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CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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Liars, Personal and Political
"When it comes to utterances by government
people about government policies and purposes,
nobody believes anybody any more . . . We
don't regard these people as personal bars. We
just shrug our shoulders and say to ourselves
that they are feeding us some more of the old
razmataz . . , We have come to accept such
things as part of the techniques of modem poli
tics. In these days, men aren't expected to be
sincere in their purely political utterances. I
think that is bad business" Frank Jenkins,
editor of Klamath Falls Herald and News.
'- Indeed, it is bad business bad intrinsically,
bad on the part of the perpetrators of lies, bad
on the part of the public which shrugs its shoul
ders and accepts rather than resents "the old
razmataz."
What brought on Jenkins' comment was Pres
idential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross' denial
that John Foster Dulles had been appointed to
the state department The first Associated Press
reports of the appointment (published in The
Statesman) were accurate, but they were de
nied. Later, the truth came out
1 This sort of thing has happened so often that
little weight can be given to official statements.
Two years ago, for Instance, there were news
paper reports that Stalin had made secret over
tures for a meeting with Truman. This was
strongly denied by Washington. So Stalin made
his play public and made U.S. officials look like
the liars they were.
. Just recently there were press reports that
U.S. military secrets are going to be kept from
onetime cornnrnnist apologist, British War Min
ister John Strachey. . Our military denies the
reports, but what are we to believe? Authorita
tive sources say that the U.S. navy is building
a secret weapon which looks somewhat like the
flying saucers people have been seeing.- All of
ficialdom, from Truman on down, issues cate
gorical denials? What are we to think?
I We can be sure of one thing: The vicious
philosophy of pragmatism is weakening the old
traditional American concepts of government
and politics.
The idea of truth as a handy utility is not a
hw technique of modern politics, of course.
That why Pharisaism, Machiavellism and Jesu
itism are all synonyms for falsehood. Authorita
rian governments and dictatorships like Hitler's,
Mussolini's, Peron's, Franco's and Stalin's have
always practiced expediency, have always sub
ordinated moral principle lor the sake of faci
litating an end.
But in the United States the Idea that truth
i is not absolute and independent, that truth is
reiativerdid not have much support until Wil
liam, James and John Dewey drew attention to
their pragmatic theories during the past 50
years. Now,, it seems that the pragmatic defini
tion of truth is accepted by our government!
Moat anything is true so long as it is practical,
aa long as- It accomplishes the desired results;
most anything is good so long as it is suitable
to the end in view.
Thus deception, perjury, 'distortion of facts,
- duplicity, casuistry, any kind of flim-flam and
humbug and "the old razmataz" come to be
tolerated as useful and effective political tech
niques. The presumption is that the government
can fool most of the people most of the time.
Vienna, Spy Center of Europe, Also Top Market
Place for Soviet Purchases of Western Goods
Br Joseph Also
VIENNA, Austria Beneath the
' exquisite baroque surface of this
old city, there are some Strang
goings on. Vienna Is the great
spy center of post-war Europe.
The rival Intelligence services
'even conduct private wars with
VIM HWB
Bad feeling be
tween the Yugo
slavs and satel
lite nowers. for
ioctance. Is said
to fee the cause
of the somewhat .
startling recent ;
What Is con
liihl mart
taortant, Vienna u ao
xamin entrepot for trade between
the Soviets empire and western
ISurepe. A good deal of this trade
Is 9t course carried on directly,
especially when there are ad
vantages in this method. An or-
dr f 100,000 tons of steel rails
for red China has recently been
used, for example, to turn the
great German industrialists in
Duesseidort against the western
allies, and to woo their support
far Soviet-connected German
rightist parties.
, 1 Yet here in Vienna la Intrac,
the vast new trading agency lust
set up to represent the Soviet
Union and all European satel
lites, with a view to gaining a
atmHdehold on the half -secret
cownerce between east and west
Here in Vienna Is where Soviet
or satellite agent chiefly come
te ebtaia whatever is forbidden to
export to Russia through! chains
mi third and fourth and fifth
parties from Switzerland or Bel
' glum or France er elsewhere.
Here In Vienna, In short, is the
beat place to get a line on the
praaress of Soviet rearmament.
The data available here. It
nuist be added, are far free
r wring. On tke one hand,
there is nothing about the Soviet
trading activities in Vienna to
scest the existence of the dea
pcrate shortagca of special equip
, saent and tnechanissas that hart
always been expected to slow the
caanplettao of the Soviet war ma
, rhine. On the other hand, there
I. everything to tufrest that tht
level and Intensity of production
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"No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe"
From Tint Statesman, March 28, 1851 ,
It takes for granted! that the poor public will
be so confused that it will forget from day to
day what, is said, or that, at least, we'll shrug
our shoulders and keep a good-humored attitude
toward the liars, personal or political (and we
can't see the difference).
