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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President
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Victory but When?
A commenta tor peculiarly qualified, if any
One is, to forecast the course of this war
since his employment for many months after
the last one was that of unscrambling its actual
history from the official records and to com
pare them with the limited accounts released
from day to day through the censorship, sum
med up the present outlook something like this:
The conditions in Europe this year are
wholly comparable to those existing there at
about the same season in 1918 less than five
months before the German collapse and the
armistice. He clearly inferred the strong possi
bility that this war might end before the year
Is out that is, the European phase of it.
This is the sort of thing against which we
were warned last weekend by Justice William
. O. Douglas. Similar warnings have been heard
from time to time. Americans have repeatedly
been told that this will be a' long, hard war;
that they must be prepared for greater sacri
fices, must make up their minds to grimmer
effort.
There's no question about it we had bet
ter count on a long, hard war and act accord
ingly, and be agreeably surprised if it turns
outotherwise, than vice versa.
j Well, just yesterday the axis armies crash- -ed
deep into Egypt. It seemed probable that
despite optimistic accounts from Moscow, the
enemy would take Sevastopol. German subs
are doing a lot of damage in the Atlantic. Re
ports from the Pacific war are meagre but
events in the Aleutians are not reassuring, and
China is still a hot spot. Just this morning there
doesn't seem much danger than Americans will
break out in a rash of over-confidence.
But it is interesting to recall that about
thia date in 1918, "with the help of God and
a few marines" our forces were completing the
capture of Belleau Wood. Otherwise the news
was more than a little gloomy. It had been
only a few days since the Germans with those
75-mile Big Berthas had shelled Paris. Like
wise the Huns that word was plastered aU
over The Statesman of those days had lately
launched a vicious drive toward the Belgian
coast and it was in part successful. The U-boats
were taking a heavy toll in the Atlantic. There
was scarcely a hint in June of what was to
occur in October and November. It is true that
the Austrian collapse was already visible and
there was talk of peace feelers by the Kaiser
and of his loss of prestige but not to the ex
tent of similar talk recently about Hitler.
The truth is that when suitable fighting
weather returned to Europe in the spring of
1918, the Kaiser's army seemed to have taken
on new life. There was no way of knowing that
this was to be one last, grand gamble. Not in
June. In July the Germans barged in for the
second battle of the Marne and when they were
turned back, most of the world knew the end
was in sight.
Our radio friend thinks the June, 1942,
situation is identical with that in June, 1918.
We wouldn't bet a nickel on it. But this is the
point: If he is right, the German successes, now
in the making are, militarily speaking, Hitler's
death throes. When any leader has his armies
intact but is near the end of his rope with re
spect to supplies, he is bound to make a des
perate gamble, and, that gamble is bound to
how some results.
Frankly, our friend's analogy is rather
onvincing except that in 1918 American
lighting power began to get in its licks, whereas
there is no certainty that it can do so decisively
in 1942. When we establish a second front and
make it count, the analogy will be complete.
So don't count upon victory this year.
But by the same token, don't be disheartened
by a wave of bad news. There was a lot of
bad news in 1918. Production and resources
will eventually determine the outcome. We've
got the resources and we are getting the pro
duction. We'll win. When? When we get the
chance to use them.
Irrelevancy
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, most notor
ious draft dodger of World War I, is of a
different mind now. .Be it recalled that Berg
doll, after flirting with the draft law for some
months, escaped with some aid from his moth
er's ample purse and from persons whom
money could sway, to the Germany of his an
cestors; that he returned three or four years
ago avowing he was fed up with nazism, a
claim we have no reason to dispute although
it was recognized at the time that he had some
thing in excess of a million dollars impounded
. in this country and that the only way to get
his hands on it was to return . and take his
medicine.
Now Bergdoll is in a federal prison serving
his sentence for that violation of the long ago.
In order to fight he would have to be released
and pardoned. He wants to serve in the air
corps, having done some flying prior to 1917.
. His motives are quite transparent. He won't
even get as far as the warden's office with that
fa.
i . But the odds are -that his naive request
will stir up a storm of protest; that a consid
erable fraction of the American people will
make an issue of it. Any man who was once
hero or a heel can get a, rise out of America ;
that's one of our frivolous follies. We refuse
to plead guilty to the label of shallowness some
other people hang on' us. We are shallow only
in a limited number of ways. But this is one
of the ways. , v
Pierce on Power Bill t
Make Jhis bill proof against scandals rising
out of errors in judgment or evil intentions.
