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Pajfe 1-SECnONl Capitals-Journal An Independent Newspoper Established 1 888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. Ml UmI wm Urrtm ! tht anuuut rtai ui Tb Onltn ma, TM AmocUM mu U xduilTilj mlllM K tht ua for puMImuod of til mi 4uKh itmim it u u uuriM ci Mi ltd id w ntn tiM Mm yubUilittf thtrtla. SUBSCRIPTION RATES; r Otrrliri Mralhlf. I1JH au tJontiu, it Mi On, rttr, til oo. i Kan a Orwtai UoaUU, Wei au Moult li.Mi Out Titr. .M. Br UUI Oottiot Oruw: Uonlfclr. 11.11: au Heath IT.MI One Tier. IU.00. THEY'RE CUTTING JOE DOWN TO SIZE One of the best things about a democracy such as ours is that when anybody gets too big tor his britches somebody is pretty sure to let the wind out of his gas bag and a proper relationship is ultimately restored, usually with nothing worse than some temporary annoyance. This is happening now to Senator McCarthy, whom many foreigners and some of our own people who had forgotten how we correct our abuses, though sometimes not as soon as one would wish, only recently thought was becoming bigger than the president of the United States. McCarthy began to shrink when he went on television where millions of people could see and hear his snarls, could see how he browbeats witnesses, makes charges he doesn't even try to prove, dodges issues, etc. Anyone could see this when he was an actual spectator, which scarcely any of us had been before. McCarthy, quoted some time ago as saying "this thing isn't doing me any good," then proceeded to make matters worse, as a losing contestant often will. He made an amazing pro posal that federal employes flout the order of the president and supply him with any secret information in their posses sion, thus placing himself (in his own self esteem) above the president, . This was too much and a storm of criticism arose, in which Republican senators, previously tongue-tied on the subject of McCarthy, began to join with vigor. The spell was over. Joe ' no longer had a charmed life. Anybody could jump on him now and did. Still to be heard Is McCarthy on the witness stand, under oath, and we hope to be cross examined as relentlessly as he cross examined Stevens. But the hearing, which so many are condemning, has already accomplished an extremely impor tant end, that of cutting an obstreperous senator down to size. ' . THE OPPENHEIMER FINDINGS A special three-man security board set up by the Atomic Energy Commission has reported after six weeks of secret hearings and deliberation that Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, famed atomic scientist, is a "loyal citizen" but too much of e security risk to get back the "cleared-for-secrets" status he lost December 23. The special board ruled 2-1 that the noted physicist and atomic pioneer, 60 year old "Oppy" who had charge of the creation of the atomic bomb had contributed to delaying a "concerted start" on hydrogen bomb development and had associated with Communists for years as a "fellow traveler" and showed "poor judgment in continuing some of the past associations into the present." The findings are in the form of recommendations to the AEC, which will make the final decision. ; .Gordon Grays former secretary of the Army and now presi dent of the University of North A. Morgan, former president mend that Oppenheimer's security clearance not be reinstated. The third member of the special board, chemistry profes sor Ward V. Evans of Loyola University of Chicago, filed a dissenting opinion in which he said Oppenheimer had been cleared of the same charges in 1947. He added: "Our failure to clear Dr. Oppenheimer will be a black mark on the es cutcheon of our country. He did not hinder development of the H-bomb and there is absolutely nothing in the testimony to show that he, did." , Oppenheimer's attorneys have asked that the customary review by the commission's personnel security review board be waived and the commission itself take the case "under immediate consideration" and asked permission to file a written brief before the commission itself which must make final decision. The two members rff the special security board gave four "controlling" considerations out of 24 cited: 1. A "serious disregard" by Oppenheimer for security require ments. 2. "Susceptibility to influence" which could hurt national security. 8. "Disturbing" conduct toward the H-bomb program. . 4. Lack of candor by Oppenheimer at times during the board's hearing, such as in discussing the extent of his opposition to the H-bomb program.' Atomic scientists of Chicago call the special board's action "morally and ethically indefensible" because "to our knowl edge Oppenheimer's contribution to the military Strength of the United States has been exceeded by no other man." They called it "unfortunate, disturbing, frightening." And many other scientists echo their indignation, but many congressmen approve the findings. G. P. HOPES FOR E.D.G. RATIFICATION RISE Perhaps the most frustrating political incident in Europe In recent years has been the failure of the French parlia ment even to get around to voting on the European Defense Community, the plan for a joint West European army, which France itself originally proposed. Sensing that