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- . - -----j f - .1 - i , .... CONFUSCIUS COULD HAVE TOLD 'EM ooa mqay union Services Slate at - mNo Favor Stony Ua, Wo Fear Shall Atotf ' From rtnt Statesman, Hares XS. 1X31 - THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 'CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, E4itorad Publisher . rabUsbed every memlng. Basfness efflee SIS 8. CeassaerelaL Sales. Catered at fae yostofflea at Balaam Oregea, aa eeeead alas Matte eader light Through the Murk . In this day of fears and gripes it is comfort- $ inf to hear a reassuring voice. David Lawrence speaks of The Brighter Side" on his editorial page in United States News. He notes that we seem to be beset "with new irritations, new in conveniences new taxes, new controls, and new anxieties as our sons are called up for military i training." We need, he believes to make some; mental readjustments and recognize the realities : of the present world situation and "develop the ; stamina and the. fortitude to overcome those threats and render them less and less a menace to our lives." As he surveys the scene he finds a basis for optimism.' He thinks the United States is suc cessfully meeting, today's challenge. Here is his conclusion, which offers a comforting thought for this Good Friday: Let us not be governed "by our present In- . conyeniences of our grievances. These would ' seem petty, indeed, if all around us men-were . dying and our homes were being bombed. Let -them seem petty now as we prevent World War III. - For the truth Is we are winning the race we are shifting the balance of power In the world against another war. Though the achievements are perceptible only In the dimmest outlines as yet, the clear lines of accomplishment by free men will grow j brighter each day as we turn our faces to the ; sunlight of hope as our own confidence grows ; In the lightness of our course. For we are build ing our might behind a great cause potential resistance to the imperialist. His invasion must i "never be allowed to start whether by air or land or sea against the territory of our allies or against the territory of the United States and its defense bases overseas. , We are checkmating the i enemy. We are al- ; ready licking aggression. - - - t. .'- Suffocation for La Prensa The congress of Argentina has voted to take over the newspaper La Prensa which has been strikebound since late in January. Its director, Dr. Gainza Paz, faces criminal charges trumped jp by the Peron government. A committee of congress has taken over the paper to "preserve it.". Instead of preserving it they are killing it as a free press. - La Prensa has a unique history. It was found ed by Jose Clemente Paz, uncle of the present director, in 1869. He laid down its guiding prin ciples truth, honor, freedom, progress, civiliza tion. It grew amazingly, aided by its singular device of makinglt a "letter-Box through which arriving immigrants from Europe could keep in touch with their relatives. It has added many free features, well beyond those of American; dailies: free medical and dental attention for the public, a free library, legal advice, a music cen ter where children may be instructed. The backbone of its income, in addition to its large revenues from circulation, has been its classified advertising. .When it had plenty of newsprint its classified ad pages ran from five to eight pages, right at the beginning of the paper. So when the news vendors union, a government-backed organization, demanded 20 per cent of its revenues from classified advertising it was knowingly destroying the paper's major source of income. 1 The paper has been distinguished for its news i tlussid Keeping Lend-LeaseShips Because " Stalin Says United States Doesnl Need Them By . M. Roberta Jr. n .AP roreln Affairs Analyt I Sometimes the Russian way of doing business is enough to make you burst out laughing if , It didn't lead to so many tears. ! Back during .the war things were so tough . with Russia that 'Stalin even agreed to abol ish the old com tlntern and per rait -religious freed o m though tie didnf lead any church; . -erviees to foster the goodwill through which the United States seat him one fifth of all the sap plies which he used in his de-. fence against Germany. - Stalin was in such a jam that he even tried to make friends with his own enslaved people, , and old "Mother Russia,, for