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From first Statesman, March 29 1831
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY i
; CHARLES A. SPBAGUZ, Alitor and Publisher -
Member of the Associated Press
Th Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
new dispatches credited, to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper.
i - . Uy. OVID A. MARTIN " ' -
r - Associated Press Fsxm Expert
f WASHINGTON. April 21-Wartime agriculture is heading
into a critical four. weeks' planting period that will determine to
a large extent how well civilians will eat in 'the year ahead and
the amount of food the United States will be able to furnish
its; ames.y,-:'WS-;
How Far West?
.Two explanations are offered currently for
the success of the Russian drive to' the west,
and two inferences may be drawn from them . ;
as to the probable future course of the Soviet
progress westward.
One is that the Russians themselves have
amassed such overwhelming strength, what
with lend-lease and the equipment they have
been able to manufacture for themselves, that
they comprised an irresistable wall of force
against which the Wehrmacht, for all its own
mechanization and skillful leadership, could not
stand against. According to this view, the pros
pects are generally good for the Soviet armies
.to continue across the Carpathians into Hun
gary and Czechoslovakia, and eventually to
the boundaries of the reich itself. It suggests
further that4he Germans have faced the Rus
sians with all they have,"and have never se
riously subtracted divisions from the eastern
front to counter real or fancied moves of the
allies in the west.
The other view is that the Germans have
for some time ever since Stalingrad been de
ciphering handwriting on the wall, which has
told them in English and Italian and French as
well as Russian that something is about to
happen in the west, and that they had better
prepare accordingly. Thus the German high
command has more or less effectively redistri
buted all of its available forces in Europe has
transferred considerable bodies of men to
France and northern Italy, and has really with
drawn from central Russia largely of its own ,
accord. This account of present events suggests
that the Germans, once they have a chance to
settle down on the mountain bastians which
guard the Balkans and, Hungary, will cease
- their retrograde movement,- and prevent a
farther Russian advance.
Probably the truth lies somewhere between
these views. Probably the Russian superiority
of men and materials in the third summer of
war with the nazi foe was such that the Wehr
macht could not hope to make another jab at
the lower Volga which would be successful;
could ' not, indeed, hope to hold the central
heartland of southern Russia. But by the same
token, the German forces are probably not by
any means so depleted that a retreat of the
present magnitude would have been necessary
without the steady drain of the Italian front,
or the very present threat of the second front
across the English channel. As in all circum
stances where great forces are at work on both
sides, the .net result has been a compromise.
What, then, will be the probable future of
the eastern front in the present circumstances? .
No bne ,can.do more than guess at an answer;
but on the whole the most likely one at this
time seems to be that the Germans will proba
bly hold something like their present line for
some time to come, and a further decisive
break-through from the east will only come
after the landing in the west is pretty well
exploited.
The Germans are still tenacious, as our ex
perience in Italy shows; they still have equip
ment; arid their fighters, much as we would
like to believe to the contrary, are still deter
mined to ; continue the battle. On the home
front, Himmler and his secret state police con
trol all phases of war production and food dis
tribution, which makes an internal crack-up
' infinitely more difficult than in the last war
at a comparable time. Conversely, the Russian
supply lines are now widely drawn, much
Russian soil desperately awaits rehabilitation
and restoration; the battles of the past have not.
been without losses to the offensive as well as
the defensive side. That is why it is really not '
very probable that the ; red . flag, will actually
fly over the remains of the. reichchancellery
in Berlin in the next fewmdhths.
Luxury. Spending
One can easily understand why treasury
officials have upped the quota of the fifth war
loan drive when luxury spending - figures for
1943, compiled by the Associated Press, are
studied. r f .-v
; In setting an all-time, spending record, a
war-prosperous population spent close to a bil-
Oirterpretins
TEig War-News
By KTRKE L. SIMPSON
Copyright UN by thai Associated
Allied experts in England picking continental
.targets for mighty fleets of out-bound bombers are
playing their own grisa cat-and-mouse nerve war
fare game with the nazi high command. ,
They shift the focus from one type of objective
to another between raids, from strategic to tacti
cal operations and back again in bewildering fash
Ion, presumably to keep the enemy uncertain , up
to the last possible moment not only as to the
where but also as to the when of the actual first
sea-borne invasion stabs at the continent
, ' The enemy can have no doubt, however, that
the crisis in the aerial build-up for invasion is.
approaching. He would know it even if allied
broadcasts beamed for continental listeners were
not telling -him so day. after day and night after'
night New records-in numbers of planes flown
and in the weight of bombs loosed over selected
target have become an almost daily and nightly
'occurrence
- The -mental and physical wear and tear of that
, cumulative bombardment of nazi war workers, and
civilian and military personnel manning defensive,
' devices and posts to say nothing of the German air
force crews aloft and on the ground is an unknown
factor in the European war equation. There is little
or no previous experience by which to gauge the
psychological effect of -that night-and-day-alert. .
