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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1954)
PST -SECTION I Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406 full Lurd Wire S.rrtra r Tht Aitnrlitpd Prrn and Th. Uiutad Vttm. Tha Asaociatnl Presa II exrlnhivly tnllllrd to Ihf us foi puhliratioo of all newt dlapatrhr. crtrlit.d to 11 or olharwiaa craditad lo thu papar and lae nawa publlahcd therein. A "NO" VOTE ON DAYLIGHT SAVING Your state ballot contains an initiative measure to estab lish daylight saving time throughout all of Oregon except Malheur County and a small area in Baker County which already have Mountain time, between 2 a.m. the last Sunday In April and 2 p.m. the last Sunday in September. Oregon has been arguing over daylight saving for a good many years. Most of the people in Portland are said to favor it, most of the people outside, including nearly all the farmers are said to oppose. This measure should decide the question as it should be, by majority rule. If a majority votes "yes" we'll have statewide daylight saving except for the areas re ferred to, which already have it. If the "no" votes prevail the agitation should cease, for a time at least. This writer may have a "peculiar" attitude on daylight sav ing. He enjoys an extra hour of daylight in summer as much as anyone. Western Idaho where he lived 15 years before cominc back to Oregon had year-round oayiignt saving through Mountain time, which was fine in summer, not so good in winter. But he dislikes daylight saving and intends to vote against it November 2. Why? It seems impossible to impose it upon everyone, hence it leads to endless confusion. If one makes an eastern trip he finds some cities have it, others don't, so it's always a question as to what the time will be in the next place one is to visit. Out here in the west some places have it, some don't. The trains and buses will stay on regular time. Some businesses will observe it and others won't. If you're going to attend something in another town you are in doubt which time will be used. Newspapers have a particularly disagreeable experi ence with daylight saving. Maybe a "yes" vote would make daylight saving general over Oregon, but we doubt it. Rather we think the rural com munities would generally ignore it, while the cities would observe it and we'd have two kinds of time, fast and slow. All through World War II a strip of country between Nampa, Idaho and Huntington, Oregon flouted national daylight sav ing and had a time all its own. It was an awful nuisance for those who lived at the edge of this belt, as the writer did. Any organization can have daylight saving by simply ad vancing its hours during the summer, as a good many do. This will work and does not seriously inconvenience the public. We don't believe the daylight saving initiative will be approved and if it is we don't think it will he universally observed, which will be a headache for everyone. So we recommend a "no" vote, but if you want daylight saving and are willing to take a chance on "confusion worse confounded" go ahead. We'll suffer through it somehow. BRITAIN'S PARALYZING DOCK STRIKE The British "wildcat" dock strike is giving British Commu nist appeasers a foretaste of what they will probably experi ence on a much large scale if they are successful in their efforts to admit Red China to the United Nations. The tie-up has paralyzed British major seaports, depriving the nation ot vital food and other supplies. There seems little question political move, just as the strikes in France and Italy are, a test of strength for a total tie - Though the British luborites ned the Reds, the radical fnclion ignores the action, as shown by the 18-dny dock stoppage, involving more than 43,000 men who are violating their union The walkout is loudly backed by the British Communists and stems from a demand by dockers for the right to reject overtime work, and picket all the docks, and few of the unions back them. 'The still-growing stoppage hold 2!)8 ships idle in London, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Hull, Southampton, Gars ton and Roch ester. Fewer than 33,000 of the nation's 76,000 cargo handlers were working. Export shipments, worth more than $224 million are piled up on the wharfs. Food reserves, especially of imported eggs, butter and bacon, are dwindling rapidly. Prime Minister Winston Churchill's government gives no sign ot any immediate intention to use troops for unloading essential supplies, as has been done in previous major dock tie-ups. A government board of inquiry, which began investigating the dispute yesterday, is expected to continue hcirings until Saturday.' The government likely will wait until the inquiry ends before ordering out troops. Britain evidently faces another era of "austerity" and rigid food controls. IVrhaps this will finally awaken the British to a realization of what communism means and convince even those so greedy for a bribe of Hed markets for manufacturers, that they are willing to take the chance by coddling the