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or butTr fat In milk?
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8. Does the Latin "ibidem
(ibid.) mean "in the same place
or bove?"
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gracefully" "The Philistine"
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husband. Dick Powell,
have reconciled after a four
week separation, it was reported
today.
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rated Feb. 22 after 11 years of
marriage because of "incom
patability." It was their second
separation in two years.
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Educational Crisis
According to all the evidence we have seen, this is
a "make or break" year for higher education in the
state of Oregon.
That is a pretty drastic statement, but we believe it
to be' true.
Others, who are close to the problem agree such
men as the conservative editor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times,
the conservative editorial page of the
Portland Oregonian, and the well-informed editorial
writers of the Eugene Register-Guard.
The crisis lies in the fact that the university and the
colleges are losing, and if something is not done will
continue to lose, many of their best faculty members.
IT IS a matter of simple family economics.
Why should they stay in Oregon at a rate of pay
which is hundreds or even thousands of dollars per
year less than they can obtain elsewhere, either teach
ing or in industry?
And if we say merely "Let 'em go," we are con
demning the state svstem of hieher education tn sec
ond or third-rate status. This we cannot afford to
do.
The problem is now before the legislature, which
has in its hands the decision as to whether the
paid the teaching staffs will be brought up to a point
wnere ui egon can compete witn otner areas or wheth
er faculty salary increases will again be postponed.
'Y'HE most dramatic and shocking description of the
problem we have seen is a resnmp. nrenaieH hv
the Oregon branch of the
T T . T r m
university rroiessors, of reports of deans and depart-
ment heads on the difficulties they are having keeping
and attracting good faculty members.
! Letter after letter tells of the loss of men to other
schools and to industrial firms, simply because they
felt thev could nnt affnrrT tn stair in their nrocent em
ployment at a salary in some cases only half of what
they had been offered elsewhere.
Some men are staying on at incomes far below
what they have been offered at other schools, simply
because they like their present work and their present
position. But without some increase, it is easy to see
they will not long continue to do so.
THE hard fact is that Oregon faculty salaries have
n vi 4.1 -i ? n
. ueiuw muse onerea m coneges ana univer
sities with far inferior reDutations. let. nlnne the sti
pends offered by better-known schools and prosper
ous industries.
Here are a few excerpts from the letters men
tioned :
". . . Industry is offering last year's graduates at the Ph.
D. level salaries equjl to or sometimes in excess of the salar
ies of our full professors . . . Last year we employed as an in
structor a young man who had just about completed the work
for his Ph. D. degree at a salary of $4,000. This year the young
man was offered S8.000 to go out Into Industry . . . One of
our graduate students who was two years away from his doc
torate was offered $54f pe.- month to work during the sum
mer with one of the industries. This salary is about commen
surate to our highest paid associate professor . . ."
". . . We have two openings . . . which we have not been
able to fill, despite thp fact that I took a prolonged trip last
spring, during the eoarse of which I visited some 17 universit
ies. The salaries I had to offer were simply not attractive
enough to interest prospective candidates . . . What is hurting
most is that we are losing stiff on the one hand to institutions
with whom we compare ourselves in neighboring states, and
on the other hand, to institutions in other states with whom
we don't want to compare ourselves . . ."
". . . One of my students with two years' experience is
now earning mo e than I am. Another former student is at
a state university earning more than I at a lower rank. Many
such cases exist. Unlt-ss salaries are raised appreciably I shall
cease to attempt to hire first class staff."
". . . There are ftnir members of our staff who have been
approached by other institutions with attractive salary offers.
The salary adjustment which is being considered by the leg
islature will be a crucial factor in holding these staff mem
bers at Oregon."
"During the past year one man was lost to industry be
cause his salary was more than doubled. Naturally, we cannot
meet this kind of competition but had the salary been ade
quate, I doubt if he would have considered this offer."
"... If the charcellor's salary budget Is not approved it
is virtually certain that we will lose six of our 13 men within
a year . . . Staff turncvei and inability to obtain new staff are
by no means the only lesults of an inadequate salary scale.
Morale of present staff has declined steadily as belief in ulti
mate fair salary treatment has become harder and harder to
sustain . . . Admittedly, a family can live on considerably less
money than these men receive. It does not follow, however,
that competent men trained to do a first-rate teaching job will
continue to work at such salaries; will be willing indefinitely
to deprive their iamiHes in crder to teach in the state of Ore
gon; or can be highly productive on the job when tormented
by thoughts of the better opportunities elsewhere and the in
justice to their families of not turning to these.
