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PAGSF0U3 Tlx OZEGOII STATECMAIL Cclzzs. Ortgoa, Tuesday Itezlzy. Zizslt tX 18 Corporcd Proves Good Ehoolar, All Fair Horse Trader - ? JYo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Avt From Tint Statesman. March 28, 1831 r v.;ATTicFno:ro : ' THE STATES5IAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ' CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher . Member of the Associated Press . ? The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use (or publication of tU news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. German BoV Scout Missionary Goes Native 1 Hal Boyle, AP correspondent in Germany,' An American missionary in India has been . reports this' Conversation from a- tow-headed fired out of the country on the ground that he youngster in occupied Germany. . I wui memebr.of the -Hitter youth movement, but now I am glad I can be a . Boy Scout again. . If that comment 'correctly reveals the atti tude of German youths then our hopes rise for Germany If its boys will become boy scouts in truth as in name, then the Germany of to morrow should be decent enough to gain read mittance to the family of nations. When the leaders of Germany get the notion of doing a good turn for. the' world and not a bad turn then there is hope for the country. Boyle reports too that a restoration of paren- tal discipline; is already being observed in the occupied area. Under Hitler the youngsters were disobedient to their parents, because the Jugend movement forced on them the idea of loyalty to- Hitler first. Thus they became little spies at home. Now Boyle says: . Some of these "teen-age tyrants" who ruled homes capriciously because of the hold they . had on terror-bound parents as . a result of threats to inform on them,- have ' decided now of their own volition they ! want "to be good." Russia passed through the same phase, with youth instructed in spying on their parents. There brats are once' more under, parental dis cipline; and no longer running wild like little Apaches. The German home is a good place in which to start the rebuilding of Germany, and occasional paddling of backsides will help to educate German youth away from heiling Hit ler x and thinking they are the ordained lords of creation.. was taking an active part in politics. It seems- he "went native," resigning Jiiai connection with the mission and living as a native, residing in' a -small hut, wearing Indian clothes and eating Indian food. He also became identified with the student movement of southern India. The last was doubtless the cause of his getting in bad with the Indian government. I j Some missionaries get the impulse to take up with the very primitive way of life of the peo ple among whom they are stationed. It may ba a sign of their consecration, but its value is very doubtful. After all the prime object of the mis sionaries; is to lift 'up the peoples of theonce- called "heathen" nations. It floes not follow that it is 'necessary for them to live on the scale and level of the natives themselves. i As far as Indian politics is! concerned mis sionary opinion is divided. Some favor the par ties who clamor for immediate independence, others fear that the withdrawal of British con trol would precipitate internal anarchy. Regard less of whether India is free or part of the Bri tish empire the problem still remains of trying to free several hundred million people on a land which is only a tip of a continent. Going native by missionaries doesn't go far toward solving that problem, -i ' ! Jap Forces Cracked ; There is a hint of "more to corr-e" in the com munique of Admiral Nimitz' in which he states that the operations of Halsey's third fleet and its air arm under Admiral Mitscher have forced the Japs to withdraw their naval forces "from their former', anchorages in the Philippines and to seek new refuges in the same general area." This implies that Halsey knows where they have flown to, which means that in his good time he and Mitscher will hunt them down, j . Since these naval forces would hardly run the risk of being cut off by the American third fleet it is 'mot probable that they have gone south toBorneo, Celebes or' Singapore. About the only place left is the China coast or Formosa. If this reasoning iff. correct our fleet is in good position-to.Sever' the, seat lne through the .South Chma sea to the Dutch East Indies and the' Ma lay peninsula.'