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Capital AJournal AN INDBMNDINT NEWSaAPH-ISTASllSHfD IN 111! Bernard Mainwaring (1 897-1 957) Editor and Publisher 1 953-1 957 E. A. Brown, Publisher Glenn Cushman, Managing Editor George Putnam, Editor Emeritus Ml leased Wire Service of The Associated Press end The United Pren. The Allocated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publicetion of ell news ditpetches credited to It or otherwise credited in this paper end elio newt published therein. lUtSCItlPTION RATES ly Cerrlen Monthly, SI .35; Sl Months, $7.50; One Yeer, SUM. ty Mail In Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; Six Months, $5.00, One Year $9.00. By Mall Outside Oregon: Monthly, $l.25 Sis Months, $7.50; One Year, $15.00 George Washington EDITOR'S NOTE: Following are excerpts from a speech made by the lale Bernard Main, waring to the Salem Rotary club in observance f Washington'! birthday two years ago. The stirring thoughts put forth here are especially timely on Washington's birthday, 1957. . America has paid great honor to its found ing fathers of whom George Washington was by common consent the greatest. Nearly every state has a Washington county. Many have counties named for Jefferson and Mad ison, together with cities and colleges. Two of them have spectacular memorials in Wash ington and the national capital is named for Washington. I well remember that the little red school house had a small bust of Washington, who looked as if he had always been an alabaster bust. But we know he wasn't. He was a man, not a demigog. I have visited Mt. Vernon and Monticello and other great shrines. When I was last in Washington in 1949, I again went out to Mt. Vernon and tried to visualize it as it must have been when Washington was there. it ix -to it When I visited the Jefferson Memorial In the Capital for the first time, I found my self wondering "were these men really as great as these memorials lead us to believe or were they actually much the same kind of men as rule us from here now. Truman was president then. As I thought this I looked upward where are chiseled some of Jeffer son's profoundest words. I remember two In scriptions: Speaking of slavery, "Nothing is more surely written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." On the subject of human rights, he said: "I have sworn eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind and body of man." I said to myself "this is tho answer." These men didn't employ ghost writers. They uttered sentiments like these and not to win elections. They really were different than our leaders of today. This is still my consid ered judgment, that no people in all history were ever led by such a company of giants as were the handful of Americans on our east coast in the 1770's and 1780's when we won Independence and created our government. it Vr Of thSse George Washinglon was, by com mon consent, then and now the greatest. He had no rivals, only friends, colleagues, ad mirers. Even those who abused him seem to have recognized his greatness as compared with even the greatest about him. James Truslow Adams wrote of the America of that period, that it "brought forth a man worthy to stand among the greatest men of all the ages." . , Wherein lays the greatness of Washington at we look back across nearly two centuries. He was, of course, great in what he did, for he made us an independent nation. It is scarcely possible that this would have occur red without him, both before and after the Revolutionary War. But what were his great characteristics? Let us briefly recall his career. He was born into what his English parentage would call a "good" family of Virginia land owners. He became one of the most capable, efficient farmers in that colony and one of its wealth iest men. , As a young man he rendered military service whenever he was needed. He made an expedition to what is now Pittsburgh to ask the French to leave. He fought with Gen eral Braddock in the French and Indian war, becoming Virginia's outstanding cilizen sol dier. So outstanding that he was offered com mand of the continental army in 1775. He held this through eight long years of war in which our independence was won. He was elected president by virtual ac clamation as no one has been since, and forced to accept a second term. Dining this period our government was created along the lines provided for by the constitution over whose creating convention lie had presided as chairman. He died less than three years after he retired from the presidency. -fr i5r tV It was a great career, but what were his greatest attributes? They were many and I shall confine myself to a brief recital of four. First, he was always competent whether