We hope Americans are neither so stupid, so
confused or so apathetic as some government
officials appear to think. If the people want to
maintain a government of, by and for the peo
ple, we have got to expect our government to
be sincere, to be truthful, to be honest. We can
not afford to shrug our shoulders and keep on
swallowed "the old Razmataz" without protest
If we cannot have confidence in the administra
tion we have, it's high time to elect men of
principle whom we can trust, and who will trust
the people.
Age No Bar to Service
There's an octogenarian known and believed
by many in Salem who not only admitted her
age but also consented to serve in an important
position of civic responsibility the other night
She's Mrs. Euphrosina M. English, 2680 Cher
ry ave., who becomes the first woman member
of the city of Salem's budget committee of re
cent years. j
Xow, most folks jier age are content to sit
back and let younger men and women, take on
such civic tasks. ! .
Not so Mrs. English. Her appointment came
unsolicited and as a surprise; her acceptance
. came with reluctanpe. After all, she publicly
told the city! council, Tm past 80 and have
plenty of work to do out home." .
Counseling with Salem's city officials will be
no new experience to Mrs. English, for she's al
most a "regular" in! the audience of the alder
men's semi-monthly sessions at city hall. She
watches the processes of city government from
a front-row seat and that's more than can be
said of about 99 er cent of Salem's citizenry.
This white-haired pleasant - faced woman
wastes no time grinding axes at the council
meetings, though she takes the floor occasional
ly to speak her "piece. When she does, invari
ably, she has something to say on a specific is
sue at hand, something about which she has
first-hand knowledge.
"Now you can't j fool me," Mrs. English has
said on more than, one occasion, "I was there
watching when they laid that paving 30 years
SgO.
Mrs. English has said herself that this interest
in her city government dates back many years
to the time her husband died and she took over
the . responsibilities involved in their sizable
north Salem home place. V
Since then; she j has watched a growing city
with closer interest than many fellow citizens.
She brings an unusually fine memory to bear in
her appraisal of city works, past present and
future. She curries no special favor, and may
be that's why her advice is received so respect
fully by Salem officialdom.'
As a matter of fact public servants and elect
ed officials would undoubtedly like to see mora
folks like Mrs. English coaching from the side
lines. : !
of weapons beyond the iron cur
tain even surpasses what was
seen during the last war.
The positive evidence is par
ticularly disconcerting. As every
one knows who is familiar with
the pattern of European arma
ments production, the two great
Soviet prizes in the satellite states
were the Skoda works in Czecho
slovakia and the Manfred Weiss
works in Hungary. At the end
of the war, production at both
Skoda and Manfred Weiss had
collapsed. Skoda suffered the
additional blow of the expulsion
from Czechoslovakia of a large
part of its Sudeten-German skill
ed labor force.
Now, on the contrary, produc
tion at Skoda has reached war
time levels. At the Manfred
Weiss works, where the pre-war
labor force was 18,000 men. near
ly three times that number, or
43,000 men, are now working
around the clock. Many kinds
of weapons from bazookas to
cannon, are being produced.
These two great plants are now
being operated by the Kremlin
as hard as Hitler ever worked
them. Meanwhile expansion con
tinues. Skoda recently purchas
ed in Austria the steel frames
for six huge new factory build
lngs.
This information, which Is
what the intelligence services
would classify as 1A, fits per
fectly, moreover, with the more
fragmentary data available in
Germany. There, on the one
hand, the Duesseldorf leaders,
who still go regularly to the
Soviet zone, will tell you that
the East German industries re
ceived over 500.000 tons of steel
. and steel of .high quality too
from the Soviet Union in the
past year.
These same German business
leaders also forecast that the
westward shipment of steel from
Russia should reach 1.000,000
tons next year, thus indirectly
. supporting reports from other
sources of important Soviet suc
cesses In expanding home steel
output In the same line are
ether German teporU of large
preawcti mt iiwnvmt V-rs and
ether guided missiles in East
German' factories.
.' - To this positive evidence of a
powerful and effective Soviet
war production effort, must also
be added the negative evidence.
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The sharp eyes in Vienna and
these eyes are very sharp Indeed,
able to watch almost every east
ward shipment of all kinds of
goods have caught no sign that .
the Soviet re-armament effort Is
afflicted by more than the normal
bottlenecks.
