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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.
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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.)
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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.
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John Melvin Miller, Portland,
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15 following plea of innocent; held
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Arthur M. Henshaw, 4270 Glen
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tinued to September IS for pleat
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James W. Schwab, by Edith
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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-
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Mildred Tuel vs. Melvin Tnl- '
Decree of divorce awards plain- i
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and $25 per month support money
lor each and approves property
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Winifred Melford vs. William
Floyd Melford: Suit for divorce
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Fern Seifer estate; Order seta
October 18 for date of final ac
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Gladys Lydy guardianship es
tate: Order approves, guardian's
annual report.
Stephen Hemshorn estate: Or
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Kyle H. Blake estate: Order ap
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Strong, 22, bank clerk, Browns
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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,
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