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1 trf t'TTf WiRim.j.HlW 4 Th gtetfTnan, Seism; Ortyry Hooqcrr? Act t f T 1 f 1 ' BACK FROM THE" Written by Dr. Heneaa R. i --i .11 ,-;'r,t v DEPTHSr E teres1 at the postaf flee at SaJesaf Oreg-ea. aa eece rvMlsbed every nerolng, Business office 111,8. U. S. Policy in Asia Picking up the theme of an editorial in Life magazine, the Capital Journal urges adoption ol an American policy for Asia, and inquires: "Hasn't Washington yet seen the crisis in Asia In its global dimensions?" It adds that "Non communist Asia can't wait much longer for lea dership from the world's greatest power." Very well, what should our policy be? Shall we do as Senator Know land and Congressman Judd have urged, send good money after bad in . the effort to prop up nationalist China? Shall we send out feelers -that we are ready to do business with the communists as the British appear to be? Shall we write off China as a tout loss and try to shore up the French in Indo-China and the British in Malay states, or to back some right-wing party in Siam? ' The state department has commissioned its staff members best informed on the orient and invited in others from the outside to help write a iew policy on Asia. Our own theory is that Its text will be written in water until, as Secre tary Acheson says, the dust settles in the far east. The point is that while the United States may propose, it is Asia that disposes. Surely no one even suggests that we should undertake direct military action in the orient. Short of that the decisions will be made by the people of Asia, f not ourselves. Global policy surely doesn't mean global bossing. Alien In cultures and traditions and language and economies, suspect as a western power in friendly association with those' whose colonial systems Asia resents, we cannot direct Asia's destinies; and our guidance will be extremely restricted. Our policy in China has failed because we backed the Vbsing horse, so it seems. Would we be any more lucky in picking a winner in Siam r Indo-China? Before we build the structure ef a new policy we must have some foundation on which to build. None is in sight just now.; Prad as the Dodo ' Why must they chew over and over again the eud of past triumphs? Afe the people archeologists that they must dig up the dusty fossils in America's memory books and animate the rattling skeletons in Our national closet? The I920's are a long, time ago. Yet some of the long extinct phenomenon that enlivened the pre-atomic age are being rivived to plague a nation come of age with the foolishness of jits adolescence. Bernarr MacFadden making a parachute jump the other day to show what an 81-year-old fan do sounds like something crawling out of the woodwork of a mouldy museum. Yet there are those who willibe impressed with this ridiculous Id man, just as there are those who will "watch the' papers eagerly to note the pro- Jress of the swimmers in the English channel. Irs. Dikki Morrow-Tait's year-long flight; a round the world in a single-engine plane is another of the endurance-type activities that seemed to delight people in the olden times. What dp. these meaningless events prove? Be tides the question of why people do these things Is the mystery of why people love to hear bout them. Perhaps it is because it carries them back to the days of their youth and they don't mind the spectacle an adult makes when " trying to reenact some juvenile trick. Perhaps It means that there's still an irrepressible spirit hi America, a spirit of adventure that hungers lor thrills however vicarious. If that is the case, then the rehashing of old exploits is a barren and insignificant waste of time. There are still new and untried fields for that spirit to conquer. Flagpole sitting and marathon dances are antique. Has anyone Chiang Unchanged by 'White Paper By James D. White AP rorU'n Affair Analyst WASHINGTON, Aug. 2k-0P)-' The state department's recent White Paper on China meant one thing here, but quite another in China. The difference is one of view points. ; To Americans, the most im portant thing about the White Paper was the way it branded the Chiang Kai-shek government in China as hopeless. To a great many Chinese, this was not news. In their mind, another part of the White Paper looked far more important. That was Secretary of State Acheson'a if commendation that America "encourage" anti-communist de . velopments in China. Since this point was barely mentioned, both sides in China have given in. the broadest, possible interpretation. Both the Chiang government and the communists show by their acUons they consider it a firm sign of American policy. , In the eyes of both, the White Paper may condemn Chiang, but only because he failed to serve American interests. It does not condemn the principle of up holding one side in another coun try's civil war in an attempt to use it in a global fight against Russian communism. That is the way most Chinese see our recent 'efforts in