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IXGRANDE OBSERVER
Tuesday. July 28, 1959
"A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit"
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Oregon Lawyers Pay For Their Sins
Recent news stories noted that two
more Oregon lawyers have been dislmred,
removed from the practice of their pro
fession in the future.
Disbarment is a serious punishment.
It's pretty tough to tell a man who has
studied through four years of college and
three of law school and then spent sever
al years in practice that he can no
longer be allowed to earn a living in his
chosen profession.
This, one might think, is harsh medi
cine for the relatively few ills of the legal
profession. Oregon medicine apparently
is harsher than that of most states. Rut
that doesn't mean the treatment isn't
entirely justified.
Nationally, disbarments have droped
slightly in the past three years. Oregon
figures have not only stood up more in
teresting in the fact that of all lawyers
disbared in the United States, a dis
proportionately high percentage, con
sidering the number of lawyers prac
ticing in this state, seems to come from
Oregon.
Why?
Is it because Oregon lawyers arc
more likely to embezzle, to mishandle
funds of their clients, or to take ad
vantage of those with no knowledge of
their rights?
We think not. .
More likely, it is because the mem
bership of the Roard of Governors of the
Oregon State Bar, charged with policing
their own profession, are more sensitive
to their responsibilities in this field than
similar organizations in other states.
There has been pressure in the past
from both within and without the Roard
of Governors to tighten up still further
in Oregon. It is hard to tell if this is
being done because of lack of adequate
measurement, but it is certain that Ore
gon lawyers are not being treated too
gently.
Oregon has slightly less than one per
cent of the nation's practicing attorneys.
Yet Oregon had nearly ten per cent of
the national total of disbarments in a
recent year.
The law is the only one of our profes
sions which is granted the sole right to
police and to govern itself.
This fact alone is the best argument
for a continued strong program of en
forcement of' ethical standards upon
members of the profession, not for pro
tection of lawyers but for the aid of
their clients and the public served by
attorneys.
It's apparent that Oregon bar stand
ards are being maintained. As the
executive officer of the State Rar re
cently said: .
"The Oregon State Rar is among the
most alert, active and conscientious bars
in the United States in the field of ad
mission and discipline. It is equally
cognizant that it is dealing with the
very livelihood of its niemlers."
In some bar associations, apparently,
the second part of the statement above
is Ix'ing given more weight than the
first.
This is not true in this stale.
And we're all fortunate that it's not,
even if it's tough on misbehaving
lawfers.
DREW PEARSON SAYSi
Costs Of Abandoned Foreign Aid
Projects In For Close Scrutiny
Dinner Parties Throw
Washington Into Tizzy
WASHINGTON (UPI) Our
foreign aid folks admit they've
made some mistakes. But they're
always in there trying to correct
them. One improvement that's
Just come to light is in the wny
they budget the drinks and
snacks we buy for our friends
overseas.
Rep. John J. Rooney D-N.Y..
who keeps a clear eye on the
entertainment allowances of our
various agencies, uncovered this
refinement the other day after
wondering Just how much of the
new $3,500,000,000 foreign aid
budget was earmarked for bar
checks, soirees and the like.
Rep. George W. Andrews D
Ala.) wondered in what other
ways the foreign aid program
had been improved. He asked for
list of aid projects abandoned
when they turned out bad, and
how much was spent on each
one.
WeH. he offered to help Haile
Selassie help Ethiopian Industry.
We laid out $230,000 before he
decided he didn't care much
about helping local Industry after
11.
' We also spent $6,000 looking for
an expert to straighten out the
rnllroods In Tunisia. We never
did find one.
Too. we were midway in a big
project for our friends I he Egyp
tians, having spent $470,000 on
the job, when our friends the
British, the French, and the Is
raelis elected to start dropping
bombs. For some reason the
Egyptians didn't care to go on
with the project, an air photo
survey of Egypt.
Airways Plan Collapses
Reorganizing Thailand Airways
Corp. cost us $1,347,000 before
the project collapsed. The air
line personnel, and people from
ran American World Airways,
who were working for us. weren't
compatible, the uid agency said.
On another abortive airline re
organization there's no telling
how much we saved. We had
spent only $300. to help Air India
International, when the story got
out the reservations fell off. The
Indians didn't want to ride on an
airline that couldn't run without
help.
Trying to help Pakistan or
ganize a national roadbuilding
program cost us $2,22ti.0O0. There
were a number of reasons why
this didn't work. One was that
the Pakistan folks set up a com
mittee which decided that build
ing roads wasn't a national prob
lem. We had planned to help the
Dominican Republic set up an
agriculture program. Rut 1 guess
the Dominicans got a look at our
agriculture program, just in time
Anyway, they said no thanks, and
we got out for $3,000.
DROUGHT HITS CHINA
TOKYO (ITI The New
China News agency said today
that 10 million peasants In Com
munist China's central provinces
"are waging a hard fight" to
overcome the effects of drought.
Emergency Irrigation procedures
have been instituted for 3.4 mil
lion acres of land, the agency
reported. In one province alone.
Anhwel, more than 32.000 ditches
and1 Canal were dug.
