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Capital AJournal AN INDiPENDINT NEWSPAMD-iSTAIUSHID IN 1111 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 Publiehed every evening except Sunday by the Capital Journal Co., Mr. Jannla L. Mainwarlng Pull leated Wira Servica of Tha Astociated Praia and The United Pretf. The Aliocieted Preil ia excluaively entitled to the uie for publication of all newl dupatchoi credited to It or ofherwile credited in thii paper and alto newi publiined therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ty Carrier! Monthly, SI. SO; Si Monlhl, $9.00; One Year, $18.00. By Mail In Oregon: Monthly, SI. SO; Sl Monthl, M.50; One Yaer $11.00. By Mail Outllde Oregon! Monthly, SI. SO; Six Monlhl, $9.00; One Year, $11.00 ;;" .Chances for Life for ome years now it has often been said that this is an age of specialists, particularly in speaking of the medical and surgical pro fessions. Among Hi em are baby specialists, skin spe cialists, brain specialists, doctors who give all their attention to car, nose and throat, . experts In woman's ailments, some who de- vole their skill entirely to diagnosis, some exclusively to surgery, and some to the pre scribing of medicine. There are rnany oth ers, to say nothing of the dentists, the op- ,..,ticians, the chiropodists, etc. ,r Sometimes they are spoken of with criti- cistn, and people fondly mention the general practitioner. Well, there are lots of general practitioners, and they are much needed. They are always busy. As for the specialists evidence is ample that they have come with progress, contribute to progress, and have -.done much for healthier, better and longer i- living. This comment comes from a glance at . some recent statistics about babies. Prog ress in Health Services, published by Health :' Information Foundation, says that 108,000 ':. Infant deaths were registered in the United States in 1956, or 20.1 for each 1000 live ', births. Comparatively this is a low death rate, for if the mortality rale of 1915, only 42 years ago, had prevailed in 1956, an other 300,000 babies would not have lived for their first birthday. After the. first week of the infant's life the mortality rate for the frlst year Is 10 per 1000, or only one seventh of the 1915 rale. For that first cru cial week of the baby's life the showing isn't so good, with a present mortalily rate of 16.7 per 1000, a decline of less than 50 per . cent in 42 years. The periodical observes that many diseases that once took great toll among babies after their first week have been largely brought under control and some of them eliminated, and in this the doctors apparently have had the cooperation of municipal governments and other agencies, for it adds: "In general these are the diseases associated with inade quate sanitation, poor hygiene, poverty and ; low standards of living. The record has been ' nearly as good among the digestive diseases. , . . . Infant deaths from respiratory diseases have declined by almost three-fifths." Cooperation. by mothers too docs much for ', Improvement willingness to have prenatal . care, have babies in the hospital rather than ; the home, and to make sure babies have pre ventive medical care alter birth, The foundation's president says there Is room for Improvement In all lncomo groups. This improvement can come only as modern knowledge is more ' broadly used by the public. While the prolonging of life is perhaps more easily observed at the baby end of the life span progress is being made among the adults. Forty years ago people died from ailments that are now cured by simple sur gery. , " A few obstinate ailments still baffle (he doctors. But gradually medical science Is running them down, and ultimately will heat them. If tlie accomplishments of other branches of science, atomic, energy for ex ample, are turned to war, with frequent tests of destructive power, possibly there will be new diseases for the doctors to fight. Al ready they are on the alert. If these accom plishments arc controlled for peaceful pur poses life forty years from now should be happier and of greater expectancy than it is today. More. Red Propaganda The latest disarmament proposals made to the Allies by Soviet Russia for a reduction and control agreement are like Rods previous proposals, intended to disarm the Wcsl while Russia continues In build up armaments. It is ingenious enough to cause confusion among the do-gooders, but dishonest on its face and merits rejection. In its proposal Russia pretended to agree to submit to effective inspection and control without which disarmament is delusion. They prelcnd to agree to Ihn Eisenhower "open sky" proposal for inspection of