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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Saturday, January 23, 1954
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BRICKER ON THE DEFENSIVE
Ohio Republican Senator Bricker, who was riding high,
wide and handsome with his controversial amendment to
the federal constitution until congress reassembled and
heard from the president, is now on the defensive, riding
for a fall which we think he deserves.
Bricker exDected to Dush his amendment through con
gress. The senate traditionally takes the lead in foreign
affairs, and B6 senators had agreed to support his original
amendment, now changed somewhat, which probably re
leases them.
Able lawyers disagree about what the amendment
means, which is in itself a good reason lor not passing it.
On the face of it, the amendment seems innocent. It is
designed to prevent treaties which are in conflict with the
U.S. constitution. No right thinking person wants any
such treaties.
But it is not always clear what the constitution means
or what might conflict with it. "For the constitution is
now not just the original document plus the amendments,
but a vast body of constitutional law and this is "what the
judges say it means." And the new deal judges of the
past two decades have said it meant some queer things.
Constitutional requirement -that the senate ratify trea
ties has proved a satisfactory safeguard for nearly two
centuries. True, there was and is justifiable resentment
as some of the secret agreements President Roosevelt made
during World War II, which the senate never ratified. No
. amendment could prevent some future president exceeding
his authority, but we have present means to curtail abuse
of executive authonty.
The danger in the Bricker amendment is that it will im
pair the ability of the president and secretary of state to
conduct foreign affairs. With the uncker amendment in
force foreign countries will doubt the capacity of our na
tional leaders to make binding agreements, and it might
well prove that they did Jack it.
Bricker may be right when he cries out that the presi
dent is "misinformed" when he says the Bricker amend
ment would take the U.S. clear back to the impotent Arti
cles of Confederation, when we almost fell apart. Possibly
it would not be that bad.
But it seems to us that Eisenhower and Dulles are quite
competent to conduct our affairs, and as respectful of the
constitution as they could possibly be. The senate re
spects the constitution too and will reject any treaty that
seems to infringe upon it. There is no need to take a
chance on paralyzing our government in its conduct of
affairs and reducing it to such a positic. as Prance too
often occupies.
BIG BEND
(.FLEXIBLE X
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Uncle Dan Ramming Tax
Changes Thru Committee
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Uncle Dan I Only recourse is for a maiority.
Reed of' New York, venerable or Republican, member to move
CHANGE IN TROUT SEASON
Oregon's state game commission has done a sensible
thing in opening the general trout season this year on
May 1, and closing it on October 10, and closing the winter
steelhead season on March 1, over numerous protests. The
order changes the present staggered trout season and
shortens the coastal steelhead season two weeks.
The action should have taken years ago, for it permitted
the taking of gravid trout and steelhead in the midst of
the spawning season and speeded extermination. In many
states the opening season is set at a still later date.
Western trout seasons were originally based on those in
eastern states. The eastern brook trout spawn in the lale
autumn or early winter. The western trout, rainbow, cut
throat and steelhead (a sea-going rainbow) in the spring,
and in the cold mountain streams, sometimes in early sum
mer. The floods in eastern streams come in the spring
with the melting snow and those in coastal streams in the
fall and winter usually and nature has adjusted the spawn
ing period to meet the situation.
The trout and salmon in Oregon streams have been
sadly depleted by pollution, overfishing and fish hogs,
by high power dams and obsolete old logging dams no
longer utilized, by unscreened penstocks at dams and un
screened irrigation ditches which uselessly slaughter more
fish than hatcheries can turn out, and by senseless fish
"derbies" in seasons closed for commercial fishermen to
permit fish to reach spawning beds but not for so-called
"sportsmen."
Moreover, fishing gear, designed not for sport but for
the creel, is yearly becoming deadlier for the poor fish.
If a ban on the use of salmon eggs as fish bait was estab
lished, as it has been in some places, and only fly fishing
permitted, with the gradual elimination of stream pollu
tion, the enforced screening of penstocks and conduits,
elimination of obstructions and the output of hatcheries
increased, closed season enforced on all fishing nnd poach
ers properly punished. Oregon streams may again furnish
good trout angling. That restoration is possible has been
proven in some eastern states. The change in open sea
sons is but one step in the program of preserving a recrea
tion attraction. G. r.
