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T1iSSsSs'""sm"ii Sclera, 5 AV- - Nof-por Svoeyt tfs. JVo Fear Stall At , r From first Ststrsmin. March 231831 ; : ,a THE STATESMAN ifUBLLSHING C05IPANY ! ; ' T CHARLES A. SPRAUUE. Editor and Publisher , ...... rvbUstttd rer Dornlas. Business me 111 CfenuaereiaV 8nv Oregon. Telephone 224IL Catcrcil eft. the-tstaff U at Ssletn, Oregon, a seeeod glass matter mnder act ercQngress tlarelr S. 1S7& High School P-TA A new Parent-Teacher Association, has been organized at the high school. It is starting out with 150 members but should have a good many more to make it the force ttshould be for the high school and community. " This is one avenue by which parents may keep in touch with the school which their chil dren attend, learn of its problems and help in solving them. Salem has been backward in this particular field. As a result there has been little or no link between high school teachers and the homes, save through individual - contacts and that isn't easy in a school with around 1,800 students. s The new P-TA meets at the Senior High School tonight and its officers invite all parents o. high school students, and teachers at the school to attend. It would seem that parents should respond and show an interest in the school which affects vitally the lives of their young people. Devil Take the Hindmost The National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, meeting in Chicago last week, adopted resolu tions calling for "immediate termination of price controls on agricultural products and eli mination of Federal price and wage controls. It also urged "strict Government economy with the warning that "the limit to which taxes can be allowed to increase, without curtailing capi tal formation and destroying initiative, is close ly approached if not already reached. Conspicuous by its absence was any action to terminate government price guarantees on farm crops and bonus payments for not abusing lands. So it looks as though the farmers, want to eat their cake and have it too, with supports, when prices go down and no ceiling when the market goes up. All this and lower taxes! Deadlock 'I . Truce talks in Korea have come to a virtual ; stalemate. Neither side will make further con cessions on controverted issues yet neither side is willing to break off the conversations and renew full-scale fighting. In Iran the deadlock over nationalizing the oil industry persists. No petroleum is being pumped and refined, no products are sold, at least in quantity. And Iran is getting no reven ues from this once large source of income. Nego tiations for a compromise settlement have been stalled by Iran's rejection of a World bank pro posal. In Egypt sporadic clashes between British troops in the Suez canal zone and Egyptian continue. Sunday an innocent bystander, a nun, was shot and killed. The British have cleared out many Egyptian families from the Arab sec tor of Ismaila in the zone section. But all this settles nothing. The unrest continues, and no attempts at composing the differences are re ported. . What you have is the collision between East and West. The latter has the superior technology and the mechanical equipment both for fighting and for business. The former has the geographi cal advantage and the advantage of sheer num bers. At the moment Kipling's verse seems ap propriate: "East is East and West is West; And never the twain shall meet." At least there is no meeting of minds in current controversies. One finds no simple answer to the problem Success of Post-War European Unification Plans Makes European Assembly Feasible By J. M. ROBERTS JR. AP News Analyst Gen. Eisenhower has called on Europe to hold a constitutional convention looking toward uni fication, an idea which would ! r hiv seemed s x , 1 purely vision- . ary only a short time ago, - but 4 Mrh nn-ar hut n r t a material base I from which to J The idea was f v- IS I r. I t-'y-JuLm working in Eu rope with the close of the war. The first step was Benelux, a Belgian Dutch Luxembourg customs -union which even now is not yet work ing fully, but which is a rather amazing experiment being pur sued with goodwill and some DracticaL 'results. Then came the Benelux mill- tary organization, an internation al defense planning program in cluding Britain. A council of Europe formed as a non-legislative ad visory body for cooperative ef fort among tho governments. Under the American economic aid program, numerous areas of International cooperation were set up in the financial field. Then came the Schuman Plan, a supra-national pool of the steel and eoal Industries, with all of Ms implications for denationaliza tion of tho sinews of war. - When titie French and-German parliaments ratified that plan, a step was taken which, if it can be made to work, will be one of the greatest turning points of the twentieth century. Now, nnbelievahlo as it seems, tt looks very tnneh as thomgh there's going- to be a European army In which French, German, Italian. Datch. Lnxembovrg and Belgian divisions will wear the suae uniforms.! nse the same anna, eat the same food and take orders from tho mad. The deal Isn't yet