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;.t.u:.doWi -"fl! ' MHIMB IMI V i "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe From First Statesman. March 2S, H5I THE TATES3IAN PUBLISHING COMPANY - - CHARLES A. SFRAGUE, Editor and Publisher ' Eatered at the postoftle at Salem. Oregon, at second class saatter aader act ef congress March I, in raMlshed every learning. Cosiness office 215 8. Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone t-2441. ; .Salem moviegoer who saw "The Third Man" , rkv 4 Via 7oitrtet i tiArkenin? back to antiquity when the zither was comether and nothing could be iinah than Dinah '.and her dulcimer. ; , j ji I There is- something - haunting about the strange sounds produced on' medieval instru ments. Listening to these forerunners "of our modern music equipment is sort of like meeting your own ancestors, alive. You feel you ought to recognize them. It is as though you can't ,help feeling that you've heard that song be- fore somewhere in some happier youth. " And that feeling is. Just what people are looking for nowadays. Witness , the revival of appreciation for the Twenties f oot-tappin inwrinwn-and-dirtv Dixieland lazz: or the re newed interest in oldtime barn-raising-variety, punkin-pie-and-cider fiddle-playin and square dancjn'. The popular fancy may yet retrogress ai far into the past as the 14th century ana the ilther may yet become a part of our great looking-backward (to avoid facing the future) movement. ' ', r. ' " 1 That's why well predict that you'll be hear ing a lot more of the zither and its centuries- - old contemporaries. x-iayea cmeuy iu me uiuiui- tains oi xsavana anq Dwiizenanu wirac uui I ancient instruments like the wooden alphorn have had ho competition from the saxaphone, i the zither was practically unheard-of in this country until Hollywood discovered an unkown ! clucking away at a either in a . Vienna bistro. Now millions of people haveJjeen introduced to this melancholy sounding-board-with-strings i ria the film. Arid they like it T : And if thef public likes it, it won't be long before youH ,get it from every jukebox in the I country. The name bands will start including a . aither player, just like, while-bebop was with Us, they added Afro-Cuban drummers. Instead of a Firehouse Five Plus Two and their New ! - ... - mm vw -1 M Orleans beat, we'll nave oe z.weiDacK ana ner Efchy, Zombies, zealously twanging the zither, Jootling the zinke (13th - century woodland leather cornetto, forerunner of our cornet), the Ewerchfloete (flute), the zuffalo (primitive pipe), the; zourna (ancient shawn op oboe), tne tdmalon (with Strings struck by hammers in the player's hands), the zilafone (xylophone) and the zeL a percussion gadget lik cymbals. ' , Zounds, man! What a real cool combo that Will be! It will take you right back to the good eld days when the minstrels, troubadours and minnesingers made one-night stands. And THEY Juggled, too!, ' S dowitcher, is an elusive nd in this case, an illusive bird, ' whose swift, irregular flight is hard to follow, to say the least. It's a game bird and gunning for. it is considered great sport. Bagging it is greater sport, however, and it is to the latter that we refer. . . The game requires no snipe at all, only a schnook, a fall guy, or, in the vernacular, a sucker, and a group of jolly characters who are in the know. The knowing ones invite the gull ible geezer to go snipe-hunting, preferably some dark moonless night The equipment for this safari consists of one burlap sack, large, and one flashlight,' ordinary. The hero is led out to some forsaken spot in the bushes, directed to hold up the lighted flashlight and to hold open the burlap sack. His companions then depart in all directions to beat the underbrush and flush out the snipe, which birds are then supposed to head straight-away into the schnook's trap. But what, ha ha -happens? The conspirators make for the bushes and keep right on going to yuk themselves silly over a bottle of pop while our hero stands patiently out in the woods, hold ing aloft the torch and holding the bag. Moral: Certain senators in Washington1 should note the similarity of snipe-hunting to fishing for red herring. 1 Navy Gets Extra Appropriation To the thirteen billion odd dollars in the regular budget for military purposes, the house has added $350,000,000 for modernization of the navy and development of its. weapons. The ad dition gives rather belated recognition to the . continued importance of this arm of the service, and particularly the country's dependence on the navy for protection against submarines. The new German-type subs which Russia is . building in numbers are much more formidable than the old subs. They can travel long distances without surfacing, and they are equipped to re pl radar detection. The great menace they pre sent is not just in -demoralizing shipping as Ger man subs did in two wars but in serving as plat forms for guided missies, for planes bearing I atomic or hydrogen bombs. The navy has been working