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Paw 4 Monday, February 1, 1954 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem. Oregon Capital jkJournal '.. An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone 2-2406. fall UM Wire Serelet ml Ihe AieaelateS rrtee n Th, Ualiet rtmt. The Aetoclaied Prcu u eicluilvelr entitled to tae uea tor publication ( til newe dltpatchM credited to It or othcfli credited In thlo pipor ond ftUo oewt published thereto. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Carrier: Monthlr. 11.39: li Monlbf. I1.0: Oct Ver. IIS 00 Bit Mill Ore. on Uontnlr. lot: 811 Month!. IIM; One Yer, IS 00 Br Mill Ouuldo Ornon Monlhlr. It H; An Month,, 17.50; One Tear. lit. 00. HOW OLD IS THE EARTH? Since an English church prelate, Bishop Utter, by com piling the geneolofries in the Old Testament in the time of King; James, med the creation 01 tne earin at 4UU4 Jts.c, or about 6000 years ago for the St. James version of the bible, nuclear scientists have extended the probable age of the earth from 6000 to billions or years. From a study of different kinds of lead found in meteor ites, formed in the same nuclear upheaval that produced the earth, as an atomic yardstick to measure time, four scientists, as revealed by a study published by the Univcr sity of Chicago, have pushed the origin of the earth back to at least 4.5 billion years ago, the oldest date yet obtained by analyzing elements in the solar system. The report discloses, however, that there is evidence that for some 2 billion years of its existence, the earth's surface was molten or in some other diffuse now in a solid state. The report states lead once was uranium, a substance that loses its radioactivity at a known rate in a decaying process. However, there are at least two Kinds of isotopes in natural uranium, differing slightly in weight. The dif ferent rate at which the two kinds of isotopes lose their , radioactivity is the key to the age-determining technique. The heaviest isotope, uranium 238, loses half its radio activity in 42 billion years, decaying into lead 206. An other uranium isotope, U-235, the kind used in the A-bomb, loses half its radioactivity in 710 million years, and decays into lead 207. The higher proportion of lead 206 the older the sample. The study of the lead atoms was made on the University of Chicago's mass spectrometers by Claire Patterson and Harrison Brown, now of the California Institute of Technology; ueorge niton, now oi me car negie Institute of Washington, and Mark Ingraham, associate professor of physics at the University of Chicago. If the earth is 4i billion years old, how much older is the universe with its prehaps quintiinon years ; ine unite mind cannot comprehend the infinite. As ifoxn wrote, "Presume not Good to scan, the proper study of mankind is man. G. P. THE 'ORDINARY' AMERICANS J!"'S f :V i ill ei iimiw iutb ii 1 VT , km ! I I I... A-,"'JTA'".'I f&. AMERICA 1$ MADE" OF PCOPLE- f!?i HMHWORHING PEOW.E- THE tf DRUGS f- - I. - (WW fevTHE ORUCGIST WILL BE LATEil Ht'$ LATE EVERY NIGHT 4 w A. r H14 UCHT BURN 5 WHEN OTHER STORES feKW ARE DARK -MIS JOBI TO BE HEADY WITH OUST TME RIGHT MEDICINE (out Of THOUSMPi) WHICH YOU WAV NEEt DESPERATELV 40Mt NICHT VICTIM OF HIGH PRESSURE COACHING When a football coach retires in the prime of life it is usually "by request" of irate alumni and other supporters for failure to win games, or in extreme disgust over the life he is compelled to lead. But the retirement of Frank Leahy at Notre Dame, ' announced Sunday, is for an entirely different reason. No alums, or aluminums as the breed is sometimes facetiously called, were howling for Leahy's scalp. He was winning enough games to satisfy the most critical, namely all of them. Leahy quit, not to save his scalp which he was still will ing to risk, but to save his life. Although only 4. and rugged enough to play in the line for Rockne back in the Jate twenties, his heart was breaking under the strain of football as it is played at South Bend. He collapsed during a game last fail and was informed by his doctors that an other such attack, which continued coaching would invite, might be fatal. Since Leahy has a wife and nine children to support, the answer, highly distasteful to him you may be sure, was obvious. The change will doubtless add a good many years to a virile life the country can ill afford to lose, to say nothing of his family. Leahy