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4 The CtotMinaB. Salem. Oreoon. Friday. Oclobor If, 1849 e reso ttliitateMiatt No favor Swayt U, tio Fear Shall Awf Frees first SUlny March U, 1X31 THE STATESMAN PUBLISIIINC COMPANY CRAW- A RPR AGUE.; Editor and Publisher Catered at the postofflee at Salem. Oregon, as ce ad daa matter ander act of congress March S, 117 H Eabliebed every morning. Business (fie tUL Commercial. &lem, Oregon. Telephone Z-2441. ; High School Societies v One again the Salem school board has felt (called to take drastic measures suspension of 10 high school students to suppress so-called secret organizations in Salem high. The action is not new year after year there has been dif ficulty over clandestine groups even although this time there is controversy as to whether something different is involved. The American Boys club to which the 19 boys belonged has been adjudged by the board to be in the "secret society" category. Members of the board say the local ABC had applied for a charter from the Portland ABC club and oper ated under the by-laws of the Portland club. From this and other information, the board reached its decision. There is no doubt that It vTas an honest one, reached after careful study, and that the board is acting on the. basis of facts before it and under legal statutes imposing up- ' on it a duty so to act in cases it adjudges con trary to state law. On the other side of the picture, it is certain I most if not all of the parents involved are con vinced their sons have done nothing illegal j that the ABC was not a secret society. There is no intent here to try the case. Either j the decision of the school board will stand, since i the board acted on full authority, or there will ; be a test court case as has been intimated. At ; least, no one should have been in ignorance of the" school board's attitude on summary dismis- sat The SHS parent's handbook states that -"agreements to withdraw from or dissolve a group, have been violated without exception . . Anv student known to be a member of an illegaC; nrvanizatinn will be excelled without notice, and" will be barred permanently from all school ac- .- tivitie at any time he might return to Salem high school." It is lamentable that such issues arise. The approved extra-curricular activities al- ready, in vogue., at Salem high would seem to cover almost any student interest. There are sseven student body activities, 10 athletic teams, at least 30" clubs and organizations including Hi- k Y and Tri-Y clubs for social activities sponsored by: the YMCA and YWCA; and a dozen subject activities. Some of these organizations are open to any f student. Others are selective groups; lor in- stance, the S Club for boys earning a school let- ' ter, the- Honor Society for students with high grades. tJtKut Kw-il rtArt1o nnnntA a n rl t Vi a itatA m 1 1 .- laws) are the exclusive, sub rosa groups which contribute nothing constructive to school life, l attempt to evade school supervision and some times try to influence or control legitimate i school activities. Such groups tend to be dis ruptive and subversive and are not to be tol erated either in high schools or colleges, where they also exist. It is sometimes hard to draw a line between a congenial group of students who meet inform- ; ally at each other's homes for social affairs and" groups which would be considered outlaw. But 3 the, line, must be drawn somewhere and the , school board says it is certain ABC bridged it. , Meanwhile, it is to be hoped the boys con tinue their high school education even though under an informal opinion of the attorney gen eral the state cannot force them to pay tuition "and attend elsewhere despite the compulsory ; attendance law. It is not their fault that abuses : of leniency in past years has forced the growth; of . stringent school rules. Nor is the school board's. A Madame President for the U.S.A.? seems an appropriate time to call attention to recent news stories from Washington that Capi tol. Hill republicans are talking seriously of nominating a woman for vice president in 1952. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, the first wom an ever elected to a full senate term, is one can didate the boys in the smoke-filled rooms have in their minds. , I htir argument is that, with more women eligible to vote than ever before, a feminine running mate would be just the thing to put the GOP in the winners box. , ' The idea may not be haywire, tt that A iur veyjuit completed by the women's division of Partial Evacuation of Britain Urged e Br J. M. Eeberta, Jr. J AP Facets Affairs Analyst WASHINGTON, Oct U the United States really wants te do something to help Britain permanently, the population ref . erence bureau suggests, she i.kt aKtma to rnvtve fulfill invviwf . third oc the island's people to other parts of the common wealth. -The bureau, a non-profit prl- scientists which makes a contin uing study of population prob lems, dees aot approach the idea .as a fasrtaey. . . v ' - s The Baeveeaent of fifteen mil lion people would not be easy St says, "but It would be much cheaper to move a 140-pound person ence than to move some 1,400 pounds of food plus other raw materials every year to support that person if he ; re mains in Britain.' jl - The bureau thus adopts a' be lief that is gaining widespread acceptance. 'It is that Britain Is not likely. ever aeala. tv oe - able to support her population In the aaanher to which it was once accustomed, or even to mn- tlaue to support it in the emer gency manner which is followed the republican national committee showg an in creasing number of women in vital government al jobs. Nearly half a million women are em ployed by the federal government, 500 in jobs of authority. There is one woman minister in Luxembourg, 50 women vice-consuls, 11 women secretaries of embassies and legations. Two large cities Portland, Oregon, and Sacramento, Cali forniahave woman mayors. Some 188 women serve a city clerks. About 100 women hold im portant judicial jobs in federal, state and city courts, fifty women are presiding judges of : county and probate courts. And, of course, there are hundreds of women in national and state legislatures and in state appointive offices. It is probably safe to say that most of the I women holding political office rose to their poi ; tions alter years of experience in their business or professional fields. Men have gradually ac cepted women's specialized abilities in these fields and in politics. That's why there's talk today of a woman vie 'president. Not only that, Vincent Sheean, in a recent is- sue of Look magazine, proposed a woman pres ident. Says he: "Plainly stated, I believe that if 'there could be found a woman capable of filling the office of president of the United States, the election of such a woman would be the most irresistible , symbol (the mother-symbol) we could possibly " produce of our will to peace. It would be under stood? in every Hindu and Chinese village, in every agricultural commune in Russia, in every farm in Poland ... No ordinary person in the modern world would find it easy to believe that mother (any mother) desires or would bring about a war . : , To the ordinary peasant ... the symbol could only mean peace: the intention of peace and good will." Britain grew to world emin ence because of an early mono poly on the tools ;: and skills . which produced what we have" come to call the industrial re volution. 1 . As her population grew it was forced to seek new means of support, and as they were found the population grew; But' the world is no longer the place for pioneering that it was 200 years go. competition has overtaken Britain, and her economy threatens to become more and more Insular; since her natural resources at; hem e are very alender. The idea of emigration has re j eeived attention in Britain since J the war, but has been discour aged by the cost of people who have been taxed 1 out of their , surplus funds, and by restrlc- tions on the amount of money which can be taken from the country. And the government has feared, the country might be robbed of skilled labor. Migration would, the report says, improve both the living standards of those who leave as well as those who stay, and make the United Kingdom more near ly self-supporting, r The com monwealth would be strengthen Sheean's argument is of the sort that would nauseate practical politicians as well as surprise anthropologists. It could put any move to get an able woman into any national office behind the eight-ball. Ignorant peasants who consider their women as chattel, fit only for childbearlng and pulling the plow, would believe Americans are loony if we elected a woman for president. But what these peasants think doesn't make much differ ence in Russia or China. It is the educated clas ses which control these countries. It is in the educated classes that women all over the world have fairly equal status with men. And in these classes it is recognized that the male sex has no absolute monopoly on militarism, brutality and immorality, any more than it has on intelligence and ability. And mothers often