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SFWM The CISGOIl CTATZniTJX. Cedes Oressa. FxliaT tsslas. Eacsrsiex L 1S 'V "No Favor Sways Ut; No Fear Shall Au?" rrom first Statesman, March 23, IW1 THE STATESJIAN ' PUBUSHING COfttPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUZ, Editor and Publisher Member of tht Associated Press The Associated Prtaa Is exclusively entitled to the use toe publication of all newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. Evidence for Dewey;' I TV.... ... lm Blta uLu for obvious reasons. If he were he could find in the Biddle-Littell controversy fresh material to support his text about the quarrelsomeness within this administration. As soon as the ballots were counted, almost, Attorney General Biddle calls on his assistant, Norman Littell, to resign. Littell refuses to comply; . instead he issues . a screed attacking Biddle, telling tales out of school, one to the effect that Biddle had inter vened in behalf of Thomas E. Corcoran (Tommy the Cork), one-time presidential favorite, now a corporation lawyer in Washington-Llttell held i office by presidential appointmenC and when the flare-up became a subject of senatorial in ff ' quiry the president Thursday fired Littell on ' talked about at some length in addressing par- insubordination. . aiiiry.il ammoct ; iwi j Prime Minister! ; erasing of "early j before "summer in his forecast of probable length of the war does not mean necessarily that the war will last that long. He gave himself an "out" when he remarked that any large and effective break-through in the region of Cologne and. to the north would have the highest strategic con sequences. That has been the opinion of this pa per too. If the pressure of the allied British and American armies in this sector can crush the German resistance the , possibilities of exploit ing the success to achieve the final victory are . great,-vV-;:'i :' 'v k'. Churchill does well, however, to acquaint us with . cold realities including mud, which he erounds of This isn't the first Intra-department row. Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Under secretary Louis Johnson had serious difficulties and finally both left government service. Secre tary of State Hull got rid of two of his under secretaries, Raymond Moley and Sumner Welles. In the Biddle-Littell case it evidently was a case of clash of personalities, perhaps of ambitions. Littell was an ardent new dealer, dyed milch toiore deeply than Biddle. t '.. i Rows like these are bound to develop, espe cially where persons : are named for political reasons. The assortment : of individuals is of ten wierd. But Roosevelt seems , to have had a running-fire of quarreling within his official family. It is interesting that lie has for once , V fired a man instead of shifting him to some oth er position. ' I i i I Doctors Convicted ; It is a very serious matter when two physi cians long engaged in practice in a city, like Wed ford are found guilty of violating the Har rison law against sale of narcotics and sentenced to prison terms. Yet that is what has occurred. Judge James Alger Fee in pronouncing sentence said it was one of the heaviest responsibilities he had ever had to discharge. , ; , Perhaps it was a case where the men them selves had become victims of the drug habit; but in any event they violated not only the law but the ethics of their profession. Imposing the pen-' alty was the natural consequence.! Doctors are under heavy strain, and occasion ally one takes the short cut of a shot of drug to keep him going. It is dangerous practice, be cause ready access to drugs gives him constant ' temptation. Yet the risks to society are so great ifrora such a; practice that the law must act with ' positiveness , when offenses against the nar cotic act are discovered; and doctors suffering ' from the drug habit must either be given treat ment to break them of it Or deprived of their license to practice their profession. j liament Wednesday. The other great factor which the prime minister mentioned was the very natural determination of the German peo ple to protect their own soil which now is being invaded. . ;; ' ' I . ' Truth is that no onei- can set the date for the German capitulation or collapse. But we must' keep steady with our attack, and with the flow of supplies to sustain that attack. If only we'ean punch through and get into Germany this month we can save months of fighting. For Germany then would be prevented ' from building new lines of defense and from training fresh levies for its