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Page 4 Section 1 Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINVVARING (1897-1957) -; Editor ond Publisher, 1953-1957 E. A. BROWN, Publisher GLENN CUSHMAN, Managing Editor GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone EM-46811 Full Leased Wire Service of The Associated Press and The United Pres. The Auocllted Prei It exclusively entitled to the use for pub lication of all news dispatches credited to It or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Cirrlfr. Monthly, f!.ZS; Bli Mont hi. IT.M; ont mt, I15.84. By mill la Oregon: Monthly, 11.00; Sli Month!. S3 00; One Yrar, f 9.00. By mall Ouuide Oregon: nonuiiy fus; mix monint, t.w, ont itar, yis.ov. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Gravity Power Nexl on List Engineering and scientist researchers of this five-billion-year old but "brave new world," not content with discovery and utilization of nuclear power, finding means of developing solar energy, are now concentrating on attempts to solve the mystery of gravity and bring about a control of its power. Such, at least, is the assertion of Jesse Vernon Honeycult, director and vice-president of the Bethlehem Steel Company made at the recent annual dinner at New York City of the Moles, a society of engineers in the heavy construction indus try. "Solving the mystery of gravitational force would be of tre mendous import in the field of aircraft design, where the problem of fighting gravity's effects has always been brisk," said Mr. Honeycutt. Noting that the nation for 12 years had been undergoing "the biggest and longest construction boom on record," he introduced the subject of gravitational power, saying: - "Undeniably we stand on the threshold ot a new age of achieve ment, that is the utilization ol energy to a degree unequaled in our history. The potential for change arising from the availability of nuclear and solar energy alone is fantastic, partly because they were not economically dependent on coal mines, oil fields, water power or existing industrial, transportation or commercial centers. ; A result of such change might be a shift in the present centers of industry and population." The future, Mr. Honeycutt added, was not limited to the use of nuclear and solar energy, and reported on research into gravity "as great a mys'.ery today as electricity was in olden times." And he called on engineers to keep sight of potentials. He estimated that an average of more than a billion dollars annually must be spent in each of the next five years by the steel industry "to keep ahead of steel needs of our expanding economy." As there are several dictionary definitions of gravity, lest tome of our erudite readers think the reference above is to the slate of being grave and important, like our politicians and eggheads, a power which can't be harnessed, the steel magnate was referring to terrestrial gravity, the gravitation of terrestrial bodies toward Hie center of the earth, and not toward office seeking. G. P. RAY TUCKER U. S. Being Put on Spot in Removing Israel From Gaza f 1 km Cornelia Marvin Pierce When Cornelia Marvin resigned in 1828 from the office of Oregon state librarian to become the wife of ox-Governor Walter M. Pierce the Capital Journal mentioned editorially the obstacles she had overcome to build Oregon's state library system, and spoke of her as Oregon s foremost woman Since then there has been no cause lo change that opinion. Her death Tuesday recalls her pioneering ot the library movement in Oregon, her struggles against opposition, legis lative and otherwise, and her victory that gave this state one of the best of library systems. She created the state library, but that wasn't all of her work. She originated the traveling library and mail order circulation of books that made the best literature and tech nical works for those who wanted them available to the people In isolated and remote places. Other stales copied the system which centralized in the state library all of the state's public libraries as well as the circulating system. Starting from zero the library becomes a great Institution, patronized by thou sands. "This generation," she wrote in 1955, "cannot realize the difficulties of reaching people in Tillamook, Wallowa or Klam ath Counties stage trips over rough roads but the farther away they were the warmer the welcome." Miss Marvin came to Oregon In 1905 to start her work through the influence of a coterie of interested Oregonians. The first state library was in small quarters in the old State House. When the Supreme Court building was erected it was moved there. The present State Library building came after her resignation, but in Washington, as the wife of Rep. Walter Pierce, she worked for an allocation of public works funds that brought it about, and she was honored at the dedication. Cornelia Marvin had done eminent work as a librarian be fore coming to Oregon, notably in Illinois and Wisconsin. As Instructor in the Summer Library School of the University of Wisconsin she did much traveling as she later