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"Page 4 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL', Salem, Oregon Saturday, January 30, 1954 I Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 ' BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus , Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North ' . Qhurch St. Phone 2-2406. . fall Letted Wirt gtrrlet ( tht Atttrltt4 Prtu tnd Tbt Oollea pren. I Tht Auoelttt4 Preu It txcluilvtly tntltltd to the uaj for publication of tU newt diipttcbu endued to It or othinrlit credliti in thU piper mil ' alio newa published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Br Cirrtert Monthly, tl.lt: ai Monlbt. 17.(01 One fetr. llt.00. Br MtU In Orocon: Month!-. IMi six Montbe. M.Mi One Year, is 00. Br Kill OuUlde Or t too: Monthlr, 11.15; Mi Uonthj, tT.IOi One Year. 115 00. SOME QUEER CAMPAIGN THOUGHTS Tn thnse who have come to expect queer things of can didates for office, Secretary of State Earl Newbry's speech at Eugne will be no surprise, but plenty of others are going to find it difficult to understand. Newbry, a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, hence presumably interested in saying and doing things , that will attract support, reopens ine saies xax question. In some other states this might be done with comparative safety, though the sales tax is a bad one everywhere. But Oregon has rejected it five times, and the last time by an overwhelming majority. If there is anything our people have made up their minds on it is a eales tax. They don't want it. Not even anotner iook. Then Newbry got into the Hells Canyon matter, which was proper, because an Oregon governor may have a little influence on what is done there, if it isn't decided before next January. Newbry criticized the low dam prooosal but for a new and different reason than has been advanced heretofore. He is quoted by the United Press as saying that within the next couple of generations the most impor " tant function of dams in the Columbia basin will be irri gation and that high dams are better suited to this pur Dose. Newbry should know that this depends upon where the dams are located. Some dams are already valuable mostly for irrigation. But Hells Canyon is at the lower end of the area suitable for irrigation in the Snake river valley. It will be necessary to make the water run uphill from its reservoir for irrigation use. unless the Horse Heaven country in Southeast Washington is eventually Irrigated, which so far as we know has never been pro posed. If it ever is there are better, more economical places to store the water. All have agreed heretofore that Hells Canyon, whoever builds it and whether one dam or three, will be essentially a power project with some flood control and navigation but no irrigation benefits. Newbry also advocated building the John Day dam, and is quoted as seeing irrigation benefits there, too. Where, one wonders. Only the already well watered lands along the lower Columbia where it would never be remotely close to feasible to construct a costly system for gravity irrigation, rumping is me answer tnere it supplemental water is needed. In justice to himself and to the party whose nominee he might become, the secretary should give more thouuht to his campaign pronouncements from now on. O0KA-&O0GA (They have Ol$COVRD HOW TO ASAKC FIRE.') BLUG-OOKLE ODDfVLUP. (mey WILL BURM THE FORESTS) VJOGCLE-BOK YUPPA.V (NOWTHMCAM $eB TO FIGHT AT NIGHT!) THE "ATOM" OF ITS DAY 7 - mi OQLOO tTHey AAy - DESTROY ,CJVILI2ATiaN we KNOW IT) I LOADl.VnB BlOZZ (If 140 AWFUL IT MAY 4TOP FI6HTINS) vimm&i-isiiw v a ... ...... .7.. i-.'v OPEN FORUM Wants to Know Just What Is in Fluorine To the Editor: In your paper of Jan. 29, there appeared a report on the bene fits of Flourine in water supply for the prevention of tooth de cay. Also that it would do no harm, although it 'is listed in my encyclopedia as poison. In fairness to the general pub lic that doesn't take the time to check a complete report should be made in the paper, with com plete details as listed in the en cyclopedia including the various products used in manufacturing. , MRS. A. OLSON WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Good Feeling Manifested At Dinner for Dave Beck By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON In Washing-1 while it was still dark. sat. chafed. ion, wnerc dining out is one of paced the floor all morning and INADEQUATE MILITARY RESERVES The Senate Armed Services Committee has issued a re port stating that the nation's military reserves are badly undermanned. It blames the shortage largely on the call ing of inactive reservists notably World War II veterans to duty in the Korean war. The report stresses the importance of "a strong, ready reserve force," but finds the reserves of all the services are "suffering from serious shortage of manpower." The .national ouard is in better shape but needs at least a year's training to be ready for combat. Nearly a million reservists, mostly World War II veter ans, were summoned to active duty in the Korean war. Thousands of them were in action while thousands of active reservists, paid for training duty, remained at home. "This inexplicable policy created an attitude of distrust and resentment on the part of the nonpaid reservists toward the armed forces which still exists," the report said. Some highlights of the report follow. Public hear ings will be held by the committee at an early date: Many parents and wives refuse to lot son and husbands sign up for reserve training for fear they will be called up. Some employers discriminate against reservists bemuse of the time required for military training or the possible loss of the worker during a war. Many reserve units arc far under strcnt-lli. some with less than a tenth of their authorized personnel. Others have too many officers: two few enlisted men. The Air Force reserve has 2,000 more officers than airmen. There is a critical shortage of younf. pilots in Air Force and Navv air reserve units. Average age of pilots in many units is above 30. G. P. TEST OF CALIFORNIA'S STANDARDS Mrs. James Roosevelt's sensational answer to her hus band's suit for separate maintnimince certainly added nothing to the lustre of the Roosevelt family name, par ticularly as it purports to quote some of the most explosive material irom a letter Koosevelt himself wrote to her. But the public's greatest interest will be in what if any effect the disclosures will have on Koosevelt's political for tunes. Although badly beaten by Karl Warren for the California governorship, he still has hopes of duplicating his father's political achievements, and has announced his candidacy for congress in California this year. Ho an nounces that he will go ahead with his candidacy regard less of the divorce suit revelations. n the election down there will be both a test of'the the major industries, some din ner parties are held with a pur pose, some are not. Possibly one in the lormcr category was held the other day by the former pres ident of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Eric Johnston, in hon or of the head of the world's largest labor union, Teamster Davo Beck. The dinner came simultaneous ly with Beck's loan of $1,000,000 to the biggest trailer company, Fruchauf, and his offer of an- other $5,000,000 to New York trucking firms to install modern equipment along the New York waterfront. Those who attended the small and very pleasant dinner, and those who have watched Beck's operations with private business wonder if this inaugurates a new era of business-labor cooperation. Others who know Beck well say that, even as teamster boss of the Northwest, he believed in employer-employee cooperation. At any rate guests who turned up at the motion picture head quarters of movie czar Johnston included Chief Justice Earl War ren who knew Beck back in Cali fornia; Secretary of Health and Welfare Oveta Hobby; Senators Magnuson and Jackson of Beck's home slate, Washington: Con gressman Jack Shelley of San Francisco, a member of the part of the early afternoon. Final ly Gouzenko arrived. "Dobro Youtro," I said in my best Russian, meaning "Good Morning." "Dobro Vechir," he replied in Russian, then added in English with a smile: "It's evening now, not morning." DIKKSKN BOYCOTT It was meant for GOP ears onlv. but Illinois' suave, savvy Sen. Ev erett Dirksen has urged Republi can senators to boycott the Tele vision program of their former colleague, Ex-Sen. Blair Moody of juicnigan. Dirksen is worried that Moody may run as the Democratic can didate against white-maned Sen. Homer F'erguson in Michigan and doesn't want Republicans to help build up Moody by appearing on his television program. So. behind the closed doors of the senate policy committee, he told Repub lican colleagues that Moody's pro gram is "slanted." and ureed them to boycott it. New Jersey's profcssiomsh Sen. Alex Smith immediately jumped up to agree. He had appeared on the program once, he complained, and felt that Moody had peppered him with a lot of tough questions. Note Despite Dirkscn's nlca. republicans continue appearing regularly on the Moodv show. They state that Moodv. who covered Washington politics for Salem 15 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL January 30, 1939 Capital Reconstruction commis sion had inspected the new $750.- 000 state library building prepara tory to accepting it from the contractor. On Saturday night the Oregon ian, largest and oldest northwest daily newspaper, had reverted to the control of heirs of its two dis tinguished former owners: Editor Harvey W. Scott and Publisher Henry L. Pittock. A Capital Journal editorial had declared: "There's a niche in Ore gon's hall of fame for the man who can slam the legislative door in the faces of the taxeaters and for tify it against further raids unon those who pay the bill." William S. Knudsen. president of General Motors corporation, had predicted that no big war could do carried on in Europe without the assistance of the United States. Irish poet Wiliam Butler Yeats. 