whom the peasants have ever been willing to lay down their &ves. was permitted to replace 'even Joe himself for a time as a . proper object of all reverence. - Russia had such a narrow es cape from Germany it was ob vious that lend-lease meant the difference , between defeat and victory " ' When the war was over Pres . Ident Truman rather abruptly terminated lend-lease. The man- ner of action has created .some argument as to - whether it was wise and whether it .has con . tributed to subsequent poor re- lations. I doubt that It made much f difference, because the commun ;iits work to a pattern drawn . many years before that. Be that as It may, in due course t the UJS. asked the lend-lease , beneficiaries- to settle up for left :. over supplies or return them. : Assessed, valuations were sealed .to the bone Reaving little but . ! token payments to be made by everybody. ' But Joe dldnt want to pay. tror thirty years the Russians have : had what amounts to a full' de partment in their foreign office ; charged with collecting dollars, i They are inept at letting them jt-j. - The UJ3. agreed to knock ' off about 0 ver cent ef the biUV and to let .Russia buy. more than (i ..1 and editorial independence. It has eschewed party affiliation and kept free from outside.fi-. nandal' interest. It printed more world news than thifc New York Times, until the Peron gov emment tried to strangle it by curtailing its supply of newsprint. Its independence has prov en its undoing, for a dictator like Peron wants no freet "press- no dictators do. When a paper like Js; Prensa is suffocated the. whole world is injurecU ! ,! "- l - : ''' Surely though ' La Prensa will survive even management by a committeei , of subservient congressmen. Its tradition will! live. Some day surely a new regime will arisejin Buenos Aires . and restore the property to its rightful owners and give them . again the freedom they long exercised. ''.-'' I Though the headlines say that the senate has passed a bill ' granting stores . permission to charge ?less for milk than for home - delivered milk the text of the 'reports adds the condition that the ; stores first must prove they can sell milk for less without loss. The contention of all milk administrators has been that no stores pe titioning for a store differential produced proof that their handling charges were less than for home delivery. So if the bill becomes law the situation will not be greatly different. It should be remembered too that comparisons show that . the margin allowed distributors in Oregon is the lowest in the country so not much can be knock-, ed off the. price at that angle.1 jThey) say the TV showing ' of the Kefauver committee hearing in 'New York was bigger than South Pacific. It pretty nearly stopped business In old Gotham as descendants of Father Knickerbocker, et aL saw former Mayor O'Dwy er sweating and heard .Senator Tobey shouting, and saw Prank Costello face the senatorial in quisitorsj Even the stock market business lag ged while the show -was on. IWe wonder, who . had the "commercial en this TV performance. ! A bank robber has to be a i pretty slick cus tomer these days. One robbed a bank in south east Portland a few months ago only to be met' by police officers at the door.! In San Francisco recently a bank robber got a similar reception. And over in Washington county a robber Was nabbed in 15 minutes by means of police pickup of radio broadcast. The' business really is be coming unprofitable, j Sunday reports from Korea told how Greek troops; used knives and bayonets to repel -.four savage counterattacks of red ; Chinese. Funny, isn't it, having Greeks fighting Chinese on the other side of the world. They might better be discussing I Confucius and Plato; but these ancient philosophers are sadly out of place on a bloody hill in Korea. : If the board of control fires the prison warden every time the cons stage a sitdown or a riot it will need a revolving door at the warden's of fice, si . j 1 ' Washington reports there will be less sulphur for newsprint. Figh tin' editors can supply their owns, f ; t 600 loaned vessels if she paid the balance. ' i ' Still Joe wouldn't part with his dollars. The UJS. said all right, if you're going- to welsh, youll have to return the ships. All the lend-lease countries had agreed to return such-lif et-over items. But Joe says he's not going to do it. He says the UJS. agreed