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From First Statesman, March It, 1U1
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Entered at Um postofflce at Salem. Oregon, as second class matter under act of congress March S, 1871.1
Published every morning. Business office Z1S 8. Commercial. Salem, Oreron. Telephone 2-2441.
Needed: Uniform Divorce Laws
i )Yhen this page first commented several
weeks ago on a series of Satevepost article on
divorce we said that publication of the grim
and sordid facts of life after divorce (especial
ly life for the ex-wile and the children involv
ed) is a more effective deterrent from divorce
than deploring the statistics or moralizing about
the -wickedness in mankind.
The Post report on divorce, based on Inter
views with hundreds of divorcees, presented
ample evidence that divorce is not what it is
sometimes supposed to be an easyvway to start
life over. The articles dramatically portrayed
the unhappiness, frustration, social and finan
cial insecurity experienced by many divorced
women. As for the youngsters whose lives are
warped by divorce who can gauge the price
they pay for their parents' mistakes?
But the human interest angle doesn't tell the,
whole story. Publication of the grim and sordid
facts about the legal tangle is just as vital. And
in the concluding installment David G. Wittels
explains , why, as the American Bar association
proclaimed, "Our divorce laws are a mess; they
art rotten.";'.
Present divorce laws derive from the false
premise of guilt and punishment. The courts
are supposed to decide who is guilty and the
divorce is supposed to punish the -guilty party.
More often than not, the innocents suffer the
most --v--:
How can guilt be determined when 85 to 90
per ent of the cases are based on perjury -on
the cover-all grounds of "cruelty" or "neglect"
or on faked charges of "adultery ? Collusion
when a husband and wife agree to divorce is
illegal but it is present in a high percentage of
the cases, according to estimates by judges.
Judges, lawyers and their clients ignore the
spirit and often the letter of divorce laws, so
why not chuck the whole batch and start over?
This does not mean tightening divorce proced
ures; there's no point forcing two people who
; suuiuu never nave luuim iu wuuiue iuuuik
-each Other miserable. But new laws should pro
vide every possible chance for reconciliation.
Today reconciliations are rare when one judge
has to dispose of as many as 41 divorce suits
in one day, or when couples can get mail-order
divorces without appearing in court or present
In a videncf or when divorce laws vinr n
widely from state to state that ah individual's
marital status remains uncertain.
To remedy this disgraceful situation, the ABA
advocates a model code, uniform, to be adopted
by each state separately. It is based on diag
nosis and therapy for ailing marriages, and calls
for integrated domestic relations courts whose
aim would be reconciliation. Some judges be
lieve all cases Involving children should be con
tested, by the state, if necessary; that children
should be represented as active parties at in-
. terest in the suit; that in infidelity cases chil
dren should have clear-cut statutory power to
sue the 'corespondent who deprived them of
father or mother. They suggest "cooling off
perioas. Ana many oeueve a ieaerai law is ine
best answer.
Whether by action of congress' or the state
legislatures, America's divorce laws should be
overhauled. So should marriage laws. They are
cause and effect, in many cases. Model codes
have been set up but sometimes lawyers' lob
Mies have defeated bills to revise existing stat
utes. Often apathy is the real culprit preventing
remedial action.
We can't afford to be apathetic about mar
riage and divorce problems because trite but
true the family is still the basic unit of our
society and the public has as much at stake in
happy homes as in honest municipal govern
ments. Neither can be legislated because both
are human institutions, and subject to human
frailties. Sensible and uniform marriage and di
vorce laws won't change human nature but they
will help individuals make the best of it;
Patton is "Idea Man"
However one may disagree with President
Jim Patton of the national farmers' union as to
methods, ' his basic principle of full production
and full employment are sound. That the way
to an expanding economy. Restrictions by
"plowing under," by enforcing . quotas, how
ever they may benefit a particular group, weak
en the economy as a whole by the amount of
goods, and services that are curtailed.
Farmers, however, didn't start the cutback
system. Business through monopolistic prac
tices, labor organizations through restrictions
and "feather-bedding," manufacturers! through
high tariffs were real pioneers in this field.
Patton calls for relaxing the barriers, going
all- out for production and encouraging world
trade. Narrow nationalist policies, he feels, are
wrong in this age of technological revolution.
