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Truman's Press Conference ,
President Truman handled himself pretty
well in his Thursday press conference when
asked about the Eisenhower candidacy. He
clererly "covered first base" by saying he would
keep Ike right where he is unless the latter asks
to be relieved. That will dash the hopes of Ike's
boosters of getting their candidate to come home
and take part in the campaigning. The Taft
crowd is left free to ride the range rounding up
delegates with promises that can be accepted at
face value.
Then the President protected his own position
by saying he would oppose Ike as a Republican
nominee, even though he praised him; and at
the same time Truman kept mum as to his own
intentions.
ft is a genuine ordeal for the President to
face several score nimble-witted reporters, some
frankly hostile, and handle the questions they
toss him. Sometimes the President, as did FDR,
gets irritable; but Thursday he took on the gang
on a slippery field and handled himself well.
At his press conference Truman confirmed
that J. Harold fcGrath would stay as attorney
general and further that McGrath would direct
the clean-up of wrongdoing in administrative
offices. This is an unfortunate end of the burst
of fervor the president showed on his return
from Key West. McGrath is strictly a politician,
with no zeal for reform and little energy as an
administrator. His retention in the cabinet seems
to be the result of the President's own pique at
the .press and others, for he had made up his
mind to drop McGrath. Premature publicity and
fast footwork by McGrath's friends induced the
President to change his mind. So McGrath stays
on; but this is another sign that Harry Truman
will not. He's had enough.
proportion of O & C acreage at the time the
lands were revested in the government.
A partial distribution might be made, but it
would seem better on account of these conflicts
to wait for decision on whether these lands are
part of O & C or not. Frank Sever, Portland
attorney representing the counties, is going to
Washington to do what he can to expedite this
settlement; also to protect the interest of the
counties in the revenues from O & C lands.
Revenues From "Controverted"
Lands
Friday's Stateman carried a story from its
Washington special correspondent, A. Robert
Smith, reporting an interview with the comp
troller general on distribution of certain forest
revenues. These revenues were derived from
sales of timber from the so-called controverted
O & C lands. They are administered by the
Forest Service but claimed by the Department
of the Interior for O & C land administration.
The revenues, amounting to over $4,500,000 are
held in escrow pending settlement of the dis
pute. Judge Bayly of Lane County has suggested
filing a suit to decide the controversy, and pend
ing (hat a distribution of at least 25 per cent
which is the share received from the Forest
Service (it is now 75 per cent from O & C).
Comptroller General Warren is not disposed
to make a distribution unless the counties agree,
because seven of the 18 O 8c C counties would
cot be eligible to participate under the Forest
Service formula.
Here are the difficulties in the way of a dis
tribution in advance of determination of title to
the lands:
(1) The Forest Service distribution of 25 per
cent must go to "schools and roads." The O & C
distribution goes into the county general fund.
(At present Marion County devotes three
fourths of the forest service revenues to roads
and one-fourth to schools).
(2) The Forest Service distributes revenues
only to the counties where the timber located
wtts sold. The Bureau of Land Management
pools all the receipts from O & C lands and dis
tributes them annually to the 18 counties in the
Thus-far Man-of-the-Year
Now that the saga is over, we can certainly
agree on suggestions that thus far in 1952 Capt.
Henrik Carlsen is Man-of-the-Year. Seldom has
a story caught the popular fancy as the one
about the mdominable skipper of the stricken
ship Flying Enterprise. And seldom has there
been such widespread regret as is voiced over
the failure to bring the ship to shore.
But the captain still is a hero for our money.
He had both courage and sense. It is not always
they go together. He knew his ship like a book.
If he hadn't, he would not have known at just
what moment "all hope was lost. And he waited
until that moment to jump into the sea. He was
stubborn but of sound judgment; courageous
and cool. The same can be said for Mate Dancy
of the tug Turmoil who apparently was willing
to go right to the end on Carlsen's calculations.
The plaudits of the world aren't going to buy
Carlsen's groceries, however unless by chance
the movies and television take over. And so far
as his company is concerned, we'd say he'd
earned something else than the mere promise of
a new command. Military decorations are not in
order for the peacetime merchant marine, but
we'd like to see some sizeable reward for a man
who will stick to a ship with an 80 -degree list
in the raging seas and still know when the fight
is lost.
New US Route Across State
Want to go to Ogallala, Nebraska? Then take
the new UJS. Highway 26 at Astoria or inter
mediate points and it will get you there. In Ore
gon the route follows the Sunset Highway to
Portland, thence east over the Mt. Hood Loop
and Warm Springs Highway to Madras thence
through Prineville and John Day to Vale and
Nyssa, and on to Ogallala.
