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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Salem. Oregon
Saturday, August 29, 1953
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NEGLECT OF SOLAR ENERGY '
In the September Issue of the Magazine Fortune, Eric
Hodgins, former member of the President's Material Poli
cy Commission and one of the periodical's editors, points
out that while we are spending billions developing atomic
and hydrogen power, we have neglected solar radiation,
power from the sun, "the most important" of all sources
and one that can rescue the world from an impending
energy crisis. At the rate the world is burning up its
coal, oil and gas, it faces "deepening trouble" in a few
decades.
Hodgins declares that the domain of solar energy ts
the most neglected in research of all science, though in
vested with the greatest public interest This neglect
persists, despite the consensus of leading U. S. scientists
that in the long run, solar energy will beat out atomic
energy as the prime mover of the future .world. At pres
ent power either from the sun er from the atom is
uneconomic compared with traditional fuel sources.
Private research is now proceeding in two directions:
the design of cheap heat collectors for running engines,
evaporators, stills, etc; and exploration of the mysteries
of photosynthesis (in the hope of learning how to manip
ulate nature's own process of making carbohydrates out
of water and carbon dioxide with the lielp of sunlight
and chlorophyll). Closer control of the photosynthesis
reaction could enable the world not' only to produce
enough food for its mounting population, but to grow
fuel by the same industrialized techniques. .
Hodgins states that trillions of kilowatt hours are
going to waste in the radiation lavished on the earth
by the sun. Only 0.05 per cent of the energy offered by
the sun is utilized.
It has been suggested that massive governmental
funds (on the A-bomb scale) be applied to every aspect
of solar-energy research: which includes not only space
heating, but the economic breeding of algae for protein;
solar stills to produce drinkable fresh water from the sea;
solar-heat engines to pump water for irrigating arid
regions; cheap collectors for power generation, etc. He
adds:
"Rising Donulation Wessures and a deilra (particularly In
the U. S.) for consumption on
grind up tne rock of Ages for toothpaste are straining our
capacities to supply the necessary materials, food, and energy
to keep ourselves going. In the hundred years that ended in
1950, Induttrlal Man consumed two-thirds as much energy
as was used throughout the entire Christian era. That la a
world figure: In the U. S. we now coniume fifty tlmea more
energy per year than we did when Thomas Jefferson was
President.
"The sun offera to the earth a bounty, an inconceivable
bounty, of a million trillion
a year. Sixty per cent of thla
the radiations strike Its heavy
or returned to apace, me balance, a mere 400.000 trillion Kwn
strikes land and sea, where again the largest fraction bounces
off. But some 120,000 trillion kwh becomes the means to
the greatest mass-production phenomenon known to man:
'photosynthesis' by the vegetable kingdom. The tantalising
fact ia that we hobble along on only 0.05 per cent of the
energy offered us by the sun, and let all the rest slip from
our grasp." G. P.
WHAT THE FRENCH THINK OF US
Americans assume themselves to be in the doghouse
with the French, and there've been many evidences of
this of late. But a poll answered by 5000 of those
40,000,000 Frenchmen whom they say can't be wrong
raises a question about this.
A French magazine polled its readers on their reac
tions to America and Americans, with interesting, not
to say surprising results in that they were more favorable
to the United States than anyone would have anticipated.
The group voted Switzerland their favorite foreign
country, but the U. S. was second, Russia last and Britain
near the bottom. Switzerland did nothing for France in
either of the last two wars in which America and Britain
were France's faithful allies, but that's the way they
voted. ' "
Thirty-two percent indicated a belief that Americans
are interested only in money and have a lot of it Thirty
four percent think Americans overly stirred up over Com
munism. Only 32 percent felt any gratitude to the U. S.
for its help in the war and since. Another 32 percent
presumably the Communists, said the U. S. should pull
her troops out of France and Western Europe.
The French took a dim view on several features of
American life. Fifty-four percent expressed a dislike of
our jazz, 43 percent didn't like our movies and 70 percent
didn't like our chewing gum. But only 36 percent voted
against American cigarettes.
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friends in France than it appeared we had.
THE BEAN GROWERS NEED HELP
Salem folk the office worker, the clerk, the mechanic
and in fact the average garden run of everyday citizen
will be passing up an excellent opportunity to add to their
, wallets if they fail to heed the call of the bean yards.
