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4 (Sc 1) Statesman, 5am, On Mon Dc 2 195 GRIN AND BEAR IT ByLichty (SDrcjaotttatcsmaa iVo Fwjot Strays Us, No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morn inf. Business office 280 North Church St. Salem, Or.. Telephone 2-441 Entered at the postoffice at Salem. Ore. as second class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1879. Th, Member Associated Pess. Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the for republication of all local news printed in - this newspaper Virus of Cold Still Elusive MedicaL researchers have succeeded in iso lating the viruses of polio and pneumonia and 1 influenza, but they still are baffled trying to isolate and photograph the virus of the com mon cold. A British institution is doing the most aggressive work in research on the common cold. It was there a few years ago that elaborate tests showed that "shots" were of no virtue as a prophylactic. A recent re port on their work which appeared in the New York Times Magazine notes the chief item of progress is the culture of the virus of the cold in test tubes. The doctors agree that the common cold is caused by specific viruses. The cold "bug" 'is an organism smaller than a bacterium and can pass through a fine clay filter." Its size is estimated at sixty-millionths of a mil limeter in length, and it is a hardy specimen, remaining active for at least, two years at a temperature of 70 degrees Centigrade below zero. The virus is still little understood, whether it is a form of life, animal or vegetable or only "half alive." More work will have to be done with cultures and microscopes and tests to determine just what a virus is, and how to cope with it. This basic research on the virus of the common cold is pointed of course toward obtaining a preventive or a cure. Dr. C. H. Andrews who heads this British group of researchers is said to be not hopeful about developing an anti-cold vaccine. The area affected is chiefly the nose and throat, and that is where the fight against the cold should center, according to the doctor. If in some way the mucus lining of the nasal passages could be stimulated to throw out anti-bodies then the individual would be quite free of colds. Until science is able to "draw a. bead" on the virus of the cold, humanity will just have to suffer its recurring affliction. Avoid ing contact with persons suffering from colds helps one to escape; but most everyone will "catch cold" one time or another in the course of a year. Fortunately the miserable feeling it causes is usually of short duration. And who knows, perhaps the busy research ers will find some dependable preventive to the illness which causes more layoffs than any other. An Athlete Turned Physicist i It was an accident which started Dr. Robert, A. Millikan on his career as a sci entist but it was no accident that led him to become world-recognized as a leader in his field. At Oberlin College, young Millikan was quite an athlete and planned to enter the physical education field. But in his junior year a professor asked him to fill in as a classroom teacher in physics a subject in which he was not then greatly interested. That did it. Since that time his entire life was devoted toward helping the human race to more intelligent living. From 1920 to 1932, Dr. Millikan was nearly alone among English-speaking physicists in an intensive study of cosmic rays, which were discovered in 1911. Winner of the Nobel Prize (for electron and photo-electric re searchers) and author of 18 books, he cli maxed 25 years of work at the University of Chicago by becoming administrative head of the California Institue of Technology, from which post he resigned seven years ago at the age of 78. Dr. Millikan, for all his penetration into the cosmic, saw no conflict between science and religion. Both are essential and are not inconsistent, he insisted time and again. Very few developments outpaced his thinking, but one of them was the hydrogen bomb. Hardly four years ago, Dr. Millikan expressed the opinion that "it would take a warmer lady than Mother Earth to make such a horror possible." Other men, who built their knowl edge on the fundamentals which he. had be queathed them, apparently have advanced his theories to a point he did not think possible. ' Dr. Millikan did not solve the mystery of the cosmic rays bui he learned much about them and their application. Twenty-five hon orary degrees from universities the world over attest to the esteem and respect in which he was held. His name will live long in the development of the science of the great unknown. 65.454 ,J ,ftz tLSk rl ...Now hen's game that trains young m government ... if cofrtoms a gtrm, n to puifjcjjMte- mi m M tat .