonable in crease" in the national debt limit if necessary. The veteran senator, who attend ed yesterday's White House con ference at which Democratic and Republican leaders were briefed on some aspects of the Eisenhower program emphasize, however, that any boost in the present 275-billion-dollar debt limit still was oistasteful to him. In a separate interview, Sen. Flanders (R-Vt) said he. too. "felt inclined" to vote for a hike in the ceiling of up to 10 billion dollars with the hope it would not have to be used. Flanders said he felt the admin istration had proved in recent can they reply? They dont know anything new, because they have been so busy bragging about their own problems they haven't had a chance to listen to the other fellow. Besides, they don't want to talk. Their jawbones are worn out already. Now, here is i simple, easy way to solve this problem in a way to please everybody con cerned hired hand, boss and wife. You do it with cards. When the employes arrive for work, they are handed cards and are allotted IS minutes in which to write down all the interesting things that have happened to them since tne day before. The cards are filled out in quadrupli cate. One goes to the boss, the others are put on "Condition of Staff" bulletin boards, located by the office water cooler and in the men's and ladies' rest rooms. Here is a typical card: Name of employe "Joseph X. Blow, Jr." State of Health "Dreamed I was shipwrecked last night and woke up feehng seasick. Took sodium bicarb. No help. Any suggestions? May have to go home before noon if don't get better." State of Wife's Health "She was Dora tired Salem 18 Years Ago ly BEN MAXWELL, Janury (, 1J United States supreme court had held the new deal's AAA farm policy wholly and com pletely unconatitutionaL A national defense budget of nearly one billion dollars, the largest peacetime sum ever asked for strictly naval and military purposes, had been sent to Congress by President Roosevelt A contract had been let for the construction of third floor for the-state tuberculosis hospital and another for the nurses' home at the institution. Salem Boxing and Wrestling commission had reported a gross income of $1883.60 from boxing . and $8073.10 from wrestling during 1935. Solon T. White, director of the department of agriculture. had stated that Oregon led the nation in disease control for farm animals. R. J. Hendricks, editor emer itus of the Oregon Statesman, had told the Salem chamber of commerce that during his 5 Hi years in Salem he had written millions of words about the possibilities of this locality and "I take back not a syllable nor eliminate a line of it." And the Children? "My little journal's Sips for Supper: "We bet out of the 5000 lies submit ted in the national liars con test there isn't one that the av erage husband could put over successfully at home. The 5000 that we've tried are already so shopworn they're detected be- fellow sure said a cute thing last night. I was sitting there read ing me paper, and all of a sud den he pointed at a picture and said, 'Glub, glub, da-da,' and he isnt even three years old yet now ao you luce that? installment on my car this week, j 'ore we ltart telling them.' Buying new car next week if can make old one hold out until then." Other Problems "New neigh bors moved in yesterday. Look pretty crummy to me, but too early yet to tell whether they'll be real problem." Remarks "Saw doEficht be tween collie and airedale on way Democrats and Ike Pendleton East Oregonian Democratic leaders of Con gress are to confer, along with a somewhat larger number of republican leaders, with Presi dent Eisenhower on Tuesday, Jan. 5, about his legislative pro gram for 1954. The conference comes on the day after the pres ident will have spoken to the people on the air, presumably on his program, and more than two weeks after he went over it with republican leaders. Hence many democrats have naturally been calling the Jan. " V , iur Utandine in line at the noor. 3 mpaniaan conierence, ai a 15-bill.on-dollar increase at the I J"1!! ,n "ne at ,ne poor ! though a courteous gesture, an close of the 1953 session after the! Th' , , ,fc . - i empty one. Nevertheless, thev r"?. ad.!iSiCd..'!-: . I formation" card system is that'"" b expected to go along with .6C. ,u.,.,ci mailman ui int,;. wouid have ,h. ,im. w,,.,Hltne administration on its key f'nanf? "S. ow 5eni"lon aossfn in the 'SS ! foreign policy measures, white montn, it ws slriving hart 7 ,,'! government spending. J""- - i." - These developments improved i ,j ...ijT. V." t-v... hit ih. Cn.u -.ill ... """ " ""F- ircuaii- chances that the Senate will pass some sort oi aeot ceiling boost al though some members, including Sen. Byrd (D-Va) remain adamant against it. The issue is before the Senate Finance Committee, which bottled up the administration s request for stop. I've seen in years. Had one as boy, though. Good dog, too." Suggestions to Improve Office Efficiency "I still say it would n't break any hearts if they'd pass a little more money around in this place. Payday here is like Democratic member, sidcrable influence among his col- "! "J!"