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Frooi First Statesman, March 23 1351
THE STATES3IAN PUBLISHING CO.
- CHARLES A. SPaAGUE, Editor and Publisher
i Member t The Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use far publication of aO
oewi dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Arctic Seaway
Dog-Fights, et al.
A The Berlin dispatch relayed from Stockholm
that, this summer the Russians would receive
quantities of war materiel shipped by boat
."through the Arctic ocean from western Amer
Ica may be a correct prediction. Late in 1941
the soviet ice-breaker "Krassin : arrived in
Seattle harbor, having sailed' from the White
sea over that route which lies north of the Eura
sian continent. Depending on the season, boats
can. sail through those waters for from three to
four months ; each year. With ice-breakers
-fRossia has 4 of them) the season may b
lengthened. "r v ' " 7-1 . ; .!
' Before the war Russia was working diligent
ly to open up the northern seaway.- From Kara
sea, an arm of the Arctic lying at the end of the
..Ural mountain chain, to Bering strait weather
stations were set up to observe and report the
weather, with particular reference to the move
' ment of the ice-pack. Radio connects these sta
tions with Moscow; and airlines serve the whole
northern country.
The fact is, that behind the screen of isola
tion, vast development has taken place all
through Soviet Asia. It is reported n part in a
recent book under that title, - written by Ray
mond Arthur Davies and Andrew J. Steiger.
Highways are being completed, railroad lines
are under construction. Mineral and agricultur
al wealth r being developed. Once the prison
.house for convicts and revolutionaries, Siberia
is being colonised with the migration of thou
sands,, some still under order of exile, others as
. volunteers, from J districts of western Russia.
For instance , the great German population of
the Volga, who had been located there since
the days of Catherine the Great, were trans
planted as a measure of safety when the Ger
man armies invaded Russia.
Great rivers, flowing north into the Arctic,
are the natural avenues of travel: the Ob, Yeni
sei, Katanga, Lena, Kolyma; and the Amur
flowing north into the Sea of Okhotsk, an arm
of the Pacific ocean. Use of the northern Arc
tic route makes the connection between Atlan
tic ports of Murmansk and Archangel with
ports at the mouths of these rivers. Thus, in
-the book mentioned the writers report seeing
ships in Igarka, at the mouth of the Yenisei
river, one week out of Murmansk and eleven
days from London. They also reported this ob
servation at Igarka:
"In the distance we could see Oregon timber
carriers chugging up wooden roadways to lum
ber yards and rolling down again with load
after load of the finest Siberian larch and pine
to fill the waiting ships."
The use of this Arctice route will necessarily .
be limited in wartime: there simply are not
enough ships to spare many for this service,
where they may be caught in ice and held until
the following summed and the route to Vlad
ivostok is still open. But the opening of the re
sources of Soviet Asia offers opportunities for
post-war commerce which we on the Pacific
coast cannot ignore. With anything like decent
relations with Soviet Russia there should be a
marked expansion in trade between Soviet
Asia and western United States.
Unbalanced Teaching ,
In the day's news is the report of the winning
of a prize -in an essay contest by a girl in a val
ley high school. The contest was sponsored by
a patriotic organization, as part of a national
contest.
Considered of themselves these contests are
fruitful of good to all who take part in them.
Usually the subjects are important .and the
study required is profitable. But too much in
trusion cripples the school program.
A common practice when many good organ
izations want to "educate" youth is to bring
pressures on the school authorities to have spe
cial courses provided in the subject, or to spon
sor special contests. The danger is that the
school program may become unbalanced by
such outside meddling until the course becomes
a hodge-podge, a mixture interrupted with spe
cial events and competitions. Then the people
stand off and criticise the schools for not doing
thorough job of teaching history or mathe
matics or English. How can they if the courses
laid out by the teachers are interfered with from
the outside.
This is not to condemn essay contests or ora
torical contests or special prizes. A certain num
ber of these ' events are . stimulative. But we
mean to say that the teaching staff should con
trol and be free to reject proposals from the
outside if they unbalance the curriculum or
. give a warped emphasis or consume too much
of student time and energy. ' '
We Can't hold teachers accountable if the gen
eral public keeps butting in with suggestions
of what to teach and how to teach it. '
" Salem has been spared the battle .that had
been raging' in several other Oregon towns be
: tween the dog-owners and the Victory-gardeners,
with city councils the unwilling arbiters.
