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4 Tba C .tStlllVd Hiti riC i Sa3-.C : -ir . rj- vw.-; - :r -v TOUGH DAYS fOR THE -WATER BOtfJ;- J5? o foror Swcy Oi. Frcr 5hoIl Atce , I - From First SUtesaaa, March ttj 1M1 1 THE STATES31AN PUBUSHINO C03IPANY j j " CHARLES 'A. SPRACJUE, Editor and Publisher r ' .. Pabllsbed every moraing. Bsstaesa office 213 8 Commercial, Salem, Oregon. Telephone Z-ZI4L Catered at the postoffke at Salem, Orerea. as second din nutter tader act of ipui starch Z, ICTS. Anglo-American Relations ' . J , The hinge of the free world Is the lack luster, lukewarm, touchy and suspicious aUi ance" between Britain and the United States The universal balance of power "is on a razor's edge and all that holds it is unity in the English speaking world. It's a pretty shaky unity now and Anglo-American relations are going to gel worse before they get better,- Barbara Ward until recently foreign editor of the London Eco- nomist, writes in the New York Times magazine There's no doubt that U. S.-British rela4 tions are strained, and increasingly so. Wheii the close, working partnership between Roosei velt and Churchill ended, the Anglo-American 1 fabric began to wear thin. It's shabby an4 threadbare now. '-. ' " Leftist Laborites In England denounce America as an "aggressive capitalist nation, a warmonger bent on dragging Britain into an- to jeopardize for the sake of some temporary domestic political advantage. f j True, true. But when Miss Ward suggests that the way to cement the alliance is by under taking more "schemes of . . . vision and gener osity (like the Marshall plan) with the econo- -mic burden! more universally shared we won der if that suggestion won't be interpreted by -many as only a request for more aid. j j The temper of the times, in this country, seems to be that America has shown its faith by its works, and that similar concrete evidence is due from: the other allies. The U. S. will con tinue to give necessary economic aid, if only to protect past investments, but a British show of willingness to put as much "blood, sweat and tears" into the fight to save western civilization (as Miss Ward describes the current hassle) as they put Unto the battle of Britain would go far toward reviving America's goodwill for our I'll other disaster. The old Tories among the Con4old alJies and make dipping into thejtax- servatives consider Americans as anti-imperial payers pocket a little less painful. I might and glory. " f Americans, on the other hand, have heard that the British aren't 'properly grateful fof all the aid they've received at our expense . and we tend to resent that. U. S.. right-wingers . suspect .that their hero MacArthur was fired -under pressure from the meddling British, and they regard British socialism as an evil second only to Russian communism. England's recog-l nition of Red China and her concern with Hong Kong's trade and her trade with Iron Curtairi : . . j t.: :. ju tt c I cuunum mauc i mi in uic u. o. . s - In England, it is the Left which is most vocal in its anti-Americanism; In the U. Si "Hi ripht is Anffloohobe. And that situation is aggravated by domestic politics: Britain's Labor; government come to judgment in the forthcom-l ing elections; the Truman administration faces the voters next year. "Such periods,' Miss Ward understates, "are rarely noted 'for statesman- , 'ship and moderation." Especially. not so when Anglo-American relations will be campaign is4 ueg. on each side of the Atlantic There is, Barbara Ward supposes, .a widely diffused -and vague goodwill between Ameri4 cans and British, but the warm world war U broher hood, when the British were- admired for their courage under fire and the Americans were welcomed as saviors, has faded away. Tq ' nrnmntu this dfminitv is ih hone and. aim of very Russian maneuver. Miss Ward continues : . "The sound of crowbars and levers at work on the cracks in the western edifice echoes y ceaselessly "through Soviet diplomacy, and no breach Is pried open more lovingly than tha i ones which open between Washington, London, Ottawa and Canberra. The most satisfactory- f aspect of Soviet strategy in th Far East I from the Kremlin's standpoint has been to Constructive Criticism ! j Recurrmg fires in the Santiam Canyon