did in Oregon. In Chicago she made libraries available to the children of stockyards families. Children were foremost in her thought wherever she exerted her leadership. Her acquaintance reached far among those who loved books. Cornelia Marvin Pierce knew no idle moments, either as state official or as wife of a congressman to whom she was assistant for 10 years in Washington, or as she lay abed in her last illness. WASHINGTON A nasty politi cal problem has been tossed into the hands of President Eisen hower and Secretary Dulles as a result of the world belief that only American influence and pres sure can persuade Israel to with draw from the Gaza strip and Gulf of Aqaba, in accord with numerous United Nations demands. It is almost dolorously that wttj Dulles concedes 1 1 h a t. if neccs 5 sary for a solu tion of the Suez crisis, this coun try might have to employ eco nomic sanctions against Tel Aviv. Such ac lion to starve out the stricken little republic, bay tucker ne appreciates. would provoke an emotional storm at home and throughout the Jew ish community everywhere, and raise up powerful enemies among elements once friendly to Ike. Hold U. S. Responsible But all the key nations and im portant personalities involved in the Middle East controversy seem to hold the United States respon sible for Israel's existence and current defiance of the U. N. Colo nel GamaJ Abdel Naser of Egypt feels bitterly on the subject of American aid and sympathy for Palestine. On his visit to Washineton. Kine Saud expressed the lvew that only uncic iam could talk turkev to Premier Ben Gurion. In view of their loss of prestige in the Middle East because of their attack on Egypt, both Britain and France insist that we assume the role of interventionist. They have thrown up their hands, or rather, washed their hands of the task. Dag Hammarskjold. United Na tions Secretary General, has urged his American contacts to take the lend in obtaining Israeli compli ance with the world organization's repeated pleas (or a less unbend ing atlitudc at Tel Aviv. The latest critical resolution in the U. N. was opposed only by Israel and France. Arabs Eye Tel Aviv Gifts There Is no justification for criti cism of Washington's policy to ward Israel, in official opinion. In deed, Eisenhower has made ene mies because he has tried to offset Harry S.' Truman's special favori tism toward Israel. He has. ac cording to the Zionist viewpoint, leaned toward the Arabs in refus ing to sell arms t Tel Aviv. But the Arabians do not distin guish between oflicial Administra tion assistance and the gilts which flow to Israel year after year from Zionist friends and sympathizers. Without these contributions, they believe that the new state could not exist, and certainly not be able to defeat them in the 1047 and 1036 engagements. In fact, without private Ameri can financial help, Israel would not have a viable econmy. It is es timated that the discrepancy be tween exports and imports amounts to about (200.000.000 an nually on the red side. The imbal ance is made up in part by $70, 000.000 of German reparations, which the U. S. and Britain in duced Bonn to pay. Nasser's Deduction Part of the remainder comes from more than $100,000,000 in American contributions and the purchase of Israeli bonds, which is an annual asset. Israel's friends in other countries make up the bal ance of the yearly debt. As evidence of Arabian bitter ness and blame of the U.S.. Nas ser frequently notes that Internal Revenue permits American contri butors to deduct this money on their income tax report. He re gards that as indirect but official Government support. In view of other nations' de finance of U. N. resolutions, the proposal to punish Tel Aviv em barrasses Dulles. Moscow, for in stance, laughed at the demand for a U.N. investigation of the Hun garian massacre. Nehru refuses to hold a plebiscite in Kashmir, in accord with old U. N. requests. And Egypt has been permitted to blockade the Suez Canal to Is raeli shipping, again in disregard of U. N. insistence to the contrary. (Released by MrClure Newspaper Syndicate! JAMES MARLOW Veil of Mystery Surrounds Nasser; Where's He Going? Spy-Paper Still Catching 'Em Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, February 13, 1957 HAL BOYLE Fisherman Boyle Apologizes To 20 Million U.S. Waltons HAL BOYLE ANDROS TOWN, Bahamas Uv I owe an apology to America's 20 million fishermen. For years I have secretly felt that a nsner man was like a profes s i o n a 1 g a m b 1 e r who plays poker for keeps with a group of kinder garten kids. Fishing seemed unfair to me. Any man ought to be able to outsmart any- Ihinv dumb enough to spend its life under water. Or so 1 tnougnt. The Andros Yacht Club here has become a mecca for anglers of three continents seeking every thing from delicate neeaieusn 10 blue marlins big enough to fill a Cadillac. Basically Childish Sport After listening to a lot of their tail varns about record catches, I ventured the .opinion that fish ing was basically a childisn sport. "As a matter of fact," I said, "I set a record myself when I was