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RECIPE FOR LONG LIFE
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Tha Dallas Chronicla
Over in Hood River is a 90-year-old attorney who has
given his many friends in. The Dalles and elsewhere
throughout Oregon his formula for long Jiving.
' He is John Baker, a practicing attorney in our neigh
boring city from 1910 to this day. Relatively few of us
reach 90 years of age; still fewer who do remain as active
as this elderly gentleman. Born Alarch 1, 1864, at Ashland,
0., he was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1893 and practiced
law at Findlay, Ohio, until 1910 when he settled in Hood
River.
.; .' In a New Year's greeting to his friends, Mr. Parker
attempts to answer those who have requested his recipe
,or formula for longevity. His suggestions have stood the
test of time in a life approaching the century mark as well
as during long-past ages. They are:
1. Fear is our most , deadly foe, especially fear of
death.. While it is just as natural to die as it is to be born,
we, as children, are taught to rejoice at birth and mourn
at death. It has been well said that "one afraid to die is
not fit to live." A coward's race with Father Time is
' never a happy one. ' ,
2. Living in the past brings one nothing but sorrow.
True, the high spots of the pleasurable incidents along, your
way should not be forgotten but called to mind frequently.
3. Never envy or begrudge anyone anything. That
hurts you only, not the other fellow.
4. Eat and sleep right. Go to bed to sleep, not to
worry. This may be accomplished easily . if you just
think bo. My formula is, first to relax every muscle in
my, body, then recite in my mind the Lord's Praver, the
Twenty-third Psalm, followed by Kipling's "If." If not yet
asleep, I start over again. You will be surprised how
easy it is to forget your troubles and have a good night's
leep. ;.:: . "
'; .5. Keep busy at something and do something for some
one every day. An act of kindness costs nothing and is
never forgotten. Make home life pleasant.
6. Do not tell your aches and pains to those ou meet.
They will cross the street to avoid meeting you.
7. Make friends With Father Time. You will be a long
time dead to this world but alive forever in tlnS spirit
world... ,,: . . .
;'. 8..Have implicit faith , in God, the creator and giver
of all things. '
A ; BILL THAT SHOULD PASS
One good bill that should become law has already been
introduced in the senate. It would authorize the board of
control to enter into contracts or agreements for purchase
or donation of fruits, vegetables or other crops for use in
i atate institutions and authorizes the use of prison laborfor
harvesting and transporting
to the prison.
The attorney general's
. board of control lacks authority to enter into such con
tracts,, which we thought then was not good common sense,
; though it may have been perfectly sound law.
.' The bill just introduced contains a ban against use of
i prison' labor for cultivating private lands, a southern
practice that would be opposed here. It seems to have the
needed safeguards against abuse. If passed and signed by
the governor it will save the state some money 'and make
gome additional useful work for the prisoners.
We do not share 'the belief of some that use of prison
labor takes work away from the free workers on the out
side. Whatever useful work the prisoners do. helps reha
bilitate them and saves the state money. This means that
the taxpayers will pay . less. What they retain will be
spent in numerous ways that vill employ just as much
labor as the state would employ by leaving the convicts
Idle. " ,- '.'' '
It's something like imagining that every new family
that enters Oregon deprives a local family of a job. There
used to be people who thought this. Now we know that
while they take a job their spending helps make a job,
so the more of us who are here, gainfully employed, the
better for all. If you doubt this contrast the well-being
of Oregonians today with the past eras when tVre were
a third or half as many of us.
Jaf ij)oijfe
By PRESTON GROVEK
For Hal Boyle
CASABLANCA, French Morocco -T) This is the. sad
story of Coca-Cola in Morocco and how a pip; (rot jnt0 the
picture. , . , .
Coca-Cola sent specialists in Morocco soon after the
war to get the soft drink business tfoinir. The jijrht mil
lion thirsty Moroccans, barred as Moslems from" drinking
alcoholic beverages, looked like good prospects. Bottling
plants .were sold to operators in a half dozen cities.
y lyat mo operators were in
fair way to make real money out
of the deal
Then a paper In Casablanca, Al
Alham, with hut a thousand cir
culation, earned a smsll story
i- n.u:
hv, . '"T-"'"- lm 'ncr'caniwntc a story about how delightful
bevciagc, the paper said, was 1 ji a, n, h rM h ,... "
flavored with pig's blood.
