-. : i i - $ - 4 Tho Sterioamoxi, Salami Oroeon, Monday, Job. It, 18S4 a hundred lives from this causej in villages in the Austrian Alps, and a year or two ago avalanches caused great loss of life and de struction of property in Switzerland. Nor has I the Northwest been immune from! such dis I aster. In 'I 1910, 108 lives were lost' when a i . s ' 1 1 I snowslide caught a Great Northern train on CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher ) the slopes of the Cascade Mts. between We- I natchee and Everett (which led to the con- 4 - POLITICAL ANCIENT MARINERS "No Favor Sway$ Us, Ho Fear ShaU Ave" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 f ' Published very moraine Basinet office 29 North Church St., Salem. Or, Tctepbon 2-2441 Cntcrcfl at th xwtof&co at Salem, Or, at second data matter under act of Congress March 3, 1178. Member Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use (or republication of all local ; newt printed in this newspaper The One-Way Grid It seems apparent to The Statesman, on the basis of nearly 4000 votes cast in this news- j paper's public opinion poll, that the city's one way grid system witk imperative improve- ments-is here to stay. mat conclusion mosi cci miiujt is nu icucv- ; tion on the majority vote which favored abo- iition of the grid. Rather, it fakes into consid- j eration two known factors and one interpreta- ; tion. v The known factors are: XI) the majority ; was much less than might bave been antici- j pated when it is considered that in informal I polls the opponents on any such question usu- j ally are more vocal, and (2) even many of the opponents indicated that with certain ; modifications and improvements they could ; 1 1L. -1 k see vaiue in ine mange. The interpretation, based partially on the j comments of voters themselves, is that there is a great quiescent willingness to let the city ; proceed to see what it can do to untangle what ; admittedly was getting to be quite a traffic j mess. Therefore, this constitutes no disposition to ; say that the city has a mandate to expand its; one-way grid. Rather, the results of the poll; should be regarded as a permissive challenge ; for the city t6 keep on wdrking toward the; over-all ends sought-safer, smoother traffic: within Salem. And the one-way grid seems to ,be the best basis from whih to work. The Statesman is quite sympathetic with those who indicated the grid had caused them personal inconvenience or j economic loss, is confusing to infrequent visitors and perhaps should have awaited completion of the by-J pass highway. It is also aware that there is merit in the argument that one-way streets, in some instances, have become veritable race-tracks. But aside from the unfortunate personal frustrations, it is convinced that the grid, properly improved and under proper po lice surveillance, will prove of over-all value arid service. To critics of the poll itself, including The Statesman's afternoon contemporary, this newspaper has no apologies. It was designed to ascertain public opinion, not to sway pub lic opinion, and to the nearly 4000 readers who responded this newspaper is grateful. struction of the longest rail' tunnel in the .world to escape a repetition of the calamity). ii s How to provide a measure of protection against avalanches is now the: concern of scientists who are trying to learn the secrets of these vast snowslides, what causes them, how they form, and if possible how to' predict and how to prevent them. The subject is dis cussed in the current issue of j Scientific American. In general there are two kinds of avalanches: those with loose snoW, and those with packed snow. The loose snow avalanche is one we are more familiar with, on a small scale. It starts from a point or a! narrow sec tor and grows fanwise, spreading both in width and depth. If the loose snow is dry it is pulverized and forms a cloud of fine particles; if wet it hugs the ground and moves more slowly An avalanche of packed snow "is released suddenly as a great, cohesive slab of snow." It may start on a wide front, and, when it does it seems as if the whole mountainside was slipping. It accelerates rapidly, and is rated the most dangerous of all types, j The common "triggers" setting off an ava lanche are overloading and j temperature. Others are shearing and vibration. U. S. ob servers have listed ten factors which contrib ute to the hazard of an avalanche, among them depth of the old snow cover and char acter of its surface, then the depth of a new fall of snow, its type and moisture content, rate of fall, wind action, temperature and settling of the fall. j There is no