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Tram First Statesman, March 28, 1851
THE STATESIWAN PUBLISHING CO.
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher '
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Member of The Associated Press -
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this newspaper.
China's Food Basket ?
The Japanese armies are making a new thrust
at China's rice basket. Around Ichang on the
..Yangtze several hundred miles below Chung
king, where they have been severely; defeated
before, they are trying to cross the river to get
t at the rich rice fields of central China, j It is a
renewal of Japan's effort to knock China out of
the war; and if the rice-growing area could be
" laid desolate or occupied, China's cup of woe
' would indeed be filled to overflowing. So nar
row is the margin of subsistence that even a
, partial destruction of the year's rice crop would
' have harrowing effects on the population, if not
. a decisive effect on the ability of China to con-
Planes Arc Missing' -
Two of our planes" are missing" Is the frt-"
quenj sentence which winds up the story of a
successful air raid. We read of the victory, the
enemy planes shot down, the enemy works de
molished, the enemy towns left burning. We
note the losses, and if, as is usually true, the
proportion is small, we count it a real victory.
"Only two of our planes are missing."
But for many families back home their chief
concern in' the war rides in those missing planes.
When they crash, their world crashes. Tor their
sons or husbands ride in those planes. 7 'y y ?
This fact comes home with word that lieu-
tenant William Clark Leedy of the well-known"
tinue its six-year old struggle against almost Leedy family of the Lake Labish district, is
. overwhelming odds. We have hopes however.
. both that allied aid may come through in great
- er volume and that Chinese resistance will stand
up against this new threat, probably the last in
. ' strength which Japan can make. ; '
Although China is the greatest agricultural
' producer in the world, regularly in the , past it
has been necessary to import large quantities
of wheat, rice and sugar. Even in normal times
- the total supply has been inadequate, with mil
lions of the 450,000,000 Chinese suffering from
under-nourishment and occasionally from ac
' tual starvation: Now the blockade bars imports.
The poor transportation system has prevented
movement of supplies to famine areas, so that
I through the centuries famine has prevailed
somewhere in China almost every year. The
past year Honan province, where fighting has
i been going on for years, has been the hardest
hit. i . ; j
The Chinese government is looking forward
to broad development as soon as the war is over,
that will increase the agricultural production
and improve the standard of living. The present
per capita average of farm land is only a little
more than half an acre, but China has great
areas susceptible of development under proper
land reclamation control of floods, irrigation,
etc. Sun Yat Sen, founder of the Chinese repub
lic, had a definite plan for supplying adequate
provisions for his people. He recognized inter
national aid would be required; and he outlined
the steps in increased production, improved
-storage and transportation, internal coloniza
tion of backward areas and extension of the
; fishing industry. Generalissimo Chiang Kai
shek hopes to initiate and carry forward this ,
plan. If China can only be saved now and Ja-
pan driven off the continent, then international
. assistance should be extended to enable the
Chinese people to feed themselves and end the
succession of famines that have long been
China's sorrow.. Defeat of Japan's new thrust
Is therefore of immediate and long-time impor- -tance
to the Chinese people. : ,
Alphabetical Storms
There is little. doubt that the three top al-'
.phabetical agencies set up to run the war on the
home front are having plenty of grief. They
are the WPB, the OPA and the WLB. The first
named has survived a good many storms and
Donald Nelson may be able to pull it through,
but it has been cuffed around so much, and cus
sed about and at, that if it survives the reason
will probably be that no one could think of a
satisfactory substitute. "
; Currently OPA and WLB are about to floun
def in high seas. Each sort of cancels the other
out. OPA's job was to hold down prices? WLB's
Job to hold down wages. Neither has succeeded
very well, and as one fails the other flops
OPA's desperate move to roll back" prices
reads quite a little like King Canute's order to
the tide, with about the same promise of suc
cess. While there are pronunciamentos fixing
ceilings, setting prices and even crack-downs
the prices keep inching upwards. 1
As for WLB the bout with Lewis has left it
rather groggy. While it stands on its legal dig
nity it has done its best to wheedle John L. into
renegotiation with employers, with no luck to
date. The coal strike threat remains, one week
removed, with nothing visible accomplished to
prevent it.