complete. thus posed We Americans are not used to being balked. It is tempting to tell the Reds in Korea to "go to heU and then to use our weapons to hasten theif travel in that direction. Likewise in Iran the British were tempted to use force to retain hold of the oil properties of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company. Egypt seems to invite a "strong hand" which will "restore order" and put the noisy nationalists in their place. But in each instance the West is reluctant to use the old methods of asserting its power and enforc ing its will. The USSR serves as a counter weight to stay the arm of vengeance or of pun ishment, i What the outcome will be one cannot safely predict. This we know that deadlocks have the habit of not lasting too long. So we must con tinue to keep eyes on Korea, Iran and Egypt. The Coos Bay Times has issued a souvenir edition featuring the new Weyerhauser mill at North Bend. This big lumber mill which began operating last year, will cut timber from Wey erhauser stands in Southwest Oregon. Chips and sawdust, otherwise waste or used for fuel, will go to the company's sulphate plant at Spring field. The North Bend unit of the Weyerhauser enterprises is well located for transportation, with rail and highway on one side and Coos Bay on the other. It is planned for permanent operation and will contribute much to the stabi lity of the-Coos Bay area. The Belgians and the Dutch, especially, are protesting certain organizational and financing plans. . Bat when the Germans de cided they should have selective service, patterned closely after the American system, to provide between 300,000 and 400,000 men for sneh an army, and when the French agreed thai the Germans should be admitted In divisional units, the . major barriers to the plan, were hnrdled. - . . i. - - , . Other objections are expected to be comprised within the next month. When the United States first produced the idea It was looked at in Europe as entirely visionary. The best the Europeans were willinr to do was form a poof like that of World War H. with' na EEaasssBS Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS MASTER SPY, by Ian Colvin (McGraw-HiU; $3.50) According to the subtitle, we have here "the incredible story of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who, while Hitler's Chief of Intelli gence, was a secret ally of: the British. f Canaris was hanged, naked. April 9, 1945, and maybe hanged twice, resuscitated once as the extra brute penalty for betraying bis Fuehrer. For -that, at least.be seems to have done;- he knew something about the plot on Hit ler's life, the one for which a big bag of big shots, like Goerdeler, was executed, as he may have known of earlier plots which went undiscovered. g But Colvin, a British newsman, thinks Canaris hostility carried farther, was more than a last minute act of desperation. In his death cell he sent out a message: I only- did my duty tosmy Tountry when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler lead ing Germany to destruction. . That implies clearly a long-time ' opposition, traced in this poo iatearaau The schoolboard finds it has two Lincoln schools on its hands, one the new building in the Four Corners district, the other the one at the old community of Lincoln which has just voted to consolidate with the Salem district. It could distinguish between them by adding "Sen ior and "Junior" to the title. Better though to change the name of the school at Four Corners which has carried the Lincoln title briefly. Pick out the name of another President and substi tute it. "X When Congressman Norblad spoke to the Chamber of Commerce here a few months ago he said he would continue to vote against bills to spend money which he thought were unjusti fied. He kept his word in voting against the bill to increase military pay by up towards a billion dollars. The house passed the bill, but the sen ate is giving it the twice-over. Engineers at the State Highway Department are planning more loops for Portland's Harbor Drive. Looking at the maps one would conclude the department hires ex-pretzel benders for engineers; but it must be admitted that once you get in the slot you'll come' out, somewhere, if you just keep rolling. First to announce herself as a candidate for the office of district attorney is a woman, Hat tie Bratzel, who passed the state bar examina tions last year after serving for a number of years as court reporter and -legal secretary. Well, it's leap year, isn't it? The Chinese Red government has launched a campaign to eliminate waste, corruption and red tape, and to cut spending. Reports the APs Fred Hampson from Hong Kong. So the Reds are having the same political worries we are. In this respect then we are "brothers under the skin." tional units being turned over to a supreme headquarters for coordinating action in the mili tary field only. Joint financing and all the other things of which the inter national uniform will be em blematic was something they could not envision. Bat as North Atlaatle Treaty defense plana developed aad at sian, pressure Increased, natty be came the watchword. And an ar rangement