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page roua The OnTGOII STATESMAN. Salem Oregon, Thursday Morning, December 21. 1S44 "Wo Faror Sways Vs; No Fear Shall Atoe .: I From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 r . , THE STATES3IAN PUBLISHING C05IPANY , , CHARLES A. SPRAGCe, Editor and Publisher i ? I. . - i Member of the Associated Press . . , 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. - ". Sine Die , I BuUder of the West : The 78th congress adjourned sine die on De-' One of the great builders of . the west was cember 19. It has only two more weeks of life, Here this week-for the Oregon Reclamation con- anyway, for its successor will, be organized on T.n.ian f . ;- , : - . -..-4 The final action of the senate was to confirm the six members named to high positions in the draartmpnt of state.- When the president ad vised senators that if his appointees were re jected he would resubmit the same names in January the opposition collapsed, not because it approved the appointees- but because since the nresident is primarily responsible for di recting foreign policy it did not want to create the impossible situation of a hiatus in the run- -ning of the department and Jof blocking, the president's! will as to his assistants. The ap pointments however, as predicted in this paper, have shocked the -new deal front, a fact the president will have to reckon with. While the rivers and harbors bill died for jacK 01 agreement Detween me two nouses, we larger flood control bill was passed. It includes authorization of the Niagara dam on the North Fork of (the Santiam, one of jthe items of the Willamette project.' The mohey authorization is for $20,000,000, but no final decision has been made on whether to build a high or a low dam. The new congress will have a considerable change in ' membership. The democrats will -have a larger majority in the house, but in the senate their lead is just about the same. While ordinarily this might be taken to mean that the president can count on stronger support in the congress, this does, not necessarily follow, as the revolt on hisstate department appointees indi cated. j ' . ., The problems of war and of peace will still be dominant as 'the 79th congress moves into being. 'The turn of the war" jin Europe has a very sobering effect there Certainly was no hilarity reported as the 78th congress ad journed. . : ' ' i gress, yet a man whose name does .not . clutter up the headlines very ."much.'"- He 'Is Frank A. Banks, director for region No: 1 of the U. S. reclamation bureau. Born and educated in the state of Maine, virtually all of his professional ; career as an engineer has been with the recla mation service. In fact, his connection with this work extends over nearly the whole life of .the bureau. 'Starting in as an" engineering aid on ' the lower Yellowstone project in Montana in 1906, Banks has progressed ,tp' his present 'posi tion. Among the great dams the construction of which he has supervised are the American Falls dam on the Snake river in Idaho, the Owyhee dam in Oregon, and the Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia in Washington. Banks is project engineer for the whole Grand Coulee project and makes his home at Coulee Dam. -During this period his salary has always been the modest competence which government' pays to its professional employes. He has seen engi neers and contractors in private enterprise pile up fortunes while he ground along at the gov ernment stipend. He finds his great satisfaction . in the transformation of arid western lands into ' productive farm lands sustaining farm homes and communities. 1,1 - . N The Grand Coulee dam is the greatest engi-, -neering job of its kind in the history, of, man- . kind. That in itself might be regarded as a monument to Frank-Banks; but he doubtless finds more gratification in the contribution it makes through powerand will make through irrigation, for the welfare of mankind than he' does in the dam as a massive work of masonry. : . The west certainly ! owes a lot to Banks and to the men like him who for modest compensation spend their lives in public service. . . ; ; jw the bttLmrcsss col J ; - ' - , . . .-';"'....--MS.-'-'-- .'. "t Wyoming 'Cowboy Wia .Eld Almost- : AnylLIag Into Flcar ' kr rrmasHWBt with Tht WuhinrtDa 8tat Ti" But They Can Celebrate Now The Literary Guldepost Br John Selby Coast County J The Eugene Register - Guard reports that there is some talk on the coast of forming a new county out of the western portions of Douglas, and Lane? counties. Probably just : talk, be cause if the residents out there start figuring costs of a new courthouse and a separate county establishment they, will conclude they had bet ter remain as they are, inconvenient as it is with their county seats, Eugene and Roseburg, so far away. Perhaps the purpose of the gossip is to . get some road concessions -out of the county : court. .' ,vi I i -The last of the coast counties to be