Man can do little about the weather, which is probably
a blessing to all concerned, but he can be of assistance
to the farmer who has been confronted with situations
since last spring that have arisen to plague him sorely.
The man who tills the soil .was delayed in getting his
seed into the ground because of a wet spring. This meant
a delay of some three weeks in bringing the beans into
production.
Now the bean pods are hanging from the vines in such
numbers and with such weight they threaten to collapse
the entire crop. It is such a harvest that even the least
nimble of fingers and hands may reap a rich reward.
The pay of 2 cents a pound is enticing in view of
the quantity. And while the harvest hand is lining his
own pockets, he will be doing his neighbor, the farmer,
a fine turn by giving him a hand.
It is not generally realized
center of a great food producing country. But it is true.
If the farmer fails to harvest
by the entire community.
DAM BIDS ASKED
Portland u. The Portland
district Corps of Engineers has
called for bids Sept 1 tor de
sign, manufacture and delivery
of either two or three 370-ton
a seal that would eventually i
kilowatt - hours In the course of
the earth immediately relects:
cloud envelope and are absorbed
that Salem is primarily the
his crop the result is felt
double trolley electrically op
erated bridge cranes, two 350-
ton lifting beam for use at The
Dalles dam protect on the Lot
umbia river. The bids will be
opened Oct 29.
WASHINGTON MERRY
How U. S. Got Into This
Profitless India Debate
By DREW
Washington The most un
fortunate public debate this
country has engaged In for
years whether India should
sit on the Korean peace com
mission came about because
of a series of diplomatic inep
titudes. Non-diplomat would
call them boners. Here are
some of them:
Boner No. 1 Secretary
Dulles gave a firm promise to
Syngman Rhee that India
would not sit on the peace
commission. In New York we
have been trying to live up to
that promise which never
should nave been given.
Boner No. X The Church
ill government gave a firm
promise to Premier Nehru of
India that his country would
sit on the comm'ssion. Britain
has been trying to live up to
this promise which also
should not have been given.
Boner No. S The Elsen
hower administration fired the
most popular of all U. S. am
bassadors to Hindis, Chester
Bowles, just when It especial
ly needed a man who had the
personal friendship and con
fidence of Premier Nehru. Am
bassador George Allen, ' who
replaced Bowles, is an A-l di
plomat but is a long way off
yet from having Nehru's con
fidence. Boner No. 4 John Foster
Dulles tried to sell a news con
ference on the idea that the
Eisenhower administration had
brought a truce in Korea by
being tough with the Chinese.
When newsmen asked how
come, Dullea said he had tip
ped off Premier Nehru that
strong action would be taken
against China, and that this
word was immediately sent
back to the Chinese. Of
course, the Dulles statement
also got back to Nehru, and of
course he got sore. For Dul
lea, statement- put him in the
position of being a spy for the
Chinese. This is one reason
why Nehru has had his "back
up about sitting on the Ko
rean peace commission.
INDIA INFLUENCES A8IA
Tragic result of all this is
that a few years ago the Unit
ed States was the most popular
of all nations with the Indian
people. FDR bad worked for
Indian Independence. Ameri-
missionaries had made a
great impression on India. We
were looked upon as the
champion of oppressed peo
ples. Today we are on a par
with Russia In being disliked
and distrusted in India
partly aa a result of the un
fortunate V. N. debate.
What Ambassador Cabot
Lodge and Secretary Dulles
apparently don't realize ia that
India today la the most influ
ential nation In Asia an
Asia which the republican
party claims wss neglected
and alienated ny uean Acne-
ion. India s Influence is such
that our persistent stand
against India Is being resented
by India's neighbors Burma,
Indonesia, Indo-Chlna, Thai
land, Malaya the aame vital
countries we have been trying
so hard to woo.
