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4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 23, 1949
The Fever Bark Tree
"Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands" (University of
Oklahoma) is the title of an interesting and informative
new volume by Wolfgang von Hagen, explorer and archae
ologist, who has written many books on South America and
is an authority on its countries, their history, peoples, re
sources and industries.
Starting with its beautiful and picturesque capital,
Quito, lying on the equator among the higher Andies hav
ing a delightful climate, neither hot nor cold, the author
takes one to every city and town in the mountains and on
the seaside, to strips of desert, tropical forests and wilder
ness headquarters of the Amazon. One can think of few
more delightful places to spend a vacation than Ecuador,
and next to that is reading about them and their history.
One chapter is devoted to the history of chinchona from
whose bark quinine is extracted. Back in 1633, Antonia
de la Calanche wrote, "A tree grows in Loja, which they
call the fever tree, whose bark, the color of cinnamon, made
into a powder, cures the fevers." It had been for centuries
known to the Indians as a cure for malaria and tertian
fevers. Lola was in the impenetrable tropical jungles at
the source of the Amazon.
In 1631, the young and beautiful wife of the viceroy of
of Peru, the Countess of Chinchona, lay dying of the fever
and her physician said only a miracle could save her.
At this point a Jesuit brought a jar of russet colored
liquid, saying he had brought the miracle. Within hours
the fever abated and a great festival was given by the
grateful viceroy.
The vicerene, made aware of the "febrifugal virtues
of the cascarilla de Loja," vowed to introduce the bark
called quina to suffering people of Europe. But she died
on her way home to Spain. So it was the count of Chin
chon who first took quinine to Europe, and later Linnaeas
called the trees "Chinchona" to give the countess her
immortality.
Quinine became a Jesuit monopoly and the Jesuits put It on
commercial basis and used the Mission Indians to harvest the
bark and transshipped it to Europe. It was called "Jesuit bark"
and for a long time the Protestants would have none of it. For
200 years it was alternately praised and condemned. But it
eventually came into universal use.
Alexander von Humbolt, who in the 1820s visited Loja,
was amazed when he discovered that "in order to obtain
11,000 pounds of bark, 800 to 900 chinchona trees were cut
down every year." Ho prophesied, "If the governments in
America do not attend to the preservation of the quina
tree, either by prohibiting the felling of the trees or guard
ing against destruction by cutters, the highly esteemed
producer of the new world will be swept from the country."
It soon was by world demand.
English attempts to grow the chinchona tree in India failed for
they unknowingly chose the wrong apecies (chinchona sacci
ruba), but the Dutch were successful in the East Indies, and by
1879 were producing quinine as it should have been done in
America, on plantations under supervision of botanists.
When the Japanese engulfed the Dutch East Indies the
Immense amount of quinine the world needed was cut off
and our government faced a quinine crisis. Under the
Board of Economic Warfare, a corps of exploring botonists
were sent into the forests of Equador in search of new
stands of alkaloid yielding quinine trees, but several cen
turies of native fitting had about'exterminated the chin
chona calisaga which the Dutch were growing in Java.
Von Hagen says :
'The American mission had poor success and the quinine
bark collected from remaining species was almost valueless.
Belatedly the BEW decided to try the plantation method and
selected Guatemala. Experienced tropical botonists tried to
dissuade Henry A. Wallace, under whose direction the BEW
acted, from planting In this area and specifically from using
seedlings from chinchona trees planted many years before by
a Guatemalan president, for they knew the alkaloids of this par
ticular species were worthless. But Wallace persisted and
after the expenditure of $3 million, the whole project was
abandoned."
Von Hagen stresses the opportunities offered for Amer
ican development of both quinine and rubber in South
America, for the revolution torn East Indies cannot be
depended on and quinine may again be cut off from the
United States. But that if we used the experience of the
Dutch chincona planter, who developed the calisaga, with
its high alkaloid content and reintroduced this strain of
quinine trees into the localities in which it had its origin,
Americans could fre themselves from utter dependence
on the Far East
A botonist, the world authority on chincona, is quoted
saying: "Give me $2 million and 10 years and under my
formula the Americas can have their own quinine plan
tations in operation." Which leads Von Hagen to remark:
"When one thinks of the watted billions spent during the
late war, one wonders if such a program will ever have genesis.
For what is It a French savant once said of man: 'He is an ani
mal lunatic, that Is to say, one who flows out on all sides, on
who unravels everything In theory and tangles up everything
In fact.' "
A more or less fitting characterization of the leader of
our pink-tinged Progressives.