created was Lincoln which was cut off from Benton county in 1893. The other", coast counties are very old: Clatsop dates from! 1844, Coos and Tillamook from 1853, Curry from 1855. The time is past for creating new counties unless or . until there is a great increase in taxable wealth and in population. Improved highways and' communications ' lines makes large counties ifore practical, although it must be hard to gov ern satisfactorily counties' which stretch from the Cascades to the Pacific ocean as do Lane and Douglas. V L fl Lift Another Ban 1 The ban has been raised on the Japanese- -Americans but not on civilian flying along the coast. There have been many appeals filed for, permitting civilians to fly again, but so far they have been of no avail. It is a deep mystery why our;, western airports cannot be used when a few miles inland that is permitted. There is a real demand for removing this pro hibition. ' Many private - citizens hold licenses 'i and would like to be able to fly their planes, again. Flying instruction needs to be resumed ' in this area. Surplus planes are being offered for sale but flyers here are out as purchasers because hey can't fly them in their home re gions, -i. - 'r -Im,,v vl';"'f -: 'Maybe, if aviaijon groups, keep .everlastingly at it they can convince the air command that private flying should again be permitted along .the coastal strip. : " .For weeks the Townsend Teekly has? been telling how close it was to haying enough sign ers to get the Townsend bill, out pn the floor of .the house for a vote. At the jfast it lacked one vote, so the bill died with the session. Prob- , ably most of the signers were glad they werert put on the spot by having, the bill actually come up for a vote. They know the - but want to play along with .their votes; ! 1. bill is screwball,- Townsenders for ' Editorial Comment BRIBING CONVERTS . . Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's special public to open Its purse to the Italian people to pre vent tbem from' going into communism.. ". .:of the reason America is in the war and also of the Sited desires. . . . r; : " , ; ' "'- ' . .. s The United States is at war because its national existence was threatened by the German brand of fascism and-Its Italian auxiliary. We have dis pelled the Italian threat .and, with & hard fight ahead, shall dispel the German threat. '' I . : The; United States did , not enter the war to de itermine the political beliefs of Europe. T We Moubt tf the capacity of; the. American people to buy off 'communism In Europe. We' also doubt their am- . bition to do any such thing.- :; -- There are -48,000,000 Italians sdve them 11000 aoiece ho doubt' ther would be- come conservatives and remain so until they spent New Mead for C of C Loyal Warner is an excellent choice for pres ident of the chamber, of ; commerce, i.He has proven his -capacity in many civic endeavors and is familiar with the chamber work through his service on its board of directors. ' To Carl Hogg, who has had the unusual dis tinction of serving: for three terms as chamber head, goes the gratitude of the members and of the whole community for the outstanding job he has done He has energized the chamber and the town, and kept people happy while he was doing it. 1 , Interpreting The War Neivs : K1RKE 1. SIMPSON - : ASSOCIATED ; PRESS WAH ANALYST CHINA TO ME,1? y KmOy (Donble47r Doran; 3. ( - Emily Hahn's China to Me is the most accurate - picture ot an expatriate I have seen for a longtime. Except for the setting, which is China, the book might be a long letter home from one of the girls (or boys) who used to infest the Left Bank of dear old Paris,1 15 or 20 years ago. There isjexactly the same belief in the validity of one's own ex perience, however dull, that used to -animate the boys at the Cafe Dome. There is the same series of parties,' rather loose relation ships, drinking bouts, and super ficial judgments. And there: is . likewise - the determination to write about such matters, "fran- uy." - ::t;" It doesn't -add up to much in Miss Hahn's case."- Miss Hahn went to China tn 1935; I believe. She thought. , at first, she was merely stopping off on her way. to Africa, but; Shanghai "got - her. It was- no time until, she admits candidly, the various sets were anglingrfor her. There were parties by Am ericans and . parties by British. Neivs Behind the News , " 5 : By PAUL MALLON - ""' I. '(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction tn whole . "-v or in pert strictfy prohibited.)' I s WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 - Queer . doings . have taken h stagerhere. , j -: ' Mr. Jloosevelt did not veto the bill preventing, another 1 and 1 per cent hike for worker and management in . social security taxes. , A veto message had been written for him by his social security board. Assist- a n i iresiaens - paui MaUoa "James Byrnes lipped icongress--" "men definitely , the veto would . come. -: r j-'j . . i The average stereotjped . in- , terpretation is that the president is getting somewhat more con , servative, I do not .think . so. . Congress was -ready to pass the - bill over, a veto, had the votes in . 