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m . m . 4 1 "tfo Faror Sways Vs, No Fear Shall Aid'' ( - I Fram Flrat Statesman. March 2s, 1151 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY rHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher . . tk. M-taffle at Salem. Oregon, aa aeeond claaa matter under act of congress March S, 187. ithnJ .Verr awning. Boalneas offleo 215 S. Commercial, Salem. Oregon. Telephone I-244L i' ' 1 ' I, you and get hired by someone else, bond ser- Doctor Loses License r vants being passe The Ntw Hampshire medical board has rt- In conclusion, Laski has only one suggestion: voked the license I of Dr. Herman Sander, the The employment of coloured girls from the col physician recently acquitted on a murder charge onieg who might welcome 'the opportunities 'based on his admitted injection of air in the work m England could offer them." " veins of a woman' patient. Originally Ugged a What opportunities, we might ask. The col- , 'mercy killing" to end the suffering of the can- ourei giris are probably better off at home, or cer-rio!deh woman the defense at the trial stood jn a country like America where middleclass on the claim that the woman was dead when WOrking women have no bothersome servant the injection was made, and the evidence was problem. They have no servants. 1 , confusing. association is probably the most important trade association in this territory. Its membership consists of lum- j ber mills, chiefly in Douglas fir, In Western : Washington and Oregon. The association as sembles statistics of real value covering lumber I production of its mills, promotes research in the manufacture and use of lumber, seeks to expand markets, encourages reforestation, and gives re- sponsible representation to the great lumber in-j dustry. Now it is working to expand its mem- j bership and appeals particularly to the smaller! Hut that did j&Jrl Want Small Mills to Join charges of unprofessional con . - West Coast Lumbermen'. medical ooaro vigorously vuiiumi u "morally reprehensible." It declared: "It is likewise dear that a physician's moral 6ligation to his patients and to his profession U to engage only in medical practices which are designed to cure or alleviate disease. Hence it applied its disciplinary powers on the doctor, though it did leave the way open for him at a laterj date to apply for restoration f his right to practice. The medical board could hardly have acted otherwise In viewjof the published facts. Either T Dr.: Sander did perform a mercy killing, or if the! patient was already dead his injection re waled a mental instability dangerous in a phy sician. A lot of sympathy lias been expressed for Dr.; Sander, and his friends in his home com munity stood by him loyally. But we cannot let friendship and sympathy blind us to sound judg ment If "mercy killers' are to escape penalty thei way is open for more murders under the mercy" label. Jr There are arguments for euthanasia the re lief, of suffering in hopeless cases by terminat ing life but legalized euthanasia is a long way off. If it comes it will only be employed through careful egal process and not through the in dividual action of a loving daughter, a distract ed brother or a doctor. Dr. Sander gets) off lightly with the punish- Henry Talks Himself into Liking Fishing By Henry HcLemore ! HOMOSAisSA SPRINGS, Fla April 20 This comes : to you from Homoisassa Springs. Run ning from Ho mosassa Springs to the Gulf of Mexico are nine miles of the best fishing stream in Flori da. It would be my luck to be exactly where I am because if Sou have ever ild your eyes on a man who hates fishinf it it is Henry McLemore. I woudn't know a royal coachman from a hotel doorman. I don't know the difference between a dorsal fin and a salmon. And what do you think I'm surrounded by? People who have dedicated their lives to fishing, jl have a room and bath . here at the Homosassa Springs hotel but do you know what I sleep In at night a creel. ! As I write this, on my left is an authority on speckled trout. On my right Is a man j who has spent the last 7 years studying the habits jof bass. Directly In front of me is a woman who can tell you the weight of the world's record perch. With her is her husband who can not only tell you tho weight of the perch but can give you the first name, the middle name, and the street ad- ! mills, since the bigger mills are already enroll ed. The effort should be crowned with success. ! dress of the man who caught the The small mill has relatively as great a staked perch. What I am trying to tell in a sound lumber business as the big mill, probably greater because it lacks the tatter's f diversification. It should make its contribution! in dues and in interest for the common good of the great industry whose health is so vital to I the economy of the northwest. mnt the medical board has prescribed. Life tjguld not be left to the whim of an individual. The Servant Problem (Sigh) Things are tough for the female working Political Letters to Editor The AFL League Reporter recently suggested that