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4 fiOtt0iaieMai Subject of Food i Very Important To Average Soldier i::' ;..ATT:izrno:rn "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Atoc ' . ; From Tint SUtesman, March 28, 18S1 . THE STATESJ1AN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUi; 'Editor and Publisher " v; Member of the Associated Press ' :3 " fit; ; i S 5 The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all " i ' hews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. "tfAC of the Veek' ; f " - The Service OcScupalioM I Lieut. Ethel Di Re' of the local office of the . ; New techniques,, new machinery, new proces army recruiting service has hit upon a novel , ges constantly reduce the man-hours required plan to stimulate the enlistment, of women lor the Woman i Amy corps WACs to most ev eryone. That is, to nominate one enlisted mem ber of the WACs as WAC of the Week. It's an iaea; ana. we uupc it wwm. ; There is no slackening of need for women in the army. At present the great call is for WACs per unit of production both ini Industry and in agriculture and fofestry'and mining. As a re sult workers do not have to worlc as many hours per day or week.'--l-;''i-x-Ki'l S-: 1 X This improvement in production by power machinery raises the question as to 1 jobs after the war. Factories ! say, we cannot absorb, all who can help staff hospital units at home and those released from! the armed iervices, Farm- - i . ' 1 abroad. The surgeon general oi me army nas put in a call for 22,000 women for this work. So Lieut Di Re is working hard to recruit women for the medical corps of the army. .When we realize that both in Europe and in ers, who plan to buy new, labor-saving ma chines, can hire only a limited f number of .ad ditional workers, largely to lighten the load on women, children' and the aged. .. - Does this then necessitate widespread unem- the. Pacific more of .our troops are getting into ployment? C. Hartley Grattan,irriting in Har actual fighting with the inevitable consequence of wounds and, injuries that call for hospital ization, then we know the need is growing for the services of the doctors and nurses and their staff workers. Women do not have to be nurses to be of value in hospitals. They can do cler ical wori, administrative work, technical work if qualified, and of course those who have had training as nurses aids can be used to good ad vantage to assist graduate nurses. Even, those who have had no special training can be trained by the army for special duties. There are still openings with the army air forces for WACs also.:;" ;' .W.; J-'"'- i-: V Joining the woman's division enrolls a girl in the army of the'United States, just as much as her brother who is an infantryman or a mem ber of an engineer regiment. She gets the satis faction of having shared in the victory that is being won. She gets similar pay and oppor tunities for promotion and will get the benefits which the government is providing for veter ans of the services.. v l We have had inany young women from Salem join the WACs' and the other branches of the service; and; those who have joined speak in high praise of the treatment they receive and the jobs which, are given them. Others should respond to tne continued can ot men- counury, particularly or this new1 need j in army hos pitals.! ; - . V , ,. "- , pers magazine, says that the employment op portunities must lif In jthe j service industries. In fact, he puts thirin italics: -i j If .this country is to have a higher and r . higher standard jot living after the-war, ' the movement into 'the service occupa . tions must be welcomed, planned for. -He cites statistics! to show th shift to these service occupations which incjude wholesale and retail trade, transportation, communica tions, hotels and restaurants, education, medi- p cine, etc. The distnbution of those gainfully em ployed has shifted as the following table shows. . q'r 1870 "1 i 1920 -.: 1930 Agriculture f 53.5 2t-6 -21.9 . Manufacturing 21. ' 3J. S0. Service-! 24.6 ' . 31.4 47.2 J . - ,t .... , .-'.'