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S o u th ern Oregon News Review, Thursday, A ugust 14, 1947 Is the 'Common Mon' Fit to Rule? Population May Backslide To Low Intelligence Level ByBA U K H A G E Xeu j A n jly it sm l Commentator. W ASHINGTON.—When the H enry W allace for president m ovem ent was launched in C alifornia it m ade a lot of R epub licans happy just to think about it, although they never really believed th at a third p a rty was possible. (When I was in col lege a friend of m ine w rote an essay entitled: “ Whv a Third P a rty Is Im possible in A m erica.” This w as ju s t before Teddy Roosevelt cam e out with his Bull M oosers in 1912) Guide to Jobs: Where And How to Get Them I J l X ’ KY GRAZIANO, the Dead End kid from Brooklyn, is now middleweight champion of the Ask These Questions 4 world. Rocky is not what you would cull When Choosing A Job ! u lovable or a likeuble character, p.li ked vx »tli intelli gence and charm. L 'E N E Y -iiic c n c y -m in e y -n in is urt But, he t* still the am using c h ild 's game, but it's m i d d l e w e i g h t h a rd ly the way to choose your life champion of the w ork. toughest d iv is io n ' D ecid in g w h at Held Io r u le r , w lis t Job we have. The only to go a f l r r , deserves c n n -fu l consider« active division we tio n. M a k e a lis t o f a ll the things you lik e tu do. t lio . t e \ , , n d i s l i k e W li.it i have left. your w eakness) W h at itu y o u d o lu st • His profession Is T h a t’s how Io n a rro w the field down to a prize f i g h t i n g , few eholeea • • • which is the lowest I Dozens o f fields a r e an a ly ze d In ou r form of muking a bo o k let No. 201. In clu d in g s a la rie s , liv in g And the chances fo r success, etc. .Send 23 cents Gratinilo toughest. But, it is In coin fo r " G u id e Io dobs: llo w and W h ere to f le t T h e m ” to W eek ly N e w s still his profession. And it is a pro paper S ervice , 24] W est 17th St., N ew fession that demands certain Im- i Y o rk I I , N . Y . P rin t n a m e , address w ith portant qualities before you reach sone, bo oklet title an d N o. 201 the top As we understand the ease. Bra- ziano was burred in New York by TAME LOW PRICE the district attorney’s office, with Eddie Eagan of the boxing com mission forced into a position he was never too keen about. Grazi '•.u » a tew ano's main offense was a matter of kwe»' e -»(Mirtn) «au • . politics. Too many were looking for woeieeeeoavce »e. headlines. This is a normul situa tion. As we have said before, Graziano Is not a likeable or a lovable char acter. But he has proved that he can tight. He doesn't wear a tie and his manners leave much to be de sired. But, he van nail you and hurt you, and that happens to be his D O N 'T LET A DULL < trade. The main answer is that right SAW WEAR YOU OUT now Graziano is the middleweight Right now ta the lime Io champiun of the world. There is no replace that old worn one even close to Joe Louis in the blade on your bow or heavyweights. There Is no one even buck saw. The Bushman close to Gus Lesnevich or Ray Rob Blade is amazingly faat... inson in their class. They are three has the speed ol a 2-man Robinson Crusoes on a desert aaw . . . smooth cutting island. . . . stays sharp longer. But, outside of Tony Zale, Grazi 3 types. Lengths 24, 30, ano still has LaMntta and Cerdan 36, 42, and 48 inch. left, and one or two others. He hap pens to be in the fistic land flowing AT LEADING with m ilk and honey. And. I be HARDWARE STORES lieve, he has earned his place to REPLACE NOW WITH make one of the big killings of bis game. He proved both his ability and his , gameness against Zale. He had to Suseds l i t S t e e l ., hurdle the handicap of their first SAW BLADES fight, where he was accused of tak ing a quick powder. He wag being beaten again when he came from , GENSCO TOOL DIV enee el Stent Weeefceeee Ce..liw. behind to win. He had to show dou- 1 O IS 3 0 N .K o itn s rA v n w Chice g e IS ble courage here. . H.? VaUaCe Were b* C0I? e president of ‘ he United States it is unlikely that the common man whom he champions would have any more to say about running the country than he does now. However, when Wallace says this is the century ot the "common man." he isn’t far wrong The revolutions which have swept«-— _________ ________ the world in the past decade cer There are others, however, who tainly would not have been possi while they may agree with Brown’s ble if they had postulation, question the methods not had the sup now being used to develop these port of the peo innate abilities. HOW B L l E YOUR EYES ARE . , . Anything can happen at a haby ple. This support A very dim view of the situation show, as witness this scene taken during judging at a Los Angeles was not necessar is taken by Canon Bernard Iddings competition. One-year-old Leland Dexter, contestant for the bluest ily the result of Bell, educator, pastor, author and e\ es, went to sleep in midst of excitement and had to be judged In free choice, intel his carriage. consultant on education to the Epis lectual decision copal bishop of Chicago. or popular vote. He tfcinks Henry Wallace is cor In fact, for the rect in his description of the cur most part — cer rent century but he says: " It does tainly under Mus ; not follow because the common man solini, Franco, I has suddenly been lifted into control H i"1-' J|h > ,hat