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The Statesman, Salem. Orogron. Sunday, Soplombor 18. 1849
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J. rtM First gtittti . March la, US1
THE STATESMAN PUBUSIfflSC COMPANY
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Published every morning; Bnlaen office IU& CesninerdaL Slem. Oregon. Telephone t-lUL
Wbat's Wrong with Congress?
Under the LaFollelte-Manroney plan for re
organization of congress the present session
sh6uld have been concluded by July 31st. In
stead it is running on with; no prospect of ad
journment before the last of October. Big ap
propriation bills that should have been passed
before July. 1st when the fiscal year begins, are
EUll in Ihe legislative works. Only stop-gap
'legislation to permit spending at the rate of the
last fiscal yeur .has prevented a breakdown of
important departments of government. As for
the rule for xittermining the total for the bud-geto-jthin
weeks that has proved unwork
able and is now virtually in the discard.
DiSiatiilacUon with the way congress funo.
tc,s exists over the country and within the con
gress itself. What ought to be done is made the
subject of an article in the New ,York Times
Magazine by ben. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.
Keiauver is new to the senate but he served
several sessions in the house. To win the senate
seat he had to brean the bacic of the old Ed
Crump macmiit. Keiauver is to polite to say
so in print, Out one tmng wrong with congress
is his1 colleague' from Tennessee old Kenneth
McKellar, stuouoin, vituperative and obstruc
tive. As chairman (by virtue of ihe senioiuy
rule) of the powerful committee on appropria
tions, McKeliar is pietty much of a roaaolock
in the senate, as well as a vindictive tyrant on
appropriations mailers.
To get back to Keiauver's article. He puts
eiraiiu-iuiiiiiiig as uiie the heaviest burden
on members oi congress. He says that few
members do not spend lrorn 50 to GO per cent
of their time doing chores lor individual consti
' tuents "tTur erranu-ooy work gives us too mea
ger a chance to siuoy or think about the larger
issues or the common welfare." .Private claims
bills, personal piooitu.s dealing with citizenship,
passports, etc., representing iocal business be
fore adminisuative oodles all absorb much of
the time of senator or representative.
it is one-of the biggest obstacles to the better1
functioning of congress. -
What chances axe there for improvement?
Not many; congress is a law unto itself, rutted
in ancients: procedure, composed of many per
sons of mediocre mentality, jealous of its pre
rogatives. : The "Young Turks" like Kefauver
will have a hard time driving through the re
forms which are necessary. Congress will con
tinue to muddle along, with only minor alter
ations in its old rules.
Divorce Because of Allergy
The case of Mrs. Joyce Holdridge, the allergic
wife who won a divorce in Los Angeles, has been
treated with more" levity than it deserves. She
testified that although, she and her husband
both loved each other she was affected with an
outbreak of rash whenever she was with him.
She had spent 18 months of their two-year
marriage m a hospital as a result. Judge
Brockman who granted her the divorce gave
a very intelligent statement when he said:
"Courts may be forced to recognize what
medical science has discovered that such al
lergies as Mrs. Holdridge complains of are a
fact and not a caprice."
There seems little doubt that nervous ten
sions do result sometimes in skin irritations.
The super-sensitivity may be localized in speci
fic spots-f-women sometimes have acute irrita
tions at the back of the head. Men working un
der strain' may develop skin trouble which re
sists ointments, lotions and other medication.
Mrs. Holdridge seems to have developed an al
lergy when in the presence of her husband,
which obviously is brought on by some nerve
reaction.
Instead of making fun of the lady, she de
serves sympathy, as does her recent husband.
To avoid; such allergies and irritations of the
skin folk5 need to learn to relax, mentally and
physically.
Such items as calling the roil kill a lot of time
(sonu times on purpose). The house, with its
long roll, kills as much as a hour just in calling
the roll. He proposes electric vjating equipment
which would reduce the call of the roll to a
matter of a few minutes.
