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The Eternal Status Quo . j '
Nnrwnv ha nrndurfd manv fine writers!
Ibsen, of course, is a classic. O. E. Rolvaag
tsa Norweigan imigrant to the United States
who wrote "Giants in the Earth" a boolf
"The Nation called The fullest, finest, and most
powerful novel that has been written about
pioneer life in America."
But the one writer to whom Americans owe
the precedent for some of the most popular con? ,
temporary novels is Sigrid Undset, who died
last week. Mrs. Undset, in the- Nobel prize
winning "Kristin Lavransdatter" and Tht
Master of Hestviken", revolutionized the his
torical novel as a type by. using modern methods
of psychological investigation.
Unlike, much other historical fiction, she did
not concentrate on research in facts about events
and settings. Instead she protrayed the inner
lives, the emotions and thoughts and motives, of
the medieval individual And her characters
are not just "Jypes," they live, they breathe,
they (to quote the Swedish critic Victor VindeJ:
... are decidely modern, for the they have
an inner life as complex as our own, a sensi
bility as rich and filled with nuances as that of
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joys, tnetr sunenngs, mnr uuuuu on r
familiar to us, for in moments of crises, men
of all periods are alike, in spite of differences
In prejudice and convention."
This was what Sigrid Undset passionately be
lieved; She once said that two world wars had
"... confirmed the doubts I always had
hd about the ideas I was brought -up on
(I felt) that liberalism, feminism, nationalism, ;
socialism, paciflcsm, would not work, because ,
they refused to consider human nature as it !
really is. Instead, they presupposed that man- :
kind was to 'progress' into something else ;
towards their own ideas of what people ought j
to be. Being fostered on prehistory and history '
I did not much believe in progress. An ac- .j
cumulation of experience and expanding know-
ledge does not improve man's intellect or moral
qualities, even if it ought to improve his ways
of using his intellect and solving his moral pro- :
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than Aristotle's or St. Thomas Aquinas', for
Instance, a greater or more versatile mind than
Bt. Paul's, a humnnity nobler than St. Louis of
France's or Sir Thorias Move's."
ThifeT then, is tlirf' great value of a historical
novel that is not intended merely to shock or
- entertain: it gives us a sense of perspective, it
shows us" lest we become too fond of our
achievements that we are in reality no better,
nor wiser, no happier than our forebears.
In her masterpiece. "Kristin I.avransdatteri"
Mrs. Undset shows that the people who lived
In the so-called Dark Acs were in a sense of
our epoch as well as of their own.- The pro
Jjlem of good and evil was as vital to thern
its it is to us; although they may have expressed
themselves differently, they were moved by
the same fundamental desires that motivate in
dividuals today. Human nature Is the tie that
binds all generations together and Sisrid Undset
was one of its best student?. ,
; PaVa to Advertise;
Newspapers remain the most popular mediurn
for advertising, though they art not as exclu
sive in favor as in former years. Of last year's
advert Uinft volume, $4,830,700,000, 36.2 per cent
spent in newspapers. Radio s share was
12.4 per cent; direct mail 11.9 per. cent and
magazines 10.6. National advertising account
ed for $1,756,300,000 while local advertising am
ounted to $2,074,400,000.
The gain for newspapers over 1947 was 18.6
per cent; for first mail 19 per cent. Both re
flect increasing supplies of paper. Radio's 'gain
was 7.5 per cent and magazines 4 per cent.
This year the big battle is among national '
magazines. They suffered some loss in circula
tion last year and some had to rebate to ad
vertisers on account of falling below their, cir
culation guarantees. Signs of the hot competi
tion are seen in the full-page ads that many of
-the big magazines are running in newspapers.
Mother devices are used like stuffers with
special offers in department store billings. This
' is a neat way to tap a big buying public without
the cost of getting the list of names and address
ing the envelopes.
Manufacurers and distributors of goods are
quick: to sense the change in the business climate,
and realize they have to be more aggressive
in their selling programs. Hence their increased
use of advertising space to attract customers.
And in this highly competitive field newspaper
advertising, which is very flexible, and designed
to sell goods, becomes more and more indis
pensable. ' k
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From Real Life
By Henry MeLemere
DAYTONA BEACH, June 20
If you hear a knock on your
door sometime soon, please let
me in.
