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Tlx CIIZGOII STATEZMAITSolexa. Oregon, Thursday Korxlngv August 81, ISif
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Wo Favor Sumys ts; No Fear Shall Axct" ;
v. ' From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 I
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v THE STATESJ1AN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Member of the Associated Press . - j
The Associated Press, Is exclusively entitled to the use for publicatloo of ail
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper..
Future of Lend-Lcase
- In his letter transmitting "the quarterly re
port of the lend - lease administration Pres.
Roosevelt made the point that. we should con
tinue this program "on whatever scale is neces- "
sary" until we have the unconditional surren
der of Japan as well as Germany.
Most Americans will favor this plan. We
want Great Britain's help in the final trimming
of Japan (though we can do-it alone if need
be), and realize that to furnish this assistance
Britain will continue to need a certain volume of
supplies. : ; y . : . . :," ;, r: - . :- . ----- - j -' ; ::'. .
Americans also are willing to make the nec
essary, contributions of foodstuffs and living es
sentials in the way of 'emergency relief to coun?
tries in Europe, when the war there ends, as
they did after the first world war, to avert' star
vation. '; -- V": ' :r::'y,'"
But these contributions must be of a tem
porary chirtcter. They cannot be considered
a promise that Uncle Sam will be Santa- Claus
to all the world. Other countries will have to
get in and dig to sustain themselves in the nor-,
mal processes q production and exchange of
gOOdS. , ' - ; - :
In the end there will need to be a clearing
of the slate. The old war debts still stand on
our books even if Finland alone honors its debt
to this countryv TJiose debts were, around $11
billions. - If the borrowers could not pay that
sum in the interval between the wars, how can
we expect them to pay the $28 billions plus
which - they have, received-under ; lend-lease. v
There will have to be some discounting or ex
tinguishment of this accumulation of debt be
fore financial relations among the nations is on
a sound basis. :
Again, most Americans will agree'that the.
chance of recovery except perhaps -from Rus
sia, is slight, and that we will have to charge, off
most of the totals we now have on our books.
But in preserving our conception of free gov
ernment in two great nations we will further
agree that the gain- is worth the cost.
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Snuff Famine - r :'- - :- :
Albany reports a unique famine, one of
snuff, which has just been relieved by receipt
of a sizable shipment. According to. the Democrat-Herald
the famine lasted about two
weeks, and was caused by transportation strikes
In the midwest which held up shipments. It
reports that local consumers use aboyt 3600
boxes of snuff a week which is no amount to
sneeze at! -!-'
Snuff, which travels under the deceitful
ular even in high circles. George Washington
had his snuffbox as did the other notables of the
time both in America and in Europe. The hab
it of using snuff now persists largely in the
south, and perhaps the Albany demand comes
from transplanted southerners. At any rate the
season, of dearth is -ended and the Albany con
- turners have enough snuff again. ;
Chosen Instrument?
Some months ago Sen. McCarran of Neva- ,
da, who has given a great deal of study-to the
matter of postwar aviation, introduced a bill to
legalize a single aviation company for foreign
operation. He contemplated an American flag
company in which transport agencies could hold
stock. This chosen instrument plan was his so
lution of the question now vexing the civil aero
nautics board on whether franchises for foreign
airline operations should be granted to a few
companies, like', Pan-American, or to many un
der a plan of free competition, which is urged
by the majority of domestic companies, many ,
of which are anxious to get a winghold in for- )
erican operation.
The McCarran solution has run into a snag
however. Both the state and justice depart
ments of the government object to a monopoly
line. The state department sees in the" provision
that the flag line could negotiate with foreign
countries for .franchises an invasion of its own 7
authority. -wThe department of justice raises
the question of violation of the anti-trust laws
in creating a monopoly.
In view of this opposition and the opposi
tion of the most of the domestic airlines to the
chosen instrument idea, congress is hardly like
ly to pass the McCarran bill.
