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- 4 4 The Stateaman, Solam, Oregon. 5 ' ALL BOOKED UP UNTIL THE HOLIDAYS teasels 1 . I ' -No Fmvor Sways Ue. No Far Shall AvmT mm First SUtesaaaa, Hare t. I THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CH.A"V K A SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher Eatered at lb. pMtifflci at Salem.1 Ow. aa'eeeead class matter "uder act of mctcm Marefc I. 117. rbUahed every morning. Bilif since tU . C aattol SUIese. Omw. Telephepo -tL 5 ! new job. Industry and housing to the nation's ; cities and towns. j S M ,Glad to see the Legion endorse civilian con trol of atomic energy, but think universal mili tary training still out of place and do not see how good would come of giving more aid to Chinese nationalists. I Order of Pinched Nose Residents of Springfield and Eugene arc pay ing another price for industrial progress: a bad smelL It comes from the new Weyerhauser pulpmflj at Springfield.. Thus they become bro thers of the order of the pinched nose along with Salem,. Newberg and Oregon City. . Here we have never scolded over the sulph orous odors that come from the(papermill. We recall the dark days of the depression. When we smelled sulphur in the air we knew the papermfll was running, giving employment to "hundreds ofVorkers, as it did straight through the depression. The time may come when Lane county residents will be pleased it the pungent smell of sulphur in the air. Besides, it's "purifying." Fuel Generation Still Leads In the northwest most of our power is gen erated from hydro-electric plints, but f Or the tountry as whole fuel generation (by. coal, ail or gas) predominates. The rate of increase , oyer the past eight years for installed capacity U slightly higher for fuel generation-too. ( The reason is that in the areas of greatest demand and in many other areas too there is little more hydro power available. The northwest Is a long ways from that point, but steam plants are still desirable to take care of peak loads and for standby. The following table classifying all electric plants except industrial, jnthe U.S.A. is taken from the the address cf Justus T. Craemer of the California utilities commission, as president dithe natonal association of railroad, and util ities, commissioners. The statistics may be of Interest. r ' ' SEGREGATION BY TYPE OF PLANTS Year Year Increase 1M0 IMS 194S Over mo Capacity Installed at Year End BydrooThouMndi of Kllowttli 1122 11.693 aJ ruel-fhouaandj ef Kilowatts 28,701 40.811 4J.J ToUt-Thousands of Kilowtt 39.927 M.404 41.4 Annual Production Hydroi-MUllons Of KiIovtt-hrs. 47,331 82.431 ,74J rul-Mllllon of Kilott-hrf.. SOU 200.183 111.8 ToUI-Millloni of Ki!owlt-hr 141.837 282.394 99.1 SEGREGATION BY OWNERSHIP Year Year Increase , ' - U40 1947 1947 Over . 1940 Capacity Installed at Year End Privately, Owned- . Thaujtands of Kilowatts . 34.39S 41.98S Publicly Owned -Thousands of Kilowatt 8.528 10.336 ttl 87.0 A still political battle is due in New York state in November when a U. S. senator will be elected for an unexpired term. Old Senator Wagner resigned and Governor Dewey named John Foster : Dulles in his place. Democrats hope id recapture the seat and ex-Governor Lehman, a democrat, has announced his candid- acyi Dulles has yet to say j whether he will run, and Dewey has declined. Mayor O'Dwyer's : decision to run again for mayor is expected j to strengthen the democratic ticket The sen atorial contest, however, may. indicate the drift in sentiment since 1048, if any has developed. ' THE ASPIRIN AGE, j Edited by Isabel Leighton (Simon and Schuster; $3.95) It was, an age of weird and; wacky, socially insignificant i news, and news the social aignif-; icanca of which we almost in-; variably failed to grasp. During : most of those 22 years from the end of World War I to Pearl Har-! bar and our beginning of World War IL the nation could whip it-! aelf over channel swimmers, tha ! mysterious death of Starr Faith ful, and the long count of the ' Dempsey-Tunney fight But it was a period long enough for America to grow up in. Isabel Leighton cot the idea of i having 22 writers tell the story of : the era by treating its high spots i In individual pieces. In most cases, the authors were on top of : the events as they happened: : ' Gene Tunney recalls his fights with Dempsey, Hodding Carter