control posts but only Inspection of part instead of the whole of the armament posts. The Russians proposed to put under aerial Inspection 2,750,000 square miles on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and combine in spection with ground control. What they really proposed is to put all the territory of the NATO alliance, Including most of the United States under control in return for putting their rebellious satellites and Siber ia's arctic wastes under control. Under the Kremlin plan, southeast Kng land, most of France and Italy, Wesl Ger many, Alaska and all of Ihe United States west of the Mississippi would he subject tn their serial control. In addition they would establish ground control posts under the Security Council but with their participation in all NATO countries, including eastern United States, not covered by aerial inspec tion. This would give Russia access to virtually all the West's industrial and military estab lishments in both Kurope and North Amer ica, in turn they would open to aerial in spection East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Rumania and Siberia to the Urals, but only a fringe of Russia's western frontier. The Soviet industrial and military power would remain "out of bounds" to inspection. The Russians propose an armed force ceil ing of 2.500.000 men for Russia. Red China and United Stales, with a further cut to 1. 500.000 men, which would force a whole Kale withdrawal of American forces In Kurope and disintegration of Western defense chief Russian objective, while thejtussians them selves continue military huild'up. Meanwhile, as Ihe New York Times nays: "Under such conditions Russia could also propa gandize their desire In abolish atomic weapons and end hydrogen bomb tests immediately, since runng oi a rnmmiccinn r 1.......1 i ui ui t.-iu-dnu-uuuer, and-cenls importance to every ', American. In an unfair practice ac-J lion brought market chain that has 238 stores and grosses $475,000,- 000 of business examiner found that the or-l ganization was any prohibitions in this field would be automatically effective in Ihe West, while leaving the Soviets immune. "These proposals are not only inadequate but dangerous because of the delusions they spread. Prime Minister Macmillan has already rejected them, and it is to be hoped that other Western powers will promptly follow suit." Meanwhile the Soviet Union is renewing its brutal threats against West Germany for rearming, threatening Chancellor ' Konrad Adenauer's bid for re-election in the Septem ber election. G. P. RAY TUCKER Grocery Chain Gets By FTC Report WASHINGTON The Congressional deci sion to investigate the invisible government" which has grown into such an uncontrolled power at Washington has been underscored by a sensational but generally unnoticed federal Trade avnmmn, - lh-,1 leVrF i.... , .i-ii 3J utniar.s-i against a super annuallv, the immune from Ray Tucker f : V 4 ' ' ,- I l&U supervision by the Federal Trade Commis sion, which has jurisdiction over monopolies, prices and competitive methods. It is the authorized guardian against activities harm ful to consumers and competitors. SIDELINE SWITCH The chain had been accused of discrim inatory practices. But the "eager beaver" examiner found that the 238 stores came un der control of the Department of Agriculture simply because it operated a small meat-packing plant representing an investment of only $2,700,000. By establishing this relatively small and insignificant sideline, Ihe great nationwide concern was able to escape the only agency sufficiently equipped and experienced to en force antimonopolistic statutes. Unfortunately, the Secretary of Agricul ture's staff is wholly 'Inadequate to give this protection to consumers. ,. He has never tried to do this job at all, even though the 1921 law assigning him this authority was plain enough in Its language. However, due to lack of funds, Agricul ture has not tried to enforce antitrust laws even against those companies which clearly fall under Its jurisdiction large firms slaughtering, processing and selling meat products. FINDING LEGALLY CORRECT It is Irue that the examiner's finding was legally and technically correct. But critics point out that he should have permitted plain common sense to influence his decision. However, this Is a virtue which many of these agencies are charged will) lacking. Thus, if the FTC and the Federal Courts uphold the examiner's ruling, the consumer will have no protection with regard to the prices of such an important article of the budget as food. Hut the worst evil, according to Repre senlalive Emanuel Ccller of New York, Chairman of the House Judiciary Commit tee, Is the threat