trade unionists write letters to the editors of their daily papers "to answer conservative editorials and commentators." In answer, Editor & Publisher, newspaper trade journal, commented, "This is an election year. Editors should be even more on the alert to guard against use of the letters columns for political purposes." . From this, the League Report infers that the American Newspaper Publishers association is -warning publishers not to print letters on poli tical issues written by trade unionists, and points you In this! simple column is this one thing: ! I am surrounded by probably tjhe greatest group of fanatics in the world and I am wearing myself out trying to talk their language. i I You can't tell people who love to fish that you think it's un doubtedly the world's worst past time. If I stood up and announced that to the growp that's here at the Homosassa Springs hotel they wouldn't be satisfied with just cutting my throat or wringing my neck or gouging out the pur ple' whichj I call my eyes. They would have to figure out a new and. completely different, way of eliminating me from this world. If you don't think their conver sation is dull let me quote about three of four paragraphs of it. I i"You mean to say you caught that with a wriggler." stiff, says British Writer Marghanita Laski, in out that E & P itself runs letters with (conser-j three miles outside of Chile The (Condon) Spectator. Only she says it more vative) political bias. j because that's the only place in the woriq mat l Know ox today eleeantlv. like this: "What of the professional middle-class wom an? The only answer, I fear, is that her eman cipation, la over. She can no longer, with rare exceptions, hope to exist once she has children. The home from which she was emancipated in i Victorian .and Edwardian times was a home I staffed with servants. Without them, she must do the job at home herself, for this one can not be evaded. The loss to her own life will be Intolerable; the loss to the community incalcul able - .' j- ..; .a -To some extent, English women who want to work outside the home are paying for their mothers' and grandmothers' sins, she admits. This seems to be a casa of misunderstanding all ornunH- 1 wnere you can caicn a rainoow. au arouna. . , And wh x a rainbow I Most editors don't want their letters columns, 'j don't mean a trout; you can ac- like The Statesman's Safety Valve, to become a: tually catch a rainbow." j tool of any political organization which provides "I know the place you are form letters to be signed and sent in by mem-! talking about but what kind of bers. Such correspondence is not a spontaneous expression of opinion by an individual, but an organized propaganda campaign masquerading as spontaneous expression. These letters can usually be spotted and are filed in the waste basket. ' Occasionally an organization will direct its tackle do you use for a rainbow? 4c That is to say, the domestic servant was treated- secretary to express its collective opinion in a (should say mistreated) like an inferior creat ure for so long that English girls won't take domestic work if they can help it Good pro fessional servants j all go to Jtachelors in luxury flats or big homes where there is a servants' hall. Virtually the only professional servants a working mother can get are Irish women (and who wants an Irish woman?; Mrs. Laski im iJRes). There are also available women with child renof their own who will move in and letter to the editor. When the letter is repre-l sented as just that, and signed, it is usually Will a 13-ounce line hold a rain bow?' I , j . This Is the sort of thing that's going on around here while I'm sitting here listening to it. The awful thing about these j fish ing fanatics is that they ! train their young to be fishing fana tics. The: 8, 9 and 10-year-old boys and, girls speak with com- printed. Letters on political issues, intelligently; Sotted freshman cart jump, and argiung un siae or uiouier or presenting in- when you ask tnem out oi plain formation and opinions of general interest, sent politeness where is the best place in by individuals are welcomed. We are not in- for dotted freshmen they ac ; , , . , don't even have to hesitate for an terested in personal beefs, however, nor can wa maaw9tm They tell you New Ha- publish anything that is libelous, too lengthy or ven, the upper reaches of Cam unsigned. bridge and the back water of As for the affiliations of the writer we don't Princeton, care if he belongs to a labor union or thm TJaJ In ending this column I would help with the housework. But this is intolerable tional Association of Manufacturers, to the GOP U uC M end Hso Sat anybodJ because they want to live "as family"; the dif- or the Progressive party. The only reason our' X?s column again AnTwhS I ferent social levels provoke awkwardness, and Safety Valve exists is just that: It offers our make that statement I know ex one doesn't wantj one's children "forced into readers a chance to get it off their chests, what- actly what I'm doing. I'm alienat- oompanionahip" with a