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PITY THE POOR OCEAN FISH
A report issued by the Technical Assistance Committee
of the United Nations on projects in operation in many
regions, declares that 17 nations are receiving aid in
exploitation of their fisheries resources through technic
cians provided by the Food and Agricultural Organization,
Using electronic devices evolved during World War II
to help the navy locate enemy subs and craft to locate
schools of fish, the uncertainty is being taken out of
fishing. '
Among the devices the echo sounder, developed since
the war, has proven the most valuable. The discovery that
the schools of fish are shown on the graph led to its
adaptation in' modern fishing vessels. Even the kind of
fish can be identified by characteristic patterns on me
graf.
Aircraft have been used for spotting fish for some years
but has now become common. Planes and helicopters locate
schools of fish in sufficient quantity to insure profit to
fishing fleets. Cameras are utilized to reveal location and
density. Electric shocks are utilized, principally lor tuna.
The fish taking the bait are stunned by electric current
from the hook and resistance eliminated.
Even the whales which have been decimate,! for over
a century, are now located by a new device employing
high freuuencv sound waves to locate the aquatic mam
mals up to over a mile and follow their course. The electric
waves are also utilized on small fish like sardines which
are responsive to differing wave-lengths sent through the
water, according to depth and location.
The FAO has not only improved the types of native
fishing craft but also has popularized edible domestic fish
in regions where they were hitherto ignored, thus increas
ing food supplies for hungry people.
It has always been assumed that the supply of edible
fish in the ocean was inexhaustible. That's what they
used to think of the salmon in the Northwest but when
the balance of nature is systematically destroyed by cease
less slaughter, and no artificial restocking possible, even
the ocean's supply of fish can be eventually exterminated.
These new shortcuts to large catches mean eventually
just that. And what is taking place in our fresh water
streams and Jakes will take place in the ocean as human
population increases and fish population decreases. The
iisning ueets of the seas catch millions of fish to the
score? of the stream fishermen and practice no conserva
tion. Ain t civilization wonderful G. P.
NOT EXACTLY THE. OPPORTUNE MOMENT
1954
ELECTION
tWIPlOYMENT jT.rVfti
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
GUY CORDON WILL RUN
Guy Cordon will seek re-election to the U. S. senate
from Oregon, he announced from Washington Tuesday.
He would evidently have just as soon, maybe a little
rather retired", but we dare say virtually every letter,
telegram, word of mouth and other contact with his con
stituency has urged him to make the race.
It is highly desirable from the standnoint of the Rcnub-
lican party and all who believe in its general policy line
that Cordon do this. The senior senator is not one for
whom the public feels enthusiasm, nor does it feel antago
nism. Jie is a quiet, often behind the scenes worker. Jle is
a power in committees where his thorough understanding
of legislation gives him a strong advantage in making
his views prevail. Cordon is one of the least known nation
ally, but one of the most effective of all the senators.
Few Orcgonians have seen Cordon. This writer, who
has prided himself with at least a speaking acquaintance
with every prominent Oregon politician for a generation,
never has, possibly never will. In this Cordon resembles
McNary, who was seldom seen by the home folks, but
who was eternally on the job in their interests and who
enjoyed a life tenure under the big dome once the people
of Oregon had taken his measure.
Cordon can make a much more effective stand in behalf
of the Eisenhower administration and the Republican ap
proach to the nation's problems than could an inexperi
enced man such as the Republicans would have to present
if Cordon had decided to step aside.
And Oregon Republicans should ni;ike no mistake. They
will have quite a job, even with Cordon as thiir candi
date, to keep intact a remarkable record of electing every
G. 0. P. candidate to the U. S. senate since 191 1. No other
western state has done this, and Oregon Republicans
should brace themselves for a determined fight to keep
v.uiuun on me joo ai wasningion. !
THE 22,000 ANTI-REDS ARE FREE
The last of more than 14,000 anti-Communist war
prisoners has now reached Formosa and 7500 North Kore
ans have been released in South Korea, so the V. S. and
I'. N. have won their long fight to prevent the return of
these men to their former musters.
It was a hard, costly fight. Some 7000 Americans lost
their lives during the period of argument over the fate
of these P.W.s, which probably though not certainly de
layed the armistice. Rut our government held that a" vital
principle was at stake, held out to the bitter end and won.
