Pare I a An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every ofternoon except Sunday ot 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. rill Uiud Win Irlc f lb Aiutl.lt frtM tni. Tlx UMItt rrtt. Thi Allocated pnu U licluiivflr tntliUM) lo lh u. lor puBllotloo ot U ini tflipitchu oredlttd Is It or oUivIM trodllid Id thla pMt tni tlM atvf publUhtd tbtrelm. - SUBSCRIPTION RATES: t Cirrttr: Uonlhlj. Il.lli all Month., Oncon: Montblt, Mti eix Month.. UK; Umthlj, I1J5: an MonUu. 17.10: Os . ARE WE GETTING INTO A NEW WAR? Is the United States netting involved in this Indo-China war which our government has vowed and our people are resolved shall not involve American ngnting men .' This question is prompted by the revelation that we are aending 400 Air Force technical men to that country to service aircraft for the French Union forces. They will not fight but thev will directly aid those who do, filling the same role as Kussians have presumaoiy mien in uie Korean war. The French are in a bad way in Indo-China. They have fought for several years and arc farther from victory than ver, for the Chinese are stepping up their help to the Indo. China Communists. They may intervene actively now mai they no longer support a war in Korea. Indo-China has been charged off long since by the French as a future asset. 3 hey fight hardly knowing wny thev fitrht. a heavv drain that nromises them no benefit whatever. It is now a war of east Asia out of Communist hands, but just as the got stuck with the main job in Korea, so the French are stuck.with the one in Indo-China and they are increasingly reluctant to carry the burden. All this is understandable and we can sympathize. Fur ther, our government is resolved to do all it can to keep the French going. It has taken over much of the financial burden, without protest from the American people, who realize the seriousness of the situation. Chinese conquest of all Southeast Asia would probably follow the fall of Indo-China, which would be a disaster. But we have resolved until now to keep our own men out. Now we are sending them in, a sharp break with previous policy. Are they soon to be fighting another war congress didn't declare and our people didn't want? We do not question the resolution of the administration to keep Americans out of the fighting, but they and we are being gradually drawn into what may be as costly and hopeless a struggle as that in UNNECESSARY NEW FEDERAL COURTS? A bill to create 30 additional federal district and circuit court judgeships has just passed the senate and been sent . to the White House for the president's signature. We've a "strong suspicion he ought to make a careful investiga tion before he affixes his signature and makes it the law of the land. Two developments make us suspicious that not all these judgeships are needed. One is for Idaho, which has always heretofore gotten along nicely with one judge, an elderly man well past the prime of life, but who seems to have kept up with the work satisfactorily. At least we never heard a complaint while we lived in Idaho. He has never to our knowledge complained of overwork. And the Boise States man declares flatly that there is no need whatever for an additional judgeship in Idaho. Development No. came in the senate where a senator declared that two judgeships'' .were added in Utah and Nevada to appease two "contentious" senators from those states. He did not mention names but the reporter said he referred to Watkins of Utah and McCarren of Nevada. Their votes appear to have been needed to get the bill through the senate and they exacted a price in the form of two additional judgeships. These incidents prompt a question as to how many other judgeships out of the HO provided in the bill are equally unnecessary. Senators are very prone to promote judge ships with a view of filling them with their friends, but it is a costly way to reward friends. The jobs are for life with liberal retirement benefits. With each new court goes a costly upkeep setup, which the taxpayers must carry from that date on. It is tragic to create such agen cies if they are not genuinely needed. . , A 'MOWGU'IN REAL LIFE One of his early books that won him literary fame was his "Jungle" books. One of the graphic tales was about "Alowgli," a native boy reared in the wilds of India by wolves. Whether the story was based on native traditions as probable or a product of Kipling's lively imagination is not known, but that the logical result on the boy was accurately described is confirmed by a recent news dis v.n4u r.