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Friday, August SL 1981
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MOSSADEGH GETS THE GATE
The good don't always die young and the villain some
times gets it in the neck, even in this wicked world where
it doesn't happen anywhere nearly aa often aa it should,
Old Mossadegh, the "strong man" of Iran, who only a
few days ago staged a phony uprising against the young
shah and made himself supreme dictator of his country, is
now out himself in a military ooup staged by army lead
ers. But as we aaid of Mossyi earlier success, "for how
long heaven only knows."
For one can be up today and down tomorrow In that
explosive country, and Mossadegh might yet stage
comeback. However, the army is the real basis of power
in a dictatorship and anyone who can command the troops
is likely to hold power for a considerable time.
Assuming that this proves true the way may now be
open for a settlement of the Iranian oil dispute. The new
ruler is described as an extreme nationalist, and anti-Brit
ish, but if he has any sense at all, and army leaders usu
ally do have, he must already have seen that Iran can't
run the world a biggest oil refinery. Hence he may be
willing to make a deal whereby it can be reopened under
a lease with British or Americans, with something like
a 50-60 split on the profits, such as the government of
Arabia gets from American companies.
Settlement of this vexatious dispute would do more
than increase Asia's and Europe's oil supplies. It would
ease the tension all through the Middle East.
Meanwhile the Iranian Communists will prove a trouble
some factor. They were well on the way to taking over
Iran when Mossadegh fell. They are the biggest imme
diate losers in the coup that toppled him from power. So
they may be expected to make things as difficult as
possible for the new ruler. . u.
KINSEY'S REPORT ON WOMEN
The long awaited report of Prof. Alfred C. Kinsey, the
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This Is a Story of a Hero
Who Fell Victim to Cancer
By RELMAN MORIN
For Hal Boyle
apart, though it will be avidly reed by the morbid,
Kinsey and his aides report on interviews with 6000
women, who evidently bared all the details of their sex
lives, whether truthfully or not neither Kinsey nor any
one else knows.
From these interviews Kinseydraws the conclusion
that a very large proportion of American women are
faithless to the teachings of church and society and to
their marriage vows. If his findings may be regarded as
typical the country is indeed in a sad state, on the way
to such a decline and dissolution as has become all too
common on the other side of the Atlantic during the past
83 years since the end or World war l.
We are not disposed to question the veracity of Kinsey,
who seems to enjoy a good reputation in this repect.
While there was no doubt some exaggeration in the sto
ries told his investigators they may be for all we know
substantially true.
But what we do question is that 6000 women who were
willing to bare all the most intimate details of their lives
in this manner are typical of women in general. We sus
pect that Kinsey has produced something as far out of
line with reality as the late unlamented Literary Digest
presidential straw vote in 1936.
Just what wholesome or useful purpose this sort of
thing serves is something else again. For our book none
whatever.
New York W) A friend ol
mine, a newspaperman, closed
Sultan of sex, is out, and without shaking the country I hu typewriter lor the last time
f uie tuner oay.
The news hit hard and hurt,
at first, as it always does. The
vision of his red hair arose,
and the freckles, like flecks of
cinnamon, all over his Irish
mug. His nose was large and
defiant, and shaped pretty
much like the prow of a fri
gate. He had a wide mouth and
a boulder for a chin. The whole
effect was of a fierce and for
midable man.
And sometimes, around the
office, he tried to put on a
mask of Irascibility, but it
wouldn't have fooled a 4-year-
old because he could never get
the grin out of his werm brown
eyes, so vivid a man he was.
But there is no room for sor
row in the manner of his pass.
ing, and that is the reason for
this story.
Bill had cancer.
He weakened one morning
in a hotel room a long way
from his home. The pain had
him so bad, he said, that it al
most unhinged his knees.
Still, h got in his car, and
barely crawling because of the
weakness, started home. On the
way, as he told me, a thought
came to him suddenly. It
sounds strange in the telling,
but not if you look at it as he
d)d.
He was glad it had come to
him in this way, while he was
alone, away from home, and
the only one to know. That was
his thought, and with it came
a plan.
You can picture him on the
highway, holding hard to the
wheel, lighting down the pain
and tear, and thinking, working
out in his mind what he would
do.
For nearly a week and this
is the gallantry and the wonder
of the human soul he said
nothing and tried to let no sign
appear in his lace.
Meanwhile, he was conduct
ing his own diagnosis. Bill had
a strong bent for medicine and
the studyof it. He might have
been a good doctor. Anyway,
he said, he determined for him
self what had happened, and
the zone where the trouble
must lie. He did It by turning
to some medical books and
matching his symptoms with
what was written there.
