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" " . f 4 Tb Dates ruga. 'Sol u GRIN AND BEAR IT' nuiUM MM ' talesman By Lichty No Favor Sway Vt. No Fear Shall Awa First Statesaaaa. March 21, 1151 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COBIPANY CHARIER A SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher Ka teres7 at the rumc at Salens, Oregon. s mnM class Butter and act af eeagreae March S. ltt nbliahed every noralng. Bosiness affict 2 IS 8. Ceotmereial, Salem, Oregem. Telepbene Z-244L Astronomy and "Dialectic Materialism" Having duly brought biologists to book, forc ing them to accept the gospel according to Ly senko, soviet commissars of science are now go ing after the astronomers. One would think that astronomy was a science quite immune from capitalist manipulation and free of bourgeois decadance; but it seems not According to Rus sian astronomers the study of the stars as done by western scientists is guilty of "formalism" to they have adopted resolutions against "wes tern bourgeois astronomy." vWe wonder how Dr. Harlow Shapley, dis tinguished professor of astronomy at Harvard university, famed also as a communist sympa thizer, will accept this condemnation of the sci ence of which he is an eminent spokesman. Dr. Julian Huxley, another pro-red, gagged over the Lysenko version of genetics. But what will Shapley do? The error of western astronomers, according to their Russian contemporaries, is that they use a theory in their search for facts. For example physicists, mathematicians and astronomers have been baffled over the antics of the universe. Once they thought the universe was in process of "running down" and freezing. But they dis covered facts which pointed in the opposite di rection. So some have proposed the theory of the exploding or expanding universe, and scientists re rriaking speculations and computations on that theory. But, say the resolutions of the Russian as tronomers: "This theory unfortunately has penetrated on to pages of our press, which must be considered a manifestation of sycophancy before the reac-! tionary science of the bourgeois west It is nec- essary incessantly to expose this astronomical idealism, which directly assists clericalism." The resolutions take a crack at "relativistic cosmology" (Einstein's theory of relativity), but go on to assert that "in capitalist countries cosmogony is living through a deep crisis" which will be news, to Dr. Shapley and others. Berat ing the "formalism" of western science the sav ants at their Leningrad meeting declared that soviet cosmogony must develop fertilely on the basis of dialectic materialism," which simply means to make astronomy, and if necessary the universe, over in the terms of Karl Marx. All of this Fill sound like gibberish to the man In the street, as in truth it is, communist jab berwocky used to discipline their scientists, like their artists, writers and musicians. It will not disturb western scientists however who have shown a marked fidelity to truth in their research. They have thrown off the shack les of benighted creeds and outworn philosophies and probed by every tool at their command, in cluding logic and imagination to discover the secrets of the universe. Theories are contrived, studied, tested, perhaps rejected. For example the mystery of the origin ot the solar system is still being attacked. And one of the scientists who has contributed a new aspect of an old theory of its origin is Otto Schmidt, a Russian mathematician and astronomer. He ad vances the idea that planets were formed when a star moved through a dust cloud in space. Western astronomers are reviewing his reason ing, but his Russian colleagues at Leningrad, who discussed Schmidt's theory criticized the in ductive reasoning which he employed in devel oping it and said more work should be done on It. It is unfortunate for Russia and for the vorld that scientists there, who might otherwise have great freedom rf exploration and research; are now tied to thVwheel of communist ideology If there could be an interchange of ideas and association of scientists free of restraint some community of thought and interest might de velop between east and west. That apparently is what the Russians fear. "New Look" for Bankers' Hours Bankers' hours, so we thought, were like worn en's bathing suits, getting shorter and shorter. At the last session of the legislature bank rep resentatives appeared and asked for a law giv ing each bank the option of closing all day on Saturday. The assembly complied, so it was an ticipated that after July 16th no banks, unless it be a few in country districts, would be open for business on Saturday. But now comes a "new look" in bank styles. Instead of getting shorter, the hours of work per week are