area have had their repercussions in complaints (of mismanagement, as perhaps might be expected.. In any catastrophe, criticism is to be expected. And we are not attempting to judge herewith its justification. , j f What 'concerns us is keeping on doing tha best job possible, if such has been done up to . date, or in doing better if slips there have been. . r Two criticiSms have been voiced first, that the guard was let down too much when . the August sprinkles gave firefighters a breath er; second, that there has been insufficient supervision to make the best use of manpower available. - - ' ' ;-' - -. . ? j. b To tbe first criticism, the only. answer: can be maybe, As it turned out, the fire did! get awayiagairi and much , more1 valuable timber destroyed.! In the meantime, ; whatever, money was saved by reducing the fire-fighting pay roll has gone up in smoke many times over. la3 .. Today we are tolling muffled diphthongs in memory of the passing the other day, of a great American scholar and ' poet, While: it is ; not true that all men were with- Gelett Burgess. As millions of school kids will tell you, Burgess t'T throw BriUih Labor ministers and American 17:: rx . rr,- "r-,-. nt conflagration is history, some 5 fThe fact of Russian interest in western dis-l unity, and fear of the Soviet Union, so far have kepi the British-American alliance from falli Ing apart altogether. Vaguely, both realize thai unless we all hang together, we'll all han separately. So, with a "grumbling minimum of 'a A -I r drawn in August, it appears probable that had ' more been retained the Joss would not naya r been' so heavy.-", '"C - vt'l--. I To ih4 second criticism, it 'would be diffi-M; cult to find any specific answer. The responsi bility 'rest jwith the forest services, but on ;so widespread an operation there must of neces sity be delegated a great deal of individual re sponsibility to a great many persons. And many of them have carried out such responsibilities nobly 1 1 The only real protection Is In stopping fires before they get out of hand. To that end, a co ordinated effort Is needed and, when the pre- serious thought needs be given in more detailed plan ning along jthatHne. Let the criticism be con structive. In the meantime, firefighters in the main appear to be doing a creditable job. . -' Warden Virgil CMalley of Oregon's penl authored that famous poem, I "The Purple ' Cow," -We hope someone, somewhere erects a monument to bis memory. We admit, of course, that he did. die rather unspectacularly at the age of 85 he didn't commit suicide, fade away , in a sanitarium or jump from a .tall building. 'But then, people are always raising memorials to famous generals, statesmen, ani mals and presidents, even. Why not for Bard BttrgessT ; W-"- -1;-"'v- v.?-. Therk Is something $trQ.iohtforward l and solid! in that purple cotof poem. Take , the first breathless line: "i never saw a purple cote.". Lot of other poets would probably have confused million o student (to say nothing of theit. parents) by icriting, say: .-' "Mineorbs hast ne'er .even entranced on porphyrogenite , bortne. But Burgess, ini his clear-cut way, wants you to know he is talking about t purple cow; not a jtehite bull. Then ;comes the next line: "I never hope to. see one; At first glance you might strike Ithis. off as just -another frustrated poet milling around in his own despair. "But if you analyze the i A. 1 1 a. - . ' M m - ; . ' . . Miss Ward conceded, but she pleads for more known to ; the public through the press, the than an alliance based on, fear of Russia. Ameri-J ea, Britain, and the rest of the free world have! mora in common than that. They have in com mon the ideals and aims which we call west-! tm avihzation and which the more enlighten-, ad among us claim that all the shouting and; hooting is about That makes the, stakes tool high for anjr haphazard partnership, too high radio and through contact with citizen groups and individuals, relevant facts pertaining to tha operation of the . penitentiary." Last night t a prisoner managed to make his way to freedom from inside the prison walls. The prompt, com plete report of the incident which was given to the press Js evidence that Warden CMalley is a man who ineans what h says. j , unity" the