Page 4 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem. Orecon Monday, February 8, 19S4 Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING. Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. Fill Uliri H'lrt Ktmet ! Iht Arlilr4 Prp, tnd Th liollra prrti. Tt)l AtsoeltUd Prcu It rxrlunlvrly entitled to the UAt foi pjbllcillOD ot ftU diwi dlipitchu credited to It or olhe'rftit credited In lti! pip' and alio oewi published Ibereln. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Carrier: Monthlr. il.li: Sli Monlni. H.Ml On, Year. 115 00 Br Mill ll Orefon: Monthl?, toe: SIX Monthi. KM: One fear, ti 00 B Mall Ouulde Oreion Monthlr, 11.25; 6li Montha, 17.30: One Vear. lis. 00. THE 'ORDINARY' AMERICANS AMERICA IS M&DE OF PEOPLE -GOOD PEOPLE HAROWORKlHG PEOPLE PEOPLE LIKE A" THE .CIVIC CLUE MEMBER. JAMES R. LINN PASSES The passing of Jamx's R. Linn at the itj;e of 8f after a brief illness at a Portland hospital, prominent for nearly 60 years in agricultural anil business life of Salem, but best known as a leader in the valley once predominant ' industry hop frrowintr and sellinjr, removes a picturesque and forceful character and a legion of friends all over Oregon to mourn his loss. He was a kindly and charitable man and very human and a friend to any one in need. And when his loans turned sour, he laughingly shrugged it oft, charging them to love and affection. "Jim," as everyone called him, came up the hard way and though he came from a fine, well-to-do family, his eraving for adventure led him to run away from home at fin early age to see the world. For a few years he kept going and working whenever he could get employment as a migratory worker. His last job before he came to Salem in the early 90s, was as foreman for Jack London's famous Valley of the Moon ranch. Mr. Linn was born in Pennsylvania, June 5, 1867, and came to Salem as hop buyer several years before going into the hop growing business in 1896, as well as hop brok erage. Until comparatively recently he owned four hop yards individually and was a partner for many years of the late Russel Catlin and later of John J. Roberts. Rags to riches, back and forth, was characteristic of the hop industry in the valley in the early years. Hops would be a dollar a pound one year and down to 5 cents the fol lowing year, and back again a few years later. Fortunes were made, lost and remade. The hop man was a plunger and took his losses as well as gains philosophically. They were an adventurous and convivial group and Jim Linn was prominent in their activities. Few of them are left which is the community's loss. Mr. Linn also engaged in other agricultural pursuits, he had a vinyard, berry fields and at one time a pure-bred Jersey dairy. He was always busy and drove a tractor up to his 80th year. His chief recreations were hunting and fishing and he was a fine sportsman. He helped enlarge and modernize the old Willamette hotel into the Marion and was for many years its president. He also owned, at one time a large ranch near Bend. Several years ago the Linn farm homo south of Salem on his vinyard was completely destroyed on Christmas Eve, and the Linns barely escaped in their night clothes, being awakened by thoir dogs. Mr. Linn is survived by his widow, Farris Linn, and two nieces in the east, to whom the sympathy of the community is extended. G. P. ViitV!-::'k-'--:V"lSr, ' A' civic clue member. .:. .. ifc;:i team- CJ m fewrf s?'s M jJ.' m MM Trial THIS 16 NOT THEWEEKiy LUNCHEON" IT'S HIS 'NIGHT. OUT WITH THE BOYS - BUT HE'S NOT PLAVING CARDS; HE'S DEALING OUT rV0MfLI4TS' HE'S NOT GAMBLING THAT MONEy,- HE'S O0NATINC IT- ft RcG-Man'n KHIS IS JUST ANOTHER. COMMITTEE SESSION LONG, UNSUNG HOURS, . WORKING ON PROJECTS .TO HELP HIS TOWN, OR. AID THE UNFORTUNATE. WHAT DOES HE GET OUTOFIT? . A BETTER, TOWN- A BETTER. NATION, McNaught Syndicate, Inc. