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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1951)
4 THe Cat axtau Sclrau Tuesday , Anctasl 21, 1S31 tails; WE- W1N-0R LOSP Hollywood On Parado Tator Stray Us. fV fear Shall Aue trass First EUtesman. Karen It. THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPnACJUE, Editor andfPubUshcr PaMbbea every saersiag, Bi latent 4 the postefrice at Itletn, OregeaV aa second class cutter fmder Pattern oa World Hunger j Jim Patton, president of the National Farmer! union, is a burr under the aaddle of conserva tives, whether farmers or businesamep; but that doesnt seem to worry him. Chi his 'annual trip to attend the state convention of his or ganization he didn't have anything to say about some of his pet Ideas, like Full Employment of 1948 and the Brannan plan; but he did throw In some left hooka to show he still could .'punch. This timt hi was looking outside at the hun gry faces of the world's children looking at the well-stocked tables of Americans. The have, nots, he implied, are jealous of the haveilTheir empty stomachs are a prod to social tvange.' "With two-thirds of the world's people hungry and landless that becomes a most important factor in American foreign relations, he ob served. He didn't 'prescribe a quart of milk for the Hottentots (at American expense), but he did say the U. S. And the world have to 'forget about planned scarcity and go out for maximum production. True enough, there is hunger over the: world, though FDR's one third in this country who were ill-clad, ill-housed and ill-fed has shrunken considerably in a dozen years. The world! prob lem however is ; not merely one of greater production. If more rice merely results In larger populations the amount per person increased merely the hunger. And would admit the limits of our own It comes to matching the want of America's best contribution will not lie in the amount of material goods but n what we do to help the world's hungry to help themselves. Our missionaries have done this for yeirs. Ouirj tech nical men are serving as instructors and guides. Our teachers are supplying the education which is fundamental for self-government should help solve the world's problems. dare not weaken ourselves for then we our capacity to help others. Transcontinental Radio Phone "what hath God wrought" was sage overjthe.telegraph invented B. Morse over a century ago. Last week a man in San Francisco' heard this. "Mark, this lis Kil- lingsworth in New York. How are you?' As casually as that a cross-country telephone radio relay of the Bell system was put uj o op eration. Those conversing were Mark Sulivan, president of Pacific Telephone it Teljejgraph Co. and H. T. Killingsw'orth, vice president of American Tel.. and , TeL Co. Thus was ppened up wireless .telephone service, eoast-tdcoast. Radio of course is familiar, but that usually is a one-wayJ street, with no "back talkj1 Now telephone j conversations may, be tran nitted commerciallr. using this system of microwaves which are' amplified by relay stations dotted across the continent. It is only a short time ago that the Bell: people completed I the coaxial cable to augment the overhead land lines. Such has been the growth In business, that the parent company felt this new expansion was necessary. Public interest was heightened by announcement that thje1 radio relay would be used for TV transmission ft will be used first for the Japanese treaty conference In September and the world series in October. But the system will be a workhorse and not just a medium for the TV networks. ; j . The system can carry only one TV program at a time, but when It la not serving TV jit wQl handle up to 600 telephone conversational Simul taneously. The construction called for the in- Diro Throats of Hugrf Economy Slashes - In Foreign Aid Funds Fail to Materialize By Jmop am Stewart Als WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 Dur ing the last month, the Capitol has been the scene of an aston- Lining reversal of form. In mid - July, the congressional wiseacres, gloomily headed by Senate Ma jority Leader Ernest McFar- P land ' in per- j son, began to h predict the most drastic cuts in the president's , 13.3 billion re- quest for military and other for eign aid. Compared to the senate, . Lizzie Bordon with her axe was said to be a mere mollycoddle. The outlook was genuinely ominous. The , estimates of probable "econ omies' ran from 2 billion to $3 billion, which would have represented a spectacu-j lar American 1 retreat from former Ameri- can