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Pajre 4 Capital jLJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1883 BERNARD MAlNWARING, Editor ond Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. hll liwd Wit, ServlM l lr, Amrlalfl Prm Tin Uaiut Trm. Th AMOCUtHl Priu I tlclutlvelr intltltd to tht ua for publlcstlon f all Bwa ditpauhw orediud u II or othfUt crdiud la th pirr tad tut niwi publuhMl thcrtla. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: T Ctnliri UonthlJ. Il.lli III Uotllu, Otmou: Uonthlz, loc; ail Month,, II.Mi SCoalhlr, ll.M; Sli Uonthi. 17.(0: Out THE 'GLOOMY DEAN' The death at Wallingford, William R. Inge, 93, whose dour predictions earned him fame as the "gloomy dean'' of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, removes the most picturesque of clerical pessi- m sts. He had been in ill tired in 1934 after preaching h s nickname to "trying to tell Dean Inge was a distinguished scholar in the classics, a profound philosopher and a skilled teacher, recognized as the greatest English church esayist of his time. He was humble in spirit, modest in the extreme, but his public comment ridiculed social hypocricies and made him as much of a British oracle as the late George Bernard Shaw. Whatever Dean Inge said brought chuckles from the public and sputterings from those whose views had drawn his verbal fire. And he challenged some of the oldest Christian dogmas. When he declared that he did not be lieve in miracles, neither in heaven, hell, nor the British socialists, he was attacked plied by declaring that his critics gave the impression that the average Englishman spent all his time worrying about the geographical location of the next world. Dean Inge accused Englishmen of being lazy and pub lished a book, "England," which emphasized his nick name. He advocated a revision of the marriage contract, easier divorces, favored birth control, or some check on birthrate among the poor. He ridiculed those who found a conflict between religion and science saying there must be bridges between the world of fact and the world of spiritual values. He added not touch science and a science are mutilated and incomplete. is that the science of religion be scientific and the religion gious." In the pulpit, in his writings and in other public utterances the dean denounced in withering terms both socialism and democrac;. Social ists were to him "court chaplains of King Demos" and "worshippers of the silliest of all fetishes" the right of the majority to rule. "Any dead dog can float with the stream," he said. Democratic governments were called "wasteful, inefficient and generally corrupt, yielding before every agitation and paying black mail to every conspiracy. He preached the majesty of the individual soul and ridiculed what he called "the herd theory of mankind." Dean Inge was not all denunciative. His constructive thought was homely and kindly and witty as well. And he could be merry at times. His wife told a story that brought laughter from him, as follows: "A doctor left a patient on a deathbed at night, after telling the man's wife to take his temperature every hour. In the morning the physician hurried hack to find the bed empty. "Said the wife: 'We didn't have a thermometer sn I used the barom eter. That pointed to 'very dry' so I gave htm two pints of ale and now he's gone to work.' " The world needs pessimists to offset the dreamy "pie in the sky" optimists and it G. P, THE ADMINISTRATION . The Bricker amendment is sponsored by Senator George of Georgia, but only by a vote of 60-31 in which the amendment backers missed the required two-thirds only when a West Virginia Democrat rushed into the Senate chamber to find the vote 60-30 and cast the vote that saved the administration from a rebuff. . The amendment was opposed by 16 Democrats and 14 Republicans, and by Senator Morse, Oregon independent, who supported the president while Senator Cordon oppos ed him, as did Majority Leader Knowland of California. Previously the Senate had rejected the much more objectionable Bricker amendment, which the president had vigorously opposed. He did not openly oppose the George amendment, hut neither did he endorse it and pre sumably favored no restriction on the president's treaty making power as it has stood since the constitution was adopted. The wording of the George amendment sounded harm less enough. It said that no international agreement could become domestic law without action by congress. The danger is that foreign countries would interpret the amendment to mean that the country was restricting the government's power, to make international agreements and that in the course of time the courts might interpret it to mean much more than it seems to mean. This has hap pened repeatedly in constitutional matters. The Bricker amendment agitation was a delayed reac tion to the secret agreements made by the Roosevelt ad ministration at Yalta and Teheran, but no amendment could prevent these taking place if we ever again have a president who wishes to bypass the senate's right to re fuse treaty ratification. However, such agreements arc not binding upon a future administration, and