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MY Fault? O.i'' hi M .T W "U.7 ! - vJ' EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Tuesday, December 8, 1959 "Without or with friend or foe, we print your dally world as it goes" Byron. RILEY ALLEN, publisher Grady Pannell, managing editor George Challis, advertising director Tom Humes, circulation manager Will It Be Worth It? A woman doctor in London is working on a plan to allow her to live to the ripe old age of 200. Her diet contests of honey, fruit juice and water. She sleeps only two hours a night. She avoids, as if they were poison: Proteins, carbohydrates, fiber foods, starches, sex, tobacco and alcohol. She might live to be 200, all right. But, the office wag wonders : Can you call that living? DREW PEARSON SAYS: Will Gauguin's Art Become Masterpieces? A Francli blank clerk, long before most of us were bom, gave up his career and deserted his family to devote his life to art. He was a painter. As with so many artists, his life was tragic and he died in the south seas, a poverty stricken, victim of leprosy, but left be hind a number of paintings that in his day were not greatly admired and cer tainly not given much value. He was Paul Gauguin, and a fortnight ago, when one of his south sea paintings came up for auction in New York it sold for $361,000. ' What happens in the world of art ap preciation, one wonders, to cau.se what looked like junk to be worth far more than its weight in gold now? The ex planation has two facets. One is the change that has occurred in the ability of many people to understand and thus develop some feelings for the works of such men as Gauguin. They did not paint simply what they saw, photographic style, but let their feelings their impressions reshape what they say into the form they put on convas. Few cauld even make a living at it. And these early masters of im pressionism did not live to see their genius appreciated. The second ' factor that makes a Gauguin so valuable now is the fact that the artist is long dead. The more rare something is the more valuable it is to a collector whether it be first editions, paintings or Indian head pennies. There will never be any more Gauguin's pro duced. Hence what few there are in crease in value with the years. Logging May Take To The Air Dob Conklin, an Oregon logger of long experience, was called upon to do some prognosticating at the Forestry Cen tennial Conference at Corvallis earlier this year. He foresaw a number, of chan ges in logging methods, one of which he described as "the air age of log trans portation. By that, he meant the move ment of logs out of a forest . by air, eliminating the expensive necessity for logging roads. Those who heard Conklin undoubtedly thought he was just dreaming but they may think' otherwise when they read something about a company that may be merged with Boeing. It i the Vertol Aircraft Co. of Morton, Ta., which spe cializes, among other things, in helicop ters and other vertical take-off aircraft. Officials of Vertol in the past have ex pressed interest in the practicability of using helicopters to airlift logs out of an area too remote or too hilly for eco nomical road construction. Conklin also foresaw tree falling by loosening roots with sonic waves, mak ing possible the extraction of a whole tree. Also he predicted complete utiliza tion of stumps, roots, tops and branches. Thus we have a picture of the logging show of the future. No axes, no saws, no rigging, no cats. Just a sonic machine to shake a tree loose from the ground and a big helicopter to pick it up and haul It off to the mill. That'll Be The Everlovin' Day Tn th rush to clean up TV' and radio from some of their questionable practices there have been a number of suggestions as to just how far broadcasters should go in informing listeners of the fakery employed. There is still one fertile field, however. That's in politics. We're just waiting for the day when some politician steps in front of the cameras and microphones, smiles at the non-existent crowd, and starts his ad dress by saying: "Ladies and .gentlemen, my fellow Americans, this speech was prepared for me by members of my ataff headed by Ansel Phibete, former dean of .economics at Yalard University." That'll be the day. Barbs Girl babies are said to talk more than boy babies. How come they never get over it? Ohio police found a toy plastic gun in the pocket of an arersted drunk. Only HE was loaded. Vatican Is Firmly Opposed To Any Thaw In 'Cold War' ROME No place on his histor ic trip has President Eisenhower come up more emphatically against discouragement of his hope to thaw the cold war than at the Vatican. Obviously the Holy Father and the President did not, could not! Almost