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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.
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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.
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you've hed of him-fsr "Wuf iTk-
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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.
Those big men are policemen,
Ihe little fellows are strikers.
Pav nn attention to them."
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