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Tribute io a Hero . . .
(This column is from a We
natchee World editorial.)
If you have visited parts of
Minnesota you must have no
ticed giant statues of the great
legendary figure of Paul Bunyan
and his Blue Ox.
Our Northwest has its share
. of Paul Bunyan legends, too
how he dug the Puget Sound,
for instance, and along with his
crew, including the fabulous
scribe Johnny Inkslinger, gouged
out the Columbia river and a
few other trifling matters.
Paul, of course, is just a sort
of national gag in American
folklore, but he is typically
American and symbolizes some
thing that is typically Amer
ican bigness.
Ours is a country of bigness
whether it is the State of Texas,
Graund Coulee Dam, Grand Can
yon, the automobile industry, or
our forests.
The American people have be
come so imbued with the bigness
of things everywhere, that we
have developed into a nation
which expects big things to be
done.
Paul Bunyan Outdone ...
Where, less than a century
ago, Indians roved the plains
and flitted through the forests
of Michigan and other midwest
areas, there are now some of
the greatest industrial plants in
the world.
Gigantic steel mills belch forth
their smoke and turn out steel
products to feed into the hungry
maw of these and hundreds, of
industrial plants everywhere.
From millions of acres of rich
farmland in the Midwest pours
a stream of golden grain, fun
nelled through grain elevators
into railroad cars and ship holds
to be spread into processing
plants and converted into food
products to feed a 160,000,000
people.
Oil wells tap the bowels of
the earth beneath our prairies
and provide fuel and power for
planes that wing their way
everywhere, and furnish the
sinews of might for our war
machine,, should we need it.
And so it is only natural that
eur people, a cosmopolitan mix
ture of the races of the world
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generally, should by association
with big things have developed
a bigness complex.
The Paul Bunyan statues that
are scattered over the country,
in the lumbering regions of Min
nesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and
in the Northwest area of Seattle,
are just the natural symbol of
this phase of our national life,
woven into the fabric of a na
tion through our folklore.
That it is exaggerated is taken
for granted all legends and
folklore are. It is easy to point
a finger of ridicule at such
ebullience, and call it m childish
boastfulness, but it is probably
the most typically American
symbol to be found anywhere
in our nation.
Despite an obvious element of
horseplay and youthful exhuber
ance, which it certainly has,
stripped down to its elemental
factor and its intent the. Paul
Bunyan lore typifies our coun
try, its growth, its people, and
its future.
4 If our youth, who like to have
a hero of some sort to worship,
could become better acquainted
with Paul and his exploits, as an
American mythology that stands
for a predominant trait of their
country and its people well
they could do lots worse. Paul
Bunyan is a much more desira
ble character than many of the
comic strip heroes of the day.
Scientists Can Divide
Air Into Thin Streams
Philadelphia (U.PJ Scien
tists now can divide air into
such tiny streams that it is pos
sible to divide an inch, into mL
lionths. W. I. Wilt and H. Kiefaber,
of the Sheffield Corp., Dayton,
O., told a meeting here of the
Americaa Society of Tool Engi
neers that "new ways are being
found every day in which air
can be used to divide that inch
smaller."
' Such revolutionary develop
ments, they said, "make it easier
for production and inspection
people to turn out and accept
good parts in accordance with
prints at lower cost of production."
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Back Stairs: Tom Stephens
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press White House
Writer
Washington UJ.R) Backstairs
at the White House:
It takes less time for Presi
dent Eisenhower to fly to Au
gusta," Ga., than it does for him
to motor to his farm at Gettys
burg, Pa.
The White House won't be the
same without Tom Stephens, Mr.
Eisenhower's appointment secre
tary who returns to private law
practice in New York Feb. 19.
He read one day that it was
possible to grow mushrooms in
the clothes closet of a midtown
apartment. He sent away for
some mushroom spore and other
growing equipment. It was only
a few weeks before he was
bringing, fat, clothes-closet
grown mushrooms to his friends.
Tom leaves the White House
without being able to complete
one of his more ambitious ex
periments freezing fishing
worms alive, then selling them
like frozen peas to fresh water
fishermen who would then thaw
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the worms and have live, wrig
gling bait. ;
Stephens is stepping out of one
of the most irritating jobs in
government the task of arrang
ing the President's daily sched
ule of appointments. No man in
the federal establishment must
say "no" quite as much as the
appointment secretary, who also
must do much of the planning
for presidential trips.
A small girl was visiting the
White House lobby with her fa
ther the other day and met big
Bill Simmons, the President's
receptionist. She gave Bill a
searching eye, then asked,
"Where's your wife?"
Simmon's didn't quite under
stand. "Where's Mamie?" piped the
child. . '
Simmons flushed visibly and
explained with all his old Vir
ginia dignity that he was not the
President, but one of the Presi
dent's helpers.
