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'' I - ALONE AT 1AST! ' ' ' ' 4V-Thm Zl 'ScHmti, Oracon. UedUm cryy icir. ZS. JtSl I ood on riollyw Hara shot "Mo faror Strays 7.. No Fear Shall Atce" first Statesman, ftlarea 2. 1X51 ! FablUtei every Catered a the fMMIkt at THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING C03IPANY CHARLES A. i S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher " office 21S 8. Ceansereial. Salem. Orrgea. Teleaaeae 2-244 L Oregon, aa cljHa saatter aadcr act of Blare X. U7 A. Jefferson County Boom "The deeert shall rejoice, end blossom as - the rose." Once Oregon's dust bowl, Jefferson county is blossoming as the ladino dorer whose seed bring as much as $1,000 an acre to rejoidnf farmers. - O : ! . --: " ' A Eugene Journalist, LyLe M. Nelsonj tells the ragi-to-ricnes story oi ine reoinn oz a county In a recent edition of the Christian Science Mon itor. He recalls that IS years ago, some 25 fam ilies barely eked out a living on Jefferson coun ty's drought-stricken 50,000 acres. Today Jeffer son ii Oregon's fastest growing county! (170 per cent increase tlnce 1940) and the, average in come there in 1950 was between $10,000 and -$13,000. Madras, the county seat, is a ghost town turned toom-town. ,l The magic which changed the ugly duckling into a beautiful swan is irrigation. The wheat warn, parched land began to get the UJ5. bureau of reclamation's life - bearing waters ( in 1946. AnJ farm leaders found just the crop that re quired low organic content in the soilclover. ; Lwt year Jefferson farmers, ma ny of them young veterans oz ww 11, proaucea more man -3,900,000 pounds of ladino seed. j It's a wonderful success yarn, this! story of Jefferson county. It shows how research and nlanninr. ineemiitv ahd human resourcefulness. ar . r a? . j - . - -; - X- with a generous boost from government funds, cm master the handicaps set by nature. Jeffer son county mty well become an example for the !; many desert areas in the world where people emut on near-etarvation levels for lack of water and know-how. When the Point-Four program I for aiding underdeveloped .countries gets going, the, experts sent out to show-how can .cite Is- f aiah's prognostication and. point to Jefferson birth; rate in the world, and a sorry record of infant mortality, j We can only interpret these figures to mean that the average Egyptian woman's life on the farmi consists of constant child-bearing with in adequate medical care and a lack of modern conveniences. It sounds like a. grimy grind; no wpnder she dies at the age when American women consider their life is just beginning! The Hard Lot of U. S. Housewives "America: a vottutn'i world or is jit?" asks the wife of the press attache at the! Egyptian - embassy in Washington in the magazine pub- UMirU UJ UJC -t-JJpiiUJ miwiunwvn kui cau. tins thinks not. .'.- v4 Ever since Americana had the audacity to break away from England and set up our own standards and methods, we have been subjected bst. Probably no other development in the UJS. has brought en as much bewilderment, con demnation and attempts to copy as the Ameri can woman. ,; - -' j - The American woman, complains Mrs. Moun irah Nessef, wtnU to be the perfect wife, mo ther and pal, and perfect housekeeper f Some- where along the line she finds time to join the part in community work, entertain periodically at home various organizations, etc.- not exciua- Iiig self-improvement courses, night-Classes or home study . , . While the washer washes, she wwi; she the even cooks, she writes, and so on ... In spite cf her 1,001 labor-saving devices, the American housewife still Ignores relaxa- In Egypt, Mrs. Nassef points out, things are different "If we do not market electrical appli ances on a high production level, it's because we do not need them, .she says, adding that in the a m a . . atwence oz vacuum cieaner ana wasner i cooiy supervised the brush and soap scrubbing of the kitchen's tiles, by my hired girl, down on all fours . . . (and) have the luxury of having even our coarsest sheets washed by hand . L . Egyp tian women, in the afternoon, relax on our bal conies, breathing the cool evening breeze . . . No rush, fuss and perpetual motiorr. j . Life in Egypt is slower but definitely more graceful and rolairinty : A Try .rian 1if 1 a hard i lif Yttit rewarding if yon can take It and live long enough. ' :--. :, It sounds as though Mrs. Nassef (now ser antless in a Washington.; apartment jwith her three children) is both homesick and lazy. Also ane is not very well lniormea on conditions in her own country. And she is making an unfair comparison and she likens the upper-class Egyp tian lady-of-leisure to the middle-class Ameri can harried housewife. 