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! 1 j I . Sr Tho Slotosmcm, Salem, Orocoo, Tu day, fxm 14L 1948 From First SUItiau, Muck It. Ml j THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CORIPANY CHAWT.FJ; A RPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher ! Catered at tb postofflee at Salem. Oregon, as mm u4 class matter aader act of congress March 1 1171. Published every momlnc. Basiweas office 215 8. Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Teleph t-t44l. Too Much "I Spy" There is altogether too much looseness in plastering red labels on individuals and organi zations. Suspicious federal and state investi gating committees, FBI agents who scoop up all the gossip (some of it false) are not fully dependable as sources of information about people and groups. The result is that one is never quite sure that he will not wake up in the morning to find his name smeared as a. fH low-traveler or a red in the news. We have one example of silly characteriza tion in the case of Gordon Clapp, chairman of TVA. Some one in the war department put the hex on him by branding him as "unemploy able" when the military government in Ger many asked to have him sent over for lecture work in Germany on the subject of the role of the citizen in a democratic society and the mechanics of TVA. When the news got out Secretary of the Army Gray offered an apology, and Secretary Johnson called for arf investiga tion. , Dr.' Edward U. Condon, who was attacked hirqself by the house committee on un-American activities, calls for an apology from the FBI because one of its reports connected his wife with espionage suspects. A recent issue of the New Yorker tells the story of bow William W. Remington suffered because an ex-communist Elizabeth Bentley accused him of giving her government docu ment for transmission to Rusia. and the effort he made to clear his name and regain his position in the department of commerce, which he finally did. Thse incidents show a high degree of hysteria in thU country, which is foolish and debilitat ing. While we are not .sending folk to the guil Ibtine ax did the French revolutionists we have Introduced an era of suspicion which parallels in some degree tht of the reign of terror. Tx many people are busy vith the pasta bruih, many who are .untrained if not unreli able. Perhaps their very excesses as in the Clapp case will bring a revulsion of public opinion thai will act as a brake on much of this "I spy" business. Water Hazard How Artie Louise Thompson of 653 Jeffer son st. saved two boys from drowning in Pringle cwk made a thrill ng news story. She showed both courage and skillin effecting their rescue. The incident should focus public attention on the risks of drowning which recur when people take to the water in warm weather. Even streams that look as thin as Pringle creek may have -deep holes, beyond the depth of waders. Along with this warning should go an urging that those unable to swim learn that art. Num erous swim classes are held at the YMCA, at the two city pools under auspices of the Red Cross. Every4youngster ought to learn to swim, girls as well as boys. Swimming is a fine, healthy recreation; and knowing how to swim may save one's own life or help one to save the life of another. r . . i . i : .3 t t . i i w mini uy . ifr- lainui 111 water; learn to swim. Eugene Approves One-Way Plan Eugene likes its one-way street system. The "grid plan, adopted last December to facilitate flow of traffic through the upper Willamette --valley city's narrow thorough fares, ended its six months trial period with a survey that showed 82 per cent approval of the set-up. Of 5,000 card questionnaires placed on park-: -ed cars. 1,800 were returned. Of the 82 per cent who wished to make the one-way grid permanent, only 6.2 per rent suggested any changes and 4 per cent wanted the system ex tended. Of the 321 persons who voted against 'Martian' Panic Surrounds A-Issue Br Joaeph Ahwp WASHINGTON. June IS The atomic energy investigation If at last beginning to reveal what all the shouting is about It turns out that David . Li lien -thai is entangled in a difficult prsonal equation. He has made ome borderline judgments. And he has not made sufficient ron reimons to the ostrich-minded national secrecy obsession that I now approaching the propor tions of the famous panic after Orson Welles Martian broad cast. These may seem Inadequate reason for charging a great pu- blic servant with incredible mis management, an Senator Bourke K Hickenloopcr has charged I.ilienthal. But since these arc ' the causes for several weeks' sus pension of all regular work by the entire higher staff of the mot im-1 portant indus trial enterprise in the world, they deserve to le examined with tome care. n brief, the personal equa-. tion behind the present invest igation begins ; with a relative ly minor split 'Joarpii Maup between Atomic Energy Commis sioner Lewis Strauss and his four colleagues, headed by LilienthaL On almost all the issues now causing so much turmoil, Strauss has regularly voted with the rest of the commission. There has never been a divided vote on any matter of operations, man agement or program, including the controversial gas-pipeline to the Oak Ridge plant Equally, Commissioner Strauss has voted with his colleagues on major security isrues, like