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PAGE FOUII Tht) CnTGCn STATECMAII. Cdsra. Or? -en, CcjxZzj itcrrlzj. Aut 21, ICtt i ' "Wo Toror Sway$ Vs; No Fear Shall AwtT i From First Statesman.. March 23, 1851 ? : ' THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher . 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. ' "r Dead Isolationism -. j The fence-sitters on the republican candi : dates' fence have got up courage to say that they are not ''isolationists," and their apologists gravely announce that "isolationism is dead." It may be dead, but it will have its resurrection in nationalism. Senator Reynolds, member of ' the senate foreign relations committee,' and one of the most ardent of the pre-Pearl Harbor iso lationists, is back from a trip to Europe and in Jus first statement comes out on a "nationalist" platform. It's the same coat, just turned inside -." out. : v : I ' When the showdown comes we will find the America f inters, republican and democrat, lined up as they were before Pearl Harbor, y deter mined to block any constructive approach to adjustment of international relation. As the San Francisco Chronicle says about the new nationalism Sen. Reynolds is now parading: Nationalism that Reynolds Is trying to touch off is the dangerous force upon which all. the vi cious power in Europe is based. Mussolini built his power on appeal to Italian nationalism. Hit ler's strongest afnpeal was to a German national ism of the mythical Aryan superman. Japan's vice isthe nationalism of Emperor worship and : Japanese supremacy over all other human beings. In the hands of a man like Reynolds, nation-., alism that we have been taught to believe a rea--senable pride of Americans in their country and love for its institutions becomes a fanaticism. The nationalism that Reynolds is talking about is a new name now coming into currency for the isolationism for which he beat the drum until Pearl Harbor forced a temporary silence upon him. There were many isolationists honestly in error who have seen the error of their ways. But Reynolds, for whom our enthusiasm always has been at low ebb, runs true to his form.' Wrong Direction . r , , Premier Badoglio, former Premier Orlando and now King Victor Emmanuel himself have radioed their sympathies to the Sicilians. The king says tearfully, the separation will not last for long, and assures them, "Italians of Sicily, your king is near you." They are wasting their appeals. The Sicilians are getting on very well. They like the Yanks . and the British far better than the Germans, and pulled down with alacrity the pictures of n Duce. Some even think they automatically become citizens of the United States, and have started to claim their rights and privileges. The radio commiseration should be beamed the other way. It's the Italians on the peninsula who are in for a drubbing now. And the king who sought to save his royal house by setting up his tool Badoglio, may find himself washed out when the accounting is finally; held.1 Veterinarians get funny calls, the same as physicians. A few days ago Dr. Belton, veterin arian with the state department of agriculture, was called oh by a farmer to see what was ail ing his hogs. The hogs were wobbly, and having difficulty controlling : their hind quarters. The farmer thought it was hog cholera. Dr. Belton investigated and diagnosed he trouble getting drunk on fermented whey. Oil in Oregon? Drilling for oil in Oregon has usually been a speculation with trimmings of fraud. Promot ers would suck in the dollars of the gullible, TL j ; l. ii i . uuui a uci i icr., wiu men ae away, some 01 these wells financed by popular investment ac tually went a long way down into the earth one of them in the Clarno basin; another in Langley valley in the Klamath country, but .they found no oil in paying quantities. Then there have been a few cases of drilling by east ern companies which put up their own capital, but found only dry holes. This was the experi ence a few years ago at the Steiwer farm south of Salem, and the well drilled near Buena ferry. It is reported that' Phillips Petroleum com- nanv is mminS inin iniltkmact "WAnnn to m r o w. ... .. vivuii .v uiui for oil. This is one of the biggest companies in the business; so its operations will be watched with interest. The Coos country is rated by geo logists as one of the districts in the state where petroleum may be found. For most of the state they are very skeptical. So heavy is the drainage of current con sumption on the older fields that it is recognized new sources of oil must be found. Present costs discourage wildcatting; but evidently the Phil lips organization feels warranted in " stepping into this unproved country to do some drilling on its own. Oregon's great deficiency is in mineral de velopment, products of mines and quarries be ing of very modest valued Discovery, of petro leum in the state would give a great stimulus to the whole economic life of the state. The proof lies in the drill bit, not in the prospectus of some promoter. The Phillips company relies ? on the former, not the latter. Without Profit Some of the biggest industrialists evidently do not want to be tarred, with