"No Favor Swayt Us; No) Fear Shall Awe :. ;
i ; ' From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 " i x j
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY L
i CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher & I
Member of the Associated Press - j
The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use. for publication of all
newt dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this newspaper.
Holding-the Line
While the Montgomery Ward case takes the
headlines on the labor front, shared in the
northwest by the shutdown in the. lumber in
dustry, the real battle is being fought in the
east over the demand of the CIO steelworkers
for wage increases. The case is now before the
steel panel of the war labor board. .The board
has passed this hot potato around for- months
hoping to find some way to settle the case'
without squaring off for a knock-down dragout
contest. It seems headed for just that now.
The demands of the steelworkers were pre
sented about the same, time that John L. Lew
is was having his row over coal miners' wages.
That is where the shoe pinches now. Having
breached the line for Lewis the labor board
is having a hard time to hold its ground against
the steelworkers. The steelworkers have had
their ! full 15 per cent wage increase, but so
had the coal miners. If the wage demands for
the former are now granted it practically means
the abandonment of the little steel formula.
, The union is demanding a flat wage increase
of 17 cents an hour, with other concessions in
addition, most important of which is a guar
antee of an annual income to its present force
of workers. The wage increase alone would
virtually wipe out the company's profits, while
the guarantee of an annual wage to all present
workers would bankrupt the company if it
ran into a depression like the 1930's.
Steel companies have been operating with
rising costs and fixed selling prices. As a result
most of the companies are showing declining
earnings in spite of continued increase in vol
ume. In fact the steel companies. make about
the poorest financial showing of all big in
dustries during the war boom. Further wage
increases there will force increases in prices,
and since the government is now the biggest
customer the cost of the war will be run up
. enormously.
If the government means what it says on
"holding the line" against inflation it will have
to stand its ground both against the demands
of the lumber workers in the northwest and
the steelworkers in the east. That is why these
cases are of critical importance.
"I want one to send iny folks in England, so
they can ' understand the difference between
English and A men ran democracy."
It used to be said that a man's home was
his castle. Evidently not in California it's a
fishbowL
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The War ! News
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
.. .Copyngnt by the Associated Press
Collapse of the whole nazi defense, front below
Rome from Cisterns to Piedimonte is foreshadowed
In allied successes on both flanks and in the center.
It seems clear the enemy is desperately seeking
to escape from the middle Hitler, line in the. south
before an allied breakthrough into the Sacco val
ley from the Anzio beachhead ham-strings his
main communications lines. It probably accounts
in part for the five-mile Canadian lunge op the
lower Liri valley to the Malfa river, and Amerk
can capture of Terracina on the sea flank and the
Important Mount Alto peak 10 miles to the north.
These advances represent converging fifth and
; eighth army threats to rip the German front apart,
and the French forces on the right flank of the
fifth army. are still to be heard from,! The Can
I adian advances north of the Liri paved the way
; for a French smash south of the river land along
, the Pico-Ceprano highway into the lower, end of
i. f the Sacco valley. vi.r:' :-w I.'..
It is on the Cisterna sector of the Anzio beach
: head that the allied attack holds the gravest dan
ger of a major disaster for. the enemy, however.
The assault on theton unquestionably:, prompted
the German command to fall back along the punc
tured Hitler line before it was too late. I
It may already be too late for nazis in the coast
al munp pocket beyond Terracina. American guns
on Mount Alto command their only escape ; cor
ridor up highway: ? and the Priverno-Frosone
road. Fifth army troops astride the Appian Way
arid the Rome-Naples railway southeast of Cis
terna bar Clit in that direction. . - j
It seems certain that some of the forces left to
delay the allied advance up the coastal flank for a
Junction with troops in the Anzio beachhead must
be abandoned. Allied capture of Terracina has ex
posed the Germans still on the coastal hump be
low the realise marshes to attack from the south,
the east and the northeast ,
Uncle .Sam's Loans I
The American people will have to keep their
eye on plans to make the USA not the banker
but the Santa Claus for the rest of the world.
The United States will be the largest reser
voir of liquid capital in the world, and will
be in position to do business with other coun
tries and with industries in other countries;
but its operations should be on a business basis.
The United States can't be the almoner for the
whole world. m ;
Congressman Dewey of Illinois has a bill to
put up half a billion dollars for use with other
nations in loans to sick countries. But the trea
sury department's representative opposes the
,bill because the amount j provided isn't big
enough. No sum would be big enough if -we
started pouring our gold down the rathole of
foreign demand. ;
We should make it clear to other countries
that the Lord helps those that help themselves.
