m - H CttftraMB. golem, OreC; THE STATESMAN PUBLISHINC COBIPANY CH Catered at the pestefflee at Itltm, Oregea, as eeeoasf rabUeaed every Fear and the Atom Bomb Apropos of atomic warfare the Oregon City Enterprise concludes a thoughtful editorial (by Ralph Curtis) thus: "Doomsday is not in sight." Further to quiet fears the Enterprise says: "The likelihood of war may, indeed, have been reduced by this development. Stalin and his associates have been called "the scared men in the Kremlin." There has been speculation that the real peril lies in their fears in the pos sibility of some rash act born of desperation. If, now they are somewhat less fearful, there may -be stronger likelihood that the insanity of war may be avoided." The United States News takes a with Russia and the United States both posses sing the know-how of atomic bomb manufac ture, such knowledge will have a sobering ef fect. There will be less of swaggering, less loud talk about war, a greater eagerness to resolve differences by diplomacy. As for the people, once the initial fright is over they will go on living just the same. Those who ve in villages in the Swiss avalanches occur adjust themselves to their en- over the state dutifully pen the same old warn Vironment. They are not victims of their fears, ing, Be Careful. j though they know the risks they take. Folk re- 1 It doesn't seem to do much good. . turn to resume living at the base of volcanoes Last year a record number of hunters were after their eruptions are spent, and to flood- killed or injured, either through their own or plains when the waters have passed on. Fears I another's carelessness. The accidents were some of disaster do not seem to harass them: theirj times ludicrous even though tragic; there was minds are conditioned to the hazards of their one boy shot out of a., tree, for instance. . environs. The safety people and the newspaper people So people will adjust themselves to living un- If' have gone right on issuing statistics and print der the potential of atomic warfare. The possi- ing the elementary rules of sensible gun-handl-bilities of destruction are overwhelming, but in ing. Their own appeal, heretofore, has been to the face of them the individual is so impotent I the sportsman's regard for his own life, his ihat he nerforce must acceDt the there is "no place to hide." Sober arrive at the conclusion that worry oyer atom bombs would be fruitless; but few people dis patch fears by that process. They merely have to keep on living and so forget their worries. As the Enterprise says, "Doomsday is not yet in syhjt" and if it were we couldn't as individuals prevent it. But as intelligent beings we can by "wise action avert a war that would bring a shower of atom bombs on us or on other peoples. .The Prodigal Tycoon To Americans born in the twenties, the return of Henry M. Blackmer means nothing. To their parents, he means sudden recollection of scan dals in high places which rocked and Coolidge administrations out of that seemed to go with "normalcy. sj To their parents, the return of Blackmer! brings back all the ugly details Dome oil affair, j Teapot Dome was a government In Wyoming which Interior department Secre- tary Albert Fall leased to private interests. As;j head! of the Midwest Refining company, Black- mer. had a hand in the deal which profits of $3,080,000 worth of Liberty bonds. Aij tax on busmess liumoer oi uiose oonoi worm . A 1 1 1 t W W turned up in Albert Fall's accounts and thei Walsh, senate investigating committee scented a! rat land gave chase. The hunt stopped at the shores tic; Blackmer was safely self-exiled in France nd the French refused to extradite him. fait wl convicted of accepting a bribe but Black-j mer ignored government subpoenas, preferring to pay $160,000 in fines for contempt of courtjl nd over $9,000,000 in income tax claims rathetj than, return to the U.S. j But the charges stood for quarter of this cen4j tury; and at last Blackmer has come to facej U. S. Sadly Unprepared for Atom War i Br J k and Stewart AUop 1 WASHINGTON, Sept 27 The trance-like reception of the news that the Soviets have ex ploded an atomic bomb is a bitter commentary on the quality of American lead ership. Scare m o n g e r ing Is bad. but it is even worse for the leaders of a democracy not to tell the people the truth. And th nlain truth 1 AJT i is that the Unit ed gtatea and the Western world are totally unprepared for the tieV