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THE 'GLOOMY DEAN'
The death at Wallingford,
William R. Inge, 93, whose dour predictions earned him
fame as the "gloomy dean'' of St. Paul's Cathedral in
London, removes the most picturesque of clerical pessi-
m sts. He had been in ill
tired in 1934 after preaching
h s nickname to "trying to tell
Dean Inge was a distinguished scholar in the classics, a
profound philosopher and a skilled teacher, recognized as
the greatest English church esayist of his time. He was
humble in spirit, modest in the extreme, but his public
comment ridiculed social hypocricies and made him as
much of a British oracle as the late George Bernard Shaw.
Whatever Dean Inge said brought chuckles from the
public and sputterings from those whose views had drawn
his verbal fire. And he challenged some of the oldest
Christian dogmas. When he declared that he did not be
lieve in miracles, neither in heaven, hell, nor the British
socialists, he was attacked
plied by declaring that his critics gave the impression that
the average Englishman spent all his time worrying about
the geographical location of the next world.
Dean Inge accused Englishmen of being lazy and pub
lished a book, "England," which emphasized his nick
name. He advocated a revision of the marriage contract,
easier divorces, favored birth control, or some check on
birthrate among the poor. He ridiculed those who found
a conflict between religion and science saying there must
be bridges between the world of fact and the world of
spiritual values. He added
not touch science and a science
are mutilated and incomplete.
is that the science of religion
be scientific and the religion
gious."
In the pulpit, in his writings and in other public utterances the dean
denounced in withering terms both socialism and democrac;. Social
ists were to him "court chaplains of King Demos" and "worshippers
of the silliest of all fetishes" the right of the majority to rule. "Any
dead dog can float with the stream," he said.
Democratic governments were called "wasteful, inefficient and
generally corrupt, yielding before every agitation and paying black
mail to every conspiracy. He preached the majesty of the individual
soul and ridiculed what he called "the herd theory of mankind."
Dean Inge was not all denunciative. His constructive
thought was homely and kindly and witty as well. And
he could be merry at times. His wife told a story that
brought laughter from him, as follows:
"A doctor left a patient on a deathbed at night, after telling the
man's wife to take his temperature every hour. In the morning the
physician hurried hack to find the bed empty.
"Said the wife: 'We didn't have a thermometer sn I used the barom
eter. That pointed to 'very dry' so I gave htm two pints of ale and
now he's gone to work.' "
The world needs pessimists to offset the dreamy "pie in
the sky" optimists and it
G. P,
THE ADMINISTRATION
. The Bricker amendment is
sponsored by Senator George of Georgia, but only by a
vote of 60-31 in which the amendment backers missed the
required two-thirds only when a West Virginia Democrat
rushed into the Senate chamber to find the vote 60-30 and
cast the vote that saved the administration from a rebuff.
. The amendment was opposed by 16 Democrats and 14
Republicans, and by Senator Morse, Oregon independent,
who supported the president while Senator Cordon oppos
ed him, as did Majority Leader Knowland of California.
Previously the Senate had rejected the much more
objectionable Bricker amendment, which the president
had vigorously opposed. He did not openly oppose the
George amendment, hut neither did he endorse it and pre
sumably favored no restriction on the president's treaty
making power as it has stood since the constitution was
adopted.
The wording of the George amendment sounded harm
less enough. It said that no international agreement
could become domestic law without action by congress.
The danger is that foreign countries would interpret the
amendment to mean that the country was restricting the
government's power, to make international agreements and
that in the course of time the courts might interpret it to
mean much more than it seems to mean. This has hap
pened repeatedly in constitutional matters.
The Bricker amendment agitation was a delayed reac
tion to the secret agreements made by the Roosevelt ad
ministration at Yalta and Teheran, but no amendment
could prevent these taking place if we ever again have a
president who wishes to bypass the senate's right to re
fuse treaty ratification. However, such agreements arc
not binding upon a future administration, and could be
repudiated in all good conscience.