Ill be taking subscriptions for
a magazine which ' I intend to
publish as soon as I can steal
a printing press
and. gather
was
Methodists Oppose Pact
The Oregonian, criticising the Methodists who
adopted resolutions opposing the Atlantic past
at their annual conference held in Ashland,
thinks that its action ) helps explain why the
church is losing its influence. On the ther
hand there are plenty of folk who criticise
the church because it doesn't speak 'out oftenex
on sqcial questions and blame its loss of in
fluence on its silence. Certainly both argu
ments are not true.
As for the resolutions, which called for inter
national control of Atomic energy, stopping of
production of atom bombs as well as condemn
ing the Atlantic pact, jhey were adopted after
"lively debate," according to the Ashland Tid
ings, and a motion to delete them from the.
committee report was rejected by a two-to-one
vote. So they were not rushed through without
jroper consideration.
The Statesman thinks the Methodists wera
wrong fbout the Atlantic pact. This was deve
loped to avert war and; not invite. As for stop
ping production of atom bombs this country
has already declared its readiness to cease their
production if atomic energy will be put under
firm international control;
The Methodists are not as a group pacifists
or communists; nor are ardent advocates of
"social action", and at Ashland the group's
ideas prevailed. (Had the late W. C. Hawley
been in attendance we are confident the resolu
tions would not have been adopted). What tho
conference was concerned about was that the
the United States should not become an ag
gressor itself, should not take actions which
might precipitate world war. There is basis
for this warning, even though the text of thi
resolutions may be extreme.
Physicist Victim of Spy Headline Hunt
By Joseph Alsep
The Case of Dr. Oapenbelmer
WASHINGTON. June 20 It
(s getting to be very unprogres
sive to believe that the Bill of
Right means what it says. All
the same, there are still some
old - fashioned Americans who
obstinately cling to this unen
lightened' belief. And these few
reactionaries may be interested
they may even be aroused by
the rase of Dr. Oppenheimer.
Frank E. Oppenheimer and his
wife, Jaqaenette, are the inci
dental casual-
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ties of the most
recent of the
house un-Amer-lean
activities
c o m m 1 1 tee's
c 1 a mo r o u a
headline hunts.
Last week- the
committee dis
closed that the
Op p enhelmers
had briefly be
longed to the
communist par
ty, when they were both young
and foolish, in the time before
the war.
It did not matter that both
Oppenheimers had learned bet
ter, and had left the-party eight
years ago. It did not matter that
Oppenheimer was emphatically
not a party member when he
was one of the physicists work
ing, in the Manhattan District
project. It did not matter, than
Oppenheimer's temporary aber
ration had no slightest connec
tion with his brother,the .great
physicist. Dr. J. Robert Oppen
heimer. What mattered was Just
one thing. (Frank Oppenheimer's
position caused the committee's
revelation to make the most
wonderful satisfying headlines.
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No headlines were made, of
course, by what followed. Yet it
deserves to be recorded also that
Oppenheimer has now lost his
pr- as professor-of physics at
the University of Minnesota; that
his chances of continuing a fruit
ful leeching career have been
sharply reduced; and that 'all his
once-bright prospects are now
darkly overcast. In short, this
individual, this citizen, has been
sacrificed to the congressional
headline hunter as cheerfully as
though he were a rabbit
To be sure, the new casualty
Is just the sort of fellow that
congressmen like least. This
dark, youngish man. with his
nervous, intense manner, obvi
ously suffers from idealism al-
most in the way that so many
of the congressmen's favorite
lobbyists suffer from gas on the
stomach. Me is an intellectual,
- a brilliant scientist, a bit of a
Bohemian, as his excessively os
tentatious sideburns are plainly
intended to suggest. And just to
complete this lamentable picture
of high-brow nonconformism, his
generous impulses are left utterly
uncontrolled by his total political
naivete. ,
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It wpuld have been comic, if it
had not been tragic, to hear the
two Oppenheimers talking about
their past and present politics,
after their experience before the
House committee. It was not
until the mid-thirties; when Op
penheimer was already a prom
ising physicist with good work
at Johns Hopkins and the great
Cavendish j laboratory behind
him, that he began to notice the
woes of the world. In the Inter
vals of working for his doctorate
at Caltech (his thesis was called
"Beta Rays of Nitrogen Thir
teen"), he did the usual Marxists
reading course of the period.
i The beauties of the simple
Marxist system charmed him.