surveying the wilderness as a youth, operat ing his big farms, fighting Indians or tho British, leading a convention or administering a government. He had no more than an eighth grado education but he was a brilliant man. He met temporary reverses but always performed well and eventually won success. Second, so far as the record discloses lie was absolutely unselfish In his public serv ices. Ho seems never to have asked for any thing. He did not seek command of the arniy and ho warned that he was inadequately trained for it. He did not want to bo presi dent and did not want a second term. 1 fear that if he lived now he would get nowhere in our politics today. Third, he had matchless courage, as did his colleagues. "We pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor" was no empty phrase. Death by hanging, confiscation of property, disgrace to their families were risked by these men. Washington had great estates to lose, but he never hesitated. And he refused the easy, prudent course of negotiating a surrender when victory looked hopeless that winter at Valley Forgo. Lastly, ho' had a moral character that towered above the greatest of his fellows then and the greatest of his countrymen since. He was a superb patriot who thought only of the good of his country. He was the seer who had (he wisdom to know what that good was. First In war, first in peace and first In the hearts of his oountrymcn was where he was enshrined In hl (uuni slw awr wire re he has remained ever tam ttre RNuttaa father of our country whom we - vsoivwi la he oring this day and every day, Dick on Soil Bank The last weekly Issue of "Washinglon Calling", the weekly political news letter of Senators Richard and Maurine Ncubergcr sent free to Oregon constituents at taxpayers ex pense, again reflects the Oregon inferiority complex of our Junior Senator, who delights to bewail Oregon's low ratio from birth sta tistics to pretty nearly everything this time on the "Soil Bank Totem Pole" service as a sort of dole to help the farmers which it has. Last fall the Senator stated he pointed out that the soil bank proposed was not operating fairly for Oregon, "the idea was good in principle," but not really a conserva tion program, because it discriminated in operation against quite a few states, as it was essentially a corn and cotton program, rather than a basic farm program. So he quotes soil bank acreage reserve payments as of January 1, 1957. Iowa $51,260,748, Nebraska $31,076,1)49, Texas $22,419,037, Illinois $20,858,861, Oregon $173,620. So Mr. Ncubergcr states, "Oregon farm ers have qualified for less than one percent of the payments made to cotton growers in Texas or corn growers on the plains." Sooner or later, he sayys, we must come to a universal farm program which bolsters low income farm families everywhere, instead of a law favoring corn growers. The Soil Bank bill was amended by Con gress because there were bigger acreages and more clamor from corn and cotton growers than from all other farmers, and an election was nearing. Oregon should be proud that there were so few farmers after the Soil Bonk millions. But big-hearted Dick is grieved about it and wants a dole for every farmer, including those who don't need it, and are efficient enough to make farming pay. Pensions or dole for evrybody seems the final aim of Dick and those hell-bent for inflation or bust that "will make your hair curl." G. P. More Thought Here Certainly no member of the Legislature can be criticised for being economy-minded, and neither can either of the two houses. But there is something to appropriating money to the right places and in the right propor tions. The Legislature knows that too, so it becomes a matter of judgment, good or bad. The House Wednesday refused approval of a $99,820 item for the Oregon Historical So ciety, and sent It back to the ways and means committee for further study. Rep. Clarence Barton, one of the members who blocked the bill in the House, said the society's budget request should stay In com mittee until the Legislature knows how much money the state will need in the next two years. That position is probably all right. But Barton made an error in calling the Historical Society a "non-essential service." It isn't non-essential. It does more for the state than most people know about, and doesn't get much publicity. Doubtless it does need more personnel and more space for its valuable records. And It must be remembered too that Governor Holmes, in his message, has already called upon the society for a lot of help when Oregon's centennial is celebrat ed in 1959. The ways and means committee and the two houses must do with the bill as wisdom dictates, but they should not fail to give it the fullest consideration