page roua 71m OSEGOtf STATESMAM,: Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning. August 12. IS .:- : "No Favor Sway U; No Fear Shall Awe", .-, .: - Tram first Statesman, March 28, 1S51 THE STATES3IAN PUBLISHING COMPANY : , - i . . CHAR .Eft A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher j -Member of the Associated Press j - p The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to tha dm for publication ol alt news dispatches credited to it or not .otherwise credited in this newspaper Case for Poland Prime Minister Mikolajczyk of the Polish Cabinet domiciled in London, has not been able to effect a working agreement with the Polish committee set up in Russia, but does not give lip hopes of some settlement to coordinate the groups interested in Poland. He is said to be returning to London for 'further conversations negotiations have not been broken off and that the prime minister was given audience by Sta lin and Molotov. An impressive case in behalf of Poland is made by the prime minister as told to George Creel and related in the current Collier's. He answers charges that Poland is undemocratic and intolerant by citing the origins of his cabi net, none of whom is wealthy or nobly born, and by asserting that the dross of past intolerance has' been burned away in the fires of this war. Going over the dispute with Russia he re views these facts: 1. The Polish-Russian boundary was defined in a treaty which Lenin described as "a volun tary, and just agreement that will stand for all time'.' Non-agression pacts between the two countries were signed in 1932 and in 1934, ex tending to 1945. After the partition of Poland by Germany and Russia in 1939, when Russia was attacked by Hitler in 1941 Poland offered assistance to Russia and entered into an agree ment for mutual aid and support, and Russia relinquished all claim to Polish territory it had seized. - ' . - ,2. Respecting the rupture which grew out of the Polish cabinet's appeal to the International Red Cross for; investigation of German radio claims that Russians .had murdered and buried In a mass grave 11,000 Polish officers, the prime minister says there was no other way of ascer taining the truth and that at the time his cabi net rejected the German claims. Tv 3. Mikolajczyk asserts "his government is eager, to renew relations with Russia and to work out a mutually satisfactory treaty, and that the Polish underground controlled by the London cabinet is working in full cooperation with the invading Russians. ; Poland surely has claim to the world's sup port. It refused to make a deal with Hitler, who promised joint gains if Poland joined in an at tack on Russia. It delayed mobilization in 1939 at the request of Great Britain and France so as not to-provoke Hitler to action. Five million of its people -were murdered by the Germans Mewl 4ia -ni1rMi anf - 1Vui Mimrtsi fn 4tta fxs e n v iiiimyiig wa w w wmijb a reich. Polish armies are fighting now on many fronts. The Polish second corps carried the heights of Monte Cassino. Polish air forces and naval vessels have joined in the fighting against Germany. Poland has had no quislings; it has an- organized underground which now is con testing "for possession of Warsaw. According to Mikolajczyk, Poland is ready to join in "a united Europe as a member of a world organization pledged to collective-security." He asserts that recognition of Poland's claims, to its own territory in accordance with the provision of the Atlantic charter will give heartening assurance to l small nations of the sincerity of the united nations. He. makes this final point: - ' . " ";. A free Poland, without festering. grievances, : can and will make an important contribution to .; : the peace and stability that are Europe's vital needs. A wronged Poland, suffering from a deep conviction of injustice, may be counted on as a " continuing sources of unrest and instability. This ' is not a threat in any sense, but a plain statement of fact. Look back over history and you will find that while Poland has been swallowed many times, never once has she been digested. Four partitions years of ravage and oppression . could not crush us. ;-TvT- V --7 -! ' 'T It is not too much to hope that Russia itself will see the value of having in Poland a friendly rather than an aggrieved neighbor, and so be. wUlina to make an amicable-agreement over boundaries. ' -V.-,- y . .v - - . 