-A... vn... it. .u.; ,i.v.;..u ............ ti,..i ft,.;.... .... j'fiLv.u iiwin I'l-ini n iiiv stranger than lart. 1 he news item reads: A gaunt, snarling lad dubbed tho "wolf buy" Is providing mrtliral authorities in l.ucknnw the twin problems ot keeping him nlivc and determining his background. Tho doctors said today the hoy. who walks on nil fours, wolfs down raw meat and laps water like an animal, is !l years old. With his hair long and matted, he was found mysteriously in railway freight ear January 17. Though definitely a human, doctors conjecture that he was reared by animals. The boy is in a Knlrampus hospital in I.ucknow, north central India, where symptoms of a circulatory ailment were noted. Against his will, he is being given a civilized diet along with the raw meat he relishes. Hut at the end of two weeks, he still lies huddled in his bed, "snarling and trying to bite attendants. disinterested in anything but avidly. Massage is being used to to normal human shape and cles at joints. Surgical reconstruction, to enable him to walk upright is planned after up. g. r. New Problem in ROME (API A possible member "humble" itself neither tn Amer of the government coalition Italy's iea nor llussin. Christian Democrats are trying to Thp satenunl hv the Moderate the Italian political crisis Thtirs-: Imtlrr' Ki Vitorelli marked ' j.v I ' iiMTiiu uinrncu a. y" !n,,v lllrn 1,10 l'nr,y- nnsc record i JTT fcMJi!Tn'f,m'My PrV"rS,rrn in demanded that the n a t i on foreign policy. Coming out of a conference with 1 SELAT SWEARING OI F Nun.. Calif. W1 The Nana! n,,.in... and nrnfesslonnl! Wnmtn'a C 1 u h stron ir .M.mi ni-H.M not to huv.i? r"'nWand wishes to .erve or drink coffee again; -unui tne price comes i aowi, ay unanimous consent, now- ever, the ladies voted a six-;jng down before Soviet Russia. " hour delay on tlicir pledge . vigorelli was one of the last of when they were Informed cof-j the it.ilinn political leaders to cn lee had already been ordered .suit with Kinaudi. who soon must for the tvenlng'i festivities. choose a new Premier. ournal 17.101 Ont Tit. lis 00. Sr Mill In On. Ttr, 11.00. Bj Mll Ouuio. othm Ytar. lit 00. the free world to keep South Korea. II Mi'.irt iinitf iniiiiii in nu i lie cringes from light and raw meat, which he devours restore the modern Mowgli he has contracture of the mus- his physical strength is built Italy's Crisis Italian President l.uigi Kinaudi. "U told reporters: "We arc working for a govern- ' nu'nt ' democratic concentration , -,; " ;pcope tttl)m hulnUmt, ,ol! before America, but without bow-'hirF B ISS-.V : . WASHINGTON MERRY Nobody in Brazil Getting Profits From Coffee Rise By DREW WASHINGTON An impor tant thing to remember about the diizy climb in coffee prices is that the profits from the price climb are not going to farmers in Brazil, most of whom have been seriously hurt by the frost that ravaged their crop and in duced the coffee shortabe. . Nor is the price increase due to any market manipulation by the Brazilian government, as its minister of foreign relations, Vi cente Ran, marie tinmistakahly clear in a recent letter to the Washington Post. As usual, the profits arc be ing soaked up chiefly by distribu tors, roasters, and speculating middlemen, who deal in coffee futures. Another important thing to remember, before we start pointing an accusing finger at Brazil, is that by far the greater portion of our huge spending for coffee stays right in the United States. A senate agriculture subcom mittee, beaded by Sen. Guy Gil lette of Iowa, heard some im pressive testimony on this sub ject four years ago that might well apply tn the situation to day. Andres Uribe, acting chair man of the Pan-Ameriran coffee bureau, testified that the United States annually spends more than $2,000,000,000 in coffee trade. Of this amount, 62 per cent remains in the United States and is shared by brokers (specula tors), importers, roasters, retail rrs, stevedores, salesmen, etc. The remaining 38 per cent goes to the producing countries, in cluding Brazil. The year before, late in 194!), middlemen speculators had made rj ' d WUHi:" died" fti T t" ' Brazilian producers, the great majority of whom are small farmers, didn't benefit from the market upturn, having already disposed of their coffee crop in July, 1949. . "And the farmer gets paid for it then in July?" Inquired Sen. George Aiken of Vermont. "Yes, they get paiil when they give the coffee to the second handler," replied Uribe. "Then the coffee was out of j The lady asked me to name him 1 . :,v '. ,. 