1 ' . ; Perhaps someone should remind Mrs. Nessef (and other critics of the U.S. way of life) that statistics sometimes give a truer picture than "impressions. For instance, we note in the almanac that the life expectancy of the Egyp tian woman is less than 40 years compared to the American's of almost 70 ears; that Egypt (a primarily agricultural country) has one of th highest deeth rates in the world, the highest Those Racing Log Trucks Monsters of jthej highways hustling giants of the forests to mill ponds and cold decks and rafts! on the rivers are more than just pictures que items of Oregon scenery and the ruination of public roads J One day's operation of a western logging truck creates $971 in wages to workers, enough to support an average family of five for 12 weeks, a lumber company survey revealed. In a study of Jits operations the Biles-Coleman lumber company at Omak,' Washington, found that the average load of logs on one of its trucks is 4,855 feet. One thousand feet of forest prod ucts shipped by the company represents 40 man hours of labor, j Thus a truck load of logs- means 194.2 man hours and, at a $2 per hour average ' wage, this means $388.40 labor wages created by each truck loa4 of logs. ! If each truck averages two and a half loads a day, j the daily I operation of a truck would ac count for a total of 485.5 man houf of labor, or $971 in wages paid out for each day's opera tion. A standard 40-hour work week means 12.1 weeks of employment for one day's operation of the truck. I f r ! , These figures clearly show why log truckers fight every effort j to make them lighten their . loads to save Jvear and tear on the highways, .and why the drivers are always in such a ter ' rific i hurry eVen on mountain roads that look more like , goat trails through the trees than routes for heavy, awkward vehicles. The red hatted fellow behind the wheel of one of these huge trucks know he's got nearly $1,000 riding c4 its nose, -i t --;--; .1 L.J Ways in Washington . . m ' wak 14m4A a Waft MMt- r j-- I- i - :-- . California has had a unique cross-filing sys tem for candidates for office. Thus a candidate in! one , party may cross-file and run for nom ination , to the same office in another party.' Governor Warifen himself won both republican and democratic! nominations in 1948. But he has just signed a bill which puts a mite of a wrinkle in the system.. Candidates may cross-file as before, but his party connection must appear after his name If Joe Doakes, democrat, cross files In the republican primary, the party voters wjill know he's! a wolf in sheep's clothing, be4 cause . "democrat! will appear on the T ballot alter his namei What difference the new proviso win make we can't say. California plays its politics by ear! so; the requirement may make little difference, i - , . J : -I (Farmers can't say that no one looks after' . theiri interest; The politicians in congress, be-j sides preserving parity , prices' and averting any more rollbacks "have provided more than a bil lion dollars for cash and loans for "farm pro grams. When the bill got to the senate the ap- propriations committee raised the ante $45,- 000,000. None off the members wants to turn up as "low bidder" in the auction of the farm vote in 1952. Thie Corvallis Gazette-Times lists 39 ways to cook; a chicken and suggests that "most of us who ! have not jbeen able to afford a cow diet lately should be able to find something on this chicken cooking list that will fill the void. . . .Who jean afford chicken, even? We're looking for 39 ways tof cook a horse, and if things get any worse, we'll look up the man who said there was more than one way to skin a cat. . .-.'.. r-ry i Secretary Sawyer doubts that a code of ethics! for government officials would end graft and corruption In he j present administration , . J We doubt It, tpo. The best way to end demo cratic graft and corruption is to elect a republi can administration Then we may have repub lican! graft and corruption. Since everything else thrives "in Marion county soil and climate - one shouldn't be sur prised that thef experts have found big clumps of ragweed here. Only that is one crop we could dd better withoutj - t i . By Jaa Eads -.. i "' WASHINGTON-(ff)-American GIs who marry Japanese girls waat their brides to know how to' cook and' nil m m m t -rf. 'k - -: their own hairfr and dress like -the! girls backf borne, keep a budget and get j along with their I in-laws. . i A big teach-1 ing ! order, out ' j it's being doneK X non - Japanese women Red Cross volunteers In Japan, headed by Mrs. Frank O. Blake of Phoenix, Ariz. . Wife of a former army colonel," she is now a civilian worker stationed .In Tokyo. ..; - ;. i . u ! "It's a new phase of our staff aides program, started recently at the specific request of the service men," Mrs. Blake told me on a recent visit here. "We in vited the brides to join the clas ses, : and 300 joined. k One volunteer opened her home for classes where the girls might learn first-hand what housekeep ing i American-style Is like. An other schoolroom has been set up in the Red Cross headquarters at Yokohoma. - ! "They're : getting an orienta tion to American family relations, as well as the mechanics of run ning a home, Mrs. Blake said. We teach them to know what is expected of an American citizen. The GIs are very