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. -- V. .hco Tint Statesman. March 2J, 15J1" ' I ; . ylfSsj J " . " ' I
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President
Member of The Associated Press
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news despatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Education Speed-up
The proposal that selected high school seniors
be admitted to colleges and universities without
having completed their final high school year.
offered by. the Educational Policies committee
as a temporary war time program designed to
afford them a year ox higher education Dei ore ;
induction into the armed forces has, it de-!
velops, been accepted quite readily by colleges j
and university administrators who might have ;
been expected to doubt the ability of such stu-;
dents to do the required work. All or most of
Oregon's independent colleges have signified i
their willingness to accept such students; the j
state board of, higher education withheld an-;
proval pending conferences with public school
administrators.
On the other hand the school superintendents ;
and high school principals have been rather cool
in their reception of the idea. This also has been
, fiie reaction in Washington state and we are in
debted to the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin for :
the observation that some public school ad- ;
ministrators feel "it is a device evolved by the
institutions ofgher learning to forestall their
suffering unduly from the loss of their able
bodied male students 18 and older." At the
same time it was stated that the high schools,
"were they to move a heavy percentage of their ,
seniors to the colleges and universities, would
leel distinct losses in revenue." That's the
materialistic angle and it seems to be a draw.
To the credit of Oregon educators, be it said
that they are debating the issue on a higher
planer Incidentally the committee which of
fered the proposal is not exclusively a higher
education group.
. Public school administrators in Oregon offer
these objections: They have in response to war
and navy department request, instituted pre
induction courses for their older boys, and feel
that these will meet the need better than any
thing the colleges may do. Furthermore the
students involved are mostly 16 and 17 years
old, an age at which they need parental super
Vision and the home environment. For still
another point, those chosen will most likely be
the student leaders and they would have bet
ter opportunity to develop their leadership
as' high school seniors than as college "sub
freshmen." The public school officials raise another point
which, in a mere layman's view, is not valid.
They point out that on a scholastic basis, per
haps more j girls jthan boys would meet the re
quirements andf be thrust into a social en
vironment witn which they might not cope
successfully, particularly , since many of the
men on the college campus would be some
what older fellows in uniform. The. mere lay
man's answer is that this is a program for high
school boys; no girls should be included, and if
that cannot be insured in any other way, let
one of the requirements be ability to broad
jump twelve feet. , 1
The public school educators viewpoint is to
be respected. That's why we have done our
best to present it fairly. The program's purpose
however is to make certain, to whatever extent
possible, thaf young men who should go on to
(vtllocro i nnt (fiavniniM! from dmncr mn Hv
a war-service interruption just when they finish
high school. It is our opinion colored perhaps
by personal experience that this purpose out
weighs the objections, and that by. careful se
lection and careful planning, the objectionable
lactors can be eliminated. To the credit of the
public school administrators in Oregon, it
should be added that despite their doubts, the
program is to proceed at least to the point of
establishing criteria for the selection of students
to be "jump-promoted." -
so, immediate concentration on the I European
end of the axis is wise, because it's there that
an early decision is possible. (3) Yet we can't
afford to let the Nips get a foothold on the
Australian mainland. (4) We wont. We aren't
letting the Australians and Chinese down. The
Pacific war is mostly a naval war, and ap
parentlyif we knew we wouldn't dare say
virtually all of our navy's fighting units are
there ready for action.
; "How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm?
The song was popular right after the last war,
perhaps in the war's closing months. Yet that
much of it is painfully pertinent today. It went
on: "after they've seen Paree," so the issue
wasn't precisely what it is now. Keeping 'em
down on the farm, rather than sending them
to "Paree" on other possible war areas or letting
the war industry wages attract them, is a prob
lem which the War Manpower commission is
tackling with some hope of success. Naturally
the armchair administrators also are pondering
it and bobbing up with ideas. One, writing a
"letter to the editor" of another paper, sug
gests putting them into uniform. It's all right
with us provided the uniform is of blue denim,
but as for serving the intended purpose it rates
approximately zero. Farm boys are "soldiers of
production" but if they fail to realize it, put
ting stripes down their overalls won't help.
Related Headlines
One neadiine reads: "Kussians close another
trap on Germans." Another says "Hitler throws
crack troops into Tunisia." Though separated
- by what we printers call "column rules" you
just know they're related. The Russians are
making the progress but our North Africa
threat, though presently mired down, is serving
its initial purpose; creating an effective di
version which is a material factor in making the
Reds .victories possible. If our "second front"
accomplishes nothing more it will have justified
itself.
