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Meeting Plans
Set by Young
Republicans
e
Preliminary plans for receiving
500 delegates to the annual state
convention of the Young Repub
lican federation of Oregon in Sa
lem December 3, 4 and 5, were
laid in a meeting of the organiza
tion's executive board In Salem
Sunday.
Bruce Williams, Salem member
and general chairman of the con
vention committee, said the busi
ness sessions will be held in the
Chamber of Commerce auditor
ium on Saturday and Sunday.
Tentative plans call for a dinner
party on Friday night, December
3. A luncheon between Saturday's
morning and . afternoon sessions'
will feature leading state repubUV
can leaders in a discussion of the '
subject "Which Way Does the Ele-
phant Go Now." Business sessions'
Sunday will close the conclave.
Presiding over the- session will
be Steve Anderson. Salem, attor
ney and state chairman of the fed-.
eraiion. Anderson said Sunday
that the speaker for the conven
tion is still unselected, but stated
that several of the nation's lead
ing GOP leaders are being con
tacted for the engagement
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To Our Marine Corps, Hail I
The 173rd anniversary of the United States
marines, subject of nation-wide observance to-
day, finds renewed significance in the ma
rines' pledge. "On Guard for Peace."
The marines' part in World War II still is'
too fresh in memory to need recapitulation,
and their place in prideful history is assured.
JTo their illustrious past we bow in honor. But
It is to their present and potential status that
,we pay particular tribute.
Even now, Marines are serving around the
rglobe from the shadows of Tripoli, where
they fought the Tripolitan pirates in 1803 and
thus earned the second phrase of their stirring
marine corps song, to China where they have
been stationed intermittently since 1844. And
they are in London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Pal
estine truly "Guardians of the Peace."
Now 86,000 strong, and with a reserve of
110,000 in addition, the marines are a vital
part of American defense under their 19th
commander. Gen. Clifton B. Cates:
In the national security act of 1947, the ma
rines were assigned their traditional missions
primarily the providng of fleet marine for-
ces and organic aviation for service within
the fleet, and the development of amphibious
warfare pertaining to landings.
The corps is answering the challenge and to
all its component parts there goes today the
nation's congratulations and best wishes on
this historic birthday.
Foreign Reaction to Truman Election
Foreign reactions to the election of President
Truman have been interesting. Other nations
follow our elections closely because the USA
is now such a dominant factor in world affairs.
China for example had counted heavily on
Dewey's victory to provide them with assist
ance on a far greater scale than ECA. So there
the news of his defeat was depressing (on top
of all the other bad news from the north).
Western Europe was elated over Truman's
victory. In it they saw popular endorsement of
the Marshall plan, and continuance of the flow
of American dollars and doughnuts. The first
response of Russian delegates at U.N. in Paris
was "Amazing." Later Soviet papers and Mr.
Molotov tried to extract a measure of com
fort by reading into the returns a popular
aversion to war.
President Truman himself has made no
statement of his intentions in the foreign fields;
but others (including plenty of people who.
were not on his side) have been making pre
dictions. -All seem to be agreed that Secre
tary Marshall and Undersecretary Lovett will
soon retire; and it is probable these men are
in accord with the idea too. They have want
ed relief from public office, and State has had
serious breaches with the White House (the
Vinson mission, Palestine) which presages a
"change at State.
While it is presumed that the general line
Choice of Aids Truman's
By Joseph and Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 Some
points about the second Truman
administration are clear already.
For example.
the president fV-"" "V1
means to
have
a second New
Deal if he can.
But ro vern- fo
7
ment is people, i ,
as some sage . i
has remarxea.
In his second
term, Truman
will real
stand or fall
41 V.
pit Alsopjf
hires as his
subordinates.
Very roughly speaking
this
vital problem of the personnel
of the new administration may
be divided into two parts, for-
I eign and do
mestic. The for
eign part is the
; more import
ant, for the pe
culiar re a son
that the cam
i paign tensions
! pois o n e d the
relat ions be-
! tween the pres
ident and the
ablest men on
Mrwarl ALwp Ms. present for-
fense team. The .White House
currently is a constant source
of rumors that the days of Un
der Secretary of State Robert
A. Lovett. are . numbered. In a
lesser degree, the same hints
are given about Secretary of
Defense James V. Forrestal. And
even Secretary of State George
C. Marshall's standing is being
openly called into question.