policy. This 1 in turn would 1 surely, have w .it caused the British to retreat from their 4.7 billion pound defense program to the earlier and much easier 3.8 billion pound program. The French meanwhile would have comfortably refused to tackle their explosive man pow er program. There would have been ether ''economies" and easy teglltnccs by our ether allies. In short, by setting a bad but tempting example, the Senatorial "economics- could well have brought & whole Western de fense prepram crashing down in ruin. Yet until very recently, the most expert cocsrcsslcnal ob serbers continued to Insist that wita hc7 ef peace ia Kcrea ta t?.e air, fcclhicg wculi dissuade the.aenate from a trczoendous rnce tt a. Salem, vestment of some $40,OOO,CC0. Presumably that is cheaper thin laying; ground lines with similar capacity. It gives the USA something new to talk; on, as well as about. Labor Disunity After a petiod of some cooperative effort in' the political field the AFL-CIO association has been terminated. The AFL picked up its dolls aiul went home. The CIO feels hurt. . ; What theyjhad set tip was the United Labor Policy committee. It worked on big time stuff like talking for labor with government authori ties during this period of remobflization. When AFL announced its withdrawal from the com mittee it offefed no explanation, just said it was through. Informed guessing is to the effect that AFL thought the CIO was using the committee its way, doing too much of the decision-making, and thwarting any deal to merge the two big labor organizations. AFL stni regards the CIO as a rebel Which ought to come back to the 'father's house. : . ''"'-i' ;As far as tie general public is concerned they will take little interest in the ruckus. But it is desirable to f have some responsible voice to speak for labor at the national leveL Certainly public authorities prefer to have unity in the speaking rather than many voices some one is sure to be off: key. And labor ought to know that strength lies n .unity. ! I may ; even . bounl the world. Tacoma's Rottenness Tacoma shws up as about the most disreput able city on the north Pacific coast. A report by special investigators reveals prevalence of illicit r ( operations oit a large scale such as could not ; occur without police knowledge and probable protection. The report is not news, because off arid on for several years scandals have broken' out in Tacoma's municipal affairs. It is time for a real housecleaning. Other cities have had them. Seattle conditions are . greatly improved over what they were years' ago. San Francisco has done a pretty good job In cleaning out vice and gambling. Los Angeles; is stilLa sick spot, but Portland has been- on- the We Can and ut we Injure the first mes by Samuel F. purity line since Mrs. Lee became mayor. Ta- ' coma should! wash itself good, and behind the ears. Rre Warning v Ordinarily I we come Into late August after only a few weeks of drying-out weather. This , year our warm weather began in April with f forest fires : accompanying it. There has been i very little rainfall since late March. The forests ' . arid countryside are dry as tinder, ready to ex plode on the touch of a spark. Numerous fires j. in, forests, pastures, in houses and other build- ings are repdrted. - , - vj- : Apparently' no relief is in sight from a change " of the weather. Normally none Is due until early September. It therefore becomes the duty ; of every citilen to guard against fire. Put out that dgaret, handle friction tools carefully, put ; out that campfire. The very fact of the increased . danger should instruct every one to exercise ; greater precaution. For weeks how reported a total of September 1st cloud to get 108 well round out 1st well above abnormal, i ! i hacking and chopping operation. - ! jf- -::- Now, on the contrary, the prophesies run all the other way. No more than routine cuts of from 700 million, to $1 billion are now expected and these were !of course allowed for j in advance when the appropriaUon , requests were compiled. In short, we' are to go forward with the task ef rebuilding the strength of the west, instead of hurriedly retreating from it- on the first whisper of good news. ; In part, of course, this revers al has occiued because the good news jhaa not been confirmed. There! is no peace In Korea yet. In part also, the first emotional response has died down; and ' senators and representatives have had time to look at the real facts. But It is difficult to avoid the conclusion, none the less, that the really; major Influence working to bring about this surprising congressional reversal has been that of General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower. .