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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.
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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.-
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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?
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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
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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 . .
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Mass jPxodus
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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.
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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
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l..What is wrong with this
sentence? "James got the posi
tion through Mr. Johnson's
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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.
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