which this viewpoint poses to all laws and enforcement provisions de signed to safeguard millions of buyers. Cit ing (he effect of the examiner's ruling, he says: "INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT" "This device could be used by tire pro ducers, ballcry manufacturers, automobile manufacturers, integrated oil companies, or any oilier industrial giant, to eliminate anti trust enforcement by Ihe Federal Trade Com mission over monopolistic practices I hat re sult in unfair and discriminatory methods of competition." In other words, in order to got out from under the Federal agency authorized and able In check and control its possibly illegal activities, all a corporation has to do is to set up a meat-packing plant or some other appropriate sideline at minimum expense. And imagine Secretary Ezra Taft Benson s success in supervising ihe operations of Gen eral Motors or the Pennsylvania Railroad! The FTC situation is. perhaps, the most spectacular example of the serious and dan gerous effects of "invisible government." as practiced by scores nf alphabetical agencies at Washington. Bui it explains why the indignant Speaker Sam Itayburn sponsored Ihe first thorough investigation of their op erations since they became virtually a fourth arm of the government under F.D.R.'s New Deal and War Administration. I'or Quirk Rcntling At His Feet. His Doe The dog has been helping man to weather the storms of life for at least six thousand years. So much is proved by a tomb cur rently discovered in a gorge at Mirabella, Italy. The tomb is one in scries constituting a real necropolis. From Ihe objects found in side, archaeopogists have been able to date back to 4000 B.C. One of the sepulchers, larger than Ihe rest, held a solitary crouched figure prob ably a chieftain surrounded by flint-headed arrows, a copper knife, a couple of earthen ware jars and a cylindrical stone baton perhaps a symbol of authority. And there, at his feel, was his dog al, bones, of course. Italian Scene. DAVIft LAWRENCE McCarthy Left Behind Legacy of Issues That May Take Many Years to Resolve WASHINGTON Senator Jo seph R. McCarthy is gone but he has-left behind a legacy of contro versial issues that it may take years to re solve. rhn Wisconsin senator wns atsSsJl relentless fighter t- , for what he be- ? nevca 10 tie right. He might have won the "censure" bai lie in Ihe Senate in 1954 if, while U. LAWKKNCS under severe strain during the proceedings, he had not tactlessly antagonized many senators who were disposed to be objective about the issue. , ' For the Senate was dealing with a delicate question the right of free speech in Congress uninhib ited by threats of punishment. Never in the history of the Senate had any member been "censured" for expressing his opinions, no matter how distasteful or unpopu lar they were. The Senate finally abandoned Ihe word "censure," with ils historicnl connotation of punishment, and substituted the milder word "condemn." Even so, the Senate resolution set a bad precedent of interference with free speech. For to condemn a man be cause of the opinions he expresses is what has been called "McCar thyism at ils worst." HOUNDED TO DEATH If ever a man was hounded to death because of his beliefs, it was Senator McCarthy. His health was impaired by the strain and tension arising out of the tactics and methods of his enemies. They ganged up on him from the days when they saw he was making headway with his crusade against Communism in government. The Communist newspaper. The Daily Worker," in New York wns the first to give persistent publicity to the word "McCnrthyism." There wns no limit to the innu endoes, baseless charges and whis pering campaigns directed against Senator McCarthy in an effort lo discredit him. For it was assumed by many of his opponents that, if .McCarthy the man were i discred ited, Ihe whole drive against Com munists in Die government would collapse. VET TO BE SOLVED Some strange chapters remain yet to be fully explained. One is the vicious spread of rumors that Senator McCarthy had cheated on his federal income tax returns, though it turned out in Ihe end that the Treasury Department owed him money and sent him a refund check for overpayment of his taxes. Vet. before the Internal Revenue Bureau could complete Its investigation, the campaign to maneuver McCarthy into a public hearing in which his enemies would have a chance to impugn his honesty wns participated in by a Scnnle subcommittee consisting mostly of his opponents. Although McCarthy was reelected senator by the people of Wisconsin in No vember, 1952, after his refusal to testify before thSt same commit tee, his opponents in 19M neverthe less used