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Edna St, Vincent Millay
O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!1
The barefoot, green-eyed, red-haired tomboy
from a Maine farm who grew up to become the
best-selling, Pulitzer prize-winning "unofficial
feminine laureate" of America is dead. But the
poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay is part of
tiring literature. j
Miss Millay was fairly worshipped in the
20s as "the feminine Byron." She fitted the
popular stereotype of what a poetess ought to
h- Shu lived in Greenwich Village, turned out
highly personal, flippant" and cleverly sophis
ticated verse as "the voice of rebellious flaming
youth," acted with the Provincetown Players,
and titillated women's club audiences not only
with her dramatic readings but also with her
flair for clothes. Moreover, she was one poet
ipTio didn't starve in a garret; her sales provid
ed a comfortable living for herself and husband,
Dutch importer Eugen Boissevain, on their farm
in the Berkshires. i
Todav her 1922 Pultizer-Drize winner. "The
Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" sounds
of-date and sentimental, one is Desi remmuti
ed for her first 1917 triumph,, a poem Critic
Louis Untermeyer calls "one of
once," and for her poetic protest against the
Nazi massacre of the population of the little
Polish village of Lidice.
"Renascence" begins with:
"All I could see from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood;
,1 turned and looked another way,
And saw three islands in a bay. . .
And ends with: : . ,
"The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Ahnv th world is stretched the skv.
No higher than the soul is high.
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
'The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.
But East and West will pinch the heart
That cannot keep them pushed apart;
jAnd he whose soul is flat the sky
.. Will cave in on him by and by."
ne critics, nae umermeyer, who- couiu per
eeive the power and awe and awareness of this
poem, were not so impressed when Miss Millay
expressed that consciousness of the human spirit
in other forms. They, like her public, were
content to have her write of love:
"What lips my lips have kissed, and where,
, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning. "
or of Beethoven:
"Sweet sounds, on, beautiful music, do not
cease!
' Reject me not into the world again. . .
They were less enthusiastic when she began to
comment on current events. She was intuitive,
not intellectual, they said, and so they thought
she had no business ' speaking her outrage
against dictators and oppressors, as in "Make
Bright the Arrows" (1940).
But Miss Millay, like her "flaming youth
contemporaries, could no longer be preoccupied
with roses and springtime. It was perhaps in
evitable that the girl who could write her
"Justice Denied in Massachusetts", after the
final decision in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, must
see, in 1940, that "There Are No Islands Any
More," must realize (echoing John Donne) that
after Hitler marched no man was an island, and
needed to ask no one for whom the bell tolls
t&at tolled for the corpses in Lidice.
In those dark days, while the intellectuals
were still discussing Hitler ism with a semblance
of neutrality, the world needed a voice like Miss
Millay's to express without any doubts, and
Chinese Communists Step Up Propaganda
; Blasts at Formosa, Invasion Plans Wane
Br Fred Hampsen '
HONG KONG, Oct. 22
Chinese communist propaganda
bout Formosa is louder than
ever, but the red menace to the
Island seems to be strictly verbal
The reds are charging that the
, United States violates Chinese
" sovereignty by cutting part of its
- fleet around Formosa, and are
. Protesting vigorously over com
' lag United Nations discussions
on the Island's late.
While these red shouts echo,
reports reaching Hong Kong
from the central and south china
coast look as tough any imme
diate invasion is off.
Large segments of Red Gener
al Chin Yi's third field army,
. Jjhlch moved into position along
"tne 1 coasts xf Kwangtung and
Fuklen provinces opposite For
mosa early last month, have been
Julled out, according .to indepen
dent Chinese newspapers in
Hong King.. While not the last
word on accuracy on all topics
- behind the bamboo curtain, these
papers still are seldom wrong
on malor red movements in such
critical areas. .
One report to the independent
Wab Kiu Yat Po said the bulk of
these armies were concentrated
near Swatow on October IS nd
taken northward en masse. It
la not clear where they went, but
they were not among troops that
were shifted north to Manchur
ia. The army that went to Man
churia was General Lin Piao's
famous fourth field army. Chen's
third field army had replaced
Lin's fourth army along the
coast, and now the third itself
has departed. I
. ...