In the matter of debate the Tennessee senator
thinks the' house is too tight with its time al
lowance and the senate too loose. More time is
lost by committee hearings in 'quadruplicate"
by senate and house committees separately
before a project is authorized, then by the
separate appropriation committees before money
is appropriated.
But he blames lack of party discipline as the
real cause of the failure of congress to function
better. He remarks that "Our system seems
to put a premium on mugwumpery." Coalitions
of republicans and democrats have often seized
control, defeating legislation proposed by the
party in' power. That has been true both in
the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.
lJarty discipline has broken down. It did
under republican rule when the: "sons of the
wild packass" (as Senator Moses called them)
won lame (and reelection) as insurgents. It
is hard to maintain party discipline when con
gressmen run on their own in districts and sen
ators run on their own in states. The direct
primary makes the cam e ate independent, and
party organization is greatly weakened.
The paralyzing seniority rule is not touched
on by Kefauver, but outside critics hold that
Familiar Trial Orgy
Hungary is the latest country to stage a trial
orgy of an accused communist. Laszlo Rajk
who until a few months ago was a top com
munist and head of the police system is being
tried on charges of plotting to overthrow the
government. At his trial he admits his sins
glibly and says he plotted with Americans (some
of whom he names) and with Yugoslavs to
assassinate Rakoski, the leading communist who
runs the country and to set up a Titoist govern
ment Maybe he did plot a revolution. That must
be common practice in countries ruled by dicta
torships. But his confessions are too pat, away.
But some day the vicious system that encou
rages revolution by its own denial of elemental
freedom will be destroyed. It is so evil that
it should fall apart of its own weakness.
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I By Joseph and Stewart Alsop
j WASHINGTON, Sept. 17-One
significant unreported disagree
ment arose in the vitally impor
tant talks on
Asia policy this
week between"
Secretaryof
State Dean
A c h e i o n and
Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Be
vin. There was
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Juerph AlMtt
over, contrary
to report, there
was no dispute about Hong Kong.
Bevin flatly told Acheson that
the British mean to defend Hong
Amtng if it Is" attacked, but that
there is no present intention of
asking for American help.
I However, Bevin refused to go
along with Acheson on economic
policy in China. The state de
partment wants the power in eN
feet to cut off China's trade with
the west The Britishwith their
vast holdings In
China, want
only to control
the shipment of
war m a t e r ial
and munitions.
This disagree
ment, which
deeply affects
Anglo - Ameri
c a n policy in
Asia, clearly
springs from
the desperate
, i .
l of the British.
It will only end when the
threat of British economic col
j lapse is ended.
Yet more really significant
;' than the outcome oL the Ache
, son-Bevin talks is the simple fact
, that a positive and vigorous Am
; ericari policy in Asia is now at
; lest .being evolved, thanks to the
efforts of able Ambassador-at-"I
eWrge Philip Jesup. Jessup was
recently assigned by Acheson to
examine the whole range of Am
erican Far Eastern policy; and to
come up with a series of recom
mendations fon Americaniaction.
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The work of Jessup and his
staff is still in the thinking stage,
and there is a wide gulf between
thinking and action. But at least
the thinking has been intelligent
and imaginative. One project
which Jessup and his staff have
been considering calls for an Am
erican supreme commander for
the battle for Asia.
Through no efforts of its own,
the state department will now get
a discretionary kitty of $75 mil
lion under the military aid pro
gram, to fight the battle. If this
money is to be spent in dribs and
drabs, without any coherent plan
or central authority. it iwill be
wasted. . It ,4s proposed instead
that a man of great stature be
found to spend the money where
it will do the most good. He could
use it to strengthen the centers of
resistance to the communists in
China, or to arm non-communists
in southeast Asia, or to promote
American interests in. such other
ways as he saw fit 1
Moreover, he would control all
American trade with China. And
within very broad- limits he
would have the authority to take
whatever action seemed neces
sary to promote the central Am
erican objective in Asia - - a
grouping of sovereign national
states strong enough to with
stand the Kremlin's drive for
power. Obviously this I project
would cut down the authority of
the state department's far eastern
division, which is therefore
throwing cold water on the idea;
Jessup himself has not finally;
decided in favor of the idea, nor
has Acheson. Much will depend
on whether a man can be found
with the ability and reputation
necessary to do the job. As al
ways these days, when there are
difficult and vitally important
jobs to be done, the advocates of
the project have settled on the
name of former Under Secretary
of State Robert LoVett Lovett
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Literary Guidepost
MIDNIGHT BOY. By George
Agoew Chamberlain (Bobbs
Merrill; $2.75)
A midnight boy, should it be
that you haven't heard, is a lad
who picks the strokes of 12 for
birth,! thereby achieving a life
time pf unbeatable fine fortune.
