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1 i PAGE FOU3 Tha CZZGCII CTAimAIL Cdsa. Orjta, Ccriay I!cn-, Ortcbrr 21. ICIi . v "Wo Facor Sways C7; No Fear Shall Aim - From Tint Statesman. Much 28, 1831 . THE STATESMAN PUBUSIilKG C03IPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUZ, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press - . . . .. - Tht Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use (or publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. CI Joe and the Fraulein " ' The orders of General- Eisenhower lor the military government of occupied Germany are terse -and firm. They are inshort: "no foolish ness." For civilians who mind their own busi ness, no interference; for those who do interfere, death. But death will not be visited on the in nocent by way of reprisal as is the nazi custom. Hard as it will be to preserve order and foil 4ka f!rmin . underground, nerhans even . mora difficult will be carrying out army orders that the GIs can't date the German frauleins. General Eisenhower has ordered 'no fraternizing" with the German population, and that Includes wo men! But, as an army officer remarks, the American soldier "is normally friendly, trust ing, easy-going and ready to pick up acquain tance everywhere.' So it's going to be hard to get him to look straight ahead when German frauleins,' bereft of men of their age for years, cast coquettish glances in their direction. In the last war the American soldiers enter ing the Rhineland after the armistice met and some of them mated with the German women. They enter the country now with the war still on, and with the German people in a different temper. They will need to be on guard against every German civilian, women included, fear ing either personal betrayal or espionage. So the mrmtr ' nil t lnriniiHtfwl! v wiiu and soldiers themselves if they have some costly exper iences may learn to avoid fraternizing with the population. We can still count on soldiers pas sing out sticks of gum to children however. That privilege should not be denied the soldiers; and children carry an appeal in every language.- Acquire Bush Pasture t V- V- n.A-l. out under which the whole 100 acres of the Bush tract in the heart of Salem may come into permanent public use. The city now has deed to the 57. acres of flat land, possession to come af ter the death of Miss Sally Bush. Now the Bush interests indicate willingness to sell the city the remaining 43 acres of upland for $175,000. One condition is the deeding of from seven to 10 arrp tf the nastim in WiTlamptte university for - ii t i ? t i rni . : 1 an auueuc liexa. -iiie new pnee is a nuwuuu of $75,000 from that formerly put on the prop erty. : , , j.:.-:.--' : The StatesmanThsts that a satisfactory fin ancing plan can be worked out so the city can ' acquire this property. The opportunity is most unusual to obtain so large a tract for a public park in the heart of a city. The improvement of f Via linivcrrciftt rmrtinn rnuM ha imA in -with tho tll K t . , V fcj rUlmwm .... wm ww mwMM ..... - : "ter on the flat" . .'. :,:Z ,r r;.'; The acquisition of the property , .would not come until the death of Mr. A. N. Bush and Miss The city will, need to develop a comprehen sive park program, not only for the utilization of the Bush. Pasture but for providing suitable parks in other sections in anticipation of future growth of baiem. The present oner furnishes a great opportunity, and a real responsibility as well. " Dewey on Foreign Policy ' The New York Times came out for Roosevelt because it approved of his "foreign policy." That argument was pretty well punctured by Gover nor Dewey before the Herald-Tribune forum Wednesday night. He showed that in critical situations the "president's own foreign, policy had been wrong, , notably the snubbing of De Gaulle, the tardiness of relief for Italy, and the forgetting of the Atlantic charter's renunciation of territorial gains in the handling of the Rus-so-Polish boundary question. In this respect Governor Dewey reached clear, over to the left to pick up the protests and dis appointments of the "popular front which has been definitely dissatisfied with the manage-'1 meat of these foreign relations. However tht "popular front' puts the primary blame on the state department while Dewey put it on the pre sident himself and gave a neat bouquet to Sec retary Hull. - : The Dewey tour-de-force is formidable be cause it penetrates to