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I.. s 8 PAGS FOU3 I The CGOZi CTATEZMAIL Colam. (W. Frbbrv Mondna. TnW 91. 1911 PFC oe Hccther Chcoigea Ectnk Wish the Winds AT THE FRONT! . I,.' . . . ' ew - v i "Wo Favor Sways Us; . No Fear Shall Aid -I From First Statesman; March 23, 1851 ' . . THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press v The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of an news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. - It Was a Good Try ; It was a good try, anyway, this would-be assassination of Adolf Hitler, and it might point out in terms understandable even to the fuehrer that his time is running out There have been plenty of evidences in the last 18 months that such was so, for all the Axis powers, and it was high time that such portent got right down to the bed rock of personalities. .Whoever instigated that bombing performed a real service, j .'. I''-' " j-.v." ';.' ';:;t'- " , It was not entirely happenstance that the at tempt on the fuehrer's life came but a few hours after the fall of Tojo's government on the other side of the world. Tojo has been in the same sort of company which led Hitler to his present un enviable predicament ; ' j DpIB listed Hitler's Injuries as burns, bruises and a slight concussion. Domei might have listed Tojo's as a damaged ego, which wishful think ing might associate with hara kiri. I If there is anything to the popular supersti tion that the third time is a charm. Hitler might well go into hiding in the deepest air raid shel ter in Nazidom. The first war-time attempt on his life was in the Munich beer hall on November 8, 1939, when a , time bomb exploded just after the all high of the nazis had left the place. Now comes -an even narrower escape. The hour for the third approaches. - j The Berlin; home radio said "the would-be perpetrators of Hitler's assassination have es caped, but the police are on their trail." In not too long' a time,' some radio may an nounce that the would-be perpetrators suc ceeded and now are chasing Hitler's police. Old But All-Important Electrical storms have joined man-made haz ards to threaten anew the forests of the Pacific Northwest, and the battle knows no surcease. " It is an old subject for this time of year, this word of caution. But it can't be over-emphasized. The electrical storms are something against Which no legislation can be aimed. But their damaging effects can be minimized great ly by eternal watchfulness and thoughtfulness in reporting resultant conflagrations. ; This is no time for Oregon to lose any more of its invaluable heritage. j .' The obvious needs of war and peace should : make everyone more careful than ever before. There are some things about Maury Maver ick that set him apart. One of them is laundry. It seems that about Eastertime a year ago, the war production board vice chairman surren dered his dirty clothes to a Seattle hotel laun dry for a bit of water and starch. He left town before the cleansing operation was completed. This week he returned and his laundry was therealong with a 2.20 bill. It isn't every-v one who can spare his laundry that long. It's1 lucky someone didn't steal Maury's other shirt in the meantime. I .- Marion county is moving up in late tabula tions on I the 5th war bond drive, and has a chance to do j even better, through bond pur chases on the last paydays of this month. The county now is 6th, among the 12 in western ! Oregon, in E bond sales. That "buy an extra bond? slogan is a good one to keep in mind right now. i i ; . i- . Editorial Comment From Other Papers DULL MONET ' i The newsmen are having a hard time to get across informative and interesting accounts of what goes on at the international monetary con ference at Bretton Woods. They get their informa tion in fragments and it is all about the dull topic of" money that is not for spending. Money for spending is a popular subject, of course. But money not to spend but to use for an economic tool is not understood by very many. The ones who under stand it generally have a good deal of it and the ones that have a good deal of it generally under stand it. - . - ; -N ;v ; "So far as the stories go", the idea seems to be there . should be an International bank with about $10, 000,000,000 to lend around. .That lets out the aver age man, who cannot visualize what that sum - means, and no bank with that much money is go ing to lend it to him for the things it is pleasant to have money for. It is going to be loaned around by those who have it, in which the United States Is Number One, to those that need it, which make a rather long