SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1954
PAGE FOUR
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS
. OREGON a
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BILLBOARD
By BILL JENKINS
Today Is the day that a lot of
eager gunnels sneaked out of thslr
oflices early and hit the firing line
lor the opening day of the Ore
gon duck season.
California, suffering under a
split season, opened last Saturday,
and the shooting, as usual, wi.s
fabulous for a few hours and Uicn
died as dead as yesterday's news
paper. Prom noon Sunday cn there
wasn't a bird in sl;ht end :io
amount of hard hu,iiin:; coulu
scare 'em up. A lew-in sight, hov
ering over tlie reserve to shake
down a few pounds of the bar
ley they had been feeding on, but
none anywhere else.
I have a sneaking hunch that t
goose Is about half smart. Smart
enough, anyway, to figure out that
if he's shot at in California and
not In Oregon that he'll stay in
Oregon. Maybe with the season
open Up here they'll be shot back
and forth, over the line a little.
Dick Gallagher, the bossman o!
the Legion drum and bugle corps,
got a nice hund the other day
Iroln Governor Paul Patterson.
Patterson, writing from Snlem,
said to Dick that It had been
brought to his attention that wbe:i
he; Patterson, lauded the corps lot
its performance nt the Republican
picnic he was not aware that Dick
had already left the grounds.
His letter slated that he thought
the corps had done an outstanding
Jab. Then he added a personal
postscript to the effect that "Hills
boro lost to a real champion." 1
Congratulations to Dick and the
corps. Keep up the good work,
men.
ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL
by KEN McLEOD .
I do not know how many times
I have been asked about the mean
ing of the Petroglyphs on the Tule
Lake Peninsula and my answer
has been you can attach any
meaning to them you desire be
cause no one has ever been able
to decipher any of the characters.
Some of the carvings are obvious
llko the lump carved on the south
ern end of the group, but, what is
Its significance? Many of the
characters enrved on the cliff are
undoubtedly Indian In origin and
since the Indian had no specific
set of symbolic standards the char
acters so carved possessed mean
ing only to their carver. We have
discovered this to be true in the
attempt to obtain a definition for
various designs. occurln on Indian
baskets. A design might mean
something to one bnsketmaker but
Bometnii'g different to another,
There Is nothing strange to this
observation ns we have the same!
problem in the Held of modern art. !
...o person loosing at an
abstract design or palntlnu will In.
varinuiy ask "what Is It?" The
artist usually uses-some descrip
tion applicable to a fifth grade
youngster lor he Is expected to put
a table on It, Indian carvings to
some extent are much In the same
category, they have personal
meaning to Uie maker but may
not hold any particular signifi
cance to other members of hts
tribe. Most men of science merely
attempt to classify the symbols
into recognized groups circles
dots, rakes, saunres. onrf .,
for the simple designs, other do.
"T V,"RlU bc.obv' e an!-.
mala, llzzards, snakes and so m.
If we knew the Individual who
carved the object wo then might
know the moaning but since the
makers are not available for Inter,
view, your guess Is as good as
in me.
We may stand a belter ri.., r
Interpretation in the ogam type
,i we snouia oe able to
discover the proper alphabet but
even If we ever do It Is doiihifni ir
we will obtain some profound mcs-
"'' one oi these columns J
mentioned the fact that Uie prob.
able Interpretation of any of the
ogam would be "Kllroy was here "
This statement might sound fscell
ous but It would probably be close
to the truth. Of course Kilrov
would not be the name as It would
more Ulan likely be Oscar. The
point Is. much of the ogam writing
merely records proper names. The
ogam alphabet as Illustrated In
Webster's Dictionary apparently
does not give us words with mean
ing arid so the conclusion in that
Uiese Identifiable carving, n,ust
nave some oilier alphabet basts
The world's- knowledge of "the
meaning of runic carving, ha, de
velopcd from various source, thst
havo preserved the runic alphabet
One very old English manuscript
low In the British Museum con.
tains two page-., that has given Uie
E,1? Tth,e "IPhabct used In .the
BrlJsh Isles. In the Scandanavlan
r-oiiiitri, however. Uie kevs to
Unco runic alphabets havo' had
strange discoveries. These three
alphabets came lrom various dls.
coverles (he (i,st was discovered
In 1774 at Vadslena, In Sweden on
m thin gold bractea: the second
on a bracelet, dug up at Chamov.