I D011'4 blame the membership. These boards
Were set up and given powers on the familiar
?oo little and tod late' formula. The adminis
tration held Henderson back on control of wag
es and farm prices at the first, and these
promptly took the escalator up. Now they
face the almost impossible tax of appeasing eco
nomic groups to maintain production and at
the same time to restrain the inflation spiral
as much as they can. With prieewage relation
ships out of balance in many, many lines this
is more than boards can handle. And back of
all the trouble is the determination of many ec
onomic groups to make profit out or the war.
Sacrifice, it seems, is to be confined to the men
who light, and their families. . i .
reported "missing in action. He served with
the navy air force, so it may well be that he
rode in one of the planet reported taising,
When the "next of kin" arc folk you know, the
cost of war comes close home. And sympathies
go out to the Leedy family for their great loss.
Premier Aberhard who won his off ice in Al-.
berta by promising $25 a month for everybody
has gone to his final accounting. Albertans nev-''
er got jhe social credit paycheck each Saturday
night, but he kept them hoping so he held office
till he died.
It was just a year ago'that Radio Rome an
nounced: "Events are marchin and the nover
of Italy's adversaries is cracking."
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News Behind
News
Today's Caido IPirdpgcainni:
By PAUL MALLON
duct ton la who! or In part strteUr prohibited.
WASHINGTON, May 24 The liberals may be
awakening from their dreaming. One of their lead
ers, at least, is rubbing trie mists of wistful-vision-Ing
from his eyes, and publicly suggesting that here
after they revise their war and
post-war program to base them
on truth and realism.
In an article in the weekly lib
eral bible, the New Republic, no
less a power than its foremast
editor, Bruce Bliven, forthright
ly indicts himself and his asso
ciates on many counts of politi
cal somnambulism. I did not feel
I had to ask him for permission
to quote from his article, because
the substance sounds as if it came
hi
v.
Skip a Year h 1 ' -
t: David Lawrence makes a simple and practi
cal suggestion ; regarding federal income taxes.
Merely change the label on the tax blank. Now
people are paying income taxes under tthe la
bel "1942 tax." Change that to "1943 tax" It
would be a current tax collection, though the
computation would be measured on the earnings
of the former year. ; ' i -t
i Oregon did this same thing with respect to
property taxes a number of years ago. We were
. always paving taxes a year late. rFinally the
legislature, without then changing the tax-paying
dates, moved up the label one. year, 'making
the collections current.: The "treasurv didn't
lose any money, the people were neither better
off nor worse off.
Why net pass a law to change the dales; as
Lawrence suggests, then enact a stiff , federal
sales tax to sop up the excess-spending power? '
Emperor Hirohito raised Admiral Yamamoto,
posthumously, to the title of Admiral of the
Fleet. Considering that the admiral rejoined
his fleet, now in numbers reposing on the bot
tom cf the ocean, the new title is most appro
priate. .
Pat Man
from this column.
4 In spots. It reads almost phrase for phrase along
. the lines of free advice to liberals offered by me
since the war started, urging them to awaken and
see Britain, Russia and China as they are, not as
. Vice President Wallace and the New Republic had
viewed them; and counseling them to renounce their
antiquated liberalism which espoused totalitarian
Ism In democratic, socialist, or communist forms,
In favor of a truly liberal doctrine of freedom for
the individual and the common man.
Well, the sleeping part of it is all there now as
advice from Mr. Bliven to liberals and his position
may carry more weight, s His ' words also suggest
there is a chance that the course of professional and
orthodox liberal thought may be turned away from
its marked totalitarian and narrow new dealish
channels, and modernized.
The alarm which seems to have awakened Mr.
Bliven (he implies) was Mr. Stalin's announcement
that the Russians have not abandoned their histor
ic desire for a piece of a "strong" Poland. Says Mr.
Bliven: ;
"Men like Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek
keep silent during the war, for diplomatic reasons,'
about those of their opinions and policies which
may strike a disagreeable not among the popula
tions of allied countries; but they don't abandon
uitae oeuexs ana policies. I
Britain, he finds, still wants the empire despite
the offer of Mr. Bliven and associates to free In
dia, Egypt and some other places.
But you will hold your hats when you hear him
saying: -t
"I am aware of no evidence that Stalin has alter
ed his ideology a particle under the pressure of
war." , t -.