. '-y ' . , The September raids Jux the Philippines have as Nimitz says,' broken the enemy air force on the islands with a toll of 90S Jap aircraft de stroyed. The' Jap shipping losses have been huge too, with a total of 149 ships sunk or damaged. These crippling blows are preliminary to the advance of our ground forces. Control of sea and air makes possible the seizure of island bases,' one after another. Clearly the stage is prepared for a major move in the western Pa cific before the war ends. Politix ' I 1 1 In many ways it is to be regretted that our national election falls in a critical war year. At a time when the efforts of all our people ought to be concentrated on pressing the war to a swift conclusion we have to lake time out to settle our internal political differences. No mat ter how honest the intentions of the candidates to keep the campaign on a level not to interfere with the war, that will prove almost impossible of accomplishment. i ; ! ' Dewey himself has brought in the war by his charges about demobilization and lack of pre paredness and his comments regarding General MacArthur. The president in his speech Satur day night made an old-fashioned political ad dress in which he got right out of his commander-in-chief role and took the political stump, after a good 1936 manner, though it must be conceded that Dewey invited such a rejoinder. Dewey warns that 'now he will "Lay on Mac Duff, and damn'd be him that first cries 'hold,, enough! " While all this may gratify the hates of the politicians it will hardly, contribute any thing toward winning the War. ); , ' The aggressive Dewey campaign has forted the president to retreat from his declared pur pose of not campaigning "in the usual sense." It begins to look as though the campaign would wind up in a real alley brawl. In ordinary times that would be all right; but it does seem out of place when the prime need is for national unity.. . They All FaU for the Uniform . -'" 4 S ' -" - " i ' 1 -t - . ' ; i - . ' ' ------ ' h i - -f . i - WITH THE AET IN FRANCE, Sept, 19-(Delayed)7(r-Around these parts Corp. George D. Scruggs of Spar tanburg, S. C, is considered some shakes with a 37 mm. snooting Iron J and a fair t'o. middling horse trader. , George Is an armored car ' Ji -driver in a mech i'iH anlxed cavalry vfc.i reconnaissance Kenneth L. Dtaon unit. The other day orders came from his com manding officer, Lt CoL Charles J. Hodge of Short Hills, NJ, former Wall . street investment broker, to go bun up enemy traf- Gc along a certain highway. ; -The first German tourists soon arrived aboard a Mark V tank. The biggest equalizer an armored car boasts is its 37 mm. gun, which has about as much busi ness bucking a Mark V as a small boy with a bb rifle. i i But George knew the toughest CRT 1 Toen Farm Move Opposed Paper'ilriye SucceeIs 1 Gardner Knapp, local salvage director, had to take reports on the progress of the waste paper collection Sunday, which he had planned, on his hospital bed. The reports were very grati fying. The tonnage collected was all that was expected, three carloads. The trucks promised showed up, and the boys to help out, so the col lection was smoothly made. Incidentally the -175 boys drank 700 bottles of cokes, (it was a ' . warm day) which shows youth's coke-consumption capacity.'. The success of the drive proves its own for- V mula: first, a worthy idea; second, good lead ership, supplied by Knapp and Lyle Leighton; , third, promotion through publicity; fourth, Or- ganization to do the job at the time appointed. We hope the success puts Knapp back on his feet promptly there's the war chest campaign coming upf-. :--rr ;'::!-' . , - . Limited mail service with Paris has been re sumed, with correspondence limited to non-illustrated postal cards. Some of the illustrated ones they used to have in Paris would hardly circulate through the 'mails in peacetime ; ' : ' ' it iy- : 1-. . :: -tl :' i : '- ' ,Ti;:.H ' The allies have liberated San Marino, prob ably the ; world's smallest republic. This tiny country never got around to calling off the first world war in which it was lined up against Ger many. Now it can; end two wars in one treaty. Interpreting P. Ci reports that his quinces are "terribly small" this season and wants to know what is wrong. This is only' the second yearj that the quince tree he planted five years ago has fruited.: Last year, he wrote, the "three were' very large. , This year the couple dozen are very' small, i . Ans.:i Probably too dry. quince tree does. better with some very good soakings dur ing th4 dry