servant's child, does ever it is. And if it's political well, in an elec- ng most of !he en 111 America, I 4; v . - because most of the men in Am . I . null jrcdi, niiiii 1M1 i: Of course. It's possible to engage a refugee - j er displaced person but that's awkward, too, Slowly race barriers are crumbling. Rudolph tiAce these people are often capable of far more Bing, new executive of Metropolitan' Opera in intelligent work and it's embarrassing to have New York City, says he will give roles to qual- mn Intellectual equal peeling potatoes in your ified negro singers for appearances with the kitchen. Sometimes, too, their political attitudes Met He'll have many names to consider: Mar-i (Ma with some of the Poles." the author points ian Anderson, Dorothy Maynor, Paul Robesoni ut) prevent an easy, natural atmosphere Roland Hays though Robeson might want to round the home! There's that troublesome business of forms and permits, but jit can be done importing a foreigner to do your housework. Bringing a girl from abroad, however, is buying a pig in a poke, and there's always the chance she won't like turn his part into a pro-commie performance. . i i The state board of control announced that it "accepts" the new state office building. What would it do if it didn't? Ask for double its mon ey back? Prosidont Makes Detailed Appeal to Editors for Mobilization of Newspapers in Cold War . Br J.M. KiteHa, Jr. pAP. rerelgn Attain Analytt ' i WASHINGTON, April 20 -() President Truman has made a detailed appeal for mobilization ex the nations prwa in the f oold war. ' The presi dent, address tag the Ameri- t 1 . . can aoociy ox f Newspaper Ed- . t. clear his belief. . that, in addi- 'Si tion to unifying Y I the American ';V tanok Wfcindi ' blpar tfean foreign Policy, the its press can make broad. outposts abroad, and through the radio. ! j The importance of this pro- gram is attested by the efforts 1 of Russia and her satellites to j stop it. Russia has resorted to ' an extensive effort to Jam the incoming radio broadcasts, at heavy expense both in money, equipment, and the sacrifice of some of her own broadcasting facilities. There has been a pressure campaign against the U. S. in-, formation offices in every communist-controlled country, Czechoslovakia being the latest to issue a "cease and desist. American echoes heard Ian states cannot stand the glare. ; In asking for the conscious support of the American press In this program the president overlooks one of the major prob lems. That is an adequate pre sentation of American policy by the government itself. The American people them selves don't know, with regard to many facets of policy, what Better English ed pge erica love to fish and are prob ably tying a couple of flies while they read this. Let me repeat what I have just taken 600 words to say I don't like fish and I don't like people who catch fish, and in case you have missed the point I don't like people who like to fish. But 111 let you in on a little secret. Let the sailfish run while you count ten and set the hook. Don't do it before that because that's the only way you'll ever get your sailfish. And if you don't think that the feel against the line when a "sail' nails it is not one of the great, lovely feel ings in the world, you are plumb crazy. And if you've ever fished for tarpon under a full j moon at midnight and seen that game fellow walk on his tail across the water, you know that prob ably the nicest thing you've ever done in your life is fish. To catch a i small-mouth bass . . . . Shucks, I'm talking myself into liking fishing. (Distributed by . I McNauffht Syndicate. Inc.) 1 . ' 1 Bettor English By D. C Williams 1 ! Th things he Isays about the importance of doing so art the things we have heard all along. That America has truth on . her aide, and that a careful pre sentation of it will eventually penetrate to confused and mis led people everywhere. ' On the government's part, the president announced a new and r Intensified campaign by the UJ5. k information service, conducted in crnection with diplomatic All of this goes to prove the effectiveness of even the com paratively small effort which is how being made. I have told before in this column of watch ing the, Germans flock into the British library amid the heaps of bomb ruins in Essen. People in every communist country where these little lamps burn on the road to liberty have braved official suspicion and even ar rest to obtain information about the outside. But gradually, like western diplomatic representa tives themselves, the offices are being frozen out The totali tar iff all about. Policy is- fre quently apparently in vague outline before it is announced, and later concrete efforts to ex plain come as "old stuff and never overtake the vagueness. Much policy has been a reaction to Russian . pressure, coming about gradually so that few un derstand that not one American in a hundred perhaps not one in a thousand knows what the idea of "European, integra tion" is. But they get! angry because the Europeans don't come across if the U. S., paying