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4 Sac I) Statesman Salem, Or Saturday. Nor. 21, 1953 X)N THE HOOF 35 (ftrefiontatesraau -No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe From First SUtemnn. March 28 1851 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published W roorntaf. Buiiness office 280 , North Church St.. Salem. Ore.. Telephone S-2441 Entered at the postoffice at Salem. Ore. as second class matter under act of Congress March 3; 187. I Member Associated Press. Tb Associated Press to entitled exclusively to the in for republication ot aU local news printed in this newspaper Irony of History It must have been rather humiliating for Richard Nixon, speaking as Vice President of the United States to tell an audience in To kyo that his country made a "mistake even though he called it an "honest" mistake when it urged disarmament for Japan when its new constitution was drawn up. At Gen eral MacArthur's insistence a provision was inserted banning rearmament in the new Ja pan. Now Nixon urges that Japan rearm to defend itself against the encroachment of Communism. The reverse advice certainly 'must shake the faith of the Japanese in the omniscience of America if not in its omnip otence. J"vL Tk ane a mmri t"l 11 ri 1 CAmfl bitterness, that in 1941 and beforethey ar gued their case as the protectors of Asia from the advance of Russian Communism. Then the United States was so cencerned over the Japanese invasion of China that it gave no heed to the Japanese contention! And when war-came the United States bargained with Russia to enter the war against Japan, prom ising the Soviet Union it could have the Ku riles.and the South half of Sakhalin island from the Japanese and special favors in Man churian ports from the Chinese. Well, then, was the Japanese war a mis take? It was, from Japan's standpoint; and the U. S. position in the Orient is gravely compromised in spite of our sweeping vic tories on land and sea. The war was forced on the United States at Pearl Harbor, so then there was no stopping short of victory for our side. But the consequences have been far dif ferent from what was envisioned in 1941. Now we are in the position of asking the Jap anese to rearm for self -protection; and not for self -protection alone but also to stand as an outpost in the Far East in support of U. S. policy. History is full of ironies. The spectacle of a Vice President of the United States urging the Japanese to rearm, is one of the grimmer ironies of our time. Voting Machines at Dallas Polk 'County is the first to take advantage of the new law, and order some voting ma chines. They will be tried out in Dallas. If they prove successful other counties will fol low Polk's lead. What will be needed is some preliminary education to acquaint .voters with how to use them. Otherwise resentment might flare up to force their abandonment. That happened in Multnomah County a quarter-century ago. The public became so irate the machines were boxed up and never used again and the county clerk who had or dered them was retired at the next election. This experience has made Oregon counties gun-shy of voting machines. One problem faced by machine builders in Oregon is the length of the ballot, espe cially with many measures to be voted, on. The new machines are designed with, ample capacity, so the vendors say. Anyhow, we commend the Polk officials for having the courage to give machines a trial run. Path of Moral Deterioration You have in the Greenlease kidnaping case an example of two persons who underwent complete moral deterioration. Carl Austin Hall was the son of a successful Kansas law yer, who had good advantages in his youth. Yet he chose a life of financial and moral waste which led easily into crime. His para mour dropped from middle class respecta bility .into drunkenness and debauchery, a ready accomplice in the despicable crimes of kidnaping and murder. Now they face death in the gas chamber. They show scant signs of remorse perhaps their chief regret is that they failed in the crime and lost the loot with which they had hoped to live in shameless squandering. . . They deserve no shred of sympathy. The sooner their lives are snuffed out and they and their crime forgotten, the better, save as they may warn others of the dangers of the primrose path of self-indulgence. It took only a few days to obtain signatures from owners of 27,000 acres of land in Tuala tin valley on petitions requesting the forma tion of a water district. The total area to be embraced is about 50,000 acres, and endorse ments covering only 8,o6bacrewere all that were needed to initiate action looking toward the setting up of a district The necessity for community action is fully realized among residents of the Tualatin valley in Washing ton County; and the plan presented recently