Note Chief reason Syng
man Rhee doesn't want India
at the conference table ia that
Rhee's baste ambition Is to
have the conference break up
and fighting resumed. He
, THE ATOMIC RACE
- GO - ROUND '
PEARSON
knows he Isn't likely to get
united Korea if the peace con
ference succeeds
Spanish Dictator Franco
was so pleased with the deal
the U. S. gave him for air
bases that he ordered Spain's
fanciest medal presented to
the man who aid most of the
backstage pressuring, demo
cratic Senator Pat McCarran
of Nevada. Franco not only
got all past Spanish aid un
blocked, but also wangled a
promise out of U, S. negotia
tors that they would ask con
gress for $400 million addi
tional aid during the next five
years. Franco gives most of
the credit to McCarran, who
has done a better job of rep
resenting Spain than Nevada.
For his services, McCarran
was awarded the glittering
grand cross of the Order of
Isabel la Catholica . . . Sec
retary of .Labor Durkin's for
mer union the plumbers
is preparing another blast at
the Eisenhowei administration
Senator McCarthy dellb-i
erately held off his hearings
on the government printing of
fice until congress adjourned,
so he'd Have a clear field for
reaping headlines. 'He had
known about Edward Roths
child, the alleged ex-communist,
being in the government
printing office for months . . .
Illinois' democratic Senator
Paul Douglas, one of the abl
est men in the senate, is sound
ing out the grass roots bsck
home before announcing
whether he'll run again. . If
he decides to pull out, friends
of Adlai Stevenson are urging
him te run for the senate in
Illinois.-
President Eisenhower has
received a not-too-subtle re
minder that the nation s real
dirt farmers ran't afford the
honor of being named to the
president's newly crested Ns
tional Agricultural Advisory
Committee. -
The reminder came from
Jim Patton, president of the
National Farmers Union, who
vrote Eisenhower that the 12
"representative farmers" to be
named to the commisison
"must be able to expend in ex
cess of $2,000 to attend the
four meetings per year.
- A farmes with that much
extra cash in his pockets just
isn't "representative," Patton
maintained. ,
Executive order No. 10472.
creating the advisory' group,
requires that commission
members pay all of their own
expenses in connection with
their tour annual meetings.
And according to Patton, those
expenses would total about
$2,000 per year per member.
"Mr. President." cautioned
Patton, "the "representative
farmer In the U. S. today can
not afford $2,000 to give his
government the benefit of his
experience, knowledge and
skills in agriculture.'
lODTTUM in
TRAPPED HIMSELF
Clinton, Okla. Donald
Cowdy, driving along a high
way near here, decided to
clock the speed of an airplane
flying overhead. When he
reached SO miles an hour,
Cowdy discovered, to his sor
row, the plsne wss a highway
patrol aircraft with two way
radio to a patrol car ahead.
'More U.N. Ills
By RAYMOND MOLET .
The United Nations organ
ization is beset with troubles,
largely of its own making.
Congress is probing into the
loyalty of some of its employes.
The American people in large
numbers are wondering wheth
er the whole thing is worth
what it costs. And newspaper
readers are bored with the bel-
lowings of Vishinsky.
But there is another group
more immediately concerned
with this international congre
gation the people of the host,
New York City. The swarm
ing employes of the U. N. are
exercising privileges with little
concern. for the rights of the
numerous and patient burghers
of New York. For years now
the immense job of construction
has been in progress on the
East River in the neighborhood
of Forty-Second street One
street after another has been
either shut off or pushed over.
or clogged with construction.
Meanwhile, the problem of
transportation has grown. For
the unfortunates, like this writ-
er, who lives uptown and works
on 'Forty-Second street, com
munication by private automo
bile .became impossible long
ago. .The difficulties of mid
town parking are well nigh in
superable except for a few min
utes here and there. My own
transportation problem in
volves either a long walk and
two subways, or three differ
ent buses, or a half-hour's taxi
ride.
But U. N. employes,' when
ever they live, enjoy marvel
ous Immunity. Hundreds of
cars accumulate with the magic
ense plates.' Long stretches of
streets in tne nusy section oi
mldtown are literally lined
with the cars of these interna
tional workers.
But in the course of the con
struction, the city and the U.N.
had agreed to the Inclusion In
the buildings of subsurface ga
rage space for 1500 cars. This
was constructed, but instead of
using it all for the parking for
which it was intended, the
U. N. has used space for 2S0
cars as room for storage.
