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tThm SlrfMman. Sal eta. Oregon. Friday. February 10. 1950 . i '" i ii ! i. mi. i1 Frrarint8UteaaMa.Marcktt.U51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHAP'- A KPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher altered t the postofflee at Salem, Oregon, as second eUn matter under act ef eonxrea March t, 111. rabuahed every morning. Business efflee ZU 8. Commercial. Salem. Otecen. Telephone 1-2441. Activity-Bor: Morse No wonder Sen. Wayne Morse is one of the best known figures in Washington and in the nation. Ha always has something to say and his name is constantly before, the public Nowhere is that more evident than in the Congressional Record Index . For instance, in the Index for January 3 to January 13, Morse has 43 entries. He entered a number of editorials and articles in the Rec ord, also a petition from Monmouth relative to liquor advertising and a resolution from Port land Zionists relatives to Jerusalem. He offered an amendment to oleomargarine legislation and 'introduced six bills and joint resolutions. But where he really shines is when he has a few remarks to make. These covered topics ringing from butter fraud sales in (Arkansas and Pennsylvania, the spread of communism in Asia, our policy in China, the dairy industry, deficit financing, economy in government, excise taxes, and the legal status of Formosa, to oleo and republican party policies. Sen. Guy Cordon, by way of contrast, had only five entries. His -remarks" concerned oleo legislation and transportation tax on property. In the house, Representative Ellsworth evi dently said nothing. Angell introduced a bill for the relief of Helena J. China. Norblad entered an Oregon City Banner-Courier editorial entitl ed "Asleep at the Switch.? And Stockman mov ed! to evoke the national ; emergency provisions of the labor management relations act (Taft- Hartley). - -J Pensions: "Pic in tic Sky" That's what Peter Drucker, noted writer on economic subjects, says of these new-fangled industry pension contracts: "Pie in the sky." To quote from his article in the February Harper's: ' The pnt thing that is absolutely certain about n.ninn wffitnrti of the nat few months is ! that they will not stay in force very long. The steel strike has, indeed, established the principle that industry is responsible for the support of the old worker. But the security which the new - pension contract promise the old and aging employee will prove to be! mere 'pie in the sky.' In fact, the present pension contracts are bound ratlv to increase the ha ndicaos under which - the old worker the man over 45 or 50 already , labors. At the same time the contracts impose a burden on the economy that will become in ; creasing hard to bear." Drucker thinks these pensions will be paid only as long as business stays good: "As soon as' business slackens the present pension plans - will collapse." He refers particularly to the pay-as-you-go plans, citing that when business drops oft and employment is reduced the company contributions automatically fall off (as in the coal industry), but the number on the pension rolls stays up or even increases as men leave the ranks of workers to claim their pensions. As for the older workers, Drucker notes that the employer will" be under strong temptation to ease them out They would then find them selves out of jobs 'with no claims for annuities. , The only sound plan, thinks Drucker, is a funded plan, where reserves are built up over the years to finance pensions. But this is not generally practical because of the tremendous investment required for past service: "To pro ride $100 t month pensions for all employed Americans would require a fund of $150 to $200 billions.' Industry just can't take out that arstount from its working capital. Nor does Drucker think that government pen sion is the answer. That would absorb so much capital that government would virtually have a complete monopoly over new investment (which would please the socialists). . i "Certainly the welfare state is the road to ruin unless people realize that the benefits they Soviets' Growing Br Joseph and Stewart Alsep WASHINGTON, Feb. The evidence is increasing daily that the Soviet timetable has moved into a newj prase, as mtr autnority puts, It,, the Kremlin has now nassed : the point that1" Hitler passed 7, with the re-oc- ; rupation of the ' i Kruneiand. The, Kremlin is now beglsning t h e phase of accel-l crated prepara tory action 'I- Di picjuns oil. the exposed salients before at tacking the main positions Wiat Hitler began with the in vasion of Austira. , ' All the Kremlin's bluff and bluster of the last