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Truman and the Press
Th president called off his Thursday press
conference this week. That is not unusual, for
often it is cancelled. But it does point up the
fact that the president has shown marked irri
tation with the press of late.
At Key West he lectured the newspapers-
the AP in particular over the story of the halt
to firing on the Korean battlefront, denying
that it had occurred or been ordered, least of all
from the White house. The reporters however
came back with the stories that officers at the
front -had interpreted orders to mean to leave
off shooting except in defense.
But at a recent press conference in Washing
ton the president really showed his irritation.
He staked Doris Fleeson, a very competent re
porter, why she was "looking at him like that,"
and if she was going to write a "sob - sister
piece about him, which is not her wont.
When Brandt of the St Louis Post-Dispatch,
an independent paper which has exposed much
of the corruption in the internal revenue bu
reau, raised a question over Finnegan, the St.
Louis collector, Truman said he knew what the
P-D would do to any democrat "they would
cut his head off any time they had a chance."
When Andrews, the very able reporter for the
N. Y. Herald-Tribune started a query with:
"Mr. President, there is one thing that puzzles
me," the president cut in to say the reporter
was easily puzzled, "always speculating about
something he did not know anything about."
All of which shows how touchy the president
has become particularly over the recent devel
opments respecting wrongdoing of persons in
his administration. Officials are prone to abuse
the press when it becomes too inquisitive or
when it turns the light of publicity on rotten
conditions. It is true the press makes mistakes,
that its writers are often over-zealous and apt
to jump to conclusions. But without a free and
vigilant press how would evil conditions be
exposed to public view? Even the president
must recognize the importance and the power
f the "Fourth Estate."
cessions. The allied officers have accused the
reds of wanting to gain at the conference table,
what they lost in the fighting; and that is no
doubt true. In being willing to settle short of
clearing the reds out of Korea and establishing
a free, unified government is a real concession
on the part of UJf. Our side does it rather than
expend the life and materials that would be re
quired to achieve such a victory. It is rather a
new experience for the United States to settle
short of a full victory (though we did to close
the War of 1812); but the gains do not appear
worth the sacrifice.
While the U.N. is willing to end the war along
the line now agreed pn, it wants the agreement
to put a real end to the fighting and not serve
as a breathing spell for a communist build up
for fresh aggression. We have the feeling how
ever that the reds themselves will be ready to
quit and not renew the fight if they can do so
without too great loss of face.
What, No Expert?
Ed Stone, managing editor of The Seattle P-L
gets right down to earth in his story of a recent
junket to Europe.
What does Ed think of things? Well, he found
four terrific hazards the traffic in Rome, the
drinking water in Ankara, the money exchange
situation in general, and boiled potatoes and
Brussels sprouts in England in particular Td
have starved to death if I'd stayed another
week."
Ed says his wife, at the start of the trip, "was
unhappily convinced that my mangled body
would be found on some Alp. She never gave a
thought to the real dangers."
It's somewhat of a relief to find someone who
can spend a whole 10 days in Europe without
coming back to pose as an expert in foreign
affairs.
Critical Days in Truce Talks
The days of the truce negotiations in Korea
slip by with little accomplished. The 30-day
limit will expire the last of this month, and
scant progress has been made recently. Remain
ing roadblocks are how to supervise the truce
and the exchange' of prisoners. The reds did
come through with lists of some 11,000 U.N. and
Korean prisoners of war, but the allies feel sure
there should be many more unless captives were
done to death; as has been reported. Even as it
is the U.N. negotiators are unwilling to accept
the communist provision regarding the ex
change, that it take place near the south border,
for they fear that would be another "death
march for several thousand who are held pris
oner at remote distance. They want delivery
made at one of the ports on the east coast.
As for supervision of the armistice there has
been considerable bickering over who would do
it and what their powers would be. However
the two sides are not so far apart but that they
could arrive at an agreement on this point if
there really is a will to settle.