In Burgundy; the third on a knife
lound in Uie Thames In 1857, and
now in the British Museum. In the
Scandinavian countries this runic
writing in Us earliest stage, has i
been found only a. Inscriptions '
BILL JENKINS
Managing Editot
Myrtle Winter and her pigeon
are back uiin. Myrtle writes us
lrom- Port Klamath that the. wan
dering pigeon Is still staying with
her llocc of chickens up there, that
It Is not a (talking pigeon as sug
gests:! by Prank Braman, because
she recently found It perched on
the top of a brooder box outside a
chicken house, and that she had
received a lct.er from a Bill
Chrysler of Medford stating that
he had lost a pigeon or two In
thr.t area lately and asking for
nrmber of the band.
Myr.le sneaked up on the pigeon
one night when it was asleep and
got the number, AU 54 F2144. So
lar no answer from her letter to
Chrysler.
And the pigeon Is still there.
For the past several days we
have been talking about -a forest
lire started by a hunter.
Just remembered tnat I forgot
to mention that in those two days
the Long Creek . firo was being
battled tnere were five other lires
reported. And every one of them
started by a careless hunter or
fi.nermai.
I'm not so real sure that mere
ly taking a man's license away
for life Is adequate punishment for
a cn:nc of this mn'ini'.udc. Maybe
he should be branded "firebug"
rcrof'i liie ir :1 .:A b lirced
to wear a heavy charred stump
chained to his neck for life, too.
A more practical deterent to
starting fires, I think, would be to
sentence the man to work, without
pay, for one year on a fire sup
pression crew. I'll bet he'd watch
out for fire after an experience
such as tnat.
Those shovels can raise one heck
of a blister on tender hands In a
matter of minutes.
upon ornaments and It Is not until
the 6th century that runic stones
begin. The invention of this form
of writing started back In the so
called "Iron Age" which is placed
at about 500 B.C.
In the period of the 4th to 7th
centuries, the gold ornaments of
the period have been Its chief
glory: indeed the wealth of gold,
especially In Sweden, has suggest
ed the title "Gold Age" for these
centuries. The favorite ornaments
for the period were Uie so-called
bracteates, worn as pendants, and
Imitated from Roman coins, but
often stamped on one side only
and decorated in the Northern
style. Such was Uie bractea that
was discovered bearing the Inscrip
tion of the runic alphabet.
The discovery of carvlnir on ih
Tule Lake Pennlnsula bearing n
ii-seiuoinnce to these runic for
docs not necessarily mean that
any such writing .need be of vast
antiquity, since anyone with a
nowieage of this form of writing
could execute it at anv latter rim,.
and this Is what forms our mys
tery. The field is wide open to any
one to interpret this mystery as he
desires. This Is what Cerve has
done in his book "Lemuria." How
ever, Cerve taxes one's credulity
when he attempts to get awav
from the unknown into the knowii,
llko attempting t0 place cleflnllio'is
and words Into the mouths of the
Modoc Indians, cerve wrU-s-"part
of the lake valley (Tule) was
known to the Modoc Indians who
"The Valley of Knowledge" be-
Nv-n ,nerr in l-tc- ircn-ratlniis ns
-uu mL-ie was evidence that this
place had been Uie scat for some
ancient tribes of people. These
American Indians called this val
ley or kiioivlcds'P tiie "Walla-Was.
bkeeny. ' The Indians said that
this meant "Valley of Knowledge."
Just where Cerve obtained such a
queer combination of words he
gives no source and well he might
for I can find no such word In the
Modoc language. The best we can
write their name for this area is
Moatoknl-E-ush" n-hn.