This gives national recognition to a new route
across Oregon, parts of which are quite scenic,
and entitles it to receive federal road funds. The
designation comes as a result of the active work
of Chambers of Commerce at Madras and Prineville.
"Full steam ahead," says President Truman,
for the business of rearming. "Full steam ahead"
calls the country for the business of cleaning
out the grafters. The blast the President gave
out on returning from Key West seems to have
been just a frizzle.
President Truman played some piano selec
tions from Chopin for Prime Minister Churchill.
Too bad Winnie didn't bring his easel along and
do a painting for HST.
Now we'll have to quit a half-hour early to
hear Lawson McCall "commentate" at 5:30 on
KGW. He will be one of the few radiorators
worth listening to.
"Bursted Main Forms Lake" reads an Ore
gonian headline. Grammar got "bursted" too.
Democratic Candidate Possibilities Divided
Between Unpoliticals, Men Truman Dislikes
By STEWART and
JOSEPH ALSOP
WASHINGTON Shortly after
taking over the Democratic Na
tional Committee, Chairman
Frank McKin
ney frankly
told President
Truman that he
would have to
know the Pres
ident's own fu
ture intentions
before be could
plan party
strategy. Tru
man replied
that be had not
as yet reached
any firm de
cision about
running again.
meant to do
disastrous, and he has publicly
described him as the man he
"would like to run against."
As the probability of Sen.
Taft 'a nomination stows leas,
therefore, the President will
be more inclined to follow his
undoubted personal ln-
but that he
so within sixty
days. The President added that
he would pass
I
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the word to the
faithful at that
time.
The forego
ing report bears
every mark of
gilt - edged re-
uanuity. nence,
if the President
keeps his word,
the second
great uncertain
factor will be
removed from
the political
picture before the end of next
month at the latest. General of
the Army Dwight D. Elsenhower
has announced his Republican
candidacy, with effects even
more electrifying tbw had been s which the chief Justice could
c II nation, which Is not to run.
On the other side of the equa
tion, however, is the simple fact
that with Gen. Eisenhower's Re
publicanism now openly pro
fessed, the President will have a
very hard time finding any other
reasonably available candidate
acceptable to himself.
His own preference, of course,
is for Chief Justice Fred Vinson,
and he has pretty certainly indi
cated ' this preference to his
friend of the high bench. But the
chief justice, who at first seemed
tempted by the opportunity tent
atively offered him by the Presi
dent, now appears more and
more disinclined to leave the
court for politics. He has said
unequivocally that he will not do
so, unless the President can ar
range a transitional appoint
ment, so thai he will not have
to leap straight from the high
bench to the hustings.
The chief Justice's distaste
for such a leap, which he re
gards as contrary to the best
traditions of the court, looks
like betas' Impassible to. over
come. At the same time, there
ta not the slightest indication
that the President Is arranging
any transitional appointment
foreseen. When President Tru
man .also Teaches his decision
even if he merely communicates
it to the Democratic inner circle,
the whole picture will begin to
soma clear.
The KesabUeaa
saaennewera
it wnien la already so ina-
4s likely ta influence
the President's decision con
siderably. Tor Truman Is also
known 4a regard Sea, Robert
A,.Taft aa the only serious
candidate whose
-would - be genuinely
aeeept with dignity, and It Is
very hard to imagine what
. snch an appointment coald be.
For these reasons, a Vinson
candidacy is growing 'less and
less likely by the day, unless
perhaps the Republicans end by
choosing Sen. Taft, while further
revelations of corruption abso
lutely blacken the Truman ad
ministration. In this crisis situa
tion, the chief justice might con
ceivably be dragged, almost by
main force, into the race.
Meanwhile, the- -other poten
tial Democratic candidates can
be roughly divided into two
classes those not available for
sound political reasons, and those
not personally acceptable to the
President. Those not available
include Vice President Alben
Barkley and Speaker of the
House Sam Rayburn, whose re
spective ages of seventy-four
and seventy would appear to rule
them out; Sen. Richard Russell
of Georgia, the real leader and
ablest man of the Senate Demo
crats, who is ruled out by the
racial problem, and almost all
the other more eminent senior
Democrats in Congress and the
country.
Thooe not acceptable to the
President Include, by way of
contrast, almost all the promis
ing new men who have recent
ly come up in the party Sen
ators Paul Doug-las of Illinois
and Estes Kefauver af Ten-
neasee are two obvious ex
amples. Ta be sure, if Truman
decides not to run again, he
may ' have a very hard time
stemming the party tide to
ward one of these likely win
ners. And although Paul Doug
las has denied any Presiden
tial ambitions In language
close to Gen. Sherman's, the
Democratic leaders who want
a winner will then be knocking
an bis door.
