4 Tfca Stat mem, Scilam, Ofgon. Monday, April 11, 1953
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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPKAJU Editor and Publisher
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Catered at the posteffice at Salem. Oreron. as aeca4 elaas eaatter under act of eoajxes Marea Z. IXTa.
Woe Unto Whom?
"Vous croyes que ca ira sans chatiment? Mal
heur! Malheur! Trois fois malheur!" (You think
this will pass without punishment? Woe! Woe!
"Woe unto you!) With these words, like Amos of
old, Stephen Alexis, great-grandson of a slave
and Haitian delegate to United Nations, warned
the whole world that what is happening to the
natives of South Africa under the Malan gov
ernment will lie on the conscience of mankind.
Recalling the testimony of the Rev. Michael
Scott, representing the natives, Alexis cited the
abuses, the floggings, the forced labor, the
moral degradation that is the lot of the blacks.
This, he said, was the most terrible indictment
ever drawn up against men who called them
tel Tes civilized.
'The white people have become rich and
powerful because whole races have died for
them, because they have devastated and plun
dered continents. (But the African people) who
are thought to be weak, powerless and base
will one day rise and look their masters in the
face . . . Let their oppressors be warned. Po
litical Machiavellianism, which Is the essence
of modern 'realism,' has met with a staggering
defeat in history."
Commenting on the seething racial unrest in
Bouth Africa with its ominous implications for
the rest of the world, even the Christian Science
Monitor, usually a champion of the oppressed,
advises "a levelheaded realism" combined with
Christian spirit in trying to find a way out of
the dark dilemma.
The dilemma, the Monitor says, is that the
natives who want equality and self-determination
are ''tragically untrained" for such respon
sibility. So the Europeans "in that great sea of
native humanity" want to keep the status quo,
keep the natives segregated, disease-ridden, il
literate, underpaid in a word, forever "un
qualified" for justice and a fair share. Some of
the whites even hope civil war will break out;
It would justify wholesale slaughter of the in
surgent blacks.
Then the natives would continue to sweat on
the great mountains of iron (biggest medium
jrrade ore reserve in the world), to feed the steel
mills of South Africa and of its customers. This,
news reports predict, would bring great indus
trial expansion in S.A. and "boost adjoining
underprivileged areas." The truth is probably
that it would create more wealth for the
wealthy and the natives would be expected to
go on as before.
Go on as before for how long? Make no mis
take about it: the blacks and Indians of Africa
have learned important lessons from their
brothers in Asia who achieved independence.
Have we learned the same lessons?
It seems not. "Levelheaded realism" has
eaused the United States to allign itself with
Britain and France not o'nly in the fight against
Russian imperialism, but in the European im
perialists' struggle to keep a grip on people who
would be free.
"Levelheaded realism" demands that we give
priority to the interests of what allies we have
rather than to the aspirations of peoples whose
friendship we may need in the future. So the
United States voted with South Africa and
Britain against giving Reverend Scott a hearing
in United Nations. Our delegates voted with
France against giving the Tunisian case a hear
ing in U.N.
As a result, critics in India, Egypt, the Middle
last and elsewhere cry shame. They notice that
by such actions the United States is using
United Nations as a tool of power politics.
But, determined as we are to surround Russia
with air bases and secure sources of raw ma
terials, we must have the support of our allies.
Britain and France must, it seems, be placated
and we hesitate to risk their displeasure. Thus
the vote-trading in the UJf. There are always
political and military justifications for that. We
can stand firm on our good intentions.
And yet, remembering the words of Stephen
Aaexis, should we not tremble for our children's
sake; for they will pay for our sins as surely
as we are now, in Asia, paying for the trans
gressions of our fathers.
The refurbished spire of the First Methodist
Church provides a warm new glow to the night
time skyline of Salem and its gleaming whit
outline is a handsome beacon at all times. The
church is to be congratulated on its extensive
remodelling program, of which the steeple is but
a part. There are some who have commented
that a new church might have been constructed
for the money thus spent. But a new church was
neither needed nor desired. The pioneers of 1870
who started the present structure planned well
indeed. It is a monument to honest architecture
and construction and to the faith of its congre
gation. It will endure for many, many years.
