THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COBIPANY CH.aM& A 8PRAGUE. Editor and Publisher .t it. .HUfflM i bitm. r Wished every meralag. bed sverr meralag. Bestaiess efflee XU ft. CemmertUU SUse. Here Again, the State Fair Yes, the tate fair is on, in all its glory ! blue ribbon1 Jerseys, woolly Romneys, grunting Duroc Jerseys; and b,edquilts and angel food cakes and 4-H club dresses; and horse rates; and the midway) and a big military display; nd flowers; and hot dog stands . . . and people. Blessed; wh fair weather for the opening day, and big crowds the fair is off to; a good ; tart, with nrosoect of a very successful show- Ing. -.'! The state fair is a "must" for young and old. j It is such an institution that for many the year's j climax U when the state fair rolls round. It'll the same thing year after year only it isn't the same thing; there is always something new. The crowds are always different, and the ex- home and workshop. '"- ! So don't fool yourself by saying you're not going to the fair because you've seen it all before. You haven't seen the 1949 fair. There has never been one just like It; there never will I u ;i t- -nr-V. v..,.'. t,lr U show in itself. ;Heigh-ho, bp off to the fair." A New Labor Party? Organization- of a new national labor party is a prospect before nextLabor day, Columnist Marquis Childs writes. The imminent show down in the current steeh dispute may shake labor's belief in collective bargaining and up-and-coming leaders like Walter and Victor Reu ther will argue that labor can't gain its ends without organized' political action, he says. Independent political party action was re jected by Samuel Gompers when he organized " the American Federation of Labor in 1888. He believed In lobbying and held that "deliverable", blocs of voters were more powerful than a" minority separatist party. Labor's gains in the past two aecaaes wouia indicate mat uompers, prediction was accurate; the early 19th cen ry labor parties stirred up more anti-labor feeling than recognition for labor's rights. The first of a long line was the labor reform party of 1869, an outgrowth of the natibnal labor union (1886-72). It advocated the protective tariff and paper currency; nominated a pre sidential candidate in 1872 and six years later merged with the greenback, labor party which put up a losing fiat-money ticket in 1880.. Another party which grew out of one of the nation's earliest labor unions was the social democratic party established in 1874 by Marxists who had infiltrated into the secret order of the Knights of Labor. The left-wing socialist labor party replaced it in 1877 but-today its dreams ef class war and revolution have been watered down by its dedication to Constitutional means. In 1886, two groups sprang up, the united labor party which was an independent move ment supporting the single tax , and public "ownership of land, and the union labor party, a successor to the greenbacks. The latter group nominated a national ticket in 1884 with a plat form for free silver coinage, paper currency, state ownership of transportation, woman suf frage, graduated income tax and arbitration (ih- - I- . : ' Labor Now in By Jeeeeh and Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON, Sept I If anyone wants to think about serious subjects on Labor Day, or the day after, a pretty good subject Is labor's new politics be fore all Is said and done. I Before long, American labor's political effectiveness will re ceive a pre- election test. As ! everyone knows the man the CIO, the AFL. the railway broth rhoods and all the in d p endent unions most want to beat Is Sen. Robert A. Tart of Ohio. As fewer people realise, the man v. JoeepU SXmfX labor has chosen to defeat Taft Is a likeable progressive farm leader and chieftain of the Amer ican cooperative movement, Murray D. Lincoln, who has been the biggest Influence In the Ohio Farm Bureau federation for many years. It has already been described In this space how the .united political" arms of the otherwise warring labor groups selected Lincoln as their candidate after carefully r e viewing the whole field, and how they an nounced their choice to him in early July. Strtrert Alsop Mure recently, the labor strateg ist have also enlisted the aid of the administration in order to get Lincoln to run. v Democratic National Chairman William Boyle, who is wiser than. some of his subordinates, prompt ly agreed to go along when asked to do so by Jack KroU of the CIO, Joseph Keenan of the AFL, and C. T. Anderson ef railway labor's political league. "Ohio ts your baby," was the way Boyle put it. Kroll, K per: an and An derson , asked Boyle to get the help of President Truman, and by Boyle's request, the president telephoned Murray Lincoln and aked him to make the senatorial fight .' ' The president's telephone call Wo fw Stasys 17,, No Fear Shall Awa" First gUtesn. Murk ZS. Ill I Okmb. as Mcvid tlui natter eader act of Mama Mare S, 1S7I, stead of use of injunction and the militia) In labor disputes. Members jof the union labor party, ex-greenbacks and farmers combined to form the popu list party in 1891, haping to get an expansion of currency. This movement expired in 1908. j Right-wing members of the socialist labor party f and social democrats joined in 1900 to form the socialist party under