, "We Favor Sway$ V$; No Fecr Sha.ll Awf
. From Tint SUtecma, March XI, 1831
TOE STATESMAN PUDUSHINC COMPANY:
CHARLES A. SPRAGUX, Editor and Publisher
Member of the Associated Press ' - ; . - 1
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of aU
newt dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
First in the Philippines - ;
The old Oregon Second infantry -was first
ashore in the conquest of the Philippines in
1898. So it is quite fiting that the 96th division,
activated and trained at Camp Adair, Ore.,
should be first to leap from the landing barges
in the reconquest of the islands. The division is
commanded by Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley,
whose cordiality made him a great favorite
during the time the division was here for train
ing. After the central Oregon maneuvers in
1943, it was stationed for a time at Camp White
to round out its training. The division was com
posed chiefly of men from the east and south
who complained a good deal about the wet win
ter of 1942-43. They are doing the job they were
organized for, and without doubt will do a
thorough job.
Evidently the 41st division, the northwest's
own outfit, which spearheaded many an attack
for MacArthur; from New Guinea to Biak, was
not in this first strike at the Philippines. Its
men are seasoned Jap fighters now, so the Japs
refer to them as the 41st division "butchers."
They will come in slugging when they are need
ed and may be in reserve for later operations on
Luzon and Mindanao. ., ; v
Not only because of its position on the Pacific
is Oregon interested in this invasion A of the
Philippines. The state's interest is enhanced
because of the part its regiment played in the
capture of Manila and the suppressing of the
Philippine insurrection. And it is quickened
now by the news that the 96th is taking part in
the landings on Leyte island. , '
Democrats "Curt Take It
: The democrats, who dished it out plenty In -:
1932, don't seem able to take it In 1944, Tha
president accuses his opponent of falsification,
and his junior campaigners charge him with'
"hitting below the belt." It's true that Dewey
is slugging, and in typical district attorney style '
Is picking out the bits of evidence from the re- ?
cord which he thinks can influence the jury of
the American people. That's politics, whether .
it's nice or not And it's the politics the demo-
,. crats indulged in 12 years ago. They called f or .
a change and blamed everything on Hoover. -
It comes as a surprise for them not to be run
ning against Hoover again. They were quite -unprepared
for. the slashing campaign of the
New York governor. He grabs bricks right out
of their own basket and tosses them back: the -"Roosevelt"
depression, "social gains" initiat
ed by republican administrations, Roosevelt re
sponsible for military unpreparedness. He quotes ;.
chapter and verse, which sets the democratic
researchers to hunting in .the books and dig
ging up answers. By the time they get the re
cord straightened ant in their favor Dewey is
back with another hot handout.
The campaign, which began under slow bell.
is warming up. The. appeals pouring into the
White house1 for personal appearances by the
"old maestro" are being heard, and apparently
will be answered with campaigning quite "in
the usual sense." What is really unusual in this
campaign is the Dewey audacity in attack. He
has a staff of researchers, too.
1806-1940
A friend has sent in a copy of a sonnet writ
ten by Wordsworth in 1806. It reveals how dur
ing the Napoleonic wars Britain had stood alone,
as one after another of the continental mon
archies tumbled. The line "another mighty em
pire overthrown" refers to the overturn of the
Holy Roman Empire after Napoleon's victory
at Austerlitz. Before that, .however, he had
stood at Calais, looking across the English chan
nel, studying the possibilities of invading the
British isles. He gave that task up, as did Hit
ler a century and a third later, and led his
French armies to his greatest victory, at Aus
terlitz. '
Here is the Wordsworth sonnet, which, while
now not so neatly parallel as the latter part of
1940, shows how in 1806 England was not daunt
ed by its necessity to find" safety "by our own
hands." : , - "
Another year, .another deadly blow! "
Another mighty empire overthrown! -And
we are left, or shall be left alone;
The last that dare struggle with the foe.
. Tis well, from this day forward we shall
know
That in ourselves our safety must be sought;
That by our own hands it must be wrought;
That we must stand unpropped, or be laid
. ' low
O dastard-who such foretaste doth not
: cheer!
