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Capital jLJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 4-6811 Near East Jackpot Quiz sift- Inflation Chief Election Issue In his Ohio and Kentucky speeches President Eisenhower tptly characterized the Democratic presidential nominee as "an apparently confused" candidate, who wants to return to the "zig-zag, directionless road of trial and error that the Democrats have pursued in the past," thus fulfilling the pre diction made before Stevenson's nomination by ex-President Truman. The President accused Democrats of spreading "wicked nonsense and political bunk," and ripped into the charge that his administration has coddled big business and scorned the little man, and enumerated measures he had asked of Con gress, which were rejected by the Democratic control, that Mr. Stevenson is now blaming Eisenhower for. He also stressed the danger of a return to Democratic rule which brought only "a drifting war . . . raging inflation . . . bigger federal spend ing, heavier federal taxation," and declared: "To revert now to the unsound, inflationary, antibusincss, heavy-tax, heavy-spending, government-interference, central-Izcd-control policies from which this country has so recently been rescued could reverse all the progress wc have made. Surely, this is risk that it would bo foolish to run." Mr. Eisenhower brought up a neglected, but perhaps the most important is,sue of them all, failure of the Democrats to curb inflation and the responsibility for permitting the value of the dollar to shrink to half its value. He charged the Dem ocrats with "economic thievery in tolerating inflation, which was a main Issue in throwing them out of office four years ago." Inflation has been halted but even an "egghead" can't unscramble the Inflation omelet. And the Democratic platform, if carried out, would restore their inflation cycle. It has been well said that: "If any one can keep the peace and keep America united, It Is President Eisenhower, in military experience and judgment, . in world experience and knowledge, in character, integrity, selflessness, conciliatory temperament, humility, and in the ability to rise above partisanship, there Is no comparison with Adlai Stevenson." Why upset an era of peace, harmony, with stabilization and good will, with prosperity and full production and balanced budget, with greatest employment and highest wages In history, to install untried and inexperienced politicians? It is true Mr. Stevenson has been governor of Illinois. But what did the people of Illinois think of his regime as governor? He was elected as Democratic chief executive in 1948 by a majority of o72,067. In 1952, as Democrat nominee for Pres ident, he was defeated by Ike by a majority of 443,401. A fair .test of popularity as well as his administration. G.P. Ominous Shift in British Labor Parly "" A' Britain's ally, America and her-people are vitally con cerned with a reversal of policy by the British Labor party, which from reports seems likely to recapture control of the British government at the next election, Eden and his con servative party have lost ground in Egypt and Cyprus and in failure to cope with rising living costs in Britain. The Labor party has restored Aneurin Bevan to favor by electing him party treasurer. It had rejected him for party leader in December, 1955 in fav'or of the moderate, Hugh Galtskell. Bevan was expelled from the parliamentary labor party me lounwing Marcn ana restored oniy titer ne apoio ; gized for his feuding with the party leaders, and promised to : be good. Now Bevan returns to a position of leadership and his elec tion to it proves that he again has widespread support in his nartv. Ha aflarknrl I ho United Stales In a sneech at the party gathering, for which he was vigorously applauded, British Labor, reflecting Bevan's ascendancy, broke with British tradition of union of its two parties in foreign crises by letting the country know it would not back the Eden gov ernment if it sought a showdown with Egypt. This had the effect of pulling the rug out from under Eden while he was negotiating. The party also declared for German union and for with drawal of Russian and American forces from Germany. The party knows union is possible only on Russian terms and that a troop withdrawal will mean return of the Americans to the United States, withdrawal of the Russians only across the Polish border, which they can recross any time on a few min utes