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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1955)
4-(See. 1) Capital Journal, Salfm, Ore.. Moil., Teh. 21, 1955 Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Let the Indians Name It Mayor Lew Yantis of Milton-Freewater in Umatilla county, wbicri name is a merger of the two rival towns comprising It is seeking a new n.-rne for the town and asking the public to submit suggestions fo.- such a change "a name that has principle and character." McArthur's "Oregon Orographic Names" says that Milton was originally called Frccport, but changed to Milton about 1873, but a pioneer resident is quoted as saying the name Milton was selected shortly after 1868 because a mill was projected for the community. The form of Milltown was re jected. The portal authorities are quoted as saying that the cost office at Milton was established in 1873. There is no confirmation that the place was named for John Milton, the Puritan uort of England. There was also a town of Milton in Columbia county laid out in 1851, an early rival of Portland. Later it was renamed Knulon. It was named originally for a sawmill on Milton Occk. RerardinK Freewatei. McArthur states that it was estab' lished as a rival community to Milton, just to the south and h-mr-d to ect settlers bv offering free water for irrigation pur poses. The original plot of the town was filed as New Walla Walla, in 1889, but late;- withdrawn and the plot for Freewater filed in 1890. The Oregonian objects to changing the name of Milton I'rcewater. insisting there is both principle and character in tlv present city formed by the merger of the two insisting there is historical interest because both names tie with Umatilla davs." And the Oregoninn champions the distinction the hyphen gives, quoting Stratford-on-Avon and Frankfurt-am-Main as well as ex-Premier Mendes-France as clinging in memory bcrautc of the hyphen. The change in name of Milton-Freewater. is of concern only to its residents. There is no particular historical event con nected with to "cling in memory." But if we had wasted time in writine out the long name repeatedly day after day, a change would be welcome. Moreover with a short name, the town could get into the newspaper Headlines occasionally. Now it would require agate type for a dateline. There are manv Miltons in this country, as well Milltowns, and there may be a Freewater or two, but the latter would be more distietive and retain the historical connection. But to get an original and distinctive name, it's back to the Indians, from whom all our original Oregon names originate, and are historical as well as distinctive. G. P. Dr. Roben Maaske Dr. Roben Maaske, who died while working at his desk in the president's office at the Oregon College of Education in Monmouth Saturday night devoted a quarter of a century of his busy, productive life to the cause of education here in Oregon, serving both in Eastern and Western Oregon for ap proximately equal periods. Dr. Maaske was born in Nebraska, grew up and was educated there. His first high school principalship, held before he was graduated from the University of Nebraska, was there. He came to this slate in 1927 as superintendent of schools in Irri gon, a small community near the Columbia river west of Hcr m ston. He was there two years, then went to Portland as a public school supervisor for two years, then to Salem as deputy state superintendent of public instruction. Five years later he returned to Nebraska and earned his Ph.D. degree after which he was a professor at the University of North Car elina two years. In 1939 Dr. Maaske returned to Oregon for his 15 years as president, first of the Eastern Oregon College of Education in La Grande for 11 years, then in 1950 to Monmouth where he served the remainder of his life as president of the pioneer teachers training institution, the Oregon College of Education. Dr. Maaske was unspectacular, never became widely known to the public, but he was an educational statesman who left hir mark on our educational setup. It is to be hoped that a building on one of the two college campuses where he served as president may eventually be named for him. THE 'ORDINARY' AMERICANS AMERICA ii MADE OF PEOPLE GOOb PEOPLE tinfUsYrUfi'CiNu PEOPLE PEOPLE LIKE the PRINTER.. THEY W6UlbH'T NEtb AM H-feGrAB TO PtiTRoy CIVILIZATION. GETTING RIB OF ALL PRINTER WOULD DO TH TRlCk. WITHOUT flvr$ KiODRH Ci VIUZATIOV WOULO