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j -J. PAGE F0U3 Tlx OZIGON STATEZMAIT. Sdan Oregon, Sunday Morning, CepiamLer 2t 1811 mm ' , JL. - Way to Do GcraHe - - ; ; ' . ... ( i nsanhowar Gives ...at tie Fnoirn as Stmm?)Pm r" x 'jr'jytagg . jerr2? . f "No Favor Sway Us: No Fear Shall Aw" From First Statesman, March 23, 1831 f i . THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY .it ..; CHARLES A SPRAGUZ, Editor and Publisher r Member ot the Associated Press ', 1 l- Tha Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use Cor publication ot ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Jim Reed as Orator Congressman Cannon of Missouri, speaking in the house following the recent death of for mer Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, re ferred to Reed as one of the most eloquent men in the long list of congressional orators -ja word painter, a phrase maker, a coiner of epi grams, a master of satire and sarcasm, of invective- and' caustic ' objurgation." ' I Then he quoted Reed's tribute to Speaker 'Champ Clark, a fellow Missourian, on March ,5, 1921. Cannon said it was delivered almost " extemporaneously,, it is, indeed, a literary gem, reminiscent of Robert G. Ingersoll. I We quote it,. as reprinted in the Congression al Record: " A wonderful stream is the river of life. A slender thread emerging from the mysterious f ' realm of birth, it laughs and dances through the wonder world of childhood. Its broadening currents sweep the plains of youth between the flower-decked banks of romance and hope. A mighty torrent it rushes over the rapids of ' 'manhood and breaks in foam upon the rocks '. of opposition and defeat, then glides away across the barren, sterile field of age until it is engulfed and Jost within the waters of the eternal sea. ! The robes of 'royalty, the beggar's rags, the rich man's golden hoard, the pauper's copper pence, the jeweled diadems of princes, and , the thorny crowns of martyrs alike are swept i by the same ceaseless tides. " : The miracle of birth, the mystery of death, remain the unsolved problems of all time. The shepherd philosopher who 3000 years ago upon t the Syrian plain, observed the procession of the r planets and contemplated the decrees of' fate ; was as wise perhaps as is the wisest of today. He only knew that standing here upon this - bank of time his straining eyes could not ' glimpse even the shadowing outline of the far ther shoreHe could only behold the white sails of receding fleets, ships that sail out, but never come again. He only knew that at the grave's dread mouth all men must cast aside the bur den of their honors and their griefs; that man takes with him only that which he has freely given away; but that even death may not de spoil him of the riches of service and self sacrifice. Measured by that standard, he who sleeps today bears with him to the tomb, a legacy so rare that even envy is compelled to pay the tribute of admiration. "One More Chance" 1 i In an address Friday in Troy; New York, Vic . President Wallace, said there would be "no un employment in Russia after the war," and that the United States must "do better or step back." He went on to say that after the war the Unit ed States would have "one irtore" chance" to prove that our form of government is best; and that we would have "one more opportunity" to show that free enterprise is progress. j We get tired of having to endure this gun-at-our-heads tactic. This "one more chance' Jtheory is enough to make Americans boil over. Why just "one more chance"? Why just one more op-, portunity to show progress? Is Wallace some god almighty utterujg a mandate of "do this or else"? This is presumably a free country, and we can stick ' to the form of ; government we please, or change it if enough! people feel that way. i If our people Want to go to the totalitarian form in which all people work for the state, as in Russia, where labor organizations are pow erless and the penalty of any breach of respon sibility may be "liquidation" by death, why they can go that way by vote or by revolution. But the people of the United States do not like that kind of government They , have demonstrated over and over again that -they want their free .donu The violations of the prohibition law and the present lack of regard for OPA rules shows an unwillingness to yield to the mandate of law if it is unpopular.) ':' I : We get tired of the jerkingj of this Russian bogey now and then. Russia can live its own life; we can live jours. The competition as to rival systems should be stimulating to each other. But this "one more chance" theory is neither true nor. wise. A system which has pro vided its people With more automobiles, more washing machinesj more radios, more electric power than any other country in the world is not so weak that it is down to "one more chance." . . -v. ';f! ! : . ! ji .! ' i' - t;': r.