"Wo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe"
From First Statesman, March 28, 1831
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY!
' CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor uuf Publisher ;
Member of the Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Relief Pitcher in Tokyo
In the "bushido'1 code of the Japanese, fail
ure is disgrace. One thing which remains a
mystery despite all that has been written from
the American point of view about baseball as
played und- JV-t code, is the fate of the un
successful pitcher who Is "jerked." Does he
commit fractic al hara-kiri, bad pitching being
only a minor disgrace? Never mind. It seems
that Adm. Nagano and Gen. Sugiyama, contrary
to our expectations, are not slated for that
messy climax, but will remain as "highest mili
tary advisors to his majesty the emperor.", -
Nevertheless while "their removal as active
heads of navy and army is an event whose sig
nificance tp the Japanese people may be rough
ly gauged by imagining that President Roose
velt deposed Gen. Marshall and Adm. King, it
is not true as the Oregonian avers that "it
means the same in Tokyo." It doesn't mean
the same because the. Japanese mind works
differently. But when that difference is taken
into the calculation, it is seen that in Tokyo the
event means more, not less.
Americans though hampered by a few illu
sions of superiority, know they must carve out
their own destiny; Japanese have been taught
their racial destiny is pre-f abricated by a high
er .power. ' When events move contrarily it is
as though their gods tottered on their thrones
-as indeed they do.
But now, if it is. not too jarring a leap back
to the baseball figure of speech, when there is
change of pitchers the one discarded is for
gotten; all eyes are on the relief man. If To jo
himself had replaced the admiral, it would be
possible to draw a parallel with Hitler replacing
the German generals. But Tojo went in for
Sugiyama, the army chief, and in Japan's
scheme the army plays just now the second
role. Adm. Shimada heads the navy and since
"all Japs look alike" to occidentals, personal
ities afford no clue.
Substitution implies ordinarily serious flaw
in the performance of the man relieved, some
reasonable hope of better performance by his
relief. If the calculations in this case involve
major alterations in strategy, it is reasonable
to speculate, at the least, whether the result
may be a less cautious policy. In short, perhaps
the enemy will come out now and fight. It is
a pleasing speculation. From our point of view,
the sooner the better.
Farmers Union on Taxes
The Oregon Farmers Union this week is
Salem's guest. It is no violation of hospitality
to argue with one's guest, provided no personal
ities are invoked. Besides, the resolution pro
posing basic alteration of the state tax system
Is as yet only a committee's recommendatiion,
not the adopted policy of the organization as a
whole.
The resolution strikes at the 1943 legisla
ture's solution of the income tax surplus prob
lem, which this newspaper has heretofore de
fended; in fact recently, against the special ses
sion pressure from Portland. It strikes also at
the sales tax proposal which will br? on the
ballot this year. The Statesman opposed that
measure when it was before the legislature.
But the major recommendation is per
manent elimination of the state property tax
levy. This newspaper has consistently ad
hered to the principles that the property tax
Is basic, and that too i much "tax relief is a
snare and a delusion. If too many taxpayers
are let off, there is all the more pressure tori
profligate expenditure. Thus to be consistent
we must oppose this proposal even though it
has nO present practical significance, has had
none for several years and will have none in
the immediate redictable future. i
If the Farmers Union proposes to wipe out
the state property tax in theory as well as in
fact, it should however take into account its
relation to the mechanics of tax limitation. By
statute if not by mandate of the constitution,,
the amount of the state income tax available
for general fund expenditure has been regu
lated by the 41 per cent limitation applied to the
: theoretical state property levy. Unless! it is
proposed that all limitation be abolished, some
substitute for this admittedly complicated
formula must be devised.
, Tokyo radio boasts that Japan has a success
f.ful and extensive synthetic rubber program
going full blast. Startling, in the light of
Japan's seizure of 90 per cent of the world's
natural rubber supply in Malaya and the Dutch
East Indies. Some commentators insist that if
these reports are true, it means transport from
those regions to the home islands is seriously
Inadequate. It may merely mean, on the con
trary, that their foresight is better than ours
was a ew years ago. They know what they
stole, we may be able to recover later if not
sooner. . ' ,
Earl Bushnell ; ' ' 1 -
Builders whose work he scanned for possible
flaws say Earl C. Bushnell was a highly com
petent construction engineer, well qualified by
training, native capacity p and experience as
well as by a keen sense oi his responsibility, to
perform the duties required of the office which
he alone in Salem's history hasheld. j
Not all of the construction men with whom
he worked, and extremely Jew of the thousands
who visited his office to apply for building per
mits, knew that he was in addition a man of
cultured and active mind, i$vho had well-rounded
knowledge and ideas on many subjects out
side his own profession. Though it is possible
that due to wartime conditions his. post in the
city government may not be filled immediately,
his untimely death is in more ways than one
a loss to the community, f
Henry George died in 1897, but his ghost,
the single tax idea, goes marching on. The
"Henry George legislative committee" triumph
antly announces that Congressman Eberharter
of Pennsylvania has introduced a constitutional
amendment empowering congress, so that "all
men shall have equal rights to use the earth,"
to "enact legislation to collect the yearly value
of land in taxation, to remove taxes on im
provements on land, and to apportion the re
venue . . ." among local, state and federal gov
ernments. Just now the nation is more con
cerned with another and different struggle to
determine who shall be entitled to "use the
earth." - . .
