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r 4 - 1 Par 4 Capital jLJournal An Independent Newipoper Established 1883 BERNARD MA IN WARING, Editor end Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday ot 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. rill LuuJ Wirt ItrflM ! Iht Amtltlit rrlM Tb Vilw piaM. Tht Amoim4 Priw U tittuilvtlr milled t mm um for publltillon f II otvi 4Upitctm oridltttf t II tr etbe'fflM rdltd to thW pint tad lt fitwi BubJUbttf tbariln. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Cirrltrt Uonlhlr. Sl.lli 1U Month I7.WI Obi Tr. lt. Br Kill Ortloo: Uontblr. IMi III Montlu,l4.Ml Out Ttr. 11.00. Br UM OoUMb Otliw Mbblhlr. Il.ll! li UMIIu, IlKi Onl Tir. 11(00. LEGISLATIVE REAPPORTIONMENT UPHELD The Oregon Supreme Court's decision upholding the 1952 reapportionment measure enacted by popular initia tive "makes sense" to the layman from every mgh and it Is to be praised further because it comes promptly so the changes can be effective this year. Apportionment of representation in a state legislature or in congress should be made every ten years following each census, but Oregon has been typical rather than exceptional in not doing this. There has been no general statewide apportionment in 40 years prior to this one, although there have been local changes in districting. Reason why reapportionment is not made when it should be is that certain areas stand to lose each time and their opposition is more potent than the demand of areas which stand to gain. One of Governor Dewey's major accomplish ments in New York state -was to get a reapportionment bill through the legislature when everyone else had failed. Here in Oregon the legislature repeatedly failed to act and finally reapportionment came through an initiative placed on the ballot and actively supported by several pub lic spirited citizens' groups. It was approved by the people two years ago. Legal attack came from an area which had not kept pace in population increase, hence stood to lose. Jit was based on the apparently specious plea that in some manner our constitutional form of government was threatened, hence the amendment was unconstitutional, and the tech- ical contention that two subjects were dealt with in the amendment, where only one is supposed to be. The court pointed out that a constitutional amendment cannot be unconstitutional unless contrary to the federal constitution and that the proviso against multiple subjects applies only to legislative acts, not to measures voted on by the people. It had no apparent bearing on the merits of the case. The court gave prompt consideration to this suit, which was imperative, because a considerable number of legis lative districts were affected. A number of candidates were awaiting the decision before making their own decisions as to whether to run. In some instances positions were transferred elsewhere by the reapportionment. The deci sion comes in plenty of time for everyone who wishes to run for the legislature to file, knowing the district boundaries. It is significant that the court's decision was unani mous, which suggests that there was no serious question as to the legality of the new setup. It is announced by the plaintiff in the suit that no appeal to the federal courts is contemplated. Hence reapportionment is the "law of the land " in Oregon. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon Wednesday, March 3, 1954 GROOMING FOR HIS DEBUT FORGETTING XJ, THE SCRIPT Ll n H4 m- AT GENEVA, K 'VV? :i I I Sf SAVNIET!'' WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Bulletproof Glass Could Have Prevented Shooting OPEN FORUM By DREW PEARSON REDS BATTLE 'BIKINI-ISM' London dispatches state that the Communist press, in cluding not only Kussian but the satellite newspapers are staging a propaganda protest against a new "capitalistic" menace termed "bikini-ism." This follows alarms against such "capitalistic" and "pernicious" influences for the demoralization of youth as "bubble-gumism," infantile cowboy and Indian garb, and other new western "imperial" contagions afflicting Red youth. The Communist press defines "bikini-ism" as the wearing of skimpy swim suits, "ape-like haircuts," strong drink and "boogie-woogie," and claim the "strong man myth" of America is at the root of "this zoot suit toot," which has reached its climax in this land of the free and home of the brave and like mumps, measles and other afflictions of childhood has spread like wild fire behind the dismal twilight of the Iron Curtain. Purges may be soon in order to purify youths as