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From first SUiesman, March 23, 1351 ; - - ;
TIIE STATESMAN PUBUSHINC CO. ; V
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. President"
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news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited tn thi newspaper.
Age of Conquerors
Chronological data indicating that at least
290 years of warfare marked- the ; 400-year
period immediately preceding the Christian
era, were offered in this column some days
ago. "Give us a few days," we asked in promis
ing to probe the early centuries of the Chris
tian era for tike statistics. . j " '
Well, we have them- but now we know why
historians and students of the problem of war
ha ve shied away from the task.. The results
were, as we warned at the time, obviously in
accurate for the period of Greek and Roman
ascendancy, since -only the bigger wars in which
i those more civilized peoples engaged, drew
their historians' attention- But for the "dark
ages'' which followed, the record is hopelessly
' confused.
Even so our "minimum" figure is impressive
enough. In the first 700 years AD, there were
wars of sufficient - importance to be recorded,
accounting for at least 484 years of strife. -But
actually, we -doubt if the. world in those 700
'years ever had a wholly peaceful year.
' The period opened with the "Pax Romana"
nevertheless the: Romans under Tiberius,
Germanicus, Claudius, Agricola, Trajan and
Hadrian were almost constantly, fighting some
where to keep the "pax." Take a, look at con
ditions in the British Isles. Periodically there
. were insurrections by the Britons against their
Roman rulers; and if occasionally they were
docile, take note that the Scots never were.
And as long as the Romans-had it in mind to
tame them but never did-ver a 250ryear pe
riodit isn't exactly right to call that "peace."
Moreover, when Roman control of Britain prop
er relaxed, the Soots would invade; and after
that the Angles and Saxons and later the North
men.7 Those scrappy folk likewise were busy
on the continent. 'V'i
The Goths started marching about 249 AD
and were still troublesome more' than 300 years
later; any moments of peaceift the interim were
purely accidental. The Franks, Heruli and such
.minor tribes at the Suevi and Alani likswise
1 were busy in the .same period the Huns started
around 375 to harass the decaying empire for
a couple of centuries and the Vandals, who
were even more of a headache for so . called
civilization, were light behind them. Nor can
we afford to overlook the Lombards. The Per
sians flared up fter several centuries of .some
thing like peace, to keep history popping erly
In the -seventh century' until the Saracens were
ready to take over for more than 300 'years,
running far-beyond the period we have been
considering. So what room b there to insert
a decade, much less a generation of peace? '
But the striking thing about those 700 years
is the -succession of names conquerors' names.
Picking up after the handful of Romans wt
. have already mentioned, you encounter Sapor
and Chosroes, the Persians; Aurelian, Carus,
- Maximus, Narses and,. Belisarius, late Roman
leaders; and the barbarians Alaric, Genseric,
Attila, Odoacar, Clovis, Theodoric, Totila. It
doesn't .take long to name over the list but',
the years of warfare fori which they are re-
- sponsible add up to a lot of killing and plun
dering. Genseric -started young and made trou
ble for half a century; Chosroes rivaled him by
: engaging in strife throughout most of 39 years.
Attila possibly has a greater reputation for
slaughter but he was through after 20 years.
That was the age of conquerors. But if in
- attacking the problem of war you toy with the
; idea of killing off in youth all prospective con
querors you encounter insurmountable -prob-
r lemsv Conquerors likewise are troublesome today-
but how cam you recognize them before
they become too. powerful to destroy? -
Chances are it will be a lot simpler, though
it : may not appear so when you first con-
" sider it, to educate the dull-witted chumps who
become the;' followers and cannon-fodder of
conquerors. - - . -,
5 - Queen Wilhelniina and Mrs. . FDR, touring
; the White 'House' grounds, -encountered some
children having a party, and, since they were
playing house," dressed as nearly like adults as
possible. They were the well-mannered chil
dren of high government officials so the inter
view went off welL But when the children left'
the royal presence, only one little girl walked
backward which s you may know, is the proper
thing lo do. The ' First Lady's ' subsequent in
vestigation disclosed however that this : little
girl really wasn't more polite than the rest. She
: walked that .way for approximately the iame
reason, that you or.you might walk backward in
leaving any gathering or group
A Detroit -war industry worker was wdered ,
off .thojob by a-CI(X shop steward because
due 4oa lifekKrg resolution o buy nothing on
credit lie had refused to participate in a pay- 1
rolf -deduction war ; bond -purchase program,
though he had bought $1050 worth of 'bonds
for cash. fAs we - tmderstand iV the - tangle is .
being-uOtangled nd the worker- is back n the
job. -Cut .the -resentment may have been. in.
pire4?by -uiltjr realization that hi lifetime
habit 'Was acebedce. not only to many fellow
workers but -to 4ui improvident national gov
ernment. If , we hadn't ) spent . billions with no
visible return-in the last decade, financing; the
-war would be no such struggle as it is now
becoming. . " " ' '. .. . t::-:,'t:i : .
