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NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG Ike May Follow Smathers' Bill in Court Appointment By RAY TUCKER A 'Clean Polities' Slush Fund The Saturday Review, New York literary weekly, contains a iuii page advertisement by Elmer Davis and Archibald AlacLeisn entitled A Clean Politics ADDeal" snlicilinff ram. paign slush funds for the senatorial campaigns of Frank Church vs. Herman Welkcr in Idaho: Wavne f,. Mors v Douglas McKay in Oregon, and Richard Stengel vs. Ever- cu. iu. vuiueu in imnois. aii mree oposea are Itepublicans, Mr. Davis is a well known author, newspaperman and radio news broadcaster, formerly serving on the OWI and "Voice of America. Mr. MacLcish is a poet and served as librarian of Congress under FDR. Both are New Dealers of the ADA type. The slush fund appeal is described as a "volunteer citizens' effort to test whether the informed public would actually do some thing about a situation it has often deplored to balance the flow of special interest money in politics. We know you, too, will want to help." In addition to ads a flood of personal solicitation letters have also been sent out. The Idaho and Illinois elections are of little interest in Oregon as they do not involve betrayal of party, but the McKay-Morse contest is of vital interest to everyone in the state, ine iiavis-MacLelsn appeal plea says: "In Oregon, Wayne L. Horse (D.), one of the most independent and courageous men ill the senale, now running for re-election in a stato where financial resources on his side are practically non existent, l'is opponent, former Secretary of the Interior McKay, will have literally unlimited financial backing." Davis and MacLeish slander Oregon when they imply Ore gon elections are won by slush funds as they are in the big city states of the east, and no big fund has materialized for McKay. Morse, on the other hand has the financial support of the union labor monopoly bosses who are trying to raise a $15 million slush fund from their members to defeat Repub lican candidates including McKay. The government itself has for years financed at a high , cost, Morse's perennial political campaign by his abuse of the franking privilege in sending his congressional speeches and weekly propaganda letters to thousands of his constitu ents over the state for the last 12 years at taxpayers' expense. One point these egghead advocates of purity in politics always are silent about in touting Morse's political integrity. Twice elected by Republicans as U.S. senator after helping nominate Eisenhower for president as a delegate at the nation al GOP convention, he betrayed and deserted the party, first proclaiming himself as a national independent party, then joining the Democrats and thereby enabling them to organize the senate. Morse's reward as a traitor to his party and the voters that elected him, was a place on the Senate Foreign Relations committee. His campaign for re-election is based on faked obsolete issues, already settled by congress Hells Canyon big dam and the Al Sarena mining claim as "give-aways" by reiterated misrepresentations. Is this "clean politics setting the tone of national politics for the next two years?" Is 8 oetrayer or party a national xiero u. y. What Wasn't 'Given Away' Remember the big battle over whether states or the federal government should own the oil under the ocean from their shares out to the three-mile limit, which Louisiana claims in a suit in federal court extends to '10.5 miles in its case. The states won when congress passed and President Eisenhower signed a bill to this effect, confirming titles that had been conceded to them for several decades prior to Harold Ickes' reign in the Department of the Interior. Our Oregon Democratic leaders rent the air with charges of "give-away" and "steal" as if states were very nefarious agencies. This because oil has not been discovered on the Oregon coast. Their tune would have changed overnight had this happened. But the American public accepted the fact, whether with approval or disapproval, that the states had won, Uncle Sam lost. It now develops that the lion's share of the oil, which adjoins Texas and Louisiana principally, is outside the three or 10.5 mile limit. It goes many miles out into the Gulf of Mexico whoso waters are shallow. Doug McKay had made several very lucrative deals before he left the Interior De partment, but the surface has only been scratched. Many leases off the Louisiana coast are being held tip till the boun dary suit is decided by the Supreme Court. They've already gone 65 miles from shore and in water up to 112 feet deep. The leases go to the highest bidder. Prices are rancinir tin to $2000 an acre plus one sixth of the value of the oil mimnctl