China. To them, the White Paper merely explains how Chiang didn't serve this country's purpose. Chiang Is responding with a fresh attempt to show Americans that he can serve their purpose If they will help him, that they - cannot afford to let him down, regardless of the p&st He seeks to de this by showing signs of fi&hUng the communists as they near his temporary capital at .Canton. Reports from there and Hung Kong make it plain that his I basic strategy is still the same to prolong the legality of his We Favor Suxrys C, Wo Fear Skatt Awt" Ptnt SUtetM. March t. U1 THE STATESMAN PUBUSHINC COMPANY CHni rs A SFRACtUE. Editor and Publisher reiaJ, Sales. si' mad a tarantula-swallowing record or tried to stay underwater for 24 hours or pushed t pea nut up to the top of ML Hood? Now, there's a challenge. There's a new world to conquer. Let's leave the decaying and dusty excitements be. Otherwise, that dodo will surprise us yet. $ ' 1 Barryniore in Hollywood Art, at op time something remote like the Sistine Chapel, and "Culture (formerly some thing as alien as cuneiforms) has moved into Hollywood to live peacefully beside kidney shaped swimming pools and yellow convertibles. Time's cover story last week was all about how rinemasters are looking for more than legs among the few actresses and more than fetch ing grins, among the male comers. This heartening information (no longer news) that Hollywood is but definitely interested in genuine acting ability is certainly not unrelated to Ethel Barrymore's recent 70th birthday cele bration. For the dowager queen of the Amer ican theatre and a few other aristocrats of her caliber have shown the movie pictures that th play is truly the thing and that the actors make it so! The Barrymore family gained its ascendancy with the growth of the legitimate theatre in this country. A century and a half ago there were only three notable theatres in the United States and by 1850 the number totalled about 50. That today Broadway and the little theatres all over the country are getting top billing as an art and entertainment form Is partly due to Louise Lane and John Drew, Miss Barry more's grandparents; Georgiana Drew and Mau rice Barrymore, her parents; John Drew, her uncle; Lionel and John Barrymore, and Lady Ethel hejrself. Miss Barrymore's first love is the theatre; she's been a success since 1901. But she does not regard the motion picture as a mere usurper in the age-old realm of the stage-play and living pageant."; The theatre has much to teach -the cinema and: in 13 pictures and during the past five years of her residence in Hollywood, the always charming and still beautiful grand dame has been a cool-eyed, vibrant-voiced In structor.! ' She has proved that in this so-called age of the corninon man, the artist ( who must' excel the average) has a place. Miss Barrymore's "successes" ; are not so important to her as the plays ir which she handled the role to Mr own satisfaction. (It is this artistic integrity which Hollywood has lacked and tried to make up for in flamboyance and appeals to the lowest common! denominators of its audience.) And yet, for alt her dedication to the best in art. Miss Barrymore Is no reclue in the ivory tower of inaccessible highbrows. Her interest in mo tion pictures, primarily directed to the masses, indicates that she remembers well Samuel John son's comment: , The stage but echoes back the public voice, '' The drama's laws, the drama's patron give; For jive that live to please, must please to live. Back 'from mountain-climbing in Iran, Jus tice William O. Douglas told an audience In Portland that we should back the "honest and liberal" forces of the middle east. Yes, but do they exist S in that backward portion of the world? ' ' Tom Pur cell, ex-Iowan who publishes the Gresham Outlook, has been elected president of Pacific Newspapers, inc., an organization of Pa cific coast newspapers. Tom is a progressive publisher whose abilities have long been recog nized la Oregon. Young republicans seem to be in the position of having their Cake and eating it. Eovernment until World War III reaks out and he becomes once again America's indispensable ally- i I 5 His efforts to stiffen resistance come at a time when his military outlook is darker than ever. His five areas of potential resistance are shaky. The reds have taken the geographic gateway to Can ton. Except for unreliable Can tonese troops, there is only one small army between them and the refugee capital. 