' Page 4 Capital jkJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1 888 . BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday ot 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. Fill UMd Wlr. TTlM l lh tMtllM frnl n Tki Dillrt Frm. Th Auoclittd Pnu ! McJiulTilr ntlllK) to lb. (or publicitloo ot all son dlipttchej credit to It or oUurtlio ermited in Ihlo ptpoi tUo nowi publbbod tbircln. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Br Comer: Monthlr. I1.MI BU Uooibi, ll.Mi Ono mr. IIS.OC B MU tn Onion: Monthlr. tool SU Montbi. t.Mi Oso Xoor. 11.00. Bj UoU OuUMo Oroioo: Monthlr, 11.35; 611 Uoothj. tT.IOi Ono DOUGLAS MacARTHUR'S CREDO General Douglas MacArthur is observing his 74th birth day Monday, January 26. sas, son of Lt. Gen. Arthur tioncd there, and who, like his son, was a foremost mili tary hero ot liis time, both of whom have had most adven turous careers and left their marks on history. The Capital Journal is in receipt of a fine calendar-sized naturally colored presentation of "General MacArthur's Credo," with portrait of Douglas MacArthur topping a gal lery of heroes, which include George Washington, Abra ham Lincoln, Sir Winston Churchill and Herbert Hoover. It was sent by Basil Brewer, the fighting editor and pub lisher of the New Bedford, Mass., Standard Times. Because of universal interest in Douglas MacArthur, army commander of the victorious U.S. forces in the Pacific during World War II, pacifier of belligerent Japan afterwards and supreme commander in the Korean war until his sudden removal by President Truman, his creed js published in full: Youth is not a time of life. It's a state of mind. It's a test of the will, a quality of imagination, a vigor of emotions, a prominence of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. , Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair . . . these are the Suick equivalents of the long, long years that bow the head and turn ie crowing spirit back to dust. Whether 70 or 16, there is, In every being's heart, the love of wonder,, the sweet amazement of the stars, and the starlike things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for "What Next? You are as voune as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man and from the Infinite, to long are you young. When all the wires are down, and all the central places of your heart - are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, ' then, and only then, are you grown old indeed, and may Cod have mercy on your soul. "Live everyday of your life as though you expected to live forever.' , uouglas MacAruwr. To paraphrase Shakespeare , and arrows of outrageous fortune have not soured Mac ; Arthur and "Age hath not withered nor custom staled his infinite variety. G. P. , KEEP RED CHINA OUT The envoys of the western powers went to Berlin in good faith, with "open minds," hoping against hope that Rus sia's attitude would be quite different than there was any reason to believe it would be. There may yet be ground say that there isn t. But the tov don't suggest that there is What did Molotov sav? That nothinir would be accom plished without the inclusion of Red China to make a Big Five" conference. Whether he is prepared to insist upon the point isn't certain. If he is the conference is as good as dead before it even begins. For there are two good reasons Red China doesn't belong in this conference. First, and reason enough by itself: This is a European conference, designed primarily to see if something can be done about Germany and Austria. The western powers want a treaty covering these countries, providing for their restoration to the rank of independent nations, with a withdrawal of foreign occupation forces. They want a united Germany, which Russia will oppose, but the confer ence should at least determine whether any agreement is possible. Red China has no interest whatever in this (uies tion or any others relating to Europe. Second, the western powers have had enough experience negotiating with Red China in Korea to know that it is just a waste of time and effort. The Chinese arc even more unwilling than the Russians to agree to anything. They are past masters of the old oriental art of stall. If we want nothing accomplished at Berlin, Red China could help us. If there is any