out. Of course the federal government also takes 52 percent oi me proms in taxes. An article in the current U.S. News estimates the ultimate value of this oil resource to the government at $10 billion. It is evidently easy to drill wells in the shallow waters of the gulf and the supply of oil there is vast. This is good news to all of us,' from several angles. For we will eventually need all the oil we can find, to say nothing of the cash, which a hungry government can always use. The two states arc ex pected to receive up to two billions ultimately. Hugh Luby Welcomed Again Hugh Luby has resigned as general manager of the Salem Senators Baseball club. This is news Salem baseball fans and players regret to hear. But he is going to stay in Salem, which is news that the fans and everybody else is glad to hear. Luby, who came first as playing manager of the club, and then became general manager, has in his system all the iron that it takes to handle a bunch of baseball players and keep his club in fighting trim. And ho also has the qualities of a gentleman mat, in ills six years here, have won him the friend ship and good will of Salem people, fans or not. Even on the playing field Luby could be firm and make a fight for a decision without creating a "scene." Not all managers are like that. Luby's fine baseball career, in major and minor leagues, is at an end. His business career in Salem is beginning. Six years ago he was welcomed when he came to take over the baseball club. Now again he and his family arc welcomed as a new career for him starts in Salem. Are Our Standards Crumbling? WASHINGTON, Sept. 25-Prcsi-dent Eisenhower may try to set a binding and historic precedent in filling the Sherman Minton va cancy on the Supreme Court. He has indicated that he will be guid ed by the bill introduced at the recent session by Senator George Ai Smathers of Honda. The Florida Senator's measure provides that all future appoint ments to the Supreme Court must have had at least five years of service on a lower federal bench, or on the highest court of a state. As of today, a man (or woman) mEy be named to the highest iu- dicial body without a law degree or legal training. Although Senator Smothers did not refer to the -Supreme Court's antisegregation decision, it was obviously a partial inspiration of Ins aclion. He expressed the opin ion that the tribunal's perform ance would have been better in recent years, if his proposed re- lorm had been in effect. Southern lawyers have frequent ly charged that the controversial opinion was based on social and ideological considerations rather than on judicial or even constitu tional grounds. - Senator Smathers Proposal The Itepublicans may try to make political capital out of Sen ator Smathers' suggestion, even though Ike himself may try to implement it without benefit of compulsory legislation. In view of Hie South's bitter reaction to the desegregation mandate, and the Smathers effort, GOP orators need only to point out that the Florida member is chairman of the Demo cratic Senatorial Campaign com mittee. Smathers actually cave the Re publicans no cause for such a political interpretation, however. He explained that he was simply trying to improve the caliber of I he men who are the nation's ul timate lawgivers. His move won general acclaim on both sides of the Senate aisle. "Difficulties" of Today "My proposal," he said, "might be compared somewhat to the farm system such as the New York Yankees employ to bring up new players. "I dislike to make such a com parison, but it is somewhat apro pos. Men appointed to the Su preme Court need previous ju dicial experience so that they know what their functions are, and are trained to perform their duties .... "There are some 600 well quali fied jurists who are today active in these particular fields. I can not but think that, if we had been appointing men to the Supreme Court for a long period of time from that category, we would probably not have some of the difficulties we have today. We would probably have a more ef ficient Supreme Court thus far. Despite the senator's restraint in discussing his measure, the principal "difficulties we have to day" in the politico-legal realm involve the South's general deter mination to nullify or bypass the desegregation decision. Eisenhower's Moderates The Eisenhower-Smathers plan provides another of many ex amples on how quickly and ef fectively the "Roosevelt revolu tion" has been modified by con servative attitudes and appoint ments, and without the need of statutory action. Ike has altered the trend to great extent by naming "mod erates' to the cabinet, and to the array of independent alphabetical agencies created or stacked by I'.U.K. and Truman the FCC, FPC. FTC, SEC. HEA. FHA. etc. Now, if he caps