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CHARLES A. IPRAOUK. Editor and Publisher
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W Hear You Talkln'
Listen to the chatter from the ball park musical and repeti
tive ai a Gregorian chant. "Aaaaay, baby, a little hustle here . . ."
That's baseball talk. Almost a distinct language yet using common
English words, it is typical of the many variations to which, the
root tongue lends itself and which, in turn, eventually becomes
integrated into the written vocabulary-
The lingo of the diamond and the dugout is one of many
vernaculars, all American. Almost every occupation has a par
ljnce of its own. Listen to plumbers, used car dealers, collegiates,
waitresses, soldiers, loggers, farmers, press agents, politicians,
newspapermen and gangsters. Hear the side-of-the-mouth race
track talk, the breathless instructions on the basketball maple,
the carefree and unoffensive profanity of fishermen and golfers.
Listen to the speech of musicians, of the theater, of circus pitch
men, of artists and cab-drivers and teen-agers, or of three-year-olds
conversing patiently in a primeval monosyllabism like the
voluble chipmunk's.
The current expressions are passports into many loosely
defined little worlds inhabited by people who understand each
other but are unintelligible to the outsider. A novice In any trade,
a newly-won fan to any fancy, must first learn the patois before
he can consort with the brotherhood. And the initiated quickly
isolate and mercilessly ridicule the fraud who smartly spouts
obsolete slang.
The rules of branch phraseologies are nearly as stringent as
those of academy French. Woe to the would-be hepcat who says
' rebop" when he means ' bebop," for rebop Is the mark of the
'square" (unenlightened dullard). Consider the monomial
' square'' in one group "a square guy" or "shooter" means the
man is all right, he's jake. he's accepted. In another group, a man
stigmatized as "square" might as well drop dead. Such are the
cruel intricacies of dialects.
Expressions, lytfd from any group dialect, stand a good
chance of achieving immortality if they are recognized by the
gr-neral populace as precise and "right" prescriptions of a given
situation The particularly astute gradually become accepted as
l-g:timat and sometimes receive the blessing of lexicographers,
even. Pharses that don't make the grade and those who've served
their brief purpse, pass into limbo.
Nt-w expressions serrn especially adept when they replace
a proaic and laborious phrase with one that is fast-moving and
colorful. For instance, th hot-rod tribe has substituted "hang a
Miocker" fcr making a U-turn. "Lay a stretch" adequately ex
presses the sensation of speeding, and "peeling rubber" is exactly
what you do when you screech around a curve. To be good, they
must be to the point, abrupt, strong and easy to roll off the palate.
Not only accuracy, but often humor and sometimes satire
mark the occupational vocabularies. In the newspaper business,
photographs and drawings are called "art" even though they
usually aren't.
Poison for liegemen to the king's English and source of utter
confusion to linquists who learned their idioms from grammar
texts, the pattern of word wa use is constantly in flux. From the
mvnad dialects of the people, the root language draws new life
end .'vnrr c color And. like folk songs delightful, wistful, earth
ly, the vulgar patois of the common man often preserves more
fjith.uiw, moie poetically, the elusive facts and feelings of the
moment. M.W.
legislation by Riden
The house) arxiopr;ation bill for the interior department is
so loaded down with riders that it probably will break down be
fore it gets through the senate. Previously we commented on the
provision to give existing contract holders a priority on power
g"nerated at federal dams. Two other riders were tacked onto
tha bill.
One sets up tha requirement that the reclamation commis
sioner, his assistant and all regional reclamation directors should
b engineers with 10 years experience. This is directly aimed at
"Commissioner Michael Straus. Straus has been a target for a lot
of criticism and opposition, for which there seemed to be good
grounds. But this Ls hardly tha way to effect his dismissal. The
provision is not bad, but tha place for it is in an amendment to
the present law.
Another provisipn prohibits use of any funds for the Jackson
Hole national monument in Wyoming. This is plain spite work.
