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The 8tofTinn. Salem, Oregon,' Thursday, lime 111 3SSl Congressional Quiz rej&oti "No Favor Sway Us No Fear Shall Awe" From First Stetesnun. March tS. 18S1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A SPRAUUfi, Editor and Publisher rabtfehed every mornlnf. easiness office tli 8 Commercial, Salem. Oregon. Telephone X-X44L. Catered at the postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as second class matter under act of eonsTcss March S. 1871 Senate Has a Bad Day Senators showed they were unwilling to sacri fice their patronage prerogative by accepting the reorganization plan which would have taken postmasters out of politics. Though recommend ed by the Hoover commission and submitted by President Truman the Senate voted 56 to 29 to kill the plan. So instead of being put entirely under civil service the postmasters will continue as at present partly in, partly out. Senators still will have the right to reject presidential appointments, and so their patronage lever is retained. This was not the major recommendation of the Hoover commission on reorganization of the postoffice department, but its defeat clips off Just that much of the advantage which the whole plan would give. Until there is a thorough-going overhaul of the department, greater mechanication of its operations and moderniza tion as recommended by the Commission, huge deficits will continue and probably will mount. the wreckers start to work and the grey lady with the balance comes down. Salem police did a good job of piecing to gether bits of evidence which led to the confes sion of Albert William Karnes for the murder of Mrs. Susan Litchfield in Salem. The tip-off came, of course, in the similarity of the method employed by Karnes in his assault on a woman at The Dalles. Thus is confirmed the theory that criminals tend to repeat their pattern of conduct. From the mere suspicion created by the similar ity of the cases tlje local police moved with great care to build their case before they con fronted Karnes himself. When they did the con fession followed. Another bad move of the Senate Wednesday was to send the bill for the St. Lawrence Sea way back to the Foreign Relations committee. This effectively kills the bill for this session, since its chairman, Tom Conally Is a bitter foe of this seaway. It may also mean that the Uni ted States will miss the opportunity of sharing with Canada in this development because the latter country has served notice it will proceed on its own if the USA will not join. The seaway and the power projects were sep arate features of the St. Lawrence development. A sharp fight is in progress over the power development, whether to let it be done by pri vate companies or not. The seaway drew strong opposition from the Atlantic terminal cities and from railroads serving them. It had the strong support of the Great Lakes states and cities. The imminence of heavy traffic in moving La brador iron ore upstream from dumps on the lower river to the steel mills in the Pittsburgh Cleveland - Chicago area should have been enough to tip the scales in favor of U. S. parti cipation in this development. That seemed to make it fully justifiable from an economic standpoint. We may rue the day we let the chance slip. Now Canada may get on with the Job and we will help pay for it with tolls. Some signs of a June thaw in the steel strike. The government's economic stabilizer, Roger Putnam, is commencing to "give" on a steel price increase arid one union local indicates It is willing to shelve the union shop demarid. A little more heat prompted by idleness ought to extend the thaw and produce a negotiated settlement. Pacing of Old Courthouse The passing of the old courthouse, soon to fall before the axes of wreckers will spill a lot of sentiment, for folk of Marion County have be came warmly attached to this familiar land mark. Its utility as a seat for the conduct of county business, however, is spent; and remov ing it to another site in order to preserve it seemed quite impractical. The building is a copybook replica of the French townhall style of architecture. Its Man sard roof is definitely French. Its ornamental details are mixed, however its fluted columns with floral capitals are Corinthian. The old courthouse has served well for nearly three-quarters of a century. It must give way tj a,nother more spacious and more nearly fire proof. The new follows modern design; but as folk grow up under it they will develop an at tachment to it. And the new building should stand for many times the 75 years of the life of the old one. . Many though will not want to be around when Chiang Kai-shek told military cadets in Sou thern Formosa that his Nationalist forces will recapture China from the Communist bandits. He offers a fresh example of unbounded op timism. i Editorial Comment CONTINUOUS CREATION There are about a hundred million galaxies colossal swirls of stars. How were they created? Even before the war Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondl and Thomas Gold, three bold, bright young mathe maticians of Cambridge University, decided that the original star-stuff was still lying around in the black spaces of the universe and that new galaxies were heing formed. If this is so the notion of a universe that is dying or running down like a clock, a notion fostered by Eddington and Jeans, is wrong. So Is the notion that the matter in the universe was created all of a sudden. The self-renewing uni verse of Hoyle, Bond and Gold was so startling that astrophysicists rejected it. Now comes the As tronomer Royal, Sir Harold Spencer Jones, with a pronouncement in Its favor. The raw stuff of creation was hydrogen, the most plentiful element in the universe. Much is left, says Hoyle about an atom of it in every pint of space. This