4 ''Ctertrancm. gcfomy&uqbs tSaadar. January i4' iSSt 1 THE PART WE FAfL TO! VISOAUZB t Xflt llltlliKlll sj.t Hll Your Hea i - - nimiti. . Writs fry Or. Heraaa N. ith "No Favor Sway Us, No Fear' Shall Ave" From First Statesman. March 18, 1S51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher rabllshed every moralnx. Business office 215 S. Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone 2-Z44L. Entered at the postoffic at Salem. Oregon, as second class matter under act of congress March 3, 18" a, Tax and Tax; Spend and Spend Mixed reactions greeted President Truman's call on congress for an eight billion dollar in crease in federal taxes and authority to expend $140 billion for rearmament and foreign aid. Senator Taft remarked that we would need at least the eight billion "and probably more." Rep. Reed of New Yorkn the ways and means committee, suggested tat the president has "gone hysterical." Cong. Joe Martin warned that too heavy taxes might strangle or suffocate the people. But the economic council said: "Taxes should be raised just as fast as possible . . . perhaps even drastically higher than have ever been imposed in the United States." There are two reasons for the tax increase: one is to provide cash for government spending; the other is to soak up excess purchasing pow er, in an effort to stop inflation. The govern ment keeps putting off price-wage controls; so prices and wages go spiralling upward. If gov ernment drained off the resulting higher pro fits and higher wages the spiral would come to a halt. Taxes should reach consumer levels for there is where the great buying power is massed. The National Industrial Conference board study showed that the worker's pay check commands 27 per cent more goods and services than in January, 1941. in spite of higher living costs and higher taxes. That is highly desirable, pro vided it is balanced with equivalent gains for other groups and not at their expense. That is what our productive mechanism is for: to turn out more goods for more people. But if the gains are at the serious expense of other people then social injury results. If inflation continues the higher wages will provide no more goods. The worker has a real stake in preventing inflation because under it he is generally the laggard in getting benefits. As inflation is accelerated his fistful of curren cy has lessening buying power. Taxes reduce the swelling in the pocketbook and so have de flationary tendencies. Lacking price - controls ftfcigher taxes are needed to siphon off the pur chasing power which is excessive in terms of production that can be distributed for general consumption. acity like an overfull bottle could never pour forth a small dose," a characteristic long attri buted to barbers, perhaps an "occupational dis ease." Figaro, in "The Barber of Seville" was a clever fellow, never at a loss for words as he mixed intrigue with his trade, and combined shaving with wig-making, blood-letting and do ing favors for lovers. He had no high school diploma either; but he lived, in Rossini's im agination, a long time ago. Now our barbers should be high school graduates with literary tastes above the old Police Gazette and a range of knowledge beyond baseball and bass fishing. If a high school course becomes a prerequisite for barbering will not the same rule be drawn for shoeshiners? They talk while they swing their shoe rags too, on every subject the patron opens up. Perhaps shoeshiners ma yescape the requirement. After all most of them are Greeks and the Greeks taught the world most of what it knows already. Educate Barbers Under Rep. John Logan's bill a person would need to have a high icnool education to qualify as a barber. And why not? If he is to keep pace with his trade and be able to converse with his customers he must have education to base his discourse on. The barber whose conversational offerings accompany his operations with razor and hair-clipper will have to prepare his mind or he will fall behind. The influence of the clergy declined after occupants of the pews went to school and got knowledge independently. Un less the barber whets his grav matter as well as his razor he will be just another mechanic. Nowadays the occupant of the barber's chair is not quite so helpless as in the days when most of the tonsorial work was shaving. That process shut his speaking tube while the barber talked as he shaved and shaved as he talked. The re clining customer didn't dare talk back. With hair-chopping now the big end of the barber business the barber doesn't do a monologue so much. And he must be prepared to defend his jtatements against rejoinders from the chair. There was the barber Nello in George Eliot's "Romola." He wasn't a high school graduate but he was a smart guy after all, one "whose loqu- Potomac Fever Sen. Richard L. Iseuberger once wrote a ma gazine article: "They Don't Go Back to Pocatel lo,' meaning that defeated or retired senators and congressmen do not return, as a rule, to their home states to resume life and activity. They succumb to what is called "Potomac fe ver.'' The disease has hit a number of lame duck senators. Senators Lucas, Tydings and Pepper will return to the practice of law, but keep a foot in 'Washington by maintaining offices in their home states and in the national capitol The way that works out means that probably they will use the home office for feeder while they spend most of their time in Washington. Ex-members of congress who are lawyers work up very nice law practices in this way, making capital of their knowledge of federal boards and departments and their titles of ex-senator or -congressman. Some 1950 casualties are scheduled for office plums: Elbert Thomas of Utah has been named high commissioner for trust territory in the Pa cific. Frank Graham of North Carolina is in line for director of the national science foundation, and Chan Gurney of South Dakota expects ap pointment to a civilian post in the military or ganization because of his long service on the armed services committee. Francis Myers of Pennsylvania will practice law in Philadelphia and Forrest C. Donnell will return to St. Louis. Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma will stay on in Washington in law practice. Glen Taylor, the Idahoan with the guitar, has no hopes for a federal job and few plans for himself except that he was to get into building work. Long ago Thomas Jefferson wrote, with re gard to federal officeholders, "Few die and none resign." And those who are defeated linger on in Washington, on the wings of the great stage, some of them hoping for a curtain call. rfftfi Goto mLT ComeEr fi$T$' ftAULUULg A pair were found guilty in Lane county of violating the state blue sky law. They sold "se curities'' to the amount of some $200,000 for purported oil well development, without quali fying under the state laws. Their defense was that they planned to-set up a partnership. The significant matters about the case are first that there still are gullible folk who invest before they investigate, and second that this is the first case under the blue sky laws in a long time, which shows they are effective "silent police men" restraining the unscrupulous stock promoters. (Continued from page 1.) its defense. To succeed, any at tack on Russia would have to be preceded by convincing as surance that it was for liberation of the Russian people. If that idea could be gotten across to them the job would not be too difficult, for there must be mil lions on millions of Russians who chafe under their form of government. As Schwartz con cludes in his article in the New York Times Magazine: "Fundamentally, the Soviet people want peace and prosper ity we know that because those are the wishes of all hu manity. The Russians can be come our greatest allies against totalitarian imperialism if we realize the importance of, and are willing to devote the neces sary resources to, re-establishing communication between them and the free world. The ground available for cultivation is fertile indeed and the Soviet Government knows full well that our harvest will be a rich one when and if we are able to plant the seeds agamst which the Kremlin maintains so tight a quarantine." ' Cecil Edwards of Salem, former assistant at the Los Angeles county fair (second largest in the country) is being mentioned as a possible successor to Leo Spitzbart as state fair manager. Edwards, one-time secretary to ex-Gov. Char les Sprague, is one of four licensed horse judges in Oregon and now a rancher. Cecil, however, is mum. Spitzbart, recently on the short end of a fair unemployment act, has ap pealed his dismissal. mmmmma ARC First Aid What to Do If Yugoslavia Is Attacked by Soviet Instructors Constitutes Crucial Question for United States Class Planned By Joseph and Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 The problem of Yugoslavia sums up and represents all the immense range or prob lems, all involv ing peace, war and national survival, with American pol- -S i fC Icy makers are V now wresuiu. Here is al 1 small, remote and rather backward coun try, ruiea in a , T manner lnten- J r" nT.., sely distasteful to the American people, by men who not long ago were professed enemies of Amer ica. The national leader, Mar shal Tito, expects an attack on T"! Yugoslavia i n the spring by the Soviet JlUnion andor its Hungarian, ? J liumanian and Bulgarian satel lites. He may be right. He may be wrong. But at least his sincerity is proved by the I I !f"raiAI0P fices he is mak- big to the cause of preparedness, ; and he has at least had better ! opportunities to learn the ways , of the Kremlin than almost any I one else. j - The question therefore arises: j "What do we do if Tito is right, j and Yugoslavia is attacked in the j spring? The surface facts all j point one way. There is nothing I in , the - Yugoslav system that f Americans feel bound to defend. Yugoslavia is not an ally. .Our l own. re-armament is incomplete, ( The re-armament of our allies in " Europe has hardly been begun. All these are weighty -arguments lor standing passively aside, i while the Yugoslav nation is