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PRESS CONFERENCE ON. TELEVISION
, President Eisenhower hw shown a. progressive im
provement in hie handling of press conferences. Ha has
had. four ao far. It it evident that these questions and
answers on public issues have become a permanent institu
tion and Ike has shaped his course to it because it offers
the public a chance to learn what it wants to know.. It
will enable him also to gain public support for his pro
gram as FDR used his "fireside" radio addresses. That is
of course is he is frank and precise, as is his inclination.
Success pf Ike's press conferences has revived the
possibility of their being covered by television a pro
posal that is now being studied by trie administration.
Discussing this political end product, Arthur Krock,
chief of the New York Times Washington bureau in his
"In the Nation" column in commenting on the fourth con
ference, says: . ,
' "The 'president bandied the difficult end delicate business
f a newi conference with t combination of subject knowledge,
candor, quick thinking, earnestness and pertonal charm that
achieved a new record. If millions of people are to see and
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hear such performance frequently, while K is proceeding,
the president's political rivals and the opposition party as a
whole will be very hard put to try to match It and counter
... Its effects. (, .:. '. i v -i-.'-i y.cy i . -v
"The president baa grown Increasingly skillful in the give-
ana-lane or, news comerences ana manages io.De aiscreei ana
frank at the same time. He may, and probably will, be led
occasionally Into comments and answers to certain questions
. mat win maxe itoudic zor mm, as ao oiien mey am ior presi
dents Roosevelt end Truman. But the Importance, variety
' and number of the questions thrown at him and his sure and
Informing responses suggest mat sucn misnaps will be rare.
Also, when the president Is engaged in exchanges with indl-
.. vlduals he reveals to tne full his famous personality, which is
not the case when be Is obliged to read set speeches written by
Bvmuvuy cue. - -t
-. Even though they lost the national election, the demo
crats thought they had the best of it in television with
superior talent and experience with video and made good
use of It. : Television gave Kefauver his lead in conven
tion delegates and Harriman his District of Columbia
strength. Russell and Barkley used it effectively and
Adlai Stevenson displayed his versatility brilliantly. But
( some republicans soon acquired quality on video after a
' tough start, with most of television time' contracted in
advance by democrata.
If the White Rouse decides that the news conferences
can be screened occasionally without impairing their
, spontaneity, Krock concludes that "conflicting westerns,
soap operas and puppet shows may as well go off the air."
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND,
Dulles Changed His Mind With
More Information on Bohlen
QUEEN MARY'S DEATH
Dowager Queen Mary was the grand dame, or "grand
mother of the British commonwealth," as that apt phrase
maker, Winston Churchill put it. Her death will be
widely mourned, but assuming it had to come rather
soon it is well that has now come now so the proper period
of mourning, can elapse before the coronation of her
granddaughter, Queen Elisabeth.
, Queen Mary was a holdover from an earlier day, even
an earlier century when royalty was in full flower and
the people of the world had more veneration of it than
they have) today. Not that the lack is noticeable in the
British realms however. ;
Queen Mary lived and died by a stern code of devotion
to duty and to the royal tradition. This impelled her to
refuse recognition to the end of her life of her son's wife,
the former Wallis Warfield Simpson. Narrow, spiteful,
snobbish manythought it, and so it was if viewed from
the popular angle.. But from Mary's viewpoint one im
agines it represented maintenance of proper royal stan
dards at a considerable personal sacrifice, for she cer
tainly loved her son. t- f f ; '
Her death removes a great figure from. the British
commonwealth, but her value as a cementer of the loyal
ties of a diverse and widely dispersed people will not cease
with her death. Rather she will remain part of a great
tradition of empire that may endure a long time in a
climate supposedly unsuited to it
BACK SEAT FOR MORSE
' The democrats of the senate were very decent about
letting Oregon's Wayne Morse have a rear seat on their
side of the aisle. Morse has been sitting by himself in the
middle, but close enough to the republicans to hear some
of the things they were saying about him. Morse has
a fairly thick hide but this seems to have been too much.
One hopes, but not too hopefully, that this will dispose
of Morse's seat difficulties and that we shall hear no
more about them. But knowing Morse as we do we doubt
this, for Morse without publicity would be a dreary figure
inueeu.
In any event we expect no republican complaints from
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Washington If what Sena'
tor Tobey caUs "the willful
group of little men" opposing
Chip Bohlen to be ambassador
to Moscow knew all the facts
about , him, they probably
wouldn't be so vehement in
their opposition. ' ' "' :y
Real fact is that John Foster
Dulles, campaigning for Dew
ey in 1948 and expecting to be
the new secretary of state, told
friends privately that one of
the first things he would do
when he took over the state de
partment would be to "exile'
Bohlen. He had in mind a long
period of service in some pleas.
ant country such as Guatemala
or Tanganyika.
The fact that Dulles is now
strong for Bohlen is due first
to the fact that he recognizes
Bohlen as a man of ability; sec
ond, the fact that Bohlen is by
all odds the best-man to under
take a difficult diplomatic
sounding mission with the new
Kremlin, v "
This sounding is a plan for a
Big Three meeting of Elsen
hower, Malenkov and Church
ill.