his counter-revolution by naming sitting judges in stead of professors (Frankfurter and Douglas), politicians (Black, Reed and Warren) and cronies (Clark and Burton), Eisenhower may begin a new era at Washing ton. And the new dealers will mourn, as they recall one of F.D.R.'s famous saying; to wit: "My congress will pass my New Deal laws. And my Supreme Court will approve them, embed ding them so deep in our social, economic and political system that they cannot be torn out by succeeding reactionary administrations." Installing an Engine Alexander Comments Frankly Un 'Northwest s Candidates .. j '"' POOR MAWS PHILOSOPHER Hal, Who's Been Through It, Advises Income Tax Probees Are the American people's moral standards crumbling? This question was widely asked when Jimmy Roosevelt was triumphantly elected to congress in California after confess ing moral derelictions that once would Have blasted a man out of public life. The answer was that "this could happen only in Hollywood," which actually reflects public standards as much as it moulds them. The question will be asked again, and answered by some in the wake of the rcnomination by Massachusetts Democrats of their Congressman Thomas J. Lane for re-election after serv ing a prison term for income tax evasion. It is an overwhelm ine Democratic district where nomination is considered equiv alent to election. It will be the first time in American history this has happened, but probably far from the last time. However optimistic one may seem to be, he cannot draw any very cheerful conclusions from such Incidents. Ity Holmes Alexander AIRBORNE. EASTBOUND -In the offices of the "Idaho States man" at Boise, Idaho, hangs this creoo oi a conservative newspaper. ". . . Ai between Che followers of Hamilton and Jefferson, we will generally . support those of Hamilton WHEN THEY ARE WORTHY. You can't beat that for a text to sermonize upon the politics of 1U3B in the American Northwest. Here you've got the apostles of the arch-conservative and Constitu tionalist, Alexander Hamilton, pitted against the disciples of the demo - liberal and author of the Declaration of Independ ence, Thomas Jefferson. Philoso phically, depending upon whether you think the country needs a re turn to fundamentals or a further splurge into globalissimo (actually a repeal of our Independence and a return to tho Old World), you can make your own choice. It's easy to choose between the ab stracts of right and wrong and leit ana right. But what do you do when the carriers of your de voutly - believed philosophy arc "unworthy"? It's a question to be pondered In tho Northwest States because: Senator Herman Welkcr (R) of Idaho just won't do. His voting record, a copy of which lies before me, is one to turn a Ilatniltonian green with envy. How the great icaeraiist Himself would ke In have struck so many blows for niicrty, private enterprise, rugged individualism and the downfall of two-party socialism! Welkcr voted against rigid farm support : against the Federalized breadline lull (lunches today for school children, tomorrow for their par ents'.'); against the TV A, the HFC ina price-wage controls: nrainst the dead hand extension of Fed eralized education, housing, medi cine, electricity, and natural e.ns production; against foreign aid nnd troops . to - EuroDe nnd free (for foreigners) trade. It's a negative record or is it? Actually It is the record of a man taking arms against (he sen ot troubles that besets our ltoDiih- nc. u is cienriy ine record of one who scorns popularity and orcsi dential coattails, of one who would rather be right (as he sees the right) than be a two-term Senator. Give Welkcr credit. He's cot guts, nut mat's about all. His ab senteeism is high; his prestige among his fellows and in the press corps is low. He has made his office a refuge for political hacks Irom back home. Ho has loaded his payroll with do-nothing rein lives, lie lias made a sorry spec tacle of himself as a ranter on the Senate floor and as a bully of witnesses in committee. Worse, lie lias neon less than candid on in portnnt public subjects and less lhan humane in some private deal ings. My personal oDinion. based on specific instances, is that Wel kcr is an unwell and unstable man who requires treatment not available in the Senate. He should be mercifully retired from national affairs. senator Wayne Morse (D) of uregon wont do cither. His rtollf i- cnl performance over the years Is conspicuous mainly for its incon issued by the Oregon Stale Repub lican Committee, a prejudiced source but in this case a dead-pan presenter of news items and quo tations. Morse today k regarded as a liberal Laborlte. What be will be tomorrow, nobody knows. Mean while there Is evidence in Oregon that individual Democrats and workers are going