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Capital AJournal
An Independent Newspaper Estobliihd 1888
BERNARD MAINWARING. Editor and Publisher
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THE PILTDOWN MAN
Three British scientist have cracked down on the
Piltdown man, long- regarded as the most important find
. in anthroDoloiry s annals, as
loas hoax. They declare that for 40 years the Piltdown
man has been making- monkeys out of anthropologists
with the Jawbone of an ape.
The challenge came from
. fsh Museum and two Oxford
J. E. Weiner and Dr. W. E. LeGros Clark. They reported
In the "Bulletin of the British Museum" that up-to-the-minute
chemical tests have proved the jawbone and
tooth to be deliberate fakes. They reported up-to-the-
minute chemical tests prove beyond doubt that the vital
jawbone of Dawson's discovery was a deliberate plant
faked up from the skull of an ape.
Thst p thty ui was a modem apa that died an untimely
death at 10. The ape's jwbone and its canine tooth found
with it, they said, bad been artificially stained to match the
appearance of akull fragment! found earlier. In ddition, they
said, the tooth had been artificially pared down to disguise
ita original shape.
The lnveatigators said the cranium Itelf atill stands ai a
genuine fossil. But they put Its age at 50,000 years, half the
previously widely held minimum.
The Piltdown man has been recorded with varying
degrees of acceptance In encyclopedias, books on anthro
pology and other reference works for many years. The
investigators say their exposure "clarifies considerably
the problem of human evolution" because the Piltdown
man's peculiar jaw did not fit into the pattern of early
human progress.
' That some scientists have always viewed the Piltdown
man discovery with skepticism is revealed by Sir -Arthur
Keith, most eminent of British anthropologists in his
most recent book "A New Theory of Human Evolution,"
published in 1949. He states:
The discovery of Eosnthropus, or Piltdown man (1911-13)
presented atudents of evolution with a conundrum. How are
we to account for this unique typa of early Pleistocene man
in England while the rest of Europe, and apparently the whole
of Asia, were inhabited by variants of the pent-browed type?
If we could ft rid of the Piltdown fosiil fragments, then
we could simplify the problem of human evolution. We
would have to account for the evolution of the pent-browed
type only and the development of modern races from that
type. A leading authority on such problems, Dr. Frani Wei
. denrlch, has recently proposed that the right solution Is to
deny the authenticity of the Piltdown fossil remains. Here
are his exact words:
" 'Eoanthropus should be erased from the list of human fos
sils. It is the artificial combination of fragmenta of a modern
human brain ease with orang-utang-llke mandible and teeth.' "
The problem has been solved by the exposure of the
hoax on the scientific world by Charles Dawson, attorney
and amateur antiquary, who said he dug the Piltdown
relics out of a Sussex gravel pit between 1911-12. He
died in 1916 and a monument to his discovery now stands
near the gravel pit where he found fleeting fame. G. P.
PUBLIC INSPECTION OF WELFARE ROLLS
When the bill providing for limited public Inspection
of welfare rolls was before the legislature last winter
opponents charged, their voices tense with emotion, that
our senior citizens were going to be needlessly humiliated
by an army of snoops trooping to the 86 courthouses of
the state to see who was getting what.
The bill finally became law and several months have
aped by. How has public inspection worked? Forgotten
we had it, haven't you? Well, we had, too. But the
other day we read an article by Ira D. Staggs, Baker
county farmer who is a member of the State Public Wel
fare commission, quoting from a report issued by the
commission covering a five months period from April
29 to September SO.
Twenty-two counties reported a total of 96 inspection
requests, half of them in Multnomah, where 17 came
from creditors, finance companies, etc. A considerable
number were merely inquiries by old friends for ad
dresses. Quite a number of inspections were based on an
impersonal desire of financial concerns for information,
several were by attorneys interested in litigation and
other legal matters affecting recipients. A very few
were from nosey individuals. There was no rush of curi
osity seekers, both because there isn't much curiosity on
the subject and the law requires a proper reason for the
Inspection, which some who tried it were not able to give.
The recipients haven't been humiliated. Fears of their
friends and those who wished to appear as such were
groundless, What of the hopes of the sponsors that
those who had no business
when the rolls became public records?