Now to Moslem there is noth
ing more abhorrent than a pig.
He wouldn't wear pigskin gloves,
let alone cat pork.
The report, utterly falst, sprrad
like wildfire. The circulation of the
little paper mounted. Its advertis
ing increased. 1 Other soft drink
dispensers began buying space in
Uie paper to show how :hcir bev
erage could be drunk by all good
Moslems.
As the news spread through Mo
rocco, Coca-Cola dealers began
hauling their unsold bottles bark.
Bottlers had to buy them nil hark,
and sales dropped almost to noth
ing. - v . .
The wildest kind of stories were
circulated. The company waited,
postponing a denial, hoping the
story would die down. But in Mo
rocco there Is a saying that what
such products from the fields
office ruled last year that the
js nol dc.iicd must be true. So tha
story continued to spread
hinally, a venerable ami well
known pilgrim who had made his
journey to Mecca consented to
U"ul"lV " .Hllvn curl
aiong uie not route arruss North
Africa. He could buy it in Cairo,
a great Moslem center, he said
ana even in .Mecca.
That began to help. Th.-n the sul
tan's son. Moulay Hassan, allowed
himself to be quoted al bicvele
tournament as saying he would
like a drink of Coca-Cola.
Sales began slowly to climb.
But the end was not vet. Na
tionalists moved in. They declared
a boycott against any beverage !
wnicn used sugar, because sugar Isured him but sales in 1954 were
in Morocco is a French monoil about 10.000 cases. With sales of
oiy. me nationalists were ca'-'er
to do anything to harass the
French. Terrorists backed up the
boycott by burning stores and
shooting merchants who sold to
bacco and sugar products. Down
went sales again. ,
This reporter talked to one bot
tling plant owner who said annual
We Think We
In The Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
there is no reason why we should
go to war to defend them.
How about Malta, which is a
mere speck in the Mediterranean
but for generations has been an
anchor of British power in that
area?
That was in pre - atomic - war
days. I suspect that one hydrogen
bomb, accurately placed, would
put Malta out of business.
The same is true of these Utile
Islands in the East China Sea.
Answering a question, Ike says
at his press conlerencc that he'd
like to see the United Nations use
iti offices to get a cease - fire
between the Chinese commies and
the Nationalist Chinese.
So, I think, would we all.
The cease-fire in Korea is a
shaky affair, but it's better than
Uie shooting thai preceded it.
Whilo we're talking about t h e
Orient, here's something to t u r n
over in our minds:
Japan's foreign minister Shige
mitsu lays on the diplomatic table
(which, in many ways, is not dis
similar to a poker table) a state
ment to the effect that his govern
ment wants to make peace with
the Soviet Union and restore Tok
yo Moscow relations to the pre
war level. He docsn I commit him
self on recognition' of red China,
nut ne anas:
"JAPAN WANTS TO ENCOUR
AGE TRADE WITH THE CHIN
ESE COMMUNISTS."
Nat so good? E
W-e-l-l-1-1-
The rough, cold economic fact
of the situation is that Japan must
iKAUK UK STAKVE and we
won't let her trade much with us
because her production costs are
so low that she can undersell us
disastrously.
Communist Russia and Commu
nist China, between them, control
the trade of Asia.
Another straw in the wind:
At a place called Maebashi (My-BAH-shee),
northwest of Tokyo,
police had to be called in to CON
TROL A MOB that was protesting
establishment of an American mil
itary training area in the Maeba
shi area.
Until the police arrived and took
hand, the local . citizens were
ready to USE FORCE to prevent
surveyors from laying out the
camp.
A thought:
Our troubles with the Japanese
began about the time that General
MacArthur was "busted" (to use
the colorful Gt phrase) and
brought home in disgrace.
Eisenhower To Continue
'Progressive Moderation' 1
WASHINGTON UP - President!
F.isenhower wants the Republican
Party to continue along the path I
of "progressive moderation" he 1
has charted for It. !
Starting his third year in office I
Thursday, he declined an invita
tion to special ceremonies at !he
Capitol Hill Club, a GOP social;
organization, but sent along a '
statement of what he said "must ,
Ik- in my judgment the standard j
of the Republican Party through
the coming months."
He summariml it this way:
"A program of progressive mod
eration, liberal in its human con
cerns, conservative in its .econom
ic 'proposals, constructively dy
namic and optimistic in its ap
praisal of the future." .
sales of 500.000 cases had been as
30.000 rases a year a man can't
support a factory able to bottle
500.000 cases. Some are laking in
side lines of beer and fruit juice.