appreciative." . ! Despite language difficulties, she i says the girls, are all very eager n learn American ways, especially how to wear American clothes. ' . L "It's amazing how they try to put on American clothes the amazing lot or underwear they don They all want to do away with the kimona. . They want to learn how to make up their faces and how to fix hair-dos our way too" M-.;v: '-ki:,. I Classes are conducted in' Eng lish with the help of an inter preter. Mrs. Blake says the girls are learning fast and hat more are I continually joining-up. (Contribution to this column should Tmi limit to SO words. Write only en ono at of paper: five aam ana fuU Bom in Berkeley, Calif, mo- address. Poetry ta not accepted.) uier ox ! a son, juierton, , an army -veteran studying architec ture at i the University of Cali fornia, Mrs J Blake is an author ity on Western and eastern art and psychology, American Indian and oriental cultural history and arts. ' t : She has been associated with Red Cross projects since 1125 and served through the Pearl Harbor debacle.1 In June, 1945, she join ed her husband in .Tokyo, and was with him later on Okinawa where she did Red Cross volun teer work in the typhoon of '49. She has been back in Tokyo since last year. ., i . There are now 3,000 volunteers under her direction," in branches in Japan, Okinawa and the Phil ippines. In Japan the women help run the U.N. blood center, collect clothing; for Korean refugees and sew layettes for the new born in fants in that war-torn country, j " By Gene ffiaataker BOLLYWOOD It seems only yesterday that we read of Shar man U Douglas flitting about London society, with f the Mar-r 1 -"---n quisolMilford-f of Westmorland and such. Today the daughter si i me xormer u. & ambassador vto England occu-i fice in the pub licity depart ment at RKO. "C harmin1 Sharman" a phrase' originated ia the press, to her distress is the outdoor type, with freckles. She's 23. Her eyes she describes as "greeny - gray -yellow -blue cat's eyes." Her hair is blonde. Her job is to be a sort of studio ambassador to the Engliish play ers who are starting a movie version 4 of . George Bernard Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion. .They include Jean Sim mons, James Donald, and Rob ert Newton. - j ; The job pays $100 a week. Since her father is a top official cf an insurance company , and the owner of a Tucson. Ariz, bank.' you doubt' that she had to go to work. Why, then, did she? "I wanted to be independent, to prove to myself that I could get out on my own," Sherman -told me. "My family was quite for it It's a working family, not a : rich family." Her father resigned as am bassador last November after an accident . with a salmon hook that blinded one eye. For a girl who has visited with the royal family and is known as a close -friend of Princess Margaret, she fits her new surroundings with remarkable ease. - "Don't give him just a line of as a convert, Mr, Truman Is held in high esteem by Billy Graham, and ' surely Franco must be blessed by the Pope. FORMOSA . . . WASHING TON . . . MADRID . . . FREE DOM??? Lawrence Lusk ' CIS Thompson - no comment. kid." a fellow em ploye joshed her while we chat ted. "Give blm the dope." Sharman, chewing an r unbent paper clip, said she had worked mostly with Miss Simmons the bride of Stewart Granger. She has sat in on interviews with the English actress, helped, her an swer fan mail, and accompanied her to a Hon farm for publicity pictures.. i i "There was a tame lion, and we had to let it lick our hands and pet it It was terriifying." "X love this work," Sharman said, "and I hope to try a lot oi angles." , ,. :: - One angle she knows she's not fitted tor acting. She had a small part in a film produced in Spain and was "very bad. Had she ever thought of diplomacy aa a career? "No," she said, "I never actually thought about it" . KODOQS Beitpr English By D. C. Williams i1 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "They spent the bal ance of the day arguing over the matter.! , 2. What is the correct pronun ciation' Of "momentarily"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? : Conscientious, cere monious; simultanious, preten tious.' . , 4. What does the word "cali . ber" mean? 5. What Is a word beginning with fa') that means "weariness from labor"? j . ANSWERS 1. Say, "They, spent the re SQainderjof the day arguing about the matter. 2. Accent first syl lable, not the third. 3. Simul taneous. 4.; Degree of individual capacity! or power. "We measure the caliber of men by their achievements. 8. Fatigue. Naasea Teward Fraaea. To the Editor: - Thank you for your reserved attitude in welcoming "our"new est ally Franco. Many Americans must have a slight nausea, to night along with their beer as dapper Franco comes nearer and ! nearer to being accepted into the community of "free" nations. If Hitler hadn't been so hasty with his Wagnerian theatrics and Mussolini - so careless crossing streets they too might have qual ified as partners In freedom. After all as General Elsenhower, so aptly put it, "let bygones be bygones" and let s be one happy gang together. .