Valley"'"" ' U'e RgUe RlV6r
Poet's Corner
VP KOR INVESTIGATION
By Orpha Collins
The dictionary says thimble-rig
Is a game
A game played with cups we
believe.
That must be what made a cup
of coffee so high
Those thlinble-rlggers trvln1 to
deceive.
WITE A QI KSTION
Ilv Orpha Collin,
Do we have 'dog days" with
us again?
To some. It seems like a juke.
And lor others It's a bit uncer
tain Anywav, thcrss quite a bit
of smoke.
Dr. R. T. Lindley
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NEW YORK tfl In changing
America nothing - changes more
than the Idea of success.
Everybody starts life in this
country with the desire to be a
success. But how can you tell, as
the Army - saying goes, "when
you've really got It made?"
The Ilnest test of success in any
civilization, whether a man lives
in a concrete jungle, the desert, or
a vine-tangled forest, is simple. It
Is the ability to meet the fortunes
and misfortunes of a lifetime with
fortitude and inner serenity.
But usunlly only old people come
to a full realization of this truth.
Many of us spend our lives trying
to achieve the outward trappings
that pass for success, and die
without fully realizing we have
missed the real thing.
American success goals have
undergone almost as manytransi.
Hons as women's clothing styles.
The fashion of today Is old bat
tomorrow. '
One fashion that seems dying In
America is the idea that success
begins with birth. Under this the
ory any person descended from
someone who came over in the
Mayflower or fought in the Amer
ican Revolution is automatically,
by pride or family, lifted forever
above the reeking herd who came
to this country later.
The ancestor-worship cult still
holds a thin blue -blooded axis
lrom Boston to Charleston, S.C.,1
escaping the realities of the pres
ent by poring over the footnotes in
genealogy journals. But the. atti
tude of most America is: "Never
mind what your great-great-great-great
grandpappy was. What arc
you?"
To mingle In high society Is no
longer much of a success aim
oither. High society Is practically
as out-of-date as ostrich feather
fans. The trouble with high socie
ty is Hint it began to act too low.
Great wealth Is no longer, as it
was In the gilded age, a success
goal for most people. Few of us
any more dream of living In an
JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON 10 This coun
try pumr.ed 2'; billion dollars into
Indochina to help the French save
it from communism. Sen. Mike
Manstfcld, Montana Democrat,
says It's beginning to look like
money down the drain.
Mansfield, a member of the
Senate' Foreign Relations Com
mittee, went to Indochina last
year. He has just returned from a
second visit. Both times he report
ed findings. i
Last year he said, and so did
the Elsenhower administration.
that the French, with Uie help ol
some Indochlnese and American
military equipment, could smash
the Communist-led Victmlnh who
had fought the French seven years.
Tlie French and those Indochl
nese who fought with them against
I he Vietminh, outnumbered the
latter, by Mansfield's estimates.
6 to 3 In manpower and 10 to 1
in armaments, the latter largely
American.
But it was the' French, not the
Vietminh, who were smashed. The
humbled French at Geneva last
summer agreed to let the Vietminh
have half of Vict Nam. the lamest
of Indochina's three states. The
other two are Laos and Cambodia.
Tne French are still In southern
Viet Nam. But with the Vietminh
in the northern half, and the Viet
namese in the southern half torn
by factional disputes and corrup
tion, all Viet Nam looks shaky to
AlHilSUCin.
So does Laos, where he reports
dissension and Communist Infiltra
tion. To Mansfield the only bright
foot is Cambodia, where the
French have given the people real
independence.
The French held Indochina as a
colony for almost 100 eyars, and
they did not prepare the Vietnam
ese for Independence by training
them as administrators or soldiers'
who could run and protect the
country if and when It got inde
pendence. Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Viet
tnlnh, cloaked his communism un
der nationalism, promising the
Vietnamese freedom from the
French, The French still didn't
realize that their day in Indochina
wa, over.
The rci-ult: Million, of Viet
namese, fed up with French
colonialism, gave their sympathy
or active support to the Vietminh.