Don't set up a public successor to the private
holding companies. Rep. Walter M. Pearce at -
hearing on Bone-Smith power MIL .
Though they are in the minority, some of the
rabid public power .boys around here are try-.
Ing to make it appear that thefight over the
Columbia Power Authority bill is a clean cut
pro-and-anti public power contrpversy. - Well,
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here is ultra-public-power Rep. Walt Pierce
on the stand, objecting strenuously to the one
man control idea and other provisions which
would give Harold Ickes uncontested authority
in the premises.
Pierce mentions the allocation of Grand
Coulee costs between power and reclamation.
At Bonneville, a similar allocation was made
by the federal power commission. This bill
gives Ickes the authority. The eastern Oregon
congressman also objected to making Ickes sole
and final judge of all acts of the administrator
who nominally would head the proposed CPA;
objected to the provision that while President
Roosevelt would name the administrator, Ickes
would appoint all his assistants; objected to the
loophole whereby power users might be made
to carry the load for reclamation losses; ob
jected to the fact mentioned in this column
recently, that the "revenue bonds" authorized
actually would be something else.
Careful, Walt, or you'll be labeled a tool of
Wall street!
At the "turnaround" which is the center of
recreational activity in Seaside there was, two
years ago, a novel signboard which showed di
rections and distances to China, Norway and
France then the centers of warfare. The idea
was to show graphically that Seaside was about
as remote from war as any locality possibly
could be. Though it develops that the enemy
submarine which shelled the Oregon coast last
Sunday night was probably closer to Fort Stev
ens than to Seaside, that signboard has long
since lost its original significance.
The August magazines are on the news
stands but again we ask, where is summer?
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Repro
duction in whole or In Dart strictlv orohlbited )
WASHINGTON, June 25 The house banking
and currency committee has been in a state of
stupefaction since hearing recent testimony by fed
eral reserve Chairman Eccles.
announced officially and
persistently that our gold re-
serves have nothing whatever
to do with the value of our
currency, that we are complete
ly off the gold standard..
If there was stupefaction in
congress, there must have been
conniption fits around the,treas-
ury at such a plain official sug-
gestion that the gold (and sil-
ver?) buying p6licy was a flop.
that the value of the dollar is
really only what the govern
ment says it is.
Rep. Frederick Smith, an Ohio republican, led
Mr. Eccles up to the subject, suggesting' tRat the
country is getting near fiat money; that the war
might cost $300,000,000,000; that even if the cost
only gets up to $200,000,000,000 (appropriations
already have reached $208,000,000,000) the question
of the gold reserve becomes important
"No," said Mr. Eccles. "There was a feeling
that by increasing the price of gold, you recall,
that the increase would be immediately reflected
in increasing the price of goods. Well, of course,
that, we all know, didn't work, so I say the ques
tion of the gold reserve doesn't have any rela
tionship to the stability of value of the currency."
Mr. Smith: "Either bank currency or circu
lating currency?"
Mr. Eccles: "No, I don't think so."
Mr. Smith: "What then is the fundamental
principle of the federal reserve banking act?"
Mr. Eccles: "Well, it isn't that."
Mr. Smith was obviously flabbergasted. He
pleaded:
"I don't believe you want to go on record as
saying that. I don't believe you want to do that."
Mr. Eccles: "That is right, yes I do." Then
later on: "I do deny that the amount of the gold
reserve, or the gold requirements have anything
to do with the price level, which means they have
nothing to do with the value of currency."
Mr. Smith: "Aren't you, in effect, saying there
is no relation whatever of gold in this country to
our currency?"
Mr. Eccles: "That is right"
Mr. Smith: "There is no relation whatever?"
Mr. Eccles: "That is right"
Mr. Smith: "You then take the attitude we
are completely off the gold standard?"
Mr. Eccles: "Yes, completely."
Mr. Smith: "I am rather astonished. It makes
no difference then whether we have an ounce of
gold or whether we have 700,000,000 ounces?"
Mr. Eccles: "It has made no difference to
Russia for 20 years; no difference to Germany for
a long time. Most of the countries of Europe had
to give up the idea of the' gold reserve. Their cur
rencies' have gone into managed currencies. . . .
The Russians have mined gold as a commodity
to sell to the democracies and get foods that they
wanted to get and they haven't looked upon gold
as a necessary item to support their currency."
