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Paee 4. See. 4. (lanital I 1 j 1 : i ) I t p M U II 1 ( ' ll PI th Il( O'l Sc P f Va Rc Capital Journal AN INDiMNDINT NIWIPAMa-HTAIlllHID IN llll Bernard Mainwaring (1 897-1 957) Editor and Publisher 1 953-1 957 E. A. Brown, Publisher Glenn Cushman, Managing Editor George Putnam, Editor Emeritus Puktbhaa! evary vanini aicapt Sunday by the Capital Jeurnal Ce., Mr, jannia I. Mainwaring Pull lealed Wire Service of Tha Atloeleled Praia and Tha Unitad Pran. Tha Aliocialed Praia ll excluilvely antitlad ' to tha uia for publication of all nawi ditpelchei cradilad to It or etharwiia credited In thil paper and alio naw publiihad tharain. IU1SCIIIPTION RATES ly Clrriar: Manlhly, 11.50, Si, Monlhl, .00; Ona Vaar, 511.00. ly Mail in Oragon: Manlhly, IIJOi Si Manlhi, Sa.10; Ona Yaar SU M. ly Mail OulalrJe Orafon: Monthly, IJ0; Si. Manthl, .00; Ona Vaar, SHOO 'Food for the Gods' The most curious, elaborate and costly books to be published on the subject in this '.or any other country, in recent times is .v'Mushrooms, Russia and History," by Valen tino Pavlonia and R. Gordon Wasson. Three JTiundred and fifty copies of this lavishly Jj printed and superbly illustrated two volume jj'Work are being offered to the public by Pan theon Books at $125 a set. Z Mr. Gordon is an American and vice-presi- dent of J. P. Morgan & Co., investment bank- ers and his Russian-born wife, Dr. Pavlovna, t practicing physician In New York. Since their marriage in 1927 they have spent their I vacations in all parts of the world hunting, .collecting and clasifying wild mushrooms and studying their history through the ages. Robert Graves, the noted British author -and poet, in the current Saturday Review, 7 writes of the mushroom hunting, travels and f discoveries of the authors in nearly every 1 portion of the globe, studying the strange phenomenon of mycophobia, "an ancestral obsession which rules certain clearly defined "areas on the world map, but not others," which they declare should, be entitled to be, t renamed "Food of the Gods." , . Though a great many toadstools taste de ;f vinely, both cooked and raw," the authors ', lay "the prime reason for such an ancient iban on mushroom eating can only be a re Jligious one, they were a food reserved for Tgods," as Seulonius and other ancient Greeks J proclaimed them." Only ambrosia, a mysteri-. ;ous food denied mortals, was so labeled. . ' A rigid convention forbids the mention of mushrooms in Homer, Hesiod and other ,''Attic dramatists and later Greek writers men--ftioned them with fear, under a religious .taboo. They are also said to have played a f'vital part in the ancient mystery culti in Greece, Egypt and the Near East. 5 The authors also visited the isolated Mexi can tribes where 16th century Spanish priests ' reported that perverted Mexicans revored ; certain mushrooms which caused "horrible " inebriations," describing the resultant vision I to "God's flesh, which they had sacrlmentally ' eaten." ; In 1953 the Gordons with a photographer visited a mountain tribe in Oaxaca, confirm ed the itory and dared to eat the sacred Pmushrooms and tell of their effect. 3 "At first we saw geometric patterns, angular not l .tnt,n.. .ntnt. an.h aa michl alnrn textiles or carpeta. Then the patterns grew into -architectural structures, with colonades and arch itraves, patios and regal splendor, the stone-work a. all in brilliant colors, gold and onyx and ebony, .'all most harmoniously and ingeniously contrived, in richest magnificence extending beyond the ' reach of sight, in vistas measureless to man. For pome reason these architectural visions seemed ' oriental. - "At one point in the faint moonlight the bouquet ;.on the table assumed the dimensions and shape ."of an imperial conveyance, a triumphal car, drawn by living creatures known only to mythology. With our eyes wide open, the visions came in endless succession, each growing out of the preceding ' nne. We had the sensation that the walls of our 'humble house had vanished, that our untrammcl 'ed souls were floating in the universe, stroked by divine breezes, possessed of a divine mobility that '.would transport us anywhere on the wings of a .thought." ! As a footnote, Kurt Woolf'of Pantheon Books, states "Mushrooms, Russia and His tory," is the most intricately fashioned and costly book his