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The OHTGOri STATESMAN. Saleaj- Oregon. Tuesday MandagT August SO, 1311 , PAGE FOUB ft. p ivi DIxcs Discovers " -Being Liberators' Has its Hazards .AT THE FROUT! - - tj ' ; i ; - , "No Favor Swayt Us; No Fear Shall Awe" ... v - from First Statesman, March 28. 18S1 ' ' V ' , . THE STATESMAN PUBUSniNG COMPANY ' , : CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor, and Publisher" , Member of the Associated. Press . 7 The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all . , news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Attack Transports . , , , Given the most urgent rating for labor is the Job of constructing and completing attack transports. The Kaiser, yards in Portland have a certain number of these special-type , vessels to build this falL and they are given the finish ing touches by the Astoria Marine & Construc tion company at Astoria. To counter withdraw als from employment in Portland shipyards the -Kaiser interests are busy recruiting workers in nearly all parts of the country except those in the same tight situation as Portland. Their cam- jteign'is said to be bringing results and the pop- -ulation at Vanport which took quite a slump ' (luring the summer Is said to have stabilized at around 25.000. Employment offices are trying to recruit within the area enough , workers to give Astoria plenty of men for giving those boats me una toucncs uj w w 'V41"""' . An interesting feature of this spurt in ship building effort is the decision of Kaiser's to go Upstream to The Dalles for a portion of their sub-assembly work. Hitherto nothing has been farmed out to towns outside of Portland-Van-. couver except parts. At the new plant at The Dalles substantial portions of the ships will be constructed and barged downriver. The idea is to decentralize the manufacture, taking the job q ine men rawer uiui iu uimg uic oien w uie job. Boeing started this a year ago, when its Seattle manpower situation grew very tight. It established sub-plants at Chehalis and Ever ett." On ship work Astoria has been .used for some time for final fitting before delivery. . .,- One doesn't need a guidebook to conclude that these attack transports are specially de signed for actionem the Pacific. Our attack is now well launched on thecpntinent of Europe, with ample shipping for its continued supply. Remaining though are the big jobs of effecting, landings in the' Philippines, in China and on Japan's home islands. Presumably these boats are intended for' use in these campaigns. . The speeding up of this production shows 4kA 4hA 5 rrw Mmmfltifl fas nAtarm inai Ia vAa tiga b uic auaa vvimnwim m u -a tuutcu s aa rapidly for victory .in the Pacific. Only Palau, the Bonin islands and the Volcano islands re main as stepping stones to Japan's inner line of defense along the Philippines and Formosa and the China coast. Probably at the present time our military and naval forces are being aligned for the next drives. While they appear pointed at the Philippines MacArthur toward Mindan ao and Nimitz toward Luzon it is possible of course that a frontal attack on Honshu itself is 'intended.'-' ' j:' The rapidly moving, events in Europe have overshadowed . the occurrences in the Pacific -which have not been specially striking since the capture of Saipan and Guam. From Gen. Mac Arthur's headquariera "comes word .however . that the reconquest of New Guinea has virtually been concluded. The Japs . who remain are ' doomed to jungle existence or death, cut off as they are. from supply from the home lands. Al lied airplanes and submarines keep gnawing away at Japan's lifeline by continued sinkings of Jap shipping. This steady attrition cannot help being effective in reducing Japan's strength - in its remaining outposts as well as serving to. deprive the home lands of essentials for war. It will be well to keep one eye out on the Pacific. The high command may not be waiting ,for the curtain to come down on the last act in Ejurope before staging the great show, in the or ient. Our forces are now sufficient to keep go ing a substantial two-ring military circus: Japan will not have long to wait for its hour of doom to strike. " V 'v..'". '..'