So the need for anv amendment is dubious at best. If
' watered down" it will be meaningless, if it contains teeth
it will hamstring the administration in conducting foreign
relations. It is admittedly dangerous for the president to
have powers, hut more dangerous for him not to have.
CONGRESSIONAL PENSION 'GRAB'
This newspaper has no objection to an increase in con
gressional salaries, which most members evidently want
but are afraid to vote. Hut we resent "grabs" such as the
revised congressional tension setup will be if it becomes
law. It was passed Friday bv
' The already extremely liberal pension is further "liber
alized. In computing payments onlv the salary rate
drawn since 10 4(5 is to be
nerved prior to then, as most
without having made payments
Then a credit for tin to five
Is granted, without requiring that the individual have
been a member of congress at or prior to the service, Sen.
ators and congressmen who served in World War I, for in
stance, will get credit for this service on their congres
sional pensions. Certainly this is a far-fetched, nrmiml
about way of milking the taxpayer.
The senators also granted a "hike" to employes of con
gress whose retirement payments are to be based on two
and a half percent of their salaries multiplied by their
years of service. Members of congress already have this
but other government employes are on a'base of one and a
half percent. Here is a discrimination that will be re
sented all through the federal service.
The vote of Northwest senators was specially interest
ing. The two Washington liberal Democrats voted for it,
as would be expected, hut Morse, even more liberal, team
ed up with Idaho's two extremely conservative senators in
voting no. Cordon, supposedly a conservative budget bal
ancer, voted for the bill. Strange bedfellows all around.
11.101 On, Tilt, 11(00. Mr Ulll U
Ota Tor. lt.00. Br Mll OuUldl Omat
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PASSES
England, of the Very Rev. Sir
health for some time. He re-
for 23 years. He attributed
the truth as 1 saw it.
by many churchmen. He re
that a religion which does
that does not touch religion
The worst we can hope for
of the religious sphere mav
of the scientific man reli
needs more "gloomy deans."
WINS, NARROWLY
dead, and so is its substitute
the Senate.
considered, so members who
of them did, will get more
on this higher basis,
years for military service
HOW
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WASHINGTON MERRY
Dulles in Hornet's Nest of
Critical G.O.P. Senators
By DREW
WASHINGTON When Dean
Acheson used to come back from
international conferences Presi
dent Truman invariably met him
at the airport to show that he
stood firmly behind his Secre
tary of State and the difficult
foreign policies he was trying
to execute. '
When John Foster Dulles got
back from Berlin, however, not
only was no President at the air
port but he stepped into a hor
nets' nest of opposition, not from
the Democrats, but from his own
GOP colleagues on Capitol mil.
Most effective stinger in the hor
nets' nest was none other than
the Republican leader of the
Senate, able Bill Knowland of
California.
No sooner had Secretary
Dulles got the last sentence out
of his mouth in reporting to
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee at a closed-door ses
sion, thin Senator Knowland
sailed into him. Bluntly he chal
lenged Dulles judgment in
agreeing to sit down with Red
China at the Geneva conference.
This, he said, was a step toward
recognition.
Knowland also objected to put
ting Indo-china on the agenda
of the Geneva conference. The
Korean war, he pointed out, was
United Nations venture, while
the Indo-Chinese war is not.
Rut, replied Dulles, it would
have been impossible to hold the
conference at all without in
cluding Indochina. Otherwise it
would have looked as if the
Russians were willing to settle
France's biggest headache while
the United States was not.
