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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem. Orejron Monday. February IS, 1954 Capital jLJournal j 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. Fall L,tcd Wlr Srrrlc ! Ih AsscrUlr Fret, ftnd Th laltM press. Ths Aiorlsttl Press Is exclusively entitled to the u.e tor publlcetloo of II news dlsptlrhe rredllecl to It or otrierlie credited lo thus paper and also Dews published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Br Carrier: Month!'. 11.39: Sli Months, 17 to: One year, IIS 00. Br Mall Oreton: Uontlilr 10c. SIX Uonlhs. K M: One Year. 19 00 Br list! OuUlde Owes Monthlr II IS: Ail Months 11.10: One Year. 116 00 HOT TIME FOR IDAHO THIS YEAR Our neighbor to the east, Idaho, is going to have one of its most exciting political campaigns ever, now that ex Senator Glen Taylor, the singing cowboy, has returned even ahead of the migratory birds and has announced that he will seek to return to the place in congress which he lost lour years ago. Tavlor was defeated once, then elected senator in 1944 In 1948 he temporarily left the Democratic party to run for vice-president on the Wallace ticket, When his term expired in 1950 he was defeated by his own party in its primary. He left the state as he had done after his earlier defeat and returns to it only now to announce his candi dacy. If successful in the primary he will oppose Senator Henry Dworshak. Kenublican, whom he defeated in 1944. Taylor's announcement was received over there with "mixed emotions." Most of the Democratic leaders were cool to say the least. Their national chairman happened to be in Idaho at the time. He said he did not consider Taylor a Democrat. The party national committeeman and state chairman said substantially the same thing. Regular Democrats are now expected to make a desper ate attempt to agree on on man to back against Taylor in the Democratic primary. Taylor has never polled a major ity vote in the primary. When he won it was against divided opposition. Democratic leaders are quite sure they can stop him in the primary if he has only one op ponent. But Idaho Democrats are divided into left and right wingers and it will be hard for them to find an acceptable compromise candidate. If they do Taylor will almost cer tainly be stopped in the primary. If his opposition is di vided he mav win Thorp If nnminotivl hn will nrnliolilv be defeated in November as thousands of Democrats vinWASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND refuse to vote for him, due to his extreme radicalism in the past. And Democrats do not relish an almost certain loser on their senatorial ticket, for they are hopeful of winning if they can find a man reasonably acceptable to both wings, which have shown some tendency of late to null closer togetner. Idaho will have a stirring time and Oregonians will have a ringside seat, for like him or not, Glen Taylor is one of tne most spectacular political personalities in the entire nation. THE 'ORDINARY' AMERICANS AMERICA IS MADE OF PEOPLE -GOOt PEOPLE -HAR.OWORKING PEOPLE PEOPLE LIKE THE WAITRESS. HER JOB IS NOT EA&y. SHE MUST COMBINE THE TALENTS OF A DIPLOMAT, PSyCHOLOOIVT, MIND READER, ATHLETE (WALKING, JUGGLING, LIFTING) AND "CONVERSATIONALIST"! &TENING ' WITH GREAT INTEREST). il wmt t Wl 1 mi j 1 11 4ra73& t m , m?$mr u mm a i if McMmgtit Srwllcite, Inc. SHE MUSTAL40 BE A MAGICIAN (BE THREE PLACES AT ONCE), AND A MATHEMATICIAN SHE FORGET WHEN TO BRING THE COFFEE, MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE SHE'S REMEMBERING THE FAMILY" Wti pipy SEARCH FOR RECESSION SCAPEGOAT No sooner do the clouds of a possible business recession appear on the horizon than do interested parties begin picking and publicizing a culprit or "fall guy" upon whom to hang the responsibility which is always shared by many individuals and groups. Dave Beck, the wealthy and imaginative head of the powenui icamsiers union, nas picKed nis man and lie is George Humphrey, secretary of the treasury. And what did Humphrey do to invite this dubious distinction of turn ing the greatest boom in history into something which is ctill a boom but somewhat less boomy? Humphrey piloted a policy of increasing the previously abnormally low interest rate on government bonds. The rate is still low, incidentally. It was attacked at the time as a subsidy to big business, although many of the bonds are held by people of moderate means and