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4 . . t I ' i tK.ww v w mil . m. . t. a. i 1 1 1 am f iu.u.uk JVo Fapor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Atce" From First Statesman. March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher PahUahed crery morning. Badness office 818 S. Commercial, Salem. Oregon. Telephone 1-2441. Snteret at the postoffU at Salens, Oregon, u eesad elau matte? aader act of congress Mareli S. 187a Round-Up and Barber Shop Quartet For the 1951 Pendleton Round-Up the direc tors may truthfully advertise, "Something new has been added." New but old it's the barber shop quartet. According to the Forest Grove News-Times a treaty of mutual assistance and alliance has been entered into, by and between the All-Northwest Barber Shop BaHad contest and the Pendleton Round-Up. The agreement is that one of the finalist quartets in the competi tion to be held at Forest Grove February 23-24 will be selected to appear as guests at the Round-Up next September. This may seem like a strange affiliation, and one can't help wondering how it will turn out. Will the barber shop four be given time to sing between calf-roping events at the arena or at trie Happy Canyon event at night? Will they have to let their whiskers grow to qualify for the wild west occasion? Do they sing on horse back, and at full gallop? Will a singer be dis qualified if he gets off key? We presume of course that they will sing cow boy songs instead of "Sweet Adeline'' and 'Clementine," and harmonize on "Home on the Range," 'Tm Back in the Saddle Again" and "Riding the Range in a Ford V-8." It should indeed be an attraction for the Round-Up which has been looking around for something to jazz up the attendance. Barbess really can fit into a horse opera they are work ing with lather all the time. So when you go to Pendleton next fall and see your usually meek barber all togged out in chaps, sombrero and colored kerchief don't be shocked, just say "Hi O Silver, Let 'er Buck." Since the price rise however we wonder if the Round-Up, to seal the alliance, shouldn"t revise its old slogan to "Let 'er Buck and a Quarter." Facts Out of Korea We have long wondered how the airforce could report the dead from its air raids in Korea in specific numbers. How is it possible to tell how .jnany red soldiers have been killed by bombs dropped on them? It seems quite impossible to know just how many are in the area, or how many were hit by bomb fragments. Planes fly fast, and never come down for a count. This type of reporting is now challenged by the London Daily Mirror, the paper with the largest daily circulation of any in the world, which calls these airforce reports "completely valueless because they are almost always false."' The Mirror recalled its reporter, David Wal ker, from Korea, and in his article written after his arrival in London he calls the picture given of the Korean fighting "dreadfully distorted," 'adding: ' This is not the fault of the British corres pondents in Korea nor the newspapers at home, but of the Alice-in-Wonderland information handed out at high level, ehher from Tokyo or the 8th army headquarters." For a long time reporters were free to write without censorship. Later that was imposed. While we have had a lot of information' and many pictures from Korea there still are gaps which are confusing. Latest is the apparent precipitate retreat from Seoul, which implies that there was no intention to hold the city. One wonders whether an orderly retreat to Pusan is planned, keeping a toehold around the port city with the support of the navy. " We may not be able to get the full story from American sources but foreign correspondents may be able to tell it. The Mirror has started Current Diplomatic Flutterings Are Declared To Be Dream-actions or a Red-inspired Wedge By JMeph and Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 If expert opinion and the rude logic of history mean anything at all. the last'.": ' r- slender chance peaceful settle- j? - ment with Ahe . f i . Soviet Union is J X1S f now, at this . Z " t very instant, w V, . .way. Or per-Hy naps it wouiu i be more ac curate to say I cebef, lost to arrange a truce, which might later; by our own Severe efforts, be transformed into a pfeace The reasoning behind this opinion, which is widely held by men well qualified to judge, is simple enough. The all-out Chinese offensive has already been launched in Korea. By all the signs, a Chinese on slaurht affainst ll i Indo-China will ' occur in tthe near future. And - wbenlndo-China has been added ; to Korea, the Kremlin will be ; too deeply . committed to its world-program of aggression to i consider turning back. . e . This is true, in turn, because : of the practical problems in ' Tolved in reaching some sort of t settlement, or rather truce, with : the Kremlin. One the alterna " tives are examined, they go down one by one, like the "nine blue bottles hanging on the walL Possibility number one is the fundamental , settlement, giving ' real peace to the worid, such as was outlined by Dean G. che on ar tzte n last prmg. A fundamental settlement would ' Involve honorable Soviet collab- ir f h i 1 by holding its glass up to the official communiques. The Senate and "Lame Ducks" Noting the appointment of ex-Senator Thomas of Utah, who was defeated in the last election, to an important federal position by the president, the Oregonian says that the sen ate should be tough in examining the qualifi cations of these "lame ducks" that Truman is in the habit of taking care of. It is doubtful if the senate will need the advice. Every Sen ator knows he may be in the lame duck class himself some day, and looking for a federal berth. The only time in recent years that an ex-senator has failed of confirmation was Mon Wallgren of Washington. Thomas of Utah has good qualifications for high office and it is pro bable that the senate will confirm his appoint ment promptly, for he is highly esteemed by the members with whom he worked for many years, regardless of party. The job he is assigned to is high commissioner of U.S.