are naturally just as willing to send their sons off to war as fathers if their patriotic feelings are aroused. A woman president for the U.S.A. is not be yond the realm of possibility. But if she is ever elected, it won't be to convince the Chinese that Americans are soft-headed. Nor will it be the result of a national Oedipus complex. It will merely be the result of political expediency: a large female electorate plus a candidate who has served her apprenticeship in business or the pro fessions or politics (not in a nursery) and who looks, like a sure thing. Phil Aspinwall served ' the people so many years at the postoffice that people will miss his friendly face and his reliable service. It is quite an achievement to round out 45 yean in the postal service as has Mr. AspinwalL He has earned his retirement, and we trust he will) enjoy it for many years. Editorial Comment Freaa Pit Ceateaaporaries ... FLAVORFUL DATS Saturday has been designated Sweetest Day by whom so designated we. can only guess. But the purpose is clear. On that day every citizen whose income is at or above the median line is to take home a bundle of fudge or of something just as sweet, j ' It Is an experiment noble in purpose, as Herbert Hoover once said of something else. . Yet when we envisage, as all economists must and do, the wide ramifications of the relationships between the vine gar and pickle industries, as well as the social signi ficance of sauerkraut, our duty stares us in the face. We must ,baye a Sourest Day as quickly as the crowded calendar permits. ! (Wall Street Journal) ed In its outlying parts. From the American stand point, it is claimed, billions of dollars in capital aid and natur al resources could be saved, and friendly nations on our perimet ers like Canada and Australia would be built up. Better English i IfRC WCUaaaa 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "Mr. Jones' speech was replete in humor." t. What is the correct pro nunciation of "lamentable"? S. Which one of these words is misspelled? Adamant, ada quate, adaptability, adenoid. 4- What does the word "in conceivable" mean? j 5. What h a . word beginning' wuth me that means "capable of change in form, qualities, or na ture"? ..,.-. ANSWERS ! v L Say, "was replete with hu mor." 2. Pronounce with accent on first syllable, not the second. J. Adequate. 4. Incapable of be ing realized in the imagination. "It is inconceivable to me that he could have done such a thing . Mutable. ' 1 .atsl 1 ill GRIN AND BEAR IT toM him "Bat It's set a luarr. Otis! . . . doesn't It aateaaatleaUy beeenae a : necessity when yea eaa make a 4wm payaaent ea It? . . . " HlFtDODDK ' (Continued from pege 1.) useful in propelling ships, es pecially submarines. Two other reactors of different types are also planned by the commission. The business of turning the tremendous energy released by splitting the atom to the job of furnishing light and- power and heat like an electric plant Is tremendously complicated. The story was pretty well described in the July issue of Scientific American. How can you harness the explosive force of atomic fission and bring it into a con tinuous flow for use in variable quantities? I i As now contemplated the op eration would be at first use of a byproduct of production of Plutonium. In this process, neu trons attack uranium in graphite piles, changing it to the new dement plutonium. (To keep the works cool a fluid courses through the pile to take away the beat. Just as water circulates around an automobile motor to keep it cool. The! Idea Is to withdraw the heat from this cooling agent, using it to fire a boiler that would turn a dynamo and produce electric energy, f At Hanf ord, Columbia river water Is used, but it never gets to a boiling point If the works were' operated at high tempera tures to heat up the fluid the materials in the pile would be apt to break down. Scientists have a tough problem in trying to bring the cost of electric en ergy producted from an atomio reactor down to economic levels. The solution in fact seems a . long way off. If some way could be found to harness the energy released In atomic fission direct ly for power generation, mat short cut would open the . way OPB SEASON By Lichty Vg ' for swift utilization of this new-ly-diseovered force. We have to remember that scientists are just scratching at the edges of a vast new field. Their past successes in unlocking nature's secrets and in bridling . atural forces for man's use are grounds fcr expectation that eventually means VJ11 be found to put the tremendous energies released