constructive end sought the farther China stays away the better. BEN HUR LAMPMAN It was something of a surprise to note that Ben Hur Lampman, who died Sunday, was only 67. It seemed to men and women who were not new to Oregon themselves that he had been part of the Oregon scene since its very beginning. Mr. Lampman was a native of Wisconsin, who begun newspaper work in North Dakota and rame to Oregon with his family, locating at Gold published a newspaper. The big city beckoned the talented young man and he joined the Oregonian in 1916, first as a police reporter, soon to become an editorial writer who wrote as no one else ever did or will. Ren Hur Lampman whs loved by a great circle of reading fans who never knew him personally, but who really did know him through his unique writings, which Oregonians have always regarded as distinctive to this state. Fortunately he wrote books as well as newspaper copy for today, and if it is good for a few discerning persons' Fcrapbooks, so his words will live on in the literary saga of Oregon, Well deserved recognition as poet laureate of Oregon was conferred in 1051 by our own Governor Mc Kay, hut this tribute had already come from the hearts of Oregon's people, THE DIVORCING ROOSEVELTS The Roosevelts are a remarkable family, both branches in fact. They have ?et many records. Franklin I). Roose velt's children have however, set one record neither thoy nor their admirers can view with much pride. This is in divorces. James Roosevelt, who ran against Earl Warren the last time Warren was elected governor of California, has just split up with his second wife, which brings our strictly unofficial tabulation on separations by Roosevelt sons and daughters to seven. Three of them, Elliott, Anna and .lames, have had two each, crediting James with his second in advance of it be ing granted. Franklin D. had one. And none of the five is old. There is time for several more. Only undivorced Roosevelt of the Franklin I). family is John, who, curiously enough, is the only one to vote Re publican. We attach no significance to this, but the coin cidence is a bit puzzling. Tor. nt.oo. He was born in 1880 in Arkan MacArthur who was then sta it is evident that the "stings for hope. It is too early to first words of Russia's Molo- much to hope for. Hill where for a short time he THE AMERICA IS MADE OF HAkbWORKlNG PEOPLE -, WOP PEOPLE- r.'.r f'n rtwri.c li isc THE LOVED ONE frW3t?jr AT THE mmfiy bedside. WASHINGTON MERRY Publishers Intimidated by TV License Renewal Needs? By DREW WASHINGTON -Con firmation debat" over one of Eisenhower's most important recent appointees comes up in the senate today. II is Robert K. I-co, the new federal communications commissioner, in which, post he allocates the great est natural wealth the U.S. gov ernment can still parcel out to private citizens Radio and TV channels. In the Hoover administration, the most important bureau from the viewpoint of natural wealth was the Fcderad Power Commi. sion, which allocated dam sites to electric power companies. Now most of these have been developed. i'rior to that, the commission that had the greatest largess to ladle out was the lands bureau which gave away the vast undevel oped west. But today, with population ex panded and natural resources do- oloped, the greatest federal gifts come from TV licenses, which can make fortunes for those lucky enough to get them. Even more important, they help sway public opinion in the U.S. Not only do TV and radio have a tremendous impact on the pub lic, nut many TV and radio sta tions arc owned by newspapers; so the danger of monopolization of the news, of canned thinking, ac cording to Senator Mike Monroncy of Oklahoma, is not to be taken lightly. Suhllr Slanting But what even Senator Mon roncy, an ex-newspapcrman, may not realize is the extent to whijh some newspapers may be tempt ed to slant their pages because of pending TV licenses. "I suppose we'll have a tough time getting a TV license." ob served one Wisconsin publisher. "We've been pretty critical of McCarthy." "The boss." remarked a mid western editor, "doesn't want us to print too much about McCar thy. We have a TV application pending before the FCC." Both newsmen had every reason to be cautious. They knew that McCarthy has two men on the FCC John C. Docrfcr ot