Maybe we can give some emergency relief for
the needy, but extension of credit should be
avoided if at all possible. If we repeal the John
son act private capital could take up eligible
foreign loans, but' the government should be
chary of money-lending, r
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The Quitter
Farm Questionnaire
r Farmers will remember the long question
naire they had to fill out on the use they made
of farm trucks preliminary to getting allow
ances for gasoline. The forms were sent back
to Detroitrfor "processing" but final
got some' sense and. left allotments of
up to the local boards. , .t - , I
The worst example we have since!
official inquisitiveness comes from California,
where a ' questionnaire form has been mailed -.
out from the office of the bureau of
tural economics at Berkeley to farm
in the San Joaquin valley. It consist!
pages of queries, and the purpose of t
mation, so it is said, is for study in connection
with the question of whether ownership of lands
to be irrigated under the Central valley project
shall be limited to 160 acres. But here ire some
of the queries: ' !
- Characterize the interior of the house. Is it
, decorated with carpets and curtains all in good
order? Is it poorly decorated, but neat and clean?
I it untidy? Is it extremely dirty?
; How frequently do you attend chui ch? Did
, any member of your family change denomina
tions upon coming here, i or since youh'e been
here? Do you attend church more or jess fre
quently now than before the change?
What informal activities did members of
your family participate in during the year? List
families with whom you visited in'l$3 and in
1940 (if different) and whom you consider your
more intimate friends. How many times did you
visit them during the year, and how many times
did they visit you? . i
Five pages ' of that stuff! That should be
enough to provoke a revolt among the farmers
of centraj California. Just what clean or dirty
curtains have to do with the size of an irrigated
farm is quite beyond immediate perception. We
are not surprised that an English woman, as is
reported, wanted a copy of the form, saying,
Mr
Just why the courthouse lawn should be used
for a sideshow again we do hot know, nor why '
the war department would permit a captured :
Jap zero plane to be used for exhibition pur- "
poses at so much a head for admission. The
place for these tentshows is out on some vacant
lot. ! - ' ' ' -ll I : :.- : ly
News Behind
The News 1
By PAUL MALLON 1 ;
(XMstribatlon by Klnc Vestures Syndicate. Inc. Repro
duction la whale or in part strictly prohibited.) .
WASHINGTON, May 24 4 Particularly what
enabled us to break Cassino after four months
of disappointing and bruising battering since
January 21) was a slip-through
which the French unexpectedly
made in the mountains several
. miles south of the town.
Plunging along i the ridges,
they found a weak point in the
Gustav line. The Germans ap-
t parently thought the mountains
: themselves sufficient : protec
tion, and had made their pre
parations to fight their big
effort in the adjoining Liri val-
Paui Maiion ley, where they threw back
every initial effort of the British. Also in mountains
north of the town, the nazis Were well prepared
and held the first attacks of the Poles.
But the unnoticed French plunged easily onward
atop the mountains to come out into the open, up
on the nazi lines up the Liri, far in the rear of the
place where the Germans were holding the Bri
tish, fj: 4 ..-!.
The Hitlerites had to decide immediately whe
ther to fight on and risk the chance of being sur
rounded, or retire. They ran, or as many as could,
escaped back to the Hitler line, and there the Poles
eventually faced them again in the historic fighting
around Piedmonte. . fi : I
The nazis also failed 'to-expect the size of the
French and American forces which confronted
them on the rest of the line southwestward down
to the sea. In fact, they seem to have been fooled
completely by the whole, Offensive. 1 j
They even shot their propaganda leaflets
down into the wrong armiees the day before the'
attack started. They had! prepared propaganda : in
French for the French,, in Polish for the Poles.
But they shot the French propaganda into posi
tions where we had the' Polish army, and Polish
propaganda into the French troops (using artillery
shells which explode in the air and release the
leaflets, instead of the! usual;; planes, a strategy
reflecting i their deficiency in aircraft s I
Obviously they were confused and bewildered
by our heavy disposition of forces our . "regroup
ing as our general staff blandly called it in their
first communiques. , f I v ! - , ;
In short, the nazis did not have enough man
power to defend their whole line, underestimated
ours, had ours wrongly placed, chose excellent
spots to concentrate 'their' strength, but in doing
this, left the weak spots which we found.
Our overall strategy plan worked equally well.
We turned on hotter and hotter pressure, threat
ening invasion from England daily, thus to keep
von Runstedt's forces pinned down in France and
the lowlands, so they could not reinforce their be
wildered comrades in Italy.
! The Russians helped put by exerting pressure
attacks around Vitebsk, in the central part of the
eastern line, and elsewhere. Thus do we stretch
the nazi line thinner and thinner like Grant took
Richmond. " ; f-!
To n&lt the vastly strewn nazi forces down even
more firmly where they were, we bombed all rail
road lines up the Italian; boot and even the Bren
ner pass in advance. But this eventually turned out
to have been a possibly needless emphasis. .
The Germans Just dared hot spare men from the
western or eastern fronts even if railroads had been
available to carry them to Italy.
Future developments will turn mainly on this
manpower deficiency. The Italian terrain to Rome '
is such that the Germans could put up stiff re
- sistance from mountain positions covering the Ap
pian Way as far back as the capital. Their deci
sion, however, is apt to rest on whether, and how
soon, they can get more troops in, and materiel.
