Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1949)
The StcrUsmcau Sclom, Ortqa. Sander. Wot, (, i-tl yirr dT 13. 1849 .Tl .j . . it I ?. J.! resou tateMati gup Wo Fever Stoays 17, No fear Shall Aw" Presst lint SUfeoma. March It, 1M1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CH-ES A RPR AGUE. Editor and Publisher lill'n- .-r. - .... trainmen who .transport goods; the workers who manufacture all the gear of war. War then is car- RKDODDS Your ..M ealth tf Written by Dr fltrau If." feundeitsen, s MIX -8 - ." .. . . ... . .... Catered at the postofflce at Salem, Oreron, as second class. matter unaer act or eonfreas aiaren. a, i7. Published every snoroinr.. Business office 215 S. Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone 2-241. For Better Newspapers The annual meeting of the Associated Press members in; the Pacific northwest held in Port land! Friday1 was strictly a "working meeting." The business dealt with vital matters in the development, handling and treatment of .the newk. The core of the thinking was the respon sibility of newspapers to get the news promptly and to supply it to the public factually and de cently. ' i Particular attention was given to the ques tion 'of. how to handle news dealing with offen sive 'crimes, especially those with sex involved. Members expressed their opinion that such cases grrSuld be handled factually without cover up or Use of "weasel words" but that such news should not be exploited and j. the treatment should conform to common standards of decen cy. This means that the AP members want to continue following a conservative policy f on news of this type, without going in for racy .re porting designed to satify prurient curiosity.; A 'rule of no quarter"' was approved against news barriers" where public officials or pri vate persons or organizations seek to shut off .the news. Reporters were enjoined to "get the news" and members were directed to seek constantly to break down tfiese "road blocks" which sen sitive individuals erect to prevent access to, the truths 4 Both Washington and Oregon have had com mittees working the past two years making studies of the daily news reports of the AP, get ting comments from members, and drawing con clusions as to how the press service may be Im proved. These studies already have brought good results and their continuance was authorized. Wendell Webb, managing editor of The States man, has served on the Oregon committee. Oregon members, on the initiative of W M. Tugman of the Eugene Register-Guard, propose to take up with the secretary of state and; the legislature the matter of using modern mechan ical devices in the holding of elections (voting machines, IBM card tabulating) both to reduce tlte cost and to speed up reporting the results to reduce the number of inaccuracies. I Here was one convention where the ruling Idea! was how to give more and better service to customers, the newspaper-reading public. i '. ,, y Yes, there was pne agreeable interlude. Stew art Holbrook, prominent Portland author, was a guest speaker at the evening banquet. Once a regular and now an occasional writer for news papers, Holbrook's witty sallies proved highly entertaining. A great lover of the outdoors) he urged editors (to no avail, he admitted) to try to stop the tide of immigration so that Portland could remain as he described it, the "nicest quiet village" that J know, and the west still a coun try of wide open spaces. J Our Robin-Hood Wind I Every fall we have an uninvited guest, not entirely unwelcome but always leaving! us breathless and a little abashed before his great energy and utter individualism. He came last week: the first careless gusts of the storm that wept across the country and briefly had I the streets of Salem paved with gold. He's the fickle thief who devaluated the trees and scattered October's gold leaf across the drab pavements. He's a Robin-Hood wind who rob bed I autumn's blooming treasury, and gold- .washed the roofs of houses and illuminated the gray pages of early November. f From the supple willows he stripped; the fluttering veils of clear wine -bright yellow, from the queenly poplars he plundered the ochre satin robes, from the buxom maples he fliched the brass and copper ornaments, from the aged oaks he purloined the bronze shields. And then this remorseless pirate left them all bare: and shivering before that old wet blanket, his ally the rain. if The windy freebooter lent his spoils but brief-. ly to us. For a while he held back his accomplice and permitted us to enjoy the gold plated ave nues and the shower of coppers and the whirling choreography of foliate ballerinas. , But, the fraudulent gadabout soon tired of his game; he took back his gold, atowed it into drains and gutters or left it out? for the rain to tarnish. . Only a short while after the beginning of the storm, the gay buccaneer skipped the, country, having commissioned his sodden henchman to do the dirty work until the wind's return in the spring with new finery for his autumrt vic tims. Now, already the streets of Salem ate paved with water. " t ; 'i lit V. S. Steel Comes to Terms) The steel strike was certainly unnecessary. Terms of settlement conform rather closely to the recommendations of the president's -factfinding board. Why didn't the companies agree earlier and