"Of one fact I am absolutely sure: Our situation borders
on crisis . . . The pric- of failure to recognize these things is
second-rate higher education for Oregon."
"... I offered a position to 21 candidates with no results.
The salary offered was S4.000. In the meantime the classes
are being taught temporarily by wives of staff members and
a graduate student."
THESE are only a few, and they are typical.
In making their decision, we hope the legislators
keep two things in mind. -They are :
1. Education is a PRIMARY function of the state;
many of the other matters before them however lau
dable are secondary.
2. Higher education is wholly dependent on the
state for support; secondary and elementary educa
tion, while partly a state function, also have local re
sources. And the caliber of instruction for our future citi
zens is too vital a matter for the state to be niggardly
E.A.
Monday, March 18. 1957
American Association of
-
'Sensational' Proposals Seen
Possible in Disarmament Talks
By CHARLES M. MeCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia is likely to pro
vide big headlines during the
disarmament talks which open
in London to
day.
There are
strone indica-
i tions that the
Sovietgovern-
ment wiU come
up with some
s e n s a t i onal
new proposals.
It is quite pos-
rharla McCano sible. that Aft
drei A. Gromyko, Russia's new
foreign minister, will go to Lon
don in person to present them.
The question is whether Rus
sia will continue its practice of
making its disarmament propo
sals a sounding board for propa
ganda and wiU reject any agree
ment which would provide an
air tight inspection system. -Cautious
Optimism
There seems to be a feeling
that this time a way may "be
found to get the big powers
started toward an agreement
which would lead to a reduction
in armed strength and control of
nuclear weapons.
The London talks are being
held by representatives of the
United States, Canada, Great
Britain, France and Kussia.
These five countries make up
a subcommittee of the United
Nations disarmament commis
sion. Negotiations of various kinds
on disarmament had been going
on ever since the end of World
War II inside the U.N. and be
tween interested powers.
No progress had been made.
In hope that private talks might
succeed, the five nation sub
committee was set up on April
19, 1954.
Meeting a Failure
There was a big meeting of
the five countries in London in
1956. It ended in failure, as had
other meetings, because Russia
would not agree to an air tight
inspection agreement to prevent
cheating.
The U.N. General Assembly
Feb. 14 ordered the five nation
meetings be resumed.
Russia had asked one week
previously that the foreign min
isters of the subcommittee coun
tries attend the next disarma
men talks,
This proposal was rejected.
The western allies said they saw
no reason for the foreign minis
ters to attend unless there was
some sound basis for hope that
Russia would negotiate on a
realistic basis.
But the foreign ministers
could be summoned to London
at any time, of course, if devel
opments warranted.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Economy note:
Trie house appropriations com
mittee (which is the custodian
of the nation's pocketbook) has
just recommended a reduction
of half a billion dollars in the
President's budget requests for
money to run 18 government de
partments. IT sounds good.
But there's a catch to it.
The house of representatives
itself, acting as a whole, may put
the amounts back in the budget.
If the house doesn't, the sen
ate doesn't, the joint conference
committee that irons out differ
ences between house and senate
bills may put the amount back.
In our governmental proced
ures, there are many ways to
TALK economy without getting
much of it.
"NE of the committee's recom
" mendations was to the effect
that the government should slow
up its air conditioning program.
The Washington correspondent
who wrote the story for the
United Press added the comment
that this may cause considerable
muttering among government
employees when they are swelt
ering through the hot Washing
ton summer.
It could be.
But
The taxpayer has to swelter in
the heat while earning the
money with which to pay for air
conditioning the government
buildings in Washington.
Isn't the taxpayer entitled to
do a litUe muttering?
"jITORE on the economy move:
The chairman of the house
appropriations committee is Hon.
Clarence Cannon of Missouri
The other day 100 taxpayers in
his district sent him a bundle
containing 100 shirts. Cannon
was equal to the occasion. He
sent the bundle on to President
Eisenhower's budget director,
Percival Brundage, with the
crack that it's he who should
have the shirts off the Missouri
taxpayers' backs.
Thus he passed the buck.
QUESTION:
When will tax reduction
actuaUy begin?
