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J 2iSl tt,t VQC-fi' 1Ctl' Jtt5t-V.. ..- m-mmJl i itt m-a---y - f-Tho Statesman. Salem. Oregon, Sunday t Jannarr 22. 1950 tatcsman InnrI wjafc l-NsdyVED- CHINESE PUZZLE Wo ftoor Sways Us. No fear Shall AtnT Trm First Statesman. March 21, 11 J 1 THE STATESMAN PUBIiSHINC COMPANY CHAPT.ta a KPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher fnblUhed every Bornlof. Basinets office 21S S. Commercial, Salem. Ore on. Telephone t-2441 Great Reporting "A Terrible Swift Sword" Heywood Broun used to say that every good reporter is writing literature for some future historian. We can condense that somewhat: Evorv rood reporter is writing literature: and most of the literary giants from Defoe and Dickens to Hemingway and Steinbeck have been, first of all, good reporters. It has always been our contention that there is-room for, in fact, there is need for, good writing in today's hurried and crowded news papers. We've even ventured to suggest that today's hurried and crowded readers will yet savor literature under a press service dateline or under a local by-line. Now, at last, comes a t?ok that bears out these ideas. Turn rm,n Vi t efnrtf mrrvfccnr f mm fnlnmMa and New York City college have edited an an thology of "literature under pressure from the 16th century to our own time It is called MA Treasury of Great Reporting" Its publishers, Simon and Shuster, have Honored it with a fine binding and class-A printing. Its authors, Louis L. Snyder and Richard B. Morris, 'have hon ored the journalism profession by undertaking a tremendous amount of research to bring out the story behind the stories quoted, and their aftermath and significance. Included are some of the greatest news stories of all time written by such greats as Kipling, Victor Hugo, Horace Greeley, Mark Twain, Ste phen Crane, Winston Churchill, Jack London, Woollcott Ben Hecht, Walter Duranty, Damon Runyon, Leland Stawe, Quentin Reynolds, Irv in S. Cobb, William L. Shirer, Ernie Pyle, John Ilersey, Edward R. Murrow, William L. Lau rence and Rebecca West. On-the-spot reports range from a witch trial In 1587, the trial of John Peter Zenger in 1739, the. battle of Lexington, the storming of the Bastille, an interview with John Brown, the disaster at Bull Run, Lincoln's assassination, the Wright brothers' first flight, and the San Fran c3tco earthquake to the tremendous events of f - At ! -t -11 1 Til wrti ifiwrn iimM 1 - r hii i in rummm nr i i r i trations are some of the best cartoons, draw ings and news photographs of all time. standard textbook; it should help make journal ism, a learned profession, says Herbert Bayard Swope in his preface. But the book's appeal is not limited to working or would-be newspaper men, It should be fascinating to anyone who likes their history to be not only accurate but highly readable. This "Treasury" certainly shows, as Swope predicts it will, "why newspaper work is so eternally ana irresistibly seductive, it also proves, as anyone, who has read Rebecca West knows, that the art of great reporting is not senescent: "Today's men and women of the working press are as responsive to the challenge of great events as were the star reporters of an earlier day. In the final analysis, history is news reporting in slow motion. The reporter . who seeks out the evidence at first hand is marching with the shock troops in the battal- ions of truth. He has 'loosed the fateful light- ... ning of a terrible, swift sword' the truth that shall make men free." The history professors swing a mean type writer, too! " ' - . ' Take Spite Out oh Korea The only thing consistent In the action of house members voting down a $60,000,000 grant-in-aid for Korea was hostility to the ad ministration. Here they have been denouncing the state department's policy or lack of policy in the far east, belaboring it as an appealer of communism. If there is one country which needs protection against the spread of communism and Russian influence, it is Korea. The sixty million dollars was intended to help the Korean government and economy to withstand the steady pressure from the "Korean People's Re public" set up by the Russians north of the 38th parallel. The critics have favored liberal appropria tions to Chiang Kai-shek as bulwark against communism; and some favor occupation of For mosa to save it from communist clutches.' But Korea; it a fit of spite, they would drop Korea down the drain. We have a real measure of responsibility toward Korea because we were the occupying power. We helped the new government to or ganize and turned over power to it President Roosevelt also assented to the division of Korea with Russia, a most unfortunate concession. We