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mVjttP.-.i.i iiolT-hi v nnA fanlii1! f ---.- ' - rAic inMI fJLLo Cornegg- fiM&S' "No Favor Sway Us, No Fear Shall Atce" From first SUtesmas, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morning. Business office 215 S. Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone 2-244L Sntered t the postoffic at Sslem. Oregon, as second class matter under act of congress March 8. 1871 New Edition of Irving's "Astoria" The true "nor'westers" oi this century are Binfords & Mort, book publishers of Portland, who help greatly to preserve in printed form the history and lore of the northwest and lend encouragement to northwest authors. Latest addition to their shelf of books on the northwest is a reprinting of Washington Irv ing's "Astoria." It is beautifully done, with readable ten-point type and well bound with striking cover resign. Illustrations by Harold Cramer Smith add much to its attractiveness, particularly the end papers, one showing the .routes of overland travel of -the Astor parties, the other the routes of the vessels sent out from New York by John Jacob Astor to establish a fur-trading post at the mouth of the Columbia, the origin of Astoria, first wnite settlement in Oregon. Alfred Powers has written a foreword to this "Clatsop Edition" in which he relates the his tory of how Washington Irving took from Mr. Astor the assignment of writing the story of his business adventure which came to an end when partners, learning of the war between the Un ited States and Great Britain, hastily and per haps treacherously sold it out to the rival Bri tish Northwest company. For a long time, his torians looked on Irving's work with a jaundic ed eye. H. H. Bancroft regarded it as the work of a hireling to give "maudlin praise" to Astor. A later view is much more charitable, and Pow ers finds that Irving went at the work "with immense enthusiasm." As for complaints of its inaccuracies, it should be recalled that Irving did not represent it as a factual journal, but gave it the subtitle of "An ecdotes of a Great Enterprise," and said his source material was the Astor papers and such conversations as he had with those still living, nearly a quarter of a century after the events. With whatever its defects "Astoria" may have as history, it is still very interesting reading. The weaving of the narrative of the several par ties and individuals is expertedly done. How the Srties were the first, to make the full crossing along what later became the route of the Ore gon Trail is a tale of high adventure. And the disasters of the blowing up of the Tonquin and the wrecking of the Lark were facts no matter how vivid Irving's imagination was in describ ing them. The only defect we find in this otherwise ad mirable edition is the poor proofreading. Typo graphical errors are so numerous as to mar one's pleasure in reading this graphic narrative of what was inruth a "Great Enterprise." Growth in Plywood Manufacture Every little while one reads of the setting up of another mill in Oregon to manufacture ply wood. Only a few years back the state had only two or three such plants. Now they are dotted over the timber region and more are going in, one at Astoria, another at Cottage Grove. "The Timberman," trade organ for the timber indus tries, has just issued its annual special number dealing with plywood. It reports that there are now 85 plants turning out plywood in the three coast states and British Columbia. Their pro duction in 1950 was 2.400 million square feet with a value of over $275,000,000. Fifteen years ago, 18 plants turned out 480 million feet an nually. The magazine predicts an increase of 200 million feet of capacity in 1951. Uses for plywood are spreading, and that builds up demand. It is used extensively in con struction jor forms for concrete. Besides indoor panelling jit is used now also for flooring and ceiling on occasion and very generally used in cabinet work. Improved weather-resisting glues for binding the veneer has extended the rang of use for plywood. Manufacturers have learned how to conserve supplies of choice lumber for plywood by mak ing the front of superior quality and the back and "sandwich" of lower grade. Skilled patch ing of panels also stretches the supply of peeler logs. Veneer I long ago came in to replace solid woods in furniture making. Now in plywood panels hardwood veneer is used on softwood base, and makes attractive wall finishing for homes arid offices. Coming in to compete with plywood is hard board which is made by pressing sawdust or finely shredded wood into panels, using special chemical for binder. This will utilize wood waste about sawmills. Thus, tjie lumber industry is refining its man ufacturing. It extends the recovery from logs and thus prolongs the life of our supply of vir gin timber. Plywood manufacturing has become one of the important special industries of Ore gon and the west coast. Summer Street Preferred The recommendation of the city planning and zoning commission offers a satisfactory im mediate solution to the problem of routing of highway 99E through Salem. It proposes use of Summer