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r II 'fa re A i t f . Capital AJournal AN INDfflNDINT NIWIPAPII-iVAIllSHIO IN IIM Bernard Malnwaring (1897-1957) Editor and Publisher 1953-1957 E. A. Brown, Publisher Glenn Cuthman, Managing Editor George Putnam.Editor Emeritus PuMiiharJ mry waning (axcapl Sunday ky Hit Capital Journal C., Mn. Jannla L Marnwarlne, Full Uaite) Wirt Sarvk of The Aaiociated Praia and The Unltad Praia. ,Th Aaioclalad Praaa la txelullvaty ntittad to tha ula for publication of all news diapalehaa cradllad to It or ofWwil croditad In this paper and alio ntws publllhad tharein. a SUIiCIIPTION HATH y Carrlan Monthly, fl.Mi ll Manilla, $7J0i Ono Yaar, 13.00. Mall In Orafont Montnhr, tl.OOi lis Months. JJ.OOi Ono Vaar .00. ly Mail Oultldo OraajMi Monthly, $1.15; Sin Monlha, 7J0; Ono Vaar, $1540 Cities Need This Money If Oregon's liquor laws are to be adequately enforced the cities of the state must have more money to pay for It. In these days when every budget item comes the hard way the money can't be raised by adding to the tax load. This leaves only one source. The ; cities must have a bigger cut, a much bigger one, from state liquor revenues. The League of Oregon Cities has a bill : in the Legislature to add to this allocation of funds. The League isn't an impractical pres sure group. Us members are city officials who know the headaches of budget making. Its legislative committee emphatically de- ; clares that the present allocation has never been sufficient to equal the costs of enforce- ment, and that the situation has become worse since liquor by the drink became ef fective in Oregon. A reasonable allocation of funds ' to the cities does not mean an added state appro priation. It means a readjustment. Most of ' the liquor money now received by the cities is a 5 per cent cut from the state's net rev enue from the liquor stores. This is 66 cents per capita. Ninety-five per cent goes Into the state's general fund. The League is asking that the cut to the cities be Increased to 15 per cent triple, but still reasonable. There are some other liquor revenues that go to the cities, but they don't amount to much. Take Salem as a typical example. The B per cent cut last year gave Salem $31,176. There Is a privilege tax allocated at 17.2 cents per capita from which Salem and Marion County combined got $7855. Half the returns from purchasers' permit fees go to the cities at a rate of 15.4 cents per capita, which yielded Salem $7317. Totaling, the cities get 98.6 cents per capita from all state liquor revenues, which gave Salem $46,350. In addition the cities and counties get their local dealers' license fees, which gave Salem $7960 more, a grand total of $54,310. That seems a pretty sizeable sum of money if you don't happen to know that between 25 and 50 per cent of Salem's police budget of $388,000 goes to liquor law enforcement, which does not Include numerous other law violations involving the public weltare and safety that aro directly caused by liquor. Of course the Slate Police patrols the highways. But the burden of enforcement falls on the cities that are responsihle within their boundaries. Tho 5 per cent law is far out of proportion. The slate takes 95 per cent of tho net return from the liquor stores, while it may not be far off the mark to say that 95 per cent of the enforcement falls to the cities. -. , ' . ' tim's bipod. Each lamprey, In adulthood, kills a minimum of 20 pounds of fish. The jawless mouth is always open and the sue- - tion grip used not only in feeding but to hold on to stones or to climb obstructions in swift water and over dams. In. breeding season the lampreys swim up pebbly streams to lay their eggs, each female deposits approximately 62,500 eggs. After spawning, the adult dies. The worm- ' -like larvae spend three to five years in stream beds where they feed on small organisms. Lake trout will be replanted in the lakes following the extermination of the lampreys Lampreys infest most Oregon streams and are a familiar sight in the spring ascending obstructions. They are trapped at dams and used to feed fry in trout and salmon hatch eries. The lamprey is one o( the oldest known verte brates, says the National Geographic Society. It flourishes along the coasts and in rivers and lakes of temperate regions the world over. Although lampreys tempt few present-day palates, ancient Romans featured them at imperial banquets. Medieval gourmets continued to regard them as a treat, even though the flesh is not easily digested. England's King Henry I reportedly died after eat In too heavily of his favorite dish lamprey pie. It-'rfc, o3fr m HAY TUCKM Based on In- Maple for Fair Manager In the appointment of Howard Maple as State Fair manager the directors have chosen a man who should