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PAGE FOOT Tli 02EG0II STATESMAH. Sclera. Oregon. Thursday Horning. October 21. IZil Vf f lLL Kr t,w, Vlv' '7 5 ... ... ' . - . . 'munms Mil JVo Fflror Stray U. No Fear Shall Aw" ' - from First Statesman. March 28, 1851 - - - i 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. Municipal Needs Salem's post-war planning committee has had its initial meeting and plans to hold an other and more general meeting soon ! when post-war projects may be discussed. It can per- : form a useful service in reviewing suggestions that are made, and perhaps in setting up a pri- ority schedule for undertaking worth-while projects. I For, the city easily first on the' list would be j the sewage disposal project, for which I bonds were sold just before war stopped such work and ended the expected WPA cooperation The city has $200,000 of the estimated $450,000 re quired, and some provision would need to be made for the difference, which originally was expected to be contributed by WPA. j j The Salem city hall would stand a remodel ing. The imposing but forbidding outside steps might be removed and an elevator installed. This would make the third floor usable for offices. The end of the war should see renewal of paving which has been almost suspended for over a decade. There are many streets in the city that are unpaved, where use - and value -now warrant the expense of the paving improve ment, and many short stretches of a block or two which should be paved to close gaps. There are still some; wooden bridges over creeks in the city, and probably some sewer ex- tensions that ought to be made, though these are minor items. This includes only municipal projects. The schools can stand some replacement of buildings, Washington and Grant schools being antiquated frame "structures that have served ; their use fulness. With more growth in high school en rollment the proposed high school building in South Salem should go forward.-. . The total of these projects would not amount to a great deal in terms of jobs that will be re quired to provide post-war employment. Pri vate enterprise will have to step out with broad expansion. Fortunately : the promising j future of Salem will justify both public and private investments on a large scale. ' --. Arabian. (K) nights ' - Quite a long way, it is, from Arabia to the Pacific coast of the United States, many thou sands of miles, and there would be little busi ness connection between the two, one might think. Actually there is, so much so that when Pririce Feisal, foreign minister and viceroy of, Saudi, Arabia, and his younger brother Prince Khalid who are sons of King Adbul Aziz Ibn Saud of Arabia, came to the United States they came clear across the continent to San Francisco, ' where they have been welcomed this week. The connection is in this, that the California Arabian Standard Oil company holds extensive I concessions of oil lands in Arabia which the company is developing in partnership with King Ibn. Saud. The company is owned 50-50 by the Standard Oil company of California and the Texas company. You may be sure they rolled out the red carpet when the princes came to San Francisco. '" " The development was proving very profitable . to the American owners, until the war came. That gave them a scare and work was pretty well stopped when the Italians and Germans were threatening to overrun the middle east. Now that they have been expunged I as im . mediate threats, acttvity in the Arabian oil fields is being resumed. The area included in the; agreement stretches from the Red sea to the Persian gulf. i The agreement with King Ibn Saud provides . that a considerable portion of profits from oil ' are to go to the education and general welfare of .the people of Saudi Arabia. Hospitals and schools are to be built and operated and irriga tion works installed, with trained advisors fur nished to assist the Arab farmers develop their lands. King Ibn Saud is one of the great rulers of the Moslem world who emerged after the first world war he was one of Col. Lawrence's finds. His family are Whabis or Puritan Moslems who neither drink nor smoke. What an entertainment problem that must pose for San Francisco! At any rate, here is a sample of how small the world is growing. Fancy meeting Prince' Feisal of Arabia in San Francisco on a "busi ness deal! But who knows? -Maybe Standard will be importing gasoline from Arabia to power the cars of the future on this coast. I Price of Victory j - The Germans are unable to hold the line of the Dnieper river, and so -relentless: are the . Russians in attack that the nazis may not be able to fix a stable defense line short of their 1939 borders. The Russians' victories have come at a price. For instance, there is the report of the cracking of the line at the great; bend of the Dnieper when Zaporozhe was captured. The Germans had built an anti-tank trench three feet wide and several feet deep running, a long distance parallel to the river. Russian tanks and jeeps were