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Pager THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon Friday, February 12, 1954 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. Tall Uutd Wirt trim f lb AuUI4 hin n4 Th Oollri rrt. Tht Auocuted Prcu li eicluuvdr nllllxl to u u lor publlcillon o( II newt dlipuhu crtdlttd to It or otbvflM credited in thai pixr and Uo newi publuhcd therein. LATEST PORTRAYER OF LINCOLN On this Lincoln anniversary day the Capital Journal appropriately prints a photo of the head. of an heroic Lin Btatue designed by Dr. Avard Fairbanks for the commu nity of New Salem, III., to be placed at the entrance to the town". It is a vigorous and forceful portrait of the "emancipator" and depicts his characteristics better than any of the many other statues that honor his memory. It has added to Fairbank's stature as the foremost sculptor cf the west. Dr. Fairbanks In January was' awarded the National Sculptors' Society Herbert Adams Memorial Medal in rec ognition of his "distinguished services to American sculp ture through inspirational teaching of the fundamentals of beauty, craftsmanship and integrity." Dr. Fairbanks has also teen elected as a fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters and designates him as one of the world's leaders in that field. His name is to be published on the institute's inaugural day, August 1 at Zurich, Switzerland, in a list of new members "qualified by notable achievements in act and literature," Which gives him international recognition. Dr. Fairbanks began his professional career in Oregon as assistant professor of art at the University of Oregon in 1920. He took a great interest in pioneer subjects and designed the Old Oregon Trail medallion, later adopted for the Centennial emblem and stamp. He created the Tioneer Mother memorial in Vancouver, Wash., which gained na tional acclaim. He has been professor of art at the Uni versity of Utah since 1947. Just why the various committees appointed to select the Moores Salem memorial to early Oregon pioneers over looked Dr. Fairbanks is an unsolved mystery. It is re spectfully suggested that the mayor's new committee at least consult Dr. Fairbanks in the selection of an appro priate pioneer memorial and not pick out another husky Venus. G. P. IT'S LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY Human fame, like its imitation, notoriety, is often of very brief duration. Who can remember the hero of yes terday in sport, politics, literature, art or whatever you care to name 7 But it is encouraging to note year after year that the fame of Abraham Lincoln, "the greatest American," shines on with undiminished lustre where it ought to shine in the hearts of his countrymen. Lincoln's birthday, 1954, 145 years after his birth in a log cabin in Hardin county, Kentucky, and nearly 89 years after his death at the hand of a crazed assassin finds "honest Abe" still striking the same warm note with the people that he has each year since his death. His fame does not grow dim. , No one can explain the mystery of Abraham Lincoln, how a man with only one year of formal schooling could speak with an eloquence that is at once the admiration of the world's scholars and the "man on the street," clothing America's national ideals in words that will live forever. Or how so much practical wisdom could lurk behind a collection of funny stories few men could accumulate in a lifetime if they did nothing else? Or how such a man could be elected president in a crisis historians must al ways consider one of the gravest in all our history. Divine intervention in the affairs of a nation that seems always to have enjoyed the special blessing of the Al mighty? Possibly. The explanation is better than any other weVe seen offered. However this may be, and we'll never know this side of the grave, America is supremely grateful for Abraham Lincoln both for the great service he rendered during his lifetime and for the inspiration he left behind to enrich our national life through all future time. FEBRUARY, 1809 m -in 1 2Tvi . ' " "... r. v r t i -a .. CWCf HARDIN COUNTX WATOM UWfeSP wmmm- 6 IfcNiaiMgyHdica! WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Russian Says Free World Can Win Supporters There MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING There's an old 'saying that "you can't make something out of nothing," but this isn't strictly true. Sometimes you can, particularly in politics. For proof one need go back no further than yesterday and no farther away than Ore'gon. The Portland papers burst out with big, sensational headlines Thursday about a "deal" whereby Senator Cor don was to be re-elected this year, then resign, wherupon Oovernor I'atterson was to appoint William K. Walsh, a I Coos Pay attorney and former state senate president, to the post. Spectacular news indeed. Put with one qualification. Was it true? It appears that it wasn't, that it was concocted by a source unfriendly to Cordon and Patterson, designed to do