Lad by the stock-raising interests of Wyoming there has been
strong opposition to the creation of the expanded Jackson Hole
national monument. Failing In attempts to annul the dedication
by President Roosevelt tha opponents take this means of cutting
It off at the pockets. This denial of funds for administration will
not turn the land over to private Interests, though with no regula
tion the stockmen might be able to graze the lands at no cost to
themselves.
The method of legislating by riders to appropriation bill
or other bills is highly objectionable. It Ls a legislative trick to
put over something which usually would not stand alone. The
annate should put the house bill through the screen to take out
. the foreign matter which doesn't belong in an appropriation bill.
Today Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. Girard Davidson
will announce the policy "adopted by the department for making
effective the 1937 law ordering Operation of O & CgrantJands
on a sustained yield basis. Davidson will speak at a public meet
ing m Eugene and will answer questions. The issue has been
sharply fought ever since a hearing in January over creation of
the Mohawk river sustained yield unit, with the Fischer mill
st Marcola as the producer cooperative. Once the policy has been
adopted agreement are expected to be worked out for other units.
Moft delegates to the democraticynational convention are ap
proaching that event with many misgivings. Doubtless a majority
would drop Truman as nominee in a minute "If they could put
together a "right combination." Justice Douglas ls favored by the
Roosevelt partisans, but he would be poison to the southern anti
civil rights wing. All could agree on General Eisenhower except
the general. So it looks as though Truman would get the bid
though the delegates will sit on their hands when they name him.
The Bend Bulletin suggests that the state retirement law be
changed to make" retirement a question of competency not of age.
That's just where the rub comes. In public employment bosses are
reluctant to sort the sheep from the goats, the ones still 'fit for
service and the ones whose pace has slowed down materially. So
they use the age standard, even when it hurts the employer's
interest Of course if they applied the competency test rigidly
some would get retired at age SO or before.
It may seem strange that with the greatly increased volume
of water pouring over Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams that
power production is reduced. The reason is that water rises in
the tailrace so there is not the amount of drop for water. The
generators can take only a given amout of water at any time. The
rest goes over the face) of the dam and its power is lost.
Those who wondered what
after the primary election will
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have baffled philosophers and
scientists. Early Greek philoso
phers speculated on this subject,
and it still intrigues those con
cerned with studying the riddle of
the universe. What will disturb
the mayor's complainant even
more is the modern theory devel
oped largely by Albert Einstein
that there is neither time nor space
in tha sense we usually give them.
Quoting from an article in the May
Harper's by Lincoln Barnett:
"Along with absolute space,
Einstein discarded the concept of
absolute time of a steady, un
varying, inexorable universal time
flow, streaming from the infinite
past to the infinite future. . . .
sense of time, like sense of color,
is a form of perception. Just as
there is no such thing as color
without an eye to discern it, so
an instant or an hour or a day s
nothing without an event to mark
it. And just as space is simply a
possible order of material ob
jects so time is simply a possible
I order of events. . . .
"By referring our own experi
ence to a clock (or a calendar) wa
make time an objective concept.
Yet the time intervals provided by
a clock or a calendar are by no
means absolute quantities Imposed
on tha entire universe by divine
edict. All the clocks ever used by
man have been geared to the solar
system. What wa call an hour is
actually a measurement In spaca
an arc of 15 degrees in tha ap
parent dally rotation of the celes
tial sphere. And what we call a
year is simply a measure of the
earth's progress in its orbit around
tha sun. An inhabitant of Mercury,
however, would have very differ
ent notions of time. For Mercury
makes its trip around the sun in
88 of our days, and in that same
period rotates Just once on its axis.
So on Mercury a year- and a day
amount to the same thing."
Tha question must be resolved
on a very practical basis and even
then there is no universal agree
ment. Most farmers prefer stand
ard time (One farmer called tha
mayor to r press his opposition
and asked "How can I milk my
cows and get to tha ball games
on time?") and so do mothers of
children who do not want to go
to sleep with tha sun still high.
But city dwellers, notoriously lata
sleepers, require a clock change
to get them up and to work. And
since the towns pretty much set
the style we're in for daylight
saving time.