that refusal which had occurred in a previous term of of tiee as a basis (or the start of censure proceedings. HUGHES EPISODE Another episode, still unex plained, is Ihe case of Paul H. Hughes, who posed as a member of McCarthy's staff and, over a period ol several months, collect ed big sums of money Irom var ious sources high up among the so-called liberals wtlh the prom ise ol "revelations" derogatory lo McCarthy personally. At nv mo ment during thai long period, Ihe fad that Hughes was not an em ploye of any congressional com mittee could have been estab llsheel thrmigh the careful in quiries nf an alert newsiiper man. But the record in Ihe perjury case that followed in the courts t9 L Burdens of Leadership reveals a paradoxical example of McCarthyism in reverse, ho is the current persecution of Scott McLeod, once a close friend of McCarthy and a stalwart fighter against Communism in the govern ment, who has been nominated by President Eisenhower to be am bassador to Ireland. Vice Presi dent Nixon has also been a vic tim of the same kind of tactics by the so-called ''liberals," who in 1952 spread false accusations about him. MADE KliltOHS IN JUDGMENT Senator McCarthy made many errors in judgment, sometimes lost his temper, and at times ignored the counsel of his best friends. He didn't, however; mind fair criti cism. This correspondent in his dispatches at the time expressed strong disapproval of the Wlscon- sin senator's attacks on General Marshall and of the ill-mannered treatment given General Zwicker at a committee hearing, and de nounced McCarthy's break with President Eisenhower as a grave blunder. Looking back at all aspects of the tragic controversy, however. this wrilcr remains convinced that it was most important to the cause of true liberalism in America to defend Ihe right of a senator to express himself freely rather than to see him deprived of that privi lege by the coercive action of those who disagreed with his views. Principle is too often disre garded under the stress of emo tion, inside as well as outside of legislative bodies. DRAMATIZED COMMIE FIGHT Senator McCarthy's great con tribution, of course, was lo drama tize the necessity for a vigorous battle against Communist infiltra tion. The record shows a sad ne glect by Ihe State Department in Ihe 194(i's of Ihe intrigue carried on there. This was repeatedly called to the department's attention in confidential communications from Senate committees and in FR1 re DR. WILLIAM BRADY Functionally Chief Factor Just between ourselves and not for publication, tell me. Can you name four chronic diseases or ail ments that arc curable by medi cine, manual or mechanical manip ulation, physical therapy, or any other kind of treatment? Well, three, then? Not evc.i two? Of course you can't. I c a n't name one. Consider for a moment the end less lisl of mira--cle medicines or w o I. d e r drugs lhat have been foistered on the DR. bat public in recent years. Each new drug, in the words -f the medical man subsidized lo introduce it lo the ever credulous profession, gives great "promise" of being tr- cure for Ihe incurable disease in question tuberculosis, cancer, the "common cold" i whatever that may bc, "arthritis." etc. TEMPORARY EFFECTS .lust hmv ran so manv doctors. ihe best doctors, string their pa tient: along with a succession of wonder drugs that have only tem porary remedial effects, if any? The. thoughts occur as 1 read a letter from on Illinois lady: "1 am eighty year young, have my own teeth, and I car. still walk three miles lo church." Note particularly that the lady has her own teeth. I suppose and hope she ha at least 20 of her own teeth. Or if not 20 ol her owi.. I then, say, to or U of her own and I eight or ten artificial teeth. It fr ' ports long before the Wisconsin senator in 1950 brought the fight out into the open. Incidentally, even after death. they still vilify McCarthy in Great Britain. Yet, had there been in the British Parliament only a fraction of the alertness which was gener ated by the Wisconsin senator's crusade here, the treason of Bur gess and MacLean and the trans mission of atomic secrets to the Soviets by Klaus Fuchs who had been cleared for work in an American laboratory by British of ficials might never have oc curred. Indeed, the whole history of the "cold war," with its costly budgets, might then have been dif ferent. 