four years have only serv ed to conceal the central reality, which has been the active, i n t e n sive build - up of Soviet mili tary strength. The new phase is now opening, just as It did in Hitler's case, because the re- has begun to produce solid results. Hence the Kremlin is encouraged, just as Hitler was, to take larger mea sures and to run greater risks. A great deal of pure nonsense has been talked and written on this head, mainly to the effect that the Soviet Union has enjoy ed dominant military power ever snce the end of the second world war. In point of fact, however, from the end of the war until this year, the Soviet Union had no atomic bomb, no air defense whatever, and no solid industrial base. ,-, ' , The Western confederation, on -MA 17V I tin. ti . - I, -. I '2 armament effort .imr, j.'fjil ..iMii I.' r. want can only come out of their own produc tion. Otherwise, it will degenerate into the 'handout state' in which ultimately nothing is shared but the common misery From another angle Drucker criticizes present plans, stating "categorically": "(1) All pension plans, no matter how set up, no matter whether governmental or private, will fail to give adequate retirement pay to the men now in their forties if retirement at 65 or 70 should become the rule; and "(2) Retirement at 65 or even at 70 years of age will be politically unacceptable and impos sible to impose in another 20 to 25 yearsno matter how liberal the retirement pay." Why? Because of the lengthening of the life span. Today, $100 pensions would take about a tenth of the national income. Double the num ber of recipients and the cost would be a fifth of the income too large a portion to extract from the producing mechanism. So he thinks a principle emphasis should be put on finding work for older men to do, in which they can be productive and happy. The article should receive careful and wide attention. The country is going off half-cocked on this pension business. We want to see our aged people live in comfort to the end; but in the rush for old age security we do not want to wreck the machinery by which all of society is sustained. Words of One Syllable . Is human intelligence declining? " One might think so from the spate of one syllable brand names of late invention. They are coined with the purpose of binding them readily to memory, and it must be that our ad vertising agencies think that, two-syllable words are too long for the mass mind. Anyhow, we have Spam,) Spry, Tide, Dreft, Surf, etc, etc. Wonder if the radio isn't to blame it's pretty hard for announcers to murder Tide or Spry. One bad thing about airplane crashes is the risk that goes with the searching. Very often the crash is caused by bad Weather conditions, fog, storm, ice; and the search . planes brave similar conditions when they set out. In the per sistent search for the C-54 transport inbound from Alaska two planes have crashed, fortun ately without fatalities. Other times the rescue missions have brought death. The diligence is proof of man's humanity to man, but not of their good judgment if it merely adds to the loss of life. Talk about coals to Newcastle! From New .Orleans comes the story that produce dealers there are importing- potatoes from Canada and saving money, while the department of agricul ture sits on its multi-million bushel spud pile. To get rid of it the department is offering the potatoes back to farmers for a cent .a hundred (but not for human consumption). It's an up side down world. - It takes more than wood to make paper. Ac cording to the Weyerhauser magazine the in gredients of a ton of sulphite pulp such as the local mill makes and turns into paper are: two tons of dry wood, 275 pounds of sulphur, 350 pounds of llmerock, 60,000 gallons of water, 22S kilowatts of electricity, 9000 pounds of steam plus the skills of many workers. Only 250 persons In Great Britain have in comes of 5000 pounds or $14,000, according to a statesment of John Strachey, member of the Labor cabinet. Socialism has whacked away at the wealthy until the English will have to wear crumbled tweeds out of necessity rather than style. . Strength Bringing New Phase the other hand, possessed atomic bombs. Despite demobilization, the Western confederation also retained the strategic air power to deliver these bombs to the un defended cities of Russiai This situation was a decisive deter rent as long as it lasted. . But this situation - has now been liquidated by Soviet re armament. As Secretary for Air Stuart Symington pointed out in his courageous and illuminating Texas speech, the Kremlin has not merely overcome all the dif ficulties listed above, it has also built up the