A school district just outside the municipali
ty of Sandy rejected this week at the polls, the
proposition of consolidating with the Sandy
school district. It wouldn't' have been proposed
if there had not been assurance of a mutual
saving in costs of elementary education; but
the "Little Red Schoolhouse" defenders won
again. ;,; , f
f I.
News Behind
The News"
By PAUL MALLON
(Distribution by Kins Feature Syndicate. Inc. Repro
duction in whole or in part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, Feb., 2?-If anything could
have been worse than the coal strike settlement, it
was the railroad settlement,' but worse than both
together is the steel strike trouble coming up.
Steel Unionist Phil Murray
already .is pressuring the war
. labor board . and the white
r house fpf1 another wage in
crease. This is a campaign
year and. he knows it. Unless
he gets Isomething, he practic
ally says he will lose the CIO
to John j Lewis, and the white
house would sooner ! lose the
I I - JL I ' i Duudingiand fixtures to Dewey
I ..ll-;Ii..l than to allow that
But How to do it? ' Up to
(who has re-
J
tnore recalcitrant and
more they are apt to
75 a day increase from
they
The
11 cents an hour in
weeks after Economic
ipt : cents would be
I ';
Have you a little Molotov Cocktail in your
nome? 'National Safety council says; you
probably have. A Molotov . Cocktail, used by
the Russians to blow German tanks apart at
the seams, is simply a beer bottle filled with
gasoline, plus a makesruf fuse. Its counter
part in many an American home is a bottle or
can of gasoline or other explosive fluid kept
may set it off with results comparable to those
we. m a a . . a w 1 . "' ' ' v t
we rvea xigniers acnieve.
r Of all the useless pests, the wasp is a stand
out or so you may think. Nothing of the
sort. University of California, scientists are
planning to propagate a certain tiny variety of
warp by the millions to combat the oriental
peach moth which is a menace to the peach
industry. Incidentally wouldn't you suspect
It at cC2 the moth came by way of -Japan,
vith those flowering cherry trees im
rcrtcJ t3 the eastern United States.
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And So the Poor Dog Got None!
'day's Kadlio Progiramnis
famj and
rani Mnoa
now, old Doctor "Winlhf-War"
placed Doctor New Deal) has been getting around
his own little steel wage prescription increasing
wages more than it allows--by especially concoct
ed devices such as more overtime allowances, va
cations with pay, but chiefly by reclassifications.
But this steel case is the formula itself, and get
ting around it without seeming to, will take some
doing. i L'
Pressuring behind Murray are a national array
of unions shipbuilders, textiles, automobiles, air
craft, aluminum, radio, shoes and a half dozen
others with similar wage; increase demands be
yond the little steel formula;
Of course most, if not all these unions, have al
ready received increases beyond the 15 per cent
allowed in the formula. Aluminum for instance
got that IS per cent and about 8 or 10 more hidden
in reclassifications. j 'A .
On an average, I think these unions have re
ceived from 5 to 10 per cent above the formula,
chiefly by upgrading. But :His, of course, is never
discussed aloud. Only the base pay rate is used In
arguments and official pap rs, the reclassifications
being mentioned obscurely, t at all, and never In
such a way that anyone (xcept the particular
union-Industrial wage expert involved) can figure
What is likely to make the trouble is that the
unions have discovered the
troublesome they are, the
get The coal miners got $1
the government, a few heetic months after
would have taken $1.25 from the operators.
operating railroaders won
crease, a few troublesome
stabilizer Vinson decreed
i inflationary.
They also have discovered thev can t mnr
J by needling their way straight up to Mr. Roose
velt's desk, rather than playing along with Vinson
or the war labor board. j g.
A situation, indeed a predicament, thus has
been created which augurs fit! for union tranquility
and actually invites strife.
My guess is the way Mr. Roosevelt will get
around it this time Is to let" his Davis committee
concoct same new devices kilowing steel at least
to get another hike, probably less, than 10 per cent
This is the committee appointed to look Irto the
official labor bureau statistics on the cost of living
My information Is It has not been meeting
frequently of late, although members run into each
other in government corridors and sometimes jok- :
ingly ask if any Instructions 1 have been received
as to what they are to do. li
Statistics, of course, can $' adjusted to" fit prac
tically any needs, political pr economic All you
; have to do is to weigh yout figures with more of
; some food items and less of others (give them more
consideration in your calculations) and voila, a 15'
per cent increase in "cost of : living can become 20 '
per cenfrr-legitimately and provably. -
From the way things are going, the unions and ;
the government wul play Ikround on the front
; pages with strife and fanfare a while yet until !
it becomes apparent upon What basis a settlement !