I think this is the answer:
Whenever the people start vot
ing against the spenders instead
of voting for them.
That would bring results
rather quickly.
... iT a4i
The subcommittee in its new
talks will have before it all the
disarmament proposals that
have been made in recent years.
The Last Proposal
These include the proposal
which the United States present
ed to the U.N. last Jan. 14.
This provided (1) fissionable
materials should be used or
stockpiled for peaceful purposes
only; (2) pending agreement on
that, advance notice should be
Democratic Senators
See Party Problems
In Different Light
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Two
more prescriptions for guarding
and improving the health of the
Democratic party have come
from its political center.
Senate Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.), and
Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), gave
the latest diagnoses of where
the party now stands and offer
ed advice on how it should face
the future.
Both held that the Democrat
ic party is basically strong hav
ing won just about all the polit
ical prizes last year except the
big one the presidency. Nei
ther shared the concern express
ed by Sen. John F. Kennedy (D
Mass.), that it must acquire new
vigor to escape being interred
alongside the oldtime Federal
ists and the Whigs.
Against Bloc Voters
Johnson said, in effect, that
the Democrats should concern
themselves more with truly na
tional issues and less with court
ing "blocs" of voters.
Personally, I believe that the
people of this country are tired
of the kind of political thought
that divides Americans into
blocs," he said in a week end
Jackson Day speech in Raleigh,
N.C. "I strongly suspect that
those most tired of that phrase
are the men and women who
are supposed to be members of
the blocs."
Matter of Fact
PEERING INTO HELL
Washington For going on
four years now, Val Peterson, a
genial Nebraska politician, has
-m-s been peering m-
Itently into hell.
i ine results oi
his peering seem
worth describ-
afSjing, if only as
T an antidote to
J the queer mood
t is
- f J of national conv
i placency which
1 U 1 4n0
iftaL ,4aaBaB' uda uccu
nt.it Aiaon snbed by Time
magazine as "The new normal
cy." Peterson, as chief of the fed
eral Civil Defense Agency, re
cently briefed the President and
the National Security Council
on the results of his peerings.
He said, in effect, that the gov
ernment would have to spend
about $32 billion if the country
really wanted a serious civil de
fense program. It is interesting
to trace the steps by which Pe
terson arrived at his huge tag.
Back in 1953, when Peterson
was appointed to his job, he
took a good hard look at the
real nature of the nuclear wea-pons--the
first civil defense of
ficial to do so. He summed up
his unhappy conclusion in four
words "The cities are finish
ed." THE cities being finished, tne
problem remained of saving
some, at least, of the people in
the cities. Peterson was assured
by Air Force experts that a for
ward detection system should
make it possible to give the ma
jor' cities a minimum of two
hours warning time before an
attack. Until early 1955, there
fore, Peterson's planning was
based on pre-attack evecuation of
the cities. Then Atomic Energy
Commission Chairman Lewis
Strauss belatedly reported on the
phenomenon of noxious, radio
active fall-out from a hydrogen
bomb explosion, covering some
7,000 square miles.
This erim information, wnicn
Strauss had attempted to botUe
up for almost a year, knocked
all Peterson's evacuation plans
into a cocked hat. Obviously, it
would do no good to evacuate
the populations of the cities,
only to have them killed in the
countryside by noxious fallout.
So Peterson, started all over
again.
With tne evacuation solution
blocked, the only other conceiv
able answer was shelters. Again,
elaborate studies went forward.
A specific city, St. Louis, Mon
was chosen as guinea pig. Sup
pose all the people in St. Louis
were in sneiters capable ot with
standing a pressure of 30 pounds
per square inch, how many
might survive a hydrogen bomb
attack? As many as six in 10,
was the answer given by Peter
son's experts. (Without shelters,
virtually all would die.)
SAVING 60 per cent of the
American urban population
in case of nuclear war seemed
a useful objective to Peterson
given of tests of nuclear weap
ons: (3) the big powers should
start reducing their armed
forces, aiming at a limit of 2.5
million men for United States
and Russia and 750,000 each for
Britain and France; (4) guided
missile and similar experiments
should be put under control; (5)
an inspection system should be
established to prevent surprise
attack with either conventional
or nuclear weapons.
As for national issues to be
faced now, Johnson" listed polic
ies dealing with interest rates,
foreign affairs, the farm prob
lem, peaceful use of atomic en
ergy, natural resources, health
and the training of scientists and
engineers.