armies, "i i ' W:1 ' kt vat " with Tfc WmJmsUmiug , . Tokyo Forecast: Cloudy and Warm CampFireGirl Organisation Forms Large Area Lounciii Two years of work on the part of Camp Fire Girls, councils in" this part of Oregon was culminated' thif week with the for mation of an area council to be known as the Willamettf Area Council of Camp Fire Girls, Inc. Area headquarters will be in Covering the work in. Polk, Marion and Benton counties and the two existing coun- Lest We Forget With all the war appeals we mustn't forget the Christmas seals, those bright bearers of goodwill at this season of the year. They are messengers of hope against a plague which has beset mankind for untold ages, , the plague of tuberculosis. . ' '--! . Since the seal sale began great strides have been made in reducing the number of cases of TB and in bringing about recoveries of those stricken with it. But the campaign of education, prevention and cure must .be kept up, cease lessly. That's why we must keep on buying seals to'inance the program of prevention and de tection conducted by the health associations. Tax Freeze , " The house ways and means committee, voted to freeze the social security payroll tax at the present rate of one per cent each on employer and employe. At the same time the committee approved a resolution calling for i comprehen sive study of the social security setup. This inquiry is badly needed. Figures show U that the income is now far in excess of the out go; but anyone with knowledge of how annuity plans operate know that the initial outgo is small, but that it increases to huge sums. Mr. Altmeyer of the social security board says the increases are needed to provide funds for fu ture demands. " . We are afraid that further deferment of the . payroll increase will make the fund inadequate in the future so the obligation would have to be met out of the treasury. The fund ought to be self-supporting. Business better can assume the added cost now if only for the reason that much of what may be saved jby the freeze goes out for' federal taxes anyway. Why Not Coronado? , , 'Ernest .Thompson- Seton famed author and naturalist, bobs up with the suggestion that the nime of the state of New Mexico be changed to Cibola, meaning, in Spanish, "land where we find buffalo." Having had one lesson In Spanish however we question whether that choice would be wise. The Spanish pronunciation would be Thibola, but Americans would persist in calling it Sibola or Seebola. Why not call the state Coronado, after its discoverer a name pro- Tho Literary GuIdcpoGt By John Selby nounced the same in both languages. reting The War News Intern K1RKE L. SIMPSON While the Industrial payroll covered by the state industrial accident commission showed a drop of $3,000,000 for October compared with , the same month a year ago, this report, how ever, is not as complete as that for the unem- f ployinent compensation commission because the latter includes plants which are not under the state industrial accident system. However, the ' signs point to our passing the peak of Industrial employment for the present.! And doubtless it will be many years before normal operations reach these wartime peaks. V The Yanks may be pulled out' of India and Burma. We hope the report is true. Sending them there was questionable. That is Britain's sphere, and the job of driving the Japs out of Burma should be left to the-British. What are all the Indian troops good for if not to use in ?that area? .... : i.M-.':.'--.. Editorial Comment :i.ATROcrnr tirovr : . . The report on wholesale German atrocities has congress up in arms, determined that the Germans must have no more guns and weapons of war, ever. . We believe congress should ytake a longer-range viewthan that based on the atrocity report alone. What the report states has been told piecemeal over a long time and from many and various places. The report now brings the whole thing together, au thenticated by officials who accept it as factual. ; With so much testimony from so many sources ; of widely different national temperaments and wide ; ly separated locations it should not take this report, i to arouse congress to declare that Germany must' be disarmed. : . ' " . For S3 to 73 years German generations have been educated into the pathological state of mind that they are supermen and that all others are subhu- ' r: man, .insensitive and outside humane considerations. . . There has been no secret about this, nor has there been any secret for years that they were preparing ; to march against a world that preferred