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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL; Salem. Ortpm
Saturdiy, January 9, ,954
Capital jkjJournal
An lndpndtnt Ntwpopr Established 1888
BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus
Published every afternoon except Sunday ot 280 North
Church St. Phone 22441.
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THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
President Eisenhower's message to congress voiced
wnat we think most people will accept as a generally sound,
constructive program for America, but with which almost
everyone will find occasion to differ at some point.
Perhaps the two most important phases are taxes and
spending, which have an impact on every household in the
land. The president wants to go slow with tax reductions
to which he is not already committed. He opposes cutting
the corporation and certain excise taxes and we support
him fully. We need to be nearer a balanced budget before
we can safely go farther than the 10 per cent personal in
come tax cut to which the administration is already com
mitted.
Spending Is to be cut possibly as much as five billion
dollars in the coming fiscal year. Military and foreign
aid will take the major cuts. It is Eisenhower's policy to
make the Air Forces, atomic weapons and the isavy the
chief reliance of the U.S. and to trim ground forces of the
Army. This is evidently based on a belief that Russia will
not strike soon and that our ability to deliver a devastating
counter attack with atomic and hydrogen bombs is the
chief deterrent. A mistake here could be a national trag
edy, but most ceoDle will, we think, accept Eisenhower's
judgment on the matter where he is particularly well qual
ified.
A liberal attitude is taken on the expansion of social
security to cover millions of new people, and an improve
ment in benefits. He is evidently taking a liberal attitude
toward Taft-Hartley changes, though these will be pro
posed in a special message next week. Also in proposing a
reduction of the voting age to 18, where we think he is
wrong and hope he does not prevail.
On agriculture the president favors the flexible support
principle, as do the Orange and the farm iiureau, as
against 100 per cent of parity support. Congress may not
follow the president here, for each member who represents
a farming district will follow his own inclinations, based
upon what he thinks his district will support id the polls.
The president took a sympathetic view toward federal
aid for housing and medical research, though he was firm
against socialized medicine. He also supported the con
troversial St. Lawrence seaway project, which would be
built in cooperation with Canada. The general tone of the
message was liberal, but with a healthy note of caution
where liberality costs money, as it usually does.
Altogether it is a good, prudent, progressive message
which congress should accept and examine in the sympa
thetic, cooperative spirit in which it is offered.
THE MAN OF TOMORROW
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
NATO STILL FUNCTIONING
In spite of the political discord in France and Italy, it
has not yet affected the defense program of the NATO
which Paris dispatches state is within sight of its goal of
160 jet airfields, 120 of which are in operation. Efforts
this year will be concentrated on laying a communications
network to limit the losses and a web of pipe lines to
supply fuel.
At the December NATO ministerial meeting $224 mil
lion was voted for the intrastructure program, including
the building of permanent installations needed to support
its armed forces, the hulk for communication and fuel
supply systems. Of the above 38 per cent will be contrib
uted by the united Mates. -
The building program is reported to include two 10-inch
fuel lines in France, one from Marseille up the Rhine river
valley 350 miles north to the Dijon area, to serve a group
of airfields. The other from the Atlantic port of Le Havre
east to an unstated terminus,
Altogether the program calls for 1875 miles of pipe line
over nine western Allied Nations, for use of all 14 NATO
members. This network will be linked to the 400-mile
line the United States plans to build across France to
West Germany.
The pipeline project will save many millions of dollars
spent in transporting oil, gasoline and lubricants by rail
and truck.
The NATO pipelines will not serve individual airfields
but feed big storage areas close to clusters of air fields
and moved by truck.
The optimistic official reports from General Alfred M.
Greunther,, commander-in-chief of NATO forces in Europe
contrast sharply with the pessimistic press reports of
critical chaotic conditions in West Europe defense prep
arations. G. P.
'Fastest Leak' on Defense
Economy Plans Irks Wilson
By DREW PEARSON
THE REUTHER SHOOTING
The attempted shotgun murder of Walter Reuther, then
president of the United Automobile Workers and now also
president of the C.I.O., has been a baffling mystery since
1948. Now it seems to be on the way to solution.
Four suspects have been arrested following long, pains
taking investigation. A fifth man has fled to Canada
and officers are quoted as being "gravely concerned." He
is said to have confessed that he was paid $5,000 for his
part in the plot.