At the very last we had to risk resumption of warfare
when we sent the Chinese to Formosa and released the
North Koreans, for the enemy threatened it. We disre
garded his threats and he did not resume the fighting.
Now the oppressed peoples of Asia and of Europe know
that in any future war if they surrender to us they will
not be returned to the Reds if we have it in our power to
prevent this.
i, i ... , . , .
it, mis cost us a neavy price lo esiaoiisii t ti is policy in
the eyes of the world, but it has been done and may prove
worth its weight in gold, first in discouraging a Russian
attack, second in weakening its effectiveness if it is
launched.
And it marks just about the only victory we have won
over the Communists since the Rerlin airlift.
THE MOTHERS WILL MARCH
The house to house solicitation of the area by mothers
interested in saving their children and other mothers'
children from the curse of polio is a remarkable project
which should have the enthusiastic support of every public
spirited family.
The plan is for all households willing to bp called upon
for a donation to the March of Dimes campaign to put
their porchlights on at seven o'clock Thursday night. Hun
dreds of mothers have been enlisted in this effort, and
if all goes well and there is just a little cooperation from
the weather man all the homes with burning lights will
be visited during the evening.
This is a remnrknble idea, both for broadening the base
of support for the polio fight, and for dramatizing to all
the vital need. Chairman Art Atherton and his Mothers
March co-chairmen, Mrs: Robert White and Mrs. William
Crothers, together with all who are helping them, are to
be warmly commended for their efforts.
Hawaii, Alaska Statehood
Stirs Committee Wrangle
WASHINGTON Only a n
angry rumble could be heard
through . the heavy mahogany
doors, but senate interior com
mittee members pounded on the
table and roared at each other
last week in a free-for-all over
Hawaiian-Alaskan statehood.
It is strictly against senate
rules for one senator to question
another s motives. Yet, at one
point, Chairman Hugh Butler
of Nebraska angrily accused
those who had thwarted him on
Hawaii of "some ulterior pur
pose. Meek-mannered Senator
Frank Barrett, Wyoming repub
lican, also. turned red in the face
and shouted: "I may be against
the whole works' before we get
through with it Alaska, Hawaii,
and the whole damned mess!"
What set off the fireworks was
a neat parliamentary move by
Senator Clint Anderson, New
Mexico democrat, which tied
Hawaiian and Alaskan statehood
together. This upset COP strategy
to rush through statehood for
Hawaii hut not for Alaska, with
its two probable democratic sen
ators.
Republican leaders thought
they had all the needed voles
ready, but were flabbergasted
when Idaho's conservative (GOP)
Senator Henry Dwnrshak jumped
the traces and voted w,(h the
democrats to keep Hawaii and
Alaska together in one bill.
The resulting blow-up rocked
the secret hearing, hut this col
umn can renort what happened.
Chairman Flushes
Chairman Butler, flushed with
anqer, rasoed: "I want to say for
the record that I am keenly dis
apnointcd at (this) action ... I
think it is irregular and is done
fur some ulterior purpose. I am
frank in that. I think you are
doing an unfriendly act to the
Territory of Hawaii.
Senator Long of Louisiana, a
demoerat who had earlier
switched to the republicans, was
also irritated by the surprise
vole.
"1 will he very frank," he said,
"thul as far as I am concerned,
I anticipate there may be a fili
buster on this bill, and if there
is a filibuster ..."
"I object to such remarks."
blurted Senator Dworshap heat
edly. "I do not want motives im
pugned by any member of this
committee"
"I did not impugn your mo
tives." snapped the Louisiana
senator.
By DREW PEARSON
ranting and raving going on,
however, that Malone's mumbled
remarks couldn't be clearly
heard, and at one point Butler
shouted: "Louder, please,
George!"
The most withering blast, how
ever, was aimed at Senator An
derson by the ruffled republican
senator from Wyoming. Ander
son, a democrat, is a former in
ternational president of Rotary
and was given credit for chang
ing the republican vote of Sena
tor Dwnrshak, an International
director of Itotary.