- I i; -V---f,- ; Barring the extreme Isolation ists, the great mas aof republi cans and democrats genuinely and sincerely want to give Gen. , Eisenhower whatever he needs to do his ; job. He has explained his needs ; convincingly to two con gresrional groups a sub-committee of the senate foreign re latdons committee and a party of representativea belonging to the house foreign affairs, appropria tions and armed services rommit tees. These men, bringing bafk the word, have greatly workld upon their colleagues. So hare reports of the general's attitude . - through more public channels, such as his remark that tie republican-isolationist project to spread the foreign and military aid outlays ever two years was a . plan for "getting half the force at twice the expense." . Cut j the really remarkable , demonstration cf the magic of tie Eisenhj3wer name was given ty none other than Sen. Tlcbert A. . Taft cf Ohio Although neXrvb- ' 1 - i Orttn. Telepheae X-Zlfl, act ef etmxms tiarth S. U7S. our daily weather bulletin has 49.94 in. of precipitation since last. Can t some, one squeeze ay in. by the end of the month, so ; 50 inches of rainfall? The total normal, but the distribution is " lldy committed. Sen. Taft had himself been a member of the "make the money last two years' group. He was. Indeed, expected to be a leader of the economy bloc when the floor fight started. Tart's political advisors- ap pear, however, to have pointed out to him that if he took this customary course at' the present Juncture, he would ' be accused of crippling Gen. Eisenhower's effort. Last week, therefore, to the astonishment of almost everyone in the senate. Sen. Taft came out publicly against u7 slashing of foreign military aid. Military aid constitutes the vast bulk of the total appropriation. No huge savings can be accom plished by the cuts Sen. Taft continued to advocate in over seas economic aid. Hence, in ef- t feet, the mere name of Gen. Eisenhower has driven Sen. Taft to change his mind and abandon his usual allies. : : There have also been other, less appetizing tributes to the Eisenhower magic in recent weeks. One such was the re-, markable performance of Sen. -Taffs busy lieutenant. Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine, who returned from Europe to announce pub licly that the General was an "indispensable man" on . the other side of the Atlantic, and to pass the word in private that the highly robust Eisenhower health was failing sadly and fast. The plain truth Is that while Gen. Eisenhower inspires respect and affection among most mem bers of congress as among the vast majority of Americans, the -mere thought of him reduces the Taft-Ites to a jelly f terror. The reason is simple enough. ' In congress and out of congress, the want ef leadership in these last years has produced the sen- , sstion hypexboiically expressed by the politician who said bit terly, "I feel as though I were being nibbled to death by mice." Elsenhower is the antidote to' that dlsarjreestTe sensation, (Corrlrht. 1S5U Kerr Ypr ierxid Tniun Inc.) Ith Your Hea Caasea ef Jaandiee Taxied The body has a special and complicated system for disposing of the iron-containing pigments which color the blood when they are freed by the destruction of old red blood cells a process which, goes on more or less con stantly. There are a good many points at which the process can go off, thus releasing these pig ments into the general circula tion and causing them to be de posited in the skin and mem branes of the body to bring about the yellowish discoloration known as Jaundice, From this, it is easy to see that the causes of jaundice are va ried. Since the liver plays a - major role in the process men tioned above, Jaundice due , to liver disorders is probably the most common type, and is usual ly associated with inflammation or hardening of this important 'organ. Jaundice due to inflammation of the liver usually is caused by a virus infection. However, it may be due to liver damage re sulting from the ingestion of certain drugs, such as carbon tetrachloride, p h o sphorus, or chloroform. - In the- form caused by liver In fection, jaundice may occur three months after, a blood transfusion - or may develop without warning Usually fever, chills, and ex treme yellow color of the skin, with enlargement and tenderness of the liver, are present. These cases are generally treated by employing a high carbohydrate (starches and