Civil defense officials can take heart from
the action of individuals during the Big Muddy
floods. People in the danger areas pitched in
and worked feverishly on dikes, levees, piling
up sandbags, manning bulldozers, driving trucks
and handling boats for evacuation of refugees.
Some worked around the clock with no rest and
little food. There was little looting or panicky
behavior ... If that's the way Americans would
react to wartime disasters, CD won't have so
much to worry about.
It is fine that the state apparently will have
many millions of dollars more than expected,
due to whopping income tax payments, but no
one need lie awake nights wondering what
ought to be done with it. Let's have a breather
in spending.
Editorial Comment
DUKKER'S DOUGHNUT
The arbiters of etiquette are firmly in accord that
the practice of dunking is not to be encouraged.
This seems to apply whether the subject be Huey
Long's corn pone and pot-likker, a small boy on
the edge of a swimming pool, or the conventional
doughnut.
Yet someone is always defying the conventions
just as it seems someone Is always trying to find a
new shape or material or trimming for the dough
nut. As it were not enough to introduce cake dough
nuts, raised doughnuts, sugared doughnuts, honey
dipped doughnuts frosted doughnuts, chocolate
doghnuts, cinnamon doughnuts, and jelly dough
nuts, someone in Philadelphia has brought out a
new model fashioned on the lines of a tennis racket,
with a three-inch handle.
Though this undoubtedly will appeal to some, it
can hardly be set down as one of civilation's major
accomplishments. Like the effort to make corn on
the cob socially acceptable by sticking silver han
dles Into the ends of 'the ear, there will remain
some question whether the result is jquite satisfac
tory either to the consumer or to the onlooker.
Considering, however, -She auspices under which
the long-handled doughnut made its appearance
one is obliged at least to be charitable. The first
samples were handed out in connection with the
1952 Salvation Army drive.
(Christian Science Monitor)
Russia May Be Forced to Try Grandstand
Play in Attempt to Halt Defense of Reich
BY WILLIAM L. RYAN
i.Vi Ferelrn Affairs Analyst
The next few weeks will be
critical ones for the future of
Germany. It will be interesting
to watch Soviet maneuvers.
Soviet thrusts and dodges to
prevent West Germany's final
Integration in Western defense
plans have been, on the whole,
unsuccessful in recent weeks, but
they have had this effect: Each
thrust tended to create doubts
In the German mind.
The Soviet Zone Communists
have called for mass strikes
gainst the forthcoming peace
contract between West Germany
nd the Western Allies. There is
sound of desperation in the
call-words like "the hour is
extremely serious and time
presses '"
Biit the dramatic action. If one
comes, will,. net be by the Com
munists of East or West Germany.-
The Communists lack
treat West Germany to
carry the ball alone. Any , action
Intended to stave off the signia
ef the peace contract In May
will have to come from the
Kremlin. .
Soviet moves up to now have
been strong, but not strong
enough. The USSR has played
heavily on the theme of German
unity, but has failed to convince
West Germans that the Kremlin
wants free elections.
It rejected United Nations
supervision over elections an4
substituted a proposal for foor
power supervision. Thai on
deabtedly has been a transparent
move so far aa too West Ger
mans are concerned. It wul take
more than a suggestion like that
retaining: the Soviet veto to
nvuftce the Germaaa.
What, then, will the Soviet
Union do now? The Kremlin has
only a few weeks left in which
to act decisively. If its bid to
top the peace contract is to
have any hope at all of success,
frtnust be a spectacular one, a
major grandstand play
The maneuver most have the
look of an unheard-of conces
sion to Western demands. At the
same time it most be hlrhly at
tractive to the Germans. Even
at that. It may be too late.
Western diplomats inside Ger
many have pointed out one bear
trap in the making: A Soviet of
fer to pull its occupation troops
out of East Germany.
It would be a move the West
could not easily match. Soviet
troops pulled out of Germany
still would dominate the East
sector. They have only to draw
back as far as th enew Polish
border a Ion? the Oder-Niesse
Line, into what were pre-war
German territories.
The Russians would leave be-
BY W. G. ROGERS
FAR CORNER: A PERSONAL
VIEW OF THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST, by Stewart H.