Is possible, then the Davis committee would, come
along and say the statistics show 'the settlement ,
should be made on that basis. How else?
In fact, how can such constantly whirling eon--fusion
be avoided with a politically minded pro
union government: trying to ;flx every detail of
wage rates in a campaign year?
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cavalryman; f but apparently he
Is handling jhis important duty
with commendable success As!
Menefee says; .-?;.! lj
"Whatever criticism : m a y be
leveled against our long-range
political strategy in t h i s war,1
operations in, that narrower field -of
tactics usually termed psycho
logical warfare, have been con
ducted with dispatch and effici
ency: In Norm Africa, Sicily,
and southern Italy the psycho
logical offensive has saved many,
thousands of American lives.' ;
PWB works with the foreign
section of OWI in preparing ra
dio and leaflet material aimed
at the - peoples of : particular
areas. In its first "phase it is de
signed to "soften up" the oppo-
sition, appealing to the inhabi
tants to cast in with the allied
cause. Wheni military action de
velops direct appeals are made
for enemy soldiers to surren
der. ' After; occupation . propa- -ganda
of a different type is pro
vided for the native population. -Anti-fascist
propaganda is stea
dily streamed toward enemy and
occupied 4xnintries, as well as
factual news on the progress of
allied arms and the inevitability j :
of axis defeat.-, - '
. The purpose of psychological
warfare was stated to his men
by Col. Hazel tine as follows:
"Its job is to attack the ene
my's morale his. will, to fight
to soften him up and make him
easier to beat in the field . .
IV will be for you to decide .
whether or not this new science '
of war helps bring the success '
ful end 'a little sooner for us
and! a little less expensively in
allied lives and material." ,f
, Salem has : seen many officers
and men come and go in the in
terval since Pearl Harbor. One
of those - who will be- remem
bered is C6L Hazel tine who
seems to be doing a real job of
fighting, though- in a sector one
would never; predict would fall
to his lot. - - t .
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By KIKE I SIMPSON j Copyright 1944 by tho Associated Press
Despite its specific disclaimer
of the role of prophet as to the
duration of the war In Europe,
Prime Minister Churchill's war
review leaves the impression
that he still 1 believes as he did
last November that he crisis
will be, reached this year. -
The very caution with which
the British War leader paved the
way verbally for what is to come
in the west j suggests that.' His
promise of an anglo-American
air attack to precede actual
landings on the continental coast
beyond -anything yet ' even
"imagined has that ' signifi
cance, i '
The whole: of this (allied) air
offensive (from the south as
well as the west) constitutes the
foundation on which our plans
for the overseas invasion stand,'
Churchill said. "The Idea that
we should fetter or further re
strict the use of this prime in
strument fori shortening the war
will not be accepted by the gov
eminent of the united nations.'
Even as he spoke, American
heavy bombers based in Italy
and Britain were striking anew
at targets in! Germany to make
good his pledge that every cor
ner of : the reich - would . be
reached by air. There was a
veiled Churchill hint, also, that
the hour . of coordinated long
range Russian bombing of the
nazi home front might be close,
as red armies roll nearer to Ger
many's eastern frontiers. It was
a united nations doctrine of pre
invasion "saturation" bombing
of nazi war industries, not anglo
American policy, alone, that he
proclaimed. '
-That gave 'special significance
to the Churchill sketch in broad
outline of what the air relativi
ties in Europe actually are. "By
every possible test he said,
British and Russian plane pro
duction are j about equal and
each "already far exceeds Ger
many's wh34 American produc
tion "alone Is double or treble"
the nazi output.
What .that expanding Russian
allied air potential means for
Germany in the weeks and
months' ahead fully justifies the
Churchill reluctance to hazard
any conjecture as to how j long
the war in Europe might last l it
is the great 'unknown factor in
the struggle, i His own inability
to foresee what the effect on
nazi war morale might be was
clearly indicated.'
The British prime minister re
vealed that the overseas assault
when launched from Britain
Today's Garden
I By T.TT.T.TTT MADSEN
i Mrs. T. T. wants to know if a
little gardenia plant she has can
be grown outside. She has it now
-potted up ,Jnj the house. E. R.
asks if he can plant his avocado
i"bush" ..out pe started it from
seed 'and has it growing as a
potted plant .vi:-v?;;,-.i--.;..vi!r
; The answer to both is no, if
they wish to continue to have
the bushes. Neither will stand
iour weather. The avocado will
continue to grow indoors but
will soon become too large - for
average houseculture. The gar
denia is difficult to grow even
as a houseplant here. The tem
perature should range from 60
degrees at night to 73 in the day
time. The gardenia needs ; full
sunlight at ail times. It grows
nicely if onett has a greenhouse
which can bej kept at the right
temperatures, it As a rule, flower-
. Ing starts in October and con
tinues to April.