unable to cross this: ditch. Fin ally Russian soldiers filled the ditch with their prone bodies and on this human cordwood their armed vehicles crossed to breach the German ' . line. ; . , At the river the soldiers crossed with the aid of barrels or with floats made of bags filled with hay. In the face of enemy shellfire they established and held bridgeheads on the farther ' bank an4 soon cleared a way for the crossing of their armies "in forc-'-'rHr- With the excellent Russian generalship and , this high fighting spirit of the common soldiers it Is no wonder that the "Hitlerites" are being driven off the soil of Mother Russia. And with ' the crumpling of the eastern front, the steady ; northward advance of the allies in Italy, and the persistent pulverizing of German industrial cities by. American and British air power it Is' no wonder; that Hitler holds a second confer ence in two weeks to review his grand strategy. Germany is getting past the point where "grand strategy" will save it. After Twice Forty - - A. A. Stagg Appropriately , in view of the maturity of most members, an army chaplain addressed the Salem Rotary club last week. . on the theme "After ForyWhatr v Citing a convincing array of actual examples, he blasted the theory that real accomplishment is forbidden to men past forty. Yet as is typical of platform expositors in their zeal to make a point, he overlooked certain imposing "ifs" and , "buts." ; ::: ; ;:tt-iV;;i r J "Vl.r f Brilliant achievement is possible at any age,; almost so long as the . breath of life persists if the requisite mental' capability is retained, including such qualities as alertness, receptive ness, resiliency and above all, the will to achieve. After all, really great things seldom are ac complished with one's muscle, other than those above the neck. There is to be sure an excep- ' tion if one concedes the achievements hailed as "great" in the sports page, headlines' actually to be so. Even there, strategy and cunning and the fruits of long experience gain recognition, and" it is said of baseball moundsmen that they, learn to pitch after they can no longer merely ''throw.' " ... .. 1 ; That brings us up to the target for today." Our chaplain friend cited no case of outstanding achievement after forty in the realm of athlet ics. But on the sports page each successive Sun day this autumn, such a case has been emblaz oned. At age 81, Amos Alonzo Stagg coaches a football team which through mid-October re mains undefeated; one moreover representing ' a small westerncollegje which ordinarily boasts no great 'wealth of muscular material. Well, all things are changed in wartime; concede that for once, thanks to the V-12 program, it has the material. Nevertheless "old man" Stagg is do ing a job. That he even has the courage to dare to carry one, at 81, is remarkable. That he has retained the alertness, the ability to make adjustment to new gridiron techniques, and perhaps most difficult of all, the conviction that winning foot ball games is important and the enthusiasm es sential to leadership in such an undertaking well, it just can't be that Amos Alonzo Stagg is mentally "old." Here is, perhaps, the outstanding proof that one doesn't have to grow mentally "old." Or; if you don't care for the psychological aspects of the case, ; you nevertheless will join in recog nizing that his is an inspiring example and in a "hats off" to. the grand oldyoung man of the gridiron. -. '.- Newss Behind; The Neivs, By PAUL MA1XON WASHINGTON, October 20 Congressional lead ers are planning to quit November 1 or IS until Jan- uary, allowing a six or eight week mid-war vaca tion for themselves. ' ' I They have been saying nqt very "loudly, of course) there is little important legislation to -be handled 'before the big appro priations bills come up in Janu ary, and that the trouble with the country now is, there arc too many laws. No more important work could be done than to have the members of each congression al committee assigned to meet daily from now until January in search of waste in expendi tures. Ways and means could Pai MaiiM so aner we treasury, uie mil itary affairs after the war department, naval affairs after the navy, and so on. An earnest effort might save billions. Example: The Breakers hotel at Palm Beach, huge, world-famous hostelry, was taken over by the war department a year ago at an annual rent al of $350,000. The rent, of course, was not made public, nor has any mention been made of the de tailed use to which the hotel has been put. Excuse for its acquisition was that it would be used as a hospital. Now, nearly a year later, approximately $900,000 has been spent on it, I understand, but only three floors have been occupied and never has the place accommodated more than 150 pa tients. " - ( . V' ; . j " - The, waste is obvious, colossal, inexcusable. Ev ery cent of that money could have been saved by using civil hospital space in that area. A week ago, the army site board had a meeting at the Breakers and decided to make this