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Salem Is
Grateful, Too
"There's a bright future ahead, and the Hipps
family is grateful. So is Salem." f
, .With these words. Statesman staff writer
John White ended the third (in Saturday's
Statesman) of his stories about the dark clouds
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hJIt UTCi WUk U1C VJlUf tl uy f
was making its way back to South Carolina
V and how the silver linings showed up in the
form of Salem hospitality. i
The adventures of the Hippses must now be
familiar nl Duorv rpaHpr hnw t hp mnthpr
was ill in Portland and hospital bills wiped
out the family finances, how the mother and
father and four children were found hitchhik
ing in the rain,, and how many agencies and
many individuals came to their aid with do
nations of food and clothing, an offer of a home
and "leads to a job for Grover Hipps.
So spontaneous and so generous was Salem's
neighborliriess that the Hippses have decided
to settle rtere, sure that their children "will
have the best opportunities by growing up"
. in this community. Three of the youngsters are
I already enrolled at Lincoln school, and the fu
ture looks brighter. "
So it's no wonder the Hipps family is grate
ful. - 1 '
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haps this is the reason: j
Grover Hipp ,and his helpless dependents
have dramatized, as no publicity releases pos
sibly could, the plight of many such families.
Their story is ' no isolated instance, although
the attention it got is. Social workers here; in
Catholic Charities arid the Salvation Army and
all the otHer Red Feather agencies supported
by thj Community Chest could recite scores of
similar episodes. And the players inHhese t4les
of pathos are not always transients, either;
there are local individuals and families whose
unhappy ujrcumstances warrant the same in
terest andfhelp that was given the Hippses.
The Statesman salutes those individuals ho
have already helped the Hippses. We refer ;the
thousands !of others, equally anxious to make
sure that other families like the Hippses need
never bs Without a friend in need, to the Com
munity Chest drive now underway.
Bible Stories for Moderns
And Icod said, "Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness." Genesis 1-26.;
Yesterday, The Statesman published the first
in a series of brief illustrated narratives from
the Old Testament series made available
by the Associated Press and inspired by a pro
ject instigated by a former AP vice-president,
Houston Harte, Texas newspaper publisher.
The project is a large1 (9Vfc by 12 inches)
. volume entitled "In Our Image" and just is
sued by the Oxford University Press. It con
, tains 26 of the most familiar" pre-Christ Bible
stories and beautifully-colored replicas of Guy
Rowe's paintings .of 75 of th best-known Old
Testament personalities.
Presbyterian Harte decided many yeas ago
that, although people for centuries have been
awed and inspired by the lives of the great
men recorded in Holy Writ, modern Bible
readers, tend to regard these men as heroic
characters! from antiquity like Beowulf or
Paul Buhyan. The stories of the Bible seemed
more like! folk tales than early-day reporting
of important events. So Harte undertook to edit
the stories, keeping the stately English of the
King Jamies version, and make tnem as vuai
as tomorrow morning's headlines. And he want
ed an artist to portray the characters, not ajs
idealized classics without wrinkles or blemishes
but as living individuals, as real as a baseball
pitcher or 'the man who passes the collection
plate in your church.
Guy Rowe, whoser cover portraits on Time
magazine have made his meticulous, realistic
style familiar to millions, is the artist. This week
Time reprints eight of his paintings with all
the clarity! of detail and mellow color that dis
tinguish them as modern religious art. He was
emminently successful in fulfilling his purpose:
Isaiah in what looks like a pink sweat shirt
could be a football coach; Elisha was his sad,
compassionate eyes looks like an old family
doctor who has seen much of life and human
misery; Eye is not the sexy temptress some ar
tists indicate but a perplexed woman with an
important: decision on her mind; Noah and his
wife, in leather britches and a poke bonnet,
could double for a pair of pioneers just arriving
in the Willamette valley after a long trip in
a prairie schooner, or, in modern clothing, for
displaced jpersons, newly-arrived in this land
of promise.
"It was a stroke of genius to take the finest
and most! dramatic portions of the Bible and
make them as attractive as the' very 'best of
modern literature Once interest is aroused,
the biblical narratives may do the rest. They
should tajte the reader eventually to the entire
King James text," writes Kent Cooper, Asso
ciated Press executive director, in his foreword
to the book.
We follow Cooper's prediction., with one of
our own:fEven at $10 per copy, "In Our Image"
will find Its way under many a Christmas tree
this yearl; And its readers will hope that an
other Christmas will bring a sequel the New
Testament.
Editorial Comment
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From Our Contemporaries . . . "
DOGWOOD-RED
If s an open question whether the flowering dog
wood tree is more beautiful in spring than in fall.