he thereby automatically - i t was the op- made competent properIy to exert posite. Neverthe- control.” He thinkg Wa„ ace.s less, they were definition ought to be expanded. Baukhage .ot i u x V j i . b o He says: “ Ours is the century of the Like a kaleidoscope in »vhich several a p p aren tly unrelated the upper classes perpetually adolescent common chips of g lass shift suddenly from a m eaningless jum ble of Even in the case of Great B rit co.rnm.or’. man un‘ color into an u n d erstan d ab le p attern , so a t least som e of the ain's very mild revolution, which • Un- w hirling o seg of i the intricate economy have be- was the result of popular vote and a taucht in In iho the art __ of __ living .u . c g m m en t.u ts a u me w w o orld’s rm s in tr ic a te econc is incompetent either o n,.? to Su n d r o PPinK into place to form a coherent unit. free choice, the traditional po is incompetent either to rule or to litic a l and intellectual leaders were be ruled." F o r m asses of A m ericans, to whom econom ics could be swept out of office. boded down into a m a tte r of ‘‘you either have it or don’t have N e e d E d u c a tio n it, the in tern atio n al h y steria of monies, cred its, loans, spend Americans are committed to the idea that the m ajority F o r C om m on M a n ing, inflation at hom e and crises abroad began to take on som e should rule and the theory al The canon isn’t snobbish. He is m eaning. ways has been that the people W ithin a matter of hours came a sudden spate of developments, starting not looking down his canonical nose would be wise enough to select : at anybody. As a member of so- in England and ending up on virtually every farm in America. Having no a person of sufficient intelli i ciety he takes his share of the blame ostensible connection on the surface, each fresh turn of events was linked gence, experience and integrity I by saying that society has played inexorably with preceding occurrences. To philosophers, as well as econo to represent them at the job of ■ the common man a low trick "fo r mists, it was a perfect chain of causes and effects. This is how it began: $__ _______ ____________________ _ ruling. i which those who control education 1 Field Marshal Viscount Mont ! are chiefly chargeable.” Of late, however, a number of DEATH ROAD: I • gomery. gomery chief of the British im Bell quotes the late Dr. W illiam persons approaching the problem perial general staff, suddenly was Rainey Harper’s definition of an ed Safety Report from quite different angles, have expressed concern about the educa ucated man: A man who by the called home from a tour of the Far Compared with 1946, death is tak East. tion and training of the men avail ing a back scat on the nation’s high Montgomery returned to Great able for the responsibility of car ways this year, the semi-annual re B ritain to advise the government rying on the business of govern port ot the National Safety council concerning drastic curtailm ent of has shown. ment. the nation’s m ilita ry establishment, I have been assured by old-timers For the first six months of 1947 cost of which (3.6 billion dollars a here who have been fam iliar with the cross-country death toll stood year) could no longer be borne by the personnel of congress over a at 14,480. That figure is 9 per cent the threadbare British economy. number of years that we perhaps below the 15,890 fatalities recorded In London, Labor government for the same period last year. At have as high type of men, mentally • officials, no longer able to stave the same time, travel was 11 per and morally, in congress today as off a frank admission, told the cent heavier this year. we have ever had. In fact, I am Hans If dgner's Successor world that England's plight was told they arq making excellent use According to the safety council’s desperate, that the tight little isle report, 2,490 lives were lost during In lining up baseball’ s all-time of the greatly expanded sources of was on the sharp brink of ruin. June, which represents a 5 per cent stars, you run across one spot that information on the issues they have Prime M inister Clement Attlee, as increase over the June. 1946, rec has only one guardsman. to consider and are, therefore, bet sailed with charges of "bungling” ord. In view of the increased traffic, Back of the bat you have Mickey ter informed than any congress has and "fa ilu re to act,” nevertheless j however, it was a marked improve- Cochrane. Bill Dickey. Gabby Hart ever been. I was given a vote of confidence when ment. nett, Johnny Kling and back in the Nevertheless, we hear from edu he sketched out a plan which would cators, from economists and stalls Even the larger cities in the na- dim past a great catcher remem have British miners work an extra I tion were decreasing their traffic bered as Buck Ewing, a master. ticians, all sorts of dire warnings. hour each day to increase England's fatalities. New York whittled its One that has recently stirred up In the box we have Cy Young, coal production, key pillar in its deaths by 15 per cent and Los An Walter Johnson. Christy Mathew- the press considerably was by Guy economic structure. Irving Burch, head of the popula son. Old Pete Alexander, Carl Hub geles by 16 per cent. Jacksonville, The British crisis was born out Fla., was tops on the record book bell. Rube Waddell, Lefty Grove tion reference bureau. It seems the Burch read a survey made in Eng Canon Bernard Iddings Bell ' of four factors: Shortage of Amer- with a 69 per cent decrease from and others. J ican dollars (the U. S. loan w ill land by Sir Cyril Burt at the re- | At first we have George Sislrr, . . u n s k ille d . . . u n ta u g h t. . 