'bl.no.'llh ,hp the farmers' hands before the j and 1 said, (icncr.il Eisenhower. ' surface of Chen Morriwn He rise in price started in Novem-1 "1 went on to say that 1 knew : '"I f,L , , ,P ,orr,TOn' ber?" asked Aiken. 'of no military leader who had ! rc"''z , ' "l "Ce Uribe replied that practically i on .he respect and affection t&?0Zn h all Hrazilliin firmers had sold so manv o our hnvs. To which m' "'at one-man shows ail tiraziinan i.irmers nan soki . , ;. . . , politics play to short runs, heir coffee hv ha line and,'1" ''" replied, inn know i t- . ,.,,, "nnturallv did not get any of the '"'I the same way about him. : " J1"" 1 ""K n n it is orgaima rise " Ti e same is true today l ' M. Eisenhower."" , ion that counts. And so Chep vru- nliVi i I. "'1J' After the president stopped ; out Insurance against the ii.iiii.iii laughing, he observed: cooling off of an aroused elec- Atomic scientists arc more ex-i ..0 military commander should torate by building up a strong, cited about the new "atomic bat-1 rpi.rivp prl),v. for showing an clean, and worlrilylwire organ- lery man amuiing iiiiii nap- pened since Hiroshima, in con - Irast lo that first explosion, which made many scientists dread for the future, the new A battery has given I hem fre-.li hope that mankind will evenlual ly reap the untapped benefits of .. . . . i Here is what one scientist said: U iih this discovery il now -cm, ce tam we II be able to (pvelop t()m.p(m.rm, ,,. hit i-t nnrl nirnl.inp tt'c nroh. ably much cheaper and more ef ficient. This is what we've been looking for . . . don't be ur- prised if it takes us literally and flguratively-to the moon. ' ; . '. . . tn think about This is one of the few new developments that will identity cur century to fu- lure historians and even school i ,ial mrl'- nntl all men possible tion. bi, third, he had nine op children. Hundreds of years heroes. Elizabeth Barrett ponents but received a big ma-1 from now children will lorn THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem. Oregon NORMAL RUSSIAN ATTITUDE McNiujht Syndicate In - GO - ROUND PEARSON about ahe development of peace ful atomic power in 1954. "This is absolutely certain unless, through an atomic war, there arc no children RCA, developer o the new rect-conversion system, kept its , progress highly secret and only a handful of the nation's scien tists knew about it. Most were as startled as the public when RCA Chairman David Sarnoff made the announcement that electricity could be produced di rectly from darioactive material without using any moving parts. Until this announcement, sci entists have produced .'atom-pow ered electricity only through a complex system involving an atomic pile, steam, turbines, and dynamos. Though still in Its infancy, this revolutionary discovery is regard ed as one of the greatest mile stones in scientific history. IKE LAUGHS When the president is really amused, he is apt to rear back, slap his knee, and let gn with a guffaw. Such a knecslappcr was told him recently by Harold Rus-l sell, star of the movie "The Best Years of Our Lives, now an of- grime would accumulate and ficial of the World Veterans Fed- that Chop would go the way of cration. most reformers in the past. Back in 1947, when "Best , The old machine lies down and, Years" opened in Washington, j as the old ballad has it, "bleeds there was a big reception, Hus- n while" and then gels up and sell said, at which he and other I fights again, stars were supposed to shake! Morrison scrmcd (o be tor. V" hTin , I iHv n earnest and anxious to w hi u rn7,i h h n " fulfill what seemed to be im World W.ir II, hut ho had an in- ... ... n . teresling chat with a "very at- P"ulc expectations But tractive lady" about the readjust-1 ' reasoned he political cog ment problems of returning vets. nsccnli, could such an un "Somchow or other, we were ! trained person avoid the innu- not introduced," llussell told Hi- I senhowcr. "hut she was the kind VVu liko to la k hr whm,t 'formal in - troduc.ion. "I had a vague recol - lection of having seen her pie - ture in the papers and later she, things. One was that, despite became famous, but right then j the love of New Orleans for well, you know how things arc: play, its people were much like in Washington, Mr. President. the people of any other Ameri "We got to talking about the, can city. They had a keen war vets, like mysell, who