His diagnosis turned out to
be correct.
Then he went to a doctor for
the examination. "The point
is, ' he told me, "I was already
99 per cent certain. So the very
worst news he could give me
would be no more than I ex
pected. And if t was wrong.
well, that would be just that
much better."
He made them give It to him
straight, including the percen
tages In an operation.
Only then did he go home
and tell his family. That was
the hardest part, he said. He
tried to think of some way to
break it gently. He even con
sidered lieing about It. The
only time be ever flinched was
in the woment when he must
fare Helen and the boy.
Incidentally, Bill had been a
hard-shelled woman-hater until
he met Helen. Now she and the
boy mattered more to him than
his own anguish. He used to say
of his son, with mock despair
"what he's good at is eating;
VON PAPEN'S MEMOIRS ' ' .
Franz Von Papen, now 74 years old, long a prominent
and crafty figure in German politics who changed his
politics to shift with the wind of power; with slippery
guile from one side to the other,' has written his memoirs,
translated by Brian Connell, published by Dutton. The
book confirms the popular impression of the hypocrisy
of this betrayer of his country and servile toady of Hitler.
Von Papen was born an aristocrat and was a Roman
Catholic, but he devoted a dozen years of his life to the
Nazi cause in a cloak of self-righteousness, posing as an
honest man battling for an honorable cause.
In a review of the memoirs,' Orville Prcscott in the
New York Times summarizes the reading of the recently
published book as a "bewildering experience" in the fol
lowing excerpt:
"The 'Memoir' of Franz von Papen is remarkable docu
ment, a brazen triumph of self-Justification, excuse and apolo
gy. All his actions, says Von Papen, were motivated by the
highest ideal according to Christian principles. A monarchist
who believed in tradition, authority and order, his one politi
cal goal was to further Germany's historic mission to defend
the rampart of Western civilization against the Asiatic Slav.
"Patient, tolerant, forgiving, scrupulously honest compared
with everybody else, he was entirely ignorant that Hitler's
regime meant aggressive war until sometime in 193S. Hitler
tricked him in this, aa be did in many other matters. But as
a true German he had to continue to serve Hitler even after
the rape of Austria, which Hitler had promised him not to
commit even after the Gestapo had murdered several of his
subordinates and best friend.
"Reading these 'Memoir' is a bewildering experience. Black
become white. Obvious falsehoods, misleading statements,
crucial omission and partial truths are all mixed together.
No one who ha not devoted the last ten years to a full-time
study of German politics and history could possibly be certain
where to draw the boundary line between fiction and fact in
these tedious pages."
The book is not only a whitewash of Von Papen himself
but of Germany s aggression in launching both World
War I and World War II. He violated American neutrality
in supervising sabotage activity when in Washington as
a diplomat. In the 1920's he was leader in the Catholic
Center party and a protege of Hindenberg. He became
chancellor in 1932 under Hitler and became his supporter,
and later ambassador to Austria and later to Turkey.
Von Papen admits that he admired and respected Hitler
and at the same time scorned and feared him, but Hitler
always tricked or ignored him. G. P.
"SOBER AS A JUDGE"
Superior, Wl. Olio Torrey
Frederickson, 68, appearing in
municipal court on a drunken
ness charge yesterday, com
plained: "I'm sober as a Judge."
Judge Claude F. Cooper nodded
in agreement and gave Freder
ickson a suspended sentence.
TYPHOON HITS FORMOSA
Hong Kong ) Shipping
along the Red China coast was
warned Friday of approaching
nign winds and heavy rain as a
typhoon blasted on toward the
mainland after rocking For
mosa with winds of 90 miles an
hour.
he'll eat anything that won't
Due mm nrst"
When he told them, ha add.
ed, with that chin stuck out a
mile, "This business may kill
me, but by golly, it's not going
to scare me to death. So cheer
up."
- Well, that was nearly two
years ago. As soon as he could,
he came back to his desk. If he
had an occasional set-back, he
tried not to show it. He never
spared himself on the Job. And
he would kid around about
how much better off he was
man oiner people. He even
claimed, "Why, they cut eight
strokes off my golf game with
that operation."
I don't suppose he ever tried
to- fool himself, though. He
knew he would be a long time
getting out of the woods. Bill
never quite made it.
so vivia a man, and so
brave. Surely, there can be no
better proof of the lndestrue
tibility of the human soul than
that it harbors such gallantry.
