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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1955)
4-(Sec. 1)-Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuej., June 21, 1955 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 4-681 1. mil Ltued Wirt Servlet of Tha Anotlattd Prrit an rhi Uajtad Pnm. The AiHjtialcd Prew u axclualvly entitled to the use for publication of all newi dlipatcnei credited to It of otherwue credited In uua paper and Jau nawa puollahad. 'herein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Cirrltf UoothlT fl.U. SU Uoooki. M-Mi On TUT, 111.00. By mall t OrtRou Unntblf IMK)- Bis Uootfia. tt.OOi Ont ffti. 19.00. Br MtU OuUldt Onion: llorinu 11 .Hi til Urn tut. fT.Ml On Uht, MI00. Polls Become Pre-clecliun polling is becoming more scientific and more accurate. Older neoole will recall the when it summed the country by predicting the election of Landon over Roosevelt. The death of the previously popular Digest was attributed in part to have been honest No such mistake has been polls were in error in 1948 when all but one predicted a Dewey victory over Truman. They may not have been as wrong as they appeared to be, however, for there was indication of a bif! change in sentiment at the very last that no poll could reflect. Since then the pollists have learned something from each election and this best ones are able to come pretty close. The Gallup organization, whose polls appear regularly in the CaDital Journal, has just issued a survey of its work in four elections in the last two years, in Canada, Australia, the United States and England to show how well it can now call the shots. In Canada's 1953 vote Gallup came within less than one percent in forecasting the vote percentages, which were: Lib eral 50, Progressive-Conservative 31, C.C.F. 11 and other groups eight. No one will ever do better than this. In 1954 Australia voted. Labor was forecast for 51 per cent of the vote and received 513. The L.C.P. opposition was forecast for 48 percent and got 47. The independents were forecast for one percent and polled 1.7. In our election, nationwide, the 815 percent of the popular vote got 52.7. The Republicans were estimated for 45.8 and got 47.3. Outside the south Gallup gave the Democrats 48.5 and they got 47.3, the Republicans 51.5 and 50.5 respectively. In the British election last month Gallup placed the Con servative vote at 50 percent. It went 49.8. He placed Labor's vote at 48 and it dropped to 46.4, some of this in the last two or three days, it appeared. Liberals were given 1.5 and they got 2.7. Others were given .5 and got 1.1. Considering how public sentiment ebbs and flows during campaign and how it can be changed overnight by some spectacular speech or event, this four English speaking countries. Three U.S. Reds See the Light Three of the 20 former members of the U.S. Army who were captured in Korea and who voluntarily chose to stay with the Chinese are now reported by the Chinese as slated for early release, at their own request, along with two Bel gians. One of the Americans is quoted as wanting to go to Japan rather than to come home, and one of the Belgians chooses the United States. It is not surprising that these chaps, one of whom is from Olympia, Wash., have tired of their captors. The food they must;have received over there should make any American long for the Slates, regardless of washed. It Is surprising that have had this change of heart they face criminal prosecution upon their return. What is more surprising is that Red China is willing to free them when it still holds 11 loyal American Army fliers whom it has trumped up spy charges against. Have these three been so well brain washed that China sees a propaganda advantage in letting them return here, knowing they will be abie to sound off any ideas they may have, no matter how addled. The episode places before the Army a problem, whether to bo lenient and thus encourage future American P.W.s to be lieve they can collaborate with their captors without punish ment, or to bring criminal charges and thus make all our soldiers more fearful of capture, wondering if they too, might be too weak to withstand the peculiar pressure put upon our prisoners by the Communists. Whatever the sequel, it will be interesting to see what ideas the released men bring home, whether they've been "sold" so they'll stay that way, or whether they'll be able and willing to give us a realistic account of what they've experienced. China as well as Russia, for some reason not yet fully clear, is experiencing a change of tactics, trying to butter us up, per haps to put us in a better frame of mind for the Big Four conference. A Vote of Salem residents gave a well deserved vote of confidence to