they were needed because they were in a position to block the whole program the French proposed stiff terms for ratification, quite possibly in the hope that they would not be met. One was for the U. S. and Britain to keep military forces on the continent indefinitely. Both have agreed to do so. In fact the whole package is an assured fact except an agreement with Germany on the Saar, and this isn't the fault of Germany. Chancellor Adenauer stands ready, and has for some time, to meet Germany's ancient enemy more than half way. And a settlement appears near despite French stubborn ness. Still no vote. One excuse after another for not calling out;. The most recent was the Geneva conference, which must not be disrupted, as if it could be disrupted much more than it already has. Just as the free world was about ready to write France off an encouraging note was sounded. The French Socialist party, one of the most powerful in the country, has voted at a party conference to bind its 105 deputies in the national assembly to vote for E.D.C. The vote in the conference was overhelming, 1969 to 1215 for ratifying the E.D.C, 2414 to 972 for binding the deputies to vote for it. Significance of this is about more than half of these depu ties had indicated an intent to vote the other way. Probably not all will obey the party mandate, but most of them will. It is a cheering note from country that provides precious little to cheer about. The issue should be pressed to an early vote while the iron is hot, and so the U.S. can proceed with an alternate plan to arm West Germany without French cooperation if France makes this necessary. We must have some military strength in Western Europe besides our own if we are to guard it. Carolina, voted with Thomas of the Sperry Corp., to recom WASHINGTON MERRY Senator Asks Investigation Of State Dept. Commy Issue By DREW WASHINGTON Sen. Tom Hen- nings of Missouri is proposing an investigation of the manner in which Val Lorain of the state de partment was indicted as a com munist only to have the justice de partment drop the indictment and fire the attorney who brought it. Lorwin was the only man on Mc Caithy's list of 81 state depart ment communists ever indicted. Since Hnnnings, a member of the important judiciary commit tee, is also the senator chiefly re sponsible for killing the Bricker amendment, he will probably get the investigation. For some other members of the judiciary commit tee, including its chairman, Sena tor Lancer of North Dakota, also believe that McCarthyist hysteria has gone too far and it's time to probe various unfair un-American infringements perpetrated under the cloak of preventing commu nism. Of the' many such, the two most glaring, currently, are: 1. The Lorwin case, where a justice department attorney, Wil liam Gallagher, informed a grand jury mat two FBI men would tes tify against Lorwin, when no FBI men had any evidence. But be causo of this phony information, a man had to live for months under the sligma of an indictment. 2. The federal communications, commission's move to yank the line, l'a., television station of Ted Lamb, former attorney for the CIO and heavy democratic backer, on the unsupported ground that Lamb was once a member of the Communist party. INDICT AND RUN The Lamb case and the Lorwin case have certain parallels. In each instance the government moved on political grounds and with practically no evidence. Then it went out to try to find the evi dence. Lorwin was indicted by Brown ell last December, shortly after Brownell tried to pin the treason charge on Harry Truman in the Harry Dexter White case. It was a period when the administration seemed to be following a policy of out - McCarthying McCarthy. Prior to that time, not one of Mc Carthy's long and varying lists of state department communists had panned out. So Val Lorwin, for merly with me state department, now with the University of Chi cago, was indicted. Jn the case of Ted Lamb, FCC Commissioner John Doerflcr of Wisconsin, McCarthy's best boost er on the FCC, was Brazen enough to tell him: "Too bad you're not a republican." Possibly what he referred to wns the fact that Lamb had con tributed $5,000 to the Adlai Steven son campaign and was publicized by the Chicago Daily News as the top Democratic contributor in the nation. Now a millionaire and a very successful attorney, Lamb helped to organize the United Auto Workers many years ago. Then, seeing the Importance of radio-TV, he was one of the first to get into that field. His TV station in Eric is one of the oldest and most prof itable in the country, has won countless awards for public serv ice. LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE When the Communist charge was brought against Lamb, the con servative Toledo Blade, though competing against him for a TV station, commented: "This newspaper, which undoubt edly is as well informed about what goes on in this community as anybody else, has never come across any evidence to support THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon SKY'S THE LIMIT - GO - ROUND PEARSON the accusation ... We will grant that one had to get up early in the morning to get the better of him (Lamb) in anything. But a Communist? Bunk!" Nevertheless, McCarthy's