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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
i CHARLES A. SFRAGUE President
: Member of The Associated Press
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
newt dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Air Power !
' The United States, knowing about the capaci?
fjr of modern air forces and being so vulnerable
- to attack over the land and water, pays little
- attention to its national defense. It still listens
to the advice of its regular army and navy as
to what national defense should be. Never
has worse advice been given by any depart-
ment of the government on broad national
' . , luestions than that which has been giyen since,
! the World war by the army and navy to the
people and the congress. They not only are at
tempting to adhere to a system obsolete even in
our Civil war, but they have directly and de-
' libera tely misrepresented the facts to the con
' gress and to the people as to what modern
. national defense is. Col. William Mitchell,
Aero Digest, 1926.
j Two ancient biplanes with speed of only 100
miles an hour, operated by RAF pilots, were
observed by the lone American newsman re
maining on Singapore island Wednesday night.
fcThese rickety "wildbeasts" loosed their bombs
upon the invaders and then passed from Corre
spondent McDaniel's view. He didn't concede
them much chance of returning to their bases.
They were the only allied planes in action, so
, far as he could observe.
Resistance on the part of British Empire
troops in Singapore was still stubborn up to
Thursday night and the Singapore radio still
insisted "We are going to win," but it reminded
us somehow of Warsaw and its radio at a time
more than two years ago. Singapore appears
' doomed. '
That Singapore might fall, we haye known for
two months. That it might fall so abruptly after
the enemy's arrival at the Strait of Johbre, few
citizens of the United Nations had any idea.
That is the real shock. Most observers, well
informed and otherwise, blame chiefly the lack
of air defense. Paul Mallon in his column to
day offers other explanations and draws broad
, and pertinent conclusions which we have no de
sire to refute. His viewpoint whether fully jus
tified or not, is the one upon which our war
effort should henceforth be based. We have
been overconfident; now it won't hurt us to be
over-anxious.
t But for the moment let's talk about air pow
er. Billy Mitchell scolded the army and navy
brass hats in the '20s for their failure to recog
nize the existing and impending importance of
air power. They needed the scolding. They
court-martialed Mitchell for it. The public
sided with Mitchell. It is important to note that
because-the existing services were headed by
; non-air-minded men, Mitchell thought adequ
ate air power could be achieved only through
creation of a separate air service. When
c Mitchell's name is brought up in congress to
X day, usually it is in connection with that issue.
To save Singapore the British, who have a
-. separate air service, didn't have enough planes;
the Americans and the Dutch, differently or
ganized, didn't have planes to send over and
help the RAF. You can't solve that issue by
i pointing to Singapore. Only twice in this war
; has Britain had enough planes for the task in
i - i . .1 l in . t- s a n -
ncuiu, m uie uame ui oniani una temporarily a
few weeks ago in Africa.
The truth is that Germany listened more re
spectfully to Billy Mitchell than did anybody
else. ,Xhe Germans prepared for air warfare as
for the other kinds. They did organize a sepa
ls rate air corps but unlike the British, they ar
: ranged for ' adequate coordination between it
and the other services. The two necessities are,
, the creation of an adequate air force which
h. implies intelligent development and efficient
training, and coordination with the other armed
' services in battle. We are inclined to the opinion
' that this analysis suggests the solution; a sepa-
rate air force for training only; incorporation
, into army and navy for combat purposes,
t There is no use now in bemoaning past blind -
j ness. It is true that right up to the outbreak
oi war, even resident rloosevelt was infected
thereby; personally disparaged air power and
' insisted upon promotiing old-line navy men
; who-resisted these new ideas, to positions of
i command.
- ' Now, we trust, the nation and all those in
authority are educated. Notice the most recent
: breakdown of appropriations: For airplanes and
;, engines, 29 billion dollars; for tanks, guns, am-
munition, 24 billion; for naval vessels, less than
11 billion; Too many of the planes those bil
, lions will provide are only on paper, but pro
duction is speeding up. '
' Perhaps it's fortunate after all that air power
is to be so decisive. Though we find it necessary
to discount most other previous estimates, there
still is justification for our faith that in the item
' of airplanes we can overwhelmingly outbuild
; Japan, or . both Japan and Germany. James
' R Young testifies that in comparison to our
390,000 persons, now employed in the aircraft
industry, Japan has only 10,000 including wom
en and untrained children. In the materials,
aluminum and steel, we certainly have all the
advantage. i
, Now that we know what it takes to win
t modern wars, we are in fair position to catch
I up. We win need bases from which to operate.
