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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
' CHARLES A.' SPRAGUE, President 'I
Member of The Associated Press '
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Naval Victory 'J-
l Intercollegiate debate used to intrigue your
correspondent but there was one thing about it
W couldn't digest That was the practice of
endlessly quoting "authorities." At times it
was carried to such extremes that . a so-called
debater in 15 minutes of discourse wouldn't
advance a single opinion of his own or, ex
pound one item of original logic; just quote,
quote, quote. - i
The trouble with quoting "authorities" aside
from the obvious one that they invariably dis
agree, is that nearly every one has aMslant"
which needs to be recognized in order to evalu
ate what he has to say. The debater rattles
off an imposing title and quotes ita fowner in
an opinion-quite uncomplimentary to-the rail
roadsand how is the auditor to know this
authority" was once struck
by a train?
Right now while the news from the Pacific
i is unquestionably cheering, is a good time to
ponder the charges voiced recently by "Con
gressman Melvin J. Maas of Minnesota,-who
originally intended to say over the radio "We
are still losing the war in the Pacific. We have
been losing it every day since Pearl Harbor."
But when he finally took to the air he changed
the first sentence to "We are still not winning
the War in the Pacific" but didn't change .the
second one. Newspaper readers have a slight
advantage over debate auditors but not enough.
Congressman Maas is a republican, an insurance
gent with marine corps aviation branch war
i experience and now a colonel in the marine
corps aviation reserve but we don't know what
1 train may have hit him.
What we do know is that the text of his
address doesn't quite support his conclusions.
He made "a major point of the disaster which
befell four nited Nations cruisers off the Solo
mons a tragedy we already knew about, and
a blunder corrected in the only way possible, by
a subsequent shakeup in command. But even
greater emphasis was laid upon the circum
stance that just at present Japan is free to
exploit the big new South Pacific empire she
has acquired. If that iln't stopped soon we'll
never defeat Japan, Maas concludes; instead
we'll presently take a back seat, to a huge new
slave-labor, industrial "civilization" of the
orient. Tragic if true, but it doesn't really
prove either that we have "been losing every
day" nor that we are "still not winning'
I There is one point made in Maas address
which is however of current significance. He
said of that Solomons naval disaster that "the
whole thing was over in eighi minutes. Well,
you may recall that we pointed out here the
examples of Trafalgar and Santiago to illustrate
4 the suddenness of great events in sea warfare.
UAn early example from this war, in the Java
! Sea fighting,, is now available as first analyti
cal accounts are published. There too the major
- damage was done in a fraction of an hour.
Details of the thundering victory we ar cur
rently celebrating temperately in the light of
Secretary Knox' warning that it was less than a
knockout to enemy sea power are so far frag
mentary but obviously the action occurred
within a single night. Elevexj -enemy warships
and twelve other Japaneseraft went to I the
bottom and seven were damaged
li Well if things can and do happen thus 'rapid-,
ly in sea warfare, why be so impatient? Let's
say this wasn't a knockout. It was, though,
i exactly the result this column suggested some
weeks ago. The enemy, seeking to "save face"
as well as to regain a strategically important
. base, ricked and lost more of his sea power than
he could afford to lose, and more than it was
i worth. I
Let's not permit impatience and doubts to
rob us of the gratification to which events en-
j title us,. It was -a great naval victory. It con
firmed our confidenee in the leaders and men
of our navy, now the largest as well as the best
tea fighting force the world has even known.
i There will be more such victories. One of them,
: some day, will be the final victory in the Paci
fic war. - , .
! Advance Agent
There was -something typically American
, about the recent exploit of Major General Mark
W. Clark which makes his consequent, or at any
i rate Subsequent, promotion to the rank of lieu
; tenant general especially popular. I
General Eisenhower most likely deserves
, credit for planning General Clark's "advance
agent" venture into territory which presently
was to be invaded, but there is plenty of credit
' to go around and it was Clark who carried out
i the plan with praiseworthy skill, tact, resource
fulness and courage. Reaching North Africa by
submarine, he called upon adherents of j the
i French General Giraud and with them reached
agreements which greatly facilitated the in
vasion. . -'.y ' "
The circumstances, and therefore ; the i op
' portunity, were decidedly unusual if not wholly
, unique. Even so these officers must.be given
credit for correctly analyzing the circumstances
and seizing the Opportunity. The thing about it .
that was typically American, we think, was "Its
directness. It's doubtful if there are many
Europeans who u n d e r the same conditions
would have thought of it. .-,"!" -
Who knows? The time may come when well
send an "advance agent" into Italy with similar
success. And then into Germany. But not into
Japan. There, our advance agents will need
machine guns. - - ; - -
-- . . - ssaai mmm " '
Report has it that the wage "freeze" which
also worries the lowliest, is a bigger headache
to Hollywood's opulent movie stars than the un
certain $25,000 limit Trouble is, the studios
don't know how to interpret it, and after a film
star has collected as much total salary -as he
received last year, they hold ; up his checks.