season and I do not ' m e a n mere - sprinklings which will inkle down about, three inches. The quince tree needs water which goes down 18 inches or more. But it does "not neei it so very frequently.' A couple of times a month dur ing June, ' July and August, "es pecially1 the Matter two, would have proved satisfactory. This helps him a lot !now, - But he didn't ask me in July or August This advice is really for next season-H-and I may ' add that I know whereof I am speaking in this instance. X forgot to -water my own quince tree this sum mer arid the fruit ' is now no larger than walnuts, whereas a friend of mine has quince fruit -as large as small oranges. She tells me ) that all quinces are quite small this year. She is quite correct so far as I am concerned. Mrs. South Dakota: (She adds in a postscript that she hates to admit that she was foolish as to remain there long enough to have the name now that she has seeh the Willamette valley.) Writes . f that she is worrying By CHARLES C. HASLET I (AP Features) jWASHINCfrON-nSecretary of Agriculture Wickard is opposed to any sizeable back-to-the-land movement after this war. He has warned congress, emphatically, against thinking of agriculture as "a national poorheuse" or a re fuge for unemployed. Many have the Idea there will be! places in agriculture for mil- " lions of returning veterans and i persons leaving war plants, but j the secretary says there is every reason . to $ believe that agricul- ture will need a smaller instead' of a larger labor force. - If the standard of living on farms is to be maintained at a "decent' level, Wickard says, the number of persons going back to , farms must be limited , strictly. Over-population of the land would result in a lower income for each person. -' " After every war there has been a back-to-the-land movement, the secretary recalls, but previ ously new lands were available for settlement and ' farm work ers were needed. ; Only Reclaimed Land ' i ; . " Now the only -good land avail able is that which jnust be re claimed by irrigation and recla mation. That acreage is offset, . Wickard says, by sub-marginal f lands which should be taken out of production. f Let's approach j this problem as any industrial plant would," Wickard suggests. "We have a ; certain size plant that is, a certain number of acres to be farmed, we have before us a several years there have been such improvements in machinery that about 4 per cent fewer farm workers have produced about a third more food. Improved com bines, tractors, electric appli ances and-corn pickers have greatly t reduced the need for - farm labor and have increased total production, t ' In Wickard's opinion there now is enough labor on farms to produce, at parity prices,; more commodities than could be used under favorable peacetime . con ditions. (Parity prices are those " which, it is estimated, would give farmers the. same purchas ing power they had from. 1909 to 1914; ) . -. -K ;, . , '. . But there will be room for some Who want to return to. the farm. Wickard says that, older farmers who have been working as a patriotic duty during the war will retire. Many women and children have aided in farm work. They will return to nor mal home duties. ; The person who is energetic, skilled in farming and likes it, probably can make a place in farming, but the idea that agri culture can absorb a large num ber off people is erroneous," Wickard adds. . fi Veterans Get A Chance It is the department's plan to see that every returning veteran is given an opportunity to try fanning if he wants to do 4o, however. We are looking forward with a lot of interest to helping farm boys and non-farmers who are in the service to find places on farms where they can make a about the winter care of her- probable increased efficiency lnf good living and be happy," the A scientist reports that oysters open their shells easily if they are made a bit tipsy. Same with menalcohol , opens mouths and starts ; tongues a-wagging. - ' Editorial Comment FOB. FSEEDOBI. OF NEWS Congress has Just endorsed a resolution that may have a great deal to do with whether there is a third world War. ; The measure calls for the incorporation Into the peace settlement of a guarantee of free interchange of news throughout tfc .world.' The project origin ated with Kent Cooper general manager of the As sociated Press, and grewout of the grief that organ ization has had in recent years in covering news" in totalitarian countries determined to prevent the truth about