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- From First Statesman, March 28, 1831
: THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPBAGUi; Editor tad Publisher .'
Member of th Associated Press : ;
; Tbt Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of til
! nm dispatches credited to it or cot Otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Politics and Economics
Discussing the ideas of Lord Keynes,' econom- ;
1st who is now on the British delegation to the -'
conference 'at Bretfon "Woods, the Wall Street !
"Journal expresses the .view that the causes of
our inter-war economic difficulties were pri
'.marily political. We quote pertinent paragraphs:
What we saw in Europe was not basically
economic' difficulties. It, was political difficul
ties. Economic sores carry their own powerful
., healing .agents. .There existed a situation in ,
. which the political masters refused to let those
healing agents work. .They kept the sores open
. and aggravated them .. . . -
If the- troubles of the world were political,
. as they: seem to us to have been, a recurrence '
of those troubles can be prevented by steps to
, " insure . political tranquility. If political tran
quility is won, then there is a solid basis- for
economic reconstruction . V.I
, ' When, this war is over the men that are left -.
will want, to consume, and produce and trade
with each other. They will do those things'
i unless, a lot of crazy political regimes again
prevent .them. Give them a structure of life on
which, they can place: reasonable dependence
4 and international monetary arrangements will
not bother; them, greatly. : i '
In short, 'according to the Journal, which is
a recognized mouthpiece of American business, -the
. trouble; liesnot with economics but with
politics, or rather with politicians.
The contrary view is taken by politicians "of
varying' hues who blame the economic system
with. our ills and want to. tinker with it. Thus
Congressman Jerry .Voorhis, new .deal demo
crat of California, in his recent book "Beyond
. Victory regards economic discontent as a real
; cause of war: "the very tinder of war is found
whenever young men wander city streets or
sit on rural door sills looking out upon a world
that has nd place for them,'f or their talents, or
worst of all for their unborn children."
Again; . vj' . , -. ;
But the. basic fact remains that unemploy
.menV poverty and hunger, in a world where
some nations are attempting to dispose abroad
of what they term 'surpluses' are the most
' fundamental of the economic causes of war.
The possibility that such conditions can Con
tinue without issuing into another world war
is as close to zero as anything, human can be.
' (There is a question as to the validity of this
thesis by Voorhis, that poverty leads to war, for
f, the nations with the greatest degree of mass
' poverty and hunger are India and China de- -
cidedly the most pacific of all peoples.)
,. ; Congressman Voorhis outlines' three "great
tasks?: rehabilitation of devastated portions of
the. world; developing healthy trade and ecp-"
nomic relations between nations; and setting.,
frte the energies and productive abilities of the
people arid industries with the nations. And un-
. doubtedly he would favor legislation to accom
plish those tasks, j j
,So we have the hen and egg' controversy over
again: The economists saying that things would
... work out all right if the politicians would keep
their hands off . and the politicians saying the
economists have messed things so laws must be
changed to prevent economic ills from leading
to another war or great depression. i
The simple truth is that; you cannot divide
man or men into two water-tight compartments,
economics: and politics. The two are closely in
terrelated j and have been throughout history.
Left strictly alone so-called economic laws -
would eventuate in jungle law, the survival of
the fittest, a fate which the less fit resist by
. political rrieans. What we try to approximate is
a political system in which bur economic laws
can operate for the greatest good to the people.
This results in a continuous rough-and-tumble
fight among competing elements. What emerges
is a series !of compromises which are themselves
. subject to change when conditions change or
the tides of political fortune change. -?
Politicians should have a better understand
ing of economics and the economists should have
a better understanding of politics, the art of.
keeping society together in peace.
Marshal Stalin told Eric Johnson that after
the war Russia would have two five-year plans.
