Page 4 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem. Oreg Thursday, February 18, 1954 Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritui Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. rill Uutl Wlt SiitIh l the AiMrliled rem Tkt Dallca rrin. Ttif Auoclikd Prtu U ficluilvelr entitled to U uu lor publication of U nwi oinMKhu endltm to It or elhtrflu crodiud la tblo siMt lod al Bti pubiubed thtrilD. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: r Ctrrln: Uonthlr. 11.15: an Uontm, I7.0i Out rr, lll.M. r Mill Omi Uonthlr. Moi en Uontbi. It.M: Oti Tur, II.M. r UtU OutiMt Own Moathlr, 114S; en UonUu, 17.U1 On Tr. 111.01. AFTER YEARS IN THE JUNGLE- SOMETHING NEW TO FIGHT ABOUT New bitterness is said today to have been added to the etruggle over the Bricker amendment by the requested resignation of Clarence Manion, former dean of the Notre Dame University law school from a presidential interna tional relations committee. Senator Bricker expressed a view that may be widely held among his wing of the Republican party when he said: When the time comes when those who do not he' lieve alike with the leadership of the government in power cannot continue to serve in official capacities there is a serious storm brewing- ahead. I hope he (Manion) contin ues in this campaign for the amendment and devotes his life and ability to it. The dispatch said Bricker seemed deeply moved. Sena tor Jenner of Indiana said he was "shocked and disturbed bv the ouster, and Senator Butler, an extreme conserva tive but disposed to be more moderate in his views than Bricker and Jenner termed the ouster a political error, which it may turn out to be. The removal is causing anger due in part to the high character and intellectual attainments of Manion. This writer has read a number of Manion's articles. The man has a brilliant, logical mind. But he is an isolationist, thousands of miles away from the Eisenhower administra tion on foreign policy. Granted Dean Manion's ability and sincerity, how can he serve an administration that has already determined its general policy line in the opposite direction to that Manion wants us to travel? there was and is total in compatability," which is just as bad in a government agency as it is in the home. We cannot credit Senator Bricker with complete sincer ity when he deplores the removal of anyone from a gov ernment agency who is at odds with the Eisenhower ad. ministration. For if he means this he must oppose the removal of every new dealer, for most of these are sincere, too. The reason for holding elections is to decide policy lines and to install people in governmental positions who will carry them out. The Bricker theory, adopted to fit this situation, which he will quickly abandon when another situation develops, would reduce government to complete confusion and prevent anything being done. A political mistake may have been made in taking the bull by the horns in the Manion case, as Senator Butler aaid, but we doubt it. Rather we think the Eisenhower administration is emerging from its earlier frustrations as a cohesive team composed of men and women of sub stantially like ideas who know what they want and will fight to get it. There is a place for men who thjnk dif ferently all right, but not on the same team. There is an other opposition team on which they can and doubtless will play, putting their ideas effectively before congress and the country so the people can hoar and decide. HE BUdSTS IHTO THC OrW WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Top Senate Demos'Almost Boycotted Party Gathering By DREW PEARSON MINING CLAIMS PERVERSION The recent decision of Clarence A. Davis, solicitor of the office of the Secretary of the Interior, overruling the ad vance reports of the BLM and the Forest Service and granting patents to questionable mining claims in the National Forest near Prospect, Oregon, depicts an abuse of mining laws that threatens loss of valuable timber to the government. If gold or other metal can be mined in the pumice area where claims are located it will be the first time in history. It is not the minerals these prospec tors are after, but obviously the green gold of the forests. In 1948 an Alabama company filed 23 separate claims on approximately 4G0 acres of forest service land, paying the nominal ?5 per acre required by the law, and worked its claims, though other claimants did not. When patents were applied for forest service recommended adversely on 15 of the claims, stating examinations revealed no min erals for commercial development. Both the local BML management and the Washington headquarters sustained the