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Capital AJournal AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPED-HTAIUSHED IN 1111 Bernard Mainwaring (1897-1957) Editor and Publisher 1953-1957 E. A. Brown, Publisher Glenn Cushmsn, Managing Editor George Putnam,Editor Emeritus Publiihad avary averting (except Sundty by Ihe Capital journal Co., Mn. Jennie L, Mainwaring Ml teated Wira Sarvica of Tha Alioclalcd Prn and Tht Unilad Praia. The Anoeialad Prail ll exclusively entitled to tha uia for publication of all newa dispatches credited to it or otharwila credited In this papar and alio news publiihed therein. SUtSCDIPTION RATES ' Iv Carrlari Monthly, JI.J5; Il Monlhi, J7.50, Ono Yaar, $15.00. ty Mail In Oragom Monthly, $1.00: l Monrin, (S.OOi Ono Yaar 1.00. y Mail Ouliida Oragom Monthly, Sl.JJi il Monlhi, $7.10; Ona Yaar, SUM Ex-Enemy Assets Pay Off? A public hearing is In progress before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee headed by Senator Johnston (D.-S.C.) in the long fight ,., whether to pay Germans and Japanese for property valued at over $500 million seized - by the United States during World War II, i with proponents claiming their chances are the best, yet The question is whether the U.S. Govern ment should make a full, limited or no re turn at all to the German or Japanese citi . zens and business firms whose property was : seized. Most of the property has been sold I and the question is whether the ex-enemies ; 6hould be reimbursed. Principles of the in ; tegrily of private property, humanitarianism ', and diplomacy figure in the considerations. Both nations are now our allies, and the ' West German election next fall increases ' pressure to keep pro-U.S. Chancellor Aden ! auer in office. ; The House seems as strong as ever in op ! position, and the controversy there is replete ! with rumors of secret deals, foreign intrigue I and lobbying. . ; The controversy has intensified with the ; years. . The issues have split the Eisenhower administration, both political parties, the American Bar Association and the American ! Legion. There seems little hope of favorable action this congress. The seized property affected includes real ! estate, bank accounts, stocks and bonds and business firms. Some 90 percent originally was German, the balance Japanese. Much was disposed of by the office of Alien Prop erty. Remaining Federal holdings include the General Aniline & Film Corp., which the government is seeking to unload. ; Administration policy is banking on com Ipromise of "limited return" in which the Government would pay, not as a matter of Jcgal obligation but as a humanitarian "act of grace" up to $10,000 apiece to individual .noncorporate property owners to satisfy 35, . 000 individuals or 00 percent of all cases ..Involved a total of $60 million. ' The big money involved in the 10 percent ,.is not covered. The rest of the assets would be U6ed to pay off Americans who have prop erty or other damage or injury claims against Germany and Japan. G, P. ' it actually say it wants to increase it. It is increasing too fast anyway. But it wants to reassess the policy so more aid will go proportionately to the underdeveloped coun tries. It sounds logical. Whether jt would advance the cause of peace and happiness is another question. "The stability and independence of the underdeveloped, and in many cases uncom mitted, nations," says the committee, "are vitally important to the continued security of the United States." So, it adds "a pro gram to spur economic growth in nearly two thirds of the Free World is imperative." .But the committee has no answer to the ques tion of which way the uncommitted countries are going to jump when they do get around to committing themselves, toward freedom or toward communism. Assurance should go ahead of aid. The committee urges this assistance large ly in the form of loans. It seems to admit the risk here, for it modifies the recom mendation by saying the probable costs "are small in comparison with the probable costs of not taking up the task." Analyzing foreign assistance spending in the last 11 years, the committee shows a total of $57 billion in grants and loans, and that less than one-fifth of the total went to the underdeveloped countries. It stresses the ' assertion that "except for seven countries with which the United States has defense agreements, assistance for the development 6f large areas of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, containing nearly two thirds of the Free World's population, has been negligible." Figures are cited. While the report contains a refreshing allusion to America's "traditional humanitar ian concern with the well-being of people everywhere," it stresses the security of the United States. Increased assistance to uncom- 1 milted as well as committed countries, it says, "can be" of vital importance to that security. But it gives no assurance. It de clares that these 'nations should be stable, peaceful and independent, but not necessar ily allies. It's a fine ideal. The danger is that it is nothing more. JAMES MARLOW Knowland Is Still Slow To Join Ike WASHINGTON W Sen. Wil liam Fife Knowland, the 48-year- old Californian who may seek the presidency some day, continues what he's been doing since he be came Republican leader in the Senate in 1953. He continues to criticize and op pose President E i i e n hower's programs when it suits him, which is often. m 3 11 it seems RAY TUCKER Letters Pour in 'Suicide Is Confession' To Senate Group Canadian Ambassador Herbert Norman. 