Colonialism as a means to find markets Is out
moded. The United States and western Europe
must accommodate themselves to the changes
in conditions. By export of capital and of tech
nical skills we can improve the living stand
ards of backward peoples and help ourselves as
we help them. He sees economic uplift as a real
prevention of war.
His analysis of the world situation is quite
accurate. The hitch comes in applying the cures.
Capital export is not easy in an age of exchange
freezing, expropriation and cries of imperialism.
Tractors will not immediately lift production
where peasants do not know how to use them
and are unwilling to learn, or where tracts are
too small for a machine to turn round in.
Patton has done a job in his visit in Salem
in pointing directions. He is a real idea-man,
stimulating thought; but he has drive, too,
which impels to action.
End of the Run
Labor should commence to realize that the
wage-increase express which has operated at
high speed since the end of the war has come
to thejend of the run. The strikes aren't paying
off well. Coal and Chrysler are in stalemate.
The phoneworkers will have a hard time win
ning if they should strike. J
With the cost of living starting to decline,
labor gets an increase in real wages with every
cut. That is what counts, not the number of
dollars in the pay envelope. -
Maybe the old engine will get up steam for
fresh wage increases later on; but it's due for
an overhaul now. Holding jobs now Is more de
sirable than squeezing out a few cents more an
hour.
Handicap
Reporting the announcement of Walter J.
Pearson's candidacy for governor the Oregonian
refers to Pearson as "an intimate friend" of the
former governor, John H. Hall, and adds that
Sen. Tom Mahoney has been active in promot
ing Pearson's candidacy for governor.
So that's the load that Walter has to carry in
his campaign.
' ,
Harry.,Bridges calls Dave Beck, boss team
ster a gangster. Both leaders are plenty tough
and have made out with goon tactics, but neith
er one is a corruptionlst.
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London Embassy Eyed as Political Payoff Job
Br Joseph and Stewart A op
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 22
James Bruce, a shrewd New
York: promoter, contributed
handsomely to
the Trumirr
campaign fund
before Nov. 2,
1943. He thus
in effect bought
Truman ad
ministration common stock
when It was
being quoted at
close to zero.
Truman com
mon has now
aDoreciated so
heavily that Mr. Bruce expects
to exchange his block of shares
-X for no less a commodity than the
London embassy.
It is reported that this valuable
property, has
. already been'
knocked down;
to Mr. Bruce;
by the White
House. Whether
or not this is
so, Mr. Bruce
Is certainly!
confident that
the rich prize is
within hisj
-' grasp. -Any;
n i m K k m i 4
people have-tJTV
been assured that he is to re
place the present Ambassador,
Lewis Douglas, within, the next
two or three months.
At the same time, Douglas with
some difficulty has been per
j suaded by the state department
to remain in " London at least
throughout this year. Douglas
himself would prefer to leave his
post, for reasons of health and
personal finances. But at this
crucial turning-point in Anglo
American relations, the state de
partment rightly considers- the
able Douglas's services indispen
sable. Douglas has therefore re-
vliictantly agreed to stay on.
It Douglas is now nevertheless
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replaced by Bruce, it will bo an
event of the utmost significance
in a whole series of ways. For
one thing, the relations between
this country and its most im
portant ally have never been
more strained. Douglas had made
a brilliant success in London.
Aside from campaign contribu
tions, Bruce's only visible qual
ification for the post is his re
cord as ambassador t Argentina,
where he became cozily intimate
with the tin-pot dictator Juan
Peron and his flashy wife Evita.
To appoint Bruce to London
could mean only that the admin
istration did not take the Anglo
American alliance seriously. It
would certainly weaken, and
might well dissolve, that alliance.
Moreover, if Bruce is sent to
London it will be only the be
ginning of a larger process. If
campaign contributions are to be
the major criterion for key ap
pointments, men like James
Bruce's able brother, David
Bruce, ambassador in Paris, and
James Dunn in Rome, are sure
to be replaced by generous con
tributors of the stamp of Laur
ence Steinhardt and Stanton
Griffis. Mrs. Perle Mesta makes
something of a joke of the United
States, as minister in Luxem
bourg, but otherwise she does no
great harm. But a general Mesta
ization of American representa
tion abroad would be anything
but a joke,
Yet the most Important issue
in the Bruce matter can be very
simply defined. It is whether or
nor Secretary of State Dean Ach
eson is to be master in his own
house. v-' . 't
There is no mystery about the
identity of Bruce's chief admin
istration sponsor. At the very
beginning of his tenure of office,
. Secretary of Defense Louis John
son bluntly informed high state
department officials that he and
the president had. agreed that
"my man Jim Bruce was to go
to London. Acheson has never
theless more than once succeeded
in having the Bruce appointment
deferred.