Like the effect of nazi- fighter plane attrition
in air, on the ground and in blasted plane factories
and component part production centers, the full
war-of-nerves impact of the Anglo-American pre
invasion campaign cannot be foreseen. But there
- is no reasonable doubt however, that all Germany
is facing the final trial of strength worn down by
the ravages of the home front strain, by the sting
of bitter defeats in Africa and Russia and by the
knowledge that all of it is but a foretaste of what.
is to c 3. . . 4
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lion dollars for jewelry in the past year.: Sale
of furs rose to almost a half billion dollars, 365
million dollars went for toilet preparations,
while six billion was expended lor liquor two
and a half times more than the pre-war average.
Two important factors are cited by govern
ment economists for the heavy buying of luxury
goods. High consumer income, coupled with re
stricted purchasing of cars, gasoline, radios,
and other metal goods is the first' reason, while
the widespread employment of Women, together
with higher wages generally; for feminine
workers, is the other important factor.
Many of these war-prosperous citizens, now
on a spending spree, will awaken on the "morn
ing after," regretting that they i did not follow
the example of their wiser fellow workers who
are buying more and more war bonds , as se
curity for the days when the present war pros
perity will be but a memory! ..
Frozen Food Pack
Production and conservation of food is of
paramount importance in these turbulent days.
Hence, it is of interest to learn that Oregon
and Washington frozen food pickers in 1943
produced nearly double the 1942 output.
Statistics compiled by the Western Canner
and Packer, a trade publication, reveal x the
frozen food pack in the two northwest states
in 1943 included 101,540,218 pounds of frozen
fruits and 83,941,363 pounds of vegetables, a
grand total of 185,481,581 pounds.
This pack was by all odds pie largest the
northwest has turned out in a single season.
The fruit output, in 1941 "nearly reached the
1943 figure, totaling 99,530,431 pounds, but the
largest previous vegetable pack, that of 1942,
was but 48,517,270 pounds. . ' i
The large increase in the vegetable pack re
suited from exceptional packs of snap beans,
corn, peas, combined peas and carrots and
squash. ,, :j
Use of frozen fruits and vegetables during
winter months is growing in popularity, as in
dicated in the step-up in the frozen pack. This
comparatively new industry also provides a
profitable market for many fruit and vegetable
growers of Oregon and Washington. f
News Behind
The News I
By PAUL MALLON , i
WASHINGTON, April 20 New; York's Gover
nor Dewey mentioned, in his radio report on his'
state administration, a subject seldom in the news
but certainly very close behind much of it mental
health. - .
I believe it is a favorite subject of his (much
like Mr. Roosevelt's personal interest in reforesta
tion), and will assume a similar
prominence in any campaign he
developes for the; presidency. At
least he is beginning to give
some prominence to it in poli
tical discussion. s
The truth is nearly half the"
men now being discharged from
the army, for illness are officially
-) fi aesignaiea psyenoneuroucs. .roe
1 I surgeon general's office has an
nounced 25,000 to 30,000 men
Hii anm are being let out for physical
disability each month, and, of these, 40 per cent
are classified P-Ns. I ' .
A competent authority says not a man has been
discharged from the Russian army for that reason.
Why is this? -: L
- The first old-fogey notion that; must be dis
carded in trying to understand this new subject is
the foolish popular suspicion that psychoneurosis
-means insanity. The army has a four-paged, single
spaced explanation in medical terms that only doc-
tors understand, or need to. What it boils down
to is that the men are not adaptable to military .
'service.
Some parents are being foolishly; alarmed when
their boys return, labeled with what they think
is a scarlet "pan" and they recall the public mis
use of such terms as "shell shock," "feebleminded,"
or even "moronic." This is absurd.'
