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Youth
Pilgrimage
Johnny .Kelly in his Oregonian correspondence from
Washington puts his finger on the trouble with the "child
ren's crusade" vrsich is having its annual pilgrimage to the
national capital from college campuses. Keliy remarks that
the young people are tiiere "making demands on a govern
ment winch they will not defend against an enemy."
In tne literature announcing this 1938 pilgrimage was a
quotation from the manifesto ot a midsummer conference of
American youth in Milwaukee : i
"Our generation is riguttully entitled to a useful, creative
and happy life, the guaranties of which are fall educational and
recreational opportunities, employment at adequate wages, se
curity in time of need, religious . freedom, civil liberties and
peace" , .
Those indeed are glorious expectations, and in what
country of the world aretney neaier realization than in the
United States? let these opportunities and guaranties are
not automatic They have been bought at tremendous price in
human sacrifice, in peace and in war. Each generation is en
titled only to what it can carve for itself and What it can
preserve from its inheritance. Instead of marching on Wash
ington to "demand" more pap from government, youth should
iSe girding itself Jo defend the liberties and privileges it now
enjoys. The men who did fignt for liberty for themselves and
their posterity had no idea they were fighting to make life
easy for a bunch of collegiate nincompoops.
Spain and Austria'and Russia ought to open the eyes of
these juveniles who expect government to provide them with
a "happy life" (presumably at the expense of some wicked
"economic royalists").
If with all the money spent on them to give them a good
education all they have learned is to mooch more on govern
ment and society and dodge their own responsibilities we
had better take them behind the barn for an old-fashioned
. tanning and lock the doors of the colleges.
- We confess to being fed up on "youth wants this" and
"youth demands that." Fortunately the number of these yellow-bellies
is small. Most college students ask only for a
chance to work: and we have no fear of their readiness to de
fend democratic institutions against all enemies, domestic or
foreign.
Teamsters at San Francisco
The teamsters union has been having a big convention in
San Francisco. Dan Tobin, international president, was there.
So was Dave Beck who reached there by airplane, flying over
Oregon. Of the session Tuesday the SF Chronicle says the
"Mighty force of the teamsters' union was centered on Los
Angeles." Speakers -urged listeners to utilize the entire re
sources of the unions to subdue "the most vicious anti-labor
city in America." Aid was voted for the strike against the
May store in LA and a a committee appointed to muster sup
port. Phil Brady of Portland, who has taken over the job of
running the teamsters since Al Rosser is detained at Dal
las, was named as the Oregon member of the committee. Bait
ed by the powerful Los Angeles Times and opposed by the
united business interests of the city, the battle for Los Ange
' les will be a bitter contest. . .
Old Dan Tobin in his speech to teamsters said labor was
in danger from leaders drunk with power. That is what has
been, the matter in the northwest. The jolt in Oregon and the
ensuing jolt in the Seattle election may serve as a bromo to
cure th selfintoxication : but it is doubtful. The Beck idea is
rule and ruin. It is significant that the convention at San
Francisco took no steps to repudiate the crimes of arson and
of destruction of property which have been confessed by
their agents in Oregon. The attitude of the leaders seems to be
that it was just unfortunate
ed. The teamsters cannot regain public respect by such in
difference law violation.
Philippine
Already the Filipinos are backing away from indepen
dence. They see what has happened in Formosa, in Korea, in
Manchuria and now in China.
serting the "rights of man" in
that one can look across from the northernmost island of the
Philippine archipelago and see the southernmost island of
the Japanese empire.
High Commissioner McNutt and President Quezon are
now discussing terms of retreat
guaranteed to the islands after a term of years. There is
somewifference of opinion as to just what this basis should
be. The clever Quezon may find, however, that it was easier to
obtain the promise of independence, hard as that was, than it
may be to wipe out the promise and return under a domin
ion status as he now suggests. For self-interest of Americans
who objected to free imports of sugar, tobacco and copra
from the Philippines was a
Hawes-Jones act. That same
the islands under the canopy of
The Philippines need to remain within the American sys
tem. They cannot stand alone
politically And the United
because of self-interest of domestic groups or out f fear of
political complications in the
main within the American orbit. .
:" Lundberg Makes Retraction ,
' Ferdinand Lundberir has
statements he made in his book
imputing fraud to the du Pont
pany has withdrawn its $150,000 libel suit against the pub
lishers.
This is the book which Ickes referred to in bis vitrolic
speeches against capitalists. Will he moderate his references
in any degree, or make any apology to the duPonts for giving
approval by reference to this book which gravely injured
. The retraction will not, of course, catch up with the un
truth. We didn't notice it at all in Portland papers. One coast
paper bad a two-inch item about it on an inside page. Thou
sands of people will continue
charges Lundberg accepted and now retracts.
