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4 th. N.w.-iuYiew, Ro.ebr9, Qr.-Fridoy, jm. 6, 1952 1 Loye s" Hard to'Understand Sometimes, Isn't It? Publiihtd Daily ls t-ndty kr rke News-Review Company. Inc. CHAW.IS V. STANTON "JLh..?" M.mb.r , th. Au.ciat.d Pr..l, Of.,. N.w.MM' NUIsheii Auoeialion, th Audit uroy Circl.ti.iii ?A kills JJiiiievs Y WanTYou MORB'M ( The wholBWorlp WHAT COMES NEXT? 1 1 Charles V. Stanton As a military strategist General E.senhower demonstrat ed remarkable ability to pick the right time and plac to t tack the enemy at his most vulnerable spot. He apparently is bringing that same ability into the political battles. With complete accuracy in his speech at Abilene he pinpointed the weaknesses of the present administration, fauSg attacks simultaneously on lour fronts - di.umty, inflation; excessive taxes and overcentral.zation of govern- m6nEisenhower left himself wide open to counterattack. Terhaps it was a cagey piece of strategy. Were we an op posing politician, we would think twice before moving into the 'j"3- aced himscf in the pOSition of the person who declares himself to be against sin without saying what he ..I J J- 1 It ' He pointed out the administration's long-standing policy , then Dlavinsr one against the other and profiting politically by favoritism to the croup representing the most votes. He attacked inflation which, "unless brought under control, eventually leads to depression." He struck at excessive taxes that only a little below the confiscatory will destroy free government. Our bureaucracy, he Raid, is "manned by experts in self perpetuation and ceaseless expansion." Policy Declaration Needed It is one thing to point out the obvious. That the gen eral accomplished in a most forceful manner. It is another thing, however, to prescribe the methods by which evils may be remedied. Ike left the intimation that, recognizing the evils, he would correct them but he failed to tell us how, he would accomplish these things. Doubtless his political opponents will move into the open ings in his battle formation. Maybe that is exactly what the general anticipates. He has said he doesn't plan to cam paign ahead of the nominating convention. His speech at Abilene, however, sounded to us like a blistering campaign offering. But, if his critics start throwing punches at his open stance, he will be in "an excellent position to counter punch without being charged with violating his no-campaign position. Having heard hit analysis of our national ills, we now want to hear the nature of the remedies he proposes. We hope his opponents force him into policy declarations. We rather imagine that is exactly what the general has in mind. Positive Campaign Indicated We have been exceedingly interested in the type of ma terial coming from the publicity departments of the rival camps of Taft and Eisenhower. Taft forces have been slinging mud in all directions. They have attempted to smear Ike, the administration and every policy other than their own. The primary campaigns have been accompanied by scurrilous rumors and stories directed against Ike. There is no evidence, of course, that these attacks emanated from Taft's headquarters, but neither nas mere Deen repudiation irom liiui source. On the other hand, the Eisenhower publicity has at tacked no one. It lias boon directed to telling the story of General Eisenhower and his fitness for the high office to which he aspires. It has been directed at national problems and the general's probable solutions. In his talk at Abilene, Eisenhower did not once refer to his leading opponent for the Republican nomination. He cannily answered some of the questions directed at him from the Taft camp, particularly in the matter of foreign spending and defense costs, but in no way did he smear or belittle his opposition. His reference to the national ad ministration was indirect. It would appear from the trend that Eisenhower pro poses the type of campaign for which so many Republicans have been praying a positive campaign based on a posi tive program, rather than a campaign of negation, mud slinging and me-too-ism. Now that Ike's lint is definitely in the ring, and he has placed himself in a position for political battle, it will be in teresting to watch deelopments. WT7) ilk )H-NLlA ( LHWi MW .jrm. T.I,lealWI f - k. M mm i .v' irwawi m &w sty Congress Chat By HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M. C, 4th Oregon District Fulton lewis Jr. r -J' - mm mm a mmw HI m m mm w Wm mW m 1 V irr i is.i-ii.ii r a WS km v I m 1 1 v iv a I ENDING BASKET 'Ticture a young veteran in a Veterans Administration hospital so seriously disabled he's required to lie Hat on his back, able to move only his arms and twist his head. At his side is a machine that looks like a magic lantern pointed up wards, with a switch he can con trol with his fingers. "The machine is projecting onto the ceiling the pace of a novel that t(K patient is readini! from bed, w ithout .moving. He comes to the end of a page, tups the switch, ind the next page flashes on to the ceiling. He reads on. Now look at his face. For those few moments, at least, he has forgotten tlie hos pital an;t his injured body, and is living the story of sagebrush and open plains , . . "The printed word can be In valuable to the patient. With the speed of a magic, carpet it can transport him out of the confines of the hospital's four walls into a new world bounded only by the range of his imagination. It can take him away from his ailment for a few hours, and