decisions, and demanded further exploration to estab lish their mineral value. Five of these claims had not been worked to the minimum SfoOO required. Davis grunted the patents on an appeal by the company, on report of examinations made by an engineer represent ing the company and employes of the Bureau of Mines. Davis added that "the applicants have quite obviously spent amounts estimated from $150,000 to $200,000 in de velopment." These figures are the same figures the Forest Service gives of the volume of the timber on all 23 claims. Federal laws permit the right to file on public lands for development of mineral deposits and granting exclu sive access to ,h claims and eventually ownership if the claims if mineral resources are proven. Hut recently the law has been utilized both for recreational facilities and for grabbing the timber. And scores of such claims have been filed in the northwest and California. A $500 ex penditure would yield $10,000 timber and one such claim yielded $87,000 timber. The mining laws should be amended so that only min ing production would be encouraged as has been done on O&C acreage. This should be pushed by the Oregon con gressional delegation to stop the perversion now in full wing. G. I'. WASHINCTOK Though the top democratic leaders of the icnate are suppose' to be among th; top-ranking leaders of the democratic party, they came close to boycotting the gala Jefferson- Jbckson day dinner 10 r held in Miami March 6 -athcr than appear on the same platform with the party s head, Adlai Steven- ion. Inside fact is that the trio who run the democratic side of the senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, Democratic Whip Earlc Clements of Ken tucky and Sen. Dick liussell of Georgia, the real power behind the scenes arc secretly groom ing their own candidate, Mis souri's handsome, able Stuart Sy mington. Therefore, when Stevenson ac cepted an initation to head the celebrity list a the Miami Beach dinner, the Johnson-Clements- Russell group secretly debated whether they should attend. Their bright young political dis ciple, Sen. George Smathcrs of Florida, who ::i.t the assignment of introducing S cvensnn, also considerci whether he should go through wi'.h it or turn the job over to Ex-Sen. Claude Pep per, leader of F orida's liberal faction. Smathcrs was in a dif ficult position because Pepper sernis almost certain to run against him in 1!).6. All these political Implications were solemnly weighed by Johnson, Clements. Russell, Sy mington and i mat hers at an is land hideaway off the Florida coast where the- spent four days of fishing and political angling. In the tnd, they decided Inat appearing in the same spotlight with Stevenson would not ncct sarily constitute an endorsement of him for rennmination in 1!)MS. They also agreed to make the them to refund the original pay ment to the government, and he substituted his own personal check. ollowing this, McLeod ar ranged to giv. the chief of po lice of Hanover, N. H., Andrew Ferguson, an expensive junket to Europe, also at the taxpayers' expense. Ferguson, whose family came from Scotland, wanted a trip back to the old country last sum mer, so McLeod, who used to work for the, late Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, ap pointed the police chief as an alleged guard to a State De parcment courier. The courier was quite able to protect himi self, had done so before' in the past. Vurthcrmore, he was not going to an Ircn-Curtain country, but to such safe and friendly countries as France and Germany. However, McLeod trranged THE WORLD TODAY Ike May Not Know Number of Reds By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON 11 -The Eisen hower administration apparently does not know the answer to the No. 1 mystery of the moment: how many of the 2,200 ex-government workers listed as security risks were Communists? Individual agencies may know many Communists each of them found. But the administration, it seems, has neither rounded up the total nor separated the Communists who were fired or resigned from those let out for other security reasons. Philip Young, chairman of the Civil Service Commission, said yes terday he has asked all depart ment heads to analyze their se curity separations and break them down into four categories. This still may not give a full break down. But it should provide the admin istration with a little clearer in formation about the problem than its present jumble of categories, which in some agencies number as many as 15 or 20. The administration still hasn't for the Nn Hampshire police 1 sai1, " ' makc Pub!jc total chief to take this nice trip to Europe at a