Some authorities,, disagreeing wiUi Van view
that Japanese Foreign Minister Togo's resigna
tion was an event preparatory to invasion of
. Siberia, suggest that Togo uit voluntarily,
though in a miff, because a new ministry being
created to rule occupied territory was .going,
to take over some f his powers, arid personnel.
VTe doal tmderstani the Japanese; so much we
are quick to confess. And we'll confess further
that the Llea of a voluntary, resignation had not
occurred to us. Such an event Is" rare, or v'
here. But from what we do know of the Nipv
it doesnt seem -likely that voluntary resigna
tior.3 erexmon - the points of difference' be
t.vc : '', :ra tzl us. :"- ' ' .;:'v:f: ,
period, when
By , PAUL
raat
of people. . -
"Freezing" the Workers ,
Reference is not to. the fuel shortage serious
as it is, and timely in yiew of the. fuel need sign
up which is not attracting the attention it de
serves but to the regulations which will estop
workers Lin certain industries,' notably here
lumber production, from moving freely from,
.job to job. It is. a far. cry from the CiviT war
hot merely workers but actually -
soldiers walked away from their assigned posts ,
and enlisted all over again for reasons pecuni- '
ary. , ' V .
. Here again as in the case-of the president's
farm price control proposals but in a much
more personal' way in so far as the workers
involved are concerned this is a matter of
temporary regimentation. Again the desirabili
ty of the objective is plain; again the necessity
, is regrettable. ' ' -
Fortunately for the sake of freedom in ,
. principle, the compulsion is indirect. To date
there is actually no visible means of forcing
men to stay on their jobs; the device, is pro
hibition of their acceptance on. other jobs.
4 Prospective employers are, in turn, to be per-'
suaded by indirect means not to accept them; '
loss of contracts or priorities, and the like. The
obvious effectiveness of such means causes still'
another shiver of apprehension about the se
curity of our freedoms.
But there just is nothing one may effectively
do for their preservation now other than to in
sist that the incursions must be obviously neces
sary. Beyond that, well just have to take it on -faith
that the surrender of freedoms is only '
temporary.
News Behind
the News
MALLON
dlfltrlbattaa- by lOnf futum ydlct, bie. ftepre
duct ion tn who1. r ta part ttrtcUy prohibited.)
' WASHINGTON Sept 9 The smart Marshal
Rommel got his nose caught in his own tank treads
at El Himeimat He was outwitted by a new adapta
tion of an old trick he played on us.
' The drive he started at the southern tip of that
31-mile British line was the
opening maneuver of a full
scale offensive. He marshaled
one-third of bis entire force
against what he thought was
the weakest point of the Brit
ish line; at least it was farthest
from the -shore railroad, and
without any direct road back
to the Alexandria base.
With skill he pushed Ms
tanks through eight miles of
British mine fields mat lay out
in front of their defensive post-;
tions, like a protective explos
ive apron. Mines, of course,
are not visible to the eye, and the British could not
plant them as thick as carrots, a foot apart, but
they had the field -securely sprinkled.
' The trick by which Rommel got through, was to
. spray all suspected spots with artillery and gun
- fire to explode the mines, and bis tanks thereupon
coasted safely over the pock-marked territory.
This brought him up against the allied defense
line, intact and ready for battle. He found the
line was not a series of trenches, but the usual
defensive poEtions in depth, with machine gun
pill boxes rand artillery positions--much artillery,
more than he had seen before. - v
Rommel had brought- along his magnificent 88
mm. guns,: the big mobile cannon, which served
him so effectively against our tanks in Auchinloss'
near-disaster at Rezegh, before the fall of Tobruk,
Our General Grants and the British tanks were
supposed to come out to do battle with his tanks
in another open field conflict of the mechanized
mastodons, .whereupon Rommel would again un
leash his 68s and make scrap metal of them. -
The British need only one lesson. They kept their
tanks safe inside their lines this time. Instead, they
leveled their artillery at the German tanks, and
called up dive bombers, as well as fist fighting pur
suit planes (hard to hit) carrying small : bombs.
These went after the nazi tanks with great fury,
In excellent clear weather. (A sand storm hindered
operations only the first day.)
Rommel - persisted in his position for several
days, but he never got ' into the British lines.