BE UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE- An Irresponsible Altitude House Speaker Sam Hayburn, who is old enough to be a statesman, but apparently isn't yet, revealed Saturday that the House Democratic leaders have decided upon a slick piece of tax politics. They will support a $20 income tax credit for each taxpayer and each dependent. If these men were rigid economizers who intended to whit tle Eisenhower's budget the 700 million their scheme would reduce federal revenues one could cheerfully say "more power to you, boys," for all of us would appreciate a tax cut after a balanced budget. But the budget isn't balanced, not by three billion or so. And many of the Democrats assailed Eisenhower's budget as too stingy, especially on welfare proposals like federal school aid. They talk like they wanted to add a few billions to the appropriations, then reduce the avialable revenue, thus throw ing federal finances into inflationary chaos. This is to be done to win votes. It is an awfully low esti mate of the intelligence of the voters. Whether accurate or otherwise we do not know, but it ought to be a warning to intelligent voters not to trust such irresponsible men with uuurrucf) a. terC .. l PftTTLEHlr (T' OUST A CHUNK OF MACHWEWWITHoOr THE SKILLED PRNTE. TO OPWAT6 it PRINTING itwflTJiitr a TRADE, IT'S AN ART; and g fUPERb COLOR tmXlN6 t rrwve, that todavs tin svthich,. hearer v. i. . ,;r w. OF ALUTME- Most Protestant Women Favor Defense Measures By GEORGE GALLUP (Director, Americau Institute of Publle OptnloM control of the government. as an opposition. It is dangerous even to have them PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 19 While women leaders of the Methodist church have undertak en a campaign to enlist their members to oppose Universal Military Training, nationwide survey conducted by the Insti tute finds that seven out of every 10 Protestant women favor the proposed defense measure. Among Catholic women,, the figure is higher still with more than eight out of every 10 in favor. A smaller ratio in favor was found among women of the Jew ish faith reached in the survey, with nearly six out of every 10 approving universal training in principal. Nationwide, the vote in favor of UMT today is 73 per cent, with 22 per cent opposed and 5 per cent expressing no opinion. In making today's poll, Insti tute reporters rang doorbells of typical homes in cities, small towns and rural areas across the country and asked the following question of approximately 3,000 representative men and women: "Would you favor or oppose re quiring every able-bodied young man in this country, when he reaches the age of 18, to spend one year in military training and then join the reserves?" The vote nationwide and by men and women: N ATX Men Women Favor 73 77 69 Oppose 22 20 25 No opinion 5 S 6 Here is today s vote by relig ious preference: WOMEN Protest- Oath- Jew ant ollc ish Favor 70 81 89 Oppose 24 17 31 No opinion --- 6 Z 10 MEN Protest ant Favor 75 ...22 Cath- Jew olic ish 82 81 13 16 5 3 Reavers Tumble al Last The Oregon State Beavers finally took their long awaited tumble at Pullman Srturday night when a 28-foot Washington State heave with three seconds to go broke a tie and gave the Cougars a precious 68-66 victory. The loss came when Beaver supporters least expected it. They surmounted the implied jinx of game No. 13, a natural to lose, then went down before a team they had beaten easily the night before. But fickle fortune finally turnrd on them, their shooting percentage plummeted, Halbrook couldn't get a first half field goal, etc. When such a condition develops; the opposition does everything' right, the favorites everything wrong. Perhaps 'he second largest mourning section is in Eugene where Oregon has expected to break the Beaver win string and can now only seek to emulntc the Cougar brethren. Only 5400 fans saw Oregon beat Washington by a single point in a thriller at Seattle Saturday night, about 100 fewer than crowded the Pullman gym and more than 1600 fewer than saw Idaho play in Corvallis recently. What is the mat ter with 'em up Seattle way? Must they win all the time or Itay away? Attitudes ou Opjienlininer Oregon and Washington made news last week by taking opposite stands on inviting the controversial Dr. J. Robert Oppenhcimer to lecture at state educational institutions. Dr. Henry Schmitz, president of the University of Washing ton, turned down a request from his