only 10 years old. I caught three fish in two minutes in Troost Lake in Kansas City, Mo. "The larecst was about three inches," I admitted. "But the principle's the same whether vou're after a minnow or a whale All fish are dumb. What chance have they got. once you learn their weakness? "Sire," said Joe, reproachfully, "it was a school of six . . . maybe eight." "How far can you really see a bonefish?" I asked. "Six hundred feet in this light," he said, and at the look of dis belief on my face he added with simpled ignity, "Sir, in my work my eyes are my hands." Too Exhausted To Fish Dave offered to let me flick out a few I lies, oui oy men i was so exhausted I couldn't have hurled an underweight mosquito three feet to catch even a walrus. Alter casting a bit trom the boat, we started home empty- handed. "Phantoms of the flats ' indeed. Joe and Dave had seen maybe 20 bonefish. I saw not one. Unless a man has 20-20 vision. the patience of Job, and the en durance of a well-trained infan tryman, he'd better leave bone fishing to real he-fishermen and strong silent women. But no fish is ever going to get a chance to make a fool of me in public again. The next one 1 caicn wilt be with a knife and fork, and if it even dares look up from the plate in an appeal for justice or fair play I'll pour a whole bottle of Worcestershire sauce right square in its big leering blue eye, DAVID LAWRENCE Democrats on Steady Drive To Weaken Ike's Influence Courageous Vice Crusaders Wallace Turner and William Lambert, reporters of the Oregonian of Portland, have been named winners of the 1956 Heywood Broun Award for journalistic enterprise by the American Newspaper Guild, a deserved recognition for their exposure of vice conditions in Portland In the crusade to clean up corruption in the municipality. The citation commended their exposures "of an attempt by a group of hoodlums, allegedly backed by some local officials of the Teamsters Union to capture control of law enforcement in Portland." Their articles appeared in April. 1956, sparked a governor-ordered grand jury probe of crime, vice and corruption in Multnomah County, and resulted in more than SO indictments. The award committee chairman In Washington said that the Oregonian reporters won the unanimous judgment be cause of the obstacles they fated In developing the story, veiled threats against them personally which resulted in police protection because the district attorney and local law enforcement officials were implicated, and the great obstacles they faced, they rendered "truly a national service and a auperb job of reporting.'' However, as frequently happens In such cacs, there can be no awards as yet for prompt prosecution of these vice and racketeering cases, for "the law's delay and insolence of office" shelter the accused as usual. The original Indictments have been thrown out of court as defective and a new grand jury must listen to the mass of evidence on which they were based. Then, at the tedious trials that will follow, every possible technicality will be invoked to save the accused. As much of the evidence was secured by or through re corded wire tappings, which are held illegal, protecting crim lnals, most of the accused may yet be "acquitted." G. P. WASHINGTON UH - There is still a mystery about Egyptian President Nasser, despite all that's been writ ten about him and all he him self has said: Jus' where Is he taking Egypt? He has been called an Egyp tian nationalist and an antico lonial i s t . He says he is both. He has also been called a jamks mahi.ow would-be Hitler trying to line up and dominate the Arab world. He denies this. He would also deny he Is a Com munist or is leading his country toward communism. Egypt has some restrictions on Communist activity, such as propaganda. But he is getting Egypt deeper in debt to the Communists outside Egypt. Dependent .n Commlri His new laws "Egyptianizing" various foreign businesses in Egypt discourage foreign invest ments in Egypt and may so change the country's economy that no western government would give Egypt economic aid or loans this in turn would make Egypt even more dependent on the Com munist world for help. This picture might seem differ ent if Nasser at the same time were setting up social programs for Egypt s 23 million people, most of them poor. Rut the stories coming out ol Egypt do not tell of any real. When that problem is solved. or partly solved, attention will re vert back lo Nasser. So far he's been playing only one game lough-guy obstinacy. He can't play it forever. The United States, so far as can be seen, is trying to line up his Arab neighbors in friendly rela tions with this country. It will mean money for them from U.S. foreign aid funds. In time, if Nasser continues his obstinate but otherwise unpredict able course, he may find himself isolated in his own Arab world. He still has some time on his side. But It can't last indefinitely. 