situation that has now arisen. ? For four years, t 11 tho plans of the Joint chiefs of staff i - r- boon based on a ingle expecta tion. This was the expectation that our monop oly f of atomic weapons would continue, 1 ; Jeph AUop J while, to deter1 1 any Soviet aggression. But now tho monopoly has been broken, and we must inquire Into the state of our affairs. Tho same plans of the Joint chiefs, in which our atomic mo nopoly bulked so large, also es tablished certain things that were essential to do before the Soviets had an atomic bomb of their own. Although .a Beria bomb has now been success fully exploded, there will still be a little time before the Krem lin ! commands a decisive stock pile of its new weapons. But this time - will be very short perhaps two years and the things that the joint chiefs say lrtust be done are very big. In brief, all American security i i. Thgrsdayy ffrptemSw t3, U7 To ftvor Sways TJt, No Fear Shall AW Frees First SUtesseajt March tf, 1U1 A KPRACUtj Editor and Publisher class matter f tic SIS S. CeeaanerelaJ. f them. Monday, in Denver, he pleaded guilty to four counts alleging income tax evasions and hoped the prejury charge would be dropped. The man who was once Colorado's outstanding at-, Itorney, who had organized the Cripple Creek railroad, and who was a tycoon in banking, min ting; oil and finance, was back to clear his con k science of a sordid business that must never have a left his mind all those 25 years of luxurious liv fing in Europe. J I It is hard for the present generation to get I very indignant about his crime. There are more recent scandals in of international similar view: tention. Henry Blackmer seems no great villain. though he confesses to a crime. Instead, he ap pears to be an old man with little left to live for, an old man, come i home to die. Penalties for Carelessness in Hunting Every fall as the sporting members of the community take theirj red .wool shirts out of mothballs and Dolish up their rifles, editors all Alps where situation, lor si sense of fair play, thought will j? manslaughter charge. up the safety campaign. Penalties now go against those carelessly wounding others. The 1949 leg islature enacted the following: Any person who, as a result of his failure to use ordinary care under the circumstances, shall wound any other person with a bullet or shot from any firearm, shall be guilty of a misde meanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed six months, or by a fine Of not to exceed five hun dred dollars ($500), or by both, such fine and imprisonment, and any person convicted under the provisions of this act shall upon said convic tion forfeit any license to hunt, obtained under the laws of the state of Oregon, and shall be ineligible to obtain a license to hunt for a period of five years following the date of his convic tion. Fines, imprisonment and taking away a man's hunting license may prove to be more potent persuasion for safe hunting practices than the old, evidently fallacious, idea that people will avoid killing each other if possible. Hunters probably blanch at the thought of a $500 fine, and surely will at the prospect of losing the privilege of hunting for five years. the Harding; the serenity of the Teapot! oil reserve paid off in Britain's socialist government has upped the 'I 1 I fllflfl AA.3 o,vv This is the levy on distributed prof its. after an income tax of 45 per cent is collected. It an nounces that it may further restrict the payment of dividends. The "prbfit motive" is being badly mauled in Britain, but that accords with social ist theory. For the poor businessman however the reaction may well be, "What's the use?" : of the Atlan- Junior colleges conducted by local school boards are being started this fall under a new state law, at Bend and Klamath Falls. They ought to do good work in education since they have no football teams or extracurricular acti vities, j V planning sets jit wo minimum ob jectives. First, balanced ground, naval and air forces must bo provided by the Atlantic community, to withstand atji least the initial shock of an attack on Europe by the Red artny. If Europe goes, the sequel will be inter-continental warfare. And any inter continental war will be un think ably horrible, prolonged and destructive, ending perhaps In victory, but quite certainly with the world inH ruins. :' Second, th European-American balanced defensive force must be supplemented with