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uncomfortable castle. Imported
from Europe stone by stone, and
staffed with 30 servants. Who any
longer has an ambition to be re
membered as "the richest man In
Uie cemetery?"
Owning a swimming pool was a
badge of success for a - time In
Hollywood. But when it became
possible for any handy guy to
build a swimming poo) in his
nackyara, well it lost its snob
appeal. So have winter vacations
in Florida. Too many folks can
afford them now.
What ere the success goals of
people today?
In business, it seems to me,
these are the sy.mbol3 of achieve
ment to the go-getter:
1. A 425,000 a year job with a
big corporation.
2. An expense account.
3. Somebody to answer his tele
phone for him. i For some obscure
reason corporation employes al
ways regard themselves as fail
ures unless a secretary filters
their telephone calls.)
4. The right to conduct his busi
ness on a golf course, or during a
martini-haunted three-hour lunch
eon. "...
5. The ability to get tickets to
the right shows and sports events,
and enough money to send his
wife and children to a psychiatrist
so he won't have to solve his
family problems himself.
For some reason only show peo
ple think going to a psychiatrist
themselves Is a success symbol.
Most businessmen still cling stub
bornly to the idea they couldn't
possibly need a psychiatrist, al
though some do go to fortune tell
ers ior advice on their stockmar-l-.et.
operations.
But how about the average man?
What are his ideas of success?
Pretty basic. He feels if he can
own a car and buy a home, keep
his kids in school and out of jail,
pay his taxes, buy a new suit
every year, and make a friend of
his wife, he's pretty successful.
And so he is.
So the French fought wiUiout A Almost certainly not. There
united Vietnamese backing. are many possible nusss for
The only way In which the.childle35ne5s and indeed combina-
French could have won their war
with the Vietminh, In Mansfield's
view, was by meeting two condi
tions which ne considered essen
tial: 1. They had to give the Vict
JX'l'l'1?
tile pull by the Vietminh who
3. There had to be developed , but not infrequently a definite
among the non-Communist Viet-cause cannot be traced Hot packs
namcse a capacity to submerge ointments containing penicillin or
Uieir factional, personal and sec- otn s mi1t.r nl.epB1.;Uim. sur.
tarian Interests in the larger in- gcry and attempts to relieve eye
terests of their country..- !stiln at present are the best
What then was the cause of fail-, lines of attack,
ure in Indochina? Mansfield, the Q Can a person become an
best iniurnied man in the Senate 'alcoholic from drinking beer
on that country, says: ionly? My husband claims it is
"If there was one overriding j not possible and that one has to
cause of the failure, it is to be .drii-k whisky too. Mrs. 'H.
found In the distorted emphasis A Few alcoholics limit them
given to the capacity of military j selves to beer and while it is
measures alone to bring about an j theoretically possible for a per
end to the Communist advance in son to become an alcoholic from
Indochina ... I beer alone It does not seem llkelv
What was lacking in the situa-!
tion was not military power but
a sound political substructure for
lilts power which could only have
been built by fulfilling tlie two
condition'' previously discussed
'indenender.ee and an end to fac
tional disputes In Viet Nam."
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The Doctor Says
Iiy EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D.
At least one question of a prac
tical nature which has caused a
good deal of discussion seems to
have been definitely answered.
Q Several of us were debating
the advisability of wearing tinted
glasses or driving hi a car with
a colored windshield as a method
of prventing glare while driving
a car at night. Is this desirable
or -not? s.P.
A It seems to be quite gen.
cully agreed that driving at night
is more dangerous when the dri
ver weals colored glasse or sits
behind a tinted windshield'. BoUi
together are worse than either one
alone; pink glasses and a green
windshield are apparently Uie
worst. The reason is that tint
ed glass cut down on the ability
to see and therefore increases the
danger of accidents. It has been
suggested that glare from night
driving could be reduced If auto
mobile headlights were designed
to spread over a wider area.