--;-:-x-.x-:- Inside TV . . . If your children are not reading or hearing "The Toymakers Who Couldn't Stop Work," they are missing something. Now appearing daily in The Statesman, it is written by this newspaper's news editor, J. Wesley Sullivan, and is a sequel to a Christmas story first published in The Statesman three years ago and being used this Yuletide season by nearly 40 newspapers over the country. Courses in Auto Driving The November American Magazine had an article "Don't Let Your Parents Teach You to Drive" by Prof. A. E. Neyhart, head of the division on public safety at Pennsylvania State College. He says, "It's murder!" His reason: "Few parents ever had adequate driver education themselves. So they can't see anything dangerous about giving their kids the same kind of hit-or-miss instruc tion." He recommends instruction in high schools and points to Massachusetts where accidents among 16-17 year-olds was cut nearly in half after such instruction was introduced. In fact he urges readers to stimulate the offering of such a course in their schools. We can see where high schools feel them selves already overburdened with so many required courses with Varying degrees of value. Many schools, however, do have such courses. We teach arithmetic, etc. to enable persons to earn a living. The object of a safe-driving course would be to enable them to stay alive. At any event if Neyhart's advice is good, parents should see that their teen-age young sters are instructed by experts other than themselves in the fine art of driving a motor car. Indonesia Under State of Tension as Army Patrols Capital, Breaks With Government By JOSEPH ALSOP DJAKARTA, Indonesia If this were almost any other coun try, one would now be predict-5-w?5;?ing a major I - - jSZ 7V ;v ri vi 1 war in f v-- V I n d onesia or I J V-the beginning f J jJ ; of the end in t itKthp Czprhoslo- .;. r "jvaK manner, i As these - a w ui u s arc n JPr written, this u. sprawling hu mid c a p i t o 1 is effectively Jnerph Abort t surrounded by battalions of small but capable Heavily armed Indonesia's regular army. patrols penetrate the city night ly, to reconnoiter the dim streets. The army's able chief of staff, Colonel Bambang Sugeng, has just broken with the govern ment, with the strong support of almost all the other professional army officers. The two most important pro vincial commanders, Col. Cawil arang and Col. Simbolon, are authoritatively reported to have told President Soekarno, "You are driving us to civil war." The leading opposition par ' ties, the Muslims and the So cialists, which possess three times the popular following of the present government, are strongly backing the army's stand. Of the four famous lead ers of the Indonesian revolution. President Soekarno, Vice-President Hatta, Dr. Soetan Sjahrir and the Sultan of Jogjakarta, the army is also supported by at least two. Dr. Sjahrir and ,the Sultan. There are good rea ' sons to think that even Vice President Hatta sympathizes with the army. The cause of all this tension is not trivial either. With the revolution receding, the Nation alist party has been increasingly losing follower! to the Muslims and the Socialists. Harris Sit tompoel, the shrewd political analyst of the official National ist newspaper, complained to me that the opposition was "driving the Nationalists into the arms of the Communists." Being in . terpreted, this meant that the Nationalists have been trying to compensate for their losses to the opposition parties by in creasingly close collaboration with the Communist. The present government - of Prime Minister Ali Sastroamid jojo is the direct result of this collaboration. It is . a curious government indeed. Neither the real leaders of the Nationalists, such as Dr. Siddik, nor any of the official Communists are represented. Superficially, the cabinet resembles a clump of sea anemones for the personal ities are the opposite of strong strangely sustained by the strange currents of Indonesia's peculiar parliamentary process. Yet close inspection of the occupants of certain key posi tions gives a clue to the mys tery. One of these is the Min ister of Defense, Iwa Kusuma sumantrL Iwa, as he is usually called, is an aged former Com munist He disclaims present party membership, but the in fluences that control him are obvions enough. For example, Iwa caused something of a scandal, some time ago, by publicly advocating giving government arms to the "Union of Former Fighters," a body of ex-guerillas that the Communists have organized for their purposes. This was a bit too thick for the rest of the cabi net. But the cabinet and even President Soekarno are now supporting Iwa. And Iwa is now seeking to destroy the authority of the army's professional offi cers and to gain personal, political control of the armed forces of the state. This is why Col. Bambang Sugeng has broken with the government; why the city is sur rounded; why tension is omni present. By any ordinary test, it will be the beginning of the end if the army submits to Iwa. No one who has watched other Com munists take ' over can fail to recognise the significance of