He even mentions a few bad things, along with
the good, about Russia, the bad including "merci
less wholesale executions of political opponents, un
iversal spying, the ruthless carrying out of economic
' plans. : '. ' ; . ' ,!,:.. .
. China, he now sees truly as being Very far from
being a political democracy on the western model."
But he Is rougher with Mr.J Roosevelt than I have
ever been, contending, apparently, that the presi
dent is not strictly a new deal leader: - -- t !
"Mr. Roosevelt became a new dealer after he-got
into office and, on an ad hoc, day-to-day basis. He
surrounded himself with an unusual group , of men
and women with a-progressive outlook and, Item
by item, they sold him the various parts of the new
deal program.
They were helped In doing so by the fact that,
year after year, the depression continued to be so
serious that almost any experiment seemed better
: than Just to let matters drift" f s i
He concedes he and associates have, exaggerated
the "altruism" iof the American people by hoping
? they would give away much more after this war
.than they will, and directly confesses: :
, "Some American liberals have delusions of
grandeur as to the extent of our influence upon the
allies," in writing the peace and now. "It is better
to be grim and correct than to take a rosy view
that turns out to be wrong he rightly adds. , .
. Reluctantly, he is even prepared to accept a post
war plan "based on arrangements that are as much
to the benefit of this country as anyone else." He
suggests liberals should go that far too, although
this requires quite a drop from their world vlslon
Ing. - : , : ;
To the confused and disheartened "liberal" he :
offers a new goal: :
"A conception of the dignity of the individual, or ;
freedom and fairness for all." "
: Why that would be democracy, Mr. Bliven!
The libs could have gotten It all from this spot
In the past three years for three cents instead of
paying 15 cents for it now. I would like to think
that I helped to cause or inspire this revolutionary -change.
.Unfortunately, I cannot --. .
There is no copyright on truth. It cannot become
a private possession. When the other fellow comes '
upon it, we think he took something from us where-
as he really only opened his eyes.
There may be unity in this country yet.
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Chapter IS Continued
; T think that Just the upkeep
of a place like this is an enor
mous responsibility," she ex
plained tactfully. "After all, you
mentioned that you were very
happily ensconced in some place
over in Westchester, so why
change?"
"I, said nothing about being
particularly happy . over there."
he denied a little petulantly. "A
farm. like this would be heaven
next to it, but if you'd rather
not rent it, that's that"
She frowned. "That's not the
point. You know perfectly well
it would be a godsend to me to
have anyone living on the place.
But . It's Impossible for you to
take it over; it needs two men
just to Jake care of the grounds
; and the" stock." -. -' v'.,
"I have two men," Christo
pher broke in. "My kennel men,"
he amended quickly. Td rent
as is, assume full responsibility
for animals and feed, and pay
whatever you feel is fair."
- Chapter 14 '
She felt In the posiUon of
clutching at a straw. If she
- could get the burden of upkeep"
off her shoulders, she'd have
J time in which to turn around.
. But could he afford a rental of
fifty dollars a month to enable
' her to meet the taxes and insur-
- ance? She broached it to him
tentatively.
"For all this?" he expostulated.
"Lady, Where's your business
head?"
"Where's yours?" she retorted.
"Dont forget there's a hundred
dollar feed bill to add to that . ."
"Tor which 111 be getting
enough dairy products to support
not one ' kennel ; but two,1 he
pointed out You're giving the
place to me, not renting it!"
"You're being awfully gener
ous about ft," she murmured
gratefully, and hoped that he ;
wasnt the ingratiating type of
ne'er-do-well who would rather
pay big bills than little bills.
After all, what did she know
about him? Of course, she might
telephone Paul Freund for ref-' .
erences, r ask Mr. Wain out- '
right for 'some assurance of his :
character, , but somehow .' she '
couldn't bring herself to do that
"How long a lease have you
on the Westchester place?" j she -
asked instead.
"I have no lease at all," he an
swered promptly. "I can send a
man and a couple of my best
dos over here first thing to
morrow morning." i "
Ann gasped. "You certainly
move fast" she protested.
"If I didn't you might change
your mind, or pull a farmer out
" of your hat and say, "Sorry, Mr.