Erofiles "Huey Long: American : fctator and Thurman Arnold analyzes the crash and what it meant. It is still too soon, by common consent for an adequate ; historical appraisal of the per-j sonalities of the times; but the ! authors take a few cracks at it anyway. Harding and: Coolidga ; are treated somewhat i roughly. and Wendell Willkie's "greatness : In political defeat" wa are told, was a "decisive factor in enabl- : lng America to win the war." There is much first-rate read- lng in this volume. I especially i liked Herbert Asbury's hilarious ' acdount of those two demon pro- ' hibition agents, Iuie and Moe; Robert Coufhlans revelations in i the "Kooklave in Kokomo"; and I William Mcree's discussion of the famous Morro Castle disaster. During the 20s and 30s. says Miss Leighton. "we seem to have fluctuated between headaches, i sometimes induced by prohibit- I ion, more frequently by the fev- i ered pace of the Umesi During these throbbing years wa searchr ed in vain for a cure-all, coming no closer to it than the aspirin bottle. Hence: The t Aspirin Age." Readers will await a sequel to this book If only, to learn from the title what an adequate pre stnr.tion for these times might be. Your .Health' Written by Dr. Herman N. Bsndeaaea, 1LD. 39.927 S2.S22 31-0 Total-Thousands of Kilowatts- Annual Production rrivatly Owned- Millions of Kllowatt-hcuri 125.411 108,108 fublicly Owned 'Mlitions of KUowatt-hctus 16.426 47,634 190.0 63 9 otal-Milllons of Kilowatt-hours .141,837 2M.739 80 I Gtrave of Senator Baker Senator Morse, vacationing in Oregoii for a hrief f spell, a- Eugere reporter a little more about his visit with President Truman and General Marshall to the monument marking the spot where General Baker, U. S. senator from Oregon, ws killed in Virginia during the Civil war. Morse informed the president and the latter told MarshalLthat Baker was buried in ' Ban Francisco, and not as they thought, at the spot whete the marker overgrown with brush stood, which was news to them. v Morse says he will take up with the Oregon Historical society about beautifying the marker nd making a suitable reference to the death In battle on the Baker statue in the rotunda of the capitol. He might also call attention to an error in an article in a recent issjue of the Qregon His torical Quarterly which said that Baker was the first U. S. Senator from Oregon Joe Lane and Delazon Smith were the first senators; then 'came Baker and J. W. Nesmith. Kinks in history seem to occur easily. Congrats to Salem's mayor and city council for "letting the old cat" of daylight saving time die on September 11. It's time to get back to standard, time, particularly with schools open ing. Farmers, too, petitioned for ending the fast time because of the inconvenience to wor kers going into hop and "bean fields. J When you add up the extra hours the city folk have "saved? for gardening an playtime, they have fared pretty well. . Governor Dewey has called for a full re port on the rioting at the Paul Robeson meet ing in" Westchester county. Such carryings-on are out of place in the USA- Had Robeson been allowed to speak or sing only a handful would have known what ha was doing. The stomping of patrioteers gives him nation-wide publicity and a bad name for th performers. Finding a turtle six feet long (or is it across?) in Korea is -regarded . as a good omen by the president. Fisherman estimate its age at 1,000 years, and President Rhee says it is a symbol of ' longevity and prosperity for Korea. What about its speed of progress? as TTT JLeglon at Philadelphia t The American Legion convention in Phila delphia elected a World War II veteran, George N. Craig of Buffalo, for national commander, n The scrap touched off by Frank Belgrano's speech at the Oregon convention came up in the meeting of the executive committee, but news renorts are silent on whether Belerano met y with success in upsetting the "kingmakers." j Here in brief is the action of the convention tn resolutions: . 1. The U. S. should retain atomic energy un - der civilian control and not share the atom secrets with any nation, including our allies. 2. Aid to China Nationalists lighting com munism. ! , 3,. Curtailment "as far as possible" of any further immigration at the present time. 4. Approval - of universal military training and end of the present draft law. 5. Establishment of a national air academy. 