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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
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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.
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portant also to be nice to those
who think they no longer have
any friends.
Under these circumstances,
you!
Charles T. McPherson,
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P.O. Box 887S. Zone 7,
Portland, Oregon,
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