v PAcs roui ! CnSGO:? CTATESMAIf. Cet!tzau Ortsotu Wednesday Morning. December 13, 1844 2- n . Reluctant Ilaroea N , . Mcrch bio Ectle . ; , " Ten Pocwf Apart : ;,;AT7IEn:C:iT!'; , . 1 1- ; 'Jro favor Sways Ut; No Jtar Shall Awt" i rrom Tint Statesman, March IS, 1831 j t 5 1 1 !! t ii i: HI 2.1 - : ! i i III a. I ! i TIIE V. STATESMAN: PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARfiFS A. SPRAGUIV Editor and Publisher. ; Member ot me Associated Prm A ,1 The Associated press is exclusively entitled to tbt use tor publication of all new dispatches credited to It or not otherwise crediud la this newspaper. Giving Alaska Back to Indians Two years ago Alaska was a. hot news spot because the Japs had occupied the tip islands ot the Aleutian chain and It was feared they would march along those stepping stones to the penin sula Itself. Now the war has moved far away and Alaska is in the news-doldrums as far as the war itself is concerned.- Alaskans no longer radio Washington calling frantically for troops and planes. Instead, they are "cussing out' Washington and Secretary Ickes in particular put of fears that Ickes is about to give the coun try baclq to the Indians, tr The Alaskans the white Alaskans, that is do have cause for alarm. For the government has just concluded its fifth public hearing on, the claims of j Alaskan Indians to lands and rights based on their ancestry. Certain Indian .tribes are claiming, fishing i rights along some 2000 miles of Alaskan coast as well as rights to adjoining lands. Land claims include sites, of some of the present cities of Alaska and of many of the fish canneries dotted along-the coast, v Wail the government bearings are said to be only for the purpose of finding out just what the Indian rights are, there is a fear that on the basis of findings Secretary Ickes. whose depart j ment includes; the office of Indian affairs, will I want to establish reservations under the Wheel i er-Hbward act, and recognize the Indian claims. The-Indians themselves are afraid of these i reservations. JAt a recent, convention of the. V Alaska Native; brotherhood resolutions oppos- V ing such reservations were adopted because the Indians fear Ihe "office of Indian affairs will thereby jenk us further into wardship and thus deprive us of the practical exercise of our citi zenship rights." They also) pep '.that to exprp prlate the lands occupied by the industries in Alaska, . particularly canneries; ; would disrupt industrial lifedn Alaska "to lour own injury as, .well as the injury of white people." It seems foolish to give the breath of life to tribal claims based on occupancy of land under primitive conditions back at a time when the Russians iceded Alaska to the United States. Those claims must be very shadowy. As a matter of fact the status ot the Indians within the states is quite obscure. There are still reservations. .Indiana are still regarded seme of them, as wards. ' Yet Indians have vot ing rights, and; many Indiana are entirely inde pendent ot government allotment or control. On the "whole Ut may be said that the white man's treatment ot the Indian? has never been good. First, the theory was simply that "a good Indian is a' dead Indian.", Then, Indians were1 herded in reservations but were neglected by; scheming agents and exploited by greedy white men. Now the policies are those of generous .guardianship With ill succss in integrating the Indian into the wrjnans civilization. ? Nobody seems toihf'Khe; answer to the?"In dian problem.!' Indians ought not to be kept forever as wards, yet it doesn t seem right by Staying on the War Job - -I It is clear that the calls of War Production board chairman, J. A. Krug, and of high offi cials in the war and navy department for sus tained or increased production art not just cries of "wolf, wolf l" " The consumption of war goods : continues on a colossal scale. In the face of this , demand talk of reconversion to civilian produc tion Is being soft-pedaled.' In Oregon shipbuilding keeps highest priority for manpower. The call now is for more land ing craft and special-types ot navy vessels. Be cause of the need for more ships the labor en rollment in yards in the; Portland-Vancouver district actually has increased substantially since mid-summer. It must be sustained for an indefinite period to turn out the shipping" '. .that will be. needed.'