43. A Canadian Ambassador Herbert Norman, 43, . who was charged before a United States Sen ate subcommittee with once having been a Communist, committed suicide April 4 by 1 jumping to death from a high building near ' 'his Cairo home. The Canadian government hotly denied the charges. ' Norman left two notes, one addressed to his wife reading, "I kiss your feet and beg you to forgive me for what I am doing." The other note addressed to the Swedish Minister Bognoft Eng said: "I have no option. I must kill myself, for I live without hope." Both notes were found on his broken body In the street. Norman was named in testimony before the Senate committee as a member of "a Communist party student group" at Cape Cod in 1039. Last month the Senate probers were told by Robert Morris, its investigator ot the Institute of Pacific Relations in 1951 that Nor man had been a member of a student Com munist group at Columbia University. Canadian Foreign Secretary Lester B. Pear son said that Norman died as the result of a nervous collapse brought on by overwork, overstrain and "a feeling of reassured perse cution." Other Canadian officials declare that he was the victim of the "witch-hunting proclivi ties," of certain congressional inquisitors at Washington who "lacking local targets, folt Impelled to malign Canadian public servants and was "murdered by slander." ; At Washington six of the nine subcommit tee members signed a statement saying the group will continue in its "duty" to disclose "evidence . . . that certain foreign nationals have engaged in . . . Communist activity in the United States." Secretary of Stale Dulles expressed "re gret and sincere condolences" in a message to Canadian Foreign Minister Pearson. Other administration officials expressed, fear pri vately the incident may put a temporary chill on U.S. relations with Canada. But these officials quickly added they do not expect any real break in this country's long record of friendship with its northern neighbor. However, as Daniel Webster said a cen tury and a half ago: "There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confes sion." G. P. am m ja LYSO New Foreign Aid Angle You meet a moodier on the street and give him a dime or a quarter. Of course lie thanks you. But as he moves on you suspect he is grinning in his sleeve and thai you have won neither his friendship nor his respect. These are philosophical mailers that money doesn't buy. It is remindful ef the Government's for eign aid policy. Here is something that everyone reads about, that most people gripe about, but that few know anything about, except that It is costly to the taxpayers. Is its purpose to put distressed countries on their feet and rehabilitate some of them? Is it to save the world economy? Or is it only to buy friendships and have them as allies at some feared future showdown? Among the people the skeptics are legion. Comes now an organization called the Committee for Economic Development. Us members are 150 leading businessmen and educators. Either of these Is a formidable pressure group. Put the two together and Congress and the Administration really hive lomethlne on their backs. Tha committe Un't tryisi to decieua foreign aid, dot dou .1 " WASHINGTON The thousands of union members' letters pouring into Senator John L. McClcllan's office depict conditions in many unions fully as shocking as the condi tions alleged to exist in Dave Beck's Team sters' organization. It would take the committee several years to pursue alt the "leads" it has been given in these thousand-a-day com plaints. They describe a reign of terror and selfishness, plutoc racy and autocracy, on the part of many Union officers. The members and their wives thank and congratulate the hay tuckkb Arkansas Senator for offering freedom and deliverance from such unchallenged dictation as Beck has enjoyed. But so great is their fear ot reprisal for their confessions that McClellan has had to impose rigid rest'riction on newspaper summaries of their contents. Letters From Every Slate Reporters must not give the namos of the writers. Nor can they even mention the spe cific areas from which the letters emanate, although they come from almost every city and state. Finally, if any of these letters are quoted, McClellan asks that the language be para phrased and disguised so that even the com plainants themselves would not recognize their handiwork. Such is the terror and helplessness which union members and fami lies feel toward some of the leaders of, the American labor movement today. These communications disclose that many organizations have not permitted elections for many years. When they arc held, they are "packed," for the officers usually control through favors or threats. Critics or oppon ents, if vocal, are fined, suspended and de prived of work during the suspension period. Employers