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Welcome, Spring!
Long-looked-for Spring arrived officially at
S36 o'clock last night and if a word of advice
la warranted we'd like to remind the new sea
son that it need not bother about trying for
new records. We've had records this year, thank
you, and winter's gift of a 10-below-zero bone
chiller won't be forgotten for a long time.
Now Dear Spring, we'd like to have you
take the snow from the foothills so that the
winds may be warmed and the budding veg
etation encouraged to full glory. We're already
bit over normal in rainfall around seven
inches, in fact and while we certainly have
nothing against the life-giving showers of the
springtime we could nicely do without the
sou'westers which dying winter brought.
But we're not complaining, not at all. The
grass is greening, the wells are full, the ground
nicely moistened for verdant growth' and the
valley taking on the look of well-being that
Is its prideful heritage.
All we're saying, Spring, is that winter did
its job thoroughly and left no unfinished work.
You are warmly welcomed and whatever you
bring will be appreciated. Does that make you
want to be nice to us? After all, we've got to
have some week ends fit for gardening.
Comfort in Pride
If quarreling with fate were either seemly
or profitable, one might well do it in regard
to the Aberle family of Longview, Wash.
It was only a few months ago that 15-year-old
Ruth Aberle survived four cruel days and
nights while lost in the foothills of .the Cascade
mountains, and there was no doubt that her
training as a sea scout was responsible for the
dear-thinking and resourcefulness without
which she never would have , emerged alive.
Now the father is dead as a result of heroic,
and - successful, efforts to save a 1 6-year-old
girl who was among the group thrown into the
Columbia river Sunday when' the boat Aberle
was -stoppering capsized.
It is not hard to read into these sagas, one so
relievedly joyous and the other sad, the happy
(rentage wmiii iiium ue uie lut ux surviving
members of the family. And certainly it is be
yond contradiction that it was the father him
self to whom should go a great measure of
credit for the survival of his daughter. "
Sympathy will not bring back a life. But 'in
the memory of the father the family which was
his can find comfort in pride.
One Hundred Yean Old
If it is true that "the first hundred years are
the hardest," Salem is "over the hump." Not
as an incorporated city that came a few years
lata. But a a rilziifA territorial entitv ' Kalom
la 100 years old this week and a story by Con
rad Prange in Monday's Statesman gave an
Interesting background to the historic era.
Much of the lore of the west has been lost
or dimmed in memory, so far as detail is con
cerned, and there are divisions of opinion on
some points. But the overall picture is clear and
little of moment is missing fat modern chronicling.
It is Interesting to note there were three
separate plattings of various areas within a
few months and all later became a part of
the combined city. And since that time its size
(and population) have increased many times
over. . .-: ' ' ' -
History seems to confirm events which
showed that Dr. William H. Willson truly
could be termed Salem's original "proprietor."
To him goes much of the credit for the city's
park areas and once-criticized wide streets, and
it is with nride that Willson nark vm named in
State, Defense Department Controversy May
Leave Russ in Position to Seek Jap Peace Pact
By Stewart Alaop
WASHINGTON, March 20
An absolute deadlock on a vital
Issue of American policy , has
now developed
between the
state and de
ten se depart-
meata. The is
sue is whether
or : not ; to go
ahead with? a
Seace treaty for
apao a deci
skm which pro
foundly affects
. !
" the whole range I
The state department is firm--
ly convinced that an early peace
treaty, whether with or without
the concurrence of the Soviet
.Union, is essential. But the Pen
tagon has taken the stand that '
a peace treaty 'will undermine
the American security position
la the far east.
The inner history of the dead
lock is interesting. As first re
ported in this space. Secretary
of State Dean -Acheson , agreed
.with British.. Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin, on Bevin'a Sep
tember visit to Washington, that
a peace treaty for Japan was
long overdue.
' Acheson agreed to have a draft
proposal for a peace treaty work
ed out, and delivered j to the
British for discussion with the
Commonwealth countries at the
rtcent Colombo conference. A
proposal was drafted, but it was
never delivered to the British.
. The Pentagon intervened.