! " ;f " : j,: i- 'i M The stiffened enemy resistance gave a jolt to the lumber industry also. In November the gov ernment's central procuring agency placed or ders for 214 million board feet of lumber, or nearly three times the October! orders of 80 mil lion feet. The bulletin of the West Coast Lum- bermeri's asociation comments:.!; 1 Thus after trial steps on the primrose path ot reconversion, the west coast lumber industry la-again on the hard road of war work, with . the certainty that victory on both fronts lies long way ahead and that tremendous amounts of lumber wUt. be needed at every stage, The present urgent demands are for Douglas fir for; truck bodies (war grinds up ja lot of trucks), and for crossarms for the signal corps. -Then there is a demand for lumber for naval installations in the Pacific, for construction of docks, warehouse, hospitals at beachheads and a never-ending supply of material for boxes and crates. '- : NQ', V"?-: v'." In plain language we people at home have our work cut out for us. Instead of figuring how soon we can get new machinery or new appliances or new lumber for housing we must get our sights on the real target: more war pro duction.' Thjs means for Oregon more ship building, more lumber production, more food production. . Keep the hopper of war filled so the men doing the fighting will not want for a single necessary item. The lengthening cas ualty lists bring war home and the necessity for full cooperation on the home front. mm M, - r i .1 rM,if.S r ')T.iiS - Wiefc mi Itr tue SWImm tyaiim - , i ft e -iew- neglect to let nomtcally insulated alien world. fj them become socially and eco racial! fragments in an ' ; ' i't Complete the Quota j With a million and a quarter dollars to go the sixth war loan is a long, way from being com pleted in Marion county. Not 'only is there a shortsge in purchases of E bonds, which are held only by Individuals, but there is need for purchases of bonds in bfg gobs 1000, $5000 and $10,000 at a clip to fill out Marion county's quota by the end of the week. : , These big loans do not just float themselves. .They require support from all people in propor tion to their 'means. Those" who have not pur chased should : do so at once; those who have should make an effort to increase their pur chases to bring the drive to a successful con clusion this week. ' , Buy to Hold Purchase of war bonds is recommended now as a means of preventing inflation. Retention of war bonds until the country's economy1 is re stored to full civilian production is recommend ed to avert a blowing of the price-top when the ' War ends.1 ' ' - , j . . , ' I It is recalled that the worst inflation of the last "war came in 1919 and, 1920 when people sold- their liberty, bonds and rushed to buy goods. In the latter part of 1920 and in 1921 there was a precipitate decline in prices be cause of swollen inventories which could not be disposed of. Pressing high incomes and pro ceeds of cashed war bonds against available supplies of merchandise when thisiwar ends will produce similar inflation to be followed by similar sharp deflation. t i s Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the federal reserve board, is working on plans to prevent such a catastrophe. The secret is simple: people should hold onto their war bonds. It is in the people's own-interest to "buy to hold" war bonds until they mature,' or at least until production of goods gets back to normal. Interpreting The News . . ..K1RKX I SIMPSON -' ASSOCIATED PUSS WAR ANALYST Too many sauerkrauts in the Saar for easy -goig. :7" lt. .. - ' Editorial Comtnont i . PRICES ML'ST BE KEPT DOWN , ' - - One hears much about war prosperity and' afflu- ence derived either directly or indirectly from in-; duttries that are related to conduct of. the war. i , Wages and profit have undoubtedly been swollen,.,' so far at some persons are concerned,' and despite' , higher income taxes the present war appears likely to produce such a crop of war-born fortunes as., were harvested from Vtorld war No. 1. " i Yet now as then a large portion of the American ; public has derived no benefit, but only harm, from war economy. These- are the people with fixed in comes, including the military personnel themselves. " The office of war information in support of WIS - op position to cracking the - "little steel formula," ' wage yardstick has issued a report of survey results showing more than 20,000,000 persons in the