2 , m RE1S MAXWELL Coast Road Urged Here Back in 17 Feb. 1J, 1917 Capital Journal had editorially supported a project for a Willam ette valley highway to the sea via willamina, Dolph and Nes tucca bay. Such a route, the edi t o r i a 1 said, would place Sa lem within three hour's driving distance from the coast. John W. Todd, u p e r i n- long-range thinking on Nasser's ; tendent of city bkn maxwell part to lift Egyptians out of their economic wretchedness. schools for the past year, had been re-elected for another term of one year at an annual salary of S2750, an advance of $500 over his present salary. The practice of sending valentines on February 14 Is be lievcd to have Its origin in an ancient Idea that birds began to mate on that day. As far at wa are concerned It is still for the birds. By no stretch of Hie irwgjanllM toetd nay valentine vr haw ever uttetnei & rjoiwdicriKi Wi (udutawoat t wu4 Hatred for the West He keeps them stirred up with hatred for the West. That can keep them distracted for only a while from the main Issue of their lives: What are they going to get out ol Nasser's regime? Because of a lack of social pro grams or any tliscernibly clear policy for his people besides waving the Egyptian flag Nas er looks more like an opportunist playing it by ear than a man with vision or programs. Nasser has kept the Egyptians moving from excitement to sen sation and back again with his tough policy all around, his soii- ...... ,h. C.... r.n.l II.H ntlack on Egvpt which stemmed ! exwume coninmi juumm ... from his conduct. ' Anderson. W. It. Hoyt Charles K. Spaulding had re turned to Salem from San Fran Cisco whore he had gone to inter est capitalists in building a pulp and paper null here. A company in which Spaulding was interested had acquired the Salem Flouring Mill property on Trade street and its power site. A "Forty-five Efficiency" club comprised of men above 45 years of age had been organized in Salem. Ofdcers were John Oliver. president; William Short, vice- president; S. W. Eaton, secretary Nasser Has Sat Tight If he Is just an opportunist, al ways looking for the main chance, he will probably be forced out of the picture, either by those around him or by a revolt, per haps led from the left, by the Egyptian people. Since the British French attack on Egypt and Ihe United Na Abe Sowers. F. C. Pe Lonf and F. A. Anderson. iNone is now known to be alive'. E. E. Brodie. publisher of an Oregon City newspaper, had re marked that motorists desiring to travel between Albany and Salem had belter ship their cars or take a boat Between Jefferson and WASHINGTON - The steady drive to weaken President Eisen howers influence in world affairs continues among 4.,. 1U group of Dem- ocrais in ine Senate. Although the Senate served notice on the world by a vote of 85 to 3 in January, 1955 mat the Presi dent could use military force in d. LAWRENCE Formosa and re lated areas in the Far East with out further delegation by Congress there is a disposition now on the part of a few Democratic Sena tors to refuse to vote for similar authority to be used in the Middle Last. Thus grave doubt is cast whether the President can depend on congressional support even in the Formosa area a circumstance that doubltess will not be over looked by Red China and might even be the basis for an overt act to test out whether the execu tive now will venture to use force Reveri Their Actions It is a mystery why the same Democrats who voted to delegate power to the President in a con tingent sense in Formosa without spelling out in detail the steps that would lead to such a decision now are insisting that something unprecedented is being requested tor the Middle hast The only explanation is that some of the Democrats are really backtracking and do not care if the world knows they are hedging on the position they took on the Formosa resolution. Red China and the Soviet Union couldn't be happier over the attempts in the Senate to sabotage the Middle East resolution. The action taken by both houses of Congress with respect to For mosa in 1955 was overwhelming. The resolution was not "advisory." It has the force and authorization of law. It said: llns Force of Law "The President of the United States be and he hereby is author ized to employ the armed forces of the United States as he deems necessnry for the specific pur pose of securing and protecting Formosa and the Pescadores against armed attack, this author ity lo include the securing and pro tection ot such related positions and territories of that area now in friendly hands and the taking of such other measures as he judges to be required or appro priate in assuring the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores. The Middle East resolution- which passed the House by a vole of 3.S5 to 61 last month and now is pendine in the Senate says "The President is authorized to undertake, in the general area of the Middle East, military assis tance programs with any nation or group ol nations of that area de siring such assistance, further more, he is authorized to employ the armed forces of the United States as he deems necessary to secure and protect the territorial integrity and political indepen dence of any such nation or group of nations requesting such aid against