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rag 6A Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Wed., Sept. 21, 1949
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to the community endeavoring to be candid but (air and
helpful In the rtfvelopmnt of constructive community policy
I Conferences Made Good Start
To Solve British Dollar Crisis
By Bruce Biossat
Z Britain, Canada and the United States dug
1 into the tough British dollar crisis with com
Z mendable energy and spirit. All three pro
cess optimism that the outcome of their
Washington conference will be an easing of
" the strain on Britain's dollar supply.
Basically, the British problem goes far
back beyond World War I, when shif ts in
" the world trade pattern began to rob her of
her commercial pre-eminence and push
Z America into the lead. Steadily Britain and
2 other European nations saw their trade dis
2 advantage mount.
J World War IT had a further powerful ef
J feot on the British trade position. The war
" cost the United Kingdom much of its sub
" stance. Its valued foreign investments were
I virtually wiped out. America and other non
Z European countries moved Into it foreign
Z markets.
Z Thus today Britain's advantage is greater
Z than ever. Dependent as always upon foreign
Z purchases of food and raw materials to sup
Z plement her own relatively meager re
" sources, she finds herself less able than at
any time In her history to pay for the things
she seeds. Much of her requirements she
Z wants to buy in America. But they have to
Z be paid for in dollars and she can't sell
Z enough of her own goods here to earn the
Z necessary dollars.
Z The United States has now agreed to cer
Z tain measures that may ease the immediate
; financial emergency. And all three confer-
ring nations plan to take step toward
long term solution.
" This country will allow Britain to spend
more of her Marshall Plan dollars in other
Z oountries, especially Canada. Presumably the
Z British hope to purchase necessities more
Z cheaply from these nations, and therefore to
2 conserve dollars. Britain cannot pay off in
her own currency for nearly all nations to-
day demand payment in dollars so they, too,
can buy in the American market.
Jj America has agreed also to review its
"critical materials" stockpiling program,
with some prospect that H may increase pur
2 ohasei of tin and rubber from oountries
Z within the British currenoy orbit. Such a
Z move would step up dollar earnings.
2 The United State likewise has promised
2 to out red tape in its customs set-up and
" make further tariff reductions, both to stim-
2 ulate heavier flow of trade. Britain, on the
other hand, i urged to liberalize it trade
with other countries with whom she has no
Z "balance of payment" difficulties.
These are the short-run plans. For the
long-range answers, all three nations will ex-
plore ways of increasing North American ln
Z vestment to help economic growth in the
Z rest of the world; make detailed studies of
Z the oil and shipping Industries in the hope
Z Britain's dollar income from these sources
can be raised; and continue consulting so
long as the dollar discrepancy exists as a
serious problem.
For it own part, Britain 'has agreed to en-
courage its exporter to compete more ef-
fectively in the U. S. market; has pledged a
t vigorous attack on high British production
costs that only aggravate the competitive
J problem, and has promised to build up dol
; lar income from tourist and other services.
However helpful the short-term proposals
; may prove, it is thoroughly apparent that
; the ultimate solution depends upon the enrn-
estness with which all three countries ap
. proacli the tusk of restoring a healthy bal
', ance to world trade. Without that, the "dol
I lar crisis," or something like it, will always
', be with us.
' Need More Proof
! A Republican has captured a congressional
I seat in a special election held in the 26th
; Pennsylvania district. Jubilant GOP lead
; eis naturally hail the victory us a sign of
; triumphs to come. A Democrat won the spot
in 1948, but later was killed In a plane crash,
; We will need better evidence than this,
however, as proof of a "trend." The 2Cth
i Pennsylvania district was represented by a
I Republican continuously from 1938 to 1940.
I And GOP registrations outnumber Demo
; oratic by 7000 this year.
; Moreover, Pennsylvania is notorious for
; its flip-flops from on party to another and
; back again. About all you can say about the
; place is: "As Pennsylvania goes, so goes
Pennsylvania."
I Elevator operator in an Illinois town
walked out. Not very uplifting!
I A dentist is the now golf champion.
! Drilling a hole in one should suit him to a
; tee.
What hubbyt helps with is much more
! interesting to a wife than what he stands for.
Republicans Get 'Blocking' Tod
By tsruce tsiosnat
Sen. Scott W. Lucas of Illinois, the Senate Dem
ocratlc leader, has taken his cue from President
Truman. He is blaming the Republicans for the
delays and defeats suffered by the administration
in the current congress.
Lambasting the GOP at Chicago recently, Lucas
said:
"We have compelled them to recognize the fact
that they cannot hold back the tide of progressive
America. We have made them realize that all their
tailing, all their clever maneuvers, all their quib
bling and delaying tactics have been in vain."
