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Freight Increases Burden West
" As these freight raises have come along, most
of them made percentage-wise, western states
have protested because of the great burden put
on their producers to get their goods hauled to
market. A five per cent increase dosn'f amount
to much when the freight haul is only a fevy
hundred dollars, but when it runs into thou-'
sands it hits with a jolt. The big market for
many western products is in the east and mid
west This includes lumber, copper, lead, fresh
fruits and vegetables.
The Western Growers association represent
ing 90 per cent of the growers and shippers of
Arizona and California figures that freight costs
are now the chief items in growing and getting
produce to market. Its freight bill this year will
fee $78,000,000 besides the extra for icing, etc.
So the increases really pinch.
The same thing applies to other shippers of
fruits like northwest apples,and vegetables. And
where they compete with producing districts
with a much shorter haul, the competition may
be too stiff for them to meet.
What we shall probably see is a slow erosion
of freight rates to meet truck competition and
to maintain the volume of freight from the west.
Either way the pinch falls on the railroads, too,
with their present costs.
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Keep Bomber Order in Seattle
We of (the northwest do not appreciate tha
apparent effort of the secretary for air to have
Boeing's move the building of bomber planes to
Wichita. The excuse given is tfyat Seattle is on
the periphery and so exposed to possible enemy
attack. So it is, but with the speed of aeronau
tical progress central Kansas may be in a battle
zone, too, within a few years.
The northwest will have to be defended. Sure
ly the government isn't going to let Bremerton
navy yard, the Hanford atomic bomb works,
Grand Coulee and Bonneville and other power
dams go inadequately defended. Boeings comes
within this circle and would have the same se
Tulrity. It is proper to disperse war plants over the
country, but hardly fair o rob Seattle, which
has been the Boeing home for years, of the busi
ness which goes with heavy government pur
chase of bombers. Seattle Boeing did pioneer
work on big bombers, losing lots of money in
the preliminary stages. It should not be made
to suffer by this shift of patronage.
Watch Out for School Buses
The law was passed last spring and carried j
an .emergency clause so it went into effect im- '
mediately. Yet as schools are reopening it is im- .
portant to call the law again to public attention.
The law requires three things of motorists: -
1. The driver of a motor vehicle on a high- !
"j. wy wth not more than two lanes, when meet- i
. lng a school bus that has stopped to discharge j
or take on passengers, "shall completely stop"
his vehicle before reaching the front of the bus :
and shall not resume motion so long as school i
children are leaving the bus or crossing the j
hiehway.
2. The same prohibition applies to the driver ?
of a motor vehicle on highways of not more;
than two lanes, on overtaking a school bus. He !
must stop his car before reaching the rear of
Vifce bus and wait until the crossing is clear.
3. On multiple lane highways the prohibition!
applies to drivers overtaking a school bus which:
has stopped to take on or discharge children.
As you driven get the habit of watching for!
British Crisis
Br Joseph and Stewart Atoap
WASHINGTON. Sept. 7
Economic complexities being
what they are. it is very diffi
cult to bring to.
life the crisis of
British power
which will occu
py Snyder and
Acheson, Bevin
and Cripps in
Washington thus
week. Indeed,
there Is only one
simple way to
state the kind of
problem that is
involved. If , the
British crisis Is
'Joarplt Alsvf
not o.varcome.
the process that left us expen
sively responsible for Greece
and Turkey may shortly be re-
MMineated on an In
3VJ finitely greater
kHsraie.
In brief, as ev
eryone has been
quite often and
rUtold. the drain
areas Is in tne
I Far Cast Before
the war, India,
Burma and Malaya used to earn
a good many hundreds, of mil
lions of dollars a year for the
London E x e c h e quer, selling
their raw materials to us, and
buying British m a n u f a ctured
goods with our money. Now,
however, all this is over.
Burma is in chaos and can no
longer send rice to India. India
Is economically disrupted, can
export less of her own jaw ma
terials, and must buy American
rrrin to replace Burman rice.
Even Malaya, which continues
to earn dollars for Britain by
exports of rubber and tin. has
been hard hit Jby the drop in
commodity prices. In conse
auence, the.net dollar deficit for
the whole area of Burma, Ma
cwlaya and India is UDwards of
$200,000,000 annually. This is the
rate at which Britain is drawing
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No Favor Sways U$, No Feat Shall Am"
; school buses and be ready to bring your vehicle
! to a stop if the school bus stops. The buses axe
! painted yellow, have signs on the rear, and will
be equipped with semaphore signals marked
"Stop." When you see that, stop.
