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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, September 2R, 1949
Reapportion the State in 1951?
Again there is serious talk of what the Rrowiiijr repu
tation in Oregon will mean to redividing the state as a
basig for reassigning membership in the legislature. Latest
suggestion comes from Giles French, representative from
the 22nd district in the north central part of the state.
Counties in his representative district include Gillian,
Moro, Sherman and Wheeler.
It is French's proposal that the Oregon constitution be
amended to give each county one senator and apportion the
representatives according to population. This proposal
follows the idea of apportionment adopted by the U. S.
constitutional convention in 1787.
At present, Oregon elects 30 senators from 24 districts
and 60 representatives from 33 districts. The constitution
now limits the number of senators to 30 and the representa
tives to 60. At the same time, the constitution also pro
vides for reapporioning members of the legislative assem
bly every 10 years, following a census. The last apportion
ment was attempted in 1931, but not completed. Another
apportionment is due in 1951.
During the legislative session this year, Senator Neu
berger of Multnomah county suggested study be made
looking toward reapportionment in 1951. His efforts were
defeated by a large vote. Possibly such study of reappor
tionment was considered ahead of time. After all, the
U. S. constitution was adopted in only three months time.
Reapportionment in Oregon could be considered after the
1951 census showed new population figures for the state.
No one method of apportioning seats in a legislative
body would be considered satisfactory to all persons and
groups. But the method adopted by the U. S. constitu
tional convention in 1787 has certainly proved as satisfac
tory and practical a working arrangement as any suggest
ed during those times or since then. The system of two
senators for each 'state and representatives according to
population in the states amounted to a compromise be
tween the big and little states, each jealous of its rights.
Under this system, Multnomah county would have its
present five senatorial seats cut to one, but it would gain
in the number of representatives. Also changed would
be the extensive representation arrangement from the 17th
senatorial district which now includes the five counties of
Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Klamath and Lake.
Inventor of Lie Detector Dies
Almost unnoticed in the press, Leonard Keeler., 45, one
of the nation's leading criminoligists and psychologists,
died at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., a week ago, on a visit to the
Wisconsin crime laboratory. He is best known for his de
velopment of the science of lie detection.
Keeler's lie detectors called the pylograph have been
used in nearly 100,000 cases since he tried out the first
one successfully in 1923. Some 200 of them are now in use
throughout the country. The criminologust formerly
headed the scientific crime detection laboratory at North
western University but was in private practice at his death.
Born In Berkeley, Calif, Keeler became a criminologist
under the influence of August Vollmer, one-time chief of
police there. He introduced the lie detector as a routine
police device in 1921, while a student at Stanford univer
sity, and developed a machine of his own. The first test
of the machine was made at Los Angeles where he was
assisting Vollmer, who was reorganizing the Los Angeles
police department.
There was a theft in a sorority house. The most unpopular
girl was the leading suspect and had been banished from the
sorority and fated expulsion from school. Her parents appealed
to the Los Angeles police.
Keeler took his polygraph to the sorority house and announc
ed all the Kir a would undergo tests. The last girl tested was
tha most popular. Her parents were wealthy and there were
giggles when Keeler started asking her the questions.
Tha polygraph indicated she was guilty. The girl pretended
to faint and nave hysterics when Keeler told her the outcome.
Then aha confessed.
Polygraphs now are used by police, universities, doctors,
hospitals and by private businesses. The instrument re
cords blood pressure, heartbeat and respiration. Hand
plates give clues tn action of the sweat glands. Three pens
write the record on a moving sheet of paper.
Keeler was the nation's foremost authority on detection
tests, appeared frequently in court as an expert witness
and had been called in consultation both here and in Ku-rope.
Maternolistic Uncle Sam
A circular from the United States government printing
office, division of public documents, depicts not only the
paternalism but also the materialism that permeates fed
eral bureaucracy and helps account for record federal
payrolls and multitudinous activities. Its lists of pamph
lets show how the government "thrusts its nose in every
platter and its finger into every pie," from the rradle to
the grave.
The circular says that "the old helief that government
publications are dry. dull lv.nks, full of statistics is cer
tainly belied hy sales figures for the month of ,lune.