two public servants when they returned M. E. (Gus) Moore and Mrs. Edith Brydon to the school board. At the same time the electorate agrerd that not only is there educational atrength In the field of consolidation but at the same time agreed to shoulder a little larger share of the tax load that faces all growing communities when they decided to join forces with Keizcr. The Salem school district, with its increasing enrollment, larger teaching stRff and need for more class rooms, has long since entered the field of big business. A directorate carries with it no compensation other than the satisfaction of serv ing the community. At the same time the demands upon a director are at times onerous as all who have served the dis trict in recent years will testify. A continuity of service on a school board involving as much territory and financing as that of Salem is vital when a successful program is considered. For this reason, those persons who pay the taxes should derive considerable satis faction from the results of the election. After twice turning down a proposal to join the larger district, residents of Keizcr did an about face. The result will, in the long run. prove beneficial to all concerned. The two areas are contiguous and their operation under a single administration should work out satisfactorily both from an educational and financial standpoint. June 21, a New Season Usually dates like March 21, June 21, September 21 and December 21 are perfunctory, f interest to weather experts but to no ono else, for the season has usually arrived well in advance of the official date. Particularly Is this true of winter. But June 21 means a little more than usual this year because we've had such a late spring a lot of folks must still be won dering whether summer has come to stay a while even now, after we've had two near record breaking days with heat maximums of 98 and 96, far above any we had last year So June 21 should be greeted this year as we traditionally greet new year's, not a new year but a new, pleasant season we hope will stay a while now that it is here. And if not that It will Rt least pay week-end visits. Not that the Willamette valley has been discriminated against, though. The interior has also had a late spring, though this is evidently behind 'em now. So welcome, glad some summer. And since you're a little late, maybe the win ter ralm will be too. More Accurate Literary Digest's fiasco in 1936 to this blunder, which appears made since, though most of ftie Democrats were forecast for for congressional posts. They is a remarkable showing in how much his brain had been only three of the 20 renegades up to now, particularly since Approval THE AMERICA 1$ fj GOOt nt Ilk 1 1 it HARDWORKING PEOPLE J f Of-- CAPttT A BOUT OF ClCftRETTE LOOSED IN TONIGHT a ARE RISKING THEIR L iu TO $TOP IT. T.iJ I if. ! every fMKALHufS W , . a. wl it i ; r.a.i r,, '.t' :tva try-. : OPEN FORUM Reader Disagrees Willi Auto Race Editorial To the Editor: I read CP's editorial entitled "Death Wins in Auto Races" and I would like to a!4 a thought or two on the subject. In all the years that the LaMans race has been run, I have only seen the results printed in a four. teen-line account on the second page of the sports section. But when somebody gets killed, look out. The cry goes up. "There ought to be a law ..." True, it was the worst thing that has ever happened to automobile racing. But it seems to me that everyone tends to overlook the safety record that has heretofore reigned at LeMans despite the ter rific speeds that the cars attain there. You say that improvements in racing cars serve no useful pur pose. Chances are you've heard of Fords ball-point suspension. Where do you think they got the idea? Jaguar has used that type of suspension for years. Jaguar used spot brakes successfully in the LeMans race three years ago. The Chrysler Corporation has used some of the engine improvements employed in the Cunningham sports car. You want racing outlawed. Next, it might be football and boxing. The list would be endless if you were to enumerate all the sports lhat have killed and injured peo ple. You no doubt heard of the fight that hot rod enthusiasts put up to get their sport legalized. It was an uphill fight all the way, but now they have the police de partments helping them instead of chasing them. By their exam ple, it seems to mc that outlawing such a widespread and universally accepted sport such as auto racing is not the answer. There's one more thing you overlooked. The man who would race cars is the same kind of man who has the guts to fly a plane. storm a beachhead, or sweat it out in a submarine. We can all he damn thankful for these men. Maybe racing is standing proof that we have and always