It seems to he estaonsnea tnat tne motive lor the Kill
ing was not personal animosity toward the dynamic Reu
ther but a determination to remove him in order to gain
control of the United Automobile Workers union and to
control a gambling project within the union which Reuther
had fought. A gangster clement is blamed, probably
not dissimilar to elements that have actually seized con
trol of some unions, such as the longshoremen on the east
coast.
A generation ago there might have been suspicion that
employer interests were behind the murder attempt, but
none were voiced, so far as we recall. But the companies
employing Reuther's members will doubtless welcome the
solution of the mystery.
Reuther has been a force for honesty within his union,
where he has made powerful, ruthless enemies. It is to
be hoped that the culprits in this attempt on his life draw
long prison sentences both because they merit them and
as a warning against other hoodlums who may be tempted
to use lethal weapons to muscle into controls of unions.
Washington One of the chief
things President Eisenhower em
phasized during his bipartisan
talks with democratic and repub
lican congressional leaders was
that not one scrap of informa
tion must leak to the press. Not
only did the president himself
emphasize this, but Secretary of
Defense Wilson backed him up.
Wilson told how he and his
aides in the Pentagon had pre
pared a secret report relating to
cutting down the army which he
planned to submit to the White
House.
"No decision had been reached
on this report because the presi
dent hadn't even read it," the
secretary of defense told the
White House conferees. I kept it
right on my desk. Imagine our
amazement, therefore, when, next
day, while it was still on its way
to the White House, the sub
stance of the report vas publish
ed in the press. It was the fast
est leak I ever saw."
Well, you can't blame that one
on the democrats, piped up
democratic Leader John McCor-
mack of Massachusetts.
Headlines and "ootnotcs
New York's Gov. Tom Dewey
still seems to have his eyes on
bigger political things. He has
recently been wooing the labor
bosses. Dewey has reminded
them that his man, Secretary of
Labor Mitchell, is running the
labor department and that Sen.
Irving Ives of New York, another
Dewey republican, is a key man
the senate labor committee
. Secretary of State Dulles
clashed with Secretary of Agri.
culture Benson at a recent cab
inet meeting over Benson's two-
price farm plan. Benson s idea
was to support domestic farm
prices but force farmers to sell
their surplus overseas at the
world market price. Dulles ob
jected that this amounted to
dumping our surplus and would
upset world trade. . . . Sen Joe
McCarthy is at loggerheads with
his chief counsel, Hoy Conn, who
has been whispering behind the
boss' back. Cohn tried to trans
fer to the rival spy hunters,
headed by Indiana Sen. Bill Jen-
ner, but he was afraid of antag
onizing McCarthy. Meanwhile,
McCarthy is trying to find an
other lawyer of Jewish faith ao
he wont' risk the charge of riti
semitism if Cohn leaves. . . . ? is
sian diplomats, who turn their
charm on and off according to
instructions from the Kremlin,
are now bubbling over with good
will. They are telling western
diplomats that the upcoming Big
Four meeting in Berlin can set
tle the differences between East
trum, looking down Pennsylvania
avenue toward the White House,
for which he has to pass a diffi
cult legislative program. There
you will usually find Joe, as
everyone on Capitol Hill calls
him, with a big pile of papers on
his desk.
The speaker apologizes for his
papers. "A newspaperman," he
says, "can never get his desk
cleaned up. It's a disease." (Most
people don't know, incidentally,
that the speaker is a newspaper
publisher by profession and a
politician by choice, being the
owner of the North Attleboro,
Mass., Chronicle.)
"I like to have an office over
here where I can slip in to see
Sam," Martin told this writer,
when I asked why he didn't use
his big office at the front of the
capitol. "Sam and I have a lot
of things we have to work out
from time to, time.
Sam is a good friend and a
square' shooter to work with,"
continued the speaker when ask
ed about cooperation from the
trong and growing democratic
minority. "We differ, of course.