is a victim of what he helped to create, high power, high pressure big league college football with such a strain on heart and nerves it's a wonder anybody lives through a season. He is wiser than tjiany to get out while his professional standing is sky high and his health reason ably intact. Leahy has been one of the great couches of the era. True, he attracted first class material, but he played the toughest schedule in the country, with outstanding suc cess. He actually added something to the greatest football tradition possessed by any American college. Notre Dame wins quite as much on spirit as on material and coaching proficiency. Men like Rockne and Leahy have built it to a point where it is the envy of all colleges that seek the grid iron heights. ATTACK ON A U.S. BOMBER WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Another Korea May Be in The Making in Indo-China WASHINGTON Adm. Ar thur Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has per suaded President Eisenhower to order 400 air force technicians and mechanics Into Indo-China. They were requested by the I''rench to service American made planes now fighting in Indo-China. The air force suggested that civilians ought to be sent over, but Radford insisted on military men. The air force also complained that it didn't have 4(1 technicians to spare, that this would make the air force short of mechanics. But Radford overruled the pro test. The air force Is al.so wor ried over involving American forces in the Indo-Chinese 'var, inasmuch as the Chinese Reds have moved two air groups near the Indo-China border. If U.S. airmen go into Indo-China, it may give China an excuse to move their two air groups in. Meanwhile, the corrmunists are pouring field artillery and antiaircraft guns into Indo-China as fast as they can he slipped across the border. It almost looks like another Korea in the making. BITTER IIKK'KKR BATTI.K The Bricker battle is gcttinq really bitter sometimes even bloody." . . . Bricker, who occu pies the key post of chairman of the senate committee on inter state and foreign commerce, is using committee prerogatives to back his amendment . . . when conscientious Sen. John Sher man Cooper, Kentucky Republi can, told Bricker he could not ac- By DREW PEARSON ducks would have been gone long ago. WASHINGTON WHIRL Mayor Norn's Poulson of Los Angeles has now been appeased by the state department regard ing the L.A. reception for President Bayar of Turkey. The state department wrote three letters. to Poulson asking him to arrange for Bayar's L.A. en tertainment, and when Poulson didn't write back, the state de partment went ahead with its own plana . . , Naturally, Poul son got sore. Now he's been taken back into the entertain ment picture . . . Two daughters of Washington colons are fol lowing in their daddies' foot steps. Jojo Black, daughter of Justice Hugo Black and Jean Aouglas, daughter of Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois, are on the board of student government at Swarthmorc college . . . Young Sen. Jack Kennedy of Massachu setts is fooling his critics. He's voting his convictions, such as for the St. Lawrence seaway even when it hurts politically . . . Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia was right about Air Secretary Harold Talbott when he first put Talbott on the con- Salem 50 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL February 1, 1904 Illihee club of Salem had de feated the local Alco club in a bowling contest, winning by a margin of only six pins. Holy Rollers apostles, camped in deep timber of northern Linn county, unkempt, unclean and avoiding society, had been mis taken for a band of robbers re cently at work in Dallas, Browns- vine ana woodburn. Capital Journal's X-Rayist had informed a subscriber that the Baker Stock Company was a theatrical troupe and in no way connected with the stock busi ness. Additionally, the X-Ravist had written: "Mayor Waters deserves credit for promptly putting an ena lo the ancient graft of filling in private property with public street scrapings." Fred Tfurst St Co. were pro moting Englewond, "the place of beautiful homes." J. C. Atwood and T). W. Fisher had purchased the Branson and Ragan grocery. West Salem Literary Society had heard Mrs. W. J. Squires read a paper entitled "The West Salem Gazette." Following the reading a debate had been held upon the question: . "Resolved: That the Indians