SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
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February 1, 1940
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February 1, 1930
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Editorial Comment
THE ACHESON STATEMENT
The moving statement by Sec
retary Achcson concerning his
attitude toward Alger Hi.is was
phrased with straiahtforwarrl
simplicity. The secretary made
New York City. N. Y Jan. 27 If things continue to go along
as at present, the Hiss case can naraiy neip dui Decume a pumum
issue in the approaching campaign.
Republican congressmen started the ball rolling. Secretary
of State Acheson and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt on behalf of the
administration have thrown fuel on tne partisan names ry inrow
ln th hall hnrk
President Truman aiiain demonstrated he is one of the
shrewdest politicians in the country by refusing to get involved
in the Hiss controversy one way or the other.
But he will probably have a hard time extinguishing the
flames and avoiding entirely the complications resulting from his
remark about the activities of the Un-American Activities com
mittee belne a "red herring," drawn across the political trail to
distract attention from the real issues.
All of which comes under the heading of foolish business
But since when has "foolish business been eliminated from our
national political campaigns?
HnH Mr Arhpsnn and Mrs. Roosevelt followed the example
of their party leader and ignored the Hiss case, the GOP leaders
would have oeen nara put 10 inject me una mm im-ieitu
i..n Rut with hnih nf them directlv or indirectly taking ud the
cudgels for Hiss, the administration may well be maneuvered
into an extremely vulnerable and unpopular position when the
congressional campaign gets Into full swing.
For, nowever resentiui tne persunai inenus ui an. nwi iuj
feel regarding his conviction, there is no doubt of the public
reaction in this state and probably throughout the country as
tn thi. "rniisp pelehre." The neorjle. AS A WHOLE, are anti-Hiss
and strongly anti-communist. The party that takes the other side
will not only De immediately piacea on me aeiensive, UUv win
lose votes.
n -run n
Wr- exoect to see some strenuous efforts on the part of the
nnwprs.that.hn in the Democratic Dartv to "shush" any further
demonstrations of pro-Hiss sympathies on the part of Secretary
Acneson, Eleanor riooseveu, or any otner prominent niraiucii m
the "Democratic Family." And "per contra" we expect to see
the nop General staff, issue orders to olay up the Hiss issue at
every opportunity and leave no stone unturned to force the
Truman administration into a defense of the Reds, the fellow
travellers and the subversive elements in this country. That may
be bad logic, but it is good politics.
e e e
We believe only those who followed the Hiss trial in the
press carefully or regularly attended it can understand how
Secretary of State Acheson happened to make that extraordinary
statement regarding Mr. Hiss.
For it WAS extraordinary.
Here was a former official of the State Department convicted
of perjury a conviction which could only mean he had violated
hii oath of office and betrayed his trust. And yet the head of
that department, a high official of the government, declared that
even if the conviction were upheld by the Supreme Court he
would "not turn his back" on his old and good friend Alger
Hiss, then clarifying his position by referring to the gospel of
St. Matthew, to-wltf
"I was in prison and ye came unto me, and "Inasmuch
as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me."
No light touch there.
No casual observation.
It was apparent, Mr. Acheson was thoroughly aroused, stirred
In the dentin bv the conviction of his friend and former colleague
Moved so deeply that he threw discretion and political considera
tions to the wind, and regardless ot tne consequences 10 nimseii.
sallied forth to stand loyally by his former associate, and pro
claims to all the world, that while others might desert him in
his hour of trouble, and still others join the mob to rush in for
the kill, he, Dean Acheson, would remain what he had always
been, loyal and devoted friend!
If anything quite like that has ever happened In American
nubile life we can't recall it. And. of course, it was "duck soup"
for the Republican opposition. They lost no time in twisting the
declaration into a defense of treason, a repudiation of the Amer
ican jury system, a defiance of the Supreme Court and what have
you. Not surprisingly the GOP demand for Secretary Acheson's
resignation was at once repealed.
It was, as remarked, an extraordinary statement, and from
such a source, a surprising one.