cost of about $2,500. Other bureaucrats might have trouble using State Department pirsnnnel to move their furni ture or to sci d a friend on a European trip, bu' McLeod hap pens to have been the former number of Communists found, since it luok over from the Democrats a year ago. even alter Young gets all the inlnrmation he asked tor. Newsmen repeatedly have asked (or a breakdown. Democrats have demanded it until now, frustrated, they are calling for a enngrcs- stional investigation. It is an' issue BIG PROJECT FOR ST. HELENS As meaningful to Oregon as the recent announcement that General Motors will spend a billion dollars in plant expansion in the next few years was to the nation is the announcement that Crown Zellcrbach plans to spend more than $14,000,000 expanding the St. Helens Pulp & Paper company, control of which it recently purchased. This is really big business for a community the size of St. Helens. The project will also be felt in Portland and indeed throughout the whole state, for the purchasing power generated by the construction work and the larger payrolls to follow the expansion will be very great. i Much of the benefit of such an announcement right now I will ho novrbnlnfrienl. 7.nlloi-linrb thn tvoat'a ln1i,,r paper manufacturer. It is one of the best managed con cerns in the entire nation, to be ranked in its field with General Motors, Dupont and other great leaders of Amer ican industry. This great company clearly subscribes to the idea that America's best days are ahead, not behind, that the next future yean call for expansion, not contraction, for con structive, not negative planning. Those who are trying to be the advance men for an other depression should take note, as should those who lire timidly echoing their counsels of despair. For people like General Motors and Zcllcrbach bet a lot of money on their judgment. assistant to Krnetnr Bridges, building up to a heat which may chairman of the senate appro- become explosive, priations committee who helps i This is the background: allocate funds to the State Do-1 On April 27, 19.i3, President F.i-p.-rtment. Ano'hcr McLeod sonliowor announced a new pro friend is Sen. Joe McCarthy, also Kram. a successor to one set up a member of the appropriations 1 lQa before by former President committee. When a bureaucrat I T,rllman' 1,k fnr a',dK('1 nd has two powerful fri ndt on the!0' Wvcrnment workers who were ,nnrnrili.,n rnn.mil.. h, j. ! d.,S.lo'al "f "nsidcrcd security -it,- - rtckc Truman's program was really two programs in one: U loyalty lor firing employes of questionable loyalty and 2 security (or tiring people who might be a risk to government security, like drunks or others who talked too much or homosexuals who might be black mailed into giving away secrets. Eisenhower's program telescoped those two programs into one. called the security program: there was no more distinction between ques tionable loyally and security risk. A man could be classified as a security risk, and therefore fired, if he was a Communist, follow traveler, a drunk, blabbermouth, homosocuol or came under any one of a number of oilier forbidden categories. And there was another great distinction: The Truman loyalty program covered all government workers. That is, no mailer what job he held in government, high or low. a man found to be a Communist, (or inst ince, could be fired on loy ally grounds. But. imiler the Truman program, a man could he fired as a security risk only if he worked in a few agencies which had big secrets In volving national securily, such as the Slate and Defence departments, and the Atomic F.nrrgy Commis sion But I lie Eisenhower security pro gram applied to the whole govern ment. A man found to he a se curity risk, although not disloyal, could be fired no matter where he worked in the government. And nil department heads were instructed to report their security cases to the Civil Service Commis sion, i. a si winner loung made a he sometimes ab vc State Depart ment discipline ! Alienating India I Though it rappers to be on the other side of the globe, a forthcoming American policy! move in 1 akistan may be as im-' March 6 dinner a great show of! Prtanl as the los of China to democratic unity with democrats ! iilr hrr wnrl(l s"m" observers of ill political shades slapping 1 "' ,h' proposed military harks ai.d breaking bread to-1 P'11"1 "h M"-lcm Pakistan will get her i alienate the second mint popu- NOTE -Meanwhile, the Slev- lm'' n'"'"n11in rM In.lia. enson-appointed democratic n-! ,, . T nhTT 1 tional chairman, iteve Mitchell, I "LrZ, , t "",' 'V h. ,, i,..i- .. , ,i. ( ongresMiian I.manuel teller of, has been plav ng