After polite auggestions from
",
parking of U. N. employes were
ignored, the temper of Robert
Moses rose to the boiling point
Moaes is not only Park Com
missioner, but the official liais
on between the city and the
U.N. He wrote a scorching let
ter to Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold.
The use of the garage tor
storage, Moaes pointed out, was
In violation of the original
agreement under which the city
has spent $22,000,000 to Im
prove highway approaches and
to widen the streets around the
U. N. plant, the ground fori
which was provided by a citi-j
ten of New York, John D. !
Rockefeller. Moses went on to j
say that the use of garage space
for storage was not only "silly" I
administration but "a rather;
poor way of repaying those who
have been your friends."
Up to now, Moses continued,
he had been a friend and sup
porter of the United Nations,
but one of his difficulties at
the present time is to persuade
the public that the "United Na
tions Is not an arbitrary, extra
territorial institution which
pays no attention to the rales
and practices of the govern
ment of the municipality in
which It is located." I
' But the Motes blast only pro- j
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Nothing Brings Out the
Best in One Like Trouble
y HAL
New York W) Nothing
brlnga out the best in men like
trouble.
That is what is wrong with
mankind these curious, up
right creatures who so often
find a horizontal death while
seeking peace by fighting
wars.
When times are worst, ihey
are at their best. It s been
like that since gentlemen first
adjusted their differences with
stone hammers against each
others skulls. And now en
tire civilizations are able to
destroy each other at a blow,
as individual did to Individual
long ago. How progress does-l
imnrove the breed!
As one of the world's eldest
teenagers 'teen 40 and the
grave I am accustomed to
the fact that life sometimes
deals the bottom card you
don't want from the top of the
deck.
It doesn't fit in your hand.
Worse, it doesn't fit in your
dreams. But you have to play
it or get out o( the game. To
me, and I don't criticize those
who have a different idea or
even choose a midnight exit,
it has always been more fun
to stay in the game and trade
an old disappointment for a
new card.
But why do we as a species
of life have to stack the deck
against ourselves so often?
We never gei more true joy
than we do from one another,
and one destroyed in anger is
one less to share a pleasure
with. When Cain killed Abel
he not only lost a brother He
set a precedent that diminish'
ed a small world, a world no
larger yet for all the growth
and passions of the centuries
All the money and all the
land on earth cannot give you
the fun that people give you.
Can a bought acre make you
laugh? Can a flOO bill? At
42 I would mortgage myself
to a bank for many years if by
that way I could rent back for
even a moment the companion
ship alive again of a few flesh-vanlshed-spirits
remember
ed friends who diel, for one
reason or other, in this deadly
business of living.
Who has known loss,
and
doesn t feel that way?
Well, yearning may carpen
ter many an impossible
dream what castles it does
build in your minds! but in
the winter of our heart it does
not change the weather we
endure or that predicted by
the U. S. Weather Bureau,
even by a long range forecast.
But as toil exercises the
t muscles of our bodies so does
duced this amazing reply from
the Secretary General:
We need it and will al
ways need it and under no
circumstances do I feel that we
would be justified in going out
side our own buildings and
renting space merely to allow
the conversion of the area to
additional parking space."
"Our own buildings" were in
large part built with the money
of American taxpayers, the
ground beneath was given by
John D. Rockefeller, and the
streets leading to the immense
monument were built by the
city of New York. . The streets
in which U. N. employes enjoy
free parking were built by the
city. And the taxpayer of the
city must find his own means
of etUn 10 work-
This is the U. N.
that was to
good will
bring peace and
among men.
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trouble stretch our minds. We
grow by loss as well aa by
gain. Sometimes we become
higher as life erodes the alti
tude of our ego away.
So many people can look at
the human race priests,
philosophers, businessmen and
scientists, social or otherwise
and come up with a ready
answer. And the world still
reels through wrong toward
what we hope, 'is right But
the only pattern humankind
has achieved is that of father
and mother and child the
trinity of existence that rules
both mouse and man. . And
wolves.
Here we are on the pale
fragment of a fading star, won
dering where we are going in
stead of tilling the garden we
have, warmed by the sun that
shines upon us and faithless to
the sun within us.
What a thing man is depth
without height, height without
depth! One foot In the heU he
makes himself, and does little
to change, and the other foot
unhappy except on Mt. Ever
est A fall and a failure, a
reach without reason.