be able to keep the fair at Its high level of many past years. At the start he faces a handicap, for the 1957 fair preparations aro off to a slow start because of readjustments by a change in state administration, including an entirely new fair board, but Maplo and the new board doubtless can overcome that, and even the most partisan wish them well. Maple's background goes well with his new position, for much of his activity has given him training that is needed in management of a large fair. He has managed two county Chambers of Commerce in Oregon and must have an appreciation of tho importance of the agricultural Industries. He has had a colorful career In sports, which has given him a sense of showmanship. When formerly living in Salem he was a City Council mem ber and was outstandingly successful in bus iness. Maple's name has boon well kliown sinco his student days at Oregon Slate when, In 1928, he was named on the first, second and third all-American football teams. Later came professional baseball with minor and major league clubs Including the Chicago White Sox and the Washington Senators. After that he was assistant to "Spec" Keene as coach at Willamette and freshman coach at Oregon State. Then came a successful period as operator of a sports goods store in Salem. Of sports Maple once said in a reminiscent mood: "I've been more fortunate than most boys, for I achieved every childhood ambi tion I ever had in sports. When In school 1 wanted some day to play in the big leagues, to be a coach, and to achieve an all-American rating in football. I had them all, and they were well worth any effort ever made." War Opens on Lampreys After several years of research and experi ment tho United Slates Fish and Wild Life Service has started Its major drive to end by extermination tho sea lampreys' piratical career In the Great Lakes with some 70 un derwater electrical barriers In operation, spelling death to millions of the eel-like pred ators won have destroyed the $5 million a year lake trout fishing industry. From April to July, the lampreys head for their spawning grounds in their annual mi gration from the sea, will hit the screens and receive lethal shocks in spawning beds. Other fish, more sensitive to electricity are diverted by a weak preliminary charge. These electrical shocks will be supplemonal and several poisons, which may erase four generations of the parasites with a single dose. Eight such compounds, which will selectively kill lampreys while leaving other marine life and humans unharmed, are be ing tested in a pilot operation. The lamprey fastens Its round, sudoral mouth to a fish, rasps off the scales and flesh with Its hundred ahap' teeth, drinks its vie- RAY TUCKER Review Due Reports Of Russ Strength WASHINGTON A complete review of contradictory intelligence reports on Rus sia's military strength will be conducted by the Senate Appropriations Committee before it acts on the Administration's request for i4.4 Diuion, lor national de fense and foreign aid. Many specialists believe that it had been . vastly overrated by Pentagon experts and Allen W. Dulles' overseas agents. Pointing out that this field offers the most likely for budget and tax cuts, Senator Allen J. FJlcndcr of Louisiana Is responsible for the check ' UD which will he the first nf Its kind slnre Wni-lrl Wir ir formation gathered on his trips throughout minora in me lust, iwo years, encnaer told the committee at a recent secret session: "I believe that we are getting bum intelli gence information! I think that the whole question should be looked into before we proceed to expand as weare and to spend as we are!" ; , Pertinent Remarks- A great deal of the Louisiana Senator's testimony was so pertinent, and so different from official data, that it was eliminated from the published reports of the hearings as "classified." But Dr. James Doolittle, chairman of the National Advisory Com mittee for Aeronautics, appears to share El lcnder's views. He says: "We would like to have more accurate information. But I would not write off the information which we have as wholly inac curate." In addition to data which he picked up inside Russia and the satellite states, Ellen dor has talked with Communist defectors in cluding former officers in the Soviet Army and Air Force. They will be questioned by the full committee, as will Charles E.' Bohlcn, who has just returned from Moscow after serving as U. S. Ambassador there for four years. Disturbing Contrasting Evidence Many other members of Congress arc dis turbed by contrasting evdience on tho ques tion of Russia's military might, especially as erroneous estimates have had a far-reaching and sometimes unfortunate effect on the Western Allies' foreign policies, especially the United States. Many believe that it has contributed to unjustified timidity in bat tling the Creat Bear. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson him self has conceded his own errors in this re spect. He has downgraded previous esti mates of Russian strength insofar as pro duction of hig bombers, fast pursuit planes and atomic weapons are concerned. His re cent order cutting output of B-52s from 20 to 15 a month resulted from discovery of his mistakes. Moreover, there is a growing belief that Allen Dulles' Central Information Agency has not lived up to the promises and hopes held out when this country's spying agencies were unified under his control. It is felt that they were outwitted In the attack on lndo-China by Ho Chi Minn's Reds, In the in vasion of F.gypt and in the Hungarian up rising. Fear of Spain Rerallrd Senator Carl Haydrn of Arizona, Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, has personal reasons for backing Senator Ellen tier's demand. As one of two members of congress who served in the Spanish-American war, he recalls this country's hysterical fear of Spain's might at a time when the erstwhile ruler of the Spanish Main was only a hollow, rotting shell In every way. Russia's behavior, as recently noted here, lends support to doubt of her power. De spite her brutal reprisals in Hungary and her scries of threats to European and Mid dle East members of NATO, the Kremlin has whined and scolded instead of taking military action. Moscow obviously dreads the thought of present or prospective atomic encirclement. And, despite official denials, that is the current and long-range strategy at Washing ton. , JAMES MARLOW History to Judge Ike On Policies WASHINGTON WUOne of the Frequently asked questions Washington is: What, do you think President Eisenhower's place in history will be?" His rating among the Presi dents will prob ably be determ ined more by what he man-, agos to achieve in foreign policy. man oy anytning in sight for him to do at home. Some Of his JAMKS MARI.OW critics get Impatient because he does not take a tougher, or harsh er, one witn the Russians and be- cause he insists on exhausting every reasonable means of dealing wan ,gypuan rresioeni nasser. History Will Determine But it is right here In his policy of patience that history may mane me nnai determination on whether he was truly wise. When he took office Asia was on fire. The fire is still there but the flame has died down. It mn hardly be said his policy of re straint had nothing to do with that. When the blaze shifted to the Middle East, he seemed to have a choice: crack down on Nasser or try to sweat It out. He might, by being rough, have won the skir mish with Nasser. But It might have 'antagonized the Arab world and opened It to Russia. The end result would have been a colossal defeat, May Save Middle East By patience, by an attitude of understanding for the new nation alism of the Arabs and their im maturity as only recently in dependent people, he may yet save the Middle East from com munism. But all this is in an evolutionary state. The true value of what he has done in the foreign field good or Dad may not show up for years after he steps out of the presidency. It Is only now that President Truman's vigor, vision and deci siveness are beginning to be ap preciated. The steps he took to hold Russia by containment are not only accepted by Eisenhower but arc being pursued by him. More Liberal Course At home Eisenhower is trying to lead the Republican parly to ward a more liberal course. Ho himself has not gone beyond the New ueal and Fair Deal He has pretty much accepted both, adopted them, i.nd is now trying to extend them. Both deals are so much a part of American life with broad benefits for so many people that if Elsenhower had . shown signs of wanting to undo them in 1052 and 1!58 he nrohnhlv would not have been elected either time. The philosophy of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower can be boiled down to this: they believed ''he government has a responsibility for the welfare of the people. May Not Change Party It is by no means certain that Eisenhower, by the time he leaves the. White House, will have per suaded his party to pursue a steadily liberal course in its pol icies. There are plenty of grumb lings about him now, and opposi tion to him, among the Republi can conservatives. If the conservatives capture control of the party after Eisen hower, and try lo turn the clock back, lliey may well succeed in wrecking (he party not only for years but forever. Hint the voters themselves make a big distinction between Democrats and Republicans un favorable to Republicans was shown in the elections of 1954 and 1956. In 1954, with Republican Eisen hower In the presidency, the vot ers gave Democrats control of Congress. And in 