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pacz reus Thm CnTGOH CTATCMAIt, Calexa.1 Ongasu Saturday Morning. Korember 25, 1S44 V I1 ' t favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Atoa - ' From Tirtt Statesman, March 2S,831 THE STATES3IAN PUBLISHING GQJIPANY- . . CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher " 1 ' .- Member of the Associated Press ; i . The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.' Conscription in Canada ' Forced to yield to pressure tor conscription to restore the fighting strength of Canada's overseas armies, Prime Minister Mackenzie King now has to face the loss of support from his bloc of liberals from the province of Quebec, long a liberal stronghold. If he loses that sup port his government will be defeated and he 7 will have to call an election. King called an election rather, hurriedly about two years ago and got a parliamentary majority. Since then opposition parties, especially the CCF (cooper-, ative federation), have made great headway in the! prairie province of Manitoba and the social credit party still rules in Saskatchewan, neither of which is friendly to King, so he tries to avert an election. - 7- . .7 ." . : ; -' i ' J.'' V ' j) ; ' ; 7 - It seems strange that Canada has not had con scription before this, loyal as it is to the British commonwealth. But Canada is a two-language country. The French-Canadians are a solid bloc -in Quebec and eastern Ontario. They have no ties with France, save language, land admit no loyalties to France. As far as Canada goes they consider themselves true . Canadians, because their ancestors occupied Canada long before the British came. They are solidly Catholic and loyal, to the church. Primarily; they are , true "isolationists." 7 i . In the last war there was trouble in Quebec when it finally became necessary to resort to conscription. This time, in spite of the demon-' itrations reported against the government ac tion in ordering rl 6,000 men sent overseas, Que bec probably will acquiesce. If the King gov ernment should fall its successor will be even stronger for conscription a fact which may temper the rebellion of the- Quebec members of parliament who ought to see they will lose more by deserting King, j 7 Thre has never, been any doubt of Canada's contribution to the allied cause; but its avoid ance of conscription has brought it criticism at home and abroad. Now its .government must yield to war's necessities, in spite of local pro test. . ' t-' I."' f- Cologne plain, i While some brilliant maneuver may bring .victory there, more probably it will come only after our" superior weight of metal and men beats down the German resistance. The Germans are sacrificing so much of their strength in this battle that defeat there may be the fatal climax of the battle of Germany. Tantalizing ' It is simply adding insult to injury for Stand ard Oil (California) to devote its autumn bul- is the cover with a magnificent panorama in col or of Crown Point Tm Columbia river and the - mountains of the gorge. ' The inside spread is a map of the state spotted with regional activities In the way of occupation and recreation. Nu merous illustrations depict the resources of . Oregon. " j j' 'j ' All this and only two -gallons of gasoline a ' week! How could SO do this to us? j - 7 Probably it is on the theory: :"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" Like the seed cata logs that start to come wheat snowt is on the ground, the alert publicists of Standard Oil seek to keep us travel-conscious and development-, conscious, the while we walk to work or sit by' .the fireside. . T-- j - -.:7;. '7-"i- The purpose of the bulletin, however, is not to whet one's wanderlust, but to acquaint the general public with Oregon's preparations for meeting the problems that lurk just behind the "peace- proclamation. The bulletin says: 1 -7 The state has the natural 'resources to sup--. port industry and agriculture on a scale many times greater than now; abundant low cost: power; highly developed transportation, includ ing service by five transcontinental railroads; mild climate favoring maximum productive ef fort. These art blue Ihipa which Oregon is planning to play boldly. The stakes are a fu ture of boundless promise. Oregonians, of course, knew all this before, but they can't help being, pleased to have a big company like- Standard of California tell the rest of the world about us. Llain ETent . ! ' " : While the French have been making spectac- " ular gains in pouring, through the: Belfort gap Into the Ithineland, the