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.1 i 4 The Newi-Revlew, Roieburg, Published Daily Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. Intini u ! mallet Mar I. tn, t Ue ! emcr : Belabors, Orif fnder Bel et Mere IMS. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager i Mambar of tha Aitoclatad Press, Oregen Nawipapar Publlshera Association, tha Audit Buraau of Circulations B.pr.Hnl.a r WMT-HOI.LIDAY CO.. HC.. olfloea la New er. Ckleafe. Sao rrenelice, Lee Awlil, Seattle, mUiri, Bearer IVB8CBIPT10N BATK8 la Ortf.n B MaU I-er Year, U.H: elm aunlke. M-SSl thru m.nthj. W.S. OolaUe Oree Br MeH er lor, I1S.M; lis ' IT.Hi tkru aaealke, ls.se. Br Newi-Belew CrrUr rn Tr. flS.oe (la ilnral lets 'a rear, yer uoatb, ll.ts. HOW OLD IS AN OLD PRESIDENT Eugene Register-Guard Maybe it isn't polite to talk about it, but it's being talk ed about anyway. The' Democrats, who can read the World Almanac as easily as anyone else can, have already figured it out. They have found that if President Eisen hower is re-elected in 1956, and that if he lives out his sec ond term, he will be the only President in history to oc cupy the White House after his 70th birthday. He would be 70 years and three months old when his successor was inaugurated. ' In the 166 vears this nation has been electing presi dents, "life expectancy" has a time in the life of the Kepublic wnen a man wno naa attained his "three score and 10" was a patriarch, indeed. Even a man of 60 was living actuarially speaking, a man of other 10 years; a man of 60 another 16. Xet, our presidents nowadays are no older than they were. We're still elect ing men in their late 50s. In our history we have chosen only six presidents who were past 60 the first time they were inaugurated. Four of those served before the Civil War. Since 1860 only Presidents Truman and Eisenhower have taken office, the first time, after reaching 60. Two presidents were almost 70 when they saw their successors sworn in..': Andrew Jackson, the champ so far, was just a week short of his 70th birthday when Martin Van Buren was inaugurated. And James Buchanan's 70th birthday-came seven weeks after Abraham Lincoln was sworn in. Two presidents (Truman and William Henry Harrison) were 68 when they left office. Harrison would have held the all-time 'record, had he lived out his term. But he died after only a month in office, when he was 68 years and two months old. Truman left office when he was five months older than that. For all that the average man's life expectancy is greater now than it was 150 years ago, the life expectancy of our ex-presidents is shorter. In the first 50 years of the nation, no president died in office and the ex-presidents lived an average of 14 year3 and three months after leav ing the White House. But in the past 50 years two have died in office, and the others have lived only nine years and nine months after leaving office. (These figures credit Truman with two years and Herbert Hoover with 22. Hoover is the runnerup in that department. Only John Adams, the second president, lived longer after he was president. He died at the ripe old age of 91, 25 years after leaving office.) ; f So Eisenhower would be 70. We insist that in this day and age, 70 isn't very old not nearly so old as 69 was in Andy Jackson's day, And Mr. Eisenhower himself, per haps because of his military life, looks and acts 10 years younger than he is . Presidents aren't statistics. They're people, some more durable than others. Our feelintr is that Mr. Eisenhower's durability is personal as well as political. , NEW YORK UP) You can take an old sergeant out of the Army, but you can't take the old Army out of a ser geant. It's that way with Marty Maher, who retired in 1946 aft er 50 years of service at West Point. One of the best loved men in the history of the U. S. Military Academy, at 78 the white-thatched old sergeant still goes back every day of the week except Sunday to visit "The Point." 