Meantime the CAB has to consider the
numerous applications how before it for licen
ses to operate on foreign flights. A hearing is
being held in San Francisco on the application,.
' of the Matson line for permission to fly to Ha
waii and probably elsewhere in the orient. "
TWA wants "universal coverage" with its prom
ise of landings anyplace on the globe within 38
hours. The board may wait for congress to de
cide on a national policy, but it can't wait much
longer. Whether congress or CAB makes the
decision, the fact is true .that the thorns are'
thick on both ends of the airline stick, monopoly v
or multiple operation.
An exchange says:, "Today in Paris people
die in the streets from snipers' shots and nazi
planes, but the eternal feminine remains unruf
fled." If she's unruffled it's because the styles
call for short skirts and slim blouses. When the
mood changes shell be well .ruffled again.
Governors' threesomes are planned as part
of the Dewey-Brkker campaign. Three spoke
Tuesday night, and two more sets of three are
scheduled. It remains to be seen whether the
democrats will counter with that ' toothsome
twosome of mayors Kelly and Hague.
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.i.ATTIIEFROirn
French People Ccm't
.Do Enough to Aid
Their IJbrcdor
"Beachhead Objective
News Behind the News
1 : ByttAUL MALLON - : ' ;
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole
c or in part strictly prohibited.)
French , Collaborators
: The great French actor Sacha Guitry, is
held in a Paris jail as a fascist collaborator.
Maurice "Chevalier, another famous actor, is re
ported to have been killed by French maquis. "
Bernard Fayr French author of biography (of
Franklin, Washington, Roosevelt,) is said to be
held in prison because, he took office as a li
brarian under the Vichy regime and turned over.'
to the nazis library material which they used in ,
-attacks on Free Masonry. Not a" very good show
ing, is it, for French intelligentsia. Too many .
thought they were riding the wave of the fu- '
' ture, only to find themselves -high on the sand
when the ebb set in. ' r $ : .. t
( Dr. Alexis Carrel, noted physiologist with
a laboratory in Paris, has been "suspended from
all his functions,'' the Paris radio says, because
his "anti-national activity has been notorious."
Charles Lindbergh worked with Dr. Carrel for
some time. Wonder which infected the other
with the nazi-disease.
Paul MaUon p-
The right hand of governmetit doesn't let
Its left hand know what it holds. After the army
or navy comes along to give a plant an E flag
a process-server from .Biddle's office is apt to
follow citing the plant for violating some law.
Apparently it makes little difference io.
the soldiers of Romania and Italy and Bulgaria
which side they are on. They do not shoot, to
. be killed anyhow. ' -
Editorial Comment
Our Biff er and Better Jeneys
Baring his sparsely thatched head to the rain
of criticism. Prof. P. M. Brandt of Oregon . State
college opines that it was not a disaster to Jersey
breeders of the west when the Germans overran
the Isle of Jersey and played hob with its herds.
The genial and able Neck-Sticker-Outer Brandt '
was not being callous over the ill fate of the Jersey
' herds of the famous isle, but he was being pride
fully western especially pridefully Oregonian, be
cause approximately 70 per .cent of the dairy herds
of Oregon-are Jerseys, goregous Jerseys, and their
superiority over Island Jerseys has not been ade
quately recognized in this country.
The east, particularly, has worshipped Mother
Isle. Proper enough, because " the . Jerseys of that
i bit of green off the Normandy coast have carried
the torch of careful selection and good breeding.
; "But we in the west have done it well. Our
" Jerseys are more- ruffed, more adapted to the hus
tle of getting out and finding feed, and their pro
duction is higher. They are bigger and serve the
final purpose of all dairy animals better when the
butcher is called in. For this we have not always
had full credit The smaller, daintier Island Jerseys
have been promoted over them all too often. Lots
of people worship the imported label, whether it is
better or not, and against that Professor Brandt is
doubtless a protestor, as he should be.
