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4-Sec 1) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sunday, March 27, 1955 dDnsoatatcsraan "No favor Svcays Vs. No Fear Shall Aioe" ' Frtm First Statesman. March 28, 1851 Statesman Publishing' Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher Published every tnomlnf . Business office 290 I North Church St. Salem. Or. Telephone 4-lll Xnterad at tb porloffic at Salem, Or.. Is eeona' daw nutter under act of Conireaa March . 1S7S. Member Associated Press Ife Associated Presa Is entitled exclusively to the M for republication of all local urn printed la tela newxjxpy. The "Aruba" Mutiny What drama aad excitement the word of mutiny on the high seas conveys! like the cries of "Land!", . "Abandon' Ship!", and Thar she blows!", the call to'mutinjr rings with challenge, and evokes scenes of grave decisions, great deeds, and brave men. Those who love the tales of the sea and who does not?-- can hardly wait to hear the details of what has been happening on the Finnish tanker "Aruba," the ship loaded with jet fuel consigned to the Chinese Com munists. The "Aruba's" crew refused to obey orders to sail on to the Hong Kong destina tion. At last report, the ship, is going to un load the fuel at the Romanian port of Com stanza and let the Reds worry about getting it to their airfields. What made the crew decide to take mat ters into its own hands, break their con- tract, defy their bosses, and deny the Com munists easy access to 13,000 tons of high grade kerosene (which is enough for 5,000 jet missions)? Was the motive for mutiny merely saving their own skins if the " Aruba" should have been attacked by Nationalists? As neutral Finns, they technically would have no direct interest in the fight between Red China and Chiang or the Soviets and the U. S. But are they neutral, these proud and independent Norsemen?. Were there some among that crew who remembered the Rus sian rape of their homeland and saw this chance for revenge against the feared Com munists? This is a story that ought to have every top U. S. news service and magazine waiting at the dock when the "Aruba" ties up at an accessible port. And the world will be watching to see what disciplinary measures are taken, ahd what effect this precedent .will have on other men engaged in the pre carious business of trading with the Reds. Perhaps this mutiny will go down in history along witi those at Spithead, Nore, Sheer ness, Kiel, Cattaro, Kronstadt, and aboard the "Bounty" and the "Sepoy Rebellion." This might be a story that will put the "Caine" into drydoclc ' M. W. W. Revival of Peress Inquiry by Senate Group Termed Dramatic Flop, Echo of Last Year By STEWART ALSOP , i WASHINCTON T h e r e was something strangely ghostly about the recent hearings, before what used to be the, McCarthy Co m mitteej on. that. . aarfh.chaV. p2S.,P. T0Tn A visitor ta ' denly found him- U J I self transported a aaEHiHaooaaaanaaj pitoarl Al,p DacK M ume.io --r- a year ago, to the endless, rambling, often bor ing but sometimes strangely fas cinating - Army - McCarthy- hear ings. The cast of characters was very much the same. There was Sen. McClellan, and the handsome Stuart Symington, looking bored; and Mundt, look ing as much as ever like a melt ing mushroom; and Irwin, of South Carolina every inch the judge. And of course there was McCarthy himself, mangier and fatter than last year, and some how at the same time visibly de flated. And there were the familiar witnesses Gen. Zwicker,' and Army counsel John Adams, and Army , Secretary Stevens. There were moments of rath er nostaligic drama, especially when McCarthy asked one of his brilliantly loaded- questions,' in his ponderous, threatening, oddly halting voice. But somehow the show, never really got off the ground. There was even a sort of sadness about it, as there is about most dramatic failures , perhaps especially because this was so surprisingly pale an imi tation of what had gone before, and everybody is a year older M surprisingly quickly. : And yet there were certain les sons to be learned from these hearings. Take the casex of Army counsel John Adams. A year ago, the Adams face at least the upper half of it, as it( appeared in the famous picture of him leaning his nose on a chair was ene of the most fam ous in the country. Yet at the Peress hearings Adams looked even more ghostly than the rest of the cast almost disembodied. And with good reason. - ! The