for using German strength had to be mado without raisins' the bugaboo of a German national army. Eisenhower, provided .much of the leadership which has brought the plan along the road to its E resent point. If these things can e done, he says in effect, then there is no reason for not trying the rest of the Job. back to 1937-33. Some of his aides and associates . are named here. He is credited, among other things, with knowing about, caus ing, or having a hand in warning Britain to stand firm on Czecho slovakia in 1938, keeping France neutral, letting the Low Coun tries and then Russia know they , were to be invaded, underesti mating the size and aim- of the Allied- armada that passed Gib raltar to land in Africa, over estimating Britain's s t re n g t h when Hitler was plotting a cross-. Channel invasion, savinf J the lives of Churchill, Giraud. f ' Obviously Canaris meant Hit ler ill; Hitler himself and his . Gestapo believed he. did. So tt could follow that he meant Churehill welL I am not abso lutely convinced, but this i all' based on a prodigious amount of check and double-check, and it la more plausible than the usual lurid, tales. Anyway, it's fascin ating speculation. Wouldn't it be wcerful-if Beria, say, or the espionage chief m Communist China, turned out to be on cur side, tooii"--?----'---H; " - : e v . t ' !- Cornes7r Political pilgrims returning from the GOP conclave in Fris co report that the backers of Sen. Robert (Common Man) Taft put on the biggest, fanciest spread of all the candidate camps - Lm. whom sported dark glasses . . . And the Stassen people arrived on the scene days late with their buttons..; One of the busiest men at the meet was Oregon's Howard " Dent, blind attorney from The Dalles who has filed for delegate to the national GOP convention ... He flew down In his plane with secretarial staff. In writing about Oregon's political scene the other day an other local paper said of one state representative from Marion County: " ... he will not be a candidate for public office this year which makes certain that at least one new face will be in one of the Marion County Legislative seats next January." We never knew that our representatives are THAT confused! - You're heard of persons fiat to football games, with porta ble radios and' listening to other games ai the sauna time? Well, there's a Salem man who takes a radio to church each Sunday and listens to a church service broadcast only It's tho sum one he's attending. He's Dr. Frank Volgt, usher at Flrs Methodist Church. Ha rims downstairs during 8anday, services when not busy to see how the broadcast is coming in. That way ho doesn't mlas a t"g, i- o o o Rear Adm. Charles McMorris has ruled that there'll be no more "shorts, bathing suits or other abbreviated attire" worn by Navy wives in Navy commissaries in Hawaii. And a Navy news paper In Honolulu has agreed. It says the Skimpy shopping at tire was "destroying the cherished illusion, of us young red blooded American sailors that all American women are young and beautiful with gorgeous figures ..." Probably a moral there someplace. . A nation is made great by tho moral fiber and character of its dtixens. Nations die when these weaken. Herbert Hoover GRIN AND BEAR IT ifs sconndrels like yon .Government ... pointing to A Mjki a ml And DESIRE' UNDER- THE present. Taft buttons were the biggest (about 3hi inches across), and Taft headquarters in the Mark Hopkins the plushest and the busiest . . . Gen. MacArthur boosters were not hand ing out buttons but were pushing fancy litera ture hailing the general as "Mr. American." . . . Rep. Mark Hatfield of Salem, who was on the scene, suggested labeling Gen. Eisenhower as "Mr. World." In true California "style, Gov. Warren bat tons were handed eat by pretty girls most of GETS 1 BULLION ESTATE LOS ANGELES (AV-Al Jolson's young widow, Mrs. Erie Jolson Kra&na, now the wife of Producer Norman Krasna. was assigned one million dollars worth of property Monday from tho "Mammy Sing er's four million dollar estate. by Lichty who are nmderminlnr respect for my record and suehl ... . ELMS .tetex" A (Continued From Page One) national convention. However, few have as- binding a law as does Oregon in which the dele gate (unless he gets his name on the ballot by petition) pledges himself to abide by the majority choice of his party in the pri mary. The result is that after one or two ballots instructed delegates vote their own prefer ence. The Oregon delegation once bolted the party endorsement when it had been given a com parative unknown. Senator France of Maryland, in default of other candidates. One valid objection arises to the presidential primary. That is its excessive cost. Anyone famil iar with state politics knows how expensive a statewide campaign would be. A national campaign would cost candidates up in the millions, and then the party would have to dig up as much again for the general election. The system would put a prem ium on popularity, or even notoriety.