sure way of preventing snow slides though some efforts are made as blast ing snow cornices on a ridge whose break-off after a build up might start a slab avalanche on the slope below. Always risk! attends those who live at the foot of snow-covered moun tains and those who work or play on its snowy slopes. As our fund of knowledge of avalanches grows it may be possible to pro vide a little more security for those who take those risks; but there always will remain the danger that snow fields which' appear pure and innocent of ill intent may go on a ram page sweeping houses and man's work's to destruction and bringing death to many in their path. J ; IATMADE0lETRADt i oiDHysrioarcrTTALU1 I tNHEKiTfDIl rKOFlVH Ia1 Lb " '" - 8 ' "l ------ ir f. i I I s i (Continued from Page 1) - i Scientists Study Avalanches I i - j ; The snow which is hailed with delight by children and winter sports enthusiasts is dreaded by those responsible for keeping lines of communication open: highways, railroads, telephone lines, and supplying electric serv ice. Even the light snowfall here over the weekend brought plenty of troubles to main tenance crews. No matter how well equipped they may be to wrestle with snows a lot of arduous labor is requiredj with time always the essence for restoring of maintaining serv ices. . f ! Here we have little fear of avalanches, though recently we did read of the loss of over President's Veto Power :ii Those concerned with federal legislation : must not overlook the veto power of the President. For example, in the case of farm legislation, if no new bill is passed the 1949 act setting up flexible price supports will be come effective next year. If a bill is passed which the President disapproves of he may veto it, though Congress could pass it over his veto by a two-thirds vote. Likewise on tariff legislation. The recipro cal trade, agreements authority expires this year, which would revest in Congress exclu sive power to modify tariff rates. However, the President has the right to eto tariff bills which he doesn't like. Congress and the country must keep these facts in mind. i The House ways and means committee voted to reduce the tax on dividends on a graduated scale over the next few years. That i ; i - . , Malenkov's Trips Around Russia May Convince Him of Inadvisability of War By TOM WHITNEY honest opinions on the state of lin blockade and the Korean ag- AP Foreiga Staffer I affairs in the land from those who gression. The report from diplomats that knew it first hand. Such was the The report on Malenkov's jour Soviet Premier Georgi .Malenkov atmosphere of Oriental sycophan- neys in the U. S. S. R. came has been making quiet journeys cy around the leaders that they from foreign diplomats well ac about the U. S. S. R. is an en rarely had their own ideas con- quainted with Moscow. Specifical couraging piece of news. . - tradicted. ly Malenkov is said to have visited The more Malenkov sees of the Kiev, to have talked with, collec- state of affairs outside Moscow In this situation the Stalin gov- tive fanners about their problems the less inclined he will be to eminent could launch programs and to have visited an area near launch the Soviet Union into for- inside and outside the country Leningrad devastated in a hurri- eign military adventures, f based on mistakes preconceptions cane. i Even a convinced Communist of Russia's capabilities. Malenkov is making such trips Russian can not travel In Russia This had great dangers for the partly for political reasons. He today without being impressed rest of the world as well as for wants Russians to feel that he with the tremendous task the So- Russia. is interested in their problems and' viet Union faces to create decent Stalin's government, had it had is going out to find about real housing and living conditions and a more realistic picture of Russia conditions. But at the same time a modicum of cultural and, com- itself, might never have taken the he perhaps feels the need him- mercial facilities. serious risk ! of war involved in self to know more first hand about There is nothing like travel in such postwar episodes as the Ber- these conditions, j KM AND KAI IT Ucht Inside TV Wyatt, Beal Save Third-Rate Drama By EVD STARK j HOLLYWOOD CRITIC CORNER: "To Lovei and to Cher ish," a half-hour drama starring Jane Wyatt. John Beal and John Emery probably held viewer!, even though the story was somewhat trite. Jane, as the wife, is trying to decide whether she loves her artist -husband. John Beal, or jjwealthy interloper John Emery. She makes up; her mind and goes off; in a car with Emery, leaving a goodbye note for the