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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1952)
teaou Jiitatesmati wnmi MM -':...t. oh; hear the distantthunder's hump' ittmntf'rf ion ,im Your Health mNo Favor Sway$ U No tear Shall Aw" From first SUtesmuL March ZS, llil THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAUUsS, Editor and Publisher FsbUshed every mornina. Basines efflet SIS 8 Commercial. Salem. Oregvn. Telephn Z-Z44L ' Catered at the posta'Dc el Saleaa. Orecon. m aecaad elm matter nder act mt Mama March S. UZ - i Industrial Integration in Europe The administration for the heavy industry of fix nations of Western Europe has set up shop in Luxembourg with7 Jean Monnet, the French economist and cabinet minister who thought up the plan, as head of its nine-man board. This authority will manage the production of coal and steel in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg. Coal output runs to 220, 000,000 tons a year and steel to 40,000,000 tons. Robert Schuman, French Foreign minister, first offered the plan for integrating heavy in dustry of Western Europe in May, 1950. It took two years to effect an agreement, and one of the nations, Britain, refused to enter -the deal. The treaty which establishes the authority gives it power, to set aside quotas and tariffs and sub sidies, thus stimulating the flow of raw mate rials. Finished products are to be sold through out the six nations on the same terms. This ad Venture in freedom of trade is a marked depart ure from the past when cartels restricted output and tariffs and quotas limited international trade. - ;')'.''.- The great value of the agreement is that it permits treating as one integrated whole the raw material sources and the great industrial complex of Lorraine, the Saar, the Ruhr, Bel gium and Luxembourg. The present fly in the ointment however is the status of the Saar. While economic unification has been achieved, political division remains. France fears return of the Saar to Germany would give the latter superiority in coal-iron-steel production. Ger many resists French efforts to hold the Saar in its orbit and calls for an election when the Saar landers undoubtedly would vote again for re turn to Germany.. There is talk of asking the United States to determine the issue between France and Germany but that is a role the USA " would assume with reluctance. I Given some reasonably satisfactory adjust ment of the Saar question and a period of time the results ought to be highly satisfactory,, con tributing to the peace of Western Europe, to the rise in the standard of living of the people, and to the development of an imposing strength ready for Europe's defense. . It took a long time to evolve .the agreement for the Schusiian plan. With similar patience it should be possible to settle the Saar question. management the Board of Control is able to ef fect substantial savings in operating costs. 1 The Board of Education would have to set up a new supervising agency in its department if it is to do the job of managing these institutions. Already it has its hands full. in its work with public schools of the state. The report of the committee is brief, but it is clear and convincing. In the face of it the As sembly is not likely to shift control of these spe cial institutions from the Board of Control. Save a Second, Lose a Life Seven weeks ago, after two children had been seriously hurt on Salem streets. The Statesman said "there is an increasing 'traffic hazard" in this city "and it is time such hazard should b recognized and dealt with ... if (more) serious tragedy is to be averted." Since that time, numerous subscriber-friends have written and telephoned to complain of ex cess speed of trucks and automobiles, of flagrant law violations, and of just plain careless driv ings So far as we have observed respect for traffic regulations shows little improvement. Yet there is where safety begins. We cannot afford to have police lining all the streets and highways. The major responsibility for safety rests on the driv er and on the pedestrian if he is in the path of vehicular travel. The urge to "beat the light" or to cross from one lane to another, or to pass an other car leads to "many infractions of regula tions and accounts for many accidents all to save a split second of time. Whatever can be said for one-way streets, they seem to have done three things: (1) en couraged speed to catch or even to make up traffic lights in madewiashes through the city; (2) diverted to side streets traffic which doesn't - want to be bothered with lights, and (3) made excess speed a habit all over town. Perhaps they aren't worth the price particularly when they are confined to wide thoroughfares, not to nar row streets where traffic otherwise is difficult. The police can tighten enforcement and stiff fines may impress a lesson, but in the last anal ysis it is the motorist and the pedestrian who must enforce safety rules on themselves. Supervision of Blind, Deaf Schools One of the recommendations in the Dr. Holy report on Oregon education was that control of the state schools for the blind and deaf be trans ferred from the State Board of Control to the State Board of Education. The Legislative As sembly appointed