up to the con- v .. v , , , , ,. ii, ni. New or who had a significant' deliberately rold s touldcred the liberal elements in the South, and has even gone out of his way to boost Senator Met'lellan of Arkansas who hacked Strom Thurmond of South Csrolins igainsl Truman In 1048. Friends . t Court Scott McLeod, the State De partment security officer who brought a storm of democratic wrath diwn on his head as a result of his Lincoln Day speech es, has had wrath brought down inside the Slate Department for some time. One wrath-provoking incident occurred some minths ago when McLeod v ar.led to move his per sonal lurnitiirf from one house tr. another and drafted two members of the State 'epartment security organisation to help. The moving occurred on a Saturday afternoon and the two men were paid overtime. They were paid. In it the Indian leade' vigorously ! warned against the I'. S.-I'akistan : cmilltary alliance. ! "Look at the advantages you could gair if y spent the same amount ot mot.ry in helping l'nk islan economically instead of helping her militarily," Nehru told t eller. "Instead, what you are doing will cot India a lot o( money. It will upse' my ficyoar plaa. For, uhen I'l.kistai. milds up its army, 1 have to build up the In dian army to meet the threat frotr the north. That lakes mon ey out of our r onmny." "But is India equipped 'n re sist Russian aggression?" Con. gressman t eller ased. "We have a sufficient army," Nehru replied. "What siir?" "About h,,lf million men," said Nehru, adding, ' But more important we have the Hima- furthermore, not by McLeod but lavas for protection. Do you Demos Old Hands At Confusing Foes By RAYMOND MOLEY It would be too broad a charac terization to say that this piece is written in praise of the leaders of the left side of the Democratic Party. It will, however, offer a note of admiration for their saga city, without adding the hope that they will succeed. For what ever may be said about the havoc they wrought when they were in power and the dangers of letting them control again, it has to be acknowledged that they arc, in the fine art of politics, sophist! cated, professional, expert, or whatever else you choose to call people who know their way about. "About what?" you may ask. The answer to that is another story. It is elementary in political contests, as in other forms of competition, that you direct your attack at any discernible weak ness in your opponent. If he has a temper that needs a stiff rein, try to break his control, and if the effort is successful, his irra tionality will injure him. If his following is not well integrated, try to divide it. If your own fol lowing is not well integrated, try to get your adversary to unite it by generalized attack. Finally, if your opponent is politically naive, lead him into damaging statements or admissions. Most of these rules were fol lowed in the recent pother over so-called "be kind to Democrats" week. And the harvest was rich. First, there was the wailing about the Republican charges of "a campaign of fear." This was smearing, thev said. Sam Ray- burn was one of the complain ants. This is the same Sam Ray burn who said in November, 1951, that "if some of these fellows that have been talking like, well I might say Bob Taft, was to get elected president, and the people were to think between November and January 20, that they were going to put their threats into performance, money being as scary as it is, we might have a great panic in that time. I fear that myself. There was real political smart ness in that statement because it obviously helped Eisenhower's chances to get the nomination. And Rayburn must have known even that far in advance that un der Eisenhower there would be more kindness to the Rayburn school of Democrats. It also pre pared the way for a scare cam paign before the 1952 election. With this current series of com plaints came a series of sugges tions that Democratic support would be withheld if such Repub lican attacks continued. This, as well as the complaints, should have been laughed off. For neith er Sam Rayburn nor Senator Symington nor any other Fair Deal Democrat can control the votes of conservative Southern Democrats. But the Democrats apparently knew that the president would respond to these tactics exactly as they wanted him to respond. His statements that he believed it would be unwise to engage in too partisan attacks were imme diately interpreted to be an at tack upon Senator McCarthy and ether Republicans who were out campaigning. This apparent chas tisement by the president blunt-! ed Republican attacks and in some cases actually prevented them. Senator Ferguson, for