many others by savings banks and insurance companies as investors of the funds of people of moderate means. Now it is claimed by Heck that this "dried up credit" had started a recession trend. Actually no one has noticed any marked drying up of credit, and the interest trend of a year ago has since been partially reversed. It was after the reversal that the recession trend was first noted. Not that this had anything to do with it, though. Heck seems to have overlooked the real cause or doesn't want to mention it. The country has been wallowing in a war boom ever since 1910. The home folks have been prospering while their sons were- fighting and dying on distant battlefields. There was a sharper recession in 1940 than has been encountered lately, with more unem ployment than we have now. The Korean war snapped us out of this. Instead of blaming Humphrey, whose role was at most extremely minor, Deck should be frank and blame Eisen hower who was ressponsible for negotiating the end of the Korean war. The country is less boomier and will perhaps be still less boomier because it is no lunger fighting a war. The country will have an opportunity to repudiate this policy at the November election, for there will be candi dates in every state whose success would reverse the pres ent tax and spending policies of the federal government and launch us into another inflationary spiral, if the people prefer this to an orderly prosperity. PROTEST ON SCHOOL ATHLETICS McCarthy's Boy Leads a Charmed Life in the Army WASHINGTON Gerard David Scliine, the handsome, dreamy eyed young man who gravitated around Kurope at the taxpayers' expense on behalf of Joe McCarthy, still seems to lead a charmed lite in the Army. Though only a pri vate, superior officers almost bow and scrape before him, and one officer who didn't, the command er of the Provost Marshal school at Camp Gordon, Ga., has Just teen transferred. He is Col. Francis Kreidel, who had the temerity to come to Wash ington In January to protest against Schine's assignment to the Provost Marshal school. On Janu ary 19, Colonel Kreidel was trans ferred to Tokyo. Ordinarily no one is admitted to the Provost Marshal school unless under regulation 615-215-1 he has had two years' service, and unless he has the rank of corporal or higher. Schine has had only four months service and is onlv a pri vate. Furthermore, a candidate for this school must have a history of freedom from pathological or personality disorders. Schine, how ever, was deferred from (he draft after a physical examination had tabbed him with a "schizoid per sonality." Though the Army reouires ran- dictates for Ihe Provost Marshal school to be in class I or class 2 I'mMc.u conuiiion, scliine is in class 3. Mrt'AHTIIY lYTERVENKS Despite all this. Senator McCar thy arranged for his cxcommiltce staffer to be transferred from his basic training at Fort Dix, N. J., direct t tle ',ovost Marshal school where he is supposed to take an advancer! criminal inves tigation course. And with Ihe sup port f someone in Secretary of the Army Stevens- office, the trans fer was O.K. d. And when Colonel Kreidel came to Washington to protest, he found himself transferred to Tokvo. His ni I, ., i ..i . . . . ..... ,., j; ,;,M.n DV lfnj, l-r.iii(is llcm.ird who has been in me American Association ol School Administrators' 80th convention now in session at Atlantic Citv has re ceived a scathing report, submitted jointly by the admin istrators and the National Kducation Association protest ing the "exaggerated emphasis on bigtime sports" as caus ing grevinus harm to boys of grade school age. It said "this alarming and unhappy trend" can cheat children educationally and . ; - , , hii-.-'mm, hih'i. .m;i nr Irvine 'cross less stopped soon. !!. ,iso tag with v,,-, Ihe 116-page report by the educators deplored tlie!w,ls ''"nluntanly separated from trends engendered by high power sports competition and ""' Ar," commercialism and business promotion in school athletic I ' ' msu's en akmkd cakffk programs, stating that even junior high school boys are j MeamUule. the dreamy-eyed Ger subject to "traces of professional baseball's farm system." i a"1 nid s,hme continues bis it cnarges tnai ute stress on inilivnlua ability on win-1 "'"' ning the game," may force teachers to pamper star at h-! " I.iIom i. ii. I ninLo ,-,.u,.li..o ..I,..,,. I I t I.: :.. I "I"' n.t-v.-. f,i..i vim...... .-. uMiuiui'ii ;iihi rsjuu i.-Mimii.