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Capital AJournal
An Independent Newspaper Established 1888
BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus
Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North
Church St. Phone EM-46811
I j Tclcplione
The new "EMpire" prefix for
. lie telephone and Telegraph
; a successful tryout and is functioning satisfactorily. It is one
; of many improvements that bring Salem in line with the
numbering plan being installed in the United States and
Canada.
The change is heralded as
, 'distance dialing' into and out of Salem will permit users to
; dial their own lone distance calls.
I- : Our telephone service improves with the years, each of
i wnicn sees some new public service added. By dialing central
you can find the accurate time; you can call the police, fire
', department, or FBI, and you can get mobile telephone service
' for auto, trucks and trains.
' Three quarters of all families in the United States have
their own phone, which number over 53,000,000 and 200.000,-
.. 000 miles of telephone wire
: density is 32.81 per 100 persons, with 46.5 in New York City
". and 61.7 in Washington, D. C. More than 200,000,000 conversa-
tions are carried on each day
; The telephone, like the telegraph, is an American invention
and over half the telephones in the world are in the United
1 States. Yet elsewhere in the world, especially in Europe, it is
; utilized to keep people informed, perhaps to a greater extent
2 than here. In Vienna, it is reported, a news service has been
m added with five minute summaries of world and local news
' itve times daily along with 15 other different public services,
" including musical interludes, fairy tales, menus, food buys,
J pjizzles, market quotations, sport results, weather, etc., cvi-
0j:ntly replacing the radio service here.
' Paris phones supply recipes for t lie housewife by a private
corporation when dialed at a monthly fee and questions of all
I kinds are answered. Moscow has a similar arrangement, the
" '.government charging variable fees. Switzerland provides a
;strvice that rings subscribers at an appointed hour, instead
of an alarm clock.
' " These countries, along with Sweden, have telephone boxes
I .along their roads, where motorists can phono for assistance,
t 'or for a doctor in case of emergency. CP.
j g If We Spend, We Must Pay
'. ;. Senator Neuberger, whose nimble brain buzzes with ideas
.' for increased federal spending, is also aware of the reluctance
! of his public to pay taxes. He is now out with a ringing cry
; for repeal of the federal transportation tax, on the plausible
; ground that it discriminates against the West, which Is farther
; rom the centers of population, hence requires more transpor-
tatlon.
J All of us would like to see the transportation tax repealed.
J It does cost us a lot of money. Ditto all those remaining
; "nuisance" excise taxes that, as we now recall, were imposed
to fight a war with, but remained as grim reminders that noth
" ing is so permanent as a "temporary" tax. And while Dick
I p about ft, there are a lot of other levies we could do very well
J Without.
; The West does suffer from this transportation tax. But
every tax hits some folks harder than others. The tightwad
. who doesn't spend avoids the sales tax, the chap with a big
Income pays more Income tax. Those with property pay a
stiff levy, which those who
; manufacturers now "equalize" the transportation costs on their
'r products, which makes thoso nearest them help pay the freight
i -bills of those farthest away.
. lot of freight bills on what we
" ing 'em on the numerous western products that go cast. It's
; a complex economy and hard to determine who is burdened
; most by any particular tax.
-t Two things we do know: All taxes are burdensome and tho
" more the government spends, the more taxes we'll have to pay.
Senators do not benefit us by advocating increased spending
' and lower taxes. They just kid us.
Double Responsibility
' i The car or truck driver has a double responsibility from the
'. safety point of view.
This is stressed as the first of "10 commandments" formu
lated by 20 professional drivers employed by the American
Can company and approved by the National Safety Council
r which has cited the drivers for expertly navigating their fleet
of eight-ton trucks more than 700.000 miles without an acci
dent. ; The American Can drivers hold that the vehicle driver is
; responsible for his own compliance with traffic rules and laws
and also for the driver who may be violating law or regulation.
V Here is their first commandment:
'. '. "Be ready at all times to compensate for the other fellow's
r mistakes. Your own driving is safe only if you are prepared
J ;to make up for the fact that tho other fellow may be sick, in
.' ilttcntive, tired, asleep, confused, suffering from defective vis-
Ion, or just plain drunk
It's a eond rule In follow even Ihoiich II mav damaee vnur
. . . i,. ii ..
",u7" ".".'7 ' "?