That's the American way of
things. But Sam's word is as
good as his bond. Never has he
ever violated his ward to me.
nor, I hope. I to him. And on
questions of foreign policy and
so on, 1 know I can count on Sam
to help pass the president's pro
gram.
"As a matter of fact, said Joe
Martin, "healthy opposition is a
good thing. It will keep the
republican party on its toes. I
I think that Sam himself recog
nizes it would have been better
if the democrats had had more
opposition in the early days of
Roosevelt. At that time we had
only 80-some republicans in the
house, and if they nad had more
opposition, certain elements in
the democratic parly couldn't
have put across certain policies.
"It's going io he an interest
ing session of congress," conclud
ed the speaker philosophically,
"and at times a tough one. Hut
when policies are for the good of
the country, you can predict the
democrats and republicans will
pull together."
Browneliism
Attorney General Brownell re
cently called all the government's
top security officers to a meet
ing at the National Archives
building, warned them that the
meeting was highly secret. Un
der no circumstances were they
to talk to any newspaperman.
Here's the probable reason why
he didn't want any lc.iks.
The attorney gener.il bid down
the law that in the future anyone
who quits the government before
being cleared for security is to
Salem Papers,
Still Two of 'em
Caoby Herald
Salem's two daily newspapers
would stand high on anjr list
when measured for general ex
cellence among publications
serving . areas of comparable
size. They achieved their suc
cess independently of each oth
er, sometimes in conflict Each
reflected the personality of an
able and intelligent editor and
publisher, and each in its own
way has maintained a high ideal
of public service and profsssion
al ethics.
Now they have merged their
manufacturing chores without
consolidating the newspapers
themselves. They began 1954 by
moving the Capital Journal into
the new, spacious and well
planned Oregon Statesman plant
on North Church street A new
company has been formed to do
the manufacturing job for both
newspapers. As we understand
it, the new corporation will have
nothing to do with the news and
editorial content of either paper,
but will be concerned only with
printing and distributing them.
There will be no wholesale fir
ings of personnel, such as have
made gruesome spectacles of
many mergers in the past.
It sounds like a good deal for
the Salem area as well as for
the newspapers. Modern print
ing machinery has become so ex
pensive that new publishing en
terprises are almost prohibitive
in cost. Idle machinery is idle
capital. Typesetting machines
and presses are actually idle
much more than they are in
use when they are used to pro
duce a single publication, even
with many pages and large cir
culation. The physical machinery of a
modern printing plant can be
used to do the printing for two
or more publications without
much Addition depreciation, and
the saving in capital investment
runs into figures which even a
tycoon would eye with respect.
The terms of the consolidation
of facilities, as they have been
given out, seem to guarantee ef
fectively that each newspaper
will retain its Identity, its "per
sonalitv," and its editorial in
dependence during the present
generation at least. This is good.
A community large enough and
prosperous enough to support
two dailies is much better off
if the two represent different
points of view, or at least main
tain a considerable degree of
competition.
Too many newspaper mergers
In the past have turned out to
be "submergers, one publica
tion smothering the other. Far
too often such combined news
papers, lacking the spur of com
petition, have drifted into dull
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Oregon in Top Group
Albany Democrat Herald
Based on population growth
and size of Income, Oregon is
ranked In a recent Kiplimgcr
Washington Lettei as sixth in the
list of best states in which to do
business. Oregon's growth, set
at S3 per cent between 1940 and
1953, is exceeded only by the
increase in California and Flor
ida. 41 ner cent each, and Ne
vada, 38. Oregon is listed as one
of the 15 high-income states, and
is among -the high one-third of
the best stale, lor ith growth
ad income.
These top-flight states are
built up by the Influx of people
from less favored regions. Mid
western states are mostly listed
as slow in growth and medium in
income, though the Dakotas are
low in both. 1'erhaps the oil de
velopment in western North Da
kota may start a tread that will
lift the state into the more
favored group.