Annexation Vote Recommended
Before the city council is a petition from
residents of a small district adjacent to the city
; on the southeast asking for an election for its
j annexation to the city. The first time the mat
;ter was voted on the vote was' negative, so tha
boundary lines were reduced and the proposi
tion yoted on again. That time it lost by just a
I few votes, though it was later discovered that
; some had voted who were not eligible to vote;
I and that had the vote been properly restricted
jit would have carried, j ,
In view of the circumstances it seems only
fair for the council to authorize a new vote. By
i taking action Monday night the question can b
iput on the ballot for the October election, so
there would be no cost to speak of to get this
i expression of present attitude.
! We understand that most of the objection tb
annexation comes from a 'tavern-owner who
fears the tighter restriction of the city ordi
nances on pinball machines. However, annexa
i tion should accelerate settlement of the area and
provide a larger population for business operat
ing there. At any rate, the proper petition hav
jing been filed, the vote should be ordered for
;the coming election.
No 'Jury Trial" for Mental Cases
Soine; group of misguided persons in Portland
has been agitating for a change in the law which
would require a jury trial before a person could
I b committed to the state hospital for the men
tally! ill. Such a change would be dangerous in
the ifxtreme. When a person has some physical
ailment you call a physician to diagnose his case
and recommend treatment. The ones best com
petent to judge in cases where mental affliction
i ciibaH ar thns with nrofeasional traininff
The state hospital is not a prison; one mental
ly ill is not a criminal unless he has committed
some crime. It is, as the name implies, a hospi
tal for treatment and for care. Oregon has now
good laws covering committments and admis
sions to the state hospital. They should not be
changed. !
Senator O'Mahoney reports that 34 states es-
timate their needs for highway construction at
$20,000,000. That is undoubtedly a modest sum.
The war suspended other than essential work
but the volume
the highways. With the number of motor ve-
hicles increasing, highway departments are hard
pressed to catch up on arrears of repairs and
. .
construction and
fic growth.
Something Inside must have snapped in tha
case of Howard Unruh, the Camden ex-GI who
ran amok and killed 12 persons in his own
neighborhood, and Injured four others. Describ
ed as a Bible-reading individual, he set out on
an independent and unexplainable shooting or
gy. He is much to be pitied, though pity for him
will not assuage the grief of relatives of those
he wantonly shot down.
Credit Shirley May France with a gallant try
in her attempt to swim the English channel
Cold water, adverse tides defeated her, but her
courage didn't fail.
Involves Far East Fate
down her last-ditch financial
reserves for ithese three coun
tries. Whyt you mar ask. The ans
wer is, in part that1 Britain lives
by banking, and that, as mem
. bers of the sterling area. Burma,
Malaya and India are customers
of the bank.j But (in American
eyes, the more important part
of the answer is,, political. A
communist guerrilla movement
In Malaya isj requiring- the at
tention of nearly 100.000 British
and native troops. In Burma, the
weak new government is men
aced by two; armed communist
rebellions and the tribal up
rising of the Karens. And in
India, the communist party, al
though still ; small, is rapidly
making hay j while the sun of
disorder'shines.
In other words. Britain is forc
ed to -pay out dollars to Burma,
Malaya and India, or face the
prospect of this vast, .strategic
ally crucial Srea being plunged,
first 'in total chaps, and later
into '; communism. I But suppose
Britain's dollars run out. Then
we shall have to tike over Brit
ain's responsibilities in India,
Burma and jMalava. as we did
in Greece t and Turkey, or we
must expect; to see the comple
tion of the job in Asia that our
own folly in China has so well
begun. Nor can we complacently
say to ourselves. "Oh well, what
does it matter if i few , former
British colonies go down the
drain." ( i
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While Burma, India and Ma
laya are going. Japan and the
Philippines will be going, too.
We shall be; losing all the prizes
of our bitter Pacific fighting.
And we shall be confronted with
a new factor in the balance of
power the raw material wealth
of Asia, married to the industry
of Japan and India, and con
trolled by the Kremlin. Such a
convulsive change in the world
power balance will inevitably
produce a world situation worse
than that after Munich.
Such is the briefest and most
informal summary of one of tha
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not the lay persons who would compose a jury.
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of war traffic ground hard on
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build new roads to match traf-
American experts' studies of this
Far Eastern problem, which Is
only one aspect of the much
vaster problem that Secretaries.