the core of our perform ance in terms of our war aims. Dewey has, how ever, the benefit of hindsight on these situations. His own outline of policy for world affairs is sketchy. He proposes the punishment of war criminals, removal of the power, of Germany and Japan to wage war, and the international ism of the Ruhr, He makes no reference how- ever to the great and turbulent f orces"which are loose in Europe and reveals no attitude tnwflrH th Hiffiriilt stmrt'1 nt thm ?pmrMrati idea for survival on the continent. A political "Last of an Old German Line" candidate hesitates to become detailed in . his program, yet we find ourselves wishing for a clearer note from Dewey as to what his own policies would be as president. Tonight President Roosevelt is to speak on foreign affairs. ; Will he undertake to answer Dewey's criticisms, and will he outline what his policy will be for an ensuing four years? Two fine Oregon citizens have passed on dur ing the week, Lyle Kiddle of La Grande, one of the splendid family of that name in Union county, and George E. Aitken of Sisters, whose drug store was always a pleasant stopping place and whose interest in central Oregon and espe cially in wildlife was always keen.' General Mud,' the old familiar of the first world war, is contesting for command on the western front. But we hear nothing about coo ties. Evidently the new chemicals protect ' the soldiers from these plagues of former years. Here is the way to end this Berlin-Distomo fuss. When the allies capture Berlin, Germany, rename it Distomo. Make the Germans carry the punishment and the shame. The Russians have captured Szeged and Cluj in Hungary. They can have them, sparing us the4 necessity of leering how to pronounce them. 'ySsyv tSM I , Ztvll about Wounded ; s ' ; . Hen Aching for More ' Action la , 7ust X5uxuV Tho Literary Guidcpost Br JOHN SELBY The Safety Valve tetter" from Stateatnan Reader Vote Republican ! If you scan the county , ticket on the ballot you will find that all republican i incumbents are running without opposition. This is quite a tribute to the persons holding those offices or else it indicates the low estate of the demo cratic party in Marion county. v 'The one office in the court house held by a . democrat is that of county sheriff. The repub lican nominee for that office is Denver Young, who has had experience as a chief deputy in the office, and in addition has had business ex perience. He is a man of good reputation, who appears to be in every way competent to do a good job as sheriff! He would be the actual, not the nominal sheriff. So The Statesman says: "Vote Republican -vote for Denver Young!" m a a interpret An increase of 50,000 eating places is fore cast for the period immediately following the war. That will provide jobs for the million wait resses we already do not have. . Editorial Comment ANYHOW, WE LTJUE IT- V . In no other country in the world but the United States could rival sets of political leaders be lam basting each other especially during war time as President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey now re doing. .'.'.:. '-...C,.-. i1'". -'.:.: - The president started the mud-linging when he descended from his "commander-in-chief pin nacle, in an address before the international team sters. The democrats now concede that this was the most ill-advised campaign speech ever mSde by Roosevelt '. All along he had assumed the role of "unwilling candidate." He was being drafted by his country. Jle-did not want a fourth term, but he was a "good soldier" and would not , shirk his - duty." Then speaking before the teamsters' union, he suddenly reverted to type. No longer was jt the "commander-in-chief speaking. Instead here-was just an other candidate, desperately seeking office and resorting to mud-slinging, satire and Innuendo In his attempt to attract votes. V . , President Roosevelt "led with bis chin," in this address, and he gave Governor Dewey an unexpec ted opportunity to get In some effective wallops. Since then the affair has developed into a politi cal brawl of the first water, with both sides slug ging it out and no quarter asked. Yet, despite the Jeat that .has been generated . by this campaign, the American people stia are 1C3 per cent united in support of tla jva'r effort In other words we can have a good cld-fashioned . family quarrel, even in the middle or a war, and still not lose our sense of perspective. ' - No woniar every other nation in the world re gards us with amaiement Even the liberal British hardly can understand us, and "Uncle Joe Stalin rrobatly is " wendsrirj why Roosevelt docs not have his rivals shot " I : It rr.