list It will not be handed over in cash, like the $10 or $50 a soft-hearted cashier will , sometimes advance against next week's pay, but will be posted in the books, according to the rules. . It is these rules that the newsmen have a hard time to find out about and that people will have a hard time to understand if and when the news men find out about them. San Francisco Chronicle. EXPLAINING THE ISMS ; An explanation of the working of various Isms, as illustrated by what happens under each one to the man who Is the owner of two cows, is given In a short piece handed us by a friend. You will -be interested in It and here it Is: ' : Socialism You give one of the two cows to your neighbor. . ; , . Communism You give both cows to the gov ernment and in return it gives you some of the 'milk. - v. . .. -: ' Fascism You keep the two cows and give the milk to the government - ; . New Deal You shoot one cow, keep the other,' throw the milk away and apply, for relief. Capitalism You sell one cow and buy a bull. ' Natia The government shoots you and takes loth cows. A Kind Word From the SoutK ! . when a Los Angelan in official capacity starts to say booming things about the Pacific North west, in more normal days it would seem a good time to batten down the hatches and watch for a blow. ' - , ' 3 - There was a time when Los Angeles was ac cused of trying to kidnap Mount Hood, rope Oregon into its city limits, and generally claim credit for all the sweetness and light extant. Now comes the president of the Los5 Angeles harbor commission, addressing the conference of Pacific Coast Port authorities in Portland, to predict that postwar development of Oregon and Washington will exceed thatjof his- own ' state.. ) .-, Ji ( He cites lumber and wheat as highly impor tant in the northwest's potential contribution to the rehabilitation of the Orient. 5 It appears, in fact, that Los Angeles has given up engulfing the remainder of the west coast. Such plans never got beyond the bounds of levity, of course, but there was a time when a Los Angeles official wasn't saying many nice things about areas which might be regarded as in competition. If the competition now is to be on a level of joint boosting, we're all for it, ; ; i ;,, ...... . . ,. .'y.;; v. Robots From Holland i i Peace-loving Holland, with its quiet country ' side and gentle home folk, isgiven a' new role in history by the Nazis' robot bomb, i i Not from Calais or Dunkirk or the' blood drenched coast of northern France, but from the land of dikes and windmills comes the lat est of these flying terrors. A British report says they have been observed travelling in a direc tion which leaves their takeoff point unques tioned. f Holland thus far has escaped in large mea sure the thousands of tons of allied bombs visited upon German-held territories of Eu- rope. Whether that nation will continue in its comparative and only comparative safety re- mains in doubt. - There is no question that robot emplacements will be sought and bombed wherever they may be. There will not be another Rotterdam, but there will be no total escape for the areas which give shelter to the winged death hurled at Britain. ; . ; i Salem isn't the only, place to have J a pilot - plant for trying out processes for manufacture of alurnina. A plant in Arkansas will try-out . low-grade bauxite. Meantime there Will be no ' worry about aluminum for war since it is an nounced the government has accumulated a stockpile of 5.5 billion pounds of bauxite. That ought to carry us through, along with current production. ? a si:-. i i i i Nazi Party Platform - 1944 OtP I SEEMS TrmnmnrB i i Donside wasCnimi DeGauIle Called Patrlofie Louis Bromfield, the Ohio author-farmer, was the one who predicted want of food, in this country over a year ago proved a bum prophet. There's an abundance of meat, and the wheat crop promises to be over a billion: bushels this year. The country will be groaning over sur pluses when the war ends. The democratic convention is 194(3 all over again with minor variations. Instead of lim iting the convention's choice to one . man this time Roosevelt gives the delegates; three to choose from. What a short tether the democrats have to limit the range of their grazing! To this has our "free and untrammeled'f demo- -cracy come. i t li . Dnterpreting The War News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON t 3 ASSOCIATED PRESS WAB ANALYST - Bright with distant promise of victor : as is the war news from seething fighting fronts on both sides of the world, even nearer and more glittering possibilities have been opened before the eyes of the United