From the descriptions of Russian industries it
would seem they have had two five-year Tplans
in the space of three yean of war.vThe USSR
is a vast area," one-sixth of the land surface of
the globe,' rich in natural resources, especially
, minerals and metals.: It will stand continued
development and the Russian workers certainly
deserve liberal quantities of consumer goods
as reward for their hard labors in war and in
peace. "
Slate Employes' Association j
After previous experience by trlal and error
state employes have formed an independent
association' of their own and engaged an; exe
cutive secretary. The organization is composed
of persons who are in state, employ. Membership
is voluntary and dues are kept at a level merely .
to cover the expenses of . the organization.! ' r
This independent organization! follows efforts
to organize state workers into a hm&n affiliated
with the AFofL. Failure to attract; a sufficient
number of members with such an affiliation led
to the setting up of the independent body. :
Civil servants of the state are interested in ,
security of tenure (civil service) and some sys-i A
vcm u rememew annuiues. iney are concern eq .
too about their own compensation and the
working conditions in various state departments.
While state employment in Oregon has; been
kept on rather a high level, with few discharges .
for strictly political reasons, conditions o em
ployment are by no means uniform. The budget
office has endeavored with some success to
establish classifications and salary scales; but
more work needs to be done. Oregon is getting
to a point too when personnel except in the
higher policy-determining positions should be
engaged on the basis of competence. This should
not be done until the war is over, but ought to
come then. - . - f 4 , ' j .
State employes have as much right to I form
an association of their own as employes in pri
vate industry. As servants of the state however
they have a special responsibility in avoiding
the use of the strike weapon, and we are con
fident that Oregon employes realize that. At the
same time the state should treat its employes
fairly, both' as to pay, security of tenure and
retirement allowances. .' j
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. MEDITERRANEAN THEATER,
. July 5 -(Delayed) -iH So
day Capt Herbert G. Nafe of
La Junta, Colo, hopes to have
' mtM"g more serious than eom
' bat r"n damage to repair on
the B-23 bombers in this squad-
j ron.
' That in itself is bad enough,
what with 239 holes up in I
single plane after a bad day
: with flak and fighters. But it's
; an extra - curricular activity
which has given his engineering .
5 crew the most trouble, r "'"'W
This is the same Mitchell out
; fit which was parked at the foot
of a mountain over near Naples
when Vesuvius blew its top. All
of the squadron's planes were
damaged by falling rocks and
lava some so badly that they
never flew again. - '
The hot lava piled six to eight
inches .deep on the wings, tnelt
i ed the metaL consumed the
plexiglass and even changed the
shape of the struts. There were
dents and hugs holes all over,
the planes.
- The planes were totally
' "grounded" ' although some
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Peace and Calm
Is Herx Goebbells starting to , cringe and
crawl? At least he is using a different language
in his newspaper "Das Reicl" than he . has
since he' became propaganda minister. Now he
says that both Germany and its enemies! want
"peace andcalm" after the war. What a change
from the "sturm and drang",! the storm and
stress that was hailed as the birthright of na
tional socialism! Peace and calm indeed; but not
until the nazi leaders brought Germany to the
verge of utter chaos did Goebbels talk of "peace
and calm." His gibberish now will hot divert the
allies from crushing nazi-ism land extirpating
its leaders for their foul crimes against pivili
zation. ' . . I i
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Practical
Religion
Alaska Crossroads .
' : A Bend man fishing from a boat oil a lake in
the high Cascades was shot by a man who said
he thought he was shooting at (a coyote. That's
a new uauiuii ivi vujuvcj ui a uvat
mountain lake. !
Ion a
If the democrats want to select as candidate
for vice president one who cari succeed Roose
velt they should look 'over their cradle rolL
There are the fifth, sixth, etc. terms to be
remembered.
Canada has agreed to furnish Britain with
a minimum of 100 million pounds of beef in the
next two years. That's a lot df beef, but not
much for the nation of "beef-caters." i
Interpreting;
The War Neivs
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WAS ANALYST
The self-styled "liberal" press which berated
Wendell Willkie in 1940 and since, is now heat
ing its breast in his praise in the effort to dis
parage the republican party and , its ticket So
long as Willkie was a threat to a fourth term
he was a; terrible guy; now that he is out he is
suddenly; canonized. 4
: We haven't heard that Corvallis is doing any
postwar ; planning. Perhaps , it is figuring on
dusting off its World War I postwar plan: the
widening of Mdnroe st. Debating that should
occupy them until World War III.
