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4 Tn4 - Ctotogriaa; gcJemy Orw MdiHarr Noreaaber 13. 1350 afestaau "Wo Facor Sways Us, No For Shall Aire Fran fint Statesman. March IS, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY . ; CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher PsbUahtd every mining. Boiscn office IIS 8. Commercial, Salem, Oregon. Telephone Z-Z44L Catered At tat postofflca at Salem, Orexsn, as seoeod elasg nutter under act ot conrresi March l 1871 The Humble, Exotic Spud The Statesman's Women's page last week had a recipe for vichysoisse French potato soup (with leeks in it)' that is a worthy contender lor the honors claimed by French onion soup (wita Jfarmesan cheese in it) and it reminded us that a recent entry in the obituary columns was Oscar ot the Waldorf. of the humble spud! j Oscar, for many years a chef at the proud old Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, is perhaps better known for his Waldorf salad. This concoction of diced apples, celery and nuts is a familiar dish on restaurant menus and even is listed in Webster's dictionary. As a caterer, Oscar turned out many an Civaufe vuuucu a,AJa twi yiv w aa.caw vwvj and titillate the palates of the high and mighty. But Oscar himself had simple tastes. The old man was reported to have celebrated his last birthday with a meal of boiled beef and a boiled potato. j That the boiled potato should be included in this festive meal is not surprising when it is considered that old Oscar was a Swiss, and for the Swiss, as for the Irish, the potato is a staple food. . For many an alpine herder, supper con sists of potatoes boiled and eaten with a piece ol cheese and mugs of cafe au lait (half-and-half boiled milk and coffee). Breakfast is made up of roesti last night's boiled potatoes peeled, shredded and fried in oil, sometimes with some shredded unpeeled apple for variety, and ac companied by the inevitable cheese and coffee flavored milk. j ! - . This simple mountain fare like the every day food of peasants in other lands (Russian borsch or beet soup, Hungarian goulash or stew, Italian spaghetti, French bouillabaisse or fish soup) has now become a specialty of - the house in many restaurants which feature the "Continental flavor." A. recent issue of Gour met magazine, slick-paper publication for con noisseurs of fine and exotic food, included a recipe for Swiss roesti as though it were something strange and wonderful! And perhaps the simple, common foods are strange and wonderful, indeed . . to gourmets, connoisseurs, and chefs who are more familiar with the elaborate and expensive preparations unknown to people who must get mighty fed up with borsch or bouillabaisse or boiled po tatoes! .- I carpenter, fished and hunted, and wrote two novels which the critics praised but nobody bought. Next he got a job as night superin tendent of a power plant and worked on two books, "The Sound and the Fury," a serious literary effort, and 'Sanctuary," a horror story deliberately, and 'perhaps cynically, written to make money. It did. "Sanctuary" is a novel peopled with bootleggers, imbeciles, prostitutes, homosex uals and other degenerates. It is potent as home brew, rough as a cob, and stirred up as much fuss as a jaybird on a gin-house roof. The por nography made his public lick their lips; the genuine literary talent his description and in sight displayed made the critics look to Faulk ner for better work. He produced it. Now free from economic pressure, he could write as he pleased and in 1939 he won the first prize in the annual O. Henry Memorial Award. William Faulkner's short stories are his best work. Some of the stories from his previous collections, "These Thirteen" (1931) and "Go Down Moses and Other Stories" (1942) are reprinted in the new collection, along with less well-known others. Most, and his most authen tic, stories are set in the Deep South chronicles of decay and social disintegration. Two families the Sartoris whose once-proud way of life is dead but who try to live as though the Old South still existed, and the Snopes who repres ent the New Southerners "coldly, and crudely, on the make ... in the creeping new world of Northern commerce and industry" appear again and again in these tales. They are, Time magazine's reviewer points out, "images of the social and moral disease that Faulkner is con stantly probing." Faulkner's conception of a world trapped be tween "Sartoris impotence and Snopes vicious ness" does not apply to the South alone. As Time said, "When Faulkner describes his Yok nojpatawpha (Miss.) county (as did Ross Lock ridge in his "Rain tree County"), he is writing not only about the South but also the North, not only