Promoter Wins Farmer's Daughter
Astoria, June IS W Police said today they were looking
for a fast-talking 10-year-old who not only passed worthless
checks to buy a ear and a farm, but also made off wltr the
farmer's daughter.
Sheriff Paul Kearney said the youth gave a IMS check to
tn automobile firm and got a 104 car and I1.4.7S In change.
Then he gave a 17000 check to Farmer B. M. Butts for his
farm, Kearney said.
The checks bounced, but by that time Farmer Butt's daugh
ter, Mrs. Marguerit Marshall, 17-year-old mother of two,
bad disappeared.
Kearney said she had accompanied the youth out of town.
Kearney said the youth had been working here as a fisher
man under the name of Leroy Allcorn. Ills last check, also
Worthless, was for $115 to Butts' ton to buy a radio, Kearney
added.
The sheriff said Allcorn was believed beaded for Houston,
Texas.
ALL WINTER LONG I
HANG ABOUND SCHOOL
WAITING FOO HIM AND
sS&'ANOW IT LOOKS LIKE I'LL
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. PLAY-PENS WHILE
he5 baby-sitting
WHATS THIS
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Bradley Fights Backstage
Battle With MacArthur
By DREW PEARSON
Washington An impprtant, backstage battle has broken out
between two of the nation's highest-ranking generals Douglas
MacArthur and Chief of Staff Omar Bradley.
General Bradley wants to withdraw American forces from all
the Pacific except Japan and Hawaii even out of the Philip
pines. '
turns higher than bricklayers,
plasterers and skilled mechan
ics because of the fact that the
latter suffer seasonal layoffs.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
In case of war, Bradley argues
that American forces caught in
the Pacific out
side Japan or
Hawaii would
be immediately
sacrificed in an-
other Bataan. i?
Theref ore, he
wants all troops
withdrawn to
posi t i o n s wc I
can maintain.
General Mac
Arthur, on the'
other hand
LAX I
Or FcaraM
SIPS FOR SUPPER
A Living Ad.
chief of staff.
d v rAu i id inuki
We think the Chamber of Commerce should take note of the Jt1 ltT."
potentialities of Chris Kowitz, Sr., our city attorney, as a pro- jed J1' ,
motion man for the unparalleled quality strawberries in these -'.; M c ur' 15 ,ne
parts. By careful management
and a proper showing Chris why Not a Labish Onion Fete?
could be staged in a tour of the (Monmouth Herald)
country which We are approaching the sum
would result in IC'tt;'!:'! mer season of pageants and car
the populacef nivals. Portland has had its
with watering ' f JT Rose Festival, Lebanon its
mouths making
such a demand
for Oregon
strawbe r r i e s
that it would
be necessary to
raise them on
every hillside
and over every
Dm Dpjsba
DAN TOBIN'S WARNING
Dan Tobin, head of the pow
erful Teamsters union, has sent
a confidential letter to all team
sters' locals, cautioning them
.l,hn fair- th. rruWo of oganisi sirmes ana urging a
St. Paul and Molalla are about conciliatory policy toward em
to get under way; Sheridan is Plovers-
celebrating the day and fame of Tobin, intimate friend of the
the great soldier who in his late President Roosevelt and a
youthful days did apprentice long-time power in the AFL,
soldiering in these parts; Stay- started his letter by saying that
ton is staging the epic of the he was fearful of today's eco
string bean; Salem has picked nomic situation and cautioned
its princesses and queen for the his locals against pushing good
THOUGHTFUL PRESIDENT
A group of 4-H club young
sters waited on the White House
portico to see the president
while Representatives Robert
Secrest and Earl T. Wagner
were inside presenting him with
a petition from the Ohio con
gressional delegation to name
George Rogers, an SEC attorney,
to the securities and exchange
wants American troops strung commission,
out around the Pacific to ere- .Tm going to be phot0graph.
ate spheres of influence to stem ed with those voung people ln
the spread of communism. Mac- tne rose garden outside .. ,aid
Arthur is definitely opposed to Truman
withdrawing American troops ..Do.i Ict us detain you, Mr.
.u. w, "wi President," urged Secrest.
Kr.' , fci. .H Jt then a sudden cloudburst POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
...... ... ..... talt00ea tne windows of the
come so strong inai mua-man- Drcsident's office.
"Rti-lr arniinH " Kn lnl.1 hi.
forced to remind him that he, caUers. j tek those kidj out
in the rain to be photographed,
their fathers and mothers will
be after me."
Hi
OUR ENEMY AND ABILITy
DOESN'T 60 INTO YOUR WORK, SAY 0DPS OF 4
TO I. THE AVERAGE MAN PUTS ONLY 25 EFTORT INTO HIS J06.
