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i ... j - -:!- ; ' . - - ' - ;f ! . .14 - JU-rfc 'fifcgQqtf Cdot: tejr TV lift No Favor Tnm First States. March tMi IM1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHHIJM A RPRAGljE. Editor and Publisher Enteral at th Bstrfle al Salem. Oregon, a oecood class matter uder act af erarrtSB March S, 1171. rabllsbed every mrvtn- Bastaem trie ZLS & Commercial. Slem, Oregon. Telephone 2-2441. Xhe BriUsh "Comet" J Tjme flies, all right. But the British have a new airliner that flies faster than time. f When BOACs De Havilland pure-jet "Cometj tarts regular transatlantic crossing in 1952j passengers will in New York a half hour before they leave London. Thafs when there's dayligty saving time. On standard time they will get to the U. S. a half hour after their departure. This magic is made possiDie Dy a coinuinauuu vf. two factors: (1) The eastern U. S. time belt is ,75 degrees west of (and five hours slower than) England's Greenwich zone and (2) the Comet flying 500 m.p h. at 40,000 feet can make' the London-New York hop in five and a hall hours. .1 This spectacular achievement, which airmeh uSf will revolutionize civilian plane travel, Is a concrete demonstration that Britain is no down-and-outer when it comes to imagination and workmanship. Financially John Bull majr be on skid row buthe can still hold his own in courage and inventiveness. f Some details about the Comet's manufacture are secret. Nimonic is the name of an alloy used for jet and turbo blades but its composition Is carefully guarded. Another British invention used in the Comet i"redux" welding which eli minated rivets and conventional weldfng. The plant is rammed forward by four "ghost" jftt engines and is equipped for rocket-assisted take offs. It has backswept wings and landing flaps as big as barn doors. It burns kerosene and oil and can carry 20 passengers. A way to refuel the plane In case of bad weather or prolonged 'stackin" (hovering over an airport whn traffic postpones landing) has yet to be worked out. The British people can rightfully be proud of their first all-jet liner. It should be a needed morale-booster, a proof that British ingenuity is not exhausted. No More Wood Waste j The day when the lumber industry will fre known as the forest products industry is not far off, Stewart H. Holbrook, widely-knovfn j . .4 Un r-r.A',im in an artlpla in THinV It"KUII iiuuiui, pcuiiu in ... -......, the IBM magazine. j Time was when trees were measured by hciw many board feet they wojuld produce. That was when sawmills could hardly burn up the "waste" sawdust and bark and splinters fast enough to make room for new piles. But that benighted era, happily, is past, for science has discovered ways to use almost every part of every tree cut and there is no longer any excuse to consign to the scrap heap material which can become anything from a lipstick holder to 180-proof ethyl alcohol. Lumber today is only one of an almost In finite variety of forest products. A plant J in Longview uses Douglas fir bark to make a base 1 for insectitcides. a glue extender, a soil can- ditioner and several plastic powders. At Camas they are using (waste) lignin (one of the tWo components of wood, the other is cellulose) j to make highway surfacing. Insulators and fibre blankets and boards are made from whole bal sam trees in Minnesota. In California, sawdust phenolic resin and treated paper are com bined to make tops for tables and counters. Rayon made from wood and wool made from ' wood are the forest's contribution to the textile Industry. Stock feed, lubricating oil. cosmetics and other products from wood are in experi mental stages. Pres-to-logs are profitably made In Salem from sawdust. ii Bipartisan Foreign Policy to Mend Br Joseph and Stewart Also WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 In the, avalanche of bad news from abroad, it Is at least comforting to una a mu good news her at home. The good news is that something has at last been don to restore the old close collab oration between the state depart ment and th foreign policy leaders in con- c-i l: II . Kress. Ana ui Jopu Also news isalso important news. For the breakdown In bi-parti-un collaboration on foreign t policy, which occurred early this year, has contrib utcd to -f'"mtm0'? d to V- "V ,h"j. mci the growing pa ralysis of Amer lean p o abroad. The key man In the new ar rangement is Sen. John Foster Dulles,: who would have been Thomas E. Dew ty's secretary of ML Stewart KUH itate if Dewv badbeen elect- ad. Dulles is the middleman in an elaborate triple- pla. The foreign policy ball is thrown by the state department to Dulles, and by him to Sen. Arthur Van den berg, who throws it back along the same route. Dulles confers regularly with Secretary of State Dean Ache oti. Ambasssdor-at-Large Phil ip JesRup, Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rush, and other pol icymaking officials. He then con fers in' turn with Vandenberg and other republican leaders, and reports back their views to the state department ; -v -, This triple play is necessary , for childish but compelling rea- 4ons. Foreign relations commit ee chairman Tom Connally bit- terly Presented Vandenberg's in- Sway vi No Fear Shall AwT Scientific logging, management and fir fighting are 11 helping to assure the Pacific Northwest a perpetual timber resource and utilization; of wood wastes makes certain that every tree: cut is put to use. "No Sale" for Astoria Naval Hospital ; The