balance of power has held so far tentiary stated a week ago as hetook his job,4, thought you see that. Burgess has cleverly captured all the who never again hopes to see meat pnees down to the point where he can buy a cow, purple or otherwise. Burgess comes out forceful and commanding in the third 1 line: "But I can tell yon aiiyway." He doesn't hint, strain, weave, whisper or intimate what he wants you to guess at. He comes right out and tells you. He is definitely not of that school of poets who like to take off their shoes and socks and skip barefooted through acres of iambic penta meters, elegiac distichs, satirical symbolism and onomato- poeio. jFot downright earthy and straight-from-the-ghoul-der writing Burgess wUl probably rank with such other liter'gry giants as President fruman, Mae West, and what's his -name, the man who wrote "Casey At the Bat." "Lastly comes the socio, jthe punch line of this silo solilo quy: Td rather see than be one. To anyone who has an ounce of roundelay in him that last line sums up the mystery. That indefinable something for which most poets are forever striv ing namely, in this case, how in the heck can you get white milk from a purple cow. That alone should insure Burgess a statue in Bush a pasture. , - i Prp-Ilce Convention Strategy Start From j IMew Yorlc, Pennsylvaniqj California Votes 1 X I' J By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 A much clearer outline of the strat egy for draficg General of tha Army Dwight D. Eisenhower as republican pres idential candi date b now be gitrning to merges. In the ory, at least, it r is a workable plan for a genu- i ' ins draft. And this is crucially Important, since X there are as j many reasons to I doubt that Gen.LX. Eisenhower will j-., , ik-? i actively seek'. - t nt republican norhinaUon, as there are reasons to believe hat he will accept the nomination if offered. ; : The plan, which was "discussed by! pro-Eisenhower leaders dur ing the Washington visit of Gov. Thomas EL Dewey of New York, turns upon the three great states -of New York, Pennsylvania and . California. In essential outline it . is simple enough. -la Ue first place, It wffl be ' resoarkahly difflemtt for Seav. Eabert A. Tift T Ohla r any taer repabUcaa eaadldaU : wla : Defadaatioa wltli these -three states acalcst him. la tha at paid ylaee, m reyablleaa eaa . totfaMr be elected ta ta . prestdeaey wha fails to carry . New York, Pennsylvania and Calif arala. Even ia laam at I I New Terk alone would snake i eterUa very difrteaH. A well , beeted fginliatt Eka Sea. . : Tfla eaa bay asstheni cast vrntiea deierates by the sweaty . tms-Iaad, bat whea the first Taeaday la Navesaber, raSa arswd. a repabUeaa baa cat , t get a tseary majority abara tbe rTaasa and Dizen Uaa If be waasa ta wta. - he Eisenbower-drafters mean to l?e practical adrantaga of both these facts. New York, Pennsylvania fen 3 California are , to constitute a hard nucleus i of antl-Taft convention votes. This nucleus is to provide a rallying ' point for other pro-Eisenhower delegations, like that which Is expected to be sent from Massa chusetts, where both 1 Senators Lodge and Saltonstall are already ' publicly committed. And the ex-1 istence of such a nucleus is fur -ther to encourage wavering states . to choose favorite son delega tions, like that, now planned from Maryland, and to persuade tha favorite sons to stay on the con vention fence until the final trend is well-estabushed. j ' Meanwhile f aad this Is really xaer taapaetaas aadt pra-isenhewer leaders as Sen. James Duff ;af Petmsjrranla, ' Barry fterbrf, of 'tt't ' said Gv. Dewey will "becta, aaaa; before the eonveatlon, ta at- tack their party's aeaalUva Berre. This is tbe desperate seating f alt traaixailoai re ' aabfleaas ta wia the presi deacy at Uat, after tie long, thin years la the wilderness, i r . taake tbe race. In the present ease, ft is expected to be enough for Gen, Eisenhower ta indi cate willingness to accept nom ination Just before the conven tion, either la a statement; ar .ta a simple letter ta bo shown to kev leaden. It must be hastily added that tbe theory or the draft-Xasen bower plan is considerably bet ter than the nractice to date. In the first place, the Eisenhower (Contributions to this column shoaldbo Bmltit