Bemg all-onters by nature, he
and his wife, whom he had Just
married, . applied for communist
party memberships. While mem
bers, they: did all the conven
tional things, from : organizing
rallies for the Spanish Loyalists
to participating solemnly in par
ty discussion grouns. . Finally,
they drifted out of he.par1y be-
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Better English
By D. C WQUaM
1. What is wrong with this sen
tence? "My manuscript is identi
cal to yours.
cause; they did not like its anti
democratic atmosphere.
f-
From the first, they were,
fringe members, not subjected to'
serious party discipline. Even,
today they cannot quite under
stand why the communists so
disappointed them. They are of
those who believe that the good
will triumph, that parties will be
democratic, and that men will
grow virtuous, because one wants
them to. The same self-indulgent
belief in salvation by faith has
now sent them into the Wallace
movement.
"Good things have just got; to
happen," according to Mrs. Op
penheimer, "if you believe ,in
them hard enough."
One more detail finishes the
portrait of two people who are
only guilty of misdirected,-perhaps!
rather self-righteous good
Intentions. A couple of years
ago, t when Oppenheimer was
confronted, point blank and by
surprise with his former party
membership, he was- foolish:
enough to deny it. The denial of
courte intensified the effects of
the subsequent revelation. And
now f he has been punished as
though for a great crime against
the state, which he has not committed.-One
realized how severe
ly, he had been punished,! from
his weary parting explanation: .
I
"I guess 111 go back to Minne
sota and make my grades out. I
have; to give a doctors' examina
tion! tomorrow. After than, I
don't know, except that I like
teaching, and it will be pretty
hard to find a post." ,
Such is the case of Dr. Oppen
heimer, who is certainly as silly
about politics as he is ; clever
about physics. His life has been
needlessly, pointlessly broken in
the course of a headline: battle,
.much as peasants used to be
a
loyal staff
about me.
I am sure you
will like my
m a g a z ine. It
will be called
"Fashions for
Folks Like Us,"
and will feature
'models who
look the wijl
the overwhelm
ing majority of
Americans do.
For example, at least half of
the male models in my magazine
will wear glasses. Looking at
the fashion magazines now in
existence one would be led to
believe that there isn't a man
In the United States who doesn't
have 20-20 vision, and that astig
matism, nearsightedness and
short-sightedness are as extinct
as the free hunch. My models
will sport all types of rims, from
tortoise to hammered steel.
And that's not all, either. A
great many of them will have
receding hair lines, and chins to
match. Don't tell me that every
man who buys a suit, a pair of
slacks, or a pair of bathing
trunks has a chin like Dick Tracy
and a head of hair like the
M-G-M lion. And don't tell me,
either, that every man has a
stomach like a washboard, arms
like a wagon tongue, teeth like
matched pullet eggs, and legs like
an Olympic sprinter.
In short, I don't believe that
one man out of 10,000 even
comes close to resembling the
men who model clothes today. My
-magazine will show how you are
really likely to look when you
put the clothes on. A little too
broad across the beam, a little
too prominent where the abdo
men meets the chest, a little too
narrow across the shoulders, a
few wrinkles on the forehead,
and shoes that could stand a
shine and a trifle touching-up at
the heels.
To be quite honest, I am going
to be a model myself. According
to statistics gathered during
World War II, I come close to
being the average American male
which means that I am no lean,
lithe, frightfully muscled crea
ture, with eyelashes like a beach
umbrella and eyes which,, can
?ierce the deepest fog. Instead,
am little more than a healthy
Caspar Milquetoast Just trying
to get along.
When I put on dinner clothes
I don't look like those dashing
creatures in the fashion maga
zines, but more like I had been
hit over the head with a sledge
hammer.
Another thing about my maga
zine the people shown in It
won't always be going some
where. They won't be shown
waving goodbye from the gang-
. plank of the" "Elizabeth' or the
"Mary," or stepping aboard a
plane to Paris, or boarding a
gondola in Venice, or saying
farewell to friends in front ot
the Copacabana in Rio.
In my magazine, the people
will be pictured where most
Americans are most of the time
at . home. They'll be shown
In gingham dresses suitable for
either going to pick up the kids
at school or washing dishes. You
will see them in outfits adaptable
either for emptying a garbage
pail or washing the automobile.
My magazine will feature fash-
Ions that are practical for almost
anything. There will be T-shirts
equally at home behind a lawn,
mower or a glass of beer in the
kitchen.
My magazine will recognize
the fact that every woman in
this country is not an ethereal bit
of fluff, with a 24-inch waist
line, legs like Dietrich's, etc.,
etc. It will feature pictures of
buck-toothed brides, of which
there certainly must be many,
pictures of matrons with size
10 feet, of which there must be
many, and pictures of college
girls with straight hair and bony
necks, of which there must be
many.