well as their elders. "Bikini-ism is spreading among us like a plague," com plained the Polish newspaper Workers Tribune. The craze, the paper said, has prompted a disgraceful exposure of working girls in skimpy swim suits. It adds: "Bikinl-lsm li foreign nd hostile idea smuggled into Poland by foreign agenti. Its mantfeitalions are an ape-like linir style, jean type trousen, loud ihlrli, brightly colored ties, the carrying ot a knife or revolver, uied to attack persons or shops, and finally dancing ine samoa ana noogie woogic. In Czechslovakia the Mliula Fronta, newspaper of the Red youths movement, says that the public pinks in Prague have become "dangerous places," and blames WASHINGTON The aoectacu- lar gun-spraying oi congress bv three Puerto mean fanatics would never have happened if economy minded congressmen had taken the advice of the professional security officers. Ever since July, 1947, when a disgruntled ex-Capitol coo took a couple of potshots at Ohio's GOl' hen. John Briekcr, professional security officers have urged the installation of bulletproof glass in front ot the senate and house galleries. They also recommend ed revamping the Capitol police force to eliminate many of the inexperienced old men and young college students who hold patron age jobs as guards. These proposals were pressed privately by plainclothes men Mike Dowd and Carl Champ, both Metropolitan police captains who arc detailed on Capitol Hill. Capi tol Police Chief William Brod erick,, a veteran law-enforcement officer, has also advocated the bulletproof glass. They appealed privately to the Capitol housekeeping committee that It is Impossible to "frisk" every visitor to the galleries for concealed weapons; that it would be a simple matter for a fanatic to toss an old shoebnx containing bomb onto the lloor of the sen ate or house. In the interest of economy, sen ators and congressmen rejected i party, me uuiieiprooi glass, Vt non lirofl erick came in as police chief, however, they gave lilm more lee way In selecting his own men for the tnpltol police force. It isn't generally known, but the secret service sends the Cap itol police a complete description puts it off, it may e too late. What President Elsenhower has to realize it that the republi can party lor years has been di vided between the isolationists and those who believe in world cooperation. He has to realize that Senator McCarthy and the little group which brain -washed his secretary of the army, represent the extreme isolationist wing of the party, some of them neo-fascist. And he has to realize that he has to -side with one group or the other and begin leading the nation before the extremists take away control altogether. Lessons of the Past Eisenhower, a lifelong military man, probably doesn't realize it, but the Dulles Knowland incident of a republican senator heckling a republican secretary of state has occurred often in the past. This newsman, aa a young re- reporter covering the state de partment, watched example after example. The accumulation of these lncidenti eventually paved the way to war. Hbre are some of them: Republican split No. 1. as far back as I can remember took place during the London Naval conference in 1930 when some of us newsmen wrote stories that Henry L. Stimson, then secretary of state and one of the most revered leaders of the republican proposed a consultative pact. This pact merely pledged the United States to consult in case war threatened. It pledged no use of troops or anything else; merely that we would talk things over. But after our news stories succumbed to lalse western romanticism and are im-lov'rnm"i security officers denied th bued with the 'strong man mvth' of America," snvs the ,llr'w special guard around Sec- would ent paiwr announcing the campaign for suppression. ' La.ryu,! ln,ter"f MtKi';- wn" is The isolat In suppm-t of their assertion, the foreign C'ummunist K" ml For.r. Pu'erlo "X tanstics that lie takes a special retary of State Stimson immedi hod guard wherever h g.es. alely saw this tor what it was changes hotels every day, and the beginning of a Japanese at registers under an assumed name. ; tempt to dominate all Asia 1 hrnlvP limvnn ral1swl nrott nnn. of every crackpot who writes a ! Terence in London at which he "bikini-ism" .ml other Western "isms" for the arrests of Cr anther SNrn .''iJr teen-agers jailed for robbery and assault charges. They Note Alter Monday's shooting,! in the While House at which he "succumbed to false western romanticism and are im- government security off Ice rsl denied that the United states