Wendell Winkle (who put more past the Egyptian
censors than the correspondents) says 100 of Rom
mel's 270 first-line tanks were crushed and ruined.
General Alexander then switched his bombers to
the nazi lines of gasoline supplies, which rambled
far back through the desert- After these had been
pounded for several, days, and much German gaso-
line destroyed, Rommel was forced to retire, be-,
cause of a shortage of fuel. - Berlin explained
away his ' misadventure as "a reconnaissance In
force.: I . r .- - - ; : .-.
' There can be no doubt from the size of the force,,
and the way Rommel used it, this was a big size
drive to break the British lines. It was the opening .
of a major offensive that did not fully materialize,
because the first move failed. -
And it failed, not only because we had mora
bombing power than his limited plane force could,
cope with-(Hitler drew in practically -everything:
in the air for . the Bu&ian drive), but because '
General Alexander fought his superior airpower.
wiuvskill matching Rommel's generalship. -
tThis should keep. Mr.. Rommel quiet for an in
definite period. lie will probably need more tanks
and, gasoline before starting anything very important-
x
On the other band, his losses may not have been
sufficient to encourage the British to launch an of
fensive, especially as they now occupy a short com
pact battle position, better than the desert in front
of them offers Rommel, and with excellent short
roads back to their base.
At any rate, you can score the latest fight on the
Libyan front as a major defeat of the nazis. -
- While you have your pencil out, score an error
for me. Down in this column published September
S, the terse, strong, fact-packed communique on the
battle of the Solomons was attributed to the pen
of General MacArthux. i i
-This was an unintended and therefore a greater
tribute to Captain Lei and P. Lovette, new director
of naval public relations,t who really wrote it
The style was so good, I though it was MacArthur.
Naval communiques are going to be batter now.
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Today's Garden
By LXLLIE L, MADSEN
B.M.M. asks if there should
be any difference between au
tumn and spring fertilization of
the lawn.. -
. Answer: In autumn one should
use a fertilizer which has less
nitrogen in it than the one con
tains for spring use. You do not
want to start a heavy rank
growth for winter.; It is better
to get a good .growth ' of . roots
and then have the grass In con
dition to start out early: in the
spring. Of course there are many
r winters here in which the grass
does not stop, its growth at alL
But there is no guarantee that
we will have such a winter and
It. is, as a rule, best to prepare
the grass for a winter htat is
not -so good. Should the grass
continue to grow throughout the v
winter earlier feeding in the ,
spring may be resorted to. A fer
tilizer heavier in phosphoric
acid -should be used for fall
feeding.
F. G. asks if she can plant a
pepper ' plant Indoors and if its
fruit will ripen.
, Answer: I suppose - It will If
she is ble to supply sufficient
light and proper heat Peppers
ai frequently grown in - hot
houses. I have never heard of
a window garden of peppers, but
It might be done. :?-. ,
SJLH. writes jthat-sh planted
an evergreen early last spring
and that it failed to make much
growth. In fact" she said, - it
really looked as if it might die.
A short time ago she dug down '
around It and found that , the
ball of dirt around it was still "
as intact and hard as ever.
Answer: In planting balled
materials it I very -important
that the soil be soaked up very
thoroughly so that it will break
and mix with the soil around it
In this case I would break up
the ball without disturbing the
roots. Then water very welL It,'
must ' be kept moist after the
soa has been loosened. But no
shrub will make a growth if its.
roots are in a hard mass of soil.
Among the (S) Pines
are saspao y
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tleas latsd Oy - nstene rs -ae dme to
chances aaade ky the itiMwi with
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. Letters from Statesman
Readers '
EXECUTIVE SUTSOIACf
To the Editor: There -is no
doubt that one of the greatest
xweds in our coutrr today is ef
fective inflation control; but we
do not want it at the cost of
American constitutional liberty.
The doctrine of executive pow
er as stated by President Roose
velt in his inflation message to
congress If put into effect would
destroy the basic principle of
distribution of power as worked
out in our constitution. It is the
same doctrine of executive u
premacy . that prevails in the
Axis countries and in each such
country the, original assertion of
the power was on behalf of the
economic welfare of the people.
Democracy might be In a more
healthful state in our country if
millions of letters were directed
to the president vigorously pro
testing his assertion of authority
to set aside a law of congress.) -Robert
Uoulton Gatke,
ictte University. .
