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4 (See. IV Statesman. Salem. Or- Sun Feb. 21. 1854
ON iTHE. RECEIVING END
"Wo Facdr Sways 17. flo Fear Shall AfreT
; From First SUtesmaa, March zVlgSlj :i "
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Pubiutned very morning Business office 280
North Church St.. Salem. Ore, Telephone J-2441
Entered at the MWtoffice at SaJecj Ore as second
class matter under act of Congress March X lffSi
Member, Associated Press f
The. Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the list
this newspaper j if
Woodsmen in Petrified
Forest
Sweigert's cartoon in the San Francisco
.Chronicle on' Friday pretty" well summarized
the Berlin conference. Its title j was "The? Pe
trified Forest." It showed the, four negotia
tors, Dulles, Molotov, Eden and Bidault, is
weary woodsmen turning with their tools bt
axes and sledge and saw, from one tree,
labeled "The European Problem" at which
they had hacked fruitlessly, to another sturdy
trunk labeled "The Asian Problem." f I
' That is what the conferees at .Berlin have
dene. They failed to make the 'slightest head
way toward a solution of the questions of
German unification and Austrian independ
ence. In fact Molotov served notice that Rus
sia would yield no ground in! either country
except on its own terms. In the case of Aus
tria, even when the three western powers
agreed to accept some very distasteful condi
tions insisted on by Russia, such as thelcon
tinued milking of Austria's petroleum re
serves, Molotov threw in another roadblock:
no vacation of Austria by Russian tjrorips
until the German, subject was settled. I
Despairing of any progress toward relaxing
tensions in Europe the conferees appointed
a time and place for a session on Asia,! spe
cially peace in Korea and ending of the war
in Indochina. Red China will be a participant
in this Geneva conference set for April 26th.
Governments of Korea and Nationalist China
protest this concession in admitting J rted
China to the conference; but the American
position is that this doe? not constitute recog
nition, and anyway our ! representatives
have negotiated with Red China for months
at Panmunjom. ' f j
Secretary Dulles defends the action and
will give his reasons to the Senate and House
committees on foreign affairs Monday and a
radio-TV report to the country on Wednes
day. One may speculate over the decision! to '
join in a conference at Geneva on this wise:
Since Arthur Dean broke off the discussions
at Panmunjom and refused to return unless
the Communists retracted charges of perfidy
against the UN command, efforts to get the
show back on the road have failed. The; call
ing of the Geneva meeting may have been
taken to walk around that issue and get peace
talks started. It hardly seems likely that
Dean will be a delegate to Geneva. Tp(that
degree it may be said that we are appeasing
the Reds. HoweVer, if Geneva should lead to
some settlement (which seems no more prob
able than for Europe at Berlin), then the
price would not appear too high. Another
rfiicnn mav hiv Kn tn caticfv tVi Frpnrh
who want $o wind up the war in Indochina.
Whatever the reasons, the decision was
made. And in- late April the diplomats will
pack their bags for Geneva, and start work
ing on this second tree in the world's political
petrified forest Asia J At .the moment the
prospect of felling and bucking it does not
appear good. f
Bill Langer, Maverick
The handling of the nomination of Earl
Warren for chief justice of thj Supreme
Court is just .Bill Langer all over. He it
even more of a, maverick than Wayne Morse,
both unpredictable and irresponsible, utterly
impossible as a coherent and consistent indi
vidual. Vesting him' with the chairmanship
of the Senate judiciary committee is just
another of the crimes attributable to the'
seniority system. Fortunately the guttergaff
which Langer made public at the hearing
was so fantastic as to defeat the evil purpose
of its authors. But what a spectacle Langer
makes of his committee and of the Senate to
befoul the air with baseless charges against
one who has been a publjp official of high re
pute and now is vested with the highest ju
dicial office in the land. Warren is a man, of
even temperament who can bear the humilia
tion of this ordeal with a minimum of upset.