; E3. wants jto know about the
' various snowballs and asks when
r-they should be planted out
I take It that she means the
common snowball and the -Japanese
snowball. The- latter Is
much more satisfactory. The
common snowball, while its
flowers do form the roundest
balls, is-so subject to aphids that
some years it; lis of no use at all
unless- it r- Tais been sprayed.
The J apanese snowball seems to
be little bothered with insects or
disease. Ether can be set out
successfully new. A good garden
soil is very satisfactory and the
snowballs grow here with little
or no difficulty at aH. Sometimes
they start slowly and do not
seem to mak any growth for
but then all of a
begin growing.
They also bloom from very little
bushes.
the first year;
sudden, they
would at the outset be composed
of British and American troops
In relatively equal pumbers; but
that with a continuous flow of
reinforcements from the United
States, American' ;1 forces ulti
. xnately would predominate "if
the struggle on the continent is
"prolonged." There again he
hinted strongly that 1944' will
, see the crisis reached .in Europe
- and that victory is not only cer
tain but "may not be so far
away.; !
US Maclxiiiiery
Eases English
Food Problem
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. With . American farm machin
ery, England was able to double
its food production capacity and
lick the U boat Morton Tomp
kins, master -of ; the Oregon
grange, told Kiwanis club mem
bers and their farm leader guests
Tuesday in the Mirror room of the
Marion hotel. . "
Tompkins was one of three far
mers from different sections of the
United States who made a trip
to England last fall to study farm
conditions there and; report upon
them to people of i the United
States. He was a guest speaker
Tuesday ; when Salem Kiwanis
club entertained heads of Marion
and Polk county Farmers Union
locals and subordinate granges.
"The only break that England
got was when the waters of the1
English channel smoothed out un
til even row boats could be used
in bringing back the! survivors of
Dunkirk, those survivors who
came back with empty hands to
Britain where there! were fewer
than ten. tanks that could be used
in modern warfare. !
"England's agriculture had
been neglected for years, and a
neglected agriculture Is the story
of the downfall of a Country" the
Oregon farm leader laid.
"An international farm confer
ence is one of the things in which
farm leaders of England are in
terested. I talked with Sir Wil
liam Gavin who isl nxt tn h
minister of agriculture and I
luuua nun very conscious of the
needs of agriculture is also Lord
CornwalUs. I am very much con
vinced. It is necessary for the
common people of the world to
meet and discuss their common ,
problems." ;!
Speaking briefly of the Ameri
can service men and women In
England he said he heard no mm.
plaints, only wonder that there
could be so many poor cooks in
one army.-;. 'i-'-
Frederick Klaus was chairman
in charge of the program and W.
w. inadwlck, president welcom
ed the guests. ' :l - .11 - !
Boilermakers Name
41 Candidates 0
PORTLAND. Feb.
inations for officers of the AFL
Portland Boilermakers; union clos
ed this weekend with 41 9n4i-
dates named for the March 6-8 el-
-4.: J ill -
CVUUO. .'' . !' j
Oscar FuruseL
. T .
receiver Whrv 1 rfiranfinM t '
- m.vvwu( me El
ection, said three men were run
ning for president Ai E. Jordan,
Fred Lunger, and Adolph F. Chan.
TO A HACimilST
C7 THIS LSEIi
Ever see a locomotive driving
rod or piston close! up? Best
steel there is. Same goes for
other railroad equipment And
the men who keep them going
are machinists who know their
work's vital in this man's war.
Now Southern Pacific has some
swell openings for machinists
SJ. shops. Top railroad
Jobs and as interesting as any
you can name. (Railroading'
that way. It gets in your blood.)
Pay is good. Fine Medical serv
ices.. A real pension plan. H
you want not amy job, but a
teed job with a permanent
company, look into this. We
think youll like working for
S.P Liberal age limits. Other
good jobs open, too;
Marhmfst's Helpers, Help
ers la ether crafts Boller
TOBakers. Carpenters, Me
chanics, numbers, etc.
... See or 'write ,
fJE. Barks, fLP. Freight Agent
Trade Commercial Streets
Salens. Oregon
Stevens
Cdy ii Stevens
aO X Z a
Is As
Good As
l-
- V mm mm 4 taoam m isf '
All Jewe!ry Work,
Diamond Eettlav an!
Caxravtax Done ta .Ocr
Own ticp i
....
Credit
If Desired
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