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4 The SfcxtmdA. 'Salem- OntjciC MotdaV. Mcrf . If 13 w t lift We Eatered at Um mUR1m at mi Daily and guftday - Weak-aays OtOy Sjundays Only Br cm as ernes i ! t lJtU 1 -Mwfc M Math -Tl sneatta I . snoot Br mfl In Oregoa 4 71 n mo. 4-M stx bmml I tJ4 sU mem. (fa agraa w t0 year 1 00 year - year Br special Smdn JWJWT Serea-day rata at wwk-dar paaat by taafl aad I JS mk k!'r " ro motor aelfrery Sunday ftt-M a var (la advaaee). J0 yaar (la adr.J IN meant IN moat j J month By mad ta CJA. outsida - t J eta not, iM atx mot, I t!l U moc o Oracoa (la adraoee). ! yaar IX yaar I aSS yaar Available la certain eraaa UTI Atom How Goes it Today? (Part II) Whichever way the wind blows toward war or toward peace the United States Is set to make the most of our atomic know-how, prod uction capacity, materials stockpile and the $750,000,000 the taxpayers are pungling up an nually for the atom program. The atom is now the biggest new industry in the country: it employs 65.009 workers in 30 plants in IS states and the blueprints for ex pansion show that an atomic power plant on a commercial scale should go into operation be fore 1960. From then on. the atom should rapid ly become part of everybody's thinking not as war hazard but as a real source of industrial power and the key to untold progress in the ; fields of manufacturing, agriculture, medicine and so on. , Until recently atomic weapons were the mi-; Jor concern of the nation's atomic energy com- . mission. Now. Business Week magazine reports 1 that production of atomic bombs is rolling smoothly. The plants at Hanford and Oak Ridge ar? processing as much uranium as the U.S. can ; import from Canada and the Belgium Congo. And at Los Alamos, where the atom bombs are j put together, research is underway on a new lurxr. weapon. This bomb would use the same nuclear explosions from which the sun gets its S right now the AEC is busy on development on atomic energy for power. By the end of this year, at least two engines using atomic fuel will Ttx? under construction. New reactors the : "piles" or furnaces where plutonium Is made out of uranium are being added to the three already existing. New uses for by-products of ; ths reactors are being explored. Among these bv-nrtKiucts are the radioactive Isotopes trac er elements already being used in the fight aamst cancer, in biological and agricultural tts. The navy and the air corps are eager to g"t going on engines for airplanes and subma rines that would run on atomic fuel. One thing is sure. All of this activity presages extensive and radical changes in the world as know it. The cities of today are already cities of the past because atomic war weapons make urban concentration a form of suicide.. Civic and in dustrial planning henceforth must take disper sion and atom-bomb shelters Into account. Changing urban patterns will reach Into every phae of social living: the Suburbia of today miv be the metropolis of the future. The prospect that atomic energy will be plen tiful and cheap makes an age of abundance a real possibility. Present manufacturing techni ques, transportation devices,' agricultural prac tices, treatments of disease may become obso let. Deserts will bloom and population redis tribution with resulting changes In national strength, international trade and social relation' ships seems assured. Abundance would help eliminate some of the old causes of war: popu lation pressures, regional economic inequalities, conflicts between the haves and the have-nots The resultant greater sense of security would mean money spent for defense could be turned toward benefitting mankind. But this happy outlook will remain hazy un til the presenf international anarchy In the realm of atomic energy Is resolved by some kind of workable aereement between the main com petitors the United States and Russia. Inter national power politics have become atomic power politics because the peacetime use of tomic energy is an important factor In the re lative strength and status of nations. When pow Korean President Calls to Ry James D. White AP Fomcn Nl Analyst WASHINGTON, May 7 Pres ident Synrman Rhea nf the southern half of Korea is veiling for American help to fight the . communists. They keep crossing the Mth parsl'el from the Soviet -sponsored half of Korea. He wants more American arms to beat them oft. He asks In a public statement, whether his government can count on "all-out American aid in re of attack. 