Peress hearing is the Ad ams swan song. As of April 1, he will no longer be counsel of the Army. It is not certain whether he resigned or was fired at any rate, it was made clear to him that he was "too controversial." and that his departure would be welcomed. . , Adams will merit a footnote la history. The detailed record which he kept of the pressures brought to bear oa the Army by McCarthy, Coha & Company, started McCarthy down the long road he has travelled since. But (or . present and practical pur poses, Adams is "a poor player, who struts and frets his hour up oa the stage, and then is heard no more." The poor player is worried. Be has been in mili tary or government service since 1S42, and in the circumstances it is not easy to find 'a Job. There is no Job oa the horizon, Adams is intelligent, and no doubt he will land oa his feet Tet his fate Distribution of Elderly in Cities . A map showing the distribution of the population of SanT Francisco aged 65 and over reveals that uregreatest concentration of older persons is irvthe downtown area. The percentage there runs to 14.6 per cent. Only one of the outlying districts, Richmond, between the Presidio and Golden Gate Park has a percentage of over 12. One on the fringe has only 2.7 per cent. This distribution is easily confirmed by visiting the suburbs of most any city. There one finds blocks of new houses with children playing around them. The older people con centrate, in the rooming houses and apart ment houses in the city center. This is true both of the well-to-do and the impoverish ed. 'The former have suites in hotels or apartments, the latter crowd into flats and lodging houses. They all want to be at the , center of things rather than on the outskirts. Older people are gregarious; they like to be together, and to a considerable extent are forced to be together, for middle-aged and young seek companions among their ' own age groups. This concentration of elderly persons offers an opportunity for social ser vice which up to now is pretty much neglected. -r The other day uranium claims were filed in Jackson County. More recently some have been filed in Clackamas County. Who will be the first to find a "hot" spot in the Sil verton Hills? Editorial Comment FOR UN: 56 CENTS A YEAR From complaints, printed or otherwise, one might infer -that American participation" in the United Nations is very expensive. In absolute figures it is. For the current year the United States' contribution to the UN budget is $13,407, 290, plus $10,894,300 for related agencies, and $68,354,871 for technical assistance, Korean re lief, Palestine relief, Children's Fund, and other UN special programs. This totals $92,656,461. Yet it comes out of a federal budget calculated in billions. When the cost is spread over more than 150 million persons, the American Associa tion for the UN figures that an average citizen's share of the direct cost of United States member ship in the UN the contribution to the UN budget is only about eight cents a year. And that when all the UN agencies and programs are added, the total cost to the average American is about 56 cents a year. By comparison, the AAUN News remarks, "the United States military budget is nearly $400 per year per person." - - In other words, whatever your tax bill (if you are an American), you can figure that out of each $100 you pay approximately $54 goes to preserve peace through national armament and defense organization, while approximately 14 ce:ts goes to promote peace through interna tional cooperation and humanitarianism. Does the 14 cents seems out of proportion? If so, on which side? should senre as a warning to all government servants under circumstances f show any im agination or initiative, lest they be labelled "controversial." f What -was most interesting ucamiga, jiuw- Senate Office Buflding. full to bur?tiDg year aS. was tw- Dies naa yawning gaps. One reason was that the hear ings were a McCarthy show, and the sallied demagogue is not really interesting any more. A year ago most of the Senate fear ed McCarthy most of the coun try too, it often seemed. Now (thanks in part to the about-to-be unemployed Adams) McCarthy Is boring rather than frightening. But there was another reason why the Peress hearings aroused so little real excitement The hearings had to be held, as in surance against McCarthy's , screams of "whitewash." Yet J long before the hearings start ed, everybody concerned knew the real answer to the question. "Who promoted Peress?" The answer lay, of course, in the end less, tedious testimony about Anam 9 Your Health NEW HOPE IS OFFERED JO NEURITIS SUFFERERS By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D. There is new hope for persons suffering from certain types of neuritis.