avoid the loss in profits to themsel ves and loss in wages to employes? That ques tion is hard to answer. --!! The big companies were miffed at the way President Truman maneuvered and so were in no mood to accept the findings of his' board. Then U. S. Steel which has been accused of be ing pace-setter for wage settlements seemed re luctant to serve in that role this year. Anyway the big strike is over. Phil Murray emerges as the "winnah!" and John L., Lewis will have to quit playing solitaire before long. Drop Armistice Day? The Tulsa Worldlirveying the scene 31 years after, recommends that special observance of Armistice day be dropped in favor of concen trating all memorials to those who served and sacrificed in war to Memorial day. That seems sensible. If World War 1 had lived up to the hope and proved the "war to end wars" it would merit the recognition for Armistice day. J Alas, (that hope was not realized. s I i No effort has been made to make V-E day or V-J day into national holidays. Memorial day is a most suitable day for commemorating all past ' military service. After The Statesman asked Congressman; Nor blad to clarify either his idea or his language with reference to his stand on a CVA the Capi tal Journal professed to find it "difficult to' un derstand what 'heeds clarifying In this position of Norblads." Later it concedes: "Perhaps Nor , blad didn't make that point as clear as he might have. But the inference is certainly there." It js true that the first district congressman attacks the tendency to centralizing of authority in Washington. What is not clear is how the pro gram he suggests to be locally initiated would also be "locally controlled" as he proposes! with employment of "existing agencies" which de finitely are federal now. The C-J should elabo rate its exposition. (Continued from page 1) disillusionment of those who had put confidence in the laws of war. Perhaps it will be of interest to recount the progressive deter ioration of international law in this field: War is supposed to be pre ceded by the breaking off of dip lomatic relations and the execu tion of a formal declaration of war. World War II began with the announcement of Hitler that nazl troops were marching on Poland, and began for the Unit ed States with the bombing of Billies' Loss May Strengthen Dewey V By Joseph aad Stewart Alaep f 'WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 On Wednesday morning, after Her bert Lehman had knocked the tar out of John Foster Dulles in the New York senatorial con test, one of Got.' Thomas E. Dewey's ab lest henchmen summed up his conclusions. "It kind of looks this morning m though they liked the wel- g JW-AUop, far9 state," be said! wryly, but without any no ticeable gloom. The lack- of gloom j may be imply explained. For1 the . odd fact is that the sad fate of Dewey's friend f ana dioickc, Dulles, is likely actually to a t rengthen Dewey's Influ ence In the re publican party. This' is because the nature of Dulles' cam -I palgn for the senate thor oughly expIcd-wA,T4 ed the charge, hurled at Dewey by the republican . right wing, that his "me-tooism" in 1948 coat- the republicans the White House. For there was not the slight esit J taint of me-tooism about Dulles' campaign. Indeed, Dulles took; a stand well to the right of Senator Robert A. TafU He was both more ' specific in his " de nunciations of the- Truman ad ministration and all. its" works, and more conservative, than any republican candidate in a great - Industrial state in recent hU toryj Moreover, this was a re sult of his own decision. )eweJr t first counselled Dulles against running. He told I . w - Wl Dulles that he feared the cam paign might destroy Dulles' fu ture usefulness -4 which Itself suggests that Dewey does not regard his own political career as at an end. When Dulles nev ertheless decided ;i to make the race, Dewey promised him all out support, on the understand ing that Dulles Would be his own political strategist; Dulles would "do It hisown way," tak ing whatever stand he saw fit on the major Issues. v r The result was a neat demon stration (of everything Dewey said In fhis famous Lincoln's Birthday J speech.', inwhich he challenged his "me-too" critics to carry any industrial state in the union on a back-to-McKln-ley platform. The further result has been to weaken the posi tion of Dewey's enemies in the republican party. Where does this leave Dewey? Among his intimates, Dewey still talks of forsaking politics once and; for all when his pres ent term Us governor ends next year, and making some money In law practice. But Dewey has politics in his blood, perhaps more strongly than any other man in public life. Moreover, there' will be very heavy pressure on him to run for , governor again next year. Sena tor Irving Ives is the only other strong republican candidate vis ible. The republicans will badly need a strong candidate in this key position, and Ives' senate term does not expire until 1952. If Dewey runs . and wins, he will control the New York dele- gation to the republican conven tion In 1952, and he will be in a strong position to influence the' convention's outcome. It is en tirely improbable that Dewey will himself be a candidate for nomination again. 