Actins is a
mercurial business
some actors who were idle last year a great deal - house, or to aid Byrd and. congress in cleaning
cf the time, are already over the "ceiling" and it, will cut these vast government expenditures to
ere refu-ins to work any more; this, year or the point where the taxpayer can have confidence
tr-til U.3 Lsu3ii":sctac'" -.r ,V;w-tbb.gstbit war's-worth-fpr tU money. f
"No Favor Sway Vi; No rear ShaXL Atp
rramirint SUtcsmaa.:UArch 23,, 1351.
Vancouver. It
and nearly killed
While there
News Behind
the Mews
By PAUL MALLON
Pal Maltaa
at . best, and
twiddles. Only
Three-Day, Ship
Henry Kaiser has gone and -done it again; '
a three-day ship at the Vancouver yard, which
we can claim as our own even though it is on
the Washington side of the Columbia. Fact is,
beyond , a doubt some Salem men had a hand
In it! r , - ' j- ;
This brings back to the northwest the honors
recently stolen away by - California when tha
Oregon Shipbuilding yard's ten-day record was
eclipsed. I
But, you may say, this three-day vessel was
just a "landing boat." Now this is a matter
on which this column has first-hand knowledge,
believe it or not. "Constant readers" if any will
recall our confession to having "trod the deck"
of a vessel being outfitted after launching at
was one afthese "landing boats."
is much that we dare not reveal.
we can say this much.. These are not rafts, nor
mere barges. They are smaller and lighter than
the Victory ships. But they are real vessels, and
quite substantial. Yes, we san swear to that.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 The liberals are al
ways complaining because Mr. Roosevelt never says
anything about Britain granting India her freedom.
If they will read again the president's radio ad-
dresson the Philippines,' they
may find he has spoken on In
dia, definitely and forcefully
without identifying her specifi
cally. ' ' . . -
Delicacy of diplomacy may
. prevent FDR from telling Bri
tain straightout what to do
with' her empire problems, but
the independence formula
which he set for Quezon, is not
copyrighted. Furthermore, he
said it was a "united nations
pattern, philosophy and ideal,"
for all small nations. ' j
Briefly, it provides, first the
acceptance by both the larger and smaller nations
of a sincere desire to work toward independence.
It provides mutual economic and political planning,
step Jby step, toward complete independence over a
period of years. . j
No doubt it is the formula which Mr. Roosevelt
will insist upon at the peace conference for India,
and all undeveloped nations desiring independence.
A number of public men (including Rep. Maas)
are crying out for aggressive action to destroy
Japan in the Pacific, instead of concentrating large
ly on Hitler in Europe, f 1
Whether or not this is desirable, it cannot be ac
complished. It is impossible. ; '
The true facts are easy to see, although they
naturally are not being announced officially. The
Pacific war is a naval war primarily. To defeat
Japan, we must have sea mastery in the western
Pacific. ' ' j ": 1 j
Anywhere we are to go, we must have superior
naval strength. But we cannot attain this as long
as the British fleet is required in the Atlantic
and Mediterranean.
We cannot even put forward our own best naval
effort there while a threat to our shipping and
shores keeps part of our fleet in the Atlantic, :
Losses of our aircraft carriers (the fleet's of
fensive spearhead) reported around the Solomons
the past month make our unsatisfactory Pacific
naval situation even more plain. f .
Mr. Roosevelt's basic strategy, therefore, : seems
beyond debate no matter how impatient we may
be to even the score with the nether axis partner
who has taken the greatest toll of our men and
ships. t
The voice of Senator Byrd is again crying out
against the war waste in the wilderness of flowing
billions that is Washington. He is drowned put by
the swishing of paper currency planned war ex
penditures for the year have reached $78,000,000,
000 (twice the size of the debt that worried us be
fore the war) and the debt has soared above $90.
000,000,000. .
It is practically impossible for anyone, even with
Byrd's unequal ed persistence, to keep the war flow
efficient by eliminating unnecessary expenditures.
