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4 The StatMmom. Salem, Oregon. Tuesday. Tanuarr 3. 1950 ? THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY i CH A RT.ER A SPB AGUE. Editor and Publisher Catered at the eostofflcc at 8alem. Oregon as wctad elan matter wider act at congress March' S, l$7f. mblla&ed every morning. Busiaeas office til 8. Commercial, Salem, Oiegon. Telephone Z-2I4L ' - 'V:: : . i ' - - " Thinks" as Well as Thanks , In a business letter to company customers Harold Zellerbach, president of Zellerbach Paper company, departs from the usual "Thanks for past favors Happy New Year" style and offers some stimulating ideas though bus inessmen are apt to shy away, from "ideas." We take Ithe liberty of quoting.! with our s approval, pertinent paragraphs of his letter: We were! told in our childhciod to "never discuss politics or religion."' That advice Is as outmoded as yesterday's mustache cup. Our young people: are wiser. They discuss with en I thusiasm the! amazing record of achievement of the United Nations; the new rights of minor i lties; the bloodless winning of freedom; the ; heretofore unheard of relinquishment of power without show of force. , j My brother, J. D. Zellerbach, E.CA. direct- -. or in Italyi Ss home for a holiday visit as I write. Ina ' report on his stewardship, he pointed out that the entire Marshall Plan to date has expended only the cost of twenty-nine days ef World War II WITHOUT LOSS OF LIFE! tOn the day of his talk, the radio told of the failure of a communist-inspired strike in Italy. "Even in the pro-communist provinces,'' said the commentator; "shopkeepers kept their places of business open, in marked contrast to a similar strike period a year ago when stores were closed and barricaded!" ( The "more we talk about politics and re ligion, the greater our chances to make tomor row good. In our own country, long-beards of the Spring of 1949 have proven false. There : Is a growing sense of security built on faith in our ability to wrestle with and solve our do mestic problems. ' ' Old Argument Revived The Portland Oregonian has that the first half of the 20th century doesn't end until Dec. 31, 1950. The San Francisco Chronicle in its Saturday issue reports: "The first half of the 20th century will end at mid night tonight." , v . 3 f , Thus the argument that raged 50 years ago h apparently isn't settled yet. If our memory is correct the pope, who was the' nearest to an in ternational authority in 1900, concluded that the 20th century didn't start until 1901; and the 1991 advocates seemed to carry the day. The debate bobs up again over the half -century date. You can arrive at different conclusions de pending .upon whether you call the first year f the century the Year Zero (0) or the "Year One." , Of course our time calculation didn't start at Zero or Year One either. Our ' A-D.-B.C time accounting didn't begin until well along in 1 he Christian era, and the calcu lators didn't i, cure correctly when they tried to . figure back t4 the year of Christ's birth, missing It by four year s, according to later calculations. . ' The question now will be referred to the year 2000!-- which lets this editor out.' "Indonesia Report1 William R. Matthews, editor and publisher f The Arizona Star, Tucson, was one of two in the original party of correspondents flown out of Indonesia who did not return with them and so escaped death which came to 13 others when the plane crashed on the hillside at Bom bay, on July 12th last In the party, were Tleorge Moorad of the Oregonian and KGW, Charles Gratke, foreign editor of Christian Science ; Monitor, and Fred Colvig, editorial Hydrogen By Joseph and Stewart Alaog ' PANDORA'S BOX I. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 If you want to know where, we stand at this macabre half-century mark, you will be Inter- bate that is. now troubling the highest level of the' iga ye r nment The issue is, very -simply, wneiner io- launch an ef- J tort compar- able to the! j whether to lf war-tune, Man- Dreject in or-' ' der to produce what is referred to as the "super-bomb." "' This is the weapon, with ap proximately 1,000 times the de structive force of the bomb that fell on Hiro shima, that Senator' Ed Johnson1 of Colorado -j re cently describ ed to hi s tele vision audience. Its power will derive from the nuclear explos ion of hydro gen. It twill have the esti mated canabU- tty or aevasutmg, In one detona- : tion, an area of 60 to 100 square miles. Its theoretical feasibility la well-established. V i Indeed, none of those now arguing the problem doubts for moment that this hideous wea- . fka , will be ! built eventually. That will be taken care! of by the ordinary work of the 'atomic -energy commission for it is the .peculiar triumph of our time ' that we are already very close to achieving the weapons of ulti mate destruction. The question 'la, rather, whether to appropriate ... the money and mobilize the manpower to build such a bomb in perhaps two, or three, or four r i .i i r-7 . yers .. -. i. -v- - v.1 . .