themselves from becoming known either within or beyond their borders. It has received un- . animous support of American news gathering agen- i cies, newspapers and political leaders. The belief is that if all people cin learn, the truth about each other there may never be an- " other great war. Hates flourish in an atmosphere of concealment, such as most of the world has had to live In during! the .past decade or two. Not only . Montgomery's army group. The, War News , . K1RKE L. SIMPSON ASSOOATO; PR1SS WAR ANALYST : - British air-borne forces, slenderly linked as yet with. Field Marshal; Montgomery's ground armies ' in Holland, appeared to have still only a precar ious toe-hold in the Arnhem-Emmerich gateway to the north German plain, but the Arnhem salient of which they form the apex is significantly widen ing at its base. $ c i.-7. -',,t'.i : !;'; -.'; f It seemed obvious that Montgomery was bent on gaining elbow room 'within which to mass sufficient power for quick and decisive exploitation ot the break-through to out-flank the Siegfried line when it came end completely confident that lt would come soon. :i .. ;:. . '4w ij His forces pushing northward toward the Dutch-' -Belgium border between Antwerp and indhoven were reported losing contact with the retreating nazis. His air scouti discerned evidence of a Ger man flight eastward from western Holland through the narrow Arnhem-Ijessel Meer (Zuider Zee) es cape hatch. The implication was that a nazl stand behind the Nedder ; Rhine and the canal fronted Ijessel running through eastern Holland via De venter and Zwollt f would be attempted. Arnhem Is. the key to that northern extension of the Siegfried line, however. It fate as well as that of the main trans-Rhine defenses against which -American armies are beating depends upon what" happens at Arnhem. , 5 " . Meanwhile a double allied wedge apparently " aimed at the southern gatepost of the Arnhem Emmerich gap, Kleve, is on or'beyond German fron- ; tiers on a considerable front east ot Nijmegen. Whether it represents an impending frontal attack on the Keve-Emmerich sector of the Siegfried line or an effort to mask that strong fortified west I wall4, northern anchorage while the main attack is driven in above it Is yet to be revealed. ! . 5 "The new. eastward dents in that5 sector are attri- buted to .American forces temporarily , attached to : roses. They seem to be setting out "new shoots and energy now when they should be quieting down fdr winter Won't this new, growth if reeze right up and ruin the bush? I" know Oregonians tell me Hhis has been an excep tionally; dry year and I am won dering if the recent rains aren't w have both richt alon. On. responsible for thia growth and -v yesj jt i, the one exception, and machinery, ana larm practices, secretary says. -We will help So we will peed! only a certain them In locating farms and hem number of people to operate ef- with the management problems ficlently without causing low in- through the farm credit admin comes to workers and higher IctrnHnn and tnnn division agencies. costs to . consumers." . i He says that during the last may not bring on a lot more which 1! will - also be winter killed."! - the following year the other. But don't ' worry about ; : your: rose bushes, for, unless we have "an Ans.: After you have lived in exceptionally coldf winter, they . long, as "'.will comej through without "any - they had hoped to find.' the Willamette valley as some of us other gardeners, you . bother and i will probably give -wont pay much attention to this i you bloom Tight up to Christmas: talk about "exceptionally dryt .r- Christmas roses here "do hot ne or "exceptionally wettl seasons cessarily mean helleborus niger. "THE YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier "Before they locate, however, we advise them to consult with farmers1 in the community and the county agents there, for they might find conditions they would not like' On the other hand, we might help them find better op portunities in a community than (Continued from Page 1) would run the" trucks and the trains? Who would spin the yarn and weave the cloth for clothing? Who would cut down the trees and frame the houseslfor dwell ings? j If everyone was living on a Townsend check who would do . the work of the world? . The simple truth is that finally and fundamentally purchasing power; resides in the needed goods and services. One pays for his bread with his labor in lum ber. Another pays for his meat with his labor as a