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Imposing on Youngsters'
The modern phobia for questionnaires goes
too far at times in England as well as this
country. Now' we have the British town of
Norwich up in arms because, elementary stu
dent were asked such questions as have your
Pdients been divorced, what time does your
father come home, do your parents wish you
were someone else, do your friends look down
on you if you haven't a TV set and are you
a a id when your parents get angTy.
We'll go right along with the parents' ob
jection in such matters. rTheir children aren't
quiz kids and they are under no obligations
to answer such questions. It shouldn't be
asked of them. A few years ago in Salem a
teacher was making verbal inquiries in the
classroom as to whether her students' par
ents smoked, whether they had a cocktail be
fore dinner, whether they stayed home nights
and kindred questions. Such has no place in.
the school room, either on questionnaires or
in verbal inquisition.
Parent-teacher organizations provide a fine
source of idea exchange. If .teachers want to
know about parents, the teachers can ask
them. It is one thig to say that teachers can
do a better job if they understand the home
environment of their pupils but it is another
to demand that the pupils, whose imagina
tiorrunderstandably transcends the real pic
ture at times, attempt to portray the fam
ily life. We are glad there does not seem to
have been that kind of inquisition of recent
years in this area. .
The Gty Catches Up
It appears that Salem is starting to catch
up with itself in regard to parks and play
ground facilities. Added picnic facilities at
Bush Pasture, installation of tennis courts
atop the Fainnount Hill water reservoir, and
improvements to iEnglewood and Pr ingle
Parks are long overdue and should be re
garded ai only a good start on developments
which the growing city demands. Wallace
Marine Park on the west bank of the Willam
ette made possible through donation ly a
man who pinwlf was a stern critic of the
city's let's-not-go-overboard-now policy is
well launched toward becoming one of the
major aquatic centers in the valley.'
It may be a little re-shuffling of plans is
in order for the city's two outdoor swimming
pools Leslie and Olinger. Late last summer
there were stringent objections to the pools
.closing while weather still was warm and
schools not open, and the above-normal tem
peratures of last week brought many a query
as to why they weren't open sooner this year.
The reason in both cases rests largely with
finances, of course. With an encouragingly
increased cognizance being taken by the city
in its recreational development, the maximum
. use of existing facilities would seem to be in
the offing, and steady development of new
ones an intrinsic part of the program for the
future. ' M
Alger Hiss retired from being a public
charge at Lewisburg prison to the obscurity
of residence in New York City. But he
emerged the other day to plead guilty to
playing baseball with his son in a forbidden
portion of Washington Park, and paid a $3
fine. Rather a pathetic postlude to the tragic
fate which blighted his once brilliant career;
but one with, quite a bit of human color a
father playing baseball with his son, and no
place to play except on forbidden ground.
This case we can understand. The other with
all its ramifications remains, for Hiss and for
Chambers, an enigma in human psychology.
Salem Was Conspicuous
It is always easy to suggest ways of spend
ing money on intagibles, but from the, com
ments heard since last week's successful Rose
Festival in Portland it appears tnat sug
gestions to have Salem become an active par
ticipant again would meet general favor.
Many much smaller towns in Oregon were
represented by respectable floats in the huge
parade Saturday. Salem, xthe state's capital
city, was conspicuously absent It was not an
oversight. There was no leadership to spark
the appearance of a Salem entry and noth
ing was done about providing one. And yet
Salem will get a proportionate benefit from
whatever national attention' is focused on
what the City of Roses has made an outstand
ing event.
We are not saying Salem owes Portland
anything. But there is plenty of sentiment
s j: a- c -1 it 4n teal? talra mt
In what now, particularly with the demise of -our
own Cherry Festival, has become a state
wide enterprise. '
The city itself could do worse than share
In the expense of such a venture, and the re
vitalized Chamber of Commerce has a 'real
taein it. Individual merchants have in
dicated they would not be averse to special
solicitation. The Salem Cherrians, still alive
and virile despite what has verged on gen-
forts, are ready and willing" to assume their
share of the work involved.
Right now would seem a good time to re
view the matter of participation in the Rose
Festival. The interest that died solely for lack
of leadership can be revived under the prop
er auspices. Official and quasi-official groups
need to get together.