WASHINGTON There's no
thing that throws Washington in
to such a tizzy as dinner parties.
If Mrs. I'erle Mesta and Mrs.
Jwrn Cafritz, the capital's rival
nostesses, both show up at the
same dinner party, you hear
ibout it. If Mrs. Loy Henderson
in ex Lithuanian, sits by . the
Russian ambassador, he hears
about it and in terms embar
rassing to his hostess, Mrs. Mar
joric Post May, the Posttoasties
heiress.
This sensitivity to dinner par
ties is because dining out and
politics are the capital's No.
industry. It s one reason why
the press has been thrown into
tizzy by President Eisenhow
er's invitations to a few picked
press satellites to come to din
ncr. The President, who started
out in 1952 complaining to Jim
Hagcrty that he didn't like press
conferences, has now adopted
the technique of giving exclusive
anonymous interviews. This is
not a new technique.
Calvin Coolidge used a some
what different form in his press
conferences. Newsmen were not
permitted to attribute information
to the President. They could on-
quotc a White House spokes
man who eventually got to be so
mysterious that he was called
the While House "spooksman."
The off-therecord dinner par
ty can be quite effective
though quite confusing. It has
the advantage of putting authori
ty for a statement on the news
man, not on the source. And if
the source wants to backtrack,
the newsman is left holding the
bag.
For instance, when Eisenhower
called Senator Taft "an isola
tionist" at a private newspaper
luncheon in Denver in 1952, it had
the advantage of criticizing the
Senate's No. 1 Republican with
out putting responsibility on the
newly picked leader of the Re
publican Party.
Sherman Adams Boomerang
Again when Sherman Adams
remarked anonymously at an off
the-record newspaper dinner that
"Harold Stassen doesn t get
out quietly, he'll be carried out,"
it was published without attribu
tion to Adams. Coming jut as
Stassen was about to run for
governor in the Pennsylvania
primaries, it had something to
do with plowing him under a
huge pile of negative votes.
Ironically, it was less than a
year later that many top Repub
licans were not only more vocal
tut less anonymous in demand-
ng: "If Sherman Adams doecsn t
go quietly, he'll be carried out."
Then there was the memoranic
off the-record dinner staged by
the charming Chief of Naval Op
erations, Adm. Robert "Mick"
Carney, in March, 19S5, at which
he predicted to a "chosen few"
that the Red Chinese would at
tack the off-shore Formosan Is
lands around April 15. This
caused Jim Ilagerty to state at
another "background dinner"
that it wasn't so. Next. Admiral
Carney told a congressional sub
committee that he never said
any such thing. Later, Robert
Roth of the Philadelphia Bulletin
produced stenographic notes
showing that Admiral Carney did
say exactly what he later said he
didn't say.
These are some of the reasons
why dinner parties throw Wash
ington into a tizzy. It s also wny
some newspapermen view with
alarm an invitation to an on-the-record
dinner.
Morton's Secret Dinner
As far as this newsman is con
cerned, it's much more satisfact
ory to be absent and therefore
free to write the story of what
happened. Here are more re
vealing highlights on the off-the
record dinner held by Senator
Thruston Morton of Kentucky,
new Republican National Chair
man, for which he got bawled
out by the White House.
Morton's views on the Cabin
et: Most influential officials with
Ike are Bob Anderson, Secretary
of the Treasury, Maurice Stans,
the Budget Director, and Ray
mond Saulnier, Ike's economic
adviser. Secretary of State Her-
ter in gaining Ikes confidence
"but will never have it like
Dulles" . . . The "liberals" in
the Cabinet are Secretary of La
bor Mitchell and Secretary of
Health, Education, and Welfare
Flemming, both usually backed
by Nixon. Secretary of the Interi
or Seaton is a swing man, some
times siding with the liberals,
sometimes with the conserva
tives . . . Flemming has the
most courage in standing up
against Anderson. He argues that
the budget should not be cut
across the board, but on a selec
tive basis giving more money for
some programs. The nation's
health, he argues, should not
suffer.
Row over judges: Attorney
General William Rogers is too
puritanical and not sufficiently
political when it comes to appoin
ting judges. GOP Chairman Mor
ton is irked at him. When the
Republicans came into power the
Federal Bench was about 87 per
cent Democratic, says Morton. He
wants to see it at least 55 per
cent Republican before Ike exits.
But Rogers isn't playing ball. He
plays ball with the American
Bar Association, not the GOP . . .
For instance, Rogers claims that
be can't find "one Republican in
the whole state of Idaho who is
qualified for the Federal Bench."
This, says the GOP Chairman, is
British Commonwealth Threatened
By A Policy Of White Supremacy
....... i. ,.,,ir.ji;ii-'' the Reds turned
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Staff Writer
From the foreign editor's note
book:
Where Thera't Smoke
African nations especially long
have had a hatred for the Union
of South Africa s policy of apar
theid another way of saying
white supremacy. It now threat
ens an upheaval through large
areas of the whole British com
monwealth. The threat stems
from a veiled hint by South Afri
can Minister for External Affairs
Eric Louw that the Union of
South Africa may veto entry into
the commonwealth of certain
states now considering a boycott
poppycock.