Mark i Perry, the protagonist of
Mr. Chamberlain's 29th novel,
appears at the age of 14 on page
14; and for a yard and a half and
several hundred pages thereafter
models for proof of the legend.
Set: down in the middle of a
desolate section of New Jersey
known as The Pines, young Mark
is surrounded by a strange cast
indeed including: Fortune's Hope
Jones, colored mammy of clas
sic cloth, filled with canniness,
determination, faithfulness and
mystic confusions; Rusty Ballard,
romantic young lawyer betrayed
by war into progressing alcohol
ism; Adele Welsh, the cause of
Ballard's dismay; a long-legged
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Carson Heads State Bar
The Oregon State Bar chose an able lawyer
and i fine gentleman as its president at the
annual convention at Gearhart, allace P. Car
son of Salem. --'He comes of aanjily of lawyers,
his father John Carson havmbeen a leading
attorney in Salem. His two brothers, John
and Allan practice law here now and his sis
ter, Mrs, Genevieve Barsch is an assistant at
torney general. Wallace will give conscientious
and intelligent service as head of the organized
legal profession bf the state.
(Continued from page one)
to pull leather. Members who
had not known of the chair
man's directive before It was
sent : out protested so vigorously
that i the chairman sent a follow-up
communication to the
college presidents telling them
the committee had no desire to
censor textbooks and interfere
with: academic freedom
In: defying the committee the
college presidents will find most
editors supporting them. Free
dom of speech and of the press is
a constitutional right but it must
be defended against tyrants, in
cluding those who operate in the
name of patriotism.
female adolescent with an irrita
ting array of manners and such
aliases as Carlotta, Toy and Carl;
and final principal. Buck, a collie
out of Albert Payson Terhune.
Supporting are one colored
handyman, various locals who
are apt never to have visited
nearby Atlantic City or Philadel
phia, sundry out-of-season deer
slayers and one or two corpses.
Analyzing the ingredients after
the final lyric duet by that quick
ly growing team of Mark-Carllo-ta
the elements of the story be
come a bewildering melange.
There's mystery of a long-abandoned
mansion, unburied dead
and a hunt for Mark's paternity;
narrative of conventional "grow
ing boy" pattern; backwoods
feuding; and the you-know-what
-happens-finally tribulations of
Rusty and Adele.
Some sub si diary romantic
comedy duties are put up to For
tune's Hope, who is the mystery
key for the main theme, and also
Is an expert at conning a dusky
provincial out of wagon, mule,
wages and bachelorhood.
The story goes off in so manv
directions of jolly predestination
that none of the themes gets
much of chance to dominate.
So it's hard to say Just what tvpe
audience will like it most. The
best catalogue might be the no
tation that "Midnight Bov" was
previously serialized in a nation
al weekly.
Hollywood
on Parade
5ai
Fall Op
drugs. Capital
tionery, Capital
furniture.
Cfstrom's, Sola Acres florist.
Fields' dress shop,, Fashlonette.
Greenbaum's, Gevurtz furniture.
Good Housekeeping.'. Gay's cand
ies. Grand theatre. Hartnvan's
jewelers, Holland bakery, How
ard Maple sporting goods. Hots
Brothers appliances. Haniger's
dress shop. Heider's radio. Ham
ilton furniture, Howard corsets.
