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T! OGOn GTATCMAlX. rclsxa. Oregon, frlday 1 lorolag. Kay SI. IZ1Z pagz roua .if 1 1 -' i I f . THE STATESAIAN PUBLISEnNG CO. . CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher j ' - Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press la exclusively enUUed to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this newspaper. Stepping Stones to Tokyo - Japan- haS .already won Its war in the Pacific: such U the dismal picture painted by Clark Lee in a recent article in Collier's. Lee was an AP correspondent with the American forces in the j Philippines left before the surrender, and has , since written a book. Lately he has signed on as an mS war correspondent Lee's theory is that Japan has built a naval and aerial wall : about its conquered empire , and has settled down to the task of developing its ill-gotten gains. iTime is on Japan's side. ' I ; ? j All this has some color of truth, as The States- ; man has previously pointed out. There is a t flaw in Lee's reasoning, however, which was demonstrated in the action of the Solomons and ? another' flaw being disclosed at Attu. Accord ing to Lee, our encroachment in- the Solomons was not a serious matter to Japan.: It was just; the beginning of an "island by Island recon quest which would take years, and would never succeed because Japan's strength would grow with time. - h ' - r. i 'Uj:. r But what happened? Whether because Guad alcanal was a serious threat to Japan or for face-saving reasons, the enemy expended a-; huge naval and air force in an unsuccessful ef fort to recover it. The attempt was clear loss, and one which the enemy could ill afford, inso far as. ships. and planes go. ,i The other flaw in the Aleutians is that in holding an island empire the Japs' cannot bring up reenforcements to meet attack unless they control sea or air or both, which they do not. The Oregonian had an original and valuable comment on this phase of Pacific strategy: "Out; point has been that the Japanese island po . si tions,, which looked so redoubtable when the Japs first accomplished their sweeping expansion, actu ally have a fatal weakness. This weakness lies in immnhilitv of the reserves, once the United States has established absolute superiority in the air. In other words, the Japs will become like a football team which cannot move its secondary for purposes :.of defense. The players who have the duty of backing up the line will not be able to move to raeeji the off -tackle buck or the end-around run. That wouid.be fatal in football and no less fatal In battle,., ,' - In.,thebaitle for. Attu, for example, there ap pears., to be no possibility of Japanese reinforce ments! ut: navy, but particularly our air force, holds control- and sees to that. And anywhere In the Pacific that we can establish these conditions, out forces should be able to move virtually at will. A defensive force that cannot move its reserves to the point threatened is as good as beaten." By this control of sea and air, so far as it can be preserved the United States can advance by stepping stones or even by direct move on some . Island closer to the home islands of Japan. The task would be to isolate the island from sea or air ' reinforcement, and then speedily overwhelm, it, With ample air power based on China- the job would be greatly simplified, anil eventually that combination ought to be worked out:. - land planes from China and surface,' submarine and naval air force coming in by sea. ' Japan has not won its war in the Pacific any more than Hitler has won his . war in Europe, though he has not been ejected from a single country in Europe where his armies marched. Blockade and pressure and attack will ultimate ly crush him. The same thing is true in the case of Japan. Once the chore in Europe is done, the concentration of ships and planes and army on rthe; far-flung Japanese territories will cut and slash them to ribbons. We cannot say what our strategy is, but there " are numerous indications that pur army , and navy are building the foundations in bases and. supplies, in ships and men, so that when the signal comes the attack on Japan can be launch ed in full vigor. . Sheep or Wolves ?. , And now the country has the spectacle of John Lewis getting in bed again with Bill Green. And after all the mean things John said about Bill and Bill said about John! . What about the burning issue of the indus trial union, the vertical type of organization that Lewis favored as against the craft unions, or horizontal form of organization of industry?' And what about Lewis's feud with Bill Hutch eson of the carpenters union? Remember the fist fight at one national convention between the pair. Now it is reported that John L.' and Bill are