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A Tho Btatasmrrn, Scnem. Qrtqon, Friday. January 30 lt43 e (&ontate0raau "No Favor Sway Us, No Ftar Shall Am" FYem First Statesman, March tt, Uil THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher at thm The AimcUM Press Im eatlUed exslaelvely to tbt m fw J?""1 ttlon at aU. the Ueal maw priated la thl mwihht. a wtU as all AP aews dispatches. "Answers for "Problems" Things have com to a pretty pass when women are urged to consider themselves as problems. Gertrude Boyd Crane, pro fessor of religion and philosophy at Pacific university, this week urged Salem Business and Professional Women to study their predicament ("that women generally are unhappy, that they literally are becoming a 'lost sex' "). Then she advised that they "be content to be women." Well! While milady is biting fingernails trying to untangle that paradox, men had better stand up for their rights. Ever since Eve invented the first loose-leaf system it has been man's prerogative to regard woman as his own cross, his own obscure but lovable "problem." The girls have appropriated most everything else once ex clusively reserved to the masculine domain. Now they arc storm ing his last pillbox. For the male has regarded it as his speeial privilege to pet and to scold womenfolk, to make and to laugh at their styles, to make his squaw his slave or his wife his pampered dolL (Lately, however, a tendency has developed among males just to strangle their wives). Professor Crane's statements sound like text from that best selling if not always creditable book "Modern Woman. The Lost Sex" by Lundberg and Farnham, which expounds the theory (a take-pff on Freud) that women en masse are going to the dogs, I.e. neurotic, because they are not satisfied with their subordinate and primarily maternal station in life. But the professor Is on the right track when she challenges women to accept a fair share of the world's responsibilities (working together with men to build a better society) simultan eously with their new awareness of their own problem-potential. Introverted brooding on their problem-status (self-pity) isn't going to pull anyone out of the doldrums psychologists say women are in. If the ladies are determined to assail man's last retreat, they had better begin to consider their own potentialities as '"answers." Plant at Full Capacity Industrial operations in Detroit were shut down or cur tailed in many plants for lack of gas. The local distributor was unable to obtain or produce enough gas in the cold weather to supply demands for domestic use, house heating and industrial use. Here was a case where shortage of fuel caused serious losses to workers for wages, to industries for production, to consum ers for products. It illustrates, however; the closeness of the margin in which our entire agricultural and industrial plant is operating. In fact, th -!.''nt uisv be said to be working at full capacity. This is true as to manpower (except for the women who have withdrawn fiu.ii industry) and land and machinery and transportation sys tems. More gas would be available in Detroit if a pipeline could be completed from the southwest gas fields. But pipe is a scarce Item, and freight cars to haul it are scarce. Pipe is scarce, because steel is scarce. Likewise with oil: there is abundant oil in the ground but we can't drill wells fast enough, build pipelines and refineries fast enough to. keep up with demand. All along the line the American economic machinery is working at full speed. To increase production it will be necessary to increase production in many lines from farm machinery to fertilizers to box cars to gas and oil. A mild recession would bring things into balance and leave the margin which all industry needs for a cushion. Lacking that expansion, which takes considerable time to accomplish, will be required, for the shortages run British Doctors "Strike" Britain has gone all out for socialized medicine, at least as far as It can go by action of parliament and the government. But the British doctors may not go along with the program. Medical consultants and specialists in London voted overwhelmingly to refuse service in the hew setup and the British Medical asso ciation is taking a poll of general practitioners through the country to learn their opinions. If two-thirds vote to refuse service. BMA may call a "strike" against the law. That would be an event the top planners hadn't figured on; and it is hard to tell what would happen next. Socialized medi cine can't get along without doctors; but doctors can't get along without patients and fees. The opposition is said to be against the