And it's well to remember
proper driver may be watching
This is MOT the War to Do It
The Democratic cnmmitlec of Yamhill county voted last
night to ask Yamhill Republican Senator Carl Francis to vote
with the Democrats to break the State Senate tie in favor of
the Democrats. The vote was said to have been unanimous
The Capital Journal hopes the Democrats organize the Sen
ile, but not in this manner. It should be done by voluntary
agreement between the parties, not by bribing, intimidating or
otherwise "influencing" some Republican to vote against the
party that elected him. Even
recently politically approved precedent. The same reasoning
of course applies to a Republican deal with a Democrat.
Few Republicans would have as little excuse for such a
break as Francis. He represents a county that went Republican
for president, I'. S. senator. cnni;res. unvernnr. se ;?tary of
slate, stale treasurer and member of Ihe Slate House i,f Re
presentatives, lie would he renudiatiiu: Ihe whole principle of
representative gnvprnmrnt hy
owed the Republicans no loyalty for supporting him or attor
ney general.
Francis' Democratic ncinhliors surely paid him no compliment.
Just i Mental Altitude
Whether a smell is pleasant or unpleasant ii all in the atti
tude of mind of the smeller.
in ohicti, is idm-u a
Albany, the most exquisite
Obviously wa refer to the
cirf nf nur nniphhnrinff citv
a gentle zephyr from the south,
trils of Salem people as a reminder that A.h.nv. too, is an in-
dust rial citv
ur ie t.'i,oi nninrrt.
inn in ...in. .111- ' .
" lis employes have spent about 42n non in local retail ir-
haves du'rine the past voar-sw citing the cross sales nf groecrv storiK
bv $iam M nutting' J.-'H.ono in the tills of local auto e.iler. for
Instance
"Western Kraft i' stable l!months-a-vear Induwry with huh
rate of pay Ivcauso of its skilled nature. .Ml the enneinic teiwini
It tn.nlie. r. .olio uhieb me.-m nit ma. rh' v.o
The rml aotv monnain (l
al (Otv KOHnin f it At i no emWMS V3J WMtf . a CM ft from w ilbvR, any young nrains mio in lactones are wen ruivgrn-u im.i..r. n - i nunougn mnia s si minion peo
tomma il ) ' HW i t n:v has tar more chance where guided missiles are invent-, generation 01 technicians might -pie outnumber the combined pep.
Is wi ocn, f,-o;gs.; c inort Wt& 19 ft futwti" winning the sympathy and jup-,cd, and left the sccoM best to, not be men of ucn conscience. illations othe I'mted Stales and
ven :-pnrr cormmiBO
market Mill I:
Progress
the Salem service of the Paci-
Co. system, has apparently had
a step forward to the day when
link these phones. The telephone
by phone in 48 states
own intangibles, escape. Many
And while the West is paying a
buy In the East, the East is pay.
-.7. ' n
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that some other patient and
you at the same time.
if there is one distinguished and
such a switch, .i-sumiim he
.ni.u. -u.-i. i u im- u'.n- m
fragrance.
Kraft Taper null a few miles this
which, on anv dav when there is
flaunts its'presence in the nos
Herald has to sav about It:
f.lttir sn MIW WUJ
NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG
Republican Gains in Virginia
Causing Confederate Chills
By RAY TUCKER
WASHINGTON Dec. IS The: low up and make permanent these
Souths alarm over Yankee itc-
publicans' recent victories is u-lus..-aled
most dramatically in Vir
ginia Democrats' preparations to
escape a political Fort Sumter. Al
though tho Confederates won that
skirmish off Charleston harbor, it
heralded a losing conflict and
years of economic and political
subjugation by the North.
As in 1861-65, the Old Dominion
enjoys vast prestige below t h e
Mason and Dixon I.inc in many
respects. Slwuld the Confederacy's
most honored state keep on voting
Republican, especially in local and
congressional contests, it would
set an extremely unhappy example
for Southern voters everywhere.
Alfred K. Smith's 1928 loss of
Virginia may be dismissed as one
of those things which Americans
like to forget. But President Ki
senhower's JM2 and IWi majori
ties have frightened the Democrat
ic organization, including its dis
tinguished leader, Senator Harry
F. Byrd of Winchester.
GOP Vote In Virginia
Quite as significant as Ike's suc
cesses is the fact that Ted Dalton,
Republican, narrowly missed out
on the Governorship in W53. He
rolled up 45 per cent of the total
turnout, an amazing figure. Final
ly, the GOP has two members of
the 10-mnn delegation in the
House.
This chancing politico-economic
pattern in Virginia applies to al
most every southern state except
possibly South Carolina 'site of
Fort Sumter), Georgia, Arkansas
and Mississippi.