Nations fellowship. - ,f There is plain evidence that defeat Is gnawing at both ends of the Nazi-Nipponese war axis. It underscored Berlin's disclosure that a bruised and flame-scarred Hitler had narrowly escaped death while amidst his hand-picked inner circle corps of personal military and naval aides. ,1 Just what these far separated events foreshadow for the reeling axis mates cannot yet be adduced certainly. But that each is symptomatic of sagging war morale in Germany and Japan alike is axio matic. They clearly indicate rising disunity within both, hint at impending internal break-downs which could hasten the day of axis doom. f i Tojorfall unquestionably stemmed directly from, sharp Internal disagreement within tbM innermost circle of Japanese military leadership of war strat egy. It was an admission of defeat thai called for at least an appearance of political hari klrt by the man who had led Japan into the war, -and all his closest associates.';: ; ; :i .;IN Efforts of babbling Japanese home-front broad casts to cover up the schism with meaningless phrases about the necessity of a "stronger' war cab inet setup could not conceal It It was self evident of a drastic split on war policies between the army and navy wings of the militaristic: Junkers that rule Japan that a double-headed team of premiees, one an admiral, the other a general, replaced the ;-fallen war lord. 1, .'' v : A co-distatorship instead of a single dominant . voice of command, 'must weaken, not strengthen Nipponese war making capactty.'ItE would impose upon the emperor himself the duty or resolving war policy conflicts between his twin, chief lieu- tenants. ". t :.s:. " :'::.:J : -A t : 'A For that reason. If no other it looks ilOte a face saving Japanese expedient, and interim arrange-1 ment to prepare the way for something else, What ever its, motivation the fall of Tojo is "evidence that Japan no less than Germany is sensing im- ; pending doom. '- '";;. t :,; -.: s ;f s . :;;;: The attack that singed Hitler is no less a symptom that there Is growing up in Germany a desire for vengeance on the man responsible. v (Continued front Page 1) plowshares without first con verting our tools, and that costs money. If we break down the $15 billion investment in war plants we will find how limited is Its utility for immediate pro duction for peace.! First, there is what we may call the arsenal the munitions factories, shell loading plants, gun! factories and such, costing $4 billion. I be lieve the governtnentj , should keep this arsenal in ai standby ..basis fp defense purposes, y Seconufywe iive invested over two billions fin shipyards and over three biDiona in air craft production ; facilities. The demand for ships! and :. planes will be so much feduqed it lis foolish to think that either gov ernment or private corporations will continue to f operate all tof these facilities. Mych pf these plants must either i be scrapped, preserved! as standby, jor con verted to other production, which is not easy. : j ' ; .. i Thirdly we lave synthetic rubber plants in which jwe have invested several hundred million dollars. Their fate is answered! in the reply to this question: Will you buy a tire of synthetic rub ber when natural rabbei! is again available?; The declared, nation al policy is againsf a protective tariff on rubber; so these plants will close with tie. return lot rubber imports, nd jwill re open only as special or enlarged markets are built hp taskjin which private companies will show far more fatal than the government J j Thus, you see, (the question for large segments of jour war industry is not: fWho shall op erate them?,r but rather : "What use can we makel c them?" Ac- cording to estimate; there will be only about $5 billion worth of our war plant outjof tie S15H invested that will hav imme diate utility. This portion Will include plants for faviaion gas oline, metals, chemicals, andi a vast asortment of machine tools. For much of this there! will.be demand, both domestic 'and for- " eign. f I . j7 ! My reebmmendafion i for the orderly liquidation of such por tions of our war plant as we do not require for defense purposes with a governmentlagericy given rather broad powers to act as a prudent trustee to determine the method pf dispofeitionV price, terms of sale or lekse. It should keep these pointsj in fnind: i I, continued operation of the ' fa cility; 2,' avoiding sales at a mere pittance thai might serve as windfalls to operators and so be inequitable to established in dustry; S, avoidmg accretion I to monopoly. It woulcf be a mistake to hedge private operators with too many