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Th CCZGCII STATECZIAIL Edera. Owejan. friiay l!omIa3. Jiprl 1 123 PAGE FOCT . . THE STATES3IAN PUBUSHING CO. , CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher , . . - . - f- ,-". " . Member of The Associated Press : r . The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of aU news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. : Insurance Con and Pro v. i , - f- A few weeks ago The Statesman had an ed itorial dealinf with mutual life insurance, in--vestments, reserves, etc. in :which some inci dental criticism was voiced regarding he ac-; cumulation of contingency reserves in addition to the reserves? required by law to meet the lia bility of the insurance policies that j have been written. The editorial drew some correspond--ence. One local resident thought the criticism did not go far enough; and said: f " ! Insurance men themselves . who know and are willing to discuss thequestion frankly will all ad mit the following propositions to be true and they excuse on some such a theoryas the ends justify ing the means, or that it is to The best interest of the policy-holder. I "1. The higher that the accumulated legal re serve becomes the less real insurance) remains to be paid by the company. The company obligation is a diminishing one. ' "2. Dividends on insurance are premium over . charges in the, first .instance and are used primar ily as a sales bait. ! ,"3. The loan value on a policy constitutes,' In honesty and fair, dealing, the personal funds of the ; insured which should not draw interest when bor-i rowed by the owner... ... "4. The American, Tables of Mortality are not tinerejy inaccurate, but they are false and their use is a dishonest business practice which works to the disadvantage of the insured." j On the other hand ah insurance executive in the state wrote to. defend the practices of insur ance companies. The excess reserves are "nec essary, he wrote, -to absorb investment losses Which cannot be avoided in operations over a long term: ; ' Surplus, you see, is as necessary to the solvency Tof a iiie Insurance company under all conditions and at all times as savings are to prevent disaster " overtaking the individual in an emergency. . In other words, the gilt-edged investment of today may be the defaulted' security of tomorrow, and the more than adequate mortality estimate of today may be wholly inadequate for a short period of time at some later date." With reference to mortality tables, he writes: i. "Most progressive insurance companies have adopted a more modern mortality : table and ignore of them are doing so each year . . . We do examine our own general policies and prac tices periodically to make sure that they are ) providjjtecfion at the lowest possible cost consistent with safety." . " So there you have diverse opinions: the con and the "pro. . ; The practices of life insurance companies was under, review, by the Temporary National Economic committee, a government; agency, some foun years ago. Its report was publised in Monograph 28 and the rejoinder of a commit-.' tee of life insurance company representatives was given in Jlfohograph 2SA. These mono graphs and other literature are available in li braries for' those who wish to study the subject more thoroughly.- . . We have great respect for the record of serv ice performed by life insurance companies. Their officers are usually men with high stan dards of business ethics who devote their lives to keeping their companies solvent so they can meet all claims under the policies they issue. And their record, even in depression times, rates higher than other types of savings organiza tions. ' T Yet we believe there is room for improvement in the direction of providing protection at the lowest practical cost. There are three cushions to protect companies: participating dividends which fluctuate; surplus beyond legal reserves to absorb investment losses; mortality tables whose death rates run much higher than com pany experience. Theoretically in mutual com panies, the savings acccrue to the insured; but under ultra conservative policies these accruals are apt to pile up in "contingency j reserves?, and not be shared by the generation of policy holders building them up. j : I If Salem Were Tunis 1 When you go south of town a short ways you may hear on occasion the "boom, boom' of can nonading. It comes from the artillery range at Camp Adair, some 25 miles away. Suppose, in stead of target practice, the noise meant real war, with a battle raging within 30 miles of the capital. With what anxiety would civilians : strain .their, ears to determine - whether the 'boom-boom!' was growing louder .