special American offensive strik ing force, which will hit tho very vitals of tho Russian state with our own absolute weapons the moment War breaks out If the Soviet organism is not thus crippled in the first moment of aggression, any balanced force we can organize will not be strong enough to defend West ern Europe. The Red army will reach tho Atlantic, and the phase of inter-Continental war will begin, ft This American security plan is like a deadly but deL-ato mechanism, which will only work if each of its parts are perfect, and j all parts are per fectly adjusted to each other. Anyone who has followed the debates on f military aid for Europe must! know that we do not have today the balanced defensive force that we need. And as yet, joint chiefs of staff plans only call for creating tho minimum defense force in Tath er more thari four years. ''' tl Thus, thej first part of tho mechanism Is missing. So, too, Is the second. -Under joint chiefs of staff plans, the projected of fensive striking force is to be, primarily, an American strategic air force. All the chiefs have greed that a 70-group air force Is the smallest that can do the job. But President Truman and Secretary of Defense Louis March S, 1I7& Ores aai TeJel Washington and bigger crimes consequence to. hold their at- his unwillingness to lace a act of This year, however, there's a new law to back profits from 25 to 30 per cent Johnson have themselves been hard at work this session, cut ting the air force down to 48 groups. Production of aircraft and, training of crews for the requisite strategic air force has already been gravely set back. Furthermore, a Stt'Z xorce cannot operate euum. A 70-group air force was approved as adequate, on the assumption that a powerful chain of bases overseas would perjnit more efficient operations over shorter distances from Sov iet jtargets. The bases now occu pied by our B-29 units in Eng land are only a minor part in this essential chain. Bases for the offensive striking force are certainly needed in North Af rica, probably in the Middle East, and possibly in Pakistan. These bases do not exist, and the; political measures to have them made available have not even been undertaken. I : In short,- we have the blue print of defense mechanism, and not tho mechanism itself. The greatest efforts of military preparation will do us little good, after Europe has been over-run. The largest stockpiles of bombs at Hanford and Oak Ridge will do us no good what ever. If these and other absolute weapons cannot bo laid down when needed on Stalingrad., and Chelyabinsk, and Magnitogorsk. In the new situation in which we: find ourselves, we are' ap pallingly unready. I - i In tho face of these bleak facts, a great man people may console themselves with the happy thought that perhaps the Kremlin cherishes no aggressive intentions. But really moon struck powers of self-delusion are needed to believe that if the Soviet Union achieves su perior military power, this pow er win not be used for all it is worth. And in this cruel cruel world, the moonstruck rarely survive. (Copyright. IMS. Mew ' York Paris Proves Ago! Creeping Up on Henry By IXeary IXcLemore PARIS, Sept 27 Suppose jour birth date had been kept a -t secret from you all your life, Land yea were Just busting with out how old you '.V nnai oo you think would be the beat thine to do about it? Go to a doc tor and let' him give a good guess? Saw off one of your legs and count the rings? Hire a horse to look in your mouth and fig ure yourj age from your teeth? rNo, noj W9 times no. 7 There is a much simpler way. Just come to Paris, and, over a period of two weeks or sol keep a chart of your behavior while you're here. This city on the Seine is a proving ground for age, just as Aberdeen, Md., is for our army's heavy ordnance and Indianapolis for motor cars. The last time I saw Paris was in 1936, i when I was returning from the Olympic Games in Ber lin. I was 29 years of age then, and even if I couldn't add, the difference in my Parisian behav ior, nof and then, would j be solid proof that thirteen years have passed, and that I am now 42 years of age. In 1936 I had seen the Folles Bergere i four times and had bought tickets for a fifth trip before I ever got around to ask ing where the- Louvre was. I couldn't see any great rush in getting around to those MARBLE statues, if you get what I mean. As for Notre Dame Cathedral, what man in his right 29-year-old mind would squint up at the gargoyles when Bat Tabarin was offering jthe cancan. 