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Skeletons Will Out
The Klamath Indians don't want Dr. L. S.
Crmman, University of Oregon anthropologist,
poking around their burial grounds. He says he
would respect any tribal bans and even take ah
Indian guide along on his expeditions. But for
the third time in the past two months the braves
have refused to let him pursue his studies on
Indian reservation lands this summer. Dr. Cress
man has already done much good work, in un
earthing the history ofOregon's early inhabit
ants, but now he will have to confine his inves
tigations to deeded land within the reservation
where the chiefs have no jurisdiction. 1
This is not the first time the progress of sci
ence and the spread of knowledge has been
. postponed by people who, literally or figurative
ly. want to leave their pet skeletons hidden in
the closet. There have always been those who
willfully suppress facts or distort the truth in
order to protect some sacred cow. Their hope is
that time changes all things if not the facts,
then the perspective in which the facts will be
considered.
Sometimes it is hundreds of years before all
the facts about an individual or institution or
event become known. Occasionally, the perspec
tive gained by the delay will help to illumine
hiitory, and sometimes it serves to smudge the
picture because the relative aspects have become
lost Probably the older an event is, the less like
ly it is that its exact nature can be determined.
And that applies equally to the human artifacts;
that disintegrate through the effects of nature
or to human ideas that become modified by the
attitudes of the investigators.
Thus it will be a long time, probably, before
the facts about current history are all face up
on the table. We are just beginning to learn
about past generations; every once in a while
some historian discovers a new angle that throws
additional light on our ancestry, and then pre
vious knowledge becomes obsolete.
Right now in New Mexico, Chicago anthro
pologists, are preparing their'ISth exploration to
"find traces of early man among the yucca and
crumbling ruins of the Indian country. They
hope to trace the migration of the Indian from
Asia to North America. They are studying peo
ple who lived over 3.000 years ago. Theirs is a
study which eventually will be combined with
whatever information men like Dr. Cressman
find in the northwest and some day the wan
derings of those Asiatics-turned-Americans will
be revealed. '
The same will happen when our western civ
ilization is dust and ashes. Dead men tell franker
tales than live men who hate trutfh and thrive
on darkness. When our dayin the sun is over
the information we have kept secret throughout
our' lifetime will come to light and ahow our
descendants what kind of people we are.
Anti'Segregation Laws
Those who argue that anti-segregation laws
are premature because the public is not mature
enough to comply with them will cite the St.
Louis race riot Tuesday and the admission of
Ada -Lois Fisher to the University of Oklahoma
law school Monday as cases in point. They will
Insist that segregation laws are as much for the
protection of ! the colored minority as for the
whites. " V i
An order to let negroes, and whites swim to
gether in St. Louis city parks led to violeiice
when white boys ganged up on colored young-
Independence of lndofcnia Vital
By Stewart Alsap
SAIGON. Indo-China, June 22
The French cannot reconquer
this country. Trench colonial
power cannot
be restored
here, not with
all the jet
pUnes in the
world. The
. French know it
Therefore, what
the French now
plan here is
imply a hold
ing ope ration,
an attempt to
but lime. s;.... j ,a t. -
For the west, hfewt"ri
the French holding operation
have an obvious value. It
will postpone the chain reaction ,
which the loss of Indo-China
to the 'communist, following on
the heels of the Ion of China,
wiHiId almost certainly produce
throughout southeast Asia. But
pitstfxmetnent is not enough.
1 ne r rencn plan 10 create what
they call a 'redoubt," a center
, of military power, across the
eastern coastal rout- of infil
tration by the Chinese commune
,ms. 10 this end, they mean;
to root out Ho Chi-minh's guer
rillas from a quadrilateral area
bounded by Langjon, Moncay,
Hanoi and Haiphong. 'This re
doubt Will not seal th Tnrin-
Chinese borders. In the moun
tainous thick jungle of the in
terior, that is impossible. But,
by cutting off the coastal route,
the redoubt will confine contact
across the borders to jungle
trails. It will thus .be difficult
for the Chinese communists to
deliver any decisive aid to their
. Indo-Chinese comrades.
