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Page 4 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1 883 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. rail Lined Wlr Sirrtr ! Iht Auarlfttel PrtH ant Tha United rreefl. The Aisoclated Preu li excluitvelT entitled to the use lor publication of all newt dlnpttchu errdtled to 11 or oliie-ln crmea in tnia papar too aUo newt published therein. THE "ORDINARY" AMERICAN BENSON UNDERSTANDS HIS JOB In his first annual report to the president, made public n cnnirress nreoared to take un the administration s reo ' ommendation for a controversial flexible price support program to replace the current rigid high props on basic I crops, said that while farm prices have been "stabilized" ' and 1954 offers encouragement to farmers "we are not I satisfied with the present level of farm income." It con ; tinued : "Our goal is a farm program that will enable farm era to obtain their rightful share. Benson said that before "moving constructively" toward the attainment of sound goals for agriculture the adminis . tration has to deal with problems "inherent from ou predecessors' problems" made "more difficult because th 'tools available were not fully adequate." One of these problems, Benson stated, was the waving o imposition of controls for more and more production each year since the Korean war started when, according to the ' law, they were in order for certain crops. As a result "we came face to face with the lastesc accumulation oi excess reserves which ever existed in the history of iarm pro. rrams." Conseatifiiitlv. in this situation, "the task is clear." Agri ' culture must expand markets, get production in line with . prospective market demands, to "cushion the price ne ' cline as much as possible through both direct and indirect : price sunnorts wherever practical. Rptmnn nrfmffrpf that, hp went "bevond the reouire ' merits of the law" and met problems "as well as possible with the tools at hand." At any rate he has a better knowledge of agriculture than any of his recent predeces . ors in his .office, who had Jittle or no knowledge of either economics, conservation or practical agriculture and who , were merely politicians seeking the farm vote. At any rate, if Benson cannot solve the farm problems it is a cinch congress cannot for the net results of years of trial amply proves that penalyzing the consumer for sne -cial interests merely makes confusion more confounded. , (socialistic doles and panaceas are no cure for either farm or inoustrianiJs as has been amply proved wherever tried, " u. r. 'A NEW HENRY WALLACE ; Henry Wallace, out of the public eye since he quit poli , tics several years ago, has been busy since with scientific experiments and with the routine work on his farm near Salem, N.Y. But he has been thinking while he worked, i fill . .1 1 L . .11 .1 --.I 1. TIF. II . J I inis was snown tne oiner any in wnnc wauace termeti "rrw Tnt I'mnnrrtmr anpriph in upvprnl vwiru " timrut ln a farm audience in Des Moines, his native state, where he was invited to speak. Wallace came out flatly for flexible price supports not too high, stating that he will be both happy and surprised if the farmer receives an average of 85 percent of parity xl 1- il i. .1 1 A i i l i l iiirtiugn me next, uecnue. t rigm supptii i system involves ; the creation of huge surpluses and the risk that the Amer ican people, most of whom now live in cities and towns, might repudiate the whole support system, as they did on potatoes. Said Wallace, as quoted in this week's Time 'Magazine: "My greatest fear Is that farmers themselves may destroy the furm legislative machinery by asking it to do work for which it was never . designed. It would be a great disaster if the ever-normal granary were converted into an abnormal granary by loans completely out of line with the weather and the market. The farmer should face the economic facts of lite and not strive for the impossible in a postwar , world where worldwide supply and demand (hi lts are loaded against him for the next 10 years at least." The article continued that Henry Wallace was applaud ed for a whole minute by his farm audience when he con cluded. No longer running for office, he talks like a dif ferent, and wiser man. ivaewcm rAMe w people- ,wv; TvIIZCn you've hed of him-fsr "Wuf iTk- HE'S THE ONE THEY SrV fj - " A II V i jS SHOULD BE fcUMWAttft. f&l, . J ' ffVQ Tl- 1 BUV CARLOAD OF -WEMTOINC HE SEU -BUI ne - SMALL LOT4 FROrA A LOCAL distributor; a HANDLES A PARTICULAR. "Jk PRODUCTNtaTO WA WITHOUT THE MlDDl 4ALE5 WOULD BE LEW-,; ANCTVOU't PMMQKti "umm Peri. Mauuiu, WirlWli(. -id""- HERE'S A fAtDDLEAAANJ M(oR."MrtOLE SALErc; OR. "BROKER") DOING Hli r, HOrEVWORK. WOW HE'S M?