before it is trimmed or rejected. Schools Win Again Salem's Englewood school has been a high winner in the Freedoms Foundation awards so many times that it is now expected each year. Us record stands highest in the nation, witli possibly a school In Rhode Island In a lio for this distinction. Other Salem schools too are repeaters in winning the Foundation's awards Bush, Kcizcr, Richmond, Leslie among them, and now Morningside comes in for a top prizo with its first entry. To see the Salem schools In the winning list year after year should not make it a commonplace in the public mind, or remove an appreciation of what it all means. Actually It means that Salem schools are consistently good, that their principals and teachers are alert to the high ideals of citizenship that movements like Freedoms Foundation set up for American youth. And it means too that the young students are receptive, and give themselves as eagerly and enthusiastically to tlie research and work of this competition as they do to llieir usual studies or to the sports on the playground. They have brought national recognition both to their schools and to the community In which they live. l'or Quirk lit-ading A Tea-Drinking Champ A reader has challenged our assertion that "there never was such a tea drinker" as Dr. Johnson "In the history of literature." It Is hard to say where literature ends and plain writing begins (writes "DM "), but If you are liberal enough to Include Edgar Wallace In your definition, then here is ono tea drinker who certainly left Dr. Johnson sipping. When he was writing he always had a cup of strong tea at his elbow and got through vast quantities in a day. Eventually he became 111. Tannic poisoning was diagnosed, and he was advised to give It up. Ho tried for a time, but found that his muse stubbornly re fused to keep office hours, and so. with little reluctnnca, h retumod to his cheerful tea nnd rmnirt imnk himwlf to dwilh a tvu, -Hfinthnirttur tjuwduuou , o o DAVID LAWRENCE ttistsgY ' UtfU U. S. Leaders Together on Suez Problem WASHINGTON Moral forci the President of the United Slates and the Congress speak inn in one voice to secure peace in the Middle East is the only influence, for the present at least, that will be applied in order to secure the open- Ing of the Suez Canal , and the Gulf of Aqabaf tn the shins nf e5 Israel and MtYff nations. St..-, There is no intention on the 4 " part of the Unit-? cd Mates to im pose any milii tary or econom ic sanctions . wwntnb But it is urging the Egyptian and the Israeli governments to accept the basis laid down by President Eisenhower in his memorandum of February .il made public last Sunday. Reception Was Important What is more important today than even the president's tele vision speech, reiterating tho fundamentals of that memoran dum, is the reception given the document at the White House meeting on Wednesday. This was was participated in by 27 mem bers of both parties, constituting the leadership of the two import ant committees of the House and the Senate on foreign affairs and armed services. Almost without exception the D emocrats and Republicans agreed with the objectives of the president in trying to find a way to attain the withdrawal of Israel's troops from occupied areas. There wasa unanimity of feeling and a manifestation of the true spirit of bipartisanship at the meeting which pleased both the president and the secretary of state as well as the members of Congress. Memorandum Was Sound It was a constructive confer ence because it was agreed that the February 11 memorandum was sound in every respect and that the United States could go no further in giving Israel the ironclad guarantees she seeks. Instead, it was urged that Israel be persuaded to accept American assurances and rely on American support for the justice of her viewpoint. This very fact that there Is no disunity inside the American government but rather a solid unity when conveyed to the authorities in Israel, will indicate that there is no use in holding out for further concessions be cause the maximum has already been granted. If there had been discord, the Israeli cabinet might have felt justified in waiting for further concessions. But when the Unit ed States speaks out with one voice, it becomes necessary for Israel to accept what has been pledged, 'withdraw her troops and then sec how the American pledges arc implemented. The Israelis can always re-enter the occupied zones to protect them selves and perhaps even get mili tary support from other powers if the Egyptians fail to heed the resolutions of the U. N. requiring free passage for all ships through the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba. Suggested Senate Adopt It There was a