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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1949)
it..' tit .-... t.-'. j 4 The SkxWsznan, Salem. Oregon, Thursday. Jan t, 1948 wmhiw MM I i i "tfo Ttvor Sweyt Vt, No Weft Shall Avtm Frees First Stotcmu, March tt. IM1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CH A! A RPRAGUt Editor and Publisher j Entered at the posUfTlce at Salem, Oregea, aa second class autter asder act of congress March S. 17. PsbHshcd every warning. Bsshaess office 211 8. Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone t-ts4L of thje heavy traffic between the island and New lYork City. Impoverished Puerto Ricans have jiwarme4 to the big city where they con stitute a substantial chunk of population in the mid-ity area. As American citizens they are free to enter the United States and reside here. Congested as their living quarters are in the big city they haie a higher standard of living than Ion the island, eevn if they are on public relief. Much of the travel back and forth is by charter planes whicji offer lower fares. The big city swallows up these immigrants,, though the Spanish nmes identify their dis tricts and though thefr-vote is coming .to be reckoned with in city elfctions. It takes a calam ity like this to acquaint the rest of the nation with j this migration, with the ambition of our bland brown brothers td share in the opportun ities of mainland life. - i i Another Canol Project? The army engineers J, according to announce ment ot Maj Gen. Lei.i A. Pick, chief, is off on a new hunt for liquid fuel. This time it. is looking for areas suitable for manufacture of syrfttjietic liquid fuel. Mrhich means getting fuel from; oil-bearing shale? or coal or natural gas. A contract has been lt to a firm of engineers for $1,341,000 to make-the survey. Why didn't the army engineers call up the bureau of mines or the geological survey in the department of the interior to get information on this subject. These divisions have made ex tensive studies -of coal deposits, oil-bearing shales, gas fields. The bureau has set up a pilot plant in Colorado to tfy out the production of petrpleum from the huge stocks of oil-bearing shale in that state.. . In! Pennsylvania an foil company, and a coal company are testing a process of producing liquid fuel -from coal.ji In; brief, this field j is being fully explored now so why should the army engineers be but ting into it? One would think after squander ing $130,000,000 on the Canol oil project inHhe northland during the war the army would keep away from the oil business. It hasn't though; and instead of depending on public and private agencies properly concerned with fuel supply it starts spending morjey on a survey for syn thetic fuel for the next war which isn't in sight. i ' i A 'woman, Mrs. Nelbe Ross, former governor of Wyoming, is director of the mint. Now the president has nominated another woman, Mrs Georgia Nesse Clerk of Kansas to be trea surer of the United States. One woman runs - the plants that mint tjhe coinage: another wo- manj will have her named signed on all the currency. The US is merely catching up with famjly custom th wife handles all the money. The Salem postof fice will celebrate its centen nial on Nov. 8th this year, and Postmaster Gragg has received a special stamping die to use on outgoing mail in the fall of the year. The first postoffice was at the Northeast corner of Corrf mercial and Ferry streets, diagonally across from the Statesman building. While the cen ter Of town has moved northerly it hasn't gone very far in a hundred?years. We're slow-moving here. y Our entry for the next Burlington, Vt., liar's contest is Whittaker Chambers not for quajity but quantity. Hotel for the Ghost Riders If there were any ghost riders following the 'red -eyed cows across the ragged sky and up a cloudy draw over north-central Montana this . week, as related in a popular song they probably topped a-chasm the devil s herd long enough to watch the historic Overland hotel inFort Benton burning down ... f The old hostelry was a familiar landmark to the cowboys and, equally, to many pioneer settlers of Oregon who slept in their bedrolls on the dirt floors and warmed themselves over buffalo-chip fires in the first building erected in that Chouteau county seat. For Fort Ben ton was an important station" in the long trek w -from eastern states to Oregon as well as the " stamping grounds for Indians and traders. ; Never a U. S. rnilitary encampment, Fort Benton was first a trading post of fur companies. An adobe fort for protection against the fierce Black Foot Indians was built there on the upper Missouri river in 1850 and named after Senator Thomas H. Benton of Missouri whom Benton county in Oregon also honors. , First settlers along the Missouri were half breed fur trappers and the Kentucky and Teh ntiiMe mountain men like Boone Caudill and Jim Deakjns. so vividly described in "The Big Sky"' by A. B. Guthrie, jr. For them Fort Ben ton (or Fort MacKenzie in "The Big Sky") was the backdoor to civilization; there they peddled their beaver skins an,d returned to their squaws, Iik Boone's Piegan Teal Eye, with provisions an 1 whiskey. 