J What the state department
proposed and still proposes is :
roughly as follows: First, diplo
matic means would be used to
reach agreement with, the pro
western majority of the Far
Eastern Commission no easy
task, since Australia and the
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K favor Swayt Vt, So Fear Shall Am"
first SUteanm. March tt. US1
his honor. His work with the old Oregon In
stitute, forerunner ! of Willamette university,
and later as operator of a drug store from
which he dispensed a great deal of valuable
medical advice pending the arrival of a medical
doctor played a great part in Salem's early
growth and prosperity.
With Salem's amazing growth of the last half
decade, it is to be wondered where its platting
will reach another hundred years hence.
After-thought on St. Patrick's day: The Un
ited States no longer maintains just a legation
in Eire, or the Republic of Ireland. The auld
sod, -homeland of the shamrock and Mother Ma
chree, is now the site of a VS. embassy. From
now on, this country and Eire will exchange
ambassadors instead of only ministers. The first
Irish ambassador is John J. Hearne and one of
the important topics in his portofolio is the mat
ter of facilities and servicing for American pas
senger airplanes on the north Atlantic hop.
The cartoonist Herblock (see Time, this week)
showed Attlee without a stitch on his bony
frame entering the House of Commons with a
"bare majority." The Wall Street Journal, cri
ticizing' Secretary of State Dean Acheson for
trying to "scare the britches off the American
people says, "It is Mr. Acheson who is losing
his well-tailored look; who is standing grotes
quely naked." ... From striped pants to pants
stripped, eh?
Abdu Krim El Khatabi, Emir of the Riff and
president of the National Liberation Committee
of North Africans has warned the 25,000,000
natives of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia will
rise in revolt if they are not granted immediate
independence from France and Spain ... To
which Colonel Blimp would reply, "HrrrumpJu
Riffraff!"
Re the proposal in congress that movie stars
be subject to federal licensing, the Coos Bay
Times says: "If we must have licensing, let's
start with the politicians so that there will be
a means of shutting up those irresponsible
enough to use their positions to claim an audi
ence without seeming to care what harm their
words may do."
Commenting on the request by a Missouri
cave-owner to Reconstruction Finance Corpor
ation for $1,000,000 to fix up his cave for an
atom-bomb shelter. The Dalles Chronicle says.
"After all, pouring money into a hole in the
ground is no new experience for the RFC."
The newest initials for the use of headline
writers are M-AJ. meaning Military Aid Pro
grant, and not to be confused by the laity with
the currently popular alphabebop about M-O-P.
The recent response to the Red Cross appeal
for blood has indeed been a credit to Salem and
its area. And the Red Cross appeal for funds is
a worthy one, too.
The courts refused to recognize the claim of
that old boy in Missouri who said he was Jesse
James. It doesn't seem probable, however, that
anyone will claim to be Hitler.
Dept. of Useless Information: March is aqua
rium month. So if you have an old fruit jar, fill
it up with water, duckweed, snails, and get in
the swim.
The Monmouth
mail addressed to
ue.
If
Philippines particularly fear
Japanese industrial and commer-
rial revival, without which an
independent Japan . could not
survive, ..
: With this hurdle surmounted,
the second step would be an in
vitation to the Soviet Union
and to communist China if a
majority of the Far Eastern Com
mission had recognized the new
regime, as is likely to a peace
treaty conference. If the Soviets
refused, the conference would be
convened anyway. If they ac
cepted, they could be outvoted
on the vetoless council. Finally,
as a condition of the treaty, a
lateral agreement would , be
worked out with the Japanese,
providing for the retention of
American bases on the islands.
This proposal was referred to
the defense department last No
vember, and drew a prompt dis
sent from Under Secretary of
War Tracy Voorhees, who is in
charge of occupied areas. The
Ioint chiefs of staff subsequent
y supported Voorhees, on securi
ty grounds.
The basic Pentagon objection
is that American bases .would
. commit the United States to the
defense of Japan In case of war,
and within the limits of Ameri
can military strength imposed
by. Defense Secretary Louis
' Johnson, Japan could not be de
fended against a major assault.
Yet this logic is difficult to fol
low, simply .because even now
-the American occupation troops
could not possibly defend Japan
against an , all-out assault, as
General Douglas MacArthur is
fully aware. -
- Moreover, MacArthur himself
has supported the state depart
. ment position, first to Voorhees
on his trip to Japan last
ber, then to the joint chiefs in
February, and more recently to
far eastern division chief Walton
Butterworth. Yet . the Pentagon
I - ;
postoffice reports receiving
"Collector of Infernal Reven
has refused to budge.
