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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1949)
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BY BECK Such Is Life . 4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, May 16, 1949 Ditching the Multiplication Table The approach of graduation time inspires The Oregonian , to discourse on the "state of things in the schools" and its thesis is that the "trouble with education is the multiplica tion table." It asserts : "What folks demand can be wrong with the multiplica tion table? Doesn't three times three make nine? Indeed, they do. And It would be no exaggeration to look upon modern mechanized society as being erected upon the multiplication table as a very firm foundation. The multiplication table is exact and dependable. As a great mathematician has ob served, "No one doubts the multiplication table." "But that very exactness has an Insidious and dangerous effect upon education generally, since it encourages teachers to pretend to those in their care that all the subjects in the schools are either equally exact or comparatively so. The kin dergarten pupil hears his teacher sternly state that two and two make four, and as he grows up the finality of the proposi tion is Insisted upon time and again. He cannot escape it. Nor can he escape the perfectly natural deduction that similar final knowledge must exist in all other fields." "v-( W6 HAD A BEL ATE P lglllisig 5 V. MOTHER'S DAY CELEBRATION . 5; ''. (A I MY WHOLE FAMILY ALL CAME ) Llr K'-ltevA. AND BROUGHT THEIR CHILDREN. - '' tWA AvWE HAD SUCH A 6OO0 TIME. r ; ' t " V IT WAS NEARLY MIDNIGHT ) V' m WHEN THE LAST ONE - LEFT.. I M JUST GETTING ','"' CAUGHT UP WITH . ' VS;)"' , rrsr MYSELF.-. ' I r WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Solons Enjoy Socialized Medicine But Against It By DREW PEARSON Washington They don't want it advertised, but the same sen ators and congressmen who balk at voting a health program for others are accepting "socialized medicine" for themselves. Their aches and pains are treated by a government doctor whose fees are paid by the taxpayers. He is Dr. George W. Calver of the Navy, Their Own Medicine Chicago (U.m Cigar-smoking aldermen found themselves on the receiving end of one of their own laws. The city coun cil passed an ordinance prohibiting smoking In public eleva tors. Now the city fathers must snuff out their smokes or walk upstairs In City hall. who guards over the health of the nation's law makers. Everslnce two congress men died , of heart attack in 1028, Dr Calver not only has kept an office on Capitol Hill, but serves as time job not only for Dr. Cal ver but also an assistant doctor, nine nurses and three navy en listed men. Method of Transforming Gams Is Kept Very Hush, Hush By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON 'United Prtu Hollywood Corrwpondent) Hollywood Willvs of Hollywood, a hosiery expert who claims Nni. thxuDh nn inr with ne can mane almost any girls earns look like Betty BraDie s. saia the navy, Dr. Calver still draws 'odav he does it with a little hocus-pocus and a way of oiling nis nyions. rear admiral's pay. PRESSMEN'S UNION CLEAN-VP As the A.F. of L. executive committee meets in Cleveland Dm mnn today, a total of five locals of the Pressmen's tTninn havit rie- "family doctor" to members of manded , thorough investiga congress. tjon 0f tne manner in which Twice a year, he also sends the late George Berry gutted congressmen out to Bethesda tne treasury of the union he Naval hospital for complete lab- was ,upposed to protect, oratory tests. All the bills, ex- Manv ranlc and file mem. cept prescriptions for medicine, bers of the union have petition are charged to the taxpayers ed AFL officials to protect their that's even more hush- hush. He dreamed It up with a chemist at Cal T e c h, Willys says, and he doesn't like to talk much about it because he doesn't have it patented. ($1 silkworms, and the Cal-Tech chemist. He has to guard It carefully, he says, because the whole stocking business is going to the dogs. And when he says that he is not trying to be funny. "Too many factories are mak ing stockings too fast," Willys explains. "Women aren't buy inn as many1 because they last Ttrilali MuFoenn onger than they used to. So But. he guarantees, no movie the manufacturers are starting ' queen who sheaths her legs in a price war by cutting costs his greased gossamer will ever and reducing the quality of though the laboratory fees alone interests Unless they aet AFL n,s 8reasea er "T f "a "c would cost $150 at a private Tll' ,h 1 !.. be embarrassed by those myste- their stockings, hnsnital 7 .