(indicating enemy advance) or diminishing (indicating en emy retreat). If, .you recall Tennyson's "Eve -before Waterloo" it was the noise of 'the can nons which brought to "Brussels," and especial ly to "her 'beauty and her chivalry" gathered at a ball, the frist news of the battle "of Water loo.M:'v'v'': . V; f - ' We can get a more vivid impression of battles if we project them on a local map. Thus, if Sa lem were Tunis, the attackers would be in the vicinity . of Monmouth, and the British- Eighth Armyr, down about Harrlsburg. And if Salem were Bizerte, the French would be approaching from a point west of Dallas.' Under any such eventuality, if it developed suddenly, panic would sieze the city. With Tunis and Bizerte, whose fall seems inevitable, and for v whose in habitants the chance of escape is almost nil, the panic feeling must give way to' resignation. To the natives it means a welcome change of masters; to the French colonials, mixed feelings; to, the axis soldiers the sting of defeat, but an end of the long ordeal of fighting, j : : And for a further graphic view of the North -African situation reflect that the; British Eighth Army has chased the Af rika Korps of Rommel . a distance of some 1500 miles, a little farther than from the Mexican border to Salem. Relating these facts to our own geography makes the war more realistic than merely read ing tne account in the papers or studying the map of the battle area itself. -. ';. No 'King's Ex' Now . -.. ;. If we could call "king's ex" on the war we ' could take time out to-settle some domestic dif ficulties, like the pending coal, miners' strike. "fto Favor Sway U; No Fear Shall Avot From First Statesman, March 23, 1831 sAiMUASssssSkSMSsiuk.xsasw Feel HtttM Because the war is on we cannot do so. The war will not wait. And because it will not wait it is inconceiv able' that we should have a shutdown of coal production V now. Without coal most trains would stop, nearly all steel mills, most of the : electric power plants, many industries.' With out coal, homes, schools, hospitals would be without heat There simply dare not be a coal strike of any duration in wartime.1 President Roosevelt has met the issue this time without hedging. He has made a direct appeal to coal miners to go on working. He speaks, not as a person, but as the voice of the United States. It would be a sad occasion, and one fraught with grave danger, if that voice is not heeded. The unfortunate clash of person alities between John L. Lewis and the president must not cloud the main issue, which is to keep the mines operating; nor should it work to the injury of the miners whose claims are entitled to a fair and thorough hearing. It is easy to indulge in personal abuse and re crimination; but the situation is too important: and too critical. It must be "handled" lest with out any "king's ex" we be forced to divide our efforts and energies in : settling by resort to force the .internal dispute which now looms.' MewG Behind - --." The News By PAUL MALLON ductlon In whole or tn part (1110117 prohibited.) tDiftrlbutton toy King features Syndicate, Inc. Repro- WASHINGTONApril 2 This is one world all right but take another look at it behind the news Of the day. ; - This war started when Germany attacked Poland, September 1, 1039, and 15 days later, Russian troops crossed Poland's border cancel ling Soviet-Polish treaties. In dignation in this country ran high against both Germany and Russia. - Three months' later, on No . vem 28, the Soviet government renounced its no n-aggression pact (1932) with Finland, and, two days later, invaded