In other words, gold is good for teeth and
for selling to Mr. Morgenthau at the arbitrarily
inflated figure of $35 an. ounce, not much other
wise. Mr. Morganthau is sitting on the world's
largest ammassed pile of it, and there is nothing
he can do with it, except to increase the problem
by buying some more from Britain or Russia,
which means giving away public" money for gold.
Thus has the cut from old ties now been offi
cially conceded for the first time by the head of
the banking system. "Mr. Eccles has merely rec
ognized the obvious effects of administration pol
icy, which any reader of this column will recall
having read from time to time for years back.
The important point Is that it is now official.
No one can be accused of being against the ad
ministration for saying the policy was a failure.
The value of currency, it appears, is not in
the hands of Mr. Eccles or Mr. Morganthau, but
in the hands of Leon Henderson. When you read
the prices of food in your grocery, you will find
out the real value of the dollar these days.
What this portends for post-war policies,
domestic and international, cannot be foretold yet,
but they are all rooted in the basic gold theory.
Certainly this seems to mark an official end
of the new deal era of grand mechanical economic
tormukks to control prices indirectly by taxation,
by the Warren theory, by gold or silver.
You've a Part in This Scrap !
iBits for Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Old justice of
8-28-42
9 the peace records
for Salem precinct
show some odd cases:
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(Continuing from yesterday.)
. There had been a case on July
30, 1874, against B. B. Brown for
the stealing of money from the
office of the Wells-Fargo ex
press company; T. C Shaw,
sheriff, making the arrest De
fendant discharged. E. A. Brey
man, C. D. Snyder and J. M.
Johns had been witnesses.
August 18, 1874, Hupert &
Wately vs. Dan Wagnon, $10.25
board bill. Paid.
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Aug. 13 there had been a case
against James Buchanan, of as
sault and battery on James Ap
pleton. It cost Buchanan $5 and
costs, amounting to $18 in all.
The same date, Paul Oberheim
had a case against H. Bessar, for
$91.50, for merchandise. There
was an affidavit to the effect
that Bessar was about to leave
the state. He was arrested and
put under bonds, Louis Westa
cott, surety. Oberheim was an
old fashioned grocer, with wet
goods in the back end of the
store, according to. the memory
of this columnist Is he right?
Westacott's bond was good.
July 29, 1875, Dan Connoy and
James Ecklen were charged with
breaking into the Wells-Fargo
express company office. Placed
in the hands of the sheriff, they
hired attorneys, and had many
witnesses denying their guilt;
were discharged as innocent.
September 7, 1874, Charles
Swegle sued the First Methodist
church of Salem on a $100 note,
and $6.46 interest. J. H. Roork
paid the note and interest and
costs in full. Roork was a fam
ous old time financial agent of
that period, for that and kin
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Feb. 1, 1874, there had been a
suit of B. L. Arnold against E.
J. Dawne, for $200 and interest
In the same period R. A. Ges
ner sued W. C. Pettyjohn on a
note.
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Feb. 4, 1875, Chang Haw sued
Lu Waw for three weeks' wash
ing at $4 a week. Chinese, of
course. In those days, the Chi
nese did most of the washing,
in Oregon; but it was not com
mon for a Chinaman to do wash
ing for a countryman.
Feb. 10, 1875, Wesley Graves
sued J. G. Holbert for the use of
a hand organ at $3 a day, for
six days.
Feb. 15, 1875, S. Friedman
sued L. Judson, in an action to
recover money. Case dismissed
on application of the plaintiff. A
mistake had evidently been
made. That name, here (the
Judson name) has been as good
as gold for well beyond 100
years; "ever since the woods
were burned."
Case of Elias Cady vs. Chas.
Lampe, Feb. 27, 1875, cutting
cord wood. Settled. The cordwood
man has had an honored profes
sion here for more than a cen
tury. S S
Next case, John Chapman vs.
Wm. Stein, action to recover
money. Tilmon Ford, attorney
for the plaintiff. $29.15 and
costs in full, $14.31. Tilmon Ford
was beginning to gain his spurs
as an attorney. He became one
of the most successful, and one
of the richest who ever practiced
In Salem.
In his will he gave each one
of about 50 of his men friends
either a $125 gold watch or a
diamond ring of the same cost,
or more, in many cases, especial
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Tilmon Ford was supposed to
have netted about $100,000 in
fees, from the cases growing out
of the famous Lake Labish rail
road wreck, the evening of Nov.
