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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1951)
I ( GRIN AND BEAR IT HI III! ' I 1 1 1 I I I I 1 II .tl. "No rvbllshcd tvery morning. Business office- X1S 8. Conuaerejial, Salem, Oregon. Telephone. Z-2441. Catered at the postofflc4 at Salem. Xo the Glory of Socialism A small socialists tail is trying to wag a big free enterprise dog over in Washington state. A trio of PUDs from thinly populated counties propose to buy the whole system of the Wash ington Water Power company which operates in Spokane and Over many counties of northeast ern Washington and northern Idaho. The city and county of Spokane, Whitman county and Adams county have rejected public ownership and they have most of the investment and pro vide most of the patronage for WWP. Idaho has a law prohibiting out - of - state public bodies from acquiring utilities within its borders. In spite of all this the holding company, American Power and Light of New York, is dickering to ell out its whole system at prices far in excess e-book values to these small PUDs. It's another Guy Meyers deal in which he acts as buying agent for the PUDs and offers the eompany which owns the common stock a big price. He gtts his commission of course, the holding company gets cash or bonds, and the property is put in the hands of small county operators. This will happen unless some legal interruption occurs. A hearing is being held by SEC but American challenges its right to consider the deal because a public body is the buyer. Idaho is offering , official protest, and Governor Langlie is con - corned over this manifest overridding of the at titude of the majority of the people in the area served by the utility. American is under the old death sentence federal law and has elected to dispose of this property. Pacific Power and Light, once a sub sidiary, was saved for -private ownership and management but not until its local officials had overridden the intention of President Aller to work another deal with Guy Meyers. Washington Water Power has always been a strong, well-managed company. It pioneered in extension of service to its customers, encourag ing cooking by electricity, heating water by electricity. Now by dint of punitive legislation it is about to be sold down the -river to the floater glory of socialism. Drain on U. S. Gold For years the United States has had so large a share of the world's gold supply that fluctua tions in the amount gave us no concern. Neither do they now even though the supply is dwindl ing at a rate the fastest in our history. We still own more than half of the visible gold in the should world but Fort Knox vaults may have consider able empty storage by the end of another year. According to United States News our gold stock stood at $24.4 billion at the end of 1949. World recovery had made sufficient progress in the first half of 1950 to drain off $200 million from U. S. stocks. After the Korean war broke Those out and the United States started piling up as bringi strategic war materials at rising tin, chrome, wool, etc.) the outflow of gold in- leaving creased rapidly. Now the gold stock is $22.3 create billion. A year hence it will be $18.9 if the ex- a look port continues at the present rate. and The causes for the loss of gold are the re- private Parallel Noted 'Peace7 Speeches and Stalin's Statement By J. M. Roberts, Jr. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-1 Joseph Stalin either must have a bad memory or else he dis counts the memories of others. : How else could he fall in to some of the Incon sisten- ties apparent I ' 3 between his oc-. T casional state- 4? $ menu ior cur- . rent consump- lion and 1 1 policies he has I i - faid-down I writing? Or 1 himself t drawn into some of history's deadliest paral lels? ' Stalin, in interviews designed for public consumption abroad, has often tried to play the role of reasonable benignity live and let live, etc., whereas the texts or his instructions to his com munist followers always stress the inevitability of war to tho death with the non-communist world. jig. His latest denial of militaris tic intent also struck a familiar note. Most of it Stalin had said before, but there was a simi larity with something else; some thing sinister which I finally re called. !:Many men had hung upon these other words too, seeking to discern their hiddeni meaning. A man had said in 1938, against tho background of a series of acts similar to Stalin's: "We are ready at all times to embark upon a policy of under standing with the world about Us. We can do that. We want ho thing from others. .