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Page '4 Sectfoii 1 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Salem, Ong orf, Friday, September St, 1958 Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 f . BERNARD MA IN WARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus ;' Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North ' Church St. Phone 4-6811 full Leased Wire Service ot Trie Associated Press and Tna United Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use (or publication of all news dispatches credited to It or otherwise credited In this paper and f, ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES BT Carrier: Monthly, 11.35; 81i 11 out hi, 17.60! On Vear, 1SW. Bf mll la oreton: Monthly. si.00; BU Mentha, Ift.oo; One Tear, IS.0O. Br until OiiUldt Ofeioo: Uanthly. ll.SSi Bix Month, n.; On Year. 111.00. ' Holmes Distrusts the Legislature ..Senator Robert Holmes, a clean cut, good, intelligent look' ing. man who so far as this writer's limited observance went was a good slate senator, is developing some queer ideas in nra campaign tor governor, in explanation it may be said th,at he has an uphill task in opposing a popular governor against whose administration not very much can be said ' Last week we commented on a speech Senator Holmes made in Salem calling Oregon a stagnant, behind the times state suffering from numerous ills because of a one party domi nance" we don't actually have and which wouldn't cause what he complained of if we did. "This, week, over at Forest Grove, addressing the Washing ton County Central Labor Council, Holmes violently condemned the constitutional amendment submitted to the people by the 1955 legislature which would permit the legislature to attach the emergency clause to tax legislation, placing it in effect at orice. As it is now a small minority of the voters can nullify legislative acts for a year and a half, until the next general election. " Holmes said "the most important Issue on the November ballot" is "whether the people of Oregon are to retain their authority to protect themselves against unfair taxes." Here is voiced a complete distrust of the legislature of which he is a member, and a distrust of the ability of the people to elect decent men and women to it. The senator continued: "If successful in this scheme to fool our people, tax measures passed by the legislature could be come law immediately and the people could not have an opportunity to vote on them for more than a year." Isn't this shocking? Each of the other 47 state legislatures has this authority, and congress has always had it, passing much heavier taxes than our legislature does. And our people could not repeal such taxes "for more than a year." When can they repeal by referendum the astronomical taxes passed by congress, senator? Isn't this authority much more shock ing and shouldn't its end be demanded, with appropriate ges tures and tears of sympathy for the taxpayers who suffer from It without recourse, except .to elect new congressmen. Opponents of this highly desirable constitutional amend ment see in it a devious scheme to enact a state sales tax and there is no doubt that many legislators and many voters desire this. The Capital Journal isn't running a temperature one way or another on this dispute, convinced that it doesn't make too much difference what taxes we pay, we'll all pay about the same anyway. But we do have one pbsitive conviction that will be vigor ously expressed when the next legislature comes to. Salem. It' is that if a sales tax is voted it should be voted early in the session and a special election called at once to ratify or repudiate it while the legislature is still here, so it will know whether it has a sales tax or not before it adjourns. We agree with Senator Holmes and everybody else who thinks that way that irrespective of whether the tax amend ment carries the people should have a vote before a sales tax Is put in effect They have turned It down several times and may do a o again. It should not be imposed upon them without a Tote and the legislature should know, whether such a tax if It passes one Is to stand, so it can provide other (axes to get the needed revenue If the answer is no. whether they vote in early 1957 or late 1958 the people will decide the sales tax issue. The sooner they do so the better. This we shall fight for. But. we hale to see the sales tax dragged into the question of whether the Oregon legislature can be safely trusted with authority every other legislature and the national congress has. There is Just one intelligent answer here. It should. The fact