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Th Shttmn. Salem, Ofoon, WodneseLrr, Sop. 21. 1949 THE JOHISISIQYS FLOOD, OR SO IT SEEMS ou(r Health Written fey Dr. Herman K. Boadenaea. <X pxatc8maa K favor Suxiyf V, No Feat, Shall AwT Tnm First Stateasma. Mare M. 1M1 THE STATESMAN PUBUSHINC COMPANY CHAf 3 A RPR AGUE. Editor! and Publisher EaUretf at the pesteffiee at Sales. Oregon. a so cUsa matter udcff act eoncrai Myc , 117. rabltebed every mermln. BmIoob eTfiee SIS ft. CwatrtUl Slnw Oregon. Telephone g-Mtl. to conclude negotiations on the Austrian treaty. All in all, the UN assembly meeting this fall gives occasion for. genuine optimism. ; Optimism for United. Nalioni The United Nations assembly began its meet ing yesterday in an atmosphere far more re laxed than that of one year ago. Then the blockade of Berlin created tensions which many feared would snap and plunge the world into war. There was plenty of gloom as the repre senatives of the nations gathered for the as sembly meeting. While the debates of the ses sions drew plenty of vitriolic verbiage, the con troversies were confined to words. And as the session wore on, side talks between Americans and Russions led to formal conversations which finally brought an end to the Berlin blockade and the countering airlift. This year the friction points are in the Balk ans. It has been reported that Marshal Tito might complain to UN on Russian pressures as unwarranted aggression; or that Russia might complain of Marshal Tito's didoes in the Balk ans. It is doubtful, however, if the issues will be raised formally, although Foreign Minister Vishinsky may give verbal scourgings to Yug oslavia as a captive of western ' imperialism. Relations betvf een Greece and Albania, too, , are unhappy because Greece blames Albania with serving as base for the Greek guerrillas. The United States and Britian, however, will keep Greece quiet with tle idea that the civil war in Greece is on it way to a satisfactory ending. Another reason for optimism over United Nations exists,; and that is the success its com missions have met in resolving acute problems. First in mind is Palestine. This was a thorny cactus. Efforts of Britain rand of the United States to compose differences between Jews and Arabs failed. A solution proposed by the UN was rejected and 'civil war begun in Pal estine. United Nations intervened with orders for a truce, and. finally its commission, headed by Dr. Ralph Bunche after the assassination of Count Bernadotte, brought peace to Palestine. The new government of Israel is functioning. It has made peace with several of its Arab neighbors. The status of Jerusalem is still in Uoubt, a matter complicated by desire of relig ous groups to make sure that the holy places ara preserved and kept free of access. Indonesia, too, stands as another mark of UN achievement. In spite of a reversion to war some months ago, a fresh peace has been work ed out between the Dutch and the Indonesians which will give the latter a free givernment though probably still related to The Nether lands. A UN commission helped also to avert war fare in Kashmir where rivalry between ' India and Pakistan threatened serious trouble. k of With the 'major tensions in Europe greatly cased, and the critical tests of Palestine, Indo nesia and Kashmir passed, the United Nations stands now on a much firmer basis. The very fact that 59 nations in these troubled times remain affiliated in this single organization and that others are ambitious for admittance shows that is is by no means a failure, that it is the best present hope for world order that we have in the way of an international org anization. The problems which will be up for discussion at this session are now new. A listing of 72 points discloses not one new major issue. Those ,which probably will come up will deal vith: Palestine, new members, amendments to the Charter to eliminate the veto power of the five great nations, Italian colonis, Indonesia, Balkans, Korea, atomic energy, conventional armaments, the year-around little Assembly, the U. N. field service, the issue of human rights in Bul garia and Hungary, to which Australia has tacked on Romania in a separate point; and Southwest Africa. The revision of currencies may stimulate discussions of economic questions, giving Vish insky a chance to label it as another step of American imperialism dictated by Wall street. There may be argument over the voting in the security council last week which rejected 14 applications for. membership. Russia exer cised its veto seven times when representatives of other nations refused its offer of a "deal" which would have admitted all applicants for membership. Russia's vetoes barred Nepal, Eire, Portugal, Hashemite Jordan, Italy, Austria, Finland, Ceylon, and Korea, j Russia's satellites, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary,! Roman ia and Outer Mongolia failed to get a: majority in the council. While the UN assembly is in session the for eign ministers of the four big powers may try Recoil of Devaluation The action of Britain in devaluing the pound, while lot a surprise in view of Britain's finan cial dilema, did produce a profund shock all round the world. Banks and exchanges were closed tin the countries