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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1950)
Hen Mr About Your . . ,,1 .. '- ; Like to Leave Newspaper.. His Feet Home v lyAAbuid . "No Taror Sway Us, No Fear Shall Atce ' From first Statesman, March 28. 1831 THE STATESaiAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morning. Business office 213 8. Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone S-244L Entered at the postofflce at Balem, Oregon as ecood class matter under act of congress March 3, 18sV American liner Launched , The first American passenger liner to be built in decade slid down .the ways of the ship yards at For River, Mass. one day last week. It is a big.pne too, 26,000 Jons, christened the Independence (but . not after Independence, Ma). In a way adjoining was the Constitution, a sister ship now building. The Independence was built by the American Export Lines for the route between New York . and tha Mediterranean. The ship is completely alr-conditloneS, with capacity for carrying 1000 passengers as well as many thousands ,of tons of jcargo. The ship is built, of course, under agreement with the old maritime commission for'aid in construction and with subsidy for operation. - -: ,' .,;.; ,:: i-: ' The day of the huge luxury liner seems to. be past. Airplanes crossing the ocean take many passengers. And the former steerage patronage f immigrant hordes from Europe is also; gone. There is a place for utility ships of mtermediate sire,; with comfortable accommodations. In fact business on trans-Atlantic passenger vessels has been heavy ever since' civilian travel was re sumed after the war. r V This country ought to have more vessels in this class, offering comfortable travel accommo dations at sea and a service for foreign com merce. Military preparedness also calls for sbips readily convertible into ; transports. The unfor tunate thing is that the subsidy business for many years has been so smelly that the public has grown indifferent or even hostile to private ship construction and operation. . appeals to Chief Roble to remain and the sin cere manifestation of goodwill by the great ma jority of ; the firemen which induced him to withdraw Ms resignation. ' ' We never liked duststorms, and we didn't like ,this late flareup in the fire department. But if the atmosphere is "purified' as it seems to be, maybe we are compensated for the brief period of distress. .-- . Bridge at The Dalles - People at The Dalles have been working-for years to get a bridge across the Columbia at that point. The stream is at its narrowest in many miles near, The Dalles, with firm rock outcrops for piers to rest on, but the bridge has been slow coming. The last legislature passed a law which Wasco county is using to finance a bridge. Revenue bonds will be issued to pay for the bridge and buy up the presen ferry. By using revenue bonds, payable out of toll re ceipts no tax burden will fall on property own ers. And haying the county build the bridge and run it makes it tax-free, sp the venture is more attractive to investors. The bridge will serve a very considerable volume of local traffic and tourists travelling north and south on highway 97. - Scolds Upping the Skirt Hem j Men look to Bond street, London for styles! in clothes. Women never look to London, but rath er td Paris, or Hollywood. So the late protest of Dr. Edith Summerskill, member of parliament and insurance minister in labor cabinet, oyer shorter skirts will go quite unheeded. "My hem stays down" she snorted, as she read of fashion's decree that skirt hems should be shortened Must as we had got them dowri." Now Dr. Summerskill is not just a rumpled blouse and skirt with a large brain. She is de scribed as "one of parliaments best .tailored women' (pictured not available). She made her protest against current fashion edicts, she said, on i behalf of all the women of Britain, oyer the "lack of understanding displayed by those who ordered us to put our hems up. Looking at the past the British cabinet mem ber referred to the ''horrible skirts and whale bone corsets" which women wore before they were free to plan their own lives. She declared that the only women In the world who would wear fashions which distort their bodies are thjise who art kept "mentally adolescent." Miy be she let the real cat out of the bag when She defended long skirts for women, politicians -"we can cross our knees discreetly on the plat form and forget that our mother told us no lady should do so." ) Just another round f ired in the long battle ever fashions! Designers say long skirts, design- ts say short skirts, designers" say skirts in be tween. And for all the showing of independence as displayed by Dr. Summerskill women do fpl- low' the fashions. If you do not think so look: at the fashion books of yesteryear. Who is wearing those styles now? And mere men who Hdicule warnen for apeing dame fashion, are so dumb they just don't know what Is In style, though they, reputedly are the ones women are trying to please. Rose Festival Today is the big day of Portland's Rose Fes tival, with the big