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X Th rrtT"r Solera Oregon, Itoiday, October, 13, 1S33 MIGHTY OAKS i FROM TINY ACORNS : GROW? Stevenson Leaves 9 em Smiling While Truman Leaves'em Mad . By JACK BELL SPRINGFIELD J1L (PJ-He. sends them a war smiling, this Adlai . Stevenson of Illinois. , Whatever political impression the Democratic presidential nomi nee is making on the crowds who see and listen to him, he seems to leave them in a mellow mood. . It is a striking contrast to the feeling aroused by President Tru IL 1 1 tfo Faw Sways Us Wo fear'SwIi AvmT , ? ; i Frees first Stetesssaa. Mares 23, 1131 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY , 1 CHARLES A SPRAGUK. Editor and Publisher.' ' rabuoaed every moraine. Btna offfe III S CecunorcisJ. Sales, Oitin. Telephone S-ZML 1 Catered at the pttMIin at aaloaa, Ureses, aa iimiielMimttef utter act e wutfw Hare S. 17. It' Jester Joke - Lord Dunsany laments the discontinuance . of the ancient office of court jester, and lauds the suggestion that it be taken out of abeyance. Writing in the New York Times, the British baron of remarkable literary labors, points out that the jester of olden times was a philosopher, heavily disguised in a cloak of motley and tink ling bells, who watched carefully the progress . of the wine and seized the appropriate moment to give the king sound advice with a punch line. Dunsany concludes There ii indeed an 'international need for jesters at this time. For the world is taking a somewhat solemn, turn, and anyone who had" the duty of brightening it would, U he did his i work successfully, be very well worth his pay x . When civilized nations do ridiculous things there is nobody at present whose public duty it is to laugh at them. This would be the first duty of jesters, and what anti-aircraft guns are to the bomber these jesters would be to any politician whom they perceived to be growing i too pompous, or any policy the egotism of which was perceived by them to be likely to start a third world war." I . This is a - capital suggestion. We have long been disturbed at the prospect of losing Adlai Stevenson from the national scene, should General Eisenhower- win the presidency. The eloquent governor of Illinois fits DunsanyV definition of a jester as philosopher clothed in pages from Joe Miller. t .; We need a man like that in Washington a man constantly reminding the administration to "keep it clean;' someone, to assure the U. S. of having the last laugh. As jack of old jokes to fit new situations, as a -political punster par excellence. Ad Lib Adlai is the man we need. - He could learn to juggle hot potatoes and ' with his barbs and pointed jibes he could deplete both stuffed shirts and issues blown up beyond all proportion. So 'after Eisenhower is elected, and the present "mess" in Washing ton is cleaned up, we hope that somewhere in Washington" we i find Adlai ! Stevenson, a man "who can keep his sense of humor. Old Wives Tales Sugar Coated A fer days ago we commented on the speed with which scientists are catching up to the i comic strip prophets. Now we're hippy to re- port that scientists are catching up to artists' of, a more ancient order, the old crones, who brewed magic potions for weal or woe of man kind. ; The village , witch, who gathered .herbs and sundry ingredients ; for her sorcery, was ex pected to stock cures for .coughs and croup . and bellyaches but the most popular items in the trade probably were love potions and con traceptive teas or broths or; powders. Both the Indians of the American South i west and the country folk of Engfand and Western Europe have, since time immemorial, known of certain plants which would prevent Sregnancy. Neighbors would smile - knowingly '. such plants were noticed in a farmhouse garden. And in European cities, those who feared the drastic effects of wormwood and anise (absinthe) could procure from cousins the more beiign brews which served ihe same pur ' pose, j , - ;.''. -' ' Y The magic wasn't black the old wives were 05t in league with the devil; they were mere ly wise to the secrets of nature. Scientists are getting wise to the same sec 'rets. They have been' able to accomplish what frican-Asiai Group of j Countries Command i Rising Sphere of Influence in United Nations Br MAX HAKRELSO.V AF United Nations Staff For two years a group of Asian and African diplomats lias been, slowly cementing a powerful coal ition which soon may prove itself a major; factor in world affairs. This bloc has become an im , portant influence in- the United Nations and it will be heard from eves more in the session of the U. N. General Assembly which be gins Tuesday. The coalition grew est of aa la formal meeting called early ta ISSt by India delegate Sir Ben ecaliN. Kan to consider a Joint peace plan for Korea. Their at tempt failed, bat eat of thai meet in came the plan for a perman ent wartiar group. pHoSince then the group has met frequently. , Several times it has . presented joint proposals to the ' t !