house has yet produced. The look was designed by Hans Mardcrsteig, and "3he text printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, ;Verona. The Fabre paintings were reproduc ed by Jacomet, Paris; other illustrations by 'Alinari, Florence. The paper was made by hand by Magnani, Pcscia; the binding by Tor- riani, Milan." No paperback reprint is plan 'ncd. G. P. Jurliriary Legislation ; The ways and means committee rcporlcd '! favorably Monday on Senate Bill 460, provid ing for the appointment of two commission ers to serve in the capacity of judges on the Supreme Court and help relieve the conges lion in the high court. . ; It isn't too late even now to throw this " bill out, and revive and pass Senate Bill 10, 'providing for two additional fullfledged jus tices. " This change is needed perhaps needed ;'jiioie than anything else to expedite t tie administration of justice in the Oregon courts, ilt has been more than 40 years since the "court personnel was increased from five to seven. In that lime the state has undergone .great growth in population, its economy and its occupational life have become more com . plicated, and court business has vastly in creased. The additional justices arc needed. The commissioners called for in Senate Bill .460 would presumably have the same quali fications as regular judges. They would draw the same pay, so there is no economy in the bill. The measure is pointless be .''cause the court must have the two additional .members, whether they are judges or com- 'missioners, and under this bill, if the 1959 I .Legislature failed to legislate more judges, ithe court would continue to have commission .ers beyond that time. Actually Senate Bill 460 is a stopgap for .' the next two years, during which time a T Legislative Interim Committee on Judicial Administration, if it is created under Senate "Joint Resolution 24, will study the court sys tem of the state, including the number of .Justices who should serve on the Supreme "Court. This is a good resolution and the "Interim committee can do good service, but Uhe matter of Supreme Court judges should J'be deleted from the list of its duties and Senate Bil 10 passed instead. Among sup ' porters of the bil is the Oregon State Bjr, which it on record for it. The Supreme Court is a nonpartisan body ; in8 exact party lines are not being drawn in ' court legislation. Yet politics is ald to enter Into It, with lomt influential Republicans opposing Senate Bill 10 for fear that Gover nor Holmes would appoint Democrats re gardless of qualifications. Well, the Governor would just have to be trusted in that respect. All else being equal, it is more important that the court have its needed judges than is their political affiliation. I RAY TUCKER Devices Save Us AH Money Today WASHINGTON The cost of living is not much higher today than it was before World War II, in view of the time and money-saving devices that have lifted American standards to undreamed-of levels. These gains can be measured in actual dollars; and cents, according to gov ernment experts on human j living. They disagree entire ly with the slide-rule econom-S ists who warn of a depressions tnal "will curl your hair." They hope that the House agriculture Subcommittee, which is headed by Represen tative Victor L. Anfuso, the Brooklyn farmer, will include ray tucker these factors in its current investigation of living costs, especially food. Otherwise, they will present only one side of the picture, and that, a dark arid distorted canvas. MORE FOR THEIR MONEY According to this theory, it is not noly the customers' demand for grocery parking lots, trading stamps and luxuriously pack aged goods that have boosted all retail prices. American families are getting more for their money on every product they buy, from vegetables to television sets and automobiles. They actually save money in the long run, when the advantages in human comfort, leisure, health and enjoyment are weighed against their Investment in living. It will require a more authoritative body than a Congressional Committee ' to study and explore all the implications of the post war revolution in living costs and standards. Chairman Anfuso should call as witnesses some of the unknown and minor officials from Agriculture, Commerce, the Public Health Service and the Bureau of Standards, if he wishes to present a true