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: it. 4-iTltsTftatasraf86 Tfottnbey t;"! " -1 V The .. t itit . ...,. .-.j. ...... - . , :'', ...... l Jtf& (Catered at tha poatoffleo at Salem. Oregon.' as second class matter under act of consTcas March . int. Publishes), rjr mornln except Monday Business office SIS S. Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone S-SU. MXSfBt OF THB ASSOCIATED PftKSS Te Associated Pre to eattded exctaslTely U Ue ese far reavMSeattesi af aJl me lacal hwi rtted la this aewsar, . aa watt aa afl AP mi SUpatcaoa. MEMBER PACIFIC COAST DIVISION OP BUREAU OP ADVXRTXSmO Advertlsinf BcprcacntaUTsa Ward-Crigttb Co, New York. Chicago. Baa rraadaoo, Detroit MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION By Mall ! Aarsaee) ureaon aewner in u.s-a. On month .1$ . 1.0O Six matatha. : ; 4.00 . . JOO One year S-00 , , Progressive Retrogression The Henry A. Wallace Progressive party which started out with concessions of from five to seven million votes from political commenta tors, whose estimates were reduced down to around two and one-half in the closing period .of the campaign, shrunk to something over a million votes. What wrecked it was its three-legged char- ' Scter; one foot at the start free (liberal), the other bound to the communist party line. Amer icans refused to go along with a party into which communist fellow travelers had infiltrat ed heavily. The communist attempt to make headway under a false front was rejected whol ly and utterly. Despite Wallace's brave words of hope for the future, the party's prospect seems dim- Had there been a republican landslide the progres sives might have moved into a position as a successor to the democratic party. Now it will have to try for a place to the left of the demo cratic party but separate from the i socialist party. This leaves it right on the communist doorstep again. ! All Gideon's band has left are its broken pitchers. Wreck Ahead for Stale Finances Oregon voters pretty well succeeded in wrecking the state's finances in their votes on measures. They voted for a weird old age pen sion bill which may cost the state up to $50, 000,000 a year, added another state institution (boys' camp) to be supported by the state. Then hey voted to reduce state income by raising Income tax exemptions; and refused to meet their obligations by authorizing a levy to be met by proceeds of the income tax. What the state government faces is this sit uation: 1. A deficit for the current biennium of around $6,400,000. 2. A large excess of income tat receipts un available for general spendisg V 3. A regular state budget which the budget director describes as "terrific" because it far overruns previous budgets. f 4. A new burden in the form of this old .age pension of $50 a month for eyeryman of 65 or woman of 60 who has an income of less than - $50 now, with no specific means provided for financing the cost. 5. The new pension law may be declared out of conformity with federal legislation, costing the state the federal grants. This old age pension law is a dinger. It or ders the legislature to do something and tries to make the supreme court stand aside. For all its positiveness the language is so vague that it will take court decisions to interpret its mean ing or its validity. The act established as the "people's wijl" and public policy" to properly feed, clothe and bouse, provide hospital and medical care,: medi cines, crutches', teeth, glasses and a "decent bu rial" to the needy old. It is to go into effect im mediately on passage and the state board of control is directed to provide the funds until the legislature does despite the fact that the board Red Escapees' Information Untapped By Joseph and Stewart Abep WASHINGTON, Nov. J A remarkably Interesting project has been proposed and studied at a high level in the state de partment. . This project Is to create and sup port an "Insti tute of Russian Studies." The personnel' ot this organize WL. ti on would be carefully selec-l ted from the) tens of thous-f frrft AJ- indf who ha V i'4i.im,Xm-m' ,J scaped from the Soviet Union high army officers, scientists, evil servants, communist party officials, specialists and intellec ts --":-mm tuais oi au kinds. The proposal has been seri ously consider ed. Yet it has nearly died la the pre-election doldrums - It is no doubt too dans rouily unorthodox an Idea for offi cial Washing- ; m iiia,".r. rmmmaa, ton In an elec tion year. But one reason why seriousi interest in the proposal should be taken is suggested by the story of the Soviet topogra pher. .He was the chief Soviet map specialist In Moscow before the war; After the- war, he was or dered to the Soviet zone of Ger many. Soon after he. arrived, he risked his life to escape to the American zone. . No doubt he assumed that freedom, and a chance to do his work unmolested, lay with the Americans. But for more than two years, the topographer has languished In a small town In tti ?Ameri n zone of Germany, living from hand- to mouth with Farof" Sways Us, No Fear Shall FInt Statesmen. March 23, XSSI THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CHARLES AJ SPRAGUC Editor and Publisher - Ona mont Six montha. II se On year- Strong State Administration Oregon alone on the west coast held fast to its republican moorings in Tuesday's election. Here all the state elective