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A GREAT VICTORY
Charles V. Stanton
There is reason 4o believe today that the dread disease
poliomyelitis infantile paralysis has been conquered.'
Throughout centuries men have fought against epidem
ic diseases bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, yellow
fever and others causing periodic decimation of popula
tions. One by one these diseases have yielded to scientific
research. Diseases which once swept unhindered through
out the world, with almost certain death for their victims,
are no longer feared. Medical science has discovered the
secrets of their virulence, and has rendered them virtual
y impotent. '
Amonir the nlaeties of mankind has been infantile pa
ralysis. Few diseases have been more feared. Polio has
captured imaginations particularly because the greater
number of its victims were children. The twisted, tortur
ed' bodies of youngsters who survived the original impact
of the disease then went out to tace lire hopelessly crip
pled, served to promote a constant sense of fear. Con
fronted daily with the suffering occasioned by polio, tlin
American public for many years has contributed great
sums of money to aid in problems ot research, as wen as
providing aid for victims.
Research Promises Relief
' It now ' annears that the dollars contributed by mil-
lions of Americans throughout the years have served their
purpose. Reporta on the Salk vaccine indicate a very high
decree of success in halting: the ravages of polio. There
also is good reason to believe that effectiveness of the vac
cine will be improved as its use is studied. With prac
tice more will be learned of the most efficient methods or
inoculation, the spacing of "shots" and the duration of
immunity:1. Also to be expected is an improved vaccine
as methods of manufacture are improved.
But the need for funds to combat polio has not been
ended. Research must continue until results are proven.
Money must be furnished to provide aid for those stricken
with the disease and requiring long periods of hospitaliza
tion, treatment and rehabilitation.
; But we have hope, as a result of the report compiled
by Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., of the University of Michi
gan, following long study of the Salk vaccine, that another
dreadful epidemic disease has been whipped. And
through the success in polio research we can have confi
dence that still other diseases or afflictions will be beaten.
Cancer Studies Favorable
; Creating fear, in the same manner as polio, is the af
fliction of cancer, an increasing cause of death in this
country. And just as long research was necessary to
beat polio, exhaustive studies must be made into the se
crets of cancer and methods of control.
I But in that field as well we have had promising news.
Researchers recently have discovered drugs exhibiting a
limited measure of success in treatment of cancer. Their
discoveries are yet too new to be fully 'measured. They
are not presented as cures. Yet thev signify a definite ad
vance in the field of control and relief of suffering.
They serve to promote confidence that victory eventually
will be won against cancer as it has against polio and oth
er dread diseases.
We spend billions of dollars on military preparations.
We maintain defensive forces against the possibility of war
through huge appropriations. I!ut ennrer kills more" peo
ple than would be lost in a full-scale shooting war. Yet
we appropriate little money for research against disease.
Money for research, rather, conies from the pockets of
generous people.
Those people, who throughout the years have boon in
vesting their money into the fund-raising campaigns for
disease control, should feci grateful tmlav that they have
had a part in the humane effort to save life and ease suf
"I Have a Little Shadow ; . ,,r
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Rival Parties
Agree Convention
Funds Inadequate
WASHINGTON W Rival Re
publican and Democratic political
leaders agreed Tuesday on this:
Three million dollars is too Utile
to finance a party national com
mittee in a presidential election
campaign.
Democratic Chairman Paul M.
Buller said the nresenl sDcndinz
ceiling, fixed by a 1939 law, ought
lo be raised to at least six mil
lion. He suggested, too. that Con
gress consider making appropria
tions from the U. S. treasury for
conduct of campaigns.
Republican Chairman Leonard
W. Hall did not suggest a specific
tigure, but called the present three-million-dollar
limit "outmoded and
unrealistic" in this day of wide
spread use of television and air
travel in election battles.
The oartv leaders testified be
fore a Senate elections subeom-
mitte which is considering a bill
by Sen. llcnnings (l)-Moj to re
vise campaign spending laws.
Hcnnings' measure would fiv a
ceiling of more than 12 million
dollars for spending by a national
committee in next year's presi
dential campaign. Neither Hall nor
Butler commented on this provi
sion specifically.
Senate Votes $35 Minimum
Benefits For Unemployment
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM tfl The omnibus un
employment compensation biil, in
creasing weekly jobless benefits U)
a maximum of $35 and boosting
employer payroll taxes by about
50 per cent, was passed 2R-2 by
the Oregon Senate Tuesday. It guts
to the House.
There was no debate, the big
argument having occurred last Sat
urday when the Senate voted to
put the benefit ceiling at $35, rath
er than $32 as recommended by
the majority of the Labor and In-
'dustries Committee.
Meanwhile, the House passed 39
19 and sent to the governor the
bill to transfer the Motor Vehicle
Department from the secretary of
state to the governor. It would
transfer about 600 of the secretary
of slate's 800 employes.