I There is great demand for, and
heavy purchasing of certain bulk
commodities scrap Iron, rubber,
cotton yarn and wool, for In
stance. In the past year, no
major instance has been observ
ed, however, of any Soviet at
tempt to buy any of the special
equipment standing at the very
top of the European Cooperation
Administration's list of forbid
den exports.
. Vienna is the first place the
Soviet agents would come for ball
bearings, radar equipment, servo
mechanisms and other such vital
contraptions, if the lack of these
was a serious problem in Russia.
By devious methods, these sup
posed scarcity items can actually
be secured here. But there is
no effort to secure them. The
implication is that the Soviets
are now perfectly able to copy
even the most difficult Items
from purchased patent drawings
or stolen designs, or have achiev
ed production of their own de
signs, perhaps with the help of
satellite engineers.
I This Is a dark picture. No
one in his senses can suppose
that the Kremlin can be con
ducting a war production effort
going beyond Hitler's, and at the
same time cherishing perfectly
peaceful Intentions. The worst
of it is, we have not so very
much time left, to face and act
upon these hard facts which our
leaders, in their Baldwin-like
way. are trying to bamboozle us
about.
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Amid the general mild confusion resulting when daylight
saving time goes into effect April 30, Marion county courthousa
will once again stand out as a rock of solid turmoil. Firstly,
g":"4W.xM
ors and otforneyi, toill probably ncitch to fast time. Sheriffs
staff will have to be careful not to arrest anyone before he
officially commits crinie.
;'!
No plans approved) yet for proposed new Marion county
health center . . . voters ;are asked to authorize $50,000 for new
unit ... if okehed construction set to start January, 1951 ...
Officials estimate 6,000 square feet needed ... County has pri-
onty on site near Salem! General
George Moorhead,local paper mill superintendent, had
right comeback at Toastmaster's club function when he was
complimented on both jhis speaking and his recent marriage.
"Well, quipped Georgf, "there comes a time when any good
Toastmaster needs an budtence."
Information to file with that
piece of blubber gum . . among useful items army taught St.
Gordon Kirsch of Stayton, while on duty in Alaska, was method
of catching seals ... Kitsch, recently home on leave, says seal
snatchers work in two-man teams . . . one breaks hole in ice
and watches . . . partner starts beating on ice nearby . . . when
Curious seal (thinking i is census taker) pops head out of hole
.j. . bang! . . . alert hole-watcher grabs him faster than you
can say "seven slippery seals sneaked slyly seaward."
Not all landlords are men
weather, burn down orphanages or bite their renters' apost
rophe children. One local proprietor not long ago lowered his
already -low rents, gave tenants Christmas trees and, upon re
turn from a Canadian trip, a
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State officials hurrying to
fore possible telephone; tie-up
Earl Newbry returns this week,
session Friday ... if so
offices
tyig over the week endj
GRIN AND BEAR IT
- ... On,
the anal things' that happen! te every child ... shadswed
y secret
paUce whea I was S ...
in the e ntey-jrevslntlsa when I was . . .
while other clocks in city run on DST ancient
instrument atop courthouse will show stand
ard time. Elevator and county court will run
on ST.jjThis means that County Judge Grant
Murphy will be going out for mid-morning
coffee about time that other office workers
are thinking of lunch.
Because time clocks which stamp date and
time on filed legal instruments move on ST,
county clerk's office will remain open extra
hour with skelton crew to accommodate jur
hospital.
old parka, whale harpoon and
who evict tenants in sub-zero
few -extra snorts of good rye.
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get into new office building be
this month ... If Secy. State
board of control may take pos-
will be moving into new build-
by Lichty
seat to Siberia at 1 . . . teak part
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(Continued from page 1)
Oregon. Small wonder the small
farmer with a mule and a single
bottom plow has a hard time
making a living raising cotton
on a ten-acre patch in the "old"
south,
south.
Pastures looked dried out, as
though it were in the late fall
after a dry summer. Yet the
cattle . . . mostly white faces
. . . looked well. Their numbers
were astonishing the beef short
age definitely is over.
Oregon Is better known than
formerly. Sitting in a hotel lob
by in Dalhart, Texas, in the ex
treme northwest corner, I heard
a young man who looked like
a Texan remark to another per
son that the state he liked best
was Oregon it was always,
green. Perhaps the comment was
induced by the fact that outside,
high winds were blowing up the'
sand and dust. ,
- And at St. Augustine, Fla., I
visited briefly with a man whose
car, carrying a boat on top, had
a Massachusetts license. He had
spent the winter in Florida from
his home on Cape Cod.
