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r Page t Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1 888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 2-240o. Foil LtM Win tortlM A"u, Tb (InlUf nut. Tht "loclltM Pre" " relilwl to h. um for puUImiiod ! ill mm "l.pYuiiu "rfti " ""'" utu u bto MM' tni tlo Dtwi published thrIB. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Sr CtrrUr: UontlUj. UM' IB.IWHV Ono: Monihlr. IMi an MonUu. Mi Monlhlr. ti : su Mooim. VMi cot FAR EAST CONFERENCE UNLIKELY The question of convening a Far Eastern conference which is under discussion among the Big Four conference and advocated by Russia's Molotov is said to be opposed by Secretary of State Dulles and reports that it will be rejected by the unitca oiaies are aireaay current in vvasn ington. The futility of agreeing with Russia on anything vital has been amply shown ever since the end of World War II. including1 the failure The apparent purpose of the Is to split allied solidarity and Western policy toward Red China, Russia's main objective. It has been amply demonstrated that communists have no intention of con cluding a peace agreement with countries representing Burma and Indonesia would ferences among the Western toward Red China, some like appeasement policy to secure sire to delay restoration of clear the way for Red atrirression. At a Far Eastern conference the Russians can bargain for a settlement of the fighting in Indochina,' and perhaps for agreement on Korea, i return for recognition of Red China and admission to the United Nations of the Peiping regime. There is also the capitalization of the old colonization policy of the European nations as a scarecrow to arouse the natives and foment discord, and of the opposition in Japan to rearmament, not by the Japanese government. Also there is the hope to neutralize any effort to create an alignment of the far Eastern nations, as proposed by President Syngman Rhee of South Korea. The Eisenhower administration realizes the futility of Red appeasement, and that you can't do business with the Kremlin something that the New Deal and Fair Deal governments never seemed to G. P. MAKING HELLS CANYON AN ISSUE Albert C. Ullman, president and chief Eastern Oregon tub thumper for Hells Canyon, has announced his candi dacy on the Democratic ticket for the second district con gressional seat now held by Sam Coon, Republican. Both men are of Baker county. Ullman will make Hells Canyon his principal issue. This will make the coming congressional election there some thing of a referendum on public power in its extreme forms. For Coon is favorable to the construction of other government dams in the Pacific Northwest and we have not noted that he has even taken a position on Hells Can you. But he is a Republican and a supporter of the Eisen hower administration, hence a fair target in the eyes of the "give away" cult which regards any encouragement of private enterprise a deadly sin. Fro.m this safe distance in an adjoining district we wel come the Ullman candidacy as we will welcome the candi dacy of socialistically minded persons in our own district. For socialism is the great issue of the era in America and throughout the world. No opponent should shy away from submitting it to the sovereign test of the ballot box. For we have little fear once it is fully and fairly presented. The worst danger is that we will get socialism by piece meal, one item at a time and wake up some morning to the bitter fact that we have(gone too far to turn back, when this wasn't the destination we sought at all. Voters in Eastern Oregon and elsewhere in this state need to keep one big fact in mind, however, when they vote on candidates.urging construction of a federal dam in Hells Canyon. Congress, not Oregon, will eventually de cide the issue because it is the nation as a whole and not only Oregon which is being asked to provide the money. RUSSIA SAYS NO ON AUSTRIA Considerable hopes were held by the Big Four powers that even if Russia refused to grant the union of Germany the Kremlin might agree to which would end the foreign occupation of that helpless little country. It was recognized that Germany's potential strength could make Russia grip on the eastern zone. But Austria held no such impor tant place in Europe. However, Friday's discussion of the Austrian question produced a deadlock there seems little hope of breaking. Molotov flatly said that Russian troops will remain in Austria until a German peace has refused to let the Germans hold free elections to do termine their course, which dooms any German settlement. In order to make sure the western powers understood there was to be no Austrian treaty Molotov introduced the touchy Trieste issue, demanding that Britain and America leave Trexte. He knew full well the western powers want to do this very thing, but dare not leave now, for fear of a war between Italy and Yugoslavia. The Berlin conference may drag on for many or for a few more days, but its doom is already sealed by Russian refusal to