--- We now have the foundation for a freedom-axis that will real ly expose . that Rome-Berlin-Tokyo business of the unatomic age. Chiang Kai Shek on For mosa, Harry S. Truman in Wash ington and Francisco Franco in Madrid. What do these boys have that Adolph, Benito and Hirohito' didn't have?, Why don't we re member that . they - were PAG ANS or IDOL WORSHIPPERS? While Chiang is highly recorded Urges Birth CaatrnI To the Editor: I do not like Rose Evans' state ment ion abortion in the Safety Valve.' because abortion is not the solution to a high birth rate of too many children, unwanted children,' where . their parents cannot support them; of children J ' born to misfits; children born to criminal parents; children born of parents "off the beam and ' children bom under other un wholesome conditions. j Of all the evils birth control is the best answer. Education by ' responsible people of the general public from the age of sixteen' upwards to how to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. I , do not even believe in birth control but ! self eantroL- But that is wishful thinking to the mass of the gen eral public. ' . No, Rose; abortion Is murder a crime against the Spirit a . sin of "Thou shalt not kill." Our lives j are full of sin let's not add abortion to them. A. H. Allen S625 S. E. 17th Ave. -Portland 2, Oregon You Hea 1th Dr. Bermaa N. Baadeasea Dawn Takes Vacation Conraa lrange, aather ef the "Comes jthe Dawn" e a 1 a m a which customarily appears on this pare. Is aa vacation. The eelama will resasae apon his return Aagast C. . The USA hia Had trouble keeping Britain a4d France hapyj while it dickers with Spain. Some way should, be devised to keep the left hand; from learning what the right hand is up to. GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty Communist Chiefs. May Be Worlcing Toward 'Horse Trade' over Troop By J. M. Roberta. Jr. AiSociatd Press Nw Analyst WASHINGTON, July 2-P-Communist activities in several different, fields have created speculation that - they may be working toward a horse trade ovei the issue of withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea. If you work on the. thesis that the com munists want a cease , fire in Karea or else - they wouldn't have asked for It. and that as part of the price they demanded something they knew the allies would not agree to, then the Question becomes.-what d they want in return for drop pin g that demand? One answer could be another big power conference, at which th-y would try to trick the west ern powers, failing -in that, set trp a coujrter-irritaot to distract re public attention the world around from the failure of their Korean, adventure.1; . s- For some months how Mos cow's most intensive propaganda drive has centered around the public' signing of its appeal for a "peace settlement? among the big powers. The whole effort is to bypass the United Nations in punishment tor its action regard ing Korea, its adoption of the Acheson security program and the Chinese embargo, and to dis arm the west by rnaxin it appear that ; Russia is trying to .attain the big power settlement for which the UJ. charter provided, but of which the organization has proved incapable, i I : It seems quite f possible mat Russia would Just love to have another of these propaganda forum conferences, and even hold it in Paris during next fall's general assembly xneetiBg in an effort to steal the shew. There is much ' evidence that Russia ex pected the UJf. to be merely a facade for a peace - between spheres cf influence established i after the war by power politics, and that this remains her only idea for "peace in our time." The west is convinced that would be merely an armed and highly pre- carious truce. I Injection of the conference idea into the Kaesong talks would, of course, breach the original idea of a strictly military cease-fire. Russia might feel, however, that the Allies would accept such an . offer, if no commitments were demanded, : I Russia, of course, would want agreement on, what nations would be represented at the con . ference. She might ask a five power meeting with the com- ' munists representing China, or a seven power meeting to include India 'and some other neutral, with a general far eastern set tlement on the agenda. The Al lies undoubtedly would reply to this with a demand for Japanese representation, and there would be a whale of an argument. But some sort of agreement on these points would not seem im possible. . . "1 da that ZdH Ekes ye . . ar at least reaSsea that a girl Jast baa ta have pareats! . Of late years, great emphasis has been placed on what is known as early ambulation for surgical patients. Nowaday, patients who have had operations are allowed to lie in any position they prefer; they are encouraged to breathe deeply and to move their arms and legs as soon as they are con . scious. In many cases they are urged to get out of bed very promptly, often within a day or so after surgery. This