The dispatch said only security
guards were left and that not a
communist soldier is to be seen
In any cities along this stretch
of the coast, which is nearest
Formosa and the logical jumooff
place for a Invasion. . As Chen
Yl b-d been designated to com
mand the "liberation' of For
rRos?. the abrupt withdrawal of
his 'forces looks even more Idee
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intuitively, the horror and premonitions of evil
most of us felt after Munich. Maybe, as the,
critics seemed to think, it wasn't the best poetry
ever written, but Life magazine saw fit to pub
lish the Lidice poem and for millions of readers
it graphically brought home the truth of war.
We saw, then, as did Edna St. Vincent Millay,
that our generation had to grow up some time,
lest the sky would cave in on us all by and by.
Some Good (Usable)
Advice from Toynbee
Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, whose book
"A Study of History" was a controversial and
thought-provoking best-seller a short time ago,
has something to say about today's world prob
lems in a series of lectures at Stanford univer
sity. His outlook on history is from a far per
spective; his view of current events is equally
detached.
Toynbee isn't worried about Korea, for in
stance; he doesn't think the Korean episode will
lead to another world war. Instead, he believes
that war between Russia and the west is mov
ing farther away instead of closer, and that
conflicts such as that in Korea can be localized.
But Toynbee is worried about some larger
problems; said he:
"I am more afraid of our future relationship
with the Oriental and African peoples. I think
they are going to have the last word in the issue
between the West and the Russians. These are
the people we must win over to our way."
Bringing this into closer focus, he suggested
that "the kind of government we set up in Korea
or in Indo-China that will be the touch
stone" that will be an indication to the Orien
tals of our intentions in this and future issues.
He 'warned against supporting imperialism
(such as French control over Indo-China in
Asia, and warned, "don't push the Chinese into
the arms of (Russian imperialism)."
Other notable opinions from Toynbee:
"l should say that China is anti-Chiang Kai
v shek rather than pro-Russia. The Chinese had
a very bad government and the Chinese have
had enough of it The Kuomintang made a
present of the country to the Chinese Commun
ists. Now that is over.
"But if we contemplate supporting the rem
nants of the Kuomintang in China remember
all the Vichy governments, and the Quislings of
the Hitler regime? Let us not have Quislings of
our own in Asia. Chiang Kai-shek in China
and Syngman Rhea in Korea are very much
like Quisling in Europe."
Baiting the Trap
George Flagg must be thin-skinned to wince
under a threatened finger-pointing from Austin
Flegel, and call out his attorney with threats of
a libel suit against a radio station. George has
been in politics and journalism long enough that
he should be able to take a few brickbats in
stride. And if he feels he has been libeled ha
can take action when the heat of battle is over.
Now he has just advertised Flegel's radio speech.
According to the press release Flegel was
accusing Flagg of violating tKe law in helping
with the campaign of Governor McKay for re
election. He cited the section which forbids the
commissioner, of public utilities, Flagg's present
office, from serving on or under any committee
of a political party and requires him to devote
his whole time to the duties of his office. Flagg
isn't connected with any party committee and to
the best of our knowledge is not neglecting the
duties of his office for any work in behalf of
McKay. A simple statement in rebuttal would
have seemed sufficient.
It looks as though Flegel baited the trap
and Flagg bit; and Newbry didn't.
a little out-
the most re-
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a long postponement
Some observers in these parts
think the Chinese reds may nev
er get Formosa; that they've
waited too long; that free world
opinion has firmed up in the
heat of the Korean emergency
against abandoning the strategic
island to the communists, and
that once this opinion finds ex
pression in U. N. councils -the
island's fate will have to await
a Japanese peace settlement
There are other straws in the
winds indicating the reds them
selves have deferred or bypassed
Literary Guidepost
By W. G. Refers
Shady Cloister, by Winifred Lear
! (Macmillan; $2).
linnet Reilly, who teaches
English at Eastlands, a girls'
boarding school, is efficient, in-
telligent, attractive, and yet un-
loved, and it is her. natural
yearning for affection and her
; hope that if she looks for it she
can find it, that we read about
in this pleasant novel.
.Miss Lear sets a leisurely pace.
She introduces us to the staff at
the school. Miles. Stalker, Ban
croft Sinclair and Ethel Bonner,
whose sister Mary is one of the
pupils. We hear them at tea dis
cussing their problems, banter
ing, planning for the term, and
each one, as if casually, or acci
dentally, grows into an easily dis
tinguishable individual whose
reactions can be depended on.