a committee consisting of Sen. Howard C. Belton and Reps. F. H. Dammasch nd E. H. Mann to study the proposal. Their re port, the first to be filed of any of the interim committees, recommends that the control of the schools be left with the Board of Control. The recommendation is a sound one. Already there is a full cooperation between the schools nd the State Department of Education on courses. Appointment of superintendents is on a non-political basis and management is left with them. The Board of Control concerns itself with the care of buildings, the financial management of the institutions, and leaves the custody and instruction of children to the employed profes sional staff. By coordinating services and sup plies with those of other institutions under its Land Reform in Egypt The new government of Egypt is directing its attention to land reform. That is usually the most urgent heed in backward lands the land has accumulated in the ownership of the wealthy classes. The landlords live in the settlements and exact heavy rentals from tenants. To pay rent and taxes those who work the land live on the edge of starvation, and are in such bondage they can't escape; and even if they could they haye no skills to earn a living with In other oc cupation. ' ' But slicing up the land isn't a guarantee of a lift in the standard of living. Sometimes it mere ly would multiply the starvation for the hold ings would be too small for efficient operation. The outlet for over-populated countries is in dustrialization. For this they lack capital and technical knowledge and sometimes resources and means of transport. With the best will In the world those heading the revolution in Egypt will not be able to do much toward easing the lot of the submerged fellah. But they will vali date their revolution if they make a real start toward land and economic reform. New Polish Constitution Promises Justice But Without American -Type Safeguards By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. AiMcUtedl Press News Analyst A new constitution for Com munist Poland has been drawn. It does not have the "new look," since it is taken strictly from the Soviet copy book. The Constitution of the United , States spends a great deal of ef fort to protect first the rights of individuals, then the rignts of states, against federal encroach ment. In particular it sets up a sys tem by which minorities can live and prosper. One of the first items of the Polish constitution states the duty of the government to limit, oust and abolish thoses classes of society which live by exploiting the workers and farmers. That means the capitalist, whether he Is a stockholder, storekeeper, Kulak landowner, or anyone who does net prodnce through personal sweat. Some exceptions will be made, of coarse, for "eultoral" workers, who will be tamed into tools of state propaganda. But the point is not the regula tion of non-laboring classes, but their abolition. 'Abolition, like liquidation. Is a tough word In Communist Jargon. Where the U. S. Constitution outlines restrictions on the gov ernment in Its relations with the people, and its dues to them, the thirteenth paragraph of the new Polish constitution says: "strict adherence to the laws of the Pol ish People's Republic is the fun damental duty of every organ of the state and of every citizen." Well, of coarse. Bat there is something significant about the approach. Contrary to wide spread public belief. Communism ' does not abolish property rights. t - Both the Soviet and Polish con stitutions contain guarantees of ownership and the right to in herit. But there is a hitch. Every thing that Is part of the economic life of the state, from the shoe rjpker's awl to the potato field, co" der the special cart of the state. The state promises to eare for "individual farms of working i farmers,' bat to give "special j support" to collective farms. "The main forms of state snp ( port and help for co-operative ! farms are the state machine een i ters, which make possible the ap plication of modern technique. : and state credits on easy terms. In practice that means the state owns the machinery of farming, cultivators, tractors and reapers, and if the individual f aimer who opposes collectives can get along (Without them, and deliver with-' out fail the state assessment against his product before he feeds his family, in drought or In plenty, he will not be dispos sessed. So, 'the Constitution says, "the Polish People's Republic guarantees to citizens full pro - tection of persons, property and the right to inherit it," adding a little later on, "property may be confiscated only in cases deter mined by law, by virtue of a final judgment of the court." Communist law and Commun ist court, that is. And without that little gimmick of the Ameri can basic law, "just compensation." Literary Guidepost By DAVID TAYLOR MARKS THE LANDSMEN, by Peter Martin (Little, Brown; $3.73) To several millions of Ameri can Jews of Russian extraction, even to the second and third gen erations, "The Landsmen" will be a novel of nostalgia. To millions more, of other ex. tractions, it will help to explain the strange and alien mores j brought to these shores by a peo- pie seeking havens of refuge and ! opportunities for survival