officials, except those chosen on nonpartisan ballot, continue to be drawn from republican ranks. Douglas McKay won handily for governor; Earl Newbry had a wide margin for secretary of state; Howard Belton retained a comfortable lead for state treasurer; and George Neuner got a decisive vote for attorney-general, over well-financed, active opposition. This assures the people of Oregon a strong, honest and capable administration. The board of control will be in dependable hands. The public trust will be faithfully discharged, pub lic interest will be paramount. The administration will be clean and will work to make Oregon clean. Efforts to sap the foundations of morality were thrust aside. This administration will, we feel sure, be one of character and conscience. West Salem cut most of the political didoes in the late campaign. At least they proved di verting to Salem voters bereft of any local stir. a few other escaped Russians. Some of his essential needs .have been, cared for by an American refugee organization, the International Rescue and Relief Committee. But other wise his existence has been to tally disregarded by the Ameri cans, including the American ln- telligence services. f a a What gives the dreary expert - - ence of the Soviet topographer a disturbing meaning Is the fol lowing series of facts. In the last war, with , mass bombing by thousands of tons of bombs, a wide margin of bombing error could be tolerated. But in any future war, the American stra tegic advantage will rest very largely -on the ability to drop 4 very few bombs atomic bombs on each target. For this the greatest possible accuracy Js clearly essential. Yet the alarm ing fact is that the United States now has no maps of the Soviet Union sufficiently de- Bendable for accurate bombing y radsr. The implications are clear enough. : Under the circumstan ces, it seems Incredible that a man who was the Soviet Union's top map expert should have been totally disregarded. But the fact is that his experience is wholly typical. No one knows just how many Soviet citizens have fled from the harsh grip of the Soviet sys tem since the war. Estimates range up to 100,000. To these must be added at least 150,000 Russians who were taken to Germany as slave laborers or for other purposes during the war, and) have since successfully evaded repatriation to the So cialist paradise. Many of these people are, of course, unlettered peasants. But a very high proportion are army officers, up to the rank of lieu tenant general; scientists, includ ing physicists and mineralogists; Communist party bosses and se Am" COMPANY By City Carrtot . . -ixoe of control has no money and appropriating power. The legislature is commanded to provide tha money necessary and it "may transfer funds from any other fund, issue certificates of in debtedness, or take such other action as may be necessary." Interim administration is vested in the state public welfare commission, but the governor is to appoint a one man -commissioner to admin ister the act, with . expenses limited to one per cent of the commission's income. Come December 2nd, when the election re turns are announced and the oldsters will be rapping at the door to get their names on the list; and they won't take "no" or "wait a while" for an answer. ; The governor, the board of control, the bud get director, the legislature will no doubt join in a chorus: "Why did this have to happen to Oregon?" What About the Poll-Takers? Yes, what about the poll-takers? Will Elmo Roper and George Gallup take a powder? Will they fade into the exits, like the Literary Di gest, now that their predictions are uniformly discredited by results? No, indeed. They will come up with explan ations, talk about "margin of error," and the swing of the undecided. What seems to have happened is that in the closing two weeks of the elections voters swit ched to Truman. Roper's count stopped way back in September. Other probably were not recent enough to catch the swing. The election merely proves that what counts are the votes in the ballot box on election day, not the guesstimating before elections. It was time for pollsters to fall flat. This ex perience will teach those in politics to keep working up 'til election day. cret police officials; and writers and intellectuals who found the drab, brutally enforced con formity of Soviet life unendur able. a a a The tight control over all as pects of life in the Soviet Union makes it a far more difficult in telligence objective than Nazi - Germany even at the height of the war, according to experi enced intelligence men. Yet these tens of thousands of Soviet citi zens outside the Soviet Union constitute a gold mine of infor mation. And the fact is that the gold mine has hardly been worked at all. Some, few escaped Soviet or satellite military men and a few specialists have been interrogated. But they are the exceptions. The neglected topog rapher Is the rule, This is not really the fault of the intelligence services. To lo cate the informed among the scattered masses of escaped Rus sians, to screen out the M. V. D. agents, to interrogate the spe cialists, and to compile the re sulting information is a job which the intelligence services are simply not equipped to do. Yet it Is certainly a Job worth doing. The best way to do it, ac cording to those who have studied the matter, including the state department planners, is to establish, in the United States, the proposed "Institute of Rus sian Studies," rather than to at tempt a futile peacemeal inter rogation. Vital strategic infor mation would be an important by-product of such a project. But more important would be the insight into the ponderous, mysterious functioning? of the " Soviet state which would then become available to the makers of foreign policy. American policy toward the Soviet Union" could then be based on fact, rather than on intelligent guess work. Copyright. 