Some government publications as the figures indicate,
now have a widespread audience and are in the 'best seller'
class."
The list of the five government "best sellers" follows
with the price and sales data:
1. "Your Child from S 12 " 20e. Nearly Ml.nnn sold to June.
2. "Care ana Repair of the House" 20e. Selling better than
,000 a week
I. "Prenatal Cera" Lie. New edlton selling Vnnfl a week
nd increasing
4. "Infant Care" He. More than A. .100,000 copies sold,
till averaging J. not) a week.
$, "Tha Child from One to Six" 20o. An old favorite now
eelling about 2.S00 week.
All of which ii perhaps very interesting and informative
to mother! and expectant mothers, hut why is it part of
the functions cf federal government to play the dry nurse
and family adviser at taxpayers' expense especially since
most of the authors are old maids and merely rewrite in
formation easily available from many sources to all girls
and woman I .
BY BECK
Discouraging
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Russia's Germ Warfare Held Wizard of odds
As Dangerous as A-Bomb
By DREW PEARSON
Washington For three years, a running filibuster has been
going on to keep the fair employment practices bill from com
ing up on the senate floor. But after 2,000 pages of testimony, the
weary talkathon was temporarily ended without fanfare when
the bill was discharged by the senate labor committee.
This
the
most controver
sial of all the
civil-rights leg
islation arid ia
certain to touch
off another fili
buster as soon
as it reaches tha
senate floor.
All that is
linlHintf it ttnt
..v..u...s "H
now is the dem- It
OcratiC high lm rearua
command still undecided
A ' ' ' A 1 "
aw A3. UM
GERM WARFARE
Despite the unpleasant news
about Russia'a A-bomb, those
who plan U.S. war strategy had
long ago figured on a Russian
weapon probably even more
gruesome namely, germ warfare.
Bacteriological warfare prep
aration is now no secret either
n the United States or Russia.
By the end of the war the Unit
ed States navy had developed a
atir m ranihla nf i. . I r i n rt mil IIia
whether to bring up civil rights entire japanese rice crop. Th.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Shirtsleeve Success
at the tail end of this session
while the senators are too tired
to talk and in a mood to go
home, or to save civil rights
until the 1950 election year
when it will be more potent po
The last words of the three-
FALlC ARE RESPON8tf.t FOQ
MOST FARM ACCIDENTS ... .
AVERAGE MEDICAL COST IS f 4
YOUR FAMILY IS
SUPPORTED IN PART
OR FULLY BY A
WOMAN. BY EVEN ODDS-'
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By DON UPJOHN
Happened to glance at a letterhead of The Woodburn Nurseries
of which Frank W. Settlcmeier is present proprietor and across
the top is a legend carrying a few significant dates which read
"George Settlemeier, 1850-1863; J. H. Settlemeier, 1863-1892; F.
W. Settlemeier, 1892 ? " It seems next year will be the cen-
tennial anniver-
sary for the'
since the
original George
set up the nurs
ery there in 18-
50. The letter-.
head further ad
vises that it is I
"one of the old-l
est nurseries i n
this good old
USA," and now
has 3.30 acres devoted to nurs-
f
where. To Frank, the present
Settlemeier, no spring chicken
himself, we wish quite a centen
nial year.
Movie sign on Capitol theater:
"It Happens Eve-y Spring One
Last Fling." That's what we'd
call the neat trick item of the
week. Many an old buck would
like to get the recipe.
year filibuster against the fair other would spread pestilence
employment practices bill were among human beings,
said behind closed doors. U.S. intelligence regarding
Starting off, the man who developments behind the Iron
blocked the bill at the previous Curtain is now much better than
session, Senator Forrest Don- at the end of the war. It's even
nell of Missouri, sputtered: known that the Russians are
"Drew Pearson in his newspa- working on inoculation for their
per column gave me undue own troops so they could ad
credit for delaying this bill!" vance into enemy territory im
What had happened was that mune to disease germs, after
DOnnell, though not a southern their own bacteriological war
democrat but a midwestern re- fare units had knocked out the
publican, had blocked the bill enemy.
on a technicality. Though this For some time this was to be
also had taken place behind Russia's chief answer to the
closed doors, it was reported ,mi. umh , ,, wrfa
germ, of course, was never used.