buddies again. No preliminary build-up for reunion, no pro tracted negotiations or anything of the sort. John L. merely brings his 500,000 United Mine Workers back to the gates of A. F. of L. and asks that they be let in. They are not coming as sheep, for John L. walks wide these days. If they are not coming as sheep they may be coming as wolves. Lit- tie Red Riding Hood better be careful. Shrive His Soul The report that Mussolini has gone to the pope for counsel suggests the old verse; "When the devil was ill, The devil a monk would be; ' ' When the devil was well, j '' ; - The devil a monk was he." t r In other days Mussolini was independent, free-thinking anti-cleric His concordat . with the pope was a marriage of convenience on his part. So there is bitter irony in the "picture of this sawdust Caesar hitting the sawdust traiL Perhaps the best deal would be not to invade Italy. If we did we would: have to feed the 45, 009,000 inhabitants. They'd like nothing better than juicy lend-lease "meat, some fresh vege tables and flour for macaroni. Better clear away the island barriers and get food to the 'Greeks who have been loyal to our side and suffered more than almost any country. Let Italians wait for the free food baskets. :f . The mountain of beryllium north of Gold Hill turned out the same as the mountain of tin over near Burns. Oregon continues the richest state ia phony metals. - " - : ' . JVo Tflror Sumys 17; Wo Tear Shall Ai" From. First SUtesman, March 28, 1831 Tax Stalemate - : The defeat of the senate tax bill in the house, throws the two tax bills into conference com mittee. One was the house abortioni the Rob-ertson-Forahd bin, theother the senate version of the Ruml plan.! It's anybody's guess what will come out Of the committee, if anything. Tax legislation has been so encumbered with the barnacles of politics that there is little hope for anything constructive to emerge. - Why not, then, forget the skip-a-year plan for the present, and turn to the real problem: raising more money by taxation? That is tha main issue, not forgiveness of taxes for 1942, 1943 or any other year. Since the desire is not only to raise revenue but to mop up spending power about the quick est and easiest way of doing both would be to enact a sales tax. A tax of from five to ten per cent on sales would roll in the money, dry up a portion of the excess spending power which can not find outlet in available merchandise, and reach many people now in the big money who are paying little or no tax. This paper has not seen the need for any state sales tax, because our revenues are ample.: But the federal treasury needs money, lots of mon ey; and a general sales tax would provide It without any complicated system of rebates, sur-. taxes, or payroll deductions. "Let's go." pression "by gum" so often. However, as presi dent of his false teeth association that's prob ably as strong as The "poison gas" the Japs refer to in their bulletins about Attu must be their ownpropa ganda blowing back in their faces. ? . News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON tDtctr (button by King Feature Syndicate, toe. Repro duction la wool or in part trteUy prohibited.) , WASHINGTON, May 20 Churchill's broad ex planation of allied strategy did not entirely satisfy complainants In congress. What the fairly wide group behind Senator Chandler's viewpoint has been trying to do is to We have wondered why "Sips" uses the ex : he can go. induce the British to pur a for midable army In against Japan on the Burma line. They also . wanted to draw out officially a ' British promise of full coopers- tion in running down the Mi kado. Official quarters here have been disturbed for some months ; by Mr; Churchill's promise to demobilize some of the British military forces after we get Hit- Faml Malloa ler, a speech which Anthony Eden tried to explain away unsuccessfully when he was In Washington. " The new firm Churchill pronouncements stilled these fears successfully, but left the Burma line proposal unsettled. He is up against a difficult proposition there. The Australian parliament recently extended the limit to which their draftee could fight It now runs up almost to the equator in some areas where hith erto draftees could not even be sent off the Aus tralian mainland (their volunteers go anywhere.). The Indian army runs nearly a million men, but most of these have been kept at home for protection against the Indians embarked on anti-British cru sades, passive but occasionally bloody. This Indian army could be put into the field if Gandhi, et al, would quiet down at home, and if adequate British officer leadership was furnished them. However, a large sea expeditionary, force would have to be organized. ; The driblet army which the British , pushed through the high mountains on the Burma border and into the Jungle has been driven back almost to the border and is too weak to do anything. The congressional critics really believe China will collapse and fall out of the war unless the Bur ma road is opened. A more general and equally, authentic opinion in Washington still is that the Chinese may remain too weak to do anything under existing circumstances, but will be able to plod along until toe Roosevelt-Churchill strategy con templates crushing ' the Japs (increased aviation help is apparently forthcoming, -as Churchill im plied). '.. . " f Politics beat the Ruml plan administration pol itics. Mr. Roosevelt's threat of 'a veto may have carried some weight, but the house democrats were simply determined not to let the republicans get any more credit man necessary for having pushed tax easement. : r !J;; ; Leader Joe Martin, who made the Ruml plan re publican by adoption, picked up plenty of political hay on the proposition. One worker constituent In bis district wrote significantly that he would save $58 of back debt to the government, and did not care what Henry Ford saved. A leading democrat came up to Martin and told him the local demo cratic club in bis city had been discussing the Ruml, plan, and one of the local leaders said: "This fellow Martin is like the Roosevelt of ten years ago. He wants to give us something. " The democrats tried to make out that the plan favored the rich, and succeeded in smearing any common intelligent understanding of the complex situation. The truth is the plan would have raised less" tax es than now from the man whose income is declin ing (not many of them); more taxes from the man whose Income is increasing (the bulk of war' sal aries); and do nothing for the man whose income has been the same the past two years until be dies or his Income does increase or decline. .Then his back tax debt would be wiped out. In some few isolated Instances, a rich man would have been helped (Senator Byrd mentioned these In the debate) above the poor man but not In any general way. ; -i-Ai r.i:'f' ...v The truth remains that the Ruml plan was the only one proposed to put the country on pay-as-you-go without requiring some measure of double taxation for the current year. - ' Any compromise, therefore,. Is not liksly to be effective. The man with an income of S1C0.O0O (cit ed by the president) now pays around $70,CS3 in federal income tax, and a state tax, in addition, . He obviously cannot pay much if any additional taxes en his earnings. To him, any compromise would be a capital levy. 'Ghost Goes West9 Today's ffiadeo Programm K8LM ntin AT ISM Kc 10 New ta SrleC T5 JOam Shin. T JO News. T.-45 Mornins Moods. 80 Rhythm Five. S -JO Newt Brevities. 8:35 Tango Time. 8:00 Pastor's Call. 8:15 Uncle Sam. 8 JO Lest We Forget. 8:45 Round-up Time. 100 World to Review. 10. -OS A Song and A Dance. 10 JO Langworth String Quartet. 110 Maxine Burea. 11:30 Hits of Yesteryear. IS 0 Organallties. 12 JS News. 11 30 Hillbilly Serenade. IS 35 Matinee. 10 Lum "n" Abner. t 1:1S Rollo Hudson's Orchestra. - 1 J3Q Miladies Melodise. 1:45 Spotlight on Rhythm. 20 Isle of Paradise. 1:1 US Navy. i 30 State Safety Prorram, v X: as Broadway Band Waco. 30 KSLM Concert Hour. 40 Charles Maxnante. 4:13 News. - 4 JO Teatime Tunes. . 80 Merrick's Vocal Croup. 8:13 Records of Reminiscence, 830 Gypsy Orchestra. 80 Tonight's Headlines. :15 War News Commentary. - - 830 Evening Serenade. 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Putting these factors' in their proper perspec tive, Churchill said there Is lit- 1 tie doubt that Hitler "is reserv ing bis supreme gambler's throw for 'atlurdl.ttempVto:bte8Jc the red army.. V-v , The evidence increases that In spite of the Invasion threat the fuehrer Is marshalling all;pos : sible resources for-, another smash - at Russia. Major opera tions liave been postponed this spring; later than last when the Germans attacked in the Cri mea on May 8 but it appears impossible that . the first real - blow can be delay ed - much longer. ? . appear 80 News. 8:15 Speaking of Sports. 830 General Barrows. - 8 :45 Fulton Lewis. 100 Soldiers of the Press. 1030 News. 110 Shady Valley Folks. 