United States who are subsisting, on low wages or incomes whUh are inflexible. , -.. As prices rise, and anyone knows that for most people the gavernment-Usved .figures showing a price level boost of between 20 and "SO per cent' since 1941 are too low,' he purchasing power, of each victim of the fixed income declines. In ef ' feet, bis income grows smaller and smaller, day ' by day. . . - . . , ' " ' . . For these people there has been no Little Steel adjustment to help them meet inflated living costs, . and for most of them no relief is possible. Nine million of these people are dependents of ' men and women in the armed services, says the OWI. Six million are public employes; nearly 1,200,000 are aged persona on: public assistance : ?olls; another million Includes disabled veterans, widows, or oepenaeni orpnanea cinidren ox wax v:t:rs;ns, lrjir-2 to exist ca fixed penrioni; 158,000 Ten days short of the winter solstice, the allied winter offensive in the. west has substantially reached its first objectives; but by every indication the grimmest battles lie ahead. Formidable river barriers, the Rhine, the Meuse and the Roer, still guard all criUcal gateways to the Rhine-Ruhr valley. Industrial , heart of nazi-dom in the north. - . 1 r " n : In the smith, where converging American ermies are bearing down on the vital Saar basm, source of nasi war materiel, only the forefleld of Germany's Siegfried line defenses west of the Rhine have yet been reached or closely approached. Only from the Karlsruhe corner .in the central Rhine valley south ward to the Swiss border does the foe appear defi nitely in process of falling back behind the Rhine. Obviously the real test of German ability to wear down" allied power short: of the Rhine is only now beginning, At one point In the Aachen area ad vance forces stand nearly 20 miles deep into Ger many but still 20 .miles or more from Cologne with its multiple Rhine crossings. The 300-mile span separating allied troops in. Holland from Berlin, has stood unchanged for weeks. ,-" 1 Below the Moselle, Third army troops which took the Saar hvttride are at grips with the outer lay ers of the labyrinthian! Siegfried line defense sys tem that lies behind that river. And on the south ern, face of; the Saar basin perimeter between the Saar end the Rhine, Third and Seventh nrmy troops are only now approaching German - frontiers well guarded in . depth. - ; - i -. There seems no reason to doubt that clearance of the last nasi invader from French soil Will be ac complished soon. From . the Karlsruhe corner to the Swiss frontier, German rearguards are fight lng only to achieve escape behind the Rhine with minimum losses. There is litue prospect of further major action in that upper Rhine sector once the nasi withdrawal east of the river is-completed. It should mean prob able shifting of forces northward to more critical sectors for both tides. state end municipal -employes Urine on pensions or retirement pay; 733,000 are dependent children .on public welfare rolls; 83,009 are blind persons; 700,000 are persons subsisUng from social security income and 400,0C0 are living on annulUes from their own funds, set aside during productive years. It is to avoid the disaster which inflation would fnflict-upott-these-people-rrticidsrlylaswell as AdHnce Friend, and Be Identified LET Tpromnrs The Safety Valvo LETTERS FIOM STATESMAN tEADTM (Continued from page 1) up: the privilege of handling in termediate traffic within another country For , Instance, should the Canadian plane be permit ted to handle; t r a f f i,c between Paris and Marseilles? ' Separate , documents were drawn up at the Chicago con ference covering the first two freedoms and then the third, fourth and fifth. Some nations 'Were ready to agree to all. The real breach between Great Herds of Oregon and for the sake Britain and the United States of a few thousand dollars, the RIVER FOLLUTION . To the Editor: Yesterday I was informed that the very able ''work being done by Major Merryfleld ; and his small staff in investigating the nature of river pollution within" the state and his further program" of compiling information where by these waste products, can be purified or, eliminated; is about to be brought to a halt owing to the lack ot funds. 