-administered trust territory in the Pacific the old Japan ese islands. The machinists' union which broke with the AFL five years ago over a jurisdictional dis pute, has rejoined the federation, bringing the AFL membership to the highest in its history, over 7,000,000. This is the union that controlled shipbuilding jobs during the war. It still has a membership of over half a million, and under the rearmament program its numbers will doubtless increase. Rosie the riveter may be back in slacks and tin' hat, paying dues to the union for her working permit. Deification of Stalin The adulation accorded Joseph Stalin would in more primitive times be preliminary to his deification. In the atheist state of Russia where God has been abolished Stalin serves as an alternate for popular veneration. His birthday is substituted for the Christian Christmas. All this must gag the old man who ducked out of a Georgian theological seminary in his youth to become a revolutionist. To show the extent of the glorification of Stalin a Yugoslav provincial newspaper, the Za greb Daily Naprijed, checked the November 17th issue of Moscow's Pravda and found Stal in's name mentioned 101 times on the front page alone. Here was the score: Josef Vissarionovich Stalin 35 times. Comrade Stalin 33 times. Great Leader ten times. Dear and Beloved Stalin seven times. Great Stalin six times. "Other variations were 'Stalin the Genius,' 'Great Leader of Entire Mankind,' 'Great Chief of All Workers,' 'Protagonist of Our Victories,' 'Great Fighter for Peace,' 'Stalin the Hope of Fighters for Peace,' 'Faithful Fighter for the Cause of Peace,' etc." If and when the Russians take over Yugo slavia we know of one editor whose corpse will adorn a Zagreb lampost, unless he reaches the border first. In this matter of price and wage controls the attitude of each group seems to be like that of the schoolboy in the old bit of doggerel: "Teach er, teacher, don't whip me; Whip that boy be hind the tree; He stole peaches, I stole none . . ." Judging by the continue sleeping oration in the United Nations, an honest agreement on atomic energy, an end of Soviet im perialism in Europe and Asia, and a consequent Soviet retreat from positions already occupied, particularly in eastern Europe. Anyone who still hopes for a settlement of this sort must be ready for the asylum. Possibility number two Is what may be called the contrived settlement, such as some respon sible men now advocate, espec ially in France. This would in volve, in one version, the neut ralization of Germany and Japan, in order to produce a new world balance of power. But it is ad mitted that the mere evacuation of Germany and Japan will not produce a changed world power balance, unless the Germans and -Japanese are then permitted to re-arm. And it is surely very odd to suppose that the masters qf the Kremlin will allow the re-armament of all of Germany, for example, when the re-armament of western Germany alone is plaintively described as an in vitation to war. Possibility number three is still the official aim of American policy, the settlement based on "the creation of conditions of strength in the free world," But this "creation of conditions of strength," which means carrying out the full Atlantic pact pro cram, will require a minimum of two years. Meanwhile, the American policy makers have now brought down the officially estimated moment of greatest danger, when the Kremlin's ag gression in Europe will begin, to 1950-51. If this date is correct and there is every evidence that it is the strength to deter, aggression cannot be built up be fore the aggression accurs. . . j Finally, possibility number four is to secure a sort of truce, that would gain time for the Western allies to complete their re-armament. But if a truce is wttBtedVnow is the moment to seek it. For in order to be de pendable at all. any truce would "white sales" folk expect to for some time to come. have to include a sort of roll back in other words a reason able arrangement in Korea, per haps on the lines proposed by the United Nations truce commission, plus a guarantee that Indo-China and other threatened areas would be left alone. Without a roll-back of this kind to give it reality, the lan guage of any truce agreement between the Kremlin and the west would be perfectly mean ingless. Indeed, its real meaning would be that the next Kremlin aggression would occur shortly. For it would be a truce sought in extreme weakness. It was be based on humble acceptance of two enormous defeats. And as such, it would constitute, in