permit German unification except as a Russian satellite, which is equally unacceptable to Germans or the Big Four. But the conference has been worth while, li has shown . all those who wanted to talk to Russia aaiii that while we can talk and talk it will avail nothing until there is a fundamental change in Russian attitude. RENOUNCING U. S. CITIZENSHIP Mrs. Charles S. Chaplin has now followed the example of her husband, who refused during his lung residence in this country to become an American citizen. She has re nounced her U.S. citizenship and will become a British citizen. It will be remembered that our immigration service placed bars in the wav of Chaplin's return to this country when he last went abroad. His record gave the govern ment agency every justification for taking this attitude and most Americans welcomed it. Whether Chaplin would have remained in Europe any way we do not know. He has always turned up his nose at the country that was so good to him and pretended not to care when he was banned from here as an undesirable alien. , , Now that his wife has become a Briton we may safely assume that the U.S. is through with the Chaplins and there will be few regrets on this side of the Atlantic. MORE TEACHER PAY PORTLAND W - A new aaliry schedule waa announced Friday for teachers In Multnomah County K-Mi On. rr. iis.oo. 1; UiU to o imi, u.h b ouuMt oruw rai. oo of all peace efforts at Berlin proposed Far East meeting on Korea, and a conference neutralism, such as India, bring into the open the dif democracies in a joint policy Britain having followed an trade. There is also the de Japan's defense strength, to have realized only belatedly. a peace treaty with Austria reluctant to loosen her. iron treaty is written. And he outside Portland. Annual uage in creases rnnging from J.'no in juii were granted. They will h in artdi lion to the regular increments. To ffnytm fam- the coffee mtmait- . &iff.r4t ffcy! AMBER COP 5jU I ' Jk ECM ONE DRINK f? CTN. I ' J$A MAKES PRICES Soar; nJWAAVJ TSJZJ; NERVES GROW TEN 56 nlv T WHEMC0COUP;j3S ."ft TO QUIET THEM, SS&p & f You're foCnc mm )Ybu BROKE 0UHeART) ?HAT TRfCK'LL NE'ER, D0- g&& BtTRttttft I FELLA Vour R0Pl$ TIED UP TO HI ( BECAUSE WE'RE jErUOtW) !-L WASHINGTON MERRY Fear of Warren's Vote on Segregation Behind Moves By DREW WASHINGTON Inside reason (or the icqucst (or an FBI re port on ex-Gov. Earl Warren o( California before he :s confirmed as chief justice if complaints in spired by the ex-Attorney Gen eral of California, Fred Howser, and opposition by Sen. Jim East land of Mississippi, who ii afraid Warren will vote for ending segregation in schools below the Mason-Dixon line. All of this is why senate judi ciary chairman "Wild Bill' Ling er of North Dakota has bluntly notified the -justice department that his committee will hold up Warrens confirmation until it gets a lull FBI report on him. Meanwhile. Langer has sent his own investigator) to the west coast to check into 87 compplaints that the judiciary committee has received against the distinguish ed and much revered ex-governor of California. Many of these com plaints appear to be from cranks. It was at the prodding of Sen ator Eastland that Langer re quested an FBI report several weeks ago. When it failed to ar rive, Langer phoned Deputy Attorney General Bill Rogers and repeated his demand. "But Earl Warren is one of the most distinguished men in this country. He has been elect ed governor of his state three times,' protested Rogers. "Well, he's going to be treated just like everyone else who comes before our committee," snorted the North Dakotan. Langer then made it clear that Warren wont' he conformed to the nations highest judicial post unu' in FBI investigation has been made. Four Congressmen Convicted We though you would be in terested in the (act that iin al most 20 years only five congress men have received crlmlinal con victions, and (our of them were the direct result of Drew Pear ion's diligent digging for cor ruption in Washington. Three of the congressmen whom Pearson helped to con vict, culminating with Ernest llramblrtl of California, are as follows: Rep. J. rarncll Thomas of New Jersey, convicted of taking kickbacks from hn office staff. Pearson first exposed Thomas's kickbacks in a series of columns, beginning Aug. 4, 1B4H. He then turned the evidence. Including photostats of cancelled checks, over to. the justice department. Thomas pled guilty on Dee. 0, IP IP, and was given (I In II months in Jail. Rrp. Walter K. Brehm of Ohio, republican, was also rnnvlctfd of taking payments from his office staff for his political compaign. ; Pesrson first wrote the Brehm Tragedy of Humptv-Duniplv." Mv '"ncrs may ne story on Sept. 26. 