The reporter loured around in
the bazaars o( several cities andi
tried to buy Coca-Cola. The signs j
were still up, glossy and red. but
the drink was hard to come by. I
Understand the Bowman's Dilemma!
J-etet
WASHINGTON (NEA) Re
publican National Committee head
quarters thinks the Democratic
congressional investigators will
have a hard time digging up any
convincing evidence of GOP pa
I tronage abuses. This won't be be-
i cause the evidence has been cov-
ered up, say the Republicans, but
Because me evidence isn t there
Frankly, they admit they haven't
done a very good job of replacing
ucmocrauc oiucenoiaers in gov
ernment with Republicans.
Estimates have been made that
out of the 2.500.0O0 government civ
ilian employes, the Republicans in
two years in office have oecn
able to place only about 2500 mem
bers of their party id noy jobs,
Ohauncey ltobbins, who has
been in charge of the personnel
division at Republican National
Committee headquarters in Wash
ington lor the past year, says he
has no idea where this 2500 num
ber came from. He has no central
file of job placement cards to show
whether this number is right or
wrong, high or low.
AS AN EXAMPLE OP WHAT
he has been up against :n trying
to place deserving Republicans ia
government jobs, Mr. Robbins
points to the 40 top personnel of
ficers in U. S. agencies. These are
the people who supervise govern
ment hiring. Only eight of them
are Republicans, One was appoint
ed in President Taft's administra
tion, four in Hoover's and three in
Eisenhower's. All of (he 40 are
covered by Civil Service regula
tions and can't be budged.
Republican National Committee
headquarters has tried to estab
lish one top policy official at the
assistant secretary level to over
see personnel appointments. This
official was supposed to be con
tnct man for GOP headquarters,
notifying the Republican high com
mand of vacancies and insuring
the party command that only Re
publicans got the policy - making
jobs.
Former Congressman Ross Rid
ley of Oklahoma had such a per
sonnel policy job as Assistant Sec
Formosa Situation Talked
By Hamitiarskjold And Chou
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON un- Dag ham
marskjold is reported to have told
Premier Chou F.n-Lai two weeks
ago that Red China's threats to
ward Formosa gave evidence of
far-from-neaee'Ml intcnllons.
llammarskiod the United Na
tions secretary general, wont to
Peiping on a mission for the U.N.
lo try to obtain the relear.e of 11
American airmen jailed as alleged
spies and any.other U.N. personnel
held by the Chinese Reds. The
fliers fought for the U.N. in Ko
rea and were not repatriated fol
lowing the armistice.
While that was his major pur
pose, the discussions of the two
men ranged over a wide variety
of subjects during the more than
15 hours they talked.
One of those subjects, it was
authoritatively reported Friday,
was the Formosa problem. Chiiu
was said to have denounced the
defense treaty which the United
States recently signed with Chiang
Kai-Shek's Chinese Nationalist gov
ernment on Formosa.
Chou is understood to have
taken the Jine that Red China's
strongest wish is for peace but
that the Formosa situation has
been created by the United Stales,
contending that island and other
Nationalist-held islands belong to
Red China.
In public statements the Red
Chinese have repeatedly declared
their intention of seizing Formosa
and the other offshore islands.
They have recently stepped un st
tacks on Nationalist-held islands
along the roast, capturing Yikiam
shan and bombarding the Tarhen
group.
According to authoritative In
formation, Itatrtmarskjold expres
M
Son-
retary of Agriculture, He has now
resigned. It was his experience
that in loo many cases, agency
heads picked out the man they
wanted for a particular job. then
put the pressure on the Republi
can political organization to okay
him.
THIS IS THE EXACT RE
VERSE OF the way a smooth-running,
political job - placing ma
chine should work. The old-time
political patronage system was
supposed to work by first listing
the people who wanted a job, then
finding something for them to do.
The trouble with that today is
that many political job s kcis
want jobs (hat don't exist. They
are not qualified for the jobs that
do exist.
The government could use 2000
trained stenographers any time.
It always needs doctors and train
ed technicians. But to qualify for
these jobs, applicants have to pass
Civil Service examinations and
get their names placed on the
register.
If there are no names on a re
gister for any job classification,
ana there is a vacancy, the Civil
Service Commission will authorize
any government agency to hire
anvone it can find to fill it.