It is well the sub-committee ended 1 the
shabby farce and recommended approval of
the Warren nomination. The Langer show
isn't anything to get excited over. It will pro
fit nothing to get mad over it But It isn't at
all .funny, though we doubt not Langer en
joyed his own performance. i $ ,
Land Trade Bill Rejected I f
The Ellsworth bill to permit lumber corr
panies operating a' sustained yield show to
get ' equivalent land from the government
when some of its own land was taken over
by the government for some public purpose,
has been sent back to the House committee
by a decisive vote. A number of congressmen
spoke in vigorbus opposition to the bill, as'
opening the way for take-over of lands from
federal forests in the interest of large timber
operators. The referral disposes of. the bill
for this session. f
The Statesman opposed the bill on the
ground that it created no more timber, but
restricted the quality available for purchase
by all competing mills in an area In cases
where some very serious injury is done; td a
concern or to a community special legislation
might be framed for that. Exercise of the '
right of eminent domain stares every proper
ty owner in the face, as farmers who have
had to yield good farm land to the highway
commission well know. Let the compensation
be in cash, not by way of compulsory ex
change of lands. I I '
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Stamps
in the News
series, reports the New York
Stamp Co. The 1 pence green
shows Boy Scouts camping iaa
ueiu. me in pence oiue pic
tures girl scouts marching in a
parade. The leader carries a
girl scout flag.
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Three sports stamps have
been issued by Czechoslovakia.
The 30 haleru shows a volley
ball game. The 40 h depicts a
motorcycle race. The 60 h re
veals a woman javelin thrower
inaction. ; i -
By STD KSONISH
AUSTRIAN postage stamps
are helping reconstruct the Lu
theran School in Vienna, set.
afire by the Nazis before they
fled in April, 1845. !
A special set of five semi
postals has been issued with the
additional values on the stamps
going to the ' reconstruction
fund, reports Edwin Mueller.
The 70 groschen plus 15 g
violet depicts the "Bummerl
haus" at Steyr in Upper Austria
where the. oldest Protestant
school was established by; the
Waldenses, a pre-Lutheran sect
The 1 schilling plus 25 g dark
blue bean a portrait of Jo
hannes Kepler, famous astrono.
mer who lectured at Lutheran
schools from 1583 to 1626.
The 50 s plus 40 g red brown
shows a copy of the first edition
of the Lutheran Bible of 1534,
now in the National Library in
Vienna. : - & I -
The 40 s plus 60 gblue green
portrays Theophil von Hansen,
architect who built the school.
The 3 s plus 75 g dark violet
depicts how the new school on
the Karlsplatz in Vienna will ap- .
pear after reconstruction.
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NEW ZEALAND has issued
two new stamps ia its health
FROM ICELAND comes word
of five new adhesive issued to
honor the famed . Icelandic
ffltnu scripts.
The 10 Aurar
shows the
"Reykjabok,"
the; manu
script telling
of the saga of
Eurnt NjaL It
was written
about 13 0 0
A.D. The.70 aurar shows another
view of the same manuscript
The 1 krona illustrates the 15th
Century translation of the Holy
Bible. The 1.75 k has another
view of the same.' The 10 k
depicts a corner of a page of
a law manuscript written about
1363. ! s -
Your Health
By
Dr. Herman Snndesea
mm
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Ridding the World of Malaria i
Malaria, one of the most widely spread
and debilitating of diseases is "on its way
out'' in Asia, according to a statement by
Maurice Pate, executive director of . the
United Nations Children's Fund. He believes
that within ten years it will be under quite
good control, thanks to the mass health pro
gram sponsored by UN bodies like the Chil
dren's Fund and World Health Organization.
The biggest part of the contributions toward
ridding the world of malaria has come from
the United States, either through the UN
agencies or by direct aid to afflicted coun
tries. Last year some ten million persons
were given protection against malaria, chief
ly by spraying with DDT to destroy the disease-bearing
mosquitoes. The goal this year
is 125 million persons.
In this country malaria is a rare disease,
but it is remembered as once quite common.
Its victims were made dull, ; listless, j were
sapped of their energies. In crowded Hands
like Asia where subsistence is on a thin mar
gin, malaria means in thousands of cases
just death by slow stages. If it can be erased
there will be more human energy which can
be devoted toward earning a' living :
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Many Flags Raised, Lowered at U.S. Capitol
To Accommodate j Long List of Flag Seekers
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Statesman Correspondent
WASHINGTON The capi
tal's infamous weather took a
balmy turn for the better this
past week, of
fering
wdhm
Wash
ington cave
dwellers . the
chance to come
out and see
their shadows
and bask in the
prospect- that
spring ; is not
far beyond. ;
It was also
good weather
for flag raising
at the ; Capitol, where tourists
might .get their patriotic dan
der up if they noticed the; un
predictable way in which i the
Stars and Stripes keep going up
and down the main pole. ;
They would soon learn that
it is all a part of a custom de
signed to please many of then
patriotic brethren back .home
who cherish the thought' of dis
playing an American flag which
once graced the mast at i the
CapitoL j
Flags flown: at the Capitol
are in such great demand from
eitizens and organizations
throughout the country that
they just don't wear out soon
enough to . accommodate I all
comers. A long list is on file of
those who have submitted ap
plications for tattered emblems.