1030. Brehm i first reaction was', what a silk J ",,,(eemcd. Christ did not come tn was convicted on April 30, 1951, i subject for a sermon. Ncvcrthe-!?pc! 8,1 h,s ,lme ttllh ,ne un and given a suspended sentence, less. I thnunht about it again and i, n .r "goa,i " 1,0 Hep. Ernest Br.mlett of Call- i again. I did not hear the sermon, I 1 'm,,n,?1 c"m0 ,n, c,1; ,n; rin; forma, republican, was convicted'of course, hut I assume the trage- '"s' '. s"lni'"; to repentance.' of making false statements in'tly of Humpty-Dumpty was, that w',h repentance comes for connection with salary kickbacks, having cracked uj. Just once, he I '"""'. ,lh wregiveness Pearson wrote his first storv on could never be put together .!.,, ,K a! "" . . Pramletls kickbacks on Nov. 1. 'again. Ji h""M ," 1MB. and followed with various, It.it people are not like eggs ! "'i. 'nh, ""."wr" other stories, exposes and de- in that respect, unless they will I ZZh nowr if Hrfl tails which he gave the justice to be. People who have "gone to SJ? f, ' "."nerd J"1 department. Hramhlett sued Pear- pieces" can be put back together nii h s lil & son for .ibel. also called him again. Suicide Is more often than 1 g.,1 ,nn,p'a ffn, h.nrf ,r J-nl' liar. Bramhlett w. convicted on not. the result of despair stem-' f,. ?,.W!l ' . ", rrovocable. February 0. I Thc fourth rase was that of ; Rep. Andrew May. democrat, of ; Kentucky, who was convicted on ! July 3. m,.tT receiving money ; from the (..r.son Brother. In connection with a war contract, i THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem, Oregon SASSY VALENTINES - GO - ROUND PEARSON Pearson wrote about the May matter briefly on Nov. 2,2 1045, and later secured an affidavit from a stenographer working for the Garsson Brothers, indicating that she had seen money pass between the Garssor.s and May. Pearson was not willing to risk a libel suit by publishing the affidavit at that time, but turned it over to the justice department The only other congressman to be convicted in the last 19 years was James M. Curdy of Boston, who was sentenced in 1944 on a charge of using the mails to defraud. Washington Whirl Secretary of Defense Wilson has a bent for tidiness. At the GOP box dinner, he gnawed on a chicken leg for photographers, who littered the floor with used flashbulbs. After the camera boys left, Wilson carefully swept aside their discarded flashbulbs, remarkiing: "Somebody could be seriously hurt by these' . . . Just before President Eisenhow ers 'triumphant c try, Vice President Nixon did some ha.ty janitor work, picking up papers and straightenting the speakers' platform . . . The senate internal security subcommittee stopped all work for two weeks and as signed its investigators to make arrangements for the gala, $7,50-pcr-plate dinner for outgoing Chief Counsel Robert Morris, who is to become a city magis trate in New York ... At the dinner, all celebrities were in troduced except Mary'.ands' GOP Sen. John Marshall Butler. Slight ed at the oversight, his dinner companion scribbled a note to the master of cermonies, calling at tention to the fact that Butler was a celehrily, too. Upon real ing the note, the M.C. obligingly introduced Butler to the bored crowd. THERE'S STILL HONESTY PORTLAND LP Sha-des of honest Abe Lincoln. Portland Tolice Chief James Purcell, Jr., yesterday received an anonymous letter that read: "Dears Sirs: "Enclosed is one dollar for overtime parking. I did not re ceive a ticket, but was entitled to one. Thank you." THE FIRESIDE PULPIT Unlike Humpty-Dumpty, We Can Be Put Together Again By REV. GEORGE H. SWin R-rtor. pi. ru:'l KplwerO Churth I siw a sermon topic on a 1 At least a part of the "good news" church bulletin hoard sometime tltn which interested me. The!!110". " P"'"1 hy every topic of the sermon was "The Cnr!s,ll!,n church throughout the mlng from a lack of faith in Di-1 un,c '"he Z , Kmf"- v.ne power to reassemble nn.V'V broken spirit and start anew. jn jrj, hl h" Our relicion assures u of the r.i ,i,a. -,,i.. 1 power nf the Holy Spirit to g;.tb er together the pieces of , hrnk - an lift and mike it livt agam - OPEN FORUM Best Qualified People Backing Fluoridation To the Editor: I have been a casual onlooker in this discussion on fluorida tion in your Open Forum column. I've tried, for my own personal satisfaction, to weigh the pros and cons that have appeared' I first became, interested in this subject when our family den tist highly recommended fluor idation in answer to my questions on our daughter's poor teeth. Then, as the articles were writ ten in your paper, I began to read them all. The one thing I have noticed is that the persons who write against fluoridation quote only single persons, or vaguely quote "a Texas scientist," not mention ing any name. On the other hand, those advocating fluorida tion are backed up by such rep utable organizations as the Amer ican Medical and Dental Societies as well as the State Health Dept. This one vital fact alone teems decidedly in favor of those who arc advocating fluoridation, in my opinion, because organiza tions such as the above three just mentioned do not put their ap proval on anything until the facts on the subject are established and the proposal proven harm ful to no one. MARCEIL SMITH, 1320 Market Street. Getting Tiresome Astorian-Bodget There is such a thing as over doing the business of belaboring the