'l finally got around to Napo-, Icon's Tomb, the Cluny, the Carp, navelet, j Versailles, and the OpS era, but not until I had given such places as Joe Zelli's and the Club Florida heavy patron age. This visit, in 1949, is being run on a slightly different schedule. . Before I got here whenever I ran across Americans who had been in Paris recently, I asked them for names and addresses. I was looking at my notebook this morning, and it's a tip-off on my age.; The very first name and add ress in the book is that of an American dentist I should call in case a tooth gets to acting up. Tho second is that of an op tometrist to turn to if I break or lose my reading glasses. And the awful part about it Is that I wouldn't swap the names and addresses of the dentist and tho optometrist for any other names and addresses in Paris. jir The rest of tho notebook pages are chiefly filled with the namis of restaurants, with notations such as this beside them: "Excellent French food, je sonable prices.' ' "Marvelous sea food, fairly ex pensive, but you can dino here early." j As for. famed Les Halles, and its daybreak onion soup for all night revellers, I made it; but I went to bed good and early and set the alarm dock for 4 JO ajn. And I as for tho Louvre, well. It's really worth seeing, espec ially if you wear good, stout walking boots, and take advan tage of the comfortable chairs scattered about the place. Yes, if you've lost your birth certificate and are puzzled as to when yqu were born, just come over her. YouH be able to de termine the date without much trouble. . J (McNaught Syndicate. Ine ) j : Literary Guidepost THE EDGE OF DOOM, by! Leo Brady (Dutton; $3) - In chapter one of this novel, Martin Lynn is discovered sit ting beside the body of his mo ther. She shall have, he deter mines,! as fine a funeral as the rich; she was a good Catholic and the church must reward her for it In chapter two he Visits Father Kirk-man to demand what he calls justice. The old priest tells Martin flatly that, since he hasn!t the money, he must put the foolish idea out of his head. So Martin strikes him with crucifix and kills him. Irk chap ter three! Father Kirkman's as sistant returns to the priest's home with the dead man's niece, whom he had finally dissauded from a civil marriage, and they come upon-the body. In chapter lour a movie theater has i been robbed and the cashier shot! With this surplus of .grief, frustration and criminality,' bas ed on such gruesome and dram atic material, Otis is intended as a serious book, but it seems to me unexpectedly funny. To say Martin is a psychoneurotic case, as Brady does, Is to say he is a psychoneurotic case, no more, and doesn't make him one. Ac tually he is a goof. Brady doesn't prove he's crazy by having him commjt murder, he ' merely proves he's incomprehensible. But he was already incomprehen sible in his ideas about the fancy funeral, and so are the others. They behave as if their sole pur pose was to shock you . . . shock you perhaps into buying the book. It's all a straining for effect, a - i - : . GRIN AND BEAR IT BjLlchtr v LA mM : i mi "I don't to have the old pep to other Senators f U U ll i i IV L n i n ri I w n i fuQDDIEEl (Continued from page! one) is the growth of tho trade asso ciation, the counterpart of what is called tho cartel on jthe con tinent. There are 1100 trade associations in Great Britain. They have authority under the law to pro rate production, allo cate marketing quotas and fix prices. Competition is thus wat ered down. Prices are fised high enough to let the inefficient survive. Thus the incentive to cut costs and expand produc tion and thus preserve or in crease profits is lost. The United States through vigorous policing under the Sherman act preserves a fair degree of competition. .Attempts to evade the law through trade associations have been pretty well suppressed. Some indus tries tend toward monopoly, but even there the competition of substitute products keeps man agement on the alert. Enterprise genuinely free has contributed greatly to America's industrial preeminence, to the country's prosperity and thus to the pro gressive rise in our standard of living; The government . in Britain has done considerable talking about breaking up the trade as sociations, but nothing really effective has been accomplished. Actually a government which