-::. -r s r . ; He urges therefore planning for expansion of service industries. ,;. However! these expand more or less naturally, without much planning. For example, we have noticed a considerable increase in the number of radio shops hi Salem. Whyis this? There fie no new radios to sell. It must be because the repair, work has greatly increased, which is true. 1 jl ; ; I . J ' It is also true that modern living calls for more "service". More persons are employed for gardening, for beaiity parlor wrk, for Selling and servicing than fformerly. Another thing is true, the service industries afford more open ings for individuals! with limited capital they are the refuge for the small business man! So we must not jthink in terms of factories alone for the postwar period; but also In terms of openings-as proprietors or' workers in the service occupations f WITH THE AEF IN FRANC35, Sept 20.-(Delayed)-(ff) - Whe vther he's in Africa, Sicily or. France, food of r . h "PinhHiller'? ys Behind the News By PAUL MALLON. (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction. In whole or in part strictly prohibited.) I WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 Much is! being made of the in creasingly large crowds Dewey drew in - Roc a third world wan. The people have made a pretty good start in the primaries though Senator Nye and Congress man Ham Fish are "shining targets for Novem ber. But it will reqiire more thn knocking off a few isolationists , to guarantee world peace. Already many are worried over he peace plans put into .the cooking' kettle at Dumbarton Oaks. In South America a grapefruit has . been named for Henry Wallace. . In ' North America politics is reaching jthe stage when at any mo ment we may hear of fruits fend vegetables being donated to political speakers via the aerial route. The leading candidates -have set the style in batting j"falsehood", back and forth across the networks. I Queea WUhelmina, K. G. , . ,:' , The ''K. G." initials stand for knight, of the Order of the Garter. Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, who has just been invested with the rank by King George of England, is one of ' : . ' . . . i . . . ththree women so honored. The Other two are f0 lXm coi. .. ... . m.: in that the neODle should retire from congress Queen 'Elizaoetn' and wueen jviomer, wary.iBM - - t T . . . , .. . .J . r . ZJJi' nJL'ii-X.?. wnmn'irar'- 1 as many of the rabid isolationists as are up for 'ru r.LA ..r, fn- thA nrrfpr. the reelection to prevent oldest ind most important in British knight hood " r ' ' Recording to story,' which is not top well au thenticated, the Countess of Salisbury lost her carter which the finder returned to her with the remark ,Honi soit qui mal y pense," (May he be shamed who thinks ill of it). That was back in the reign of Edward III about the year 1344, . , . , y . The number of members of the order, which - Kine Edward instituted, was originally .25, but u Via einrp hwn pytpnded. Included also are the ; sovereign and. such 'sovereigns of other lands as the king mav want to recognize. The emblem- ' b a garter of dark blue ribbon edged with gold, and carrying the motto above quoted. It is worn where a garter should be worn, on the left leg .below (the knee. Just how Queen Wilhelmina will manage that we can't say; but if Queen Mother . Mary canthen the Dutch sovereign : , can too. ' v 1 .' i Editorial Conimont ! AMERICA, NUMBEK ONE EXTORTER j Man people think of foreign trade in relation to this country as if it were an academic question. Usually: it is spoken of in the future tense, with the implication that heretofore the United States has had but minor interest in world markets. Also, cheap foreign labor is usually thought of as a com petitive possibility, to be avoided at all costs. How abysmally uninformed many of us are on the facts of our ewn national existence! , The United States, before the war, was the fore most exporting nation of the world. We could not live alone without benefit of foreign trade and main tain' our tandard;of living, even if we wanted to. The products of our farms and factories go to every ; comer of the globe.-In 1938 our twenty best mar kets for finished manufactures included Great Bri tain, Argentina, Philippines, Japan, South Africa, - ' Russia, Brazil, Australia, France, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico! Sweden, Colombia,' Belgium, Netherlands, West Indies, Germany, British India and The Ne therlands Indies. Who says we are provincial? ! t Moreover, our exports were of an almost limitless variety I ranging'" from toys to tractors and food.! Cheap foreign labor hindered us little. For exam- : ple, we out-traded Japan in Latin America - byj thirteen to ope. For every dollar of goods Japan sold, we exported thirteen dollars worth to ouri southern neighbors. In other words, our share of! "total imports