1956, while re electing Eisenhower overwhelm ingly, they again chose the Demo crats to run Congress. Comforting News ,V I throw you , I m v. out J m ; 1 . (SI f DAVID LAWRENCE Iii Spite of 'Retaliatory Power,' U. S. Will Stress Moral Force as Main Russ Deterrent Confusion (Kugrnt Register-Guard) It didn't happen here, bill it well could happen here some day. It did happen in Salem where it wasn t so tragic as it might have been, and as it might be next time. In Salem a little girl fell into a drainage pool on Georgia Ave. Help was called. An ambulance went to the Georgia Ave., in the northeast section of town. City first aid help went to the Georgia Ave. in the Morningsidc district. For tunately only one went to the wrong place. Rut suppose both had been wrong? Or suppose that here in this area an excited person telephones hurriedly lor help to come to Wal nut. Would help go to Ihe Walnut SI. out In Fairmount or to Walnut I. ane in Westward Ho or lo Wal nut Drive in River Road Or. speeding to an accident on "Oak." would an ambulance go to the Oak SI. in downtown Eugene, or to! Oak Drive in River Road. Howl about Cherry. Roosevelt, Park. Fir. Maple, Jessen, Hilyard and Hil-: hard? j It Is true, of course, that any of these addresses can be clearly dis- j tinguished if the excited person on the telephone spells "Hilliard" and not "Hilyard." or If he puts the right sort ol "drive," "street." "way" or "lane" alter the street. Rut that's something we can't de pend on. PRESIDENTS SPEED About Ihe president's fast driv ing: Let he who never drives 70 miles an hour cast the first stone. Sherman County Journal WASHINGTON The world knows today that the United States Intends to give no quarter to in ternational communism but will resort only to moral force to win back to free dom's side the dozen nations which "the men in the Kremlin stole, one by one." But, if any mil itary attack should come from the Soviets in the meantime, "mobile retalia tory power" will o. LAWRKNCU be used by the free world to defend itself. Mr. Dulles warns in his lat est address that this envisages atomic weapons in local wars, too, where the "mobile striking power" of land, sea and air forces will be employed. But the emphasis by Mr. Dulles was on the real battle. It's the battle for men's minds which when won can overthrow dictators. The secretary gave a succinct exposi tion of the way moral force can be applied in the world today. In what is perhaps the most signifi cant passage in his speech, Mr. Dulles says: Provide An Example "Let us provide an example which demonstrates the blessings of liberty. Let us spread knowledge of that around the world. Let us sec to it that the divided or captive nations know that they are not forgotten; that we shall never make a political settlement at their expense: and that a heartfelt welcome and new opportunity await them as they gain more freedom. "Let us also make apparent to the Soviet rulers our real purpose. We condemn and oppose imperial ism. We seek the liberation of the captive nations. We seek this, how ever, not in order to encircle Rus sia with hostile forces, but because peace is in jeopardy and freedom a word of mockery until the di vided nations are reunited and the captive nations are set free. Evolution to Freedom "We revere and honor those who as martyrs gave their blood for freedom. But o do not ourselves incite violent revolt. Rather we encourage an evolution to free dom." The secretary of stale pointedly reminded his hearers that the "voice of America," our informa tion programs and cultural ex changes do spread throughout the world "knowledge ot what freedom is and docs." Is there progress on the moral force front? Mr. Dulles thinks so and says "events of the past year indicate that the pressures of lib erty are rising." He adds: "Within the Soviet Union there is increasing demand for greater personal security, for greater in tellectual freedom and tor greater enjoyment of the fruits of labor. . . . The satellite countries no longer provide a submissive source ol Soviet strength. Indeed Soviet strength, both military and eco nomic, has now to be expended to repress those who openly show their revulsion against Soviet rule." .Moral Suasion In Mid East As for the Middle East, Mr. Dulles argues for moral suasion there, too. Ho counsels against im patience and impulsive action. He says that when passions run high the task is hard and that the only durable solution is one which comes by patiently, resolutely and resourcefully seeking justice and the rule of law." This means that while recogniz ing some of the limitations of the United Nations, this country still has laith in Ihe mediating pro cesses of that organization and Ihe opportunities it provides to resolve legal controversies in special courts that