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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL', Salem. Oregon
Friday, February 5, 195 '
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FACTS WE MUST FACE UP TO
The American Tariff Leairue, whose reason for being 1
obvious from its name, has just put out figures showing
how much higher American wage rates are, in order to
buttress its opposition to tariff cuts, such as the aaminis.
tration proposes.
Average hourly waires in several leading industrial na
tions are given as follows: U.S.A. $1.78, Canada $1.38,
Sweden 75 cents, Switzerland 57 cents, Belgium 48 cents.
.United Kingdom 47 cents, France 46 cents, Germany 44
cents, Italy 37 cents, Ireland 35 cents, Japan 19 cents.
! It should be kept in mind that American wages are high
because American productivity is high. This is not Be
cause Americans work harder, for as a rule they don't,
but because they have far more and better tools to work
with, and a superior technology or "know how." There
fore their pay is in general matched by their output. It
has to be or the wages could not continue to be paid.
Within the U.S. wage rates will largely determine sell
ing prices and therefore living costs. These may go up
or down with only temporary dislocations and hardships.
We can be independent of the rest of the world so far as
our internal economy is concerned.
But we cannot be altogether independent because we re.
quire more and more supplies from abroad. We Will even
import much of our iron ore from now on, virtually all our
nickel, our natural rubber, our tin, etc., etc. To pay for
all this we must sell abroad, and at prices competitive with
those of other countries where these wage rates are so
much lower. We must also face competition within the
U.S. for we never had a tariff high enough to keep all for
eign goods out, and certainly never will again.
Here we come squarely up against a very hard reality,
that the high American living standard must stand the
test of productivity or we are headed for trouble. Nor can
we always count on our superior tools, for other countries
are improving their plants and their methods. As they do
their wage rates will advance, too, but they ve a long way
to go before they get within barling distance of ours.
You can see this situation developing in the award of
electrical contracts to foreign bidders who are able to pay
our tamfs and still undersell our own manufacturers. A
hike in tariffs might eliminate this trouble, but this would
cause retaliation against U.S. products sold abroad and
might not help overall. And it must be evident that if we
can be undersold in our own markets we stand to lose vir
tually all such contracts in foreign countries where we
have had a good market in the past.
What all this sums up to is that the U.S. is faced with
severe economic as well as political and military competi
tion from abroad. We are all going to have to be efficient
producers in order to remain at the top of the economic
pile. It should go without saying that this applies to all
sectors nf the economy, to those who design and manage
no less than to those who labor. It applies also to the con
suming public.
'BURN THE BOOKS' HYSTERIA
The climax of the silly and vicious "burning books" cru
sade seems to have been reached in Illinois where Secre
tary of State Charles Carpenter has ordered scores of state
library copies of books stamped in red ink, I his book is
for adult readers," to "make it impossible for school chil
dren to obtain smut."
Among the books bearing the "red flag" listed as too
"smutty" for children are such literary works as Bunyan's
"Pilgrim Trogress," "Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy
Tales," Jules Verne's "20,000 League Under the Sea,"
Jane Eyre's "Wuthering Heights," "The Good Earth,"
"The Girl of the Golden West," and many others.
Earlier Carpenter had ordered all books "relating to sex
withdrawn from circulation after a mother protested
about a novel her daughter had checked out of a local
library.
The stampings meant that community libraries through
out Illinois, which obtain books from the big state collec
tion under the loaning system originating in the Oregon
state lihrary, will not be given the marked books unless ;
an adult reader submits a request to read them. I
The burning books crusade, copied from Adolf Hitler in
his Jewish pogrom, copied by Senator McCarthy to rid
federal foreign diplomatic libraries of books on commu-,
nism, has spread in Illinois to children's book to keep the
rising generation as pure as Ivory soap. That's the way ;
Intolerance and fanticism spreads.
It is surprising to find "Pilgrim' Progress." a religious
allegory, l-mg a favorite with n-ligious jieople, banned as
smut. In tn; puritanical mid-Victorian age it was one of
the few books childn-n were permitted to read on Sunday
though, jierhaiJi" beyond childish comprehension. While
Juk-s Verne's fabulous adventures have always been and
still are favor. with youth. It would take a powerful
Tr.icroscpe to fi'A ai;.v harmful "miui1" in "liti.WMi leagues
Under the )y-n"-r for that matter in any of the other
bvoks h"-r4 in P .'.oif .
If art thf Vhr.'-'-t etisor thiol', that anything relating to
sex is n' '. u' How ik he going to jiin!ish it. by urase?
Wh-n w. . a.-.i .- Ui humi-.tn'y imi will ;..- to exist.
