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4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, November 12, 1949
Russia's A-Bomb 'Cold War' Weapon
Disclosures by Andrei Y. Vishinsky before the United
Nations of Soviet atomic energy progress was not only
"saber rattling" but a threat to peace. But they have all
the earmarks of bluff and hookum propaganda to scare
the world into appeasement. The previous admissions
that Russia has produced an atomic bomb may be in the
same category, part and parcel of Russia's "cold war" of
nerves. Vishinsky stated:
"We in the Soviet Union are utilizing atomic energy but not
in order to stockpile atomic bombs although 1 am convinced
that if, unfortunately and to our great regret, this were neces
sary, we should have as many of these as we should need, no
more and no less. We are razing mountains; we are irrigating
deserts; we are cutting through the Jungle and the Tundra;
we are spreading life, happiness, etc."
American atomic engineers and scientists discussed all
these uses of atomic power immediately after the war, and
dismissed them as impractical, limited save for very spe
cial purposes. For blowing up mountains, diverting rivers,
an equal amount of TNT would usually be better than the
best atomic explosion.
Howard W. Blakeslee, Associated Press science editor,
summarizes the following facts concerning Russian claims:
"No atomic explosive which Is smaller than our first atom
bombs will explode at all. It takes as much of any kind of
atom-splitting stuff as made those bombs to get any explosion.
There is no way of slowing down an atomic explosion. It is
either big, or none at all.
"There is no way of splitting an atom bomb, or any atomic
explosive, into small parts. This is one of the real handicaps
for atomic blasting for construction work.
"One atom bomb, or its equivalent in atomic explosive, can
not make more than a little dent in a mountain.
"There is the precious nature of atomic explosive which
might sharply limit use for blasting. It would be like using
gold instead of powder for digging ditches. It cost us $2 bil
lion to make the first bomb.
"In the special circumstances where an atomic explosive
might be preferable, there is an added handicap of making the
ground radioactive. The radioactivity would hang on for
years, always presenting hazards."
American atomic scientists were convinced by Vishin
Bky's statement that the Russians haven't any atomic
stockpile and don't know much about atomic energy at
least their UN spokesman didn't. Vishinsky admitted
that he didn't know where-the Soviet Union was making
or using the bomb, which it refuses cooperation for global
control.
If skilled Americans who have been working for many
years on atomic energy and perfected a bomb four years
ago, and have spent billions of dollars since its experi
mental development, have not yet solved the problem of
its beneficial use, how could the backward Russians in
3 years accomplish it? The day of miracles is past ex
cept for Soviet propaganda.
The Philippine Election
The election of Elpidio Quirino as president of the Phil
ippines, who defeated Jose Laurel, leftist and former Jap
anese puppet ruler during the war, means the continuation
of the present Philippine-American tie-up in the economic
and military fields as stipulated in the Roll act and war
damage acts of 1946 and in the military agreements of
1947.
Laurel, who is an able and experienced executive, is
avowedly anti-American becau.se of racial discrimination
he received here as a law student and his imprisonment by
the American army in Japan. Ho holds that the Philip
pines destiny is to return to Asia and stop looking west
ward, and would in all likelihood, make a tie-up with com
munist China and probably Soviet Russia.
During his campaign Laurel claimed that he accepted
the puppet presidency under the. Japanese to save his
people from further brutality and torture, from patriotic
motives, and his heavy vote from Japanese hating Filipinos
indicates many believed him. Since his release from prison
and repatriation after the war. he has conducted a sys
tematic campaign against giving Americans equal rights
with Filipinos in the exploitation and development of nat
ural resources and submitted a plebescite on the question
in 1947. He has attacked American political and economic
policies in the island and opposed the military bases agree
ment as making the Philippines an American puppet, in
his "destiny call" to the Filipinos.
Quirino. who became president through the death of
President Roxas, is not as colorful or able a man as Laurel,
but sound on the western democracy platform and will aim
to realize the safety and security of the Philippine nation
by continuing American ties. Moreover, Senator Fernando
Lopez of Uoilo who has been elected as vice president,
will be a tower of strength to the administration. He is a
lawyer of renown as well as an experienced executive in the
field of high finance and business. His integrity of char
acter and identification with the masses is the base of his
popularity.