street to Chemeketa for southbouth traffic, as in the present plan. Later, when state capitol buildings are erected north of Chemek eta and west of Summer street, the traffic could be diverted at Marion to Commercial. Still later, when the capitol zone is extended north of Mar ion southbound traffic could be diverted to Winter at some point north of Marion. The Statesman agrees with the first two pro visions, but would leave for future decision the routing when the capitol zone reaches to D street. That is a long time off. Let those who are responsible for managing affairs then make the decisions. It does not seem advisable to us to use Winter street at any time because of the complication it would give to the one-way pat tern of travel. But that matter can be deferred to the future. We trust the city council will agree to retain the present plan of using Summer and Chemek eta, and suggest the use of Marion when it be comes desirable to divert traffic from the capi tol zone. W. A. (Bill) Bingham is the governor's choice for member of the liquor commission to succeed Richard; W. Reed of Eugene, who has resigned. Reed was the member who took the junket trip to Chicago at distillery expense a year ago. He should have resigned then. Bingham is a cap able business man, who was very active in the war bond selling campaign in the war. He for merly managed the Coca Cola business in Port land, but got out of that and went east. Attrac tion of Oregon drew him back and he is now in the automobile business in Portland. He knows plenty about the soft drink business; now he'll have to learn about the hard and he will. Joseph Stalin has agreed to run for election to the Supreme Soviet. What odds would Lloyds of London call for on a wager he wouldn't be elected? America, Britain Must Lay Plans Now for Combined Action if Indochina Invaded By Joseph and Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 There is a great deal more than meets the eye in the fact that the Anglo - Ameri- v"" can relation- v"-"4f ship, political -Vt and military," I " "' has been in- -J '"v formally re- jf, I viewed here on -; - , high levels dur-r week. The causes the review are plain. We have levels dux-; . r the lastA A suy trnited Nations & J"" fJi resolution branding the Chinese , communists as aggressors, and the British will now probably !fjoin us in supporting this step. If the resolution is passed, puni- itlve measures will presumably be taken. Yet there is no vis ble agreement In Washington about what these measures ought to be. And we have centainly not agreed about them with our i.AHitiaSrly with the British, who must join us in taking them. In the same -manner, most American authorities still expect the Chinese communists to drive : south ward, into Indo-Chino. be fore very long. The British and ' French, although more optimise tic. acknowledge the possibility. If the attack occurs, the crisis in f Asia will be sharply Intensified, and all sorts of urgent efforts. 1 will be needed to contain the Chinese onslaught before all of southeast Asia is engulfed. Yet. : again, these efforts have neither - been planned In .Washington, nor concerted in advance with our rallies. 1 v the western alliance has now to consider the possibility of a Soviet move in Europe in the spring, against Yugoslavia, for example. If such a move is made and goes unchallenged, the entire western alliance will surely dis integrate thereafter.? But once more, there is no sign as yet that even this most grave of 11 poss ibilities is being considered in Washington. And our allies have simply been left to guess at our views on the subject This marked tendency to drift has led to a review of the Anglo American relationship, for the extremely simple reason that the British would like some answers to the enormous questions posed by the problems listed. No doubt, after a while, answers . will .be forthcoming. Meanwhile, however, any sen sible American will incline to ask, "Why are we drifting?," which is a question much earlier . to answer than "What to do about Yugoslavia?"; Here the problem has to do with the pe culiar organization of the Ameri can government. The difficulty begins in the White House, where President Truman ; waits for ready-made policy to come up to him from his subordinates, in stead of inspiring and directing the whole process of policy mak ing, as most Presidents have done in the past In theory, the president can afford to be thus passive and re ceptive, since the national secur ity council is now charged with the precise task of preparing ready-made policies for all eventualities. But the malfunc tion of the national i security council, as now set tip, was dis closed at the outset of the Korean - war. The council's policy paper,; 'at that time, called for American non-intervention. The danger of - general collapse of all forces of " resistance to ' Soviet - aggression, even more loudly 5 called for American intervention. The ready-made policy paper was torn up. i not be formulated years in ad vance, and put in pigeonholes until needed. The right decisions on great politico-strategic issues can only be made by the closest and