When the Reds' other major ally winter
moved into the eastern front fray for the
second time there was a big question mark.
Did : they I have enough power left after the
summer's punishment to rally and hit back?
The question is answered in the af f airmative,
and emphatically, ;
Now recently two reasonable probabilities
have been expressed; (1) that aerial punish
ment on the home front would be the most ef
fective weapon against Germany in the com
. lng .: months and (2) that victory in Europe
wouldn't come ithis year. Those probabilities
still hold good. But if, the Reds are able to
keep it up, to keep on surprising the experts
with their winter offensive, they may go into
the discard. Iand fighting may steal the show,
and the war may be over sometime this year.
So far, .we don't know enough about the ef
fectiveness of those "traps" but everything
still looks good.
There is another headline, farther away on
the page and on the world map: "Japs reported
xo oe massing largest armaaa." iterated be
cause,, as we've said often but perhaps not
often enough, .there's only one war. Related
too because, if it. turns out that the oriental
enemy is able to launch a successful offensive,
one obvious reason will be our inability to mass
maximum strength both there and in Africa,
Chinese and Australian complaint that we are
concentrating too much on the nazis and doing
too little in th2 Pacific : f ind their echoes at
Lome snd thera may develop a rousing debate
cn this point. H ere's something to be said on
both sides and today there isn't: space to say
i. But thesa ere cur views: (1) Japan is by
rvo means a "secondary" enemy as . President
Hoosevelt is suspected of thinking. (2) Even
The drys have been worrying about soldiers
drinking. The war department insists that
soldiers don't do much drinking, on the average,
and some independent investigations have sup
ported that view. On the other hand the Dis
tilled Spirits Institute reports that average an
nual consumption of liquor in the District of
Columbia is 5.02 gallons per person as against
a national average of 1.33 gallons. Looks as
though the drys ought to stop worrying about
the soldiers and start working on the federal
officials and employes.
Stewart Says: i
By CHARLES P. STEWART
WASHINGTON The postoffice department
has just issued an appeal to the public to mail
, no unnecessary letters.
Frivolous telephone calls and little expressions
i of good wishes at the end of telegrams already are
banned. That kind of stuff can be spotted and
held up. However it's more difficult to maintain
control over small sentences of family chat in
: sealed up and stamped postage.
It's almost impossible, to stop-and keep the ser
' vice going. f
However, the department has the situation under
fair control by making deliveries too unreliable to
: be worth monkeying with even if attempted.
There aren't collectors to make collections. There
I aren't carriers to deliver 'em. I get and dispatch
' considerable mail and at least 75 per cent of it
simply disintegrates.
Business concerns tell me the same thing.
Delivery kids seem to be the little miscreants.
: Boys, te Blame
Small boys have been put on the job as sub-
stitutes for responsible carriers. The little squirts
; are worthless,
j Illustratively:
I have a house on a well known street with' its
name tagged on every corner and my numbers con-
spicuously marked in front and the kid reports
that he can't find that address. The mail piles
: up for awhile and then the regular carrier registers
; present Maybe your newspaper deliveries are the
same way. In the morning you ought to get, it
; around 8 tun. If you get it at 9, you're lucky. The
; trouble with 'em Is that you're dealing with those
Irresponsible little kids on jobs as substitutes. You
could kick if they were regulars but you have
to be thankful to get 'em as substitutes.
Business in Washington is in the same general
way. The postoffice Is better than the average
because it's better established.
Half a dozen years ago my young daughter un
; dertook an expedition, accompanied by her mother,'
I from our rented family headquarters in Wash-
lngton, out into nearby suburban Alexandria, on
the Virginia side of the Potomac, for a look at
: the Revolutionary historical scenery that the burg
; fairly bulges with. :
It's a pretty little place and they fancied it.
i Accordingly, returning to the capital, they informed
me that they'd decided we Were to buy a small
I house there. '
With my wife I have a certain amount of in-
fluence. So far as she was concerned, my protest;
; might have weighed materially. My daughter,
; however, wasnt brought up to be subservient to her
.dad's dictation. . I
? "Whatever you may think about it," daughter!
