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4 Statesman, Salem. Or Monday. Navvmbr 23 1953 No Favor Sways' Us, No Fear Shall Awe" From First SteteimiB. Mirth 28. 1851 :- . Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published vtry morninf . Buslnesa office 3M North Church St.. Stlem. Ore.. Telephona S-S441 Entered at the postoffice at Salem. Ore. at second class matter under act of Congress March i. 187S. j Member Associated Press The Associated Presa Is entitled exclusively to the use for republicaUon of all local newt printed in this newspaper '- Source of Lobby Power x Out of the testimony of Art Samish in his trial for income tax evasion the San Fran cisco Chronicle has taken extracts which expose the frame of that lobbyist's power. The pattern is similar to that of other lob bying groups being active in the prelimi nary stages of the election process and at ground levels. The key of course is control of the Legislative Assembly. That is achieved by encouraging "friends" to run and backing them with financial support Quoting Samish: "We prepare a list, that I have often said extends from the Oregon Line to the Mexi can Border, of candidates, both for the Leg islature, or it may be for some constitutional officers . . . "Sometimes there are three or four or five candidates aspiring to the same job, and in many instances I might add . . ..that in any list we support two or three candidates for the same job. We have got to get a winner. We don't care, we will support the whole five." Samish declared he extracted no promise from the men he backed, which may or may not be true. But his campaign contribution and personal support if extended was in ex pectation, of a "quid pro quo." And Samish collected regularly on the obligations of mem bers. He even boasted of being the boss of the California Assembly. It should be noted that the Samish terri tory extended "from the Oregon line to the Mexican border," We ,are not sure but what it may have extended into Oregon since he has been- a stockholder in the Multnomah Kennel Club. Its interests, however, have been very faithfully looked after by Jay Bowerman, a veteran of the Oregon lobby. Lines are now forming for the candidacies of 1954. Those interested in good government shouldn't wait until the time for filings closes to be. sure that able and conscientious per sons will be standing for public office. This ' goes for all offices from city councilman up through county and state and national offices. Samisbs power may be smashed but other spokesmen for special interests will follow the same methods, though not all of them -as crassly as the California "boss." Good gov ernment requires more than casual or occa sional participation in political affairs. He Lays It on the Line Joseph Alsop's recent enlightening stories on the situation in French Indochina throw a stern challenge at the Free World. In his view, there apparently are three important premises which must be accepted as a basis for any planning: ( 1 ) Morale and ability of the French and native armies in Indochina are high, and they are doing a good job so far as they can; 2) there are increasing signs of assistance being received by" their com munist enemies since cessation of the war in Korea; (3) the French homeland very pos sibly wjU; seek by any means soon, through appeasement or any other name it might be called, to stop the drain on its national treasury. Alsop's thesis is that Indochina's fall to the Communists would open the way to their control of the entire remainder of Asia, and it will fall unless the Free World comes to the , assistance of France in maintaining a defense he believes warrants all aid possible. His other comments are particularly critical about the Korean "peace" Asian Commu nists regard it as definitely a Red victory 'the Chinese armies fought the Allies to a standstill," and the French find! increasing solace and reason in arguments that they now have a full right to conclude their own fracas in Indochina on a similar basis. The summary of the situation in Indochina, written during a first-hand visitation to the battlefront and to governmental headquar ters, has provided grave and fascinating reading in several of the Alsop articles of recent date. The Korean fire seems to have been brought under temporary control but it will remain a tinderbox for years. The Indochina fire may consume everything in its path if back-firing is not continued and enlarged. It would appear a definite policy regarding Indochina cannot be longer delayed. A Wise Course for Schools There is much to be said for the new policy in several school systems, including Port land's, of requiring persons who visit school rooms to identify themselves