-7 ".. . 7 rious lumes inai are ripping mm-ii i ui.e wiiia ....... nospuai. . pension benefits will be lost, ,tockinirs to shreds doesn't dare to do. That hocus- Jr.TrSSS ,0r " " tremely diHicult t0 "'IgXaUmineasortof lube pocu, we mentioned is a tricky t .rt and L"y hospital an election and throw out job!.gexplained the man wh0 process. Also an expensive one n-u .o L 7m 5 ,.' P"sent nion officials. makes a Iortune weaving cam- "Many movie stars have thick This, says the Oregonian, is encouragement to mem ory work rather than creative thinking and a memor ized state of knowledge rather than knowledge itself and the "true test of most so-called knowledge is not its final ity but its tentativeness." So The Oregonian suggests that each of the large universities and colleges, and pos sibly each department ''employ a faculty member whose duty it is to take the opposite approach from that of his colleagues" and so "undo the pervasive influence of the multiplication table." ' The proposal of The Oregonian to supply our colleges with instructors to combat accepted theories of all kinds that have stood the test of time and facts, has long been anticipated by the communists and by our own New Deal ers, who are intent on creating a brand new world and remaking America along decadent European ideologies. Communists and fellow travelers sneaking into facul ties and clandestinely implanting Moscow ideology and theories in student minds under the guise of academic freedom are the bane of college faculties, as both the pres idents of the University of Washington and the Oregon State college can testify. But The Oregonian would ap parently make such instruction compulsory. was wrong These experiences worried You Just Can't Lick the Odds By HARMON W. NICHOLS United Pre. Staff Correspondent! Washington Dr. Ernest Blanche, a bespectacled little gent used to give lectures to GI's in Italy on how you can't lick the oaas in gamming. .nt, w Sm- The last time such an election ouflaed nyions for the Holly- legs," Willys whispered. "For "It was very discouraging," eluded after playing some skin ly more than it would cost them was held, according to Lewis W. wood glamour gals -Just like them I weave light-colored said Ernie, who knows all about gamcs lhat m0,t 0f them are out ). 5tav home. and about one- Thom, Sr., chairman of the you w"uid an old jalopy." threads in the front and dark- the cube root of an equation and fc folks t o third what i would cost at , m6 recall committee, it got no- ' ..u make, leg, look smooth er ones in the back. The effect presently is the army's chief " " private hospital Yet this small where. xhe ballots ins, h u gUmming. statistician "Right after I got their milk and egg ; money He fce doctor blUs nurse president wm ,aken J,' ,ast ,onger. Most ny Foglamour girls whose un- through talking, the boys would went to the race track (and still service and even surgery. car t0 Rogersville, Tenn., the I0nS go to pieces after 15 wear- derpinnings are too skinny he dive for the nearest cellar, get does, foolish fellow) and risked Dr. Calver aslo keeps a spe- union.g headquarters, by a un- ings Mine are good for 50." adds a curve here and there out the dice and try to prove I a two..DOt on this and that nag. watch for heart trouble ion member named Doolev. wh.'t h. H, Willv. v cau- with a little discreet padding He shot craps. In the interest wnlcn used , klU . vlc4lms "However," recalls Thomas, tiously, is "serrize" his cobweb- If you want longer legs, Willys .: rr, :j p-i. On Congress in a Single year, i.ihe rood to Dngersvillo i v... ..; Tfc.i'. . lied, n.n .imnlv those too He does Ernie into some research that ,h -ri. oi,t the euv who 7 running nis ceieDrated pa- through the Tennessee moun- trirk he swiried from silk it by. iiKKling color schemes to ... '--" tains and on tne way, Berry's worms, who give out a natural get a horizontal eueci. clinic, he has cut down on con- men wayaid the car and shot oil called sericen. while they And by the time Willys and gressional deaths by seven per the tir Dff It. Dooley arrived spin their cocoons. his worm-oil get through with ceM' u-, ... . at Rogersville on foot the next And Just what it Is, exactly, you, you're a glamour queen In Meanwhile the senators and day. a XCTet between nimi the spite of yourself. Ernie figures there are about 36 times. ""ZZ, " " "i ' ,. , Wnen ne got tnere' Berry 50,000,000 people in the country Dr. Ernie tried