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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1953)
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Co, On Art and Propaganda ; Tlie annual awarding of Oscars to tha best -works and artists of America's best-known art form the motion picture- indicates the em- phasis in Hollywood is still on the art of enter- . tainment and not on propaganda. 1 For this achievement, we would award the motion picture industry a very special Oscar. The industry has stood true to its raison 6? etre, and resisted the pressure to become, a propa ganda factory.. If it had not, such purely enter taining pictures as "The Greatest Show on . Earth, could have become an argument. Hollywood has been subjected to a great deal of pressure; there is no doubt of that. Some of it has left its mark. But in the main the decisive influence in Hollywood is boxoffice receipts, pickets. v. V ;; -' f ;- The motion picture industry is not alone in the fight against pressure groups which confuse art with propaganda." Brooks Atkinson, the New York' Times drama critic, cites recent instances when the theater has had similar, interference. The Hotel and Club Employes Union, Local 6, for example, picketed the play "Mid-Sunimer because a hotel maid was portrayed as an. in competent, garrulous character. And the Amer ican Bar Association asked Playwright Arthur Miller to change some of the dialogue" in. "The Crucible" a play about the 17th century Salem witch trials, because some of the lines are "dis paraging of lawyers or the legal profession." Atkinson points out that some lawyers are rogues. Some hotel maids are incompetent. And hrvcompliments the American Jewish Congress for not picketing Shakespeare's "The Merchant f Venice" at the City Center! Then1 Mr. Atkinson p o i n t s to "Porgy and Bess," the Gershwin opera which has just re turned from a triumphant six-months tour oi Europe. He says, "Nothing has done us so much - good abroad since Teddy Roosevelt took a bird walk with. Lord Grey." Yet some .Americans originally objected to sending "Porgy and Bess" overseas on grounds that it would give Europ eans the wrong impression of American culture and American negroes. V But, Atkinson points out, "In the realm of art, nothing matters so much as the quality of the art, which in the case of the Gershwin op era is magnificent. Peonle who take a literal at titude toward it are as impervious to culture as the Soviet bigwigs (who) trample down any spontaneity as author may have inadvertently contributed to a work of imagination." And here is the critic's most telling observa tion about pressure groups: "The zeal for out ward respectability is a sign of inner uncertain- ty." Perhaps that is one explanation for the al most -fantastic fuss about the Voice of America. Another may be that the Voice was the epi tome of confusion about art and propaganda. T7: 1 1 J I . A V A iwnic wui&ci9 niaj Aid vc uccu musis, uut the Voice was supposed to be a propaganda machine, not an art form. It turned out to be neither good art nor good propaganda. Prop a-. ganda must of necessity be pragmatic; it is good only insofar as it produces the desired practical ends. Art, however, is good or bad per se, in stririsicaUy; it is hot dependent or relative. The experience with the Voice and with "Por gy and Bess" seem to show that America gets across American culture and ideas better in our own art forms than in our attempts at propa ganda. It is a good lesson to learn, and we hop Hollywood, Broadway and Washington on mark it welL M.W. Church Program Well-Done The program of the ceremony commemorat ; ing the dedication of the beautiful new St. Jos eph's church in Salem Thursday is a publication indeed worthy of the occasion and the edifice. The art work, much of it the original work of Father John Domin, is exceptionally well-dona. The material was assembled by Father Leo Lin ahen. j : :, . This 32-page booklet contains not only the English translation of the rite of blessing but v also a history, of the parish including a note of a news story in the January 1, 1889 Statesman. The history goes back to 1853, however, when the pioneer Blanchet, archbishop, inquired into the possibility of erecting a church in Salem. Another interesting . feature of the program are quotations-pertinent to the architect, to the . builders, and to those who fashioned the glass "worked by a very ancient canon of their : art .. ." r ' . , But the best part are the decorative vignettes used throughout the booklet apparently lino leum cuts or woodcuts. As a whole, this program will become a last ing souvenir of the ceremony and