The negotiations are strictly a bargaining pro-
in which neither side wants to make con-
Sometimes a refreshing whiff of candor puffs
out from the cracks in the Iron Curtain. This
time it is a Pravda report berating a bevy of
researchers for "beating the air" in unsuccess
ful attempts, costing $70,000, to invent a fruit
juice dispenser and a machine to boil eight .eggs
at once. We can assume they will ultimately be
successful, however. After all, didn't Soviet sci
entists invent the radio, telephone, electric light,
the auto, airplane, motion pictures and television?
Keizer and Sunnyside school districts voted
to stand on their own. This is still a free country
(in most respects) and the will of the majority
in the districts will prevail. We can commend
their ambition to retain their independence and
hope they will meet and solve their school prob
lems successfully. Seven other districts voted to
join the enlarged Salem system, and we in Sa
lem hope they will not be disappointed with the
way the change works out.
Every once in a while some brief news stories
catch us up short. One recent item said Mrs.
Dorothy Pick of Liberty was flying this week,
with her children, to join her navy husband in
Africa for Christmas. Not unusual, no. But what
would grandpa of the 1890s have said on read
ing it in a futuristic story of 50 or 60 years ago!
Truce Negotiators Face Tougher Problems Now
That Prisoner of War Point Nearing Solution
By Slgrld Arne
AMocUted Presa Newt Analyst
Now that the exchange of
prisoners has at least a start in
Korea, the truce negotiators faca
cracking a much tougher nut.
They must work out some sort
of supervision of the armistice.
If they succeed they will have
forced the communist world to
back down on one of its cardinal
principles, secrecy. Foreigners
would be permitted not only to
travel over red territory, but in
spect red communications cen
ters. Far that reason the talks
sh4 saay be am dlfflcalt
thaw the enes which resalted
la mm exchange of prisoner-of-
war lists.
Aad as mil. la dealing wit
r wiiti ti U. S. aegetlatars
are wary el delays aad trap.
So far the U. N. has been rep
presented in these armistice sup
ervision talks by Maj. Gen.
Howard M. Turner. He has had
to do some straight talking.
Nothing seems jelled, except that
both sides appear to agree there
must be supervision.
Here are the major points
which Gen. Turner Is asking:
1. Uallaaited rotation of U.
N. troops. At first the reds ob
jected. -aad then conceded the
U. N. eooJd rotate 5 Jet troops
a awith Turner rejects any
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2. The U. N. wants the right
of air reconnaissance for the
supervision authority. It is a
natural hedge since several times
In the past year U.N. planes
have spotted long, new, red sup
ply convoys coming down
through North Korea.
S. The V. N. wants free super
vision of ail ports of entry wheth
er by land, cea or air, and super
vision of all important commun
ications centers.
thinks, would prevent the reds
from bonding ap any surprise
attack in North Korea.
Of course these agreements
would have to be a two-way
street, if they are ever made. If
observers can inspect a red com
munications center, they can also
look over a U. N. center.
The reds have made practical
ly no commitments on this pro
gram except that there should bo
supervision.
From that they moved to
Jockeying for the type of team
that would do the Inspecting.
The communists have suggest
ed that people from "neutral"
nations sit on the supervision
authority. They named Poland
and Czechoslovakia, two com
munist satellite nations, aa
"Neutral."
Washington has asked that the
nations be picked from "non
belligerents," and they defined
them as nations which have no
troops in Korea. As a first step
Washington has asked the gov
ernments of Sweden, Norway,
and Switzerland, if they would
be willing to appoint people to
a Korean supervision board.
Obviously if the communist
could "stack' the supervision
committee, the rules would mean
little or nothing.
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he is ready to be drafted. He'll
have to toss his coat in the ring
along wiu his hat if he enters
the presidential contest.
Already this delay is working
against him. The politicians are
reluctant to wait for a second
bus, now that the Taft band
wagon is rolling. With each new
sag in Truman's fortunes the
orthodox republicans grow more
confident and less willing to
settle just for a probable "win
nah." Dewey Is having trouble
holding New York in line for
Ike. Pennsylvania can't be count
ed as all for Ike in spite of
Senator Duff's leadership. In
Wisconsin the leader of the old
Stassen group, Tom Coleman, is
out for Taft. The odds-makers
tote up about 400 delegates for
Taft. That is still 200 short of
the majority needed; but it is
far and away ahead of all other
contenders' delegates.