real battle is taking place at the end of the line where the British second and the American ninth and first) armies are driving toward the Ruhr. The Germans are concentrating : their defense there, and wisely. :. What the French are doing is recovering Alsace ot which Strasbourg is the capital. Their suc cess, while important, is not vital. Across the 1 Rhine is still the Siegfried line and back of that' the Black Forest. " 7 The allies at the north end of the line have : had bad weather and mud as well as heavy en emy opposition. The Germans throw in tanks and reserves in counterattacks in the effort to prevent our armies from flowing over into the Editorial Comment WOODS-CUT ' ': :: : '. ' The blue jay is the town-crier ot the woodlands, and in no season of the year is he In better voice .than late autumn. When the leaves lie in sodden , masses against stone walls and In fence corners, and the bare limbs of theaunt' rough-barked ma 1 pies make a modernistic etching of the sugar grove, Cyanocitta cristata flashes through the air shouting his news for all to hear. ' . i . , He's a gay fellow in his suit of bright blue, with . white and black trimmings. : Like the self-confi-dent jousters in the tournaments of long ago, he holds, to his course, overriding opposition and chal lenging any and all that come his way. His jaunty crest is a sign of his' high-powered self-assurance. ' Mr. Blue Jay has acquired a bad reputation and no doubt he deserves a part of it He robs other birds of eggs and young; he steals nesting materials instead of gathering his own. He'a inclined to be overbearing and sassy; he pays no attention to mak ing friends and influencing people. At the bird feeding stations, he acts as if the whole situation was a one-way lend-lease arrangement for his par ticular benefit. ' 7 , -'.: 7 ,: Yet, there would be something missing without Lis f.ashinjjseauty and powerful voice in city parks E i villrrs'commons. He's a 'part of the country i sf winss through the old orchard, skirts the ' . i ty C 2 pasture spring, and coasts to a landing , . a r.:.'.2 Cat overhangs the weathered sap-house. : re's balance is an intricate, delicate affair, and : i 2 t:' l c:icr.e, the blue jay has his part Raid Over Tokyo , i V We couldn't understand the language the Japs were using . in Tokyo Friday, if We had been there; but we have no doubt they mixed in plen-. j ty of epithets which the Glendale pastors would not approve of, all directed at the super-fortresses which dropped bombs oh their industrial plants. We can well imagine the excitement in Tokyo, a lot of running around with fire-buckets and hose more excitement than at a ball game with Nagasaki. And what a lot of bowing and scraping there must have been at the im perial palace as Premier Hoiso sought to explain events to Hon. Emperor. Perhaps the defense commander at Tokyo will now get the ride to end all rides, in an airplane. ' The Doolittle raid of two and a half years ago was just a miniature; and even the sizeable raid reported this week is only a small sample of the pasting which Japanese cities will suffer. The Japs have only to ask their German allies for pictures of Berlin and. Cologne and Duesseldorf to see what fate is in store for their cities worse, probably, because of their flimsier con struction. ;':-, . -.' l : I This Is what Is called strategic, bombing as against tactical bombing arid strafing which is done in support of a field army. It if designed to destroy or cripple the enemy's war potential. The American purpose is not primarily to take war to civilians but to damage military objec tives. General Arnold says that we will ex pand and extend these operations from Saipan, from Alaska and from China for the pulverizing of Japan's war industries. " j At long last we are truly carrying the war to Tokyo. Pearl Harbor is being repaid, with com pound interest. - j . " -T l U? THERE VtieMwZM :-vItrilmUrKtartotamSr4fatf:.' v ' y ' . i . " . . - - .