and of itself, an open invitation to another attack at the earliest possible opportunity. At the same time, it would have been difficult and risky enough if President Truman had followed his first impulse to "have it out with Stalin," with the atomic bomb on the table, at the moment of the first massive attack in Korea. The difficulties and risks have already doubled, now that the Chinese have launched their all-out Korean of fensive. And when Indo-China has also been attacked, the masters of the Kremlin and their Chinese partners will be unable and unwilling to consider retreat. No matter what may be the in ducements or threats, the Krem lin will then proceed : with its world program until checked by force. Such are the hard realities that almost certainly lurk be neath the surface of this time. The diplomatic flutterings now in progress, like the discussions of a new four power meeting, meanwhile fall into two classes. They are either dream-actions, taken to escape from ! the hard realities. Or they are very ef fective Kremlin-attempts to for ward its world program, by dividing and sowing rfigirn among the western allies. Coprrtht msi I New York Herald Tribune Inc.) J he AV S: I SWf - w JW i t iXX 111 1 j ii 3f D CwnrJg. Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, Portland democrat who likes to see legislative sessions take off with a bang, says he will seek a ruling to chase women to the sidelines. The secretaries, in the only state which permits secretaries in legislative chambers. Sen. Mahoney may stir up trouble in another quarter, though . . . The erudite senator took lunch at a prominent Salem cof feeshop Saturday morning . . . asked the waitress if the menu prices were "jacked up for the legislature" and left with the menu in his pocket . . . P.S. the coffeeshop hasn't had an ex tensive price raise in months ... IS? h Speaking of tfouble . . . Rep. John Steelhammer has had nothing but that since he announced his shakeup in the procedure of hiring women employes for the house sessions . . . one woman, who. won't get her job back this year, con tacted nearly every legislator in the state, who in turn put the bite on John . . . Afost representatives favor the Steel hammer plan which bars wives of legislators from house clerical jobs and cuts down the number of committee secre taries and other employes and is supposed to save the state some money. Indications are that the session to open Monday will probably equal in duration the record 97-day marathon of two years ago . . . Bill McDougall, Willamette Collegian editor, will work as an Associated Press staffer at the legislature . . . Rep. Mark Hatfield, 28, is the youngest member of this session . . . Sen. Richard Neuberger and Rep. Mrs. Richard Neuberger, which hubby Neuberger claims is the first legislative husband and wife team in the history of the United States, will be there to needle those legislators who think even one Neuberger is more than enough. PCD ODDS (Continued from Page One) chain runs out into the ocean at about 55 degrees north latitude, while the narrows of Bering strait are about 66 degrees. If the crossing was made at the latter point then the mountain masses to the south may have discouraged migration that way, and thrown the travel to the north along the coastal plain bordering the Arctic ocean. Now what evidence is there that man came this way? Writes Solecki: "It was not until 1947 that the first unmistakable proof of man's early presence in this region was discovered. In that year a UJS. Geological Survey party found a single stone spearhead on a bare, windswept ridge in the un glaciated northern foothills of the Brooks range, Alaska's northern most mountain range. This flut ed stone point was definitely identified by Frank H. H. Rob erts, jr., the foremost authority on tiie Pal eo-Indians, as the work of the Folsom man, who had al ready been dated by the finds in New Mexico at some 10,000 years ago." Later J. Louis Giddigs of the University of Alaska unearthed a number of artifacts along Norton sound, just south of Seward pen insula which juts toward Asia. These included Folsom and Yuma projectile points, and burins, tools used to .carve -bones and antlers. Other artifacts, not so ancient, have been found on this memory of the oldest lobbiest, have always had chairs right next to their bosses in the legislature chambers. The secretaries give the legislature a sort of homey touch, though. While their bosses argue and fume over legislation the , girls purl one and drop two or work cross word puzzles. An attempt to banish the secretaries from the session chambers was made four years ago and fell as flat as last week's hairdo. Oregon, incidentally, is the northern route. Some are sim ilar to those found in Asia, but so far no tools of the so-called Folsom man have been found in that continent, which of course has not been fully explored. These discoveries do not of course bar the possibility that the early immigrants also Came south along the coast. The sandals found in a cave in the Fort Rock country of eastern Oregon are now dated at about 10,000 years ago, so there were inhabitants here at an early date. What brought the Asian into this continent? Solecki gives this answer: "He followed his food. He ap parently came to America in pur suit of herds of bison, caribou, moose