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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1949)
Jj-Thm Stat man. Balm, Of- "So Favor Svoay$ lis, No Fear ShaJl AtsV Freea First SUteemaa, March IS. MSI THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHAWT KR A SPR AGUE. Editor and Publisher Entered at the poetefriee al Salem, Oracoa, a eeeend elaas matter aatfer act ef congress March X, 117. Pablished every morning. Business affica ZUg. Commercial. Sleny Oregsa. Telephone t-tl. Foreign Report Optimistic Hoqae from Europe, including a visit in his own former country of Czechoslovakia, Dr. Frank Mtink of Reed college has an optimist! report of progress in western Europe. There the communist threat has eased, likewise the threat from the opposite neo-fascist extreme. Business Is going ahead, goods are in fair supply. The id under the Marshall plan has been effective though its scheduled ending in 1952 poses some thing of a problem. As for his native country Czechoslovakia Dr. Munk brought a bleak report. Prague is "drab nd grey"; people are ill-clad and go about in silence. They listen eagerly to the Voice of America though it is forbidden. In fact unrest prevails in the countries behind the iron curtain. There is the sense of frustration and insecurity Which must be heightened by the nervous purges by the communist party of its own elements. This testimony from Czechoslovakia is con firmed by a special correspondent of the Chris tian Science Monitor who reports that it is the only country in central Europe whose living standard has been lowered perceptibly in recent months. This change has come in tha last two years, after the communist coup and the sever ing of ties with the west. Dependent on the west both for raw materials and for markets industrialized Czechoslovakia has suffered. - It was eager to join the western countries to obtain Marshall plan assistance; but Moscow coerced the Prague government to re pudiate the U. S. offer and tried to reorient its . economy with the east. The consequences have been damaging to Czech industry. Consumers goods are in short supply; queues re the custom for many shopping items. Both wages and prices are high under the impact of Inflation. The correspondent writes of this coun try once the blight star of democracy in central Europe and the center of thriving industry: "Today there is a general air of a steadily in creasing impoverishment." In short, there is sound basis for optimism regarding western Europe, with Britain alone 'Is some distress. Progress in the west, if unac companied by a similar progress in the east will bring substantial victory to the west in the ''cold war." ' Pearson in Mike's Line of Fire Our state treasurer, Walter J. Pearson is find ing .that politics sometimes works in reverse . . . and in perverse too, it might be added. Just as he did the great run-out on Sheriff Mike El liott, in the name of party expediency, the she riff comes back with a blast atshenanigans un dertaken allegedly in Pearson's behalf. Sheriff Mike relates that two senators called on him rtd said the "quota" of the sheriff's office for Pearson's campaign fund for governor would be $60,000.' Pearson scoffs at the charge, but there It is. The sheriff doesn't identify the two senators . . . who in the world could they be? And he doesn't say just how his office was expected to provide the $60,000 . . . how"could a sheriffs office furnish that much money? And if it can provide that much . . . why givt it away? The sheriff is of course beating the brush to find a hole he can crawl through to escape the drives against him: the non-partisan recall movement and the democratic leaders' attempt toget his bond cancelled. When politico fall out however, sometimes truth gets spilled. One thing seems certain, Shriff Mike had help In writing his piece for the paper. It clears libel laws and merits a better-than-passing grade on Speed Vital By Joseph and Stewart Alsep 4 THE, PARTNERSHIP WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 "We've got about six months left," remarked one of the par ticipants in tha Anglo - Ameri can - Canadian economic talks which have just come to an end. 1 He meant that there remains only half a year of grace in which. to evolve a joint Anglo - Ameri-I can policy cap- able of prevent-! lng the disinte- wn Alaop i gration of British r 1 world power. The remark was; of course, no more than an informed -""-' f-mmm guess. Much may ihappen to upset ""fc VLthis gloomv fore- 74 Beast of British !rprinK- Thera 'rj'jare. for example, if V iMaDoarentlv relia- fi ? ible reports that lit is now plan- , X"" Ined to devalue the British pound on or about September 18. and that a general revalua Mrvart U tion of European currencies will shortly follow. No one knows just what the