"I think this committee H not
proceeding as it agreed to pro
ceed when we went to Alaska."
thundered the usually mild Sen
ator Barrett of the rugged state
of Wyoming. "I would not have
taken the time to go up to
Alaska if I knew you were going
to by-pass the whole works. To
take the judgment of Senator
Anderson and put him up as
over and above this whole com
mittee does not look good to me:
I will tell you that, and I do not
like it. I don't think it is play
ing fair, and I do not think that
he is doing what he said he
would do in Alaska on this mat
ter. I inav he against the whole
works before we get through
with it Alaska, Hawaii, and
the whole damned mess!"
"Just a moment, please."
shouted Butler, rapping his
gavel.
BLTLKR WAS BOX I I)
One reason that Chairman
Butler was so upset over com
bining Hawaiian and Alaskan
statehood was that earlier in
the hearing, he had committed
himself to vote for Alaska. He
had felt this was perfectly safe
at the time, not then knowing
that Dwnrshak was ready to
switch his vote. Before the
Dwnrshak vote-switch, Butler
had announced:
"Gentlemen, I have a short
statement to make at this time.
Due to the fart that I haven't my
glasses yet, I will ask Stewart
French (committee clerk) to
read it to me."
The clerk then proceeded to
read a statement from Butler:
"I have decided to vote to re
nort the (Alaskan) hill out of
committee. By that vote, I do
not necessarily commit myself
as to how I shall vote on the
senate floor on the question of
final passage . . . But there is
no question about the fact that
Alaska is entitled to statenooa
at the earliest possible date .t
a go of
not sure that he is not in favor
of statehood for Alaska under
the right kind of bill."
"He has never indicated he
would be for the right kind of
bill. He has said nothing," shot
back Jackson.
"I think," broke in Malone,
"as long as this matter has
reached .the impasse that it has,
you have a chance right here to
uphold and promote the plat
forms of both parties. It seems
a little unusual that we would
single out one territory in favor
of the other.
In the end, the committee by
a 8-7 margin, voted as Malone
urged to keep the two terri
tories in the same bill.
THE WORLD TODAY
Berlin Conference
Starts Normally
By JAMES MARI.OW
WASHINGTON (fi-Everything's
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Greatest Street Philosophers
In New York Are Its Cabbies
By HAL BOYLE
MFW YORK 11 If Socrates,
ncrm.1 at th. Big Four MJLSJJSt
rcsui rcticu iicic, " f
ably become a taxi driver.
He was a great street talker in
Athens, and the greatest street
philosophers in New York are its
cabbies. Their' life on wheels puts
them in a- position to learn more
about human nature than even the
cops. And even Socrates might
add to his wisdom by taking out
a hack license.
People here love to collect the
funny remarks of taxi drivers, but
one cabbie told me:
"If I repeated the stupid things
I have overheard some prominent
people say in this cab well, heads
would roll."
Cab drivers rise and fall in pub
lic esteem here like politicians.
One year everybody thinks they
are wonderful, and the next year
for no particular reason every
body is down on them.
"I figure it's just tension," a
hack pilot said, "In good times
the passengers want to gab back
and forth. But if times get tough
and they're worried, they snap
"I do nut resrcl what I s.iid '
shouted Dwnrshak, pounding the which they can make
tame with lus fist, "t have heard lit
for several years around here
that everybody is in favor of
statehood. I think that every
member of the senate ought to
have an opportunity on the floor
to come out for or against state
hood . . . and not jnt continue
to talk from now until rinnmsdav
Salem 42 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
January 27, 1!)12
Capital Journal had declared
"Salem churches arc now ready
to plunge into the greatest cam
paign for souls this city has ever
known." Evangalist Bulgin had
arrived in town and all chiyches
except the Methodist were to
close individual services come
Sunday and, forgetting differ
ences in creed, unite in concen
trated action to overcome the
power of sin.
When Councilman Warning
had undertaken to halt a runa
way on Commercial street near
Townscnd's creamery he sus
tained a broken collar bone and
bodily injuries.
New Multnomah hotel in Port
land had scheduled its grand
opening with a banquet for news
papermen. City council had about com
pleted arrangements for acquisi
tion of a municipal dump near
the fairgrounds.