-'r fm crazy, but we Lke fU The. Dalies ( :mg , The War News . " " K1RKE L. SIMPSON ASSOOATgD PBXS3 WAK ANALTST American hearts thrilled , with pride as the war bulletins brought tidings of heavy new American blows against Germany and Japan alike, matching Russian victories and the steady, remorseless ad vance of allied comrades elsewhere, j A triumphant announcement from General Mac Arthur confirmed Japanese reports that American reoccupation of the Philippines is well under way. In Europe shell and bomb riddled Aachen, the first German community of size and tactical and stra tegic consequence to be taken ,fell to American arms, a desolate, war-wrecked symbol of the fate awaiting other German cities at allied and Russian hands.. . - s-'.; ..:' There were notable developments on other fronts to match these. The Russian Invasion of Germany proper via the break-through into East Prussia was in full motion by Berlin admission. In Hun gary Russian columns 'closed swiftly on Budapest and intensified the growing threat to Vienna. A nazi retreat except for sacrificial rear guards from the last German held islands of the eastern Medi terranean and Aegean seas was clearly discernible. It was westward across the Pacific that American eyes looked first, however,. to appraise. the total change in the war which MacArthurs return at the head of a, powerful army to the Philippines represented. His own bold words in announcing the successful descent upon Leyte to catch the Nipponese foe o guard left m doubrthat Ameri-, stronfc cntr BCILDINO OF JALNA,- ky Mas la Baca (UtUe, Brws; It would be nice to know how much of Mazo de la Roche's Jal-' na story was the result of a long term plan, and how much of it simply grew that way. When Miss de la Roche published "Jalna" in 1927 the book was winner of an ' important prize, and was also a commercial success. It's my im pression that 'the author never intended to do nine books on the same people, but that public de mand and commercial possibili ties dictated that course. What is so remarkable about the Jalna books, ninth jot which is The Building of Jalna," is - Miss de la Roche's continued in terest in her fictional people. Her publisher compares her to Trol lope, and although her style and his are antipodal, there is some I validity in the comparison. Even j after nine books, this remarkable Canadian I views her creations warmly and treats them gener ously. This time she has gone farther into the past than ever, in order to describe the founding of the Whiteoaks clan in Canada. This means, that much of the course which the new book runs has been predetermined by the happenings of the others and if anybody think it is easy to do a series of books in reverse, as it ; were, let, him try it One Is' for ever finding that something dropped into a book carelessly and for! no particular reason, when extended back into time, is channeling the behavior of char acters in a wholly unexpected way., j i-,.V! , : This sort of thing could devel op into a straightjacket It has not for Miss de la Roche. If I had not already read most of the Jalna - series," I should never dream that Adeline and Captain Whiteoaks were not fresh from the de la Roche stable, instead of familiars for the last 17 years. Adeline is known to most of the novelist's admirers as an old, a peppery, and a delightful woman. .Here she Is a young wife, remov ' ing from India to England to Ire land to Canada. Her husband Is Chronic1.: can valor to-come decisively to grips with a treach erous enemy ashore as well as afloat and in the air. . The striking aspect of that long amphibious jump bypassing Mindanao to land on flat and productive Leyte above it and knife powerful Japanese armies in the Philippines apart at a single stroke, is that it closed in to its designated beach landings unde tected. That again demonstrates the overwhelming Americaivair and sea superiority built up in the Pacific It even more strikingly repeats the lesson of the sustained carrier plane bombardment of For mosa which Tokyo so frantically sought to con-, vert in Japanese eyes Into a great naval victory. But for the fact that Japan had been blinded and . rendered impotent in the air' and her still power ful fleet been herded into remote hiding