art set up lor that purpose. While the secretary of state stressed the Importance of "find ing ways of peaceful change," this doesn't mean appeasement. He said on this point: Change Law of Life "Our foreign policy accepts change as the law of Ufe. We seek to assure that change will be be nign, and not destructive, so that it will promote not merely sur vival but freedom and well-being. This certainly doesn't mean re warding the aggression committed by Red China or assuming that the enslaved people of that country are any different from other cap tive peoples and must be con demned to remain under the rule of a dictatorship. Nor does it mean that the United States will demand a complete severance of tics with Soviet Russia before furnishing eco nomic aid to the people in satellite countries in Eastern Europe. The essence of American foreign policy, as Mr.- Dulles outlines it, is that no "political settlements" will be made which recognize the results of aggression. He would follow the American concept of past history which he declares has always reflected a desire "to stim ulate liberating forces throughout the world and create a climate in which despotism would shrink." A Brilliant Menage The address which Mr. Dulles delivered in New York City be fore the members of the Associ ated Press was approved in ad vance by President Eisenhower. It is a brilliant and inspiring state ment which will satisfy all except those who are more politically partisan than American .and those newspapers abroad which still are aggrieved that the United States didn't join Britain and France in making war on Egypt last Octo ber. Indeed, the Dulles speech Is a pronouncement of the hopes and aspirations of a free people who still rely on military force to deter an aggressor and moral force to win the support of peoples every where. By concerted will an en slaved people can at any moment rid themselves of despotism. For the biggest armies dissolve and refuse to kill their brethren when the people rise up in a righteous cause. DR. WILLIAM BRADY Hospitals Shouldn't Charge Parents to Train Nurses iST tit 4 "Our eldest daughter is in nurses' training. Paying her way there has wrecked us financially. The girls are all worked so hard on the floors (no pay). The expenses add up to quite a sum. Now we hear that - - - (another hospital nurscf training school) is mucn less cx- pt-iiMve . . . (Mrs. W. O.) ! You mean to tell me the hos- dr. brast pital charges for nurse training? If this is so, I'd rather not hear any more about it. It is too depress ing. The training course is hard enough for the pupils even when they receive sufficient pay to de fray all their expenses. If, as you imply, your daughter has lo pay the hospital tuiUon. or whatever, while she is in training, no wonder there is a constant shortage of nurses in Yankeeland and of eligi ble candidates for nurse-training school. From 2 to 3 Years It was bad enough. I thought, when the shrewd hospital manag ers stretched the nurse - training course from two to three years. They gave, as the reason for this, some applesauce about the vi.st strides medicine is making now adays etc. etc. It was. of course, purely incidental that the hospital gol one year of free service from each nurse before turning h r loose. The productive life of a trained, professional, graduate, or registered nurse is short at best. To rob her of a year of her time, as hospitals with three-year nurse training courses do, is, in my opinion, extortionate, in a nice sweet lady-like way, of course. 'Trlrk Specialists' - The ostensible reason for stretch ing the medical - training course from five years to ten was also "the vast strides medicine is mak ing nowadays." 1 suggest, in my ignorant way. that the main rea son was to turn out trick specialists and "clinic" racketeers those medical merchants who cater to II0O0 snobs. (Glossary: A $1000 snob Is a person with an income of M30 to ioo a month. He is content with Ihe services of ordinary doctors until' his income." gels up to $1000 a month. Thereafter he deals only with specialists and "clinics".) These all-around "specialists" and "clinic" operators are superior lo ordinary doctors in the same way that white side-walls are su perior to ordinary tires. "The girls arc all worked so hard on the floors (no pay)" says Mrs. O. Let us hope this means nursing, not doing chamber work, cleaning, and scrubbing. Hospitals that get a year of nursing service for nothing sometimes use the pro bationers as unpaid chambermaids. HAL BOYLE Boyle Relates Handling All- NEW YORK Wi - You meet at least one at every cocktail party. - tk. All.Amprira nest. J IllCdU ItIC r the man who suddenly wheels through the smoke log, nans uc lore you, thrusts his face to with in an inch of your nose tip, and then, fixing vou with h i s glitterinff eve. demands loudly: n e m emocr AH r . taolf v Jj.i . ,.Wf laaaT.'