the clearances of Doctors. Condon arid ML. -- & the plan, 262 wanted j a return to two-way street! with widened streets, more signals and elimination of parking, f " Of four groups persons in town on appoint ment, 'persons employed in town, persons shop ping In town and persons operating business in town, only the businessmen favored modify ing the one-way system by a slim margin of 114 in favor of a change. Ill opposed. Majori ties from every group, including the business men, voted to make the; one-way plan perman ent. And most of those who answered the poll said the new system made it easier to reach destinations and easier to park. The results of this survey in Eugene will be of considerable interest to Salem's long range planners as well as to local merchants, workers and shoppers who have expressed op position or approval of proposed one-way plans for this city. Evidently, the one-way streets have not harmed busipess as much as some merchants feared it would, and it has certain ly relieved some of the! congestion which made driving through Eugen a nerve-wracking ex Blank Record Peter Ed son. Washington correspondent for many : newspapers, writes: The truth is that the record of this year's congress thus far is not as good as the record of the 80th congress list year. As of June 1, 1948, congress had passed 167 public laws. As of June 1, of this year, t-ongress has passed only 82 public laws. ) If the present congrefs is to run on its record next year it will have to point to a blank. The government crop report continues pre diction of the second largest wheat crop. It puts production in the Pacific northwest at 128,265, 000 which is 13,000,000! less than in 1948. This is too optimistic for the northwest. Continued dry Weather is doing damage, especially in the light soil regions of the inland empire. The Japanese have discovered remains of a man whose life they date at 5000 years ago. They call him the Jap dawn man. Compare with the Java man ami the Peking man he's just a johnny-come-latiMy. Battery D boys thrw in the hat of their old comrade, Harry Truman into the 1952 ring at their Little Rock reunion. That would be a way of not getting anything done for another four years. Democrats are talking about how they will divide the spoils of office if and when they elect a governor next year. They should remember the recipe for rabbit stew: first kotch the rabbit. ; 1 ' ' Senator Bridges brands as ridiculous the pro posal to cut salaries ot congress' members in the current economy drive. He's right, for the wrong reason it was only for 5 per cent. One senator calls a! witness an sob; (long formj; another shouts at ECA boss Paul Hoff man to resign. It must be the Washington hea4. The Oregonian reporting the Rose Festival parage says the leg1! Were "shaplier and mora numerous." Beauty on jthe octopuses. Some of the senators criticize the Atomic Energy commission for he way it has been pass ing the isotopes around. Afraid some will be come j isotopers perhaps. Russia is setting up a mailorder house. But it still will not furnish the lavish glory of an S-R or MW catalog. Something, though, to know the USSR is still copying the USA. aiiu auuui 111c Graham, and the procedure for granting the commission's re search fellowships. (These re search fellows, by the way, are imply hired to produce useful ideas, as hens are fed for the eggs they lay. Worrying about their political affiliations is precisely like not feeding good' egg layers because they have radical views on the henhouse pecking order. But that is beside the point.) Commissioner Strauss has of ten disagreed with his colleagues, however, about what may be cal led foreign relations. The commis sion is constantly having to decide which radio-isotopes may be Kent aboard, where they may be sent, how far the war-born Anglo-Canadian-American atomic en ergy partnership is to go. and so forth. All thejej decision have been controversial. The most controversial arc actually thane which have not "yet been discussed, such as the decision whether atomic weapons ought to be made in Britain, only a chan nel's breadth from Europe. On all these issues the other commissioners have tended toward a broad interpretation of the statute, while Commissioner Strauss has , insisted on a strict interpretation. Possibly Lilien thal and his colleagues have made borderline judgments, in this area. At any rate, through the commission's link with the joint congressional atomic energy com mittee, these dissents of Strauss were bruited about. I In the poisonous little world of Washington, the Strauss dis sents were then exaggerated into a full-scale war within the com mission. Gossip began to give Strauss the role of the atomic energy commission's only defen der of "the American way." that Lilienthals power-lobby enemies talk so much about. I - j " Meanwhile on the joint con gressional committee,! Senator tnfcsranu Hiekerilooper had invested more time learning about atomic en ergy titan anyone else. He be came jthe expert. Having be come the expert, h inevitably became a backseat driver. And when his advice from the back seat was not always taken, ha flew into the kind of fit of in dignation that all fronseat drivers know only too well. Hence the present investigation. This is all trivial enough. But what really makes the pro ceedings