The condition of affairs prevents it. S ;
For a very good instance, the new colossus of
Washington (the Pentagion building) cost $70,
C "1,000, although congress appropriated only half
that sum. The war department found the other
$35,000,000 in appropriated funds for other pur
poses, .v yl-. -;
That great sum of money was switched from
the. purposes for which it was appropriated without
authorization by congress. Congress learned of the
expenditure only , after the building was up and
the money gone. y i p
In the case of the airport here (which cost three
or four times what was expected) Mr. Roosevelt
gave the funds to get it started from the lump
sum of money granted, to him. Ex post facto
appropriations were then, extracted from con
gress. . , - !
This has been a spending administration. It
favored spending for economic purposes before the
war. It never delivered in economy as a policy.
It thought spending was good for the country and
economizing was bad. - i J ..
Some half-hearted attempts have . been 1 made,
through : the. budget and treasury,, to cut i down . a
few unneeded activities (like CCC), but there has
been no real force for the abolition of waste in this
war administration anywhere. . ;
Senator' Eyrd and bis committee are now after
the government bureaus which have accumulated
more than 2,600,000 employes. He will meet with
OTPosition everywhere, even from his associate
senators and congressmen whose friends occupy
the nhumb-twiddling JobsV that Byrd wants
abolished.
The justice of his position and his own persist
ence will enable him eventually to get rid of some
of the most war-worthless employes, but not until
Mr. Roosevelt gets interested in war ' Waste, and
imposes pressure from the top, will there ever be"
a chance of any general constructive success in the
effort. - : . . , , ;
: The executive branch knows best where the
duplication lies and where the thumb i twiddler
a genuine drive to clean its own
Cyclones Sometimes Play the Queerest Tricks
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CTVXL EIGHTS " .,
To the Editor: The denial of
American ; constitutional ' rights
to any person or group should be
a matter of concern to all How
ever, it is a well known fact that
Americans who happen to be
Negroes, including Negro . sol
diers, are discriminated against
by many hotels, restaurants and
other establishments in Salem
and in other, communities. This
violates the letter and spirit -of
our constitution, but cUscrimina
tion is justified as "necessary"
for success in business. . v
It is our conviction that Ore
gon needs legislation that will
give explicit support to t h e s e !
rights. Such; a'- measure as the
Civil Rights bill, which was
passed by the senate at a recent
session of the Oregon legisla
ture woul fulfill this need. It
Is hoped that such a law will be
enacted in 1943.
Action can be taken by inter- f
ested. citizens who desire fair.'
treatment for alL Immediate re
sponsibility rests particularly on
hotel and restaurant operators.
We recognize .- that ; legislation
wQl be required to obtain fair
treatment from all establish
ments, but we believe there are
some businesses ..which ; will be
fair as a result of their desire to
practice good Americanism. --
Talk about defending democ
racy means little unless our prac-'
tice of democracy begins at
home. ; f-.- ,;: ;-:'; .
; Young Adult-Fellowship of
Jason Lee Memodist Church,
. Salem, by Naoma "Rehfuss,
- secretary.-
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By R. J
HENDRICKS
Many changes have 11-18-42
come in the Oregon
Country, territory, state
and viewi, habits and custom:
! :' -
it 1 I
The Oregon legislature will
soon be convening for the bien-:
nial session! of 1943, and this
takes the mind back to and '
through' the j history of past ses
sions of Our legislatures, provi
x slonal , government territorial -and
State They have changed In
many ways; changed with the
times anS the habits of thought
The first Oregon Country leg
- islature was that of the provi
sional government (unicameral
of course) convening at Oregon
' City the second Tuesday In May
1844; nine members, eight being
' present, ': I
i! -'
The second was that of 1845, .
13 members, convening at the
same place' June 24 of that year,,
but recessing July - 5 to convene
again August 5, to hold an elec
, tion of the ' people July 25, on
all proceedings that had gone ;
before, Jessie Applegate, pioneer
statesman; member from Yam-:
hill, " having Insisted that aU
things theretofore done by the
" provisional' government were II-1
legal, under an American form I
of government having been car-;
ried by "hand" ballot and not s
at the secret polls. The vote af
the polls carried, .235 to 22 and
the sessions jwere resumed as In- '
dicated, August 5, 1845.
The nejjct; session was that of
1846, f3rs Monday in December,
wjth 16 members. All provisional
: government legislatures were
: unicameral; i: (one house.)
!""
