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Page 4 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem, Oregon Tuesday. March 2, 1954 Capital ikJournal ' ; An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 s .,- BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. rll Leue4 Hit. (erelce el (he Aiurllr4 Preee Hi Tk Itallet rreea. The Ataocltttd Preu ) eiclueleele entitled to Ihe ue for publication of II new. cHipitchw credited to II or ethe'ffUe credited la Into pipe ttd cue new. published therein. WESTERN STYLE GUN PLAY IN THE HOUSE We do not know if any moral tan be drawn from the sensational shootings by Puerto Riran nationalists in the U. 5.- House of Kepresetatives Monday except tnat a con gressman ought to sit under and not on his seat, and it may be doubted that this advice, which would have been so timely yesterday has any value now. , Specifically we do not think the incident calls for a blan ket condemnation of Puerto Ricans, or those Puerto Ricans who became a special problem to the U.S. by migrating to New York. . Even when it is considered that Puerto Ricans of similar ideas, maybe part of a single gang, attempted to assassinate President Truman. Ti;.?y did kill a police officer and paid the extreme penalty for murder. The shooting incident does highlight two facts. First, that when any country, whether the U.S. or otherwise, extends its rule over other peoples it takes on a new batch of headaches. We got into Puerto Rico through the war with Spain in 1898, a very brief struggle with small losses and small costs at the time. But what a wake of trouble and expense followed, including the war with Japan from 1941 to 1945, which probably wouldn't have been fought if we hadn't become a Far East power through taking the Philippines, Guam, etc. Nor is there an easy answer through granting independence, as we have to the Philip pines without reducing our expense or responsibilty, Puerto Rico has been a headache for years and will be for years more. Independence. is not the answer, for U.S. rulo has been beneficial. A lower birthrate down there would help more than anything else, and nothing is more unlikely to occur. Second, the high government official lives under con stant danger of assassination, a target for malcontents every day. Three presidents were assassinated and others would have been but for an alert secret service. Senators and congressmen are by no means immune as the shooting Monday grimly attested. Still, they probably dread occa sional gunfire less than the character assassination that has to be accepted as one of the inevitable risks of being a puonc man. HELL BOMB BLAST NEARS In a brief announcement Monday the Atomic Energy Commission issued the statement that an atomic device had been detonated at its proving ground in the Pacific. The text of the announcement read: "Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commis sion, announced Monday that Joint Task Force Seven has detonated an atomic device at the ALC s 1'acific proving ground in the Marshall Islands. This detonation was the first in a series of tests." Like previous atomic tests, the blast was screened from the world by a cordon of navy ships and an unmbrella of war planes. It was the first of the newest series of atomic explosives tests in the mid-Pacific. It is expected that before the tests are through, American scientists will touch off a hydrogen "device" bigger than the one that ripped a mile-wide hole in the ocean and destroyed an island on November 1, 1952. The "atomic device" was chosen because it could refer to the test "gadget," an atomic weapon, an atomic trigger for hydrogen weapons or a "hell bomb" itself but the latter is expected to come later. Nothing was said of the results, nor any other informa tion beyond the fact that it is the "first of a series." That is in accordance with the secrecy which has veiled pre vious tests. Possibly the biggest man-made blast of all time is in preparation. The AEC has widened its proving ground in the Mar shalls, and restricted the observers who would be on hand, barring any from even friendly powers. Nevertheless, a congressional delegation is preparing to leave for the Mar shall Island tests site next week in the hope of reaching the scene before the big hydrogen test is staged. It seems unlikely that the big hydrogen blast had yet been detonated. The AEC announcement referred to an "atomic device." Generally, the term "thermonuclear" is applied to a hydrogen reaction, G. I'. B.'LLY'S OFF TO A GOOD START Billy Graham could hardly have launched his soul saving campaign in Kngland under worse conditions. He was quoted throughout the country as attacking the powerful Socialist party before he landed. It is not quite clear yet whether this was really a typographical error as claimed. Englir-h SocialiMs are Ktill suspicious. Then 1tie Utrgext circulation English newspaper, the London Sunday Pictorial, greeted his arrival with this blast, calculated to put ven a Hilly Graham behind the proverbial eight ball : "You sbouid Ui.e your iarrioitn to Burtonwood 1 1; S air haw in KtRUurd; where tori of the lade need redemption almost as much as