the first tentacle groping for control of the armed forces here in Indonesia. By ordinary tests, the other features of the Indonesian scene are hardly more encouraging. As recently as 1948, an attempt ed Communist coup d'etat was ruthlessly suppressed by force of arms. Since then, however, the Communists have -made a powerful comeback. In particu lar, they completely control the ' Indonesian Federation of Trades Unions,- which they shamelessly Washington Mirror use for purely political pur poses. Because of the federation's neglect of the workers interests in favor of politics, the non Communist Trades Union Con gress was gaining ground against the federation until recently. But the process was abruptly halted when the Nationalist party caused its representative, the powerful workers leader, Kusnan, to withdraw from lead ership of the Congress. It is an open secret that his party pat pressure on Kusnan to get out because the Communists put pressure on the Nationalist poli ticians. The second Communist asset is this power to influence Na tionalist .decisions. In more than one province, moreover the Na tionalist and Communist parties have almost ceased to be distin guishable. Meanwhile four rather major armed rebellions, mostly of a right-wing character, are going on in various parts of the huge country. The sharp fall in the prices of rubber and tin has produced a grave economic crisis. The government is ran ning out of foreign exchange. The hard times are helping: the Communists to gain support they have never before had, among the simple country peo ple. Altogether, if you only con sider the surface facts, the out look would seem to be about as black as possible. This is a coun try, however, in which the sur face facts evidently tend to be extremely misleading. For example, the situation in this city at the moment would tempt any reporter to stay on for a bit, in order to see the outcome. But when I asked how long it would take for the crisis to reach its climax, all the local experts, Indonesian and foreign, unanimously gave the opinion that the betting against a real climax was about four to one. 4Bome way would be found, they said, to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable and so to carry on for another good while. Hence I am leaving Indonesia before very long. And I am leav ing, furthermore, with a cau tions, perhaps mistaken feeling of hope, which must be, ex plained la another report. CCopyrlfht 1953. New York Herald Tribuna Inc. Old Boxing Films Proving Hit on TV By EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD BETTER THAN LIFE INSURANCE: Athlete Jimmie Jacobs, 21-year-old national handball champion, has, for the third time, rented out his series of old fight films for tele viewing. "The way taxes are today," says Jacobs, "I prefer to rent them out rather than sell them, even though 1 have "J been offered a small fortune for them." Jimmy told me that the old films, collected A'-by his father and grandfather, both avid fight Y fans, are greatly in demand. Some of the rare championship prize fights include the 1894 Jim Sorbett-Peter Courtney bout, the Sam Langford- IJack Johnson heavyweight championship fight, land the Jim Jeffries-Tom Sharkey tussle. s . . -:f . ;? mrr pttt rTir c . r 1 : J . 4 !. , , : i - CUE V ICj n D. nuouiwm uuiwiyru, amy my at New York's plush St. Regis Maisonette, will participate in a special color teleshow Friday (CBS). Wonder how one blue eye and one broum eye u-ill color cast? . . . No pledges or contributions were asked for on the local KTTV "Cheerathon" in HoIIyuood, but viewers were subtly reminded of the traditional Sah-ation Army "Boiling Pot" at Christmastime . . . Petite Janet Gaynor wore hubby Adrian's creation in her recent Medallion Theater "Dear Cynthia" stint and never looked lorelier . . . Jim Backus tells pals why he doesn't fly: "Against my religion," he says. "I'm a devout coward and besides, my agent won't let me!" Gale Storm received so much publicity in connection with her new title, "mayor of Sherman Oaks," that Esther Williams has agreed to enter the mayoralty in Hollywood's Westchester'. . . Pals of Jane Russell are urging her acceptance of the new TV series being offered her after RKO's "Big Rainbow." The tele series highlights the experiences of a nightclub entertainer . . . The new Fulton Lewis Jr. broadcast will be made available by Jan. 8 . . . The Blue Angel in New York will be the next night spot to have" a TV series built around it. Many of our top-notch stars have played this bistro at one time or another . . . Which reminds me what happened to the Bernard Brothers? A Blue Angel headline act for months a few years back, their original interpretation of the Andrews Sisters comedy disc. "Sonny Boy," was the greatest. They should definitely be brought to the atten tion of the television audience. Robert Cummings figured out why all ladies' hats are different: "Milliners never make the