Looks To Suburbanites
Gore said the Democrats must
redouble their efforts to per-,
suade new suburbanites the
Democrats have most to offer to
"people of moderate means." He
also emphasized his belief that
his party must recognize the pol
itical implications of other pop
ulation shifts.
"Some areas of traditional
Democratic party strength can
no longer be counted upon with
certainty," he said. "New areas
of party strength, on the other
hand, are now apparent, and, al
though they have been neglected
in the past, they must now be
cultivated intensively in the fu
ture."
Gore said the center of Dem
ocratic party strength is mov
ing west.
Otherwise, his recommenda
tions to his party suggested ways
for building a positive program
of action" and exposing the
mistakes" of the GOP.
Johnson's and Gore's advice
provide two more sets of ideas
to season the current intra-party
debate on how to come back
from crushing defeats in the past
two presidential elections.
By Stewart Alsop
and his staff. But the more they
looked into the problem of pro
viding shelters- for the urban
population the more hideously
complicated and expensive
it became.
To take care of a whole city,
there would have to be a shelter
every two or three blocks. The
people would have to live in the
shelters perhaps as long as a
month otherwise lingering ra
diation would kill them when
they emerged. So they would
have to have sanitary and medi
cal facilities in the shelters. And
they would have to have food.
"Otherwise,". Peterson has re
marked, in an aside which casts
a macabre light on the problem,
"they would eat each other up."
This kind of elaborate shel
tering, which would only as
sure that a portion of the ur
ban population would survive in
the midst of utter ruin, would
cost over $30 billion for the na
tion as a whole according to the
estimates of Peterson's staff. You
only have to look at the price
tag to realize why the National
Security Council, with a collec
tive shudder, has put the Peter
son plan in the file-and-forget
category.
a
THE decision to do so may be
the correct decision. In Eu
rope, only the Swedes and Swiss
have serious shelter programs.
There is no real shelter program
in the Soviet Union. The Soviets
have presumably decided that
more real security is provided
by the aircraft and missiles they
are producing so furiouslyi and
they are probably right.
Yet the meaning of the deci
sion to file and forget the Peter
son plan ought to be understod.
It means, quite simply, that in
case of all-out nuclear war, not
only the cities but the people in
the cities "are finished." Presi
dent Eisenhower recently said
that the likelihood of any na-
tion possessing these great wea- j
pons . . . using them in an at- :
tack grows less, I think, every j
year . . . because, as I see it, any
such operation is just another .
way of committing suicide." j
The President may be right. :
But his remark suggests a ques
tion: Is the United States wise :
to base its military power al-1
most exclusively on "these great j
weapons" which may never be
used? That is what the United
States is doing. At any rate, the j
futile outcome of Val Peterson's :
four years of peering into hell I
suggests that "The New Normal- i
cy is a bit different from tne
normalcy of Warren Gamaliel
Harding's day.
(Copyright New York Herald
Tribune Inc.)
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From Washington
By Roscoe Drummond
WHY AID POLAND?
Washington QUESTION
''In a recent column you stated
that there were two conditions
Moscow will require .Poland to
meet to escape being brought
back under the iron hand of
Soviet rule: (1 It must maintain
the 'Communist system'; (2) It
must respect the Warsaw Pact
permitting Red Army forces in
Poland. Under these circum
stances how can it be in Amer
ica's interest to give the Polish
government economic aid?"
ANSWER The objective of
the U.S. government is not mere
ly "containment," not just hold
ing the line against the expan
sion of Soviet rule. The object
ive is liberation of those satel
lite peoples who have the will
to freedom.
Let's be frank with ourselves
about this policy of "liberation."
We are not going to provoke
World War 3 by sending Ameri
can arms or troops to help a
satellite throw off its Soviet
rulers. The U.S. neither abetted
the Polish or Hungarian revolu
tions nor promised military aid
There are .peaceful methods
of helping liberation. Economic
aid is one of these methods. Any
kind of aid to liberation in
volves risk; economic aid in
volves risk. The risk is that it
may do no good at all. The risk
is that it might encourage the
Polish revolutionaries slightly
and strengthen the Polish econ
omy slightly and in the end
Moscow may massively roll over
the Polish government and no
good has been accomplished.
