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An Easter Prayer
j Almighty God, our Father, we praise Thy
name that Thou -didst raise our Lord Jesus
Christ from the grave. We thank Thee for His
resurrection and ask that with open minds we
nay experience its meaning in our lives today.
Through the Holy Spirit, teach us that in the
power of the risen Christ men may master life,
even as for us Christ masters death.
As we are still in prayer, reveal unto us the
Easter truth, that in the crowded ways of life
we may have fellowship with the Risen Christ,
and that toe walk ever in Thy presence. Thou
hast not left us alone in life's struggle; strength
ened by Thy Holy Spirit may we be used in the
battle between darkness and light.'
Grant that every day we may walk in fellow
ship with the Risen Christ. Give us Hisryes,
that tee may see how wondrous small is Thy
one world, that each man is his brother's keep-
er. '
Purify our hands that ours may be the hands
of Christ. May we appreciate the dignity of all
honest toil as the risen Christ directs us in the
service of men.
Give unto us the mind of Christ, that the gos-
Easier Parade .
The lilting strains of "Easter Parade" com
ing from juke boxes, radios and record-players
tt home, have heralded this glad season for the
past 17 years. Irving Berlin's simple and catchy
! little spring song may not be the best ever writ
ten but it is typical of what New York Times
Music Critic Sigmund Spaeth terms "America's
most characteristic and universally successful
nrt-lorm" the popular song.
And even if "Easter Parade" did not .qualify
for Spaeth's Easter parade of the ten top tunes
of the 20th century, (Spaeth considers "Lazy"
Berlin's best), hearing fit again this spring
urokes our memories of some of the fine melo
dies' which have become part of American cul
ture'. " ". i
There is, for instance, W. C. Handy's peren
nial "St. Louis Blues," not only one of Spaeth's
ten best but also one of the ten most popular
all-timers. Most unique of this Negro compos
er's! many blues, the "St. Louis," has passed into
thejfolk music of the nation. So, too, has Hoagy
CarfrnichaeTi "Stardust," the only other piece to
male both of Spaeth's lists. Has there ever been
high school prom without "Stardust"?
It you were around in 1912 you'll remember
"Waiting for the Robert E. Lee," one of the fin
est jearly ragtime classics. Spaeth considers it
popular song-writing at its best because it ex
presses the spirit of the old Mississippi river life
with complete conviction. I "
Tjhe musicianship in Gershwin's "The Man I
Love" fascinates Spaeth. It has the blues cad
ence and a descending chromatic scale that
makes it tops, says the critic. "Chloe" by Neil
Moret has a poignant sincerity that sets it apart,
and which the modern "parodies can't touch.
Spaeth chooses "All the Things You Are" as
Jerome Kern's best, but "Smoke Gets in Your
Eyes" and "Old Man River", were close. Richard
Rodger' "If I Loved You" has the tune quality
of Brahms and the flawless poetry of Hammer
' tain. . . I . . :
Most recent number to be included is Cole
Porter's "Were Thine That Special Face." You
might say Shakespeare collaborated; it's from
. "Kiss Me, Kate." Spaeth considers it Porter's
best score thus far and laments public slowness
"in discovering it. Only piece written by a non-
pel's cutting edge may empower us with a sense
of what is vital. Growing in maturity that com
eth from Christ, may we labor for Christian
brotherhood, seeking the peace that gains un
derstandings of the perplexing issues of our
time.
Through Thy everlasting mercy, may we
know the heart of Christ so that we shall love
all people. Make us sure that saint and sinner,
black and white, communist and capitalist, we
are all sinners. Forgive us and heal us through
the redemptive power of the risen Christ.
O holy Father, grant that every day we may
live in the light of Easter, having fellowship
with our risen Lord, knowing the power of Thy
living presence. May our finest prayers be what
we are, that through our eyes thou mightest
smile upon the earth, and through our hands
Thy work of love be done unto the children of
men. Direct our steps in life as thou dost de
liver us from death, that Thy kingdom may
come and Thy will b? done on earth as it is in
heaven. In the name of our risen Christ we
pray. Amen.'
C.W.H.
American is Noel Coward's 'Til See You Again.