is not much to buyers of milk but a lot when all space is considered. Hoyle holds that this vast reserve must be embarrassing to those who follow Eddington in believing that at first matter was con centrated in a small space and that It then began to expand. There seems no doubt that the universe is expanding. But is this balloon of a universe finite or infinite in age? From the mathematical work of Hoyle, Bondi and Gold it seems that the age of the universe and the volume of space are infinite. The galaxies disappear in the expanding universe, and the most powerful telescope can never reveal what becomes of them. But other galaxies are formed out of the hydrogen lying around. All this does not mean that the expanding uni verse of the relativists is a myth. In fact, expansion and creation proceed together. Under the new dis pensation space simply stretches as the universe expands, so that there is no difficulty in accounting for the new matter that is being formed. If we can not actually behold the process of creation it is be cause it takes a thousand million years to add a new atom to each pint of space, according to Hoyle and his colleagues. Under the Eddington-Jeans dis pensation it did not matter much to us if the end of all, billions and billions of years hence, was stagnation, a gloomy "heat death." Somehow It is comforting to think that the universe will go on forever. (New York Times) Sen. McMahon Uses Promise of Thousand Hydrogen Bombs in Drive for Presidency if 1 i By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON The night mare of our times was uncon sciously pointed out, the other day, by en. Brien McMahon, of Connecticut. When he an n o u n c e d his Presiden tial candidacy, the Senator offered the construction of a thousand hydrogen bombs as the chief point in his pO- t J-ph AUop Mags produc. tion of weapons of total destruc tion is certainly an odd bait to dangle before the electorate; yet Sen. McMahon was not exactly talking through his hat. The truth is that mass out--put of super bombs is prob ably not very far off. An Aus trian physicist published the basic theory more than a decade ago. The theory had been much elabor- fined, and was being actively argued In the scientific inner circle, when Klaus Fuchs was still working at Los Alamos. And today the prac tical problems have been largely eelved, and the testing stage is at hand. It is important to realize that the successful construction of a true wiper-bomb will be a de velopment surpassing the con struction of the atomic bomb, in the same way that the atomic bomb surpassed the World War II blockbuster. The two weapons are different in principle. The atomic bomb depends upon nu clear fission of the huge atoms of uranium or plutonium. The super-bomb depends upon the nuclear fusion of the small atoms of hydrogen. ' A bare all, the twe weapons are different la potential. The last Eniwetok bomb had a power of over ISO kilotons, which is the scientists' language for the ex plosive force of 190.000 tons of high explosive. This is some where near the limit of an atomic bomb. In contrast, the first true super-bomb to be detonated is expected to have a power of two megatons, which is the equivalent of the explosive force of 2,000,000 tons of high ex plosive. Moreover, this Is not the end. There are complex limita tions of mechanism, and limits also on the size of the super bomb that can be delivered to a distant target. None the less, the two-megaton bomb can theoret ically become the precursor of even greater and more terrible weapons. The confident anticipation that a two-megaton bomb can now be constructed represents a change in scientific opinion. As first disclosed In this space, the .first hydrogen fusion bomb will be detonated at Eniwetok at the end of the summer. This experi mental model will not be the true super-bomb, however. Until very recently, there was the most widespread doubt anions' the best qualified scientists that the true super-bomb could and would ever be built. The vital recent development is that this doubt has been resolved, and that the super-bomb Is definitely In prospect. The character of this weapon which is in prospect goes beyond what the normal human imagin ation can comprehend. The two megaton bomb will achieve total destruction in an area of just under 100 -square miles. It will devastate by blast an area just under 180 square miles. In its single explosion, a whole vast megalopolis, a great modern capital, can be wiped from the face of the earth with almost the finality of the end of the cities of the plain. Within the American rov em inent, even tb anticipation of this weapon Is already causing controversy and heart-searching. Improvements in design have ; SADDLE" CrPAlNT AND -RIDE! L' made It possible for speedy light bombers and even long-range fighters to carry a to mi e bombs. These means of delivery are both vastly more economical and vast ly better calculated to penetrate enemy air defenses than the huge and costly alorraft now composing oar Strategic Air Force. Hence a growing school in the Air Staff has been advocating a change-over. But the super-bomb depends for its power on the quantity of heavy isotopes of hydrogen that is exploded in it. It is necessarily large, and the more powerful it is, the larger it is. It cannot be carried by light planes. Hence Gen. Curtis LeMay is not merely opposing any change in the com position of the Strategic Air Force. He is even demanding authorization for eleven addi tional wings of the largest jet bombers. These wings would cost somewhere between $10,000,000, 000 and $15,000,000,000, and on the basis of the present budget, they would knock the Test of the Air Force program into a cocked hat. Meanwhile, the State Depart ment's Advisory Committee on Disarmament, la eluding such eminent scientists as Dr. Vanne var Bush and Dr. J. Robert Op penheimer, baa also raised its voice. Because of the super bomb, the committee Is Insisting that a bold new effort must be made to explore the possibility of a disarmament agreement with the Soviet Union. One reason for this, in turn, is the extreme probability that the Soviets will have a super bomb of their own almost as soon as we shall. They started with the same knowledge. While our hydrogen bomb development was kept in low gear for several post war years, theirs was almost surely in high gear. So, the fact that this weapon is now in pros pect cuts two ways, and cuts very deep. Altogether, the de velopment herein reported prom ises to change the shape of our world, and it is time that some one said so. (Copyright 1952. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Now that Salem voters have approved a second senior high school, another burning question arises to give school board of ficials an additional headache. To wit: What to name the new school. There'll be an outcry from the citizen ry if the new educational edifice is called "South Salem High," and the present high school on 14th Street is left 'just plain old "Salem High" (thus still packing the weight as THE high school of Salem.) And trouble also is foreseen if the new school is named after a famous person, dear to the hearts of school children (like Jersey Joe Walcott or Jane Russell). Because then it wouldn't be carrying thejionored title of the city while the present one still would, etc. Some officials say the only out is to name the new school "South Salem High" and the present one "North Salem High." No one knows what the residents in East and West Salem will say to that. And, of course, other kingsized brain-busters will plague school officials from an administrative standpoint. When the new school is erected how will the athletic equipment be divid ed? And will the geographical division of students throw all the good athletes, debaters and hot-rod experts into one school? Then there is the matter of distributing teachers to each school some already want to teach in the new school. The State Capitol switchboard Is so besieged these days with calls from bonus-hungry veterans that if you ask for the "Stato Veterans Affairs DepU." the headfone gals will automatically ask: "Bonus division, sir?" . . . And in addition to the actual check each bonus envelope also will contain: (a) A reminder from the Treasury Dept. to invest the cash in bonds, (b) A list of other benefits available to Oregon veterans, and (c) The nameplato containing info on how the bonus is computed. This means that while the veteran is reading all this literature his wife can sneak out and cash his check. Friends of Jason Lee, up-and-coming attorney, did not faint with surprise when Jason resigned the State Tax Commission the other day. The feeling there has been unmutual ever since the ruckus over the deal involving that Japanese-American sev eral months ago a deal unfavored by Lee . . . Harold Roessler, employment office mgr., believes in picking what he preaches. After releasing reports about the current shortage of strawberry pickers, Harold hied his wife and three youngsters into a berry patch that night after work . . . CRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty a 1 HHP Your Health Heartening news in the med ical world is a report that peni cillin can be used to prevent rheumatic fever. This dread dis ease has left many a child an invalid for life. A famous author has said, "Rheumatic fever is a disease which licks the joints and bites the heart." This points out that the pain in the joints, swelling, tenderness and disability during an attack of rheumatic fever are not its most serious results. Its greater danger lies in the fact that it often leaves a patient with a seriously and permanently damaged heart. Indeed, there is hardly any other disease that can be as seaious and disabling over a long period of time. Rheumatic fever also has a the heart many years after the1 first infection, scarring the valves inside the organ, and interfering with the normal heart action. The doctor can recognize this condition as he listens to the heart and hears a certain type of "murmur." Rheumatic fever alos has a tendency to return, and the pa tient who has weathered one at tack, may later suffer one after another. This is why medical men all over the world have been searching for ways to prevent these attacks, especially when a person has had one or more al ready, or is known to have a tendency toward this type of in fection in the body. It has long been known that bacteria of the streptococcus type are an indirect cause of rheu matic fever. These bacteria are among those which can be de stroyed and controlled by peni cillin when they cause infections in the body. Doctors have thus thought that penicillin might also be used to prevent severe attacks of rheu matic fever, and it has done this in some cases. The drug must be taken several times a day,, some times for many years. This rou tine has protected children's hearts until they were strong enough to go without the drug. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS O. J.: I have epilepsy. Is there any danger of my child having epilepsy? Answer: Your child has only one in a hundred chances of hav ing chronic epilepsy. Mrs. S.: What is normal blood pressure for a woman 27 years of age? Answer: The blood pressure varies with the type of indivi dual, personality, and physical makeup. No standard figure can be fixed for any one age group. However, for a person 27 years of age, a blood pressure of not over 140 systolic, and 90 diastolic would be considered normal. (Copvright 1952. Cong. Quarterly) (Copyright. 