hard to prepare adequate defense against submarine warfare. The extra appropriation will give it "sinews of war" to finance its projects. ( "You 'Can't take it with you" or can you? According to this AP story maybe you can: LOS ANGELES, May Louise Overell Cannon, acquitted two years ago of a parent murder: charge will receive $300 a month from V their insurance policies, for the rest of her life , and later will receive nearly $150,000 from their estates. One Weak Link Eliminated A man who bears one of the most honored names in science, Frederic, Joliot-Curie, has been dismissed as head of the French atomic energy commission because he is a communist. Thus one of the weakest links in the West's defense set-up is removed and, presumably, a stronger one will be put In - its place. Joliot-Curie, taking advantage of the tra ditional French tolerance for any and all poli tical beliefs, has openly declared his devotion to Moscow and has maintained, indeed, that French atomic research is only for peaceful ends since no "progressive" scientist would ever per mit his work to be used for war, L e. against Russia. But -any atomic research is related to atomic research as a whole and most of that, at this time, is related to atomic weapons. As a partner in the Atlantic treaty with Britain and the U.S., France's atomic program has been of considerable concern to the West. Ideally, the U. S.-Anglo-French partnership would mean free interchange of secret infor mation of mutual interest, information, on the progress of atomic research in all three nations. But Americans rightly have refused to give any critical information to France because of Joliot Curie's disloyalty. We say disloyalty because a true communist recognizes no national loyalty; he is loyal only to the communist cause. As a scientist, Joliot Curie, of course, could claim that he must be allowed to do his work in an atmosphere of freedom in which no one questioned his politics. The Reds are always quick to stand for indi vidual liberties in the democracies as long as they can use freedom for their own purposes. Joliot-Curie was in a perfect position to use his. freedom to betray France and the cause of freedom, just as . another communist atomic . scientist, Dr. Klaus Fuchs, used his job and his freedom in Britain to pass American and British atomic secrets to Russia. The Union Pacific has bought the ' General Motors train of , tomorrow" and rumor has it Will operate the train on the Portland-Seattle run. That run cries aloud for streamliner serv ice. The line is double-tracked, connects two large cities with important minor cities between. The vista dome of this train would give pas sengers good views of ML Hood, the Columbia : river, Mt St. Helens, Mt Rainier, Puget Sound, the Olympics. We have wondered many times why this "natural" run for a streamliner wasn't used. Maybe the progressive UP will break the ice and use "tomorrow's" train today. Tlie Dowitcher Hunt : ! ' Ever go snipe-hunting? Usually, one doesn't go; one is taken. And for him who gets took it Is usually not as much fiftT as for them who take. ; ' .,- - '. . Confused? Well, that's what always hap pens when you go snipe-hunting. The snipe, also known as the long-billed . Friday's Stateman contained an illustration of one of the great sculptures to flank the approach to the new Arlington bridge in Washington, D.C Of local interest was the name of the sculptor, Leo Friedlander, who did the sculptures for the Oregon state capitoL The Arlington group of figures horse, man and woman-rare in classic style and remind one of the massive sculptures Friedlander made to flank the approach to our capitoL ".. . - Chinese Reds Say They'll Meet Famine Crisis; 1 Scoff at American Aid as Means of 'Enslaving' Br James D. Wait t AP roreifn News Analyst - After six weeks of silence j about a famine they still call a I calamity affecting 40 million people, the Chi- 1 nese reds have j decided to take I care of itthem selves. This decision has been an nounced in i series of bitter, prideful state ments broad oast by thePei- ?ing radio, hey display far more anti- American propaganda than ac-" . tual famine figures or concrete T ways to cope with famine'. The big theme is that the Chi nese are cot "rocb a bunch of : idiots" as to accept American ' famine relief which would mean, Americans lettmc; back into China to "enslave the Chines .