beyond question. The policy is not designed to prevent par ents or others with a legitimate interest from seeing school operation first hand. That type of visitation is continually encouraged. But the Greenlease case, wherein young Bobby was allowed to leave school with a stranger to go to his death, has made many a school take' a second look at itsevules. In the Greenlease case, of course, there was the unfortunate element of the school's outright release of Bobby to a woman no one knew. That should never be permitted anywhere. But neither should unidentified strangers be allowed to mingle with or be come familiar with pupils entrusted to the care of schools. Such laxity permits, in the parlance of the evil, "casing the joint" and "casing" the students. Overt action elsewhere might well have been given its impetus through an unfortunate courtesy extended by principals and teachers with all good inten tions. Portland schools have recently been vis ited by strangers "with an air of mystery and without stated reasons" for their vjsits, school officials have declared. Those with good and proper reason for calling at class rooms should welcome, not resent, require ments that they identify themselves fully before being allowed to complete their mission. Editorial Comment SENATOR MORSE SPEAKS CHARLES V. STANTON In Roseborg News-Review I was In the audience at the Junior High School auditorium Friday night to hear Senator Wayne Morse talk about Senator Wayne Morse. The senator's speaking" ability never fails to elicit my utmost admiration. Each time I hear him I sit enthralled by his marvelous command of language, his clear enunciation, his voice mod ulation, the effortless gesture, the tone of con viction, the biting satire, the peerless showman ship, the change of pace and perfect timing. To one who sweats and strains through every public utterance, trembling with fear at the very thought of facing an audience, the senator's tal ent seems nothing short of perfection. At oratory he has few peers. But, then, he gets a lot of practice. Listening to the symphony of words, as one who appreciates words, I almost missed the sen ator's implication that of the 531 members of The Congress, 530 are party hacks, numbskulls, dupes andor stooges, and that only one knows all the answers. And that the executive branch of government, picked from some of the most successful and highly respected men of the na tion, can do nothing constructive and is wrong on all decisions and policies. Under the spell of his magnificent voice my heart bled as he recounted the indignities heaped upon him the refusal to allow him to sabotage the party platform, rejecting his choice for vice president, and denying him the opportunity to beat the bass drum on the band wagon. , Wrong Colored Ink - The sanctimonious words of fore give hess for those who had done him dirt, and the recital of his agony and travail in mustering courage to . be a turncoat, so wove their magic spell that in analyzing reasons for his desertion specifically overseas extravagance laid at the door of the Republican nominee I almost missed the fact that overseas extravagance, waste, inefficiency and graft originated with the economic do-gooders of the administration to which the senator had consistently given his allegiance in many past years. Also the thought that the senator's sudden passion for economy, completely lacking in his prior record, existed only long enough to serve as an alibi, as evidenced by his continuing demands for more free spending. -Almost lost in the masterful flow of dulcet words, piously disclaiming ill will against his de tractors, and the crime-does-not-pay denunciation of vengeance, was the harsh undertone of jealous vindictiveness against the former Governor of Oregon, now serving as Secretary of Interior, to whom the senator attributes all things evil. From the clash of minor chords in the sym phony of words, I gathered the impression that had editors been dipping their pens in his blood to smear it on their editorial pages, as he so cutely phrased it, they would be writing in the green ink of jealousy. The senator should know that newspaper offices have been using princi pally red ink since the crowd to which the sen ator has given his support, lo these many years, took office. Take a gander at the list of news papers forced to fold financially in the past few years! Remarkable Question Agility I must confess great admiration for the sena tor's agility (Note to proofreaders No, I don't mean ability) when it comes to answering ques tions. As a verbal snooker player he is a master of position. One man at Friday's meeting asked what was behind Brownell's charges. He got, for free, an expert legal opinion