If Johnson now has his way,
the most important American
diplomatic official abroad will in
fact be responsive to Johnson
rather than Acheson. Johnson
will thus be well on the way to
becoming master in Acheson's
foreign policy house.
The nature of the Johnson for
eign policy is already clear. It
consists essentially of gaseous
bluster about "licking Joe Stal
in," overlaid on a business-as-usual
"economy" program which
is sapping the sinews of Ameri
can strength. This kind of policy
'can have only one ultimate re
sult - the shattering of the
western federation against Soviet
expansion. I
There is a striking historical
parallel for the situation in
which Acheson now finds him
self. In April, 1937, when it was
already clear that Nazi military
power was rapidly surpassing the
strength of the Western allies.
Sir Neville Henderson was sent
to Berlin. by Neville Chamber
lain and Sir Horace Wilson. Over
the ineffective protests of British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden,
Henderson was given the mission
of appeasing Hitler, in the hope
that Chamberlain might be al
lowed to continue his business-as-usual
policy.
For almost a year Eden re
mained ar foreign secretary, in
elegant impotence, no longer
really master in his own house,
lending a surface air of respect
ability to an already intolerable
situation. Then came Munich,
and in March. 1948, when disas
ter had already irreparably .oc
- curred, Eden resigned.
Fortunately, it is unlikely that
Acheson will make Eden's
choice. Tor Acheson clearly
means to be secretary of state in
fact as well as in name. More
over, whenever Acheson has
stood firm against Johnson in th
past. President Truman has sup
ported him in the erd.
- (Copyright. 1SS8.
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More than one factor is re
sponsible for the ulcers or large
sores which so frequently devel
op on the legs of middle-aged or
elderly people. Often, there are
several. Basically, all work in
pretty much the same way. By
causing persistent edema or a
collection of fluid in the tissues
of the legs, they set the stage lor
the development of an ulcer.
Thus, swelling of the leg is a
danger signal. If the edema can ,
be reduced and the swelling
checked, the formation of ulcers
can be prevented in most cases.
Conditions which promote the
development - of ulcers include
the formation of a blood clot,
together with inflammation of
the vein, varicose or dilated
veins, overweight. Injuries, or
infections of either a local or
general nature.
o
Leg ulcers most often develop
in the area around the ankle be
cause the tissues here have less
vitality than those in other
parts of the leg.
Cuts and bruises heal more
slowly and swelling remains for
a longer period of time in over
weight persons who have an in
jury or infection. In these pa
tients, rest in bed, with the leg
elevated, may be important in
preventing further difficulties.
Thrombophlebitis, in which a
blood clot is formed inside an in
flamed vein, may develop after
operations or after the delivery
of a baby. After childbirth it is
frequently called milk-leg. Often,
it may be prevented by giving "
substances, such as dicoumarin,
which slows down the coagula-
Army Genius
Will Crop Out
In the Pinches
By Henry MeLemore
DAYTON A BEACH, Fla Feb.
22 'i- You could have knocked
me over with a second lieuten-
1 anl'. A I a n I ir
when X read the
statement ' by
Maj.Gen.Clovis
E. Byers that
the army is
worried because
it is running
out of genius
es. I wonder if
General Byers
was referring
to the United
States Army. I
wonder this because when I was
in the army not so many years
ago every enlisted man . I knew
was a genius in one line or an
other. I was even a genius myself. I
hadn't been in the army more
than two weeks before I discov
ered that if I didn't want to
spend so much time on KP that
I would begin to look like a po
tato I would have to figure out
a way to keep from having to
make up my cot every morning.
I simply could not do It quickly
enough and efficiently enough
to suit the sergeant
So, I had to become a genius
at getting into a properly made
up cot, sleeping in it all night,
and getting out of it without dis
turbing its symmetry. A buddy
would help me slue in under the
taut covers, and I would sleep
all night, rigid as a mummy. The
same friend would ease me out
in the morning by pulling on my
head and neck. I got to be such
a genius at this that I had to
make up my bed but once a
week, for a change of sheets and
mattress cover. ,
Then there was the khaki ac
quaintance of mine who was a
genius at stealing books of passes
from the company orderly room
and signing the captain's name to
it He got so good at signing the
captain's name that the cap
tain's real signature began to
look like a forgery. It was a bad
night for him when he couldnt
get at least 30 of us in to Macon
from Camp Wheeler.