- people. -. ' - . -s A brand new "China Peoples Relief, association has been or iT"nizei. Vice Chairman Tung li-Wu sars this is the famine picture and how the CPRA win deal with iU About 40 million peopfe are affected. Of these, "60 per cent will soon overcome the deficien cy period by means of organiza tion of production and . with a little additional help; another 20 per cent have no need of relief, while those who need immediate relief, because they were seri ously affected and have either no labor, power or too little, make up only about 29 per cent." ' - . Balanced against the frequent reports of people eating bark and grass, Tung's, reference to the 20 per cent who "have no. need of relief" raises this que-" tion dicint they ever need it, or are they: just past needing it? .;. However that may be, Tung says this is what will be done: -- More than a million tons of grain, will be shipped from Man churia vthis year. Another half million tons .will be moved to surplus areas in central and south China. To do this, a "mass transportation network" Is be ing -organized to carry grain, supplementing the normal . rail, highway, and canal routes. - - -x:jj; '-rJT" : -v--:i: - 7 -: . nv r Ctrtooa Vy Vant ha Shosmaksr ! ths Cbiciga Daily News. V. S. Tremrj Dcprtmt Comeig' Sl 7 ' J'"'x L jQ L- i ' Local radio station had copy of stirring speech prepared for long-time devout republican candidate ... just before talk was aired (over the network, that is) a busy-body discovered that GOP politico ended composition with: "And my motto is a' fair deal for all" . . . "after everyone re- covered the motto was changed to a square deal for all," . . . after all, there are more points and sides to a square. J j 11 you're looking for something to cele brate, this week is the time to do it . . tchbever it is who dreams, up these obser vances really hit the jack pot . . try these -on if or size Be Kind to Animals Week (stop treating your dog like a husband); National Hearing Week (". . . and if, dear voters, I - am elected '. -.); National and Inter-American Music " Week (Down By ihe Old Mill Stream Where the Govern ; merit is Building a Dam); National Family Week (comes just before Mother's Day); National Bow Tie Week (get the large size and on a hot day you can Jan yourself), and Na tional Cutlery Week (sharpen up those dull knives the kids' are playinfir with.) ' : And today is the fifth anniversary of V-E Day . . . war ended in Europe oh a Tuesday five years and eight months after it started . . i. cost six million lives (750,000 Americans) and one trillion dollars ... GIs made ready to take down their pin-ups at a moment's notice to come home ... slogan was '.'rap the Japs" .'. . at UN conference Molotov, described as mild-mannered,! effective statesman, said the great powers must "now work for peace." i Signs of spring (or something) . . Mrs. Margaret Nelson, lives thrfe miles west of Keizer school, said Sunday ' - she sato a jucenile deer (fawn) run past her house ... good thing it is ourthouse which is one hour behind day light saving time, instead of city hall . . . startling enough . when courthousi clock strikes 12 times at 1 o'clock out it would be dwasterau if that city hall siren was off schedule. ii , i Willamette university's weekly calendar notes that on Thursday "Portland university will vs. Willamette in baseball" . not with tbV public watching, we hope. Official of U. S. Fish and Wildlife service says he is going to try to transplant foreign game birds to America . . . ex plains that 'servicemen who saw .or hunted exotic game birds overseas during war may have same species to hunt here," ... x should prove interesting because only things most servicemen hunted overseas were krauts and japs, quail, loose frauleins, clean clothing, excuse to "sleep late, passes, a sure-fire cure , for athletes foot, sneaky-pete, and a way home. - r Better English Br D. C. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "It is imperative that we cooperate together.' 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "plural?" t 3. Which one of these words Is . misspelled? Coincidence, misal- lience, reminiscence, continuance. 4. What does the word "hia tus" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with aa that means "uneasiness of mind?" ANSWERS 1. Omit together. 2. Pronounce ploor-al, oo as in book, not as in tea. 3. Missalliance. 4. A gap or opening; interruption, (Pronoun- ( Continued from page expense) ostensibly to dedicate Grand Coulee dam (which has been pouring out electric ener gy for years). At Pendleton the president will make one - of his major speeches, with a national radio hookup to carry it across the country. Other rear platform ap pearances, will be at Ontario,' Huntington, Baker, XaGrande and Umatilla. Another major ad dress will be given at Grand Coulee. . ' - Anything the president says on this trip is bound to be poli tical. So we may expect an en dorsement ef CVA in his Grand Coulee speech. I And his other speeches will be in measure re peats of the 1948 line when he jabbed the eightieth congress as the "second worst" in history. (What will he say or the 81st " which to date has enacted very. , very little of the program, he laid out for it?) The president definitely seeks to increase the strength of pro administration forces m con gress; but the result in the Flor ida primary when Senator Pep per was defeated and a conser vative democrat nominated was not a propitious forecast for Truman's success. Mr. Truman is our president and as loyal , Americans we should give him a cordial wel come when he visits Oregon. But that is only a diverting in terlude for us. The major busi ness