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' We still are without any trust worthy indications as to wheth er the Germans or Russians will attack first, but it i likely to be Hitler, since a greater need drives him. - He can not afford to wait; Sta lin can. ' The German leader's best hope of survival is to knock out the red army now. On the other band the Russians may decide that the best defense would be to attack first, as they did in the Kharkov area last May.: ' V: --,v " The British prime mimster, whose information doubtless' is of the best, estimated that axis, forces held on the Russian front .were 190 German and 28 satel lite divisions,: 21S in alL That, allowing - for corps and army troops, air forces, other auxil iaries, would mean some 4,003, 000 men or more, probably stilt the most formidable agjresa tion of land forces In the world. Confronting them probably ere Russian armies of at least equal size. ' ' - . ' There Is no "chance that the western allies will land anything comparable in Europe this year or- be able to divert anything like such a J,?tal of the enemy.. Next day's comics page. 130 Uncle 20 Newspaper of the Air.. 2 J& This Life la Mine. . 20 Music " 2:15 Today at the Duncan1. X 38 Keep Working, Keep Singing, America.. . 2:45 News. 40 Raffles. 4:15 Sam Hayes. 430 Easy Aces. 45 Tracer of Lost Persons. 80 Music - 830 Harry FUnnery. 8:48 News. . 535 CecU Brown. News. 8:18 Oregon at War. 830 That Brewster Boy. 70 Caravan. ; 7.-45 Elmer Davis. 801 Love A Mystery. 8:15 Secret Weapon. . 830 Playhouse. 80 Kate Smith Hour. 830 Adventures of the Thin Man. 100 Five Star Final. 10:15 Wartime Women. -1030 The World Today. 1830 Mews. 1835 Air-Flo of tn Air. 18 45 Orchestra. 11 30-Manny Strand Orchestra. --1135-News. ; Midnight to 80 a jn Musts St News. KOW NBC F2UOAY 828 Ke. . 40 Dawn Patrol. S38 Labor News. - ... 80 Everything Goes. , - w-. ., . rr - 830 New. . 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" 830 Evening Vespers. .. - 8:45 It's Oregon's War. m 8:15 New. 830 Evening Farm Hour. 7 30 Music of Beethoven. 80 Science News of Week. 830 Higher Education in Wartime. 80 Eyes Aloft. - 830 News. 845 Uncle Sam. - Today's Gordon By IJLLIE Lv MADSEN . 1 Mrs; G. A. S, Lebanon, re ports that a cotoneaster disease v is bothering her shrub. Reports that It is. covered with webs and ; that the ends are turning black - and dying. f r ANSWER: Probably web ' worm is bothering the shrub ra ther than a disease. I have noti- ' ced web worm on some of the local cotoneaster in recent days. This, pest can do much harm to the cotoneaster or any shrub it attacks. In short order. The con- . trol, is arsenate of lead. .This may be dissolved, in water and sprayed on, or it may be dusted cn In dry form. If used in the She wondered about this Mr. Christopher Wain. The " small pieces Of the jig-saw personality didn't fit, and didn't make a clear picture. He raised dogs and didn't look as if he was very suc cessful at it; lie liked Worces tershire on an, egg; he knew how to figure like an adding machine, and he wore crepe-soled shoes which ' she detested. Withal, however, he, was charming. Bis voice was that of, a gentleman, and bis hands were really fine, with strong rounded nails and no signet ring. Paul Freund wore a signet ring. Somehow it seemed a part of dog business. '?:.' She folded the check, m be back in a minute." : -"Let me take it over for you. He might want to argue the matter or be nasty." - C ' TTou tend to the eggs, and HI take care of Mr. Tompkins," she replied grimly. "And I like my bacon crisp." . , Christopher stirred the eggs, m conflict." On the table beside him lay the cjn checkbook, and within him. was consuming cur iosity.' Or was if curiosity T Part of nii business In life was mak ing sense oufof people. Her gen eralship the night before in the Preund j crisis was grotesquely at odds with the picture of a young wonian violating ten trafi fie laws at one and the same time, and her mental arithme tic , was in direct opposition to the clear thinking which enabled her to j fire an ugly-tempered farmhand and take over his not Inconsequential duties without batting; an eye. His Indecision resolved into ig nominious surrender. He moved to the table, and gave a smug grunt at what he saw. Very ob viously; Miss Ann Rivers was a young woman who bogged down in the mysteries of a checkbook, for eighty dollars and sixty-seven cents subtracted from one hundred and eleven dollars and five cents did not leave forty dollars and forty-eight cents. Un doubtedly there ' would come a day when the bank would in form her that things were wrong OTP UCDODDS (Continued from Page 1) . the .turn of events theyremain unreconciled. Privately they blame Roosevelt with "getting us into the war," they criticise the conduct of the war, with very doubtful sincerity. The latest exhibition of course was the bumptious, discourte ous and trouble-making address: of Senator Chandler of Ken tucky, ; which was almost a studied; attempt to sow apples of discord among the United Nations.. It was in effect an ap peal that we should desert our allies In Europe because they might desert us later on. Right when the victory Is rolling over Hitler, Chandler purposes the diversion of our strength to deal with Japan. - Now : Chandler is one of the more, mouthy and less