He bears down on the fact that his heart is with
the western farm families who have labored to
build a type of sound agriculture. In his own state
approximately 42,000 of ihe 60,000 farms have family-type
farms, with dairy cows. ; It is hard work.
Breeding is tedious work. But it is just about the
soundest thing we have. In our after-war plans
this is a type of small business which is as essential
U democracy as fingers are to a hand.
These many small farms have made possible
f. eat cheese industry of Tillamook. They have
I ... cei a lot of working dairy cows which have
t ! beauty of eye appeal as well as the virtue of
handsome-is -as-handsome doe. They deserve .
more recognition than they have had.
" Thzfs ths story cf the -west'.. Western pride
1. i the rjoods. (Pacific P.ursl Press). . , , -,
King Carol will probably give up his Mex
ico night dub if he gets a nibble to come back
and take over his old job in Bucharest. He can't
expect the allies to set him on his throne and
then prop it up, however.
Interpreting
The War News
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST
The overtones of impending German defeat
sounded by high placed nazi military spokesmen,
reflecting fast paced developments on the battle
fronts, warrant speculation as to whether Hitler's
own home front is ripe for early collapse.
His mouthpiece, General Dittmar, drew a dark
and dispairiag. picture of the plight in which Ger
man armies find themselves everywhere. Heplead
ed only for a bitter-end stand that might soften
ultimate allied surrender terms, frankly admitting
that the war was lost for Germany. There is at
least an intimation that there are growing nazi
fears of internal revolt which would end this war
as it ended .World war I. ;
- Ditmar's home front broadcast must have stun
ned his German listeners. It left little to their im
agination; tended to destroy their faith in official
nazi announcements characterizipg the retreat from
Normandy and the Seine as a successful "detach
ment" of forces "according to plan."
" The bulk of nazi forces "detached" in France
have been permanently detached. They are either
dead or taken prisoners.
What is left of two shattered armies in the
north is being swiftly herded , into a greater and
more menacing trap than those in Normandy or
west and south of the Seine. Berlin announcement
of the evacuation of Rouen near the Seine mouth
represents belated recognition of the nazi command
of the danger in which its armies stand in the de
veloping allied Somme snare.
A gigantic allied V is forming with its apex in
, the northeastern suburbs of Paris, its left arm run
ning down the east bank of the Seine to Rouen or
beyond and its right prong up the valley of the
Oise Jto its headquarters northeast of Laon. Within
the extending and narrowing maw of that triangle
stand what is left of the German armies in north
, eastern France and the whole sweep of the rocket
bomb coastal area."
On the basis of the .pace in the last few days,
General Patton's Third army armored spearheads
are only hours from the Belgian border at recap
tured Reims. They are not much farther from Ger
many's own frontiers below Luxembourg where,
the Saare-Mosselle gap it a. possible allied ob
jective. :.r:, '-. ; -:'?ri74i:.ly-:
Which of General Patton's eastward probing
spearheads is the main attack the German high
command does not know. It can have no doubt,
however, that the northeastward thrust up the Oise
valley beyond Laon is aimed at trapping all Ger
man troops west of the Somme or from the Belgian
border to the coast .
With the fall of Rouen, the capture of Le Havre
" and the whole Seine estuaary is in sight to give, the
allied left flank close up communications with Erit-
aia and expedite the advance from the Seine ii .the
rocket launching area.. ' . . ..