Holbrook (MacmiUan; $3.75)
About 30 years ago this author,
who was brought up in the East
and could have spent his life a
staid New Englander, heard the
irresistible call of the West or the
Wild, remembered Horace Gree
ley, or something, and packing
up some books and tapping on
his derby, headed for British
Columbia.
Vancouver was all right,
though people there still drove
to the left and had never seen a
derby; but Holbrook turned back
south to his native land. It
hadn't seen a derby, either, but
knew about books and writers,
among them the Opal Whiteley
whose diary was popular and in
sufficiently authenticated, and
John Reed, James Strrens, H. I.
Davis, Vardis Fishp and soon or
late, some otbs. But they
missed a heap f corking good
regional mrrul, or left it on
purpose for Holbrook, and he
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Your Health
By Hennas N.
Bona wen. 1LO.
hind two units a trained. Communist-dominated
Bereitachaften
alert units organised on a mili
tary plane, plus thousands of
Volkspolizel (People's Police).
The Russians do not trust
either group, but there is reason
to believe they would perform,
by and large, the way the Com
munists order.
A West Berlin official told mo
recently the two group were in
a position today similar to that
of the Nasi police in the war
days. No matter what their per
sonal feelings now might be, they
are marked men with a large
sector of the population. They
womld perform for the Com
munists if only to savto their
own skins.
(Continued from page one)
and at the same time have a full
view of the runway. The ceiling
lights are flush with the ceiling
and their reflection in the wall
glass looks like stars ranging on
into space.
A trip to Big Sur (a small
river) and Point Lobos with its
famed cypress grove at the tip
yesterday, up green Caxmel
Valley today and tomorrow re
served for the 17 -mile drive
around Monterey peninsula.
Then I'm scheduled to go on to
San Diego for a five-day cruise
with some other civilians, guests
of the 13th Naval District on the
recommissioned Bon Homme
Richard, one of the big aircraft
carriers. This was the ship my
son-in-law served on as surgeon
during the late war. Now in
private practice in Richmond he
is making this cruise too, which
should be of much Interest to
both of us.
C.A.S.
Better English
By D. C. WILLIAMS
1. What Is wrong with this
entence? "I have proof of this
being correct."
2. What is the correct pro
nunciation oi "Carnegie"?
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Generality, gen
eralize, generalisimo, Genesis.
4. What does the word "no
vitiate" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with dr that means "extreme in
effect"?
ANSWERS
1. Say, "I have proof that this
is correct." 2. Pronounce kar-na-ge,
first a as in car, second
a as in nay, e as in me, accent
second syllable. 3. Generalissimo.
4. State or time of being a novice;
apprenticeship. "The boy has
served his novitiate." 5. Drastic.
Troublesome coughs send
many people to their doctors
every year. Indeed, this is one
of the most frequent of all
symptoms plaguing mankind.
Did you know that a cough
has a definite purpose in the
body? It is an unconscious, or
reflex, action to remove irrita
tions which originate in the
lungs or air tubes. The irrita
tions may be due to accumulated
mucus from an infection, dis
turbed circulation (as in heart
disease), or a foreign object in
the lung and respiratory tract.
There are two types of cough.
The first type rids the lungs and
tubes of foreign substances in
them, whether due to infection
or not. This cough may be use
ful and beneficial if it aids in
removing infected or irritating
material.
The second type does not rid
the body of any substances. This
is a useless or infective cough.
It may be due to irritation in
some region outside the lungs,
such as the sinuses, windpipe,
or chest cavity. Certain infec
tions and tumors may also bring
coughs which do not get rid of
any fluid.
Many times an inflammation
in the air passages forms mucous
material that is very sticky or
fibrous. The cough then brings
nothing up, and falls in the use
less class.
In treating a cough, it Is most
Important to find out Its true
cause. This often -makes it very
hard and even dangerous for a
person to , treat his own cough.
Too often he goes to a drug store
and asks for a remedy for
cough that has hung on for
many months. He does not real
ize that such a cough might
come from damage to the lung
tissue Itself.