into Latin America before the war j - was 30.1 per cent, while Japan's share was 2.6 peri cent j . , " ' f ; f - '". --: - - :.': . The question of whether, we will trade with the world is little short of sUly, just as the question of . ' whether our mass production and the efficiency of , our workers can meet the competition of under paid producers across the seas. We have done both. . Trade barriers at home or abroad will hurt us more than they hurt' the other fellow. Portland Journal of Commerce. - Paul Mailon sevelt territory on his Western swing -4- 15,000 greeted jhim in San Ftancisco and 93,427, they say, he4rd him at Los Angeles. Some! of the republican mae stro ae in terpretuig this ma suiie indication of a rise in Dewey Untimentj but long ago I lost full faith in the certainty: of crowd figures as vote indi cators". Not hair the people who cheered j Al Smith, for instance, voted ,fdr him. ;j , But the Dewey crowd figures do add verification to other in dication that political apathy is coming to an end. j True j enough Mr. Roosevelt did not contribute much interest to the campaign in his opening speech ' showed to the : teamsters. He good ; humor and irony Interpreting The War News ' KIRKS L. SIMPSON ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ; ANALYST : ' A curtain of silence drawn by ''General Eisen hower over allied operations in the Brabant gate way area in east central Holland to northern Ger many has all but blacked out news from that seeth ing front It leaves the fate of galant British "red devil airborne advance units j inj doubt 1 despite Berlin radio claims of their complete liquidation. It seems- certain, however, th4t Eisenhower's security move was dictated by other considerations. The enemy certainly knows all about the situation at the Arnhem portalwhere the British daredevils Jeader, fmtothink will do the have kept a stubbornj toe in toejBrabant door to fourth;time, but raised no new issues to awaken enthusiasm. ' DeweV's speeches on the other hand - are drawing increasing comment .and : discussion be cause he is making news. I never thought apathy was the right word for -the attitude of the people. The people just did not j know Dewey, and did not like jRooseuelt. At least they did not know Dewey's full phil osophy, exactly what alternative he would offer the country, and the new Ideal, which Mr, Roose - velt developed, had grown- un- popular with the country. , Even MrRoceevelfs followers i have been displeased with I a great many things he did. I At any (rate the 'democratic campaign has largely been in side organizing. ., which their A SOLDIER'S LETTER . The father, of a Victoria boy in the' European theater of war, has received a letter from his son asking for "war news." In part, his letter says:. , Tell me what's new in the election talks? Over here wei don't get much news any more about poli- ; tics. You know they ; banned ' the sale of . Bri tish newspapers to American soldiers.-Well,-1 am hot voting anyway; I turned down my chance and the "commanding officer got mad as hell at me. This is still a free country, isnt it? You know the papers, over here don't say anything about the republicans. You wouldn't know a republican was running for , president To read them you would think there was only , one , candidate. Franklin D. Roosevelt I'm beginning to believe he's a god over here for Dri tain." Alton XU) .Star-Enterprise. t .X- - The silence-order has some other significance that probably bodes the foe no good. It obviously . was intended to deny the enemy knowledge of a swift" shifting of allied forces for (a concentrated power stroke to end the stalemate in the, Dutch cor- : ridor and get on with jthe business pf smashing the ' nazi "west wall" defense system before autumnal - rains intervened. ? j - . ' Targets picked for massed heavy jbomber attacks in Germany tend to bear out that assumption. They included communication hubs of the nazi supply line for the Dutch sector of the west wall" front ; like Bremen, Hamm and Osnabruck. Within t that 150-mile radius east .of Arnhem lie the railyards, road junctions and river crossings through Which supplies and reinforcements move up to bolster the desperate German effort to stave off an allied break-through into the Hanoverian plain. Not many weeks of good fighting weather re main. Berlin broadcasts reflect naz hopes, of hold ing out at all costs In the west to await a winter stabilization of me battle lines; ; The allied' high