For every picture of a count
and countess sipping champagne
in the garden of a French cha-
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influence which the church has
exercised in these countries.
Whether such an accomodation
will be worked out I do not know.
The Catholic church though
moeolithic in its organization is
also resilient in action. The fact
that it has been able to adapt
itself to various forms of gov?
ernment and conditions of society .
Orders for
Fireivorkiri
Area Heavy
There will be more firework
thaneye in the! Salem area, It
appeared today.
They became available in Ore
gon Monday, by state law, and
on Saturday they will be on sale
m Salem. The city ordinance
prohibits sale until that day.
With some already erected, a
score or more ot stands are ex
pected to spring up in Salem, sup
plied by seven wholesalers in
cluding the locally-owned North
west Stands, belonging to Bill
Patton and Virgil Pade on Port
land road north of the underpass,
which is declared to be the larg
est supplier in the area.
Patton and Pade said their or
ders, placed in January, approxi
mated three times those of a year
ago. It was indicated other deal
ers had ordered in proportion,
although some orders placed later
may not be filled. The merchan
dise still was declared in rather
short supply.
Several once-used Items were
barred by the new 1949 state
law, including TNTs, giant fire
crackers, torpedoes, exhibition
rockets and roman candles with
more than 15 balls.
Still available, it appeared from
the looks of stocks on hand Mon
day, are the old reliable fire
crackers, priced somewhat lower
than in 1948, and night fireworks,
priced about the same as a year
ago. Lady fingers continue their
popularity, as do Chinese fire
crackers, but there was some
worry that perhaps the latter
might not be available next year
because of the communist over
running of northern China.
helps explain its survival. With
its long view of history the
church will do its utnhost to sur
vive even under a hostile regime.
But so bitter is the present con
troversy and so fundamental its
antagonisms It will be along
time before a solution by way of
mutual accomodation can be
worked out.
(Continued from page one)
times Mussolini ended the long
breach between the state and the
Vatican in Italy with a Concor
dat, while Hitler, nominally a
Catholic, suppressed or ; restrict
ed Catholic activities when he
built his super-state.
The present competition is
more than just a competition for
power, for the communists deny
the existence of God, propagate
atheism. That is indeed anathe
ma to the Catholic church and to
all religions professing belief
In a divine being.
How will it end? Perhaps It
will not end, but continue with
alternating periods of greater or
less tension. It could end with
complete victory lor one safe or
the other the collapse of the
communist governments or the
outlawing of the Catholic church.
Neither seems presently in sight.
Or it could end by some form of
accomodation, a sort of truce be
tween the church and the state as
has been the usual termination
of previous similar competitions
for power.
A truce would give ' the church
freedom to conduct worship, to
maintain institutions sych as
seminaries and hospitals, to in
struct children in the principles
of its 'faith. The state would
claim fulf authority in the poli
tical realm. - It would probably
seize large landholdings of the
church and establish secular
schools as Hungary has done.
It would curtail and restrict the
teau my magazine will show 100
pictures of Joe Blow and Sadie
O'Neill having a $1.25 spaghetti
dinner at Antonio's Grill and
Bar, Tables for Ladies.
Want to join the staff of my
magazine? ,
Drop me a line, and 111 tell you
when to report.
No salary, of course.
Only the editor will be paid,
and you can guess who I have
picked for that job. :
McNaught Syndicate. Inc.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Licbty
2. What i is the correct pro- accidentally winged during the
nunciation of "hilarious?" gTesd, eastern European land-
S. Which one of these words . owners'- vast mass slaughter of
Is misspelled? Lobelia, lozeng. wild: game. -
longitude;
4. What does the word "judici
ously" mean?
5. What lis a word beginning
with spe that meana."occurring
singly?" s S .
. ANSWERS
1. Say.'-ldentical with ypurs-S
2. The preferred pronunciation,,
: of the first t is as in hilL 31 Loz
enge. 4. Wisely; discreetly. "He
handled the matter very judidU 1
ously." 5. Sporadic X .
But even for a Prince Ester-
hazy, peasant-shooting was not
considered a desirable sideline of
pheasant-shooting. It is time to
apply a considerably stricter
standard to congressmen. A good
place to begin would be to stop
the Vulgar yet dangerous heresy
hunt which the house un-American!
' commltteee has now
launched in the universities.
(Cofyright 1S4S. New York Herald
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