1 just go around seeing my friends that knew me well," said Marty. "A man must keep in touch with his friends. "To my mind there is no man ever lived enjoyed himself as much as I did there, and I'm still having the dangesl time of my life. Work ing with the boys so long has kept mo young." Marty admits now "I was a wild boy myself when I came here from Tippcrary." And that was in 1896, he was only 20, and his first job at West Point was as a mess hall waiter. "I got $13 a month piy with breakage taken out," he recalled, "and one day I fell with my art.s full of dishes and it cost ma a couple of months pay. "As soon as I could I enlisted, because I liked the brass bullous very much." Thirty years later he retired as a sergeant, but merely went home and changed hii clothes and came right back as civilian superintend ent of the West Point ivm. That was in 1928. When he fi nally retired in 1946, the cadets paraded before him in special re view and gave him a gold watch. Marly's blue eyes still gel misty when he talks of that day. Halps Chata Troublaa Over the decades Marty and his wife, who reared no children of their own, became father and mother confessor to tne cadet corps, helped hundreds of future colonels and generals to iron out their youthful troubles. A roll call of Marty's memories is a roll call of 50 years of West Point athletic history. His book of memoirs, "Bringing Up the Brass," has been made into a film. "The Long Gray Line," starring Tyrone Power as Marty, by Colmbia Pic tures. It is probably the only movie ever made about a sergeant in the Quartermaster Corps, a soldier who made his name in peacetime and never fired a gun in anger. Marly became famous at West Point as a swimming teacher who had never learned to sw'm him self. Carrying out a strictly dry land technique, Maher, who hat a low opinion of water under any circumstances, taught hundreds of cadets to .swim over a J5-year pe riod. : Own Teaching Pays Off Only onu did he violala hi Ore.-Tuea. Feb. 1," 1955 increased greatly. There was on borrowed time. Now, 70 may expect to live an a prejudice against water, and then he was lorced to. "In 1911 a captain who was try ing to get me busted ordered me to undress and go into the pool." he said. "I went into the dressing room and put my head between my hands and cried. "Then I told myself, 'If you just do what you teach others, you shouldn't drown.' I went into the pool, swam across it, then down to the other end, and climbed out. And I did it without getting my chin wet." Marty remembers the time when Cadet Douglas MacArthur, ordered to do knee bends during a hazing, resolutely kept at it wilhou: com plaint until he fainted: when Ca det Omar Nelson Bradley could throw a ball from anywhere in lett Held unerringly to home plate: when Cadet Mark Clark was nick named "contraband" because of his success in smuggling food tid bits into the barracks; and when "I told the only lie in my life," to Cadet Dwight 1). Eisenhower. "He had hurt his knee in foot ball and I took care of it for him," said Marly. "1 told him the knee would be all right in two or three weeks, but I knew it wouldn't. He won his 'A', but he never got to play again." On the back of his right hand Marty had four aces tattooed, fa ded Dy me years. "In 1905 I was playing poker," he said. "And I had four aces in my hand. 1 liet everything I had on them. But another guy In the game drew three cards and beat me with a straight flush. That very night I had the aces tattooed on me to remind me never to gamble again the rest of my life." Did It work? "Pretty well," said Marty, "Ex cept for pinochle and dice." Wedding Annivesary No. 70 Feted By Couple PORTLAND I - Mr. and Mrs, Conrad Derr celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary Sunday. They were married Jan. 29. 1885, at Norka, Russia. Derr, 90, and his wife, 87, said they were look in? forward to celebrating the 75th anniversary of their marriage. Editorial Comment Pram Tha Oregon Press LESSON FOR THE FARMER Tha Dallas Chronicle Neglect of public relations by the farmer and public official and pos sible consequences are reviewed on the edilcrial page of the East Oregoniau. The f armer s Public Kela- tions" is the title of the thought ful editorial in the Pendleton daily. Next to the editorial is a column at the paper's Washington, D. C, corresponaeni, uuea -secretive-ress May Have Brought Cordon's Defeat." Both pieces provide strong sup port for the view that a public official or spokesman for a calling such as agriculture are uuty-bound to explain to the public matters that are ot importance to the pub lic. Failure to take into account the necessity of informing the pub lic of legitimate news and views can and docs lead to loss of pub lic approval. Alter noting mat tanners in iaa received a much smaller portion of the U.S. national income than they did in 1947, the East Ore- gonian says: roe tarmer wno minus ne need not be concerned about what the consumer thinks of him is blind. The number of farmera is decreasing while that of con sumers grows. And as the farm ers minority status is further emphasized the greater will