. ' Editorial Comment ' : Bomanis Wants Transylvania ' Almost before Romania has detached herself : . from the Axis, the "Romanian patriots" are hoping tn Mt Transvlvania back from Hunsarr. Perhans ... the Romanian threat will make Hungary scramble to get free from German entanglements. , The situ ation is most Important as an illustration of the problems we shall face in Europe after' we. get to . Berlin. ' - - ' In this country we have only a faint idea of how the races and nations of Europe hate each other. At the end of the last war the Balkans were . a mad scramble, with all the little governments trotting out their pet historians and "ethnologists" to prove their claims to territory. .'Tor instance: - Romanians are a Latin people who claim , to have sprung from the intermarriage of C " sax's legions with blond Dacian women but they are. Greek Catholics. . -r Hungarians are Magyars, a proud race, mostly Roman Catholic K ' : - , ': ' V " Bulgars are Slavs, mostly, and Greek Orth odox but they have a heavy infusion of Turks and Moslems. '. '..".. . . Jugo-slavs are Slavs, but they, split' Into ; . Serbian Greek Catholics and Croatian and Dal matian Roman Catholics. who hate each other and join in despising Romanians and Italians. . ; - In some degree you can Trace these "antag onisms" in every part of Europe even to Belgium where Flemings do not like Walloons or French :;. ; Belgians. '' - " Last time, Romania was on the winning side, War Sacrifice? v ' v V The Dallas Itemizer-Observer, noting with ' regret the fact that Polk county placed lowest, among counties in the state in the purchase of E bonds during the recent Fifth War Loan cam-, paign, uses the occasion to speak plainly to its constituency respecting its obligation. No one would imply that our neighbors in Polk county are any less patriotic than in other counties, and : after all not every county can rate first, and ; certainly Marion county did not either, but still there is the tendency, as the Dallas paper ob serves, to fail to take responsibilities personally, to do irV a modest way what should be done in a larger maimers ; i: -:; -:-' r -tf"' Here is some of Editor Richardson's plain talk to his readers, which is worth reprinting because its truth applies to Americans every where: v : ; 'ry-:Uyrf';'.f-''' The plain truth is that you and I and ev eryone have lived better during this war than V we ever lived before. We haven't seen suffer ing in our homes that was due to war short ages; we have been deprived of' very little ' which is necessary , to sane, happy and normal life. We have griped about gas and tire re strictions and lack of opportunity to do some things, but actually we have been denied very " little. We have had more real dollars and cents prosperity than we ever experienced before or may ever experience again. , - As you ponder these things; as you look at the faces of mothers of fighting men; as you meet on the street some boy you once knew : as a happy, mischievous, lovable neighbor kid, -now aged by the rigors of war, can you justify ; yourself thus far? ' - The horizon around our fox holes will be widened appreciably when we can. ' The war is not over; the effort on the home front is not over. There will be bond drives and war will give everyone loyalty and his generosity and his willingness to share in the obligations the war imposes on all citizens. When people really stretch them- selves they have a personal satisfaction that fully justifies the sacrifices. . . v ; Umatilla's Courthouse Umatilla county which has a court house . that resembles Marion's is being outgrown and a grave fire risk, may vote on a proposal for a : special tax levy to run J or several years to ac cumulate funds for a new court house. It was a case brought up from Umatilla county a few years ago that gave the supreme court the op portunity of interpreting the constitution to the effect that no debt can be incurred for court house purposes or bonds issued. So unless a county happens to have a lot of money in the kitty? which is not earmarked (which is -rarely the case if our budget law is, observed) about the only way to get a needed courthouse is to make a special levy. Marion county has adopted a courthouse proposal, but . so far no special tax levy is authorized or asked. Accruals wider the six per cent limitation will be held in a special fund, though it will take about ten years to accumulate enough to pay for a new courthouse. Maybe if we get impatient ; . we can vote a special levy as Umatilla county is considering doing at the next election. Another . Casualty List The Literary chest and Red Cross appeals. These GUIClOpOSX everyone an opportunity to prove his SOUTHERN FRANCE, Aug. 19 -(delayed )-i&-ltz a wonderful experience being hailed as "lib erators" of towns and villages of southern France, but also it has its hazards. " t ..During one . day's speedy ad vance through, sectors leading in . Inad from the Riviera beachhead ' - the only casualties I saw in our motorized column were from