Industrial growth and diversin-
cation have upset ancient econo
mies and broken down old pre
judices. Labor unions are making
inroads. Negroes are obtaining the
vote, and on- November fi they
shifted back in largo numbers to
the parly of "Uncle Abe" and
Ike, or vice versa.
Republicans Seem to Make
Most of Development
The Republican National and
Congressional committees aim to
capitalize on this evolutionary de
velopment. They have combined
In a joint grassroots effort to fol-
Franco-British
Helped U. N. Win Big Victory
Bv DAVID
WASHINGTON Prime Min
ister Kden and Premier Mollet
and the peoples of Great Britain
and r ranee can
derive & good
deal of satisfac
tion over what
has just hap
pened in the
United Nations,
For, without
the noble exam
ple of s e 1 f-
tleninl which the
British and
French gave in
agreeing to with
draw their
troops from the Suez area, there
would have hcen no such emphasis
possible on the contrasting behav
ior of the Soviet Union with regard
to Hungary.
Sometimes things work out for
the hest, and in this instance, had
it not been for the original display
of impatience by Britain and
France over Nasser's tactics of
aggression, (here would not have
been tile same opportunity today
to rally the free world in a great
moral denunciation of who! the
armies of the Soviets are doing in
Hungary.
Today Ihe whole world sees Brit
ain and France accepting the ver
dict of the free world thai negotia
tion of a settlement of Hie Suez
Canal question should be resumed
without involving the pressure of
military force. But the whole
world sees also how the Soviet
n"m ls depriving the people ol
i Hungary of llieir richls and liber-
,es as an independent nation by
the eriiel hand of on occupying
army.
The I'.N , by its resolution
''condemns the violation of I h c
uu- mivi-i iimeiH oi tne
I'mmi of Soviet .Socialist Republics
in depriMiig Hungary of its liberty
,'inil independence and the I lull-
""""I""'" me exercise m
Ihnr flHlitrmii.nl il t-M.tiic "It
rharppt ih.. rn, u'iih'
"violatinc tho political indeprnd -
enro of Hungary" hv "using its
nrmcH fnrr a.in.t '((, vinnoori.
an people.- ' and rails unon MnS.!when he !hinks somc,hinS needs-
cow to "desist forthwith from any
form of intervention in the intern-
al affairs of Hungary and to
make "immediate arrangements."
uitdiT Vnilnl Nations observation,
for the withdrawal of its forces
and the "re establishment of the
political independence of Hun-
garv
Many observers ask ' What tootl
will wnuls do'" The question
ignores the tremendous power of ;
moral force in the modern world,
nf extensive eonmiiinic.ition. The1
fact that the United Nations con
demns the Soviet Union for the
first tune in the history of lite in
ternational organization will be
come known throughout the iron
curtain countries. It is n signal
In the people generally that the
Soviet Union, which has heretofore
tnp(1 ,0 Rlvp ,h(l nnprt,SM01, ul
,t uas standing as a great govern-
j ment on a parity with other gov.
, ernnents, is no longer doing so.
- : Mnst important is the encourage-j
- esouuion
the iron curtain to tr the same
t.-...- i.- : ' .i.lare lo keen un even with the non
i.Min.i in. i. irn- liuil.lllfln lfl'Nr . . . .
tune so bravely put 'into practice ih-thal developments in society,
The free world doesn't waul to " "c"1 ,ak' their
,. , ;nied forces ue to "Lib-: faces in the ministry. Ihe law.
rate" Ihe oppressed peoples in buMnes. tlie fine arts, education,
ieA , uelliie countries. For to dn.Hmcs. journalism and other
nolv gne the Soviets .tields. Wed be short sighted in-
ufnuuM . eemiral war. Like- deed if we channeled our best
w.w. a f. from wilbvn, any
gains.
Recognizing that their basic
weakness lies in shoddy and
politics-for-money-only local organ
i7tinn: Ihev are canvassing the
South for solid, substantial and
rpsnei-tahlo men to head city,
county and stale groups, and to
run for office. In the past, the
GOP has used the South only for
trading or shanghaiing delegates
to the national convention.
Senator Hvrd'l Strategy
Although Senator Byrd indirect
ly helped lusenhower in lt:t ana
1II56 by refusing to support Adlai
E. Stevenson, he wants no perm
anent Republican occupation of his
terrain. He is only waiting and
working for the day when his party
will be cleansed of those whom he
regards as wild-eyed radicals, re
formers and experimenters.