1 i Oregon can enjoy a $100,000, 000.00 Income from the, tourist traffic and the purification of our rivers is equally as Important 'as the eradication ot Bang's dii- HS and T. B. from the dairy tourist traffic' brought a greater income to that state than did the entire automobile industry a jdtuation hard to believe . . . and one wonders if the citizens of Oregon are going to allow such a constructive program as IN GERMANY, Dee. .-(De-layed)-(F) -As seen fxonv a ditch, the two tall trees made a perfect f rame through which f the column slowly advan ced. V : Ten pacesi apart. Com pany A was moving into the combat line, i ! ; T h e men walked upward along a gradu-Kenatth L. ally rlalng ''f- n. ridge, entering the picture one by one. Each drab, muddy out line held the scene a moment as it topped the crests It seemed r suspended there against the gray, smoky sky just before it stum bled on.;,' v: ' - - All along the rainswept slope, the wet earth seemed to boil with muddy 'mortar bubbles-' bursting and splashing around the men. -Now and then as a man fell missing 7 tooth ap peared in this moving "picket ience.- - ,? :f Sharp- through " the - rumbling, undertones ef the frontline fight ing came the whispering, warn ing altzleofTttortar after mortSr, each seeming to shriek "ssshhh! . Ssshhhl bidding the war be still until it spoke. And as eachj whooshing whistle died,' seene- , how a split second's aynthetlc si lence was wrought as each ear and eye and nerve awaited the coming blast , Through it ail the doughboys ' walked slowly grim, strained ten paces apart. I Sometimes when a shell land- a consirucuve program as 'j: .e has been devised by Major Mer- I OUUV i laurUUll ryfield to be halted because cer tain industries within the state want to enjoy the continuance of ' river pollution. The Isaac Walton clubs, the Rod & Gun clubs and the cham bers of commerce should be the first to demand the continuance By LfLLTJS MADSEN - Mrs. RJI.:, Ranunculus seem -to do better if planted in the ' spring after danger of frost is - ovtr. Frequently they will win " ter kill. I have seen them planted . out in autumn and come through of Major Merryfield's activities aUrright for ayear or two and wnicn u me neaiin oi uregdn as then disappear. If they are was over the; question of control of aviation. The United States, through Mr. Berle, its represen tative, held out against Interna tional control of routes and of rates. Great Britain wanted such control. Britain ! Is ; fearful that the United States, having devot ed much of its I effort to con-: struction of cargo and transport planes while Britain, concen trated largely on military avi ation, would have too much of a heads tart in the postwar period. Berle rejected contfols in favor of more con petition, andwanted all five freedoms which Britain likewise was fearful of. As the situation resolves it self, very little progress was , made. Instead of a general agen- fy with real power to allocate iternatlonal flying routes, ap portion traffic and fix "rates there will be required agreement between or among nations indi vidually. H- 1 ! - While the United States may be in the forefront so far as pres enaeronautical development Is concerned, it is at a considerable disadvantage for the operation of world-gfrdling. routes. Great Britain, on whose empire the sun once 'did not set, "does have territories scattered round tlie globe, useful for air bases as well as for harbors for surface ships. The countries whose territory is mo s f favorably located for world-air routes are Canada and Russia. Canada endeavored to mediate the differences between Britain and the United States. Russia, did not show up at the conference and evidently Intends only to participate in bilateral agreements. ' The United States has Alaska, Panama and a few West Indian Islands, Hawaii and the Philip pines for offshore air bases; but , using these ' alone gets us no where. It would seem therefore work that Major Merryfleld Is doing should not, at this stage, be curtailed. ' There will always be a howl from 'vested interests' when called upon to refrain from pol luting our rivers as they are not concerned with the health of Oregon to the same extent! that -they contemplate 'dividends' but it is not so many years ago when the Standard Oil Corporation . was called upon to refrain from dumping their trade wastes into, the shores of Lake Michigan, yet . with improved means of separa tion that were devised, that oil company was able to effect a saving of 99.8 as against 92 or a saving of as Ugh as 