were unfairly No New Deal By RAYMOND MOLEY President Eisenhower's resent ment at the charge that his pro gram Is merely more of the same that we have bad for 20 years it justified. For In most aspects of his Administration and in his proposals in the budget and in the separate messages there is a perceptive change of direction, and that change is vital, The President'! little play on words to the effect that he is liberal in human relationships and conservative in economic af fairs means nothing. For every raid on the Treasury in the past 20 years has been in the sweet name of humanity. And a ram on the Treasury is an economic matter of importance, The brightest spot in Eisen howers budget was the reflec tion of his determination to halt the trend toward Federal so cialism in the field of electric power and in the Federal ex ploitation of natural resources. In this the President is follow ing the leadership of his wise Secretary of the Interior and also his own personal knowledge of the spending proclivities of the Army Corps of Engineers. The Bureau of Reclamation, which under previous Adminis trations was a mighty force for socialization, is rapidly being cut down to national limits. Ex penditures in this bureau in 1953 were $235,000,000: for 1954, an estimated $182,000,00; and for 1955, $167,000,00. For the Army Engineers the figures for the three years were $579,000,000; $418,000,000 and $361,000,000. The President's attitude to ward Federal aid for highways, however, has failed to follow his belief in returning responsibili ties to the states. The figures for the ' three years were $550,000,- 000; $592,000,000; and $582,000- 000. However, later there may be, as a result of the recommen dations of the President's Com mission on Intergovernmental Relations, a proposition before Congress to return the gasoline tax to the states and to let them build their own highways. There is little comfort for those who long for economy in the recommendation for foreign aid. The figures show little de cision to taper off. Meanwhile, the most of Social Security is rising. The health program is generally conserva tive, with the exception of a guarantee of private health in surance. No one seems fully to understand this proposal, and it will not become clear until the committees of Congress have examined the idea. At this stage it looks as if such a guarantee would merely permit private or ganizations to offer broader, cheaper, and perhaps less pru dential coverage. A wiser suggestion would be that insurance for medical and hospital expeenses have an ex emption of, say, $50-$100 on the same principle that automobile insurance now has a $50-cxemp- tion. such an exemption would permit coverage for genuine and POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Author Declares N. Y. City Only One Open 24 Hrs. a Day NEW YORH W "A city to me," said Truman Capote, fork ing thoughtfully at a strawberry tart, "is a place where you can get up at 3 o'clock in the morn ing and buy a book or a shirt "In a real sense of being a city, New York is the only city in the world. It is the only one open 24 hours a day." Canote, recently returned from Rome, nas somewnat out- crown his child-wonder-ol-tne- literarv-world status of a few years ago. Critics then were di vided over whether he was start lingly precocious or startlingly precious whether he was a pale young genius or mereiy pale. "I'm 28 now." he, remarked at luncheon in the 21 Club, "and I've written four books and a play. I just finished writing the dialogue lor an Italian mm. Now I'm working on my third Ike 100 Pet. Right Mcdford Mail-Tribune How Senator Bricker would rave and roar if anyone called him a Communist. Yet, in his cheap, demagogic at tack on President Eisenhower ov er the Bricker amendment the Ohio senator clearly adopted the Communist line. And for Bricker, Dirksen, Jenner and other mem bers of the Mid-West isolationist antedeluvian group that would be enough for an immediate un-American Activities committee investi gation, with subpoenas, citations-for-contempt and all the trim mings! What is this"Communist line?" For example: Molotov, and all the other Kremlin spokesmen, have from the very outset of the "cold war," accused the United States of being the world's one outstand ing foe of peace, and the great imperialistic and capitalistic pow er intent upon enslaving weaker nations by force. Every informed person in the