Send your
of Odds,'
Odds" questions on any subject te "The Wizard
care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
orairie to any
where near meet it. The other Cherry Festival and Brownsville employers for wage increases.
day Chris was seated on one of has had its pioneer picnic. lobin commented at some higher taxes.
me Steps at tne Uliy nail, a icum uii me iwiiMuicaa ui me
strawberry hallock at his side, Our old friends Herman Schell- Ford strike at this time. He rec
stems strewn about promiscu- berg observed his 84th birthday ognized that Walter Reuther,
ANTI HIGHWAY LOBBY
Congress is now probing the
fact that the oil industry, which
owes its prosperity to the gaso
line burned on highways, is so
shortsighted that it opposes new
highways. Reason: To pay for
the roads, many states are boost
ing gasoline taxes.
The extra taxes aren't paid by
the oil companies, but by mo
torists. Yet the industry has al
ready boosted "gas" prices so
high they fear the public won't
stand for both higher prices and
No Shouts of 'Seig Heil'
-in 'Abandoned' Cemetery
By HAL BOYLE
New York UP) How to lose friends and alienate allies depart
ment: It happened after midnight at the Savoy in London. It was one
of those inter- mmmmmmmimmmm
group of former war correspond
ents before a bronze bust
erected to the memory of Mat
Thomas Howie, the "Major of
St. Lo."
Howie had wanted to be the
first man into the town. After
he fell in action, troops of the
29th infantry division carried
out his wish. They took his flag
draped body along with the en
tering task force, and laid it in
national gather
ings at which
people would
rather say
something brit
tle and clever
than some
thing true.
They were
deep in Scotch
and their own
f r u s t r a tions.
and talking
U XL Lml
ously, strawberry Juice dripping yesterday, hale, hearty and as head of the United Auto Work-
honor by the church.
So, believe it or not, the oil about things they didn't know As we stood reminiscing, an
lobby is actually fighting Just to get in the knife blade eerie wail split the air the
against building new roads. and hurt each other. scream of an air raid siren. In-
Take North Carolina, for ex- "Yoi, umnlHn't hav. had n stinctiveiy we stanea to ouck
.... . . . . I - - i i; r IdKC lUILU -.il UUIICI. 1UI t' T Oil
from nis lingers and look ol buoyant as a kid. Herman was a e, wa5 unaer compu ,ion irom Gov. .Kerr Scott a hard- .1, f . t , r Roll. B for a ditch. Then, sheepishly,
ecstasy on his lace as one after C.v. war baby, born in 1865 and un on memoersn.p out - !ubmUted , " " . T Enalishw0 ' we realized the siren wa, only
disappeared down the hatch him until six
from which so many legal opin- was born. He has had a consti- an
month,daftrh: the JlZn S200.000.000 road program to "You Americans are the greatest "ing "our
iron hand and forbidden the the vtcrs- To "ance it, he pro- warmongers in the world
ions have emerged. We have it tution which has always been strike.
said
on good authority that wherever good to him and he has always
Chris goes in strawberry season been good to it a rare combi
ne has few boxes of the ber- nation in these civilized days,
ries in the back seat of his car .
and dips In as opportunity pre- Jim Fenstermachcr, the elec-
sents. The benignity of counte- trical expert, in cogitating with
nance ne snows wnen going Kennie Long yesterday on ned
posed a one-cent-per-gallon ln- i.No you British
crease in the state gasoline tax. n American
The oil lobby immediately and who -th test war.
bitter y opposed, appealed to ci- mon we or th Ameri.
ty voters to block the program. cans, asked the Englishwoman
When the vote finally came lurni ,0 , friend
cny pcufJie uiu vuie tt-x agaiuak
But as long as it sounds
and the monument to Major
Howie stands the people of St.
Lo will remember the war every
day.
Referring to his own union,
Tobin was critical of the west
coast teamsters' strike and also
of the teamsters in New York
City.
In the latter city bakery driv-
ftra hnH etrimlr for an nnurarpan.
through one of these boxes of he figured our FT & BA initials ted increase, on the assumption ban voters' 175,000.
ver ZrZ th. f . ; T u 'XI, -u6? that PePle had to eat bread 80 Meanwhile, in the rest of the
vertisement for the flavor and Arch association. While that i .. i ju i ...... .
dripping goodness of the fruit isn't it. it give, an idea. If we'd w! h, triWe general 3dHion than"atW any w"h
which makes the onlooker want file supplemental articles of in- ih .i. i, ?,! 2" j " Wonde
m rusn 011 ana ouy crate lor corporation and take on that buying from chain stores and the oil lobby continues to op- Jne ?"lea cemeteries wouia say crosscs of the fatherland-Der
himself and start absorbing it. new name it would open a vast- indenendent ha k e r i e . Tobin .h. t0 eltner of them? . Fuehrer's panzer grenadiers, hit
new rural roads. But the farmers
amassed 225,000 votes to the ur-
The most successful denazifi-
ratinn nrnsram in Fiirnn. fan hm
The Americans, of course," found just outside the village ol
La Cambe in Normandy.