The 184T session had 20 mem
bers; that of 1843 was entitled
to 23, but only nine were pres
ent then! 13; after a message by
-the governor. The absent mem
bers had; joined the California
gold rush, A special session wa3
called," and the next and last
provisional government legisla
ture convened Feb. 5, 1949.
ln two days less than a month
the Territory of Oregon was pro
claimed,, by Governor (General)
- Josepr Lone. There was a special
session of the Ore-on territorial
By CLARENCE BUDINGTON
Chapter Five Continaed -
"Now, "there's an epoch-marking
thought, Tony. Originality's
the hallmark of our Shop. Hey,
Marie, why not" do something
natural for once?';
Tm. here to pose,
rish," said Marie. "If
Mr. Far
youH tell
me what to do I'll do it'
You might start by
picking
up that week-end bag." -
. T wouldn't be carrying a bag.
The perter would have it"
- They toil not, neither do they
spin, quoted Mr. Farrlsh. "Well,
you're a different kind of a de-
butantev In ' fact, you're . almost
human. You ' sympathize .: with
porters, so you carry your own
little, bag." . ; .
Marie sniffed, looked disdain
ful, and picked up thetiny case.
-Maybe it's got your jewels in
, it said Farrish,1 "and: you carit
bear to have it touched by ple
beian hands. Now step across
- the - threshold, . as it ; were, ' and
' then look back over your, shoul- ;
der." :
Marie stepped, tilted her chin
- regally, and looked back . at the
-cameras, and then her foot seem
ed to slip, and she crumpled to
the floor : with a shrill cry : of
pain. ;: ' -. '
Farrish.ran to her anxiously.
"Now what?" he demanded
without sympathy. , J .;- .
"I rve sprained my . ankle,"
she said. f .
He lifted her to her feet, and
she moaned and sank to the floor
again. . -:
T cant stand np," she moan
ed. "It hurts. I can't bear it!"
"Listen, Marie; this Is one time
you've got to take Jt. You can
stand long enough to get this
picture. We've got , 20 minutes
left before this dingus pulls out
of here." ,: !; : r.; 7
"I can't," she said, and I
wont" y
"Do you think if you listened
closely you could get it through
'your head that this is necessary?
We must do this Job!"
"I can't stand and I wont
stand, and you can just get me a
wheel chair t;. . .
Farrish turned to his men. "A
' heroine, what?- Well, boys, fold
up the tools. No time to rush an- -other
model here. There'll be one
more payday Saturday." He
stood a " moment looking down
at the model, 1 who crouched,
holding her ankle in both hands.
"You get me a wheel chair
Fm going to sue for damages,
too," said Marie. ;-,-.. ; ' v, ; -.,f
"Pack up,, boys!" scowled Far
rish..': - :$ :.
TJien Damley heard herself
speaking'. She was hardly aware
'that she was doing so. Something '
had moved her lips and raised
her voice, ' and with! astonish
ment she heard herself can, "Mr.
Farrish!" 1 j! '
He turned a blank face toward'
her. '. j!-' r . ..
"Mr. Farrteh, I can do' it Tm
a model. I can pose for that picture."'--.
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He narrowed 'his i eyes . and
peered across at her. The men
ceased dismantling the lights and '
waited, . "Amble around here
' legislature In May, 1849, and
the first regular session con
vened the first Monday in De.
cember, 1850, which was Dec. X
That legislature January 13,
1851, moved the capital to Salem.
The 1854-5 one moved it to Cor-,
vallis, and the 1855-6 one moved
it back to Salem; nearly the only ;
'law it enacted at Corvallisy
Legislative matters -I' proceeded
more or less mootnJy till the
first session of the state legisla
ture: Oregon having I been ad
mitted into the union Feb. 14,
1859; the Valentine State. -
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' That session met in what was
then called the'Holman building,
because it had been built by Jo
. seph Holman, one of the earliest
of Salem's first residents, of the
1838-40 immigration. It has since
been known as the Turner build
ing, and by several other names.
It stands on the corner north of
the. present Statesman building.
The house met on the third
floor; senate, second floor. So
joint sessions' were in the third.
The , building , is ' old, but " the
foundation Is solid. It Is stone,
from the old .quarry in Polk
county, beyond the first hill that
is now West Salem.1 Alt first
brick buildings in Salem have
this stone for their foundations.
Concrete did not come into gen
eral use till after that The first '
concrete sidewalk on a Salem
i street Is at Commercial and Che- -meketa
streets,, before the old
First National - bank building,
- that now, has barber shop in
the room that contained the
bank. That First National bank
was the, one that was called the
- Scotch bank, and had no connec-"
tion with the present Salem First
; National, which is In the Port
land First National . chain, ' and
the whole nation's First National
chain, and then some.
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That first concrete sidewalk
built In Salem looks to be In as
good a state of repair as one put
in yesterday. -
On Jackson (the main) street'
in Itoseburg is a set of concrete '
steps bunt several years before
this concrete-walk here in Sa
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KZXLAND
where I can get a look at you,
-Farrish said sharply.
