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Literary Guidepost OVER THE RAMPARTS HE WATCHES f "No Favor Sway$ Us. No Ftar Shall Aw Prom Pint Btadiau. March IS. IU1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHAALXS A. SPRAUUE, Editor and Publisher Pi.Mt.hi mn narnlu. BolBMi ifflN tlS Commercial. Sales, OrersB. Telephone I-M4L itered el the postefflce at Salesa. War and Peace in Korea So many of our hopes of a true in Korea hava proved false that one is not deaeived by the latest sign of attempt to compose differences on tha prisoner-of-war issue, the" one remaining block to an agreement. At least tha negotiators ara meeting again, and even request for a recess Indicates that proposals are under study. It is logical to assume that what has stimu lated the Reds to take the truce negotiations more seriously is the resumption of large-scale aerial warfare by U. N. forces. The mass bomb ing of North Korean power plants and later of the Korean capital has served to underscore the statement of U. N. negotiators that they were making no concessions on the issue of repatria tion of prisoners. It has served also to demon strate to the Communists that the U. N. has been doing some build-up of its own; that its airforce packs a "powerhouse punch" (no pun intended); that the Reds can have either peace or war, but If they choose war they will get terrible pun ishment. The Reds profess to be shocked because of tha bombings, as shocked they were intended to be. But who started this bloody business anyway? It was the North Koreans who were the aggres sor. The U. N. intervened to halt the Red ag gression. U. N. forces, chiefly U. S., have halted the aggression and thrown the Reds back of the 38th parallel. As affairs now stand, the Redj have failed in their aggression and the U. -N. has succeeded in sustaining the principle of collec tive security. What remains now is to break off the fighting, in effect restoring the status prior to June 24, 1950. That would leave Korea di vided, its towns and industries pretty well shat tered; but United Nations would have won. Tha situation still. would be unstable; but it is doubt ful if the Reds would soon make another at tempt anywhere to grab off territory, unless they want to precipitate global war. Americans grow weary of the burden they carry and of the misunderstandings they en counter and the foul propaganda spread against .them. But they labor and fight in a just cause. If only the victory can be sealed with a peace settlement the sacrifice surely will not prove vain. Progress in Food Sanitation Over a hundred persons who attended the picnic of the boilermakers union of Portland last Saturday became ill from food poisoning. The majority quickly recovered and no fatalities ensued. While such reports are not uncommon they are few in proportion to the number of such gatherings that are held annually. Over the years, food sanitation has been vastly im proved. Meats are kept in refrigerated cases, as are milk and butter. Staples now are usually in packages. Vegetable counters are kept clean. Food handlers are under check against infec tious disease. When one remembers the conditions which existed in groceries and markets years ago the transformation has been marvelous. Where now cases of food poisoning are rare, in those years summer complaint" and "inflammation of the Sen. Taft as Veep, MacArthur as Presidential Nominee Convention's 'It Might Have Beens' By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP CHICAGO "It might have been" is always th theme of convention post mortems. But 1 . A 1 9 tne KepuDucan convention that nominated Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for h Trpidenev. t h e "might have beens were unusually signifieant. For example, Sen. Robert A. Taft misVit have AtefMj- been the vice preside nuai nominee on the ticket with Gen. Eisenhower. The curious fact is that Sen. Taft wanted the second place on the ticket, or at least some of his leading sup- rrters wanted for him. After the bal lot that named Gen. Elsen hower, the floor - workers of Taft mana ger David Sin ton Ingalls quickly passed the word among the delegations to "encourage" .IStcwert '.Alwp any sentiment lor Taft for the secona place. Later, when the Eisenhower high commanders assembled to choose the vice presidential nom inee, they received messages that the Ohio senator would be avail able. There was obvious purpose In this seemingly extraordinary suggestion of removing Senator Taft from the activity of the Senate floor" to the customary impotence of the Senate ros trum. - The nomination ef the Ohle senator would have evoked a treat eenvenUoa