-- j . And later that same man had Mid: ' v tVThe German, nation has no feeling of hatred toward Eng land, America or France. All it x Brants is peace and Quiet. "But these other nations are . continually being stirred up to hatred of Germany and the Ger man neople. . . . And so, should the ' warmongers achieve what they are aiming at, our own peo ple would be landed in a situa tion for which they would be psychologically unprepared and which they would fail to grasp. .VThe nations will in a short KTme realize that national social ist Germany wants no- enmity Favor Sway Us, No F$ar ! Shall A ZS, M5I From First Statesman, March THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CHARLES A SPRACJUE. Editor LLj n..i.ii.i... tutu ruuuwu Oregon, aa second class matter under act of congr ess March X, 187ft portions days anjyway. ing an prices (rubber, at Bfit oif 4t Strikes are Between Hitler's with other nations, that all the assertions as to our intended at tacks on other nations are lies lies born out of morbid hysteria or of a mania for self-preservation on the part of certajn poli ticians; and that in certain states these lies are being used by un scrupulous profiteers ko salvage their own finances; thatj above all, international Jewry may hope in this way to isatisfy its thirst for revenge andi gain, that on the other hand this is the grossest defamation that can be brought to bear on a' great and peace-loving nation." j i j It was in this same speech that Adolf Hitler enunciated cither of Vtio . .1 1 i his "No one in Germany has here tofore been persecuted because of his religious views, nor; will anyone be persecuted on that ac count." 1 And that "there is io German Literary i By William Glover THE HOUSE ACRQSS! THE RIVER, by Margaret Bonham (MacmiUan; $2.50); sMURDER ON THE LEFT BANK, by Elliot Paul (Random House: $2.50); MURDER f STEPS . OUT, by Christopher Reeve (Mill-Morrow; $2.5Q) Miss Bonham winsf the blue ribbon for an entrancing ; ex ample of suspense writing in looking over this trio of new gory books. "House Across, the River" smacks of the atmos phere of a vintage HoimeS yarn, sets a mood of dream-like de la Mare and has a single objec tive to keep you sitting there turning the pages until there are none left.7 If s a minor tour de force, for the lady succeeds so well in keeping things un der control in a treacherous half-light that you Tare almost convinced there is morjs here than sober reflection fallows. It's -a murder mystery: all ; right, but one in which there is never too much of? aq effort to hide his trail or identity. And that brings us i face f to- . wall against the new Elliot Paul pro- " duct, an exact opposite .lof s de- liberate confusion, i j j, i . - As a long-established and re- N Downed devotee of Paris, Paul toe" COMPANY vival of J world trade, with a great increase in what' foreign nations sell us; the huge tourist travel out of the country; purchases of war ma terials abroad; -higher prices for goods; foreign aid programs; cost of our overseas military es tablishment. There has been some "flight of capital," some to Canada for investment there some! to Mexico. While; our gold stock is still twice as large as the required ratio on our money supply, still the movement in reverse of what; has prevailed so long posts a warning that "easy money" does have! its limits. Gold is no longer the controlling factor if once was in money matters, but its continued ( withdrawal would surely have psy chological effects which would result in credit restrictions. 1 s Our political and economic experts might keep an eye $h the daily reports of the U. S. gold supply. IS- j State Trade Barriers The battle of bujtter vs. oleo is over at least until 1952 but one of the arguments used ef fectively! to defeat the bill repealing the ban on colored rnargarine rests, in our j opinion, on a false! foundation. That was, butter should be protected ; because it is a local product while oleo is manufactured in other states. A little reflection ( will show the error in such; reasoning. If we are to erect trade barriers at state lines we induce hardening of the economic arteries of Arnerfca. i Oregon exports great quantities of products: lumber, wheat, apples, pears, hops,'c a n n e d fruits and vegetables, canned ahd fresh fish, cattle, sheep, lambs, wool. We would not like to have legal restrictions put on their sale in other states. What if California where most of our margarihe comes from put a ban on Tillamook cheese because it contained artifical coloring? We need to keep the streams; of . commerce free within America and restrainjto decent pro- the impulse to restrict foreign trade. An alternative to the bill to make Columbus day, October 12th, a holiday is offered in tha proposal to make Columbus day,- Lincoln's birthday and Washington's birthday permissive holidays. This seems sensible, as business gen erally doesn't close down on the latter two Government offices ahd schools hold sessions, and might well hold spe