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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1949)
'9 j Ttar gtairrgaani lora Priory : - Fresa . . .. THE STATESMAN PUBUSfflNC COMPANY " CH.L httn4 at tlM Dostoffles st Salem. rabUshed every morning. Basinet The China Situation I The stats department has its own team of experts working on a new policy toward China, and has invited in outsiders who are informed on oriental affairs, lit is hard to see where the United States can write any policy respecting China because the controlling factors are still pretty much unknown quantities. About as good a statement of the situation as we have read is that by Nathaniel Peffer, prof essor in Columbia university and a frequent writer on international questions. His statement Is not new, having appeared in an article he wrote for the Delphian Quarterly last February. It is still pertinent however. In any event, there 4s nothing that can any longer be done by America or the Western world. Fortunate or unfortunate, the experi ment has to work itself out If China remains Independent, though communist, and order and stability can be brought about under the social -philosophy of a communism applied by the Chinese in accordance with the Chinese genius, -so much the better. If China becomes, as Ru . mania and Bulgaria, the echo of the voice of the ' Kremlin, the difficulties of America will be en hanced. In that event we shall have to take counter-measures of equal weight. We shall have to build the European bulwarks against Russia even stouter. But in any event the test will not come Immediately. Whatever course the Chinese communists choose to follow, there will be a long period that will have to be devoted Just to internal recovery and recon struction, to repair of the ravages of war and the reforms without which they, too, will lose the loyalty of the Chinese people. In that period they cannot add much to Russia's strength even if they should desire to do so. In that period, therefore, their accession to Russia, if they do accede, will not actually add materially to Russia's strength or, put tha, other way, add to America's dangers. The sensible course for America, therefore, is to wait and see, hoping meanwhile and simultaneously striving for a settlement with Russia which will leave unimpaired those guarantees and assurances developed over the centuries without which the peoples of Western Europe and North Amer ica find life intolerable. Instead of racing to define a new policy it rtill seems wise to let the dust settle in Asia, as Secretary Acheson advised some months ago . ' " ' Tenant-Owned Housing In a small city like Salemwhere the home owner is revered and public ( government-subsidized and tax-paid) housing is frowned upon as something faintly socialistic, the housing pro blem is best solved by the efforts of private builders. But private builders are seldom so elf -sacrificing that they will construct dwell ings for low-income families when they can felt $8,000 to $10,000 homes. , That leaves the poor people to make the best ef what they can get: jerry-built shacks, trailer eamps, old mansions converted into rickety apartment houses and projects like our veterans' housing group. They are condemned to eter nal tenancy, forever paying out the monthly rent and getting nothing permanent, nothing of their own, in return. How much better it would be if the low-income families could devote that rent money into home ownership. j The answer might be in a plan similiar to the government's new program for low-rent r pu blic housing which makes money available to communities for their own housing programs. uBut this would be a plan by which the ten ants might eventually own and operate the liv ing units themselves. The first steps, as In the federal program, would be up to the local housing authority. It would draw up plans and specifications for the proposed apartment-house units; let contracts and finance land-buying and building with long- British Economic Wounds Unhealed By Stewart Alsop LONDON. Aug. 12 It fa now startlingly clear that a bold new attack on the economic crisis which is bedevilling the free world , is essential if that world is to survive. Other wise one of two things is f0 V almost certain I to happen. I Either the! tff t world will free world will split apart eco- Stewart A Unp'J two great, mutually antagonis tic blocs - which means in the end that It will split apart po litically. Or the vast sterling nirea will simply disintegrate, and British power, the essential Ingredient of a successful at tempt to contain Soviet expan sion, will disintegrate also. These, in capsule form, are the views of most informed men. both British and American, in London today. Yet in this lovely summer weather. In this won derfully bright and gay and prosperous-seeming London. It is remarkably difficult to believe that