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TAGS T0U3 111 OZ2SC7I CTATEZMJUI, Ccdtm, Oregon, Sunday Mccnlng. October 12. 1MX f af 4. 15 "No Favor sways Ui No fear Shall Avoc - Fran rirst Statesman, March 28, 1851 - ILEJLl estuatt : THE STATESaiAN. PUBLISHING CO. v CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. President . ; , Member of The Associated Press ' j. lie Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatch credited to tt or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. Nails and Doorknobs ; The mere suggestion, voiced by Coordina tor Ickes, that they might be denied motor fuel for Sunday pleasure trips, some Weeks ago had easterners in a ferment. One may well judge that for the violence of this reaction, Mr. Ickes had largely his own pre-established reputation as a mischievous boat-rocker to blame. For the American public had earlier, been thoroughly conditioned to the idea of sacrifice particular ly sacrifice of non-essentials in the interests of national defense. That judgment is strengthened by more recent events; for the public appears, to date, to be accepting practically in stride the definite and infinitely more serious order that has come tions board roughly to the effect that all down j from the Supply, Priorities and Alloca building and construction, however large or small, must come to a halt unless it is definitely related to national defense or is necessary "for the safety, health and welfare of the general public." 1 . Nails and doorknobs just to mention some typical materials that go into the less preten tious construction projects are the factors that inspired this sweepin'n SPAB order. Steel, cop per, brass, bronze, aluminum are the principal materials this agency hopes, to conserve.' There is, to be sure, to some degree a short-' age of construction labor but.it is not so critical ' as to prevent this order from forcing "priorities unemployment" upon an estimated million and one-half of such workers. There is no serious ; ; shortage of lumber nor of the other non-metal-,lic materials that go into buildings; three mil lion workers engaged in production of such ma terials likewise will be victims. Among them will be a considerable number of woods and sawmill workers in the Pacific Northwest; for lumber orders had already slacked off seriously in Sep tember due to the uncertainty of private con struction and defense construction's inability to absorb output of the volume that has recently prevailed. For some figures bearing upon the need for such a policy, it is related that construction of all types in 1941 will cost in this country 11 billion dollars, equal to the highest levels ever reachedback in 1926 and 1927. Of this volume, less than 5 billion represents defense construc tion. All this building will require 13,800,000 tons of steel, non-defense construction taking about six million tons. SPAB estimates that its order will cut this last item in half; an an nouncement which incidentally helps to clarify the intent of the order. It suggests that the agency does not intend to turn down all re quests for non-defense building permits, though it may approve only certain vital public pro jects and in those cases, strenuously urge the use of substitutes, such as concrete rather than steel pipe. 4 Construction ' of all types has employed 2,400,000 men on the average but the peak re cently reached is 3,100,000, of whom only 1,200,000 have been working on defense pro jects. This latter number will not be greatly increased next year; those now' employed in non-defense construction which, must cease, Will be "out of luck." ; That may afford a ;faint notion of the dis location that is threatened;' There are of course some compensations.' Prices of building ma terials and other construction .costs . have ad vanced to the point at whicK private construc tion is already seriously discouraged. And if private construction virtually halts now, there will be an. aggravated need for such construc tion to cushion that 'post-war letdown most people are dreading. This order nevertheless serves to emphasize more than anything that has preceded it, the need to spread defense industry and defense activity where possible, more Widely through- i out the nation, to the end that some communi ties shall not be too-congested beehives of ac tivity and others deserts of inactivity. Among the communities that need to fight the last-mentioned danger, is Salem. being told emphatically that it's in the bag at Moscow, and the Tokyo' admirers of the nazi system are disposed to believe it. Still, some equally sympathetic souls in Rome believed a similar story 17 months ago and now they are terribly in distress. Yet there is almost equal distress though totally different in its nature in the British Isles; the distress of frustration, of knowledge that Britain's battle is being lost or won around Moscow and that Britishers are in no position to help. There is clamor for invasion of the continent, anger that no such invasion, how ever immediately futile, has been tried. But for the purposes of this immediate crisis, it is too late for that; too late for "material aid" from Britain or America. This one, the once-despised Red3 will have to weather for them es' 7es. It won't be long now. It Won't Be Long Now It's a battle to the death over there around Moscow and what f Is there that can be said about it that may be authoritative and enlight ening? The time for making predictions, and if it suits you, for placing bets, is before the open ing