about the North but all of modern life." And, distorted, exaggerated, sometimes pre posterous though his images are, we recognize that they mirror real people, real attitudes, real conditions. Maybe that is why the Nobel prize committee picked him for the award. A University of California professor says that medicine and journalism are the two most im portant professions. . . Well, we suppose doctors do have their place! ' Editorial Comment Basle Ucfata and the Security Law Congress, In passing: the McCarran Internal Security Law, gave the Attorney General extreme , powers for dealing with alien subversives. It auth orized him at his discretion to keep such aliens In custody as long as six months pending deportation proceedings against them. Three Federal Courts have now curbed the Attorney General's use of this power and taken him sharply to task for abusing It. In Detroit yesterday, two aliens who had been arrested in the nationwide roundup last month of about 86 alien subversives came up in the United States District Court. They had been held without bond. This denial of bail. Federal Judge Arthur A. Koscinski said, was "repugnant and an "abuse of discretion." Another judge found no evidence that the Attorney General had "exercised any discre tion.' So the two judges released the two aliens under bond. Here in San Francisco two weeks ago, United States District Judge Michael J. Roche similarly resisted the attempt of the Justice Department to deny bail to Nat Yanish, Ernest Fox and Kaino William Heikkila, aliens rounded up - under the McCarran law. Under our system, refusal of bail where bail ordinarily is indicated is equivalent to punishment without trial. At the least, a clear showing of the exercise of his discretion in withholding bail in each Individual case shauld be demanded from the Attorney General. In none of these cases was there such a showing the Attorney General's agents had apparently moved under the blanket theory that, as an Assistant United States Attorney said here, "the only protection against a subversive - alien Is to hold him In custody." so he joined the Canadian air force. In France, We agree thoroughly with Judge Koscmskl or .w ..nrif him and ' Detroit, who said: "The granting of absolute dis cretion to the Attorney General to deny ball to aliens pending deportation proceedings is repugnant 'to all principles which are the very foundation of our democracy and would defeat the very purpose for which the legislations was enacted ..." The McCarran law, hastily thrown together, is vague and tends to impinge on legal rights; that is one of its dangers. The courts are right in looking narrowly down the nose at the Attorney General's actions under the law. And the Attorney General had better school his agents to watch the bounds lest they overstep them and get in trouble with judges who properly endeavor to uphold the rights of individuals. -San Francisco Chronicle. . William Faulkner The Swedish Academy of Literature, which names the winners pi the Nobel prize in that field and never explains its choices, may not know it but the awarding of the Nobel prize for 1949 to William Faulkner last week is well timed as far as his publisher is concerned. The American author's latest volume, "Col lected Stories of William Faulkner," (Random House, $4.75), was a Book-of-the-Month-Club alternate selection, for September, and its sales ought to be boosted considerably by the inter national recognition j the Nobel award repres ents. : , I: I . . . . Faulkner's need to increase his sales was responsible for his writing of "Sanctuary," the book that brought him royalties, fame, and a trip to Hollywood where it was made into, a movie. Until he caught the attention of the critics 4hd aroused the public's morbid curiosity with "Sanctuary," William Faulkner had a hard time Just trying to make a living. His family be longed to the once-wealthy and powerful South ern aristocracy, ruined by the Civil War and reduced to trying to; keep up appearances and the old traditions amidst poverty and degen eration. Born in New Albany, Miss., the son f a livery-stable bwner, Faulkner went to school only intermittently after the fifth grade. During his teens he hung around the campus of the University of Mississippi at Oxford, reading a lot and "trying to find himself," as the trade- jargon goes. v j , . World War I aroused an interest, in flying but he wouldn't enlist with the Damyankees, he had two planes shot down under him and was wounded in action. Back in Oxford after the Armistice he attended university classes off and on but never graduated. He worked for the school, painting university buildings and serving as postmaster until he was fired for