places, no commander would have dared take the risk of that long voyage. Eyewitness accounts indicate an ar - mada of surface warcraft and troops and supply . ' vessels involved that covered many miles of ocean in transit. Yet there is no hint that the foe learned of its approach before it had penetrated into wide : Leyte gulf itself. Y"r: " ,"-' ' ; '1 " There can be no question that General MacAr thur will have not only the willing and effective help of Filipino forces he so promptly and eloquent ly summoned tq action from his beachhead com mand post, but that he was fully Informed of ene- . . my dispositions in advance of his actual attack.' It . seems certain that no enemy troop movement to cope with the American invasion anywhere in the islands has gone or win go unreported to the com mander by watchful Filipinos. - , The MacArthur estimate of 5C0.C0D ; Japanese . troops potentially cut off in the southern end of the Nipponese South China sea conquest zone looks . ahead, probably, to early, seizure of other central islands and the opening of the Philippine inland sea to fleet passage Into the Suu archipelago and - the lower China sea itself. . j . The . divide-and-conquer pattern of ; Amcricaa : strategy is clear and perfectly executed. It could yield far quicker results than army spokesmen are yet ready to forecast acter, Adeline the wonderful product of a wild Irish fine and Canada becomes' actual and beautiful v before the ' reader's eyes. ' DEFENDS LITTLE TOWNSEND PLAN To the Editor: A few comments on your edi torial of October 18. The num ber of Townsend pensioned peo ple who j would trade in Salem would be iabout 5000, which would bring over $300,000 each month more- than now. Do you think that; would increase your busi ness any? You say, - "it would add to all other taxes." Not to all other taxes. The taxes for the upkeep of poor f, houses, state pensions, and all other expenses for helping the elderly and dis abled, will be done away with, which will be four or five times as much as the cost of the Townsend taxes. You say, "the gross inteome" tax n UNFAIR, because it does not accurately measure ability to pay a tax." It is the fairest' tax known, because only those who sell something pays this tax, and if one does not sell for enough to pay the tax does not have to selL ' y-x: : .;.! It cannot become a sales tax on a person's salary, for when a person receives money he pays an income tax. And you say, "when he buys merchandise he pays the accumulated gross in come tax," and not a sales tax. . But it cannot become a "double barreled " shotgun which ' carries . a powerful kick," for he can pay but one tax on it ' v-- . One would hot want to add to the price of wheat, for the ex tra number of bushels which can be sold, would - add enough to " the amount one could sell, would more than make'; up for the amount of the tax. More goods , sold, more profits. And much .' more will be sold, because there will be $300,000 more; that must be SPENT each month, or the pensioner will get NO pension check the next month, if he does not. spend it alL , But Dr. Townsend is FAIR. ' If. one cannot' spend the , whole' of the $60, (or whatever I the amount is, probably nearer $90) he does not have to apply for: only the amount he can spend. You say much about the rise of the price of bread!." This has ell . been figured out, and it . wiS raise the cost of bread about one : fourth of a cent per 10c loaf.; Oh people do not be frightened, for we will all live and the edi tors will be making more money too, and be awfully glad we have fought for 10 years the 15th day of last July that you might have the benefits of these years of , labor. y. , : Do not be alarmed about the rise of the price of goods in stores, for. if you will go into any store now and ask if they will discount 3, for a deal of $25 or $50 worth of goods they will gladly discount the bQl be fore they will let you pass out of the ; store , without making the . You close your editorial by saying, "Even if we were to ac .cept the Townsend, theory that the spending will f improve busi ness" that still would not erase the inequities of this gross In come tax. This alone is sufficient ground for rejecting the propos al. The Statesman-recommends Vote $17 Nc" BUT I SAY, VOTE 318 YES, and in a few months we w&l all bless the day for, how it win help the business men and crippled soldier boys, who will all be entitled to this pension. Who