butter to ims.; - "" ": - ' "; , ,. Hitler merely stt the crown of nazi definition on r e.e patholcsy created by patient, methodical philo ' sophy that makes a people callous and brutal ! enough to L-!Iict cr be aware of inflicted cruelty and j death to sr-s Foliih Jew tr.l be insensitive to the '" tufferis c f a subhuman ttir.j. , . . . -' This 3 reason that Germany must be disarmed end it hes l:sn apjparr-t far a far longer period t than that ki which the r -ocities covered by the I r rr-:rt were ccr.ritki. If crJy a:half, or ! a U .., cr a surlier fraction tt millions cov- err J ty Vr 3 report ha 3 teen tortured and murdered r::i i.r effective re:traint would. be. equally evi:-.t. Can Francisco C-ronicla. i With its triple bastions, Julich, Linnich and Du ren, closely American invested, the nazi Roer river defense line in the Aachen sector is beginning to crumble.; .-: A y ' . Collapse there would open the way to the Cologne plain. It would be the first major-break against the foe in the allied winter offensive aimed at reaching or passing the Rhine in the north on the short road to Berlin. : . German resort to blowing Roer flood gates, ad ding impounded waters to the already rain flood stream, was' a move of desperation. It might slow .up, the allied advance temporarily but must also deny the defenders opportunity of effective coun terattack. And counterattack has been the main Ger man reliance to fend off both Russian and allied j . forward sweeps during gigantic nazi retreats both , in the east and the west J Front line reports from the Aachen theater re- ; fleet allied expectation of early decisive puncture of the Roer line; despite the German effort to turn it into a mile-wide moat Meanwhile the first heavy j frosts of winter are hardening the ground along the ' north and north central sectors of the west front That means better tank going, and easier take-offs and landings for allied air power using close-be-hing-the-front extemporized air fields. It means easier going for supply trucks bringing up ammunl- i tion for allied guns now firing, by Washington of- ' fidsl estimate, 10 shells to every one from nasi ' forward batteries. . There Is little probability even in the event of 1 a complete allied break-through, on the Roer of any such swift development west of the lower stretches of the Rhine as followed, the Avranches break through in Normandy. The west bank of the Rhine from Aachen northward to the termination of the Siegfried line proper near the Dutch border is too . cluttered with stone built manufacturing towns and cities, too rain sodden yet for a repetition of Gen eral PattonV third army end run in Normandy to the Loire and the Seine; Nevertheless allied passage of the Roer In strength . at any point would force enemy evacuation of the Roermond bulge Just north of the present scene of main allied action along the Roer. And even the . main, Siegfried line defense Inside German fron tiers all the way to the lower comer of the NiJ-megeo-Arnhem allied salient on the neder Rhine might be unhinged by a Roer break-through. ! ; Frosty weather is apt to prove even more favor able for allied purposes on the Saar sector than on - the Roer. The chances for wide-sweeping and fast- paced tank maneuvers in the Blitz pattern look to be better in the Saar Basin terrain, once the .Sieg fried line offenses-in-depth are reached and passed . by American armies than in the Cologne plain which ; receives the whole run-off of the Rhine watershed on its way to the sea. . ' j ' "..,:,. t i ' There is still no sign of the opening of the ex pected main Russian offensive in Poland to ex- - ploit Vistula and , Narew 1 river bridgeheads; but south of Budapest in Hungary, the enemy Danube line, Moscow says,' now has been widely breached. - v Red forces, have gained a substantial foothold west - of the1 river Jn Hungary and Yugoslavia ia what , seems to be the opening st a campaign to invest Vienna from the southeast, virtually by-pasring besieged Budapest , "MASTTKPIECES OF rAINTTNO FIOM TUB NATIONAL flAIXHT OF AST," adit Wv HMUagtoa Calras aai Jobs WalkK (Random; MM). ' People who laugh gaily at the Victorian habit of stuffing birds to exhibit them under glass bells must have forgotten that we ai- r leged moderns have several hab its as quaint One is the publi cation and purchase of elaborate gift books such as "Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art," surely a perfect example of what not to call: a book. " . This Is an enormous book some 11 by 19 inches which must weigh more than "Anthony