neglecting his work. ! Then he drifted to New Orleans, where the! jazz age was being born; drifted to New York, where he clerked in a .book store; hopped 'a freighter to Europe and knocked around on i the "Continent for a year. Again in Oxf ordj j Miss, he worked as a Veto Problem Also Troubling Nations of Western Europe in Forming United Council Br James M.Lonr ROME, Nov. 12-0!P)-The cause ef European confederation took a half-step forward, and a half step back, at the Rome meetings .. of the 13 nation council of Eu rope.' : j; J . Sharper than before, there was defined the difference in opin ion on European unity between the council's two parts the committee of foreign ministers that represent the governments, and the consultative assembly of international delegates to Stras bourg. f ! The halp-step forward came when the ministers signed for their governments a convention , of human rights. : . 1 ; ' rV- - : ' It provided for setting up a European supreme court of hu man rights, -r And it ; would give to that court the right to come into the country of any signatory -Ration and investigate com plaints of restricted liberties. As such, it represented a step toward delegation of some au thority to a supra-national or ganization. Britain, France, Belgium, Lux embourg, The Netherlands, Den mark, Norway, the Saar, West Germany, Italy, Ireland, Iceland and Turkey signed some of them with reservations based on amendments yet to be codified. Sweden and Greece indicated their approval, but delayed sign ing pending further instruction from their governments. But that was as far as the ministers were willing to go. The assembly's several pages of pro posals to increase its authority to include some limited legisla tive functions were sent back to Strasbourg. The ministers said the proposals "showed need of further study. Britain led the opposition. But continental nations within the council getting together on such steps as they desired. Britain's point was that such action should not be - binding upon council members who did not wish to go along with the proposals. This idea left the door open for some way around the present unanimity deadlock In which the council can take no action if one member opposes. 1 Altogether, the two-day meet ing of ministers was a disap pointment to the assembly. It was the first European council session in which West Germany, as an associate mem ber, was' given full right to speak on all subjects. She want ed to discuss the European army ; formation of which had been stalemated by debate over whether and how to Use ' Ger man troops. But her views were not heard. The ministers said the whole subject was outside their au thority. she said she would not object to Henry' Finds His Wife Hard Taskmaster By Henry McLeMore NEW YORK, Nov. 121 have never been over Niagara Falls in nothing but a barrel, but I know how it feels. In the past three days I have been em ployed by my wife at no i alary ar ranging . furni ture, rugs, pic tures and dooks in our new apart- mnf 1 tame is not inscribed tr a A i g m weight-lifting record M H I J I I (I I merit. 1 I was a cheery soul three days ago. At 43, going on 44, I could look forward to many more years of health and happiness. I had enough in the bank for one rainy day provided the weath er cleared In mid-afternoon my eyes were bright and sharp, there was a spring to my step and my automobile was nearly paid for. : Now I am the nearest thing to a wreck since Casey Jones and his engine got messed up around Danville. I had always thought that the ten thousand and one gags about how womeji couldn't make up their minds as to where to put furniture were well, nothing but gags. Like the jokes about how all husbands despise their mothers-in-law. But It isn't a joke. Nothing funnier about it than a fractured skull. It's dead true. , I have moved one j couch so often that I have bought it a commutation ticket to save money. When I approach it now, it pokes out the ticket for punching. It isn't the biggest couch in the world, but it is plenty heavy. Just why Jean thinks I am strong enough to wrestle it about as if it were a poached egg with cushions, puzzle&me. I never was a football player, I never made a living wrestling. and my name on any pages. But she thinks nothing of say ing, "Henry, move that couch from where i it is to the other side of the room.' Not wanting to appear as a weakling let a woman get that, idea- about her husband and he'll be cooking dinner inside of a week I grab it and, to the tune of snapping vertebrae, popping ligaments and a few delicate oaths tug it to another section of the room, i "Woman," I say, "woman, make up your mind. And if you can't make up your mind, let's