Wisconsin and Robert K. lt. They also knew that on the same dav l.ce took his seat, the FCC for the first time reversed a ruling it had re fused to reverse on three sep.ir L'P'ir-' TV I :. . .. , r .... . ciiannei in Aiuwnusee. nnen i.ee took his seat, the FCC proceeded I to reopen Milwaukee to MiCar- i thy's friends. j The Denver Post, stanch Eisen- I hower backer, has pounded edi- i torially. on the worry that monop olization of public opinion is in vnlvcd. Palmer Hoyt, Denver Post publisher and one of the most respected newsmen In America, has indirectly warned his senator from Colorado. Big Ed Johnson, uh:it thr nnttnn fare If nnn .nn. tor begins to Influence public opln- ! ion through the FCC. ! Already the nation has seen how the senator from Wisconsin was ! able to secure $.100,000 of free 1 radio and TV time to answer Pres ident Truman. At first lower ech elon network officials planned to refuse McCarthy radio-TV time since Truman referred not to the senator but to "McCarthyism." However, higher-up network mo guls the men who have to deal Willi McCarthy's two men on the KCC ruled otherwise, tails Korum Moderator Hoyl's newspaper has pointed out that McCarthy's friend. I.pc. whose confirmation is voted on to day, has no qualifications to regu late TV or radio other than serving as moderator for three months on (acts forum, the TV program fi- THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem. Oregon 'ORDINARY' AMERICANS! PEOPLE NO Nought SyndluU, lot, - - GO - ROUND PEARSON nanced by Texas oil millionaire H. L. Hunt, another McCarthy friend and backer. Lee was also embroiled in the most scurrilous and dirtiest poli tical campaign in recent history, the McCarthy operation in Mary land to defeat Senator Tydings. An official senate investigation of that campaign indicates violation of the corrupt practices act. Nevertheless, Lee will be con firmed. He will be confirmed partly be cause some senators are afraid ot McCarthy, partly because the big networks have been Dullini wires for mm backstage. Senator Les ter Hunt of Wyoming, a member of the interstate commerce com mittee which has okehed Lee. con fided to friends that he feared Mc Carthy would come into Wyoming to campaign against him. benator Magnuson of Washing ton, also on the committee, has a close political hacker In Seattle who is interested in a TV station. Meanwhile. Earl Gammons. vice-president of Columbia Broad casting, buttonholed Senator Smathers of Florida, also on the committee which okehed Lee. Gammons' CBS network features Ed. Murrow who lias done an out standing job of combating Mc- rnrthvicm ann nnnnrl.r tin fl lowcd a liberal news policy. How- ever, the networks have asked the rCC for permission to own more I TV stations than the present limit. I 1 bi rn w .-, K'jju? -cr. L TJy K commissioner Lee is reported to ineir nanniworx ann ask ques-i favor their petition. lions by the hour. Finally, we Senator Smathers reserved ju(lg- jwil1 n!,vc well landscaped parks ment on Lee's confirmation. But 1 aml a foreigner will walk off no one on his entire committee, . w'ln ,ne undeserved credit. How with the exception of Oklahoma's i true! No "Pct is without credit Monroney, had the courage to vote except in his own city. How against Lee. 1 much better it would be to select "President Eisenhower made a,,nrce cxPcr, y lot from the pledge to the American people that I l""'n or morc in nllr cil' an(' ,rl1 ho unuIH nnnnint ,.i,.,iifi.i . . them to do t ho job. I grant vnu public office," Monronev told low sennlnrs "A vm.no has served three months as mmler- sive ,h,r,r "mc kccpinR a for ator for II. L. Hunt and who ban- j from P"pejually planning died money for McCarthy in Mary-! dc5IKns "h m,r fl"ra ,nat wm,ld land isn't exactly qualified to rcg-1 cV?,ltall:v r?w ,m." nW ..i-i. il. . . v" lnfifrt And rin it at murh loce uiaie inc radio ana TV mrwavs of the nation." The Butler Surplus Astorlan Budget EVIMPnlK lh iimnrninAnl 1 i " v. uuiriu ii.i , '"PPP ,ne tentatively suggested scneme ol scllini! some mrnim hi,n, u,,.: ,, ,, ,r. 10 Kl M,1. 