It's included because it has definitely become a
part of U.S. popular music and compares favor
ably with the finest European waltzes of all
time. !
There they are the "big ten." They are rep
resentative of America's authentically native
art. Each contains "originality, intelligence and
often considerable beauty, plus a fundamental
sincerity that is conspicuously lacking in the
routine song hits of our time." And they "avoid
the platitudes of text and tune characteristic of
most of Tin Pan Alley's machine-made output."
That is the critic speaking, As for us, we only
know that we regard them all with affection.
For the layman, the criterion is sentiment, not
craftsmanship. Most people like a song because
it appeals to them, because it recalls some plea
sant memory: somebody might actually get misty-eyed
over "Mairzy-Doats," a number of du
bious musical value ...
It's nice to know that the ten listed here
qualify on both counts technical perfection and
sentimental appeal. And even if they didn't we
probably go on humming them just because we
like them. Maybe that's what makes "America's
"most characteristic" art-form also the most
popular art-form.
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tim report of an interview with
Oswald J. Hare, head rabbit in
charge of East- u
er Village, USA
home and pro
duction I center
of Easter Bun
nies.) Pull up a car
rot, Doc, and
IH tell you
what's Wrong
with thU whole
TTnctpr htiinp
We bunnies g I
have been in WSJ u LJ
the Easter egg
set-up fdr a long time, but we're
slowly being squoze out by a lot
of new-fangled ideas. ji
Take fcggs. Used to be kids
were satisfied with good old col
ored haird-boiled eggs, if They
could hajrdly wait to jump outa
bed Easter morning to hunt for
eggs me and the other boys here
would leave tor them. Caster
oil people favored them, tob.
Now we got candy eggs, plas
tic eggs, clay eggs, glass, eggs,
hollow eggs and rubbef eggs.
These candy deals melt. We
come back from our trips now
looking like we come through a
paint store-explosion. Kids don't
want plain colored eggs anymore
either. They gotta have inscrip
tions like "Easter Greetings from
Cowboy Joe."
Then there's these sdrcalled
Easter songs. For a long time
there was only one kind of Easter
music. Then a man named Ber
lin came along with something
we didn't mind too much. We
used to dance the bunny-hug to
it here. But lately things have
sort of gotten out of hand in the
Easter aria field.
Now' the market is flooded
with songs like "I'd Dye For
You," "I Found Her At An Easter
Egg Hunt," "You Egged Me On,"
"I'm As Crazy As An Easter
Bonnet Over You," "Don't Be
A Bad Egg On Easter," "She's
Hare-Brained" Over Me," and
"Will You Love Me On Memor
ial Day As You Did On Easter?
Another recent ear-ache has
been the promotion of baby
chick sales on Easter dyed yet.
We rabbits used to have the day
to ourselves. How can a Jack
like me with 128 dependents (as
of last night) make an honest
living? We're thinking of estab
lishing a tariff on incubators and
conducting a loyalty check in the
hen-house.
On top of it all we got internal
troubles here with the workers.
The young jacks and bunnies at
the egg factory want higher
, wages. This year a rabid minor
ity group started a movement to
dye all eggs red. He nearly split
hares over that one. We kept
peace though, by showing Mickey
Mouse movies during the lunch
hour.
We bunnies ain't so dumb. We
know our place in the Easter
Story. We're supposed to be only
trimming for the kids. But we're
taking a rabbit punch from cards,
bonnets, flowers and other Easter
innovations. Understand someone
already is working on an egg to
eliminate all eggs called H-egg.
Hare-raising thought isn't it?
Ways in Washington
WASHINGTON (JP Pretty
Lydia Newbuck, 23, isn't exactly
a cave woman, but she spends
most of her
Welcoming the voices of the frogs, shrilling
their spring song every evening now, The New
York Times tries to interpret their tune and
finally ends up saying, "Without words, they are
saying things which we, who deal in words, can
not even, quite express." Which seems like an,
eloquent way to pass the buck back to the croakers.
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Easter must be a painful season for one Mr.
Brannan, he of the agriculture department, what
with all this emphasis on hen fruit, colored or
otherwise. He's sort of in the! position of a colos
sal bunny, sitting on 73,000,000 pounds of eggs,
while everyone stands around asking, "What's
up, doc?"
