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LET'S GROW IT EDITORIAL PAGE Bodygua 3 DAILY PALO ALTO TIMES THURSDAY APRIL 14 1949 PAGE SIXTEEN the with the stone wall in Europe? EDSON IN WASHINGTON Political Science Association SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith OUT OUR WAY By Williams THEY TEACH 'EVERYTHING re fake tele H5E lights would do just as and that they need only 15 minutes out of every to get the effect of con light So the secret stories of in Califor and Santa sand rock El Camino movements United World ederal Union Inc get anywhere with a long for the peaceful settlement must not only combine but Even more important is the signing of the Atlantic alliance which consolidates the United States and virtually all western Europe into a solid defensive bloc Back of this is the Amer ican promise to help provide its allies with the weapons with which to resist aggression from any quarter In short apparent that the line which Moscow has estab lished through central Europe is the line on which it must stand at least for the present That being so the time has arrived for consolidation A BUNCH WL SHOULD KNOWN! WHEN SHE I ALMOST INSISTED WE RIPE THAT HER TIRES WERE LIMSY OR SHE WAS A LOW ON GAS MY SPARE IS LAT TOO BUT A PATCHING KIT HERE SOME PLACE' IN SCHOOL BUT ABOUT PEOPLE ITS THE MOST IMPORTANT 'N LIE BUT they LET YOU LEARN IT TH' HARD WAY NEW MERCED CHARTER MERCED Calif April 14 (P) a vote of 1802 to 908 Mer ced residents adopted a new city charter If the charter is acceptable to the legisla ture all city councilmen and school board trustees must stand for re election INDIA REPORTS ON SILVER NEW DELHI April 14 India obtained' from the United States during the war 226000000 ounces of silver on lend lease arrangements inance Minister Dr John Matthai told ques tioners in the legislative assem bly the silver was imported on the understanding it would be re turned ounce for ounce in kind within five years of the date the president declared the end of war emergency ikj A SPOT TOO I THEY TEACH YOU HOW TO 1 OOL SLICK ONES THEY'RE TEACHIN' YOU HOW I TO BE ONE 'EM Be sure and tell him only got one 1 want him poking around and finding six or seven MACHINE IS GAINING GAINING ON AN ENSLAVED RACE MAN the range of possibility? Well there are several things among which these stand out: Dan De Luce one of top flight correspondents is making a survey of Europe and he re ports that ERP (the Marshal Plan) has achieved its political purpose of checking communism hard core of communism in such countries as rance and Italy has not been cut he records it has not grown In other countries like Norway and Denmark fellow travelers havebeen forsaking the Moscow party line no ERP country is there any likelihood now that Com munists could win governmental control by anything short of in vasion by Soviet Then reporting on the vital economic purpose of the ERP De Luce says: Recovery progressing recovery is apparently progressing almost twice as fast now as it did after the first world war But insiders of the ERP still keep their fingers crossed Men on the inside of the European recovery pro gram claim it now has a 40 to 60 per cent chance of long range success A year ago they Rain often rots or the buds and discolors the petals of opening flowers Too many buds? The nurseryman may have been wrong about leaving all the buds on While the Sacramento greenthumber say how many buds were showing last fall indications are that there were more than the young plant two feet high could possibly mature well considered good practice to leave only two buds to mature in each axil At this point however I worry too much allow the fallen flowers to re main on the ground as they might be a starting point for a fungus disease or a plant about that size a half cup of commer cial fertilizer should be scratched in around it after the blooming period is all past And keep it moist all summer I was talking with Emory Myers Stanford the other day now with the depart ment of agriculture with a pen chant for camellias He likes to graft his own (the season for it nas just passed) and never wants more than one variety of a camellia However he has been jitten by the bug which can be a vicious and ex pensive pest when not controlled Technique developed Myers told me that Dr Lam bert now working for Man chester Boddy in Southern Cali fornia has developed a tech nique for growing camellias from seed so that he can see the first flowers in 18 months Three years used to be considered fast as a rocket plane for camellias Correct humidity is important to get this fast maturity but more important is the lighting Dr Lambert used to bum 100 watt lights all night long Then Dr Went found that 25 watt well aurn hour stant or all we know of it on getting owers from camellia seeds in 18 months What next? (rom the files of the Times) April 14 1924 Emerson Spencer Stanford freshman track star was being treated in the Palo' Hospi tal for injuries incurred in an automobile mishap near Moun tain View It was feared he might lose his eyesight Spencer was being groomed for a spot on the American Olympic team Miss Ruth Crutcher announced her engagement to Dana Burks Jr Harry Morey Jr and William itzhugh announced comple tion of their $30000 and gravel plant on Real at Menlo Park While answering a phone call from a local Nick Lentos shoe store proprie tor was robbed of $14 the con tents of the cash till By ROLLY LANGLEY In Sacramento a lady who has a and a and she lavishes all the care and atten tion on this one plant that per haps should be shared by five or six The flowers appeal to her but stood about two feet high and had four nice branches on it and was and still is quite healthy looking Last fall it was just loaded with buds but we left them all on because the nursery man told us it would thin itself out Then during January we began seeing color come through some of the buds and anxiously kept looking at it waiting for our first flower Buds fall off of