could be repudiated in all good conscience. So the need for anv amendment is dubious at best. If ' watered down" it will be meaningless, if it contains teeth it will hamstring the administration in conducting foreign relations. It is admittedly dangerous for the president to have powers, hut more dangerous for him not to have. CONGRESSIONAL PENSION 'GRAB' This newspaper has no objection to an increase in con gressional salaries, which most members evidently want but are afraid to vote. Hut we resent "grabs" such as the revised congressional tension setup will be if it becomes law. It was passed Friday bv ' The already extremely liberal pension is further "liber alized. In computing payments onlv the salary rate drawn since 10 4(5 is to be nerved prior to then, as most without having made payments Then a credit for tin to five Is granted, without requiring that the individual have been a member of congress at or prior to the service, Sen. ators and congressmen who served in World War I, for in stance, will get credit for this service on their congres sional pensions. Certainly this is a far-fetched, nrmiml about way of milking the taxpayer. The senators also granted a "hike" to employes of con gress whose retirement payments are to be based on two and a half percent of their salaries multiplied by their years of service. Members of congress already have this but other government employes are on a'base of one and a half percent. Here is a discrimination that will be re sented all through the federal service. The vote of Northwest senators was specially interest ing. The two Washington liberal Democrats voted for it, as would be expected, hut Morse, even more liberal, team ed up with Idaho's two extremely conservative senators in voting no. Cordon, supposedly a conservative budget bal ancer, voted for the bill. Strange bedfellows all around. 11.101 On, Tilt, 11(00. Mr Ulll U Ota Tor. lt.00. Br Mll OuUldl Omat Yr. 11( 00. PASSES England, of the Very Rev. Sir health for some time. He re- for 23 years. He attributed the truth as 1 saw it. by many churchmen. He re that a religion which does that does not touch religion The worst we can hope for of the religious sphere mav of the scientific man reli needs more "gloomy deans." WINS, NARROWLY dead, and so is its substitute the Senate. considered, so members who of them did, will get more on this higher basis, years for military service HOW r-"-Mt-s-rr-' " "mtkMM 1 WASHINGTON MERRY Dulles in Hornet's Nest of Critical G.O.P. Senators By DREW WASHINGTON When Dean Acheson used to come back from international conferences Presi dent Truman invariably met him at the airport to show that he stood firmly behind his Secre tary of State and the difficult foreign policies he was trying to execute. ' When John Foster Dulles got back from Berlin, however, not only was no President at the air port but he stepped into a hor nets' nest of opposition, not from the Democrats, but from his own GOP colleagues on Capitol mil. Most effective stinger in the hor nets' nest was none other than the Republican leader of the Senate, able Bill Knowland of California. No sooner had Secretary Dulles got the last sentence out of his mouth in reporting to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a closed-door ses sion, thin Senator Knowland sailed into him. Bluntly he chal lenged Dulles judgment in agreeing to sit down with Red China at the Geneva conference. This, he said, was a step toward recognition. Knowland also objected to put ting Indo-china on the agenda of the Geneva conference. The Korean war, he pointed out, was United Nations venture, while the Indo-Chinese war is not. Rut, replied Dulles, it would have been impossible to hold the conference at all without in cluding Indochina. Otherwise it would have looked as if the Russians were willing to settle France's biggest headache while the United States was not. The alternative would have been worse," interrupted Under secretary of State General "Hectic" Smith. "The present French government would have fallen, and France would have pulled out of Indochina alto gether." Disaster Ahead At least one Republican, Wiley of Wisconsin, vigorously stood up for the Republican Secretary of State, though several others hut we don't take advantage of at Balls Bluff. , were sympathetic. Including; that fact." j One of the ancestors of the kindly Senator Saltonstall of Hvasta was interested to hear ; editor and publisher of this pa Massachusetts that Senator Douglas of Illinois ; ,)tT, Powell by name, related an But Knowland still wasnt satis- had introduced a bill providing i iniwini f n.. mjn- k. iicu. uc cnarKcu inai mc r i nun : (,iiiu iiuw yi-iuv iiiv in Indochina by establishing a ; coalition Indo-Chinese govern-1 ment. a coalition which would; include communists. This, he j said, would eventually result in j ...,, '"is (..ni..iiii...i .nil in mi- ......m- ..I mlf,5l,on5 h(, rrpiiPr. - do nnt country - a disaster for the , Representatives ! think that is ariv of vour busi- wc,t' 1 Merrv (,o Round . ip r..ii' .... ':,. ,i Few other senators questioned; Layers for the New York .hThcMh" JLZ Z the Secretary of Slate. Know-.Times and New York Herald , ; ,'r 'ac' J,,",' "VL"'", land dominated the eross-exami- Tribune warned that-il was libel-, " " ' 1;' nation. He wa, persistent nut- , , print the name, o( ll'o S ' spoken, hut never heated. As twelve women whom .lames, ,' ,q , ' ,, , " r;. , .. ' " the closed-door meeting broke I ,ons,ve!t listed in his inrrimi- iiT ' up, Dulles remarked pleasantly , nating letter to his wife. The i Ul ,,,lrru 11 ' i"r"''n- . to his chief heckler: letter Is not a privileged devcu-' s,nator Bakers brilliant ea- "I take it that I haven't an-1 ment. Several of the t r I v o ; rw M t Inf rarly iw n( ,W. swered all your questions satis-1 women are now cogitating libel Something of presentiment of his fartorily." 