by the corps of engineers has met with wide approval, the exception being some residents in Clackamas County near the mouth of the river. The valley has unique problems and it will be interesting to watch progress in the attempts to solve them. ... . " " ' . . " . . . - , " I ' IWeapdns of Juvenile Gangs Displayed for Senate Probers Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FIXES By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON Un A young Negro who grew, up la the violent world of New York's street gangs dug into a brown paper bag Fri day and produced for Senate in estigators a small . arsenal of weapons used in juvenile gang fights. Kenneth Marshall, 28, smilingly laid on the table a homemade "zip gun" that shoots .22 cartridges, a real automatic pistol, a dagger, an ice pick and a switchblade knife. He also brought along a 2V4 foot sword. Marshall, who is now associa ted -with the New York City Youth Board, said such weapons as these are used regularly in "rumbles" or no holds - barred fights between rival gangs fights he said his agency is having sue cess in curbing. Spectators gaped at the deadly little collection of weapons and Sen. Hennings (D-Mo), presiding, wondered aloud where on earth the witness got them. Some mystery developed on that point Herbert J. Hannoch, coun sel to the judiciary subcommittee Investigating juvenile delinquency, finally said one of the group's own investigators "just picked them up around Washington without any difficulty whatsoever." Earlier the subcommittee, head ed by Sen. Hendrickson (R-NJ), was told California gets so many runaway children from other states that it sends them home in special trains every few months. These "displaced children spe cials" were described for a spe cial judiciary subcommittee by Karl Holton, Los Angeles Coun ty's chief probation officer, who said they cost the state around $90,000 a year. Holton said some 2,000 runaway boys and girls turn up in Cali fornia each year and get into trouble of some sort which brings them to the attention of author ties. Holton took the stand after husband and wife team from Har vard University described in de tail what they learned from a 10 year study of 500 delinquent Boys matched with an equal number who did not get into trouble. Drs. Sheldon and Eleanor Glu- eck were the witnesses. Their findings added up to a conclusion that the seeds of delinquency are sown in early childhood and stem not only from poverty, in many cases, but also from a lack of affectionate parents who would give them .kind but firm di- pline. The local notables of Los Angeles blushed when they heard the Hollywood talent pro gram furnished for the dinner honoring King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Mayor Poulson said he was "shocked." Society lead ers made the telephones buzz on the morning . after with their acid comments on tne per formance. But Eartha Kitt who sang some of the offending numbers professed surprise, saying: "I can't understand it. I'm just an innocent girl. I didn't think it was possible to shock politicians." How very wrong she was. Politicians are exceedingly sensitive, particu larly when the1 telephones start ringing. The show evidently was'of the earth Eartha. Doctors down at Houston, Texas, have con trived a medical machine that can record a heart beat as it checks the amount of oxygen in one's lungs and body cells. At the same time as it checks nine body functions it can detect brain complications and tell whether a patient needs artificial respiration. Maybe old Doc Abrams at San Francisco was just a few years too soon. A Linn County woman recalling the good treatment she received in a Lebanon hospital bequeathed virtually all her estate of an esti mated value of $60,000 to the hospital there. Her good works will live after her. Senator Morse told an Oregon City audi ence we need to restore "checks and bal ances' in our government. As we see it the prime need is to lock up the checks and the balances will soon be restored . . to the Mother Nature who often provides some pretty uncanny senses for its lesser creatures apparently hasn't been able to provide sea gulls with the equivalent of ILS (instrument landing service). Airplanes took off and landed almost without hitch during the east- coast's thicker-than-fog smog while hapless gulls remained on the ground. treasury. Flurry Over White Said to Have Wrecked , , U. S. Claim to Responsible Leadership vBy STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON In plain, hard, practical political terms, who has won the grisly battle over the de- - funct Harry Dexter White? This is the q u e s t i o n which the pol iticians of both parties are asking them selves most anxiously. As of the moment at least, the best answer appears to be "nobody. ' Not even the most ardent par