balance sheet of American life today. REVOLUTION IN LIVING However, a few examples will suffice to explain and even to itemize this theory: An electric icebox, for instance, costs about $400, as against $50 for the old-fashioned wooden thing of long ago. But the operational cost will run about $1 a month instead of $8 to $12 for melting ice. And there is no comparison between the service rendered ice cubes versus icebergs. With the modern equipment, however, the housewife can buy prepared foods of all kinds, obtaining them at bargain sales and preserving them in her freezer. She can prepare meals in minutes instead of hours. Instead of a winter diet of root foods potatoes, turnips, .beets, carrots which will have lost their vitamin content from long storage, a family enjoys the finest and freshest of nutritious vegetables every month of the year. Both greater leisure and possible longevity, two of life's most valuable assets, result. Other contributions to ease and enrichment of living arc all the other seemingly expensive household appliances electric vacuum clean ers, washing machines, mechanical dishwash ers. ALMOST MAIDLESS ECONOMY Thanks to these gadgets, the United States has become almost a maidless economy. And maids now earn from $30 to $40 a week at Washington for an eight-hour day. Their salary, allowing for other costs, exceeds in .a. year the investment in all these maid-saving devices. And that is without any allow ance for the value of a housewife's time! Television and radio sets come high for their initial cost, although they last for sev eral years. But the money saved in 12 months on free home viewing of World Series and Bowl Games, the best of actors and actresses, operatic stars, educational and travel films more than balances the expen diture. Rrnadwav has been brought to Main Street. Automobiles are costly. But the shift to pleasant and healthful suburban living makes them a relatively inexpensive form of trans portation. Without them, there could he no eight-hour day or five-day week, or the ex tended vacations which contribute so much to national unity. These are only a few of the actual dollars-and-cents benefits of the economic revolu tion which no mere Congressional inquiry can measure. HAL BOYLE Average Man Shrinks Some During Day NEW YORK UH - Things a col umnist might never know if he didn't read his mail: That people who say they're hungry enough to cat an ox probably d o n't realize it's more than a weekend lob . . . Johann Kctzler, a meth odical German, decided in 1880 I ya WM'Ip10 see iust how 13 V VAJlong it would W tiTVke 'o eat a LrT II "hole roast ox hal boyl ... it took him 42 days, from tip to tail. That of the 60 billion phone calls Americans are said to make each year, IS million are from people in distress. SHRINKAGE OF MAN That the average man shrinks about Vi of an inch between break fast and sundown. . . even on days when his boss is tolerant. That the wearing of silk is ta boo in some religians because it is the product of a worm. (Try to get your wife to join one of these cults if she's running over her clothes budget.) rhal two bopstcrs visited the Grace Downs air hostess school and were shown "the school's $5, 000 link trainer, which pitches, rolls and turns just like a plane in flight. . . "Man." said one. "dig that crazy cocktail shaker!" That Kings College at Wilkes Barre, Pa., has -in its chapel the only altar nf coal in the world. . . it was made from a single block of anthracite weighing 4,200 pounds. A PESSIMIST That comedian George DeWitl defines a pessimist as "a fellow who goes on a picnic with Anila Eckberg and worries that there may be ants In the food." That the planet Jupiter Is 317 times heavier than the earth and big enought to make 1,000 globes the size of our world. . . when you come right down to it there's really plenty of parking space left in the universe getting to it is the real problem. Hint two moths can produce 2S million descendants In a single year. That wives in Nigeria are some- limes bought on the installment plnn. i You put two cows down and pay one gnat a month until she's yours. All sales final. No returns, C. O. D. s or mail orders!) WOMEN REALTORS -That it is estimated women pos sess 55 per cent of the nation's real estate. . . thus America has more landladies than landlords. That there arc 2,7 different languages in