BV BECK
This Changing World
I MRKIN6 METERS He RUINED THE STREET-SWEEPING 1
) BUSINESS IT'S TWICE THE WORK MOW, I USEO TO PUSH
ig fX HOST OF THE STUFF UNOER PARKED CARS AND THFY'D J
13 HT STANO THERE ALL OAV A NO THE INSPECTOR'O I
VER SPOT IT.. BUT NOW, WHEN THEY KEEP Z
JMOVINa, I OASSENT TAKE A CHANCE
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
American Arms Without
Friendship Won't Help Europe
By DREW PEARSON
En Route Through Midwest At Hays, Kansas, yesterday, I
relaxed from the alleged crouching position under the cabinet
table to tell something about people-to-people friendship.
I hope tolerant editors will forgive me if I devote second
column to the manner in which the American people, with no
prompting and
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
little encourage
ment from their
g o vernment,
have become, in
effect, their own
ambassadors.
What our dip
lomats and our
military don't
seem fully to i
realize are .he fe
W
it --I
a
If VOU WftNT TO GO
TO WEST POINT OH
ANNAPOLIS, BECOME A
BOY SCOUT....ODDS ON
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES
FAVOR SCOUTS, 13 TO 7.
Drew Feartfta
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Making Decisions Limited
To People Who Are Free
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Hecio Si Paul Bputcopu Churcb
Only free peoples are in a position to make decisions, but wher
ever there are free peoples there are decisions to be made.
Wherever the hand of despotism is not laid, there are decisions
to be made.
We prize our freedom greatly, but with that freedom we are
c onfronted
lines' thoughtful patriotism, this
group will correctly interpret
the U.S.A. to the European press
for years to come.
CITIES ADOPT CITIES
The above examples of Indi
vidual American initiative are
a mere cross-section of a great
story that would take many col
umns to tell. Scores of towns
and even villages in the U.S.A.
are adopting or cooperating with
cities in Europe. Butler county,
Kansas, is working with Beau
gency, France; Neosho county,
Kansas (my mother's old home)
with Zevenbergen, Holland;
Monroe, La., with Ingolstadt,
Germany; Greensburg, Ken
tucky with Staltach, Ger-
pact nations, but they don't par- many; and Worthington, Minn., pOflD AiAM'C DUIOCHDWCD
ticularly appreciate it if It lacks with Crailsheim .Germany. rKJKJK VIAf 3 rniLJijrnCK
the human touch. In the latter case, Worthing-
We can keep on building A- ton new is actually published
bombs and 70 air grouos and from tlme t0 tlme 'n the Crail-
even eiant airolane carriers un- shelm Papers, and a Worthing-
,il ni.p nnrknts are emDtv and ton float appearing at the
following fund
amental truths
about human nature:
You can put all the arms in
the world in Euroepans' hands,
but that doesn't necessarily make
'em right.
You can send food and Mar
shall plan money to Atlantic
DO PA AND MA TRV
TOO HARD TO MARRY OFF
DAUGLrTER?-SHE CLMMS ITS
I7TO 8 PA DOES - 7 TO S
THAT MA MEDDLES TOO MUCH.'
ITS 4TOl THAT THIS YCAP
OU CAM FIND A HOME OP AN
APARTMENT CHEAPER THAN A
vr&D Ann I
the American people are bled
Crailsheim fall festival.
It's Love That Begins at 40;
Hal Has Two Years to Go
By HAL BOYLE
New York WP) With politics out of the way for another year,
with endless de
c 1 s 1 o n s. We
must be willing
to pay the price
of deciding not
only the person
al course we
shall take, but
the course we
shall take as a
free people in
world affairs.