parade of floral floats and comely girls. It's a grand event, well worth standing on the curb for hours to see. Despite the recent unpleasantness between Cherrians and Rose Festival? over the non-appearance of the former we trust that many from this area will go down to Portland to see the parade and enjoy the other entertainment fea tures. Besides, -there is the Rose Show which should be one of the best in recent history. An average of 86.3 persons lose their lives In auto accidents each day. That justifies the term, "the high cost of driving" (or riding or walk ing along or across highways). On a three-day weekend then the total would be over 250 even if it were not a special holiday drawing people out in their motor cars. Unsafe speeds are charg ed with 24 per cent of the driving; but how can you get drivers to slow down when they are behind the wheel of the modern motor car? In Lane county Judge Skipworth upheld Eu gene's three per cent admissions tax on places of public amusement. It was imposed by the city council there in an effort to squeeze out more money. With the heavy federal admissions tax it would seem as though amusements were pret ty well sucked dry, but the so-called luxuries are apparently the easiest victims of the tax gatherer. In Florida at the baseball games wo noted that admissions taxes were collected for the federal, state and city governments. The old feud of the Hatfields and McCoys In Kentucky seems to have an Illinois parallel. The Shelton gang of racketeers and gangsters are the targets but they never tell who is feud ing with them. Another of the brothers was kill ed a few days ago. He seems not to have been mixed up in the clan's crimes but he paid the blood penalty anyway. Three of the brothers have been killed; another wounded and his son badly shot up. Kind of fancy target practice for Illinois. , f. i .. . aaa Gearing the Air We used to know a man in eastern Washing ton, one who had, lived there many: years: jHe would say. after some of those terrific dust storms that occasionally blow across tho coun try and fill the air with gobs of dust and grit: "You know, I think the duststorm purifies j the atmosphere." True enough, after one of those blows tho air does taste sweet; but what a fierce purifying agent a duststorm is. j Perhaps the late experience with our fire! de partment Is like an inland empire duststorm maybe it, has "purified the atmosphere." It does seem that a fresh, bright atmosphere now pre vails where before there must have been some musty smells. It was the outpouring of public That workers in the United States own and operate automobiles of their own is a source of wonder to most Europeans. What would they think if they heard of how two North Bend lumber company employes took ah airplane jaunt in a plane owned by one of them down to Gautemala City, Gautemala. They were gone a month. Out on North 14th street we can tell when the high school closes fewer gum wrappers, candybar wrappers and notebook papers to pick up. "Mummified Hermit Found in San Jose Foul Play Suspected" is a headline in the San Fran i cisco Chronicle. . Now let's not jump to conclusions. Russ Announcement of New German-Polish Boundary Brings Germany Closer to West LA By Henry McLemoro' . LONDON, England, June 8 If my feet had their way about it they'd never come abroad with' me.- i They'd stay, at home and do what '- they 1 are accustomed to ' doing noth ing. In the United . States X walk fewer mile per year than the average depart ment store dummy. Let mo touch f o r e ign soil however, and you'd think I was a test pilot for Flor shelm." Z - hit the streets with the ' sun and keep walking un til X dont know what I'm do- Ing, and then . I keep right on walking after that. - There are rewards, of course. During the : 300 or more, miles I legged it around London yes-' terday I saw the Tower, West minster Abbey, No. 10 Downing St, a lady with a monkey on a leash with -a blue ribbon tied on its tail, every blessed picture in the National Gallery, and . 4,000 Americans, all walking about as fast as I was. Another reward was a case of plain old-fashioned stomach ache. At this time of year there is scarely a London comer with out its fruit vendor and borrow piled high with cherries, pears, grapes, apples, and strawberries, adding a bright touch of color to the grayness of the city. To keep up my ebbing strength, so I could keep pound ing the pavement, I ate enough fruit to keep a family of crows alive for five years. - But tho best reward of my walking came in Green ,Park where I was privileged to hear the world's quietest brass band. There were enough musicians in brilliant scarlet uniforms on the bandstand, wielding a sufficient number of trumpets, trombones, brass" horns, drums, etc., to have brought unrest to eardrums five miles distant. But when I had advanced within fifty paces of the " band, and could see that all the mem bers were playing, about all I could hear was the shushing of the conductor as he tried to get his boys to play even softer, i, i This puzzled me until I walked closer and discovered that the bandstand was enclosed