A FOE JOHN L. COULDN'T CONQUER
A few years ago John L. Lewis was the envy of every
other labor leader in the world. He had pushed the wage
scales of his men up to a point beyond their wildest dreams
and probably his of a few years before. To cap it all
off he had tapped the industry for enough royalties on
coal mined to provide a $100 a month retirement pension,
on top of federal social security, a $1000 death payment,
and other benefits.
John L. Lewis had taken shrewd advantage of the fact
that coal was a public necessity and that he had won com
plete dominance over nearly all the men engaged in mining
It. runner, he was ruthless enough to crowd his advan
tage to the limit. You might dislike old John intensely
but you had to admit that his tactics worked.
That was only a few years ngo. Since then a thing
called economic law has been working. Industry, plagued
by constantly mounting coal prices and the threat of
having supplies cut off by strikes, sought other fuels, as
did harried householders. Railroads converted to diesel
engines. John L. became known as the world's greatest
salesman of oil and gas. Mines were mechanized to re
duce labor usage. Some mines went non-ilnion, so now
22 per cent of all coal comes from non-union mines.
. As a result of all this the production of coal steadily
shrunk, even during the greatest boom in American his
tory. Miners were forced to change occupations or work
fewer hours a week, often at a lower take home wage than
they had received before.
And now Lewis, who only the other day had money to
loan to an outlaw longshoremen's union in' New York, has
cut his miners' retirement pensions from $100 to $i50,
death benefits from $1000 to $500, along with other re
ductions. We somehow doubt that John L. seems quite as great a
leader to the miners as he did a few short years ago. He
was great all right, but not quite as great as economic law.
chairman of the tax-writing ways
and means committee, may have
high-hatted President Eisenhow
er, but he's being deliberately
highhanded with the Democratic
members of his own committee.
When the president invited
Reed to the While House to dis
cuss taxes, the 78-year-old "law-unto-himself"
congressman sailed
oft to Panama. Now back in
Washington, he is ramming com.
plicated changes in the tax laws
through his committee is if op
erating an M-48 tank.
In the past, Uncle Dan was a
stickler for methodical consider
ation of tax legislation. He de
manded that congressmen be giv
en time to study each amend
ment.
"We're going to take plenty
of time to study the recommen
dations of the treasury depart
ment, he used to say, but
we're going to write this bill our
selves. Neither the treasury nor
anyone else is going to pre-empt
the constitutional functions of
the committee in writing the tax
laws."
That, of course, was during
a period when the democrats
were largely in control of the
ways and means committee. Now
that he is in control. Uncle Dan
has reversed himself, demands
quick "takc-it-or-lcavc-it" votes
to reconsider.
"In the past we have always
voted tentatively on tax amend
ments until we have had an op
portunity to fully analyze them,"
a Democrat recently complained
to Reed. "Do you mean to say
that committee members can no
longer change our votes as we
used to do?"
"We will proceed under the
parliamentary rules," crisply re
plied the congressman from
Dunkirk, N.Y.
SENATOR MORSE HAS FUN
Senator Wayne Morse of Ore
gon, the independent who was
kicked off his important com
mittee assignments with the con
nivance of GO Senate Leader
Knowland and Democratic Lead
er Lyndon Johnson, has several
ace cards up his sleeve. And a
lot of Democrats who appreci
ated Morse's help in the Stoven-
son-hiscnhowor election cam
paign arc goading him from the
sidelines.
What Standard for
Public Officials?
By RAYMOND MOLEY
It is rather unusual to find
Governor Dewey and Senator Mc
Carthy in the same cateeorv. hut
me lormer, by a proposal to the
New York Legislature, and the
latter, by the course which his
investigations probably will take,
are raising the same question.
What, after all, are to be the
standards of honesty which
should be observed in govern
ment?
Both of them will find the go
ing hard when they come to the
critical issue of what is right and
what is wrong in public life. But
that critical issue involves one of
the fundamental quests which
have concerned philosophers and
statesmen from the beginning of
lime, une reason why it has not
and probably cannot be finally
and definitely resolved is that
moral standards are, we hope and
believe, in a state of evolution.
The march of civilization implies
that we learn constantly of new
er and better ways of living to
gether. Conduct tolerated in a
senator of the United States when
Webster and Clay were in office
would not meet the standards of
a Taft or a George. No Tammany
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Boyle's Visit to Furniture Mart
Reveals Most Unusual Business
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK UV-You think you
have problems, dear reader?
Listen to a man with a real prob
lem: After 20 years of reporting wars,
club meetings and other small
brush fires, I went to a national
furniture display this week. I
came back with a story about a
new furniture item of interest to
millions of young Americans.