"A Classic in New Dress is the label on a
newspaper essay on re-issue of Thoreau's "The
Maine Woods" . . . Same would apply to soma
women in Easter parade.
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Eisenhower Believed Receptive to Republican
1 Presidential Bid If No Compromise! Involved
I By Stewart Alsop .
I WASHINGTON, April 8
Rightly or wrongly, those who
have talked to Gen. Dwight D.
E I a enhower in
recent weeks
I a?e convinced
' that he has now
pretty well
i made up his
! mind that he
w a n t to be
"'president He is
reported to have
told at least one
close friend that,
provided there
I were no deals
or compromises lrr1 A,"?P l
"Involved, and provided he did
not have to campaign for it ac
tively, he would accept the re
publican nomination if offered to
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Others dose to him are con-
vlnced that he will co-operate
! with any organization set up to
! promote an Eisenhower boom at
least to the extent of not active
1 ly opposing his own nomination,
i as he did in 1948. All this may
i t wishful thinking on the part
; ot those who are searching des
I perately for a way to beat Sen
s ator Robert A. Taft for the nomi
i nation. But it is at least true
I that the Eisenhower backers are
! already planning the broad itrat-
egy.of an Eisenhower campaign.
! The first move, according to
: the strategists, must b for Eisen
' ; hower firmly to announce his re
I publican affiliation sometime
saortly before the November
i elections. This would be designed
; to mollify the regulars, who point
; out that Eisenhower has never
, even said he is republican, and
. most of whom would prefer Taft
I anyway. It would also be de
: signed to give influential republi
; cans second thoughts about jump
; lngon the Taft bandwagon which
: sure to reef rolling if Taft is
decisively re-elected in Ohio. !
! .The second move would be to
set up an effective, well heeled
Eisenhower organization, staffed
with professional politicians,
working for Eisenhower dele
gates in aU key states. As far
as money is concerned, there
would be no difficulty for ex
ample, one of the fabulously rich
Southern oilmen has already let
it be known that he would be
: willing to contribute personally a
quarter of a million dollars to
get Eisenhower nominated and
elected.
i Thi general's only part in
such an organization would be
the entirely negative one of sim
ply not repudiating the efforts
on his behalf. Finally, at some
strategic moment shortly before
, the convention, Eisenhower
would formally acknowledge his
availability.
AU this may be a pipe dream,
! since everything depends on Ei
senhower, and it is always easy
to mistake general expressions of
interest in politics for a personal
willingness to run. But the pur
pose of the strategy outlined
above is of course clear. It is,
in the words of an Eisenhower
backer, "To get Ike off the
ground before Bob Taft can get
the nomination in the bag."
Already the Eisenhower sup
porters concede that if Taft1 is
triumphantly re-elected in No
vember' he will be virtually un
beatable in such states as Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri, Colorado and,
of course, Ohio; that he will be
exceedingly strong throughout
the Middle West, even in Eisen
. bower's native Kansas; and that
. his hold on the Southern dele
gates will be extremely difficult
to break. In short, with no counter-bandwagon
for the anti-Taft
forces to rally round, and given
time to consolidate and extend
his strength, Taft might go to the
convention with a pledged major
I ity of the delegates.
The core of the anti-Taft
strength is on the East Coast,
and much depends on what hap
pens in the greatest eastern
states,' Newi York and Pennsyl
vania. The ;Eisehhower men are
not pleased by "the signs that
Thomas E. Dewey will run again
for New York governor. With
Dewey out of the way, the big
New York delegation would be
wide open for Eisenhower pledg
es. But if Dewey runs and is
elected, he will have great bar
gaining power, and the two men
are not close.
In Pennsylvania, Governor
James Duff is in the fight of bis
life with the ancient, reaction
ary Grundy-Owlett- machine. If
Duff wins, is elected himself to
the senate, and if his candidate
Judge John Fine is elected gover
nor, Pennsylvania wiU be a
strong Eisenhower state, since
Duff is a warm supporter j of
Eisenhower's. On the other hand,
if Jay Cooke, backed by nn un
holy alliance between Harold
Stassen and the Grundy-Owlett
machine wins, Stassen may be
in a sufficiently strong bargaining
position to ask for second place
on either a Taft or Eisenhower
ticket. And Stassen's new Grundy-Owlett
allies are believed to
favor Taft.