teacher. One pays for his house with his labor as a truck-driver. Money is merely the common denominator which i expedites the settlement for these exchanges. . , Now the Townsend bill, big or little, creates no new wealth. It builds no factories; it harvests no oats; it paves no-roads; it weaves no cloth; it operates no tele phones; it digs no coal.. What it does is merely to deprive all peo ple of a part of their income (which is their earned purchas ing power) to transfer it to an other, limited group, for.no con- sideratiori and without regard to" their individual need or circum stances. The fallacy therefore of the Townsend bill as a creator of prosperity is apparent t Therein lies the inequity of the Townsend bill: it taxes people without regard to their ability to pay and distributes the money to other people whether they need l or not The fundamental pur pose of taxation is thus given a : terrific Jolt. The assumed pur pose of taxation is to take from the people as little as necessary for the support of government for the good ot all. This taxes all, heavily, for the good of a few. ,:; - ,;' ; . With this abuse of taxation it becomes . a powerful weapon which might be used to destroy the economic system on which which the whole people depend for a livelihood. Chidf Justice . Marshall uttered the famous dic tum: "The power to tax is the power to destroy. It la as true now as when it was spoken. In discriminate, arbitrary taxation can destroy the balance of our economic machine and create hardship and distress rather than comfort and happiness. This little Townsend bill would do far more damage to Oregon than it will do good. It should be decisively defeated as was its parallel "gross transactions" measure which was voted on, in Literary (Suidep is, news censored, but it xls falsified In the dictator countries. The reporter's life la a hard one bedev iled and frustrated at every turn by an unfriend- ly; government. - ' r The United States will therefore make an attempt to get a guarantee of free international exchange of news into the peace treaty. It will be difficult, because some of our present allies may be. expected The west front showed small change otherwise as the week opened. In the east, however, .Russian forces in Estonia were close to1 completing their mopping up operations ; against trapped nazl, ar- mies; and simultaneously developing a new mon ster entrapment threat far to the south. " The exact position of Russian! columns moving northeastward into the Hungarian plain from Ro to oppose. But whether we are to have future peace t mania was not indicated. One report had advance or. war nay hirge on the result,. there being no more effective weapon for. the understanding that makes for peace than the truth, which as the Bible rishtly said, makes men free when they get it Baker Democrat-Herald. ' . ' ' ' . elements beyond the Romanian-Hungarian border within 30 miles or less ot Szeged on the direct road to Budapest Another column, which took IIu- menne in Czechoslovakia, also was aimed along a main route to Budapest rm I Li I i I I -J M. L. L- . H FffI t- , ! Li : U UUL ' 1 1 -ram fantastic fakis- y 14 BtUiaser (Befess-MtrrQl; SJ). I think most people who know Paris even slightly will find something very attractive in the late I Harold EttlingerV "Fair Fantastic Paris.1 Mr. Ettinger first experienced Paris about ten years before the war, and . he Jived there until the Germans came. He was, however, a work : ing newspaperman; and not a conventional expatriate. Nor was he continually drunk on "atmos phereJ'lt.; t; v-' -y. Fair I Fantastic Paris" begins as if Mr. Ettlinger were about to do a Julian Street book on ro mantic Paris. There is a lot about the side' of Paris in which tour ists were almost exclusively in terested in the late twenties the ; last moment incidentally. t when, anything resembling the "old7 Paris was to be seen, per haps forever. ' ' Mr. Ettlinger does a round! of the cafes, of Mont " marte, of Montparnasse, of Les ' IlalleS and the two Des in the Seine and all those once "glam orous' places. He even takes his reader on a long hunt for a pair of brass! hinges, in which good deal of the city is laid out for in-, spection, ; i : :'--" V, It "seems to me this is a perfect approach to more serious consid- eraticcs,' because of two things: ; tanks can be rxatnstrung, so he simply, shot its track off while the German crew looked, around , wondering - where those funny, little pinging sounds came from. Somewhat