crushed by the weight of Soviet power. Beneath th surface. however, there is a whole new series of arguments, even more weighty, pointing in the opposite direction. First, the most important mil itary force on the other side of the Atlantic today is the concen tration at the eastern cod of the Mediterranean, comprising the 30 Yugoslav divisions, the Turk ish army of nearly 30 divisions, and the revivified army of Greece. These are troops whose fighting qualities are proven. Taken together, they actually constitute a larger force than any that can conceivably be organ ized in western Europe before at least two years have elapsed. If the Yugoslav divisions are des troyed, the fate of Greece will be sealed; and Turkey, even if not invaded will be wholly neut ralized by the simple facts of geography. Second, the Middle East is al ready a mush, politically and militarily. Particularly in Iran, the situation has deteriorated alarmingly in recent months. The capture of the Yugoslav position and the consequent neutraliza tion of Turkey will expose the whole of the Middle East to the full force of Soviet pressure. The mere psychological impact of the unopposed conquest of Yugoslav ia should be enough to induce a collapse or surrender -in Iran, which will lead to other surrend ers or political explosions in the other Middle Eastern countries. In short, all this Vital area, with its immense strategic importance and its oil resources on which the economy of the whole west ern alliance so directly . depends, will soon be involved in Yugo slavia's fate. Third, even these immediate foreseeable consequences of the conquest of Yugoslavia will vast ly reduce the usefulness of our most important strategic air bases the advanced bases in Cyrenaica, Cypres, and else where in the eastern Mediterran ean, from which the more re mote Soviet targets beyond Urals must be struck. the Fourth, it is also very probable that a Soviet triumph in Yugo slavia will have explosive polit ical effects in France and Italv. If Yugoslavia falls, although we 50115 the mav hone for a rfiffront out- course. To Registrations for a training class for advanced first aid instructors are now being called, and all per sons interested are asked to con tact the county Red Cross office. It is hoped to tram about 30 per- advanced instructors qualify to take the come, we must expect that so called "neutraliste" regimes will soon be installed at Paris and Rome. Fifth, a "neutraliste" govern ment at Paris, committed to dis armament, with communists in key posts, seeking to play a ''third force" role, will certainly deny us French North Africa. Almost equally certainly, a sim ilar government in Rome will at least allow the Soviets staging rights in the south Italian air fields. In this event, the whole Mediterranean will be lost to us. Meanwhile, the German problem will become utterly unmanage able, and the western alliance will be fatally and finally rup tured. It is hardly necessary to pur sue any further the course of this fearful chain reaction, which we must anticipate if Yugoslavia is overrun and crushed without protest from the western allies. The foregoing summary is not a private nightmare. It is a com pressed statement of the best judgment of the men most qual ified to form an opinion. It is quite enough to show that the consequences of losing Yugo slavia can quite easily add up to the equivalent of final defeat in a general war. In other words, the western alliance would be so hopelessly shattered, and so many vital strategic positions would be lost to us and gained by the Kremlin, that our own position would be come irretrievable. And this is the right - background - against which the question must again be asked: "What do we do if Yugoslavia is attacked this spring?" . (Copyright 19S1. Hew York Herald Tnbun Inc.) course, an instructor must hold a current advanced first aid card, reports James Wiles, Red Cross chapter first aid chairman. Several beginners first aid class es are now being conducted or are starting soon. One is for the Salem Heights-Liberty volunteer A recent announcement by a Hollywood starlet that she really preferred studying philosophy to posing as "Miss Cheese cake" brought a suggestion from Philip A. Shaw, Willamette Collegian staffer. Shaw notes that if that sort of thing goes any farther popular movie titles might be changed to philosophical terminology. Thus "Cheaper by the Dozen" could be changed to "Virtue Reioarded." "One Foot in Heaven" to "Transcendental Un ipedestrian," and "Petty Girl" to "An Introduction to Pla to's Perfect Forms." Chamber, of Commerce members will have more than just food to digest when they hold their weekly luncheon meeting Monday noon. Dr. Josef F. Bunnett, Reed college research chem ist, is slated to talk. Advance publicity says Dr. Bunnett is researching in two fields. One is "aromatic nucleophilic substi tution reactions," the other "resolution of racemic substances by absorption on optically active surfaces." Try THAT on your let tuce salad. The last legislature passed a law requiring youths tuhen purchasing beer at a store or tavern to sign an affidavit stating they are at least 21 years old. Nothing was heard of the statute here until Saturday when a youth paid $150 (in fine) in Marion county district court for 12 bottles of beer purchased at a local store. He is 19 and was charged with falsifying his age on the form. Marion county DA's office says there is a lot of beer-buying going on in this county by under-age stubbies . . . 