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on, Tuesday. April 23, 1949 r SCARLET FEVER British Gaiiri Russ Aiding Chinese Reds LAKE SUCCESS, April 25-4)-Brltain's intelligence service was reported today to have received CODies of caotured orders ,nH ne the Chinese communists., He gave no details. ' The Chinese delegation to the United Nations heard these reports with interest There was no offi cial word of any course of action, but some U.N. sources said if the documents were backed with suf ficient evidence they could be the basis for a complaint 1- by the Chi nese nationalist government against Soviet Russia in the U.N. security council. tatesiuau tejsoti "No Favor Sways Us, N Foot Shall AvhT From First SUtessaasw March tt, ItSl THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher pers showing the Soviet Union is aiding me Chinese communists. A British source who wmiM nnt Hollow "poison rings? were used in classical times not only for suicidal purposes, but as a wea pon. ' Dermit identification said th n. i Entered at the postofnee at Salem, Orerea. m every morning except Monday. Business mm ronil class matter under act of yXipboae' S. Ml. pers showed clear coordination be efnee IIS . Commercial, mem, ores? tween the Moscow government and MXMBcm or run assooatkd puui esxleatvaty ft She eae fee tieefcHnM mi aS Vme Assoelatee Press le mtmbxh pacific: coast division or bvkxav or AovnmsxNO Advertising KeprosentaUvos Wars-OrUtttti OS, flew Terk. Cfcecage. tea Fiatwlseo. Detroit member audit nntXAU or ctMcaumom Conscientious, Dignified Service i i By MaS ! Aevase By Csty in U SA tenth. One month is mom One year tlx One rear. ft Tha Statesman. Salon, Q p vreeoa Sjisewnero M I, i i - e-oe SSS, . ItW Metal Prices Take Drop Long held at relatively low levels by the com bination of OPA and mining subsidy, prices of metal spurted upward when controls were re moved. Lead, copper, zinc took a rocket ride, and steel followed along more sluggishly. Alum irum alone held to a very modest increase and was still well below prewar prices. The rise in the price of metals resulted in price increases In tools, machinery, in hardware, automobiles and building supplies. As lately as this year pleas were made for renewal of mining subsidies to assure ys of adequate supplies, particularly of non-ferrous metals. At long' last however the Inventories of met als grew topheavy. Even demand for lead, which' was in shortest supply, dropped sharply when battery manufacturers went on slow bell. The core to date is lead down SO per cent, zinc 23 per cent, copper 14 per cent. Steel scrap has dropped sharply and points to a price drop for steel though so far the principal change has been the erasing of premiums on special items. So the old law of supply and demand is prov ing sovereign again. Government is buying up quite a supply of metals for stockpiling or prices might drop further. This price readjustment will be helpful particularly in the manufacturing field for it will reduce costs for the infinite va riety of products in which metals are used. OPA was abolished perhaps too soon, but the economic theory of a production spurt if the market was set free proved correct. Not even Mr. Truman is talking about reviving price con sols now. "Invasion" at Pasco Fortunately no lives were lost in the swamp ing of an LCM off the Washington coast last week. It was one of a convoy of more than a score of these transports and three escort Ves sels making the sea voyage from Puget Sound to the mouth of the Columbia and thence up river to effect an "invasion" at Pasco (near Han ford atomic energy, works). Two other LCMs developed engine trouble and had to be towed to the Columbia. The army has to give its men training, but putting them to sea in such craft for such a dis tance seems overly hazardous. As for threading their way up the Columbia for over 200 miles, what do they think would happen to enemy craft in that interval? The Astorian-Budget, with a nautical inclin ation, thinks the army should depend on the navy for its ocean transportation. Secretary of National Defense Louis Johnson settled one argument: he ordered work to stop . on the 63,000 ton aircraft carrier "United ' States", which the. navy has wanted badly to build. Its cost was estimated at $200,000,000, and With planes and equipment, $800,000,000. The army said: "What a target for a tub with a schnorkel!' It may be better to say that Johnson settled the case the argument over floating air bases will continue. William C. Bullitt, former ambassador to Rus sia and France, is a real pessimist. He says it is tragically clear that war is coming to the Un ited States, and the struggle will be a war of survival. He blames conditions on Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins who made concessions to Russia to get that country to play ball with the west, and on the "amateur" diplomats who have been handling our affairs. If we look at our history We can expect more wars; but Bullitt has np standing as a prophet he was another amateur diplomat, one of FDR's fair-haired boys who has turned sour on the man who lifted him to fame. A number of cities in Oregon have followed Portland in adopting daylight saving time. Since .the state law restricting clock-tampering to ac tion by the governor doesn't go into effect un til July they can get away with the change this year. Time should be uniform over the time zone. Congress is the only body that can lay down a universal rule, and it ought to act. As a public issue daylight saving stirs up more heat than light. ruui tJi 1 v u iaKa mmm aamsi ii 'sbx a TBI mm ass m Mmm. n j n n i n The Safety Valve To "shanghai" a sailor was to drug him or get him drunk and then put him aboard an out going