in the Senate caucus chamber look foolish, is one simple fact. In preparing the American rearmament program, the Joint Chiefs of Staff formally adopted 1952 as their planning date, i by which this country wouldj have to be prepared for the Soviet Union's building an atomic bomb. And this was done by thej Joint Chiefs on the further assumption that atomic security would be maintained in Amer ica. I TheVe are many experts who regard the Joint Chiefs' plan ning date as far too pessimistic. But jven if the year to worry aboutiis 1957, as the British au thorities think, there is plainly no safety whatever in mere eecrary, however hysterically en forced. Plainly, the only safety now (tea in national strength and wise national policy. That bleak truth puts those who yell loudest about "secrecy and the danger f romMsubversiveV in a ' pretty false position. For theses same men are generally the advocates of feeble and fool ish fpreign and defense policies. And iiin exchange for a binding assurance of American feeble ness f and folly, the Politburo would undoubtedly give every secret in all the atomic energy commission's triple-locked and guarded files. ( (Copyniht, IMS. New York Herald 1 Army Boasts Country-Club Atmosphere By Henry McLtaMrt DAYTON A BEACH, Fla, June 13 There was a time when I would gladly have sworn that I would never go back in the army until the Russians had not only occupied- my living room, but were coming upstairs to take possession of the second floor. It seemed to me, when I was handed my discharge papers at Camp Blanding, Florida, that I would almost be willing to change my name to Benedict Arnold McLemore to keep from ever again wearing that Uncle Sam outfit. When I was in the army it was real rough. The kindliest n o n-" com or officer I met could have doubled f o r a gorilla with a t o o t h a c he. Z was fussed a t from the mo ment I got in until the mo ment I got out. gj McLamwe No one ever laid a kindly hand on my patriotic forehead, no one ever so much as said to me, "Henry, you're a peach of a little soldier." Even when I was braver than Sergeant York, there was always some persimmon-faced cuss to yen at me and say, "Soldier,, get braver." What I am trying to tell you is that when I was in the army, I had as uncom fortable a time as a soap bubble in a meat chopper. But the army, she has changed. I thought the deep violet pools which serve as my eyes would pop right out of my handsome face when I read in the New York newspapers a few days ago what they are now doing for soldiers. Cross my heart and hope to die, if they aren't bring ing soldiers Into New York from nearby camps and giving them a week's furlough with extra pay. The four soldiers I read about were given a send-off by a three-star general, driven into New York in a staff car, and told to have one week of solid fun. "Cut loose," they were told, "and don't dare show up at your camp until you have seen the , sights of the city." That's the kind of army I want to join. If that's the way they're treating soldiers now, I'll stitch up my own little suit, bring my own little bugle, and pay half my wages. Man, I remem ber when I used to have to drop to my knees like Al Jolaon having a fit and beg and plead for half an hour in order to get a fifteen-minute furlough. How well do I remember those days when I'd go into the order ly room at Camp-Wheeler and ask for a pass to get into Macon, Georgia. The sergeant, lieutenant or captain always asked me the same question, "Why do you want to go into Macon?" "Just to see some bright lights, sir," I always answered, standing at what I considered attention, but-which I've learned is gen erally considered by West Point ers to be "at ease." They nearly always told me something like this: ' You go right over to the mess hall, soldier, and back in the kitchen you'll see some of the brightest lights you ever saw in your life. If it's bright lights you want, the mess sergeant will show you all you'll ever want to see." As for ever meeting a gen eral,. I'd been In the army two years before I ever knew such a thing existed. I'm telling you the truth, I'd been in the army a full year before I knew there was any rank higher than cor poral. I used to stretch Out in my bunk and dream of the day when I would be able to rail a corporal by his first name. Now, generals send soldiers off with a pat on the back, a friend ly smile, and a cheerful admoni tion to paint the town red. The only thing a general ever gave me was a court-martial and a warning that if I didn't straight en up, I'd get a ten-year holiday in Leavenworth. . If I didn't look so silly in an overseas cap, I would go right now to the nearest recruiting of fice and join what I'm quite sure is becoming the very finest courftry club In America. Cer tainly, it's the only country club that pays you to join. McNaught Syndicate. Inc. Better English By D. C. VTUlUeas 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "1 saw her go in the house." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "faucet"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Wierd, wield, shield, field. 4. What does the word "stipu lation" mean? 9. What is a word beginning with tr that means "tending to escape cleverly"? ANSWERS 1. Say. I saw her go tale the house." 2. Pronounce the a as in kaaL not as e in ef . J. Weird. 