notice. It was a definite shift from alignment with the west to alignment with the east by a party that may soon gov ern Britain again. As a result our British ally is much less dependable. It may be on Russia's side within a few years. Women Students for Yale? Most of the old colleges on the east coast are for either men or women, not coeducational, as are virtually all the west ern colleges. Obcrlin in Ohio was as we recall the first co educational institution, But the trend in recent times has been toward coeducation. Outstanding changes here in the Pacific Northwest were Port land and Gonzaga universities. Now Yale, one of the oldest, a citadel of male isolation from feminine wiles almost as long as the barber shop was, is trembling on the brink. Yale's dean of admissions wants women admitted. The ban Is outmoded, ho says, a form of cxclusiveness and all exclusive ness Is. bad. Ho predicts that admitting women will improve scholastic standards and attract some males now going else where bpcauso they don't want Yale's type of cxclusiveness. Still another argument is that the Yale campus empties Fri day afternoon as the men rush to places where women can be found, New York, Boston and elsewhere. Yale's undergraduate college dean promptly backed his col league's stand, upon which the trustees have not yet acted. You may be sure they are already hearing from the alumni. The desire of the students can easily be guessed. Mr I'll mk you rmms I Jm THE SAME V ( EVERyTHING!)' y QUESTION-WHAT S-T BH$&' ' Could youj$i . f MU POOR JIAN'S PHILOSOPHER Frenchman Has Made 10,000 Dives, One of 'em 300 Feet By HAL SOYLl OPEN FORVM 'Putrid Tripe' He Says Of Journal Editorial To the Editor: If the reputation of the Capital Journal as a purveyor of putrid tripe was not established before, the editorial "Adlai Comes Clean" in the issue of Sept. 18 should clinch It. Prom a statement in this edltor; ial referring to the trial of Alger Hiss I quote, "technically, perjury, but actually treason." With the first part of this statement few If any will take exception It is a matter of record. The other part of the statement is unmitigated bunk. It Is probaly fortunate for many If not most of the citizenry o! this country that the founding fathers took the precaution to concisely define treason in the constitution and did not love It to the Hitlers the McCarthys, the Nixons and the newspaper editors to make the rules to auit their immediate wants. Even casual reading of the con stllution should convince anybody with a less than completely closed mind or whatever is used in lieu thereof that even if all the wrong ful acts alleged against Hiss are admitted, they do not add up to treason as defined therein. If Hiss had dealt with the en emy the Hermans and Japs when we were at war with them as he was alleged to have dealt with the Reds there would have been a "dead open and shut" case of treason against him. In that event he wouid probably havo got off etiMcr than he did in Ins act ual trial. Courts and lawyers and politicians being as soft on l'nsc ism as many o( them obviously are. He might have gone scott free as Elizabeth Dllling and most of the other 40 odd defendants in the wartime sedition case after the death of the presiding judge 'Adlai Comes Clean." Bunk! it is more like a pusillanimous con cession to the Fascists and witch burners. Even so Adlai is less un- desirable as a president than Ike and his gang. H. M. stryner, Salem, Ore. Editor's Note Basis of this ti rade Is a quibble over the meaning ot treason, section 3 oi nrucic of the U.S. constitution defines treason as follows: Treason against the United States shall consist only In levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. Our allegation of treason ngainst Hiss was based on his giving aid to Russia, which was clearly prov en. The question raised is whether Russia was an enemy of the Unit ed States at the lime. Wc were not at war. Our belief was and is that Russia is nn enemy of the United States. Anyone is entitled to doubt this, as the writer of the foregoing obviously does. But such people arc not very realistic Dulles Veto of War on Suez Unites Britain and France NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG WASHIINGTON Secretary! John Foster Dulles' insistent de mands for a peaceful settlement of the Suez canal dispute has driven Britain and France closer together than in many years, and may yet result In the formation of a United States of Europe in jurious