" The dog may be man's best friend, but he sure
ly has a lot of enemies of his own. When neigh
borly wrath and patriotism combine the poor
pooch is certainly in the doghouse. But when
he looks about him, the dog-lovers are sure to
speak up in bis behalf, notwithstanding the evi
dence of ravaged radish, beds and scratched out
beans. Maybe our Salem dogs are just , better
behaved; or is it that our victory gardeners are
more tolerant? i
But there has been some local protest against
China pheasants, who are more purposeful in
their destruction than dogs. A dog doesn't care
to bite an onion; but a China bird does love
peas, and knows just how to dig them up. So
far the fight against Chinas is confined to trick
ery; perhaps like the Chinese people these birds
fear there is some devil behind fluttering pa
pers and colored rags.
Lacking dog fights, and with China pheasant
marauders protected by state law, Salem is re
sorting to its own brand of trouble; a return
engagement of the perennial nuisance battle
over pintail machines.
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLOW
duettos tm whole or to Dart strictly prohrbned.1
Distribution by Base fa 9ur SgradBeat. In. Hsr
WASHINGTON, May 3 Only a paltry paragraph
or two heralded the news that k-h baa changed
its policy and now favors the Hull reciprocal trade
program. -
At least, that portion- of business as represented
by the national eggvfatirwi of manufacturers, and
the United States fhnpwr of
commerce, made such- an an
nouncement through representa
tives appearing before the house
ways and means committee. The
public appearance of the NAM
was made after its board private
ly agreed to reverse its policy of
three years ago with very little
dissent ; of members.
The business experts did not
say so, but apparently, they fi
re Mane ured world trade must be dif
ferent after the war. Our manufacturing produc
tion capacity has been greatly expanded by the
armaments program.
The machines now used for weapons n be
changed back to peace-time products much easier
than they were changed to war. Replacement of
one or two parts and tools are all that will be nec
essary in many instances, they say, and a better
machine tool industry exists to do the job.
This extra production will have to be sold either
in a greatly expanded American market (more peo
ple able to have radios, bathtubs, refrigerators,
etc.) or in a larger foreign market. The world will
have little gold or goods with which to buy our
surplus manufacturing production.
It would be very foolish of us to "sell" these ex
tensively on credit through any of the old or newly
suggested devices. Actually, all we would be doing
under such arrangements is to give our products
away at expense of our people as a whole.
As long as we export more than we import, we
will naturally accumulate world debts which can
not be paid, or gold which is of doubtful value. We
already have too much of both.
If we establish the Keynes or White systems of
international payment, we will merely accumulate
all the new international currency, "unites" or
"bancor," which, apparently, is to have only the
value which our government underwrites for it.
In times of t international bankruptcy and post
war conditions ' will approximate that the only
way for us to get paid for our products is by im
portation of goods.
This line of reasoning has brought the business
people here around to the idea that SO per cent re
ductions of our tariffs, as provided in the Hull pro
gram, may help our selling. The old fear of cheap
foreign labor and foreign under-selling appears to
have diminished. : . s .
; . And, inasmuch as labor has joined in approval
through A. F. of L.'s Bill Green, it looks like Mr.
Hull has gathered unexpected support , v
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"Our joint ask will be hard. But, for our
part, we are proud of the company with which
we march. No one flag, no one government, no
one language unite the peoples of our great alli
ance. We have one passport, freedom; one ob
jective, victory, . total and ' unmistakable; and
one purpose, a just and"; lasting peacesAn-'
thonyEden.v ' . . . : r "
Nebraska's new republican Senator Wherry was
just about right when he said at Pittsburgh that
Mr. Roosevelt is already nominated for the. fourth
term. He is nominated as far as common interpre
tation in Washington is concerned.
- The generally accepted belief - in all political
camps here is that the war probably will be on at
that time and renomination will be arranged as a
matter of course.
Just now, the government officials like OWTs
Elmer Davis are saying that the fourth term talk
is "hot air" while the party wheel-horses, like Sen
. ator Guffey and Governor Neeley are out making
speeches presenting the fourth term notion as na
tural and inevitable. . ; ' - -; - a ,
The pattern of the fourth term campaign Is,
therefore, little different than the third, except in
one particular. The exigencies of war seem to have
led Mr. Roosevelt's personal officials (Ickes, et al)
to refrain from participating openly in what the
wheel-horses (Walker, et al) are openly promoting.