But that is the way this man Alger Hiss has apparently been
able, ever since he entered public life, to arouse in those associated
with him, an almost fnnatlcnl devotion, personal respect, admira
tion and confidence, bordering in its emotional intensity almost
on a religious fervor. And this has been true not only among
those who have worked for him and been associated socially with
him, but those for whom he has worked, from the highest gov
ernment officials to members of the U. S. Supreme Court.
In the court room during the 'trial it was the same.
There were few neutrals where the defendant was concerned.
Those who were for him were for him 100 per cent. Those who
were against him, were 100 per cent against.
Mr. Cross, a Boston conservative, chief counsel for Hiss, was
another example. According to report he had seldom taken
criminal cases in many years of practice, being a specialist in
corporation law. He only took the Hiss case when convinced of
the young man's Innocence. Cross certainly was not the emotional
or sentimental type. Yet he was so stirred during his final address
to the jury and in his plea for mitigation of punishment for his
client that his voice shook and at times he appeared on the point
of breaking down entirely.
"1 still believe in Alger Hiss!" were his final words as he
sank exhausted into his chair.
No one in the court room could doubt the man's absolute
sincerity. And yet knowing what he did about the case, having
listened to all the evidence, how could he feel and believe as he
did?
Get the answer to that question and you have the answer to
Dean Acheson, and also the answer to an intimate friend of this
writer, a college professor, writer and Phi Beta Kappa who, in
spite of the verdict, is completely convinced Alger Is not and
could not have been guilty he is merely the victim of the pre
vailing cold war hysteria the everlasting Communist witch hunt
"Thar was soma talk last fall of bulldin' a tennis court where
our garden was but then today th seed catalogs cam."
It is different with Mrs. Roosevelt. She admits she does not
know Mr. Hiss, and should also have admitted (although In her
interview she didn't) she had not closely followed the case.
But when party . politics enter the picture any picture
three points. First of all, he 1 Eleanor instinctively puts on her war bonnet and mounts the
would not discuss the law or the I uemocrauc oauiements, lo loyally defend the party and her
evidence or anything to do with
the case itself. It would be
highly improper" for him to do
so while it was "before the
courts." Second, regardless of
the ultimate fate of the case, he
did not intend "to turn his back
on Alger Hiss." Third, this de
cision was a matter of Individual
conscience, to be reached by
"each person in the light of his
own standards and his own prin
ciples." For a definition of his
own standards and principles he
referred the listeners to the Gos
pel of St. Matthew.
The verses in question arc
among the noblest In the New
Testament. They include the
words: "I was in prison and ye
came unto me," and "Inasmuch
as ye have done it unto one of
the least of these my brethren,
ye have done it unto me." Per
haps the voice of the late Bishop
of Connecticut. Mr. Acheson's
father, sounded In the citation.
The Secretary might have
used more words to state his
point of view and might have
defined it in more detail and
with more precision. But we do
not sec how any one desiring to
be fair could take these words
to be a defense of Alger Hiss. To
suggest that he was giving the
slightest opinion as to guilt or
Innocence is to Ignore an express
declaration. To argue that he
was in any possible sense de
fending communism, in or out
of the State Department, seems
to us equally untenable.
This newspaper has felt it ne
cessary at times to criticize and
oppose Mr. Acheson in his pol
icies. We may well be compelled
to do so again. But of this state
ment made on Wednesday in a
difficult hour, we are glad to
declare that in our judgment it
was as courageous as it was
Christian. New York Herald
family.
So she springs to the defense of the adviser of her late hus
band at the Yalta conference in part as follows:
"A man who has processed innocence is involved
by a man who by his own admission, Is perjurer and a
former Communist. It seems rather horrible to condemn
someone on the word of someone else who admits to guilt.
I have never known Mr. Hiss well enought to testify as to
his character, but 1 have often heard him speak and cannot
recollect ever hearing him sav anything that would cast
suspicion on him. One thing troubles me, if you had
been disloyal and your conscience troubled you, the only
way you could go scott free would be to accuse someone
else of the things you were accused of."