command in Europe also clearly, recognizes that time "is running against it; that a supreme "and immediate effort is ih order in : the west if the sweeping victories in? France and Belgium are to be fully exploited. '' -1 j f J y, ;1 : . . : ' The ultimate victory in Europe Is not in ques tion. The time-it will take to achieve it, and the hope of averting a jdeadening winte campaign' with its heavy casualty lists not only in battle but ' from prolonged exposure of the troops in sodden trench lines, are at stake. Undoubtedly ' Eisenhower and his commanders - are straining to bring the full weight of their great er numbers and bette equipment to bear promptly and decisively at toe f selected point or points be- tween Arnhem and the Belf ort gap. j - i Eisenhower's call td, millions ol enslaved foreign workers in Germany tjo get into actjon further tes ' tifies to his determination to push ion before win ter; And if he succeeds In cracking through the west wall' anywhere! within the weeks ahead the British in the Arnheih area must be given much of 't.thoLcredit for. lt:jLL--ij.i,v,i.- without rousing' much:'' outside enthusiasm.7 s . ' It is j true the polls ; have shown no more than six 'per cent doubtful on an average, but X suspect that in a political situ ation like this one there are a great number of people who may not be -telling how j they intend to vote until they get then pen- " cils in hand in the booths! '. , That situation also ! developed In the Al Smith campaign of 1928 when no poll showed the southern states going to Hoover. Of course mere are limitations to which an undercurrent of op- ! position can be expressed. In South Carolina for instance, the 'Woter .must publicly ask i either for a democratic or a republican .ballot ! . - : That condition may account ; for the fact that the republicans always receive a smaller j per centage of the vote in that state than in any other, in View of the prevailing authorities there, it takes some courage to ask for a republican ballot . j . The polls nationally, therefore may be more untrustworthy than usual, and the apathy of ' the electorate is likely to con tinue to decline as Dewey's ideas become better known, r Event the Roosevelt liberals are showing some new interest in the 'speeches of the I New York governor. A . magazine which is their weekly Bible buried him each week with harsh words until he started on his. tour, i They had called him ."isola tionist" 'and a "depriver of the soldiers! of the right to vote," both of which claims turned - sour. Now they are saying they like his foreign policy, but are asking what his stand will be on relief In the depression they claim is coming. Another interesting change in the ' campaign is the way the r democrats are moderating, the - "indispensible man" claim they raised at the start Some ot their ' more fervid orators had built that notion up to the point, of - scaring the' wits out of the coun try as to. what will happen to the nation. if Mr. R's health -failed of anything happened to ' him. -No one - has claimed Mr; i Truman indispensible. ; -ti3 "THE YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier v i Even if ITtey are corajryQu1I Hallanstiax t pop' Joltes fays .(Continued from Page 1) cpnsists very largely of textiles and food processing for the sub sistence of the people. -Education would be supervised by the allied powers, with the universities (except medical schools) closed indefinitely and the lower schools I closed until new . textbooks could be pre pared: . :j . -:: - The plan would provide only a starvation .economy for Ger many's 72,000,000 people, unless 20 or 30 . mulioh' Germans de cided to emigrate. j r ; ; Admiral Land of the maritime commission said in his opinion there was "no impossibility of making pastoral . nations of our enemies who have proven they do not know how to keep the peace." He favors robbing them of their foreign trade, which he believes would force them to be good. ; v ji : y ; Without doubt the disclosure of the treasury plan has thrown the world into uproar about Ger many's future. The Germans shout "See what is ahead if the allies win! and urge their peo- ; pie to fiercer resistance. Secre tary HuU admits that the deci sions have not been! made by the three .allied powers but that he is hopeful of early agreement He and Secretary Stimson are said not to favor jthe treasury plan. - I As I see- it the j Morgenthau plan comes from a counsel of de spair. It regards the Germans