Frankly, it's about a new kind of
baby potty.'
With this preamble, let me take
you behind the scenes of a giant
industry and show you a newspa
perman's problems they don't
prepare you for in journalism
school or portray in Hollywood.
Let's do it in dialog:
Editor: And where have vou
been all day if I'm not too bold?"
Boyle: "Down at the furniture
mart in the armory."
h-ditor: "Kind any comfortable
sofas to loaf on?"
Boyle saluting: "Please, sir. I
found a story. It is a story that
has everything inventive genius,
a struggle against odds, money
and success, motherhood and mil
lions upon millions of little children."
Editor yawning: "What, no dogs
in it? I like human interest stor
ies about dogs particularly small
dogs."
Boyle: "Yes, sir. I know that.
I looked for, a small dog. but you
know how touchy the furniture dis
play people are about admitting
animals. But this story has a lot
of baby psychology in it."
Editor cautiously im pressed:
"Hmmm. What's this big front
page story all about?"
Boyle drawing deep breath:
Sir, it is the heart-warming
drama of a former high school
coach who yearned to find the
pot of gold at the end of the rain
bow and the . . . here's the switch-
eroo ... he did find it, in a baby
potty."
Editor: "Come here. Let me
smell your beath."
Boyle: "I'm not kidding. Baby
potties have stood still for dec
ades. This guy came up with a
new revolutionary baby potty."
Editor: "Oh, no ... a baby
potty story? ... Oh, no, no, no!"
Boyle: "This guy's name is Paul
La Hue, aged 40, of Indianapolis.
He used to coach basketball and
baseball and teach science at a
high school in Union City, Ohio.
Then he went into the navy. Then
he went to work for a drug firm.
He got the idea for this new baby
potty while sitting in pediatri
cians' offices listening to mothers
complain about the problems of
housebreaking their babies."
Editor: "And so?"
Boyle: "So he worked four
years to perfect the belter potty.
It cost ?50,000 to get three pat
ents and tool up and produce his
first potty. Now he is selling them
all over the world, and expects to
overturn the whole baby potty in
dustry with it."
Editor: "Not that I'm at all in
terested, but what is new about
this product?"
Boyle: "It is a lightweight, rub
berized plastic job, but the main
thing about it is that it is a dual
purpose trainer, suitable for both
little men and little women."
Editor belligerently: "Why, the
regular old-fashioned potty is, too.
What's so new about that?"
Boyle: "I'm glad you asked that
question, sir. Little boys are
sometimes harder to train than
little girls. Mr. LaHue has a the
ory that this is because they re
gard the standard, or sit-down
potty, as not altogether satis
factory. He says they regard it as
sissy and may even by psychology
scarred if the situation isn't cor
rected. His solution is a small
vertical plastic shield which can
be attached to the backs of the
potty and provide more . . . uh
. . . masculine atmosphere."
Editor: "Are you making this all
up?
Boyle: "No, the American Med
ical Association was not found
wanting. It has been commend
ed by Parents' Magazine. Mr. La
Hue has sold Sluuouu worth ot
them in a few months, and"
Editor: "But potties . . . potties.
Won't people find a story about
potties ... un ... uh ... objectionable?"
Boyle: "What people, sir? A
baby potty isn't un-American. It
is as much a fact of life as babies
are. Both are found in the happi
est homes. I know one senti
mental couple who, after their
children were raised, painted the
baby potty red and grew flowers
in it.
Editor crossly: "Cut the non
sense, and go write your story.
But do me a favor, will you? The
next time I send you down to the
furniture mart, just stick to the
sofa department and take a nice
long nap."
"Well, dear reader, that's my
problem. If you read this story,
and write a letter to the editor
saying you don't like this story
well, his old ulcer will erupt like
Vesuvius.
And you know what will happen
to me? I'll be sent to Alaska and
have to spend the rest of the win
ter wading through wilderness
snowdrifts hunting up human in
terest stories about small lost sled
dogs, abandoned infant polar
bears, and wee baby walruses that
can't find their way home.
Salem 59 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
January 23, 1895
Hofer Brothers, publishers of
the Capital Journal, were adver
tising their "One Cent Daily,"
25c in silver for a month and
$1.00 for 121 days (Do Not Send
Stamps).