But eveat though two flags fly
night and day ever the House
and Senate, enly about a dozen
f them are consumed each
year. So there is another cate
gory for flag flying quite apart
frem the 24-hour duty ef the
then. That is on the main
pole above the east portico of
the Capital. A flag aaay fly
there bat a few minutes, enly
long enough that the architect
of the Capitol, David Lynn,
may certify that it actually was
flown frem the Capital j - -
With its -certificate! thii i flag
is then boxed and sold at cost .
to members of Omgress-f-onjy
Representatives who in ! turn
wish, to givo then to those who
have.mide special requests for
this patriotic souvenir. "
Hundreds of these flags are
distributed in this manner each
year. Some good flag flying
days f as many as 15 may be
hauled up and hauled down
again. And the many who pays
the hilt is the congressman,
the findespensible middleman
in the operation.
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy R-'
Wis.) has hired a new secre
tary, who doubtless has been
assigned the chore of guarding
the I senator against piercing
communiques, prickly callers
and stinging letters. Her name
is Maxtne Buffalohide.
Sen. W a y n e Morse got a
laugh all the way around at
the JOregon State Society din
ner held on Feb. 12 when he -was
called on for a few words
and Hold the predominantly Re
publican gathering he hadn't
expected he'd be making! any
Lincoln Day speeches this year.
i i
Any day's debate ia Congress
is bound to call forth the warn
ing from some lawmaker that
Congress must guard its author
ity zealously to check the de
cision and actions of the ad
ministration. That's why every
day's session is cluttered with
such a matter as the following
which recently came ia for at
tention: i
"A letter from the Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, trans-
, mitting information relative to
a proposed award
sion permit to Edward
ford and George
which will, when approved by
the regional director, region 1,
National Park Service, author
ize Messers. Rushford and Gra
vert to operate the Rum Shop
at Salem Maritime. National
Historic Site, Mass. . . .
Inside TV
TV 'Teacher Tops
Queens of Glamour
By EVE STARR
HOLLYWOOD "High School Gal Makes Good." By this we
mean carrying off the coveted "Emmy" awarded by the Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences to Eunice Quedens, otherwise 1
known as Eve Arden (a name inspired by a cos-
L Jfmetic ad). j '
y Not bad, in the face of such competition as ;
Y Lucille Ball, Imogene Coca, Dinah Shore, Loretta I
1 Young all nominees for the best female star of ;
)a regular series.
The unchallenged queen of the caustic quip ;
wasn't around when the Emmy's were awarded at -the
Dinner Dance. Too bad her little thank you
. mieht have been as well worth auotine as Dr.;
wtiMftf; Frank C. Baxter who won two Emmy's, one' for
"Shakespeare on TV," for which in the tradition of acceptance i
speeches he said, "I should like to thank the author of my mate-;
rial, who unfortunately could not be here this evening, Mr. Wil-!
liam Shakespeare."
Eve Arden, really carries the "Miss Brooks" show, but being
light and airy, the load's no great strain on her trim, attractive :
muscles. The play's the better; for Eve's Tye-seen-it-all-bef ore at-'
titude and makes a very convincing high-school teacher always up
to her knees in hot water.
. CRITIC'S CORNER: If lire must have giveaways, then
let's have them like Groucho .Marx's "Bet Your Life" on NBC.
Here's a real entertainment along with the scattering of 'cash1
awards. A sparkle of wit, amusing exchanges, only a dash of
the private life of contestants, and this always on the light
and pleasant side. I
!
No sordid tear -jerking that sours so many dingy giveawa.J
shows. And commercials subdued, even kidded by Groucho's wig
gling eyebrows. This guy's as quick on the mental draw as a West
ern movie badman with his trusty six-gun. In a flash he twists an
Offhand harmless remark into an amusing situation, a drab fact in
to a hilarious joke. That a. few of these remarks or situations may
be rehearsed is never obvious, this being an "inside" trade secret.