The hopes proved more valid than the fears but not too
much more valid. The decrease in numbers receiving
assistance in the five months was .3 of one per cent.
Pretty small, but Staggs points out that economic condi
tions were worsening somewhat during the period and
the inspection may have headed off an increase. It would
probably be more effective in this respect if more persons
actually inspected the rolls.
Certainly the law wasn't the evil it was painted when
It was before the legislature, but it seems clear that the
savings will be much less than were elalmed for it. As
so often happens with new legislation. The more we
seek to change basic conditions the. more they persist
in continuing pretty much the same.
WELL, THAT'S OVER
Salem, dishing it out all season, finally had to "take it"
Saturday night in a game played under the worst weather
conditions imaginable. This is the fate of all but one of
the teams that enter the playoff; either win the state
championship or close on the sour note of defeat.
Anyway, to paraphrase Brooklyn's famous war cry of
"wait till next year," local fandom can say "It'd have
been different on a dry field," as Indeed it would, though
we might still have lost. But it would have been a foot
ball game instead of a pushing and sliding contest, for
which our boys weren't heavy enough.
But the Salem boys can send their suits to the laundry
with a great feeling of satisfaction despite Saturday
night's result They have given their home town its
greatest football thrill in many years, possibly ever. And
player1 je game fair and square, win or lose, all the way.
Two Navy Transports
Due From Far East
SeettleUV-Two navy trans
aorta will bring 1,941 pas
OH TWf. MM If kUS O.US. Onto:
Tor. Ill ML
HOAX
a deliberate and unncrupu
Dr. K. P. Oakley of the Brit-
university professors, Dr.
on the rolls would get off
sengers here from the Far Eaat
In the next two days.
The James O'Hara will ar
rive Wedneaday with 688. The
navy announced previously
that the Gen. M. M. Patrick
would arrive Tuesday.
WASHINGTON MERRY
Dulles Unhappy Over Dick
Nixon's Headline Making
By DREW
Washington
Secretary of,
State Dulles is not happy, to
put It mildly, over Vice Presi
dent Nixon's impromptu di
plomacy on his Far Eastern
tour. He feels that Nixon has
reached for too many head
lines, may have put personal
publicity ahead of American
foreign policy.
After Dulles snnounced that
the United States may some
day recognize Red China, for
example, Nixon assured Chiang
Kal-ihek in Formosa that the
secretary of state really didn't
mean what he said. Naturally,
Dulles was furioui.
Again, in Indo-China, Nixon
called upon the French to
presa the war against the Com
munist guerrillas to total vic
tory. The French protested
afterwards that the United
States didn't fight the Korean
war to a total victory, and
that the French might settle
for an honorable truce in Indo-China
too.
Again, in Seoul, Nixon
pledged U.S. support to Syng
man Rhee in his struggle for
a united Korea. Rhee promptly
interpreted this as meaning
that the United States would
help him fight his way back
to the Yalu, in case the politi
cal talks break down. Yet this
isn't American policy at all.
All this is why Nixon is now
reading from prepared manu
scripts manuscripts which
are scrutinized by U.S. di
plomats In advance.
JUNKETING CONGRESSMEN
So many congressmen have
been demanding free airplane
rides around Europe that the
air force mission which is
supposed to train French pilots
has kept most of its planes
busy catering to vacationing
congressmen.
Since congress adjourned
three months ago. 248 mem
bers of congress, believe it or j
not. have shown ud at the air I
force mission in Paris
manding free transportation
Most of them have been ac
companied by their wives or
secretaries. Some have been
accompanied by both their
wives snd secrr taries plus
even their secretaries' wives.
DIETING IKE
When President Eisenhower,
who is on a diet had break
fast the other morning with
hefty GOP Congressman Clar
ence Brown of Ohio, also on
a diet, the conversation natu
rally got around to their re
spective weights.
"I'm doing all right on the
scsles," said Brown. "I'm down
to 208 pounds. Believe it or
not. that's almost exactly
what I weighed when I played
my last game of football back
In 1916. It wss s aemipro
game. Before that I had been
a regular on the Washington
and Lee University team." i
"Well, oddly enough, the j
um r... in w r...
ned the President. "I weigh
174 stripped, which Is exactly
what I weighed when I played
my last game of football for
Army. I gained about 10
pounds during the summer but
have since taken them oft by
dieting
t,. f.v..n I
ers both ste s light breakfast
-half grapefruit on. aoft-1
boiled egg. to.at marmalade I
med'to endt " 1
seemed to enjoy it J
THE BIG BACKFIRE
- GO - ROUND
PEARSON
FOOT-IN-MOETH TALBOTT
Secretary of the Air Force
Talbott is still in the Pentagon
doghouse.