Little steamer Alice A. had a
regular run between Salem and
Independence. '
Heavy snows in the Siskiyous
had stalled mainline overland
trains and none were likely to
pass through Salem for several
days. Ticket agents were not sell,
ing tickets to points southward
beyond Ashland.
I
Jack Harkins .the Chcmeketa
street artist with a blacksmith
shop back of Keller's Furniture
store, had forged the first alum
inum horseshoes ever made in
Oergon.
Lee Steiner, Salem manufac
turing druggist (long superin
tendent of Oregon State hospit
al), had advertised: "Hades
wouldn't be a bad place if they's
only furnish ice water and Stein
er's Carbolic Salve."
Joseph G. Anderson of Meha-
ma had an advertisement say
ing he would pay a reward of
$1500 for the party or parties
who burned his barn and horses
on the night of December 12,
1892.
Chatwin house on Church
street, third door southward
from the Methodist church, had
advertised itself as a first-class
house that would appeal to legis
lators in Salem with its rate of
from $1 to $2.50 a day.
OPEN FORUM
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Vision of These Pioneers
Pays Continuing Dividend
A group of pioneers settled
in a certain township in Minne
sota. Thev were nnor. hut fhiv
Among other things, Morse C!"'T. woul(i talK ano,' "honest had vision and determination.
can demand a separate dining Rralt, as did Plunkett half a I Thn. ,,i, ,.i.i.
room for his independent party. ; century ago. , 0 churches with n TcS
At present both the Democrats Another reason why it is dif-lahle distance SrantiK- rlnihnrf
ficult to fix standards is the fact nnorlv housed l.irnn f.nmilinc- ii
would seem to the practical man
and the Republicans have sop
aratc dining rooms, and as a reg
ular, constituted party, he can
demand the same right.
Morse can also demand a sop-
that forms of wrongdoing change
with alterations in economic pat
terns and social evolution. Before
the eighteenth amendment the
arate cloakroom. The Republi- i corrupt payoff between the un-
under parliamentary rules. Fur-1 cans have their cloakroom where I derworld and the underside of
thermnre the votes arc on !
amendments drafted by Colin
Stanun, the tax adviser who in
turn coolers with outside "pro
fessionals." SECRET TAX ADVISERS
Just who these "professionals"
arc was even long kept secret
from the Democratic members
of the ways and means commit
tee. Since the tax laws have to
he obeyed by every taxpayer,
large or small, the laws are sup
posed to be reviewed in open
hearings where every taxpayer
can know what views arc ex
pressed by what groups.
However, current tax advice
has been given secretly without
even the names of the advisers
known until recently. Now,
Democratic members have learn
ed that the advisers include:
1. Roswcll Magill, a top Wall
Street tux attorney and former
governor of the New York Stock
Exchange, who has long advised
lower rates for corporations and
high bracket payers.
2. John llanes, Wall Street
Investment banker, director ot
the United Slates lines, Mutual
Life Insurance, Bankers Trust
and various other big corpora
tions, and among other thincs,
the largest orchid grower in the
world.
RAMIIOI) TACTICS
At present, ways and means
committeemen are being asked
to pass on the new amendments,
senators can read the news-i politics came from the profits of
papers, catnap and discuss po-1 rather small-time gambling and
litical gossip when they aren't on , prostitution. In the l!)20 s it came
the senate floor. The Demo- j from liquor. Now it comes, at
crats likewise have their own j least in New York, from big-time
cloakroom. So Morse can now i gambling. In Washington corrup
demaml a cloakroom for his in-: twin grew in proportion to the
dependent parly. ; size of government spending.
Hut most important of all Only the iron hand of the Jesse
Morse has the power to prolong Joneses held back the grafters'
senate debates almost indefinite- rush in war days,
ly. Under senate rules, it takes Senator McCarthy will find as
unanimous consent to limit a , he gets into the "mess," about
debate unless the senators want luhich so little has been done in
to make a maior fight and vote the fjrst v(,ar 0f Republican con-
that their first consideration
should have been to have im
proved their living conditions.
These Minnesota farmers were
men of vision and determination.
They realized that while they did
need better housing, more draft
horses and farm machinery, that
there were other factors to be
considered and their children
was something that must go
By REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector 8t Paul'i Cpueopal cnurtfi
along with the day by day effort
they put forth to establish them
selves in their new environment.
A modest little church was built
by the men themselves, and they
secured the services of an itin
erant missionary.