Douglas county has taken the crown from
Lane as the biggest lumber producer in the
nation. Its 1953 cut was 1.5 billion board
feet, Lane's 1.3 bbf. The state forester's of
fice says that over half the lumber produced
in the United States comes from an area
within 300 miles of Eugene. That circle, of
course, embraces most of the remaining
stands of virgin timber.
Editorial Comment
NO STUDY NEEDED FOR NURSE SHORTAGE
Legislators habitually develop an abiding faith
in the power of a commission to handle almost
any situation. Perhaps they are right in the case
of the congressional bills which would provide
a commission to study the nation's shortage of
trained nurses, but it is difficult to see how the
expenditure could accomplish much. .
Representative Frances Bolton of Ohio and
Senator Smith of New, Jersey introduced the bills
which would set up a board of 12, named by the
President, the -president of' the senate and the
speaker of the house, to study the subject and
report to congress. . An expenditure of $500,000
is spoken of as probably necessary to finance
the committee. ! i
The fact is that there is a nurse shortage in
this country and congress already mast know
that It is due to the relatively low pay and long
hours of the profession, plus increased demands
for their services resulting from increased use
of hospitals and the increased proportion of very
young and very old in the country's population.
The demand has grown so much that although
there now are 390,000 nurses of all grades, more
than ever before in our history, the nation's hos
pitals have reported a total' of 23,000 vacancies
on their staffs that cannot be filled.
All this is known, and a commission does not
need to spend a lot of money finding it out again.
A great deal more might be accomplished by
local communities and health organizations doing
more to advertise the rewarding features of a
nurse's occupation, and exerting themselves to
improving the lot of those who dedicate them
selves to this noble profession.
(Spokane Spokesman-Review)
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Ydive
Golden Rule May Give "Way to Eye-for-Eye
Policy in Congress Votes on Dam Issues
By A. ROBERT SMITH ,
Statesman Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Special)
Senate supporters of the high
Hells Canyon Dam bill are cur
rently in a mood to repeal'the
Golden Rule, for they have .
about con
cluded that
by extending
it to some of
their doubtful
brethren they
have been
"had" politic-,
ally and the
chances of
enacting the
Bells Canyon
bill seriously
A. assert tmita endangered.
This is the result of a .chain of
vents of the last few months in
the Senate which went like this:
1. Western Democrats lined up ,
for the big drive to enact a Hells
Canyon bill, while western Re
publicans from the Rocky Moun
tain states lined up their backing
for the upper Colorado storage
project. . .
x. After some early strategy,
sessions designed to promote a
package" bill which some
thought would give both of these
two federal developments broader
support in Congress, both sides
decided best to go it alone with
their individual projects, t
3. T li e : Democratically- a
trolled Senate Iaterior Commit
tee decided to extead the Goldea
Bale to the GOP and approve the
Adnunistraaoa-backed Colorado
praject first, hoping Its Bepab-.
lieaa snpportera woold foDew
taraaga aad e ante tkem la a
inula f uUh when Bells Caa
ya earn aa. With Democratic
rotes helping to affset Mm GOP
pposiUoa to the Colorado km, it
was whisked throat committee
and later passed by the Seaaie
aad, seat to the Boose.
4. Then the committee turned
to Hells Canyon, with all eyes on
two key Republicans, Sens. Ar
thur V. Watkins, Utah, and Eu
gene D. Millikin. Colorado, who
bad piloted the Colorado storage
bill through but remained uncom
mited on Hells Canyon.
S. After extensive hearings in
the Pacific Northwest and here,
the reclamation subcommittee
called for a vote, only to have
Watkins ask for more time to
study the record. A second call
for a vote came, and again Wat
kins requested more time. The
third time around, hist Wednes
day, Watkins again said he was
still studying the record but did
n't think be was Justified in ask
ing more time, so he voted
against the bill because he said
what he had learned made him
fearful the water rights of sou
thern Idaho fanners might not be
protected against the need for
Snake River water required to
fin the high dam reservoir. Mil
likin spoke unfavorably of the
bill during the secret committee
discussions which preceded the
vote, then withheld his vote.
