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f i f i .: tQr' t l-i ' : TV Hi. 1'. ; a. . ' . a I The stcnman, oaiem. Oregon, WW THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHB' A SPH A GUC Editor and Publisher ata'tered at the fesUrflcs at Saleas, Oregon, aa aeee ad claae matter andcr act ef congress March a, 1S7B. rebUahed eerj moraine. Business alfka Z1S ft. Commercial. Salem. Orega a. Telephone tX4i. ; Record of 81st Congress In reviewing the work of the 81st congress one finds it difficult to see how President Tru man can pin a wreath "Well done" on its brow and condemn the 80th congress as the worst or second worst in history. For the 81st congress in its first session did little more than its pre decessor to advance his "fair deal" program. It refused to repeal the Taft-Hartley law, the very keystone of the president's program. Truman-endorsed measures it failed to pass Include;. National health insurance Universal military training Civil rights legislation Federal aid to education Extension of social security Revision of displaced persons law Columbia valley administration Economic controls to avert inflation Government financed or owned steel mills Increase of $4,000,000,000 in taxes About the only additional fair deal legislation enacted was the increase in the minimum wag rates and federal aid in housing. The 81st con gress did extend rent control and the reciprocal trade act, and so had the preceding congress, though the latter included the rather mild "peril point" provision in the latter act. Farm aid legislation resembled that of the fgOth congress and the Brannan plan supported by the president was rejected. - Some of the recommended measures got through one house and may be taken up in the next session by the other house. This was true of federal aid to education, revision of the DP law and extension of social security. Likewise the biil to repeal taxes on oleomargarine got through the lower house as did a bill to legalize basing point pricing. President Truman's recommendations on for- i eign affairs fared much better. With the aid of i Senator Vandenberk bipartisanship continued to support our" foreign policy. New funds for : European recovery were voted; the Atlantic ; pact ratified and military aid for allies under, the pact appropriated. The greatest failure of the 81st congress was in fiscal policy. It overappropriated money from : the treasury, and the fiscal year will close with deficiency of five or six billion dollars. There will be much argument between republicans; and democrats ever the work of the 81st con-; gress. For this rotten financing both parties are to bioine. The awmocrats who controlled con gress didn't even introduce any bill to provide s- more revenue and increased appropriations over the president's budget, and republican efforts for economy were not very aggressive. Having criedh"wolf, wolf so long on deficit financing conservatives realize that their voice is lost in the gale; but the policy long continued piles up wrath against a day of wrath! If one measures the 81st congress by the vol ume of important legislation the score will be low. It has, however, in its first session done a great deal of spadework and the second session may see a larger harvest in bills passed. The. session was shot through with politics, the major moves being dictated by concern for elections in 1950 and 1952. The president will his the "republocrat" bloc as whipping boy in his appeal for election of fair deal democrats next year, mnd signs begin to multiply that ha ; will be a candidate for another term, come 1952. Franklin Roosevelt broke the precedent and 'Truman's entourage may have little difficulty in convincing him he should run again. U.N. Vote on Slavs Hardens Hearts , Br J. M. Retorts. Jr. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst WASHINGTON. Oct. 20 ! World public opinion laid a hea j vy hand on Soviet Russia Thurs ' day in the election of Yugoslavia j to the U. N. security council. ? Russia has taken rebuff after ; rebuff in the peace organization. !" In the case, of the Iranian dis ; pute immediately after the war, f for instance, the pressure proved ! s great that she changed Her policy for once and withdrew her troops. ! But the Yugoslav election rep i resents the passing of judgment I by the U. N. on a quarrel within " communist ranks. The passion with which Russia , views the quarrel was personi . fied in Andrei Vishinsky's last-ditch effort to stave off defeat, . and by his defiance of the rules of procedure to take the assem bly floor in denunciation after '. the vote. ! Vishinsky.