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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
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companies rm
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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OREGON CITY (UP)
Winston Bradshaw, Clackamas
county district attorney, last
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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
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