directly discuss political matters, it's not Pope. knij-hts of old. It was a moving ceremony in a brilliant setting. Directly over head on the high ceiling of the chapel was the painting of the serpent and the first tempta'.kn that came to the Garden of Eden. below sat the done. The closest to this took place when Premier Caramanlis of Greece was in Rome and jok ingly asked the Pope what he would do if Nikita Khrushchev requested an audience with him. The Pope replied: "Don't ask me." Hard Lin on Moscow In fact, the most important de velopment in Rome today has been the unofficial but very pointed criticism by Vatican officials of Italian President, Gronchi for announcing plans to go to Mos cow to see Premier Khrushchev. And though it will not be disi cussed, obviously the Pope's reac tion to the exchange of visits be tween Eisenhower and Khrush chev must be similar. In the United States the Col lege of Bishops has already spok en out firmly against the so- called "thaw" with Russia. This together with the Vatican's firm opposition sharpens the division wnicn will meet the President al most everywhere he goes on this trip. The division became so share in Italy, and Vatican criticism of President Gronchi so vigorous that the Italian president retaliat ed. At a press conference he droo ped the hint that treaties, con- coraais ana otner agreements made by man were always sub ject to revision. Rome newspap ers flared with interpretations that this meant the favorable con cordat given the Vatican by Mus solini in return for Catholic sun- port for him, might be revised. Unquestionably this interpreta tion was correct. Thus a new type of cold war has developed between the Vati can and the president of Italy Gronchi is in a strong position. As a Catholic he helped, in 1902J to found the first Christian Dem ocrat party which has always sup ported the Church and been sup ported by it in turn. No one can challenge his strong Catholicism But on the question of thawine the cold war and relaxing rela tions with Moscow the battle lin es are sharply drawn between the teaaers of tne Catholic Church and this Catholic actionist ,who became president of Italy. Moving Ceremony The voice of Pope John XXIII carried clear and resonant to ev eryone gathered in the Sistine Chapel. It was a kindly voice and it seemed to carry overtones of great sympathy, great sorrow,, great understanding. The Pope was officiating at a High Mass in memory of Cardi nal Stritch of Chicago, Cardinal Mooney of Detroit and other car dinals who died within the year. oeiow mm sat other cardinals, most of them Italian; and beyond them were the uniformed ambas sadors of the diplomatic corns. the Knights of Malta who show ed us to our places, and the Swiss guards in their uniforms of striped purple and gold carry ing halberds that dated back to LETTERS Easily the most striking sight in all that magnificent ceremony and the most striking sound in that beautiful ritual were the face and voice of the Pope. Pope John has been called the "Jolly Pope." His face and voice belied that description. He look ed shy and sad and concerned with the problems of the world. A "Rebellious" Pop Pope John has spent a good part of his life rebelling against formality, beginning as apostolic delegate in Istanbul during the war when he worked with the joint Jewish committee to get 15, 000 Jews out of Nazi-occupied Roumania. They could leave as Christians, but not as Jews. So overnight the Pope, then Arch bishop Runcalli, made them Cath olics. As such they were evacu ated from Roumania. When he became Pope, John continued that rebellion. He drank a cup of tea with the Swiss guards, visited the prisoners of Rome at Christmas time, explain ed that one of "my relatives who was hunting without a license was sent to jail for a month," doubled the salaries of low-paid Vatican employees, inspected ev ery nook and corner of the Vatican, ordered wine for all workers in the Vatican carpen try shop, and called a Roman Catholic Ecumencial council to try to unite Christianity under one church. However, there is one point on which Pope John has not deviat ed from the strict line laid down by his predecessor, Pius XII. There is to be no compromise with the Communist world. Mussolini's Mistress In Rome's Ambassador Hotel in trie evening you will sometim es see a gray-haired lady eating dinner. Always she dines alone Everyone knows her, but no ef fort is made to sit with her. She is Margurita Sarfatti, first mistress of Mussolini. Meeting Mussolini when he was a young socialist in Geneva she guided him, taught him almost all ha evwknew. She made him die tator of Italy. Then as Mussolini edged closer to Hitler and war seemed inevti table Sarfatti bowed out. When he