-for those two min- utes of pre - election protest, was a man fighting desperately, as he had been doing publicly and : privately for weeks, against de feat on a matter which was te him truly vital. Sometimes Vishinsky speaks with measured reason, sometimes with heat. Sometimes nis warn ings come clopping out like the treading of a tank on macadam. k Thursday's performance was a high pitched protest to the judg es. The Russian foreign minister had put up a good fight, obtain ing more votes for Czechoslo- vakia than observers had anti-. ripated. He had considerable pre- ; cedent on his side, although the United States could make good show of technical correctness la its stand for Tito: Vishinsky lost, but this is one time when there Is no unanimity of opinion that he was wrong on the matter of precedure. Where he was wrong, ao far aa many -'voters- are on- cerned, was in bcg a member e( the wrong camp. y . ' 11 rnaay. ijciooer xi. litatesraati MMMt MM 7fo favor Suwys Us, tio Fear Shall Awe fwFlntg ii.ltockU.im ; Princess Scores Lax Morals l Princess Elizabeth, who at 22 is a wife and T mother, is evidently her grandmother's own ,' descendant. For in a recent speech at a mothers' union meeting she put herself firmly on the side of morality. The regal and conservative I Queen Mary, who frowned on her son Edward's f abdication to marry an American divorcee, nev- er spoke out so bluntly as did the princess who is next in. line to the throne. Said the princess: 'Wi live in an age of growing self indulgence, ' of hardening materialism and of falling moral standards. I would go so far as to say that some of i th very principles on which the family, and there ; fore the health of the nation, is founded are in danger. "When we see around us the havoc which has been wrought, above all among the children, by the breakup of homes. We can have no doubt that di- vorce and separation are responsible for some of the darkest evils in our society today. "I do not think you can perform any finer serv ice than to help maintain the Christian doctrine that ; the relationship of husband and wife is a perman : ent one, not to be slightly broken because of dilfi l culties or quarrels." That puts Elizabeth on the side of the angels, which is precisely where her people will want ; her to be as queen. The divorce rate in England and Wales is only one to eight marriages ; (against nearly one to four in the United States); but growing secularization is felt there as here, threatening the stability of home and society. Sometimes divorce seems unavoidable, but too often it comes from minor "difficulties or quarrels" as the princess suggests. If Elizabeth continues to speak her mind like that the people of Britain will find they really have a royal leader. Charlie Wolverton came out of a city news room (New York World-Telegram) and became editor and publisher of the Mill City Enterprise. He put punch into his paper, and whether: his customers liked it or not they read it. Now he has sold the Enterprise to Don Peterson from Montana. But Wolverton is so much in love with the North Santiam country he plans to continue residing in Mill City. They come, they see and they "get conquered." Russia's Vishinsky has agreed to holding a meeting of the U.N. assembly in Moscow in 1953. This leads the Corvallis Gazette-Times to remark that "the Soviets still plan to be mem bers of the United Nations in 1953 and they don't expect Moscow to be missing as a result of atomic explosions." That is comforting. The San Francisco municipal railway lost about $2,500,000 in the last fiscal year. Since acquiring the privately owned Market St. rail way fares have been doubled, but the deficit bourgeons and the city has lost the taxes it used to collect. Seattle's experience has been the same. Not a pleasing record. Jacob Berchtold, mayor of Mt. Angel, is well on his way to rivalling the record of Gus Moisan who retired a few months ago after many years service as mayor of Gervais. Mayor Berchtold has been renominated for the office he has held for years and years. As public figure at Mt. Angel Mayor Berchtold is a fixture. His popu larity is deserved. An overseas Constellation plane became a maternity hospital of a sudden, a few days ago, when a woman passenger gave birth to a baby boy. She forgot that storks fly too. Vishinsky's statement that Yu goslavia "cannot and will not" be accepted as representing east ern Europe, whose seat she fills under the charter prevision for regional representation, is one of fact. Yugoslavia cannot, of course, represent a group of na tions with which she has virtu ally no diplomatic relations, and with which she is conducting a private "cold war." Yugoslavia; is a member of the council only ! in preference to a Czechoslovakia which is a Mos cow puppet, and i because she took advantage of western feel ing against Russia to stage a coup in her Conflict with the co- Literary Guidepost By VT. G. Korrrt THE ROCK POOL, by Cyril j Connolly (New Directions; $1.50); 5 AS A MAN CROWS OLDER, by 1 Italo Svevo, translated by Beryl f de Zoete (New