most continuous collabora tion between the responsible of ficials. And since the secretary of state and the secretary of de fense have a good many other things to do besides confer with one another, the main burden of this collaboration must fall on the staff men at the so-called "working -level." . What we are suffering from today is the hangover from Louis Johnson's angry rupture of the former close state department defense department partnership. In the defense department partic ularly, the men who used to carry on the partnership, like Generals Gruenther and Norstad, are no longer present. With all the good will in the world, the heads of the two departments have been too preoccupied to make sure that the partnership, was restored. Thus, while the condition has improved immeas urably since the advent of Sec retary Marshall and Under Sec retary Lovett, it is still very far from ideal. There are two remedies that ought now to be adopted. First, the strongest steps should be taken to insure that all the great politico-strategic issues confront ing us are considered In good time, and in both their aspects simultaneously. Most probably, in the present, predominantly military situation, state depart ment representatives should be called to sit with the joint chiefs of staff.- -; - , .Second, since the British are out one essential ally, without whom we cannot act, the former ly intimate Anglo-American 'collaboration ought also to be re vived and strengthened, by re invigorating the combined chiefs of staff and adding political rep resentatives to them. Thus, with these new rudders, we may hope that the time of drift will end. - i? (Copyright. 1951 I few York Herald Tribua Inc.) TALC - mi MLLO I ' : VL JV1pit RAISE ; k HAWMwMm MM 111 : We were afraid this would happen ... A gloomy sort of mes sage from the Bicycle Institute of America, Inc., says the na tional emergency has put the brakes to bike manufacturing. What with shortages and all, velocipede mak ers are finding the going about as tough as pedaling uphill with a stick in the spokes. However, the bi-wheeled big-wigs feel it is "their patriotic duty" to produce as many bi cycles as possible with available materials. r thy Ways in Washington Safety Valve By Jane Eads WASHINGTON When Mrs. Owen Brewster, wife of the re publican senator from Maine, first came to the capital in 1941, she didn't meet v-- - a repu b li c a n ' X fV for a whole week. "It was quite a shock,' h. tlf mo graduate, borniNV in Portland, w Me. Mrs. Brew-1 ster was herVyA husband's help- Cr f -ft mate during his " I service in both t houses of the Maine state legis lature and two terms as gover nor. She was ready to take on the rigorous duties of a congress man's wife in the capital and plunged whole-heartedly into the regime, at that time more de manding than today. "We lived at a hotel when we first came here, and the first re publican wife I met was .Mar guerite Church, wife of the late Rep. Ralph Church, now herself a member of congress," Mrs. Brewster said. "In those days we had to call on everybody. Mrs. Church and I went out together, starting early and we did every thing correctly. First call was at the White House, then the vice president's wife." After that congressional wives had to call first on wives of members of their husbands' state delegations. Tuesdays, they visited wives of house members; Thursday, senate wives. O n . Mondays, they called on wives of supreme court justices, who held "at homes" that day; Wed nesdays on the cabinet, and Fri days, the diplomatic wives. Until this calling business was terminated after World War II started, Mrs. Brewster herself set aside one Tuesday a month for an "at home," held particu larly for Maine people. In addition to her calling, like most congressional wives, she Joined the Congressional club made up of congressional wives, served once as treasurer and is now a member of the advisory committee. She also joined the Senate Ladies club, which is ac tive in Red Cross work, and she belongs to the 74th Congress club made up of wives whose hus bands came to Capitol Hill at that time. Mrs. Truman is a member of this group. Her hus band went into the senate at the same time as Mrs. Brewster's husband. Mrs. Brewster says her first duty has been to constituents. She used to personally conduct them about on sight-seeing jun kets around the capital in her own car. "I had three tours I took them on. It seemed as if I were al ways climbing monument steps." She continues this activity today as much as possible. To the Editor: I attended the reception honor ing Albert M. Patrick on his 0th birthday at Zena last Sunday and it brought to my mind a 4th of July celebration held at Zena 55 or 60 years ago. Professor Crawford, father of Frank, at whose home this recep tion was held, gave the oration and I never heard a better one. After that we had sport contests grouped in different ages, with prizes. We wound this up with a free-for-all spoon and egg race. Some dropped the eggs the first two or three steps but eggs were cheap. I saw my mother sell eggs for eight cents a dozen. Mr. Patrick, father of Albert M., who was then