be his need to get a fair hearing with those people who write legislation. If the consumer can shout him down in legislative halls (the farmer) is in deep trouble. He must got busy at tell ing his story while he still has some friends who will listen." The Washington correspondent indicates there is belief in the na tion's capital that ex-Sen. Guy Cordon helped defeat himself by his poor public relations policy. Cordon was effective and consc1en tious, this report said, but cloak ed too much of his activity in secrecy from the public's repre sentativesthe press. Cordon thus failed to put his bcsl foot forward in explaining what he stood for or what be had accom plished in his 10 years in the Senate. Iif contrast, Sen. Wayne Morse rarely, if aver, neglects to inform voters in this state of his views on any public topic of even minor importance. During the past session of Co' gress, for example, Morse supplier The Chronicle and presumably every other newspaper in Oregon, with lengthy- teiigranis and let ters at frequent intervals Evory so often, '.oo. Morse also would send a clipping of an editorial commenting favorably on Oregon's Independent Senator There is a line separating legiti mate expression ut views and the abuse of the privilege of expres ion. Adequate explanation of a public question is necessary if Ihe American people are to form a considered opinion on, say farm price supports. But failure to provide the data and views needed for the public question is necessary if the Amer ican people are to form a consid ered oplnior. on, say, farm price supports. But failure to provide the dala aria views nevded for the public to reach a considered opinion re sults in a inu-sided picture. American farmers would re ceive less criticism from the big city consumer if the metropolitan portion of the population had a more adequate understanding of the farm problem. An incomplete picture of a situ ation which result from inade quate information to the public can be of serious consequence to that activity or person who does not adequately realise that tha public has the final word. ICS BREAKS, 2 DROWN CARTHAGE, Mo. I Merle Blansct, 10, chased his dog rnlo thin ire Sunday. His mother, Mrs. Karl Blanset, 12, went after him. The ire broke. Mother and son drowned, Spelling It Out for Us i2ruce The ' Chinese Communists gave a bitter twist to their false impris onment of American airmen when they offered to let the fliers' rel atives visit them in Red China. It was characteristic of the Com munists that they should first commit a cruel, inhuman and il legal act and then try to cloak it with a seemingly humane gesture designed to put a ?ood face on the matter before a critical world. In this instance, the Reds may well have realized what a tantaliz ina dilemma this would pose for parents, wives and sweethearts of the impnsonea men. rnus a coma Public Hearings By State Boards Topic Of Debate SALEM IB Sponsors of a bill to compel state boards and com missions to give five days notice of meetings and to open their doors to the public indicated at a hearing Monday they would like to see public welfare bodies exempted from Its provisions. Sen. John Merrifield, Portland, and Rep. Henry Scmon, Klamath Palls, the co-sponsors, said they oppose executive sessions by any state sub-division except when they deal with personnel matters. Representatives of the State Medical Board and State Retire ment Board opposed the bill, saying it would hinder their work. Dr. Ralph Purvine of the medi cal board said his group received many complaints of alleged wrong doing, many of which were false. If such testimony is made public, he said, it would harm the practice of a doctor who is wrongly accused. Max Manchester, secretary of the retirement board, said transcripts of its meetings were given to the wvernor, attorney general and Department of Finance for release, if desired. But he said that nearly all of this board's hearings are devoted to individual retirement cases in which "only the curious would be interested." Prison Phase Cittd Also opposing the bill was Stale Parole Director H. M. Randall, who said most of the Parole Board meetings are held inside the enitentiary. He said the bill would en the board's files to the public, id impair its functions and cause cat damage to paroled convicls. Sen. Robert D. Holmes, Gearhart, aid no legislative committees should be exempt. C. C. Chapman, publisher of the Oregon Voters, also opposed the bill. He said relations between the press and stale boards are ill a "healthy condition," and