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4 The StafMmaxu Salem. Ore. Monday, August 24, 1S53 1 c5 (Drcjaontatcsraaa - .' i !. - . T " ' " ' m2io Favor' Sways U$flo Fear Shalt Awt" from First Statesman. lUrch 22. 151 f . . - it Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES ASPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher' 'Published m9ty inUn BusIimm aCne U8 - Mart QmrcH Sfc, Slenw Orw, Tlpoo 12441 Catered at Oh poatoffle it Satem. Or, cob4 cia matUr under act of Congw March X 1S7S. w'v ". ;"""'! Member Assojrfated Press , Associated Praaa m aatHtod axeiuatvcty t tte aaa for republication ot aU tecai awa printed la 26 usediton inside pages, 15 didn't use it , at all. All major New York newspapers car ried it, including the New York Times -which .has as its motto: "AH the news that's fit to-print" ; " ' At autumn editorial conferences through out the country there will be many lively argument as to who did right WELCOME GUESTS? New Hrad of BLWj Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay appointed ; William G. Guernsey as regional . administrator for the Bureau of Land Management whose office is in Portland. He replaces Roscoe K Bell who held. the posi tion some two years, succeeding Dan Goldy. Bell will go to Alaska where his job will be to study the public land problems there and t develop programs to permit the more rapid development of the territory. Bell can leave with a pretty good record cf .accomplishment, particularly in the field of Q & C land administration. In the last fiscal year timber sales from these lands and from the public domain also managed by the! bureau amounted to $13,355,870, the largest? orvrecord;' Total timber sales were 609 milp lion board feet. The selling was a more diff in tuit task than usual because of the urgent1 need to block out and sell windblown andt f beetle-infested timber.! Building of access roads had to be pushed to get at the affected y tracts. One big road project is that now un-A der contract by the Bureau of Public Roads, s ip Smith river in Douglas county. Jf Bell's successor, Guernsey has been a government career man, serving principally i in the forest i service of the intermountain country, in . Montana, Idaho, Utah and Ne vada. He is a: graduate of the University of Idaho and' a veteran of both world wars. He comes to a very important post in govern ment service, but comes with the equipment of extensive experience in forest and land I management The region wiil welcome him, as at the same time it congratulates Roscoe &BeJl on the good work he has done. Warden, Deserve Help t Trouble in prisons has been perennial, as always swill be ! the case when hundreds of men arethrowiti together of all -' ages, all states of "mind all inclinations and apti tudes, and all confined by compulsion. We can look for no Utopia in this regard. But we believe Oregon is on the right track in its disciplinary but humane treatment of ; its wards and we ire glad the state emergency board showed its confidence in the present prison administration .by allotting an addi tional $100,000 for custodial help. . Gladden seems to have confidence "in, and have the confidence of, the Oregon State Po lice, as different! from the preceding adminis tration, and cooperation between prison of ficials and the constabulary played a con siderable part in overcoming last . month's disturbance without even greater damage than resulted. So far as we can see, substantial progress has been and is being made in placing the prison on a sound operational basis. The state bond commission came to the rescue of the town of Empire down in Coos County. Its credit didn't live up to its am bitious name and 'a bond issue of $10,000 for a sewer system went begging. But a new schoolhouse had to have sewer connections before it could be used; and the old one had been condemned. The state bond commission bought the bonds, which seem, to be a good investment since they will be retired through sewer use income. The town, by the way, just celebrated its centennial. Inside TV Newspapers and the Kinsey Report pr. Albert; Kinsey 's revealing report ois behavior of the human female apparently aroused as much controversy on the nation's editorial desks as it has among its millions of readers. , Couched in blunt if scientific language, the report will be argued for many a month its scope, its accuracy, its conclusions are wide open both to praise and attack. But the immediacy of the problems it raises struck hardest at the mediaof publi cation newspapers, particularly, where the printed word provides a testing record for criticism, and which reach into every home. Should, the bare truths,; if such they, are, be -the fare for an entire family? " There Was little if any chance for news papers to compare opinions and attitudes and act in concert. Each publication's editor had to decide whether to censor, to eliminate