- If the convention sys tem sometimes fails to give us superior men as candidates, the primary system gives no promise of that either. The nominating convention is a strange phenomenon, with its synthetic demonstrations, its cut throat bargaining, its clever and often guileful manipulations. But the prospect of primary nomina tions adding one or two nation wide elections in quadrennial years with their absorption of public interest, and inviting an Congressional Quiz Q. What will bo the most im portant campaign issues in the 1952 national elections? - A In the opinion of congress men and editors, whose views Were gleaned is a nationwide poll by Congressional Quarterly, tho top 10 issues will be, in order, corruption, the tax increase, the cost of living, general govern ment spending, the Korean war. President Truman, - foreign aid, controls, military spending end crime control. Q Were all sections of the conn try in agreement on what Issues will bo most important? A No. "Corruption was re garded most important in all sections except the West, where it tied for first. The tax in crease second nationally was fifth in tiie South, and in the West tied for corruption for first. The Truman issue, sixth nationally, was 16th in New England, second in the South. The ninth-ranking military spending . issue was sixth most lmoortant ' to New. En glanders, while Southerners rated It 12th. The eighth-ranking controls con-" troversy was sixth In the South and West, but ninth in each of the other regions. 1 Q Did the Investigating Conrress wtnd n most of Its. probing la 1951. or dees tt have lot of Investigations on the books for 1952? i A Sem James P. Kem (It Mo.) predicted Dec 29 that con gressional investigations will be pursued "with vigor In the new session, and foresaw probes of the Justice, Agriculture and De fense Departments, the Allen Property Office and other agen cies.' Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Hl) urged continuation of congres sional probes and noted that most of the facts concerning tax collection irregularities were ..uncovered by lawmakers. County' Records Show Smallp bk, Diphtheria Menaces Erased f In one generation, smallpox has been wiped off 'the slate in Marion County and diphtheria reduced from 165 cases and 17 deaths in a year to Just one case. ? v - That, in an area of doubled population. & That's the picture presented by, the county health department In giving its 19S1 report of diseases, death and control measures. Credit for the great advance, most no ticeable in these diseases, is given by Health Officer W. J. Stone to medical progress and to the ever increasing preventive program of Immunisation. Back in 1923, the department's first year, the county had 181 cases of smallpox.- The decline from that point has been almost steady. That year was the last be fore a sharp cut in the incidence of diphtheria, since in 1928 there were 87 cases and 2 deaths. Early records are sketchy, but in 1929 there were 1.738 immuni zations against smallpox; last year 2,770. There were 1,739 against diphtheria, compared to 2,861 last year. Change Noted. Other changes in diseases over the generation include typhoid, from four cases and one death in 1925 to three cases last year (the last death was in 1944); scarlet fever, from 4 cases and two deaths to 37 cases. The latter has shown a steady drop over the period, ex cept for a jump to 264 cases in 1935. Dr. Stone pointed out that smallpox, diphtheria and whoop ing cough can be prevented if par ents provide immunization for their children. There Is preventive also for tetanus and typhoid, though probability of these dis eases is low today in this area. Other immunization adminis tered by the health department in 1951 included 2,408 for whooping cough, 2,420 for tetanus and 104 for typhoid fever and 21 for Rocky Mountain spotted fever. These are GZE6&SSZ SJS53SX2 Your Health We now have several ap proaches in the treatment of peptic ulcer, and the most suc cessful method has been to use several of them at the same time. This has given us many cures, even through there is still no fool proof remedy or single method to prevent this disorder or cure it. More new drugs, cures and methods have been suggested for peptic ulcer than for almost any other disease. Drug store shelves contain an almost innumerable list of such duugs. Some are use ful when prescribed by a doctor as part of a regular program of treatment. A peptic ulcer is a sore in tho mucous lining of the stomach or the beginning of the intestine. If the ulcer is a simple one, it will heal by itself. It has been shown that even injections of sterile water into the body can cure an ulcer. Medical treatment, however, can help when an ulcer is slow to heal. The correct diet is an im portan1e part of this treatment. The patient with a peptic ulcer should have the type of food that counteracts excess acid in the stomach and does not irritate the stomach. Often he is started on a strict milk diet, and built up slowly to a general diet. Foods of this type include milk, eggs cus tards, cooked cereals, creamed soups, baked potatoes, spaghetti, pureed vegetables and lean meats. Drugs that have been found orgy of spending (it was estimat ed the Dewey campaign in the Oregon primary cost $250,000 in 1948) makes one shudder too. Maybe it is just as