Moreover the moment that Ike
declares himself a candidate
he'll have to start talking like
one; and that exposes him to all
the traps of politics. What about
the Taft-Hartley law? What
about price stabilization? What
about sending an ambassador to
the Vatican? What about infla
tion? Taxes? Farm price sup
ports? Tariff on tuna? Publicly
owned power plants? CVA?
Of one thing he may be cer
tain: Whatever he says will be
used as evidence against him.
And the bogging down of NATO
will be used to his discredit.
It seems safe to accept the
summary of U. S. News and
World Report. What remains to
be seen is Ike's timing, and
whether he actively seeks the
nomination or not. His highest
hurdle is to win the GOP nomination.
to the president f
were pun- s
lished in one
official record. I
Prepared at
the Departmentf
of State in com-
nlianre with a it
reso 1 u 1 1 o n of Vif-S
congress, this mmf4&& rTat
was a record of
all officers and agents, civil and
military, in the service of the
United States.
The register also carried the
"names and condition of all
ships and vessels belonging to
the United States, and when and
where built, together with a cor
rect list of the presidents, cash
iers and directors of the U. S.
Bank and its branches."
These registers and those suc
ceeding them are now housed in
the library of the Civil Service
Commission. The first register,
a slim little volume of 176 pages,
contained only 6,327 names.
It was in going over these
old registers that the commis
sion's librarian, Mrs. Mary V.
Bettor English
By D. C. WuHai
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "He doesn't do his
work proper, and apparently has
no capacity as a machinist.'
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "emeritus"?
Wenzel, brought to light a regis
ter of 1835 containing what she
believes may be the first formal
record of Abraham Lincoln as an
official of the United States gov
ernment. Mrs. Wenzel opened
the register to page 265 to show
me these words:
"Post Office Department
Illinois
"New Salem . . . Postmaster
A. Lincoln . . . Compensation
$55.70 per annum."
In 1816, Secretary of War Wil
liam H. Crawford got $4,500;
jonn juarsnau, cnief justice,
$4,000, and Postmaster General
Return J. Meigs $3,000.
Governors of the territories of
Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois and
Michigan got $2,000, and John
Quincy Adams, minister to Eng-
iana, sy.uuo. uur only other min
isters to France, Russia, Swed
en, bpain and the Court of Port
ugal in Brazil, where the court
had fled because of the Na
poleonic wars r e c e i v e d the
same. Thomas Munroe, superin
tendent of the city of Washing
ton, earned $1,200.
In 1879, the register had
grown so large it had to be
brought out in two volumes, and
in 1907 all employees making
under $2,000 were left out. Now
the only persons listed are those
occupying top advisory and sup
ervisory posiuons. .
The state department prepared
the register until it was turned
over to the Census Bureau. In
1933 the commission began com
piling it. "If we printed the
names of everybody who worked
for the government today," Mrs.
Wenzel said, "We'd have to build
another Pentagon to house the
volumes."
Field Audits
Of Inventories
In State Set
m. -a. mm a a .
aciuu neia aumung or mer
chandise inventories appearing on
personal property returns as a
part of the state's property equali
zation program was nromised
Parrisli Students
Honor Oldstcro
At Cottage Home
Annual Christmas party: for pa
tlents at Cottage convalescent
homo was given Wednesday night
by the Junior Red Cross of Par
rish junior high school, f
i Specially honored were . Mrs.
Kate Rogers, who was S8 in Oc-
Thursday by Robert D. MacLean. ?ber and has been at every party
"3 a roup over aoout io
years, and Ed Brown, for Whom a
ninin orade home room knitted aa
afghan. s '- : ., j .,
All 29 residents were riven iitt
such as sweaters,! candy, pajamas
and stationery . from ? tho hnmm
stems irom many complaints by rooms. About 33 school pupils at
state tax commissioner in charm
or we assessment and taxation di
vision.
Appraisal Engineer Frank Bass
nas been assigned to the state
wide inspection of inventories.