Educational
With the principle of larger state aid to the public schools
this paper is in accord. Outside of the limited distribution
from the state irreducible school fund the state really makes
no contribution to the schools. The two-mill elementary school
tax never leaves the counties but is redistributed within the
counties. Other states contribute very generously from state
funds tor school support. In California' and Washington a
large proportion of school cost comes from the state. The $10
per census child recommended in an initiative measure for
Oregon is a modest request. -: r
, The nubbin of the matter is where the money is coming
from? Some way is required for financing the cost; but we
do not understand that the initiative outlines the method of
doing that So final comment on the measure will have to be
reserved until that phase is studied.
" There Is an old saying about
as Sot as It is cooked." It does
-la worse than his
bark.
This year the groundhog proved his case, on St. Patrick's day.
tatesmau
Editor ard Publisher
to
Washington
that the men were apprehend
Independence
So they are not so eager for as
that environment. They know
;
from the indenendence now I
real factor in passages of the
interest will resist inclusion of
American free trade.
securely either economically or
States cannot desert the islands
orient. The islands should re
made a public retraction of
"America's Sixty Families,'
company. Accordingly the com
to believe and to spread the
Initiative
politics: "They never serve the soap
not apply to Fuehrer Hitler. His bite i
Bits for
Breakfast
By B. J. HENDRICKS
The best in the 1-1 8-3 S
world; that Is not .
saying too much for
our valley of the future:
"
The leading editorial in the
Oregonian of last Saturday, un
der the head ins. "The Engi
neers Approve!" reads:
- "It is the way of the evan
gelist to go after the worst sin
ner, though he may not be much
of a man even when converted,
and . U is the way of the recla
mation service to work on the
rockiest barrens, though the
fields may not be very fertile
even when they do have water.
The honor, you see. is greater;
the conversion is more spectac-
T ..
. That Is why the Willamette
valley project has had such dif
ficulty in fighting its way
through to the present approval
by the board of army engineers.
The Willamette valley Is a fer
tile, productive and orderly area
to begin with, in comparison with
much of the rest of the country.
The project will save a trillion
a year in flood damage; It will
triple the yield of the valley
through irrigation, particularly
of the more intensive crors; It
will reopen the Willamette to
barges and more pretentious riv
er traffic; it will correct the
growing and dangerous pollu
tion; it will provide a new
source of hydroelectric power;
it will give the logs of the back
country easy access to the river
mills.
"It should, in other words,
make of the Willamette valley
the most perfect productive
area in the United States, pos
sibly in the world.
S
"The gain in wealt'i and pro
ductive power will be infinitely
greater than for a similar ex
penditure in any of the most
barren parts of the United
States where most reclamation
projects are located or proposed.
Yet it has been a fight to bring
tnj8 home, for the simple rea
son stated at the beginning of
this article that the project does
not satisfy the desert-to-garden
urge. It changes a reasonably
good garden into the perfect one.
But the most important part
of the battle now seems won.
So long as the board of army
engineers held the time inappro
priate, there was no possibility
of driving the $56,009,000 ap
propriation, or any part of it.
through congress. Now it is up
to the Oregon delegation, back
ed by the board's reversal and
approval, to convince the two
houses."
The Oregonian writer is not
too optimistic. The reclamation
project fully carried out will do
all he says, and more.
It will make the Willamette
valley "the most perfect pro
ductive area in the United
States," and also the best in the
world.
S
It will render low lying lands
along the river free of danger
from floods; danger to human
and animal life and to property.
There will not be another time
of 39 feet above low watrr at
Salem as in 1861-2; nor 33 feet
as in 192"; nor 32.2 feet as in
1927.
With reclamation and conser
vation, the time will soon come
when pollution of streams here
will be unthinkable. It will be
out, in respect to ideals ot
cleanliness and decency as well
as to standards of economy.
The sewage of towns and cities
will be needed for fertilizer, on
the land, in the time when this
valley will be called upon to
support ten, twenty, thirty, forty
times its present population. The
pollution of streams will In that
future day be held inexcusable.
unthrifty, wasteful.
In that time, no waste land
will be tolerated. Every acre
will be needed, from the river
banks to the mountain tops.
. The long held dream of this
writer of still water in the Wil
lamette the whole year through
is coming true. Then water
borne traffic will go to any port
on the globe, with only a cheap
transfer to major tonnage ves-
seis in the port of Portland
s s s
Then there will be bathing in
and - boating on clean rivers.
twelve months In the year,
Then the banks of our streams
will be made beautiful with
borders of flowers and trees, and
values of water fron lets and
lands' will go to what would
now seem fabulous prices,
Ten Years Ago
March 18, 1928
Washington high school ot Port
land won the Oregon State basket
ball championship by defeating
Medford 27 to 23.