over-enthusiastic welcomers. j Of .course,, there 'were- -. few -. temporary casualties here . and there when the welcoming wine flowed freely, but ' those have - long, since come to be considered a part of any liberation and are " WZ I 'tPCD ITDlT Interpreting ThetWar News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST Official allied reports draw a dark picture for the nazi foe in the valley of the. Seine to the north and that of the Rhone to the south; but they are significantly silent as to the situation in between the two Invasion fronts in east central France.' '-' In the south a sudden eruption by Patch's troops into the central Rhone valley north of Mon- telimar has trapped the bulk of German troops racing from the Rhone delta area for escape. The site is the narrowest sector of the Rhone valley, flanked for escape. The site' is the narrowest sec-. - tor of the Rhone valley, flanked by the foothills of the Alps to the east and the central mountain base of France to the west All traffic from the Medit erranean coast up the Rhone valley funnels through the Montelimar-Vale bottleneck, a strip some 20 miles long and less than half that wide through which all rail and road connections , squeeze their way north. French patriot forces dominate the ; western bills and the French and American troops hold all the high ground to the east Allied air ar- madas are reported concentrating on German troops endeavoring to fight their way out of the trap above McteUinar.rV;;- :'"V--:' - v In the north Eisenhower's armies are now . astride the Seine for a 200 mile stretch from near its rise to south of Rouen on the Seine estuary.- A halfscore bridgeheads east of the Seine 'exclusive of its crossing in Paris itself are noted to indicate a hug new allied wheeling movement swinging to grind enemy forces out . of all northeast France. Southeast of Paris American armored columns are . already on the battlefields of World War I. It seems clear that with elimination of virtually all of the deadly pocket for the ' foe west of the Seine except close to the coast below Rouen, Gen eral Montgomery, allied field commander in ' the north, is shifting ius American elements southeast- and the beauteous Queen Marie was exercising her ward. Two Canadian crossings of the river close to charms, and with old man Jorga spouting history - Rouen are reported and two British bridgeheads and ethnology, Romania walked "off with Trans- above that. The original American Seine crossing "Chuay . Brown," by . Marrer? Sharp (Little, Brown; SUW.f ' It seems appropriate that the large group of readers which de pends for literary sustenance on the Book-of-the-Month Club ! is to have a double choice fori Sep-. tember. One book is a love story that is not so simple as it seems, ' Neva Shute's Tastoral.wJ The other is Margery Sharp's ."Cluny. Brown," a parlor comedy, which Is not so funny as it seemsi ', jj Miss Sharp - applies the cus tomary English parlor comedy . ; formula industriously to the ma-. terial at hand, and with consid- . erable success. She goes, then,; a little beyond her formula.! Her Cluny Brownf Is ' a girl who doesn't .know her place, ' and i few wistful thinkers will discov er a certain amount of, "social significance" in the fact i that " Cluny and modern England com-: -' bine to provide, for Cluny the place she decided she must have. It is to be doubted : that Miss Sharp was much concerned with social significance. . j ' jl .. Cluny lived! with her uncle,; a plumber. He was that perfect , combination for parlor comedy; a good and conscientious workman and a fooL He did not understand Cluny, who was anxious, on her side of the disagreement, to un derstand the world. Cluny Was neither beautiful . nor especially bright, but she had another p4r lor comedy combination of great value naivete and curiosity. She Cook her own money and had iea at the London Ritz, and jshepis testing a prescription - for Well being found in some magazine at the time tho story opens. She is spending a day, in bed, 'jeatlng , oranges. But : the phone rings, and since her uncle.is away, she answers, and decides to unstop .the sink herself.' v This leads to a minor Wvfen ture with xocktaus, and 1 j jto Cluny'a going -into service ail a great house in Devon. And there follows, inevitably, one of those . parlor, comedy tangles in which . the village ! chemist, Polish ! writer, the heir to the baronecy, ; a neighbor and his dog, Sir Een- ry and Lady CarmeL and the ser vants hall take willing part and ' in the end smit to anything NeivG Behind the News By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole ' - or in part strictly prohibited.) I t. j WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 The -headlines say: . : "Eggs Lead Upswing In Cost of Living.