David O'Hara
In Ho
tspital
David O'Hara. Salem alderman
from ward S and head of tha state
lections bureau, was taken Tues
day to Salem Memorial hospital
for treatment of a stomach ail
ment. Last night he was report
ad resting well at the hospital,
where he is expected to stay sev
eral days.
O'Hara, member of the council
for mora than 20 years, was to
have served as chairman of this
year's city budget committee,
which is to ponder the 1948-49
budget for the first time tonight.
Airport Visitors
Presented with
Parking Tickets
Portland floods, which brought
scores of big aircraft to Salem air
port Sunday and Monday also
brought parking tickets to a num
ber of local persons who came out
to see the planes.
Five Salem residents were ar
rested by state police on charges
of parking in a restricted area
along the Turner- road near the
airport. They all appeared in Mar
ion county district court Tuesday
and were given 15 suspended fines
each.
They Included Henry Arthur
Lundeen, 1230 Cannon st; James
Allen Fenstermacher, 1365 Cheme
keta st.; Gerald John Tucker. 1520
S. Liberty st.; Earl Harry Prunk,
860 Trade st., and Leroy John
Gooch, 2485 Ferry st.
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President's Vaecilation on Palestine
Issue Result of Political Threats
By Jeaeph AIsoe
WASHINGTON. June 1 It ls
important to realize that for all
practical purposes. Secretary of
State George C w.
Marshall has not
been in full con- '
trol of the form-::
ation of Ameri- ,
can ioreign pou- e
cy I or soma um.
i ne r 1 1 1 1 me
Droblem is the
most delicate and '
dangerous single
problem that has
confronted this
country for many v. Jwepb Aboa4
rears. If mishan-- "'-
died, it is capable of bring down
in ruins the whole laboriously
erected structure of our foreign
relations. Yet Palestine policy has
lately in effect been formulated
in a sort of no-man's land, some
where between the Democratic
National Committee and the White
House.
This of course represents a re
turn to the state of affairs that
prevailed until a few months ago.
Equally, of course, it will be de
nied that there has been any such
return. And it is true that Secre
tary Marshall and his staff are
till drafting tha formal instruc
tions for Senator Warren R. Aus
tin at Lake Success.
This, however, does not repre
sent real control of policy forma
tion. Specifically, Secretary Mar
shall was expelled from the driv
er's seat with the surprise appoint
ment of Major General John S.
Hilldring as state department Pal
estine advisor. This appointment
was announced to Marshall and
Under Secretary of State Robert
A. Lovett by advance dope stories
in the press, which contained tha
planted interpretation that tha
state department was thus being
superseded. Since then, on two
vital steps, the advice of Secretary
Marshall and his staff has once
been ignored and has once not
been solicited.
Specifically, Secretary Marshall
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and Under Secretary Lovett op
posed the precipitate recognition
of the State of Israel. They fav
ored rapid recognition. But they
wanted time to notify London and
other friendly and interested cap
itals, and to go through the normal
formalities in Palestine. The pre
sident insisted upon dramatic, im
mediate action (or rather the pre
sident's personal advisors induced
the president to act dramatically
and immediately) because it was
desired to placate the American
Zionists and forestall the Russians.
Again Secretary Marshall and
his staff were not consulted be
fore the president invited Dr.
Chaim Weizmann to the White
House. Dr. Weizmann is one of
the greet men of our time, to
whom any courtesy from Presi
dent Truman must be an inade
quate tribute. But the fact remains
that the Weizmann visit was at
least made to appear a major de
velopment of American policy.
Over this development. Secretary
Marshall had no control. And this
development, furthermore, came
close to upsetting the crucial talks
in London between Ambassador
Lewis Douglas and Foreign Sec
retary Ernest Bevll, which Secre
tary Marshall did control.
This sort of thing is all the mods
astonishing because President
Truman is known to feel for Sec
retary Marshall something of the
admiration of the lower classman
for the football hero. There Is,
however, an explanation. The ex
planation will surely be denied
even more vociferously than the
state of affairs it explains; yet the
facts have been learned on un
doubted authority and deserve to
be set down. The plain uth is
that the New York Democratic
leaders, Paul ritzpa trick and Ed
ward J. Flynn, some weeks ago
gave the president a grim choice.