1 ELOQUENT EPITAPH Time, of course, changes many things. It sometimes makes mar tyrs out of men who were pilloried during their lifetime. The elder Robert La Follette, senator from Wisconsin, also refused to testify before a Senate committee. He was being investigated because of public speeches regarded by many people as traitorous which he made while America was en gaged in World War I. The two houses of the Wisconsin Legislature controlled by his own parly formally called on the United Stales Senate to expel him. But the Senate took no ac tion. Only last week, the elder La Follette was selected by a Senate committee to be one of the five in the Senate's "Hall of Fame." The lapse of time seems to furnish a different perspective on the record of Wisconsin senators and maybe, many years hence, history will re peat itself. Radio Moscow's "tribute" to Senator McCarthy is lo denounce him as responsible for "the prep aration of new military ventures by the United States." To have helped alert America to the men ace of Communism is tn have earned Moscow's hatred which is the mast eloquent epitaph that could be written for Joe McCarthy. Efficient Teeth in Good Health doesn't matter as long as they are all functionally efficient. CHEWS EVERYTHING WELL Functionally efficient means that she can chew as well as you or I: or as veil as 1 can. at any rate. For all 1 know, you may be a dental cripple if you are, I hope this article will make you feel ashamed of yourself for neglecting your teeth. Some people far too many, I'm afraid think il is just one of my nutty notions that sound tcclh or. Men's i J New V 100 i Factory Irregulars i All Sizes $Q95 KAY WOOLEN MILL STORE OPEN SATURDAYS ALL DAY 2fi0 S. Kth Arrow from Willamette Campus HAL BOYLE Ministers to Charge $10 For Services NEW YORK Ifl Things columnist might never know if he didn t read his mail That a recent survey showed Ihe average 1957 college graduate w out a nil. 'i ing salary of Mot) a month, twice the amount at which the 1947 gradu ate began his career. Tha! vinegar. used by Central European tribes 15,000 years ago, is also men tioned ill the HAL BOYLE Bible . . . and Hippocrates pre scribed it as a medicine. That Fresno, Call!., ministers are now asking a $10 minimum fee to preach at the funeral of anyone not belonging to their church. ..At that price it s a bar gain, but we imagine most tour ists will continue to prefer lo spend their money at Las Vegas. CAUSES GOITER Thai a deficiency in iodine, according to the Fisherman Maga zine, causes goiter in trout. ..but if they don't bite on a hook no body will know It but the other troul. That someone has estimated 25 per cent of all the people who have Inhabited the earth are still alive today. (How could anyone prove this?) That all the champagne pro duced in France comes from a liny region of only 25.000 acres. That singer Uene Woods says, li s too bad the person with a closed mind doesn't close it be fore all his prejudices slip in." PICTURES A MIRACLE That Picasso, when asked if he believed in miracles, replied, Certainly. Rubens was a mira cle. He painted 2,000 pictures and there are 4,000 in existence isn't lhat a miracle?" That only 3 out of every 10,000 persons in the United States is listed in wno s wno in Ameri- ...and you have a better chance than your wife. That a reader reports rats and mice won't stay in a house where there is television. ..because a TV set causes vibrations you can't even hear. ..but which frightens rats. (We prefer to believe mice left our house because of the same TV vibrations that alarm us. I That in some weddings in Cey lon if the bridegroom's horoscope is regarded as unfavorable, the bride marries his infant brother. DULL COLORED CRASHES That dull-colored cars are more likely to be involved in a collision than those that are brightly painted. (Yeah? Try and tell that lo your Insurance company.) That matchbox collectors call themselves phillumerists...milk bottle top collectors are lacphil- isis... people who hoard bus, train and airplane tickets are tessara philists...and people who collect taxes are called public servants. That if you need ice during a long auto trip an easy way to provide it is to freeze a milk car Ion full of water in your refriger ator before setting out. That female sea horses deposit their eggs in small pockets on the bodies of the males. 'Ever hear before of a wife putting something into her husband's pockets that is, besides her hands?) ARIZONA VALENTINE STATE That the odds arc 100-to-l you don't know why Arizona is some times known as the Valentine State." (It was admitted to the union on Feb. 14. 