rOTTK MTDFOHO (OMCOK) MAIL TRIBUHE
Tuesday. Mcrch tl, IUJ
Cooperation and Mutual Aid Seen
As Reasons for American Success
By Visiting Germ an N
(Editor's note: The follow
tag article was written by a
German newspaperman who
is now risiting iho United
States for a year's advanced
study at the school of Journal
ism at the University of Ore
gon. He is spending the week
as a staff member of The Mail
Tribune. Other articles by
him. on various aspects of
America and his impressions
of the country, will be pub
lished this week.)
By GUNTHER BARTH
Sub-Editor, Rheinishe Post
Can I help you?
You can hear the sentence at
every moment in every part of
the United States. This simple
question has impressed me most.
I needed to stay in the United
States less than five months to
recognize that it is more than a
polite phrase dictated by a kind
of business psychology. The ori
gin of the question is the wish to
assist neighbors under any cir
cumstances. My experiences as a journal
ist in Europe have shown me
that the Americans as a nation
and as individuals are very
helpful. Their aid has saved
from permanent starvation even
that country which fought
against them during two world
wars. It is fascinating for me to
see the result of this spirit in
the daily life of the United
States.
Continent Transformed
I discovered that within the
last hundred years the idea of
voluntary cooperation between
each individual has transferred
a vast and unexplored conti
nent into a center of a specific
kind of western civilization.
The spirit of the pioneers en
abled the whole nation to estab
lish public institutions which are
today models of democratic life
for the free world.
At the same time mechanical
inventions have developed a
highly mechanised world liber
ating the individual from the
daily drudgery. One of our main
problems is the reconciliation of I
the human being with the ma
chine. I believe that the idea of
voluntary cooperation will be
the force which will enable the
Americans to be the first nation
to solve this problem.
Inspires Fairness
The impressions which I col
lected as member of the State
Department Exchange Program
on many trips through the north
west of the United States and
during the fall and winter term
on the University of Oregon in
Eugene show me that common
aid regulates every part of the
daily life. It inspires the feeling
of fairness in the relation be
tween professor and student as
between employer and em
ployee. The living standard of
the average people is improved
by this feeling to an extent
which is not only the result of
a well established economy.
The voluntary cooperation in
spires the daily life of the popu
lation with a wave of optimism.
I observed that in the United
States nobody hesitates to solve
every problem. Many questions
arising in modern society are
abolished in the United States
only by the function of this op-
Italian Students
Clash With Police
Rome U.R) Thousands of
teen-age Italian students clashed
with police in Rome and Naples
Tuesday in the second straight
day of demonstrations calling
for the return of Trieste to Italy.
Police here used tear gas to
break up the howling, stone
throwing demonstrators.
Police detained 70 demonstra
tors in Naples and 30 in Rome
after frequent outbreaks of vio
lence. In Naples, a crowd of 10,000
students broke through a police
barricade blocking the way to
the U. S. consulate. Police
charged the crowd, wielding
batons, and students hurled
stones at the police and automo
biles in the area.
tlmism. The population shows an
unlimited confidence in the dem
ocratic institutions, even if the
man is wrong who is in charge
of an office. The people have the
ability to differentiate between
men and institutions and they
are willing to do so.
Collecting all these details. I
would like to say that I admire
most a very general phenome
non which has touched me
strongly: how the Americans
manage their successful life.
Everybody feels and acts vol
untarily as a part of the whole
society, but in the same moment
the society grants him all his
personal rights and freedoms so
that he may act and feel as an
individual.
Lewis, Sandy Rivers
Eyed for Smelt Run
Kelso (U.R) Fishermen said
Tuesday the biggest run of
smelt since 1948 was now dwin
dling in the Cowlitz river and
commercial interests were be
ginning to watch for the ap
pearance of the fish in the Lewis
and Sandy rivers.
Commercial fishermen ended
a 24 - hour strike earlier by mov
ing prices up from $3.50 to $4 a
box.
They said that the bulk of the
present run apparently "got
through" to spawning grounds
during the 60-hour weekend
closed period in southwestern
Washington streams and that
only minor catches could be ex
pected until the fish enter other
tributaries of the Columbia.
Observers said the runs could
be expected to enter the Lewis
and Sandy "anytime within the
next two weeks." '
PET IS 115 YEARS OLD
Providence, R. I. (U.PJ Two
local residents have made a pet
out of a 115-year old turtle they
found in the woods. On the tur
tle's underside was carved the
date "1836" and the initials
"A-M.," "W.R.," and "A.A.A."
A NicholS Worth of
CANCELED Sonja Hcnie packs
skates at New York after gliding
into snag when she was forced to
cancel a two-week engagement
of her ice show because Kicgs
bridgc Armory demanded million-dollar
safety bond.