by an iron railing, and that it cost a shilling to get inside the railing and sit on a chair. Of the thous ands -of people in the park no . more than a hundred had paid to get inside the railing and the conductor seemed d e t e r m ined ,that they, and they alone, would hear the music Occasionally the conductor would forget himself and call for a loud toot or two, whereupon the man taking up the shillings would Jump up and down and wave his hands to put the quietus on the band. He didn't want a single note to seep through tho railing to the ears of the non paying would-be listeners; Yes sir, I can leave London knowing that I have heard the only 50 piece band that could play In a hospital corridor and not be call ed down. One thing the English I have comd- to admire and have for their, very own Is tho American dollar. The American visitor who doesn't know the difference be tween a farthing and a half crown need not let that worry . him when looking in shop win dows. Most of the prices are marked in dollars and cents on tags that have the Stars and .Stripes painted on them. Wish I went in for puns so I could say the Union wants Our Jack. Don't blame 'em. Wish I had a little bit more of it myself. . ' (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.V Safety Ive Va By J. M. Roberts, Jr. Ap Forin AMaira Analyst WASHINGTON, June Tho East German-Polish agree! rnent on the Oder-Neisse boun dary may not oe ' a perma- . v nent settlement the allies! contend it isn't ? but it helps to solidify an- s ; Other boundary, ' that of Russian pentration into western J5 u r opo. , Russian dis- Segard for erman f o e 1- lngs is beginning to look like a trend, and perhaps an abandon ment of hope for any German support of the Kremlin s expan- 1 aioniat alma. '...'"' Moscow recently announced that all German war prisoners had been returned home, mean ing that tho Germans could ex- Ect no further word of a num r variously estimated by the allies at nearly half a million, and by tho Germans at nearly three times that. East Germans were also notified that they would bo required to continue reparations payments - for 19 years. ; 1 Now the East German govern ment, Moscow's puppet, has agreed to let Poland keep the. rich- Pomeranian and Silesian territories in which Russia in stalled Poland after taking large areas of eastern Poland herself. 4 Aside from its very question able legality, the decision is no more popular in East than in j West Germany. , One Issue on which Germany; Is united is the ! return of the Polish-occupied , ; territories. Not only national pride but pressing . economic problems are Involved. The east-' I era area while dotted with im I portant industrial centers, was a ! heavy, contributor of agricultural I products for all Germany. With- - out them Germany's economy, remains permanently unbalanc ed. The necessity of caring for nine million Germans expelled by Poland also created a serious problem in West Germany, and has been made one basis of de mands for a decrease in allied occupation charges. The failles agreed to let Po- i land occupy part of Germany i pending a peace settlement, lust ; as they agreed to let France, i another liberated but relatively prostrate country, occupy part ; of Western Germany. France ; has made her occupation more or less permanent in the Saar, but there has been nothing like the Polish expulsion of residents and resettlement by Poles, and government expropriation of everything east of the Oder Neisse river line. If Russia thought to ease the German pain by a simultaineous ' substitution of civilian for mil itary rule in eastern Berlin, her' hopes are vain. The military in Berlin have always acted as the agents of Politburo Member "Beria's MVD, and the Temoval of the military merely means that the people are now in more direct v contact with their real masters. A separate peace, which has been suggested as one pos sibility for East Germany, would .merely formalize its position as a strictly-controlled satellite. But there may be significance in the fact that East Germany is more and more ruled rather than wooed, and that the feel ings of West Germans are dis regarded. Russia may be recog nizing - pending ' some new phase of the cold war the solidity of the allied line of con tainment. Or she may be closing what she now considers a bar' dv- t Europe in favor of opening wid er a front door in Asia. Sorority Alumnae , Protest Zone Chance To: City Council Salem, Oregon Gentlemen: As a group of Interested Sa-. Ier4 citizens we wish to go on record as vigorously protesting the zone change permitted in the Capitol area for the erection of a service station. . We feel that this Is a serious mistake, as It betrays the trust placed in the city of Salem by the citizens of the entire state. - When the actions of the Coun cil are no longer for the good of the whole people it is time to raise a unified voice against them. Therefore we are Inviting other groups and individuals to Join us in a determined effort to prevent this desecration. The Salem Alumnae . Association Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity Hollywood