getting longer . . . that is for the First National bank's main office and branches in Portland. They will be open Saturday after noons. A forty-hour week for employes, with working days staggered to cover the full six-day operations. Saturday afternoon closing has been the cus tom for so many years that only the veterans will remember when Saturday was just another working day. But banking is business and busi ness is competitive; and if enough more custom ers can be served by keeping open to make it pay, why that's the ticket. On the income side it should be noted that interest runs full-time, with no time out for Sundays or holidays; but interest income is. not so important a factor in bank profits as it used to be. Service charges help to meet the expense. First Portland has set a pace in Portland. Up state bankers, long accustomed to Saturday af ternoons for golf, gardening or just loafing, are no doubt wondering if the "infection" will spread. f7&P I i "We have this detain Job ... a dollar -an hear If yea like the raoi en while working ... IS rents less If ym step to watch the televistea,' Teetotalers Unpopular In Portugal Another "Pipeline" Filled Like soap, nails and bathtubs teachers are coming into supply again. Our state department reports an abundance of applicants for high school positions. Dr. William H. Burton, head of Harvard's graduate school of education, told a Portland audience that fear of a depression Is turning more young people toward teaching as a career. Unless the economic cyclone Is too severe teachers have a pretty safe storm cellar in bad times. Teachers should be able to retain many of their "economic" gains. They aTe compactly or ganized; they touch home life intimately and so attract a large degree of popular support. But as the number of applicants for positions in creases school boards and administrators can be more strict in their requirements for good per formance in teaching. The Eugene city council voted to continue the one-way street grid system, but on a temporary basis pending further study and experience. The chamber of commerce recommended that final action be delayed. This would indicate that the scheme is still experimental for Eugene. Here the planning commission and the city council have given approval for one-way traffic only on certain streets used for state highway traffic. The Statesman still advocates making Ferry street one-way to High to reduce congestion. A $5,000 judgment was rendered in a Clatsop county court against the proprietor of the Tem ple Salon of Beauty at Seaside for permanent injuries caused a patron. If he had only called his place a "shoppe" instead of a "salon" he might have got off for half that figure.. Burma Admits Mess ftJade of Politics By Stewart Ala FANOOON. Burma, July 27 Anybody, when asked about the political situation 1q our coun try, remarked Try. remarKea ' -V"' il Burmese Pre- 'fV . 1 Nu r c e ntly. "will a n s wer that it Is an awful mess. There can be no other an swer." This ranks as about the f r a n kest statemen t on aranprs-ri Ke an chief of state S,rw-rt Al and also the most accurate. The situation in Burma is the messiest in Asia, which is saying a great deal. "Wet the mess is not, essentially, a .hopeless mess. It looks hopeless enough on the surface. What is going on in Burma is not so much a civil war as a kind of nation-wide riot. No less than five major groups and countless minor groups are taking part in the riot. To give some notion f just how messy the mess here it, the major groups may be briefly listed and described. One: The government, or what Is left of it. The higher officials of this government can be found crouching in a comfort able concentration camp, sur rounded by barbed wire and armed guards, in the suburbs of Rangoon. Even inside this concentration camp, as Thakin Nu has also plaintively re marked, the government offi cials sleep with revolvers under - their pillows. Such precautions are necessary simply because mast of their predecerxors have already been assassinated. These officials are not, by nature, violent men. Like Tha kin Nu himself (who has a strong and not unnatural desire to retire to a Buridhift monas tary) they are bockish left- wing intellectuals whose knowl edge of government, before they inherited power from the British, was derived wholly , from the printed word. They are now learning certain les sons which Were not spelled out in the socialist tracts they read In their university days. In the process of learning, however, they have completely lost con trol over the country they are supposed to govern. Two: The White Hag com munists. The communists were the first to take up arms against the government. This they did in the late spring of last year, at about the same time