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Ike's Economic Advisor Touchy About Transcript By DREW PEARSON TRUMAN REVERTS TO TYPE Only a few weeks after Harry Truman solemnly assured the public he would never publicly criticize his successor because he knew only too well the burdens of his job, Tru man reverted to a role in which he has become unpleas antly familiar, the small bore politician; which seems to fit Turn so much better than any other. In an address to the leftist Americans for Democratic Action, which so many Democrats find embarrassing to their party, Truman hurled a challenge to Eisenhower to reveal how many of the 2200 security risks ousted since Eisenhower took office are actual proven Communists. He termed the administration's security investigations "one of the biggest hoaxes ever attmpted in American history." Truman knows as well as anyone else that: (1) It isn't always possible to prove a man is a Communist; (2) Many of the most dangerous Communist operators are not mom bers of the party, and (.') That there need not be many Communists in government to do an immense damage. For instance, a small handful of men in the State De partment helped engineer the loss of China to the Commu nists. One of them was Alger Hiss, whose case gave rise to the celebrated "red herring" remark. No matter what circumstances Truman used the phrase under, it is a well known fact that he obstructed attempts to investigate and later to bring Hiss to justice. And his attitude in the Harry Dexter White case was only recently shown to have been one of indifference after the F.H.I, put full informa tion on White's treasonable acts before him. Harry Truman would gain in the esteem of the public, which greatly desires to esteem both of its two living ex presidents, if he would emulate the proverbial small boy who is seen but not heard. Unfortunately he does not have the mind and character to speak on a plane the public expects ol one who has held our country 8 highest office, THE DURABLE DANE You have to be something of an old tinier to remember when Battling Nelson was the toast of the boxing world, but millions of younger folks, whether interested in box ing or not, must know him as a tradition. A rather sordid figure in recent years, incidentally. And now he is dead. In the early years of the century Rattling Nelson ruled the lightweight division after his memorable victory over the negro, Joe Cans, who was never the same after the beating he took from the young Dane. Nelson was a fast fighter, with tremendous endurance. When he finally lout the title it took Ad W olgast 'ID rounds to reduce Nelson to a point where the bout was stopped, with Nelson, bleed ing and groggy, still on his feet. ve oni'ii tnniK wnai a pity it is mat some ot the heroes oi tne Mwrt worm, who nave no talent whatever tor any thing else, must live so long in obscurity after their prow ess and the zest for living it must give them, has departi.I. We think of men like Hack Wilson, Crover Alexander. Sam Langford, Jim Thorpe and a host of other greats of days Jong gone when we say this. Now Rattling Nelson, who earned half a million in t lu ring when that was vastly more money than it would be now, and tax exempt, too. Hut he lost it all years ago, lost his first wife, the newspaper woman Fay King, who once lived in Portland, by divorce. In Into years he lived in a cheap room in a Chicago slum, dependent on a tiny pension and charity. He weighed only Nil pounds when he died. Hut he left a name that will be long remembered in sport. Hnttling Nelson! It is a name to conjure with, as they nay. Public Health Doctors Form Organization 1 CHICAGO in Organization of the American Assn. of Public Health Physicians, to provide a srcaler decree of medical leader ship in the national public health field, was announced Monday. ' Named president of the new ftroup, to ncrv until the first meet ing of Ha house of delegate at Buffalo N, Y., Oct. 11, wat Dr. flrucc I'ndcrwood of Louisville, Kentucky's stale commissioner of health. Dr. Harold Krickson. Siilrm, Oregon stale health ollicer, is nne of six trustees named. Knur fifths of Bolivia's 3.0.S4. 000 people live at altitudes above 10,000 fecL WASHINGTON Sedate and scholarly Dr. Arthur Burns, the ex-Columbia professor, now chief of Ike's council of economic ad visers, went to great pains in explaining to senators why he had to testify about business re cession in secret. Then, afler finally getting per mission to talk in secret, he told the senators almost nothing they hadn t already heard in public. Dr. Hums, appearing before the joint committee on the eco nomic report, explained that he had been searching his soul to whether to testify at all. The way he looked at it, he had a confidential relationship with the president. However, he had given the matter deep thought. Since cabinet officers are ex pected to testify, Burns decided he, too, had an obligation to ap pear before congress if re quested. However, he had to insist that no transcript be tak en of his remarks. Senator Douglas of Illinois, an ex-professor of economics at the University of Chicago, promptly challenged