in the next eleven days is to make up our minds on whom to nominate for public ofices at stake in this year's election in city, county, and state. In this period The Statesman will make its comments on men and meas ures, in the full realization that the decisions rest with the peo ple. V - C 1 x ' f L J Nil i ii MnttM Lincoln and Lew Lew Wallace comes up with An apt recollection. "It took Lincoln nine tries Before his election." Abe's life sets the finest , Example we know. That leaves Mr. Wallace ; Six elections to go. j J.WJI. I ce hl-a-tus, I as in high, a as in ate, accent second syllable.) "There came a hiatus in their talk 5. Anxiety. "11 ; ' s i anuria Politics Now! By Henry McLemore DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, May 7 A fellow wearing a Dewey button walked up to me on the street today and asked me an outright question. , v He Wanted to know if I real ly believed President Tru- -man was sin cere when ha W said ' that the ' transcontin e n- now -on was non-DoliticaL I said yes, I did. Before I could do anythin about it the man with the Dewey button snapped a lie detector on my arm, exclaiming as he ad justed the apparatus, "Well see about that!" , . . t Folks, never in your, life did you hear such a racket, or wit ness such goings-ons when that lie detector went to work. It buzzed like fifty rattle, snakes in an oil drum. WheeU and cogs flew into the air. The needle on the graph performed gyrations never seen under a circus tent. People 15 paces away- were scorched by the sparks, and I hopped around screaming, "I take it back. X take it back." President Truman's trip could no more be non-political than paying alimony could be fua?. To ask him to go ten days without talking politics would be like asking General MacArthur not to salute the colors. Mr. Harry got to his. high of fice reliably said to be one of the best offices in the whole country because he was and is a politician. It is as natural for him to play that role at all times as it is for DiMaggio to play his as a centerfielder. I couldn't swear to it, but I'd bet that when he greets Miss Bess good morning that he turns on just the same sort of smile that he has turned on lor,mil- ' i sunt II Ways in By Jane Eads WASHINGTON When the Library of Congress in vited some 5,000 big-shots to view its special 150th birthday members from n scrub - woman y on up pitched J in to provide ? r e f r e shments. f Members of the J Welfare and Re- ' creation assocl-. ation and es-f pecially its off-1 spring, the uooKing ciud r - collected small --'V; contributions to to buy food and drink and pastel paper plates and cops. - From their own homes they brought flowers, candles and other items such as punch bowls, real, lace table cloths and vases. It wasn't right to invite of ficial Washington, libary heads from all over this country and Europe college presidents and such, just to look and not eat, they felt. People get hungry when they look. They. knew the guests were coming so they "baked a cake.' The result was something which x would have made the richest embassy, on the most lavish of expense accounts sit up and envy. It was all done voluntarily by staff members who cooked for days in advance, after hours, at home. No hired cantering Job, this. We had no appropriations for Wash nqton entertainment," Mrs Mildred Portner, secretary! of the library told me. "We figured only about S.500 of those invited would come, but everybody seemed to be accepting. We worked even harder as time went on." Mrs. Portner was chairman f the re freshments committee. Miss Elsie Fetter, secretary to Dr. Ernest Griffith, director of the legisla tive, branch, was put hi charge of meat balls; chairman of cheese was. Marlene Wright, special as sistant to the librarian, Dr. Luth er Evans. Mrs. Portner says she was able to buy most of the stuff at whole sale prices. She ordered 500,000 little cocktail rolls, two hams and two turkeys. Miss Helen Bullock of the library research staff prepared the turkeys for baking. Staffers made 8,000 cookies at home. One male mem ber made a thousand little buns. The Sunday before the event a group got together for a "meat ball-rolling party." Sixty-five pounds of ham, veal and beef went into meat loaves and 40 pounds of different kinds of cheeses perked up with many spices were spread out to tempt the guests on buffet tables In the Whittall Pavilion at the library. Loaves of bread, stuffed with parmesan cheese, dill pic kle and ham were cut into lit tle rounds. Carlos Garcia, hus , band of a staff members, made tidbits of Puerto Rican bananas, sliced and fried, like potato chips.. lions of voters throughout the years. ! ' i Margaret, I'll bet, isn't forgot-l ten either. When he congratu lates her after a concert he isryt just a proud father, but a poli tician as well, turning on the charm automatically to keep her ..vote. . x 'J No doubt but that beings a po litician is so much in Mr. Tru man's blood that when he can't fall asleep at night he counts votes jumping into a bollot box, not