-r2-f.i - ' 7Ph Governments and Foreign Trade A symposium on the question of foreign trade following the war, conducted by the National Industrial Conference board, revealed that top- flight industrial executives are optimistic about its revival, but they want government to keep -its hands off. This is challenging in a .period f when governments arein business up to their PnecksC doing the principal export and import ? business, if not directly then under license and control. Here is one expression said to be typi cal of fhe attitude of businessmen! We believe the policy of the government," in order to facilitate foreign trade of private in dustry after the war, should be to leave indus try alone, i i In other words, totally divorce the federal government from private industry, except to see that any and all business is conducted in '. an honest, ethical and fair way for -wrhich i - there are ample laws.wsuda need 'no bureau- era tic interpretation and control. ! The participation ot government is desired I in one particular that is, the stabilization of . foreign exchange. As one executive said: "If the j? exporters can be assured of a fixed relationship t between foreign money and the American dol lar; then the greatest obstacle to foreign trade ( will have been removed' But one of the factors which affect stabiliza- tion of exchange is tariffs, and businessmen have come to recognize that the only way for eign countries can pay for their imports is by exports, which means that we must be willing I ; to accept goods if we hope to sell others in for eign trade. .-- So complete is the present domination of f or- eign trade by governments, and so critical is the financial situation m some countries, Great. " Britain especially, it Is too much to expect an I's. immediate relaxing f 'government activity, in !' 'the field of foreign commerce. What goverh j men ts should do is to make an orderly retire- ment hut to pave the way so that private trad-, , ing can be resumed on a fairly firm basis. it A U The democratic party's Liberty ; league, the CIO-PAC, is giving the regular campaign or ganization plenty of embarrassment. Chairman Hannegan denies he was instructed to "clear . everything with Sidney." ; Meantime, the PAC seems to be doing most of the political chores for Roosevelt's reelection. ' Editorial Comment "Under New Management' The Literary Guidcpost By JOHN SELBT Leith F. Abbott, well known through western Oregon as the advertising agent for the South ern Pacific in this1 area, has quit Working for the railroad to become director .of publicity and' public relations for KALE. That will' keep Ab bott in the field of public relations. In f act, ; Leith will need some such outlet because he will find his style cramped a bit byj radio. Anyhow, his many friends wish for hint continued suc cess. ' . V : '' ' ":- ! i " Senator Thomas, (D-Okla.) says that Gover nor Dewey in hi -west coast (speeches is en dorsing the basic; new deal policy "only he would make it broader." By the way, what has become of the republicans wh purged Willkie because he was t6o much of a new dealer? V-day in Europe means lifting of restrictions on manufacture Of women's apparel. But the fair sex will still have to go without silk hose until the Japs get! their drubbing. Spite of the war, the silk-boycott is not one that will be re vived, when the war ends. 1 j j The Japs never admit the loss of any vessels, but five more admirals are reported dead in ac tion. Apparently the Jap navy will run out; of admirals before it runs out of ships. 