by atomic fission to use ful as well as destructive ends. WANTED A PET PRINXVILLX. Ort -(INS) While astonished tourists looked on. the driver of a lumber truckx lassoed a badger alongside the road near Prineville. Securing the infuriated animal in the seat beside him. the buckaroo calmly drove away. Delicious (Energy Food for Active Ea Rainfcaw Trod Chincsk S&lnca SilvtrsUt S&lnea Filkl Ssls CclsnMa IKiTer Sntli Lchl:n E&xiern Oysters Lilllt Uedx Clans I3FFEBED, SMOKED, SALTED FISH FULLY DRESSED AND DRAWN POULTRY 218 N. ZL Literary Guidepost MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, By Elliott Paul (Random House; $3.79) A resident of Louisville in 1909-10, Paul roomed with the Kirby family, the center from which these colorful reminis cences branch out. The daughter was a nurse, and the son, Paul's pal in visits to the more orderly disorderly houses; a roomer, Adela, worked in a beauty shop, and others were a Jew merchant and a contractor. There were barmen, cobblers, waitresses, servants, musicians, bookmakers, policemen, white or black, and gunplay and enough violence to pass for a climax. Either Paul's memory is phe nomenal, so that he can recall after 40 years a girl's pale eyes and the colored under-thread In a man's suit, or he Is smart enough to realize that such little touches, even if imagined, are needed to bring a book to life. Whhether fact or fiction. It does come to life, Just as the same kinds of people, often in the same fixes, came to life in Paris the last time he saw It, in a Spanish town, and along the Saugus and the 'Yellowstone. I enjoy these people very much, but they are beginning to look like old friends. The more I travel, the more dif ferences I find; the more Paul travels, the more similarities. KENTUCKY ON THE MARCH by Harry W. Schacter, with a Foreword by Mark F. Ethridge (Harper: $3) When the Committee for Ken tucky, with Harry W. Schacter as founder and head, began al most six years ago to gather and Sroclaim the facts about Ken icky, newspapers, radio, mag azines, planning organizations spread the word that here was something revolutionary: First, a state was publicly pro claiming it was far down on the list of states in education, health, agriculture and general welfare, and second, it was proposing to attack and improve these con ditions.' Now Cchacter tells modestly and Interestingly how Kentucky roke up and began its march of progress, and how any state or local community could do the same Further. Schacter sees his Ling Cod Olynpia Oyslers Fillet Es2p;:r Crabs Slirinp IIcil Pacific Oyslers Prawns Phono 3-4424 iers Cricket Poor OUDSTITUTG TOr World Series Br Henry McLemore LONDON, Oct 13 If you like sports and what Ameri can doesn't unless he be a mem ber of the uo- oer-upper hifrh brow group which professes to prefer a batch of Brahms to a belt by Henrich? I one of the un- haDpine s s e s of being .abroad is that the news oapers carrr lit tle or no Amer ican sports. j With the World: Series being olav what do you think I had to read about in the Exnress. the Mail, the Times, the Graphic, and all the other London papers? Cricket, so help me! and If you haven't seen cricket, or read about it, let me tell you that it Is IS mtnutes less than nothine and by a slow clock, too. It Is the only game In the world where hundreds of runs are scored, yet nothing happens. It has all the excitement of the Podunk depot four hours after the only train for the day has passed through. If you are not reading about cricket you are reading about greyhound racing. There are a dozen or more greyhound tracks In London and the citizens go for them like sweethearts go for secluded spots on a picnic. I wouldn't ' b i surprised if two thirds of the population of Lon don has a bet riding every night on some pin-heeded beagle with a long tail,, a stomach like a hollowed -out broomstick, and all the sense of a vest sleeve. Mixed "In with - cricket and greyhound racing are football and motorcycle Tacmg. The greatest way In the world to starve to death Is to work your head off for years and become an English football star. The dubs (the Sheffield Wednesdays being the one I read about just because of its entrancing name) draws crowds of 60,000, 70,000 and up, and must make tons of money unless they make it a rule to hire only treasurers guaranteed to abscond on the hour, every hour. Yet the top stars, men who correspond to Jsckie Robinson, Sammy Baugh, Jack Kramer, Bob Feller, etc. In this country, draw crowds of 60,000, 70.000 pietely ridiculous. A top, top player Is lucky to get $5,000 a