approves the restrictive prac tices of trades unions and which itself applies innumerable con trols is hardly the one to insti tue freedom in the field of manufacture and trade; Admittedly the tendency now is in the direction of 'economic security" both for business and for agriculture and for workers. The blasts of free competition are feared. Workers organize in unions to protect their interests. Employers form associations or buy up competitors to ease the bite of competition. Government steps in with subsidies, with price guarantees and with con trols. In all this there is danger that economic progress will be stifled: the inefficient will be sustained, antiquated "machines and methods retained. In this country wo seem to be trying to follow a middle road between strict controls (either private or governmental) nd free (and often j ruthless) competition. Maybe we can suc ceed. Maybe we can have eco nomic securitv and Still have some incentive to progress. It Is a risk, however; for the lesson of the past is that freedom to adventure plus the promise of reward are the incentives for economic advancement. Busi ness, despite the comfort of a trade association shelter, must realize this fact as well as farm ers and workers and the public at large. ! search for something , different. It's so different no one is recog nizable as a possible human. THE LONELY by Paul Gallico ; (Knopf; $20) Lt Jerry Wright, American flier in wartime England, learns an elemental lesson about love in this elementary novel, and Gal ileo's obsessively sentimental style suits the subject only too well. Afn ex-sports writer and ex-war lorrespondent, like Gal lico, could hardly go any more namby- Sea Beller . seem Be Ipe Confident! See better!. hove q better, more confident outlook on Hie with perfect vision! An expert specialist wQ eacamine) your eyes! den mcrko your purchase on terms. e USE YOUR CREDIT , AND OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN If J ' i I- Optometrists ( AT BO RING OPTICAL tU Cowt St. Dial S-CSM 1 y MM- Am Dr. K. RV Bering - Jl 1.. f; f ....! and ginger. Doe ... I keep yielding all the.Ume . . i Law Article Authored by WU Faculty Willamette university's college of law is featured in an article appearing in the autumn issue of the Journal of Legal Education, a publication of the1 Association of American Law Schools. Taking Willamette as a "typi cal example" of what a small school can do to capitalize on its opportunities for auxiliary educa tion, the authors explain the law school's legal aid clinic, its spec ially adapted practice court plan and its novel type of legal publi cation. The publication referred to is the Willamette Series of Legal Handbooks, a reference for law yers. A sketch of the activities of the Legal Aid clinic serves to describe its organization. The clinic serves those unable to secure legal aid through regular channels. It deriv es some support from the Salem Community chest.! The Journal is published at Duke university. iThe article is written by Quintin Johnstone, on leave from Willamette while at Yale and Kenneth H. York of Un iversity of Southern California. Both taught at the law school last year. Stock Brand Recording To Start in J anuary Rerecording of 115,000 or more Oregon livestock brands will not get under way until January, M. E. Knickerbocker, chief of the ani mal industry division, state agri cultural department announced here. Wednesday, j He said some brand owners are already sending in requests to re tain their brands.: Knickerbocker said the brand ing fee was increased to $3 and the rerecording period was chang ed from every 10 to every five years. McKennon to Attend Marketing Meeting Frank McKennon, chief of the plant industry division, state agri cultural department, will be in New York the week of October 10 to preside at the: annual meeting of the National Association of Marketing Officials. He was elected president of the group in Portland a year ago. On his way back to Oregon ho will stop at Chicago for two days for a meeting of the national plant board on October, 17 and 18. Better English By a C WUllaaae 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "We are sure that he is tho one who done it." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of sagacious - 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Cleopatra, Caeser, Cicero, Hannibal. 