1 ,,,, nCTjnsl papm that ,iid ; earlv denlh seems to he revealed "No, you haven't. Mr. Scire-1 print their names. . . . Last week,"1 ,hr Popm "Hurtcd to above. It lary," agreed Knowland grimly, business failures throughout the1cnl,: "No. vmi haven't." "We'll have to talk again some more about this." Dulles told I Knowland earnestly. Note Dulles claimed that i the West had scored a diploma-1 tic victory regarding the I'nited j Kuropean army because Mold-1 tov's tactics were so crude that ; he strengthened F.DC. From Jail to Capital Jan Hvasta. the cx-Gl who miraculously escaped from a Czechoslovak jail, was riding past the rapitol building the other evening. It ws the first time he had ever been in Wash ington, and the capitnl dome, THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem, Oreeon FAR BACK CAN YOU - GO - ROUND PEARSON under scrutiny of the search lights, stood in magnificent sil houette against the horizon. "It certainly gives me a thrill to sec that," Hvasta remarked. "J've heard about the buildings here in Washington, hut there were times when I never expect ed to see them. "People in Czechoslovakia don't get much of a thrill out of their buildings, especially gov ernment buildings," he added. "In fact, they don't 'get any thrill out of their government. But here you do. At least I do, and I think most people do. We may cuss out our government, but we appreciate it just the same. In Czechoslovakia you can't even cuss." Hvasta was loath to talk in a TV interview about his experi ences in the country where he spent four years in jail, plus two years in hiding. But the fact that he was able to hide out for al most two years among the Czech people he attributes to just one thing: Their regard for America and their dislike of the com munist regime. "The word American Is a pass port in Czechoslovakia." he said, , explaining to me how he was able to travel JIM1 miles from his ai, !,,, ,. ,. , prison in l.eopoldov to the hpA h""f in,Kcr ,hf V'"?-; American embassy in Prague. "I ' !) J n ,'-? " SPrlnRf!pd never would have been taken in ; " 'CRnl Rlant a '"?'' w"'n by Czech families along the way I .h,cp J'"" " tlin law. had I not been an American." i or ,r-v,.nK Ret a stnrt. He is Freedom Balloons ! ""wn sh,r(' b'1u'r Hvasta was grcatlv interested ! 1,rca."sc . h's blr,h, in the freedom balloons which ; l"all'"1 him for the presidency, this writer helped to launch Tnp friendship between two from the German border into!mrn of such honesty and honor Czechoslovakia three years ago. a Lincoln and Baker is some earning messages of "hope and',hinK Ko0l think about. Their friendship. I heard about the balloons though 1 didn't see anv," he j to the letter. Lincoln had such said. "What the people' there 'regard for Baker that he named need is exactly this kind of en- one of his sons Edward Baker cotiraacment. All the people be-! Lincoln. Senator Baker was one hind the Iron Curtain are strong! of the two men who rode with for America, but they have to ' Lincoln to the Capitol on the he reminded that we have not I morning of the latler's inaugura forgotten them. We have far tion. Lincoln wept when the news more friends than we realize, came that Col. Baker was killed s.utjo.vntu io scno loot! in oai- kiwis nriiiiKi (nr iron ( unain. Congressman Roding of Newark, N. J., the man who did so much in keep the state department from forgetting Hvasta's plight. told him that he was introducing I'mted Slates numbered 277 ns j against 201) jul one year ago . . . j The Democrats are warming up ! a campaign slogan to fit rcces-1 sion (l.is. "It's unamcriemi to j be unemployed'' . . . Negro groups have quietly abandoned their fight for an FKTC law I and are now planning to seek an I amendment to the ratl llartley law to make it illegal to deny a man a job because of color. I'nder Taft-Hartley, it's already illegal to deny a job hceause of union membership, and Negro leaders wanl that provision ex- had hern retused a loan .10 nun tendrd to include race and re- titrs earlier because he could not ligion. i furnish suitable references. GET? Anniversary of a Great Oregonian W.I..A. in Baker Democrat Herald February is a month of emi nent birthdays. It seems fitting that a man of Edward Dickin son Baker's qualifications should be born in the same month with Washington and Lincoln. He was born February 24, 1811, in Eng land, and thus was two years younger than his friend Abraham Lincoln. Col. Baker was a man and a