Perhaps we can start moving in from New Zea-
- land, where a convoy has recently arrived.
Socialization
Europeans in Singapore, the dispatches said
early this week, held their usual tea dance- at
the Raffles hotel and there was a queue in front
of a nearby theatre where Joel McCrea and
Ellen Drew were starring in a movie. Whether
it was bravado or dumb complacency one may
not know, and perhaps it doesn't matter. Prob
ably by this time the tea dances have been
called off.
Likewise here in the Pacific Northwest the
public power promotion continues in . disre
gard of the needj for war industry, of all avail
able power. Paul Raver continues to negotiate
for the financing of a big "cooperative, to take
over all the private : companies, ignoring .the
fact that the money must come from. Wall street, ;
the investor: will have a tigSit hold on the
project and if we don't watch out they'll be
' running the business here again in much the
same fashion they did ia 1929.
But like the Singapore tea-dancers, well be
"No Favor Sway Vt; No Fear Shall Awf
Tram flirt Statesman. March 28. 1831
forced to recognize sooner or later that a war
goes on. Already there is evidence that Wall
Street knows the northwest is in a war 2one;
they're not likely to invest the huge sums in
volved in view of the chance, however remote,
that Bonneville may be blown up and other fa
cilities wrecked.
War may have its blessings, after all.
If the decision were up to congress, we would
really have a chance to keep that aluminum
plant at Fairview,' Oregon. Congress would
never move it to Spokane after what some Spo
kane "bundleers" did to congress.
At long last we Jiave evidence that someone
in Washington, DC, knows there is a war on,
and a paper shortage. The Congressional
Record can't be condensed but they did. cut
down the dimensions of the mailing wrapper.
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON ' '
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 2 The shocking speed
with which Singapore collapsed is hard to explain.
It looks like the British were tricked into making
the wrong preparations. They had expected a long
A,,. ....
Paul Man)
"To see ourselves as others see us" para
phrasing Burns not too precisely is a privilege
seldom long denied to newspaper editors. It'a
helpful but sometimes discouraging even be
wildering. Here we have practically stood on
our head every day to attract attention; and
the Eugene Register-Guard refers to the "al
ways decorous Statesman."
siege or a Jap by-passing on
the bastion. Instead they were
outwitted by a smashing blitz
so cleverly conceived and so
swiftly executed that the Japs
must have been working on it
for years.
The British had no sooner
blasted the causeway from the
mainland and settled back on a
seventy-mile circle of defenses
than the surprises started. Five
days after the Japs arrived on
the opposite shore they opened
one of the most terrific artillery
bombardments seen in this war
anywhere. How they got so many big guns up
through the jungle and into position with such
speed, no one yet knows.
The counter batteries set up by the British (their
big guns had long been faced the other way to
meet attack by sea) wefe wholly inadequate. For
two days (February 3 and 6) the roads and com
munications of the island were blasted by a
continuous hail of shells one remote road in par
ticular as it turned out later.
The Japs then executed a colossal feint They
encouraged the British to believe they intended to
storm the island by direct assault, and seized Ubin
island (February 7) off the northeast tip, in ob
vious conformance with the purpose.
The shelling and dive bombing increased next
day and the British began to notice "menacing
troop movements in the rear of the Jap positions"
but they were wholly unprepared to meet the as
sault which came that night across Johore straits at
the opposite end of Singapore the remote, north
western marshy section, where attack was most
difficult, where the British thought the marshes
protected them, where they were least ready to
meet strength.
The Japs had trained troops to get through
those particular marshes at that particular time.
This was apparent from the efficiency with which
they went about their business, and from their
equipment which included steel boats, armored
sufficiently to withstand machine-gun fire. (How
they brought up these so quickly is another un
answered question.)