entirely or to publish the wire service stories as, written; whether to give prominent dis play on page 1 or to bury on the inside. Jn actual public interest, there was no doubt o the report's news importance and reader- ' sfcfipAThe Statesman elected to publish it on Jni&b pages, in full as far as space would permit, with a brief note on page 1 to tell rejaders where it was. It was not censored in any way. What happened elsewhere? Of 77 news papers polled, 36 used the story on page 1, Editorial Comment STEVENSON'S REPORT BOTH GOOD AND BAD Adlai Stevenson, back from his world tour, brings both good news and bad to his fellow Americans. After talking to political leaders and the man on the street all over the world Stevenson finds that: The danger of . another world war has dimin ished, at least for the present We have been winning the cold war, step by step. The image of a magnanimous America (pro viding assistance to far-flung peoples in every thing from arms to agriculture) still stands out "clear and radiant" All this is good. But Stevenson warns that this is no time to let down our guard, militarily or politically. It is no time to do further damage to our prestige by "book-burning, purges and invasion of executive responsibility." It is no time for unilateral action, "the new face of isolatioaism," whkh, if followed, "spells disaster." 7 It is no time for historic allies to fall apart There is little of partisan politics in Steven son's first report to the nation. That may come later. But he did praise Democratic congression el leaders for "opposition at its best" And he did leave the door open for another try at the presidency. In its" main outline, however, Stevenson's re port (supplementing his brilliant series for Look magazine) is not so much that of the titular head of the Democratic party as that of an observant lucid newspaper-trained American citizen count ing the heartbeats of a troubled world and eval uating it for his fellow Americans. Whether he will reduce his observations to book form (as did Willkie and Dewey before him) we do not know. But we hope so. They should make the best-seller list Oregon Journal. vid Fata Offers Actors Charm -Money 7; VI III I it' f - " Inside Tensions, Outside Pressures Make ! Iranian Situation Most Difficult to Analyze By WILLIAM L. RYAX ! AP Foreign News Analyst, Jhe trouble with assessing the sil'ation in Iran today is that it m.;es very little sense. r pne thing secras certain: there are grave troubles ahead 'for the 5 cling Shah and his supporters. f'cemier Mossadegh, the dodder ing, weeping, old boss, had all the cards stacked in his favor up to the time of the Shah's flight abroad Atfg. 16. Yet. Mossadegh lost Why? ' Perhaps one of' Mossadegh's big e$t mistakes was to give the im pression of intriguing with the Rus sians and the Communists. I p until a relatively short time a sb. Mossadegh's record had been clear, on the surface, at least, of intrigue with foreigners, all of whom are hated with passionate impartiality by the Russians. . Mossadegb toyed with the dan gerous idea of using the Communist Tqdeh Party to support his regime and his attack against the Shah. Tae Tudeh Party was conspicuous bjt its absence when the showdown came, - r But the Tudeh is still there, and stfU the strongest single organized force with which the Shah will uave to) deal It is outlawed has been ever since one of its members tried to,' kill the anti-Soviet ruler in 1949. During the Mossadegh regime it blossomed forth openly under the Communist banner, easily ignoring the "legal ban against its existence. By all past experience, the over throw of Mossadegh should have been the signal for a reign, of vio lence . and chaos into which the Tudeh Party would insinuate itself with disciplined purpose. 1 iThat violence and chaos inay be Ir the offing and soon. One reason for such a supposition Is this: iThe return of the Shah's! men to Pywer may lead to a lessening of tension between Iran and the West ern nations.; The new Premier, Gen. FazoUah Zahedl, already has an nounced Iran must make amends for offending formerly friendly nations.- . -T . Any settlement for example, of the Anglo-Iranian oil crisis that would have the effect of relieving tensions between Iran and the West would hardly be taken lying down by the Soviet Union and its Iranian Communists. - If a settlement should seem near, the Communists will kick up a real fuss in an attempt to stop it That could very well lead to more chaos and bloodshed in the poverty stricken country. But there are in herent weaknesses in the Coramu-' nist Party ir Iran which keep com plete domination of the country out of its grasp. One weakness is that all its prin cipal leadership is outside the coun try, mostly in Moscow. Inside Iran the party has no independence of action and operates only on the orders relayed from Moscow. Another weakness is Moscow's