died, Mussolini had another mistress, young and beautiful. who was hanged with him. Mus solini's wife had not been with him for a long time. . Margurita Sarfatti comes from a good Roman family, has a little money, sold some paintiigs to get more, and is quietly living out her remaining years in the Ambass ador Hotel. I couldn't help won der what thoughts she has of the tragic years she shaped as she sits in the dining room eating alone. Maximum length 100 words. No anonymous letter but true nam will bo withhold on re quest. Dear Mr. Editor: In a reefnt issue of the Ob server thtre appecred a cartoon depicting a locomotive called operating expense coup'ed to a featherbed with a man dressed as an employe in train service lolling at his ease among the feathers. Had this cartoon shown the featherbed at the rear of a pas senger train it is unlikely it would have caused any indica tion or reac'ion of any nature oxept a few chuckles. But located as it was in the picture ami de picting an employe instead of an official in the featherbed Hie re percussion was, (o say the least, vitriolic. Every railroad man in La Grande felt deply of'endi Those affiliated with other crafts in the Central Labor Council made complaints to that body and these complaints were relayed back to the membership of other I'ninns. Just how this af'ect-d circu'a tion you know better than I but I can assure you, the publication of this cartoon did not make any friends for the "Observer." This same cartoon wes published in several other dailies in the coun try but many of them have offer ed apologies for the admitted error. People in a town like La Grande feel their daily paper should repre sent all of THEM. And should not give outside interests preferential treatment which might be inimical to our interests. We feel an apolo gy is in order. Respectfully, C. E. Abrahamson. B of LE, Lodge 362. ( ' i: 'V " ik '1 'V.'. ,., QUOTES IN THE NEWS United Press International REMEMBER WHEN OBITS United Press International NEW YORK tUPU - rwn.-irrt Goldstein, 70, one of the under ground leaders in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, died Monday after undergoing surgery at a hospital here. PORT JERVIS, N Y. I PI Len Doyle, 66. an act or who had appeared on Broadway, radio .mrt television, died Sunday on a hunt ing trip tiere. Doyle was heard for many years on the "Mr. Dis trict Attorney" radio series. CRAMFORD, N.J. (VIM' IV John V. Slarr, 57, a scientist and manager of the products planning division of the Esso-Standard Oil Co.'s petroleum specialties de partment, died Sunday after an illness of several months. ... 25 years ago, Herbert Ev ans, city school district superin tendent here, died suddenly at the age of 38, the apparent vie tim of a heart attack. He had been elected to the sup erintendent's office in April of 1933. Plans were announced for all city schools to be closed the day of the funeral services. Overseas, Hungary was threat ening the Yugoslav border, and troops from tiny Serbia were re portedly poised, ready to invade Hungary. The Geneva Convention expressed great alarm over the situation. Baby Face Nolson's young wi dow was sent to prison for har boring members of Dillinger's gang. She was only 22 years old. . . IS years ago, a Wallowa serviceman, 1st Lt. Joe Johnson. 27, Marine Corps platoon lead er, helped evacuate 566 wounded Marines off Saipan while under fire. He was also credited with M ! NEW YORK Adlai E. Steven son, expressing concern that Pres ident Eisenhower's current 11-na-tion tour might establish a prece dent: "I think it would be a great mistake if we converted the office of the president. . .into a traveling salesman." WASHINGTON Sen. Alexand er Wiley (R-W'is., dismissing fears that President Eisenhower's strenuous trip might endanger his health: "You know, getting away from conditions in this country may be a real health tonic." NEW YORK Democratic Na tional Chairman Paul M. Butler, stating that no discussions of per sonalities in the coming campaign went on during the week-end meetings of the Democratic Ad visory Council: "Of course, I suppose there may have been just a little poli ticking over cups of coffee and a beverage which was made legal under a Democratic administra tion and Congress." Crop Specialist To Head Wheat Office In India CORVALLIS (ITU - Dr. D. D. Hill, retired head of the Oregon State College farm crops depart ment, leaves early next month to take charge of the New Delhi, India, office of Western Wheat Associates. The organization was formed by wheat commissions and wheat growers groups in Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho for market pro motion and development. Hill will be in India for two years directing wheat marketing and development