4 The- Statmon, Salem, Oregon, Monday, February 6, 19S0 "No Favor Swayi V$, No Tm Skail Awt" From First Statesman. March ZS, 151 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHAP'-KR A SPBAGUE. Editor and Publisher Catered at tbt postoffice at Salem. Oregon, aa aeceod claaa matter tnder act of eoiurresa March S, 1171. Published every morning. Business office 2 IS &. Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone 1-Z41L Jhc Men in the Mines If the nation's coal miners do not go down in to the pits' today, President Truman will invoke the Taft-Hartley act. If there is any question whether the miners will "rebel" against any strike order from John L. Lewis and independ ently go back to work, the answer is almost cer tainly negative. J! or xne miners recognize jlwis as nw yk gonification of a union that means more to many of. them than life itself. That is the conclusion drawn by A. 1L Raskin, who has covered labor for the New York Times for 20 years. "The outlook of, these men is as black as the coal they dig," he finds. Their thinking is domi nated by memories of the days when the com panies ownea every wm6 iaico, the miners themselves and "exercised their ownership with brutal disregard for human val ues." The miners don't talk of their $75 to $100-a-week paychecks (the. ones they get when they're working); they still talk of the peanuts they used to get when they worked from dawn to midnight. j " . In some areas the companies have sold com pany houses to the miners, have built play grounds for the kids, planted trees on the bare hillsides, and adopted modern industrial prac tices which have reduced mining accidents 50 per cent! They've -even closed up the old com pany jails, a But the miners credit their union, not the companies, for these reforms "changes (which) have not dulled the memories or lessened the hatreds.'' They are convinced that without John. LI Lewis "they would soon again find themselves pulverised under the fist of company rule." And wherilt is pointed out to them that they now live under the fist of union rule, they just laugh. The long strikes impose a hardship on the workers. Their credit in stores is cut off and strike benefits do not compensate for wages lost. But the miners evidently would rather risk these known inconveniences in order to keep their fenien strong than.risk strengthening the hands of the companies by weakening Lewis. - That's how it is. It is the price the whole coun try has to pay for old injustices of the feudal mine owners. It will take a long time to heal the wounds which sua I ester, a long workers to regain confidence in invoking tne xait-naniey act back to digging 6al but it won't their employers the more. - Babies and School Expansion ; A series of articles now Running in The Statesman show .how the Marion county birth rate is affeeiintf and will affect ment and subsequent need for more classrooms and more teachers and additional building. The statewide birth-school picture is graphi cally illustrated in the January Oregon Educa tion Journal". Figures compiled by the governor's sub-committee on education show that in 1939 when Oregon's population was 1,089,684, there were 16,727 births, an elementary school enroll ment of 127,807 and. a total school enrollment of 189,222. Last year (pop. 1,736,000) there were 85,253 new babies, the elementary enrollment was up to 185,100 while the high school enroll ment was only 1,500 overl939's high school Chinese Awed By James D. White AP foreign News Analyst SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 5-W-The biggest revolution in China is the one you never hear about. The communists never openly ay they re attacking the Chin ese family system They assail "feudalism" and "Imperialistic , Influences," but never the tra . ditional .ties which for 4,000 years have 'made China the source of a unique culture. The family system has been the glue that held China to- ether. It also held her back, lased Ion ancestor worship, i it was the warp upon which the fabric of Chinese life was woven. It dictated marriages and pro creation that ancestors might be honored. It kept family loyalties supreme. It was China's -salvation and her curse. It kept her from fal ling apart into little nations but throttled her growth into a really great power.' i - ( ' i The reds are undermining it quietly through three' approaches through youth, through women, and through peasant politics. ' i ' ' V A college student in commun ist Peiping recently wrote to his fathef in Hong Kong: I should not call you father because I now belong to the state ... I am short i of funds and would ap preciate