we to ' "At Burtormood you ran preach to some of the men who have helped U land ' Rntih coiorjuialum meaning "to saddle " Hntnin with many hvncre-di erf illegitimate babies; and to some of the audiences con cern in un re-eni tcanaai over shown given by mule Dancing girls; and to aom o( the high spirited (.1 car driven who can't get English policies any more. . . . "No lark of raw material there. Billv. For girnd measure vou can take in the cnitken wilted teen age British girls who hang aruund the place. "Take our advice. Billy. Go north, young man Co to Rurtonwood. Start your crusade among your own folk. l.oiidon can wait." Notwithstanding all this he was greeted by a tremen dous crowd when he reached the London station and his first sermon was attended by a congregation of 12,0(10, despite miserable weather. He is evidently off to a typ ical Graham success, despite high water and all that goes with it. Obstacles become stepping stones to Hilly. UNDRAMATIC END OF WARREN DRAMA The dramatic situation precipitated by the tactics used hy Senate Judiriary Chairman Langer of North Pa Jota to embarrass the administration and Chief Justice Earl Warren had a most undramatic ending in the Senate Monday. Warren was confirmed by a voice vote after a brief ex planation by administration leaders, without a single au dible "no." Even I.anger voted for confirmation in the full committee when Warren's name was formally sent to the senate for action, and no one opposed him when the showdown came. This is as it should have been, but he should not have been subjected to the humiliating experience of having a bunch of phony charges treated as if they might be au thentic. Nor did the Senate help itself or the prestige of representative government in permitting this situation to drag on for several weeks. When free institutions are engaged In a life and death struggle with totalitarianism anything that reflects upon the capacity of nations to govern themselves under a free system is much more damaging than it would normally be. The Senate is contriving to make itself look bad on a number of fronts. The conduct of investigating commit- tees like McCarthy's is giving it another black eye. The Senate) ought to take a look at its outmoded ways of doing things and streamline a bit. NEVER-NEVER LAND I f mmm wm X I EAST GERMAN 111 & J I WEST CfRMAwyl T07E&7$WJE ru ii r trr ii u i i t Beer - m. i THE TWAIN irZcdUJez-X $ S$ Wm MEET- M&2a&Z2&ttSS5S tsai ifel AUSTRIA ? USl INDO-CHINA? M i mmw i l i jl n - .Ti ------- i tv uiil i l cfi - - - - i j i vjte&zw'-- sa :z::zi' c-xrrr, rm,. iv?s, i uii iirMM i ae'mejjjjipiM i j.--"- i - uvrii rv i wuiuirz--.. tirtwew " 1 THE WORLD TODAY Dulles Goes Like Man Chasing a Fire WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Stevens Intended to Quit Before McCarthy Hazing By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Mrs. Robert Stevens, cliarminK wife of the much-beleaguered secretary of the army, was talking to a group of ladies at a social function just a few days before Senator McCarthy put him on the spot. "My husband," she said, "only agreed to stay i in Washington a short time. We can't stay in gov ernment too long." "What you republicans seem to believe in is government by inter lude," interposed Betty Beale, sprightly columnist for the Wash ington Star. "You seem to think that running the government is something you can learn in one' short year and then go off and forget. Jhe democrats on the oth er hand, make government a career. They know it's a tough Job, so they Hay at work at it." Now that Mrs. Stevens' sincere but politically naive husband has been subjected to the aiost dis agreeable McCarthy brain-wash so fur given an Eisenhower cabinet member, his disinclination to stay in Washington is not likely to change. It's almost certain that after a discreet lapse of time, he will quietly bow out. Increasing U.S. Isolation Meanwhile, his tangle with Mc Carthy spotlights two important problems of government which have become increasingly diffi cult during the Kiscnhower admin istration. Problem No. 1 Is that of getting rock! nun to serve in government. Because of low salaries this has always been difficult. Hut in view of McCarthy'! attacks, it's become even more diflicult. No impor tant business executive wants to give up a good job ihtevens sur rendered his stock in the largest textile lirm In the world i for the privilege of rnming to Washington to get clobbered over the head by McCarthy lor something he may know little about. Problem No. 1 is even more serious It's the growing division not only in the republican party but in the nation. The division is not dissimilar to that which occurred betore the disaster ol Pearl Harbor awaken ed the American people and knit them into one team. And as be fore Pearl Harbor, the division lakes two drills: Drill No. 1 is that toward isola tion. This is a revival n( the tra ditional trend inside the republi can party to erect high tanlf bar riers, drastically curtail the arm ed forces, and pull away from the rest of the world OPEN FORUM division and dissension among the American people. Senator McCarthy's investiga tions, whether