demonstra tion. re-asserttn- Taft's great opmlartty in the party- It wnU hare constituted both aekaowtedgemeat aad proof of the Republican Old Goard facuon. It would have allowed the senator, as vice presiden tial nominee, to hold the whole election eamperfn on the so- ' Md "fighting" pattern thai 1 1 wc I Oreson. as I ad alaat matter aadcr act at bowels' were quite common. There still is risk both from commercial handling of provisions and from carelessness "In the home; but we have made great progress in health protection through sanitation and refrigeration. The Port land incident gives an opportunity to note re cent progress at the same time that it posts a warning for caution, especially in the summer time, in the handling and serving of foods. Albert H. Gille In the passing of Albert H. Gille the state has lost a faithful employe and the City of Salem an honorable and capable councilman; and this writer has lost a good neighbor. Modest and unassuming, Gille was a steady worker for city development. Ha worked particularly hard for the city manager form of government and is entitled to much credit for the final adoption of this plan. Gille was independent in his views, stuck by what he thought was right and usu ally was correct in the decisions he made. A sturdy supporter of good government, Gille set a fine example in public service in the unpaid Job of city councilman. Look West, Politicians Both Eisenhower and Nixon hail from west of the Missouri River. The former was born in Texas, but grew up in Kansas and claims Kansas really as his home. Nixon was born in California and was elected to Congress and in 1950 to the Senate from California. Geography doubtless had much to do with the choice of Nixon for the vice presidential nomination. It recognizes the growth of the West in popula tion and power. On the same theory Senator Magnuson of Washington is doing some cam paigning for the Democratic vice presidential nomination. The state game commission has fixed the deer season dates for the same weeks as last year: Sept. 27 -Oct. 17. The opening may come before the forest fire season is over; but the commis sion decided these dates are best for the hunt ing season. The governor still has power to delay the opening if forests are still dry. As a rule September rains come in time to douse the dry woods before Sept. 27th. At least the deer hunters can make a red mark on that date and get ready for their big shoot. Despite 10 days of hot weather there is still lots of snow In high altitudes. Only last week did road crews get the north entrance highway to Diamond Lake opened; and this week they are turning their snowplows to clear the Rim drive at Crater Lake. The valley heat has been enough to drive residents to mountain snow fields or seashore breezes. GOP conservatives were all braced against another popular gale such as swept Wendell Willkie into the nomination in 1940; but their braces didn't hold. The 1952 gale was even stronger than that of 1940. The question now is, will the strong wind persist in the Ike quar ters till November? he favors. The Taft people calculated in fact, that Taft tn the second place might over shadow Elsenhower in the first Among the Eisenhower lead ers a considerable minority fa vored the choice of Taft as be ing likely to reunite the badly divided Republican party. But Sen. Henry Cabot Lodga and others, for the reasons above given, interposed a powerful ;nd absolute veto. Gen. Eisenhower had deputed to them the right of final decision. And so Nixon got the nod. Arsln. Gen. Doarlas Mse Arthnr came much closer to figuring as an Important can didate than most people ap pose. As first reported In this space. Gov. John Fine of Pennsylvania had made his vi tal decision to throw his Penn sylvania votes to Gen, Elsen hower even before the conven tion opened. Yet Fine is a devoted MaeArthnr admirer, and there mlfht still have been bad troable In the Pennsyl vania delegation. Thero was bad trouble, of a sort, as a sequel to MacArthur's keynote speech. Tho same day. Sen. Taft's weakness had al ready been revealed by the vote on the Langlie rule neutralizing the contested Southern delega tions. Certain Taft leaders, in cluding Pennsylvania's G. Mason Owlett and Joseph Pew, began to look with favor on a switch to MacArthur. To prepare the way, however, it was necessary to weaken the Elsenhower drive and this had to be accomplished in the oncoming vote as to which of the Georgia and other con tested delegations should be seated. Gen. MaeArthnr. who was escorted to the airport by Gov. Fine, seems to have used all his Influence to secure Fine's help. There was a moment