Salem 45 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
August 21, 1908
Counsel for the government
had filed a petition for re
hearing the case of the Stand
ard Oil- Co. of Indiana in
which Judge Landis assessed
his famous fine of $29,400,000
Judge John Scott of Mar-
inn rnirntv ITnirtnAap TahiIi
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a'hd Oswald West had appear
ed at Cottage Grove in behalf
of better roads for Oregon,
free locks and water rights for
the state.
William Howard Taft speak
ing to republicans of Virgin
ia, had urged the "solid south"
to break away from the demo
cratic column.
A Capital Journal editorial
had declared that "we tear
down and destroy our public
men instead of holding up
their hands and building up
their influence."
This had been development
week for Western Oregon.
Capital Journal had stated
that "Portland people who
have a mania for airing their
family troubles in the news
papers and courts show very
bad taste."
Stock Inspector Keeler of
Marion county had found
most of slaughter houses in
the county unsanitary.
Jacob Vogt, proprietor of
the Little German Shoe store
at 343 State street had adver
tised, "My Prices Are Lowest."
Waller and Hentschel, suc
cessors to E. Eckerlen at the
Elite cafe, had advertised an
excellent merchant' lunch for
25e.
Bid were being Invited for
construction of Eaton hall on
Willamette University cam
pus.
Mt Angel College in charge
of the Benedictine father of
fered board, tuition and laun
dry for students for $250 a
year.
McMinnvill News-Register
Topmost officials of the
largest corporations are ex
pected to provide their own
transportation between ' home
and office. The use of com
pany cars is tightly restricted
and generally they are avail
able only through pools. But
not in government.
Not only mayor, governors,'
president and cabinet mem
bers, but hosts of lesser func
tionaries have official cars as
signed to them for their ex
clusive use, often with chauf
feur attached.
At all levels of government
in this country, where no one
walk a block if he can avoid,
the official car is not infre
quently used for such unoffi
cial purpose as shopping,
taking the children (who
won't walk, either) to school,
or vacation trips across the
continent or to Canada.
It is an abuse so widespread
that even the taxpayer who
may not himself own an auto
takes it for granted that an
official car is a perquisite of
public office.
Nowhere has the official car
proliferated a in Washington,
where may be seen the biggest
of black, shining, chauffeured
limousine, and thousand of
less imposing but late model
jobs, all provided by an ap
preciative public for its serv
ants. Upon ' this costly luxury,
Budget Director Joseph M.
Dodge is casting an impatient
eye. He has ordered a survey
which has for its purpose a
sharp reduction in the number
of official car. To a horri
fied bureaucracy he ha ug
gester more use of public
transportation and he reminds
all concerned that regulations
require the suspension or dis
missal of federal employes
who use official vehicles for
unofficial purposes such as
riding to work.
Dodge has embarked on a
Freedom of Press
Grants Pass Courier
On April 24 and again en
May I, a New Yofk newspaper
editor named Wechaler was
questioned by the senate ub
committe generaly referred to
a the McCarthy committee.
Wechaler admitted that he
had been a Communist member
but had later become "mili
tantly anti-Communist" H e
contended that the committee
"endangered the freedom of
the press" by questioning him.
He asked the American Society
of Newspaper Editors to ap
point a committee to "investi
gate" the "investigation." ,
The ASNE president appoint
ed a committee of 11, of which
J. R. Wiggins of the Washing
ton Post was named chairman
and Wiliam M. Tugman of the
Eugene Register-Guard a mem
ber. The committee "committeed"
and came up with a unanimous
decision that editors should
read the transcript of the
Wechsler hearing and determ
ine each for himself whether
freedom of the press had been
endangered.
Wiggins, Tugman and two
others submitted a minority re
port which held that, "it fre
quently repeated, such inves
tigations would extinguish,
without passage of a single law,
freedom of the press."
We haven't read the trans
cript of the Wechsler hearing
but we have read the news re
port prepared by both the Ac
sociated Press and United
Press. We doubt that we would
be any better informed on the
subject by reading the com
plete transcript. We have that
much confidence in those two
great news service.
With all due respect for the
finding of the four-man minor
ity, despite "frequently-repeat
ed" Congressional investtga
tions, whether they be by the
McCarthy committee or 'any
other, we hold no fear- of loss
of freedom of the press "with'
out the passage of single law.
The Fourth Estate can take
care of itself in that respect.
If committee hearings are not
fairly conducted, the public
may be relied upon to note the
fact.