-, ft ONE-MAM COhrtPANV. HE WORKS HARD ENOUGHAvaC.... WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Dulles May Be Jumping From Frying Pan to Fire WASHINGTON - Harassed, in defatigable John Foster Dulles may be jumping from the frying pan Into the fire today as he anslers his diplomatic talents from Berlin to Caracas. Not since the sixth Pan Ameri can conference in 198 when the By DREW PEARSON consrientions, hard-working care er diplomat, a cousin of ex-Sen-Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu setts. He stems from the bluest blood in blue-blooded Boston, where it's said "the Lodges speak only to Cabots and the Cabots speak only to God." But he also United State faced a buzz saw ofhas a nablt of rubbing some peo- protest over the landing of ma rines in Nicaragua and the bully ing of Mexico regarding oil, has a U. S. delegation faced such an unfriendly atmosphere. Part ot this is the General feel ing in Latin America that we just aren't interested in the good neighbor policy any more. At the Havana conference of 1928, for instance, the top Ameri can envoys were President Cal vin Coolidge. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and Charles Kvans Hughes the three top Itepublicans in the nation. That was the last time a Re publican adminstration partici pated in a Pan American con ference. This time, in contrast. lne new Itepunlican administra pie the wrong way. And when Milton Kisenhower came back from his trip h e quietly went about transferring Cabot to an other post. 1'anama President Speaks However, the President of Panama intervened. President Kcmon did not mean to intervene to help Cabot quite the contrary. After his official visit to Washington, President liemon went up to the Waldorf in New York where he told Ambassa dor, Bob Hcurtematte: "Mr. Ambassador, 1 hereby give you the following instructions. You can transact business with the undersecretary of state, and you can transact business with the head of state department's Panamanian desk. But under no Work or Gel Off Job Albany Democrat-Herald Whenever an office-holder Is forced out of an important posi tion, there's always the question Why? The right answer is not always easy to get. The govern ment, often, has the answer, the displaced person another. So It is in the case of Clarence Manion, whose resignation as head of the President's commis sion on intergovernmental rela tions has just been forced. Man ion gives out that he was fired because he is making speeches favoring the Bricker amendment, which would clip the President's wings in the conduct of foreign relations. The administration ex plains that the real reason was his failure to work at the job to which he was appointed last September. This would appear to' be reason enough. Probably the President's re gret at terminating Manion's con nection with his administration was not increased by the fact that the former head of the law school at Notre Dame has been plugging a measure to which the President is most seriously op posed. ' POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Rereading Old Film Mags A Harrowing Experience By SAUL PETT Tot HAL BOYLE NEW YORK W Somebody dumped a pile of oid movie fan magazines near my desk and I looked them over. It was har rowing. It also was inspirational, in a way, because these editors seem to have such great, big, ubiqui tous hearts. Moreover, they must use very sensitive seismo graphs to detect the slightest heart tremors anywhere in the world. In March, . 1953, Motion Pic ture Magazine found the Gre gory Pecks abroad, where he was making a picture, and the writer was enchanted by their marital bliss. "Theirs is the story of a love that's nourished from day to day." Tho . nflvf mnnlli a Ttllfl in Filmland Magazine echoed the enchantment: "Live Alone and Like It? Never!" sub-head: said, but him wherever he "Family life and love isn't a nervolls system couldn't, either sometime thing for Gregory Morse uver-Keacne n AstorianBudget Sen. Morse's soup line state ment about Portland seems to note: umortunaieiy, as we ku nave put me senator num: ui--i.