(;; : Interestingly enough, the .same j - t - ' . . No Favor Sways Ut, No Tear Shall 4 Frees lint Statesman, March tt. ltSt i been insisting board can advertise for tenders, and then ac- able disease Bomb Pro ject issue was first debated immed lately after the war, before the atomic r energy commission was set up.. The theoretical possibil ity of a hydrogen bomb was as well understood then as now.' A great effort to produce one. was . urged in certain quarters. . President Truman then referred the problem, for study and re commendation, to Dr. Vannevar Bush and President Conant of Harvard. , As reported by competent authority, ' Bush and Conant found, first, that the problem of building a hydrogen bomb was - quite as big, complex and dif ficult ms the original problem of building the Hiroshima bomb. By .the same token, they also found that , the project would demand the over-riding priori ties, the same .mobilization of , resource and manpower, that made possible the success of the Manhattan District , . At that time, there was no question about our monopoly of the uranium-plutonium bomb. " The power-for-dollar return on the investment did not appear to justify a vast peacetime effort to produce a hydrogen bomb. Conant . and Bush returned an adverse report - ;' When the atomic energy com mission Was organized, therefore, -its primary taskr was to continue and expand the Manhattan Dis trict's work. As a matter of course studies ami experiments looking to the eventual construc tion of a hydrogen bomb were also undertaken; Good progress has been made, by ordinary standards. Yet no rapid success" can be achieved by the present sort, of effort, if only because! huge, highly experimental and ' immensely costly installations . must probably be built for the later stages of the work. --. ' - " " ' - -. In this situation, the explosion . of the Soviet atomic bomb last September inevitably led to the ; present debate among the policy- ' makers. As ? soon as Marshal Lavrenti Beria broke the Ameri- ' can "monopoly' of the uranium- ; - ' mm" I. writer the Denver Post, all three graduates of the University of Oregon. In 'tribute to his deceased comrade of the flight! Matthews has published a brochure re counting briefly this history of the journey, which was to get the facts about the confusing situation in Indonesia, giving sketches of the careers of those who lost their lives, and .then reprinting ' the dispatches or radio broadcasts which! these persons had made through the media they represented. : .: It is made more vital with prints of many photographs taken on the trip and maps of the route. ."Indonesia Report" is valuable material and a very appropriate recognition of the work of these reporters who fell, as many did during the war, in line of duty , Power for State Capitol Group ) There is no reason for the state board of control to get into a great flutter over possible purchase of Bonneville power for, state institu tions. That was studied quite thoroughly years ago. Sure, the state has' priority for service at, wholesale under the law but it would have to install! its own power lines for distribution. The BPA engineer gave an estimate of a sav ing of $6,289 on an investment of $130,000 if the state capitol group and the cluster of state buildings at the end of State street were served; and a saving of only $2000' onr an investment of $200,000 if lines were run to institutions on the loop southeast of the city certainly not im pressive savings. T j ' .' ; ' The present contract with PGE has some time yet to run. At an appropriate time the cept the best bid offered. On the basis of es timates furnished the state isn't justified in making the capital investment required for its own connection with BPA. The district office of the reclamation bur eau at Boise has outlined its program of surveys and investigations for the current year. . In Oregon 15 projects are under study. They in clude: Jordan , Valley; Rogue River Basin; Grande Ronde; Upper Burnt River; Baker, Up per Division; Pendleton; Milton-Free water; Crooked River; Deschutes, Supplemental Stor age; Tualatin; Salem; Talent; Rogue River Pro ject; Merlin; and Goose Lake. The Salem pro ject is in connection with the Willamette valley project. A press release from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) reports a conference of 40 men, and women, at Mysore, India to attack "man's . oldest and ugliest enemy the many-headed j hydra of ignorance, needless famine, prevent- and un-manlike despair." We know that UNESCO is ambitious, but we hardly see how they can chop off all these four hydra heads. Surely it will fail on "un-manlike des Al Wiesendanger, executive secretary of Keep Oregon Green, will be in for a lot of ribbing over the fact that the KOG office build ing burned. No, it wasn't because Al tossed a