and ! betterment. To sociologists this book may, i in time, : become a source book ; of the way of life never again to be duplicated in the Russia we i know. now. Well written though it may be, I The. Landsmen" is not really a I noveL Rather it is a collection of ! vignettes depicting the "Golinsk ; ers," the people who lived in the old Russian village bf Golinsk In I the latter part of the 19th cen- tury. They serve their master on j the hilL the Squire, doing all his j farm work as well as the many j little illicit tasks he sets. To in ; cur his displeasure might mean f a beloved son's conscription into i the army or the loss of one's ! livelihood. In return he allows The Safety t 'I Valve I Until last week Marion County had gone 43 years without a first degree murder conviction of a civilian (not-counting crimes committed in the state pen here). In 1908 C. Y, Timmons, 37- year-old carpenter, was convicted for murder ing his wife. He died on the gallows in Feb. 1909, After the murder Timmons had slashed his own throat and' one of the men who fed and nursed him in a Marion C&unty jail cell was a young, deputy named Jim McGilchrist, now a tourist guide at the State Capitol. The hard-working assistant district attorney on the case was another young fellow by the name of Charles L. McNary. A. Robert Smith, Statesman's Washington correspondent. get hla handsome . mag pbced ta the latest Issue of Editor A Publisher, snapped while A. Robert was toiling at the Demo nat. convention . . . Convention reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune was a fellow named Edgar Allen Poo, who probably croaked, fFornevermore" when the fighting was over ... Food salesman calling on retail food stores using an other Salem paper's route list as a guide are going to find them- j selves headed, the wrong direction on local one-way streets, j Seems'the list was patterned after The Statesman's old ronte list j and not its recently -complied new list which takes into account the grid system. I o ; o o .-.'! S Well, anyway, the Air Force is not too snooty to reverse its field if necessary. It is now blaming the Wash. D. C-, flying sau cers on cold air layers . . . not so long ago, though, it was blam ing the discs on hot air liars . . . Changing of Salem suburban area postal service brought on Its little pains of trouble . . '. Other day residents on one route found in their mailboxes instructions to change their box num bers and to notify their pen pals of the change . ." . Next day some boxholders found orders' to "please disregard the previous or- : der." . . . Then the following day, order came out to paint street I numbers instead of box numbers on the mailboxes ... Next thing some boxholders expect is a query from Aunt Emma asking how come they move so often. Marion County Judge Rex Hartley says no cornerstone ap ' parently was ever laid in the old courthouse, recently torn down; At least workmen didn't find one and official records don't show any. Kinda unusual too, because when the courthouse was built 80 years ago sealing a box of articles in new cornerstones was considered a big thing . . . Defendant up for sentencing in Mar ion County Circuit Court told the court he'd served a sentence for something or other in Alabama once. State police here came up with a record of two five-year sentences in Oregon prison; Oh, said our man, he'd forgotten about them. So the judge gave him a two-year memory jolt on the new charge. GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty them little more than their huts, their synagogue and their shrouds. Living ever on the brink of starvation and extinction, then lives serve to explain to Ameri cans why it is they congregated in the cities here, possessed such an insatiable desire for education and betterment, and combined qualities of acquisitiveness with large and generous portions of philanthropy. There is drama and humor and profound insight into the hearts of people in this book. Here is Mottel, who after serving in the army, forsakes the ways of his coreligionists and becomes an outcast. Yet he goes to jail to help his orphaned nephews. Here is gentle Reb Maisha, teaching the young to love God and preaching the joys to be found in the "Next World," and Laib, who wont be a tailor and learns to play the violin from the pros titute Vary a. . There are a host of other char acters, each depicting some facet of life in the old country, some carryover to be found in this country, as the author's grand mother becomes the link between the old world and the new. ; , ; In Defense of Teenage Drivers To the editor ' I have been amused and I real ly mean amused at the comments made recently on the traffic sit uation in Salem, There is a traf fic situation alright, but I have n't noticed so much reckless drivng. . It seems to mo that the teen agers are always being blasted away at. What is wrong with , these teenagers having cars or ' rods so to speak. Some of these youngsters have small jobs and have no other way of going to work, and with the cost of good them? cars, bow could they afford them? As for their driving, what is the percentage "of persons killed and accidents occured over that of those 20 years, of age and older. Some of the most hazardous situations