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rcfioa mNo Tvo Swayi V, No Fear ShaU Awm from first Statesman, March 2t, IU1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CH-fW A SPPAGUE, Editor and Publisher Catered t the poetofflcc at Salem. Orefon, at iccand class matter ander act of conrreM March 3. lt?f. rabllabed every morning. Business office XI 8. Commercial. Salem. Otegon. Telephone 2-Z44L Formosa and American Policy Senator Tait and other republicans who are making an issue of Formosa are getting out on the end of a limb. Formosa, only 90 miles from the Chinese coast, is no island of great strategic importance in stopping the spread of commun ism, which is what .seems to be worrying Sen ators Taft and Knowland and others. The real battleground in that respect is southeast and southern Asia and the East Indies and Philip pines. Our effort in resisting the spread of com munism there is of much greater importance than saving Generalissimo Chiang's shadow gov ernment on Formosa-. The island is merely a tail to the mainland's kite. Secretary of State Acheson made clear Amer ican objectives in the far east in a luncheon speech Thursday. He said that Russia is now busy consolidating Manchuria and Outer Mon golia firmly within the Russian orbit Our real concern however is with the people of Asia, to protect their interests and their spirit of in dependence and self-development. Senator. Taft said in his Wednesday speech that if our navy would warn away possible in vaders of Formosa the communists would not take the island. But that would mean to invoke " direct military force. The effect would be sim ilar to intervention and would be used as pro paganda all through southeast Asia which is of far greater importance than Formosa. Our at tention and efforts should be directed toward Indo-China, Slam, Burma, India, Indonesia, not toward shoring up Chiang's remnant of power on Formosa. " Reports indicate that affairs on Formosa are ; themselves threatening. Some 300,000 Chinese have come over from, the mainland, many of whom are the salvaged parts of the nationalist armies. The big -question is how they will be supported when Chiang's gold reserves estimat ed at around $ 150,000,000 IT. S. run out The natives have ben openly hostile to the carpet bagger Chinese who on the heels of Japan's sur render of the island came over and virtually footed the island. They are in no mood to de fend the Chiang regime and communist agents doubtless will foment this unrest wherever they can. As for defense of Formosa if Chiang cannot with the troops at 'hand and the material and equipment stored in the island defend its rocky shores from the invasion of Chinese communists who have ' neither navy or airforce of conse quence then his practice has completely disin tegrated, and nothing America might do would revive that prestige among the Chinese people. It looks to The Statesman that the senate re publicans are using Formosa purely as a politi cal club for belting Truman over the head. We bold no brief for Truman, but regard Formosa as a false issue, and one that: will yield no di vidends to the republicans who agitate for U.S. Intervention to save it from the reds. Chiang is reported to have faith that he will be restored to power in a third world war. Republicans sur ely are not going to favor Chiang by going that far. AI ("Americans , Usually one doesn't think of amateur gardners and athletic coaches as having much in common. They are, you might say, beanpoles apart. But tAey are both equally interested In the annual All-American honors. The All-American Selec tions are to beans and roses what the All-American awards are to halfbacks and tackles. And the green-thumbed tribe is as eager to get an Reich Gains By J. M. loberU. Jr. I AP rore&a Affairs Analyst 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -WV The Germans . are beginning to act like Germans again. In their newly-granted pride f "independent" government in western Germany, and apparent ly prone to forget that they are still operating under a military occupation statute as the result ' of their responsibility for start ing and losing the greatest war In history, they are progressing from petition to demand for al heri concessions. They seem well aware that Germany Is the prime prize in Em rope for the contestants in the cold war, and to be tryjng to make the most of that position. They practically boycotted the allied plans for international control of the Ruhr untU conces ass'ont were made. a " Government officials ask this and ask that They are trying to break France's integration of the