-'iiii' i in- ciples. Students not athletically inclined will tend to "lose face" with others, the report adds. It charges that schools are losing sight of the benefits of athletics and thinking too highly of gate receipts. It continues: "To make as much money as possible, games are played at night during the week and too many games are scheduled. Moreover, In prevent having to forego income, games ate played in bjl weather." There is a good deal of truth in these charges for there is an overemphasis on sports at the expense of education. That is why so many high school graduates are diffident in spelling, grammar, geography, history and the funda mental "Three It's" as repeatedly stated by the universi ties thoy enter, as well as employers offering jobs. There is nlso a deplorable lack of discipline inculcated under the old school system. The students' minds are diverted from the real objective of schooling and fritter away a great deal of time on unessential frills and foibles, time wasters and not character builders, an undue empha sis on the tinsel and ephemeral glamor of athletics bad enough in university but apt to be fatal in grade schools At least this is the opinion of laymen generally, G, P. By DREW PEARSON the Army. West Point has had such notable teachers as Douglas MacArthur, Ike Eisenhower and Al Gruenther, now head of NATO. They didn't think West Point text books needed supervision by a 27-year-old private. Schine was ordered to report November 3. But McCarthy got him ten days' temporary duty in New York, and he was finally sent to Fort Dix for boot training on November 13. However, McCarthy got an agreement from the Army that Srhine could have his week ends off to come to Washington, allegedly for investigative work, that he could have weekday eve nings off, and young Mr. Jloy i-onn Daagerea me Army so much that Schine escaped all kitchen po nce auiy. However, Schine's special privi leges were so abused that Gen. Cornelius Ryan prolested direct to Secretary of the Army Stevens, and the week nights off were stopped. Schine still got weekends off how ever, and failed to show up for Saturday morning duty. As of today, the dream boy is Salem 22 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL February 15, 19:12 Destruction of the navy's diri gible Macon had been attributed to cnj)apse of girders supporting the upper fin. Bruno Hauptmann had sworn under oath that he had nothing whatsoever to do with kidnapping the Lindbergh baby. Miners had taken 32.000 fine ounces of gold worth $1,125,000 from streams and mountains of Oregon during 1934. ... Joseph Simon. 84. former United States senator from Oregon, had died in Portland. ... Senator Sam H. Brown, the "Gervais farmer," long known as Ihe loganberry king of Oregon had decided after 27 years of produc tion, to remove the last acre of his berry planting. Difficulties in production and low prices were mentioned as reasons. ... T):,.n cm . i i hi- dime company nad adver-j tised to half sole men's shoes for i $1 and put on rubber heels free I ... ' New York Times had announced ! a new process of transmitting news photographs from one part of the 1 THE WORLD TODAY Dulles Aide Center Of Controversy By JAMES MAKLOW WASHINGTON Wl-Life wasn't exactly quiet for W. R. Seott Mo Leod when he stayed mum. It's even less so now that he's talking. He said little publicly for al most a year after Secretary of State Dulles hired him to look for subversives and security risks in me state Department. , Now suddenly within a month McLeod, a former FBI agent, not only has been giving interviews out nas made speeches at Kepub. lican rallies. Less than a month ano five former diplomats, in a letter to the New York Times, said the depart ment's security program was wrecking the morale of foreign service oificers Within the month McLeod. not always me easiest man for re porters to see, answered Questions for a group of them at an off-the- record dinner and gave a engthv interview to the magazine U.S. News and World Report. Last week he made five speeches at Republican gatherings in Wyo ming and South Dakota. As he was returning over the weekend from the talking trip the question of morale was raised again. The Washington Star quoted civil service officials as savine McLeod wants his investigators taken out from under civil service so he can have "another FBI." And the paper quoted some de partment employes as saying Mc Leod told them at a meeting he wanted