deserted husband. ' A convenient blowout gives Hhe wife time to reminisce, in a series of flashbacks and she decides she has - made 'a horrible mistake. Re turning to the house she tears up the note, not realizing her husband, Beal, has already read it Bat the forgiving husband doesn't let on that he is aware of bis wife's antics, and the play has a happy Holly wood ending. With a weaker cut. To Love and to Cherish" would have been third rate fare, hut people like Wyatt and Beal have always done a good Job of making material seem better than it actually is. j CAPSULE CRlTlQUi: "Ford Theatre" hos dished up better are than "The Fupitfoes." Barry Sulliwjn as a crime reporter must have felt ill at ease in a part far belou) the level of his histrionic ability. Beautiful Anita Louise, a wel come sight for viewers these days, was not used to best ad vantage in the small role of the wife. Main theme of the play concerned an escaped kitler, who, because of Sullivan's ef forts, had foiled justice and apchanged the electric chair for a life behind bars. To sodthe his conscience, Sullivan aids in Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES h l 10 Years Ago Jan. 18, 1944 Democratic leaders presented a resolution to President Roose velt favoring a fourth! j term nomination, but said they heard only a non-committal "Oh" in reply. (He later agreed) Edgar L. Martin, 1912 1 gradu ate of Willamette University Law School, was appointed Portland deputy city attorney. Ralph M. Eyre, who f joined the R. L. Elfstrom company in 1933, became part towneij pf the business and assistant manager, Elfstrom announced. 25 Years Ago Jan. 18, 192S Col, Charles A Lindbergh is the world's champion bifdman for 1928, in the opinion' Of the International League of i Avia tors which awarded him; the in ternational trophy. Avery Thompson andjenoit Mccrosxey ot baiem are ion an around-the-world trip, represent ing the University of Oregon as a debating team. recapturing the escapee, and a quieted conscience. or tphich he receit'esja cash bonus j weaknesses of the country. One of the most dangerous fea tures of Joseph Stalin's regime was its extreme isolation from the people and from Russian reality. Stalin lived part of the time in his apartment in the Kremlin sur rounded by thick brick walls and an army of security guards. When he went j to work be walked a block or so, still inside the; Krem lin, to his office. He sometimes lived at his coun try place west of Moscow. His trips back and forth were' made by limousine escorted by car loads of security guards which ripped through Moscow's f streets while police held up other traffic. Aside from such journeys and Stalin's equally heavily guarded trips to his summer home at Sochi : on the Black Sea, he almost never came outside . the Kremlin or other official premises. I . He never visited his provincial officials to see then) and their - problems and their people on the ;. spot : As he grew older he saw fewer ! and fewer persons in nil office. ' More and more of his business was conducted through his secre tariat and over the telephone. He forced his subordinates, in cluding Malenkov, to ape his ways. At their desks sometimes for 14 hours a day, these men bad little spportunity to see or know Rus sia. Nor were they likely to bear ' :, ! mm. STARR DUST: Most catch Joan Bennett and Melinda Markey (mother and daughter) when they team up for a General Electric Theater vidpic, "Your'e Only Young Oncer in production Jan. 25. With these two beauties en i the screen, we wonder which one gets Richard Carlson, the male lead. Another G. E. telefilm we're look ing forward to viewing Is one starring Miriam Hopkins and Faith Domergue called, "Beauty! in the Desert," with Faith all set as the beauty. Both telepix will be directed by Frank Wisbar . . . Columnist Bill Willard tells us of Al Bernie's Las Vegas' Sands routine: "You arrive here,"! quips Al "and everyone says, 'Howdy, Stranger, 'Welcome, Stranger' in no time at all you- feel like a stranger'.'' ... A "big name" quipped when George Jessel intro duced him on his TV "Conie Back Story": "Come hack? where have I been?" J j r ' ' i Fifteen-year-old Jinmv Boyd, who made a fortune peek ing ("I Saw Mommy Kiising Santa Claus") has been touring the country and is pet) bfminp; at the Casino Theatre in Mon treal ... I still think Hollywood's tele-reducing expert Terry Hunt is living off the a of the land' . . . Katharine Hepburn gets our nomination fo the new "fUttie'f look the French have decreed for us his neio look may nef?er moke 3-D! . . . Terry Moore and Susan Zanuck, fresh from the Johnny Grant entertainment junket in