Eugene V. Deba, who ran fori the White Huse five times un successfully. Advocating initiative, referen dum and recall and public ownership of utilities and basic industries, this group is now under the capable, middle-of-the-road hands of Norman Thomas, perennial presidential candidate. The radical industrial workers of the world (IWW) was organized in 1904 under William D. Haywood as a revolutionary party bent on using; strikes and sabotage until the capitalists capitulated.! The capitalists are still going strong! And so is labor. But labor is still restive and an attemtp to set up another third party, a labor party,! is certainly possible. The proba mlity is however that is will continue its effort to control the democratic party.. Train an Speeches Are 1950 Preliminary ' ' t : In speeches at Pittsburgh and Dies Moines President Truman yesterday rode af Roman race, with one foot onthe labor vote and. the other on the farm vote. He was attempting to repeat the feat of 1948 when he succeeded in staying a board both horses through the election. Now he and his political advisers are trying to coment the alliance of farmers and workers for the 1950 elections. The president waj in 1948 mood. Instead of branding the 81st congress as the second or third worst, he praised it although it has made scant progress toward writing into law his fair deal ; program. The civil rights program is dead; without a -struggle. The repeal of The Taft-Hartley law failed, and now will be made an issue in 1950. , The housing bill has been enacted, and a 75-cent minimum wage bill has passed both houses though its coverage was badly cut. . ; t - The campaign of 1950 will be a repeater of 1948; with the president insisting on his pro gram of legislation which for the most part the congress of his own party' has sd far failed to adopt. Once again the reactionaries will get the whip and the fair deal will be proclaimed as the essence of Virtue. ' Yugoslavia discounts talk about soviet troops masising at its frontiers. There may be some sabre-rattling along the borders but that is doubtful. Russia, which has passed a bid many times in postwar pressure game, when its hand really was strong, is not likely to initiate action now over Yugoslavia, painful as the situation there is. Other means of blotting out the of fensive Tito, -.will be employed first. Another billion bushel wheat crop Is fore cast; for next year. How can the government expect farmers to sleeken wheat raising so long as they get a good price guarantee? Politics with Both Feet followed other, similarly Inspired requests by administration lead ers, like Secretary of Agriculture Brannan. And the": aforemen tioned test that will come In a few days will take the, form of ' Murray Lincoln's final decision, to rdake the race against Taft, or to reject the opportunity that has been offered hjm. Nothing could have been better planned, or more efficiently or ganized, than the campaign to make Lincoln a candidate. ' The fact that Lincoln still Is hesitat ing hints at labor's chief political weakness. For Lincoln has been slow to throw his hat in the ring because he has not been sure of the support of the Ohio demo cratic organization. And- the divergence between; the demo cratic organizations and the poli tical branches of the labor groups' has been, and is, a main cause of trouble for the labor strategists. On the other hand,' it is already very clear that the democratic party needs the labor groups more than the labor groups need the democrats. Such wise leaders as Jack Arvey in Chicago and Ed Flynn of New York haye already ack nowledged the fact. And this Is not surprising since the repub licans, with their Taft-Hartley act, have accomplished miracle that Franklin Delano Roosevelt longed for in vain. The Taft Hartley act has absolutely united the labor movement on the polit ical level. ; It has also driven the labor& movement ' to organize politically, for the Tint time in history,, in a serious professional manner. II f The CIO-PAC j under ! Jack Kroll. the AFL League for Polit ical Education under Keenan, and the brotherhood's league un der Anderson are not only closely and effectively allied with one another. They are also working with all the independent unions except John L. Lewis's 1 mine workers, j Furthermore, their, work Is rest It gets down to "the . countr and. the precinct level. As It continues.! It will Inevitably be come the dominant factor in the " northern industrial "states. ; And .the democratic party has got to . carry the I northern Industrial states in order to win. j For good; measure, the ; labor organizations are already invad ing the south,, with the purpose of defeating anti-labor southern " tafesmau Oregosu Teleyh e t-leU. democrats in the same way they hope to defeat Taft This cam paign is also being meticulously prepared; and Anderson of the brotherhoods has Just returned from a survey of the southern scene with the report that there is "a very good chance" of beat- lng a good many of the more ex treme southern conservatives. In short, the labor; groups are out to re-make the democratic party to suit themselves, while ther simultaneously attack the more hostile wing of the republicans. This is a major political pro cess, of the first importance. It will not bear fruit overnight Perhaps thha efforts of the com bined CIO, . AFL, and railway brotherhoods may be fr-trated in the 1950 election, just as It is possible that Lincoln may not make the' Ohio race. But the importance of the process will loot b' greatly diminished by early failures. The labor effort in politics will now continue, no matter what reverses may be met with at first. And this Is some thing for the sponsors of the Taft-Hartley act who started the whole process, to consider carefully and perhaps a little ruefully. Copyright, 1949, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Better English By D. C WilUaaM 1. What is , wrong with this sentence? "He gave the book to you and I.