8. Endqrsement of a self-help plan to bring Recognizing its big local, money crop, the Jefferson Review comes out on green paper with ink heavily scented with mint. It's what you might ;call green gold. Celilo Indians accuse the Yakimas of en croaching on their fishing sites along the Colum bia. .The controversy is verbal only, so far. We look for no scalps to be taken. Florida and California compete in more ways than orangas and grapefruit. They vie in cat astrophes, the former with its hurricanes and the latter with its . . . fires. . 1 At Ellensburg two prisoners in the city jail died as a result of drinking antl-freezc they dug out of ja closet Sounds like a reprint of "news of 20 years ago." English Woes Blamed on Tea-Swigging By Henry MeLemora BRAZZAVILLE, Trench Equatorial Africa, Sept. 4 My typewriter has a surprise up its sleeve today. Instead of writing about this place, it is going to skip back a few thousand miles and; write of the tea drinking habits of the people of English blood in the Union of South Africa. It should have done this job when I was la Johannesburg, but typewriters have notorious ly bad memor ies. So it will have to be done now, here on the banks of the Congo. It is my stud-, lad opinion that the Brit ish empire started to dis integrate, slow ly, but surely, the first time an Englishman was offered a cup of tea, accepted it, consumed it, and liked it. Since that fateful day the number of hours spent by Eng lishmen and their colonists drinking tea must be incalcul able. Right now, when England has its back squarely against the economic wall, she eaus for a chair, props it against the wall, sits down, and drinks a oup of tea.' This doesn't happen once a day, or twice a. day; it happens four, five, and six times a day. Figure the man-hours lost for yourself it's too much for me and my flunked fifth grade arithmetic. From Washington comes word that the red coats are coming. This time they will not burn" down the White House they have their eya on the treasury. Tibet Loses Isolation by Cold War I thought they really drank tea ia Ingland, but wait until you see the English in' South Afrloa kit the Tetley, the Lip ton and the Salada. Oo to a i bank to cash a check and the green cashiers are out to tea. Go to iden p the railway station to buy a tic ket and the ticket sellers are out to tea. Go to the tourist bureau, for information and if you ' happen , to find an official in, he will Immediately pick up his cane, put on his hat, and take you out for a cup. of tea. I happen to like tea, but a barrel a day is enough. In South Africa three barrels si day is nor mal consumption. What tea means to these people was brought home com pletely to me during my visit to the Kruger Wild Game re serve. We had an English guide and an English driver. Our daily schedule was built around tea. Up at daybreak a pot of tea. Shave, wash face more tea.' Before leaving gates of rest camp one more cup of tea. Seeing the animals was quite incidental to our guides as com pared to reaching another rest camp for a cup of tea. Being Americans, we wanted to spend our entire time getting our money's worth of seeing wild animals. . Lions, giraffes, zebras, etc., in their natural habitat,, could very well wait while we watched a couple of Englishmen swigging away at their tea. i The payoff came when we overheard our two guides talk ing about the forthcoming week end. With Monday a holiday, the park was expected to have its biggest crowd in history. They were saying to each other how lucky we were to have finished our visit before the mob descended. We took it for granted that they, meant the big crowd would make the roads dusty, scare the animals away,., "ifiS generally make a Coney ; Island of the place. ! That isn't what they meant at alL k . , The final word that we over heard was this: "With thousands of people here over the week end, it might be quite impos sible to get a proper cup of tea when one wanted one." (tJUtrlbutl by McNaufht Syndicate. Inc.) There are almost as many, causes of Itching of the skin as: there are people. We are all; familiar with the type of itch-j ing due to outside sources, 'such as the bite of an insect or con-i tact with an irritating substance,! but not fb many realize that itch- i lng may also be one of the manl-1 testations of