that Truman, as a private citizen, should go before the investigating com mittee voluntarily and then, as ex-President, re fuse to answer any questions relative to executive procedure. Another gentlemen asked "What about Tri este?' He received a lengthy and most detailed dissertation on Junior's cleverness, astuteness and intrepidity in forcing through the Senate a resolution favoring the World Court, despite urgings from fellow senators that his resolution was untimely, coupled with a personal plea from the President to delay action. A third question was for information relative to the current status of the Hells Canyon con troversy, which resulted in the full treatment on federal power, which the senator favors, as opi posed to free enterprise. - I have heard the senator in several of these brilliant question and answer sessions, but sel dom have I heard him give a fair and square re ply. But they furnish a fine springboard from which to launch his dives into his favorite po litical waters. As I said earlier, I love to hear the senator speak. I am a great admirer of his technique. But when Senator Morse , speaks about Senator Morse it is my opinion' that he needs a better subject GRIN AND BEAR IT ByLichty Time Flics - ' ' ' - "' ' - j a r, Vii "Get your coat, Roscoe, and stop being childish about attending parent' hocMf mtttings . ..Wishing the school house would bum dooml t hiside TV 1 Malenkov Regime Fails to Make Good on Its Promise to Relax Russian Criminal Code By TOM WHITNEY (Former Moscow Correspondent NEW YORK fi The Soviet government has not yet made good on its promise to the Soviet public to reduce the severity of the Soviet criminal code. Eight months ago. three weeks after Stalin's death, instructions were issued publicly to the Soviet Justice Ministry to submit rec ommendations for changes in the criminal laws. These orders were included in the amnesty decree of March 28. which freed many non-political petty 'criminals, and it was made clear that the changes would be in the direction of dropping some offenses from the criminal laws and easing the punishments pro vided for others. v . .. : : , Though no specific laws were mentioned in this decree, many Russians hoped it might mean the relaxation of Soviet labor laws which freeze them to their jobs. Russian workers cannot leave their jobs without obtaining hard-to-get official permission1. If they db leave without permission they may be subject to criminal prose cution and imprisonment. Naturally this system is unpopu lar. The government itself apparent ly felt called upon as long ago as last July to make some ex planation to the public why there was delay. It said Ids was one of the scheduled -measures of the gov ernment which former Deputy Premier Bena sad sabotaged. Patti Moore on New TV 'Room for Daddy' By EVE STARR . HOLLYWOOD Songbird Patti Moore will be written Into Danny Thomas' next telcscript, "Make Room for Daddy." Her part ner, Ben Lessy, is an established personality on the show .... Ben Blue and Mary Mccarty all set for NBCs "All Star Revue" Nov. 28 with Phil Harris em ceeing . . . Ray Sinatra huddling with the croon er for the January Frank Sinatra Show . . . The original of "How to Marry a Millionaire" is now being released on TV. It's called "The Greeks Had A Word For It" not bad either . . . Bing Crosby's TV show scheduled for Dec. 27 will be seen on Jan. 3 instead. Happy New Year for a new show ... A recent American Research Bu reau poll shows that "Dragnet" photo-finished "I Love Lucy" by a nose. Their theme song and Stan Freberg's parody on "Dragnet" is credited with boosting au dience appeal "Meet Millie," dropped from CBS some weeks ago for lack of a sponsor, has cornered a half-hour of our laugh time and promises to remain JF the rest of the series measures tip to the last show. Breadwinner Elena Verduga ( Millie) has a sweet wistful charm and brings an emotional warmth to her role as the loving daughter. Florence Halop (Mama) as the near-sighted self-sacrificing mother who works as a wait ress to buy her daughter a birthday fur coat, is hilariously funny when she becomes a guest simultaneously with her waitress chores. It's doubtful whether such a situation trould ever arise, but the slapstick was skilfully handled. The per petually hungry Alfred Prinzmetal (Marvin Kaplan), the family friends (or nemesis), is a fresh comic personality to watch. STARR BULLETINS: Swing-and-sway bandleader Sammy Kaye plans to visit the mission in St. Augustine, Fla., which in spired his current hit record, "In the Mission of SL Augustine." Now on a nationwide tour, Kaye is arranging his itinerary so that he will be in Florida the latter part of this month . . . Abbott and Costello have had to cancel their Dec. 13 "Comedy Hour." Cos tello's doctor tells him he needs a long rest so. for once, Lou will take orders . . . Fred Allen's "Judge For Yourself" panel-variety show is not the first time Allen has used a talent program as the showcase for his humor. In 1932-33, he presided over an NBC radio show called "Stars of Tomorrow." No more telethons. George Heller, executive secretary of American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, re vealed that insiders in show business consider telethons un fair competition to nightclubs, theaters and other TV shows . , . 