Only two side roads lead out to this marshy
section, and when the blow fell, (if not before)
the British discovered that the shelling and dive
bombing of the previous days had been aimed at .-
these roads more than any others. British com
munications from their main forces in the center
were therefore difficult.
Within a few hours, a never-ending stream of.
Japs had slipped in the marshy backdoor to Singa
pore and established a front ten miles long.
With no air force to protect the British troops
against machine gunning from above and the'
continuous shelling .from the big Jap guns, the
British were doomed from that hour.
These tactics show how long and well the Japs -had
prepared for this war. Like the Hitler generals
who spent years in detecting and planning to ex
ploit the defect they discovered in the Maginot line,
the Jap general staff worked out the weakness of
"impregnable" Singapore, and marshaled the neces
sary force and material to penetrate it
From the event of Pearl Harbor to Singapore you
can see now the painstaking finesse in 10 or 20
years or more of work well screened behind
broken naval treaties, and lately behind an as
sumed position of weakness in China. They let the
world believe for the last three years that they
had lost the Chinese war. They played weak and
poverty stricken while they trained troops in spe
cific detail for a greater conquest
Their statesmen talked peaceful intentions, while
their military 'got the scrap iron and oil from us
and others to .build the vast machinery of con
quest swarms of ships, tanks, planes, big funs.
They edged peacefully into Formosa, then into In-do-China
and then they were ready to strike.
First they had to immobilize our fleet by a
treacherous timing . of war action and a specially
designed " attack n Pearl - Harbor. . Then they
unveiled their especially trained forces and.,
equipment to penetrate, the Malayan Jungle, the
rice fields and all the natural "impregnable' de
fenses ot SMitpore. ' - -
Finally Caey show up with Just the right 'ar- .
tillery, just the right boats. Just the right scheme
to seize the British bastion. And they are march
ing on to new surprises.
Can anyone now . doubt what this war is about?
Do these circumstances not prove that this Is more
than "axis aggression" or a belligerent search for
' raw materials, or the usual political war? Has it
not how disclosed itself to be, as far as we are con
cerned, the long awaited war to conquer i western
civilization, in which all questions narrow down to
the single one of whether, we can survive or they?
' 1 Can anyone now remain apathetic to the dan
" ger confronting us? S - ; .
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Will This Be the Next Sub Victirn in Home Waters?
Eiifts for ISireaEtirast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
2-13-42
"We shall win this war and
in victory we shall not seek
vengeance but the establishment
of international order," hoped:
W
(Concluding from yesterday:)
Quoting further McGroarty, Cal
ifornia's poet laureate:
"It is among the strangest
things in life that a nation
strong enough to win a war
against another nation should be
blind enough not to realize that
by the exercise of revenge it
turns its own sword against it
self for its own ultimate de
struction. . W i
"Even though President -Boo-
Today's Garden
By ULLTE L. MADSEN
A.R. asks if I can tell her any
thing about the -climbing fig
sometimes used for house plants.
Answer: This climbing," or
creeping fig (ficus repens) is one
of the best climbers for covering
conservatory walls and it is
sometimes used in hangipg bas
kets. The vine clings closely and
makes a dense mat of foliage
which is colored about like the
English ivy. It is not new and,
BaOly tells us, has been in cul
tivation since 1771.
Only once in a long while will
it fruit in a conservatory or in
door planting. The leaves are
. less than an inch long and heart
shaped, making it a very attrac
tive vine. The leaves of fruiting
branches sometimes reach al
most three inches in length. It
is native to Japan, China and
Australia.
' A.R. also wants to know about
the wax plant. This, too, is an
old time house vine which will
reach seven or eight feet if per
mitted. It has white flowers with
pink centers and is rather fra
grant The. plant is started in late
, winter or early spring. It comes
into bloom in summer. After it
has bloomed keep the plant in a
cool place where it will remain
half-dormant until late winter.
- It suffers somewhat from mealy
bug if it is kept in a too hot,
dry a place. Spray it frequently
with water.