1912.) That some painters advise painting your kitchen yellow this summer because flics can't stand that color. (Warning: The opinions expressed by painters in this column do not necessarily coin cide with those of the author.) That suburbanites have a new fad: They are putting their own social security numbers on the license tags of their dogs.. .Some times we think we'll never really understand suburbanites. That the six costumes worn by Walter Slezak in the Broadway show, "The First Gentleman," cost $4,000. That it was Ed Hare, the "Sage ol Potato Hill, jno observed. "No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. rather, functionally efficient teeth determine the state of general health and longevity. They demolish this theory im mediately by mentioning some odd character w-ho continued breathing 30 years after he had lost all his teelh. But notwithstanding face tious comments an ' testifying as an expert. I insist that chief fac tor of health, vitc. and longevity is functionally efficient teeth. Slacks! Shipments Wool 2 Pair forS17 OTHER SLACKS 9 95 15 95 tLarge Selections) BEN MAXWELL News From an Earlier Day MAY 7, 191 . ., A German delegation at Versail ii hari rpreived the peace treaty from the Allide Nations. In reply the Germans admitted the wrong lo Belgium and declared a willing ness to make reparations. But the Germans said that so far as the conduct nf the war was concerned, the Germans were as humane as the Allies. B. C. Miles, former secre tary Of the BEN MAXWELL . Spaulding Logging Co., had found an abandoned, one and a half year old baby in a push cart left on his front porch at 993 Court street. F. J. Rupert, 860 Chemeketa St., had petitioned the council asking removal of a barn abutting on Chemeketa street bclween . Sum mer and Winter streets. The barn, he noted, had been there for many years. (It was Governor Moody's barn.) But, since the world is moving so fast, there was danger from it in obstructing the view both of the passerby and those driving out of the alley. Vestrymen of St. Paul's Epis copal church had bestowed an un usual honor upon J. A. Sellwood by electing him honorary senior r GEL (HTM (MSB 444 STATE ST. OFFICE SPACE WANTED The State of Oregon, acting by and through the Department of Finance and Administration, solicits proposals for the leasing of office space in the City of Salem required, for the following agencies: Corporation Department Banking Department Industrial Accident Commission Proposals will be considered which offer all of the required space in one location or which offer space suitable for one or two of the agencies listed. Floor layouts, specifications and proposal forms may be secur ed from the Department of Finance and Administration, Room 313, State Capitol Building. All proposals must be submitted on forms provided by the State of Oregon and must be sealed. Proposals must be delivered to Room 313, State Capitol Building before 3:00 p.m., May 23, 1957, at which time they will be publicly opened. The Department of Finance and Administration reserves the right to reject any or all bids, ' , . JOHN F. RICHARDSON, Director Department of Finance and Administration ANNOUNCES BROADEST FAMILY PROTECTION IN STATE FARM AUTO INSURANCE HISTORY New Policy Offers 44 "Star Features" State Farm Mutual's agent here today announced a new automobile insurance policy containing more than 44. valuable extra-protection features. Designed for modern motorists and their families who travel more miles behind heavier horsepower in today's hazardous traffic, the new policy offers broader coverages, new coverages, greater protection. Interested readers mnv get full details from: 626 N. HIGH ST. Phone EM 47337 NivaaMtt ftif Vrm Uvtmi AtrtnmoMV lrxirartf FUNERAL "Salem's Pioneer Established 1878 Need for Economy Will Never Deprive Anyone of h Dignity ond Sacred Simplicity of Our Services Salem's Largest Funeral Parking Facilities Advance Inquiry Invited EM 3-9139 C10UGH 205 S. CHURCH AT FERRY warden for life. Sellwood had been an active member of the church since his father was rector there in 1856. (Construction, of this first Episcopal church in Salem was started in 1854. Before that time services had been held in rented quarters.) Royal O. Thomas who had charge of the Southern" Pacific of fice for over 40 years had died. He hA alcn heen Turner postmaster for 24 years. "R. O.," as Turner was widely known, came to the community in 1873. Members of Salem's Grand Army of Ihe Republic had passed resolutions asking officials of Odd Fellows cemetery to clean the place up and make it presentable for Memorial Day. Appearance of the cemetery was said to be dis graceful with weeds and grass growing everywhere and stone monuments falling. (March 9, 1953 Governor Paul Patterson signed a bill enabling Marion county and the City of Salem to take over Odd Fellows cemetery and maintain it. The name was changed to Pioneer cemetery. Now it looks more presentable than this writer has ever seen it over an interval of 40 odd years. 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