came pride in their city, and after a hack with arms or legs missing. K0od draught of virtuous gov I remarked that there was one crnment thev decided it was guy who wouldn't forget the men ( cood for their pride as well as in the ranks, of all services, alt-.their purses, er the bands stopped playing ! T. . understanding "f men under him. : fhjfj p,1rt f his job'' Idaho Basks ItOISI. SI ATI SM AN The weatherman reports that the January thaw is staying over in Idaho for the beginning of l-Vhrnarv As f.ir ns. the Unite valley is concerned, the January thaw was grossly misnamed this year; there wasn't anything to thaw. And s for the thaw's reluct- ance to depart with the month tor which it was named, who can oiamc u inr warning io siay .r-J where the weather", .; n i I Piisiri v iirnais AI.I. rOsMB I.I. llt.ROKS All actual heroes arc essen- I Browing. Good Government In New Orleans By RAYMOND MOLEY NEW ORLEANS Good government seems to be a hab it in this city. It was certainly not always so for a lei years ago this municipality was in the hands of as sorry a flock of in competent and doubtful charac- di-Iters as any city in the country lias ever failed to boast about That crowd operated on a fair ly dark background of state government, for the Huey Long machine was dominant. Sud denly, and apparently with few premonitory symptoms, the city in Hi 4 8 aroused itself. It vot ed into office a remarkably at tractive but quite inexperi enced young man, de Lcssups Morrison now known far and wide as Chep. , I well remember a visit to the city shortly after that mir acle. People were rubbing their eyes at their sudden dis covery of virtue. And I sus pect that not the least sur prised man in the city was young Chep himself. Of course, the old-timers in politics offered the cynical re mark that this was just one of those things in politics. They said that after this bath the old meraoie puians mai were ly- '"g in wait in a city which was 'large, cosmopolitan, and dis- ! tinSuished for somewhat n- ; puritanical romance? But the 1 wiseacres were unaware of two nation Known, as the Crescent City Ocmncr.it ic Association. He did this with deliberation and skill which had dis tinguished him as youthful col onel in the Second World War. As one of his assistants put it. "Chep does things in a military style. He frequently uses terms such a 'chain of command,' standard operatmc procedure,' "completed staff action ' Morrison dwells on easy terms with his ward and pre- cinct leaders and has the assur- ance of their loyalty. His lead- crs in the CCDA have been of high calibre, and his appoint- , men s in the ciiv administra. have been excellent. i In 1950. at the age of .18. Morrison was re elected by the ,.lr8, rarity in the citv's history In inn nroent r.lr.-. Jority over all. In all three el-1 POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Boyle Finds Raising Child Is More Terrifying Than War By HAL NEW YORK W) Every time a child is born two cowards are created. They- are the parents. There Is nothing like a baby to turn a couple of normally courageous adults into a pair of timorous mice. 1 Some six months ago a five-week-old lady called Tracy Ann moved a crib into our home and adopted Frances and me. Coming into our life after 16 childless years of marriage, she brightened up the place like a welcome candle in a dark cave. Our life was pleasant enough before. But now it has a shin ing luster, and it Is a wonderful feeling to come home and open the door and be greeted by a small sunrise smile and a trill like a meadowlark. "Are you sure it won't trou ble you that the baby isn't your own flesh and blood?" a cau tious friend asked shortly after Ike's Regime Has No Popular Label By MERRIMAN SMITH WASHINGTON (UP) Back stairs at the White House: President Eisenhower's "lib eral-conservative" description of his administration recently point ed up the fact that actually, the Eisenhower administration has no popularized label or tag except that of the President's name. The public, and the administra tion, has hit on no special label such as "The New Deal" or "Fair Deal" as the previous Democra tic administrations were tabbed. When and if a short easy-to- remember tagline is developed, it probably will come from one of Mr. Eisenhower's speeches. Dur ing the 1932 campaign, he refer red to GOP plans for the nation as "a crusade." But this label is not used frequently today in a descriptive sense. Many people forget that the late President Franklin Roosevelt