0 -j- Editorial Comment ! . From Other Papers HISTORY IS REPEATING Sixty years ago, when The Dalles was the head of navigation, virtually all commerce for the In land Empire moved through this. city. The railroads came, river traffic declined and eventually we lost this advantageous position. Yet, the Columbia, river continued to flow by our door. Our natural advantages had not disap peared. They merely rested In status quo, as it were, awaiting the advent ofthe present generation to develop them. Consider the announcement that a Portland lum ber company soon will start logging operations back , of Goldendale. Despite the fact that .a railroad serves this area, the logs will be trucked to Mary hill, dumped into the Columbia river arid formed1 into small, cigar-shaped rafts and . towed to The Dalles. Here they will be formed into larger rafts and moved on down, the Columbia river to the Port land milt L: : - . 2rv-::"?ii .y'',, i:,-'i:x This operation proves that The Dalles, as the head of deep water navigation in the Columbia river, again will come into its own. We mention the logging operation just by way of illustration. In- numerable other products could be cited. For that matter, there is no reason why logs. could not be milled into lumber at The Dalles and this lumber shipped out on the ocean steamships that will make this city a port of caff after the war is over and . channel dredging has been completed. - .. The. Inland Empire is a fertile and productive area. Tonnage potentialities are. tremendous and barge operation has proved economically feasible. As the bead of ocean navigation The Dalles will stand an excellent chance to capitalize on this post- war traffic.-.; t-? vu--."i; It wO be the. situation that prevailed 69 years ago, only larger in scope and of far greater, magni tude by reason of population growth and increased production in areas tributary to this great inland waterway. The Dalles Chronicle. '.' Fluid Motor Front I j t Usher Brothers, who gained fame and for tune as designers and manufacturers pf auto mobile bodies, ami whose business was finally merged with General Motors, nave announced their retirement from executive positions with the latter firm in order to resume independent business. While their exact plans are not an nounced, it is anticipated they will be back; in the, automotive game, perhaps as j builders of automobiles themselves. This news has height ened interest in the postwar outlook for motor cars. - ' , p . Without doubt things are stirring in Detroit, the motor capital. Graham-Paige is reforming its lines and expects to buQd cars again along with farm machinery. Willys-Overland hopes to exploit its reputation as a builder of jeeps and to market successfully a small automobile. Hupp Motor, which hadn't made an automobile for years, has seen its stock go at better than $3 a share on the stock exchange, indicating hopes, to say the least, And Henry .Ford's announce ment of intention to build a car selling for around $500 has confused some ; of . the other manufacturers who were talking all the while of price increases of from 15 to 25 per cent;on automobiles of the 1942 quality. 1 i i ' At any rate, the end of the war will see ihe resumption of keen competition among ' motor car-makers. While there will be business for all for several years, each will hope in the transi tion period' to capture the public eye and im prove its relative position. There is nothing sta tic in Detroit, and the fact that Fisher Brothers, who are old enough and wealthy enough to re tire if they want to, are instead planning new enterprises, and the fact that Henry Ford at! 82 is talking about a new lower-priced car; offers heartening proof that free enterprise is still alive whose fruits are not (merely the profits of the entrepreneurs but the provision of more and better and cheaper things for mass con sumption. The motor front'promises to be "flu id" like the war in France, i l ! 1 The Bend Bulletin reports a frost which singed the tops of, garden vegetables. It does ' not say whether it was an early fall frost or a late spring frost. The seasons telescope like that in the high country. j ! " t r Washington has ordered a reduction in the: WACs, not in number but in weight; It seems the WACs, like the GI Joes, put on weight when they put on khaki. The war department evi dently thinks fat makes poor1 armor for a woman soldier. r ' ;" f ! :l I' '! r ! OPA is republishing its rules and regula tions, and is compressing them into 12 volumes instead of 18. The war ought to end in the time it takes to- thumb through the set. .1 . When it comes to dealing with Goering, it will not be-necessary to hang himj Just throw him in the river; his medals will sink him.' UnSerp ret in in the .know v ' Fifth victory , loan drive went over the top . some wag said, "On the next drive there will only be "E," "F and "G" bonds that stands for "Eleanor," "Franklin and "God," as they are the only ones who know where the money goes." " - Salem Cherrian. -;0 -t -? C rots ffcO 4f?ST' J !! V Japanese Saiidmanl .... i . ; ... y ' ',- . ' f r.: ' MEUSEE ; . j ;at tic FROim . ; - Countless Ilallana ; rope to Scdl Far ; America After War Dinisiie WasQuiiniini Special to Central Press , WASinNGTONjf Henry Agard Wallace may have been dumped . as President Roosevelt's running mate for the fourth term, but his friends are predicting jhe will torn up;smiling irjSan important government post if, the democrats are victorious again in Novem ber. ! ! The War Neivi . By KIRKE L. SIMPSON A ' v ASSOCIATED PRESS Vf AA ANALYST ' There are broad intimatioias from German end high-placed allied military sources alike that; 'de spite fanatical demands from Berlin the nazi com mander in northern France has sensed his danger of envelopment and begun a jretreat to the Seine perhaps too late. ' 1 : : . - j I; " i ll " j ;'. ' That was the purport of f an all's well1 : mes- sage relayed to his troops by General Montgomery, allied field commander in France, Enemy armies from the channel coast to the lire were "in a bad way," he said, with allied spMrrieads "round be hind them in many places' arid some of them "may 'not get away." : :-: i: yc ..:4f: -.-s!ir - " Nazi broadcasts more than; confirmed that Mont gomery thumb-nail sketch of the: situation. .They told of multiple American columns wheeling north eastward from their lunging; stride up the Loire valley, feeling for contacts with Canadians oh the allied left of the line that would encircle the whole ' center segment of the main German army in France, perhaps 300,000 strong. , I ; ' , Allied strategic bombing operations far behind the enemy front had the same meaning., Every rail yard and junction, road hub and bridge east of the Seine - through northeastern jFrance and the low countries was a target while support bombers blast ed along the Seine and west of the river. No avenue of enemy reinforcement or escape from Paris to the sea was being overlooked. . t ; i " Most of all German surrender of British in vested ThuryHarcourt In the little hills oi Nor mandy' on the Canadian righ reflected the begin ning of a possible nazi rnilitary debacle in France. Mass "disengagement' moves ijby the foe to pull out of the indicated multiple trap set for him without either air power to shelter his retreating columns or armor to halt allied tank-lunges at. his commu nication jugular veimvin the deep rear must become a desperate and bloody business. Given good wea ther, it could give massed allied air power its great est field day of the war, make the Seine and its tributaries run red with German blood. For the significant word in Mratomery's mes- sage was "many. He so described the; fast-moving ' mechanized columns surging down Into enemy rear echelons from the north but; even more critically up from ihe south. Just wher each deadly armored threat is at any moment Montgomery must know; -but the Germans do not, nor where at his-word each will next turn to achieve maximum results from the expanding break-through. J ; ! liX'-if 1 The Montgomery . trap is apparently a" many- jawed affair. By his own word it is yawning first to chew-up the bulk of the German army in north western France and secondly to take Paris in its i maw. - i ' , J Somewhere in France now Montgomery's com mander, General Eisenhower, has set up his su preme allied headquarters. H is: a fair assumption . that its primary concern everji now is not the battle in the Seme-Loire basins corhing swiftly to its cli max, but what is to follow. I H- ' Eisenhower gave a hint of how the battle is to - be fought on beyond Paris and the Seine, in the low - countries that still house enemy robot bomb bat teries, when he ' merged his j massed kir and sub stantial ground forces into one separate army under , single command to strike, swiftly tnd terribly at - long range even far , behind, leneay. front tacs.. .: Berths meationed for Wallace include 'the ambassadorships to rither Russia or China drfsome roving assigrpent j for the presi dent. Despite Roosevelt's 1 failure to give strong support to Wallace at the idemofraticj national con vention, j thf vice president's supporters are certain that the shaggjvhaired, idealistic lowan is suHj a Wiiite spouse, nyorite and. would Command moch at tentfon tn the assignment -of an important wartime or postwar diplomatic post "j ; J j Observers reoalj that Wallace has -. been virtually hound dog faithful to the president yen in the face! of biting! j White; Jlous criUcismi of -some jof hi fstate ments land they also remember that Roosevelt has given Wallace . a double endorsement in! recent inoirths.