4 The question is extremely- im portant In view of a peculiar thing about Korea: the cold war has gone farther there in one sense than anywhere else even In Germany. That is. the United States and other western powers recognize Rhee's government as the legal government for all Kor ea. Soviet Russia and her satel lites recognize the communist re gun in the north as the legal government for all Korea. Any diplomatic solution of this Impaste would involve with drawal of such recognition by one or another in other words there is no apparent way to back out gracefully for anyone a-ho might be Interested, a a a month ?o Dr. Rhee's in 1mIoc In Washington, Chough Favor Stoyt Ut, Ne Fear SU First SUIeaansa. March tt, S2S1 THE STATESMAN PUBIJSHINC COMPANY .CHAf a. SPRACUZL Editor dad ftibZbher Oregea, seeead me IIS 8. KTIWt or TH AStOCXA' t or aomxAV or twuiiuw namn AUDIT BCXXAV "You Can't There is something seductive about gambling. When it gets in the blood s fellow's fingers Itch when he sees a pack of cards of the lever of a slot machines or the whirling roulette wheel, or hears the rattle of dice on the lumber pile. From experience, observation or. acquired in formation they may know they can't win; but the bait Of easy money lures them on. It has remained for a student of the subject, Ernest C. Blanche, to compute the odds against the sucker in gambling games. Blanche is a com petent authority on the computations, that is for he is chief statistician in the logistics di vision of the army general staff. Here are some of the results of his figuring. Does a poker player think he'll get a royal flush? The odds against him are 649,739 to one he will hot. You've heard of the fellow who drew thirteen spades in a bridge game (and then bid seven no-trumps)? Well, the chance for that hand is one time in 633,013.539,600. There are 2.598.260 different hands possible in poker,! and more than half of them will not contain a pair. In racing the public always loses because the track (and the state) get from 10 to IS per cent of the wagers. When one deals with bookies his risk is double, because the bookies scatter the bets so they can't lose, for their aim is to clean the sucker of his whole pile. Those Who run the numbers rscket which Is popular in cities among poor people take from 40 to 551 per cent of the take. Slot machines are fixed so the "house" gets a very high per centagehitting the jackpot Is a rarity. Blanche has published his findings in a book "You Can't Win (Public Affairs Press, Wash ington, $2). His conclusions are that most gam bling games are crooked' and even when they are honest the odds are such that the gambler can't possibly win over sny long period of time. We doubt if gambling addicts will be at all in terested in Blanche's book. They know what he says already, but they haven't the will-power to break; their habit. Also Bamum's "law" still operates the birthrate on suckers is still ones-minute. A statute of Lief Erickson. Norse explorer, will be erected on the state eapitol .grounds at St. Paul.; There are those who claim the Norse men got; as far west as Minnesota in the days of their great exploits of travel. That may be doubted but there's no question about the dis covery of Minnesota by the Scandinavians In the 19th century. Pyung-Ok. asked for an Amer ican military aid program similar to the one which has been go ing to the Greek government for the past two years. Rhee wants to double his pres ent American-equipped southern Korean army of 50.000 men. With the 50.000 police he has, his total force would Just about equal the communist forces in northern Korea, according to one version. There is another version.; which Is that Rhee's army already has the northerners outgunned J There are 23 million southern Koreans and about nine million northern ers. Some reports say that If any body is likely to attack la Korea tt is more likely to be Rhee's southerners attacking the; north rather than the other; way around. - a a : This hasnt happened either way yet and Is still a matter of opinion. There Is no question that Korea's tangled affairs are moving to a climax. This draws nearer as a date tor the witdrawal of American troops Undiscussed. Only a token force of a regimental combat team remains. Russia withdrew her troops from the north some time back and turned it over to local com munists who were ready and aetef March S. int. epheae 1-144L er-short Russia has developed an atom-powered industrial; plant she win be competing with the U.S. in much wider realms than now. Such ex pending Russian economic strength points to continued; friction in the future and the recur ring possibility of atomic warfare. In the light of these facts and their implica tions it would seem that American attitudes toward the atom must change from oven-optimism or uninformed cowering to a stabilized, re alistic approach to the problems and potential ities of this whole new ares. The ever-present threat of war means appropriate military and civil preparedness. But war rumors must not stifle the development of atomic energy for bet ter peacetime living. "A sign; of maturity, said the great scientist Robert Oppenheimer, "is the sense that the fu ture is richer and more complex than our pre diction of; it, and that wisdom lies