- 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "acclimate"? , 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Calisthenics, cal somine, calorie. 3 4. What does the word lacon ic" mean?' 5. What is a word beginning with ve that means "acting with great force; ardent"? ANSWERS . 1. Say, "He gave the book to you and me." 2. Pronounce a-kli-mate. first a as in at 1 as in He, second a as in ate. and ac cent second syllable, not the first 3. Calcimine. 4. Expressing much in few words; brief and pithy. "His sense' was strong and his style laconic." WU a sd. 3 Vehement ' ' j ' BLESSED EVERT? V Moon-Burns Hank's Find In Madrid . By Heexy MeLenore MADRID, Sept 3 Never In my life have I been to a world capital (and this makes my 91st where there is such a difference between 2 o'clock in the after noon and 2 o'clock in the morn ing. At one of the S o'clock you could shoot a m a c h i n'e-gunf" down the prin cipal thorough fare, the Gran Via, and stand a good chance of not hitting a soul. At the other 1 o'clock .you could shoot a bow and arrow down the Gran Via. or anv of the narrow, winding streets and be almost certain to wtng half a hundred men, women, children, dogs and cats. , The thing that amazes an American visitor Is that it la at t In the morning when all the excitement goes on. It is then that the cafes are going full blast, the streets are packed with strol lers, the parks alive with little; children playing and dogs bark ing and cats meowing in Span- ish. Three-quarters of the stores are open and filled with custo mers who see nothing strange la going in and having baby fitted for a pair of shoes not long be fore the sun comes up. The owl is a great stayer-up.-per, but he can't beat the Span ish. This is a perfect country for anyone suffering from in somnia; hell have company all night long. We flew into Madrid from Lis bon, arriving about 1:30 in the morning. As we drove In from the alrportj we were under the impression that either another civil war had broken out or that some great fiesta was being cele brated. The town was as wide awake and bustling as Times Square Is at 8 in the evening. We asked the hotel concierge what was going on, and he said nothing was going on that didn't we In America close our place of business and sleep most of the afternoon so that we could stay up at night when it was gay er and one wasnt bothered by the sun? After a few days we , settled down to Madrid's routine. We had to, because there is no choice. There Is no such thing as having breakfast before 10 o'clock. The restaurants Just don't open, and 11 is a better time than 10. being as. the waiters are more awake by then. Most people here have lunch between. 3 and 4 in the af ternoon. No one ever thinks of starting a cocktail party before , 9:30, and the proper hour - for dinner is roughly around mid night I ' - I On our second night here we " ran into two American friends. Dorothy and Dick Kollmar. also new arrivals to Madrid. All four of us were starving to death, and at 11 o'clock tore into the dining room. It had Just-opened, and we were the only diners. The waiters and the caotain looked at us as if we were out of our minds for jumping the gun, so to speak. You seldom see a sun-burned Spaniard, but you see clenty of moon-burned . ones. The onlv reason that the people of Madrid go home and to bed at 4 in the morning la that the severe drought the worst In 100 years, has forced a rationing of elec tridtr and all lights go off at that time. CDttriboted by McNaHgbt Syndic eaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBr eSBBBBBBBBBeSi Your health Parents sometimes are upset by the discovery that their child is left-handed. This is useless worry because, other things be ing equal, the left-handed child will get along as well as his right-handed playmates. Since, however, this is a right-handed world, he may suffer a little in convenience as he grows older. For this reason, some doctors suggest that all children should be taught to use the right hand for writing when first entering school. However, if the child ob jects or shows signs of nervous strain, one of which may be stut tering, efforts to have him us his right hand should be stopped. Two factiri influence handed ness; environment and heredity. In other words, left-handed rvesa may run in families.' The effect of"th surroundings on left-handedness is shown by the fact that today more than nine out of ten adults use the right hand, yet in early civiliza tion, half of all weapons were made tor left-handed persons. Furthermore, two out of ten kin dergarten children prefer the left hand. In other words, the fact that equipment, tools