We should
have something
only about the
of life, but
ft
Rrv. Orrr Swlfl
to say, not
American way
something to
They have really only one deci
sion to make: the decision to do
what they are told. It is, in
the beginning at least, the easy
way out. It is the path of least
resistance. The program of the
Nazis was to bring the whole
world under the power of the
super-race, who would make all
the decisions. Such a regiment
ed world would do away with
the necessity of having to think
for oneself, but it would, in a
few generations, produce a
world of serfs and slaves.
We are deeply interested to-
say about how the rest of day in world peace. There are
,,hii n..t M wnn't nrovpnt wnen uarDer county, Kansas.
,.'r,io ho nennlo nf F.nrnriB established contact with Cler-
especially those behind the vaux, Luxembourg, the latter iet us return to a quaint, old-fashioned subject that enthralls
iron curtain are so friendly to- sen' the Kansans a painting by us aU,
ih tmorinn twnlp that their famous artist, Lily Unden. r r.- tn i. i'om,r ramnr v-.mn.,r
they oppose war. At flrst the. folks in Barber coun- The news from ths crowded field is pleasant 'ndeed to those
Now in this columnist's hum- i dwelling in thei
Me opinion, the most optimistic to ra.lse money for the Clervaux shady years of 5
developments in the world to- "."f"""- ") "- life. For with
day are, first, the fact that cer- clded there much senu- no government
tain of the iron curtain countries ment wrapped up in the portrait subsidies of any
Poland, Czechoslovakia and and they are raising the hospital kindi there has
Yugoslavia are now restless money through other channels. been wrought a
and leaning more toward the A total of 200 American towns ..fair dea,.. for
United States. And second is the and cltles "e cooperating with tne middie.aged
fact that the American people. European cities through writing man in the poli-
tired and discouraged as some " - " -""s'b , tics of love.
uuuAa, magazines auu reuei sup- jje nas tum-
pnes as one imporiani pan 01
the energetic drive of the Amer
ican people to be their own am
bassadors and thus make sure
that peace is here to stay.
(Copyright 1949)
the world will conduct itself, to
the end that other nations and
peoples will not endanger our
peace nor the peace of the other
nations in future years. The
United Nations is an assembly
of nations in which decisions af
fecting all may be made by free
individual members.
Not all people like to make
decisions. They are tortured by
the responsibility it entails. We
are told that nervous break
downs have been brought on by
being confronted with just or
dinary everyday decisions. Such
people prefer to be regimented.
They want to be told what to do.
many decisions to be made to
make it a stable thing. These
decisions must spring from peo
ples free to make them. When
free people from the greater part
of the world can assemble togeth
er and in orderly manner make
decision affecting their own se
curity and that of all other people,
we are well on the way to uni
versal peace.
Efforts toward the attainment
of world security and world
peace, wherein the individual is
free to develop his personality
in the realm of the spiritual as
well as in the material, should
have our undivided encourage
ment and support.
Bear Misses Sunshine
San Francisco, Nov. 12 u.R Mayor Elmer E. Robinson had
an explanation today for the reason that the bear he lost on
a wager to Chicago's mayor tried to escape from the windy
city xoo and had to be shoL
"It was perfectly understandable what the bear was do
ing," his honor said. "He was heading back toward the Cali
fornia climate."
SIPS FOR SUPPER
of them may be, are still work
ing at wooing friends on a peo-
ple-to-pcople basis.
Peace Doesn't Make Headlines
Wars and revolutions make
headlines, but man's groping ef
forts toward peace don't. Some
times they don't even make the
inside pages of the big newspa
pers. Nevertheless when the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
at Charleston, W.Va., adopts a
plan to bring 20 European young
men to West Virginia for one
year of employment and study,
it's news important news.
It's also news when the na
tional headquarters of the jun
ior chamber writes the state de
partment proposing that it fi
nance the trip of 100 young
Russians to study in the United
States.
This is news first because it
takes considerable courage to
make such a proposal. It might
be misinterpreted as pro-communist
by some people. But the
young businessmen who later
will be helping to run this coun
try have enough confidence in
their country to know that once
you get a group of young Rus
sians over here even though
communists they're pretty
sure to understand the Amer
ican people and like them. And
if you could get enough young
Russians here on regular visits,
it
his hand. They turn to the
older gent with a hundred acres
of land. But he doesn't win
them with his real estate. It's
his sex appeal. For it isn't life
that begins at 40 for the Ameri
can man. It's love you know,
l'amour, l'arhour, l'amour.
ed out to be the
Romeo of our
times.
