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4. PAGE FOUR Tha OSEGOft STATESMAIT'. Scdem, Oregon, Thursday Morning. December, 14 1344 Fhr . Tankers Get tO-Dcrf; Furlouohs AimI DMtnii Tm "itfo Favor Svouyt JJt; No Ftar Shall Aw ' From Tint SUtenatn March 28. IW1 ' ; i THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher ' " ' . l ' '- :( - ---- - .!- . Member of the Associated Press ' , i The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to tha uxa for publication of all new disnatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. ; State Dental College? The state of Oregon is offered a dental col lege free of encumbrance if it will incorporate it in the state system of higher education and - operate it. The board has at least for the pres ' ent turned down the offer for fear that request for appropriations for, its operation would re- sult in scaling down' of funds urgently needed erating headquarters. It is only 1500: miles from for other uses of the system. The school is the old, well established North Pacific College of Dentistry, in Portland. It has been in successful operation for many years. Most of the dentists practicing in Oregon were educated at this school. It has been under pri vate ownership,' but has had recognition from the state dental association and the assistance , of many leading dentists of Portland in its in struction. Under new standards of accrediting of such institutions it is necessary for dental 'schools to be affiliated with establish univer sities. The school has filled such' an important place in the professional training of the northwest's dentists that it would seem a real effort should be made ta keep it in operation, preferably as part of the state system. No other dental col lege operates in the northwest as far east as Minneapolis. The need for dentists is not di minishing. - i- " The school might very properly operate as part of the state system of higher education. In the past i has been self-supporting.! While that would not be expected under state opera tion the state Is justified in maintaining such an institution the same as It does for training of doctors and pharmacists. . The matter ought to be presented to the leg- islature for its. review and action. Oregon - should consider whether or not it does not have some obligation to preserve this school with its reputation and its instruction in a truly essen tial profession. V Scrap Iron to Japan Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Japan who was recently named by the president for undersecretary of state, testified before a sen ate committee . .hearing that . continuation of scrap, iron and oil shipments to Japan in the years preceding our involvement in war was "common sense." He said that "nothing hurt us more" than seeing, those shipments go through." It was his opinion, which previously he set forth in his book and in public addresses, that "embargoes would precipitate war with Japan. And as Grew says: j Our country An thevmiddle 3Q was not pre pared for war.' The people didn't want war. , It is true that our country, was not prepared for war either psychologically or materially, But Japan was not as well prepared either as it ; was in 1941. It is by no means certain that our . ' curtailment of oil and scrap-iron shipments would have precipitated war;, and if is certain that the materials Japan accumulated in those, years have been used against -us to our serious injury. ' , -j But this fact remains: Ambassador Grew was ; in the closest touch with the situation, in Japan .and watched i develop to the final breach of relations. He was fully aware of what the -prob- able end would be; and it was his judgment that it was to Our advantage to permit the ship- ments to continue, offensive and threatening though they were, than to risk' immediate hos tilities with Japan. Since there is no measur ing stick by which' to test his judgment the country should accept it as based on the fullest . information, and stop talking about those ship? ments of . scrap iron to Japan. Engdahl for Senator ;. The election of Carl Engdahl, wheatgrower of Pendleton, as senator from Umatilla county to succeed Dr. J. A. Best, resigned, will meet With, approval all oyer the state.. Engdahl has been one of the most substantial members of ' the lower house where he has served for five terms. : As a member of the ways and means committee he: has proven a most industrious worker. On matters .of general legislation his ; judgment, is highly respected. He could have been elected speaker of the house in previous ' sessions. if he had desired .the position. . As sen ator he will give Umatilla county and the state service of superior quality. . Editorial Comment ALL THIS AND FEUCANS V Every community, like every individual, has a ' good story hack of it. Yu can take Pokegaiaa,' now deserted logging camp In southwestern Klamath county, or you can take New York City, . or any other community, and make a yarn that is. 