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- I Fram Flrat Statesman. March 2s, 1151
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
rHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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ithnJ .Verr awning. Boalneas offleo 215 S. Commercial, Salem. Oregon. Telephone I-244L
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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.)
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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
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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."
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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, -.
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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"