1 "! al r'K" supply surplus If. S. food to hun gry foreign nations, but butler ought never to be Included in such a program Too nianv Americans do without it because ! tbey think it costs too much, and ; get along with oleomargarine in-j stead. Very few of those Amrri-1 cans would be happv to think the! Reds were eating the butter thev cant afford. ,'rf'?lhr sn,v,ornTnl is n,mv talking about selling the surplus : "m,rr 'k 10 ine people at re- duct'1 Prices. This sounds a good rtr' ,lkc "c Brannan plan pro- Psoa under the Truman ndminis- u. num. so me administration is now likely to hear from the Demo crats instead of the irate house Wives, i ASHLAND'S FINE RECORD Ashland Tidings Ashland passed a noleworlhv iiav aumiav. inai nay me citvi .1 fi i j . ..." traffic fatality scoreboard in ,1C Plaza turned to 123. That means i , i fr T .J i- u ,nc her special recipe. It was differ ast traffic death within the city , cnl lmm aU ,hc rcst flnd wc "mil, liked. Wish I had some mvself Now it's our fervent hope thl , now., the board can someday say 2345, WARD K. RICHARDSOV, or better jet, 12345. Falls City. Urt. THERE IS MEDAL FOR. i H'h THE LOrALTy, SACRIFICE AND TOIL OF THE DEVOTED WOMAN or MAN who Gives comfort and CARE DURING THE MONTHS WHEN A LONG ILLNESS J INVADES THE HOUSEHOLD OPEN FORUM Doesn't Want Eastern Expert for Our Parks To the Editor: We attended the park commis sion session Jan. 21. We came along with a large delegation of garden club members to put forth our effort to impress the commission with the value to the city to turn the old barn in Bush Park over to the people for a gar den center. Shivering with the cold, we listened attentively, when they didn t talk too low for us to hear, to the views brought out by the members of the com mission. The only obstruction to the starting of the project, which seems to worry the city manager, is the fact the city is using the barn for a machine shed. A mod ern machine shed and repair shop would cost the city $3500, which amount for that purpose the city lathers do not possess. An announcement was made. with apparent great satisfaction. that a landscape gardener from the middle west had been hired at a salary of $5000 a year to oversee the landscaping of the city parks. Personally I was ap palled at the announcement. Here we are with a city frequent ly acclaimed the most beautiful city of its size in the Northwest. developed to its present stand ing by home talent. And now we have to hire a man from the east, with little understanding of the type of flora and their habits that grow in our climate, to con- tinuc our development, How will he proceed? He will talk intimately with our local landscapes. He will observe fel-i,hev dn ,hc ol wi,n fr more enthusiasm than they will , )Thc first year's salary of the unneeded adviser would build the much needed modern ma chine shed and workshop and give the clubs a chance to go head with thi r enthusiastic I 1 .1 l . ni'ip in ui'ti'iuiuui: me p.-irK. Next summer I suppose c win nave 10 ibkc our outside visitors to the park and show them the machine shed with a couple of dirty but valuable pieces ot farm equipment stand- ing in me parKing in order to 'how them the flower gardens surrounding it. . K. M. PETTYCHEW, ' 1028 S,. 12th. n .1 I n , t OCtS O LhuCKIC Out Ot Sauer Kraut Reference To the Editor: Your reference in the January 19 edition in Ben Max well's column of "Salem 37 Years Ago" to our kraut ad seems to be developing interest, and one character, Sid Boise, down the street from your place a black or so, event wants to buy some. You should tell your ad man of the potency of C.J. ads, might cheer him up. "J As I recall, it that time we fur- ni.hnri ih -hK. cWfr 5wj , d M Uchcr, make this kraut for us on an POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Bennie Fields Says 'Ham It Up' If You Want Success By HAL NEW YORK 0P "Ham it up!" This' is the advice of oldtime crooner Benny Fields to anyone trying tto make a success of mar- Film Censorship By RAYMOND MOLEY The decision of the United States Supreme Court, ruling against the rulings of two state authorities which prohjbitod the showing of two motion pictures, may well start street dancing by purveyors of bad pictures. There will be rejoicing, too; by certain misguid ed "liberals" who contend that the Constitution says that anything can be seen by anybody. But be fore the celebration gets too noisy, someone ought to tell such people exactly what the court decided. Its unanimous decision was that the banning of the two pictures