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Page 6 Section 1 Capital jkjJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1 888 BERNARD MAINWARING (1897-1957) Editor and Publisher, 1953-1957 E. A. BROWN, Publisher GLENN CUSHMAN, Managing Editor GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 280 North Church St. Phone EM-46811 full Leased Wire Service of The Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for pub lication of all news dispatches credited to It or otherwise credited In this paper and also nows published therein SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier! Monthly, ll.JJt Six Months. H.50; One Vear. Jis.oo fly mall In Oreion: Monthly, 11.1)0; 81s Months. 55 HO: One Year, 19 00. fly mall Outside Oregon: Monthly 11.29: six Capital Punishment House Joint Resolution No. tives Duncan, Howard, Lawman, Skelton and Willner and Senators Dimick, Lewis and Sweclland calls for a constitutional amendment abolishing capital submitted to the people for approval or rejection at the next general election. It reads: Section 37. The penalty for murder in the first decree shall be life Imprisonment, except that if a person is convicted of murder in the the first degree committed while under sentence of life imprisonment, he may be punished by death. Provided, however, that the existing laws and constitutional provisions shall be continued and remain in before Ihe, taking effect of this amendment. Many times similar bills legislature but failed to pass. amend the constitution by abolishing the death penalty was enacted by a vote of 100,552 to 100,395. It proved so unsatis factory in accomplishing a decrease, in murders, that an initiative amendment restoring capital punishment was adopted ' at a special election May 21, 1920 by a vote of 81,755 to 64,580. ... I The Oregonian, which advocates repeal of the death pen alty, reprints at the request of a reader the following Ore gonian editorial by the late Harvey Scott, many years its dis tinguished editor, printed May 6, 1884 on capital punishment. The correspondent said "trusting you take a more realistic view than Mr. Scott wrote: "Prompt trial and swift execution of the death penally is the sharpest and best medicine v cure more frightful to the ordinary assassin than ever the living death ol . life imprisonment, whose cell is never so dark but is lighted by that ray of hope we call executive pardon. Shakespeare sketched, with truthful hands, the horror exercised on the average mind by the death penalty, wnen ne wrote in Measure lor Measure: The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a narade to what we fear of death. "Shakespeare sounded human nature deeply, on this as on all other subjects more deeply than do those who affirm that, because the death penalty does not deter some men from murder, it does not deter any possible murderers from crime, and that, therefore, we wuum uu wen tu uimihiiiuc too gonows, norvey w. ocott. The Oregonian replied with an editorial too long for our space to reproduce in full, giving its "enlighled" view, holding that "prompt trial and .swift execution of the death penalty Is impossible in the courts of totlav and the deterrent value of "capital punishment for murder is not sufficient to ittstifv the Indefensible act of executing the few who arc convicted, but who in truth are not guilty" questions whether the penalty oi aeain is actcrent at ail, concluding: In our opinion, the certainty of punishment would be a far greater deterrent than the nature of punishment even for the crime of mur der, in which the causes arc so confusingly mixed. Thus, we believe mat uregon should abolish Die death penalty for murder, but that it should provide by law that no convicted murderer should ever be paroica or pardoned, unless his sn aiiun, ino ute imprisonment in uregon means Imprisonment for life. . If there has been any innocent man convicted and executed In Oregon in the past 70 years, there is no record of it in the Capital Journal files. Oregon juries arc on the average sym pathetic and give the accused the benefit of any possible doubL A life sentence frequently means as little as seven years and the accused know it. In 1953 there were 7,120 murders and negligible homi cides in the nation, in 1954, the total was 6850, the same in 1955. Only six stales ban capital punishment, Michigan, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Rhode Island. Whether there has been a decrease in murders as a conse quence is not revealed in statistics available. One thing seems certain, capital punishment cither by hanging, gas chamber or firing squad, is not an incentive to murder its abolition would be to gangsters, hoodlums and racketeers. (!. P. Airport Loss Hcally a Gain Rep. Walter