in sensitive ness to what is new snd hopefuL" - " 4 Win U.S. for Aid willing to keep northern Korea safely in the Soviet orbit. a a a The common fear in the Orient Is that when the last American troops leave southern Korea, the southerners and northerners will plunge Into civil war. Dr. Rhee obviously wants enough military strengthto repel any attack from the north, but not everyone is convinced that he would refrain from trying to re-unite Korea by force if provided with the arms he asks to defend himself. Perhaps the most interesting news to come out of Korea last week was the report that two of Rhee's battalion commanders de serted to the Reds with part of their men. This recalls the communist-led uprising by part of Rhee's army last fall, which was put down only through ruthless military means. Before they grant the military aid Dr. Rhee a ski. Americans are likely to Inquire how tt will be For the past two years Amer ican arms have been used in a civil war in Chin first by the nationalists to whom they were given, but more recently by the victorious communists, who cap tured them from troops who sur rendered without much of a Cht. r Post-Derby Day Finds Dead Town By Henry McLemore LOUISVILLE, Ky May 8 Louisville, early of a Sunday morning after the Kentucky Der by, looks about the way Pompeii imist have looked when the ex cavators f 1 r s 1 1 opened It up. You .would swear that some local Vesuvius had erupted during the night and buried the city that only a few hours be fore had been mad with gay ety. TheDerby takes a lot out of the horses, but not half as McLMMTf much as it does out of the folks who come to see them run. I have been to Churchill Downs on Sunday morning and the horses are al ways up for breakfast, but not so the people in Louisville. Re cords show that there hasn't been a breakfast served in a Louisville hotel the morning after a Derby aince 19 It, which was Extermin ator's year. And the man who ate this one was considered so brave that the dry seriously con sidered nsmlng a park after him, and probably would have done so had It not been revealed that his breakfast consisted of two aspirins, sunny side up, s Jug of black coffee, snd sn ice pack. a a Nothing stirs until late morn ing except the street cars, and they go about the "streets yawn ing and blinking their eyes. Even the pickpockets don't leave their trundle beds until near noon. When the Derby visitors do start getting about it is a more pathetic sight than when they are not getting about They look as if an army of cats had drag ged them in. Most of them seem to have more blood in their eyes than they do In their veins, and It tears at one's heart to watch these beaten down revellers try ing to get their hotel bills straightened out. struggling with luggage, snapping and snarling about reservations on trains, planes, and busses, and gener ally behaving after the manner of a fighter bravely trying to get off the floor. a a a Talking about getting home from a track, a horse player told me a story the other day that touched me very much. A fellow at the track was told by a tout to take t in the first race and save with 3. He did. and both t and S finished out of the money. He looked up the tout and was told not to worry just to take 11 in the second and save with 4. The second was run, and neither 11 nor 4 got any of it' This went on for five more races, with Just as disastrous re sults. When the eighth and last race came up, the horse player, ob viously a trusting souL went back to the tout. Still a fount of In formation, the tout told him to take 3 and save with 9. Off they went, and 3 and were still out there running when the rest of the field was being unsaddled. Busted now. the horse player went back to the tout with tears in his eyes. "I live, a hundred miles from here. he said, "and I ha vent got a dime left. Tell me, how do I get home? The tout started walking away, then turned and gave his final bit of information of the day: "Take Route 31 and save with Route 13." a a a It is a good bet that half the people left Louisville yesterday and today swore that they would never come back for another! Derby, and it is- an even better t v. shepherd: of the hills - -r '-:.tPM bet mat as many of them ss can be back will be back. It takes about three months to re cover from Derby Week, but once you've seen a Derby, and catch the fever of Colonel Matt Winn's hoof and mouth disease. It's powerful hard to stay away. McNaubt Syndicate. Ina. Better English By D. O. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "He was shot in the battle" 2. What la the correct pro nunciation of "alias"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Bikloride, biography, bivouac. 4. What does the word "idio graph" mean?? 5. What is a word beginning with eso that means "secret; private"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "During the battle he was shot," 2. Pronounce a-li-as, first a as In ate. 1 as in It, last a unstressed, accent first syllable. 