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The danger is obvious. The
Soviet Union could at the very
least now deeply .embarrass the
United States by calling for a
Japanese treaty conference,
while the United States has nei
ther agreement with its allies,
nor agreement within the Ameri
can government. The long term
danger is perhaps greater. For
the longer it continues, the more
surely will the American occupa
tion of Japan, with its violent
social, economic and racial
strains, play directly into com
munist hands.
Indeed, the danger is now so
acute, that the state department
is even seriously considering the
appointment of a special official
of high rank the name of Gen
eral Walter Bedell Smith has
been mentioned to ' deal with
the problem. This official would
act as a sort of Ambassador-extraordinary,
not only to our allies
on the Far Eastern Commission,
but also to the Pentagon. This in
itself is an interesting commen
tary on the relations between
the state and defense depart
ments. .
' ' '
There is still some hope that
the ' deadlock can be broken
without reaortkif to any such ex
traordinary devices. But the
signs now are that the dispute
will have to be deferred, still un
resolved, to the National Security
Council, and from the Council to
the president. It will then be up
to Truman to break the log jam
one way or another. The record
suggests that when the chips are
down, Truman will back Ache
jfta and the state department. At
(any rate, the log Jam must be
broken soon, r or until there is
agreement on Japan, there can
be little hope for a strong, ef
fective 'American policy any
where in Asia.
NEW 'SPRING OFFENSIVE G5MING UP
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By
A aiew theory has recently
been advanced to explain an old
and familiar disorder the colic
from which - so many young
babies under three months suf
fer. We have known for some time
that colic is due to a spasm of
the bowel, but why this spasm
should occur was not so appar
ent Now comes the suggestion
that it may be due to allergy or
over-sensitivity, and that it is
probably inherited.
If one or both parents had
colic in early infancy, or if the
'parents have some type of dis
order due to allergy, such as
hay-fever or asthma, it seems
likely that the baby will de
velop colic
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Often, before the colic devel
ops, the baby may have repeat
ed attacks of hiccoughing. In
fact, the baby may have hiccups
while still in the mother's womb.
If the breast-fed baby has
colic. It may sometimes be re
lieved by having the mother
avoid certain foods which may
be responsible for the trouble.
However, only careful question
ing concerning the mother's diet
will reveal just what foods may
be responsible.
Some few colicky babies who
are receiving cow's milk may be
sensitive to the casein or pro
tein part of the milk. Sometimes
milk substitutes may be employ
ed in these cases with good re
sults. In some other instances,
all milk formulas and milk sub
stitutes must be eliminated and,
instead, the baby is 'given strain
ed meats. Of course, in these
cases, fats, such as olive oil, and
sugar and lime-containing prep
arations must be added since all
of these Important food elements
are normally furnished by milk,
a a a
Some of the best remedies for
colic are those Grandmother
used heat over the abdomen,
warm water by nursing bottle, or
warm enemas. Newer treatments
include the use of a drug known
as atropin, as well as quieting
preparations such as phenobar
bitaL These, of course, must be
prescribed by the doctor and
their use depends on the sever
ity of the attack.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
' PJLM.: What is the cause for
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the ladies noticed each ether's hats before they
noticed the signals Jud changed
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By Jane Eads
WASHINGTON-iffVDr. Win
fred Overholser, superintendent
of St Elizabeth's hospital here,
doesn't take much stock in love
at first sight There are times
when you can't trust your -Instincts,
and the selection of a
mate is one of
them," says Dr.
Overholser,
who also has (
been proiessor -
of psychiatry at
George Wash-1
ington univers- t
ity medicals
school since!
1Q3 i-
Dr. Overhol
ser says the
"love at first
sight theory" is a figment of the
poets. An engagement should be
a matter of months "to be sure
there Is compatibility and no
jarring traits." Even the so-called
"love at first sight" romance
of Dante and Beatrice was leg
end, he says. He visited Florence,
Italy, last year and says that if
Dante fainted on seeing Beatrice
on the Santa Trinita bridge over
"the Arno it was "from some
other reason." The poet had
known Beatrice, whom he im
mortalizes in his "Divine Come
day" since early childhood.