and other grass-eating an imals that deserted parts of northern Asia for greener pas tures, it was not simply an ad venturous spirit but the neces sities of survival that led man over the hard route skirting the Arctic Circle to the new land." Fossil remains of animals found in Alaska are similar to those of Asia: bison, musk ox, mastadon, moose, wooly mam moth. Pursuit of game then brought the immigrants south into the continent. (They were the first to go south to spend their winters in Arizona). Part of the new theory Is that during the ice age "so muc' wat er was locked up in the glaciers that it left a broad, ice-free land bridge between Asia and Amer ica." This was the first Invasion of "Reds." Now we regard Alaska as a vulnerable point for a fresh "Red penetration. And we make ready with new style "Folsom points' to repel them. It is indeed an interesting study, this retracing! of the route the first humans followed as they entered and spread over this con tinent ! mm Washington Ways In ... , By Jane Eads WASHINGTON -()- The army, navy and air force all have their own nurses and continuous ly want more. , . . . All have offi cers' commiss- -r ions. Current army ' corps strength ! i s hush-hush, but as of last had 3,460 onf duty, more than -" I 1,000 stationed jpT Tj abroad and' ' ' more than 5,000 hte . II others in the reserves. On Nov. 21, the army called for 3,000 volunteer nurses and involuntarily recalled 650 reservists. The navy on Nov. 16 had 2,250 nurses on active duty and about 5,000 reservists. About 400 have been recalled voluntarily since the Korean crisis. Involuntary recalls have been for hospital corpsmen only. The air force says it has about 1,200 nurses on duty and would like to have two and a half times as many. It has about 500 re servists. All three services also have women doctors, dentists and vet inarians and women's medical specialist corps made up of di eticians, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other specialists. Army nurses all come Into the service as second lieutenants at $213.75 a month with $60 for living quarters and $42 for sub sistence if they do NOT live at Army hospitals, which most of them do. All must be graduates of accredited nursing schools. Brand new nurses must NOT be over 28 years of age. If they want to be reservists there is no age limit. They must be U. S. citizens, have no dependents under 18 and must pass the usual physical, mental and character qualifica tions. Those who have not had previous military service will receive a four-week training course at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., at the army medical center. Those wishing to enter the spec ialist corps must be registered nurses and graduate dieticians, physical therapists or occupa tional therapists between 21 and 45. Navy nurses in the regular corps must enter as ensigns (corresponding to second lieuten ant) and must not be over 28. To be eligible for the reserve corps, a .candidate must be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing, currently registered in a state or the District of Columbia and must be a mem ber of a nursing organization af filiated with the American Nurses association. In the re serves ages are from 21 to 40 years. Requirements for air force nurses are roughly the same as they are for army nurses. Albany Law Firm Robbed ALBANY, Jan. H?VIf the burglar who robbed a law firm safe of $305 here last night is ever caught he can expect to be prose cuted to the limit. The thief apparently opened the office door with a pen. knife and found, the safe unlocked. Police Chief Ray Maddy said. Members of the law firm are Courtney Jones, district attorney, and Melvin Goode, farmer district attorney now a state legislator. Akron Is one of the highest spots In Ohio. It is about 1,000 feet above1 sea-leveL Safety Valve Suggests Kadle Hoek-up For Air Raid Warning To the Editor: A short time ago The States man reported the failure of the Spokane air warning system, people not hearing it while shop ping in stores, and again another report comes of the failure of the combined police and fire depart ments' warning of San Francisco. I think we all will remember the failure of the Salem warning sys tem. In the event of an attack by enemy planes, although not prob able on a city the size of Salem, there still remains the possibility it is most imperative that we have an early and effective warning, as it appears to me that the best defense against an at tack by an atom bomb, is to be out from under. Or in other words, off the streets and in whatever shelter we have pro vided or can find, as more lives will be saved by an early warn ing than any other means. With an early enough warning a city the size of Salem could even be evacuated. I -would like to suggest that we already have the means at our command of creating a perfect system of warning which would Include alL That is, that one of the local broadcasting stations be taken over to act as our system of warning, just during the hours from 6 pjn. to 6 ajn. It would do no broadcasting be tween those hours, but act as a listening post, and that we keep our radios tuned in to that sta tion all night Updb that station receiving an alert from the radar watchers, it would immediately broadcast the warning, and our radios being tuned in would warn us