The Associated Press
news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited
Strength Doesn't Reach ;
Premier Tojo tells the Japanese . that this
business of warfare is getting more and' more
serious. So he i3 appointing a new board of
advisers. He seems to be following the FDR
model when things get intolerable appoint a
new' board to divide the authority. But Tojo
is not fooling, and despite their meagre infor
mation the Japs undoubtedly realize that the
fighting is hard.
For proofs look at the slow progress in China.
If there is one clear,, military objective for Japan
it is to knock China out of the war. The way is
open; aid to China is largely cut off, Japan Is
not facing immediate attack on its island out
posts. If Japan could destroy the Chinese
armies, eliminate Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek, and force a peace on the Chinese people,
then Tojo might well claim victory in Asia.
Secure on the continent, the rest of southeast
Asia and its offshore islands would fall natural
ly to Japan's domination. We would face a long,
long war to defeat Japan then.
Japan knows all this. Last year she tried to
administer a coup de grace to China, and
failed. The many r pronged drives launched in
the spring were soon blunted by the valorous
and numerous Chinese. This year, with some
fanfare the Japs started another series of thrusts
into China from their old strongholds. But
these drives for the most part have failed to
develop, although a new thrust along the Sal
ween river, which is a critical area in southern
China, is reported. Unless a reversal of for
tune occurs Japan will not succeed this year
In reducing China.
The cold truth is that Japan has gambled,
for big stakes, and has run up a great fortune
measured in geography. But she has strained
herself, and evidently lacks the reserves now to
clinch victory. On this slender margin hang
the present hopes of the United Nations for suc
cess in the Pacific, theatre.
Roping the Wood Dealers
The OPA has started putting halters on the
rwood dealers. No rationing is in effect, the press
release hastens to make clear, but that may be
just round the corner. Now all that is required
is for wood dealers to register with OPA's fire
wood rationing branch in Seattle. The registra
tion covers all fuel from wood, cordwoed, slab,
mill -ends, sawdust, etc.
This adventure will do more damage than it
will good. The. wood dealers are for the most
part individual operators with a truck or two.
If they have to run the gauntlet of question
naires, penalties and red tape many of them '
will just quit and. go to work in the shipyards.
David Eccles, who served as deputy fuel ad
ministrator for the state last year, headed off
wood rationing when it was first proposed. It
is his firm opinion that it will be a mistake.
Wood dealers ration their supplies now : when ;
they are caught short, but manage to keep their
customers fairly well supplied even in cold
weather.
Oregon got through the past winter without
much trouble because of the early campaign;
to store fuel.-In the case of firewood most house
holders planned ahead and got their wood in
during the summer and falL Many cut their
own wood. Through cooperation of mills and.
, railroads Portland was supplied with slabwood.
At one time the state was urged to start con
victs to cutting forest wood, but the plan of
using mill waste. proved more practical.
We wish i Washington would leave Inraliiioa
more to their own resources, especially in this
matter of firewood. Most people know it gets
cool here in the winter and don't have to be
told to store wood for winter use. -Publicity
for being forehanded will do more good than
roping and branding the poor
Laboratory at Albany
The purchase of the Albany college campus
and buildings at Albany for the use of the fed
eral bureau of mines was announced yesterday
in Washington. The deal has been pending for
some weeks, and is welcome news to Albany
where the plant, has been used only for brief
periods since the - college moved to Portland
several vears aim. ' The nlant ifh tMMnr
lteratinn onrf , imnmv.m.nt.
lora.Zs
particularly with the view to using Columbia
river power for their reduction. j
While. Oregon's development in minerals has
been scanty to date, there is hope that .through
scientific research practical methods of utiliz
ing our minerals will be discovered. The chrome
plants beginning to operate on the old sands
in southwest Oregon comes as a result of such
research at Oregon State college and elsewhere.