Norblad announces from Washington that the Air Force has abandoned plans to build a $40 million base at Woodburn. He stales that Air Korco Secretary Donald A. Quarles informed him the Woodburn base was called off in favor of a tentative plan to spend $5 million to improve facil ities at the Portland airport. Norblad said Quarles (old him it was possible the Air Force might reconsider Woodburn again Inter, hut for the present it felt Portland would he "adequate" with some im provements. Norblad said lie was informed the decision was in line with an Air Force policy not to build new bases, lie said Quarles cilcd the cancellation of proposed bases at Kalkaska, Mich., and near Pittsburgh, Pa as oilier examples of this policy. The Navy's plans are not known. II had previously called off plans for a training facility al llillshoro in wavor of joining with the air force in ils Woodburn plans. Perhaps the abandonment at the Woodburn base Is due to a belated effort to economize government expenditures. , There never has been any enthusiasm over the proposal. While it meant the expenditure of a lot of monev in the valley, a big airport is about the biggest nuisance possible to Ihe people In tho area. The Woodburn airport would have removed from utiliza tion a large section of the valley's best farming land, a much bigger long range asset. Boom prosperity lias a demoralizing reaction on any community as proven by the wartime plants after emergency passes (!. P. Good Salesmanship If the City of Salem doesn't me d.rau.uuu uonn oucring to finance the new water supply line it won't bo for lack of good salesmanship. This isn't said lightly. Never, as far as can be remembered, lias a call for bids been accompanied by so much information for buyers and brokers about Salem as a source of eilt-oilioil securities. It is all embodied in peen manea to jz'j prospective to begin with, a map is transmission line. There is general information about Salem's geographical location, Its growth from 1000 through 1958 and its growth potential, Its Industry, banking, cultural and social facilities, and Ils city government. The water system and the supply problem are described, with the number of customer accounts and the total in revenue as they have grown through the, years. A balance sheet of the latest audit, and the condition of all city binds are shown. There is, in tabular form, much about assessment and taxation. The prospectus is attractively loose-leaf bound City Record er Alfred Munclt and City Treasurer Howard Brandvold arc given credit for preparing it. It is good booklet to keep al hand for useful reference. Months, 17.50; one Year, 113 uu. 11 introduced by Roprcsenta punishment in Oregon, to bo relative to criminal prosecution effect as to all crimes committed have been introduced in the In 1913 an initiative bill to a cutthroat: the crave is a prison innocence should later be proved. draw some very good bids for a 23-page prospectus that has buyers. shown of (he proposed 18-mile RAY TUCKER Administration Has Handled Trouble-Maker Stassen Well Every Saturday, Hay Tucker answers readers' questions of general Interest on national and international policies and per sonalities. Questions may be sent to him at 7008 llillcrest Place, Chevy Chase, Md. WASHINGTON-"Can you ex plain to me," explodes R. F. ot Los Angeles, aloog with many olher readers, "why President Ei senhower doesn't get rid of this trouble - making fellow, Harold Stassen? He mussed up Republi can affairs with j ja.-mju- -, his silly attempt wf to dump Vice President Nix on, and now he regards the V. P. as a weak figure, even i though Ike is apparently grooming h i m for the I960 Preside ntial nomination!" RAY TUCKr.lt Answer: 1 think that President Eisenhower and the anti-Stassen Republican political leaders have handled Harold rather well. For one thing, in view o( his trouble making capacity, they may con sider it smart to keep him where they can have their eyes on him. 11 Ike really wanted to crack down, the Minnesotan would eat out of his hand. ... Ignoring Stassen What tho President has done. as well as two notional chairmen "Lcn Hall and Meade Alcorn has been to pay no attention to htm, and to quarantine him, po litically. Ike's very reliance on Nixon for domestic and overseas. assignments, as well as their in creasingly close personal relation ship, is bitter drink for Stassen. Hall and Alcorn have both in dicatcd that Stassen is a pain in the neck to party organization leaders. Hardly anyone wanted him to speak in their states or districts during the lO.w campaign. This killing with - kindness treat ment irritates Stassen more than outright discharge would do. He seeks to recoup prestige by hinting that he might run for Governor ol