The alternative would have
been worse," interrupted Under
secretary of State General
"Hectic" Smith. "The present
French government would have
fallen, and France would have
pulled out of Indochina alto
gether." Disaster Ahead
At least one Republican, Wiley
of Wisconsin, vigorously stood
up for the Republican Secretary
of State, though several others hut we don't take advantage of at Balls Bluff. ,
were sympathetic. Including; that fact." j One of the ancestors of the
kindly Senator Saltonstall of Hvasta was interested to hear ; editor and publisher of this pa
Massachusetts that Senator Douglas of Illinois ; ,)tT, Powell by name, related an
But Knowland still wasnt satis- had introduced a bill providing i iniwini f n.. mjn- k.
iicu. uc cnarKcu inai mc r i nun :
(,iiiu iiuw yi-iuv iiiv in
Indochina by establishing a ;
coalition Indo-Chinese govern-1
ment. a coalition which would;
include communists. This, he j
said, would eventually result in j
...,, '"is (..ni..iiii...i .nil in mi- ......m- ..I mlf,5l,on5 h(, rrpiiPr. - do nnt
country - a disaster for the , Representatives ! think that is ariv of vour busi-
wc,t' 1 Merrv (,o Round . ip r..ii' .... ':,. ,i
Few other senators questioned; Layers for the New York .hThcMh" JLZ Z
the Secretary of Slate. Know-.Times and New York Herald , ; ,'r 'ac' J,,",' "VL"'",
land dominated the eross-exami- Tribune warned that-il was libel-, " " ' 1;'
nation. He wa, persistent nut- , , print the name, o( ll'o S '
spoken, hut never heated. As twelve women whom .lames, ,' ,q , ' ,, , " r;. , .. ' "
the closed-door meeting broke I ,ons,ve!t listed in his inrrimi- iiT '
up, Dulles remarked pleasantly , nating letter to his wife. The i Ul ,,,lrru 11 ' i"r"''n- .
to his chief heckler: letter Is not a privileged devcu-' s,nator Bakers brilliant ea-
"I take it that I haven't an-1 ment. Several of the t r I v o ; rw M t Inf rarly iw n( ,W.
swered all your questions satis-1 women are now cogitating libel Something of presentiment of his
fartorily." 1 ,,,, nCTjnsl papm that ,iid ; earlv denlh seems to he revealed
"No, you haven't. Mr. Scire-1 print their names. . . . Last week,"1 ,hr Popm "Hurtcd to above. It
lary," agreed Knowland grimly, business failures throughout the1cnl,:
"No. vmi haven't."
"We'll have to talk again some
more about this." Dulles told I
Knowland earnestly.
Note Dulles claimed that i
the West had scored a diploma-1
tic victory regarding the I'nited j
Kuropean army because Mold-1
tov's tactics were so crude that ;
he strengthened F.DC.
From Jail to Capital
Jan Hvasta. the cx-Gl who
miraculously escaped from a
Czechoslovak jail, was riding
past the rapitol building the
other evening. It ws the first
time he had ever been in Wash
ington, and the capitnl dome,
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PEARSON
under scrutiny of the search
lights, stood in magnificent sil
houette against the horizon.
"It certainly gives me a thrill
to sec that," Hvasta remarked.
"J've heard about the buildings
here in Washington, hut there
were times when I never expect
ed to see them.
"People in Czechoslovakia
don't get much of a thrill out of
their buildings, especially gov
ernment buildings," he added.
"In fact, they don't 'get any
thrill out of their government.
But here you do. At least I do,
and I think most people do. We
may cuss out our government,
but we appreciate it just the
same. In Czechoslovakia you
can't even cuss."
Hvasta was loath to talk in a
TV interview about his experi
ences in the country where he
spent four years in jail, plus two
years in hiding. But the fact that
he was able to hide out for al
most two years among the Czech
people he attributes to just one
thing: Their regard for America
and their dislike of the com
munist regime.