same mistake twice." . . . . Ethel Merman will do her Jan. 24 TV show from Holly wood, not NewYork . . . We received many letters asking about Gian-Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors," televiewed Christmas Day for the last two years (NBC), and we're happy to say that this delightful opera will be among the Christmas Day presentations . . . NBC is realizing a neuj program tentatively titled "Studio Science." Under the guidance of Marche Goddard and Dr. Heinz Haber, the teleseries will dramatize such subjects as the structure of the earth, the speed of light and life in a droplet of water. We can't think of any better source of material than Dr. I. M. Levitt's "Wonders of the Universe.'' Heard on 'Make Room for Daddy": Margaret (Jean Hagen) is going to see her chum from Northwestern University. Danny Thomas asks: "Do I know her?" Margaret: "Slightly, dear. She's Lydia Miller, the girl you almost married." Danny: "Oh, you mean Lydia Miller, with the red hair, the beautiful legs, the slanting green eyes, the mole on her left shoulder? Gosh, I forgot all about her." Margaret: "You should forget me that way!" (Copyright 19J3. General Features Corp.) Bureau Aims to Keep Officials Consistent By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON The White House has just .finished, setting up a little bureau to save top officials of the Eisenhower administra tion from the embarrassment of not knowing what the policy of the moment is in areas outside tHeir jurisdiction and to save the President from his family saying one thing here and another thing there. So when Attorney General Her bert Brownell speaks on wire tapping to a Des Moines audience, he has a handful of capsulized answers for anyone who pops up to ask about farm price supports or the interest rate on REA loans. This bureau was the brain child of W. Walter Williams of Seattle, who spent the summer and fall getting it on its feet He was on loan to the White House from his regular position as Un dersecretary of Commerce. Terr Important' "It is very important that ad ministration officials know some thing about all our problems that are basic so that there is a con cert of opinion being expressed by the administration," Williams explained. Cabinet officers needn't clear their speeches with the White House, but they are advised to let the bureau' know at all times where they are speaking and what they are saying. The bureau also tries to prevent one area getting too many visiting fire men at the same time to the ne glect of other parts of the country. France Minus Air Transport Due to Strike PARIS (Jl France was virtu ally without air transportation Sunday as a strike of 2.000 con trol tower, radio and radar oper ators paralyzed passenger and car go plane service. Two major American air lines. Pan American and Trans World, diverted traffic from Paris to Brus sels and sent their passengers to France by train. The Dutch company, KLM, can celled all its services to Paris Sun day morning while Sabena, of Bel gium, made similar plans. One iSabena plane landed in Paris Sunday without benefit, of ground assistance. The Casablanca to Pa ris jet comet also landed a dey late, without ground aid. The strikers are asking more pay. They now start at a minimum of 24,000 francs ($69) a month. 0333110 (Continued from Page 1.) Indochina Red Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay has four phones on his 4 . 1 T 1 1 desk, each sounding off with its j Attack KepUlSeU own special ring. One clangs i 1 like a fire alarm. ! "That's from the White House," McKay tells visitors when its sharp staccato ringing breaks up a conversation. "I'm supposed to jump when it rings." When Senate elevator opera tors hear three quick blasts on their buzzer they stop in mid-air, if necessary to change direction, and go to pick up a United States Senator. Other passengers go along for the ride until the sena tor has been duly delivered and the operator is free to resume his previous mission of dropping them at their floors. Buzzed Thrice T'other day as I climbed aboard followed by a tourist at floor two to go to floor three, the buzzer buzzed thrice and we quickly plummeted to the basement to accommodate one of the 96 hon orables. Known by sight to the operator, the senator didn't need to call his floor and we took an express run to the top floor. All the while the tourist stood goggle-eyed at the figure who seemed to bustle even as we stood motionless in the rising elevator. After the senator had been delivered and as the lift descended, the tourist gasped to the operator: "Wasn't that McCarthy????" Who Else?' With all the mannerism of un concern he could effect, the operator turned stonily to the man as though to sav, "who else?" And as we departed at our floor, the operator was heard to mutter. "Some people expect him to have fangs." HANOI. Indochina Mi A French army spokesman announced Sun day that Vietnamese troops' re pulsed