New Face in Oregon

WLB's forthright Wayne Lyman Morse left Washington last week for a vacation at his Oregon farm. Just before his departure it was reported that Wayne Morse would seek his State's Republican nomination for U.S. Senator, with formal announcement to be made from his Oregon home.

The seat to which young (43) Wayne Morse may aspire is now warmed by the hulking bulk of Rufus C. Holman, 66, paper-box manufacturer and Old Guard Republican, chiefly distinguished in the Senate for his opposition to Lend-Lease and for labor-baiting. Rumbling Rufus Holman has not yet disclosed his 1944 intentions; if he runs for reelection, he is certain of the solid backing of the Oregon G.O.P. machine.

Wayne Morse, who describes himself as a "progressive Republican," would draw his support from liberal elements in the G.O.P., and from those Oregonians who are as disgusted with Senator Holman's record of extreme reaction as with his isolationist attitudes.

Wisconsin-born Wayne Morse loves a fight. As the able, forthright dean of Oregon University's law school, he fought hard for labor arbitration on the West Coast. As leader of WLB's public members, he has repeatedly forced Franklin Roosevelt to hold the line on inflation. In nearly 100, excellently clear WLB decisions (he wrote the Little Steel formula) he has favored neither labor nor management, hewing a straight line down the middle, largely in the public interest. In the final showdown with John Lewis, Morse was the unreconstructed diehard who stood firm against John's pay grab. All the U.S. will watch his campaign with interest.

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