will have them. Sincerely yours, HOIIKUT BARNES 2:115 Hyde St. Snlcm Orchids to Mr. Nnrlilml Omaha World Herald Representative N'nrhlad lite p. Orel stood up in the House the olher day to praise the Postofflcc Department for closing the postof- fice at Kcasey, Ore., which is in his district. The Kcasey Tostoffice was clos ed becausi its operating expenses were $1,550 last year, while it took in only J4I8. Mr. Norblnd evidently was im pressed by these figures. We can think of a good many politicians who might profit from his exam ple. CROWN I P KID GAME Sherman County Journal Adults who play at bombing their cities.into ohhvion shouldn't be tooihe hung overtime parking tickets critica' of boys who wear space on 64 cars before he discovered suns ana carry atom guns. NOW AT Foreman's 1070 S. Commercial St. r'V frtf GREEN STAMPS Wt CLEAN DRAPES RUGS FURNITURE CLOTHING PHONE 3-9448 For Pick-up and Delivery Service, Or Bring Them In and Save I'p to 35 With Our ? Dy 'ORDINARY' AMERICANS MA&E OF fEOfL- PEOPLE- PEOPLE UKC m THE riDFCITuTrD . fli J1' OR - ANO FIRE ii THE FOREST. , THESE MEN KiH0KUUMKK fit j Vv 3 J"l .1 kM E TOIL, HEAT AN 6 m Ilk y. OF flCHTlUC mtt r'Sf FOREST Fl&t4.TUPP 'MM V MU$T ,(; IN $MHG THE PATRIOTIC SERVICE AKIN TO? rifiHTING THE NATIONS ENEMIES IN ' Another kin op POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Are Office Girls Watching the Men or Males Ogling Girls? By HAL NEW YORK m What really does the most to lower efficiency in the average business office- girl watching or man watching? Would you get more work done if every white collar man were forced to wear overalls and a Hal loween mask on the job? I raise these questions only be cause my earlier campaign to put the American working girl in bloomers has fallen flat. Why the campaign? Well, a sur vey showed that on an average day American men were wasting 20 million hours of company time doing nothing but daydreaming over the charms of their pretty girl co-workers. My theory was that if all work ing girls were compelled to wear the same drab uniform they would become so repulsive nobody would waste time looking at em. The suggested uniform: Block cotton stockings, old - fashioned black bloomers, and a blue middy or high-necked blouse. But it looks as if I got off on the wrong blooming foot. You d think it would be the of fice girls who'd raise a howl against being compelled to wear bloomers Not at all. Many of them were quite attracted at the thought. It was the men who yelped. Typical complaint from a boss: "Why don't you shut your big mouth, Boyle? It has taken me 20 years to work up to a place where I can have an office of my own and a good-looking secretary. Quit talking like a wife, will you? Let well enough alone." An office supervisor remarked: "You're putting the cart before the horse, son. There are more women than men, and believe mc most of them are man crazy. "If men are wasting 20 million hours a day girl watching, then the girls themselves must be wast ing 30 million working hours star- lLiirciils Going Up Albany Dfmo-Herald With the Portland barber shops raising the price of haircuts to $1.50 Julv 1. the shear-wielders will regard as low chislers all the guys tnai arop in on June m inr a si. 25 clip. An old-timer is a fellow who can remember when he used to get a haircut for 23 cents and a shave for 15. But he can also remember the time when he was paid for a week just about what lie gets now for a day. A lot of the customers will undertake to protect their in. tercsts by lengthening the period between haircuts to as long as their wives will let them. A SMILE OR TWO Coronet A motorcycle cop who helped direct traffic for a large wedding reception was invited later to par take of a bit of liquid refresh ment. Somehow the officer got one more than he could hamlle. and 'when he went back to his rounds he wain a drive-in theater, Cleaners . Economy Service wmmm ' ; if ' Mi MERE MONEV W COULbNT PAV F6R M$ BE ENORMOUS TREES. IT'S A war Mfeafril BOYLE ing at the men in their offices The real problem is how to make the white collar man less attrac five." I checked in to this and by golly the supervisor was right: Amer ica s white collar men are getting downright irresistible, bvery steno- grapher and secretary I talked to admitted off the record, of course that there was at least one man in her office she couldn't keep her mind and eyes Irom. 