Hal Bl
The public awoke to this fact
with the discovery that 57-year-old
Ezio Pinza. star of "South
Pacific," was affecting the weak
er sex in a way no other mat-
No longer do maidens sigh for inee idol has since Rudolph Val
the young man with an apple in entino. This grandpa still has
'em gasping with his bass-bel
lowed "Enchanted Evening."
And it isn't just a one-man
matter.
The current Issue of Cosmo
politan has found the same thing
to be true in the movies: the
real romantics the eight top
drawing men film stars are
all over 40.
Among the standouts are Bing
Crosby. 45, Gary Cooper and
Clark Gable, 48, and Humphrey
Bogart, the dean of panda-hug-gers
at 50, one year older than
the century he lives in.
Plenty of Fuel
BY DON UPJOHN
We haven't heard anything right recently about the Salem
man who was supposed to have solved the secret of operating
a car on water instead of on gasoline but we nuppose in due
course it will come to fruition. However, if it was desired to get
this sort of operation in general use around here yesterday would
have been
'0
The girls at home had better
begin taking to the beauty parlors.
A Portland concern has been
sending some decks of cards to
county officials as gifts. The
decks are nice ones, they have
only one drawback, all of the
aces have been left out. The of
ficials are advised that when
they attend their conventions in
Portland this month if they will
call at the office of the firm the
aces will be added. "I like the
decks better as they are," com
Strange Bedtime Hours
Shrffldcl, England, Nov. 12 (P) I.lfr tor l-year old Rob
ert Crahtree Is Just one round of hard work.
He told a bankruptcy court he worked at night at a mine
and by day selling fruits and vegetables In order to earn a
livinc and pay his creditors.
"When do you sleep?" the court asked. .
"I have one hour In bed In the morning," he answered,
"three hours In the afternoon and all day on Sundays."
Women Are Smarter (He Says)
Pullman, Wash. 0J.B Harry Chamber, registrar at Wash
ington State college, has eome up with some slailstlr on
last year's students which Indicate: women are smarter than
men; spring does not cause a lapse In grailri: marrird men
make better grades than bachelors and veterans are still
earning top grades.
good day to in
augurate it.
There was plen
ty of fuel float
ing around for
everybody.
Distance Lends
Enchantment
Olden burg.
Germany Ml I
Pretty Sigrid ,,
Von Hacssler is
the envy of other German girls.
She claims to have received 3,-
000 marriage proposals since her mentcd County Judge Murnhr-.
photograph appeared in an "When I play cards I never get
American magazine (True). Now any of them, anyway."
women arc writing to Sigrid Normacv
from this country where war Madison, Wis. Mi About 500
depleted the ranks of men. They men students let sheep, white
say: "You have 3.000 wooers, mice, guinea-pigs, cats and dogs
You can only marry one. Now loose in a University of Wiscon
about giving me one of the other sin women's dormitory last night.
2.990?" The letters of proposal While co-eds and alumnae stood
have come from many parts of on chairs and squealed, the men
the world. But the 23-year-old paraded around the dormitory
beauty is exercising a woman's and flung bedclothes off the beds,
pcrogative. She has not made Campus cop Joe Hammcrsley
up her mind. Sigrid, a former pulled up in his squad car. rush
doctor's assistant, actress and cd in and. with- the help of
dancer, was married once be- other officers, herded the mc
fore. Her husband was a Ger- nagerie out- of Elizabeth Waters
man naval officer. She told hall. When Hammcrsley got back
newsmen that two of the lead- to his car he found it with the
ing candidates were a Journalist tires flat and a well greased pig
(unidentified) in Tokyo and a reclining on the seat. It was,
chap who sent his mother to con- police said, a "normal" home
vince Sigrid that he was the man. coming eve.