So, the strategist of the lovely
Shenandoah valley has assumed
command of his troops openly and
effectively, contrary to his usual
quiet and unassuming leadership
technique, He has given orders,
eight months in advance, that
there must be no bitter primary
battle in fact, no battle at all
over the nomination for governor
in 1957.
Some Virginia Democrat Worried
Such is his influence, and so
worried are the Democrats, that
even anti-Byrd candidates com
plied. They closed ranks against
the Yankees when he publicly en
dorsed Attorney General J. Lind
say Almond, Jr., as the guber
natorial candidate. With his other
selections for state offices, he will
confront the Republicans with the
strongest Democratic ticket in
years.
Similar difficulties face squab
bling Democratic factions in many
other Southern and border states,
especially Florida, Louisiana, Tex
as, Kentucky and Tennessqe. Ike
carried all of them last month.
They, too, need to close, ranks.
For Dixie's Democrats discover
that they cannot tolerate Repub
lican victories on a national level
without endangering their local
dynasties and personal organiza
tions.
Withd rawal
LAWRENCE
port of the other nearby countries
than would the interjection of an
external factor which could serve
as a means of rallying national
passions.
It is a delicate situation for the
western allies today, and they
wisely agreed at the NATO meet
ings last week not to offer any
program of military help if E a s t
Germany should revolt. This does
n't mean that private organiza
tions or emigres supported by vol
untary contributions do not aid the
underground resistors. That's go
ing on all the time. The Moscow
government, in fact, is trying to
prove that all this activity is in
spired hy the United States gov
ernment, but it isn't so.
When the U.N. takes un the So
viet resolution demanding an in
quiry on the subject, an excellent
opportunity is alforded to tell the
real story of what various little
groups on this side of the iron
curtain arc trying to do to liberate
their countrymen. It might afford
the basis of an appeal bv some
of those same organizations to the
I'.N. to plead with the citizens of
free countries to send arms and
help of all kinds. Maybe Moscow
wili regret bringing up the sub
ject. The U.N. cannot but be regard
ed as a powerful moral force in
the world. What it has done in
condemning the Soviet Uniom
stands out as a sensational step.
It is unfortunate that India, Egypt
and Indonesia abstained from vol-
ini! and cave the impression lhai
they are afraid to olfend the Soviet
Union. But the 55 nations, includ -
ing some members of the Asian -
African bloc, who voted for the
resolution spoke words that will be. "V" 11 s no wonder comic Jack
; hrar( .,.,, tnc world
Wo Need "em All
v.ntcm licglster-Giiard
A ,i,st somebody said it. The
1 sonio w1V onp.of the most
I ollt5Poken educators in the state,
man who isn't afraid to pop off.
! to be said. He is A. L. Strand.
i the affable president of Oregon
-State i'oHoro, where science and
engineering, ns well as agricul
ture, are sacred subjects.
President Strand told his bosses
on the board of hicher education
that he feared the whole nation
was becoming so "science mind
ed" that we are m dancer of
neglecting other suhiects w hich
are equally important, "There is."
he said, "a danger of overdoing
it."
Mravo, Mr. Strand. We. too. gel
n little fed up with this chatter
about the need for more scien
tists, Not that we doubt the need.
But the need, il seems, is ad
vanced for the wrong reasons. The
need, according to the chatter we
hear, is for more scientists who
can make bigger and better guid
ed missiles and H-bombs and other
deadly devices to compete with the
Russians.
Our vie wis that we need more
young nrains mio in ihhoop
THE CAPITAL JOURNAU
Hungarians Leaving Hungary
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Man's Heart Bigger Than
Woman's, Physically That Is
By HAL
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Ml Odd
facts a columnist might never
learn if he didn't open his mad:
That your heart, if it exerted
all at once the force it used in a
lifetime, could lift the mightiest
battleship 14 feet out of water.
That a woman's heart weighs
slightly more than half a pound,
and a man's heart slightly less
than three quarters of a pound
That your heart usually has the
same shape as your body slim
if you're slim, chunky it you're
short and broad.
That the average human heart
beats nearly three billion times in
70 years and every day pushes
from 5 to 10 tons of blood through
your veins, depending on your
size.
That the ambition of singer
Teresa Brewer, who has three
children at 25, is to have an even
dozen at 40. (We'll bet that at 30
she'll settle for half.)
That a centipede doesn't have
a hundred legs, A common house
centipede has 30, garden centi
pedes have 42, and some others
have nearly 200.
That every 20 minutes someone
in America goes blind, according
to sportscaster Mel Allen, chair
man of the 1956 "Fight For Sight"
campaign.