Com munists, of losing their liberties and becoming eventually citizens of a Red satellite O. P. THE DIXON-YATES POWER CONTRACT A big hue and cry is being made about a contract negoti ated by the Atomic Energy Commission for erection of a steam power plant in Arkansas to provide electrical energy for A. E C. installations in the south. Tublic power people are attacking it because it is with a private company, insisting that the government build the plant itself. A tax exempt power plant could produce the energy cheaper than one that pays taxes, it is contended, and rightly. But on this line of reasoning nothing in this coun try should be done by taxpayers. All should be done by tax exempt government enterprises. But the Eisenhower adminis tration wasn't elected on this line of thinking. However, we are seriously concerned about another criticism that appears to be legitimate. H is claimed that the contract allows the Dixon-Yates interests a nine percent return on their investment after taxes. This is unreasonable, unless there is some risk involved that he has not been mentioned in anything we've read. If this contract does call for such a return it should he can celled, as congress has a right to do after investigation. Much we favor private enterprise we prefer to have the govern ment build a tax exempt plant than to see it pay private en terprise an unreasonable profit. CHURCHILL SHAKES 'EM UP Kvidently Winston Churchill, now ncinog R0 and ailing more or less all the time, isn't planning an early retirement, as most everybody hoped. For he has just made a drastic shake up of his cabinet, changing 24 large and smaller portions, as if digging in for a prolonged stay at No. in Downing St! Most important change was Harold MacMillan. a hook publisher who is said to be a personal friend of President Eiseuhewer, rut in charge of national defense, replacing Vis cxt Alexander, who as one of Britain's most successful ebwrtanderi during the war, wio has.wished to retire. Some American observers suggest that old Winnie is greas ing tht skids for his retirement in favi of Anthony Eden, but this doesn't look like it to us. His ropo.itodly postpone.! re- tltrarad rewind us of wrevvaotp irctvt tin But that the strike is a communist up in case of war. in their annual convention ban contract. trfr !io is going to go on the not now. O IT'D BE GREAT ON TV isiw nil Ulmf lwfa MmHJ 1 k I TILL Y'SEE WHAT 1 OPEN FORUM Sodium Fluoride a Rat Poison, Writer Chimin To the Editor: This coming election the people of Salem are going to vote on fluoridation. I wonder how manv have taken the trouble to find out what effect sodium fluoride has on one's system? Fluoridation, sodium floride, an artifical product is a bi-produpt of aluminum. Sodium fluoride is a rat poison and is used to kill rats. You must have a prescription if you want to buy it in a drug store. Do you want to drink water that has fluoridation? I don't and I won't buy any canned goods that use water that has sodium fluoride in it, if I know it." Some towns have voted it in be cause people didn't know that sodium fluoride is a poison. Seattle and Albany, Oregon, voted it out as well as lots of other towns. Lots of medical doc tors and dentists are against its use. Water that has sodium fluoride in It increases in strength when it is boiled. This sodium floride they arc trying to put in our drinking water is an artifical product and not nature's natural flnrirl.it ion. Someone is doing a good inh of trying to find s market for a hi-product of aluminum. It is claimed that it only helps chil dren till they are nine or ten years old. It has been proven when Ihcv have tested fluoridation water on rats and monkeys that they have developed ki brittle bones. Do we want to penalize the old people with fluorides? What about the people that have had false teeth lor 20 years or more? Do you think they want poison in their system? I have lots of literature con demning this poison and I am surprised that the people of Salem hasn't risen up in arms against fluoridation. Vote 54 NO. against fluorirta. tinn. rJlVR,iI'.S m FOWLKR, 7.10 Smith Hiph, Fluorine Fnunil Fhi.i1 1' f,:i,;ii .nil-. 1 o Uuncliilla Kablnts To the Editor. i Hello, Test Animals . . . Thin, chillas? or You and Your Grand- i children?" h- W. ft Cox of Ores-1 ham, Oregon is a 1R0 pace hook fil-1 ini who local color ami IS rasv reading. M . Cox tells his exienences in the chinchilla business. Ihs little animals becan to die at the rate ' of one daily. He look dead animal after dead animal to Dr. S. V. Crynes of tin Physicans Medical l-ahoratory in Portland for auton- Mnst reports came hack mark "Nn apparent cause of death ' .lust the 5ime ll.e little chinchillas were dc.-nl. At last Or. P. I, Richardson. assistant profess.- of pathology at the University of Oregon Medical School took over the chinchilla case. An experiment was estab V hed at the school. R. K. Maters. toxicoloUa' chemis of Portland did the chemical analysis in the experiment. It was found the earlv animal death and the later steril ity of the females ua due to a toxic suhstance called fluorine These are the things Mr. Cnx learned fhhrne did to his lillle chinchillas. J. The fluorine was ac cumulative in the animals' vital organs. 