Miss Winifred Byrd often called
the "Coming Carreno of the con
cert stare" win play a piano con
cert at the Capitol theatre March
19.
Montgomery Ward and Co. are
to open business in Salem at once
is the middle store room of th
J building ot James Young and Jon
athan Bourne on Center street an
til permanent location on. Liberty
Twenty Years Ago
March 18, 1918 ,
. Roy S. Melson who resigned his
position as member of city council
will be an honor guest of mayor
and other council members al din
ner at Marion. Monday. -
John H. Lewis, state engineer,
will leave today for Washington
D. C, to confer with government
officials.
Seymour. Jones yesterday an
nouaced that he woald be a can
didate for the lower house of the
state legislature.
A
Rules for Public
Range Announced
WASHINGTON, March 17-V
The federal government laid
down a new set of rules today
for 120,000,000 acres of public
range.
They will be administered by
the division of grazing author
ity of the Taylor grazing act of
1934.
Officials said they believed
the new regulations, when fin
ally put into effect, would mark
the beginning of "a just and
permanent solution of the range
problem."
Generally the regulations pro
vide tor the grazing of approxi
mately 10,000,000 head ot live
stock on the federal range on
term permit basis designed to
prevent over-grating.
'The new regulations embody
the essential features of the
code approved in the ten states
anaV in the Washington confer
ences last year and have the ap
proval of the overwhelming ma
jority of the Btockmen," said
R. Carpenter, grazing direc
tor.
Insurgents Bomb
Loyalists Rally
i .
BARCELONA, Spam, March 17
-7P) Insurgent air bombs scat
tered thousands of Cataionians
last night who massed around
the president's palace to demand
the government continue resist
ing the insurgents at all costs.
They heard the fiery speeches
of trade union arl political
leaders assuring them of the
loyalty of their army and the
determination of their govern
ment.
Then, following a sound truck,
the crowds began winding
through the streets when the
whine of sirens rave the air
raid alarm.
The rally dissolved amid the
sounds ot bombs and anti-air
craft fire. One fire started and
at least two bombs crashed near
the city center. Casualties were
not reported.
Tariff on Lu
Plea of Industry
WASHINGTON, March 17-(tf"r-
The committee on reciprocity
yesterday heard . demands from
the lumber Industry for equal
tariffs with the United King
dam.
"Even then W. B. Greeley
of Seattle. Wash., said, "lum
ber exporters of 'Canada woald
bold an advantage over the do
mestic trade due to a variety of
reasons including higher labor
costs."
Greeley asserted concessions
granted Canada under an agree
ment in 193S had resulted ia
a, trade loss to the VTnited
States lumber industry "which
was a critical factor in current
business slump- en the west
coast,
Condemnation of Lands
in Tillamook Area, Plan
PORTLAND. Ore., March 17-
(AV-Assistant United States At
torney Allan Hart filed in fed
era! court to condemn approxi
mately 11,000 acres of margin
al land is Tillamook county. The
property will be turned over to
the; forest service for reforesta
tion at -a future date.
' Freemans Entertain
- TALBOT Mr. and Mrs. J. .It
Whittington of . Portland and
Mrs..L. M. Harding of Conral
lis were weekend guests of Mr.
and Mrs. 13. - J. Freeman and
son Ernest. Mrs. Harding re
mained here for an indefinite
visit with her daughter.
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Always in General Terms
Jnst before sh gave her San
Francisco lecture on "Peace,
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was
asked i- she intended making any
revision in her text because of
e-erts In Austria.
No," replie' the president's
wife. "It will not be necessary
because when . one speaks on
peace, it s in general terms."
Mrs. Roosevelt spoke the
fact. Unfortuna'ely It cannot be
otherwise: When people speak
on war, they speak with the
voice ' if long range sons, 'with
explosive shells and bombs from
the air. Wher they speak on
peace It must be in general
terms. It Is an Issue of; philo
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takes, unanimity to keep the
peace bat only one bally to break
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By DOROTHY
Wake lp to) Live!
The attitude which this column
has taken toward the European
situation shice February 12th,
ry i. ii. i wnen, tne nercn-
teagaden agree-'
n an wa m m aa.
4 l tiated" between
Hitler and
Schuschnigg, and
has' been sub
jected to a tre
mend o a s ' bar
rage of both crit
icism and ap
proval from both
Americans and
Dot otby Thorn pna British.