-i'-to press, there are storm warn- y into the soup himself. The ings from the Peck household soup line has been demonstrated to be a charity organizations around goes ... Rut rinhr tlnrlpr litis. ns though a hot cable had just been flashed in, was a boxed editors note: "Unfortunately, as we go WEST GERMANY BACKS THE WEST One (rainer from the Berlin conference is West Ger many's frrcat chancellor, Konnul Adenauer, for its results .proved to any intelligent douhters that the chancellor had been rijrht nil aloiifr in siding; with the west against Russia. Adenauer announced Immediately following the confer ence that his policy will he to seek the reunion of Germany as a free, democratic republic, hut not throuch war. He believes a stronuer west, determined to (fet the Russians out of Kast Germany will eventually be able to achieve this through diplomatic pressure, without having to drive them out in a new war. Rut to do this West Germany and the rest of the west must be strong. Kvidcntly the West Germans agree with him even more than when they re-elected his government last year. For the West German parliament voted a few dnvs ago by an overwhelming margin to take steps toward forming a 500.000 man army, to serve as part of the western force, which it is still hoped will include France. - Here West Germany again takes her stand boldly with us. I he uncertain quantity is still France, where pros pects are better since it. is now clear that Russia's deter mination to dominate nil Kurope is unchanged. Rut the other allies should not wait much longer on France. They snoiiui go anead witnout r ranee if i-ranee is unwilling to come in and bear some of the burden. For they have a very powerful ally in West Germany, whose help should Tiol rie lost necause ot r rem it opposition. BUSINESS FAILURES NOT ALARMING Business failures in the I'nited States declined to 'J15 for the week ending February 18 from 277 the week before, according to Pun & Rradstreet, the country's lending credit agency. They were the lowest in four weeks, but higher than the 17fi and 177 that occurred in the comparable weeks of 1953 and 1052. But hold a minute. These failures in what is alleged to be a "recession" if not actually a depression, are 27 per cent below the prewar level of L".i.( in 10.".!). And 10:!;i was after six years of the new deal, it may be recalled, Dun & Rradstreet aren't in politics, aren't running for anything and won't be. They have no motive except to call 'em as they happen. And they do not indicate any thing very serious in one of the most sensitive spots in the entire economy, sick businesses. TEN HIGHWAY DEATHS Ten persons died on Oregon highways over the past week end. eight of them by reason of failure to round curves. These were probably due to excessive speed, and the other (wo deaths may well have been. Ten deaths in a single week end. seven in two accidents, the worst of which occurred in the neighboring county of Linn, ought to bring home to everyone the basic rule, which is never to drive so fast that one cannot have his car instantly under control, This calls for a moderately slower night speed and a slower speed on unfamiliar roads where one does not know where to expect the curves. No amount of warning can possibly bring back precious lives lost, but it may prevent future tragedies, of which excessive speed is still the pri mary cause. lion Is sending as delegates to ' cumstances are you to do any business at any time with that so-and-so. the assistant secretary of state." This, of course, was a private conversation. But when President Uemon got hack to Panama, un fortunately he mode a public statement. He said he had had a wonderful time in Washington and enjoyed excellent relations with everyone except for one man. And Caracas 1. John Foster Dulles, thorough ly up to date on F.uropean pro blems, but with no chance in Ber lin In prepare fur Caracas. 2. John Cabot who has just been fired as assistant Secretary of State for Latin American af fairs. He will go to Caracas as our aimiassauor to Sweden in stead, niuie vaoot nas a lot oi ; n.,,,,,.,1 ii,n cnhi personal friends among the t.al- a.,.,,. tni. lhc .,.., .lenarlment inos, unfortunately he will have ! imn,irnrii riinni...rt ii mind ..i- i.i.