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Congregational, now a century old, that it is
very much alive, eager to perform it task
through another span of a hundred years.
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Reform, but Not Too Much
The Portland election proved the, truth of the
old adage that people want reform but tire of it
toon. Four years ago they elected Mrs. Dorothy
McCullough Lee by a decisive vote. She proceed
ed to give just the kind of administration she
had promised: law enforcement. The city was
cleaned up, its departments have been well ad
ministered; but in the election Mrs. Lee placed
second to Fred Peterson. The latter wasn't run
ning on any liberal platform but doubtless was
the beneficiary of the discontent with Mrs. Lee,
and also of public reaction to the contentious
Commissioner Bennett who was recalled. Mrs.
Lee has another chance in the runoff in Novem
ber, but her friends and friends of Teform will
need to muster forces to keep her as mayor.
.Portland voters again rejected a measure to
increase the pay of its mayor and commission
er. Salaries stand at the 1913 figures $6000 for
mayor, $5000 for commissioner. One wonders
how they get good people to serve at these sal
aries. Perhaps with Bennett out they will be
willing to grant salary raises to the heads of the
city government, but it's hard to tell. Maybe
they'll elect Bennett again some time.
Church Centennial
As one centennarian The Statesman-extends
the hand of greeting to another Salem institu
tion which now has rounded out its first hun
dred years, the First Congregational Church. If,
a the cartoonist has said, the first hundred
years are the hardest than this church, which
has passed through the pioneer stage and sur
vives in great vigor, may look forward to fruit
ful years.
But what is time to a church? And when are
its labors ended? So long as sin i3 loose in the
world and souls are benighted and burdened
with care it has work to do.
Historically the Congregational Church was a
product of the independency which flowered in
the Puritan movement in England in the 17th
century. Intolerance there prompted migration
to the New World and particularly to New Eng
land where Congregationalism flourished and
still has its major seat. Its distinctive principle
is the independence of the congregation in de
fining its doctrine and in its government. This
led naturally to a liberal theology which cul
minated in the early part of the 19th century in
the Unitarian secession. In spite of this freedom
the Congregational Church has maintained a
marked unity in its national organization, has
been spared the heresy trials which beset other
communions, and has proven itself a positive
force, particularly in the application of the
Christian gospel to political and social life.
The Salem church, like the denomination with
which it is identified, has exerted influence out
of proportion to its numbers. The leadership of
Its ministers has been felt in the community as
well as the church, and ranking high among the
number surely must be counted the present pas
tor. Dr. Seth R. Huntington, who combines a
deep spirituality with a zeal for truth and social
sensitivity.
Congregationalism is "lean." It strips doctrine
down to what it considers essentials. Its meeting-houses
traditionally have been plain with a
minimum of embellishment. But it strives to be
vital. And it may well be said of Salem First
Tribute to President Smith
The inspiration for the banquet honoring
President and Mrs. G. Herbert Smith came from
the students of Willamette University. But it
met with enthusiastic response from members of
the faculty and board of trustees. In the ten
years of Dr. Smith's administration the univer
sity has made notable strides. New buildings
Baxter Hall and McCulloch stadium have been
erected, older buildings renovated; the endow
ment has been increased. Enrollment has grown
too and a much larger faculty has been employ
ed to care for the greater number of students.
Progress has been made in the field of schol
arship, with accreditation achieved for the col
leges of music and law. Willamette graduates
win their share of fellowships and make good
records in advanced study.
We in Salem are apt to take the university
for granted it is just part of the community.
But it plays a vital part. It is a substantial eco
nomic asset, and what is of greater importance
it gives tone to the community, contributing to
its cultural needs and helping to make Salem a
fine place of residence.
President Smith has given the university su
perior leadership for a decade, and the univer
sity constituency and the community join in ex
pressing appreciation for that service and con
tinued support for the university.
Odd Fellows Convention
Salem is host to the Odd Fellows of the state
and affiliated organizations. This is their 96th
state convention. The host lodge, "Chemeketa No.
One is a hundred years old. The parent organi
zation was founded in Baltimore in 1819.