That attitude, from the begin
ning, has been that the conquest
of Austria by the nazis would
prove to be a world event of the
first order; that it would unloose
forces which it would be difficult,
if not impossible, to check short
of war or the utter capitulation of
the democracies; that Eden's at
titude in the critical moment,
while it was described as that of
a "dreamer" in contrast to the
"realism" of the Chamberlain
Halifax group, mas actually a
thousand .times the more realistic
and the more aware, and that
what was happening in Europe
would prove, eventually, to in.
volve the United States.
o
From that position, this column
sees, as yet, no reason to retreat.
We have the spectacle, over the
weekend, of Lord Halifax pacing
his room, and repeating. "It is
horrible, horrible: " This, after
Lord Astor, who belongs to the
Halifax group, speaking in the
United States after the Berchtes
gaden meeting, said, "Is it
a worthwhile issue whether one
Germanic nation decides to join
another Germanic nation?" "
One can hardly imagine less
realism! What, in heaven's name,
did Lord Halifax expect? What
sort of human organization does
he think the nazi Party, which
rules Germany, is?
Nothing that is happening in
Austria today, as the lists are
drawn up of thousands to be sent
to concentration camps, as Jews
are beaten in the streets, as men
and women of the most eminent
distinction are condemned to ex
ile, imprisonment, and economic
ruin, as a smooth, swift, ruthless
organization proceeds to totali
tarianize and militarize another
six million people nothing that
is happening that Lord Halifax
belatedly finds "horrible" is
worse than what has been hap
pening in Germany itself for five
years; nothing has happened that
was not predicted; nothing has
happened, of which the world was
not given a blueprint in advance!
And Lord Astor? Could any re
mark have been less realistic?
"One Germanic state and another
Germanic state" words out of
Hitler's official propaganda! That
was not the issue. The issue was
and is whether the world of west
ern liberal culture can indefinite
ly tolerate the aggrandizement
upon it, step by step of a barbar
ian revolution!
We are not dealing with coun
tries, nations, in the usual sense
of the word. We are dealing with
international revolutionary move
ments with two international
revolutionary, movements, of
which the more dangerous, at this
moment, is the fascist internation
al. We are dealintr with a world
situation, amazingly comparable
to the disintegration of the Rom
an world fifteen centuries ago.
Then, as now, the barbarians
brought about the collapse of a
great, integrating culture, not be
cause the barbarians were strong.
but because the Romans had be
come weak and cowardly and
were unwilling to defend them-1
selves. And today the defenders
of liberal culture, with enormous
wealth and power at their dispo
sal, are totally paralyzed. Thev
do not see what is before their
very eyes. Only from moment to
moment they clasp their brows
and moan, as Lord Halifax is re
ported to have done. "I never
thought they'd do it!"
Why not? They promised to do
it! And this sort of promise is
the only" one they are pledged by
their own philosophy to keep!
o
The fasclrtern is an interna
tional pact between three despo
tisms, who havo behind them the
totally mobilized military nd eco
nomic strength of three populous
nations, to wrest from all other
nations the separate or collective
sovereignty over the earth, leav
ing only such freedom and inde
pendence for. any nation as they
bestow by favor. '
They announce their claim to
interfere in the international af
fairs of any couairy that is threat
ened by communism." , -
They regard communism as the
inevitable outcome ot liberal de
mocracy. Therefore the claim to
interfere on the pretext of com
munism affects every democratic
country on-earth.
Thau interference takes the
form of supporting and fomenting
a fascist movement in any coun
try they wish to weaken. Germany
claims a continued hold on people
ot German nationality wherever
they may live In the world, and
nasi 4-oas are organised wher
ever there are Germans, no mat
ter what their dtiienship may be.
They are organized in this coun
try and together: with Italian fas
cist groups, they are becoming
very visible in South America.
The fiscirtem also makes odd
alliances with Pacifists, isolation
ists awd sponsors of American or
British neutrality, in support ota
"handa-off-us" policy.
And it wins the sympathy of
addlepated conservative - capital
ista who think they mast "choose
between fascism and communism,
either choice meaning the subjec
tion of the present privileged
groups along with everybody else,
to military collectivism.
In the apper social lerels of all
countries are people who have a
tolerance, let as -say, toward xta
zism or fascism; they are, at
least, willing to accept it at the
evaluation of itself which it pre
pares lor external conaamptioa.
And, in actual practice, tho com
munists themselves are Us allies,
for they snd their "liberal" fel-
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low travelers do their best to pre
vent any sort ot national consoli
dation in the democratic coun
tries. While Harry Bridges, for
instance, howls against the fas
cists he does his best to make it
impossible for American ships to
saU the seas. France is paralyzed,
temporary, at least, between the
fear of the Doriot-deLaRoque fas
cists and the utter confusions of
the popular front alliance, which
must consider the communists.