to ignore their leaders and put Morse out of his quandaries in November. One unionist puts it: "I can't come out against Morse, but I sure - mike can vote against him." Senator Warren Magnuson (D) can't be called a small man like Welkcr, nor a wild one like Morse: but he's the errand bov tvpe of senator. This is not a high calling. but Magnuson performs it at top efficiency. He has fetched so many big contracts and small favors into the state of Washintr. ton that thousands of people. Dem ocrats and Republicans, are be- noioen to him. He has, to be can did, served Washington state, but has he served the United States? You would have a hard time dis covering Magnuson's political con victions, except that he is a party regular, a self - promoter and a leuow ot inlinlto good nature. There they are, a Republican and two Democrats, all ot them opposed by men who brini? nut startling contrasts of personality as well as, politics. Welker's op ponent: is 3Z - year - old Frank, Church, a lawyer and civic leader irom noise, a conservative Demo vim. ine iinsnv Morse is im against the old shoe, Douglas Mc- r.iiy, a rurpie Heart soldier and a self-made success. Magnuson. who looks upon public otlire public trough, faces Gov. Arthur i-aiigiie, who Believes it to be a puuiic irusi. Well, it's up to the people. Salem 14 Yrs. A on By BEN MAXWKM. Sept. 25, 1942 City trucks had slnrteH rir-i '"""w am up irom aowntown de pots ana transporting it to a cen tral scrap pile on Trade St. In this year of war a S.-ilnm '! market had Chinook salmon for miming ni ibc and 18c a pound. Mrs. Sylvia T. Knox had been named new secretary to the man ager of Salem Chamber ot Com merce. Roy Burton, 64. prominent in Sa le mbanking circles for many years, died following a long illness at his home on Ewald Ave. He was born at Salem in 1878 and took a position as bookkeeper with I.add & Hush bank in 1900. William Middlrton. Rickreall hop grower, had sold his entire crop to T. A. Livesley at the top price oi ji.io a pound. Capital Journal had advertised to send Its paper to persons in the armed forces for only 60c a month by mail. NEW YORK W-An interesting thing happened to my wife last week. Uncle Sam has asked me and a friend of mine to come in tomor row and explain our 1952 and 1953 income tax returns," she said. 'That so?" I asked. "Who's the friend?" "You." said Frances sweetly. "You'll have to go by yourself," I told her. "I'm awfully busy to morrow. Couldn t possibly go. "Maybe you'd rather go to Al- catraz," said Frances. I suddenly decided I oould make R after all. Hundreds of thousands of Amer icans are being called in now to defend their back Income tax re turns. Word has been spread around that the experience is no worse than a bad cold, and that you aren t really a social success until it happens to you. Since you might be next (oh. yes you might), maybe you'd like little rundown on what to ex pect. warned by the direful tales ot friends who had survived the tax man' inquisition, we spent a sleepless night going through desk and dresser drawers looking for old financial records. We found my grade school diploma (class of 1924), Our marriage diploma (class of 1937). a picture of me in my first long pants, and a news paper clipping predicting Alf Lon don would beat F.D.R. hands down. But all that was left of 1952 and 1953 was a handful of scattered checks. They showed we had spent a lot of money but didn't say what for except a check for $15 on which Frances had, rather meanly I thought, scribbled: "For Mr. Bigshot s poker lesson, Red-eyed from lack ot sleep we showed up at the local office of the Internal Revenue Service. In a long room sat 75 agents at desks surrounded by taxpayers. No in dignant taxpayers. Just lost-look ing, red-eyed taxpayers, sleep for the same reason we were. We drew a handsome, soft spoken young agent any mother would be glad to have as a son that is, if she didn't have to ap pear before him a sa taxpayer, He put us at ease at once. "Our job isn't to collect more money from you, he said genial- lv.- "It's to determine that you have paid the exact tax. We often refund money." By HAL EOYLl Instead of a winter vacation in Florida I began to dream of a trip to Europe. That' bright vision faded quick ly as the agent began checking our returns, item by item, de manding specific proof for each deduction. The canceled checks I handed him feebly turned out to be only circumstantial evidence. "Not detailed enough," he said crisply. "That's the biggest mis take taxpayers make failing to keep adequate records. "Salesmen seem to be the worst, but writers. , , Be shook his head. "Can I plead temporary Insan ity?" I inquired humbly. "No," said the agent, "but from now on you'd better keep a diary and write down your travel and other