Q I am bothered with a ter
rible Itch in my scalp and there
are little bumps all over my head.
At times it goes away for a couple
oi aays ana Uien come back. I
am at my wit's end, JUrs. C.
A There are several nosslble
drseases of the skin of the scalp
which could be responsible. Possi-
Diy the most likely Is a condition
known as seborrheic dermatitis. I
can well imagine, that this is driv
ing you wild and should think that
you deserve the aid of a skin
specialist.
Q I have Christian Weber'.-:
Disease and can't find anything
about it. Mrs. E.D.
A This Is an InflnmmAtlnn nf
the fatty tissue lying under the
skin. Its origin Is rather obscure.
It is a chronic condition associ
ated with fever and nodules. It
is also quite rare and a perfect
treatment Is still being sought.
Q My husband and I are a
young married couple of three
years. We are childless and my
husband believes that the reason
is because he was bora prema
turely, uoum this be true?
Mrs. p.
tions of causes are often nresent
but premature birth of one of the
married partners is unlikely to
play any . part.
Q Please say something about
the common sty. Mrs. G.W.
!T more oirgla'nds on'e eye
A This is an inflammation of
lid. Eyestrain is sometimes a tac
In the commonly accepted defini
lion of "alcoholic."
Senior Class
Play Announced
TULELAKE - "Three Fingers
m the Door," a three act mv
tory-comedy, will be presented No-
vemoer 19 by the senior class of
the high school under Uie direc
tion of William RooL
The cast and characters include:
Lewis Davis who will play - Wil
liam Heupel; Oerry Lea Van Bus
kirk will take the part of "Sylvia
Long; Sue King plays Miss Tessle
Tmgle; Barbara Day, Elizabeth
Brown: Christina Lewis. Mrs. Wll
Ham Heupel: Peggy King, plavs
Clara Heupel: Maryann Dobbs,
Anna the cook: George Fischer,
Paul Harden; Tom Peterson Is
Mik? Denson, alia, Gregory Long;
Dale Skalisky win play the offi
cer. .
The curtain will go up at t p.m.
In Uio high school gymnasium.
AND SIDING
SSSSAVESSS
Dl with lh man h tht rk
W. S. "BILL" HEIMANN
rau ism u mikkm
l
Telling The Editor
NEWSPAPER COLUMNS
I don't blame you for your per
sonal convictions. However, I em't
see where a newspaper columist
gets the "idea that a news column
should be so biased.
After all, we Democrats are for
all the people. We're not only lor
those who are privileged. We arc
even out to heip biased, narrow
minded Republicans.
Unsigned.
Editor's 1 note: The column in
this newspaper to which I assume
you refer, sir, is not a news col
umn. It 13 a column of personal
opinion, offered for what it is
worth. Everyone is Iree to dis
agree with it, to skip It or to stop
bis paper because of It. If you
disagree with the opinions ex
pressed, we'll be glad to have a
letter from you setting forth your
opinions. II It is free from malice,
abuse and libel, we will be glad to
print it. We not only welcome but
we solicit such letters. In all other
cases, we Insist that Uie identity
of the writer be revealed, but if
all you want Is to tell us off we ll
accept them unsigned.
Esrly Xmas
Mailing Asked
In anticipation of Uie increassed
mailing ot parcel post packages
to other countries during Uie forth
coming holiday season, parcels
should be mailed early for over
seas destinations. .
In making the request for early
mailing, Chester L. Langslet post
master, explained that, owing to
thi long sea transit frequently in
volved In the transmission of par
cels by surface means and to
customs inspection and other for
malitltes to which parcels may be
subjected in the countries of des
tination, it is recommended that
mailings be made as early as
practicable to assure delivery by
Christmas Day.
Senders can be reasonably sure
that parcels mailed not later than
Uie dates shown below will reach
their destination before Christmas:
South and Central America, No
vember 15; Europe, November 15;
Africa. November 1; Near East,
November 1; Far East, immedi
ately. Lmgslet also warns that parcels
must be adequately packed for the
length of the journey.