and instruments are made for right handed persons causes the great majority of individuals to use their right hand for work and other procedures. The fact that left-handedness persists may be due to a number of things, such as temporary dis ablement of the right hand or the child's imitation of a left handed sister or brother or par ent The child may have a ne gative attitude, that is, he al ways says "no" to his parent's . efforts to taach him to use his right hand. Faulty training may. be a factor. For example, the parents may misinterpret the use of both hands by the child as preference for, the left hand, or th parents may always hand an object to the child's left hand. . Disturbances in th speech, such as stuttering, and trouble to. reading, are not likely to de velop in a child who is strongly left-haaded. They are more like GRIN AND BEAR IT iJtl If WfiWv ! "WeD, KieU . . . what & tee teacher lean freae y at sit ill j , . today T..." j K ; j . : ': : ' ' l- Written by Dr. Herman N. ly to occur in a person who is ambidextrous, that is, a person who uses both hands equally welL Changing the writing habits of an older child from right to left-handedness may, in rare in stances, be of help, if he is strongly left-handed in his other activities and has trouble in speaking and writing. It is suggested that the left handed writer should be taught In the beginning to use the paper slanted downward to the right and to use a slightly backward slant to his writing. , QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS J. D.: What causes pyorrhea? Answer: The cause of pyor rhea has not been determined. The best treatment is frequent brushing and massaging of the gums with an astringent or mouth wash. Surgical treatment is often helpfuL The dentist should be consulted concerning the best treatment in your case. (Copyright IMS. King Features) Hollywood By Gene Haadsaker HOLLYWOOD Every night but Monday in a little theatr whose spectators occupy street can seats, several hunks of mold ed plastic wood come to remark able life. Musicians play, and South Sea Island girls dance puppets all of them, weighing three pounds on an average and standing 18 inches high. Black silk or nylon .lines support them and control their lifelike move ments. ; After an hour of this enter tainment the spectators get up and shift the backs of their seats ' forward, like a streetcar motor man at the end of the line. The customers face the other way now hence the name, the Turn about Theater and those who were in back are now in front They face anotherstage, where Elsa Lancaster antf others put on a sprightly hour of live perform- Jnt. Like Ken Murray's 'Black- Bv Licbty Labor Should Not 'Mi for Mdrej But Hold Tight, Says Sen. Morse Labor should try to hold the place it has and not be asking for increases at the moment in the opinion of U. S. Sen. Wayne L. Morse, who has been having fun Monday mixing politics and horses In this, his 27th year of showing at Oregon's state fair. His statement was in answer to the question as to what he thought of the request for a fourth round of wag increases. "Labor, should recognize its most important economic problem at uus time is to hold the econo mic gains it has made and there fore I am of the opinion that any assistance of fourth round of increase of wages is an enormous mistake. "1 recognize that there are some low wage industries in which ad justments can be justified," he continued, "but I believe 'taking the country as a whole, it is bet ter to permit a leveling off of prices now than to increase in flation at this time with any across-the-board-nation wage in crease pattern being adopted. Pur chasing power of all of us is de termined to a large extent . by what the individual dollar will buy and if the dollar will not buy very much a further increase in wages will only cheapen the dol lar. Flays "Creep Interest" "We all know that when a de pression threatens, people will look to the government and rightly so, to take whatever steps necessary to check it As free men and women, we should recognize before it is too late that whenever the government has to step in and exercise broad controls over eco nomy, we lose a certain degree of our economic freedom. I believe the capitalistic system is capable of preventing a depression if businessman, workers and farm- I ers and other producers of wealth wm put puduc interest aoove group interest." Many people are buying beyond their means. Senator Morse said, adding that "I think there is dan ger many merchants may find that much of the goods have been sold on credit to people who will not have the ability to pay for them. Especially If any further increase is made in the inflationary spiral. It is my opinion that businessmen, farmers and workers have a com mon interest in checking further increase in prices including wages. This means exercise of restraint by all groups in making demands that will create a more serious in flationary problem than we have now." Developments Aid Defense The senator said there are still a few eastern senators who do not realize that the great multiple purpose dams in the west are planned on a self-liquidating basis and will return to the United -States, treasury many times their original cost Development of the electric power resources of the streams in the country