"The part of the country I like
Is Oregon," he said, "around
Grants Pass and Klamath Falls."
We agree with both about Ore
gon and expect to be there almost
by the time this letter is in print.
E3E38S3&g3
Your Health
People often ask me if the
body actually forms real stones.
In other words, arc gallstones
and kidney stones similar to
stones found in nature?
The answer is "yes."- Kidney
stones, for instance, are hard
masses made up of such chemi
cals as calcium or lime, magne
sium, phosphates, and urates.
Ordinarily, the urine contains
salts of all of these substances
In solution. In this form, they
are excreted and cause no
trouble but, under certain corv
ditions, they are precipitated out
in the form of tiny crystals.
This is the beginning of a stone
which gradually; increases in size
as more of the substance is de
posited on its surface.
It is interesting to note that
persons in certain areas of the
United States seem to be more
likely to have kidney stones
than those in others. For ex
ample, in Florida. Southern Cal
ifornia, and the Great Lakes
area, kidney stones are more
frequently reported. ;
Men seem to have the trouble
more often than women. The
condition does not seem to run
in families.
The exact cause of the form
ing of kidney stones is not
known. However, there are
some things- which contribute to
their formation.
An upset in the way in which
the body uses certain substances,
called purines,-which are found
particularly in such foods as
sweetbreads and liver, may lead
to the development of uric Add
salts. This seems to be the same
kind of upset which is respon
sible for the! development of
gout.
A tumor of the parathyroid
glands, located in the neck be
hind the thyroid glands, may
also be a factor in the stone
formation.
. ;
The lack of certain elements
ipimi'
Bosox, Bums
Get Henry's
Nod in Majors
Br Henry McLemore
One of the unwritten rules of
the Baseball Writers' Association
of America is that to hold their
cards members
must make
public their
select! ons in
both the Amer
ican and Na
tional leagues
not later than a
week after, the
season opens,
That word
"public" is the
Joker in the
deck. Judging
by the scarcity
of experts who came up with the
winners each year, it might not
be a bad idea to change the un
written rule and make it okay
for members to announce their
selections in the privacy of their
boudoirs, or send them to sea in
ketchup bottles, or include them
in their wills. ,
Truth is, there isn't any way
to select accurately the major
league winners, the runners-up,
and so on down the line until one
pulls up at Washington and the
Cubs. A fellow can tear him
self away from New York in the
winter, make the miserable trip
to Florida, California and Ari
zona with the ball clubs, and still
come up empty-handed insofar
as knowing how the teams will
behave when they get out of the
citrus circuit and start playing
for keeps.
During my years as. a baseball
writer I must have worn out half
the shady spots in Florida quiz
zing everyone from managers to
batboy, yet I don't recall having
picked the major league winners
but one year and that was the
year I refused to tear myself
away from the enchanting slush
and cold of New York to under
go the rigors of a tropic clime
with the ball players.
And I didn't pick the winners
that year, if I must be honest.
It was done for me by one of
the loveliest ladies in the United
States, and one of the great au
thorities on baseball.
The lady is Miss Ethel Barry
more, and if you don't think she
knows her baseball just talk
about it with her sometime. I
am quite sure she could manage
a club better than some of the
managers I have known.
I tried to reach Miss Barry
more by telephone yesterday, but
couldn't locate her. For some
reason or other I have found that
collect calls to California go
through much slower than the
other kind. Maybe it's my imag
ination, but it seems that way,
anyhow.
Not being able to reach Miss
Barrymore, I suppose I'll have
to make my own selections. It's
a shame to do this to a bunch of
nice family newspapers, but I
don't see any way out.
In the American league I like
Boston. I like Boston because it
seems to me that it is about time
Manager Joe McCarthy had a
good year. His team has been
having good years right along,
but not Marse Joe. I figure his
number will come up in 1950.
You can't keep a good Irishman .
down forever.
In the National league, or loop,
I lean toward Brooklyn. Lean
all the way against them, in fact.
My preference here is based on
the fact that Brooklyn has the
best baseball team in the loop, or
league, and should run away
with the pennant, or gonfalon, or
bunting. I would like to be able
to choose St Louis over the
Brooks, if only because Mr.
Rickey heads the Brooks, but too
many of the Cards have reached
the age where they are just
around the corner from being
fitted for hearing aids and con-
Written by
Dr. Herman N. Bondensea
in the diet," especially vitamin
A, may contribute to this con
dition. Still another important factor
is the blocking of normal flow
of the kidney excretions. This
blocking may be due to an ab
normal position of the kidney,
or to narrowing of the pelvis
of the kidney where the kidney
excretions collect before they
empty into the bladder.