that it hasn't has already cost the state several million dollars In revenue from the cigarette tax a very small proportion of the voters kept from going into effect. It frequently plunges our fiscal affairs in turmoil. Ellis Island up for Sale "The United States General Services Administration, In large advertisements in financial papers, announces that it is "now authorized to offer" one of the most famous landmarks in the world, Ellis Island, for private commercial use," at a scaled bid sale on November 19, 1956, when the bids will be publicly opened at the Business Service -Center, New York City. In spection of the property Is invited before bids. "The property lias been screened against the .known defense and other re quirement of the Federal Government." The description of Ellis Island follows: The property ottered for sole is located in upper New York Harbor, approximately one mile from the southerly tip of Man hattan Island and approximately one-fifth of mile from New ..crsey. The land area consists of approximately 27.5 acres and is improved with 35 buildings, containing approximately 513,000 sq. i.., divided into the following categories: 14 office buildings, 11 . iorage buildings, and 10 others consisting of greenhouse, laundry, power house, incinerators, canteen, library, infirmary, cafeteria, Kitchen, dining room, post office day room, dormitories, baggage room and school. Other improvements on the island consist of wharves and docks, 6435 lin. ft. of masonry seawalls, water system miles of main and 2,250,000 gal. overhead tank, 640 lin. ft. sewage .-ystcm, incinerators three units, fuel oil storage one 130,000 al. tank, one 15,000 gal. tank, electric distribution 6000 lin. ft. of ain feeders, 88,000 sq. ft. cement sidewalks, 7000 lin. ft. link fence '10 1 feet high). Also Included in the offering is the ferryboat "Ellis Island" which was used for transportation between Manhat tin and the Island, miscellaneous items of machinery and equip ment, furniture and cafeteria equipment. (Probably no place is better known to our immigrants and their descendants than Elis Island for most of them passed through it. It replaced Castle Garden, a circular building in the Battery, New York City, which was erected in 1807 as a fort, "Castle Clinton," later used as a garden, as a theater and concert hall, and from 1855 to Decembers, 1890 as an Immi grant station. It is now nn aquarium belonging to the city. Since 1890, immigrants had been detained at Ellis Island for Investigation as to compliance with immigration laws until allowed to land or deported. Ellis Island was sold by New York stale to (he United Slates in 1808 and for many years used as a powder magazine. In 1891 it was made an immigrant station. The present buildings were erected 1897 when the original structures were burned. Regulation by restriction and national quotas began In 1917 and since have greatly curtailed immigration and dimished the flow of foreigners. Special nuotas are in effort for rofupoe relief. All told, over 40 million immigrants from all countries were aammca irom law to 1955. d. P. Harry's a Republican The chap who sagely observed lone aeo that "oolitics makes queer bedfellows." actually "hadn't seen nuthin' vet." Spe cifically, he hadn't seen Harry Bridges register as'a Republi can for the 1956 battle of the well at least the battle of the autumn. Why did Harry do it? Does a humorous streak lurk under his rough, forbidding exterior. Did he do It to embarrass the G.O.P., for whom he can't have either love or fellow feeling? Or did he know this would be an effective way to thumb his nose at his fellow leaders in the labor movement, whom he probably hates more than the employers he is paid to battle? Whatever it means, he certainly attracted oodles of atten tion, stirred millions of chuckles and a few groans. We need an occasional incident like this to relieve the tenseness as the bittlt goes Into its final weeks. NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG Warren Favored Local Race Problem Solutions in 1948 Political Ploughing Contest WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 When Chief Justice Earl Warren was seeking the Republican pre sidential nomination in 1948, he ex oressed the written opinion that racial problems, including school desegregation, "should be dealt with by local government," and not by the authorities at Washington. . "We cannot hope or expect to have a vigorous democracy in America," continued the Califor- man, who subsequently delivered the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion against school segrega tion, "unless this is our