Korea, postcar from Hawaii: "Having a hula-va timer ... We love the doggy version of Eartha Kitt's "C'est Si Bpn""Save Zee Bone"!! (Copyright lj54. General Features Corpi) Literary (Guidepost By W. G. Rogers i CECILE, by ' Benjamin s Con stant, edited and annotated by Alfred Roulin, translated from French by Norman Cam eron (New Directions; $20) Lost for a century and I half, this short autobiographical no vel recently found its way to Boulin, Lausanne librarian, was published in France, nowfmakes its modest bow m EngnsI i! Students in agriculture at OSC joined with others of the insti tution in favoring the use of the designation "Oregon Stite Col lege" in preference to the title Oregon Agriculture College, the name the institution has ; long been known. 40 Years Ago ! 1 ! 4 Jan. IS, 1914 i j A Japanese radish j twenty eight and a half inches in cir cumference and weighing six teen and a quarter pounds was brought to the Statesman office by F. S. Blumhart, of (Mission Bottom. The home talent show j "The Band from Amsterdani" spon sored by the local Elks, played to a filled house. Mrsj Carlton Smith, Miss Ada Miller and Miss Grace Lilley sang the lead- probable that under the later doc trine " of expanded powers the original legislation would have been called valid by the Supreme Court On this point let me quote from the brief of out State Department in opposing the Bricker amend ment: fr "One of the primary objects of our constitution is to permit the United States to speak as a sovereign state with one voice in foreign affairs. This proposal would destroy this; It would cre ate a no-man's land in foreign affairs. It would require in cer tain broad fields of foreign rela tions not only a treaty consented to by the Senate but an act of Congress and legislation by each of the 48 states. Our nation would, thus, instead of speaking with a single voice in foreign af fairs, speak with 49." It was to cure such a defect in the Articles of Confederation that the framers Of the constitution vested authority to conduct for eign relations in the executive department, subject only to cer tain qualifications which require approval of the Senate. The Bricker amendment would so re verse the action of the constitu tional convention as to threaten demoralization of our manage ment of foreign affairs. President Eisenhower, who is not one to arrogate power to the executive department, spoke plainly when the said with refer ence to this amendment: "I am unalterably opposed to any amendment which would change ourj traditional treaty making power or which would hamper the President in his con stitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs. Today probably as never before in our history it is essential that our country be able effectively to enter into agreements with other nations. And John Foster Dulles, secre tary of stated says that adoption of the amendment would have "a calamitous effect upon the international i position and pros pects of the United States." These are more eminent and more trustworthy authorities than those backing the Bricker amend ment, i One of the' roots of the support for the amendment is fear that somehow something would be slipped over on the Unied States by United Nations. But U. N. can only adopt resolutions. They have no binding effect on nations unless the nations concur. Any U. N. treaty must first be agreed to by the executive department and then ratified by the Senate If further legislation or approp riations are required, both houses of Congress 'must pass the bills necessary.Finally, there is still the Supreme Court which has authority to j declare invalid any treaty which conflicts with our constitution.! To sum up: The Bricker amendment is a product of fear. without substantial basis in fact It would overturn the structure of our government in an area of increasing Vital importance, the conduct off foreign affairs. The constitution is now and will con tinue to be Supreme over treaties and laws. The amendment should, be defeated Many senators are looking for some substitute for the Bricker amendment or the limited Know land text. Last week Senator Ke fauver came up with a resolution, not an amendment which puts the Senate on record with respect to the treaty-making power. It recognizes the right of the gov ernment td make treaties and states that the Senate can attach reservations when it ratifies a treaty (as, lit does now when it wants to);also, it spells out the supremacy ! of the constitution and the authority of the courts to pass on the Validity of treaties ing roles. Ed Ristine, Seymour Skiff and! Albert Eagan took leading parts. Portland