But since then, American sci
entists have continued their ex
perimentation, while Soviet sci
entists are reported to have been
working feverishly and to have pQQft MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
developed two types of virus.
One would wipe out cattle, the
ONE OF EVERY 9
UADDICn NADMCkl
'GOES HOME TO. MOTHER '
AT LEAST ONCE ,
Television Pioneer, 48, Sees
Colored TV 10 Years Off
By HAL BOYLE
Passic, N. J. (m A video pioneer says it will probably be at
least a decade before you can have rainbows in your living room.
"I figure color television is still 10 to 20 years away," said
Dr. Allen B. Du Mont, one of the "big three" TV manufacturers.
The federal communications commission is currently holding
hearings on
musnroomini
afterward in this column.
can be prepared in small, inex-
Dsn CFtoba
The speed control board has
established a 40-mile per hour
zone along the 12 street cut-off
ery purposes. In this Garden of from the Salem city limits to
Eden where horticulture has Fairview avenue, a matter of
played an exceedingly important two or three blocks as we re
part in all stages of its develop- member it. That means folks
ment this 100-year-old establish- heading out 12th street from in
ment which has passed through side the city are going to have
three successful generations of to choke down their speed pret
handling has done its full share, ty materially as they reach the
Operating a nursery for 100 limits from the way we've no
years through seasonal vicissi
tudes and all sorts of changing
conditions, economic or other
wise, is no mean accomplish
ment. And when it
done passing along from son to
ticed some of 'em driving.
As a rule we never considered
deer hunters taken as a group
has been what mignt be known as ultra
, . i- religious persons. But it seems
son it is even something more )he praZe,t ,hy st?rtei
noteworthy. In a way, also, it is
somewhat of an anomaly as it
carries out the old adage from
lng right after hearing that the
somewhat of an anomaly as it , son , naQ n , temporarily
Id .Hn. frnm cea in nonnwesi uregon De-
cause of dry timber got a speedy
and very effective answer.
shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves
three generations. But with
slightly different result, as we It might be the farmers dur
suspect the successful nursery- ing the summer some time can
man spends most of his time in call on the deer hunters to help
his shirtsleeves, if he gels any- 'em out.
Two-Part Assignment Outlined
For Pacing, Expectant Fathers
Seattle umThe expectant father pacing the hospital cor
ridor is traditionally pictured as a man with a lot on his mind
and not much to do.
The Washington State Health Department wants to change
that. And it has named two duties it feels that father should
take over at this critical period.
ine new fathers first duty: Write down previously-selected
names for both a boy and a girl. This is so the youngster
won't go through life with a birth certificate made out only
to "baby girl" Jones.
Secondly, write down both his and his wife's birth place
and birth d.ltlt. Thlc Inffirmallnn .1.. .v. . li.ii.
mat, ins 1,11 me uirin cer
tificate and is frequently garbled or guessed at If it isn't put
Into writing beforehand.
Father's new assignment is the result of a recent survey in
which the department got parents to check information of
21.000 newly filled-out certificates. About 25 per cent were
either wrong or incomplete. Most errors were traced to ex
citement at the time of the new arrival.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
All Want Atomic Control
If Can Agree on Method
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
tiT) rormn AfUIr AnllyMl
Russia's demand for international control of the atom bomb
(which she now claims to possess, and quite likely does), finds
complete agreement among the western powers providing an ac
ceptable method of control can be devised.
However, there's nothing new in that.
It's a statement which could
have been made at any time This old world of ours would
since June of 1948 when the sub- Indeed be a paradise if all na-
Ject first came before the United tions could be trusted to check
on themselves. However, hu
man nature still Is too tricky for
that. You could trust it with
hand-grenades but in the matter
of atomic bombs, "nyet," which
ia Russian for the veto.
So the way things stand there
can be no agreement unless Mos
cow retreats from qualifications
which the United Slaes and in
Western Allies feel not onlv
would nullify its value but
would create an extremely dan
g e r o u a international situation.