1 Benton's primitive status was short-lived af ter .a mountaineer khovved up in 1.857 with; a buckskin sack of gold dust. Soon steamboats churned up 'the river from St. Louis, carrying prospectors and miners bound forf the diggings and families bound for the Pacific Coast. From Fort Benton the pioneers went overland along the ,Mullan road. -crossing' the mountains near Helena, through the Missoula valley over the Bitter Root range into the Spokane country to Walla Walla with the Columbia river a few miles farther on. I '. Though thousands of easterners were fun "nelUd through the old post on their way west. Fort Benton held to its frontier ways until long ft'r "Jim Hill's Road,'' 4he Great Northern railroad, brought the latest refinements from St. Paul and put the steamboats out of business. A late as 1882 visitors to Benton were warned to "walk in the middle of the street and .mind your own business." It was a-tough town . as tough as the buffalo hunters and wolfers that preceded the equally ruthless organised cattle rustlers nl horse thieves who made thfir headquarters in the Band Lands. It Was frequently "shot up" By cowboys in for a "earoue and sometimes the sidewalks were ao highly carpeted with discarded playing cards ... So the old Overland did not really be Ion in today's modern Fort Benton, a market place for wool growers; NNow it has gone up in smoke and maybe the cowpokes who didn't "change their ways" will sit around its ghostly tables with their faro and poker and talk about the days under the earthly sky when men like Boon Caudill led the way to the winning f the West. ! Mainland Opportunities - Another transport plane in charter service' between Puerto Rito and the New York district milled with henvy loss of life. Fifty-four person perished when the plane dived into tha eea. - The significance of the news story -is hot Just in the loss of life but in the revelation of Wfenry Strikes A Sour Note; Treaties Bah! Br Henry IfcLemore DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, June 8 Private opionions made pub lic; I believe that "peace treaties" are the bunk, pure and simple. If nations are at peace, want peace, and are on the level, why in the world do their statesmen have to put the fact in writing? That's about the same as swear ing under oath to a friend that you are his friend and will not do him dirt. Indeed, such a sign ed pact would indicate, to my way of thinking that both you and your friend had no trust in one another. Which leads up to an opin ion that it is a laugh, pure and simple, if we ever sign a pact with Russia. and- then pat the back for ?ur don't know muc.i about history, but enough of it. I believe, to know that probably the easiest thing in the world is to break a treaty. There is always a loophole through which a dis honest nation can leap without touching ; its head. " So before we sign anything in Paris, let us consider the price of ink and fountain pens, if nothing else. iO BOfTLt BABY Ml McLenaere ourselves on smartness. I It's a good thing they didn't call me as a juror iti the perjury case against Alger Hiss. I would have gone in plumb biased against the government's star witness, Whittaker Chambers. Any man who has admitted, as Chambers has, that he once sold out his country, could never con vince me of anything. If a man will do that, my guess is that his word isn't worth the effort it takes to pronounce it. Hiss may be as guilty as Judas, but I surely wouldn't convict him on ' the say-so of a man who, at one time, chose the enemy against the country he belongs to. f 1 Will Margaret O'Brien ever quit crying about her mother's marriage? The first two or three million gallons of a child movie star's tears are newsworthy, but after that they get as tiresome as the steady rain on a South Pacif ic island during the monsoon time. One more tear out of Mar garet and I, like Prince Aly wifh the photographers, am going to cane her. Frankly, that's what I think she needs. Besides, with an Oregon Payroll In '48 Highest In State History Oregon's total payroll In 1941 was the largest in the state's his tory $W2,1 49 .620. Figures released Tuesday by the state unemployment commission reveal, besides the overall gain for the state, that every county ex cept Multnomah established a new payroll record during the year. Multnomah's payroll was larger than in 1947 but below the record year 1944. Marion county's payroll was S4O.440.62S, compared to $36,630. 469 in 1947. an increase of 10.4 per cent. The Marion county payroll ranked third in the state behind Multnomah and Lane counties. Figures released pertain to all workers covered by the state un employment commission. Capital Electric Open House Set Grand opening in its new place i of business is set for Friday and Saturday by Capital LJectnc, now at 1480 Fairgrounds rd , according to Mr. and Mrs. Lowell W( Hann, owners. The enlarged store, housed in a building erected especially for it, will be open until 9 p-m. on those days. Special features, will include gifts for women visitors, refresh ments from 2 to 3 p.m. and display of equipment. The firm specializes in refrige ration sales and service, but also handles other electric appliances and repairs. Hann has been with Capital Electric since 1941 and tha owner for the past three years. income estimated at $3,000 per week, why should anyone cry? Shut up, Margaret: Not only that, dry up! I must go for a man named Hickenlooper. Never met the Senator from Iowa, and he may be all wrong in his charges against David Lilienthal. But with a name like that a man has to have class to rise above the laughs of his grammar school mates, much less reach the sen ate of the United States. There are only two great jobs in the world. One li that of a weather forecaster. The other is that of a horse handicapper. They need not be right to hold their jobs. If men in any other jobs were as wrong as often as the fellows who predict the weather and those who call the winners at the tracks, they'd be fired faster than a machine gun can be fired. McNausht Syndicate. Inc. Better English By D. C. Williams Some types of banana must be cooked before they can be eaten. The Babylonians developed bahks as early as 2,000 B.C. 1. What is wrong with this ientence? "Sha typewrote the letter for me." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "illustrate ? J. wnicn one oi tnese words is misspelled.' nineteen, evergreen, gangreen. 4. What does the word "pro fanation" mean? . 5. What is a word beginning Board to Receive Bids On Wobdburn Project Bids for two building projects at the state training school for boys at Woodburn will be received by the state board of control un til June 17. tu . : .. : , .. r . m . tion of a five room residence for the superintendent and building of an addition to the employes' dining room. with aa that means ''constant in application"? ANSWERS , 1. Say. "She typed the letter." 2 Accent on -second syllable is preferred. 3. Gangrene, 4. Act of profaning; especially sacred things. "The profanation of the name of God." 5. Assiduous. Your Health Written by Dr. Herman N. Bundensen, MJ). Cprvallis will go qn daylight, saving time catching up with Salem and ahead of Eugene. Age-Old Problems Still Plaguing China By Stewart Ab HONG KONG, June ft Even at ten thousand feet you serfs it too many people, too little food. Most countries look almost uninhabited from the air. But China, with its - f scratched and -i7iaV . a. isbUled land, A ' Its scarred f j 1 1 mountains, its ej ""ACil endless jumble ; I I ot mud villages, I ' V It brick red riven carrying . pr ecious topsoil J t the sea, looks like some vast hunrrv inthMd ' The comraun- Mof . laU are inherit ing the antheap.- Now they are faced with the ancient, unan swered question which has fac ed all China's rulers: How ars the anU to be fed? This is the central fact. China's ageless ills have not suddenly disappeared with the substitu tion of one political power for another. When the communists tvk over the big cities, they al mt took over China's deficit eco nomy, and they are beginning to sulfer the consequences. Now, for the first time, they aie having trouble with the "pea sants. The reports of peasants reUtanc to food collections rum from ao many sources that' they must bo baaed on fact. Tha reason is obvious the peasants aie no being forced to share their production with the hungry pop- 50 per cent after the communists took over. There are other re ports of the same pattern being repeated elsewhere, ! Not enough food an$ not enough industrial production spells in flation. InJPeiping the "peoples' banknote" was officially pegged at eighty to the dollar. It has slithered down to hardly a ten the of that, value. In Shanghai the'; communist currency i4 reported to have de preciated by half in a single day ' Inflation begets corruption, be cause honest officials starve. Thi communists' chieftains are be lieved wholly incorruptible. But corruption r is already attacking the lower reaches of the new of ficialdom. According to one re liable firsthand witness, for ex ample. MYou can buy your way through Tientsin-right now, if you've got the money." All this- does not mean that communist China is faced with imminent economic collapse, nor that inflation and corruption hae even begun to reach the full and hideous flower they attained in nationalist! China. Yet an ancient process has started, and for pre cisely the same reasons that it has always started in China: too many people, too little food. The central committee of ths Chinese, communist party has now announced how the party means to attack China's econo , mic disease by what amounts to a slavish imitation of Russia's five year plan. The whole poli tical and economic emphasis is to be shifted from the peasants 1 1 1 1 1 tt Wm mrm&t tM Pari. lr because of peasant reluctancNSs4o the big city industrial workers t share the food, and. partly This program has horrified because they lack skilled tech nicians, the communists are ajso having trouble with their newly won urban industries. A European recently returned from the Great Krilan coa) mines in the north tolr this reporter that production tell off alnviM China's pro-communist Intellec tuals, who like marly American intellectuals have fondly imagin ed that the Chinese; communists were kindly agrarian reformers. I For it IS obvious on "the face of it that ' the communists plan to industrialize China as Rus sia was industrialized by ths ""blood and sweat of the peasants. Another fact is obvious on the faoe of it. Let the peasants sweat till they