anything is seriously wrong. The heart of London is so bright that it has an almost Mediterranean look. A water blasting process has stripptd the grime of centuries off the sooty buildings, and turned them white. Here and there is a crag gy, blackened reminder of the recent past but there is new fialnt everywhere, and there are uxury goods in the shops, and gay crowds in Hyde park, and a general air of all being well with the world. Here, the visit or might suppose, is the London of the great dars of power and prosperity "happy and glor ious, ever victorious." Every evidence of the senses the warmth of the sun, the .smell of summer in the parks, the red brightness of the new . uniforms of the palace guard Rfe&y jorg"f $ & ErT 1 VVn irs jtl'i JlVJ ! - - MIWNS (SM i I mNo Fmvor Stoayt U$, No Feat Shall A" first Steteeaaaa, March ZS, 1SS1 f St A SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher Onru. as sccsatf cUas autttr ander act af esngress March S. ,1179. sines XU 8. Csaunsrctal. Salem, term bonds. To expedite payment of the pro ject the government, as in its PHA program, might guarantee the loans, but the actual cost of build ing and operating the apartment houses would he paid eventually by the tenants them selves. Each monthly payment would be a share in the ownership of the building; tenants mov ing out could keep or sell their shares with the housing authority arranging such details. In the end, the tenants themselves would b home ' owner's. ! ;!'. Weekly with Editorials The Canby Herald is one of the weeklies of the state; that carries en editorial column, and what is more it is filled with good material very well written, the work we suspect of the fem inine half of the team of William G. and Myra Weston, publishers. Here is just a sample ex tracted from an editorial on the banal bill-of-fare of restaurant juke-boxes: We have been sentenced by the Juke-box kings to a 100 per cent diet of lovesick swain . songs, feminine lover -come-back-to-ma beg gars, dying cowboys remembering the sweet heart they'd loved and left, hard-boiled brag- : ging pseudo Texans wailing about the women they want and can't find, bum orchestras Cub bing their own interpretations of somebody's else ioterprepation of some score that ' might have been good before some ham re-wrote it that kind of stuff. Other editors of weeklies over the state should take their editorial duties more seriously. Too many either have no editorials or if they do devote the space To local puffery. Deep Freeze ? A perfume company presented General Harry Vaughan with a deep freeze . . . but it still smells. And when a witness testified that several other Washingtonians got similar units a "deep freeze": settled over the senate committee. ' Per haps members feared the names of some of the "club" might come out. The next day though names of Mrs. Truman, Chief Justice Vinson and others were added to the list. The bad aroma spreads. "Point of No Return" General MacArthur has declined to return to the United States, as was proposed in a re solution by Senator Knowland of California. The general said he believed , the interests of the American people could be better served if he stayed at his post "during this moment of cri tical events in the Far East." Bosh, he's not that Indispensable. The rea son he hasn't come home before is because pre sidents didn't want him back, or were afraid to recall him; and he likes it out there where he takes the place formerly held by the Mikado. He seems to have reached the "point of no return." j "Expediter" was a term that came Into com mon use during the war. Evidently Harry Vaughan took it on himself to become expediter to the expediter on housing, in behalf of his racetrack cronies. Did Harry have anything to do with expediting construction of Portland Meadows? 1 Via Mike DeCieco's "Star" we learn that a Nash Car will be raffled off at the democratle picnic next Sunday. Will not that stern law en forcement officer, Sheriff Mike Elliott, stop this lottery? j Sir Stafford Cripps is coming to Washington to discuss the "dollar crisis." Britain is no dif ferent from many Americans who suffer from the same ailment :ii "dollar crisis." seems to -belie the existence of a crisis. This fact. Itself deepens the crisis. To most Englishmen, ' the crisis Is not real, because it is invisible. It is figures on a piece of paper. It Is not an empty belly and the old hope less search for work. Yet It may soon become just that. A few figures. which r real ly as simple as Schoolboy arith metic. 