probable fear that a Communist coup in Iran, even though engi neered "internally," might be a spark to set off World War III. The Russians are not ready for that and not likely to give the signal ' The task of the Tudeh Party will be to keep the Iranian pot boiling, to give the Shah's government no rest, to make alliances with other dissident elements, and to keep the country in an unsettled condition which will make it easy prey for the day when Moscow is ready to take the gamble. And Moscow will gamble if it thinks the West is sufficiently weak and disunited. By EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD TELETORIAL: Cock your ear to the West some clearnight when the wind is right and you may hear a pecu liar groaning noise. Check the direction on a map and you'll dis cover it's coming from Hollywood. Its source? Actors. Also actresses. The ones who have been doing television lately. TV was both a challenge and a novelty not too long ago, and every-actor wanted to take a crack at it providing his movie studio would let him, his agent would let him, his wife would let him, and the money was right : It was a real lark at first But it is a lark no more. The movie people are beginning to discover that television is a very complicated proposition. Right off the bat consider the work involved. A live dramatic show calls for a week of rehearsals, plus on the air at 8:30 sharp and no fluffs a miserable strain on an actor accus tomed to the casual pace of motion pictures. ; A TV film is shot in three days or-lest, although some of the flossier operations such as "Dragnet" and "I Love Lucy" will stretch it out to a leisurely five. A motion picture takes anywhere from three weeks (absolutfminimum) to six months, sometimes longer. Then there is the sponsor, a crea ture completely unknown to the movie fraternity, but one who rules teletnsion with an iron hand. The sponsor general ly has a wife, several children and quite a few relatives, all of Whom are increasincrly critical in direct proportion to their show business experience. And it is the actor who bears the brint of it. The most infuriating aspect of all is the constant prob lems of conflicting sponsorship. The actor who appears on several shows for one soap sponsor can never do a show for any other soap sponsor. The actor who receives a fair sum for endorsing one cigarette is forced to turn down a really at tractive offer to star in a series of shows for another cigar ette. A show he did years ago for the Glitz Beer company kills his chances to do a show today for the Glutz beer com pany. The poor guy never knows where he can turn his next befc but isn't it nice to be appearing right in the great American living room? .. AROUND THE DIAL: Milton Berle recorded 17 TV spot an nouncements to herald the return of himself and his show to NBC TV this fall for his new auto sponsor. Big party for Berle in the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel had all the press top brass, and NBC stars out for the fun . . . Ben Lessey, Louise Bea vers and Walter Catlett have been set for the Danny Thomas TV film, "Here Comes Daddy," over ABC this f all . . . An adult type of western will have its debut this fall on a syndicated basis. "Western Story" will have James Craig, MGM thespian, in the leading role V Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago August 24, 1943 Betty Lu Nixon of Salem played the leading role in the four-act drama "The Crimson Cross" with the Watson play ers at the old high school. Berliners are deserting in panic, 500,000 fled to Poland after the third nightly Allied raid. Penicillin, new bacteria-kill- ' ing drug, is to be produced in quantity by November at a $600,000 Oakland, Calif., plant 25 Years Ago August 24, 192S J. E. Smith, county commis sioner oi Marion county, said the highway near the county poor farm north of Salem is being widened. Secretary Kellogg arrived in France on the lie de France to sign the war renunciation treaty. The mint harvest is under way in Salem area, with pep permint oil aggregating in val ue over $500,000. Salem has a peppermint oil refinery owned and conducted by L. O. Har rold. i 40 Years Ago August 24, 1913 Two hundred automobiles from Portland plan to go over the Old Barlow toll gate trail for the Pendleton Round-up. A special repair car will travel with the party. The American consular agent William Alcock was stabbed in the back by a crazed Spaniard at Huelva, Spain. (He recov ered.) Advertised at the Chicago store, Salem, are ostrich plumes 14, 16 and 20 Inches long for 11.49 to $4.85. GRIN AND BEAR IT i fiMM Mr upg i U Jlfr'Jtl teriHf-. VI J? -'O'j'-'V'Vt 'f SS4 Charles Bkkford, who recently made his TV debut in a Ford theatre show, will star in "JDestiny," in which he plays a "minister in transit" without a religious emphasis. The pi lot film co-starred Ronald Reagan . . . "Fabian of Scotland Yard" which