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, from First Statesman. March 28, 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President
-tJ::--'-: " i Member of The Associated Press ' '
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
news dispatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited in Axis newspaper.
Hindsight: 'Biggest Stories
Annually for more than a decade it has been
the custom of the Associated Press to list, about
the turn of the year, the "ten biggest stories
' of the old year. Checking back, we note how
ever that in 1935 there was a divided report.
(JPfs two news editors couldn't agree on the
. No. 1 story. Here is JV M. Kendrick's list:
1. Will Rogers and Wiley Post fatal crash. !
2. Hauptmann trial and conviction In Lind- j
berg kidnaping. i ' j
3. Huey Long assassination. ' '
; 4. Economic improvement and court attacks
. on new deal. i ;
- 5. Italo-Ethiopian war.
6. German rearmament.
7. Sinking of the Mohawk.
8. Midwest dust storms.
9. Weyerhaeuser kidnaping.
10. Barbara Hutton's divorce and remarriage.
The other editor, W. F. Brooks; listed the
Italo-Ethiopian war as No. 1, but gave the
- Rogers-Post crash second place and from there
on the lists were quite similar.
Every cub reporter knows that -the relative
importance of news depends upon "where you
sit." For most persons in. Salem the biggest
story of 1935 was or seemed at the time the
capitol fire. And of course, there are relatively
eventual and uneventful years. What chance
would a mere divorce,' even though one of the
parties was Barbara Hutton, have for a place
among the "big ten" in 1942?
There was at least variety in the 1935 list.
Nowadays virtually all big news, and for that
matter nearly all news, has some relation to the
war. In 1941 the Pearl Harbor attack took first
place, and every other story among the top
ten was war-related except the last: "Brooklyn
wins National league pennant."
Now here is the 1942 list:
1. United States landings in Africa.
2. Battle of Stalingrad.
3. Battle of Midway.
4. Bombing of Tokyo.
5. Conversion of auto- industry.
6. Gasoline rationing.
7. Fall of the Philippines.
8. Execution of nazi saboteurs.
9. Boston night club fire.
10. Republican election-gains.
If we concede that the election result dis
tinctly was war-related, the Boston night club
fire alone qualifies as a non-war story. "From
where we sit" the state hospital tragedy belongs
among the top ten but it was war-related to
whatever extent the manpower shortage was a
factor.
The world has shrunk, even since 1935. Re
ferring again to the 1935 "ten biggest," you
will note that only two of the events occurred
outside the United States and hot more than
three were such as to have real significance
elsewhere. In contrast, the top four in 1942
occurred abroad and of the ten, all but one had
significance in Berlin, Moscow, Buenos Aires,
Capetown, everywhere.
! Hindsightedly, we now know that Editor
Brooks was right. That is, he should have been
right. The Italo-Ethiopian war actually was an
event of major significance to every American
newspaper reader. Kendrick was right in the
sense that he picked the story which attracted
most reader attention.
The 1942 list reflects an improved world
consciousness on the part of American news
paper readers. It more accurately represents
what really was important
Yet, hindsightedly in 1950 we may be able
p pick flaws in that list. It will be difficult to
displace the North Africa occupation and the
battle of Stalingrad unless as is barely possi
ble they turn out not to have been turning
points in the war, as we currently appraise
them. But in 1950, certainly gasoline rationing's
place on the list will be difficult to defend un
less at that time there still, or again, is gaso
line rationing. Nor will the execution of a few
nazi saboteurs mean much seven years hence.!
On the other hand, hindsightedly in 1950 it
may be clear that some event which isn't on the
current list at fall for example that Wendell
Willkie's globeigirdling. trip and the discussion
of a post-war world pattern which followed,
should have had a place at least halfway up the
ladder. Or perhaps some other Item who
knows? We are not privileged, just how, to
exercise hindsight from the 1950 vantage point.
Foresight is not nearly so good, but the best
we can do is toi attempt to exercise it . ' i - -
to the discussion and the -cussion or, if you
won't permit us to coin a word, the cussing f ?
; If the group is composed of men,' you start la 1
on gasoline. Each person present if he can
get a word in edgewise may first announc
what type of book he has, whether A, B or C, -and
if one of the latter, how much it was
"tailored" by the rationing 'board, and how
much time and trouble it cost him to get it
Then questions of the ration's adequacy suggest
themselves, together with the detail of restric-
tions upon the car's use; and each one may
dump into the conversation the item as to dis
tance between home and the job, and success
or the lack of it if arranging for "car pooling,
which, incidentally, is a practice productive
of need for conversational skill. !