12, 1890. How many remember
it?
January 4, 1877, came a case of
M. E. Morgan vs. E. A. Thatcher.
The take was $53.60 and $6.50
costs, gold coin. (It was not un
common, in those days, to spe
cify gold coin. There are more
highly preferred kinds of ex
change in these days. A green
back or bank check, for in
stance.) S
January 30, 1877, Leo Willis
sued D. Schwartz for $45 and
costs. Mr. Willis was a promi
nent Salemite of those days; for
a long time he had charge of the
Reed opera house; the building
that is the present Miller store
building. Col. Percy Willis, Port
land and Salem, is a son.
Feb. 14, 1877, Sidney Brodie
sued George Collins for $33.88,
principal and interest. Mr. Col
lins was afterward superintend
ent of the Oregon state peniten
tiary. He held that office at the
time of one of the greatest
breaks for freedom there, when
he was seized and held between
the escaping prisoners and
the armed guards in order to
shield them against shots.
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Sept 3, 1877, T. B. Wait sued
C. Baltimore; then moved to
dismiss; dismissed. Wait was a
popular and well known old
time Salemite.
Perry Watson sued J. U. and
B. Smith, Sept 3, 1877; then
asked that the case be dismissed,
which was done.
(Continued tomorrow.)
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By KEBIOE L. SIMPSON
Wide World War Analyst
The British army disaster In
the middle east formed a som
ber backdrop for the Roosevelt
Churchill reassurances to con
gressional leaders as to war
trends.
The British prime minister's
reported insistence that Egypt,
and presumably British domina
tion of the eastern Mediterran
ean, are in no immediate dan
ger must be accepted with reser
vations, lacking the factual data
on which it was based. That
data constitutes jealously guard
ed military information is so
far as it portrays British tac
tical or strategic dispositions and
resources in Egypt, or United
Nation counter moves.
However, Churchill's confi
dence as to Egypt's security, de
spite a further swift advance of
50 miles or more by axis forces
across the Libyan border, is dis
tinctly heartening. It indicates
that General Auchinleck, Brit
ish commander-in-chief in
Egypt, has effected an orderly
withdrawal from Libyan-Egyptian
border postition- ana that
his armies have not again been
encircled.
Once the British defense line
in eastern Libya broke to ex
pose Tobruk to the thunderous
and successful mass assault by
Rommel's forces, Auchinleck was
forced to choose a line on which
Random IKIarvest
By JAMES HILTON
Chapter 2 Continued
"Since you ask me, may I be
perfectly frank?"
"Of course."
"I don't know what your work
is, but Isn't it possible you've
been overdoing things lately
not enough rest relaxation?"
"I don't need a psychoanalyst
to tell me that. My doctor does
every time I see him.
Then why not take his ad
vice?" "This is why." He pulled a
small notebook from his vest
pocket. "I happen to be in what
is vaguely called public life
which means I'm on a sort of
treadmill I can't get off until
it stops and it won't stop."
He turned over the pages. "Just
to show you a sample day
of my existence. . . . Here, you
can read it it's typed." He
added, as I took the book: "My
secretary very neat. She
wouldn't let me forget any
thing." "But she can't spell 'arch
aeological'." "Why does she have to?" He
snatched the book back for
scrutiny and I had the feeling he
was glad of the excuse to do so
and keep it. "Calderbury Arch
aelogical and Historical Society?
Oh! they're my constituents I
have to show them around the
House guidebook stuff an
awful bore . . . that's this after
noon. This evening I have an
Embassy reception; then tomor
row there's a board meeting, a
lunch party, and in the evening
I'm guest speaker at a dinner In
Cambridge."
"Doesn't look as if there's any
thing you could cut except pos
sibly tomorrow's lunch."
"I expect IH do that anyway
even though it's at my own
house. There'll be a crowd of
novelists and actors and titled
people who'd think me surly be
cause I wouldn't talk to them
half as freely as I'm talking to
you now."
I could believe it So far he
had made no move towards an
exchange of names between us,
and I guessed that, on his, side
the anonymity had been not
only an encouragement to talk,
but a temptation to reveal him
self almost to the point of self
exhibition. And there had been
a certain impish way he had al
lowed me to glance at his en
gagement book for Just those
few seconds, as If teasing me
with clues to an Identity he had
neither wish nor Intention to
disclose. Men irv whom reticence
Is a part of good form have fan
tastic ways of occasional escape,
and I should have been the last
tea embarras an interesting fel
low traveler had he added, as
the train began braking into St.