to our interests. The dis unity among the great western powers was never more danger ous than now, and it is a keen source of satisfaction to Moscow. To blurt out the unpalatable truth, which could cost the GOP many votes on November 6, Prime Minister Anthony Eden and Premier Guy Mollct, as well as their foreign ministers, are hardly on speaking or friendly terms, diplomatically, with the American secretary of state. London, Paris Blame Dulles London and Paris blame the patient, peaceful and forebearing Dulles, as well as President Eis enhower, for bloating up Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser by opposing the immediate use of force against him. Perhaps more seri ous from their personal view point, they feel that Dulles' in tervention has jeopardized their political survival. Both Eden and Mollet arc un der heavy fire from Labor and Socialist factions which endorse Dulles' policy of a possible com promise with Nasser. Simultane ously, they are targets of criti cism from conservatives and na tionalists who advocate strong arm tactics against the Egyptian dictator. : - Dulles belatedly recognized this growing hostility when, at a or three-fourths majority of legisla tors approving. Talk about a small minority! It is true, many of the opponents of this proposition do see in it a scheme to enact a sales tax. Re publican Senator Wilhelm, chair man of interim tax committee, admitted, stating in a Capital Journal story, lhat a sales tax would fi-ohahly be enacted if Pro- postion No. t is approved. Finally, 1 uisagrec with your viewpoint It is "shocking, each of the other 47 state has this authority." to attach emergency clauses. When 1 was taught Ore gon history in grade school, my teacher told me Oregon was proud to have been the first state to establish initiative and rcferen rium proccodures. She wasn't shocked at our having a more democratic form of government than other states, and 1 don't be lieve most of the rest of us are. 1 am still proud Oregon is different in this respect I Guy Jonas, Salem Kditors's Note Wo used the word "shocking" in an ironic way. Actually" nothing shocks us anv By RAY TUCKER recent press conference, he said that he had not ruled out the eventual resort (o "force" against Nasser. Anti-American Attitude Stems From Suez Problem This new anti-American reori entation stems directly from the Suez problem. It threatens . to unite Britain with six European nations France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg in a continental confederation. It envisages a new free trade area known as a "common mar ket," a steel cartel, a unified po litical organization and a pooling of interests for peacetime and wartime development of nuclear energy. England has held aloof from such engagements for many years. She believed that such entanglements would weaken hr ties with the Commonwealth na tions. Slightly isolationist, her statesmen opposed entanglements of a continental character. Ihey also feared that momhnr. ship in a European union would be interpreted in this country as turning their back On the United Stales, which has poured men and money abroad to save them from a German and Russian con quest. And so it would be in terpreted at the White House and at the State Department. "lonieneratlon of Europe" -But. as freouentlv noted in thii column, the British and Fronnh Degnn to question our brand of diplomacy, Including its onera. lion and effects since Woodrow Wilsons day. Then. too. thr is the current belief that a strong European f eneration (or Union) could act as a "third force" be tween .Russia and the United aiaies. it is a tempting thought to statesmen who cannot face the fact that their nations stand in danger of becoming second-rate satellites to the United Slates of America. as lurther evidence of the growth of this idea, West Ger man Lnancellor Konrad Aden auer, although not directlv or deeply involved in the Suez canal crisis, recently called for creation of a Confederation of Europe. We Are Lieking Polio r ,1 11-1 1 ..- ..111 1- ..I-,- ,1.,- .1, 1 ruuu isii l iicm-u ytu, uui immune victory over nils ureao.!- rp scourge seems assured and not many years away, based onj l,'"'s current figures just released by the U.S. Public Health Service. Power lo Legislature September is considered the peak month for new polio cases i To the Editor: in me nuuiiciu mhici. 