leader of such ability that he was constantly reaching out for great er opportunities. Starting as a minister of the Christian Church, he later switched to law. "And thereby," says a biographer, "the church lost a second Henry Ward Bcecher." He went to Congress from the Sangamon district of Illinois, then by prearrangement with Lincoln presented the let ter's name to the nominating con vention as his successor. He him self moved to another Congres sional district. Then he moved to California, where he soon headed the San Francisco bar. Seeking new opportunities he then moved to Oregon, where he was soon chosen one of the first two sen ators from the new state. He speaks truly when in his poem "To a Wave," he says: "I, too, am a wave on a restless sea: I, too, am a wanderer, driven like thee. agreement to co-operate in each going to Congress was carried out was lixing in the vicinity of Springfield, Illinois. lie was serv ing mi a jury on a case in which Col. Baker was one of the attor nes. A hoy was on the witness stand under cross-examination by ,,akrr whrn , n(, , lhj ,altcr.-. "I. too, am seeking a distant land To tie lost and gone ere I reach the strand. For the land 1 seek is a wave less shore. And they ho reach it shall wander no more." UK GOT TIIK MONEY CIIUtLOTTK. C. 'IT'-Kin-ployes of a finance company quickly recognized a gunman who robhrrl them of SM2 yesterday. He We Must Not Fear Controversy Oreioi City Enterprise-Courier Freedom of speech it having a rough time in America these days. The lime observation applies to education. But the evil, we think, may be due more to personal cowardice of Americans than to any restrictive legislation or legal hamstringing that has occurred as an offshoot of the wars. Latest comment pointing up the problem it a quotation from Rob ert M. Hutchins, former president of the University of Chicago, and associate director of the Ford Foundation. Hutchins said in a national ma gazine article that the nation's en tire teaching profession is so in timidated by pressure groups and inquisitors that in many communi ties "education is impossible." Hutchins added that an idea ex tant in educational circles that "controversial issues must be eli minated from class rooms is as ridiculous as decreeing that all squares must be round. "All issues are controversial," he said. "If they were not, they would not be issues." Still Salem Minded Stayton Mail Still Salem minded are county and district candidates for pub lic offices. All who have announced their candidacies for legislative posi tions, so far, have ignored the outlying areas. They, for the most part, have announced their filing or intention to file in the Salem papers late in the week, too late for the weekly press. Candidates for positions other than the leg islature, also, have done likewise. Taking the outlying areas for granted has long been a habit in Marion county wherein Salem, with less than half of the coun ty's population, for 15 years has grabbed all the legislative berths. An outstanding exception was Walter Norblad who announced his candidacy on a Thursday so as to give the readers of the weeklies an even break. Kidding the Governor Governor Paul Patterson quit smoking last October and he has n't taken a single puff since then Corvallis Gazette Times. Probably trying to build up his wind for the forthcoming primary campaign. Roscburg News-Review. THE FIRESIDE PULPIT Miracles Cease to Be Such When We Understand Them By REV. GEORGE H.SWIFT Rector, St. Paul's EpUcopftl Church One beautiful morning a few weeks ago, s young man and I were on our way to Eugene in his car. I was to officiate at a fu neral there. As we traveled along about 55 miles per hour, I men tioned my unsuccessful attempts to contact a friend in Salem in re gard to the scripture that the family requested to read. Without a word, my friend put a telephone receiver to his ear and called a number. His wife answered. He asked her to con tact the party I mentioned, and to get the information I wanted, and to call him back. We con tinued to roll along for four or five minutes, when a buzzer I sounded, and in a moment 1 knew what scripture I was going to read at the funeral! If we did not know about the complicated process by which this information was secured, we would surely call it a miracle. But the things that to us arc mys- l 9 1 illrr ' !' ' Serving Salem ond Vicinity os Funeral Directors for 25 Yeors Convenient location. S Commer cial street, bus line; direct route to ccmctories -no cross traffic. New modern building seating up to 300. Services within your means. Virgil T. Golden 605 S. Commercial St. FUNERAL SERVICE rii ki.w . r. v.... lot a r.i POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Small Canapes, On Columnists' By SAUL Tor HAL NEW YORK Wv-Small canapes ire t columnist's diet when the pantry is fun of appetizers but no main course: A friend of mine swears he over heard this conversation between a man and his wife, who were hav ing trouble with their rambunc tious child. Wife 'Our trouble is we don't use psychology on the boy." Husband "Aw, what the heck does a five-year-old kid know about psychology?" Aaron Kaye, the