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4 The SWfWr Owyoo, Sunday October 21, 1351 i i (i)rcsb u Jtaf esraau "No Faror Sicait Vs. No Fear Shall Atoe gPOIW V1MI MfltMmill. MAPm 1IM j. THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY r . CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher I ! rebuabed every morning. Business office 215 8 Comsaercial, Salem, Oregon. Telepbent 2-2441. Catered at the postoffiee at Salem. Oregon, aa second class matter under act af congress March X, 1879. Vishinsky Wins "on Points" I The interchange of notes between Ambassador Allan G. Kirk and Foreign Minister Vishinsky did nothing to soothe relations between the Un ited States and Russia. Vishinsky used the op portunity to emit a loud propaganda blast "and cleverly turned against the United States a quo tation from President Truman, and the latter has worsened our situation by reiterating his charge. I Mr. Kirk had sought to atir up Soviet activity In behalf of an armistice in Korea, a foolish move by our state department, for it gave Vish insky the chance to say very blandly that Rus sia had nothing to do with the Korean war! Then heproceeded to itemize his bill of particulars on th7 charge that the United States was the ag gressor: "waging war against the Korean peo ple," building bases around the Soviet Union, rearming Germany and Japan. His choicest cut, however, was to say that as far as worsening relations between the United States and Russia is concerned, "it.is only barely possible to ima gine that these relations can worsen more after President Truman stated to the whole world 4Kf ttrfrAamanf, nrttK tfiA Qiviof TTnifrt firo Tint worth the paper they are written on." And Pres ident Truman compounded his offense by reiter ating this charge against Russia. ! Thus Vishinsky made it look as though Tru man, after kicking the USSR in the face had come hat-in-hand soliciting its support for set tling the Korean affair. Ayery poor posture for Truman, indeed. No matter how faithless the Russians may be the president was foolish to make such a re mark because it was used to slam the door in our faces. We get nowhere in a verbal slugfest with the USSR. Taxing though Russia is to our patience we need to observe international amen ities, and be specific Tather than general in our accusations. The president's sweeping statement in effect jwould foreclose any diplomatic deal ings with Russia, a quite impossible situation. On this exchange of unpleasantries a referee (and he would have to be from "another planet) would have to give , the decision to Vishinsky "on points." j for granted that its readers must "have reached jan economic niche above the mass stratum" (Which explains the $2 price tag per copy) but jit also specifies: f I "It is always why, why, why, with these 100, i 000 . men who look no different from all the i i others; who may have more or less wealth than I i many others; who may do any kind of work, or I no work at all, for their daily bread. They want I I always to knew more, so that they may eontii 1 1 bate more to people near them and to the world . j in which they live; they want to give more so i 1 that they can gain mare for each breath, each I hour, each day, each year of their lives." I I It's noble of Gentry to undertake to answer rwhy, why, why for 100,000 thinking gentlemen, I but we sadly note that Gentry doesn't want any peasants to get their caloused hands on those answers, that tweed, that tobacco leaf, that toy Packard: "We are not extending this invitation in mass media. Gentry will not be on news stands. ! Which is mighty democratic of them, Real folksy-like. And which prompts us to ask (with lis it is always why, why, why) : If Gentry real ly has something for the Joneses, if Gentry real ly has answers to the questions of thinking peo ple, isn't Gentry taking itself right out of the thoughtful class which "contributes more to tha world" by limiting itself to a small minority? We predict that Gentry will suffer the same fats that befell the late Flair, a very decorative and entertaining but also very class-conscious snob I among periodicals, and that nobody need ask why, why, why. - ...... -- j i'f'S jVU'?( ' MO-Jil.i I ; ilia v r. ! ri .': A 1 " NEGLECTED CHILD1 ; ' ' Exchang eQub To Play Host to District Meet Salem Exchange club will be host Wednesday afternoon to the second annual meeting of the club's Oregon district one, cf which Dr. George B. Martin of Salem is dis trict governor. Delegates are- ex pected fr-ita Portland, Albany and Hermifton. : Opening session will be a noon luncheon at the Senator hotel, celebrataig the local club's lourth anniversary. Speaker will be Sa lem Municipal Judge Peery T Buren, concerning the opportuni ties for a service club in its com munity. Otto Wilson will preside, and Mayor Alfred W. Loucks will greet the visitors. All are Exchange members. Martin, also secretary of the Sa- em club, will preside over a busi ness session beginning at 1:30 pjn. Speakers and discussion; leaders on membership, attendance, "national program and projects will include Wayne Hailey and Irvm Bryan of Salem, Cris Fariss of Portland and Larry Roth of Albany. - i Dock Business Rises To Singapore Record SINGAPORBMff)-The docks In Singapore handled the biggest Something for the Joneses .