do not dare to refuse to lay off these dissenters for fear of a costly strike. "I'nions Arc Family Corporations" There are no regular audits or reports on collections of dues, special assessments', or the use of funds. When they aro made, they are alleged to be sketchy and untrustworthy. Local officers give well-paid union Jobs to their wives, children, in-laws and friends to such an extent that the organizations are known as "family corporations." They own fine homes, although it may have been years since Uiey were on a private payroll. Many have built fortunes in real estate or in industries which they bought into on easy terms because of their power to order a destructive strike. Certain union oflicers, according to some letters, have promised to organize groups of workers, accepted preliminary dues of $10 for expenses, and then vamoosed. Beck and Frank W. Brewster, head of the Western Teamsters' Conference, are charged with having addressed such a meeting, and failed to set up the promised union. Correspondents Attack Beck Numerous letters say that Beck has broken strikes at certain plants by driving his trucks through the picket lines, and then moved In to organize the plant himself. The McClel lan Committee is especially interested in Beck's reported role of union leader and friend of the employers. It has evidence that Beck has, In this respect, violated the Taft-Hartley Act, which Is extremely repug nant me men wno trusted mm. strange that the Senate Rcpubli can leader should buck the Republican Pres ident, Knowland has offered an James marlow explanation: He thinks, he said, it's his job to bring about a meeting of Senate minds on the President's propos als. He was quoted in Look mag azine as saying he will agree with the President "unless it involves a matter of deep personal princi ples." Claimed M Per Cent And he has said he has support ed Eisenhower's program most of the time. Two years ago he claimed a 90 per cent record on that score. Elsenhower has avoided a break with' the senator,1 who must be a thorn in his side many times. D'p lomatically he said of the differ ences between them- that they are really more a matter of method than of principle. Knowland announced not long ago he would quit the Senate when his term ends in January 1959. He had his' eye on the White House in 19.56, until Eisenhower said he would run again. Know land hasn't denied he'll look in the same direction in I960. Critical of U. N. Knowland has repeatedly been critical of the United Nations. Ei senhower has. tried to build it up and puts a lot of reliance in it. This year Knowland wants to cut the President's budget and his foreign aid program. He also is against giving Communist Poland economic aid although 'the admin istration invited the Poles over here to discuss aid. When the administration talked of sanctions against Israel unless it got out of Egypt, Knowland called this immoral unless sanc tions were also invoked against Russia for not getting out of Hun gary. Israel pulled its troops out; Russia still hasn't.. Other Knowland Positions Going backwards to 1953, here were some other Knowland positions: He objected to Elsenhower's sending Gen. Nathan F. Twining to Russia on a visit. He said the United States "retreated from principle" in agreeing to a "pack age deal" which let four Commu nist and 12 non-Communist nations the V. N. He doubted beforehand, the wis dom of Eisenhower's Big Four meeting with the Russians. Brit ish and French in Geneva in 1955 and cautioned against a "sell-out." He objected when Eisenhower that same year said he was willing to talk to the Red Chinese about a cense-fire around Formosa. lie Didn't Agree When the administration re leased the Yalta papers the Roosevelt Churchill - Stalin war time talks and Eisenhower said he hoped they would not he used for political purposes, Knowland said, "t don't agree." He derided ns "nonsense" Sec retary of State Dulles' statement in 19.15 that this country would not defend the Malsu and Quemoy is lands off Formosa unless they were used as stepping stones for an attack on Formosa itself. Knowland wanted this country to blockade the lied China coast to bring about the release of cap tured American fliers and to serve an ultimatum on the Red Chi nese, backed by "effective ac tion, if they were not released He got neither wish. EisenTTi said such a blockade would oe an act of war. And Eisenhower left him talking to himself when he one time called for a diplomatic break with Russia. In 1954 he was so displeased with the Eisenhower-Dulles han dling of foreign policy that he called for a congressional review of it. And he voted for Ihe final version of the Rricker Amend ment opposed by Eisenhower which would limit Ihe President's treaty-making powers. What? A Pistol-Packing Bobby? DAVID LAWRENCE Split of Conservatives Gave Democrats A Decisive Victory in Texas Elections 1ST A m D. LAWRENCE WASHINGTON. The story of the Texas election is the story of what happens when conservatives split a so- called "Liberal ' wins out. It wasn't a clear - cut battle between Re publicans and Democrats a s such in the elec tion for U.S. Senator just held In the Lone Star State. The Con servatives gave Representative Martin Dies, Demo crat, more than 275.000 votes, and they gave Thad Hutcheson, Repub lican, more than 214.000 votes. This combined total of 4H9.000 conserva tives was far in excess of the 340.000 votes cast for Ralph Yar- borough. the winner. Searcy Brace- well, Democrat, who supported Ike in the 1956 election, got 31.000 votes that would not have gone to Yar borough. ' From The Conservative If It be assumed that some of the Republican votes might have been spread among the other,. 