Your Federal Income Tax
BAD DEBTS YEAR TS
WHICH DEDUCTIBLE
Worthless debts arising from
unpaid wages, salaries, rents,
and similar items ot taxable in
come are not allowable deduc
tions unless the income such
items represent has been in
cluded in income for 1941 or a
prior taxable year.
To be allowed as a deduction
from gross income,, a bad debt
must have , bees determined by
the taxpayer to be worthless
within the taxable year for
which it is claimed and, where
books are kept, it also must
have been charged off within
the same. year. The necessity
for this provision is obvious. If
a debt could be deducted with
out the requirement that it be
charged off '.the taxpayer's
books,' the certainty -f Its
worthlessness would be open to
question, "Keither the ( taxpayer
nor the government could - be
certain that a debt would not
be claimed more than once.
If a debt were allowed as a
deduction without, regard to the
year when it became worthless,
. such charges could be accumu
lated to be deducted in a yesr --when
there was a large Income."
; The burden Is upon the tax :
sevelt still should not be the
occupant of the White House
when this war is won, yet it is
he alone who should sit at the
peace table to represent our
country.
"At the peace table he will
be surrrounded by victors
breathing hate and vengeance
against the conquered enemy.
They will demand the death
sentence an eye for an eye and
a tooth for a tooth. The charity,
the forgiveness and the divine
wisdom of Christ will not affect
or influence them. They will
look across the peace table with
hatred blazing in their eyes and
vengeance breathing from their
lips at the foes they have con
quered. They will offer the con
quered nothing but destruction
and death.
S m
"Yet, if Franklin D. Roosevelt
be there, as God grant he may,
there will be a spokesman for
the Wandered of Galilee Who in
the agony of that cruel cross on
which He was slain forgave His
enemies. 'Father, forgive them;
for they know not what they do,
He said.
"In His love for mankind this
was the prayer of the divine Son
of God to His Father in Heaven.
Who that breathes a lesser
prayer can call himself Chris
tian? "That the war will be won by
the democracies there now can
be scarcely a doubt There is
ample evidence that Hitler's
great war machine is crumbling.
There is equal evidence that Ja
pan cannot stand up against the
mighty forces allied against her
at sea, on land and in the air.
Mussolini and Italy need hardly
be taken into consideration, one
way or another.
"The end may not come to
morrow or the day after. The
fight may have to be made for
another year, or for two or
three : years more. But, be that
as it may, Hitler is doomed and
Japan is doomed. The twilight
of defeat for them already is
discernible.
S
"Doubtless stern justice must
payer to show that a debt claim
ed as a deduction was without .
value during the taxable year.
A statement should be attached
to the return showing the pro
priety of any deduction for bad
debts, If in the exercise of sound
business Judgment , a . taxpayer
concludes, after making every
reasonable effort to determine
whether there is likelihood of
recovery, that the debt is of no
value, deduction for. such debt
is allowable. Court action as
, proof that the debt is worthless
Is not essential.
It is optional with the' tax
payer, in a year prior to that
. in which a debt becomes wholly
. worthless, to take . a deduction
for partial loss if partial worth
lessness occurs. .
The provisions of the internal
revenue code with respect to "
bad-debt : and partial bad-debt
deductions are not applicable to
a taxpayer, other than a bank
as defined by the act, where
the debt is evidenced by bonds,
debentures, notes, or certificates,
or other evidences of indebted
ness, issued by any corporation
(including those issued by a
government or political subdivi
sion thereof) with interest cou
pons or in registered form.-.
be meted out to these and other
war-mongers, but there should
be pity for their, people whom
they have made their victims
and whom they led blindly to
suffering and death. This is
Franklin Roosevelt's idea and
it is the stand which Christ will
want him to take.
"The people of the Axis pow
ers at last conquered and beat
en' will be set to receive an
impact of revenge which always
has been the rule when wars
were ended. If they shall be
offered a chance still to live, to
reform, to be penitent and dis
illusioned it will be something
new. There will be gratitude in
their hearts."
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By PETER MUIR
Chapter Coatiaaed
He was a f ood pai,jind all that,
yet not what she wished for a
- husband, especially now that she t
knew David. Of cdurae Phil
would simply adore him. She
was aware of her; brothWa. '
weakness for heroes.