73, had died in France. Plans were made to construct a runway between the Salem armory and Crystal Garden hall for the benefit of those who attended the President s ball. A bifl had been introduced Into the legislature to abolish the office of Marion county recorder. A churn drill had been installed it Grand Coulee in an engineering effort to control a 2,000,000 yard earth movement. Let the Curtain Fall Atorian-Budget ' Our 21 ex-Americans who chose communism at Panmunjom have now withdrawn behind the iron curtain, which will now, we hope close them off from the sight of western mankind for a long time to come. They have had far more attention than they deserved, since we are all curious as to what causes the ticking of an individual who would willingly prefer life un der communism to life in the U.S. It would be interesting if, at the end of two or three years or so, the iron curtain could be lifted momentarily to let us see whether these individuals have had their fill of red life, and then the cur tain could be once more dropped over them permanently. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Women Really Know How" Husbands Should Behave CHILD OUTBITES SNAKE SHREVEPORT, La. (U.PJA bit ing battle between a 17-month-old Shrcvcport child and a young moccasin snake ended with the snake on the short end. Mrs. Mary Townsend said a doc tor s examination of her son. Gregory, showed he received nothing more than a small wound on his right hand in the encoun ter yesterday. The snake died minus his tail. congressmen from loamslors Union; most of the .i, ii,.u t ashingtnn, nhirrtivplv that (W nninin L..tJ k ...... . . ' ." - - : lAuin uni UaI n..i s one of the f nil UUI flUI VUI i iMrvniinn. INotlung was said at the din-j WASHINGTON U'lltHI, ner about politics. Uut after din-l Kansas' modest Sen. Frank ner and just before Johnston Carlson, the president's favorite .k.,.J - - - . ..... ' " r-uKiiMi . rcceivea personal Dirlnclnv mes- together i with California Congress-;hc was , -a(.mucrnl men Holifield and George Miller. ; f.lirpst mn(0rators in llakrr Dnnorrat-llrrald There probably was never anoth er time in our history when the puonc was so jittery about the A GOOD FARM LEADER Pendleton East Oregonlan Jens Terjeson has annonnrorl he will resign next month from his position as chairman of the Oregon Wheat commission. We sincerely hope that does not sig nal the retirement of Mr. Ter jeson from all such activity. His thinking on farm problems has been extremely beneficial to the state of Oregon and particularly to farmers of this region. When visitors comment so frequently upon the advanced thinking of Umatilla county farmers they know the work of Mr. Terjeson. I NEW YORK W-lf there is one thing every woman feels she knows for sure, it is how a husband ought to behave to hold his wife's love. Be she Co-ed, housewife, old maid or grandma, she can rattle off extemporaneously at least 999 easy ways a husband can make himself more of a shining knight in his wife's eyes. These lists make about as much impression on the average stub born husband as a headstrong moth trying to butt down the Em pire State building. He notices that no woman ever endorses that famous old masculine prescription for maintaining a wife in health and happiness "Keep her -bare footed." Yet this rule worked pretty well for centuries. It probably could be proved even today that in those areas of the world where wives go barefooted the divorce and )cer rate is lower, the families'are larger, than in lands where they wear shoes. Tight shoes actually may upset more wives than tight husbands. The latest entrant in the husband-improving derby is Mrs. Ver onica Dengel, a lecturer who also tolls women how they can be charming and beautiful and how they can hold their husbands. Why doesn't some woman write a book telling wives how to let go of their husbands? There might be a fortune in it. The virtue of Mrs. Dengcl's list of suggestions on how hubby can win his wife's love forever is that it is surprisingly small. Just these five: Serve his bride breakfast in bed once a week; spend 15 minu tes a day courting her! do the heavy housework himself; let her take a vacation by herself each year; surprise her with little at tentions, such as phoning her from the office to tell her how much he misses her. Frankly, I can't think of five surer ways to break up a reason ably happy home than for a hus band to carry out these suggestions literally. Take that breakfast in bed rou tine. All most men can cook is canned chili. What wife is going to put up with