the; charge of being "merchants of death" when this war is over. The big steel companies, the real back bone of modern war-making, have had little in r crease in prices of their products, and the in crease in operating costs and taxes has greatly reduced their; earnings. U. S. Steel, which has been chosen to operate the new government owned steel plant located 35 miles south of Salt Lake City, is going to do the job for the government on a non-profit basis. It furnishes the "know-how" without remuneration, the op erations, of course, being financed by the gov ernment. ...... . . i . i ,i This scheme may work in the war emer gency, but not beyond,. That would be a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde arrangement unsatisfac tory all around. In a competitive world, busi ness survives on its profits, and shouldn't be squeamish about earning fair profits. Two, in One Week ! Did it ever happen before? ; j Colliers and Saturday Evening Post in their current issues both blazon on their covers an nouncements of new serial stories by Ernest Haycox, Oregon fiction writer. Written for the former is a six-part serial, "The Wild Bunch,' and for the Post, "Bugles in the Afternoon," in eight parts. , Haycox has had his writings accepted by the big national magazines for a number of years; but it is most unusual for any author to have two of his serials break in the same week in rival publications like Colliers and Saturday Evening Post. Undoubtedly it was just a co- incidence; but the fact will highlight the already fine reputation Mr. Haycox has as a writer of fiction, particularly of th wm ; ' aark Van Fleet was elected city commis sioner in Portland. Van Fleet, formerly in the petroleum business, has been serving as ration- lng officer in the state office of OPA. After that duty he's apt to grow soft even in;as tough a ? Job as a city commissionership. If a good record In office can be inherited. Van Fleet will suc ceed, because his father served a long time, and Myy' a federal judge in California. Mussolini is now said to be interned on the island of Bonza.- Bonza without any banzai! (..- : . Errol Flynn caught another red -head and . went off on -a yachting trip. Old stuff: the moth and the flame. News Behind The News ; By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 My columnar sug gestion that our peace program should be worked out on a basis of democratic and Christian princi ples struck a popular responsive chord, but enough scattered criticism and misun derstanding has developed to re quire further clarification to round the subject out. A Jewish woman in San Di ego, for instance, suggests that Christianity is exclusive and in compatible with democracy, which promises freedom of re ligion, j The true inspiration of Chris tianity, of course, is tolerance Paul MaUoa and justice for all, which like-; wise is the basic principle of democracy. The roots vof the Christian theory of life run 'back to the mosiac law' Of the Ten Commandments. Both have inspired the laws and customs of our land. There is hot the slightest inconsistency be tween them. ' Many clergymen of all faiths report having read my column from their pulpits, but two have pro tested my simplification of Christian principles to the theme of common justice, good neighborliness, kindliness and fairness. They rightly say Christian ! religions are much more than this, and that even the heathens could get in under my tent Indeed, they could. - We are dealing in the post-war discussions, not with matters of religion, but with politics, states manship and formulas for national living. Theolo gians must interpret Christianity as a . religion in their respective ways, but statesmen must follow the inherent theme of Christian theory. - My suggestion is that statesmen and politicians be pressed to follow the simple fundamental prin ciples of Christianity as they have in making their laws. The moral conceptions of honesty, good and evil, preached by Conf ucious ("man is inherently good") is close - enough to fundamental Christian principles to indulge that kind of a post-war demo cratic world. ; i ' Our Christian way of life is not sufficiently ap proved in this world to warrant us making it ex clusive. The conflicting theories into which we will run in the post-war settlement are those of athe ism, agnosticism and man-made religions of the state (nazism, facism, communism). These teach, lor. instance, that even murder is justifiable in the interest of the majority. Political opposition, they say, must be exterminated or liq uidated by murder. The opposite-doctrine which we have followed is that of the Sixth Commandment,' the only con doned exception being wars of self-defense. "Thou shalt not kill' has not been amended for us to add "except in politics.'