. : Interior Secretary Ickes has decided not to make
too much of a monument out of the Jackson Hole
country, even with his presidential decree. He has
announcea grazing can be continued and those who
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Dnterpreting
The War Neivi
By GLENN BABB '
AP War Analytst for The SUtesmaa,
'That.other labor leaders do not agree with homes in the region may keep them for life
under the benevolent philanthropy of the new fed
eral. landlord. - - . "
v But this does not settle all the basic principles or
difficulties of the" federal seizure by presidential
order. . "
The county government will lose close to $20,003
a year In taxes as a result of the president's action.
Approximately 200 men have come from that re-
- - ' , :- " - " t --tMo to aiM .the .war for their hones,' ooljr to find
; Meat rationing has done one thing, at least: -now that these homes are to be available only for
It has put meat back onthe butcher's travst. For ufe, by executive decree.
John L. Lewis Jn his claim ; that , the war Tabor:
board breached the no strike" agreement is
proven by the declaration; of Hiilip Murray,
headaof CIO, in San Francisco, who said amid
cheers of CIO representatives: Tm not. 'going
4oufcrrak my no-strike pact with the president
of the. United States of America." . i -
weeks there Were periodic shortages of meats.
Some markets closed! for two or three days at
a time. Now all shops stay open and appear
to have a fair variety; and adequate' quantity
of meats." Handling the pomt-cbupons is a nui
. sance, but customers are able to get meat now.
It now develops further that two congressional
committees refused to let the government seize the
area before Mr. Roosevelt chose to do it by fiat. As
one citizen of the region has written: r
' ."Jackson Hole may be a monument to Mr. Ickes,
but it's only a tombstone to me" and to everyone
else who lives there.
There Is welcome reassurance
in the word from General Mac-
Arthur's I headquarters that the
heavy losses of the allied fighter
squadrons battling the 51 -plane
Japanese raiding' force over Dar-"
win Sunday were due to weather
and. not enemy action. It was a
one-day fluke and there has been
no basic! change in the relative ;
merits of the air. forces in' the
southwest' Pacific.
This; is important because the
qualitative - superiority of the i
American, British and Australian .
; squadrons has been the main rea
son for confidence that the Jap-'
anese wiH not overrun Australia
in the months or years that re
. main before the Pacific war be
comes the united nations main
shorn
. It justifies this Confidence- In
. spite of the enemy's concentra 1
tions of nearly a quarter million
men, strong warship flotillas and
hundreds of thousands of tons of
shipping in his island bases above
Australia. r.;,;-:- y.-,
In their raids on Oro bay, Mil
ne bay and Darwin last month
the "Japanese, using about 200
planes, had just about 49 per cent
of these knocked out of action,"
an almost prohibitive rate, espe
cially since allied -losses were
light - , ,
- The . first announcement of
Sunday's eavy losses for the
British and Australian Spitfire
units over Darwin, giving no rea
son, raised fears that the Japan-.
ese might have evolved some new
wrinkle that could change the as-.
pect of the war in that theatre :
a new type'Tof fighter, new tac
tics or the return of what Gen
eral Kehney called their "first
string tram. '
. But it appears now' that the'
first team is not back and there
is no reason to believe that the .
. Japanese will be able to replace
. the few, thousand picked, exper
ienced and determined pilots who
gave them command of the Pa
cific skies in the first few months
of the war and most of whom are
now believed to be dead.
The battle over Darwin is a
reminder, however, that we are
up against a tough and resource
ful enemy who 'will . not be de
terred by heavy losses from com
ing again and again to attack.
Although his strategy may, be
fundamentally defensive, in the
sense that his primary purpose
is to hold the rich empire he al
ready has seized rather than add
new territories, he can be expec
ted to throw heavy forces into -attacks
intended to cut supply
lines or knock out bases from
which allied offensives . might,
coma. ' .
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Ke.
By FRANK MELONEY
Chapter two (continued) ..
: 1 Ann held one of the slippers
In her hand; some tourist stop
- ping for the night must have left
. them. But no. They had .too re
cently been"' near perfume, . too
.. recently worn. As - she slipped
them on, she tried to fit this
touch of incongruous femininity
in the sturdy- old-fashioned :
bouse. - - K 'if iy-.
' i "l have to go back upstairs,"
Paul broke in on her thoughts.