well to leave the nominations to the profes sionals. After all the people have the final say and the profession als have to try to pick a winner. EsassasEa Q Do Congressional probes of government activities ever interfere with regular work? A Tho Joint Committee on Defense Production said Dec 21 that various congressional inves tigations delayed work at the Savannah River, S. C, hydrogen bomb materials plant. It reported that between early - September and late November the contrac tor on the job spent 3,400 hours answering congressional inquir ies, while the Atomic Energy Commission spent about 700 hours. Q Do any major laws expire this year? A Programs which will die unless Congress extends them are: Defense Production Act, containing the basic economic controls law, expires June SO; Rubber Act of 1950, which keeps the government in the synthetic rubber business, expires June SO; and the ' Soil Conservation Act, which provides payments to states for conservation practices, expires Dec 31. (Copyright 195X a Congressional Quarterly) WM0)BIl,t Rockets to New Highs in 1952 wth: -That New 10-N-0 Lookl r New 168 h-o. SOCKET Engine! ' .1 Oldsmeblle's Own New Hy dramatic Saper-Drlve! i New Hydraulic Steering Latest GM Contribution to ortTtug ease: - . s y New Comfort New Side New Lmxmrr Inside! This Really New OLDSMOB1LE on Display TOMORROW . . . JANU4RY 24TH . . . at In addition to those immunizations riven by private physicians. -Flu Tops List " - i Current lists of cormxumicablo diseases are topped by those of the respiratory tract. Last year's leaders were influenza, 1,611 cases compared to 34 in 1950; niff. . 483 to 63; mumps, 442 and 466. So, in its work with schools, parents, foodhandlers and others, the department has advice ; In many forms. One of the most used this winter has been the: fn. "How to-Catch a Cold.- shownat least 35 times to audiences , aver aging 50 persons. v i' Discussion of 10 Religions Held At University! EUGENE G?) Discussion of 10 different religions was under way Monday at the four-dav bar- Lliament of world religions on the university of Oregon campus. The parliament opened Sunday night at a dinner meeting "ad dressed by the Rev. Paul. S. Wright, pastor of the First Pres byterian Church, Portland.! gr He noted the growing recogni tion of religion in this country and sad it was the result of a world wide "gigantic anxiety complex. S3S2ESZ By Herman N. Bmndesen. ILD. very helpful In relieving peptic ulcer are those that neutralize stomach acids. These- drugs', are given frequently and in amounts large enough to prevent the stom ach acidity from becoming too great. Drugs that relieve spasm of the stomach muscles are also used. s Sedatives, too, may prove to be a great help in relieving ulcer symptoms. In taking sedatives, it is always important to follow the exact amounts and schedule pre scribed by your xphysican, as . these drugs are often' of the habit-forming type. Worry and anxiety increase the symptoms of peptic ulcer. l and may be an important factor in causing them. This fact has re ceived much notice in popular journals, and has been recog nized by doctors for many years. Sometimes a person's ulcer - im proves rapidly if he is just given arr opportunity to discuss; his per sonal and emotional problems with his family physician When an ulcer is thus attacked on many fronts, it will usually respond well and heal In only a very few cases will the doctor have to resort to surgery. QUESTION AND ANSWERS E. I S.: What could cause low blood pressure in a man 27 years of age, and what can be done about it? -2 v Answer: The treatment r: de pends entirely upon the cause. If the heart is affected, steps must be taken to build up the strength . of the heart. This means plenty of rest and sleep, fresh air, sun-' shine, and the use of a well-balanced diet containing vegetables, fruits, whole-grain cereals:. and milk, with meat and eggs in mod eration, f n Exercise must be carefully reg ulated. Simple exercises, which can be done while lying 'down, are useful. As the strength -improves, the amount of exercise may be gradually increased. Drugs are not of much value, but those that are helpful may be ob tained from your physican. In cases where the low; blood pressure is due to some condition other than heart trouble, such as a disorder of the endocrine glands, a search for the cause must be carried out by the physi cian so that proper treatment may be utilized. Bottor English By D. C mTJJAlf f! ' 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "I don't hardly think my manuscript is identical to yours. 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of hllarious? 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Lobelia, 'chaise lounge., longitudinal, lozenge. 4L What does the word 'quid dity" mean? j 3. What is a word beginning with spe that means "occurring singly? j P ANSWERS Is 1. Say, "I dont think :(br, t hardly think) my manuscript is identical with yours." 2.! Pro-, nounce- first 1 as in fcQI, pre- f erred. 3, Chaise longe. A. Es sence; intrinsicality. "Only after a thorough perusal were we able to discover the real quiddity of ' the subject S. Sporadic!