the change made so he could "hire and fire" as he pleased. "Since that meeting." the Star said, "it Is understood that at least 15 or 20 veteran investigators have quit . . Employes in the division say morale is at a low ebb. ." But McLeod's sneechmakim? to the Western Republicans alreariv had got him into a dispute because of the Hatch Act, which bans polit- ncai activity hy certain catecor es of government workers. Was Mc Leod covered? A civil service official sairl he was. The State Department's leeal counsellor said he wasn't. The de partment is sticking to that. Demo crats criticized McLeod, as was to be expected. McLeod's superiors have stuck by him. He got into a rumpus, or was dragged into it, right after Dulles hired him last March. At the time he was 'dministrative assistant to ' Sen. Bridges tR-NH). POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Life Gets More Exciting All The Time for Lt. Gov. Rollins By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK VrV-."If you're liv ing, you're excited," said John William Rollins. "And if you are not excited, you aren't living." Life is getting more exciting all the time for Rollins, who learned to milk a cow at the age of 4 and now, at 37, is lieutenant governor of Delaware and runs business enterprises that bring in $15,000, 000 a year. As a boy in Georgia he walked barefoot 9 miles to school each day, 9 miles back. Today he flies 250,000 miles a year in his own airplane, can buy all the shoes he wants. He controls a few automo bile agencies, four radio stations, an electronics factory, and one of the natoin's largest car leasing firms. Rollins is a S-foot-3-inch man of 210 pounds who looks like a boilermaker. In fact in his John-of-all-trades career he was a boil ermaker. "I've also been a farmer and a door-to-door vegetable peddler," he said. "And I've been a ditch dig ger, a road laborer, a machinist, an ordinance inspector for the government, a plant supervisor, a radio announcer, and a salesman but I guess mostly a salesman. "Whatever field you go into, it comes down to salesmanship. You start selling when you're born, you quit when you die. What is a baby doing with Its first cry, ex cept trying to self somebody the idea it needs something?" noilins nas always been a rest less man hungry to do more and learn more. During the depres sion he usually held two jobs at a time "just to keep himself alive" and educated himself by going to night schools and study ing correspondence courses. It was only jn recent years I found out most colleges were open in the daytime," he reminded drily They're Prepared 1 Boise Statesman House investigators of procure ment and storage practices in the armed forces have discovered that the Army still has in its Jeffersonville Quartermaster de pot in Indiana a quantity of Span ish-American war saddles and other horse cavalry eouinmcnt which cost over 3700,000 when bought. That must have been While the Democrats ran it. the !some 55 e:irs ag0- fi.., r . , ... . T,' Un n main uepanmeni nau Deen pic tured by Republicans, particularly sen. McCarthy m-Wis), as a happy hunting ground for Communists. Mcl.eod was a friend of McCarthy Its' true that a contrivance called the automobile was invent ed along about the time these saddles and gear were bought, and that the horse cavalry has hut denies McCarthy got him his hecn abolished. But just t h c job. isamc you never know when you Before McLeod had lime to learn !want a '"'. d" you? his way around the corridors. taking the eight-weeks basic train- j country to another hy wire and "at mi, n'i- in an military policemen : u great cost. tor inc t-rovost Marshals school I The Army chums officially that pure coincidence that Kreidel ; js heme transferred at this time. ; llowcici, the norma! tour of duty i at I amp Gordon is three vears anil Kmdil has been there only a , year ami ,.,, Armv offjcl,rJ ; I'oint tn another official "coinci- . in nee. mi, 1;,j,,r , ving I career. w ,-u-k to postwar davs was Iiim exempted lor at Camp Gordon. Right now he's learning to direct traffic. This menial work, however, has brought a howl of protest from his pat ana partner, Mr. Colin, who wants his friend to go direct into criminal investigation .not Wen Federal government had granted Salem $.160,000 for construction of a new sewage disposal plant OPEN FORUM around with basic police training ! Norbldd Got Results Mr. Cohn is so upset about this When All Else Failed that he has been telephoning the, To the Kditor office of Secretary of the Armyj I am an ex-marine with four .