intentional or un intentional, have focused on cer tain religiuus groups, thus increas ing this dissension. His support of a chief investigator who claim ed the Protestant clergy was rid dled with communism, unfortu nately set back the cooperation which had been growing between Catholics and Protestants. Cardinal Spellman's public state ment endorsing McCarthy has given the mistaken Impression that McCarthy is an instrument of the church, and unfortunately the public forgets that both Catholic clergy and lay Catholics are just as divided on McCarthy as non Catholics, with tha Jesuit maga zine "America" sometimes vig orously critical of him. But for gettng this fact, religious bitter ness reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan days and Senator Tom-Tom Ileflin of Alabama has begun to smoulder. Antlsemilism In Boston, the senate juvenile delinquency committee has just written a report showing how re ligious prejudice had dared so bi tcrly that a rabbi, Jacob I. Zubcr, was murdered by boys of another religious faith. The senate report was toned down somewhat, but committee investigators found that part of Boston's juvenile crime re sulted from youthful gangs of one religious faith waring on others. At Fort Monmouth, N J., re ligious intolerance was not helped hy McCarthy's focusing on Jew ish workers for the signal corps. Out of 19 people suspended, dur ing or after McCarthy's probe. 17 were Jews, yet not one of them was even remotely accused of espionage. One was suspended merely be cause he had read a book by Max Lerner. Max l.erner is not a communist, never has been a communist, is a liberal writer for the New York . Post. Yet this signal corps employe was suspend ed merely because he had read a hook by l.erner. Thirteen others at Fort Mon mouth were suspended and re employed, all being Jews; while 15 others had Iheir security clear ance removed, ol which i2 were Jews. All of this made it appear that McCarthy and the army were fol lowing an antisemitic line: for not one of the above was accused of espionage. In every case the cnarge was gum oy association and alter the probe was complct Democrats' Concern For Taxpayers Amuses To the Editor: It amuses me to read where the Democrats, now, after these many years, are asking that the income tax be reduced and the exemptions and credits for de pendents raised. It seems to me they have poor memories or they would recall that it .was the Democrats who put both the tax rate and the lowered exemptions into effect. Then they immediately created bureau after bureau, commis sion after commission, until they had more government employees on the payroll than had even been there before. They should realize that be fore the tax can be cut or the exemptions raised, the present administration will have to elim inate all the unnecessary bu reaus, commissions, etc., and get the government back on a bus iness basis. They are in poor po sition, now, to kick about some thing they fathered in the first place. J. ENRIOHT, Salem, Ore. Salem 60 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL March 2, 18!) I Total debt of the United Stales had been shown to be $1,007, 385,015. Passenger rales on steamer F.llwood operating between Sa lem and Portland had been re duced to 50c per person. Not to be outdone, steamer Altona, with a rate of $1.25, had reduced the price of meals to 25c. During the month of February 51 years ago, Salem had but one death aside from those who died in state institutions. First inmate In inhabit Sa lem's new city jail got five days from Recorder F.des for vagrancy. By JAMES MARLOW Washlnirton of! John Foster Dulles, 66 last Friday, works like a man trying to keep two steps ahead of a fire. In hn case, it s the Communist fire. He has been secretary of state just over a year. In that time he has traveled 83,361 miles in pur suit of peace and American se curity, the equivalent of more than three times around the globe. Hes been all over western Europe including Paris three times, London twice, Bonn twice and to North Africa, the Middle East, as far west as Korea, as far east as India, and to New York five times. His routine is: up by 7 a.m., home by 7 p.m. and to bed by midnight. His recreation is limit ed mostly to reading detective stories, watching birds, and swim ming when he can. He has a sharp sense ot public relations, reads four or five pa pers a day, has made national broadcasts several times, plus speeches before organizations. He's had more news conferences than any other Eisenhower cab inet member. He's had 24 of them at the State Department, and others outside Washington. At 8:15 a.m. he reacnes me office. At 9 he has a 15-mlnute conference with his undersecre tary, Walter Bedell Smith. At 15 he has a stall conierence with Smith and his assistant sec retaries. At 10. a couple of days a week, he goes to the White House for cabinet meeting or a meeting of the National Security Coun cil. During the day he must re ceive foreign diplomats or any one else of enough importance to need his ear. During his first year, the State Department underwent its big gest shakeup in 20 years. Besides being ultimately re sponsible for the handling