-'.. Unowhd? el Army EbCd Kacttzory For War Heporfiao; House Hunting News Behind fhe News 'V J By PAUL MALLON ' : (DisiribuUon by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole I or in part strictly prohibited.) . ! Taxi Drivers Revolt j While the Seattle chamber of commerce has made its truce with Dave Beck (on his terms), Beck, like most dictators, finally faces opposi tion within his own ranks. This time it is the taxicab drivers of Seattle who say they are tired 6! taxation without representation. Their union, which is a section of the teamsters' union bossed by Dave Beck, hasn't met since the war started, and members say they1 have never received an accounting or been consulted on expenditures. After a brief strike the drivers returned to their 1 taxis, but say they are considering a switch to a CIO affiliation, which Beck wouldn't like at all. It probably is just another case of labor die tatorship. Based originally on strong - arm methods, the, union gets powerful and its leader becomes a real boss: His bossing includes orr dering the employes to come to terms and mak ing the union members do as he tells' them.' -Beck, for example, forbids; the taxi drivers to meet until he gets back from the AFofL con vention at New Orleans. : ; ' A good place for democracy to Start is in a lot of these AFofL unions, where dictatorship flourishes and union dues become tribute to the labor masters. j , ! ,tv;-: The nazls are firing their robot bombs blindly at allied armies they are throwing everything they've got, including the kitchen stove. I r. r. It's remarkable how things change. What used to be ham in the way of entertainment la new 'corn. ::, i;vvv; S. Interpretihg The War Mews i 1 4K1RK L. SIMPSON -ASSOCXATZO rXESS . WAS ANALYST There was a post-Thanksgiving thrill in the war news from Europe and Asia alike. . ' , Superbombers based on captured western Pacific Islands blazed a new trail to Tokyo. The air siege of Japan aimed at her widespread war Industries ' had begun. i - , In Europe, French - American break - through ' were being swiftly exploited to sweep Alsace, and all France; free of Germans. Allied scouting ele ments even were reported beyond the Rhine in the regiongof recaptured Strasbourg. French Rhine bank metropolis; which had been the last French city of consequence In German hands. V There were headline rating developments, but to General Eisenhower and his joint staff at allied su preme headquarters in the west there were other items, in the news from the front probably of even greater moment ' , j : - .1 ' ' ' . Of prime importance to allied planners of the swelling western winter attack is the indication that the German command in the west now has been forced to commit its' guarded and scanty reserves to battle on the Roer. Frontline advices told of multi-division counter attacks thrown against Brit ish and American armies pounding through the Aachen breach In the Siegfried line. Included were jealously conserved nazi armored divisions equip- pedwith Tiger tanks shipped direct from factory to front . - il ' - ' :::c : ':'r - "."' The results of those desperate German efforts to ward off a critical Anglo-American break-through were not fully available as this was written. First reports indicated, (however, that the enemy had been halted with relatively unimportant dents in the British or American attack front. 'To General Eisenhower and his top staffers, how ever, the fact that the foe has elected to risk his all west of the Rhine rather than to retreat behind its broad waters for his final stand is of supreme im- i portanceAlt means that in all likelihood the most '.decisive battle of the war in the west has -been . joined, even though the full scope and power of al lied efforts to crash deep into Germany has yet to ; ... be reached. ; r''-: " : . ; Eisenhower's mission and the objective of all al- lied or Russian strategic moves Is to come to grips' with and destroy German armies in the field. The ., chance for that is Immediately offered west of the . Rhine if the Germans have now. thrown in the bulk ' 1L .1 ft ul kucir reserves were, i WASHINOTON, Nor. J4 These stories you hear again how of a quick end of the war seem to be about to create another wave of opti mism. They are V o o t e d 1 more in hopes than in facts. i Actually strong resist ance has been met by our Ini tial power Paul Mailon drivM at tn German line. The military men consider it theoretically possible that everything will break right for ua once and. our current drives may go rolling on faster as the hopeful say, but they do not expect it Tougher ground certainly .lies ahead of General7 Patton, and perhaps all along the front ; , ' V What the sound judges here want to ; see before changing their mind about It taking all winter is some evidence ot nazi defensive weakness. If you see that you will know , the end is near, .-.., I .