We tune in to see and hear him, not his happy cash awards. You
can bet your life that millions of others do, too.
;
STARR FLASHES: Edgar Bergen received a transatlan
tic telephone message last Tuesday from the King of Sweden
at the testimonial dinner on?en in his honor by the Sweden
Club . . . George Purns and Gracie Allen may have just miss
ed the Emmy Award for thi best situation comedy, a big dis4
appointment to me and possibly to the National Association
for Better Radio aid Television, ujhtch. awarded them a certir
ficate for outstanding comedy program on TV for I95J.
TELEGAS: Eddie Cantor tells Phil Harris, "Ah! This Los An
geles weather! Where else in the world can you wake up 'and hear
the birds cough?" f .
Bob Cummings has a friend who stopped believing in dreams
after he married one.
"A good thing about the coffee crisis is that in some restau
rants they're making it too weak to stain neckties," says Fred Al
len. ; f
(Copyright 1954. General features Corp.)
Time Flies
FROM STATESMAN FILES
10 Year Ago
Feb. 21, 1944
j Fred D. Wolf, for 15 years
principal of Salem High School,
resigned to enter private busi
ness. Wolfe came to Salem in
1929 from Baker.
: William J. Neal, deputy ad
ministrator of the rural electrifi
cation administration (RE A),
reported that 51,108 farms and
rural homes in Oregon were still
without electricity.
1 South sea souvenirs sent from
the Pacific war zone by Pfc.
James L. Shawver of the sea
bees are on display in the win
dows of the Moderne Shop.
Ago
I. Gr avert , . , " "mr '' . . . 1 1 !
25 Years
Feb. 21, 1929
Surgeon Capt Edward Atkin
son, commander of the Antarctic
Expedition that found the bodies
Of Capt Scott and companions
and brought back the records in
1922, died at the age of 46.
1 Editors and publishers repre
senting every section of the
state were in attendance at the
11th annual Oregon Press Con
ference at Eugene. Among the
speakers were O. L. Price of the
Oregonian and George Putnam
of the Salem Capital Journal.
' Dean Mabel Robertson of the
Salem High School spoke to
members of the City Girl Re
serve Committee at the lunch
eon and meeting of the group.
Mrs. George Moorehead presid
ed.
40 Years Ago
Feb. 21, JJ14
In Budapest. Hungary, a dem
: onstration of 30,000 unemployed
1 paraded to the Parliament house
1 demanding that the government
j give them work. Police drew
; swords to keep the mob from
looting stores.
Measuring .nine feet and 11
inches from tip of tail to point
i of. nose, a large mountain lion
1 was brought to the courthouse
I by Ed Taylor of Mehama. He
i was killed on the Little North
! Fork of the Santiam River.
Hunt Bros. Canning Conjpany
I of California let the contract for
! the construction of their cannery
I on Front Street to A J. Ander
! son, Salem. It will cost $20,000
and wiU have a capacity bf 75,
j 000 cases of fruit a year.
With suitable encouragement,
or perhaps even money hanging
on the outcome, one can endure
much greater wear on the nerves
and muscles than ordinary use
involves. Therefore, motivation is
one great factor governing fa
tigue, usually far more important
than mere muscular weariness.
Often the tiredness felt by an
individual is out of all proportion
to the labor done. It does not dis
appear when work is stopped or
even after adequate rest
This condition may be due to
such chronic disease as tubercu
losis, severe anemia, high blood
pressure or hyperthyroidism.
However, in many people the fa
tigue persists even though exam
ination reveals no physical im
pairment Fatigue and tiredness are un
der the control of the part of the
brain where activity of the body
is motivated. This part actually
seems to tire before the muscles
that do the work.
Tests have been made on per
sons doing an excessive amount
of exercise and it has been found
that the muscles are still active
even' when the average person
drops from fatigue., Thust it
would seem that in the treatment
of many cases of fatigue,, the men
tal situation of the person is. at
fault
Under strong suggestions and
encouragement, or perhaps even
hypnosis, the person can do phy
sical work far above what he
would normally do. Therefore.it
can be seen that the mind is an
important factor in determining
the amount of mental and physi
cal labor lhat a person can carry
through.
