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CliiaMiiinn Srt"V Oregon, Friday August 12, 1943 refion fifotesraati iiln.il - i - t ' III V 1 J 1 THE CROP' FAltS . Vtta First Stateeaaaa. March 2S, iUl THE STATESMAN PUBUSHINC COMPANY CH.AKT-KR A RPWACUE: Editor! and Publisher Eatered at Ut postefflce at Sales. Oregaa. as sece ad ctaaa matter ander act at congress March J. 1X7 1. raMlahed every moraiaf. Boalaeai afrlca 21 8. Camnertlal. Saleaa. Oregaa. Telephone 2-2441. Stalin's Successor? The successor to Josef Stalin may be swarthy, thickset man with bourgeois origins and no revolutionary background. Georgi Maximilianovich Malenkov, the Bol shevik party's secretary of personnel, is a pro tege of Stalin with the; proper experience and the; necessary machine to promote himself to the top. To understand something of this little known man one must know something'about the Russian political set-up. It is the party which governs Russia, Edward Crankshaw, formerly of the British Foreign f . f ice in Moscow, explains in an article for the New York Times magazine. The party, in turn, is bossed by the secretariat, by the control (dis- cjpunej comrnniee, me pouiDuro ( poiicymaKing body) and the orgburo (committee for organiza tion and government of the party). The head of the orgburo controls appointment of all key officials throughout the party network. Malen kov is this man and he has moved to power by putting his own supporters into places where they count. .Today this Malenkov is one of the inner circle around Stalin, one of the few men who may , apsire to the premiership. Molotov with his experience in loreign auairs, seniority uu ivug- i time devotion to Stalin has long been considered No. 2 man. But Beria, who controls the secret police and "the whole intelligence and suppres sion apparatus, must not be underestimated. That Beria seems to be Malenkov'c friend Only strengthens the latter's power. This influence extends beyond the borders of Russia. Togliatti of Italy, Therez of France, Kuu sinen of Finland and the communist leader! in the East European satellites owe their postwar roles to their trainer, Malenkov. His ability seems to be organization rooted in solid common sense, Crankshaw says. Ruthlessness, a prime necessity in a totalitarian regime, is a Malen kov "virtue," too; he got where he is by sharing In the liquidation of scores of older men. Efficiency, unscrupulousness, realism 4hese f?lark Malenkov. And it is probably his sense of what is practical rather than what, is ideolog ically orthodox, that sets him apart from his rivals of Saltin's job. He is a party career man of the new generation which did not plot and bring about the revolution. The "frantic day-to-day struggle of keeping a new society on Its feet" is more real to Malenkov than the theories of Marx and Lenin, the writer points out. He believes Malenkov as dictator would meannew progress for Russia as a more cooper - ative nation. For. in 1947. Malenkov said: ""We base ourselves on the fact of the Inevit ability of a long-term co-existence between two systems capitalism and socialism: and we idhere to the course of maintaining loyal, good neighborly relations with all those states which show a desire for friendly collaboration onlhe nd the fulfillment of commitments undertaken. At the same time we are always ready to repel any policy hostile to the Soviet Union from whatever quarter it may come." But to know whether this, happily, might be truth, we will have to wait and see. "Satlin won't live forever, and the rivalry for his job is a Trfe-of-death struggle that means much to the wes tern world. personality Assessment J 't Down at Berkeley an Insitute of Personality Assessment and Research is being set up on university auspices, financed by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. tJsing a former fraternity house the Institute will have selected applicants live with staff psychologists for a three-day period. The latter will put the selec tees through tests of various kinds and score them. At the end of the time the scores will be a summed up and the applicants given a person- a j ,. . amy assessment. j Quite a goldfish bowl existence. No micro scpoes are used no X-rays; but the -candidates will be put through certain paces and while learned men with Phi D's scrutinize their actions and compute their responses. They might divert themselves by applying tests to their mentors to see 'how the latter rate on the personality chart. 