the bills, asks them to. j There has been some improve ment in this respect recently. . But if American newspapers are to do the Job the president asks, there has got to be more frank ness and more clarity, and bet ter expositions of it at the top, on the everyday steps. j MODERN DRONE IN THEf!NDUSTk!AL BEEHIVE iUIST VOU. P alV ek a 'lie Th J . ! e Safety Valve . . . Would Renew Franchise To the Editor: For Rails on Union St Shall we take away $850,000 annually from the city of Salem? That is exactly what you will be doing if you do not renew the franchise for the Southern Pa cific on Union st. There are over 200 families on the Southern Pacific payroll liv ing in Salem or within its trad ing areas. This represents close to 1,000 people who will be forced to sell their homes and move to another terminal if the RJL la denied a franchise. Ninety per cent of these peo ple are in Salem as a direct re sult of traffic which comes from the other side of the river. There are over 50 train service employ es, over 50 switchmen and en ginemen, over 25 clerks and car checkers, over 20 section men, over 15 car repair men, 15 or more roundhouse employes not to men tion extra gang labors and bridgemen, operators and others who spend their money in Sa lem. Their annual income is around $850,000. Over in West Salem (now a part of the city) most of the in dustries depend primarily upon the railroads for service which would be slowed down drastically by closing Union street On top of all this the Southern Pacific Co. is the largest tax payer in the State and in the County and should be encouraged to expand their facilities instead of curtailing them. Do not retard your city by limiting its most Important form of transportation. Union street is also vital to people across the river in time of flood and affords also a valu able military by-pass to the west side. Lee H. Seydel 380 WVMadrona Ave. Salem. Ore. Ways in Washington ,1 "Dog daze Canine pet of Salem family came home other night in bad shape . . . limping, one paw held high, mangled, dripping red ... parents of household gone but children excit edly -called veterinarian ... verdict: "This dog has stepped in some red paint. $5 please." Add to other county election expenses j $16- for a neta ballot box for Salem pre- i etnet 1 . . . old box still tied up in court dispute involving John Steelhammer and H. R. (Farmer) Jones in last legislative campaign election ... Steelhammer was finally adjudged elected by one vote . . . but case has never been officially dismis sed. I Marion county election clerks estimate nearly 90 per cen oi late comers tO poll books were out-of-staters registering for first: time here ... great majority registered as democrats. Scene on street ... brand new car pushed by two ' youths both eating ice cream cones . . . steering boat was girl munching cone , . . running alongside . . . another girl. ..also up to her neck in ice cream ttd-bit ... spectators watching with tongues hanging down their shirt fronts. Fun at city hall . . . Girl with not-too-bright look in her eye flashed into police station ... to pay up on overtime park ing ticket just awarded . . . "Hurry up with my change," she yodeled ... "Why?" counter cop shot back . . . "Because, shrilled the flustered female, "I'm now parked in a bus zone." ! ! Government engineers this week taking soundings on j dangerous gravel bar building up in middle Willamette riu- r er at Salem . . . bar causes cross-current creating mean sit- j uation at boat landings on Salem side . . . pet dog swept . clear under pier ... boat renting nearly at stand-still. Engineer dredges, which clear rirer of bars every-spring, now operating at Independence and Newberg; expected at j Saiem soon . . . bar at Salem raises heck with all river j operations takes three tugs now to herd log raft under I bridge ... one raft broke loose, smashed four boats on shore. No, that wasn't a British Redcoat or a Royal uard with that bevy of girls in town Thursday . . . the dolled-up 'gent was dolled-up to dole out samples of fags ... his pix was on the packages ... wot price f ameS I r m . I r I rv ft- -itt.il By Jane Eada WASHINGTON-P)-The navy's "Operation Fiddlefif could be adapted for you and me heavyweights and lightweights ;-ZiL ' ' t alike. Beginning .' ' with the "Battle of the Midriff," advice in its booklet "Feel Alive" could ap ply to anvone-i the "big bass"!' people and theV folks who mere-, ly "need tun ing." In plotting a course in weight reduction, the booklet suggests you will be wise to get expert advice from a phys ician. Your job will be to fol low his advice and to "stay on the beam." "At meal times you don't have to be a martyr or stand out like a sore thumb to be diet-wise. Dieting means calorie restriction you can eat anything you want providing your daily caloriein taka in balanced meals equals your daily energy out-put," the booklet says. Posted in the navy pamphlet's "Rogue Gallery" is a list of "heavies" you are urged to watch lest they 'slay you" pie "heaping a la mode," "soda pop transfusions ... by the bucket;" candy