tisans of the former President argue that Truman, his adminis tration or his party have emerged unscathed. Indeed, if Attorney General Brownell's charge against Truman is lim ited to simple "laxity," most Democrats will admit in private that he has proved it down to. the ground. . If Truman actually had no no tion of the - evidence against White until it was too late to stop his confirmation, the staff work in the White House at the time must, indeed, have been "incredible," U use a favorite Brownell adjective. Moreover, it is dear at least by hindsight that Truman chose the worst of the three alternative methods of dealing with White which were proposed to him by his subordinates. It is also clear that when this alternative allowing White to take his job in the Monetary Fund but keeping a close watch on him was chosen, there was ; no effective follow-up at all Truman's off-the-cuff statements on the matter have been shown to be dead wrong; no explana tion at all has been offered for. the warm ; Truman letter to Finally, the whole episode has served to remind the voters of Truman's penchaftt for sec ond raters and his habit of making', such inexcusable ap pointments as that of Tom Clark to the Supreme Court. All this would seem to add up to a bril liant political victory for Brownell," the Eisenhower ad ministration, and the Republi can party. Same Republicans claim that it is just that But others are not so sure. As one observer has remarked, "Brownell made the wrong charge at the wrong place at the wrong time." - The victory might indeed have been brilliant if Brownell had chosen to prove, at an ap propriate place and for a se rious national purpose, that the Truman administration, particu larly in the first years, was demonstrably and dangerously woolly-headed about Communist espionage. ' Instead, Brownell made his accusation against Truman oa a political occasion, just after the New Jersey Republican de feat and just before the Cali fornia election. He thus threw himself wide open to a counter charge of playing an unsavory brand of polities. v Moreover. Brownell did not content himself with charging simple "laxity." ,VWhat really created the tremendous stir was Brownell's assertion that "Tru man promoted a Russian spy and knew it," as the "New York Times headline puf it It is obviously smy to hold that a Chief Executive who knowingly . promotes .Russian spies is merely "lax." this is like claiming that a man who shoots his wife is merely ab sent-minded. Moreover, Brown ell has failed to prove this im mensely grave accusation. This failure is underscored by which he summarized in such detail. Truman did not "know" that White was a "Russian spy," and unproved charges cannot legitimately be equated with knowledge of guilt Wild ducks are finding civilization almost as rough as life in the great shell-shocked outdoors at least in Salem. A State street resident reports seeing a man trap those tame- -m wild ducks along Mill Creek there and haul 1 them away in a pickup. And nobody sticks up for the ducks. The state and federal game men say their regulations don't protect city ducks. And Salem has no ordinance big brothering molested mallards . . . Regula tions for loud bells but not for wildfowl wild fouls . . . Speaking of city regulations . . . Other day a store had, a clearance sale. Since 1939 there's been 'an ordinance requiring City Council approval . for 'such a sale . . . So the store operator had to circulate a petition among the councilman, who signed alright ... But one aldermaa said this was the first time he'd dealt with such a petition and wondered what had happened to the regulation all these years . . . , Well, that smoke fire in the Capitol kitchen fired up a lot of state employes, if it did nothing else. First of all it set off the elaborate Capitol fire alarrn system. But the building has been non-flammable for so long now, that few of the worried workers "had ever heard the fire gongs go gong. In fact 'tis said Bill Healy thot the ringing heralded in the first round of the coming political wars and he didn't think oth- erwise until he looked out the window and saw the red wagons roll up . . . One woman employe, when told there was a fire in the building, cried: "Oh heavens! What will we do now? We can't go outside because it's raining!" v Two kids came into the Bosh Museum the other day. Tbey stood arouhd for awhile, hands in pockets, looking over some of the antiques, etc. ... Finally one walked over to a big, fancy, round globe-map of the world. He gave it a thwack. "Boy," he said, watching the spinning sphere, "is this thing ever out of date.' ; Oldsters well remember Charles Farrell, exasperated and exasperating father in My Little Margie (kPTV Wednes day nights) but later arrivals may think he's a new star . . . tain't so . . . Farrell, 