scaling down their cur rencies while business adjusted itself to the new rtes. The effects will1 trickle -down to commercial operations all round the globe, to the te4-grower in Ceylon, the rubber producer in the1 Malay states, to distillers of Scotch whiskey and weavers of British worsteds. It will tike time for the results to be observed, but as: they are felt adjustments will be made or counter-forces applied to minimize injuries. Sudden changes often create havoc in the business world. In this instance, some will reap big (ajnd really unearned) profits while others will safler great losses. The man who gbt his pound! converted into dollars can now switch them back into many more pounds than he had before; Thisf instability in trade makes for excite ment lut it makes business risky. Even the as tute trader can never be certain that his end of the5 ttjeter board will always be up. To avoid these j extreme swings, efforts are constantly directed toward stabilization. " Before 'the first world; war the gold standard and the free market worked ellectively as a stabilizer. But wars destroy so much in the ways of goods and creditl, disrupt channels of trade so seriously that it takes years and years to restore a reason able balance. Breton Woods, the British loan, the Marshall aid plan all were directed toward reviving and stabilizing international trade. All proved in adequate because the economic and social over turns! caused by the war were so vast and so deep I that the cures did not suffice. It will take time and production of great stores of new wealth to bring back economic health and sta bility! Devaluation may be described as a shpcll treatment. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, some other remedy will have to be tried or else some of the sick will succumb. Do' not think that the effects will not be felt in: the United States. Our markets ( for pears arid apples, for instance) will be curtailed. Woo prices already have dropped. More domestic production will pile up on the home market, resulting either in lower prices or in morq government subsidies. On the other hand, foreign products will be cheaper, which in turnjiwill give more competition to domestic producers. 1 These economic forces are bigger than gov ernments. Political agencies may restrict them hi a degree but in the end economic laws over ride politics. The best that governments can do is; to temper the economic winds to the shorn lambs. The sooner governments realize the limit of their powers and recognize that ulti mate compulsion of economic forces, the better off government and society will be. i i f: 1 I Navajos and Government Aid The arrival of over 200 Navajo Indian chil dren!: at Chemawa for enrollment in the Indian school ten days ago was result of the agitation over-neglect of this tribe which arose two yean ago. I They were found to be in dire want. And one of the great lacks was schools for their chil dren! Last year 80 youngsters spent the year at Chemawa. This year the number is mors thaii doubled. Other schools are being pro vided, including one at Brigham City, Utah, where the government has remodeled a former army hospital for use as a school. I While the government is belatedly doing these things for the benefit of the Navajos whose population is too great to find subsistence on its Vast but barren reservation, legislation is pending which would pretty well abandon them to their fate. John Collier, former commis sioner of Indian affairs, in an article in The National, discusses pending bills. In his judg ment, and he certainly is a man both informed and Sympathetic with Indians, these bills would spel the doom of the Indian by permitting the ; sale jpf his patrimony and his release frOm gov ernment wardship. That may be the desirable goal ; in the end, but to cast the Indians adrift, even with a wad of spending money, would result in their extinction as a race. Congress shoud carefully review these bills before vot ing on them. Scehjxb Literary Guidepost Russ 'Cooperation' Test on Agenda By I. M. Roberts, jr AP Foreign Attain Analyst The agenda of the United Na tions general assembly which convened yesterday contains an Ideal spot for a small test of the statement of Soviet Foreign ! Minister Vishinsky that Russia : . wants to cooperate In the U.N. If "There can be no doubt that the general assembly would be able to solve the important prob V j lems before it providing the na- -lotions of the U.N. show a since H desire to cooperate with each ether and In accordance with the - principles of the U.N. charter," the former prosecutor said on ar l , rival. fl The UJf. has an Instrument es- pecially 'designed to find the means of international coopera te tlon. It is the committee of the whole, or "little . assembly," ;-f which the Russians have boycott The litt!e? assembly was estab lished with the announced idea that all delegations should be re- presented the year-round. Its 1 prime use has been as a forum for mobilization ,of world re action on any subject And .es pecially on the subject of non cooperation. That means, of course, that it does not exactly operate in favor -of Russia, the prime non-cooperatorf Whether it is to continue on a Permanent basis is the question up now. i . i