them opened up until it was about two inches across and then fell off It still has lots of buds on it all partially opened Several speakers at the Institute on North Atlantic Pact held last week at Stan ford expressed a view something like this: The pact is an undesirable necessity with it the western democracies hope to buy time in which to build a sounder foundation for world peace Dr Harold isher of the Hoover Institute hopeful that the pact would relax interna tional tensions and possibly force Russia into a strategic Yetreat made the point that this will support the long range organization of peace only if we as well as want peace He suggested the application of the principles of liberty tolerance and democracy at home and abroad Dr Eugene Staley of Palo Alto executive director of the World Affairs Council which joined with the university and the League of Women Voters in setting up the institute held that the various approaches to world peace can be combined The North Atlantic represents the old system of security based on armed strength and alliances We junk this yet he said but we can build the new system of collective security around it Karl Bendetsen an attorney and army reserve officer took the position that to stand aloof from the pact be the greatest act of irresponsibility in all but that peace must also be waged using Dr through Marshall aid fourth point measures of a positive nature to settle our differences with the Soviet Union and reference to the United Nations of all possible issues It was on the nature of these measures that disagreement became apparent This was illustrated by the discussion of two rival peace keeping ederalists and If we are to range program of disputes we compromise until we have something we can get behind as a nation We must then combine and compromise further until we develop a plan acceptable to at least a ma jority of the strong nations of the world or this reason the Times believes the California legislature was wise in approving Assembly Joint Resolution 26 This asks con gress to call a convention for the ing out of a constitutional amendment mak ing it possible for the United States to par ticipate in world government Such a con vention might not yield the results the World ederalists hope for but it wfculd be an op portunity for combining and compromising on a national scale There is little value in buying time if we cannot use that time for actual progress in making peace permanent NEA Washington correspondent WASHINGTON April 14 (NEA) How can political parties be forced to live up to their platforms and campaign prom ises? That is the challenging new subject which the somewhat highbrow American Political Science Association is tackling It is nothing to laugh at either The APSA was large ly responsible for stirring up all the public sentiment and resent ment which led to reorganiza tion of congress in 1946 If the Association should be half as successful in knocking a little sense of responsibility into the two political hodge podge con glomerations that call them selves and crats and do such a bum job of running things around here now thanks would be due and also a grand prize The Political Science Associa tion is starting out on this new crusade just as it started out to reform Congress It has drafted a preliminary report which is really nothing more than a series of trial balloons on what might be done Next some dinners are being arranged at various big cities throughout the United States Leading politicians govern ment officials political scientists and prominent citizens are being invited to these dinners The first arranged by the Washing the the Palo Alto News and Palo Alto Shopping Review 4n Independent Newspaper Published Afternoons Except Sunday! ounded 'In 1892 BISHOP Publisher ELINOR COGSWELL Editor MILLET Advertising Manager Audit Bureau ot Circulations 8econd class matter at the Ia2 at Palo Alto under the Act of Congress of March 8 1876 Peninaula Newspapers Inc Owner George Morell President nL i Lovett General Manager Executive Editor Th mer The Associated Press ocated Press is entitled ex tc? use for republication locaJ news Printed in this dispSes' WeU aS aU XP EeWS Dot delivered by 6 circulation department AJtn tn Palo Alto East Palo £OS DA 3 4135 Menlo Park nd Atherton DA 2 2547 'One and only1 camellia that seemed so promising loses buds as they open for survival Here as in countless other communities in the United States we are being asked to finance the building of more schools We are hearing about war boomed birth rates the westward rush of population rising population curves overcrowded classrooms whole new districts with no school facilities in reach All these are important reasons for voting YES on Palo school bonds Saturday But a larger reason underlies all the rest a more critical emergency Can democracy work Totalitarian leaders think not they think the common people capable of governing themselves but must have their lives run for them by the state We in America believe we are We believe it because we have faith in our public jchools to develop leadership and well informed citizens capable of thinking for themselves We are not stupid enough to assume that educating all the children in the' United States is a cheap or easy task We know that the effort required under what we con sider normal conditions must be doubled if our children are to be prepared for the responsibilities that face them The time is too short for us to muddle along with jampacked rooms with classes running two and three shifts a day We have enough to do without any handicaps In our schools lies our best hope of achieving a peaceful world We cannot afford to hold our support starting four power talks on Germany the way is open for them to do it As far back as March 30 Ed die Gilmore AP chief of bureau in Moscow reported that diplomats not directly involved in the four power dispute over Berlin speculated today there may be a new move to settle that Since then