The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Wed., June 21, 1950 Effort S To RelOX
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TOYS FOR CHURCHES -The Rev. Arlington W. ;
Booker and his partner, Joe Wagner, .make toys at Carmel for
sal In aid of campaign to reopen closed Maine rural churches. 1
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WASHINGTON UP Strong
Senate opposition has developed
against a bill to relax some of the
provisions of the Hatch act barring
federal employes from partisan
political activity.
Broadsides against the measure
came from such diverse political
figures as Senator McKellar (D
Tenn), a southern Democrat, Sena
tor Taft (R-Ohio), chairman of the
senate GOP policy committee, and
Senator Humphrey (D-Minn), a
"Fair Dealer." Each h. i different
reasons for his dislike of the bill.
The bill, produced by a Senate
House conference from separate
versions passed by the two houses,
would do two principal things:
1. Amend the act to permit the
civil service commission to penal
ize a violator witn as little as a
30-day suspensidn from his job
without pay. i his would require a
unanimous vote of the three-man
commission. Dismissal is now pro
vided by the law.
2. Permit government workers
living in Maryland and Virginia in
the immediate vicinity of Wash
ington to take part in partisan
politics at a local level.
The bill was called up with pros
pects of speedy approval. But Mc
Kellar and otners objected and a
vote was ordered put off until next
Wednesday. The House approved it
last May 4.
Opposition Explainad
McKellar protested the lack of
a provision to permit federal work
ers at the Oak Ridge. Tcnn., atomic
plant to engage in local party
politics.
i Chairman Hayden (D-Ariz) of the
senate rules committee replied that
the matter should be handled by
separate legislation because Oak
Ridge is a government-owned com
munity. Humphrey blasted a section of
the measure which he said would
make all civil service records, in
cluding confidential files, available
to Congress when a Hatch act vio
lation was involved.
He said it would provide an im
portant precedent for similar legis
lation giving congressional commit
tees a statutory right to obtain rec
ords pertaining to loyalty cases.
Congress has feuded with the
administration many times over
such records. The latest involves
the loyalty files of persons named
by Senator McCarthy (R-Wis)
in his Communist - in - government
charges.
President Truman has permitted
a senate foreign relations subcom
mittee inquiring into the charges
to look at State department loyalty
files but has denied the senators
civil service and FBI records.
Taft contended the bill would
"completely emasculate" the dis
missal penalty provided by the
act. He argued a 30-day suspension
would, in effect, be no punishment
at all because the political organi
zation employing the federal worker
would make up the lost salary.
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NORWAY HONORS ROOSEVEL TMrs. Pranklln D. Roosevelt (seated, second
from right In background) hears Mayor Halfdan Stokke (standing) of Oslo, thank the people of
Norway for the memorial statue of the late President unveiled on the shore of Oslo harbor.
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HONORING INDIANA This is a copy of the new 3-cent Indiana
Territory Sesquicentennial commemorative stamp which will be
placed on first day sale at Vincennes on July 4. Central design Is a
portrait of William H. Harrison, first governor, and the first Capitol.
Britain On Road
To Recovery, Cash
Flood Indicates
. LONDON, June 21. UP) Gold
and dollars jingled into Britain's
treasury at a record postwar rate
in the second quarter of 1950. re
flecting steady progress towards
recovery, reliable sources report.
Informants in 'touch with the
Treasury predicted the total gold
and dollars which belong not only
to Britain but the whole sterling
area would top $2,300,000,000. This
would represent a rise of around
$316,000,000 biggest single quar
terly jump since the war.
The total would easily top the
minimum safety level of $2,000.
000,000 which the government set
itself in 1948. It- also would show
that the sterling area, for the sec
ond consecutive quarter, has earned
more dollars than it has spent.
Details probably will be given
to the House of Commons by Sir
Stafford Cripps, chancellor of the
exchequer, early in July, when the
final quarterly figures ore avail
able. Britain's gold and dollar re
serves, which stood at $2,2-11. 00.000
on March 31, 1948. had sagged to
about two-thirds that amount at
the time of pound devaluation last
September. Since then they have
risen steadily.
By the end of 1949 they had
moved up to $1,688,000,000. In the
first three months of this year
they jumped to $1,984,000,000.
Graduates are pouring out of the nation's colleges in ever increasing numbers, this year's crop being
an estimated record 450,000. Today there are about 4,500,000 living college graduates; some edu
cators predict that 20 years from now there will be 10,000,000 to 15,000,000. One result is increased
competition for jobs among graduates, with more and more beginning jobs requiring college degrees.
Schools Are Stressing Better Writing
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Conclave Despite
Handicaps In L A.
LOS ANGELES, June 20 (PI
Mecca moved west today as an
estimated 125,000 shriners swarm
ed over Los Angeles and its far
flung environs for the 76th annual
session of the imperial council.