1 Interpreting The War News K2RKE L. SIMPSON ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST PENSION TAX' SCHEME - : We have with us on the November ballot, la the - pension plan sponsored by the Twnsenders, n- other of those rosy but unsound, taxation schemes X which could be only disastrous to California. ' -The tax on which this proposition is based flies in the face of all revenue -raising principles. It Is a gross income Jmpuat T per cent, which anight rise to 5 per cent. Thinita everybody and U in-' come, regardless of source. It would be consca--''l tory in a great proportion of cases, and most of t 'i these among people f anil income. : ; i. Mind you, this is m tax vn gross, not net, income. v There are no dedudians, no credits, no allowances. ; ' There are many small concerns that do not make ''a more than. 3 to 5 per cent Such a tax would take ' '. their entire net income. In case of a concern that y. had a loss for the year, the tax would, nevertheless, ',- be levied on everything It took fa. T ; Adoption of this scheme would mean that Cali i?i fornians would pay three income taxes--the fed fii erar income tax, the state net income tax and a ; . state gross income tax, The effect could only be in-!- flationary, for, business would., have to ' pass, this ; 4 gross income tax along to the consumer. This makes the repeal of the state sales tax, put Into this mea m sura b Visit nnlv HAlucinn and a mare. The - The elements of decisive military disaster were present for nazr Germany on four war fronts this v weekend. , Given good weather to bring the full weight of Russian and allied air supremacy into sustained , play and simultaneous collapse of enemy defensive ; dikes east, west and south might come at any mo ment It would send a flood of United Nations forces pouring across the Rhine and the Vistula and up through Italian, Balkan and Hungarian gateways in converging stabs at; the heart ornazidom. f .. At the very moment the battle of the Rhine reached its crisis at Arnhem in east central Hoi land there came word of nazi defeats in the east andthesouth. : .y i ,r . pr:' ' Russian-Polish columns were reported across the Vistula at last 'and tin Warsaw itself, insuring the fall of the critical central , anchorage of the Ger- man eastern line. Other red "forces were moving into the Hungarian! plain from the Transylvanian -Alps, within striking distance of -the Budapest hub , of nazi southeastern communications. ' 4 - la Italy the collapse of the Gothic front has be- gna wife allied capture of Rimini, its Adriatic bolt position. A blitaVrieg invasion ofihe Po valley was finasineBt, to brJsigi allied liberation of all Italy end a swift allied Junction with the Russians in the Balkan peninsula in sight A nazi; flight from Crehvth islands- t the Aegean and the Palapon- -nests if not n Greece Albania and southern Yugo- -slevia was credibly: eeported. - rf The potentials of a Rnasian-allied trap that could turn the Balkan peninsula into prison camp or ' death scene for! cut-afT -German forces were too ; clearly apparent to be-ignored by Berlin. That had : already happened In Rrtania, the Baltic states and in western Holland, it was oa the Verge of happen- ing to nazi lost Iegionsria Ilnland and, northern . . The whole vast sweep et western Industrial Ger many was close under allied guns aa well as air'at tack from the RWne delta to the Vosges. The last ' German- abandoned "garrisons hr Sritiasy and Bel- ' gium were being blasted into submission. A Rus-' jrian steam-roller in the Baltic -states was grinding - nazi resistance to powder. In western Holland, an other; 100,000 or -so -nazis-were no less hopelessly trapped. v v I r ' P. To cap all these 1 actual, and potential military : disasters for' the foe there came from the allied . 'BOSTON lADVKIJTCaxy fcy Saa SUtfr4 (Harcrart. Bract; $2.7$). I doubt that Jean SUf ford's ecstatic publisher will persuade many teen to read; "Boston Ad venture," although as an exer cise in the apt use of words, the novel will not be improved upon this year most likely. Miss Stafford is almost a literary voluptuary.. I kept seeing her at ' her desk, picking up a word and ; fondling it like a stage miser ' with a pile of double eagles. But; after her moment of delight Miss Stafford seems automatical-' ly to drop the word into its just and proper' place. Most con-. " sciously literary people don't do that; they more . often drop it Into the place they, like best Which is a very different thing indeed.! Anyway, Miss Stafford's first novel is a set of character stu dies, in which the 'women are amazingly successful and the men rather shadowy. It also is a kind of exercise in the pathol ogy of poverty, through much of its course. Its narrator is a young girl, half German and half Rus sian,, whose parents detest each other j and eventually separate. . The father was a bootmaker from Germapy, but also lazy. He