for the organization. A 1952 OSC graduate, Joe Spir- uta, formerly of Albany, now is m charge of the New Delhi of fice. He will work in Ceylon, In donesia, Burma and Thailand aft er Hill's arrival in India. i . i i 1 PRESS CONFERENCE president Eisenhower stated in his Washington. I) r press conference that he firmly opposes involving the Federal Government in any way by Riving other nations birth control advice. The Presi dent also answered questions and discussed his forth coming goodwill trip t0 Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. ' destroying three Japanese mach ine gun nests. At the start of the fourth year of U.S. participation in World War II, America boasted the ?reatest military machine in his tory, with victory on all fronts being predicted sometime in 1945. Cost of the war to date was $229,388,000,000. How to deal with your tensions Toaa. 1 set it mry II (wheats sal I sehen aeittl k taitmtl iratUo But miliums more of us are suffering from minor problems that make us and those around us, unhappy. These problems cause our tensions to build up. That's why each of us must learn how to under stand our emotions . . . and how to keep them under control. Send for the free booklet. "HOW TO DEAL WITH YOL R TENSIONS." Write: Box 2500, New York I.N.T. PutMhd public rvc in coop raton with Th Advrmg Council. SQUAW VALLEY IN OIL Iranian exchange student Bijan Shokatfard (left), 23, talks to twin hostesses, Mi chon (center) and Michele Cardinal, about his painting of Squaw Valley during visit to the site of the 1900 Ol ympic Winter Games. Shokatfard, of Tehran, Iran, a student at Sacramento Junior College, plans to give his painting to the V1U Olympic Winter Games. Eisenhower Steering Clear Of Tunisia On This Junket Travelling with Ike Tuniia 1 President Eisenhower, like many travellers before him ove the past 400 years, is steering clear of Tunisia on his Mediter ranean tour. For travellers of old, the reason for skipping Tunisia was the Barbary pirates, to: Eisenhower it's lack of time. -Ike will meet Tunisia's No. 1 man in a warship on the sea Tunisian pirates once dominated Like those pirates, President Ha bib Bourguiba knows exactly what he wants and to devil with the risks. Bourguiba, 53, was educated by the French, outlawed by the French, imprisoned by the French elected when Tunisians threw out the French. What he wants is Tunisian prosperity, dignity, au thority, complete independence. Nations of Farms So far, he has only a thin slice of all of this. Independence from the French became a reality in 1H57, but only a political one. Prosperity is still a dream. ' Tunisia is a farming nation. In 1936 it had 9,754 tractors and 201.400 horses, donkeys, and mules. It has 'more metals than it can use (phosphate deposits are "practically inexhaustible'"), but nothing for fuel but dreams of oil. It exports wine, olive oil and min erals and imports practically everything else. About half Tunisia's 3,800,000 Moslems are under 20 years of age; the birth rate is nearly three times the death rate. The Louisi ana-sized country is half Sahara Desert, half fertile Mediterranean country. Phoenicians colonized it; Carth age, the second city of the Roman Empire and "probably the most corrupt city of the West," was born and died in it: its first real king. Roger I of Sicily, was tossed out by a caliph in 1160. East-West Barrier Tunisia has been an internation al pingpong ball for a thousand years. Italy's Andrea Doria once led a fleet for Spain's Charles V against the Turks who ruled it. France took it over in 1862 to keep Italy out. and in return for giving Britain a free hand in Cy prus. Halfway between Gibraltar and Suez, Tunisia forms the barrier between East and West in -the Mediterranean. Its personality is suitably split: Arabis is the offi cial tongue but French ."is not considered a foreign language." It tossed out French troops last year but had to let them keep the huge naval and air base at Bizerte. Arab in the cities. Berber In the mountains; piratical by history (when the Deys and Beys of Tunis unleashed their Barbary Coast pi rates to terrorize the Mediterran ean) and earnest and ambitious fdr the future. That's Tunisia, and President Eisenhower will hear butnot see this time. BID ON LIGHTHOUSE NEW YORK (UPIt-Thirty per sns ld Monday on the century, old Chapel Hill lighthouse at Mid dletown, N.J., ,he General Serv ices Administration said. PENDLETON CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL Reservations now being accepted Complete facilities for conval escent and post - operative cases, care of the aged and in urm. including X-ray, oxvgenl special diets, physical therapy registered nurses. 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