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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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