sheep clearing a fence. - 0 It wouldn't surprise me either that when he does fall asleep he Often dreams of growing up to be president of the United States. Mr. Truman's trip -r calls for very few speeches, but it is amazing how often a train can stop when the engineer has been tipped of f that no one will mind if he drives the train in fits and jerks. And what is more natur al, when the train is halted be tween these fits and jerks, than Mr. Truman getting a little fresh air on the platform of the ob servation car? V Continuing, what Is more na tural than his saying a few words to the crowd accidentally gathered under the accidental guidance of the Democratia chieftain- in that area? If .he stood there without saying a word he not only would be con sidered ungracious, but might be mistaken for the late Calvin Coolidge. I trust this satisfies the man with the Dewey button. (Distributed by McNaught Syndl ; cate. Inc.) fl f GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty It seems probable, in view of their efforts to rebuild transport and their success In supplying their armies during the civil war with very primitive means, that the reds have more trans port facilities at their disposal for this purpose than any pre vious Chinese government. However they are up against the ancient law that limits the moving of food in China by pri mitive means. Tins is simply ttm tact that a ricksha coolie or donkey eats up all he can carry in 100 or 150 miles. . ; The broadcasts made not" the slightest suggestion that Soviet Russia may be offering any food to relieve the crisis. Instead, the Chinese will make do with what they have. Above all, they will not fall for American offers of relief that might be designed to "drive a wedge between the Chines people and commu-'-. nism." -. This decision Is ascribed en tirely to the new relief associa tion, which argues that the fam ine wouldn't have happened if it badnt been for "imperialism,"-' Literary Guidepost "Yesterday I discovered a new miracle drug ... today HE discovered a miracl drug which made nine bseleie ... then everything went black - THE TWIN" ADVENTURES: ' THE ADVENTURES OF WIL ' LIAM SAROYAN, a diary, and THE ADVENTURES OF WES LEY JACKSON, a novel, by William - Saroyan (Harcourt, Brace; 13) , ' How i man, empty-handed and with nothing up his sleeves, ' pulls the rabbit out of the hat is described In this volume. The first part is the hat: The diary kept by Saroyan for 34 days in August - and September, 1944, while he was living in London. The second part is the rabbit: The Wesley Jackson novel planned, written and edited in that short period. The novel was published in 1948, but the diary is new, and the juxtaposition of the two is new and revelatory. The novel was written in the midst of innumerable distractions ' such as buzz bombs, food and tobacco problems, the lack of ex ercise, illness. While at work, says Saroyan, he likes other things to do. He had them. - " His over-all model was "Huck leberry Finn;" his themes are song, aspiration, error, vanity, hate. In general he remarks that "the thg i want in a piece of writing Is smiling" . . . and how characteristic that is, w reflect, of all he has written. In particu lar, since he loves the number three, he plans for 33 chapters, and maybe 69,000 words (a num ber divisible by three); on the third of the 34 dayse happily imagines turning in the finished book: and several times he stops to count of pages done so far and multiply that by the probable number of words per page, to measure his progress. When he has a birthday, Wes ley Jackson has one. When Saro- yan thinks of the wife from whom war ' has separated him. Wesley meets the beautiful Span ish girl and the. Modem Woman. . When he is fed up with idlers of high rank, Wesley runs into ridi culously Incompetent .superiors. And it works the other way around: jfter Wesley reads Ec- ,. ciesiasies, saroyan re-reads it. But above all, into -Wesley goes Saroyan's hatred of war. His eloquent and savage dia tribes are transferred into the actions of Wesley and his friends. "Both sides are a man's enemy," says Saroyan, and Wesley dem onstrates it. The author, who was himself conscripted and served as a private, thought, half, seriously,' of calling the novel "The Bum's Rush." I liked the novel when it first appeared; I luce u now. Tenant Finally Ousted After GasBarraere 7 -'O PORTLAND, Ore, May Gas masked police crawled Into an apartment room to overpower and haul out a tenant who had 1 withstood a tear gas selge for two hours today. Sgt. Dean Blockwood said Earl R. Miller, age 48, had threatened his landlady and then kept a po lice squad at bay with a shotgun later found to be empty of shells. Miller had recently been ordered to leave the apartment building, the sergeant reported. He was re moved to a veterans hospital for observation. - LENOX CHINA Exclusive in Salem at 7Xf !'XX U, , Mi,..- fa J 00 WXNiHW3 UsriMS colors, lovely as a bnos's me H0fiKttmsettinf.. Just One of the Beautiful -' Patterns on Display,, at