drifted; down,' his fiercely stupid wife pulled him down, and their disaster was inevitable. Before it came, the little nar rator's mother had worked sum- . mers in a hotel not far away. Occasionally the daughter, whose name Was Sonia, took her moth er's place as chambermaid, and bit by bit she achieved a fixa tion oh a certain I Miss Pride. Sonia loved the immaculateaess of Miss Pride's room and posses sions, and when she found that in Boston this determined spin ster lived on Pinckney street Sonia made of the remote ad dress a kind of Valhalla to which she retreated when her home grew noisesome. iThen (and entirely by chance) Miss Pride decided to have Son la's father make some shoes,' and eventually, after the father dis appeared, fate rearranged mat ters so that Sonia actually did go to live in Pinckney street and I became a part of Miss Pride's I News Behind the News 1 By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by. King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole I i or in part strictly prohibited.) ?-: mm, . WASHINGTON, Sept 24 A California university professor made a speech at Cleveland last week saying truly that "claims of sa periority for people based on racial pari 'ty are biolog ical rot Tost is no news. It has often been . strea d . He jPtid Malta V.'waB speaking a post mortem on the politics Hit ler played in Germany trying to build up ij the notion ' that the Nordics are a "pure strain" and therefore greater as a race. Just to get them to fight harder for him and his cause. His tactics deceived few. . The victorious march of our . armies on Berlin snffirimt current proof to the unthinking of what reasonable men have long known about the "superi ority" of the Germans. I But does this make us bio logically superior? The Russians also are driving upon Berlin and have! gone a greater dis tance."". I . . 1 jln truth, these developments reflect the activity, energy, skill and production -of our j winning nations. They have nothing to do with biology. ; I Yet in -this constant reitera- -tion of s i m pie biology truths, among speakers who get in the daily news, I have seen no one point out that there are certain differences, certain superiorities among nations as well as among i'aen.'-H :P-v ' jTbe Germans made a pretty good grade t steel before the waft. Tbej showed exceptional kill and J energy -in contriving and fighting this war. Some ot their phflcsDphers are popular in tads country and indeed in Russia (Mr. Karl Marx, for one.) ', . I have beard people attribute far from aaagiral circle It is not avery deep booav but it is a fine character study Sar zfaenour' between tea these successes to "the German mind But it was the German mind which made the biggest blunders of the last 20 years now leading to their destruction. What then in aires a nation, a ' race or a people superior? Well, obviously there are differences of superiority between people. In this country for instance, the Declaration of Independence said all are created free and equal before law, but it is an ac knowledged fact that no two people are precisely equaL In all the history of the world in any "country, no two persons existed who had precisely the, same per sonality or were exactly equal in mentality, ability, energy. Some like to work, some dont Same cheat some do not Even twins differ essentially in their beings. The natural endowment' of men at birth is variously in fluenced by their experiences in life. - WITH THE AEF . By NedvDIe Nerdness (Sabstitating For Kenneth L. Dixon) ' PARIS, Sept 21.-(Delayed)-" 0P)-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower declined to sign ( the honorary register at the Are de Triomphe because he thought, the name of Gen. Charles De Gaulle should bead the post-liberation list ' De Gaulle visited the unknown soldier's grave and the eternal light Aug. 27 but at that time the book still -was in Its four-year -biding place. ; I It was brought out for the Sept "keepers of the undying flame started the book on its way to De Gaulle and then will send it to Eisenhower, In all the years of the occupa tion 'the gas-fed flame was kept burning. ,: During the liberation -of the city a one-legged guard of - the Are De Triomphe slept by it to prevent vandalism by Ger mans. ' " ''Hitler never officially visited the site as popularly supposed, but many other German officials did. ' 'J On June 14, 1940, when the Germans entered Paris a general ST ceremony when