; Ethel Bonner in particular is a
real person, eager to be helpful
to her little sister and eager for
thanks for her helpfulness, in
love with Dr. Forbes and adept
at convincing herself that he is
in love with her.
Mary Bonner, on the other
hand, a plain and unprepossess
Formosa in a military sense.
They not only have moved a lot
of troops to Manchuria because
of their worry over the Korean
war, but also appear to be con
centrating . most of their south
China efforts just now on how to
promote the red revolution in
Indochina.
So Chaing Kai-shek has more
time beacuse of communist ti
midity, or the U. N., or Korea,
or the American navy, or inter
national politics. Whatever
bought that time, Chaing could
use it to strengthen and pray for
foreign help.
ing child, would gladly do with
out Ethel's help. Mary has' a
schoolgirl's crush on Linnet But
Linnet tries hard to believe she
is in love with Arnold Cannon, a
poet who in turn is in love with
Arnold Cannon and noyone else,
not with Linnet and not with his
wife Kate, either. And then there
is Brett Bidlake, who is really in
love with Carolyn but is glad of
a chance to take Linnet out on
the theory that all women have
round heels . . . it's Brett who
"adored animals and loved shoot
ing them.
Though the chance meeting of
Linnet and Dr. Forbes is some
what unlikely, all the other steps
by which this novel advances are
easy to take, and lead to a grand
climax of a fire, and a surfeit of
love, "and the triumph of sober
sensibility. It Is in effect a story
about love going where it listeth,
not where we list A tale that
runs alonj; so quietly may ap
peal more to English than Amer
ican taste, but there is a deft light
touch, and Miss Lear, without
forcing her argument on the
reader, nevertheless supports it
persuasively.
Henry Pays-
High Tribute
To O. B. Keeler
By Henry McLexnore
NEW YORK, Oct 22-The fair
ways of the world never will be
as green again. The flags mark
ing tne pins
never will whip
as rally in the
ThereH be a
laughter and a
sweetness lack
ing in the lock
e r rooms,
wherever golf .
- lis played.
O. B. , Keeler
is gone.
The world
can ill afford to
lose the likes of O. B.
He came as close to being the
best rounded man I have ever
known.
He wOl be remembered chiefly
as the greatest of all golf writ
ersas the Boswell of Bobby
Jones.
He was that all tight, but he
was much more than that He
.was a gentleman in the finest
sense of that word. He was
gentle, he was understanding, he
was kind and considerate, and
if he ever did a mean or thought
less thing, then none of his
friends and acquaintances ever
heard of It
He was a .master of his craft
I doubt if there was a newspap
erman in the United States who
was a brilliantly versa til as O.
B. before illness slowed him
down.
There was no story he couldn't
write, and write superbly. One
day he could do the Metropoli
tan Opera for the Atlanta -Journal,
and the next write an anal
ytical piece on the weaknesses
of a shortstop or a first baseman.
In his early days he was a
brilliant crime and court report
er, and was one of the few men
eVer to be granted an honorary
life membership as an A, P. re
porter. He knew painting, sculp
ture, music, and could recite as
much poetry as any man I ever
knew, with the possible excep
tion of Grantland Rice and the
late Teddy Roosevelt jr.
O. B. was born in Illinois, but
for many, many years he lived
in the South, and was one of the
deepest-dyed rebels who ever re
fought Gettysburg and regretted
that Lee didn't have one tank
battalion and a B-29.
I was with O. B.. or Popper, as
all his younger friends called
him, in many places, from Chi
cago to wind-swept St. Andrews.
- But IH always remember him
best sitting at a table in the din
ing room of the East Lake Coun
try club in Atlanta. That was
in 1927 and I had been working
for the rival paper, the Georgian,
a little more than a week. I was
assigned to attend a golfing lun
cheon and report it I was scared
to death. Atlanta was a big as
the world to me, the East Lake
club was as formidable as a
fortress, and I didn't have a coat
to wear. Just a high school
. sweater.
0. B., already famous, was at
the center table. I walked in and
pinned all my faith on him. I
didn't know it at the time, but I
couldn't have hit on a better
faith-pinner-on. I introduced
myself and he greeted me as if
I were the golf correspondent of
the London Times. He introduced
me with flattering words and
gave me a chair beside him.
Unless you have ever been
scared, timid, embarrassed and
afraid of what kind of job youTJ .
do, youll never know what that
sort of kindness and graciousness
means.