4ell why. The whole ster ling area, which comprises a third of the world's trade, has a .gold and dollar reserve now little more than a billion and a half dollars. This shrivelling kitty is what keeps the economy of the sterling area ticking over. It is like the liquid reserve of a great bank. As with any bank, as the reserve shrinks frighten ingly. the depositors begin to panic trying every device to get their money out before it Is too late. j t Yet until viry recently It seemed (as it must have seemed to many about-to-be-ruined bankers) that the reserves would Just hold out, that the nervous depositors would calm down, that the bank ! would squeak through! The Vear 1943 was much better ' than i disastrous 1947. And the first quarter of this year was better still. With about a billion dollars expected from ECA and Other sources. H seemed pretty certain that the dollar deficit would be covered, and the vital reserve would hold , steady. j Then, with dramatic sudden ness, in th second quarter of this year, everything went ter ribly wrong. The annual dollar deficit rate (that is the yearly amount the British are spend ing in dollar countries more than they are selling in dollars) sud denly doubled, shooting up to two and a half billion dollars. It is only necessary to work a very simple sum to grasp the meaning of this! Take two and a half billion the rate of defi cit Subtract a billion what the British expected from ECA and other sources. You have a u . j f ju Oregon, Telephone -X44ir billion and a half. This Is Just about what is left In the kitty. Thus, at the present rate, by next June, there will be nothing left in the kitty at alL The bank will be bust. The whole great sterling area will tend to come apart at the seams. And the British Isles will be faced with something pretty close to total ruin. - This is the crisis. These are the figures which have sent Sir Stafford Cripps to a Swiss sani tarium, and which mean so little to the gay crowds in Hyde Park. The figures are probably not quite so terrible as they seem. Eventually, the British may get some of the extra share of Mar shall aid they have asked for. They hope to get more go!4 from South Africa. Cripps will trim dollar imports into the sterling area by some hundreds of mil lions. Devaluation may slow the ,ed flight jm tte pound, The impact of the economic dip in the United States may ease off. And so on. . . j . t j I This sort of thing may slow the drain on the last reserves, but it will not stop it Mean while, the drain continues, dol-, lar by dollar, like blood drip ping from an unhealed wound. What is heeded is a bold and "drastic operation to heal the wound. One sort of operation is 'obvious. It is to try to erect a separate and artificial econ omy, insulated against the mag netism of the American econ omy. This is, in fact, the direc- ' tion in which Cripps' dollar cuts. Stiffening 'controls, and bilateral deals are pointing, i There may be no alternative. But it is certainly worth look ing for one. For historically this sort of economic separation in evitably leads to political sepa ration. And there is nothing, no thing at alL which would more clearly assure the realization of Soviet ambitions than a sharp, angry split between, the United States and Great Britain. '(Copyright. IMS, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) a mr. m m mi. m w -as. i Traveler Finds France Shaking off Post-War Woes Faster than Britain By Wallace A. Spregae j (Editor's Bote: The author of this rtlcla ba two parts, a former nem kr of tka oSttoriml staff of Th Statesman, ts now uaafiaf eaitor of Parade Macazlao, a aaUoaally syndi cated newspaper supplement edited tm New York City. Bo spent fonr weeks in England, Prance and Switzerland d nrinc Jane and July.) No traveler making as brief a orney as I did this summer can tope to make a very complete or authoritative report on "con ditions" abroad. He can tell a few of the things that impresesd him, both about people and things, and leave the rest to the experts. That Is what I propose to do, so I've listed a few items under appropriate headings simply as notes. All I can say about them Is that they are the impressions of a tourist who saw Europe briefly before the war, rather extensively during it, and now again quickly four years after V-E Day. t Eaglaad: My dominant impres sion is that Britain Is better off than in 1949 but not too much better. There's no doubt that the ba sic economic problems of the British empire touch the man in the street and the American tourist in his hotel. The food is only a little bet ter than in 1943, but there isn't a great deal more of it, either In quantity or variety. True, the restaurants usually have ev erything they show on their menus (not true four years ago), and they sometimes will give you an extra portion of dessert or even of the main course. The five - shilling maximum ($1.00) still holds for meals, but house charges have increased.. As matters stand, one pays $2.00 or $2.50 for a slim meal of soup, rather scraggly fried chicken and ice cream, in a west end hotel. The service is excellent, but the rations are short. France, 20 miles away, is such a con trast! France Is Contrast The shops in Britain are full, and