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Tha CZTGOII CTATECIL'JI. Cdaix Oregon. Vedaeday Homing. Ccptaxnicr 12, 1213 PAG2 CDC . . . . - - . i . . . .. -nil ' - -- - - - - if . . -s. -ww i mi m r v - n s i a .. t i :3? U : I i i'i i i i I i 1 V it: in: IS' V THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. : CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member ot Tht Associated Press Tba Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the us for publication ot all news dispatches credited .to it or not otherwise credited In this, newspaper. Altitude Test Schools, whose reopehing was always of ab sorbing interest but now seemingly of secon dary concern, have generally resumed j for an other year. What kind of job will be done with young people in schools this year becomes a pertinent question. The New York Times in its history survey showed appalling deficiency in knowledge of facts of American f history. Students trying to carry courses in mathematics to qualify for special work in the army or navy , often found their foundation in mathematics very" weak. Now comes Prof. Harold Saxe Tut tle of the College of the City of New York, -who on the basis of a two-year attitude test of some 8000 students in elementary and junior high schools concludes that these schools "are fail ing to prepare their students for the respon sibilities of "citizenship and are not develop ing loyalty to democratic ideals." Prof. Tuttle says further: "No appreciation of the individual's duties to his country and community was evidenced by the children, and they seemed to have no real understanding of the meaning of democratic " behavior." ' , Again: "The statistics showed that devotion to ideals of democratic living and conformity to civic standards is low the country over. The poorest scores were made along the eastern sea board. But nowhere are ideals high enough to give much promise for the citizenship' of the next generation." ' Perhaps our high-placed professors j of ed ucation are somewhat to blame. They have been encouraging teachers to let children do pretty much as they please in their early years of school. How can we now expect them to re cognize standards and duties? School is a place for work, with play only incidental to the work, Discipline, cultivation of good manners,' and in right attitudes toward fellows and country are a very essential part of school training, as well as instruction in subject matter, i Yet it would be a mistake to be too critical of boys and girls. When we realize what these youngsters have done this summer, how long and how - hard they have worked in harvest fields and on town jobs, and how they have been inspired to do this work not only because of the pay but also because they have felt they were doing their part toward winning the war . we cannot say they have failed in their loy alties. Likewise the young men who are but lately out of school and college are the young men who are demonstrating their devotion to country on scores of battlefields, and proving their skill and courage in countless battles in the air. The actual always falls short of the ideali and while much more needs to be done within our schools, and while these surveys do point out the weak places in our educational scheme, not everything is a failure. And the schools of education where teachers are trained are pro bably in as much need of an overhaul in pro gram and objectives as the common schools. Cattle to Market The meat shortage which was complained of vigorously some months ago, while thou sands more cattle were grazing on the ranges is now folding under the heavy marketings of steers. As the ranges dry up the cattle go to market. The prophets of gloom however have been warning against meat shortage next win ter, because the cattle are going to the packing plants from the' range instead of to feeding pens for finishing. So it is reassuring to learn that most of the record-breaking 150,000 head which reached 12 major markets yesterday would go to the feed lots for grain-feeding before being slaughtered. Those in the cattle feeding business have been" pinched this season between . high pries for feeders and high prices and scarcity of grain for feed. The. normal balance of prices was upset, so feeders lost money on their operations. That is unfortunate because the extra pounds are badly needed to augment the feed supply. But if there is one class with whom hope springs eternal for making money it is the cattlemen, both range-growers and feeders. So the feeders must be staying in the game in spite of their , poor season. -- What is needed is a price structure which will ; preserve satisfactory differentials between feed- -er stock and finished cattle, allowing for feed- Jng and handling. This year hogs had the spe cial favor, but the war food administration has announced price changes for the fall of 1944 which will reduce the favor which hogs have had in pricing. Given a fair distribution of grains and proteins the country can turn more and better beef and provide also for dairy and poul try products. When you start tampering with prices" for one-product you interfere with all; yet trying to fix the whole price structure on animal products is complicated in the extreme. The country will struggle through somehow, and the people will not starve for lack of meat : when the animal population is bigger than ever. 