there has been much other speculation along that line and numerous reports which have sounded all right though lacking confirma tion Several developments What concrete developments are there to encourage the idea that a peace parley outside Editor at bat by EVC the University of California trying to do? Sabotage our Palo Alto Tree? El Palo Alto the scraggly redwood beside the railroad bridge has long been recognized by the most thorough students of this history as the one under which Don Gaspar de travel weary party camped in 1769 along comes Erwin new geographical dictionary published by the UC press with the statement that El Palo Alto possibly have been the one referred to in the diaries of the early explorers The Gudde dictionary tells the more than 5000 geographical names nia including many in San Mateo Clara counties It says of Palo Alto: connects the origin of the name with the tall tree still standing near the railroac station However since this redwood had a twin which fell in 1885 or 1886 it can hardly be the palo alto described by the Anza expedition as is generally assumed by historians date of Nov 28 Palou records in his diary: the crossing there is a grove of very tall redwood trees and a hundred steps farther down another very large one of the same redwoods which is visible more than a leagde before reaching the arroyo and appears from the distance like a tower from a distance might have taken the for one large tree but Anza and ont in their diary entries of March 30 1776 leave no doubt that the palo alto was a single tree map of the bay region shows likewise only a single tree Whether this tree was the redwood a mile downstream carried away by high water in March 1911 or whether it was another tree which has left no trace will prooably remain an unanswered The question may or may not remain un answered but Dr opinion has cer tainly not remained unchallenged Both Palo city historian Guy Miller and Clyde Arbuckle city historian of San Jose think the burden of proof is on Dr Gudde and that his conclusion is not justified by his evidence Mr Arbuckle many of you who attended the chamber of commerce dinner last week will remember started his magic carpet tour of Santa Clara historic spots at the Palo Alto Tree He accepts the picturesque redwood as that mentioned in the diaries as a land mark and so designated by a plaque set up by the Native Sons of the Golden West Aside from this aberration Dr dic tionary is a fascinating volume Nor was the en tire section on Palo Alto devoted to iconoclasm Here is the noncontroversial part: a geographical sense the name (Palo Alto) was first used when the San rancisco rancho was sold in 1857: 'A certain tract of land known as the Rancho of Palo This name was doubtless used to avoid confusion with the two adjoining ranchos which included the name San ranciscquito in their full names Various sur plats of these ranchos after 1858 show clearly that the name was at that time associated with established his country estate in 1876 on the rancho Gradually he acquired a total of 8000 acres which he called Palo Alto arm After the founding of Stanford university Tim othy Hopkins laid out the present town in 1888 naming it University Park At the same time a real estate company developed a new subdivision adjoining Mayfield and named it Palo Alto Stan ford brought an injunction against the company for using name through an amicable set tlement Palo Alto became College Terrace and University Park was rechristened Palo Alto on January 30 Now an anecdote about the redwood tree downstream from El Palo Alto the one that fell in 1911 At the time Guy Miller and A Youens city electrician were Stanford students the bank had been washed away underthe tree (it stood some where back of what is now Crescent Drive) until there was quite a cave Boys in board ing house decided to put one over on the Texan by taking him on a and leaving him in this cave holding the sack for purely mythical snipe Youens was less gullible than they had sup posed He soon caught on sneaked out of 'his hiding place shinnied up a pole to his window and was peacefully studying when the conspira tors returned sity of Iowa author of Party This distinguished preliminary outline finds that the United States is now in the middle of an invisible govern ment crisis The new role Of the American government at home and abroad demands executive and legislative cooperation which it is not getting This is said to be no fault of the present constitutional organ ization of the US government There is no expression of the need for substituting a dictato rial or socialistic form of gov ernment What is wanted is a democratic solution for a politi cal weakness which is described as failure to bring about ef fective organization of the opin ion of a majority of the One suggested solution for this dilemma is through changing the status and uses of political par ties Political parties fail to func tion and are said to govern badly because they do not mobil ize effectively the men they elect i to office Lack of cohesion blamed all the conflict and confusion in American govern ment can be traced to the failure of political parties at this says the political pre liminary outline This fault is said to come from a lack of party cohesion within the government at the national level This cre ates an impression of incapacity to govern And it makes the vot ers thing that the men they elected to office are incompetent This diagnosis would seem to fit the present 81st congress like a pair of silk tights and is just as revealing Every split in the Democratic party on civil rights the filibuster labor leg islation pensions ex pansion of social security and all the other moot issues shows this weakness of the party sys tem The Democratic party fought out ali these issues at its Phila delphia convention last summer It adopted a platform on which it elected much to its own sur a president and majori ties of both house and senate Once in office