This action shattered the sur
face harmony among westerners
who have been sapporting farther
reclamation development. Sen.
Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.)
scored the positions taken by
Watkins and Minikin, -who are
promoting a $1,(59,000,000 power
and reclamation project la that
(Rocky Moantaia) rcflon, (aad)
have seen fit to oppose a $35Coi
000 aadertakiag ia the Pacific
Northwest."
The western states can pro
gress together only as a unit,
, Neuberger said in a prepared
statement apparently, reflecting
chagrin at the way in which Dem
ocratic state gy backfired. "Sec
retary of Interior McKay and now
leading senators from Colorado
and Utah have taken the position
that the federal treasury contains
funds for development in the
Rocky Mountains but not in the
Pacific Northwest. We Democrats
must try to save the West from
such a Jekyll-and-Byde policy."
Baring let the GOP-eacked
Colorado but sDp beyoad their
grasp in the Senate, Bella Caayoa
backers are expected to salvage
what they can ia the way af ttt
for-tat log-rolling An the Boose
where the Colorado bill faces
tough sledding . which even Its
ardent supporters concede nay
be fatal.
In a word, House Democrats
may threaten to kill off the Color
ado bill just as Watkins and Mil
likin now have threatened the
Hells Canyon bill with virtually
insurmountable GOP opposition
in the Senate.
The Golden Rule may be
scrapped in favor of an-eye-for-
an-eye.
(Copyright 1955. New York
1 Herald Tribune, Inc.)
way for a minor development,
though PGE now is more inter
ested in 'the John Day proposal.
Other projects are involved in
controversy. A Senate committee
has approved the Morse bill for
a federal high dam at Hells Can
yon, but an FPC examiner recom
merds a start on one Idaho Pow
er Dam which would be in con
flict with the other. The once
endorsed Libby Dam is consid
ered remote because of conflict
of ideas with Canada over the
latter's claim on its benefits. The
pool of Northwest power com
panies has received permits for
exploring two dam sites on the
Snake above Lewis ton, and since
these have not drawn the degree
of opposition that Idaho Power
has upstream it may be that li
censes for construction will fol
low. ' !
i
j Meantime there is little sign
of an accord among contentious
elements in the Northwest. The
tug-of-war between public and
private groups continues. The
federal Cdurnbia Basin Inter
agency committee still functions,
mat Ls, holds meetings; but it
lacks any real power. The so
called Governor's Power Policy
Committee is uncertain whether
to go ahead or take the suggestion
of the former body and join with
the Interagency committee. The
Governors' committee was set up
to do a "crash" job of planning,
but its real accomplishment is
negative. Bonneville Power Ad
ministration . was stripped of its
planning function by Secretary
McKay, which leaves it mori
bund as far as future program
ming is concerned. Herb Lundy
in the Oregoaian keeps plugging
for a regional corporation with
power and financial resources.
The Northwest Public ;Power
association has drafted a bill on
this line, but it doesn't even
arouse much general discussion.
Dan Noble's outfit, the prtvately
oriented Pacific Northwest De
velopment organization, 'throws
its support to the toothless Col
umbia basin compact which leg
islatures of Oregon and Washing
ton and Idaho didn't buy this
year.
Hunters sometimes come on
carcasses of deer whose horns
became locked in their deadly
combat, so that both succumbed.
Unless somebody somewhere de
cides something and drives it
through, that fatal end of pro
gress is in sight for the North
west I do not think that will
happen, however. Something or
somebody is going to GIVE, be
fore very long.
Photographic
Plates
Tell Story of Unseen
World to Scien tists
Time Flies:
From The
Statesman Files
10 Years Ago
June 13, 1945
Twenty-seven - year - old Cpl.
John Collins, Silverton, wearer
of the Bronze Star medal, the
Purple Heart and the ETO rib
bon with seven battle stars,
honorably ended his contract
. with Uncle Sam at the war de
partment separation field at
; Fort Lewis, Wash, j
Sale of the entire crop of
: Union County cherries to Paulus
: Bros., Salem, was announced by
; the Pumpkin Ridge Co-operative
Cherry Growers The crop was
estimated at 500 tons and was
trucked to Salem for canning.
i
'The battle-hardened. 86th
(Black Hawk) division, first
combat division to return from
the European theatre, was wel
comed home with the greatest
demonstration yet given to re
turning troops.