'well worth the telling, . , K i That thought was brought to mind by the movie, ' "Klamath Tails at War" which was shown here last week at the Pelican,, and was produced by a Holly wood firm after a few days of picture-taking here. . The movie did not attempt to tell the real story of Klamath Falls. It was interesting local entertain ment, but it only made a gesture in the direction ' of a true pictorial report of our town;. Leaving 'history .colorful and thrilling as it Is, out of it, . there is -an absorbing current story in Klamath. ' ft li, for uistance, the home of two mili tary installati'ons one the jumping! off place for ne group of Pacific, fighters, the other the "com- 'lng back place 'for another. JTt is the nearest big town to the history-making "Jap camp" and its ad- -jaceat military unit - It is the home of a busy criti- cal war industry-J-lumbering-and the trading cen ter, for an area that is. doing a tremendous job of producing food for fighting. It is a key stopping. pJace on the vital Pacific coast freight and passen ger lines. In addition to ill the human interest that can be v forcemeats are found in any city of this size, we have tor instance, -our marine veterans of the mosquito-ridden combat areas of the Pacific, who have brought their wives the girls who have waited for them at home to crowded Klamath Falls for first or second honey- moons. - . ; 1 -;--.;. These-ant a few" of the-things that give an Idea of the story of our town as it might be told in word or picture. Is there any local resident , with his eyes open who does not know he is living in an in teresting place?Klamath Falls Heraldi Guam; New Operations Base 5 I Guam, which was reentered by American forces just four months ago is being readied for headquarters for Admiral Nimitz in the prosecution of the war in the Pacific. V Guam is 3500 miles farther west than Pearl Harbor which Has been Tokyo, the goal coming? . Interpreting The War News Southwest of to hold the gap the principal base and the op- of the fighting. Pearl Harbor will doubtless remain the principal naval and military base, but j the staff which is directing the fighting will be stationed on Guam. . i One has only to look at the map to, see how the war is being pressed home to the Japs. Two years ago we had a footing in the Solomons but had not begun the island-hopping across the central Pacific Now Saipan is an air base for attacks on Japan proper , and Guam is the op erations base. - , , It is to be hoped that proper communications facilities will be provided at the new headquar ters. Pearl Harbor had the facilities though the censors sometimes treated reporters' (offering, xoughly. If good transmission is furnished at Guam news reports of operations in the western , Pacific ought to come through faster than when they had to be moved back to Pearl Harbor and -then cleared. 1 Crossing Fatality Another fatal grade crossing accident is re ported for this county, the latest occurring at Jefferson, an auto being struck by a Jtrain. i This is the time; of year when such accidents are more likely toj happenf Drivers close their cars to keep out the cold, and so do not hear whistle or noise of approaching train. Trains move so fast that a quick glance up or down the track may not give enough time? to stop the car. Familiarity with a grade crossing is hot ade quate precaution j because; ' drivers easily' get careless. '! 7 ':' The country over grade crossing accidents ac count for probably: the largest number of peace time" fatal accidents. Yet virtually every one is preventable. Greater caution in approaching a railroad track, keeping the car under control, for an instant stop are needed to cut down the loss of life. ( After the war there should be a renewed pro gram of grade crossing elimination. In cities like Salem the answer is grade separation. In the country couldn't some radar be used to flash warning signals in the face of a driver who is intent on crossing; a track on which a train is ! The Hood River ; post of the American legion has only succeeded in giving itself bad adver tising in erasing names of Japanese-Americans from its roster of service men. The Cheney, Wash., -post adopted resolutions protesting the action. A New York City post has invited 15 soldiers of Japanese ancestry, to become mem bers its form of rebuke to the Hood River