of friends and foes everywhere, Dulles must deal with Congress, many times personal appearances to ask lor money lor his depart ment or to explain or defend his handling of foreign affairs. It hasn't been a completely blissful relationship. He's been criticized in the Capitol. He's had some struggles with Sen. McCar thy (R., Wis.) He takes work home with htm. Sometimes on Saturday after noons he works at the office Saturday mornings or on Sun day he has a stenographer come out to his house for dictation. He attends perhaps two diplo matic dinners a week, besides having friends In for private dinners. And State Department people and government officials sometimes visit him at home for uninterrupted conferences. This display of energy, accord ing to those around him, is not new. He gave an example of it 12 days ago after battling Rus sia's Foreign Minister Molotov at the Big Four conference in Ber lin. That conference broke up Feb. 18. At 8 o'clock that night Dulles flew out of Berlin, stopped at Bonn to talk with West Ger many's Chancellor Adenauer, took off again at 11:30 p.m., stopped at Bermuda the next day for a swim in 57-dcgree wa ter, and arrived in Washington that night. On that trip home, his aides say, he dictated to a secretary some of the report he made to the nation last Wednesday night. On .Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday last week he held sessions with congressional leaders to ex plain what had happened in Ber lin. Somewhere in those three days, with help, he completed his re port for Wednesday night. Yesterday he left lor Caracas tor the Inter-American confer ence and on April 26 is expected to go to Geneva for a conference with Britain, France, Russia and Communist China on Korea and Indochina. Resides the places mentioned earlier in this story, in 1953 he went to Rome, The Hague, Brussels. Luxembourg, Egypt, Israel, Jordan. Syria, Lebanon POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Shrove Tuesday Designed to Store Up Memories, Calories WASHINGTON. drink and be merry Tuesday. It's Shrove Tuesday, and Lent lasts a long time. . Shrove Tuesday, Its little noticed in most parts of these United States, though there is Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the golden brown potato dough nuts, or fastnachts, sugar the teeth and gladden the spirit in Reading, Pa. And, after all, aren't the rest of us a pretty long-faced lot to be passing up a celebration which heartier folk have been enjoying since the middle ages. Shrove Tuesday, the day be fore Ash Wednesday, has long been a time to store up warm memories to say nothing of calories for the Lenten days to come. In England, where it used to be called "PancaSte Tuesday" it was a day of general merry making the Kentucky Derby day, so to speak, of cock fighting among other pasttimes. Church bells summonded one ajid all not to worship but to wining and din ing, and there was fven a song about it: "But hark, I hear the pancake bell "And fritters make a gallant smell; "The cooks are baking, frying, boiling, "Stewing, mincing cutting, broiling, "Carving, gormandizing, roast ing, "Carbonadlng, cracking, slash ing, toasting." I don't know who made up that happy catalogue of cooking noises. but he could name his own salary as a writer of television commer cials today. Fronce still makes much of Shrove Tuesday, and in fact in vented the name "Madri Gras" or "Fat Tuesday" for the high jinks. Why "Fat Tuesday"? Because, unless the dictionary in front of me is wrong, it was and still is In some parts of Northern France the custom to parade a fat ox ceremoniously through the streets. It also was the custom to use up on Shrove Tuesday the fats I which couldn't be eaten during i Lent, and that may be why thev i called it "Fat Tuesday," but! you're not going to get me into I any argument with a dictionary. In the south of France. of! course, all sorts of revelry burst I on at this time of year which 1 does not distress the tourist indus-1 try in the least. In Nice, on the I Riviera, a huge king carnival is ! lotea through the flower-decked streets, and pretty dark-haired girls pelt you with poises. In Finland some oennle hellpv there'll be no flax next summer if a woman spins on Shrovp Tues day. In Belgium some say if you eat cabbage on Shrove Tuesday the caterpillars won't bother vour growing cabbage. Nobody, I suppose, has it ouite so good as the kids of Denmark, where for some dark Danish rea son Shrove Tuesday is observed on Monday. Anyhow, the kids arc let nut of school and go around 1 beating on their elders with brightly decorated "Lenten birches," all the time shouting I BY ED CREAGH Tor UAL BOYLl (VPI Eat.; "give buns! whereupon the -Were, massage their bruises and dole out "fastelavnsboller, or Shrovetide buns. These are said to be delicious and this is every blessed thing I know about shrnv Tuesday except that It still sounds like a good idea. Senate Seniority Albany Democrat-Herald One by-product of the disgrace ful conduct of Senator Langer in insulting Chief Justice Warren and holdine un action by the senate judiciary committee on his nom ination has been to raise the ques tion of how senators