Snyder and Acheson. Foreign
Minister Bevin and Chancellor
of the Exchequer Cripps must
somehow solve. The question re
mains, what is to be done about
it?
As these words are: written,
the British proposals j are not
known. Bold ideas are current in
London, but the indications from
London suggest that the British
leaders will not be bold. Most
likely they will merely .try to
cut their Far. Eastern deceit, by
asking for an American guaran
tee to purchase Indian, Malayan
and Burman raw materials at
fixed prices in fixed amounts
for a stated period. Equally, bold
ideas are current In Washington,
as has been recorded in this
space; yet the political paralysis
of the administration Is now so
pervasive that the Americans
may also be expected to avoid
fundamental solutions. Stop
gaps, tide-overs. . and "commit-tees-to-study"
are .the watch
words of the day. 4
None the less, over the long
term, stoprgaps will not serve.
As in the 'world, so in the Far
East, boldness is the only one
way out.. Anyone who visits
Asia, as one of these reporter
has recently done, can see that
American wealth and energy
must be united with British ex
perience and established influ
ence, in order to produce a firm
Asiatic solution. Only an Anglo
American political-economics-strategic
organization wielding
"the largest powers, and dispos
ing! of very great resources, can
halt the march of communism in
Asia today. The creation of suc'a
an organization is already in the
minds of some of the more far
sighted and vigorous American
policy-makers.
One must hone that when the
danger of timidity has been gra
phically proven, these men will
have their innings, and that it
will not be too late.
(Copyright. 1S4S. New York Herald
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By Henry McLemore
MADRID, Sept. 7 -i Special)
Yankee Stadium Is packed from
turf to turret.
joe jJimaggio m
is at bat. I
The bases are!
loaded. f
The count 1st
two and three. I
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pitch a shirt-i
slee.ved rani I
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shoves him aside.
takes a swing, and knocks tha
ball into the upper stands for a
home run.
The umpires and police grab
the volunteer slugger and hus
tle him toward an exit But
thousands in the crowd, thrilled
by t(he unrehearsed perform
ance, rush from their seats,
overwhelm the cops, . and take
their new hero off in triumph.
. This never has happened at
Yankee Stadium, and never will,
but last Sunday in the Madrid
bull ring, the most famous in
the world, I saw the Spanish
equivalent of such an occur
rence. A celebrated matador was
awaiting his turn to appear. A
magnificent black bull was re
leased and charged into the ring.
At this instant a sawed-off little
fellow who couldn't have been
more than 5 feet 2, and wearing
dirty, baggy pants and a faded,
torn shirt, leaped the barrier
into the ring. As he leaped he
grabbed the matador's sword
and advanced toward the bull,
waving a piece of red cloth.
The crowd set up a roar of
approval. It knew that it was
seeing an exhibition of courage
of the rawest sort. The bull had
not been "tamed" an iota by
the fifteen minutes of harassing
Abuse it always gets before a
matador goes into fight and kill
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him. He was fresh, strong and
mad.
The "matador had learned all
he knew about cape and foot-
work from watching bullfights
since he was five or six, and
perhaps a little work with young
bulls in a pasture
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But so explained a Spanish
friend who was with me tha
youngster was a born matador.
Within a minute or two he had
the huge crowd roaring and
stamping with approval. He did
everything, and did it magnifi
cently well. He lacked the splen
drous costume of the matador,
but that was about aU.
In less than the time a mata
dor Is supposed to have a fin
bull ready for the kill, tha
would-be Belmonte had him
ready for the finish. And all by
his lonesome.
It was then that he was halt
ed. Attendants and cops closed
In on him and the crowd, sens
ing that he would wind up in
jail, decided to see that he
didn't. Hundreds of them went
to his rescue, and when last
seen he was being triumphantly
escorted away.
Then the scheduled show
went on. But not peacefully. The
matador whose place the volun
teer had taken, was given a thor
ough going-over by the crowd
when he failed to perform with
the daring and dash shown by
the boy In the baggy pants and
the old shirt. ,
My Spanish friend told me
that because of the fine showing
he had made, the youngster
would not be forgotten, and that
money would be raised to see
that he had a chance for proper
training.
"A few years from now," my
friend said, "that poor young
ster may be the most popular
man in Spain, and worth a mil
lion dollars."
(Distributed by McNaught Syndicate
Inc.)