features Bruce Set on in the title role and Sarah Churchill in occasional roles begins its half -hour teleseries this fall, with Robert Fabian, retired head of Scotland Yard, visiting and lecturing on law enforcement to promote the se ries . . . Gory battles between animals trill be the format for "Junalt Macabre." a new 15-minute filmed show . . . Big Bv LJohtV PGrtV at Chasens for Edward R. Murrow, hosted by CBS brought out the cream of TV. motion picture and radio stars: Jack Benny and Mary, George Burns and Grade Allen, and ever so many more. HOODLUMS TRAP GOBS MANILA JP)- Police recently rounded up men dressed as womenin Luneta Park in the heart of Manila. American sail ors had complained they were robbed by these seductive sirens" who often turned out to be tough hoodlums. ; 12-Point Court Coverage Co dej Listed by Lmvyers BOSTON un The "law of the jungle" applies to. news reporting of court trials, the head; of the New YorV County Lawyer's Asso ciation said Sunday... Edwin M. Otterbourg. president of the association, presented a 12 point code on fair trial and free press, , drafted by a special com mittee o that association . to the National Conference of Bar Presi dents. ; ''',' They are meeting in connection with the 75th meeting of the Ameri can Bar Association,,!; which opened sessions Sunday, y "If these two great liberties the right to a fair trial and the right to a free press are permit ted to continue in conflict' Otter bourg said in a prepared address, "obviously the way soon'!; will be opened for unfair trials on the one hand and for unbridled license on the other. fj "When once this becomes inevit ably apparent an aroused public may turn to some roan on horse back, who, to seize power, prom ises, to enforce these rights. When ever and wherever this has hap pened, both rights have soon com pletely disappeared and tyranny tri umphed," he said. Otterbourg said he hoped that the steps taken by the New York County Lawyers' Association were "the beginning of a program which will lead the bar and the fourth estate along the path to a com plete understanding." j "We can, thus, together, save for our country, and ourselves; our in valuable rights to a free press and a fair trial," he said. The 12 points listed by She com mittee were: 1. Courtroom factual statements reported by the press should not be elaborated with opinions as to the way the case should be de cided or statements designed to pur suade either judge or jury. . 2. The press should not report factual statements when they im pair public morals. . 3. Attorneys should not give in terviews either before or during a trial . . . they should not engage in public criticism of either judge or jury. 4. The press should not publish in advance the stories witnesses ex pect to tell upon a witness stand or articles written by witnesses. . . 5. The press should not express opinions on the credibility of wit nesses or advocate paticular rulings on questions as to the admissibility of evidence. f; 6. Sensational headlines, .not strictlyj warranted by the facta, should be avoided. . . 7. The press should not make public what has been excluded by the judge or jury. t. Facts concerning the discred itable acts of si person prior to the commission of ft crime for which he is being tried ishould not be pub lished until the trial is over; pro vided, howeve that judgments of convictions wfeich have actually been catered niay be referred ... 9. Statements that a prisoner has confessed tb a crime should not be made until proof of a confession has been received in evidence at the trial -4,.! : J i , 10. The press should not seek to learn or publish the attitudes of par ticular ? jurors fifter a verdict has been given . . 4 1L In criminal cases the press should hot atteinpt to influence the judge las to Iwhat sentence be should i impose A " , 12. The verdicts of juries and the judgments of courts should not be ' influenced by ftnything except the evidence actually received at the triaL i I . . Befes Itistigate Mass jPxodus ' ; ! t ! BROCKTON; Mass. OP) Bees found an overstuffed porch chair so comfortable; they routed Brock ton firemen hen they tried to douse ft fire 14 it . A neighbor! noticed the chair-, smoldering an called the fire de partment This; sequence followed: Out came the smoke, out came the firemen, 4ut came the hose, out came the 4ater, out came the bees, out went the firemen. Damage was? slight all around. ;' ) :- k .. Bring 'Bin Bqck OTTAWA (There's a dis appointed sixfyear-old named Jimmy in Ohi$. With his parents he visited the? Parliament build ings here. At the main entrance to the j Peace Tower he gaped at the two constables on duty. Then he suggested lloudly, that he "wanted one" to take back and "show j them at school." i Usually most co-operative with tourists, the Mounties gently dis couraged the dea. j (Continued from v page one) people have the stamina to en dure