O 0 0
Now, the Austrian case, is an
almost perfect example of the way
the fast ir tern works, first to de
moralize a country by internal
dissension, and then to conquer It
for military collectivism.
Austria lies between two fas
cist despotisms, and has since
1933. The first onslaught on Aus
trian internal solidarity was made
by Mussolini in February, 1934
Because of the fear of Hitler, the
Austrian government looked to its
nest most powerful neighbor. The
price of Italian support against
Hitler was the liquidation of the
Austrian democracy.,
That meant the disaffection of
practically the whole working
class in Austria, the disillusion
ment of the very groups that
might have been counted on to de
fend Austria against Hitler in a
show-down.
But could one expect them to
rally very heartily against any
one in the defense of their own
assassins?
o O o
That they actually did back up
Schuschnigg only shows where
they thought the lesser of two ev
ils to lie. But they were no long
er even organized!
Then Hitler with Mussolini's
support, and in return for what,
it is extremely pertinent to in
quire forced an Austria already
disintegrated by Mussolini, to re
alize active nazi revolutionaries.
On the basis of the disorder thus
caused, he invaded and conquer
ed the country.
Hitler will hare to pay a price
to Mussolini for Austria. Well,
he's already paying it. This even
ing's papers (Tuesday) announce
that German Btorm troops are en
route to Spain to assist in dealing
the death blow to
government. Hitler's entrench
ment in Austria will probably
mean Mussolini's command of
Spain. The Chamberlain-Halifax
policy has proved its utter bank
ruptcy in less than a month! Mus
solini does not "have to -have
Great Britain." Hitler will give
him more of other people's terri
tory. When Mr. Lippmann regrets
that there was not a strong gov
ernment in Austria resting on na
tional union, he seems to me to
disregard the technique of the
fasclrtern. Mussolini and Hitler
collaborated together from 1934
to 1938 to make it absolutely im
possible for Austria to have any
such government. They tossed her
from one pair of arms to the oth
er, they disintegrated her inter
nally, by conspiracy and bribery,
and kept her under threat of in
vasion by one and abandonment
by the other, while the league,
which, had guaranteed her sup
port, was disintegrating, and no
strong members of it took up her
cause.
And. in the show-down, Musso
lini, who had repeatedly, and up
until the last minute, sworn to
protect Austria against compul
sory nazifieatioo. abandoned her,
no doubt to strike another bar
gain. There was not the slightest rea
son for Mr. Schuschnigg to be
lieve mat if he had fourht for
Austrian independence, his coun
try would not have had a worse
fate. even, than that of Spain.
Andv what Austria was standing
for was not. actually, national in
dependence. She was attempting
to avoid being nazified. Xot Ger
manized. They are not the same
thing.
o o o
Our isolationists believe that
the events in Austria, or any
where else in the world, do not
really concern us. I am as sure
as I am of anything in this world
that history will prove them blind
and worse than blind. In Japan
and her dependencies there are
97.000.000 p e o p 1 e , completely
militarized and mobilized. In
Germany, now, there are 75,006,
000 people, completely militarized
and mobilized. In Italy and her
dependencies there are 58,000.
000 people, completely militarized
and mobilized. All three coun
tries are governed by authorities
demanding blind obedience and
are on a totalitarian war footing.
In which no consideration has to
be paid to the interests of private
capital or labor.
These huge military collectlv
lsms are strategically well distrib
uted to terroriie the world, and
they have a program of revolution
ana conquest, openly avowed, op
enly . announced. Right up until
yesterday Lord Halifax and a lot
of other British lories were mur
muring, "They don't really mean
it." Today they have c a a n g ed
their minds. There are very few
pro-nazis at this moment In Brit
ain. Too bad there' were even a
few yesterday!
o o
But most Americans are still
murmuring. "They don't really
mean it, and, if they do, what does
it matter to as " It one says: Be
ware! Open your eyes! Observe!
one is accused of "endangering
peace. The fact that we have to
realize Is that it does not take two
to make a war. It only takes one.
And awareness is the first con
dition of defense.
Luckenbach Firm Loses
IS'LRB Case, Announced
PORTLAND, March 17-(rTV
Cbarles W. Hope, regional di
lations board, said an NLRB
rector of the national labor re
trial examiner's intermediate
report' bad upheld charges
against the Portland office of
the Luckenbach Steamship com
pany and ordered reinstatement
with back pay of three dls-
charged employes.