quite an old man, just ran away from every body, won the race, handed the spoon and egg over to the judges and walked away with the prize. When they tried to remove the egg from the spoon it was held firmly in place with e stick of chewing gum. Irish ingenuity. We had fun in those days. F. J. A. (Frank) Boehringer In case of gasoline shortages, note the pedal people, bicycles may a well become the chief source of transportation. We can already foresee several drastic results of a bicycle riding society: (1) Jf you were late for work you could tell the boss you caught your pants- " cuff in the chain ( this excuse will work best for male em ployes), (2) A man could take a trip dotcntoton unthout being forced by his wife to drag aU the kids along, (3) You could share a parking meter space with several other bike riders, (4) The standard excuse, in police court icould be "I couldn't see the other bike approaching, your honor, be cause my wife was riding on our handlebars," (5) Women riders could, at last, signal with both arms at once, (6) Fathers would, on occasions, be reduced to asking their sons if they could use their bikes for the evening, (7) The con fusion at State and 12th streets at 5 p.m. would be a sight to behold. . Seven members of the legislature are Willamette university alumni. They are Sens. Frederick Lamport of Salem and Wil liam Walsh of Coos Bay, and Reps. Speaker John Steelhammer and Mark Hatfield of Salem, Melvin Goode of Dallas, Paul Ged des of Douglas county and Carl Francis of Dayton . . . Hatfield these days is busier than a two-headed legislator at a night club. He starts out his day instructing early morning classes in political science at Willamette . . . then over to the legislature where HE is the student . . . and after adjournment back to school ... all this leaves Mark little time to raise anything stronger than students' grades. The fact that Charles Ireland, Statesman staffer, is home with the mumps isn't so odd to hen you consider that Char lie handles most of the school news it's STILL probably pretty odd to Charlie, though . . . Although that big steam whistle atop the state heating plant was tested about five years ago (during WW II), civilian defense officials can't find anybody who remembers how loud it sounded . . . the tchiitle, according to legend, is supposed to frighten women and livestock 15 miles away . . . but ichen it teas tested Wednesday it could hardly be heard above the secretaries' chatter in state offices. Silverton residents are wondering if city fathers there hope the Christmas tree, erected at Main and First streets, will take root. The big tree was put up for the Yuletide by the chamber of commerce smack in the middle of one of Silverton's busiest intersections. And there it stands yet. Residents have suggested the limbs be lopped off and the tree used for a flag pole, or that traffic lights be placed on it, or that it be left standing and decorated for July 4th or used as an air-raid spotter's perch. Literary Guidepost Your Health Written by Or. Herman N. Bundenien Disorder of the Spleen Though the spleen, an organ located in the upper left part of the abdomen, has been known to students of medicine for many centuries, its function remains something of a mystery. We do not by any means know the total of its contributions to the life of the body as a whole, but the spleen seems to be intimately concerned with certain functions of the blood and to play some role in the destruction of worn out red blood cells. v Removal of the spleen may be required in a number of different disorders, and is always required if the organ becomes ruptured as a result of injury. Diseases in which removal of the spleen is indicated include certain tumors and abscesses of the spleen it - self, a condition known as splen ic anemia, Banti's disease, and a disorder known as thrombocyto penic purpura. In Banti's disease, there is a severe anemia, frequently ac companied by enlargement of the spleen, and often by cirrhosis of the liver. When this cirrhosis or hardening of the liver with the formation of a great deal of scar tissue is present, removal of the spleen is of little value. - However, if such cirrhosis is not present, removal of the spleen is helpful to the patient with Ban d's disease. In thrombocytopenic purpura, there is a great decrease in the number of blood platelets. These are bits of tissue in the blood which have to do with blood clotting. In this disorder, there is bleeding into the skin and other body tissues. The spleen is not enlarged to .any great extent. However, its removal seems to be of help in the majority of pa tients with this condition. More than eight out of ten patients are cured by means of this operation. Purpura or bleeding into the skin may also occur In a number of other conditions, particularly as a result of allergies and in fections. Removal of the spleen . in such cases is of no value. There is white cells in the blood, partic ularly the kind known as neu trophils. Removal of the spleen also seems to be helpful in this condition. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS N. M.: I have had epilepsy for years. Will I have these attacks the rest of my life? Answer: With proper treat ment, in many instances the epileptic attacks may be con trolled. (Copyright 1951. King Features) Stamps in The News Korea also comes to the fore in the philatelic news. Three new stamps have ar rived in this country from the Renublie of Korea. Thev were after they are established. when. in reierence 10 me arucie wai Thinks Barber Bill Would Be Unjust To the Editor: Is it any wonder people have such little confidence in our state government when our represent atives carry personal peeves into our state government such as the bill requiring barbers to have a high school education. I am sure the readers of this column will agree with me; had this not been personal this bill would have been written to re quire a high school education for anyone before entering a barber college, instead of this bill that would outlaw many who have been successful barbers for years, who have put in two years, ana some two and a half years in bar ber college, and apprenticeship training, besides having passed four state board examinations to qualify for a master barber's li cense. I understand whenthe federal government approved the barber college, and other trade schools for the World War n veterans for G.I. training program, it was pri marily for those who did not fin ish high school. I ask why undo all of this the federal government has done for our veterans? I think this would be a terrible injustice to pass legislation that would out law barbers, causing them to lose their jobs and many of them to sell their shops and equipment THE POLITICS OF MURDER, by Joseph Bornstein (Sloane; $4) Accustomed as we are to doing nothing worse to an unpopular politician than vote him out of office, we find in this shivery book numerous examples of the cruder, bloodier methods to which less disciplined foreigners have resorted more and more frepuently in our times. The author, former Berlin edi tor and a fugitive from Hitler, sees an ominous significance in the increase in political assassi nations, and is able tragically to present an impressive list of them. If the 20th century began with World Wat I, it began at Sarajevo, where the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip touched off the passions which resulted in the outbreak of hostilities that sum mer. As in some other dramatic incidents, highly placed govern ment ftfflrial tA not ippm nvpr- eager to protect the victim, and OOR FOUNDATION if there was not official conniv- yrTM FLON, Manitoba ance, there was at least criminal Roadbuilding is tough in the Mus indifference. keg country. Forty feet of road Bornstein's point is not merely disappeared into the Muskeg south that blood was shed, but that the of here, sinking six feet. Big trees course of history has been vastly were felled and put in the hole and changed by such brutalities. He finally there was enough to make believes that Pearl Harbor, for another platform of sand and clay. instance, was the final link in a chain the other end of which was the assassination of Japan's con servative Prime Minister Inukai in 1932, when the military start ed to usurp civilian authority. Hitler's purge" of Roehm and his associates persuaded the army to stand by the Fuehrer. The mur dered Dollfuss was succeeded by Schuschnigg, the murdered Bar thou by Laval. Bornstein even argues that, since Stalin gained so much by Lenin's death, he may have been guilty of it. The connection between some of the assassinations and the thesis that knife, bomb, bullet andLpoison affect history is oc casionally remote, and the author might have done without some of the men done away with. No doubt they were Included for good measure, and it all makes the most exciting reading. issued last November United Nations troops were in control of almost all the Korean peninsula. The 100 weun light green shows an ROK flag flying over - p.Mi.iiLt..MM.llwli-i m m Ten nn: the White mountains. These 'mountains, incidentally, are in the northern part of the country . where U. N. forces never reach ed. The 100 weun blue bears, portrait ef . President Syngman Rhee. The 200 weun dark green depicts a ROK flag and a UK, flag flanking; a map of Korea. imXYSE FEANTJTS PRAGUE -rfffr- Czechoslovakia "as started importing peanuts from made front page headlines in The Statesman, Saturday, January is: If this bill and the remarks made by some of our lawmakers con cerning it represents the intelli gence derived from their educa tion I am sure the eighth grade education now required before entering barber college is more than sufficient for all discussion with them on most any subject of their choosing.' Why should: the high school education be required by the bar bers only? Why not have it for all? There are many in other i walks of life . that have much more time to converse with their patrons than the barbers, such as beauticians, elevator operators, bootblacks, bartenders, hotel clerks., and others that it is un necessary to mention. Then in telligent conversationalists would be available- to the politician around the clock. 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