them injury. The story first broke out in the Coos Pay Times, a left wing Democratic paper, which said it had interviewed Walsh about the matter. Walsh said it was "no secret" that he would like to be a U.S. senator. That if Cordon Mas re-elected and did resign and if Patterson then ap pointed him, Walsh, he would be happy. Put he knew nothing about any such plan or scheme. In Washington Cordon said he is running for re-election with a view to serving out his next term if re-elected, that he has no intention whatever of resigning and is not a party to any deal. Patterson said the same thing. In short, unless somebody knows that the aforemen tioned reputable gentlemen are lying, the story is without any foundation whatever. The big play it received in sup posedly responsible Oregon newspapers was in our opinion pretty shabby journalism. We gave it a small spot on the inside and this was more than it was worth. THE PRESIDENT'S POPULARITY Haven't you sensed a rise in President Kisenhower's popular standing since he submitted his well thought out program to congress a few weeks ago? We've felt it. and now the Gallup survev organization confirms. The Inst of a rtgular series of presidential popularity surveys that have been taken for a good many years now ahows that the president enjoys the support of approxi mately 71 percent of the electorate, a gain of three per centage points in the past month. Ninteen percent regis tered active disapproval and 10 percent had no opinion. Since Eisenhower took office his standing as shown by the monthly surveys has ranged from a high of 75 percent immediately after the shooting stopped in Korea to a low of CO last December. It goes without saying that the pub lic knows where the president stands much better than it did prior to his messages to congress last month, so the present rise in approval must be significant of more than a personal affection for the man. Kisenhower has 93 percent support from Republicans, the survey indicates, the highest he has yet received from his own party. Fifty-four percent of the Democrats "like Ike" and 79 percent of the independents. By comparison, President Truman's popularity ranged from 87 percent in July, 1915, while he was still humble and asking friends to pray for him, down to a low of 32 percent in October, 1916. WASHINGTON Igor Gouzen- ko, the Soviet code clerk who ex posed the spy ring in Canada, had some potent advice to offer during my second interview with him. The advice should be par ticularly appropriate now that the U- S. army in Japan has wooed and won another high-up member of the Soviet espionage aparatus, and now that purges arc taking place in two impor tant parts of the Soviet Union. What Gouzcnko told me boiled down briefly to the following: 1. There will be war between the United States and Russia in 10 years if it's left to the Soviet military and unless the United States does something to pene trate the Iron Curtain. 2. Scores of highly placed Rus sians would be glad to desert Communism and join the west if they were given property security. 3. The way to convert Ameri can Communists away from Com munism is by persuasion rather than terrorism before the spot light of congressional committees. 4. The free world hasn't begun to scratch the surface in wooing the peoples behind the Iron Cur tain. This is the real Achilles' heel of Communism and the way to prevent war. Gouzcnko also said that he had By DREW PEARSON ers with important military or diplomatic information, to come over to the free world, he talked at some length. This, incidentally, was the chief point he emphasized to Sen ators Jenncr and McCarran when they went to Canada to inter view him for the senate internal security committee. So far, their report has not been made public. "In front of every potential escapee there is a problem," Gouzcnko told me. "He has to think, 'Will he be accepted as a member of society in the free world?' So you must give him assurance in advance. He must he sure of a job, of police pro tection, and of material help. "There is also a matter of hu man dignity involved," he con tinued. "Sometimes a high Rus sian military attache or general would like to come over to the west, but he continues on with the Soviet simply because he is afraid he will be humiliated here, and perhaps be put to work as a janitor or a doorman in front of a New York night club " I told Gouzcnko of my experi ence in Germany where I found various high Russian escapees had been shunted back and forth between Frankfort and Washing ton by the U. S. military, milked dry of their information, then allowed to sit and rot in concen tration camps outside Frankfort. never heard the name of Harry lost I SHUFFLE D. While mentioned while he ( was coding and decoding cables for the Soviet spy ring in Cana da. This is probably one reason why the senate internal security committee has said so little since coming back from interviewing Gouzcnko in Canada. The sena tors went up to Canada after various public statements