a husband who ten derly compels her once a week to lie in bed and eat canned chili be foreshe has even brushed her teeth? On the other hand, if she gets up and cooks the breakfast herself, what sense does it make for her to make a running broad jump back to bed and wait for By HAL BOYLE THE FIRESIDE PULPIT Swift Offers "One Good Reason" to Believe in God her husband to bring it in? And what wife really wants her husband to hold her hand for IS minutes every evening while he tells her what a pretty doll she is? She knows he is lying by the clock, and would rather have him come home and snort, "For Pete's sake, baby, what happend to youtoday? You look like you'd been run over by a steam roller." How about that heavy house work. How better can a wife show how really strong she is for her husband than by holding a sofa on her back while she muses over where to put it? It is a heartless man indeed who would take from his wife this girlish joy in snowing eff her muscle. A separate vacation 'for the wife? Try and make her take one. Most wives I know wouldn't take a vacation alone unless their husband was in a hospital with a broken leg and attended by a nurse who was sweatintf out her old age pension. This business of cooing to your wife over an office phone may win her but it also is a great way to lose your boss. No boss I know likes to have the switch-. board tied up by several hun dred employes making love moans and running up the office phone bill. If you can't surprise your wife by mailing her a "wish you were here" postcard from your desk, maybe you'd better let her go.' Let's face it, boys. If a man has to choose between losing a wife or losing a boss, what can he honestly do except say, "God speed, baby. After all, kid, a wife is only a woman but a job is a lot of cigars." After brooding over Mrs. Den gel's list, I have decided to for get it. Most wives have rather set opinions of their own on what the man in their life ought to do to make them happy. What wife can be made happy by a husband who takes advice from another lady? FACES ARE RED RICHMOND, Va. U.R Officials explained the item in the Henrico County budget was just a typo graphical error. The item, as it appeared in the budget under the Welfare Depart ment: "Graft and art supplies." In a friendly conversation re cently I was asked , (almost chal lenged) to cite one good reason for believing there is a God. One good reason for believing in an overall Master Mind (God), is the marvelous construction, not only of the physical world of material elements, but even more so, the intricate construc tion of organic life. The human brain, for one in stance, with its interrelated areas having to do with feeling, thinking, remembering, affec tion, morality, and conscience, is quite obviously the product of some source not human! Reason alone leads one to be lieve that this marvelous organ, the brain, was designed by One to whom alone we can give the name "God." Reason alone then forces us to believe there is a God. There are of course, almost limitless reasons for believing in God besides the one mentioned. By REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT Rector. St. Ptul'i Eplfteopi cnurdi Reason tells us that God must iiimseu transcend all that He has made. Therefore, inasmuch as He has produced life, He must be alive Himself. So we cannot go along with those who say God is just a stupendous force. We believe in a God that is not only almighty, but living. He must be the author of natural laws, otherwise from whence did these laws come? He must be a God of love and mercy, or we could not have the inner feeling of peace after true penitence. We may marvel at man-made tools and machines, robots, but they arc the products of man's brain, and we know that no hu man is the author of his own (or other's) brain. The only logical conclusion seems to be that God, the om nipotent, the omniscient, the Master Mind of the universe, is the God whose presence we feci and whom wo intelligently wor ship. . . You can EAT AND ENJOY SUN VAl LEY BREAD ... the jnswer to "diet blues." low in calories (less than 50 lo the slice) yet high in muscle building proteins. And flavor! jus' try it toasted it's i new lasts thrill. At your favorite food store. "Made by the Bakers of .Master Bread" film. "C.inlniir PnrnrfUn ' hn ' .....i. r i..utt . : possiDllll Of another depression - - ' nn ii mini mini im- anu ,, ,., ... made a little speech about Beck. , Mi.mie. Hut the one that delighted ! ,r p,,l,lcl;,n5 "rc probably "Dave Reck and I don't always him the most was a scrawled note I i'1'!! L ,Jn.K ,on "' " cmM stt 'in agree." he said. "I remember one from the President's mother-in-! t " " r i . . .