I loved him right then and
there, and through the years that
love developed. He paid Jean and
me the great honor of stopping
at our home many times, when'
he was on his way to Miami for
tournaments.
I could write about O. B. all
day and far into the night The
most immaculate man I ever
knew. Always a blue suit with a
half Herbert Hoover callar, or
dark flannels and a sports coat
of a soft, quiet color. There were
few better after-dinner speakers
than he. He could recall the past
with written or spoken word,
better than any man I knew. He
was a stickler for facts. How
many times has he read my golf
leads and chided me for saying
such things as, "Benny Hogan
burned up the course,' or Gene
Zarazen scorched the greens and
fairways."
'
"Henry, he would say, "take
a look out of the window. I don't
see any burned, up or scorched
course. When a golfer burns up
a course write about the fire,
not the golf. It's a better story."
Oh, he was a wonderful man.
A sweet, sweet knowing man.
But he isn't really gone. As
long as there is such a thing as
a newspaperman, O. B. will live.
He Was part and parcel of the
business.
He was a newspaperman at the
very best
I only hope he knew how much
I loved him, and how much he
meant to me.
Distributed by McNsught
Syndicate. Inc.
Better English
, 1. What Is wrong wife this
sentence? "Much work still re
mains to be done."
2. What is the correct pro
nunciation of "almanac"?
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Awkward, awe
someness, awareness, avalanch.
4. What does the word "ter
minate" mean?
5. What Is a word beginning
with st that means "attractive;
full of charm"?
, . ANSWERS
1. Still is redundant and should
be omitted. 2. Pronounce first a
as in all, not as in at 3. Ava-
GRIN AND BEAR IT
"Fortunately, I had the vision to see through all this pension
toff ... that I'd have to waste the best years of my life
working for
This week is National Smoke Abatement week if you
haven't smoked Abatements (endorsed by leading veterinarians
everywhere) you're rnissing a hot number. It is also United
elevator was overheard to wonder the other day if "they
will install this elevator in the new courthouse for people .
who can't stand this fast age of progress". . . Unofficial
state officials who several weeks ago hjrtericaHj thought
the democratic voter registration in Oregon icould top the
republican tally by. about 40,000 are now revising their
guesses downward to, say, about 18,000 ... no wonder so
many pheasant hunters got the bird at home instead of in
the field last week seems that every able-winged ring
neck in this area is parked in the protective confines of the
Salem Municipal airport ... where they are as safe as "
though they were in front of Don Harger's gun.
' '
Speaking of Fencerow Harger (who writes a weekly fish
and hunt column for this paper) one of his feminine readers
gave him the bird but good after reading Don's woeful tale of
an unsuccessful pheasant hunt last week. This Dead-eye Chris
tina pulled a shotgun out of her purse, tatooed Dons initials
on a rising bird with number six shot at 40 yards and deposited
the fowl on Mr. Harger's doorstep. She did this, said Mrs. Val
Sloper, to let the world of men know what most women have
known for a long time namely if you use the right kind' of
powder, aim high and give the poor bird plenty of lead he's in
the bag.
Looks like the red tape system in the army hasn't
changed much in recent years. . . Received an army press
release October 21 which said "immediate release on October
14". . . easy to see, though, what snafued the detail ...at the
bottom of the page were places for initials of the serviceman
involved, the company public relations officer and the bat
talion public relations officer.
, '
Weekly report from night proofreaders (and phone ans
werers') desk includes these items: "Woman called one night
for a "prescription to the Statesman so we sent her her morn
ing tonic. . . Man called to ask how far north the' moon rose
that night referred him to lunar reporter. . . Will person who
called last week to ask 'How deep is Grant's tomb?' please call
back we have dug up the info. . . Though we cannot provide
taxicabs for all calls every night demanding one immediately,
we will be glad to give anyone a lift home after 1:30 o'clock
each morning.' i
Hollywood
By Gene Handsaker
HOLLYWOOD Big, blonde
Forrest Tucker calls himself an
actor without a home. Tm hap
piest" be says,
"with a suitcase f""
in my hand, a
train ticket inf. ,
my pocket and X
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an luaiencc: r l :
waiting at the
line, as ior
that last: "Let's J
face it I'm a -
ham." t "
vu vaa r
personal - a p - '
pearance tour
with "Rock Island Trail," he felt
at home in five cities. One was
McAlester, Okla where the pic
ture had been shot and Forrest
had got acquainted. Twenty-one
relatives turned out for the Rock
Island, I1L, premiere. . In Des
Moines, la., he'd lived as a kid.