Russia opposed this addition to the U. N. organization on the groundsthat it invaded the field of the security council. Rus sia has the veto right In the sec urity council, but not in the general assembly or its commit- biles can only recommend and JCT-J discuss, the principal, issues of internatlo nal disagreement. Their decisions are not binding on the security council. One of the spark-striking: top ics before this general assembly is the Greek matter. Before Rus sia and her satellites could agree to stop Intervening inj the Creek civil war i they would have to admit that they had been doing SO. i P Before Russia can agree for her satellites in the former en emy countries of Hungary, Ro mania and Bulgaria to stop vio lating the human rights clause of the! rpeace treaties she must admit that they have been doing so. Before Russia can agree to give up the security council veto as advocated by the smaller nations she would have to admit tacitly that it had been misused. (The other big powers are going to hold on to mis defensive weapon, too, although they would like to its use limited to truly vital ! (Continued from page one) jeopardizing her position. Miss Shifferer left to spend the sum mer with relatives in the mid west. She wrote MacLean about August 1 that she was feeling much better and would report September 1. No answer. After her return, and just a few days beforggyiie first of September, she reinved a communication from MacLean that in her ab sence the duties she had dis charged had been reassigned and her position was abolished! -i The case was brought to the office of the civil service com mission, but It is not certain of its powers under the law. Miss Shifferer retains her rating and presumably will obtain another position in state service, but she has lost time and may have to Accept a situation in a lower talari ed bracket . ! MacLean's reorganizing his di vision didn't stop with Miss Shif ferer. Miss Dorothy Prim, next in line, who had been trained to take, over Miss Shifferer'i duties and was fully capable of doing So, was told one morning to clear out her desk, that she was being Reassigned to heavy typing work. Considering this a demotion. Miss Prim exercised an old American right and resigned, j Light ion- the shifts may dawn when It is reported that the one moved up to top spot is the daughter of the county clerk of Lincoln county, where MacLean Jived and served briefly as county commissioner. Under the old rule of "to the victor belong the spoils, the boss could make Wrings and fir ings as he chose. That presum ably was abolished when the Civil service law was passed. But If a department head can "abol ish" a position he can fire any employe he wants to. In this Instance, the duties are still there to be performed, duties which Miss Shifferer had per formed very satisfactorily over a long term of years. I If our civil service law gives no more protection in tenure than it did to Miss Shifferer, then it is a rope of sand, be sides being quite an expensive luxury. The state employes' as sociation might well direct its efforts toward amending the law irhich will give employes the security which they thought they were getting when the law was passed. The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom, by Arthur M. Schle singer, Jr. (Houghton Mifflin; $3). Agreeing with other observers that, in the midst of plenty, we should be happy, and, victors in war, we should be contented, but that in fact we are worried and anxious, this astute and persuas ive author, like a doctor, auscu tates our body politic and comes up with a diagnosis and a pre scription. Whether or not yon accept all of it, the diagnosis makes excit ing reading; Schlesinger proposes and defends his ideas warmly. Our main problem is not, but our immediate problem is, he says, Russia; while he would avoid an anti-Soviet crusade, nevertheless he wpuld reconstruct Europe (the Marshall Plan) and keep the Reds off our greener grass (the Truman Doctrine). But In the meantime, he ex horts us to put our own house in order. He doesn't find much good in any of us. Communists or non Commies, Fascists or their oppo sites, businessmen. Republicans, even or perhaps especially the Progressives, who are well mean, ing but misguided, poor thinkers and bad actors, in his opinion. For the Conservatives he saves his most vitriolic accusations, perhaps because he knows them best. The Progressive is to the Communist what the Conserva tive is to the Fascist, he charges. He pleads in conclusion for a fighting faith in our kind of freedom, for a variety of liberal ism which lies slightly left of center, a liberalism conscious of its strength and prepared to use it. He wants us to avoid depres sion, to trade more with the rest of the world, to end racial dis crimination. Neither diagnosis nor prescription is particularly new; Schlesinger's success in this book is due to his vivid language, his fervor, his condemnations that are now witty now biting. This is an eloquent call to action. It would have seemed to me a little clearer if his enthusiasm had not once in a while colored his Judgment. "Ballad for Amer icans" is a lot better than he, hunting for a handy example, is willing to admit; and to define Howard Fast as "a party line O. A. Henty" is also, unfortunately, to define Schlesinger. In con demning the Reds for a political .slant on literature, he slants no ticeably himself. Mrs. Mulligan PioneerOregoii Resident Dies ' Mrs. Ida S. Mulligan, 85, late resident of 1618 Fairmount ave and member of an early pioneer family, died at a local hospital Tuesday. ! She was the mother of Vesta Mulligan of Salem. Services will be held Thursday, September 22, at 2 p.m. from the new V. T. Golden mortuary chapel, 603 S. Commercial st. ! The Rev. G. Wasley Turner and the Rev. Dean D. Poindexter will officiate. Interment will be in Belcrest Memorial park. It is re quested that flowers be omitted. i The deceased was born at Mo Ma, Oct 9, 1863. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Sanders, who crossed the plains by ox-team and settled at North Howell In 1831. Mrs. Mulligan was graduated from Willamette university. She was married in 1888 to Albert S. Mulligan who died In 1936. Mrs. Mulligan, who has been a resident Of Salem since 1916, was a mem ber of the Leslie Methodist church. Hialeah Florida's oldest and and largest horse track again has been assigned Jan. 17 to March 3 for its 40-day racing period next winter. Better English By D. C Williams To produce true cooperation in the United Nations would re quire Russian renunciation of her entire effort to make Moscow the capital of a communist world. - But if Mr. Vishinsky wants to do just a little more than talk about cooperation he might take Russia into the little assembly and some of the other UJf. spec ial agencies in -which Russia Is not now pexticipaUnx- i 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "Mary has many ad mirable female traits." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation 6f "villlanT 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Acoustics, acer bity, acessabillty. t 4. What does the word "im passioned" mean? ( 9. What is a word beginning with it that means "state of de serving serious consideration"? ANSWERS 1. Says, "feminise traits.- 2. Pronounce vil-in, both Fs as in it, and not vil-yan. 2. Accessibility. 4. Moved to strong feeling; ard ent. ; "His impassioned words brought tears to her eyes." 5, Gravity. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty ll -. . . Ani the werkers in America Have be hep ef retting oat f iett ... Already the l5t ears are en the market . . . sad they fcaveat yei4 fer their 'U s-Mdeto yet .. v The temperature of babies and young children varies a great deal more than that of an adult. We are all born with "thermost at" control,'' but the temperature regulating mechanism is not fully deevloped at birth, and hence stable body temperatures are est ablished only as the child grows older. In the first few days of life, the baby normally loses weight because of a loss of fluids from the body. This process may be accompanied by a rise in temper, ature to around 101 degrees. Ord inarily, the deficit is soon made good, whereupon the tempera ture promptly returns to normal. Inj rare cases. If the elevated temperature persists, the physi cian may find it necessary to re place the lost fluids by injec tions under the skin. A baby cannot adjust as readi ly as an adult to temperature changes in his surroundings. His temperature will drop if he be comes chilled or wil rise If he is dressed, too warmly or kept In too warm a room. A fever or rise In temperature develops when the baby has some infection. Fever is a warning sign, and the mother must heed this warning by calling the doc tor. It may be produced by tri vial causes or by a serious con dition, but only the doctor can j Hank Wants Art School For Tourists By Hrnry McLemore FLORENCE, Sept. 20 There is: a mighty good living awaiting the first art critic who estab lishes a school for the briefing of tourists on what to say when conf r o n t e d by world - recogniz mrMr led masterpieces of paintl ngs. sculpture, tapes tries, etc Take the sev- eral thousands of ius Americans 'who are now ! HcLmer crashing around Florence, the art center of the universe. We are anxious to get cultured, but we don't have too much time, so we have to run from one masterpiece to another. ! And running in Florence Is dangerous. You are liable to break your toe or sprain your ankle tripping over something by Michelangelo, Cellini, Leo nardo, or Bernini. Their ?tuff is scattered around Florence Just as fireplugs are in New York. I The Pitt! Palace must be one of the few museums in the world where there is such an abund ance of magnificence that a tl- tlan Li half hidden by a Raphael, and the Van Dycks have to hang their beards out of their frames to get any recognition at all from us culture seekers. ! From the opposite bank of the River Arno the Uffizi Gallery looks through its lorgenette at the Pittl Palace and turns up Its nose. Within its walls the whole history of painting Is por trayed, chronologically. I If you are sure-footed and fleet you can make it from Cimabue to the time of the great painters in around seven minutes. find the source of the trouble. The height of fever -does not neecssarily show the severity of the illness that is present. Some babies may have a temperature as high as 103 from only a mild sickness, such as tonsillitis. Other babies