"The word American Is a pass
port in Czechoslovakia." he said, ,
explaining to me how he was
able to travel JIM1 miles from his ai, !,,, ,. ,. ,
prison in l.eopoldov to the hpA h""f in,Kcr ,hf V'"?-;
American embassy in Prague. "I ' !) J n ,'-? " SPrlnRf!pd
never would have been taken in ; " 'CRnl Rlant a '"?'' w"'n
by Czech families along the way I .h,cp J'"" " tlin law.
had I not been an American." i or ,r-v,.nK Ret a stnrt. He is
Freedom Balloons ! ""wn sh,r(' b'1u'r
Hvasta was grcatlv interested ! 1,rca."sc . h's blr,h,
in the freedom balloons which ; l"all'"1 him for the presidency,
this writer helped to launch Tnp friendship between two
from the German border into!mrn of such honesty and honor
Czechoslovakia three years ago. a Lincoln and Baker is some
earning messages of "hope and',hinK Ko0l think about. Their
friendship.
I heard about the balloons
though 1 didn't see anv," he j to the letter. Lincoln had such
said. "What the people' there 'regard for Baker that he named
need is exactly this kind of en- one of his sons Edward Baker
cotiraacment. All the people be-! Lincoln. Senator Baker was one
hind the Iron Curtain are strong! of the two men who rode with
for America, but they have to ' Lincoln to the Capitol on the
he reminded that we have not I morning of the latler's inaugura
forgotten them. We have far tion. Lincoln wept when the news
more friends than we realize, came that Col. Baker was killed
s.utjo.vntu io scno loot! in oai-
kiwis nriiiiKi (nr iron ( unain.
Congressman Roding of Newark,
N. J., the man who did so much
in keep the state department
from forgetting Hvasta's plight.
told him that he was introducing
I'mted Slates numbered 277 ns j
against 201) jul one year ago . . . j
The Democrats are warming up !
a campaign slogan to fit rcces-1
sion (l.is. "It's unamcriemi to j
be unemployed'' . . . Negro
groups have quietly abandoned
their fight for an FKTC law I
and are now planning to seek an I
amendment to the ratl llartley
law to make it illegal to deny
a man a job because of color.
I'nder Taft-Hartley, it's already
illegal to deny a job hceause of
union membership, and Negro
leaders wanl that provision ex- had hern retused a loan .10 nun
tendrd to include race and re- titrs earlier because he could not
ligion. i furnish suitable references.
GET?
Anniversary of a
Great Oregonian
W.I..A. in Baker Democrat
Herald February is a month of emi
nent birthdays. It seems fitting
that a man of Edward Dickin
son Baker's qualifications should
be born in the same month with
Washington and Lincoln. He was
born February 24, 1811, in Eng
land, and thus was two years
younger than his friend Abraham
Lincoln.
Col. Baker was a man and a
leader of such ability that he was
constantly reaching out for great
er opportunities. Starting as a
minister of the Christian Church,
he later switched to law. "And
thereby," says a biographer, "the
church lost a second Henry Ward
Bcecher." He went to Congress
from the Sangamon district of
Illinois, then by prearrangement
with Lincoln presented the let
ter's name to the nominating con
vention as his successor. He him
self moved to another Congres
sional district. Then he moved to
California, where he soon headed
the San Francisco bar. Seeking
new opportunities he then moved
to Oregon, where he was soon
chosen one of the first two sen
ators from the new state. He
speaks truly when in his poem
"To a Wave," he says: "I, too,
am a wave on a restless sea: I,
too, am
a wanderer, driven like
thee.
agreement to co-operate in each
going to Congress was carried out
was lixing in
the vicinity of
Springfield, Illinois. lie was serv
ing mi a jury on a case in which
Col. Baker was one of the attor
nes. A hoy was on the witness
stand under cross-examination by
,,akrr whrn , n(, , lhj ,altcr.-.
"I. too, am seeking a distant
land
To tie lost and gone ere I
reach the strand.
For the land 1 seek is a wave
less shore.
And they ho reach it shall
wander no more."
UK GOT TIIK MONEY
CIIUtLOTTK. C. 'IT'-Kin-ployes
of a finance company
quickly recognized a gunman who
robhrrl them of SM2 yesterday. He
We Must Not
Fear Controversy
Oreioi City Enterprise-Courier
Freedom of speech it having a
rough time in America these days.