time at the White House conference when consider able sentiment was expressed in favor of a suggestion by some of the Democrats that a resolution he adopted by the Senate itself to support the February 11 me morandum. Hut it was finally de cided that this might complicate tlie situation on Capitol Hill with respect to other phases of the whole problem, such as the sta tus of the Eisenhower doctrine resolution in the Senate. It was asked specifically at the conference whether the president mid tlie secretary 01 stale nan determined to recommend to the United Nations that "sanctions", coercive or punitive measures be adopted against IsrHel if her troops are not withdrawn. But the answer given was that this contingency had not been reached and that the debate in the U. N. Assembly itself would probably occupy two or three days, by ivhich time Israels altitude will have been disclosed. Much will depend on what the Israel gov ernment says in answer to the February 11 memorandum, and it is not unlikely that there may be delays while further views of clarification are exchanged. The crisis, therefore, is not as 1111 mediate as it lias seemed, and the opposition to "sanctions" as expressed in various quarters in Congress is at least premature, 11 not academic at this point. Form of Sanctions Already Some of the members of Con cress wanted to know if "sanc tions" would be applied toward Egypt, and '.he group was remind ed that some of Egypt's funds abroad -have already been frozen and it has not been agreed as yet to pay tolls directly to the Cairo government. 1 bus a torm of "sanctions" is already In oper ation against Egypt. On the whole, the type of meeting which the president and Secretary Dulles had for more than two hours with the 27 mem bers nf Congress should he re peated whenever a critical situa tion arises. It Is the best way tor til viewpoints to be expressed and for the most authoritative in formation available in the exe cutive branch of the government to be Imparted to the members of Congress to aid them In seeing whnt tie Department of State is so wojet it tftmlittt wok t Fastest Craft ,s0, I ALWAY4 WIJNN j-j 2N ' .jlj'tFd&Sr feKeisjM todies V V&fkHHlHS- jj RAY TUCKER Vast New Police Body Might Result From Supreme Court's Power Over State Laws WASHINGTON - A tremendous and costly expansion of the Fed eral judiciary and creation of a vasi lorce ot po- i&jt3fi4mjii&tiA lire mipht rpmilt KJ - :: from the Su preme Court s elusive , jurisdic- aJJawV v tion over oi-iA , J fenses hitherto prosecuted b y the 48 states. Measures lor adding 30 new are now before Federal Indues '' tuckek Congress, with provisions for en larged staffs and offices. State legislators have begun to ask their Representatives on Capi tol Hill why they should continue to appropriate money to enforce their statutes against Communists, drug rings, diseased food dealers and kidnappers, it the highest tribunal holds their state laws to be invalid simply because there are Federal laws on these prob lems. Few of these crimes are of local origin or execution. The high tribunal so held in the Steve Nelson case, ruling that Pennsylvania could not prosecute under its anti-Communist Act. Years ago, the Supreme Court struck down an Alabama Pure Food and Drug Act. Pennsylvania authorities' efforts to stop the sale of an allegedly harmful drug have been blocked because of the Su preme Court's pre-emptive doctrine. DR. WILLIAM BRADY School Exams Might Cause Temporary Sickness of Pupil Away, back, not In the nine teenth century, perhaps, but when Tony was a pup, and I was still member or lellow of the AMA, paying my dues like a little man, I at tended a meet ing of school k teachers in 1 Rochester, N.Y. nd met therojs- the Dean of the School of Medi-t cine. University., of Rochester. DR. BRADY No Formal Examination! The good doctor chatted affably. and for the first time 1 learned that in the School of Medicine there were no format examina tions. The dean explained that teachers kept daily records ot the work of students and so they knew at the end 01 the term whether a student merited promotion they knew better than could be deter mined by a final examination. I don't know whether this Idea prevails in Rochester today I'd rather not ask now, lest my temerity, elicit an unpleasant re action. Paints Moving Picture A Massachusetts reader paints a moving picture: "Dear Doctor: Last year every time our 15-year-old daughter had a test coming up in high school she would get dressed and ready for school, but would not be able to eat any breakfast, would then cry, and say she had a stomach ache, and would to all appear ances he seriously ill. "We took her to two doctors who could find nothing wrong with her. She missed 39 days