! roughly two-thirds of the work ! VP PP?? much of the lcaaues. Both he and Flanr. vol. oay.r.acn lime sn employe went! 1 oi tne bisenhower pro- ivaguco. uuui uc auu riaiiuers vol- , ... , . 1 cram SLiT. the rhe'couldTcaJ aVwVo? I The democrat, in ,954. if their Chairman Millikin iP.rli Cards. the Finance Committee, who sup ported the bill, declined to sav whether he had been asked to try to revive it early in the session nut nign Treasury officials have you consider his problems were m, rth, Zi ',,,".:! of limited since heiincrpaso i Mniiki ti,. sure of reaching more than half really sort had neither He would be satisfied him self because he would know that by posting his card he could let everybody in the office know his woes, whereas, by the old vocal method he couldn't be drinking drivers subcommittee studying Social j tontend with security will accept the U. S. Chamber of Commerce form ula. Here is the inside story oi wnat Happened. nor meandering pedestrians to debt now is within less than 500 of lhem cvcr'' Aa?- And he wu'd million dollars of the ceiling. miiiiKin also said in an inter- go home at night bursting with lresn gossip to tell his wife, Travelers' Insurance but whoview ne feeIs Conrcss should pro- n ?ct- ,he. onlv nt wrong KcoTg aevhat h"S PanCd COm-:bck 7ote "level lpvaTn7up h ""'"and "P- But at "least Danv from tnsitr&nra ormine : , . ,r. . r r " 1.1 I,- - that would be a new problem for her and love will always REPEAT SPEEDER Dr. Arthur Burns, former Columbia professor, now chair man of the Council of Econ omic Advisers, New Dealish in his economic slant. Charles Moore, former lib eral public-relations counsel to the Ford Motor Co., who helped stabillie Ike's drooping popu larity. C. D. Jackson, former pub lisher of Fortune Magazine, chiefly responsible for Ike's atom-pool speech, also is cred ited with stopping the popu larity sag. Robert Cutler, Boston bank er with liberal Republican ideas, close friend of Justice Instead he picked Republicans wnom ne described as "un prejudiced." but who actually knew little about pensions. They included GOP Congress men Baker of Tennessee, Good win of Massachusetts and Tom Curtis of St. Louis Mo. BIG-Bl'SINESS STAFF But he also picked a staff thoroughly prejudiced in fa vor of the U. S. Chamber. They Included: Rita Ricardo Camp bell, wife of the U. S. Cham ber s No. 2 economist: Howard Friend of the Indiana Cham ber of Commerce which has now been made the Indiana linnmnliwmiwl n , . i miS F"nk'urtcr h0 ' Program one of the weakest in minded his appointment. Cut-; the nation; and Karl Schlatter ler is secretary of the National back of the Brooking, Insti Secur.ty Council, to which Ike tutc, long an opponent of Soc has entrusted deciding defense Ual Security problems. . , ' m.. u.ki. ...ial.... o, I Also on the Curti, staff are man Adam, and advlapr nn iml i !loward " of th Brooking, lustrale, migratlon-mlnorltv problem,; T " m i "V C ' .Soc" sometime, Vailed- th? David ' J?1.?""1.? ,,,d .""? of the ..... iini.ii, n., MIIU V . t. Williamson, formerly with find a way to solve that one. TM, as lhe administration has I his staff has now brought asked out a report. However, the The' tax before Jan. 1 was tu congressmen for whom they per cent of a worker s salary up maae me report, namely the, to 3.600 a year, paid both by the Dee, DmuI U...u. subcommittee, did not issue the employe and employer. It went up KOJB DOWI MOIlOlOny ,onAl 1hJ . 1. . . i 1 n ) naw f "I", "im mc icun uiey w, - f;. vein, jij . . - . i v,:ii:t.: am not issue ii is mat Chair ivas votes can lie taken as a guide, can be expected to fight administration plans to reduce defense forces and outlays. On the few votes taken in either the senate or the house in 1953 on defense issues, most demo crats were for higher defense expenditures than were on the administration slate. The demo crats insisted that while they were all for economy, they were dead against what they called economy - at - the expense -of -defense. Slillikin said he personally fa. vored the 14 per cent rate. But Albany It took Democrat-Herald terrific effort by he said he wanted to sec "all the 'rcmendou, football team to de figures" on administration plans ''a, ,ne Pacific Coast champion In U- 1 :i . r I TTrT A L--1.I.... TI.:.. I to ui uuuiii sui-iiii security COVfr- ,J' 1 i.'m.i. inn, However, age before he decide, whether the ' maltcs seven Rose Bowl games 2 per cent tax i, needed. nut of eicht taken by the Eic WALLA WALLA. Wash. (UP) Rancher John Alheit, 78, paid a fine for speeding and then chuckled as he told nolirc it was the second time he had been cited for a traffic vinl-:, nr. I ic first time, he said, wns 55 years ago when police hauled him in for racing hi, horse down Main Street. vice indicates im- any track imperfection. man Curtis knew he couldn't persuade them to sign. Curtis himself issued a re port, but not his committee. However, Resolution 243 In- conlmUtee totud'y tJSff'l Gcow' " the oth" d Ten 'm the best tra'c0ks XZ ,S 1", raUr0ad committee to study Social Se-I,c favors (r.ezinE the tax it lu we have to offer on the coast 1 ,?cs- a n" deuc employing an S d'd."0t. " W",cd "iP" -nt formo'eyeaJs. '.le The situ.Uon is not 'exactly ! "i"" "" spec-1 sad the oresoni m.hiiiinn.iii,. traa c. bul we'd ike tn thir, r -"-ii. oi iiniisn Hied that it wanted a mnoit !