111 no wiiiu , iu-w rasvs (ins year " nw ' : ict 1,- triisled to legislate were 70S, last year 1804. The week before produced S8 cases i" he November ballot, a constitut- ' (or ,h w) no, aboljsh against 1049 in 15)55. The year's total from January 1 through i j , t'ach mi I J ! '' Sept. 22 was 11.503 new cases compared with 21.751 in 195.V Sses to tax legislation. U notlThese Are Golden Oel. I lie numoer ot paralytic cases aiso neciinco, trom nun in lii.in based on a "complete distrust of to 4991 this year. the legislature. The main oppos- NEW YORK 11 If fish hate men, the man they have reason to hate most is a French naval officer named Jacques-Yves Cou steau. He turntd the world's seas into a goldfish bowl by co-inventing the aqualung in 1942. Since then the oyster in its pearly bed on the ocean floor has enjoyed no more .privacy than a flagpole sit ter. Cousteau, a slender athletic man of 46, is the acknowledged "father of free diving." a sport followed by half a million enthu siasts in America alone. . Since he put on a face mask and submerged for the first time in 1936, Cousteau has made more than 10.000 dives, including a rec ord descent of 300 feet in 1947. But altogether I have probably spent a total of two months under water," he said, "That isn't very. much, Is it? Cousteau wrote a book of his amazing subsca adventures that sold 2,650,000 copies. He also pro duced for Columbia Pictures "The Silent World," a weirdly beautiful film of ocean life that won grand prize at the 1956 festival at Cannes. What began as a sport for Cou steau' has become a serious ca reer. He wants to spend the rest of his life solving the secrets of the sea, particularly the mystery of the Continental Shelf. This shelf, an average of 1,000 feet below the surface, he said, 'extends out from every conti nent from one or two miles to hundreds of miles. Beyond it lies the ocean abyss. Very little is known of this shelf, yet it covers an area great er man Europe, u is my arcam to conquer it." Cousteau has a mud disdain for both amateur spearfishers and professional fishermen who go down to the sea with nets. Fishing is a thing I hate, he said positively. "I feel that in 50 years fishing will be prohibited in every sea. But the fish themselves can take little consolation from this prediction. Cousteau- simply re gards present day fishing meth ods as wasteful and destructive. He would mine the oceans of their mineral wealth, turn them Into watery farmlands in which fish are ranched as scientifically as cattle are on dry land now. The sea is our greatest re source, he said. It can sustain double the world's present population." Cousteau has assembled a staff of 50 specialists to plan and man his future expeditions. One of the perils of free diving is nitrogen narcosis, or, as Cou steau has aptly named it, "rap- Salem 13-Yrs. Ago Ry BEN MAXWELL Oct. 4, 1943 Hunting accident had claimed three lives ir, Oregon over the weekend and a five year old boy had been fatally wounded while playing with a loaded gun. Pays on the Snnliitm One of the most encouraging facts is that no child who re-''1'"" lhp d"'"" people I To the Editor: .iuorf ll.n full pnmnlemtnt nf thren Salt vaccino shnte iiinH nf l'n retain as mucn emu ns w Ronald Strand. 14. Madronna Ave., had suffered a fracture of the lower left leg and abrasions about the head when a team ran away. (This writer, knows of nn more, not even tne conviction ot , later run away in the Salem area.) some tnal a legislature the people More than 6000 housewives, farm ers and victory gardeners had pro cessed 350,000 cans of fruits and vegetables at the II community canneries in Oregon, Patrons paid six or seven cents for the cans but furnished their own produce ana aia meir own work tho disease this year. Only 59 Percent 'One Parly' Maybe facts shouldn't be sought during a political campaign These are Eolden October dnvs slble over government. I consider ion the Santiam. The golden har- iina a iirniii,, niiutiu,. r.M oi sweet corn ann green l.j ,j -j , The most controversy state- beans, luscious Italian prunes and: id in mltli P V' ...nnl vn .A nll.nF nrnnnn.nl. nf i M.M, k.l. ., J.i;l..,.. i lel aid to members Of tht arm- t h i s constitutional amendment summer of gulden davs to sweet- make is. "a small minority of the'en the grapes and brighten our i,.hn n,nlh filllna .Innan. .r. n much mnr. .llrl,,n l,. ","'rs " """"y irgiMmne ra spirits. nal more can we ask? Oregon state bar board of gov- ed forces who isheddivorces. ture of the deep." No one Is just nro how it oDcrates. but under heavy pressure the nitrogen in the air the diver breathes seems to affect his nerves in the same way alcohol causes Intoxication, Cousteau, who has suffered (or enjoyed) this strange sensation hundreds of times, said "It may strike you without warning at 150 feet. But you are sure to feel it at 200 feet. "It strikes people in different ways. It may exhilarate you or depress you. But it tends to take away your caution and instinct for survival. 