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 War
department, . American Legion,
and others, seeing how our na-
tion was re
cently ntar de
structlbit be
cause lof its
military j defici
encies are
pushing I jcom-pulsoryimilita-ry
training. '
..Bills(have ,
been tottoduc''
ed in congress
to requites each
American youth, like the Euro
peans for many: genera tiofis; past,
to serve yearj so In thjarmyv
: The women k4ers, wOita ;
always killed such proposals, art
promoting a new substitute this
time. I heard a woman organiza
tion leader advocate it km the
radio. Mrs. Roosevelt,' I believe,
has spoken and written in favor,
of it, as have some othe femi
nine public counselors, j j
They, want to train the .youth
In a- non-military way j under
federal auspices with the; money
of the state, to make thenk "good
democratic citizens." I not
believe . these women haye lent'
much thought to their proposal
which springs from theuj jiatu-"
ral love of peace and revulsion
against things military, pj
We need a military force so
we train one in "citizenship." t
Can they really belieye the
nation could have been! saved
against the nazis if the! youth
had just been "good democratic
- citizens" and not good soldiers?
What could good citizenship have
done at Pearl Harbor?
Any soldier will tell his mo
ther that the . best trained sol
. dier has the best expectancy of
life. It is the poorly trained ci
tizen soldier who is least able
to protect himself in a fght.
Everyone seems -agreed we
need military training of & larg
,er section of owr youth than
formerly. We need it for jlove of
our country and its ideails, and
the protection of both lit this
-world, such as it is. We beed it
more than ever because jprotec-.
tion rests upon mastery of
mechanical r devices su
planes and tanks. -
. The proposal of' the
eh as
i
ladies
"THE YOUN
would defeat the purpose of .
what we agree we need. It is
much worse than that, because
it proposes to have the federal
government take over the minds
and bodies of the youth in their
formative period, not for defense'
of Vthe country which is their
common obligation to the state,
but' for political education.
Is this not democratic Hitler
ism? What Is the real difference
in method,- between drafting
youth for camp education in d
l tizenship, and the Hitler jmd
' Mussolini youth movements and
youth camps?
The war department, Legion,
et al, have a similar weakness
fat their proposal. They want the
training we need -to- be. accom-
. pushed by compulsion- on. the
citizen arguing that otherwise
the youth would not join in the
program. .'.--.- ' , -
Has democracy then ' failed,
even in victory? I think : not '
Only the ingenuity of a demo
cratic people- has failed. Only
the devotion and service of cur
leaders to democratic theories
has failed.
If the war department,' the
Legion, and the ladies all turned,
their thoughts away from these
current sloughs ' of dictatorial
imitation, and sought democra
tic methods of attaining their
objectives, they could have
agreed upon a method by now.
I. can think of some democratic
ways it could surely be done. ?
Treble or quadruple the size of
-' West Point and -Annapolis, for
the first thing. Allow each sen
ator to appoint ten or more boys
from home (by democratic ex
amination methods o n 1 y) to
these f r e e schools of military
training. - ..:.v- V- " "
, If ' I v know the , American
youth, there would still be a
waiting line for both: schools,
and many 'boys earlier would se
" lect high school subjects which
would prepare them for such
- schools."
Offer the subjects In the high
. schools which will enable such
preparation to those' who are
. inclined toward engineering, av
iation;" mechanics. You can even
. have a reserve officers training"
corps, in the schools, under an
IDEA" .By Mossier
V7ky all this fuss abeat Kjlons, I wander T
The Literary
Guidopost
, By JOHN SELBT
-CAMP FOLLOWS E: THE
8TOET OF A. SOLDIEX'S
WIFE," by Barbara Klaw
. (Random;' S2. . " !
It is just as well to explain the
' expertness with which Barbara
Klaw writes her "Camp Follow
er," for an unwary reader might
get the idea that the book is the'
. unconsidered product of a young
; army wife, dashed off between
the . afternoon ,, movie and . her
husband's arrival from camp.?
Mrs. Klaw married and drove
1 across i the continent to - San
Francisco, where her husband
had a job on the Chronicle. She
got one too, but four months la
ter they recrossed the conti-
n e n t to . Washington, where
Klaw, Pere,- had a better Open
ing; This was just before Pearl
Harbor. Mrs, Klaw worked for
the Rockefeller Committee and
the OWL and when her husband
was drafted she allowed him a
couple of weeks head-start, and
. then followed him to Neosho,
Ma, which is the site of Camp
Crpwder, -which in its turn has
completely swamped the town.