however the con gressional end of this combina tion has forgotten its platform and gone back on its promises If it has thereby sown the seed for own'' defeat it has only itself to blame How the political scientists suggest changing present US political organization to effect changes they consider necessary will be covered in this space in the next issue that can solve some problems quicker than a thousand bril liant men Today the brain of the machine is onlyjn its in fancy How far can it go? No scientist can predict a limit But Dr Norbert Wiener of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology a world authority in: this field says thinking machines will make obsolete the unskilled human worker He foresees com pletely automatic factories with assembly lines directed from a single control panel transfer to this thinking said Dr Wiener not be essentially a big ger job than that done with ra dar in the last war a thing that may be very useful to a sane world but I say living in one It is a very dangerous thine social ly If we are going to sell man down the river and replace him going to be a very angry man and an angry man is a dangerous And Dr Wiener gave this warning: it Koine to be handled with a great deal of skill ft will be a period of great smash power is too great to en trust to any And so we at the thres hold of a new adventure The little slave we bought' so long ago is now challenging its mas ter The machine has more muscle than we have Soon very very soon it will have greater and more precise brainpower than the ordinary man has to meet and make the judgments necessary in a me chanical age What has man toff tn ripfpat the machine? Nothing but his heart the one thing a machine lacks But man lived by his heart in the sad history of this warring world Only by using lis heart more can he avoid the loom of becoming a' hired hand his own gadgets Otherwise the machine will laugh and lauah and laugh until its gears break ton chapter of APSA was scheduled for middle of this month Will ask for suggestions Criticism of the proposed form program will be asked at all these meetings When all comments and suggestions have been received a final report will be drafted by a Committee on National Political Parties It is planned to have this report ready by December 1949 An effort will be made to have some of 'the recommendations put into effect during the 1950 elections Serving on this Committee of national noil tic ai Parties are authors of a number of the best books on American political his tory Chairman is Elmer Schattschneider of Connecticut Wesleyan University author of Others include Clarence A Berdahl University of Illinois autnor ot Powers of the Merle ainsod of Harvard author of Ameri can People and Their Govern Kirk Porter Univer up but they just seem to go so far and then fall on would say it still has about 12 buds on it but I notice that what petals show are all brown on the outside There are about two that look good had a very bad siege of frost which lasted for a period of about three weeks without a break then during the latter part of ebruary and the first part of March we have had lots of rain Would that have any bearing on the case? husband put more leaf mold around the top of it about three weeks ago and we put leaf mold into the ground when we first planted it It has good drainage in the spot in which we have it and it only gets morning sun What would you irst suggest to get more camellias Anyone who likes them could quadruple the pleas ure by tripling the plants Next certainly does have a bearing on the quality of flowers Since these flowers or buds got the early morning sun it might have been better to hose off before the sun hit ihem on frosty days but the trouble here is probably due more to the rain than to frost COMMENT by DeWitt MacKenzie Do Red leaders realize their offensive has run into a By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP foreign affairs analyst Moscow has been reported put ting out feelers about possible negotiations of the Berlin im broglio with the western powers Developments entitle us to ask whether Russia may have reached the conclusion that her great offensive for the spread of communism across Europe has come up against an impassable barrier The time may have ar rived for her to pause to con solidate her gains and bring up her communications US Secretary of State Ache son said in effect yesterday that if the Soviets want to talk about lifting the Berlin blockade and By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK April 14 Who will have the last laugh in the gadget age man or ma chine? Well the machine is already giving a preliminary oily chuckle or it is gaining gaining on mankind It is convinced 'it will laugh last This poor philosopher has repeatedly warned of the danger that lies in insidious ma gadgets of all kinds that make men more comfortable but wean them from nature Recently I wrote that I had never learned to drive a motor car and never intend to Whv lose saw ony a 20 per cent ability to walk as so many people ao? Back came a jeering postcard irom nuance know anyone was so dumb God must have been asleep when you was I prefer to think that the Diety is weeping at what man is let ting the machine age do to him And what is it doing? It is grad ually maxing mm unnecessary in the by taking over his functions Laugh clown laugh But listen too: Man functions by means of muscle brain and heart And by heart I mean emotion The machine holds an edge in the world of muscle It has al ready replaced man there Men are perhaps growing larger phys ically but the tools in their hands are growing lighter and lighter Eventually men have to lift anything This is regarded as a the taking over by the machine of eternal labor burden But now machines have idKen me second step to super sede their mankind They have mechanical brains Ti SCHOOL NO VACATIONA rd vw eSwdf I mJ 4 I xN lq A 77 i I 3 I ZA I Mi? cT Uy dtlkXW NJ COPtt lfrWBY UtA me REG PAT iJisr.