The Odd Fellows and their auxiliary Rebe
kahs are wholesome folk who find in their or
ganizations real fraternity and opportunity for
good works. Drawn from city and town and
country they represent a cross section of Amer
ican citizenship. Salem gives them a hearty wel
come and hopes that their visit in the capital
city will prove profitable and enjoyable.
At Hutchinson, Kansas merchants rolled back
prices to 1902 levels for one hour, in celebrating
the premiere of a movie that was filmed in their
city last summer. Women's nylon stockings were
sold for 39c a pair, and men's suits for $15.93.
If women had to wear the 1902 styles the prices
wouldn't tempt them at all and men wouldn't
want the boiled shirts and detachable collars of
that era.
Some big double - deck buses straight from
London are touring America, driven by genuine
English transport workers. An advertising stunt,
trying to attract Americans to visit Britain
and bring some dollars with them.
The Eisenhowers have been doing the Grand
Tour. In London they called on the Queen and
the Queen Mother. The visits serve to delay his
homecoming, and are the only surceasa from
worry he'll have for quite a spell.
Republican Candidate for Secretary of State
Would Probably Continue Policy of Acheson
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
(JP) News Analyst
Analysis of recent statements
by Dean Acheson and John Fos
ter Dulles, mentioned as the
secretary's pos
sible Republi
can successor,
reveals some
nimble political
footwork but
no vast differ
ences on policy.
Dulles has
been saying
that contain
ment of Com
munist aggres
sion - is not
enough, that
the free world can and should
take the initiative in establishing
conditions which will put Russia
In her place and relieve the ten
sion. He wants to serve notice
that aggression will not only bo
met wherever it occurs, but in
addition there will be retaliation
mgainst the homeland of the ag
gressor. Acheson says nobody ever
Intended for containment to
stop there. That the "positions
of strenrth" part of his prog-ram
is merely to preserve the
conditions under which other
things can be done on the posi
tive side of winning the cold
war, and that action the
entire program of the Western
powers speaks louder than
words to the Kremlin.
You can bet your bottom dol
lar that what Dulles Is saving is
not embarrassing the conduct of
American foreign policy. That is
the last thing he wants to do.
Mostly what he's, saying is that
he and his party would imple
ment the policy better. After all,
he and the late Senator Vanden
berg and sc.- other Republicans
have contributed importantly to
the policy as it is.
Dulles and other critics,
however, do seem to be trying
to get away from vagueness.
Diplomats will tell yea that
the worst thing you can do is
to try to outguess coming
e rents by fixing a policy now
to take eare ef uncrystallized
onti agencies. That Is what
Dulles wevld da wit his wan-
lng that aggression will not
again be met merely at its
point of impact, as In Korea.
In this, at least, he would es
cape from the diplomatic fear of
committing one's mind before
events are clear. It has never
been clear to me why cogitating
over what you might do under
certain circumstances would not
be helpful, even if they arrive In
unanticipated guise.
American failure to realize
that we would react as we did
react to aggression In Korea
was. to mind, an invitation to
the Communists to do Just
what they did.
Maybe we are not ready to ad
vertise what we will do, fox in
stance, if Red China intervenes
in Indochina, lest strong commit
ments be taken as a dare. Yet it
seems that policy planners should
know by now just how far our
interests would take us, so that
we could be ready, as we were
not ready In Korea, to implement
policy when it has been decided.
Having to lmproviso after tho
event is weakness.
Literary Guidepost
fBj W. O. Rogers
MAN FROM ABILENE, by
Kevin McCann (Doubleday:
$2.50); THE DEFENSE OF
WESTERN EUROPE, by Drew
Middleton (Appleton - Century
Crofts; $3.50)
"Once this war is won." Eisen
hower wrote in a letter while he
was busy whipping rivalries and
jealousies out of the Allies and
trying to make a fighting team,
"I hope never again, to hear the
word 'politics.' "
If the word had not been
heard, the McCann book might
not have been written, and the
Middleton book might not have
had the same look. McCann, now
president of Defiance College, is
identified on the jacket as one of
Eisenhower's closest personal and
professional associates."