THIS IS KNOWN AS Section 303
authority, There were about 65.-
000 of these 303 jobs filled in the
last fiscal year, according to Civil
Service records. But iicpublican
headquarters in Washington says
it has no idea where these jobs
were, or whether they were filled
by Republicans. The reason is that
the local hiring offices don t re
port to Washington GOP head
quarters on such things.
There were some 35,000 people
hired for a new census of agri
culture. Most of these jobs lasted
only a few days. But many of
those hired were Republicans. This
temporarily satislied local Republi
can machines that wanted a .e-
ward for' faithful party workers.
There is still loud dissatisfaction,
however, that the GOP has not
been able to hand out more patron
age. sed belief in Chou's avowed wish
for peace as reflecting his basic
long-term intentions.
But the U.N. secretary reported
ly said Chou's acts and attitudes
towards Formosa seriously add to
present tensions and may well be
described as indicating intentions
which are far from peaceful.
Furthermore, Hanimsrskjold is
reported to have argued that Chou
could not divest himself of respon
sibility for his own actions by try
ing to place the responsibility upon
the shoulders of others the United
States. This, Hammarskjold is said
to have contended, is politically
and morally unjustified.
SHIPS OFF SCHEDULE
NORFOLK, Vs. Got
troubles?
Consider the plight of one Nor
folk shipping company operator,
who has one ship ashore at Ber
muda, another out of fuel and be
ing lowed In. two out of fuel and
awaiting bunkers in Bermuda, two
others returning to the Azbres he
cause of fuel shortages and all
others running 3 to 10 days late.
HOW'S THAT AGAIN?
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss, iv-A
Chancery Court decree yesterday
changed the city's northern bound
ary from the north side of North
Street to the south side of North
Street. North Street runs east and
west.
BRAZILIANS KILLED
RIO DE JANIERO, Brazil i-A
Brazilian air foree nlanr eraslieii
this week near llheus, the Meri
dional News Agency ssid, killing
eight airmen.
ISCIIiy) IIUI tJlluvwuiij huiiu
On Procedure
Opposition To
By OVID A. MARTIN
WASHINGTON I Democratic
efforts to stimulate opposition to
the Eisenhower farm programs in
the hope of winning the 1956 farm
vote will get a lot of attention in
the new Congress.
i There will be moves to repeal
the key feature of that program
flexible farm price supports and
restore high, rigid price floors.
But whether the Democrats will
make an all-out effort to wipe the
GOP program off- the books this
year .or next is a matter party
leaders have not yet announced.
Some Democrats argue for action
next year, just ahead of the pres
idential campaign. They say farm
pra hv 195(1 "will have suffered a
year'1 of flexible price supports
and be eager to vote tor a cnange
at the White House.
Administration farm leaders dis-;
pute that, saying farmers will be;
pleased by the working of the new
system. They say too that Prcsi-,
dent Eisenhower would veto such
legislation and that the Democrats j
uu iiv. nave ci!vu' ,vivd iu
it over a veto.
Regardless of what Democratic
strategy is adopted, Secretary of
Agriculture Benson and his aides
express confidence that flexible
supports will be a less important
issue in the 1956 campaign than over me next ly ycois .., luaua.
they were last November. In this The program would provide a
latter election, the Republicans lost I good steady market for many prod
no normally Republican rural con- nets cement, steel, earth moving
gressional districts. I machinery. And new road-building
Benson says he believes the worst
is over for rarmers in the postwar
period of readjustment.
But Democratic farm leaders ex
press lear that things will grow
worse because: (1) farm prices,
which declined 25 per cent since
1951 and 6 per cent in 1954, show
no immediate signs of improving; jiore than l'i million tons of
(2) farm surpluses continue tOi.teei went into highway projects
mount: (3) net farm income con-
tinues to tall while national income
continues upward; and (4) farm
operating costs continue near rec
ord high levels.
Many Democrats predict that the
flexible price supports will operate
to pull prices and income lower.
lhc tlexiDle system, which goes
into effect this vcar, is designed
to help guide farm production. Un-i
der it, price floors would be low
in times of surpluses to discourage
overproduction and to encourage
I greater production and to hold
down consumption.
Benson agrees that price sup
ports this year and next may av
erage lower, but he contends ef
forts now being made to dispose of
surpluses and to cut down surplus
production will, by 1956, put agri
culture on a firmer fondation.