world, of course, knows that this is not only a deliberate and vicious lie, but the exact reverse of the truth. For that is precisely what Communist Russia is and has been doing, and what hard-pressed and harassed Uncle Sam has been try ing so hard to check and, if pos sible, prevent. So with Bricker. He claims President Eisenhow er .in opposing his half-baked amendment, has been sold a "bill of goods"; that while he (Bricker) doesn't question the president's sincerity (how very nice of him!) he does question his judgment. And wen Bricker has the effrontery to imply that in taking the stand anv self-respecting chief executive of tne United States would (to bo true to his oath of office) have to take. President Eisenhower is depriving the American people of their right- iui constitutional protections What's eatintr lhe snninr cunainr vmiiHf gnu eium-' iiom uitio; is ne crazy; natc the bookkeeping and other j No. At least no more crazy than overhead involved in. covering is fellow-isolationists and reaction small medical and hospital bills, aries in the "Old Guard" and over - The President's tax proposals stuffed section of the Grand Old in general are designed to en- Party. Their hero is not President courage private industry. Eisenhower quite the reverse! Eisenhower, to use the Shake-' b"t Cnloncl Robert McCormick of spearcan phrase, has scotched ! the chicaS Tribune. the snake of socialism but not ! firmation griddle just one year j treated by the whites." ago. lalbotl, likable, hut in- ,., ronl,, ,r0i discreet, twice ha popped off rc sponAcnt had wiUet was cn. killed it. Perhaps it is too much i DOWN' TO THF I AST ritp with international bloomers. (j , f 'critv and.to expect the killing of such a ; " hcrman Tfluntv Jm.I. Once he announced that baby lat jt was un(air Pand' unjust toi hardy creature in so short , y ah' M0"' mention the community in terms Spanish bases, which brought !f sn,rrin(, belittleness. nun nil uiitriui KiiviiMi"-ia. oui ond, he told a press conference that the United States will use Spanish bases in wartime wheth er Spain likes it or not. "Who's going to stop us?" he asked . . . This was made to order for the c'Pt his amendment, Bricker commies. It s exactly what abruptly canceled a probe n( nonM'hetluled airlines Cooper was conducting. The probe was being held under the interstate commerce committee, and Hrirkcr, as chairman, dropped the ax . . . It's highly doubtful that he had the one-man riEht Reports on the attack by Red warplanes on an American bomber on a reconnaissance flight off the west const of Korea do not give the nationality of the "lare formation" that did the attacking. P.nt it docs not matter. Whether Chinese or Russian the vffect is the same, since these arc under one control, that of the Kremlin. i rooaoiy tne assault docs not presage a resumpt ion of'1" ki" the airline probe, but hostilities by the enemy. If this were intended thev would jM'natc committee chairmen have hardly jrive nS advance warning, hut would launch a tre one-man dictators of mendous surprise attack on the front lines accom.mni. ,1 'i"""' arc by aerial blows in the rear. "'tompanud i,,p,.r and l!rlckl,r ha, k . Vl . , a face-to face showdown, and If it has any purpose that makes any sense it is to strike Cooper finally resigned from lear into our hearts, to suggest that Russia may start a "ricker's committee, new war, with a view to softening the attitude of our dinlo- i DUCKS AM) nitlCKUR mats who are wraiiKlinjr with Molotov in Merlin over a Son' Mf,rK1,r' l h:is' Smi,h nf United Cermnny free to select its own governnv nt Maine, ordinarily a lady of cmir- Thc attack, which fortunately rli.l nn .'. ' age, is worried about the Brick- nlnnes will mil aii,.,.,.,l tf ik.. i ' u V er amendment. She signed his -nn H nro v 'l i ;.Jf, : thin Petition some time ago when the ; ' Torrent of Words Rend Bulletin j The Federal Power Commis I sie.n examiner conducting the I Hells Canyon hearings in Wash ington has suggested to the op I posing sides being heard that : they talk a little longer each day. Examiner Willinm .1 f'ncrclin ia'r ' Sunday bridge playing part-! has askcd attorneys representing ners. u"ln 10 speea up tneir IHTARTMKN'T OF I'KACK questioning of witnesses, to meet Jlnsv bre Congressman Harlev ,m . cn- Staggers of West Virginia, as usual, will have a lot of legisla-' tive irons in the fire this ses- : . . . " ciiKiunu ine ion inrnm lav nine, nc may conieni ourse ves. i. u- a;- . however, wit the reflection tha ! ?Vhink howTh',j m,wondr; creeping socialism is creeping ,T.'