would not be willing to give 'the 3 tax, even" if it did not re duce other taxes more. . ; i 1 R I. Rummer. WITH THE AEF IN FRANCE, Oct le-(Delayed)-ff-Ten re turn to unit" men stood in a sep arate group, talking quietly. They had come j- to the last leg of the front ward trip with hundreds of new replace ments raw rookies in the combat zone and like them ; SOOn WOUld - gO imJ into the line. Ktmn L. otxoa But there the similarity ended. The KTU men aU had been, wounded, injured or ill. Unlike the rookies, they were unequip ped except for the clothes they wore out of the hospital Jbut It did not take that to distinguish between them and the newcom ers to the front . Whereas the rookies most ob viously were possessed by a curi ous and fascination and fear of the unknown as they neared the front, the RTU men are busy try ing to steel their nerves to make the transition from the placid life of recuperation to the flimsy, dangerous, miserable life of the combat zone. "How's it going there?" asked Pvt. ' Alexander McCabe, 36-year-old New York city rifleman. He was one of the few men who were wounded in the fight after the original landing.- . "They say it's getting pretty rough again especially the ar tillery," said Pvt Charles Bute houn, 19-year-old Long Island rifleman who was wounded in the early days of the ITrench campaign. . . "I hear it's the artillery again the same old story," said Pvt Woodrow Wilson, 25, Port Ar thur, Tex., rifleman In a soft, musing voice. He had been wounded back In Italy near . Rome and then -fell iU during the early part of the French drive. The others nodded silently, each lost in his own memories. "Come on, Dick, tell him how you were wounded," grinned Staff Sgt Thomas Wristen, Santa -Anna, Tex, reconnaissance man, suddenly breaking the spell. Pvt Richard C Hamblen, 22, of Ama rUlo, Tex, assumed a dramatic ' pose....::-.- ;''.;-: ; j : --V-- vy "I was storming a position in a French barn," he said. -"My mission was to bring back an armload of hay but I didnt see a loose board in the hayloft and I fell. And that is how. I was wounded." ' ;;!-.' Then Hamblen added, "Ten him about your wounds.": , . "Aw, a blamed blowtorch blew; up. In , my face," said Wristen ; . wryly. Everybody laughed. - For a moment the artillery was forgotten but a short time later Pfe. Clarence Hagerty,t 21, of Wilmington, Del, a rifleman, and Pvt Richard T, Porter, 21, of mn ITIfM. Vmnm . tana- tffrfw started talking about it; again. Hagerty had been wounded In the Rhone valley and Porter had been sick. . " - j ;:- "It wasn't the artfllery that got me," interrupted CpL Randolph T. Myers, BenQeyvflle, Pa, re connaissance man who had been wounded at Lyons. "They got me with either a machine pistol . or a carbine slug when I! wasn't down low enough." t "Where did it bit you?" tame., one asked. j . , ' "You can put in the paper I was hit in the hip," Myers said, his broad grin disclosing he was missing a front tooth. "But be tween you and me J am going to have a heDuva time after the war when the old ladies ask! to see where I was wounded." ! After another burst of j laugh ter "the conversation again turned . aa a mm . . v me gnm subject of enemy ar tfllery and other front-line con ditions. Pfc Ernest Gamier, 27, of Skowhegan, Me, and his buddy, Pvt Thomas Jones, 20, of Pulas ki, Tenn, who were riflemi wounded in the Rhone valley de cided that "if they need this many replacements it must be pretty rough up there." ' I Everybody agreed tensely as ' they watched ; the replacements wander aimlessly about the biv- ' ouac area. 'Pretty soon they vot- I ed unanimously that I should put j in the paper that "this j stuff . about the wounded just aching to get back into the line again is Just so much bunk." , They meant it too. But a short time later Pvt John Black, jr, a brand ; new replacement from Cleveland, L, came up and asked with understandable ner vousness if it was as bad "up there" as some -guys have been telling him, : . ;v . c . "Hell, ho,' buddyfc" said Gamier quietly, without hesitation. wa, eaa. uic, . wuuiUil DC SOillB ba,ck if It was that bad." ; OTP (Continued from page J) clothes, with his pipe or his jowls, or ' his ' paunch, or his stoop-shoulders, or his towering height or whatever r personal characteristic . the man may have." U ; , A: : Here are the names of persons included in this -living hall" Roosevelt, Wallace, Stone, Ray burn, Hull, Morgenthau, Stim son, Biddle, Walker, Knox, Tor