may be quite sick without developing more than degree or two of fever. Fever may make one baby drowsy and stuporous. where as another will grow restless and irritable from the same cause, crying fretfully, and sleeping on ly in fits and snatches. During a fever, some babies refuse food, others eat only to become sick and vomit a short time after ward. Howeevr, virtually all ba bies with fever are thirsty. Every mother should have .thermometer for taking the ba by's temperature by rectum and should know how to use it If the baby shows any sign of fever, the doctor should be called. On the other hand, the mother should not become so tempers- i ture conscious as to take her ba- byAs temperature every day evenf though other signs of illness are; lacking. Nor should she get up- set at the slightest variations; from the normal. As I Said ear-j lier .these are bound to occur be- cause the baby's temperature? control Is so unstable. j QUESTIONS and ANSWERS L. W. M.: What is the mean ing of "Mongoloid" child? What;; is the cause and has there ever been a cure? . Answer: Mongolian idiocy is aj; type of idiocy in which there i lack of mental development and In which the child presents cers tain facial characteristics of the! Mongolian type. The eyes aref slanting; the no?e is turned upj the ears are smooth and not welf shaped; the hands are small and pudy. ; Unfortunately, the cause o mongolism in infants has no Deen determined, nor has nj? treatment been found which has been of any great value.- g ! But to get back to my subject of how a critic could get rich by teaching tourists what to say When, after looking at their guide books to find out what they are looking at, they glance upwards at a work of art. i (Note: For the finest descrip tion of a tourist "making the ai rounds" read Aldous Huxlei Short story, "Little Mexican.") ! Next to me, when I first laid eves on Michelangelo's David. was a middle-aeed man from Havana. He looked and looked Then he looked some more. i He must have felt that he had to say something, i His remark: i "Excellently done. Okay. i Now, I ask you, did that re mark make sense, "Excellently done"? j Trv to name me anyone, past. Tiresent. future, or any other tense, who could have done David as Michelangelo did David. i I stood in front of Botticelli's Birth of Venus, all the lovely Madonnas by Raphael, and didn't know what to say. They meant something to me, yes. Inside of me. deep down, they awakened a feeline of beauty. But I didnt know how to express my feel- J&ks. j That is what the art critic in his school must Drovtde us tour Ists. The right word for the right pamung. ! It Isnt rifht to stand in front of m sketch by Leonardo and say. "That s good. Very good. i I am sure that if Leonardo heard such a remark he would rise from his grave, invent a new lethal weapon, and kill the sseaker on, the snot. i (Otatriboted by KcNeufM Benson Return! ToPenitentiarjr Slated Today j J I Convict William P. Benson, on his return to the Oregon state penitentiary here probably Wedp nesday, will be questioned by pri son officials and then will be as signed to a correction cell similar to that from which he escaped. Warden George Alexander de clared Tuesday. j We are particularly anxious to findout how Benson and John O. Pinson escaped from their cells,? Alexander said. j Alexander said he is sure the convicts reeccived outside helj ana naa crossea me Oregon line within 24 hours after their escape as indicated by Benson when ar rested in Columbus, O., 10 days ago. i The warden said ha is' satisfiak that Spokane. Wash., officers ira wasting their time in Searching lor finson s body. Benson, enroute to Oregon from Columbus under official escort, was taken from ' train at Spokane Sunday night so mat ne might be given an oppor tunity to prove his story that Piii son was buried in Idaho. I "My latest information from Spokane is that Benson will con tinue his journey to Salem Wed nesday," Alexander said. I Healy, Newbry to Return From Meetings Monday Secretary of State Earl T. New bry and William . Healy, his as sistant, will return here Monday from Oklahoma City where they are attending the Nauonal Confer ence of Motor Vehicle administra tors, they telegraphed the state de partment Tuesday. State Treasurer Walter J. Peart- son .attending a democratic con ference in San rrancisco, will rer turn here Thursday, his office an nounced. ) New Clues Aid! Bandit Hunt 1 New clues Tuesday were help ing city police trace three men who escaped with $75 after an armed robbery of Graen's market, 1190 S. 12th st, Monday night Men dressed In navy clothes and answering the trio's description were reported seen at the South Village tavern, 3795 S. Padfit highway shortly before the rob bery. I . Witnesses at the tavern report ed the men were driving a light or gunmetal-colored coupe and said they easily could identify the trio. Entering the grocery about 8:30 p. m. Monday, the trio forced WO. liam Graen and his daughter, Raf mona, to stand aside while they escaped with the cash. They Us? were reported driving an auto north on S. iztn st. BOTS WOOL SCHOOL IlQckinaus 1 Jackets 1004 Vbgla Wool Coy MuW Color flolda- Large- Aseortmoat i Size 2 Through IS , V Thos. Kay Woolen Ilill Co. ' 3 Ssali 12Ui Sired 1 &