Over-all, in short, the Presi
dent must either run again or
pretend to run again until he has
engineered the nomination of
some dark horse he happens to
like, such as Sen. Robert Kerr of
Oklahoma or run the risk of see
ing a men he does not like win
the . Democratic nomination. It
will be a hard choice for the
President, complicated as it is by
uncertainty about the probable
character of the opposition.
One must add that this hard
choice for the President is also
a hard fact for the country; for
the shortage of inspiring politi
cal leaders with national stand
ing has now grown more alarm
ing .than any other single feature
of the national scene.
(Copyright. 1SS2.
New Ttorfcr Hers Id Tribtrn Inc.
ts
President's
Message Gets
British Praise
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
It's an old truism that the way
things look depend on where you
are standing.
In the United States, President
Truman's State of the Union
message was received, Judging
from the weight of comment I
have seen and heard as something
less than masterful.
His assessment of 1951 as a
year of great gains has been
widely questioned, and the mes
sage in general seemed uninspir
ing. In Britain, however, the report
seems to have been well received.
The Manchester Guardian, tag-. ,
ged as liberal, even compared it
with Prime Minister Churchill's
Christmas broadcast in grimness
and uncompromising devotion to
the tasks of world affairs.
rf D aw njrj
Salem School Board was minding its P's and Q's the other
night when it decided to name the proposed new East Salem
school plain "Hoover School." Not "Herbert Hoover," mind you,
but just plain "Hoover." This, the board rea
soned, would help it out of the jackpot if any
anti-Herbert Hoover citizens should object to
naming the school after the former president.
After all, the school could have been named
after a vacuum cleaner.
Anyway, while Christmas street decorations
are going down displays of garden seeds are
going up in local store windows. Makes a fel
low feel so Springy he's almost ready to take
off his gloves and unfasten the top button on
And a High Street sports shop already Is win-
"Mr. Truman's steadfastness
may help us to brace ourselves
for the equally stern message
which the Chancellor of the Ex
chequer is preparing for the re
assembly of Parliament," the pa
per said.
The News Chronicle of London,
also tagged liberal, looked at the
domestic rather than the interna
tional angles of the address and
decided that the President was
steering "well left of center," but
that, because of political" reasons,
bis social program. will never be
fully carried out "though there is
no real economic reason why it
should not be. The American eco
nomy is so strong that it could
carry the enormous burden of
armament without reducing the
standard of living of its people ."
A lot of the President's advis
ers have also been saying the
same thing about America's eco
nomic strength but the Defense
Production Administration al
ready is ordering cuts in consum
er production, just the same.
There are non-economic argu
ments against the President on
this subject, too.
The London Daily Herald, La
bor, thinks the idea known over
here as "Point Four" is the thing.
"Much depends on how seriously
Congress takes Mr. Truman's re
quest for more economic aid to
Asia's poorest peoples. Many mil
lions will turn to Communism in
their despair unless the West
his overcoat .
dow-adlng a Christmas lay-away plan for 1952 Tuletide.
Ladd's Market on South 12th Street has its own plan for
helping the March of Dimes. On Jan. 25-26 a 2 per cent credit
will be allowed on all purchases. And the credit will be turned
over to the MOD . . .
Another unique way to produce dimes for the March of
Dimes turned up at KSLM offices . . . There the boos decided
the familiar radio term "spot announcement" was undignified
and Just plain old ugly. So, with the consent of the station per
sonnel, ho decreed that a dime should go Into the kitty for the
Mareh any time someone slipped up and used that spotty old
phrase Instead of the more polished and proper "commercial in
sertion' of plain "announcement.' . . .
Comes to hand a product put out by the State of Kentucky
designed to balance that state's budget although old Kaintuck
puts out another product designed to throw most people off bal
ance. The budget-balancing deal, though, Is the winter issue of
an official magazine published by the Commonwealth of Ken
tucky. Not only is it chock-full of articles about Bluegrass pro
ducts (including Rosemary "I sing the way I feel" Clooney) but
it is loaded with big, juicy ads which must supply enough re
venue to offset all that money people lose on the horses down
there,
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does more to help them."