lighted cigaret .in the, waste basket, or didn't douse a campfire before he left the building; and the fire didn't start from burning slashings. A short in an electric switch gets the blame. Stirs Debate Plutonium bomb, the desirability iof a great special effort to has ; ten production of a hydrogfe"h bomb began naturally to be i urged. , j . I The arguments of the propon ents of this special effort are too obvious to need setting down: The case of the -opponents 1 is more complex. . ' i Some, like David E. Ulienthal, who has no taste for being a merchant of death, have been visibly influenced by moral re vulsion. In the main, however, the opposition has based its case on the arguments originally ad vanced by Conant and Bush, lit is pointed out that a bomb 1,000 times more destructive than the Hiroshima model is far from be ing ' 1,000 times more useful. And it is asserted that the strength to be gained from pos sessing -a, hydrogen bomb will not be proportional to the anti cipated outlay to build it In short, it is argued that there sire more fruitful ways to invest the same resources in the national defense, ;W;. '. j: Policy-planners, war-planners, and governmental scientific ad visers are to be found on both sides of the argument, although most soldiers are pros, and there is a higher proportion of scien tists among the cons. Discussion and "study of the problem have now reached the highest level, and a policy decision will pre sumably be made before long. i M ! . , ' '". ; ' ' j - Thus dustily : and obscurely, the issues of life and death are settled nowadays dingy com mittee rooms are the scenes of the debate; harassed officials are the disputants; all the pro ceedings are highly classified; yet the whole future hangs, per haps, upon the outcome. It will ' no doubt cause Irritation, it may probably provoke denials, I to bring the present debate out of Its native darkness. Yet .this must be done, since deeper issues are involved, which have been far too long concealed from; the country. - rht 1950. i Nw York UnZiA Tribune IM.) CUP SCEQDjOS TO) CMS (Continued' from page 1.) job. On the other hand, compul sory retirement at a fixed age deprives -the organization often of men still in intellectual prime, with a store of valuable experi '. ence. , The truth is of course that physical and mental powers will wane with increasing speed after age 65. The body slows down, ' the mind is less alert, relying ' more on accrued knowledge and Ingrained habits of thought And younger men are pressing ahead; they covet the senior positions; the oldsters can feel younger men breathing on their necks. I re call the letter of resignation tend ered by Dr. Carl G. Doney as president of Willamette univer- ', . sity. It was written in his own rich and facile style. One reason he gave for retiring was to give opportunity for some younger man to step forward," a most gra cious thought, and a rare emo tion for one vacating a fine posi tion. It is too bad that we do not have a downgrade ladder as well as an upgrade. Youth start on the lower rungs and climb ahead as their talents and opportunities permit When they reach their - own top the rule is at a, certain age to push them off theladder, . there is no scale-down of posi . tions where their abilitiesVould be employed, diminuendo. ' r The reason is understandable. The new boss doesn't like to have the former boss sticking around, too much chance for dis cord in the organization. When the old boss takes a position of lesser responsibility he crowds out one of the younger men com ing up. So when a man reaches the retirement age he has to step . out of the organization. What can a person on retire ment do? He can travel, and the automobile permits gypsying at quite reasonable expense. He can work In his garden. He can read. He can hunt or fish. He can work at hobbies. He can play pinochle with Ms cronies. He can find other employment, go on an acreage, start a small business. He can baby-sit He can take on civic chores. A word of caution Is in order. One entering retirement should be very chary about investing his life's savings in a farm or a business. That would tie up th capital he may need to live on. If. the venture doesn't succeed he may suffer a severe loss. Un Jess he has plenty he shouldn't be staking his children for the risks there are great I think this retirement business Is being overdone, because keep ing all over 65 on good pensions Is apt to lower the standard of living for the producing classes; ; but the system is coming with a rush. Men and women must pre- pare for It and there's many a woman who dreads 'the time when her man is going to stick around the house all day. Shell have to use her broom on him and get him out into some form of outside activity. Fortunately (or unfortunately) no one has proposed retirement for housewives. The Safety Valve Changes in fifty Years To the Editor: I was very much interested .in reading the articles