method of paying the doctors; so the government may be able to institute its plan next July 5 by revising its plan. If socialized medicine is instituted in Britain we shall have a chance to see how it works out before adopting It in this country, where so far the opposition is strong and well en trenched behind the leadership of the American Medical Association. Grain Saving and Prohibition One of the biggest distillery concerns took big advertising space with the heading "Is Prohibition Coming Back" to gain public 'support of it opposition to extension of government con trol of grain used in production of alcoholic beverages. This was purely "scare" advertising, quite beside the point at issue. The Issue thus brought forcibly to public attention should be met with a response favorable to the extension of these controls which are due to expire January 31. The administration which is urging the extension, even after it was rejected by the house banking committee, certainly can't be accused of fostering a return to prohibtion. The facts are plain, that -grain consumed in beverage industries is not available for use for human or animal food. In this period of insufficient stocks of grain, beverage manufacture has an inferior claim. The highest ue is for human food directly; next is for animal food for pro duction of dairy products, poultry products and meats. Giving priority to these usee doesn't make President Truman and Sec retary Anderson prohibitionists. Cat Relief for Europe The American Feline Society has suggested that an army of one million healthy and hungry alley cats be mobilized for rat extermination work in Europe. As soon as possible the society plan to ship over a token task force of 5,000 American kitties. No doubt the cats would try to make short work of Con tinental rata, but chances are there would suddenly be a lot of "fried rabbit" on European menus. Out of the uncounted millions of words written down through the unnumbered centuries, a staff of 28 researchers working for the University of Chicago has distilled exactly 102 Great Ideas. And out of the unrecorded millions of people who have lived since the beginning of time, it took only 71 men to think up those Ideas. On these men and their ideas, which appear in 432 basic great books, rests the whole basis of Western civilization, the researchers decided. Wu Shang-ytng, secretary-general of the Congress of China, as shrewd words for Chinese in this country, advice which ipplies equally to other aliens here: "What "is being fought in China is only one segment (of the world problem of commu nism) . . . You can best serve the interests of China by becom ing good American ettifen , Associated into each other. Garden Home Fire Fatal to 2 GARDEN HOME. Ore., Jan. 29 4tVA fire raced through a small frame house here Wednesday, burning two men, two dogs and several cats to death. Dead are William Rice, 68, who had lived here for 40 rears; and Relnhart Schemer, Si, another Garden Home resident who often stayed at Rice's home. The roof caved In after the flames broke out, apparently blocking escape. The bodies were found on a chair and in a bed. The two dogs lay pinned under a fallen beam. PORTLAND RENT ENCKEASB PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. !HO Tenant of the Savoy apartments her reported yesterday they bad received notices of rental Increases ranging from 4 to 20 per cent to be effective March 1, the day after expiration of federal rent control legislation. Tho Safety Volvo LRTHS rmOM KTATKSMAN aXAODtS DISCRIMINATION IN JUSTICE To the Editor: Until I read your editorial oa the Henderson case I thought you were fair and unprejudiced. Now I can no longer believe this. The affidavits of the two Jurors were proof enough for any unpreju diced person that the Jury was prejudiced, but you dismiss them as "belated" and "fragmentary What is "fragmentary- about af fidavit by Jurors, and In what way does their "beutedness' Im pair the weight of their testi mony? Why aoart you even men tion the most important point, namely that the governor was not even asked to commute the sen tence, but to appoint a citizen committee and to stay the exe cution until the finding of thl committee were in? As the "Oregonian" which seems to be more aware of the racial injustices than you are points out, negroes very under standably are apprehensive of "white Justice." II the governor had appointed this committee, he would have allayed the appre hension of our colored fellow citizens, he would have rendered a service to Oregon and democ racy. It 1 morally indefensible that he didn't do so. The last issue of the "Saturday Evening Post" states: "It is