OUT there are powerful anti
" Soviet, pro-freedom forces
loose in Poland today. If these
forces can be nourished and
sustained, it is wholly possible
that they will carry the largest,
the most formidable semi-satellite
into the zone of full scale
independence.
There is as much independ
ence and more personal free
dom in Poland today than in the
completely non-Soviet Commu
nist state of Yugoslavia.
The strength of the new un
Soviet Polish regime rests upon
the remarkable alliance between
two Polish patriots who were
both imprisoned by the Stalin
ists. They are premier Wladys-
law Gomulka and Stefan Wys-
zynski, Poland s Roman Catholic
primate.
How can they work together?
They can work together because
Premier Gomulka is a non-doc-
trinnaire, anti-Stalinist Socialist
who wants independence for his
nation at all costs and because
Cardinal Wyszynski is an anti-
Communist, anti-Soviet leader
who believes that With more self-
control, more patience than the
Hungarians used, his nation can
win total freedom from both
Communism and the Soviet
Union.
All Poland, its youth pre
eminently, is breathing more
freely again. Its government is
no longer jamming Western
news broadcasts. Students, thirst
ing for fact and famished for
freedom, are turning on Radio
Free Europe at will. Censorship
has not entirely ceased but its
main purpose appears to be to
reduce provocative attacks on
the Soviet Union. As one Polish
editor put it: "We cannot yet
print the whole truth, but we no
longer print lies." Foreign news
papers and books are publicly
on sale and are available in
state libraries.
TN his article in the Saturday
Evening Post Richard C. Hot
telet put Poland's dilemma
vividly and accurately.
'Gomulka and his Poland are
walking a tightrope," he wrot.
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the Kremlin it risks Soviet in
tervention. If it bows to Rus
sian pressure it may be swept
away by a furious population
. . . he must raise the standard
of livins in a countrv whirh
Communism has brought to the
brink of ruin.
Premier Gomulka is not wed
ded to doctrinaire Communism.
In view of the fact that he has
dissolved about 7,500 of the 10,
000 collective farms in Poland,
it is clear that he is not wedded
to Communism.
Gomulka will never proclaim
that We is abandoning the "Com
munist state," but unless he puts
human liberty ahead of Com
munism, he may quickly be
swept from office by his own
people. Poland is moving ap
preciably away from being a
"Communist state" because the
Polish people demand it. Eco
nomic aid is designed to nour
ish that demand and let the
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do about it. Poland is not ask
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Gold Hill Water
To the Editor- T havo lwnn a
resident of Gold Hill for over
18 months, and in that time
there has been about nine
months of muddy water, city
water. The city water of Gold
Hill is not fit to drink and I was
told to boil all water before
drinking it, and for cooking
purposes. I washed yesterday
and the water before I started to
wash was dirtier than my laun
dry was.
I have talked to several of my
neighbors and they tell me that
the City Water commission was
supposed to put a filter in the
reservoir some years ago, but
ha vp failed to rto so Thv tnU
me that it would do no good
to write to anyone about it, but
I thought it would not hurt to
let you and some of the Tribune
readers know just what the city
water of Gold Hill is like.
It seems as though th fitv
council does not want any ad
vanced progress or npw inrtne.
tries brought to this town. I
wonaer wny; '
Hope that you mav us t hio in
your column soon. We read and
take the Mail Tribune ever since
we moved ud here. Thanirino
you in advance.
B. F. M.
Name on file
The Vital Day
GEO. N. TAYLOR
Set a smallish blackboard on a
stand or easel up front in your
Sunday Schopl room. On one
half of the board
chalk in a cross
and on the bar
where they nail
ed Christ, chalk
in "SIN" and just
below chalk
'DEATH." Now
at the top on the
other half write
ETERNAL
LIFE." Then hold
out to them a
stick of chalk. Urge them to
come up and sign initials as
taking Christ as Lord and Sa
viour and that eternal life is
theirs. Practice it alone. Learn
how. Takes 20 to 30 minutes out
of S. S. time. It is the vital day.
"I was 12 years old when I
signed, and now Im going back
to No. Africa on my 2nd term."
A Pacific Coast woman mission
ary, adv.
4t PERL'S every family
may make funeral ar
rangements which are In
keeping with its means. A
selection of service's In
every price range It of
fered to satisfy Individual
preferences and to meet
all financial circumstances.
Convenient Terms?
Certalnlyl
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