1946. Indication was that cities were Made will» a face cream base. Yodora have been used up by Christmas); becoming more traffic conscious quest of the royal commission on ; Lou Gehrig. Ila l Chase and B ill is actually toothing to normal skins. shortage of coal (not enough to per population. Terry. time he is 25 has a clear theory, No harsh chemicals or irritating As a result of his survey. Sir formed in the light of human ex m it industries to operate and re INDONESIA: At second there arc Eddie Col salts. Won’t harm skin or clothing. Cyril suggests that in 50 years the perience down the ages, of what build stockpiles); shortage of man lins, I’ lc Traynor, Art Devlin and Stayt soft and creamy, never gets U.N. Looks number of students of scholarship i I constitutes a satisfying life, a sig power, and inflation. B ill Bradley. grainy. ability in Britain w ill be approxi- | nificant life, and who by the age of M orally weakened under the It was a matter of regret, the In the outfield we have Ty Cobb, { TVy gentle Yodora-/ref the wonderful i . threat of domestic political and Dutch government said, that the mately halved and the number of i 30 has a moral philosophy consonant Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Joe Jack- difference! economic crises, the London stock matter of the Dutch - Indonesian son and Joe DiMaggio. feeble-minded almost doubled. This j with racial experience.” conclusion was based on psycho- j B('i thinks that what we do not market broke swiftly, as sharp sell fracas was being brought before the But at shortstop we come to a logical tests and size of families in ’ do and what we ought to do to ing hit all sections. United Nations security council. big, shuffling, bowlegged wonder by Britain. And, although U. S. state depart To a few m illion other observers, the name of Honus Wagner. Wag educate is, first, to give children ment observers scoffed at the idea it was not so much a matter of ner has been so far in front of all j a knowledge of the race’s wisdom, N a tio n of D u lla rd s im parting to them what they ought that developments in England had regret as it was a surprise. U. N., other shortstops as an all-around | Seen in F u tu re to know rather than teach them produced a reaction over here, it it seemed, was even then overdue star—fielder, hitter and base run- I M m ,., appeared to be something more in its action. , ner—that no one else has been of- 1 Burch has studied population sta what they would like to study; sec than coincidence that: Australia and India laid the prob fered in comparison. Such names , tistics for the United States from ond, to teach children how to read, Shortly after London stocks lem before the council, where it as Herman Long, Hughey Jennings, j M c K e w w . A RaX»l,|rva. | M . the standpoint of psychological write, listen to and speak the broke, wheat prices on the Chi immediately began to vie with the Travis Jackson, Dave Bancroft and * tests, educational attainment, eco English language; third, they must cago board of trade showed losses Balkan issue for p rio rity ’ of debate. M arty Marion have been given ' nomic status and type of occupa be taught decent manners, the of nine to nine and one-fourth cents Although the Australian and In their share of acclaim. But none of j tion. He says: "We may reach the rights of others; fourth, they must a bushel, while corn and oats dian delegations told the council these has been even close to 1 general conclusion that the lowest learn that honest and craftsmanlike z* dropped off from three to four rents. that the strife between Dutch and Wagner. third of our people in each one of achievement is the only door to so Industrial stocks also receded some Indonesian forces threatened world approval; fifth, teachers The Flying Dutchman led his these four categories has fam ilies cial what on the New York stock ex peace, a Dutch spokesman in Wash league seven years. He was a .350 about twice as large as those of must "inspire reverence for the un change. W om en In yo u r ‘'4O’a’’ l Does th ia ington said U. N. had no ju ris hitter. He could steal from 45 to 55 seen and im part some objective the highest third.” At the same time, it became ap diction. period p e c u l- knowledge of what the various faiths bases a season. According to John <?r.u ° w o ni,,n cause you to suffer h o t And he concludes: parent that the U. S. government, t i o l l ' r ’ n erv?,"*' h lg h s tru n g , weak Netherlands authorities insist on McGraw and Ed Barrow, two of about us are to do and teach.” "As a voting participant in faced with high prices of grain and terming the struggle a Dutch “ po baseball's smartest, Hans Is the helping to solve the many ii> I wish that some smart statis food and continued shortages lice action,” designed to control re greatest ballplayer of all time. fSi thta'U pumciSiPl<’m' H " /amnut tician would try to figure out If tricate problems of our complex abroad, would issue a call for an bellious Indonesians who hate to __fa k e n re g u la rly — P ln k h a m 's Com - the kind of education which