firm policy." new Light concerning Kuilng? Despite charges by southern ers on Capitol Hill that Warren hat played politics with this Is sue, first as governor and then as an Eisenhower appointee to the Supreme Court, many lawyers believe that the 1948 Warren statement throws a new light on the tribunal's future attitude and policy on carrying out its dese gregation ruling. In their opinion, it means that the Supreme Court will accept and approve implementation of Its decision on an extremely slow and local basis. According to this reasoning, Warren actual ly declared In favor of the states' rights position of the Southern commonwealths, although he re treated from that stand on the segregation issue. The provocative Warren decla ration in favor of a "local" solu tion was contained in a letter, dated June 5, 1948, to Herman H. Ross, who was then living irt Anchorage, Alaska. Ross, who now lives in Huntsville, Ala., ran for the Democratic senatorial nomination from Tennessee in 1948. At that time, the Califor nian was seeking delegates for his presidential candidacy. Warrens lais ixiiei The Warren letter was pub lished In the July edition of South, the News Magazine of Dixie," together with the follow ing interview with Ross: "Why Old warren cnanga an1 By RAY TUCKER stripes (after becoming chief justice), and team up against the Southern states ... in an uncon stitutional fiat that has brought the Court to the lowest ebb in history?" Ross also said' that, as a result of what he thought was "War ren's firm states' rights commit ment," he got in touch with number of Southern governors, and arranged a conference at which the Californian, then gov ernor, elaborated his views on this problem. "Now," added Ross, "as a re sult of the double-cross, I am eat ing crow!" Desegregation Will Take Long Time Regardless of Warren's and the Court's present attitude toward the controversies precipitated by their decision, it is obvious that the desegregation ruling will not become effective for a long time, perhaps years. Most Southern states have passed or are pre paring legislation to nullify the Supreme Court's edict that inte gration must be accomplished with "deliberate speed." The anti-integration statutes generally assume two forms. One would virtually transform public schools into a private system, with the state paying tuition costs. In some areas, school dis tricts permitting mingling would be deprived of state money. The other is the so-called "pupil as signment method," under which local authorities woud keep the races separated on the basis of classroom congestion, residence, Intellectual capacity, etc. Endless Amount or Litigation In view of the Warren states' rights letter and President Eisen hower's refusal to use Federal force, an endless amount of liti gation on behalf of individual pupils, school districts and noo complying state and local offi cials appears to be inevitable. Eventually, Chief Justice Warren and his eight colleagues must say what they mean and what they mean to do about their de cision of May 17, 1854. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER What Household Article, 80 Yrs. Old, Has Biggest Boom? PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 21 There are indications that women voters this November will play a far more important part in the lection of a President than ever before In history for two reas ons, On it that it la ontlrely pos sible that, for the first time in Amerioan poUtloat annals, more women than men will rote In a presidential election. The other reason Is Uiat, unlike most previous elections when there was little difference be tween men and women as far as presidential choices were con cerned, today the Eisenhower- Nixon ticket polls a greater vote among women than does the Stev-enson-Kcfauver ticket Among men voters, the two tickets run a closer race. Political observers undoubtedly will point out the fact that women are likely to attach considerable Ike and Nixon Stronger With Women; This May Decide It By GEORGE GALLUP (Director. American Institute of Public Opinion! importance to the peace issue and that more of them believe Presi dent Eisenhower will do t better Job of, keeping the peace than will Mr. Mevenson. Tbe growing importance of the women's vote can be seen from the fact that there are about 4H4 million more women than men in our adult civilian population to day and the disparity in numbers is growing. Women 21 and over today outnumber male civilians by the ration of 83 to 4814 mil lion. In today's survey, the Institute has made a special analysis of the attitudes of men and women vot ers toward the