4. What does the word "pro pitious mean? 5. What is a word beginning with eomm that means "sorrow or compassion''? ANSWERS 1. Say, "We are sure that he is the one who did it." X. Pro nounce sa-ga-shus, first a un stressed, second a as in gay. ac cent second syllable. S. Caesar. 4. Favorably disposed; helpful. "The fates are propitious." 8. Commiseration, j r Dr. Saae tTsghea J III At Salom Schools By oawt tatoanaa School SALEM HIGH SCHOOL It's possible that the traditional ing iron! wo aaiem nign acnooi scene wis school year. ( Gertrude Smith, Civics club adviser, gave the group a warning; that the carnival mar be abandoned, "because last year students did-. nt get their work in and expected others to do their work for them." Jim; Rock was elected president of the Civics club, Beverly Will vice president and sue ferry sec retary. For the office of sergeant-at-arms ! a re vote between Earl Eshlemah and Jim Stewart will be held next week. Juniors added to the member ship are Margaret Miller, Pat Fill er, David Blackmer, Denney Feike and Deb Davis. WEST : SALEM JUNIOR HIGH Student body officers at West Salem junior high were elected Wednesday. They are: President, Keithi Johnson; vice-president, William! McCormack; secretary. Ann Gallaspy; sergeant-at-arms, Lloyd Walker; yell leaders, Kay Stoddard, Nancy Rust and Linn Laswellj WEST SALEM ELEMENTARY Newly elected officers for the fifth and sixth grade classroom at West Salem school art: President, Shirley i Quiring vice-president, Myrna ;Harms; secretary. Bruce Davis; treasurer, Ronald McCor mack. I " HAYES VILLE SCHOOL An orientation assembly wasTmum or their vehicles. This opm? held at Hayesville Wednesday.! New students were introduced. The assembly was told about the traffic patrol and highway safety. One of the pupils, Beverly Brickwell, gave a biography of Stephen Foster. The students then sang a tew of Foster's songs. SWEGLE SCHOOL At Swegle school the first as sembly of the year started with a flag samite led by John Harger. Principal Arthur Roloff gave a talk, followed by group singing. LESLIE JUNIOR HIGH Leslie junior high boys met for a Junior Hi-Y session at the school Wednesday. Tom Hunt, who pre sided, explained the purpose and program of the organization. Dale Callaway acted as chap lain and Larry Springer explain ed membership provisions. George Allen and a minstrel troupe provided entertainment. New Company to Lease Specialty Equipment Articles of incorporation for the Coast Production company, a firm to lease manufacturing equipment for wood and specialty products, were filed with the Marion county clerk Wednesday by Jay, George A. and! Agnes Rhoten, all of Sa lem, j Capital stock was listed as 50 shares With a par value of $100 for each share. mm wsi j The smart bride who waste I I fl patterns by Reed 4 Barton I - VI 5 1 j World-faaoos for its heavy HI J i weight and lostrou finish. L I 2 1 ' j Seed ig Barton auverplate has j ,1 fc , 1 extra silver at points I 1 of gTeeieet wear. ; 'lr J ,;- 1 1 50-PIECE SHYICI fOI fV '"V If ,--i"s.!l fry You chooe tritely when you cHoo REED G BARTON 5ILVIRPLATI rwn 1 ; In The Livexley Building 390 State Street II tlttHMHiltTW Civics club carnival may be mias4 40et8Ruled Ineligible for Boxing Funds The Multnomah county voiturei 40 et a can not receive Portland; boxing and wrestling commissiort funds in addition to those receivii ed by the American Legion, At toroey General George Neunei held Wednesday.' Neuner held the voiture is part of the American Legion. The opinion was asked by Gov. Doug-i las McKay. In another opinion Neuner held that truck owners cannot legally carry loads in excess of the de-l dared weight but they are not re quired to declare the rated maxl ion was requested by Public UtiU ities Commissioner George Hi Flagg. Vallev Lions Club Members Attend Zone Diniier-Meel WEST SALEM A Lions In. ternational rone meeting' drew some 60 clubmen from several Lions clubs in -Marion and Polk counties to a dinner in city hall here Wednesday night j j West Salem Lions club was host to representatives of the Silvertort. Dallas, Independence, Salem and Hollywood clubs, with Clyde Evj erett and Ed Ellis of the host club heading arrangements. Zone Chair man Frank Powell of Silvertoh presided. : The program included a I i speech by Prof. Herman Clark of wnt J mette university and songs by Mr. uien Hun is ton. accompanied Mrs. Richard Bell. i 1 EXTRA WEAR From Shoes We Repair STUBBLEFIELD'S SHOI SHOP ISO So. Liberty j n urrKhm wrv ir in f? ff7i r i .'