to let him buy the ships. Choosing, to forget the pay the balance clause. And a vigorous shaking of the envelope, fails to reveal enclosure of any check to pay for the vessels, r ! - i ; " f I i Well, Joe Is Just as good about making agreements out of -: no thing as he Is at making nothing out of agreements. There's no surprise about, things like that 'any xnore. - s"'- - i - i - - 'By W. O. Rrs I FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, I820-1910-; by Cecil Woodham : Smith (McGraw-HiU; $4.50) c The "only great - reputation resulting -in England from the " Crimean war, , says Mrs. r Wood-ham-Smith, was that of Florence ' Nightingale, i "angel of mercy. Yet in 1880 when she was 60 years old, this heroine could la , ment, "Do you think tany f part of my life is as I please?', 'i ' r. Irs 4 this J contrast between achievement and frustration that helps to fire with drama, this re markable biography. And it is not the only contrast.: Florence : Nightingale, named for the city in which she was born, came of parents who by right of wealth and intelligence 'moved in , the most distinguished jdrtfes. t The beautiful young!1 woman 4 who snade the family; "Tagrne memor able knew SLsmondi, lime. -Re-eamier, Chateaubriand;; she went to the gayest, most exclusive balls; and she refused the pro posals 'of Henry ; Ulchblson and -Richard Monckton Milnes. ; She was turn -; between mun dane delights and her growing sense of the utter useless ness ' the Insipidly decorative and era pty quality, of the lot of gentle women in Victorian England.' Literanyi jSuidepost . j s ' .! i: ' !i Oregon. Telephone 1-141. act at eengreas March X, 187 But the laughable part comes in when Joe says one reason he won't return the ships is that the to return such left-over items. That's proven, Joe says, by the fact that the UJS. has been sell ing surplus ships to Latin Am erican and other countries rec ently. "i - "What right have you to tell us what to do with your ships?" asks Communist Joe. He's - probably ' embarrassed about the whole thing, just the same, , My hunch is that he's trying to cover up the fact that the ships have all fallen apart or been sunk through inept Rus sian maintenance and handling since in mechanical things as well as in the search for" peace, the Kremlin; seems to operate in reverse.:- 1 s - Over lihe incredibly bitter op- '' position- ef relatives, of whom ; she had too many, she finally embarked on her chosen prof es sion of nursing, which until, her time : had been filled -by women of the lowest character, employ ed in filthy, disorganized . hos pitals where the death rate was even' higher than in the sur rounding slums.-. She was apparently better in formed about hospitalization than any other person of her .time when her friend, Sidney Herbert, secretary. tf war, sent her to Turkey ' and the , Crimea. You. have to read ; this book to ap-. predate the-problems she 1 en-- : countered, the stupid hostility Of doctors, the ignorance that in-, tensified unspeakably the suffer- f ing of wounded and- plague-" stricken the pest bouses that : passed for hospitals. After Scu-' tari she threw herself in to gen eral j War Office- reform, and Into the inquiry what was called the -Sanitary State" of the army In India. ;-' ' " - . An impassioned and consecrat ed woman, r unshakable in her grand purpose, she was more saint than heroine. This abrorb--ing book makes the very most of her stirring life. ) - ( FACE WHIM STOMACH ) V Your Health - Glandular fever, also known as infectious mononucleosis is one of the greatest mimics of the disease world. It can and of . ten does Imitate a whole host of other disorders, masquerad ing in one instance as appendi citis and again as leukemia. For this reason, it is a great trouble-maker for the doctors and the cause of much needless anxiety since the disease itself is much less serious than many of those it apes., '"'- It is. nonetheless something of a mystery, not only in the (great - array of symptoms it can? pro-. duce ! but also in- the .way. it spreads from person to person, sometimes producing a 1 small epidemic among a group of chil dren, : or almost as often . causing an isolated case in one section of a city and then appearing sud denly in a far-distant . area. - Nor does glandular fever con tent itself by imitating only ser ious sickness. Its . most m usual symptoms are fever, sore 'throat, cough, and