! - U j i r Several oilier readers on the opposite side be lieved I wanted the churches to make the peace. They question the ability of the churches to do so, on the basis of their past records. . ? j , I This was a strenuous over-interpretation of the column. It would be enough for me If the church leaders of the country would exert preaure upon the statesmen for the maintenance of simple Chris-' tian and democratic principles in their settlement The elected representatives of the people are charged with the duty of making the peace, not the clergy. Churchmen are unfitted for the task by ' any measuring guage of practical experience. They will do their duty if they keep the statesmen on the right path. , : "1 Two readers also objected to my statement that no one that I knew of had lived Christianity fully, cUiming many holy men and women had done so! I am not a competent judge on this subject but I am sure all the saints would be the first to protest -that they had equalled Christ and were without original or ensuing sins of thought word or deed. To me, Christ was the only divine human, and I like to think they looked at it that way also. These criticisms and misinterpretations only v serve to emphasize the necessity that the peace be based upon both Christian and democratic prin ciple. : Already the Russians are sponsoring a committee for the restoration of "democracy in Germany The refugees on this committee in Russia, says Pravda truthfully, are socialists and communists. The kind of "democracy" and "freedom" they would restore to Germany is not our kind. If we demand only democracy there and else where over the post-war earth, without Christian ity, we will get something foreign to our inclina tions and beliefs. -: i Words have been corrupted by artful politicians f where ve lost their genuine mmtog. The difference between us and Russia if not j? word "democracy" or "anti-fascist" bulMa Christianity that difference must bTpre- vr-ssss t"'1 : .1., urn c --aaa The Old One-Two Punch Todlay KSUM SATVKOA I3M Km. 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The European war may prove to be like crossing the Rocky mountains by the South Pass. In crossing a moun tain range you naturally ex pect to climb precipitous heights before you get to the top of a sawtooth ridge. In South Pass the ascent is so gradual and the pass so wide you hardly know when you are over the summit the culmination of action in the European war may come as the result of patient plodding rather than final climactic effort Be fore we know it we may be "over the hump. : j It is by no means inconceivable that with the cracking of the hard shell of the continent the nazis may see that their, goose" is cooked, and the generals til low the modern style of revolu- . Hon and take over power and sue for peace, as they did in 1918. If it happens, the so!5iers can say as did Private Hy Cathey of Ola, Ark., -Well, that's all there is, there ain't no more?' and sit down to eat their cheese. If the end comes abruptly. 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Chapter 19 Continued ; "When people try to, cover up . some things, always they burn. "You and your clues!" I scof fed, anxious to get on with the . search of - the cottages before the, colonists should return. . - He dinriped out the contents of the 'wire basket and squatted down, to sort out bits of half- . burned paper. I heard footsteps behind me ' and .whirled to see Rawsons coming. . They were laden with paraphenalia for their crab study knitting and - lunch, and were headed toward the-canoes. ' - Greetings!- they both caUed, and Rawson said with sharpened Interest as they came up to us: i - - "Well, well Sherlock Holmes, what?"; , Komako grinned. "Hasty ten. ' me' bout that fellow smart 'cop him." He studied a scorched bit of paper with the magnifying glass they had lent him. Rawson peered over his shoulder. A bit. of an almanac," the j Englishman reported. "I'd saved j ft since it's marked." Komako laid It aside and stirred. other charred fragments with his finger, Rawson helping . him. Meanwhile I , asked Mrs. . : Rawson:: I. "You're not gardening?" "Dear me, no! We pay Herb , . to do our share. We have far -more important work to do. Come, come,,, Gerald, we've no time to indulge in your detective . hobby." She turned back to me eagerly,, "We think .we saw a . very rare Hormiphora fusifor . rnia yesterday and must verify it today Jf we get it, it will pay us Jolly" well in the collectors' - market, ' Rawson adjusted his load. "Yes, yes, let's get on with It." As he and his wife turned to go, he admonished - Komako: "No thing is too significant to em amine under the , glass. Good luck!" . - . "You too," Komako called af ter them, then picked up a bit of almanac and held It lip to me without comment. It was the kind put out by patent medecine firms, the phases of the moon duly noted. A date was circled - with purple ink. "Fourteenth," Komako s a Id significantly. "Date of the mur der. Somebody planning ahead for that?" Oh, that's a far cry," I said j impatiently. "Let's go." But he pocketed the scrap carefully among his other treas ures, only remarking: We look for who has purple ink when we try- them keys." : Keep your eyes open for my '; spear and fish knife, too," I requested as we got under way. (To be continued) Chapter 20 We went first to the Delmar house, wishing to verify, if we could, Mrs. Delmar's statement that the keys did not belong there. There seemed no reason why she should lie about this, since they could have been car ried to the sampan by Delmar himself, but on the