Pending now is improvement of the process
for' extracting aluminum from the clays near
Cottage Grove and Molalla, so as to warrant
construction of - a commercial plant I Other re
sources which may yield to development are the 1
coals of Coos county and the iron
luxnbia. I . '
I)r. "Warren Smith of the state university in
an address in Eugene this week said that during
the century from 1815 to 1915 the white popula
tion of the world had increased three-fold, hut
the, draft on minerals 75-fold. For the world,
at peace or at war, minerals are vital. The
establishment, of the mines laboratory , at Al- !
bany should lead to real progress in northwest
mineral development, r j j
Oregon newspaper folk, will welcome back
W n . . . . .
veraon jcw u-nurcmii, long prominent in adver
tising circles ca the west coast.
to Portland from Minneapolis to.
motion manager of the Oregon Journal.
-v.t.,
Our service men's column a few days ago
reported a war medal had been awarded post
fcumcrcusly." There's no humor ; in an award
Won at, the cost of the hero's life. . .- - -j
"No Favor Sways Vs; No Faar Shall Awe
From First SUteaman. Mardt 28, 1851
' THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
"CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor' and Publisher . -Member
of The Associated Press I
is exdusirely entitled to the use
xh urvnir nf
tion IjOf underemployed farmers in Kentucky.
Each! Monday 0 or 50 of these men arrive in
Coluinbus, Ohio, are taken out to the! state uni
versity, housed in trailers parked kinder the
football stadium. They are then given a on
week course id agriculture: one day ;in a dairy
barri, one day learning to run a tractor, etc The
Course used to be three weeks but tbe custom
ers jgot homesick so it was shortened to one
week. Give them a diploma though and that
ought to entitle them to a job as easily as; a
three-weeks course. The hill-folk are glad jto
get jobs on Ohio farms. They say it lets them
eat fa little higher on the hog" thanj their cus
tomary sow-belly. And while they have a lot jto
learn after they graduate from the one-week
school, the Ohio farmers are glad to see some
real! he-men who can lend a hand, j j
News
The News
(By PAUL MALLON
Distrlbutioa by King restores Syndicate. Ine. Repre
duction in whole or tn part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, March 18 They talk now here
(Mr. Roosevelt, Senator Ball and the congressmen
generally) of internationalizing the world.
If they want to do that, they had; better first
" ' J
PaaJ M&Uoa
loose group of Russians, Chinese, Americans and
Africans at birth and placed them in a compound,
anil reared them under the same teachings and
ideals, your loss from the group would run no
more than 20 per cent Essentially, basically, in
their inner religious spirit, men are born the same,
at j least as far as the 70 or 80 per cent of their
essential spiritual being is concerned, j
What makes them different is the rearing, teach
ing, inculation of different ideals which they! re
ceive from their mothers, or guiding influences
in 1 the schools, but chiefly from inter-association
with their fellow-men of like kind, j
A German reared under such circumstances loves
Hitler; a Chinese, Chiang Kaf-Shek, and an Ameri
can if he Is reared right the principles of our
constitution and democracy.
breaking down these nationalities j further,; you
will find that there are all kinds of people in
them good, bad, grasping, helpful, j intellectuals,
sloths. A Chinese and. an American intellectual
are really closer together in spirit and purpose man
either of them individually is to some members of
his own race. j j
There is a greater natural variance between
people of the same race (good, badj indifferent)
than there is between nations. j
As for the great bulk of the peoples and all
nationalistic races, they are today not component
parts. They are not soluble. ; j
j I don't care what the senate will say (for Inter
national political purposes) in its promised j reso
lution, or what Mr. Wallace advocates! the various
races of men today simply are not .congenial, by
purpose, hopes, living standards, wage rates, and
all tangible things, and cannot be made so. i
j Many things they have in j common, including
a desire to advance themselves, their particular
locality, their nation. Men are competitive by
nature. They want to advance themselves above
their station in life and their country.