tried to abandon the New Deal label in 1944. A visiting editor remained after one of Mr. Roo sevelt's press conferences for a chat and FDR told him he was tired of "New Deal" and thought it was an outmoded phrase. After the story of Mr. Roose velt's atiluderame out, Washing Inn reporters question the Pres ident at length at his next' con ference. He said he thought it was time for "old doctor New Deal" to bow out and make way for "young doctor Win-Thc-War." Further,. FDR wanted his party to be known by the name "Win- The-War." He was never, able to sell the idea, however, and people went right ahead calling it New Deal. It probably will be the same way with the current administration. He Got the Job Denver Post Douglas Corrigan became fa- mous in 1938 for flying the wrong way" and ending up in Ireland. More recently, Tommy Lewis, Aiaoaoia iuuoacK, oy jumping from the players' bench to make a Cotton Bowl tackle, got more nuhlicitv than the entire Rice looioau icam. Their feats can hardlv com-! an(t tell her pare, however, with that of Tom j -Honey, there are moments (Nimble) Kimball .who after when I wish you didn't love 'EL'" ."J8 "b0,hT-, ,K: Iif" .'."' -.much, weren't so ............ . ... ends up with a presidential norm - nation to be United States mar shal for the state of Colorado. We don't know how Tom did it but we arc sure he could teach Dale Carnegie a thing or two about "winning friends and in fluencing people." Of course, all Tom said about Ike was that he would make "one r ,k. ........ ... .... ; had." It should be noted that Tna.' s';ows fhe Just a era-; I Tom was generous in that he fy: jnixed-tip kid. But it cer i did not say "the worst." i tfcinly gives her old man a ! And what did he say about warm, motherly feeling. ' D..n..lli..nn nn Th,.rnl...i 11-..'.. . J ' j close friend? Only that I)an was ! "a Democrat masquerading as a Republican" and that he (Tom) was "through" with the governor ! for all time. "If you can't beat 'cmjoin 'em" is a time-tested maxim in I politics, particularly if you arc looking for a patronage job. It may be even a belter rule to fol- i low than "don't put your foot in 'your mouth" Ask Tom. j.8 ections his manager has. been Scott Wilson, who conducts a public relations firm. Morn- j son's contacts with the press and the public are looked aftir by a shrewd manager of opin ion, Dave McGuire. It is quite understandable v that much 'speculation should ; be abroad concerning Morn- son's future. No doubt, it can be briuht if be chooses to con tinue in public life. There are sucgeslions about his contesting Russell Long's seat in the Unit cri States Senate and about h s j availability for the vice-presidential nomination in 1956. governorship is also a possibil-1 , ity. There are spots in the busi -s ness world where his unusual talents might find rich rewards But whatever his future mav be. he already has established the unusual political phenom- ' rnon of a reformer who also is capable of creating an organ-;'-Ization. (J BOYLE Tracy Ann decided to be our favorite income tax aeaucuon. Trouble us? It Is just the other way around. Frankly, it is a relief. "Baby, we didn't bring you into the world," I feel like tell ing her. "All we have is the chance to make as nice a world for you as we -can, and if we fail you in that, then you got a real right to holler.'" When Tracy Ann had been in our house a week, she already was more than our flesh and blood. She was our blithe spirit, and she becomes blither every day. I have no hesitancy in advis ing any childless couple who can get a baby to adopt them to go and do so at once, and quit postponing paradise. But paradise has a price. Ordin ary parenthood will turn the bravest human being into a craven wretch; adopted parents are doubly craven. In four years of war report ing I learned to condition my self so that I was afraid only when in actual danger. A man who gets the fera-sweats be fore he goes to the front, or aft er he comes back and is out of peril, won't last through very many battlefields. But raising a baby is much more terrifying than working on a battlefield. On a battle field you know when to be seared, when you can relax. But in raising a child, you live with a tight knot of terror at the back of your brain day and night. So many things can happen. "Don't worry," the pediatri cian says. "Whatever you are doing for this baby, just keep right on doing it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with her." I guess that is what frightens