when Fine at least wavered, Then, Gov. Fine had given his promise to Herbert Brownell to support Gen. Elsenhower on the Georgia tone and the first ballot. Tet the MaeArthnr danger continued la a different form. Now the hope was for an Inde cisive first ballot, which would not nominate Gen. Eisenhower, Hare S. It7& but would persuade Sen. Taft that he had better withdraw. After such a ballot, it was fur ther hoped Senator Taft could be induced to escort Gen. Mac Arthur into the convention. In circumstances of utmost drama, Taft was to transfer his sup port to the general. If this had happened, a great many Penn sylvania votes would have brok en from Eisenhower to Mac Arthur on the next ballot, whether or not with Gov. Fine's consent. It was close enough to happening, at least for the con vention amphitheatre manage ment to be warned to prepare a guarded gate for the Taft-Mac-Arthur grand entry. Fear of this development largely influenced Sen. Lodge and the other Eisenhower lead ers to avoid a first ballot on the nlrht of the nominating speeches. That night, the Minnesota switch was not cer tain, and there were other doubts about Elsenhower's im mediate success. If an indeci sive first ballot had been taken, the MaeArthnr enthu siasts would have had time to work on Sen. Taft, who al ways resisted the proposal that ho give his strength to the general. So the balloting was put off until the next day, when the Elsenhower gains made victory a certainty. Finally, the whole course of the convention might have been changed at the start if Sen. Lodge had accepted the amend ment to the Langlie rule offered by Rep, Clarence Brown. The amendment allowed voting rights to only seven Louisiana dele gates of the grand contested to tal of sixty-eight. It looked like a very tempting sure thing. Sen. Lodge, alone and unsupported, was high-pressured to accept this tempting sure thing by Rep. Brown, David Ingalls and three or four other Taft leaders. The meeting was in a stifling little cubby-hole behind the conven tion rostrum. Lodge was out numbered, exhausted and shout ed down. Many men would have given way. But Lodge did not. And so the famous first vote on the Brown amendment to the Langlie rule was finally taken, and the Eisenhower move ment was triumphantly under way. (Copyright 1S91. New Vorfc Herald Tribune. Ine. Behold tha convention delegate. He arrives home from Chicago pooped, parboiled, petulant and perspiring. He is met at the door of the family love nest by Mrs. Delegate and three or four small alternates. "Well, Rover," says On-.-- PS'' It -; -v . hearts and minds of 'Veld it. Buster," breaks in Mrs. Delegate. Ton been using your head for a flag standard again? Where do you get that children's children stuff? We're still in tho first generation stage around here, remember? Anyway, stop ranting like a bull ele phant. Come on Inside before the neighbors see you." Once inside our delegate sinks into an easy chair and takes off what's left of his shoes. "Now," demands Mrs. Delegate. "Give us the lowdown on your heroic struggle. First of all, did you conventioneers do anything about the high price of meat?" "One of the most glorious planks in our party platform gives tha utmost thought and consideration to ." "Plank, shmank," cuts in Mrs. Delegate. "I asked you before you left if you would look into the potato shortage scandal. Did you get together with the spud boys and settle tha matter?" "Once our party is in power, and be in power It shall one day," croaks the delegate. "We shall leave no stone unturned, no leaf un " "I see," snapped Mrs. Delegate, "nothing on spuds, either. WolL then, how did you vote on the corruption issue? Surely yea fellows kicked sll those bums out of Washington." The day of reckoning will come," whispered the delegate from tho depths of his chair. The clock is turning full cycle. This nation cannot and will not flaunt the will " Turn It off, boy," yelps Mrs. Delegate. Tve heard tt alL already. I see you spent ail your time running around Chicago again while these momentous issues challenge the very exist ence, nay the very foundations, of this once-glorious Republic." From the easy chair eomes a load, steady snore. "What did Daddy do at the convention? asks one ef the little alternates. "Nothing!" growls Mrs. Delegate, GRIN AND BEAR "t tell ya, Jee . . . when year wife finds the beoee neat as a pin . . . Mrs. Delegate. "How did the battle go this time? You look like somebody used you for a platform plank. Where's your hat?" Drawing himself up weakly to more or less his full height, the delegate fixes his spouse with a blood -shot eye. "On this, the glorious occasion