1948. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Safety Valve To the Editor: As one who has been inter ested In the young people of Sa lem and Oregon, I have followed with interest your paper's stand concerning proposed legislation to censor literature (and comic books) in Oregon. I thoroughly agree with your position, that such legislation is both danger ous and unnecessary. But last Saturday's copy of the Statesman reached me today and, while looking through it, I found a perfect example of the very thing which, if not corrected by the dealers themselves, is go ing to result in the passage of the half-baked legislation which you so logically refuted. On page 7, of the. Saturday issue for Oct. 16, is carried the heading "The Nation's Top Comics." The second strip, under the heading is entitled ''Dick Tracy." I haven't been able to, follow the story, but for this day's action the title should be "How to de velop youthful murderers and fascist material in America." A character (not named), who is apparently from the under world, pursues another character named Bright-Eyes, who seems to have offended the gangster element by inventing a television burglar alarm. He not only de stroys the one who represents "Law and Order," but he does it in a may that is revolting, to any American possessing a sense of decency and fair-play, by. shooting him in the back. The fact that the victim Is ai, blind boy is only incidental to; such a perverted type of comic (?) strip. Don't the publishers get to preview the material they use in their comic sections, or did they think he example men tioned above was actually comi cal. While attending Union Theo logical seminary here In New York City, I am spending 8 to 12 hours per week doing field work in a Presbyterian church down in Harlem. I wish all the publishers running such strips (as yotjr Oct. 18 example) could hear the play - chatter that I hear as I walk through teeming crowds of Negro, Italian, or Por to Rican boys and girls. No long er do they imitate "Pioneers and Indians" or "G-Men," but the names one hears them screaming at each other are, more often than not, names from comic strips which have come alive for them in their imaginations. How in God's name are edu cators and religious leaders going to be expeced to inculcate Into youthful minds a final pattern of honesty, justice, and fair-play, when for every boy or girl they are able to touch, there are a thousand whose final pattern is gained from daily, weekly, and yearly reading, (with breathless excitement) of such heroes as the character you featured in your October 16 sheet!! Donald Douris 600 W. 122nd r New York 27, N.Y. (Editor's note: The above let ter is being forwarded to Chester Gould, artist who produces Dick Tracy, and to the syndicate which distributes It. The Statesman is keenly interested in the subject at hand and will insist that its panels and strips be maintained In good taste). Your MeaOufa Some diseases can be prevent ed by suchf imple means that it is a pity if anyone ever becomes afflicted with them. Simple goi ter falls into this category; that is, we have the knowledge and the method for warding it off if only we would take the trouble to do so. The thyroid gland forms a se cretion which is necessary for regulating the speed at which the body's basic activities proceed. This secretion contains iodine and if enough Iodine is hot furnished the body, the thyroid gland tends to enlarge. This condition is known as simple goiter. It is most likely to develop during periods of strain, such as the ado lescent or maturing period. More over, studies have been made which show that the disorder oc curs largely in areas where the drinking water contains little io dine. Thus, since we know the cause of simple goiter, the time of life and the geographic areas in which the hazard is greatest, its prevention can be readily achiev ed merely through the routine use of iodized salt. Certainly, this usage should be encouraged, at least by young children and adolescents, particularly those living in so-called goiter belts. In addition, it is suggested that ex pectant mothers who make fre quent use of preparations con taining vitamins A and D have potassium iodide added to the capsules of these vitamins. To make prevention doubly sure, routine examinations of school children should include examination of the thyroid gland to determine whether it is en larged. Recently such a survey was'' made in .England of almost 2.000 children between the ages of 11 and 15. The children were locat ed In four areas where the iodine content of the water varied great ly. Doctors were instructed to de termine the state of the thyroid gland, according to the following tests: whether or not it was vis ible, whether it was visible but soft and smooth, or visible and hard, containing