him. Burns then went into a lengthy explanation, pointing out that in speaking off- the-cuff, he was apt to over simplify a complex situation or to state an idea more positively than it ought to he expressed. Therefore, he preferred to keep his remarks informal. If a trans cript were made, he said, it would make his testimony ap pear more formal than it ac tually would be. There was also the possibility, he continued, tb.it he might say something that would appear to be in contradiction of the president's economic report. He hastened to assure that he didn't mean he disagreed with the president's report in any detail. Hut in the course of speaking, he said, some statement of his might come out on the record that would appear to contradict the president. If that happened, he added solemnly, and his re marks were made permanent in transcript form, he would feel constrained to resign within the hour. Sonator Douglas started to ob ject further, hut Senator Flan ders nf Vermont urged that Dr. Burns lie given the right to tes tify witho.it even a transcript being taken. As a result, Burns was allow ed to proceed behind closed doors without his words being recorded. However, his testi mony was perfectly safe and roil id have been transcribed Willi. nit embarrassing the presi dent or anyone else. Burns didn't deviate an lota from the president's economic report. He admitted thai we arc going through what he called a "mild contraction." But he in sisted there is no reason to be lieve il will become any more severe, and there is good rea son to believe the economy will start picking up again in late spring or early summer. A 111 1.1. BKTWKKN SKATORS Wayne Morse of Oregon, the lone independent senator, spoke in Austin, Texas, the other day where he paid tribute to the two Texas tcnators in terms they didn't appreciate. Morse refer red to Sen. Trice Daniel as "rep resenting the Texas oil lobby." and to Lyndon Johnson as "rep resenting only himself. I After the speech, Morse re-: WHAT WRKCKS MABRIAtlK marked to Texas friends: "That Charles Dickens speech cost me $1,000." Tncr). j, nn disparity In mar- Asked for an explanation, inage like unsuitability of mind Morse told how tit wis it i din-j and purpose. Salem 30 Years. Ago By BEN MAXWELL February 8, 1924 Gee Lon, Chinese tong slayer, had been executed at Carson City, Nevada, in the nation's first lethal gas execution. ner at the home of Senator Ke .fauvcr when Price Daniel came up to him and said: "I under stand you raise Devon cattle." Morse replied that he did, and Scnafor Daniel went on to say that he and his brother wanted to experiment with crossing De von bulls and Brahman cows in order to produce the best beef brand in the southwest. "That's the test the University! of Florida has also worked on," Morse observed. "Have you got any Devon bulls you want to sell?" Daniel asked "Sure, I've got two of the best bulls in the east," Morse replied. "They're young, but they took the lop prizes at the recent fair in southern Maryland. I'll sell 'cm for J500 each." "All right," said the senator from Texas, "I'll come out and take a look at them. They're probably just what I need." So you can understand," Morse told his Texas friends, that Senator Daniel, after what said about him, is not going to pay mc $1,000 for my two bulls." INDOCHINA DI1F.MMA From two different sources, President F.iscnhowcr has re ceived increasingly disturbing reports about the situation in Indo-China. It is so bad that he has been seriously consider ing sending U.S. troops to Indo China to train native troops. . One report to the While House has come from John Fos ter Dulles in Berlin who says the French assembly is getting nearer the point where it will vote to pull out of Indo-China altogether, abandoning it to the communists. Dulles has warned that something must be done quickly or the French will take just such a step. The second report comes from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Adm. Arthur Radford, who claims that the real solu tion in Indo-China is the effi cient training of native troops. Radford proposes sending a top U.S. military man, with experi enee in either Greece or Korea to train Indo-Chinese natives. This would save French lives. and. he believes, would result in some real resistance against the I binese-equipped commu nists who since the end of the Korean war have received train load after trainload of muni tions, obviously diverted from the Korean front. Radford's plan Is now under studv by the