Democratic parly because of communist infiltration that oc curred during the Truman ad ministration. Sens. McCarthy and Jcnncr seem to be overdoing it. The fact that the Truman ad ministration was neglectful of its duty to protect government against red borers has been wjll established. It was a major fac tor in causing the voters to repudi ate the Democratic party at the polls last year. Now a new party is in power, the eradication of reds from the government has been undertaken, and the problem no longer is one of the more im portant issues before the nation. It is somewhat silly to keep on creaming that the Dccomratic party is guilty of "betrayal" and such accusations, as McCarthy and Jcnncr are doing. the Gospel of Jesus Christ- re.semhle the human wreck and iiivr him faith, hone and courage i - even salvation ttselfl K Troubles of U.S. Watch Makers By RAYMOND MOLEY Last week the American Watch Manufacturer! Association con sisting of Elgin National, Hamil ton, and Waltham, presented their case for additional protec tion from the flood of Swiss com petition. The loss they have sustained in the American market has been very serious indeed. In 1930, Swiss imports of watch move ments had 65 per cent of the American market. Now they have 86 per cent. Meanwhile, employ ment has been (ailing rapidly in the. American industry. The greatest loss was during the second World War, when the American government required the American makers to turn to war work. Meanwhile, tke thrifty Swiss moved ever more vigorous ly into the gap thus created: . If this continues, the American in dustry, as far as movements are concerned, will be gone with the cigar-store Indian, the horse car, and the hoop skirt. But this is not all. The loss of the American market to the American industry has been a continuing one, keeping ' pace with two major develpoments over the past two decades. The first of these has been steady tar iff reductions under the guidance of an internationally minded State Department. The other has been the vast upsu.ge of the la bor movement. With these handi caps at home, it is impossible for Americans to compete with the government sponsorship and cheaper labor that characterizes Swiss competition- Those who favor free trade have a habit of advising the American watchmakers to go into some other business. Char acteristic of this is the minority statement of David J. McDonald of the United Steel Workers in the recently released Randall re port. He suggests that industries injured by lowering of tariffs be brought under the downy wing of government paternalism. He suggested an "Adjustment As sistance Program." Workers thrown out of jobs Jn which they nave devoted their lives to the acquisition of fine skills would receive a "counseling and place ment" program. They would, while finding new employment, cot "special training allowances." Those too old to be restrained and rehabilitated would be re tired with government insurance. The amazing thing about this paternalistic chatter is that it comes from a labor leader. There were American labor leaders 1n earlier days who would have dis dained such welfare-state ar rangements. But seemingly the CIO has gone the socialist wav of British labor. Aside from the argument on the basis of the freedom of Americans to follow their own. Inclinations as to what they shall make and sell and what profes sions and trades they shall -hoose to enter, there is the se curity case. During the second World War, when the Swiss remained neu tral, Hamilton could not sell a watch. While the Swiss made fur ther inroads Into the American watch market, Hamilton turned out timing devices for weapons, watches, chronometers, and tinv. igational timepieces for the mil-J itary. In any future war, it would be essential to have such an in dustry within our borders. Tes timony of the military establish ment has tnade this ail too clear. The watch and clock industries of the British were destroyed be fore World War II, since the Ger mans deliberately put into effect procedures that ruined them. Fred Lux, of the Lux Clock Man ufacturing Company, has pointed out: "If it were not for the tariff protection which permitted the American clock industry to re main strong, there would have 1 mi 4 - Ihp -TIi : lmi ii I J ,jb Serving Salem and Vicinity ft i f S B) 05 Funeral Directors ,i I Ltak JftLJ ti I for 25 Years fe7 VI - T 8 Mgj Convenient location, S. 