3. Bichloride. 4. A mark or sig nature peculiar to an individual; a trademark. 5. Esoteric Merchants to Attend Meet At University EUGENE. May -( Special )-Sa-lem and Albany business men will be ia prominent positions next Sunday and Monday during the 10th annual Oregon Retail Distri butors institute on University of Oregon campus. More than 400 Oregoa merchants have been in vited to compare notes on common problems and to hear talks by leaders ia the field. President of the institute is Reese Dooley, proprietor of Doo ley Brothers Grocery company In Albany. ' One of the principal speakers will be Gene Vandeneyn de. manager of R. L. Elfstrom com pany in Salem. Among merchants collaborating on plans for panel discussions snd a question box la Robert Needham of Salem, while Deo McOaia of Albany will preside over one of the panels. i GRIN AND BEAR IT m m - tmmM t aairfcftv I?lt4 Statee In fa now ferred a pact that (Us liberty, irtendsalp. sad a aflgat Congress May Bring Bust, Solon Claims By Edwin B. HMkinaeo WASHINGTON, May 8-())-Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) said today there is danger that the current "economy drive" In Congress might touch off a "ser ious depression. O'Mahoney is chairman of the joint congressional economic com mittee and he took sharp issue with recent proposals by Senator Byrd (D-Va) and republican congressional leaders. , "I'm fearful that a lot of these demands for severe cutbacks in federal government programs and employment are aimed at results of the present economic situation rather than the causes, he told a reporter; If the government starts trim ming Its spending too deeply and firing too many employes, O' Mahoney said that instead of soft ening or lessening a deceasion "we may bring on a real depression." "I think the Veterans adsninls- tration made a mistake in sud denly firing 8,000 government em ployes last week," he said. "After all the government often ' sets pattern for business in this coun try. Certainly those employes were not wasting their time." O'Mahoney also questioned the weekend proposals of Senator Byrd for a "drastic reduction la spending by the federal govern ment with a cutback of 34,000, 000,000 or more In President Tru man's budget for the next year. Byrd, veteran economy advo cate in Congress, forecast a de ficit for the currant fiscal year of Just under one billion dollars and said that would Jump to "five to ten billions' by 1951 If all the Truman "social excesses" and "fiscal excesses' are pushed through Congress. He said the nation now Is In a "period of extremely sensitive un certainty" with the "crisis virtu ally upon us." Byrd said pressure groups "con tinue to ' wring more sad more political pap" from congress at a time when the government must reduce spending or face either in creased taxes or an eventual de fault on the $232,000,000,000 na tional debt By Uchty te the aelrfcty raited States to Demo Leader Admits Support Ucldng for Tniman Labor BiU By Marria' L. Arrewsaalth WASHINGTON, May g-Wy-A high-ranking Truman democrat said today the administration's labor bill most likely won't get any place in the senate "unless we make some concessions.1 That opinion, expressed privately to a reporter, came from a tor wbo is aware that President he still was not convinced through congress. "In my opinion." the senator said. The chances seem to be defi nitely sgamst winning the sup port we need, without making changes in the bin." Mr. Truman outlined his view after the house had sidetracked the administratioci's Taft-Hartley law repeal bill and had come with in a hair's breadth of passing a substitute which would keep most of the T-H law on the books. By a three-vote margin the sub stitute was sent back to the house labor committee for further study. Ia the senate, debate on the ad ministration bill is expected to start in about three weeks. That bill would repeal the Taft-Hartley law and replace it with a modi fied version of the old Wagner act. Sahstitate Offered Three republicans Senators Taft (Ohio), Smith (NJ) and Don nell (Mo) already have offered a substitute for the administration measure. It would retain many of the Taft-Hartley provisions and revise others. Taft told newsmen he will op pose any effort to send the ad ministration bill back to the sen ate labor committee for an over hauling. The Ohioen. a member of the committee, said the bill he has offered is compromise enough snd that the administration ought to take It Taft already is at work lining up active democratic support for his substitute. He has asked Senator Ellender (D-La) to Join in spon soring it and Ellender has prem ised to give him an answer this week. Opposition Appears Labor opposition to the Taft proposal was quick to appear. An AFL spokesman