It is a German military ceme
tery, an epitaph to the Reich
murmured her friend
"You're Just mad," said the
American, "because you don't
have anything left to warmon- Hitler meant to last 1,000 years.
r " in row after ordered row,
Wonder What the soldiers in thev diveil under talnrlc metal
Only a gourmet of the rarest ly wider and new field of en- ,ajd.
win: v-hii uismuy aucn rensn, ana aeavor. r or most anybody over
only an Oregon strawberry can 40 is apt to have one or the other
furnish it or both.
Ever Seen Bryce Canyon?
Bryce National Park, Utah W To the tourist Bryc Canyon
Is an amphitheater filled with pink formations resembling
people, spires and minarets, castles and bridges.
To the first man to settle near its mouth, it was also some
thing quite different It was made a national park in 1928
and named after Ebenezer Bryce, a Mormon pioneer.
Asked for his reaction to the scenic spot, Bryce was re
ported to have agreed it had fantastic beauty and to have
commented:
"I member It was a bad place to lose a cow."
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Strange Times! Kaiser's Kin
Weds Mere Commoner
By DeWITT MacKkNZIE
tun PortttB Affair Analrstl
This amazing world of ours is changing so rapidly In Its way
of life that It's difficult for some of us old-timers to keep up with
trends. '
dark clad paratroopers, his prize
There Is one French town storm troopers, with their loy
above all others that symbolizes alty locked ln their frozen
criticism from the forthright creased by 10,500,000. Of these. .w nunoreos oi tnou- tnroats.
tam..r.- . v.. La 2!ino.aoo are trucks. All told. ands ot American troops. It is Many crosses bear tho name
But here are the statistics:
Communist agitation inside Since 1945, the number of auto-
labor unions also came in for mobiles on the highways has in-
teamsters' boss. He said he had
received reports of active com
munist leadership in one team
sters' local which he declined
to name. An investigation was
being made, Tobin said, and
2.500.000 are trucks. All told,
100.000,000,000 ton-miles were
from the union whether they
signed non-communist affidav
its or not.
Tobin also warned his team
sters that one trouble in union
St. Lo, where Hitler's western of the soldier beneath. Many say
traveled in'l948-almost double waU in Normandy was finally simply: "Unknown German."
.v,. lois v. i . ai breached. The cemetery was left undei
" ' " C K-l., tl, 4 U-, TT U A 1 .U C 1.
tiu uoujj was tut: ivfvvii ua lici- ficill.ll kale. A11U 111C ClClieii,
ed from ground and air that with a stern but honest hospital-
there was talk of leaving it, ity, have passed on this responsi
bility to nature. They didn't
try few million dollars have
been added to the road bill. Be-
these agitators would be fired cause of inflation, even this in- " "'" ".'
i ...u..i .1 i Hollar, r.aiiu ha. Kaon ruinea ana empty, as on eternal
crease in dollars really has been
a decrease in purchasing power
when it came to road building.
Result has been wear-and-
monument of the war and the invite the Germans in and they
price of war. see no reason for honoring those
But the people of St. Lo want- who stayed.
In nma Uanlr anI inn., AiA Wnnn. nf-41n- nnl'ln-
!:a.r"lT. 'Pring from th.
. ... 4-affin . c ustHsu J '"Mt,-la11 Kcimuauj, aim uaisics apiiug 11 UIU 111
organizations was the inability . T ,k L , '"""f they have made astonishing re- sunken graves and wave above
and unwillingness of rank-and-file
members to understand eco
nomic laws.
He pointed out that while
members of his
skilled, they receive annual re
in traffic deaths. What the pub
lic doesn't realize is that safety
can be built into the roads. Yet
the public, while paying more
for automobiles and gasoline.
union are un- has let the highways run down.
(Copyrlcht lOfgt
covery. Most of the rubble ha the crosses. Here and there a
been cleared. Entire sections poppy blows in scarlet surprise,
have been rebuilt. It is a quiet and peaceful
We stood in a churchyard place. And nobody shouts, "Sieg
there one Sunday recently a Heil!"