Pennsylvania in 1958. But the bosses there have shown no desire for his help in recap turing the stale from the Demo- crals. It is doubtful he could be elected lo the Legislature in his home state of Minnesota, wher he slill tries to rule as an ab sentee dictator. ... President's Tolerance Ike's attitude toward Stassen permits discussion of another sub- News Quotes (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) n.v UNITED PltESS WASHINGTON Sen. Thomas C. Homines Jr. (D-Mo. charging "the State Department is engag ing in censorship" by forbidding U.S. newsmen lo travel in Red China: "In connection with your (the Stale Department's) denial lo help American newsmen in the free exercise of their profession, I understand you rejected an op portunity to ohlnin Ihe release of 10 Americans now imprisoned in China. I doubt if those imprisoned Americans, and their fnmilies and friends will be graleful to you." THOMASVII.LE, (in. - While louse Press Secretary .lames C. Ingerly, announcing President Ei senhower's approval of Senate changes to his Middle East resolu tion: 'The President feels dial (he Senale committees' text Is intend ed and designed to accomplish the purposes outlined by the President n his message to the Congress of Jan. 5, 11157." CAIRO - Abdel Kader Hallcm. Egyptian government information director, expressing surprise at reported united Males guarantees lor Israel against Egyptian "ag gression : It is inconceivable Ihnl tho Uniled Slates is nol aware Ihnl il is Israel which has always been the aggressor." WASHINGTON - Interior Sec- rotary Fred A. Sealon, telling Sen ate investigators what his answer would be if President Eisenhower asked him about imposing price controls on oil ami gasoline: i d bo slrongly opposed. 1 don t sec how we can have (hem in peacetime." VASIIIt.Tll ,WUi:,nl i. torinr Stn-ri.l in-v l.Vliv 1.' Upi. ser, who issued the Jan. 25 "dis tress ling showing that promised oil shipments In Europe were (all- ill 1! short, ronnl'tintf l-'.nrnno im. plies are still running low: H'ic not out oi ino woods vol." LONDON Former Prime Mill- .Ipr Antli.mv l-'den in a t-julm nio.ssnuo In vnlern in hie former parllaiiicntary district while on his way to New Zealand (or a vaca tion: If nem-n Id Ia cniliu-n 11 mnul bo related to justice. Therefore it is unngcrous wnen the united No tions treats obedient and small ennnti-iea with l,u,-hmea ami ,il. low bullies and braggarts lo ge( their way. WASHINGTON - Assistant De fense Secretary Robert Tripp ttoss. in resigning during a con gressional investigation into mili tary contracts awarded firms op erated by his wile and brother-in-law: "My (uturo effectiveness in my present position. . .has boon inv pmrial by the very serious impli cations contained In certain news stories." Oft jeet concerning which many read ers have shown curiosity. It is the spirit o( tolerance which tho President exhibits toward Cabinet members in open disagreement with him, toward Pentagon of ficers who question his national defense policies bptore Congres sional Committees, and, of course, to political opponents who make personal attacks on him. To Washington, and, it seems, to the American people, the Pres ident's tolerant attitude is one of his principal virtues and assets. In fact, it is probably responsible for the fact that, save for the Rus sian and Chinese Communists, the peoples of the world regard him as a man of peace and good will. He can disagree with foes and friends without damning them. He can understand their view point without agreeing with them. ... Relief From Predecessors He is' a refreshing relief from such irascible predecessors as F.D.R. and Truman, and even Woodrow Wilson. In domestic and foreign affairs, they might have achieved greater and more per manent success, if they had pos sessed Ike's feeling (or a "live and let live" philosophy. . . That Supreme Court Vacancy "Do you think the President will appoint Dewey, Dulles or Browncll to the Supreme Court vacancy resulting from Justice Reed's retirement?" asks G. L. of Boston. Answer: No. Ike prefers a sit ting Federal Judge or a promi nent member ot a S(a(e Supreme CourL None of the three you mention has had experience on the bench, or possesses a judicial temperament. Dulles is too old. Dewey and Browncll are (oo politically mind ed for the kind of Federal judici ary Ike seeks to create as an anti-Roosevelt and anti-Truman precedent for future chief execu tives. (Released by McCIure News paper Syndicate) Expanding Circle Grants Pass Courier This newspaper is in receipt of a notice from United States Sen ator Wayne Morse to Ihe e(fec( that he has introduced a bill which would provide Hint any person covered by Social Security, regard less o( age, becomes eligible1 (or regular reliremcnt