restal, Ickes, Wlckard, Jesse Jones, Perkins, Truman; Stettin us, Patterson, Leahy, Marshall, King, Arnold, MacArthur, Eisen hower, Nimitz, Halsey, Hopkins, Byrnes, -Nelson, Wilson, Land, Bowles, Bush, McNutt, Marvin Jones,. Barudx, Jeff era. Hoover, Davis, Price, RockefeUer, Dewey, " . T? " -: Bricker, Green, Murray, Lewis, "THE YOUNG IDEA" - By Mossier if. a?. V . LiDnman. Bob Hope. ' There can be many an argu ment over! the inclusions and omissions. But at least It Is a sig nificant project, preserving.in working pose the principal Cg-' ures of this time. . v -. War; Fire Los? Comparable; Irreparable Says Thompson . War and fire losses are comparable and irreparable, Seth B. Thompson, state insurance commissioner and fire marshal, told members of the Salem Board of Realtors at their noon meeting Friday in Marion hotel. Thomas was introduced by President George D. Alderin. - i . I ! "There is no way to replace the wealth lost in fire and la war," Thompson said, "except " through self denial and accumulation from other sources. No use can be made of heat generated by uncontrolled fire. The same is true of war. Ammunition is blown up, facilities of peace . are - converted to war manufacture. In the final analysis there is a definite loss to world economy and the loss is never salvaged. ' -Jastlfy esltlea l. v "Because of the hopelessness of war, advocates of peace - at any price have tried to justify their position. Dr. David Starr Jordan, of Stanford university, almost cre ated an international crisis some years ago when he - referred to France as a 'decadent nation. Ac tually he did not mean morally, but economically, as the result of the loss of life for a- century in wars.;; 'y:);-;"- xj": " .t..:;;i . Thompson eplained the . ease with which a good situation may develop into a bad one where fire Is considered. He said there was a plywood plant operating in this valley in a most efficient; manner. A critical ; inspection one day, however, he said, disclosed 29 needed corrections. The manage ment was not aware of j any of them. Manpower shortage and pressure of production for the war had created the situation, he said. Leas Dlstrfbvted '"W 1 When property burns, Thomp son said, the loss Is distributed between many, but the loss re mains the same. There is a world tendency now to view war in the , same manner. Dumbarton Oaks may furnish the answer, j : - A new concept is brewing," he said, "and the world Is : coming closer together. There Is no great er need for indemnities now than before. However, distribution of losses may become worldwide." SSS- it ; "Yee ten msther YOU broke It and m teU her Tve ALCCADY spaaked yea!" . Brigadier Howell , To Conduct Revival ; Brig, and Mrs. Francis Howell, Salvation Army evangelists, will conduct revival services at the Citadel, 241 State street. October 21 to 28. Week night cervices COO p. m. Sunday lkCd am. and 729 p..m. . , , ' . ' i-1 ' , Brigadier Howell has held im portant positions in the Salvation Army in Canada and this country for 30 years 'and the past three years has been conducting evan gelistic meetings up and down the western coast The general pub lic Is invited. The US constitution provides that the total membership , of the house - of representatives . never shall exceed .one for every 33.CCD persons but that each state shall have at least one "representative. Votorans? nirrhts and Bonbf iU - (Daily in -flus space wmibe pukUihed a porttoo ml aa fficial pamphlst giving faCormatlon oa the rights and. privUegss l war veterans tmdar federal laws.) v- ' - Catling a Government Job ; v " If you were a Federal Civil Service employee (other than temp orary) when you entered the war, you should apply to the agency where last employed within 40 days of your discharge or to the Civil Service Commission in the event you experience difficulty in being reinstated. If you satisfy the requirements (see "Getting Your Old Job Back" above? you are entitled to your former position or . one "of like seniority, status, and pay." , . ,. Ityou didn't have a Civil Service job before, but want to get one after you are discharged, you will get special consideration, and pre ference In Civil Service examinations This preference also applies.' to wives or widows of veterans under certain circumstances! ? - ONE OF AMERICA'S FINE WATCHES (X gV)aBBBaaMaaBSsveMapBMBSiM!BMa m - . m faVMaMias"'''?' ii w 'ss'eaveaaasBasBseBaMaassiaaa ej r Mi & W I - r r " ' ' s ii'