long-disputed Saar into her own economy. Socialist Schumacher has quite properly warned Chancellor Adenaur to stop talking about Germany's right to rearmament. - (If the allies want to rearm Ger many for the defense of west ern Europe, under strict controls, that's one thing. For the Ger mans to adopt the idea as part of their own program is quit another.) . -Although the matter of plant diwnantling has Just been gone over and revised down to what is intended to be its final form, the Germans are making, new demands for an amnesty for war John J. McCloy, U. S. high commissioner, has just had to potl his foot down on German demands fx an amnesty for war criminals. There are a lot of other things Indicating the Germans are feel ing their oats. They apparently are mistaking the allied effort to reetablish Germany in the civil- - lation of western Europe for a i't" policy. Or else far more dangerous thought they All-American in their backyards as the brawn-and-muscle hucksters are to get one on their team. A non-profit corporation of seedmen, All America Selections does the only accredited testing, registration and rating of flowers and vegetables in this continent. Young botanical hopefuls are tested in growing grounds in many parts of the U. S. for two years before they get the experts' stamp of approval. For 1950, top honors went to a new petunia the first really red petunia. It is, appropriat ely, named Fire Chief and it won the only gold medal awarded since 1938 when the first red morning' glory, Scarlett O'Hara, was the cham pion. Gold medal winners in the vegetable patch are a bean and a squash. The Topcorn Bush Snapbean is green, fat and stringless and was developed by the U. S. department of agricul ture plant industry bureau. A cross between the acorn squash and the Early Prolific Straight neck produced the new Uconn squash, named after the University of Connecticut where it was developed. The American Rose society has awarded their All-America Rose Selection rating to three hy brid tea roses, Capistrano, Mission Bells and Sutter's Gold. (Note the California Centennial influence.) The AARS tag also went to a new and spectacular floribunda. Fashion, which has a completely new color for roses a coral pink with gold. Already the gardeners can picture a flamboy ant border of petunias along the walk, or see in their mind's eye the fine yellow of Sutter's Gold in that sunny corner by the house. They can even smell the fragrance, and their hands itch for a shovel-handle. 'Still snow on the ground? What of it! The crocus will soon be up. The government's "mystery" witness in the Harry Bridges case turns out a self-admitted liar. Instead of being a native of Kentucky, son of a Kentucky planter and former student of the University of Kentucky he admitted he was born in Poland and his father is a needleworker in New York City. His true name was Lipman Rosenstein instead of Lawrence Seton Ross. Gov ernment counsel insist they did not know his pedigree. Ross was one of several confessed ex communists who testified that Bridges was a communist. He didn't alter that part of his tes timony. Such impeachment of a witness surely has a damaging effect on the government case. getting ready for up a great it with provisions. Above it will be stored rolls of newsprint to cushion the shock of the atom bomb and protect those below. Then he has bought the whistle of the old SS Yale that us ed to ply Pacific coastal, waters. The whistle has been installed on Tribune tower to be blown when the atom bomb attack starts. That's pre suming there will be time left to' pull the whis tle cord and someone not scared out of his wits who will pull it. We'd say, that "preparedness" is the colonel's watchword. The age of forty-two is much too young for a man of Cedric Reaney's fine personality to be taken from life. Diligent in business, civic-minded, devoted to his family Reaney was one of the rising men of affairs in Salem. His passing prompts general expression of sorrow and of sympathy for the family. Weight to Throw Around are tight In this interpretation. The fault does not lie entire ly with the Germans. In the tug of war with Russia the allies have been playing politics and taking some calculated risks. The situation today is a far cry from the time of Yalta, when a few powerless states constituted the allied 1 concept of the German future Tor 1 their own purposes, the allies have been rebuilding Ger many. The Idea was that it was to be done with strict safeguards against letting it go any farther than their own interests demand ed. But i if the Germans were to be encouraged to