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No Favor Sway Ui; No Fear Shall Awe"
from rirst Statesman, March 23, 1831
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING C03LPANY
CHARLES A. SPHACUl, Editor and Publisher
- . Member of the Associated Press - -.
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication ot all
newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited la this newspaper.
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Back to Gold
" The announcement was made last week ot a
plan for an international currency stabilization
program which would, after the war, serve to
eliminate the countless troubles which inter
national trade and banking experienced in the
last twenty years. The salient point of the pro
gram is a central fund amounting to some
$8,000,000,000, which would be a sort of joint
checking account for all the member nations.
This fund, it is very important to notice, would
be, according, to the words of the Original an
nouncement, "in the form of gold and local
currency in accordance with an agreed formu
la," L e at a fixed relationship to gold.
' Without attempting a discussion of the pro
posal in the higher levels of financial theory,
this one fact does seem to be worth noting: the
whole plan is clearly based on an acknowledged
relationship of every national currency in
volved to a known amount of gold. It is, in
brief, a return to a world gold standard.
Should the plan be adopted, and the prelim
inary comments of congressional leaders ia
Washington were generally favorable, as well
as some British authorities, it will In many
Ways turn back world international finance
and banking to the days of before the last
world, war with some differences, of course. -
The idea is that every world currency will
keep a fixed relationship with gold, and that
fluctuations of this relationship will be com
paratively slight, and of short duration. The
franc, for instance, will be worth a gram of
2 4 -karat gold; the pound will be equal tb 10
grams; the dollar to three. These particular
amounts of gold are purely hypothetical; but
the important point is that a fixed relationship
with gold will exist with every currency, and the
value of various national currencies will no
longer be half a matter of guessing, and the
remainder of horse-trading and merely hoping.
If the program goes through, it will eradi
cate the chaotic v and uncertain international
market of before the present war, when all
values were uncertain, and only the most hardy
speculator (or most convinced proprietor of a
"sure thing") would dare risk his capital in
other countries. Much trade, indeed, particu
larly with those European nations which chose
to go in for national self-sufficiency, was pure
barter, on no higher level, financially speak
ing, than the swapping of a horse for a firkin
of rum in the New England of the 1700's. Oth
er trade was accomplished by means of the ex
change of money, but no one knew what one
currency was worth in terms of another until
a deal was actually made, and then the value
went for that day and for that exchange only.
Under the new plan, international trade and
exchange of money will be governed by a fair
ly strict and abiding relationship to gold, a fact
which should take much of the uncertainty out
of the market and thus stimulate the entry of
more careful money. Needless to say, the more
international trade, the more jobs, and the
more world-shared prosperity.
One other fact is worth mentioning. In the
old days of 1933 when the subject of the gold
standard was raised, it brought blows and
brickbats from virtually every quarter of the
new deal. Now Secretary Morgenthau, in a
cooing voice, calls the new plan "the keystone
to all postwar economic planning." This com-
wriAnt is lnt riAarpr truth than snm nf th nAur
deal remarks about gold 11 years ago.
" As to who contributes a good chunk of the
eight billion well, you guessed it. The only
thing still to consider is that if the plan works
(as it might well do) our money will be safe
and we'll have more of it to go around. -
Interpreting
The War News
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Copyright 1M4 by the Associated Prers
Two aspects of the current war news from Eu
rope stand out to indicate that the synchronized
victory campaign planned at Teheran to smash
Germany is now in full swing. They heavily under
score the opinion of Admiral Ernest J. King,
American navay. commander, that Germany's de
feat "can happen" in 1944 and release Anglo
American power for a total attack on Japan.
King's statement, made to a New York audience,
a notable contribution from allied military
i spokesmen. The American naval commander is not
given to over optimistic utterances. He has full
knowledge of the realities in all war theaters. That
includes unquestionably the timing schedule drawn
-.. up at Teheran for bringing final pressure to bear
on the foe In Europe from east, west and south
simultantously. He also knows the state of readi
ness attained on all three fronts since the Te
heran conference, v.
Against that background" can 'be set official
axis reports that the short-lived hill on the Black
sea front has ended with resumption of the Rus
sian drive at the Galati gateway to the Balkans.