as hopelessly - criminal among, the peoples of the world. .The only way it could be-enforced would be by an" intensive policing, that would amount almost to contin ued occupation. It puts no faith in any organization of nations to resolve, disputesr peacefully or, failing in. that to suppress ag gression promptly. ; The German; population can not live decently on just a cab ' bage and sausage diet Their section of Europe is rich in min erals: coal and iron and chemi cals. They have shown remark able fertility in employment of these resources ; for their own good and for the world's good (as well as an amazing capacity .to turn their, skills and their re sources to evil ends); - - :. I do not believe it will make ' for the future peace of the world to create an industrial desert in " north Central Europe. Nor do I think it necessary. , .The rise of " Russia as a great military power changes radically the picture in Europe.. A resurgent France and a restored Britain would also be a ; threat to German ambitions. -Crushed Jby this war Germany may be disposed of itself to turn its talents toward the arts of - peace ultimately to regain its moral standing in the world., I- Recalling how limitations on - the German navy and air force : and army.' were breached soon ; after the 1918 armistice, one can easily foresee idmilar successful efforts -to restore industry in "spite of peace treaties. - I Finally we , must realize that ; world peace can never be settled ' by one stroke. The nations must work at it everlastingly, both by wise statesmanship in the field of diplomacy and by adequate policing. ' ..--' ' ' ' No, Morgenthau is no- better "secretary of state" ; than he Is ecretary cf the treasury. C- "remains one of life's most im portant sub Jects to . the average soldier and the current campaign al ready has come up with the us- usal quota chowline ttor les. H r 1 njecnaeth U Dixa France all such story-telling ses- . sions invariably begin and end with yarns about this or that French family that trotted out ham and eggs, milk, butter, cog-' ' cac, champagne and wine, roast" chicken, pork, beefsteak and so forth. But now and then cornea ' few tales like those of. other campaigns, i j ;j ;V;:: ;i : TSgt Charles Perry of Indi anapolis and his platoon were leading an Infantry advance the other day when j he spotted a German jeep approaching. It seemed to be loaded with some thing so Perry ordered his men to hold their fire until the vehi cle was too close! to gel away, then he had the whole platoon cut loose at it : j.T-aV . Most of the Germans aboard managed to escape to a nearby wood but had to abandon the jeep. Sgt Perry, and his hungry pals "promptly sat down to a nice breakfast of hot German coffee, bread and cheese. ; Moreover, the entire company now is being fed . more promptly because Supply Sgt Thomas Earnest C a 1 e r a, Okla is using the German jeep to haul rations, i ; A little town down the road looked good to Sgts. Rene (Yank) Levy of Brooklyn and - Lake Mundy, Ardmbre, Okla. But on the way they were stop- ped by a roadblock. They figured there ought to be some fresh meat in the town j-" and they hadn't; tasted fresh . meat for some time. But they couldn't get beyond the - road block the Germans had- thrown . P- :'.:." ... j ' ' - : Yank hadn't lived in Brooklyn for nothing. He hunted the near est telephon ej although a French farmhouse is not a reg ulation booth called the FFI in : the next town and told them in ; - perfect French what had . hap- . pened. A half hour latesi an : armed FFI outfit came up on the j other side of the roadblock""and r handed 'a big slab of fresh meat jover the top. . . ; j ' Pvt Carrol Little, -Wewoka, , Okla, artillery man, had a fresh fish breakfast one morning after the concussion from his outfit's , gun battery had shinned the fish in a nearby stream during the night l j . ''-"-.' One French village seemed to have plenty of bread when the doughboys arrived.) Upon inves- t tigaUng they found the FFI had ; fouled up a German railroad pig- Today's Garden V' By LTLLIE MADSEN W. F. S. asks how to care for centipede grass. Says she has re ceived some seed from a Florida friend. ! ":- .V- 1 Ans.: X believe I would, send it back to the Florida friend and ask her to order me some blue grass, bent or fescue instead. I don't like the sound of "cent!