lavish, rich man's hotel into a permanent army hospital, although a few miles away at Boca Raton, the army already is paying $90,000 a year rent for a project which would make an inexpensive and ideal substitute. The Boca Raton club has about 400 rooms, spacious grounds on the ocean, low rental, and is quiet. The army, apparently, always does things the hard way. f This incident no doubt can be duplicated a mil lion times in a million different phases of the war effort The details of such waste naturally are not publicized by the army, in fact are covered by sup posedly military censorship, although no military information is involved. Only if congressional com mittees start pursuing inept officials may the truth be known. v ;; , With taxes nearing the endurable limit and re peated bond drives necessary to raise money for the vast expenditures (amounting to $227,400,000 a day in September), the necessities of economy as sume an importance beyond any other pending .subject. ' F ; k : ' -1 1 i "f Other duties will be shirked if congress tries to slip away. Appearance of CIO's Philip Murray seems to have slowed down or stopped the move ment for a sales tax, at least temporarily, but some thing should be done about the present Incompre hensible tax system. Congress cannot just go away' and let the tax complexities gather dust on the committee desk..- -- , The question of food subsidies also' must be straightened out. A compromise settlement between congress and the administration probably will have to be made." it j .v-?? The post war resolution is not a matter of dire necessity, but the senate will have to face it. ; The lend-lease investigation must be ardently pursued. .:- ; 'V-;- ! , - Congress does not lack business, but rather the wCl tot work out the business It should do. - : ------ 35 C ' ' By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Copyright 1943 by th Associated Press Made 'From the Tree of Liberty Today's ffiacflBo IPiregrainnis EtLH-TBUBJOAS 139 , 1DO Nw. -!-Rim n Sbtaeu' T-J Mes ; 7 :45 Captain Qui. t S-OS News. SJa Music S JO Tango Time. 9:00 Pastor's GaRa. :1S It's tiie Trutii. Marion County rarm Home Program. 9:45 Munc XO.-00 News. 105 A song and Daae. 10J0 Kation News. 19:45 Music 11. -00 News. 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JO Keystone Karavaa. , 8. -0O War Fronts tn Review. :19 Music S JO Mustangs.' 9:45 The Marshalla. . 9. -0O News. 9:15 Orchestra. 9 J0 Music. 9:45 Between tha Lines. 10. -00 Serenade. 19 JO News. 0:45 Aunt Jenny. 9.0 Kate Smita Speaks. . 9:15 Big Sister 9 :39 Romance of Helen Trent - 9:45 Our Gal Sunday. 190 Life Can Bo Beautiful. 10:15 Ma Perkins. -10:30 Bernadine Flynn. 10:45 The Gotdbergs. 11.-00 Young Dr. Malono. - 11:15 Joyce Jordan. 11 JO We Love and Lean. 11 :43 New. 120 Irene Beasley. , 11:15 Bob Anderson, News. -12 J6 William Winter. New. 12:45 Bachelor a Children. 1:00 Home Front Reporter. 1 35 According to Record. 1 JO American School. 2:00 Mary Marlin. 2 :15 Newspaper of tha Air. 2:45 American Women. 2:09 News. S:15 Traffie Safety. . 9 JO Songs. - 3:45 News. 4:00 Stars of Today. 4:15 Sam Hayes. 4 JO Easy Aces. - ' . 4:45 Tracer of Lost Persona. 5:00 Galen Drake. 5 :15 Red's jGang. 5:39 Harry -rtannery. News. -5:45 News. ' 5J5 BiU Henry. 60 Major Bowes. JO Dinah Shore. 1:00 The First Line. 7 JO Evening in Paris. 001 Love a Mystery. :15 Harry James Orchestra. - :30 Death Valley Days. 9:55 News. 9:00 For You. 9 U 5 Music. ' 9 JO Mayor of the Town. 19.-00 rhre Star Final. 1:15 Wartime Women. 10 JO Chats About News. 10:45 Music 11 JO Manny Strand Orchestra. 11:45 Air-rLO of the Air. 11:55 News. 12:09-4:09 a m. Musie and New. KOtN CBS THURSDAY 59 KC "00 North west Farm Reporter. : 15 Breakfast Bulletin. JO Texas Rangers. - 43 Koin Ktock 7 JO Aunt Jemima. 7:15 Newa. T JO News. Tr45 Nelson Prtnglc :00 Consumer News. 9:15 Valiant Lady. JO Stories America Loves Today's Garden By i.n.r.m l. biadsen It seems to me I have been smelling in the air the burning of autumn leaves in recent days. This should not be this year. Re member we need the leaves for composts and mulches. Our old commercial mulches and fertiliz ers are not as plentiful as they were in former years. Garden sanitation should by all means be practiced, but dont carry it so far as to destroy necessary plant-food elements. Most of the garden refuse, unless you def initely know it is diseased; should be composted. It doesn't ; take much space and if correctly planned, need not be an eyesore in the garden. ; Remembed that ; the leaves from the oaks and nuts should be composted for such shrubs as rhododendrons, azaleas and blue berries, while the apples, the ma ples and other non-acid produc ing foliage can be used on any part of the garden. - When r removing your house plants from the outdoors to the window garden position, inspect them carefully for insect or dis ease infestations. Careful and regular attention to these con trols from now on will prevent serious infestations in spring. Now is the time to pack sum mer sprays in tight containers and store in a dry place above ' freezing for next year's use. Ac- curate labeling Is, of course, es sential, it may seem that there was plenty of man :i of these ' spray materials this past season and we may think there will "be. plenty next year. But almost ev- -cry shopping trip reveals a sur prise L in missing; articles. This week I had my surprise when I learned that yard goods was lim ited In amount purchased. It Is Just as well to save the sprays and other materials you have on T hand. As I said before, this war, if It has no other good results, may teach us to be frugal, aome thing in which we americahs can stand a little teaching. grt-BN TBimSOAT-1199 Be. 6:00 News :15 National Farm Ct Borne. 