It is obvious, that the allied air battering of the
Bucharest, PloesU Budapest and other Balkan
centers is coordinated operation. In effect, it rep
resents the first phase of closely-linked Russian
and allied military moves in the 1944 campaign
although it is doubtful that - the Balkan theater
is rated. as a critical front in either Russian or
: Anglo-American eyes. ::;
At best, a Russian, smash, through the Galati
gateway could knock Rumania and Bulgaria out
. of the wax and perhaps ultimately, jar loose- the
nasi hold on the whole Balkan peninsula. It could
. drive the foe back into bis Inner citadel and inten
sify the economic strangulation to which be is be
ing subjected. But neither the Balkans nor Italy
otlzr prefects for. a 'quick drive into Germany
- itself. .
The road to Berlin from the east lies north, not
south, ot the Carpathian mountains, across the
rolling plains of Poland. It is' there that the col
. sninating Russian attacks te break through into
Germany will ccme to match the Anglo-American
lnvaski frci frrrr. " . ''.
Tax Simplification J ;
Headaches are fresh in the minds of thou
sands of income taxpayers viho fumed, fret
ted, and yes, even swore, While attempting to
complete federal income tax returns recently,
To these comes good news from Washing
ton, for if recommendations o the house ways
and 'means committee are accepted by con
gress, it will be unnecessary for the 30,000,000
to 50,000,000 individual taxpayers
returns for next year.
Under this plan the withholding
against wages and salaries is revised, effective
next January 1, to deduct the lull tax liability
of persons earning up to $5000 jyearjy. The pro-
sets new
burdens
to file re-
leans com
posed bill eliminates the victohr
normal and surtax rates, yet keeps
at about present levels. - mj
Even those who will be requin
turns will use a much simplified fo
Action by the house ways ihd
mittee is eliminating the cumbersome tax forms,
heretofore used, followed a tlood of protest
that came from every part of he country from
angry taxpayers who did not? protest the tax
payments but howled at the necessity of spend
ing hours attempting . to complete a complex
and,' to the majority, an unintejligible tax form.
News Belli
The News
By PAUL MALLON
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WASHINGTOll, AprU 28 - This grand air
assault on Europe is designed primarily to crush
the German air force first requisite to inva
sion by land. ; p
Some say the campaign started 12 to 15 days
agor but it actually appeared first in February.
Then the scale of attack was
enlarged tofrard; the point
where, as many as 5000 to
6000 planesj could be used
within a 24-iour period from
United Kingdom airfields.
That top record was
reached last weekend, but the
use of 3000 planes in attack
within 24 hdurs has been a
regular and ppractically con
tinuous event lor rune weexs,
interrupted Pat periods by
Today
1
lever mustered
type of target
time. Each day's
led attacks cen-
i and airfields, '
p related plants,
ration for inva-
to be ready for
in specific areas
500 planes into-
have not been
that unofficial
learly 4000 Ger-
lanuary 1, and
rani Manea
weather.' You can measure the l&ope of this ef
fort when you consider that the height of the
German assault on ngiana
more than 500 planes.
Concentration on a specifi
also developed about the same
communiques lately have reve
tered upon airplane factorie
with side attention occasionally
such as the ballbearing worki.at Berlin and
Schweinfurt.
Secondary targets in the pas few days have
been rail communications andnilitary instal
lations along the northwestern fcoast, which are
the final air requisites in prep
sion.'(Such tactics lead the wa;
land assault every day.)
The individual air attacks u;
have brought as many as 1
single-headed action. The r
specifically estimated except
guests out of London calculate
man planes destroyed since
5000 more indirectly destroyed from the bomb
ing of the aircraft factories. J
Also, War Secretary Stimsonhas mildly esti
mated 20 per cent of the German air force now
eliminated, incidentally, the I Germans have
been practicing a policy of extreme conserva
tion the last few weeks. They mo longer send
up their planes unless our attack is aimed at
an extremely important targef yThey are sav
ing every ship they can for the invasion hour. -
There is hardly a chance tht we are being
fooled as to the extent of thl; damage. True,
the Germans are exceptionally clever at air
camouflage, once built a fake bridge across the
Rhine to deceive our airmen, f But our people
take extensive air photographs, after raids, not"
only of the target hit, but of adjoining territory.
These are pieced together car ffully and com -pared
with old photographs ir:such a way as
to make deception on any grand scale improb-.
able." -' : . W.';- II -s;-- " '
Now the new Grand American assault into
southeastern Europe from Italian bases gener
ally handled in headlines as a similar action
has an entirely different character. There, our
planes are 'simply doing theirj utmost to help
the Russians. ' .
Since the. reds drove the nazis against the
Carpathian mountains, the only German rail
communication . to its southwestern front . is
through the roundabout line of fthe Danube val
ley. ; k:-: :-r-:e:-' - V- " ,
Therefore, we have concentrated on the rail
road yards in Budapest, even; damaged river
shipping on the Danube, and no longer seek
out the valuable oil fields when we go to Ploes-'
ti. Instead, we hit the railroads there.