bingo. There, ' ,. : ,AmtZ L,.u - welcomed him in a very sorrow- Dnrn liikl'e OU 1 1 OCrjPHFP who play poker, bet on the he said, a man ha. a fair chance J ' J" hZl Z ri X "l Ji K ful V0'Ce- 'Why' Br0ther DooIey'' POOR MA" S PhlLOUFhtR horses, play the numbers, yank and even if he doesn't the ..n,'f" 0" a kg the handles of slot machines, house take generally goes to be"nf'tS J " " ' ed the ballots yesterdav- ' a TUtinel CXDIOSIOI1 IS WarillllQ spin a wheel and buy Irish charity. T . ""P' con8res,s; terribly sorry but we can't count SiApiUJIvll TT IliSilJJ sweepstakes tickets without ever The als0 played the 2,U 'tnto 4oc a ized medicine ' '"l"" by-UWS'' ',' B HAL B0YLE knowing or caring about the numbcrs for a time. It took Not only the lawmakers but .u"" ? ' 'l New York (ffi-The explosion of a chemical-laden truck in odds- many a day and many a dollar, l Z r J"l they. Probab.ly . wou.ldn .h.ave the Holland Tunnel gave America a needed peacetime lesson t- i. i. i . . . L . j: i 4i 4 i " " ' mucn more iuck toaav noidinff ... ... . L I, J J r 7.7 u'"vc" . " for treatment. His office han- . r,call action aeainst the ore work. He spends hours, days "house" nets up to 50 per cent dle, anDroximatelv 60 POO Da- recall action against tne pre and weeks in his little study at of the intake and the bookies ?,. .PpxaJCly.... ' 0 .P?. leaders I the union. rt l. .,j . , :, r. . ueiii-visiis eacn year a iuu- (Coprrlibt 1S4B1 his Chevy Chase, Md., home get another 10 per cent. " testing each of his theories. "There is no use talking about . . ckfric'e rrl MliW That doesn't cost anything but the slot machines or one-armed MaCKtNZ.lt 1 LULUMri lime. But he learned the other, bandits," he said. "You're beat now has resulted in two books throws out the cubes are 251 to on gambling and threatens to 244 H counted 'em. The run into a third. chance on a man making an His present effort, quite logi- "eight point" are 5 out of 36. A cally, is called "You Can't Win." fellow pitches a 7 only 6 out of However, the New Dealers in the United States have long since ditched the multiplication table and two and two no longer make four, particularly in government fi nance and economy and perhaps in science also. Let us recall the record.. In 1938 when the second New Deal had cracked a group of young instructors from Harvard and Tufts, headed by Dr. Alvin H. Hansen, professor of economics at Harvard, published a book, "An Economic Program fort American Democracy," which advocated the theory, at once adopted s, hy FDR, that public spending must be used not as a pump primer, but as a permanent additional auxiliary pump gy QJQ noiuing mat, private industry cuuia no longer produce the national income regarded for a full life. ' They held that although deficit spending had increased the public debt $40 billion without restoring prosperity expansion of public debt was advocated because govern ment debt is not like private debt. It does not have to be paid, and Roosevelt's mistake was that he did not spend enough. or harder way, too. He hung there before you put a nickel or around the carnivals and con- a half dollar in the slot." Hatefests Change to Lovefests Seattle, May 16 (UR) Members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Washington today changed the name of an annual festival from "We Hate Women Week" to "we love women week." The fraternity explained that during the last two annual hatefests, women guests did $728 worth of damage to the house. Cold War Not Halted Yet of what could happen in war. It was aSRT small - scale ex- f ample of how vulnerable a great city is to day. The Holland 1 vehicular tun nel runs be neath the Hud son River and! Joins Manhat tan and Jersey" City. It has twin Wizard of Odds ml. portant to all America. It is more than Just an artificial or chid on the land, more than a parasite on the rest of the nation. With its vast port and its many talents, it gives as well as takes, creates as well as absorbs. Like other cities It is no longer juftt a blight on the countryside. It clothes the farmers who feed it, and It sends them cash and radio programs in exchange for their corn. They depend on it as it depends on them. But like all complicated things, it is easily disturbed and can't reproduce itself well. UD Pnl an arm off a starfllth and the Western World's greatest traffic in the west-bound tube th atarfich will ffrow another immediate threat comes from Eu- few hours, halted traffic in the arrn. And the severed arm will rope. True, that threat has les- east-bound tube more than a grow