45 Western Agricultore. TM Musie. T :15 Kxcuxskms in Science. T -30 News. I SK0 Breakfast Chin. 1. 9.-90 My True Story. 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Lechnexv. - Music HaU. , : - . 4 JO lob Euros. . 1 49 iursnte-iIoore-Cust. ROAC TBVRSDAT 459 91a. 1040 News. - 14-15 The Homenuuier Hour. 1140 School of the Air. 1120-MusiC. -11 JO Music. 1240 News 12:15 Farm Hour. - 1 40 Ridin' the Range. 1:15 V. P. Chronicle. 1 JO Music. 240 Garden Hour. 2 JO Memory Book of Musie 340 News. 3:15 Music"' 440 War Work With a Future. 4:15 Latin American Neighbor. .4 JO Novatime. 4:45 Science News. 140 On the Upbeat ' S JO Story Time. 5 -it's Oregon s War." ' :15 News - - 0 JO Farm Hourl ... 7 JO Musie.. 940 Vincent Lopes. -I JO Music. 9:30 News. 9:45 Evening Meditations. Youth Indicted For Two Murders PORTLAND, Oct. 2H3J-Two first degree murder Indictments against Robert Myers, 18, went on record here today.- The youth Is accused of the ambush slayings of Julius Ola v sen, 68-year-old farmer: and his housekeeper,' Annie B. orglund, 67, In an attempt to get Olavsen's pistol and become a holdup man. Walden Dfllard, district attor ney, said Myers has confessed. 'Copfnin Quiz' , - PRESENTS Zlnizlrj Feck This Morniaj and Every Thursday ilorninff , : at 7:33 A- XL 1ZZ0 He. L ' Events along the whole length 'of the Hitler's "blood wall" de fense front on the Dnieper are - moving at a pace that makes possible within days or even hours a greater nazi military , catastrophe than ; Stalingrad.' i' As Moscow pictures the situ- -. - ation in the south, and it Is un- denied by Berlin, a powerful segment of the nazi army is vir . tually trapped in the upper el bow of the Dnieper bend. .The principal westward. escape route was cut by Russian capture of Pyatikhaka junction, 70 miles west of Dnepropetrovsk; '"'".The. single remaining rail connection : for round-about supply or flight .from, the closing trap is in dead ly danger. The , Russians are a ' bare 20 miles from that line, cross-country, and less than 50 miles from ttje Krivoli rail hub. Its fail - would isolate not only the whole Dnieper ben d, but Inevitably force nazi retreat from the Mel-' - ttopol front south ef the bend, - and from the fcrimea.- :. There was no attempt In Ber lin to minimize the extreme gra- vity of the situation. On the con : trary, nazi censors permitted : Swedish correspondents in Ber lin to describe Tuesday for their papers as "the blackest day since the war started' for Germany. ; "Even the most optimistic German hesitates now in view ing; what is going to happen, one dispatch added. ; . The Stockholm advices added that there was growing specula tion there as to whether there might not be more behind the latest conferences between Adolf; Hitler and the nazi lead ers than officially announced." That seems Justified. It Includ ed leading German "personal ities civilians as well as mili tary; but it was summoned, the semi- official DNB announce ment said, "By the chief of the high command.' Field . Marshal General Wil helm Keitel holds that post. He represents the old German army officer caste, not the nazi ele ments of the army. That may prove significant- It could indi cate, coupled with the amazing . action of the nazi censors In passing the gloom-filled , Berlin dispatches to Stockholm papers, a beginning of the eliinination of Hitler and Hitlerism . from the German scene by action of the old-guard military . oaste. That Is obviously hinted at In me Stockholm comment on the news from Berlin. There has al ways been speculation , in Loo don and , in Washington as. to 'what the German generals might do if they became con vinced : as military realists . not only that . victory or even a ne gotiated peace was Impossible, but utter defeat assured unless Hitler and all he represents in Germany was unhorsed as was Mussolini In Italy. It seems fantastic that Ger many has yet reached that point. As the record stands, however. It - seems that German public opinion Is being: prepared for something on the basis of bad newg ! from the - Russian front Just what that something is re mains to be seen but it might prove an attempt to: make a sep arate peace with ' Russia , If she" could be satisfied by removal of Hitler and his whole regime and a German retirement within old borders on the east. This is mere