! But to an American, this means a wife, home,
kn automobile, good plumbing, a radio, a garden
perhaps, and neighbors and friends j to whom he
Can express his opinions as he damn well chooses.
To the British, it does not mean an automobile
substitute a bicycle), eliminate plumbing and such
home comforts, and enlarge j the garden. I To a
Russian or a Chinese, or ah African, you can
eliminate just about everything, including the wage
irate. !
wood dealers.
lot because their
comfort, and sometimes I think they are the
m j happiest people
iT - r to """J K
iu tsocuu nimotng, taxes, acquiring social securi
ty). They settle themselves to the simple, natural
m - 1 I r
pleasures or uie which are far more important.
To a French farmer, for instance, a large manure
pile is the greatest of riches because it forecasts
a good crop, while a New York millionaire is bound
to be unhappy for many reasons, (envy, jealousy,
losing his' money, investments). j i
I never saw a happy rich man, unless it was the
late J. P. Morgan, who cast! aside all hia! nhM
Into government bonds and maintained his bank
mainly for the purpose of employment rather
power, f j !
So I say an these Wallace, Welles or Bail plans
for a post-war world are foolish. They do not consider-
ths essential being of I man jin his Various
nationalistic conditions or propose to correct them.
If these politicians really want to do something
along the line of the canned good: they are now
advertising; they win first interna tLnalize the peo
ple of the world before they try to internationalize
its politics. They will change the existing situation '
to the point where you will meet a Eiussian, CMwte.
or Negro on the street as a j friend and equal.
They can do that by developing the 10 per cent
norm that is common to all the common Intuitive
instincts- into a mass civilization. I They can first
make Chinese, Japanese, German ideals equal to
ours.;1- ;- f nf -j--""'.r
How to do that, I do not know, fsmnx-a educa
tion would help (the Oxford movtment expanded
to reality). j
Let the liberals, the Archibald MscLeishes of Mr.
Roosevelt's administration, the Sherwood' Ander
sons, the idealistic hopefuls contain themselves in
the 10 per cent reality of what can be accomplished.
Let them get a congenial aitualion before they
start to congeal It. Let them, in short. International
ize the people of the world mako them onebe
fore they start talking about mtiking the werld
ores of Co-f
f :"!
He is returning
become pro
tor publication of
all
in this newspaper.
The farm security administration is tapping
mannnwpr in the hill DOOula
Behind
internationalize the people.
The fundamental defect With
all these plans, and the reason
they are called visionary,! is
because everyone knows that a
Russian, a Chinese', an Ameri
can, an African is feared under
different environment, taught
different ideals, personally, I
doubt that there is much dif
ference between races at j the
outset, a physical difference, an
intuitive difference as theyjare
born, certainly ndt more than
10 per cent j
Perhaps if you ' gathered a
But these people are spiritually happy hi their
norm Is different.1 their eaal la
of alL because they do not hava
. ae1. -! -
, . . .
The Short Age
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100 Soldiers of the Press.
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i 20 Texas Rangers. . , .
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2 VV V. Jr
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(rarrent day's prefraaas , wUl be ;
! pabUshea as asmal and. la addittoa,
the first half ef the next day's
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eomles page.
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S0 Kate Smith Speaks.
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100 Life Can Be Beautiful.
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Dnterpretirig
-The War News
By GLENN BABB
Wide World War Analyst for The Statesman
The American forces In Tu
nisia have fought their way back
to approximately the same lines
they held five weeks ago be
fore Marshal Rommel made his
, audacious sortie out of Fald pass.
Rommel is fighting primarily for
time and he can point to the
weeks that have passed with the
" allied offensive still to come. But
it is a dubious gain. The axis
position in Tunisia has not Im
proved in those five weeks now
that the Americans have return
ed to Gafsa and are reaching out
toward Maknassy and Gabes.