? announced definitely, "we're going to acquire that t
I shack in Alexandria." - f - f
: Naturally I had no option but to compromise
by acquiescing.
i ; We moved, then, out to Alexandria. My daugh
fter arranged the dicker.' I was to dig up regular
monthly Installments, to run pretty well on into
perpetuity, with final ownership ; of the house
land lot ultimately to vest itself in me. if I live
long enough, or, if I die, for my wife and daughter
to inherit it ' . ,
'Bawled to Vain f - ,
; Well, we moved. Commutation was just as bad
as Fd anticipated. The expense was of no great
, consequence. Monthly payments and transporta- -1
tion hardly footed as much as a Washington rental
In those days. The trips were an infernal nuisance,'
j though. I howled constantly, but there was nothing
;I could do about it. My daughter got married and;'
went to Argentina; then Mexico. I still was stuck
iwith the initial proposition. - . , j
; Then the war popped. i j
t . Washington filled up to such an extent that It
,was overflowing- Rentals sky hooted. Due to the
; overflow, they likewise skyhooted in all of Wash
ington's suburbs, such as Alexandria. That didntl
make any difference. to i me,': though, jbecause-my
monthly levy already was fixed by previous con-:-.tract,
and actually was piling up into future own-
ership. , ; ii'i- j. ;: ; w j
Presently,' rental ceilings had to be slapped on, I
under governmental authority. They couldn't hikes
my deal, nevertheless. I had mine anchored. Taxes
can catch me, but not monthly payments. 1 "
Besides, my eauirrs worth an htrmtin rmMl
, while the war lasts, and I aim to unload when the
proper time comes. - r - , f.A h
i Now I wish I could take credit for having made
a smart move but my family knows better'- -; 1 " - '
fT wouldn't bother. I don't
care how many millionaire ladies
he leads to the altar." r
Mvtheless." Darnley insist-
ed, "he's afraid of something that
can interfere with this marriage.
an1 that something is in una
the world to cleanse her . bands.
"You ' found toothing," said
Clyde sardonically.
"Not even," she admitted bit
terly, "anyone to help me."
"You have," be told her, a
smudge on your chin."
It was not like her to refrain
, "I might try," he said, "If I
fc-rtMr what I was searching for.'
!.? tnid vou once. It must be
Dicture or a negauve
would break up
that
marriage.
a feeling i. of helplessness and
hopelessness to overcome, her.
- Darnley longed for a hot bath
and bed. .S Once In the. tun sne
And it must be here. Lacey Gorse fxed gnd lay there scarcely
'Drang Nach Oaten9 1943
IadSo Pirograinnis
KSLM WEDNSSDAT 139 K.
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T. -00 News.
1: 5 Rise a Shln
7:15 On the Farm Front
7:30 Newt
7. -45 Your Gospel Program.
5 Mr County Agent' Talk.
80 News Brevities.
8:35 Harry Owen'a Orch.
.-00 Pastors can.
:13 Rhythm Rascals.
9:30 Popular Music
9 :45 Rollo Hudson's Orchestra.
10 .-00 World In Review
10 .-05 Charlie Hamp Ballads
10 JO Women In the News
10:35 Organ; Violin. Harp Trio
11:00 Musical College
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12 .-00 OrganaUUes
12:15 New.
12 JO Hillbilly Serenade.
12 J5 Willamette Valley Opinions.
1.-00 Henry Kiugaud His Orch.
1:15 Mai Hallett's Orchestra.
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15 Four Notes.
2A0 Isle of Paradise.
2 15 US Marines.
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8. -00 Fllipe Gil. Jose Navaro
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I J4 Langworth Choristers.
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7H Jay Burnette
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12:23 On the Farm Front
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8:00 Salute to the Allies
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Today's Top runes.
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11 :15 Nature Trails.
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Interpreting the War News
j By KLRKE L. SIMPSON
! Wide World War Analyst for The Statesman it
Caucasus regions, there are new
and glowing possibilities open
ing to red commanders in the
center. Velikle Luki junction
forms one corner of a rail tri
angle just- below the Kholm
marshes.!; Novosokolniki, 20
miles west along the main mail
route from Russia to' Riga, Is an
other. It also is claimed by the
Russians. '
j Evidence that Hitler's hold-at-;i
all-costs program for his second
war winter in Russia is close to
a breaking strain at eruclal
: points continues to mount daily
; despite soothing nazi assurances
t to : the German people that all
goes well in the east.