Her father and mother could
not help liking the American if :
they knew him, only there was
that foolish, old-fashioned bus-
- iness of titles. They had set their
hearts on having a son-in-law
who would sit in the Bouse of
Lords, and all that sort of rot
Wendy couldnt help looking on
it as rot at a time like the pres-
. ent The only things that were
worth while now were liberty
and freedom. They must be con
served at any cost, and certainly
David wis doing more than his .
part to rtef end them!
Chapter It "
The train rolled into London
accompanied by the wail of
Moana. (those banshees, the air
raid sirens) signalling an attack.'
A major from the general staff
looked out of the: window and
remarked casually, Tnere they .
o. I dont think they'll be over
us. The archies are driving them
back." ,r h
Archies, Wendy mused. Why
were the anti-aircraft guns
called archies? English slang was
fun, though sometimes rather
pointless. In the direction indi
cated by the major she could see
dark specks hurrying along in
groups, and all about them tiny
white puffs as shells from the
ground burst. The , noise of bat
tle not not reach her ears over
the rumbling of the train, and
soon the planes disappeared to
the south and Clara (the all
clear signal) sounded.
Back at Watford nothing had
changed during Wendy's short
absence. Ten of the ambulances
had gone into London during the
night to evacuate wounded, and
there had been a few trips from
this hospital to thai for transfers.
One of the girls had had a nar
row escape from a bomb on the
outskirts of London. Her car had
been covered with debris, but
the section leader, Miss Florence
GUI, said that things had been
comparatively calm. For the mo
ment there was nothing Wendy
could do, except wait for calls.
And, of course, her ambulance
probably would be sent into the
capital again that night Till
then it was best to take it easy,
get some rest if possible.
Rest was the last thing that
Wendy wanted. She retired to
her room and sat down to write
Philip a letter. When she once
made up her mind to do some-
thing she did. it, and she had
made up her mind, tc know Da
vid better. Why wait? Days and
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nights were precious things that
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in war. Despite her youth sb
realized that time was some
thing not to be wasted, that it b
the most valuable thing we mor
tals possess.
Phil Darling," she began. 3
want you to bring " She tore
this up,.1 and started another.
"Dearest Phil: Will you please
ask " Nor would this do. They
seemed to her too awkward and
straight to the point Try as she
would she could think of nothing
more subtle. Subtlety was not
one of her traits and she gave
it up." Wen," she said. "Why
not be awkward and straight to
the point? For a third time she
began the letter, v f
"Phil. Old Dear Please bring
David Hutchinson down to . see
us as soonas you can. I want to
know him better. Cherrio! Yours,
Wen." She read this over and
seemed satisfied. "There. No one
can say that I am beating
around the bush." "
She sealed the letter, address
ed to the RAF headquarters, and
personally carried it to the post
office. . - .
The ambulances were not sent
out until morning. A little after
five o'clock. ' Miss GDI woke up
the drivers. "London has had a
very bad raid," she said. "I've
just had a call for all available
cars. Comb the streets and, when
you have as many wounded as
you can carry, take them to St
Albans Hospital or bring them,
here for first aid. Split up when
you get in town, run from here
in convoy at one hundred yard
intervals. Ill go in Car No. 1
Hurry!"
It was still dark when the
convoy passed out into, the cold
morning and strung along the
road as instructed. Despite the
fact that they were running
without lightsT the convoy held
a good pace and progressed" rap
idly. Long before reaching London
proper, Wendy could see the
glow from freshly lit fires and
flashes from the archies. Now
and again she could hear them
rumbling off in the distance
when the wind was from the
right dire: 'Jon. Enemy bombers
must still be attacking, but soon
daylight would come and the
pursuit planes of the RAF would
chase the nazis back across the
channel. She wondered if Hutch
and her brother r would be up
fighting somewhere in the sky
above her. The thought made
cold sweat stand out on her
forehead. If she saw an English
plane shot down she would feel
sure that it was David oi Phil.
7 To be continued) '
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