an undeniable fact that most white Americans are guilty ef at least a little prejudice toward negroes, however they may deny it or be ashamed of it." One might add to thl that whenever the white commit an Injustice against ne groes, they try to rationalize it with a Pharisaical smugness. Un fortunately, your editorial Is an example for this. Neither the govemors action nor your editorial are apt to make thoughtful whites happy about their race. m Very truly yours, A. E. Brettauer Rt. 2. Woodburn. Editor's Note The evidence in the Henderson case fully es tablished his guilt; and the crime was one for which the death pen alty was properly invoked. The hue and cry of race prejudice, no matter how sincerely raised, cannot change the fact revealed in the trial of the case. The affi davits of Jurors given as belated "after thoughts" do not change those fact. TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON FEAR To the Editor: ' The "March of Dimes" will no doubt bring in ample funds for research, but certainly it will also greatly increase the number of patients, judging by the tactics applied in the drive for funds. Even Job of old already wrote: "The things I have feared have come upon me." It Is both amaz ing and disgusting to have fear, fear, dinned and blared at one in the high pressure methods adopt ed. "Your child may be next, mother!" One mother said it sent chills down her back to visualize her child being afflicted. Let's raise funds, yes; but common sense instead of fear complexes should be applied. Sam J. Harms. GRIN AND BEAR radio aaix gtvtag away a mm 'JV Mountains versus Molehills fOur Sole (Editor's Net John Steinbeck ad Kebert Cape, special eerre peadeaU of the New York Her aid Tribaae, aaaaaged to take all their aeies aad aaect at their pie tare with Ihesa safely eat ef the SeTtet Ualea as the ead at their SAslxasaeat lass sasasner. Thl I Steinbeck's report oa hew they aid tt). CHATTER XV Our trip was almost done now and we 'were a little franti. We didnt know whether we had got all the things we came for. We had seen a great deal. Language diffi culties were maddening. We had made contacts with many Russian people, but were the questions we had wanted answered actually an swered? I had made note every day of conversations, and notations of detail, even weather reports, for later sorting out. But we were too close to it. We didnt know what w had. We knew nothing about the things American papers were howling about Russian mili tary preparations, atomic research, slave labor, the political skuldug gery of the Kremlin we had no information about these things. True, we had seen a great many German prisoners at work clean ing up the wreckage their armies had created, and thl did not seem too unjust to us. And the prisoners did not seem to us either over worked or underfed. But we hsve no data of course. If there were Urge military preparations, we didnt see them. There certainly were lots of soldiers. On the other hand we had not come as spies. Try to See Everything At the last w tried to see ev erything in Moscow . We ran to schools, w spoke to business women, actresses, students. We went to stores where the queues formed to buy everything. An is sue of phonograph record would be announced and a line would IT By Lichty are raining saw . a a they leara PLAN Conclusion-Russ Are People' . - -' ' i ' a 1 . mti It - .. . -y . . 1 -I J-.; Li af A Oaerglaa raetaaraat ta Meeeew feed aad the entertainers are Gssrtisa dai form, nd in a few hour the rec ords would be spld. The same thing happened when a new book went on sale. It seemed to us that clothing improved even in the two months we had been there, and at the same time the Moscow papers an nounced the lowering of prices of breed, vegetables, potatoes and some textile. W had read re cently that there has been a rush on the stores to buy hard good. In our experience there was al ways a rush on the stores, to buy almost everything that was of fered. The Russian economy which had been turned almost exclusive ly to war production was slowly clanking into peace-time produc Uon and a people which had been deprived of consumer goods, both needed and luxurious, crowded the stores to buy. Queues for Ice Cream When ice cream got to a store a line formed many blocks long. A men with a box of ice cream would be rushed and his goods sold so fast that he could hardly take the money fast enough. The Russians love ice cream even as our people do, and there never was enough of it to go around. Every day Capa Inquired about his picture. He had something over 3,000 negatives by now and he was worrying himself sick. And every day we were told that it would be