expenses as you go. And be specific. That's the best tip I can give you. The agent scribbled and frowned and scribbled, finally said, "the amount comes to and he named a figure that sounded like the national debt. give or take a few decimal points. You owe us? I asked, at the rope s end of optimism. No, it s what you still owe, in cluding Interest at 6 per cent," he said, holding out a piece of paper. "Of course, you don't have to accept this as final. You have the right to appeal. I had a brief mental Image ot myself standing under a spotlight with the nine members of the U.S Supreme Court staring down at me. "Gimme the paper," I said. "I'll sign." Well, Frances and I aren I go ing to winter in Alcatraz. On the other hand, it doesn't look like we're going to vacation in Florida cither, unless we go on the in stallment plan. One thing more. Maybe you've heard a lot of guys hollering, "the government isn't going to make a bookkeeper out of me. Take it from me, they are all liars. I don't know how many bookkeepers there were in Ameri ca last week, but this week there is one more. Me. I have me a brand new diary and the first thing written in it is: "Cost of one financial diary: $1.95." The agent said I could deduct it from my next income tax if I don't lose it. Cheering Words Eugene Register-Guard We must take comfort where we can find it. Sometimes we're pleased by flattering word. And sometimes we re pleased wnen we're jabbed by somebody. It all depends on the somebody. We were delighted to read, then, this comment: I have an Instinctive distrust of any man with a college educa tion." And who made that statement? It was made by John Kasper, one of the instigators of the riot raised to prevent Negro students lrqm going to a high school in Clinton, Tenn. He's now in jail -for his rabble-rousing. QUALITY OF MERCY P Cicero Nothing k more praiseworthy nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than a merci ful disposition. OPEN FORUM Taxpayers Pungling Up For Morse Propaganda To the Editor: Douglas McKay's opponent, Wayne Morse, appears to have one definite advantage over Mc Kay in his current campaign for U.S. senator. Morse is using his tax - payer financial free mailing privilege to further distribute campaign propa ganda to his constituents, of course he has a right to mail to constituents copies of the Congres sional Record which is not printed at government expense, but the sheet I refer to is his Newsletter which comes in the same envelope via free mail as "Senator Morse Reports." I refer specifically the issue dated August 31, 1956 in which he is critical of the present administration for policies relating to the Department of Interior. He also discusses federal aid to edu cation. It smacks of politics in its entirety, and is delivered at tax payer expense. Morse is a smart man. He has fooled and is still fooling thou sands of fine Oregon citizens of both political parties. And what kind of a man is his opponent? Doug McKay is a man who started from scratch and built a successful business with his hands and head, giving distinguished service at the same time to his city as mayor, his county as a legislator, and his state as gover nor, and finally as a member of the President's cabinet. Unlike A Smile or Two i This Week " From a very early date, a part . of the south transept of Westmin ster Abbey has been called the Poets' Corner, and here, in the walls and beneath the paving, have been interred the bones of England's greatest writers.. An American lady one day asked her guide, "But where is Tennyson buried?" "Madam," he replied gently," "you're standing on him." SOURCE OF SECURITY Henry Ford If money is your only hope o! independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. Morse, he is a veteran; of World War I, where he was critically wounded in battle, and World War . II, in which he left his business to serve again in uniform. No, Morse is not the same type of man McKay is, for McKay works at the job of public service while Morse works at the job of making people think he is working for them, but works for himself politically. McKay was one of Oregon's most popular governors. He will give us Oregonians some prestige in the Senate. There isn't much there now, for Oregon. Joe Lane, 2800 Blossom Dr., Salem. Dannie!! 1 AID your eyes with the right Units. DRESS your eyes with the smart (ram. All seeing Jobs are different. Soma are critical near-point. Jobs. Others are mid'polnt. Still ethers call for accuralt far-point seeing. Each lob requires Its own spe cial-purpose lenses. And lenses should be mounted In smartly styled frames to suit your per-, tonality, your clothes, the occa sion. YOU CANT REPLACE YOUR EYES. A YEARLY EXAMINATION IS WISE. 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