National Security Council, which feels strongly that something must be done to prevent communism from over running all of siH.ilir.vl Asia, However, F.iscnhowcr is loath to send American .roofis to Indo- China even for training pur poses. So far there has been no decision. "Biddie" Bishop had a plan to revive Salem Senators baseball team, now reported to be ap proaching rigor mortis. Bake-Rite Sanitary bakey had a special on cinnamon rolls for 15c a dozen. LOTS OK WONGS LOS ANGELES IT The Wong family celebrated the Ihinese new year last night with a fam ily reunion. Eight hundred rela tives showed up. Thomas S. Wong, president of Wong Won San Assn., which means the Wong ancestral fam ily Assn., said the group has 3.- 000 members and is the largest j Chinese family group in this 1 country. Oregon Growers Cooperative as sociation had agreed to disband January 1, 1925, and be replaced by an entirely new organization. Joseph II. Maddock, product of "Hurry-Up" Yost's coaching sys tem, had succeeded "Shy" Hunt ington as coach of the "University of Oregon football team. Midget market, 351 State street, had a price of ISc a pound for de licious Swiss cut round steak, ham roasts for 20c and sliced bacon for 25c a pound. Prince of Wales had fallen from his horse and broken his clavicle. A Grand Theater Stuart Walker had been billed to present "The Book of Job." THINK GREAT THOUGHTS By BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. I Rent Subsidies By RAYMOND MOLEY It was rather surprising, in view of the President's often expressed dislike for socialism in all forms and, what is more important, be cause he is engaged in a desper ate struggle to cut the cost of gov ernment and lower taxes, that his proposals for housing should in volve further debt and more pa ternalism. , One explanation of this incon sistency may be the President's experience , at Columbia Univer sity. That institution for more than half a Century has been lo cated on the east sidt of the Hud son River, in a region called Morningside Heights. Us trustees for many years have been charg ed with lack of foresight because they failed signally to acquire sufficient acreage not only for the expansion of the institution itself but for adequate protection against the growth of slum areas cheek by jowl with ivied halls. The result is that two of the mi nority groups to which the Presi dent referred in his message, Ne groes from Harlem and immi grants from Puerto Rico, have in the past few years moved into close proximity on thrje sides of the institution. And, like so many institutions, this one would not be averse to having the Federal government move in to rescue the university from the situation cre ated by the improvidence of its trustess. This, despite the fact that there are represented on the present Board of Trustees finan cial institutions with sufficient means to buy many times the acreage to prevent the area from disintegrating into slums. I do not suggest that the uni versity's needs are involved in the present Presidential program. I simply say that presidents, like other men, argue from the small island of what they know out into the great sea of what they don't know. The hare facts that concern tax payers everywhere, from Presque Isle to San Diego, are these. Read and buy if you will, but don't say you were not warned. 1. The President is asking Con gress to join him in a policy which frankly accepts the responsibility of the Federal government to see that slum conditions are eliminat ed and that declining neighbor hoods be rehabilitated. 2. The President is asking that the Federal government pledge itself to increase its building of tax-free and government owned and operated units from the pres ent rate of 20,000 a year to 35.000. This is to involve a total commit ment now of 140,000 units. . 3. This will cost, over the whole period, $2 billion, and probably the loss of revenue and cost of services not paid for by token re mittances in lieu ot taxes will cost local governments about a billion more dollars. 4. The Federal government be comes a master planner and pro vides some millions to enable ci ties and metropolitan communi ties to plan themselves. 