. . "MomTI take care of you until the
.. storm lets up." He vanished be
fore she could protest,
j She rose restlessly, and went
to the window, peering out into
the darkness. She could see noth
ing but a steel gray blur, hear
nothing except a steady hissing
roar as sleet drove against the
wmdowpanes.'" v-..-i
Mrs. Fruend moved to the sink
with the pan of potatoes. 'Better
, you stay here tonight,' she sug
gested. . - . ..
"Impossible," Ann was about,
to reply, 1 have to get on to.
; Mew yorsV; But Mrs. Fruend
was ahead of her. "Maybe it's
. important for you to be some
where? Maybe somebody wor
ries about you?" she anticipated
gently.
Somebody worrying a b o u t
. her? There was Tom, of course.
But Tom wouldn't worry about
her. He'd can her apartment,
and If she weren't there, he'd call
the next day, or rather he'd have
his secretary remind him to calL
There must be something won
- derful about modern business.
Ana reflected; it taught men how
to put everything into compart
ments, j That was it. She didnt ;
belong m Tom's life, she belong
ed in one of bis compartments,
the one he labeled love. He did
nt look Into it very often, satis
fied that she was there, aad that,
, presumably, be held the key to
IL . :
It was a little the same with
Helen, who had for years con- -sddered
. Ann in the f light of o '
duty rather, than a younger , sis
ter. About once a week, she ex
pected Ann to report her where
abouts,; and her prevailing state
of being; but inasmuch as they
had, parted only this morning,
after one of those family argu
ments in which both sides get
stiff-lipped and voices grow pre
cise, it was fair to suppose that
Helen wouldn't worry if she did
4S hear from Ann for a good bit
over the allotted lapse Of time.
I The argument had verged per
ilously close to open bickering.
It had had to do not only with
Ann's refusal to marry Tom (of
hom , Helen most whole-heartedly
approved), but Helen; had
also taken exception to Ann's de
cision to rid herself of Broad
fields to th first feasible buyer,
lit passes my comprehension,"
5elen had said, "how you can
ring yourself to sell the farm.
It's sacrilege to let ft go but of
tha family. It was our home."
She had stressed the "our", and
her upper lip had grown
straighter, thinner, longer mak
ing her look like the dining room
Jrtralt of Aunt Laura.
"What youVe trying to say,"
nad countred tersely, "is
it you wish Td keep the place -
use- of the sentiment that
have for it In that case.
Shy dont you and Arthur buy,
r ------ '
' That's quite out of the ques
tlon. Helen's attitude became
that of dealing with a 12-year-younger
sister, hot-headed and
irresponsible. TTou must real
ize," she bad explained patient
ly, ihat Arthur and I nave es
tablished our summers at Bar
Harbor for far too many years
.to change the pattern of out lives
now. Besides, Father meant you
. to have Broad fields as a kind of
anchorage, and this impulse to be
free of it and take a Job In New
York Is Just a whinv"
How untrue that was, but bow
- futile to argue the point with
Helen. Helen eouXdnt realize
that sotnetimes you relinquished
a thing because you loved it, not
because you didnt love it.
Ann had been little more than
a baby when her father had
bought the farm and moved his
family there. His friends had
called him a fool to give up his
law practice. He had called them
fools to keep theirs. In the yean
that followed, when he had lei- j1
sure from the labors of raisins
sheep and breeding horses and
Towing crops, he wrote arti
cles, elaborating his theories of
Cmstitntlonal law, 'and in the
- pine-panelled study that was li
brary and farm office combined,
he had written his biographical
studies on the supreme court,
with his desk piled high with a
Jumble of legal volumes, breed
ing records and soil samples. And
, fa that same pine-panelled study,
Ann and Helen and two aunts
bad collected after his death to
hear his wilL ;-;;. ; -
To Helen, he left her mother
Jewels and the house in Bar Har
bor; a few, odds and ends of fam
ily furniture to tha aunts and
to Ann the farm and a block of
Income-invested stocks. He left'
her a letter, also, a very intimate
. letter, in which he j told her of
his love of the land, his faith in
it, and his hope, that Broadfiekis
I would always insure for her con
tentment, keeh pleasure, and se
curity.. :H
For a while, his hope had come
true. And then things began to
.tumble. The stocks which had
brought In an income of over two
hundred m month ; dwindled in
dividents to fifty; and, along with
the debacle the market for her
father's Morgan horses and pure
bred sheep abruptly vanished.