Ad verse" and is so extensive in area that it can scarcely be held In the usual reading' position. It would be most easily handled on a marble-topped "center table and In spite of the book's beauty and the rather wonderful" fact of its appearance in a war economy, it is destined I for display rather than for intimate use. It is, in short, the modern equivalent of the brown thrasher under glass. The National Gallery , was es tablished nearly a century and a half tod late, by act of Congress on March 24, 1937. Even then, the building was not paid for by the nation, but by Andrew Mel lon. It was opened by, President . Roosevelt on St Patrick's Day, 1941, and in spite of the distress ' ing events of the last few years it already houses one of the world's important collections of painting. This is due to no bril liance of Congress but to the charitable gifts of a number of millionaires, and there are a great many persons who have expressed emotions ranging from annoyance to nausea at the thought that the United States of America's one national gallery should thus be a memorial to a few estimable gentlemen, rather than to the nation. For the only 4-acre j book r X have seen this Christmas season Huntington Cairns and John Walker have selected 85 paint ings, and have dug out comment to accompany these from sources as diverse aa T. S. Eliot and Leonardo da Vinci. The comment is apt, the selection first rate, and the color reproduction Is as good as we are likely to have for-a long while. V "; ' - v - . , T Tank Hiding Ycmks- - iV-i pftJvr''1' "".-' i Tell How It Feels i' 't'.'f "-. Going bto Sattle ' taking in dls, the Dallas-Corvallis and Che- mekeU at Salem, the area has thirteen hundred adults and girls already enrolled exceeded only by councils at Portland, Seattle and Spokane la district VI. v A meeting of the representa tives to the new area board was held in Salem Tuesday night and the officers for the year 1945 elected. President Nacaed Dr. Sanford.Zeller of Corvallis will serve as president. He brings to the organization many years of experience in helping with Camp Fire, both in town and In Camp Kilowan at Falls City. 1 r The first vice-president, Charles Huggins of Salem, has served in various capacities during his years in Camp Fire, j President of the Chemeketa council and camp chairman, he will help to guide the policies of the area during the next year. , . sirs. Blaekley ISeetol The second vice-president Is Mrs. William. Blaekley from, Dal las, where she has been guardian and ia now serving as-president of the Dallas board, v Mrs. Paul Morse of Salem, elect ed to serve as secretary-treasurer, haa worked with and for girls for 12 years in Salem and vicinity. It was through her interest that the ON THE WESTERN FRONT,' Nov. 25-( Delay td)-TVYou have read stories and seen pic tures of troop-carrying tanks going into bat tle. Do you ev- ;y er wonder riT L. Sixoa Chl- Syria, a former province of the old Turkish empire, was made an independent state in 1920., vhfl those guys atop the arm ored monsters think, feel and say as they lie up there ex- posed to alll- that shooting? Here-is how four comb engineers de-Kenneth scribed it: Sgt D Witt C. Gilpin, cago, BU .. t "The tanks and the doughboys orrtop of them are to bypass a , little town near the German border. Four of us-are to drop; off and blow up a bridge the Germans might use for counter attack. We load 'Beehives,! ; 60 pound demolition bombs, on the platoon commander's tank." Pfc Marco Bellasalmo, Long Island City, NY: : ' "When we get on the tanks, the Germans are shooting air bursts. I feel like a clay pigeon. The best spot is right behind the turret It is in front of you and five soldiers are around you." Pfc Michael Basiewicz, ! Jer sey City, NJ: "All you hear Is the motor. You never hear a shell whistle.' When we move, they throw 88's at us." '."?'. i Pvt. Thomas P. Pyzik, iNew York City: . , ! "I am a replacement and this is all new. I am ducking all the time. Scared. The sergeant says who in hell isn't?' I feel better after the first shells miss." Gilpin: ,7 j "The 88's lose us and as we grind along I ask 'Bellasari how he feels. He says 'same as you do.' Sometimes I like that big Italian. Then "I spot the first Jerry so close I can spot the sur prised look on his face as he dives into a hole. Then Basie : wicx spots' Jerries out front ; f Bellasalmo: 1. v "We are about 100 yards' from a line of trees along a stream. A bazooka bangs at us. I empty a clip at the bazooka Irnan. We . yell at the tank commander and the tanks cut loose