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:
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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