use throughout the world. . . or 2.7118 if you include Brooklynese and Washington gob bledegook. That if your baby develops a habit of holding his breath, it may be a sign he feels insecure. (If your wife holds her breath, on the other hand, it just means she's annoyed.) That it takes up to four hours to boil an oslrich egg properly. , . a lohslor will live about 50 years if you'll just let it alone. . . the fur seal goes ashore only once a vcar. . . and it is unwise to pet a strange elephant suffering with the hives. DREADKD 1.1KKMIA That leukemia, cancer of the blond, has increased 70 per cent in the Inst decade and killed five times as many people as polio. That you're safer at work. . . because fi8 per cent of accidents hiumcn off the ioh. That Americans spend about 125 million dollars n year on fortune tellers. . . unfortunately. That it was poet Robert Frost who observed. "The brain is a wonderful organ: it starts work ing the moment you gel up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." He's Unfriendly! iMlT:- .-a if WHEN I TAKE mm POT Act HIM, HE SHOOTS BACK j rWSMeNauktSjirfitatj.Iiia. taa-iMr-j-rvi'i'3n3 DAVID LAWRENCE Unless Both Spending and Appropriations Are Cut, Inflation Trend Will Continue Quotes From the Day's News oai,eniiDr! Pa President UC 1 1 1 SDUllVJ --------- Eisenhower on the state of his golf game: Since I've been sick. I hae never had a really good golf game." NEW YUHIV ruu.iu ... Judith Morgan, 50, on stabbing a . -I.. .irtnnU far 9 lffl- salesman mi i" -eral judge against whom she had a grudge: "I'm sorry I hit the wrong man." NEW YORK - Field Marshal Lord Alanhrooke, Britain's World War II military chief, on Prcsi-i-itonhnwpr's ability as su preme commander: wnere ne miuhc ".- - ability to handle Allied forces, to ,u-m all u,ith strirt imoar- tiality and to get the best out of an inter-alliea lorce. WASHINGTON The Atomic En ergy Commission on the precau tions being taken to protect tne public against radiation during this summer's nuclear tests: !Aa a rci ill" nf improved een- Itrols and procedures, radioactive liailOUl in we ai" wwuu ... test site is expected to be even lower than the levels which have i resulted from previous tests in I Nevada." ! BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Dublin's Lord Mayor Robert Briscoe on the celebration marking the estab lishment of the state of Israel: "The Zionist Day celebration is the Jewish equivalent of St. Pat rick's Day." LONG DAY'S JOURNEY AUGUSTA, Ky. W Robert nnrirman rlncsii't mind spending! eight hours a day on his job il l the trip bacR ana torm mar, nuns. He lives 55 miles from his office. For three years, he has been starting his day by rowing acrosi the Ohio river to the Ohio side, where he is picked up by. a car pool driver. Two hours later Workman is at his desk. could be that the situation is tem porary but, if it isn't, the treas ury will have no choice but to follow the procession. ONLY GETS HALF It may be asked how long the inflationary trend will continue and why interest rates keep on going up? It should not be forgotten that corporations areVt really gelling four per cent when the govern- WASHINGTON Money is still tight" and there's no sign that inflation is abating. In fact the government may have to pay higher interest rates to attract lenders and this in turn may force the whole level of interest rales in Amer ica up another few points. The treasury has just tested out the market with its offer to exchange tour d. Lawrence billion dollars of notes that it borrowed in 1954 at ltt per cent. It made two otlcnngs last week- four month notes at 3 ',4 per cent and notes for four years and nine months paying 3 per cent inter est. The holders of the 1954 notes subscribed to about 72 per cent of the new offering. The treasury now has to put up cash for the other 28 per cent which amounts to about $1,167,000,000. This poses no problem because the govern ment has a big cash reserve. But it does raise some interesting ques tions for the future. WHY THE DECLINE? First of all. why did the holders of nearly a third of the 1954 notes decline to accept the treasury's offer? The answer is that most of the holders were corporations. They needed cash either for their own capital requirements or found other investments in today's mar ket more attractive than what the treasury was offering. One reason