Diamond Lake
Tests Held
P.ecent tests run at Diamond Lake
Indicate that the poisoning opera
tion carried on last month was com
pletely effective.
Some persons had wondered if
the toxic effect of the chemical
used would reach all ofithe deep
portions of the lake. Fred Locke, in
charge of lake and stream manage
ment for the game commission, re
ports that fish placed In water from
30 to 40 feet in the lake felt the ef
fects of the rotenone Just as rapidly
as did the ones killed earlier on the
surface.
Other tests were also made with
gill nets to determine if any live
fish of any kind remained in' the
lake. Three nets were set overnight
on four different dates, and not one
living fish was caught. The nets
were set in a variety of locations
to insure complete checking on the
lake.
Tests will continue throughout
the. fall until the freeze up to de
termine if the lake is ready to be
planted with trout.
Malheur Bird
Refuge Changed
If you're planning on a trip to the
Malheur refuge for some waterfowl
hunting, hold off a minute, there's
been a slight change.
According to word from A. V.
Meyers, federal aid coordinator for
the game commission, access to
the shooting grounds will be from
the Burns-Crane Highway, State
Highway 78, rather than from the
Frenchglen Highway 205. The road
junction into the shooting area
leaves Highway 78 east of Lawen
about three miles.
Since water conditions in the
area are so low, the open shooting
area has been moved from the Nar
rows area to Cole Island. The
checking station will be located at
the shooting area.
Meyers, in commenting on the
hunting prospects at Malheur stat
ed, "Prospects are generally unfav
orable even though the shooting
area has been moved. The low wat
er will make It difficult for the
hunters to reach the birds."
City Schools
Hold Playday .
The all-city school playday for
girls of the sixth and seventh
grades was held Wednesday Oc
tober 13 at Modoc Field, Line
soccer was played with the black
team from the seventh grade win
ning Uie championship and the
purple winning the consolation.
Tiie sixth grade orange took top
honors and Uie yellow won conso
lation. Ten Junior high school
girls from Fremont reteieed Uie
games.
For
MORTGAGE LIQUIDATION
U'l Th.
EQUITABLE
and
JOHN
HOUSTON
HIGH PRAISE was given Jo lit U. Everett D. Peery . Com.
mending Officer of the Klamath Fa Is Squadron, CAP. for
the advancement made by the local CAP unit in aviation
education. Colonel Kenneth S. Jordan, Wing Commanocr fcr
the Oregon Wing,-Civil Air Patrol, on a recent visit to Klam
ath Falls, to attend a staff meeting, commended It. Peery,
and stated that the progress made by the Klamath Falls
Squadron, was "undoubtedly amonq the best in the Wing."
Pictured above are II to rl Col, Kenneth S. Jordan and U.
Everett D. Peery. '
Eisenhower Makes Bid For
Farm Vote In Latest Talk
By MARVIN t. ARROWSMITH
INDIANAPOLIS lt President
Eisenhower bid for the nation's
farm vnto Ictct nicht. Ravintr plfr-
Uon of a Republican Congress will
help assure American farmers ' a
foundation, of enduring prosper
ity." Speaking to a wildly cheering,
capacity crowd of 15,000 at Butler
University, the President Jabbed
at the Truman orfminl;i rot inn In-
what he termed the farmers' "sen-
ous loss in buying power" in
1951-52.
smaller rally of GOP colleagues
ne sounded a challenge to Repuj-
ncans to spur our horses . . .
and to eet to coine" in the Dartv's
drive to maintain control of Con
gress In the Nov. 2 election).
Eisenhower stopped over in the
Indiana caDital in the n-iirif: nf
the Farm Belt on his way bacit
to hurricane lashed Washington
from Denver, where he ended an
eight-week work and play vaca
tion yesterday.
His private plane lauded at
Washington National Airport early
todav. several hours nftoi- the, hu..
ricane had swept north.
His major address last night
broadcast nationwide by radio and
telecast In 15 farm states markc-d
another stepup in his personal
campaign to swing voters into the
Republican column this fall.