-. k The. Philippines campaign certainly will not be over soon in any event General HacAr- . thur's job ahead means months; Not only the hurricane weather is favoring the Japs, but also tb terrain beyond Leyte, upon the main island of Luzon. . ' , The Jap driv in China luck ily is limited. All advices here prove rather conclusively thaU the Jap strategy i is directly only toward cutting central Chin off from Burma if K can be done. But even if this mission it ac complished, they will then have long lines of communications running back to the coast and exposed to the Chinese on both , sides, the north and the south. , Such extensions are really in vtatiens for the special type of fighting the ' Chinese do best Chiang is not sufficiently equip ped for battle, Indeed could not protect five or six of our valu able airfields which have now -been lost to the enemy. That the Jap armies may at- posite a , new guerilla-type campaign by the Chinese. Certainly no inner prepara tions are being made here within the government for an early conclusion anywhere. Senate ap propriations committee acting Chairman McKellar . had been trying to get up -some estimates of how war costs could be cut at the end in Germany.: He gave it up, saying nothing could be figured now, except going straight ahead. CRT 931X08 iTTffl rmre (Continued from page 1) election j day, or went fishln. They wouldn't vote for Roose velt and j they just couldn't vote republican. ! I - One fact stands out, In a study of vote statistics in the south, and that is the smallnesa of the k WTTH THE AEF ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Nov. 18 (De I layed)-(iWe are-up at op !! looking through the fo scope when we spot this xraut mt," . y - saia ine ser- ' j; geant. so we tell fo and; be , calls j op and gets the' CO on the phone. He tells him If s but of., at or mg CO says he's f4 -VfV ' only got , one" --'v So he calls theKnn,eth u 01x00 nearest FA CP and they tell Divarty. Pretty soon the whole FA Batt lets go and KI's the mf , ' ' ' ' " .-5 "Nothing new about that re plied the corporaL "That's prac tically SOP.-.? : This may sound somewhat like , jitterbug - jargon. - Actually la's . fairly normal combat line lingo. . Translated, the sergeant is say-" ,. fng simply that they'd been 'up .at the observation post looking w through the forward v observer's . telescope ,, when they had seen some german motor transports moving across" no man's land. So they told the forward ob server and he called the com mand post and got ; the com manding officer on the phone. He told him it was out of anti tank or machinegun range and the commanding officer said he had .only one tank destroyer available. So he called the near est field artillery command post and they told the division artil lery about it Then pretty soon a whole battery of field artll ' lery fired, knocking out the ene my motor transport. . ; ; To which the corporal replied nothing new : about the , whole episode. Tbe fact is : that it Is practically procedure, - Simple? ( i standard operating As a matter -of fact most of the abbreviations which ''com prise a large j part of " military conversation; are fairly simplej.; after you get used to them, Until that time you. might as well not i bother trying to cover the .war, j unless you ; hare an interpreter ..with you. Everybody knows of course that Bs, CL D's and Ks stand for various i types of field ra tions. Also it is fairly common knowledge ; that EM means en-' listed man, j MP means military policeman, y QM ; quartermasters and HQ headquarters. .--.7 But newcomers seldom " a r e aware that CP means command post and when they see an arrow pointing j thip route to Divarty they're just ,as likely tah assure some Irishman lives down the road as to guess if s. the way to reachdivisioq artillery j i) . L You knew lAPO meant postof fice, but did you know: ALO means air liasion officer; ASP, army supply' point; or ADL, air delivery and) letter service? j Sometimes jifs confusing even to veterans. For instance SS can mean special services, which In turn can mean either the j army unit which 'Supplies magazines, games and such like to soldiers, or that : crack Canadian-American outfit which did such a fa mous fighting job In Italy. Also it can refer to Stars and Stripes, the army newspaper. ; - There's a .million such alpha betical abbreviations, some grim, some funny. i jv. j Nobody has any desire to get Inside a PWE, which i means a prisoner of war enclosure. Also nobody wants to ride down a road marked I by signs saying GRO, meaning Graves registra tion office. . H i , i- -(' i The Literary Guidepost number who do vote. In Oregon. j It will be necessary therefore, for example, at the last election for everyone to strain a little 42 per cent of the 1940 popula harder at the tasks in hand and tion voted; in South Carolina 34 not risk disappointment