How is -; ;..,.' ion gi ;rg to exist without knowledge and
I !io'j.-t,g cvmei from isrAt . ever lor secretaries of state
.'.hMMtii'J' f ti-ii M''v-c puohc enr.oi s Jt evidt tit lnat
arjeiiVer u'.-Ct tv fehd booss himself to get a piopi-r j..-r-fjV'
t of literi.t ,' (',. J'.
flUtSIA OFFERS ATTRACTIVE BRIBES
'J l.i Jx-v'M-t tvioi if.'les urr k (lier with their bribe M
lwy 'J iiitiiMiy rd heeler n li e eve of any imrtaiit
4:'nK".ft. Tbcv M-ern to .. ' in for everybody but lis,
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NO LONGER A TENDERFOOT
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Women Can Do Many Things
To Win Husband's Heart Anew
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Jockeying for Positions in
'56 Already on in Texas
By DREW PEARSON
DALLAS It's more than two
years, before the next national
conventions meet to nominate
the presidential candidates, but
Jockeying for position has al
ready started In Texas where
men are men and politics is a
deadly serious business.
Behind the jockeying is the
question of whether the demo
crats nominate Adlai Stevenson
or a liberal democrat in 1956, and
whether the Shivercrats and the
isenhowercrals who bolted the
democratic party in 1052 arc
brought back into the fold with
big abrazo and a kiss on both
cheeks.
Also tit slake to some extent is
the political future of the most
revered man in the stale, cx-
Spcaker Sam Rayburn, who has
Served in congress for 41) years
land sponsored some of the most
important new deal legislation.
The 72-yearold Rayburn, his
head as barren as a billiard ball
but his political outlook as young
as when he put across the sc
urity exchange commission and
the holding corporation act, has
vowed he would never forgive the
handsome young Governor Allan
Shivers who, Sam says, double-i
crossed him at Chicago. I
At Chicago, Governor Shivers !
(old Sam he would not bolt to'
afford to help out the young sen
ator who has helped them.
At any rate Frank Oltorf, the
paid lobbyist for Brown and Root
in Washington, flew out to Aus
tin,, contacted Lieut Gov. Ben
Ramsay and' told him Sam Ray-
touched. Since Oltorf had paid a
generous part of Ben Ramsay s
c.mpaign expenses when he ran
for lieutenant governor, Ramsay
listened. Furthermore he prom
ised that no redistricting bill
would get out of committee for
debate in the Texas legislature.
However, if Governor Shivers
wants to get a redistricting bill
out of committee in the March
legislature that he talks about
calling he won't have any real
trouble doing so. And if he really
wants to reiaiiaic against Sam
Rayburn that's what he will do.
So the betting is about even
as to whether Rayburn will let
the handsome young governor
who ran out on him at Chicago
come back into the democratic
fold.
SIIIVF.HCRATS COINT
O.N JOHNSON
Probably the answer will be
spelled out in part by the de
bonair Senator Johnson. Lyndon's
position, as usual, is against a
fight, lie wants Shivers back in
the party for several reasons.
One of them being that the two
have always worked hand-in-
r.isennower and men turned1 i,.,,i i,.i,nc,, i,,, : i ,,n.
round and proceeded to do cx-runlljnK pni,icai ma(.hine whcn
ac,ly lhal- ihc was elected in 1048, turned it
So the venerable Rayburn says j over to Shivers when lie ran in
he will never let Shivers back i lflfiO. That machine should h.ive
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nicy SA'IO ih 1 1 rnaw tit division. A dia
lect nut tin t he
ill lilis the pilttef to
h no (h riniin wants,
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bo!l a!;y e,eei m heme wjjKh the ,crtiihfl goM I liluetit will
m.c tdioLgh hi.'j i,'e t, but ttbuh m.'iry fierman arc likely
tv J .-r.
J-;rmi!; it offend the enticing bait of more than a bil
lion cio.:ii;i north of lucrative contracts for industrial
yyxt. wheb Jii'i;ii urgetitly needs. Hut many of them
t ie, f iraUgic, iesii"d to strengthen Kiissia against the
wo1. We Vio'jld t.ol want to bet much that the hard
I'Mssed UriUth won't accept either, though we are confi-
onl they wjjj not modify their political jio.dtion at P.erlin i
)i; wen f t this httrat -live ileal.
Jjiibiy is by means confined to domestic jxilitics.;
Ik-re we te it oti a scale never before approached.
into the democratic party. j
SHIVi nS WANTS RACK
Meanwhile. Shivers is making
plenty of signs that he wants;
back. He has made several .
speeches, most of them in the j
North, tossing the olive branch1
in the direction of the Democratic
National Committee, but his ad
vances so far have not been
reciprocated. N w. thrreforc,
. Shivers is getting lough.