' We shall exult, if they who rule the land,
- "Be men who hold its many blessings dear
t Wise, upright, valiant; not a servile band.
Who are to judge danger which they fear .
And honor which they do hot understand.
Conversations at Moscow
The conversations between Churchill and
Stalin in Moscow conclude wih expressions of
good will and intimations of progress particu
larly on the ticklish question of Poland. Per
haps nothing would do as much to lift the stand
ing of the United Nations among the smaller
nations of Europe than a genuinely satisfactory
solution 'of the question of the Polish' govern
ment and Polish boundaries. On this issue Chur
chill and Eden have fought clean, not forgetting
their commitments to Poland in 1939 when it
was threatened by Hitler. Concession would
mean little to Russia but much for Poland and
much for Russian prestige in the west.
Hitler is mobilizing the "home guard." Then
he is right at the bottom of the barrel of man
power. : - -
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Editorial Comment
NOKTHWEST PASSAGE
One of the most remarkable voyages ever made
in the Arctic was completed this week when the
Canadian Royal Mounted Police schooner St Roch
arrived at Vancouver, BC, 87 days out from Halifax,
Nova Scotia, by the Northwest Passage.
Amundsen in the GJoa Hook three years from
Norway to Nome by His Northwest Passage. In
recent years the Northwest Passage has been tra
versed in its Arctic stretch practically every sum
. raer by Mounted Police and Hudson's Bay com
pany vessels, but never before has one done the
whole voyage around the north of America In one
season. '- -
Furthermore, the St Roch did not follow the
tortuous course among the .islands traced out by
Amundsen in the little Gjoa and which, with var
iations; has been the usual recent route. Instead,
the St Roch sailed grandly through the main chan
nels, where so many stout ships were crushed or
abandoned in the ice in the first half of the last
century in fruitless quest of the Northwest Pas
sage and in the many expeditions of the Franklin
Search. From Baffin Bay .she Vent through Lan
caster Sound, Barrow . Strait Melville Sound and
McCIure Strait and finally through Prince of Wales
Strait to the Western Arctic.
The ice just wasn't there. At some time or an
other in the past every one of these waters has been
seen ice-free, but never before has a ship found
them all open in the same summer. This time every
- thing clicked at once, as it may not again for many
years. . . ,:s
The only Arctic voyage we can thmkof to com
pare Fithfthis for ease is that of the British frigate
Resolute of the third Franklin Search Expedition,
which, after being frozen in for two years In Mel
ville Sound, was abandoned in 1854 and two years
later was found in perfect condition by an Ameri
can whaler floating In the waters of Davis Strait
off Greenland. Crewless, the vessel had freed it
self from the Ice and navigated safely tha waters
of Barrow Strait Lancaster Sound and Baffin Bay
to Davis Strait Congress bought the Resolute from
Its finder find presented it to Great Britain. San
Francisco Chronicle, -
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HzccHs, TU, Eg?s
CdLtan Ciorfee of '
Doughboys la Franca
WITH THE AXF. IN FRANCE,
Oct 15-CDelayed) Since
90 per cent of doughboyc con
versation - concerns I either fem
ininity or food and since even .
the army's I hardened censors
would not pass their comments on
the former subject ft looks like
there Is nothing else to do but
listen to the never-ending chop
chatter:
' Mess Sgt John ' Z. Gaudln of
Hennessey, Okhu, sat before an
old fashioned bakery In a hotly
contested : French village and
counted ' the minutes until the -bread
he was baking for his
company would be done ' v
. In came bis helper, Pvt Ralph
Thompson -"of Anadarko, Okla,
who reported, "the command post;
says a hundred Jerles have bro
ken through and are coming this
way." " .
. Gaudln looked Inside the oven.
Ten more minutes,", he . said
placidly, "and the bread will be
done, if nothing happens by then,
we will bake pie crusts. That will '
take onlv a few minutes and then
we can beat It" . .
. Pretty soon came a burst of
German guns outside, but Gau
din's battery hadnt . had ; fresh
bread since it hit France, so the
two men stayed. Eventually they
escaped with 50 loaves of fresh
bread and eight pie crusts just
before the Germans arrived. -
"It was the smell of that bread
that worried me," Gaudln ad
mitted later, "because I knew
that if the Krauts ever got a whiff
of it they would storm the bakery
the first thing.?