a check by return maiL" This boy still has to ask his father for money, but he is learn- ing to recognize a new supreme authority in his life. Before, it was his father. Now it is com munist leadership. Even in such simple things as r the "Yang Ko" peasant dance which the -reds have spread far and wide, Chinese youth breaks sharply with classic Chinese , ideas of how young people should behave. Before, they were not supposed to be seen in public together alone, let alone dancing and touching each ' other. If children used to be told what to k by their parents, the great mass of Chinese women were equally under the thumb of their husbands. They bad little status under family custom. Their hus - band could divorce them, but it was their duty to put' up with .their husbands, serve them, and bear the children demanded by custom. The great mass of pea NUtlHI IMI enrollment, and the total school population was 248,020. Estimates for the 1950-51 school year are for 33,500 births, 213,380 pupils in the eight ele mentary grades, 66,350 in high school, and a total school population of 279,730. There should also be 11,427 teachers, 533 additional teachers and rooms the building cost estimated at $10,660,000. i The sub-committee estimates that the peak elementary enrollment for Oregon will come in 195960 with 361,000 youngsters. High school enrollments will hit the high point in 1963-65 with 168,500 and total school enrollment 13 years from now will be about 495,200 with 19, 13S teachers. What the war babies and the children brought to Oregon by incoming families will mean to the taxpayers is this: By 1963-64, 8,859 additional classrooms and teachers will be needed, accord ing to sub-committee estimates. The total cost for additional building over the 14-year period from 1949 to 1963 will be $176,820,000. Occupational Disease? Is it an occupational disease for government engineers to underestimate costs of projects? If so the army engineers must have it bad. Here is a comment made in congress by the watchdog of the treasury in the 80th congress, Cong. John Taber of New York: Mr. Speaker, I have been tremendously dis turbed by the hearings that have been released from the Appropriations Committee indicating that the Chief of the Army Engineers has esti mated that the cost in the fiscal year 1951 for certain rivers and harbors and flood-control projects, including flood control on the Missis sippi river, will be increased $583,000,000 over the figures that were sent up here for the fiscal year 1949. Some estimates of the cost of indivi dual projects have in that period been, multi plied by five. This is one of the most terrific increases I have ever heard of, when a project " is appropriated for in one year and then in the next year the estimate of cost Is increased. The deal approved by the SEC for the pur chase of stock of Pacific Power and Light is a clean, cash deal. It is not a shoestring purchase, contemplates the continued operation of the company as a private utility system, gives Guy Myers no strings by which he can collect fat commissions by selling the corporate properties piece-meal to gullible PUD's. The holding com pany making the sale gets the cash which it needs for liquidation; It might have realized a little more under the original offer, but that depended on contingencies. Except for those who wanted to wreck the operating company and profit by its hreak-up the satisfaction over the outcome of the SEC hearings is generally satisfactory. time ior me their bosses. may pui mem make them love school enroll A news item quotes one Dr. Brainerd Desaix Burhoe, woman sociologist, as saying that wives demand flattery and attention from their hus bands in return for which they treat the men "like slaves." Dr. Burhoe has had experience in the fields of educations, rehabilitation, social research, community organizations, finance and public relations But is she married? ssasisssssssss What goes up must come down the old rule is still operating. Witness automobile prices and eggs. by Reds' Pseudo-Democracy sant women could not own prop erty. They seldom met their husbands before marriage, which was, of course, arranged by their elders. Naturally, Chinese women found some ways of getting around such restrictions, espec ially in well-to-do. families where the matriarchal boss was not uncommon. But the great mass of Chinese women had to take it The communists have given Chinese women what looks to them like equality. Now they can criticize their husbands In public and divorce them. . .Most Chinese live in the. coun try and are very poor. -They for merly had little appeal against