-, -' Tests conducted by Dr. Richard T. Smith of Pennsylvania Hos pital indicate that administra tion of Protamide may speed recovery by as much as four weeks. Protamide is a solution of processed and denatured proteo lytic enzyme obtained from the glandular layer of fresh hog stomach. ' Just - why this solution should relieve pain . of neuritis victims, we do not know. But the tests of Dr. Smith indicate that it does. Dr. William Marsh of the Na tional Naval Medical Center has reported that Protamide is also valuable in the treatment of herpes zoster, or shingles. There are many causes and many types of neuritis. For in stance, it may .develop as- an aftermath of other virus infec tions, such as a sevre upper respiratory infection. But in all types, pain is the chief symptom. Neuritis is an inflammation of the nerves. When it is present in". t the spinal root, we call it radicu- litis. Dr. Smith included 104 patients in his study. They had various types of neuritis, but all were cases where there was inflam jmatory involvement of the nerve -root. Also. .all patients had pre . vious virus infection within three weeks before their neuritis began. ' Through X-ray examinations, ' it was determined that none had any mechanical injuria. 4r (Christian Science Monitor). how the "form 390" was not in the "201 file" but in three other places where it ought not to have been and so on. No single individual, bat the army system Impersonal, mas sive, ponderous, a law unto it self caused the Ptress mess. Every army in the world has its bureaucracy. But none can even begin 14 compare with the Amer ican army, in mountains of pa per work, miles of red tape, and rich profusion of typewriters and mimeograph machines. It might have been a lot more useful to ask, indeed, why it was necessary for as many as sixty high and medium officers and of ficials to concern themselves with the firing of a left-wing dentist. The answer might reveal a lot about why we must recruit more than 60,000 men for every divi sion in the field, while the Rus sians need only 22,000. Meanwhile, it is at least reas suring that the Peress hearings were so tedious, in their ghost like way. For the very boring ness of the hearings suggests that the country has recovered a lot of its sanity in the last year. (Cpfrright 1955. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) By Dr. Herman N. MJ. Bundesea. wounds which might have raused the neuritis. Intramuscular injections of 1.3 cc. of Protamide were adminis tered once each day for five days. In cases where all pain had not been relieved within this per iod. Dr. Smith reported, the treatments were continued for another five days. Eighty-four of the 104. he said, made complete recoveries within five or ten days. The average course of untreated neuritis is from three to six weeks. It is important. Dr. Smith saysf to begin treatment as quickly as possible. The 49 patients who reported compete relief within fivrf days had been ill not longer tha&, four days before treatment was begun. ;, On the other hand, the 20 patients who did not respond satisfactorily to treatment had suffered symptoms for more than a week before therapy was start ed. , This -is what's new in medical science's never-ending fight to aid neuritis victims. But there are older effective measures doc tors can take, too. I'll tell you about some of these tomorrow. QUESTION AND ANSWER, K.M.: I have developed a num ber of warts at the base of my neck, due to wearing metal neck laces. Is there any medicine that removes warts? Answer: Warts may, in some instances, be removed by cauter izing them with acetic acid, or by freezing them with carbon diox ide snow. They may also be re moved by the application of nitric acid, or by means of an electric needle. You might consult with a phy sician as to the best type of treatment of your warts. : : : - lilt " : ' ? W tyf. $m ' -' " ' .Ifrii ' ' ' Its'. Sm Jfi ;?i :M it ikmMmi lwTlT $ . Comeig Sfr Well, Spring arrived wet and hopeful early last week. She is all ready to show her stuff, but apparently she can'.t get OJd Man Winter to vacate the premises. As usual they over for next year. If there's