In full bloom, when May is young, it will take your
breath away with its spectacular display in the pris
tine woods. It looks as though it were covered with
a swarm pt white butterflies fresh from the cocoon.
A hillside of dogwood in full bloom is something to
see and long remember. ,
But when summer is past and frost approaches,
the same Idogwood trees put on another show worth
going far to see. First the berries turn color. Where
each blossom has been is a cluster of oval fruits that
have fattened through the hot weeks and now turn,
first a light orange, then brilliant lacquer - red.
They are: brighter than hotly berries, and against the
rich greeh of the unturned leaves they seem doubly
red. Theti it is that the squirrels hold holiday, chat
tering in the dogwoods as they feast on the ivory
coated seeds within the red berries.
Then ftolor comes to the leaves, dogwood -red,
which is .like no other color, in the woods. It creeps
up the trees like a flame, capricious In its progress;
one dogwood in a cluster will turn red overnight,
while one next to it stands green for- another week.
On will turn pink. One will show an orange tint.
But in time all achieve the deep crimson that is
warmer than summac-red and more glowing than
the red tf the wild cherry.
Dogwood-red gleams in the woodlands now, both
the lacquer-rod of the berry and the deep red of
the loaf ; If you know the, color, you can't miss' it,
any more than you can misji the white beauty of
dogwood at blossom time. And once known, it will
never be forgotten. (New York Times.) f
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the Sgffety Valve
1 - 1
To the Editon
In reference to the article,
"Hunters bag deer, also bears'
how brave and worthy of no
tice was the mighty, fearless
hunter who "shot a cub bear Just
off the highway and killed it
with a shot-gun blast just six
Inches from its noser
Genesis VI-VI and it repent
ed God that He had made man
on earth, and it grieved Him in
His heart, "I know that each sin
ful action, as sure as the night
brings shade, is somewhere,
sometime punished, though the
hour be long delay ed."
MRS. MATTIE ALLEN,
Portland, Oregon.
To the Editor:
After a series of disappointing
experiences caused by the fail
ure of forest protection agencies
to explain adequately to the
public why Western Oregon was
covered by smoke pall during
most of the latter half of Sep
tember, I most sincerelyappre
ciated reading your remarks on
the subject which wer contain
ed in your columns for Septem
ber 30, 1949.
We have come a long ways
down the road to adequate
forest protection in this state,
and through Keep Oregon Green
have successfully enlisted the
support of most of the state cit
izens in preventing forest fires,
but we musn't ever forget that
the public 5has the right to know
at all times what is happening
on the forest protection front.
You have rendered forestry a
real service in your September
30article.
W. D. HAGEN STEIN,
Forest Engineer
Joint Commttee on Forest
Conservation.
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japan Peace Treaty j Believed Near
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Juwpli Altp,
Br Joseph and Stewart Also
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 One
of the great turning points In
the post war history of Asia may
well be reached in the early
months of next year. There Is
every likelihood that a peace
conierenc
be called, with
or without the
participation of
th Soviet Un
ion, to write e
peace treaty for
Japan.
This is one
result of the re
cent private
talks between
Secre t a r y of
State Dean
A c h e s on and
British Foreign
Secretary! Ernest Bevin, In which
great deal more was accom-
Rlished than fs generally known,
either Acheson nor Bevin made
any final commitments on Ja
pan. But both agreed that a peace
treaty Is how urgently necessary.
And they also agreed on what
kind f treatyi
they Wanted,
and on how to
go about getting
it - r
The Ameri
can occupation
of Japan! Is en
tering Its fifth
ear. And that
i why ai peace
treaty Is so ne
cessary. For the
occupation Is
cieariy oegin- 4L-
ning to j reach
the point or no return, as Gen.
Douglas Use Arthur long ago ac
curately predicted. The occupa
tion, which started on so high
plane of idealism, is beginning
to degenerate into a weary bu
reaucracy feeding on Its own
red tape; futilely attempting te
control every aspect of Japanese
life, provoking dangerous racial
tensions, and providing the Jap-
. jnese communists with their
"greatest political asset.
Clearly no military occupation
I
of one country by another can
usefully continue indefinitely.
Yet there has been no peace
treaty with Japan for an old, fa
miliar reason the Russians
have obstructed a treaty. There
has also been a secondary rea
son. The Joint chiefs of staff
have been sensibly reluctant to
permit the withdrawal of Amer
ican military power from Japan.
In view of what has happened
on the Chinese mainland.