'Taps" for Ray Stumbo If there was a community chore to be done it was common to call on Ray Stumbo for the , job. He never failed. Perhaps he burned up ; his energies doing all the civic work he did, in addition to carrying: on his private business successfully. That is the only explanation we can give for his untimely death, for he was a man of excellent habits. , , - j Here are just a few of the public respon sibilities which Mr. Stumbo carried in recent' years: managing of the staging of the Salem Centennial, and of the McNary . notification ceremonies in 1940; member of local ; draft . board since 1949; organizer of shipyard worker transportation, 1912; commander of Capital post No. 9, American Legion, 1941-2. This isn't full list, but they show how generous he was with his time and strength. - . - j - - War veteran, good citizen, let the town pause when taps are sounded for hus. "No Favor Sway $ Us; NorFear Shall Atce" From first Statesman, Uarcb 28, 1SS1 f Military Rank - It will be surprising to many to know thaV General Eisenhower holds only the permanent rank of lieutenant colonel of infantry. His rank as full general in command of operations in the Mediterranean area is only a temporary rank. Now the president has nominated him for the permanent rank of major general, and it iS' certain the senate will concur. - -'t'j The method of promoting an officer to higher rank on a temporary basis occurs in wartime, when the army is suddenly and greatly en larged. When the war is over and the army shrinks in size the country doesn't! want too many full generals, lieutenant generals and ma jor generals. The army would be overstaffed with high-ranking commanders, and the cost would be very considerable. So officers drop back to their permanent rating or are dis charged by being put on the inactive list. : In civil war times the temporary character of promotions was indicated by the prefix "brevet", but that method war dropped many years ago., i -r.-?v''r T -1 Speaking of army titles, General Pershing carries the highest: general of the armies, con ferred by special act of congress. It 'is sug gested that such a title may be granted to Gen eral Marshall if he is assigned to supreme com-" mand, so he will outrank allied field marshalls and generals. When the war is over the officers who have won the greatest distinction in com mand of the army and the navy will be given permanent rank in acordance with their ser vice. The United States has never been ungrate ful to its military heroes. Jeeps for "Tanka" The Greeks finally won the siege of Troy by a ruse, remember. They fitted up the famous "Trojan horse," filled it with Greek soldiers, and left it on the plain. The curious Trojans wheeled it inside the walls, whereupon the Greeks disgorged from the "horse," opened the city gates and let in the Greek army which cap tured the city. Do not think that trickery is a thing of the past in warfare. Camouflage is deceit on a vast' scale. And now conies the story of how General Montgomery fooled Rommel very skilfully in the battle of ETAlamejn. The British took 6000 jeeps and with sticks and burlaps made them up like tanks. They were massed at the north ern end of the line. The tanks, moving in day light, had logs attached to them, which dragged in the dust. This attracted attention of Ger man observers, who thought great tank columns were deploying into place for an attack on the northern end of the line. Accordingly Rommel moved his armor to offset the British weight, just as a football captain shifts a tackle when the opposing side shifts its backs. Meantime Montgomery moved his real armor, by night, to the south and struck his blow there. Victory depends not only on streigth but on skill in the use of strength, and the ancient arts of deceiving the enemy, dressed up with new devices, are still valuable in winning "victories at the lowest cost. . i ? Editorial Comment From Other Papers THERE WAS NO INCENTIVE Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famous anthropoligst who died recently, had made many trips to the Aleutians and to Siberia while studying the subject of human life in the western hemisphere in pre-Columbus days. Dr. Hrdlicka was quite firm in his belief that human life did. not exist in what is now North America and South America in pre-historic times. He thought that man migrated to. the Americas from Asia, via Alaska. Tribal life among North. American Indians, as reported by our first settlers, seems to bear out "that view. Our Indians were nomadic and followed col lectivism. They had no Individual homes or farms. Food supplies belong to the entire tribe, not to the Individual or