On Parade School out one week, circus here the next ... joys mult itudinous pile up on younger and older set0 in Salem ... in cidentally, Salem school board denies rumor it was responsible for rain which spoiled post-school outings this week . . . but board isn't too unhappy, either, seeing as how many a farmer found rain major boon. : Hare you a little soap salesman in your family? ... tee know a tribe who has and his neighbors have bought enough soap to wash a hippa too hard to spell, make it an elephant ... it goes for something good, anyway ... the boys who win their way to summer camp that way may not use a lot of it themselves but did yotL evef see an etemal- ly-clean little boy who teas worth much? Progress, it's wonderful ... a body now can park 24 min utes in front of a bank ... we never did like that rule which allowed a full hour parking ... after all, we could finish our business at the bank in quite a bit less than an hour ... deposit bur check, ask for our balance, exchange xquips about the weath er, express hope the teller's feet weren't too tired by nightfall, and try all the pens at the public writing desks . . . then; with at least a half -hour of our nickel still left in the parking meter, the best we could do was take a seat and wait to offer the presi dent a tip on the market . . . but now only 24 minutes to spend there . . . but why 24 minutes? ... 25 or 30 would be a lot easier to remember ... we're told the meters work best on the 24-minute basis . . . wellj we'd just as "soon they were busted anyway, sometimes. ! .; j ' ' Report cords are out . . ..lectures about them are al most over ... swipiming pools are opening . . . sunburn lotion is getting short ... wives are wearing things they were better shaped Jot years ago . . . tree houses are going up, or in, like mad L . . mamas are having to watch where , they step, wot with so many little things now under foot all day long . . . and papas are having to work more and more nights, especially when the Senators are in toum . . . yep, summer! 11 Is! But it won't last; forever want something to worry about? ... well, it's just 199 days until Christmas. ... let's pick strawberries and string beans and forget about it . . . after all, we've got that Fourth, of July hurdle to get over first. GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty What Was It I Wanted? Shoo striacs aad shavlna eream Start xne out on snany Janata Down to the Salem drag stores Where I purchase all my wants. -; . i . Wnea Tm back home I sigh as I Recall what I forgot Well. Ill squeeze the tube vp ttefcter. And m tie another knot J.W.S. By Gene Hnndsaker HOLLYWOOD If the actors .don't go to lunch by 12:30 pjn., their stomachs start growling and .the microphone picks up the!-. ..rummes. a iiy going by the; mike sounds $ like a racing auto. Exaggera- : tionsT Not at all I they're part of the head-I i i. 3 . acnes aiieuiuiufc upon even brief I movie scenes. 1 i i IlCduaui a; We've got a million of 'em, an assistant director told me. The director in a scene I watched had to keep his eye on eight players. The 45 -second portion of "His Kind of Woman" showed Vincent Prince and Jim Backus at a bar, talking. Extra passed by, some speaking brief lines. The screen's too vacant, Director John Farrow would say, "I want a flow of people through here. A man here. Another person cross- , ing here . . . Now you've got too many coming in, Sam." Assistant Director Sam Ruman had marshaled the players like a general. He had 24 featured and principal players to watch over and 57 bit players and extras. If Farrow wanted a crowd shot, Ru man had to bo sure they weren't the same people shown in anoth er part of the room in a preced . ing scene. Sometimes his ingenu ity was taxed. He'd pair off his couples in different combinations or have them change costumes. The assistant director sees that lunch is called as near to noon as possible and stomach growls forestalled. Too, if the actors arc worked too long, Sam says, "they don't sparkle." Close - ups of the leading lady are avoided, if pos sible, after 4 pjn. After a busy, emotional day, begun at 7 a.m. with hair dressing and make-up, she's beginning to sag. Sam Is used to things like this, too: a phone call at home at 10:30 ' pjn. from the director: "We won't shoot that poker game tomorrow in the hotel lobby after alL Well do it later in the hotel office.1 Sam then must call four actors at homo and tell. them they're not needed tomorrow. The cameraman has his prob lems, too. Extras passing before the camera in the foreground may be too brightly lighted. But the light has to be that strong to show the stars farther back. So a stagehand with a sheet of gauze shields the beam of arc light from the passing extras. Paper money and documents may be sprinkled with water to keep them from crackling. The actors may wear wollen "sound socks" to muffle their footsteps. Better English - By D. C Wniiaik 1. What is wrong with this sentence? The early beginning of the company was auspicious.' 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "gist?" - 3. Which one of "these words Is misspelled? Lyonaise, appraise, criticize, tyrannize. 