cannot in good conscience now forsake Korea certainly not if we have any desire to halt the spread of communism. Surely on reflection the house will recon sider its action and provide the assistance which competent authorities say Korea needs to main tain itself as an independent country. Divorce is No Panacea The full, sordid story of America's broken hoiues" in a series of Satevepost articles is sure to get more attention than any amount of mor alizing about divorce in the U.S. It's agreed that the divorce rate in this coun try is awful and many people regard it as "our biggest national scandal." Still, it is tolerated because divorce is regarded as an escape hatch through which unhappily-married individuals can "start life over." But do they? Are they happier after they get the decree? What does it mean to be a di vorcee? Financed by the Post, a Wayne univer sity professor set out to find the answers by interviewing a la Kinsey some 900 of the 8,000, 000 American women who have been divorced. The articles now appearing in the magazine are based on 425 "intimate" the standard come on word case histories. We do not suppose that 900 women are rep resentative of 6,000,000 women or that this sur vey, any more than the Kinsey reports on sex, is the final authoritative word on the subject. This report is part of the body of research on an important social problem and, as such, it will be scrutinized by the professional people con cerned. As purely human interest material, however, these articles by David G. Wittels will be of great interest to the general public which is just as curious about the lives of 6,000,000 di vorcees as Mrs. Smith is curious about Mrs. Jones' quarrel with Mr. Jones. And that's where Professor Goode's research is going to do more good than all the finger-of-scorn-pointing and all the preaching about divorce. The experience of these women who's gotten divorces and have had to go to work to support their children, who's become social outcasts in some circles or "fair game" for wolves, who's told interviewers, "Nobody knows the hell I've been going through," will strike a responsive chord. People who are not impressed when told that divorce is wrong or wicked or sinful will be more apt to listen to the tales of woe that illus trate "with complete candor and detail" that It isn't so easy to "start life over." Of Hydrogen Bomb 2 Years Ago CAIRO, Egypt. Jan. 21-WJ-An Egyptian scientist declared today he and a fellow scientist had invented a hydrogen bomb two ystars ago. For security reasons authorities asked that the identity of the two scientists be withheld, along with details of their discovery. However, the newspapers Al Zamane and Progress Egyptian ' identified the scientists as Dr. Mahmoud Youssef El Chawarby, chem istry professor on the agriculture i Your (Health Written by Dr. Herman N. Bnndenaea, HJX Acheson Faces Grave Responsibility Br Jeeph and Stewart A Imp WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 It Is Just a year since Dean Good erham Acheson was sworn in as seer etary or ""a United States.'" '--TaV He has already celebrated tb anniversary, little in ad vance, by rout ing his enemies on the Formo sa issue. It is still in . order, however, to try to assess Ache- IV Set - . I son's perform-1 Jvmn AltonA ance in what is now perhaps the most important single office in the free world. The most obvious thing about JVcheson is that he is outstand ing. He was an outstanding pub lic servant In X A I But although other times, when the com p e t ition was more severe than it is today. On the current Washing ton scene, as the stature of the a u x rounding I XV I slvely dimln I Yl 1 ishes, Acheson looms- larger and larger. Dean Acheson has the intellectual power, the strong character and the person al and moral style of a big man, it is also true that his Job might ' overwhelm a giant No great foreign minister of the past, no William Pitt or John Quincy Adams, ever had to deal with human societies grown so In aanely complex as to be almost uncontrollable. And even Ache son's immediate predecessors, confronted though they were with a world in ruins, labored In happier circumstances than he. . ,k It is now very clear. In the 'first place, that President Tru man made up his mind to a gen eral slowdown in defense and foreign policy, about the time of his electoral victory In 1948. In part the motive was budget ary. In part, however, the pre sident's campaign - borne dis like of Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and Under Secretary of State Robert A. : Lovett had also caused him to distrust their methods and coun cils. . For these reasons, the effort initiated by Forrestal and Lov ett. by James F. Byrnes and