. a a a
Love that develops into a life
time teaming-up is built on a
reasonable period of understand
ing and adjustment. It's not the
result of a flash-ln-the-pan re
ood
By Gene Handsaker
HOLLYWOOD Claudette
Colbert suffers through the war
as a prisoner of the Japanese
in "Three Came Home." This is
a vivid, well-acted movie but
strong stuff. One feminine pre
view er, a trade-paperwriter har
dened to most Hollywood hor
rors, couldnt take it She got
up and left an impulse many
an ovarian cyst?
. Answer: The cause of ovarian
cysts is not known and therefore
cannot be given in most cases.
(Copyriaht. 140. Kin Taatom)
by Lichty
Hollyw
lationship. He says:
"In general, the betting Is bet
ter for good marriage relation
ships if each otthe parties knows
the other well. and they have a
common - religious, racial, eco
nomic, social and educational
background." Dr. Overholser
says many marriages which re
sult in divorce are neurotically
conditioned. "A lot of people don't grow
up." he says. "Often a man is
looking for someone to replace
the mother-figure in his juvenile
imagination, or the woman a re
placement of the father-figure.
He thinks considerable damage
Is caused by over-affection on
the part of parents, especially
mothers, who because of their
closer contact with the child, are
prone to pamper.
a a
"I am convinced more damage
is done by over-protection than
by neglect, he says. It's differ
ent in the marriage set-up. He
concedes that "husbands are still
pretty much like children and
expect to be pampered." The
successful marriage, he says, de
pends more on the wife than the
husband. She must learn to make
more adjustments.
"Women are biologically
stronger than men and endure
longer. Any man who expects to
be boss is kidding himself," says
Dr. Overholser, who has been
married, but happily, for 30
years and ought to know what
he is talking about j
on Parade
a woman viewer may feel dur
ing the cruder scenes.
At the moment of her depar
ture, Claudette, with agonizing
grimaces of pain, was having
her left arm twisted behind her
back to near the breaking point
by a husky captor. She has been
mauled at night by a Japanese
guard and made the mistake of
complaining to the camp com
mander. Now a porky officer is
trying to force her to sign a
confession that her charge was
false. Such an admission would
be grounds for her execution.
The film wrings all possible
heart-rending drama from Agnes
Newton Keith's autobiographical
best seller. The setting is North
Borneo, where many of the
film's backgrounds were shot
British officials and their wives,
the Utter with their children,
are herded into separate camps
by the Jap conquerors. Thus
parted are the lone American,
Mrs. Keith, played by Miss Col
bert, and her husband (Patric
Knowles).
There are many striking shots:
women prisoners, struggling to
board a launch with their lug
gage and children, while their
husbands watch helplessly. . . .
The internees straggling into a
dilapidated camp in a tropical
deluge. ... Tearful husbands
and wives permitted a brief re
union across a water-filled ditch
where they can barely touch
hands. ... Claudette gulping a
gruel made from Japanese gar
bage . . . and being beaten with
a bamboo bludgeon for pausing
in the women's drudgery of
rice-planting.
Five-year-old Mark Keuning
of nearby Whittier, in his first
movies, appealingly plays Claud
ette's son. Florence Desmond
strikes a sympathetic note as
Claudette's friend and fellow
sufferer. Sessue Hayakawa, as
Colonel Suga, the camp com
mander, skillfully tinges harsh
ness with sad, perplexed hu
manity. Knowles and Miss Col
bert, in unglamorous roles, leave
no doubt that they are much in
love and sorely oppressed. . . .
"Outside the Wall" is a som
ber story about an ex-convict
Country Club
Atmosphere in
Barber Shop
By ITeary McL-mare
DAYTONA BEACH; Fla,
March 20 The first time I ever
got my hair cut (excepting those
infant snips and
cups by Mama)
was in a barber
shop about the
size bf a phone
booth, and I sat
on an unadorn
ed pine plank
stretched
across the arms
of the chair.
The barber
was a nun in
his fifties or so.
who had taken - ;"
up the cutting of hair when his
cotton crop failed for the sev
enth year in a row and he found
an extra pair of scissors in his
wife's sewing basket.
His idea of hair cutting was
very simple. His motto was "Get
It Off," and whether his cus
tomers were young or old they
departed from his shop with lit
tle more left than a top knot.