Pancras: "Well it's been a pleas
ant chat "Some day, who knows?
we might run into each other
again." J
Spoken as if he sincerely
half meant it, the remark merely
emphasized the other half sense
in which he did not mean it at
all; and this, because I already
liked him, irked me to reply:
"If it'i the oWithin V-leaner
tomorrow night we may as well
introduce ourselves now as then,
because til be there too. My
names Harrison. I'm on the rec
eption Committee.'
"Oh, really?"
And I dont know what your
plans are, but after the show Yd
, be delighted if you'd come up to
. my rooens and haye some coiiea."
TTherfcs, be muttered with
to make a stand-and-Cght de
fense of Egypt, Alexandria and
the Suez canaL The speed with
which border strong points were
evacuated and retreat on a wide
sector was accomplisher indi
cates it was planned well in
advance, possibly even before
Tobruk fell.
The British gained several im
portant advantages by such a
withdrawal. Not , the least of
them is time to reorganize the
battered eighth- army and -to
bring up men and equipment It
takes prompt, advantage also of
shortening British and length
ening axis supply lines as well
as of a shortening front in prep
aration for a crucial and deci
sive dash.
It also invites the immediate
active help of Egypt's 150,000-British-schooled
troops now that
their country has been invaded.
Those troops are inured by heri
tage and training to desert war
fare. They could prove of vital
value. ...
Appointment of an army tank
veteran. General Eisenhower, al
ready at his post in London, to
command of an American thea
tre of operations in Europe hints
again at early second-front
moves. That they can develop
soon enough or on a scale to
affect the situation in Egypt
seems doubtful. Some other
Anglo-American move must also
be hatching to limit or remove '
the threat to Alexandria.
sudden glumness, gathering up
his newspapers and brief case.
Then I svppose he realized it
would be pointless as well as
discourteous, to rpfuse trip name
which I should inevitably dis
cover so soon. He saved it for a
last unsmiling afterthought as he
jumped to the platform. "My
names Rainier . . . Charles Rain
ier." Rainier nodded rather coldly
when I met him again the fol
lowing day. In his evening
clothes and with an impressive
array of .decorations he looked
what he was a guest of honor
about to perform his duties with
the touch of apathy that so ef
dectively disguises the British
technique of authority. Not nec
essarily an artistic technique. I
had already looked him up in
reference books and found that
he was the son of a longist line
of manufacturers no blue blood,
no title (I wondered how he had
evaded that), a public school of
the second rank, parliamentary
membership for a safe conserva
tive county. I had also men
tioned his name to a few people
I knew; the general impression
was that he was rich and influ
ential, and that I was lucky to
have made such a chance en
counter. He did not, however,
belong to the small group of
well-known personalities recog
nizable by the man-in-the-street
either in the flesh or in low car
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Today's Garden
By f. II J. IK L. MADEN
Numerous letters describing
all the diseases and insects ever
bothering roses are arriving
weekly. Spraying or dusting are
the only answers. Choose your
own method but do It methodi
cally. A little spraying of this
kind today, another kind next
week and nothing for a couple
of weeks thereafter, is not very
beneficial.
Spray every ten days or two
weeks. 1 know of one person
who says she has sprayed every
other Thursday, rain or shine,
this year. Says if she doesn't do
it that way she doesn't do it at
all
That might work out for some
but it seems rather a waste
of materials if the Thursday
happens to be rainy throughout
The spray or dust material
should be on the foliage at least
a few hours before being wash
ed off if it is to be effective.
For aphids, use Black Leaf
40; for chewing insects, a stom
ach poison, and for diseases,
Bordeaux or sulphur dust But
there are combination sprays
which will answer all purposes
at once. The stores which han
dle seed supplies usually han
dle the various; sprays.
Every time you go out and
gaze at your roses, take a paper
bag or some other little con
tainer along Into which you can
dump yellowed leaves, crawling
things, bits of withered twigs
which may; contain insect eggs
and the like. Burn the bag
when you come into the house
or reach your outdoor fireplace.
An outdoor fireplace Is cer
tainly one grand big dust pan
for the garden but don't dump
just everything into it and leave
it for a week or two. Things will
crawl out again and diseased
leaves will be carried about by
the nexjt breeze. 1 ,