to SOS words Write only an movement is already suffering paper; giro name and full address, poetry at not acoeptod. from a multiplicity of competing ' ! ' -. ' 1. ' have seen children from Infants to all ages crying locked or left , in cars in front of beer par lors while the I parents slurp beer, x x x x Young parents roam the streets : The Safety Valve .To touch this nerve,! republi cans from other state, will be told, with all; the authority of the local leaders, that Sen. Taft ' cannot hope to carry New York, ; Pennsylvania I and California. ' They will be Invited to steam roller Taft through the conven tion if you want, but for God's sake blame yourselves when elec tion time routes This is the kind of talk that strikes cold , chilis in the remarkably; numer ous republican politieos whose ' hearts are with Taft, bat whose heads are full f doubts. : f . . - : i ; I ! , , Sach ts the araxt-Elaeabower . Plan. It ts a false eUVhe that' draft ia Impoasible. ta XSlf, Indeed, the republicans nomi nated Charles Evaaai TXagBes wilbont the falBtest t aotioa whether he weald reslrn the chief ioatlcesklp la order to and not very friendly leaders. Ia the second place, altboagh ho Is anthoritatlvely reported to be Irrevocably opposed to Sea. Taft, Gv. Earl Warren f California wants to try for the nomination himself. Slender though his awn chances are, Warren's personal axnbi tions are boand to make him a dif ficmlt ally for the Eisenhower drafters. Finally, in the third place, there . Is an extremely . -eonfased sitnatioa fa Penmyl t vasla, where tbe former allies. Sea. Daff god Gov. John i S. Fine hare split, because Fine has began to flirt with tha Graady-Owlett faction. : Yet even in Pennsylvania.' al though Sen. Duff was theiicst Eisenhower leader there, ) the signs suggest that Gov. Fine lis tempted to join the Eisenhower movement, while the Grartdy Pwlett faction is far from being eonunated as jet to Sen. Taft. If worst comes to worst, more over. Sen. Duff means to fiht the issue through the primary and expects to wta. In short, it ' is stm extremely premature to talk, as some wiseacres are talk ing, of me republican nomination being in the bag for Sen. Taft. In 1943, it should be recalled, - the Taft forces were sure they had 400 convention votes in that same bag, but when the noses , were counted, they, never rose ', much above 2C0. ; i Copyrite 1851 NY Her Trib Inc- .Ta the Editor:;-;. , , - :w : Regarding the letters of Mr. Dean and C F. Borth: The thing that makes our life the way it is today is not Hollywood. It is us right here at home. So why don't we take our heads out of. the !n our town day and night lug sand, and look this immoral dis- 1 ging along small children, looking lor a thrill or excitement. Young mothers and lathers dump their children anywhere they can with anyone or : lea ve the, child at home alone and go roaming, as they call it. Why is all this you say? Because the best read and best educated generation of par ents the world has had have been reduced to puppets of disrespect through too much outside inter ference. No, it isn't Hollywood or the enstina: life around us straight in tha face? It came to my notice when my first child started school when the statement was". brought home, that if the parents could only . be educated it could , then be possible to do something about teaching the children, x x x ' - ITye watched the authority and : respect to the j parent dimmish ' and-be replaced by lieing dis respect, because the children have been led away from borne all day . . .and till 8 and 10:3? every school , movies alone. It's you and mi night,-Saturdays all day, with planned away-from-bome activi ties, till It becomes necessary for both parents to work in order to keep up with growing' outside-me-home expense demands from the modern child. Parents have become simply expense accounts Mr. and Mrs. America, x x x x Leave the car home sometime and just walk and look and lis ten to your town. ? V Pearl and ButL McVey 1343 6th Street, Salem. P. S. There are over 8000 chil dren school age hv Salem. You ;L-i.n.rr, can't find over U0O ia aH the ZrZ.Z tiZSZrri churches put together on Sunday. tt.gJi?S2&i'a Percentage I, true for all W-- " v . mam iltt uvyc Ut 1U11U. A late as two months ago I saw