all right, thst the ruling was in process of being arrived at Our passage was booked now. We were to leave in three days, and still there was no clearance of our pictures. Capa was a brooding mass of unhappiness. Our profound thank are due the embassy staff and the corre spondents. They have given us every possnbie help and encour agement. And we think they are doing a very good job under try ing and difficult conditions. Tot one thing they are not losing their 0 ' 4 ' la eae at the ef the heads as so many people are in the world. It is probably the touchiest poliUcal situation In the world to day, and far from the most pleas ant Our compliments go to the whole group, from the Ambassador to the T9 who was rewiring the embassy. Inspection Required We were to leave on Sunday morning. On Friday night we went to the ballet at the Bolshot Thea ter. When we came out there was a hurry telephone call for us. It was Mr. Karaganov of Voks. He had finally got word from the For eign Office. Our films had to be developed and inspected, every single one of them, before they could leave the country. He would put a crew to work developing the pictures 3.000 pictures. We won dered how it could have been done. They did not know that all of the pictures had already been developed-. Capa packed up all of his negative, and early In the morn ing a messenger came for them. He spent a day of agony. He paced about, clucking Uke a mother hen who had lost her babies. He made plans, he would not leave the country without his films. He would cancel hi ticket. He would not agree to have the films sent after him. He grunted and paced the room. He washed his hair two or three time and forgot to take a bath at all. He could have had a baby with half the trouble and pain. My notes were not even requested. It wouldn't have made much differ ence if they had been though, no one could have read them. I have trouble reading them myself. Capa in Dither Now, Capa half of the time plot ted counter-revolution if anything happened to hi films, and half of the time he considered simple sui cide. He wondered if he could cut off bis oaf a. head aa the execution SGGDjOS rrronnrsl (Continued from page 1) sound policy to start a race via the ' Initiative for narticular Dro- Jects. If requested the people in November snouia auinonze a sufficient diversion to mop up the general fund deficiency, leaving to the legislature the problems of financing for ha next bien nium, The demands of the . sev eral departments of state govern ment, including higher education, can be reviewed, prospect of rev enues available studied and a distribution made. Higher educa tion has a strong case for new buildings and its appeal will re ceive sympathetic consideration. It it' starts to scramble for the fund by mean of an initiative it might get badly set back, in votin asalnrt the sales tax the people served notice thst the ltnlat lira would have to KCt along largely on the income taxes; so this Income tax surplus needs to be conserved or the tat nuv ouicklv sink in finan cial quicksands of too liberal spending. Swedes Order Apples, Pears PORTLAND. Jan. 29 Pa cifi northwest fruit growers, left this season with tons or unsoia produce, were buoyed Wednesday by the prospect of big Swedish or ders for apples end pears. Three ships will load 60,000 boxes of apples and pears here during the coming week. Harold Carl, member of a freight for warding firm, said the Swedish government has granted import licenses for 500.000 boxes of ap ples and pears. By John Steinbeck rheiecraph by Robert Capa 0 i I j r IV v. a" , . " aw atajht el a be. Here Is serves! Oeerglaa block In the Red Square. We had a sad little party in the Grand Hotel that night. The music waa louder than ever, and the bar girl we had named Miss Sichaas (Miss Hurry Up) was slower than ever. Again we got up in the dark to go to the airport for the last time. W sat for the last time under the portrait of Stalin, and it seemed to us that he was smiling satirically over his medals. We drank the usual tea, and Capa by now had the jerks. And then a messenger arrived and put a box In his hands. It was a tough cardboard box, and the lid was sewed on with string, and over the knots were little lead seals. He was not to touch the seals until we had cleared the airfield at Kiev, the last stop before Prague. Baggage Lightened Mr. Karaganov, Mr. Chmarsky and Jo Newman saw us off. Our baggage was much lighter than it had been, for we had given away everything we could spare suite, and Jackets, some camera, all the extra flash bulbs and the film that had not been exposed. We got Into the plane and took our seats It was four hours to Kiev. Capa held the cardboard box in his hand, and he was not allowed to open it If the seals were broken it would not pass. He weighed It In his hand. "It 1 light" he said miserably. "It is only half heavy enough. I said: "Maybe they put rocks in It, maybe there aren't any films In there at all. He shook the box. "It sound like films." he said. "It could be old newspapers," said. "You ,M he remarked. And he argued with himself. "What would they want to take out?" he asked. "It wasn't anything that could hurt" "Maybe they Juat don't like Cap lit P i - ' :x z- ' '-''! Vt V v f . 