respon sible senators, but I have a hunch that he did not. sound off alone, that he was encouraged by ; the isolationists, the Ameri can flrsters, the bitter-enders. Churchill of course took care of him and his ilk so far as their accusations or insinuations were concerned. - The real danger lies in the presence of this bloc In congress, who will be. ready to duck at . the first opportunity, who will . want to pull out of Europe and out of the Pacific too Just as soon as they feel it safe to agi tate in that direction. They are not of so much danger now; but -they 'are a threat to the future security of this nation and a ' positive threat to any rational peace settlement which must include a continuing par ticipation by the United States in world affairs. . i- These "little Americans" salve their conscience by leading the pack in denouncing Japan, but they, still regard Hitler and Europe as none of our business, and are the more bitter because they guessed wrong in fighting measures to assist our allies. They need to be watched, and from time to time, -exposed as false prophets and dangerous guides. latter way, it Is best put on early, in the morning' while there Is still dew on the plaht ! There is a disease which at tacks cotoneaster occasionally, but is much more apt to attack the Pyracantha. This , is called flreblighL But : usually, there will be no webs and the bran ches will turn black and die . back. In this case you should cut off the diseased portions well below the point of injury and burn the removed part. Spray the other with bordeaux. Spraying the plant during the winter will also help check this disease. But from your, descrip tion, I am quite convinced -that the web worm Is attacking yours. (Thank you very much for your nice letter. X am glad that you were able to save your lines.) to the extent of ten dollars and . ten cents. . ' He felt like a very unpleas ant person sticking his nose into other people's business, but as he couldn't feel any more un pleasant about it, he turned over, the preceding stub and glanced at that too. It wasn't a very dif ficult calculation. If she had; her dates right, she had drawn twenty dollars to cash, sixteen days before. Not a very active account, he noted. The pictures made just a little too much sense to be ignored. lie let his gaze run out across the lawns to the meadows which . filed away in neatly fenced squares tothe dis tant woods. This was a pretty big show for a girl without cap ital to swing, he decided som berly, and she was coming up against a wall which was too high a Jump for her to take. - Chapter' IS J The sharp Insistent borking of a dog broke in on his thoughts. He knew his dog barks, and this (one wasn't the idle vocalizing of a pup who hasn't anything else to do, nor was it the guard ed welcome that a dog gives to a stranger. No. ; This was the deep throated announcement of displeasure that a Dane delivers , himself of before he goes into action, and Christopher remem bered with an anxious frown, . that Rowena had trotted out af- . tor Ann. . He left the eggs to care for ; . themselves, and started for the farmer's cottage. The door was open. He heard a man's hoarse : shout of panic, and Ann's voice rising in importunate entreaty. "Down, Rowena! Down, Row ena!" . The dog had -Tompkins cow ering in a corner and was snar- : ling at him with bared teeth. "Come here!" Christopher com- manded. Rowena - trotted to his side, meek as a lamb, and so did Ann. He had to smile, and then he could see the realization in Ann's eyes of her automatic response. She flushed angrily. "Rowena slipped her collar, that was all. ' You needn't have bothered." She adjusted the chain around the dog's neck, and Christopher could see that' her hands were trembling. . "How did all this get start ed?" he asked sternly. "The dog attacked me!" Tomp- ; kins burst out In a thick voice. -And I'm going to fill her full of lead!" - : Christopher regarded the swol len, ugly face with contempt. "Get out of here or 101 finish what the "dog began," Wordered ' in terms which even an enraged ruffian had to respect. The man's bluster wilted to a snivelling fear. It was plain that the dog. might be the lesser of two evils. "Did he get nasty?" Christo pher demanded, as Tompkins beat a hasty departure, with his . bags knocking against very un- . steady legs. , "Very," Ann admitted. She felt a catch in her throat. There was something about a man and a dog when they became protec tive that was hard to resist. It had been so long since she had anyone to lean on, so long since anyone had offered to fight her battles for her. There was Tom, of course. But Tom didn't fight battles, he smoothed things over so that there'd be no battles. 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