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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1954)
Capital AJournal An lndtptndU Hapi EtroMnhd IBM BERNARD AAAJNWARING, Editor and Pubttshtr GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor bnonrus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. !! Win knM f k knkW ha to TM MM SM intnuie fr.t mmnmtt MUUaS W PM M Iw hUhim m ii am tiakM rau m m SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Br c knuri Ummt. tub u imh Ri cm r. eA Br "U OnM: suaiklr. Mti an Uatk mm BMMUr. SUM avj Kartte nais eta. NASH-HUDSON CONSOLIDATION For the second time within recent month two well known American automobile companies nave joinea iorce. Vri.Voluinii(i. mnii Hudson will b merited Into a new corporation to be named the tne atocunowers oi ins w to be held in March. , Earlier Kaiaer and Willya-Orerland merged. Kaiser ii the only newcomer to the automobile field in many years. It hat enjoyed large sales but baa had a rough time finan cially. Willys was at one time second only to Ford, had a bad time of it for years, but finally touna a piace vt strengthen both for the terrific competition with the big three, General Motors, fora ana unrysier. The Hudson-Nash consolidation is for the same purpose, It will create a company with assets of more than $360,- 000,000, combined sales lor 1953 of $680,000,000 and liquid assets oi .liw.uw.uw. All tha older people can remember when the much smaller car market of an earlier day was served by a score or more of makes. Now the field has narrowed down to the big three, which have captured the lion's share of the business, plus the Nash-Hudson combination, the Willys Kaiser group and Packard and Studebaker as unmerged independents, optrating as ther have since the early days of the industry. We may next hear of a merger be tween them, which if it happens will probably complete the job. We doubt that the public has anything to worry about In all thls( for the industry remains fiercely competitive in a literal sense. It has become impossiDie lor any cut strong, efficient units to survive. The recent changes are aimed at securing strength in finance, research, dealer or ganization, etc., and they will do it. The public hopes none of its present cars will pass out of the picture, but this is for the public itself to decide through its buying preferences. . The automobile business is literally a "survival of the continue to be. But we think be found fit to survive. CORRECTING AN INJUSTICE President Eisenhower in his Social Security program expansion message to congress urged boosting of social security benefits quickly for to give 10 million more people destitution. He urged that the amount of income taxed for pension purposes be raised from S3600 to $4200, and that retired persons be allowed to earn more at part-time jobs without losing social security benefits. The president used the occasion to rap the compulsory retirement acts now in force compelling loss of jobs at the age of 63, when many persons, especially those in profes sions, are at their prime of achievement and power to uti lize the wisdom gained by experience. He voiced a truth when he said: "Retired persons should be contribution to the productive convinced that the great majority of our able-bodied older citizens are nappier and better oil when they continue in some productive work." No two persons are exactly alike and what applies to one does not apply to another and it is vicious to attempt to standardize capacity by age limits. It destroys initia tive, incentive and enterprise nnd hampers production and is neither biological or logical, and spoils many a per son's life by discouragement. Compulsory retirement also hampers industry by re moving key men who are most valuable, whose life has been devoted to creative enterprise, as well as those in public life. One man may be driftwood at 45 and another still functioning at 100 per cent efficiency at 80 or over. The president himself is 63, the present compulsory retirement age, and hasn't shown the least si?n of loss of vision, industry or efficiency and state legislators as well as congressmen should heed his recommendations and modify the present old age laws because of their injustice regardless of pensions. O. P. JOE MAKES A HEADLINE AGAIN We rejoice with old Joe DiMaggio, who has made the headlines again, after all but his most loyal retainers had given un1 hope that he ever would. He has married gor geous film star Marilyn Monroe. For years the DiMaggio name was sport page magic, In the big type daily during the baseball season. Even if he only popped out that was news, too the unusual, you know. Then. t about 35, Joe was too old and he gracefully bowed out before he was kicked oui. Quite a comedown and nothina but an old age filled with memories to look fnrtvnrH to. But Joe wasn't through and now he has burst forth again, this time. as a lover de luxe. And for celebrities their marital record isn't so bad. It was only the second trip to the altar for each one. THE CHEST CHANGES LEADERS It was generally agreed here that the 1953 Community Chest campaign was one of the