Directions; $3). Two men. with ome interest in the arts and some money earn- j ed or inherited, are wholly de- livered unto temptation in these : two novels, i On a holiday from London, : Connolly's hero, Naylor, arrives at a Mediterranean town, a melt-1 Inf pot of a town with Its natives . and foreigners, and. with its bars, I boites and hotels, its easy man-; ners or lacL of manners, a flesh- f pot of a town. too. : To Naylor it is a rock pool, and i he will calmly contemplate Its : curious denizens,! Varna, Duff, I TonL Sonia, Lola. Tahiti, Ruby, -the painter Rascasse, Jimmy f who's writing a book, Eddie who -owns a car, the fosters. They! are rich and mean, or poor and scrounging; the women love the, women, the men the men. Drunk enness is habitual. What seemed: romantic finally proves tawdryl and slatternly, but Naylor is hi; up to his neck before he discovers I - irk ; ;: At ' l mlniorm. Her insistence caught i the western powers so much be- tween the devil and the deep : blue sea that England, wanting : no breach in the regional system which might interfere with com monwealth membership some day, voted on the Russian side. But the majority, faced with an unwelcome choice and mind ful that their action would in crease the east - west tension which already has stymied the security council, would not side with the Kremlin. Just how much the possibilities of ultimate compromise will be affected is hard to foresee. But there is a new hardening of hearts at Lake Success today. the rock pool is a cesspool. Svevo's novel concerns pathetic Emilio Brentani, a Trieste clerk who falls in love with a girl be low his station. That station is not exalted, but even so, Angio lina's is way below it Tor his own self-respect, and to justify his conduct to his sister Amalia and his friend the sculptor Balli. he invests her with an imaginary worth far from the sordid truth; yet when he is obliged to ack nowledge the worst, he is so in love with her, and with love, that he cannot give her up. Out of his weakness, decent enough in itself, comes his degradation. The shuffling descent from gen tility to a nsty liaison, interrupted by fears, doubts and fits of con science but spurred oa by a pair of bright eyes, provides the very considerable appeal of this noveL Connolly's lively and provoca tive novel was written in the 1930s, and Svevo's is about half a century old. Both show a man slipping for lack of anything to hold onto; both show the strong pull of even a mediocre tempta tion when virtue and principle and morality are perfunctory. ed Actio 8-Years-Late Shocks Henry Jy Henry DAYTONA BEACH, Tla, Oct 20 The donkey is the symbol of the administration in power, but you'd never know it by a slip of paper I found In my desk today, when I was tidying it up after an absence of several months. You'd swear that the elephant, celebrsird for bis long memory, was running things in Washing ton, because the slip of paper was from the collector of In ternal revenue dunning me for money he says I owe for the year 141. ! Stamped across the slip, in red ink and all capital let ters, was "for merly Military Deferred." The collector let me forget it during the war Sears because I was In service, ut now that atomic bomb peace has settled on the land, he wants it Let me say right now that he is going to get it He can't miss. The past performance of the dept. of internal revenue proves that even if a man takes up tight-rope walking, under the name of Senor J. Huiy Fal loff. and grows a moustache against his wife's wishes, the Ted's will uncover him some day, even though he be perform ing In Little Rock, and collect But a man can dream, can't he? I have had some beautiful dreams about how the govern ment had forgotten I owed that money, and how the government had said to itself that I was such a nice little soldier that it would let bygones be bygones and not bother to turn the wheels of Washington to extract blood from a turnip. As much as I hate to have to pay the money, I can't help but nave a new respect for the thousands of office workers who spend their days sorting out tens of thousands of singlicates, duplicates, and triplicates. One million jokes have been told about the inefficiency of the clerks in Washington bureaus, but now I suspect they aren't true. Either they aren't true, or I was unlucky enough to get the one efficient one who, with a bulldog tenacity, kept track of my files. That would be my luck, wouldn't it? Honesty (plus the fact that I haven't enough money to pay the 1941 tax at the moment) forces me to confess that I was rather shocked by the bill. For some reason. I sort of thought I had walked off that debt. If nothing else. If the government had given me a credit of only five cents a mile I am sure I would have hoofed it off be tween New Caledonia and Man ila. I rather felt that a country would give