that the communists in India, Malaya and Indonesia also resorted to "direct action." obviously as part of Moscow's over-all stra tegy for Asia. The White Flag communists are the orthodox Stalinists, and their leader is Thakin Than Tun. a former friend of Thakin Nu. Three: The Red Flag com munists. These are led by an other former friend. Thakin So. Thakin So is called a Trotsky ite, but he is actually merely a proud fellow who refuses to take orders from Thakin Than Tun. The communists have also split into warring camps in Indonesia and India and - for much the same reason. This tendency Of Asiatic communist movements to split apart is in teresting, and may be signi ficant Four: The war-time resist ance movement, called the Peo-r pies' Volunteer association. The PVA, like everything else In Burma, has come apart, split ting Into the Yellow Band, un reliably loyal to the govern ment, and the White Band, un reliably allied to the White flag communists. The White Band and this again is a phenomenon common to all Southeast Asia consists large ly of young men who discovered during the war that it is pleas anter to call yourself a hero and to rob villages than to work. Fiva, and most Important, the Karens, Burma ; is a jumbled patchwork of races, and the three million or so Karens con stitute one of the biggest patches. The Karens are the best fighting men in Burma. Recently they came within an ace of capturing Rangoon itself. The Karens want a semi-autonomous state within Burma, which the government is will- Ing to concede in principle Tht trouble is that! the si2e of the state the Karens want grows with their military successes. The Karens are far more pow erful than the other groups fighting the government, and thus a settlement with the Karens is an absolute prerequi site to re-establishing the gov ernment's authority. All these groups are intermit tently fighting not only the gov ernment but each other. While this nation-wide free-for-all is in progress, the Chinese com munists are edging nearer the long, undefended Burma-Chinese border. Chinese communist chief Mao Tse Tung is ratably believed to have offered Thakin Than Tun a secret mutual as sistance pact last February. The pact envisages material aid from the Chinese "Peoples' Libera tion Army" in "liberating Bur ma. Thus it would seem reason able to assume that the new communist imperialism in Asia will swallow Burma as easily as a boa constrictor swallows a crippled lamb. Yet given certain conditions, this need not necessarily be so. The first and wholly essential condition is time, time to begin to clean up the "awful mess. Everywhere in Southeast Asia, but especially here, it is blind ingly obvious that any meas ures which may slow the ad vance south of the Chinese com munist armies are in the hard, practical interest of the United States and the whole western world. (Copyright. IMS. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) . . SSSf aHM ies. I have L . . n ST ird it said of I LI LI i that given, I I , 100 unlab- PW W By Henry McLemoro LISBON, Portugal, July 27 (Special) I wish I had money enough to take someone like Lu cius Bee be with me whenever I travel in countries where wine is the staff of life, and every one leans on it all the time. Mr. Bee be, by his own admis sion, is an au- thority on wines heard him say eled bottles, he can, first by McLeater sniffing them an dthen by tasting them, give their Christian names and those of their parents, their glove and hat sizes, their social security numbers, their golf handicaps and their favorite colors. Also, given a second sniff and a second taste, he can accurately provide information as to which side of the hill the grapes were grown on, whether they were gathered by a man with an aquil ine or snub nose, and their birth days. I could use Mr. Beebe here In Lisbon, because a man who says he wants water with his meals, not wine, is looked upon as some one who should be thrown to the nearest and meanest lion. The Portuguese don't even like to use water for bathing. They look up on it as a fluid which never should have been Invented, be ing scarcely fit for watering weeds. Not wanting to be mistaken for a gauche American, with taste buds of pure granite, I have been ordering wine with every meal, including breakfast I would much rather have coffee with my morning meal, but the wine steward at the hotel where we are stopping is such an imperious fellow that I do not dare send him away. You would be surprised at some of the wines I have come up with. I got a green-colored number the other day which tasted exactly as if it had been made of a com bination of felt hats (1923) and old "Keep Off the Grass" signs (1874). To say that it went well with the veal cutlet would be to tell a lie. o The