Anyhow, Oregon stands high,
and there need be no fears for
its future as a place to work and
to enjoy life provided we use
our good sense in the us and
development of our natural re
sources and keep the slums out
of our cities.
he ltsleri hai-ino nnit u-t;i
and west. . . . Budget Boss Joe i under invrtioaii,m tv.n ,... i.
Dodge is trying to close downa government worker quits to
merchant marine hospitals in or-u.kc a better job. Brownell said
.... . .......... . . . even tnough investigation
armys new guided missile, thcuhow, tn(. man ,
Nike. n..w being installed to pro- record, nevertheless, if he quits
tect key cities from air at acks durin(! tnf monlh, ', Jn;'
wilt be manned by NaUona!,, jn hteshonceieddlu
Guard units. . . . South Carolina 1 tjpn
politicians are taking up a col Nntr . . VnA thi, , v , , , m
lection to buy a bench for Gov. Rrownp wi, b(. Mr , hmM '
Jimmi Byrnes so he can retire , i.ro ..k. . , J p
and become an elder statesman cur v " easel hie Thl E
like Bernard Baruch. , " Ti- ,.nose hom ,h
c i. - ., j, . i administration has supposed y
Speaker Martin Predicts purged, thereby substantiating
The speaker of the house of his charges of communists in coy.
representatives is given a decor-1 ernment.
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Tycoon of Toy Industry
Makes More Cars Than GM
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NEW YORK (ft While th
rest of America's mighty
motor car industry was pon
dering how to make autoa out
of plastic, young Lew Glaser
did something about it. He
built them.
It is true they were only
small plastic models of old
style cars, but a fellow has to
begin somewhere, doesn't he?
And today, a tycoon of the toy
industry at 36, Glaser turns
out more cars than General
Motors and the second Henry
Ford put together and he's
stepping up production for
1954.
"I look for it to be a better
year than 1933," aaid Glaser,
who pyramided a $750 invest
ment into a five million dollar
annual business in only 12
years.
Here's how Lew, a Brook
lyn-born boy who took Horace
Greeley s advice to go West
while he was still in rompers,
did it:
'I had a radio repair store
in Los Angeles when the war
came on, and I decided I'd bet
ter get into a different field.
But what? I picked plastics be
cause nobody seemed to know
anything much about it, and I
felt my ignorance wouldn't be
too much of a handicap."
For $750 he bought the
equipment of a plastic novel
ties manufacturer who had be
come disillusioned. Glaser set
out to get government con
tracts for airplane and radio
parts, and also made compacts,
picture frames and cigaret
cases from plastic scraps.
His volume mushroomed
from $32,000 the first year to
more than a million dollars.
then collapsed With the end of
the war. He had to find some
thing new to surviv'e so he
turned to toys. His first gad
get, a toy plastic washing ma
chine that really worked, sav
ed his business.
"But the trouble with most
toy novelties," he said, "is that
they will go over big one year
and the next year they go
blooie. It's a fleeting business.
You live on the edge of a
cliff."
Three years ago he began
and perfunctory routine, lost
their sparkle, and eventually
found their principal civic des
tinies as under-carpet padding or
wrapping material for packing
dishes.
We have no fear that Charles
A. Sprague of the Statesman and
Bernard Mainwaring of the Cap
ital Journal will allow such an
ignoble fate to overtake the Sa
lem papers. And we can imagine
George Putnam, who sold the
Capital Journel to Mr. Mainwar
ing with the past year (and who
still walks to the office every
morning before 'he hired help
gets there and does his editorial
stint) loading his trusty editor
ial musket to the muzzle, ready
to pull the trigger at the first
sign of complacency.
But nobody can write a com
plete ticket for future genera
tions. We would like to be
around in 1994 to see what comes
of it.
Salem is a big town now,
crowding the 50,000 population
mark, and is directly in line to
take care of more and more of
the valley trade which used to
go to Portlanad. The new news
paper set-up is equipped to serve
the community better through
many more years of growth.
turning out his "Highway
Pioneers," a series of put
them together-yourself kits
that enabled normal children
and bright adults to assemble
and paint models of famous old
American cars. They were an
instant hit. Customers began
to demand more and more kits
so they could assemble a col
lection of the models.