-, t Once upon a time, the U.S.A. had an Upper 400 or so. These remarkable Chosen People (we target who chose them) were the top men on' the totem pole. ' Now this country has 100,000 men who con stitute the Joneses that advertising men hope everyone else tries to keep up with. The reason we know the Brahman class numbers 100,000, or even exists, is because we read an advertisement about Gentry, a new magazine out this month. Its publishers modestly proclaim that it is fare for, and will "either elate the top 100,000 think ing men in this country, or be a miserable flop." What interests us here is not so much the fact that Gentry will amuse the gentry with such tricks of the publishing" trade as including a real swatch of tweed with an article on same, a real trout fly with a piece on fishing, a real to bacco leaf with an appropriate essay, real plans for installing a real Finnish steam bath in your "very own home, or a suitable-for-framing re production of the 1904 Packard Tonneau. What interests us is that the readers who finger the ted, fondle the trout fly, sniff the tobacco leaf, and cut out the paper car will be the top 100,000 "thinking" men in this country. You see what has happened? Back when we had only 400, the main characteristic of the Man' of Distinction was his standing with Dunn & Bradstreet. Now that's not enough. Gentry takes Deschutes Potatoes Champs I i For years there has been spirited competition I 1 - A. J. A . M T 1 l . peiween potato growers oi. uescnuxes county and those of Klamath county on the quality of their products. Klamath produces by far the larger quantity of potatoes but Deschutes grow ers (aided and abetted by the Bend Bulletin) I raised claims to superior quality for the spuds (they grow. Once editors on this side of the state received bags of spuds from both for testing; but that ended in "no decision." This year for j the first time the Klamath basin potato show at Merrill admitted competition from the out jside and growers in the central Oregon district made a clean sweep of the first three places in jthe competition. John Susac, grower from near (Bend was declared the champ for his entry. Of course this is only for one show, and next j year the results may be different. We are heavy ( potato consumers on this side of the mountains, and welcome the imports both from Klamath j; and Bend It does look, however, that, as usual, I Bob Sawyer and the Bend Bulletin are correct. Literary Guidepost ;r The senate shelved the nomination of Philip i Jessu'p as delegate to United Nations general assembly "without prejudice." This leaves tha l president free to give him an interim appoint ! ment and spares the senate from going on rec I ord on the McCarthy charges against Jessup. The inference is that McCarthy still has the sen iators buffaloed. By W. G. Rogers BIRTH OF A WORLD: BOLI VAR IN TERMS OF HIS PEOPLES, by Waldo Frank (Houghton Mifflin; $5) ' When he was 22 years old, and in Rome, married and al ready widowed, Caracas-born Simon Bolivar swore that he would never rest "till I have broken the chains of Spain". It was about two decades later, in 1824, that; Sucre's victory at Ayacucho effectively ended Spain's claims on Bolivar's con- . tinent. Yet when the "liberator", escaping assassins who felled Sucre, succumbed to illness only six years after Ayacucho, the governor of Maracaibo could note the death of "the genius of evil, torch of anarchy, oppressor of his fatherland"; Son of a rich family establish ed for some generations in South America, : with ' the means to travel In Europe, Bolivar had the advantage of a liberal tutor. He was a follower of Miranda's, blamed himself for the loss of Puerto Cabello, then turned his commander over to the Spanish, by a fluke, and was nearly trap ped himself: Long a recognized authority, perhaps the North American au thority on South American cul ture, Frank has been at work several years on the biography of this controversial figure. Separat ing as fir as .possible the legend and myth from the facts, Frank calls Bolivar "the culture hero of our continent". His account of Bolivar's able campaigns, which eventually freed half a dozen countries, as we count them today,- from the Spanish yoke; and the story of the struggles with touchy or jealous fellow rebels makes absorbing reading. But it is, finally, Bolivar the man who is emphasized. He is called the first of the Latin-American revo lutionaries to be a native and indigenous, instead of European or North American, revolution ary. You may find that the "Span ish imperial quality of Bolivar is obscured" even more for you than If or this author. You will appreciate, just the same, the fresh significance ascribed to Bolivar as phophet of an Atlan tic world, as a sort of all-Ameri- can ideal so free. of racial pre judice he didn't even know what it was. Your Health Dr. Herman N. Btxndensea j Convicts had a mutiny in the West Virginia pen. Prison mutinies and riots are about like measles they break out periodically all over the country. This one had an unusual excuse: the cook was "dirty." Anyhow it's good to sea the prisoners have standards of sanitation. OTP I A new building material is being offered tha trade: plyron, a sandwich of hardboard top and bottom and thin plywood in between. The "ham" in the sandwich makes it tougher for such uses as concrete forms. 