that' country. Popular opinion against Russia hit such heights that we collected millions of dollars of our, good money to aid the Finns against the Russians. Anyone in the country who did not contrib ute was- an enemy of democracy. These almost unanimous public beliefs of ours . prevailed for nearly two years when Hitler sudden ly (June 21, 1941) turned on Russia. All our think ing switched diametrically. : a; , Little Finland began to fight back against Rus sia, but we no longer considered her as a valiant democratic nation fighting against aggression. Her fight was the same, but, this time, we looked on her as a tool of the nazis. Indeed, events drew us the whole way around and soon we found ourselves also fighting on the side of Russia, contributing billions to her cause. Only last week, we withdrew most of our em bassy from Finland, presumably because she would not make peace with Russia. We could not afford to be aiding an enemy of our new ally. " All the while, we harbored the exiled Polish gov ernment which had been crushed by the nazis and invaded by the Soviets. But this week when that Polish government demanded a Red Cross investi gation of Polish murders, our Soviet ally practi cally declared itself about these people in our midst by withdrawing diplomatic recognition. The Krem lin acted quickly, without consultation. This act seemed a shock to us, but in view of the above history, it was logical and natural. The only reason it appeared to us as a shock was because we had nationally deluded ourselves into false assumptions. Everyone with an eye clearly focused could see from the start that Russia was in this war because the double-dealing Hitler had invaded her home land, and that this homeland was what she was fighting for not primarly to defend democracy or a new world democracy federation, or a quart of milk a day, not for the four freedoms, certainly not our conception of them as far as Finland and Poland are concerned. j Our swiftly changing publicity promoters, how ever, have tried to make some propaganda mesh out of the necessities which brought us and Britain into the war on the same side and to dovetail our ideals and our purposes. They did it so enthus iastically that they got us to believing that every one on our side looked at this war as the average American man. in the street Perhaps they even convinced themselves until Moscow put them right Indeed, Moscow dispatch es say she might have acted earlier against the Poles in connection with other matters. MolotofTs note says Straight-out that Russia wants Polish ter ritory. " " " "' j ; I.; And is Molotoff wrong in thus preparing to de mand Polish territory? Poland was Russian, Aus trian and Prussian before the last World war. The treaty of Versailles restored her ancient individ uality, but thereafter she always had trouble with Russia.' Stalin no doubt will contend eventually her east ern provinces are rightly his. It all depends on how far you go back into history which answers you get Both" sides get the one they want ; Anyone who can settle the boundaries satisfac torialy to Russia and Poland has sufficient astute ness to be the leader of the world, but no one will ever fulfill that mission, r f n J Now the Russians say the Poles are rnHng naxi capital by bringing up the atrocity matter. That may or may not be. k K 5 ! ' ' The far more important thing to us is that these : facts regarding Poland and Finland show how mer curial has been our public opinion and how t whether high or low it has seldom looked at the other fellow's side of the matter or understood his position. We too make up our opinions on a basis of our own self-interest. Every nation has, always wilt -S- : v:: i r-v;, V Certainly here-Is the profound eternal truth of international relationships. Here Is the basis upon which the post-war; world must be built . It is a basis of conflicting Interests, ancient territorial ar guments, racial and religious competitions. The solution of Our hopes to live in peace here after must fee founded upon these human equations, these realities. It cannot be found in the stars of idealism or in the -kies of self-deceptive hopes, or by throwing away of money and food to get tem porary conformance.