a soldier at least a dime off his delayed-action in come tax every time he got hit on the head by a falling cocoanut. Or fifteen cents off for each time he had to see officers taking a slug of "Black Locker' spirits while he at tempted to drown his lonesome ness in an occasional warm beer. Too, it seemed to me that a thoughtful country would be willing to forget the income tax of a middle-aged soldier who, every time he wrote his wife from civilization's backwaters, had to suffer the torture of know ing that the letter had to be read and censored by a beardless thing who had been made an alleged gentleman (not a soldier, mind you) by act of congress. Oh, by the way, let me remind the government of this, when I was in the army they had every thing planned to take care of me In case I suffered from -jock. But what about now? I am In a state of shock, thanks to this back income tax notice. HELP! McNaufhl Syndicate. loe.) (Distributed by Better English By D. C Williams Look and Learn (Feat. Page) 1. Which of the fingers is the most sensitive? 2. What great battle in world history has become a standard word today for "defeat"? S. What are the sweetest fruits grown in the U. S.? 4. What is a mendicant? 5. Who was the author of the fa miliar quotation, "Where ignor ance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise"? ANSWERS 1. The index finger, followed in order by the middle finger, the thumb, the little finger, and final ly the ring finger. 2. The Battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon's forces met overwhelm ing defeat S. The date is first and the per simmon second, in sugar count 4. A beggar. 5. Thomas Cray's "Ode on a 'Distant Prospect of Ztoa College."' Man Shoots Villain; GeU Thrown in Jail SAN JAVIER, Uruguay The excitement was too much for Bonifacio Nives. The movie thea ter was crowded. The screen vil lain was holding up a whole fam ily. He leered at the heroine and swept his arm around ber. Bonifacio out with his .38 and fired at the screen. Unsympathetic police lugged htm off to jail. Delay I ! GRIN AND BEAR IT 1 dent care If I did rain ber chaaee te get married . . . ae rascal eaa ten her he's genua take her away from all this ..." Smugs PCD ODDS (Continued from page 1.) but from a fear psychosis. One country or the other may be come "trigger-happy.' Driven by our fears (which have some real foundation in fact) we keep on spending and building, in venting and building, storing up lethal weapons, raising guards against another Pearl Harbor. The prospect is that for an inde finite period we shall live be hind a curtain of fear and ten sion. "One (bomb) for, you, and one for me one for you, and one for me " A visitor here from India, a learned man (he is entitled Pandit), Prime Minister Nehru offers sage counsel. In an ad dress at Columbia university where he was awarded a degree he said: How can peace be preserved? Not by surrendering to aggres sion, not by compromising vwith evil or injustice. But also not by talking and preparing for war. Aggression has to be met, for that endangers peace. At the same time the lesson of the last two wars has to be remembered and it seems to me astonishing that in spite of that lesson we go the same way. "The very process of a mar shalling of the world into two hostile camps precipitates the conflict which it is sought to avoid. It produces a sense of terrible fear and that fear dark ens men's minds and leads them into wrong courses. ' "The colossal expenditure of energy and resources on arma ments that is an outstanding feature of many national bud gets today, does not solve the problem of world peace. Per haps even a fraction of that out lay in other ways and for other purposes, will provide a more enduring basis for peace and happiness." "ATHLETE'S FOOT?" "I never wQl forget that inti Hitching. 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Assistant Cameraman Tex Wheaton told me on the sound stage where "The White Tow er" is being completed. It slid into the region where shooting was planned until Homolka be came ill. "We would have been killed," Tex said. "The whole crew went to Homolka next day and said, "We're very happy you're sick.' " An estimated 27 persons, not connected with the movie, were buried in the ava lanche. Paula Raymond's studio tells you unhesitatingly that she's go ing to be a big star. Alter all, in her first movie, "Devil's Door way," she has the feminine lead opposite Robert Taylor. It's her first picture unless you count a tiny bit in the unreleased "Ad am's Rib. Paula is a tall, cool brunette with cameo-like features and eyes that sometimes look green, sometimes blue. She was born 22 years ago in San Francisco. She acted with little theatre groups there, graduated from San Francisco Junior college, and was a model in Hollywood. 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