-
The ultimate purpose of this
holding operation is to allow
time for the organization of an
independent Viet Nam govern
. ment and army under the titu
lar and possibly temporal lead
efshlp of the former emperor.
Bao Dal. This government and
army will then have the task
of doing what the Trench can
not do reducing Ho Chi
Minh's following to a hard txn
munist core and establishing a
. truly independent Indo-Ouna. ,
There are those here who be
lieve this French elan is nor-
iters leaving the pool and beat them with ball
bats and sticks. As a result, the mayor decreed
a' return to separate pools for whites and ne
groes. Court decisions ordered university officials to
admit Mrs. Fisher to traditionally all-white
classrooms after her three-year-long legal bat
tle. The young colored woman has been enrolled
but segregation is still practiced: she is separat
ed from her classmates by a railing especially
built around her, she has to eat in a special sec
tion of the cafeteria, study in a segregated nook
in the library and use separate washrooms.
Both the riot at the swimming pool and the
ridiculous antics of Oklahoma university offi
cials, (there's no fundamental difference be
tween the two incidents) illustrate that emotions
cannot be legislated. Laws alone will not make
people tolerant, but they can force people to
refrain from expressing their intolerance and
thereby help to create an atmosphere in which
education for democratic behavior can gradual
ly advance. Laws, don't make people honest,
either, but they discourage flagrant practice of
dishonesty.
Chances are that if the St. Louis pools were
patrolled by law enforcement officers to quell
any disturbance, either the whites would stop
swimming or they would get used to sharing
accommodations with the colored people.' The
same is true in the southern universities. White
students and faculty will probably get used to
having Mrs,' Fisher around. They may even get
to like her as a person and forget her skin. And
then the guard rails and, other insults will seem
as juvenile as they are unjust.
Costly Junior
A junior high school at Richland, Wash., built
for children of workers on the atom bomb pro
ject, cost $3,900,000. which exceeded the esti
mate by $2,000,000. That's a terrific cost for a
Junior high in a city no larger than Richland.
But it is a sample of government extravagance
all along the line. We had plenty of similar ex
amples in war construction. They could be ex
cused on the ground of speed. That doesn't Jus
tify the cost at Richland.
It is a mistake;-though, to put all the blame
on the chairman 0 the AEC, LilienthaL With
appropriations running to hundreds of millions
he couldn't supervise items like a junior high
school. But the commission does need stricter
budget control; and as a result of this inquiry
probably will get it. The prevailing temptation
In federal government circle k to spend and
spend, and it will take some one -with Cal XJool
Idge's sense of thrift to change the attitude.
Ypn've "heard of persons refusing to buy $3
bills for $4.88. There teem to be people willing
to paj' $44 an ounce for gold dust worth only
$33 at the mint. They are gambling that the
price of gold will be increased; or that is a gen
eral debacle their gold will have Teal -value in
a welter of paper currency. It's legal to own
raw gold m the -form of dust or nuggets or gold
in the form of jewelry or dental fillings; but not
gold coinage or gold bars. There may still be
.gold bricks for suckers. ;
Seaside held a dance Sunday in honor of
Jupiter Pluvius, hailing him as lord of the
rain which keeps Oregon green. Perhaps that
was what woke up the old boy and got him out
with his watering can. .
sense. Bao Dal Is a rather pa
thetic .French stooge, so the ar
gument runs. He can never at
tract the essential nationalist
support. The French army and
colonial services are determined
to sabotage an independent Viet
Nam government in any case.