After his return from Eu
rope, Harold was called on
the carpet by his boss, Secre
tary of Defense Wilson, to ex
plain his unauthorized state
ment about aending A-bombs
to Spain. Talbott swore it was
all the fault (if the Spanish
translators, snd that what he
had said was:. The United
States would support Spain
with A-bombs. The way the
translators unscrambled it,
Talbott claimed, the word
"support" came out as "sup
ply," so he was quoted as say
ing the United States would
supply Spain with A-bombs.
SPAIN WITH A-BOMBS
Wilson, however, still wasn't
appeased. He pointed out that
Talbott had kept on sticking
his foot in his mouth even
after he left Spain, and had
made a remark about cutting
down the size of our forces
in Europe, though President
Eisenhower had announced no
such idea was contemplated.
Furthermore, Talbott made a
statement about going full
speed ahead on bases that the
U.S. intends to take its time
building. And he promised
Turkey F-86 jet interceptors,
when she is really going to get
F-84 Jets for ground support.
As a result of all this, Tal
bott was warned to watch his
words In the future or be
fired.
HE STEPPED ON TOES
Clarence Randall, the Inland
Steel mogul, now "commis
sioning" for Ike, has stepped
on the toes of two angry, pow
erful members of Congress.
They are House ways and,
means Chairman Dan Reed of
New York and Senate Finance
Chairman Gene Millikin of
Colorado. Both are serving on
the Randall commission to
de-jstudy foreign trade,
Randall, who favors low
tariffs, invited Paul Hoffman,
who also favors low tariffs, to
be the lead-bff witness when
the commission called in busi
nessmen to get their views on
tariffs. But Reed and Millikin.
who believe in high tariffs.
wanted ex-President Herbert
Hoover to testify, too.
Randall refused. He didn't
want a parade of celebrities
testifying, he explained. Reed
aind Millikin argued that
Hoffman, as former foreign
aid boss, was just aa much of
a celebrity aa Hoover. But
Randall wouldn't invite Hoo
ver, and Reed and Millikin
are Irked in the extreme.
U.N. AND ISRAEL
U N. Ambassador Henry Ca-
001 Lfl' 10" private argu-
mem Wl" secretary Dulles
J"' w?k,ove' w,hthr 'he
"'" "" shouiu conarmn
I"r"1 . ,or ,rmed ,tUck
s'n" joroan.
Lodge wanted to rebuke Is
rael in very mild language,
indicated to friends that he
feared a tough resolution
would lose Jewish votes for
""Pelicans In the next elec
tion.
But Secretary Dulles flatly
refused. He instructed Lodge to
d"w uf ' denunciation
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ism.
Salem 47 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
November 23, 1906
W. W. Slaughter of Wood
burn area had been shot down
while plowing in his field. Cap
ital Journal attributed the af
fair to the "green-eyed mon
ster jealousy growing out of
two divorce suits."
Hostetter's Bitters were ad
vertised in the Capital Journal
as the best medicine you csn
take to restore appetite, sweet
ening the stomach, prevent
sour risings, stimulate the liver
and relieve the kidneys. (Dur
ing the prohibition era a less
ailing clientele discovered that
Hostetter's Bitters also deliv
ered a substantial "kick").
Said "Smiles", Capital Jour
nal columnist: "With vaude
ville and the city council Sa
lem people will not lack for
amusement this winter."
Grande Opera house had
Wilson Barrett's famous play,
"The Sign of the Cross," "the
most impressive religious play
ever presented."
Jos. Meyers & Sons were
advertising Sirrah coats, loose
fitting, French back and front,
double breasted, auto collars,
cuffs so arranged that water
will not run down the sleeves,
inside patch pockets.
All members of First Pres
byterian church and the con
gregation, too, had been in
vited toa farewell party given
to honor Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
Wiggins. (Fred Wiggins con
ducted an implement store in
Salem and had the agency for
Rambler automobile. A first
sale made here was a Rambler
to George Graves In 1903. F. A.