day before that I had or dered a bottle which cost $8 and which gave my mouth the im pression that I was spraying it with DDT to rid it of mosquitoes. I should, of coursei have told the wine steward right at the start that I didn't know A from Adam about wines, and allowed him to select for me. But you know what false pride is. If you don't you're lucky. Happily, during my wine gam ble I did hit on several wines which pleased me, ones which tasted mighty good. I couldn't re member their names, or years, but I was smart enough to re member the pictures they had on their labels. My favorite has a little animal on top of the label. It isn't a bear, but it looks like a bear, so now when the wine steward comes around I say, with all the assurance of a Beebe, "Give me a bottle of that wine with the bear on it" Until he got around to under standing what I meant he brought me beer, not wine. Another wine I like has on its label a design that looks like a Phi Beta Kappa key. m never forget when I first told the steward that I would like some Phi Beta Kappa Key wine. He looked at me as if I were crazy. He said they didn't have any such wine. I said yes you do, yes you do. And I was right It took him nearly fifty trips, but he eventually came up with it. Another that I like it is es pecially good with leg of lamb has a label decorated with an owl. I feel mighty knowing and im portant when I say, "I'll have a Dottle of Owl, 1937." It would be nicer, though, to have Mr. Beebe along. Lucius, please come over before I get mixed up and order a bot tle of Laughing Hyena, 1919. (Distributed by McNaught Snydlcat. Inc.) U Ul t I I .a 1 fJ 11 ri rl I R ri I imp ana (Continued from page one) the cities might be combined without disturbing the county boundaries Willamina for in instance is situated in two coun ties. Representative W. W. Chad wick, former mayor of Salem, got a report from the League of Ore gon Cities on the laws covering annexations, etc. He introduced a bill in the 1947 session to permit cities separated by a river to con solidate by vote of each muni cipality. The bill passed, but it was found that where West Sa lem bordered the Willamette riv er was not opposite Salem's bor der, so they were not contiguous. Then the Kingwood water dis trict which had been formed com passing territory from the Polk county end of the bridge and up Kingwood heights voted to be come annexed to Salem. Thus a physical connection was formed which solved the legal impedi ment Mayor Elfstrom and the city officials of Salem have been very cooperative with West Sa lem, and this proved helpful! Now Salem will vote on the question of consolidation. The vote here should be equally de cisive in favor of a merger. The question is primarily one of un ification of government and ad ministration, putting the whole urban area under one municipal organization. The matter of in creasing Salem's size is inciden tal. In effect both are part of a single community. Hundreds of people live on one side and work on the other. Salem has consist ently worked to attract industries to settle on whichever side of the river seemed most advantageous. Good feeling has prevailed be tween the two communities. Sa lem, having in effect extended a hand to West Salem must now follow through with a cordial handclasp by voting for consoli dation at such time as the city council Calls an election. OSC Physicist Tells Rotary Of Cyclotron Place of the cyclotron In the study of atomic energy was de scribed to Salem Rotary club Wed nesday noon by Dr. James J. Brady, professor of physics at Oregon State college. . The college is now erecting a building to house a cyclotron. The Rotary club has just com pleted reorganization for the com ing year, under new president L. O. Arena. Heading the major club projects for the year are the following committee chairmen: Co burn Grabenhorst, club ser vice; Forrest Donkin, vocational service: Roy Harland, commun ity service; Tinkham Gilbert, in ternational service; Joe Dodd, pro gram; Ellis Von Eschen, classifica tion: Gregory Lancaster, attend ance; Harold Robertson, fellow ship; Harry Johnson, Rotary in formation; Ernest Crockett, pub lic information: Elmer Berglund, Rotary magazine; O. H. Lipps, sick committee; Lester F. Barr, finan ce; Melvin Geist, music; Maynard Sniffer, youth service: G. A. Ar buckle, child welfare; Chester Luther and Lloyd Lee, Boy Scouts; and song leader; Harris Scouts; Thomas McNeill, Cub Lietz, rural-urban affairs; R. L. Elfstrom, Willamette scholarship. Public Records DISTRICT COUET George Herbert Christofferson and Wilson James Dowdrick, both of Eugene, charged jointly with larceny, each fined $75 and costs. Edward Henry under, 607 ri. Commercial st, charged with driving while intoxicated, fined $250 and