1952. King Features) "Too bad they picked a woman as class orator . . . they could have guessed that the topic would be her latest operation . . . " Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "After much argu ment , the workmen finally joined the pipes together in the end." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "crematory"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Sterotype, sterility, stenographic, stertorous. 4. What does the word "stu pendous" mean?. 5. What is a word beginning with ex that means "to dis charge, as through pores"? ANSWERS 1. Omit the final four words; they are superfluous. 2. Pro nounce the e as in cream, pre ferred. 3. Stereotype. 4. Aston ishing; wonderful; amazing. "All are but parts of one stupendous whole." 5 .Exude. Q How many Congressmen lined up behind either Taft or Elsenhower for President? A A Congressional Quarterly survey of lawmakers who have publicly announced support of one or the other of these two candidates showed 13 Senators and 22 House members in the camp of Sen. Robert A. Taft (R Ohio) and 11 Senators and 24 House members who have come out publicly for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, as of June 1. Q De the "Die men" or "Taft men" in Congress vote most of ten with the majority of Repub licans? A Generally, Taft supporters have higher party unity percent ages than do the Eisenhower backers, according to Congress ional Quarterly's analysis of how many times they. voted their party majority on party-line roll-call votes. But the "Ike men" have higher bipartisan support percentages that is, they tend more to stand with the majority when most mem bers of both parties vote the same way. A Does the foreign aid bill make any provision for stimulat ing the European economy? A The Senate agreed May 28 to an amendment offered by Blair Moody (D-Mich.) and 26 other Senators to use $150 mil lion in matching funds put up by recipient countries as a re volving fund for loans to . Euro pean business men who showed a willingness to increase pro ductivity. This would also strike at Communist-dominated labor unions, Moody said, by helping Europeans to "build the sort of economy in which the distortions and seduction of Red agents will fall on barren ground." Q Why is Hoover calling for a new "Hoover Commission" to study ways of streamlining the government? A The former President said a new commission should be" appointed to check on the un finished tasks in reorganizing the government, and to study new problems in the federal set up due to the defense program. Hoover made the suggestion June 3 in a letter to Chairman The Safety Valve SUGGESTIONS INVITED FOR REPUBLICAN PLATFORM To the Editor: May we utilize this means to ask members of the Republican party in Oregon to forward any suggestions they might have on the 1952 party platform? We have a responsibility to serve all of the Republicans in this state when we represent them on the Platform Committee in Chicago. Address either of us as indi cated below until the first of July (after that date, co Palmer House, Chicago). We pledge our selves to consider each sugges tion carefully. Sincerely yours, Mrs. James Mott Rt. 8, Box 504 Salem, Oregon Mark O. Hatfield 490 Waldo Avenue Salem, Oregon William M. Dawson (D-Ill.) of the House Expenditures Com mittee studying 29 bills to carry out most of the remaining re forms proposed three years ago by the commission head by Mr. Hoover. ' Q Do Congressmen have an old-age pension plan? A Since 1946 Congressmen have been entitled to contribute six per cent of their salaries to a fund which provides pensions to retired members 62 years old. To be eligible, a Congressman must have six years of service' and must have contributed to the fund for five years. The 68 former members of Congress now on pension get from $1,623 to $6,500, depending on length of service. The average is 13. 328. (Copyright 1952. Cong. Quarterly) Gen. Ridgway Repeats Germ War Denial ROME (JP) A strong denial. In tended to answer once and for all Communist charges of germ war fare, was voiced by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway Tuesday. But Palmiro TogliattI, secretary of Italy's Communist party, went right on repeating the charges and threatened another Nuernberg trial for bacteriological "war crimin als." Ridgway, the new Atlantic Pact commander in Europe, spoke at the airport en route to Naples aft er two days of Communist efforts to whip up anti-Ridgway demon strations here had fizzled. "As the former commander in chief of the United Nations Com mand in Korea, as God is my wit ness, I tell you that no element of that command employed any form , of germ warfare at any time and that all the so-called proofs, in cluding photographs, were manu factured by the Communists them selves," said Ridgway. He read from a prepared statement. His voice shaking with emotion, he added "I know of no better il lustration of the deliberate use of deliberately fabricated falsehood by Communist leadership than their charges that the United Na tions command employed germ warfare in Korea. 4-II SESSION NEAR CORVALLIS (JP)-A 10-day 4-H club summer session will open on the Oregon State" College Campus here Wednesday. Some 1750 youngsters from throuhgout Ore gon are expected. Tele-fun by Warren Goodrich Phone 43333 'Walt at least a mlnuta for Junior to answer. Only yes terday he soloed for the flrsl time P. . .You'll complete mors calls if you always give youi friends pjentv of time to an swer. . . Pacinc Telephone. SALEM FEDERAL SAVINGS W u FA Five Important facts which make Saving at Salem Federal worth-while. 1 Open Savings Accounts Nt-Term Certificates 2. Convenient Location 560 State Street 3. Rate V2 Paid Seml-Annually 4. Safety Insured to f lfl,00l.0O 5. Withdrawal 0PEM ACCOUNT 2S1 J.eoi ?. lnx Accounts - net terra certificates mr bennS accounts - earainsa are paid each Janoar end July 1st. ISALEM FEDERAL SAVINGS iOAr7 0 Street. Seles Oteaea iiumn ,a4J 9