English friends told us that they could buy about what they wanted in the way of cloth ing, household articles, furnish ings, etc. The prices are high for them, however, in view of very high income tax rates (45 per cent minimum). London has brightened con siderably since the war, but mainly because of the efforts Literary THE BODY, By William San son (Harcourt, Brace; $2.75). Br W. G. Rogers Henry Bishop, a placid, con tented little man in bis com fortable forties, is pottering in his garden one afternoon when he, unseen, catches sight of a stranger gawking insolently up at the window of Madge's bath room. The window slams shut the stranger blows a kiss and walks away. : What's ' this, says Henry to himself, what's this? He and Madge married happily, or at least congenially, some 20 years, and this should happen to him! Madge calls him to tea; puzzled and disturbed, he starts in; the bell rings; there's the stranger, a Mica wberish creature and a new next-door neighbor . who has come to borrow a screwdriver. This back-slapping, hail-fellow-well-met neighbor, named Diver, cracks wise with Madge, who finds his stale jokes funny, and finally invites them to dinner. Henry's suspicions have been awakened and he nurses them diligently on the news of a con MODERN VfeRSION" of painters and not of builders. In the whole enormous area be tween St. Paul's cathedral and the City, wiped clean by a Ger man air raid in a single Sunday afternoon in 1941, we could not discern a single new business or office building going up. Signs promising immediate rebuilding of such-and-such a business premises were in place in several instances. The only thing was, the same signs had been there in 1944, and nothing has been done since. Only the signs are more weathered. Britoas Pleased at Progress British people, however, are rather pleased at the progress 1 that has been made, and feel that their capital is looking rather well in comparison with its di lapidated state right after the war. This is probably true, but to an outsider, it seems rather sad that more couldn't have been done. . " The people seem optimistio, but in a sort of determined, pur poseful way, as thought it were just as necessary as it was dur ing the war to keep a stiff upper lip and a bold front. It probably is, for that matter. We met dissatisfaction with the Labour government. People whom I had known in the Brit ish services four and five years ago were pretty outspoken in hoping for an end of socialist government and some of them had voted for it, or at least watched its advent without alarm. No Good Words for Attlee Even more striking was the number of taxi drivers, bus col lectors, clerks, etc., who seemed to have no good words to say for Attlee & Co. But. frankly, it seemed to me that the U. K. was in the same position as the U. S. last yean much oral dissatisfac tion with the way things were going politically, but broad, quiet support for Labour which would show at the polls. After all, the Tories haven't given the people free glasses and dry cleaned their new wigs free of charge. (Perhaps I should emphasize here that no 10-day visitor can expect to form very worthwhile views on any such intricate sub ject as this. But. as I remarked earlier, these are notes, not a consensus of authoritative opin ion.) y Franee: So near and. yet so ' far! Britons flying, as we did. Guidepost versation between Madge and Diver, Diver's touch on her arm at the dinner party, Diver's mo mentary disappearance with her, and other signs of a growing, or indeed achieved, tatimacpb-Wbat signs he does not see he imag ines; and when circumstances might be interpreted either as exonerating Madge or convicting her, he chooses the unfavorable meaning. He makes friends with Diver's friends so that he can spy on bis wife, and he lays traps for her. His ease against her proves to be good enough for a gullible man like himself. The reader may not I be so gullible. This seems to roe an af fair of jealousy thought out rather than felt Sanson's un usually comprehensive command of English proves what he has to prove, without however persuad ing me. Ifs a sort of synthetic, manufactured jealousy,' not the kind that eats out a loving hus band's heart. Henry argues his way into misery, be doesnt sink into it It's a remarkably neat and irrefutable argument, but jealousy isn't arguable. 