harrass Rus sia for a unified Germany with return of the territories occupied rORTSMOUTn . POINT, by a Northcokc Parkinson (Harv ' ard; $3) The: anthologists have been making increased efforts in the last few months, if publishers' lists are to be trusted, in making sure that no probable or even possible coterie of readers with specialized tastes is overlooked. The newest should hold a record for some sort of specialization. "Portsmouth Point" wraps up In a slim, curly-binding (the vol ume is printed in Britain where printing is still under the duress of war), a many-sided picture of the British navy between 1793 and 1819. Those were the days of Nelsonian glory as Britannia rode the seven seas, even if every thing Iween-decks wasn't part of the glory. Dr. Parkinson, lecturer at the University of Liverpool and spe cialist in gone nautical grandeur, has limned his Portsmouth pic ture with excerpts from the nov els of that era and the following quarter century. This method of portrayal, rather than by select Literary Col. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune Is the atomic age. He has fitted sub-basement in his plant and stock- by Poland, how were the Ger mans to understand a "hands off sign at the borders of the Saar or the Ruhr? If allied policy makers get the idea that democratic forms means a democratic Germany prior to long, long years of trial and successful operation, or that German cooperation for the pre sent will be based on anything except expediency and proof that the western side is the winning side, they are doomed to dis appointment Germany van and should be MOW. IfCiy WCSIV1I1 bUKM, fc is her natural place. But there is a difference between a rea sonable and calculated policy for this purpose and the type of tolerance which will eventually permit Germany to wag the dog. ing from the historians and bio graphers, says Parkinson, enables us to learn (and .see) much "which can be learnt in no other way ... ; "A good novel is true to its ! period in atmosphere. The char acters are imaginary, the events never took place, but the setting is real ... an impression more vivid and, in a sense, more true." So here they all are, the ships of the line, the marines of low degree, : the midshipmen of low er, and the volunteers first class of, lowest; the food, the daily routine, the dancing wenches. SomeUmes it is Capt Marryat who paints the scene, sometimes j a forgotten author, with contin , uity and commentary by Parkin- son. -t J And here too for the lamplight occasional navigator! (it's a book to be read in bits) are the tradi tions of a quaint era of warfare when, for example a ponderous ! ship of the line would never fire on the lighter frigate. At least in battles between the "civilized nations." . Guidepqst 'MKfffHwM Ti- SsaA ' -m. ft oc- rX'Mfi mssm wd cms (Continued from page 1.) the case, I want to point out the , inconsistency of forcing the pro gram of reclamation at a time when the government is pouring out hundreds of millions to sop up existing farm surplus crops. It just doesn't make sense. There is ' a Dlace for orderly develoD- ment and we do not want to set caught with insufficient produc- tlon of foodstuffs. Definitely that is not in sight Then why not slow the pace for reclamation of lands? Let me quote from a letter from mldwesterner who is a staunch friend of western irriga tion, but who is concerned over the pressures for more irriga-. tion in these times of exceed ingly high costs and of crop surpluses. He writes: "The omens of a growing un rest and aggravation on this score are becoming obvious to even a casual observer. Scarcely a meeting is held back here in the midwest and east where ag ricultural matters are discussed that there is not someone who questions the wisdom of further expanding irrigated agriculture at a time when we are burdened with agricultural surpluses. It's growing and sooner or later probably sooner It is going to find expression In congress." To divert interest due the na tional treasury on its investment in power plants is also a sub terfuge, a scheme to obtain money without running the fauntlet Of the congress, which think is reprehensible. There Is need for pressing construction of power plants such as McNary and Chief Jo seph danu to insure the north west an abundance of power. There is5 no need for pressing construction of irrigation works for general agriculture at the present time. Certainly we do not need- to force through con gress a blanket authorization of fIRIN A Mil RP AH IT fwJs 1 mm, ml "NaUce hew cardial be wss . . . tegsed ns te stay! . . , either he's awful hypocrite