even if we were asleep at night or were listening to another radio in the evening. It would also be invaluable inasmuch that instruc tions could be given from defense headquarters to the general pub he which in the event of a warn ing without some such control from headquarters might end in panic. Cars with radios, if tuned ' in to that station, could also be controlled. W. A. Saunders, 495 N. 23rd St. Early Cumbers of Mt. Hood Gave Altitude at 17,640 ft. To the Editor: In the issue of Friday, Decem ber 29, 1950, under the heading, "It Seems to Me", you asked "How high is Mt. Hood?" and show different answers in the Blue Book and other places. I wish to quote you a para graph from Rev. Gustavus Hines "Oregon and Its Institu tions", written in 1868. In de scribing two attempts to ascend Mt. Hood, the first one unsuc cessful and the second one suc cessful, he said of the second attempt: "On the morning of the twenty-fourth day of July, 1866, in company with three gentlemen from the city of Portland, Ore gon, I set out with heart and hope, full of determination to stand upon that summit if mor tal energy and determination could reach It. We crawled back along the sharp escarp ment, and in a few minutes stood erect on the highest pin nacle. This was found to be seventeen thousand six hundred and forty feet high; the ther mometer, by a very careful ob servation, standing at one hun dred eighty degrees, where the water boiled about forty feet below the summit. This gives thirty-two degrees of depression, which, at the usual estimate of five hundred and fifty feet to the degree, gives the astonish ing altitude indicated above." (Pages 37 and 44.) I thought this information might be interesting to you, hence the letter. Oscar Furuset Avoid watch trouble . . . have your watch completely checked now! A minor repair today may save you a maior repair bill tomorrow. L L "y FREI ESTIMATE For a scientific foolproof . WATCH UNSPECTTIOBI come to OFFICIAL WATCH INSPECTOM SPAS Xallreads Xtff State YqOr Health Wrltte by Dr. Herman N. Beensoa Cervical Rib Causes Trouble The lines on which the body is formed are pretty much fixed and the same pattern Is followed in every Individual. Neverthe less, it sometimes happens that there are deviations from this standard model. Usually, for in stance, only a certain limited segment of the spine throws out ribs. Once in a while, however, the spine in the region of the neck will sprout these bony pro jections which may vary in leng th from mere spurs of bone to a complete rib. Whatever their size, they are known as cervical ribs and sooner or later can be expected to cause trouble through the pressure they exert on the important nerves and blood vessels which traverse this area. ... Women seem to develop cer vical ribs more frequently than do men. The abnormal ribs are usually present on both sides but may be confined to one, in which case the extra ribs are likely to be to the left At the same time the infrequent ribs which appear on the right side seem to cause more severe symptoms, possibly because most people are right handed and use the right arm to a greater extent Symptoms vary greatly from case to case, their nature and severity depending on exactly which of the underlying struc tures are cramped and the degree of pressure exerted. There may be pain passing from the neck down to the fin gers and even into the chest shoulders and upper back. Numbness and tingling may also be present. Now and then there may be slight weakness in some of the arm muscles, and this may gradually get worse until there is even paralysis and wast ing of the muscles. The circula tion through the arm may be so disturbed that the skin feels cold. There may be increased sweating of the arm, and paleness. To make a diagnosis of cervi cal rib, a physical examination Is necessary, together with an X ray of the upper part of the spine. Conditions which may produce similar symptoms are arthritis of the upper part of the spine or protrusion of one of the spine's cartilage disks between the bones of the spine. In treating cervical rib, exer cises to raise and bring the shoulders forward may help. The application of heat may be of advantage. If these measurej fail, operation for removal of the rib is required. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A Reader: What causes en largement of the prostate gland? What is the cure for it? Answer: Enlargement of the prostate gland occurs in some men as they get older. The cause is unknown. It is part of the ag ing process, just as gray hair may occur in people as they grow older. For the mild or moderate case, medical treatment is generally sufficient. If the enlargement is extensive, surgical removal is usually required. (Copyright 1951. King Features) ' FIRECRACKER KILLS SNAKE GO A, Portuguese India-rP-A firecracker tossed by a child In the house of a government official in a village near here brought a deadly cobra out of hiding. The cobra darted toward the cracker and picked it up in its mouth. A second later it exploded, killing the snake. 605 Title 8t Trust Bldg. Portland (Editor's Note This is the first time we have heard of the use of a thermometer to deter mine altitude. The reckoning was badly off. The present alti tude is 11,245, and the mountain hasn't shrunk 6400 ft. in less than a century). Dial 4-2221