?Lhu ca ... ,,vti tneir voics, ano mink what a heck of a shape they'll be in when there's nn more slowly. (Released by The Associated Newspapers) i rich lo eat. By HAL BOYLE novel and doing the lyrics for musical play, based in Haiti, called 'House of Flowers.' It's light and strange." Capote, who talks with the ar tistic surety of Oscar Wilde, is blonde, blue-eyed and small enough to walk under the arms of a high school basketball cen ter. He looks less like a sophisti cated fawn today and more like a retired choir boy or a rising younng literary critic. "I don't think writing for the films has anything to do with writing," he observed. "In writ ing for the films, the only im portant thing is the visual sense the eye is everything." But he did enjoy doing the dialogue for "Indiscretions of an American Wife," produced in Rome for Columbia Pictures by Vittorio De Sica. "In Italy they don't rely so much on a script," he said. They like to make things up as they go along. The film was shot in the Rome railroad terminal. and whenever they needed dia logue for the next scene I would go into, another room of the station and write it. "The Italian method of mak ing a film wouldn't work with many Hollywood stars. If thev tried it with Marilyn Monroe, it would be a disaster. But thev have turned out some great pic tures that way." Capote, who has had some luck in a life of hard work, has never seen a television program. "Do you think I should take up looking at television?" he asked. "I have no opinions against it I simply don't own a television set, and nobody I know ever looks at it. "It sounds terribly exciting, but I dislike all ephemeral things." He feels sure, however, that video will make for better films on more adult themes. "Television will take over all the taboos that hamper the m.o vies now," he predicted "When people can get all the poppycock they want o ntele vision, films will have to become more human and real in order to find an audience." This mellowing enfant terri ble of literature he earned his living tap dancing on a river boat, painting on glass, and for tune telling while learning the writer's trade poked moodily in the ruins of the strawberry tart, then said: "What would bother me about working in television is that you have only the bubble of a mom ent. To the creative artist, his work has to be a solid thing not an ephemeral thing, such as an actor's performance. "That is what ainaiei me about painters. How can they sell their paintings and let them go into strange houses where they will never see them again? "I take the books I have WTit ten with me wherever I go the foreign translations of them, too. Then, whereever I am, I can look at them and say, 'there is something solid.' '"I have to have a sense of permanency, because everything else in my life is so important. If you arc really dedicated to an art, the art becomes your only reality in the world." When I asked Capote, still on the sunny side of 30, what he thought of Ernest Hemingway, who is 55. he replied amiably: "I'm glad the boy's alive. He's a marvelous writer; but . . . " - Truman Capote didn't finish the sentence. He finished the strawberry tart instead. they've been peddling in Eu rope naineiv, that the United States will trample over Euro pean freedoms if war breaks Talbot is one nf Ikes regu- this crude method of exerting j matter d'iiln t seem so important. ! "Jj, ni'e of ' this cause. And I 'ho bp Ams e!me 'he it is properly to evnluat "diplomatic pressure." And it otiKht to make tis even more determined if this is possible, not to reeoirni.e or bill a conference with Red China, which would be a crowning piece of futility CONGRATULATIONS ON A FINE CHURCH The entire Salem community congratulates the members of St, Paul's Episcopal church, one of the very oldest insti tutions in the capital city, on the dedication yesterday of one of Oregon's most beautiful edifices for Christian worship. The new church was overflowed by the sion. lint tne bill lie is prounest of would create a department of peace. The West Virginia lcmoirat got the idea from R. M. Davis, Morgantown, W.Va . coal miner, who has been uruing a depart ment of peace for years. Frank Cannett. publisher of the (ian- newspapers, is also a vigor- ule night sessions if necessary. Costello seems to have taken ! a sound position. Already there are more than 11.000 pages of testimony in the record, and the hearing shows no sign of slow ing down. Mis idea sounds even better if we remember that in all prob abilitythe losing side will car ry the issue to the courts. There are probably children being born these winter months and as of this writing hasn I ; st.