one of which St. Joseph's parishoners can be proud. Salem la going to have several more church dedications in the not too far distant future, and the; ap propriate committees might keep in mind the pamphlet given guests at this recent church event when they consider the form and content of their own programs. Most commentators announced as "good news' the fact that the family of mannequins crouch ed in the basement of the "typical" American home in the Yucca Flats atomic explosion were unharmed, even though the house itself was demolished. Trouble is that house wasn't "typi cal" of the Northwest, where so many new homei are the rambling "ranch" style with no base ment. Could be the atomic tests win Influence future architecture and cellars will come back in style again. Drive-in theaters are going in at Hubbard, Woodburn and Silvertoru Must be good money in . . . popcorn. Suspicions Voiced that American People Not Getting Whole Truth on Conduct of Military Effort By DON WHITEHEAD (Per J. M. ROBERTS Jr.) - WASHINGTON UH Increased EimblLngs and suspicions are ng heard in ;; Washington and elsewhere today that the Ameri ean people are not being given the whole truth about conduct of the nation's military effort. ' It's ; a problem closely, related to the - people's trust and confi dence in our military and civilian leadership and one that is ur gently demanding a solution The corosive actions of suspi cion and distrust can themselves ta a measure defeat the defense buOdup. And certainly they are Sicked with political dynamite for e Eisenhower administration. -The undercurrent of doubt boiled Into open skepticism - when the Senate Armed Services Committee . in effect refused to accept the ar gument by Gen. J. Lawton Col lins. Army - chief of staff, mat the never has been an ammuni tion shortage in Korea. Aa investigation was ordered into Gen. James A. van Fleet's claim that shortages existed dur ing the 22 months he commanded the Eighth Army and some Still exist. - : - This doubt was reflected, too, in the -widespread attention, given to the recent Philadelphia speech by Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.). who said if the people knew: the truth about our military situation there would be a wholesale re organization of the Defense De partment. : . Symington formerly was secre tary of the Air, Force and thus had access to a great many of the secrets and intelligence of the military, works, x His thesis was the defense ef fort is "suffering from inside com petition" among the three services and this nation would not be pre pared to cope with an atomic at tack if it came. His proposal was more . guns and less butter. - President Eisenhower told his news conference Thursday he be lieved in a reasonable posture of defense. The kernel, of course, is what he meant by a "reasonable posture." He indicated it would be no less than the goals fixed undi the Truman- administration although he hoped to get more defense with the same dollars through economy. ; Sen. Taft (ROhio), GOP leader in the Senate, has come to believe the time is ripe for a j new look at the armed services requirements.- - ' I "I think we have got to look at the whole picture and see what needs to be done," Taft said. Along this lice, Julius Ochs Ad ler. general manager of the New York Times, put a finger squarely on part of the trouble in a speech Friday before - the armed forces information school at Fort Slocum, N. Y. Adler said there has ' been "an Immense barrier of oversecrecy" In the military and civilian gov- Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS PRINCE OF PLAYERS: EDWIN BOOTH, by Eleanor Buggies . (Norton; $450) "Then there are no more ac tors," Rufus Choate lamented when he heard of the death of Junius Brutus Booth in 1862. - But by that time i the actor hailed today as the greatest this I country was to produce, Junius son Edwin, had already been praised by Joe Jefferson as the handsomest lad he'd ever seen, ; had made his official debut in Boston in "Richard HL" and, in the following year, was to offer ' a San Francisco audience his first Hamlet, one of his finest -v roles, y K vr-yk r " j . Kr. f ; Abandoning a wife and son In " England, the father had fled to T this continent with a mistress who gave him a whole brood of children, among them Edwin, be-. : fore divorce made it possible for him to legalize the second union. Edwin wasn't i the only young ; Booth . there was also John Wilkes ... who wanted to act, but he seems to- have had - the advantage, though maybe It re- sembled an onerous task, of fol . lowing his father around to keep 'PUSH BUTTON' vVAR , VUW 11 3 opening Contest? ' fci