restrictions, because they will have a hard enough time at best under postwar com petition, under government regu lation and under ! probable tax rates. i MA . - ' I am opposed to government operation of this;war plant, both because I believe t to be gen erally impractical and second, because I do not believe the war emergency should! be fused Ito put the country info stafe social ism by a side doOr. As I have said, much of this plant will re quire conversion, i and j I dont believe the people wiH want to expend more public money f or tiui purpose. A large portion of this usable investment is us- I ! WASHINGTON This Gen. Charles DeGaulle, leader of the French National . Committee what sort of man is he? .j I j What is he 4n the flesh and Spirit? Not in the printer's ink of the j published word.' Nor the voice of the radio commentator. Nor even in the lines of the soundphoto flashed across con tinents and seas? I I What is he actually made of f Snaps and snails and puppy dogs' tails? Or sugar and spice and: all things nice?',What IS DeGaulle made of? I j j I've asked this question lately Of everyone whom I suspected might have met the general. The answers I have received are hereby summed up. LetT call the J paragraphs ."DeGaulle in Words of One Syllable." jj Charles DeGaulle is a blunt, unconipronusing fellow. He is tactless. He is without charm. Almost instinctively he says the wrong thing. He has a talent for : irritating people whose co-operation he needs. But DeGaulle is truly patri otic in the best French tradi tion. Not in the French tradition ' Of the last 50 years or so. But in the French tradition: that bred warriors and heroes 4- fighting men and the words and music of Xa: Marsellalse." ' j j DeGaulle Is not attractive to look at. He has drooping shoul ders. None of the square robust- . ;ness that we associate with the jinilitary. ; He hasn't that elusive Quality sometimes named "It," possessed by Messrs. Franklin jD. Roosevelt and. Winston Chur- j DeGaulle mostly means what ;he says. He is as near lan honest jinan as a 1944 Diogenes could jfind were he searchinir-through this grimy world with his hope ful lantern. He also represents the j courageous France of today; Not .the smooth. camnliat4 Tance that went down before the German invasion. asj not the suavity of his rival. pen. Henri Giraud. I Giraud in his manner mI ; thoughts reflects that finesse of jjic-wai x ranee. II uevarSUUe bas finesse it is an accidental . qual- ty with him. He never heard of 1 gton Fighting Frenchmen Blunt the word. Certainly ! he can't , spell it DeGaulle v realizes that since the invasion has begun and is on its triumphant way, he must co operate with the allies if France is ever to be free again and if his kind of Frenchmen are to have a part in the government of their now prostrate nation. j .. The other day, after a trip m and out of the Connecticut ave nue shops, I had begun to won der if we American ladies are as smart as we think we are. Foreign women have their own way of managing their dear husbands which every hon est woman must admit is a goal to try for. The other morning I saw a brisk lady, accent French, leading a tall, helpless male into an art store where he paid a large sum for a painting of a cow in , a creek. , . The French lady was firm from the, start and obviously had not a moment's qualm - as she forced art down the poor fellow's tight throat A few moments later I heard another accent let's call it Vi ennese for the sake of the war effort. It was feminine gender and it was in the millinery de partment of a smart shop. - The voice was saying to a big, , strong man: "My dear, you take the kinder to the; movie. I stay -here and buy the hat I be home When you get the potatoes peeled for the din-ner." ; These two incidents would have made me 'despair of the of -ten advertised charm and power of the American Woman had I not next visited a little jewelry WITH THE AET IN ITALY, July lMDelayedj-iR-Pvt Joe ; Haxher ,'is private first class again and he aims to celebrate " the commission" quickly before something else happens. Joe is a medic from Des Moines, la., and the stripe sta tus , of his sleeve is . changed more often than : a woman's Today'G Garden By LILLIE MADSEN - Avoid watering phlox, chry santhemums and roses so late in the day that their foliage does not have an opportunity to dry off before night. Going- into night with damp foliage frequently de velops mildew and blackspot Mrs. A. V. B. writes that she has purchased a number of roses during the past three years and among them are several which she does not like. She wants to know "if it would be criminal