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From First Statesman. March 18, 1S51
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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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.
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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.
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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. In
actual footage released, corps of
ficers estimate the center's pro
duction tops that of any Holly
wood studio. Its laboratory pro
cesses more than 4,000,000 feet
of film a month.
Many reels are of foreign lan
guage recordings in which exist
ing army trriiing films are re
narrated in Spanish and Portu
guese to serve the needs of the
western hemisphere defense pro
gram. Currently recordings are
being made in other languages to
be used in the new military as
sistance program abroad.
group; another for the chapter
motor corps members; another is
on at Brooks, one in the Gates
high school, one at Aurora, and
fire one for local police staff members.
The writhing tentacles of the
giant squid, sometimes reaching
30 feet in length, are believed res
ponsible for some sea serpent
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