That a drop of water may look
empty but it is more crowded
than the busiest highway, since
it contains ahnut six sexlillion
atoms 6,000,000.000.000,000.000.-
000. Spaced an inch apart, these
atoms would stretch 4 times the
difference from here to the North
Star, i So. who drinks water?!
That the average family spends
better than S37 a year for per
sonal health services.
That it isn't true most cases of
rabi('s occur during the "dog
"ays. uniy apoui a lounn occur
during Ihe summer months,
Thit hc,orc science even knew
' about germs and viruses people
,rird ,0 halt the spread of epi-
! "emics ny lumigating mail with
'sulphur fumes or soaking it in
' vinegar.
ie uK-ason nas me repuiauon OI
being willing to give you the shirt
off his back. He'd been known to
order 300 shirts at a time.
That Amelia Scott, an authority
on hair care, says short men
usually want their wives to look
as glamorous as possible, men
who were "mama's boys" insist
their wives wear long hair, and
salesmen like their daughters in
short skirts and pigtails.
That Prof. Leo Szilard of the
University of Chiraen fxtimntpc
400 one-ton cohalt bombs would i how life was. His had been a shel
release "enough radioactivity toltered life: only son of a wealthy
extinguish all life on earth." father, he was educated in Eng-
Moral; Don't pivi anvnnn rnhalt land's best SChOOls.
; for Christmas unless vou
know1
i
him real wc!U
That a survey by Wayne Vni-
Sho (ol Tough
I,Oflk Magazine
A younc mother of four
con-
fesscd: "When I had mv first
baby. I phoned the doctor every : for India and not necessarily the
time he sneered. My youncest course he would choose if circum
swallowod a nickel the other dav. ; stances were different.
I just looked al him and said: : One paragraph from Moraes
"Yetina man. that monev comes throws a light on Nehru: "If
out of your allowance:'
Pl.KASK DON'T
B. St O. Magazine
Have I told you about my grand-
children .,
. .j i. i. .1.
contrive a world in which those
miiles were not needed
for that is the kind of world
wv want a world wkere V.-.r
and submarines are not n.v
Our better scientists know lt
now. because, by and large. th
- .-u.qi.h. "
BOYLE
versity showed 75 per cent of the
walking done by an average
housewife is unnecessary. (Every
time I print an item like this my
wife gets mad at me for a full
week.)
That saccharin is 300 to 500
times as sweet as sugar.
That only 38 per cent of the
light from the sun is visible to the
human eye. The infrared rays
(50 per cent) are too long, the
ultra violet rays (12 per cent) too
short for the eye to detect.
That Paul Haakon, famous Dan
ish dancer (he now teaches at the
June Taylor School of the Dance)
is bowlegged.
That the word "Oedipus" the
name of a famous complex is
Greek for swollen foot.
That shotgun shells loaded with
pollen instead of pellets are now
being fired into fruit trees to fer
tilize them. (Whoever thought au
tomation would put the bees out
of work?)
That it was Elliot Paul who
said, "patience makes women
beautiful in middle age."
Nehru Neither
Humble; Full of Arrogance
By JAMES
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON W-lf you were
Jawaharlal Nehru, you too might
try to follow the middle, neutral
road between the West and com
munism. U will be no surprise it in their
talks this week President Eisen
hower and Nehru. India's prime
minister, aerce that both want
peace but disagree on how best
to achieve it.
Nehru is neither a simple man
nor a humble one. More than half
his life was dedicated to winning
independence for India from Brit
ain. With that done, he is dedicat
ed now to bringing India abreast
of the 20th century.
He has intellectual arrogance, at
times scolding East and West. He
has supreme confidence in him
self. According to P'rank Moraes,
and Indian editor who knows him
well and recently wrote a biog
raphy of him. Nehru has a broad
streak of sccretiveness and mis
trust for others.
As a youth he was in private
rebellion against British rule. But
it wasn't until he was 31 that he
realized the true condition of the
great masses of his people: pov-
lerty and ignorance.
It wasn t until then that he vis-
ited an Indian village and saw
"lien nis eyes were opem-u t.v
devoted his life to service and
sacrifice. He had that thing called
character. He never swerved al
Ihousli Ihe British jailed him nine
times, kept him in prison nine
years altogether, and beat him.
Moraes says Nehru is a calcu-
latins man. His neutralism is
I probably coldly calculated as best
i Nehru accepted nonviolence as a
political weapon (against the Bru
ise' it was not because he regard
ed it as dogma but merely as the
right policy for India in the condi
tions which prevailed."