We are quite sure If Mrs. Roosevelt had followed the Hiss
trial as the former Alice Roosevelt did, she would never have
issued such a statement.
For had there been no evidence but the Chambers statement,
we are quite certain Hiss would have been acquitted. Chambers
WAS an admitted perjurer, an ex-communist, erratic, undepend
able, his testimony impeached in innumerable wavs.
But there WAS MORE EVIDENCE. Particularly there was
the typewriter and the 59 documents, with even the' defense ad
mitting the latter had been transcribed on the former. In two
trials and close to a year's time, the defense could not explain
In any way, how anyone but Mr. Hiss could have transcribed
them.
Perhaps as Alger Hiss declared, when Judge Goddard
him forward to be sentenced, the time mav come when it
explained how Whittaker Chambers "forged" those Implicating
documents on the Hiss machine. But until that time DOES come,
we are quite sure, no one with an open mind after a careful
examination of ALL the evidence, can question the Justification
of the Jury's guilty verdict. R.W.R.
A Nichols' Worth of
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Preta feature Writer
Washington, Feb. 1 U.R) breaking the drop of water (may
Joyce Ann Herr was born with I be "spraying" is a better word)
an allergy that gave her constant i into the air.
misery ifom equipped with Pump
asthma. Inventors don't like to give
The child is away their secrets, but Herr
went so far as to say that the
gadget is equipped with a pump
which builds up a pressure of
200 pounds per square inch
enough to get the moisture
around the house. If the humid
ity is right, the suffering from
asthma is eased, he claims. The
machine works automatically
and almost thinks for itself. It
adjusts itself to the temperature
outside. Don't ask technical
questions. All that is Herr's secret.
six years old
now, and al
though she is
not yet as foxy
as the other
kids in her set,
she has shown
much improve
ment. Thanks
to her daddy.
It all hap
pened like this
and let's cet
Herman Nichols the record
straight right now: Her pop is
claiming no "cure" for asthma.
Joyce Ann was a normal child
at birth, but at the age of six
months she developed the
wheezes and coughs common to
asthma. Hr dad, Paul A. Herr
of Neffsville, Pa., took her to
specialists on allergies.
They tried a change of diet.
They took away soft foods, and
re-jiggered the milk formula.
They started moving furniture
out of the house, thinking that
some of the overstuffed chairs
were bothering the child. The
family even removed the feath
ers from all the pillows in the
house and replaced them with
cotton.
Short Of Breath
By the time the baby was
three, she couldn't run 10 feet
without coming up short of
breath. Finally an eye, ear, nose
and throat man was consulted.
He asked one simple question:
"What is the relative humidity
in your home?"
Herr. a short-haired little fel
low who calls himself "half a
scientist," took an instrument
reading at home and found the
humidity to be around 18 per
cent; The doctor said to get that
up to 50 per cent.
Herr. now with the Lancaster
Engineering Corp.. did things
the hard way. He boiled water
on the stove in the kitchen. He
set two electric burners in the
living room and kept water bub
bling on them. He put a hot
plate In Joyce's room and set a
pan of water on it. He got his
humidity.
Improvement Shown
Inside of two weeks, the child
was beginning to show improve
ment. (Many doctors have con
tended for a long time that reg
ulated humidity relieves asth
ma.) The little girl turned out to be
a sort of means to an end for her
dad. Herr was In town recently
to see the patent people about
pushing his new humidifier past
the "patent applied for" stage.
He got some encouragement.
His gimmick looks something
like an air-conditioner and at
present is designed to serve a
home instead of an apartment,
although the latter may come in
later. The principle, or objec
tive, of the instrument is to at
omize water at a high pressure.
KIDDIES KEEP KITTIES
Granville, Mich. (U.RI Work
men who pulled up a street grill
to rescue two kittens were sur
prised to find the animals sleek
and fat. They discovered that
children had been feeding the
kittens for a week by dropping
bits of food through the grill.
Prusslc acid develops in the
leaves of the second fall growth
of sorghum after it has been
killed by frost.