&ewm as the Asian-African 1 group, the Uoe ineledes If cons tries with a combined population of more than a half billion. Hindu ' and Moslems predominate nnmer lcally. : . It commands fewer votes in the' -, General Assembly than the 20-oa-tioa Latin American bloc,: but it is more aggressive, more active and more cohesive. It also has greater potential strengTh. Sid outside the rrottp are tack Bea-Baemaers of the U. N. as Japan with tta St aafinobs. the divided Korean peninsula with 39 mCliea mere, the Indochina states, and Nepal and Ceylon. Chlaa also Is a potential mem her. although wader present eircamt ataaees sac a pooilMHty appears remofe.- ' Members are Indonesia Philip Eines. Thailand. Burma, Ethiopia, iberia, Lebanon, Egypt. Saudi Arabia. Syria, Yemen, Iraq. Iran. Afghanistan. India and Pakistan. The greatest weakness j of the ' . group is lack of foUow-the-leader-ship. The participating diplomats medieval alchemists never achieved turning base metals into gold. They have produced ' Chemical pain-relievers and medicines and wonder' drugs. Local drug stores can provide aphrodisiacs on a j doctor's " prescription, And soon the corner pharmacy may stock contra- ceptive pills chemically similar to the; herbs used by the Indians and Europeans.' There are some who will charge the scientists with being'in league, with the sugar-coated devil. Roman Catholic churchmen already have ' pronounced anathema on birth control pills. On the other side, advocates', of planned par enthood like the old time pater familial who couldn't afford more mouths to ieed will herald the new pills as a realistic accom modation of nature and human nature.: Subtlety No Substitute Those little white cards have appeared all over Salem since their debut .shortly before the Eisenhower campaign train went through here, and we wonder how many others reacted as did one local newspaper. The cards read as follows: Honesty Is No Substitute i -l . for Experience : i VOTE DEMOCRATIC I And our evening contemporary editorialized: "The latest democratic slogan ... is the dumbest of all possible slogans for experience is no sub stitute for honesty ..." , r Dumb! That slogan is neither dumb nor dem ocratic! " ..':.: Unless we are as greatly mistaken as our re spected competitor, those innocent-looking little white cards are a Republican dig at the experi enced crooks in the democratic administration. And the C-J fell for the gaghook, "line," and sinker! 'i ; ; That so astute and sagacious a journal as the Capital-J should be taken in by the latest GOP slogan is convincing evidence that, in politics,' it doesn't pay to be too ingenious. You have to be ingenuous. The meat-cleaver is more effec tive than the stiletto; the "give 'em helTMan guage is more understandable to more people than the sly jibes. Cleverness goes right ' over Joe Doakes; you have to "aim for their bellies," as oneadviser cautioned Governor Stevenson. So we suggest that Republican phrase-makers use for their own catchword: "Subtlety Is No Substitute For Simplicity." Politicians used to kiss babies to win votes. Now it appears that their wives kiss society editors for the same purpose. Ann Connell, the Eugene Register-Guard's soc ed, burbles in her column that she was received exclusively by . Mamie Eisenhower aboard the campaign train i after she, Mrs. Connell, gave Mamie a box of peanut butter cookies. Says Ann: "Frankly, it was such a wonderful favor to be received ex- j clusively like1 this, we were actually embarras- Ised to press the advantage by asking questions." So the two women merely chatted woman talk: j"Yes, j?eanut butter DOES make good cookies." And then Mamie, said, "May I kiss you good bye?" Concludes Ann: "When at our leaving she so graciously bestowed her kiss, she really. won a heart!' . . . And they said Dick Nixon's show was soap opera! I: Salem radio station KSLM will broadcast at 9:30 tonight a talk on the proposed milk con trol law sponsored by the Affiliated Milk Cam paign Committees of Oregon, Mrs; Irene Taylor, state chairman. Voters are urged to listen to ; this argument for a fair milk law. 'readily acknowledge that no one man among them really can com mand the confidence and respect needed to lead the group as It should be led. : , .-1 : -.-"! f ;" - k . There also are sharp differences of opinion on a few Issues, espe cially on the role the group should play In the conflicts between Bus- 1 sla and the Western Powers. India wants the growp to steer a neutral coarse; the Philippines Is strongly pre-Western. This divergence may show , up during the Assembly's debate on Korea. India has been trying to persuade her colleagues to steer an independent course in consider ing expected proposals by Russia' and the United States. Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS OCTOBER ISLAND, by William March (.Little, Brown; S3) i On an island far far away in the Pacific, so far tha V author March never needs to fear well check up on his entertaining story. Rev. Samuel Bamfield and his wife Irma attempt to per suade the natives to believe in God or, at the least, to dress as if they did. The Reverend, who is pushing 60, is even more asce tic than his wife, who has push ed 40, but there Is more spirit than flesh in both of them. He haa .. taken a vow of celibacy, and he is thankful that she in her person tempts his so little to break 1L ' i If the happy-go-lucky, bare bosomed islanders think this vow . is Just plain. famny, ther never theless have vows of their own .which -are peculiar, too. little Irma, wandering around the Island in the shadow of the old volcano Rahabaat comes across some ancient Idols. The inscrip god, everybody is converted and contended. So will you be; Have yourself fine winter: Head "October There also are conflicts between individnal coma tries, saeh as India and Pakistan, on their own rela ' tions. -::;.. - . On other matters, there Is much more uniformity of opinion. This is especially true on such issues as Tunisian and Moroccan de mands for independence from France and the racial question in South Africa. It Is on these Issues that the group will make Itself felt most strongly at the coming assembly. It ha$ carefully planned Its stra tegy and Is ready to go. Before the ; session is over, the Asian-Africaa group win have demonstrated it has become a factor that cannot be ignored. tions could solve a lot of myster ies that have puzzled visiting scientists. She does not know that, but . she does recognize nasty little suggestions of un- . bridled pagan orgies which she finds 5 repulsive. She' can't put clothes on them, either, but 'she can toss them down the drain of the volcano. . , Islanders offended by her cold, alien ways when she first arrived axe impressed when she gives their god Rahabaat the offerings of statues, prayer stones and tab . lets she has unearthed; and when ' one day they catch her eating food sacred to their deity and fatal to mere mortals, as they suppose, they ' suddenly remember the prophecy of the coming of a Virgin. , - And so very curiously through the half-breed mate of a roving Pacific steamer, through a small fortune left by a dissolute woman in the States, through the med ium Of the chaste Barnfields and promiscuous natives, we learn that, if we serve one thirsty, god, we serve aH Instead of mission ary eat missionary, and god eat Island by March. Hollywood -. : 1 I . ByGENE HANDS AKE& HOLLYWOOD "The Thief is an interesting experiment - a movie without ! dialogue, i The chief disadvan- ii i I - " tage of this novelty is thatf tne story must be kept so sim ple that not much of a story ! can be told at i -.. t ' all. ZV'tb- Rather, this 7" one depends lor Interest largely it rest largely' - - emotion a II I e-up of its t, ' j'- ' on close-up star and on ex- ' pertly photographed locations. "The Thief," a spy story, takes viewers inside the Library of Congress and - atop the Empire State Building for some fairly suspenseful shots. , Ray Milland, the ! star, its a physicist employed in a govern ment laboratory : in Washington. Just what his Job is; and why he turned traitor, arenot explained. He .photographs secret atomic documents with a tiny camera and turns the film ! over to , a sinister little man (Martin Ga bel). , ! Their contacts seem amateur ish enough for a Boy Scout to crack. Gabel waits on a sidewalk for Milland to approach, then drops a crumpled cigarette pack age containing instructions. Mil land picks it up. The meetings are arranged by jangling signals on Milland's phone two series of three rings. I ' ! . j i -e Frequently you wih some body would say something. Mil land appears to hate himself in creasingly but, for unexplained reasons, goes on co-operating with the ring. As the FBI closes in, he leads an agent on an. ex citing chase up inside the tower of the Empire State Building. Rita Gam, a beauty from tele vision, Is seen briefly as an eye filling prostitute in a cheap apartment building where Mil land hides out. I "The Turning Point," based obviously on the Kefauver Com mittee hearings, is a pretty sat isfactory crime thriller. ' i; . -f Edmond O'Brien is a crusad ing young investigator out to bust a crime ; syndicate. His newspaperman friend. William Holden, discovers that Eddie's father, a cop, is mixed up with the crooks. Meanwhile the two friends become not-too-friendly rivals for the affections of; O' GRIN AND BEAR IT I I I ii H -Pi - - ' I i , t ' i. pry jmif- "I think yoa purposely delayed comlnr so as ta give my hosband chance to fix Is . Jast so you'd have a bigger Job on Par ade Brien's secretary, Alexis Smith. What makes the . picture ex- citing