benefits im mediately on becoming totally dis abled. ' The whole social security pro gram was based on the theory that an individual, during his em ployed years, be forced by the government to provide retirement for his old age half at his own expense and half at the expense of his employer. Only last year, the idea was ex panded to include permanently dis abled 50 years of age or older. Now, Senator Morse proposes lo go whole hog on this disability bus iness. Of course, workers and their employers will be (orccd (o pay inner premiums to (inance this expanded Federal welfare pro gram. II probably will not be long until the Social Security system will be loaded with health insurance. There is no more reason to pro vide old-age benefits to disabled workers than there is to care lor victims ot major illnesses which prevent Uie worker (rom being gainfully employed. Finally, it will be a handy sys tem onto which lo tack prepaid hospital insurance. Eventually, the day may come when covered workers who lose their teeth can apply to the Social Security department for false tcclli. Thus, we will have reached the point the socialists in Britain reached In one fell swoop. To finance this Federal welfare program, the worker and his boss will be hit harder and harder as the program is expanded. All this will add to the cost of production, witn the consumer forced to pny more and more for, goods and services. In turn, the worker will demand more wages to meet the increased cost of living. The resulting Inflation will be come a political football, with lit tle consideration given to its real causes. If Senator Morse wants lo sub mit a needed amendment to the Social Security law, let him pro pose Hint persons who become el igible or Social Security benedts but do nol apply (or them be exempted (rom Ihe premiums tak en out o( each o( their pay checks. Morse is Interested in gaining favor w-tth Ihe thousands ol per sons who would become eligible under Ins proposal. The number who do not lake their Social Security benedts when Ihey become eligible is compara tively small. Their voles wouldn't help much In making Mr. Morse President ol the United States. Quick Heading Before the world became so small, it wasn't too difficult to mind our p's and q's. In our spell ing, a "q" was automatically fol lowed by a u. But when we first started deal ing with the Gult of Aqaba, we know we wore in lor something. i Now comes a place called Qntabn i in Yemen, where British soldiers have been accused of haumhiujl i an attack. ' Wo don't know Inns' Itna' "ipWs : Honnbic" practice got started, but ! it demands a board ol "inquiry." J Minneapolis Star. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Ships tm tax cm IN SIGHT ;;' VFTf y& I 01 DAVID LAWRENCE Congress May Boner on Mid WASHINGTON Maybe the Senate Armed Services and Fore ign Relations Committees pulled an unintentional boner. They wanted to "wa ter down" the resolution about M the use of troops in the Middle East. Instead. ihnv nnf n n 1 an uiiii,i:iii-u I I $ but probablv went further on the road to war than has any d. lawkknce resolution ever passed by congress in advance of hostilities. The resolution, as adopted re cently by Ihe House of Representa tives, stated merely that the Presi dent is "authorized to undertake military assistance programs" in the Middle East and is authorized to employ the armed forces of The Uniled Stales as he deems neces sary. But the resolution adopted by a 20-to-8 vote of the two combined Senate committees says "T h c United States is prepared to use" its armed forces to assist any Middle East nations threatened by International Communism, "if the President deems it necessary." Phrasing Permissive The first phrasing by the House of Representatives is simply permissive. The resolution by the Senate committees is much more of a threat. It is an an nouncement ot a decision by Con gress declaring that the executive con take such action as he deems necessary. It says "The United States" is prepared to use" its armed forces. The words the United States" mean both the Executive and Congress, acting to gether. It sounds more like an old fashioned ultimatum. The difference in the wording arose from a variety of motives. Some Democrats dislike the idea of being asked to delegate the power to use force. Others foci the executive already has the power to act and Congress need only affirm in advance that he has It. Still others want lo pass the buck preferring to wait to sec how It all comes out. It the use o( (orcc proves unpopular, they think they can shift the blame and say Congress didn't authorizo it and that the President must tako Ihe responsibility The Republicans voted (or (he resolution just to get it out ot the commit cos and to