two presidential tickets, as follows: "Suppose the presidential elec tion were being held today. Which would you like to see win the Republican ticket of Eisen hower and Nixon, or the Demo cratic ticket of Stevenson and Kefauvcr? Here is the division of senti ment today among women who indicated they plan to vote in November: WOMEN VOTERS Eisenhower-Nixon 53 Stevenson-Kcfauvcr 38 Undecided 9 If it is assumed that the 9 per cent of women voters who say they are undecided at this time will vote in approximately the same ratio as the "decideds," the above figures become: Klscnhowcr-Nixon 58 Stevenson-Kcfauvcr 42 By way ot comparison, here is the vote today of men who plan to vote on November 6: MEN VOTERS Elsenhower-Nlxon 51 Stevenson-Kefauver 43 Undecided 6 Again, allocating the undecid- eds in the same way for men as for women, the figures are: Eisenhower-Nixon 54 Stevenson-Kefauver 46 The great change in voting par ticipation during the last three and one-half decades has come about through the increased vot ing on the part of women. Women first voter! in the 1920 presidential election, after the passage ot the 19th Amendment which gave them the right to vote. In that year, an estimated 26 per cent of women went to the polls. In the 1952 presidential elec tion, 65 per cent of the male civil ian adults of the country voted, compared to 61 per cent of the women a figure more than dou ble the percentage of women who voted in 1920. On the other hand, a smaller proportion of men voted in 1952 than voted in 190Q and elections prior to that time. In the year 1900, 68 per cent of the male population voted as opposed to 65 per cent who voted in 1952. Survey figures indicate that ap proximately 31.050.C ) men voted in 1952, compared to 30,450.000 women. On the basis of polling evi dence, the division of the vote in 1948 was 27.000.000 men and 22,000,000 women. Copyright, 1956, American Institute of Public Opinion They Say Today Quntes From The NeM'i By UNITED PRESS CASTEL GONDOLFO, Italy - Pope Pius XII telling some 400 scientists from 22 countries their efforts to conquer space are legitimate: When God told man: Conquer the earth, He did not intend to limit the efforts of mankind to our planet, but to extend them to the whole created universe." LOS ANGELES William Allen, 20, talking to police officers after being struck in the chest by an arrow fired from a crossbow through the back entrance of the liquor store where he clerks: It felt like somebody hit me with a rock." HOSTON Confessed Brinks' bandit Joseph (Specs) O'Keefe testifying how he and eight other defendants studied plans of the Brinks' alarm system: "Even Pino (Anthony) looked them over and he usually con fined himself to comic books." WASHINGTON - Adlai E. Ste venson chiding President Eisen bower for "misleading implica tions" about Stevenson's draft and Il-bomh proposals as doing "both ot us an injustice: "If the President intends to foreclose debate on these propos als, I think he does the nation a disservice and I must dissent and persist In my efforts to invite pub lic attention to matters of such grave concern as the hydrogen norror ana national security. LONDON Secretory of State John Foster Dulles explaining to the huez conference the need for the proposed canal users associa tion to have its own pilots: "Some of us may not be willing lo have pilots from countries not entirely friendly to us and who en gage in espionage to pilot their snips through the canal. YOU'VE GOT TO RUN Woodrow Wilson In this world and in everyday affairs, you have got to run fast merely to stay where you are: and In order to get anywhere you have got to run twice as fast as that. THE BRAVE ALSO WIN Patrick Henry The battle is not to the strong alone: It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. BETTER CHECK ON THIS AMcirlnnRudirl Movers! It you have ' moved from the precinct or voting dis trict where you were previously registered, you may have to register again. Check up on It! ABOUT HOW Tj tigftSi By HAL BOYL& NEW YORK m Guess what common household article, in vented 80 years ago this week, is enjoying its greatest boom ever? Well, sir, it s the old-lasnioned carpet sweeper, now thoroughly glamorized. This should be the best year in history," said Melville R. Bis sell, III, 35 dominant manufac turer in the field. "World output may reach 3 million units this year, and that figure may double by 1961." An attack of hay lever led to the Invention of the carpet sweep er, the biggest Improvement in home cleaning since the first caveladr improvised a broom by gripping together a handful of twigs to brush the debris from her den. The hay fever victim was Bis- sell's grandfather, Melville R. Bissell. 