4. An agreement; a condition. "He consented with the stipula tion that we assist him." 3 Evas ive. Animal hoofs, whether one-toed as in the hoi se, two-toed ss in cows, pigs and sheep, or four toed as in the hippopotamus, sre modifications of a five-toed ar rangement . . I I . : i .. riii-i i-i i a t i an ai n m m m ii j ii ii i n n i (Continued from page 1) ' becomes self-perpetuating. The law of inertia operates, and a bureau once started keeps on rolling, gathering size (and pow er) as it rolls. Congress itself seems to become impotent in dealing with a vast bureaucracy. I have been surprised at this with regard to the Hoover rec ommendations: the failure bf publicists in the northwest, edi tors and others, to study the com mission's reports an agriculture and interior departments, and to comment on them. Here we are debating about a CVA when : a very competent task force mak ing a special study of reorgani zation of administration has made very sensible recommendations. I have not seen these recommen dations discussed by any north west editors, yet they are vital to this region and to a construc tive solution of its problems. The Portland Journal did comment on the article by ex-Governor Leslie Miller of Wyoming, chair man of the task force on na tural resources, In the Saturday Evening Post. This 'Is as close as any editorial comment has come to the report Itself, which I have seen. I have given some space to discussing the Hoover reports with particular reference to those dealing with our northwest prob lems, but not enough, I admit. Meantime I wish other editors would get into the swim and dis cuss these reports of the Hoover commission. This column has given some attention to the Hoover reports; and I intend to prepare addi tional columns dealing particu larly with recommendations of special concern to our region. Meantime I hope other editors will jump in and tell the people what these recommendations are and what they think of them. GRIN AND BEAR IT - I I I I "Demands for boosing, health Insurance, social security! . . . what s become ef that fine, seff-st-fflelent American who was satisfied wits a pack of seeds from Bia CemgTesaman . t" CROSS ROADS OP THE Hollywood By Gene Handsaker HOLLYWOOD Gracie Al len's safety campaign is progres sing nicely. It uses her as a horrible example of what can happen if you're not careful. Gracie says. "My life has been one accident after another." When she was 18 months old she tipped a pan of boiling water off the stove and scalded her right arm. All San Francisco doctors but one wanted to ampu tate, Gracie says. That one came to her house twice a day the first year and once a day the second year to give her treat ments. The arm is so scarred that to this day she can't wear short sleeves. Gracie lived fairly safely until she was seven. Then she leaned against a table, collapsed its pro tecting leaf, and sent the table lamp crashing. Glass pierced her right eyeball and required five stitches in the lid. Some years later she got off a bus. ran heedlessly in front of it, and was thrown 12 feet by an auto. "That did something to my spine," Gracie reports. "I get dreadful headaches.' Eight years ago she learned against a night club wall while George Burns, her husband and radio partner, was at the check room. The wall proved to be a con cealed door. It gave 'way and let Gracie fall on the back of Your (Health Of all nail disorders, the one which most frequently sends people to a doctor for relief is a painful swelling around th base of the nail known as parony-. chia. This Infection, which may be caused by aT variety of germs, as well as by a certain yeast or mold, may, in time, affect the nail-bed and the nail itself. The disorder usually starti with slight tenderness and red ness around the base of the nail. Gradually, the tissues become swollen and, after a time, pus may be pressed from under the fold at the base of the nail. The condition may be limitei to one nail at a time, but others By Lichly EAST On Parade her head against concrete. Five more stitches. Gracie's " Don't Be a Gracie" clubs seek to prevent just such mishaps. There are about !W now, the largest, with around 350 members, in Springfield, Mo. Other chapters are in St. Peters burg, Fla.; Athens.' Ga.; Idabel, Okla., and Tftusville, Pa. Mem bers, mostly mothers, meet once a month and talk safety. To ioin. you merely check a list of pre cautions you have taken in your home: There are no electric cords to trip over, insecure throw rugs on polished floors, unprotected electric lights in the shower, etc. George and Gracie have been plugging the campaign on the air about three months. It was suggested to the mby Robert Benton Kidwell, Kansas City, Mo., publisher of high-school annuals. Safety is his hobby. It became so after his small son slipped on a throw rug and got cut on the chin and his infant daughter tripped over skates and fell downstairs. Kidwell issues a book, - "Invitation to Lave." which illustrates safety rules with cartoons. In the Burns & Allen home, the campaign has had its effect. Sharp corners have been remov ed from shelves. Wall racks now hold kitchen knives. But George came downstairs the other day, slipped on a loose rug, and near ly feJL Wrttiea by Dr. Hennaa S. Bundensen, M.D. may gradually become involved. Cases in which all the finger