Evidently this Is to be the Democratic theme
in the 1930 congressional elections. Successful in
discrediting the Republican 80th Congress, Admin
istration strategists, led by Mr. Truman, appar
ently believe they can do the trick again.
Now the voting record of the 81st Congress
makos it clear that Republicans have indeed op
posed virtually all the key measures of the Tru
man Fair Deal feat have come to a vote this year.
There Is also no doubt that GOP lawmakers re
peatedly have sought to weaken or hamstring Ad
ministration proposals that finally did manage to
win through.
Furthermore, In opposW the Democratic pro
gram, the Republicans have not come up with any
real alternatives of their own. For the most part
they have conceived blocking tactics to be the
proper function of the "loyal opposition."
The real trouble is, of course that all lawmakers
bearing the label "Democrat" do not necessarily
stand with the Administration in matters of im
portance. For many years a good portion of the
party's southern congressmen have been rebelling
at critical moments usually in coalition with Re
publicans. This division within the ranks of the Democrats
is such an old story that we wonder how Mr. Tru
man and Senator Lucas can even attempt to throw
a smoke screen around it.
So long as that well-defined split exists, the
Democratic Party will not be an effective instru
ment of government It cannot execute wnat u
proposes.
If the American people want the Truman Fair
Deal fully enacted, they can achieve that result
only by further changing the make-up of Congress.
They can elect more Democratic legislators in
northern and western states, defeat unco-operative
Democrats in the South, or do a little of
both. By that effort they may give the President
the sympathetic majority he needs.
Mr. Truman's own political maneuvering this
year is the best proof that he himself knows this
to be the case. He and his advisers are working
hard to build a workable farmer-labor coalition
In the North and to scuttle extreme conservatives
in the South.
We doubt that the President would do much
harm to his party by acknowledging the necessity
of this campaign. He Is probably doing greater
damage by this foolish pretense that the Democrats
already offer the nation a unified front capable
of carrying out a broad program if only the Ke
publicans will let them.
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Ooal to Go
Observers keenly alert for signs of Improve
ment in the Berlin situation are now able to re
port two notable advances.
The Russians and the western powers have
agreed to Use German technicians from both east
and west zones of Berlin to put the city's utilities
in order. Better still, they have agreed to accept
for mailing au letters bearing each other's postage
stamps.
Slowly but surely we inch forward toward
peace.
Uranium Found In WasJ
A uranium content well above
government-set minimums for de
velopment has been rennrtH
found in ore concentrate taken
fro mdeposita above Salmon Lake
in northern Kittitas County
Wash.
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WASHINGTON LETTER
By Douglas Larsen
NEA Staff Correspondent
Many men boast of being teli-mailr.
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things.
White House Calls Big Shindig
To Study Minds of U.S. Kids
WASHINGTON. NEA Elaborate plans are
now being made In the White House for a Dig
powwow of high-level child psychologists, social
workers and educators to be held next year, In an
attempt to find out Just how much and what is
wrong with the personalities and minds of U. S.
kids.
Fancy title for the shindig Is "The Midcentury
White House Conference on Children and Youth."
This one will be the fifth of Its kind. Teddy Roose
velt called the first one back In 1909 and it has
gotten to be sort of a habit for presidents to spon
sor one every 10 years.
All of these conferences have been held on the
loftiest intellectual plane. Probnbly for the sake
of maximum objectivity they are kept fur above
the diaper and dirty-face level. That s Just where
the American parent grapples with the complex
problems of riding herd on an unpredictable
bundle of growing energy, in frantic hope that
some day a wage-earning, law-abiding citizen
might result. But the U. S. Children's Bureau,
which figures prominently in these conferences,
assures us that real benefits have seeped down to
the "child's operational level" from these meetings.
The 1909 conference, we are told in a Bureau
publication, "stimulated the creation of a Chil
dren's Bureau In the Federal Government." "Pub
lic demand for child labor legislation" resulted
from the one In 1919. The 19:10 meeting "pointed
up the need for specialized training of people
working with children and stimulated progressive
education." The Inst one In 1910 "highlighted the
importance of the child in a democracy." Those
are just some of the results.
Looking for More Action
In planning for next yenrs MWHCCY, how
ever, Katharine F. Lenroot, head of the Children s
Rurcau and secretary for the conference, wants
this one to be "better focused." She says, "the
first two conferences were probably too limited
in scope, and the last two covered such a broad
range of subjects as to make It difficult for a clear
cut, understandable program to emerge which
could be the basts for action In behalf of children."
She adds, "certainly there Is a need for recog
nition of the Inclusiveness of concern for children,
but there must be sharply defined focal points
around which the conference program can be built
as well as careful selection of subjects that will
receive major attention."