sugars) and high protein diet, ! Certain substances, ' such as. methionine and choline,' have been discovered to-be of benefit In this condition. Some favor able results have been reported with the use of antibiotics, such as aureomydn, chloramphenicol, . and terramydn. In most cases, the disease Itself is limited and disappears as time progresses. -V Another type of jaundice Is caused by defective red blood cells, which are smaller than the normal ones and are round in shape. As a result, these red blood cells are extremely fragile and rupture easily. This disease mmkmeMimm,,mii(,;,MM4mi ahih 'a m nfa n GRIN AND BEAR IT z - iyr v - "I stand far mere credit, gentlemen! ... we mast give te the peeple whm ha vent soeaey, the ppertanity , te spend It! sr i i -m j -yssfc. ssbbisbmsw - - ' - il 7 Dr. Ilermaa N. Baadeasea is seen frequently in many chil dren; an enlarged spleen usually accompanies this disorder. Another . form of Jaundice,' known as post-liver Jaundice, is caused by an obstruction to the normal flow of the bile from the liver and gallbladder to the in testines. This obstruction to the flow of bile may be either partial or complete. It is usually caused by either a stone in the tube or duct between the gallbladder and the intestines, or a tumor of the duct or the structures around the duct. ; Very frequently, a tumor of the head of the pancreas is the cause of post-liver jaundice. This f0110 J15SftJ? by, "5" gery so that the obstruction to the .flow of -bile, which is responsi ble for the jaundice, is removed. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS E. D. N.: Is there any cure for giant hives and what causes them? i ' Answer: . Giant hives are a form of allergy. The cure for this condition consists in finding the substances to which the in- , dividual is sensitive and desensi tizing him against the offending substances. Anti-histamine drugs are helpful in relieving the symptoms. - Copyright 151. Kin ratun fiottor English " By D. C. Wmiams 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "That's an awfully nice vase, and you may sit it on the table." 2. What Is the correct pronun ciation of incomparable? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Obituary, oblique, obsene, oblivious. 4. What does' the i word la mentable"; mean? ; ' 5.. What is a word beginning with bu that means to make void, especially legally"? i . ..::: ANSWERS v'- - 1. It Is better to say, -That's very fine vase, and you may act it on the table." 2. Accent second syllable, not the third. 3. Obscene. 4. Pitiable; deplorable. (Accent first syllable). "That was a lamentable experience." 5. Nullify. by Lichty Guidepost By William F. Ryan : CRACKS IN THE KREMLIN WALL, by Edward Crankshaw (Viking; $3.50). A foremost expert on Soviet politica says that there is only one way the Politburo can con- -quer the West: By forcing it to imitate the Soviet system. Far j from being a master of -world intrigue, Stalin's record in foreign af fairs ..has -been -one great blunder after another, un til today he is "faced with the first stirrings of the mightiest force in the history of the world," writes, Crankshaw, a British his torian who knows Russia first hand and who has been hailed for his previous penetrating writing on the subject. In the current welter of pes simism, Crankshaw's book is a beacon1 of optimism for the fu ture. He finds only one major pitfall for the west: . -I can think," he says, "of only one way in which the Kremlin may still conquer us, and that, without war. It is by so frighten ing us (but it Is we who allow ourselves to be frightened) that for fear of the enemy within. we tranform our own society imper ceptibly into an apparatus of to talitarianism indistinguishable in essence from the society of So viet Russia . . . "This, it seems to me, is a very real danger. Already in Western Europe and America, but above all in America, the communists have been ALLOWED TO MO NOPOLIZE THE ADVOCACY OF A FAIR NUMBER OF DE SIREABLE REFORMS. Should the day come when we are afraid to pursue each and -every en lightened course because " the communists, for their own de plorable reasons, are associated with them too, then Stalin will have won." The; West must stop cowering before Russia, Crankshaw coun sels. Not only does he not believe Russia's armed forces are poten tially overwhelming, but he holds ! to the Politburo's record in diplomacy is one of consistent failure. Stalin blundered, says the writer, by -walking out on the Marshall plan conference in Paris in 1947. t tendered in Berlin. He blunder in Korea. He