Wigins is still actively en-
PART OF THE
valley community
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
Helping Salem grow industrially this is
the objective of the Industrial Development
Council of the Salem Chamber of Com
merce. Members of the Council include business
and civic leaders whose common goals are
to stimulate and encourage existing indus
tries ... to attract new enterprises ... to
develop our natural resources and strength
en the economy of the entire valley community.
a.' s.s-r.
Jtao oKh lte I
PART OF THE
Valley Community
Mrr..iX. mmmt '
As on independent, home-owned bonk, we
hove a natural interest in the development
of business and a sincere desire to serve
oil our friends ond neighbors in Solem ond
vicinity.
We Invite you to bonk with us.
Same Tammany
By KATMOND MOLEY
After the electioa three
treeka ago of Robert T. Wag
ner, Jr., as mayor of New York
ity, a number of gestures were
made to indicate that there was
waa truly to be a new d is pen
aation in the city halL Robert
Moses waa retained in his mul
tiple offices. Including that of
park commissioner. That move
was taken for granted. To re
ject this man who has served
brilliantly under three mayors
would have been political mad
ness. A couple of other fair
selections were then made.
Finally, with much fanfare,
Wagner designsted Dr. Luther
Gulick to a Job which vaguely
suggested that of a managing
director under the mayor Dr.
Gulick has been a research
specialist in municipal govern
ment for 30-odd years. He re
cently has finished a survey of
New York's city government
which extended over many
months and which, when gath
ered in book form, provides a
formidable compendium of civ
ic Improvement
This appointment has been
hsiled as a distinct triumph for
the forces of expert, honest
city government The news
has gone out over the nation
that at long last a Tammany
mayor has seen the light It is
also suggested by some en
thusiasts that this is the first
step toward a non-partisan, ex
pert manager form of govern
ment for sinful old New York.
Such visions of reform are of
"such stuff as dreams are
made of." There is no more dis
position on the part of the
dominant machine in New
York to reform than there
waa in the lush, larcenous days
of Croker. The difference is in
method and personnel. The ex
ploitation of government for
private gain goes on. The na
ture and methods of grafting
change. Instead of the wicked
traction magnates of old, there
are the tough masters of labor
and the barons of aamblins?
and racketeering1. The wages of
sin are drawn from quite dif
ferent sources, but they are
paid, and the politicians in the
know sre just as prosperous.
The belief tht the setting up
of Gulick in an office means
anything new is, ss a former
Columbia university colleague
of the new administrator says,
"the triumph of hope over ex
perience." Gulick has no real
powers under the city charter.
His office is purely advisory
and mildly ceremonial Per
haps, when other attractions
are too great to resist, the
mayor will let Gulick sit with
the waxworks at civic luch
eons. But every commissioner
will, of course, resent any in
terference with his preserve.
That is the inevitable ways of
bureaucracy. Robert Mosea
himself bitterly attacked the
survey which Gulick conduct
ed, calling it the work of vis
ionaries and novices. The
whole thing is sn almost mean
ingless gesture by a thorough
ly hard-bitten machine intend
ed to beguile the innocent.
When the people of New
York want good government
they will elect a good mayor.
They had the opportunity this
year. The republican candidate,
gaged in the wholesale nursery
business ss a commercial trav
eler out of Seattle. He is about
83 years old.)
Total population of Oregon
based on returns sent in from
the counties had been comput
ed by the secretary of state as
464.S3S as compared to 413,536
in 1000
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Feminine Praises of Men
Means Christmas Is .Near
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) It always
used to make me uneasy when
I heard a woman praise a man.
I figured the poor fellow
waa cither already under a
tombstone or failing rapidly.
But latelywell. I just dont
know. Women are aaying so
many nice thinga about men
they are getting calluses on
their vocal cords.
"It doesn't mean a thing ex
cept we're' getting closer to
Christmas."1 one gentleman
cynic told me. "The average
woman's disposition begins to
improve Just before Thanksgiv
ing. "By the first of December
she is acting like a human be
ing. By the middle of the
month, as Santa Claus gets
nearer and nearer, you can
see a halo over her head in a
dim room.