physics deoartmnnt that the Princeton scientist who has been branded a security risk be invited to lecture there while on his western trip! Dr. Schmitz caused quite a tempest of protest, but his regents backed him up. Dr. Charles Byrne, chancellor of the Oregon state institu tions of higher education, invited Dr. Oppenhcimer to lecture at the University of Oregon, Oregon State and Portland State. We prefer Dr. Byrne's stand. We do not know w hether Dr. I'ppenheimer is a sceurih risk and we sometimes doubt if anv- No opinion 3 Analysis of today's survey re sults find sentiment among the various population groups rang ing all the way from 7-to-l down to 2-to-l in favor. Other side lights: 1. Differences of opinion by age groups are small, although older women are more inclined to be undecided about the issue than are younger women. 2. On the other hand, differ ences by occupation groups and by sections of the country are more pronounced. Although men and women on the nation's farms are less favor than are persons in the business and professional, white collar, or manual worker groups, nevertheless the farm vote today is 2-to-l in favor. 3. By geographical sections of the country, both men and wom en in the Middlewest and South is much more articulate and vo ciferous, and probably better or ganized than the majority who approve. indeed, it Is hardly to be ex pected that this latter group would organize public demonstra tions demanding that their sons be drafted. Yet their unwilling ness to accept the sacrifices in volved in a UMT program is evi denced from the more than 50, 000 interviews in the Institute surveys on the subject over the last 13 years. No Surprise Albany Democrat-Herald Our newly made senior senator, Wayne L. Morse, has finally an nounced his registration as a Dem ocrat. We doubht if the senator's action surprised many observers of ttie national scene, for he has been inviting us, every few days, to watch him edging over to the Bourbon side. The alert news editors are put ting the Senator's gradual turn over (slow flop) on the front page, on account of his personal promi nence. But it ciletely lacks the good news element of surprise. The Senator's conscience, perhaps, was stimulated to activity by the vote- getting performance shown by Oregon Democrats last November. GREETING BACKFIRES PHILADELPHIA (UP) James Jackson, 63, figures it doesn't pay to call out cheerful greetings to strangers. Jackson told police Sunday he wished a passer-by "good morn ing" and was promptly answered with a "good morning, nothing." The stranger held him up and got away with a dollar. Salem 53 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL February 21, 1902 When President Coleman alighted from the 5:40 Overland express Willamette University students had greeted him with the school's yell: "Rah! Rah! Rah! Zip! Boom! Bah! Old Willamette Ha! Ha! Ha!" F. A. Wiggins, 255-257 Liberty street, had advertised first class guaranteed sewing machines for $25, also some old crocks that are worthless except for the stands for $1. At Roth k Grabers: 2 pounds of Arbuckle's coffee for 25c, three cans of select oysters. 25c: 20 pounds of granulated sugar for $1, spot cash. Carlton C. Comfort had opened his new drug store at 333 Commer cial street in the Cottle block. Stuart's dyspepsia tablets had advertised in the Capital Journal that the death of Emperor Ne poleon had been caused by a stom ach cancer that might be attributa ble to his fondness for fried onions. A Capital Journal editorial had said that the city council should take action and have all filthy alleys in town thoroughly cleaned once each year. USED WHAT THEY HAD CHICAGO (UP) Joseph Os- transky did not figure on the strange weapons three cab drivers would use when he attempted to rob a drug store Sunday. Ostransky was captured . after he was struck with several sugar bowls and a ketchup bottle. ARDENTER AND FUNNIER Sherman County Journal We note that the wooing of Sen ator Morse is getting to a more ardent and much funnier stage. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Boyle Looks Forward to Going To Kindergarten Next Year By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK W If life begins at 40, I'm four years old today. And, boy what a thrill! In an other year I'll get to start kinder garten again. I can hardly wait. Science may say man reaches the summit of his powers in his early twenties. But I know better. Looking back at my 44 calendar years 1 am sure I reached my peak in kindergar ten, and have been going gradu ally downhill ever since. It's been the same way with ting more and more confused and ignorant about the really impor tant things that matter in this brief world. Then, at 40 if he is lucky, the darkness begins to lighten. Slow ly he regains the heritage of his birth, the wisdom and common sense he threw away so long ago when he set out to slay dragons or to become rich and famous. The small pleasures that seem ed so wonderful to him as a child, the sight of a strange bird on a of you. too. You didn't chase the wrong girls, argue with traffic cops, or go into debt buying things you couldn't afford until you left kindergarten, did you. It is only when a man leaves kindergarten and later studies arithmetic and fractions that he are somewhat less in favor of : begins to add to his sorrows. ub- mv friends, and it's probably true '"f"' "lc",n nw cnange me .... v aia't ..,,. landscape, seeing a full moon rise military training for the nation's youth than are residents of the East and Far West. ... The principle of universal mil itary training has been approved by the general public in more than score of Institute surveys since 1942. The vote started out at more than 2-to-l in favor in 1942 and consistently high majorities have favored it ever since. In November, 1943, three months after V-J Day. an Insti tute survey found 3-to-l vote for the proposal. Sentiment in favor reached n all-time high of "8 per cent in August, 1M, after the United Slates entered tract from his innocence, multiply his troubles, and become a frac tion of his real self. Birthdays used to be terrible ordeals to me. 1 hated the idea of becoming older. But 1 find 1 don't mind reaching the age of 44 become wonderful anew. He senses once more the eternal mys tery behind every commonplace thing. After 40 you aren't dying so much as you are slowly being born again. You don t fight the world and this time so hard but bend them into better focus. The terrible Mt. Everests that faced you at 20 to 25 are reduced to the molehills they really are. At 25 you look at them through binoculars of fear that magnified them. After 40 you simply learn to turn the binoculars around and at all. not even when cheerful lool throll,n icnse, o( under. fnsna tall n,a " W hv vmt Jnn'l ... ... ... friends tell me, "Why you don't look a day over 45. For at 40 1 thought the whole problem of time through and reached the conclusion that the worst age in life is the period between kindergarten and 40. Those in that bracket are more to be pitied than censured, be cause they are all crajy, mixed up kids. Actually we are born old and wise. Look at almost any babv standing that put all projects in a less frightening perspective. Anyway that's the way I intend at 44 to look at the scenes in this ceremonial jungle we move through. Does any other way make sense; Naturally when you are 44 young people who regard you as a walking antiquity sometimes come to you for counsel. So here is my birthday advice to any body unfortunate enough to be else does. But we feel pretty sine he knows considerable the Korean fishting aoout atomic physics and should have something worth while A question which naturally or child you know. Isn't he below the ase of 40: to convey to our students. We shall be surprised indeed if fom" UP i why Washington con-1 really full of instinctive common 1. Don't argue qtiestii4ns of ream- contamination passes to any of them as a result. Itinues to put off action If thei sense? j ligion or politics at cocktail par- There is such a thm ram-in thi .-.iritv hn.i... ""c mucn "Yor m oui aner amaersarien ne loses , ucs, which has ita lM.tim.t. nl n,l., a,,... mHit. LaJL'T-. . . . . .. mMt ' "Is Innate wisdom. For 2. Never bet on yourself while ridiculous extremes. One logical reason Is that the I minority opposed to tlx measure the next 3.1 years he stumbles playing in a pool fame with aiooi mewing up ou ma, f at-1 strangers. NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG White House Aides In Hot Water Over Flight Blunder By RAY WASHINGTON A shakeup in the White House staff and re porting system may result from President Eisenhower's admitted blunder in upsetting the commer cial aviation service from the United States to the turbulent but strategic Orient. Ike bawled out his aides with military eurtness, especially Com merce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, when