Pending the happy day of com
promise, America Is losing no
time in tightening up the mili
tary, economic and political
unity of the Western World In
view of the disclosure that Rus
sia has succeeded In making an
atomic weapon.
Far from making a headlong
rush to destroy her stork of
atomic bombs. America is going
ahead to maintain her advantage
Not pleased at being exposed, pensive laboratories instead of
Donnen went on angrily: "I the acres and acres of industrial
think the members of this com- plants necessary for A-bomb
mittee know I am not one to construction,
bicker over technicalities!" ...
This brought a hoot of delight wiNCHELL RESCUES
from the other senators, since .
Donnell has been known to de- .Tn J'278 Americans and oth
bate literally for an hour over er refugees who left beleaguer
the placement of a comma. e Shanghai last week aboard
the SS Gen. W. H. Gordon can
Red-faced, the Senator from thank Waer Winchell for their
Missouri went on to explain that rescue.
the only reason he had held up Behind that fact is an almost
the bill was at the request of unbelievable story of official
Alabama's Senator Lister Hill procrastination and red tape,
who had been called over to the For weeks, about 400 Americans
White House. have been pleading with their
Yet. no sooner had Donnell government for some means to
disclaimed responsibility for leave Shanghai, while the Amer
blocking the bill, than he turn- ican President Lines also has
ed around and called for more been pleading with the state
hearings which would have department and the navy for
prolonged the filibuster indefi- permission to enter Shanghai
nitely. and pick them up.
Minnesota's hair-trigger Sen- But the navy passed the buck
ator Hubert Humphrey leaped to the state department and the
to his feet. state department passed it back
"How much more hearings do on top of which Secretary of
you think we need?" he snort- Defense Louis Johnson said
ed. "We have already heard "No."
"L HLWltnesse who have Even the personal appeal of
filled 2,000 pages of testimony." Ge0rge Killion, head of the
In a vote on Donnell's pro- American President Lines, who
posal for more hearings, four has raised more monev (or the
other senators sided with him democratic party than Johnson,
Taft of Ohio Pepper of Florida, got nowhere. Killion had flown
H'o' Alabama, and Withers back from Europe to arrange the
of Kentucky Three senators evacuation, was willing to risk
1 HumPhrfv Bn for his ship. But the government
. CTl,hm" 0f V'.ah' NeeIy w n" wlll'nS red tape.
Montana rglma' " y Jinallv Walter Winchell
But Chairman Thomas pulled bIasted the.defen department
two nroxies out of the h. from for cowardice. Next morning
r.,o .-a rC...i "ie S.S Gen. Gordon was per-
whether to au
thorize color
telecasts.
"I think the
FCC will post
pone the thing
until they have
something d e
cent to go ahead
with," said Du
Mont. "There
has been no
real chance
fe4L, J
persons in the
new industry.
The stocky. 48-year-old scientist-turned-businessman
begaa
at the bottom. In 1931 the youna
inventor made the biggest deci
sion of his life "to be my own
j boss."
He hpBan turninff out cathode-
iJ ray tubes in a remodeled garage.
M ILhSI "Our sales for the first year
bi Bon. totaled exactly he recalled
inl inel nnoil fnf ei V
euner me taa or systems straight years.
in the last three years. But fey 1941 the jrm nad an
"We are experimenting with annual gross of $600,000. In
half a dozen methods ourselves, 1948 it had grown to $27,000,
but you can't make a foolproof 00o, and this year Du Mont ex
color system overnight. And pects it will reach $45,000,000
there just isn't a system ready to $50,000,00.
yet that is commercially feasi- H h hj, own teievision net-
work now and just this week
' dedicated at $2,000,000 plant at
The FCC announced in ad- East Patterson, N.J., capable of
vance of its hearings that it turning out a TV set every 20
wouldn't approve any color sys- seconds.
tern that would make television Du Mont has patented more
sets now on the market obsolete, than 50 inventions himself and
Du Mont believes that by 1953 still tinkers a couple of hours a
there will be 13.500.000 video day with some 60 TV sets he has
boxes in use, 1,000 TV stations set up in a laboratory near his
on the air, and some 950,000 home.