the rule of their local officials. The reds, in encouraging the peasants to "overturn' the old order, have introduced such novelties as village elections and public meetings where gripes can Litera ry Guidepost By W. O. Kegera THE MESH, by Lucia Marchal, translated by Virginia Peterson Appleton-Century-Crofts; S3) I am 28, says Madelaine Fran cois determinedly to herself, re hearsing the declaration she in tends to make to her mother; I am 28, I .have the right to inde pendence, I have planned to take a small apartment of my own, you and Charles are better off without me, I am better off with out you. So she schema, going from the Brussels department store where she works to the home dominated by her mother, who in turn is dominated by her love for jthe son -Charles -with the twisted, ankle and the limping gait, iris a fa therless family with a small in come controlled by the mother. But everything else is controlled by the mother, who keep the son, in his mid-thirties, from all women except those who supply a fleeting and incomplete compan ionship, and also constantly thwarts the development of the abilities "which would set him on his feet financially; and who, fur thermore, serves her daughter in tatesmaii be freely aired as long as they are "democratic" that is, not against the new regime. It is not Important In the pea sant's mind that these elections .are not secret, or that the public meetings are often organized mob action. What dazzles him is the fact that they are held at all, and that he IS part of such "democratic" processes. As he is used to accepting au thority, he accepts without pro test the communist leadership that replaces the old order. No one supposes that the red rule rests, on the whole, any less heavily upon the Chinese than did the old order. In time it may become more intolerable, but by that time the reds may have succeeded in splitting the atom of Chinese life the family. That could have unpredictable results for them and a lot of other people. the same way by driving away the menfolk. While Madeleine has been screwing up her courage, Charles, who does not see his position so clearly, has decided to act Be fore the sister can utter her de fiance, the brother tells his moth- ' er of his engagement to Mme. ' Josserand, who for a time until a young boarder was convicted of the crime, was accused of poi- soiling her husband, the pharma-' cist across the street. The mother can't believe her ears, she forbids the marriage, and when finally Noemi enters the house as his wife, she leaves. From then on this is the story of a fierce and merciless rivalry for affection. In this deadly game the mother's weapons are brains and ruthlessness; the son's handi caps are weakness and terrible undefinable needs; the bride and her little dog Michel are the pawns; and the sister sees her own dark fate grow on her and welcomes it without recognizing it. It's an uncommonly tense and powerful novel, motivated by ab horrent passions, and every word points straight to a startling and inevitable climax. - .... Golf Museum Should Honor Game Duffers By Henry McLemore DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Feb. 5 The United States Golf asso ciation is going to build a mu seum In New York City and IH bet my best repainted ball that it is the intention of the 'association to fill it with tfticki, balls, bags, and score cards of the great players of the game. I can see the place now, even though the building has yet to be purchased. Bobby Jones' famous putter, "Calamity Jane," will be in a glass case along with the Atlan tan's famed tournament concen tration, i ThereTl 'be Walter Hagen's , driver and bottle opener, Harry Vardon's cap and moustache cup, Francis Ouimet's spectacles and Boston accent, the shoes Sam Snead wore when he broke away from the hills of West Virginia, Lawson Little's napkin ring, and the knickers Gene Sarazen was wearing when he scored his famed double eagle at Augusta. Far be It from me (well, not too far) to disagree with the USGA, but things like those men tioned above are not what should be placed in the museum. The ' mighty players are not the ones who made golf the great sport it is, or who keep it flourishing to day. The backbone of golf is the celebrated duffer the fellow who prays at night that some day he will break 100 or 90, and whose form is a cross between an epileptic fit and chopping wood. I wish the USGA would let me select the things to go into the museum. My first choice would be a pic ture, life size, of Mr. Westbrook Pegler in action on a golf course. Just where on a golf course wouldn't matter; it could be on the