The fact that the German radio has been blat
antly preparing its public for a disaster has been
encouraging, but not a conclusive sign of their
Italian predicament They turn their radio on and
off like a brainless , automatic' voice, and would
' naturally deceive their own people for the pur
pose of deceiving us. - I i
Thus whether they retire to "north Italy" as
Hitler's Voelkischer Beobachter has been saying,
, depends on whether they are beaten. -
Their fighting at Piedmonte and Pico, naturally
showed determination for 'death rather than re-
treat, and in nowise confirmed Hitler's newspaper
editorials. Obviously, he gave his editor and hi
troops opposite instructions.
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Americans in Italy Think v
Of Home, Mother on Her Day
- .By KENNETH L. DIXON ,.
WITH THE AET IN ITALY, May 14-(Delayed)-(flVIt was a
strange way for a boy to spend Mother's day but no matter
where they were mostof toemUibught about it quite a bit,',-; v .
The infantry company' vas crossing the meadow northwest of
Minturno. Our own shells screamed overhead, punching into
the German positions on the hill at the far end of the meadow,
and the . enemy mortars
chunking
enemy
into - the r green'
were
grass
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around them. - r
Sniper's bullets sang Intermit
tently through their rushing, brok
en ranks, and; now end then a
man, would twist and then double
and fall and the others scurried
But in that split' second before
he jumped the ditch and followed
his comrades across the meadow,
the dazed private who was going
into combat for the first time saw
none of this. He saw only the mul-tJ-colorod
flowers blooming in the
meadow. " '
ure some .nice r flowers ' for
Mother's day there,1 he said.
Sgt, Jack Raymond of the Bronx
who writes for Stars and Stripes,
was going back to the beachhead
on an LST with a bunch of boys
who had been given a brief rest
They got to talking about Mother's
day. .. ": i' - - w.;
- "On Mother's day there is al
ways something special that makes
you think of Mom all the more,"
said CpL Grant Fratf of Los An
geles. MWe left the states Mar 10,
1942. Then a year later. May 9,
1943, we just finished up the Bi
zerte business. And now .
Five of the boys on board had
sent flowers to their mothers. They
were Sgt Edward FofieU of Bal
timore and four corporals, Wil
liam Rutherford of ' Fremont
MictL, William Kent of Eco, Fu,
and Richard Corriden and Edward
Counts of Indianapolis. a
"I sent home a package of
cameos for everybody," said CpL
Louis Citrin of Detroit "My mo
ther, my. wife, the whole family.
It was the first time in three years
we've had a chance to send any
thing." . ..-.
I sent a letter," said Pfc. Rus
sell roster of Patriot IndL "It's
more personal. You can't-always
say it with flowers, even roses."
"I wrote my sister m couple of
weeks ago," said CpL Woodbury
Snyder of Lodi, Ohio. "I always
Today's Garden
By LILUE MADSEN -
. . K. T. P. asks how to rid a nas
turium bed of quack grass. Says
it has been beautiful for 18 years
but will fall in this now.
ANSWER: Quack grass is a
very difficult grass to eliminate.
It is listed as one ot the most
troublesome weeds known. Only
by digging out or by smothering
it can be controlled. Broken
roots tocks simply make new
. plants. Straw mulches, tar paper
coverings and heavy peat moss
mulch are said : to smother It out
H left on long enough. Continu
ous digging out until every bit
is gone, is one sure method. -.
ETP also gives me the fam
ily street address and asks me to
come see their garden. Thanks.
If, as he suggests, I can find the
gasoline, Fll be1 glad to do so. '
write to - my sister on ; Mother's
day. My Mom la dead, so X write
to; Sis. I didn't send her anything.
X said that nextyeaiw ". : f, .
"Next , yearV i interrupted Ruth
erford. "Next year we send our
elves home." ufv-
"Thaff what If wrote my sis
ter," said Snyder. ':'
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To the Editor:.
- We, the members of the Salem
fire department, eagerly thank
the voters of Salem for their
support of our retirement fund
measure, assure them of our ap
preciation for such action and
feel sure that they will not re
gret it at any future time.
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Salem Firemen. als should not yet be broken.
'popular acceptance: .
"For if fiction pales by com
iparison with the facts ot the
! present-day world, journalism
1 is the facts ot the present-day
world. The excitement, the ad
venture, the drama which are
so conspicuously absent : from
our current novels are present
in full measure in the books of
; the war correspondents and in
the . personal reminiscences of
people whose lives- have been in
timately touched! by modern
'history."
Take W. . White's They
Were Expendable" or Mrs. Shi-
bers 'Parir; Underground", and
'you : have reporting 1 which Is
really thrlllihg -narrative as ex
citing as fiction. - Some of the
war books are mere fodder, but
others have literary as well as
historical value. '
i. The prevailing barrenness in
the field of fiction is but tem
- porary. Seeds; of genius will
sprout again 4 and . bear , fruit.
Perhaps out of the spiritual cat
astrophes of the times some new
"War and Peace may emerge,
some book in which the imag-
. inative author win capture the
passion, the groping,; the strug
gle and the victory of our times.
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