In this tempest in a teapot,
we believe that Mr. Wechsler
merely made use of the some
of the technique he learned
as an active Communist and
has succeeded in having the
American Society of Newspap
er Editors fall for it.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Pearson Cites McCarthy's
Feuds with Top Publications
- Br DREW PEARSON
Washington Jumpin' Joe truth about the senator from
McCarthy really pinned a
badge of honor on Russell
Wiggins, managing editor of
the Washington Post, when he
demanded that Wiggins be in
vestigated for following an al
leged anti-McCarthy line.
Wiggins doesn't particularly
need any badge of honor. He
hn a lone and distinguished
record, ranging from the edi
torship of the St Paul Pioneer
Press to assistant to ine pub
lisher of the Kew York Times.
But when McCarthy singled
him out for attack, here is the
company be put Wiggins in:
Saturday Evening Post
charged by McCarthy with fol
lowing the instructions of Gus
Halt secretary of the commun
ist party, when it published an
article by tne Aisop uromers.
McCarthy took the precaution
of inserting this charge in the
Wisconsin.
MISSED THE BOAT
Friendly diplomats both in
side and outside the atate da.
partment feel that Ike missed
the boat when he let the Rus
sians call for free elections in
Germany. The Red move 1
bad blow to our friend Chan
cellor Adenauer.
Inside fact is that various
proposals had been submitted
by lower level U.S. diplomats
to Secretary Dulles and tha
White House by which the
United States would demand
free elections both in Germany
and elsewhere behind the Iron
Curtain. But with one excep.
tion, when they got up to tha
top, they were stymied.
The one exception was a
milk-toast message from Eisen
hower to Chancellor Adenauer
nn June 2fl exDreasinff th ..-
Congressional Record so as to port of tne United States for
protect himself from a libel all-Germany elections.
suit.
Knew Where to Go
Washington Times-Herald
Anthony Eden, the British
foreign secretary, who under
went an operation June 10 in
a Boston hospital, is scheduled
to fly back to London soon.
His surgeon has reported that
complete recovery is assured.
We rejoice in the foreign
secretary's return to health and
in the wisdom he displayed in
coming to the United States for
medical treatment. Govern,
ment medicine, a practiced in
Britain, obviously must not be
good enough for high officers
of the government.
QUICK, EAST WAT
Chicago U.R Two Chicago,
ans say they have abolished
dictionary drudgery. Chester
McChesney, a gteel company
executive, and Mrs. Ella B,
Wenger have patented a "talk
ing dictionary." The machine
works like a tape recorder. Put
a card in it and it plays back
the word, giving the correct
pronunciation.
commendable reform, which
could have wholesome reper
cussion in state capitols and
city halls across the nation.
But it will require more than
a directive to accomplish his
purpose. Washington's first
reaction will be that the man's
mad.
Time Magaiine McCarthy
wrote to every company adver
tising in Time asking that they
cancel their advertising after
Time carried a cover picture
and critical feature itory on
McCarthy.
Milwaukee Journal Brand
ed by McCarthy as the "Mil
waukee edition of the Com
munist Daily Worker." In ad
dressing the retail merchants of
Milwaukee, McCarthy also
urged them to withdraw adver
tising from the Journal on. the
ground that their aas were
helping put the communist line
into the homes of Wisconsin.
Christian Science Monitor
McCarthy claimed he saw a re
porter for the Monitor shake
hands with Robb Hall, Wash
ington representative of the
Daily Worker and that after
ward the two paper followed
the same line in covering him.
The Madison Capital Times
McCarthy accused i's city edi
tor of being an ex-communist,
and the Capital Times of fol
lowing the communist line. He
also sent most residents of the
surrounding county a circular
attacking the paper.
Marvin Arrowsmith When
Arrowsmith, who covers the
senate for the AP, failed to re,
port McCarthy' speeches in ex
tenso, McCarthy called him in
and threatened to denounce
him as being pro-communist.
Arrowsmith has a long record
for conscientious impartial re,
porting.
John Steele When McCar
thy didn't like one of Steele'
UP news accounts of a McCar
thy hearing, he proceeded to
bawl Steele out at a press con,
ference for following the com
munist line. .
James Wechsler Editor of
the New York Evening Post
was subpoenaed to testify be
fore the McCarthy committee
after he criticized McCarthy
and also after he published a
series of penetrating articles di
agnosing McCarthy's defender,
Walter WincheU.i
Others McCarthy has attack
ed include the St. Louis Post
Dispatch, the Portland Oregon
ian, cartoonist Herb Block, and
this writer. McCarthy's first at
tack on a newsman was the
hour-long diatribe he delivered
on the senate floor attacking
this writer in which he de
manded that the Adam Hat
company cancel my radio pro
gram. McCarthy followed this
with other speeches and with
a letter to 1,800 newspaper edi
tors asking that they cancel the
Washington M e r r y.-Go-Round
column.