It's no
lem for
youngsters,
since they nev
er have known
anything else,
but their horse-and-buggy
eld
ers don't so
easily readjust
themselves t o
the ideological
social and poli
tical upheavcal
of the atomic age.
That's rather
prob-pi i ii .
they"
If ! V
OPEN FORUM
Scenery Versus Billboards
To the Editor: As a frequent visitor to your beautiful state I
want to express my pleasure and appreciation concerning tho
natural wonders that are so abundant everywhere.
But I also want to register a
(and no fooling). It was the protest. There is an especially and have never been disappoint
Kaiser's exalted view of himself lovely view out east of Salem, ed in it until now.
which inspired the poem "Me just over the hill a mile or two On this latest trio I aonroach.
Und Gott" by an American na- toward Aumsville from the state ed the Si itfc ?Vy u,ua ex
val officer, a composition wh ch hosDital farm Drivine west it uie scene witn my usual ex
infuriated his majesty. STiTJS1 P"'3"' Jccling-and wa3 con-
It was that same nmhitinn, "t " V. l.".. ?"J irontea oy a large sign,
. , . , " rcacii uie casi ui ine niii ana
Liiri. wiucn iiua mucn 10 ao
with hastening the present poli-
to the emperor and his court.
Royalty was royalty and the
Kaiser ruled by divine right
tico-social global upheaval, for pgnorgn,, of beauty
"J us niiu fjovc uic 01 ft l in.
Pprhnn T am mnlrincr mmin.
find all of Salem spread out tain out of a molehill when I
suddenly before the eye in a Mv that r rri.f . . .
CLAUDIA WELCH
I learned to look for this spot Salem
which precipitated World War I
Throughout that fateful con-
are in the midst of 'a global the German, glorified th. HOSPITAL FUND CAMPAIGN
metamorDhos s which exceeds " . "V ui"-
a pity, for we
anything since Adam. It's a
transformation in which folk
who fall out of line are likely
to get stepped on.
You will, I trust, overlook
this momentary outburst by
your columnist.
What inspired it was the mar
riage extraordinary of the Ger
man Princess Cecelia of Hohen
zollern to Clyde Harris, a good
looking former American army
officer from Amarillo, Texas.
ters in Spa, Belgium, a safe dis
tance from the fighting front,
they dug a trench and about
this staged a fake battle while
the "All - Highest" paced back
and forth on the parapet "amidst
shot and shell." And they took
pictures of the emperor in this
heroic act and showed them
throughout Germany to encour
age the populace.
Finally, came the German col
lapse, the revolution and the
forced abdication of the Kaiser,
Is This the Time Salem
Should Put on a Drive
(Editor's Note: In a few weeks the Salem hospital develop
ment program will be brought before the people ot the Salem
area. So that questions being raised may be known by ail,
along with the answers, the Capital Journal Is co-operating
by printing them daily. Questions may be directed to the hos
pital program headquarters, 335 N. High St, or may be
phoned to 1-3851.)
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The princess is. of course, tho who went into exile in Holland! for ,ne n"P''ls-
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Ql'ESTION: Is this the time to put on a fund-raising program
granddaughter of the late Kai
ser Wilhelm (the all -highest)
Thus disappeared one of the
ereatest thrones of histnrv. tn
and is a direct descendant of be followed bv the rnllinu nf
England'! Immortal Queen Vic- crowns in manv other countries. reen liht
toria. The rest of the German rov. Institutions
ANSWER: Yes. this is the time.
Other public service interests ty that he or his family will not
have given the hospitals the need hospital care this year.
for their program. One person ln every eight is
asking for funds now receiving hospital care ev-
The wedding took place Tues- al family, including little Willie, must take their turns. Not every ery u months if he can get into
day amidst the splendor of one the crown prince, retired to prl- one can pick the best year in the hospital,
of the Hohenzollern castles, with vate life and since then have ten for its program, and espe- The hospital has become tho
many notabilities, Including roy- lived quietly with ample means dally If you think that time is sick-room of every man's home,
alty, present. amidst their wonderful estates, in the past. It is a necessity and cannot in
Imagine the Kaiser's grand- Gradually they have been The need for additional hos- Justice wait until another boom
daughted marrying a commonerl adapting themselves to the new pital facilities is critical. It is is on or for a war when ma-
When I was a young fellow world which has followed the unquestionably the first public terials cannot be obtained to
In the hey-day of the "All- Kaiser's war. Tuesday's wed- service to be achieved on a com- build a hospital.
Highest" such a marriage would ding indicates how well they munity-wide basis. NOW IS THE TIME,
have been unthinkable, at least hava succeeded. No one can say with a certain- GIVE NOW, BUILD NOW.
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