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The Independent London Times
said "it was an awesome pic
ture that Mr. Truman sketched of
industrial America armed and
arming, of a huge machine mov
ing towards its greatest speed and
momentum." Then it adds slyly:
"To steer it well will call for
highest wisdom, and sober coun
sel to the helmsman will be the
duty of America's friends and
allies," chief of whom, of course,
are the British for whom the
Times seeks to speak.
. inn ""in i yiiniwiifc . I
GRIN AND BEAR IT
by Lichty
v
"Yoa'd think the income tax people would adopt tha practice af
giving yoo coffee and -doughnuts alter okleediug you ..-? -
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fallen short of a fair return, would
the commissioner have authorized
higher rates now to enable tha
company to recoup the deficiency?
if a company Is held strictly to a
maximum earning power with no
protection against adversity it will
be tempted to increase expendi
tures so as to absorb such excess,
and that is bad business.
When the commisiioner deter
mines rates the company ought
not be penalized if through effi
ciency and promotion it succeeds
in outrunning the estimates. If
the overrun is excessive the com
missioner can move to reduce
rates.
Determining telephone rates is
a difficult task because of the com
plications involved, notably in tha
corporate structure of the Bell
system and the interrelations of
the component corporations. The
facts have been pretty well
threshed out in preceding hearings
and are familiar to the department
staff whose opinion, as the new
commissioner states, is reflected
in his order.
At any rata it can be said that
the increase allowed is a modest
one, and no one can truthfully say
that the consumer interest, has
been neglected. The company's
earnings should continue to grow
because tha territory it serves is
growing and because it should
realize more from its huge post
war investment as time .goes on.
But of course it must earn more
to keep pace with inflation and to
attract the flow of capital neces
sary to keep up with the demand
for more facilities for communi-
Literary Guideposf j
By W. O. ROGERS ,
A CHRISTMAS BOOK: AN
ANTHOLOGY FOR MOD
ERNS, compiled and arrang
ed by D. B. Wyndham Lewis
and G. C. Heseltine (Dent
Dutton; $3.50)
Sir Roger de Coverley said,
we are reminded here, that it
was "very well that Christmas
should fall out In the middle of
Winter . when the poor People
would suffer very much from
their Poverty and Cold, if they
had not good Chear, warm Fires
and Christmas Gambols to sup
port them."
We are all poor enough at
least to enjoy the Chear and
Gambols provided bountifully by'
this book . . . first issued 25
years ago and now, because it is
so popular, prettily printed again
for, we hope, another 25 years.
It is not the usual collection; its
virtue is that it is not new, but
old, and as quaint as some of the
carols in it, and as flavorsome as
the mulled ale or sack posset it
tells how to concoct. It quotes
Henri Murger, ClaudeL Thack
eray, Milton, Tennyson, Malory,
Shakespeare . . . "Twelfth
Night," of course.
It tells us how good Per Gynt
2i
freed a farmer from a pest ol
Trolls; how Villon stole on; tha
holiday in 1458; how the witches
danced in Salem in 1692, how a
little girl "did a very good day's
work" on Dec. 25, 1771, hi Bos
ton; how Field - Marsha I Lord
French ordered his troops Irt tha
trenches to stop singing carols in
1914. This is the season of gifts,
so Martial need not have; been
.apologetic for what he gave his
friend Quintlanus: "I hav gent
you nothing but my homely lit
tie books." And it has always
been "followed by a day of reck
oning: The Christmas bills run
up by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster,
for his Countess, or by his Coun
tess for her Thomas, for cloth,
furs, silver and tallow amounted,
in 1314-15, to about 1,200 pounds.
There's a dismal prophetla
note, too, in a Christmas time
pronouncement in 1875 from tha
Massachusetts Colony, which had
"a longing Desire the Indian
Wars might be ended; and we
presumed ere this, that the Pow
ers of Perswasion or Force
would have made a happy Chan
ge, -by altering the Mjnds, or re
straining the Malice, or our Hea
then Foes."
Your Health
By Herman N.
Bundesen, M.D.
Drug addiction has been much
in the news the last few months.
Reports of school-age children
in danger of becoming addicts
should make everyone recognize
the great danger to society from
this habit.
There is need for more people
to learn the underlying causes of
this serious disorder, and also the
ways to cure it.
Why do people become addicts?
The underlying reason almost al
ways has to do with a personal
ity problem. Usually, people who
become . addicted are the pleasure-seeking
type, or else they
have psychoneurosis personali
ties. It is extremely rare to find
an addict who is an emotionally
normal, mature person.
It is a strange fact about ad
diction that persons who learn
about drugs and begin their use
through associating with addicts
are much more likely to become
addicts themselves than are per
sons who receive the drugs from
a doctor to relieve pain. Addic
tion is something like a conta
gious disease, usually spreading
from person to person.