Ast'orian-Budget laments. the impending fate of the naval hospital near Astoria. It says the plant would have made a fine junior college, of an excellent hospital or home, and regards its probable demolition as "tragic." It is regrettable that the facility can find no takers; and users; but the state's experience with the fKlamath marine barracks stands as a warning of the heavy cost of operating and maintaining these federal war-built plants. They were thrown up for particular uses, with little regard for cost. The expense of heating the various buildings, of painting and roofing is so great that the federal government is about the only one that can foot the bills. Better -for the state to start its institutions new, designed in proportions to meet its require ments and constructed for permanence. That is economy in the long run. Alcoa Leases Lands It look as though the Aluminum company will go ahead with the mining of laterite, aluminum-bearing ore, in the Columbia-Washington county district. Its subsidiary, Alcoa Mining company: has bought lands and entered into leases with Columbia county in the vicinity of Columbia; City, which indicates that its explor atory work has satisfied company officials. This work has gone forward for several years, with Hillsborq as headquarters. Surveys were made to get the range of the ore and its probable quantity, and tests were made as to its utiliza tion for aluminum metal. No announcement is made as to when mining will start. The leases run for 50 years. When this source of raw material is tapped and re duced tq alumina, it will no longer be neces sary for ;the company to supply its Vancouver reductiori works with alumina from gulf coast plants. A completely integrated aluminum in dustry will become possible in the northwest. For yriars the presence of iron ore in Colum bia county was known, and various attempts made to: attract users of it. It was the state department of geology and mineral industries which made the first report on aluminum-bearing ores-in that section. This brought Alcoa into it exploration of the field. If mining fol lows on the scale indicated, the flow of wealth will mei?t the cost of maintaining this small state department, many times over. Oregon's great deficiency has been in mineral wealth. Now there is a chance to realize on some pre viously I'hidden" assets. i The Cottage Grove Sentinel reports that Lt. Col. W. R. Lalonde of the weather station at the Cottage Grove reservoir, predicts well have a wt fail. If the rule of compensation prevails that's what we'll get, because the spring and summenhave been unusually dry. Lalonde says the rains should begin in the northwest in Oct ober arid spread southward slowly, reaching .southern California by the end of November. If any prediction is safe it is that rains will start in September or October and grow heavier as winter advances. Get your wood in, your roof patched, your downspouts cleaned out. Rain is on the way,. timate partnership in making foreign policy. The White Hous also disliked! Vandenberg's role, since it detracted from Presi dent Truman's luster. The state department is less independent of the White House than in th past, and, it rather" naturally fear's Connally's wrath, since. 1 Connally's co-operation Is essen tial. - Thus the bi-partisan V system has until recently been . allowed to fall lntb disuse. The new system ' of using Dulles as la channel came into being after a recent meeting be tween Acheson, Vandenberg and Dulles to discuss the military aid program. It is not a formal arrangement. Nor is it in any sense an J attempt to undercut Connally. 'Connally does not re sent Dulles' role, since Dulles is a freshman senator, who is al lowed to f sit in on the foreign relations Committee meetings as a courtesy. But. without: under cutting . Connallr. the new sys tem does: permit a prior ex change of views between the state department and the repub lican leaders. This private wash , ing of dirty linen is essential if foreign policy lis not to: founder In petty party squabbling. ' - u i f i - , The appalling dangers which arose from the abandonment of the old bi-partisan system are illustrated by the history of th administration's version- of the MAP hilt Neither Vandenberg, Dulles, or any other republican had seen: the bin before It was dumped in the senate's; lap, and neither, as a matter of fact, had Connallyl or any of the demo crats. And the fate of MAP is now in serious doubt. It has been jeopardized by this failure to iron out points of disagree ment beforehand, to wash the dirty linen in private, i :S j:3 The bill has now been com pletely redrafted In committee, and Vandenberg and Dulles have inserted : a number oil amend ments designed to appease th economy - isolationist bloc. This appeasement would probably be unnecessary ,if there jbad been ,1 fatesmau prior consultation on the bill to start with. And it now begins to seem that appeasement will not be enough. There is very little likelihood that the bill will be passed before October. And there is every likelihood that it will be passed in so lacerated a form that it might better not b passed at alL Another growing danger has also jeopardized the fate of th military aid program.. For th intimate partnership between the state and defense depart ments, which used to be th second of the main props of American policy, has been dan gerously eroded. The secret tes timony in executive session on the bill revealed clearly that th state and defense