The lime observation applies to
education.
But the evil, we think, may be
due more to personal cowardice of
Americans than to any restrictive
legislation or legal hamstringing
that has occurred as an offshoot of
the wars.
Latest comment pointing up the
problem it a quotation from Rob
ert M. Hutchins, former president
of the University of Chicago, and
associate director of the Ford
Foundation.
Hutchins said in a national ma
gazine article that the nation's en
tire teaching profession is so in
timidated by pressure groups and
inquisitors that in many communi
ties "education is impossible."
Hutchins added that an idea ex
tant in educational circles that
"controversial issues must be eli
minated from class rooms is as
ridiculous as decreeing that all
squares must be round.
"All issues are controversial,"
he said. "If they were not, they
would not be issues."
Still Salem Minded
Stayton Mail
Still Salem minded are county
and district candidates for pub
lic offices.
All who have announced their
candidacies for legislative posi
tions, so far, have ignored the
outlying areas. They, for the most
part, have announced their filing
or intention to file in the Salem
papers late in the week, too late
for the weekly press. Candidates
for positions other than the leg
islature, also, have done likewise.
Taking the outlying areas for
granted has long been a habit in
Marion county wherein Salem,
with less than half of the coun
ty's population, for 15 years has
grabbed all the legislative
berths.
An outstanding exception was
Walter Norblad who announced
his candidacy on a Thursday so
as to give the readers of the
weeklies an even break.
Kidding the Governor
Governor Paul Patterson quit
smoking last October and he has
n't taken a single puff since then
Corvallis Gazette Times.
Probably trying to build up his
wind for the forthcoming primary
campaign. Roscburg News-Review.
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Miracles Cease to Be Such
When We Understand Them
By REV. GEORGE H.SWIFT
Rector, St. Paul's EpUcopftl Church
One beautiful morning a few
weeks ago, s young man and I
were on our way to Eugene in his
car. I was to officiate at a fu
neral there. As we traveled along
about 55 miles per hour, I men
tioned my unsuccessful attempts
to contact a friend in Salem in re
gard to the scripture that the
family requested to read.
Without a word, my friend put
a telephone receiver to his ear
and called a number. His wife
answered. He asked her to con
tact the party I mentioned, and
to get the information I wanted,
and to call him back. We con
tinued to roll along for four or
five minutes, when a buzzer
I sounded, and in a moment 1 knew
what scripture I was going to
read at the funeral!
If we did not know about the
complicated process by which
this information was secured, we
would surely call it a miracle.
But the things that to us arc mys-
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Small Canapes,
On Columnists'
By SAUL
Tor HAL
NEW YORK Wv-Small canapes
ire t columnist's diet when the
pantry is fun of appetizers but no
main course:
A friend of mine swears he over
heard this conversation between
a man and his wife, who were hav
ing trouble with their rambunc
tious child.
Wife 'Our trouble is we don't
use psychology on the boy."
Husband "Aw, what the heck
does a five-year-old kid know
about psychology?"
Aaron Kaye, the picturesque
Manhattan merchant who buys
and sells used furs, lias a new
gimmick in his ads. He's now in
viting people to trade their used
cars for used furs.
Thus far, Kaye reports, he has
swung one trade a '53 Pontiac for
a '53 mink coat. "I think I lost a
couple of hundred on the deal,"
he says, "but the offer still goes."
Driving up through New Eng
land recently, I saw a big restau
rant with a big sign advertising
"Northern Fried Chicken."
Young couple I heard of has a
five-year-old girl, who, like many
other children, has an imaginary
friend name of "Is-Me." Because
"Is-Me" has become very real to
her, the girl's parents have found
it necessary to indulge her in this
fantasy.
At dinner, they have to set a
place for "Is-Me." At night, they
have to kiss the air as well as
kiss the girl goodnight. Other
times, they have to be careful not
to step on "Is-Me" or frighten the
fictional friend by speaking too
loudly.