2. No antxiote or treat ment was found alter they know what was killinc the fur animals. 3. The hair fell out. 4 The ani mals became sterile and could not reproduce any longer. 5. Fluorine prevented proper crowin. o. lut the animals life in half. They had lived to ace 8 or 9 years hut fluo. nne cut this time to 3 vears. 7 ' Babie were born with fluorine 0) THE CAPITAL JOTONAL, Salem, Ortenn WASHINGTON MERRY Pearson Notes Doug McKay Called Him Liar, Retorts By DREW WASHINGTON G e n e r o u s Doug McKay, the likable secre tary of the interior, let loose a blast at me the other day for describing him as generous in selling part of the Rogue River National Forest to a private mining company and for consid ering the releasing of the navy's and interior department's oil re serve in Alaska to private oil company exploitation. This is the first time I have been called a liar by a member of the Eisenhower cabinet an "honor" frequently bestowed up on me during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. The fact that the Eisenhower administra tion has been so mild-mannered has caused my wife to insinuate that perhaps the old man was slipping. Of course, generous Doug Mc Kay was a little more adroit with his language- than some of his Democratic predecessors. They fired blunderbuss broadsides of earthy words not to be found in the dictionary. Secretary McKay, on the ("her hand, reached into Websters and pulled out such choice, highfalntin terms as "ca lumnies of this columnist" and "sinister innuendo." Now the fact is all kidding a.-Mue mai i nave enjoyeo me respite from name-calling under am supposed to be. actually I ! ' , a "'r W- don't relish having his tvpe o j " !fnt,"e medal at li bouquet hurled in my direction. Z . 1" I T"m,va manc"v And though 1 am convinced that ! Sh h, ars.e'oan m ,h Secretary McKav has been far ton ' cd Sla,cs' Aerward. con generous wHh The"1 puMic" d" I 1 ST VS and will illustrale hi in. ..... i thcr and more conclusively later, i S i)Z S" con,idera I still don't relish being called ' "Ji "?r "'"T"'"?' Smnl! names by such , nice guy as Doug j n S 3 ..; . . Maragon, and gelling building ma- Thc Liar Scoreboard I Irnals for (he Tanforan r,0e. I Siinnnen hntimnr (hit tU;. i Irark at a lim. .,.!. .... is inevitable. For any newspaper-1 man worth his salt in Washine-i ton necessarily must step on peo-1 r .- una, hit uil.-t ui nim pen pi I A"" w"en np does, naturally they , mad ind hur, Dith... Clinton McKinnon. nuhlisher of the I.ns Anpele. N'ow. osl-oH m the other dav what the score wa i on the name-eallins business, and : here is part of the ynu're-a-liar" : tahil ation. Con cress man Bramblett nf Cali fornia hurled the liar charce and also sued for libel to tne tune of Sl.oon.OOO when this writer accused him of taking kickbacks. ' A jury convicted him criminally j just the same. Attorney General Fred N Ho srr ot California also tucd the , liir charce and sued for $3.10.000 j when this writer charged him ith takinc money from a Tone . Heach uamhler. A jurv found that I h.id told the truth. Sen. Kimer Thomas of Okla-j honia called me a liar when I reported th.it he had been specu- their vital or sans. In the same the mother's proportion bndv. The question is. "If these things be true of t,n r.tls. cuinm pins. ha.rn.Mcrs. rahhits. and chinchillas in the experiment, why isn't it true of human bensa who drink artificial fluoridate-l c)ty water'" Ttirre have hem many people liv ing and pasMnc awov'in the cities bavins cxnerineniAl fluoridation, i -":- ifrn mv nr more autopsies done to determine what happens to humans ririnkins artificial fluoridated water I'ntit t there is an answer tn these import- ant questions. Salem better play safe and keep the water pure and avoid more fvpermentation J. A. ROMROIGH N' P SALEM - GO - ROUND PEARSON lating on the cotton market from his privileged position of chair man of the senate agriculture committee. Two years later the agriculture department officially confirmed this, and Senator Thomas was defeated by the peo ple of Oklahoma. Senator McCarthy of Wiscon sin called me a liar and all sorts of other names from the safety of the Senate floor after I report ed that he received a $10,000 fee from I.ustron for a brief housing pamphlet. Since then, a senate committee passing on McCarthy's record has confirmed this up to the hilt. Congressman Parncll Thomas of New Jersey denied kickbacks and called me a liar, hut went to jail because of those kickbacks. John Maragon. the influence peddler, also called me a liar for exposing his operations, but end ed in jail as a result of that ex pose. Tanforan racetrack officials called me a liar and threatened a libel suit when their violation of housing regulations (in connvance with Maragon and Gen. Harry Vaughan) was exposed. They went lo jail. Harry Had a Name for It. President Truman gave a new twist to the liar charge alter I criticized his friend and military """. a , a oiiinic 1. 