provides one of its most effective defense weapons, Morse said. "I think Russia recognizes this because this development is so closely linked to the rapid pro gress of our atomic energy pro4 cram. Senator Morse left Washington by plane last Tuesday and will re-H turn there on the night of 2ep t ember 12. Tuna In a school usually are bf uniform size, varying not more than ' five pounds one from the other. On Parade outs" and an old morality play called "The Drunkard," the Turnabout started on a financial shoestring, has become local institution. This July 10 ft start ed its ninth year. The only night it missed, aside from two to four-week vacations every January for the whole company, was during a wartime blackout Miss Lancaster, who Joined the theatre two weeks, after it opened,. has given around 2,350 performances. In drab clothes she's an English lass who sings of her progress from housemaid to wife of a fin gentleman. Or half-clad in flowery calico, she prances about as Fiji Fanny, singing of her Frangipanl Tree. The unique attraction, con sistently sold out from one to three weeks in advance, really started more than 20 years ago at the University of Michigan. Harry Burnett and Forman Brown, students, put on puppet shows in hotels and clubs to sup port themselves. Burnett went on to Yale and joined up with Richard Brandon, a student there, as the "Yale Puppeteers." Brown rejoined them after a fling at teaching English. They operated a puppet theatre on Los Angeles quaintly Mexican Ol vera street later in New York and New England. They pooled their resources $1,000 to open at their present location. The ISO-seat' theatre r plays to more than 50,000 person and grosses around $100,000 a year. It's said to be the only permanently loca ted poppet theatre in the United States. Burnett fashions th puppets, about 500 of which bang back stage for the weekly changes of program. mm Neighbors Help Dallas Victims Of House Fire 1 DALLAS. Sept 5 (Special) The future was looking a little brighter today for the George Chaney and Jpel Miller families.; Contributions were coming In from fellow workers. . neighbors and various organizations to aid the families who were left home less by fire that destroyed their residence early Saturday morning. Clothing, groceries, money and housing have been donated. Condition of. the five persons hospitalized by burns and injuries was reported considerably better Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Miller, severely burned while rescuing their two children from the burn ing home, have improved steadily but will be confined several more days. Both of the their children. Linda, 7 months, and John, 20 months also were burned but wlUf be released Wednesday. George Chaney, sr, father of Mrs. Miller also was hospitalized with a broken ankle. . The first organization to render assistance to the homeless families was the Associated Women's club of the Pioneer district, head by Mrs. Frank Domhecker. The Dal las Apostolic Faith church, the Polk county public welfare com mission and the Red Cross also have given aid. Contributions from Miller's fel low employes at an F, B. Miller Construction company of Salem project in Dallas were donated to the growing aid fund. - Many in dividual contributions have been reported, including a check from a bean-picking employer to cever loss of bean tickets in the fire. Mrs. Chaney and her five chil dren' have been housed In an empty residence on route 2 owned by R. E. Smith, a neighbor. Family Keeps Vigil to Halt Mystery Fires The Keith Remington family was maintaining a 24-hour vigil at their residence south of Salem Monday to prevent another out break in the series of six mystery fires that began Friday and con tinued through Sunday. No new fires were reported to state police or th Marion county sheriffs office Mr. and Mrs. Rem ington, their eight children, and Mrs. Remington's mother alter nated in keeping rwatch,. they re ported. . Latest fire was reported Sun day afternoon. It burned about one-fourth acre of grass on a hill 100 yards behind the house. It was controlled by neighbors. Other fires, the first of which started at noon Friday, have dam aged the house, chicken house and orchard. Stat police and sheriffs de puties still were Investigating the blazes Monday and will continue the study today. i The sheriffs office reported a distinctive feature of the fires has been that only one was set at night The others broke out at times during the day when any person setting them Would most lrfcely be seen by on of th fam ily. ' Gambler Probe Goal of City OMAK. Wash., Sept -(F)-demand for a grand jury investiga tion of gambling here may come out of a "good government rally Tuesday night sponsors of the meeting said today. ; On the other side of the fence were those who said a fight would be made at the meeting against against a grand Jury calL Prosecutor John Hancock pro mptly asserted that i the sheriff should leave enforcement of gam bling laws to city officials. Vaccine Co-Finder Dies in Montana HAMILTON, Monti Sept. 5-V Dr. Ralph R. Parker, co-discoverer of a vaccine for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, died Sunday of a heart attack. He was 61. Parker, director of the national institute of health's Rocky Moun tain laboratory, had been ill only a few hours. A