ex-i ample, went to Brooklyn with a j speech prepared that was an at-! tack upon past Democratic rule. He threw his speech aside and gave a mere historical summary J of the glories of the Republican past. j In all the chatter that followed ; the president's admonition, there! was no attempt to distinguish be-1 tuocn the two factions in the Democratic party. Ex-I'rosidont i Truman and Senator Humphrey ! came under the same protective rule as Senator George and Gov ernor Byrnes. ! Reporters who are looking for j news as well as a chance to strike i a blow against Mid Western Re j publicans also use this suscepti j bility of the president. Questions ! in press conferences are some j times phrased like this: "Mr. President, do you endorse the di abolical attacks now being made by that fiend, Senator McWhatsi ; gan?" They arc looking for this I sort of answer: "Of course. I nev ' er, never speak of personalities. But 1 am against diabolical at tacks by all kinds of fiends." And the reporters have their story and the Rayburns chuckle over their morning oatmeal and sugar buns. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER 'What Does It Mean to Be an American?' Question of Day NEW YORK What is America? What docs it mean xo be an American? This is "Americanism week, and these questions are being dis .mini from niilnit and platform, Yet they are questions that each man must search his own heart thrnneh tn find his own answers. And manv answers have been given since Patrick Henry said in a speecn in ine lonimemdi gress on Sept. 5, 1774: "I am not a Virginian, but an American." Just to refresh your own think ing, here are some observations, serious and not so serious, about the land of the free and the home of the brave: "The next Augustine age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will perhaps be a Thucydidcs at Boston, a Xcno phon at New York" Horace Wal pole, 1774. Salem 13 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL February 18, 1941 A recommendation of "do pass" had been received by the Jones bill aimed to stimulate the manu facture and sale of wine made from Oregon fruits. . Employes of eight state institu tions had their working hours re duced from 72 to 60 a week. Jesse Jones, secretary of com merce and federal loan adminis trator, had told the house bank ing committee that the "United Stales is nearly in the war." Carter Motor company, 240 Cen ter street, had advertised their best buy as a 1935 Studcbaker se dan for $175. Bv HAL BOYLE "I am willing to love au man kind, except an American" Sam uel Johnson. ". , , . Knavery seems to be so much the striking feature of its America's inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom" King George III, 1782. "America means opportunity, freedom, power" Emerson. "Equal and exact justice to all men . , Thomas Jefferson. America is a country of young men" Emerson. "The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been go ing on now for 300 years" Oscar Wilde. "Our reliance is in the love of liberty which Cod has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heri tage of ail men. in all lands everywhere" Abraham Lincoln. "Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. Amer ica is the only idealistic nation in the world" Woodrow Wilson. "Most Americans arc born drunk . . . they have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible cham pagne. . . . Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything' G. K. Chesterton. "This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum" Elbert Hubbard. "The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight" Theo dore Iloosevelt. "The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine" Al fred E. Smith. "The cement of this union is the heart blod of every Ameri- More than 500 skiers and sports , Can" Thomas Jefferson. fans were reported active on the slopes of Hoodoo Ski bowl. British ministry of home secur ity had reported 1502 civilians were killed md 2012 injured by air raids during January. DANGEROUS HITCHHIKERS Hood River News There is a difference in pick ing up friends in need of a ride and picking up hitchhikers, al though some of our migrant workers seem to think our na tives are cruel because they do not share rides. The FBI has re ported that escaped criminals resort to hitchhiking more than any other form of free trans portation. Two out of every five thumbs, reports the bureau, can be identified in the FBI finger print files. WRESTLING JUST A SHOW Pendleton East Orcgonian Entirely too much fuss has been The less we have to do with the emities of Europe the better Not in our day but a not distant one, we may shake a rod over the heads of all, which may make the stoutest tremble. But I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be" Thomas Jefferson. "He defeated the Americans with great slaughter" Inscrip tion on the tomb of Lord Corn wallis, who surrendered at York town. "A national debt if it is not ex cessive, will be to us a national blessing" Alexander Hamilton, 1781. "Put none but Americans on guard tonight" George Washing ton. 