anything I can't stand its left over storms. Spring Listen, Cold Nose. This lease here says I was supposed to take over as of last Monday. And you, Sleety, are supposed to be long gone the cold, if I may coin a phrase. Winter Every year you in here 'way too early. All you do is get fclks wrought up. They look at the calendar and start running a round their shirtsleeves and chillblains. And I can't bring all my furies and winds to a screetching halt just because the almanac says so.' Spring You're just being stubborn. Jusfl because you've been roaring and howling around here for the past four months you think you own the place. Well let me tell you you can snow some of the people' some of the time but you can't snow all the people . . . Winter Hold it. Breezy. When it comes to snow, you're over your head. It so happens that people, especially the kids like snow. They like me, too. I'd go sooner j if I really felt that people didn't ... j Spring A little of you goes a long way, Windy. People want a change now. I bring them Maybuds, green leaves, apple and cherry-blossoms, daisies and crocuses and first violets. ' Winter Flowers, yet. You've lost your blooming head, girl. Spring And I bring the Winter Spring's for the i Spring You're jealous, Old Man Winter. You know people are glad to see me again. They know I mean green . lawns ... Winter And lawnmowing Spring And gardens ... Winter And aching backs Spring And warm days Winter And hayfever and spring cleaning ... Spring Stop fighting the eternal vernal, boy. You've had it and you know it. As the poet says, "the sun now passes from Aries to the Bull." Winter You can say that mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimm Ike Attitude on Yalta Shock' To McCarthy WASHINGTON (UP) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) said he is "shocked beyond words" at President Eisenhower's attitude to ward the Yalta Conference re cords. McCarthy's latest attack on the President was provoked by Mr. Eisenhower's news conference re marks this week about publication of the 1945 Yalta Conference documents. Mr. Eisenhower had said he favors making public all pertinent documents of all wartime secret conferences. But he added that, "There is nothing. . .to be gained by going back 10 years and show ing that, in the light of after-events, someone may have been wrong or someone may have been right. People that are so sure that we could do this, forget one thing: You fan never recapture the afc mosphere of war." McCarthy lashed out at the President in an angrily worded statement which said in part: "Yes, someone may have been wrong someone was wrong," he said. "Wrong enough to sell into Communist slavery 600 million people; wrong enough to have drought about the Korean War which cost so many American lives; wrong enough to set the EXTRA! , ,,,. - got into their annual argument over on the hill the other day as to who should go where and when. And as usual we heard it all and it went like this ... Spring Okay, Mac. On your way! Take your icy fingers off my back, pack up your cold feet and get the heck out of here! Winter Don't get your solstices in an uproar, young lady! I've got a few nasty days up my sleeve. And I don't want to hold them ' with your long Johns. Out in come dragging; your equinoxes singing birds. birds, alright . . . ' . . . and soft nights! . . . . . . again . . . Morse to Address I Wasco Democrats THE DALLES un Sen. Wayne Morse is scheduled to speak here Monday night. The Wasco County Democratic Central Committee is sponsoring the plate affair. . Handling Howard Dent dinner, a $10 a arrangements is Jr., who, like Morse, was a delegate to the 1952 Republican national convention who bolted the Republican Party later, v Formei Dairy Owner Dies WEST LOS ANGELES tfi -Funeral services i will be held Mon day for Anton Nielsen. 81, former owner of the Nielsen. Maple Leaf Creamery, Minneapolis, Minn., who died Thursday. He retired in 1941 and came here 13 years ago. He had been a member of Kaurum Lodge AF k AM, No. 112, Scottish Rite and Zurah Shrine, of Minneapolis. Nielsen leaves; his widow, Anne M.: a son, Donald A.: and a .