George C. Marshall and Acheson himself, began to be materially relaxed at the "Very moment when it was just beginning to succeed. . The foreign and de fense slowdown confronted Ach eson when he entered on his of fice. In addition, the former close partnership between the state and defense departments was soon replaced, on the top level, at least, by the guerrilla warfare typified by Louis Johnson's For mosa intervention. The old, close collaboration of bi - par tisanship in foreign 'policy , soon broke down, so that Acheson faced a hostile congress. Even . within the state department, he began to lose the help of certain of the most experienced men who advised his predecessors. All this meant. In turn, that Acheson had to tackle an incre dibly uphill Job, in a state of al most incredible loneliness and isolation. The American effort might slow down, but the tempo of world events would not slow down. Day after day, month af ter month, great decisions have crowded in upon Acheson, ln rlstently, clamorously, con 1 f usingly. Yet he was and is called .upon to make these decisions in solitude, alone to convince the president of the need for pain ful and even dangerous action. And alone to point the way for the country. No man on earth could do all this without long hesitation. 1- No wonder, then, that Aches son's first year has been a year which the world horizon has om inously darkened. There are it ems on the plus side, of course. European recovery has progres sed. The Atlantic pact lias been passed. In the German negotia tions in Paris, Acheson showed himself a brilliant diplomat. Here at home, he has Just won a vic tory on Asiatic policy. Yet the items on the plus side are hea vily overwelghed, by the long, grim list on the minus side. China has been lost, and all Asia has been brought into per il." The Soviet union has achieved an atomic bomb and has simul taneously begun to surmount al most every other major difficulty of the immense Russian re-armament program. In contrast, this country has offered the world the extraordinary spectacle of rapid though unadmitted disarmament, thus far more than negating the Atlantic pact. The British have suffered a shattering economic crisis, and although their situa tion is looking up for the pre sent, no firm steps have been taken to prevent another British crisis In 12 to 18 months. Finally, the hydrogen bomb, has hide ously emerged as a new factor in world' politics and strategy. Such is a partial list of Dean Acheson's unfinished business. The least of these problems can lead to the severest setback in the world contest with Soviet Imperialism. Most of them, if left unsolved, are quite capable of producing total catastrophe. Yet Acheson must try to solve all of them, all at once, on his own, and despite the complacent gen eral commitment to business-as-usual. In truth, Dean Acheson Is the only sober man on a raft of drunken lumberjacks, whose bel lowing of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres" obscures the ap proaching --thunder of Niagara Falls. The raft which also car ries all our futures, can yet be saved. But hardly any man in mstory has been: to burdened with such agonizing and desper ate responsibility. Copyrlfht, 1950. Nur York HnJ& Tribua Zae.) In some cases the problem of deafness is a very baffling one. Some time ago It was suggested that failure of nutrition partic ularly a lack of Vitamin A might help to bring about the changes in the ear which result in a gradual loss of hearing. The testing of this idea was be gun some ten years ago by the use of injections of a preparation containing large amounts of Vit amin A After an examination to deter mine the degree of hearing loss, the Injections were given into a muscle twice weekly for a period of six weeks. If hearing improv ed in this time, treatment was continued for 20 to 22 weeks, or until tests showed that the great est possible Improvement had taken place. After this point had , been reached, the patient was not treated for three months, and then treatment was started again. At monthly Intervals, the hear ing was tested on all patients. It was found that in those patients who continued with the treat ment there was a gain of about one-fifth in the hearing power. In those who were treated leu than five months, the improve ment was only about 10. Ring ing in the ears, which was often associated with the deafness, was relieved in many of the patients after less than two months of treatment The patients who were given the vitamin A had had difficul ties in hearing over a period varying from 2 to 23 years. Large numbers of these paUents were observed over a period of a year or more, and it was found that such improvement as had occur red was maintained. If the pa tient's hearing should become worse, starting the treatment again tends to bring about furth er improvement It would appear that patients with so-called catarrhal deafness responded best to the treatment The correction of disorders in the nose and sinuses often aids in im proving the hearing defects in such cases. However, it seems that the benefits brought about by the vitamin A treatment are greater than those obtained merely by the treatment of nasal disorders. From the evidence on the large number of patients treated in this way, it would appear possi ble that the injection of the vita min A would be beneficial in a number of cases of deafness. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS B. J.: Is poor circulation con sidered serious? What is the treatment? Answer: Disturbances of the circulation may be serious. How ever, there Is a variety of such disorders. Without knowing what type of difficulty you have, it woBld be impossible to suggest the most helpful treatment You should consult your physi cian for a thorough examination. (Copyright, UH9. King fMturM) ran)cmra (Continued from page 1.) if not of wealth. The steeply graduated income tax so redu ces the Incomes of the rich that they no longer give in the same proportion as formerly. We just can't conceive that these established service institu tions and organizations like the Salvation Army should fail for lack of support. Surely the faith of old General Booth will be jus tified, and means provided to meet the needs of the Army and similar agencies. But what must be done is to redistribute the load. If the rich are fewer in number or less able to give because of higher taxes, then wider support will have to be found among those in lower income brackets from $4000 to $10,000 a year. And there are hundreds of thousands more in this Income range than formerly. The future of privately-supported charities, welfare agencies and institutions depends in large de gree on educating those in mid dle Income class to be more gen erous. Otherwise Major Dur ham's fears may be realized. '! . I I) . .j:rt: , N rI ;'!; . , ss-l, . ,. . , ,-,, ,, -" ' . "l ".. ' '.14 .. ... ( . . - "Jl " " yn""- njp, m ' " -' . '.. Serving Salem and Vicinity as Funeral Director for 21 Years Convenient location for both friends and family. Direct route to cemeteries no cross traffic. New modern building ample parking space. Com plete funeral services within the means of everyone. r '. ' f akLJ 1- J SWu htm 9 605 South Commercial St Virgil T. Golden Go. Ilorinary Telephone 4-2257 fmlfrr of Fuad First university, and Mourad Ahmed Abou Bakr El Demerdache, chemist and agri cultural expert El Chawarby said in an inter view complete details of the in vention had been turned over to Egyptian authorities in 1948. He said be could not disclose whether the principle of the dis covery was related to the pro jected hydrogen atom bomb dis closed In Washington earlier this week. He added details concerning the hydrogen atom bomb which might establish relationship, if any, were lacking. "I can say our bomb, although producing a high temperature, would not develop 10 millions de grees (centigrade) as the other bomb reportedly would," the sci entist said. He described the bomb as a "high explosive and incendiary and mainly based on hydrogen." He added that the effects of an explosion of his bomb "extend over a big area. Mass production of the bomb, he said, would re quire new factories but no very big installations.'' Canned sweet potatoes that have been baked with sugar syrup in the oven are delicious and differ ent topped with whole cranberry sauce. After you have added the topping allow to remain in the oven onlv for about 10 or IS min utes if you want" to preserve the lovely red color of the cranber ries. Chinese Reds Deny Soviet Imperialistic HONG KONO, Jan. Jl-aVThe Chinese communists today heated ly denied that Russia - was taking over large parts of North China or that they were Russian stooges. At the same time they them selves made new threatening ges tures at southeast Asia and Tibet This was strangely In line with a prediction last Sunday by Yen Hsi-Shan, nationalist Chinese pre mier. Yen said in a formal state ment then that the Russians were going to give the Chinese reds a free hand in southeast Asia in re turn for Russian control of Man churia, Inner and Outer Mongolia and Sinklang. f . ; The communist denial was aim ed not at Yen, but at U. S. Secre tary of State Acheson, who on Jan. 12 said the Russians were moving to take over those four large northern and northwestern areas. McKTNNEY KAKRIES HILLSBORO, Jan. 21 -JPr- W. Verne McKinney, editor and co publisher of the Hills boro