MacLean aaid his announcement
county assessors of difficulties In
securing returns reflecting the full
vaiue or taxpayer Inventories
Recent changes In Oregon's
amuiea nrooertv statute. acrnH.
ing to MacLean, permits additional
assessments for merchandise omit
ted or undervalued on personal
property returns. Assessors
tended and sang I carols. Faculty
sponsor of the Junior .Red Crosa
Is Mrs. Harold Ransom, i
urn pexnunea xo include any
property omitted in the past five
years in tneir roils.
While no reliable estimate of
the amount of property value that
wiu oe added to the county rolls
can De maae at this time state tax
commissioners and most county
assessors predicted the program
would find sufficient additional
vaiue to more than offset its cost.
ine audit Is another nhas of
the tax commission's nrorram of
1 1
equalizing til classes of taxable
property, Maclean said.
ine audit will be conducted In
the industrial appraisal section un
der supervision of Arthur R Vnn
Lehe, veteran commission apprais
al engineer, w or King under his
direction, Bass, former chief dep
uty assessor of Multnomah county
and a member of the staff there
ior iu years, will visit every coun
v in Oregon and make "spot
cuev.Ka ox taxpayers inventories
assessaDie ior personal property
taxes aiier examininr their nr.
sonal property returns.
m each community, nfflrfni.
saio, ouslness firms and profes
sional offices would be selected at
ranaom ior Bass' inspection.
And additional value rtli-lv
by his inspection will be added to
ine rolls of the county in which
me property is located
The Battle of the Herrings Is tha
name given to action In 1429 be
tween . the French and English
are when the latter were bearing Len-
ton provisions mostly herrings .
io ine oesiegmg trooos at Orleans
during the Hundred Years' . War.
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only partial knowledge.
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ventilation, vengance.
4. What does the word "lan
guorous" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with ad that means "praise"?
ANSWERS
1. Say, "He doesn't do his work
properly, and apparently has no
ability as a machinist." 2. Pro
nounce the 1 as in right, and ac
cent third syllable. 3. Vengeance.
4. Producing listless indolence;
characterized by lassitude. "She
lay in languorous ease on the
divan." 5. Adulation.
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The Capitol Lumber and Fuel
company, 2850 Cherry ave., was
missing its office safe Thursday
morning after thiefs apparently
carted it through a rear door
sometime during the night.
George Barza, owner, reported
the loss to city police. He said one
panel of a four-panel door was
cut away and the door unlocked
from the inside. The safe contain
ed ledgers, contracts, deeds, busi
ness papers, two checks totaling
and a cash box containing
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According to a recent report,
the black-widow spider is
thought to be moving into the
colder cities by invading build
ings and living in them through
the winter. One black-widow
was discovered recently on the
fifteenth floor of an office build
ing. This should make us more
cautious if we have thought that
dangerous spiders live only in
the warm climates. Many black
widow bites have been reported
from southern states and rural
areas, especially in connection
with outdoor privies, where the
spider lives. However, numerous
spider bites have been reported
from every state, and spiders ap
pear to have caused ills that were
thought due to other causes.
Of course, most spiders are not
dangerous at all, but we should
be able to recognize those that
are. The most dangerous in this
country Is the black-widow. An
occasional adult has died from
its venom, and many have be
come seriously m.
The venom is even more peril
ous to young children than
adults. It is said to be at least
IS per cent stronger than tha
venom of a rattle-snake.
The dangerous black-widow is
the female, rather large .spider.
than can be recognized by its
round, black abdomen, which
looks like a shiny bead. Its back
is bright redIt spins an irregu
lar web of coarse threads.
This spider's bite is a single
puncture, which can be found if
you look carefully. The first sting
is quickly followed by a burning
which may turn to a dull ache.
This spreads rapidly and becomes
worse as the venom is carried
through the body.
The victim soon develops se
vere muscle cramps, usually of
the abdomen, which may become
as rigid as a board. His blood
pressure usually drops and his
pulse speeds up. He becomes
restless and weak, and perhaps
hysterical.
One method of relieving these
symptoms has been to inject cal
cium into a vein. Sometimes this
can also be used to help in mak
ing a diagnosis of a black-widow
bite. An anti-venom, developed
to fight the venom, has also been
used with success.
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