with ma chlneguns and 75's. As the tank er swings the turret around ft catches the pack of a doughboy behind it, hooking him ovethe side. He hangs there still trying to shoot his carbine r until we reach out and unhook him. Some of us cuss and some laugh, but nobody really thinks! it's fun ny." , : ,j Basiewicz:- ' . ' "A burp gun opens up from a tree. It is knocked out quick but first it gets some of the boys. A man on tha next tank is hit but they don't notice he's' dead until after the fight He's an unarmed medic .and! they wouldn? notice like they would if he' had been" shooting and quit" i " ; ' Pyzik: ; v "The' Germans are (trying to' get away, now. Our shells are going right into the creek -after them. .It took SO minutes but It . seems longer." : " 'I' -. . Gilpin: I "Something is wrong with my carbine. Pyzik is so crowded up he cant shoot so I borrow his. Bellasalmo keeps firing so close to my ear it sounds like a 240. . Basiewicz keeps yelling that well push him off the tank. It isn't far to fall but it Is danger ous. He might get crushed." 1 ...'.-Bellasalmo:'.". " ': .' "Basiewicz starts beefing and all; of a sudden I decide we are going to be okay.?t comes like that The bridge we are sup posed to blow up is a couple of hundred - yards away But the tank commander says we - wUl let it go, Thej town is taken, tt is getting dark. I think I got ; that bazooka man. ! His shell scared me but he must have been scared worse or he would n't nave missed." ; Basiewicz: . i mm ...... (.- it. j,J c w uwn uie trees. They evacuate the wounded and , dead. Except for them we feel good. We've made it again." , OtF i) .... "THE i YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier . : aw . .... m . "If tiils keeps vp job may realize year dreams ef me dashing p en .a snow-white stee; Arnold Says Nip Industry WiUGetlt KANSAS CITY Nov! JO-GPll Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding general of the army air forces, told a veterans of foreign wars meeting last night that "we're go- oing to bomb Japanese Industry Into a state of paralysis Just as we're doing in Germany J F "First with our B-29s. then, as we get bases closer to Japan, with our Fortresses., and Liberator, we're going to destroy the heart and Oe nerve centers of Japan's war machine, he said in a pre pared talk. "Japan wm have lit tle industry left when; our army ana navy air farces complete their tasks of destruction "They've asked for and they're going to gs if ' ' i: -. ; CauUoning that the war Is far zrom' over, the general asserted the air battle against Japan "is in 1U earliest phases." Bank, Land Divisions Given New Quarters ! The sUte banking department, for several years located on the first floor of the state capitol building, Friday will t move Into -offices on the third floor of the state library structure now occu pied by the state land division. The state land department will move into the Quarters vacated by the state banking division, AJ A. Rogers is state superintendent of banks. -1 r, .;i"vr:--; jj : (Continued from page si -it LJk---, rt tourist travel after the war: The delayed vacation trips will be put off no longer, once gas and tires are available; people will want a release from the tensions of war and of staying-at-home. The tens of thousands of sol diers and sailors and war work era who , have been temporarily domiciled in the west will want to come back tor a short visit or a. longer stay. Also, more peo ple are being granted regular va cations. This privilege is being written into ; many labor union contracts. . It will release whole armies of people for one or two weeks, .of , travel, and thousands of them will .want to see the, northwest 1 When we hear talk of 60,000, 000 -Jobs, that means 60,000,000 vacations, more or less. And the jobholders vacation also' means in many, many cases a family vacation, by automobile. One can get out his pencil and do Just a little figuring and he will con clude that there just will be no way ' of keeping tourists out of Oregon, if we wanted to which decidedly we do" not - i Very wen, what are we doing to geP ready for an enlarged tourist trade? Of course new construction is practically out But what planning is being done, aside from highway work? Who see . the vision and opportunity and are planning to erect modern hostelries for touris accomoda tions, convenient, j with good beds, AND good dining service? In the great fishing; region of the i McKenzie and Deschutes is there any resort of size that has been built within the last 20 years? Or any planned? .Tlmberline