'The desire for riches is their ruling passion" Due de la Roche-foucault-Liancourt, after a visit here in 1798. "To rouse the Americans' eager interest, their distinguished con sideration and their undying de votion, all that is neccsary is to hold them up to the ridicule of made about Herman Hickman s J the rest o( thc universe. Dickens expose of wrestling in recent , won them to him forever Dy mer. Issue of thc Saturday Evening ciioss projections of typical Post. Hickman s story wasn't new. Americans as windbags, swind The sports public has known for crs and assassins" Bernard years that wrestling is a show. The ' Shaw. point is that the actors arc good j "America is one long cxpector- goon cnougn to onng inousanns ation' Oscar Wilde. out to sec their shows every week. COSTLY .MISTAKE HOUSTON, Tex. (UPt-Seaman ; we find the joy of life and the 1 feel that you arc justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have made a mode of living in which Jessie J. I.ockler. looking for a ; iov of work harmoniously com. taxi, saw a car and climbed in ' bincd. Added to this is the spirit with the order: "Take me nnv-tof ambition which nrcvades your v. here, never mind the fare." The I very being, and seems to make driver took him to city jail where ! thc day's work like a happy child at play" Albert Einstein, 1931 he was fined $10 for being drunk in a public place. The car Lock ler thought was a taxi was a police patrol car. America is a tune. It must be sung together" Gerald Stanley Lee. know how the Chinee .iring in and by the State Department When this writer queried the State Department regarding this highly Unusual, i. not illegal) them in through Calcutta transaction, tne otticial rep . across lndi They cannot get was "No comm. nt.' Finally, and j supplies cross the Himalayas to following pub.lcation of t h e I supply their own ti oops. So how, above facts, it was learned that i then." could thv state an at McLeod had called In the two i tark?" Statt Department men, asked tconumifd r. , comma n supplies for the.r troop, on the f"1"', U,e "1h''C! l,ouso, whklh Tibetan border' Thev MntT.--tKm,lfnAt had been dropped. Domocr its eventually would have asked how many of t ho lirod peo ple were Communists since the Re publicans had made Communists in government an issue in the 1952 , campaign and were going to use I it in this year's election. JUSTICE ALWAYS IMPARTIAL Impartiality is thc life of jus tice, as justice is ot all good government. Justinian. But the Democrats began de manding an answer uhen some Republicans went beyond the sim ple White House statement that 1.4.iS securit.. risks were lired and began implying most of them were Communists. For instance. Bernard M. Shan ley, Eisenhower's special counsel, said in a speech Nov. K that l.4."ni "subversives have been kicked nut of the government " Sen. McCarthy iH-Wisi followed this up by saying practically all of the 1. 4 uere lired (or Communist connections or homosexuality. Later in his Slate of thc Union message Jan. 7 Eisenhower said security risks dropped from the payroll now totaled 2.2UO Newsmen asked Eisenhower for a breakdown. He referred them to Ally. Gen. Browncll. who had developed the present security pro gram. Mrownell relused a break down nnd referred newsmen to Young Young refused an answer and referred them hack to the White House Then the Democrats' demands for an answer grew louder. i MM BE WISE! HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO ECONOMIZE! DRESS UP FOR EASTER & SPRING IN A NEW SUIT OF CLOTHES SAVE 33 to 50 NOW AT JOES UPSTAIRS CLOTHES SHOP SELLING OUT SALE There it still t good selection of suits, topcoats, sport coali and slacks to choose from in juperfino quality fabrics, new smart styles in all sizes from 35 to 50 with an ex cellent selection of sizes 36, 37, 38 end 39. Now on sale tt '6 to i off Joes usual tow prices. Sale ends Sat. Feb. 27th, Then Joe goes on a buying trip for t brand new stock. Will reopen about Mar. 25th. OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT 'TIL 9 Upstairs 442 tofe Clothes Store 51. Above Morris Optical Co. Next Door to Nohlgrcn'i Rcstauronr. Look for the Flashing "Save $10.00" Sign Above the Entrance. JOE'S