year. In France and Italy, when you turn to the sports pages and, with the help of an interpreter, try to find out what is happen ing at home, you get one thing bicycle racing. Bicycle racing ls more than a sport over here it is a religion. The Tour de France in which some hun dred liniment-soaked gentlemen, heads and shoulders hunched over the handlebars, ride clean around France Is much more Important to Frenchmen and Italians than the state of the lira and the franc, or the rise and fall of their governments. And the winner of the pedal fixture gains a status just a notch above that of premiers and ministers of state. He can sell his old bandages and bicycle clips for a small fortune and can retire to a life of tas that is, if a man who really likes to committee as a proof that Amer icans, if they unite, can make democracy work. PAINT A ROOM QUICK AND EASY FULLC0ATGQ WTTN QUUBOO BtTM HAY SPECIAL 99 USfTaOAXTnT 1W it with ruSeoat-ee coof ofl wall peim Rolla paint on walls and calling so fast. so smooth, oaeuflyl mS - a.,- K sfexBSss - ride bicycles for hundreds et miles knows, what a- life of ease '. I -j e t -' I know how the World Series came out, thanks to a paragraph about as long as a stick of chew ing gum. It is fortunate that I wasn't there because I would have bet on the Brooks. They looked to be a much better team on paper, but perhaps the Yanks have something in their hearts that makes all the paper stuff worthless. j And what about Notre Dame? Still winning by 40 points after using everybody in South Bend except the oldest inhabitant? I'll be back in a few days and I do hope the unification of the services argument has been ironed out. Wouldn't like to come home and have to say, "This is where I came in." j (McNauaht Syndicate. Inc.) The Safety Valve To the Editor: As nearly as I can find , out Catholic Charities Is the only beneficiary of the community chest which really contributes to needy people, although news paper and radio advertising care fully gives the impression that all of them do so. When affairs were at their worst several years ago the standard reply to pleas for sufferers was "We have no funds for that purpose." So R. A. Harris hustled and found a few people of different ilk. I do not remember all of them, but Doug. McKay (now governor) was one and Judge Bailey of the su preme court was another. When a case of real want appeared Harris came and collected a dol lar or two from each of us, and that case was relieved. "Character-building" is O. but sometimes belly-filling . is also neceesary. The community, chest seems to overlook this, but there will be plenty of evidence of it before next spring. Can't a small portion of the chest funds be set aside for this or must we re Organize associated charities' and soup lines? Incidentally, We do not expect a circus to follow the exact line of truth In vdvertis lng, but it seems that our com munity chest might fittingly make a gesture in that direction. The community chest is in no sense a relief organization, and such inferences should be taboo in its publicity. A. M. Church, (Editor's note: The Community Chest Is not ia tteself a relief organisation. It ia a f end-raising organisation for eight local welfare and social service agen dee and eleven state agencies. Money contributed to the Cheat goes te agencies, like the Salva tion Army and Catholic Chart ties, Which de give emergency relief te needy persons.' Beth these organlsatiesi provide beds, food and clethimg for transients by the handreds as well as for local residents in aa emergency. Long-term relief, ef coarse, la the Job ef county welfare agencies. To the editor: We are inclined to agree with the lady from California who bemoans the passing of "Old Sa lem." We, too, have known both the old and new Salem. ' We first saw Salem in the fall of 1917, and it won our hearts completely. To us It was a dream town, a story-book towns, one you think exists wholly in fiction and never expect to see." Change and growth are inevit- 1 able, however, and without them no progress could be made. But we do think Salem has lost something of flavor and atmos phere which made it outstand- ; lng. Now it is Just another town. It must have had something unusual to affect a stranger aa : it seems to have affected the j Long Beach lady. Sybil M. Doughton Salem TS. Salem is still our favorite ; town. rkmdredsof - decorating h Ideas, lor vow otaoloncel AA the watt woodwork, ' ceairg'cc4or yowyeemtor swotcbesWJ take home) SMMfeA JEWEL CAS! c -. tncpiraffowl r"f serettrsN wi mm W-rWUiTCA 4 CO 171 sJubtrty f ; ! .a 5-1