Bright Smile Worth Bright Dollar
llarrisburg. Pa. n A smile was worth a bright silver
dollar In Pennsylvania's state capital today.
The llarrisburg Optimist club posted members along down
town streets to give away $1,000 to passershy wearing the
biggest and broadest smiles.
"The only requirement," explained Optimist President
David Porter. "Is a great big smile. This Is one day we
hope there won't be a frown In town."
Standing at strategic street corners. Optimist members
handed out rertificates to pedestrians with the broadest
smiles. Each certificate was exchangeable for a brand new
silver dollar.
souls are ignor-
it would eventually make a real ant, and inde'4
dent In the iron curtain. many are prim-
The state department, reply- Hives. Thus
lng to the Junior chamber, as the average per-
usual was evasive, uui mean- centage of liter
while the junior chamber of acy -a low.
commerce of Texas has launched ve, therefore,
a plan called "Jaycee Universal are about to
Understanding" under which, witness a devel-
for example, Amariuo, lexas, is opment of far
CUUperuillIK. Willi 3uiuuig, nua'
Dog Wagged Burglars Out
Chicago UP) Two gunmen spotted an Alaskan husky asleep
in the corner of a southside book store and warned the clerk:
"Don't wake that hound. If he gives us any trouble,
we'll shot him."
But Miss Clarinda Buck, the clerk, said they spoke too
loudly in ordering her to hand over $50 and roused Gaucho.
But Gaucho wagged his tall as he walked over to the rob
bers and followed them to the door.
The gunmen fled.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
India Will Experiment
With Mass Education
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
tun Porclco Affair Analrxti
India's worst problem Is poverty, as Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru told an American audience the other day, and I Imagine
that if he were questioned further he also would put illiteracy
high on the list of his vast country's difficulties.
India has many centers of culture, but the great majority of the heart from some interior
her 300,000,000 .,- ,.. , - - . radar of her own.
Mrs. Dix
But this recognition of the
mellowed male didn't become
official at least not in my mind
until it was confirmed by
Dorothy Dix.
I have always thought that
Dorothy knew more about love
than either Freud or Dr. Kinsey
suspected. They had to ask peo
ple questions about it. Dorothy
just knows all about affairs of
This statement should be oual- Wcl1- t'other day,
Men h I n tf lm.
tria, first by correspondence, la- portance m the D'"" e,,l
ter by financing the trip of a launching of a new program of
Salzburg citizen to Amarmo education for India. Edu- tale, fahle. w. .tnrl m.
ified by recording that there saia yes' " was lrue tnat men
have been efficient schools in over 40 are most attractive to
the important centers of culture. women- .she said girl bobby
However, most of the population or mightn t agree, but they
lives in tiny villages amidst dir- aldn t.ukno ""?!, ,moJe . .
est poverty. men t"an they did about food.
mm uuiuuiy gave reasons.
, , . She said the mature fellow knew
Apart from formal schooling, more abou. m had t(J
a considerable part of the popu- talk about and understood wo-
lation has acquired a certain men better than reckless youths,
amount of learning in an un- A baid head and pot tummy
usual manner didnt offset thfi lntellectual
r J ui . n,"ory la"y charm that only years bring, in
where they can swap ideas with ."7.. m '. IkT.i .7. ' T" mar- her opinion.
him and discuss problem, first- """" T ha. announced " T. Doroth summed UP
i,..H Kalam Azad has announced ed m epic poems, and for untold "it ls because the man of 40
LABOR LEADERS HELP TXW. 1""? '"T 1' Zl PUy
This urge for more contact be- fen .f" s n'h' ln a drlve been r?layfd to the people by UPon them as upon a harp of a
tween peoples isn't confined to to reduee "eraey; professional reciters. thousand strings that makes him
little business or to educational ,.y?u troll through the resl- more dangerous to women at
groups. It exists also among big This, of course, lsn t a brand dential part of an Indian city of that age than any other."
business and labor unions. The new idea, but rather is the am- an evening, as I have done, you Oh, boyl Oh, boy! Oh, boy!