Many remedies relieve the
cough itself but do not touch
the underlying cause of the
trouble. Too often a cough is
stopped for months at a time
by heavy doses of codeine or
other sedative drugs, giving a
diseased lung time to develop
into a serious disorder.
Persistent coughs should not
be brushed off as just due to a
common cold or simple irrita-
Thaw Brings Hope (or Fear)
Of TV to Millions; like Auto,
It's Probably 'Here to Stay!
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Statesman Correspondent
WASHINGTON Now that
spring has brought a thaw in the
long television freeze that has
kept Salem in a TV blackout, here
is what is in store for you if you
join the nearly 16 million Amer
ican families with television sets
in their homes.
First and foremost, there is the
social angle.
If you travel in a booky crowd,
you should be apprised that it is
fashionable to sneer whenever the
subject of TV comes up. You may
possibly avoid this obstacle by
saying, with great apology, Tm
only buying it to keep the chil
dren quiet," and then launch into
a discussion of all the books your
noisy youngsters have prevented
you from reading.
The same social difficulties ob
tain if you belong to a devoted
bridge set.
Made for Sports
But if your crowd is sports
minded, TV was made for you.
Recently, Southpaw Harry Tru
man tossed out the first ball to
open 154 days of the national past
time and TV turns your easy
chair into a box seat. And then
there was the Robinson-Graziano
middleweight championship fight.
Or maybe you like those grunt-and-groan
artists who wrestle
through the late hours of most
Then again, perhaps you like
the movies old movies, any old
movies. If so, get a TV set. This
week you might see Charles
Laughton in "The Beachcomber,"
Madeleine Carrol in "My Son, My
Son," Bill Boyd in "Go Get 'Em
Haines," Heather Angel in "Head
line Woman," and "Robinson Cru
soe," among many others. Wash
ington, D. C, has four channels,
which give one at least six movies
a day.
Some Shows "live
The live shows, televised as you
Arthur Godfrey, Ed Wynn and:
Milton Berle.
In the late morning and after-'
noon there are programs devoted ;
to kids, chiefly comedies and ad
venture aerials (Captain Video,;
Cowboy Playhouse), ?and tb
"Queen for a Day type ladies I
quiz and prize show to lighten the)
housewives' daily load.;
Until lately, this has been the
general run of television fare. But ;
more and more good cultural en
tertainment is appearing, such a ;
Toscanini directing the NBC sym-s
phony; an occasional opera by tho
Metropolitan; such soloists as Rise
Stevens and Ezio Pinza. and Mar
lan Anderson; Sadler's Wells Bal
let; and good drama. Education i
channels can be counted upon to
foster this trend.
Current Events Pepala
Best political sign is the Increas
ing number of current events pro
grams of the "Meet the Press" and'
"American Forum of the Air ;
type, which now attract wide in
terest with interviews and debates
featuring most of tbi nation's
leading politico.
One of the dangers that attends
the newness of this medium is that
people frequently believe they ara
being informed when they listen
to two debating politicians; when:
in fact they may only be being:
entertained by political showman
ship.
But public officials will in dua
time get over the novelty of TV.
as will the viewers, and it will
com into useful play to bring
government problems Federal,
state and local closer to the
people. It may well bring a resur
gence of the will to participate in
solving these problems, at least to
go to the polls.
The day has long been gone
that the citizens gathered by tho
bandshell on Sundays to hear can
didates for office debate the is
sues, and the percentage of actual
tion. A careful examination
should be made by a physician
and X-rays taken, if necessary,
to discover the real cause.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
K. L.R.: Can infected teeth
cause arthritis?
A n piirar Tf lor rvoT I Atrjtast Kv
some authorities that any Infect Grandma. This
tion, such as In the teeth, ton
sils or sinuses, may help cause
arthritis.
(Copyright, 1952. King Features)
watch them, supplement the voiera among our people nil
movies with sufficient murders. , gradually fallen to less than a
assaults, fist fights and dragnets ; ?Jrit-
to keep any otherwise healthy
child awake at night.