The men disseminating these
rumors are, of course, such
White House advisers as David
K. Niles, who have fought the
Marshall - Lovett - Forrestal
Klicies, on Palestine particular
The sources of the rumors
are suspect. Yet the peculiarly
well-integrated committee of
brilliant men who have direct
. ed our foreign and defense af
fairs is none the less about to
be dissolved. Forrestal may stay
on' for a transitional period, al-
though he desires to leave. But
Lovett has longi intended to get
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f
1
I ill
indicted, for
men of the risk
or personal or
Testing the
The supreme
case testing the
he law would
Court, though
jt is a bit hard
unions, which
out on January 20, whatever the
president may jwish, and the
same apparently applies to Sec
retary Marshall. Thus replace
ments must be found, at least
for - Lovett and (Marshall, and
- perhaps for Forrestal as welL
.
For the state department.
Chief Justice Vinson, Averell
Harriman, Dean; G. Acheson,
Will Clayton and Sumner Welles
(whom the Zionists are press
ing) are the names most often
mentioned. The insiders are bet
ting on Vinson if he will con
, sent t9 leave the supreme court.
For the defense (department, a
long list is offered former
Secretary of War Harry Wood
ring; Woodrings bitter enemy,
former assistant Secretary of
War Louis Johnson, who was
democratic fund-raiser In this
campaign; Secretaries of War,
Navy and Air Rbyall, Sullivan
and Symington, who are all ac
tive candidates; and the presi
dent's crony, the lame duck gov
ernor of Washington, Mon C.
Wallgren. The Insiders seem to
have no choice arhong these al
ternatives, j
The reported Candidates for
the state department are all con
spicuously able men but at least
two thirds of the j names on the
defense j department list are
downright hair-raising. This in
turn suggests the I nature of the
biggest danger now ahead.
, -
Human mediocrity has been
spreading ever the administra
tion like a rather hasty fungus
disease over infected skin, ever
since the. original Truman cabi
net began to disintegrate. The
question is whether mediocrity
is now to be promoted to rule
over the really crucial fields of
policy-making. And even al
though the president names a
Vinson, Harriman j or an Ache
son to the state department, the
choice will not counter-balance
the appointment of : a Wood ring
or a Wallgren to the defense
department. I ;
In the field off domestic ad
ministration, the problem is ap
proximately the same, although
complicated by a i political fac
tor. The complication is that in
the domestic fieldj none of the
president's subordinates had the
of policy will be continued of trying to foil
communist expansion, it may well be that Tru
i man will seek a fresh approach to U.S. -Russian
relations in hopes of resolving the present im
passe. That might be tried with new heads in
the state department. The overwhelming de
feat of the progressive party discounts any
chance of Russian appeasement.
As for China the hopeless state of affairs
there will discourage outlays on a grand scale'
to avert further disaster.
The prospect seems to be for no radical
change in the direction of our foreign policy,
but a closer coordination with the White House
in framing it and carrying it out.
Thomas Under Indictment
Congressman J. Parnell Thomas has been
.indicted on charges of padding his payrolls.
He is accused of putting names oh his payrolls
and then having the proceeds of pay checks
made over to him. Thomas refused to testify
jbefore the grand jury but will have a chance
to defend himself when the case comes to trial.
The indictment will come as something of a
shock to members of congress. The shock will
rtAT V a eiiiMieA TrifiT 'PriWMoe Viae Kaah
the complaints against him had
been well publicized. It will be that some of
them may be in something of the same boat.
jCorigressmen have been altogether , too free
jwith putting relatives on payrolls who per
formed little or no government service. Con
gress wouldn't investigate one of its own mem
bers; it's too clubby for that. And the depart
ment of justice will do nothing unless prod
ded. But the fact that Thomas has his feet in
the flypaper may serve to warn other congress
in using their expense account
political ends.