- The announcement Is made by Mr. Roojevelt's labor' secre- -. tary, ; Frances Perkins, : who . makes no comment Around town, the common , Interpretation is that the presi dent is rettinj? ready to grant another gener al wage m- crease before elections,; and . Miss Perkins is submitting fig ures in advance to justify it Simultaneous ly, ; coming to my desk, is a r taUon leiier irom ; aa- -mer Kennedy, of a Colorado Typographical union, , objecting to my conclusion that labor gets -its wage advances from business profits, and, therefore, is wrong in advocating Increasing busi ness taxation which will limit its opportunity for future wage ad vances. - - - : He says (and '.all labor looks at - it this way, through the wrong end of the spyglass) wages paid by business are con sidered expense, the s a m e as taxes, cost of materials, etc. and profits are what is left after the expenses are paid. V- Behind these two events lies the whole story of the unwise, if not suicidal course of current la bor and political leadership on wages, taxes and profits. I think this can be demonstrated plain ly and simply so all who lend an attentive eye and half a thought can see it, ; Every time a price goes up, all wages automatically decline to the same extent Every cent more you pay for eggs, bread, - fresh vegetables, fruit, etc, is a cent reduction in your pay. But does Miss Perkins, the la bor secretary, protest? Do labor short of mayhem ' in order to straighten things out "Cluny. Brown is arriving a little Ute for summer reading, but that is what it is. ; "THE YOUNG ; IDEA" By Mossier ylvania which had been Hungarian for nearly two centuries, a large chunk of Russian Bessarabia, and most of the Banat from Jugo-slavia and a sizable hunk of Bulgaria. What Romanian politicians did to their "minority" populations wasn't pretty. There can be no real peace in Europe until some distinction is made between "governments' . and people. ' Most Romanians, Hungarians, Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, are just ordinary folk who don't really want to hate anybody. They have been victimized for centuries by the politicians and over lords who have made fat thing out of racial and religious hatred and superstition, : Tip for peace-makers: Throw some of, the "pa triots" out the window and bring in some of the people. Eugene Register-Guard. ; Each state and territory is soon to send a repre sentative to Washington, D.C, to notify Pres. Roo sevelt that he has been nominated for a fourth term, says news item. Bet he'll be surprised. -" Mt Vernon (Wash.) Arjus. near Mantes seems to be the left of the American part of the line now. - American forces supplemented by the second French armored "division in Paris hold the rest of the Seine line to Troyes or beyond but south of that point there is an official blackout .on information, as to the whereabouts of roving columns between' the Seine and the Loire.1 The present location of "Butler's task force," the Seventh army unit which took Grenoble and reached the Franco-Swiss bor der near Geneva several days ago, also is unre vealed. A presumable gap nearly 200 miles wide still separtes the two invasion forces although act uallyt hey may be much nearer an effective junc tion to split enemy forces, in France wide apart from the Swiss frontier to the channel. , At the moment that junction is made the ques tion of a single overall allied command in France ' must arise. Eisenhower's and Patch's armies would become available for combined action to storm across the old battle fields toward the upper Rhine , while British, Canadian and other allied troops on the left drove eastward between Paris and the sea. They'll all be wearing that frilly lark te the party why fiont yea gt semetUag tlack and slkyr leaders fight the increasing of prices?. . u- : . ,v ; 1 Not at alL Oppositely, they ; seek out price increases, adjust their statistics so as to stress price increase. In order to claim more wages. They do not .have the con sumers' interest in this basic matter, although they are con sumers. They strive always to get ahead of the game with de mands for wage increases, but are always behind It 'v Indeed, they do worse than that, irom their own standpoint They advocate wage increases which will directly cause price increases, and thus defeat them selves as consumers by their own leadership. How Is the worker better off with a 50 per cent wage increase if prices go up 100 .per cent, or even 51 per cent?. Such a wage increase is really a reduction. " Is , this unwise, self -defeatist labor leadership due to the fact that the union leaders are, after att, mainly politicians and, therefore, follow the ways of the politician rather than the , true, wise, economic group interest? The-official position of the unions oh business profits is just ' as cockeyed : to me. Yes, Mr. Kennedy, Wages paid truly are expenses and only 'what is left as profits are subject to taxes (except social security, etc.). But as these expenses increase, profits decrease or prices rise. There is no other way to pay - increases. V- K. .