100,000 barrels of oil a day. The Argo Starch Company of Illinois likewise was very much discouraged when they, In turn; were asked to refrain from pol luting , . .' yet with improved methods installed, their waste products resulted in a great ssv ing of distilled water and a by product that helped to make an Improved stock food as a side line, ' showing very enhanced , profit "t "v' In 1940 the state of Michigan that in spite of. our , ownership of planes and our Jong roster of capable pilots the United States is not In too fortunate a position ! for postwar eir Jrafflc Our alr i lines do not want to make i flights. J us t for exercise; they want to haul passengers and i cargo end they must neve desti i nations. i We have not heard the last of the issues raised at Chicago. ! They will continue to haunt na tions. Aviation is so promising and at the same time so threat ening a development that nations will have to hammer out some understanding on certain of these fundamentals. "THE . YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier ' er retired and disabled firemen, policemen and , Up to now. vrys reported nazi inov in the 'nBria, .i;iuauic va prcseai xxtraif Knun xnm xioer where allied forces have gained a ratstantia! foot ing on the west bank of the- flooded stream, points to- a die-hard defense foot-by-foot of the whole- west Rhineland. . - I It is there that aided by winter weather cramp- ; lng allied air support of -attacking troops, the foe . obviously hajtak:ed.everjlhinavonjexhaufting al te country i a .wnle, -t tif'tp that so much U beinglie will or capacity to drive ta cr beyond thtXr.i jpe price level -dowftujAWs wbt"fT.-t,3r1. v ' -' v a stake. i Cordially, ZlVGKlngswell, : , 613, N. Fourteenth itreet Tho Literary GuidcpoGt 1 ' By Jeha Selby . ' THBT CALLED IT PCKPLX HXAKT ' ! VAIXST - by Marcartt Bark. r i- WklU (Simon St Schuster; S3: "V. j S. AT WAX." edited sy Tom Ms- loeey (DeolL Slose Poarcs; , Two picture books have bare ly made it under the Christmas wire. One is a leading candidate for the worst title of the fall sea son: Margaret Bourke-Whlte's "They Called It 'Purple , Heart Valley," a great Job In spite' of the usual Camera Annual, called U.Srat War." ' V Miss Bourke-WhlU's book is about the Italian campaign, and it is another proof of the fact that, in publishing, pictures are not enough. Lately there have been very few straight "picture books," a trend influenced by the decision of such ' magazines' -s Life that text is needed for com plete understand i ng . Miss Bourke-White!s text is definite-, ly her own she bed eeme help,' notably from Edward Stanley on the picture captions, but in the main the' words are hers alone,, and some of the opinions become' interesting tor this particular reason. . : One of these is her conviction that AMG is doing a bad Job In Italy. I have no epace to pick put instances;"the thing that will amuse most practised readers is .the feminine way In which she describes situations she considers failures, 'and. then drops. In a vague. Justification of the "well, it's a. tough job -anyway! order. The closer to the battleline ISIss . Bourke-Whlte gets, the better : her text and pictures ' become, " and she got very closed Whether she -meant it or not in addition tea general, picture ofi-five months fighting in Italy the au , thor has also provided a character-study of one army corporal - that is pretty close to perfection. The man is CpL (later Sgt) Jess Paggitt ,, : Misa Bourke-WhiWrs"book Is concentrated, a good balance of text and photographs. "U. S. at '' War" covers ' too many fronts, none comprehensively, and has too little text The photogtaphs are first rate, thanks to the edi tor, Tom Maloney, and Comman der Edward . Steichen, USNR, but the 'project seems to , me much too ambitious. It Is a little like one of those hysterical see- ' Parls-in -a -day tours they used plahted early In the spring, they will pome Into bloom. Mrs. S.L.T., Wants me to name Jastpne red rose. She wants an entire bed of red roses and be lieves!' that only one variety should be used. If I nsme more, she adds, she may become con fused ; and not : know . which to pick. She asks me to be sure to , name my favorite red rose: Right now I probably would say Daily Mall Scented. But a month from now, I might decide I : liked Madator or Stone or Etoile ' de HoUsnd or any of the other fine red Life insurance is "the economic