It is doubtful whether the al
lied preparations for the offen
sive would have been much fur
ther along today if Rommel had
chosen to await the blow rather
than try his hick by striking . v ' - , . ' ;
The mud and weather still would Alt (Vfcllfif - f 1QT1
have shackled - General Ander- . T " ,'3
son's First army: in the north; GlVeil to US
while in the south the Eighth I
army needed time, after its dash WASHINGTON, March
. at Bommel's heels across AM- Thm testing J. Rosenwald eotlec
ca, to bring up its supplies and 11011 of prints, drawings, manu
get its offensive machinery scL cr-pt8 and rare books has been
The Eighth army stm Is given to the nation, the national
fUbthia: s4 the 49ad ef Jsart ; gallery of art and the library of
about the langest military ssi- congress t, clisclosed Wednesday
ply line la the werld, elan- ,' night m announcing acceptance of
v ff-ated seme 1508 weary, hack- i the gift v:v---: ; vvvrftl -?
lteakmg land miles ttatn the ; The retired Philadelphia mer
damage Rommel did te Tri- " chant's collection includes wood
. poirs harbor eaa be repaired. " ; cuts and engravings by lSth'cen
" What progress the ; miracle- - tury prmtmakers, 230 etchings by
. .werklag British engineers and .. Rembrandt,. 357 prinU by k'hist
- qnartermasters ' have achieved ler and many Illustrated I books
there has net been disclosed ,- from famous early presses In Ger-
bat there are plenUfal tadlea- many, Italy, France and the low-.
tuns that General naa?rw-
. iv
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err is Just
strike.
The American sector undoubt
edly Is stronger today than in
nd-February.' There is if no
denying that wa suffered griev
ous losses between Fald, pass
and the mountains, more thah
2000 men killed, wounded and
missing and quantities of tanks
and other weapons which fell in-,
to RommeTs hands; But' the
ranks have been refilled, the ma-
a eaw
wnu losses replaced and a more
Datuewise, alert
and vetureful
force, under one of the mmt ...
gressive commanders in I the
army, Lt Gen. George S. Nat
ion, Jr, is pressing at the axis
lanes. - v-
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aboat ready ; te
C&apter S3 C!tms:',Jr"',-T.';.-::
; Yes. May have thought youd
come here to! get him bak. And
I vhen she! found out itf wasnt
you, it was Gala, she f- well
ladnt your I restraint and got
even," Aunt JJiinie followed my :
rtasoningi "But I stm dbnt see
f where the Stoddard murder fits
f.-.fnU-j- 'flii-v;,, W,--
, S maintained "Bruce j caught
Stoddard j ransacking his! library
and killed luznf-uiun tentionally .
i Aunt inlie considered the
idea for a while and then shook
; : her headi Not In negation. As if ,
! to shake off? something. v
vl'f "1 'cant make head nor tail
'l if IV s$e 'eidd at laaf' testily.
: .And Im not going to jspend a
sleepless night over it either: Let
the Inspector I worry, and let's
"... you and I. go to bed and have a
nice lonj; sleep. Or is Allan
.coming back?" '.'.'.-.' ,
I told xe 'wasn't. He and
wDad have to. get up early, for
I Bruce's funeral," I Reminded .
iher. - g r.
-Well, hers
hoping you sleep
through lt,7 he offered unfeel
ingly. I m-: . -:
I must confess, to my shame,
I did oversleep the nextmornlng
Nettie omitted to call the at six
; as I had aiked her to do on
Aunt Mlllle'S say-so, I Inferred
and I only woke at nine to the
shocking realization that " the
mortal lymains of the bum who
had been mr husband, ifor a few
transitory days, had been placed
in the Burton; family vault two
. hours earlier. ; -. i . .
The :-epbrters of Cliffport's
only paper, had been less remiss.