buy a few camp stools and sit on them." "Just like a man, she an swers. "Doesn't want to do any thing around the house." That's not true. I am perfect ly willing to do anything around the house but kill myself. I'd rather live under a hedge In Central Park than knock my self off moving furniture. Let's not speak of picture hanging. My hair Is gray turned from red to gray in one night because of pictures. There are more holes in our walls than there are on a pine tree rented by woodpeckers. After I had bored the 100th hole, and was knee deep in plaster, I suggested that we put the pictures 04 the floor. Just " pile 'em up and let anyone who wanted to root through them. I'd like to meet the man who first thought of rugs. He did those men who came after him a tremendous disservice. Jean has had me put rugs everywhere but in the fireplace, and I'm giving even money that if my back holds out we'll put an old Persian in there before the week is out. But the thing that gets me the most is her eternal tag line. "Well make a sweet, livable place out of this apartment even if I have to kill you." I never heard of a corpse car ing too much about his sur roundings. Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc. 'SAY IT! ISN'T SO!'u i ' Arflgjfo V SOLDI W WW w mm L7 32 Basons (Continued from page one) a lot of political hay In the house. Neither sought his old seat. It remains to be seen what the new house democrats will be able to do. The senate however will have a formidable minority. Look them over: Tom Mahoney Is the veteran. Others are Jack Bain, Phil Brady, Vernon Bull, Austin Flegel, Russell Gardner, Bob Holmes,. Dick Neuberger, Man ley Wilson. Brady moved up from the house and Wilson Is a former house member who de feated Sen. Irving Rand. Brady, Bull and Wilson are labor union ists. - Of course the republicans have a team of stalwarts, including such veterans as Howard Belton, Carl Engdahl, Angus Gibson, Fred Lamport, Eugene Marsh, Paul Patterson, Dean Walker, Bill Walsh. Recruits from the house are Ben Day of Jackson county, Wayne Gill of Linn and Doug Yeater of Marion. Clear as a bell tone is the fact that the senate will be prime battleground for partisan causes, more particularly for rival views on new deal or conservative pol icies of government. Good de bates are in prospect with this array of talent enrolled in the senate membership. Christmas Tree Harvest Estimated Approximately 1,000,000 Christmas trees will be harvested In Oregon this year, state forestry department officials estimated Saturday. Christmas tree harvesting per mits will be required of Individ uals who engage in this activity on a commercial basis. The per mits must indicate the owner and legal description of the land from which the trees are to be remov ed and the Individual doing the cutting. LAY SAFE IN TRAFFIC! Lb appeal frem Salem's Traffic Safety Council i Pedestrians Often Invite Traffic Death SI Seven pedestrians have been killed in traffic accideats In Sa lem in the past two years and many were injured. Those facts, and the question, "Who was to blame?'" are behind the Salem traffic safety council's current safety education program, accord ing to Police Chief Clyde War ren. .! "Multiply the number of pedes trian deaths last year by the num ber of towns our size In the coun try and youH see why this busi ness of doing something to save those who must walk along our roads or streets is no academic problem with those of us who ab hor death especially unnecessary death!" Chief Warren said. The irony of the pedestrian fa tality problem, according to the council. Is that nearly two out of three pedestrians killed each year have no one to blame but them selves. They are the ones who use the roadway Incorrectly inviting death. . , . The most common unsafe pedes trian acts, according to the Nation al Safety council, are crossing be tween intersections and crossing against the light "Nearly one-half of the pedes trians who are killed in the city each year," Chief Warren said, "are crossing between intersec tions, from behind parked cars, walking in the roadway, playing or lying in the roadway, or hitching onto vehicles. With such a widespread disregard for their own lives, is it any wonder pedes trians kill themselves off with such amazing regularity?" S8BS GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty Final Rites for Mrs. LeMoyne Slated Today Funeral services for Mrs. lila Fox LeMoyne, 38, a native of Sa lem who died Friday at her home at 770 N. Front at., will be held at 10:30 a. m. .today from the Clough-Barrick chapeL Dr. Lloyd T. Anderson will of ficiate with concluding services in City View cemetery.