nter a consultative pact. lonist wing ot the HOP d. press might have used the clincher that American prisons ,tic.n Gov. Lui, Muno, "Marin has U,ja,X e wr EE, .r2i are lull Of teen-agers anil blamed it on Ulkllli-lMil, winch been so careful of Puerto l'.ican I Muneimria s.,t m lour woiiin ue a goou auui lor parental negiei t. r. NEHRU A MORE OBVIOUS ENEMY NOW India's Prime Minister Nehru sharply condemns the United Slates for its decision to extend military aid to Pakistan, the Moslem state which comprises part of the larger India the Ilritish formerly ruled. Nehru's opposition had led to delay in an earlier an nouncement of intention to aid Pakistan, but after recon sideration the Eisenhower administration decided to go ahead anyway and effect a tie with the only nation in that part of the world which is willing to interpose an effective harrier agninst Communist expansion across South Asia. Nehru is angry for two reasons. His pride is touched and he is a very proud man. He loses "face" because tlie U. S. goes against him. Further. Pakistan, a rival to Nehru's Indian state, will be strengthened and perhaps emboldened to stiffen its attitude toward India in the Writer Tells Why the Red Cross Needs Blood Why doei your American Red Cross repeatedly ask you to do nate a pint of blood? Here is a direct quotation from a leading Salem obstetrician explaining one ot the many reasons: "As abort a time as 29 years ago, the maternal death rate was about six times what it was in 1953. There are many things that have brought -about this change; approximately one-third of the deaths at that time were due to hemorrhage in childbirth. "Within a lew minutes time, in both Salem hospitals, blood is available for replacement of blood loss, and in many cases, provides factor! in the mothers' blood that actually stops further bleeding. Without the quick availability of blood, the death rate in childbirth would again increase. It is, indeed, comfort ing to the doctors and nurses, as well as the mother, to know that blood is always ready for the mother of the new born baby." Please give your pint this Thursday at the Ferry St. armory from 12 until S p.m. PAT McLEAN, Salem. Ed. Note This Is another In Drew Pearson's series on the problems President Kisrnhower faces In connection with Senator McCarthy.) WASHINGTON When John roster Dulles, the sincere, inde- remember writing that he had contacted the Canadian, Mexican and Chilean governments to ask if they would cooperate with us in the Tacific in case of war; and I remember Stimson calling me up to his house that night to ask that I not write any more along laugaoie secretary ot state tr-sll-1 that line because it was making fied before the senate foreign I things difficult for him at the relations committee last week, he -White House and with the isola almost wept. His voire choked tionist wing of the republican "s h "irt: ! party. The story, he said, was "I secured an agreement In true, but embarrassing, writing that the Geneva confer-i Heading Off War ence would not constitute recognl-1 What Stimson wanted was to tion of China, but even so I can't , head off Japanese aggression be seem to please you centlemen. i fore it hlnssnmed tnin war The lit looks as if there's lust no uiv ! isnl.iiinnici nn ih ntho hA dispute over Kashmir, where a U. S. mission is now work- !' n conduct foreign relations didn't want to get even remotely lng on a truce project. i to your liking." involved. And later when otirri- We think the administration is wise to disregard Nehru, ! . . 1 TV"1 'retary of son instructed the U S. consul who is certainly no friend of the free world. He pretends Z" hcVkii, 7n ii, V , M ,nfv 1 , m " "1 j. i. ' j hi ... .. .. .. . . . net Ming ot the man who is observer during the I.eauue of Salem 21 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL March 3. 1933 More than 1500 persons were reported to have perished in a devastating Japanese earth-quake. Authority to restrict with drawals from banks by depositors had been received by the state banking board from the legislature. President Hoover had signed the bankruptcy bill intended to provide relief for individuals, farmers and railroads auffering from debt . A big street parade had been scheduled to herald Salem's big spring opening sponsored by the i or precipitate a pane. Ail club. Is It a Recession? By RAYMOND MOLEV If you are a worker who has lost hii job, this talk about whether we are in a depression or a re cession ii no matter of semantics or levity. You are in a depression. If you are a businessman whose orders are