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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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