4-(Sec. 1)-Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuej., June 21, 1955
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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
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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
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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,
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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?
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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
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Mildred Didrikson Zaharias,
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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
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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,
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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
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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."
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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