cial programs in recognition of the significance of each day. School youngsters would learn mor at tout these worthies in this way than if they iwete turned free for a holiday. who look to nationalization of industry end to labor troubles may look ain where railway workers have been their jobs in protest against a wage in- only five per cent. Or they might take Russia where industry is nationalized not permitted. For us we prefer (Ownership in spite of occasional strikes. Pre - War and above all no national social ist who even in his most secret thoughts has the intention of causing the British empire any kind of difficulty." And that, with regard to the fifth anniversary of the German Polish non - aggression pact, "there can scarcely be any dif ference of opinion among true friends of peace with regard to the value of this agreement." And that there was "genuine friendship" between Yugoslavia and Germany, as with Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece,; Romania, Tur key, Switzerland,: Belgium, Hol land, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Balkan states. And that "Germany wishes to live in peace and on friendly terms with all countries, includ ing America." j Those statements Were made in January 1939. - Eight months later Hitler started World War II. Guidepost has hauled out his fictional de tective alter-ego j Homer i Evans to unravel a dish of criminal uproar more baffling than the secret sauce of a French chef. Some of the elements; are a mur dered American ; lieutenant in post-war Paris, a ; preciously cute (that's the; only descrip tion possible) family of tour ists from Massachusetts, White Russians, Indo-Chinese, Exist entialists, beards, and assorted specimens of stock police char acters with Parisian accents. The plot that is, pause$ every, so often for a visit to some spot in the city of lightsj or to put over some contrived t witticism, usually based on the dubious humor Inherent in an Ameri can trying to pronounce French words. ! " j In more orthodox crime story vein, and unfortunately j some what on the routine side, is -Murder Steps Out.", Sir! Julian Sheriff e, the most-hated" man in Sussex, is disposed lof by method foul soon after jhe re turns from a collector's Visit to the - continent. And! a f?- s jewel is stolen about the same time. And an amateur detec tive or two get working. Inter ested? "Yesterday oar comrades liquidated S spies, invented the steamboat, and uncovered plot to poison glorious leader ... now wo bear today's adventures of this averare, ordinary Soviet family ..." Easooe KKDODOS (Continued from page one.) solid democratic bloc to carry the day for the administration's recommendations. On domestic issues enough democrats (chief ly southerners) will join repub licans to reject the administra tion's proposals. As far as Mr. Truman himself is concerned the graph of his popularity shows wider swings than most any other president. It has sunk lower and then ris en more sharply. After the 1946 election he was virtually a "re ject"; after his amazing victory in 1948 he was cock of the walk. After the 1950 election he was again almost in the discard, and remains there at the moment. This does not mean that he has lost his volatility. Conceivably he might in 1952 repeat 1948, but that now looks like a forlorn hope. The times call for a president of greater power and personal ity. Truman runs his office pri marily by saying yes or no to recommendations of his associ ates. He does not formulate the policies and sell them to con gress and the people. Though opportunity now beckons toward republicans for 1952 they may become prisoners of their past and the democrats might nomin ate Eisenhower! Safety Valve Hopes Heartaches May Warn Youths from Drink To the Editor: May I have several inches of your column? And thank you at least for not using a front page spread on the initial publicity. It might be interesting to note that the name of the girl who started the plans for the slumber party, who requested the pur chase of liquor, and who signed up for the hotel room, was nev er mentioned publicly. Nor was her mother dragged through con ferences with juvenile officers, juvenile court and police court. Because she is under 18 years, it will not be mentioned here. If all this regrettable business will make the youngsters, and other peoples youngsters, stop" and realize that drinking can bring them nothing good, only trouble and more trouble, that they are making themselves pawns in the hands of the liquor traffic, then the heartache and shame, the misunderstanding and tragic loss of friends will not be too great a price to pay. Family pride may be down but it isn't out. I'd like to paraphrase that saying about "My Country," to read like this, "My children, may they always be right, but my children