Terrorists Ambush
Malayan Policemen
Singapore U.R) Communist
terrorists ambushed and killed
12 Malayan policemen and of
ficials and wounded eight others
Tuesday near Tanjong Malim on
the west coast of Malaya.
Two Communists were killed
in the battle on the Perak-Se-langor
province border north of
the capital of Kuala Lumpur
which is approximately 200 miles
north of Singapore. All the
armed men in the government
party were killed or wounded.
The Communists escaped with 13
police guns.
WEATHER
By United Press
North California: Generally
fair Tuesday and Wednesday ex
cept local fog Cape Mendocino
north; little change in temperature.
Comment On This anil Ttiat
IT NAtMAN
W. NKHOU
Wrfter
Washington tU-B It was a
stuffy September afternoon la
1942. Gretar Oddsoo and three
other young
sters were toe
sing a ball on
the beach at
S e ydisfjordur.
on the east
coast of Ice
land. Gretar was
seven.
Without
warning, bell
came out of
the sky in the
form of a Nazi bomb. The other
three kids skittered much faster
than Gretar. He caught it in the
leg. The other boys got only a
few scratches.
Gretar lost his right leg, and
turned out to be Iceland's only
land casualty of World War IL
Nine years later, Gretar began
to suffer great pain and found
himself having trouble getting
around aboard the leather leg
which was made for him. Last
spring, when the military re
opened an air transport base in
Iceland, the boy's plight came
to the attention of the Air
Force. There was a meeting of
minds and it was decided to
help him.
He Was Scored
After liaison with the boy's
parents, the government of Ice
land, and our State Department,
the Air Force took off with the
boy for Boiling Field. For sur
gery and a new leg.
"It was the second time I ever
had been in a plane," Gretar
said. "I was a little scared. But
I was willing to take any chance
to get rid of that pain."
Cpt Agnes M. Palmer, Brook
lyn, his nurse, says the boy, now
17. has been a wonderful patient
Gretar, I found, is a shy, re
tiring sort of boy. He doesn't
talk very much, although his
English, with a slight accent. Is
almost perfect I got more from
Capt Palmer than I did from the
patient
Everybody at the Boiling hos
pital has been very nice to the
kid, and so have the folks at
the Iceland embassy. He has
made many friends in the Wash
ington area and the embassy
supplies him with a car three
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see the sijhta of the city and to
visit friends.
Learns About City
The kid doesn't miss a lick
and probably knows more about
the city of Washington than most
of the natives," the nurse said.
The best part of the story,
though is this:
Shortly after the boy was hurt
10 years ago, John Milton Potter,-
who was president of Ho
bart College in New York state,
was attracted by the stories about
the lad.
He sat down and wrote Gretar
a letter. He offered Gretar a
scholarship at the school after
he had finished high school.
The Icelander hasn't done that,
but very shortly the Air Force
will fly him back home where
he will receive his diploma. He
has been studying on his cot at
the hospital and, after what he
has been through, fears nothing
even final examinations.
Before he leaves, though, he
will be walking on two legs
again. He already has been fit
ted for the new type of suction
artificial limb and it will be
ready for him before take-off
time.
Presideniial Aspirant
Favors More Babies
New York U.R) Henry (I'm
for pigs) Krajewski opened his
"Poor Man's Party" presidential
campaign here Monday night and
unvelied his "fair squeal" plat
form which calls for more babies
and less taxes.
"If they make me President,"
he said, "social security will in
clude all maternity benefits for
mothers and no taxes for those
with incomes under $6,000 per
year."
Krajewski will be a bona fide
candidate on the New Jersey pri
mary ballot April 15.
Easier Auto Credit
Requested for West
Washington (U.R) Rep. Rus
sell V. Mack, R-Wash., Monday
asked the federal reserve board
to ease credit restrictions to
make it easier for Oregon, Wash
ington and California automobile
buyers.
Rep. Mack asked that Pacific
Coast purchasers be permitted 21
instead of 18 months in which to
pay for their cars. He based the
request on the fact that new car
prices are $250 to $350 higher
in the western states than in east
ern and midwestern points be
cause of freight rates.
Murals Would Shock Loyal West Virginians
Charleston. W. Va. (U.R)
West Virginia's loyal founding
fathers, who divorced their state
from rebel Virginia in 1863,
would turn over in their graves
if they knew.
The guidebook of the Kana
wha county airport here de
scribes the wall-sized tinted
murals in the waiting room as
"typical West Virginia scenes."
However, Sol Padibsky, col
umnist in the Charleston Daily
Mail, discovered that because of
a mixup by the processing com
pany, the murals are photo
graphs of scenes near Roanoke
and Elliston, both deep in Virginia.
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son, has a grocery, service sta
tion, restaurant and picture show
all in one building. Hudson also
finds time to serve as town postmaster.
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