nails are affected seem to occur rarely. , People whose hands are con stantly exposed to water or sugars are most frequently af fected. It would appear that ex posure to fluids leads to soften ing and injury of the tissues, thus allowing germs to get into the skin where they can produce in fection. The presence of sugar serves as a substance on which the germs can easily grow. It i3 not difficult to make a diagnosis of paronychia. In treating this disorder, ex posure to water or to any other irritating substance must be avoided. The wearing of rubber gloves to protect the skin does not seem satisfactory. Active treatment consists of the use of some disinfectant and the employment of X-ray. The disinfectant is put on a small wooden stick which is pushed down, as far as possible, under the fold at the base of the nail. Then, an antiseptic ointment is applied and the treatment is re peated three or four times a day. The disinfectants used in clude a one or two per cent gen tian violet solution. The X-ray treatments, which speed up the cure and help to prevent recurrences, are given FATHER'S DAY SUNDAY, JUNE 19th j GIVE DAD I ASR0VJ. SffllTS . j All the season's newest shades and colors, also hit favorite White Arrow $3.65 i ARROW TIES ARROW KERCHIEFS ALEX JONES 121 NORTH HIGH ST. f SolonsBaclt Proportional Electoral Vote WASHINGTON, June I5-(VA sweeping change in the electoral system of choosing presidents would be made under a proposed constitutional amendment appro ved today by the sessate judiciary committee. i Each presidential candidate would be credited! with a share of the electoral vote; in each state proportional to the popular vote he received. At present, the man who carries a state gets' all its el ectoral votes, even if his margin is a bare handful; of popular bal lots. Rare exceptions to this nil are the cases where individual el ectors exercise their right to vote for somebody other than the top man. i In splitting up the total vote within a state under the proponed system, computations would be carried out to three decimal places - - thousandths of one electoral vote. : The proposed amendment, spon sored by Senator Lodge (R-Mass), cleared the committee 6 to 2. Sen ators Ferguson (R-Mich) and Donnell (R-Mo) voted against It. The house judfciary committee has approved a similar, proposal. It is still a long; way from being part of the basic jaw of the land, however. To become effective, it would have to be approved by both houses of cotigress and rati fied by three-fourths of the states. First use of gunpowder in ar tillery was to batter fortificatiooa and it was not Used in the field until late in the 15th century. Litera Guidepost By W. G. Rogers by W. G. Rogers WITH A FKATHKR IN MY NOSE, by Billje Burke, with Cameron Shippf ( Apuieton-C'eu-tury-Crofts; $3.jl Billie Burke recalls her first conspicuous success i; In "The School Girl" in j 1SK)3 when, sha writes, she was j8. That was in Ixmdon, where . this American-born red -headed daughter of a circus down came to the attention pf Charles Frbh man and Sir Charles Hawtrey. New York gave her her best chance, for she opened here un der Frohman in My Wife." with John Drew in the lead. The pair ol them had to be on their met tle, for competition that season included William Gillette. Max ine Elliot. E. H. Sothern, Otis Skinner, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Maude Adam and Pauline Fred erick. There we)e also two new comers: Mary Pickford, and Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr4 with hia "Follies." Miss Burke met Flo Ziegfeld seven years later. In the Hotel Astor ballroom, i She loved him, but Frohman didn't, ; and their courting was so peeretive that on occasion, like atty ordinary boy and girl, they; had dates at Grant's Tomb. Jt was Frohman or Flo, and she picked Flo. Even with Billie Bufke waiting fur him, he sometimes got home pretty late at Wight; her rivals, she says, were the entire fabu lous "Follies" (jhorus; and she says it is not true that the wife is always the last to hear, "not if she knows atj least two otner women." But she denies specifi cally that he was a girl chaser. Those were the crafcy, and the tax-free, days. ! Frohman paid Maude Adams $20,000 a week on tour. Thanks to Frohman, James Barrie earned 1175,000 a year . . . and the twd of them would sit at a Paris sidewalk cafe to watch the legs of ladies descend ing from carriages, the reason given, if reason be needed, being that they tried thus to tell blondes from brunettes. Flo would hire a private car for a trip to California, then arrive st the station with nis belongings wrapped in a newspaper. He once gave his wife a $38,000 set of china, and she made him take it back. j He died in 1932, after losing a million in the crash. Miss Burke, last on the New York stage in 1944, now doesj what she calls silly little parts n the movie. "I always have fun on the stage," she says. ( once a week. These are started after improvement has begun and not at the beginning of the treat ment. 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS S. N.: What ii diverticulitis of the intestine? j Answer: Diverticulitis of the intestine means that little pouch es have formed j in the intestine. These pouches often become in fLammed. The Condition is then called diverticultis. (King feature $yndicau. lor.)