about rooting out American spies, hut have been strangely silent since their return. Gouzenko did tell me, howev er, that he had heard from one of his colleagues returning from Moscow that the Kremlin was cooperating with an assistant to Secretary of State Stettiniiu dur-1 ing the San Francisco confer-! ence. Alger Hiss was chief as- j sistant to Strttinius at that time. Salem 65 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL February 12, 1889 Dr. Darrin, with offices in the Chemeketa hotel (now the Mar ion), had a front page Capital Journal advertisement offering to treat and benefit all curable chronic diseases. Numerous local testimonials substantiated h i s successful therapy. Oak View Grange had been or ganized at Independence with a membership of 40. Joseph Heine, wonderful vir tuoso violinist, had an engage ment in Salem. Roth and Grecnbaum were selling Dilworth's flavored cof fee for 25c a pound. Clyde Cooke (son of Belle Cooke), Salem artist, had a studio in room six of the First Nation al Bank building where he re ceived orders for portraits or landscapes in either oils or water colors. Capital Journal had discovered that the name "Oregon was a derivative of the Greek word "orego" meaning to extend out or prolong. Capitol building's new elevator has become popular with a rec ord of 304 trips for one day last week. ' C.H. Monroe and J. were proprietors of R. N. Bell Chemeketa Bob Montgomery White House Role By MERRIMAN SMITH WASHINGTON, UP Back stairs at the White House: There has been evidence re. cently of much public curiosity about the role of Robert Mont- gomery, the screen actor and tele vision producer, at the White House. Actually, his presence as a con sultant on the President's radio and TV appearances is the result of a long chain of events dating back to the post-campaign period in 1952. Mr. Eisenhower's press seerc tary, James C. Hagerty, decided before the new administration took office that he wanted to make greater use of television after his boss entered the White House. Hagerty also realized he would need some expert advice. Hagerty's first idea was to add a radio and picture specialist to his permanent staff. When he started shopping around he found the White House budget did not provide enough money to compete in the hieh Davine radio, tele vision and motion picture fields. He couldn t hire an assistant who was a .specialist in the radio and photographic Held, so he started to think about enlisting the unpaid help of an administra tion friend in the entertainment world. He knew Montgomery was an ardent Republican, very well fixed financially, and an expert in the held of the mircophone and the lens. He put the idea up to Montgom ery who quickly agreed to come to Washington as an unpaid con sultant. Now Montgomery is spending more time here than he does in New York where he pro duces his weekly TV drama. Montgomery apparently de lights in his White House work. Three or four days a week, he is in ample evidence buzzing be tween his tiny White House "of fice" and the more elaborate quarters of Hagerty from whom the actor and producer takes his orders. He says he wishes actors were as easy to work with as Mr. Ei senhower. Montgomery is a trifle awed fty the fact he can ex plain some tccnmcai point to the President and have the chief ex ecutive master it quickly. Heavy tension sometimes builds up in the broadcast room just be fore the President goes on the air. Montgomery tries to relieve it with a joke or gag. Before the President's Christmas broadcast, Montgomery handed him a badly gashed golf ball a said some technician found it on the White House lawn. Mr. Eisenhower laughed so heartily that his tension disap pears by air time. The Gettysburg Address By ABRAHAM LINCOLN .- Delivered November 19, 1863 Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal: Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, We cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggle here, have consecrated it, far above our power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It ia for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfin ished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. ' It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER TV Program to Tell Women How to Be Better Housewife ADVICE TO LOVERS William Penn Never marry but for love; but see that thor lovest what is lovely. hotel where there was a free bus and rooms from,$l to 53 a day. E. M. Croisan, Marion county sheriff, had advertised to tax payers "you are hereby requested to come forward and pay your taxes at once." Capital Journal had reckoned that the legislative session for 1BB9 would come high since it was then costing S20 an hour and the entire cost would approxi mate $40,000. Two years ago I persuaded 14 senators to introduce a bill to study this whole problem of Ruv sian escapees but, like most leg islation of this kind, it got lost j in the shuffle. i Gouzenko emphasized that this was one thing the United States would have