to throw away those I do not like even if I did pay gqpd money for them. It doesn't seem good garden practice to throw them away when they have been purchased and were recommend ed as being very good. Maybe my Judgment isn't as good as it should be. What would you do?"" Answer: In my opinion there is only one thing to do with a plant in your garden if you, or members of your family do not like if take it out i If. Mrs. A. V. B. can find the one who recommended there par ticular roses to her, she might give them to that person. A gar den is or should be for one's own delight and if you don't like something in it even if L. H. Bailey, Dr. Ernest Wilson and Homer D. House all insisted that it was the finest thing on earth, throw it away. I believe Dr. Wilson ' made ; this recom mendation himself ; at one time. It is economy to visit the gar dents are in bloom if one has the gasoline. Then the gardener is not so apt to' purchase some thing he doesn't like. . There . are certain definite principles of good: taste in gar dening as. in house furnishing, but when it comes! to individual pieces or plants; one should choose that piece or plant that . makes one the happiest If your 'garden lends itself to pink ros- ; es and on recommendation of someone you have planted Pic ture and Madame Butterfly and later find you prefer . Imperial Potentate and Sterling, by all means take out the Picture and the Butterfly although I would not be able to understand your taste. Don't ! ever hesitate to grow that which you prefer among the things that are suitable. mind. He has been pfc three .times and was made a Tt once and T5 once but every time ' something! happened. - - It started back in Camp Clai bourne Latest May 2, 1941, when Joe ifirst made pic on ly thereafter lie got a pass into town.' I v '- - . " -"Them puses never run on time in Claiborne,'' he explains Hie anHMisj ( . Later he was made pfc. again and T4 but ! well, ah the bust -was made again. And that sort A of thing kept up until Joe's shirt sleeve began to look like a practice ground for the jewing circles. He's fatalistic about this -new stripe, i wV,";:';- '; : "111 be jbusted again," he said with assurance. "I don't know what for but- 111 do something. T f4 Vi m man, irmv m A VOAUO WW IUJ. III.H m w buck and 111 go out a buck." Someone out of - the cannon company, was - supposed to go home on 30 days furlough and Capt. Paul W. Blowman, Clear field, Pa., had to decide who. There were three guys eligible three top .sergeants who came overseas together in April, 1942. They were Lester Mazelin, Monroe, Ind., Bucky Walters, Newark, NJ, and Robert Mucha, Duluth, MinBu ; : ' ' To save the captain further embarrassment the three guys agreed to cut the cards. First they "had j a - preliminary cut to ' see what jthe final cutting order would be; It; was Mazelin, Mu cha and Walters, h - ' Then as their buddies gathered and gaped they cut the deck for . the big chance. Mazelin turned up ; a king. Everybody gasped. Mucha cut jdisspiritedly and turned tip a ; king. Everybody whistled, j Walters was just go ing through the motions listless lyand he turned up a third king; Everybody : swore in amazement . . - : j To cut the cuttings short they cut again deeply into the deck. Walters cutting first this time .got the two ef hearts, Mazelin the six of diamonds and Mu cha did the impossible, turning up the fourth king in-the deck. Duluth,' here he comes! shop. Beside the earring coun ter stood an avid American la dy. She'' was done in a bright yellow suit a red and yellow hat and a lapel pin composed of a yellow rooster with a red beak and red eyes. She also had a hus band in a checked suit sprawled admiringly on a nearby chair. The avid lady had a dozen pair of earrings out on the counter. As she tried each pair- on she turned to the husband for an opinion. With complete sincerity, he, the proud male, gave advice. At last he said: ; "Honey, why don't you Just take them all. And ask the clerk if she can find you some others to match that rooster. I think you'd look swell ' with rooster earrings." - US Prisoners In tip Camps Get Packages The Literary Guidepost fcble only in relation (to other, privately owned facilities, or is jan intermediate step in the man ufacturing process. j . The government owns many machine tools set up Jin private factories. It has financed wings jor bays of existing plants. These portions are of little or no use except as they are operated with irelated facilities. Obviously pri vate industry will want to hold to wnat it nas, and the govern ment surely isn't going to take over more of private industry. It is