There is another danger, too
the use of one drug commonly
leads to others. Thus, most ma
rijuana addicts eventually be
come addicted to morphine or
heroin.
Some types of drugs, when
first used, create a feeling of ease
and comfort in the individual.
They have the effect of reducing
emotional tension, as the nerves
are falsely rested. Worries van
ish, and the individual taking the
drug can dream and put off tha
time of decision until tomorrow.
Many addicts have a feeling
that drugs increase their effi
ciency. Actually, addicting drugs
decrease mental efficiency, and
do not increase courage or physi
cal prowess.
What happens when morphine
is suddenly withdrawn from tha
addict? Eight to fourteen hours
after his last dose of morphine
he becomes restless and tosses in
his sleep. Then his eyes begin to
water, his nose "runs," he; per
spires and yawns excessively.
Goose pimples appear, and tha
Eupils of his eyes dilate. VHis
reathing is heavy, and his blood
sugar is lowered. The person be
comes increasingly restless Snd,
In some cases, the arms, legs, and
feet twitch almost constantly Ha
has severe muscle cramps, pack
ache, and generalized aches
throughout the. body.
These severe symptoms even
tually pass off, but not before
five to seven days after the last
dose of morphine. Withdrawal of
barbiturates brings somewhat
similar symptoms, and in serious
cases may endanger life Jeven
more than morphine.
;:
Morphine and other addicting
drugs can cause a complete Orien
tal and physical demoralization.
Their effects are so serious that
treatment is rarely successful un
less it Is under the direction of
specialists in a hospital TheFed
eral Government supports two
such hospitals which specialize
in curing addiction, one atiLex
Ington, Kentucky, and the other
at Ft. Worth, Texas. s
Modern treatment avoids tha
severe symptoms described
above. It withdraws the addicting
drug slowly by substituting less
harmful drugs. The other import
ant part of the program is men
tal and psychiatric treatment for
the personality difficulty which
is at the bottom of the drug
habit. ;.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
E. M.: Win any special diet
help mental illness?
Answer: There is no definite
evidence that diet will have any
special effect on a mental dis
order. ?
Congressional Quiz
Q Is there any formal move
ment to draft Gen. Eisenhower
for the presidency?
A Yes. A "Draft Ike" cam
paign formally got underway
Nov. 29 when a national head
quarters for the Eisenhower-for-President
movement was opened
in Topeka, Kan., under the di
rection of former Sen. Harry
Darhy (R-Kan.) and others. Sen.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R
Mass.) became Eisenhower's
campaign manager Nov. 17 and
the Washington office, under di-
Bettor English
By D. C. WILLIAM 8
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "He hasn't worked any
for the last three weeks."
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "preface"?
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Itinerary, irasci
ble, idiosyncracy, ignoramus.
4. What does the word "actu
ate" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with as that means "to exile,
banish, exclude"?
ANSWERS
1. Omit any. and say, "for the
past three weeks." 2. Pronounce
pref-as, e as -in let (not as in
me), a as in aee unstressed. 3.
Idiosyncrasy. 4. To put into ac
tion; move to action. "He was
actuated by a desire to succeed."
5. Ostracize.
rection of Sen. Frank Carlson
(R-Kan.), opened Dec. 22.
Q Have any Cammunlst
groups registered under the In
ternal Security Act?
A No, according to the Jus
tice Department. The Internal
Security law, enacted Sept. 22,
1950, requires the registration of
what it defines as "Communist
action" and "Communist-front"
organizations.
Q Why doesn't the Justice
Department prosecute the Com
munists for not registering? -
A It cannot do that until the
Subversive Activities Control
Broad determines if a given or
ganization comes under the Act
and so must register. Hearings
have been in progress since April
23, 1951, on the Justice Depart
ment's application for ah order
requiring the Communist Party,
USA, to register. f f
Q Why should it take so long
to determine that the Communist
Party is Communist? ;
A The Justice Department,
which wants to prove the CP is a
"Communist-action" group, must
convince the board that, among
other things, the party's way is
paid and its policies are direct
ed by the world Communist
movement, that its operations are .
secret and that its leaders subor
dinate allegiance to the U5. to
allegiance to world communism.
The board's decision is subject ta
Supreme Court review. .:
Q I hear Churchill's going ta
talk ta Congress. When? i
A Vice President Barkley an
nounced Dec. 21 that British
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill will address a joint session of
Congress "about Jan. 17." 1 S : .
I am tha light of the world.
Jesus Christ
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