of school, and the most a pupil can miss and still pass in June is 40 days "Jan. 5 it happened again. She had a history test due. for which she studied the night before. "She is a normal girl, plays and studies, attends parties but only on weekends. . ." (Mrs. R. B. H.) Stomnok Ache Mild Trim Stomach ache Is a mild term as I remember it is a dreadful pain in the gizzard, and the knowl edge that it is wholly unnecessary makes it harder to bear. Tell me. if you can, when one of the finest medical schools in the country can lor could) dis pense with mid-term examina tions, why grade school and high school must maintain this nine teenth century tradition? Maybe the rest of the class should join your daughter In a demonstration of psychosomatic puking. JAMES MARLOW Labor Unions Asked for It, Now Control Tight at Top WASHINGTON U! Tighter control of unions at the top is one result of Senate investigations in to labor union racket e t r i n g and the efforts of the AFL-CIO leader ship to stamp it out. This means less autonomy for national and local unions. But they asked for it by failing to do their own house- cleaning better, jamei mablow Union welfare plans covering pensions and other benefits be gan to spring up during the war. They really blossomed after John L. Lewis won a welfare plan for his miners in 1946. A Fertile Field for Hoods Now the billions of dollars In welfare plans are a fertile field for crooks. This year the Executive Coun cil of the AFL-CIO, which is made up of 140 .unions, adopted and laid down for its member unions three codes of good con duct recommended by its own spe cial Ethical Practices Committee. President George Mcany said the national unions will be ex pected to enforce the codes among their various local unions or face expulsion. The three codes go like this: 1. Safeguarding union funds This bars union officials from re ceiving extra fees and salaries from welfare funds, requires the ouster of officials for accepting ices or bribes and calls for regul lar audits and public accounting of union members' trust funds. Ban Financial Interests 2. Personal interests This bars a union official from having a personal financial interest in firms with which his union has labor contracts. But it permits a union official to have business in vestments so long as there Is na opportunity for them to conflict with his union rcsponsibltes. 3. Racketeers and crooks This tells unions to keep out known crooks and racketeers as a "mat ter of common sense." This month the AFL-CIO Execu tive Council ordered three of its unions the laundry, distillery and Allied Industrial Workers to clean out "corrupt influences" or face expulsion. Accused of Looting Fundi This action was based on dis closures by a Senate committee in 1955 and the recommendations of the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee which accused the three unions, with 170,000 mem bers, of looting welfare funds of millions of dollars. The AFL-CIO Executive Council last month laid down another rule for the 140 unions which make up the giant, parent organization: It ordered union officials thrown out of their jobs if they take the Fifth Amendment for their own personal protection in order to avoid answering questions about labor racketeering. The amend ment provides protection against self-incrimination. Sen. McClellan (D-Ark) says hit now investigatng labor-management corrupton, and will begin public hearings Tuesday. "More Than Vz Century ... of funeral directing for those who want the best." HOWELL-EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME REN MAXWELL NOT AGREEMENT Legislators, we gather from Mrs. Tom's letter, wonder II the lack of attendance at legislative hearings means agreement with the bills now introduced. It doesn't. It means lack of organi zation to protest, too little notice given and probably a feeling that Hearings don't amount tn much anvway. Also there is certainly a 'feeling that the tax bill will be use, that it will be mutinied KMwsV and that it will be defeat ed 4lrman County Journal, History in The Making Feb. 22, 1920 Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the north pole, had been interred in Arlington national cemetery w 1 1 h "p full military and naval honors. 