'There is a junior executive in our place who has been promoted to a desk with two telephones." said one. "And he's as happy as a baby wtin a new rattle. Every time I pass his desk it's all I can do to keep from reaching over and pinching his little lat merry cheeks. What about a standard uniform for men office workers then over alls or Bermuda shorts, plus blind ers or Halloween masks? In my opinion it wouldn't work," said a middleaged secre tary, acidly. "To me most men look like they are wearing Halloween masks anyway, but in this civiliza- tin there is nothing you can do to make men repulsive heels that they are simply because there aren't enough of them to go around." The case against putting office girls in bloomers was expressed most forcibly by Don Sauers, pres ident of something called the American Society of Girl Watch ers, Inc. Sauers says girl watching may reduce office efficiency but boosts office morale. "I recommend that each Ameri can working girl be given a special income tax reduction of $100 per year lor cosmetics, he wrote. "And I suggest the hiring of one beautiful girl for every 10 male employes who has no talent for shorthand and who doesn't know a typewriter key from a piano key. Her sole assignment would be to stroll around the office adjusting Venetian ,blinds and tidying up desk tops. "Is anybody against this whole idea? Not me. Who am I to fight progress in any form? n 2? J and a perfect mutch our lucfced-lcnetlieT engagement and wedding rings that will never slip or twist. The small diamonds in each are mounted identically so that, when Joined, they give the effect of one ring and a mass of diamonds on the finger. U 18 karat letlinft. NO INTEREST NO (HI NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG British Confident We Can ,T . irri.l rTVi T". 1! 00-ntintP Wit II 1 lie lVreillllll ' x " By RAY -The main Is - WASMTWfiTOM. sues in controversy between President fcisennower anu oru- ish Prime Minister Anthony La-' enhower-Eden ditterences in me en as they prepare for next Far East, which generally re month's talks with the Kremlin fleets 10 Downing Street's view were recently outlined by a Brit- point, indicates that the two ish spokesman with extreme western nations are still far a frankness. It is surprising that j part on this question. He said: his comment got hardly any at- "We believe that what happen tention in the press, although it ed in China was a Chinese revo was Judicially noted by the State i lution; that Chiang Kai-shek ex Department. communicated himself by his The spokesman was Max Freed-! mistakes from the confidence of man, Washington correspondent the Chinese people." of the Manchester Guardian. Al-I That is the prevailing conclu though a liberal, influential and sion in popular and official opin- t.;Ul.. na.ucnanor th inn ill Britain. althOUPtl Eden IllglUJ. lC5imCU innjv., ..... Guardian generally supports the Churchill-Eden program, and favors close co-operation with the United States. However, together with Alis tair Cooke, the Guardian's rov ing representative in this "coun try and commentator on the Ford Foundation's "Omnibus" television show, Freedman is frequently critical of Eisenhower-Dulles policies. So is Sir An thony. Freedman's remarks, which were delivered before the Wo man's National Democratic Club here, suggest that Dulles and his British opposites must iron out several differences, if they are to present a solid front when they take on' the Soviet's wily and formidable Molotov at Gen eva on July 18. BRITISH CORRESPONDENT'S OPINION "While you have been right on some things," Freedman told the Democratic ladies, "we were more right than you on Russia. We believe that there is an es sential difference between Rus sia and other dictatorships . . . . We believe that because Russia did not become a dictatorship in a hurry, it is possible to negoti ate with her." Unfortunately, nobody in the audience thought to ask the speaker to elaborate on this odd remark, or to explain what basic difference it makes whether a country achieves totalitarianism and atheism overnight or over TftG'Babtc Own Sfoiy Mildred Didrikson Zaharias, greatest woman athlete of all time, tells her amazing story Ben Hibbs, editor of the Post, says, "You'll meet here one of the warmest human beings you've ever read about a wom an who would make great copy even if she were not the world's greatest woman athlete. "I like Babe's picture of the modest home where seven little Didriksons practiced weight lift ing. I like the yarn about Babe's first trip away from home. And I admire Babe's story of that day in '53 when she learned she had cancer. "The Babe is quite s gal. I commend her to you." For the most entertaining story from the sports world in fears, don't miss "This Life ve Led." Start it today! OUT TODAY ON All NEWSSTANDS A CURTIS MAOAZINt Iltuitrmtiont ilijhtly tnar4 $345 set Including Federal tax Charge or Budert Take a Year to Pay CARRYING CHARGES (fmifira fmtitifi $4m TUCKER 1 a long period of time. u. S.