They asked him to choose between
again reversing his Palestine pol
icy, or doing without the support
of the New York delegates for his
renomination.
President Bewed
This vital development seems to
have coincided with the derision
of David K. Niles, White House
liaison with the Zionists, to leave
his post unless Palestine policy
was changed. Whether there was
any connection, is not known. At
any rate, the president bowed to
the New York leaders. And Niles,
whose hand can be visibly traced
in the events described above,
stayed on at the White House.
It is difficult to foretell how
long these influences will continue
to mold American Palestine policy.
There may have been another shift
in the unpredictable balance of
power at the White House in the
last day or so. There have been
reasons for such a shift. Several
American diplomats In leading po
sitions offered their resignations
as soon as they learned ox the
state of affairs in Washington and
ware only persuaded to stay on by
the personal Intervention of Secre
tary Marshall's staff. The presi
dent's desk is piled high with oth
er danger signals from overseas.
It ls further reliably reported
although this cannot obviously be
confirmed with assurance that
Secretary Marshall has personally
warned the president that he is
running the gravest possible risks.
The president's political position
is already bad enough, but without
Marshall, he would simply cease
to exist. A warning from this
source cannot, therefore, be ig
nored. Perhaps the president will
change again. Perhaps he will per
mit Marshall to support the Brit
ish resolution before the Security
Council, with certain agreed
amendments, as Is now planned.
The test here is, in effect, between
Marshall and Niles. who will cer
tainly urge a different course. Tha
outcome remains to be seen.
Choice of Evils
Meanwhile, it must be said that
none of the foregoing necessarily
reflects, or is intended to reflect,
on the wisdom or unwisdom of
what has been done. The Palestine
problem presents a choice, not be
tween good and evil, but between
evil, more evil and most evil.
While Secretary Marshall and his
staff were briefly in full charge
of Palestine policy, they cannot be
said to have achieved any tri
umphant success. As to tha recent
conduct of Foreign Secretary
Bevin, it is indefensible.
Yet while the substance of what
the president has done may be
defended, the method has been
downright shocking. The presi
dent has again shown the world
the unpleasant spectacle of a di
vided administration, making pol
icy on a life and death issue for
extraneous considerations and by
palace maneuver. There can be no
excuse for this.
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Group to Back
U.S. Naval Air
Reserve Unit
A volunteer unit of the U. S.
naval air reserve was recommend
ed by a group meeting at the
chamber of commerce Tuesday af
ternoon. In the group were a num
ber of former navy aviators. The
chamber of commerce was asked
to name a committee to undertake
organizing a local unit and obtain
ing its recognition by the naval air
command.
Present at the informal discus
sion and explaining procedures
was Comdr. T. C. Durkin, training
officer of the NARTU at Seattle.
The city desiring a unit should re
cruit a minimum of 50 officers and
100 enlisted men who would serve
on strictly a volunteer basis as well
as securing airport facilities. On
that basis, it could request assign
ment of planes for practice and
instruction.
At present there Is no establish
ed naval aviation unit in Oregon,
but there are units in Seattle and
Spokane; and it is believed if the
right showing were made a unit
could be obtained in Oregon.
Body of Salem
Vet Returned
From Pacific 1
The body of T.5 Harold W. Leh
man, son of Mrs. Emilie Lehmann,
of 1295 Leslie st., killed in action
with the army on Holla ndia Oct.
9, 1944, will arrive in San Fran
cisco soon aboard a U. S. army
transport.
Lehmann was born at White
Salmon, Wash., and came to Sa
lem with his mother in 1937. He
was inducted into the army in
February, 1943, and went over
seas in January, 1944. He was 20
years of age at the time of bis
death.
Surviving besides his mother
axe three brothers, Martin, Theo
dore and Arthur Lehmann, all of
White Salmon, and two sisters,
Alfrieda Lehmann of White Sal
mon and Mrs. Serena Danlelson
of Santa Ana, Calif. The body will
be sent to Salem by train for ser
vices and interment.