blun dered greatly, with his excom munication of Tito. - . i Bmsm Safety Valve (Coatrfbutions to this column should be limited to S00 words. Write only en one side ef paper; giw name and full addrea,j Poetry U not accepted.) WHO'8 WHO TO CETfJSCH To the Editor: I got a big kick out of that, speech that President' Truman unloaded on an audience of American Legionnaires recently about people who strut around yelling -"communist at every- body iwho does not agree with them.' He said that it has got so bad that hardly anybody dares' say a word or claim any of the rights that they have always had under the constitution. He sure cussed 'em plenty, and after he finished I turned off the radio and went to bed feeling, pretty good. But the next morning ev- "femttb' IiYMPlA DEEn 4 , 'Its the XTdttr" iCCr-T,.Wnit,UtA.e I IT (continued from page' one) ' this means I dear-cutting by patches. Size; of the patches varies front say 49 acres to 130 or more. The tendency Ss to hold to the lower sizes. The reasons for this niethod are first, the better chance for renewal of the forest from the nearby stands, - and second the reduced danger . from fire, I because the greater risk is in the cutover area before new growth gets established. It also helps Extend roads.. ; This new policy calls for road development. Since ; this is all mountainous jterrain the , road problems are serious. ; The gov ernment does little to fin ance the road construction di rectly, so those who buy the tim ber have to build the roads. They perforce reduce accordingly what they bid for the timber. . Roads and, bridges must be buUt to forest service specifications (maximunj grade 10 per cent), and when .the logging is done the road system on public land re verts to the government. Timber is sold oh the competitive bid system, but the cost of road con struction naturally restricts the bidding to those able ,to finance the enterprise. At present con siderable of the cutting is being done for plywood mills M St M and Vancouver Plywood. , We visited one thinning oper ation where i contractors had taken out marked trees. This will give the remaining younger trees better chf nee to grow. This is net at all common in the fir region . howeverJ I Following the tree cutting Is reforestation. The first planting in the Detroit district was done in, 1J)13. 1 At present 4500 acres have been planted. The program jcalls for planting 300 acres a fyear, but there are; still 1900 acres of old j burn 'that need planting The annual! cut is 660 acres but .half of that Is expected to reforest naturally. Collections are made from -timber sales to cover reforestation costs. Many of the old plantings we visited showed healthy growth, but iteedlings planted last fall,' especially on south slopes, have had a hard time surviving in this summer's drouth. ' " The Willamette forest has nu . merousl top recreational areas: among them in the north portion . ML Jefferson,; the Breitenbush - sectionj Marion lake and various' spots along the rivers. The Cas cade district embraces the Ski bowl and such lakes as Big lake and Clear lake; The later, source of the McKinzie is a favorite for camping and fishing, with' its ' crystals-clear water, its entrap ped forest and its mirror of ML Washington. This upper McKezf " rie premises soon to become a y- center of another - controversy over dams. The Eugene Water it Qectric board has received a permit! from the federal power commission to explore power possibilities on this portion of the river. Threatened are Sahale falls, just below Clear lake. The potential is good because steady flow of the stream sharp drop within a few Big lake is another very ve lake which lies near t of Santiam pass on te of the old Santiam mil itary road. The access road how ever is atrocious. Ourj best viewpoint was on top of Sand mountain, the high point on the rim of an ancient volcanic blowhole from which came the cinders and ash which abound in the area. ' These spots are no longer remote.) The lookout there has phone connection with the district office, also radio contact. Moore's car Is equipped with two-Way radio so, be was to regular touch with; his own of fice.' ' i s f chief problems of the na forests are to combat fire which : destroy for- wise-utilization of the protection of the . recrea- assets and -assistance in use by I the; public. The i will want to enter tha for ests knore and more, but more and more they must realize their responsibility is conserving them for perpetual; use, and accept restrictions that may be put on entry and travel. These forested heights are the headwaters of our streams. The cover of vegetation hold back the winter snows and the rain fall: so even the non-commercial part Fof the forest jhaa its value. For me a trip to the high mcui .tains gives a renewal of body and spiriL (The Psalmist evidently had! a similar response for he wrote, fTo the hills I lift my eyes.