Less dramatic but more dif
ficult to believe is the story of
CpL Furman Davis of Center, ,
Texas, an infantryman of the 45th
division, who was sitting In a
little French' cafe when a hen
hopped on his table. .r
fShe winked at me," Davis in
sists, "just as if to say, stick
around and she would lay an egg
for me.", i . . .
In any case, his two sidekicks,
Sgt S. B. Williams of Marlow, .
Oklav and First Sgt Frank
Smith of Taslequlah, Okla says
Davis Insisted on getting out the
frying pan and grease.
"And, by gosh," Williams con
cluded the story, "when that hen
(Continued on Page 6)
'Fraid Not!
TKDfTTTS
Hi, Skinny!
Boys will be boys, even in San Francisco.
That city, which prides itself on being the most
cosmopolitan of any on the coast, has been
turned into a veritable Podunk corners by the
youngsters of the town. They have' all taken
to using bean-shooters. For ammunition they
have raided home cupboards and. exhausted
supplies of dry beans and peas at the neigh- ,
borhood grocers. For victims, ah, in crowded
San Francisco there is no dearth of victims. The
old affinity of a snowball and a plug hat pre
vails between the beans and the gentility. The
urchins with their plastic artillery are proving
good marksmen too. ,
The problem is one for authorities to ponder
over. WFA may wring its hands at the waste of
food for hot. soup on a chill, foggy San Fran
cisco day. The police can only throw up their
hands at the prospect of rounding up droves -of
militant eight-ten-year-olds. Fathers and
mothers as usual expostulate and say something
should be done about it! , -4m
It's a race between a fad and the supply ot
ammunition. The rage will blow itself out soon;"
but it does give the rest of the country a laugh
at the sight of San Francisco juveniles behav
ing like their mates fon Hickory Ridge.
They say that General MacArthur writes his
own communiques. That explains their "purple
rhetoric." His radio address to the people of the
Philippines was flamboyant; but he is hired as -a
general, not as a literary "stylist. He. punc
tuates his speech with machinegun fire, and
accents his remarks with tombs. We can stand
the rhetoric if he wins the victory,. and no one
has the least doubt ;of that. . .
interpreting
The War News
K1RKE L. SIMPSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST
The nazi-Nipponese war axis was rocking with
new portents of approaching doom this October
weekend. ; .
From fallen Aachen in Germany to MacArthur's
return-to-the-Philippines beachheads on Leyte;
from Russian advance lines on German soil in East -Prussia
to the nazi lost Balkan peninsula; from
the . slowly collapsing nazi mountain ramparts
guarding Italy's vast Po valley to the red army in
undated plains of Hungary, and even in far away
Burma and the strategic Nicobar islands In the Bay
of Bengal the story was the same. The United Na-N
tions were closing in for the double kill.
That was the bleak prospect upon which German
and Japanese war lords alike looked out from their
now besieged inner citadels. Their realization that
the end is certain, and perhaps not far away, was
sharply reflected from Berlin and Tokyo alike. .
It could be read clearly in Hitler's wailing ap
peal to the German people to defend him and his
criminal nazi regime with their lives. His home
guard mobilization decree dropped 11 pretense that
The Literary
Guidcpost
By JOHN SELBY
HIGH TDK." y Mary LusweU
-. (Hoachtaa BUffita; SZ).
The three delightfully repre
hensible old gals of "Suds in
Your Eye" are back again. Mary
Lasswell has put them Into an
other book, this one called "High
Time." It is designed specifically
for the many people who liked
"Suds," and very- likely it wili
please them. For those who want
to dig a shovelful of significance
out of a diverting book, it might
also.be remarked that if a fic
tional character is a caricature
and is old enough, he or she may
do absolutely anything with
comic effect even lie, and fudge
on the war effort, as Miss Lass
well's oldsters do. 11 '
Mrs. Feeley Is, you win re
member, the capable one with a
kind of ruthless, do-or-die phil
osophy that goes well with
abundant energy. Mrs. Rasmus
sen it is who cooks. She can make
t almost anything taste wonderful,
even a sauce made out of mus
tard and catsup, and early in
"High Time" she acquires a .pres
sure cooker. And Miss Tinkham,
the very old maid. Is the lady of
the lot Miss Tinkham is a gor
geous success as a character, too.