Jackson jewelers. Jewel Box,
Jayson's. Johnson's ready-to-wear.
Jack and Jill's. Jary florist. JJ;
clothier, Judson's, Kay's apparel.
em stores
Register for
ening
(Story also on page 1)
The array of Salem stores which
will participate Tuesday night in
the Fall Opening exhibits and
will have numbers in the treasure
hunt includes the following, reg
istered J through Saturday:
AH en hardware, Alex Jones.
Alexander's jewelers, Anita shops,
Acklin bootery, Arbuckle's, An
derson ' autos. Brown jewelers.
BishoD's. Burke's cameras. Bus-
ick's grocery. Bramble hardware. Mar's lunch. Moore's bicycle and i few scattered specimens In South
Breifhaupt's florist, .'Cooke's sta- sporting goods. Me tr op olitan America.
Montgomery Ward, Marion mot
ors. Kohlgren's restaurant. Olson's
florist.,. Otto J. Wilson autos.
Price's Penney 's. Quisenberry's
pharmacy, Roberts Bros, Red
Cross pharmacy, Rohland's. Smart
shop. Sears-Roebuck. SalenThsjd
ware, Salem Home furniture,
S&N clothiers. Stevens jewelers,
Sally's, Schlesinger's, Stiffs fur
niture. Salem lighting appliance,
Stan Baker motors, Shrock jnot
ors. Toy and Hobby shop. Spa res
taurant. Valley motors. Vince's
electric. Williams card shop.
croinier juasons. rj apparei.. Woohvorth s. Woodry's furniture
Kailles dress shop Karmd Kom Western Aut0 j Win;
shop. Les Newmans men s store.' ntnrw v..,.,.. .ZX.i"
Lambert's antiques. Little French
shoe Leon's shoes. j
McKay's autos. Midret market! The scarlet Ibis, one cf the most
Modeme. Margaret's shop. Mari- spectacular birds in the estern
lyn's shoe, Man's shop. Miller's Hemisphere, have jheen reduced
department store. Moms optical, from once extensive rlocKs to a
Livesty Building
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Vigorous Asia Policy Finally Evolving
may be sounded out by Jessup
himself when Jessup goes to New
York for the United Nations
meetings.
At any rate, whether or not it
comes to anything in the end, it
is something new under the sun
to find beld and positive plans
for action in Asia emerging from
the state department. Jessup and
his staff have also come up with
another important idea a major
policy statement by President
Truman. Acheson and Truman
have been discussing this matter,
and as a result the statement may
soon be made.
What is proposed is a brief,
simple statement, containing
three major points. First, the
United States strongly favors
genuinely independent regimes
in Asia. Second, the United
States will strongly oppose com
munist regimes, since these are
not genuinely independent, but a
new form of imperialism.. Third,
the United States is determined
to do everything possible to help
raise the living standards of the
Asian people.
The real purpose of the pro
posed statement is simply to re
assure the Asian leaders that the
United States has no intention
of abandoning Asia, as roost As
ians now believe. If it accom
plishes this purpose, the sta ten
ment will have a deeply impor
tant psychological effect.
All this means real progress,
even though the inertia of the
state department where Asia is
concerned may defeat Jessup
efforts in the end. As the die
agreement on China suggests, any
American effort will alio be de
feated If the British crisis is al
lowed to lead to British
For Asia can only be saved if 1
United States and Britain
in close partnership, and a
eriess partner is a useless
ner. Even so, there are sighs that
the long paralysis of American
policy in Asia may
an end, and that at
thing to be thank
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The incident opens up the
whole field of the independence
of colleges and universities from
government control or dictation.
It may be undermined in ways
that: appear innocent. The blunt
and) offensive demand for a list
of textbooks is so obviously an
invasion of academic freedoms
thaj! it is easily resisted. But
university freedom is in danger
from government subsidy and
from government-sponsored re
search. Once 'let the government sub
sidize the colleges and universi
ties: and the way is open for
political interference with their
operations. Better for them to be
poor but free than rich and de
pendent. This does not apply so
much to publicly supported In
stitutions like state universities
and land grant colleges which
receive federal grants, because
they are admittedly children of
government. It does apply to
private institutions and those
supported . by religious bodies.