bar "crunching with cal ories," wheatcakes "stacked with usual accessories;" spaghetti "drooling with sauce and cheese;" cream and sugar "with coffee ... gallon a day;" hot biscuits "but tered and jammed by the bak er's dozen;" malteds "thick . . . double thick . . . and WOW!;" hors d'oeuvres 'and highballs "beaucoup calories;" beer and ' pretzels, "Chubby's choice." If you are on the slender side and need "toning and tuning up," the high calorie foods would seem more appropriate, the booklet suggests. If you are overweight, the low calorie foods plainly "make good sense." As for exer cise, "Feel Alive" warns that pushing yourself away from the table is the only exercise which reduces you permanently. To lose even one pound of body fat by exercise alone is a tough job. The navy cites a few examples worked out by Dr. Ar thur H. Steinhaus, George Will iams College, Chicago, of just how hard it is: Walk 60tt miles (mile In17tt minutes). Stand for 160 hours. Shovel 114,739 pounds of sand. Run 43.2 miles (mile ia six min utes). Climb 48 times to top of Washington Monument. -Do 5,714 push-ups from floor. The navy is ready for your ar guments: "You say you lost from four to five pounds in a footbaU workout, or three hours of tennis in the hot sun. You lost weight all right there's no denying it. But that weight was mostly wa ternot body fat and in a few days you had it back again. Per manent weight loss is a horse of a different color." ; i Hollywood on Parade GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty i 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "The war has affected food "supplies all over the world." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "depot"? ! 3. Which one -of these words is misspelled? Believe, reprieve, re cieve. sieve. 14. What does the word "plau sibility" mean? 15. What is a word beginning with im that means "very slight, gradual, or subtle? j i ANSWERS 1. Say. "over all the world." 2. Pronounce dep-o, eas in deep, as in a, accent first syllable. 3. Receive. 4. The quality of state of seeming likely. "His explanation contained an element of plausibi lity." 9. Imperceptible. j a, -. 13 r V - vvi wugic Aicunucr cui ow es iicv wviw a vj BiaviRi w n the gorciian knot, is in j west- ica proceeds with li-r de far ntt fcy tafUettac State- central Turker atti an Alaalca aaa itawaur...- By Gene Handaaker HOLLYWOOD If you're an Academy award nominee, your applause-getting power will be Indicated by hnv far hark f you sit at thf ceremonies, ire m farther back, the higher your : crowd noDular- f. .' Ity is rated by I planners of the event. Johnny Green explained the idea to a dozen rep orters who showed up the other morning at the Pantages Theatre. The 22nd annual awards presentation, when stat uettes called Oscars are handed out for the preceding year's best picture and performances, will be held there March 23. Green, the composer of "Body and Soul," is general director this year of moviedom's biggest annual glamor-carnival. Nominees will be seated down front on both sides of the two main-floor aisles. Johnny ex explained. Most folks are; more interested in the star nominees than in candidates for technical awards. Past experience has shown that some of the latter don't get enough applause to last while they're walking to the stage. "It's very embarrassing, regardless of music," Green add ed. "On the other hand, we know that Olivia de Havilland, for ex ample, can get enough applause to carry her from the tenth row." Therefore, the bigger the name, the farther back. Still, an effort will be made for the first time to "humanize the technical awards, Johnny con tinued. "If you announce that so-and-so gets an Oscar far "a high-frequency, double-oscillating megaphone', it's pretty dull," be said, nimbly picking an imag inary invention out of his thinly thatched dome. "But if you say it enabled Gregory Peck to talk like an old man, that's interest ing." At one side of the stage there'll be a glass-enclosed booth where Announcer Ken Carpenter, Ron ald Reagan and Eve Arden will describe the excitement to a world-wide radio audience. Paul Douglas, radio announcer turned actor, will be master of cere monies. Downstairs dressing rooms with long miarors, a sad remind er of vaudeville's golden era, will be press headquarters. Award winners will be shuttled among newsreel men, still photograph ers and interviewers on an assembly-line basis. The two front rows of balcony seats are being removed to make room for cam eramen. Outside therell be searchlights sweeping the sky. Grandstands will be jammed with fans shriek ing as their mink-clad, orchid adorned favorites step out of chautfeured limousines. Yep, itll be quite a night. Sitting Pretty The makers af dialog reeal chain Moat think it their beaadea daty Te subordinate the eomfert el Te the whims ef stractaral beauty. J.W.S. Union Bible Class under the auspices of Salem , CJB.M.C Friday al 7:45 pjx At Bethany Evmrnjellcal And Reformed Church j Marie j Capitol J. JL TarBbafJ. Teacher gabjret: "Sata. His Origin. History & Destiny"