picturesque Manhattan merchant who buys and sells used furs, lias a new gimmick in his ads. He's now in viting people to trade their used cars for used furs. Thus far, Kaye reports, he has swung one trade a '53 Pontiac for a '53 mink coat. "I think I lost a couple of hundred on the deal," he says, "but the offer still goes." Driving up through New Eng land recently, I saw a big restau rant with a big sign advertising "Northern Fried Chicken." Young couple I heard of has a five-year-old girl, who, like many other children, has an imaginary friend name of "Is-Me." Because "Is-Me" has become very real to her, the girl's parents have found it necessary to indulge her in this fantasy. At dinner, they have to set a place for "Is-Me." At night, they have to kiss the air as well as kiss the girl goodnight. Other times, they have to be careful not to step on "Is-Me" or frighten the fictional friend by speaking too loudly. One Sunday the family was out for a drive. They stopped for gas. had the oil changed, and started up again. After a few minutes, the girl suddenly screamed, "Stop! Stop! Stop!" Daddy stopped, brakes screech ing, thinking his daughter had been stabbed. And nothing no amount of reason of persuasion would pacify the girl until father got out of the car, opened the hood and liberated "Is-Me," who somehow had become too curious back at the fililng station. Folk songs in the back country of the Philippines frequently have a practical point of view, I am told by Cataima Zandueta, pretty tcrics or miracles, cease to be such when we learn the nature of their being. We are amazed by the power of some person whose presence and words stir the wills of masses of people to some great purpose. But when we make a study of the background of this pcrsosn, we usually find the secret of this greatness. A loving parent, a deeply religious home, an envir onment steeped in honesty, in tegrity and brotherly love, may fake the miracle of such a per-; that he was being pursued by wo snnality out of the realms-of the j men. miraculous, to a simple system of living which is possible (in a measure) to nearly all. Marian Anderson, in the March issue of Guideposts, says, "If my mother's gentle hands were not there to guid,c me, perhaps my life in music would have ended long ago." Mothers who wish greatness for their children please take note! ... ,. vniu 1. oorara & n Saturday, February 27, 1954 Main Course Diet Today PETT BOYJ.E young Filipino singer who makes her Town nan oeoui mis momn. In the Visayan Island group, a boy sings to his girl: "I would like to take you out. But your father and mother and probably your aunt would have to come, too. So there is very little point In the whole thing." At weddings among the Igor ots, this one is sung for the bride but, of course, everyone hopes the groom is listening: "You have found a strong and fearless hus band who will work hard and not beat you." The Igorotf funeral lament fre quently contains a scolding for the newly departed: "You were a bad man. If you were good, you would not have died. Only bad people die." Most psychiatrists I've met do not deserve all the bad jokes told about psychiatrists. But reccnUy I went uptown to interview an analyst we'll call Dr. Schmlege losa, who I had never seen before. As I was entering his building, a man I didn't know entered with me He heard me ask the door man, "Which is Dr. Schmigelosa'i apartment?" The doorman direct ed me to the elevator man. The stranger entered the eleva tor with me and heard me ask the operator for Dr. Schmigelosa, The elevator man said I was look ing for apartment 5-D. At the filUi floor, I got out. To did the stranger. Again he heard mo ask the cievator man, "Which way if 5-D?" I went, as directed, to the left, and was just about to press the buzzer at 5-D when the stranger stepped up, saying in hushed tones, "Good afternoon. I'm Dr. Schmigelosa. May I help you." I guess he was casing me all the way through the lobby and up the elevator. Salem 32 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL February 27, 1922 Purchase of a $7,500 pick-up street sweeper had consideration i by Salem city council. First groceteria to be establish ed in Salem, a C and C store, had opened at 254 North Commercial street under management of N. Selig. Explosion of the giant dirigible rtoma, lately acquired from the Italian government, had been at tributed to ignition of gas fumes bv a high voltage wire. Rex Stewart, Capital .lournal market editor, had written that mountain honey in the comb was now available for 25c in some Salem stores. Woman's suffrage, the 19lh amendment, had been declared constitutional by the supreme court of the United States. Date for the May music festi val had been set for May 26-27. "The Creation" hy Haydn had been selected as the opening pres entation. A Dallas man. age 70. had been judged insane and committed to the state hospital because he was afflicted with the hallucination Modern DANCE Every Saturday Night a, DICKSON'S JK1 with STUBBY MILLS AND HIS MUSIC 9:30 to 12:30 Adm. $1.00 :;;s: i:; . i ' 4 i- i - ' . ii i T oTS ' . 1 T 1 ,a afciMiiiiiii ,-itti r4.' J Ouct B. OOMCB Co. i.. Phone 4-2257 i