4 Sac I) Statesman Salem, Or Saturday. Nor. 21, 1953
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-No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe
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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.
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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.
QUESTION AND ANSWER
Y.B.:'Do the lungs do any
thing beside provide oxygen for
the body?
Answer: The lungs have many
functions beside the providing
of oxygen. The lungs help reg
ulate the body heat by warming
the air that is breathed in and
out, and thus eliminate exces
sive heat from the body. An ex
cessive amount of water in the
tissues is many times excreted
by the lungs in the form of
moisture. The movement of the
lungs also promotes circulation.
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