Now it was a struggle to feed
livestock when there was scarce
ly enough money to meet her
own small bills at the grocer's.
It was heartache, too, to see fields
growing back Into brush, plant
ing programs neglected, and
breeding plans Interrupted. But
Helen, who was not of the land,
could not know an obligation to
the land. She could only cling
stubbornly to a tradition.
Chapter three ... j -
Come. ; You must eat some
thing. It ,1a; dinner time,";
Ann stirred,' and brought her
thoughts back Into the warm
kitchen. "I really am hungry,"
she aknowledged. "Can VI help
you?"
The old lady shook her head
and moved effortlessly from
stove to table. "I see better than
most people," she said.
(To be continued)
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Letters from Statesman Readers
Wartime,
Tbday'G Gordon
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
ME. reports that she has been .
; sent some seeds which" are to be '
: "frozen before planting. As all
heavy frosts are now. over, am at
' a loss as to how this should be
handled." .
. Answer: Use the refrigerator.
. If the seeds are in a package, :
tear off one corner and rdd a
little water, fold over tightly and -put
into the' freezing compart'-'
ment of the refrigerator. Seeds
can also be planted in a small
COMMISSIONER REPLIES 4 TO
j INSURANCE CRITICISM
To the Editor:
I The lead editorial in the April
30th edition of The Statesman
deals with communications re
ceived by the editor from read
ers and gives prominence to a
quotation from one correspon
dent who states , that insurance
men admit the truth of four pro
positions he states. : ; -
JTbm - first proposition begins
ith a plain statement of fact
that the accumulated legal re
serve in a life insurance policy
increasingly reduces the amount '
at risk, but -follows with ; the
statement that "the. company's
obligation is a drminjahjng one."
The fact is that the company's
obligation is not a diminitnt
one. The company's liability un
der the policy is constant, only
the amount at risk under a poli
cy with increasing legal reserves
-14 a diminishing factor.
j The second proposition also
begins with a simple statement
of fact that dividends on life In
surance are premium over-char-"
ges, but continues with a false
statement that "these over-charges
"are used primarily as a sales
bait.'! The premium over-charges
are used primarily to comply
with the minimum provisions re
quired in the premium to provide,
for the factors Involved in the
liability assumed under the con-
tract. Inherent in the explanation
of this provision Is a sales argu
ment which Is secondary. U
rj The third proposition states
that the loan value on the policy
shallow: box of damp soil and
placed in, ; the compartment. .
Leave the seeds in the refrigera-
tor for about eight days. t
, Mrav N. C wants to know
when to prune her forsythia. .
Answer: Prune now that the
flowering season is over. Cut out
"old growth at base and shorten
back some of the newer growthv
This wEl keep the bush shapely.
Fortythias bloom best when they
receive plenty of water during
the summer season. .
should not draw Interest when
borrowed by the owner. Certain
ly the original over-charge in the
premium would have to be ma-
terially increased If the owner
of the policy were permitted to
compel the company to withdraw
its otherwise Invested funds
which are earning interest and
place them at his disposal with
out interest, , since the Interest
calculation reduces the original
premium charge to approximate
ly thirty to forty per cent on the
average for long term contracts.
The fourth proposition states
, that the American Tables of Mor
tality are false and their use Is
a dishonest business practice
which works to the disadvantage
of the insured. First of all, the
use of the American Experience
Table of Mortality is prescribed
by law as a mim-murr) measure
of a life insurance company In
the several states and, therefore,
its use could not be attributed to
dishonesty unless it Is Intended
to charge the dishonesty to the
several legislatures of the forty
eight states. In the second place,
the use of the Table does not
work to the disadvantage of the
insured. There are modern mor
tality tables which more nearly
reflect the current experience of
the companies With respect to tha
Incidence of death , at various
ages. However, these modern
mortality tables still reflect the
fact that ultimately all the lives
terminate. This obvious fact ac
counts for the little realized fact
that the premium derived from
the modern mortality tables does
not vary substantially from the
premium derived from the Amer
ican Experience Table of Mor
tality. 7 The prominence which your
oditorial of April 30th gives to
the letter of your correspondent
prompts these comments since it
Is evident that the communica
tion from the correspondent chal
lenges the functioning of the
state supervision of the insurance
companies
' Yours sincerely, ,
Seth B. Thompson
;,' Insurance Commissioner.
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