52, was graduated from Boston College in the mid 20s, came directly to the West Coast and movies, starred with Janet Gaynor in "Seventh Heaven" and other hits, "retired" when talkies arrived to open Racquet Club at CtomDiggers Exonerated : WOODS HOLE, Mass. CAP) Shooting all clam diggers to save the clam "won't do the job in Massachusetts waters," two ex perts report Biologists Harry Turner ana J. Arthur Nosgay, who are working to save the clams off Cape Cod agree that the horseshoe crab and the boring snail are more deadly than the clam digger. They say the crab and the snail eat 10 times their weight in clams a year and both move so fast they can't be eliminated. But Turner and Nosgay are trying to find a way. Four Airmen Die In Bomber Crash EL PASO. Tex. Wl Four air-, men died' Friday in the crash of a B29 bomber at Biggs Air Force Base. Three other men aboard the plane were critically injured and two escaped with minor injuries. The big craft broke in two on landing. Flames swept the wreck age, sending a cloud of smoke thousands of feet into the air. The dead men were trapped in side the plane. The Democrats claim to be lieve that Brownell's over-statement of his case will boomer- fact the Presidency of the Unit- - palm Springs and thus acquire plenty more dough . . . Was til 1 i ffVr M 1 1 T T 1 1 " ed States is involved, but also lamea into x v ior summer snows py nainoacn ana is now on 52-week basis . . . Says he s a ham -from way back and I love this pie-throwing kind of acting . . . guess I'll stay put awhile" ... Married to Virginia Valli, beauteous star of 1930s, flies his own plane, and served as operations officer aboard the Navy carrier Hornet . . . Quite a career. because it is simply impossible to imagine Harry S. Truman in the role of condoner of treason. They also believe that Rep. Har old Velde's idiotic attempt to subpoena the former President has left a particularly bad taste in the voters' mouths. Preliminary soundings do in- GRIN AND BEAR IT dicate that most voters are writ ing off tbe whole business as "just politics. If so; Brownell and the Republicans do not ap pear to be the real winners of the White battle, any more than Truman and the Democrats. By Lichty White when White resigned, Brownell's reported emission of and Truman's carefully pre- a key statement to the effect pared Monday night defense the FBI could not "prove or dis- was woefully weak at several . points. ? ' prove", the . White from charges against the FBI report The country is certainly not the winner. The antics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and others have caused such a precipitous collapse of Americas prestige abroad that 'the National Secu rity Council some time ago un dertook a serious study of this matter. The wild accusations and counter-accusations which foUowed BrownelTs first wild charge should Just about com plete the wreckage of this conn try's claim to responsible lead-, ership. Most Europeans, includ ing those friendly to the United States, are about ready to con clude that Americans have gone crazy. ' " One sometimes wonders if they are not partly right Fear begets madness, and President Eisenhower, as he remarked sadly at his press conference, does not "believe that we can live in fear of each other for ever." This remark is worth pondering, even as the practical politicians total up the political profit and loss in the White case. -. (Copyright 1963 New York Herald -Tribune. XneJ J."'fv', ntfoloB 10 Years Ago Nov. 21, 1943 Wiliam Baillie, member of the Salem Chapter Club, was responsible for the organization of Scouts in Liberty and the cub pack in Salem Heights with Arthur Voigt as scoutmaster. The powerful house ways and means committee (Wash., D. C.) in bi-partisan chorus, declared the public could stand no more taxes and Jtold tbe administra tion- to cut down spending if it wanted to block inflation. "Wintertime" starring Sonja Henie and featuring Jack Oakie, Carole Landis, Cesar Romero and Woody Herman and his or chestra was held over in Salem by popular demand. 25 Years. Ago Nov. 21 1928 Assessed property valuation in Oregon for 1928, including utilities, was $1,122,332,180, as against $1,124,416,457 in 1927 according to Earl Fisher, state tax commissioner. John Barrymore, 41, film and stage star, and Dolores Costello, 22,- herself a luminary of the screen, were married at Los Angeles. Salem's Community Christ mas tree, a Sitka Spruce on the Court House square, was judged the finest living Christmas tree in America. It was planted about 45 years ago by Judge Shaw and first illuminated in 1913 by the Cherrians. 