For these reasons It is said that
the last and only hope, here as
in China, is an attempt to pro
mote the apostasy of the com
munist leadership. (This argu
ment is now being presented to
the state department, as the
same argument was ; made about
China. H
, It is true that the same con
ditions for: communist indepen
dence exist here aa in China. It
ilt also true that . Ho Chi-Minh
flatly told an American diplo
mat some time; ago, that be had
lost his faith in communism and
was no longer -a member of the
. party. This is very, very far for
a national communist leader to
go. But the signs are that Ho
Chi-minh's. nonconununisnt ;is
about as real as the Chinese
communists' alleged gentle
agrarianism. i
f
For it is known that Ho has
' been regularly dispatching emis
saries to Moscow (through Paris,
interestingly, not China). In the
meantime. Ho's radio (which at
first neverrmentioned the word
communism) now spouts the
straight Kremlin line. We can
not take the risk of falling twice
into the same silly trap.
The plain fact is that, after
what has happened in China, the
west simDly cannot ? afford any
risk at all of losing Indo-China.
This country is like a great mus
cular - finger crooked around
Siam and probing into the heart
of southeast Asia. Its loss will
be the first stage of catastrophe.
What can the United States, as
leader of the west, -do?
Before coming to the Orient,
this reporter suspected that the
new post-war Asiatic national
ism was largely a surface phe
nomenon, articulated by a hand
ful of Intellectuals. ; It is noth
ing of the sort. It is a deep and
universal I force. Already , we
have been maneuvered into the
position of seeming to be the
enemies of Asiatic nationalism,
while Moscow masquerades as
Its champion. If this process is
m i in' :
lliiatcsman
High
allowed to continue indefinitely,
.in the unanimous opinion of the
best observers in the Orient we
aha 11 aurely lose Asia. We must
halt the process.
Thus what we cannot do Is
'obvious. An American policy
which supports, or seems to sup
port the moribund remnants of
French colonialism in Asia would
be sheer folly. An American
arms program in aid of a French
colonial army in a war which
that army can never really win
would be absolutely fatal to
American interests throughout
Asia. )
JE,wr2'VJU5
Nam experiment here with en
ergy and determination. We can
publicly insist so to speak, on
the reality of Viet Nam's inde
pendence which will certain
ly deeply irritate a good many
of the French.
To this end. we should as
soon as practicable offer gen
erous American diplomatic eco
nomic and military aid to the
Independent Viet Nam govern
ment and army which the French
are now officially promoting.
The real weakness of Viet Nam
does not lie in the fact that
Viet Nam's ruler, Bao Dai. was
a playboy in his youth. It lies
in the universal conviction that
Bao Dai is the puppet of French
colonialism, and thus as clearly
doomed as French colonialism,
while Ho Chi-Minh rides the
ware of the future.
If the west is to have even
a fighting chance in Indo-China,
this conviction must be changed,
and only a determined Ameri
can policy can change it ;
Under any circumstances,
there is in truth no more than
a fighting chance here. But a
fighting chance is better than
no chance at alL And there is
still one chance a Viet Nam
government which ewes alleg
iance to no great power, not
France, nor the Soviet Union,
nor the United States. The full
weight of American strength
now be brought to bear
to promote and support such a
government
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Inc. l
But Weddings
Certainly Are
Worth It, Hank
By Henry McLesnore
DAYTpNA BEACH, Fla June
22 It's a horrible thing to ad
mit, I'm sure, but when I get a
wedding inv.tatior my first re
action is not one of happiness.
Neither is my
second ruc
tion, for that
matter.
This is what
goes on in my
mind, if you
want the truth:
"Oh, good
ness, another
present. Con
found it, does
n't anyone stay
single any
more? Is a man
J
NcUmn
suposed to go broke buying pres
ents for kids he hasn't seen since
they were 13 years old?" '
I always open the invitation
hoping that it is from parents
who are not too close acquain
tances, so that I can get some
thing cheap. But what's cheap
any more?
Nothing. And you' have that
on the word of a man who is a
wedding-present-bargain - hunt
ing fool. No shop is too obscure
for me to scour it, no fire sale
too smoky for me to range its
counters.