regarding the history and progress of Salem the last 50 years. Salem has prog ressed wonderfully in that time. I first came to Salem in the early 80's with my mother, going up State street when the street cars were drawn by horses. I .came to Salem again in 1899 af ter the death of my first husband in The Dalles. I was here in 1900, and the old : courthouse was here before then; . later the postoffice was moved up to the university campus. State street was not paved in : the early 80's. GRIN AND BEAR IT ; I. 1 lipL . And I wish to squelch. In no I have presidential ambitions . HIS ,. II You ir 1X1 ea Fracture of a bone can scarce ly occur anywhere in the body without some damage to th. sur rounding tissues. This means swelling and inflammation of the overlying muscles and, often, a great deal of pain. Where the pain is severe. It Interferes with movement and, in the adult, this tendency to keep the painful part as quiet as possible may delay healing. This treatment consists of In jecting what is known as pro caine directly into a vein. Pro caine has long been used as an effective local anesthetic It would appear that with this treatment symptoms disappear, movement in the joints increases, swelling becomes less, and the circulation improves. . This treatment has been car ried out in almost 450 patients without any harmful reactions. The preparation employed les sens pain and it seems to dilate the blood vessels and relax mus cles. 1 It was used in 61 patients who had fractures or broken bones. The treatment relieved pain, decreased the swelling, and made possible earlier movement of the The, old state house was in my opinion a much prettier building than the new one. In 1899 there was a saloon at the corner of High and State streets which was. some years later site of an electric depot Down High st to Ferry st was a row of Chinese houses. I have been here oft and on for over 50 years and have seen a lot of changes in that time, I remember a lot of the old timers, many of them have long since passed away. I commend Salem with its wonderful changes. I am two months past my 69th birth day. I Mrs. Rosie A. Martin 315V4 No. Commercial st By Licbty neertaln term, the renter that amy answer la e eeamaaenri . NEW YEAR 'HANGOVER' - wllVoO J I It El Written by Or. Herman N. affected parts. In sprains, there was immediate relief of pain and swelling, and increased movements in the affected parts. In cases of arthritis, pain also was lessened, movement in creased and contractures of the muscles were overconv to some degree. Contractures of the mus cles occur when the muscles are not moved over a long period of time. It was found in cases of arthritis that greater benefits were obtained when large doses of vitamin C were given with the procaine. o -o o 'M, Many persons suffer with dis- . orders of the nervous system which make the muscles spastic or contracted. It would appear that treatment with the procaine relaxes these muscles to a great er degree than other forms of treatment The Injections aro given slowly over a period of 20 minutes. Of course, in each case the physician will determine what dose should be employed and in . which condition the preparation is best utilized. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS L M.: I have had a pain be tween the shoulder blades for a. longtime. Will you please tell me the cause of this? j Answer: Pain in this area might be due to inflammation of the muscles, the nerves, joint of the spine, or inflammation of the connective tissues. The lat ter disorder is known as fibro sitis. A thorough study by your physician would be necessary to find the cause. It is possible that some disor der within the chest cavity might be responsible. Better English By D. C Williams 1. What is wrong with this; sentence? The ship's speed was; ten knots an hour." i 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "Buddha"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Nourishable, chargable, remediable, judgment 4. What does the word "gran diloquence" mean? 5. What is a word beginning -with obn that means "offens ive"? ANSWERS 1. Omit an hoar. In nautical usage, a vessel that js going at ten knots is traveling at the rate of ten nautical miles an hoar. 2. Pronounce bood-a, oo as in Restaurant I y llL' U-1 : If I if . -A itKirda 1 17 ' ' Today, January 3 v In the Marine Room Pending Opening of Uovf Coffee Shop Literary Guidepost LYRICS, by Oscar Hanunenteln , n (Simon and Schuster; $2 JO) Presented In a theater .with the lights turned low, assisted by plot, costume; scenery,, music, dance and prety girls, a lyric, you might think, would have a hard time being m failure: even If it amounts to nothing, it's got everything. , . But here are lyrics with an the props removed, without a shape ly leg to stand on; instead of f oot lights, the study lamp: no music,, no color, no girls at all, not wen "anythin' like a dame." A pre face by Richard Rodger; who