After the lough revenue problem,
unemployment compensation has
been the most Involved issue of the
session.
The present ceiling on benefits
is $25 a week. The bill also extends
coverage lo firms with fewer than
four workers and to cooperatives,
disqualifies many seasonal work-
: :
CAIRO, Egypt '1' Egypt is in transition, proud of its
mighty past but anxious to cure its old poverty by turning
to new ways. . .
Abraham Noman is as good a human symbol as any
of the slow changes that are bringing fresh hope of better
times for this ancient land. ,
Abraham is a 6-foot, 195-pound, I can learn as much about real lire
29-year-old Bedouin, whose fierce I in a strange country from the guv
ancestors once roamed Uie desert who presses vour pants as vou can
oome ncnuuins, a piouu ami in-; from one ot its politicians.
dependent people, still roam thi
desert and, live in tents. Others
have compromised with civiliza
tion and come to town to live.
Abraham is a town Urdouin.
"My great grandfather was the
last in our family to live In a
tent," he said. "The desert Bedou
ins have no education. They are
ignorant."
All of us who jested among our
selves at Abraham on sr-'ht, came
to admire linn for his kindliness,
his dependability in doing Ins duty,
his intelligence, and his complete
sense of personal dignity.
Abraham Noman doc.'Ti't know
where his last name roues from.
but thinks it probably was face
Ahrahnm Nnman'a familu liav 1 lioilslv given to OI1C of his attCCS-
done pretty well, aH things eon-l1"" '"' generations back by a
stderi-d, since coming to town. British offirrr. In any case, !i?
Abraham himself is a servant in ! now lik's it.
famous Mena house, an old-fash-j Here is Abraham's self-pot trait
kined sprawling ltotel near the in his own words:
pyramids at Gua. "My falher and lived the same.
.Most of those whose needs Abra- i But my father lives better than
ham lends arc tourists, and many his father did.
of them have been famous. They "There arc nine of us in my
uiicii inuKu ami mane jokcs wnen , lamuy my lamer nml mother,
they first see Abraham. He does
look odd to them in his small skull
cap and long nightgown garb like
figure out of the Arabian
Nights.
Abraham patiently smiles
through their laughter. He prob
ably thinks tourists look odd. too.
but he is too polite and gentle to
show it. He likes tourists because,
he can learn from them.
"I had but nine years of sehnof-
ing," he said, "and whenever 1
my wife and myself, my one
brother, our three children, nut a
servant. The servant is a boy of
12 who does the marketing. He is
a poor boy without a family. We
took him with us because he had
no one to play with. We pay him a
small amount earh month.
"My falher was u dragoman, an
interpreter. I earn 120 pounds a
year (about $tt4 1.
"But we have houeht a hon
, with nine rooms. My falher and
near a new word 1 like lo find nut 1 mother rome fn-t in m ir it,,.
what it means." j will until mv last day Without
ADranam wauea on a numiier ot , tnem 1 would never know liie
tu who came here on a preview
flight by Trans World Airlines nf
its new Super Constellation. He
"In some homes the man dou
first what his wife savs. before his
father and mother, Ithink that is
turned out to he about our best ; bad.
friend in Ejyp). Somotimcs you I "V'es, I am happy living in
WASHINGTON - (NEA) Dur
ing Ilaian Prime Minister Mario
Scelba's visit (o Washington, ne
was photographed kissing the hanj
of Clare Boolhc Luce, U. S. Am
bassador to Italy.
Referring lo this niclure when
I ho introduced the Prime Minister
for a talk lo Washington newsmen
National Press Club President Lu
cian Warren observed:
"1 think it was unkind of the
papers to mention lhat Ihis pic
time was taken just after Italy had
been granted $15 million in addi
tional economic assistance."
PUBLICATION of the Yalta pa
pers served to take the heat off
Atomic Kncrgy Commission
Chairman Lewis L. Strauss and
t lie highly controversial Dixon
Yates contract in the Tennessee
Valley Authority area.
At AEC headquarters in Wash
ington, they now refer to it as
the "Dixon-Yalta" contract.
WILLIAM WEATHERSB Y, top
notch U. S. Public Affairs officer
in Cairo, Kgypt, took the trouble
to check up on criticisms of the
Voice of America programs beam
ed to his part of the world, as re
vealed in "Billions, Blunders and
Baloney," by Eugene W. Castle.
On page 9 of this sensational new
book, it was charged lhat the
"Amid" brothers, who publish a
newspaper In Cairo, had told the
author that the Voice of America
was no good, and lhat the pro
gram was received in Cairo early
in the morning when nobody was
listening.