..'-., mean tne lemair; ar ya. mjsf, of. tne species, M fr - t h e wandering hal bovu ladv gypsy motn wno nuuers uH Ic 'everybody at the party, and makes a parlor game of cooing to each: "Bet you can t tell me my name." . What Should One Do? What should s fellow who loves his fellow men in most circum stances do in this situation? The chances are that he can't tell the strange man from John Foster Dulles. And who, confronted un expectedly by a strange, martini burdened lady, can immediately recall her name, which is prob ably something like R a m o n a Schnodtfeltenglosser? The unfair thing is that it is the one questioned, not the ques tioner, who is put on the spot. He is made to look like a premature victim of senile dementia as he stands there helpless before his foghorn-voiced smiling accuser, stuttering that immortal social line, "uh-h-h, y-y-y-your face is familiar, i-b-but your name, I m sorry to say, escapes me." Couldn't Get Name Meanwhile, in your mind you are furiously saying, "your name, you big dumb dolt? Why if my mother sprang at me like that I couldn't name her unless she also started humming 'rock a-bye baby.'" . So, publicly embarrassed, in wardly raging, you have to con fess your ignorance until your Formula' for American Pest rAfpals his or her iden tify and proclaims his forgiveness that you have lorgouen u. nvtuui ,.. ,rtr he savs who he is. you .probably still can't really place nun. ine mm v 1- at nckine other oeonle if they remember him is usually the kind they find easiest to forget. Isn't there somemuig io De oone .kn.i cihmtinns to keen from looking less like a bum yourself and the pest irom loomng less like s hero? honest Answer Needed m, u If one will droo the nnlitoness ' one doesn't HUUIiuua p....-...- feel anyhow, and give a really honest answer. . . . ' To the clod who demands "re member me?", you might reply "Sure I remember you but, man, how you've changed. What did it lo vou-the war, your job, or your wife?" Or, "I remember you like I do the measles - In a spotty way." nr "Vnnr lace is familiar, but weren't you wearing a number the last time I saw you? oF "finl-e f rememher vou. You 'didn't fool me. Now take, off your mask. To the lady who wants to bet vmi can't recall her name, you simply murmur: "I'm afraid l can t De sure, nut aran'l vnii Ann nt the Smith fftrlt the one who married the abom inable snowman.' Frame Haunts Me Or. "Your name? Gee, miss. it's your frame that really haunts me. It's come a long way since the old days, hasn't it? All things considered, I mean." Or (laughing gaily), "Well, t must confess you had me for a minute, Mrs. Dracula. By the way, what is your first name?" The pests you direct such an swers to may be a bit taken 'aback. But the odds are the other long-suffering guests will either break out in applause, or even gratefully lift you on their shoul ders and bear you in triumph to the punch bowl. BEN MAXWELL News From an Earlier Day April 25, 1932 A trial date had been set by the justice of peace for seven high school boys charged with assault and battery on s tne person of Victor De Jar din, a student, in a hazing epi sode. (For years nnet an1 Inn years to come Ihe perennial problem of se cret societies in Salem high school harassed the school ben maxwell board. fn lhi interval nf itrnnruul Kitn. gets Independence school district No. 29 had cut salaries of high school teachers approximately 15 per cent. Training in agriculture under the Smith-Hushes act hart been dropped. Principal Robinson naa oeen re-nirea at a salary re duced from $266.50 a month to $225. Average rale of state Easolino taxes in 1932 was 3'j cents a gal lon. (Now 6 cents. Oregon, in 1919, had been the first of all states to initiate a tax on gasoline. In 1931 the collection of this tax bile in the state. I William Ouinlin. self-aonoinled head of a one man church, had asserted that since the people of Salem did not care for the "King dom ot God" they could "go to hell" so far as he was concerned. Quinlin had made himself a huge drum shod with old shoe soles and bicycle tires. He proposed to live in his drum while he rolled his way to Seattle, a more promising field for his religious endeavors. But he did not indicate what the motive power might be. A needy Salem widow with five children to sustain had told Mrs. Mae Carson, secretary for Asso ciated Charities, that she'd almost rather cook over a camp fire than to try to use her stove that ne cessilaled propping up both oven and fire box doors and scattered ashes over bread baking in the faulty oven. Mrs. Carson was seek ing a better stove for the widow. These were grocery prices at the Irish Cash store in Salem 25 years ago: butter, 2 lbs., 