Sec. Ickes as petroleum administrator ' has
ordered refiners to reduce civUian gasoline
from 72 to 70 octane, thus reducing the al
ready lowanU-Vnock content Ickes may be
lieve in the old saw about "every knock a boost,"
but the gas motor doesn't
- The president said in his letter to Hannegan
that all within him yearned for his home on the
Hudson. "There's another stream much - fre
quented, by politicians after elections Salt
Creek. Come on up, Frankie. "- ' -. '. ,
Marshal Stalin keeps his Moscow batteries
'warm with salutes to victory following , his
"order of the day," Capture of a good-sized city
rates a 22-shot salute by over 200 guns,Twhich
is good , music to the ears of the residents of
Russia's capital city. .
Monitored German broadcasts j wete sounding a
somber note at. the mid-July weekend that could ;
be more significant of an impending crisis fin the
war in Europe than even reports from its roaring;
triple battle fronts, gloomy , as I they seemed for
nazi authors of the conflict ,1 : f . .
Whether voiced by authorized military commen
tators " from Berlin in realistic appraisal of the
unfavorable trends of the waor emitted in hyster
ical outgivings by nazi propaganda dispensers call
ing for a "maelstrom of destruction" and indiscrim
inate blood-letting, they had this ht feommon There
was a foreboding note of realization; of hnpending
doom to be read into them. Yet to? what extent they
also reflect a rising tide, of public despair in Ger- -many
as the walls of ' Hitler's fortress Europe
crumble under Russian-Allied preure can only
be' conjectured. (:. ; -Jc f J-: B I -
There is ho warrant yet to believ mat the Ger
man army has lost its will .or ability, to fight on.
The toll of unwounded prisoners taken by Russians
and! Allies alike runs high; but if any substantial
number have surrendered voluntar y while still
there was chance of escape it has tibt'appeared in
official or unofficial -reports from the I battle
theaters. " ' f
On the contrary, General Montgomery, field
commander of the allied invasion army in France,
has noted with admiration the 'courage and skill
with which the foe has fought it out against ever
increasing odds in Normandy. Fast-paced 'as the
Russian advance has been to bring the distant Tnut
tering of the guns to ears in the German homeland
itself when the east wind blows, there is -yet no
evidence of a German rout or lack of the will in
German ranks to stand and die $vhen ordered.
. Nevertheless it can never be forgotten that Ger
man collapse in the first world war began at home,
not at the front And it is from the home front
that the air waves now are carrying dark-hued
pictures of the situation that hint at wavering public
morale that bnly the rigid repression of nazi po-;
lice measures may be holding in check.
Time alone will tell the real situation in Germany.
In his recent warning to the people on the Anglo
American home fronts against over optimism,
, General Eisenhower was careful, not to dismiss the
possibility of an internal collapse In Germany en
tirely; but he made it clear that'allied war plans
were based on expectation that? German l armies
( would fight to the bitter end. There is no sugges
! tion from Moscow of any other, expectation in
Russia. - " ;- ,
, Under the relentless pressure; of both the Rus
' sian and allied attacks, some revision of German
dispositions to- meet the ripenicg military crisis is
to be expected soon. It may be for that, to prepare
the nazi home front for "disengagement" retreats
on both fronts, that the Berlin radio has drawn so
somber a picture for German ears this weekend.