post. Congress has passed and sent to the president a bill to permit certain admirals and . generals to wear five stirs, which will give them visible rating on a level , with foreign field marshals. Will this be Five Star Final? , i . The Pendleton East Oregon has a headline: EWOL Will Meet Here Next Year!.' The big re union after the war would be one of the AWOL. , K1RKE L. SIMPSON j ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST A Russian threat to Budapest and Vienna is shap ing up on the map. j " i I It is even (more ominous than that presented by the Red army's strong siege position before the . doomed Hungarian capital which is complete from the west bank of the Danube below the city to its east bank above, i ; North' of Budapest and above the great bend of the Danube, the Russians have driven a broad cor ridor virtually to Czechoslovakia. They have gamed a substantial footing in the valley of the Ipoly river that flows westward to enter the Danube at the western end of the .gorge-like canyon , through the Danube passes before it bends sharply, southward to reach -Budapest ' ' ,) That canyon and the Borzsony mountain mass north of it form strong natural barriers to any Bus sian direct advance on Vienna up the Danube, by passing Budapest However,; the Russians seem in a position to sweep north around the Borzsony' mountains and pour down into the great plain north of - the Danube between Budapest and Vienna. Whether that is the Russian plan -remains to be seen. H "I ..ra j-..- The Red grip on the valley of the Ipoly Is a threat to Nazi-Hungarian forces still clinging, to the moun tains of northeastern Hungary below the Slovakian. border. Red forces are expanding eastward up the Ipoly as well as westward. Another Russian spear head is driving northwestward above captured Mis kolc up the Sajo and Rima valleys. 1 v Both columns appear aiming , at the' important Hungarian - Slovakian frontier city of Losoncz. Should they effect j a junction, all enemy troops south of them would be trapped and, the last Nazi hold on northeastern Hungary, and on all eastern Slovakia be broken. - The result would be placing at Russian disposal vitally important direct highway and rail com munications linking; Hungary and southern Poland. J. The threat to the whole Nazi defense line guard ing Vienna from Lake Balaton in the southwest to the Borzsony mountains in the northeast which the Russian drive down the Ipoly constitutes is clear. It seems to justify Moscow press assertions that the enemy is already critically outflanked. Budapest, where heavy Nazi rein- reported from Russia to be massed between that city and Lake Balaton, mere has been no-significant change faa front re ported for several days. The Russian drive on Vien na by that short and direct route, bypassing Buda pest to the south, has been slowed if not halted. . Invariable Russian practice in such circumstances has been to strike Immediately at some other vul nerable point -, ' . The Ipoly .corridor; attack that foUows that ac cepted Red army techniques even if its real objec tives are not yet revealed. ' ' 4 . - . MirriBf ilWWBlihilngUi - . t, OTP 8S3DDQ8 'nm rnnrg (Continued from page'l) inch taller than their fathers were at - the time of the first world wari Similarly, the pro- portion of six-footers among young selectees now is about . ine-third greater than in the generation before I . . '' "Supplementary informat ion from records of school children shows that the Increase in height for the past decades is largely a matter of more rapid growth in. the childhood ages." j ' The; conclusion of the Metro politah statisticians is this: The increase in. ! stature re-fl fleets the improvement that has , taken place over recent decades in general health and nutrition throughout i the country. The 5 seemingly high rejection rates for the armed services in the present War must be attributed rather toia rise in the required i standards than to any lowering i in level at physique among the country's youth. With continuing advances hi our knowledge of nutrition, coming generations of Americans should show gains in physical condition - beyond that attained by young-adults of to- .' day." j . - This improvement in the health ' of youth is not surprising. It is a result of all that has been done In the way of prevention and! - better treatment of disease, nu trition of children, abolition of child labor inculcation of health habits among children. If as a result of all this expenditure of money and effort there had been no improvement one might con clude it had been worthless. Such, clearly, is not the case. , ' While Miss Lenroofs statistics -are doubtles correct