best ovganized and vigor ously pushed that anyone could remember here or else were. It was certainly this writer's conclusion, comparing with numerous efforts he had witnessed in other cities. Now the man who headed it, Otto Wilson, becomes presi dent of the Chest, succeeding Ed Majek. who has done an outstanding Job and will continue his active interest in this f ln organization. Wilson will put his zeal and organizing atiflity behind Its future efforts. Salem's Community Chest enjoys good leadership, which has kept Its Income increasing, though less rapidly than the needs of the community increase. Ike $ T-H Plon Criticized PORTLAND (API Presl- He asserted 1 Southern dent Elsenhower's proposal to stairs have restriction on Ne live stales more Jurisdiction In i to voting, eight states have labor legislation la tantamount not reapportioned their leglt to "union-busting license." latum sine 1008 and 20 have (he president of the CIO Wood- not reapportioned them in the workers aam " ,,..j. The proposal was one of the president s recommenaea cnan ,iion ", mch WOrs than the VVhHJ.un.H7j',Wp'rP"'"'- our nation.,' the union, jatd In a prepared Congreas Most workers art statement that too many state urban residents . . . Our cities ovtrrnmenls no longer are rep- are growing, our rural areaa resenUUv of the people. I arc shrinking. , , ," m tummm main at mm m w cm iu k m Br aus OMada Oram T American Motor company if companies rm tne year ending tjepiemoer au, fittest" struggle and will those who are still left will America s older citizens and protection from "the fear of encouraged to continue their needs of the nation, lam i v yrars. : Hartunf said the state situ life'- . .sSlte j WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Ike Regime Almost Scared Shirt Off Big Business ' ter DREW WASHINGTON The Eisen hower administration almost scored the shirt off big business the other day. . It did so when the Justice De partment showed its teeth on anti-trust prosecutions in a more glowering manner than Thur man Arnold and Franklin D. Roosevelt AVhat it did was bring suit against Pan Amer ican Airways, long considered the sacred cow oi both Repub licans and Democrats. A few weeks ago Sam Pryor, vice president ot Pan American in charge' o( Washington lobby ing, spoke with confidence about the Eisenhower admin istration. "Things hare changed In Washington," he said happily. "We don't have to take all that guff we used to take. And we're not going to tolerate it." Sam had reason to be happy and confident. In the first place, he was long a member of the Republican National Committee 'from Connecticut, a top manager of Wendell Willkie, and a generous money-raiser for the Republicans. So even though his friend and wire-puller for Pan American, Sen. Owen Brew ster of Maine, had been defeat ed, Sam had every reason to ex pect well of the Eisenhower ites. He knew that, back in the Haover administration, Pan American had been able to get Postmaster General Brown to aend an amazing and unprec edented instruction to the State Department asking that 'all practical assistance be given to tha Pan American - Grace Air ways in preference to any other American company." This was in violation oi the age-old rul ing that the U. 8. government does not tavnr any one company abroad at the expense of an other. FDR Loved Pan Am Even under - Democratic ad ministrations. Pan American continued to get Just as many favors. Ed Stettinlus, brother-in-law of Juan Trippe, Pan American president, was long in the Roosevelt administration and for a time a member of the cabinet. FDR liked both Ed and Juan Trirlie and he also liked Pan Am. Tha latter gt the heaviest mail subsidies and still does. And, when trust-bust-ii; Thurman Arnold, assistant attorney general, proposed pros ecuting Pan American for vio lation of tha Sherman Antitrust Act, he was stopped dead in his tracks. "If you insist on this." warned Attorney General Robert Jack son, "you,'l have to resign." Arnold backed away for a time, hut still made noises about going alter Tan American. Shortly thereafter and much to his own surprise, he was ab ruptly promoted to the U. S. Court of Appeals. Imagine the surprise of the aviation world, therefore, and particularly Sam Frvor, when the Eisenhower administration this week slapped exactly the same antitrust milt on Pan American that Roosevelt had vetoed. Pan Am with the Grace Steamship Lines and their sub sidiary, Panagra. were charged with monopolising air transpor tation between the United States and Latia America. Ironically, the suit earns shortly after Robert C. Hill vie president of Grace, was reward ed by the Elsenhower adminis ' TCT CAPITAL JOURNAL; Sale. Ortfoa TIME CLOCKOR TIME PEARSON tratlon by being made U. S. am bassador to Costa Rica. Note Latest wise crack among Washington lawyers: "How soon will Assistant Attor ney General Stanley Barnes be promoted to the Supreme Court?" (In addition to Arn old's promotion to the Court of - Appeals when he tried to sue Pan Am, Harlan F. Stone, then attorney general, was appointed to the Supreme Court by Cal vin Coolldge when he insisted on prosecuting Andy Mellon's