said that organi zation is against it and any labor bill Introduced by Taft because "he's in the ally of the NAM (the National Association of Manufac turers).' Despite the conviction of some Truman democrats that the ad ministration wiu nave to give ground, there are others strongly opposed to such a course For example, some democrats on the senate labor committee have acknowledged privately that the odds are against the administra Hon bill in the senate. But they art against what they call "ap peasement tactics." They think it would be better to let the bill be defeated, and then take the issue to the people In the 1950 congres sional elections Anthropologists Oppose Indian Reservation Idea PORTLAND. May l-6l-North r -6P-r ts heliev west anthropologists believe the Indian reservation system should be abolished. Frank Parks. University of Washington faculty member, told regional conference session, the "Indian needs no seclusion from the average American citizen, he merely needs equal economic op portunity and continued equality or education. Parks outlined a study of the Tulalip Indian reservation at Marysville.a Wash. He said the group had made substantial econ omic progress since establishing a tribal constitution under the In dian reorganization act of 1914 The tribal council supervises the cooperative wator works, roads and farm machinery use on the re servation. Some members work in Marys vtlie while others are farm ing, fishing -or lumbering. Jee BacsJey SILVERTON, May Joe Buck ley, 99, died at a Salem coo vale cent home Sunday where he had been . for the oast three weeks. Buckley, who was born la Eng land, Dec. 25, 1883. had lived ia the Silverton area for more than IS years. His home was east of Silverton and for many years he was employed in the Leonard Holly orchards there. Survivors are two sisters. Anna Furman of Langley, Wash., and Alice Hicks of Lakeview. Mich- and one brother, David Buckley, whose address is unknown. Mrs. Mary L. Meyer ALBANY Mrs. Mary L. Meyer, 70, former resident of Crabtree, died in Eugene Sunday. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning from the Larson Funeral home in Eugene. Graveside ser vices will follow In Willamette Memorial park in Albany at 2 p m. Tuesday. Mrs. Meyer was born at Argo, Mo.. Feb. 9, 1879, and was mar ried to Alfred E. Meyer at Clin ton, Mo, in 1903. Surviving are her husband and three children. Hazel Marshall and Vernon Meyer, both of Eugene, and Mrs. Annsbeth Hemmingwsy, Spring field. The Fisher Funeral home will be la charge of the graveside services. Sheraaaji K. rearf ALBANY Sherman S. Pearl t4, long-time resident of Browns ville, died at lakeside. Wash. May I. Graveside services will be held at the Brownsville Ma sonic cemetery Wednesday at 10 m. tinder the direction of the Fisher Funeral home. Pearl was a retired farmer and a descendent of a pioneer Oregon family. Surviving are three nephews. Will and frank Kirk, Halsey. and Elmer Dimwiddie, I Brownsville. Truman said only a few days aco need to be made to get the bin World's First Civilized Men Were Tough CAIRO, May 8-iVSome of the first civilized people on earth weren't the kind you'd like to meet in the dark. They had wide bulging jaws like you see in cartoons of prize fighters. Their teeth were as big as those of promitive Neanderthal cavedwellers. When they chew ed, they chewed hard. Eventually they wore their teeth right down to the gums. Then they had de cay and abscesses. Just as we do. These Individuals were ; the rougher-looking element of Erldu, reputed oldest city in' the world, i Their home town is now s mound in the desert of southern Iraq. But nearly 8,000 years ago It set the pace in social progress.' Its citizens then were building formal mud brick temples and practicing religious rites. Excepting the big Jaws and teeth of some residents, the people were much like those of present day Iraq and its neighbors. They were Mediterranean stock. The individuals' with big teeth i were probably hangovers from an ear lier evolutionary atate. Although civilized, they lived seventy generations- ago. And they weren't far removed In time from ex tremely coarse diets. Evolution seems a much likelier explanation of their peculiar trait than im migration. Immigrants mixing with the local population would have affected many characterist ics, not Just Jaws and teeth. These tentative conclusions about some of the people of .early Eridu are the work of Dr. Carle ton S. Coon of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Coon, a phy sical anthropologist, recently stud ied human remains dug up at Eridu In the winter of 1947-48 by the Iraq Department of Antiqui ties. His preliminary report is ia the latest issue of "Sumer", offi cial Journal of archaeology In Iraq. The devilfish or giant octopus is the largest mollusk. RE-ROOFING? 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