kickoff.. ; ' :.,.v'-;. ' likewise, heretofore the time for political battles ' has b e e n the lull between military : battles. There are rumors of peace negotiations now, at the height of the military battle. These rumors are darkly foreboding. All along Amer icans have feared that the Russians would give up if the going got tough enough All con cerned deny the rumors; that doesn't tell you a thing. But if Hitler is so sure of winning this battle, why would he be negotiating for peace? Though we fear two things, a decisive German victory and a collapse on the part of the Moscow government leading to a shameful armistice, it just doesn't make sense that both can be happening at once. What the American public has known at any given time in the last two years of events in Europe, has always been more accurate than what Europeans have known and yet probably at no time has It been "the whole truth." How ever, sometimes we have known more and sometimes less. This is one of the times when we know less. In such a crisis as this, all reports are supremely unreliable because neither side can afford to tell en unfavorable truth. ' . , But it won't be long now. Hitler says he is winning decisively. If he Is, we may know it by sometime today; we ought by all means to know it before the middle of this week. If we don't know it by then, we will know that the opposite is the truth. It should by that time be : apparent that in this "kampf Hitler has neither won or, not lost but failed. And by that time too we should know about the Red morale. If politicians here, there and you, the folk who are supposed to know things that are with held from the unprivileged hoi polloi, really could know what's what over there' now and' could "t themselves believed, then we might l ive teliatl theater in Tokyo. TcIq-o is Happens Every Day He might have been a traveling salesman, the manager of a branch store, a big city news paper's correspondent in a smaller town it's happened to lots of them. He might have been any fellow whose job is not performed under anyone's immediate supervision. He Hipped away for a few evenings of gay "relaxation" under the bright lights without getting the boss's permission. The boss got wise and firedhim. It happens every day. But this particular "he" happened to be president of Panama. The bright lights were in Havana, and in slipping away he left Panama, soil. His boss the people of Panama acting through other government officials didn't have to fire him but his work hadn't been ex actly satisfactory, and this was a good excuse. Since the principal item of dissatisfaction was his pro-nazi attitude, as exemplified for example in an impending 'refusal to permit the arming of American ships temporarily under Panamanian registry, people in the United Stats are not going to be indignant about it al though, as a general rule, they are disosed to sympathize in such eases. Stewart Views Washington Scene By CHARLES P. STEWART Due to Paul MaUon's Dines,' the Washington comma of Charles P. Stewart, widely-recognized news analyst, la being substituted temporarily. The Statesman to pleased to offer Mr. Stewart's authoritative observations to its readers, but hopes soon to be able to announce resumption of the Mallon column. Unless Pennsylvania's legislature redistricts the state before 1942's congressional election day, one big party or the other stands to make a for midable, killing there in the matter of ?seats in the next national house of representatives. Several state redistrictings are in order in- ; variably, after each succeeding countrywide census, because, with shifting populations, it always hap pens that a census shows a state here and there to have lost a little in the represeitatorial strength it's entitled to in Washington, with a few others gaining correspondingly. This calls for a readjust ment of the boundaries of its congressional dis tricts by the legislature of each of such states. Or else or else what? r . . Well, suppose a state has, say, ten congress men, chosen by their respective districts, and sup pose that state gains a congressman, but doesn't , redistrict itself In that event if continues to elect its. original ten by districts, as before, but the eleventh is elected at large that is, by the whole State, like a senator. There usually are at least twoor three con gressmen at large on Capitol Hill and occasionally a state, which har grown rapidly and been derelict in districting, has more than one. Two Lost in Discard But suppose a state; with a congressman at large, having fallen a bit behind in its proportion ate population growth, loses a seat, but doesn't re district That state simply has its congressman at large lopped off. Some reart ago Illinois and Ohio actually did lose a congressman apiece, but each had two at large, and one of each went into the -discard, their pair of delegations remaining other wise unchanged. It was rather painful for the con gressmen who were cancelled, but didn't make much difference as to the general congressional alignment However, suppose state with no congressman at large loses a seat and doesnt redistrict Then that state's whole delegation is chosen at large at the next election. Such is Pennsylvania's fix at present unless it redistricts, which it doesnt act like doing. T Last year we had a census. Under it the Quaker state is cut from 34 to S3 represents torial seats in Washington. It hasnt a congressman at large, but if it fails to redistrict, it'll have all 33 at large next session, and the whole aggregation will be of