headache, plus some swelling of the lymph glands, particularly those of the neck. In this guise, it looks much like in flenza or German measles be fore the rash appears, and it sometimes produces the rash, too, out of its varied bag of tricks. - It is quite possible that many persons have the condition with out knowing it, : particularly in the mild form. A person so af fected feels no worse than If he had a severe cold. . : There are two ways In which a definite diagnosis of the con dition may be made once it Is suspected that it is present. The first is examination of the white blood cells and the determination ef the I number present in the blood. The second is a test of the patient's blood serum against the red blood cells itaken from a sheep. In a normal person, the . blood serum will- not cause clumping of . the red cells but, when a person ' has infectious mononucleosis, this clumping will - occur even though only one part . of the blood serum Jo BOO or 900 parts of salt solution Is used In making the test. GRIN AND BEAR IT .Tis a nice stent stem bomb shelter dit Otis made . . . bet after he ymtM. the car and televistea la U. there's ri see for si.. Dr. Hermaa N. . ftrittea by In infectious - mononucleosis, there is an increase In the num ber of white cells in the blood. There are also some changes in the cells themselves, i v One unfortunate thing about infectious mononucleosis Is the slow recovery. Frequently, after a person has had this condition, he is fatugued. tires easily, and Is unable to carry on bis ordi nary work. On the other hand, some of the i patients recover from the condition promptly. The specific treatment for the condition also has not as yet been found. Penicillin ; has been . tried, as well- as other anitbiotics, such as Chloromycetin and aureomy cin. They have some value in preventing any complications but whether they have any di rect effect on the disease, itself has, so far, not been determined. The giving of whole '-blood Into a vein or blood serum has also seemed to be helpful In', some cases. It is possible that this serum carries antibodies against the disease which have been pro duced by earlier, unrecognized' infection with Infectious mono nucleosis. Whence person has headache, fever, . enlarged lymph glands, and sore ; throat, the possibility of infectious" mononucleosis must be considered and the special tests carried out In order to be sure. j ,'!.. , QUESTIONS j AND ANSWERS A. B.: What Is the cause of lisping? Can it be cured? . .' Answer: Lisping, sometimes, is due' to a deformity of .the mouth, the tongue or the teeth. In other cases it Is due only to habit. I It is advisable to' consult a dentist. Speech training may then be employed io overcome the difficulty. i " - - (Copyright. 1931. King Features) TO HONOR DR. BUNCHX VANCOUVER, B. C- March 22-(CP)-Dr. Ralph Bunche will re ceive an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Bri tish Columbia at its spring con vocation May 17 and 18, the uni versity announced here. byjLichty OlP iiMBssiiiiiiiiiMaMsaBsasMiissMaMBMMssasaMsessseB (Continued from page one.) -that make necessary another for mula for a price Increase to ab- : sorb the extra labor cost? Be tween revising formulas and po lking business from factory to ' corner variety store OPS most ' surely faces a busy season. And when Price Enforcer DiSalle calls for tighter laws he really is ad mitting the difficulty which he and bis organization, face in ad- ' ministration of any price control act. . 'i y .' I . Then you have pressure groups putting on heat for special treat- . ment. The cattlemen strenuously object to. any price ceiling. The -cotton growers are said to be un happy over the 46c price fixed : for cotton although it is so much higher than usual prices that a stampede to grow cotton has re sulted. Labor , union want es calator clauses. . . ! ' i Meantime other forces are! at work: the law of supply and de mand .has not been, repealed. Some of the celling prices will not hold In the face of buyer re sistance. Inventories are high, and once the hope for speculative profits fades their liquidation will follow. Merchants . are fully aware of practical ceilings on prices regardless of . what the government regulations or for mulas may provide. Perhaps the best hope of price control lies In the operation of this simple law rather .than in the formidable bureau of a revived OPA. I have the feeling that OPS will not be around too long, barring of course an outbreak of general warfare. Bettor English f i 1.! What is wrong with this sentence? "It was .him. who. walked over: the bridge." 