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By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Government and industry this year are giving 200 colleges and uni
versities about 125,000,000 lor reasearch, according to i New York
Times survey. That's an increase of about 500 per cent over prewar
years.
But the picture isn't as rosy as
it seems. In the first place, soaring
costs haven't spared the schools
A million dollars doesn't buy as
. much research as it did in 1839
Administrative expenses especially
have risen sharply, and often re
search grants make no allowance
for them. The colleges have to
foot the added bill.
' There's another big worry. The
lion's share of the money goes for
projects in the so-called applied
sciences fields where effort is to
ward finding practical application
of principles already discovered in
earlier fundamental research.
Even where funds are made
-available for basic studies, the
feeling is that scientists will tend
to steer their researches into ave
njes that may lead to practical
results, because rhey know money
is thus more likely to be granted.
The danger in all this attention
to the practical is that fundamen
tal studies vital to the expansion
of the frontiers of knowledge may
be neglected. Findings that today
may appear remote from practical
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use suddenly take on value when
linked with other discoveries or
new needs.
Scientists fear that some impor
tant fields of study may be stag
nated unless funds for "pure re
search" come to the colleges with
out strings. Most grants these days
specify how the money shall b e
used rather than leaving that
question to the college scholars
who may know far better where it
is needed.
School authorities are disturbed
by the tendency of fundgivers to
emphasize the necessity for quick
solutions to major scientific pro
blems, like cures for cancer o r
polio. The givers sometimes act
as if they won't be satisfied their
money has been well spent unless
answers are found within their
own lifetimes.
Desirsble as this may seem off
hand, it is not always the best
approach to a serious scientific
fiuzzle. In the end, funds given
or pure research might prove the
wisest and fastest way to achieve
a cure for cancer. Money granted
tor specific undertakings related
to known principles might turn
out to be largely wasted.
A further fact dimming the re
search picture: to little money
goes for exploration in the social
sciences. Many schools get no
grants at all for studies in econ
omics, politics and sociology. They
limp along with what funds they
can divert from tuition revenues
normally consumed in administra
tive and other operations.
The fine irony in this situation
has often been noted. We spend un
told millions to develop new inven
tions for both peace and war. In
the case of the atom bomb it waa
billions. Yet we virtually ignore
the crying need for new social
techniques to cope with these great
creations. ,
And so we fumble and grope,
and perhaps blunder badly, be
fore we finally learn how to use
the things the scientist puts in our
hands. Research in social affairs
ought to go hand in hand with
advancement in the physical
sciences.
Wanted: a man with $10,000,000
who will give the whole package
to some university for social in
vestigation that might help us keep
abreast of the frightening products
of our laboratories.
Londslidt Damages
Historic Fort Canby
ASTORIA Marxh t JBl 1
gigantic landslide smashed across
me lape Disappointment road
Sunday, missing by 100 yards a
coast guard lifeboat station on the
Washington side of the Columbia
river.
The slide started a half-mile up
In (ha kill rimiAPaut mI 1A t
deep, and 'roared on into Baker
Day, cresting a new strip of land
jutting 125 yards into the bay.
It knocked out power and tele
phone lines, but they were restored
Monday.
The slide was on Fort Canby,
an army post now on caretaker's
status. It smashed to kindling
two empty army buildings.
Coastguardsmen said there was
no warning. The slide roared down
deafeningly at 5:30 a. m. but caus
ed no damage to the station it
self. .
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One Step Led To
Story Of Dancer's
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK-i-m Time, you old
hurdy gurdy man, crank us up a
little aperitif music, please.
Just a little background tune will
do something to go with this true
tale that started one generation
ago:
The girl's name was Betty, and
she had a twinkle in her eye and a
fervor in her feet.
The two-step, the waits and the
Schottische were hot stuff then,
and Betty could dance them like
no other girl in her crowd. She
was, as people said in those dim,
old-fashioned days, "some shucks."
Among her swains was a young
sobersides cslled Herbert. He had
money in the bank, an ache in
his heart and lead in his feet.
Herbert was a wallflower. He
would squire Betty to dances and
then sit 'em out on the sidelines,
watching like a stricken gazelle
while Betty romped about the floor
Gathers Courage
Finally he wrestled up his cour
age and proposed marriage. He
was a nice boy, and up to his arm
pits in character. But to Betty
dancing was life itself and ahe
didn't want to two-step her way to
the altar with a boy friend whose
heels were dragging.
"Learn to dance, Herbert, and
then we'll talk it over," she said.
So Herbert went to a teacher
and bought himself some lessons,
and in no months at all he was
pivoting on his own two feet.
The guy turned out to be good
at it, too. They danced and they
danced and they danced, and the
next thing they knew they were
married.