disease. . j It Is, for instance, very com-j mon .among people suffering ; from liver disturbances, parti cu i larly In those who develop jaun dice, the greenish-yellow dis-i coloration of the skin which is so frequently seen in certain liver disorders. Itching may also oc cur in liver disease even though no jaundice is present. - There is a certain group of people who seem to develop an itchy sensation of the skin very! readily from a great variety of causes. In them, almost any type ' of excitement, as well as heat, .cold, sunshine, and injury can bring on an attack of itching. Such people are thought to be oversensitive to a substance caUed acetylcholine, which is re leased in the skin ir i result of any of the causes mentioned above. Allergy or oversensitivity Is a frequent cause of itching of the skin. Sometimes, the reaction: takes place in the outer layer of the iskln. In other instances,! the reaction is in the walls of the blood vessels of -the deeper lay ers of the skin and may result in the formation of hives. In: both types, the substances pro-; ducing x allergic reactions reach: , the skin through the blood stream and, in either instance, the itching may occur without any visible changes in the skin. Such preparations as benadryl and pyribenzamine, which are known as anti-histamine drugs, are useful in the treatment. Another cause of itching skin changed the character to a Ne gro. , f Speed and secrecy were ne cessary because two other pro ducers were making pictures on Negro problems. Twentieth Century-Fox Is shooting "Pinky-, in which Jeanne Crain plays a colored girl who passes for white. Producer Louis de Roch emont's "Lost Boundaries" Is on the same theme. ' "Our picture had to be first," Stillman7 says. "It's okay for a big studio like Fox to be' sec ondBut if an independent like uswere second, people would Iks a well-made story of five yell Copycat" Gft on a South Pacific scouting Shooting was completed in 18 mission. Intolerance proves to days. The picture's May 14 te almost as crippling an en- ooeni Holly wood On Parade By Gene Handsaker HOLLYWOOD Picture making usually Is accompanied by the most vigorous tub-thumping that professional praisers can contrive. So when a movie is made In utter secret that's as tonishing news. . "Home of the Brave" was so made. Even its actors' agents didn't know what they were up to. The actors reported boredly that they were playing, oh, Erospectors, cowboys ana the ke in a western called "High Noon," This was plausible be cause the company had an nounced "High Noon" on its production schedule and still In tends to make it. Even lellow actors didn't know each other had been cast. t Two rehearsed a radio show for three days. Each vowed sadly to the other that in pictures, "I'm not doing a thing Only the key grip, camera man, cutter, art director,, and production manager, besides the director and producers, knew what was cooking. Not until the second week of shooting did a crewman remark to a pro ducer, "Gee, you're making quite a picture on intolerance, aren't you?" The worker could hardly help noticing. For a prominent mem ber Of the otherwise all-white cast is a Negro James Edwards. crippling emy as the Japanese. In the play from which the movie was adapted, the victim of prejudice was a Jew. The up and coming Screen Plays Corp. opening In New York beats its rivals to the boxoffice punch by weeks. Screen Plays plans other "offbeat" stories.' Stillman says; Ther offer the onlr way an in dependent can buck the majors." Oreille lake. is a disturbance of the circula tion. This often happens in the legs when varicose -veins are present Tumor growths, particularly of the stomach and bowel, also may cause generalized Itching. A disorder affecting the lymph glands and known as Rodgkln's disease may often be accompan ied by very severe itching. In fact, the itching may be the first symptom of the disorder to ap pear. Treatment of generalized itch ing depends, of course, to some extent on the cause.r Sometimes the preparations which stimulate the circulation may be helpful. In cases of itching skin with out a rash, there is always need for a thorough study ;to deter mine the factor which may be responsible. Then the treatment which may be most effective in eliminating these causes may be utilized. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS J. N.: What would cause bad odor of a child's breath? Answer: There' are several causes for a disagreeable odor to the breath. It might be that the child is constipated even though he has a bowel movement daily. It may be that be has a chronic infection of the teeth, tonsils or of the nasal sinuses. He should be examined by a nose and throat specialist to be sure that nothing is wrong in this re spect. (Copyright. 1040. King Features) Idaho Girl, 15, Admits Slayiiig Dad with Hammer COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Sept i-iJpy-A 15-year-old girl accused of beating her father to death with a hammer was apprehended today as she and her younger brother came out of the woods where they spent the Tiight, Sheriff H. , H. Haner said. ' The sheriff said Charolotte Bums admitted in an oral state ment that she hit her father, Char les Burns, 63, with a hammer "several times." i She had been away-from the family's farm home on Lake Pend Oreille only seven times in her life, she told the sheriff. Her father had promised to take her on trips several times in the last few days, she said, and never kept the promises. The sheriff said this was the only reason she gave for the attack. Her father's body was found last night at the home at Ceder Creek on, the east aids) of Pend By botanical definition, snap or n peans, poa ox peas an gar pepper are fruits. By James D. White AP Foreign News Analyst Shangri-La is shivering in the eold war. Tibet, the world's highest country, once again finds its classic isolation threatened. rThe reason Js simple. Tibet legally is a dependency of China, ;! which is coming under commun ist control and shows signs of becoming a dynamic ally of So viet Russia. - f Tibet Is a high' and difficult country, but Is so placed on the map that it offers, to anyone Interested enough to make the effort, a downhill invasion route to Russia, India, or China. For Hhia reason the Chinese took good care for several cen turies to keep Tibet in the bag For the same, reason, when the Manchu dynasty, grew weak, 1 czarist Russia tried to horn in. The British in India, for several generations, took step to pre vent this. When Japan removed czaruf Russia as a menace in 1905, the British contented them selves with admitting Chinese suzerainty over Tibet?, but re served the right to keep a re presentative at Zhasa, the holy capitol. Through India, they got the bulk of Tibetan tiade what there was of it There are suppceed to ' be about three million Tibetan . living mostly more than 10,0 feet above sea .level in a country ..tefti imes as big as ft nnfylvania. Their anrietv la dictated by the rugged terrain yand climate, and ruled by lama priest-politicians. In recent years Chinese In fluence in Tibet has been weak, signified by a few Chinese of ficials at Lhasa. :; In July the Tibetans suddenly . told them ' to get out ; At first there were rumors of a communist coup in Lhasa, but later and more plausible reports indicate that the Tibetans, hear ing about communist victories in China, saw this as a chance to get rid of control by any Chinese. At the least they appear to have tried to avoid a communist In vasion later on by tossing out the anti-Communist Chinese of ficials. ,-. il In this they would; Inevitably meet little if any discourage "ment from the India; L or the British. IJ However, the, Chinese commun ist radio takes the view that rTs all a dark and sinister: American plot Last week the Peiping rad io broadcast a lengthy diatribe .saying that :"ibet to I Chinese territory and will be liberated" by the red 'army in. due course. i There am signs that! Tibet is loosening up, particularly since "India gained freedom After the war and took over British com monwealth Interests in that part of Asia. if - . , Last year the Indians let a Tibetan trade mission visit both America and Britain! (to the . M disgust of the Chinese national ists,, who were not consulted). They "were peddling yak-tails, for Santa Cla.ua whiskers, and looking for machinery. The arid tableland north ol the Himalayas gains rather than loses strategic importance In an age of long-range planes and missiles. Tibet, trading with an inde pendent India, is losing her iso lation. That process may be speeded up if the Chinese reds make too many passes at Shangri-La. 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