Is i the almost newsr eel reality it achieves. Ed Begley gives an x excellent 1 performance of a sullen and .ruthless gambl : ing boss. Reporters behave, for ; the most part, like real news papermen. I : 1 i: i Downtown Los Angeles loca ; tions helped make' the picture look realistic The film's climac i tie chase takes place during a ; boxing event in the city's Olym pic fight stadium. ; Valve To the editor: s , j Our boy of whom we were so proud is no longer a senior at Salem High and: we don't have the thrill of watching him play football. Without talking to his father or me, ho decided to with draw rather than be suspended. Wise or unwise he made a deci sion and it is important to make decisions.! i t ' ;. I S : t- But do i any of us as parents know the humiliation of being ex pelled from school? The far-reaching effects , that will color their lives for years ta come! , The school : authorities had ap parently been watching them for months. Why if they were con sistent trouble makers, always looking for trouble, : weren't wo parents notified. We will have to send our boy to relatives to fin ish school or move. If we had known earlier we could have done this before he was so deeply in volved and hurt. Why does Salem High have so much trouble with secret socie ties? Isn't mere ! something else to take its place? Why are boys punished for having a secret Keiety when almost all prominent adults belong to lodges that are basically ! secret?! Why is , gamb- . ling, drinking and obscene hter ..rature lawful?: -Mi I ' - $ i Don't these boys need guidance rather than punishment? And don't we send our children to the ; public schools to be given the j guidance that in all our love is not complete at home? - Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Archer , Rt. 1. Box 262 r . Brooks, Oregoq by, Lichty Safety OregdnPoKo Cases Climb PORTLAND VP) The State Board of Health reported Satur day that so far this year in Ore gon 320 persons have been strick en with polio. . . i ; That is an even 100 cases above the number reported this time last year. Dr. Samuel Osgood of the board, said, r He added that the latest weekly total of 30 cases gave no grounds for hope that the dis ease was heading into a decline in the state.: The heaviest outbreak of new cases was reported in Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and Malheur Counties. i CALF EATS BLUE RIBBON RALEIGH, N. G (JPh-The calf that won the white ribbon at the recent junior dairy show was evi dently contented until someone tied up a blue-ribbon' winning Guernsey heifer beside it. When no one was looking the calf reach ed over and lifted the blue ribbon with her teeth and ate it. Some one found another blue ribbon for the heifer. Said G. H. Farley, coun ty agent for the North Carolina State College extension service. Better Enalish By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wronff with thU sentence "A credited represen tative caned on him, but neither of them were able to suggest a solution, f 2. What is the correct pronun ciation or "nee (bom) 7 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Battalion, basinet, basoon, balsam. 4. What does the word "um brage" mean? 5. What is a word beginning witn aa that means "first"? ' ANSWERS fl. Say, "An accredited repres entative." and, "neither of them was able." 2. Pronounce as though spelled nay. 3. Bassoon. 4. Res entment; offense. "An inner feel ; ing of umbrage was evident Judging by his offended expres sion." 5. Aboriginal. - -v "A 17. T. CHARLES W. CLAGGET, KIT. man in ms success rui ima cam paign. Many of the Democrats who heard Truman's "give-'em-hell" speeches that year went out of the hall almost literally ready to slug any Republican on sight. . A reaction of that kind is a joy to the professional party leaders. He knows that his precinct cap tains are worked up to the point where they will be willing to do everything but shanghai voters to get them to the polls. But this reporter has yet to see a rank-and-file-party worker go away from a Stevenson speech with any such attitude. Warm Feeling Instead, there seems to be a warm feeling that this is a pretty sensible fellow who has been talk ing a fellow who demeans-his own abilities but one who has tha fortitude to say what he thinks regardless of the circumstances. The Illinois governor is no "giveem-hell" man. He isnt cut out for the bludgeoning attack that seems almost second nature " to Truman. - Instead, Stevenson uses a stilet to with a quick thrust and a twist. Sometime) he is so subtle the crowd never gets it all all But the pained retorts of some of his Re publican opponents attest to the fact that their skin has- been pierced. His supporters had a chance this week to compare two Stevensons in action. Actd Tongue In Milwaukee, the Illinois gov ernor dipped his tongue in acid and lit out aeainst his Renublican