Eisenhower has decided that
he would be willing to meet
Malenkov halfway, preferably
in Berlin, in order to discuss
peace in Korea and a possible
truce In the cow war. ,
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BEHIND BIG I ,
The idea for such a meeting
has been debated back and
forth inside the White House
ever since Stalin died. Some
Ike-advisers have cautioned
that the new Kremlin is much
more anxious than we are for
a truce, that it would be better
to wait for them to come to us.
Other advisers have urged
that Ike leave no stone un
turned, should by all means sit
down with Malenkov. They Be
lieve that even if the Big
Three conference gets nowhere
It would have two Important!
advantages:
1. Ike would get a chance to
size up the new boss of Russia.
2. The new boss of Russia
would have an opportunity to
get acquainted; to see that
we're not as bad as we're made
out to be. Malenkov has never
been outside the Soviet, knows
few westerners, has the repu
tation of hating Americans.
In addition, political advis
ers are Impatiently reminding
the White House that it has
now been three months since
he went to Korea, and four
months since he campaigned
on a pledge of doing some-,
thing definite about Korea.
Yet so far nothing definite has
been done. They think a
meeting with Malenkov would
be politically advantageous at
this time. i
PARADOXICAL BOHLEN
Chip Bohlen is in the para
doxical position of being sus
pect by the McCarthyltes' for
being a New Dealer, yet the
New Dealers never liked him
because they suspected he was
a reactionary.
A cousin of the famed Ger
man munitions maker, Krupp
von Bohlen, he was suspected
by some of the people around
Roosevelt as not wanting to
carve up Germany after the
war. More recently he was
also suspected by some of the
Acheson people because he
didn't enter into the battle
against McCarthy. Yet it's
now McCarthy who's out to
smear and defeat him.
Involved in the battle over
Bohlen Is the fact that John
Foster Dulles started his work
as secretary of state by seek
ing to appease certain sena
tors. One of them was Mc
Carthy. He partialis sided
with McCarthy during his
early Voice of America probe,
did not support his own state
department personnel as did;
Acheson.
He also hired the adminis
trative assistant of Senator
Bridges of New Hampshire to
be state dpeartment security
Y DREW PEARSON
senate appropriations commit
tee, Bridges is one of the most
powerful men on Capitol Hill
and one whose favor Is court
ed. ; . . ; ' .
However,, Dulles is now
lemming Thst Achscn learn
ed many years earlier: 1. That
you can t appease Senator Ma
Carthy; the more he gets the
more he wsnts; 2. When you
hire assistants of senators they
sometimes pay more alle
giance to their old bosses than
to their new bosses.
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FBI ON BOHLEN
- In the Bohlen case, the FBI
was called In to check on a
reported incident in his life
which may or may not have
happened many years ago. The
FBI could find no substantia
tion for it, nor could it find
anything , serious against his
character beyond an occasion
when Sherman Blllingsley of
the Stork Club asked Bohlen
to leave the club for repeated
ly walking from one side of
the dance floor to the other,
regardless of dancing couples
in his way. i ... . -,..;'
However, word went up to
the McCarthy group oh Capitol
HiU that Bohlen'a name had
been given as a reference by
seyeral state department offi
cials who were Jired. This fan
ned the fire or suspicion and
Weeks Cuts Commerce
Budaer 169 Millions
New York WV-The New
York Times reported Wednes-
dsy that Secretary of com
merce Sinclair Weeks has re
vised the Truman administra
tion's budget estimate for his
department downward by 169
million dollars.
The Times, in s story from
Wsshington , by Charles E.
Egan, said most of the 18 per
centi cut projosed by Weeks is
at the expense of the Mari
time and Civil Aeronautics
administrations.
Salem 40 Years Ago
y BEN MAXWELL
March 15. 1911
rh.t .11 cluster lights in Ss.
lam will be used at no distant
date seems proosoie sine "
agreement Between rwuwu
u.iiw.v Lleht Power com
pany and city officials appears
imminent. City street lights to
the number of 118 have wen
in.tiMf and the cost of oper
ating them has been bourne by
city, state sna coumy,
For the first time since the
ninursnh motion picture com
pany, took pictures of the Ore
n state penitentiary Salem
folks will be seen sgain In films
when Indepenoent motion pic
tures are flashed on the screen
of Bligh theater tomorrow.
Shown will be the first official
train crossing the new railroad
bridge between Salem and West
Salem. Persons riding on the
front of the engine can be rec
ognized.
Mayor Steeves stirred up the
automobile fire engine ques
tloa again last night when he
presented a communication
concerning a proposal for re.
duction in insurance rates.. .
Day Officer "Dad" Irvine
yesterday placed himself In
line for a leather medal by ac
tually laying hands on a man
infected with smallpox. This
diseased person, from Inde
pendence, had been shaking
hands with several local sa
loon keepers before he was
recognized as dangerous by
reason of his marked face and
body. Dr. Miles, city physician,
sent him to the pest house. .
was the enter smear-weapon
used against him. '
This was also the Inside rea
son Senator McCarran stated
that Scott j McLeod, Senator
Bridges' former assistant and
now state department security
director, hsd refused to clear
Bohlen, even' though Dulles
gave him a clean bill of health
to the senate foreign relations
committee., .