wrote the music for many of these 71 numbers, and "Notes" by Ham merstein, provide the only help. Yet it's a lot Hammerstein takes seriously the writing of lyrics which the public Is apt to take not seriously.With a wel come frankness, he shows that like all beginners, he once deser ved to be unhonored and unsung. One lyric can keep him busy for one to three weeks; and if it's fun when we hear it, it was work at the start, with practically none of those bolts of inspiration sup posed to strike the writer twice and twice again for every song ... as a matter of fact he like any poet draws on -memory and imagination, and his finest things come from the heart He consid ers the place of rhyme, the ques tion of collaboration, and words with relation to their singableness ' and their particlar magic; if you think he's not in earnest he turns to Gertrude Stein and Edith Sit well for a comparison. The sentimental lyrics seem to me less successful when seen bare like this, not aided by so much as a whistle or a hum. Perhaps there are no more changes to be rung or sung on kiss, lips, arms, live, June, spring, tears, dreams, moon. But the funny ones score with out a score to help; and the per centage of hits, from -. a book worm's point of view, is largest in "Oklahoma!" The humor is of a high order, too, sometimes be cause of the generating idea but more often because of the lively imagination which comes up with original, evocative figures of "speech. book, n unstressed, accent first syllable. 3. Chargeable. 4. Quali ty of speaking in a lofty style; bombast "The sin of - grandO quence or tall talking." Thack eray. 5. Obnoxious. Service Resumed Who Can Ride Muleback op Roller Skates? By Ilenry McLetbore . DAYTONA BEACH, Ha, Jan. 2 A man of great good cheer, Santa Claus, yes. j And a man of great good will (cheers). But a man of impec- caoie i ( e well, that's open to debate. . And I aim to open it There is the chance, of course, that Mr. Claus, having to serve the entire - world, and from a most inaccess ible base. too. has. overstepped his capabilities. There is the chance that he is tackling too much' and should have deputies helping him., Perhaps he needs in this, the last half ; of the 20th century a more up-to-date method oficon , veyance than a sled pulled by reindeer. Might it not be better for him id have a Jet plane, whose ! speed was his own secret? Does Mr. Claus have a radio, a televi sion? - i- I ask these questions only be cause of what he left under the tree for me. I'll admit that insofar as I know he pleased everyone else in the world, but the fact remains ' that he didn't quite please me. And hasn't for many, many . years.- , Almost the first present he ever gave me was a pair of roller skates. Fine things, roller skates, but not when a fellow lives in a .. south Georgia town of 524 per . sons, and without so much as one - inch yes, one inch of paved streets. ',-,,) Where did Santa. expect me to skate? On the sidewalks, which didn't exist?, on the roof of the house? On the backs of the mules when they came in from the cot- - ton fields? The backs of mules might-furnish good skating ground for all I know, but I am not quite sure that the mules would like it Liable to kick. When Christmas came around this year I had a feeling that . Santa would have Improved that he would have a better idea of what I wantedl - - He came up with some things wi . wiai uv uaenit asv ixiei kber ? .how hard he worked the "thought -is the thing" idea, could possibly look in the face and accept with a smile. : ... . ; Take the bathrobe, for exam ple. There is no chance to swap it because I don't think that any store ever sold it The president . of a store which would sell a robe ' like that couldn't hold his head up., It's the sort of robe that no , store would sell, even at a fire sale. I am convinced that the giv er found it washed up on the beach, after a particularly severe storm. , v - I got things so useless that no one, even Dr. Einstein, could fig ure out what to do with them. I got socks, that not even a Princeton freshman would wear. y I got shirts you wouldn't bury . a chicken in. Honestly, I believe I would rather have a plain can of pork and beans than all the gifts I got At least I could give away the pork and beans with a clear . conscience. . A Thank you, Santa Claus. But not too much. ' (Distributed by McNausht Syndicate. Inc.) . PUBLIC RELATIONS CHICAGO-(INS)-The American Municipal Association report that 80 of 90 cities polled on ithe subject have public relations training for their police forces. More than 40 percent issue regu lar news releases on crime pre vention. The American.' Municipal Asso ciation, surveying 265 localities, found pay for city attorneys ranges from $600 to $17,500 a year., i , Income Tax " Returns Made Out by J..W. Cbburn , Consultant . 1570 Market St. Ph. 24569 Don't wait . . Come nowf r i . . i U...... 9f2i4i J12U4tlltltll1Uliilfit'UlVttlltlJ4lUlitttltt J4