In fact, our rail bombing has extended to
even Bucharest and Sofia. Thisis an immediate
problem. When it is passed thet planes from the "
; Italian front can also concentrate on targets
designed primarily to crush German air power.
, Ik would be dangerous to attempt: invasion as
long as Hitler can muster a formidable air
force: His air arm must be crushed either now
or in battles over the landing ftfoops. -"
But once our firm air contrl is established ,
, and German troops have no ab cover, they will
know how the French and British infantry felt,
. exposed to bombing atUck in France, and the
terrors we suffered at Bataan i when our air
..force was gone. " : fe if - ...
; In naturally wen-covered tlrHtoryy such as
jungles, the exposure of infantry to air attack
may not be important.-Againi at Cassino and
Anxio, where Crermaa trtillerjl In irroundin j
hnis was able to cover the lacs of German air
power, the result was not fatal! Dut in the open
i country f France, Belgium, kind nolland, it
r could be another .story. N"-'
v On much of that tama rnM4 fh rr..
infantry, finding it dangerous for costly to at-
acx ceruun strong points, fiis used its
. power as artillery in closest coordination....
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learned: some things, and. work
ers too . Then there is a broad-;
er understanding of dvH rights,
a realization that 1 we cannot
deny at home. what we fight for
abroad. ' ."..' "
Fortunately, our; farm labor
situation in Oregon was never
serious as it was in California.
It may' be due to the fact mat
our agriculture is stni farmr
family-sised rather than "cor
pora tion" agriculture. At any
rate there was almost none of
the bitterness and violence that
'were reported in the state to the
south. It is true that farm
wages were low, but farm in
come was very low too; New, of
course, conditions are reversed
and farm ages are at high levels.
It will be well if the LaFol
lette report does remala a his
torical document, and that con
ditions never revert . to . what
they were la the depth cf the
depression. For out of such ma
terials revolutions of one a-tn
or another come and society Is
never sure just which way the
ertaillrhei crZzr be vrset
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OPA Head Reports
Many Overcharges
CHICAGO. Awil 2ttPV-Ches-
ter Bowles, administrator of the
office of price administration, re
ported here that "Hundreds of
thousands - of overcharges were
discovered in a recent check of
prices in stores throughout the
country.
"From now on," Bowles stated,
"These OPA volunteer price
checkups will be made each month
throughout the country." ;
He said . members of volunteer
price panels were engaging in
monthly surveys In a nationwide
drive to keep prices in line with
OPA ceilings, and added that with
the cooperation of all concerned
We have made a lot of progress."
Kelly, you may recall. Is Tech.
Sgt Charles Edward.Kelly, other
wise known as "Commando' Kel
ly; "Killer" Kelly and "Slaugh
ter" Kelly. He halls from Pitts
burgh, Fa but some of the best
Texans in the 36th division bail
from Places like Pittsburgh, Pa.
He won the congressional medal
of honor for killing something like
35 Germans back at Alta villa last
September and that. was only one
of his many exploits. -
The story about his decorations
said he knocked out five of the
Germans by tossing 60 hh. mor
tar shells out a window at them
and then the argument started.
Some experts said it couldn't be
done. Others said . "but not under
those circumstances."
Still others said "Oh, that's jusf
another tali Texas tale."
Which was a mistake. By this
time Kelly had departed, for the
states on rotation but the honor
of the 36th division was at stake
saf i today they staged a demon
stration with a Texan named XL
Sal va tore Uzze of Chiaago, m,
officiating at the TNT table,
Among those present were var
ious ordnance experts, a ' couple
of nervous newspapermen and
Major General Fred L. Walker,
the 36th division commander who
knew all the time it could be done.
In order to keep from elimin
ating; all the witnesses to the de
monstration, Uzze removed the
half pound of explosives from the
shells but left the detonator charge
m place. Even experts agree that
as; goes the detonator so goes the
whole shell.
If you're interested In technical
aspects, he then removed the out-
4P Elects McLean
s New President
A
!new
erl
YORK April 26-(P-Ilob-
McLean of the Philadelphia
Ef ening Bulletin was re-elected
here as president and Frank B.
Nyes of the Washington Star as
honorary president of the Asso
ciated Press. , : .. - ; i'
The board of directors named
Hbuston Harte of the San Angelo,
TaL, Standard, iirst vice-president,
and Norman Chandler of the
Lis Angeles Times, second vice
president, -,.' -: ; ,
Kent Cooper continues as exe
cutive director and general man
ager; Iioyd Stratton as secre
tary; F. J. Starzell and Claude A.