Such parents would be the first to demand that
their boys be released from military duty for tu
berculosis, heart disease, or any other ailment The
public just does not understand yet that the great
variety of nervous or mental ailments have no
more awesome significance than ailment of any
other part of the body.
Perhaps the best generalized definition for the
public would-be that psychoneurosis is a nervous
breakdown, although this Am not entirely accurate
because there are so many degrees and types (anx
iety state, conversion hysteria, various depres
sions, and just plain jitters). Some might call it
(not untruthfully) as merely a complete unhappi
ness, based on resentfumess or insecurity, to the
extent of inadaptability to the army norm.
Even so, why is this? Why are so many unfit
to meet army requirements? Why has the spread
of this same condition among civilians grown to
' such an extent that Governor Dewey has revised
his entire mental health set-up in New York? What
does it mean for the post-war future?; r ;V
I have been collecting answers from authorities,
but without so far getting a complete one. The
most interesting contribution to my own thought
on the subject has been furnished by a non-medical
man, an eminent professor of psychology in an
eastern university. - Writing prlmarly on another
phase of the subject (our system Of child educa
tion) he concludes:
. "The' child suffers (from our current undisdpli
nary leadership). He Is not prepared to meet life
or to meet reality. Most of all he is emotidnally
immature. . :f-
"Our present system retards emotional maturi- ,
ty by prolonging childish habits of self-indulgence
(self-expression), of following impulse, or . being
governed by the pleasure-pain principle to the ex
clusion of the reality principle. ;
"Hence we are confronted with a striking in
ability to assume responsibility, to do a real job,
to accept life's burdens.
"This may have much to do -with the rise in
delinquency and with the high rejection rate from
the armed ; services on 'mental and emotional
grounds. Twenty per cent of casualties returning
'from overseas are in this category."
He says luVname may be .used. He is Dr. Fred
erick IL Lund, of Temple university, who can be
. identified in Who's Whar it i man with a dis--tinsuished
career t cental . sclenc?. -
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Gone, But Not Forgotten!
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t War food administration
farmers are beset with many pro-
duction' problems such" as short
ages of manpower and machinery,
express . confidence on-the out
look. That confidence has i its
practical expression -in "more S li
beral civilian ration allowances
of vital foods. - ' I .
The nation ' came through the
winter ,with . larger reserves I of
processed foods than was expected
last fan. e
Official confidence is based
largely upon reports that farmers
intend to plant 15,000,000 more
acres of : land z to . various . crops
than last year. The prospective
planting pattern emphasizes food
crops of high nutritive values and
livestock feed crops essential for
maintenance of necessary supplies
of meats and dairy products, f
Nevertheless, farm, production
has; a rocky road ahead. The
weather, always a potential haz
ard, may throw -.the production
program for a loss -at the very
beginning of the season. The wea
ther bureau reports that persist
ent wet, cool weather has delayed
spring planting operations fully
two weeks. This delay is not se
rious but could become so if more
favorable conditions' do not de
velop soon.
Agriculture will have to get
along with fewer skilled workers
than ever before. Tighter draft
deferment regulations and move
ment of additional workers to war
jobs has reduced farm manpower
three per cent below last year.
This means , that greater efforts
will be necessary to enlist town
and city folk to help with har
vests. Tending to offset 'to some
extent the loss of workers will
be an increased supply, of farm
machinery, but not as much as
had been hoped for. f
Thus a combination of factors
unfavorable weather during the
planting season and r shortage: of
manpower and machinery might
keep the planted acreage from
reaching -levels intended by
farmers.
Meanwhile, the production of
meat, milk, eggs' and poultry ' is
holding up well despite' labor dif
ficulties and a tightening supply
of feed. Officials .expect milk out
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operation and production of
goods that are - needed by con
sumers. If veteran 'ownership
can provide employment and
produce g o o ds 1 economically,
then those are strong factors in
favor of the Ickes proposal.
There can be no single rule
laid down that will fit the dis
posal qf war plants and machin
ery. Some can swing easily into
civilian production. But I. cer
tainly wouldn't want to wish , on
a group of veterans the owner
ship and operation of that vast
pile of Basic Magnesium, Inc
at Las Vegas at anything like
the amount of money the gov-
ernment has sunk in the plant
- This whole subject will rise
In : interest and public concern
as the war draws to an end and
the question of plant disposal
becomes, acute. : ' .