Eisenhower - alighted in the Place De La Con- preeeated a plaque to" the city, tiity the coaamittee of the im G0D98 "THE YOUNG IDEA" Dy Elcssla- rgross income tax would be, in effect a bigger sajes advanced, posts on German soU.Jn the west toward ., ;-"ax for the consumer to pay.' i-San Jrancisco the weekend press intimations of ilumpinjTcivilian' Chronlcle. morale within the reich itself. - j- j l . ; V ., T - . ...... These then are the standards by which men Judge each other as superior or inferior, the nat ural standards of ability evident in themselves. Exactly the same differences exist ; in nations as in men. When the average indi vidual 'ability is high, the peo ple or nations are obviously su perior. . ' It seems to me, therefore, someone ought to be making speeches stressing the need for higherf intellectual standards in the country, the need of devel oping better workmanship, in spiring greater ability, promot ing greater individual and na tional energy. ! That, is the onlyjway we can keep our nation superior in the postwar world. Armaments alone will not do: it. Someone will always come along with a better gun, unless we maintain a superior ability to create one. That; force of higher practical ism must always be behind our . armaments, as well as our lives. ; ' This whole question of nation al andf race conflict has become" involved in such stressing of tc4- . erance -needful stressing---that the people who read the front ' , pages and listen to speeches may - have forgotten the visible, in spirational and intellectual stan dards ; which do really guide men. Tolerance does not mean . tolerance of sloth or chicanery for' instance. ' The responsibility ' for per petuating our historic idealism rests on leadership because the people will do no I better than their leaders. No matter what j tContinned rrnm Page 1) the myth of the ring of Rhine gold are lour in number: The Rheingnld, The Valkyrie, Sieg fried ' and Gcetterdammerung. -This is the story: .; Alberich, prince of (the Nibe iungs, gnomes who live under the Rhine, steals from the Rhine maidens the gold which shone in the water. To satisfy the giants who have built far him a won derful castle in Walhalla, Wotan, the god, steals from Alberich the Rheingold and the ring he had fashioned from it and gives them to the giants. Siegfried, a grand son of Wotan, forges a sword and slays the dragon j in the cave where the giant had left the ring. In spite of the curse which Al berich had cast on the ring of Rheingold others covet it and seek to secure it from Siegfreid, who has met and taken as bride Brunnhilde, one of the nine Val kyrie, daughters of Wotan and Erda, the earth i goddess. ; Fet Wotan and the gods of Valhalla there is the threat, that if Al berich recovers the ring the rule of the gods will come to an end. In the Goetterdammerung, the final opera of the series Sieg fried leaves the ring with Brunn hilde, but is himself betrayed by a magic potion so that he gives Brunnhilde to Gunther for a bride, and himself takes Gun ther's sister to wife. In the en ' suing tragedy, Hagan, the arch deceiver, kills Siegfried, where upon Brunnhilde fashions a great . funeral pyre on which Siegfried's body is placed. . Astride her, Valkyrie horse. Crane, she mounts the pyre as it leaps in flames. The river Rhine - rises and puts our the fire, and the Rhine daughters recover the ting from the embers. In this .final catastrophe,! Valhalla bursts t out in flames and in them the gods and the heroes meet their fate. ; '!'(.- The comparison is apt of the ultimate fate of Hitler and his cohorts, who by their greed have brought on themselves the eter nal curse. Hitler, brooding' in Berchtesgaden, may feel that he is another Wotan in Walhalla, who sees the allied armies thrust their spears of armor between the strong points of the Sieg fried line even as Hagen of old found a vulnerable spot between Siegfried's shoulder-blades. Per haps in that day of doom when the flames rise -from the cities and towns along the. historic Rhine and the river rises to lap the good German blood of the defenders of the fatherland, Hit- ler himself on his mountain' top will Call 1 for the playing of the Goetterdammerung, and as the music of Wagner rolls; from the great hall, he will set torch to his dwelling, enter an airplane and take flight into the sun to be come a hero for the ! German ' mythology of an indefinite fu- ture. . Perhaps . . . but mere Is an ", other German legend which to me fits Hitler . better ; ; . but that is a story for telling another day, . - , : J;- ,; y .!