H. S. Belle, Co., 124 N. Liberty
street, had the agenc for Ford
automobiles. The five passenger
touring model (75,000 were to
be manufactured in 1912) had a
Salem delivery price of $785
equipped with two, six inch gas
lamps, three oil lamps, horn and
an automatic brass windshield.
John Maurer who had started
to work as a machinist in Ben
Forstner's gun store in 1885 and
who had come to be regarded as
the best machinist in Salem, had
a new shop under construction
near the corner of Center and
Liberty streets.
Police Captain Duke of San
Francisco had declared: "I am
satisfied that almost every re
sort on the Barbary Coast does
business with crooks and uses
knockout drops."
ministers meeting in Berlin: the
United States and Russia spent
the first two days blasting each
other.
And at this conference in a Ber
li.i room to find solutions for the
world's ills, first of its kind in five
years, the United States and Russia
began doing closeup what they had
done longrange before: they bat
lied for France
- Before the talks began there was
small hope East and West would
reach agreements. Judging from
wnat s been said s far, this meet
ing may become, as was suspected,
across a table.
For Russia the whole business
will be a success if it can weaken
the links between the United States
and France. For this country it
probably will be a success if
France comes out of it a tighter
ally.
What the ministers the United
Statos' Dulles, Britain's Eden,
France's Bidault, Russia's Molo
tov said in the first two days they
had said before. They just restated
their positions.
The Western position, as in the
past, was this:
There must be single European
army, called the European Defense
Community (EDO. France and
West Germany must be part of it.
This means rearming West Ger
mans. This, Dulles argued, was the
best way to keep Germany from
being a military threat again to
her neighbors. With her troops in
EDC, she'd never have an army
of hep own again. Here he was
talking to the hesitant French, the
Russians only incidentally.
Bidault made a strong pitch for
FDC. Yet, it's the French who,
through their fear of a rearmed
Germany in any form, have re
fused up till now to join EDC and
have therefore prevented its C"ing
win existence.
And, although Bidault told Molo
tov EDC is necessary, he himself
doesn't know whether France will
ever join EDC. The French Parlia
ment won't vote on joining for
weeks.
The irony of this could not he
lost on Molotov, whose govern
ment, fearing an EDC that con
tains French and Germans and
knowing that without EDC Eu
rope's defenses would be weaker,
has been trying to woo the French
away from it.
Naturally, Molotov followed that
line in Berlin. To scare the French
some more and widen the split
.between pro .and nnti-EDC French
men, he warned that once Ger
many was allowed to rearm, even
within the .nits of EDC, it
couldn't be trusted.
The French also are sick of
their war with the Communists in
Indochina. Without mentioning
Indochina by name, Molotov made
a veiled suggestion that maybe
Russia could bring about an end
to the fighting.
If the war ended and the French
withdrew from Indochina, the Com
munists might take it over later
without n shot, making the rest
of Southeast Asia a wide-open
target.
Molotov then tried to put the
United States over a barrel by
A "C" FOR COURAGE
Pendleton East Oregonian
Those who have criticized Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles for lacking courage must
whistle another tune. In recent
weeks he has spoken his convic
tions in very plain language. Al
though he knew the isolationists
would cry for his scalp, he told
a Senate committee last week
that in his judgment the United
States would have been com
pletely justified in fighting the
Korean war alone had United
Nations voted against coming in.
MYSTERY SOON SOLVED
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. MV-
Patrolman Samuel Baty, Jr., was
sure there had been foul play
when he found a woman's dress,
hat and handbag on a bench.
Fellow police hurried to the
spot and as they searched for
the victim they were informed
the clothes had adorned a snow
woman which disappeared under
the sun.
Laugh Puts to Flight
Hooded Bandit
EUGENE Ml Dorothy Bryan
had six customers at the counter
in the Snappy Service Cafe Wed
nesday at 2 a. m. when in walked
a man with a gun in his hand and
a sack over his head.
"Put all the money in a sack,"
he said, "and hand it over."
Mrs. Bryan hesitated. "Hurry
up." he growled.
The growl was too much. Mrs.
Bryan laughed.
At this unexpected reaction, the
hooded man turned and fled.
Mrs. Bryan then concluded it
hadn't been a joke and called
police.
suggesting the big powers agree on
outlawing the atomic bomb.