does not mean, however, that such patients should be rushed out of the hospital as soon as they are able to get about. Where this mistaken course is followed, complications may de velop which will send the pa tient back to the hospital for a longer stay than would have been necessary-m the first place. . . It is also possible to overdo the business of getting patients out of bed early following an operation. The prime need for the first few days is rest of the af fected parts, so that tissues will be given a chance to heal and bleeding to stop. Thus, though rest in bed is essential during this period, the patient may have deep j breathing and leg exer cises to keep up the circulation, thus preventing the development of blood clots which are often a severe complication of surgery. . Another possible complication is atelectasis or collapse of the lungs. This is best warded off by deep breathing. ; "After about four days, when the wound is safe against strain, the patient may be allowed ;jo be up. Usually he is carried to a chair and is permitted to sit up for a while, or he may, if be feels like it, take the few steps to the chair. The natural desire of the pa tient is nearly always the best guide as to when he should walk. He should certainly not be urg , ed to get up until he feels like r doing so. '; '"r w. It has been estimated that hav ing patients get up early follow ing operation would increase, from 10 to 20 per cent, the ca pacity of a hospital, would re duce greatly the call on the nurses' time, and would be most beneficial to the patient. How ever, speeding up the patient i discharge from the hospital is not advisable since complications could: then develop which would only make it necessary for the patient to return to the hospital for a: long stay. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Mrs. C. W.: My feet always seem cold. Does this mean there is something wrong? Answer: Coldness of the "feet may be due to some circulatory disturbance. In general, it is not a matter for any concern unless the symptoms are excessive. In such case, an examination should be made by the physician to de termine the extent of the cir culatory disorder. Copyright 1991. Xing Features V (Continued from Page 1) that this a duel between twe great powers, the United: States and the USSR. Many; Europeans do not feel it is contest which concerns them directly.;! What they would like is to "sit out" the next war. . ; f. We cant be too "critical of those entertaining this feeling because in two world wars we did not become involved mili tarily until over two years. had passed and those to whose causa we finally rallied had suffered severely. President Wilson once urged ui to be "neutral in thought," and in 194 E the U. S. commies, rallying behind the Melotov-Ribbenoff pact, i spread the slogan, "The Yanks re not coming." Now the neutralism which the United States indulged in during the period 1914-1917 and 1939-1941 has been borrow ed by some of our late allies. There is a great geographical difference however. iWe; could have sat out those wars I (aside from the direct provocations giv en by Germany and Japan). But western Europe can harly sit out : any new world conflict, because most certainly it would become an immediate theatre of f iction. In the first world war little Bel- , gium quickly learned its general treaty of neutrality !s became a , "scrap of paper," as did Norway and Denmark In the last world wan " " " " I ' -. For all of Bevan's talk his fol lowing is limited in Britain. EM- . torial comment in Britain has been generally strongly adverse. And even in France the ;.weight of opinion is still one of' cooper ation for defense. On sober sec ond thought there Is "no place to hide" in this day of atomic warfare and aerial navies. Whether the pace set by the United States Is too fast or too slow (the public can find in formed authority on each side of the question), the fact remains that even Beven favors putting on the armor of defense. Maybe what happens at Kaesong today will provide the answer. Break ing off the truce talks certainly will mean a resumption of fight ing in Korea to force' a military decision; and what the end of that may be none now can fore see. - K 3 una' THAN i mi Actually Hides Deaf nost I E ELTON! Hearing; Center James N. Tart A Assocs. " Ceraer' State and High til Ores Bldg. Ph. 2-4491 94 CHINESE EXECUTED BONO KONG, Tuesday. July 24 -iH5hanghal communist i news papers reaching here today told of the execution of 94 more "counter revolutionists" July Fcr IIISICED savi::ss AND KOMI LOANS ill RUST KDI3AL SAVINGS 8irUra Bids. FHSTI 129 N. ComX 4 ; 2Va Current Rata 2Yi rmmi savings AND LOAN ASSIL . "Where Tboasaads Save Mil liens A L sr ar Is1 Yv2 I! ! j! " POKE SALES ' One Special Group of SPORT COATS JACKETS LEISURE COATS . Saed. Weal Cordaroy Wool and ' Kayaa' Values jroniseTr j From If. 95 to Jf.tS MOW JUST i ' f Open XXeaday aai Friday Evealags JIH 9 F. K. . . ether weekdays watil C r. 2X. la the Caaiial Saeppiag I Ceater 21 Liy - 'aa m j