1 1 2B7PAA the hour and a half run to Le Bourget in Paris leaving the dull,, grim atmosphere of cur rency shortage and post-war privation to find themselves in a true city of light and plenty. Food Plentifal 'The food, as always in France except during the height of the wartime black market is tops. These days, steak is on every menu as one of the medium to lower priced Items that means from 90 cents to $1.50, depend ing on the restaurant It comes garnished with great squares of melting butter and swathed in fried potatoes and watercress. It Is as though all the world had plenty of meat lots of time, and a good appetite. In France, all these things are ' true. Briefly, France has, plenty to eat and as any reasonable na tion would do. Is eating it But that is not to say that France seems irresponsible or slacking. I happen to admire France and the French, but even it I didn't I should have to admit that they give every evidence of being a hard-working and prosperous nation in 1949. I was told by some friends connected with ECA that many changes have occurred in France within the last six months: that food has become plentiful and inexpensive only recently, that gasoline has been broadly avail able only for- about this long, that enterprise has really flow ered only since American aid began to move in French eco nomic channels. Large Crops This Year With or without U. S. aid, France seems to be tending very large crops this year, the people do not seem to lack employment and there is an air of more un fettered, optimism than in Brit- We had a week end in the chateau country of the Loire at the town of Blois (pop. 15,000). I noticed that some young men of the USAF or the RAF had neatly removed about five arches from the local stone bridge across the Loire some five years ago, and in doing so had re moved about 30 per cent of downtown Blois. This summer, the Bloisians (or whatever they are) had finish ed redoing their bridge, and were rebuilding their business buildings, not one by one, but seemingly all at the same time. The place was full of stone cut ters, l masons, hoists, and ex-GI bulldozers. One had the im pression that Blois hadn't been so busy since Francis I redid the chateau on the too of 'the hill over the town. And that was 400 years ago. It is worth noting that the French monuments remain as they always have, in fairly (but not exceptionally) good repair, but always accessible to the public and usually equipped with well-informed guides who operate at very .slight expense. This means much for sight-seeing. (To be concluded In Sunday's Statesman.) j APPLES KEADY TO SHIP HOOD RIVER, "Aug. 12-flV Twelve cars of gravenstein apples were 1 about ready for shipment from here today as the harvest got into full swing. The Bartlett pear harvest wil be near Its peak in the valley next week. TO RESUME SHIPMENTS k ASTORIA, Aug.! 12-WVTwo ships will load wheat every month here in the next few months in the resumption major peacetime grain shipments from the port. ' NbTiyivbod On Parade HOLLYWOOD Nostalgic, simple tunes are the things to day if you yearn to write music. This I get from Ray Evans, who composes songs, and Curt Mas sey, who sings 'em. "Nowadays, says Ray, "people want to clap hands and sing Take Me Back to the Lone Prairie'." He thinks if s partly due to the new popu larity of square dancing, partly to the general feeling of nostal gia. "People seem to want to live SJOOOS CDDEB (Continued from page one) Hayden. to desert the republican party which had denied him re nomination in Marion county. The Hayden family, Oregon pio neers, were democrats, his grandfather, Judge Ben Hayden, being a staunch democrat The state retirement act re quires that state employes be re tired at age 85, unless the ap pointing authority certifies to the retirement board a request for their retention. This was done by the tax commission in Kelly's case. When the highway depart ment employed Ralph Watson, retired Oregon Journal writer, as informational representative, it entered into a contract with him, which didn't go through the civil service commission. (This contract wasn't preceded by any "call for bids). Vic McKenzie, Salem's gift to national Legion politics and to the national distillers' institute, threw a party during the Legion convention last week. For "live bait" he honored Gov. Douglas McKay and Department Com mander Kelley Owens. That really wasn't necessary though. Like any good drummer Vic brought along his samples. Announcement is made that E. L. Peterson, state director of ag riculture, will not serve as sec retary of the board when it sits to consider milk problems. There's a story behind that. Pe terson had felt that the law re quired him to serve in that cap acity. Those active in farm and milk affairs called for a clean break. -After some inside man euvering Peterson agreed to bow out The board still has to face the problem of selecting a per manent milk administrator. Your IKlealth In elderly people, what are known as cerebral vascular ac cidents are by no means infre quent Changes in the blood ves sels and circulation which come with old age are fundamentally responsible for all such incidents, including bleeding into the brain, the ; occurrence of an embolism, or the formation of a clot in one of the blood vessels of the brain. Doctors speak of embolism when a bit of material, such as a blood clot fragment breaks away from its