By JACK feTINrjETT
WASHINGTON !The Civil
Aeronautics Board has made
two announcements recently, the
results of which pay sooner tiian
anticipated determine the pat
tern for our participation ; in
post-war world aviation. 7'k
The first was an outline, sub
ject to revision of fcourse,! of
what the mternational jair routes
of tomorrow will be. The second
was the armouicemerit thatj in
July, CAB will Start hearings' on
the more than flOO applications
for international air routes now
on mi v p." i'y
In outlining kbm wprld plan
CAB told of the naUon's interest
in international U i r 1 A n e s and
landing fields, f ; j :
The proposed rou es : cover
140,000 airline miles! touching
more than 30 countries . Of these,
60,000 miles fare over new
routes It would be impossible
to describe these world airlines
here, but certain points are sig
nificant If CAR'S routes are jfol
lowedj the jumping off cities
for world travel wil be New
York,! San Francisco, Los An
geles, Seattle, lAiami, New Or
leans, Brownsville, Charleston,
Chicago and fie Tifin Cities,
with one other poiat in Ithe
southeastern United States.
Alaska would becorfae a great
crossroads between Chicago and
Seattle here, and Tokyo. Vladi
vostok, Shanghai and Hong
Kong. I Out of New York, New
foundland would be the point
of departure for I. London, Ber
lin, Rome and iCairo; las welt as
for Stockholm, Leningrad, Mos
cow and Teheran. Thp southern
cities j would bfc the feeders for
Mexico and suth America as
well as for the southern route
to the Mediterranean
State deparujnent officials!
, clearing the routes will entai
enormous amount of work, I but
by no means islit an ii surmount
able task. Many of the lanes
. cross j countrle whe; e . well al
- ready, have agreements. Since
our, policy is to establish these
, lines 'purely : on a Competitive
1 basis, and in nearly j every in
stance to swap reciprocal land
ing rights in ithis country, ! few
. nations who have any hopes of
building future international! air
lines of their j own Would hesi
tate t participate. " f ;
The. first hearings on- foreign
as-soon as planes are available
and wartime' restrictions on com
mercial aviation can be relaxed.
Aviation experts here are pre
dicting that hot more than a doz
en franchises will be granted
out of the 'many now on file.
CAB will grant them on a basis
of financial responsibility, and
experience in operation of do
mestic airlines, or possibly oth
er carriers.
The decisions of. the CAB
arent finaC The president has
the right of ratification or veto
and even then it is up to the
state department tq give clear
ance before; the proposed routes
"can be opened. ;.'' ' :,y 72 I
by Bet. John 1 ICnlght. Jr,
Counselor on Belisioua Ufa. ; i
-' WiUamett tnlmtsity. - i :
One sure thing that life
teaches is that we do not put'
enough value on : the present..
It's sometimes hard for us to,
fully appreciate the significance,
of this very moment And yet
our preparations for the future
and cur memories of the past
are being made right now. When
.we look back on the present
moment, what a shame it is that
well have to admit with Vach-
ael Lindsay: - . , ;
- By JOHN SELBY
The History of Rome Hanks.
by Joseph Stanley Pennell
(Scribners; $2.75)
If Boston doesn't ban Joseph
.Stanley Pennell's The History
of Rome Hanks" I shall blow my
brains: out from sheer, puzzle
ment And if Charles Scribners '
Sons do not stop bowdlerizing
Mr. Pennell they will make him
, a laughing stock.
Mr. Pennen's This History of
Rome Hanks" proves him by far
: the finest new talent of the year.
It is a roafing, brutal noveL' It
has all the blood and guts that
Hemingway wants to have in his
prose, without the straining and,
the affectations. It is also a suc
cessful application of a difficult
technique in fiction Mr. Pennell
tells one story in the ' present
another in the past, and builds
the whole: in pieces that some-
times seem unrelated : to ' each
' other. But be builds, and - the
structure is often superb. .
But Mr. Pennell also has a few
: fixations, one of which seems to
concern the excremental func
r tions! He is fascinated with
naughty - words," and repeats
"If I only learned by heart j
Some lyrics-learned that day, i them over and over, until they
I knew not 'twas a giant hour.
That soon would pass away."
The Safety Valve
tter- from Statesman Rter
say
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FLOW OF MONET j
Dear Mr. Editor:
"It Seems To Me" editorials
of the 5th -and 11th appear to
clash somewhat in their reason
ing or am I mistaken?