There was a time when a man
could send a young couple a
toaster or a percolator, without
going into debt But no more.
Have you seen the toasters of
today? Why, they have more
chromium on themQhan an
eight-cylinder car, a dash panel
like a B-36, require a captain,
co-pilot, navigator, and chief en
gineer to operate them, and cost
just a little less than a jade neck
lace.. The average young bride
doesn't have sufficient engineer
ing skill to operate the modern
toaster which, when the proper
levers are pushed, throws the
toast in the air, butters it while
on high, and brings it to a per
fect three-point landing on the
plate.
For the past 15 years I have
been shopping for two things.
One is that rubber stamps the
post office uses which says "Re
turned - Insufficient Address.'
M I had that little fellow I
wouldn't have to buy a present.
The moment I laid eyes on one
of those square envelopes with
: a wedding invitation in it, I
would pop it with that stamp
: and drop it back in the mail box.
Unsportsmanlike to be sure, but
what a great little money-saving
device.
But aa -much aa I hang around
post offices, looking at pictures
of other criminals and reading
post 'cards over jwoplea ahauld
n, X .still haven't been abas to
get hold of one of those stamps.
The other thing that I long for
is another kind of stamp one
that says "Sterling.-, Think how
much that would save on wed
ding presents. A man could buy
any old kind of nlated dish or
bowl, turn ft upside down and
whack "Sterling" on it, and
end it with perfect assurance
that it would be welcomed. By
the time the dish or bowl started
turning green the chances are
that the bride and groom would
have forgotten who sent it to
them, or would blame them
selves tar not knowing how to
take care of a precious silver
object.
"Of course, the simplest answer
to the wedding present problem
would be for postmen to go on
strike each year on the first of
June and continue to strike until
July. Just hand up their suits and
refuse to delive - single letter.
Why do so many people get
married in June, anyway?
What's wrong with October
when the leaves are turning? Or
February when the baseball
camps are in full swing? Or No
vember when pumpkins are at
their height?
Of course, I was married in
June myself, but that was differ
ent To this day, many people
still talk of what a lovely June
groom I made.
(MeNaiKht SmdicaU. Inc.)
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QUESTION:
If you construct a new build
ing with capacity of 200 beds
what will become of the present
Salem General Hospital build
ing? .ANSWER:
The present building is of A
grade construction material, fire
proofed and should stand for
centuries. It Is not large enough
nor adapted to proper segrega
tion of patients as for time sav
ing service so necessary in a gen
eral hospital serving acutely 111
patients.
Literary
By W. G. lagers
THE SPECTACULAR SAN
FRANCISCANS, by
Julia Cooley Altrocchi
(Dutton; $4.50)
The first Spanish ship touched
San Francisco in 1775, the first
settlement was attempted the
next year, the first English ar
rived in 1792, the Russians in
1806, the French in 1827, and the
Yankees came overland in the
course of the years. Early names
were such international surprises
as Josefa Livermore, Antonio
Richardson and Timoteo Murphy.
But Mrs. Altrocchi :really gets
interested only with the 'first
concerts, theaters, and balls, and
the founding of the first fortunes,
a century ago. San Franciscans,
I gather, practically always wear
striped pants, diamonds and
wraps plastered with orchids.
They love a party, and have en
tertained a lord, a princess, a
grand duchess, and Mine. Chiang
Kai-shek, for whom the elaborate
and elegant welcome "made a
mends, says the author, "for 'that
Chinese Exclusion act which at
evidently regarded as a kind of
faux pas. They also gave warm
receptions of Lola Monte z, Em
erson, Patti, Paderewski and
Calve, and were duped by a bo
gus baronet
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The building Is quite usable
for special types of patients and
can be arranged for that purpose.
The Oregon State Board of
Health is urging thisaerrice and
says the Salem area needs S02
beds for special patients that
should not be taken to general
hospitals. The fact that this
building would be available for
special patients should add fav
orably to Salem leqaeat 'for
Federal Aid in the construction
of 'the new general hospital
building.