His subject is Eisenhower's
rise to leadership. Quoting the
general's diary, letters and "Cru
sade in Europe," McCann pre
sents in a helpful way the picture
of a figure in uniform, and his
relevant background. For in
stance, if he does not fully ex
plain, nevertheless he points out
that the man whose record at
West Point was indifferent stood
at the top of his class in the very
difficult Command and General
Staff School at Fort Leaven
worth. In a couple of crucial
years he rose from considerable
obscurity to lead the world's
greatest armies. For the voting
public that still wants to know
what Eisenhower thinks domes
tically, however, this volume has
no new answers. A Columbia
trustee finds in the general's
speeches "emphasis on the ob
vious rather than elucidation of
the obscure and says be is in
favor of "the family, church and
school . . . freedom, cooperation
. . . the Mosaic Decalogue and tho
Sermon on the Mount." We al
ready knew that.
The book, informative in its
way, was not intended to do this
kind of job, of course. Middle
ton's volume, though jacket copy
stresses Eisenhower, in fact
throws comparatively little light
on the general himself. It sur
veys, not too optimistically, tho
state of European defenses, the
need of our Allies, and the tem
per of Russia.
Worthwhile books for which
there was no review space this
week include "The Trouble With
Cinderella: An Outline of Identi
ty," by Artie Shaw, Farrar,
Straus & Young, $3.75; "A Bed
for the Night: The Story of E.
M. Statler and His Remarkable
Hotels." by Rufus Jarman, Har
per, $3.50; "The Monongahela,"
by Richard Bissell, Rivers of
America Series, Rinehart, $3.50;
"Shakespeare and Elizabethan
Poetry," by M. C. Bradbrook,
Oxford. $3.50.
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offering "absolution" to Southern
Democrats for the hitherto mor
tal sin of voting for a Republican
if tho Democrats Insist on FEPC
Russell's candidacy may be re
garded primarily as a defense
tactic. W. Averell Harriman used
to play polo, but astride tho
Democratic mule he seems to be
making little progress with the
rank and file of the party.
In brief the Democrats are at
sixes and sevens. Apparently
their strategy is to wait and seo
what the Republicans do. If Taft
is tho GOP nominee they will
profess to see brighter prospects
and may try a draft on Truman
or Stevenson. If Eisenhower is
the nomine then they may
figure on a "sacrifice play" and
Sut up Barkley or Ray burn or
lefauver. No deadlock over a
candidate seems in sight, though
there will be plenty of back
stage bargaining before the sel
ection is made.
The party platform i3 sure to
precipitate a hot fight. It did last
time over the civil rights plank.
The committee's resolution was
a straddle, and Humphrey of
Minnesota forced a strong sub
stitute through the convention.
Saturday night the ADA voiced
a demand for another firm com
mitment for the civil rights pro
gram advocated by President
Truman which is poison to the
old Democracy of the South. It
will bo much easier to arrive at
a compromise on candidiates
than it will on this sharply con
troversial plank in the party
platform.
Tho Republican convention
comes first, meeting on July 7th.
The Democrats will convene at
the same place Chicago two
weeks later. With state primaries
and conventions about over at
tention now will focus on these
two gatherings where history
will be made and the country's
future affected by the decisions
of delegates.
Now that 30 Oregon politicians have won their bids to be
come delegates to their parties' national conventions in July,
they ought to be put wise as to why the city of Chicago could
afford to pay a good-sized fortune to get both
political powows. Hotel space in the Windy
City will be tighter than the race between
Taft and Eisenhower. So the hotels which are
arranging space for conventioneers give them
f' - T"-fA- I a choice either take a reservation starting
i i'ttVT;i I Sunday morning of the convention week
(which is about two days before the hair-pulling
really gets underway) or you get nothing.
Then there's also the small matter of a $50 de
posit on that reservation.
At least that's the tale of woo being told by one Northwest
Congressman who tried and failed to buck the reservation line.
So his next play will be an end run. He'll bunk in vVaukegan,
just north of Chicago, and commute by train each day to the
smoke-filled arena. He calculates this will also solve tho food
problem, becaaso ho can eat in tho dinner enroute Instead of
swarming among tho maaoes who will queue up outside Chicago's
restaurants during tho torrid month of July.
And as to the matter of bunking in Waukegan the bunk
there is probably as good as the bunk in Chicago.