greatest air force and submarine fleet in the world, to supplement the red army's strength. The Kremlin's planners are justified in deriving a glowing new self-confidence from their revolutionary re-adjustment of the world power balance. This new self-confidence is already being reflected, moreover, in certain actions which have re ceived far too little attention in the American press. Of these actions, the most Im portant to date is the extraordin ary Socviet recognition of the rommtmist guerilla movement of Ho Chi Minn as the real govern ment of French Indo-China. This step has been taken at a time .when Paris has finally given in dependence to Indo-China, un der the government of the Em peror Bao Dai, and at a time when American and British re cognition of Bao Dai is momen tarily expected. Soviet recognition of Ho Chi Minh unquestionably means that Ho Chi Minn's guerrillas will be openly and actively supported by the Chinese communists fwho V.SLSS'J1 supported by the Bulgars and the Albanians. Fdrthermore, the French communist party has simultaneously been ordered in to action. The French dockwork ers are now striking to prevent arms shipments to Bao Dai. In short, every measure this side of talesman open, armed Invasion of French Indo-China, is now being taken by the Kremlin. There are other aspects of the Soviet timetable's new phase, such as the increasing effort to isolate all satellites from the world; the Increasing tendency to force upon the satellites overt 1 y Moscovite administrations: and the increasing arrogance of the Kremlin in its dealings with the Western powers. But ' just as Hitler's second phase had one main theme, which was Austria, bo the Krem lin's! second phase will so have one main theme,: which will be the Far East If Indo-China alone can be captured, the rest of Asia will be rather rapidly consumed in the ensuing chain reaction. Great gains are promised at small cost. As in the case of the Nazi invasion of Austria, the risk of provoking firm counter-measures is exactly proportioned to the degree of progress of re armament ! ! . Furthermore, .in the infinite ly vaster panorama now con fronting us, where the Far East has Austria's old; place. Western Europe has the former position of Czechoslovakia. The scene of , action will again shift west wards, whenever the Soviet mar gin of strength has been suitably widened. The experts put this date some time I between 1952, wen the Kremlin wil have laid by a respectable stockpile of atomic bombs, and 1955, when all Soviet armament plans now culminate. j Just as Stanley Baldwin, Ne ville Chamberlain and John Simon had to decide the fate of the worldln the hemused . '30s, so Harry Truman, Dean Acheson and Louis Johnson have to do so today. The future would be more encouraging if so many members of the administration did not al ready sound like Lord Baldwin at his worst. . (Coprrlabt. IMS. New York Herald TrlbuiM lacj mssi OB (Continued from Page One) reversed itself in recent months and mills are buying again. De valuation has also stimulated the Importation of foreign wool. For the last decade US wool production has declined. The production for 1949 was about 260 million pounds, about the same as in 1900. Ranchers sold off their sheep during the war and went in for beef production as easier and more profitable. The number of sheep in eastern Oregon is the lowest in many years, while western Oregon has been expanding its flocks. I recall talking before the Marion county livestock associa tion two years ago and ventur ing an optimistic prophecy about sheep and wooL That prediction seems in way of fulfillment. It certainly is gratifying to have one branch of agriculture which isn't sagging, as are several of our special crops. I note, how ever, that hops are showing signs of life, with contracts offered at around 60-65 cents a pound, up about 15 cents from a year ago. Maybe the sunshine will spread for other valley products. But , the sheepgrowers seem to have the downhill pull for the im ' mediate future. Henry Knows How to Waste That Dividend By Henry MeLemere DAYTONA BEACH, Feb. 9 A new world's speed record for check cashing just has been es tablished. I am In an -ex cellent position to reporton this new mark because I hap pen to be the man who set it. My GI insur- ance dividend was placed in my hands b y the postman yesterday at 9:27 a. m. At 9:30 a.m.. Just three minutes later. I was in the bank shaking the cashier's wicket demand in that mv $283 be given to me in $1 bills. I consider this race to the bank with my check one of the most patriotic things I have ever done. I longed to put the money aside for a rainy day, or to endow a