they are not too discouraging, j Of course many children have defective teeth and eyes and bearing, but very generally efforts are made - to correct these defects or make , provision to overcome them. The worst score is in congenital syphilis and tuberculosis which are eradicable, but certainly con structive attack lis being made against these diseases. I recall visiting with Crown Prince Olaf j of Norway on the occasion of his second visit to Oregon some two and a half i years ago. I asked him about how 'the children of Norway were faring and whether the-, lack of food would 'seriously in jure this youthful generation. He A replied that ithe . people were getting .scant but apparently "THE (YQUNG IDEA" By Mossier i .- : - --------- - , -v --;' -' - Tlese, Tommy, let me hear It . ' endaraaea than any girt NeivG; Behind the News . By PAUL (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc Reproduction In whole ; 4 or In part strictly prohibited.) ' . ' ; WASHINGTON,. Dec IS it is. difficult for officials to say ex plicitly what caused the trouble ? in Greece, yet the inner evi dence here plainly suggests the purpose of the revolt1 It is reported through subter-, ranean official avenues of com-' munication ,army men and unatnr Vi A ir . heard and believe it) that a Rus sian colonel was discovered am ong the .revolutionists, giving them military! advieif not lead ing them. Also the firing began . immediately after the prevailing Greek government had attempt ed to disbandj the guerilla forces in which the communists were a strong and armed element From these and dovetailing known facts, ! a general conclu sion has arisen , that the com munists werej struggling to get control of the remaining Greek armed forces, end maintain their own arms. They were adequate ly represented in the govern ment Two communists were in government seats of power, three other radicals favoring them had important posti But they lack ed Control of the military. ' Not more than 5 per cent, of the Greek electorate is com munist or radical. The bulk of the population i is small farmer. Leftists, however,' control the railway unions; the street rail way employees, and such small but highly organized city groups and they wield ;an influence far beyond their democratic power. In Italy, the communists were kept from cabinet posts where they might do the most damage. War, foreign affairs, education, aviation, treasury, etc. were fill ed by liberals, labor and Chris tian democrats.: The communists got a vice premiership, occupied territories, finance (distinct from 'i. j - ' sufficient amount, of food for liv- ' ing. As to the impairment of this generation of! children he said: "The Germans are fighting this war with the children who suf fered from malnutrition In the last war." J . - 1 In other words "it Is easy to exaggerate the itl effects of par ticular "conditions. . Certainly we want to Improve the health of our children; but it seems,: to me jwe have given more consideration to their . health in late years than we have, to their moral training--but-that Is something, else again. eaee more hew t get better yea ever danced withr ML Paul - MaUoa MALLQN treasury), and " agriculture. In Yugoslavia, the communists are taking everything,-with Tito in control of the army, the reds alongside him! and Mihailovich retreating westward over the mountains of Bosnia. Not much 1 news has come from Rumania or -, Poland where, both censorship and. confusion .are in operation. But the. prevailing communists have again excluded four of our officials from Bulgaria.: But do not these facts present In stark simplicity the! problem of Europe, even including Bel gium and . France (De Gaulle having concluded a mutual as-' , si stance pact with Moscow, al though Stalin did not follow out the earlier pacts of friendship when France was attacked, but maintained his August, 1939, agreement with Hitler until be, himself, was attacked June, 1941, after thefall of France, 1940). i The questions raised: are: Is it possible to reach agreement with Communists on the division of democratic power? Does not the very nature of the communist radical cause prevent them from cooperating sincerely in demo- , era tic government? Is there not ' ; a new ray of light for democracy rising from these troubles? Would any country in Europe go communist if the people were al lowed an election free from the influences of Moscow as well as Britain? Are not communist radicals merely highly organized : small minorities? Are they really not getting r ."from negotiation more power in their govern ments than a free election might provide them? But is it possible to hold an election