e : --y uawn The boys at the Legislature are predicting tougher sledding in the House for the anti-racial discrirnination bill, which got through the Senate 21-9. It was during Senate debate on the bill that the gallery burst forth with the first applause of the session bringing a reproof from Pres. Marsh and scaring dazing reporters awake ... To go yet are constitution conven tion, anti-disaimination and the wet Nip & Tuck Bill (take a nip and tuck out for home.) tPCD EDO Swarm) day ao Tfca Orc(n Statesmajt wrata to tit prtactpals of tha S9 schools parUcipaUnf la Ttaa SUtcsmaa-KStM SpeUlifc Caatest asklag their attitad towara cob UaalBf tho protraxa lata Ita foarta year Slaea at was aat laiiBt4 to publish tha rrpUes, and kecaasa prlndpsis wcra set told that tach was a ossibUlty. ao d matures ara attacKrd to tho foOowtas. Bt ft was felt too comments were of saffleleat laterest to record herewith, ana the writer of aay one of them win h made knows a rcaesC "By all means we would like to continue the spelling contest ... Spelling Is not one of the easy subjects at but it has be come popular because of the above activity, and our Junior high students have become word conscious., "We enjoyed the spelling eon test this year very much. We think It Is very helpfal and edu cational ... and the students seem . . . enthused abent It. Lets have it again next year." o o "I know the spelling contest Is a lot of work but if s worth a lot to students and teachers. Keep it up." "I am personally enthusiastic about your spellinr contest and vi glad that our school was able to participate ... and will be happy to de se araln." "I asked my girls and boys how I should -answer your inquiry about next year. You should have heard - the affirmative chorus. One volunteered My dad thinks these contests are tops. I do too' , ... Even though we have no final contestant this year, some from every family, I believe, will be there In person or via radio . . . Keep up the good work." ',. o o -I feel that this is a worth while project. It creates compe tition and a desire to become bet ter spellers. I recommend that It be continued." . "Great Interest is taken in our school . In the spelling contest. The 5th and-6th grades are al ready looking forward to the time when one of their group may take part." (To be continued.) Eye-Witness Tells House Of Atom Blast The House of Representatives took time out Friday to hear one of its members Lloyd E. Haynes, Grants Pass, give an eye-witness account of the atomic explosion at Yucca Flat, Nev, last Tuesday. Haynes and Rep. W. W. Bradeest, Burns, were among 850" military, government; civil defense and other state officials to see the blast. . Haynes said his principal re action to the explosion was relief from the extreme tension just pre- ceding the nuclear fury. He said many witnesses became 111 from the "letdown," but that he and Bradeen suffered no - disturbing effects. Haines said he was given a pair of -very dark glasses, hut the the brightness of the explosion easily penetrated the almost-black glass. - - "I was .blinded by the flash" Haynes said, "and if I had it to do over again, I think I would rather turn my back. Haynes said he took off the glasses 12 seconds after the blast, and then saw the shock wave rip pling across the desert. "When it struck me, it picked me up and set me back like a jolt," he said.: ? -. The fireball turned to a "grue some purple" and sucked up an extremely dense cloud of dust, which hung over the area for an hour, then seemed to plummet to earth.; Education Fund Wins Approval yiiiiawi eminent which i Is damaging- na tional security. ; Referring to what he called "a trend toward over-- classification and ultra secrecy," Adler said: -They have been self - defeating and instead of helping to preserve our strength, they have far too often cloaked weaknesses of which the public should be aware." Secretary of Defense Wilson proved he was a great production man as head of General Motors. Now he has another kind of pro duction problem how to produce confidence In the operation of the military establishment. . The chances; are it never can be done under the cloak of se crecy. : , : A shaky nunor has it that another PortlsBd blgtie. Olds A King, may establish a branch store In Salem ... If this keeps np will Pert land's next move be -to annex SalemT . . Wonder if other Portland enterprises wiU come to Salem like a municipal auditorium, lee arena, Portland Meadows and stage show theaters? . o o o If you want to arm yourself to tha teeth with facts about fluoridation of drinking water bend an ear to KOCO at 9:43 p.m. Sunday. A local committee will outline