-,- ; Practical Religion ; their constitution, their attitude toward tolerance ' and j equality, their arms or whatever .else; they will be no more; superior than . their standards, j I would like to read some speeches about that corde, walked up the Champs Elysees, knelt before the grave and made the sign of a cross, said j Leon Moussou, vice president of ! the committee. ;. . ' , ; J i 'Then he turned and asked if we wanted to Germans to keep the flame alive," Moussou said. "I told him it was a shame for the German flag to be raised over the grave of France's un knowns. The general ordered the flag down." .. The committee's nightly prewar ceremony of turning the flame up high, to the salute of beating drums, was suspended . during the occupation but will be re sumed next month. During the liberation Moussou himself attended the flame every day despite fierce fighting close by. In 1940 he had wanted to blow up the grave and the flame system rather than have the Ger mans molest it but other mem bers of the committee dissuaded him. The Germans used to goose step by the grave every day in. the changing of the guard and other military ceremonies and paid their respect by saluting the grave. But they ordered civil ians to keep away at those peri ods. , "We are willing to honor your dead, but not French civilians," Moussou quoted the Germans as "saying, nor would they allow the French to place the tricolor upon the grave as was done be fore the war. The s Safety Valve Letter from Statesman Rgdrn SIXTY AT SIXTY To the Editori We hadn't thought much about this "Sixty at Sixty" until we read Mrs. M. Brown's letter to The Statesman.! She backs her argument up with Bible quota tlons that to her it seems all right for the state to be com pelled to tap the pocketbooks of some to give to others." Now it also says in the Bible "If ye will not work, neither shall ye eat." This proposed law will kill am bition by destroying all incentive to work. They ' will begin to slack up, around . forty-five and count time throughout their fif- ' ties. Now suppose they all do this where will the state get the money to even pay our sol diers? Many have done, every thing they can think of ; to keep from going to war. Are these entitled to sixty at sixty? If they have property they deed it to their children so the state will have a clear conscience in keep ing them. Jesus worked and He could command the stones to be turned into bread. If an indivi dual reaches sixty without this law and they are in need; then I say feed and clothe them of course.' They didn't plan to out smart anyone. MRS. M. ALLEN Portland. Linn Tax Deputy Seeks 13 Typists Albany, Sept 23-rWuh a staff of 14 typists needed to serve tax payers calling at the Office of Her bert Shelton, Linn county sheriff, one lone girl Is at present the only one holding forth, according to an nouncements made by Amy Ross, deputy sheriff in charge of tax col lections. Unless more girls or women who can- operate a typewriter become available, Linn county tax papers are liable to have to wait for some time for their 1944-45 tax state- ments. While, of course, experi- enced typists are preferred. Miss Ross says applications from any who can use a typewriter at all competently will be welcomed. by Rev. John U. Knight. Jr.. Counselor oa RelifTtota Ufa, . Wtllatnettg mtygratty. pllStevens "It makes me feel so darned eld when I see Donna absorbed in the . r Advice-te-Lovers eolnmn", In "Aurora Leigh" : Elizabeth Barret? Browning offers this in teresting thought: The music soars within the lark, - And the lark soars." How true to. life! - If a man really achieves in life, it Is -because of the quality of manhood . with him. If a man conquers despair; and defeat it is because of an inner strength and courage. If a man can withstand criticism and opposition It is because of the deep nobility of his character. And if a man has a real purpose in life, it is because within him there is a living faith. . , If you would soar to the ' heights of abundant ; living, build within you an inner self which ' sings the song of faith, of hope, -vof love,' and of God's eternity! 4 3' P A - U Deatrei .x ' '! '- t lp -s. .. 5t4 hjCL Each beautiful jewel 7'jk enthroned in a hand Tsome setting has a If personality of its own. yjl Choose yours with from our select collec tion of fine stones.