it would be "a mistake to try to make an evil of an evil that doesn't exist." Elmer McClure, slate grange master, said that boards and commissions now handle more state funds than ever before, and suggested that slate . agencies should let the public know when and where their meetings will be held. The hearing was held before Ihe Senate State and Federal Affairs Committee. Dewey Wouldn't Run Even If Ike Declined NEW YORK If - Former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey was quoted Monday as saving there is "not a chance in the world" of his running for President if Elsen hower doesn't seek re-election. Dewey was one of a group Interviewed bv the New York Pai'.y News "Inquirine Fotographer" on Ihe question "If Eisenhower doesn't run for re-election, what do yen think of Tom Dewev's chances" "Not a chance in the world," Dewey replied. "For the first time In 24 years, I can en.toy mv family, go to the theater as often as I wish, and eo to my farm week ends. I don't have five or .'x emer "eneles facing me each day. I'm finally ensaged in the practice of taw and enjoying it immensely." iioSiat - be an exquisite piece of added torture. a Naturally, all things being equal, these families would dearly like ' see their loved ones. But man? questions intervene. So grave are these that in the initial response only three of tha families involved expressed a wish to accept the Communist invita tion. The tremendous cost of the trip is one obstacle, even though the American Red Cross quickly indi cated willingness to help finanoiaL ly. Another is the matter of the vis itors' safety. UN Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold says he believes they could travel without fear in Communist China. Presum ably he bases this confidence on impressions gained in his own re cent visit to Premier Chou En-lai. The United States government, however, does not view the pros pect so cheerfully. State Depart ment, officials note that since we do not have diplomatic relations with Red China, we cannot offer prospective visitors the normal passport protections. Some con cern is natural in such circum stances, despite Hammarskjuld's assurances and the anticipated pressures of world public opinion. A third factor which seems to weigh strongly with the relatives of the captive Americans is their conviction that the visit would do little or nothing toward accom plishing their release from pris on. On the other hand, being to gether even for a brief time would surely multiply the feelings of frustration on both sides at the thought of perhaps long continued captivity. It the great proportion of the fliers' families stand by their in tention, in the light of these ob stacles, not to eo to Red China, then American propaganda agen cies should make clear to Ih c world the real basis for their de cision. - We can anticipate the Reds try ing to tell the tyorld thai both the U.S. government and the men's relatives are so callous they had no in'""est in the Chinese invita tion. We don't want them getting away with such crude stutf as thai. Nor do we want the wo-ld to for get that Ihe bes'. thing :he Com munists could do for these Amer ican families is to release rie-ii whom they haw no right to- be holding in prison at all. Benefit Deadline Spurs Recruiting In Portland PORTLAND W Army and Navy recruiting offices were full Monday as young men rushed in to beat the midnight deadline after which they would not have been eligible for benefits under the GI bill. It climaxed a busy month for recruiters who said January enlist ments were heavier than any one month since World War II. About 380 joined the Army and 00 signed up in the Navy. The Marines and the Air Force filled their quotas earlier in the month. Capt. John Rice, operations officer, said some 60 men, includ ing 20 from Southern Oregon, en listed in Ihe Army before noon Monday. The normal daily total is 10. The Armv office planned to stay open until midnight to han dle latecomers. New Trial For Convicted Murderer Of Son Denied CHICAGO lAV-Vincenl Ciucci. 28-year-old grocer who faces death in the electric chair for the mur der of hia son, was refused a new trial. The death penalty was set for Ciucci, accused of murdering his wife and three children Dec. 5. 