other hand. If. the keys belonged to the Del mars, there was.no use in our V looking further to identify them. fWe tried the keys in every thing that had a lock, but none of them fitted. In the bedroom the drawer of a chest was hang ing open, empty except for a " lingerie strap, some rumpled . sachets and such oddments as one discards when packing. Ko mako whistled over . this, then found a suitcase and a couple of bags under the bed. They were all heavy, and since they were not locked we soon verified - our suspicion that they were packed. : ;. . "She means to leave here right away!" I exclaimed. "She don't go," Komako said grimly. "She's not clear yet, even if keys not fit. Come, come, we go to other houses. I find only black Ink here, anyhow." rr " The net result of our expedi tion was that, we found no , purple Ink whatever, nor any sign of my knife and spear. The keys seemed to fit in some of the . luggage in the various houses, but the locks were too rusty to yield. The oiled padlock on Herb's homemade box opened to one flat key, but a hairpin would ' have done Just as well. Komako disappointedly re turned the keys to his pocket. "Clue not so good. But , I think i of fine hiding place for your spear, Hasty," He led the way -outdoors, and starting with BudcPs house, we went down "the line ' examining : the edges of the thatched roofs under the . overhanging, eaves. -We were down as far as the : Wests without any success, when we caught sight of a swift movement across Mrs. Delmar's lanai. ; . ' '. We stood -motionless in the shrubbery, waiting. After an in terval a slight woman's figure - ventured out of the deep sha dow. The sun caught the spun r gold of her hair. It was Elaine. She was stuffing something into her blouse as she looked nerv ously around, and held it there as she darted across to the ratham house. Komako strode, out of the bushes without comment' and down the path after her. She saw him -and hesitated for an In stant, then ran swiftly into the house. "Missus Elaine!" he called, his voice casual and friendly, as he advanced on the house with me at his heels. When we reached the lanai she came out of one of the rooms. There was wild panic in her deep blue eyes, : and every trace of delicate color had left her face. ; ; c "You all done gardening?" Komako asked, smiling at -her reassuringly. "Where is every body?" "1 I ran on ahead," she man aged to say shakily. "Mrs. Delmar even- not here yet," he continued gently. "We saw you' In her house. What you bring from $here?" 1 , She just stared at him, seem ingly unable to answer, to make .. any reasonable excuse for hav ing been there. Her fright grew, and she started past us as if to escape back to the gardens. Then the doctor came running with swift long steps down the path. Elaine ran to meet him and i 1 threw herself, sobbing, into his arms. He glared -at us over her head, then bent all his attention to soothing her. Finally he said shortly to us: "Stay here! I want to talk to you fellows," and took her into the . house. When he came back, his face was stern and set "What did you say to upset her?" "Nothing," Komako answered with dignity. "We only ask why she was in Mrs. Delmar's house. Something else already scare her." Dr. Latham studied us in a perplexed way, We were con scious of the other colonists re turning, and when his mother turned into their cottage he said tensely: "Come down to the pool with me where we can talk. There's something I've got to tell you." j I It was a strange, baffling story he unfolded, down there by the clear waters of the pool. It was impossible not to believe him while he was recounting it,' for his deeply worried eyes and low voice carried desperate pleading for' understanding. And yet, la ter . . . " , "I hoped to avoid this," he began unhappily, "but it is only as you understand, that you may be able to help about Elaine in this sorry mess. You must never say anything that might frighten her." . Komako askeed, "She know about murder? And that you think Hasty done it?" "She knows the bare facts about Delmar's death, but" Latham turned his tortured eyes on me "we've said nothing about Mr. Hoyt. I can't quite - bring myself to believe that ac cusation, reaUy. No, the reason she must not be subjected to any shock goes much farther back than this recent event." He looked uncertainly at Komako. (To be continued) The Safety Volvo Letters trom Statesman ' Readers i . TatAINING COUNTS To the Editor: I want to ex- press my appreciation for your column about army and navy discipline in this morning's Statesman. I think you have rightly, pointed out one of the little things in life which goes far toward making life more livable and satisfying. This war is a crisis, which Is showing up many of the weak nesses of our civilization, not the least of which is a failure on the part of so many of us to give the coming generation the kind of training in responsibility and orderliness which they need to become better members of the group. . . CHESTER O. GOODMAN, Pastor, Englewood Unit ed Brethren Church, Salem. i SEE OUR BIG -COLOR AD ON BACK PAGE Bring in Your Old Costume Jewelry for Our Boys in the South Seas L " , ; , . ' ' ' ir.. - ,tm'- ,