They serve the country best if
they, are kept completely free
of government assistance.
it is in the field oi govern
ment-sponsored research that
new dangers arise. . The govern
ment is subsidizing scientific ex
perimentation, much of Ms sec
ret.! That is, the government
wants to keep the nature of the
study and the findings secret.
It begins then with loyalty
checks of professors and work
ers and puts theX mark on those
luspected of
Scientists
in peacetime and resent secrecy.
They know that knowledge has
expanded7 only as discoveries
are made public property. In
wartime they will work for the
t; and in peacetime j
will work in government
tories and abide by the
of secrecy. But they do
noti think it is healthy to draw
iron curtains around the labo-
jpratories of educational institu
tions. . .
Collegiate and public protest
stopped, the witchhunt among
college textbooks. There should
be similar protest against in
fringements of full academic
, freedom in research, even if that
means to kick out of 'colleges
government-financed special research.
resent
th coloration.
loyalty tests
By Gene Hands er
HOLLYWOOD Claire Trevor,
who was nominated for an Os
car 12 years ago and won one
this year, says: "I hate myself on
the screen."
She saw the first day's rushes
of "Borderline, the picture she's
now making, -and was ill for two
days. Does she like her looks?
"Heavens. NO! It's a b
lem making me look as good as !
i ao.
Her self - dissatisfaction goes
beyond looks to action. "You
think you're doing something in
the scene. Then you see the rush
es and you think. That isn't what
1 meant to do. "
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irevor, wno nas cur
golden hair and a sensuous,
j)Hi 5-oow mouin, nas also aryxn
ienoruy complex. "Which is just
lor an actress, sne adds, a
little bitterly. She's sWlr get
ting over .it, though. How?
"Well, you keep talking to
yourself. You look back at sev
eral mistakes you've made. You
say to yourself, Anybody could j
maxe those. A lot have made
worse mistakes. I did fairly well
with the equipment I have."
Claire forces herself to go to
her rushes; "I still suffer," she
says, "though yesterday's looked
'pretty dood. Of course, I never
look the way I'd like to - - like
Joary Fontaine, for instance. I
like tall, thin people. I look short
and fat most of the time."
The self -critical Miss Trevor, a ;
movie actress 16 years, says she!
learns something new about act- '
ing on every picture. "You think i
you know the fundamentals, buti
you're net doing them all." Her '
husband. Milton Bren, co-produ- j
cer oi ner present picture, told
her recently: "In moving or re
acting, you do everything too
quickly. In The Velvet Touch
you had a scene with Roz Rus
sell where you turned so fast the
audience couldn't even see you.
It was just a whirl. Notice how
Irene Dunne and Joan Crawford
take their time.
Also, confesses Claire: "I've
never bothered to notice where
the camera was. I was afraid of
sacrificing naturalness for a good
camera angle. But you can't ig
nore the audience.
Bob Montgomery, directing her
in a Broadway play a few seas
ons back, reminded her to con
centrate more on what others - -and
she herself -- were saying.
Claire was nominated for an
Academy award for. "Dead End"
12 years ago. Her recent Oscar
was for her portrayal of the
drunken moll in "Key Largo." It
fired her with the desire to win
another. People now expect her
to give an Academy-award per
formance every time. Claire says
slyly. "I wilL-
Splendid Student
. . . H we mean that he It sound asleep by 10 P.M. with
his homework behind him, complete, neat and weM presented
ready for tomorrow morning's classes.
Parents, as well as teachers, play a major role In this respect,
h is their responsibility to too that the student Is supplied
with materials to make this work not chore, but a worth
while, even pleasant, operation.
Parents, teachers and students will find that Cooke's stock
and sell a wide range off ejvaDry school supplies.
P. S. Cooke is headquarters for Parker and Shoaffer Pens, f
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