family that procured it. That policy doubtless accounted for the lack of progress. The Indians were not lacking in physical or mental vigor. They were hardy people and often possessed of surprisingly good judgment but the method they followed! did not permit the enterpris ing individual to "get ahead", and thereby help others. There was no incentive. An Individual could not gain personally by growing something or mak tng something and as a result advancement, was al- , most nil. No man tried to build a water system by -making a. trough pipe line so the Indian women would not have to go to a creek when they needed water. He could not have collected water rents, so nothing was done. What we call individual initia tive was lacking. The tribes relied upon hunting and fishing. They did not have a system that permitted them to develop the country and there was no de velopment Pendleton East Oregonian. NATY; CAPTURES' WEIXESUCT Two. hundred officers of the naval supply corps, heretofore domiciled at Harvard University, are being moved to the classic shades of WeUesley Col lege, hitherto devoted solely to the female sex. , The route to Combridge to Weuesley by all ac counts is not unknown to men residing at Harvard to the hope of their parents that they win acquire . education. Many years ago, the suggestion was heard that Harvard should annex WeUesley. A good many Harvard graduates did what they could, individually, to bring mis about. But it remained for the Navy to take bold action and have Welles ley annex Harvard. - ; H , ,,:. It is a good Idea. If Navy men learn to navigate the treacherous round-bottomed boats which were ordained for Lake Waban because canoes were too -dangerous, they should have no trouble with safer craft such as battle wagons and submarines. The innovation may become permanent If It does, many " a staid Harvard alumnus will sigh that he was "born SO years too soon." Milwaukee Journal. -;" '"v.-..: ' M'v"--.;. ." t '.: P V This week we toured the leased land on Tule lake, where the harvest Is well underway. We stood in barley fields of thousands of acres Where 'Whole fleets of combines are working. We saw a mobile chopper; following the combines picking up the -straw for the big stock-feeding operation at Malin. -We saw fine fields of onions and sugar beets. -Klamath Tails News-Herald mm fwf Headed for Victory Today's "ffiadito IPirogirainnis KSUf WEDNESDAY I33t Kc News. . 73 RiM V Shin. T:15 Tea-Twe-Four. TdO News. 7 :4S Morninf Mood. S:O0 Cherry City News. S:l Music S JO Tango Time. :00 Pastor Call. 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The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers FINDS FAULT WITH GOVERNMENT To the Editor: -"A government of the people, for the people and by the people has become mean ingless in the US. "The people are between the devil (union racketeers) and the numerous bureaus, specially appointed young men who seem to be re " sponsible to no one and contra dict and block each other, caus ing endless confusion, strikes, etc (the deep sea.) v The Los Angeles traffic tieup the latest result. Employers, la , bor unions and even the vaunted -: labor board agreed but blocked by .- some irresponsible for no (published at least) reason un-." less to demonstrate how big a man he was. Businessmen driven frantic by the multitude of "rul ings, frequently changed or res cinded, of the many boards, bu reaus, etc, in control (?) of ev ery little thing they do. " Washington puts on a new one almost daily the more govern j ment employes the more con trolled votes if congress and the president would forget "next election for a time we might . have some real legislation. Every proposed measure is supported or fought, from political inter est, not from national benefit. Dictators do not have to do this so can get results at once in stead of spending wnnftt of very valuable time wrangling over some proposed action. . Someone has said "If business was run like the government it . would go broke, sad if govern ment was ran m a business man ner no one would be re-elected." It Is true, too. It Is the fault of the voters in not taking more interest in their (t) government, using common sense instead of prejudice when voting and bet ing more "vocaL" Our politicians an "have ; their ear to the ground, and "the rjeonh tiM rule if they wake up, read and wunx. Then aH turn ' out and vote. Then, "keen an cv on their officials and let them know they are doing so. J. 31 PUTNAM. IGW NBC WEDNESDAY 020 Kt. 4-00 Dawn PatroL 3 Labor News. 80 Everything Goes. 820 News Parade 0:55 Labor News. 70 Journal of Living. 7 JO Rereille Boundus. 7:45 Sam Hayes. 80 Stars of Today. 8:15 James Abbe Corers the News. 8 JO Last Night in the Bos Room. 8:45 David Harum. 80 Th Open Door. 8:15 Larry Smith, Commentator. JO Mirth and Madness. 100 Across th Threshold. 10:15 Ruth Forbes. 10 JO News. ., -0:45 Glenn Shelley. 110 Th Guiding Light, lias Lonely Women. 1120 Light of the World. 11:45 Hymns of ATI Churches. 12 dOO Story of Mary Marlln. . 