4ine. The president could not stop. it. His. action; therefore, r, simply implies he has reached i jthe. age where he is not inter-. psted in provoking losing fights . , (or at least this pne)'. ior poli.ti cal purposes only. ... . f Those who think, he has gone conservative , on social security 'will be dismayed- next month There were also mixed . parties - ,when he sets forth a CIO-ish and if .we '.would Despite a slight lifting of the Allied news black out,' the situation on the American First army right wing front in Belgium remained to obscure at the end of the fourth day of the sustained Nazi counter attack to warrant the conclusion that it had already run its course. , .. ' ; ' , - A i " But pieced together and based on negative rath er than positive factors involved, the current battle reports indicate that while the enemy may not have been completely halted, his effort has been con tained. "The surprise effect is wearing off and theife is no evidence that the enemy has been able to con- solidate his four thrusts into a single dangerous " salient or begin a wheeling movement northward. . An important fact in the present incomplete and .scanty outline of the situation is American recaps 441 ture of Monschau. The town Just within the Ger- - man border was vitally important to the rfazis for and even some at. which the mixture , Was Chinese and Occi-' dental. Suddenly Miss Hahn de cided this vas the life fori her. . She must have been right She. admits she was an egoist She insists upon it, to be more accurate. But Miss Hahn's ego-. -Ism took curious formsJ For ex ample, it led her to take a flat in ' the red light district,; largely (I gather) because she thought it shocked people. It doesn't; occur to her, so far as'I could deter mine, that the people might have been either; disinterested or do ing a -little leg-pulling.' Miss Hahn is likewise frank (just; as used to be the Left-Bankers) about her male friends, and here again the effort seems ' hardly . .worth the candle. : -Miss Hahn did newspaper '. work, -knew a great many Jap-. anese after the occupation, chat- ' ters about the Chinese, and all the polyglot men. and buzzards of ' strangling China. "She chat ters about them as if they re volved about her, and this Is, I feel ' sure, misapprehension. And a bore. ' - , Djerba, off Tunisia, Is the larg est island on the .'Mediterranean Barbary roast . , , ; program for its radical expan sion. , . ;. ' -, But the queerest of all new goings-oh is "the-anti-administra- tion, revolt of the Guffey-Pepper new dealers, resisting Mr. Roose velt's appointees to the StetUn ius regime in . the state depart ment The revolters are the ones who. claimed, for? 12;; previous 'new deal years, that anyone was practically a fascist for question-.' ing Mr. Roosevelt on ' anything. A republican who has watched the progress of their un-natural conduct from across ; the - aisle surmises they ere trying to con vince Mr. R... they won the elec tion for him, and he must do as they say. '. ' : ''.- ' . . .j I doubt the full implication of this analysis as the men involved are not Borahs, lone wolves or of a strongly-Independent char acter. Joe Guffey.'is h 69-year-old professional politician whose bi- ography in the congressional di--rectory (where congressmen generally set forth all the glories of . their careers for' constituents . to see) is tersely this: "Joseph 'F. Guifey, democrat Pittsburgh,- Pa., 'Unmarried.'' . - Just as his record is unmarred by marriage, it is also unmarred by any opposition to; CIO. Ob- THE YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier the money or the cleverer ones among them got it , protection of the Hank and rear of the; indicated : That would cost $48,t)0P,000,000j for our. first ex periment in making political 1 conversions- at the paymaster's window. San Francisco Chronicle. . . Z NAVY SPECIAUST f . Congressman James 3Iot, who was here Sunday and Monday on an official visit to Klamath's two - navy installations the marine barracks and . the ' navy air station is the dean of Oregon's congres f sional -delegation. . ' (",,.- . . . , The death of Senator McNary last year made Mott the oldest'member of the delegation, in point - of service. He began his congressional career, as 4 representative of the first (northwestern Oregon) ( district h 133 succeeding .WiUis Hawley. n Prior to . going into congress, Mott was Oregon corporation commissioner under Gov. Julius Meier, . and won widespread attention in connection with -the investigation and liquidation ot several shakv ; building and savings and loan associations. '.' In congress, Mott has made navy affairs a pe r ciaUy and In the new congress, will be the ranking. r republican, member of the naval affairs committee, which .carries with it such heavy1 duties as passing upon every property acquisition; proposed by -the -navy. He is a member of the naval group which f will tour South Pacific bases. In January and Feb - ruary. - i'-r; v ' . -r.