Argus, was married today to Mrs. Marlon Gorman of Hillsboro. Literary Guidepost A LONG DAY'S DYING, by Frederick Buechner (Knopf; $3) Tristram Bone, his cook Emma and his monkey Simon; his wid owed friend Elizabeth, her moth er Maroo and her son Leander; the novelist George Motley; and a college instructor, Paul Steit" t, are the persons, and the monkey, into whose somewhat trite rela tionships this somewhat curious novel delves. The story opens in a barber shop, moves to a hotel, to the Cloisters, to Bone's, to Maroo's, goes to college, and winds up In a death chamber "confounded with sunlight." Bone, fat rich and tepid, calculating sensualist would like, he thinks, to make love to Elizabeth; Motley, though Bone's friend, wants Elizabeth for himself, or at least wants her spirit for he scorns "the unde sirable grotesqueness of a physi cal relationship;" Elizabeth, a little more direct at times, be lieves that setting is less relevant than convenience, and that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. If Buechner is trying to show us how futile and wasted are our lives, how petty our preoccupa tions, how distant from reality our practicing novelists, our art and our Idle rich, then his novel makes sense. If that is his atti tude, it explains the mechanical, unreal behavior of Elizabeth af ter she meets Steitler, of Motley after he knows of the meeting, and of Bone after Motley tattles; and it puts the monkey in a com prehensive perspective. If not then this is a sort of costume piece, and an empty one; take off the costumes and the characters collapse. If not then this is an exercise in curiosa, with an elaborate Henry James style, a fantastic tapestried back- Hollywood On Parade By Gene Baadsaker HOLLYWOOD A roving re porter and picture previewer's peeves, praises, and predictions Hey, what's with Ava Gard ner? I drove 20 miles at high speed to keep an appointment she had twice okayed. But Ava walked out on' it to lunch with Robert Mitchum at Actor John Ireland's house nearby. Now I learn that she has kept other interviewers waiting as long as an hour and a half. Tsk, tsk. Aval And you used to be so sweet and cooperative . . . I'll be unhappy if "A Letter to Three Wives doesn't get something in the awards. It gave me my pleasantest evening in the movies this year.But people are as divided on pictures as on politics. I know one fan who thought it "punk." ... I recently reported Joan Caulfleld to be the sexiest item now cavorting on the sound stages. Then I saw ground, a series of formal but meaningless gestures. The novel has been exuberant ly praised by advance readers: "Sheer magic," says the Jacket copy, and "a literary triumph," the "work of a genuine artist1 I who have a weakness for first novels found myself wondering, in some chapters, whether this jacket wasn't on the wrong book. While I acknowledge how ornate are Buechner's festoons of sen tences, I don't see this as a satire on the superficiality of our times, but as a sort of oldfashloned glass bell, with a stuffed bird in side, needing dusting. Virginia Mayo in "Always Leave Them Laughing." ... Metro product is ' improving. Samples' "On The Town" and "Intruder in the Dust" And bey, how come those bum reviews for "That Forsyte Woman?" . . . Why must some Hollywood pic tures still preach? "Intruder" v makes its point against discrim ination beautifully, by inference, then nearly throws it away in a final minute or two of moral izing ... Wish more glamor gals were as entertaining as dowager-type character actress Florence Bates . . . Free advice to whodunit producers: Keep it simple, gents, keep it simple. We go to the movies to relax ... Why switch an Intriguing title like "The Octopus and Miss Smith" to a cheap one like "The Lady Takes a Sailor"? But the show's good. Watch June Havoc. Gypsy Rose Lee's kid. sister Is going places, I'll bet af fcrshowing her stuff In "The Story of Molly X." I ... Hollywood's most interesting person is Harold Lloyd, because he's interested in so many things everything from flies In spider webs to kids in hospitals . . . Most gracious actress I've met lately: Gertrude Lawrence . . . Of all the movie star homes, my choice is still the Dinah Shore-George Montgomery es tablishment A rambling ranch house with early-American furn ishings, on several sylvan acres . . . Yes, Jeanne Crain Is swell In "Pinky." But I bet Olivia de Havilland gets another Oscar for "The Heiress." Uvesley Building CC C fj iD 0 Of State and Liberty Dial 4-2223 Be certain, thai the dia mond wedding ring you choose is truly symbolic of a beautiful union. And the tenderness of yeur relationship will give added significance to the rings as the years pass. Divided Fsymeata Ne Extra Charge