ef my keen returning to the family sanctuary," he Intones in a hoarse croak," "let me point out to you, and to our children, and to our children's children that If freedom is to survive in the IT by Lichty rets hack from vacs Hon shell REALLY be snspieus.1 j " tr E3333J0S RTCDCDQO (Continued from page 1) control of the party machinery which made them stand firm. The majority of them, particu larly of delegates from over the country, were standing for their principles. They have honest and grave fears for the future of constitutional gov ernment and economic freedom in this country if the trends developed under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman continue. To them Bob Taft is the soldier who has stood to the Senate battle against (he assembled hosts of New Dealers, easy spenders, Socialist creepers and Commu nist caperers. They oppose such innovations as socialized medi cine, government housing, fed eral aid to education; oppose ex pansion of bureaus into a gar gantuan federal establishment impossible for Congress or the President or the country to po lice. True enough, Taft was the proper opposite to Roosevelt and Truman, if the choice is to lie between extremes. The majority within the Republican party, however, felt it should move forward and not try to stick to political trenches far in the rear of present-day popular think ing. They wanted no truck with the Socialist avante garde but they felt a moderate program could produce political and social progress without Socialism. It was easy for tho forward lookers and the eager-beavers-for-victory to scold and ridicule the old guard (which does em brace some odd fossils, to be sure). But for the most part the latter were animated by deep conviction and really thought defeat was better than sur render of principle. I think their fears were great ly exaggerated; that in a demo cratic society compromise is ne cessary to avoid deadlock. Yet I do respect the great body of Republican conservatives for their intense patriotism. They simply are slow to sdapt them selves to the changed conditions of our modern social organisa tion. They failed at Chicago be cause the great majority of Republicans refused to let tho party perish for what the lat ter conceived to be a "lost cause." Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "It is imperative for all of you children to be here as early as you can." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "appall"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Creation, approba tion, tention, elation. 4. What does the word "intui tion" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ama that means "to unite"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "It is imperative that all (omit of) you children be here as early as you can." 2. Pronounce second a as in all (not as in pal), accent second syllable. 3. Tension. 4. Instinc tive knowledge. "Her intuition led her to the conclusion that they should not go." 5. Amalga mate. A federal act in 1862 gave land to each of the states for the estab lishment of colleges and land grant colleges were subsequently estab lished in each state of the United States. There are 158 species and sub species of living and fossil kan- garsoos POETRY IN OUR TIME, by Ba bette Deutsch (Holt; $6) Though the charge has some times been brought against fic tion, it is more often poetry, along with painting and music, that has been accused of with drawing from association with ordinary man, of turning ob scure, of being a chill, aloof art practiced, practically, in a vacu um. Miss Deutsch. in a remark ably understanding book, serves as poetry's interpreter. Now po etry might disavow that service; it insists it is clear, as clear, Ma rianne Moore for instance has said, as a poet's natural reticence allows. Yet there is a barrier, though we not poetry may have raised it, and Miss Deutsch, her self a poet, razes it for anyone who wishes it razed. Her field is 1900-1950, and it is also English and American poets, big ones and small, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Hopkins, Cummin gs, Stevens, Moore, Auden, Hardy, Jeffers, Rexroth, Masefield, Lindsay, to a total of some 60 who receive more than passing mention. The material is the poems themselves, and the spirit firing them, from the sober morality of Hardy to the unromanticism of Hollywood on Parade By GENE UANDSAKER HOLLYWOOD "High Noon" is 85 minutes of fair to middling suspense based on one of the oldest cHc h e s in westerns tha eta 1 lr I n.0 gun-ngnt aiong the des e r t e d streets of a ter rified town. Gary Cooper stars in this latest Stanley Kramer pro duction as the