expedite action The wording of the resolution wilt have to be ironed out anyway in conference between the two houses, and one suspects that it Is the Senate's resolution that will be "watered down" lo square with the language o( "authorization" granted by the House. Proceedings Hectic The proceedings ol Ihe Senale Armed Services and Foreign Re lations Committees have been hectic and confusing. Plenty o( Partisan bitterness, which never should prevail in handling delicate matters o( (oreign policy, seems lo have cropped up. One glaring example' of il was the refusal ol Ihe committees to allow publica tion until now ot Ihe text ot the answer made by Secretary o( State Dulles before the commit tees in executive session more than two weeks ago when he replied to the charge that he was reflecting on British and French troops. The original comment by him occurred at a committee hearing on Jan uary 25, when, in answering a question aboat allied action, he said he thought it would be better not to have French and Rritish ""'.l ' '. 7., " V.i V, added, "I hope they chance. lUflKllo 4t .afjk .. ..gr... .jj. a WW utfn This was tidcly miswei'piwtj t.l!l are possible we can expect in the press abroad reflection ino improvements in management, on the valor of Ihe British and .And that is what c need. Slier French troops. A prcs officer at I man County Journal, That Never Come In U'-. 'Wk v'isei . Have Pulled a - East Passage (he Slate Department promptly denied this, but the denial didn't catch up with the anti-American sentiment generated abroad by the (alse report. Mr. Dulles appeared on January 28 before the joint committee and made a fuller statement, but it was not released until February 14 Thursday of this week. In the meantime, much damage was done to American prestige abroad. Mr. Dulles said in part: "I spoke as I did precisely ia relation to the present situation, particularly in Egypt, where due to the fact that the British and Ylhe French forces had been there as enemies fighting Arabs, and were being or had recently been withdrawn pursuant to the United Nations decision, anything indicat ing: that thev would be brought back under these present condi tions would not be useful. The same reasoning leu tne unuea Nations itself, as you have pointed out, not to include British and French in. the United Nations Emergency Force which is in Egypt at the present time . . . Will They Print IT? Certainly we hope very much that those conditions will rapidly change, and indeed they do not prevail throughout the whole of the area at the present time, I am 2 ad to say. But there are pans of the area where at tho moment, due to the fact that the British and French torccs have been in there as hostile forces, their re introduction at this time or the suggestion that they would be re introduced would not promote the purposes of this resolution." It will be interesting to aec u those sections cf the British press which printed the original misrep- rncnntn inn win now print uie ui (icial text o( the Secretary of State's testimony just released. ICopvrlsM. ISS7, Nrw York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Quick Reading I n and behold the nickel! To what lowly depths it sank as the inflationary spiral rose and it wouldn't even buy a jolting and uncomfortable streetcar ride or a telephone call across the street. But now the United States Post oftice may be coming to the res cue. Reports come that Postmaster General Arthur Summcrticld is talking seriously of raising the postage rate on letters from 3 to 5 cents. No hotter news for nickel en thusiasts has come out ot Wash ington in years. Now appears a prospect of redeemed prestige and new glory. So, nickel lovers, unite! You have nothing lo lose but 2 cents on every letter. Christian Science Monitor. A Smile or Two A baby sardine recoiled with (right when nn atomic submarine glided by in the depths ot the sea. "Nolhing to be scared o((." soothed the sardine's mother. "It's just a can o( people." Bennett Corf in Detroit Free Press. Among Ihe questions asked in the examination ol an applicant (or a place on the police (orce was (his one: "What would you do lo disperse a crowd quickly and quietly" The answer: "I'd pass the hat." Ottawa Journal.' THEY'RE Il'MA TOO Ot trouble in the royal tamil: we doubt if being royal kep ' man County Journal liwj l high prices and high iiiSiir t ' .a;--::.':?:;K''i .