1 Defense Chief Pal Chung-Hsl is holding now at Hengyang. but is likely to pull his troops off into hi native province of Kwangsi. where popular sentiment does not favor much resistance to the reds. . Yunnan province is quaking 'with Internal warlord and guer rilla tension. s !! The ' great inland fortress of Literary By Jaao L. Sarlager REST AND BE THANKFUL, by Helen Maclnnes (Little, Brown; $3) The two cosmopolitan ladies, riding in their luxurious auto mobile behind their Hungarian chauffeur, Jackson, ordered a wrong turn in the road. Instead of driving through to California, as they intended, they found themselves in a Wyoming rain storm for an hour. In! a Wyo ming ranch house for? a night and. .finally, In Wyoming for a summer. J Before they finished the sum ner. they bought and -sold - the ranch house, played hostesses to a colony of unpublished writers, oe of the ladies got herself en OCed to a member of the Strong. Silent type, the other revealed ad of miiw Mare 1. Um Oregon. Teleybeae t-t4U. V Szechwan province is about to be breached where invaders always breach it on its northern ram part by Red Gen. Pwig-Teh-HuaL He has another column cutting through the Moslems of the northwest like a knife through hot butter. , Chiang himself resumed full command of the overall military and political picture recently when he headed the new su preme defense council. If his five areas crumble on the main land, he can retire to Formosa to wait. From there be can continue the more effective air and sea blockade of red ports. This blockade has blasted red troops for a quick resumption of profit able foreign trade, and is help ing to drive red China into the Soviet orbit because the prob lems of conquest are mainly economic. Guidepost herself as the author of an earl ier best seller and discovered she was poor, one of their guests went to Hollywood, another went to the hospital, and the rest went to a party where the Indians danced in long, tight red woolen underwear. This Literary Guild selection for September by a Scotland born author is. in a sense, a eulogy of the Great American West and its people. When she chooses, Helen Maclnnes can write warmly and affectionately of her characters; she becomes quite friendly with the simple ranch hands. The Uupubushed Hopefuls fare poorly by con tra tt. All in all. the Wyoming sum mer enlightened the writers; it ala entertains the readers. "Y 't i Diamonds Said Thick as Fleas In South Africa By Henry McLesaere KIMBERLEY, South Africa, Aug. 21-(Special)-As casually as if he were a grocery clerk point ing out the season's first crop of golden bantam corn, my guide said, "There are about five mil lion dollars worth of dia monds on that table In front of Although 1 1 have long heard it rumored that !' honesty is the v best policy, and! that crimej, doesn't pay, I J was sorely tem pted to yell "Fire!" and, while my guide and 'the diamond sorters were rush up a handful of the stuff on the table and run, not walk, to the nearest exit. Had I not known that the dull, .soapy-looking pebbles on the table were diamonds, I would not have been attracted to them. A diamond until it is polished and cut is nowhere as pretty as an agate marble. Something else I learned here in Kimberley, which as everyone knows is the diamond center of the universe, was that a diamond is not a pre cious stone 'in the strictest sens of tha word. There are so many that If the sale of them was not regulated, and all that could be mined were turned loos on the market, every shopgirl could buy a handful of them for half of what she makes a week, and become a Peggy Hopkins Joyce overnight. The first thing that a visitor to Kimberley is taken to see is the Big Hole the original workings of the old Kimberley mine, where it all started in 167. The Big Hole, abandoned now, was once a farm, owned by two Boers, Diederick Arnoldus De Beer and Johannes Nicolaas De GRIN AND BEAR IT "Amt ImflitMi I ta fact, tt eeM be iM that I U M BIG l, FEARS Beer, and it has cost them a thousand dollars. They thought they were getting much the better of it when they sold their farm to the diggers for what was to them the fortune of $30,000. Smart boys, Diederick and Johannes. They had barely got ten out of 4he city limits in their oxcarts before the diggers, thou sands of them, started pulling diamonds out of the ground. Be for the Big Hole had finished its yield more than five hundred million dollars worth of engage ment rings, stomachers, and tiaras had come out of the old farm. All of the diamonds of Kimber ley now come from mines, sunk deep in the ground. If you didn't know that the bluish ground con tained diamonds, you'd feel that you were in a coal mine." When the earth is taken to the surface it is pulverized, then passed over giant pulsators, then washed and sifted, and finally, run over a machine containing grease to which the diamonds adhere. (I don't guarantee this to be a tech nically correct description of what a diamond undergoes,' but that is the way it looked to me. After all, I majored in tuba play ing, not engineering or mineral-" ogy) Unlike the natives who work in the Johannesburg gold mines, the present-day diamond mine wor kers are not allowed to leave their compounds until their terms of service are finished. And be fore they head back for their homes in the wilds, they are X rayed to see if they have lunched on diamonds before saying fare well. There is only one part of the Union of South Africa which is barred to the public. That' is on the northwest coast of the Cape Province, near the mouth of the Orange River and particu larly around Alexander bay. Dia monds are found in abundance in the water there, washed down by erosion. Nature has polished them, and they can be seen gleaming in the streams. The workers are kept behind barbed wire, and there is no such thing as a visitor. (Distributed by McNufht Syndicate. Inc.) By Lichty clPi ' i am a Its yer rest Asaerleaa . 