Today was a day of parades for
13,000 delegates from 67 temples,
most of them marching in their
colorful uniforms behind blaring
bands. Mounted units included 280
horsemen, six camels from Madi
son, Wis., and scores aboard all
manner of weird conveyances,
ranging from a 1901 one-cylinder
automobile from Louisville, Ky., to
a cable street car from San Fran
cisco. Despite a local traction strike,
nobles found their way around in
chartered taxis and cars of ac
commodating citizens. Several de
putations from far northern locales
declared they brought their own
sourdough just in case the also
current bakers' strike proves in
convenient. Officially the conclave opened
Sunday and will continue through
Thursday.
Traffic congestion reached a
peak almost unprecedented in Los
Angeles. Many delegates, aware
of the trolley strike, brought their
cars and space in parking lots was
virlally non existent. Even so, most
majo lots retained regular rates
a maximum of about 75 cents a
day for such space as was avail
able. A few outlying lots cashed
in on the situation by tipping the
lee to as much as $1 an hour.
The housing problem was equally
severe. Some 1800 delegates from
Pittsburgh's Syria lodge, for in
stance, were expected and accom
modated. But another 650 arrived
yesterday, by auto. Their reser
vations had been cancelled by over
loaded railroads but they came
anyway. A lucky few among them
found shelter in a hish school gym
nasium at Santa Monica, 20 miles
away.
On the serious side, Al Malaikah
Temple, Los Angeles, laid the cor
nerstone yesterday for the 17th
shrine crippled children's hospital.
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON, (.-PI Last week
I ran into the dean of a big Amer
ican law school, and we talked
about the supreme court.
We started talking about a
Washington Post editorial which
criticized the court for "dump
ing" 18 opinions on the public in
one day.
That was June 5, the court s last
day before it went on vacation.
Too much for the public to digest
in one day, the Post said.
"Parhaps," the newspaper said,
"it is of no concern to the court
whether its output is properly
communicated to the people. Yet
we do not see how anybody in a
democratic land could take such
an attitude."
The dean defended the court. He
said he couldn't see how it could
do any better.
From there we discussed the
writing ability of the nine justices.
Some of them, 1 suggested, don't
write very well, or at least don't
write so clearly and simply that
the general public can understand.
Since, from time immemorial
schools have been teaching their
future lawyers to write good, Eng
lish. "Yes. indeed," the dean said.
"American law schools are very
much aware of that and have been
working at it for years."
Everywhere, he said, law schools
are stressing better writing among
their students. "
This is often quite a task, he
said, because universities ship in
to the law schools too many grad
uates who can't write at all.
I suggested that if lawyers would
stop writing Latin words and use
English words, which most people
can understand, it would be helpful.
The dean objected to this. Latin
words in law, he said, have a
special meaning for lawyers and
can't be discarded.
Since I didn't know what stand-
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Visits Ancestral Home
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LAND, The Netherlands, June 20
UP Four hundred school cnil
dren cheered Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt today on her arrival at
this island, from where family ra
dition says the Roosevelts left tor
America 300 years ago.
She visitea an ancient ouuse uu
what is said to be the original
Roosevelt farm and inspected a
church where a member of the
RnAGAv.lt family nresented a gift
of a Chandelabrum in 1700.
Mrs. Roosevelt was accompaniea
by her son, Elliott, and his two
children.
EVERYTHING BUT BATTERY "
CINCINNATI W Harry
(Peanuts) Lowrey, outfielder for
the, Cincinnati Reds, has played
seven different positions during
his career in organized baseball.
Lowrey has done everything that
can be done on a ball field ex
cept pitch and catch. And in his
high sciool days, at Hamilton
high in Los Angeles, Lowrey
pitched the team to the city championship.
Kn v.tinnal Ipnzu hatting cham
pion has repeated since Rogers
Hornsby won his last of six straight
hitting titles in $925.
ards the dean had for good writing
by lawyers, I asked him:
Who among the nine supreme
court justices is the shining ex
amnlA nf a ffood writer?
He named his favorite. He said
lawyers generally consider mis
one man's opinions positively bril
liant. It so happens that a number of
newsmen, including me, think this
particular justice is the worst writ
er on the court.
"When you say he's brilliant,"
I said, "do you mean he's clear
in writing for the public or do you
mean he uses words which have a
special meaning for lawyers
only?"
"For lawyers," the dean said.
But I said: "I thought we were
talking about writing so that both
lawyers and the public can under
stand." "I know," the dean said, "but
that reminds me of a story about
the late Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
"One day he had an opinion to
write and explained it to his as
sistant. The assistant wrote out the
opinion and showed it to the jus
tice. "The justice said 'no,' that the
assistant had missed the point.
So the justice wrote the opinion
himself and showed it to the as
sistant. "The assistant read it through
and told the justice: 'I don't see
where you say here the point you
explained to me.'
"Then the justice pointed to a
single word down deep in the opin
ion and the clerk looked and said:
" 'Oh, now that you point it out,
I can see where that word says
what you had in mind. -But only
one lawyer in 100 would see that.'
"And Justice Holmes answered:
'Precisely. .But he's the lawyer
with the keen mind'."
Of course, if only one lawyer out
of 100 could understand what the
justice had said, the public would
sort of be left out of it.
So I asked the dean if he meant
by his example that the justice
who wrote only for the very keen
mind, the one out of 100, was the
best writer.
The dean said that was more or
less the idea.
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