effects of sterling devaluation would be, but most of the experts believe that it should ease the drain on British reserves and thus prolong the half-year of grace. The six months time-table is, nevertheless, as good a guess as any. Yet crucial economic t-'lks have seemed to some of those taking part about as bold and searching as the conversa tion at a Victorian tea party. This has been largely because thre has been a long list of subjects as unmentionable as less in Victorian times the price the American treasury pays for gold, any steps which ruld require Congressional ac V7 1 ThnrdaT 8eptottli 13, 183 MINI M j j its English. He evidently has found good ghost writer, j Pearson has refused to explain the distribu tion of an expensive circular publicizing him self, which was given out at the democratic booth at the state fair. It was printed (a four color job) at the state printing office. His "let-, ter" to precinct workers explaining his part in the bond-pulling deal on Elliott has backfired. And now Sheriff Mike, cornered, gives Pearson a clawing. It looks as though the ambitious state treasurer is slipping. Republicans Win Congress Seat The republican victory in the special election in the 26th congressional district of Pennsylva nia gives the GOP a chance to crow. Against the mother of the former congressman, one who had distinguished himself for valor in war the republicans nominated John P. Saylor, a navy veterah who had supplied the flag raised on Iwo Jima. He won by a decisive vote. The gold star mother, Mrs. Coffee, was handi capped; in not being a public speaker herself; but democratic orators rallied to her support. They made support of the Truman program their battlecry. Since this district, which in cludes industrial Johnstown, has a heavy labor vote they hoped that it would swing the tide to the democratic candidate. They were mistaken; the democrats lost the election. This by-election isn't a sufficient test of the trend in public opinion; but at least it shows that the GOP stilt has fighting strength. It will hearten republicans over the country . . , and spur the democrats to greatr activity. The real test will come in 1950 and specifical ly in Ohio where Bob Taft is running for re election. That will be a preliminary to the knockout of 1952. Poland is trying to get more work out of workers, so it has added two decorations for star performers, "Banner of Work" and "Builder of the People's Poland." That is quite in contrast with the dream of communism as a worker's paradise, big pay and lots of play. The Poles have however turned to with great energy to restore theicountry and have made great prog ress since the war's end. While communists are running the government the people are more nationalist than communist and eager to rebuild Poland. The Pendleton East Oregonian is very much exercised because the federal government isn't building a bridge at Umatilla dam. One is bad ly needed there, it says, since 70,000 visitors stopped to take a look at McNary dam. Maybe a bridge is needed; but why should it be built by the federal government to accommodate sightseers? A bridge has been needed at The Dalles for years, and now Wasco county is tak ing steps to build a bridge there. It isn't lean ing on the federal government. -???2pA!a Harvard university ia now displaying tha Mark III, mechanical calculator. It does its sums 20 times faster than Mark II and 80 times faster than Mark I, its predecessors. It will multiply two numbers of 10 digits each in 121000ths of a second. Seventh graders are asking when the junipr models for school use will be on sale. Now that Miss America and Mrs. America have been picked for 1949 we can regard the summer season as definitely ended. to Avert British Collapse tion, above all British pound de valuation. Thus it has been impossible, for example, seriously to discuss the project, recently described In this ' space, for : continental economic union, because this would involve the taboo subject of devaluation. Even so, the short term de vices for easing the crisis which the conference has produced will certainly be useful. But much the most important result of the talks has been! that the American policy makers have now been brought face to face with the; real political j meaning of British economic j collapse, which would leave great gaping holes in the long wall of power which contains Soviet expan sion. As a result the wiser -Americans ; have become con vinced that British collapse sim ply cannot be allowed to take place. Moreover, both the British and the Americans have been inching-their way toward agreement on how disaster is to' be pre vented. This area of agreement is still vague, and itj will be the task of Secretary iof State Dean G. Acheson and; Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin to begin to define it in the political talks which they are now j starting. But basically it is agreed that a great extension of the exist ing Anglo-American partnership is essential. The object is to find some way of sharing on a joint basis those world i commit ments which thf British are no longer capable ! of supporting alone. . This generally agreed concept falls into ; two parts. In the first place, there are great Undevel oped resources in j the I sterling area and the British Empire, especially! in the African colo nies. The British Ho not have the capital to develop these re sources, simply because,' in their desperate economic, straits, they need all their capital to; develop home industries. What is being considered is a joint develop ment program, making maxi mum use of American private capital, which would ease the British position by getting dol lars abroad, while giving Amer ican capital great new Invest ment opportunities. Second, while these areas were opened to American investment, the United States would also share in British commitments in the Far East, above all India. India represents the greatest single drain on the British econ omy and British gold and dollar reserves. Yet with China lost, India, is the key to holding Asia. If the British are forced to aban don India as they were forced to abandon Greece two years ago, the result would be dis aster. Yet the British cannot af ford Indefinitely to subsidize India as they have been doing. ' Thus Acheson and Bevin are certain to discuss a joint eco - nomic as well as political pro gram for the Far East. Acheson will then canvass the same sub ject with Indian Premier Jawa harlal Nehru, when Nehru comes to Washington next month. A!-' ready there is talk, of an IRP an India Recovery Program. But whatever plan is finally worked out. it is likely to differ from ERP in two ways first, there will be a much greater empha sis on private capital investment, and second, it will : be based squarely on intimate Anglo American collaboration. Thus the broad outlines of a re-organized western power structure are slowly emerging. A real eco nomic union on the continent would be balanced by an inti mate Anglo-American partner ship, a partial merger of Brit ish and American world power. So far, to be sure, all this is in the stage of mere talk. Only bold leadership in the United States will transform it into action. It remains to be "seen whether this sort of leadership will be forth coming. J (Copyright. 1949. New York Herald Tribun Inc.) m E333D0OB UUJODOCS (Continued from page one) business Is of less relative im portance comparatively few lawyers specialize in this field. Court work trial of cases also Is not the most Important part of legal work nowadays. Many suits ara filed and many motions may be heard and ar gued, but often settlements are made out of court. Ordinary people have need for lawyers for preparation of wills, probate of estates, handling of divorce proceedings, property transfers. These lines occupy much of the time of what we might describe as the "average" lawyer. , On class of business has shown marked increase, and that is suits arising out of motor vehicle - accidents, though here again most, claims for damages are settled out of court: Specialized fields for lawyers ara developing in labor rela tions, tax matters, utility regu lation, and practice before ad ministrative boards. Patent law la another highly specialized field. The most profitable business ia that of corporate practice which consists largely in guid ing corporations so they will keep within the complex rules of conduct prescribed by laws and regulations. . Lawyers now are better pre pared than formerly for prac ticing their profession for they are screened more closely both In law school and by bar exami nations. Standards of ethics are higher and enforced more promptly and rigorously. The public can repose confidence In the profession as a profession, for those who abuse the confi dence of clients are very few. And the public ought to learn GRIN AND BEAR IT ISTf ill "Tea. I knew a remember . , brilliant future ia , . the same thing, Hollywood By Gene Ilandsaker HOLLYWOOD "The Judge Steps Out," in the picture of that name, because he is bored with legal stuffiness and his nagging wife. The movie itself is tedious and longwinded, but it manages some diverting capers. Alexander Knox, as the Bos ton judge, despises his own cor rect but cold-hearted decision in a child-custody case. His wife (Frieda Inescort) is needling him to quit the bench for a fat job as a corporation lawyer. Enroute to Washington, he meets up with a whimsical, boozy old physician. This vaguely familiar movie character counsels the wisdom of to heck with responsibility, get away from It all. The judge goes fishing. His