- I!w time I was running for the senate law, Mrs. John Doud. As one u.h JJ i? i J 'S 8 ,in,c U ' in Washington state and went to Swede to another. Mrs. Doud 1 ""S ' lJ be rS in !R? see Mr. Deck for his support. He wrote: "Halsninsgar I mangd." j Al rh, '1 Z , r " n' $ told me quite honest Iv that he was wmcn is Swedish for "manv greet- .. T- V '""",") i i ! . "aty.limi.ing amendment 1 1"'. 7, "Hut though we have differed, , " "'.,? , P.nvatcly scrvod ; ,hc sp..()m A , all our 163 years. Vnn.A f .1 .- . . .j.. in. .,i mi- M-dre umk reminds i ip us of the restaurant keeper whopRj v;is gloomily commiserating on 1 -ej fl.- r-.ii..... -ir -r . j . ... 1 1. nv Lining uii ui irnuc, wnen ms ; frif-nd nmnlpH mil thii i..- ,..i.i.. ; were full and at least a dozen pros-1 R poctivo customers had turned MB away. Yes." said he. "but this 1 ,i." i as turning away tiirec dozen." Y) , , ------ , lFl IM uiHMii Hl. .,l- tIl-rrl, . , ,1 liooiievclt poimliint v and of thn nmnil RtnmlurfU nf lU I consider Mr. Perk u fino Amr-r.l notice hell re-introduce it everv votem. It is to ho hoped Hint Dr. Kimspy will he on hand l'c;in who w,"nR for the best yar until it passes . . . inside to give lis a blow by blow description, with Reientifirnlh- in,,r's,s "f country. If every- ar i that the most hamstringing weighted conclusions nfterw ml Kfienuticall onc phr knp(V ,)1V( Rrck foa,llrcs ,lf tne ncli(T amem. weiK-neu conclusions nttirwaul. (o thiy woui hnvp )h(i mon, w,.rc nol wrjttrn by Brj(.k ,,. miration fur his honor and his " ullt b' l' tab's moody Sen. RESHUFFLE OF OREGON BANKS honesty " Arthur Watkins. Ironically, Wat- Th Voti, I r . l n .i i . wh0 listened to this tri- Professes to believe that the The First National Bank .of Portland announces that 15 jhule from the ex President of the1 us Constitution. whicH he is OI lt.1 Dankllljf affiliates, of which one is in Silverton, will'l'.S. Chamber of Commerce rc-:sr,,k,"K ,0 sabotage, was divinely become branches of the bitf bank to add $140,000,000 to it.s icallcd another Teamsters' dinner ! lnsl,rc1 The New York resources and to make it for the first time in modern his-1'1' he Siatkr Hotel when manv ! J1.!?.' ac "t"''11 correspondent, tory at least Orepon and the Northwest's larirest ' I busin,!1!' leaders jeered at the all-1 " '"lam s hitc. has written the This is n.it rvo.-tlv m I. , i i u Teamsters support given to : 'P". n'll 'lory of the late Sen- Leer m of thl . V illi v K T ,,p,",,sc,,hp '"'" "vc,Frank,ill U.-oseveli. And one davi"' Tnft's life. It is . brilliant been pan of the rirsl .Nntional system for a number of latter the Kric Johnston dinner, lnr' ,,f reporting, soon to be pub years. It is a logical development which has been delaved guests picked up the paper to see ,"lhcn' in b""k as "The Tall liy lejjRl restrictions. The one difference we run s.. tnithst the same tr-amslors V ninn . ' I'-ver since Tail's t ho nillllc lu lhlil Din Imi-rAu M... l;Ma -fil.l I. . -- . . i ll.lfl In.innl l OOO OIlO in Vtms. death .... ..- ..... "in mini me nanus nuertod here ofore limited to 10 p.-r rent of each unit's capital and surplus, is now unlimited. This will carry some benefits to larger borrowers in these localities. Branch banking; is a bit; subject on which there is much to be said on both sides. Hut so far as Oregon is concerned this decision is already made, and the roundinc out of the First National system of banks is to be welcomed. had Imnrd M.nilO.nOO to Kmc--"earn, his old tuarc followers hauf Tlr.iilers and offered an- nav'' hcen growing increasingly other S.r.cVKI.OOO to New York ' rrs,,v ,lnl'l now they are fairlv trucking lirms. seething with discontent. They Hemaiked one guest: "Moscow "vf hen writing amazing letters would never believe it, even if r',rn n'her. accusing President Ainirnknv was Here to see it in'""""" "inns om 10 tne;.hinn Catiill Loses Recall Vote TAFT nJ.B Results of a special election in north Lincoln county today showed that the storm cen ter of a controversy over law en forcement there has been recalled as secretary of the Taft Nolscott- Delake Water District. Recalled was Ott retired Cahill, w ho had been outspoken in his criticism of law enforce ment in the beach resort towns, said he believe the voters based their decision on issues not re lated lo the water district. person. Rt SSI.W 1H MOK i new deal and wrecking the Repub lican parly. However. Ihev hhmr Cleaning the Money Albany Di'morriit-llerald Chris Kouitz in his column in the Cnrvalhs (iarette-Times tells of "several restaurants in the Inland Empire (Spokane area) that clean their coins before giv ing them to customers in rhanro I Kvery coin taken in is polished Iwith silverware cleaner until it snines line new. . . . "We've never, Kowitz said, "found Igor (iomrnko. the former So.;" " on '"milder." Cov. I ,5' " Not many of them "clean" vicl rnHo rlr-rlr u-hrt .viw.t.,,4 h Tom PcWCy. more than the 7'rr. . ' "" . irlxnt himtolf T 1u : ;..,::."..nan."-! these old customers either. It ha, .1 '1II11 , 1.1 A Sll IIHIS Ullt II. 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