17 Democratic candidates, it still is true that the bulk of the Repub lican votes cast were from the ranks of conservatives. Had there been a "run-off" elec tion permitted so that Martin Dies, on the one hand, and Ralph Yar borough On the other' could have fought tor the Democratic nomin ation, it seems likely that Yar borough would have lost out. There was considerable agitation for a "run-off," in which only the two candidates receiving the high est number of votes in the first election among several candidates are pitted against one another in the second-contest. Used to 'Kun'otts' Texas voters' are accustomed to "run-off" elections to determine the top two who fight it out for the nomination, and it is most un fortunate that the Democratic par-' ty didn't put through the state legislature the bills introduced which sought to bring about that kind of election first, before chal lenging the Republican party at the polls in the final contest. But one reason, of course, was that many of the supporters of Senator elect Yarborough thought he had a better chance in an election that split up the Democratic votes, and Isolated the Republican conserva tives behind their own candidate. Lost Four of Five Mr. Y'arborough has been up for elective office in Texas on a state wide basis five times and has lost four times. He ran once for at- DR. WILLIAM BRADY Most Poisons Won't Kill Person From Absorption Many medical authorities of yes teryear flatly asserted or implied that this or that food, chemical, medicine, or poison may be ab sorbed thru the unbroken skin. There' are on reoord numer ous reports of serious or fatal poisoning from arsenic s o 1 u- v t i o n spilled over the feet, v frnm snillinff nicotine solu tion on the U k . 1 Y 4 UK. URAST clothing and failing to change the clothing immediately, from apply ing a poisonous shoe dye to shoes on the feet, from prolonged use of hair dye containing lead, or from careless handling of telra-cthyl lead lanti-knock) gasoline. . Comes Frnm Inhaling In all of these instances, I am confident cocksure, if you like that whatever poisoning occurred f T nil vns ,rom inhalation of the poison. Upstate, I OrtlaiHlino' 'rom absorption through the i ' Lskin. Even though I claim nothing is (absorbed through the unbroken lskin, various liniments or embro I cations are. nevertheless, good i remedies. Spirit of camphor or j camphor liniment (camphorated oih may give considerable relief I when applied to the chest, for bronchitis, over the brow for neur- Astorlan Hudgrt The fight in the legislature over the "key district" bill to redis tribute basic school support money is boiling down into a ftght be tween Portland and upstate. This was demonstrated when Ihe Senate education committee re ported the bill out with a "do pass" recommendation. The com mittee split, with four upstate members voting against it. Porllanders object because, un less the basic school support quota is raised from $80 per child to around $112 per child, Portland will lose $4 million a year that it will have to make up with in creased property taxes. The strong Portland objections to this bill make it unlikely that it will become a permanent or ac ceptable solution to the school tax equalization problem. Should the basic school fund quota be increased to the point where Portland would not have its basic school fund allotment cut. the increase In state taxes would be big enough to causa squawks all aver the itatt. REALISTIC TOY PEORIA, 111. Mv-Tommy Jones' mother suspected that the cops and robbers pistol he was plaving with was real. " Mrs. John Jones looked it over and found her suspicions were well founded. It was a loaded .32 cali ber automatic. He told Patrolmen .lack Bcecher and John Roake that he found il in a rnta htich in hie back yard. j WITHOCT DEPRESSION Think how lucky we will be If i we can manipulate our extrava gance that caused inflation into a solid prosperity without a denres- jion first. Sherman County Jour I ml. algia, over the bridge of the nose for coryza. Prevents Muscle Soreness Camphor liniment (camphorated oil! is made by dissolving about two ounces (three heaping table spoonfuls) of gum camphor, coarsely powdered in enough olive oil or cottonseed oil to fill a pint bottle. Add to camphor liniment a little aromatic spirit of ammonia tan ounce to the pint) to make a good rubbing liniment to relieve or prevent muscle soreness or stiffness. How can these external applica tions have any effect if they are not inhaled? Who soys they are not inhaled? Aside from the per haps insignificant amount of cam phor or ammonia inhaled when volatilized by the body's warmth, these and numerous other agents applied externally are