Rostov, a critical pivot of Hit
ler's southern flank, is in fast
mounting 'danger, according to
j reports from Moscow. And far
; to the north at Velikle Luki the
Russians have 'dented, the nazi
: central front sufficiently to shake
the foundations of the northern
flank all the way to the Baltic
and Leningrad if they can ex
ploit that break-through.
1 Whether Russian successes
have yet forced - upon the foe
, such, desperately dangerous ma
neuvers as a winter retreat from
the Caucasus salient is doubtful.
However, - soviet capture of key
nazi positions above the Grozny
, oil field In the Caucasus range
; foothills at least suggests that a
'German withdrawal from that
now exposed 'extreme southern
. angle may be in -progress.
If nothing more has been ac
icompUshed, the nazi attempt to
; reach Grozny and the road to
i the great Baku oil field beyond
it has been badly blunted. There
has "been much, to. indicate that
it was the lure of that Baku oU
' objective, which drew Hitler into
bis 1942 effort to knock Russia
out of the war. . : -
The reported fall of Velikle
Luki, however, means a Russian
threat as ominous to the north
ern flank of the invader's line as
' the Stalingrad entrapment and
the converging red army prongs
reaching toward Rostov are : to
the Caucasus salient. "
' Important as are claimed Rus-
sian oXXensive gains in the Don-
The third corner is : NeveL
about 50 miles south, its seizure
in the expanding Russian offen
sive would open a double route
to cut the main central supply
line for the nazi hedge-hog front
west of Moscow via Vitebsk and
Smolensk. A vaster entrapment
of the foe than before Stalingrad
' or in the Caucasus would re-'
suit, y--; IN- ?i 1
With Velikle Luki in Russian
hands, however, and the Vitebsk
Neyel - Leningrad 'north - south
railroad cut: at Novosokolniki,
there is a chance for a Russian
push northwest instead of ,south-1
ward or westward. An 'advance
of less than 1(K miles up to that
railroad to Iao, west of the
Kholm marshes would jput the
Russians in rear of the nazi front
below and west of Lake Hmen,
astride its Pskov cotnrnunication
IIne; and within 60 xailes of.
: Pskov Junction': ltselt.
Unquestionably Russian : cap .
ture or serious t threat to : the ;
Pskov gateway to all northwest
ern Russia could go far toward
completely lifting. the siege of;
Ieningrad. It could change the
whole map of the war in the ;
north and leave j Hitler's Finnish
allies all but isolated. , : . '
I That may not be presently an
; element of Russian strategy, but '
It is a possibility against which
the foe must promptly guard.
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Mews. 4 -
used to: work for the man you
bought this business from. Where
is that man?" -
' "Dead," said Clyde. - !
I .'Have you an inventory of
what you bought??
"Heavens, no!"
fHe used to take news photo
graphs, too, you told me." - -
iiKYes.";
"And sell them to papers and
znagazmes. t--:. .!;"...-
"Yes." 1 . . '
fBut you haven't destroyed
scything?"
rNot a thing." - ,
"You've never gone ; through
his . collection of pictures and
negatives?" . i
"Why should I? I was going
to heave them out some day."
"How many are . there?"
Thousands." .
-Are they kept in any system-'
tic way?" ;
ifProbably they were once. But
1 1 moved, ' you know, i : ; I r think .
they were just stowed away
helter-skelter." i
."Where are they?"
In the storeroom"
"Well," she announced, "I'm
going through them with a fine
tooth comb. And I'm going to
start now." H
"Fine," he said sardonically.
"It'll keep you and your cops
from underfoot so I can take a
couple of pictures." M
"By the. way she asked,
"when does Sam Britton expect
to hear from the Golden Blend
people about that cigarette ac
count?" '
"He didn't say. The presenta
tion has been in Chico Sanson's
hands and it was' the first one
In." i -
. "Thanks," she said, "to my
knowing he was going to change
agencies. And now, will you
show me where those old nega
tives are stored?" ' I ,
"Gladly," he agreed, i "And 1T1
lock you in with . them If you
say so." j ' : ;
Darnley went Into , the room
where the old collection of nega
tives and prints -was stowed and
faced an almost hopeless task.
Because she was persistent, she
set to work. She found pictures
of statesmen, athletes, society
people, criminals, horses,! houses,
yachts, but after hours of wearl-
some, grimy toll, she discovered s , parlor.
nothing that could have the
slightest interest to Lacey Gorse.