Communist Ban
court has agreed to review a
constitutionality of the-.provi
sion of the Taft-Hartley act which requires
pfficers of labor unions to swear they aren't
fcommunists before their unions can do busi
ness before the national labor relations board.
Opponents of the clause say it infringes on
guarantees of free speech.
We have doubted very much if this part of
stand up before our supreme
a circuit court of appeals by
a two-one vote, upheld it. Congress has not de
clared the communist part illegal. Until it does.
to see how it can require labor
are private organizations, to
shuffle off communist officers before they can
have standing before the NLRB. On matters
iuch as this, the court, led by men like Mur
phy, Douglas and Black, has usually been
quite outspoken on the side of freedom of opin
ion. Then Dooley's old rule is still valid that
the court follows election returns.
Major Chore
slightest excuse for sitting on
their hands throughout the cam
paign. Several of them, led by
the president's special crony.
Secretary of the Treasury John
Snyder, nevertheless held them
selves rather glaringly aloof
from all the awful hurly-burly.
Their line was that they would
write checks but would not
make speeches.
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The complication is important,
because the hand-sitters, by an
understandable coincidence, also
comprise most of the Truman
subordinates who have consist
ently opposed the left-wing poli
cies on which the president won
the election. But the fact re
mains that when the president
returned to Washington in tri
umph. Secretary Snyder was
triumphing right next to him in
the receiving line. The presi
dent's nature is to keep by him
these men who are personally
close, while he gladly lets such
men as Lovett go. Thus the bet
ting is that the political Laodi
ceans will stay on If "Truman
likes them, unless they prefer
such prosperous private employ
ment as the Bank of America
position which Snyder would
have taken if the election had
gone the other way.
There are those in the White
House who strongly oppose this
tendency, urging that if the
president wants a second New
Deal, he had better hire some
New Dealers.
For this reason men like Wil
son Wyatt and Paul Porter will
no doubt be brought in for such
special jobs as housing and
standby price control. But here
again, the betting is that the
general, basic character of the
administration will be unchanged.-
The president will decide
these problems probably while
he is at Key West. He may
again confound the political
bookmakers. But one thing at
least is certain. In view of his
own character and experience,
the choices of men he must now
make are likely to be among ris
biggest, choices of the coming
jour years.
(Copyright IMS. New York Herald
Tribune,
. inc.)
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to the possibility of such criti
cism is seen in Stevenson's
comments:
"Many problems and dangers
are inherent in this year's se
lection of social science texts.
The area covers local, state, na
tional and global government,
history, geography, economics
sociology. Should the text fos
ter an Isolationist viewpoint, or
that of a world oneness, or be
a compromise? Is the Russian or
communist philosophy overem
phasized or distorted? Does the
author lean toward the left or
right? Does he give both sides
and let the student make his
own decision? Or does he indoc
trinate the democratic philoso
phy Into all children? How much
propaganda, or is there any?
Pity the textbook commissioner!
"If perchance we get into war
with Russia, any text adopted
which is sympathetic to that
nation in the slightest degree will
bring down upon the commis
sion the wrath and malediction
of schoolmen, parents, and citi
zens. Such a case - came up in
connection with a. geography
text adopted by the commission
in 1942. The author indicated
the need of Japan- to secure for
eign markets. As our nation was
at wai with Japan, the text was
violently objected to and was
discarded by certain school
boards for the reason they claim
ed the book condoned the ag
gression policy of Japan. What
ever is selected there will, be
some dissatisfaction on the part
of someone, or some group. The
commissioner must take the
blame."
With Oregon as conservative .
as it is and its textbook com
mission on guard against "com
munist ""infiltration" there Is little
chance that the USSR will make
headway here on that front It
is to be hoped however that
vigilance does not mean the
GRIN AND BEAR
"Why
I
cant we give the Russians a taste of their own medicine and
establish a lot ef capitalists in Russia?...
Your Health
When it comes to health more
people seem to be interested in
overweight than in any other
health subject.