By R. J HENDRICKS
First to Introduce -9-10-42
-navigation of the 'air -Into
the military service .
was Captain James 'Allen:
V VS
(Continuing from yesterday:)
In the course of the matter con
tained in this column yesterday
these words were used: "From
one of them (Captain Allen's
balloons) General Custer dis
covered that Yorktown was be
ing : evacuated; from them the
terrible battles of Fair ? Oaks,
Oak Grove and Mechanecsville
were witnessed by commanding
officers and dispatches dropped
down from time to-time to be
sent to headquarters; at another
time Captain ' Allen, by his ob
seryations DETERRED GENER
AL SEDGWICK from crossing , Academy a monument - stands
the ; Rappahannock to attack - , for -Sedgwick,; made from can
what " he supposed aiK inferior. . non captured from the Confed-
force, and when the Federal
troops were before Fredericks
burg General Cyrus B.': Corn
stock, chief of engineers,' 1 as
cended to a height of 2000 feet,
where he remained . for more
than three hours, mapping the
heights and. sketching the ene
my's position."
At that point a note was m-
serted: "(Salem' people" note the
matter about Sedgwick ; later
: along.) . --'.I""
. .-"'
' " . That was for the purpose of v
. having ' the ' attention of local '
. people called especially' to Gen-.
. eral John Sedgkick, for , whom
the Salem Grand Army post was
named, and under whom Gideon V
Stolz, prominent . old ,. timer of
the capital city, ' fought through
. the Civil war; Mr. Stolt having
been up to the time of his; death
. here a few years ago one of the :
- outstanding Grand Army " men: -
he having for a generation been
always enthusiastic in every for
r ward movement of . the city
adorning the Oregon map as the
place where the laws arc made
and from which they are admln-
' istered. ' -y" 1: ':- :r - V:
John Sedgwick was born, at .
Cornwall, Conn September 13,
1813; graduated from the United v:
States - Military r Academy . Vat
West Point with the class of .,
133?. ?4th in a class of .50, In-
' eluding Generals Hooker.jBragg. . '
Benham, Early, etc He served .
. fn the , Seminole wart was-- in
.several engagements against the .
. . Indians; en frontier -duty; on the
Canadian . border; in garrison t ;
and on recruiting, duty; in the
Mexican war at the siege of .
Vera Cruz, battles of Cerro Gor
do, Molino del Tley, Chapultepec, ;
In the assault on the City of
- Mexico, etc etc.
He became a major -and lieu-
tenant-colonel in the .Mexican -..
war , period, and brigadier , gen
: : era! of volunteers -early In the
Civfl war; Was at the 'siege of ' ,
By JAMES HILTON
Chapter SL Centiaaed
She clapped her hands ecstat-. .
ically. "Oh, I should love to go
there!"
"But it's miles away in the
suburbs " he was beginning,
but suddenly then I could see
the mere caprice . of the idea
.seize hold of him; to drive out
to Banford to see Berty Lowest .
the local Hippodrome was in the
right key of fantasy for such an
evening. He handed me the pa
per. "They call it a riot of rip
roaring rib-tickling doesn't that
sound awful? Wish you'd ring
'em up and book a box for four
at the second house." I
" "Salute the Flag," echoed Ma
dame, with hands clasped.j "Oh,
I know I am going to love it if
it is about soldiers. The Eng
lishman I knew in Budapest was
. a soldier. It was during the war,
but he wasn't' interned at j first, .
- because the Hungarians : always '
liked the English, but when he
began to send me. flowers every,
day with little notes hidden fa
mem -written in English, of
course the police arrested him
for espionage, but t when j they
translated the notes oh, mon
dieu, you .should have seen their
faces and his and mine be
cause, you see, he was crazlly in
love with me crazily -not a bit
-.like an Englishman! Oh, how X
'Wish ! had made them. give me.
back those notes, v ,' Oisimir, of
course, was made with jealousy ."
- Casiinlr, no , longer capable - of
being mad with jealousy, looked
up as a -dog. will on bearing his
name -mentioned, then -shook his
head with a bemused belch; over,
his unfinished crepes Sureties.
, , I went out to telephone '
An hour later we were sitting
on four very uncomfortable cane
chairs as the curtain rose on Sa
lute the Flag. It bad been a mis
take, I could see, to have enga
ged a box; the orchestra seats
- would have been much more
comfortable, and further away
from certain plush hangings
which, on being merely touched,
shook out clouds of dubious-
looking dust. I gathered from the
way we were escorted - to our.
seats, and also from the fact that,
the other- boxes were empty,'
that our arrival bad created a
little stir; It would be odd, 1
thought, but perhaps not abso
lutely catastrophic, if soma
member of the audience were to
recognize Rainier. However, no
one did, despite the fact that
some of the actors played at us
. outrageously even, by the : end
of the show, making jokes about
"the gentleman in the box who's
fast asleep." It was true, Casimir
was fast asleep. Iadame had
awakened him several times, but
LaeiKuldDinn)
Yorktown,the battle of Fair
' Oaks, deciding the success of the
day at the latter. r . '-;
Was at the battles of Savage
Station, Glendale, ' Antletam.