Durinir the first 91 mh..
his administration, he ia;d, "we i
nave gone lar toward building for !
our agriculture a foundation of cn- j
during prosperity, in an Amo'.'ir..,
at last at peace." j
He said there never had hppn
more constructive farm legislation '
than that passed by the OOP-controlled
83rd Congress, and he
blamed "the old farm lav," for a
steady decline in farmers' buy
ing power."
On the speakers platform were
Secretary of Agriculture Benson,
whom he warmly praised, and Re
publican candidates from the F.trm
Belt. There had been reports from
Washington that GOP leaders coun
seled against having Benson on
the platform, presumably
;of some Republican opposition to
tne administration's controversial
farm program.
Benson spoke briefly ahead of
Eisenhower and said the nation's
farmers never had a better friend
in the White House.
The chief executive got a wild
two-minute standing ovation when
he was Introduced to the fieldhouse
audience by an official of the Na
tional Institute of Animal Agricul
ture, an organization described bv
Uie White House as nonpartisan.
The TV and radio time was paid
for by the GOP National Commit
tee. Most of the President's address
dealt with Uie farm situation, but
he also:
"l.Sought again to wipe out any
political advantace the Democrats
may have derived from secretary
of Defense Wilson-s remarks about
dogs and unemployment.
Without specifically mentioning
those furor-stirring remarks, the
President said:
"My heart truly goes out to ev
ery one of our citizens who has no
Job, or who, in other ways, suffers
these hard-ships. Efforts to elimin
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ate distress and build enduring
economic strength in these local- ,
Hies are being tirelessly pursued."
2. Raised a question as to wheth
er Uie administration might be giv
ine new thouirht to the possibilitv .
of conferences between this coun
try and the Soviet Union.
"We will confer with any and ill ,
if only we can have some assur .
ance of suicerity of purpose, which
must underlie all progress toward
permanent peace," he said.
Eisenhower talked at length
about a long list of "bold, pro
gressive steps" he said were takes
by the 83rd Congress to improve,
the farmer's lot. -
And in a thrust at the Truman
administratioon, he said:
"In the two years before this
(Eisenhower) administraUon took
office . . . our farmers suffered a
sericus loss in buying power ...
"In 1947, 930 bushels of when!
would buy a combine. By the end
of 1952, it took not 930 but over
1,600 bushels three-fourths more."
Eicenhawer noted that the ad
ministration's new farm program
provides forgovernment price sup
port of basic commodities. But no
where in his address did he make
any mention of the most contro
versial feature of the program
me provision for shifting from rig.
id 90 per cent of parity support
to a system of flexible props.
In the original version of his
prepared text, made available Just
before he left Denver, the Presi
dent's call for election of a Repub
lican Congress in November was
clear but not stated in blunt terms.
On the flight from Denver to
Indianapolis Eisenhower revised
the text so that he actually said,
'for the next two years ... our
welfare requires a Republican-led
Congress."
Tlie President slugged even hard
er in an Informal speech earlier in
the evening to about 600 party
workers and GOP candidates for
congressional and state offices.
In that talk at the Columbia
Club, Eisenhower deplored the
pessimism he said he has been
finding among some Republicans
in the congressional campaign.
"We have got to get on our
horses, get the spurs in -the grease (
and get to going," he told his ap
plauding audience,
"I have never in my life gone
into any fight to lose ... 1 believe
in optimism enthusiasm d
the confidence that we can do It."
He said Republicans "must stir
up and obtain the same kind oi
enthusiasm we had in 1952," and
then declared:
I "Here was the New Deal stand
ing up there and doing things to
jus we didn't like', end we really
got busy and, girded up our toin "
and went into battle. That is what
we have to do again."
Race Track Bets
Shared In State
SALEM iffl The state's share
'of race track bets this year totaled
SM9255, which was $63,000 less
ithan in 1953, Secretary of State
Ecrl T. Newbry said Thursday.
I Each county got J11.350 of that
i amount.
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