wife E resumes him dead. He overhears er sounding as grief-crushed as she would over the demise of a not particularly well - liked goldfish. So then he really does vanish. He peddles books across country to California, takes a job in Ann So them's roadside bean- ery. This, with Its lazy chores, shaded hammock, and new rom ance, becomes his fool's paradise. But eventually duty, and his now humanized view of things, call him back to the staid world he belongs In. Knox, much of the time, wears the ..expression of a faithful, abused hound. Sometimes he looks more like a whipped pup py. Miss Sothern is refreshing. The picture's main weakness is that, like the aging judge. It sometimes seems a little bored with it alL Glimpses: Ponderous Thomas Gomez mopping up his luncheon plate with a piece of bread ... Gary Cooper, in a candy-striped shirt, claiming he was just sight seeing on the Paramount lot Says, "I was skee-ln' until two weeks ago in Colorado." He paid $40,000 for screen rights to "The the wisdom of consulting a com- Jetent lawyer before they get nto legal difficulties they'll find that much cheaper. By Lichty predicted for Television bat was predicted fer radio! R On Parade Girl on the Via Flaminia" and thinks he'll produce it independ ently this summer. He'll play an American GI in Italy . . . Janis Carter sporting a new hair shade, "silver blonde," in "I Mar-, ried a Communist." She explains, "Not quite platinum" . . . Betty Hutton hoisting her skirt to show off her lacy pan tie, in the studio publicity department . . . Ann Blyth brightening the lot in the Easter bonnet she bought in Salt Lake City. It's straw, with lots of colorful wildflowers along the starboard side ... Add movie cliches: Ha brings her a corsage, and she says, "Oh, Tom, you shouldn't have! . . . John Qualen, who usually plays milk-toast characters, is a killer in "Captain China . . . " Literary THE DESPERATE CHILDREN, by David Cornel DeJong (Doubleday; $3) Two youngsters are introduced In this novel to each other, and to adults, and they suffer growing pains which are made none the easier by thee eccentricity of tha community Into which this au thor has thrust them. The boys are Orrin, whose fa ther killed himself, and Sebas tian, whose mother tells him his father tried to kill himself. Their teacher. Miss Tumolcy, is all sympathy and understanding; but the principal. Miss Strooock, though ostensibly it is a proges sive school, Is as old fashioned as birch rods and maiden aunts, and she does her best to counter act Miss Tumolcy's good influ ence. Orrin, who lives on a farm, learns about sex from his cousin; Sebastian is given one lesson by a Negro girl, and he gets a low mark. In the back ground are the stitled, dry rom ance of Miss Stroock, and the love affair of her sister and Or rin's cousin Chet. And there in a zany Mrs. Giloogley, has for oddity's sake changed her name frpm Geel, and who puts up signs on her property. "All children welcome." THE MYSTERIOUS CABOOSE, by Mary Graham Bonner, Illustrated by Bob Meyers (Knopf; $2) In this tale for and about youngsters, the author has work ed ingeniously many fictional matters which appeal to grown ups; while she skips the love in terest there are some boy-and-girl business, bravery and its re ward, mystery and its solution, Better English By Du O. Willlame 1. What Is wrong with this sentence? "There waa left ex actly ten boxes." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "newspaper? ,3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Capitalist, catas-tor-'he, caprice. i 4. What does the word "Im pugn mean? 5. What is t word beginning with dl that means "timid; mod est"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "There were left I. Pronounce- first syllable nns. aa in nee. not pees. 3. Catastro phe. 4. To attack by words or arguments; to contradict "The truth hereof I will not rashly Impugn, or overboldly affirm." - Feacham. 5. Diffident LABO Mac Prefers Catacombs to Greta Garbo By Henry MeLemere ROME, Sept 14 (Special) I could kick myself, good and hanLj Here I am in Rome at the tame! time Greta Garbo and In grid Bergman are here, and where do you think my auto graph book is? With me? No. . Atj home? No. It is in some stationer's shop, waiting for me to have a dizzy spell and go in and buy it. Ai a result, I havent been able: to join in the chase that has had all Rome burning j" for) the past! week or so. The sound of sirehs in the sireeis no long- er means that a fire truck or an ambulance 1 s 1 tearing past; It usually indicat es that one or asas at- trie otner or the two Swedish gals is crossing the city Incog nito and as inconspicuously as possible. Miss Garbo, I was told by a fellow lucky enough to catch a glimpse of her after having waited only six hours outside the door of the Hassler