was wrong for the same general reasons given by the court in the case of "The Miracle" in 1951. In that case it was held that the direction in the law of New York, that "sacrilegious" films be ban ned, was altogether too vague. In the present case of the picture "La Ronde," it was held that the term "immoral" was too vague, and in the case of "M," that the objection of "tending to promote crime" was too vague. ' Justice Clark, in the majority opinion in The Miracle case, held that "in seeking to apply the broad and all-inclusive definition of 'sacrilegious' given by the New York courts, the censor is set adrift upon a boundless sea amid a myriad of conflicting currents of religious views." Justice Reed, concurring in the "judgment," as sumed that the state had the pow er to establish a system of licens ing pictures, but would have the supreme court set itself up as a supercensoring body to determine whether "the principles of the First Amendment have been hon ored." JusUce Frankfurter concurred in the "judgment" with a prodigious ly long opinion which reveals the fruits of ransacking the sacred writings, the dictionaries, and the encyclopedias in order to say simply that the New York Board of Regents did not know anything about sacrileges. But Clark and Frankfurter and, as I have indicated, Reed make it clear that the motion picture can not enjoy unlimited liberty and that it occupies a special position regardless of the protection of the First, or free-speech, Amendment. The court throughout these opin ions was careful to say that it was referring to "prior" restraints, which means that the police power can more rightfully be invoked after a picture has been shown than before. In short, that it is legal to lock the stable after the horse is stolen. The problem now presented to the slates which wish to continue censorship is to devise laws which more precisely define such things as "sacrilege," "immorality," "en couragement of crime," etc. This will be difficult. The courts, as wall as the legislatures, have been struggling with a definition of "in sanity" for generations and still seem to be unable to make one. But legislatures have prescribed the setting up of commissions to judge individual cases. That is, o course, what the legislatures tried to do in the case of motion pictures i.e.. delegate the spe cific determinations to an adminis trative agency. This blow to government cen sorship will make it more impor tant than ever that the industry police itself through its Production Code. That is at the moment un der fire. The real danger is in that direction, for if the authority of the industry to regulate itself is to he flouted, nothing but chaos will result, wilh boycotts and other private means of suppressing had pictures taking the place of or derly regulation The opinions of Justices Douglas and Black in these recent cases I shall consider in another article. For they apparently would invite the chaos of which I speak. from CITY lutl phent and lay ''how mgth" . . . ony amount from $25 to $1500 Complete vnur loan thf firt lime you top in. All drtaiU artinccd quicMv.ronvtnicntlv.privitel) in friendly, plmant ay. loam moao on iFonofuro ofont, (or or fvrnifvrt. Room 200, 317 Court St. rhont 4-3396 W. A. Ooodright. Mgr. wnert ttien'i 1 10N MN tot tveryoni BOYLE riage or anything else. "If you're not a ham, no mat ter what business you're in, no matter what in life you're trying to do," said Benny, "You 11 nev er be any good in it." To Benny "ham" means a food to the spirit instead of the body, or. as he puts it "the ability to keep on enthusing, and not take your next song or your next breath for granted." Fields, hailed by Bing Crosby as America's first cronner, was a prince in the days when vaude ville was king. And he married a crown princess. Blossom See ley, a famous star who intro duced many famous jazz songs as the teen-agers today still like to hum. They have trouped together for 32 years, and most of the years were fat, but some of them were lean. Sometimes Blossom was starred, sometimes Benny; often they shared top billing. Benny said it never made any difference to either of them. "If two married people start getting jealous of each other's career," he said, "they don't have a marriage. They've just got a financial