1 nil i hi i ike wore supposed to have preference r: ; : r V 'V- ; i t Centrally located in .. V "a- .a .... I. ..." - ?" :W ... n H:i H 1 if v- Hi V.. IVr 'f4 VI rf ? --r- - -t-" f 7i i - -.M ' t :. - H nd convenient accost to Salei modem ... to botttr tervt NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG Wilson Reminds Us Business Men Often Not Politicians By RAY WASHINGTON It did not re nuire Charles E. Wilson's doggish flight of speech to prove that the nation's biggest and most success ful businessmen do not make the smartest politicians. In a misery-lovea-company cho rus since the Defense Secretary's seminar on human and canine lazi ness, the majority of his Cabinet associates agree that they, too, are innocents abroad in a Wash ington wilderness of words. Long before the Wilson faux oas. if such it was. business and industrial executives have been questioned on their experiences as i national figures, and on their re-1 action to the transformation from . Mister to Mister Secretary. Most j of them admit frankly that they do not enjoy public life, and that they j accepted appointment only be-1 cause they considered it a civic duty. When they backed away from Cabinet assignments, Ike retorted: "You fellows have always com plained that the government was being run and ruined by the poli ticians! Now, it is up to you to take over, and to demonstrate that you can do a better job!" Sacrificed Salaries Almost every Cabinet member in fact, all but one took a steep cut in salary. They also abandoned czar istic control of small or large corporations for service in a gold fishbowl organization. They gave up many personal comforts and solaces which they enjoyed as highly-paid, private citizens. As one asked me in a bitter tone: "How many men and women, with a sufficient income and as sured security in private industry, would swap those blessings to be a Mayor or a City Commissioner, when low pay and brickbats are the order of the day? Anyhow, they came fn Washing ton for one reason or another. But they find that their experience. background and training handicap them severely in the pro bono pub lico business. Here are, in brief, their own explanations. Politically Inarticulate For one thing, they are accustomed to tuning their thoughts and utter ances to a passionate, partisan multitude. They are not politically articulate. They forget that their audience is a nation of 160.000,000 people instead of a sympathetic board of directors. Wilson's Gen eral Motors associates would have been wowed by his up-to-date Aesop's Fable. Labor was not! Ike's Cabinet members do not possess the rolling and ready tongue of (heir fioospvclt-Truman predecessors, who were drawn from the lists of politicians, pro fessors and lawyers. They were master-performers in p i t c h i n g Uicir appeals lo public , mobs, classrooms and juries. They doted on political sex insfoad of logics or economics. F.D.R. was their tutor. There arc only two lawyers, one politician and no professors in Ike's Cabinet. Tho two lawyers Secretary of State Jchn Foster Dulles and Attorney-General Herb ert Browncll are debarred by their judicial and diplomatic duties from public politicking. The politician, Browncll, is keeping his head down. "Summer Boarders" Rut there are even more weighty liabilities to the businessmen turned politi cians. They cannot hire and fire on the basis of efficiency, retain ing the busy bees and .shooing out the drones. Civil Service prevents that. Too many Federal employees at Washington regard themselves as "summer boarders." sure of their jobs and retirement pensions. Their bosses do not have such as surance. Defense Secretary Wilson, as head of General Motors, could huv materials from the lowest bidder it mtm downtown Sil.m, the W. T. n', cmeteri... Throughout tht y.n, .v.rv ,ff.7 i. I.l.m. PHONI 3J17J. " ' TUCKER not no! Even though it costs ST nV many millions of dollars, and produces a able product, he must, for politi cal reasons, award oiiii the basis of politics and votes. He must, when possible, give prefer ence to "distress areas,' where unemployment is high. .i a manv mhpr rea- son,", r including their awkwardness ! and inexperience in dealing with : newspaper reporters. Wilson and l. i r;..nhnulDr enmnatriots I ' ,,' ... ,., the old- : fashjone mHhnis are "a hell of i way to run a government. 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Obviously they are not" had been the reply of Patriotic League for Better Business made in its ap- pea. to voters ; in ehalf of the democratic platform, trmtHh annual hich school .nrin- .:r. nf.ronre had hen set fni- tnU weekend in Salem 22 years a,!0' Dollar state lines were advertis ing a round trip to Portland for $1.30. a Louis Lachmund, Salem business man recently returned from New York, had said that odds were 11 to S on Roosevelt with no Hoover money being offered - i rVvAM MORE TO Phone 4-2224 '., J V"""' 1 md ,0 k"P ample parking ipico ilrties 1W I IMItmina. I (TO