friend, Commissioner Doerfler, and FCC colleagues took the unusual step of holding up Lamb s TV-radio license on the ground that he was a Communist. And having taken this drastic action, they then went out to get the evidence. So far they ve had great difficulty Obviously they are using the same tactics as in the Lorwin case. Among other things they sent two investigators to Ohio with instructions to dig up anything on Lamb s political activities, any possible marital Or income-tax troubles. They also interviewed a former Communist, Emmett Lee Wheator Jr., of Lucas county. Ohio, together with a Negro named Bill Cummings. It soon developed that it was Cummings who had originated the information that Lamb was a Communist. "He stated," said ex-Communist Wheaton in his affidavit. "That while he, Bill Cummings was an undercover agent for the FBI he had sent in reports to Mr. Mc- Grath (Howard McGrath, then attorney general) and in these reports they stated Mr. Lamb was a member of the Communist party." $1,000 FOR EVIDENCE However, Wheaton, himself an ex-Communist, told the FCC probers that he had no informa tion that Lamb had any Com munist connections or had sup ported the Communist party. Various efforts were made to "jog" his memory, without suc cess. Driving home afterward with Bill Cummings, the follow ing highly significant conversa tion took place during which Wheaton was offered $1,000 to refresh his memory. "On the way across the high level bridge," Wheaton swore in his affidavit, "Cummings said to me, 'If you will let your mem ory remember Lamb's being at the Lincoln House on the plat form and pledging to give money to the cause of the Communist party, it will be worth one thou sand dollars to you and all your expenses paid if this goes to a 'hearing.' "I told Bill how I was utterly convinced that this whole thing was political and that I would certainly like to know whom he was working for. "There was other small talk," continued Wheaton. "and Bill was telling me about himself and the praise he had gotten from the Scripps-Howard papers, how they had built him up as a mar tyr to the cause of fighting Com munism ... He told, me to be sure and let him know if I would change my mind and go along with him and that ho would certainly sec that I got the mon ey." It is on rich tenuous evidence that men are being indicted to day and valuable television prop erties are being suspended. And it is this sort of unfairness re sulting from McCarthyism that Senator Hennings wants to in vestigate. TOIGII CHOICE TO MAKE Shrrman County Journal In good times many individuals and nearly all governments spend money that is paid off in bad times. That mnv he. whi mirA. good times and bad times. The stuuunn is noi io spend it or not to pay it. one possible, the other not. Inviting Anarchy San Francisco Chronicle Senator McCarthy said yester day that Government employees are "in duty bound to give me in formation even though some bur eaucrat may have stamped it se cret." Here is an invitation to anar chy. McCarthy is saying that any Government employee in the Army, the Navy, the Atomic En ergy Commission, the National Se curity Council, the State Depart ment or any other branch has a duty to disregard his own super ior's orders and give McCarthy any information he wants. There are, of course, stern laws governing such matters laws which make a crime of the un authorized disclosure of many kinds of information. The laws are clear as to who must do the auth orizing. They nowhere mention Senator McCarthy. Only one conclusion is possible the one President Eisenhower drew when he said that McCarthy has tried to'set himself above the laws of our land." We are glad that the President saw it that way and said so. There can be only one President of the United States, and a duty of that President is to combat subversion wherever it appears. The preserva tion of the rule of law is this free land demands that he combat it to the limits of his strength the subversion manifest in this doc trine arrogantly and defiantly ad vanced by Senator McCarthy. Graduation Time McMinnville News-Register There are few more gratify ing experiences in the annual cycle of community life than graduation time, a period in which the whole country now pleasantly discovers itself. Of all the milestones in life, commence ment exercises arc the most clearly marked. They chalk off explicit por tions of the past, and promise similarly well-ordered segments for the immediate future. For j those among the record crop of ! high school graduates planning j to go on to college next fall this is indisputably true. Graduates i of colleges and universities will find it lcs3 so as ten years wear ! on. ; It need not bo that way. The discipline that education ' im poses on the mind and organiza tion of individual life should be harnessed for the full scope of existence. Learning is a process of growth that must not be 1 turned on and off as a faucet ; attached to the fountain of knowledge. Education is a continuing stream, without, end or horizon. . Only those swimmers who yield the gift of life itself are too old to learn. OLDEST GRADUATE CHICAGO ifl - Allen Smith, who was nearly 70 years old when he started going to school 15 years