When Sen. Wayne Morse goes speechmaking about tho coun
try ho keeps in touch with his Washington, D. C. office by long
distance telephone every day. The day he arrived in Oregon for
his pre. primary electioneering, the Senator's first call Included a
stormy chapter about the whereabouts of his manuscripts on
"Ethics in Government," which ho planned to use as the topic of
a major address at Eugene. Well his secretary insisted that Morse
had it with him.
"No, I don't," Morse retorted. "I'll bet you a steak dinner
you forgot to give me that manuscript." The secretary covered
the bet and hung up still insisting Morse had the writing. Next
day's call was more serene. Finally the secretary asked the sen
ator how about that allegedly missing manuscript. "Oh, yes,"
chuckled the senator, "I found it in my dirty clothes." Which is
a fine place for Ethics in Government.
A bamboo growth of 18 inches
in 24 hours has been measured.
ESTATE NOTICB
The undersigned has been appointed
administrator with the will annexed
of the estate of William A. Jones, de
ceased. All persons having claims
against this estate are hereby notified
to present the same, properly verified,
to me at the office of Chris. J. Kowitz
In the city hall of Sa'.em. Oregon, with
in six nsonths of the date of first pub
llcatloiy of thij notice.
Notica of first publication: Mav 21.
1952.
PAUL THOMAS JONES
as such administrator
M. 21. 28. J. 4. 11.
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near State Center recently. Though
the animal was dead at birth, it
was perfectly formed. It was one
of a litter of six Hampshire pigs.
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Following is the outside-of-Salern precinct -by-precinct unofficial
vote on Republican candidates for nomination to the house of repre
sentatives from Marion County (order of fini.Mng Mark Hatfield.
Lee Ohmart, R. L. Elfstrom, W. W. Chadwick, Frank Doerfler, C. A.
Ratcliff. Robert Cook and David CromwelL The first four won
nominations) :
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wlc 45 Ratcliff Drive 151
46 Salem Heights. 101
48 Salem Heights 128
51 Pringle 189
54 Four Corners 175
57 D Street 158
210
88
60 Sunnyview
63 Auburn
66 Swegle
69 Middle Grove
72 Haresville
75 N. River Rd.
77 Churchdale
78 Keizer
80 Quinaby
82 Waconda
83
144
79
180
118
60
61
45
24
54
18
34
45
52
50
84 Fairfield
86 St. Paul
88 Champoeg
90 Butteville
92 Donald
94 Aurora
96 Hubbard
98 Hubbard 54
100 Boones Ferry 55
102 Gervais 30
104 Gervais 56
106 Woodburn 60
108 Woodburn 73
110 Woodburn 67
112 Woodburn 65
114 Woodburn 60
116 Monitor 72
118 Mt. Angel 255
120 Mt. Angel 140
124 N. Howell 49
126 Brooks 112
128 Chemawa 98
130 Cent. Howell.... 73
132 Evergreen 63
134 Silverton 86
136 Evans Valley 39
138 Silverton 118
140 Silverton 62
142 Silverton 84
144 Silverton 113
146 Scotts Mills 44
148 Silv. Hills 20
150 Union Hill 71
152 Macleay 82
154 Roberts 104
156 Rosedale 86
158 Ankenv 48
160 Jefferson 118
162 Marion 34
164 Turner 79
166 Turner ; 73
168 Liberty 102
170 Shaw 18
172 Aumsville 59
174 W. Stayton 46
176 Stayton 103
178 Stayton 137
180 Sublimity 99
182 Mehama 53
184 Mill City 31
186 Gates 22
188 Idanha 35
Better English
By D. C. WILLIAMS
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modest. 4. Not productive of tho
effect intended. "The authority
of the king had becomo ineffica
cious." 5. Blat.
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "Johnson joining tho
company meant success."
2. What is the correct pro
nunciation of "hovel"?
3. Which one of these words is
misspelled? Imitative, impassive,
impartial, imodest.
4. WTiat does the word "inef
ficacious" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with bl that means "bellowing,
as a calf?
ANSWERS
1. Say, "Johnson's joining the
company. 2. Pronouce the o as
in on, not as In oven. 3. Im
Two More Counties
File Election Returns
Two more counties, Hood Rivei
and Crook, filed returns of the re
cent primary election in tho state
elections bureau Tuesday. Sher
man County reported its returns
Monday.
Canvass of the vote already has
started In the elections bureau.'
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