12 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Friday, December 9, 1949
Name-Calling Title Won
By Russian UN Entry
By CHARLES A. GBUMICH
Lake Success, Dec. 9 Vft The Russians easily won the name
calling championship of the 1949 United Nations assembly de
spite efforts to shut them up when they got to bandying epithets.
They also introduced some new developments in this field by
mixing entomology and etymology calling people lice, beetles
'and cocKroacnes and Keying
their campaign to what they
they call American worship of
atomic energy, or bombolatry.
The individual champion name
caller and word coiner was the
Soviet Ukraine's fiery old white
maned Bolshevik, Foreign Min
ister Dmitri Z. Manuilsky, a slav
with a roaring laugh and a bit
ing tongue.
There was some name calling
from outside the Soviet orbit,
principally in the still bitter
Arab-Israeli battles over Pales
tine. But that was intramural
or minor league stuff compared
with what the Russians got away
with.
Assembly President Carlos P.
Romulo tried to stop the flow of
name calling and succeeded only
partly. Once he ruled a speak
er who offended would be cut
off the amplification-translation
system and find himself talk
ing only to himself and a few
people nearby.
When that failed to keep the
words off the air, Romulo ruled
some of them out of the record,
but not out of the public prints
or out of the ears of radio lis
tencrs.
Caution Urned in
Use of Fertilisers
Seattle, Dec. 9 W) Soil and
health experts, speaking at a
farm conference, today listed
numerous cases in which they
said minor mineral elements
used in fertilizers have cured
disease in crops and Improved
yields.
But at the same time, they
warned against "shot gun" use
of such minerals In fertilizers.
The speakers at the Univer-
ity of Washington-sponsored
meeting pointed out that soils
often lack some of the minor
elements, such as copper, zinc
manganese, iron, boron and co
balt. This causes diseases in
crops and, as a result, troubles
in livestock that eat the crops.
Most fertilizers now generally
In use are made up primarily of
phosphorus, nitrogen and potas
sium and are not designed to
make up for shortages of minor
elements.
Several conference speakers
urged addition of minor ele
ments to fertilizers where need
ed.
However, Dr. Jennie I. Rown
tree of the university's depart
ment of home economics, warn
ed that "excessive, premature or
inadvisable use of trace (minor)
elements may give the soil pro
gram a bad reputation and post
pone improvement for decades."
Dr. B. B. Coyne of a Seattle
research laboratory (Laucks)
suggested using newer methods
of soil analysis to determine just
what soils need.
Polk Campaign
One-Third Shy
Dallas Polk county's Com
munity Chest drive has been
called off for the present with
only about one-third of the $12,
000 quota in the hands of Bill
Blackley, secretary-treasurer.
Oscar Christensen, chairman,
and Blackley pointed out that
the drive was running into other
campaigns, such as the Christ
mas seal sale, Red Cross drive
and others which do not come
under the chest. Apparently
bogged down for the present, the
campaign will therefore be post
poned at least until May, 1950.
Blackley has asked that all
solicitors in the county turn in
reports and funds at once so that
a complete compilation may be
made. No returns have been
received from Independence,
Monmouth, West Salem, Grand
Ronde, Falls City and Rlckreall,
although It Is understood that
the drive has gone over the top
in some of those communities.
In Dallas a total of $3298 has
been raised, leaving $1202 to go
to attain the goal of $4500.
Valsetz Lumber company this
week turned in a donation of
$250 from Valsetz.
When all solicitors have made
reports, it is hoped that partici
pating agencies may be paid 50
percent of their budgets as ap
proved for the county chest.
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Romnln sairf in Rentemher he
uanteri in malt, this an Hnivn
in historv as the oeace assemblv
of the 59 nations. It didn't.
Western language by contrast
was generally firm, but inoffen
sive, in description of personal
ities. Britain s Minister of State
Hector McNeil a Scot with a
sharp burry tongue and a liking
for repartee, once referred to
Sergeant Major Vishinsky and
his little platoon" from the small
Slavic minority. On another oc
casion McNeil called the Rus
sian Foreign Minister Mr. Vish
insky, begged his pardon, and
made it Professor Vishinsky.
McNeil and Vishinsky punctu
ated one full day of debate with
fables based on the struggles of
the animal kingdom for survival
to picture each other in parable.
The Soviet bloc referred to
Chinese Nationalists (plural)
once as "the pygmies" and al
ways as delegates or representa
tives of the Kuomintang (gov
ernment party) instead of call
ing them Chinese delegates and
were admonished to identify
them properly as coming from
a member country of the U.N.
Manuilsky, an old revolution
ary buddy of Joseph Stalin, let
few opportunities pass. He
shrugged off reprimands.
Toward the end of the session
in a "peace" debate he said war
mongers in the United States and
Britain are cockroaches, lice
and beetles without putting
names to match the Insects. That
was okay since no names were
used.
Ike to Hunt with
Texas Oilman
Galveston, Tex., Dec. 9 W)
General Dwight E. Eisenhower
turned hunter today and that's
what he intends to be for the
next several days of his visit to
Texas
The wartime leader of Ameri
can forces in Europe yesterday
called for preservation of the
dignity and equality of every
American.
'If all Americans want is se
curity, they can go to prison,"
he told a combined meeting of
this resort city's luncheon clubs.
"But if an American wants
to preserve his dignity and his
equality as a human being, he
must not bow his neck to any
dictatorial government."
He urged the people to vote in
every election from school
board members to presidents."