32-year-old owner of a grocery store in Grand Rapids, Mich. 1 'The crockery came packed In straw," recalled Bissell, "and the dust raised when they swept out the straw made Grandpa sneeze something awful. He decided he had to do something about it. The result was the first practi cal carpet sweeper, patented by the original Bissell Sept. 19, 1876, who soon began to manufacture it. He died a few years later, how ever, and It was wife, Anna, who really put the carpet sweeper over. She hired a governess for her five children, took over the factory, remained in power in the industry until her death in 1934 at 88. When the electric vacuum clean er came along, everyone pre dicted it would do to the carpet sweeper what the auto did to the horse. But it no more hurt the sale of carpet sweepers than carpet sweepers did the market for brooms. Housewives still find thev can use all three. "We may have made a mistake in not going in for vacuum clean ers," admitted Bisseu. "as a matter of fact we did, when they first came out. But the early vacuum, cleaners required a lot of repairs. We were afraid a gad get that had to be fixed so olten would ruin our reputation, so we dropped it. That's one of the troubles with carpet sweepers. They practical ly never wear out. People occas sional bring us one that is 50 to 60 years old and want us to rebuild it. Now we have adopted a policy not to tinker with any over 25 years old." How far will a carpet sweeper go? Bissell eaid they put a pedo meter en one in a hotel, and it was still wheeling along strong after 9,000 miles. The first carpet sweepers "were cumbersome affairs of wood and cast iron weighing up to 15 pounds and selling for $3 to $4. Today they are made of lighter metals, weight about 7 pounds, can be adjusted to different rug thick nesses, have the wheels in the center so they can handle wall-to-wall carpeting, average $12.95. Bissell dispatched one of his de luxe $19.95 models, designed as a wedding gift to brides, to Queen Elizabeth to help her "neat up" Buckingham Palace. He is proud of the varied uses to which his granddad's invention have been put. "Indian ladies have bought them to tidy up their tepees," he said. "They've kept the White House clean under both Democratic and Republican administrations, and they've been used on the St. An drew's golf course in Scotland to fluff up the greens." The carpet sweeper industry has never undergone a long depres sion, and Bissell sees a prosper ous future for it as long as people use rugs. "Maybe even longer," he re marked. "We're working on a new model now that'll sweep bare floors." A Smile or Two Montreal Star "I'm not going back to school tomorrow, mummy." "Why not, dear?" "Because o n Monday the teacher said 4 plus 4 equal 8. On Tuesday she said 2 plus 6 equal 8. Today she said 7 plus 1 equal and I'm not going back until she makes up her mind." THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT John Stuart Mill To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman. THE PROOF OF VIRTUE ' Thos. B. Macaulay The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. Salem 40 Yrs. Ago By BEN MAXWELL (Jept. 11, lilt Harwood Hall, superintendent r.t th Tnrlian crhnnl at Chpmewa. had told the Salem Commercial Club that the school was in poor condition and mlgnc oe removed to Tacoma. Polk county's concrete bridge over the slough north of Indepen dence had collapsed to add fuel to a recall movement against the county court. Sheriff Esch had received in structions from Gov. Withycombe to take precautions against any possible future movement toward deportation of James E. Fray, negro preacher at Silverton. New Woodburn high school had opened with a public reception. U. G. Shipley Co., 145-47 N. Liberty St. had advertised new fall suits for women created in wools, velour, serges and poplins freely trimmed with fur, plush and velvet. Remains of E. V. Springer who had mysteriously disappeared from Marion hotel during January oi 191b nad been lound lodged in a tree along the Willamette eight HeadlineCatching - Client Ratlstor-Gaari In the Democrats' determined effort to keep the Al (arena case a live issue. Senator Neuberger has offered a $500 "reward" to anyone who could produce umpire ore samples tossed into the Rogue River. The senator knows as well as anyone the impossibility of finding such small articles after so long a time in a rushing river. So, it can only be labeled as another effort to catch the headlines in an election year to keep alive this thoroughly warmed-over issue. And to cap it, the president