There Is something irresistible in
the way she dredges up the rem
nants of gentility at exactly the
right moment perhaps a quota
tion, or a bit of chintz, or a song
for which she furnishes a some
what incoherent accompaniment
on the somewhat out-of-tune pi
ano at the Ark. The Ark Is the
San Diego home of the Ladies".
I don't know how to suggest
the flavor of the book better than
to explain a few of the ladies'
acquisitions. The first are twin
babies, which they agree to man
age through the.; day so their
grandmother can' do war work.
The next is . Darleen, who has
progressed from an orphanage to
an extraordinary existence as
dancehall girl and worse, main
taining all the while an equally
extraordinary respectability. The
next Is Oscar,' who enters the
charmed cjrcle through buying
some beers for the ladies and
Darlem. That's all I have room
for, but there are others, the fun
Is rough, and you never saw such .
bi&diaf hearts of gold In your
life.- . - ,
News Behind the News
By PAUL MALLON
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole
or in part strictly prohibited.')
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 Dear
Friend M : You say you think
Mr. Roosevelt is the greatest lib
eral leader since
7
Ml
i
fm-M Malion
Lincoln, that his
experience In
war is needed
to conclude the
conflict victori
ously, and this
same experi
ence in interna
tional affairs is
necessary for
postwar peace
negotiations
with Stalin and Churchill, 'and
therefore you are going to vote
.for the president again. You ask
'me what I Intend to do . r,
!, I have never before said how.
I intended to vote. It did not
seem to me to be the business of ,
anyone. To do so is a violation
of the privacy of American bal
loting. But I do not mind telling"
you this time I expect to vote, for
Dewey. And I am so sure of my
ground I will tell you why.
Mr, Roosevelt may, as you say,
have been the greatest liberal
politician : since ; Lincoln. But
what liberal principle is at stake
in this election? . Name one, just
one. There are none. In fact the
liberals on Mr. Roosevelt's coat
tails have suffered the same dec
adence as all successful reform
movements.
They have turned anti-democratic,
pro-totalitarian, against
Individual freedom and rights, in
favor even of dictatorship by
themselves. With the power of
wealth so. effectively crushed in
our country, these liberals have -fed
themselves fat and flabby on
power for 12 years and become
the real reactionaries of our era.
The true liberal is the man
who fights against the injustices
of his time from whatever source
they come. The injustices of this
administration are woven into its
ties with seekers for special priv- ,
ilege and with corrupt political
machines. . Formerly, when It
was fresh and liberal, it domi
nated them. Now they domi
nate it
There is nT new deaL only a
conglomerate assemblage of
seekers for special : privileges
from government now behuid .
this government This is truth.
Dewey is a young reformer ;
victory ww sou posnoie. u cauea omy xor a xignt
to the death within Germany itself in hope that a '
softer peace than unconditional surrender somehow
could be gained. It was a self-serving plea, for un
conditional surrender means surrender of Hitler
and the arch criminals of nazism, if they survice, to
justice.
. Japanese official desperation was no less ap- '
parent in faked claims of a decisive naval victory
over raiding American forces deep in Japan's home
waters off Formosa. , Invasion of the Philippines
had been warded off for months, the Tokyo radio
chanted, hoping thus to hide from the home front
the blow dealt Japanese air and sea power. .
A fraudulent day of rejoicing was set in Japan.
Yet the words were no more than spoken than the
Stars and Stripes were flying again over the Philip-,,
pines. MacArthur, with his men, set foot again In
the islands to redeem his promise of return, this .
time lo stay until his liberation task is done.. -
There was a startling about -face -on Japanese
radio waves. They yammered now that the battle
of decision was impending in the PhilippinesThere "
was no effort to reconcile conflicting reports. Ene
my confusion and dismay was apparent in. utterly
contrasting Tokyo and Manila versions of the in
vasion that went to confirm General MacArthur's
announcement that the foe had been caught napping.