-M.Ki- ... iiiivm-t-n. I nhmit ir nc Cabot as ass s ant sec- At the last minute, die State ! relarv of stale. The t inted Slates. Department has also summoned ; j was decided, could not be put from Alliens Tom Mann. U. S. I in the position of transferring a Minister-Cnuncclor to Greece, to; man because, in effect, a foreign he an emergency member of the' government demanded it. American Delegation to Caracas. So Cabot stayed on, until last Pan American diplomats can't month when it was quietly arrang hclp contrasting this with the lastied for him to become ambassador GOP delegation Cnlvin Coolidge, i to Sweden. Frank B. Kellogg and Charles j Actually Cabot has been an en F.vans lluahcs. They also contrast ' thusiastic booster of the gond ii to the trips Franklin Ronsp. : neighbor policy, though an ineifec velt and Cordell Hull look to Pan live onepartly because policy has American conferences, and it been directed from Penn Stale confirms their contention that, as college. 1'nfnrlunatcly, further far as the i niled States is con- "'ie. every Latin American diplo eemed. Latin America is a fur- '"at knows the Cabot-Hemon Mil gollcn stepchild. ton Kiscnhouer story, so his influ- The firing of John Cabot a as-; ,'n,r ' Caracas will be almost nil. silant Secretary of Slate illus- ! Th'' incident illustrates the lack trates one of the most unique de- "' cnton being given lo our good velopmenls in the conduct of our neighbors relations, despite the current Pan American affairs. ,IU'1 ,hat 1,llllos ""d Kisenhower, Cabot was actuallv fired bv the campaigning in 19.VJ. repeatedly President's brother." Milton F.ison-! remised an improvement in Pan turn uh i. ,., ih. ,,,, American relations. .ji1i,.,i;. ' .,!.... .. Note With French HEN. NOT T V LAYS BALDWIN'. Miss, lift Jim Richey, Jr., has a Bantam hen with critical aspirations. Richey said the hen enters his house at the same time each day, watches a TV program, then lays an egg on the living room sofa. He isn't saying which program the hen watches. I.ONGKST WAY ROl'NI) . . . NEW YORK (IP) Cah driver Joseph Gumhs found a direct route to La Guardia Airport yes terday. lie turned off a highway in early morning darkness and ram med into a four engine plane on a taxi ramp. Latin America Today, when Lat in American diplomats want ad vice they go up to Slate College, Pa., to talk to Milton Kisenhowcr. President of Penn Slate. They find this more satisfactory than going lo the State Department. There are two reasons why they go lo Penn State First, they know that Milton Kisenhowcr is an exteremely able gentleman who has his brother's ear. Second, they know that last October Mil ton tentatively fired John Cabot as assistant Secretary of Slate, and though Cabot continued, the diplomats figured that he was in s position to make major decis ions. This division of authority be tween Washington, I), C , and Stale College, Pa , obviously has In do-China now almost certain to go cmnmu nist, thereby jeopardizing the tin and rubber of southeast Asia, this is not a lime when e can afford to lose ground in tin and rubber producing Latin America. Road to Progress Albany Democrat Herald It's interesting what politics can do to a person's intelligence and sense of ethics. There's Mrs. Fdith lireen, fine, intelligent Portland woman, who has been a teacher for many ye.irs.iwhn lets herself be omitcd as saying: "Multnomah county's congres sional seat has been occupied by a Republican for many years, and during that lime we have failed to keep pace with the major com munities of Washington and Cat- not helped a harmonious good-j iIirm. neighbor policy. Here are the Thf$ just lhf 0fl -pt hoc. background events which led to ; copter hoc" fallacy again. No ": ! doubt Portland will boom and Last summer, when Milton was ' expand and blossom like the rose sent by the President on I good-! if onlv it elects a good Demo will trip to South America, as-j crat to succeed Homer Ancell in sistant secretary of State Cabot the lower house Mrs. l.rcen is sent with him. Cahot is a sincere,! running for the job. luaimmaiTnma But don't YlH' STALL ahoul getting adequate INSl RANCK on vour ear lo rover all driving hazards. STAI.I.INC about gelling Full Coverage A I TOMDIIM.K IV SI RANCK rnulri bring disas ter upon you. After Ihe acci dent happens it s TOO I.ATK. For AITO INSCR ASCI' thai gic you Fi l l. COVKR AliK at the lowest Tost ( all us today, hut beeaiise of the solid founda tion the marriage has, we have every hope the difficulties be tween Greta