to pay much more attention to it we wanted iin- THE WORLD TODAY Big GOP See Ike Running in '56 By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON i.n-Powcrful Re-, they'll boss Congress for his two publicans arc talking of President remaining years. Eisenhower as their candidate i , Thal by Usolf wouldn't stop him again in iw although his first i nsiA?. portant military men to desert ; White House year is just over and Rennhliean Com-re fnr ih ii i lie has three more years of his : two years of his first term and I first term to go. - , won in 1948 in a victory that also pin me uemocrais oaeK in control the Iron Curtain. He didn't say so in direct language, hut I gath ered that Canada was doinc a much more efficient job on this j Sen. McCarthy of Wisconsin and 'of Cnn"2rcs,; inan inc uniicu aiaics. , uov. i.ewey 01 .-ew York, Kepub- - But. if all these weren't proh- RnnirHinc' American nr I nn.-i. . . -. ..... -. - "v - cans wno are nu es .man ai least ems ennnoh h icenhnu-or f.-e n in the past few unknown future in foreign affairs. days have expressed belief Eisen-1 's tne Republicans never tire of hower will run again. 1 pointing out. the shooting war has He's 63 now. He'll be 66 when ! st"PP.d , in m,oa . . the 1936 presidential election ar-' . 1 nal nas .nMPe.a KeeP "ls PP Tk, ,l nl u.nrt f,w mnneu 1 geographically. but because of a mistaken idcol- j ogy. The best way to convert j them is by persuasion, not ter rorism. 1 ney nae uecn inis-ieu By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK W) Many people , cis luck complain about what television has done to American home life. But what can television do for home life? Can it, for example, give every American home what it deserves most the better housewife? Yes, can television take an or dinary scrubby bride and mold her into the kind of wife she yearns to be a charming, in formed, all-around woman worthy of traveling down life's rocky road shoulder to shoulder with that fine fellow, the average American husband? Well, television is going to trv. It is already a guest in your liv ing room. Soon it will be a guest who tells your wife how to make that living room look less crumby, and how she herself can also look less cru . . . I mean . . . look more attractive. This video adventure in wife education will be launched March 1 via an NBC-TV daily one-hour network program called "Home." The idea is reported to be the personal brainchild of NBC Pres ident Sylvester L. Weaver him self, and he has authorized erec tion of a $200,000 set for "Home." The mere announcement of this program upset a friend of mine, who said he had two ob jections: "First, I have spent 20 earnest years trying to improve my wife, and the only result is that she is older. How can television do a better job on her in an hour a day? The program should be at least eight hours long, seven days a week, if it is to teach wives even half the things thev really need to know. "Second, every wife who ! watches that $200,000 set is go- ing to feel sooner or later her j husband ought to buy her a ' $200,000 house. Will that simple girlish goal help make your home life more peaceful?" Beautious Arlene Francis will act as editor-in-chief of the pro gram. Assisted by a staff of ex-' perts, she will give illustrated hints to the American housewife on how to raise children or pe tunias, how to take spots off the family dog or her husband's necktie, how to cook better meals, both with and without a can opener. And, naturally, how to ne more charming. Even a crime program today has to teach a housewife how to hold a gat in a charming man ner if it wants to get a real rating. Personally, we wish Miss Fran- in TV's greatest chal lenge so' far the building of perfect wives, of which ewry man could use at least one. And for a starter, we'd like to see her tackle and solve a few typical old household problems, such as: The wife who insists on getting something out of the medicine chest while her husband is shav ing, and uses his razor to cut paper . . . The wife who won't roll the toothpaste tube from the bottom . . . The wife who can't make up her mind on colors while hubby is mixing the paint. The two-bathroom family in the one-bathroom house . . . The neighbor wife who punishes her children if they are destruc tive in her own home but not if they turn your house into a city dump . . . The wife who leaves her bobby pins all around the wash basin and yowls when hub by splashes water and gets them rusty ... The wife who . . . fill your own list, boys, and mail them to Miss Francis. She'll help you. Of course, some husbands cre ate household problems, too. But cvea television hasn't figured a way yet to improve the Ameri can husband. EXCUSE FOR NIGGARDLINESS Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more arden zeal of others. 3p Delivers this new 1954 "Royal" Porta ble or any other make on our exclu sive RENTAL PURCHASE PLAN CALL 3-8095 Free Immediate Delivery Kay Typewriter Co. 223 N- High si i'iiinT vmfT' nv AMKRICA !,h : Ih'f.w ..I u-nVJ .enrJ rives. If he runs and wins hell ,a.rit.y uP..B.ul he cant predictl cnk i. . .inhere v,.l:.. reeling .heir wrong ideas." 