is that many good corporations lately have been of fering in the money market to pay interest rates to investors ranging from 4'i per cent to 4..1 per cent. !part j teaching States and cities whose securities nrnnlp the value has available to spend due to overhang from previous years nearly twice as much each year as any appropriations voted for that year. HIGHER PRICES The addition of more purchas ing power through a reduction in individual income taxes may re sult in an even bisgcr demand for the available consumer goods and hence bring about higher prices ANNOUNCES BROADEST FAMILY PROTECTION IN STATE FARM AUTO INSURANCE HISTORY "GEO." W. SIMONS ' New Policy Offers 44 "Star Features' State Farm Mutual', agent here today announced new automobile insurance policy containing more than 44 valuable extra-protection features. Designed for modern motorists and their families who travel more miles behind heavier horsepower in today's hazardous traffic, the new policy offers broader coverages, new coverages, greater protection. Interested readers may get full details from: 2 945 S. COMMERCIAL PHONE EM 4-7178 Ut Firm Mtrtoit AntMBoMl Inwirtnee Company . Rnm Offlf-a: Blom1nTm. Ht mcnt offers them a bond at that L,, alon! lllc linc. rale. This income is subject to federal corporation tax of more than half. So money in such a case is really being loaned by corporations at a net return of something less than 2 per cent. As for individuals they, too, in many instances-, aren't receiving the net income they used to get in the 193p's when interest rates were tower man mey aie luuay. If members of Congress enact Unless both spending and ap propriations are materially cut by the government and especially in the delcnse category, wnicn seems unlikely the inflationary trend will not he arrested and money rates will stay high. It's a con dition and not a theory that faces the American people. With every body pushing for higher wages and with higher prices consequent ly being forced on everything, in- a tax reduction without a big drop i eluding money rates, it is apparent spending it may paradoxically enough made matters worse. For the inflationary trend isn't halted merely by cutting '"appropri ations." The government actually that the inflation has far from run its course. Moscow, of course, is the root of it all. (Copyright, 19.17. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) DR. WILLIAM BRADY Materialism Before Morality Is Rule for Most Readers Many inveterate tooth brushcrs and their nineteenth-century den lists arc beginning to realize that clean teeth arc as subject to de cay as Src teeth that arc seldom if ever brushed. for my smauj:y .'V MAXWELL For Quirk Routing If at First a a a Clare Booths Luce says, "I fail generally the first lime 1 try something. 1 was a col umnist in 19.14. They sent me to Europe to write gay. frothy, international set stuff, and 1 wrote that world war was coming. "They wanted chit-chat and 1 gave them Cassandra. So they fired me. My first play, 'Abide With Me.' was a catastrophe. "I tried out once for the Olympic diving team and sprained by back on the first dive. I was talked into believing I could figure skate in front of a large crowd. On 1 first tpin lost my petticoat." ' Bob Considine. History in The Making May II, 1953 tiov. Paul Patterson had signed the labor bill providing for out lawing organizational picketing. The bill was a substitute for a much stronger im-asure intro duced earlier in t h c legislative session and which brought about t h e ses sion's biggest controversy. Geologists had lold J. I.. Fran- hen maxwell len. city manager, thai a well in the Bush pasture for irrigation purposes would not be feasible. It had been decided to tap a city main. iGround water in this lo cality is whore you find it. Some wells sunk into a gravel .trata in the Four Comers area give a generous flow at 40 feet. This writer knows of another well with in 75 feet ol the Willamette river that is l7 feet deep and o n 1 y reasonably productive. R. H. Baldock. stale highway engineer, had told a House public roads subcommittee that the Ore gon highway program was a less expensive and more workable al ternative to the nationally linked state toll roads. Baldock said that turnpikes cost the tax payers U per cent more than non toll roads. are exempt from federal income taxes have been offering