- - . - - It is one world, but it is an earthy world Senate Farm Bloc Considers Bankhead Bill (From left to right. Sea. Charles - - ' the bin. and Sea. "Cottoa E4" Ssalth of Seath Careliaa, chatnaasi of the senate agrlealtaral Today's Kadlo IPtrogiraonns , xslm nun at isae T.-0O New ka Brief. , TS Riae "a' Shine.. , T3S Wews. ". v 9 MS Morning Moods. SS Rhythm five; . S 30 News Brevities. S3S Tango Time. , t t. OS-Pastor's Can. . S:1S Uncle Sam. S JO Leat We Forget. 9:43 Round-up Time. -M World tn Review. 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It may mean the early im plementation of President Roose velt's promise after his return from Casablanca that "import ant actions will be taken in the skies over China and over Ja pan itself." ' ; Whatever the specific reasons for this journey halfway around the globe, there is no doubt Jftat, it will intensify Japan's fears of new blows against Tokyo. This probably will mean feverish at tempts by the Japanese com mand to anticipate, or prevent such assaults. These may take the form of new offensives in east-central China such as that of last summer. Generalissimo . Chiang's an nouncement that the Japanese "slaughtered every man, woman and ; child" in areas in - which some of the fliers who bombed Tokyo in 1942 landed, supplies the missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of the 100-day campaign the Japanese waged in Chekiang and Kiangsi provinces. This was part of the savage reaction which . led to the executyon ' of some of the American fliers who fell in to Japanese hands. The purpose of that campaign was something of a mystery at the time. There was some Japa nese talk of cutting a swathe through southeast - China which .would permit establishment of an all-rail route from Shanghai to I Singapore. , The enemy cap- - tured the first-link in this pro Jected route and then, somewhat McNary af Oregon, Sen. John XL Neat day's appear oa pax. 830 Mud Without Words. AO News. - 9:15 Speaking of Sparta. 930 General Barrows. SMS Louis Bromfield. 18.-00 Soldiers of thePress. 1830 News. - 11 AO President's Press Conference. 1130 Under the Stars. KSJC BNFRIOAT Il8 K. SAO Momenta of Melody. 8:15 National Farm and Stem. MS Western Agriculture. 7A0 Smilin' Ed McConneU. 7 AS Home Demonstration Agent. 7:15 Keep Fit. wlUt Patty Jean. e .in Uiul a VIcbbi. 8:00 Breakfast Club. 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KOIN CBS FRIDAY 979 Ke. AO Northwest Farm Reporter. :15 Breakfast Bulletin. 30 Texas Rangers. :45 Koin Klock. 7:15 Wake Up News. 730 Dick Joy. News. 7 MS Nelson Prlngle. News. SAO Consumer News. 8:15 Valiant Lady. S:30 Stories America Loves. 8:45 Aunt Jenny. AO Kate Smith Speaks. :15 Big Sister. 930 Romance of Helen Trent. 9:45 Our Gal Sunday. 10 AO Life Can Be Beautiful. 10:15 Ma Perkins. 1030 Vic and Sade 10:45 The Goldbergs. 11 AO Young Dr. Melon. Inexplicably, ; withdrew virtually to . his original positions. The campaign cost some 50,000 Japa nese casualties. r;;vv-; C-v"-". Subsequent events, however, have Indicated strongly that the entire operation was motivated by a desire to get revenge for the Tokyo raid and prevent a repetition. The latter purpose fits with a fundamental princi ple of Japanese strategy in this war: to keep the big American bombers as, far as possible from the land of the rising sun. It was pursued in two ways, by at tempting to seize and destroy all '. bases from which American planes might operate and by us-' lag f rightfulness against the hap less Chinese population, hoping -this would terrorize them out of any further inclination to aid the Americans. ' . -" ' - - j We can only guess at the mis-' sion - of Generals Stilwell and Chennault, but it is reasonable to assume that they are report ing to the president and the high .- command on the opportunities and perils of ; the China situa- tion as they see them. The op portunities, of course, are those which would be opened up by " coTcentration of enough Amer ican aircraft to clear the China skies of the enemy and reach . but against the concentrated and -vulnerable war industry areas of ' southwestern Japan, if not the , capital. General C h e n n a u 1 1 ' doubtless will make out a strong case for this. 