12:13 Ma Perkins. 1820 Pepper Young's Family. 12:45 Right to Happiness. 10 Backstage Wife. 1:15 Stella Dallas. U 1:30 Lorenzo Jones. . 1:45 Young Widder Brwwn. 2 .-00 When A Girl Marries, . 2 JO Just Plata BUI. 2:45 Front Page FarreH. 2:00 Road of Life 5-JS Vie and Sad. 320 Gallant Heart. 3 AS Confessions. 40-Or. Kate. 4:15 News of th World. 420 Pared of Stars. 4:45 H. V. Kattenbora. 80 Music 55 Personality Hour. 5 JO Day Foster, Commentator. 5:45 Louis P. Lochner. . 40 A Date With Judy. 80 Mr. District Attorney. ' 70 Xay Kyaer's Koneg. 80 Fred Waring In Pleasure Tim. 8 :15 Commentator. 20 Beat th Band. -80 Mr. and Mrs. North., 820 Scramby Amby. 10 News Flashes. 10 dS Your Home Town News. , 1025 Labor News. 1020 Gardening for Food. 10:45 H. V. Kaltenborn. , 110 Music 11 Jl milium Hotel Orchestra. 11:45 News. 12:00-2 AM. Swing Shift. , KOLN CBS WEDNCSDAY-0 Ks. 80 Northwest Farm Reporter. :15 Breakfast Bulletin. 820 Texas Rangers. St3 KOIN EUocK. 7:15 News. , 730-News. 7.-45 Nelson Pringl. 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Sports. 70 Raymond Gram Swing." 7:15 Listen to Lulu. : ; 728 Music - - : 7:45 This Is Tour Business 80 Mews. 835 Lum , and Aimer. 820 Battl of th Sexes. , 0Opra. . -5 Down Memory Lane . 10 :15 Music 'T' 102O Aaibassador Hotel Orchestra. 1028 Broadway Bandwagao. 10.-45 Music 110 Thi Moving World. ll:15-Orgaa Concert. . 1120 News. KOAC WEDNESDAY 58 le. 100 News. 10:15 Th Hotnemakers Hour. !I-Mui of th Masters. - 120 News. 12 n 5 Noon Farm Hour. ; 10 Artists in Recital. ' 1:15 Newe . 120 Variety Ttane 20 Red Cross. . . : 220 Memory Book of Music 227 Memory Book 1 Musie . 20 Newe 235 Rendezvous With Romance 80 Concert HsJL ' 4.-00 Book mt th Week. 4:13 Treasury star Para. ' . 420 Stories for Boys and Glrta. . S0-Oa th Upbeat. . - 20 Vespers. . - . SMS Ifs Oregon's War. '-f i ,,. 8 as Newe c . . 820 Evening Farm Hour.. -. 720 Music 7 .-45 Highlights in th World Sports. , : ,. 0 Music. . . . 825-War Bond Campaign. 0 Soldiers Entertain. 5 Listen to LefiMrt. 100 Sign Off. State College Plans 75 th AnniTerssry CORVALLXS, Sept. 23-&)-Ore-goa State college bejan planning today for observance of the school's ,75th anniversary. ': President A. L. Strand named a number of committees to plan a program far October 27, the date the lsaiurt crzzlzl Oressa Ciate as a land grant collect, , -I -Chanter 35 (Continued) v The most I could do was to chew over", along with the ther mometer, the memory r of the brief periods of consciousness I had experienced in Waimaka af ter my crackup: I knew, for in stance, when Komako splashed through the shallows to shore, .-holding "me like a child in his ' arms. -v-; " ' V;v'r" I remembered -the horrible pain of Dr, Latham's gentle probing of my ribs as I lay on ' the sand, and confused voices asking, "Who was it? Who was sailing the sampan?" I cursed myself now for passing out be fore I heard an answer.- Another ' patch of recollection . - was that of lying on a mattress in the bottom of a - large out rigger canoe, of seeing, beyond - Kemako, Mokino's intent face as he watched the shore and gave , orders to the oarsmen, and of their f; glistening :. brown - backs bending rhythmically as the ca noe moved smoothly through the . water. I knew now that when the tide was 1 righV my brown ' . friends must have brought me out through the treacherous pas- sage to coastal town, rather . than essay the trip with me up the long trail. ; Finally the hospital doctor ' looked at my chart and said I might receive visitors. The : - morning waned, while I waited. I said fretfully to :' the nurse, "Why doesn't Komako come? And then there he was, looming up in the doorway, his brown - face creased with anxiety, ; his eyes full of fear, and yet grow ing hopeful as he looked at me. Hasty, you all right In head, . now?". ' 1 "Of course, you old so-and-so!" ' . He bent over me but seemed Interpreting TheWarWeivG ' By KIRKE SIMPSON V Copyright 1842 by th Associated Prets A grisly, potential trap appar ently is b e 1 n g baited for the major nazi forces holding the right flank of the Naples-Foggia line in Italy. Allied efforts ap pear to be aimed not to force the enemy out of the Naples sec tor but to pin him : there while British forces to the 'northeast crunch forward from captured Foggia to take him in flank and rear for annihilation in the field. A nazi retreat to avoid such a Vap is reported. The British armored column .that . swept blitzkrieg fashion Into Foggia yesterday, however. Is in a po sition to strike either down the Foggia-Naples highway, almost westward up the Rome road via Lucerna to Geo in the rear of Germans falling back from the Naples front, or northward through San Severo to reach the v Adriatic coast above the Monte Gargano spur. Just which di v rection : Montgomery's veterans - follow from the Foggia road and rail " hub should give a clearer glimpse of allied battle strategy in Italy. - -;: - British, and' American - forces' on the Italian, mainland appear to have exchanged the roles they played in the swift allied