1 Peary, with his Negro servant, Matthew II e n son, four Eski mos and 40 dogs reached the north pole by sledge, April 6, 19091. e e e Barnes Cash nN siaxweix store, alter 28 years of business in Salem, had advertised a retir ing from business sale. (Barnes store started on North Commercial street in 11192 with literally '0 wheelbarrow of merchandise and grew to become one of Salem's lending businesses in 11)10. Then the enterprise occupied two fronts in the Eldridge building on North Commercial street, site of today's parking lot for the Roberts store.) e e Walt Mason In Rippling Rhymes. Capital Journal editorial page fea ture of 37 years ago. rhymed rela tive to "The Funeral:" "Oh. when 1 die, and folks as semble to see that I am planted right, let no man spiel with voice-n-trcmble about my sins or virtues bright. What mar. may say will cut no figure when I have met the common fate, and I step up with pep and vigor, to dodge old St. Peter at his gate." e e Fageol Truck k Tractor Co.. Inc. had been organized in Salem with a location at 186 South High street. Chas. E. I.ebold was presi dent and Daniel Webster, a civil war veteran, treasurer. (Fageol was a two speed contraption one forward, one in reverse that steered with a tiller, lis two bear ing motor delivered 19 horsepower to the rear wheels equipped with 10 Inch teeth, called grousers, to InStfre. traction, This clumsy ma Complaint From Federal Judge Another court-clogging factor consists of the Federal govern ment's acquisition of millions of acres of land for parks, national forests, military reservations and similar purposes. All offenses committed in these areas must be tried in Federal Courts. A distinguished Federal jurist recently complained of this situa tion in a letter to Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia, chairman of the House Rules Com mittee. Smith's moasure, House Resolution 3, would overturn the Supreme Court's various overrid ings of state sovereignty. Jurist's Time Wasted oa Trial The Judge's letter said that he had been forced to preside over trials involving such trivial mat ters as automobile speeding, il legally parking, disorderly con duct, public petting and public profanity. The case involving language not used in polite places took two full days of his time. The offenses occurred on the U. S. Marines' reservation at Quantico, Va. The Federal Courts, Representa tive Smith notes, will become con gested even more dangerously, if Civil Rights measures advocated by the Administration become law. There will be, in his opinion, thousands of complaints affecting only a few individuals In every separate jurisdiction. Lawyers and litigants having really grave matters for judicial sesttlcment will have to wait years for their turn to be heard. It is estimated that, under the Supreme Court's racial and pre-emptive doctrine, 100 new judges will be needed at a cost of many millions of dollars. In view of the admitted short ages of Federal narcotic, agricul tural and FBI agents to investigate these complaints. Congress must create a tremendous police force. Action Blocked by One Man Prodded by powerful political forces organized labor and racial groups one man blocks Congres sional action on Smith's H.R. 3. He is Representative Emanuel Cellcr. Democrat Irom Brooklyn and Chairman of the House Judi ciary Committee. Like most Con gressional Chairmen, he runs his committee as a czar. H.R. 3 has been reintroduced in House and Senate with scores of sponsors. It has the endorse ment of the Administration, the Governors' Conference, the Na tional Association of Attorneys General, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Associa tion of Manufacturers, the Na tional Grange and the American Farm Bureau, the Small Business Men's Association and the South- cm States' Industrial Council. All recognize the dangers inher ent in the Supreme Court's pre emptive doctrine all except Cel lcr. W U BUSINESS OPINIONS rW nf thn nice thinff about business is that one always finds different opinions about it. For tiunr il t fine: for some terrible or some it is going up. for others dropping oil. You never nonce 11 being bad until it is too late. Sherman County Journal. chine, without brakes, or any other modern refinement, often stalled in wet ground by digging its own crave). e e e Warden L. F. Compton ot Ore gon State Penitentiary had stated that no more visitors would be admitted into the institution until the epidemic of flu abated, e e e Oleson Motor Car Co , 349 North Commercial St., had advertised the Chandler Six. "famous tor its motor" for S2175 f ob. Salem 1 This good automobile w-as manu factured between 1912 and 1929 at 'Cleveland, Ohio), 6 The filling of your prescription) promptly and efficiently is our pledge and your guar antee. You can depend npon nt for complete prescription service. J Capital Drug Store 405 Stats St. 617ChemeketaSt. We Give Green Stamps AllUieVitiUtl.lInHiMMw. ItMfli J " There's t U. S. National branch near you wherever you work ot I live in Salem. LADD & BUSH -SALEM BRANCH Statt and Commercial NORTH SALEM BRANCH 1990 Fairgrounds Rood UNIVERSITY BRANCH 1310 Slate Street WEST SALEM BRANCH 1117 Edgewoter Street THI UNITID STATES NAJIONAL MNK QF MKfeMHI o o