- BEN MAXWELL Mrs. Wyatt Gained Pie Title in '28 Feb. 16, 1928 Southern Pacific had rejected the request o( Woodburn Garden club to beautify the parking along S. P.'s right-of-way with shrub bery. Superin tendent King had explained that in Ihe past those interested in such projects either moved away or lost in terest ' and that S. P. found itself with parks and flowers lo care i"5" maxwell for. Pt-lniinnlc nf Snlom SoIiooIr. In a reply lo a questionnaire from Supt. Geo. W. Hug, had said that Inrjil Ipaehnrs were not suhiected lo Blue Law suppression but led particularly tree private lives witn practically no interference from the school board or the superin tendent. Salem teachers' council had said that local school teachers did not consider the present time ripe for an active campaign in behalf of increased salaries but suggested that any such movement initiated cither by the superintendent or the school board would have their whole-hearted support. Capital Journal's pie and cake baking contest had attracted 235 cake and 126 pie entries. Mrs. Robert Wyatt, 1960 South Church St.,' had won the distinction of being "best cake baker in Salem." Alfred Billingsley Motor Co., 333 Center St., had advertised the per fected Whippet coach lor $535 ' never before such beauty and quality (or so little money." (This Willys-Overland car was maniuac turcd between 1927 and 1931. Whip pet car was introduced as "Amer ica's (irst light car ot standard dimensions" and featured finger tip control.) Worth's department store, 177 North Liberty St., on this day 29 years ago advertised 150 new spring hats for women close lil ting types, $5 each; grasshopper green, wood violet, rose, beige, cupid pink and starflowcr in large and small head sizes. Q nick Reading There are two ways of being happy. We may either dimish our wants, or augment our wants either will do; The result is the same: 'and it is (or each one to decide (or himself, and do that which happens to be the easier. 1( you arc idle, or sick, or poor, however hard it may be lo dimin ish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosper ous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to aug ment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both al Ihe same time, young or old, sick or well: and if you are very wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of Society. Benjamin Franklin. "Monthly Payments . . mail? it so much easier for lis al llowrll-Kdwanls Ktm CT.il Home we were not left oilli a burdensome ilolit." Howell-Edwards Funeral Horns , Salem, Oregon, Saturday, February 16, 1957 REV. GEORGE SWIFT Many Religious Rites Have Been Observed in The Hills A walk up 94 steps to a little ui eitiinfpH in (he attlC Of a building on the Willamette cam pus to give noiy commuiiiuii i a group of devout college students n.n a t nn morning this al I.W O-i.l. -----a week, reminded me of the many instances recorded in tne ocup- , r -aliainnc rilpc hcinf Ob- luita ui D , served on hills, mountains or other high places. Will Lid Mine Eyes' The Psalmist says, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from mi0ih mv hnlD". From Genesis to Revelation there are over 300 references to mountains n. n,r. hah nlnr-pa hpine used (or worship, offering of sacrifices, or as places lrom wnicn uou spake to His chosen people. It was to Mt. Sinai that Moses went to receive the Ten Com mandments from God. It was the t:wmnn nn ih Mnnnt. delivered by Christ Himself, that laid down the principles ot unristian living. This Sermon has been called the "Moral law of the Kingdom" of Christ". It occupies in the New T..n.v,ant tha nlnrp which in the Old Testament is occupied by the Decalogue, or i e n uuuuaim ments. This Should Be Read St. Matthew, in the 5th, 6th and JAMES MARLOW American Commies Follow Moscow Line in New Shifts Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON 11 The first question that can be fairly put to the newly reorganized American Communist par-; ty is: Whom do. you think you're kidding? All the party did at its New York convention this week was t o rearran g e the furniture to make itself look like a native, national Ameri can party, con- James maklow concerned only with American welfare and no longer a Russian agent. That's exactly what Moscow a year ago told Western Communist parties to do. The reason was simple: everywhere they had run into stone walls and their membership was dwindling. If they could change their front they might be able to work with, and infiltrate, other groups like labor, Socialists, liberals which would have nothing to do with them so long as they were plainly Moscow errand boys. Follow New Line Thus at the very moment of declaring itsclt its own man at last, the American party was fol lowing the new Russian post-Stalin line just as slavishly as it had followed Stalin while he was alive. The Russians afler seeing what a little taste of independence had done among Polish and Hun garian Corlimunists who had tak en Moscow's advice too literally did not want other parties to go too far. The American Communist party didn't go too far. Since Russia's bloody