-iv.i ,,. tii-iiuiuuiiiu uiiii iiprarn i vears Servian David Schine be spared this basic training. If Gerard is not spared. Roy warns, he is going tn see to it that the secretary of the Army is fired. And that is the current hut ten mnnltic nr which was spent in Korea. Upon discharge in February, 1352, I applied for combat pay. Since I was in an air-support squad ron attached to the various ma rine regiments, and not the regi- probably not the concluding, chap-lme"ts themselves, it was turned ter of the Washington classic ! lmn-. although I had fought at wnicn nas come to he known as!' 1 'V'11' nvcr- Inchon land. Mr. Cohn and Mr. Schine.' WASHINGTON WIURI, Pan American Airways is flying an emergency shipment of 225.. 000 empty cans to Peru to save the country's tuna fish industry. Peru's major cannery broke down, stop ping the canning of tuna fish. Thanks to Pan American the tuna fish will now he packed in the empty V. S. cans . . . Russian dele gates lo the Big Four Foreign Min isters' conference have stepped out from behind the Iron Curtain long enough to go shopping or new boots. They have quietlv ex changed their shoddy Russian 'hoots for shiny, new German footwear . . . Col. Charles Lindbergh, once ' ' the most photographed man in i g America, refused to attend the In-' " ing, inosen reservoir, etc. I ap- pitcn twice more and got no ! where. The VFW got nowhere I in my behalf, and 1 wrote Sen ator Wayne .Morse and Senator i Joe McCarthy and received no , reply. j I was disgusted, but about two months ago someone sag . gested I write Congressman j Walter Norblad. I figured it was hopeless, hut wrote him any way. I received an immediate reply saving he would press my 'claim, and within four weeks I j had my check. So not only did Congressman Nnrbl.id go tii bat i successfully and speedily in my oenaii, ne also reatiirinett mv ith in our elected of- Bridges attacked President Eisen hower's choice of Charles E. Boh lcn to be ambassador to Moscow. And McCarthy and Sen. MeCar ran (D-Nevi lit into Dulles They said that when the secretary told the Senate an FBI report gave Bohlen a clean bill, he misrepre sented it. McLeod, they said, had objected to the appointment but had been overridden by Dulles. Dulles denied this. The whole security problem boiled over after Eisenhower on .Ian 7 announced 2.200 security risks had been separated from ; issue. The administration has given their government jobs : none. Some Republicans suggested Last week McLeod was reported practically all 2.200 were subver- j lo have told a congressional com sives although a security risk could ' mitlce only 11 of 534 security risks , be anything from a Communist to ; separated from the State Dcpart a drunk, liar, crook or homo-1 ment involved loyalty. Later he sexual. said the figures were inaccurate. .Newsmen and Democrats began Last week on his Western trip SAWDUST CONVERSION Pendleton East Oregonian Pope & Talbot company plans to convert sawdust at its Oakridge, Ore. plant by a chemical process lo a soil conditioner. Some young men have talked with the Pendle ton chamber of commerce about setting up a similar project here. We're hoping they will be able to get necessary financing for their plant. It would be another big step in diversification of our industry. the other day, after flying here to open a branch office. He likes to talk of his youth on a Georgia farm, which he had to take over at 12 after his father became an invalid. "Shoes were a little scarce at that time, and anyway you, went barefoot pretty late in life down there," he said genially. "And you made your shirts and under wear out of feed and fertilizer sacks. I used to go to shoe shops and pick up shoes that hadn't been claimed. I got em by paying the repair bill. Same way with hats." Rollins quit farming in 11)35 when his entire crop for that year sold for only $20. He climbed slowly from job to job and got his real start in 1944 when he opened a car agency in Delaware with $1,000 he saved and $10,000 he bor rowed. Now he leases thousands of cars and trucks as a transportation spe cialist to firms in every state. He also leases airplanes to executives of companies who don't want to tie up their capital by buying a plane. "It's really an expanding busi ness," he said. "I can see a day coming when even individuals, particularly professional