Capistrano, an All-America
Rose Selection for 1950, was nam-
ed after the famous California
Mission founded in 1778 and cele-
bra ted in -song and story for its
swallows. The birds leave the
mission on the same date each
fall to fly south and return to tha
mission the same data each spring.
By Lichty
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Your (Health
It seeSns hard to believe, but it
is true I nevertheless that cancer
of the pip which is one of tha
most eoynmon forms of skin can
cer, is definitely a man's disease.
It is possible, of course, for wom
en to develop this type of cancer,
but it Happens so rarely that out
of every hundred patients with
this disease 99 will be men.
At the start cancer of the "lip
resembles an ordinary pimple,
which soon breaks down to form
an ulcer or sore, and here is
where the condition is too often
neglected. But the doctor can
usually make a correct diagnosis
by appearance only, and it must
always be remembered that
either tuberculosis or syphilis
Can cause sores very like those
produced by cancer of the lip.
Hera is a good plan to follow.
Whenever a sore on tha lip
particularly on the lower lip
fails to heal in three or four
weeks, cancer should be sus
pected and a bit of tissue re
moved for examination under
the microscope. In this way, a
definite diagnosis can be made
before the cancer spreads, as it
will if left untreated until it in
vades the entire lip.
There are a number of dis
orders of the lips which lead to
the development of cancer. These
include thickened patches called
leoukoplakia, overgrowth of the
skin called keratosis, and recur
rent cracking at the corners of
the mouth. Any such disorders
should be treated by a skin spe
cialist to prevent the develop
ment of a cancer. Tha exact
treatment will depend upon
which of these conditions is
present.
The exact treatment to be em-
ployed for lip cancer depends
upon the type and extent of tha
Literary
By W. G. Rogers
A LITTLE TREASURY OF
AMERICAN PROSE: THE MA
JOR WRITERS FROM COLON
IAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT
DAY, edited with an introduc
tion by George Mayberry
(Scribner's; 15)
Tha "Little Treasury" series,
that has consisted previously of
selections of poetry, assumes a
markedly Increased significance
with this volume . . . which,
factually, has soma 950 pages,
60 photographs, perhaps 35,000
words from about 80 authors,
and which incidentally. Is hand
somely bound and boxed.
The editorship is . the sort of
Job that a man no doubt la eager
to tackle, but that must break his
heart every time ha has to throw
out one author, or cut another
to the bare bone, or decide be
tweed a short but complete se
lection and a long but incom
plete one. Yet few readers'
hearts will skip a beat over
these choices. The men that mat
ter are here, and so are the wo
men, though they number only
six; and they are fairly, and
often perfectly, represented.
They range from the fiery,
warnings of Jonathan Edwards
to Wolfe's' impassioned, stirring
apostrophes, from the wit of
Mark Twain to the somber Hen
1 ry James and his facile brother
William, from the politics of
Paine and Madison to the eco
nomics and sociology of Upton
Sinclair and James T. FarrelL
v Mayberry is aware that writing
for writing's sake is not the
whole story, perhaps hardly haif
of it If in the Revolutionary
era there was little to pick from
except the writings of political
scientists, in later years a more
academic editor would have been
too timid to include sentences
IHIollyivood
By Gene Handsaker
HOLLYWOOD K now any
guy who 's seven feet tall with
the face of a saint? Hollywood's
paging such a character. The
movie is based on the book
which, a studio researcher claims,
has Sold more copies than any
other except the Bible.
It's "Quo Vadis," written in
1896 by a Polish novelist Henryk
Sienkiewicz. For 25 years after
that, the studio scholar reports,
the book topped best-seller lists.
Total sales are somewhere in
the millions. This will be its
fourth screen treatment, but the
first by a Hollywood studio. It
will be shot entirely in Italy
the first color film made there.
Starred will be Gregory Peck.
as a Roman : soldier hero, and
Elizabeth Taylor, a slave girl
through whose love he becomes
a Christian.
About that saintly giant. In the
story, whoch takes place about
60 A D, Nero burns Rome. The
people demand a scapegoat. Nero
blames the Christians and has
them tossed to the lions. He. has
Iygia (that's Miss Taylor) tied
to the back of a bull. If her
bodyguard can best the bull in
a hand-to-horns tussle. Nero will
spare her. The bodyguard. Ursus,
is the 7-footer. Studio emissaries
are seeking him in the Italian
Alps where, the informant hears,
"they grow 'em big."