more or less irritating or rubclacient and so they act ns counterirritants. Ignoring Police Albany Democrat Herald There's a fierce battle of the nickel going on in Albany, with the full might of the Marines, the Army and the Air Force arrayed against the city's 16-man police force. It's petty and unfair. Recruiters for the military serv ices refuse to plug parking meters or to observe the parking time limit. They arrogantly point to statutes which say that the fed eral government is exempt from local taxation. That's right. But parking meters were put there not to extract taxes but to keep autos moving. If re cruiters ignored the meters but observed time limits we wouldn't be quite so unhappy. Rut they don't. They park in ti-minute zones at their leisure. When ticketed, they mail the tickets to Ihe city nail, unpaid. We suggest an arrest and if necessary confiscation of the of fending vehicle. The federal gov ernment probably would win Ihe test case, but we'll wager that the services then would decide to live peacefully, and law-abiding-ly la Albany. t . torney general and three times for governor. He is the standard bear er of the so-called "Loyalist" fac tion in Texas politics which is made up largely of the Truman Stevenson wing of the party. The Democrats in the North are, of course, crowing over "The great victory of the Democrats over the Republicans" in Texas. Also, the Republicans in the North are arguing that this election was an encouraging step toward a two party line-up in the South. A few more episodes of this kind and the Republican party will have suc ceeded in sending to the benate and the House many exponents of radical philosophy and, in the end, the coalition in Congress of north ern Republicans of the conserva tive school and conservative Demo crats from the South will be broken down, if indeed it isn't largely wiped out. Conservatives Should Gather Partisans naturally want to see their respective parties built up but, in the struggle over conflict ing ideologies nowadays, it is far more important to the future' economic welfare of the country for the conservatives to avoid schemes that br&k down the con servative representation in Con gress from the South. Presidential elections can be fought on a two-party basis in thi South, but, until there is a clearer definition between the Republican and Democratic parties on state issues, it is sheer folly for the National Republican organization to stimulate the selection of Re publican nominees for the Senate and the House in the deep South. Defeated Themslres There are a few districts in the South where the preponderance of conservatives is such that putting up a Republican nominee for the House of Representatives becomes a IUKM-1I Hindus ul ui-itrmiuj; a Lremocrai irom me raaicai. sine. This could also happen in some Senate races in the South but. un less there is a "run-off" primary to eliminate the many candidates who usually enter these contests, the risks to the conservatives of such an election as Texas had this week are obvious. It was the con servatives who defeated themselves this time. COPYRIGHT HAL BOYLE Clip Service Reader Scans 20,000 Words Per Minute HAL BOi'LE NEW YORK W - You've heard a lot abojt private eyes. But Ed Haupt probably has America's swiftest public eyes. A sort of prose detective and big name burner, ne is perhaps the nation's fastest reader. "1 can scan up to 20,000 words a minute," ad mitted Haupt who gallops through the pages of scores o f publications daily for the Luce Clipping Bureau. After 30 years In the business, Haupt, a mild-mannered, slow talking family man who lives in Yonkers. is the acknowledged kingpin. Most of Ihe 400 profes sional newspaper readers who work for the 30 U.S. press clip ping services are women. Regard Haupt With Awe They regard Haupt with some thing akin to awe. Few can read at even half the pace set by his busy bee eyes. As he reads Haupt, who has a file drawer mind, marks any mention of the names of some 8,000 people, products and com panies. The list of clients, of course, has daily changes, "The idea seems general that only vanity leads people to sub scribe to a clipping service," he said. "Actually, most of the sub scribers are. hard-hearted busi ness men looking for infor mation." '"' Many Odd Requests . The clipping' servicc, of course, gets many odd requests. One client ' subscribed because he wanted to make a check to be sure his name wasn't appearing in the newspapers. Anotheis, firm (it manufactures dog food) wants all news stories involving heroic dogs. "For a time we had a client who wanted all photos of drum majorettes appearing in skirts." Haupt , recalled. "We -couldn't figure why. It turned' out he wai a young lad trying to build hit own collection of pinup pictures. His mother stopped the service." Cooperates With FBI The clipping bureau cooperates with the FBI to see that the re quests of clients from behind tht Iron Curtain are checked for se curity clearance. Scanning at the rate of 20.000 words a minute (the average per son doesn't read more than about 250), Haupt can get through the equivalent of a dozen or more long-winded novels in a single day. He looks for key words, names or