Last Week he threw out a hint
' th:it Sam lta burn's congressional
. district might be rcdiilrirli d.
i'J'his mean? exucOy one thnu' -th;d
Rayburn w-uld have the
fu'lit of his life bring recb'tlcd,
'th (in excellent chance of faring
defeat.
Cimernor Shiwr did n"t nf
coiifw single nut S.im Ha burn's
.district by name He'n far Oio
unarl tt iiut every politi
cian in Tcm knew he was Living
down the g.omtie! to "Mr Sam,''
ps hei c M-d m ther rjtls. that
filtiiT Si:iM gcl t:nk mid the
. di itl'KTalir p..ll or cc .Sam
runs the rrk of l.'cifo; thritwn out
of coiigio
i For Sam's district ( the sec.
end iri!ili-l in the I'SA and
wilh the poiiil.ition of r'aclion
try, republican Pallas piohmg
north in the direction of II. i
burn' diMrifl. anv redivtricting
by the levis lcgMl.tture wulld
mean giving th.l clrslrict alinil
Ofi noil nu1 anti K.n burn Miles
(lin e last year, I he Texas let!
Mature began talking as if it
was going to redldrirl. where
upon l.vndnn Johnson, Sam's one
. time disciple who has now man
' covered himself Into bring senate
' minority leader, told Sam net lo
worry.
Lyndon indicated that be
'would talk tn Herman Brown, of
Brown and lioot. one of the big
I Best contracting firms in the
I'.S.A.. for whom Lyndon has
been a glorified messenger boy
in Washington and from whom
he has received plcntv of c.im
paign contributions. Brown and f
lioot just received a mullimil-
lion dollar contract to help build of economic control during the
I S. bases in spam; so they can ; past dozen years.
Consternation Hits
U. S. Shipping
By RAYMOND MOLEY
NEW ORLEANS The section
of the report of the commission
ion Foreign Economic Policy
which deals with our merchant
marine lias caused no little con
sternation among representatives
of American shipping companies
jn this gre.it port city.
For the Randall report, with
burn's district was not to be several members of the commis
sion dissenting, recommends that
the statutory provisions requir
ing use of United States vessels
for shipments financed by U.S.
loans or grants be repealed and
that the detcrmiination of the
active merchant fleet require
ments take account of the avail
ability of foreign vessels and of
the importance to the balance of
payments of foreign maritime
nations of their dollar earninigs
from shipping services.
Rudolph S. Hecht, chairman
of the Mississippi Steamship
Company and chairman of the
Committee of American Steam
ship Lines, which is composed of
14 shipping companies who op
erate some 180 vessels in foreign
trade, has sent a letter approved
unanimously by the committee
to Chariman Clarence Randall.
In it he sets forth the case for
a powerful merchant marine and
points out a number of compel
ling arguments against the adop
tion of the report's recommenda
tions. While tne Randall report rec
ognizes that a U.S. merchant ma
rine is essential to the trade
and commerce of the free world,
Hecht says, "It would interpret
United States needs for Ameri
can merchant ships in terms nf
available foreign ships and in
terms of the needs of foreign
countries for American dollars."
lie goes on: "Your interpreta
tion of the Merchant Mariine Act
nf 193K seems to be based on
the dangerou.-dy falacioius as
sumption that in time of need
the United States could use these
foreign ships as its own as an
iinlegral arm of its merchant
fleet; as ruppliers of and trans
ports for American troops over
seas; as carrier.-, of critical stra
tegic material imports to Amer
ican industry; and as transporters
of American exports to foreign
markets."
Two world wars should have
hrnughl home wilh undeniable
lorce Hie realization that we were
woefully 'acking in anything like
an adequate merchant fleet and
that we certainly couldn't rely
upon our allies to fill the breach.
We lound thai it was up to Amer
ica lo meet the problem not only
by providing itself with a great
merchant marine but also by de
bveriog hundreds of vessels to
our allies.
Ill I lie event ot war we can
expect to find our allies in much
the same position. They will give
first priority, and properly so, I i
their own . particular needs to
maintaining their iile-lines and
lo moving and supporting their
ow n troops. If I he West comes
to blows with the Soviet sphere
allntion to i!!;eil merchant
fleets would indeed he heavv.
That potential enen v i. known
tn have hundreds of modern sub
marines- -enough to have given
naval persons in this counlrv
a i nightmares for the past several
years.