It is interesting to note that
people who are overweight usu
ally think that their difficulty
is due to some type of glandular
disturbance, but careful studies
of large groups of overweight
Individuals show that in very
few instances is the difficulty
due to anything other than over
eating. It is true that overweight may
result from some disturbances of
the glands of internal secretion,
but treatment with gland extract
is only helpful when a deficiency
of thyroid secretion is present.
In such cases, the giving of thy
roid extract under the direction
of the physician Is of benefit.
To ascertain whether or not
there is a lack of thyroid secre
tion, a basal metabolism test is
helpful. This simple test Is car
ried out by having the patient
breathe into a tank and then
measuring the amount of oxygen
used up in a given period of
time. In this way is found the
rate at which the chemical ac
tivities of the body go on. If
this test shows that the thyroid,
gland Is functioning normally,
treatment of the overweight ln-
suppression of fact and fair
comment.
It Is always a field day for
textbook salesmen when a book
adoption is on. They converge
on the target, for competition
is keen. Adoptions run for a
period of years and apply to all .
public schools, except that first
class districts may choose other
or supplementary texts.
In the past scandals often
arose over textbook adoptions.
The ethics in the business has
Improved greatly, and rarely
now is . any scent of corruption
detected. The task remains a
very heavy chore, and as one
thinks of the numbers of books
to be rated and the chance of
backfire on choice of social
studies texts he is ready to
agree with Dr. Stevenson: "Pity
the textbook commissioner!"
IT
By Liclity
Written by
Dr. Herman H.
Bnndensen, M.D.
dividual must be carried out by
the use of diet alone.
Dr. Meta M. Kunde suggests
a diet which is high in protein
and low in fats, starches and
sugars for people who are over
weight but are otherwise not af
flicted with certain disorders that
require a high carbohydrate
diet. For example, she suggests
that servings of meat, fish . and
fowl, with all fat removed, be
given in double the usual
amounts. Eggs are eaten twice
daily. Uncreamed cottage cheese
and gelatin are7 used in the diet
because these foods are also rich
in the proteins needed for re
building the body tissues.
Such vegetables as cabbage,
cauliflower, broccoli, brussels
sprouts, spinach, celery, aspar
agus, string beans, radishes, let
tuce and other greens tomatoes,
squash, rhubarb and eggplant,
are allowed.
Such fruits as grapefruit, or
anges, strawberries, and cran
berries are satisfactory. Vinegar
and saccharine are allowed, but
no sugar.
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Dr. Kunde also suggests sup
plementing the diet with a cal
cium or lime preparation, known
as calcium lactate, which Is given
together with Vitamin D. Brew
ers yeast tablets are also taken
daily to supply the Vitamin
B-complex.
Most of the patients treated
by her have a craving for starchy
foods and sweets. It is impor
tant to overcome this craving in
order to bring about a success
ful reduction in weight This can
only be done by using one's will
power.
With the type of diet Dr. Kunde
employs, all of those treated lost
weight,, and, in some instances.
tne weight lost was more than
100 pounds.
In general, weight reduction is
best carried out under the dlrec
tions of a physician.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
F. S.: What foods contain the
most starch?
Answer: The foods highest in
starch are cereals, potatoes.
oreaa ana pastry.
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To the Editor:
Another Armistice day is here
and as in recent years with it
comes the argument of closing
business places. This writer
former business man of Salem
remembers that following World
War I all places of business In
Salem suspended operations for
the day and that Is the way
it should be. For those who
argue that there are too many
noiidays now, then why not
drop Labor day and retain Arm
istice day for I believe it should
rank along with Christmas, In
dependence day and Easter.
It Is a most regrettable cir
cumstance that people should
become callous In their mad
scramble to accumulate wealth
So soon after World War XL,
and it's a safe bet that these
same people have left none of
their blood on foreign soiL
To these people whose souls
are so warped with greed. Just
ponder a moment; you would
have had no , place or oppor
tunity to Conduct a business of
any kind had it not been for
the sacrifice of our boys in
World Wars I and II. It would
seem that the attitude of these
people would welcome World
War III.
Surely we can pause for one
day each year out of respect to
the sacrifice made by our war
dead. '' .
Bert Eshleman, Sr.
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