move up to important chairmanships. There has long been dissatisfac tion with the straight senority hasis. which has resulted in put ting obvious misfits, men unfit to be members of the senalo, at the head of key committees. Now it is proposed to modify the rules to give fitness some weignt in me matter. It isn't much easier to change senate rules and procedure than it used to be to alter the Jaws of the "Mcdes and Persians" before the days of Mossadegh. Change is overdue, however. It Is generally recognized, though, that the oriv ginal trouble lies in the election of men who aren't big enough for full senatorial responsibility. WASHINGTON RUMMAGE Springfield News Montana woman suggests the government hold a rummage sale to balance the budget. Says there are loads of old stuff in Wash ington that is not needed. eM ir o o o o o fire$loru CENTER and LIBERTY Phon. 2-2491 Herbert Hoover's administration ed such stanch Kiscnhower news- was badly split over isolation, i papers as the New York Herald Kentually the high larill isola tionists helped to wreck the econ omy. And the international iso lationists pulled Hoover far enough away from the liberal republicans led by Henry L. Stimsnn, so that they helped precipitation World War II. Drill No 2 is toward intoler ance anil dissension Tribune and the New York Times. to say nothing ol Hie secretary of the army, showed conclusively that the Kurt Monmouth probe was a tempest in a teast. Yet because of McCarthy's daily headlines and inflammatory state ments, much of the general pub lic still considers Fori Monmouth a nest tf spiles and unfairly Charles Clark, receiver for Oregon Pacific railroad, had ad vertised that the short route to California was via Y'aquina bay and the steamer Del Norte to San Francisco. Sander's Klectric company. Portland, had a Capital Journal Iraq, Saudi Arabia, India, Tur- aovcrusemeiu saying tnat the . key. (,reece. i.tnya, I'nnceion, Dr. Sander's electric belt would , N. .1 . for a speech, Japan, Boston relieve rheumatism, lumbago, j speech. St Louis twice for sciatica, kidney complaints and ; speeches, Denver for a confer lame back. I ence with President Eisenhower, Miss O. Rallnu, principal, had j Syracuse, N. '., speech, Cleve charge of Salem kindergarten at land speech. Bermuda for Big the corner of Court and Liberty Three foreign ministers confer streets. j enre. SYLVANIA 21-INCH TELEVISION At the Lowest Prices Ever FOR BETTER PICTURE GET A SYIV4NU TODAY CHERRY CITY ELECTRIC 339 Chcmekcta Ph. 26762 Not True in Bend Fifteen years ago. the American thinks that most of them nie Jew- people were plagued with such'ish. breeders of dissension as Gerald i Winrod, Kl iU Kuhn. William Dud-1 ley l'clley, and others who spread hale and poison among their fel-, lawmen. I Todnv, the Winrotls have come CONG HAITI. A HONS. SIC. Oregon Voter Sig t'nander. state terasurer, by a change in his inheritance tax out of their holes again and are nM succeeoed in substan- spreading the same kind of po,- i ' ""''7? .'" son The names are diflorent now If.0"" " "' h. P""K -Colonel Williams. Cerald I. K V "l "' """" ""l "Tori- Smith. The Liberty Holies. The ed. Minute Women. Some of them, such as the boycotting ladies of Texas who prevent any point of view from being discussed except their own, probably don't rcalire how they are being used. But the net result Is to increase 1 much. IT'S A THIN I INK F. W. S in Silxerton Appeal Tribune The diference between an opti mist and a cheerful liar isn't too S1IK S A Kl II.DK.R A Ibany Democrat 1 Icrald Martha A Shull. Portland leach- er, is one of ( educators sinuledl n(,n1 Bulletin out in the NF.A Journal for their : There has been a lot of criti-1 outstanding work in building up cism of high school athletic pro the National Education associa- grams in various parts of the i tion. Miss Sluill recruited 51 life I'nited States on the grounds 1 members for the organization, that there is too much emphasis Actually, only four persons in the on winning. I'nited States added more mem-1 Faults are said hy some author bers to the roll than the Portland ities to lie with parents, ovcram woman. Miss Shull. daughter of bitinus coaches or school admin Frank Shull. Multnomah county istrators who have lost sight of commissioner, is an educatulnnl the basic functions of the school builder, a former president of the system. Oregon Education association. After looking over the records Her leadership is not restricted to established this year by Bend the enrolling of new members. j high school teams, it's not hard to see the local school cannot be 'TWAS HIS OWN CAR blamed for any overemphasis. SAN FRANCISCO i Harry 11 I Every' once in a while a high Kampf, a two-truck driver, cast an school class comes along which expert s glance at the smashed has less than its share of athlet Cadillac and agreed with police: ' ically-inclined hovs. That seems "Yep. it s a bad one. all right " to he the case with Bend this 1 Then he took another look at year, according to long-time oh-1 the wreck he was supposed to tow servers ot the local sports scene ' ' At any rate, there's not anv talk ! 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