1953, by a jury in the slaying of his son, Vincent Jr., 9. Earlier he had received prison terms totaling 65 years for slaying his wife. Anne. 28, and a daughter, Angelina, 4. He has not been tried for the death of another daughter, Virgin- , Rev. T. L. Jones, an early Ore gon revivalist, was our subject in the article before this one. He was typical of the itinerant evan gelist of the day. Although he was a later arrival in Oregon than Joab Powell, Rev. Rider nd Reu ban Hill, be preached the same igneous gospel, with limitless re ward for the righteous and no quarter in the hereafter for the unredeemed. Everybody reaching heaven would be a member of tbe celestial choir. Oje bad to draw on the imagination to visualize some of the male voices in Ihe church congregation who sang in an off key monotone qualifying as the white robed vocalist. But that was a purely technical observa tion. Nevertheless, the religion they preached was the religion of the masses. It was the same gospel Billy Graham carried lo Great Britain in recent months and made the reserved English gasp at its appeal to the people. Tbe only difference, perhaps, was in ap proach to the- subject. Where the old religion emphasized reward for services given, Graham used it as a guide to a better life on earth as well, helping the individual sub due his inner conflicts and adjust himself to life as he finds it. But it is beyond doubt that the pioneer church was the catalyst that changed a barbarian frontier community into a cultured civili zation. The early Oregon church es established schools and colleg es that were the acorns of many of our jnodern colleges and univer sities. The Methodists established Willamette University. The Uni versity of Oregon was an off-shoot of the Christian, or "Gampbellite," college at Eugene. The congrega tionalists established Pacific Uni versity, the Baptists Linfield Col lege, and Oregon State College was successor to a denomina tional school. It is interesting to note in pass ing that during the first 50 years of the life of these colleges, Ore gon produced more outstanding American literature than the orig- Defense Program Is Inadequate, States Holifield WASHINGTON Wl Rep. Holi field (D-Calif) says the nation's civil defense program "is tragic ally inadequate." One major weak ness, he says, is what he called lack of planning what to do about radioactive fall-out from atomic bombs. "We do not have today and there is today no prospect of us having the bare minimum of pro tection our cities and industries would need to keep a nuclear Pearl Harbor from dealing us a terrible, possibly mortal, blow," Holifield said in a speech prepared for the American Legion's national secur ity commission recently. Holifield said Congress has ap propriated only token sums for civil defense and the American people show indifference, because they do not understand the danger and "have not been given the facts which would enable them to under stand it." The radioactive fall-out to which Japanese fishermen were exposed in the Pacific during the hydrogen bomb tests last spring, he said, also "forced the evacuation of Marshall islanders and United States military personnel from atolls located more than 100 miles from the ground zero of the test." "The impli-ralions of this for civil defense should be obvious to ail," Holifield continued . . . .Does it not follow that radioactive fall-out from a Soviet hydrogen bomb ex ploded in Washington might re quire us to evacuate Baltimore and Philadelphia" ? ' He said the President should im mediately tell the facts "to put this problem in property perspec tive, adding that "without such facts there can be no realistic civil defense program." Heart Fund Campaign To Starr February 20 An innovation in the Heart Fund campaign which starts in Douglas County Tuesday will be a door - to - door solicitation on "Heart Sunday" Feb. 30, reports county Chairman George Luoma of Roseburg. The campaign will continue through the month of February. The official announcemnt of Lu oma's selection as chairman of the county drive was made Mon day by Henry Andrcae of Port land, state chairman. Assisting Luoma will be E. V. Lincoln and Keith Carter, who will act as spe cial gifts chairmen. Luoma has asked for "all - out support from every person in the county" since heart disease is the worst killer in Oregon. Luoma said volunteers would try to reach everyone in the coun ty, but he requested that persons mail their contributions, address ing them to "Heart," in care of their local post offices. L L "Jim" Power ICAE.S BV WK. PEERV I inal 13 states on the Atlantic sea board. Harvey Scott became the ' peer of American journalists, : Balch wrote the Bridge of the ' Gods, Joaquin Miller started his career and Edwin Marquam was to write his immortal "Man with the Hoe." During this period, Sam