shrinking and who must borrow to meet current ob ligation! including taxes, you are in no mood for jokes. You are in depression. If you are a politician, your at titude and mood depend upon whether you are in office or out. If you are in, the matter can be no worse than a period of ad justment. If you are out, your mouth waters at the sight of bread line. That thought occur red to me when I witnessed Sen ator Wayne Morse discoursing on television recently. I haven't heard such pessimism since 1932. Nor have I heard such ill-concealed delight at the fate of hit beloved country after rejecting his advice in 1952. If I had unlimited apace and time to pursue the subject, it would be possible to discourse at length on the way of politicians with economic predictions. I could show that slight economic dips in even-numbered years are vastly greater sources of, news than in odd-numbered yean. The reason, of course, is-that we have nation al elections in even-numbered yean and politicians art talking more. I believe it also could be shown that expenditures for relief rise in even-numbered years, even when there is no rise in unem ployment. All this it a grim com mentary upon the ways of poli tic!. It should be more than a mere commentary, however. It should warn the wondering and perplexed citizen that he should get his eco nomic wisdom from nonpolltical sources. He should make his plans and set his economic sights ac cording to what he can see and hear in his own business and his own community. For in most years no generalized conclusion for the whole country can be made. Things are good here and bad there. The situation is almost al ways what economists call "spot ty. To illustrate the unreliability of politicians as economic seers, let us take the case of a real master in the trade, Harry S. Truman, once President of this republic. In June, 1949, he assured the country that there was no threat of depression. Unemployment waa then 3,200,000. considerably more than at present. But things got no better, and by December the AFL predicted a figure of 5,1000,000 un employed in 1950. As that year dawned, the figure crowded 4.000, 000. Despite this, Truman said in his economic report on January 7, that there was "renewed confi dence." He said there had been adjustment, but that "today we are on firmer ground than we were a year ago." He said that employment was "moving up ward." Those statements were, to use a gross understatement, un true. Unemployment was rising fast. It reached 4,684,000 by Feb ruary. Now let us take the words of the same Harry S. Truman before the A. D. A. in New York two weeks ago. He laid, among other thinis: "The recession that started on the farms last spring already, has spread to the city streets." But by any figure that is comparable with 1950, the figure now is con siderably below 3,000.000. The figure of 3,100,000 unem ployed which Morse and other cri tics are using is taken from a new form of calculation by the Depart ment of Commerce. It cannot be POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Flair for 'Hi-Fi' Becomes Craz;e-Wirli Hangovers BY ED CBEAGH for UAL BOYLZ WASHINGTON Wi Clamp on your earmuffs, people. The woof and tweet boys, sometimes known as the Hi-Fi hounds, are coming to town. You've met soma of them al ready, chances are. "Hi-Fi," of course, stands for high fidelity. It does not mean, in this case, the quality you esteem in a hus band or wife. It means the at tempt to make the noise that comes out oi a pnonograyu icv ord sound exactly like the noise that went into it. Now HI-FI, like the drinking of schnapps, can be a noooy, a ..ri.iim ruvMinatlon or way T'"""v. . r,r: .. j-inv. ot lile. Also, line Bann" """" lng, it's treacherous. You say to yourself, "I'll buy just one more gadget and then swear off and the next thing you know U.S. May Stand Alone at Geneva By PHIL NEWSOM (United Pr ToTtltn Antljitl The United states could very well find itself standing alone at the April 26 Geneva conference with Red China. Regardless of Korea, the war In Indo-China or United Slates at tempts to limit the conference to specific problems of the Far East, the paramount issue still is going to be recognition of Red China, in cluding membership in the United Nations. At the insistence of Secretary of State Dulles, a clause was writ ten into Red China's invitation to the Geneva conference, specifying that it could not be regarded as recognizing any Red Chinese de mand for a place at world council tables. Dulles' insistence on such a you. re up to ydur attic In loud- ,PAnd6boy what s financial