the same political complexion. Why the rival parties both are hesitant to re district is easy enough to understand. The state's traditionally republican, but if , shown some democratic tendencies of late. Of its present 34 representatives 19 are democrats; 15 are GOP. Senator James J. Davis is a republican Sen ator Joseph F. Guffey's a democrat Governor Ar thur H. James Is GOP. f If the democrats can carry the un-redistricted state in 1942, they will Sweep a solid 33 votes into the lower congressional chamber, with no 13 re publicans mixed in. On the opposite hand, the re publicans are hopeful that they, can recover their old-time control of the commonwealth, which, if " they can, will give 'em the whole S3 ballots at one shot, and if the election's at all close nationally, it may give 'em a representatorial majority in Washington. Disposed to Gamble They both show signs of a disposition to take a chance on it Of course, a congressman in an area that's safely his way greatly prefers redisricting in his own interest to- accepting a doubtful statewide' risk, but the higher-ups take a more comprehen sive view. . ,' A number of other states aren't redistricting, but there's no other state in which such a bloc of seats is at stake. , If that particular one doesnt redistrict it may decide the partisan color of the next house of rep resentatives a . matter of concern to the entire country. ' - Those census chaps raised the entire Issue. Gosh! Looxit how important their statistics are! . . : - -o o v wm- a, i . s at av x fi r eX i i ...jai t t e' i :" st --t i i mi o vi - a : M HfcVk si rw-. '.T ' W as m WW9 A W afasr v assB " " 1 Sr ' 5 ' M Just Another "Mississippi Bubble9' to Them or Is It? its voir BreaEcfast By ELI J. HENDRICKS California's jpoet laureate 10-12-tells of a worried friend who wanted to believe in God, and the way his friend was convinced . i (Continued from yesterday:) Still quoting4 from the McGroaty column: j " 'Be it as it may, I am going to keep on praying, consciously or unconsciously, as all who feel and think must do. This is not meant blasphemously. My soul, if I have one, is as hungry as yours. fr 'It you Could only say some thing that would quiet our, re bellious questioning,' says the . letter. A wish expressed by one layman to another. Neither of us clothed with sacerdotal func tion or authority. Neither of us theologians, j ' "Just one ordinary man con tacting " another ordinary man concerning the most profound and most important questions that possibly affect any man. Does God exist? Is there a God? If so what is the nature- of God? Is there aj hereafter? Is the human soul Immortal? fy m s : - These are the inquiries that disturb the Soul of the man who wrote the letter, an obviously sincere manj seeking peace from doubts that harass him. "He is not alone in his un happiness. There are many like A feASSABI IS CCA ff ITS W CCX&TtQN. J0 him in the world, and it is not easy for a layman to say that 'something for which he pleads. He also is obviously an intelli gent man Whom mere tradition or faith transmitted to and ac cepted by a childish mind at a parent's knee does not satisfy. H W This man was in the same predicament as a man I knew who solved this problem for himself. He wanted to believe in God but could not bring himself to do so. : r "He was restless; and disquiet ed like 1 ene Vhoiad Jtet ; out upon, a mystifying quest that Jed him to no certain destination until, at last he learned of a Being who once trod the dusty roads of Galilee . 2000 years ago and whose life Is fully record ed. He read the records as set forth 5 in the New Testament of the Bible the Gospels as writ ' ten by Matthew, Mark, Luke and 'John, the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles, particularly the Epistles of Paul. V H . "Wonderful stories he found them to be, but be was not sat isfied. ,I there any truth in them, are they merely mythical, fairy tales, ingenious literary contrivances like those written by Grimm and Aesop? That's what he wanted to know, and so he applied himself diligent ly to know. "He turned to what is called 'profane history, which is to say history written by secular scholars laying no claims to 'di vine inspiration, scholars inter ested solely in ascertaining facts. From them he found the New Testament to bo compi lation.; of fully authenticated documents, Jesus of Nazareth precisely identified by compe tent witnesses, the record of His -career as fully authenticated as is that of George Washington. , h s y . . . "The miracles that Jesus wrought are wholly verified, the blind made to see, the leper cleansed, sins forgiven, a new religion of love established to supplant a religion of hate, the. dead brought back to life, Him ' self risen from the tomb after He had been slain on Calvary." W - So ends the series taken from the column of John Steven Mc Groarty. The poet laureate of California has written a great deal setting forth the glories of our coast, and especially of the California part of it "stretch ing down the middle of the world." The next two or more issues of this column will be devoted to some outstanding . samples of California's beloved poet laur eate. ' r, r--' V- V,, ! v.: . (Continued tomorrow.) " w fcv - v" 'Vsear .. , "v i 1 3mUo9 Doagtas Camera catches AssodaU Justice William O. Douglas of the U. & supreme court on his way to work. The high court's fan session has opened with Harlan Hake Stone the new chief Justice. Six Months From Site to Production oi Metal A "jiashroomlar" indnstry. for the Immediate