he had to answer a nation wide barrage of criticism by pub licly reversing and repudiating an earlier order concerning aer ial transportation in this area. "Who got me into this mess?" the ordinarily good-natured Chief Executive demanded, as he glared at Weeks, Sherman Ad ams, Charles F. Willis, Jr., and other members of his official family. It is expected that Secre tary Weeks' advice will carry far less weight on aviation mat ters in the future. . Rumpus Cause The row concerned rival ap plications of Pan American World Airways and Northwest Airlines for permanent routes from Port land and Seattle to Hawaii by way of Alaska. Since Northwest has a domestic line from New York, Washington and many other eastern and central cities to Seattle, the Far East take-off point, political and economic in terests in all that vast section were affected adversely by the original White House decision. Northwest has been flying from Seattle to Hawaii, in addi tion to operating a route direct to Japan. Pan Am flies to Ha waii from Seattle, but it also has run to the Islands from Los An geles and San Francisco. Pan Am long sought to oust Northwest from its Seattle-Hawaii operation, thus giving Pan Am a monopoly from the West Coast in Central Pacific territory. Pan Am's route continues from Hawaii in the only around-the- world service performed by an American line. Unanimous Vote The Civil Aeronautics Board, however, voted unanimously to continue Northwest's Seattle-Ha waii route along with Pan Am's. But Weeks persuaded Ike to re verse CAB's 5-0 ruling. Weeks is closely associated with Sam Pry- or Jr., prominent Connecticut Re publican and a $40,000-a-year Pan Am vice-president When Eisenhower's letter or dering CAB to strip Northwest of its islands run got into print, the political heavens caved in from New York to Alaska. Sen ators and Representatives from almost every state along that strip protested directly to Ike, as did influential political, business and industrial interests. I Senator Edward J. Thye and Representatives Walter H. Judd, both of Minnesota, persuaded Eisenhwoer to call an emergency meeting on February 5. Such GOP bigwigs in Minneapolis as Frank Peavey Heffelfinger, a I Party money raiser, and Harry' A. Bullis. General Mills chair-, man, backed their Washington spokesmen. Ike Misinformed Besides Weeks and Robert B. TUCKER 'Murray, Jr., Chan Gurney now 'acting CAB chairman and other CAB executives attended this meeting. Although Murray's term as Commerce Undersecre tary expired on January 20, he 'still serves "without compensa tion." He and Weeks are Pan Am's biggest backers at Wash ington. I Ike learned from Chairman iGurnev that he had been "misin ! formed," as he admitted later. He had not been told that CAB's vote for Northwest was unani jmous. Whereas Ike thought that he was reducing subsidies by Northwest's elimination, he did ! not know that Northwest receives i far less bounty than Pan Am. In I fact, Northwest may soon be able to operate without any Federal contributions. Ike resisted suggestions that he try to cover up his blunder and his staff's breakdown. He reversed himself without any cloudy or confusing statements. But he still wonders how and why he was permitted, "to get into this mess." ' Efficient Nonscheduled Line Ike did not see fit to give a permanent certificate to Trans ocean Airlines, a nonscheduled line run by former World War II fliers. Transocean is regarded by aviation experts as one of the most efficient and economical air transportation concerns. It has carried military passengers and careo. refugees and defense workers in every national emer gency, including the Berlin and Korean airlifts. It operates with out any subsidy, and asks none. Here, the Weeks-Murray com Cruel to Coaches Omaha World-Herald "Is it any worse," asks "the sports editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, "for a football coach to jump his contract with a college than for a college to pay off a contract two years in ad vance and let the coach go?" We'd say it is quite a bit worse. The difference being that between a contract fulfilled and one unfulfilled. Moreover, the coach who de parts with two years' pay has a substantial income while looking for another job. For sheer cruelty, although it's legal, what can beat letting a losing coach go at the end of his contract period, with no job in prospect and no severance pay? 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