-..., ""' ..- ' ." The visit of Congressman Mott to Klamath Falls 4his week gave him a first-hand view of two of the navy's major installations in Oregon. His aid was enlisted in behalf of toe "housing problem here, and his interest and knowledge should be helpful in connection with future navy activities and de velopments in the Klamath Falls area. Klamath . Falls Herald-News. ' ;r'-. :? "V ";; narrow sahent reaching to the.Stavelot area. Back in-American hands it represents a polential counter-thrust jump-off site to lop that whole Stavelot. salient off at its base. '. . I Latest ' field reports indicate' there has been no material change in the situation at the apex of the - Nazi Stavelot salient since it cut the Aachen-Lux- embourg highway and possibly the Ljege-Luxem- ; .bourg railway beyond it both important communi- , cation laterals for quick ThifUng of Allied troops to danger points. Presumably it isupon the basis of -the overrunning of one or both of those arteries . -Berlin founded its otherwise meaningless claim of -having: cut the First army in two In Belgium. To effect a break-through of a critical nature, the German counter-attack must drive many miles far ther westward, however, than it has yet reached, or "wheel abruptly north of northwest to outflank Al- 1 lied Aachen communications. The 15-mfle gap be tween the Liege section of the Meuse and the west4 and of Hurtgen lorest offers the only discernable " threat to rear communications via Aachen with the Allied front on the Rore. - " -! But to wheel j.'that way the attackers need , far - more elbow room than they have yet gained A turn north from .the. Stavelot area up the Luxenv- bourg-Aachen highway would merely expose an-; other flank dangerously to Allied assault fromthe ' " west -' ;t . ' . '-- " -; -', ' ,r V i : '. ' Circumstances still warrant the conclusion that toe German objective is strictly limited, that the', maneuver; relied wholly upon - surprise for any chance of success, and that time is now running out against the foe with "ever-increasing possibilities that another crippling German military disaster will be the ultimate result of so risky a venture, r JfTTERSUG mm n A "Remember, nowl Lead ulih your Llndy hop, feint with a shag and then cross with the boette-woogier , viously Mr, Guff ey. is not burn ing with anything inside for the future world. To characterize him, I would say he is wholly at toe service of CIO, to burp as it burns, to flicker as.it flickers and nothing else. That is where the votes are in Pennsylvania, or at least Guff ey's votes. ; ' ' The 44-year-oM Pepper is a different proposition. This Flor- - idian reflects no glow from Flor ida,' but mostly7 things from toe newspaper "PM in New York. This fire - does hot burn or glow but erupts like a Volcano. To say that it has a definite line or destination ' would require clairvoyance. It Just throws rocks,' lava and tongues of fire in the air amid impenetrable - clouds of sulphurous smoke. , For" instance, It and ! Pepper were bitter about Churchill when he tried to stop the com munists in - Greece. Yet - they were, just . as bitter when he did . the opposite and gave in to the communists in 'Poland. J To say .they are half communists, (as many, people do) is to state the matter too mildly, - and inaccu- .rately. '- :v I';' True, I judge they would rath er have a communist regime than a bankers or' British regime in ' Greece or anywhere.. , But they do not hate riches, only cer- . tairr riches. '.:''. ii , Among toe state department appointees none is very j rich, ex- r cept Will Clayton. You might surmise Clayton does not have ' the proper revulsion against his money. But-then neither 'does Ickes, 4 whom they., love, and whose, million or morejj never ' ' caused him the slightest nausea. Nor is their ideology of the world any easier to define. ..-J .:'J L For. years they have claimed the Roosevelt foreign policy was : toe mark of true international ism and true hberaJhsnv but they always hated Mr. Hull a league of nations Internationalisi, who made the policy. Now they are opposing senate .confirmation of toe six internationalists Who are on their side of the fence, yet a few days earlier they ! approved 1 Stettinius, who recommended these men, although he s prob ably about as rich as Mr Roose velt -' y , r M i I One thing they, think toey are . clear on is their Mcaase of the - common man," but their stands '.generally favor toe common man jin the CIO unions, less! than the common man in the AIL or the r commonest man of all outside ' their small radical group. . I do - not think they know what they - want : ' ' -'j S V - Their group, does not! include even all the new dealers! i Green - of Rhode Island and Tunnell of 'Delaware are as - newdealing . as Guffey and Pepper, yet declined to go along, with the queer re volt Whatever - its ' purposes . therefore, the revolt will not sucr . 