People who have mental aver
sion to doing certain types of
work, or to working in general
due to emotional difficulties, will
experience greater fatigue and
tiredness than other! persons of
similar build. Solving the emo
tional conflict is sometimes nec
essary in order to effect a cure,
and tonics and vitamins can do
little to' help until : the mental
conflict is cleared up. :
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS '
J. P.: "How can I prevent re
peated attacks of kidney stones?
Answer: The most common
tvne nf kirinev linnet ar rauuvH
in some cases, by, urine that is too
alkaline. Sometimes the giving of
a drug known as ammonium chlo
ride to acidify the urine will pre
vent the formation of kidney
stones. Recently, it has been
shown that the use of a drug
known as hyaluronidase given
under the directions of a physi
cian at frequent' intervals may
also prevent the formation of kid
ney stones. i l
. R. A: Recently, I had a bullet
wound in my leg. I was given gas
gangrene antitoxin. Was this nec
essary in my case? , ;
Answer: Yes, gas gangrene can
frequently develop after bullet
wounds and, since this disease if
very dangerous, the administn
tion of antitoxin is a wise precai
tion against this disease."
(Copyright. 1954. King Teatures) '
(Continued, from page 1.)
Ljtbrary Guidepost
j By W. G. Rogers
ALBERT AND VICTORIA, by
Francoise de Bemardy, trans
lated iron French' by Ralph
Manheim (Harcourt, Brace;
$4.75)
"v'efhave buried our sover
eign," fDisraeli mourned when
the Prince Consort died in 1861
of typhoid. For 40 years more,
grief-stricken Victoria had Al
bert's handkerchief put every
day oh the sofa in his apart
ment his basin filled with wa
ter! his watch wound.
No one foresaw his extraor
dinary success. A German prin
celingl he became not a suitor
for: Victoria's hand, but a cand
: date for second-best spot on the
British throne. "She proposed,
he said yes, he kissed her, they
were married Feb. 10, 1840; on
Feb. 11, the Queen's diary reads
she was "the happiest, happiest :
being that ever existed."
there was still Melbourne to
ouesV and Palmerstoa to eo-
dure; there was a critical public,
there was Baroness Lenzen to
ease out By 1843 Albert was
master in his household. It need- -ed
him.. The Queen's windows,
for instance, were washed out
side by the Office of Woods and
Forests, inside by the Lord
Chamberlain, so they were nev
er well cleaned; her fires were
- laid by one branch of the gov
ernment, lighted by another, so
she was never warm; Albert
straightened this out, t and per
formed larger tasks, like deal
ing with Louis-Phillippe, Napo-
- leon, Nicholas and Lincoln.
' Thomas in the midst of nine
children, he went a lonely way.
a hard worker, doing his best
for his Queen and their Eng
land. In his strict morality, in
his atrocious taste, Albert was
perhips'inore Victorian than
Victoria. How staid and hum
drum their., marriage, how lively
and entertaining a book a staid
and humdrum marriage has
made! '.
advice. He hesitates to consult
other doctors, and the latter
may be reluctant to giveadvice
contrary to that of the first
physician. There is just no way
for the person who is ill, or his
family, to tell whether the op
eration is justified other than
by going through examination
by other and qualified doctors;
and that is expensive business.
The advice to select your doctor
with care is rather vague when
one tries to use it in going
down a roster of physicians and
surgeons. " -
According to Williams the
method of hospital accredita
tion provides considerable safe
guard to the public. Under the
standards of the several pro
fessional accrediting organiza
tions those .who practice medi
cine and surgery in a standard
hospital must conform to pre
scribed disciplines. The medi
cal staff passes on the qualifi
cations of an applicant before
he can perform surgery. Full
records of each case are re
quired, also actual cases fare
subject to review by the staff
in which the procedures I are
discussed and report of tissue
examination studied. The pro
tection cornea through the dis-J
cipline or expulsion of a doctor j
who demonstrates his lack of ;
qualification or a habit of com-;
mercuuizmg his profession. The
virtue of a standard hospital
(and both ef those ia Salem are
5 I
accredited) lies not alone in
having qualified t nurses but
also in having all professional
work subject to policing by the
medical staff.
Even the best of doctors may
be mistaken in their diagnosis.
But those who are competent
and honest make the fewest
mistakes. For those who do fall
victims to less scrupulous prac
titioners there is this comfort
that Nature itself is often the
best 1 of physicians, so that the
unjustified operation is not nec
essarily fatal, though it is hard
on the pocketbook. 1 '
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