5. The government, through the FHA, has a contingent liability of approximately $17 billion, of which it has about 2 per cent in reserves. It is proposed to increase that liability and to authorize bor. rowing from the Treasury if there is difficulty in selling the deben tures involved. Since President Eisenhower is so rapidly learning the practical ways of politics, some of his ad visers should tell him that public POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER This Man Began Brilliant New Career at Age of 68 By HAL At 68 many men, and women feel they are through. But at 68 Giovanni Martinelli, one of the great voices of our cen tury, began a bright new career as a salesman. He now sells what he used to sing, opera. "I am a bridge now," he said, "a bridge of explanation." It is really his greatest role. In his lifetime as one of the finest tenors within living memory he estimates he has sung to some 7,000 audiences around the world. Now each Sunday, he capsules in "Opera Cameo," a Dumont Television Network feature, the p'ots of operas he used to sing himself. His job is to explain what the vocal artists are yodel ing about. Giovanni, sometimes called Joe, was and is a tremendous artist, a nice chunky guy with flaming blue eyes and a big mop of white, hair. It is ironic that now he can reach more people with a conver sational tone than he could in the days when he could match a high note with any man in the tenor in dustry. But Joe doesn't mind. "It is enough for me that more people now love opera," he said. Tenors are generally as jealous of each other as women. Joe may OPEN FORUM Acjrees With Ike That 18 Yr.-Olds Should Vote To the Editor: President Eisenhower thinks that 18-year-olds should be al lowed to vote. To bring that about there will have to be a change in the U.S. constitution. The president has asked con gress to take necessary steps to get the constitution amended. I venture that there is no man liv ing today who is better able to judge the capabilities of the 18-year-olds than is President Ei senhower. He has spent the greater part of his life in close touch with the troops, many of whom were under 18 years of age. He has observed them be fore battle, in combat and after the battle was over. In his cabinet are several men who have had extensive military epericnce. Among them are Ex-Governor Douglas McKay and Fx -Governor Harold Stassen who. like the president, know from personal observation the capa bilities of lSyear-olds. It is Indeed interesting to note that our nation went to war when a military man was presi dent. George Washington be came president after leading the nation to victory in the war for independence. If my memory serves me correctly, General Pershing, who led the free world to victory in World War I, strongly advocated that the right to vote be extended to 18-year-olds. Military men don't want war because they know the hor rors of war from firsthand per sonal observation and experi ence. They also know that if we must fight the 18year-olds will cheerfully do their part. It seems to me that what hap pened in Korea is most powerful evidence of the good judgment of our young soldiers. Out of the many thousands nf prisoners of war, many of them 18 and under, subjected to all kinds of brain washing and torture onlv handful faltered and the j Lord only knows how many of Good Appointment Albany Democrat-Herald Appointment of Lowell Seaton of Albany as a member of the Oregon Liquor Control commis sion is a compliment alike to this city and county and to a man who has proved his effi ciency in his own private busi ness and in serving his home city of Albany as a member of the council. Governor Patter son may be assured that his ap pointee to succeed the retiring Mr. Spangler as a Democratic member of the commission, will bring to it more than usual busi ness efficiency and a full sense of official responsibility. Mr. Seaton is the second Albany man and the third Linn county man to serve on the commission. which has in charge the admin istration of Oregon s liquor laws, ine lale A. K. McMahan was chairman of the board a few years back, and Hugh Kirkpat rick of Lebanon was formerly a member. FEBRUARY DAYS RARE TOO Bend Bulletin "And what is so rare as a day in June?" an American editor poet rhapsodized nearly a hun dred years ago. Could he revisit the earth and drop in on Central Oregon this week, he would have the answer. After that, no doubt, he would sweat it out intermina bly trying to find something to rhyme with February. our boys chose death rather than yield to Communist pressure. If you think the right to vote should be extended to the 18- year-olds, write Congressman Walter Norhlad, Senator Guy , Cordon and Senator Wayne Morse, Washington, D.C. They ' arc most anxious to know how the folks hack home feel about