- Born Lila Fox, Sept. 7, 1912, the daughter o Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Fox, Mrs. ! LeMoynes grew up in the Liberty district and attended Salem schools. She was married in August of 1945 to Jack LeMoyne, who survives here. Mrs. LeMoyne worked for sev eral years as a court reporter with the state industrial accident commission and also was employ ed with the Francis W. Smith credit bureau., I Survivors, besides the widower, Include two aunts, Mrs. H. M. Doud and Violet Hoffman, both of Salem, and several uncles. Wreck Victims All Reported in " 'Good' Condition Four persons Injured In three separate Salem area traffic accid ents over the week end all were reported in "good" condition at Salem hospitals Sunday night. Still confined at General were: Wade Harbin 38, Salem route 4, "W'e most now work for nalty! ... I feel it my duty to f orret the bitter words and rash promises made in the heat ef the campaign.' Better English 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "They are excessively happy, and neither one of them seem to have a care in the world." j 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "indisputable"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Benignant, beni ficially, belligerent, bibliopole. 4. What .does the word "gra tis" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with una that means "unprinci pled'? i ANSWERS 1. Say, "They are exceedingly happy, and neither one of them seems to have I a care in the world. 2. Pronounce with ac cent on second syllable, not the third. 3. Beneficially, 4. For nothing. (Pronounce the a as in grate). "He performed the work gratis.' 5. Unscrupulous. injured when his car tipped over near Aumsvillej Melvin L. Duna fon, 21, 3745 Brooks ave, knocked out in a motorcycle-auto crash in the city; and Robert Catterson, 14, Salem route 3, injured In a head on collision on South River road. Leo Norwest, 47, Salem route 3, wno suiiered a fractured femur in the River road crack-up was at Memorial hospital. Allen LeRoy Underwood, 18, 444 N. 14th st, bruised in the same accident, was dismissed from General. More than 100 professional pup pet show companies tour the U. S. every year. 1 43Men from County to Take Draft Physicals Marion county will send 43 men for pre-induction physical, ex amination to Eugene Thursday. They will go by bus. The group will Include: James Oliver Mehlhoff, Wallaca Dale Satern, Harold Ray Harvey, Robert George Jacobs, Harold W. Jackson, Gordon E. Johnson, John Lynch, John Curtis Suing, Clif ford Ray Carr, jr, Arthur Leo , . . vsojucjr, ijuaum uiarence zurDer, Thomas Alva Bartlett, Carlos Rios, Stanley E. Smith, Robert Leland Thorn, Marion Robert Risteen. - . Robert Duane Shangle, Warren Walter Osborne, Glen V. Doran, John Paul Wolf, Conrad LeRoy Owings, FJdon Frederick Caley, Don ' Richard McCracken, Bryon Robert Arbuckle, Dave E. Metz ler, Chester Douglas Smelser, Gene W. Rushton, Ralph Garfield Wilmes, Francis Lawrence Hend ricks, Johnny Daniel Crolsan, Jesse Thomas Hartline, Mark! Frank Cotton, William Theodore Friesen, Albert Douglas Mills, Lee Jay Farm, Melvin Lee Meals, Philip Wilson Stoehr, Ralph Hom er Nodurfth, Johnny C. Phillips, Curtis G. Pangle, Rodger Norville Shannon, John Peter StuckarL Those transferred . to other boards are Nathaniel L. Hooper to New Jersey, Lawrence Ray Stockton to Colorado and James William Sandefer to Eugene. Truman Undecided On Congress Recall ' WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 - (fl5) President Truman returned to Washington today after a five-day rest .cruise on the presidential yacni wuuamsourg. - - The president said he still had not made up his mind about call ing congress back ahead of its November 27 scheduled convening date. Mr. Truman said he planned to talk with Vice President Bark ley and other congressional lead ers early this week and then reach a decision. ... Weather Forecast: tAINCOAT IWr IT YOUt MA1T ALLIGATOR Today! $7.50 to $53.50 4S4 N. Capitol . Ia Capitol Shopping Center Open Monday and Friday Evenings Til I How Much 1 Do You tCiiou about Christian Science? If you are not correctly informed about Christian Science, how can you discuss it intelligently? Take this opportunity to learn some of the facts about this religion that has done so much to heal human ills and free sufferers from human misery. Attend A FREE LECTURE . ENTITLED Christian Science: A Foundation for World Brotherhood and Peace Arthur C. Whitney, C. S.r of Chicago, III. Member of the Board of Lectureship of. The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts' Tuesday, November 14 8 P.M., in Parrish Jr. High School j . North Capitol and TT Street ' First Church of Christ, Scientist of Salem, Oregon Cordially Invites You to Attend