tee, on the fairway, or in a trap. I haven't seen Mr. Pegler . play for quite a few years, but the memory of his technique is as vivid as if it had been etched on my mind with r crowbar. The picture of him hard at work in a trap will remain with me long after the picture of all the great players I have seen has faded away. Mr. Pegler, as you perhaps know, is the only golfer who never had to pay a caddy. The National Geographic Society -always provided him with an archeologist to carry his bags, be cause it was a rare round on which Mr. Pegler didnt unearth bowls, skulls, pottery and the like of a lost civilization. The fart that we now know that the Hobnob Indians (a branch of the Aztecs) once inhab ited Long Island is solely due to Mr. Pegler's excavations on and about the Maidstone club course at Southampton, N. Y. A picture of Mr. Pegler in the . museum would bring more hap piness to more duffer golfers than almost anything else. Another ifem I would like to see in the museum is the golfing vocabulary of Mr. Adolphe Men Jou. Brilliant as his clothes are, they-, are drab things compared to his language when one of his drives carries but 135 yards in stead of the intended 136. Mr. Oliver Hardy's putting stance should hang somewhere in-the museum. All 400 pounds of it. So should Mr. George Mur phy's look when he is about to make a brassie shot. I saw Mr. Murphy, in "Battleground" the other night, and he was not near , ly so grim as when faced with a close lie on the fairway. I could name a hundred items which should occupy prominent places In the museum. Mr. Pete (Cities Service) Jones' smile when he sinks a long three-inch curling putt; Mrs. Fontaine Fox's whinny which he uses only at the top of an opponent's back swing; and Frank ("Moon Mul lins") Willard's sea chest of ex cuses when he shoots a 78 after getting a 15-stroke handicap. I trust the USGA won't go GRIN AND BEAR IT v mk "What's the use of me taking them miracle cold drugs, Motn. If 1 gotta blow my nose anyway . .HORN OF PLENTY irei I Your Health DURING recent years we have learned a great deal about a di sease with a long name and a bad reputation. Known as histoplasmosis, it was at one time thought to be a highly fatal disorder but, within, the past two years, research has shown that far from being neces sarily fatal, it IS often so mild as to go unrecognized. The condition is caused by a fungus known as the Histoplas ma capsulatum. In severe cases, the symptoms are like those of severe lung tuberculosis. The pa tient has : fever, anemia, or a lessening or decrease in the number of red cells in the blood, loss of weight, and cough. The lymph glands and liver, as well as the spleen in the upper left part of the abdomen, may be en larged. It seems that this fun gus gets into the body through the mouth, but occasionally may gain entrance through the skin. In children, the disorder starts gradually with loss of weight, fever, digestive upsets and coughing. Later in the condition, the lung is often affected. There are chest pains and abnormal breathing sounds. Often, calcium or lime deposits are seen in the X-ray plates of the lungs and lymph glands at the lung root. f Larfe numbers of persons never known to have had the di sease were tested with an extract from the organism which causes histoplasmosis, and many show ed positive reactions. Further examination with X- ray disclosed numerous lime de posits in the lungs of these per sons, similar to those caused by healed tuberculosis infections. This clears up a problem which , has baffled investigators for many years the presence of such depositis in people who can not be shown by any other test to have had tuberculosis, but a mild form of histoplasmosis is responsible for these scars. From these results, it was suggested ahead without putting something of the duffer in that museum. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.) by Lichty Written by Herman N. Bundensen Dr. that a mild form of hltoplas mosis may be responsible for a great deal of the lime deposit! seen in persons who do not have tuberculosis. Eighty-five 'children were tested with the histoplasmin, and a large number of them were found positive. These children often had such symptoms as tiredness, loss of weight, night mares, fever at night, and coughing. They were often pale and listless, suffered from anem ia, and X-rays of the chest showed many calcium or lime depositis in the lung tissues. -. It would appear, therefore, that this condition, known as histo plasmosis, may occur much more often than was formerly real ized. However, with careful ex amination, including X-rays of the chest and the making of a skin test with an extract of the fungus, a diagnosis may be reached. Treatment with sulfo namide drugs may be of value. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A Reader: What are the symp tims of a brain tumor? Answer: Symptoms of brain various sensations and sense or gans, such as the eyes; at times attacks of vomiting may occur. , If a tumor of the brain is sus tumor depend upon the size and location of the tumor within the brain. Most brain tumors consist of headaches, disturbance of the pec ted, immediate study by a neurologist is advisable., (Copyright, 1950, King Features) Hollywood HOLLYWOOD Talent agents can' be awfully blunt. They used to ask Rosemary De Camp, "With that nose, you want to be in pictures?" Today she could laugh in their faces. She's Holly wood's first actress to be regu larly busy in three mediums movies, radio and television. There's nothing wrong, really, with Rosemary's nose. It's a cute little gadget like Rosemary herself. Got its slight curve from an incident in her native Prescott, Ariz. Rosemary, then 12, was watching a football game. Things got rough and somebody threw a board. It broke her nose. Now brown-haired, blue-eyed Rosemary De Camp is nose-deep in a happily hectic career. The unreleased "Big Hangover," star ring Van Johnson, is her 25th movie. On the air, she's in her 13th year as Dr. Christian's nurse, Judy Price. In television, on film, she is seen weekly as Mrs. Chester Riley, wife and mother on "The Life or Riley." In pictures, Rosemary figures, she has been almost everybody's mother. She was Jimmy Cag ney's (though years younger than he) in "Yankee Doodle Dandy"; Robert Alda's in "Rhap sody in Blue," Ronald Reagan's in "This Is The Army," and Sabu's in "Jungle Book." As for being typed as a movie mom. Rosemary says "I like to work. Yes, I like playing a mother, and I like being a mother." Her daughters are Nana, 7; Martha, 3, and Valerie, 2. Rose mary is the wife, of Justice of the Peace John Shidler, of suburban Torrance. It's a 30-mile drive to Hollywood. Rosemary, a 10-hour sleeper, rises at 4:30 sun. every fifth day to be in make-up by 8. A half-hour television film is shot in one day after three or four day's rehearsal. Rosemary can pretty well memorize a 50-page script in an hour and a half. To get away from the youngsters interrupt ions, she parks somewhere near her home in her car with her Marion County Polio Advisory Board Planned Formation of a council to learn about and advise on the problems and program of Marion county chapter, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was under way today, with all civic, fraternal, patriotic and labor organizations invited to appoint interested rep resentatives. Mrs. Faye Wright, county chair man, announced that letters are being sent to nearly 100 such groups asking their cooperation in the year-around project. The coun cil, authorized at the chapter's last executive board meeting, will meet with the board to hear its business and participate in dis cussions. The council will not be a voting group. Members will act also to inform the groups they represent about the "aims, efforts and accomplish ments" of the chapter in its fight against poliomyelitis and to pro vide improved understanding. Organizations interested but not directly contacted were requested to appoint representatives and not ify the chapter office at 340 Court st. FTJtE LEAVES SM HOMELESS MANILA, Monday, Feb. -4Jfh Fire raged through the eastern section of Cabanatuan, capital of Nueva Ecija province, last night, press dispatches said today. Some 000 persons were reported home less. on Parade script. One more hour's rehear sal aloud, with somebody cueing her, and she has it down pat. As a performer, Rosemary likes television best. "It has all the satisfaction of pictures and radio," she says. 'It's new and exciting." She thinks television eventually will crowd out both movies and radio. "Inertia will be the main factor with pictures, at least. Why go out when you can see a show at home?" She thinks television will be important in education and religion. She calls it, in fact, "the greatest thing since the discovery of fire. f Bettor English :i By D. C. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "We were up against difficulties." 2. What is the correct unciation of "elixir"? pron- 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Caesar, Shakes peare, Thackaray, Disraeli. 4. What does the word "in capacitate" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with gl that means "round"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "We were eenfrontisur (or confronted by) difficulties." 