In spite of the secrecy observed,
and the earlyhour of j the cere
mony, the front pace of the late
morntogf . edition screamed oyer
Brace's jfuneral. . , f
There wer pictures of him,
of Ellis burton, of the Burton
house. Pad's presence was duly
mentioned -4 Allan's discreetly
overlooked l and I was "the
lovely yotma" widow, i too pros-
trated with grief fod a public
appearance.'
It was pretty depressing read
ing, and X welcomed' the Inspec
tor's unexpected arrival. Then
Forrestall snd Aunt Millie : en
tered. Forrestall saidj Td like
to show! you the
afe right
away."
Soon
afterward the
four of us
were standing In the
library of
the Burton house, where , only
the abisencel of the I dark-gray
stone on the desk was an indi
cation pi what had happened.
Now, if fyoull watch care
fully,' Conley Forrestall invit
ed, stepping! to one of the wall
cobinets and putting' his hand
on one j of itf many small draw
ers. "Ypij give this handle a twist
to the rights until it is in its old
position,! then you push in and
-letgf t '
He accompanied .the words
with the! action and, to my sur
prise, the iwhole cabinet slid
forwardV all! but fie bottom
drawer, until it had moved com
pletely out pt its nlc-he. Then it
swung, Jus ias slowly, to the
right, disclosing an open space
behind4 ts neighbors, with the
aoor ox a safe dearly visible in
the wall behind it-
"Simple, it you know how,
the Inspector: commented.
Forrjestall hoddeeLf "Yes, and
almost impossible to find. The
safe itself is an old coffee mill.
If a burglar' ever discovered it,
getting intcl the thing would be
child's; play, f or hlmi Here's the
combination.: Will you open it.
Miss Wentworth?'- J
I steppedt on the shallow plat
form formed by the sUtlonary
drawer and turned the knob ac
cording to the directions on the
slip of paper Forrestall handed
me .; if;.;.. - I -
It really; was easy.' The safe
swung fopeh instantly, and all
that 1 wpuld be mine in a few
short months lay before me:
bundles and bundles'of securities,!
recoras or separataf enterprises,
siacars pi neavy account books.
i a i a . 1 ' .
rorresiaui pointea out one
-batch, after jthe othir, with vol-4
uble-ferpla&atks about the in-i
vestment value and general de-l
sirablHty pf eachj and, as a
good showman, .left the biggest
plum to the last. - ,!'
"An4 here Is the! famous leti
a . taai m - 1
, -ttrnQunceo puinng out
noa Inner draafer. 'Opened;
as you; see oy tna Ute Bruce
JoTTimar Burton.
I Icouldh't help lt," my scalp
waslthigling as I took it from
him and jfwalked to the desk,
sitting down in the- chair behind
. 7"trt rVZL oca.
mu ms uie which Bruce
must have sat recently. It was
like srmbonc acaon, a tak
ing-possession of the Burton
tato. l I J
Chapter X4;
... ... i ,:r
I slowly; pulled five large,
closely written sheets from the
envelope and began to read.
"My dearest son, ; the long
letter started. And went on from
there, with protestations of loye,
and regrets about their mlsun
derstanduig' for the whole first
page. Thin lt mentioned Gala,
with? many pangs! of conscience
about her. aeddent,' which would
- nt j have;; happened If he, the
writer, had been less prejudiced.
And 'at last, on the third page,
it got around to the radium find.
"We were on the right track,
the last time we searched for it
in Central America,'' Ellis Bur
ton wrote, ; "The- only mistake
we made; was at jour hist 'camp.
rra not mentlontog its location,
far fear this letter may fall Into
the wrong hands. You will know
the one I mean, if I tell you we
took the riht fork of the river
from there. We should have f ol-
lowea tne .rot
Then came jlirections. Speak
ing of rivers and mountains in
miles and altitudes, mentioning
food camping sites, or how to
avoid certain swampy stretches,
and ending with a description of
their goal.
Nowhere, in the ten long pages,
was there a clew to the locality
of the valley. Not even to the
country in which it was, or the
year in which Burton and Bruce
had searched for it the last time.