The editorial of thei 11th dis
cussing the subject of bond sales
says "For one reason the money
keeps flowing back. The govern
ment spends as fast as it gets
money, so ithe stream sort of
completes a circle. There are
few more desirable forms of in
vestment , This vast spend
ing program seems to have
brought about; unparallelled
wealth to all classes of citizens.
Yet your editorial of the 5th
suggests that the j; 3 per cent
Gross Incorne Tai is going to
shipwreck industry. Is not the
thought of the 60 at 60 organi
zation voicing the same argu
ment that you offer" in yours of
the 11th v . that the spending
of this amount each 30 days will
bring about the same happy re
sult? Just toother circle but in
this instance to enrich the de
clining years of the aged rather
than to destroy civilization.
Cordially. ,
E. C. KINGWELL
615 N. 14th street
tion is a necessity to preserve
our own: freedom. The transitory
character of prosperity based on
liberal use of government credit
is admitted. Assuming that our
productive machine can . carry
the load contemplated by the
little Townsend plan, it still
remains ! true that its burden is
inequitable: a , three to five per
cent gross income tax on every
individual and business. The in
come tax recognizes that a man
with an income of $2000 and a
family of five children isn't able
to pay as high a tax as a bache
lor.' The little Townsend bill
doesn't;. 1 ,
OF
. Editor's Note It is true that
the Townsend - spending plan
does contribute to the - flow of
money, but it eontributes noth
ing to the Stream of goods and
services far which .money is
merely the medium of exchange.
Instead It withdraws goods and
service franchises Ul : be on services from the stream. Gov
those which operate through the j ernment spending is for war and
Caribbean to Swth America 'and the production of war goods de
Africa. Both esmtinerits now are nies to civfllans goods they de
ready for. commercial aviation! sire. This diversion of produc-r
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Every momfiig a thou
sand Mexican children
trudge Into 22 - Paso,
Texas, to school. Every
evening they return
home, peacefully, j to
their parents a Juares,
Mexico. I
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;Ccc!i.h3AHci!:!!
Cay r.'cre Th'sn Cifsre
In an the 'Axis con
' jue red countries there
is ne aucn pescezui
brldsre. Thousands of
ciuUoren are taken from -their
homes and schools
to remain illiterate
vorfcjr; ' slares ol the
Nazituta. . i
(Continued from Page 1)
What we are getting is a crude
and defenseless censorship. It is
a start in the direction of the
Hitler idea of burning objection
able books,' or toward the ruth
less Japanese policy of rooting
'out "dangerous thought'' in the
field of politics. When we strike
out of - our war libraries - all
. books with a content related to
politics (and that would include
books of history, biography, ec
onomics) ' we go far toward com
pelling lour service men to be
come illiterates. Yet we expect
them to take over. and run the
country when the war is over. :
- This political censorship is a
dangerous extension of the mor
als censorship which' the postof
fice : department ' has v been as
suming under color of legal au
thority.;; The postmaster banned
"Esquire magazine .from; the'
mails, and the New .York post
office tried to prohibit mailing
of advertising f the', book
"Strange Fruit." A lot of writing
is filthy, but the tests are ftpt
to be so crude and unintelligent
and often so restrictive on 'art
or thought that censorship has
uniformly proven" itself a fa3
" ure. The country should wake up
to this attempt by law-to"keep
; "dangerous rthoushts' from bur
soldiers and sailors. ' 1-
Of course my judgment on this
law "may be too severe.' I note
that the prohibition extendi only
- to employes oT the- EXECU
TIVE , department of ' govern
ment Apparently senators and
congressmen are still ablei to
frank their speeches to men in
the service. . Maybe they think
that is all the political in forma
tion our soldiers and sailors
should have!
nave lost their shock - power.