right or wrong." When one has taken a beating, there isn't anything else to do but come up fighting and fight ing mad. Of course the big liquor interests are represented here by you and me, all of us, under the name of the Oregon State Liquor commission. We will defeat it at the polls some day, please God, but until we do, let's start on the outlets of the breweries the grocery store. Never again will I shop or send . a youngster to a store where we have to dodge around cases of beer or juggle bottles of it in the refrigerator to find milk, cream or 7 Up. Some of our old friends succumbed, too, to the lure of tainted money (any profits derived from alcoh olic beverages whether whole sale, retail, advertising by paper, magazine or radio station, is tainted money any way you look at it), and have a hideous -beer sign in their window. I don't go ' there anymore. Will someone please compile a list of all the courageous grocers in the Salem area who refuse to stock and handle beer? Then we will give them all the free ad- . vertising possible and do our shopping in their stores. EDNA L LIVELY -320 Sunset Ave. Bettor English 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "Fred says he has got to attend the meeting, although he knows the speeches will bo over ly long." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "sachet"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled?? Apellation, apathe tic, apostrophe, aptitude. 4. What does the word "dor mant" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ar that means "laborious; difficult"?? ! ANSWERS 1. Say, "Fred says he must attend the meeting, although he knows the speeches will be too long." 2. Pronounce sa-sha, first a as In sad, second a as in say, accent second syllable. 3. Appel lation. 4. Sleeping, inactive. "Some animals are dormant throughout the winter." 5. Ar duous. BETTER CHANCE CLEVELAND, -(INS)- Handi capped people; all over the United States are going to have a better chance to lead a normal life, thanks to the efforts of an energetic Cleveland woman. Mary Hays Hei ner, the live-wire president of the Cleveland Hearing and Speech center, is raising funds to build a million-dollar institution to help rehabilitate the deaf and the dumb. 1 fr SALEM BRANCH i I OMH 19 ti 5 lidvssifl Sofwssy ' : - j .JS KPOAt ftfTOSIT WMiMd eosM-. .' ' i- 1 Written by . .' Dr. Hennas N. Bundensea J - Hospital attendants are "very familiar with the fact that large numbers of people suffer severe ill-effects from self-dosage with bromides. . - i These preparations are often prescribed by physicians to re duce nervousness and to produce sleep. Properly used in this way on a specific occasion, they are -harmless.' Unfortunately. kw ever, many people conunue to use them or 'their own,1 taking them habitually over long periods of time and in increasingly heavy doses. This results in what :1s known as bromide, intoxication. J ;." io .. -:- . ) .,.-1 Its: most marked symptom Is drowsiness. Weakness is also present and may be so severe that the patient is unable to get out of bed. There may be inter ference with normal control of the bladder, 1 disturbance of speech, and inability to walkv Slurring of speech, trembling, and mental excitement are other details in a picture which resem bles that of ordinary alcoholic Intoxication. Many of the pati ents show signs of fluid deficien cy, such as dry,' red, lining mem branes of the mouth. There may be a nasal discharge, and a rash is present in one out of three cases. These patients also have fever and an! increase in the pulse rate. In treating the intoxication, the patient is put to bed at rest and is given salt If he is able to take it by mouth, it can be given every four hours in this way. It may also be helpful to give in jections of the salt solution into a vein. The patient must receive plenty of fluids which also can be injected into a vein. In almost all cases, the patient must bo given some quieting preparation, such i as one of the barbiturates. In the patients treated, there was an average stay In the hos pital; of more than two weeks, and several of the cases ended fatally. It is possible that some of the symptoms may be due to the loss of salt from the body, but it is more likely that they are produced by direct: action of the bromide on the tissues. If bromides are to be used, they should be employed only under the direction of the physician in the dose which he prescribes. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS B.D.: Everyi time I get ex cited, I perspire a great deal. What would cause this? Answer: All normal individu- I als do not excrete the same amount of perspiration. Some perspire a great deal; others tend to perspire but little, prink ing a large amount of water usu ally increases the amount of perspiration to some extent. Certain abnormal conditions, such as chronic infections, among which are tuberculosis, and low grade infections in the sinuses, the teeth, or the tonsils, may make sweating more profuse. Hyperthyroidism, or Increased secretion from the thyroid gland. TTho Firsfl Maflioracal Ban! of Portland Y till ho open So ccfvc yo V ITEaursday, February 22 We share the attitude expressed bjt George Washington when he said, "I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of your interest and inclina tion." If your interest and inclination lead you to want banking service on February 22nd, you'll find us open to serve you. The sincere concern for your banking needs which has prompted us to expand our serv ices to provide complete banking facilities throughout Oregon, prompts us to remain open at any time most people and busi nesses are at work. Therefore, the First National Bank of Portland and its 46 state wide banking offices, together with its 15 affiliated banks with 18 offices, will be readr to serve you on Washington's birthday. - i ! - "LETS BUILD 'OREGON TOGETHER Something to chew on while your' working out your tax re turns ... A health expert told county health officials the other day it would cost about $500 a year to treat Salem's drinking water with a chemical which would aid in sa v- . in ervervbodv teeth. 'Wouldn't you aDDrove - " 1 of the city spending the 500 iron you, too, at age 65, could carry your teeth around in your head, instead of your Docket? V " . A .1 11 A. : . uoaenuuj, juutt same ezpen, Mia we wuiuu n't have so much teeth trouble here if we had more sunshine more molar solar. . ;s. it f Are state employes overworked? Well, -here's a story a state legislator gave out. He said he was on the train a feto days' ago and met a girl who worked in the secretary of state's office. "Do you keep bury, aU rightf the lawmaker asked. The, gal answered: "Well, some of us have to hide out at times, when we're idle particularly tchen you fellows are around." Now who was pulling whose leg that time? :; -'l ' M " ' : ' i ' ' - ' Use to be that when radio programs were interrupted for bul letin announcements you would scream for quiet, drop your comic book and listen. Now comes announcers who stop the mu sic and give out a news item half a day old because the bul letin announcements" are sponsored by advertisers ... On sec ond thought that beat-up strip of road called Hoyt surely can't be a street . . . Civilians are people who, during World War H, were told to buy bonds in order to send their sons through col lege." ' ; , - -A Headlines worth watching 1 . Teater Puts in Bill to Stop Buying Abuse" (are people hoarding THAT too?), and "World Government Deferred to Tuesday," (mustn't wait too long) . . . One of the two legislators absent when the house defeated the oleo measure was Rep. Husband. On the other hand a lot of legislative husbands probably toill wish they had been absent when they get home and face their and other wives ... In arguing about the bill ifs a wonder someone didn't advance the theory that Oregon housewives will, tznthtn a few generations, become creatures with overly-developed right arms from mixing oleo .-. . While legis lators wUl soon develop eye-strain from constantly vot ing with one eye on a bill and the other on the voters. - . " At the Kiwanis club liars contest Tuesday Frank Bennett un wound the yarn about a frog and a snake who swallowed each other and disappeared . . . Someone else told of the time a fish erman's weight-arid-measure scales were used to register a new-born infant the baby was officially listed as weighing 49 pounds and being 4 feet, & inches long . . . Earlier Dr. S. A. Wheatley related that during a real strong wind -storm here once, a hen on a ranch near Salem laid the same egg six times . . .'-Ethan Grant came through with the tale of his Uncle Es ther's old Swiss watch, which was so old the ticking noise had worn, a hole right through the case. Next? :-" "-' , J " is also a cause of excessive per spiration. When sweating occurs only during the night, It may be due to lack of fresh air in the sleeping room or to too much covering. In order to overcome excessive perspiration, you should bathe daily. It would be well to dab the affected parts of the body with a 25 per cent solution of aluminum chloride every other day, for a short period of time. : UK si ! J . 1 J - PEN BOWL FORT MADISON, I, -(INS)-Evidence that a regular fountain pen can perform underwater tricks as Tnaring as the. exploits of the ballpoints arrived recently; Safety Engineer Eric A. Ericsson wrote to the Shaeff er people that his pea wrote perfectly as soon as it was wiped off after spending all night, with cap detached in a goldfish bowl and that the water in tho bowl wasn't even slightly dis colored. . " s men so that r i Mi