in easy per cent;; Mississippi 5 per cent; By JOHN SfXBT optimism. One effect 'of the democratic victory will be suppression of congressional investigations. The fact that the people voted demo cratic despite all the regulations and red tape has removed the popular impetus for congression al policing of the government bureaus. ' This is an' unfortunate thing as such policing sponsors effi- , dent adnilnlstration. A bureau subject to congressional inquiry is hardly likely, to run far away . with itself. r ' Along with the Die commit tee will go the Smith Investiga tion of the war labor board. The senate has a judiciary sub-committee looking into that subject but nothing can be expected of It The Mead . war Investigating committee will continue under administration auspices. But also dying is the house ra dio hearings. With Chairman Fly out, the committee will de cide to close. : j, . Of course, with Paul Porler, democratic publicity man in as radio , (communications) : chair man, 'and the labor boss Petrillo holding the diac-maklng activi ties of NBC -and Calumbia well' in band, you can see how radi cally me situation has been al tered. 7'v" 'vlv''-- : If the ! republicans had won they would have sponsored In vestigations into surplus power, enlarged the Smith committee, and maintained the congression al policmg system. tempt to go on to Chungking is Oregon Legion 4fecks hardly likely. Their game la to ; Purple Heart Boxes , make themaelves strong along the coast for the days ahead when we have a chance to get at them. An end of the war; In China anytime soon is hardly to be expected, but possibly the op- PORTLAND, Nov. 24-ffy-The purple heart Chrismiat box" campaign,' part of a nation-wide plan to brighten Christmas : for wounded , veterans, was endorsed Thursday by the Oregon Ameri can Legion. "THE YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier . . . 1 ARHtff t, "Thomas! Whal't this salt you picked eat for me as sharp ... Virginia 15 per cent; North Carolina 20 per cent; Florida 22 . per cent! There are reasons, of course. The November election is more or less formal in the . south, the real fight taking placer in the preceding primary elec-l tions of the democratic parr; Negroes are generally barred from voting, and poor whites who have failed to pay a poll tax in states requiring it . are dis franchised. Thus, a small minor ity actually runs the politics of the southern states. One of the reasons for, opposing national legislation against making poll ' ; tax payment a condition for vot ing is not merely 'white su-. premacy" but also to preserve political power In the hands of toe ruling oligarchy. 7 - ' Plainly there is no hope for a break-up of the- solid south through the republican party Its otganization in : southern states is weak and usually venal. Only in 192f did several south ern states Florida, North Caro lina, Tennessee and Texas go .-. republican; and that was because Al Smith was a Catholic: and ; anti-prohibition, though Tennes see' went for Harding in 1920.7 Nor is mere any prospect of ar political realignment which ' would crack up the solid south, -because the -election laws and practices so definitely favor the democratic party. There are signs of political . upheaval within the democratic ; ! party, however.' Even on the ne- , : gro question a moderation of at-" I titude on the part of many -southerners is noted. A number . of toe southern states have done ' away with the poU Ux,. and in many; communities there is rec- '' ognitibn that more i negroes r should be permitted to exercise -their right; of suffrage. In num erous states old I guard 1 politico f were defeated this year. Lister Hill- won denomination! for the ; senate. in Alabama and Claude I Pepper in Florida, though both ; opposed the poll tax and were " assailed by j advocates of "white supremacy .t (The bitterest op position to the Roosevelts in the south , is because of their recog nition of rights of negroes). In South Carolina, old "Cotton Ed Smith was defeated for renomi nation to the-senate; and In Noru Carolina, Bob Reynolds discreetly declined to run for of fice again. Joe Starnes was de feated in the primaries in the 5th Alabama district which he had represented In - congress, while in Texas Congressman Martin Dies refused fo run again and ! Congressman l Richard M. Kleberg, who represented the country's .greatest cattle ranch, was defeated. In brief, political ferment is working in the south, but it stays ' within the confines of the demo cratic party. In view ' of the trends in the south it IS clearly a mistake politically for repub licans of the north; and . west to . tie up with the democratic old guard, of the south. "A common dislike of Roosevelt is not ade ' quate warrant to forsake historic principles; one of which for re publicans is a fair deal l for ne- groes. i MIDDLE EAST DIAXT," ky HotI CewarS (DMMcday, Dru; SZ). ijThe newspaper profession has lost a . very good Tepbrter to the theater in the person of Noel Coward and if you want to be friendly with Jiim, don't call him Nole." . 