Jagger, assistant secretaries'; X. F.
Citrus, treasurer; Alan J. Gould,
assistant treasurer, and Robert
B&oth, auditor.
Allied Mine Laying
ders Nazi Traffic
Comrades Insist Sgt. Kelly ;
Did Sling Those Mortar Slietts
i " ' By KENNETH L, DIXON - A ,
WITH THE AEF IN ITALY, April i9-(Delayed)-ff-You can
put it down in your little book-that Sgt.; Kelly did sling those
63 mm, mortar shells like grenades at; the Geiccuuur at Alta villa,
regardless of what the experts say. ' !-;;; ''-i,
vAnd if you want to argue the matter, argue it with the 36th
division yourself, I won't. Those Texans; just love to convince
somebody. I'm c-c-convinced." ' , t . ,, . .
er safety j lock, the f propulsion
charges and the cap which sets
off the ' propulsion -charges just
as Kelly could have done.
" Then while strong men flinched
he grabbed the thin missle around
its fat middle and banged its bot
tom against a nearby concrete wall
whereupon more technical1 devel
opments .transpired.' The secon
dary safety lock was knocked out
by the jar. Then he dropped the
shell on its nose and the deton
ator exploded.
Lt TJzze went on to explain that
a misunderstanding over how a
mortar . shell operates was the
cause of the argument! But the
finer points of bis dissertation
were wasted on most of his au
dience! because he kept banging I
more shells on their bottoms and .
then dropping them on their no
ses. It ; was distracting, j 3
He also explained that Sgt Kel
ly, besides knowing his mortar
shellsj must have known was a
chancct he was taking banging the
loaded; ones around. One of them
might have hit a pebble and gone
off in! his hands, in which case
any Kelly award would of neces
sity have been posthumous.
Or just the propulsion charges
would have gone off, which would
have scorched the sergeant more
than somewhat However, he had
burned out all his guns and the
Germans were coming, and he
probably decided it was six of
one and half a dozen of another.
Anyhow the the honor of Kelly
and the 36th division has been
saved (not that it ever needed
saving) by the Texan from Chi
cago who convinced the experts
here today the Texan from Pitts
burgh could have done it
, And any other , doubting ex
perts j haven't got a leg left to
stand on for they weren't there
at'Altavilla, and Commando Kelly
was. I '
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run
All
time
TOCKHOLM, April 28 -UP)
ied aerial mine laying in the
Baltic sea has paralyzed surface
traffic between southern Sweden
a4d Germany.
iTwenty merchantmen were tied
up today at the Trelleborg quay
awaiting removal of the mines by
the Germans.
jThe opinion of Swedish mari-
e quarters is that allied mines
are of. new construction, making
them more difficult to remove.
cjwixin New President
0f RepublicaifeGiib
NEW YORK, April 26 P
Rilph .W. Gwinn of Bronx ville,
NY lawyer, author, farmer and
business man has been elected
president of the National Repub
lican club. He succeeds Thomas
jJCurran, New York, chairman of
the New York County Republican
The
Safety Valve
Letters from Statesman Resders
To the Editor: :
Western Oregon and Wash-
' ington contain one-fourth of old
. growth timber in the United
States. The discovery of some
2000f new uses for wood offers
: new opportunities for . Oregon
industries. Among them are
plants for the production of su-
, gar, alcohol and plastic from
tree: formerly considered of lit
tle value used only for fuel.
Such new uses of wood will
decrease waste of trees by 60
per pent; and will improve the
industry and bring about better
conservation and aid the keep
ing pt forest land in maximum
production.
The new chemical treatment,
which makes wood nearly as
hard as steel will produce new
kinds of hardwood, better, hard
er and more beautiful than nat
ural wood.
The state of Oregon must do
its part to encourage and ad
vance the -production of such
new products in all the com
munities of our commonwelath.
The major plant at Spring
field in the Willamette valley
for production of ethyl alcohol
from logging , operations and
farm waste should be enlarged
and operated on a high product
ive basis so as to produce large
quantities of cheap alcohol used
in the noamifacture of smoke
less powder, butadine, the base
of synthetic rubber and various
other purposes.
CORNELIUS ODONOVAN
210 Postal Building,
Portland, Oregon.
Stevens
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Pearls
Single, double
and triple) strand
In lovely natural
and "soft pastel
colors. A must '
for your new
sjaing suit "
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