"It was a Jackpot idea, and
I'd like to be able to say we
realized it," ruefully admitted
Glaser. "But the truth is we
thought we had only a one
year toy when we started.
"It took us a little time to
understand what we had an
inexpensive way for people to
build something with their
hands they could be proud of.
It seems to satisfy a big need
in people today.
"The market was always
there, but nobody had stum
bled on it. We did."
Glaser has found half the
model kits are bought by chil
dren between the ages of 7 and
14, half by grownups over 21.
To his model car series he now
has added series of famous
fighter planes and naval ves
sels. He sold 10 million kits
last year, hopes to market 15
million this year, plans to add
a line of plastic models that
will appeal specifically to
girls.
Lew, whose headquarters is
in Venice, Calif., is still a bit
dazed over the speed with
which success came to him,
and hesitated when I asked
him what explained it.
"Well," he said, "I suppose
a fellow ought to keep his
mind plastic enough so that
Salem 35 Years Ago
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January , lSlt
Spartacan revolution h
spread to aU part of German
and 20 persons wera reported
killed in the American embus
when the building was
aged during street fighting.
Fruit and berry interest la
Oregon were aroused and dis.
posed to take action in the
matter of California labels be.
tag used to advertise Oregon
choicest produce represented as
grown in California.
War department reported
that U. S. had 7522 mniZ
Officers in Siberia and 5419 in
Western Russia.
State highway commission
had authorized improvement
and re-aligning of the Salem.
Dallas road.
State board of control had
refused to recede from its poal.
tion that Salem Hospital asso
ciation must vacate the Salem
hospital property acquired by
the state in 1916.
E. F. Slade had been reap,
pointed state bank examiner at
a salary of $2400 a year.
Pheasant Fruit Juice Co,
manufacturers of nationally ad- -vertised
Loju, Pheasant brands,
and Appleju had total sales of
$1,325,000 for 1918. Vick
Brothers, local agents for Ford-
son tractors and Oliver plows.
reponea mm sales as being
near $1,140,000.
Sternwheeler Pomona was
back on the Salem-Portland run
and promised to stay if 150 tons
of freight weekly from Salem
could be assured at a rate of
not less than $3.50 a ton.
if he does trip over a good
thing he'll have sense enough
to do something about it be
sides criticize the condition of
the pavement.
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Dust Returns to Dust,
But the Soul to Its Maker
By REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector. 81 Pnl' EputeoPftl cnureb
"Earth to earth, ashes to
ashes, dust to dust," are solemn
words heard at many burial
services. They remind us that
all physical bodies, human or
otherwise are Just earth, ashes
and dust. By these words we
are Jolted into the realization
that after serving as the out
ward manifestation of an in
ward life for a limited time,
all material returns to mingle
again with earth, ashes and
dust! If this were all there
is to be reminded of at a bur
ial service, it would indeed be
cause for black despair.
But at a burial service we
are reminded of something else
far more important which is
brought out in these words,
"Unto Almighty God we com
mend the soul of our brother
departed."
A physical structure rises or
a certain area of ground. It
may become a temple, a
church, or a cathedral. As time
goes on it takes on the charac
ter and personality of the
group who makes it their house
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of worship. It lives! It is dedi
cated! It is consecrated! It hat
become a Holy place because
God dwells in it.
Eventually the property may
become too small, or it becomes
old and its physical structure
deteriorates. Then, it is for the
building as it is for the human
body, "earth to earth, ashes to
ashes, dust to dust." As we
watch the timber yielding to
the saw, the axe and the ham
mer a lump comes to our
throats. But we are raised up
and sustained by an unfalter
ing trust as we are at thelu
ncral of a friend or a loved
one "unto Almighty God we
commend the soul."
The old structure passes, but
the spirit, the indwelling pres
ence of God with all the ac
cumulated prayers of a devout
people who have worshiped
there, are gathered up together
into the new building to give
impetus and Inspiration to the
work in the new, turning
countless persons into the
paths of righteousness and into
the way of truth.
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