'There is only one other road open to a really Important political future for Dewey. That is to be, not king, but king-maker, by backing the successful candidate. The leading contender at the convention is likely to be Sena tor Robert A. Taft, since the labor groups have failed to find a strong progressive candidate to oppose Taft in the Ohio fight next year. Taft is the hero of the republican party's: powerful antl-me-too faction, which so dislikes Dewey. Moreover, this is true not only because of Taft's domestic views, but because of his foreign policy stand as well. Certainly it will be natural for Dewey to throw his weight against Taft. If so, Dewey will want a candidate with great political appeal, who I favors a strong foreign policy, and a middle-of-the-road domestic ?)licy, and who halls from New ork state. There Is one man who answers all these require ments General of the Army Dwight D. Elsenhower, i Already, there have ! been friendly contacts between Dewey and Eisenhower. The New York financial community, which is close to Dewey and which al ways strongly influences the outcome of republican conven tions, is more and more en thusiastic about Eisenhower. And Eisenhower's r recent speeches have themselves indi cated a growing interest in do mestic politics and foreign pol icy. , V l .! There is no use j speculating so far ahead about the result of this complicated political equa tion. But the fact remains that a finish fight between the .re publican party's me-tboers and anti-me-tooers is now I clearly in prospect. The further fact re mains that the defeat-of his friend Dulles has ' actually strengthened ' Dewey's position for this fight. And it is cer tainly a reasonable bet that Taft and his midwest supporters on the one hand, and Dewey,! Eisen hower, and their east coast ad mirers on the other, i will play a leading role In the coming battle. (Copyright. IMS. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) ; Tied to the .people regardless of -Whether they wear uniforms and bear.arms or not The new wea ' 'pons: atomic bombs, radioactivi ''ty, secret poisons; disease germs 'are not selective in their victims. It is scant comfort to say, as does General Bradley, that war itself is Immoral. For man Is a human being, sentient, with thoughts and feelings. Within nations he has succeeded fairly well in establishing codes of can duct where differences are set tled peacefully, UNPER LAW. Despite the breakdown of the laws of war under stress, inter national law remains the hope for a peaceful world order. That law will be a product of growth both in conception, in adminis tration and in enforcement. Fail ures of the past are but a chal lenge for greater; endeavor. HAD HER SHAKE Hiccuping is one of the very few natural actions of the body which seems entirely without purpose. It Is neither a safety valve nor an: adjustment process. Indeed, so far as benefiting the body is concerned, it has no val ue. It is simply a nuisance and nothing more. On the other hand, it seldom does any harm except in rare, long-continued cases where it keeps up-so haustion. Hiccuping ong as to cause ex- PORTLAND-fTNSi-A RaoH vVI Pearl Harbor on the day the eg9 coei believes that bad luk Japanese envoys had a date with "comes in threes." Firs, she miss- Secretary of state nun. ed her train back to school. Next One of the most elaborate ,he was involved In an auto acci chapters of international law dent Finally, she discovered her dealth with the rights and obli- pur8e and summer earnings of cations-ox neuirais. worm iigj missing after the crack-up . l Degan won uie ucmuui inva sion or Belgium wnose neuiramy Germany and other nations had guaranteed. That treaty, said the Germaa chancellor, was a "scrap of Daner." One of the rules of nsval war fare was . that unarmed vessels j should not be attacked unless! they resisted, and that security should be provided for passen gers and crew. Unrestricted sub marine warfare (which precipi tated American entrance into the first world war) brought on the phrase, "sunk without warning." In the second world wajsuch conduct was taken for granted. The infant United States did Its diplomatic teething on "free dom of the seas" In the wars be tween England and France at the turn of the 18th century. "Free ships, free goods" was. the slo gan. Our "rights" as a neutral were freely violated by both combatants. Again In the first world war Britain Interfered with our neutral shipping, great ly to the distress of President Wilson. He set down as one of his famous 14 points proposed as a basis for peace, "freedom of the seas." But when world War II came along freedom of the seas was just an historic phrase. Because during our civil war England had permitted the build ing and outfitting of the "Ala bama" in its waters which scourged the seas as a Confeder ate war vessel, the United States was awarded damages of, $15, 500,000 by an arbitration com mission. In the second world war the United States though a neu tral, extended all aid "short of war" to the beleaguered allies, escorted merchant vessels far in to the .Atlantic, and traded 50 over-age destroyers to Britain In exchange of leases to west At lantic bases. ' The laws of wsr called for no firing on civilians so long as they were not offering armed resistance or committing acts of sabotage. World War II saw gen eral bombing of occupied cities as part of the business: Rotter