40 Years Ago Nov. 21, 1913 Samuel Lewis Shank resign ed as mayor of Indianapolis as the result of labor troubles and a threat, of ' impeachment dto ceedihgs due to so many strikes. The highest tide in 20 years along the Tillamook beaches this week washed through the gate outlet at Rockaway and over the railroad track at El more park. A ladies booster club to work under the name of "The St Paul's Ladies' Improvement . Club" was organized tft the home of Mrs. E. C. Davidson in St Paul, Oregon. B Kn-THjafi By D. C. WnJJAMS .t What is wrong 'with this sentence? "We had ought to get these privileges free gratis." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "finale"? " 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Mistrust, milehni um, miniature, miscellaneous. 4. What does tbe word "gratu itous" mean? - 5. What is' a word beginning ' with or that means "correct spelling"? f ANSWERS , L Say, "We should get these privileges gratis (omit "free")." 2. Pronounce f e-na-la, e as in fee unstressed, first a as in ah, sec ond a as in lay unstressed, ac- cent second' syllable. 3. Millen nium. 4. Given without recom pense or pay; free. "We should be more appreciative of the gra . tuitous blessings of God." 5. Orthography. Your Health Dr. Herman sundesea With the popular acceptance of commercial air travel, and the rapid growth of jet air transportation, an unlooked-for complication may at times arise for the air-minded individual in the ear disease known as aero titis. Aerotitis is caused by a rela tive decrease of pressure in the middle ear as compared with pressure in the surrounding atmosphere. When the atmo spheric pressure is greatly in creased suddenly, this disease is very common. It most often occurs on airplane. the descent of an AWWTTvi "Htm saw a Mason with so many colteat footbsll upsttM,,,trtm Census taking In ancient times often was followed by conscrip tion or high taxes and the process often was bitterly resisted. - (Continued from page one.) leaves Governor Dewey and Senator McCarthy as the "prob able contenders." Brownell's pitch was to Dewey in '56. To quote Harsch: "The political effect of the Brownell move in the White case was to challenge, on be half of the Dewey forces. Sen ator McCarthy's position in the party up to that time in anti communism . . . this was a move to outflank and capture Sena tor McCarthy's near monopoly in the party of the anti-Communist cause." I am not ready to accept this speculative interpretation of the Brownell intervention. Dew ey's position is now much weak er than formerly; and it will be somewhat difficult to make him over into a super-Joe McCarthy. After all, in 1948 Dewey won a popular decision in his debate with Harold Stassen by argu ing against outlawing the Com munist party. To show how far the country has gone since then one need only to refer to the Red trials under the Smith act by which convicted leaders are sent to prison. It would not be surprising at all however, for President Eis enhower to decline renomina tion in 1956. I doubt if he dreamed the presidency was quite as rough an assignment as he has found it to be. He may be quite ready to step a side, and it appears evident that some, like Jumping Joe will be quite ready to jostle him aside in 'their reach for fame. In spite of President Eisen hower's hopes of being able to cleanse the government of com mies and to see the termination of congressional investigation I think hell not be able to get the skeleton of Harry Dexter White back in its grave. Red ghosts will he made to walk for another year. It seems that when the air plane ascends, the air in the middle ear expands. However, when the airplane descends, the air in the middle ear must he ventilated in order to equalize the pressure. This process may be helped by swallowing or yawning. Sometimes thrusting th jaw forward or holding tbe mouth and nose closed and puff ing out the cheeks will help. Aerotitis more frequently oc curs in persons having colds or ' upper respiratory infections. A person having aerotitis usually complains of loss' of hearing followed by pain, which : may last for a week or more. There is a ringing in the ear and dizzi ness. In severe cases, the ear drum may even be ruptured. - In order to prevent aerotitis from occurring, it is best not to fly when you have a cold, or if allergic nose symptoms are very prevalent at the time of the flight A doctor or ear specialist can usually equalize the pressure in the ears very easily. In those that hate recurrent attacks, X-ray treatment of the opening of the ears into the throat may be of help. Of course, the at tack should be cleared before the person is allowed to fly again. ' Sometimes the use of drugs that constrict the blood vessels and membranes of the nose, and thus aid the equalizing of pres sure in the middle ear, is of help in preventing attacks of this unpleasant disease when the plane descends. But, of course, these should be used only under the direction of a physician. 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