hang- "Yo'u can look into this pastime, which is just short of becoming a national craze, all during next week-end if you're in town. The first "Hi-Fi Fair" ever held n these parts is setting up shop in a downtown hotel, and it ought to be quite an experience. If your asrrirumi can stand it. For there's one thing about these Hi-Fi hounds-they never can stand having a record-player, to use the old-fashlonea term tor It, turned down to a reasonable level. The sound volume has to approach a Democratic national convention in full voice or they're unhappy. I Back in the good old pre-Korean war days, when my wife and I lived in New York, we used to drop in now and then on our Greenwich Village neighbor John Randolph, who hadn't yet gone off to be a war correspondent for The Associated Press. We always had a fine time. John is one of the world's great waffle cookers and he unfailingly played records for us. Without reflecting on his hospitality in the slightest, however, there were two unusual asuects to a Randolph evening; 1. You seldom had any place to sit. His apartment was crammed from kitchenette to window sill with speakers, coils, piles of rec ords, stacks of Hi-Fi trade publi cations and in the middle of it all a waffle iron. I don't know if he had the waffle iron plugged into the Hi-Fi system or not, but I suspect he did. His waffles cer tainly were, as the Hi-Fi hounds say, in the groove. 2. You couldn't hear John or he couldn't hear you. All you could hear all the neighbors could hear, for that matter was Mo- ciause was an auempi, i. iart or Edith Piaf or whatever ing members of the U.S. Congress ' n,nrininh hH revolving that the Red Chinese would not i , vr '' , ,7" : n" gain diplomatic recognition through the "back door," ana also to assure Nationalist Chinese on Formosa and the South Koreans that they would not be sold out at Geneva. Dulles Firm one of his many turntables. Con versation was reduced to some va riation or oilier of that old gag: "Isn't that wonderful!" "What?" "I said, isn't that a wonderful record!" "Still can't hear you." "I said" you're shouting at the Dulles' strong stand at the four-! top of your lungs now "Isn't power conference in Berlin gave that a fine recording!" "Can't force to his position. j hear a thing you say this con- There he branded the Reds as founded record makes too much outlaws who killed or wounded noise'1 more than 130,000 Americans in Korea, and said that, while anyone could recognize Red China as an If I sound envious of the Hi-Fi hounds with Ihcir "woofers." which arc big speakers to catch evil force just as anyone could: the low notes, and their "tweet recognize that a burglar was in PrSt" little speakers to pick tip the house, it still did not follow the high notes, it's because I'd that they would be welcomed as 1 t0 pul together one of those favored guests. ancv milfjl5 t00. Trouble is I There have been no indications can't a((ord tnp 16.rnonl nouse since that Dulles has changed his wjln 50undprooled walls that ""n'!0 . .,. .. , ' really should go with a Hi-Fi sys But the battle lines for Geneva Cm J are becoming steadily clearer. ' , An editorial in the Moscow Com- j munist party newspaper Pravda I,, J... , I,,,!-, on Monday of this week said that JuOyCJ Vj, JUllCJ agreement by the Western powers! m... r. n to meet with Red China "means a ; Ttt. Crh'f"" ?'llv N'.w, u. . factual acknowledgment of the im-i J0. ,recc"' ca?" In .wh'ch i. . .I. rw. n Judges roundly scolded juries for pie'. Republic as one of the great ! " h,a' considered erroneous J..,, I verdicts have moved the Chicago Must Admit Bar association to scold the enmnareH with 1QSO nr 10V1 r " .luul ul ""f."Ui. l"e JOQO- .. ".k i. . Vu i China war zone. "Even the representatives of the il UM"V . 'eaM oy implication. aggressive American circles doT,D.ars """"W not have the strength to dispute1 f.ptC(l "..resolution disapproving this." Pravda said. I ,tllc Practice of judges publicly Creating even more difficulties i dcn"n8 . jurors who have for the American position was a : ac1u"!fd defendants in criminal etalomont ku VramM Cn...), C3SeS. O.U.I ...Lilt ij i I VIIUI UVLICtaiJ Ul , War Fierre de Chevigne while on with last month. If we stick to the older mode of calculation and take into account other factors, such as the increase We go along with the Bar asso ciation to the extent that judges should not make a practice of voicing displeasure every time they may disagree with a verdict. He looked for an "honorable end" to the Indo-China conflict and said that France could "help" Red ' Judges are no more