free of Rus sian and British influence? . If it is impossible, must the world not fall back necessarily into spheres of influence with some "for Russia, some forT the British, some for us? j ; if 1 ; j' i Certainly events are! making the troublesome elements in-i creasingly plain, and as long as people can see what the problem 1 is, there is a chancel of solution. The fuss in the senate over I new state department appointees reflects, no distrust with the an nounced pohcy.ot the Stettinhis regime for free determination. In fact, the. whole affair was started by two newspapers. They turned t two " senators ; - around. Pennsylvania's Senator Ouffey and New York's Wagner had. voted, in the foreign j relations committee approving the Stet tinius assistants. ' Then a - new deal paper in Philadelphia erup ted against them, as did a New York paper of the -same prefer ment GuXfey changed his mind, -' organized : the 'contest to send them, back to committee, and Wagner joined In, although the , surprise of his changed ' view point was so great Foreign Re lations Chairman Connally un- - precedentedly walked down the aisle, ahook finger in Wagner's nose and asked the senator if he : was conscious of1 how:: he had - just then voted. Justice and cus ; torn required ' hearings' by the committee anyway. In Order that the senate intelligently perform Its confirming duty (Senator La Follette's position -from the . be- ginning). Thus .it Is becoming: plain a great degree of unity on foreign , policy can be maintained in this country If the policy , genuinely favors freedom . of . -electoral choice in European nations, and "is not compromised or vice ver sa, or blinding our public from ; the realization that these are the forces involved in the present struggle in occupied countries. . Indeed, a strong policy along , that line might awaken hope in the world; Otherwise there will have to be a division of spheres ' of. Influence and . a permanent , conflict to maintain' them........ Stalin once said: 'Words must have no" relation to actions oth erwise what kind, of diplomacy? Words are one thing, actions an- other . . ; Sincere diplomacy Is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron." You must thus watch the actions in Europe IN GERMANY, Dec 7.-(De-layed)-(ffr-Three years ago when the Japanese atruck Pearl Harbor all leaves and fur loughs . were cancelled tor guys already , in the army, In- cludlzvg five second armored division tank ers now in Ger many. anniversary of J Pearl Harbor In Kenneth I Dixon 1942, these men - ,x -had nothing more than thoughts of furlough, ' either. Four of the five were fighting in Africa. The fifth was them.' ; on his ,way"to join " Last December 7 their outfit had finished a whirlwind Sicilian campaign and these, tankers were in Britain, training for the inva sion. '' Now they've . fought through France, Belgium," Holland, 'and into Germany. Each .has been wounded at least twice, and ex cept for periods, spent, recuper ating and time spent training in England, they've fought almost constantly for two years. Home had become a vague, and distant place. '- - I Today on the third anniver sary of Pearl Harbor all j five -were notified they vere getting 30-day furloughs back home. At first it seemed too much to belieVe,' but finally they were convinced it was true if they got fast t r a n s p o r t ation they The Literary Guidepost By Jean SeRy . THE BIBIJC AND THE COMMON READER," ky Mary EUea Chase '(MafmUUa; SZS). (q One of the most popular Smith college courses is given by Mary Ellen Chase, and is a study of the King James version of the Bible and its influence on other English literature. Smith girls grow starry-eyed over it; also, . Miss Chase has learned 'much from it ' N :' She has learned that the com mon reader knows almost ! noth ing about the Bible as a work of literature, as a singularly per fect expression of the world In a reduced version, fitted to one small people. So she has written The Bible and the Common Reader" ; out of her experience. It is a remarkably useful book for any reader because it really does show him what is I great about the Bible (leaving j aside all its religious significance and controversial i n t e r p retations) ' and why these things are great For me the most fascinating material of all is in the second chapter, which tells about j the translations leading up to ' the King James version. AH the Eng lish translators owe much to a certain William Tyndale, whose translation in the first quarter ' of the 18th century was one base for all, those that followed. Wycliff e's manuscript transla tion from St Jerome's Latin Vulgate had importance, Miss Chase