As his was the only barber shop
in town most of the male citizens
went about looking much like
freshly yanked-up onions. Some
where this rural scalp artist had
gotten bold of pair of clippers
that were as rusty as a garden
gate hinge and which hadn't been
sharpened since "Tippecanoe and
Tyler Too" was on everybody's
lips.
a a a
What the clippers didn't clip
off, they pulled out To this day
my head bean the scars of those
clippers.
The floor was littered with
clippings which provided a soft
carpet, the only luxury In the
snop. ine supply or tonics was
limited, the barber preferring to
treat himself Internally with
them rather than rub them on
the scalps of his patrons or vic
tims. If the stuff he kept on his
shelves really grew hair, then
the lining of his stomach must
have had the appearance of a
Shetland pony that had been
combed the wrong way.
Barber shops have come a
long way since those dear and
unhappily remembered days. The
latest evidence that they have
Bottor English
By D. C Williams
1. What is wrong with thia
sentence? "We shall have to
combine together to stop this
condition from spreading.
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "coupon"?
3. Which one of these words is
misspelled? Mien, slieght, be
lieve, conceive.
4. What does the word "an
nihilate" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with vie' that means "changes of
fortune, condition, etc."?
ANSWERS
1. Omit together. 2. Pro
nounce first slyyable as kaa, not
as kew. 3. Sleight 4. To re
duce to nothing; destroy abso
lutely. "Nothing whatever is an
nihilated. Matter like an eternal
river, still rolls on without di
minution. Roucher. 5. Vicis
situde. (Richard Basehart) who tries to
go straight. He is a pushover for
a gold-digging blonde nurse
(Marilyn Maxwell) in the hos
pital where he gets a laboratory '
job. Another nurse (Dorothy
Hart) is more sympathetic An
escaped con (John Hoyt) and
his wife (Slgne Hasso) involve
Basehart in a million-dollar rob
bery. Things get pretty depress
ing. Also excruciating when a
gangster jabs a scalpel under
Basehart's fingernails to make
him talk.
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Conscientious, Dignified
Service
ii North Capitol
' comes from Miss Mary Troja en-.
ergetie press agent for the Bev
erly Wilshlre Hotel in Beverly
Hills, California. ,
Miss Troja's dispatch, written
with all the formality of a State
Department White Paper, tells of
the formal opening of the new
barber shoD in that hoteL Read
ing Miss Troja s latest contribu
tion to belle lettres I couldn't
quite make out whether the new
shop was one devoted chiefly to
the cutting of hair and shaving
off of whiskers, or a combina
tion of the reading room of the '
' Union Club, the northeast wing
of the Louvre, the first ten rows
of Carnegie Hall, and the Early
American wing of the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art
The chairs are placed I In al
coves and were especially de
signed by an internationally
known barber chair designer.
The cabinets all are custom
made. There is soundproofing,
air conditioning, special lighting
arrangements, and music by Tel
esonic I gather that the walls
are hung with Tltians and Ra-
poaci na ncassos, mat tna bar
bers are all descendants of the
Pilgrim Fathers, and that fifth
and sixth-generation Vander
bilts, Morgans and Rockefellers
are In charge of hanging .up
coats, dusting off customers anf
shoeshining. I
Wonder how one goes about
joining such a barber shop? I
suppose you have to be proposed
by a member, then Investigated
by the membership committee,
and finally passed On by ; the
board of governors. I. v
And I wonder what the dues
are? Bet they soak you plenty.
This shop is almost certain to
have a country club where mem
bers may play polo, golf, and a"
manicure while dancing to the
music of a name orchestra on '
Saturday nights. l
. Surely would be nice to be
rich enough to join such a barber
shop. But I guess it is not for the
likes of you and me. '
(McNaught SyndlcU. Inc.)
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Barclay Back,
Returns from
Airport Tour
McNary field Is "pretty well up
with most airports" of its size,:
Airport Manager Charles Barclay
vu mum Atom-
."t7 ws,uciu uuiuik
vacation trip in California.
rii:iaj inspected lacinues and
talked with managers at several
city airports in the neighboring
state. ' , .
The new airport administration
building . began to . rise above
ground level at McNary field Mbn-
aay,. iier weatner-caused r delay.
Girders were being erected for the
structure first section.
wmv mvm FWJW
to paint the city's airport pickup
as a "follow me" truck to aid in
parking planes.
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