Amalgamated Clothing Workers plification of one which has will hear the weird sound of
has established a factory in Italy been employed on a much small- these reciters declaiming to the Ladies, I'm giving you fair
to demonstrate American me- er scale in several countries, In- assembled family. In this fash- warning. I'm 38, getting bald,
chanized methods to Italian eluding India Itself. Ion, at least, the folklore of the and I'm 15 pounds overweight,
workers. Irving Brown, of A.F. For example, Nigeria and country is handed down from But in two more years I'll be
of L. representative in Brussels, some otner African colonies 'ather to son. swashbuckling, fascinating devil,
has done more than many Amer- have used the plan for mass edu- One highly Important Innova- looking for his fair share ofl
lean amDassanors 10 give turo- catjon on , volunteer basis, and uu" years nas peen me narp playing.
in some places it has worked n"on oi raaio seis in many incre s a good gray time
well. Apart from the educa- vlU8 centers by the govern- a'coming for us all, boys it our
pean labor leaders a true picture
of American democracy. And
Henry Ford, with no commer
cial advertising for his cars, is
helping the American public to suitcd
uiiuersiaiiu me uimeu rtuiiuus
by televising U.N. sessions every
day.
Again, American Airlines se
lected 30 key newspapermen
from key European countries,
even including iron curtain Fin-
tional value it has developed a
community spirit which has re
in cooperative enter
prises.
India herself for years past has
had community centers in the
cities and big towns, where the
underprivileged have been af
forded educational facilities. The
educated Indian women have
played a large part in this work
ment one set to a community, arteries last.
DEATH RATE GOES DOWN
Health Tests Said to Improve
'Quality and Quantity' of Life
! I r. I 1. . U H MnM.
loiiu, dim .uun incin i.n m mil.- , , ,. r I..,!-. : niB r- n ,.,J ..
plete tour of the USA all ex- P'a-Vea large pan in win wom numt.ni, i.n w vr. nuasiii m. uvuacr oi xne Mayo
Denses Daid U S mavors aov- nd have displayed a great sense Foundation here says a scientific experiment In human nutrition
ernors. and cabinet members of responsibility toward the low- has improved the "quality and quantity" of life in Newfound-
were delighted to cooperate. er class members of their sex. land.
But when It came to the state Heretofore, apart from private Wilder was one of nine medical scientists from Canada, Eng-
department, Stanley Woodward, Institutions, many of the prl- land and the United States who
a stickler for protocol, refused mary schools of the country have made the study. It covered the The death rate from all causes
to let them see President Tru- been very loosely run by local entire population. fell from 12.1 to 10.5 per thous-
man. Finally wiser head Michael authorities which have been The experiment consisted sim- and people. Deaths from tuber-
McDermott of the state depart- short of funds. As a result, prl- ply of fortifying margarine with culosis decreased sharply ln the
ment prevailed, and the Euro- mary education, where it has ex- vitamin A and enriching flour first two years of the expert-
pean editors did see Truman. isted at all, has been pretty with vitamins, thiamine, ribo- ment. It fell from 135 per 100,-
As a result of American Air- much of the hit or miss variety, flavin and niacin, Wilder said. 000 to 101, he said.
Choice Meal of Rattlesnake Meat
Tucumcarl. N. M. CO Mrs. Jack Latham was startled as
she began dressing a chicken there, poking out of Its gullet,
was a rattlesnake's tall.
Her husband split the fowl open. Just as they suspected, It
had swallowed a 1.1-lnch rattler, head first.
Tba Lathams and their four guests ate pork. -
Outward signs of malnutrition
became less prevalent in New
foundland In 1948 than they
were In 1944, when the experi
ment began.
"Much of the apathy and li't
lessness so characteristic of the
1944 population disappeared,"
Wilder said.
"Infant mortality rates drop
ped in the first three years of
the test from 102.3 per 1,000 to
61," Wilder reported.
"The bearing of these data on
the significance to public health ,
of the bread and flour enrich-
' ijiu.ii.iii vi lilt W1111CM
States warrants emphasis.'
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