1 At least this is a change from the Dale Carnegie courses on "how to win friends, and influence people. Presumably it is more scien tific than the short courses in salesmanship and popular psychology. And it may be that those who emerge will be able to transform their de fects and faults into charms. Really life itself 5 proves the best and the severest test of personality. Many of the bumps get; knocked off and square corners rounded as one comes up through the public school. He learns the rudiments of social conformity; if he doesn't he is in plain language a misfit, and his major problem in life becomes one of adapta tion. The psychologists often merely put in profes sional patter the summation that associates make on the basis of contacts. There is one danger too from these assessment. courses they may des troy self-confidence by encouraging too much introspection. The selectees will do well if they don't worry too much on their institute assess ment. The basis of success is still character and industry and notthe nuances of "personality." -w 9 ' j MaciTouched i: j By Friendliness In South Africa By Henry McLemore xo in ineatre. unless, tnat U, ; there are a group of RKO fans j who like to see three chins in I profile. But Bert said if I want- 1 ed anything, just let him know. Being a fellow who wouldn't let a chance like that go by, I asked 5 for three sure winners at Germ- & is ton, the Johannesburg track, j auq, ii mai was too much, a JOHNANNESBURG, South Af- dead sure tip on the daily dou a . . A. V mm J Lta. IT. - a . 1 CXwl ANDTH APPETITE TfitHtvtreTlRES' Down with Censorship While Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson modified his early order shutting the mouths of members of the armed services except such re marks as might be put through official channels the gag is being revived by fresh restrictions. The latest order is one which requires that all requests for interviews with army, navy or air force officers in Washington must be approved by Johnson's press chief. This is getting pretty close to peacetime cen sorships If a reporter asks to interview an officer the press chiefcan first make sure that the one interviewed keeps his lips buttoned on contro versial issues. The defense department's infor mation bureau will thus be turned into a propa ganda organization, handing out approved mat ter and; suppressing by frown if not by order information or opinion it doesn't want the people to have.' The American people do not want stultifica tion With unification. The Safety Valve Forest Access Roads Senator Morse succeeded in getting the senate to adopt a resolution authorizing the spending of $30,000,000 annually for five years for con struction of roads giving access to government timber administered by the agriculture and in terior departments. The resolution goes to the house, but probably will lie over the recess .to be considered at the second session. Acceiss roads are badly needed for the proper administration of the forests. Not only will they open the way for more competition in the purchase of government timber but they will be valuable for forest protection and rehabilit ation of cutover lands. . Pur itimberlands must be considered as lands fo continual growing of crops of trees. As the virgin forests are removed new plantings should be; made, and then protected against fire and disease. Essential both for the harvest period i and for the growing period are access roads, I such as are contemplated in the Morse bill. Belgrana Praised For Legion Speech To the Editor: It is to be hoped that Legion naires generally got as much satisfaction from Frank L. Bel grano's keynote address to the Legion convention as did the general public. The Legion has been handicapped by being im mune to criticism. The public is not blind, but feels indulgent toward the Legion and wants to be proud of it in spite of its faults. Sometimes this has been hard to do. Like nearly all great organizations the Legion has a hierarchy which rules and uses the membership for political pur poses instead of representing th EGQOOOe PODCijQra Germans Heap Abuse on West Allies By J. M. Roberta, Jr. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -MP) Displays of intense nationalism . nd strident criticism of tha allied occupation have reached a high pitch during the western German election campaign which reaches its climax Sunday. . The Germans are condemning everyone except themselves for the country's woes. There is an oratorical revolt against allied controls. The international Ruhr authority has been one of the prime objects of attack. So has the reparations program. German leaders rite the pres ence In the west of 11.000.000 German refugees from the Pol ish and Russian zones as a de velopment which the allies have refused to consider In; its rela tionship to costs of government nd reparations charges. m The campaign started out. on domestic issues socialism ver sus free enterprise, states rights Literary Guidepost B? W. C Rogers THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1949, edited by Mar- ih irniov fHntirntnn iwimin: 13.50). About 30 stories from about 20 magazines are gathered In this annual and the editor sees In the many new names of con tributors "the vanguard of tha much-heralded and long-awaited 'post-war generation' in liter ature." From the short fiction now being produced, she feels we "may be entering the richest nd most productive