'It has taken the lives of half Salem', Oregon, Thursday, October '4, 1956 They Say Today Quotes From Th i News LONDON -Bing Crosby on his Honestly, I singing: thinkrvest'rctcW. talent which is so thin mat u V." parcnt over quite " on going down. Others simply re li.:' j ,hr. thev were until they drowned. Anything can hap pen Your mind is almost obli terated. At 300 feet I was quite drunk." r-.., ,.i,,, hat noticed an odd thine about this narcosis. "A man who holds his liquor ...oil who can take a dozen Martinis and not show their, -seems better able also to light tf n, mni ore of the deep, he rnmarltpd. But he says he wouldn't recom mend drinking Martinis as a good ll litis icmcu me mca ui nan - a ,. . a dozen men. Some simply kept way to train for deep sea diving. ble term of years SO of them actually." PITTSBURGH- Adlai Steven. son In reply to President Eisen hower's "wicked nonsense" charge: ' "We all expect in politics to be accused without regard to the fairness of the charge, of talking nonsense. We don't expect to be charged with wickedness." BROOKLYN Dodger catcher Roy Campanella on the first ball from his battery mate, President Eisenhower, at the first World Series game: "He told me I might havt'to run around a little to catch the ball because he didn't have much idea where it was going. But wt worked it out fine." i n.1ll,rNtni, Yl ! J i n. WAaniwuiun rresiueni fcl senhower to his Brooklyn naviga tor of the plane which flew" him back to the White House: ' "I'm glad your team won." NUTRITIONAL EXPERT AT PAY LESS DRUG THURSDAY-FRIDAY-SATURDAY - MISS JEAN STINNETT, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FROM BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, THE GREAT HEALTH CENTER, WILL BE IN OUR STORE TO HELP YOU. NO OBLIGATION TO PURCHASE LAXEL I KELP TABLETS Natural source of lo- Reg. $2.10 Harmless Non-Drug f c'ine 'rom '3'ue ''a" tA ft A Laxative. For Gentle $T JLC1 cific plus all the Essen- )1 nn Relief. Z.DT tial minerals. 250 Tab- I.HA 16" oz. Jar ",v lets ..- iWW BAYCINE ALFALFA TABS for the relief of iridi- 100 TableU .. , gestion and heartburn. Reg. $3.40 MonV u,5er f!n rth" Re9- 1-98 Nan habit forming. .1 A ritlc 4Re ie,f wjth these i J fit againl 50 $Q J. Vibraline Food Supplement 60 Miperals and 60 Vitamins in a Nutriant base for faster assimilation. Very similar in potency to Vitamins sold from house to house at 19.95. All 1 20 Tablets conveniently packaged. ONLY WHY PAY MORE? SUNDAY HOURS 11 A.M. TIL 8 P.M. State division of vocational ed- I ucation had trained 1M.607 war somebody is always doing It, to the embarrassment of the i, , smu minoriiv? li take, about ,h,',.e ,V ,u i.v-it in nJ ork'rs in 0.rfsn " '" slogan makers. : 20.0.17 signatures on a petition toivember. but that shouldn't damp-i Editor and Publisher has mane a survey ot the one party ireier a tax out to tne people, ana en our spirits. nrK' tn son who th rixilv npwsnaners arc simnnrtinp rr j it you will cheik your history, us-1 We still have our beautiful ' ' ' ' 1 " nallv cnv-i.rnl Itmnc lh, ni.mh.i- ually several times this number, America president this time. Out of 883 who responded, Sfl percent Vrte in support ot the I The administration had formallv i proposed a tax program that are supporting ftisennower, 1 percent supporting iixon ann point ot those who referred thc solden record of men like Ceorse the other 24 percent have not declared for either. Ry circu-; hill. In contrast, only 47 members i Washinston and Abraham Lincoln. latlon Eisenhower had the support of 63 percent, Slevenson of . me legislature, a simple major-; and we may still have a part in !. 11 t. 11 , , , j ,. I would yield the treasury $15,60, We still have liberty and the nvinon in n r..nm, 14 percent. So we move to amend the percent one party press." 'one party press" to the "59 ily. can attach Ihe emergency ! makint a aolden future for Amer- clause to a tax bill. The proposal j ica. doesn't even have the customary 1 J. W. Prabodv, Uafcguardi requiring a twthirdsi Stayton, Ore. t peace. 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