'The Golden Key," a neu; video series, presents inspir ing stories of handicapped persons who have achieved suc cess despite great odds against them. First story features blind pilot-adventurer Jack Hughes . . . Will Rogers Jr. plays the title part in "Lucky Tommy Jordan" for the Ford Theater. CAPSULE PROFILE: Steve Forest, the bright new person ality of Warner Brothers dramatic hit, "So Big," has written five television scripts. One of these "Strange Encounter," has been on the telewaves 17 times. "Too bad," confided Steve, "this was written before residual rights, since I sold the script for $350. With residuals I should be receiving about $2500." (Residuals are payments a writer re ceives for additional performances of his play after its first showing.) The 63" red-haired brother of Dana Andrews is one of 13 chil dren and happily married to a former student he met at UCLA. They now have a five-month-old son. (Copyright 1953. General Features Corp.) (Continued from page one.) sumption. Also, the jet exhaust is very noisy, a fact which makes the people around Hills- boro doubt whether they want a navy jet plane base in their vicinity or not According to Lawrence P. On July 10 when the announce ment of Beria's arrest was made. the fallen police chief was charged among other crimes with "inten tionally blocking the realization of government instructions" on put ting the criminal laws In order. In Pravda.and Izvestia, Beria was even accused of "attempting to distort" the Soviet , government's instructions to him on this mat ter. But that was nearly five months ago. To this correspondent, who spent nine years in the U. S. S. R., it seems likely Russians will not forget this grievance against the government until the laws they do not like hart been formally and fully wiped off the statute books. revolution and preempted the field of mechanical power until the internal combustion, piston type engine was developed around the middle of the 19th century, followed by the Otto in vention of a four-cycle engine in 1 BRA Thtt TtisMl nirin still a piston job, was invented in Lessing, writing in the Novem- 1893. But the first patent for an aerial gas turbine was not taken out until 1930, by an Eng lishman, Frank Whittle. Little ' was done toward its practical use until after the war. Jn the space of a dozen years it nas be come a leading power plant in military planes and is now in use in British passenger planes. The principle of the gas tur bine is simple. The plane or ve hicle is propelled by "thrust.' Mixed air and fuel gas are burn ed in a compression chamber and 'the current of the hot ex haust pulls the air from in front of the plane, piles it up at the rear and forces the plane forward. The principle is the same as that of rowing a boat. .The -oarsman pulls the water from the front sides of the boat and pushes it backward. The thrust then pushes the boat ay head. , The jet engine is a simple plecv of machinery, with only . on "ving part, the rotor turn ' Ing3 compressor which is mo -d at the other end of the sin- shaft. Its highest test spet is around 750 mph. Its great drawback is its fuel con- ntOM STATESMAN FILES ... - 10 Yean Ago Not. 23,194 Sen. W. Warren Barbour, 65, of New Jersey, died at his home, the third member of Con gress to die within 24 hours. The other two were Henry B. Steagall and J. William Ditter. President Roosevelt asked Congress to guarantee muster-ing-out pay and social security benefits for veterans of the present war. (He got $7,000, 000.000.) Mrs. Herman Estes, the for mer Alice Speck of Salem and a Willamette University Law College graduate in 1938, was selected as executive secretary on the rent control committee. 25 Years Ago Nov. 23, 1928 Reports brought by restored communications indicated that 200 persons perished in the typhoon which struck the Cen tral Philippine Island. The United States cruiser Milwau kee left from Manila with a relief party and supplies. - Oregon State College whipped the New York University grid team, the East's champs, 25-13, before a crowd of 40,000. Mrs. G. McCutcheon, leading woman bowler, appeared at the Winter Garden bowling alley in Salem. She has bowled several perfect 300 games. 