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AO Furlough Fun. 9:30 Treasuiy Song Pared. v : 9:45 Oregon on Guard. 10 AO News Flashes. 10:15 Your Home Town News. 10 .-25 Labor News. 10 30 Gardening for Food. 10:45 Uncle Sam. 11:15 Hotel Biltmore Orchestra. 1130 War News Roundup. 12 AO SAO ajn. Swing Shift. KOAC FRIDAY 558 K 10 AO News. 10:15 The Homemaker's Hour. 11 AO School of the Air. 1130 Music of the Masters. . - .t I I I I I ,l I a a m ' x a v u 11 1 a Jb - aaa - ' 'f W9 tutt tetttti- lrxf?a - - bitihr to turn out IV) j (- n 11 " - l M A II II MM ' II II II H I I M M M K. SdHfoD'G ' IDGpCuainifi New Novel by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan Chapter 25 (eontlnaed) "I an you deserve this, Tim. We went lusting after strange . gods, strange gods. The Lawd dont love sailors only If their hearts Is pure. If we . ever get back in 'at navy and a guy says tUoney to me, IH turn you loose on him with both fists! -Yerse, Benny! But how we gonna get back to the navyT You got any ideas, pal?". Take it easy,' TJm. We got aU night an all day tomorrow until time for the Handicap." The Shamrock started nibbling ; at a bath sponge. Fireman Dun nevan put his bead between his hands and moaned. .."-"':':' At the first pink flush of dawn, Mr. Bert Sedgwick, having spent a mad night of chasing about with policemen and detec tives, stamped disconsolately, in to his beachhouse. Miss Enora Templeton Jump ed up from the living room di van. ' "H-hello, Bert!" You!" "Yes." : ' "And what, may I ask, : are you doing in the homo of a race track tramp? At this witching hour?" - "Did you find your horse?" "No." "Goody, sjoody!" "Thanks." "Where are you going?" "To bed." His former fiancee smiled brightly. "Well, you can't use the bath room,' she said. "Because Tm . going: to be using it all morn '' tag." . "Oh . . , uh . . help your self," said Bert. ."Thank you!" - Nodding, . Elnora disappeared toward the rear wing. Bert star ' ed after her. He was just about to move toward the left wing, when he heard a horse whinny. Or something that sounded like a horse. The whinny came from the rear of the house. "A ; mental aberration," Bert told himself, "and no wonder! But just as he crossed the rejr hallway, he heard something that sounded like a horse's snort. It appeared to emanate from behind the door of the master's bathroom. Then there was a whinny and heavy thuds, as if a horse were stamping its foot. Bitterness overwhelmed Bert Sedgwick. "Deft, light-hearted humor, EI noral he said, loudly.; "You slay me! You really do!", There was a subdued mutter of voices and a distinct: "Whoa, boy!" . "' Half doubting, half believing, Bert tiptoed to the bathroom door. He stopped' and listened. "Elnora!" "Yes, Bert?" "Have you got my horse In there?" "Come in and see for your self, dear!" The door opened suddenly. A brawny arm reached out and yanked Bert into the bathroom. Elnora slipped into the hall. "Keep him safe, Tim!" "Yerse, Miss Elnora!" , "III go fix you all some break- . fast." Bert blinked as the door, was slammed shut and locked. His vision cleared. Before him he saw Fireman Dunnevan, Seaman - MAO News. 12:15 Noon Farm Hour. 1 AO Artist in Recital. 1:15 Today's War Commentary. 130 Variety Tim. SAO Club- women's Half Hour. . 2:30 Music. . 3 AO News. 3:15 American Legion Auxiliary. 3 :30 Concert. 4A0 Treasury Star Parade. . 4:15 LaUn Rhythms. 430 Stoiies-for Boys and Girls. SAO On th Upbeat. 5:15 On the Campuses. 530 Evening Vespers. 5:45 It's Oregon's War. 8:15 News. - 8:30 Evening Farm Hour. . . T:30 Music ot Beethoven. 8 AO Science News of Week. 830 Higher EducaUon In Wartime. SAO Eyes Aloft. ; S 30 News. S. -45 Uncle Sam. U - jjJ ' ) I tHEfc w ' - v v a a 'g at mrfimtnt spossm's mmmvnl t ton far Cti Wtw laersMlian n 11 I I n I I I I IX . S T a I .-SJ.