answer to increased taxes and low investment yield," the Salem Kl wanis club was told .Tuesday by j William K. ! Hood ot Portland, dis trict manager of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York. Hood sketched "the growth of roses better. If one is using insurance, irom lis inception io ui bed ot solid color in roses and FrejenT scope of more than 140 there is nothing' really nicer one ahould definitely -choose one variety. Different shades' of red so often clash. E.C.DV asks it fuchsias wUl grow out of doors here. She says they are-going to grow In her garden! ' . Ans. Which leaves little for me to say. But they j will grow out of dpors.AneMt many of the vaiiejties. In purchasing them she might ask her nurseryman or florist if those she is buying are hardy. Several prove hardy with a little protection. I recent ly visited the Golden Gate fuch sia, gardens and were, they lus cious there! I am quite sure Mrs. E.CJD. (judging from what she says) would become thoroughly envious of the San Francisco fuchsias.- But many of them will do equally well here. ed too close they hit the dirt but mostly they just kept moving.! Twice men were hit The column paused briefly. Then it flowed forward again with sticky reluc tance, like heavy motor oil on a cold morning. ' " y 'J-'X ' (The dead of the company up ahead still lay where they had fallen. The pathway, was narrow and mines were thick on both sides. Heavy-footed doughboys stepped carefully over the bod ies oi men they'd swapped cig arettes with Just a few hours be- ,fore -".j ; ' ,$ome turned their eyes aside. Some, stared1 fearful and with . magnetised fascination at the tern "bodies. Strangely there . seemed to be no wounded on tne slope. Only the walking and the' dead, i -i :;., :.U -' Jith faces pale and tight un-j the beards and dirt, the sol-! . diets neither hurried nor lagged - as sheila- fell about them. Sttll . there tfas no stragglmg.jvM r1 : v ' " Xhere was a complete' absence i of human sound. No one shouted ! orders, cried eut or talked. They j , just pushed, on toward an in vis- j ' lbl enemy. Their Job ..was to concentrate powerfully on' put- ' ting one foot ahead of the other regardless of what happened. Watching them do it made you begin to tremble and you weren't sure why. These men displayed no heroics, no hste, no enthus lasms. no crusading seat ; : -, There seemed to be nothing whatsoever to help spur them on. But ; they, marched. t Their steps seemed to drum into your brain. These nien didnt want to go for ward, that was heartbreakingly dear in -every une of tneir tun ching forms. : ; , It was even more clear that their would not stop short of that inferno beyond them. i With the resignation of 'thef damned, their forward motion had become grimly irresistible" And you knew that if they fell I others would follow and they too would keep on going. Reluctant heroes en paees : apart 1 . Life Insurance Held Essential In Economics Sfpven.QlS) JIan Of frrs Land for Use of Youth 'Aenclesi":' George J. Veall Tuesday of fered a tract bf land, bordering on the Pacifichishway ' seven miles outs of SaJeftJjfciSise by the variCJs" you'Jj arcIej ot this rlbfUlon dollars; told of its advan tages In regard to income and in heritance taxes; and cited action of the government. In permitting wage increases up to S per cent, so long as the S per cent went for insurances, as proof of official recognition of insurance advan tages. ' : '! ' Z Plans for the Kiwanis Christ mas party -at the Marlon hotel Tuesday, ; December 19, at 6:30 pjru, were outlined by Dr. Ken neth H. Waters. Members, their families and friends, and as many underprivileged , children, as pos sible for members to bring, have been invited.. - Wr W. Chadwlck, Kiwanis pres ident announced that Glen Mc Cormack bad been chosen to the club directorate to succeed Elmer J. Berg, who was elected vice president I ';'- i Diamonds - Watches - Jewelry D 1 We have an exceptional collection : ot loose dia- nonij. MaJce 'your lelcction tnd well place it In i raouctbg o! your choice right here in our slore! There Is siHl time to hsve your gifts purchased here, engraved by Christmas. This is the "finishing touch" for a gift that will long be cherished! . Credit If Deslreg r ii1. ...... i 1 1 tivti.t suueruig IrMa aoie weatner imf.rovcme - tjo fcnng.sllid s:t . wr ; trj two-springs. - The ofier wiil j "W?cw?4-H hrJF-' . ; n ' " - Dtstred r ' :