331 Examination of Past Records for Pro-Red Leanings Leads to Nonsensical Situations ! ' By Joseph Alsop '. WASHINGTON, Oct 20 Per haps the strangest characteristic of eur tune is the distortion of ! the sense of 1us- t o r y. Because : they uttered sentiments in . - war-time that ; were widely? i shared by irre- proac h able,i - church -going,i republican-vo-fMV -ting, tax-paying , f , -payroll - meet- j V ing citizens, un- ' , fortunate people : Jorpfa ALloTI ar now hauled yr9mA ; before senatorial bars to answer the charge of pro-communism. Br way of contrast, a man like Philip Jessup, who took a thor oughly pernicious part in the ("America First' movement, proudly drapes the "American First" mantle around his should ers to prove that he is not a com munist. And far from suggest- ' lng that an extreme American Urster may not have the kind of judgment needed for a post of high responsibility, everybody waga his iiead and says, "Ah, that's a strong point in Jessup's favor." TheWhole business has become nonsensical. - t These reflections are Inspire y this reporter's carious experi ence f sitting for long, weary bears, waiting te take his tan en the stand, while Robert Mor ris, Ceonsel of Sen. McCarran's snheeaualttee en internal securi ty, grilled Denrj A. Wallace en elected tiny morsels from the iistact past One of the main ssajectt of inquiry was a rather tax pamphlet WsUsce wrote far the lastUate of Pacific Relations la 1944. called "Oar Job In The racifJerXorris treated this u raparing -ten cents worth as though M were a red-bot bomb, eenreeted in the secret cellars of the Kremlin. i The pamphlet did not mention American armsj for the Chinese communists. Itdld not mention coalition in China. Indeed, it did . not even touch upon the Chinese communists at all, while it in cluded a glowingly laudatory ref erence to Chiang Kai-shek. These points were not remarked upon.'. The pamphlet jwas also anti colonial in general tone. An American who sympathizes with colonies struggling to be free is not by definition pro-communist. Yet as far as J this implication could be left upon the record, Morris left it. . h The great point that Morris made, however, was that poor Wallace was pro -communist in a series af waffling expressions of hope that the Soviets would be nice after the war. In brief. Wal lace had written that the Rus sians had shown good faith by not previously interfering in Chinese af airs (which was wrong, since Marshal Stalin was the first te give active aid te Generalissi mo Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan). 'He had written farther that he believed the Rus sians had no Imperialist aspira tions, and that he hoped the Rus sians. Chinese and Americans would all be able te co-operate cosily in the post-war world. ? ? As Morris droned on with his accusatory questions, this re porter automatically sought dis traction in an article in the well known fellow-travelling publica tion, "Amerasia.! This article turned out to contain generous Quotations from two other papers, by the Morris system also by inference fellow - travelling, life- and The New York Times." In the f spring of 1944, the. "Life" editorial had com mented on an unusually venom ous attack on Generalissimo Chi ang Kai-shek's government by the Time-Life correspondent, in China, Theodore White. Repro ducing a few of the more choice ' - M White epithets, the "Life editors remarked: "The U. S. cannot ig nore the fact that if China's gov ernment should become a fascis tic, power - hungry, repressive, landlordsVand-usurers' govern ment, it is all too likely to get into trouble with Russia; where as a government which stands for freedom, reform and inter national co-operation is not. Un der no circumstances would the American people ever wish to be embroiled with the Soviet Union in a struggle in which they would feel politically on the wrong side." This -Life" editorial, so close ly paralleling- Wallace, except that he was genial towards the Generalissimo, closed with the prediction that if the Chinese would only be "freedom-loving, 'progressive," there would be na trouble with the Soviets, As for the ."New Tork Times," In -the fall of 1944 its eidtorial page j ringingiy called upon President ' Roosevelt te "make it clear to Chiang that his prestige wiU be enhanced, not diminished, if he takes certain steps." Among these steps were ceasing to "hold a great part of (his armies) on guard duty against his political opponents (the Chinese commun ists)"; making "a genuine truce with the Chinese communists"; and consenting "to take into his