Hecht poinds out that the rec
ommendations of th- Randall Re
port "would shrink the fleet,
further drdcte the already dis
tressed shipbuilding industry, and
reduce trained crews of seafar
ing and ship administrative per-
: Sonnet.
As to legislation that stipulates
l that 50 p - cent of U. S. foreign
aid cargoes be shipped in Amen
ran fla vessels, it should he re
I mcnibc red that the remaining SO
been for Adlai Stevenson in 1052,
but it wasn't. j
When Adlai entered Texas dur
ing the campaign. Lyndon John-1
son got aboard before it entered !
Dallas and told Senator Fiilbnchl j
of Arkansas, chief senate adviser!
to Adlai, that he wasn't going to,
participate in the campaign. j
"It will hurt my reelection
chances," he explained. !
"You . . ," exploded' Fill- j
bright, and proceeded to jivc
Senator Johnson such a bawling;
out that Johnson stayed with the j
campaign train, and later did de.
liver one speech over his wife's
radio station for Stevenson. After!
lhal lie went up to Missouri to
campaign for Stuart Symington,
lo-cping as far away from Texas
a pmsihlr
So l.uidon Joluonn is now
being counted on bv the Shit it
irals lo soli snap ami beguile his
old friend Sam Rat burn into for
giving Shivers and welcoming
him back uilo the democratic
parlt .
Meanwhile the Sletenson demo
crats are warning Sam that if he
does Movers will take over con
trol of the Texas delegation in
Hl.iH and repeat what he did at
Chicago in l!i")l!.
Itl AllY Kilt
MINI ItOI S At; UN"
Asloi i.ni lluil :. t
ll.o k when price rotilrols went
into ellerl in World War II, I he
hk.i goternmenl control of
pners seemed a drashc eiocr
genet measure, fiisiiltahlr onlv
bv the extreme emergence nf
War and national peril. Now,
when in peacetime there
sudden rise in the price of one
non essential commodity, coffee,
there comes immediately in the
, I S senate n proposal for estab
lishment of government super
; vision and control of coffee
! prices. People seem to think
! such a proposal only right and
proper.
We hate come a long war in
changing our thinking toward
government function in the field
NEW YORK m-Many thoughtful
wives today are asking themselves
"what can I do to show my hus
band how much I appreciate him."
I heard of one wife recently who
surprised her husband on his birth
day by handing him the paid-up
deed to a lot in an ultra exclusive
cemetery, a lot with a fine view
and plenty of sunshine, all for his
very own self.
"Honey," she told him. "after
you're gone, I want you to know
you'll be in good company. There
isn't a better location in the whole
cemetery, and I want to tell you
from my heart that I feel there
isn't a man in town who has earn
ed it more than you."
Well, this particular husband
was so touched by this evidence of
down and cried, and later went
out and bought her a fur coat.
However, all husbands are not
as high class as this man. To put
it bluntly, they feel, as one, told
me recently, "Just once I'd like to
get something from a woman while
I'm alive."
What can a conscientious wife do
to win and hold the love of 'the
average husband, so that he will
remain her boy friend instead of
becoming her sparring partner?
Too often women think that the
way to do this is to spend money
on clothing and beauty treatments
to make themselves more attractive.
But really isn't such a wife mere
ly coddling herself? Why not cod
dle him for a change?
Here are a few ways any strap
ping wife can give that man in her
life a thrill, and let him know he
got more than a barnacle when he
married her:
1. Serve him breakfast in bed at
least twice a week.
2. Don't keep asking him if he
really loves her. On the other
hand don't keep telling him how
mad you arc about him. Just tell
him whenever he looks blue, 'Boy,
oh boy, am I glad you took me
out from behind that counter in
Klotz' five-and-tcn-cent store, and
gave me a nice house to loaf in.
It takes a guy with a real heart to
give a dizzy blonde like me a
break like that, and don't think I
don't know it." This kind of love
talk makes sense to a man.
3. Surprise him with little spe
cial wifely attentions, such as, lor
example, cutting the lawn your
self, polishing the family car, or
pumping up a flat tire. The gentle
light of love that lights up in your
husband's weary face will more
than repay you.
4. Take in washing. This will
enable you to earn the extra pin
money your husband needs to in
dulge in weekly poker games with
the boys at his office. There are
probably dozens of people right in
your own neighborhood who will
By HAL BOYLE
bo glad to give their business to
you instead of a professional laun
dry. One wife earned so much
money this way her grateful hus
band bought her a second machine
on their wedding anniversary, and
now she can handle twice as much
work. Their happy home life is
the talk of the whole community.