Next the conversation may shift to tires,
with each contributor describing fa detail the
condition of all five casings and if time per
mits, all five tubes on his vehicle.
Among women though we may say at the
outset that the percentage of conversational
"flops" among them is much lower this topic
is by no means barred nor neglected But they
are more apt to start in on sugar or coffee, and
the variations in the family menu restrictions
have dictated, and the makeshifts devised, and
well, not having been privileged to sit in on
many such discussions, we are a bit vague about
detail but we just know food rationing makes
for animated and endless conversation.
Endless that's the beautv of it all. Tnr.
haustible that, as a topic of conversation, is
retoBL More losses on the Russian Front
all be brilliant conversationalists; there won't
be a flop in a roomful.
"The only person so constituted, morally,- to
order the assassination of an enemy, is Adolf
Hitter," says The Dalles Chronicle in discussing
the Darlan mystery. Our estimate of Adolf is
no higher than the Chronicle's but it strikes
us that in Europe alone there must be dozens
of men, clothed with some authority, who would
not balk at murder; who have not balked at
murder. Without a great deal of study we think
we could name six.
HarilB IPirogtrainnis
Stewart Say
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Paul Mallon la on vacation. la his absence, the
Washington column written by Charles P. Stewart,
veteran political writer, will occupy thia space. Mr.
SCaDon's column win b resumed following his
vacation.)
Rationing Conversational Boon . f
Some' men are born conversationalists, some
r have read the) Book of Knowledge, some are
Just so-so, able to chime in if someone else
gives them a cue and some are hopeless flops
when it comes to holding up their end of a
: gabfest.5 . v j : V:::i- : ' --.
These two list -mentioned groups commonly
, are characterized as "dumb." Except in a sense
well-nigh literal, that verdict quite often is
unjust. We know persons of much higher than
average; intelligence some actually possessing
brilliant minds who definitely belong fa the
'flop' class. Trouble with them is, they never
can think of a suitable topic; one in which they
can conceive of then companions being inter
ested. That" really is the key to successful con
versing; to find a topic of; mutual interest. :
- Heretofore the unfailing and overworked last
resort f the conversationally ungifted has been
the weather. I Though the censorship does not
forbid oral -comment on that topic,' the dearth
of up-to-date official weather reports has seri-
ously reduced j their' supply: of conversation-
able facts. And after all, the weather has one
fatal limitation; it is exhaustible. When one
has said everything that seems pertinent about
the weather, there one is again," conversationally
"f-high and dry. ..- . - ;;;Ai ;s-i ; ..it-
But today we have rationing. And though
it is in itself, at most -moments of involuntary
contact and who ever goes out of his way to
touch it voluntarily? a confounded nuisance,
as conversational fodder it is a veritable god
send. ;'"'J-;i:''':r--;;:;: y'rl- .
I.Ienticn rationing, or any phase thereof arid
isn't interested? Who H unwilling to lis-;
t:n? VTho is unable to contribute his own share
WASHINGTON Congress gets into action for
1943-1944 with a republican membership that's al
most more pro-war than the democrats under
whose auspices we entered the conflict.
At any rate, the GOP legislators are more voci
ferous. The democrats, as a matter of fact, did take
us in. It's obvious that they did so, so they dont
have to be constantly proclaiming it The republic
an stunt is to emphasize the idea that nobody's
quite so determined to lick the whey out of the
axis as they are. That calls for oratory.
The GOP does not accuse the demos of disloyalty.
Nobody would believe it, because, among other
things, It would be intrinsically inconsistent
What the republicans contend is that democrat
methods are bungling the job of Uncle Sam's
participation in the strife to an extent that is seri
ously discounting the value of our share in it
The situation somewhat lends itself to the re
publicans line of reasoning.
GOP POSITION
They particularly want to advertise themselves
as all out for extermination of the axis. I have
no doubt that this is true. Partisanly speaking,
though, it la an effective rebuttal to the indict
ment that they are, or ever were, isolationists. !
- At the same time, their policy is to prejudice the
voters against economic new dealerlsm.
These two spiels coordinate pretty satisfactorily.
We are all dead set on a 100 per cent United
Nations victory. I don't think the GOP is fa the
least suspected of insincerity on that issue. ; t ,
; Simultaneously, though, its object Is to punch as
many holes as it can through new deal economics.
And the republican theory is that new deal bureau
cracy Is just the thing that is crimping our war
activity. New dealerlsm, the GOP spokesmen say
;Is not unpaWotic---but Just plain fat-headedness.
The former howl would not pass muster. The
latter one is open to conversation.
H the democrats stood pat on the claim i that
their economic program is okay, they , would be on
solider around. .