2. What Is the correct pronun ciation' of "philanthropist"? i 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Elaborateness, elo cutionist, elasticity, ellipse. ' 4. What does the word "docile" v.. ' By Geae Hanesmker" -HOLLYWOOD Tm Tdred, said! Betty Grable. "Tve got to have a rest after this" she in- -dicated the glittering movie! set . ;. outside .her -. - i , .f'----j dressing room f.", srsrm i -or 111 col-J 1 elapse." - V '? The" blonde! i f beauty looked ? t I the -picture ; of i i f . - freshness in. a? . . J JiUW VWli UUtJ ' J fit the. Grable ' & curves to daz-t J - znng penecuan. r . -But, saidEetty:! J r-Fa losing ia-1 . 1 , terest . in . wna ... rm doing, rm gettilgstale., ; "Meet -Me After the Show, and any man would - love to, is her 40th picture in 11 years. She used to do three a year. Now her contract calls for two annually. Recently, Betty said, the studio has been spending five or: six -months on each "I don't know why." This leaves her little time off. ---' - v - . - - -. WeH have to work something v out. she declared. "Either a time limit on the two a year or one picture a-year. .- :s ' .i Frank Ross and his bride, Joan CawlfiM, are collaborating on Hollywood Methodist i .... . : - I (Story also on page: 1.) The annual union Good Friday service sponsored by Salem Min isterial association will be from noon to S pjn. today at First Metho dist church. The offering will go to the association for its work In Salem, i . ' 1 j . On the theme of Christ's "Seven LastiWords from the Cross," It will be opened with Invocation by the Rev James I Wilson of Jason Jjut Methodist. The program for the seven 25- minute seivwes Includes: i First, fTather, forgive them for titer know not what they do" Scripture, the Rev. John Walker of Free Methodist; meditauon, xne Rev. O. W. Clemens of First Church of God. i - Second, TVerily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in Paradise" Scripture, the Rev. Ru- d.hh Woyke of Bethel Baptist; meditation, Maj. Charles. S. Ben nett of Salvation Army. ' j . Third,' "Woman, behold thy ton . . . Behold thy mother" Scripture. the Rev. Harold Black of West Salem Methodist; vocal, Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Potter; meditation, the Rev. Brooks H. Moore of. First Methodist.- - J Fourth, "My God, my God, why hast Thou 'forsaken me?" Scrip ture, the Rev. Lloyd Uecker i of Engl e w o o d Evangelical United Brethren; meditation, the - Rev. Dudley Strain of First Christian. Fifth,! "I thirst" Scripture, the Rev. Alex Sauerwein of Klngwood Bible; vocal, Ronald Lush; medita tion, the Rev. Eugene Stowef of First Nsxarene. I Sixth,! -It is finished" Scrip ture, the Rev. John Goodenberger of First Presbyterian; meditation, the Rev. Omar Barth of Calvary Baptistf : v t ' ; ; j . Seventh, "Father, Into Thy hands I commend my spirit" Scripture, the Rev. Wllmer Brown: of First Evangelical United Brethren vocal Philip McHarness; meditation, the Rev. W. H. Lyman of Court Street Christian." , . - Each t period also, win Include prayer and a hymnyby the con gregation. ; : : ;,- ;j . V' Organists will be Dr. Josef Schnelker of First Methodist and Mrs. Ralph Dobbs of First Presby terian. I '-. i- . f - in By Jane' Eads ' ' WASHINGTON" -OP)- Maria Hacker, a pretty young German movie actress, actually parachut ed Into the life : ! of Lauritx Mel- -- """t ehior ? and "for r ' ( - -" 28 years: bas been the wife of the famedf Wagnerian ten- ? or and former i Metropo 1 1 1 a n . nnera : star. She'wasmak- ins a comedv movie that call ed for stunt to earth near v Munich in; the midst of a startled crowd that included the Danish tenor, then . on concert tour. ! I He was no midget six feet, three and one-half inches tall also very handsome; I couldn't overlook him." . Mrs. Melchior, ;' who accompanied her husband to the capital for a concert ap pearance, told me. - The Melchlors first came to the United States In 1928. Mr. Melchior made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera Com-' psuy in Tannhauser" Feb. 17. He was with the opera company until f last year, when he quit. He Is now making concert ; ap- , pearances over the country, ap pearing on numerous radio; and . television shows, making record ings and soon a movie . . I his fifth In as many years. Together, this devoted couple has traveled , more fthan PQQ.oou mues m aui means? . . ! - 8. What is a word beginning with ft that means "to spur on"? .: ANSWERS i' i : 1. Say. lt was Tae who walked "aerees the bridge.' 