arrangement." Blossom and Benny, who don't mind at all being called "Mr. and Mrs. Show Business," are starred together again now on two daily programs over station WMGM here. "We aren't exactly disc jock eys," said Benny. "We just ad lib about the old days, and play a little music. But we worked up to a top rating in just 14 weeks, and Blossie did a jig. "That girl still flips. And she used to have everything big money, big cars, chauffeurs, maids everything. That's what I mean by ham; you have to en thuse to do good work: And once you really got lt, you never lose It." Benny says it's the same way with married life. He pointed OUt that mnnv f.imntm mnrrianae in the show world had survived the hardships and temptations nf fl nrppflrinne fioM nr,nwn Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack I Benny and Mary Livingstone, Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa, and Eddie and Ida Cantor. Why do so many of Holly wood's career marriages break up? "Probably because thev rtnn't team their careers." said Ben ny. "You can't make love over the telephone indefinitely. "Marriage has more hazards than a golf course. Two married, people can have careers, but I think they have to have them togetner. There are too many pitfalls if they stay apart too! long or too -often. 1 "Blossie and I get up at the j same time. We breakfast togeth-1 Cr. talk OVPr nur hllcinnce in. ! gether, go to workt together,! come home together:' it has to j oe that way or it don t make: sense. ! 'And Vnu can't hnnp mili.a Eack in 1929 I invested Blossic's money for her. I made wrong ! guesses, just like a lot of other I cuvs did I tnst t7nn nnn ch hud put hy. I lost everything I had my-! self, including a $200,000 insur ance policy. And there were some bad years. "But Rlnsei navnr nnttA once about the lost money. Ncv- j cr. She wore cloth coats and was cold, and she had had three mink mntC Shu tinvor unmnhinitJ ' There's a girl with protocol a ' real diplomat. The phone rang for Benny in the restaurant where we were lunching. He answered it, and returned, saying: ' "I V. 1 n in tin ..., 13ln.lA ' went to get her hair done, and fiinn t bring along any money. I haw in on hail hur mil thai cute little monkey.' ' BANK our Co iivonieiieo ALL TILLER SERVICES 8:30 TO 5:30 At the Willamette Valley Bank help ful staff members are on duty to serve you six days a week from 8:30 .m. In ?:10 p.m. Banking rooms open: 10 to 3. Sidewalk Teller Window Service: 8:30 to 10; 3 to 5:30, Open your savings and checking accounts new at Salem's Independent, home-owned bank. rftod Offices 1990 Foirgreundi toed Unlvcnlty Ircmchi 1310 Slot Slrttl Amptt porting fooMtft ot both banking Monday, January 25, 1954 Salem 54 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL January 25, 1900 Sheriff J. C. Van Orsdell ot Polk county had completed ar rangements for the hanging ot W. G. Magers, February 2, 1900. (This, probably, was the last of ficial hanging conducted by Polk county since that unpleasant bus iness was soon thereafter trans fcred as a .duty of penitentiary warden.) 0 . Capital Journal's X-Rayist had written: "Before it will be possi ble to convict anyone driving on a Marion county bicycle path it will be necessary to find the path." o - Woman's Union Home Mission had been organized as a band of workers for the City of Salem. Capital Journal's Independence correspondent had reported that high wind had toppled the Mon mouth water tower and that the structure had been wrecked in the crash. o Entertainment provided at Reed's opera house by the Wizard Oil Co. had continued to draw large crowds. o W. S. Taylor, stock Inspector for Marion county, had found a good many scabby sheep in this locality and ordered them all dipped. Isadore Grecnbaum, first door south of the post office (on Com mercial street), had accepted the business of closing nut the Willis Brothers drygoods store. S. Fried man was auctioneer. Salem price for wheat, 88 or more pounds to the bushel, had been fixed at 40c. o Buren & Hamilton had a spe cial carpet sale with Moquets and velvets sewed, laid and lined for $1.00 a yard. Drs. Epley & Olinger, Salem Dental Parlors, were advertising 22k fine bridge and crown work for $5 per tooth or crown. Mail Order Sensation! 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