But- as - we all know, there are democrats to
burn who agree economically, with adverse critics
of their own party. , No republican finds fiercer
fault with the democratic administration than a few
democrats, like Senators Harry Byrd and Millard
Tydings.
There is criticism, nods Senator Tydings, but -he
adds, it Is "constructive criticism.' - T '
If a republican said that it would rate as partisan, f
Yet Millard is a dyed-in-the-wool democrat Ditto
Senator Byrd. They are especially hard to handle
for the very reason that they ARE democrats.
Our new congress, to tell the truth, doesn't classi
fy as two main groups, with a mere handful of
Irresponsible independents mixed among them.
It doesn't even classify as THREE groups.
The third one is too mixed to count in any
direction. It will switch back and forth. It is as J
ferocious one way as it is the other.
Peace at What PriceT -
It Is for all winning the' war, certainly.
But the terms? ; )
The dispute is due to be much more complicated
as it was in 1918 and thereafter. -
That Is what' this congress Is going fata Its
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Interpreting the War News
By KIRKE I. SIMPSON
Wide World War Analyst for The Statesman
Although the; sains made by
the red army in Russia dominate
the war news, there are increas
ing signs that the reunited Anglo-American
and Fighting
Trench allies in Tunisia will
soon attempt to break the stale
mate there. I
. . No such intimation can be
read fa-French or Anglo-American
bulletins from the scene.
They have depicted for many
days only give-and-take posi
tional struggles for tactical ad
vantages or clashes of scouting
patrols. r ''
. Nevertheless, there can be
small doubt that General Eisen
hower's command Is making
ready -behind that screen to
crash forward fa force to crack
the axis hold on the Tunisian
foreland. This will be done if
possible before Rommel's, army
fleeing from Tripolitania can ef-"
f actively join forces with air and
sea-borne nazi comrades rushed
to garrison the Bizerte and Tunis
triangle and its! shirt-tail corri
dor d o w n the Tunisian east
coast. : -. I
Doubt that Rommel aims to
effect that junction In Tunieia i
puzzle involves not only old-fashioned militarism. "Py - diminishing. Fighting
wvu icuun ni ' in.
by land and sea; it involves aviation. It is -racial!
ai, j BTOgrapnic, oi course. And it Is economic,
running on into eternity. . -
The guesswork will slop over Into future con
egress -our own and other nations' congresses
our and South America's and Europe's and Asia's
and elsewhere. ,
; Now, however, the new 1943-l94t congress Is
scheduled for the initial rassle.w
This crowd wilt suffer the original headache. '
- The problems win be complicated with our local
politics for locally Is how we are particularly
Interested In the matter. : ,' -
vahce elements already filtering
fato Tunisia across the south
eastern border.
-If that is so, the remnants of
we once victory-wreathed Afri
can corps are strung out for
ueany suu miles along the coast
vi mpoutania
tdan border to
from the Tunl-
the nnint 1A
miles east of Tripoli where Its
rear guard is in ever-retiring
contact with British imperials.
The head of the steel snake Inch-
ing its way into Tunisia, if that
Is Its destination, is still distant
more than 200 miles from the in
dicated south flank, of the allied
line hemming fa the Bizerte
Tunis triangle.
West of Sousse, Tunisian port
on the gulf of Hammamet which
appears to be the main objective
of the French commanded h
General Giraud, allied advance
lines are less than 40 miles from
reaching the sea - and faterpos-
tog between Rommel and the
Tunisian foreland. ;
The unanimity with which
General Giraud's elevation to
succeed murdered Admiral Dar
, lan as leader in French Africa
was hailed even by General De
Gaulle in London as a hearten
ing omen. :
It seems to mean that Giraud
can count fully upon the unity
of his. fighting forces at a mo
ment when French valor and
French arms, supplemented from
American and British stocks and '
backed by American air power
could deal a death blow to nazi
hopes of concentrating all axis
forces fa Africa to hold the Tu
nisian foreland and still bar the ;
Mediterranean waistline to allied
v nse. i '.- .: . r ; , , . : '
It seems fitting that France fa
Africa, resurging at last against
the nazi conqueror of the f'.
er land, should test its fighting JJi"01 fcn..t!.tra
mettle anew fa so important a UmTSZsi z
; phase of the batUe of Tunisia, "
inuuung couia go farther to pro- """v-.uhbai-: i
mote French fighting unity un-
aer Giraud than a French mill- loas Homemakerr r
tary victory -paving the way for - "SilfSSS?.? in
complete annihilation of the foe' 110" u '
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By CLARENCS BUDINGTOn KLXLAND
CJhapter It contumed '
This studio Is commencing to
make money. We are on our
way," declared Darnley. That's
why you. must fight and delay.