literary period" in our history. These particular stories do not seem as promising as all that. Indeed, with a few excep tions, this is an unimpressive collection".". . which is not of coarse necessarily any. reflection . on the editor. These writers apnear to be concerned with . petty matters,, or at least with material 'somewhat worn with use, and their technique is nei ther new, or inspired, but ade ouate. Among the exceptions are Ruth Herschberrer, Elizabeth Bishop, Jim Kfelraard, Paul Bowles, Adele DoloVhov: neither Jessamyn West or Jean Stafford Is un to standard . A MAN OF TASTE, Br Philip a Frt'nd (Beechhurst: $3.50). Nine short storte. rf which the longest one .gives the book Its title, compose this collection of fiction about men land wo men in and out of civilization. , . in the present and the past, in the New World and the Old, in youth and age. s "Christmas in Wisconsin," con cerning a young man whose first taste Of love sours and turns him from a sexual innocent in to a social ignoramus, comes closest j to meeting' the! rigid re quirements of the short-story form. .The others are. I find, honest,: to be sure, and worth while, but labored, or perhaps not labored enough. tThey seem rather j like exercises rthan fin ished products.. j INTERNATIONAL WORLD WHO'S WHO, editetf by G. G. Sampson (Sampsrn Publishing Co.: $18.50) I 'i This second edition contains . some 13,000 names, 90 percent of them from the VS. and the others ; from foreign j countries. The largest group represented is professors, who according to the editor respond most oblig ingly ! to questionnaires; tha longest item is about an actor, Charles Coburn; one of the short; ones, of 11 lines, is about George Bernard Shaw; and a model in clusion, according to ,the editor who finds publicity aides most helpful, is about President Tru man,' who fills some 30 lines. versus centralized government, the extent of federal economic controls, and the like. The German political leaders for the most part supported tha allied stand at the Paris confer ence of foreign ministers which failed to make any progress to ward German unification. They wanted no compromise with Russia which might "mean any interference or curtailment of the approach to independence promised by their projected new government. So the communists railed at the other parties as dividers of Germany and called them col laborators. .To squelch this, the leaders of all major parties began to prove: their freedom to criticize - the allies. The villi fication, it seems to me, has been permitted to reach a pitch far beyond what is technically allowed under occupation rules. The German leaders who profess to be on "our side" have come pretty close to the same sort of thing for which the British once jailed Max Reimann, the communist leader. Britain and France have tak en most of the pummeling. More prudence has been displayed re garding the U. S., which makes food shipments and other con tributions to the : German econ omy. !. : A good many allied authori ties take the attitude 4hat it's just politics the same type of thing to which democracies become accustomed in their own elections. j But there have been anti semitic and other demonstra tions distressingly remindful of Germany's recent history. If ex perienced German politicians expect to gain popular support through the type of appeals they have been making, then they must know that Germans are still infested with a lot of ideas which will make it necessary for the allies to keep them under close surveillance. (Continued from page one) and return of tha plate. With expirations staggered through the year and only year-tags to be attached annually the opera tion everywhere will be smooth ed out Thbse sniffing politics may ac cused the secretary of state of building political outposts over the state, to increase the power of that official. By dint of leg islative accretion tha secretary of state's office is already the most powerful in the state meas ured in terms of direct appoint ments. But while the Junior capitols may make that mora obvious it was there before in large measure, through the de velopment of the office under Newbry's predecessors. What is illustrated is this fact: that although pojwer gravitates to the state, a centrifugal force also operates in the need for decentralized administration. Newbry's program may be sound administration as well as "good politics." Interests of that membership. The taboo on criticism makes this especially easy for the lead ership, which is, and always has 1 been, the hand-maiden of big financial and industrial interests led by the National Association of Manufacturers. Regardless of his mental capacity, patriotism, military record, leadership abil ity or other qualifications, no wage earner has ever been al lowed to attain membership in the hierarchy. The same gen eral plan Is followed in state, county and local Legions. Every body knows the little inner circle that has