'But soon after she sets her
Christmas loot, the sweetness
snd light vsnish, snd the nor
mal bark and bite come back
into her voice again. Her feel
ing of gratitude fades faster
than a snowflake in a bon
fire.
But is this really so? Isn't
this sour old-timer merely liv
ing in toe past? It is true.
perhaps, thst human nature
never changes. But how about
tne nature of women? There
are aigns it is changing with
revolutionary speed.
I choose to believe, for ex
ample, that old-fashioned chiv
alry and courtliness aren't
PARADOX
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Did you happen to noice,"
asked the Character Who Hangs
Around Pioneer Place, "in what
form the local convicted Com
mies got up their bail?"
He leaned against the Totem
Pole and relighted hla cheroot,
spinning the match swsy with
a gesture of gentle irony.
"That bail," he told us, "was
in the gilt-edged bonds of the
government they'd like to see
tossed over!"
RED SOLDIERS KILLED
Hong Kong m Nationalist
guerrillas killed five Commu
nist soldiers in s pre'-dawn at
tack on Yientien village 15
miles north of the China-Hong
Kong border Friday, the pro
Nationalist newspaper Sing
Tao Jih Pao reported Monday.
Harold Riegelman, would have
been as able an administrator
as was Fiorello LaGuardia,
with none of the 'Little Flow
er's demagoguery. He was re
jected by a big majority. In
stead, the people of New York
accepted a candidate whose ob
ligations to the labor boss,
Mike Quill, were so great that
he declined to aay whether he
would or would not permit the
police to be unionized.
Good government comes
when there is a strong, city
wide organization able to car
ry elections and enforce justice
and honesty. Cincinnati has
that in its two-party system,
with a strong republican party
opposed by the charter party.
Cleveland had it in the daya
of Tom Johnson, when the
democratic organization was
made into what was in essence
a political machine with im
agination and integrity. But
New York has nothing of that
sort. There is no prevailing
sentiment which can or will
support good government
HIA0 OMKI mt Seirflrevftd lead
UNTVtRSITY BRANCH 1S10 teste Street
. dead. They merely have under
gone a change of ownership.
Like everything else that
used to be symbols of mascu
line dominance such ss mon
ey, tobacco, panta and the dry
martini chivalry has been '
taken over by women. They
are showing more and mora
gallantry in their attitude to
ward the weaker sex, men.
What else but pure gallantra
explains the recent statement
oy miss nainieen Watts, a
British psychologist, that men
are more intelligent than worn.
en?
She gave a series of ques
tions and problems prepared
by another lady -v-'Dr. Alice
Helm to a mixed group , of
700 British University stu
dent. The results, she tavi
showed boys sre smarter than
gins, reason better, and learn
quicker through practice.
Maybe. It also could prove
only that a kindhearted wom
an scientist is sble to devise a
test on which the lads could
get a better grade than the'
lassies.
For certainly today nobody
seriously doubuj that women
can 'outthink and outgeneral
men in any battlefield that in
terests them. Intelligence is not
a thing you csn put your fin
ger on. It can best be described
aa common sense in actirn.
Basically, the most intelli
gent organism is the one that
can best adjust its environ
ment to better its own way of
life and improve its chancea
of survival, and here woman
has no peer. Where man breaks
and dies under strain, woman
bends snd waits for better
weather.
All people are a mystery to
each other. But a woman can
solve s man at a glance, and
he can't figure her out in a
lifetime. Einstein may plumb
the secrets of the atom or the
universe with an equation, but
has he a formula to exolain
Cleopatra or hla own wife, or
your wife, or my wife?
A lady psychologist who says
boys are smarter than girla
merely because they can work
an arithmetic problem mora
easily is like a farmer who
kidS his mill hv IBvIn, "m1a
you really got brains. Why, i
couldn't pun that plow Ilka
you do, if I tried all day."
Yet it is nice to know tha
ladiea are now so sure of their
strength they can afford to
pamper men with a bit of femi
nine gallantry. It doesn't fool
us a bit these heady compli
ments and they may spoil us.
But men, ss women hsve
known since Eve, are only
grownup babies. It is Dleasant
after all these centuries to see
them sugar the milk of human
kindness with a little flattery
for the male animal. Next
thing you know women may
even start doing their fair share
of pushing in a revolving door.
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