Wain, but I've already found
someone to cut my grass and wa
ter my stock; the deal's oft
"Perhaps you're right" said
Ann slowly. She looked up to
see him standing at her side
i holding his brimming pail 0f
mHlr,
" "You bet Tm right he said,
r "This is the sort of thing that
happens to a person once in a
lifetime . . . Want me to finish
your cow for you?"
Ann wanted to Celt Mm
she was perfectly capable of fin
ishing her own cow. But for no
good reason that she could think
of, she found herself telling him
the truth. "My hand is dead,"
she admitted faintly.
Two hours later, having fin
ished the chores, they started
back to the house,
" 1 reek of horse liniment" Ann
announced.' "PfuL ;
"Not pfu! at all -one of the
better smells of life," said Chris
topher. He sniffed. "I'm no rose
myself. As I stand, I could get
into a r Grange meeting without
the passwords."
"There'll be plenty of hot wa
ter. Would you like to take a
tub before you go?"
"Am I going?" he asked. "I
thought I was going to stay over
to help you in the morning."
"You thought wrong. I can
manage perfectly well by my
self.",;., "That's foolhardy. What if that
fired farmer takes it In his head .
to come back?"
"Rowena's here. Just look at
her .now. Isn't she marvelous?"
' Christopher followed her eyes
to where the dog, who had been
romping ahead with Gretel, sud
denly stood at attention, with
the hair rising sharply across her
back.- He smiled. "Belligerent
little pup. Always looking for a
crap."
(To be continued)
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By GLENN BABB - - . I
AP War Analylst for Th Statesman '
The heaviest air raid of his
tory, - inflicted by . the RAP on
Dortmund Sunday .night, seems
to indicate that the experiment
mentioned by, Winston Churchill
to determine whether "the use
of air power by itself; could
bring about the collapse of Ger-
manyr or Italy" --is well
launched.
.The Dortmund raid evidently
ushers in a new phase' of th
war. It followed more than a
week of inactivity, by the big
f our-engined planes of the RAP'S
bomber command which ;coin- .
tided with a fine bomber's moon.
It - was evident that something
new waa in preparation. Dort
mund showed the Germans what
they can expect the war on the
home front, to be like from this
point on:i,VvxL.:-:-":v':--;.''
' It must be remembered, how
ever, that Churchill said the ex- :
periment was worth trying only
"so long as other measures are '
not excluded." The terrible pun
ishment German 'Industrial cen
ters are getting and will get In.
ever increasing measure will not
mean any release from, the con
stant menace of invasion. There
Is no basis for any nazl hope
that the experiment will permit
the slightest i relaxation of the
guard that, must be maintained '
an around the 11.000-mile perl
meter of the European fortress.
" There is no reason to believe '
that the bombing campaign alone
would satisfy Russia's insistence
on a second front fn Europe.
.That insistence must be met this
summer unless the relations be
tween the . western powers and .
the soviet union are to be sub
jected to more severe strains
than ever before. .
Where and when it will come '
is for Hitler and his generals to
guess, but there is nothing more
certain in the war outlook than
that there will be one or more
direct assaults by sea, land and
air by British, American and
probably- Canadian forces' some-.'
where against the European for
tress wis year. . These may not
constitute the final knockout
blow, which may be withheld
while the softening up continues
a few months longer, but they -.
will be major diversions which
will compel Hitler to withdraw
hundreds of thousands of fight
ing men from the Russian front.
' ; The morale factor may prove
: in the end the determining one. '
As the fury of the storm rises
the conviction will be borne in
on the German people that this
is not just a passing ordeal but
a scourge that must continue -with
ever more terrible effect
until the war is ended. And it
must be clear in time even In
Germany that in such circum
stances It can end in only one
way.
That is the unpromising pros
pect before the German . people; '
they have far -less reason for ,
hope than even the British had
in 1940. They have called on
their utmost resources and It Is
becomfne more and more aooar
ent that they are not sufficient
Dnvthe realization must grow
that there is no escaoe except
bv submfcsiin and that that wav
out . must become increasingly
attractive.
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that our state tax administrative
system is good, and that the tax
commission era are unusually
competent and trustworthy. ;
" Just what are the sins assess
ed against Fisher and Galloway?