, AO Salt Lake Tabernacle
JO Garden Talks.
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. 14 AO Church of the Air.
14J0 Trans-AUantte Call,
list-Ceiling Unlimited.
11 JO World News Today.
11 J5 Songs or America, -
13 AO Philharmonic Oreh. Concert
1 JO The Paws -Tost aafrtshee
S. 44 The Family Hfror.
34 Woman -from Nowhere
SAO Silver Theatre -
JO America in the Als. .
4 AO William S hirer. News, .
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4 JO The- WhUtler..
AO The Star and the Story. -
JO WUUam Winter. News.
5 Stars of Today.
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gJO Fred Allen.
7 AO Take It or Leave It
730 Adventures of the Thin
AS Crime Doctor. .
J3 Song of the Week.
JO In Time to Come
a AO I Was -There
JO We Work for Wisce-,
14T04 Five Star'Fuuu.
14:15 Wsrtlmo Womeau
10 JO Horace Heidt ..
M JO Orchestra:
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11 JO Orchestre V,
ll.-45-Orch.
It JS Newe ' s ' '
13AS-4AS em Musle and News.
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officials, while recognizing that
put this spring and early summer
to reach record levels. But when
pastures dry up and it becomes
necessary to shift dairy cows to
grain, production may drop , be
low last year's levels because of
short feed supplies. On the other
hand, tanners are learning how
to use feed grains more efficient
ly. I
Officials anticipate a record
run of beef cattle to market next
fall. Marketings of hogs, on the
other hand, are expected to be
somewhat below level! of the past
fall and winter.: Egg production
is at record levels and future
prospects continue - good despite
recent price difficulties.
WU May Court
Members Pick
Royal Aides
Members of the 1944 Willamette
university May weekend court
have selected their royal attend
ants for the festival. Doris Holmes,
Dallas, ' will be attendant for
Queen Marjory Maulding, Eloise
Findley, Rickreall, will attend
Princess Dorothy Estes and Prin-,
cess Mary Jean Huston has named
Nancy Stricklin, Salem, as her at
tendant. All three women are sen
iors.. t;
Miss Holmes is senior scholar in
sociology, president of Alpha Psl
hall and is serving her third se
mester as news editor of the "Col
legian."; She is a member of the
inter-dormitory council, the book
store staff, and f Beta Chi soror
ity, w.'. v.' -
Miss Findley Is senior scholar in
home economics and was formerly
corresponding secretary for Delta
Phi sorority. Miss Stricklin at
tended Oregon State college one
year and is a , member of Beta
CM.- ;;.". .
Vazakas Plans
Greece Trip
Dr. Alexander A. Vazakas. pro
fessor of languages; at-Willamette
university for viT.;yeaftC. fvas an
nounced that he will retire from
teaching at the' end of the present
school term and plans . to return
to Greece, his home country, to do
reconstruction work and give re
ligious instruction there. -.
Vazakas, will leave for Califor
nia in i June and spend a few
weeks lecturing in San Francisco
and other cities. From there he
will go to New York City to give
some lectures until time for his
departure abroad.
If Greece is still occupied by the
enemy by the time he reaches Eu
rope, Vazakas plans to go to Alex
andrdia, Egypt where many .of his
fellow .countrymen are stationed
in refuge .from the axis. There he
will begin his reconstruction, work
and religious ' instruction, which
will be carried on In his home
country as soon as he can reach
it safely.
Dean Erickgon Holds
Meetings in Washington
Dean Waiter XL Zrickson, di
rector of admissions at .Willam
ette university, will begin con
ferences with graduating seniors
of southwestern Washington high
schools j Monday following two
weeks of conferences ' with stu
dents in high schools in the Port
land area. "
Erickson will visit -Vancouver
high school on Monday, afternoon.
Other schools where he will hold
conferences are Kelso, Longview,
Chehalis, Hoquiam, Aberdeen and
Olympic The-last visit j.wuT'be
made Friday at Olympljl.
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Screen Star ' Claudette Colbert,
whose husband, LA. Com. Joel J.
Pressman, is staUobed at the Til
lamook air station,' was staying at
a hotel here today. "
She came here earlier, this week
after arriving incognito in Ore
gon City to meet Pressman. Her
husband said she would return to
Hollywood In a few days. .
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