When she was quite exhausted
she emerged and locked the door
after her. It seemed there was
thinking. The telephone rang re
peatedly, but she did not answer.
. . . She . glanced at the clock.
-Vaguely she ' wondered where
Jerry was. Then, as If a spring
had been touched, he sprang ,
" from the .bath. ;.;
The janitor had been warned
to stay away from ; the " studio,
or he had been prevented from
coming. That meant, must mean,
that someone who knew of her.
plan, must : have got in touch
with Gorse. But who knew of
her scheme to demonstrate how
the sable coat had been abstract
ed from the studio? The police.
But the police would not send a
warning. There .remained only
one other ' person. ; In all the
world there was but one Indi
vidual who could have done what
must have been done who could
. have seen or telephoned to Gorse.
And. that person was the only
other person who knew."
Jerry Shafto!
L Darnley did not dress. She
made a cup of tea, poached an
egg, and, having eaten lightly,
sat for an hour thinking. Jerry
Shafto! She must not allow Jer
ry,' when she returned, to be
come aware of suspicion, but she
did not feel able to face her
roommate, so to avoid the neces
. sity she retired to her room and
shut the door. ; . I
! In the morning she called
Wolfgang. ' "No engagements for
me today," she said. "I'm rest4
lng. Tonight is the Golden Blend
show." i ;' I
j Jerry 'had gotten up quietij
and gone out before Darnley
awokev This was unusual, for
Jerry waj a morning sleepyhead i
Darnley was unhappy. It was '
her first experience inf life with
i treachery if Jerry were i guilty
of treachery. It -seemed incred
ible that a girl who had been
her friend, with whom she had
lived so intimately, could con
duct herself in so unspeakable a
fashion. - - . -
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Around Oregon
By The Associated Press
i The judging, of the selected
contestants was to be done at
the Chamberlain-Towers in the
grand ballroom. The hour was
to.be eight-thirty. So Darnley
spent the afternoon in a beauty
She returned to the
apartment well after ; six ; and
made ready to. dress for the oc
casion.' First she went to her closet
to get out the gown she intended
to wear. She did not light the
light there, because she knew
exactly where the dress hung.
But her groping fingers did not
touch fabric; instead, they touch-
sWt 9lVVVatKfvtiW asoeJ-J..11-. A4.
V By The Associated Press 11 uuwiiiy son,
Oregon farmers, industrialists, almost alive not fabric, but fur.
scientists and educators will f0 gasped. j
meet at ; Portland Thursday to
complete: organization j of the
Oregon state farm . chemurgic
committee . . . Grants Pass postal
receipts ! reached 'an ! all-time
high of $59,608 during 1942 and
marriage licenses issued there
number the same as for 1941
162 . . . John P. Johanson, 69,
Hillsboro, was killed by an auto
mobile while crossing the Tuala
tin highway . . . ! : ;, ' j
Cut of timber from the Rogue
River national forest totaled.29,
238,000 board feet in 1942, the
heaviest in 15 years, supervisor
K. I Janouch reported at Med
ford ... Postal receipts t Bend
set sr new record of $82,384 in
1942, almost $3000 higher than
in j 1941 1. . -; Fred MerryCeld,
Oregon State college - associate
professor! of civil engineering,
said at Corvallis that he would
report to the army January 12
for special duty as a captain , ; .
Bend, operated under a com-'
mission-manager form of gov
ernment,! has selected Commis
sioner Fred S. Simpson for his
ninth - term ' as mayor end re
tained GJ G. Reiter as dty , man
ager v . Congressman Harris
EUswortli informed Roseburg
sources that preliminary ex
aminations for vacancies at the
US military end naval academies
would be held in the fourth con
gresHionaljdistrict January 23. . .
r 1 ' i ' -
10:18 Labor News !
105 St. rranda Hotel rM.. .
I Suddenly frightened, she snap
ped on the light, and there, on
a hanger, in her own closet, was
the sable coat that had been
stolen from Clyde .Farrish's stu
dio! j ;
j Darnley stood for a moment
as if she had been turned to ice.
Then,- instinctively, she ran to
the door and put on the chain,
so that no one could enter. She
felt again of the rich fur, took
it; from the closet and held it up
before her eyes. There could be
no mistaking that soft richness.
It was no imitation, no cheap
fur, but a garment fit for aa
empress. ..
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To be continued
Today's Garden
r By LILLIE L. MADSEM
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