. Up to. the time Mrs. Klaw found -the
. room with the private en
trance (the landlady- told her
. every hour or so she could get
$13 a week instead of the $8
she charged) our author: had
published four juveniles. Now
that her husband is a technical
sergeant in England, she is
working in New York, as a re
porter on the Post ,
army officer But do this in the
t democratic way. ...
Don't force all youths into
these ventures. In addition to
being un-American, it is unwise.
Those who wish to go into such
lines will desire to make the
, best of their : opportunity for a
free education.
The same education will be
wasted on the others who do
! not want it Herding these in by
- compulsion would merely give
you a bad army, numbers, not
effectiveness.
, i If you want camps for mfli-
- itary. training for others, let the
government make these attrac
tive enough to youth to invite
'- their interest and participation.
Do not go back to the old army
: : salary of $30 a month.: Keep up
-salaries -of defense service as
long as you need men for de
fense. Make the defense services
of - this country honorable pro
fessions, such as Britain has al-
- ways made her navy. Do not re
vert to the 'popular scotn of
military duty. .
These three simple democratic
methods without compulsions
: possibly ; would give the army
and navy more men each year
' than they- want or could han-
' die, in my opinion. It not, there
are other ways, which the ex-
' perts could devise not to pam
per the youth with glorified CCC
camps and WPA's, but in the
- offering of commonsense oppor-
tunities whereby the youthjnay
advance themselves.", ' .
Our trouble is our leaders are
' not even trying democratic noe
j thods or thinking of democratic
ways, but on both sides of most
. "questions wish to compromise
with ways they should despise.
Let them turn their thoughts
toward bulwarking the methods
: of this republic, toward making
Its' methods efficient and away
from sly compulsions to, do the
very things Hitler, did; and thus
prcfanfcj the name of democ
racy. - ..
. WITH THE AEF IN SOUTH
ERN FRANCE, Aug. 24 -(Delayed)
-(ffV - Every day is full of
hew incidents showing the spirit
of the French people toward
their liberators something new
to the tired doughboys who have
been fighting in the Mediterran
ean' theatre since Casablanca.
Evegr town turns out the en
tire v population. They '"V wave,
cheer, throw flowers and" serve
wine even when the tide of
soldiers sweeping through " be
gins to be numbered In thous
ands. There Is no doubting their
tears of joy and gratitude.
The soldiers are accustomed to
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to sustain armies and navies. So
the appeal goes out for loyalty
- to country. "Land where my fa
thers died" excites our deepest
loyalties? : Safety of home and
family evokes the highest sacri
fice. . -;
Not only are sentiments of na
tionalism stirred, but war in
structs ui fa hate. That , is not
difficult. When the enemy is
shooting to kill you or your loved
ones it i not hard to hate him.
In fact hate becomes a very serv
iceable tool in the kit of warfare.
While some soldiers may be me
thodical about fighting, or others
sporting, many are fired with an
intense hatred for which in the
present war, there is abundant
provocation because of the cruel
ties of Japs and nazis.
. Can we expect such fires . of '
love of country and hatred of en
emies to cool quickly and be sup
planted by the spirit of interna
tional unity which is fundamen
tal to "durable peace?" ; .' r
It can be done only if there Is
careful discrimination in 'our
postwar decisions. The antagon
isms will develop along this line:"
Some1 will go in for intense-nationalism,
acquiring ajl the bases
from the Philippines to Dakar as
Senators McKellar and Reynolds
appear to advocate, erecting high;
protective tariff barriers for sup
port , of home ' industry, 'urging
policies of extreme militarism.