Some aspects of the farm situa
tion would appear to give weight
to Benson's argument.
Perhaps the biggest barrier to
improved farm prices and incomes
is the price-depressing surpluses
which will climb to a record hien
of perhaps Vn billion dollars this
winter. These surpluses largely re
flect overproduction in 1052-5.1
when there were no major produc
tion controls.
But production controls invoked
last year and this on sucn crous
as wheat, cotton, tobacco, peanuts, I
corn, rice, and sugar croos can be
expected to reduce greatly if not
stop the flow of surpluses into gov
ernment hands. ,
Meanwhile, broadened programs
designed to move surpluses into
foreign markets in exchanse for
currencies of other countries and
into relief uses at home and abroad
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Farm Policy
are serving to reduce surpluses ac
cumulated from past crops.
As a consequence, surpluses
should be greatly reduced by 1956.
Other things being equal, the
smaller the surplus of a commodi
ty, the better the chances that
prices of the commodity will rise.
Assuming general economic con
ditions continue at or near present
levels, it would appear that the
big livestock industry with the
possible exception of dairying- i around .the blockade to an old
should be in i better position in . road. ,
1956 than at present. 1 I The woman rancher erected her
A big postwar expansion in beet I barrier Dec. 29 to protest what she
cattle production has been brought called "an unjust and humiliating
to a halt, climaxed by a sharp offer. ' She said the new road cuts
drop in cattle prices in 1953. While .her stock off from water, It was
supplies of beef are expected to; built and put into use several
continue laree. thev will not be in-: months before Mrs. Harris blockej
J creasing,
creasing. i
Many Businessmen Have Eye
On $101 Billion Earmarked
For Federal Road Program ;
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK tf Many business
men have an eye on that 101 billion
dollars that may be handed out
processes and products are being
developed
Improved highways will spur au
tomobile sales.
Steel mills will be busily turning
out material for bridges, ramps,
guard rails, signs, miles of steel
fence and reinforcing materials,
1954. when federal, state and
local agencies spent about four bil
lion dollars on roads. This year
spending is expected to go up by
almost one billion more, and steel
consumption to approach two mil
lion tons
ilut if the big spending plan is
adopted by the federal and state
governments, the American Road
Riirfpr' An. stimate hinhwav
construction will soar to around U
: billion dollars in 1958, where it
, W,M ...v ntii 19fiji. This WOud
require about 5' million tons of
steel yearly. 1
New wrinkles in the use of steel
in highway construction are stress
ed by engineers of the Truscon
Steel Division of Republic Steel. ,
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Woman On Cuard
over Property
THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. W-Mrs.
Dora Harris, 64-year-old ranch
widow, is back at her barricade,
prepared for at least 11 days more
guard duty.
She resumed a 22-day-old 'vigii
at her homestead near Lucerne
Thursday after Dist Judge D. J.
Harkins refused to - recognize a
condemnation suit directed at dis
lodging her from a barbed wire
and log blockade on a new road
into the Black Mountain oil field.
He set a hearing on -an earlier
condemnation move for Jan. 31,
The hearing will be on . Mrs.
Harris' .appeal from a $450 value
placed on right-of-way acrosa her
ranch by county commissioners.
Meanwhile traffic will be detoured
'the route. ;
Expansion cracks Those tar
filled ridges over which your car
click-clicks at high speed can be
eliminated by a process of contin
uous" reinforcement, the engineers
say. This increases the quantity of
steel bars used for reinforce
mentbut cuts down on the thick
ness of concrete needed. .
Kta-sized corrugated tubes are
also finding an increased market
as culverts. Corrugation gives five
to seven times the strength of un
corrugated tubes, engineers say,
and the big tubes don't craclc un
der heavy loads as the old stone
and concrete culverts sometimes
do.
Ridgway Nor To Retire
Until Term Has Expired
WASHINGTON Iff Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway will not have to
retire from the Army before his
term as chief of staff expires in
I August.
Secretary of the Army Stevens
announced Thursday he will retain
Ridgwav in active service beyond
the retirement age of 60, which
Ridgway will attain in March.
Ridgway became chief of staff
on Aug. i5, 1953. He was appoint
ed to a two-year term, but would
have had to retire 4 '4 months
early, on his 60th birthday, had it
not been for Stevens' action, ' ap
proved by President Eisenhower.
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