upset' by; George's unorthodox: tactics. ' the enemy , , armored commander down thet road a piece sent a self-pro-V 1 pelled 8S up to, 'eliminate", the Dixie upstart, but Scruggs never batted an eye. . Realizing that if an 88 ever drew a bead on him bis mechan ized horse . would ; disintegrate, George craftily kept out of sight ; while the enemy gun jockeyed around 150 feet away. Then the South. Carolina kid' came out ; slugging. ; His third , round damaged the 88V driving mechanism and right brack. He scored a clean kayo by setting it ablaze with his ninth round. ; : . Now the German commander took.no chances. He sent a whole armored unit accompanied by in fantry. As a result George was taken prisoner, which was where his shooting ended and horse-, trading started. ; . -' t , He sat down and began a. heart-to-heart talk with the Ger l man sergeant assigned to guard. him. The scandalized and shocked sergeant hadn't been told a word about the allied landings in southern France to say nothing .of having been kidded, Into be lieving the Normandy j"beach. head" had been booted back into ' the sea.1- .-" " "Well, m be doggoned," ex claimed George, or words to that effects "Your officers are just i downright lying to you. Now let me tell you the straight story." -When George had finished, the German sergeant exploded: "I've had enough of this. I surrender.? "You're doing exactly the right thing," said George, judiJ ciously, "especially ; considering1 the lowdown way they treated you. 1 Now, how are we going to ; get back to my outfit?"' 5 - It developed that' tieorge's guard knew where German offi cers 'had , parked a,. captured American jeep. t George", being .a Lavau riuaii ana aiiermc in wa i. ing, persuaded him to, go steal it Which is how it happened that four days after he was listed a missing, Corp. Scruggs , drove, back to his outfit's headquarters, and apologized for his enforced - swap of an armoredv can for a' jeep. ; -. . i .. ' . But since he brought back a ' prisoner and plenty of valuable information A boot;' officers' I "thereabouts considered it'a fair to middling trade for a young the Parisian tradition of live and. let live, which was not responsi . We for the events of the "thirties, but certainly made possible the growth! of reactionary : parties ' and policies. Mr. Ettlinger first sensed that many French people . were peering with approval over ' the Rhine and over the Alps just before the Stavisky scandals, and the whole ghastly mess was plain to be seen on February 8. 1934, Jwhen the Fascist groups tried to - storm the Chamber ot Deputies. The next milestone was the re- Oregon School Law Course To Be Given ! EUGENE, ! Sept 1 25.-(SpecIal)-One extension ; class, "Oregon. School Law" will be held in Salem this-year during the fall term, Oc tober 2 to December 18, it was an nounced here by Henry Stevens, assistant director of the general extension division of the state sys tem of higher education. ! ; The course is an education ra ther than a law course and is de signed primarily for those plan ning to teach or now teaching un der emergency certificates. It aims to give a practical working knowledge of Oregon school laws and their application to education in the state. H. E. Inlow, .M. A, professor of history, Oregon college of Educa tion, Monmouth,! will give the course which will meet in room 301 of the school administration building from 7:15 to 9:15 p. m. An 11 week course, the first class will be held Wednesday, Octo ber 4. ; j Registration will take place at the second class meeting, Wed nesday, October 11. The $5.00 fee is payable at registration. ; Two hours credit is given for the course. ; ; in i " -' in i n : ' organization of the , Popular Front government, which' suc ceeded amazingly well, Mr. Ett linger thinks, for a coalition which seemed impossible even to - its organizers. ; But the life blood of France had been given a ma larial taint; the period of Cham-, berlain and Munich and the dec-: laration of . war were ; lived ; throug in an atmosphere curious-: ly like that of a pesthouse. Mr. Ettlinger has provided a back- . ground for the incredible sick ness ot the fatal decade. "Pop,- can your' shee.npon?--rve' got four tig dances : aris was always France, the UU . Xned up tMs weekT V v- that washed the doi.and second, HevEi GIFT CANTEIK . f Overseas j Gift Suggestions! - Ruby, Signet and Cmblem Rings, Identification Bra celet, B il If o 1 d s, Doa Chain, . Comb and Brush Sets. Mcdt Before October 15&1 . Credit If Derirsd A