ago, will get his high school diploma June 9. Smith hsr attended night class es regularly at the Wendell Phil lips Evening School and received his eighth-grade diploma in 1947. NOW THEY'LL BE ATOMIC Sherman County Journal It used to be common to refer to a certain kind of individual as dynamic, as in dynamite. This generation will surely change that to atomic. As in torn? GUERRILLAS' CONTROL LARGE AREAS TAIPEI!, Formoas (Jl The in terior ministry's Tatao News Agency reported Wednesday that about 10.000 Nationalist guerrillas control large areas in the hinter land Chinese provinces o'. Sinkiang and Szechwan. Salem 31 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL June 2, 1923 A new machine had been placed in the production line of Salem's Ore gon Pulp & Paper plant that would step up output by a third and per mit the manufacture of specialty paper lines. Marion county had a paving pro gram calling for completion of 25 miles of market roads at a cost of $15,000 a mile. A beautiful silver trophy cup had been received by Willamette Uni versity from Honeyman Hardware Co., Portland, as a prize for win ning the non-conference track meet in Salem. , ' Kimball School for Theology had commencement exercises set for June 4, when H. O. Cooper, A. Clark, S. Forsyth, D. Howell and A. Bates were to receive diplomas. Independence had experienced record hreakioe ..bun on the hst day of May. Town thermometers had registered 93 degrees. Hippodrome vaudeville at Bligh theater had billed Pearl's "Rou manian Gypsies" with a cast of five people who featured whirl wind Russian dancing. IF YOU MUST GROWL Sherman County Journal ... If one must growl he should learn to do it humorously. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER College Graduate of 1954 Faces Tremendous Future By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (P) An open, letter to Mr. Joseph College, class of 1954, U.S.A.: Dear Joe, Leaving the ivory tower this year, you come into a world that has lost the ivy of the past A vast and visible vista lies before you that holds a greater peace or a deeper agony than mankind has ever faced before. Before your present crew cut wears into baldness the issue will be settled. This crumbling dream you see now will firm into an achieved vision, or fragment into a nightmare chaos and, so it goes, the credit or blame will largely cone to you. From whatever security you have known you come to breath less problems. It is your task to pick up the terrible broken mir ror of "now" and try to make it reflect a better world. It's a great challenge . . . it's your opportunity . . . And I'm glad it is yours. My generation took up the mirror in its turn, and, I regret to say for all its efforts, must still hand it to you cracked and considerably fogged. Time , .-. time . . . time . . . that impartial leveler . . . reach es to reduce or cxMt you with ancient troubles r fore the ink is dry on your shcoskin, before your mother crying for all the difficulty it caused the family to get you educated can wet it with exultant tears, secret or pub lic. Now you are a man, with a certificate that says so, in a time that's about as fortunate, or unfortunate, as any. At least it's a great thing to get a college de gree in a time when there still are many jobs waiting. If some industry doesn't want you well, Uncle Samuel docs. You may think that a forgotten course in the history of early Roman band instruments or a nodding acquaintance with Cae sar's Gallic campaigns was a waste of classroom time. Perhaps so, perhaps not. The discipline of learning, however carelessly and lighthcartedly tak en, however "seriously accepted, docs measure a reward in later life. At the very worst, the col- NEWS! FOR BIFOCAL USERS "KING SIZE" BIFOCALS Give You KIN6-SI2E BIFOCAL SEGMENT STANDAPD SIZE BIFOCAL SEGMENT 0IST&HCE VISION I FIELD I NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG Ike Told U. S. Economy Will Be Principal Issue of '54 By RAY WASHINGTON President Eisenhower's political advisers still believe and tell him that the major issue in next fall's Congres sional elections, and possibly in 1956, will be the economic health of the nation, rather than commu nism. In other words it will be prosperity and the full dinner pail, 1954 model. As a result, almost every ex ecutive agency Treasury, Feder al Reserve, Agriculture and La borhave begun a concentrated compangn to convince the voters that their everyday living condi- HE'S HAD IT ALL ArtfiAFtiLTa, "aWST T 1 about unification of the services In 1945 Robert E. Gibson joined the Army, became an infantry lieutenant and served in Europe with the 1st and 88th divisions. In 1950 he joined the Navy, en tering, the Naval Academy as a midshipman. This Friday, Gibson, 26, of Long Beach, Calif., graduates and will be commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the Marine Corps. lege graduates who were in the last world war never had to fight a hill in Europe that wasn't there when Caesar lived. Whatever you learned, however you learned it, you will sometime find a use for. With the exception of a very few number of colleges, which traditioned-minded elders feel they must stamp the minds of their offspring with, the average American university