5. Why tag along wilh the kids
every time your husband has a
vacation? Why not let him take at
least one vacation by himself each
year? And why not help him
make it a really carefree one? A
wife by selling magazine subscrip
tions in her spare time can earn
enough in a few months to s:nd
her husband on a nice restful voy
age to Bermuda. Think of all the
interesting things he will have to
tell you when he returns. Make
him promise to bring you back a
sea shell.
Any wife with a little ingenuity
can probably think up dozens of
other stimulating ways to pep up
her marriage and win her hus
band's heart anew.
The big idea is to make the guy
feel more important, and that yau
are in there pitching every mo
ment to keep your romance alive.
Remember the more things a
wife does for her husband, the
more he feels he loves her for
herself alone.
per cent is available to foreign
shipping. Certainly, no such
consideration is given American
shipping by other countries.
Preoccupied as we are with
enormous defense spending, we
must not allow the importance of
our merchant fleet to be over
shadowed. The subsidies granted
our shipping under the 1936 act.
and consideratioins given in for-
cign-ad lcgslaton must be con
tinued if we arc lo achieve a
realistic balance between our de
fense establishment, our economy
and our shipping over the years
ahead.
Salem 37 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
February 5, 1917
House of representatives had
adopted a resolution approving
and sustaining action of Presi
dent Wilson in scvorin diplo
matic relations xt'ith Germany
and pledging the state of Oregon
and its people to whatever end
the crisis might lead.
The American punitive expe
dition that had been sent to
Mexico last spring to capture
Villa "dead or alive" had march
ed back upon American soil to
day with the main objective of
its invasion unaccomplished.
Americans in Germany were
reported to be calmly preparing
for war with that nation.
Inter-counly bridge lieing Sa
lem to West Salem had been
closed to traffic and an indig
nation meeting in West Salem
demanded building a new bridge
at once to replace the old one.
Employees at both Salem ex
press offices were about to breath
a sigh of relief. After 4 o'clock '
Wednesday, February 7, 1917,
there would be no more handling
of booze by express companies.
Proposals for a ferry between
Salem and West Salem had been
submitted by the Salem Ferry
Co. A boat 25 by 86 feet, to be
powered by a gasoline 1: unch of
not less than 50 horsepower, had
been suggested. The ferry would
land at the foot of Court street
in Salem and at the old ferry
landing in West Salem. Foot
passengers were to be charged
5c. single rigs, 15c, double rigs,
20c, small autos, 15c, and larger
cars, 25c.
District Attorney Gehlar had
stated that the new, "bone dry"
law would go into effect Febru
ary 7.
British Praise
For Dulles Policy
London Spectator
If the British press were to spend
half the time that it now gives to
niggling about American policy to
the less familiar exercise of under
standing it, it might be happier as
well as wiser. It would certainly
not have tucked away in incon
spicuous positions Mr. John Foster
Dulles' speech of January 12 to the
Council of Foreign Relations in
New York but rather have hailed
it with delight. What to any seri
ous observer of post-war diplomacy
could be more important than this
bold development by the American
secretary of state of the main
heading of a policy which had, it
is true, been foreshadowed but
which had not previously been of
ficially stated?
The central principle Is admir
ably stated by Mr. Dulles: The
basic decision was to spend pri
marily upon a great capacity to
retaliate instantly by means and
at places of our choosing. Now
the department of defense and tht
joint chiefs of staff can shape our
military establishment to fit what
is our policy instead of having lo
be ready to meet the enemy's.
many choices. The argument is
stated in American military terms.
but its application is obviously to
the Western policy of preserving
peace. It is still defensive, but
more effective than ever before,
and it leads straight to the prac
tical study of the proper points of
concentration of Western power.
This is a true initiative. .This is
a policy which the Russian cannot
allord to treat with contempt and
which may hasten them along the
road leading to genuine cooperation
and the abandonment of the illu
sion that the West is going to fail
in its own defense. But it is still
necessary for the British people to
do what the mass of the British
p ess had not yet done; accept
the fact that the Americans, far
from being fools in the field of
foreign policy and grand strategy,
arc setting better at it every day.
MORAL SENTIMENTS
NOURISH
Henry Ward Beecher
It is the passions that wear
the appetites that grind out the
force of life. Excitement in the
higher realm of thought and
feeling docs not wear out or waste
men. The moral sentiments nour
ish and feed us.
Government research indicates
that it requires about 5'2 hours
to handle unprepared food for a
day in a family of four, but only
1.6 hours if ready-to-serve foods
arc used.
Federal and State
Income Tax Returns
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