me. Everything has gone so terribly well for Tracy Ann. Right now she has two upper fangs and two lower fangs bust ing out of her deep pink gums, and I must admit does look, when she grins, a bit like a cross between an old grandma and a young alligator. Nobody can say I ever claim ed she was the most beautiful child in the whole wide world; she is merely the loveliest baby in the world and she has made for us a castle with room just now for the three who share it. But she is as strong and heal thy, pound for pound, as a per cheron. If the Notre Dame foottball team ever goes co-educational, I've got a promising candidate for right tackle. She eats three squares a day, like a harvest hand, and she sleeps 12 hours in a row every night. And happy? Tracy Ann is so happy ail day long I'm secretly afraid she cither dosen't have good sense, or else she doesn't quite realize yet she is living in the 20th century. She has become so important lo us that we have come to feel that maybe for this reason we art mnrp ininnrtnnt ntiroHwo j , havc takcn out extra ,'ifc . " .,.. j p j , w'. ii, . u. .. ; ,. . . ... 1 ff),.r w.nvs I lift our little tomhoy aloft in my two hands, remembering the strong feel of my father's hands as he did the same thing rt n1n ,., . terribly healthv. weren't al- , , ...... so onH . .",..''. happy, because I am afraid now i of how hard you may be hurt later. But if I knew' of a sin-! gle germ anywhere that was ' plotting to get at you, I d shoot it with a shotgun." . Tracy Ann just looks down I ...ilU 1 - ... " aP-Kummea grm and I oannics. Ala-ma-ma-ma-ma'" BREAKFAST AT 7 A.M. NORTH'S In The Capitol Shopping Center NOTICE jffice Space Wanted The Stale of (Irecon. artlno b.. ..... i, ik ment of I inanre and Administration, herehv solicits sealed proposals for the leasing nf approximately 15.000 smiare feel nf ofhee space in the City of Salem to be occupied hv the Mate Department of Veterans' Affairs. Parties interested in submitting a proposal mav secure a statement of specifications and a suguested floor lavout from the Director nf the Department nf Veterans' Affairs, 303 Slate Library Building, Salem, Oregon. The State of Oregon reserves the right to reject anv or all proposals. Sealed proposals must be received bv the Department of Finance and Administration. 313 Capitol Building, Salem, Oregon, not later than 3:00 p.m., .March 3, 1954. Harry S. Dnrman, Director Department of Finance n" Administration State of Oregon Thursday, February 4. 1954 Salem 57 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL February 4, 1897 The proposition to elect a United States senator regard less of principles, conviction, constitution or consistency" had received a setback in th legislature of Oregon, the Capi tal Journal said. Evangelist Dwight L. Moody was preceptibly angered by the statement of President Jor dan of Stanford University that a "revival religion it simply a form of drunkness, no more worthy of respect tnan the drunkeness that is in the gutter." , R. J, Herschbach, black smith and wagon maker at 100 Chemeketa street, set new horseshoes for $1.25 and reset shoes for 75c. Col. J. Olmstead, proprietor of Salem Steam laundry, had advertised these prices: Shirts, plain, 10c; under drawers, 5e to 10c; socks per pair, 3c, hand kerchiefs, lc, sheets and pillov slips, 24c a dozen. John G. Wright, Salem pion eer grocer, advertised that he had a 26 piece set of semi porcelain decorated dinner ware for $10.99, a 44 piece tea set for $3.25. G. A. Peebles, superintend ent of Salem public schools, had started filling out 34 diplo mas for students who had gra uated from Salem schools dur ing the term just closed. M. J. Matson, proprietor of of Salem Bargain store, 291 Commercial street, had men's heavy plow shoes, a regular $1.35 value for 95c, ladies fine dress shoes, a regular $1,50N value for $1.10. Tickets for Salem's Jolly Lady Minstrels, a Reed opera house presentation, were ob tainable at Patton's bookstor' for 25c and 50c. MEASURE OF TRUE WEALTH The wealth of man is th number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. Thomas Carlyle. a PHONC 1I05O Starts Sunday At Regular Prices! 15c for Viewers New Improved Polaroid Viewer Clip on and Regular I, min i.t i ton w ,w, M . HMUatt lwkui . i urn who mt cum 61HjCtHIS 4 2nd Big Hit t Kenny Baker E Ann Miller If Phil Silvers p in t:: "ROMANCE 1 4 ' AND RHYTHM" ? - i RITAfi IN HER Jviy OEBUTI n r ! TECHNICOLOR I I u mnm I M;tjj i RITA r t y- ALDO MI , 4 " .......... . .