another starfish. sened measurably with the sue- day. It temporarily interrupted Manhattan or any other big cess of the Marshall Plan and news, television, telephone and city isn't so facile at repairing the signing of the Atlantic Pact, wirephoto circuits. itself. nut the danger stui exists and But what would happen if a it is win continue to exist, despite band of desperate, highly train Western Europe's recovery, un- ed men made a determined at- '-?; iw Hal Bo? lo :Mt0Ht- I lne aecisive ineaire in me Dame long. f 1 ' tne isms' tne act remains that The accidental blast tied By DeWITT MocKENZIE ((ifi PoreltB AffalrJ Analyst! Paul G. Hoffman, Director of the Economic Co-operation Ad ministration, told an Indiana University audience the other day that "our way of life will be secure if Europe is strong and Mr Hoffman's fPSt Far East might in time become tubes, each more than 9,000 feet prediction o f course is based on the fact that the Marshall Plan is due to wind up its op erations in 1952. He said the plan had "stopped the Kremlin cold" in West- Oewnt Maeaaatia til some further great develop- tempt to knock out New York J The government, they stated, can keep the debt afloat indefinitely by redeeming all bonds with new bonds. The ! interest will not be a burden because the debt is due by 'the people to themselves. The people owe the debt, own ,'the bonds which represent the debt. The government taxes the people to pay the interest on the bonds. It takes the i taxes out of the pockets of the people and then pays it back to them in the form of interest, just like taking it out of one pocket and putting it in another. So Uie govern ment can go on borrowing indefinitely, even to a $1,000 billion. , So said the Harvard economists. And the debt theory rwas put in practice by the planners and spenders, and its lauthors became economic advisers to the government. Spending was to be continuous and everlasting and still seems to be, for the debt peaks are growing higher. ' So the mutiplicntion table has already been ditched by .our government and some of our universities, and we are I no longer lacking in "uplift, vision and breadth of mind." polio, or opm of 12 101. Wilt HIT HARPER IN SEPTEMBER THAN IN DECEMBER OF ANY YEAR. A BRIDE? Y0USPENP3 TIMES MORE NOW OH YOUR TROUiSEMI ' THAN YOU WOUIO I HAVE DURIN6 WORLD WAR II a yPs SWJ mo &n you WON'T REMEMBER AN AD IN YOUR MAIL AT THE END OF THE VVEEK.BY4 TO I ODDS-AND 19 TO I YOU WON T REMEMBER BY THE END OF THE MONTH. (WM tUfrnA Yfl IOS MofttS, CAl , CtMl THIS OCOS (kfSY) ern Europe, and that if recovery is accomplished by then "it is more than proba ble that the Kremlin wil' decide alter this grim picture on a policy of live and let live'. That's a prophesy which in- that at this reading. It would be vites analysis, and since the the failure of communism to ment takes place. City? This thought keeps police i j , . .J officials nervous about the ac What new development could , f m, , wh ter this enm Dicture? There ... . . K as dependent on sup plies as the human brain is on blood. The arteries that feed Man hattan are a system of some 30 channels that include the Holland Tunnel, public utility 1 c ui ; t Mn.,HMnMAn .... I . . ,, . seems to be only one answer to C",". 5 iui.es, venicmar ano rauway sun- iui. neis ana oriages. iney join u It has been estimated that as west, north and east to New E.C.A. director isn't here to do hold the peoples of the various i ....Tij .u. lnB Dronx' arm tor us, lets take a look at countries which have been ab- :-,,: "' , .VJ,... sorbed into the Soviet bloc. What reason is there to sup- tropolis nearly helpless. Choke those channels or de- But it wouldn't require atom stroy them and Manhattan would Here 10 aup- . . . ,.. .1.. i... ., . , . ,. pose they might reject it? The .ZSJTr, A ZZ ".ZTSr. fifth clumn of revolutionary but it would certainly faint, technicians could conceivably The lesson of the Holland Tun accomplish this objective nel blast is the same as that This small island is the most of the Texas city explosion, intricate thing ever devised by Now is the time for all wise ine mina ana iaoor oi man. n cities and nations to set up is a few square miles of beauty, systems to protect themselves 1 I I 1 I I I U I C I lltm I I C I 0 STORIES IN LIFE Tragedy Turns to Joy J Seattle Mr. and Mrs. Raymond G. Keehr were awakened early Sunday morning by a crash in front of their house. ', They rushed outside. They found a taxi cab had smashed Into a untlllty pole. A critically Injured man was lying on the lawn. Horror