Simpson wrote his Beautiful Wil lamette. All these jnen were prod ucts of Oregon's early denomina tional schools. Thus i.t would seem that in spite of the brimstone quality of religion these churches expounded, they had at the same time a cultural background that produced nation al leaders in the art ot expression. Tk. almnlinitv nt thoit fsilh woo in direct contrast to our sophisti cated approach to matters of faith in this modern day, but in this very simple faith they seem to have had something not included in our modern beliefs. Hells Canyon Dam Backers Pushing Anti-Partner Bill WASHINGTON ( Public pow er senators are busy lining up co sponsors for a bill to authorize the federal Hells Canyon Dam in the hope of getting enough backers to thie vaaf ! One of the group, Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore), told a re porter that between 20 and 30 sen ators are expected to co-sponsor the bill, which may be introduced late this week or early next week. The bill would authorize the fed eral government to build a high dam in the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon, where the Ida ho Power Co. seeks to construct three low dams. The public power senators will try to get the measure through the Senate, this year in the hope of blocking final action by the Federal Power - Commission on Idaho Power's project applications. The FPC is expected to rule later this year, possibly about October, on whether the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake River dam should be built by the private utility or reservea ior a ienerai project. Neuberger said he believed early Senate passage of a Hells Canyon bill would cause the FPC to defer final action on Idaho Power's ap plications. He added: "I would think that, if a sov ereign branch of the Congress the United States S e n a t e had taken a position in favor of the high dam, certainly a mere reg ulatory commission should hesitate to give away such a rich and val uable, resource as Hells Canyon power without seeing how the other branch disposes of the bill." Floyd C. Bennett MalcoTrained Hearing Aid Conaultant WHO IS FLOYD BENNETT? ' He owns the Maico Hearing Service in Salem, Oregon, with residence and office at 1527 Chemeketa street. His background includes a Bachelor of Science Degree in Busi ness and Education before entering the hearing aid field in 1950. a CAN HE FIT HEARING AIDS PROPERLY? He is a company trained technician, having acquired the qualifications set forth by the Maico Co. of Minneapolis in hearing tests and hearing problems in order to successfully understand and fit Maico Hearing aids. a WHAT HEARING AIDS DOES HE DISPENSE? Maico, 17 years dedicated to the hard of hearing. Maico is the world's largest and oldest manufacturer of hearing test instruments. 90 of all audiometers used by ear spe cialists, public schools ' and special education are Maico made. This company produced the first wearable vacuum tube hearing aid to receive the American Medical Associa tion's acceptance in 1940 and was first to introduce the all transistor, tubeless hearing aid in 1953. a DO MAICO HEARING AIDS REQUIRE BATTERIES? Maico hearing aids are transistor instruments, using tiny energy cells the size of a dime and operate for less than a cent a day or about $3.00 per year. Maico aids are the world's smallest, weighing only an ounce, and are worn in a lady's hair, with no cord on the neck and positively no clothing noise. Men may wear it with a tie clasp. a ARE MAICO HEARING AIDS SOLD ON TERMS? Yes. Original price is moderate but tan be purchased with small down payment with balance in monthly payments. This you would normally be paying for batteries in the older type of vacuum tube aids. Hearing aids have full guarantee for one year. Transistors have life expectancy of 20 years. a CAN EVERYONE BE MADE TO HEAR? No. While a large majority of the hard of hearing can over come their hearing handicap by a properlv fitted aid there are those who by the very nature of their'hearing loss can never receive, benefit by a earing aid. A simple test will in most cases permit you to know. There is absolutely no cost or obligation for the interview and there will be no over-insistence that you buy. If you can't be at the place indicated above, write to the home address of Mr. Bennett and a call can be made on you when Mr. Bennett is in the area. If you feel lonelv, insecure, frustrated or embarrassed because of your hear ing problem, now. is the tune to investigate. 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