lodge on Mt Hood is the only important venture of the kind in decades, and that was a WPA undertaking. : , I agree fully with Art Kirk- ham that Oregon can stand plenJ ty -of tourist promotion: but be fore we beat too many tomtoms we'd best be sure we can give our visitors good treatment when they do come, as come "they wilt The opportunity is great Man mfactuTtng and trade will not ab sorb all the! released war work ers and discharged service men. The field which will permit wide expansion Is the service occupa tions. Catering to tourists is one of these. We will have the man power, we have the scenic re sources; we need venture capital with brains and 'experience to move into the field. Will it aU have to come from California? local boar4 was set up In Salem in January, 1943. . The committee assignments are in the process of being made by Dr. Zellef' with William Raw of Corvallis already serving as chair man of tuuce,-.S',v.ii'-'f ' V'.f ; The are office has not had the services of a field worker since r the middle of October and a com-1 mittee composed of Mrs. Paul Morse and Merrill Ohling, and Miss Ruth tautenbach of Mon- K mouth are interviewing prospec tive applicants for the position, f Ceaacil to Owa Caaap With the formation of the area, the ownership: of Camp Kilowan at Falls pty win be transxerrea to Willamette 'area council, a camp, with a capacity of one hun-. dred people, Kilowen was estab lished 10 years ago by the Dallat Corvallisi council of Camp Fire Girls. f I ' It was built on land given to Camp Fire Girls by the late Al bert Teal and his wife and daugh ter. MabeL A pioneer of the rails City aresi, his interest in boys and girls prompted the gift of the beautiful scenic spot in which the camp is Situated. During his life time he assisted actively with the building ! of the camp. Mrs. Teal and Mabel Teal still live near the camp and remain interested friends of Camp Fire Girls. Cam Nearly Fsdl ' ' Last year the camp ran almost to capacity lot six weeks drawing in girls from 18 communities. With its rustic buildings and adequate craft program, the camp is an as set to a girls' program in the area. Arrangements were made for Mrs. Emma Maxwell to have leave of ibsence to attend the na tional ekecutlve conference ; in New York City in January of 1943. Attending the meeting, were Mrs. William Blaekley and. Mrs. Oramel Shreeve from Dallas;! Miss Ruth Lautenbach from Mon mouth; Dr. Sanford Zeller, Wil liam Raw, Jack Irvin and. James Carr from Corvallis; Mrs. ' Paul Morse,' Charles Huggins and Mer rill Ohling from Salem' and Mrs. Emma Maxwell, executive. Kalph C iirtis : - a. .' i . - s. BuVs'Ontario ArgusPaper Sale of the Ontario Argus, Mal heur county's oldest newspaper, to Ralph C. Curtis, former Statesman managing editor and assistant publisher, was announced Thurs day by George K. Aiken, state budget director. Curtis j assumes charge of the newspaper Saturday, December 2. Coming lo The Statesman in 1917, he was. at various times reporter, sports editor, city editor and man aging editor and during the years Publisher) Charles' A. Sprague was governor of the state he served as assistant J publisher and editorial . writer. ' ; : In February of this year he left Salem toj become editor of the St Helens Sentinel Mist leaving that paper this fall when he went to Alaska planning to buy an interest in the! Ketchikan Alaska Chron icle With William1 L. Baker, for mer Statesman news staff mem ber, but he sold his option to Bak er and returned to Oregon a few weeks ago. '-- .: , "' ' Aiken,for 28 years publisher of the Argus, was for an umber of years a member of the State game. commission and was mayor of On tario frcjm 1929 to 1941, coming to Salem ih 1942 when he was ap pointed State budget , director. ' asso-meet Oregon Cane Fruits Grouri Meets Dec. 9 ) The Oregon Cane Fruits elation has been called to here Saturday, December t, when directors' will be elected. Numer ous problems, including plans for next . year's production of cane fruits, also will be discussed. The Hubbard cooperative fruit growers I and Woodburn fruit growers affiliated with the state wide association, elect their owa directori. '-'-..! .. A 1 ess Stevens B i I .Diamonds - Watches 4 Jewelry ' A BIRTHSTONE RING! An Exquisite i Christmas Gift ! ; ' j forHerr Select a colorful births tone ring for "Her" Christmas . ' always In jrxcellent taste . you are certain to make a blg..lu,.i:.-'t.,, fa 'Entrave Gifts ' f Xa flsr Ktar , A a Free el Charge! we will wrap. 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