clean y up of Sicily. In that fight, which ' showed the bazl commarHl both outguessed and outfought, the - battle-hardened' British 8th ar my gripped the Mount Etna flank,' exerting intensive pres sure that pinned German armor In place, but was short of a full scale frontal offensive. Mean while, Patton's American 7th army -overran all western Sici ly, reached fhe north coast and drove eastward toward the Mes sina escape routeCoupled with the cracking of the nazi center under American-Canadian ham mering, that shook the enemy out ot the Mount Etna strong hold. There is reason to doubt that the 5th army pressure on the Naples front in the west, domi nated, by nazi held, Vesuvius, is an actual effort to take Naples by storm. .'r.. ''-.'" With the Naples position al ready outflanked by British cap ture of Foggia, it seems obvious that it must soon fall. General Clark's mission' probably is to' make every effort to impede na si escape from the trap , while Montgomery closes in from the northeast. In any case, allied tactics bid fair to force upon, the German .. command in Italy the very thing it most wishes to avoid, a leogjhenins; f its defense lines which would force withdrawal fi , - """ ' Z j : -T!" 'I I .. .. to think : I was too fragile to touch. I reached for his hand. He grinned. "Most times when I look in, you yell Jinx at me so nurse run me out," he told me, sitting down by the bed. "The nurse is an autocrat, said, frowning at her. She smiled her oriental smile. Dont let him get excited," sha admonished Komako, and left the room.: , - 1 "Now hurry up, I demanded. "You got the play out of the footstool who was the charac ter?" "Polly Morgan. Now, Hasty, now you be quiet!" L "Polly Morgan!" I said blank ly. "You chased out, then, af ;! ter " , V "Turva Massic" He looked at mo uneasily; : "Now we going talk 'bout something else." "Not on your life! . . . Then ' Turva was watching from the , kitchen she must have had a tip-off from some question of yours before you found the play 'or maybe from Dr. Latham or she thought the play , in your : pocket was another carbon . . . And she ran for the sampan be cause she had the key. Well, did . you catch her?" I heard rhy voice rising to an excited squeak. - Komako heard it, too he turned away and adjusted the bed-clothes, and even - looked longingly toward the door. : . "IH have a fever if you dont tell me," I threatened. - "Sampan break all In pieces on rock,; he said unhappily. "Turva: go down with ship. I was silent so long it wor ried him. He said, "Too bad to lose boat you almost give up life ' to save.". (To be continued) of additional reserves from Rus sia just as the possible crucial battle of the war there along the Dnieper is being joined. What happens in Italy within the next few days could powerfully in fluence war developments in Russia as could a sudden allied invasion across the English channel. - j r : What Prime Minister Church ill has called the Italian or Mediterranean "third-front' re serving the second-front desig nation ' for; the ; cross channel jump when it comes, has already : accomplished something a second-front could not alone have achieved until it was well on the ; road to Berlin. Italy is a full scale' second-front so far as its . influence on the Balkan theater is concerned. Nazi Balkan satel ites are already being pinched between the Russian advance to the lower Dnieper in the east and - possibilities of an allied leap to the Greek , peninsula from the southwest, or" up the Aegean from the south. 1 Berlin reports of the seizure of the Island of Corfu in the Ad- ! riatlc, just off the Greek-Alban- - lan border. Indicate utter uncer . tainty in the nazi high command as to where the next allied blow , in the Mediterranean theater Is going to fall. There is no longer doubt that German divisions recalled from Russia have been poured into the Balkans and Greece to brace that wavering front That is the way German propagandists and military- commentators explain the retreat in Russia. It was to shorten the line in the east and . provide the forces necessary for the Italian and Balkan fronts, ' they say. --..j It is still true, however, that standing along the Dnieper the nazi line In Russia has not been materially shortened. German surrender of the Dnieper plateau, within the great southern bend of the riv er, and of the Crimea would cut! 5 that front by 200 miles. Surren der also of the now gravely jeo perdized Leningrad flank -for a stand west of the Peipus lake chain along; the Russlan-Estho-nlan border also would reduce the distance and the force neces ary to hold a winter line. Either move, however, would dd to German public gloom. And a retreat from the Dnieper in the south, whether nazl-plan-ned or Russian-forced, unques tionably would see the crum bling of influence In the Bal kans, and make an allied Balkan campaign at some early date vir tually certain. BehlBSl every STEVENS DIA2I0XD sold, there is GUARANTEE as staunch as the love and respect which projected its purchase. . t J , r :