77 7' It is true that Mr. Coward is financially much happier than he could have been in London's Fleet street and it is probably true that this financial happi ness is important to him: it is to j all theatrical folk, theirs be ing .a precarious trade indeed. Yet when Coward .writes some thing not a ; play . or a song, something like his "Middle East Diary" or his not to recent "Pre sent Indicative," the attributes of si a great reporter stick out all Ipver the product I might add thai other writers consistently mine Coward's stuff for nuggets, as j witness Ilka Chase, whose "Past Imperfect" certainly owes a ' debt ; to Coward's "Present Indicative." Coward's little book Is- about the Mediterranean area while Sicily and Salerno were being re duced. The playwright was on a personal appearance tour, the most amusing parts of which (to him) were the periods spent aboard ships of the Royal Navy, like many an Englishman be fore him, he feels a partioular affinity for the Navy and writes brilliantly about it But the little book s most effective because of Coward's journalistic attri butes, and these' include: First a" free gift for toe In evitable word. Then a rather spe cial flair for choosing proper de tail, and a sure instinct for ap plying the r choice. Many a writer (particularly in magazines) has the feeling that many details are better than one or two revealing ones. Thirdly, Coward knows, the value of names quite as well as, Ernie Pyle. He overdoes men-' tion of important people by in comprehensible nicknames which must be- explained in parenthe ses, but such yens are common outside as well as inside the theater.' .7-7 - 77 ;7 ;""7: :"". ' : . Biit there is a fourth jourhal- School Children Assigned 5 Per i Gent Bond Quota 7 : PORTLAND;; Nov. 24 (JP) A sixth war loan quota of $1,700,000 5 per cent ot the state's E bond goal has been . sett, for Oregon school children; This would bean average of about $8.30 per stu dent officials said today. Fernwood school, Portland, has already topped Its quota with pur chases of $4,592.40. The winner among schools In the metropoli- I tan area will launch a ship at Swan Island yard early In 1945. Entries In a. statewide poster contest for students will be jud ged next week for war. bond pri- istic attribute Coward can claim, obviously demonstrated through out this Mediterranean trip. It Is toe genuine and deep interest all good ; newspapermen " have for their fellow men. Coward loves working for people In the mass. xes. the German radio. 7' I! x V 4 Diamonds 7atchcs - Jcwclry n.. l-a .V Last day for mailing packages with assurity of delivery by Christmas.: Make your gift selections at Stevens it Son before this date. IZdUrj S:rvi::! We wffl dadly wraa. tnsare and malTyaiir rifts purchased here FEES OF C1IACGL: 1 J i: . Cre&tXf ' Ctm,t History 'Couldn't Let Nazis Losei Goebbcls " Complains in Article LONDON, Novi 24-flVIn one of . his gloomiest articles, Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbele . has declared, that the Germans are fighting nam' "armed with stoicism" and that "History surely Cannot be so un just" as to let Germany lose. . 7 "It would be isjulte incompre hensible and completely unbear able if tide woeful pilgrimage o the German people were not crowned with success," Goebbels said in his weekly article In. the j magazine Das Reich broadcast by Storekeeper! Resists Torture, Sates Coin PORTLAND, Nov. 24HP)-Les-ter Wright, Milwaukie, grocery store manager here, was a bit shaky but uninjured after a tor ture attempt last night by two masked, .gunmen.; 7 ,. y The thievea bound him,' then !' tightened coid around his fingers and hands, Wright said, but he re- j fused to disclose! the' combination ( to his safe. So they left with $20 ! from his pocket; ' Army Bans t)ispatches Opposing Liberation ' BELGRADE, Nov. 19 (Delayed) HPH News dispatches from Yugo slavia "which are directed against the achievements of the national liberation struggle and its success ful continuation! are forbidden under a military censorship degree promulgated by army headquar ters. . . , - -as araia?"