Giaidspost
The i book is about murders in
the best circles, duels among the
right people, wecMings of the
cream of the cream to cream of
the cream, banquets for and by
the 400: and about funerals, men
US, mansions, crinolines, wasp
waists, bloomers, cock fighting,
cotillions, right down to Elsa
Maxwell shindigs and a wedding
at which "I love you" was sky
written above the merry makers.
And it is about opera, symphony,
museums and art . . . one painting
is identified as a "Holly Fam
ily" by "Reuben" but whether
that means 'Rubens r or some hick
I don't know.
This is not meant to be all df
San Francisco, of course. This
is just frills and furbelows, frost
ing and froth. This is not about
the 1906 earthquake but its so
cial .background; not about 'the
organization of the United Na
tions but about what secretaries
entertained what envoys extra
ordinary with what wines and
foods at what prices in whose
;paiaees. Thts is indeed glorified
31ue lBeok?a taort of endless so
ciety column. It "has a tremen
dous amount of information
which, perhaps will matter more
to you than it does to me.
Your Health
As long ago as 1880, physicians
were familiar with a disease
known as -sprue, then thought to
affect xmly-people living in tropic
countries. Today, we realize that
this disorder is much more fre
quent in temperate climates than
-was formerly believed. When it
occurs in babies, as it often does,
it is known -aa Celiac disease.
Diarrhea, with the presence of
a great deal of digested fat in the
bowel movements, is one of the
first symptoms of sprue. In ad
dition, there is anemia or lessen
ing of the amount of coloring in
the blood, inflammation of the
mouth and tongue, and swelling
of the tissues, particularly the
legs. Later on there may be some
damage to the spinal cord, to
gether with symptoms indicating
a deficiency of vitamins A. D,
and K, and those of the B-com-plex.
Naturally, loss of weight
and strength is marked.
Apparently, in its beginning,
sprue is the result of a distur
bance in the body's ability to ab
sorb and use fat and the essen
tial products which come from
its digestion. There also appears
to be a faulty absorption of the
factor which prevents pernicious
anemia. This, together with the
resulting: vitamin deficiencies,
accounts for most of the symp
toms seen in sprue.
Liver extract has been found
curative in sprue; because it con
tains the factor which is neces
sary for the absorption and
Hollywood
un parade
By Gene Handsaker
HOLLYWOOD Dave Hersh is
a plump, affable, spaghetti-loving
man born 45 years ago on a
farm in Hungary. With a beret
he'd look like a cartoonist's con
ception of a Hollywood producer,
which he is. Dave believes every
man should have a hobby.
One day 13 years ago Dave de
cided to make himself a scrap
book. He took a stack of heavy
paper, covered it with two wood
en boards, punched holes and
bound the book together with
shoelaces. On the front he let
tered in ink, "Interesting Events
In My Life." "I kept the photos,
write-ups, invitations to parties I
attended, telegrams, letters from
friends," Dave says.
Not long afterward, Dave's
brother became the father of a
boy. Dave decided that a nice
present would be a baby book
made by himself. First thing
Dave knew, he was giving away
books right and left. "Somebody
got married, or had a baby or a
birthday. Always a question,
what do you give 'em? Gradu
ation! Everybody gives fountain
pens. I nave scrapbooks about
25 a year for the last 15 years."
Dave's work bench and power
tools occupy one section of his
three-car garage.
Then came the British 75 per
cent tax on Hollywood movies.
Hollywood stopped exporting its
pictures to England. Dave, who
had had a production hand in "A
Walk In The Sun", Copacabana",
and ' other films, had just pro
duced "Northwest Stampede".
He says, "My associates and I
had $100,000 invested in the pic
ture. When the tax came along,
we decided it would be hard to
make money in pictures. I said
to myself, 'Dave, it's time to get
'into something else.' "
His scrapbook-making hobby
became his business, with 20 em
ployes. In 14 months, it has made
enough money to finance his
next movie, "Tavern in the
Town," planned for fall produc
tion now that foreign restrictions
have eased.