And his editor 5 spells two of
them but and then uses the7 an
cient and vulgar device of dash
er for the second and third let
ters of the third and most fre
quent word. It makes the whole
business ridiculous. - Either an
editor must go the whole hog,
or refuse it alL Obviously the
more delicate will be horrified
by what they see anyway, and if
the publisher believes Mr. Pen
nell's book worth ; publishing,
which. they rightly do believe,
they ewe it to the author to
print it as it really is, and not
as the Hawthorne Reading Cir
cle might do it -
"Rome Hanks" grows from a
small germ. The narrator has
been making a case for himself
with the girl he wants to marry
by talking about his forebears.
A little bored, she remarks that
obviously his grandfather was a
fine Southern gentleman, and
the remark sets off a train of
thought Lee, who is the narrat
or, begins to dredge up from the
past the facts of his family life.
The facts come from strangely
assorted sources. They are re
ported with fictional honesty.
Sometimes the report is a little
lengthy t Mr. Pennell resembles
a colt lust broken to the saddle,
who works himself to death in
his eagerness. But what a colt
and what a book!
only temporarily. But the war
continued,' and the squadron
had to fly missions, so they bor
rowed some : planes ; of . which
Safe, better known as "Capt
XSailingwire,' knew nothing. So
he made a Jeep run around the
field next morning before the
mission boys took oft He told
them that as far, as the new
planes were concerned, fl don't
guarantee nothing. " .
Incidentally the boys flew trfct
and other missions without
' enough parachutes, flak vests
or TMae Wests." They had been '
lost in the eruption. ' -
Not long after that Incident
which had added gray hairs to
"Capt Baflingwire's" head, the
Germans picked this particular
group as a target for one of the
most extensive enemy bombing
. raids ever staged in this the
ater. '
. The Germans knew their bus
iness. ' Reconnaissance i planes,
which had flown the photo run
'during the day, led the German
bombers back to this area that
night, For 45 minutes, one of the
toughest air forces the luftwaffe
boasts blasted the base.' -
The next morning, Nafe and
MSgt Hugo M. Faust Comfort,
Tex, the, line chiet found that
every one of the squadron's
planes had been either destroyed
or damaged. . : j .' ; . -
But once again they had to fjy
a mission - and by now the
' boys, were grimly eager to pay
the Germans 'back in kind. It
had been a rough night and
several were killed, so somehow,
someway with tape and matches
and ; the bailing - . wire, from
which Nafe got his name, he and
the boys got enough ships ready
to fly the bombing Job.!
- That's the way it's been. When
the boys ! come back from the
missions shot full of holes,' they
have to listen - to Nafe good
naturedly; cuss them out But if.
he gets too much out; of line
. they remind him that the planes
. have been hit harder In his care
while on the field than they
ever have on missions. -
WGA Opens
Rome Centers
'; Three service centers ; to care
for nurses and other women war
personnel have 'already been
opened by 'the YWCA in Rome,
according to advices just received
by the World Emergency Fund,
YWCA, New York, a participating
service of the National War Fund
with, which the Oregon War Chest
is affiliated. Miss Jean Begg, di
rector of YWCA war service in
the middle east in announcing
that the Rome centers are under
the direction of Miss Nancy Rus
sell, an Australian,' added an ur
gent plea for more Americans.
"Large numbers of service wom
en are already in isolated places
both in the Assam-Burma and the
Arakan fronts," Miss Begg wrote.
"The humidity in these fronts is
as high, if not higher than the
temperatures,' so we shall need
women with sound minds N and
bodies prepared for hard work."
: Two Americans, the ' Misses
Emily Rued of San Francisco and
Sue Stille of Dayton, Ohio, have
been on' Miss Begg's staff for a
year. Miss Rued is stationed in
Ismailia, serving as area organizer
for Egypt Miss Stille was recently
transferred from Terheran to act
as liaison with the Polish section
in Egypt- ;:- s , - . .
"May we have all the help that
Americans can give. A 1 cable to
YWCA, SEAC will , bring your
good news and encourage us,"
Miss Begg wrote. ;
Four women sent by ; this Fund
are now serving in Great Britain.:
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