was added to the itinerary pt steamers operated by the Kpsmos line from this coast tto Europe. The German steamship's Karnak arrived in the Columbia River. under the constitution, "and rec ognizes the right of Congress to pass laws to alter the domestic effects .of any treaty. It seems to. me that this reso lution is adequate, in full con formity with the' constitution and with history, fpreserving the rights of the executive and legis lative departments. Is it too much to nope that the Senate might agree oa this resolution and thus dispose of one of the most controversial issues in con stitutional law which has con fronted the' country in recent years? Knowland Still Undecided on ! Atom Pronosal i WASHINGTON U - Sen. Know- land (R-Calif) predicted Sunday that Congress will "closely scrut inize President Eisenhower s pro posal to share more information about nuclear weapons with Allied nations. S The Senate Republican leader told a reporter he would decide his own position after learning the specific changes; the administra tion wants in the present Atomic Energy Law. Several other .members of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Com mittee said they do not oppose the idea ot snaring; atomic informa tion but they want to know the de tails before committing"- them selves. J The President, in his State of the Union message, urged Congress to ease the present rigid restric tions on giving atomic informa tion to foreign powers. Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R-NY). chairman of the atomic committee, said he has prodded the adminis tration for quicker action on speci fic legislation to carry out the President's idea. Cole said he had told adminis tration officials! that, unless they send a bill to Congress next week, he will introduce one of his own in order to get committee hearings underway as quickly as possible. Competent sources say the keep-them-posted proposal lies at the heart of Eisenhower's new. stra tegy of building up nuclear strik ing power so that ground forces can be reduced Pope Approves 3 Miracles : i - VATICAN CITY un Three de crees approving miracles for the canonization of Pope Pius X, a French priest and an Italian nun were read Sunday in the presence of Pope Pius XII. The reading lot the decrees of the Congregation of Rites was an- other formal step in elevating Pius X to sainthood. Pius X, who; died in 1914. will be elevated to sainthood May 29 in an outdoorj ceremony in St. Peter's Square, Decrees approving miracles also were read this; morning for Fath er Pierre Louis Maria Chanel, first Catholic 'Martyr of Oceana and Sister Maria Crodfissa di Rosa. They will be canonized June 13. ? GOODIE'S MARKET 1927 State St. OPEN EVENINGS 'TIL 11 P. M. FREE ESTIMATES ON CUSTOM MADE Window Shades CAPITOL SHADE & DRAPERY SHOP 560 So. 21sf Ph. 4-1856 Wfcot m oASortMwrrf . . . tfca baftv fooW with txtr In a translation that suits the, sentimental mood, a mood remi .niscent of Goethe's -Wetther," this tells' the curious stary of Constant's love for Cbarlotta von Hardenberg. Cecile, ger fic tional disguise, is married to an older man when the romantic Constant, the narrator, f comes across her in the court of Brus wick. Her husband has mis tress, his wife has a lover, so each is the answer to the Mother's hurt and need. f At a discreet distance) he is her suitor. But even aftijr both are divorced, the objections of Cecile's family and his business keep them apart, and he falls into an affair! with Mme. de Malbee, or Mme. de Stael in fact and she falls into a second marriage, in fact as well as in fiction. From now on he loves her he loves her not; Constant the lover belies his name. He is the prisoner of the tempestu ous Mme. de Stael, but also he-is happily entranced by the sweet charming Cecile-Charlotta. While with one, he swoons at dreams o the bther. Written in 1811, Roulin judg 'cs, this tells the romance, but stops short of j the actual sorry denouement for Charlotta and Benjamin became a snapping, bickering pair). . . the realistic novelist today would begin where Constant leaves off, the hero would kick the heroine in the teeth, and so on. The French version, with j. its tears, sighs and sweet caresses, is full of the sophistication associated popu larly and correctly with French domestic custom. mm? 5 4 mm I tr I S I I am. - 1 I f ... . . ,."7T . , ' WWIII' A f J SSv? i H L't-r'C I CHARLES W. 1 CLAGGETT, Mgr. "A SINCER :..,.v::.,v'-,ftJ:vX' 4 4, - e eennie aiaiiadie ta All" ' 4 . - PHONE 3-3173 Out of Town Calls at OnrHExpense PARKING LOT AVAILABLE W. T. RIGD0N CO., Funeral Directors j 1ST ABUSHED 1191 29 N. COTTAGE AT CHEMEKFTA