1 Krt.r tflfl fttfrfiv
Morse of Oregon, and Douglas
of Illinois for FEPC This
gave Humphrey and Thomas a
one-vote majority for a mo
ment at least.
mitted to enter Shanghai.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Most attentive newspaper re
porter at the senate debate over
Then Donnell triumphantly arms for western Europe has
pulled out a letter from Smith been quiet, red-haired Jean
of New Jersey, authorizing Don- Montgomery, of the Soviet's
nell to vote for him and trusting Tass news agency. She has been
to Donnell's "infinite wisdom." scribbling copious notes on
Donnell raised a question, how- everything that has been said
ever, on how the proxy should .for relay to Moscow,
be applied. Correction: Though Ben Man-
"Don't forget that you are em- del of the house un-American
powered with 'infinite wis- activities committee, keeps up
dom,' " chided Hill. "You can't certain contacts with Congress
make a mistake." man j0hn Rankin of Mississippi,
Finally it was agreed by an no longer on the committee, this
11-1 vote to discharge the bill column is now convinced that
without a recommendation eith- Mandel does not share Rankin's
er for or against it. The lone race views as previous stated.
nTssemer, in mis case, was not Sincere apoligies.
tCopyrlilu, 19101
Donnell but Hill of Alabama.
Nations in a big way.
Both sides call for control, but
the trouble has been that the So
viet and the.
west have been
as far apart as
the poles on
what the con
trols should be.
Moscow calls
for the absolute
prohibition of
atomic weaprf
ons. Well and I Ijk
good and I IB
three cheers by a,mm ,,,
all concerned. However, the Rus
sians want the destruction of
present atomic stockpiles be
fore any convention ia signed.
They also Insist on the retention
of the veto in matters affecttng
atomic control, and this veto
power could virtually nullify
the terms of an agreement.
One of the hottest points of ov th, Sovi Unon m lt()m.
controversy la Moscow's Insis- lc WMpon,. The partnership
tence that each nation rather with Canada and Britain in
V ... 1
n
than a United Nations commis
sion should do Its own Inspec
tions to make sure that there
are no violations.
Wall, I ask youl
atomic development
strengthened.
These moves are precaution
ary, however. Nobody is look
ing for war now.
Wham! 'Oh, I'm Sorry'
Lewlston, Mont., (UP! It was the first day of the hunting
season, and the hunter's mind was on prairie chickens.
As he came out of a coulee, a shotgun blast roared over his
head and he hit the dirt.
Shortly thereafter a red-coated female rushed up to him
and asked if he were hurt.
"I'm awfully sorry," she apologised. "I thought you were
my husband."
JAZZ-AGE STYLES RETURN
Flapper of the Twenties
Coming Back in Fifties
By DOROTHY ROE
' AA.ccritMl Ptpm Puhlon Sl
New York. Sept. 28 tPi The flapper of the terrible twenties is
due for a comeback in the fabulous fifties.
Newest indication is the return of the short evening dress.
favorite of the jazi age. now gaining general acceptance In the
bebop era. Along with the shingle bob. the shorter skirt and the
"bunny hug" coat, it is a sign--
of the times. them back in 1925. The waist-
Although tr.e short evening ijn, however, has not yet drop
dress has appeared in fashion . , h. . . . ...
collections for the last four or f d ,h hip' ,nd ,he bu,Iin,
five years, it has established it- ' lU Howed its natural curves,
self as a major fashion in all An indication of the wide ac
price ranges and age groups Just ceplance of the trend comes from
this season. Fashion authorities Ruth Jacobs, fashion editor of
agree that we'll be seeing it this "Women's Wear," who says:
winter on Main street as well as "There's no question about it
Park avenue. Short evening dresses are at
This nostalgia garment is . ...,..-, .i-m
is to be shown In various phases, most now. Although they've been
extreme of which I the street- around for several years, we
length chiffon sheath, embrot- have noted that each year has
dered tn rhinestones. Just as the seen a more general acceptance
John Held firls used te wear throughout the country."
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