benefit of national defense, ts this plant of the Seynolds Metals company at Lonxriew. Wash, which, west into prodaetlon of alaminam la September in Its first salt The aluminum reductioa tlant will be a permanent operation. The two adUonal nciis wiU start up later this fait The plant was in commercial operation less tLas six months from the time the 4.01 sere site on the Colombia river was selected, and barely four months from the time the first steel was placed for the baUdlngs. The plant has a rated capacity of 9,089,089 pounds of alominom Ingots annually. For the present the almahmn is shipped east by rail for farther manufacture. Bj UARYSZ ROTLEDGB Chapter S continoed It , was past midnight The house was very quiet " David followed her up. the stairs, his nerves oddly alert She fumbled endlessly in her -bag for the key. David fidgeted, staring at the door. Something queer there. It was on a crack. "Wait a min ute.' H noshed the door open on darkness, and a hush which spread through the I rooms. - Behind him. Fan 1 gasped, Why, if dark. I told Selinda to wait for me. She started trembling, pushing by David Into the narrow foyer, reaching for . the light "Stay here." David I heard ' a faint noise in the living room. "Don't let anyone j get away, he whispered. Then he plunged into the room, his fists whipping .out He heard a low moaning. Someone fell upon nun in the darkness, a hard threshing shad ow with which he grappled, , smashing at a face he couldn't see. He heard Fan scream some where in the room. The moaning went on: a wom an's voice "Don't Fred please - don't " David knocked over a table, stumbled and fell, No one attack ed him again. But he knew they were there; Anna and some man who had followed her. He drew out the .38, but did not dare fire in the blacked-out room. He could hear faint breathing in, the room. Someone crawled up to him; slid papers in his hand. He felt her skirt brush against him. It was Anna. He hid the- papers under the rug, and got to his feet Then, from behind him, a man's . fingers dug into his throat choking him, pressing him backwards. He staggered and went down, hitting his head. Someone wrested the .38 from his loosened grip. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE David came to, some hours later, in Fan Rubleys bed. He fought 'silk cushions, taffeta ruf fles and a doll, before he knew where he was. He tossed a chill ed cloth off his eyes, and glared around him. Fan stood by the bed. She wore a long creamy robe, and she was as pale as the sheets, he drew up to his chin. Behind her Selinda fluttered guilty because she had come home so late to find the place In confusion. j David groaned. Wan light ' stole through the windows. It was dawn. What the devil was he doing here? He put his hand up to unfamiliar white pajamas, i "The superintendent lent them you:' Now do be a good boy.1 You gofa nasty whack on the v head." Fan sat on the edge of the bed. Remember anything?" David . .stared ' at her. She'd been crying. Aching fragments , tried to piece themselves toge ther in his mind. Hours ago lie j : . bad leftJane at Rio House, ia , . . the full swing of Garrison's par- . ty, and Garrison had promised ' . .. . Then the fight In the dark here ttu'ii-Ki-;! : ' "Is Jane aU right?" He tried ; " to get up ' ' : Selinda, muttering to herself; -brought, in black coffee and. -decanter. ' - "C "': Listen, rm dog-tired," said t:, 1 Fan. "I've been up all night shooing away nosey detective. ' ' Dick Garrison's been here 1 and gone. He doesnt know where either BOl Wright or Jane are. : i But you're to stay here." With amazing strength, she pushed David back on the pil lows, as he tried to spring out of bed. ; David obeyed Fan Rubley, be cause he felt too dizzy and sick to get out of bed. His i head throbbed. "Must find Jane,"' he muttered thickly. "You're not . to worry," ; Fan soothed, without inner con vie- , tion..She wished nowhe.had- nt spoken of Jane and Bill Wright's disappearance from the party. But Garrison had seemed unusually upset ' i ' "Wait till I get my hands on Breanu. What the devil did he mean by bringing Jane la town?" David kicked feebly at ' the silken covers oMTan's bed. One of her ridiculous boudoir V . dolls fell on the rug. JUs mind wasn't clear. The y : must have given him a drugi j " Fan bent over him, smooth ing back his rebellious red hah. , "You saved my life," she said. "If Dick Garrison hadnt asked you to take me home, those hor rible Sweitters might have kill ed me. They got away." She added, "Dick thinks Anna Sweitzer, on her first visit must have stolen the extra key I keep on the hall table." But David wasn't listening. He bad gone -under waves of sleept He looked terribly, fierce ly young, his fighting blue eyes closed, his fists clenched on the .; sheet, Fan sighed. She was so tired, herself, she could hardly, reach the living room couch. She did n't care if MatBreanu rang and -.rang or pounded on the doer.. Where had he been all night? She hated him now. ' . (To be continued) Eacflio , (PirogiraETrQs KSUS SCNOAT 13M Ke. S0 Dowins Rhythm. O Melodic Moods. S0 Vole of Tomorrow. S :15 Symphonic Swing. JO Popular Concert. 10:00 Sunday Reveries. 11 AO American Lutheraa Church. M.-00 Sinaing String. - 1130 Naws HUights. " ' t - U:4S Sons Shop. . " - 1 AO Young People's Church. ISO Hawaiian Seronado. S AO Marimba Melodies. . : S JO Joo Reichman's Orchestra. 3.-00 Wastera Screnado. S JO Boy's Town. . . 4AO Gypsy Orchestra.' 4 JO Symphonic Swing. . 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