1 JFH The Safety Valve CHOSE JL'GEE To the Editor: Maybe it was a hangover from the recent convention and the 40 et 8 highlights that produced your Cherchex Miss America. Any how, it was good. Our tongue rolled along after slithering over the title and then stopped sud denly at the first roadblock of French. With that inkling di gested, we rolled along again with the greatest of ease. Then we hit the nightmare. Our Web ster failed us, our Collegiate failed too. We racked our brains to recall our Parisian. We got to the bottom of it finally. Now, we felt, the rest should be easy. We were thrown again. Knocked our wind plumb out of us at the next road slide. You must be talking about a female, but whether she was undressed and scandalous, or just plain outre, we couldn't decide. We thought of all the English roots from our old word analysis, even the Latin and Greek, and nothing fit it. We asked a French man about it and he said that he had never used such things so it was beyond him. The wind-up, however, was superb. We could deduce that be cause it matched our own thoughts in any language. Sometime ago an editor of Collier's objected to writers us ing foreign phrases without giv ing the English meanings along with them. We can now under stand his quandary and dis tress, but as far as known, no editor has before gone so hog wild in borrowing such expres sive French. Maybe you were short of space for English. There was one thing you didn't think to call her femme fatale. On second thought, probably she wasn't that. t Sine Cere, E. O. Pond 404 S. High St (Ed. Note: All of the French phrases used in the Miss America piece are translated in the for eign words section of Webster's Collegiate.) Better English By D. C. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "He went back on his promise. 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "sacrilegious? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Amicable, animate, anihilate. 4. What does the word "indul gent" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with pa that means "childish"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "He failed to keep his promise." 2. Pronounces sak-ri-le-jus, a as in sack. 1 as in It, e as in me, accent third syllable. 3. Annihilate. 4. Yielding to the wishes of those under one's care. They are indulgent parents." 5. Puerile. Grants Pass Fire in Mill GRANTS PASS, Ore Aug. 21 -C-The Valley Lumber Com pany planing mill and warehouse was badly damaged by fire today. Fire Chief Homer Grable set loss at $25,000. . 1 Owners Jud BestuI and Charles Kudlac reported four trucks were destroyed along with the lumber, asphalt roofing, plaster board and paint stock. BestuI said an electric short circuit in one of the trucks may nave caused the tire. GOUT is perhaps the most fre quently unrecognized form of ar thritis. Despite the fact that its symptoms follow a typical pat tern, many patents suffer repeat ed attacks before their condition is diagnosed. Even the timing of the attacks is characteristic. The patient, usually a man in middle or ad vanced age gout seldom af fects women is awakened in the early morning by a severe pain in one of the joints, most frequently that of the big toe. The pain grows progressively worse and within a few hours the affected area may be so tender that the patient cannot even bear the weight of a sheet. Along with tenderness comes swelling and bluish-red discoloration of the skin over the join? A good many patients devekfp a mild fever. Fir&t attacks mar ".art for from two to ten days. Lafr or.es may persist for a longer period of time and several joints may be invol ved. Complete recovery from these attacks follows in most cases, but sooner or later the con- Hollywood On Parade By Gene Handsaker HOLLYWOOD Director Del mer Daves is up on a 20-foot scaffold with a color-film cam era. About 150 Apache Indians are acting in a movie scene with Jimmy Stewart on location near l Sedona, Ariz. Stewart rides into their camp on horseback. Daves calls through an electronic mega phone to the braves and squaws. The Apaches' own tribal judge, up on the tower with Daves, is interpreter. Judge Lester Oliver a soft spoken, full-blooded Apache, tries misdemeanor cases on his tribe's reservation. Some other Apaches have names like Pat rick Henry, Dudley Patterson, Charles Malone, and Luke Riley. The story is that many years ago U.S. agents, taking control of the tribe, found its members names unpronounceable. Tfte agents are supposed to have first assigned the Indians numbers and, later, names from the New