infallible than rhino' "ontrv intn thn nnn,.rf r Hiries nrp cr oHhana,,9p.!r"and fesume econon,,c rei j-.?? s - . - matter is not a subject for levity, sensitive nerves. Britain . iv i I Mta , 3 A job is a job and us loss ,s no recognizes Red China, and. like elusion so dearly L liTZ,! i 'a 10 eM'and her !voke Prolest fm anybody trade with the Reds. , deeply concerned with justice. joke. But a measure of the eco nomic weather cannot be taken from those politicians who would either drug us with false optimism Silt' TllltllUS IT ilVAV inn Banking business in Salem had SAN KKANCISCO ojri Mrs continued on a normal basis Elena Santana, 35, explained in with all three banks open despite I divorce court yesterday why she to be neutral, an impossible position for h country located in the path of the Communist advance, but he isn't neu tral. He continually snipes at the United States and never under Any circumstances does anything Russia or Red China could take exception to. Nehru is what most Americans are only now coming to see, a tricky, deceptive oriental politician who is playing the enemy's game. If we can build up Pakistan into another Turkev we will accomplish infinitely more than we ever will trying to Placate an enemy who simplv can t be .,s ?' .ynator Mciarthy, but nlnmti'd widened and brought Into sharper supposed to lead Eisenhower's Nations' efforts to blo k Japan, policies in me senate William Knnwland ot California. The dem ocrats were sympathetic and ask ed helpful, encouraging questions. The republican majority lender heckled and objected. The incident Illustrates on phase of th growing split In th republican party a split not the isolationists even forced him to withdraw the obse.vcr. Had Henry L. Stimson. an en ergetic, liberal republican, been able to build up the peace mach inery of the world when the seeds of war first sprouted in 1030-31-32, there might well have been no second World War. r:ut he was blocked by the Isolationists. I. nils by him It also illustrates vrur hiv Tin- mihh , .. , , ,np l,r"hl'm Eisenhower himself a ) I Street Journal opposition wr me mo. : sooner m later will Ime u la.He v k. . .... ... . . nt'Nenu VI in - IVanl-lin A Kellmu't .-rnlilin hit f.-ilh.r Th. Ino v.. ...... ., .. : r.nuv lorce in i,v CP FOn 57Tf TERM the three-day banking holiday proclaimed by the governor. Marriage business in Marion county had remained inactive. Clerk Harlan Judd said nn li cense had been issued since February 21. Speaker-elect Henry T. Rainey of Illinois had prepared to use strong-arm methods to jam rresidentelect Roosevelt's pro gram throuch the house during the coming session. Rohemia restaurant. 3R2 State street, hud a blue plate turkey luncheon for 25c. Southern Taciflc had reduced fares to about one cent a mile between msinline stations from Portland to Eugene. Cross Market and Grocery, 2(S North Liberty street, had pork roast for 10c a pound, t'esh oysters for 15c a pint and Man ning's coffee for 3:ic a pound. ALL IRISH ON MAR. 17 j CHICAGO, uR Commission- j er John J. Duffy of the .Cook county board suggested that only county employes of Irish descent be given a holiday on St. Pat rick's I'ay. The hoard overruled him and threw S5.1KH) in cash off the Gold en Gate bridge. "My husband throws his mon ey away gambling," she said, "and I can throw mine away, too." REVERSE EFFECT SAN FRANCISCO 'UflMcn stopping autos to hand out sur vey cards as part of a program to speed up traffic succeeded in snarling miles of it yeterdav on Bayshnre freeway south of here Kellogg. 79, comes up for re-election todsy to hit 57th rnnvcutlvi as town clerk. He bai no ...nil In kink ..kn.l .. . uncle and grandfather-have held harder it will he At o,e,rr,i he .w. ,..Y 1 " k., ii . . , 'T'"'" he day off. th post almost continuously forss th prestige and populsrity I com when thev will have to pay "0n st- Tstricks' Day." th about 120 years. to tackii it successfully. If he I for them. I board said, "Everyone it Irish," Delivers this new 1954 "Royal" Porta ble or any other make on our exclu sive RENTAL PURCHASE PLAN CALL 3-8095 Fr. Immediate Delivery Kay Typewriter Co. 223 N. High HANKING . . . for SAtiEM Business Firms :heckinK Account Service, as offered by Salem's hnme-owned bank, oftm ,lusc advances to bmincss firms: " CONVINIINT BANKING HOURS All ,.ll Banking rooms on: li:on..Vnn X'lk.Up Teller Window Sen ice S:.i(. 10:00. :(KM ,n tekxr """" ..ft . attention by highly Mimd '"v.dud Htod Oltlm 1990 foirsrnd, ,Mi Unlytnlf, ironhl 13l0 j,0), JrM mJtl- r-. AP twin., IM,, vktlk tlliai 1'C.coo tr f.o.l.C. 1J ,1 . L i