-; .. , . First was Ihe sendoff accord . ed Wallace by the1 president up on departure tat, Russia! and Chttuuj Second Was the;; White House! letter', to the democratic convention in which the! presi dent said: i j : jjj j L; . "If I were a delegate, etc." i M ' M f f lf ! r j The ! possibility j of a sudden Germin defeat has left) many Washington observers wonder ing ; whether the allies have a full-fledged plan 'for occupation and control jpf Getmanyjin the wake of unconditional surrender termsj .. ; Some fear that IGermanyJ now admittedly in .the! throes, of its most important internal crisis of . the war,' may be j plunged; into the same confusion that overtook Italy-f-that war-guilty criminals may escape, temprarily, as did Mussolini, and that anarchy may. rule the land. : I j The situation Is - one ;of the most In pressing' Washington.! aU the talk which ; besets of "cutbacks" and reconversion, one fact has gone unnoticed. This is the in crease of nearly one billion dol lars in the army's supply sched ule for 1944. n Hence, the warnings of the .military that production, goals: have not been met For the first r half of the year, only 48 per cent of the army's schedules -were achieved. .J" J. WPBs gtowing accounts of production performances, the military says, are based on first-of-the-month predictions as- to what can be attained in that -month. They are not based ! on the army's needs and do not re flect accomplishments measured against the over-all program laid down ii at the beginning of the "".year. ! ' ,t , 1 1 ; High military officials are -concerned 1 because they- know ' that ' the- final grand assault against Germany will ' consume war ' materials in unprecedented quantities. ; They warn that the small month-to-month lags- in production are cumulative and :- are not being made up. '; r For example, truck production is expected to fall 80,000'vehicles short of army requirements if the present lags continue for the remainder of the year. S ri-. : '" - - - 'r f - Today 'c Garden By LTLUE MADSEN ' . Mrs! G. S. A. writes to ask - about the small tree blooming on the post office lawn. Says she has never seen anything; more beautiful and wants to know if one can buy such, a tree, is it hard to grow and is it expensive? . An&r The tree is the Chinese Silk tree (Albiziia julibrissin). It can be purchased from local nur serymen, but it is rather expen sive. However, there is no tree lovelier and it is very pretty even when not in bloom. The foliage ' is attractive. Good drainage is essential and some water is need ed in very dry seasons. It does not bloom until it has been grow ing In the same location for some time. 1 1 believe the cost ; varies from around $4 to twice that much, depending upon the size of the tree. - - ' , By GEORGE BRIA i (Subbing for Kenneth L. Dixon) ROME, Aug. 4-(Delayed)-(P) -In every corner of liberated Italy today, Italians ask me the same hopeful question: "WiQ we be able to go to the United States after theowtrrt .:. -..";:v And it doesnt come from just the - disillusioned, bitter , youth who are unable to see any future In this war-ravaged land. Middle-aged men professional 'men have told me: "We want to get ; out of here. We want to go to , America."'- ': J ."' 1 rv- I ' . So the truth Is that countless Italians are sick of Italy for po litical as wen as economic ;re; sons and they; pin their hopes : on "a new - lif e . overseas.'" Emigration " consequently . is sure to be one of the burning. Issues in postwar-Italy and the Italian press already has begun to call for a scrapping of the. "auota system." whereby I less J than 4000 Italian emigrants were allowed to enter me United States each year. -j. : " : Here are some of the argu-; ments they give for a revision of this system: V 1 1. A victorious United States will be the only country tn the world to which a war-torn hu manity will be able to .turn for ' commodities and supplies for at least 10 years. This will mean a-, tremendous -increase in Ameri can production and a consequent , need for labor. Italian labor, knows no peer.',. . ' hi, 2. ' With all the reconstruction that will be necessary in Italy,' the country will be unable to em- ploy- all of its -labor potential. Italy'ls rich" in human quantity , but poor In natural resources. The surplus labor can be put to work in America, producing the materials necessary to recon struct Italy. . - 3. Before 1914, more than 200,- 000 Italian; workmen went to the United States every year. From those immigrants came"a steady stream of money which "rejuve nated"! thei Italian treasury. The Italian' treasury now certainly needs frejuveration." . 