says,' but its influence was 'circumscribed! because it was not printed. Tyndale hounded out of England,; lished his New Testament was pub- and Old the, Pentateuch from the Testament and finally died at the stake in Belgium. p - Miss Chase considers the King James version incomparable- and its composition a miracle. It owes much to Tyndale, to the Geneva Bible, the Bishops'1, Bi ble, and all the others,; but these sources and the intelligent schol arship of the 3i translators do not explain the quality of their work. It is this wonderful trans literation that makes it possible to enjoy the drama, poetry, his torical writing, biography all the incomparable content of this timeless book. The body of Miss Chase's book explains the loca tion of the stories and evaluates them, . r -. - A!-- M - more than the words in the pacts that have been and will be writ ten. . -:- ;v;H V"-HH M - Stevens Diamonds Watchcs-p-Jewelry A GUT SHE'LL CHERISH ALWAYS! . . . . A FCJE DIAMOND WHIST WATCH FROM OUR STOCX OF "FAMOUS" i) New-is the time ta select an ex quisite diamond wrist watch tar ""her Christmas. We have a w4da selection . . . v see them today! emu is Derfrei? 7851 . I It . . t i 1 I Z . might even get home for Christ mas. " "I dont care how fast I go!" shouted Sgt Joseph R. Lemay of . FitchburtV Mass, who has been - In the army four years, overseas two years ami had two Sherman tanks shot from under him. flf I have- to- take- a rowboat to get thee, that's all right too!" Itfi different with Sgt Charles , Romaine of Stamford, Conn. His record is like Lemaya and he wants to spend Christmas with two Marthas: Mrs. Romaine and ( their two-year-old daughter who was born just after Charlie left ' the states. "If I get there to see my, kid at long last .and spend the holidays ' with ( both of them itH be the best ' Christmas present -1 ever had." Charlie grinned happily. When they called Corp. Carl D. Dalton of Ogden, Utah, to the regimental personnel office he thought he was "in-some kinda trouble. He's a tank driver with the same time overseas, same number of tanks. shot out from under him, and the same number of wounds as the other two. At home; for Christmas to him ' means sitting down to a dinner cooked by his sister, Mrs. J. W. Porter of Ogden. ( I hope she's figuring on cook ing a big meal that day." The corporal grinned. . Reno E. Schnabel of Tripp, South Dakota, thought he was in trouble too. He'd just been made a sergeant and was busy sewing on his new stripes when a com pany runner came up and said j -Report to the old man." .! . ' "Oh! Oh!n moaned Reno. . "Wonder what I've done now. . "Bet I lose these stripes before I even get 'em sewed on. . Fifteen minutes later he was back packing his bag with a big grin on his: face. Reno is the Johnny-come-late- - ly among :the five. He's been , overseas '"bnly" 22 months now but nobody begrudged him his . furlough after the African, .Sicil ian, French1, Belgian, Dutch and German campaigns plus two wounds.' j ' 1 -.: All those things said about the first three guys regarding time . overseas, founds, etc., also ap plied to Pfc. Edward Laskywitz. This assistant tank driver from Yonkers, ilY, didn't talk much. He just waved a picture of Nan- cy Allan J also of Yonkers, who has waited two years now for 'Eddie to come home. Services Sell Plahl Seats ' MIAMI, fU., Dec, 13 The Miami Herald said Tuesday that both the irmy and navy quietly have started selling seats on their world-girdlkyf air routes at about the usual commercial rate of 13 cents a mile. . Civilian passengers can aet bucket seats on oceanic trans ports tagged with - their names, the Herald reported, if the trips are deemed to be "in the best fin est of the country and they can't reasonably be carried by a reg ular airline." vj' So far passengers mostly have been businessmen on important war missions, the Herald contin ued, . but rumors persist that the air transport command of the, army air forces is preparing s schedule of, fares for its entire network, and that the fare-paying passenger business may be ex panded about Feb. 1. Myrtle Point Shooting Qaims Third Victim MYRTLE POINT. Dec. 13-() A Sunday night shooting fracas that took the lives of the 40-year-old slayer and r a 22-year-old di vorce: claimed its third victim Tuesday. ? "Edward Watxling, 39, who -'was playing cards in a family living room when, shots struck him through the window, died today in a hospital. Mrs. Barbara Dah ren," the woman, died almost in stantly from bullet wounds. a There b stm time to have' rear gifts per ehaead here, ea craved by Christ- -bus. This Is the Ylakhmr teach' fee gift that will leag be cherished. n CredUD Desired N J