One Sunday the family was out
for a drive. They stopped for gas.
had the oil changed, and started
up again. After a few minutes,
the girl suddenly screamed, "Stop!
Stop! Stop!"
Daddy stopped, brakes screech
ing, thinking his daughter had
been stabbed. And nothing no
amount of reason of persuasion
would pacify the girl until father
got out of the car, opened the
hood and liberated "Is-Me," who
somehow had become too curious
back at the fililng station.
Folk songs in the back country
of the Philippines frequently have
a practical point of view, I am
told by Cataima Zandueta, pretty
tcrics or miracles, cease to be
such when we learn the nature of
their being.
We are amazed by the power
of some person whose presence
and words stir the wills of masses
of people to some great purpose.
But when we make a study of the
background of this pcrsosn, we
usually find the secret of this
greatness. A loving parent, a
deeply religious home, an envir
onment steeped in honesty, in
tegrity and brotherly love, may
fake the miracle of such a per-; that he was being pursued by wo
snnality out of the realms-of the j men.
miraculous, to a simple system of
living which is possible (in a
measure) to nearly all.
Marian Anderson, in the March
issue of Guideposts, says, "If my
mother's gentle hands were not
there to guid,c me, perhaps my
life in music would have ended
long ago." Mothers who wish
greatness for their children
please take note!
... ,.
vniu 1. oorara
& n
Saturday, February 27, 1954
Main Course
Diet Today
PETT
BOYJ.E
young Filipino singer who makes
her Town nan oeoui mis momn.
In the Visayan Island group, a
boy sings to his girl: "I would
like to take you out. But your
father and mother and probably
your aunt would have to come, too.
So there is very little point In the
whole thing."
At weddings among the Igor
ots, this one is sung for the bride
but, of course, everyone hopes
the groom is listening: "You have
found a strong and fearless hus
band who will work hard and not
beat you."
The Igorotf funeral lament fre
quently contains a scolding for the
newly departed: "You were a bad
man. If you were good, you would
not have died. Only bad people
die."
Most psychiatrists I've met do
not deserve all the bad jokes told
about psychiatrists. But reccnUy
I went uptown to interview an
analyst we'll call Dr. Schmlege
losa, who I had never seen before.
As I was entering his building,
a man I didn't know entered with
me He heard me ask the door
man, "Which is Dr. Schmigelosa'i
apartment?" The doorman direct
ed me to the elevator man.
The stranger entered the eleva
tor with me and heard me ask the
operator for Dr. Schmigelosa,
The elevator man said I was look
ing for apartment 5-D. At the
filUi floor, I got out. To did the
stranger. Again he heard mo ask
the cievator man, "Which way if
5-D?"
I went, as directed, to the left,
and was just about to press the
buzzer at 5-D when the stranger
stepped up, saying in hushed
tones, "Good afternoon. I'm Dr.
Schmigelosa. May I help you."
I guess he was casing me all
the way through the lobby and up
the elevator.
Salem 32 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
February 27, 1922
Purchase of a $7,500 pick-up
street sweeper had consideration
i by Salem city council.
First groceteria to be establish
ed in Salem, a C and C store, had
opened at 254 North Commercial
street under management of N.
Selig.
Explosion of the giant dirigible
rtoma, lately acquired from the
Italian government, had been at
tributed to ignition of gas fumes
bv a high voltage wire.
Rex Stewart, Capital .lournal
market editor, had written that
mountain honey in the comb was
now available for 25c in some
Salem stores.
Woman's suffrage, the 19lh
amendment, had been declared
constitutional by the supreme
court of the United States.
Date for the May music festi
val had been set for May 26-27.
"The Creation" hy Haydn had
been selected as the opening pres
entation. A Dallas man. age 70. had been
judged insane and committed to
the state hospital because he was
afflicted with the hallucination
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