In Europe, meanwhile, Russian and allied forces'
were obviously preparing new major blows from
east, west and south regardless of the dose onset
of winter. American capture of Aachen and Can
adian mopping-up on the SheWe estuary banks In
Holland justified nazi expectation of a coming ma
jor allied power attack on that flank in the west
Southward American and French elements of Gen-:.
eral Eisenhower's vast force inched their way
through passes and nazi defenses guardlnj the up
per Rhine.
"THE YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier
'
Tn warciax yea before yen start. Doc. The c!i mas is
notoriously lax about dental bCXsr
who would chase the rascal out
By any measure of sound reason
ing therefore he is the liberal
candidate.
, , I would not vote for him for
that reason alone, if I thought
the peace would suffer one com
ma omitted or victory be delayed
one hour. j
. Is his election necessary to sus
tain a foreign policy? What for
eign policy? Name it "Are you
shying at the vague shadow of
CoL McCormick while Joyfully
swallowing the ' Russian fish
hook? s. -''-V:1:;'
- Mr, Roosevelt's peace negotia
tions have been going- on since
the Atlantic ; Charter meeting
with CSuirchiuV What has he
done, except to lose the Atlantic
Charter? What has been accom
plished except to start to recon
ceive a league of nations, which
we could have joined anytime fn
the last 2S years. Is there one
new thing done which makes you
justly feel any more secure for
. post-war?
I think Mr. Roosevelt has fail
ed. : Both Stalin and Churchill
: have got the better of him. I
think the facts prove they have
put it over on him at every turn
(Poland, Finland, the Balkans,
France, Italy, Germany). ' ;
A change In our leadership
would, be beneficial, indeed Is
necessary to keep the peace from
continuing to de-graduate itself
down to the level of the Euro
pean politicians, the trend it has
followed without idealistic inter
ruption since the charter was
proclaimed. , .
Essential to win the war? You
are not falling for that old polit
i leal hokum about the commander-in-chief,
areyou? That al
ways has been an honorary title
: for the president -
General Marshall is the actual
commander-in-chief of the ar
mies and he works at it resisting
' the president and even the Brit-
ish (a great man ; whose - full
worth is not yet known to the
country).-.-' '.--.' , ' i'--.
-' True, Mr. Roosevelt has com
plete personal influence over the
v admirals, but I have heard none
of them say his advice to them
is necessary to the winning of
" the war. - . ... ;- . :.' ;
: Frankly, think victory might
' come sooner with a little shakeup
' of some of these generals and ad
; mirals, but Dewey says he will
not do it There is thus no plaus
Ible suggestion lurking ' in any
real fact to indicate a change in
' presidents would make any mHi
... tary difference. ' - -' :?
This is an unusual election. In
short, there is no valid reason I
can see why anyone should vote
for Mrv: Roosevelt except the
, great non-fighting army of seek
era for self privileges from gov
ernment who stand to gain per-'
sonaUy by his continuance in of
fice, and no sound reason why
anyone of any other viewpoint
. should vote against Dewey. . .
No one , has yet questioned
Dewey's honesty ,or ability. ' Un
less they do, successfully, X shall
vote for him.
I like Mr. Roosevelt- With all
his administrative atrocities, his
unconscionable cruel .and ' puni-
;' tive political tactics at times and
his unreasonableness on occa
sions, X see a certain under-level
of purpose whih I like, but even
this purpose has failed now.
' The time Is crying , out for
fresh leadership of any available
kind to keep this country togeth
er as long as possible, and to de
fend American ideals before . the
world. . That Is what I truly
.hink. . -
" . Sincerely,"
Paul Mallon.
(Continued from page 1)
even more revealing than : the
language of the ' new; interna
tional charter.' What appears to
be forming both in the field and'
in theory is a new grand alli
ance, a . three-power alliance of
Russia, Great" Britain and the
United States, which are assum--i
n g obligations to . maintain
peace. 7 Emerging also' ' are ' the
stigmata of power politics: Rus
sia gaining a protective moat
either by territory or influence
on the west; Britain struggling
'to maintain its world position by
entrenchment in- the Mediter
ranean and by economic links
with the countries of western
Europe; the United States ac
quiring bases, especially in the
Pacific, as outlying bastions of
power. 4
Thus we hear nothing now of
the engagements' of the Atlantic ;
charter: no territorial aggrand-
izement no changes of sover-
eignty without' assent of peoples.