chair at some good barber school with it but I fought back these temptations. Had I not read somewhere that the government wanted the dividends to be put in circulation right away as a possible forestaller of a depres sion? To have been thriftv would have been going against the wishes of my government, so I set out to spend the money as fast as I possibly could. It is amazing how fast one can spend $283 these days if one puts one's mind to it. The first thing I bought was an armadillo sewing basket, cerise lined. Jean has had her heart set on one of these ever since we have been married, but not until yesterday have I felt free to buy her one. The basket jset me back $23.50, but the look on her face when I gave it to her told me better than ' ahy words how she felt about it. I could have gotten a cheaper one, but the cheaper ones where so " obviously made from armadillos who had not taken any pride in their shells that I gladly paid an extra five dollars for a perfect specimen. Now when the "girls" droo la for an afternoon of sewing Jean will be able to hold up her head with the rest of them. My first purchase for myself was a foxtail for the hood of my car. Until the government check came in I had had to be content with a squirrel tail off of a squirrel I had shot myself and had cured myself. What I don't know about tanning squirrel tails would fill a library shelf, so the front of our car has al ways been a bit shabby. Now, waving in the breeze, is as lux uriant a foxtail as you'll find anywhere. And I can hold my head a little higher. But it was my next purchase that gave me the greatest plea Sure. All my life I have envied people who lived in houses that had a billiard room. To have a billiard room has always seemed to me to put the stamp of ele gance on a home. So I bought a billiard table. Not a new one, mind you, because I would have had to have been a private in the Revolutionary War to get a di vidend check big enough to af ford that. But the one I got is in pretty decent repair, and three cues came along with it. Just where well put it is something yet to be solved. As a matter of fact, Jean doesn't know about the bil liard table yet. I want the shock of the armadillo basket to wear off before I break the happy news of a billiard table. I have a sneaking idea that she will de cide where one of the cues is to go before she places the billiard table. With what little money that was left after buying the billiard table I bought a few things we have a 1 w a y s wanted for the house. A print of Whistler's Mother, a giant conch shell for the mantelpiece, V reading lamp made from a coconut shell, a set of face towels marked Me and Her, a family membership in that After Shave club, and three pounds, of that exclusive coffee ; which the very drinking of al ! most confers a knighthood on ; the drinker. MlcNauaht SjrndicaU. Inc.) GRIN AND BEAR IT .'V 2 . f'a "She wants money, dear . . . bat the book says It's just a phase she's bound to atgrew ..." Litera ry Guidepost By William Glover THE ROMANTIC NEW OR- LEANIANS, by Robert Tallant (Dutton; $4 JO). New Orleans without doubt is the best documented, annotated and soul-searched city of this land, and very likely, of any spot on this earth or neighboring planet. There is a saying, that those who drink of the Mississ ippi here, will always return; there seems an ancillary spell, conveyed through the city's taps, that most will also write. To say, with such preface, that Tallant has succeeded to a de gree in instilling renewed inter est and providing understanding for outlanders of the oft-described scene is to admit no mean ac complishment. But this he has done in the fifth volume of the publisher's "Society in America' series. This Is a bit of a guidebook to the scenes of yesterday and to day, and a sort of social history of the various peoples who have made the glamor city out of an unlikely swamp. But those words "to a degree" and "sort of are meant as a gentle and properly discreet reminder that since our book is forthrightly titled "Ro mantic" there may be some things that aren't mentioned. Of course, here are the pirates Lafitte, the Creole dandies of derring-do and the genteel ladies that once in a while (just the.' sufficient sou peon to enhance the , romance) broke out of their cor sets and convention. And there is Better English By D. C. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "A pair of scissors were laying on the table." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "bath"? 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Obstreperous, obit uery, obsequious, obstinacy. 