- ; i erything was different. According to tlie newspapers the president was merely scolding Joe McCar thy. Shucks! I had thought while listening to him that be meant J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney Gen eral McGrath and the unAmeri can activities committee he de scribed them so exactly ia his speech. McCarthy, isn't Important enough. to merit dential breath! all that presi- - .'. . AiMJ Church 1400 N. Church SL Dsdi Flzslx B::rs A Blond Hardwood Door cf 2xMxl-s HoSow Cora wx8-8xi- -.: m' Wixl-54 ScIIi Cora rmoizT Ain power of thej and the miles. attra the i ther The tional and toests ests, the treJ tional their DeoDie H M ' - .'"'IIS ' ' .. " - i . By Gene ITmdsalrer j HOLLYWOOD Amos V An dy's retirement in 43 will ;end radio's locgest run 27 years. Others will car- s I ry on their act -, I on radio, just as I Negro cast is I now perpetuat-j tag on TV Elms t the blackface, roles originated I , by the.' two-. " I : white men. f Not long ago, f - In their pine- paneled, fourth- i . floor office ini r , . r a Beverly tiUis . j, - i bank building, a suite 'once -occupied by Will Rogers,tthey ire called some highlights of their remarkable career. i I They met at the Elks Club to Durham. N. C, in -1910. Free man Gosden, who was to be come Amos, was then 29. He had performed in an amateur show ia his home-town, Richmond, Va. The director, whof worked tor a Chicago, firm that staged such theatricals around the country, asked Gosden if he'd like to direct, too. Gosden said he would. . . He went to Durham! to pick up sheet music and dance-routine instructions from another; of the company's traveling direc tors. The latter, Charles Cor relL then 29, was destined to become Andy. He was sitting at a piano, rehearsing his . show's dancers, when Gosden walked in and introduced himself. j After several years of travel ing about separately or together, staging amateur shows, they went on Chicago's WGN with a black face act called "Sam V Henry." Two years later they switched to another station there. WMAQ. They spent three months think ing up new names that would be short for marquees, alphabe tically advantageous to billings, and indicative of character. Fin ally they aettled on gentle- sounding Amos and gruffer- sounding Andy. . - Negro criticism of their has never been more than the nominal amount received by any racial-comedy routine, they say. "We never try to show a Negro as a clown," Gosden declared. A recent television film called for their video Andy to slice off 6 art of a watermelon to get It ito an overcrowded refrigerator. They changed it to a banana squash for, fear of suggesting old gags associating - Negroes and . watermelons. - j- 0 They assert thevye never ac cepted commercial products j In return for air mention of them. Gosden explained; "We feel jwe shouldn't do it on our sponsors time for the sake of getting an article free." Once to get a Joke over, they had to .'mention1 a brand of shoe. The company In sisted on sending them two pairs of its finest pairs. Amos n Andy turned them over to a nearby r veterans' hospital. l - : ) fill It b not half as Important to barn the. aaldalcht ail a It as to be awake ta the dayttsae. JY Elmore raham Sclieciiiled for Portland Talk PORTLAND, Aug. 20 - Billy Graham, one of America's fore most evangelists, will make Ihls only Oregon appearssea for 1931 at the Multnomah . stadium I on pm. in a state-wide rally which more than 25,000 people are ex pected to attend. . j I With Graham wQl be Cliff Bar rows and the 1000-voice Portland Crusade choir which aang at tha wooden tabernacle in last year's campaign; Bev Shea, gospel singer and recording artist; Tedd Smith, outstanding pianist, and the entire team. j 1 Special groups having been promised from MedfOrd, f Eugene. The Dalles, Hood River, Salem and many other cities. . ? Dr. Frank C Phillips, who! di rected the Greater Portland Gos pel crusade which sponsored Gra ham's meetings last year, wQl be in charge of the stadium meeting on August 21. 1 1 The food of the hamadryad of India, the' largest species of cobra, consists entirely of other snakes. mm l-v-Wl -1- Then 4-3333 d;O2-0d Prices IxSreste Eeauiy. 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