York telephone directory. ' Judge Oliver and about 300 fellow tribesmen are acting in the movie, "Arrow." Their temporary village is in small cir cus tents. A white housewife from nearby is daytime nurse maid for infants while their mothers are away acting. Problems have been met as they arose. A studio driver sped 33 miles to Flagstaff and bought two dozen nursing bottles and nipples for infants. .Twentieth Century-Fox spent $400 to spray nearby ground, trees, and shrubs with DDT, to keep down flies. The caterer who is feeding around 600 whites and Indians at a .cost of about $3,500 a day found that the Apaches didn't like vegetables and did like sweets. The infants are strapped in cradles that the mothers carry on their backs. Most of the Indians speak English. All have attended the Friday night showings in their Oliver says. Jimmy Stewart found . his redskmned fellow actors "reserved" which is, of course, like Jimmy. Not until a week of shooting had gone by did a few, mostly girls of bobby reservation movie theatre. Judge sox age, ask him for his auto graph. When director Daves went to the reservation to se lect some of the Indian girls for extra parts, they came out wearing lipstick and bobby sox. The Indians receive an ave rage of $10 a day besides meals and lodging. The braves' bodies were bleached from wearing clothes the year 'round. For breech-ctout scenes, the make up man brought gallons of a cosmetic dye. Tomorrow: Headaches of lo cation shooting. n Angus! Special We Us Genuine VALLEY 37S SL mm oggebs 'SIMM oasis mmmgffQ l' an r dition reappears and becomes' chronic or long-ton tinued. Then,' following the acute attack, some symptoms remain, such as pain: or tenderness, some swelling or!' deformity of the joints. f In about half the cases of gout,' what are known as tophi may occur around the joint and in the ears. These are made up of de posits of the salt of the uric acids. X-ray examination is also of value in making a diagnosis of gout. : Gouty attacks occur mosl often' in the spring and autumn, and' may be brought on by some mild; injury, operation, oer-eating. ori the use of certain drugs, such as liver extract. The patient with an acute at-," tack of gout should be put to bed at rest, should be given some sa-; line laxative, and the nrug; known as colchicine as prescrib ed by the physician. Such drugs! as are needed may be prescribed to relieve the pain. Cold com presses may be applied as need-! ed. The diet should be regulated so as to eliminate the foods rich in uric-acid forming substances,! which are known as purines. These foods include liver, sweet breads, and similar meats. Liver extract should not be used. The giving of salicylates aids In elim inating the uric acid from the body. Large doses are usually: administered. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1 E. R.: What are "virus" colds? Is it a bad cold with a new name? Answer: All colds, insofar as is known, are due to a virus in fection. ( (Copyright. 1MB. Kinf Feature) Norblad Says Charge Against B-36 Unproven By Harry Sayder WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 .( Rep. Norblad (R-Ore) said today that the California phase of the B-36 investigation produced noth ing "to substantiate the charges against" the giant bomber. "It was similar to the testimony we heard here, said the house armed services committee member upon his return. "It was all In support of the B-38. A The committee is inquiring ini to decisions governing the strong air force backing for the great six-engined craft as the nation's mainstay in delivering aerial des truction. Testimony will resume tomori row with the air force's senior signal callers slated to testify. Joseph B. Kennan, special coun- ' sel for the house armed services committee, told newsmen he would have the senior officers board lead the list of witnesses this week. This is the group whose recom mendations led to the air force decision to step up the number and use of the long-range ship. Members Include Gen. J. T. Mc Narney, Gen. Muir S. ralrchild. Lt. Gen. Louis A. Craig and LL Gen. Lauris Norstad. Kennan made the committee's future hearing plans known upon return from the west coast where a subcommittee, headed by Rep. Price (D-Ill), questioned Gen. M. H. (Hap) Arnold and a number of aircraft manufacturers. Sil vert on Man Pleads Guilty to Theft Charge SILVERTON, Aug. 2 1 Richard Lyle Jensen of Silverton has plead ed guilty to charges of larceny of a wrist watch and $9.50 in cash from the C. C. HowelL Jr., re sidence here. The theft occurred in July. Arrested by local au thorities Saturday, Jensen was ar raigned before Alf O. Nelson, jus tice of the peace, and bound over to the grand jury. He was taken to Marion county Jail. 0 i: U$J ONLY OCNUMi FOKO PAJtTi AH piston rings replaced with new Genuine Ford Kings Carbon cleaned from evtta- dec heads Clean and adjust spark plugs Inspect benings and piston pins New cylinder head gasket , Installed Change oil Ford Parts Only I10T0C GO. 147