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NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURG, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1948 THIRTEEN Lie Detectors Work Fairly Well, But People Can Lie to Them By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON-.P-How would you like to .ubmlt to a He de lector" I've been asking that question around the office ever since the House Un-American Activities Committee brought the whole thing The Committeemen, vou will recall, suggested that Alger Hiss and Whltlaker Chambers, who had told conflicting stories, might like to tell them over again. And this time a plygraph, or He detecting machine, would be eave-dropplng. suipTy' ofTuth Xacked'aS a .!7? SteTrtTheS uaTrepfy hnay.W.!eene,hhere " " ' Pi noMhanirrdo"Plybeli"ebl!,d!Ca Z,!.!" ments Into a hopper, and the machine sorts them and hands them back stamped, "true", "partly true" or "who do yoU think you're kidding?" Actually, it's merely a device to measure how a nerson i office as anvwhpr. :L. ' . . "nrn 1" 11 '"n8' are easy for the expert to spot But even the experts . don't claim It never misses. Writes Paul V. rrovillo In the "Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology:" "Lie detectors are not Infallible --neither is the operator nor the investigators should expect too much of the Instrument. And John E. Reid, writing In the same publication, says that one-fifth of all tests made pro duce results too inconclusive for an examiner .to make a report. Reid, the sly fellow, set- out deliberately to fool the machine, by faking his emotional resimnses, acting excited when he wasn't, he did it, too. Said the machine's graphs; "he looks guilty." But don't be too alarmed. The police use It as much to weed out the Innocent as to put the finger on the guilty. And in some cases, of course, the results have been phenomenal. Drawbacks Listed Trovillo, by the way, points out some drawbacks to the detectors. They won't work too well on chronic criminals whose emotions have become calloused. . Nor on drunks. Nor on people who are insane. And If you really want to hide your emotions, take this tip from Trovillo: Eat heartily. It seems the machine doesn't work worth a whoop on anyone who is excessively fat. care for any. The little lady who shares the office phone with me even said: "Good heavens, I've always considered that an Infernal machine. You Know, first they strap you In that and then in the electric chair." ; In an effort to find out the truth about the truth finder, I borrowed a brief case and a rtudious a!r from a friend I know y who once read a book. Disguised as a scholar, I had no trouble at all sneaking Into the Library of Congress. Well, It turns out the lie de tector is a pretty interesting gad get at that. Misses Sometimes. The popular conceptio seems to be that it work like this: the witness tosses a bunch of state- Loans on Homes FOR LESS Repay at any Time , Without Penalty UMPQUA SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSN. DURABLE AS MOUNT HOOD! 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Nevertheless, the Communist firoblem cannot be solved by try ng to crush Communism by force. Dulles said in an address to the Assembly of the World Council of Churches. In any analysis of the world situation, he said, "Christian responsibility emerges as an Inescapable fact. Dulles, foreign policy adviser to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican presidential nominee, said, "The Soviet regime Is not a regime of peace and, indeed, it does not purport to be." He added: "It may not, and I hope that it does not, want International war. But If so, thai Is a matter of expediency, not of principle. Violence and coercion are the ac cepted methods, class war being, however, usually preferred to na tional war. "It is inevitable that orthodox Communism should reject peace ful ways, except as a matter of temporary expediency, because it rejects the moral premises that alone make possible the perma nent organization of peace." Moral Law Foremost Peace, Dulles declared, can never be stabilized "except by institutions that seek to reflect the moral law and that respect the dignity of the individual. 'There always have been, there always will be human spirits that will rebel against totalitarian dic tatorship and that fact, In turn requires such dictatorships to be violent and coercive." Dulles long and widely known as a distinguished lay leader in the church told Christian Church leaders from 40 countries that this Is a time for the churches to expose the evil of war and its futility. In another phase of the Coun cil's work, women attending the assembly have demanded a greater voice In administrative affairs of the church. A Czech theologian told the Council It Is witnessing the end of western supremacy In world leadership. He said the West has been driven by anxiety over Soviet-led social transformations to the point of misunderstanding what is going on. "Even the enormous wealth and the atomic power of the American nation must not de ceive us," the speaker said In a strongly worded address. The speaker was Joseph L. Hromadka of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, a pro fessor of theology on the John hus faculty in i'rague., TOLL BRIDGES PAY OFF FRANKFORT, Ky. tPV Only one ton Driage twin or purchased by Kentucky in the past 17 years still charges tolls. The lone state owned toll charging bridge is the "Central Bridge" over the Ohio River between Newport, Ky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Kentucky ac quired it within the past year by means of a $1,000,000 bond Is sue. The State Highway Depart ment reported $17,280,600 In rev enue bonds to finance the Intra state program all have been paid off by toll collections. The last span lying wholly within the state became toll free July 31 at Rock port. There are 80 priv ately owned toll bridges In the state. r THERMADOR ELECTRIC HEATERS UPRIGHT MODEL Excellent For Both or Small Room Large Reflector U-L Approved Were 13.75 Thursday Only .95 Year's Program Planned By Fullerton P.-T. A. Executive committee of the Fullerton P.-T.A. met at the home of Mrs. J. M. Boyles Monday to filan tne program tor tne com ng year. Questionnaires distrib uted among members last spring were analyzed and It was decided to continue tne rVl.A.s night meetings. A pre school rummage sale w ill be sponsored by the Fullerton P.-T.A. Saturday, Aug. 28. In the Fnisconal Parish House. Persons who desire to contribute used clothing to the sale may call 1163 V or 1303, it was announced. Efforts Continue To End Strike At Atomic Project LOS ALAMOS, N. M.. Aug. 24 . Efforts to get 3.500 work ers back to their jobs at this atomic weapons project were stepped up today as the walkout entered Its seventh day. Three meetings were scheduled for this morning. Members of the AFL building trades unions, idle since Wednes day, were to hold another mas meeting at nearby Espanola. They indicated last night they still had not received a satisfac tory answer to their complaint that one contractor Brown & Root, Inc., Houston, Tex. has brought in non-union labor and refused to bargain with the un ions. After the two separate meet ings, a general conference has been scheduled for all groups in volved, presumably all major contractors, the Atomic Energy Commission, the unions and the absentee workers, who have been represented at several confer ences by a specially named com mittee. Expected to be present at least at the general meeting is Frank Ashe of San Francisco, repre sentative of the U. S. Mediation and Conciliation Service. He sat in on two conferences yesterday between the contractors, unions' representatives and members of the workers' special committee. He reported "definite prog ress" but declined to give re porters any details. A contractor who attended the same sessions, however, expressed the opinion utile naa Deen accomplished. Wallace Scores Status of Negro CINCINNATI, Aug. 25 .Pv Henry A. Wallace said yesterday "Jim Crow' is the offspring of protitmad tycoons wedded to the proposition of divide and rule." "Jim Crow keeps profits high and wagea low," he declared in a speech to the National Conven tion of Negro Elks. "What a comment It is upon the status quo," he said, "when the spokesmen for 15,000,000 Americans had to come to the United Nations to charge that their homeland, the land of Lin coln and Roosevelt, denied them an abundant life, a peaceful life, a free and equal life. "But this charge was very wisely not directed against the people of the United States, for the people are also victims of the pattern of denial. Jim Crow is not the natural flower of American soil." The Progressive Party nominee for president continued In the speech his attacks on President Truman and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. 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