er we interrupted a family fight . . SKELETON KEYS The Safety Weald Hate te Be a Bbs Driver ':J; To the Editor: : X note that Mr. Wendt of the "Cdty bus service says that the reason the service is so bad is that, people have not made ' , enough complaints. Does he mean that the service will continue to get worse until enough people kick about it? He should realize that Salem people are nice po lite folks and cannot send in the necessary complaints because the language that would have to be used would not be fit to print. We have the poorest bus serv ice we have ever had although we are paying higher fares than ever " before. A major reason is that the bus company is too hog gish tries to cover too much territory can't stand it to see people riding in other busses. The city council is blameworthy for allowing the company to force out of business independ ents who were giving suburban people fair service. The council should actively scan routes and schedules and see that the big company keeps its nose out of smaller companies' affairs. It has no exclusive franchise, and shouldn't have. Mr. Wendt cannot blame the drivers for unsatisfactory serv ice. A know most of them and they are a bunch of swell guys, although they encounter some passengers who almost incite to murder. I'd hate to be a bus dri ver. A. M. CHURCH Salem the whole proposed development Kgram for the northwest We e fared quite well at the hands of congress, and where our cause has merit we should con tinue to fare welt It is well to remember too that If this blanket bill with amend ments goes through then a CVA taking it over could carry out this vast construction program without asklag anything more of congress except additional funds. Some people want just that. I think the northwest is still Just a part of the United States ind should be subject primarily to the decisions of congress. By Licbty Valve Opposes "Mercy" Death To the Editor: I don't like the idea of doctors murdering their patients the way that weak-souled Sander did. A doctor's profession is supposed to be dedicated to the relief of human misery by putting the person back into healthy mental or physical shape if at all possi ble. If not humanly possible, then to do all possible and ljave the rest to God. Right there is the sticker, though, too many 3iany people are ready to do a eed the expedient way without regard for the rights of God or man, then the weak and help less get tromped on. Aside from the moral angle is the fact that its bad for the repu tation of American medicine. To think that when you should be come in need of hospitalization that you are merely taking a trip to a liquidation plant Isn't this really the most soothing thought? By the way, isn't there some thing in our laws about not de- riving another of their life, iberty without due process of law? I didn't hear of Mrs. Bor roto's trial. Is it a crime worthy of death just to be unfortunate and ill? Was there possibly an insur ance policy or inheritance split motive involved? JOE SPENNER Stayton. Oregon Hollywood on Parade By Gene Handaaker HOLLWOOD Memorable movie moments of the .past year (remember 'em?) The enormously fat ringsider stuffing himself with peanuts and hotdogs while Robert Ryan slugs it out in "The Set-Up." . . . The look of desparate animal brutality on Kirk Douglas' face in "Champion" when the bout is going against him. . . . Bobby Driscoll perched on' a rocking rafter at the climax of the chase in "The Window." . . . The son's reactions on learn ing he is colored in "Lost Boun daries." . . . Navy Officer Gary Cooper telling Jane Wyatt her husband has been killed in "Task Force." Puzzled gangsters hitting the jackpot on a ball-gum machine with a religious medal in "Come to the Stable." . . . Fugitives masquerading as mortuary corpses about to be embalmed in "The Lucky Stiff" the year's unfunniest scene. . . The temple tumbling down on screaming hundreds while Victor Mature shoves the pillars in "Samson and Delilah." . . . Montgomery Clift pounding futilely on the door in "The Heiress" while Olivia de Haviland, having found revenge at last, calmly works at her needlepoint. . . Lionel Barrymore's fierce skippering in "Down to the Sea in Ships." . . . Clifton Webb pre paring crepes Belvedere in "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College." . . . Astaire and Rogers smoothly hoofing again, after years apart in "The Barkleys of Broadway." Bookmaker Bob Hope inter ceding with the "heavenly pray ing commission" for the orphan in his care in "Sorrowful Jones." ... June Allyson playing catch with crippled Jimmy Stewart in "The