40 Years Ago Nov. 23, 1913 Frank W. Carpenter, execu tive secretary of the Philip pines, was appointed governor of the province of Moro. He succeeded Brig. General John J. Pershing and was the first civilian governor of the prov ince. The Eugene Association of the University of Oregon alum nae honored Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway of Portland with a reception at the Hotel Osborn. She was known as the "mother" of the suffrage cause in Oregon. Moving picture acting is a new art at the University of Oregon, and the moving picture as an adjunct to the extension department of the university was given a trial by university authorities. Better English By n. C WILLIAMS Senate Probers AsIc Dullos Renew Request to Question Ex-Red Spy, Now in Canada ber Scientific American, the pis ton engine with propeller had about reached its practical lim its: "Every additional increase in horsepower was beginning to cost too mucn in labor, com plexity 'and weight The speed of planes was restricted by lim itations of power and propeller efficiency. Jet engines are relatively light and require no propeller. Lessing predicts: "Between 1953 and 1860 jet liners, provid ing comfortable, almost vibra tionless flight at 500 miles or more per hour, probably win be competing oa all the world's airlines. The jet engine's application Is by no means confined to planes. Boeing s has developed a small model for use on motor trucks. The Union Pacific has one gas- turbine locomotive in use and several more on order. As Less ing concludes: The world the gas turbine Is shaping is one of sharply con tracting distances and acceler ated change. It will be more powerful and .more dangerous than any man has yet seen. 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "The whereabouts of my son-in-laws are not known." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "grovel"? 3. Which one of these words is mfsspelled? Charlotte russe, characteristic, charicature, char latan. 4. What does the word "gew gaw" (adjective) mean? 5. What is a word beginning with qu that means "soft, wet land"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "The whereabouts of my sons-in-law is not known." 2. Pronounce the o as in on, pre ferred. 3. Caricature. 4. Showy; pretentious. (Pronounce gu-go, u as in use, o as in go). "The gewgaw castles of medieval times." 5. Quagmire. By JOHN CHADW1CK WASHINGTON tf - Secretary of State Dulles was asked Sunday by Senate probers of Communism in government to relay another message to Canadian authorities in support of a request to question Igor Gouzenko,- former Soviet code clerk at Ottawa. Gouzenko, who now lives with his family in an Ontario town un der an assumed name and has a Royal Canadian Mounted Police guard, broke with his Soviet mas ters in 1945 and supplied the Can adian government with inform ation about Russian espionage ac tivities. A first request of the Senate in ternal security subcommittee for an opportunity to question him was turned down by the Canadian gov ernment, which said U. S. author ities had been promptly advised of all information of value to them. Request Seat Chairman Jenner (R-Ind) ques tioned this, however, and at his request Dulles asked the Canadian government last Thursday to re consider its refusal to allow a sub committee representative to inter view Gouzenko. Jenner said the subcommittee has reason to believe the former Soviet code clerk could furnish it with information that would be of value in its efforts to trace the activities of former federal offi cials who have been accused of spying for Russia. . The subcommittee, which will resume public hearings Monday afternoon has been probing into the explosive case of Harry Dexter White, former assistant secretary of the treasury, and others who were associated with him in the government. Called Spy Atty.-Gen. Brownell, in a Nov. 6 speech, called White, now dead, a Russian spy and said that, even though this was shown in FBI re ports, former President Truman promoted White early in 1946 to be U. S. director of the International Monetary Fund. Truman retorted that Brownell lied to the American people. The former President said that, after learning of the accusations against White, he ordered White kept un der surveillance but allowed the appointment to go through lest oth ers under suspicion be alerted to the FBI probe. A member of the Jenner sub committee. Sen. Butler R-Md. said Sunday "you haven't heard the last of the White case." Among possible future witnesses ''before the committee he mentioned Gou zenko, former Treasury Secretary John Snyder and Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, who