Dave found himself bucking
Written by
Dr. Herat! N.
Basdensen. M.D.
of the fatty substances, as well
as the substances which prevent
pernicious anemia, and other
factors which we suspect may be
missing in cases of sprue.
Cases of pernicious anemia are ,
benefited by what is known as
folic acid, a part of the vitamin
B -complex. Folis acid also has
a helpful effect on some of the
symptoms of sprue, but it is not
the factor which regulates fat
absorption.
Sprue has also been treated by
various types of diet such as the
fruit milk, and meat diets. These
give good results because they
contain relatively large amounts
of th ; anti-sprue factor, and be
cause they stop fermentation
and improve the action of the
bowel, thus aiding in better ab
sorption of the anti-sprue factor.
In any eient a great deal has
been learned about sprue, and,
with the proper treatment it can
be rapidly overcome.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
J. L.: What is the cause of
itching piles?
Answer: The exact cause of
piles or hemorrhoids, which are
enlarged or dilated veins fas the
'lower part of the rectum, is not
known.
Itching usually occurs because
of some infection, often due to a
parasite, such aa ringworm.
(Continued from page 1)
taken to have the railroad mov
ed to a point near the east curb
line of 12th street and a new
curb constructed nine feet wes
terly from the center of the re
aligned railroad track, which
would isolate the railroad from
the highway. The foregoing
treatment would rninimixe traf
fic complications and permit a
workable signal installation at
12th and State streets
City Manager Franzen worked
farther on this idea. He would
separate the railroad from the
street by barriers parallel to
the tracks, but would leave an
access lane along the east side
of - the street He would widen
the roadway oh the west by
taking off several feet from the
abutting property. He would
make this part of an express
way north and south through
the city, though initially he
would have it end at Mill street
until funds were in sight for
its extension.
Signals then could be install
ed at the 12th street crossings
to control motor and pedestrian
traffic, lights going red when
trains are approaching.
This of course; doesn't provide
grade separation. and .long
trains would continue to hold
up traffic desiring to cross the
tracks. Elevating the railroad is
not desirable; no one is willing
to pay for putting the railroad
underground. The remaining al
ternatives are overhead cross
ings or underpasses for the
streets. The latter will be stu
died by the city and the long
range planning commission with
the railroad engineers saying
what might be done in raising
the track a foot or two to lessen
the excavation required":
No one should get excited
over this. There's no money for
it either. But as -a long-range
proposition it deserves study.
For one thing the underpasses
could be done one street at a
time. If an express highway is
built to parallel the track the
underpass would separate north
south motor traffic from east
west. Objectionable to owners
of abutting property would be
the long slopes to get under 12th
street. Worrying shouldn't start
yet for a number of years, how
ever. Admittedly this is a tough
traffic problem but Salem
; shouldn't quit seeking its solu
tion merely because a simple
one isn't in sight.
Belter English
By D. C. Willlama
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "There is a difference
in the front room and' the rear
room."
2. What is the correct pro
nunciation of , "passe"?
3. Which orie of these words is
misspelled? Ratio, embrio, folio.
4. What does the word "cruci
ble" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with 11 that means "uneducated"?
ANSWERS
1. Say, "There is a difference
between the front room and the
rear room." 2. Pronounce pa-sa,
first a as in ah, second a as in
say, accent second syllable. 3.
Embryo. 4. A; severe trial or
test. "It was the crucible of af
fliction." 5. Illiterate.
baby-book companies in business
75 years. He offered showman
ship. The baby's photo on the
Iwilr'c atnrriv frnnt malm it a
j - - -
combination photo frame and al
bum. Instead of shoelaces, there
are fancy brass hinges. He also
a makes bride's books and plans
" graduation, guest, and birthday-
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