original location and travels through the blood stream to lodge in some other part of the body. Anything which affects the brain is serious and when any of the conditions mentioned above occur, the first concern is to save the patients life. Once this danger has been overcome, it is necessary to employ treat ment for the after-effects. During this first stage, skill ful nursing is important The patient should be in a quiet room, should be given fluids and nourishment by mouth, if poss ible; otherwise fluids must be given by Injection into a vein or under the skin. The patient's position in bed must be changed frequently. Sedative or quieting drugs are used carefully and opiates avoided altogether. In jections of solutions into a vein or into the rectum may be of value If there is increased pres sure in the brain. These solu tions contain a greater amount GRIN AND BEAR I Otr of PT tC. i I dsmp! oeBSsaBssse mm ' t WWkW I 111 seBsspaasauBBsoaBB Wa tha . . . what aart of bmsJsmcs aataivsla we-ald m Ukef . . "0m cbeerfal finding, ear eaalieBs ptlmlsm ar ear dark aatleek . . "t" ' In-the vest Today Is -too tmb lent jf Long and lanky Ray, with bis fi longer and lankier pay Jay Liv- $ ingston, wrote "Buttons andl Bows". The prolific pair have 1; nine melodies forthcoming in f movies not yet released. "If one a song's a hit, we'll be happy," ! Ray says. He thinks his and Jay's P "To Each His Own", a big hit a few years back, "would be a V dud on today's market" f: Massey, who's dark and curly-1 haired, is heard on seven coast- to-coast broadcasts a week. Re-! laxing over a post-broadcast cup H of coffee, he drew his two little I fingers across the table in the ' path of a V. "Folk and popular song types are converging," he said. "There's been a lot of sophistication. Now the public: wants a more simple type of mu- , sic. Burl Ives is an indication of " I the likes of people generally. i Nowadays you hear Jo Stafford singing a folk song like 'Barbara Allen'. Or take the song "Care less Hands', which has a folk-: song type pattern. Both the west-1: ern and popular artists perform, "What am I asked most often to sing? Oh, songs like 'Powder Your Face with Sunshine' a set of chords you can sit down and play with a ukelele. And 'Need You' very simple melodic lines. Cruising Down the River' you " don't have to hear it seven times before you can sing it. A lot of waltzes are coming back in, like Forever and Ever and 'While We're Young." Among bands most in demand,': Curt says, are the sweet and smooth aggregations of Russ Morgan, Art Mooney, and Guy Lombardo. Massey thinks bebop is on the way out. "I'm like Tom my Dorsey I think it has set music back 50 years. I defy you to tell who's playing what. It's too fast, too progressive. It's an advanced treatment, instrument ally', of what we used to call scat singing. It's based on the flatted fifth." Better English By D. C WlQlams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "She is a grass widow." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "irrefutable"? 3.. Which one of these words is misspelled? Mamoth, manacle, malady. 4. What does the word "guile less" mean? ; 5. What is a word beginning with lna that means "exhaustion from lack of food"? ANSWERS ! 1. This is slang. It is better to say, "She is a divorced wo man." 2. Pronounce Ir-e-fut-a-bil, i as in it e as in me, as in use, a unstressed, and ac cent third syllable. 3. Mammoth. 4. Free from deceit or treachery. "The boy was young and guile less." 5. Inanition. Written by Dr. Herman N. Bandensea, MJX of salt than is normally found In the body. Their effect Is to cause a loss of fluids from the : uuuj, dui cxcessivu amounts ; must be avoided. 1 Surgical removal of the blood! clot may be necessary in some; cases. In certain types of hem-; orrhages, removal of some of the fluid from the spine may; be helpful. , j These cerebral vascular accl-j dents frequently result in para-; lysis; hence, after recovery from: the acute condition, efforts must; be made to restore the function in the paralyzed arms and legsJ Massage and movements of the' arms and legs are helpful. The patient is encouraged to use the paralyzed muscles insofar as possible. Unduly prolonged ex-? ercise will be tiring and should be avoided. As the muscular activity returns, active exercise may be carried out. As soon as advisable, the patient Is allowed to be up in a chair for grad ually longer periods. I If disorders of the speech are present, speech training may be of help. I QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS H. H.: What is the propef treatment for ankylosis? Answer: Ankylosis means movement of a joint is lost, due to the formation of scar tissue. Operative treatment is neces HI IU AUCW WAV IU, orthopedic specialist should be consulted. ! f (Copyright. IMS. King Features J Syndicate. Inc.) ; IT By Lichty lTf OlP "xr I -J fhsor it