The conditions which prevailed
in India throughout the 200 years
of British rule were these: The
Indians had no military force. The
-
ony weapons they could use were
passive resistance and noncooper-
anon
India tcday in relation to the
:-r,1 power of the West on one
4r nd communism on the other
e m a similar position.
"! m imiia j i nniiimi p
They Say Today
Quotes From The News
(Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.)
By UNITED PRESS
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Mrs.
Irene Pierce of Waterbury, Conn.,
on abandoning her three children
in New York s Grand Central Ma
tion: "I wasn't able to take care of
the kids. I couldn't provide a San
ta Claus."
WASHINGTON Democratic
National Chairman Paul M. Butler
calling for an increase over the $3
million' level for campaign spend
ing by a national committee dur
ing a presidential election year:
"I don't think you should make
it any easier than it is now for
wealthy interests to exercise con
trol." WASHINGTON Former heavy
weight champion Joe Louis' attor
ney on the Brown Bomber's huge
tax delinquency:
"During his championship pe
riod, no brakes were applied to his
spending."
LONDON Trumpet player Lou
is "Satchmo" Armstrong putting
the chill on rock 'n' roll music:
"It's only cold soup warmed
up."
Simple Nor"
MARLOW
Russia, India is so undeveloped
industrially it could not hope to
catch up militarily with East or
West lor a generation at least.
Communism Russian and Chi
nesestretches across Asia just
north of India. The Communists
can make spectacular industrial
gains because they have absolute
power. They can sacrifice a whole
generation for the benefit of gen
erations to come.
Nehru's democratic socialism
by its nature has to move slower,
concerned as much for the indi
viduals now living as for those to
come. To make his democratic
socialism work. Nehru needs time
but he also has to work fast to
make it attractive.
Meanwhile, Nehru and his In
dians, having watched Western
colonialism most of their lives in
Asia, can fairly say they will be
suspicious until they are fully con
vinced the intentions of tho West
are good.
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IT COSTS NO MORE TO SAY
"CHARGE IT" AT
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday,' December 18, 1956
Salem 40 Yrs. Ago
Dec. 18, 1916
David Watson Craig, pioneer of
1853 and almost continuously a
resident of Salem for the past 63
years, had died. (Craig was known
as the founder of the Republican
party in Oregon and knew Abra
ham Lincoln as a law student in
his office at Sprinfficld, Illinois.
He was exceptionally learned as a
classical student. In 1863 Craig and
others purchased the Oregon
Statesman from Asahcl Bush and
Craig maintained a position with
the paper in one capacity or an
other until 1893. A story is told of
Craig's out-smarting Stephen Cof
fin of Portland to retain the state
capitol at Salem).
On this day 40 years ago the
Capital Journal had editorially
said: "The real cause of the food
shortage when reduced to the ab
solute fact is that the ratio be
tween producers and consumers is
out of plumb. There are too many
consumers for . the number of pro
ducers. In other words, the back
to the farm movement is becoming
a necessity." (This, of course, was
before the days of surpluses and
subsidies).
David Jacobson of Talbot had
lately shot a wild cat in the area
and brought the pelt to the clerk's
office where he received a $2
bounty.
That golden chassis ol the Stude
baker with its (20,000 worth of
gold plate would be placed on dis
play in the Derby building (now
occupied by Senator hotel) Decem
ber 19, 1916. The golden chassis
had not before been displayed in
smaller cities.
Western Union Telegraph Co.
had awarded Ben Ling, local man
ager, a $75.60 bonus and Herman
Lightfoot a $29.40 bonus. Company
employes earning less than $1200 a
year would receive a bonus of
seven percent of their salary.
City council had received a bill
of $93 from Salem Water Co. for
water supplied the McGilchrist
fountain since May, 1916. (The
fountain still flows at the north
east corner of State Liberty
streets). City Attorney Macy re
fused to approve the bill since the
franchise granted the water com
pany in 1891 provided that the city
should receive free water for a
public fountain designated by the
city council. McGilchrist fountain
had never been designated as a
public fountain.
A Smile or Two
Boston Globe
Col. Barney Oldfield of the Air
Defense Command was autograph
ing copies of his book, "Never a
Shot Fired in Anger," in a book
shop. A woman asked Jiim if it would
be a suitable present for her minis
ter. -
"Well, it's sort of a naughty
book in spots," Oldfield said.
"AU right, recommend some
thing for my preacher," the
woman said, "I'll take this my
self." .
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