- She ran around the end of the
; slip and stood before him. He
scowled down at her. She no
ticed his 'eyes; they were brown
and troubled. He was a , rather
FlAmf nSMAft f-M - xKams
something about his face that
: you would remember next day.
"What do 'you think. Brown?"
be asked of his cameraman. .
"Better than nobody, anyhow,"
said Brown. . ; - ; j
This did not seem to Impress
Farrish. But he'wii the snrt nt
person who did not show wheth
er he was Impressed or not "Any
- fnmM" nm sain "Waiti avw
. there and well igive it the old-
Two of his men carried Marie
and deposited her 20 feet away.
Farrish said to Darnley: "Gratt :
' that bag and do your' stuff." .
She picked upj the bag and
assumed a pose."' Ughts glared,
cameras clicked. She was moved
about thus and so. Her chin was
tilted and depressed; the hang
:of her dress was altered; the set
of her fingers -n the handle of
the bag ; was , changed. Farrish
kept correcting her expression: j
"Your breakfast didn't dis
agree, with you. It's a beautiful
world. You're Koine to meet the
boy-friend! . Look, like you liked.
UI Put some TT into it!" f
In 20 minutes Farrish and his
helpers had done all they could
do. y-0 : p:; .i - - .-.
- I "That's that, boys,", he said,
. and they commenced to pack.
"Hey, . Sammie, run and get a
wheel chair for the Duchess."
Jt was, there that Darnley
made for herself an enemy.
, cnaper ix - v .;;
.The volunteer model had been
were slim, and trim. There was
no siffn of swell in tti Farrish lonlr.
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ed. "Oh, well," he' said, "get her
a wheel chair. Well go through
the motions." ,
Marie, lips a narrow line,
looked at Darnley,- and her eyes . ,
were bright and vindictive. "Ill
be seeing you." 'sh said wasp-
"Eh? What? Oh, sure." His
mind, obviously, was occupied.
"Get this stuff back to the shop."
he said to his men. "Rush those
proofs. I want to get them to
Brooks by ten." i ! j
"Well," said Darnley, "I've got
to get some breakfast" :
"Breakfast?" Farrish blinked.
The wheel chair trundled up
uu oimi ic ws fJiacra in 11. xou
haven't heard the last of this,"
she said sharply. I - I
"Oh, yes, breakfast Breakfast
What in thunder's jrour name?"
"Darnley Carfax," she said.
"You certainly did pop lip," he
said. "Breakfast Come along."
: He strode off 9md she followed
him. trailed bv her nortpr Pr-
enuy they were seated at the
counter in the lunchroom.
Suddenly Farrish turned on
her. "Her ankle wasn't swelled,"
he said.
, ' (To be continued)
lem that a few years ago-showed
' no 'weari While a set of stone
steps close by was nearly worn .
through.! r !
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, The Oregon newspaper picture
of those old days, of around 50
to 53 years ago, showed a differ
ent picture from the present One.
In ; the 1870-65 period . the
Portland Oregonian had a mon
opoly in this state of the Asso
ciated ? Press - franchise, in the
, morning fields with the Oregon
Ian itself and in the - evening '
with the Portland Evening Tele-,
: gram. , .. .,
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Then came the Pacific i Coast
; Associated Press, and soon after I
- Hearst came into the newspaper
field, buying up newspaper af-1
- ter newspaper,' clear across the
. country. The Statesman was a
charter member of the Pacific
Coast Associated Press.
1 Before very long there was a
consolidation of several of the
Associated Press ventures, until
there was only one great one,
covering the whole earth. It was
The Associated Press. So it , is
now. So The Statesman came
" Into the great Associated Press
"concern, as a charter member;
' and so thus remains.
' (Continued: tomorrow.)
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AND SO NIP THE NIPS
They did pretty; well - fighting .
. the Nips on Monday the Yanks
killed 24,000 of their CghUng '
men, anl the Chinks croaked . ;
5000 of them. If that can be kept
up for a few weeks, no Nips will
-be left And that seems the only
kind of war worth while waging
with the Nips. Their word is not
worth the waste of . paper to
write a promise on, or the squan- : .
dering of time to have it trans
lated. It is the same with the
' Nips as 1 was with the lousiest
of the Sioux or Apaches when
there ,was no good Indian but a
, dead Indian. So what is the use
wasting anything but well aimed
bullets or bombs on the lousiest
stinkerinos ; now ,'. loose and be- .,
fouling an otherwise at least
halfway decent world. There is .
nothing else now living to match
the Nipponese skunks but their ,
foul friend Schlcklebritches.