Aluminum Corporation of Amer ica. Mellon was then secretary of the treasury and a cabinet colleague of Stone's.) ' U,eo Auto Thefts ' Senate investigators are call ing upon the automobile indus try to supply the answer to the nation's most common Juvenile crime auto thefts. The Hendrkkson committee, investigating juvenile delin quency, has found that nearly 150,000 autos are stolen each year, mostly by teen-age kids. If cars could be made tamper proof, it would help curb this flagrant contribution to delin quency. As a result, the committee will invite industry spokesmen to explain what is being done to protect automobiles from juve nile "hot wire" specialists. This is the nam given to auto thieves who pick the ignition lock, cross certain wires and itart the ear without a key. Committee investigators have found that thieves usually break into a car by forcing the side window-vent or picking the out aide lock. What is needed, they say, is aide window that can't be smashed or forced, an out aide lock that can't be picked and an inside lock on the igni tion. Prime Minister Churchill has sent a diplomatic though point ed warning to rresidcnt Kiwn- hower that Britain wants to he kept fully informed during the : secret Hussian-Amerlcan talks 1 on atomic energy. Churchill has sent a special message to the White House pointing out that Britain, as an atomic power and ally of the United States, must Tie consult ed every step of the way. He did ,iot say so, hut Church Ill is reported to be burned up because Britain has been frozen out of the first stage of the talks. The old British war horse believes Eisenhower and Dulles are doing exactly what they urged him not to do namely, talk to the Russians in secret Eisenhower has now prom ised the British embassy that they will get a day by-day fill in on the talks but. even so. Churchill is still 'umiog. Xerean Iron Certain The Chinese are bulkiing an underground Masinot line of steel and concrete across the 38th parallel in Kiwea, whieh doesn't look good for the enifi- ation of that country. Chinese farmers are also pour.ng into North Korea and settling there permanently. This has convinced U S ob ervers that the Reds do not in '"o renew tbe Korean war. nut at the same time will never sgree to anificatirm. U. S. policy will be to accept the stalemate, but the big prob lem will be to slop Srnrmsn Rhee from renewing the war on his own It we cm hold Rhee back, the Jgfh rsrallet win be come a permanent Iron Carta in frentiee bHweea the free world en the sooth and Communism on the north. i BOMB? Salem 11 Yean Ago : By BEN MAXWELL January 15, 141 U.S. Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes had told high Spanish offi cials there could be no negotiated peace between the United States and her enemies. , e. J. Page, Polk county war Dona ciuurman, had received wood souvenirs from the battleship Ore gon for distribution to bond buyers. Albany had eliminated atop signs on IS local street intersections as a gas and rubber saving measure. A tin can salvage drive had taken place at Leslie Junior high school. Cans delivered had been washed, labels removed, bottoms and tops cut out and the cans flattened. OPA had reduced coffee rations for new hotels and restaurants to one cup for each 100 meals. Senator McNary had learned that the War Production Board had no interest in the Salem Hon eywood distillery as an alcohol synthetic rubber plant. Sugar stamp No. 11, valid Feb ruary 1, would be good for three pounds of sugar, OPA had an nounced. Holders of gasoline ration bonks who had used their allotments be fore the expiration of the period of validity would set no relirf ( officers of price administration , had announced. Senate military committee had moved to return Jap internment camps to the army "to halt report ed pampering of these enemy aliens within our shores." DEMOCRATIC DOl'BTS Pendlrten East Oregenlan Les Jossltn. secretary to the late governor Charles Martin and long active in democratic politics in the state of Oregon, has announced he may be a candidate for governor. We rather doubt that a strong candidate will come out of the democratic ranks unless Earl New bry should win the republican nom- inanun. inen a too nenuwpat misfit make the rmrr imfe. pendent. NEW EXPANDED TV AND g v aisraMv shs4 Ipfsl p war Oregon a Largest and Finest Equipped. This Is. Che Sere tee Department lor Haider's Sales Outlets located at 1120 Center St. 4M Court St and 395 H. Hl,h St Haider's have been In Salem lot ore 30 rears. (AdvJ FIRST... for the futSl that is clean, efficient and I uso economica "Preo-tc-logo" CAPITOL LUMBER CO. PKONE 3-8862 Toft Would Have Liked Ike Stand By RAYMOND MOLEY It is always risky to assert that a dead man would or would not Lave said this - that, but it is possible without muck chance of contradictioa to say that Senator Taft would have heartily endorsed the Eisenhower labor message. bears little ar M tesemfabnc t the abortive draft that popped up during the last days of Durkin. It certainly shows little imprint of tha advice of the New Deal Re publicans in the palace guard. And it is so reasonably stated that It has blunted the