phrases, underlining them as he goes. The stories are clipped later by other workers. The biggest occupational dan gers for professional readers such as Haupt arc daydreaming and getting too interested in a sub ject. A Little About Everything "You can't let that happen," he said. "But no matter how fast I skip over the pages, some of the information sticks in my mind. You get so you know a' little bit about practically every thing. "The subject 1 like to read most about is track sports, be cause I used to do a little running t myself. Unfortunately there are n't many clients looking for track items." Most professional men readers find it difficult to keep their mind on household articles; women -readers often have the same dif ficulty'' In wading through the fl nancial section. "I have no trouble reading the women s pages, said Haupt. "I have a wife and teen-age daugh ter. I am interested in what they wear and what is cooked because I have to pay the bills and eat the food." His terrific reading has had no bad effect on his eyes. He still wears the same lenses in his glasses he did 10 years ago. ' His Hobby? "I like to read the newspaper going home from work," Haupt . said, "but leisurely." , BEN MAXWELL News From an Earlier Day Anrll S. K1SO , R. H, Baldock, state highway en- for four foundation piers for the raanon street Dridge over the Wil lamette at sa- lem would be jf opened Apr. 24, 1950. On the basis of- city water connec 1 1 o n s ' the population of Salem was computed to be 53.900. (Indeed generous. Sa Jem's popula- ben maxwell lion by government census was 43,140 in 1950.) Max Rogers had received a service pin for outstanding service to Chapter 18. Oregon Stale Em ployes association. Dallas was set to go on daylight saving time Apr. 30, 1950 at 12.01 a.m. The time saving period would continue until Sept. 24. C. K. Logan, Capital Journal staffman for 23 years had died un expected from a stroke, Apr. 4 ' 1950. j ' Salem Hospital Development! program had, hopes of starting ; construction of the new Salem General hospital within the next : two months. However, to make the start an additional $90,000 was necessary. (Salem had a pest nouso in me laie 1860 s but no hospital until Dr. Jessuo. Pevinn and Carpenter organized the Home 1 For the Sick in 1873. It was local- ea on Lapitol street between Court and State, a thnrntlrhfarp varataA decades ago. Dr. Richard Cart- right established Willamette Sani tarium Hi 9IS Cnxlk UinlA,. ..).. in 1890. It operated as such until me miu-iasjs. r refl A. Lcgge was last superintendent, Salem Gen eral hospital was organized in 1895 and located itself in a struc ture on 12th street formerly oc cupied by the blind school On Aus. 8, 1899 this hosnilal Innlr noccncc. ion of Glen Oak orphanage locat ed On ilS nriSfnl cilrt Vhr,n C.n. cral hospital occupied the structure in liiuu miss L,unan McNary was Superintendent OniMnan hnt. pilal, now Salem Memorial was uiganizea in 1916.1 FACTS DON'T INTERFERE ' rinQcinc .i.ill ni l:i u .o nui ,,, nneiy UK U" enced by the meeting between queen and husband. One of the nirr thinnc al,.i kn:M is that facts need never interfere. Sherman County Journal. Changing Policy Corvallis Gazelle-Tlmrs Last .Itilv the Gazette-T i m e s changed its policy insofar as the publication of the names of juven ile offenders against the law is concerned. Since that time we no tice more and more papers all over the country have decided on a sim ilar action. One of the latest to join the ranks is the Cleveland Press. Their policy under which names of teen agers will be printed is In situa tions where the offenses committed have been continuous, where they are serious, where it is felt that the best interests of the victims and the law-breakers would be served by making the names public. A policy of this vague nature makes the paper the sole judge of whose name goes in and whose stays out. This is a pretty rough ! burden to place on the pen of any news editor. Influence, convenience and sentimentality are apt to hold as much pressure on the editor as I justification. This can be danger- jous. I We at the Gazette-Times at ' tempted to outline our policy in a : strictly black and white manner with no decision left up to the news 'editor. We figured that if we listed ,the crimes and circumstances un der which the names would be pub lished then no one could say vt , were playing favorites or using ! personal judgments on the individ ual cases. In a small town the Cleveland paper would certainly get into trou ble with such a vague program. October 20, 1940 Mrs. V. K. wrote . . . "Please accept my sincere thanks for all of Ihe care and attention given to the funeral of my husband, Mr. J. K., last Mon day. Everything was perfectly arranged and exactly as he wished." The ahovr taken frnm our file ot unsolicited letters. HOWELl-EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME Cent Count! VJ Every Opei saving Earn 2Va Interest from April 1 en or add to your I 6 Mf IWSfrtaiatlwraillaalaff.rtt,,,! 1 """ '"-I tm, c.. f 4 Convenient Branches in Salem IADD I BUSH-SAtEM BRANCH , siow and Cemmtrclal NORTH SALEM IRANCH JWFalrgrettttaiiU, UNIVERSITY BRANCH 1310 Stat St. WIST SALIM IRANCH UJZIaiowiM