Stratton Story." . . . The stuffy English colonel who sus pect his wife of infidelity in "Quartet" ... The mechanical ape saving kids from a burning orphanage in "Mighty Joe Young. Harold Lloyd's antics, still '1 niinwtmmMWw Clark Trial (Story also on page one.) Conflicting testimony Thursday marked the trial of Don Clark, lo cal taxi owner -operator, charged with contributing to the delinquen cy of a 14-year-old Salem girt Clark is the only one of 14 men Involved in the recent morals case to stand jury trial on the charge against him. His case resumes to day before Judge George R. Dun can in Marion county circuit court A primary question involved in Thursday's hearing was whether or not Clark ever had taken the minor girl into his Salem apart ment Questioned by District Attorney E. O. Stadter, )r, the girl said she met Clark at the bus depot taxi stand on an October night met him around the block again at his suggestion, drove with him to a drive-in for food, had some whisky and went to his apartment where he allegedly took liberties. Asked fee Same thine te Eat Clark said the girl met him near the depot as he returned home from work, that he tried to per suade her to stay away from the taxi stand and offered to take her home. On the way, she asked for something to eat and they went to a coffee shop, he testified, after which he dropped her tat a corner near her home. Under cross-examination, the girl said she had attended school for only about one week last fall but that neither she nor her moth er had been contacted by truant officers. She told of being out all night returning home after her mother left for work and leaving before her mother's return. The girl, now in custody f the county juvenile department has been enrolled in a private Portland school. Testimony Statement Salem City Detective-Wayne Parker, a prosecution witness, tes tified that in quering Clark about another taxi driver for whom he had a warrant the defendant had said the girl "was up to his place once and he had a hard time get ting rid of her." Clark testified he had made such a statement mean ing that she had been In a taxi parked outside the apartment that night as he advised her. Defense witnesses who testified as to Clark's character were taxi drivers Howard Earl Taylor and William Dale Nipper. The latter also stated that he had heard Clark tell the girl to keep away from the cabs. Church Women Form Council AtSilverton StaUtauui fctws Sarrica SILVERTON, Jan. J2 A SU verton Council of Church Women was formed here this afternoon at the Methodist church with Mrs. Albert Grinde as president Other officers include: Mrs. Gus Herr, vice president; Mrs. E. A. Finlay, secretary; and Mrs. Edwin Overland, treasurer. Mrs. Victor Morris of Eugene was scheduled to address the group but stormy weather forced cancel lation of her trip. Conflicting Testimony in Your Mealfth The body's defensive powers, of which physicians are so thor oughly aware, are well Illustrat ed for the layman by the way in which they deal with even such a minor matter as boils. A boil begins with the Infec tion of a hair root or sweat gland by germs, usually by those be longing to the staphylococcus family. Having gained an en trance through the akin, these germs invade the surrounding tissues and are not stopped until white blood cells (often referred to as.the policemen of the blood) wall them off.' If it were not for the rapid mobilization of these Better English By D. C WITH isaa 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "Well, here's . hoping you win out" 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "qualm"? J. Which one of these words is misspelled? Assassin, athelete, au revoir, arrogant 4. What does the word "im placable" mean? 5. What is a word "beginning with recr means "a reappear ance'? ANSWERS I. Omit eat 2. Pronounce kwan, a as in' ah, and the lis silent 3. Athlete. 4. Not cap able of being pacified (Pro nounce second syllable play). "An object of implacable en mity." Maeaaley. 