- Linn, Jellif f e and The Sham - rock. Let this be said for Bert Sedg wick. He took it like an officer and a gentleman. , Who shaves first, gentlemen?" he inquired. ; ; ; J Chapter. X4 That afternoon as the beauty and chivalry of Southern Califor nia gathered for the running of the Del Mar - Handicap, quite a few persons faced disaster if The Shamrock entered and won the big race. MiUicent and Georgine, assur ed by Voice Garvey of the gen uineness of The Shamrock's dis appearance, had bet their all on ijaiiarnTi".", ub ruuug uwuw. Loyal to Tim and Benny at least to the extent of not want ing them to get in bad with their shipmates -they had pass- ed the word to Chief Mulcahy - that money bet on The Sham rock would be money wasted." Chief Mulcahy, arriving with a contingent of sailors, had let It be known that he was playing Gallahadion. ; But The Shamrock had not . been scratched.. Discussing the matter by the grandstand fence, Millicent and Georgine stood pat - Even if they have-found V Shamrock," Georgine said, "Hell be so tuckered out and nervous, he's a cinch to lose,- , Yeoman Webster was holding forth on the same theory among the USS Trimble gang. :: The horse is no bet today, boys. I have it straight from Tint and Benny's 'jock that no body can find Shamrock or Tim V and Benny, either. They suspect ' foul play by Chicago gangsters." Chief Mulcahy took a grim - cbew of tobacco. ' TAgh . . . there'd: better be no more shenanigans from Linn . an Dunnevan!" he .said. . Then came the astounding an nouncement over the park's loud speaker system. "Attention, please . . . Mr. Sedgwick's horse, The Shamrock, has been recovered In perfect condition and returned to his stall! The stewards have examin- Van. on1 will nlTrur him VA.W UV W .III! .. . to enter the Handica'p!" . The race track crowd reacted true to form. A great hubbub of boos and catcalls and Bronx cheers went up. It had all been a publicity stunt that robbery thing. The Shamrock had been in his stall all ths time. ' But , among one group of turf followers this announcement re peated over a portable radio in Bert Sedgwick's bathroom crea ted real constemaUonrf ' Miss Elnora Templeton gave a bitter outcry. f" f. ' "You beastly cheats!" she said. This Isn't The Shamrock! You' ve lied to me again!" -, Fireman Dunnevan gulped. Seaman Linn looked at the end : of his cigarette. Jelliffe goggled. Bert S Sedgwick Jumped to his feet. '. . "Elnora! Are you crazy " (To be continued) Editorial Comment From Other Papers . . AGE-OLD BATTLEGROUND The terrain into which the British, the Americans and the French have now crowded Rom mel and Von Arnim is not un acquainted with battle. There may hardly be a stone in this part of Tunisia that has not been . bathed in blood.- Its recorded history of war be gins with the foundation of Car- , thage, only a few miles from the , modern Tunis, in 850 BC. Then follows a catalog of ?00 years of fighting, largely civil war,' but ' sometimes with the Greeks and Romans until the Romans final- ' ly destroyed Carthage in 148 BC. Rebuilt ' by the Romans in 122 BC' Carthage became the second , city of the ; empire and enjoyed the pax romana until the Van- " dais arrived In 439 AD. Then began another long reg- ' ister of wars in Tunisia. Belisar- . lus threw out the Vandals in 534. ; The Arabs threw out the Byzan tines in 697. Then, following their custom, the Arabs fought each other over Tunisia fairly ; continuously. ' " In 1143 the Normans - under Roger I of Sicily took the Tuni sian coast and held I it for IS ; years. St. Louis of France, In vading Tunisia in 1270, lost his life there. English troops under , the Duke of Bourbon were in Tunisia for the first time in 1390 - in an unsuccessful invasion. Thereafter the Arabs resumed fighting each other over the rich province until 1525 when the Turks took it away from them. Charles V Of Spain, Holy Roman , Emperor, invaded the country in 1535r the Turkish Sultan drove r the Spaniards out In 1571rTunI- , sia then became a pirate state, doing its fighting on the sea, and settled down at home until later the French took it bloodlessly. . Now, after long quiet, the land, which gave its original Berber name Ifrika to the entire con tinent, echoes again to the tramp of legions mightier than those of Hannibal, or Scipio, or Belisarius or Sultan Selinu San Francisco Chronicl a.