"Quo Vadis" means "whhher
goest thou?" Previous films used
it with a question mark, but
M-G-M is dropping this with the
explanation that there is no
question mark in Latin. The
first movie, made in 1902 in
Paris, ran 20 minutes. The
second (1912, Italy) was nine
reels the longest film up to
then. This was shown for 22
weeks, at $1 admission, at New
York City's Astor Theater the
first movie ever exhibited in a
U.S. legitimate theater. A 1924
version, also made in, Italy star
red Germany's Emil Jennings.
It was a financial flop. A lion
was reported to have consumed
one of the extras during produc
tion, considerably spoiling the
other actors' enthusiasm for the
whole project
The present $3,000,000 under
taking is a whopper. Several
Written by
Dr. Hermaa N.
BuBdensen, M.D.
growth. In most cases, surgical
removal is the most satisfactory
form of treatment. If not more
than one-third of tha lip is in
volved, the cancer can be cut out
and the edges of the wound
sewed together without causing
much scarring or deformity. If
the growth Is more extensive,
some type of plastic operation Is
required to reconstruct the lip
and overcome the deformity pro
duced by the removal of the can
cer. -- In some cases treatment with
radium is used, or X-ray is em
ployed, particularly if the patient
is elderly or if operation'' in
volves a great deal of risk to the
patient's life. Some lip cancers
are slow growing and if they
have involved a great deal of
tha lip, treatment with radium
may be the best procedure.
Of course, the earlier such a
growth is discovered and re
moved, the better Is the result
Play safe never delay when
there is suspicion of cancer.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
D. P.: If a person has child
bed fever after tha birth of tha
first child, will she have it with
the second child?
Answer: The fact that an in
fection occurred following the
birth of the first child would not
necessarily mean that it would
occur again.
With the use of such prepara
tions as penicillin and the sul
fonamide drugs, these infections,
as a rule, can be quickly cleared
up, should they occur.
(Copyright. 1949. Ktng Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
As much as 10 tons of ice is
required for a single railroad re-
frigerator car on a coast to coast
trip.
Guidepost
from the Constitution or pages
from John Brown, Roosevelt
Wallace, Sacco, Vanzetti, Hey
wood Broun.
While tha arrangement Is
largely chronological, thera is
tha sense of development and
despite the extraordinary varie
v ty an intimation of soma inex
plicable unity, though Mayberry
shies away from any idea of a
; "national genius." Compact as
1 the introduction Is, It serves its
purpose of defining standards of
judgment assaying the import
ant figures and putting the less
er ones in their place.
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hundred thousand dollars' worth
of electrical equipment is being
shipped over. (The Nazis strip
ped the Mussolini-built Ctnecitta
studios of even the air-conditioning.)
Eight thousand still-picture
negatives and 8.500 flash
bulbs are smaller items on tha
bill of lading.
More than 5.000 extras will
perform. This is the most the
researcher says triumphantly,
since "Ben Hut" U years aga
in Roma the Circus Maximua,
the arena where Nero had his
Christian-feeding fun, will be
reproduced. Three thousand wigs
will be made thera. "Also all
the costumes,"' says the inform
ant, "which Italian women make
in theirs; homes between stands
at the spaghetti pot" nfty lions
and several bulls : are beira
rounded up. Several property
department chariots are being
shipped over. Whiter goest Hol
lywood? Back in the direction
of the colossal.
Better English
B7 a C WUliaaas
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "Jane is littler than
her sister."
What is the correct pronun
ciation of "jasmine"?
i. Wluch one of these words is
misspelled? Allusive, allegiance
allmighty. 4. What does the word "inno
vation" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with that means "serious
ness"? ANSWERS
1. Say, "is smaller." 2. Pro-nounce-the
a as in at 1 as in
mint. 3. Almighty. 4. A change
or novatty, especially in cus
tomsgnners, or rites. "They
were Tpposed to Innovation." 8.
Solemnity.
Patterson Asks
Federal Union
ST. "LOUIS. Sept 7 -OP)- A
"genuine political and economic
union" of the United States and
Canada with western Europe was
held out by Robert P. Patterson
Tuesday as an assurance of peace
"for the foreseeable future.
Patterson, former secretary of
war and now a New York lawyer,
made the point in a speech to the
American Bar association, in con
vention here.
He said:
"The time Is not far off, I hope,
when the people of the United
States and Canada will form a
genuine political and economic Un
ion with the free people of west
ern Europe."
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