Ikes sore at Lyndon: Eisen
hower continues to seethe at
Lyndon Johnson over the defeat
of Admiral Strauss as Secretary'
of Commerce. Apparently he
thought Lyndon should side with
him rather than with the Demo
crats, as he has on some other
issues. Ike checked the Strauss
votes carefully and kept tabs on
Johnson's strategy. After the
voting was over he remarked to
Morton: "Johnson obviously did
n't know he had Mrs. Smith's
vote or he wouldn't have sent
Fulbright home." Apparently.
Eisenhower was under the illu
sion that Senator Fulbright of
Arkansas wanted to vote for
Strauss but Johnson thought he
couldn't afford another Demo
cratic "aye," so told Fulbright to
go home and go to bed. (Ike had
Johnson all wrong. Actually
Johnsqn had a pretty good sus
picion inai senaior amitn 01
Maine might vote against
Strauss, but he knew definitely
that if he needed FulbrigKt's
vote against Strauss, Fulbright
would give it to him. In the end
he didn't need it.)
on soutn Airican goons. uiu
specifically told South Africans
not to be unduly concerned over
boycotts because they are a two
edged weapon "the time might
come, for instance, when the
West Indies Federation (which
hopes to become a member of the
commonwealth i would bitterly re
gret its present boycott of South
African goods." The independent
African commonwealth nation of
Ghana is not expected to pass
lightly over Louw's statement. U
Ghana should threaten to quit the
commonwealth, other non-white
members such as India, Pakistan,
Ceylon and Malaya might join the
act.
Nuclear
How serious is the British La
bor Party split over nuclear pol
icy? Probably not as bad as it
might appear. Some powerful un
ions are urging the Labor Party
to adopt' a policy which would
mean that Britain all alone would
renounce nuclear weapons if and
when it came to power in an elec
tion. But leader Hugh Gaitskell is
convinced that if he becomes Brit
ish premier, he will have the sup
port of his party to permit Britain
to remain in the nuclear club. He
firmly believes the non-nuclear
proponents are a minority.
Bulldozer Needed
Despite all of Jakarta's claims
that rebel activity is being
quelled, it can be reported now
that a U.S. official had to clear
through three rebel roadblocks in
less than 30 miles from Medan.
the capital of Indonesian North
Sumatra. In many areas, as is
said, travel by daylight is ex
tremely dangerous and impossible
at Night.
Who Calls The Signals?
Red China's propagandists may
have cut off their own noses to
spite their face recently. While
the Communists spend millions to
convert the Japanese to "pink
neutrality"', the Reds turned down
a request by a big Japanese tele
vision network to exchange news-
film. The reason from Peking:
"We won't exchange newsfilm
with Japan while pro-American
Prime Minister Kishi is in office.
Freedom Of The Newt?
Word trickling out of Iraq is
that in the recent pro-Communist
uprising in the Kirkuk area of
lorthern Iraq casualty figures
were exaggerated. They were ex
aggerated because most sources
available to Western newsmen
Jesperatcly wanted the anti-Red
forces to win and hoped to make
it look as bad as possible for the
Reds p-ibly to encourage
other anti-Red forces to join (be
fray. Other side of the coin Red
propaganda still circulates freely
in Baghdad. Western news media
operate under tremendous diffi.
cullies.
Multnomah Labors
'rotest Reform Bill
PORTLAND (UPI) The AFL
CIO Multnomah county Labor
Council voted Monday night to
send a letter of protest to Rep.
Edith Green iD-Orc.t regarding
the labor-management reform
measure now before the House
Rep. Green is a m?mber of the
committee on education and labor
which sent the bill, an amended
version of the senate-approved
Kcnnedy-Ervin bill, to the House
floor
SCHENCK REPORTED FAIR
HOLLYWOOD lUPD Joseph
M. Schenck, 77-ycar-old movie
pioneer and former board chair
man of 20th Century-Fox Studios,
was reported in fair condition to
day with a broken hip. Schenck,
who retired in 1953, was injured
Monday when he slipped and fell
in his petnhouse apartment at the
Beverly Hills Hotel
QUOTES FROM
THE NEWS
United Press International
NEW YORK William A. Shea,
announcing plans for a third base
ball major league to be known as
the Continental League:
"We anticipate the cooperation
of organized baseball. But we are
all in this to stay and we are not
going to back out no matter what
happens."
LENINGRAD. U SS R. Vice
Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, father
of America's atomic submarine,
telling newsmen that the reactor
of the Soviet ice-breaker "Lenin"
was good, but no more advanced
than U.S. reactors:
"The design is adequate for
their purposes. Yon cannot say
that one reactor is superior to another."
HOT SPRINGS. Ark. Gov
Earl Long of Louisiana discussing
psychiatrists:
"If you heard one of them talk,
you'd think he brought up the sun
that morning."
MENOMON1E. Wis.-Burlesquc
queen Candy Mc Williams, after
her husband had been fined KM
for taking nn axe to an ovrrcn
thusiastic patron who jumped on
stage and started ripping her
clothes off:
"They always yell and holler
try ing to get me to take my ,
things off. but this is the first
time I've been attacked." j
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