- , 1 ! stage for World War III where so many lives will be lost "But Eisenhower says, oh, let's jnot talk about that. Don't expose them because the reputations of those who vera i wrong nugos. r damated." Easter Tifede Disappoints' Businessmen PORTLAND W Easter trade is disappointing this year, the cny s leaaing aepartment stores reported Saturday. They blamed cold, wet weather arid the earlv date of this Easter. Only one store, however, reported business under the volume of last year at this time. The others said business was about equal to 1954. AH said they were disappointed, because they had expected an increase. One store reported business ahead of last year. That is a men's wear store. A spokesman there credited the later income tax deadline for the improved trade? Most stores reported sales trending toward the higher priced dresses and luxury items, although one women's store said sales were good in lower-priced items. A trend for color was noted in both boys' and girls clothes. rtfionC&$tuttsiuuu- Pbona 4-6011 Subscription Rates By carrier In elttet: Dally and Sunday 1 45 per mo Daily only n p.r mo. Sunday only jq Vlt By mall. Sunday only: Ma advance) Anywbera In U 8. M per mo. 2 75 fix mo. 1 00 year By man. Dally and Sunday! tin advance! In Oregon $110 per mo. S.50 six mo 10.50 year In U S outalde Oregon . .J 1.45 per m6. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Bureao of Advertising. ANPA Oregon Newspaper Publisher! Association Advertising Representatives! Ward-Griffith Co., West BoUiday Co., New York Chicago an rraaelsco Detroit 4 I- in . . " v Virgil T. Golden 605 $. Commercial St. BeJlajj0CflOMO5O49Prt S3L B ...t. JH". . . - i i i Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago , Mar. 27, 1945 A new postage stamp to be issued in observance of the United Nations conference at San Francisco will bear the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt A rare combination of tem perature, soft snow and wind produced a seldom-seen phe nomenon at Greeley.' Colo. Snowballs, some as big as a foot in diameter and aS carefully rolled as cotton batting were scattered over fields in the area. The Rev. Martin Doherty, au thor of "The House on Humility Street" and pastor of Sacred Heart church at Gervais, was guest author at the Catholicj Book tea. Father Doherty, for mer Chicago police reporter, made many friends in Marion county. 25 Years Ago ' Mar. 7, 1930 Frank Cain was elected man ager and Rufe White, secretary of the drum corps of Capital Post No. 9, American Legion. Twenty-five new recruits turned out for drum corps practices in addition to many of the old members. Editorially Salem is grateful to the out-of-town organizations, notably the Salem Indian school band and the Hubbard com munity band for participating in the Spring Opening. Immediate response to the re quest of the Chamber of Com merce that a page on restaurant menus be devoted to a story of Salem 'and its activities was made by two local eating places. 40 Years Ago Mar. 27, 1915 Pullman sleeping car porters went on the witness stand be-! fore the United States commis sion on industrial relations and told the commission they could not pay their expenses without! the "tipping" system. i The Oregon theater was well packed when a number of young Salem people gave a perform-j anca for the benefit of St. Paul's ! Episcopal guild. Some of those taking part were Miss Priscilla ! Fleming, Eugene Houston, Miss Mary Schultz, Harry Mills and Ruth Schultz. j Editorially It is a fine trib- ute to the farmers of this sec-! tion, the news that the flax acre age to start the proposed mills! at the penitentiary has been' over subscribed. I I Une ...it s ft ttft l tow CI Al -Hi MEi 1 626 N. 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Besides his widow Marjorie ol Lonirview. he leaves his fathpr. Marcus Madsen of Salem; chit dren Thomas and Mary Ann Madsen of Longview; brothers Carroll MadV.n, . Bend, and Mar cus Madsen Jr., Salem, and sis ter Mary "Lee Madsen of Salem, Neighbors View 'Inverted' Town CAPE MAY, N. J. OR ResidenU of Capo May looked across' Dela ware Bay to Lewes, Del. 13 miles in the distance and did a double take Thursday. Lewes appeared upside down. The phenomenon failed to create a panic, however, because the good folk of Cape May recalled that on Feb. 16 their own town appeared topsy-turvy to the residents ? of Lewes. i , - The situation in each case was caused by a mirage. Thursday's lasted fifteen minutes After that Lewes righted itself to viewers in Cape -May. SHAVERS CLIPPERS All Nationally Known Brands in Stock Guaranteed Repairs On All Makes Capitol Cutlery Company 447 Ferry St. Ph. 4-7464 your money! HUr why spend so mucn of it on car financing? 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