4. American ! organized labor opposed mass immigration after World War 1 on the grounds that the labor market would be swamped; but the devastation wrought in Europe by this war is so great that American indus try would be able to employ ev ery available workman to pro- : duce the 'materials for recon struction. "There will be work and bread for all." Italian lawyers on emigration have treated the subject exclus ively from the economic view pointas 4 "necessary evil." If you talk to individual Italians, however, you find that many of them want to go to America so that "I will be left alone," and so that "I wul have some free dom." Marry of them predict that the Italians wfll start shooting each other just as soon a the al lies leave, and they are too tired, too cynical and too disillusioned to take part in It " The United States is not the only country rich in natural re sources which could use Italian labor. There is Russia, for exam ple, but while there is much talk about Russian prestige in Italy, 1 haven't met one Italian -who wanted to go there. (Continued from Page 1) supper. It is just an eat sit and listen club, exerting only the or gans of digestion and of hearing.) Members do not have- to sing "Home on the Range " . , That, in deed, is a dub to belong-to, un less one has high blood pressure, stomach ulcers or deafness, f ; The organizer must have-been an intrepid fellow, however; to try to form a dinner club In these days of rationed foods and green wsdtressear In 7 other days j the promise of a choice filet mignon or roast Iamb and curry sauce, with accompanying viands, would be most tempting. But who wants to sit down to another Kiwanis K-ration of Salisbury steak with "ration-free carrots? That pros pect is uninviting, and only the hardy souls whose digestive or gans can outlast the war I are brave enough to sign on the dot ted line. Come peace, then the club should have a waiting list, provided turkeys are aU lend lost - ; - - - ivi At any rate, Salem greets its newest club. What tiie square and compass are to the Mason, the knife and fork are to these epicures, symbols as well as tools of me crart Presumably the club's crest is a valiant trencher man facing a beef roast rampant And for motto, surely not the old English proverb, "More are slain by suppers, than the sword, but rather that from Ben Franklin's Poor Richard: "Eat to live and not live to eat" i - From a Window in a nPs House By Don Blanding ' j f - ..: -: , THB BLOOD DONORS - It is such a little price to pay for a great spiritual experience. You give an hour of your time (an hour which might be spent at a movie, in, idle chatter, in futile worry or useless day-deam-ing) in -exchange lor a deeply moving adventure. In addition, you will have the satisfying feeling, of having, in part repaid a debt (oh, not Paid in Full by any means, but a fine installment of that debt). Go to any one of the Blood j Procurement centers and give . . . no, lend-lease a pint of the pre cious body-fluid from which the miracle plasma is obtained. - Truly, yon win never forget this hour. It wul be filled with exhal tation, tranquility and thankful ness mat so easily one may give so greatly. The gift of life between men is a great gift Your only re gret will be that you did not make this gift earlier so that your sec ond date with life would come sooner. .-"; -"y,y. y:u . , ' You will take part in the an cient ritual of the Bond of Blood Brotherhood, but this time it wOl not be merely symbolic; it. win be actual Although there is no hush hush, nor .solemnity in the quiet room where 20 or more of you win be lying relaxed, there is that sense of holiness,' the vibrant ser enity, the invisible radiance which surrounds shrines' where people pray. Every face reveals the fact that while the precious fluid drains so quietly and painlessly out the thoughts of the donors are flowing out, quietly too, in probably the most unselfish strain they wul ever know. Look at those faces about you. There . will be many service men and women; theirs is a double giving, the days of their years and the . blood of their veins. But most of them know what this giving means, God, The Literary; Guidepo THE YOUNG IDEA" I- By Mossier I l iei ... ,tt M it I II - mm ' 1 1 . " .iii- i . ' I "Thomas! Cave yon been vslcg my ereLrew pencil ea year r v srstaclie slsl ASHLEY. BOOK OF ' KNOTS" by CUfferd W Ash ler (DoabledaT. Deraa; S73f ). If something like a pun seems, to turn up in this brief piece on Clifford W, Ashley's "The Ash ley Book of Knots," it is unin tentional. The-book, its title, and its contents- are aU - pun-breed-; ers.;V ':ry:v. z;t -X