; Such are the wheels within
wheels surrounding a confir
mation fight almost as bitter
as anything in Truman's day.
In brief, petty politics con
tinues to be petty politics.
Note Bohlen's greatest as.
set Is a perfect knowledge of
the Russian language and of
Russian characteristics. He has
translated Russian for Roose
velt, Truman, - Jimmy Byrnes
and others. : He also under
stands Russian quirks, pecu
liarities ana politics. Such a
diplomat Is rare In any foreign
office.
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23S N. COMMERCIAL
City council proposes to pave
Chemeketa street from 14th
street eastward to 21st street.
Housewives Don't Like the
Name; Prefer Homemdkers
' Now, after a long fight be
tween various factions in North
Marion county, the county
court has approved a bridge
across the Willamette to form
a connecting link between Mar
ion county and Yamhill roads.
Cost of this bridge (the New
berg bridge ( will be $85,000
to be paid eauallv bv Marlon
arid Yamhill ; counties. The
main street structure will be
735 feet in length and stand
95 feet above' low water mark
in the river. . '
Have you tried It? "Sala
mander." "Hopfen and Maltz
Gott Erhalas." A reproduc
tion of the old-fashioned malt
beer. Salem Brewery Associa
tion. . ' ' , '.'
Sixteen sets of sidewalk res
olutions were read before the
New, York ( The ques
tion of the hour, ladles, is
what do you wsnt to be
known as - Housewives or
HomemakersT
The most desirable femi
nine career today is unques
tlonably marriage. The title
most women seek and are
proudest of is "Mrs."-whether
it. be Mrs. Jones or Mrs.
Throckmorton-Smythe.
But a lot of very happily
married women are very sick
and tired of having to list
their occupation as "House
wife." They like the Job but
don't like the tag.
They feel it doesn't have
enough dignity, doesn't des
cribe . their important ' role
enough, and invites a snlfflsh
condescension from the
snobby.
To put it in one , lady'i
words, "whenever I have to
say I'm a housewife, it makes
me feel mousy and that makes
me feel bolllag mad, like a
lioness. But what can I do?
After all, I am just a house
wife." ':.!:-.,..,:
Well, some women are try
ing to do something about it.
They are ; campaigning to
erase the word . "Housewife
from the American vocabu
lary - and replace 'it with
"Homemaker."
Among the embattled haus-
fraus in .this cause is Mrs.
Norma A. Lee of Rutland,
y HAL IOYLI
Oregon's Accidental
Deaths Among Highest
Portland W Oregon's ac
cidental death rate last year
was one of the highest in the
nation, Dr. Harold M, Erick
son,: state health officer, re
ported Tuesday. :
The national average for
1952 was 61.3 deaths per 100,
000 population, Oregon's rste
was 77,1, be said, and added
than is an Improvement over
1951's rate of 78.7. ,
. Most of the deaths, 475,
were the result of traffic ac
cidents. There -were 823
deaths in the home, 226 occu
pational mishaps and 180 list
ed as public accidents.
council last evening and all
were adopted. All call for con
struction of wooden sidewalks
along Shipping and Norway
streets. ,- '
' i reel tnai tms name
Housewife is not only a most
insdequste one, but that it if
actually an unjust one," she
wrote. "It has a bad psychologi.
cal effect. i-
"The very word ' "House,
wife" places the emphlsls up.
on the house rather than the
home, and gives the lmpll.
cstion a woman Is more con
cerned over dirty trscks on
her clean floor than in her
"The name "Homemaker
places the emphlsls upon the"
nome, ana implies so much
more, v The' . true homemak
makeS a happy and successful
home ... Gives her family
heathful food . . . Teaches h
children to become good citi
zens reaay to take their places
in society, and helo make .
better world. :
"For what nobler career
could anyone ask?. Then why
should not the homemaker
have the honor of bearing that
aignixiea name rather than
the ordinary one of house
wife, for which she so often
feels it necessary to aoolo.
glze?" it
The real argument aselnit
Mrs. Lee's crusade ' is that
housewife is a natural heart-
meaning word to all except
snobs, and homemaker is a
made-up word. .
Too many occupations al.
ready are switching to srtl-
uvicu mica mat souna a bit
ridiculous. Janitors become
custodians and now are build
ing suprintendents. BUI col.
lectors are credit counsellors
and garbage collectors sanl-
wry patrounen. oeiore long
tramc pons win atatinma-..
street safety ' directors and
mailmen will be traveling
communications engineers.
A housewife could be called
lot of titles-childherder.
heartwatcher, m a t e kie eper,
heartmate, doghouse super-
visur, or paycnecK guardian.
She could even be called
'Homewife," although that
might raise the Question as to
nether there was an office
wife in the background, too.
But If the annoyed kitchen
cuties will take one man's
advice well,instead of fighting
against that term housewife,
they'll fight for it. It has a
lot of heart and history be
hind it, and no one ever rldl-
culed H except lr. envy or
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