Then there are the variety pro
grams, including vaudeville re
turned to the scene of its earlier
crimes. Many are very worth
while for entertainment that ap
peals to everyone from Sis to
is the arena for
Might Boost Vote
day offer
Evacuation Topic
At Civil Defense
Meet Wednesday
or'
Rescue and -evacuation in civil
defense will be the topic for
Marion County civil defense or
ganization meeting Wednesday at
8 p.m. in Bush School auditorium.
The speaker will be Andrew O.
Baker, a former Army major who
served as a military governor in
Italy, on "Re-establishing Devas
tated Areas in Italy as Result of
War Damage." Films from British
civil defense on building collapse
and rescue ,of personnel from
buildings will ide shown.
Arrangements are in charge of
D. H. Cameron, alternate for the
director, and' P. M. Gemmell,
deputy for operations.
$?N AND BEAR IT
by Lirhtv
Literary Guidepost
passes it on gladly to us in book
after book.
They didn't tell us about
August Erickson's bar, for in
stance, in Portland; it's 684 feet
long and has five entrances,
which is handy for the bouncer.
They left him the story about
the rawhide railroad eaten by
starving wolves: about the body
of a boy that, preserved in whis
key, took the fight out of Sioux
braves on the warpath; about
the vast tr -? Johnsons, some
named Cft re Johnson, and
Ti del and jn, and Tucker
Creek, Sugar r'oot. Copper Tack
Johnson; about those fetching
old "Indian" names like Alcona,
Oscoda, Allegan, Arenac, made
up by Henry R. Schoolcraft out
of his learning in Greek, Latin
id the Romance languages.
' Up and down Washington and
Oregon and over into Idaho, Hol
brook has wandered with eyes
and ears at the ready for legend,
fact and fancy. His far corner
isn't a big corner, nor more im
portant than the one he left be
hind, but it's his corner, and bis
book brightens it perceptibly.
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"Is final warning-, comrade office worker! . . . the way you keep
watching clock, one would think you had something to go
home to . . .
TB Grpup to
Meet Friday
Annual meeting of Marlon
County Tuberculosis and Health
Association is .slated for 8 pjn.
Friday In First Methodist Church.
With the topic of "The Second
40 Years," the speaker will be Dr.
Harold Bernard; associate pro
fessor of education in the General
Extension Division, Oregon Sys
tem of Higher Education.
The public program also will
include a short business meeting
and election of new members to
the board of directors.
Sickles for reaping grain date
back to the Stone Age.
Grief Fatal to
Mother of Air
Crash Victim
SPOKANE. Wash. fP) - The
mother of a young Air Force ser
geant who was killed in the flam
ing crash of a B-36 bomber here
last week died in a hospital early
Sunday.
Her doctor tentatively attributed
death to a cerebral hemorrhage.
Friends said it was simply a tragic
case of heart break. An autopsy
will be performed.
Mrs. Ben Cohn had come here
from San Francisco for the mar
riage of her 23-year-old son, Mar
tin, to Joan Samuels, 19. They
were to be wed Saturday.
Mrs. Cohn brought the ser
geant's younger brother, too. The
announcements were out and the
wedding gifts were arriving. It
was to be a big ceremony.
Early Tuesday, young Cohn and
14 other airmen died when their
bomber crashed on the edge of
the runway and blew up at Fair
child Air Force Base.
Jlabbi Samuel Larer had tka
task of telling Mrs. Coha.
"She broke down and cried very
much, of course," he said. "But It
was a normal reaction and I
thought she was taking it Jairb
well. We called her huxbaad in
San Francisco. She talked to aim
and asked that he eoaae uiok4y."
Twenty minutes later, Mrs.
Cohn, sitting on a bo laiated
and lapsed into a coaaa. She never
regained consciousness .
The heavx hearted father and
husband completed ai i mijamewii
Sunday to take the aooiee of hia
son aad wife back to Saa Fran
cisco for a double funeral.
Television may one :
a partial cure for this condition,
giving everyone a convenient op
portunity to see and hear his
elected representatives on his liv
ing room screen. The TV industry
claims that more people go to tho
ballpark after watching games
free on television; so possibly tho
same interest in politics will bo
aroused, sending more citizens to
the polling booth come election
day.
That, we can hope, is what's In
store for the country through this
latest fixture in tho American
home.
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