The United States has already
laid down terms on which it would
consider that, but thi Russians
long ago refused to meet them.
By talking about it, Molotov rru.de
a little more Russian propaganda.
your head off if you try to Just
pass the time ot aay. iiooa ones
or bad times, I treat 'em all alike
like they were crazy kids."
You can find any number of col
lege graduates among cab drivers
here. You can find guys who used
to be cowboys, guys who are part
time actors, guys who write and
sell television scripts, old guys
who used to drive horse cars,
young guys working their way
through law school.
They feud with the traffic cops
endlessly, but in emergencies they
have saved many a cop's life.
About the only thing they agree
on is that women can't drive as
well as men and doctors can't
drive as well as women.
"Doctors shouldn't be allowed
out in a car alone," one said em
phatically. "They may be able
to operate on a human head, but
put them behind a wheel and
they don't know how to operate
at all. You never know what
they'll do next. And that doesn't
seem right, as most of them have
gone to college, and got educat-
1 1,
One of the cabbies I remember
best was the man who liked to
drive at night.
"I can't take it at home," he
said. "We lost out only kid in
Korea. My wife had Kept his baby
shoes, and she gets them out now
and starts crying. I can't sit there
and look at her. I'd rather be
out working.
"You know, sometimes late at
night when hardly no one's on
the street, and I'm cruising
around looking for a fare, I get
a funny feeling my kid is riding .
in the seat beside me, just like
he did when he was a boy. Some
how it doesn't make me feel sad
at all. It's just like it was before
he grew up and they gave him a
uniform. He keeps me company."
The city has its dwindling
quota of lady drivers, most of
whom got into the business dur
ing the last war. I rode with one
the other day, an elderly woman
12 years on the job.
"Don't know how much longer
I can take this," s" i said. "I
used to be a schoolteacher until
I got married. When I lost my
husband 12 years ago I bought
me this cab with the insurance
money.
"It is hard work but I couldn't
afford to go back to teaching.
Not enough money in it. Besides
it doesn't take as much patience
to drive a cab as it docs to teach
children, and thi? way I get more
fresh air."
A cab behind us honked, and
the lady exploded:
"Listen to that hornblower.
He's trying to rattle me, trying
to get me into an accident. Those
men drivers are jealous because
they know I can drive better than
they can. They're dogs, and that's
just what I call them dogs."
The hornblowing cab suddenly
swooped around us, and the
young driver leaned out, grinned,
.,., nt I. - .J .J I .
avi-u ai iiiu UlU luy illlU M1UUI-
ed, "How's it going, honey?"
The old lady peered uncertain
ly at him through her spectacles
as he drove off, then looked at
herself in the mirror and said
grudgingly:
"Of course.' you understand T
don't mean to say that all men
are dogs. Some are nice but just
a few."
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This meant that Butler would
bring Alaskan statehood as a
separate bill, so it could be de
feated by a separate senate vote.
He did not expect the two terri
tories later to be linked togeth
er, j
Realizing that the Republicans i
annul being for statehood for i were determined to kill Alaska
this territory and statehood for I and its two probable democratic!
that territory without being cnur-1 senators, Washington's Demo
acenus enough to go on the rec- i cratic Senator Henry "Scoop"
ord." I Jackson asked whether the
Friends In Rotary White House would veto Alaska
"I mn fearful," broke in Sena- statehood,
tor Guv Cordon, Oregon ronuh- "As far as the chair Is con
lican. "that this motion will ore- cerned," replied Butler, "he has
judire Alaskan statehood. I shall no assurance whatsoever of
vote for it because, since we now I what the action of the White
find ourselves more or less tied House will be on either bill."
in knots with nernn-'lity questions "The President has announced
and motives involved. 1 think it
is better that we ake the nntter
to the flor of the senate."
"Mr. Chairman. I think it Is
unfortunate that there have been
anv remarks Impugning any.
bndv's motives" muttered Sen-
he is in favor of statehood for
Hawaii," Jackson reminded
him
"But what he docs to a bill
that passes the senate is a dit-,
ferent thine." argued Butler. 1
"The president is in favor of
Ktor Malone. There was so much I statehood for Hawaii and I m
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