"Central Americaw was the only
geographical term in the whole
involved epistle.
I I read the letter through twice,
sure. -I must have overlooked
something. And then, just as I
opened my mouth to speak of
the astonishing lack of informa-
tor's warning not to talk too .
-freely in the presence of Conley
Forrestau, and changed what I'd
been going to say into: "Amaz
ing! His description of the place.
Listen to this!" and read them
a part of the letter..
I - in wr oi uie wnoie vauey
shows small outcropping of
pitchblende of ordinary strength. .
Immensely valuable, but nothing
unprecedented. Only toward the
afetshn fa-eve tww a-.l aa uu J
aion, does the ore show the un-heard-ef
radium content of the
stone I have brought home with
me for, demonstration and test
ing purposes. But that small
area contains enough radium, in
tny ' estimation, to supply the
world's needs for generations
I I put down the letter, still a lit
tle uncertain how far to pro
ceed, --j- p V".
j "But where is this valley? In
what country?" Forrestall inter-
I. tried to look innocent. "Don't
TOU know? Didn't you read the
letter?
"Certainly not," he informed
me angrily. "No matter what In
spector Pettengill thinks, I'm not"
In H KaKit nt rvnrlintf ad
dressed to Other Deorile which -
all natural curiosity."
Tm! sorry, but r can't teU
you,- I Bald firmly. "Mr. Burton
especially asks Bruce not to di
vulge the. location to anyone. He
wants him to go to the valley
with the best scientific equip
ment obtainable, and taking -a
certain famous geologist with
him- he mentions the name but
he wants no one, not even this
geologist, to know where they're
going." ' jr - ., ,v
Forrestall made a slight grim
ace and shrugged. "Sounds like
flunon. Ana it isn t important,
except this thing does get one. .
rather; I guess it's the hidden
adventurer in the staidest of us.
Well. I, have to run. Ill be late
for the meeting as it is."
"Good girl! Remembered what
I said about keeping your mouth
shut to Forrestall!' the Inspector
praised after my administrator's
departure. "Now; what really is
in the letter? Or were you tell
ing the truth?"
"Yes and no," I told him Dick-
ing up the sheets and handing
them to him "Read it yourself.
You too. Aunt Millie."
Silence followed. The only
sound in the room was the soft
rustling of the paper as the two 1
readers turned the pages.
; f (To be continued)
Today's Garden
By LILUE L. MADSEN
B. T. asks how many varieties
of camellias ' there are and if
they need any Special culture.
She is a newcomer in the west
and had just seen a camellia blos
som worn on the coat of a friend
attending a Sunday school class.
v Answer; I really do not know
how many varieties there are.
I know that the Oregon camel
lia society is promising us that
more than 100 varieties Willi be
represented in its show to be
, held In Portland shortly.
Cami-IHsi are not difficult to
here but sometimes the
early ones prove a disappoint-
ment to some because weather
conditions i spoil them. -
To me a tmnt ahrub Is al
ways worth while for, even if
the weather does spoil some of
the early blooms, there are every
season a few perfect ones, and
even one perfect camellia is
worth the trouble. For when a
camellia is perfect, there is
scarcely a more perfect flower.
The foliage too la fine the year
around. A camellia bush has no
"awkward age' during the en
tire year, as for instance, the rose
has at the present season. -
Camellias do best in a slightly
sheltered i location. I have one
at the south of the house which
is supposed to be all wrong. But
it is sort of fun to see the whole
thing in bloom with the . first
warmer days, and always there
are some straggling blossoms be
neath the leaves and these come
out in perfect order much later In
the season. I picked my first
camellia blossom this year the
last week In February and I am
sure I shant pick my last until
late in April or early May.
Camellias like a rather add
soil but not too. add and will
thrive well in neutral soIL They
do need plenty of moisture dur
ing their formative months of
late summer and early autumn.
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