It would be nice if we could
just say that they tangoed happily
ever after, but you know how life
is always out of step. Betty found
she was going to have a baby, so
she quit dancing and started knit
ting little things.
But not Herbert. He was in the
grip of foot fever by then. He
started stepping out on Betty. She
didn't gripe about it much, figur
ing he had a right to sow a few
wild oats before they hired a 1913
type baby sitter.
What she didn't take into account
was Alice. Now there was a girl
with soul in her feet! After about
10,000 bunny-huggin trips around a
dance floor with Alice, Herbert for
got all about being a prospective
father.
Divorced
They had It out he and Betty
and she went home to mother. And
then there was a divorce. Later
Herbert married Alice. And soon
after that Alice put the thumb on
him.
"No more dancing, junior," she
said. "We're grown up now." And
she made it stick, too. Poor Her
bert never got to Charleston or do
the Big Apple or the Lindy or the
Lambeth walk. He s hsd a long in
termission. And what about Betty? Oh, she
didn't do any more fox trotting
either. As a matter of fact it kept
her on the dog trot just to earn
enough to support herself and Her
bert's child.
His nsme was Bob. Betty did a
good job on raising him. He grew
up into a big fine handsome man.
He never married and he never
learned to dance. Never had time
for it.
Fast service on
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big and the little of the sax
band of Arizona State College,
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pound George Rayes has plenty
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Another In This
Romantic Life
Bob has been a wonderful son to
Betty. Her money worries are all
over. Bob has seen to that. He
makes a good steady income. He
plays in a dance band.
Decrees In Italy
Produce Strikes
MILAN. Italy, March 20
Thousands of Communist-led work
ers quit work suddenly today and
packed Milan's main square in a
protest demonstration against
strict new government measures
to keep order in Italy.
Union leaders in both Milan and
Genoa were reported considering
a general strike call as a futher
protest.
Similar demonstrations took
place in Bologna, Florence and
Genoa, where the walkouts closed
factories and slopped streetcars.
The action of the Milan workers
was seen as the first move in
Communist and pro-Communist so
cialist opposition to the new orders
from Premier De Gasperi's cabi
net. The new decrees, issued Satur
day, increased the national police
force and authorized local pre
fects to ban public meetings for the
next three months.
The regulations also banned un
ion meetings within factories and
forbade advertisement of parly
Connuniquea or periodlcala in the
streets by anyone except authoriz
ed newspaper vendors.
Apple Export Subsidy
Program Is Extended
WASHINGTON, March 21. UP)
The Agriculture department has
extended its apple export subsidy
program until May 1. It had been
set to end April 1.
Under the program, the depart
ment pays exporters up to SO, per
cent of the export price but not
more than S1.25 a bushel on ap
ples sold abroad.
The department said 1,806,097
bushels had been exported or de
clared for export by March 1 under
this program. That is less than two
per cent of last years' crop.
Ashland's Famed Festival
Of Shakespeare Scheduled
ASHLAND, March 21-J.'P)-Ash-land
will hold its famed Shake
spearean festival this year from
August 2 to 24 in the outdoor Eliza- J
bethan theater in Lithia park.
President John Cotton and direc
tors of the group sponsoring the
festival met over the weekend to
make plans for the 10th anniver
sary program.
Four playa will be presented in
the repertoire. A banquet and a
parade wilt mark the opening day.
' "Honest, Daphne, the only reason we're late is be
cause the boys ond I stopped by the RAINBOW CAFE for
a sandwich ... I promise to take you the next time."
Profits Of Big Corporations Brings
Up Old Question
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK The rush of
the gianta in industry in recent
days to report profits huge in dol
lar totals, ana many ot them au
time records revives the twin de-
bale over:
1. The size of profits and how
they are made. 2. Bigness in busi
ness and how large a company can
grow without hurting others in that
industry, and hence the consum
ing public through monopoly.
Let's look at a few of these gi
ants: At their assets, in some cases
in the billions, and at their salea,
some topping their assets several
times. Let's relate their profits to
sales to see bow much the con
sumer puts in the earninga kitty,
and to assets to see what return
investora get on their money-.
And then let's look at some ot
the conditions varying in each in
dustry, which management feels
justify bigness in business, huge
earnings in terms of dollar totals,
and large corporate reserves
against the needs of replacements
and expansion.
General Motors announces a prof
it of S656 million in 1949. It says
it made this the highest corporate
profit ever because its sales were
also at a peak. 15.7 billion. In other
words, it made 11 centa on every
dollar's worth of products it sold,
and it sold you a lot.
Same Before War -
But GM says it made that same
profit on its salea dollar, on the
average, in the years just before
the war. Profit totals are higher
because sales totals are higher
Then it adds that its fixed costs
are so high that when and if the
huge sales volume starts to slide
profits will tumble at a much fast
er rate.