In deciding to limit the conference to t study
of the mental status of American kids, a staff
member of the White House corps planning the
meeting explains thnt this problem is the only one
left which Is worthy of tho group. He explains,
in the past we have gone Into the problems of
the child's health, economic status, family and
education and now the child's personality is about
me only good topic lert.
A permanent staff of four persons has been set
ip to handle the problems and details of the con
ference. Melvin A. Glasser, an able executive and
former official with the American National Red
Cross, will be in charge. He will be assisted by a
public relations man and two staff workers.
Job Will Take Year
It will take them a year, working tu steam,
to get ready for the meeting. And It will probably
bt close to another year, preparing tbe report and
arranging for the postconferences "when re
sources will be mobilized for carrying out Immedi
ate and long-range action programs" before the
Job is finished.
Just the planning tills yeif ts eostlng $73,000.
That pays the salaries of the four staff members,
expenses ot bringing key experts to Washlni'.cn a
couple of times for preliminary meetings, printing
uvuurt, mmrnais nn postage on tin great amount
ot correspondence necessary to get it under way.
It Is estimated that the actual conference will
cost about $750,000. Publishing the report alone
is estimated in the neighborhood of $30,000.
There are 53 members of the national commit
tee who are doing the over-all planning. At the
last conference 3000 delegates attended. The size
" one win not be known until later. Dele-
Marker Set
At Bomb Site
KLAMATH FALLS A
wooded spot in eastern Klamath
County where six persons died
May 5, 1945, In the explosion of
a Japanese balloon bomb, will
be appropriately marked with a
monument
The deaths were believed the
only casualties directly attributa
ble to enemy action in the con
tinental United States during
World War II.
Company to Build
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., an
nounced it had completed plans
to erect a fenced monument and
to build and maintain a recre
ation area at the site of the bomb
blast not far from the town of
Bly.
The monument will ba a trun
cated pyramid of native stone
with a bronze plaque dedicating
the spot where six members of
a seven-party picnic group were
killed.
The plaque will cSrry the
names of the dead:
Mrs. Elsie Mitchell, Dick and
Joan Patzke, Sherman Shoemak-
Jay Gifford and Edward En-
gen.
Survivors Listed
Mrs. Mitchell, 26, was the wife
of Rev. A. E. Mitchell, now in
Indo-China and sole survivor of
the group. Others in the party
had gone into the forest ahead
of the minister and found the!
bomb. Its explosion killed them
instantly.
The Patzke boy and girl, Dick,
14, and Joan, 13, were children
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Patzke
of Bly; Sherman, 11, was the son
of Leo Shoemaker, now of Oro
ville, Cnl.; Jay, 13, was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Gifford
of Klamath Falls, and Edward
Engcn, 13, was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Einar Engen, now of
Canyonville, Ore.
Peruvian Mummy Unmask;
Attired in Bright Robes, Gold
NEW YORK (P) A Peru
vian about 3000 years old kneed
his way into the 20th century here
Wednesday.
He came as a mummy to an un
winding party given at the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History.
It was the first unmasking of a
Peruvian mummy in this country.
While archaeologists carefully
unwound yards of burlap and
brilliantly colored cloth, newsreel
cameras ground, radio networks
made recordings and camera
bulbs flashed.
Estimates Age
Dr. Rebeca Carrion, director of
the Peruvian National Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology,
said the mummy was probably
about 3000 years old.
Dr. Junius Bird, associate cur
ator of anthropology at the Nat
ural History Museum, who aided
her in directing the unwinding
was noncommittal about the gen
tleman's age. But they both
agreed he was a gentleman a
high official of the Faracas civil
ization. The mummy was discovered in
1927 about 150 miles south of
Lima, buried about a foot below
the surface.
Had Wardrobe
The mummy brought a com
plete wardrobe to New York. In
cluded were several bright cere
monial robes and a short, tasselled
poncho in a state of nearly per
fect preservation.
First sign of the gentleman
from Peru was a bony knee. It
brought gasps from feminine
mummy followers.
Even more exciting to the audi
ence, however, was the final strip
ping of the head, revealing the
grey-haired skull. People shouted,
"down in front, we can't see."
Gold on Forehead
Bird said the Peruvian was
grey-haired when buried and that
his head had been artificially
shaped in infancy. A narrow gold
band ran down the bridge of the
nose and a sheet of gold lay across
the forehead. Parrot feathers and
a broken cup were encased near
the head.
His exact age will be calculated
under a method evolved by Dr. W.
F. Libby of the University of Chi
cago whereby some ol the wrap
ping will be burned and the car
bon ashes tested for radioactivity.
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