- Was . made : a major general of
volunteers July , 1862. Came into
leadership of the 6th Corps at
- the battle of Salem Heights. Op
posed Lee In his Pennsylvania
:' campaign of 1853. v
'General Sedgwick led his
corps at the battle of Gettys
burg; was In the battle of Mine
' Run, in the Richmond campaign
of 1864; in the campaign of the
. Wilderness: was killed In the
battle - of Spottsylvanla Court
House. : -
At the United States Military
erates by the Sixth . corps his
own corps. l
-
There is some interest In Ore-'
gon, or should be, on account of
the- .Interest of Governor
Sprague, the "war governor of
Rhode '.Island, who encouraged
Captain Allen In air., navigation
during the Civil war. There had
- been aGoverno r' : William
Sprague of Rhode Island, about
the fifteenth " governor1, of the
state, grandson of William and
a greatgrandson of another Wil
liam Sprague, originating in De
vonshire, England, and a des- ;
cendant of Roger WiHiams.' !
? The Governor William Sprague "
who was the war governor (Civil :
war) and who encouraged Cap--;
tain Allen belonged to the
Sprague family to which Gover
nor Charles A; Sprague of Ore
gon Is related.
S V :. ;
That Rhode Island (Civil) war
governor did much to help Pre
sident Lincoln get ' good three
year enlistments of, the first men
to join the Union forces from
"Little RhodJ',' as well as furn
ishing them good backing, en
couraging them to stay in, giv
ing - the smallest state in the
Union territorially a fine reputa
tion as patriotic American citi
zais. . . '
-. v-:;- . v.s
. The Governor William Sprague
of that period (Civil war) was
the 24th governor of Rhode
Island. That Sprague family (of
-Rhode- Island and Connecticut) '
forj I lotf time made- up the
largest "manufacturing concern
mekhrg doth in i the United
States, or in the world. ' They
rnade SO0,080 -yards . of - cloth -
week, -and-sIidOOO yards of
printed - calicoes. : -'
That family also manufactured
iron, -and made locomotives, and
owned nd operated railroads. A
little more on the Sprague fanv-
ily - to' follow. J :v?';
(Continuing tomorrow.)
he slumped forward again al
most immediately; soon she gave
It up as a bad Job. - f
As for the play, it had been (I
guessed) an originally 'serious
melodrama onja wartime theme,'
dating probably from 1914 or
1915; its vOlaihs had then been
Germans of impossible villainy
and its heroes English soldiers of
equally impossible saintliness. A
1 quarter of a century of lucrative
adaptation, however, had merged
- both the villainy, and the saintli
ness into a common - mood . of
broad comedy burlesque; such
patriotic speeches , as remained
. were spoken now only to be
laughed at, while the hero's first
appearance was in the always
comic uniform of a scoutmaster.
But Madame was p u r zl e d.
During the intermission she said:
"I cannot .understand why they
laugh at some of the lines. When
the : recruiting sergeant made
that speech about the British
Empire, what was funny about
it?" . . ' V '
"--"It's just. our. English sense of
humor," Rainier explained. "We
think recruiting sergeants are
funny. We think long speeches
are also funny. The British Em- j
pire has its funny side too. So
put them all together and you
can't help making an English
man laugh." , .. ;
; "But It was a patriotic speech!"
: "Englishmen think them the
funniest of -aU.", - v - -
"But in Austria, if anyone
laughedt a patriotic speech
there would be a riot and the
man would be arrested."
"That just proves something I
have .long suspected that i Aus
tria Isnt England." '
You know Austria?" .
"I once spent few days In'
Vienna on business." ; , v
"Ah, you should have stayed
longer and .gone to the Semmer
ing and then to Pressburg down
the Danube in a steamboat'
"Curious you should mention
it, but that was one of my boy
hood ambitions. But in a canoe,
not a steamboat".
"Oh, but that would be mora
wonderful still! Why did you not
do it?" ;
Chapter 12 I
Charles then told Madame Na
voida why he had not taken that
dreaaed-of canoe trip down the
Danube. The explanation was
simple: - .
"Because when I first wanted
to, I hadn't enough money then
later when I had enough money,
I hadnt the time. . . and today,
whatever I have, there isn't any
Klairve
Austria.' v
(To be continued)