government members of the re presentative groups and parties." Here, in the "New York Times," was strong stuff indeed. Here was open advocacy of several points that the eminent profes sional ex-communist, Louis Bu denz, had testified on oath be longed to the communist party line. Here was worse than Wal lace, with a vengeance. But who was on the stand? Why, Wallace of course, under charges of pro communism. The reader can find his own language to characterize this sort of thing. - (Copyright 1951 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) (Continued from Page 1.) America could not relax the pressure on its citizens to con form to an approved style of life and learn something from the leisureliness of Europe." The students this year had lit tle interest in politics. For one reason the proportion of girls was much greater and had more interest in aesthetics particularly music. (They had attended many music festivals.) One subject which took two mornings was the place of women in European society, which led to this con clusion: "No American girl, it seems, would change places with a European girl but if she had to she would be happiest in a Scandinavian country." One thing which disturbed the. returning I Americans was the discovery that Americans are not universally; loved. It wasn't only the communists who were criti cal of the ;USA, and the Euro pean lecturers found they had to allay the ("guilt-feelings" of the Americans that had been stirred by the "silly" charges of Euro pean youth. Our youthful ambassadors, however, did score in certain directions. Writes the Guardian's correspondent: "The American student, whether he; is political or not, is a charming creature. His social ease is amazing. His manners are excellent. He will rise to his feet and expose his ignor ance or expound his knowledge with cheerful aplomb. ... Again and again j one was impressed with the earnestness of Ameri can youths its freedom from I cynicism, and often its unspoiled simoilicity.f What we need is more of travel abroad for Americans, and more, much more of travel by foreign ers in this country. Some Euro pean students are in America, under various exchange or aid plans, but not in numbers com parable to Americans who go abroad for summer travel-study courses, j ! It is not enough to travel and see conditions in other lands, and to get acquainted with their peoples. Those who travel need also to be conscious that they are under observation, that their - manners and their ideas and their intelligence are under scru tiny. That would help to remove some of the smugness and as sumption of superiority (based often onlyi on wealth) which have drawn criticism against Americans.! Aided by Antihistamines Of all the conditions which plague human-kind, severe itch ing can be one of the most ex asperating. One of the most fre quent sites for such itching is around the opening of the lower bowel and, when it occurs in this area, it forms the uncomfortable, embarrassing, and often neglect ed disorder known as pruritus ani. Pruritus, more often affects men than women, is most com mon in those from 20 to 45 years of age, and occurs more frequent ly maong office workR-s who sit all day than among those follow ing occupations demanding phys ical activity. The predominant symptom is severe itching around the rectum. The skin, usually red and irri tated, may be dry or moist. Cracks or fissures form around the rectal opening, since the skin there be comes very brittle and cracks eas ily. The itch is constant and tha urge to scratch is great. Among the conditions which lead to pruritus ani are worry, overwork, and alcoholism. Dis orders of the bowel may also cause this condition. Diabetes, liver, or gallbladder disease, too, may have some influence in caus ing it. Pinworm infection, espe cially in children, may be a fac tor. Eating highly-seasoned food, drug reactions, and nervous con ditions, of the bowel are some times reported as causes. The treatment of pruritus ani depends upon the cause. The pa tient should be examined care fully to determine whether or not some local disorder is present. If the condition is severe, hot or cold applications, or the two used alternately, may bring some re lief. When the itching is caused by an infection, the use of peni cillin ointment locally may be of some help. The patient should be instruct ed not to use soap or water or rough toilet paper until the area is healed. The application of a soothing anesthetic ointment may be of some benefit. Recently, it has been shown that the ami histaminic drugs, in the form of ointments, are of great aid in relieving the condition. Since the itching may be made worse by improper diet, such as excessive carbodydrate intake, roughage should be eliminated from the diet and the starch con tent reduced. Hydrochloric acid, given by mouth, may also be of some! help. The use of alcoholic beverages should be stopped. In some cases, soma simple psychi atric ! treatment may do more than all other measures to help the condition. 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