ship to make up its crew. With the com munist armies nearly to Shanghai it looks as though the old city Itself would get shanghaied soon. Army Rule of Japan Said Unhealthy ' Br Stewart A bop TOKYO, April 25-This sleazy oriental shantytown gives the traveler the odd sensation of be ing dragged -.vf back through five years in . T V time and thous- V . . nds miles in Jr J ' space. For To- , V Mjo is still re- C markablylike V- a big war-time city far behind the battle lines - - Algiers, say, after the fight ing had moved up beyond Na- Stewart pies, or Naples after the fall of Rome, or Paris well after the Battle of the Bulge. The United States army, in its Here are those dimly remem bered, omnipresent, officious array signs come back to life - -"Off Limits," "For General Of ficers Only," Tor Military Per sonnel Only." Here are the fam iliar mimeographed forms, which everyone fills out in triplicate, and no one ever looks at again. Here are the well-pressed GIs, and the pink-faced military po lice in their white helmets, try ing to look Prussian but never quite succeeding. Here, too, are the generals, busy and authoritative, and the colonels, just a shade less busy and authoritative, and the bustl ing majors, bulging comfortably fore and aft Here are the salutes and the jeeps and the staff cars and all the outward trappings of &" big city in the embrace of the military. And here is the familiar backdrop, the scarred city itself, with the grey, shifting, shabby miiw of its people, scurrying end lessly about their mysterious business. The visible evidence of the army's hold on the city is con firmed by the invisible facts. These are American civilians here, thousands of them, from bobby soxers to experts on the migration of fish. Some of these civilians have influenced the course of the occupation - - but only at second remove. For no civilian (except occa sional visiting firemen) has di rect access to the supreme source of all power in Japan, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. General MacArthur is tightly sur rounded by his old subordinates and intimates of uV Bataan days. The rare newcomers to this charmed circle wear a uniform and usually a West Point ring. The charmed circle makes cer tain that civilians are kept in their place. Even the state department men .are huddled together in a power less "diplomatic section" under the direct orders of the military. They send cables to Washington only through army "channels," and at the army's pleasure. On more than one occasion the army has not been pleased, and ca bles to the state department have briskly stopped at the source. More than any other city in the world since the war ended, this Is the army's city; This, indeed, is the army's country. Here the army reigns supreme, unchaUen- Jed, with all the army's peculiar aults and virtues.! Thus, the men with army rank have become a special caste within the huge American com munity. But the American com munity has itself : become, with all the best will in the world, a special caste - - a new Japanese ruling class, as -remote, isolated, all powerful and immensely rich as the "above-the-clouds dwell ers' of the Kania Xura Shogun ate. i By American standards, this new ruling class lives only the familiar life of prosperous Amer ican suburbia --g o 1 f, cocktail parties, Saturday night hops (in the ballroom of -Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Imperial hotel), Coca-Cola and steak dinners. Yet the gulf between this comfort able existence and the sullen Jap anese struggle to live is as strik ing as the contrast between the sleek new cars of the rulers and the ancient, charcoal - burning Jalopies which are the privileged possession of the richest of the ruled. There are more subtle distinc tions. Military regulations, which appear to be modeled on those of a southern army camp, have created an almost unbridgeable chasm between the "indigenous personnel'' and the American ruling class. The meeting places --restaurants, hotels, bars --of each are forbidden to the other. If an American, civilian or oth erwise, is found visiting a Jap anese friend after eleven o'clock at night, he may be hauled off by the watchful military t police to face charges. Japanese cabinet ministers come to the offices of subordln- ate American officials for "ad vice" which has virtually the force of law. Twentieth-century American Japan has a little in common with 19th-century Brit ish India. AH this is partly understand able. A military occupation is by definition run by the military. Conquerors cannot be expected to live in misery to spare the feelings of the conquered. Only a fool would propose the total withdrawal of American military ' power or civil authority from Japan. Only a. fool would deny that the occupation of Japan has some remarkable achievements to its credit Yet the way in which Japan is now being gov erned by the United States is profoundly politically unhealthy. It will become more so with ev ery passing month. Perhaps no better way can be found. But it is worth looking for one. (Copyrtaht. lfrie. New York Herald Tribune Ibe.) (Continued from page 1). had arthritis as the calcium de posits in the joints prove: "Imag ine a brontosaurus with an 80 foot backbone racked with arthri tic pain." No wonder the species died! Don't blame dental decay on soft, sweet modern foods. Dental decay shows up in the teeth of those who lived a hundred thous and years ago when they ate meat and rough food, much of it un cooked. Hardening of the arteries isn't a late affliction of the human race. Sections of hardened aorta have been found in Kentucky in a pre-Columbian burial ground. Skull fractures are old too, and accurred in combat or by accident or perhaps as part of a