are these people who think they are driving so care fully, such as driving 10 miles an hour in a 30 mile zone, and keep hugging the yellow line. No respect for those who wish to travel at the given rate of speed. This signaling situation, a right signal when they are turning left; never a hand out when they slow down to almost stopping; and if they are turning right, not even the courtesy of signaling right so the drivers behind will know what they are going to do. (Sig nal lights on cars should be com pulsory). These are just a few, I could name a lot more, especial ly where pedestrians are con cerned. Yes, we have a traffic situa tion, but I don't thing the fault all lies with the teenagers creat ing it. Some comment has been made in regards to adding more nonce, to catch these violators. This means higher taxes, and then who does the crying, the citizens of Salem. Why not every one try cooperating with the of fleers Instead of criticizing and the traffic problem will solve it self. Margaret Kurth 495 W. Browning Ave. Safety valve Who was President To the Editor: Who was president when World War I was declared? World War II was declared? World War III was declared? Would like an answer in your paper ' Rillie Kerber, Monmouth Editor's Note: No.l Woodrow Wilson; No. 2. Franklin D. Roose velt; No. 3, WW HI not declared yet. , Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "All of our friends were there, and the reason for this is apparent. - ; ' 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "judicatory"? 3. .Which one of these words is mispelled? Caterer, condensor, chancellor, vernacular. 4. What does the word "com plement mean? 5. What is a word beginning with sp that means "mtermitt ent"? ANSWERS . U Say, "All (omit of) friends were there, and the son for this is obvious." 2. pro nounce joo-di-ka-to-ri, oo as in too, both l's as in It, a unstressed o as in no, accent first syllable, 3. Condenser. 4. That which com pletes. "History is the comple ment of poetry. 5 Spasmodic. our rea Patients With Tuberculosis Checked for Cancer of Lung Cancer of the lung and tuber culosis; can cause symptoms that are so similar we often cannot tell the diseases apart by look ing at the symptoms alone. Fur ther tests have to be made in order to be sure tuberculosis alone is present. Usually, the person with tuber culosis has night sweats,, cough, and loss of weight. Coughing up blood is another important sign. Almost one-third of the , people with tuberculosis can remember spitting up blood at some time. In a recent study, it was found that one in every hundred pa tients in tuberculosis hospitals also has cancer of the lung. In part, the reason for this finding is that hospitals today , have a larger number of older patients, who are more likely to have lung cancer. This trend toward older patients in tuberculosis hospitals has been noticeable in the last few years. It seems that tuberculosis is becoming more and more a dis ease of the aged. The old theory that a person could not get tuber culosis in middle age is rapidly being disproved. One recent study found that 58 per cent of the men in a certain sanatorium were over 50 years old. . . . What can be done to track down a cancer when the, patient also has tuberculosis? i " Sanatoriums are now trying to discover cancer sooner by taking X-rays of all patients repeatedly and frequently. Then they can begin to combat the cancer at once.- ?! , i Diagnoisis of cancer together, with tuberculosis can sometimes be made by an examination of the sputum, in which a search is made for cancer cells. j In some cases there may be a need to inspect the bronchial tubes directly. This can be done with the bronchoscope, an instru ment that is passed down the throat and into the tubes of the lungs (bronchi). Cancer of the lung can be helped : if treatment is started early enough. Modern surgery has been so perfected that these tumors can be removed from the lung; v The menace of tuberculosis oc curring together with cancer of the lung can be brought under control by careful observation and diagnosis by physicians. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS L. D.: I have heard that when a person has multiple sclerosis, he has difficulty in talking. Is this true? i; Answer: In some cases, the ' person may have a speech diffi culty. : He may enunciate his words slowly and have a tenden cy to hesitate at the beginning of a word syllable. This is caUed "scanning" speech. Frank Sedgman Ousted By Fellow Australian SOUTH ORANGE, N. N. (AV Frank Sedgman of Australia, who can be a world beater when he wants to, was upset Monday in the finals of the Eastern Grass Courts Tennis Championships by fellow countryman Ken Mc Gregor. ; "M c G r e g o r, the - Australian champion, won, 6-3, 6-4, in a shortened two-of -three sets match decided upon because of Sunday's showers. Doris Hart of Coral Gables. Fla, easily won the women's singles title over Shirley Fry,, Akron, Ohio, 6-1, 6-3. PLACED IN IKON LUNG PENDLETON (P)-Ronald Lewis, 23, Pendleton, was under treat ment in an iron lung here Mon- 32 polio victims to require' such care. Attendants said his condition was improved. LPJ if 2 Models! Get mora out of Ufa! 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