.
25 Years Ago
June 13, 1930
James W. Mott, Republican
legislative nominee, spoke upon
"old age pensions" in an ad
dress before the Kiwanis club.
A bill upon this subject was be
ing prepared for, the 1931 legislature.
(Editor's Note: Letters for The
Statesman's Safety Valve column
are fivea prior contldertUon If they
are informative and are not more
thmm words la length. Personal
attacks and rldienle, as wen as libel,
are to be avoided. Out anyone Is
enUUed to air beliefs and opinions
on any side or any quesuon.)
!
j ABOUT TAXATION
To :the Editor:
During the recent session of
the legislature a strong effort
was made to sell the "sales tax
to the Oregon voters. !
There are three accepted forms
of taxation, real property, in
come, and sales tax. j The first
two we have now, with little cri
ticism of the way they are ad
ministered. However, j with the
rising costs of government, they
are inadequate, without becoming
unduly burdensome, hence even
tually the sales tax is inevitable.
There are inequities in the ad
ministration of the real property
tax, steps are being taken to
correct them. The income tax
has no class distinctions the
exemptions' are the same for
everybody. I
When the sales taxi was first
proposed most Oregon ivoters felt
it was an improper mode of taxa
tion. However, the more it is
studied, the stronger the convic
tion grows that it is, j when pro
perly administered, eminently
fair in every way. The next time
the bill comes up, if properly
framed, rightly presented and
intelligently explained, I fell con
fident the voters will approve.
I would like to suggest to the
legislative committees, that the
idea, in this connection of class
legislation be abandoned, treat
everybody alike, make the rate
2, and cover everything not
already covered . , j
JOHN U. PLANK,
403 N. 20th St
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Reporter
ROCHESTER, N.Y. UB This
is the home of eyes that can see
the' smallest and farthest things
in the universe.
They jean in effect look inside
atoms. They can see distant milky
ways or galaxies containing bil
lions of stars, and they can see
strange markings' on nearby plan
ets.
These eyes are telling scientists
things which may someday change
your world or your way of life.
The eyes are special films, or
photographic plates, able to see
and record things the human eye
could nver perceive.
Making them is primarily a serv
ice to science by Eastman Kodak
Co. Several thousand dozen of the
films or plates go each year to
atomic scientists, physicists and
tronomers from the department
headed by Dr. John Spence. Some
plates or films are custom made
to meet the special needs, of sci
entists for some particular bit of
research.
Cosmk Rays
One main kind of eye is the nu
clear film or emulsion, one of the
principal scientifc tools to explore
the insides of atoms. These are
helping to answer such questions
as what are cosmic rays, and what
holds the nucleus of an atom together.
Cosmic rays, mesons and the
protons found in the cores of atoms
are much too tiny ever to have
their pictures taken. But the spe
cial films capture their footprints
to tell what happens when bits of
atoms smash into the cores of
atoms, or collide with other bits
of atoms.
That kind of knowledge is giving
science a better mental picture of
what atoms are really bice. From
that knowledge may . well come
new ways of creating useful en
ergy "from atoms, or fantastic ap
plications, machines or gadgets
which can not yet be even dreamed
of.
Closely Packed
These films are photographic
emulsions much like those in your
camera, except that they are more
densely packed with the grains of
silver halide which made pictures
possible. In the ordinary film, rays
of light strike and change these
grains to give, after development,
the image of what your camera
saw.
In the nuclear emulsions, speed
ing atomic particles leave their
own identifying trail by striking
and altering the silver halide
grains. When the film is devel
oped, there is a trail or track of
the electron or proton or meson
or other particle which went zip
ping through the emulsion. Each
type of atomic particle leaves a
particular identifying footprint
through the emulsion.
These emulsions are sent aloft
in high altitude balloons, or placed
near the target end of atom smash
ing machines which fire atomic
bullets into other atoms at nearly
the speed of light. The films re
cord whatever comes out of these
atomic explosions, to add to knowl
edge of what atoms are made of.