was Truman's attorney general at the time. Evades Question Butler, appearing on a radio-television show, declined to express an opinion when asked whether Truman himself should be "forced to appear" before the committee. Jenner, in his new letter to Dulles, said he was enclosing an "authenticated copy of a signed statement" by Gouzenko and asked that this be forwarded to the Can adian government in support of the subcommittee's renewed request to question Gouzenko. The statement was one the Chi cago Tribune obtained from Gou zenko, a copy of which was made available to the subcommittee. Could Offer Advice In it Gouzenko was quoted as saying that, although he had no information "which he had not al ready given to the Canadian gov ernment, he thought he could give useful advice. This advice, "if properly put Into effect," his statement said, "would have good chances of bringing ex posure of present Soviet spy rings in the United States in compara tively short time." Sen. Hickenlooper (R-I0wa, former chairman of the Senate- House atomic energy committee, said in an interview that he thinks Gouzenko ought to be questioned by the internal security subcom mittee. He added he suspects that the Canadian spy ring had ramifica tions in the U. S. atomic bomb project. Just back from a Latin-American inspection trip, Hickenlooper also disputed the contention of Sen. Wiley R-Wis) that Congres sional Red hunting & causing a hostile reaction in other countries. The Iowan said he found ."ex pressions of approval, rather than condemnation," for the public air ing of the White case. mats: Polk Draft Office Closed This Week Statetaaaa Ntwi Strrlc DALLAS The Polk County selective service office will be closed all of next week while Mrs. Nona Ford,-board clerk is on va cation. Regular office hours, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., will again be ob served starting Nov. 30. Orders have been issued to seven men to report for induc tion into the Armed Forces on Dec. 7. Names of these men will be released for publication at a later date. ' The Safety Valve CLOCK STRIKE "MUSIC TO EARS" To The Editor: I was very disappointed when I read about the complaints in regard to the striking of the new town clock. We have been so very grateful to the Soromtourist Club for their efforts in having it installed in the city hall tower and every citizen should appreci ate it If those people in the Sena tor Hotel are annoyed, let them use ear stops as the Hollywood stars do. Any way why should tourists tell us what annoys them, when they will be moving on tomorrow. I live very close and have had to accustom myself to all kinds of noises, but that striking was music to my ears, when I need to hear it Putting a cover on the hammer has helped a very few, but not the majority. Mrs. E. B. Kasson 681 Center St Heavy Voting Reported in Slav Election By ALEX SINGLETON BELGRADE. Yugoslavia JP Yugoslavia's ten million eligible voters turned out in force Sunday to register their endorsement of the policies East-West and here at home of President Tito's Com munist government. The outcome was certain. Under a new election system adopted this year, the voters could take their choice between balloting for can didates presented by the "socialis tic Alliance of the Working People of Vugoslavia" or voting against the government. No other parties opposed the Communist dominated "alliance." Asks Approval Tito, in the first country-wid election since 1930. was asking ap proval not only of his administra tion's five year defiant resistence against Russian domination, but also of his stubborn stand against the Anglo-American decision to turn the strategic Adriatic seaport of Trieste over to Italy. Domestic problems might pro duce some opposition, among them the government's failure to deal adequately with a serious bousing problem and with its seizure of farm land after abandoning its pol icy of forced collectives. Results Uikn own Final results will not be dis closed officially until Wednesday. On the basis of semi-official re ports the voting was heavy. Ap proximately 90 per cent or more of the eligible voters deposited bal lots early. In Belgrade, about 83 per cent had voted by 2 p. m. In towns along the Dalmation Coast, where the government was particularly anxious to register support in view of Italy's claims at Trieste, the vote was even heavier. There were less than 20 scats for Parliament in which there was a contest under the single party sys tem. With high confidence, the go ernmewt expected a voting turnout of 90 to 93 per cent of the eligible voters. Less than S pea cent were expected to register any opposition to the government's policies. 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