All this is, of course, purely
speculative at this early stage.
AU sorts of things may happen
Taft may even be beaten by his
unimpressive opponent, Joe Fer
guson, although this is considered
highly unlikely. Yet two conclu
sions seem reasonable. One is
that on this go-round the nomi
nation is not likely to be handed
to Eisenhower on a platter to be
nominated, he wiU have to. take a
reasonably active part in repub
lican politics. The other is that
for a mani of Eisenhower's stat
ure and integrity to take an ac
tive part in republican politics
would be good for the republican
party, good for the creaking two
party system, and good for the
country, j
New Yoifk Herald Tribune Inc.
Copyright. 134
time in caves.
Lydia,! who
wears her dark
brown hair tied
with ribbons in
i, two swatches
3v 1 down her back.
er." That means
she is a mem
ber of the , Na
tional Speleolo
g i c a 1 Society.
which makes a
scientific study of caves and cav
erns. The society is affiliated
with the American Association
for the Advancement of Science.
Here recently for thf I "spe
lunkers' " seventh annual con
vention, the vivacious little bru
nett told me she began -guiding
people through the Natural Stone
Bridge and Caves near he home
at PottersviUe, N. Y., when she
was 42 years old. Six yers ago
her aging great-uncle 3in. Van
Benthuysen, who owned the
caves, turned them overljto her.
About three years ago, while she
was a student at the Ne!y York
State School of Home Economics
and Agriculture, she visaed the
nearby commercially - operated
Howe Caverns. She deefded to
make a paying career off taking
tourists through her caves.
She studied busines through
correspondence courses;;! visited
commercial caves all oyer the
country, ' one year took ! a night
course in geology. During the
winter months she earned money
to carry out her venture by vari
ously working as a governess for
a wealthy New ; York family,
working in the New York Pub
lic library, selling magazines
from door-to-door. In 1945 she
worked for the late HoUywood
character actress Mme. Marie
Ouspenskaya as a receptionist.
She's gotten around quite a bit
since the days she used to walk
five miles to school and back,
and baked doughnuts to seU the
neighbors to help her through
high school. She has just gotten
back from a trip to Florida which
she financed by lecturing on
caves and showing color slides.
She looks more like a glamor
ous cover girl who might be at
home In night clubs than the
barefoot miss who lives most of
the time in a cabin without elec
tric lights, running water, or
telephone.
Lydia intends to keep her
caves natural, disdains cement
walks and elevators such as
many commercial caves boast.
She charges her visitors 75 cents
for an hour's trip. She put picnic
tables and outdoor fireplaces on
her 300-acre place and made a
swimming hole, 60 feet long, 12
feet deep. She has no professional
guides. Her 13-year-old sister,
Jenny, also a "spelunker," her
cousins and a nephew all help.
When her brothers, David and
Donald, whom she's helping
through college, are home, they
pitch in with building projects.
They built her ar souvenir shop.
Literary Guidepost
THE SPECTER OF ALEXAN
: DER WOLF, by GaitoiGasda
: nov. translated from the Rus
sian by Nicholas Wreden (Dot
ton: $2.75) i
The first bullet killed my
horse under me, but the; second
ne missed me, its target. I
scrambled to my feet, pulled out
my service revolver and fired at
my assailant, who gave!i a jerk,
slid from his saddle and Isprawl
ed on the ground. With one close
look at his face, I realize he was
dying. Hearing cavalry ap
proaching. I fled ... i
It is this incident which the
narrator, cannot block out of his
memory, though it is some years
later and he has left Russia to do
newspaper work in Paris. There
he comes across a new volume of
short stories, one of which. "The
Adventure in the Steppe," could
only have been known; to one
other person, the mounted man
whom he had seen dying during
the civil war, when he was a
youngster of 16 or 17.
The fictitious author is Alex
ander Wolf, and the harried nar
rator writes to and finally visits
the London publisher, from
whom he hears only anj expres
sion of regret that the shot had
not proved fataL Later in a
Paris restaurant, he meets Voz
esenkl. who turns out to be a
member of the party of? cavalry
from which he had excaped. And
finally, after his encounter with
the passionate Helen Armstrong,
he has three links with jthe man
he is seeking; he has the specter
triangulated.