ot the Oregon Mining Assn. charges the senator with another "squirrel project," which it is. FEMININE INTUITION ' Oscar Wilde No man should have a secret from his own wife. She Invariably finds out. Women have a wonder ful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. miles north of Salem. (To this writer's knowledge the Strang death of E. V. Springer has never been adequately explained). tW! AID your oyee with rke right lenses. DRESS your oyoe wins the smsrt frama. All cooing ebs ara different. Son an critical near-point, jobs. Others ara mld-polnt. Still ethers tall for accural far-faint toeing, lach eb requires Us own In-cial-purpose lenses. And lenses should b mounted In amartly styled frames to suit your ar aonality, your clothes, tho occa sion. YOU CANT UPlACt YOUR IYII. A YIARIY EXAMINATION It WISL IA1Y BUDOn TIRMS Forthe Latest in Style Call 3-5528 Dr. Henry E. jMorris Dr. Kenneth Morris OPTOMETRISTS MORRIS OPTICAL CO. ; 444 STATE ST. Reds Reported to Have Sub Base in the Mediterranean By BEM Associated Press WASHINGTON I - The U.S. Navy said today It had "no com ment" on whether it had been able to confirm the existence of a Russian submarine base at Va jona, Albania. Ther! have been vague reports out of Europe from time to time that such a base was under con struction. The latest reports comes from a Chicago Daily News correspond ent at Bonn who quotes German sources as saying work on the base began in 1948; that it has pens capable of handling 100 subs under 300-foot cliffs and guarded by air bases and rocket launch ers. If this report is true it is one of the most important pieces of mil itary news in recent years. It is logical enough to think the Rus sians would want such a base. Albania has bee. a steady ally ot the Soviets even though her northern neighbor Yugoslavia saw fit to break with Stalin in 1948 and travel an independent course. Russia long has sought a means of gaining accss to the Mediter ranean Sea without depending on passage through the Trukish-con-trolled Dardanelles and Bosporus. Valona, guarded its entrance by the island of Saseno, is 70 miles east-southeast across the Straits of Otranto from the Italian port ot Brindii. Through these straits pass all shipping entering the Adriatic Sea. lined by the east coast of Italy and the western coasts of Yugoslavia and Albania. Further, Valona lies but ITS sir miles from the American naval NO DOWN PAYMENT! UP TO 24 MONTHS ON BALANCEI ic ROYAL CORONA REMINGTON World Famous 0LYMPIA Portable OR THE 'jil'. Typewriter Rentals May Be Applied to. Purchas KAY TYPEWRITER CO. , WE GIVE Mf GREEN STAMPS 223 N. High St. Opposite Senator Hotel Ph. 3-8095 PRICE News Analyst base at Naples. Italy; 4,5 air miles from the British naval and air base at Malta. And only 800 air mile! across Greece from the British base at Cyprus. A Valona base would project Russian seapower into the heart of the Mediterranean. The Navy estimates Russia has about 400 submarines, a tremendous mini ber when you consider that Ger many started World War II with fewer than 70. A base at Valona would be only 600 miles from the North African coast and in an excellent position to cut the Mediterranean in two. The presence of any large num ber of Russian submarines in the Mediterranean could raise hob in that area. - In the event of hostilities France Spain. Italy. Greece. Turkey, Yu-' goslavia, Egypt, Israel. Syria and all of North Africa would be open to direct attacks, not to mention j their shipping. To neutralize Valona or to bottle up subs north of the Straits of Otranto, particularly if there : was heavy air cover, would be a real man-sized job. ! It the base exists at Valona. its presence would be hard to con- j ceal from even casual sea and air , reconnaissance. If it doesn't exist j so much the better. In either case. I the Navy's "no comment" is hard to fathom. WHAT POLITENESS DOES Samuel Johnson "Politeness is like an air cush ion; ther may be nothing in it. but It eases our Jolts wonderfully. f x 8 y picture Ike first place lo save r money. 16 in the banh" "The one plscs where I can get complet financial service under one roof.." AIL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS opened before Oct. 10th will' receivt full three months interest on December 3 lit. AIL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS opened with an initial deposit of $200.00 or more will receive the use of a safe deposit box for one year rent free. WHEN YOU SAVE WITH US there are no parking problems. OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT WITH US NEXT PAYDAY! OF SALEM .-8 IPTPSfea, la CHURCH end CHEMEKETA STtFETI