The officers of the National
Association of Postmasters vis
ited the White House too, last
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week, to present Mr. Eisen
hower with a large, handsome
Paul Revere silver bowl as a
token of their esteem.
To be sure credit was given
where credit was due, one of the
officers distributed around the
lobby a prepared press release
on the event. It was an informa
tive, crisply written release. Ex
cept that the President's name
was spelled' "Eisenhauer."
Klamath Falls (U.R) Em
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Relations Committee, Inc., and
the Northern California district
council of AFL ' Lumber and
Sawmill workers have signed
jointly to recommend a iVz cent
hourly wage increase. .
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Tuesday, February 1, 1953
Technology Not Expected
To Outstrip Science Field
(Editor's Note: Ever since the in'
d us trial revolution, men of science
have turned their knowledge to the
advance of technology. Some say this
demand for material things has ham
pered basic research in "pure science"
and that an imbalance between the
two could seriously hamper progress.
The head of a leading research or
ganization gives his views in the
following dispatch.)
By ROBERTBOYCE
United Press Correspondent
Columbus, O. (U.R) Dr.
Clyde E. Williams, president
and director of Battelle Memor
ial Institute, believes that ' the
big problem in research today is
the training of enough scientists
and engineers.
The head of the world's largest
independent research organiza
tion gave two reasons why he
thinks there is no danger of
technology outstripping the pro
gress of basic science.
"First, we have a long way to
go before we adequately put
to use the basic information we
already have," Dr. "Williams said.
"Secondly, there is being gener
ated constantly by our industrial,
university, and governmental
laboratories a tremendous vol
ume of new basic information.
The research head added that
"since 1940, we have developed
more basic information than we
have been able to put to work
the atomic energy field being the
outstanding example."
Ratio To Increase
Dr. Williams pointed out that
although "most of our scientists
are working with useful end re
sults in mind, it does not follow
that they are not making contri
butions to basic science."
He explained that both indus
try and -government sponsor re
search in fundamental science
areas that look promising for
producing information that
might be useful.
"This research is just as fun
damental as that conducted by
investigators who. have no -ultimate
objective in mind," he
added.
Dr. Williams said he expected
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the ratio of basic to applied re
search to increase as the result
of industrial needs.
Regarding the effects of atom
ic energy development, the re
search director said it would
"spur both basic and applied re
search." "At present," he continued,
"we have more knowledge about
the atom than we have ways of
using that knowledge. We will
probably need even more basic
knowledge before we have a
broad enough base to put it to
work." "
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Dr. Williams mentioned the
use of radioisotopes as a tool to
help gain new fundamental
knowledge in many fields of sci
ence. "W h e t h e r that knowledge
comes as the result of someone
deliberately going after it in
hope of solving practical prob
lems, or whether it comes
through purposeless experimen
tation is immaterial," he said.
Dr. Williams said the problem
of balance between fundamental
and applied research "occurs
automatically under our compet
itive industrial system.
He warned, however, that Rus
sia "seems to be making faster
progress in solving technical
manpower problems than we."
The director suggested that
universities give more attention
to the training of personnel and
less to applied research.
Fundamental Research
He also suggested more encour
agement of interest in science "at
the high school level" and im
provement in the quality of high
school teachers.
Dr. Williams said that his own
organization does much of its
work in fundamental research.
Such work is usually "directed"
to supply information that might
be helpful to a useful end.
He explained that the purpose
of a project might sometimes be
so loosely defined as "try to find
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Bemus Point, N.Y. U.R) A
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ficials of the town of Ellery.
A government surveyor study
ing creeks and roads was unable
to locate the Cozy Hollow bridge
listen in a township map.
Finally town police discover
ed the bridge's steel framework
on the shore of Chautauqua lake
where someone apparently had
planned. to use it in construct
ing a ramp to haul boats from
the water.
The bridge had been closed
for nearly two decades but had
not been abandoned by the
township. If police catch up with
the thieves and if a value more
than $100 is placed on the
bridge the culprits will face a
grand larceny charge. ,
out why glass breaks" or "find
out what is plastic flow in met
als." Some projects take th Bat
telle researcher on ventures into
the unknown.
"For instance," he explained,
"in the development of xero
graphy we had to uncover new
knowledge about tribo-electricity
before we could make xero
graphy work.
Xerography is the process of
reproducing pictures and printed
matter by a "dry" method, based
on the electrostatic principle. It
was developed by Batelle and
was one of the outstanding
achievement in the graphic arts
field in 1948.
Klamath Falls (U.R) John
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been granted an 18-month leave
of absence to become assistant
director of the Eugene Voca
tional school.
Roseburg U.R) Federal
forest agencies in the Doug
las county area expect to sell
about 378,000,000,000 board
feet of timber during 1955.
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