opponent, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower. The sizable crowd loved his cracks, and judging from his own abashed grin at each sally so did Stevenson. He got 40 bursts of applause in a 30-minute speech. Jin exploding firecracker in the hall didn't throw him off stride. In fact, hardly anything includ ing an "I like Ike" chant from a bunch of school kids in Saginaw, Mich., while he was speaking seems to disturb his poise on the platform. He meets all of these in terruptions vith a grin and a quick crack that usually has the crowd laughing on his side. Nation-Wide Talk - The second Stevenson went on display la St. Louis Thursday night.. This was the candidate talk ing to the nation-wide television and radio audience. - He spoke in a serious vein about the economic future of the coun try as he sees it. There was room for one small joke or two. There was no time and he evidently thought it- not the place for more than two or three subtle digs at Eisenhower. When a listener shouted "pour tt on, Steve,", he replied with a smile: Thank you very much, but this is no pour-it-on speech." ' Tht crowd inside and outside the hall, estimated by police at 20,000 persons, was obviously par tisan. There was no mistaking the fact that it came to hear a slam- bang attack on the Republicans. It didn't get it. but applauded loy ally, if not always vigorously, at 38 points. If his listeners came away somewhat disappointed, they nev ertheless seemed to carry with them a warm feeling for him. Nobody Hates Him It can be said without much fear of argument that nobody hates this fellow. There is strong feeling in some sections against Truman. Tere was just as strong feeling against the lata Franklin D. Roosevelt. ' , i . But the crowds who see and listen to Adlai E. Stevenson seem Guarantee yenr retirement, your family's security, your children's eda caiicn, year esiale costs. JIM DUQDRIDGE ' GENEZAl AGENT WESTERN LIFE MS. CO. I 410 S. 14th, Salem, Oregon, . ESTABLISHED 1891 " i ' ' i a i .:! iff SINCERE SERVICE AVAILABLE TO ALL FHCK2 173 Oat of Town Calls at Oar Expense rARXXNQ LOT AVAILABLE RIGDOIJ CO., Fcnoral Dircttcrs fm ft COTTACI AT CKIMIKETA to like him, even if they don't agree with him. Even the "boo's he has encountered from some El senhower partisans are good na tured in tone and usually uttered if by adults somewhat shame facedly after his car already has passed by in parades. There seems little question that Eisenhower, as a national hero and a five star general, has cap tured the imagination of the kids. Their "We like Ike" chant has something of the ring of "Hi ho, SUver.0 But It is being matched more and more by "We want Ad lai" chants. And thus far, Stevenson, like Eisenhower, has yet to encounter a snarl Maybe it's a new era of good feeling in American presi dential races. Truman Letter VictimTosses Bouquets Back By B. L. LIVING STONE J" WASHINGTON (-The Wash ington music critic who once dared to call Margaret Truman's sing ing flat and was promised a punch in the nose by Papa proved Sunday he holds no grudge. Paul Hume, critic for the Wash ington Post, bowed gracefully to ward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in his Sunday afternoon broadcast. -which he devoted to a sort of mu sical history of the executive man sion and its occupants, Truman a handy man with a piano is "the most musical presl- -dent in our history," , Hume as sured his listeners. And" for good measure, Hume tossed ' in a couple of recordings by the musical Trumans Mar garet's recording of "O'er The Hills and Far Away" by Francis Hopkinson, and a transscription of Papa's partial rendition of a Mo zart Sonata given during his tele vised tour of the newly restored White House last spring. Got Letter in 1950 It was in December, 1950. that Hume got into hot water with tha world's best-known contemporary letter-writer. Reviewing Miss Truman's first concert appearance in the capital, Hume wrote that Margaret is "extremely attractive on the stage" but "cannot sing very well" and "is flat a good deal of the time." That provoked a knuckle-cracking letter on White House station ery which, according to published versions, said the writer had read your lousy review" which sounded as though it had been written by "an eight-ulcer man on a four ulcer job and all four ulcers work ing."? ;. Mnsle Lover Praised In his broadcast Sunday, Hume referred to the President's deep interest in the national symphony' orchestra, and said a speech Tru man made a couple of weeks ago in its behalf "has no precise par allel in our history." Truman is a frequent symphony concert goer. Hume also said ho considered Thomas Jefferson the most musi cal president before Truman., He added that Warren G. Harding played the slide trombone, and that Vice President Charles G. Dawes wrote and had published a piece called "Melody." Ph. 2-6893 1 r. J i n . 1