costs, 30-day jail sen tence suspended and placed on one year probation. PROBATE COURT Adolph Hansen estate: Final account hearing set for August 30. Ralph E. Sturgis estate: Order approves sale of personal prop erty. CIRCUIT COURT Blaine Brown vs John B. Car- kin: Suit seeks judgment of, $15, 000 for Injuries allegedly received in auto-pedestrian accident in May, 1948. In downtown Saler Ervin John Hardy vs Dorcas Jeanette Hardy: Order dismisses suit without costs. Rose Ditchen and others vs Frank Ditchen, Jr, - and Laura Ditchen: Decree confirms real property partition and parcels property. Francis S. Martin vs Fern C. Martin: Complaint seeking divorce charges cruel and inhuman treat ment asks that custody of a minor child and $20 per month support money be awarded to defendant Married Nov. 20, 1943, at Pasco, Wash. Fred J. Fery and Luella M. Fery vs Gardner Bennett and Wil lamette Valley Water company: Motion for new trial by plaintiffs denied. Joseph and Bertha Hendricks vs Gardner Bennett and Willamette Valley Water company: Plaintiffs' motion for new trial denied. Herbert Toland and Grace To- land vs Gardner Bennett and Wil lamette Valley Water company: Plaintiffs motion for new trial denied. Charlie M. and Catherine Fery vs Gardner Bennett and Willam ette Valley Water company: Plaint iffs' motion for new trial denied. Dorothy Patapoff vs Abe Pata poff: Default order entered. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Raymond C. Williams, 23. truck driver, Lynwood, Calif., and Paul- ene Krein, 19, waitress, 1070 Broadway st, Salem. R. F. Dunks, 49, trucker, Al bany, and Monzelle Lethia, 52, housekeeper, Scio. O A C LAND SALE SLATED PORTLAND, July 27 --Four parcels of O At C timber valued at $3,068 will be placed on sale Aug ust 16, the bureau of land manage ment said today. Three of the tracts are in Lane county and the fourth in Josephine county. REV. HOWELL ELECTED PORTLAND. July 27 -;P)-The Rev. E. J. Howell of Willamina was re-elected secretary of the Free Methodist conference today at the annual camp meeting near here. ROTHS RETURN HOME CENTRAL HOWELL Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roth and children ar rived home recently after a 30 day trip to Kansas and Oklahoma. V JuneoSi has HYDRA-MATIC' -and theres no thrill like it! Vets Borrow $11 Million in Two Months Oregon veterans during May and June borrowed $1,49600 from the state department of veterans af fairs to purchase farms and homes. This brings the total of loans up to $3,988,550 for the first six months of this year, the depart ment reported. While this was 24 per cent high er than the corresponding period in 194$ it was 17 per cent below the all-time high of $4,826,520 which ex-servicemen borrowed In the last six months of 1948. At the end of June, this year, 3,678 loans had been approved aggregating $14,436,229. The rec ord month was last September when 218 veterans obtained loans totaling $939,470. The act permits an applicant to borrow up to 75 per cent of the appraised value of the home or farm he is purchasing with a $6,000 maximum, provided he was an Oregon resident at the time he entered military service. The average loan has been $3,-930. The tin plate industry began in Bohemia In 1240. You are cordially invited to make this your downtown meeting place. Conveniently Located in Salem's Tallest Building Enjoy seeing the beautiful lenox China and a hundred lovely patterns of silverware including these famous names: Gorhem - Wallace - Smith Towle - Alvin Whiting International Lunt Heirloom - Reed A Barton Livesler Building Telephone 1-8118 State and Liberty BetterEngIish By D. C Williams 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "It is Just like I thought it would be. 2. What is the correct prounun- ciation of comatose 7 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Marital, pedestal, in stal, oriental. 4. What does the word "roseate' mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ex that means "state of re quiring immediate action"? ANSWERS 1. Say, -It is just as I thought it would be." 2. Pronounce kom-a-tos, first e as in en, a unstress ed, second e as in ste, accent first syllable. 3. Install. 4. Tinged with rose color. The roseate glow of fame Inspired him 9. Exigency. SOC PACE Why the Hospital Drive? Population of area served by Salem hospitals Beds normally needed for such a popula Normal bed capacity of hospitals in Salem Beds jammed into hospitals as of last nigh Serious cases awaiting beds in hospitals. 100.000 Who might need hospitalisation suddenly. Present margin to care for emergenci Hon 150 14 t 17 - 125 ANYONE NONE Congratulations And Best Wishes For Continued Success T Upon Completion Of The Beautiful Modernixation Of Their Store) Asphalt And Rubber Tilt Floors By