General Motors' assets of $28
billion make it the largest of man
ufacturing corporations, although it
is topped by several banks and
insurance companies, and by giant
American , Telephone and Tele'
graph, with $10.7 billion. But that
is like comparing apples and eggs.
AT&T requires a much larger plant
to render its services than GM
needs to turn the raw materials
and parts it buys into cars.
The motor giant's profit was
23.2 percent return on assets. The
phone company a S232.4 million
profit was a 2.2 percent return.
Du Pont reports earnings of more
than J213'i million on sales of a
little more than $1 billion, or 20.8
cents on the sales dollar. But the
chemical giant's income includes
$80 millions in dividends on the
GM stock it holds. Du Pont asks
you to consider that without these
motor dividends tne profits irom
its own operations were $133 mil-
lion, or 10'l cents on the sales
dollar. Du Pont's assets were S1H
billion. With GM dividends figur
ed in, the return comes to 12.2
percent of assets; without the divi
dends, 7.8 percent.
Other billion dollar manufactur
ing corporations include U.S. Steel,
Bethlehem Steel and General Elec
tric. "Big Steel" reports sales of S2.S
billion and assets of S2.S billion.
Profits of just under $166 million
were 7.2 cents on the sales dollar,
and 8 5 percent of assets. Bethle
hem's $1.3 billion sales topped its
$1.1 billion assets. Its $99 million
profit brought 73 cents on the
sales dollar, and 8.6 percent of
assets.
General Electric sold you $16
billion worth of goods at a profit
of $125' million, or 7.8 cents on
the dollar, and 10.7 percent ot its
$1.1 billion assets.
There is one important difference
in these manufacturing giants. The
steel companies are using up some
of their natural assets the iron
ore and coal they own and they
must spend millions to find and
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process more. The auto and appli
ance companies are buying raw
materials from othera and convert
ing them into end products.
This la more marked when you
turn to the large food processing
and chain store companies. Here
sales are far in excess of assets.
Profits show high returns against
assets, but take a much smaller
slice of the sales dollar. And the
raw materials these companies use
are generally renewed by nature
with the next crop.
General Foods, for example, re
ports a record million of
sales on assets of $238 million. Rec
ord high profits of almost $27'
million are only 58 cents of the
sales dollar, although HVi percent
of assets.
Are the giants of Industry ex
panding too fast for the nation's
good?
Two of the companies U.S. Steel
and General Foods anticipate the
question and make a sharp reply.
While each company is growing
larger year by year, and has plans
to go on expanding, the percentage
of the business it does, related to
the total for its industry as a
whole, has been coming down.
In other words, they are grow
ing bigger, and so are their com
petitors and so is the nation. j
Jr. High To See
Show Of Puppets
The National Assemblies of Los
Angeles will present Bushe'a mar
ionettes at a Roseburg junior high
school assembly in the school au
ditorium Wednesday, March 22, at
11 a.m., Principal R. R. Brand an
nounced today.
Or. and Mrs. Bushe, who have
puppets from all over the world,
were once featured with Ringling
Brothers and Barnum and Bailey
circus. Their collection includes
puppets that appeared in the Bar
num museum at New. York City
in 1852 and one that is 300 years
old. Dr. Bushe gives the history
of each as he demonstrates each
type.
The Bushe puppets have been in
several movies and, recently, in
television broadcasts.
The school assembly Is open to
the public, the principal said.
There is no admission charge.
Another assembly on Thursday
of this week will feature the junior
high band. The band will play mu
sical selections at 1:45 p.m. that
day.
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Suggestions to help protect your service
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1. A twisted cord can lesd to trouble. Although the
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twii and kinks may eventually break them and inter
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idea to net the curls out by letting the receiver dangle
and unwind by itself . . . then keep them out by
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Attend! First Meeting
PORTLAND. March 21,
Milo K. Mclver, recently appoint
ed to the State Highway commis
sion, Monday attended his first
commission meeting.
Mclver will not officially join
the body until April 1, when Chair
man T. H. Banfield will leave of
fice, but he attended to get ac
quainted with proceedings.
Bids were opened on eight pr
jects. Another day of grac was
given contractora before opening
bids on the largest project, the
projected re-routing of the Old
Oregon Trail between La Grande
and North Powder.
It will cut seven miles off the
old Ladd Canyon route, and will
eliminate the city of Union from
the route.
Baker To Vote On Bonds
For Better Lighting
BAKER, March 21. UPi Vot
ers here are going to get a chance
to brighten the corner where they
are.
The city commission has decided
to put a S100.0OO bond issue pro
posal on the May ballot here to
raise the money to revise the city
lighting system.
Mayor McKim, who announced
the issue will be put to vote in
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