4. What does the word "perfid ious" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ob that means "gone out of use"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "A pair of scissors was lying on the table." 2. Pronoun ce the a as in ask, not as in at. 3. Obituary. 4. Basely false to trust Involved in this perfidious fraud." Milton. 5. Obsolete. DER-MA-MOL 50c STOP COUGHING Schacfer's Herbal Balsam 50c $1.00 and Rheumatism Pains Schacfer's Liniment In mse ia Salem tor over S5 years. Helps taeasanda ef us ers. Godsend far muscular pains. 50C and $1.00 Chre sVe amdet eoed RUB DOWN WITH ' PEN-O-LIN Wkea active srde 135 N. Ccntmcrdal 89c by Lichty the coming of the rough Amer icans, and the grand dames who haughtily scorned damnedyank ees in the streets when war had added its bit to the city's story of fire and plague. Here are the Pontalbaa and the Marignys and the other great and' lost names of an urban society which still preserves more than any other American metropolis its dedication to costume, spec-: tacle and dancing. There is, how ever, but rare and oblique men tion of affairs political or latter day scandals. Yet as Tallant re marks: "New Orleans is Circe' and the visitor sooner or later be comes "creolized." ( "He will soon after that find himself restoring a French Quar ter house, eating gumbo every Friday, and buying a ghost from the ghost seller on Royal street" And who would talk unkindly of one's lady or rattle a skeleton when an enchanting ghost from yesterday is charmingly near? Your Health By Dr. Herman N. Bondensea ULCERATIVE colitis is a seri ious disease which is often diffi cult to treat successfully. The changes which occur in the lining membrane of the bowel wall and the formation of ulcers create such symptoms as .pain in the abdomen, frequent bowel movements, and great loss of weight and strength. In the past a number of sulfo namide drugs have been tried in treating this condition. Some have given good results in some patients; others have accomplish ed nothing. Recently, a new combination in which a sulfo nomide preparation is united with salicylic acid has succeed ed where other remedies have failed, having brought about dra matic Improvement in a number of patients who had been sick for years. Of 12 patients treated, eight showed marked improvement and, of these, two were entirely well at the end of four months. In two of the four remaining cases, the use of the drug had to be stopped because of the develop- it, of severe sickness at the YOUR PRESCRIPTION STORE WHEN YOU THINK DRUGS THINK SCHAEFER 1 899 - 1950 - It Pays to Trade at SchaeferY Prescriptions Accurately Filled EVERYTHING FOR THE BABY We have a complete Bno of medical noocb for babies. Lot vs fill your proscription. VALEIITIIIE CAIIDY ' m Delight her with candy, the sweet- V"MRx est Valentine gift From our ro- mantically packaged collection, VvC choose a box for mom, sis, and- 33 the best girl. CTrX ""S Sodete, Johnston's Sierra I " A ' Glades. Both in heart i Vbrv ' shaped and regular boxes. 29c$.000 This la the official renslar Kemedy Store for Marlon Coaaty. I an teed to be exactly for what tobo. SOLE AGENTS FOR PENSLAR REMEDIES FOX MARION COUNTY St. Prescriptions ROsd 1899-1950 Phono 3-5197 - Hollyw By Gene Handsaker HOLLWOOD Otto Kruger, handsome, gray-haired veteran of 42 consecutive years on stage and screen, meets a critic (me). Q. Well. then. Mr. Krueer, what do you think of critics? A. (Business of lighting ci gar.) It's a vicious condition that a group of critics should have the entire control of the fate of a play. A fortune on the opening night depends on their "yes" or "do." Q. Don't you think critics should report what a play is like? A. The trouble is, thev dont say, "I THINK It is rotten." They say, "It IS rotten. The audience may have had a wonderful time but next morning thev read the re views and say. "Well, maybe it wasn't so good. If I were a critic I think Td say. "In mv opinion, it is not a good play. The enter tainment value, however. Is un questionable because the audi ence liked it" I don't believe in destructive criticism. It damns. Constructive criticism tries to help. Q. An example of constructive criticism that helped vou? A. Yes. fX critic wrote, "Someone mustvhave told Kruger he has a smile worth a million dollars." Meaning, "He's ruining the nlay by using It all the time." That took me out of a mannerism. Q. Then not as many plays de serve to die as do die? A. (Re lighting cigar.) There are so many wonderful audience plays which the white collar man would love to see but which un fortunately can't run because the critic has damned them. And there are plenty of plays which the audience does not like. But they have long, successful runs