guess-work. It has no other foundation than the Berlin reports to the Swedish press and the fact that so far as known the Anglo-American al lies do not now know Russian views as to future treatment of Germany or as to Russian west ern frontiers after the victory. That and many ; other matters are presumably under discus sion now in the Hull-Ed en-Mol-otov conversations in Moscow. If there is brewing In Ger many, because of a year of un broken military defeats, some sort of a political upheaval de signed to end hostilities in the east, it will put Russian-allied commitments riot to make peace without Joint discussions to' a test that could change the whole aspect of the Moscow conference overnight ' ihr WD COOLS (Continued from Page 1) sailors through the USO, (the two USO clubs In Salon which are good samples of the type of work done for service men); the United Seamen's Service for aid ', to merchant seamen; and War Prisoners' Aid which sends sup plies, including books, athletia equipment etc., to war prison ers to supplement the meager subsistence they get from their captors. f Next is United Nations Relief which includes the recognized -relief agencies of 12 allied coun tries. Russia and China receive the largest portion, with Great Britain, Poland, Greece, Jugo Slavia and other occupied lands receiving lesser amounts. Under the head of Refugee Re Jief are two organizations, Re fugee - Relief Trustees and US Committe for the Care of Euro pean Children. These organiza tions give some assistance to the thousands - of refugee families and war-orphaned children who have been set adrift in Europe. A substantial contingent fund of over 12,000,000 enables the governing board to increase al lotments to different sections as needs may increase. The money will be on hand to furnish me dical supplies, food and cloth ing, particularly for children, in lands as 'fast as they are re claimed from the enemy. - The total sum of $125,000,000 may look like a large amount Really It is a little less than $1 per capita. In 1918 the budget for the United War Work cam paign which financed seven agencies corresponding to our USO was $140,000,000 and was raised in the period Nov. 11-18, after the armistice. The present ' campaign Is for 17 agencies in cluding all the agencies for war relief in the allied,, nations, and Is for a 14-month period. This consolidated campaign is economical, done almost entirely by volunteers, so the money can go for the real work for which it Is Intended. With a full under standing of the purpose and scope of the welfare and relief work undertaken, and of the re sponsible organization handling the funds, the people can contri bute without hesitation and with a real feeling of satisfaction that they are sharing in a great hu manitarian enterprise. Around Oregon " By the Associated Press John E. Davis, 22, who Detec tive Clyde X. Sanders said had cashed worthless checks in Port land by claiming to be a Flying Fortress pilot, was charged with impersonating an officer;, deser tion, and obtaining money under false pretenses . . ; , The war food administration (WFA) elevated the potato to be come the week's victory' food se lection, and urged Oregon families and restaurants to help out scarce storage facilities by buying their winter's supply .... A student war council was appointed at Ore gon State coljege " to coordinate bonds sales, salvage, and other war activities ' John R. Roberts. 34-year-old semi-pro baseball player In Ore gon, was killed in a truck-car col lision near Mulino . v . In Port land, police investigated what ap peared to be the hit-run death of Raymond W. Botsford, 55 , Clackamas county housing au thority, took charge of construct- ing 40 temporary housing units at Molalla for loggers . . . Civilian enrollment at the University of Oregon rose to 1355 women and 365 men a total 220 beyond the anticipated 1500 students ... The Oregon Journal predicted a sauerkrautless winter for ci vilians now that the commercial supply is frozen, claiming that growers f are feeding cabbage to stock or allowing it to rot in the fields rather than market it at present ceiling prices . . . Girls at Oregon State college invaded an other male field by running for the student body office of "yell king-... The Rocky Point postoffice, on upper Klamath lake, was razed by fire of undetermined origin . . . Dr. Will H. Aufranc, Portland, was named director of Oregon's vener eal disease control program . ... The state liquor control com mission said that 241,000 of the 550,000 outstanding liquor per mits had been validated by Octo ber 16, and predicted that a total of 400,000 would be validated by the month s close ... Ne tax ea Jewelry Gifts for' Men . Overseas C 31.1 Final Mailing: Date Far'.- ' Navy - Martaea . Ceevst Gaard . TVE WILL FACX ' AND 1IAIL YOU GD7T FOR TOU THE SERVICE BIANS FAVOSJTE GIFT Ne gift has received mora fa vorable comment than these fceaatifal waterproof, shock proof wrist watches. Some with Inmlnens sUal and awees see end hand. Tear Soldier weald Laa it