- pede grass" and J don't think it will like the Willamette valley. . In truth, it is a southern grass, growing mostly in Florida, Miss issippi, Georgia and thereabouts. ' I: have never heard of it being used here and from what I can - . - learn of it, I dp not believe it would be successful here. . Mrs. O. L. T. asks how to care : for a gerberas out of doors diuS ing the winter?, i Ans.: Either we have had an influx of southerners into our valley or some of our valley folk are traveling south and sending home plants and ! seeds mere. Unless Mrs. O. L T. can build a - little hothouse around her ger beras, I do not think she can - give it any winter care out of doors In Oregon,' Even in the south the gerberas are protected from night cold si by covering - with blankets of Spanish moss. nal system and wrecked , two trains by routing them into, the same tunnel simultaneously. There was more than destruction : on the Frenchmen's minds. One train was pulling 12 carloads of flour. . ; V -. , . SSgt Roy Hughes of Minic, .Okla an artillery man, stopped - shooting long enough to see what a French farm woman wanted. When he returned to the guns he was chewing a big piece of cake. She'd brought freshly baked pastry to the battery. '; Then, there are the miUlon-and-one-wine stories. There was . the eld woman who served both Ersatz coffee and wine to: the soldiers at a roadblock, com pletely ignoring German high explosive shells which were fall ing all over the place. . , . -.i - I .'... i . -... . There was the French farmer whose windows -were all blown out by American artillery seek s ing to oust" the Jerries hiding in his farmhouse. Finally the Ger mans scrammed and the delight ed farmer laughed off the bro , ken windows and brought1' out wine to the whole battery. Then, there's Corp. Louis Le grenade, Troy, NH, who saw some French running 'alongside a slowly moving artillery con voy as it pased through town. The townspeople were serving , j i . . . . ,. . . and the corporal climbed down ' the back of his truck and took a glass from he hand of a running. Frenchman, "AMuy, he thought, "real French wine.'; Then he gulped it down in one swallow. It was soda pop. j' ' The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBT "NIGHT UNTO WjrU (farrr NIGHT. fcy PhlUr Ss SUaehart; SZ.7S). - v When a t'popular' writer like Philip Wylie goes serious, he is likely to go very serious indeed, and that is what has happened in the case of "Night Unto Night" MrJ Wylie has "not done a "philosophical' novel since he , published jFinnley Wren: His Notions and Opinions" ten years, ago. I shouid say that 'the new - "book would, be as much a shock to people who associate Mr. Wy lie with such books as "Fish and Tin Fish" as was "Finnley Wren." Possibly more. . . l i , . . The , great question in such a .book as "Night Unto Night" pro bably never occurs to - the au thor. It is, what shall the reader believe? What that is, among the utterances of the characters is the author's own idea, and "what is merely' the filling mat v ter, the abrasive, the mechani cal skeleton and the detail in cluded to make characters live? I'm not able even to guess, in "Night Unto! Night" nor will Mr. ;Wylie's readers ever be sure. This is because everybody, from the chief male character (who is threatened with epilepsy and madness) to tne cniei lemaie character, whose husband has been lost at sea and, she believes," : returns to speak to her every - body talks j about the central -' problem ' but with variations. And everybody talks and rea sons exactly as Mr. Wylie does.. The central problem is an en igma. It is death. Mr. Wiley sets the story in Florida, with throw backs to Chicago, and he is at considerable; pains to make the setting clear and tangible in the ' reader's mind. He goes " much farther, because he provides an lnlAiftatsM Skirwl aft Tlrt Hut ' may be very different from his Saturday Evening Post plots, - but ia just as efficiently con trived. And then . the final step is vaKen ne puis nunseu uuo the cast j Mr. Wylie; is the artist Shawn, whose mind ranges over vast his hands , concoct illustrations for stories in the slkk ' maga zines. The parallel is . obvious, although I idont- suppose Mr. Wylie acts as father confessor to half Florida,! as Shawn does. Out of 372 pages of action, charac terization and l speculation the author produces a state of mind in which his reader is, or should ence. m m r Stevens - f Credit If Desire! a Each beautiful: jewel p''M enthroned in hand--J&fsome setting has a 2J9 personality, ot its own. ll Choose yours with from our select collec tion of .fine stones. , r 1 M