dam, Coventry, Berlin, Manila, Hiroshima. As General Bradley said, when you bomb the factor ies you may bomb the people, and you may damage enemy mo rale. Now we have produced the B-36 whose mission is long range strategic bombing, not of enemy forts and bases primarily, but of enemy industrial cities, factories and lines of communi cation. Property belonging to subjects of an enemy state presumably is not subject to confiscation In spite of a state of war. Actually. governments in both world wars seized enemy property some of the important secrets of in dustrial chemistry were sold to Americans after their confisca tion as enemy property during the first, world war. Private pro perty (except that of military nature) of an occupied country Is not to be seized by the invad er but how much stuff was "liberated" during the late war? As far as observing the rules of humane conduct of war (pro . tection of wounded, security and treatment of prisoners) they were on the whole rather well observed in both world wars, though there were exceptions when field hospitals were bomb ed, captives shot or starved or abused. True, we bad war crime trials following the second world war and men were executed in Ger many and Japan for alleged vio lation of international law both in the launching of war and in the conducting of It, What ef fect this "new principle" in In ternational law will have in pre venting future wars is not clear. Certainly it is a standing warn ing against losing a war. In the case of Japanese General Yama shita, his defense attorney has 'just published a book denounc ing the proceedings and the re sult of that trial, which is ra ther disquieting to justice-minded Americans. Is the result of a sudden, hard contraction of the' muscle between the chest and the abdomen, known as the dia phragm. Pressure of this con traction closes the passageway to the lungs. The "hie" sound is due to the abrupt cutting off of the indrawn breath as the vocal cords come together. Hiccuping may be initiated by nerve impulses brought to the diaphragm from the stomach, bowel, liveri lungs, the larynx or voicebox.lor may result from inflamation or pressure from a tumor growth. It may come from direct irritation of the diaphragm or of the phrenic nerve which supplies the diaphragm. Hiccup sometimes develops In diseases affecting th brain, such as encephalitis or meningitis. As is well known, over-indulgence in alcoholic beverages may bring on an attack of hiccuping. It may be psychological in its or igin. In which case it stops dur ing sleep and sometimes while eating. Hundreds of different types of treatment have been suggested for hiccup. A sudden slap on the back, pulling on the tongue, tick i ling the nose, and inhaling smell ing salts all have served to stop hiccuping attacks. Holding the breath and deep breathing may be effective. Washing out the stomach or inducing vomiting may, : on occasion, give benefit. Various ' sedative or quieting drugs have been used. Drugs which relieve spasm have also been found helpful. Recently, a number of cases of continued hiccup have been treated with a drug known as quinidine. In nine patients, in whom other methods have fail ed, quinidine stopped the . at tacks in six and was partially successful in two. In some cases of continued hiccup, cutting or crushing of the phrenic nerve has been employ- d.., . , . ... ; Fortunately, In most cases of hiccup, the simple measures are sufficient to bring relief. I QESTIONS AND ANSWERS W. P. O.: Is cystitis a curable ailment? Is it a serious condition? Answer: Cystitis means inflam mation of the bladder. As a rule, it Is not a serious disorder and it is curable. Treatment with sulfonamide drugs and penicillin is helpful. Sometimes, irrigation of the blad der with antiseptics is necessary. (Copyright. IMS King Feature) Overseas Yule Matt headline Due Tuesday ! Long queues at Salem postoflce Saturday morning heralded the nearing deadline on overseas Christmas mailing. Parcels must be sent by Tuesday to assure Yuletide delivery, the, pastmaster reminded. Albert C. Gragg, postmaster, ex pressed gratitude for the prompt mailing. He urged that letters and cards for overseas points also be sent immediately. i', Professor Arthur Nussbaum, In his History of the. Law of Na tions, remarks: "From a political point of view the 14 years preceding World War I represent the end of a cen tury that began with the Peace of Paris In 1815 and that may perhaps sometimes be looked jp on as the happiest in the history of mankind. For International law it was certainly ... a period of tremendous progress . . . An Important qualification must be added however: In the 20th cen tury the law moved forward on ly in the sphere of peaceful re-' lations; in the law of war heav ily retrogressive tendencies came to prevail." What has developed Is the doc trine of "total war" in, which whole populations are engaged and involved: the farmers who produce food for armies; the fM V j ft SOJI fOINT f f . QUfJKl 1ACB Thlnli of Tbanharjlvinfj TThmk off. . I TE for gracious elegance. i holiday table deserves flattery of Silver. Come i and see the becruUiul: deslans af the nation's inz Silversmiths. I t Silver ...the synonym . - . i lYour ; X ,rTV, X 1 new U 1 : '' .IS . i L. fi JEWELERS Stat Liberty SLLVERSIimiS Dial 4-2223 Livelier Building ,