overt armed aggression from any nation controlled by in ternational communism: Provided. that the authority herin granted shall be carried out to the great a warning to aggressors, the op ponents of the resolution are in sisting that it is an unprecedented delegation of power in advance to carry on war. Inexplicable Inconsistency This is an inexplicable inconsis tency. Indeed, the Senate a few years ago voted to ratify the North Atlantic treaty itself, which makes an attack on any one of the 14 member countries equiva lent to an attack on the United States. Thus Congress, through the Senate in the case of NATO and in the instance of the For mosa resolution adopted by both houses, has twice recognized the desirability of an advance grant of power lo the executive. This is of transcendent importance in an atomic age. when minutes count. One senator says that, alter the events have occurred, the Presi dent can then ask Congress to ratily what he has done. What is overlooked is that the very debate in Congress indicates to the would be aggressors that there is dis unity in the United States and that many members of Congress now are talking as if they wish to re pudiate even the votes they cast for the Formosa resolution. Damaging to U.S. Abroad This is what makes America's allies uneasy. The very men who are condemning the administration for weakening its alliances in Eur ope now are preventing their own government from strengthening al liances all over the world in the Far East and the Middle East. It is a striking example of the dam age that can be done by divided government here. The danger ot Quotes From The News NEW YORK: Dr. Ashley Mon tagu, 52-year-old anthropologist, on his decision to keep $32,000 he had won on a TV quiz program and not try for more: "The laws of probability being what they are, I've decided to take the money." WASHINGTON: Chairman Fran cis E. Walter (D-Pa) of the House Immigration subcommittee on his plan to ask the administration to stop the flow of Hungarian refu gees to the United States: "Economic conditions behind the Iron Curtain are so frightful that everybody will start running if there is a break in the curtain. MIAMI BEACH: Former Prcsi dent Truman attacking "political budget-cutters" in the Eisenhower administration: "It is a lot better to have strong national defense than a balanced budget. THOMASVILLE, Ga.: Presiden tial Press Secretary James C, Hagerty on Russia's "hands oft" proposal for the Middle East: "Obviously, this is a move to try to discredit or stop the Eiscn hower play in the Middle East.' NEW YORK: Actor Errol Flynn on whether he would keep his $30,000 TV quiz show prize or take a chance on winning $100,000: "I think I'll take it and run. I've been receiving threatening letters or I should say tele gramsfrom my family." A Smile or Two All Moved Silently Away All the fishermen moved silent ly away from me down to the outer end ol the bar as ii i had broken out with smallpox. All. that is, except Dave Rob erts, outdoor editor of the Cincin nati Enquirer, w ho is a kindly, tolerant man. Tomorrow." he said, "you re going boncfishing with me. The sport has changed a lime since you were 10." I agreed, The next morning Joe, our native guide, put-putted us up Fresh Creek. We oolcd into the shallows, and Dave said, "now, we get out and walk." "In the water?" I asked. "On top of it if you can," an swered Dave mildly. Walking on Water We started wading, and after about a mile of this 1 began puff ing. Every few moments Dave or; Joe, noiselessly poling the boat! behind us, would get excited and' point, and then zip! Dave would send the fly arching lar out into the water. But nothing bit. I stared and stared. Each time I saw nothing but rippling waves. Once, when Joe pointed and called softly "There!", I nodded as if I had really seen something and said, yes, there were four' counting the little one with the! narrow forehead.' ' A mild-mannered minister ac cepted the call to a church in a town where many of the members bred horses, and sometimes raced them. A few weeks after his ap pointment, he was asked to invite the prayers of the congregation for Lucy Gray. On the fourth Sun day one of the deacons told him he need not do it any longer. "Why?" asked the minister with an anxious look. "Has she died?" "Oh, no," replied the deacon. "She won the steeplechase yester day." Mutual Moments. NOT A GOOD IDEA A resolution has been introduced in the legislature to provide for annual sessions of that body. In as much as the major function of that body in recent years has been to levy new and additional taxes this idea hasn't much general ap pealSherman County Journal. "More Than Century . . . of funeral directing for those who want the best." HOWELL-EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME war, due to miscalculation of America's attitude by the enemy, is increased when the impression is conveyed of a lack of confidence by the national legislature in the policies being pursued by the I executive in his efforts to prevent World War III. 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