a Vietminh assault near Phat Niem, 75 miles southeast of here, and killed 36 of the Communist-led rebels. This made a total of 685 rebel soldiers reported killed and more than 200 captured in the past sev en days. first session. He has shaken him self down into his job, or it has shaken him down; and he seems more inclined to take the lead, which is what Americans expect of a President In his statement of a few weeks ago he laid on the line his thesis on political action when he said: "In my judgment, the efficien cy and vision with which the government is administered by this Republican a&ninistration, and whether or not the Congress enacts a progressive, dynamic program enhancing the welfare of the people of our country, will determine the future politi cal complexion of the Congress and the future of the adminis tration. I am convinced that those who fight for the program that I shall soon submit to the Congress will deserve and will receive the respect and support of the American people. "In any event, unless the Re publican Party can develop and enact such a program for the American people, it does not de serve to remain in power." That is sound gospeL What remains is for the President to submit his program to Congress and the country, and then mus ter his troops and his reenf orce ments to get it enacted. The people will respond favorably to a "progressive, dynamic pro gram" which enhances the wel fare of the people. They are waiting to see it, and ready to back up Eisenhower loyally to obtain just such a program. The President will find, how ever, that he will need biparti san support because he lacks a party majority in the Senate, and can't depend on a consider able bloc in Congress of his own party. He will do well to include some Democrats in pre-session conferences if only on an in formal basis. will be open from 9:30 to 9:00 p.m. every day until Christmas. We will be closed at 6:00 p.m. Christmas Time Flies: From The Statesman Files 10 Years Ago Dec. 21, 1943 Eugene A. Lebold was named labor's representative on Sa lem's postwar planning commit tee, and Erwin Batterman was added to the roster. Canadian troops and tanks j fought their way into the out skirts of the German stronghold ! of Ortona on the Italian Adri-' atic coast and were engaged in street fighting with Nazi de fenders barricaded within the village. H. M. Randall, deputy city ; attorney of Portland, was ap pointed director of the state board of parole and probation, to succeed Fred S. Finsley, re signed. 25 Years Ago Dee. 21, 1928 Singing of Christmas carols featured the pre-Christmas ob servance at the State CapitoL The Rev. Robert L. Payne was unanimously elected pastor of the First Baptist Church. He has been acting pastor for 18 months. President Coolidge signed an executivr order making , Oak land, Calif., a port of entry. He also requested Congress to ap proriate $5,000,000 for the 1929 post office airmail department 40 Years Ago Dec. 21, 1913 Paul T. Holman, member of the senior class at Willamette University, was chosen at the meeting of college presidents to be Oregon's representative at Oxford University. The eight-hour day will re main in all state institutions in the future, the validity of the state law being upheld by the Supreme Court Grace Bean and Hawley Bean, daughter and son of Judge Bean, returned from the University of Oregon to spend Christmas vaca tion with their parents. President Eisenhower Attends Church Alone WASHINGTON W President Eisenhower attended church serv ices at National Presbyterian Church Sunday accompanied only t by secret service men. Mrs. Eisenhower, who is recov ering from a bronchial condition, remained at the white House. Washington state Attorney General Don Eastvold backed up Washington state's argument against Hells Canyon dam with about as much legal weight literally as one could find. 370 Pounds Eastvold sent his chief assist-1 ant Bernard G. Lonctot, who until recently weighed in at a scale- i crushing 370 pounds. He appeared : before the federal Power Com- j mission last week with Holland Huston, power advisor to Gov. ; Arthur B. Langlie. But Lonctot appeared at what he considers near his rock bot tom figure, about 220. Not long ago he finished a siege of diet ing. By watching his Droteins. said he pared off 170 pounds. And ne s got pictures to prove it. , 4f f'1' rter third finger, left hand this Christmas with a diamond that will set the day apart from others in tier memory. The beauty of the one shown is the brillkjnce that spills out from the tailored setting - the clean-cut straight lines squaring off to emphasize its pre. Illuitrmtion lightly tnlrfd. Charfr or bmdft. ,inauLw.y- 7 mmtm irgj -pFr ifl I 1 zuim "i rt.T jinn 4 ; J t U4 a-JLi I a CHARLES W. CLAGGETT, Mgr. ESTABLISHED 1891 "A SINCERE SERVICE AVAILABLE TO ALL" PHONE 3-3173 Oat of Town Calls at Our Expense PARKING LOT AVAILABLE W. T. 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