that alone may help him along to the road to recovery." The above is from an article by Foster Mohrdnrdt director of Li brary Serv ice of the V.A. in Wash ington. The whole article, reprint ed from the Library Journal in this current issue of the Hold Star Mother, is most interesting in its explanation of the methods used to secure the most service and the largest number of books to supply the needs of the 2L'S libraries for patients, (as well as the other 22S special collections for medical use and "domiciliancs" of the various l.r0 V.A. hospitals). For instance, all cataloguing Is done In Wash ington became "it was estimated recent v that if each librarian were to do her own cataloguing she would be spending about hail of her time immersed In the PA l'F.H VOHK of cataloguing and processing. In addition to freeing the librarians for other work, the method also saves 50 per cent of the cost of cataloguing, etc.. if such were done at each institution. Twenty per cent of the books sel ected from the flood of 8.000 ne titles each year ire chosen at the main library service: requisitions from the field guide in the selec tion of the balance. How well. I know the therapeutic value of Just th right book! WASHINGTON The indictment of Mary Jane Kceney for contempt of Congress is the first chance American courts have had to puncture the super-legalistic aloofness of the United Nations. ' Mr. Kcnney, when she appear ed before the Senate Internal Se curity Subcommittee, insisted that as a UN employee she could ig nore the questions put to her by what the UN considers a vastly inferior governing body the U.S. Congress. grounds of possible self incrimina tion to confirm or deny her Com munist party affiliations is a fact or in her indictment, but the basis for taking her to court is to de termine whether UN personnel rules supersede U.S. laws. The court test is long overdue. The United Nations has wrapped itself In a cloak of mystical legal rulings that have no precedents in international law. 11 goes lar beyond the legal protections ac corded diplomatic representatives of foreign nations in the United States. Its employes are deemed Immune from arrest, and UN building and grounds are consid ered immune to trespass by or dinary Americans, including agents of government security cle nartmonts. The oath of fealty re- atiired of Ameriran citizens em ployed bv the UN contains declar ations of allegiance to the United Nations and not to the U.S. Gov ernment. Mrs. Keeney refused to tell the U.S. Senate who In the Stale De partment had aided her In obtain ployed there, forbid her to discuss ing her $17,000 a year, tax free UN job. She said that UN rules, even though she is no longer em ployed there, forbid her to dis su the subject with such minor ap pendages as the U.S. Senate. By an unanimous vote the U S. Senate decided otherwise and mov ed to lake the Issue to court. In so doing the Senate considered the issue of Mrs. Keenev's Communist party membership, or lack of it popularity among Democrats is a healthy sign. It would ne aiscour aging ind?ei if after all the cor ruDtion that has been revealed in Washington th? Truman adminis tration remained overwneimingiy popular among Democratic voters. That would be final proof of moral decay amon our people. One can't get away from the con clusion that Kefauver's popularity among Democrats grows out of the belief that he is th? young knignt in shining armor who can slay the dragon of cynical political corrup tion, It Is goott to know that our people still cherish ideals. ernment without ratification by the Cnnsress. The State Department, however, Is already working over members of the Senate, saying that the nassaee of such a measure would be embarrassing to the Gov ernment. This objection, silly on the sur face, is merely a stop gap, emer gency objection. The Slate Depart ment's fight to keep the Senate and the courts from putting UN in its place has just begun. The prop aganda mills are already grind ing in Secretary of State Dean Acheson's office. He wanls t o grease the skids for UN control as a parting gesture to the left wingers of the world who have applauded his stewardship as sec retary of stale. He'll be leaving in January of next year. The very thought of this gives the UN the jitters. It should. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily OnKRNR, 9:15 P.M. I think Republicans, especially the 1206 Republicans who will go to their party's national convention to choose a candidate tor fr-si- dent, will do well to keep an eye on this young fellow from Tennes see. It will take a mighty good man to boat him come the first Tuesday after the first Monday of next No vember. Not only that, It will take UNITY mong Republicans. If the GOP convention winds up in a bit tor feud that sends one faction home to sulk in its tents, it is rea sonably certain that the next Pres ident of the United States will be a Democrat. That is about as much of a fore gone conclusion as anything can be. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (Continued from Page One) this Is written, is a REAL rare. At the moment (the lead has been seesawing back and forth all morn ing between Taft and Kisenhower) Taft is a hare 521 votes ahead in the tussle for delegates. Parllv because the campaign bat tle has been bitter and partly be cause it is the last of the really interesting primaries before con- j vention llllie, me omconir line ii.s been regarded as highly significant. South Dakota has been generally 55 Examined At Clinic For Crippled Children Fiftvfive youngsters were ex amined Tuesday and Wednesday in the semi-annual crippled chil dren's clinic, the County Health Department Reports. - Examinations were mad by Dr. John Marxer, Portland orthopedic specialist, and staff of three. The clinics are held twice yearly and youths rang: g up to 21 years of age are exan ined. The word "bead" stems from a root which means to pray and it was only gradually that it came to apply to ornaments which were not prayer beads. Not many months ago the revel ations of graft and corruption of several varieties, together with a shockingly long list of income tax collection "irregularities," caused the President and his entire Ex ecutive department to shudder. The people of the country seemed to be aroused too. Mr. Truman announced in December that he was going to clean house quick and sure and let the chips fall where they would. He was going to appoint a special "cleaner-upper." One man was selected. He even camp down to Washington to talk it over. It was prematurely an nounced in the press lhat he had been named. But it turned out that when lie found he was not to be given ample power and a free hand, this first selection went back home. The came the "great" Newbo'd Morris, a knight in badly tarnish ed armor, to do the job. After get ting off to a very bad start due partly to the fact that his name was linked with some sort of queer tanker sale transaction, Morris started in to do a little digging. I gathered the impression that, smarting under the whipping he had taken by the Senators who were investigating the ship deal, Morris determined to attempt to really do a job. However, that was not the idea of those higher up. Morris was summarily fired by Attorney General McGrath. Mc Grath was then as quickly fired by Truman. That is the sum and substance and the end of the much publicized clean-up. Perhaps you had forgotten all about it. Apparently most people have. I think that indifference is perhaps as shocking as the cor ruption, wnere is me nurning in dignation that once would have swept people out of office in dis grace under such circumstances? Apparently it no longer exists. It has cooled so completely in a few short week that a man who ap pears to be little more than a ma chine politician is named attorney general, and the President telis a press conference that he has no clean-up plans. The House passed the Federal aid highway bill which authorizes the funds for highway construction during the next two years. In the bill was a minor increase (10 per cent) for forest roads and trails. This is. the item from which money for timber access roads comes. Also to help to access road con struction was Section three of the bill which authorizes twelve mil lions for defense access roads, a Classification set up in the De fense Highway Act of 1941. Of this amount, two-lhlrds goes to timber access and one-third to mineral area roads. In some portions of Oregon, access roads can be used for both timber and mineral pro duction. If the money figures named In this highway bill actually repre sented cash for access road con struction there would be enough for a fairly reasonable timber ac cess program. Unfortunately, these sections of Ihe bill merely serve to indicate the maximum amount which may be appropri ated. .The appropriations bills do not carry anywhere near those authorized amounts so our govern ment timber harvesting program is handicapped. START STORING YOUR WINTER FUEL NOW 16 Inch Green Wood 16 Inch Planer Ends O 16 Inch Peeler Cores O Saw Dust L-TT 2 J,, .i riMiraiMi SUPPORT THE INDUSTRY THAT SUPPORTS YOU! 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It also declined to make , ,ookcd lmon as Taf, Territory, and an issue of her previous Stale De-; j( hl, bl,cn concP( that if the parlment employment, where she , u s(,nltor snul(1 ln.e t0 ike it had labored in the pro-torn mumst ,d b , Mv blmv vineyards for years. , viow f ,he closen-ss of the i lip inm'ii i.tuuiix is uvi'ifdun t in trying to avoid the issue. Mrs.' s "l " I' 1 I.. tl. t tli a Dunnh IK 3 n ( d the Scnat,. that his client could; .",' ' ,,' i i u I h,. actual answer the specific oue, ' ,'"n'1' """1'n" m Jul-V wl" bo tion about who got the UN job fo " exciting affair. vote, about all South Dakota proves is something tha everybody knew her. The Senate declined to gnaw on the hone tassed its way by the I'X. Senator McCarran said the offer was "intolerable effrontery." Mrs. Keeney told the Senate on Kebruaiy 18 that she had "left'' the IN. She did but it was not voluntary, and she put up a fight to stay on the payroll. The I M acted to remove her only after "t had balked at Senate questioning. UN officials knew they had a large, legal ber by the tail. They fired her as a sop to Congress. It didn't work. Top I N officials have never wan ed to make an issue of its declared extra legal standing. It has left that to minor officials and various suh agenries of the I N such as I NKS CO, It does have, however, a com mission in being that is mulling over a set of world laws which it hopes member I N nations will adopt. Once this is done. I'. S. courts can quit. It would establish a world government legally, with L'N and State Department officials sanctioning the move instead of the C.S. Congress. The Senate knows thi and has under consideration a biil to bar any such commitment by this gov- CHECK Both California and South Dakota Irnd emphasis to something that has been obvious for some time. Watch Kefauver. 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