bonds at 3'i per cent and some even as much as four per cent. This puts the federal government at a dis- of good teeth, I gained the ill will of many dentists and their toothbrush be better lo teach a great many persons a little than it is to teach a few persons a lot about health. TOP DRAWER REQUEST SAN DIEGO. Calif. iB The Convention and Tourist Bureau re ceived a letter from Oklahoma which read: "Please send me your tourist bureau." advantage in Us borrowings butjjn)! patrons. But nK bbady that's the law of supply and de-1 injs doesn't disturb my equani- mand and nothing can be done lily l worry only when I learn about it in the way support without weakening whole financial structure. Ol arllllCial thai T ran nn lnnpep tpaph npnnle tle in thic nr that mmmnnitv hmv tr, keep well. TALK ON TEMPERANCE Now, let us neglect teeth and harp on another kev TEMPER ANCE. ' Temperance means moderation in. or abstinence from the use of intoxicants, according to Webster. HELD RATES DOWN Under the new deal and the fair deal the treasury never had to worry about whether its new is sues would be unders'lbscribed. The federal reserve board, being dominated by the treasury at the ume. . ne.a me raies njTo my narrow mind. temperance knowing that he treasii , y with the , abslin(,ncc from a,c0. cooperation of the banks would; be me, .-,. p. ... Miu.f .mnj- u autumn, I asked parents of as it was often described, and buy I . h:.j , ,j,,-i, r uncles or aunts or big sisters or big brothers to send me confiden tially their answers to six ques tions: 1. How many children? 2. Their ages? 3. Do you have beer, wine. no longer uses its printing , . . . ,. ......, ,,., .,,. take the pledge? B. would you artificially low levels. up the available bonds. By supply- j ing an abundance of credit, money rates were kept low. In the closing days, however, of the Truman Administration there began a policy which has : been materially strengthened Ml'ST TEST MARKET object if teacher, coach, or pastor asked your child or children to lake the pledge? I The treasury now must test out i-R(lE TO TAKE PLEDGE the market just as any other bor- , , . rower does. Last week when the i About the same time. I asked treasury offered its new notes, of- readers who might know if in ficials 'knew in advance that a stances to tell me, confidentially. nMu,-ir i a ihirrf nf ih.m um.ilH of course, whether pastors or . not be accepted for exchange. This spiritual leaders anywhere u r g e was because in the first tour ' c i"1- months of 1957 two billion dollars i I'd he too disheartened to carry Imore securities were sold by cor-, on if 1 didn't know that material 'porations. states and cities than ism goes before morality in an for the same period of last year kecland. I'm still tryinc to tell a record at that time. All these myself that people just didn t be- securitics were bought by the len- lieve I'd keep such commumca ders at rales Isr higher than what tions confidential, and so thev were Ihn irnncnrv has heen nffrr.nc a raid 10 answer me qucsunns. j The treasury may be forced to1 The pastor doesn't want to lose out its rales un to attract bor- his pulpit. The merchant docsn t rnwrrs hui it is disinclined to do) want to drive away his best cus so because, once the federal gov-ilomers. The eminent physician 1 eminent goes up a point or two. doesn't want to irk his wealthiest II nushes unwird the whole rante 'oatients. This health column con- lol intcnay. rates in America, inductor NOW realizes that it may I You rely on her- for many things. Scarcely a day pisses in which Mother Is not called upon to apply her judgment and wisdom for the benefit of other.. You depend upon her for love, comfort and understanding day after day. Count on us, too Theft comes a time in everyone's life when comfort and understanding "from the outside" is important, too. We constantly provide that help, when it is most needed. PHONE EM 3-9139 ! RikkMMr 205 S. CHURCH AT FERRY Lively Hillman Husky Roomy Station Wagon Does Double Duty at Low Cost The British-built Hillman Husky has a split personality: with the back scat folded down, it's a hefty cargo-carrier with 44 cu. ft. capacity. With the seat in place, it's a comfortable family-big sedan. Either way, it offers luxury of style, con struction and performance at amazingly low cost. 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