70 when he finally leaves the nf 1?PPfn. "hoot'"? tile, somewhat nervous gentle man who talks with his hands to supplement his sometimes imper fect English. Incidentally, he ob jected strenuously at first to wealing a mask during the tele vision interview even though failure to wear a disguise would have increased the harard ofSov iet recognition and revenge, un der which he lives constantly. "The best way to reach the people behind the Iron Curtain bv radio. Gomenkn insisted. .... V"". . '" ' .. uhi.u ...,,. T.' r' ar v nen i asKeu wnai nc inougni -. ..... m..- of persuasion by nninists before hauling Com- slitution. he couldn't have congressional i lhan lw 'w'S- Committees he said that this was likely to discourage their conver sion, though he said he did not want to criticize any any senate committee. "The Russian people," Gou zenko said, "have the most major or minor, broke out Gnmi.U-lll.ri. ncn nr if tV. more ...c wninui- nists made gains not dreamed of now. .uevaiuiy sam ycsicniay inai n Tnt. K,.pu,,lieans mav , fil)d ft the elections were being held now , nnrd lo M .lde Shower " Eisenhower would he his candidate ., ...;iu u;..u sena.or or .......... ..v.. ulc u, , service, lo run again if things go an ngnt and particularly if thev Dewey, a two lime loser on ms can t find an alternate they think own trv for the White House, said rnnlH uin friendly altitude toward the last week he hoped and expected He has expressed no delight with American people. They admire i Eisenhower to be a 19.V5 candidate the chores of the presidency, piled your technical achievements, i and predicted he'd win. on top of him at an ace' when your cod spirit, your spiritual Eisfnhowcr himself is keening oilier generals are retired, but he despite Senator McCarthy's eon-1 strength, this is what partiru- mum Hp na, sidestepped news may come lo relish them and. like slant belittling of the Voice of i ni"irn u- h.-m.." t.. . America. "Of course onlv a few i hut Americans. And thev ad people hear' American radio i mire your ability to do thincs broadcasts, but they tell other ; !n Rnt moving, and not to stay people. The news gets around. : in "np P'ce. All people behind the Iron Cur-! . "If P"1','' ,r,t ,hf "llv v.- .,. ,,. ,,. s an people rather than their "are news, l on must not neglect tnis. When 1 told C.ouzenk j that the state department was working on a plan of perfecting a small ra dio set about the size of a ciga rette pack which could he dropped behind the Iron Curtain, he remarked: conference questions about his 19i others before him, develop an urge intentions. He probably doesn t to slay there, know himself what he'll want to His job hasn't been unpleasant do then. It's too lar ahead. , from the standpoint of public rcla Hc's still immensely popular, as lions: Remncrats. Republicans, public opinion polls show. But this and P?Pc generally He's thrown is something which may grow or " niu1 an1 no m" has smeared diminish in the tierv furnace of,"'"1-. , ...ni. t-n.inrt t;. nvA .nKi...0 Ihis freedom from tarnish i tnn peace forever with the American : vj bl" d unknown. blt en0l,sh' much lo expect if he stays in poli- government," he concluded, "I i would sav that they will wish country. THERE'S A REMEDY Astorian Budget The tempest in a coffee pot lill r.ire with .iltprnalinc indi- "That is admirable. The Rus-,:,. ,h.,t the hlamr for hich sian people will keep that and cof fee' prices rests on a short crop tics long enough. It happened to iicorgc Washington after a while. And it happened in large doses to Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday today the Republicans have been honoring for a week use it. they would never give it up. Thev like tangible gad gets from the west." WOOING HIGH REUS When I asked him what he would suggest In rnrniiraue more Russians, I'olcs, Czechs and oth-1 within reason. and then again that it rests on machinations of the coffee brok ers. But the best remedy on the part of the coffee consumer re mains the same-just quit drink ing it until the price gets down to make or break him. A bad depression, for instance, I I could wreck his chances for re election. But continued high pros-1 ferity would be a big boost. j in.-., u. on. Him- mi- ..i ; Wncn nc made his first in a getting his program through his ' srrj(.s 0 countrvwide speeches at Republican run Congress this year j Republican celebrations of the I.in as a preliminary to the congres- tnc "idiorv" of a Truman. Eisen sional elections in November. ;hower's predecessor. ' He himself has said that if the j "Idiot" was a word Lincoln had j Republicans don't pass the pro- tossed at him in his day. m addi- gram they den t deserve to win. tion In such pleasantries as "ape1' if tht Democrat win this year, land "buffoon." ... a perfect example of our patience and understanding care. 'A funeral Service Since 1871 fk. l-tlH Ck.,,1, fojy MUM, OtMOM