departments had not really agreed on the purposes of MAP. There was at least one major contradiction between the testimony of Ache son and that of Secretary of De fense Louis Johnson, and other apparent disagreements between lesser officials. For the fact is that even with in the two departments.no final decision has ever been reached on American strategy In Europe. There is no real agreement on whether American policy is de signed actually to place western Europe in a position of defense, or whether the Atlantic pact and MAP are mere psychologi cal gestures, like throwing fish to seals. And this indecision plays right into the hands cf the congressional isolationists and economizers. ' It is good news that something is at last being done to restore the wholly essential bi-partisan collaboration on foreign policy. But the curious triple play de vice described above may yet prove a slender reed to lean on. For the signs are that the presi dential cronies are moving in more and more on the foreign policy field. And without bril liant executive leadership, the paralysis which is beginning to grip American policy in the face of mounting troubles is sure to become complete. (Copyright, 1W. New York Herald- inwn, inc.) i 4 ETCP 033JJQB RJffiQCS (Continued from Pag One) were included In more than one list. j George Orwell's a r r e s ting "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was a choicej of three: William Faulk ner's "Intruder in the Dust and Hop Mintz "The Golden War rior"; and Storm Jameson's "The Moment of Truth" of two each. Others? were "single shots." This; spread of Interest will be reassuring to the authors who will be happy to know that ONE contemporary has read their latest book. Indeed, as one re spondent wrote "Certainly we ought to read our contemporaries. If only be cause we ought to take in each other's washing. Who will If w will not?" The. novel I hav just finish ed reading, John P. Marquand's "Point of No Return," is th choice of Pamela Frankau, whos book, "Th Willow Cabin," has just been published. She gives a brief but accurate critique of the latest Marquand product In these words: "Of these four, I choose to talk about 'Point of No Return because I should advise any Eng lish person who wants to learn the tkste. touch and feel of the United States to read this book as a first lesson. Marquand is, to my mind, a better satirist than Sinclair Lewis because he has compassion. He sees with X-ray eyes, but he does not hate. ; The Englishman will al ways! be baffled by the sacred importance attached to Business in the United States. Marquand portrays this mystique, with all its absurdities, compassionately and makes it understandable. He Ii, I believe, far more im portant than his popularity would lead one to suoooe " I found the flashback In "Point of No Return" to the storyj of "Clyde, Mass. a bit boring because of its length, though its characters were etch ed with fidelity. 1 Other titles on the reading tables of the novelists are: "Scott King's Modern Europe" by Eve lyn Waugh; "Guard of Honor" by James Gould Cozzens; "The Naked and the Dead by Nor man Mailer "It Mav Never Hap pen"! by V. S. Pritchett: "Day without End" by Van Van Praag. A 1 newly-published work j of fiction by Elizabeth Janeway will attract the interest of those familiar with her previous books, "The Walsh Girls", and "Daisr Kenyon." The new one Is "The Question of Gregory", which as James A. Michener says "portrays the increasingly common American male who has lost the capacity to love." John CHara's "A Rage to Live", his first novel in 11 years, is in the bookstalls. It is quite a detailed chronicle of life in a prosperous but provincial Pennsylvania .town. True it is that "of the' mak ing of books ther is no end." Perhaps as folk "hang up th shovel and the hoe at the sum mer's end they may find in some of these titles refreshment of mind and solace of spirit, f Sphagnum (peat) moss is anti septic: and objects like logs, cloth and even bodies buried in it are prevented from rotting and times' preserved for centuries. Your Mealth Sometimes the relatively mild, long-continued dis orders are more difficult to clear up than a sharp, acute illness. This is cer tainly true of the nasal stuffi ness which affects so many peo ple in this country. Thus, anyone who sets out to get rid of this nuisance - making condition should be prepared for a long period of treatment which may require the services of both fam ily physician and specialist. Nose-blocking discharges may come from several causes, th most common of which is prob ably allergy. Other responsible conditions include sinus infec tion, enlarged adenoids, and bending of the cartilage which divides the nose into two cham bers. In cases du to allergy, sneez ing, headache, a stuffy feeling in th ears, and a watery discharge from th nos are prominent symptoms. This discharge often contains a kind of white blood cell known as th eosinophil. Among th things to which pa tients may be sensitive are pol lens from various plants, foods, cosmetics, animal hair, hous dust, cold, and heat. Th lining membrane of the nos may b red and swollen at first, but gradually it becomes pale. Treatment consists in finding th things to which th patient is sensitive. One found, contact with them must b eliminated. Meanwhile, drugs known as anti histamine preparations can be used to give temporary relief, but they should not be relied on in definitely at least not in most cases. In cases of allergy, the