Acheson and Bevin agreed that
both these obstacles mutt be ov
ercome. The Soviets hate insist
ed that only four powers should
write the treaty thi United
States, Great Britain, China and
the Soviet Union, with the So
viet Union exercising)' a veto
power. The western powers, with
a wisdom gained from hard ex
perience, have refused to fall in
to this trap. Instead, they. hare
proposed that the treaty be writ
ten by all the eleven countries
which I participated In ' the war
against Japan, and thai there be
no veto power. ;
Acheson and Bevin nave con
cluded that the first step la to
explore the Soviet attitude once
more. This probing job will be
done over the next tw or three
months, in the United Nations.
If the Soviets refuse to Change
their position, then "very serious
consideration" will be given to
e radically novel course that
of simply by - passing the Rus
sians and writing a peace treaty
for Japan without them. The
United States and Great Britain
would Jointly invite f the other
nations to a Japanese peace con
"ference. and a treaty i would be
hammered out without benefit of
the Kremlin's veto.
The sort of treaty envisaged by
Acheaoo and Bevin falls into two
parts. 'First, Japan s would, be
granted complete internal sov
ereignty. The increasingly disas
trous American effort 4o run ev
erything in Japan from .timber
planting to factory? sanitation
would come to an abrupt end.
Within certain broad limits, the
Japanese would be free to gov
ern themselves as they saw fit
They would manage their owa
foreign relations, and exercise
all other functions of sovereign-
The objections to withdrawing
all American forces from Japan
would be met In the second part
of the treaty. This might take
the form of a separte, simul
taneous Japanese - American ac
cord, providing this country with
military bases in Japan compar
able to our bases in the Philip
pines. American troops would
then be withdrawn- entirely from
Tokyo and the other great cities,
where the daily contrast between
the well fed ease of the conquer
ors and the grinding misery of
the conquered has led to a deeply
unhealthy situation. The limited
base areas, away from the main
centers of population, would hold
the whole remnant of the occu
pation. Both in the state department
and in Japan itself; the most
thoughtful American officials
have long been convinced ; that
something of this sort must soon
be done. Nothing has been done,
simply because it was feared
that the redoubtable General
MacArthur would fight any lim
itation on his authority tooth and
nail. Yet MacArthur himself has
called insistently far Japan
ese peace treaty. Since it must
be clear by now that an accept
able peace treaty in which the
Soviets concur is highly unlike
ly, it is believed that MacArthur
would now approve the course
outlined above.
The Russians, inevitably, will
loudly accuse the United States
of dishonoring its pledges if the
course outlined is followed. But
the western powers cannot allow
Russian obstructionism to under
mine their interests indefinitely,
any more In Japan than in Ger
many. If the disastrous disinte
gration of the western position
in Asia la ever to be halted..
good place to start is in Japan,
where a boldly revised policy is
long overdue. And it is good
news that the start is now at
last likely to be made. . ;
(Copyrlaht, IMS. New York
HraJ4 Trtfeaao. lae.)
(Continued from page one) .
In 193S the plan ran 219 nights
on Broadway. As, a romance it
is pallid. Wherein lies its virtue?
It is in the careful etching of her
characters and of the social cli
mate in which they moved. It is
done, too, with great economy
of line - no overstuffed rhetoric,
no tedious descriptions. Perhaps
the tools she uses most expertly
are irony and satire, yet they are
employed so deftly that the shad
ings are extremely delicate.
Critic Muir says that the theme
of her novels is integrity. Ac
cepting the conventions of her
time Miss Austen was a; critic
not of society but qf conduct,
treating the narrow scene of
English country life at the turn
ing of the 1 9th century with "an
intent awareness of good and
evil." That was an age, of course,
when virtue was its own reward,
but she does not overdo the hero
and heroine stuff. In fact, "Pride
and Prejudice" is the story of
how the upper-class hero over
comes his pride and the middle
class heroine her prejudice to be
Joined, after a quite dispassion
ate courtship, in the bonds of
holy matrimony.
No One would write a book like
that today. But like the brook,
"Pride and Prejudice" seems to
. go on forever. I think It could
well be studied in classes on
writing, for the style Is both even
and fluid. The diction, though
somewhat dated, is precise and
the phrasing spare. And as for
the characters, it is a sort of
"Ufa with Mother," clrcum
1800.
It is quite Impossible to keep
up with all the new books that
pour from the presses. Perhaps
we can . with profit turn back' to
read (sometimes to reread) old
books, - particularly those like
Jane Austen's "Pride and Preju-
dice" which have shown remark
' able power of survival. For all
! of us have missed along th way
i many books which we "ought" to
) have read.
; Literary .
Guidepost
LTVX WITH LIGHTNING,
by Mitchell Wilson (Little,
Brown; S3)
Love affairs are the subject of
this novel . . . and what mqre
intriguing subject can there be?
i Erik Gorin, the hero, is a busy
l young many who loses his heart
; to Savina Volterra. He also div
erts himself with passes at other
; girls, in particularly Mary Car
i ter. His friends .Tony Haviland
and Hugo Fabermacher also have
women trouble.