-. If labor keeps forcing prices up by constantly increasing wages, it will not only always . be behind, but-will cause infla tion and the destruction of its own recent wage gains, f;: By increasing taxes 'on busi-- - ness, it likewise reduces the pot from which it draws its income. It destroys incentive capital and investment, and thus also a greater ; opportunity to work at v increased wages. : .-. --- v Labor, in simple common t sense and self-interest, should advocate a decrease in business ' taxes (me opposite course to the one it is now pursuing) so there will be a greater availability of funds for wage increases. - The fundamental interests of labor are. the same as business. If there are no profits, there can .be no wage increases. If prices are allowed to run continuously . up, wage Increases arc false manna.. . ;V :?-;f ;;. Labor should crusade against "prices and - work for business ; profits.", ' 'y. v If labor leadership, by Its cur- rent ' unwise course,: destroys profits and ' hinders good busi- " ness, there will be nothing left but - gove r n m e n t . ownership -through socialism "or commu- ' nism, and then your wage scale will be those of servants of the government and you will have unimaginative, unenergetic.. busi ness conducted by government, with less work,' less production, less of; a country. , Remember government oper ation of the railroads in the last -wart Look at government work ing conditions here today, Inef fj c i e n c y , waste, bureaucratic control, political, pull for soft Jobs, soft work but also soft pay and no one has the right . to . strike against the government I do not wish to overstate my . case, but I think, In all common sense, labor is travelling - the worst possible policies tor its own best ends.- -". - (Continued from Page 1) - veterans who know the -stream the catches are nothing like What Mr. Hoover talks about i Of course all streams are poorer in comparison with pioneer times, but - the Santiam seems worse , . than most 'lJ":-':; '' .;. w ' ' Concerned over the effects of a high dam below -Detroit the .Salem sportsmen have taken Hp with the game commission and with Congressman Mott the mat ter of a game fish hatchery, which will help to restock the stream.. The pool behind the Niagra dam creates a -: real : problem as re spects fish life. As a combina tion power and flood control dam there will be a large draw down especially in the fall months, though the pool will not be fully drained by any means. Just what possibilities 'it may, have . for game fishing and how the losses in migration or salmon for . v to .cratches by the thorns. problems that are already given concern to naturalists as well as sportsmen and commercial fish ermen. . . ' ' Under careful control and management a stream need. not be permanently fished out By restocking, . by careful study of feeding possibilities for fish, and perhaps by increasing the stream flow as will be possible with the ' river dams it may be that fairly good fishing may be restored on the Santiam. Hardly though, ; will It Teach the ' proportions of : Hoover's boyhood. Or do you ' suppose the ex-president was in , dulging in a little fisherman's ro mancing. He's just past 70 you know, so might feel entitled to - spin a few yarns about the good old days. nothing a good night's sleep won't "cure. ' , ' But this business of being . beaned by fruit and bouquets is something else again. . In order to understand It you. must realize ' that delighted French patriots line the streets of-all the towns and villages as the .Yanks roll through. At the same time, the towns may still contain a few 'Snipers so that it Is hoi good pol icy to loiter. V ' . The life expectancy of any such sniper, once he fires Into an American ; column, , generally is less than 10 minutes. : French patriots take care of that Never theless the speed of his subse . client -demise doesn't help who ; ever he has hit, so the safest pol icy is to keep highballing. Balked at giving kisses first hand, the