Infection of the kidney, par
ticularly when there is a block
ing of the flow, is another poss
ibility leading to stone forma
tion. Kidney stones cause such
symptoms as pain or tenderness
In the middle part of the back
which may radiate down toward
the groin. The urine may con
tain blood or pus if some in
fection is present. Frequency of
emptying the bladder may also
be present.
X-ray examination often Is
helpful in making the diagnosis.
QUESTIONS AND AN S WEES
W.B.: Is a separated retina a
form of optic neuritis? If one
eye is affected, will It also affect
the other eye?
Answer: A separated retina is
not the same as an optic neuritis.
The fact that one eye is affected
does not mean that the other
eye will also be affected.
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Conscientious, Dignified
Service
SC NertV Cartel
good risk.
As for who finishes second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh
and eighth in the., leagues, who
cares.
You say you do? -
Okay, go ahead and pick the
other finishers then.
(McNauxht Syndicate. Inc.)
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Ways In
Washington .
By Jane Eads
By Jane Eads
WASHINGTON-AVDr. Hugh
Hammond Bennett, internationally-famed
conservationist, says the
United States
"undo ubtedly
holds the world's
record for
waste." Chief of
the Department
of Agriculture's
Soil Conservav
tion Service, he
says we have al-
I lowed erosion to
-II "ruin around
II 10 0,000,000
acres of former
ly good crop
land for any Immediate practi
cal cultivation. We have followed
this up with moderate to serious
damage on a second 100,000,000
acres, he adds.
But what plagues him person
ally is that most of us have "got
ten into the habit of burning or
throwing away everything for
which we find no immediate
use." Many odd items of wood
so commonly find their way to
the scrap heap can be used, he
says. He showed how recently
in a small display of his collec
tion of wood products. Here such
common and plentiful woods as
sumac, boxelder, willow and even
the detested mesquite of Texas
had been used for distinctive
pieces of furniture and other ar
ticles. '
One is an exquisite, small table
that W. H. Lathrop, of the Soil
Conservation Service, - made for
him in his spare time. The top
Is made from a burl taken from
boxelder, a wood that usually Is
considered worthless not even
good enough for firewood. This
table has the luster and mottling
of fine marble. - Dr. Bennett also
has some goblets and casks made
from farm waste pieces; a willow
table with wild cherry center, the
top bordered with lilac; stools of
ginkgo, sumac, paw paw, buck
eye; a coffee table from river
birch; items from black locust
from Thomas Jefferson's farm in
Albemarle County, Va and
chestnut from Jefferson's father's
farm; bowls and boxes of Tex1 as
mesquite.
Dr. Bennett got interested in
making things out of woods that
are thrown away about three
years ago. He got some of his
boys to pick up the various kinds
of woods and send them in to
him. Some with workshops made
the pieces he now has. He hopes
the Idea will catch on, but he says
"we are probably going to have
to do a lot of educating in or
der to get anywhere with the de
velopment of any national habits
of thrift" In the sense he means.
Dr. Bennett first came to the
Department of Agriculture In
1903, in what was then known
as the Bureau of Soils. Sixty
nine this month (April), he says
he was born "down on Tobacco
Road, never saw a republican"
until he was 14, and he still
"can't pronounce the letter r."
Bettor English
By D. C. Williams
1. Wat Is wrong with this sent
ence? "We find it to be a posi
tive fact that he lives In the
western portion of the county."
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "connoisseur"?
S. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Paregoric, gym
nastic, Antartic, Pyrrhic.
4, What does the word "syco
phant" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with ar that means "disposition;
adjustment"?
ANSWERS
I. Say, "We find it to be a
(omit positive) fact, that he lives
in the western part of the
county." Pronounce kon-I-sur, a
as in on. i as in It, as in far,
principal accent on last syllable.
3. Antarctic. 4. A servile flatterer;
parasite. (Pronounce first syllable
sick). "Gentleness, which be
longs to virtue, is to be carefully
distinguished from the fawning
assent of sycophants." Blair. S.
Arrangement
AZALEA GKOWEft
DAPHNE, Ala. -(INS)- John
W Moreland, Jr., is helping the
American flower, fancier by put
ting on the market an azalea
plant that costs less than the ave
rage pack of cigarettes. Moreland,
owner of the Spanish Fort Nurs
ery, near Daphne, got the idea to
raise azalea plants while in .the
army during the last war. He not
only r sells his plants through his
retail shop and by mail order,
but often tours Alabama selling,
the plants to home owners who
appreciate the beauty of the aza
lea blossom.
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