men, will prefer to lease their cars rather than own them, because it will either save them money or the headaches of ownership." When he went into politics. Ro - lins requested the state of Dela ware to give no business to any ot ins nrms and ordered his own executives to accept no state con tracts. "Nobody ought to go into poli tics for personal gain," he said. "But I think every businessman who has been as fortunate as I have owes it to his town and stale to participate in politics. Politics is only as good as those in il." As to America's business fu ture. Rollins observed: "Businessmen ate high on the hog for 10 years, and some forgot how to sell. They took ton much from the customer for what thev gave him, and now they'll just have to give him more "for his money. "We have to go back to selling in everything. There is nothing wrong with this country that a million good salesmen can't cure. The people still have money in the bank. "But some businessmen got into so many bad habits. I don't know whether they can go hack to he ing salesmen again. But all that means is a bigger chance for the young fellow who hasn't learned any . bad business habits." asking for a breakdown, knowing the actual number of Communists found by the Eisenhower adminis tration when it took over from the Democrats will be a campaign he told his Republican audience: "I don't think the people care if they were drunks, perverts, or Communists they just want us to get rid of them." 17 a jru Day SSSSK uenvers This new 1954 "Royal" Porta ii . Die or any other make on our exclu sive RENTAL PURCHASE PLAN CALL 3-8095 Free Immediate Delivery Kay Typewriter Co. 223 N- High il..:.-- the di alt because at the ace of 23 iddiite of Aeronautical Science1 1 knmv Congressman; 1 he acted as vice president of the; ''inner until it was guaranteed that Vl"'blart personally and he is not Ambassador Hotel in l.os ngeles i n0 photographers of TV cameras ' frnm '"' district and I cannot one ot the six swanky hotel's owned 1 would he present. I.indherghh savs ""'refore vote for him: hence I '' h;s father, l ater he got a I K ,,c doesn't want to he recognized w"l,lf1 """ farts m.ide class.su an whl(, , gallivanted ""'" ht travels . . . JjBi; Dono- k.nmvn ,hp constituents of his nmuml Washington and Europe fori nuc- '('r,"cr commissioner of the lls,rilt i the MiC.iriliv committee : District ol Columbia and Ihe man! Sincerely, j Finally last .uv, Schine was re-! w'ho Prosecuted Harry Bridges, is; THOMAS J. Cllill.W, clas. m,., .. whereupon McCarthy ,l,e hl'st bet to become new chair-1 Portland. : prompt h called on Gen. Miles ! man of the Democratic National I Holier, then Armv le gislative rep-! t-ominiltee after Steve Mitchell re- nseiu.Mive on ( apilol Hill, and re- signs . . . ,n .Mr force general win ne colonel licmamin O. )a tap Miics, tn mat Schine get a commis sion. To this end. his papers were sent to three different branches of the Army F;irh sent back word that h- lacked the qualifications for commission. So in l.itv October Scliine was finally dratted as a private. Where upon McCarthy requested Ihe Army to assign h;s young friend to New York to sinitmic West Point text books for led u mg slants. This didn t jo down well with VIS .ir son of General Hen Davis, the Army's first and only Negro gen eral . . . Foreign Minister Mololov is so terrified at the possibility of assassination that his bulletproof limousine races through Berlin streets at 60 miles an hour. Two motoi cycle escorts have cracked up trying to stay alongside him. in addition all streets are cleared IS IT 1)11 TFISKNT NOW? Pendleton Fast Oregonian A doctor friend confided the other day. "You know, we've col ourselves in quite a spot. When the Democrats were in office we opposed their health insurance program. Now our friends are running things and they have come up with a health insurance proposal. If wo oppose it strong ly people are going to say. -You guys just don't like anvhodv.' ARB IMPORTANT! w .m it i i 4)- A hurried telephone I call to our pharma cist is the call of duty. He will make haste to fill your doctor's writ ten order as quid iy as accuracy permits. He will respond with the same courteous helpfulness he has al ways shown, for he knows that HOURS ARE IMPORTANT. CAPITAL DRUG STORE 405 Stale 51. (Corner of Liberly) We Give Green Stamps . - iii tin flir.nn we mav not toon very irips . . . arc the Germans sore. ,good to the public on this one."' j