Others will want to go maudlin
' In ( their internationalism, wel-
, .coming - the - Japs and the Ger
mans as merely . badly' behaved
children who have been properly
punished, dispersing our sub
Stance all over ihe- worlds and
sinking war ships and demobil
izing armies. Common sense
should warn us against either of
these extremes. . v '-'
Our loyalty remains to our
own country, put that down first .
But we can cooperate in trade, in
finance and in cultural relations
with other countries. Also we can
set our feet in the path that
points toward peace, remember
ing however that it is not a one
lane path,, but a multi-lane path
that will, require all the nations
to march abreast including the
. enemy states after they have
been fully disciplined.
The fact is that while we in
voke nationalistic Instincts in the
waging of war, war itself in-;
structs us in the necessity for
world cooperation. There is uni-
venal revolt against the horror
- and tragedy of war; so it is not at .
- all impossible for the seeds of
peace to take root in the soil of
war. But they will require most
careful tending if they are ul-
- timately to bear flowers and
fruit It is folly to think that the
- job is done if we draw up a fan
cy international charter, univer
sally signed. , ,r '
the begging from hungry citi
zens .These people are . hungry,
too, but among, them begging is
; discouraged in what . few, in
stances it appears. The villagers,
instead, offer you their last loaf
of bread and smile happily if
you accept anything to eat from
them, v vi: ,v;";.i '"i?J-
; "Without casting "unjust asper-1
sions on other lands, it can be
said you didnt dare leave so
much as a field. Jacket unguard
ed in 'jeep 'almost anywhere in
Italy or North Africa. It just
wouldn't be there when you re
turned. :
But In several mountain .vil
lages far. Inland in France we
were forced to leave i a jeep
loaded with hundreds of dollars
worth of cameras and , typewrit
ers, food, clothes, ; gear and
equipment sometimes right In
the middle of the milling
crowds, , sometimes In deserted
: alleys for the night
V Not once was so much as a
; single dgaret stolen.
Once we asked a maquis
chieftain if our stuff would be
safe left unguarded through the
night He quietly said yes. It
' was. But not until the next day
rdid we find that just to be sure
he had passed the word around
that anybody caught tampering
' with our jeep would be shot'
French people, both the fight
ing maquis and the unarmed
civilians, take any risks to help
the troops. They lead the way
to gun positions. They draw Ere
so the Germans are forced to
give away their locations. They
carry out the wounded and bury
the dead almost in the midst of
the scraps. They have provided
armed guards wherever needed.
. And everybody is still talking a
about the story of the people
of Pierrefeu and the lone dough
boy who fell there, the victim of
a sniper's bullet , '
He was the j only casualty in
the hill village northeast of Tou
' Ion. . The death of the American
who had come all the way across
the sea. to help liberate' them
touched the people of Pierrefeu.
v Pvt Frederick Mangiapane of
. Detroit Mich told the story to
Pvt George Dorsey of Los An
geles, a Stars and Stripes scribe..
After the shot sounded and
; the doughboy fell, the sniper
disappeared. , Meanwhile, amid
low exclamations of indignation
the townspeople picked up, the
- doughboy's body and gently car-
: riedt to a nearby house. The,
I town undertaker went , to his
shop and picked out a sturdy
pine casket carved from the tall
trees which dot the mountain-
side. ' 7
"Then the people changed
their ordinary clothes to black
ones," Mangiapane-said. "They
-picked pallbearers and brought
v out a big French flag. They took
. down the boy's - serial number
and gave it to army officials
. later." j -
A requiem mass was sung in
the -little-Pierrefeu church over
the casket briught with flowers
and the French tricolor. Behind
four black-clad men the towns
people walked in a long proces
sion out to the ancient cemetery
where Pierrefeu had buried Its
dead for generations.
Germans were shelling the
town, but the funeral for the
American "soldier' of , France"
v went on.
frhere were a lot of people
; there everyone in town must
have gone to the funeral," said
Mangaipane. ."It really was nice
just like something you might
. see back borne." ':C;v!; "To"-'"...
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