controlled the Legion in Salem since its organization, and this explains why so many veterans refuse to join it, or else drop their membership af ter joining. That man Belgrano must be quite a guy. It will' be remem bered that when the big interests planned to actually take over the government by force and vio lence they proposed that the Legion should be the "force" under General Smedley Butler of the marines to lead the march on Washington. The Legion leadership was eager for the coup, but In preparation for it they called a conference. One of those called was Belgrano, who made the trip to the east to see what was going on. But something went wrong. A little bird may have handed out some information. Anyhow Belgrano was not called into the confer ence. The whole plan fell through because its promoters misjudged General Butler. When the plan was presented to him- he gave them a cussin and ex posed the whole business, and under pressure from the Legion biggies and the NAM the "free press" was very busy smother ing the story so that it never had wide circulation. Evidently General Butler and Mr. Belgrano were patriotic Americans and believers In democracy rather than force and violence. Now the problem is to Induce the Legion to become the kind of an organization we would all delight to honor, "instead of re maining the representative of the most corrupt Interests in the country. It will have to be done by the membership. Outsiders can't do it Every veteran in the nation should be a member of the Leg ion IF the Legion makes itself worthy. A. M. Church nca, August ll-( Special) -This comes close to being the friend liest town I have ever been in. I am quite sure that when I got here no one knew who I was, with the exception of the Pan American people who had been warned of my arrival by the New York office. My column does not appear here, and insofar as the folk of J o h a tines burg were concerned I might just as well have been Boob McNutt, Joe Glutz, Ben jamin Harrison, or One - Eyed Connolly. Yet, when I stepped off the "Connie" that brought me from Dakar, Mr. George Castle ieLr met me. I am quite sure he was taken aback by my appearance, because I had been sleeping most of the way from Dakar and did not resemble even a panhand ler along Saville Row, much less a patron' of the shops of that street Mr. Castle had been sent by Johnny Schlesinger to meet mev help me through customs, and drive me to my hotel. The Sch lesingers are fabulous people out here. They - have more money than six trained ponies could jump over, but are as honest and genuine as their father was years ago when he came out from the States to sell insurance. They had checked my hotel reservations. They had flowers and all the other things that an American wants in his room af ter a long trip. Foti what rea son? Only to be nice. I couldn't possibly do the Schlesingers any good, unless putting the bite on them for a few pounds is con sidered good. Phil Reisman of RKO in New York had cabled here to have his brother Bert see what he could do for : us. Heaven knows, I'll never make any money for RKO. i I am much too old to become a Chile is nearly 25 times as long star who would draw thousands as it is wide. ble. He gave it to me, and ni let you know how the ponies ran. The South African Tourist Corporation has gone" out of its corporation way to make thir a happy, but in case they miss 7i ; I wantjo thank Mr. A. T. Mas- f tert of the South Africa Railway Tourist Bureau. h I walked into his office with- & out a single credential. I might iJ have been the man from the moon f as far as he knew. Yet with charming patience and under- standing, he presented my case to his superiors, some in Cape- ;! town, some in Pretoria. The re- ' -ult? All of the men who take J care of tourists were placed at my disposal. ; That flattered me. I think it : would flatter you or any visitor to a foreign country. When I think that I once peddled eggs ! and delivered buttermilk to help ; buy the pants I ore, it makes ,? me very humble. . That great country like this should be nice to me will always ' stay In my heart and deep. (Distributed by McNaufht Syndicate. Inc.) ' Better English By D. C Williams 1. What is wrong with this S sentence? "First thing after eating he smokes a cigar." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "stolid"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Witticism, wait-, age, warf. 4. What does the word "oner ous" mean? 5. What is a word beginning "'; with jaerk that means "false to ' trust ? ' ANSWERS ?; 1. Say, "Immediately after eating he smokes a cigar." 2. Pronunce the a as in of, not as; no. 3. Wharf. 4. Burdensome; troublesome. "The country has been trying for years to pay this: onerous debt." 5. Perfidious.' : 4200 North River Road -- Salem twlDTO flu(0)irirllr Pop IFeelt s Bring your own container O.I. 39s GRIN AND BEAR IT Bv Lichtv i4eu of COW- CO. 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