-BRITAIN DIFFERENCES rreeamans uiscumiuh u " - - -- . . , i -does not explain it quite so brut- any as rreeoman tuu. SOCIAL REFORMS IN U. K. aithoueh it is no secret that the Eisenhower Administration favored Eden over his Labor op ponents in the recent election, The Guardian correspondent de murred against the belief that British Conservatives and Ameri can Republicans are peas of the same pod. "The Conservative Party (in England) has come to terms with the need for social reform," he said. "In the process, they made a virtue out of necessity and ad opted new policies with a gener osity and conviction that no long er makes them contemporary with your Republican Party." What does he think that Eisen hower has done with rcgrad to New Deal reforms? SOME KIND COMMENTS " Freedman had a few kind words for the United States, BARRICK'S . HAVE . SENSIBLE PRICES -PLUS- Off-Street Parking Our Last 1,000 Funerals Under $250 ... $251-$350 . . $351.$500 $501-$650 $651 -Over CLOUEH fl)BA HOME Church at Ferry Streets Is The Catholic Church A MENACE TO DEMOCRACY? Every now and then t false rumor about the Catholic Church gets into circulation and for a time fools a lot of people. Usually such rumors die out when fair-minded people learn the truth. But some of them pop up again like "ghosts" out of the dis tant past, to deceive people who have not heard them before. The one most prevalent today is that American freedom is in danger from "the anti-democratic program of the Roman hierarchy. This, to some people, will sound new and alarming. Actually, there is nothing new about it Catholics of a century ago heard the same "alarm". . . that the Church was hostile to our form of govern mentthat she was jnti-republican in spirit and influence that she would disregard our free institu tions and deprive us of our self government Even those who do not under stand the teaching and practices of the Catholic Church will have to admit the falsity of this rumor... for the evidence of a hundted years contradicts it in every particular. The Catholic people always have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their non-Catholic fcllow-citi2ens in building and defending our lib erty and free institutions. The rumor of today... like the rumor of a hundred years ago... does not claim that the Catholic Church is harmful to men's souls. It does not claim that the Church SUPREMI COUNCIl Kill GUTS of coLiimmis RELIGIOUS INFORMATION BUREAU J1 1 1 N 0 11 IIVB. tJis Salem Council Na. 174 - 725 Shipping Sf. Salem, Oregon Salem 10 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL June 21, 1945 Oregon state board of sgrlcul- lure had decided a gainsi Holding a sUte fair in 1945. i .... Officers were arriving dailv t Camp Adair as preparation ni the camp advanced for use in de payment of army ground force : men to ine racuic area. Men and women employes were urgently needed at Camp Adair following re-activation of the camp. Willamette valley cherry grow, ers had agreed upon a ceiling price of Sc a pound for pick ing the 1945 crop. The 1888 graduating class of Salem nign scnooi (upper grades in the old East school), first in the city, had plans for an annual reunion at the Portland home of Burt Brown Barker. Funeral services had been held for James S. Albert. When first rural free delivery service start ed from Salem postoffice April 1, 1901 Albert was one of those horse and buggy carriers. . however. Referring to the Mar shall Plan and other postwar aid programs, he said: "Instead of looking the other way when Europe faced her hour of need, you ministered to her, and you built her up so that again Europe has become your economic competitor." Discussing the Supreme Court's anti-segregation ruling, he said that it ranked next to the Marshall Plan in command ing respect for us abroad. It was received with rejoicing every- , where, he added, "except In Mos-'t cow, where Pravda maintained peevish silence." - Central Location 138 276 468 99 19 Phone 3-9139 endangers the salvation of man kind. Its entire objection is that the Church is hostile to our poli tical and social institutions. In this there is a remarkable re semblance to the "alarm" sounded against Jesus Christ Himself. "If we let this man go," said the Savior's critics, "the Romans will come and take away our name and our nation." Some think that Catholics should get their blood pressure up and reply angrily to these rumors. This is not necessary. We know that the American people of all faiths ...with their traditional sense of justice ... will boot this ghost back into its closet without our help. ree But if you would like to know the Catholic attitude toward demociatic freedom, our form ef Klf-govetnment, and the rights of the State and the individual, write today for fret pamphlet on the subject Just ask for Pamphlet No. KC-2L. sr. touis i, Missoutl
