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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.)
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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.
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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
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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.
Charley Stephens,
(40 Vista Ave.
After the Korean island of Che-
another disorder China. Fats will be made from iu was occupied by Mongol troops
known as splenic neutropenia, them. Prague radio, reporting the in 1272, it formed the base for two
the symptoms of which are first delivery, said such shipments attacks on Japan, both of which
weakness, fever, nasal discharge, "will help to lessen our depend were reputedly, stopped by the
and a decrease of the number of ence on capitalist ititesr ' 7 ami rare- or j uvu wma.
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