drop, China cannot even be strated on the way toward an urban industrial economy without very extensive trade with the West. Russia can supply no substitute for western trade, which built Shanghai from i mud flat Jo the fourth greatest city in the world. Moreover, the com munist leaders know it. Here the evidence is conclu sive.? It ranges from semi-official assurances conveyed to west ern businessmen in Shanghai to the f act that the communists have approached a great Belgian - bank to act as their trading agent in Hong Kong; from the trade which has already quietly start ed between Japan and the com munist north to the alacrity with which Shan l ii has been open ed td western shipping. The com munists mean to trade with the west simply because they must. Thei- only alternative is a China permanently condemned to a sub sistence level agraian economy; too hnany people and too little food; This suggests conclusion worth pondering. Only the Chines communists can now provide wha( the western natioos des perately want a China inde pendent of the Kremlin. But only the Western nations can provide whit the Chinese communists desperately want the where withal!, from machine tools and capital to technical skills, to In dustrialize their country. In con sidering western policy toward communist China, it is worth bearing this fact in mind. Tor to have what another nation wants is to be capable of influencing the policy of that nation. tCoftjmght. IMS. New York BeraM Tribune lac.) Accidents to the ears occur rather frequently and here, as in other accidents, proper treatment may do much to Ward off per manent damage and to prevent future complications. One of the most common ef fects of injury to the ear is bleeding into the external ear, with the formation of a blood clot in the tissues. 'When this oc curs, there is a smooth, tender swelling which obliterates the normal outline of the ear. The skin over the swelling becomes darker ih color and there may be some throbbing and discomfort. This condition does not cause any disability, but, if not treated, the ear becomes thick and unsightly. This is commonly known as a cauliflower ear. " It is suggested that, if the ma terial under the skin is fluid, it may be withdrawn by using a syringe and needle. Unfortunate ly, the fluid reforms and, to bring about a cure, it must be sucked out daily for a week or more. Putting pressure . on the tissues with a dressing after the fluid is withdrawn may keep the blood clot from re-forming. The pressure may be applied in various ways. A plaster cast may be used for a large swelling. A more easily applied-dressing is one made up of a pad of cotton, which is firmly bandaged against the side of the head. This is re placed after three days, at which time the fluid which has accum ulated within the tissues is with drawn. If these methods of treatment are not satisfactory. It may be ! necessary to cut the slun and drain the fluid. Cuts and wounds of the ears also may occur. These should be treated, as are any mother wounds, by getting rid of any damaged tissues and sewing up the cut. Care must be taken not to put the stitches through the cartilage of the ears because infections may cause damage to the cartilage,, and deformity. It is advisable to give some substance, such as penicillin mr the sulfonamide drugs to keep these infections from developing. It li also important to examine the external ear canal to make sure that no wound is present which is neglected, 'since, if un treated, scar tissues may form in healing which may block the ear canal. Should'such scar tissue develop,, which seems to be blocking the opening, the tissues may be stretched or a plastic operation carried out. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS S. Z.: I get a sort of an itch all of a sudden on my body, hands, and feet. When I scratch it, red spots appear. What is the cause? Answer: Sometimes, infections in the teeth, tonsils, or nasal si nuses, or a chronic infection of the appendix may be a contrib uting cause of itching skin. Red spots occur as a result of the ir ritation from the scratching. You should have a careful ex amination made so that if any infections are present they may b discovered and cleared up. (Copyrlaht. 199. King Features Syndicate. Inc.) Remember - FATHER'S DAY is June 19th At The Man's Shop GRIN AND BEAR IT Bv IJchtv (fa. '-'rVv-' I TboawandA off Air Corps fliers used them during the war! - .- j No iueba aboat prices dropping ... I offered only f 1M0 toward I mw gyaa and without farther shnnntssr srosnd tker graated ss strn&ipnxs alie cdef Polished optical lens! Gold-platod frames! U Terrific VaLum This is exactly tho same kind of glasses our army filers wore - - mada to tho somo rigicLspocificatiofis, made of tho same top-grade materials: gold-platod frames with mothor-of-poarl brow rest and nose clips, colored ground and polished optical Ion so s. ' Thoso are tho same glasses wo sold at a fast clip last summer for $3.95. Now a special purchase sends tho price down to $2,981 Thoso glasses are practically indestructible - and they come in their sum protecting case. y Cmmrm Mmdm f U. 5. StmUmrd CS7&39 TTIIflE MAM'S MOXLEY and HUNTINGTON The Sore of Style, Quality and Value 411 Stale Street Salem degToo."