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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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." ' ;
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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.
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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
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