offend ing substance is thought to stim ulate th formation of excessive Literary Guidepost By W. G. Sgers SHAKESPEARE, by Ivor Brown (Doubleday; $4) As this author admits, ther have been enough, books about Shakespeare to fill a library, and a lot more about Bacon, De Vere and other pretenders to his in effable glory; even so, this is a very welcome addition to our knowledge of the man and more importantly to our enjoyment of him. In. another 15 years we shall be celebrating the 400th anni versary of his birth. But we shall know no more then than now. The facts are few: Day of baptism, of marriage, of the bap tism of his twins, and finally, beginning in 1592. references to London successes, the appearance of "Venus and Adonis" in the following year, and from then on the dramatic record itself. It is to the dramas that Brown has returned in this lively study. "Every man fights for his own Shakespeare," he claims, and he presents his, a full-bodied, indi vidual and credible person, on th evidence of the poetry and drama themselves. He writes on what seems to be th perfectly reasonable assumption that there is no less autobiographical ma- terial in Shakespeare's works than in those of lesser creators. For instance, ' the bard ' was brought up in the Stratford country where the diet at least in wintertime was salted meat, with only cabbages, leeks and onions for vitamins. And true enough, in the plays this meat eating author mentions cabbage and turnip once, and sprouts, cauliflower, carrots, spinach not at all There are five shipwrecks in the plays, and Shakespeare is supposed to have been for a time a seafarer. Coming from litig ious Stratford, and with some first-hand information about butchering, he frequently uses Written by Dr. Herman M. Bondensen, BUX. amounts of histamine in the body. It is the histamine that causes the discomfort associated with al lergy and hence the antihista mine drugs, which act to neutra lize it, give relief. Sometimes the patient can be made less sensi tive by giving him injections in gradually-increasing amounts, at one- to seven-day intervals, of the substances to which he is sensitive. Inflammation of the lining membrane of the nose may be due to emotional or glandular disturbances. Thyroid extract is helpful in some of these cases. Stuffiness in such patients Is most likely to develop during the maturing period, during preg nancy, and during the change of life. Dust and dampness often cause nasal inflammation. A change of occupation or change of climate may help give relief. Chronic sinus infection with nasal discharge may require sur gical treatment. In children with a stuffy nose, an examination to determine whether or not adenoids are present is advisable. If they are present, they should be removed surgically. Bending of th nasal septum may block off one or both sides of the nose. If the condition con tinues long enough, the lining membrane of the nose may be come thickened. Straightening of hte septum and removal of the thickened tissues bring relief. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS E. J.: How long does th change of life last? Answer: Symptoms du to change of life may persist for several years, or longer. (Copyright. IMS. King Features Syndicate. Inc.) legal expressions and in his early works makes several references to butchering. The "W.H." of the sonnets was not Henry Wrioth esley, young Earl of Southamp ton, Brown suspects, but the young man's stepfather. Sir William Harvey; however, lie thinks it's anyone's guess whe ther Mary Fitton was the Dark Lady, about whom there is a good deal of absorbing specula tion. Other studies have "been writ ten about Shakespeare's immor tality, but this one helps restore to him a precious mortality. , Bean Pickers Charged with Stealing Truck Three bean pickers, arrested at Stayton Friday night on charges of stealing a pick-up truck from Aumsville, are in Marion county jail today. The trio, arrested by E. V. (Er nie) Miller, Stayton chief of police. are Albert Brookover, 32, of Moundsville, W. Va.; Robert ! R. Wells, 38, of Newaygo, Mich and Cadie Oxford, 36, Seattle, Wash. Miller apprehended the men in a truck which had been reported stolen Friday afternoon from the store pi William Roberts in Aums ville. The truck is the property of Roberts, Miller said. The three transients were ar raigned in Stayton justice court Saturday and bound over to the grand jury on charges or larceny. Each is held in lieu of $1,000 bail. The truck, when taken, contained about $100 worth of groceries and had a trailer attached, all of which has been recovered, said Miller, er School Construction Bids Due Soon KEIZER, Aug. 17 (Special) Bids for construction of additional classroom facilities for the Keizer school will be called as soon as plans can b completed, the school board decided at a meeting Friday night Preliminary sketches for the es timated $48,000 'project have been completed by Frederick H. Eley, Salem architect, and were present ed at the board meeting. . The project will include removal of the old school building to a new site north of Keizer grange hall; completion of one classroom and library room and three-room extension on the new school build ing. It is hoped construction will be started by October 1. Shortage of space at the school will probably necessitate a double shift for first and second grades, the board pointed out in ordering all possible haste in completion of the additions. 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