-,,. ..,,. .. - i. .."'."'"' . i.i. ... ".'Tr "iiroaos. me dev - --. .uiiu ,a anisic lo dMirt- so- - .....ic uc.i ij rwn. iei s mcriiitpli- Irom congressmen themselves, j cial security payments for at least cc; it's California teams that - inrj. iiavcn i isiura one. me nexi iu year,. i nave Deen Diting the dust at Reason they haven't i, that Flander, and Sen. Carlson (R. Pasadena ever since we started! the staff report proposes trans- Kan. who also serves on the , Rosebowling with the Big Ten. I fcrring those on state relief Finance Committee, said they fa-: Maybe what we need is to have! rolls to the federal security 1 vor ,he ,v4 P" cent rate, and Carl, a northern team in the Bowl I $18,000,000,000 trust fund. Al- 801 ,5aid he wasconfidenttherewerc i again. Perhaps a team from our' so it would let new pensioners ! su"l''nl vole, in the Senate to own state or from Washington ; not having paid into this fund ! Pul , r tax Datk don ,0 thc 19'3 can dn something to break the ' benefit from what others paid ,, . monotony of midwestcrn dom-' in previously. . ,fmrmr . surh a move would inance. "Maybe next year . . . " This would nave lh- ,vrtl r .. ..- in me Mouse. . mere some kev Henuh iram in. Kovi-rnniem money and re- rlnrfin., rh, . n.' .i "i taxes to business. but .R.W, f ih. u-,... .'j Diaper Dabv Rash Eczema U-oli In Rn.nol. o,li ,rd noftrni dry. cru.tv rtin-Kmnol mrdiriio ""y ncn fivi bby romforU OINTMENT nd SOAP givfi nan RESINOL?n duce Niles of the Eisenhower ad ministration. These are the men with whom Ike consults most of late, the men who have molded si program which they believe will win back both liberal Re publican and Democratic sup port. They realize, of course, that the time is late. But what they may not realize is the bitter-! ness of right-wing GOP oppos ition and the fact that some of the latter are planning a conservative isolationist third Prescription-like medicine stops Sour Heartburn-Gas Put ulfirm mmcM tenar iiurnit Now it' nadk l Bnff.r twrninc .Hn f i-iil inaiffcation. m, hrartburn -thtnki t "rrt nption.trp" formula of 1. H. rrundor, 1'h.G. Modirallv-provog Pfimd.r TaMou aoMba away pal with and-noo-ralnint Ahn. Yaw Ml MMt anylhinf yoa hko-wiihnut fear of dutrom. Anwtinvlf uwh roliof ffiMfW-totf or nan,, hark : liol rfur-arr'i Tablota aadar. IM..0tt aoM. PICKET LABOR TEMPLE JOB DENVER (UP) Pickets for the AFL Teamsters Local 13 marched back and forth at the construction lite of the AFL La bor Temple. The teamsters claim a non-union driver is being used on the Job. Ml'SICAL ROBBERS OI.D-AGE PENSIONS Significant illustration of what Eisenhower is up against from GOP reactionaries and big business is the current backstage battle over old-age pensions. This affects several million oldsters, though Wilmington. SC. (L'P The proprietor of a roadside cafe told People understand what's been ponce mat two young men sipped happening Here are the two soft drink, and played "From opposing factions battllne in RibV, to Rirhei" on ih. i.'. 1 ..H.. m t " in- Muke bo, hat nigh, wWT Faction No. iThe' White bin, him of ,,00. House w.nto . UZX. or 1. 1. Laai. no or o cn.a g d nRS. (.HAN and I.AM CHINESE NAT! ROPATHS I swUlrs. t4l Nnrth Llbrrty Ot!K BatiMar an:r II i to ' lai I w 1 ta Coeraltauwa lowi proarar sau wrina uau an froo r rharaa Praruoad aiaaa Itir Wrila fa, allrarftfa atn Ha awa a atiaa tirv.:- u j..i . . . , . .iur r, '? -"'""t i-ommmee lavor the 2 per cent it inadvisable. The battle il- rate. Rcd. .lam r navi. ,n.r... the cross fires Ike ' announced hp umnlH rr.- k:n faces inside his own party. to restore the m per cent rate wun reiund, retroactive to Jan. 1. icoprrlthl mi White Star TUNA Rfjf. 33c cans SAVING CENTER MARKETS " . Save in a interest on savings in 1954. . . WalleyO, BONUS SAVINGS ACCOUNT OIL " af interest i, paid on Valley Bank Bonu Savings Account,. I " qualify 'or this greater interest earning, simply ,dd J J or more each month to your account. Stort Ih Niw V, b, ,0,1a, iyjtem.fic.r .1 s.l.m'i h.m.-.wa.fj bank. O.posfs on or before Jan. 10 earn fnferesf from Jan. I, llt.K r'.IC. Nie orrict, mo 1.4 unnnstn ahch, iiiosw. snaat -J. fMftlaf fKilM, M ban U.ll.. I