Also on tha army transport will
be the body of Wilfrid John Ding
man, Independence army ser
geant killed on Biak island in the
Pacific in June, 1944. He was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ding
man of Independence.
Awards, Scholarships Given at
Salem High Farewell Assembly
By Denna Carr
Statesman Cimptu Cerr pondnt i
The senior farewell assembly, with presentation of awards anq.
scholarships, senior farewell program, and the traditional presents
ton of a gift to the school by the senior class and moving tof the)
juniors and sophomores into the auditorium section they will occupy
nexr year, was Held Tuesday at
auditorium.
Twenty three graduating seniors
received awards and scholarships
which were presented by Princi
pal E. A. Carleton. Hugh Bellin
ger won the Joseph H, Albert
prize for the most progress to
ward the ideals of service, char
acter and leadership. Sarah Back
strand was awarded the Bausch
and Lomb Science award for out
standing work in her science
course. Jeanne Hoffman received
the Nelson Social Sciance cup
and Ann Kligman won the Amer
ican Legion Auxiliary award for
placing highest in a competitive
American History examination.
The Nelson Memorial fund was
awarded Jackie Johnson and Jim
Gingrich. Alicia Cover and Bev
erly Becker received the Senior
Home Economics award. Senior
Band and Orchestra awards went
to Roger Middleton and Frieda
Carlson. Mike Glenn won the Ci
vics club award.
Onlstandins Seniar
Betty Meyers was awarded the
Girls Letter club award as she
was voted by club members and
teachers as being the most out
standing senior in the club. Elev
en other GLC girls were awarded
honor pins on the same basis at
a club function recently. Receiv
ing pins were Darlene Scharff,
Delores Lehman. Jahala Keyes,
Donna Wiederkehr. Shirley Dean,
Shirley Rockafellow, Virginia
Bowers. Pat Boyer. Jeanne Hoff
man, Ann Kligman and Lorraine
Eckersley. Mike Glenn won the
"S" club award for excelling in
boys athletic events.
Virginia Car da won the Com
mercial club plaque and Stanley
Johnson and Dorothy Polanski
were winners of the Snikpoh Dra
matic Society award. Jackie John
son won the Daughters of the
American Revolution award for
good citizenship. The Palateers
club award for achievement in
art work was awarded to Senior
Robert Carrow.
Tuition Scholarships
Lowell Aplet, Clara Belle Roth,
and Roger Middleton were recip
ients of tuition scholarships to the
University of Oregon. Marion
Giese was winner of an Oregon
State college scholarship. Betty
Ann Johnson won the Oregon
State college Home Economics
scholarship and Loren Newkirk
won the Oregon State college FFA
scholarship. The Willamette Ro
tary club scholarship was award
ed to Mike Glenn; the other Wil
lamette scholarship awarded wentJ
to Jackie Johnson. FJdene Ayde
lot received the AAUW Oregon
College of Education scholarship
and Barbara McNeil was winner
of a Nursing scholarship to Sa
cred Heart hospital, Eugene.
The annual senior class fare
well skit, with "The Tree of Life
as its theme, was directed by Ann
Kligman and reviewed the events
of the class of 1948s three years
in high school, took a peek into
the future to predict what might
be the occupations of some of the
grades and presented a class will.
Assisting with this production
were committee members Marvin
Black, Lour Williams. Donna Carr,
Doreen Hannon and Yvonne Cas-
selman. Stage chairmen were Ro
ma Nelson and Tom Wheeler and
make-up and property chairmen
were Mary Thomas and Margie
Coe
On behalf of the senior class,
Mike Glenn, class president, pre
sented the school with two trophy
casea to ba placed in the center
hall, a pay telephone for student
use, and curtains to be used for
the Junior senior proms
4-H Cancels
Camp Period
Cancellation of this summer's
first outing week at Camp Silver
Creek, a period for 4-H club boys
and girls, was announced Tuesday.
Lack of sufficient registration was
given as the reason. Those who
had planned to attend are to be
included in later weeks if pos
sible.