4. What does tha word "om nipresent" mean? ". Chapter WHERE NEWS COMES FROM By Wendell Webb - It is an old saw that "an I knew is what I read in the newspaper." - But It might also be kept In mind that a newspaper Is not omnipotent All a newspaper knows Is what its staff can ob serve or dig ap, or what people I teU it Were you ever angry because this story or that did not appear in your newspaper? Probably. And yet it is to wonder some time whether the newspaper even knew about the story in question. ! There is veritably an unlim ited source of news. Obviously, there are not enough reporters to know all tho Joe Doakes la tho world. Bat all reporters would like to know more Joe Doakes.. They are Joe Doakes themselves, with famill lies, financial problems, friends, enemies, lawnmowers, ulcers and stack drains. If a newspaper seems to have more news of this and less of that, it Is because the "this" makes itself known not for any other reason. Reporters and editors, contrary to some be liefs, don't have the time to dis criminate even if they wanted to. Newspapering is a high speed business in 'Which every news source is equal so far as its right to be heard is concerned. But deadlines are hard, unavoidable realities and there are only so many minutes in a day. If ' some news crowds out other news. It is because tho news crowded out did not in terest as many people as tho other or was set la type too late. Type can't be stretched or squeezed. Only so much can go In a riven space. It Is a rare day when aay newspaper can come out exactly even on the space it has for news. 1 But there is no news in which" your newspaper is not interested. i V News originates with people, not newspapers. Your Health i 5. What is a word beginning with oer that means- "cautious la 'action for fear of doing wrong?" ANSWERS "I dont object to posing as a very devoted eouple, dear . . but must yea call me lover bey in public? ' t, Early is redundant, and should be omitted." 2. Pronounce as though spelled JbL 3. Lyon naise. 4. Present every where at once. "God's love is omnipres ent" S. Scrupulous. By Dr. Herman N. Bundeasea Roughly speaking, d fs eases may be divided into two groups functional and organic. In tha latter there is definite damage to the tissue or malformation of an organ. In the former, no such damage to tissues exists. The trouble is all due to the failure of otherwise healthy organs to behave properly and to perform their functions efficiently. Nowhere, perhaps, is this func tional misbehavior more often observed than in the stomach and bowel. Since this is such a com mon disorder many doctors es timate that a fourth of all those suffering from indigestion are in this- group many patients . be come confused and fail to under stand just what is wrong with them. This is not surprising since functional indigestion can cause . symptoms very similar to those of gastric ulcer and other truly or ganic disorders. ... This disturbance may affect any part of the digestive tract, sometimes upsetting the stomach or the first part of the small bowel; sometimes chiefly involv ing the large bowel or colon. In those cases in which the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract is affected, the patient may . complain of just one symptom,, such as heartburn, bitter taste in the mouth, belching or discom fort in the upper part of the ab domen, loss of appetite or sick ness at the stomach. In other cases, two or more of these symp toms may be present. The functional disorders of tho large bowel may result in what is known as a spastic colon, in which there are periods of con stipation accompanied by discom fort in the lower part of the ab- " damen. From time to time, there , may be attacks of diarrhea. X-ray examination of the large bowel ,will show when this condition is present ' , The second type of disturb ances of the large bowel is nerv ous diarrhea. In these ' cases, there are attacks of diarrhea which develop especially during periods of nervous tension, ex cessive tiredness, or in connec tion with other illnesses. The third condition is mucous colitis in which there are alter nate periods of constipation and diarrhea and the bowel move ments -contain large amounts of mucus. These attacks may bo accompanied by pain to the ab domen. . Persons with, these functional disorders often suffer from flush ing, numbness, ; dizziness, rapid heart beat, and headaches. . The most important thing In treatment is to relieve the patient . of his nervous tension and emo- tional disturbance, and to. make sure that he gets enough mental and physical rest . ' i r k Most of these patients do well vritH Hlt which contains no highly seasoned foods or bulky foods. It there Is a great deal of gas formation, starchy foods in the diet .should bo eliminated for the time being. ' ' There are various drugs which can be used to control the diar rhea temporarily. It is suggested that mineral oil be taken at night to overcome the constipation, or the mineral oil may be admin istered by injecting It into the lower part of the bowel at bed time. ; V