hotel, is i disguised as Greta Garbo, which means she looks exactly as ieveryone expects Greta Gar bo; to look. Her glasses are of the type generally used for watching an eclipse of the sun, and her hat, a large, floppy one that wouldn't be becoming to a scarecrow, is pulled far down over her face. It seems a shame that I am not spending any time in Rome chasing Miss Garbo or Miss Bergman. I must be getting old, or something, for I much prefer seeing St Peter's, or wandering through the Sistine Chapel, or admiring the art treasures In the Vatican, or going down in the Catacombs, to chasing about Rome's hot streets for a glimpse of two movie stars who undoubt edly will be remembered long after Michelangelo or Raphael. Honesty makes me admit, however, that I would like to see Miss Bergman's Stromboli boy friend, Roberto Rossellini, who is chaperoning her on her visit to Rome. I have seen pic tyres of this Casanova of the Camera, but I want to see him in the flesh, and find out for myself if he Is as unglamorous as the photographers make him out to be. ., ! If he Is, then my belief In my own charm will leap five hundred, yea, a thousand per cent. He hasn't much mere hair than a clipped poodla. and his stomach pro.'ile Isn't any better than that of thousands of us. If he can get movie actresses to swoon over him, why, thera is Guidepost railroading, the Mounties, and cdventure. Jock and Tom McNair dash to the rescue of a girl on a run away pony. And who Is tha girl's father? Nobody less than a ; Canadian Railways vice pre sident, who says, sura, if tha boys want to be repaid with a ride in a caboose, hell arrange It That's where restaurant robber and bag of cash come in. Young readers will learn it pays to be bright as well as brave. CHINOOK SALMON For Canning 216 N. Commercial St Conscientious, Dignified Service iiiiMmirmy..mriti 545 North Capital FMUIEnS HISUILAIICE GBOUP ' AUTO - TRUCK - Our policies or written with era lnl tied cde eoets. After then the poUclee or renewed not rtwzifitn. Ton err the one that soym th soles costs thereafter. Savings up to 80 ft. V 4S3 Court 81 PnoM 34681 Pabllo ! j Records ! DISTXICT COUKT ! j John Melvin Miller, Portland, charged with driving while In toxicated, trial set for September 15 following plea of innocent; held in lieu of $350 bail. Arthur M. Henshaw, 4270 Glen wood dr., c harked with rape, con tinued to September IS for pleat held in lieu of $3,500. Albert J. Wilson, 160 Union st, charged wTthv larceny,1 bound over to the grand jury; held ia lieu of $2,000 baiL j CIRCUIT COURT ! ' i .- i Ivan Clarence Curl vs. Lois La von Curl: Order of default filed. James W. Schwab, by Edith Schwab, guardian, vs. F. M. Gray and Q, P. Emery: Suit seeks to collect $5,000 for injuries allegedly incurred in anj auto accident. James T. Dye vs. T. M. Gray and O. P. Emery: Suit seeks to collect $400 for auto damages al legedly occurring In an auto ac cident. Elmer H. K. Dorr 4s. Glen Ste- vens: Jury finds for defendant In injury aamace suit. Mildred Tuel vs. Melvin Tnl- ' Decree of divorce awards plain- i till custody of two minor children and $25 per month support money lor each and approves property settlement agreement! Winifred Melford vs. William Floyd Melford: Suit for divorce charging defendant left plaintiff. Married April 28, 1915, at Flax ville, Mont. 4 . ! PROBATE COURT ! Fern Seifer estate; Order seta October 18 for date of final ac count hearing. Gladys Lydy guardianship es tate: Order approves, guardian's annual report. Stephen Hemshorn estate: Or der released executor. ; Kyle H. Blake estate: Order ap point F. H. Weir. Luis A. Mar- tine-Lally and Lena M. Hewitt as appraisers. Augusta Hockema estate; Order appoints E. M. Runyan as admin istrator. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Frank L. Kolousek, 27. barten der, Woodburn, and Hazel R. Pol ge, 29. saleswoman, Lexington, Mo. Richard A. Voight 21, postal employe. Lebanon, and Doris Strong, 22, bank clerk, Browns ville. White fir lumber Is being pro duced at the rate of 500.000.000 I board feet every year, hope for the rest of us to set Hollywood on its er. You let me get all dressed up: ln my white flannel trousers, a Norfolk jacket and a straw hat, and 111 bet I'll look every bit as good as Roberto does. tAnd wait'll I tell you about how I can handle a camera' Some of the results I got would make the eyes of Chaperone Ro berto pop right out of his head. The last batch is being develop ed today, and tomorrow I'll be able to give you a full report or the works of one of photogra phy's most undistinguished men, (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.) Saltra Nuriing Home QuUt - CUetn - Airy Btt of Foods All ExprinefcJ Nurss 24-hr. Srvlc 1595 D Street i rheae S-ttSS i Phone 3-4424 Tel 3-3672 - r- . : FIEE OSEO BILL OSKO Dlst Mgr.