To begin with, one should know that Mr. Ashley is a ma rine painter, and a member of a sailing family. A j couple of whaler - uncles began teaching -him nautical knots (you see, it's almost impossible to keep rrom punning), and the; next thing he knew, his notebook contained ' hundreds of exam plea. In fact there came a time when he had noted an the nau tical knots, and had! to transfer . his activities. He began haunting butchers counters, operating rooms, Jails where hangings were imminent, steeplejacks headquarters, Boy Scouts huts, -electric linesmen's union i hall and even the summer ! hotel porches on which old ladies knit j and talk the warm months away. When Mr. Ashley's collection ' reached 3900" he cast about for something to do with them, and the idea of a book arose. He was perfectly suited to the idea, be ing a painter. He discussed. the knots by classifications, and then wrote about the method of ty ing thenu He drew illustrations to help with this last so. that in addition to S300 knots duly described, the book, contains ! also 7000 drawings. It should be obvious by now that TThe Ash ley Book of Knots" is enormous. "Anthony Adverse a pocket book by comparison. - The alphabetical range of the knot is fabulous. Archers: knots are first; yachtsmen's knots last there rPar to be some rje- rial ones for yachtsmen that are not needed aboard real ships. " Florists knots call up the nicest 1 images, and hangman's knots are least attractive. Which la not ; quite - true they actually are nice, knots, but there Is somcr ' thing, shivery I about their use. And finally, the knot is divisible into neat chapters. I was espe- daily taken with the one caned "The: Turks-head." This Is the knot you. see tied around some . thing: around a ; vaulting pole; . for example, to 'add strength. The Turk's-head isj useful knot It turns up on anything from wicker furniture to a quirt - CAMOUFLAGE TOO EZFEKT 'CAMP B ARKELEY, TtxMlto- During a recent - field exercise Tech. Fifth Gr. John Littler searched vainly tor his camou flaged half-track. Hours later he stumbled on it, right where he left it after passing the same placj about five times, how they know it! They are able to visualize as clearly as though vein were Joined, to vein, the- glow that returns to the drained faces and-the light 4hat banishes the dark shadowrof the fear of death as the magic plasma releases life through a stricken and shattered body. The faces of these service people are so quietly serene; they axe so sure of what they are doing. But there are other faces which become tranquil as they realize the directness- of this giving. Elderly women who are giving for sons, and : praying . that if the need comes for their sons, some little bit of this gift may be in the trans fusion. And elderly' women who may have no sons, and yet by this act have a hundred sons, blood of their blood now, through this mir acle They are thinking of this, you rnaybe sure, the lonely ones, the sonless ones. . Therelare young. women, brides or sweethearts, with tears in their eyes, tears with a strange happy shimmering in them; one sees this same look in the paintings of the Madonnas. f There Is a Ghristlike quality to this giving of plasma which is in spiring and hopeful for the world After Duration. This blood Is not marked with tags "for kith arid kin of mine. For American. For British. For French." No. There are the ; Unspoken words, those beautiful moving words, This is my blood . , .? Period. A. young marine,- back : from Guadalcanal, expressed something to think about when he said, "When you get that plasma stuff it makes you feel different about people, I was a pretty independent guy before, I could take folks or leave 'em. They didnt bother me much. Now, I walk down the street and I took at folk's faces, men's facea and women's faces. And I wonder w i was Jt you or you that gave me that blood, so that rm walking along here enjoying things instead of . wen, you get the ideaw You're not so quick to give; the growl when you dont know but what that guy there is the guy you owe your life to. It's a good feeling." Communion. "This is my blood It is significant and splendid that now when an men of the world are directly involved irf this terrible cataclysmic struggle, ; : that the blood of all men shall flow back and v forth; among, them, giving where it is needed, without ques tion, without stint And because (Continued on Page 8) Stevens C ' ;Wi j Modernize iv Her Ring . Dl - Reset While Yoa Walt Her diamonds Installed In' t o d a y's s modem setting will enhance and . bring oul th beauty' of the "stones. ; -- . -'; ' ;; 'ir Credit If ';;:; :. - 1 . Desired ': ' .