Irf the characters fhas told
the legendary gardener
One
about
who suddenly begs of the shah
his fastest horse so that he, who
met Death in the garden, can fly
to Isfahan. The shah complains to
Death at this treatment of his
servant; and Death answers that
hei was surprised at the meeting,
for according to the book he was
supposed to find the gardener at
-Isfahan.
So this is the story of Fate
with her scissors cutting the vital
thread, and cutting it no man
can tell when. Despite unlikely
coincidences, and the intrusion
of an incident about a trapped
criminal, the adventure of life
and the mystery of death provide
both drama and significance. And
it's a very readable translation.
The Safety
Valve
To the Editor:
Willamette university was
happy to participate in an Easter
greeting to the entire nation
Saturday afternoon. It has
brought favorable notice not
only to our institution but to
Salem and the Northwest as
well. We have certainly appre
ciated the work of the Mutual
radio stations, newspapers and
businesses which cooperated to
make it possible.
Travis Cross
Director of Information
Willamette University.
On Parade
HOLLYWOOD After! some
thing like 18 westerns in a row,
Rod Cameron says he could play
a marshal while standing on his
head. Now he
- wants a crack
f 'y" at Itiore refined
drama. "I want
to find out if I
can act," the 6
f oot 5 - inch ex
sandho? grins
"If I can't?
Well , I'll go
back to west
erns." Cameron, 39.
has wavy black
hair and sunken blue eyes with
sa slyly humorous twinkle. His
"beat -up" face (his, adjective)
includes a jutting jaw, protrud
ing lower lip, and a dented nose
that zigs slightly to the right It
was broken once In semi-pro
football and four times in hock
ey. Opponents' skates left skars
alongside his mouth and on his
forehead. That such a craggy
puss can belong to a leading man
shows what strides the movies
have taken toward realism since
Valentino's perfect-profile days.
Rod figured up the other day
that before entering pictures he
had 33 different jobs. The first
was when he was 13 and polish
ed brass in a New York child
ren's museum. He was born Rod
erick Nathan Cox in Calgary
took Cameron, a family name.
for his movie monicker. The
family lived a while in Toronto
and then moved to Brooklyn.
After the death of his father,
a mechanical engineer, Rod liv
ed a while with an uncle in
Miami. Tourists in glass-bottomed
boats would pay him for bits
of coral he'd bring up from be
low. He decorated ballrooms for
a florist and made change as a
diningroom cashier. He drove a
truck.
For six ,years he was a sand
hog in New York subway and
aqueduct tunnels. (Last year,
when three movie contracts
overlapped briefly, he received
more money in one day than in
"a whole year slogging around
those New York tunnels.") With
the semipro Westchester All
Stars football team, he played
tackle. In an exhibition game at
Sing Sing prison, he recognized
a former Brooklyn " playmate
across the scrimmage line.
Rod came west and dug ditches
at 40 cents an hour in. East Los
Angeles. He was a concrete boss
on part of the Metropolitan Wat
er District aqueduct near Palm
Springs. A venture into the tree
spraying business kept him busy
only three days a week. He spent
the other three days calling on
casting directors in an effort to
crashkthe movies. A letter from
a writer acquaintance did the
trick.
In 10 years he has been in
h abouta. nicures. Hft imrtr
contract to three studios for four
films yearly. His iext, ."Lost
Stage VaUeyj.WiILbeaiiother
western. But Rod thinks h should
be much better than average.
He adds hopefully, "I'm expect
ing something from this one."
USSOTflUCnARGJE ATRED
MANCHESTER, NJL, April 8
(P)-The board of censors ot the
Hillsborough County Medieat so-'-ciety
considered charges againsf
Dr. Hermann N. Sander today, but
a spokesman said "no definite con
clusion" was reached.
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SERVICES .
9:00 JLM. Dr. Roy Fedje Speaks
11:00 AM. Dr. Louis Kir by Speaks
Glorious Easter Music by Robed Choir
7:30 "King of Kings' A great Motion Picture
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