The idealism of early-expressed
war aims is slowly oozing away
as the victors survey the pros
pects of spoils: Pentsamq and
Finnish nickel mines to Russia,
possibly the Dardanelles also;
Libya to Great Britain, direct or
under "dependent independ-'
ence;" Pacific islands to the
United States.
While the war in Europe has
been fought brilliantly as a
military operation, the conduct ,
of diplomatic affairs has chilled
the enthusiasm of the peoples on
the continenfwho 'thought that
allied liberation from nazi-fas-dst
domination would open the
door to establishment of a real
; democratic order. . I t
x The deals with Da rl an in
' North Africa," with Badoglio in
Italy and the tardy acceptance
of DeGauile in France have sent
waves of discouragement across
Europe. When" Prime Minister
Churchill declared some weeks
' ago that the war had lost its
ideological base he surrendered
a moral Gibraltar which will not
. easily be recaptured. -
v Quoting Peter Drucker in an
article in the October Harpers:
1 "To the abandonment of an
ideological , basis ; the Three-
; Power scheme owes its realism
and the possibility of unity be
tween the Great Powers. But
along with the ideological basis
the Great Powers have volun-
, tarily abandoned the moral lead
ership in Europe to which their
victory over nazism entitles
them. And it is questionable
whether without such leadership
Europe can overcome the ha
treds which Nazism will have
left behind, and can form the
stable governments without
which it cannot recover." '
The United. Nations are losing
the moral initiative, as import
ant in human affairs as military "
initiative Is in warfare. Sacri- 1
f icing idealism to stability is du-,
bious realism. The plan leaves
western Europe,' the Europe of ,
350 million people from the "
border of western Russia to the
Atlantic, In vacuum, a condition
which ' cannot be , permanent
Great alliances have at best giv
en Europe only temporary peace,
' and the arch of Britain and Rus
sia over Europe has only the in
secure foundation of mutual
fears. Yet that is the program
df Dumbarton Oaks which in it
self is largely the codification
of Teheran's "Great Design."
The trouble with Dumbarton
Oaks Is not that it attempts too
much, but that it promises too
little. ' -
Votorans ffifthts and Benefits
. Thia la a port loo of aa official pamphlet glvta information
on the rights and privilege! of war veterans
under federal lawt.) ' '
Apprentice Training
. Virtually all of the of 30,027 apprentice-training programs in the
United States extend opportunities to returning veterans. Veterans
may be employed as apprentices and be paid as they learn, getting
not .only a steady job but training which prepares them for skilled
jobs. Age restrictions and other limitations are lifted for them in
many cases. Information may be obtained through your nearest US
Employment Service office or the nearest facility of the Veterans'
Administration. . , v-
All wartime veterans discharged under honorable conditions are
entitled to preference in, US Civil Service examinations. The entitle
ment to 3 or 10 points will be determined by the Civil Service Com
mission upon application to the Commission.
Other privileges for veterans are: : 5 a i f
(1) Examination for positions of guard, elevator operator, mes
senger and custodian, will be restricted to veterans as long as vet
eran applicants are available. v . ,
(2) Time spent in military service will be credited toward exper
ience required for a position of the kind you left J .'
(3) Age, heighV and-weight requirements are waived for veterans
in most instances. Other physical requirements may be waived. ;
(4) Veterans are exempted from provisions of law prohibiting
government employment to more than two members of a family.
(5) If an appointing officer passes over, a veteran and selects a
non-veteran, he must submit his reasons in writing to the Civil
Service Commission. ' . j. -5 i. "
() In personnel reductions in any Federal agency, preference in
retention will be given to veterans.
There are approximately . 4500 local Civil Service Secretaries lo
cated in all first- and second-class postoffices, who will advise you
concerning government employment or such, information may be
secured from your Reemployment Dxnamitteeman or the US Em-
ployment Service, who will put you in touch with a representative
of the Civil Service Commission. , -
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