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All Urged to Attend Bring New Members
By Frank Jenkins
These are some of the prob
lems President Truman had to
face in arriving at a decision to
develop a hydrogen bomb:
Do you want to loose added
horror Into the world?
' The cost will be great. Even
tually ALL MILITARY COSTS
must come out of the hides of
the people through lowered
standards of living.
But
If we don't
RUSSIA MIGHT.
'HIS dispatch comes from
Washington:
"The atomic energy commis
sion's references to experiments
with hydrogen would seem to
imply that the scientists AL
READY HAVE SOME OF THE
PLAYS WORKED OUT ON
THE BLACKBOARD and are
ready to apply them towards see
ing if they can develop a practi
cal hydrogen weapon."
WITH all the talk that has
been going on. I'd sav if we
Herr, incidentally, claims
there is a close link between lit
tle kids and little chickens.
"Chickens have asthma and
colds, too." he says.
He thinks his invention would
be a great boon to the poultry
people. An egg is put in an in
cubator where the humidity is
86 per cent and when the chick
pecks its way out of the shell it
is exposed to an atmosphere with
only 15 per cent humidity, Herr
claims.
"It's the same as with hu
mans," he says, "the respiratory
tract is dried up. But if yOu put
a good humidifier into the chick
house I think you'd have a lot
more chicks grow up into eat
able friers or fat laying hens."
The department of agriculture
is looking into the humidifier.
Jackson County Gets
Forest Reserve Fund
Salem, Ore., Feb. 1 (U.R) Re
ceipts of 25 per cent of federal
forest reserve rentals and sales
of timber for the fiscal year
ended last June 30 exceeded
those of any previous year, Sec
retary of State Earl T. Newbry
reported today.
Newbry made the report as he
announced apportionment of
52,044.693.81 to Oregon's coun
ties. These receipts have increas
ed each year from 5559,280.44 in
1946.
Largest revenues were from
the Willamette National forest
located chiefly in Lane and Linn
counties.
The moneys are divided 75 per
cent to the county road funds
and 25 per cent to the county
school funds after apportionment
to the counties on the basis of
the federal forest reserve in each
county.
Counties participating include:
Jackson. 561,616.57: Josephine
531,816.39; Klamath 5124,520.17.
Vesper Service For
Young People Today
The Christian Youth fellow
ship of the First Christian
church will conduct an evening
vesper service in the church
sanctuary today at 7:30 p.m.
This service will be of a de
votional nature, with the follow
ing young people participating
in the presentation: Barbara
Cook. Claudia Cooper, Dorothy
Hershiser, Roiia Jones and De
Lores Smylie. The theme of the
worship service will be "The
Privilege of Prayer."
The service is a phase of Na
tional Youth week observance
being observed by the young
people of the congregation. The
public is invited to attend.
haven't been doing some ad
vanced experimental work on
the hydrogen bomb business
we've been missing a terribly
important bet.
ALONG the line of scientific
progress, television is fool
ing with an idea that In minor
ways is as disturbing as the atom
bomb.
It thinks TV can maybe be
used TO DISPLACE CONVENTIONS:
THIS is the way It would work
if it works:
When we get television net
works all over the country, con
vention programs will be set up
IN A TV STATION instead of
in a hotel. It will then no longer
be necessary for vou to leave
your business and your home
and travel long distances, with
great personal nardsnip and sac
rifice on your part, in order to
keep up on the very latest stuff
that every business man must
have if he is to be successful.
All this annoyance and worrv
of making hotel reservations far
in advance will be done away
with. Gone for eood will be the
rigors of train, plane or motor
travel. You can sit in your com
fortable living room, with your
television set turned on, attired
in your slippers and your robe,
sitting in your favorite easy
chair, and watch and hear ev
erything that goes on getting
just as much good out of it as if
you were present in person.,
WON'T that be wonderful?
No. it WON'T!
It will be terrbile.
What's the world coming to If
we can't use conventions as an
excuse to skip out and have a
nice trip when we begin to get
bored with the tiresome routine
of staying on the Job and work
ing every day?
Us MaU TriDune nam Ada
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