5. Recru desence. funny, in the reissued "Movie Crazy." . . . Burt Lancaster beat ing up Paul Henreid on the windswept desert in "Rope of Sand." . . . Broderick Crawford's magnificent portrayal of a dema gogue in "All the King's Men." . . . Larry (Jolson) Parks meet ing Al (Parks) Jolson in "Jol son Sings Again." . . . Betty Davis' now familiar agonies in "Beyond the Forest' . . , In grid Bergman's meandering miseries in the slow-moving "Under Capricorn." . . . The headless horseman that scared my boy In "Ichabod and Mr. Toad." Overall conclusion: Quality Improved toward the end of the year, with the release of nifties .like "Battleground," "12 O Clock High," and "The Hasty Heart" (with an eye on this spring's Academy awards). But on the whole, with a f ew ex ceptions, it was not an outstand ing year for moviegoers. r' Salem School By Gilbert Bate GARFIELD SCHOOL A certificate of award was won by Garfield third graders of Mrs. Ethel Ca roth era room for their illustrations of stories broadcast the past six weeks over KOACa "Land of Make Believe" programs. Garfield pupils winning indivi dual awards in the statewide third grade contest were Bill Penrod, Glenn Bauman. Sandra True, Mary Beth Lock en our. Receiving honorable- mention were Glenn Bauman, Sandra True, Tommy DowelL John Simpson, Alexandria March. PARKisn junior men The Parrish student council elected party managers Thursday for the second semester student body elections. Gary Parker, is the Studenteer party manager, Dick Hornaday, Liberator party manager., WEST SALEM JUNIOK ITIGn The West Salem home economics class served a tea for mothers on Thursday morning. Cookies and coffee made by the girls were served. A series of posters demon strated how to upholster furniture. Gas Station Sign Stolen Theft of a four-by-eight foot sign bearing gasoline prices was reported to city police Thursday by G. E. Zirk, proprietor of the S and S Time service station, 109S S. 12th st Police said Zirk told them the banner might have been taken because of low prices advertised on it 25 J and 27.9 cents. Zirk told police the sign was so large it must have been hauled away in a truck. He said he had just erected it at a cost of $53. Theft was reported Thursday morning. State Employes Offered Clasg at Portland Library A class in filing methods for state employes in the Portland area will begin Friday, February 3, in the Portland city library building, James M. Clinton, act ing director of . the civil service commission, announced Thursday. David Duniway of Salem, state archivist will Instruct the calss. This Is the second time the train ing course In filing has been of fered in Portland. More than 100 employes 'enrolled for the course when it was first offered. A similar course was given three times for state employes in Salem and plans are being made to offer the course at Corvallis. Written by Dr. Derma N. Baadenaen. fcLD. germ fighters, no boil would re main asa localized inflammation, but would form a spreading source of Infection. As it is, pus is formed only within the defensive barrier. Finally, the boil either breaks through the skin to discharge its contents or is cut open for drain- ' age. Most people who suffer from boils seem to have a natural sus ceptibility to staphylococcus in fection while otherwise enjoying good health. Even a normally high resistance to these germs, however, may be lowered by lm- iroper diet overwork, or pro onged illness. Diabetes and chronic kidney disease are both causes of lowered resistance to such infections. Hence, if a per son has bolls repeatedly, it is ad visable for him to have a thor ough examination to be sure that there is 1 no general disease re sponsible. There are also local causes for boils. For example, boils fre quently occur on the neck, fore arm, and armpit due to infec tion brought on by chafing by sweat-soaked clothing. The wear ing of clean clothes, the avoid ance of chafing or rubbing of the skin as much as possible, and keeping the skin dry, are helpful in preventing the boils. Doctors will tell you that no boil should ever be squeezed, since this may serve only to break down the encircling de fense zone built by the white cellaand spread the infection. The application of heat either . with an infra-red lamp or with hot wet dressings, is helpful. In jections of penicillin into the muscles of the hip may be help ful in eliminating the boils so that they do not have to be cut open. However, not all boils will respond to such treatment X-ray treatments have also been found helpfuV in bringing bolls to a head more, quickly or keeping them from coming to a head. The majority of boils do not have to be cut open, a process which should be especially avoid ed, if it all possible, in boils on the face, nostrils, and upper lip. When boils elsewhere come to a head, cutting and draining may be followed by rapid healing. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS E. A.: What is a perforated ear drum? Does it affect the hearing? Answer: Perforated ear drum means that the ear drum has been broken. This often results . from an infection of the middle ear. It usually affects the hearing, only until the perforation heals. (Copyright UM, Kin Features) News Sehj4 1 ' I "1