'f VIOLINIST Den a. Greseee. X. vteHaWt eff Wlnel per, Canada, pleas cecrt leer ef the United States and Mexico la spring. Resident ef Winnipeg; who helped soaks her career pes si Me, are ralslai; fa4s t but her a new vtoUau Oregon City Man Awarded Hero's Medal PITTSBURGH ,Pa Jan. 29-vV)-A bronze medal for heroism --one of 10 awarded in seven states by the Carnegie hero fund commission - - has been awarded Ellis Pudwill, route 3, Oregon City. Pudwill, 33, an electrician, saved Genevieve J. Ksy, 22, from drown ing at Fargo, N. D., on June 14. 1847. J i The citation by the commission! "While fishing from a bank of the Red river, Mrs. Kay lost her balance, fell Into the water, and wss carried out 10 feet by a swift current in cold muddy wstef 20 feet deep.1 Pudwill, who had j re cently been hospitalized and was In a weakened condition and had been warned by his physician sgainst over-exertion, ran 150 feel to the bank and. fully clothed. dived in and swam toward her. "He reached her under water. 23 feet down stream, and raised her to the surface. After a strug gle during which both were brief ly submerged and drifted 35 feet. he towed her 13 feet to within five feet of the bank, Mrs. Ksy Imped ing his progress by holding to an arm and leg.) They were pulled to the bank by a pole extending to PudwilL Mrs. Kay suffered ho ill effects. Pudwill was exhsusted. British brighten Holy Land Border JERUSALEM, Jan. 2-0F)-Tha British last night closed all bridges Into Palestine from Trans-Jordan except the heavily guarded Al lenby bridge.! The move was designed to tighten control of Holy Land frontiers. j It followed the crossing Into Palestine last week of 730 uni formed well -trained Arab volun teer troops from Trans-Jordan to participate in the Jewish-Arab warfsr. ! pictures," I suggested. Film Picked Up j He wouldn't speak to me any more then. The plane flew over the great flat lands with their forests and i fields, and the silver river winding and twisting. It waa a beautiful day, and the thin blue mist of autumn hung close to the' ground. The hostess took pink soda to the crew, and came back and opened a bottle for herself. At noon we coasted into the field at Kiev where w had been be fore. The Customs man gave our baggage a cursory inspection, but the box of film was instantly picked up. They had a message concerning it. An official cut the strings while Capa looked on like a stricken ; sheep. And then the officials sll smiled, and' shook hands, and went out, and the door closed, and the engines- turned over. Cap' hand shook a ha opened his box. The film seemed to be all there. He smiled and put bsck his head, and he wss asleep before the ship could get Into tho air. Some negative had been taken, but not many. Farms, Faces Intact They had removed films thai showed too much topography and the telephoto picture of the mad girl of Stalingrad was gone, and the pictures which showed pris oners were removed, but nothing that mattered from our point of view waa withheld. The farms and the faces, the picture of the Russian people were intact and those were what we had gone forv in the first place. The 'airplane crossed the border and early In the afternoon we landed at Prague, and I had to awaken Capa. I Well, there It Is. It's about what we went for. We found as we had suspected that Russian people are people, and a with other people that they are very nice. The one w met had a hatred of wsr, they wanted the same things all people want: good lives. Increased com fort, security and peace. We know that this journal wiU not be satis factory either to the ecclesiastical Left nor the .lumpen Right The first wllj say It is anti-Russian, and the second that it is pro- Russian. Surely it 1 superficial, and how could It be otherwise? We have no conclusions to draw, ex cept that Russian people are like all the other people in the world. Some bad ones there are surely. but by far the great number j are very good. This is the laat ef a series of taetellaaeate ef Jeha Steinbeck's iearaal Of a trip tareagh the Sevtef I'nlea test Ceeyrteks. ISO. Jsaai Steteseck