He has an aunt in Tulsa. He'd
done military-hospital shows last
fall in Memphis, as well as six
other southern cities. Jokes,
magic Jricks, and a song or two.
Tucker 195 pounds, 6 feet
4 inches, earnes and energetic
says: "I love new places and
people." He grew-up in six dif
ferent towns. His father died
when he was five. Twice For
rest attended private schools.
When fortunes ebbed, he and his
mother hitch-hiked from Pen
nsylvania to Des Moines, to stay
with her family, and later to
Washington, D.C where she
lanche. 4. To end. "The torrid
zone terminates at tne .tropics."'
5. Gracious.
lit"?!.
1
by Lichty
one . . ."
Nations week in the U.N. nearly everyone
has been smoking everyone else lately. Tues
day is United Nations day when U.N. flags
will fly from some local buildings, but not,
we bet, from the VFW halL This week is
National Honey week time for you, to
remind the United Nations that if it would
take a tip from the bees, sweeten its talk,
wax its enemies and make the drones pro
duce, we would all have less hives.
Rider in slow-mbving court house
on Parade
taught music His taste for travel
whetted, Forrest saw the coun
try by freight train during three
summers in his teens.
Lying about his age, he joined
the U-5. Cavalry at Fort Myer,
Va., when he was 16. The ex
. perience was to prove helpful
on bis present assignment as a
ruthless cavalry colonel in "The
Black Hins j
Tucker and his mother, who
is making her picture debut as
a pianist in the film, have an
apartment a half block from his
studio. But Forrest who can
pack in 20 "minutes," is on the
road much of the time. In the
last two years he has locationed
at Cedar City, Utah, and Kern
ville and Camp Pendleton. Calif-
' ornia. He has attended premier
es in San Francisco, San Diego,
Washington, and New York., The
last two winters he has appeared
on radio and television in New
York.
The much-traveled actor re
ports: "Youll find wonderful
people everywhere if you dont
try to be somebody. A smile is
the deadliest weapon in the
world." His ambition now is to
make pictures in Africa, Sweden
and China and . "see the whole
world." Between - pictures he
wants to make personal appear
ances. "An actor who doesn't
act" Forrest reasons, "is as bad
as a carpenter who doesn't Ixiild
or a doctor who doesnt cure."
Hens that die of disease should
be burned or buried, not left where
dogs or wild nTnai may get at
them and spread the disease.
(Continued from page one.)
on the McCarran bill for instance
(all for it, Morse included, bad as
it is). And few know how they
voted on the housing bill. They
do know though if their con
gressmen got a dam for Beaver
creek or a reclamation project
for Elk flat or a new postoffice
for Apex.. -
Party regularity goes a long
ways, habit of voting for a famil
iar name is also potent, in deter
mining the way a voter marks
his ballot Mood is also a factor.
If times are hard or some sac
rifice has been required by gov
ernment the voter may be in an
ungly mood; and then the in-
' cumbent suffers.' Otherwise he is
at great advantage. The propor
tion of so-called "intelligent vot-
. ers" is small; and it is my obser-
, yation that "intelligence" divides
rather faithfully along the lines
' of party affiliation.
The Voting Record is "evidence
in the case," to be sure. It should
be studied as a whole and not
hist on a few selected items. And
it must be weighed against the
probable voting record of the op
ponent -
This last observation is pertin
ent particularly in , the Oregon
congressional campaign where
the Voting Records of incumbent
republicans are being exposed to
light and air. (They all voted
against aid to Korea for ins
tance). But what would their
opponents do if they were elect-
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' PORTLAND Abundant sup
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Portland. . ,
The statement mi mari fal
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for oil as a fuel, as indicated by
the survey, we are glad to an
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Alexander pointed out that oil
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PITTSBURGH -(INS)- The U.
S. Steel Corporation has launched
a multi-million dollar program to
expand its coalp reduction in the
Pittsburgh district "Big Steel an
nounced it is opening a new 4000-ton-a
day mine in Washington
county, and another 4000-ton a
day mine, which has been closed
for 22 years, will be reopened in
Fayette county, :
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views and affiliations?
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Record is only half the story. .
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-1 1435 WaHact. Rd.
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' Front & Court St.