There was also that truly great
genius on Bougainville who could
make a superb brandy, a brandy
that could hold up its head with
the great ones of France, out of
nothing but oatmeal, a few rai
sins, water from Empress Augus
ta Bay, and privacy from the
peeking eyes of officers.' This
man had been an interior deco
rator in private life, but once his
country became endangered and
summoned him to become a
brandy maker his latent genius
rose to the surface like a salmon
after a fly. .
o- o o
X mustn't overlook another
genius a full private, who
borrowed an old camera and in
his spare time tramped all over
Leyte taking pictures of supply
officers after telling them that he
was with the Signal Corps and
the pictures were for nationwide
distribution back home. He
never mentioned the fact that he
didnt have a bit of film, and
thus was able to work the vain
' officers for enough clothing and
food to open a store.
There was genius shown, too,
by the officers when the enlisted
Wacs came to Manila. Bars,
leaves, eagles, and stars, even,
were yanked off as the officers
posed as enlisted men to get
dates.
Don't worry, General Byers.
If another war comes, genius will
pop out where you least expect
it
(McNaught SyndicaU. Inc.)
rTPCDGDDCB
(Continued from page one.)
station, that might be pretty' but
it still f would be a commercial
use which the state authorities
frown on. Either we are going
to keep faith with the state or
we are not
At the press conference In
Eugene last week Oregon editors
adopted a resolution giving gen
eral approval of the capitol com
mission's plan. Previously they
had shown their interest Jn the
way they protested erection of
the Coates apartment house in
the area marked for capitol ex
tension. This shows the concern
-of the people in the rest of the
State over protection of the state
capitol area, for the papers are
the mouthpieces of the people
in the several communities. The
people feel that this is their state
capitoL They want it to be one
of rare beauty, realizing the op
portunity which the state has for
developing an attractive and dig
nified capitol group. Salem can
not afford to offend the rest of
the state by breaking the zone
restrictions established for the
capitol fringe in the manner
proposed.
Literary . . .
Guidepost . . .
THE TABLE tells your tax on
short Form 1040-A if you are per
mitted to use it Business and
work travel expenses can cut the
amount of your tax.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
by Lichty
11 I P
"Left's
ferret that the taxpayer has soi
... after alt he cam Tele
rixhta, Geotlf om
SUN, SHEEP, RUN, by Gordoa
Sager (Vanguard: $3)
Some footloose men and wom
en, young, middle-aged and old,
with some variety in pigmenta
tion and more variety In national
background, have in common In
this novel the leisure and the im
pulse to indulge in love after
their several tastes.
Though they behave vaguely
as Left-Bank Parisians are sup
pose to, they are gathered actual
ly in a little West Indies com
munity where pastimes are not
plentiful and man Is obliged to
restrict his pleasures to a few
fundamentals. There are Miss
and Mrs. James, sisters-in-law
Miss Janet Macy and Mrs. Amel
ia Macy, daughter and mother;
Germaine, whose husband does
not put. in an appearance, and
Mr. Poole; Mrs. Richter, of the
generous heart; chinless Willie
HulL Into their midst which Is
already boiling and bubbling,
drop Andrew1 and Gillian Green
feather and their friend Kevin
Fitzhugh.
We meet them at the cocktail
hour, at lunch, and while they
exchange visits. We learn that
Janet, though she has her wants,
keeps them bridled: that Andrew
can-let go In fits of temper: that
Mrs. Richter's one lapse into
reputable behavior costs her her
reputation; that Willie can bake
a delicious cake.
In their Idle retreat where no-
bodv cares what s hannenrnf to
the world about them, they are, i
for all their wit only a cut above
animals. And in fact Mrs. Macy
is likened to a bull; Sr. Puig. to
an owl: Miss James, a seal; Dr.
Winter, a goat; Mrs. Newbridge,
bird of prey; Dr. Jensen, a
crab; Chato, a tomcat; and
others, to a horse, turtle, cobra,
hen and cock. There are mi
mals in the title, too. It reminds
us of the jingle, "Twas at the an
imal fair, the birds and beasts
were there."