a mistake to think of a successful industry as consist ing chiefly of a fine capital plant Of even greater importance are such factors as location with re spect to raw materials and mar kets, - ability of management teamwork of employes, skill in marketing production! Govern ment by its nature in a demo cratic society, is ill adapted to ; perform these functions. Politi- ' cat pressures, "bureaucratic red . tape, wasefulness . we have seen too many evidences of all these in late years to have faith that our government: can take over and run "successfully those plants which were built in a war emergency for highly specialized performance. By JOHN SELBY ,. . . ' "The Letters of Alexander Woollcott" edited by Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph Hennessey. , (Viking; $3.50). In spite of its; self-confessed . limitations. "The Letters of Al exander Woollcott" is good sum mer reading. It is almost wholly unimportant;, the letters have very little significance. But they go down with the exotic .taste of a dead-ripe literary manga ; Woollcott wrote a lot of let- . ters. Once he liked a -man or i ' woman, he stuck. Sometimes his friendships were a little quaint 1 and his taste and his Judgment were fallible in the extreme. But they were his, and he lived ex tremely well by them. More in teresting, ; he worked at them : like a slave. The letters show (if it already had. not been established)-that the common pic ture of Woollcott as a lazy Bud dha sitting on a silk cushion is fallacious to the point of idiocy. But Beatrice Kaufman and Jo seph Hennessey, who have edit ed the collection, honestly , de clare that their book is not the whole Woollcott Woollcott could be just as rude as he was charm ing, and he wrote a lot of let ters that maceraied the recip ient's feelings like an old-fashioned cabbage knife. Sometimes he deliberately capitalized on his rudeness, as his delight in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" ac knowledges. But bis editors say, nobody sent in any letters of this sort It seems incredible, but there is nothing to do but take their word for it and Byrap' thize.?-; ;.'-;;-v;.;-hv '::r' Woollcotrs prose - style was Hudson PJver Gothic, and its foundation was laid in his boy hood. He never made one word do when two could be used; he (like . Henry Mencken) would scrape the bin for a long while to find a curious word or phrase. He built his literary edifices to noble 'proportions, sometimes, but the buttresses and pediments and gargoyles ' were, like Mr. Downing's churches, of wood in stead of stone. This made them charming, often, but also vul nerable. I suspect Woollcott knew it very welL The letters are sparse up to the thirties. There are a - few .from his boyhood, and quite a number to his adored sister, Ju lie written during and after the last war. The style grows rapid ly more ornate, and the opinions more positive, as the book progresses. Materials for relieving the mo-' notony of j prison camp routine have now reached- American pris oners of War I in . eight Japanese prison camps, according to infor mation received by the Oregon War Chest from the National War Fund. j ; , ' The report stated that 23 cases of materials, shipped by War Re lief Services, NCWC, a participat ing service of the National War Fund, had, been received and dis tributed at prisoner of war camps under Japanese domination lo cated at Osaka, Tokyo, Hakodate, Zentsujt Fukuoka, Korea ,For mosa and jKiangwan. - , : , Each case was packed as a complete unit the report stated, and contained books, occupational kits and games. Contributions made by residents of Marion county to the County War Chest help the National War Fund finance j the work of War Relief Services and War Prisoners Aid which are active in endeav oring to make easier the plight of Americans interned in Jaoan ese and German prison camps. Newport Coast Guard Station to Be Retained Rep. James W. Mott said Thurs day that the coast guard station at Newport, its headquarters and considerable equipment recently destroyed jby fire, would be re tained but that construction of a new building would have to wait until the close of the war. V Brokers, Salesmen Are Given Examination Here 13' Fifty-one prospective broken and salesmen wrote in the t9t real x examination here Thursday. aaore man zoo applicants will write in similar examinations in Portland Friday. x li !l : DI ABIONDS ,0F " PRICELESS 'BEAUTY' . " . V? t --..j-, v .r-.V-Among our wide telec- tion of sparkling stones you wul find the dia mond ( you've alwaya wanted to own. A work Kraving la . she. 11 Jewelry (ff'. A Credit If Desired I