You give a fellow a fair
place of peace and he'll go to
war to get more, be he lover,
businessman or warrior, male
or female. He has always been
willing to gamble the safety
of the Garden of Eden to try
to grab a rocky pasture out
side, or buy an apple just to
see what kind of worm is in it.
Master speculator, universal
dunce, laughter of animals,
pitiful prisoner of himself,
time, space, and that fourth
dimension God what a
restless thing man is! He can
change everything on earth
except himself, mske rivers
run backward tear down
mountains with a molehill
mind. But he cannot call back
one of his kind who is gone.
In an age of insects with six
legs and wings, he has no
wings to fly and only two legs.
He is less numerous than the
insects, either in the tropics or
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Do You Feel Responsible
For What You Borrow?
By REV. GEORGE H.SWIFT
RMtor. at. Paort episcopal cnurea .
There is a very interesting
story in the Old Testament
Book of Kings, about a man
who was cutting down a tree
that grew on the bank of a
river. As the woodsman swung
his axe, the iron axe-head slip
ped off the handle and fell
into the river.
The fine character and in
tegrity of . the man wis re
vealed by his anguish over los
ing the axe-head, not because
it was just an axe-head, but
because it was borrowed.
"Alas, master," he cried, "for
it was borrowed."
This man realized his re
sponsibility for borrowed
things. He was keenly aware
of the fact that he did not own
the axe, but was only privi
leged to use it. The story Is
symbolic of all the tools by
which we are enabled "to live
and move and have our being."
As a matter of fact, all we
seemingly possess is lent to us
in the last analysis by God
Himself. Whatever powers we
exercise, or privileges we en
TOTS T. Ow
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Virgil T. Golden
FUNERAL SERVICE
Salem 29 Years Ago
y IEN MAXWELL
August It. 1124
'The Prince of Wales had
visited the United States for
the second time.
Authorization of the so-call.
ed West committee to investi
gate Into affairs and opera,
tions of tha King's Fruit Prod
ucts company had been an
nounced by Governor Pierce.
Neil Wayburn who staged
the ZUgfield Follies had said
that bobbed hair was out of
style on the stage.
Miss Ruth Austin, formerly
society editor of the Capital
Journal, had her wedding to
Jay C. Allen set for Septem
ber 7.
A. C. Haag & Co., 444 Ferry
street were Salem distributors
for the Rollin car.
Arthur Rosebraugh, who
had received SrRhoades schol
arship while a student at the
University of Oregon, was to
leave shortly for Oxford, Eng
land. Between 175 and 200 cars
of celery were to be shipped
from the Lake Lablsh district
during the 1124 season.
Purchase of Peoples Cash
store by Simon Director hsd
been announced.
President Coolldge had re
turned to Washington after a
two weeks vacation on his
father's farm at Plymcuth, Vt.
Commercial and women's
clubs of Dallas bad voted to
beautify the courthouse
grounds.
All China had the appear
ance of readiness for open
warfare. ;
The German reichstag had
accepted the Dawes repsration
plan.
near the north or south pole.
Man mouths a cry for eter
nal peace and is never more
industrious than he Is while
destroying his own kind, then
weeps for whst he has lost.
and. those he has lost.
Well, you play the game
and call for the next cards.
Man asks for everlasting sugar
and makes his own present
vinegar.
Some of these daya the in
sects may get together and
spray the human race with
DDT. Certainly it is their
moral turn.
joy, sre all loaned to us, even
our time!
, Some day we may want
not more wealth, more knowl
edge, or even more friends
but a . little more time. . We
should have such a sense of
stewardship about time, that
when we waste it we will feel
like the woodsmen when he
cried, "Alas, masteg) for it was
borrowed."
. We recall the parable of the
talents, in which the man
thought he had sole ownership
lights to the talent he had, and
therefore could bury It in the
earth if he wanted to, and
give no account of it. But one
day he was sternly awakened
to find that he was mistaken.
It was only borrowed. He hsd
to give an account of his stew
ardship. '
We are reminded of this
from time to time when, sfter
a church offering has been
taken up we aing, "AU things
come of Thee, O Lord, and of
Thine own have we given
Thee."
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