First use of the camp this year
will be by high school boys and
girls of the Willamette presbytery J
of tha Presbyterian church, from
June 13 to 20.
The camp area is in charge of
Salem YMCA throughout the sum
mer, and the YM sponsors most of
the several weeks of camps. Direc
tor for the first week will be Gus
Moore, YM associate general sec
retary, who with John Gardner,
boys' work secretary, will take
turns during the summer.
Services Here for
Plane Crash Victim
The body of Ted H. Smith, 21.
who was killed Sunday in the
crash of a plane near Joseph, Ore
is to be brought here for services
and burial. Arrangements are in
charge of W. T. Rigdon company.
Smith, who resided at Joseph,
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell
M. Smith of Corvallis. His com
panion in the plane, " Jean Rine
hart, 18, of Joseph, was also killed.
Smarm Foot
Space jFos
Salem's Low set Insurances Rated Building
Capital City
Fiotat & Ferry Streets
1Z50 in the senior high school
Improvement
In Cherry Crop
Forecast Seen !
By LilUe L. Madsea I
Farm Editor. Tba Statesman
Salem's cherry crop gives promi
ise of being somewhat better than!
forecasts earlier in the season in
dicated. R. E. Shinn. manager of
we wmameiie cnerry Growers
said Tuesday. ? j
The crop win be spotted?
which has come to be accepted as
"near normal.' Mr. Shinn ; stated,
pointing out that it ls the unusual
year when a crop is "good the
whole way around." Willamette
valley cherry crops are sported at
least 50 per cent of the time, he
believed. f
For instance, this year, Mry
Shinn stated, some growers have
a fairly good crop while J others
near at hand have no. cherries at
all. Recent surveys made of or
chards indicate that the average
crop will be fair.
While cherries will ripen later
pthis year than they have fin the
past two years, they are row more
nearly normal for maturity based
on an average ripening period over
a number of years. The past tw3
years have seen cherries ripen
much earlier than has been estab
lished as the normal time. Cherries
are now developing rather rapid
ly and will begin to reach the
processors late in this month, Mr.
Shinn believed Tuesday. .
No spraying has yet been done
in the 4.000 acres of cherries in tne
Salem area, but fly traps have
been placed in orchards and are
now being checked daily. Growers
are warned to have all their spray
or dust materials in complete rea
diness for the battle the moment
the fly emergence is broadcast by
newspapers and radio.
WU Seniors
Honored at S
"Final Chapel J
At a Willamette university sen
ior farewell chapel Tuesday morn
ing in Waller hall the graduating
class of 1948 heard Dr. R. Ivan
Lovell, head of the history de
partment, keynote the farewell
with the subject, "Success Is In
the Choosing."
During the ceremonies. In which
the senior class made its tradition
al march down the aisle in caps
and gowns, the graduates heard
President G. Herbert Smith gire
a congratulatory message and Ro
bert Johnson, Kodtak, Alaska, pre
sident of the class, speak on the
value of education. O. J. Sparrow,
Salem, presented the university
with a new clock to be hung in
Collins hall, as a gift from the
1948 class. f
Dr. Lovell in his farewell ad
dress, stressed the importance of
the bill of rights to the graduates
of American universities and men
tioned the value of the courts in
the American system. ?
The farewell song, "FarewelL
Willamette." was sung by Reid
Shel ton. Salem, accompanied by
pianist Katherine Schissler, Salem.
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Legion Post Uy
Initiate 100! j
An outdoor initiation of up to
100 new members of Capital post
9, American Legion, was set yes
terday for 8 p. m. Monday, June
7, on the lawn of the post's new
clubhouse at 2650 S. Commercial
st. I I
Officials said the post' degree
team captained by Arthur John
son will conduct the initiation for
all members added to the post
since the lost formal initiation.
Approximately 100 are eligible.
The ceremony will be public f
In a regular post meeting fol
lowing the initiation, nominations
will be thrown open for post of
ficers for 1948-49. Nominations
will remain open until the annual
election in July. 5 i
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