lumps. It was found that in those areas where the iodine content of the water was high, thyroid enlarge ment was rare. There would also ; seem to be some relationship be tween the hardness of water and the development of goiter. If the water is hard, even though it contains iodine, goiters still may occur. "Coffin Corner" SS3UO0 nprormrai (Continued from page 1) plutocracy on republicans evoked a response which was not re vealed unil the votes were counted. Dewey, on the other hand, coasted. Confident of victory he refused to get down in the ring and punch. His generalities failed . to generate enthusiasm, his repetitions of unity and brotherhood became cloying cliches. The people turned to the one who was putting up a lone fight, seemingly in their own behalf. So much for the principals. Now for another analysis. The 80th congress proved an albatross around Dewey's neck. He couldn't well abjure it; he couldn't successfully , carry it. The hardshell leadership of men like Taber and Knutson and Joe Written by Dr. Herman S. Bondensen, MJ. Simple goiter can be corrected by taking iodine but a physician must decide the amount of iodine to be taken and in what form. In practically all instances, the' sup plying of iodine in this way will cause the enlargement of the gland to clear up. When there are lumps in the gland, the physician must decide whether there is a tumor growth present, in which case, of course, a different type of treatment is required. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS S. F. L.: What is bursitis? Is it curable? Answer: A bursa is a sac con taining fluid and located near a joint. Bursitis refers to inflam mation of the bursa. This disorder usually can be cleared up completely. (Copyright. 194. Kins Features GRIN AND BEAR F I mm -mm. 4. 1 1 i . i i . . . i iw' i i n ir a a v am r- w mm 'ii E Comrade spy report U.S. sabotage proceeding , according to plan... i stuffing employee suxcestion boxes with 'drop dead. Capitalists i sussestions . .." Guidepost DOCTOR FAUSTUS ( translated by R. T. Lowe-Porter (Knopf; $3.50) Written in German and first published in Switzerland, now a dual Book-of-the-Month selec tion, this 500-page novel Is sub titled "the life of the German composer Adrian Leverkuhn as told by a friend." Serenus Zeitblom, the friend. Is not, he says, "writing a novel." He Is describing, explaining or philosophizing about a man, born in 1883, with' whom he Martin and Wherry wrong In so many instances was too great a liability for one of Dewey's moderate liberalism to overcome. Labor martialed its votes against republicans because of the Taft Hartley law. Housewives, right ly or wrongly, blamed the 80th congress for price increases. Vet erans were resentful of defeat of the housing bilL The real surprise however came in the midwest. There states which had been among the first to revolt from new dealism, swung back into the democratic column: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. This was the arch of republican confidence.- It caved in utterly. The reason: Too, much corn. With a huge crop, prices kept 'sagging. Farmers who had pros pered beyond their dreams com menced grasping for price sup ports. Parity became a word to conjure with. Memories of for mer surpluses and low prices haunted them. Truman and then Berkley came along to remind them of past hard times and of the new1 deal largess. Stassen, replying to Truman, in a speech that had been passed on , at Dewey headquarters, was rather vague about price support. The midwest farmers then deserted their normal republican allegi ance to protect their self-interest. Thus the alliance which Franklin : Roosevelt had held to gether workers in cities and farmers In the country joined again to elect Harry Truman. IT By Lichty played as a boy and studied and who, to fulfill his dark destiny, sells his soul to Satan in return for the gift of genius. Except that he is forbidden to love,' he js. jjiymiaeu me irauiuonai spars pi years Deiore ne is pncnioricea into the nether flames. Zeitblom molds the aloof, Iso lated mentality of Satan's Chosen One by a vast profusion of de tail: The family, childhood ac tivities, village birthplace, teach ers, innumberable acquaintan ces and above all the theological discussions and musical theoriz ing which double prepare Lev erkuhn to be this kind of Faust. For 100 pages this looks like Manns first novel. Some char acters, in particular minor ones, are drawn with astounding clar ity; Leverkuhn takes shape prom isingly; directions for singing, a round tempt you to lift up your I head and add your voice. The next 100 pages are much less persuasive, and the rest is 'not persuasive at all. It could be Mann, not Zeitblom, protest ing: "I am not writing a novel";' it could be Mann, again, who is penalized with the injunction against love. Zeitblom observes "symbolical parallels" between Leverkuhn and Germany, and in vokes God's mercy on both "my friend, my Fatherland." But the book does not move us to love, pity or mercy. The German tragedy becomes discouraging rather than tragic; its great weight Is not developed Into im pact, the horsepower isn't de livered to the wheels on the tracks. Mann picks his charac ters' brains but neglects their hearts, and the fiction tends to bog down in. program notes, and qui; domestic ones. 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