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Walla, in 1889, but late;- withdrawn and the plot for Freewater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.
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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
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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
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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?
STOPPED, WRONG LIGHT
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UP) H.
G. Sterns was arrested for drunk
en driving Sunday when he stop
ped for a traffic light.
A traffic cop on duty became
suspicious when Sterns brought
his car to a stop for a green
light
bine won at least a temporary
victory. The regular airlines, es
pecially those in the international
field, seek to drive the "non
skeds" out of business.
(Released by McClure News
paper Syndicate)
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