intrusion in Hungary, the party's newspaper, the Daily Worker, under the editorship of John Gates, had been critical of Moscow. The press was barred from the convention in New York. But it can be said on the best authority not a " single resolution adopted at the convention was critical of Russia. Party Leadership Same And Gates barely got himself elected to tho new 11-man admin istrative committee which will now boss the parly. The i.irty leadership, despite some rear ranging, remains the same. Until the convention William Z Foster had been chairman for years, just as Eugene Dennis had been secretary. They had caused dissension among rank and - tile party members by the nature ot their leadership. Under them the party had reached the edge of disaster, sut- fenng tremendous membership losses and finding itself isolated from all olher groups In Ameri can life. As a sop to the dissatisfied. Foster and Dennis were stripped of their titles but wound up on the administrative committee just the Before you tmF NANO NR H costs eMypnRCHcc pnmr 3 j Jl Art" nohcher AJUf, INSUSANO 7th chapters, gives us this great Sermon. It should be read from time to time in its entirety. Be sides the Beatitudes, with which thn Sermon heeins. wherein t h e possibility of blessedness is ascriDca to tnose who inuuiu, io the meek, to the merciful, to the pure in heart, to the peacemakers, and to the persecuted (or righteousness sane, t n e r e are many principles laid down which (or that time seemed revolution ary. In the matter of self-discipline, u., ..., "If fhu riohl flvp OflliSPQ nu saja, i ."j .(5-" j - thee to stumble, pluck- it out and cast it lrom tnee, it is proinaDie for thee that onemf thy members should perish and not that thy whole body should bo cast into hell. (Could this possibly be an endorsement of physical surgery as well?) v 'Salt of The Earlli' "Ye are the salt of the earth, but if the salt hath lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nolhing but (o be cast out". In other words, you may indeed be God's elect, the salt of the earth; what of it, if you have lost your zeal, your ambition, your usefulness in God's service, you are then good for nothing, but to be cast out. same. This is supposed to be a kind ot collective leadership. That's what the Russians have. They set it up attcr Stalin's death. Small Intellectual Apeal In the past the American Com munist party had attracted many intellectuals. It should have small appeal to intellectuals in the fu ture if they have any morality. The American parly stands in-, tellectually degraded to a degree almost unbelievable among think ing people. It had never ques tioned Stalin, either on his tactics, his interpretation or his murders until his successors in the Krem lin denounced him and revealed him. Then the American Commu nists acted surprised. It had as one of them said at the conven tion, always considered that what the Russian party did was "ipso (acto valid." This was a complete confession that the American Communist party had abdicated thinking. Age of Overbite? Albany Democrat-Herald TV haters have seen many dan gers in worship of the mighty video box. Eyes can be ruined, Kids will turn into idiotic delin quents, their heads filled wilh dogs that juggle and guns that kill 20 or 30 stars each night. But our society editor, Ianthe Smith, brings up the question of TV teeth, in other words, mal-oc-clusion. A TV watcher who can take it or leave it, she isn't as much worrricd as curious. Will little Matilda grow up wilh overbite because she lies on the door to watch television and props her head up by resting her chin on her hands? Miss Smith has inspected kids fanned out on the floor around the set, their heads tilted back like a curious turtles, their elbows indented in the rug. The pres sure on those teeth must be tcr rific. Do (his for four or five hours a day for a few years the e((ect must be sprung jaw mus cles or an Elmer Snerd-ish over bite. Maybe so. maybe not. We vague ly recall that back in the bad old days when kids had nothing to do except pester Ma and read books, they read in that posilion. And mighty (cw of Ihem now can cat popcorn without first tak- ' ing it (rom the bag. f CHRISTIAN I SCIENCE J gHEALSvgl KSLM KL0R 10:15 A.M. Channel 12 Sunday 4:30 P.M. mnt,i.i.iiJj.tl.,,.H,,,.M,lil,,1), ' . i i 4t ' (V ' e ' &rtlifiin.illl.ilai . iLi My Bank Plan may save you money three waysl 8m am bfcn r bar yor mt av . . . new or and. Find oot bow too mar ptadblT aava aa much m $150 ... on fbaandng cu ... on ianr nca . . . and Ml tba parchaaa pric at the car HaH. br bmninf caah borw. Yon mar fan H U ay Hh "Bni Pta-. J tan a eafl tmrn Ton will brint conplett Information. part to know fw STAT1 'ARM Asm 805 N. Capitol St. Phone EM 3-7921