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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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