But Erik has still another love,
science, for he is that awesome
! thing, a nuclear phymicist,- one of
I the mysterious group wandering
j these days in and v out of Con
! gross, on and off th front pages,
h to and frent hush-hush places
like Los Alamos. At the start of
the story he's a kid with stars in
! his eyes. Madly ambitious, he
works f orf Fix, Nobel-prize win-
ning head of a university depart
ment, and directly under Havil
; and whoa mind is on their exp
i eriment only when his heart is
r notelsewhere. If Haviland sticks
f to his Job, Erik can marry, though
of course he can always go out
and earn a decent living at a job ,
i that doesnt count for th sake
of the girl who does. He tries
teaching and business. His al
legiance falters; he can't be sure
whether to dedicate himself to
pure science, get rich in business,
or kowtow for the sake of money
either to an avaricious industrial
ist or to an antediluvian ex-scientist.
This is the story of a fellow
who, for conscience's sake, suf
fers nothing less than the an
cient temptations of St Anthony
and the Biblical trials of Job in
the cause of atomic energy. The
question asked by the man who
runs on his vailing, "What dif-
feernce does it make?" Is the most
callous and disastrous question
today, declares the staunch Hugo.
The nuclear physicist seems to
be about as dry-as-dust a sub
ject as a novel could have, and
who could imagine he'd want
to read about neutrons and such
things as rectifiers, grids, alpha
currents and occult equations
Just for fun? Yet in Wilson's
eager hands they are as exciting
as a great big hug and kiss,, and
for thrills, Wilson's laboratory
beats the lovenest. This is the
excellent Literary Guild choice
for October.
To the Editor:
Your editorial "Crackpot Agi
tation" gives the impression of
being a masterpiece of cynical
whitewash. However it serves to
illustrate once again why Ore
gon, unlike Oklahoma, will not
clean up Its "snakepit."
On the one hand there are all
too many substantial citizens
supinely indifferent to the fate
of the unfortunates in the state
hospital, particularly when'' it
would cost a good deal of money
to better their lot After all, if
they themselves become mental
ly sick, they can afford the Men
ninger clinic. On the other hand
there are those well-meaning in
dividuals who, while concerned,
too often lack balanced judg
ment Nevertheless, these "crack
pots" have at, least a sense of
social responsibility.
A. E. BRETTAUER,
Rt. 2, Wood burn.
To th Editor: f
As capitol dry of" this 'state,
Salem does not set a good exam
ple for other Oregon dties, a
far as safety first is concerned.
Last evening there was a
wreck Involving an automobile
and a train on the track thai
crosses North Commercial be-
TOnd Jffrwnn ' t
k. V ha All tM Wtl
likely that one will find a mor
blind crossing anywhere. A
crossing such as this particular
one would be a disgrace on even
a country road. J
Death will lurk at this crossing
as long as the proper authorities
continue to Ignore the tact that
there is no proper warninx sig
nal to motorists approaching the ,
tracks Surely Salem officials and
the Railroad company can form
a mutual protection plan before
many more accidents occur, f
MRS. L ALLAN WHITE,
1410 N. Commercial.
Your Health
By Dr. Herman N. Bundenseii.
M. P.
Most patients with asthma are
inclined to cough a great deal.
Some even cough on prindple,
feeling that It Is a good thing to
bring up secretions which they
believe may be a factor in making
their condition worse.
It just happens that where as
thmatics are concerned this Is the
wroni orincinle. Instead nt
ing. coughing may make matters
worse, even to the point f bring
ing on an attack of asthma, i
This is true despite the fact1
that In general, coughing Is a
protective device both a warn
ing that something Is Irritating
the breathing organs and a means
of getting rid of the offender. The
patient with asthma, who Is sub
ject to repeated attacks of spasm
of the tubes in the lungs, already
has a good deal of Inflammation
in these passages. Continued
coughing will cause further Irrit
ation an dprevent rest and heal
ing. According to Dr. Pricknvm
of the Mayo Clinic, the patient
with asthma should not be per
mitted to cough, continuously if
the asthma is -to be controlled.
The inflamed lining membranes
of the bronchi cannot heal,if they
are constantly irritated by cough
ing. V,.v' v ?
BORROWED BLOOD
' WICHITA. Kans. -(INS)- Slx-teen-year-old
Stanley Hughes
isn't kidding when he says he
is living on borrowed blood.
Stanley, now recovering from a
rare blood 'disease. ..has ; had
nearly 300 transfusions. Since the
first 'of .the year.
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