offers no more than a pleasant doorway to knowledge. Then you bust your foot through and around the door the rest of your life. That s liv ing! It is highly unlikely, if you move boldly in a growing world, that 25 years from now you vill have more than one or two close friends from the yearning days you are now leaving. It is highly unlikely that you will ever have have in your life more than two close friends. Friends don't grow on clothes trees; nor are they born in easy times. You are coming, full of the juice of youth, into the great cider press of time and age. It will squeeze you, as it has mil lions of men before you, Whether you come out of col lege with 10 million family dol lars behind you, or just a boy owning fines to the college li brary, you'll be squeezed and hurt arguing with a wife in Palm Beach, selling chemicals in Dubuque, peddling bonds in Wall Street, trying to' cure somebody in Phoenix, or hoping to hold a hill in, well any country they blow the bugle and set up a flag you live ty. Looking back across 25 years, Joe, I feel you've got one big advantage. There is a place in the world for you, and, whatever you have learned, the rest of the world desperately needs it. This crumbling dream ... is yours to put a foundation under. Yesterday you were the hone of tomorrow. Now you are the pur pose oi today. Make a better world, Joe, it's worth the groan it takes. And one of those who would like to live in and enjoy it is, Your Friend, Hal Bovle P.S. Good Luck! 52.5 dealer Reading Area wort vnv fTa and dn ,nts of rf,adin8 and close Hnic- y-i, e ,Prnbbl; "ton felt that the reading "win tl!'',1!1; llmlted ln ra"Ke- requiring too much SuguTng exacting focus sometimes J,'-?nT ah,e an"vcr t0 this reading fatigue. Our X ok-JI8"; ' O'J0"' has reading segment that actu Ini fi4?ryou VP.vt0 S?5"" more fading eid, without any sacrifice of the distance vision area. i m.?imef 'niand-sce fer yourself how this latest advance ln multi-focal vision can help you. CONVENIENT CREDIT 422 Court St. Wednesday, June 2, 1954 TUCKER tions have improved under Re. publican rule. . .. REMINISCENT CAMPAIGN UTTERANCES Ironically, their oratorical and statistical efforts are strangely reminiscent of Harry S. Truman's campaign cry in 1948, when It was expected that he would be de feated by Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Truman used- to ask his . audi ences: "Do you want to go back tc 1933?" selecting the blackest year on the economic chart and in the memories of the voters. Ike's stump speakers have a, ready begun to ask: "Do you want In en hark. .tp 1939?"., which vr the sixth year of the New Deal's dispensation of social and econo mic reforms. BELIEVE INFLATION . t CHECKED Administration strategists select this year for economic and poli tical reasons. In view of current and prospective price movements, tlicy believe that the dollar has become fairly well stabilized at a purchasing power of about 55 cents. They think that they have checked serious inflation or re cession, barring a global war. Even -assuming that the 1939 dollar was worth 100 cents in the market place, Ike's campaigners argue that the American consum er and producer are better off than they were 15 years ago. They cannot and do not appro priate all the credit for this im-" provement. As politicians, they operate on the theory that people quickly forget the past, and vote on the basis of their profit-and-loss status on Election Day. "NEW ECONOMIC LOOK" Since the farm states appear to be the most sensitive ballot-box area, the Party statisticians have painted this "new economic look" for their benefit. But the compa rative figures, in their opinion, will also apply to urban people in their duat role of workers and consumers. Here arc a few sample figures on the prices that major farm products brought in 1939 and 1943: Chicken fryers a pound, 18 49 cents; beef roast a pound, 19 39 cents; 10 pounds of potatoes, 19-33 cents; 50 pounds of flour, 99 cents $2.98; a bushel of corn, 37 cents-$1.37; a hundredweight of hogs, $6.40-$27.75; a hundred weight of cattle, $10.60-$24. WAGES AND PRICES The men from Republican head quarters will also flood industrial areas with similar literature and orations, applicable to the 1939 1954 prices of their products shoes, clothing, processed foods, homes, automobiles, furniture, services, etc. Poinng out that there is a common interest and close rela tionship between the producer's wages and the purchaser's prices, the GOP will ask if the voters want to go back to Roosevelt wages and prices. They will insist that the voters, as farmers, factory workers, tradesmen and consumers, are fundamentally more prosperous than at any time since 1933. PRICES EXPECTED TO REMAIN FIRM The argument is predicated, of course, on the Eisenhower-Hum-phrey-Bcnson belief that current prices will remain firm or even drop from 3 to 5 per cent. In re cent remarks, Ihey seem extra ordinarily confident that there will be no sharp change in gener al economic conditions in the im mediate future. The administration may not be able to sell this idea. But their present strategy is based on the theory, to quote Truman once more, that "The American people never had it so good!" OPTOMETRIST Phone 3-3091 t