If we can stall this off for a
year maybe we can pay the judg
ment If we have to pay it. I
wont have you fail! , ;. ;. "
Me! You wont have me fail!
- "No, but If you take this lying
down you're licked, and youll
stay licked, i Cant you see it,
Clyde? You're not fighting now
for a : miserable studio : and ' a
couple of cameras.' She was
standing over him, her face love
lier fa Its animated earnestness
than he ever had seen it before.
"Clyde, Clyde! This Is a fight
for your self-respect for your
Ye. - - ' . T
"You go, ten sharp, tomorrow:
morning the Farrish Studio." --
"I wont go. I wont accept
any engagements at the Farrish
Studio." I I-.
, "I don't ask you what you ac-
cept. Ten o'clock mit prompt
ness," snapped Wolfgang, and
hung up the phone.
Darnley stood by the tele
phone, her . teeth pressed deep;
fato her lower lip. Clyde Farrish"
had sent for her, but what did
he mean by doing It fa this man
nerthrough the Wolf gang
"Agency? He had her telephone
number, but he did not call her
directly, as would have been
natural. She could not deter- '
mine if she were hurt, by this
courage for your backbone. Oh, " impersonality; or merely stunned
please, please!" Don't give up!"
AO Jack Armstrong.
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. "So," ha mused softly. "So.
And what's all that to yu?" -"Everything!"
she answered.
"Everything! Must I .teU you
that to stir you? Must I tell
you why IVe been meddling with
your affairs; trying to wind you
up and make you tick? I hate
- you for making me say this. But
I cant see you go to the dogs,
because I love you!" ?
Darnley turned and ran ran .
from the studio, her cheeks scar- ,
let with rage and shame, her
eyes blind with tears. Stumbling
sightlessly, she collided with the
man of all work and his waste
paper wagon.
CHAPTER .TWENTY-NINE
Darnleys skirt was torn and
her knee bruised. .She thrust
open the door l and pressed the
elevator button.
- Suddenly her sight cleared; she
stood wide-eyed, staring at the .
Iron grill work guarding the ele-
vator shaft She forgot shame
to the shock of the thing that
suddenly possessed her mind
the certainty. She half turned
' as though to go back to the stu
dio, but shook her head and
again gaced the elevator.
"I know," she said to herself "
fa a tense whisper, "I know how 1
that sable coat was gotten out
of the studio." V
Darnley. was humiliated. She
was aghast, not so much at what
she had done as at the fact mat
she could have done it . . . She
had destroyed her plans now. "
She had nullified long weeks of
calculating and strategy. For it
would be impossible ever to
work with Clyde Farrish again,
ever to go to his studio, ever
to use him to her campaign to
be selected as the Golden Blend
Girt. . .-..- :-K i.y .: : t
She was cool now, or thought
she was. She had cheapened
herself. - She had told a man she
loved him, when that man had
not the slightest interest in
whether she loved him or not
He probably thought her an Idiot
and was laughing at her. Very
well, that was that
"Nothing Is hurt but my pride,"
she insisted to herself. "How
ever, the one important thing Is
my career." .v--Another
thought came: What
about Clyde Farrish? What about
his business? And what' about
the fur coat? Darnley believed
she knew how that coat had been
removed from the studio and If
she knew the means, then she
was on the road to tracing the
theft to its perpetrator. But she
need not see Farrish to give that
information; she could communi
cate with the police. .
Then, before she had formu
lated any plan, her telephone
rang.
"Iss Wolfgang speaking," said
the voice of the model agency
proprietor. "Is dot you. Miss
Carfax?"
by any communication at all
from him. c "He's Just another
photographer," she said to her
self. "If that's the way he wants
it that's how hell have it"
She would go go as if the
; engagement had come from some
man sne naa never met, ana, once
there, she would conduct herself
as if she had never seen him
before.. . . . -. .
Then almost tearfully she
thought about the beach costume
she had designed with Orrick's
for . that now and she would
never , appear on the cover of
Class. . .' . -
l ' a - a a a
In late afternoon ! Peter Or
rick telephoned. "I'm claiming
payment for that design," he
said.! "How 'about dinner to-
night?" -.
"I'd love it" she said.
A. "Shall I call -at seven?"
ni be ready," she told him.
Orrick called for her. "We're
meeting. De Groot" he announc
ed, "who Is bringing some object
of interest I don't know who
she Is? All right?"
Perfectly," Darnley said.