attack of the ir reconcilable radicals in Congress. Even the torrential eloquence of Senator Morse was reduced to the trickle of two words, "unfortun ately unsubstantial.' I admired especially the Presi dent's use of the expression "emo tional maturity" in describing the nation's progress in dealing with the contentious issue of labor management relations. That de scribes exactly what has hap pens in tne seven years since Taft took over the Senate Labor committee and proceeded to draft the legislation that bears his name. The Truman tirades and the union chieftains' outcries seem in retrospect ridiculous abuses of the truth. Only the colossal daring of John L. Lewis makes it posible to speak at this time of a "slave law." The outstanding features of the amendments seem to me to be the recognition of states' rights and the suggestion of a secret government-conducted strike vote. The latter will be the subject of most comment, but the former is more fundamental and in the Ion run more important It will be pointed out with some justification that the ides of a strike vote conducted in tht highly emotional atmosphere that accom panies the breakdown of negotia tions before a strike is somewhat visionary. When, as in such eases. reason is pushed aside and people take sides, it is hardly to be ex pected that card-carrying members wiu vote against their elected lead ers. That is why the proposal of Sen ator Smith, chairman of the Sen ate Committee on Labor and Pub lic Welfare, to take a vote after a strike has been In progress a while, is more practical. Perhaps a secret vote ought to be taken at both timet, but the result is more likely to be reasoned after the people on strike have had some time while out of work to think and calculate. In any event, this idea of a su pervised vote is a natural exten sion of the old provision for a supervised vote on determining the proper bargaining unit. It is likely that the most authen tic Eisenhower touch in the mes sage is what is said about state legislation in the field of labor. He said: "The Act should make clear that the several state and terri tories, when confronted with emer gencies endangering the health or safety of their citiiens, are not through any conflict with the Fed eral Law, actual or implied, de prived of the right to deal With such emergencies." His comment en that point la followed by the statement that he is preparing further recommends- "ons 'or clarifying legislation. This is one of those fields in which the great Federalizing move ment of tbe past 20 years has ad vanced far beyond common sence and constitutional principle. There was never any justification for the imposition upon a state of the rule of a Federal Labor Board in mat- ters in which the state has legis- lation and policies of its own. I In this, the President i -,; showing his deep conviction that i the role of local and state govern- ment should be stressed once more. Occasionally, in the prac-lnlght was elected president of tical application of his conviction"1 the Clackamas county chapter on this subject he has been di- of the Oreson Reouhliran verted by some of his ailiiirr, ri this message show hows deeply nidi cunvicuon really is. (Released by The Associated Newspapers) RADIO Rrnvir-r sunn POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Eisenhower at His Best in Recent Press Conference By HAL WASHINGTON ux-Thu Isn't town where they keep live men on pedestals. They start looking for the day at the feet President Eisenhower has met this fate. The military here that everybody knew has become after a year ia office the man in the White House that nobody seems quite sure about What do they say about Ike now in America's leading whispering gallery? He has both supporters and opponents puzsled. Here is a sampling of the kind of remarks you hear about him: "He's a tine man," commented a veteran democratic legisaltor, "but be t in the wrong field." The out politicians here are still jealous of him because they don't like to see someone they think of as an amateur hit the jackpot," remarked another. Eisenhower still has the people behind him," said a republican supporter, "but he hasn't used hit strength. Most of the republicans here rode back into office on hit coattaus, and they know it It is time to let them know he is aware of that fact, too, and start knock ing their heads together instead of making concessions." nut it ian t easy to knock to gether the heads of senators or congressmen. And no president who has done it ever managed to make them like it Eisenhower, the military leader. Courageous Stand Medlars MailTribaM The farm and labor measures proposed by President Eisen hower were two items in his state- of-the-union message that pleased this department For both of them were elearlv the result of careful, conscien tious study, and both took cour sge. un general principles, more over, we agree with the belief that pegging farm prices so high that over-production results, and sn UNmarketable surplus is cre ated, is poor business not only for the country but. in the final analysis, for the farmer. A middle and flexible around reasonably fair to