2. Pronounce e-lik-ser, first e as in me unstressed, 1 as in lick, second e as in her, accent second syllabic 3. Thackeray. 4. To de prive of power; to render unfit. "Concentrated attention, un broken by rest, so prostrates the brain as to incapacitate it for thinking." H. Spencer. 9. Globular. GRENADE PACKING CHL KUALA LUMPUR -- Mal aya has a grenade-packin' momma on whose head the government has placed a reward of (Straits) $2,000 "dead or alive". She' is 28 y ears-old Shamsiah binte Sutan Pakeh, only 4 feet 6 inches taU, who carries her grenade in her sarong. Tmt vmi :fictitt n Quiz Precedes Dental Survey fEdiUr! . moU: Fellowlnr lg ui ftUi la a eerie f tjaetUea and aniwer articles published by Th Oregon Statesman in cooperation . with the Marion-Polk-Tamhill Den tal society ani the Marlon county health department, prior to a school dental survey la the near fntara.) At what are should a child be irin brushing his teeth? When all the primary teeth have erupted, which is usually between the ages of two and three years. Should a parent help the child with his toothbrushlng? Yes. In fact, the parent will have to do most of the real brushing for some time. The child should be permitted to wield the brush first and then the narent should v over and complete the Job. In this way the child will develop the habit of regular toothbrushlng. What is the best method or brushing the teeth? , There are several approved methods. One eood method U thi With the Jaws held slightly apart. Drusn tne teeth of each jaw sepa rately. Place the bristles on the gum and brush the upper teeth with a downward motion. Rpvoru the procedure for the lower teeth. brushing upward. Give at least five strokes to each group of teeth covered by the brush. The grind ing surfaces should be cleaned with a scrubbing motion. It is im portant to brush the tooth surfaces that touch the tongue as well as those that touch the cheeks. When should the teeth be brushed? To obtain the best results, the brushing should be done immedi ately after eating whenever possi ble, because food debris that ad heres to the teeth is one source of tooth decay. This is especially true of sweets. Which U better, tooth powder or paste? There Is no essential difference in the cleansing properties of tooth powder and tooth paste. For children a paste is probably pref erable because it is easier to han dle and therefore less subject to waste. Does gum chewing hela or han the teeth? There is no evidence that gum chewing benefits the teeth in any way. On -the other hand there Is evidence that sugar contributes to dental decay and chewing gum contains sugar. Leather Craft Class at YM To Resume With an instructor whose know ledge of leather goes back to the cattle cn the Wyoming ranch of his boyhood. Salem YMCA'S craft classes for boy members will re sume next Saturday, from 1 to. 4 pjn. Teacher is Victor Johnson. Sa lem building contractor, who is a skilled leatherworker . and has taught veterans in hospitals. He was a marine corps pilot after playing football at University of Wyoming. Johnson will teach boys to make and use patterns and to make worthwhile objects, according to Roth Holtz, YM boys' work sec retary. First classes will be In leatherwork, with woodwork to come later. The YM also gives craft classes for adult members on Tuesday evenings. Northwest's C of C Officials Attend Meet PORTLAND. Feb. 5 -flP)- Pres idents and managers of Oregon and Washington cities' chambers of commerce began arriving here to day for a two-day annual confer ence. v E. L. Skeel, Seattle, a vice pres ident of the All-America Defense association, is scheduled to. speak at the luncheon tomorrow on plans and problems of Pacific northwest military defense. ' Retailing, industrial, tourist and civic topics will take up other sessions of the first day's progxam. ' Speakers will include C. W. Thorn berry. Everett: N. Phalen. Seattle; G. W. Gannon, Belling - ham: w. otto Warn, Spokane: Earl Reynolds, Boise; Claire R. Dobler, Everett; Chester Kimm, Wenatchee. i SOUTH AMERICANA DALLAS (INS) Braniff In ternational Airways and the Dal las symphorfy orchestra will prove next March that there's an awful lot of things in Brazil besides cfofee. The two organizations will present- the first in a series of concerts that will feature an artist, instrumental or vocal that has never been heard in North Ameri ca before. The series will feature artists in following concerts from several other South American countries. Start The . New Year Right! 'Replace AH Broken Glass HOW! Auto Home Offic Salem Glass Service 151 Center none t-ttt .-If It'ttt