and Greg will soon be straightened out." it strucK me as a purely un selfish hope. Still, the clouds were gathering. The same month, Photoplay asked, "Trouble across the way?" There were hints of a foreign romance in Peck's life nd Phntonlav was facing un to them squarely. In May, Mortem hcreen askeil, 'Divorce Ahead for the Pecks?" But in August, Modern Screen was reassuring. "Peck's a good boy now," it said. Still, two tvinnlhe lfifni .Q.aofiln n'c Gaic miffi3nli uraon'r cat icf irl "Tliora is a new Gregory Peck, a world ly sopnisticaie, it saia, ana pnnnrtc urn that tiis and frpffl are finished with each other .for- 'ver." I auieklv flirmed through the ,.,,r., ,i..r ',, cn if .lilmnms had been resolved in some issue 1 had missed. it naun t ai- lli,liiiili V?rinnluml w;ie fort:. in about "Gene's affair with" Aly." it saia, lucres no aouot uene iernev's flipped over Aly Kahn, but will thev wed?" Well, would thev? I raced to the next issue of the magazine hoping to find the answer. In stead, I found another question "Whats happened to Jeff how long can Jeff Chandler keep a jmile on his face to cover up an inner void?" 1 was relieved to find that Movieland had answered one question "How the Van John son rumors start" and de plored the spreading of such rumors, in 3.000 words. "With questions tumbling over questions in my mind, I raced down to the nearest news stand for the very latest fan maga zines. The first thing I saw was a Hollywood columnist's "good news" in Modern Screen. Sub title: "Shelley vs. Vitorio . . . June Haver finds Fred McMur ray . . . Dale Robertsons split Well, Hollywood seemed to be balling .333 in good news, un less of course, June didn't hap pen to want to find Fred. In the next article,' Jane Powell said, "I loved and lost," and, in the next, Lex Barker, husband of Lana Turner, .T AiAn't marrv nn ancel, he didn't seem to be complain ing. In big red type, Silver Screen told me about "Arlcne's Hidden Desire." This title ran over a big picture of a not-so-hidden Arlene and was accompanied by the explanation, "to be known as a woman of soul and spirit would mean more to Arlene Dahl than all tho6e accolades for her beauty." But again, another infernal question: "Is Anne on a merry-go-round?" Sub-title: "Anne Baxter shows no sign of letting up on her daring plan to be come one of Hollywood's sexiest stars." This explanation, of course, raised many more questions than it answered but by then I had r.nt nf mnnev. I couldn't af ford anv more magazines. My method of doing something for the inhabitants of skid road, where it is located. A soup line in the skid road district is going to find patrons no matter how great the prosperity and how high the employment in the com munity. Sen. Morse would seem to have been grasping at straws in a search for evidence that the EiscnhowcMdministration, which he hates, is creating a depression. Monday, March 1. 1 054 Salem 36 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL March 1, 1918 Soviet commissaries arriving in Petrograd from larger Russian cities were demanding that a holy war be declared against the invading Germans. c,i,r, Commercial club had as sured Pacific Potato Starch com- pany that 1000 acres in mis or .r, lit it mum he sinned for po tato planting and members were preparing to stage a nous.- ... house canvas to obtain pledges for that acreage. Despite an eight hour day granted to loggers by govern ment edict I.W.W. had contin ued to agitate and were saying May 1 would be "blanketless" day in behalf of better sanitary conditions in logging camps. On that dav members were urged to saturate their blankets with kerosene, ignite them and hope that the demonstration would give loggers hotels to live in rather than itchy bunk houses. Stockton, corner ot Court and Commercial streets, advertised white silk petticoats, double pan el in front and back, for $2.8!). First carload of corn ever fo he shipped out. of Oregon had left the Farmer's warehouse in Salem, hilled to a firm in Minne sota. Yellow dent had been the variety shipped. Salem's Red Cross had urged women to assist in the bleaching of muslin. Oregon City's strike afflicted papermill had advertised in the Capital Journal: "$3.10 the low est wage for an eight hour day; board and lodging at Oregon City $6.50 a week. Apply at the office at West Linn across the bridge. 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