U. S. marsh who has just I resigned from office in a small prairie town. A murderer, pardoned, is re turning with three henchmen to kill the marshall for sending him to prison. Townspeople urge Cooper, who has just mar ried, to flee on his honeymoon. But he can't bring himself to what he considers cowardly de sertion. Neither the town's good men nor its toughs will join his posse. At the end, Gary must face the killers alone. "High Noon," filmed partly In locations around Sonora, Calif., la excellently photographed. The moody Dimitri Tiomkin score, emphasizing basses and wood winds and a folk-type compo sition sung by Tex Ritter, Is ef fective. Action starts even while the introductory titles are on the screen, and it covers the same length of time as the picture. But Director Fred Zinnemann and Scripter Carl Foreman have oversimplified their portrait of a town's cowardice. Among scores of pioneering souls, it's reason able to expect that at least a few would join such a stalwart lead er as Cooper. And the tension is tightened so deliberately, be tween frequent close-ups of old time, ticking clocks, as to border on tedium. An interesting supporting cast Includes Mexico's sultry Katy Juardo as a sort of town mystery-woman. Lloyd Bridges is a disgruntled deputy marshal, Thomas Mitchell a civic leader. Otto Kruger, a scared judge. Grave Kelly, a statuesque blonde from Broadway and TV, plays Cooper's scared bride. ...onjoy m a Keen Tacoma Seattle Spokane Butte Minneapolis-St, Paul 'Milwaukee Chicago Fine facilities, friendly service and a gloriously scenie route make travel delightful on tha super-speed Olympian Hiawatha. Private-room cars on the Olympian Hiawatha hava the unique Skytop Lounge. Money-saving Touralux sleepers, built especially for this service, are another exclusive feature. Completing tha equipment of this fine train ara Laxurest coaches with spacious Uyantp-dreaBtag rooms, a beautiful diner and tha gay Tip Top Grill car. Tha Olympian Hiawatha rolls over one raihrbad all tha way; electrified operation for 656 mountain miles, dip pi powered the rest of the way. For information, tickets and i sssi wifioas, ask 1 VYV'liG Kipling, Masters, Sandburg; to imagism, which leads to William Carlos Williams and his severe injunction, "Say it, no ideas but in things"; and on down, or up, orover, to the postwar Auden, Shapiro and others. Miss Deutsch's key figures are Pound, Eliot, Yeats, and Hopkins runs a close fourth. Hopkins' sonnet. The Windhover," which can appreciably trouble even an ear nest devotee of poetry, is picked carefully to its innumerable ex plicable pieces and put .together again, in an admirable" exposi tion of what to find and how to find it Wallace Stevens will mean more to readers for being; called a poet with a sound like that of John Cage's prepared pianos.and for being described as playing on a -guitar borrowed from a Picasso painting. So will Hopkins, for having his "sprung rhythm" compared to tempo ru bato. These insights are extraordi narily helpful. They point up our debt to the poet who tries to "realize an unusually compre hensive experience more in tensely 'and also to "realize an unusually intense, if sometimes trivial, experience more comprehensively. 1 1 t i1 i'iii'O i imifciTrarri Writer-Director Samuel Ful ler, who made a hit of the low budget "The Steel Helmet," has gone back to his first love, news papering, for a production of his own, "Park Row" is about the brawling early days of journal ism along the New York street where editorial offices were close together. Gene Evans, red-haired star of Fuller's "Steel Helmet" and "Fixed Bayonets," plays a hard up, idealistic young editor who gets backing to start a paper of his own. It's printed on butcher paper, on a steam-driven press, and Evans crusades for causes like a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. Scoffing at his jazzed-up front Cages and his campaigns is his itter rival, a rich and ruthless publisher played by Mary Welch, a newcomer from Broadway. It's a movie that should interest anybody who reads a newspaper. Winner of Trip Follows Brother BOSTON (P) - Miss Christina Thompson saw her brother off re cently for a visit to their home town in County Galway, Ireland. Then she went to an Irish Coun ties Field Day in nesrby Brook line where she took a chance of a prize. To her surprise she won. The prize was a round-trip plane ticket to Ireland. She packed up immediately to try to beat her brother to the Emerald Isle. 'A Pbooe 4-3333 yours olf on tho OLVMPAM. Pefffend Office 521 $. W. Yamhill St. Phone Atwotor 0204 Gee. V. Volley, District Pass'r Agent E. E. White, General Agent