How far-reaching will he the
results of their vision we shall
never know. Several generations
of church men and church wom
en have come out ot that com
munity. Other communities
throughout t h e length and
breadth of our country doubtless
arc being enriched by the de
scendants of these people. The
pioneers themselves, being dead,
yet speak to an ever-widening
circle. While they enjoyed com
fortable circumstances later, they
Why Not Memorialize
Steamboat Captain'
To the Editor:
Visitors to our State Capitol al
ways speak most favorably of the
bas-relief panels on either side of
the Capitol steps. They add much
to the beauty of the building and
convey the message of courage
and hope so characteristic of the
pioneers.
Who has wandered about the
park and down to the dock at
Champoeg without picturing "in
his mind's eye" the sturdy river
boats of yesteryear plying up and
down the river? Was not Salem
quite a river port? Were not those
river boat captains "pioneers?"
The waters of the Willamette have
played quite a role in Oregon history.
Can't you just see a bas-relief
panel of an old time river boat
and her captain, stalwart and sure,
as he steps ashore? I can.
I am sure that Carroll Moores
meant for his bequest to purchase
something that would be a pra
phic illustration of a part of the
thrilling history of Oregon.
The committees feel that "the
pioneer" has been overdone but
isn't there more than one pioneer?
I believe that the ordinary citi
zens of our state want its colorful
history memorialized with art that
smacks of realitv. What sav you?
RUTH DEMPSEY
had the vision to sec in the be
ginning of their career, that the
bringing up of their children in
the admonition of the Lord, was
at least of as great an importance
as adding another draft horse, or
buying a few more pigs. We read
in the Scriptures, "Where there
is no vision, the people perish."
YOUR
NORGE
DEALER IS
CHERRY CITY ELECTRIC
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tori. thai he will be confronted
with the eternal niiistinn tt'hnfl
is right?" That cannot be de
cided liy headlines or ortaorv.
on invoking cloture. Southern
senators do not and will not do
this. They zealously guard the
right to talk indefinitely.
Therefore, Senator Lyndon i i, ,mlci 'i, hniihi n,,i
Johnson and the lm n-; Cmtn Prw,v
ators. many of whom voted , , commj -f P, P, ,
against Morse canno complain ur(, , (((,v(l
when he objects to limiting de- mora,s and '
bate. One vote by h.m can keep i ,jnn , imlWmt s'll(.h ,
me emi.e M-umi- ... Thls js fnrmj(ia,c nitrrtnk-
several days extra
Furthermore, southern sen
ators who are strong stales-right-els
eau'l object when Morse
talks about the slate of Oregon
as he so frequently does. Ore
con has not had so much adver
tising in Washington since it
was admitted to the union. Morse I
inc. Some help can come from
a position taken by Franklin D.
Roosevelt when he was trying
Sheriff Tom Farley in the "tin
box'' days of the early 30's. He
held in substance that the hur
den of proof should be shifted
to the officeholder when his
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fun doing it.
The chief people who aren't ,
having fun arc Senators Know-
a-ha ...iit, ih arivirfl nf ihis I land and Johnson who kicked
and other Wall Street counselors, him off his committee posts.
and Chairman Reed demands
that they pass on them In a hurry SKUNK I1EATS R V
and under parliamentary law. ; A1.IU QI KHQl'K skunk is '.c.it-
Parliamentary law is import-. ing tne rap.
ant. It means that if a con
gressman, on further study of I
tax amendment, changes his
mind, he cannot move to have
the committee reconsider, unless
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lainiy exercising tne rigm. ru.: .,, .,,,,, if,., , .,,irh ,, 1Ej
thermorc. he s having a lot of . . ..(,,, Thi. ' i !BJ
a notable advance in the build-MM
inc oi standard ot punnc moral- j
ity. ;
Governor Dewey has pointed .
the way to a real contribution to
public morality. Senator Mc
Carthy can make a similar con
tribution if, in ferreting out un
savory activities under the Tru
man regime, he also will give
some attention to the construc
tive issue of what is right.
The skunk bit a young girl, and
under the city ordinance would
have to be quarantined for 11 days.
Police say that won't be necessary
this time.
he voted against the amendment I The skunk - dcodonrcd. ot WHAT NERVE!
in the first place. course - bit the girl at his home- OKLAHOMA CITY (JRozn An-
In other words, it a quick vote :'ne uiy
Is taken on a highly rnmplic.it
ed amendment, such as a tux on
annuities, there can be no re
vision, even though a Democratic
member produces some new in
formation that the Amendment
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