young fathers between 23 and 23 years old feed toddling babies enough beer to maxe them lose all sense of co-ordination. Fvt walked to greater Salem from west Salem nearly every day and Heredity M f Mdtlierstiub At Auburn Holds Meeting AimURIf ! The firt mMHn of the new school vear fnr the Auburn Mothers club was held at the school -bouse Thursday night There were 25 mothers . present. Last year's b resident. Mrs. Done- las Freeburn introduced the new president, Mrs. Dale Olson,; who presidedi One committee named, tne ways and means, will have servine Mrs. Dale Sullivan. Hf r Loran Richie, Mrs. Ralph Heath, ana Airs, Ario McLain. The room of Mrs. Glenn TLaver- ty ' received j the award for the largest percentage of mothers pre sent. Joy Freier, who had receiv ed the scholarship for last sum mers 4-H classes at Corvallis from the clubigave her report of activi ties at the session. Mrs. George Starr, leader; of the Auburn Rab bit club! spoke in the interest of the organization of new clubs this falL She also presented the awards received by members at the coun ty show and tbe state fair. Meetings win be held the third an - rw OKaMiwa Thursday at pjn. ta tha 'school couse. . , iH Fcr nisiniD SAVINGS AND HOME LOANS msj FEDERAL SAVCJGS Savtngs Blag. tt$ N. CodiX Be ye strong, and let not your hands be weak; for your work shall be rewarded: ' -11 Chronicles 15.-7 '3 i - - Questions on SpotDiseases X i - ; By Alton L. Blakeslee Associated Press Science Reporter MINNEAPOLIS- Sent. 22 - IJPi- timea can spot rare diseases ani save uie-i j Thei atiestiona eoncera familv hixtii-r. fa Iparn whtiir ther are nereenxary diseases mat snow up because . of intermarriage : of r!ca ,aiotitfoa 1 - ''Thia approach ;is medical, use of genetics, the science of heredity. It can help "doctors in diagnosing variouia nuzzlintf-, diceaus: and in calculating the paUent's chances agamsi it, ur. jr. tiarx rraser, assistant orofessor of the denart- ment Of genetics, McGUl univer sity, Montreal, told the American insuiuxe pi tsioiogicai sciences. Knowledge of heredity has crown steadily in the last 50 vears. This medical, use is one of - the direct i human benefits from this young science. So farJ Dr. Fraser aaid. it ts mainly helpful in spotting rare dis ease?, , ones that might often be mistaken for something else. Goine into the family history often gives a vuar ewe. - .. A rare i form of heart .disease was diaenosed in one child after it was learned that the parents were lust eousins, ne said. Mar riage of relatives heightens the chances that certain diseases will appear in the children. There Is more chance that a recessive pen. or carrier unit of heredity, will rams k uie iore- In this) heart disease, sugar is stored ! in i the heart muscles. The parents were told that there was one chance In four that subse quent children would also have the disease, Dr. Fraser said. Waters diabetes has been found to run back in families for four or five generations. This disease differs from sugar diabetes. In water diabetes, the kidneys fan to re-absorb water, and they excrete too much water, causing excessive thirst. It's due to a fault in the pituitary gland. , WMer Diabetes A child's disease was diagnosed accurately as water diabetes after questions brought out a history of kidney disease in the family. In one family, three out of five children had dislocations of the hip, and clubfoot, Dr. Fraser said. The parents were related, - indi cating that a recessive gene: was the -villain. If this fact had been realized after the birth of the first deformed child, the parents could have been warned that the pros pects for I the next children also were badJ Two .children in another family were borri with no adrenal cortex, part: of the ' adrenal gland- The first one -died. The second child is living, because he trouble was recognized. The child - gets daily doses of an adrenal extract, plus salt, to make up the deficiency. The parents were fourth cousins. Other kinds of diseases seem to run in families, and not because of inter-marriage of relatives. In early Stages, such diseases may resemble other illnesses. The ge netic history can help doctors put their linger sooner on the actual cause af the trouble. 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