'Tts said those seven deaths in a Reedsport rock quarry cost the state industrial accident commission about $175,000 in compensation. With their first week behind them, legislators are already ahead of last year's efforts . . . they must have remembered the keynote line in the opening-day invocation given by Dr. Ches ter W. Hamblin ... Dr. Hamblin prayed . . . "without Thee men are apt to talk more and more and accomplish less and less." Like every other part of the body, the nails have their af flictions and, in addition, they may be adversely affected by diseases of a general nature. One of the most common of the disorders of the nails is ringworm infection, often accom panied by infection of the skin of the hands and the feet by the same parasite. Though ringworm brings about destruction of the nails, it causes no pain. If the condi tion is suspected, a definite diag nosis can be made by examina tion, under the microscope, of scrapings from the nails. A number of forms of treat ment for the condition have been advised. The preparation known at Whitfield's ointment, used in double strength after the nails have been scraped, may be help ful. X-ray treatments are also useful. The surgical removal of the nails has been tried, but this will not produce a perma nent cure. Treatment with pre parations of silver nitrate has also been successful. Psoriasis is another disorder which may affect the nails as well as the skin. In the latter, there are scaly patches on the knees, elbows, and other parts of the body. When psoriasis affects the nails, the nails separate from the nail bed and become loosened, meanwhile changing their color to a yellowish-brown. They become shortened and may eventually be destroyed. This is also a difficult dis order to treat successfully though, the preparation known as cigno lin, painted on with a brush,' may give good results. Salicy late salves also are used. X-ray treatments have also been em ployed in this condition with benefit Treatment with arsenia preparations, given by injection into a muscle, have helped some patients. It is well recognized that cer tain disturbances of the nails may be due1 to a deficiency of vitamins. In these cases there are depressions or dents cross wise on the nail and there are lines which run lengthwise. In severe cases there may be actual nail destruction. The B-complex vitamins seem to be the most important ones in so far as these nail disorders are concerned. When large quan tities of these vitamins are ad ministered, improvement prompt-' ly results. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Miss A: Would bleaching one's hair have any bad effects on a person's nerves? Answer: I know of no evi- dence that this could occur. Ways in Washington 55 fCf of oldV rV. :h as r H - e-tail- '. JBW 1 By Jane Eads WASHINGTON -VP- Ameri can GIs soon are going to get a dose of film footage teaching them how to brush their teeth, cnange their socks and take a , bath. The new training film is ' made by the Army Signal Corps. Tooth A a j brushing a n d I es are "shot" tof the tune of old. f American f songs such "The Blue ed Fly" and others. Corps officers are not quite sure how the boys are go ing to react but they're optimis uc. Millions of feet of training film used in World War II are Btill being used. Use of film cuts the time of training one third or more, as well as saving wear and tear on instructors. During World War II and the emergency period preceding it, the combined facilities of the Army Pictorial Service of the Signal Corps and the motion pic ture industry itself produced more than 2,000 training films and almost an equal number of film strips. These aids were dis tributed, as they now are through - a film library system serving all posts and installations. Col. C. S. Stodter, chief of th Army Pictorial Service, says con siderable improvement in train ing film production technique has been noted since the first filmf were made. -Much of the best of Holly wood and commercial talent has contributed to these productions,'' he told me. "Subjects have rang ed from simple 'how to do itf films to the more complex "atti tude builders.' "The trend of training differs today somewhat from the earlier simple nuts and bolts' pictures showing the mechanics of a pro ject in minute detail . . . such as taking a gun ' apart. We've found that actually a man learns these things better by doing them.- Training and educational films, as well as various other types of films, are turned out at the Sig nal Corps Photographic Center at Long Island City, New York. 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