advantages, latest . findings, costs, engineering problems and constitutionality of fluoridation. Speakers will report how children's tooth decay has been drastically reduced in communities which have used fluoride . . . Fluoridation boosters here say nothing is holding . back fluoridation from Salem except apathy of citizens . i . The x program will ask citizens to write or call councilmen or tha mayor if they want fluoridation. x o o Short story, complete In this issue . . . Wife of a local man went to the hospital for an operation. While she was gone the harassed husband guarded, fed, bedded, bathed aad fought the couple's four siblings. He got up and get 'em erf to school. He washed, shopped and honseworked and straggled (mere er less) at his own job. He didnt sleep weU because one 'of the kids was always up and around at all hours. After two days ef this tho pooped pater visited his mate at the hospital. TeU me," he ask - ed wearily, an these years Pve been living, with yon. De those kids ef ours get up EYERY morning at SJOf ' ' '- . If anybody had anything to say about Spring Friday wa didn't hear it what with all the wind and rain i . . Oregon Bis & Tax Research news letter this week sez this: "Much legisla tive time could be saved if major state commissions, tax com mission in particular, gave prer legislative notice as to principal new-policy bills they intend to introduce . . . then there could be early digestion of ideas contained therein . . . For example, among tax commission's bills that were unexpected, hence hit a committee which was cold on the matter, include HB's 230-231-76 and 387. These are high-level policy bills that merit a look before the iurly-burly of a session engulfs them . (Continued from page one.) a large and growing section of the state practically the only avenue for transportation. Its routing along the coast is scenic, but its reconstruction is very ex pensive. . Work already done or con tracted for in the poswar period on this highway includes: recon structing the road down to Can non Beach, also the section from Tillamook to Pleasant Valley; seven miles between Otter Rock and Newport; a four-lane road between North Bend and Co quille; a three-mile relocation at Port Orford and six miles of re construction south of Brookings. The present program calls for more reconstruction south of Cannon Beach, at Bay City, and between Siletz River and Otter Rock and another five miles north of Gardiner. Heavy work will be relocations between Reedsport and North Bend; be tween Rocky Point south of Port Orford to Euchre Creek, and 13 miles between Gold Beach and Pistol River. The expenditure in Curry County alone will total around $7,500,000 (That ought to put down any agitation for "se cession'' to form with Del Norte County the state of "Jefferson.") This will not do the whole job needed for Highway . 101, but it will make it far more valuable for use. The 7 I vaive Safety A $21,600 appropriation for edu cating Oregon specialized college students In other states was passed by the House Friday and sent to . the Senate. "This money wUl be used mostly to pay tuition for Oregon students 1 who will go next year to the Wash ington State College school of vet erinary medicine. It is Oregon's first attempt to take advantage of the new west ern higher education compact, un der which 'each western state will open up its graduate schools to students from states which don t have similar schools. - TJS-97, The Dalles - California Highway, has had considerable reconstruction from Madras to Redmond, and 43 miles of relo cation bet wen Diamond Lake Junction and Modoc Point and reconstruction of the stretch at Algoxna north of Klamath Falls. The big jobs in the new pro gram are reconstruction of 74 miles south of Bend, and several other sections. The highway will then be in very good shape to carry its traffic GRIN AND BEAR IT by Lichty him from getting too drunk. He followed him to the principal theater cities, even to San Fran cisco; while he himself thus learned to drink, a habit from which" he recovered, he also learned to act, a habit which stuck. -";..' - He carried with him his caul. If he credited it with saving him from drowning in the Sacra mento River, and from a bullet fired at him in Chicago, it did not spare him from appallingly intimate contact with one of the -great tragedies of the age: Lin coln's 'assassination. The lime light was the worst place for. the assassin's brother, yet the lime light was where the actor had to live, and he never-fully es caped the effects of that evU deed. Born In 1833, near Balti more, he died in 1893 In the Play ers, the New ; York . club he . founded. This biography does not define as precisely as might be wished the nature of Booth's genius as an actor. On the other hand, it pictures , an intense personality, it is crammed with fascinating incident, and it spirits you away zestfully into the wonderful make-believe of the theater. "Out latest plan to tmpreve traffle eondliions is shewing ranliav geatlenien ... In some places It's stZI a fright but In ether places it's only bad. v . ----- Condensing the report on other highways I would mention on US-20 relocation between New port and Toledo, extensive re- surf acing east of Lebanon and again on the road between Bend and its eastern terminus at Nyssa. Considerable reconstruc tion is planned on this route in Central and Eastern Oregon. US-26, a relatively new high way on the US map which links the old Ochoco Highway with Portland via Madras and Warm Springs has had extensive work done on it to make a good pass able, cross-state route. ; Another important bit of new construction Is the connection of the Wilson River Highway with Portland by building 13 miles .from Glenwood to North Plains, making unnecessary the routing through Forest Grove. V ; ; - Unmentioned of course are' many, projects, especially those on secondary roads, which are . of course of great benefit to those "who use them. This report has dealt with the major elements in, the state's "cirCTilatory" (road) system. ":-: ' - . We Oregonians however must remember that - road work is never done. Our descendants will be building and rebuilding roads and bridges in their day (unless mechanical wings powered by atomic capsules are made prac tical). We can be however, well pleased with the achievements presently being made td enable the highway system of the state . to perform its function well. ' When radio broadcasting first started in the 1920s, stations all operated on one 300 meter wave length. REPUBLICAN CIRCUS Editor: When the Babbitt 8c Brothers circus came to town last Novem ber it followed the usual pattern except it failed to pack off its elephants and fold up its tents; instead it was booked for four yearsConsequently we are treated to the spectacle of the ringmaster making his practice putts on the White House lawn while the barkers (Wilson, Mc Kay, etc.) 'sell Republican snake oil under a new label And un der the big top the star perform ers, McCarthy, Jenner'Sc Velde, feed live Intellectuals to man eating senators and representa tives. But excess breeds its own revulsion and even circuses don't go on forever. Jot those either bored or dis gusted with such activities, a glance at the Canadian scene might be refreshing. If nothing else, the Canadian government is a living example that intellec tuals, or at least educated men. can run a government eriecttv ly. and without the "aid" of Mc Carthys, Jennefs or Cadillac salesmen. In the , present Canadian gov ernment. Governor - General Massey, the Minister of Exter nal Affairs, Mr. Pearson, and the Ambassador to the TJ.S- Mr, Wrong, have all been professors of history at the University of Toranto. In addition, the Prime Minister, Mr. St. Laurent, for merly lectured in the Faculty of Law at Laval University, the Minister of - Labor. Mr. Gregg. was President of the University of New Brunswick, and the Min ister of National Defence, Mr. Claxton. was a aart-time lec turer at McGlH University. Nor ,1s this alL the list of educated men in government might be greatly extended. - In the meantime the Republi can circus goes on and substan tiates the remark Henry James made some forty years ago: "It becomes every hour a more lav possible century. Walter L. Berg - 1248 Chemeketa Parole Bill Delayed For Survey Study Sen. Pat Lonergan, Portland, Senate public welfare committee chairman, said Friday he is de laying action on a full-time parole board, bill until he studies the re port of the three wardens from Illinois, South Dakota and Idahi who inspected the Oregon peniten tiary this week. " i; - He is ready, however, to Intro duce his bill to let the parole board, rather than the courts, set prison sentences. Silverton Students Invited to Witness Outdoor-Life Show Statesasaa News Service SILVERTON More than 300 junior high and grade school chil dren, will be guests of Silverton businessmen and members of Sil verton Chapter, Izaak Walton League, at a motion picture. The Land of the Golden Twilight," Monday at 8 p.m. at the Eugene Field auditorium. Chapter members report tha movie is for the entire family and all are welcome to attend. Adults . are being charged to help cover -expense of bringing the show to town. . 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