patriots started Hing ing them. Then somebody thought of flowers, so they start ed throwing them. Then some body else thought maybe . the doughboys were hungry, which I of course is always true, so they : started tossing fruit and that's ' when the casualties began. . Hunched over the wheel of our Jeep, Capt Ralph Hotchkiss of . Hartsdale, N.Y and Washington, , had the footfeed on the Goor boards when a peach flattened his goggles and . momentarily stunned him. 1 Another guy v grabbed the wheel until the cap tain recovered. " , In a Jeep behind us Lt Mitch ell Tackley Maloney was busy eying the surrounding landscape, . covered with pulchritude, when 'a pear popped him. An hour later one eye was black, but Tackley still was looking with the other. Pvt Robert Farnham of. Bat tle Creek, Midw driving Tack ley's Jeep, suddenly found his 'vision blocked by what seemed to be "a whole flower garden." When he removed the bouquet it was found his injuries amount - The other private was standing in the truck bed waving when the sunflower laid him low, but he threatened to shoot me when I asked him his name. - "I have come all the way from Salerno without getting my ndme in the paper," he said, "and if you think I am going to have people "back home remembering me as the guy who got socked with the sunflower, you're crazy . Today's Garden ; By LILLIE MADSEN This season I tried my own ad vices on the tomatoes, and to my surprise, they are doing super 1 well. Early this season, I advised, on authority of one' of the State College vegetable experts, feed- ing the tomatoes superphosphate. That same day I went out to look at my puny little tomato plants with considerable disgust The thought occurred to me sud denly that I might try my own garden advice. It truly works. The tomato vines are all of four feet tall and are loaded with enormous tomatoes. Not boast ing at all, I do not believe they come much hetter. r'''V ' Shortly after they were plant ed out in mid-May, they were fed a small handful of the super phosphate, placed in a ring around the plant a .few inches from its base. ' This was watered in. The plants were continuous ly hoed not too deeply, but suf ficiently deep to keep the soil stirred. In short order, improve ment began to show. The treat ment was followed every two -. weeks through June and July. am really proud of my tomato plants this year. Ar T. C B. sends a samply of a hollvhock leafx and wants to know what rails if. ' Ans.: ; Rust is the trouble. New Plants should be grown for the next season. Cut off ' the " old ' plants,a nd burn, as soon as they finish . flowering. - Next sea start spraying the new plaits as - soon as they heging growing, us ing a 3-3-50 Bordeau. Do not let any old leave carry over. Oregon Might Get Increased Road Funds WASHINGTON, Aug. 28-(ff)- A three-year postwar highway construction fund being set up by congress may give Oregon over $8,000,000 a year, Sen. Guy Cor don (R-OreJ said today. The senate postwar roads com mittee has approved a bill to es tablish the fund. A matching for mula of the 1916 act for federal aid and farm-to-market roads is retained in the new bill. A similar house bill includes a formula disadvantageous to thinly populated states, said Cordon. It defines an urban area as one with a population of 5000 instead of lo.ooo. ' . : The senate bill provides a spe cial formula for public land es tates. If a state has over 5 per cent public land, new., highways will be financed 60 per cent federal and 40 per cent private. Annual amount for highway bu&dins! within national forests will be $25,000,000, ! Cordon announced. Highways through public - lands will be financed entirely by the government; ;r.."'':: The farm i to market alloca tion, said Cordon, "will be par ticulariy desirable in the north western' states where heavy traf- Lfic and the speedup of the lum bering and logging industries, and the inability of local governments to obtain equipment and mainte nance supplies' have left some of these , roads In precarious condi tion." : ; ,,:: -:v-; v He said various amounts would be apportioned to Oregon, as fol lows: federal aid roads $4,1 44, 000, farm-market roads $3,3 15, 000, urban roads $1,304,000. . conos ovun lamtM In Richmond, Va. The Boone rock. In scribed -im Squire Boone." It is believed that the brother of the famous Daniel marked the rock to Inform his brother he had returned irom the setUementa, Csy f.!cro TI:cn Cc'cro Aeraes the face of Eu rope today axe mark ups and Inscriptions, inerplicahle to the Ge stapo, that teU mem- tiers of the Underground the whereabouts of . their feUov Caters for freedoov :"