More Sensitive -
Special films or plates for as
tronomy 103 different types
are exploring the universe as the
eyes for telescopes. Astronomers
need films which under the con
ditions of exposure are much more
sensitive than ordinary film to
gather in distant starlight, and to
record galaxies millions of light
years away A light year is the
distance light travels in a year,
at a speed of 186,000 miles per
second.
For some studies, they use films
sensitive just to certain colors of
AD EDUCATION
EAST LANSING, Mich, in
Michigan State College is using
want ads to promote higher ed
ucation. The ads in the Lansing
State Journal invite registration
f""" ' "iaj, t' :.. ' Punch lines such as: ""Experience
to the city park board, filling mt ecessarv - onlv desir.. f
Frank G. Deckebach was ap-
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichly
the cavancy created by the re
signation of Homer L. Smith.
Violently erupting, the vol
cano, Asama, 90 miles north
west of Takyo, hurled hot stones
and ashes upon surrounding
villages. Rivers of lava flowed
down the slopes of the 8,260
foot mountain.
40 Years Ago
June 13, 1915
Miss Esthev Carson entertain
ed in honor of Miss Margery
Marvin on her birthday anni
versary at the home of her par
ents, the John Canons. A few
participating included Miss AI
thea Moorse, Miss Ellen Thiel
sen. Miss Catherine Carson,
Messrs. Fritz Slade, Carl Gab
rielson and James Young;
The long-awaited announce
ment of the 1916 Buick line was
made. The Buick Six roadster
was $950, touring car $985 at
the factory, with the large mach
ine selling for $1485.00. .
Oregon, according to an
nouncement of its commission
'ers, set a record in the number
of prizes the state and its in
dividual exhibitors carried off
at the Panama-Pacific exposi
tion, most of them in the depart
ments of horticulture and agri
culture.
learn is needed," and, "Personal
satisfaction can be yours. Learn
new skills at Michigan State eve
ning college." f
light, or mainly sensitive to cer
tain colors. Special infra-red plates
can capture starlight that eludes
ordinary plates.
Spectroscopic films help tell what
stars are made of, by recording
the light from the different chem
ical elements which make up stars.
Some of the more sensitive of
these photographic plates would be
ruined by heat. They are shipped
in dry ice and insulated until they
reach scientific laboratories hero
or abroad, as far away as West
ern Australia. !
As better plates are made, as
tronomers' obsen ations improve.
An astronomer gets really few
good nights for seeing the heav
ens. Films or plates which are
faster in recording the images of
stars cut down the exposure time,
permit more observations within
the. same length of working time.
Neuberger
Raps Hoover
Power Advice
WASHINGTON (fl ' The Pacific
Northwest will be reduced to "an
economic charnel-house" if Con
gress adopts reported recommen
dations of a Hoover Commission
task, force. Sen. Neuberger (D-
ure said Sunday.
The senator commented on re
ports a task force on federal pow
er projects will recommend that
public power dams be required to
charge the same rates as levied
by private utility companies.
"Power can be produced more
cheaply on the Columbia river than
anywhere else in the nation," Neu
berger said in a statement.
"In this one watershed is 42 per
cent of all our undeveloped hydro
electricity. "Yet we did not get really cheap
power for industry, we did not ev
en electrify our: farms, until the
great federal dams were built at
Bonneville and Grand Coulee in the
1930'S.
"Those dams : created a yard
stick to force down rates. If the
Hoover Commission can destroy
this yardstick, the Northwest to
longer will be able to offer low
cost power to ; attract new pay
rolls." Neuberger also charged the Hoov
er agency was misleading the pub
lic by giving "the false impression"
that taxpayers are financing pub;
lie power in the northwest
"Actually." he said, "the Bonne
ville power administration is $65,
000,000 ahead of schedule in pay
ing for itself, principal plus in
terest Power revenues are pour
ing into -the U.S. treasury at a far
faster pace than ever was anticipated."
SMALL TOWN POLICE
DALLAS, Tex. (Xy Dallas,
having trouble recruiting 'police,
is sending recruiting teams into
smaller towns to hold qualifying
examinations. Police Chief Carl
Hansson thinks this will solve
the problem.
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