Since Weatheisliy knew that the
program came in between 8 and
10 p.m., he set out lo track down
ihe "Amid" brothers, and got back
this reply:
"Dear Mr. Weatliershy:
"We were surprised lhat Mr.
Egypt. It is my luck lo be. a serv
ant. 1 cannot turn it back. 1 do not
I get angry working for others.
I When I feel sorry, I pray to the
! gods.
! "But t want my children to be
better than me.
j "My children are all right. They
! arc good. I hope they go to school
for a long time ami grow up to he
judges or army officers. I wouM
' prefer them to be officers but
only if there are no more wars '
Abraham Noman said he thought
I life in Egypt was getting better
ifor people in his pewit ion. When I
, asked him if he had a grudge
i against this world, he spread his
j big palms wide, smiled, and said:
"I am content in myself. What
'now may I do for you?"
Eugene Castle in his recently pub
lished book claimed he had inter
viewed us about the USIA in Cain,
lie not only misspelled our names
but also misspelled our ideas. The
fact is that this gentleman met us
for a few minutes before a luncn
eon given by Mr. Saba Habaeh in
Mena House hotel. All that he at
tributed to us is what he said him
self. We disagreed with him, bu;
he insisted he was right. He said
he had come to Cairo and had vis
ited many capitals to prove what
he actually was convinced of be
fore starting off from the States.
"Will you please try to use your
influence and correct this distor
tion of facts?
' "Yours sincerely
"MOSTAFA AMIN & ALI
AMIN."
SPOTLIGHTING THE Upper
Colorado River war over the Echo
Park dam, David K. Brincear. ex
ecutive secretary of the Central
I Arizona Project Assn., calls alien
; tion to the fact that Arizona wa
ter users are not opposing the proj
I cel. as stated recently in this col
' umn.'
I "We consider California the vil
I l.iiu in this piece," writes Mr.
I Bnnegar, "and we believe Cali
fornia is endeavoring to frustrate
'the construction of all major works
on the river which would allow
I development for other slates. . .
' However, because of Ihe loose use
by California of the term 'I,oer
j Basin.' people are led astrav."
I WHILE THE RUSSIANS claim
; In have moved mountains with
'their atomic explosion tests. Amei
! ican scientists can now claim to
l have removed whiskers with atom
' ic energy.
i This happened miring shake
idown tests of the atomic subma
rine Nautilus. A Congressman in
j specting the ship plugged in his
electric razor and shaved during
: the trial run. The power of course
came from the atomlchoiler that
drives the sub.
ers, and would take away half of
the benefits from those who volun
tarily quit work, refuse to accept
suitable employment, or are fired
for cause,
Voting against the bill were Sens.
Walter C. Leth, Monmouth, and
Lee Ohmart, Salem. Both are Re
publicans. One purpose of the bill was to
stop the drain on the $54,000,000
unemployment trust fund, which
has been dwindling at more than
$8,000,000 a year because jobless
benefits have exceeded the employ
er taxes by that amount.
Under the bill, however, the fund
still would drop at the rate of
more than $3,000,000 a year.
Sen. George W. Ulett, Coquille,
chairman of the Labor and Indus
tries Committee that wrote the
bill, said, "We can try it for two
years, and then we could increase
the employer contributions again."
; The House completed legislative
action to double the penny-a-day
that is contributed by each worker
covered by state industrial acci
dent insurance. The extra cent will
be used to pay pensions to widows
and orphans of men killed in indus
Uial accidents.
The Joint Ways and Moons Com
mittee formally rescinded its vote,
taken several weeks ago. to cut
stale budgets 10 per cent. It al
ready has approved nearly all
budgets at the same figure as rec
ommended by the governor.
Sen. Gene L. Brown. Grants
Pass, chairman of the subcommit
tee considering the higher educa
tion budget, made the motion to
revoke the 10 per cent cut. He said
he didn't want to be in the posi
tion of reducing the budgets for
the stale system of higher educa
tion while other budgets weren't
being cut.
The House voted 32-26 to send
back to committee the proposed
constitutional amendment to give
every county one state senator
each.
The bill, supported by rural
counties and opposed by Mult
nomah County, will be given a
public hearing by the House Elec
tions Committee next Monday.
It was introduced only eight'days
ago, and the Elections Committee
approved it 6-5 before any hearing
could be held. ,
Stassen And McClelljn
Reach Understanding
WASHINGTON t Harold IC.
Stassen and Sen. McClellan ( D
Arkl announced Tuesday "a
thorough understanding" which ap
parently ended their row over con
gressional investigating powers.
The announcement followed a
close d-door conference between
the two at which Stassen handed
over all but 2 of 22 documents Ihe
Senate investigations subcommit
tee had threatened to subpoena
if he refused.