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They have to know what they're talking about, so they can explain it to the public. This week, for example, Pat has been answering 500 questions a day at the International Motor Sports here. She is demonstrating the Kaiser Darrin auto, one of the tirst plastic American sports car put into assembly line production. Cars with plastic bodies are still a mystery to most motorists. They want to know if the plastic will dent if people lean on it, whether snow will melt the plas tic, whether hot water will make a hole in it,, or whether insects will What of the Future! Reedsport Courier Stewart Holbrook, speaking be fore the Drain chamber of com merce last week, nredirtert that laminated wood will become so im portant in the next few years that sawmills as we know them today mnv hncninp n (hint nf th tind Machines are being perfected, he saiu, mac win tear tne logs apart, rearrange the fibers and press them into a nroduet as strong as steel and absolutely fireproof. When that happens, he predicted that the lumber industry will be come merely a bv-nroduct of the plastic fibre industry. Having seen the tail end of the horse and buggy days and one of the first flirnlanes tn sail fhrnimh space we will not deny anything for the future. Just about any thing unpredictable could happen. However, we think it will be some time before the use of lumber is obsolete. Plalic fibres may more and more be used as substitutes but the transition will be gradual and it is likelv thai thu laroor mills will incorporate a fibre mak ing department along with their present operations. The plywood age has not rcD aced hnarrls fi-nm the sawmill but has extended the lurtner use of limbec products. We hesitate to suggest that saw mills should immediately disband in order to make way (or the fibre Plastic WOOd nroductl Thn mnro extensive uses that can be found for the products of the forest, the sironger ana more lasting will be that creat resourre of tho omutin Northwest country and our South western uregon nienc. ONLY COMPARISON WE HAVE Alexander Pope At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what been no source in the world for Great Britain initially and our own Armed Forces ultimately, from which to procure the vital ly necessary timing devices re quired" In 1952, although the Tariff Commission recommended great er protection for the American producers of watches, Harry Truman saw fit to ignore it. In the interest of national security the present Tariff Commission should arrive at much the same conclusions as its predecessor. This time, an administration may aci wim greater wisdom. Saturday, February 13, 1954 RfYYLE become permanently embedded In ' ' - "No ... no ... no ... no, says Pat. , , ' . "But a motorist can repair a fender dent in the same way he'd natch a tire. And he can fix it so it doesn't show. "If a lady wants to change the . color of the plastic body to match her hat, gloves or a new dress, she can do so by spraying pn new paint with a vacuum clean er. But it would take her three hours." ... t , There is a growing Interest in sports cars. In the first few days of the show here sales passed the million idollar mark. Since the car Pat is demonstrating sells in the $3,750-$4,0OO class, and foreign cars are priced up to $17,000, ob. viously the market isn't among teenage hot rodders. "It is older people who can af ford them who show the most in terest," she said. One elderly man, after explor ing the potentialities of the plastic car asked Pat if she would conr sider a proposal of marriage. Turning on her most plastic smile, Pat responded with feigned eager- ness, "Consider it? Why" The man left in a hurry. "But you'd be surprised how few serious wolves there are," said Pat, who feels she is a typi cal Middle West girl, even though she does like to wear plastic sil ver fingernail polish. Her versatile modeling ability enables hST to travel and earn the kind of money stenographers dream about. She has modeled hats, appeared on television, and demonstrated cigarettes, home fur nishings, and a new magnetic starter motor for the General Electric people. It was her skill at putting to gether, taking apart and explain ing the mechanism of the mag netic starter motor that won Pat her job of demonstrating the plas tic sports car. "It is really interesting work," she said. "Next week I'll be with the frozen foods show. I believe ' I'm to put whipped cream on cookies." And she is already thinking up polite answers to questions like, "And whose little cookie are you, my dear?" In her iob a cirl has to keep a plastic mind. Salem 25 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL February 13, 1929 Salem had a crew of men with picks and shovels attacking ice and snow on city streets. Wagons were hauling away the debris as fast as it could be pried loose after two weeks of solidifying under most continuous freezing. Average farm income for a fam ily of five in Oregon had been found to be but half the amount necessary to maintain a whole some standard of living. Wednesday had been named "hello day" at Salem high school to better enable 140 freshmen to become acquainted with their as sociates. When asked about his engage ment to Anne Spencer Morrow Col. Charles A. Lindbergh had given newsmen i cold, icy stare. Don Upjohn, in Capital Jour nal's Sips for Supper had writ ten: A legislative appropriation for a $600 picture of Walter Pierce had his approval. "The $600 won't make the deficit he (Pierce) created much larger and will afford the younger gen eration a good oxample." Union Airlines had announced an extension of service to Ketchikan and Juneau, Alaska.