ceremonial. Ancients also knew the art of trephining. The Incas in Peru Esrformed this operation which re eves pressure on the brain caused by fractures or concussion. Early Inhabitants of France knew the method too, as is shown in skulls surviving from 10,000 years ago. The bones of an Egyptian priest of about 1000 B. C. show he had Pott's disease, a tubercular infec tion; and bone tuberculosis of even more ancient origin has been dis covered in skeletal remains. Men were short of vitamins a long time ago, even if they didn t know it They had rickets because they didn't get enough vitamin D Skeletons as widely separated as France and Illinois have been found which show the distortion characteristic of sufferers from Paget's disease, a cancerous con dition. Sometimes I have wondered if these virus diseases that now can be identified are due to some new virus or merely are just now be ing recognized. It is conceivsble that new viruses are still being born, causing new diseases or more virulent forms of old diseases. But the bones tell the story of ailments that go a long, long ways back in human history and even beyond. And for some of them, like arth ritis, the doctors haven't found any sure cure. It looks as though dis ease would continue indefinitely to afflict mankind and in the major ity of cases bring life to an end. LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY DIVIDED To the Editor: Oregon's recent legislative ses sion presented a classic example of a degenerative process at work. Improper balance between au thority and responsibility is at the root of some apparent evils. A flood of interim committees is Just one symptom. Twenty-two proposed; 11 committees adopted. Major contributing cause in my judgment: Oregon's Initiative and Referendum. However before ex amination of possible improve ments in the initiative and refer endum as such, let the full light of wisdom fall on that matter of divided authority and responsibi lity. The people now may legislate through initiative and referen dum on equal terms with Senate and House. Furthermore each may upset the plans of the other. AuthorityMs equal. Responsibility is not so easily placed on many shoulders as on a few, hence a legislative ten dency to avoid many difficult sit uations by 'waiting to see what the voters do about It' or passing along to some interim commit tee, the job of 'making a study and reporting to next session of legislature.' However interim committee reports, notoriously are waste-basket material when the new crop of boys arrive on the scene. (Another problem in human conduct requiring refor mation). Our 1949 session had no easy tasks before it, but responsibility and authority were shared by the people who sent those 90 legisla tors to Salem. Whenever the go ing got tough that matter of di vided responsibility opened two broad avenues for comfortable retreat: (a) an interim commit tee. (b) act, then refer it to the people! Both alternatives were usd to the limit of reasonable tolerance. There is much material for serious discussion in this story, stated simply here although full of dangerous curves. Application to individual relationships may help to picture relationship be tween Oregon's legislature and the people who vote them Into office. Authority expresses itself quick ly. Responsibility, easily bestow ed though frequently assumed with reluctance. When there are such glaring examples of impro per division of authority and re sponsibility in high places, it Is Imperative that full accountabi lity be established and soon. William H. Crawford 972 Parrish St Literary Guidepost by W. G. Rogers THE WOLF THAT FED US, by Robert Lowry (Doubleday; $2.75) Though I don't remember get ting any impression of this sort from the anthologies, this collec tion of eight short stories is a reminder that it is in this field that our creative writers nave been doing some of their finest work. Already this season there have been Bryan MacMahon, Sean OFaolain, Graham Greene, Truman 'Capote, Shirley Jackson, and now Lowry. - All of Lowry's stories, includ ing the novelette which gives the volume its title, are directly con cerned with the war or its effects, and most of them have to do with love . . . the husband re joins his wife for a brief furlough, the boy is diverted from his trip home by a woman who picks him up. the GI in Rome finds that girls have to love to eat the re turned soldier is disappointed in the girl who loves from having overeaten, the w little deserted Mexican mother wants more than the love Ujat comes just night by night. Though one story is about a soldier who makes a small lor-' tune in the Italian black market another about a girl alone in Greenwich Village, and a third about a poet in uniform, the love theme unifies the book. You're reading about the same thing, the same insatiable want and the of ten inadequate satisfaction of it whether in a border town. Rome, San Francisco or 1 Paso. Love makes the world go round and. sometimes, makes it stop. Lowry understands, too, that it's a mix ture of body and mind, that the most sordid as well as the most refined passion has its mental re flection; "Casanova" Joe Ham mond, in "The Wolf That Fed Us", runs this gamut, from Maria to Nina, Gianna, Carla and Mad dalena. Every story is based on what we call, significantly though in accurately, a "natural" idea, but perhaps the most convincing ex ample of Lowry's magic way with words is "The Toy Balloon", in which the ecstasy of young love bursts forth exuberantly in a spate of tangled images and inci dents. The eight have appeared in magazines or anthologies, but this collection is decidedly worth having. I Public ntecords DI8TKICT COURT R. R. 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