2. Pronounce fil-an-thro-pist, accent on second syllable. 3. Elasticity. 4. Disposed to be taught; easy to manage. (Pronounce the e as In ea). The dog proved to be very docile. : S. Stimulate, , ' 1 Parad on The Lady Says No, he as di rector and she as star. - Each told tne separately that - neither thinks of the other, as spouse while on the set: -r "Oh, once in a while If may sit in his lap a bit," said Joan. "Just for fun, to shock the bit players and extras who don't know we're married. Ross said; -It's a funny thing, but I'm ob jective toward her all day." Doesat think he slights David Niven or the other players with the camera in favor of his beau tiful blonde wife. ; - . This is Ross first experience in direction, something he has, long i wanted to do. He wrote. The! More the Merrier" and pro duced The Lady Takes a Chance, both of which starred his ex-wife. Jean. Arthur. He stage-directed. Joan last year in "Dream Girl" at Phoenix and "Claudia at La JoUa. Joan said she trusts her bus band's direction because "he has authority and decisiveness. The worst-thing in this business is people who say maybe. .Their differences over scene-interpretations have been minor. It took Miss CaulHeld a week to bring her husband around to her view of how she should do a i little dance step. .., Ways h urc Bid to Settle Railroad Wage nte WASHINGTON. March 22-VPh" A union proposal to settle a two-year-old railroad wage dispute failed today when the carriers re jected it. The answer was given to the senate labor committee which is investigating the long-drawn dis agreement between the nation's rail carriers and the four big op erating unions. . . . Chairman Murray (D-Mont) had urged the lines to accept the new groposal, put forward through him y the brotherhood of railroad trainmen. Although it directly af fected only the trainmen, Murray believed it would lead to a settle ment with all four unions. But D, P. Loomis, representing the railroads, announced at the committee's- public hearing that management would not go along with the union plan. . " The settlement proposal differed in two respects from a compromise reached Dec 21 at the White House ( between the : four unions and the railroads. The compromise -collapsed when local .union offi cials turned it downj i The trainmen suggested (1) that somebody besides John R. Steel man, assistant to President Tru man, be named arbitrator under the agreement, and (2) negotia tion between individual roads and . the unions on a working condition dealing, wun ine coupling oi air hose.'' i parts of the world. i "There Is nobody, who equals him for work," she said.- "He says I'm boss. I say he's boss. Of course, we all spoil him." . .Mrs. Melchior loves to travel with her husband, who, she says, is a! kind, understanding and Jovial character. Shell go any where with him willingly except Into the jungle. He likes , to hunt. She says there's not an animal in tne wua woria ne t hasn't shot except an Indian' tiger. ' ". . ,' , i The last time I went shooting with him was fcn Uruguay puma hunting, it was. I was so bored. I lust can't bear it. All the time you have to look down for snakes, ' fight mosquitoes, look up in the trees for pumas ready to lunge at you," she said. i The Bavarian-born Mrs. Mel- cbior says the trophy, room in their ultra-modern, almost com pletely glass-walled house in Beverly Hills, Calif., is filled with hides and skins and stuffed animals- and photographs. There are bear and buffalo skins, ele- Ehant tusks and elk horns. She eeps tripping ove a bear skin under, the piano. ; - -i Mrs. Melchior says her family zorcea her to take piano lessons for years, but that she had "no heart for If When I played for the first time for - my husband, he just looked , at me and begged me never to play again my life. That . suited me fine." ! PICTURE THE ! j CHILDREN I GROWING UP! IVilh A" cdalr I Tourist Camera H takes excellent black-and-white or color pictures out doors or indoors, and yet it Is very simple to use. Has fast eye-level viewing 'ig3 proof shutter release, sleek, new Styling. 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