First Galloway is charged with
ordering the change-over in ba
sis of assessments in Multnomah
county. In that order , he was
merely (and belatedly) follow
ing the law, as the supreme court
. . later affirmed. And the ensuing
i legislature refused to listen to
any change in the assessment
law. :r:.-;j.-:.-- .':.;
Second, , Farrell is irked be
' - cause Galloway admitted he had
delayed ruling in the Multnomah
case to keep the matter out of
the legislature at the time.' Gal
loway was wrong if he did this,
and his fears were not well
grounded If he thought the legis
lature would overturn the assess
ment structure. But this is a
slim basis for his summary dis
charge particularly when the
legislature when it met offered
no criticism or reprisal. '
Galloway's bill for changing
dates of property tax payment,
which was condemned a year
ago, Is now praised, as giving a
far better distribution of tax
burdens than before.' .vC'-"
As to Fisher he is on the grid
because tax notions of Farrell
& Coi failed to get anywhere in
the last legislature. Fisher's of
' fense was that he pointed out
the mechanical difficulties of
making a rebate on 1942 taxes;
but the legislative committee aft
er very careful study and hear
ing. FarrelTs own "experts"
turned thumbs down on the re
bate, adopting instead the Walk
er plan of tax discount which is
now universally approved.
Watson's story was that Snell
and Scott might go along on an
ouster if Farrell could find two
well qualified successors,' which .
to date he has not done. That
doesn't sound very plausible. If
there are two $4800 posts to be
filled surely the governor would
want to do the picking and pro
posing himself. He wouldn't
want to be left in the sand-trap
by having Farrell do the picking.
This part of the Watson ver
sion is undoubtedly true: they
haven't found anyone as well
qualified as the incumbents nor
will they.; y.i;.
. So 'it seems to me the gover
nor would be smart if he made It
dear that Galloway and Fisher '
would continue to the end of
their terms,, when the appoint
ments for the next term would
be considered. No charge .for
this advice, governor; and it's
worth more, than the usual free
advice. " .
2if!tirhrjr"ducUo0 te Wartime.
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Today's Gordon
By LIIXIE L. MADS EN
; Mrs. A. C D. reports that she
received a packet of seeds called
annual poinsetta and wants come
information on it
- Answer: : This - is frequently
listed in seed catalogues as u
phobia, the family, name of the
poinsetta and is actually an an
nual, It is frequently known as
tne Mexican Fire plane. Fire
on - the - Mountain, Hypocrite
plant, Painted Leaves all ac
cording to locality in which one
was reared.
It grows readily from seeds
and prefers a sunny situation in
the garden. It can also be grown
Indoors in pots just as the com
mon poinsetta can be grown.
Both white and variegated forms
are In cultivation and can be
obtained from .seed houses. The
E. Heterophylla is the most bril
liant While I have never grown
any of these, I am told they are
treated In cultivation much like
the aster , or the zinnias or even
the geraniums."
The same ; inquirer complains
of black spots on the pansies, and
asks about mixing two kinds of
commercial spray for roses..
Answer: Pansies are frequent
ly bothered with leaf spot par
ticularly if growing conditions
are not par-excellent In this
case the plants should be sprayed
jwlth Bordeaux at the first in
dications.. ;
Do not mix the two kinds of
spray. They are put out by. the
same commercial company and
if they could have been mixed
the company would have done so.
I would suggest following direc
tions exactly as printed on the
containers.
Tho
Safety Valvo
Letters tram Statesman
Readers -;
ARMED EFFICIENCY
To the Editor:
In "The Oregon Statesman" of
May 21, 184J. a poster which
tarts out with: The Old Judge
Says" and is endorsed by the
Conference of Alcoholic Bever
age Industries, Inc., and part of
the same reads thus:
- "When the men In the last war
came home and found prohibi
tion had been put over on them
behind their backs they, were
sore as boils. You can see from
what I Just told you how they
feel about it this time, too."
In regard to banishing liquor
in the first World war, allow me
to quote from The VoicV of
December, 1942, the following
.statement:
"Josephus Daniels, secretary
of the navy In World war I, was
responsible for banishing liquor "
from the navy before national
prohibition. The records of the
American navy contain positive
proof ot the tremendous value
of that policy In the Interests of j.
armed efficiency. The assistant
secretary of the navy at that '
tme was the Honorable Frank-"
lin D. Roosevelt, now president
of the United States.
JESSIE MARTIN,'
1513 Lee street, Salem.