. The novel concludes at a fan
tastic masked ball with seal,
bird, bull, crab, rabbit and so on
transformed Into cocotte, Vene
tian gentleman. Mad Hatter,
Mallarme, Fitzgerald, Nostrada
mus; and a surrealist painting is
spread over Andrew's chest One
animal is slaughtered, and r an-
other one crows over him in ma
" cabr fashion. '- '
tkn of the blood, by having the
person exercise while in bed, and
by getting him out of bed as soon
as possible, i
o
If an ulcer occurs, the pain
may be relieved . or healing
prompted by applying a pasta
made of dried red blood cells, or
by using gentian violet penicil
lin, or similar substances.
An ulcer which persists for a
long period of time may require
surgical treatment followed by a
skin graft Varicose veins, if
present must be properly treat
ed, either by injection or sur
gery. If a personwith this condi
tion, is overweight he must bo
put on a carefully-planned re
ducing diet and his weight
brought to normal.
There are various disorders
which may interfere with the
circulation in the legs, such as
liver disease, toxic goiter, tum
ors, diabetes, hardening of the
arteries, anemia, and syphilis.
Hence it is important in patients
with ulcer of the leg that a thor
ough study be made to determine
whether or not any of these dis
orders are present so that they
may be promptly treated.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
M. W.: My husband and I both
have poor vision. What chances
would our children have of hav
ing normal vision?;
Answer: I know of no evi
dence that poor eyesight is here
ditary. It is impossible to state
just what chances your children
would "have of not requiring
glasses.
(Copyright IMS. King Features)
Hollywood on Parade
HOLLYWOOD Shelley Win
ters has been acclaimed in some
quarters as the new Jean Har
low. It pains me to dissent for I
like to see young people get
ahead. But in "South Sea Sin
ner," I'm afraid, Shelley is hard
ly sexier than a Sunday school
teacher telling the story of Adam
and Eve. She's just louder and
hip-swingier.
Harlow gave subtlety to sex.
So does Betty . Grable, another
whom the professional praise rs
like to mention in the same
breath with Shelley. Miss Win
ters; is about as subtle as a fol
lies burlesque queen. She does
have a naughty-little-girl cute
ness about her at times. Especial
ly when whipping over lines like
this one, speaking of herself:
"She's been on more laps than
a napkin." .
From the title you can guess
most of the fixtures in "South
Sea Sinner": palms, hot sunlight,
cool moonlight screeching birds,
thatched roofs, and curtains of
strung beads. There's the thickly
accented villain (Luther Adler)
in ' a white suit There's the
shaggyhaired derelict pianist
dreaming of his past glories in
Carnegie halL Playing this part
in a night-club piano whiz who
goes by the single name of Lib
erace and looks too young to be
living down much of a past His
limp recital of dialogue is as
hard to hear as his ivory-thumping
is pleasing. .
He accompanies Shelley, who
sings and dances in slit skirts,
bare midriffs, and skimpy blous
es. The pouty-lipped floozie lives
a drifter (Macdonald Carey),
who's mixed up in an obscure
plot about wartime rubber deal
ings with the Japanese. -
"When Willie Comes Marching
Home" is a solidly delightful
comedy about a small-town war
hero. First to enlist he's heaped
with cmc praise at a big blow
out Then he's assigned to his
home-town base. As the war
years drag on, he cant get over
seas to, prove his heroism. His
parents, the neighbors, and even
a dog begin to sneer at him.
When his chance does come. In a
few swift incredible, drunken
hours with the French under
ground, nobody at home believes
his hair-raising story.
Dan Dailey as 'the hero, Col
leen Town send as his sweetheart,
William Demarest as bis dad,
and Corinne Calvet as an under
ground leader all make this one
a treat '
Better English
By D. C. Williams
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "At length they re
turned." 2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "respite"? -
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Diameter, dia
phram, diagnose, detrimental.
4. What does the word "biling
ual" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with to that means "great un
rest' or disturbance"?
ANSWERS
1. Say, "at last they returned."
2. Pronounce res-pit as in
rest I as in pit accent first syl
lable. 3. Diaphragm. 4. Recorded
or expressed in two languages;
speaking two languages. "It is
a bilingual dictionary.' S. Turbulence.
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