because critics sakT it was the smart things to see them. Critics have said to me, "We don't want this much power. We didn't ask for it It's a condition that exists." But when you think of the amount of money that's controll ed by their power, Irs a pretty sad state of affairs for a totter' ing theater. Q. Tottering? A. I knew you'd pick that up. I dont think there's a question of it They're trying so hard outside the big metro polises to keep theaters going- kids working like the devil in theaters seating 200 or 300. But they cant make any money. Q. How about movie, critics? A. I don't think they wield the same power that stage critics stomach. The preparation did not affect the course of the disease in the other two patients. It was interesting to note that arthritis or Inflamation of the joints was present in six of the 12 patients. Improvement of the arthritis occurred in all of these six cases. Reactions to the preparation, including fever or a skin rash, may occur occasionally, as well as nausea or sickness at the stomach, but in no instance were these reactions severe or danger ous in the patients studied. Improvement with the drug was measured by the decrease in the number of bowel movements. absence of blood in the bowel movement, general improvement of the physical condition of the patient and gain in weight. Fur thermore, pain in the. abdomen disappeared. It appears, therefore, that this new sulfonamide preparation Is of great value as an aid in the treatment of ulcerative colitis. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS r. v. it: Which is best for a laxative castor oil or epsom salts? Answer No laxative should be taken except under the direction of the physician. The continued use of laxatives is irritating to tne bowel and will produce cronic constipation. If a laxative is necessary, the physician will decide which one should be used. (CoprwrUht IMS. K&c features) they are sold and represented wield. An example is' "Duel in the Sun." It was blasted from one end of the country to the other but took in more money than "Gone With the Wind." . Q. Doesn't . that sometimes happen on the stage? A. Yes. The ??k" and crushed v. ana in spit of them it ran five solid years. Drivers Liha 'Safety Plan9 In New York YORK. Pa.-riNS-VrV' safety T-Man campaign has tha cooperation of errant motorists. tee, headed by Ralph w. Kling. innovator of the . traffic-man plan! said the program has proved itself a key factor in lowering the traf-v-, accident rate and has been nailed by motorists who have run afoul of traffic rules. Kling said that not i.'n.i. word of criticism has been heard from motorists who have been cit ed by unidentified traffic report ers, although the committee has re ceived numerous back pats through The committee's 51 T-Men a women roam the streets and Jot down traffic violations with li cense numbers and the committee sends out to violators a letter call ing attention to the infraction. Screen Staffers T-Men are not vigilantes, aruvm. era or troublemakers, King em phasized. "They constitute a preventive or ganization seeking to avrt tmnM for those violators whom they re port," Kling said. "Police record. fu , "' rcpons eaucate the violator and aid in forestalling future violations." "It is our hope that the people will come to regard the program, if they not already have done so, as a sincere effort to spread th important messages of traffic safe ty and education," he declared. Klings committee screens pro spective staffers so that only per sons without prejudices and with an earnest desire to reduce acci dents are selected, v The campaign was begun In July and, Kling pointed out, has justi fied itself in making Yorkers, safe ty conscious and in generally im proving the quality, of motor Ve hicle operation. ,s . . VUUUrs Give Thanks Practically alf -of the letters re ceived from alleged violators, Kling stressed, hare praised tha program. He cited two letters: . Thank you kindly for the court eous manner in which you called my attention to a traffic violation. I do remember making U turn at the time and place you men tion and I can assure you that it nmva K.. . - . win not happen again." one viola tor said. f". ? Another: "I received you letter of Sep tember 21 and have had the tail light . . . replaced. "I appreciate you calling atten tion to it as I do not often have the opportunity to follow my car at night while driving it" . KEDS RELIGION' LONDON INS) Here's tha latest Russian definition of relig ion: "An anti-scientific ideology, a hindrance of the path of com munism," It appeared in the Mos cow journal "Science and Life." 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