pending legislation. Respectfully, ALE O. NELSON, Silverton, Ore. housing has lost its glamor with the man in the street. That was abundantly shown in the Los An geles election last May. I also have found it to be true in New York City. Those who rent are awakening to the fact that indi rectly but inexorably the cost of subsidizing the rent ot some is visited in taxes on the landlord, and he in turn passes it on to the I tenant. The people are again j ahead of their government. The , President's proposals are thus not only doubtful economics but doubtful politics, too. i BOYLE have his jealousies, but in a talk with him I couldn't discover them. His own record in the world of the lifted male voice is secure. He sang dramatic roles for the Met ropolitan Opera for 34 consecutive years. He is comfortably sure that no schoolboy will remove his honor. "To be a singer is to be serious," Joe said. "I never smoked, I drank only enough to be comfort able wtih my friends, a little glass of wine. "No, I didn't go in for gymnas tics to stay fit. I cannot say I love sports, because I do not. But I like to walk, and every day I walk. "I learned another thing' in the 40 years I sang, never to walk my worries home. Singing is a very difficult career. It must be real ized, if one is to enjoy this world, that its pleasures must be enjoyed parsimoniously. They must be disciplined." When I asked Joe who he thought was the greatest singer he had knowledge of, he named the only man I have never heard another tenor admit he could equal. "I can only say he is a man who has been a long, long time in heaven, Enrico Caruso," he said. "I will not discuss his voice. You must agree that all tenors have a voice, but Caruso could put his heart in his voice as no other man ever could, and those who deliber ately try to do what he could do can only be an imitation, for even if they had his voice, and they don't, (hey cannot match his heart." Martinelli, in talking about sing ers, speaks more of heart than voice. "After all, we are human, not just an instrument, he said. "Singing is an intimate pleasure. You must enjoy it yourself, first, if you are to communicate it to others. But it is hard. When it is time to quit, it is not really the voice that goes. It is the heart that goes. It is the heart that gives us the advice to slow down. There comes a time when the heart says. "take it easy, Giovanni, take it easy. A smile came over Martinelli s pale, expressive face, and he said: On television I am in a spot light, not behind the foatlights. It is new to me but beautiful. No, I have not retired. I talk, but a singer sometimes does not like lo hear his voice when he is talking. "Yes, I am happy. I still love to sing for those who want me to . . . but only a few songs . . . only a few . . . then the heart says, 'no, Giovanni, no more.' " 5S J IK X I HARDWARE It STORtS , liUlflTfR fllflSTfR wrminvmt Sees Sterility, Lower Life Span in Fluorine To the Editor: I agree with a recent letter to the Journal that we need more information on fluoridation. But please, lets have both sides of the issue. A radio panel with both sides participating would be fine, or a series of meetings open to all. The "compared to table salt" version is new to me. My under standing was that it comes to the water department labeled "Rat Poison." And that there is no known antidote for fluorine pois oning. Also that it is a cumula tive poison which even a healthy person cannot throw off what about our invalids and chronic sufferers with impaired resist ance? In test animals an alarm ing rate of sterility was present in the fourth generation: also a Texas scientist who has done extensive research believes it will shorten the life span of all who use it from five to nine years. Perhaps some folks would rather live few years longer with poor teeth, or better yet, let's cut out the excessive sweets, especially candy and pop. I say, let's wait a reasonable number of years before forc ing upon the innocent public something they are not allowed to vote on themselves. Kor those who think they cannot wait for further research, there is avail able at the drug store a dilute solution they may purchase to put in their own drinking water at their own discretion. That should make evervhodv happv. MRS. K. SI. Ml LA 1334 Marion Remember Flower ran be delivered anywhere no 00 tr v - .V nfi 5- HIT) A Sri lowers W il (Seller What better way to say "I LOVE YOU" than on armful of dewy-fresh flowers? ORDERS IN BY 3 P. M. FOR DELIVERY