They met Adrian. De Groot and
a small woman who impressed
Darnley as being. rather homely 1
L fa spite of a trim figure. Her
name was Martha Orme, and
Adrian Introduced her as a great '
poet It was not until the third '
or fourth searching glance that
Darnley saw in Miss Orme's face
something Impish, something so
phisticated, something thrilling.
De Groot leaned his great hulk
across the table toward Darn
ley. "Are you watching your
step?" he asked abruptly.
" (To ba continued) J
Today's Gordon
By LILLJE L MADSEN
.-t-:.i : 'i ; , -- . .
' . far tit T- r ' 4- . 1
' how to care for a calla lily which
"she received shortly, before the
Christmas holiday.
Ana w err 'She doesn't say V
whether she intends to grow It
indoors or out Callas do very
well both out and fa as a rule
here. If they are to be planted ,
out then a semi-shady place
should be chosen. Morning sun
Is not bad for them. But the
calla Is a heavy feeder and must
have plenty of moisture. If you .
grow it indoors be sure to give it
a little feeding about every two .
weeks. A well-balanced food,
such as one obtains in tablets
for Indoor plant-feeding. Is best
Mrs. B.CJEt writes that she
saw some oak trees In Portland
fa Nobember which had very
red leaves. She adds she under- "
stood that trees didn't "turn"
without frost and wants to know
what variety these could be.
Ansker:' It seems to be a fal
lacy that frost alone is responsi
ble for the autumn ' scarlet of
leaves. Variety has much mora
to do with this change. For in
ArOUnCl Ol"OPrOn stance, our own dogwood trees.
" w" 'wtw" Nnta how hrilllant tn. wwvtt.
. By The Associated Preaa
The Southern Pacific railroad
reopened, Tuesday its line over
the Cascades, blocked since Sun-
day night by a slide that wreck
ed a passenger train, fatally in
juring one and less seriously
Injuring 13 others ... Supervisor
E. P. Cliff reported at Lakeview
that the US forest service has
sold 10,000,000 feet of timber in
the Freemont national forest to
' the Freemont Lumber Company
...Paul Branson of Rocka way
caught an Albino Civet cat fa
Mink traps he had set on Lost
Creek in northern Tillamook
county . ..Thieves looted theJ. C
Penny store at Freewater, bring-
fag the total of Umatilla county
burglaries to three in two days
. ... At Portland, superintendent
William G. Helber said higher
food costs are causing house-'
wives to save more foodstuffs,
. consequently less "higher class
garbage . Is showing up at the
city dump... 1 ?
Th state OPA reminded Ore
g o n 1 a n s to use coffee ration
stamp no." 27 before . midnight
January 3, the expiration date"!
... Grants Pass merchants re
ported that most stores there
will be closed Saturday, allow
ing employes a . three-day New
year's holiday..,, .
1 AO PTA Study Club,
130 Memory Rook of Music
145 Treasury Star Parade. "
3 AO Concert Ball
' 4 AO News. - ,,'.r"
4 30 Stories for Boys and Girls
5 AO On the Campuses:
S2f;ven,nf'. vpt Service.
545 Facts About War
:15 News -
30 Kara- Hour
1 30 Popular Melodies
:30 Music. -' '
30 Music of the Masters.
45 News.
lOiOOAmerican Melodies.
10 3i) Melodic Pong.
II. Concert liaii.
Note how brilliant they become?
Sumac turns as scarlet here as it
does in the east and .-the scarlet
oak here IS just as lovely as in
the eastern states. Perhaps the
fact that we have so many more
evergreens than deciduous trees
la responsible fori the idea that
only fa the east' do trees turn
scarlet In autumn. jWe really
should plant some more trees
here against our evergreens
which turn colorful fa autumn.
Safety Valvo
Letters from Statesman
Readers "
FOE PBOHISITION ,
: To the1-Editor: Had my at
tention called to your editorial
on the liquor traffic; The Oregon
Statesman of December IS. i
My opinion as I construe or In
consistency with our Constitu
tion Is, if we preserve our Con
stitution, the lSthrArticle to the
Amendments to the Constitution
of the United States of America ,
Is still and always will be apart
of this grand Constitution. '
Why a fine for selling liquor
to an Indian? ! i
Are not the Caucasian race's
families' Just as precious? Are
not the Negroes or Ethiopian or
Mongolian people's families just
as precious?
I heard Miss Frances Willard
lecture and she shook hands ;i
with me. What do you think !
she would say If she werejiere? ;
If there were boo tl esse rs when
the United States kept from the
selling of Intoicating liquors
couldn't there be just as many
now and more? How be it? ,
Mrs. Anna C. Furdy,
Turner, Ore.