-u-.ers buttonholes one and all withdrawn. Bricker has done j on thc sui(ject, from capitol page her some favors in the senate, , bl)V, , tho resident of the and also she's up for re election j i: n itol States. He's convinced this fall . . . (It's funny -- or j mat SOnie of his enthusiasm rub rather tragic how a senator : h(,d o(( on ,hng a White up for re-election ran pull his 1 msr chat the other dav. or her punches in Die last few . . .)r president, mavbe we months before the straight away. wm,, nt r,.;,p anv material ad They know, however, that one , vantages riht away from the speech for or against them by a establishment of a department McCarthyite can cost thousands ; f pence in vour cabinet." argu in campaign funds.) . . . One sen-1 rd staggers' "However, as a .. , .. ltnr up ''r re election w ho's not , pjm. ( psychology to capture uhieh Mttemlerl the ,l..rlieut.iri- uipi'ifA IK,,,. I .. 1'uuing piinines in me nricxer men s nnmls. it would ne a tre- wrmn atttndirt the dwlicatorj semee Sunday alternoon. battle is Estrs Kctamcr of Ten-' mrn(,lls a!.. in ,hp Cold war which appropriately stressed not the material but the snir- hessee. lie s leading it . . . ! nf nerves with the communists. I menus say that lincKcr, an oiti i "Every nation in the world has Lake Erie duck hunter, got into! a department of war in its gov this battle because a treaty with crnnienl, hut not one major na Canada gave the federal govern- 'tjnn has a department of peace, ment the power to regulate duck e ought to counteract Russian shooting Earlier the supreme i lios about the United Stales he court ruled that the federal gov-'jni; a warmonger '' issue is setttled at the present rate of progress. LOSS OF PROSECUTORS Oregon Voter "lawyers may he a dime a do, en as was observed by one legis lator during the session." comments Oregon Bar Bulletin, "but competent district attorneys In whom the public can have confidence cost more. A growing number of tlislrict attorneys have resigned lately or declined to be candidates for re-election." With which we fully concur. ....i , f - i , mini napi-i-i in until s nauire, wrucn me cnurch aims to enhance. Into this .structure has jronc the prayers, the efforts ami the money of hundreds of families, who have built an edi fice that should endure all through Salem's second century and radiate an incalculable influence for Kood. MAKING IT PAINLESS DENVER P) The Denver Dental Assn., prying and probing the molars of some 400 orphans, tried a new means today of mak ing the experience less painful to the kids: comic books. Prepared by the American Dental Assn., the comics relate the adventures of Daredevil I)a vey in trapping such evil charac ters as "Sugar Sweets," "Punk Diel," "I,a7.y Rrusher" and "Hap Hazard." ernment, using the treatv with ( anatla, roulil supersede the lurk-shooting regulations of the 48 states . . . Almost every duck shooter now agrees, however, that federal regulation Is a good tiling ii dillcrent states com Staggers showed the president a newspaper editorial strongly supporting his bill. After Eisen hower read the nlitori.il, he made a point of not returning it. but laid it on his desk. It you (ion i minu, im to'iig I'EIIOMETEItS FOR REES Albany Ormocrat-llerald Recently a pedometer was at tached to the foot of a basketball n feree before a game, and at the rnd it registered six miles of walk ing and nmn.ng for the official. Judged by Ihe standard loud, mu cous disapproval expressed by sooi't.iiors at games, they'd prefer In have the officials do the dis tr.iHT in a straight line away from the floor PCled against each other for the ! In keen llit " sain Ik. best season, North American Note The editorial was In Ihe Canned newspapers which i have not been too laudatory of "Mlhe Eisenhower administration. The Prescription Profes sion is ever watchful and atuned to the ad-, vances made by Medi cal Science. It keeps at watchful vigil, ready for immediate service when ever the Medical Profes sion calls. It stands guard FOR YOU. 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