all, including the innocent bystander alias the consumer should be possible of attainment, and that we believe wat and is, the administration's basic aim. The Taft-Hartler law hat been. for so long, a matter of bitter and heated partisan controversy. tnat any agreement entirely sat isfactory to either side, just isn't in the cards. The only hope of a workable truce appears to be a compromise, with both labor and management making some concessions. The problem is such a com plicated one that a clear -understanding of the Eisenhower pro posal must wait for more time so the best qualified experts can tell tbe same "innocent bystand er" just what the measure stands for and doesn't What is it all about Meanwhile as fo the provision that a major strike in any im portant industry should not be called without the ok of the union members at least a ma- jority of them appears to this paper as both reasonable and de-. sirable. On the other hand no reason- able person wfculd expect John L. Lewis, or any other labor leader of his violent type, to agree with this verdict, or fail t0 do everything in their power t0 repudiate and overrule it HEADS REPCBLICAN8 OREGON CITY (UP) Winston Bradshaw, Clackamas county district attorney, last Club. smaoiwn KKMmirr rt RnsHMin ttmsura isitflf tmssmiTT tmm tswetirt tm swat in m smrvtirrt tmsststin t smtttstrn amnmi un stnsMMtn amaii stsMir? twnnffi un tWSHJl r rmm yftsiiiur un atttirf ffstRMfrf sti jrt sun torsMttm tsweirn avtsMttnt Minstttjn mmmm f nsttsun smsttat atirt nnmmm mum fttsetirt strpjeumirt m nsssturt nttmin t smasuiirt rtawsu mitt unseats. m smtt Man in mtimrrt m HsrsMisin smstmiTt i KnsuMin MrrsMM tun Mnsunin uAw ssumiri nsnaurt n 'IttlRffT iJ&U Funeral Fo Phone 3.0)39 fmnmt, rii. , 1 W. ! 1 1 MM mimiim btm M Friday, January H. 1954 BOYLE welded in war aa allied unity above partisanship. Ha has a formula for national political unity hi peace. Many an oldtime politician here feds that quest stamps bin) as a hopeless amateur ia politics, which they fed is a patchwork art of compromise more often than it is s man oa a white horse leading aa army to a direct objective There is a deepening cynicism among them ever whether Eisen hower will be able to establish as firm a beachhead on Capitol Hill aa he did In Normandy. It isn't the same kind of war, they say, and it takes a different kind of man. Ike's supporters say, "Wait and see." i ..... . But there is little doobtJn most kinds that this is the bigJpolitical question of M64, and perhaps the key to 1956, whether Ike can take Capitol Hill this year, either by storm or a flanking operation. To see bow Ike has fared per sonally in his political war 1 went this week to his first press con ference of the new year. Report ers hare complained about some of his conferences, but most of them liked this one. The room was jammed. Eisen hower stepped in with a sorinrv stride, grinning broadly. Tele vision has been unkind to him. sometimes making him look eld and tired. In tbe flesh be is in the pink of health, buoyant and vi brant and almost as young look ing as I remember him 10 years ago, when he briefed war corre spondent! on tbe aDDroaehins? Sicily landing. The reporters bombarded him with questions. Eisenhower shot his answers back quickly and crisply. The sentences came clean and firm. There was no rambling emarss mat oriDDiea into silence. At one point Ike remarked he didn't think he was too smart po litically, and grinned. Then he rolled off some rspid fire statis tics on the wool import problem. There Is no doubt he has master ed a tremendous amount of detail about the political problems fac ing him., A red flush crept up the back of his neck when one reporter ask ed if he'd changed one of his poli cies because of recent criticism. He said no, he hadn't, and in a moment the flush died down and the grin was back. He stayed a few minutes beyond his usual half hour, answered all questions, and stepped quickly out, remarking with another grin that he hadn't expected to be worked overtime and would have to put it on his union card. "He never has said 'no com ment' to a auetsion." observed on republican correspondent "And nes tne only president I know -who hasn't. Roosevelt sometimes used to duck hard questions by giving us a geography lecture. Truman never ducked away, but in minutes later he might put out a correction or a retraction of an answer." The thing that stuck in my mind after the conference wss the way Eisenhower, replying to a question about his legislative program, had said for them to make no mistake about it be was going to work for I was good for the country. Then ne clamped his jaw, and thrust tut h" cnln- It is a fighting man's chin. Wnen 1 remarked on this to a veteran reporter who had attend- ine conference, he said: 'That is what everybody here is wondering, how far he'll stick out his chin for his own program." A number of political futures seem to depend upon it THE PIKE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM 13 S. LIBERTY A J A ' . . thera is satisfaction in tfi Icnowledgt that wt rpr$nt tht vary tssenca of prevan dependability. Chfdailcido. Service Since 1878 church a J . i