wised the couple when they bent over the man and Identified him as their son, Raymond Keehr, Jr., a bartender. Grlef-strlrken, Mrs. Keehr accompanied the injured man In an ambulance to the hospital where he died shortly after being admitted. Other members of the family arrived and positively Identified the dead man. The sorrowing family returned home to make funeral ar 'rangemenUk ' The father was standing at the window looking out sadly at the scene of the tragedy. Suddenly he rubbed his eyes In disbelief. There, walking across the lawn was the son he believed had bren killed. The dead man turned out to be Walter R. MrCandlsh, 35. cab driver, who bora a remarkable rmcmblanre to voung Keehr. Maybe It Served Her Right , Chicago oj.Ri Fred Trlrbolln, 46. told the court his wife. Rose, OS, wrote him nasty notes, hit him with a blackjack, kicked him and chased him around their house with a pair of scissors. His request for a divorce was granted. OPEN FORUM Being Nice to Unfortunates Brings Back Many Blessings To the Editor Being nice to other people on my 79th birthday, May 13. 1949, is a recognized virtue. It does not mean being nice to people to whom one would be nice anyway, but to those who you consider need it. being nice to people Is not a It means being nice to people, great deal of fun. It is In th for example, who play a poor nature of a duty that you put game of contract bridge. It off from day to day and week would Include being nice to to week. When at last you do people who come from a dis- get around to being nice to some tance and have queer accents or one, you feel very virtuous hold on popular political opin- about It. It is no little satisfac ions. tion to consider that you havo People who care nothing given a helping hand to somo what-ever about the fashions poor unfortunate person, and wear strange clothes are Then one day you note that among those who usually need you are being singled out for someone to be nice to them. So special attention by a person are people who have bad health from whom you hardly expected and want to tell you about It, or it. You are called on and who have children and grand- listened to attentively. You art children who are their chief asked it there Is any way you topics of conversation. can be helped. You can be nice to people What, then, is your surprise about whom there is some and indignation w hen you realise scandal or who have lost their that somebody, in a burst of money and live in a less desir- good intentions. Is being nice to do it for us, it ourselves. As I see it the po sition is this: It's true that the "cold war" aspect of the communist offen- answer is that present day com sive has been halted along the munism isn't the text-book brand Stettin - Adriatic line through of the ism which many folk had central Europe. However, the thought it to be. As Mr. Hoffman revolutionary tactics of commu- says, "basically, communism is nists in Western European a rather idealistic concept, carry countries especially the power- ing with it connotations of shar- lui r renin aim ituuuii jwiiica ina ana universal Droinernuua. ,,i;.- , , . . . ,. , . , continue in full force, They wil, , pure form, almost the "Tl -"--" -'"-' Kam cuimui ui (licit gw.n ir wursi uuiiK uitti can ue bmiu ments if it is humanly possible, about communism is that it won't work." Meantime, out in the Far However, times have chang East communists armies are ed. Today's communism isn't the sweeping southward across old brand. It is totalitarian Bol China. Northern Korea is com- shevlsm. This fact gradually has munistic, and is reaching for become clear- since the World control of the southern half of War, as communism has taken that strategic land. Burma, In- over country after country in donesia and other Asiatic coun- Eastern Europe. There are plenty tries are torn by communistic of indications that there is dis uprisings. As the signs now read satisfaction among the peoples the Orient is likely to become of the satellites. Increasingly a theatre of con- Whether that dissatisfaction flict between communism and could develop to a point where democracy. those countries might reject This is being so. what basis communism remains to be seen, do we find for predicting that If and when that happens, the our way of life will be secure democratic way of life may be If Europe Is strong and free In secure. Pending that contin '52? geney, the security would seem Well, for one thing, while the to be doubtful. . ir pip - TtaKC'! 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