for an indefinite period of years a curtailment of their luxuries or conveniences to say nothing of their necessities; or to bear the increased taxation required to balance the national budget? It may be that our democra tic system is facing a supreme test in the years ahead. The Bri tish displayed remarkable forti tude in suffering austerity in their living a bitter fruit of the victory for which they sac rificed so much. The capacity of the American people to suf fer deprivation and make sacri fices has hardly beeng tested; but the impression prevails that ' we lack a toughness ef moral fiber to give things up save in the patriotic glow of ; waging war. I continental defense of North America. . This impulse will be height ened! by thef developing weak nesses in NATO. The interna tional army is still-born. Poli tical j weakness is manifest In' Italy! and France. Britain seems bent Ion pursuing a more inde pendent line! in foreign policy. The Inevitable reaction on this side of the water will be to re treat from Burope, both in our aid and in dur concept of mili tary strategjj. The next observation that comes following the rtport of the Russian H-bomb is;: that an overhauling of oui strategy may take place. That has been to "contain" Russia militarily. We have sought to ring the USSR & Co. with air bases from which long range bombers could deliver atomic bombs to devastate Russian industries and military centers. Churfhill at tributed the postwar peace of Europe to Russia's fear of our A-bombs, which now wil be off set by the hopes that spring from possession of similar weapons. If Russia proceeds to develop long range bombers then our own security 11 jeopar dized. Hence the prospect is that we shall turn more toward President Eisenhower has di rected the new Joint Chiefs of Staff to take! a fresh look at our military prdgram. Undoubted ly this will mean a weighing of all the new tractors which have arisen in - recent years and months. (Some of the advocates of strong air power are suspi cious: of this review because one service, the navy, has "two voices" Radford and Carney on the Joint.' Chiefs; but that always will be true for the ser vice "which furnishes the chair man will fhave two.") ' . What however is of the great est iurgehcyi. is 'for President Eisenhower ite direct that a fresh look be taken at the dip lomatic policy of the United States. Thus liar it seems frozen , m the tracks of "containment", at a f time when affairs are be coming fluid; . : Ini my opinion the way to solve the grjeat problem of re armament and of our domestic economy lies in adopting a win ning diplomatic strategy. I have seen few sighs of its emergence to date. I ? i v Speaking of Murrow, his new "Person to Person" show start ing Oct 2 over CBS, will be done live from New York. "ItTl be done with three cameras," he told me. "We hope to get realism, a la Cinerama, that way. Well get more camera angles for one thing, and give the viewer, more scope. As for my format I wont ask the people I interview how they became famous, necessarily, but rather about their hobby or off-beat vocation or unusual ex periences. HI try mainly for naturalness, talking to people in their own haunts, so to speak. It's a type of show I've been wanting to do all my life I hope the public likes it well enough for me to keep it as a regular TV fixture." - Russian TV sets, what there of them, normally have only seven-inch screen, cost around $300 and screen has a distinct greenish tinge ... we can look for a purge because screen isn't red, probably ... TV also graduating into hospital rooms . sets on rollers now have pillow-speakers so patients can have set wheeled in and enjoy it without bothering others . . . sets in . many Salem homes already are on rollers so screen can be easily ' faced in any direction. Better English By O. C WILLIAMS . ef trtHert vsW are tskJm capfuKsf fsW awisiHi H at list tf pist mimmmn l..What is wrong with this sentence? "James got the posi tion through Mr. Johnson's .pott '; ' : -s-,. i 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "largess" (a liberal gift)? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Larrikin, larin gitis, lascivious, lapidary. i 4. What does the word "com plex" (adjective) mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ine that means "quality of being absurd"? , ' ANSWERS L Say, "James secured the po sition through Mr. Johnson's in fluence.'.; 2. Pronounce lar-jes, a as in lard, e as in yes, accent first syllable. 3. Laryngitis. 4. Complicated; intricate. "Who understands the complex phe nomena of life?" 3. Incongruity. 1 ; . --in .... - V, sn 'ir if ', 5 fv CHARLES W. CLAGGEX. ' HfT. ESTABLISHED 1891 . 'A SINCERE SERVICE AVAILABLE TO ALL" - PHONI 3-3173 j Ont ef Town Calls at Our Expense PARKING LOT ATAILABIJi IV. T. RIGDOtl CO., Funeral Directors f 299 M. COTTAGZ AT CHEMIJCHA - f . ; . i . ! . -:::-.!- -i