McClellan heads the subcommit
tee which is looking into com
plaints that Die Foreign Opera
tions Administration had chosen
to negotiate a Pakistan grain stor
age contract with a Ixis Angeles
firm whose $2,400,000 bid was
nearly a million dollars higher
than Ihe low bidder.
Stassen, EOA administrator, has
announced he will reject all bids
and call for a new start, lest "the
breath of scandal" hurt the project.
SPECIAL LEVY ASKED
PORTLAND i Multnomah
County voters will be asked to ap
prove a 4 -i mill levy to raise
S3.8iV3.OiN) annually for four vears
in the special May 20 election, the
county's Board of Commissioners
j anmmred Monday.
That woukl he a cimtmuancc of
the special tax levy which has been
l in effect the past five years but
I wllieh now is expiring, the com-
I misinncrs said.
The money would be used for
maintaining county services.
Mrs. Roosevelt Delighted
Over Salk Vaccine Tests
HYPE PARK, N.Y Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose hus
band suffered polio, said Tuesday
she was "delighted" wi'h the out
come of the Salk vaccine tesU.
"Of course, we will have to go
on wnn uie aiarcn oi Dimes lor a
long time, because we still have
people who had had the disease
who must be cared for," the for
mer President's widow said.
Mrs. Roosevelt made her com
ment to newsmen shortly att-r
placing a WTeath of lillies on her
husband's grave. He died 10 years
ago Tuesday.
In The Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
that would stimulate the produc
tion in suficient numbers of the!
specific antibody that combats the
polio virus. ,
Dr. Salk, after long research,
FOUND IT. That is the story in a
nutshell.
in practice, Dr. Salk says, two
shots of the vaccine, spaced two
to four weeks apart, "prime" the
human body to turn out. the anti-1
body that combats the invading
polio virus. A third, or "booster",
shot, he adds, should be given not'
earlier than seven months after the
"priming" shots. This booster shot
pulls the trigger of the antibodv
nonknnn. A fl 1 Ik. LI J !
iiiciiaiuaill lu 11UVU WV U 1 U U U-
stream with the defending antibod
ies. The immediate. problem is to se
cure as wide immunity as possible
against polio. Dr. Salk, on the bas
is of new findings, urges today trfat
only the two priming shots be
given this summer. This would ex
pand the available supply to make
enough vaccine available for 45
million children which is almost
our entire child population under
ten years of age. The National
Foundation for Invantile Paralysis
is prepared IMMEDIATELY to
give nine million free inoculations
to ALL school children in the. first
and second grades in the United
States, Alaska and Hawaii.
This vaccine will be paid for by
March of Dimes funds. I think this
knowledge will cause everyone who
gave to the March of Dimes fund
to feel that his gift was at least
one good deed in his life.
I'd like to add a word in con
clusion a word of commendation
for American big business, which
over the years is the target for
far more brickbats than bouquets.
The splendid news that was
given to us Tuesday morning was
faintly foreshadowed quite some
time ago in. the forward-looking
minds of competent scientists.
They thought the Salk vaccine had
a good chance to be successful.
So
It seemed to them
A BIG GAMBLE was warrant
ed. They communicated their belief
to the big business institutions that
produce drugs and medicines.
They said, in effect, that if tle
Salk vaccine was proved a success
LARGE quantities of it would be
NEEDED AT ONCE in order to
immunize as many American chil
dren as possible in as short a space
of . time as possible.
These big concerns listened to
them and TOOK THE GAMBLE.
They put millions of dollars into
the job of producing the vaccine.
The result is that enough of it is
ready TO DO THE JOB THAT
NEEDS TO BE DONE.
Shop at Your Local Independent
Drug Store
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Let's put it this way:
If they hadn't been big, they
couldn't have, done the job. Ours
is a big country, with big problems
and big opportunities. Bigness is
required to meet these problems
and realize these big opportunities.
Biggest Timber Sale
Of Year Slated May 16
The Forest Service at Roseburp I
has scheduled the biggest timbe: !
ale of the year for May 16. 1
A total 26 million board feet ol
IJmpqua National Forest Timber :
is scheduled to he sold, starling at
2 p.m. at the Roseburg Post Of
fice Building. The timber is lo
cated on Steamboat Creek in the
northeast part of the county.
The tract contains 22 millio? j
hoard fect of Douglas fir apprais- I
ed at S15.30 per thousand, 2 mil-'
lion feet of sugar pine, ponderosa !
and western white pine aporaiscd'
at $32.80 and 2 million feet of :
hemlock and other species of saw
timber appraised at s.5.50. Total
appraised price is $412,600.
INTERIM COMMITTEE
SALEM (tfl The House passed
Tuesday and sent to the Senate a
resolution to create an interim
committee to study taxation of
public and private electric utilities.
The vote on the measure, which
was defeated last week, was 37-20
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