37c; Salem made bread, 6 loaves, 25c; cheese, 2 lbs., 25c; Oregon prunes, 14 lbs., 49c: Oregon honey, 5 lb. pail, 39c; fresh roasted peanuts, 3 lbs., 23c Press, Pioneers Albany Democrat-Herald We're long on pioneering spirit, armchair-variety, and we've been unhappy to learn that the covered wagons and the Mayflower replica which are heading for Plymouth, Mass., are modernized. The wagons, authentic Cones- togas, will more or less follow me uregon trail on me way east. The Mayflower II will beat its way against the prevailing wester lies across the Atlantic as best she .can. just as the Pilgrims' vessel did. While both the ship and wagons are setting out to memorialize great migrations of the past, their promoters are highly aware of benefits of the present. The wagon crews won't miss a chance to glorify the Northwest, and Ihe Mayflower II is laden with English merchandise which will be displayed as sales come-ons in New England. This time it isn't trade with the Indians, but trade wilh the descendants of English men who traded the Indians out of their country. And the Conestogas will stop at gas stations for water while the crews, we presume, gorge on ham burgers at the nearest stand. The Mayflower II. we sadly re port, is equipped with two-way radio and will be shepherded by relays of heavy bombers through out the crossing. But the very use of these modern aids proves what we wish would be proved more dramatically that the good old days weren't good at all. And it probably is too !much to expect that 20th century I man. just to prove a point, would 'duplicate Ihe hazards confronting ithe first Americans and the first Oregonians. Alter all. the des peration and aspirations which drove these early settlers no long er is present. News Quotes (Reg. U.S. Pat. Olf.) By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON - Sen. John L. McClcllan (D-Ark.). chairman of the Senate Rackets Committee, alter two women testified they had been forced to sign false af fidavits: "I'm getting a little bit tired of this committee being imposed on by lying." AUGUSTA. Ga. - While House Press Secretary James Hagerty after a telephone conversation be tween President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the Middle East situa tion: "Both the President and the secretary of state regard the in dependence and integrity of Jor dan as vital." LOS ANGELES - Unemploved warehouseman Edward Aubele, 41, on why he submitted the 38th false confession to the 10-year-old "Black Dahlia" murder of Eliza, beth Short: "I didn't have a job or any place to stay I thought I could get a free meal." HOLLYWOOD - "Sun Goddess" singer Yma Sumac showine re- nnH-.. n ? . k .7 ".k k p "a"ied In a battle wilh her estranged husband Moises Vivanco: "This is an example of Peruvian iu e. WASHINGTON"""! Ross Gunn weather bureau meteorologist, on ...v pvuuui'ii uroDtem: "The nnlv .... ing to solve the pollution prob-1 lem is to have atomic power that doesn't dump ash and other mat ter into the air." : ISEFUL STRINGS ! DENVER. Coin i carda Mooney. a violinist with the Denver Symphony Orchestra, had to play her way out of jail " fnend and I ere arrested for speeding. Mrs. Moonev explains My Wild Irish Rose' before he would let US eave Ik. ... ;-- k . r Mellon, we didnt have to pay s fine." What Next? (Bend Bulletin) A Detroit automobile manufac turer announced rer-nntlu that drawer-type car door handles are coming otf the assembly unc just lor the ladies. According to the manufacturer's news h u r e a n they're "the easiest things on fin gernails since mink mittens." It seems that distaff drivers are : sold on the new handles that pull out like a drawer lo open the door, eliminating chipped polish, broken nails and lost tempers. Will ihe next gimmick be an automatic dishwasher type device to clean milady's sunglasses? INSURANCE CONFUSION ALBANY, N.Y. tfu-Ncw York's new compulsory automobile liabil ity insurance law is giving many visiting motorists the jitters. Widespread reports that out-of-state drivers are being warned to slay away, because their cars may be impounded if they are unable tO Orodlire evirtenna lithilUi, In. surance, has brought official de nial from the Neur Vftrlr mMnP vehicle commissioner. -ommissioncr Joseph p. Kelly explained that visiting motorists are not renuirerl tn nmtm iinm. cial responsibility, but may be UF lu uu j,n aIler involve ment in an accident. QUICK PUNISHMENT TIITNTIvn-mu u, t, a Huntington man.' with bruises and on nis nead. complained to police that he had been attacked by someone with a blunt instru ment Th i .: j , I i" "neaiigaiion oeveiopea i "t; ima oeen m a poker game and was caught cheating. "Monthly Payments . . . made it so much easier for us at Howell-Edwards Funeral Home e were not left with a burdensome debt." ,