Actual fact is that McCarthy
Good Job on Ballot Titles
they disagree with him or cri
ticize him, not because they fol
low a communist line. Russ
Wiggins was denounced only
because he was guilty of the
terrible sin of printing the
free all-Germany elections.
The letter, however, lacked
punch and conviction. There
was no insistent and repeated
demand upon the Soviet union
that free elections be held not
only in Germany but elsewhere
behind the Iron Curtain. This
is the most important point we
can hammer home at a tima
when unrest continues not only
in East Germany, but in Czech
oslovakia, Poland, Hungary,
Romania.
These countries were suppos
ed to be guaranteed free gov.
ernments under the Yalta pact
but the U.S. has completely
missed tne Doat oy not demand
ing and re-demanding that free
elections be held under the su
pervision of the United Nations.
looprritnt, ins 1 1
Tax Yields Fall
Albany Democrat-Herald
State income tax collection
declined two and one-half mil
lion dollar in the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1953, from the
all time peak, just short of
$69,000,000, reached in the
year immediately preceding.
The drop is attributed to a con
tinued decline in lumber prof
its. , .
Oregon legislative assemblies
have been expecting some such
showing now for several years
but with the exception of 19S0
have been agreeably surprised
each time.
The decline in the income tax
collections was confined, last
year, to the excise tax on cor
poration earnings, which was
off about three and one-hilf
miUion dollars at $18,606,000.
As of now, several plywood
plants and sawmills have cur
tailed operations, with a result
ing decline of earnings of
workers as well as In profits
of owners.
Whether the current slump
will continue is a matter of un
certainty. Legislative policies
on expenditures and revenue
raising at the next session will
depend on what happen in the
next eighteen month.
BUYS SPECIAL TRAIN
Kansas City, Mo. (U.B
Multi-millionaire Samuel Okin
of Atlantic City, N. J. bought
125 train tickets from here to
Denver, Colo., for $3,000 when
his wife, Rita, who is ill, com
plained about the swaying of
fast moving train. Okin re
quested that his private train
be held to 60 mile per hour.
WENT IN AFTER IT
East Los Angeles (UJ9 A
tipsy man weaving along the
attacks newspapermen because sidewalk stubbornly refused to
accept fate when he dropped
a cantaloupe and it rolled into
asewer. Police, summoned by
passersby, arrived just in time
to grab his ankle and haul him
out. .
Albany Democrat Herald
Baiiot-tiues as they will ap-, and representatives
pear to tne voters In the
1954
Oregon state elections have
been prepared by Attorney
General Robert Thornton and
published in Oitgon Voter.
which praises the job done by
the new attorney general,
At the suggestion of Thorn
ton, the 1053 session of the
legislature revised the form In
which measures are to be sub
mitted on .the ballot There is
to be no more double number,
ing of a ballot (310 Yes and
311 No). Each measure will
have only one number, with a
res square and a Mo square
at the side for the voter to in
dicate his preference. We'll
vote either for or against No.
311.
Even more important is the
descriptive summary that ac
companies each measure on
the ballot. For instance, on
the constitutional amendment
dealing with legislators' sal
aries, the nature of the mil is
indicated by the side-head
Salaries of State Lefislators."
This is followed by "Purpose:
To amend Oregon Constitution
by giving state legislature pow
er to fix the salaries of its
members by law. Descriptive
Summary: The purpose of this
propoced amendment to Sec
tion 29, Article IV, is to aUow
the compensation of senator
mem
bers of the Legislative Assem
bly to be fixed from time to
time by statute and to remove
the present constitutional lim
itations to such a salary."
The titles of four other pro
posed amendment to the Con
stitution have been written in:
understandable form. These
will provide (1) for subdivid
ing counties for electing state
legislators; (2) for institution
of a mental hospital in or near
Portland; (3) for a new meth
od of presentation by the peo
ple of constitutional amend
ments (raising the number of
signatures required from 8 to
10 per cent of the vote cast
for justice of the supreme court
at the most recent election);
(4) for a change in the state
property tax provision of the
constitution, eliminating the
present complex and unwieldy
8 per cent limitation and pro
viding instead for a top limit
of 8 percent on the levy to be
made on property, unless a ma
jority of the legal voters vote
to permit an excess.
The net result of the changes
made in the titles is to sim
plify them and make them
more understandable. Th
change are so natural and
sensible that it seem odd ever
to have handled thl matter in
any different manner. I
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