civilization a dull and backward other big wheat crop this year in wait until 1949 to attain their inde Who Comes Second? p o u n d helps b u ild u p reelntance a g a in s t such dlstrees. T h ou san ds would give a man a high income individual is almost as helpless stead of reducing wheat production pendence as a sovereign state. The As both put it, "Wagner was a likewise makes him fit to run a as an idiot. In fact, he may goals as was planned previously. Indonesians, however, say that (he great shortstop—a great third base- country as complicated as ours be more dangerous to democrat As the picture began to take Dutch are waging a colonial war a u n COMPOUND man—a star outfielder—a good m u i m in a world as complicated as ic institutions because be is shape, the dominating m otif ap and that it looks like imperialism catcher—one of the greatest of all ours. easily commanded by dema peared to be economic insecurity. to them. hitters and base runners.” gogues and dictators.” Wagner still stands alone at WNU—13 33—47 This gives us quite a different pic short. But who is the second ture ot the century of the “ common choice? Who belongs closer to Pitts man.” burgh’s brillia n t star? Dr. Francis Brown, staff associ Our guess is Lou Boudreau of ate of the American Council on Cleveland. Boudreau has had to Education and the executive secre carry the extra burden of handling tary of the President's commission, And Your Strength and a losing ball club. In this respect doesn't quarrel with Burch’s figures Energy Is Below Par WASHINGTON.—Extensive oper out by more than 100,000 farmer year. Bulk of the reduction in per he has done everything you could I t may be caused by disorder of kid but he says: "This population-intel ations of the AAA soil conservation committeemen. sonnel and other expenses w ill be ask with indifferent material. ney function that permits poisonous ligence report does not give enough program were ordered resumed by wasts to accumulate. For truly many The program was halted in May absorbed in Washington and state Year after year, he has been a importance to the possibility of im the department of agriculture after people (eel tired, weak and miserable when the house voted to appropri offices, allowing local AAA offices brilliant infielder. And this season when the kidneys fall to removs excess proving intelligence by education.” congress finally approved a 255 m il acids and other waste matter from the ate only 165 m illion dollars for the to retain most of their present staff. he has been among lae leaders of blood. In other words, if we broaden the lion dollar administrative fund for setup this year and to end it alto A farm er may sign up for any the American league at bat. You may suffer nagging backache, base of our teaching we can regain the setup. Administrative expenses rheumatte paint, headachea, dlzxlneee. gether next year. The AAA had number of approved projects, but For some odd reason, outside of ettlng up nlghta, leg nalne, swelling. a lot of the potential waste ma are in addition to the 265 m illion worked out a 300 m illion dollar pro he is promised only a certain Wagner, few shortstops are .300 i ometlmes frequent and acanty urina terial that Burch has discovered. tion with smarting and burning la an dollars which w ill go directly for gram and President Truman had amount of money with the provision hitters. other algn th at something la wrong with What the Burch report over payments to farmers participating recommended that amount in his that he w ill get additional payments Boudreau isn’t Wagner, but he is the kidneys or blsdder. looks is this, says Dr. Brown, in soil-saving practices. Thors should be no doubt th at prompt budget to congress. if any funds remain after all farm at least close to a grip on the No 2 treatm ent Is wiser than neglect. Lisa "human intelligence never has Inaugurated in early days of the Although the 255 m illion finally ers have been paid their minimum spot, at the agile art of short Doon’s P ith . I t Is better to rely on a been developed to its fullest New Year, the AAA program offers voted by congress is lower than the guarantees. medicine th a t has won countrywide ap- stopping. roval than on something less favorably among the great masses of peo cash and materials, principally sum asked, the soil program is be He was born in 1917, and entered The program w ill be cut drastic C nown. D oan't have been tried and test ple. No way has been found lim e and fertilizers, to farmers for ing resumed on the same basis as ally next year. At insistence of the baseball in 1938, with the Three Eye ed many yeara. Are at all drug atorsa. Oat Doan’t today. accurately to measure the ul carrying out approved soil and originally planned. The appropria senate, however, the house agreed League, after two seasons at the U. timate capabilities of the human water conservation practices. Local tion for administrative expenses is to go along with an appropriation of of Illinois. Before the year was up, mind.’’ details of the program are carried about 18 per cent less than last 150 m illion dollars for 1948. Cleveland grabbed him. He has been hitting around .335. A 'Eirs REVIEW British Economy Menaced: Traffic Fatalities Slashed BUSHMAN 2 Yodora checks perspiration J odor _* 3 4. HOT— \ FLASHES? FARMERS BENEFIT AAA To Resume Soil Program When Your Back Hurts - D oans P ills