'America will never be lost
if we vote," he said.
He quoted Patrick Henry's
Give me liberty or give me
death," and said that regardless
of race, creed or color, "The dig
nity of the human being should
be preserved."
Eisenhower is a guest of Sid
Richardson, Texas oilman, at St.
Joseph's island in the Gulf of
Mexico. His next speaking en
gagement is Dec. 15 at the an
nual dinner of the Fort Worth
Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Eisenhower accompan
ied her husband on his visit
here. A reporter asked her
"Would you like to be the wife
of the president of the United
States?"
She answered:
"What American woman
wouldn't wnat her husband to be
president?"
Equipment Damaged
By Bowling Alley Fire
About $1500 in damage by de
struction of bowling pins, equip
ment and 20 gallons of lacquer
was done by fire at the Capitol
Bowling alleys on Ferry street
Thursday afternoon.
The fire occurred in a room
beneath the alleys when sparks
from sandpaper set fire to saw
dust from bowling pins that
were being worked on by Chet
Boyce, an employe. Boyce at
tempted to smother out the
flames, but fumes from paint in
the room caused the fire to
spread.
Smoke filled the alley rooms
above, but no damage was done
there, according to Milton Hart
well, one of the owners. Hart
well said a very serious fire may
have been prevented by advice
reccvied from Fire Chief W. P.
Roble soon after he took charge
of the fire department. This
was removal of pin repairing
equipment and supplies to a
place remote from the alleys.
New Formula for Parity
Will Be Started January 1
By OVID A. MARTIN
Washington, Dec. 9 W) The government will start using a new
standard Jan. 1 for measuring prices of many farm products.
The purpose of using the standard is to determine whether, in
the language of congress, those prices are "fair and equitable."
The standard is called "modernized parity," as distinguished
from "parity" for the old meas-
uring rule.
The government first started
measuring farm prices in 1933.
Provision for doing so was made
in precedent-breaking crop con
trol legislation enacted by the
Roosevelt New Deal administra
tion to revive a bankrupt The
law authorized use of various
measures to pull prices up to the
parity level.
The agricultural adjustment
act of 1933 said in effect that
farmers were entitled to prices
for their products which would
give those products the purchas
ing power, in terms of non-farm
goods and services, that they
enjoyed in a past favorable pe
riod, usually 1909-14. In other
words, the law said a dozen eggs
should buy as many nails as it
did in the base period. Main
tenance of such relationship, he
added, would be "fair and equit
able to all."
The law set up a formula
for determining parity prices
for various products. Except in
a few cases, this formula has
been in constant use for 17
years.
But congress has directed that
the formula be changed the first
of the year. It said, in effect,
that the old forr-ula is not ac
curate enough because it does
not take into account changes in
the demand and in the costs of
producing various products since
the 1909- 15 period.
The new formula will take
info account demand conditions
and production costs of the im
mediately preceding 10 years.
In general the new formula
will set up somewhat higher
parity prices for livestock and
livestock products and lower
ones for crops. These differ
ences reflect in the main the
fact that modern machinery has
reduced the cost of producing
most crops, while higher wage
rates have boosted the cost of
producing livestock and live
stock products.
Where did the idea of a par
ity measuring standard for farm
prices originate?
It is impossible to get an an.
swer acceptable to all farm lead
ers and agricultural historians.
One of those active in efforts
to get federal farm-aid legisla
tion during the '20's and '30s
M. L. Wilson, now director of
the U.S. Extension Service
says perhaps a hundred or so
persons could claim some credit
Historians generally agree
however, that George N. Peek
and Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, as
sociates in a midwestern farm
machinery concern, were among
the first to sponsor it. They orig
inated the slogan "equality for
agriculture" in a book publish
ed in 1922, when agriculture
was suffering from depression
Peek later became the first agri
cultural adjustment administra
tor and Johnson the head of
NRA, an emergency agency set
up in 1933 to help revive indus
trial prosperity.
The idea of attempting to give
farm prices purchasing power
equal to that of the 1909-'14 pe
nod was embodied in the famous
McNary Haugen farm aid bill
passed in the '20 s and vetoed
by President Coolidge.
Many farm leaders in and out
of government contributed to
eventual passage of a law vet
ting up the parity standard.
They include Peek, former Sec
retary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace, President Edward A.
O Neal of the Farm Bureau Fed
eration and several farm leaders
in congress.
Rexford G. Tugwell, a mem
ber of the famous "brain trust,"
has been credited with helping
to sell the idea to President
Roosevelt and to work out de
tails of the parity formula.
Livestock Disease.
Under Investigation
Seattle, Dec. SOT Disease
among livestock in the Astoria,
Ore., area, believed due to a
lack of some important mineral
element in the soil, will be in
vestigated this week by an east
ern expert in that field.
Dr. Kenneth C. Beeson, direc
tor of the U.S. plant, soil and
nutrition laboratory at Ithaca,
N.Y., said today he had been
asked by an Oregon agricultur
al experiment station to make
the investigation.
He is here attending a Uni
versity of Washington chemur
gic conference.
"Just what is causing the
trouble has not been establish
ed," Dr. Beeson said. '"How
ever, it is believed to be due to
a shortage of cobalt in the soil
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GIVES
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But when he said one Leban-
ses delegate was an ignoramus
and that French Delegate Jean
Chauvel wasn't a Socrates men
tally, his remarks were expung
ed from the record by the in
dignant Romulo.
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