'ceed.' , ; If, as ihe republican surmises, it is to prove to Mr. Rj that con ' fusion of this volcanic: nature : won the last election and not Mr. : Roosevelt or the war; . situation which caused so many: people opposing his policies to vote for ': fcim, toe democratic senate is re sisting it And, if it represents CIQ pressure through Guffey to needle Mr. Roosevelt gently in a . losing fight Mr-Roosevelt will ; furnish the answer ia future ac ' tions. It seems to me he U get ting tired and .inconsiderate of . pressure. After three terms, sen sitivity to poUtical needling as ; well as indulgence m useless ! fights for political j propaganda ': effect are apt to be less inter esting, especially in ' wartimes like these. - -f I. . Nine times as much castor oil is used in industry j as for me dicinal purposes- j f - WITH THE AEF TN GER MANY, Dec 13.-(Delayed)rv5V Sgt Wilkie C Bryten hails from Cody, Wyon; has been nick- - V. V " boy." He is willing to ride almost . any thing Into bat tle and since he -has had three tanks shot out from under him,' he When the Germans shot at him with an anti-tank gun and a ba zooka, from a roadblock, Jerome vaulted off the, tank and char-: ged, firing ashe ran. 'A short time later the roadblock and the dead Germans were removed and the tank ' continued on its way with Jerry still in the sad to ao,jusiiai.Kenneth u. DbUm The- "Cow- ' - - ! . boy lost his last iron steed at Gereonsweiler. . Then he putiin little personal rodeo. It hap pened when three German tanks got toe- range of the General Sherman which! the" "CowbojT commands. - v - , ,ij The Sherman 3000 yards away was disabled and one crew member was wounded. - Every body abandoned the tank , until the enemy stopped sheUingjtt., Then Cowboy" climbed back; In and started firing toe 75-mm. gun. But the range was too great - So out he jumped and . ran, through 500 yards of smalt arms and. artillery fire. to a group ; of j tank destroyers." . He mounted .' toe turret of the nearest and took over direction of its 90mm. fire against the 'three enemy tanks. One was kayoed and the other two retreated. . If you can read German, there is- no trouble In finding out: where CoL Hinds, of Nashville,1 Tenn, commander of the 41st armored regiment Is, as soon as you step into his command post) A signboard .which once read "Der rektor 1st" now has been changed to Ter oberst 1st as this officer moved into a Ger-j 1 man schoolmaster's rooms. Be low that unfinished sentence are several alternate notches in which .45 cartridge currently indicates whether Cot Hinds is "bereit" present for duty, or '"schauer ; or. "auftlarung, on reconnaissance. If t h e bullet rests In a notch reading "unter sclupf,M you'd better grab a fox hole. That means "in deep shelter.- . Another iron horse .roughrider is Sgt Jerome Debenhardtlj.of Milwaukee, a 30th infantry, doughboy. He was, riding atop a light tank, in a -scrap and Was 4retty much exposed. -h 1 Names Make News Dept The .town of Julich now besie ged for the . tenth time In its" bloody military history domin ates the main crossing of the river Roer j on the old Roman road bewteen i Maastricht and .Cologne. The first duke of Ju lich was toe famous tenth cen tury soldier, Gerhardt the first Outside the gates 'of Julich fate today has placed , another . Ger hardt MaJ. Gen. Charles Ger (Continued on page 9) DTP JJLJl Stevehs-13 VV-. L I (Continued from page 1) 'of an "administrative board, the board of geology and mineral industries. To deny Strayeij a seat is just unthinkable. . ' The restriction on office-holding as set forth in the state con stitution is as follows: 'j "No person holding a lucra tive office or aijpointment under the United States or sunder -this : state shall "be eligible to a seat in the legislative assembly. . . n But the jqb of member of toe . r state, highway, comnussion is ni lucrative.. It does not even carry a per diem as do . some . other boards and, commissions. ' ' -'' . In toe past the: practice- has varied. Lew Wallace was denied a seat in the house of represen tatives once because he was j! a member of the game 'commis sion. But Walter . Pearson sat as a senator while he was also a member-of the board of higher education. So ,the practice his not been'uniform. xr - ' . . As. far as public policy, goes there is general acquiesence-in the opinion that no person oc- cupying a high post in an ad ministrative department should - sit in toe legislative assembly. While toe constitutional test' Is that of "lucrative" it is not the best policy for members of state boards to serve in toe . legisla- -ture where necessarily 'they be come special pleaders for their departments. " Also, ; the accept ance of a commission from a. governor is often construed ; as putting the person under-obliga tion to toe-executive, which 'is not -wholesome. . - i ' This should be said in behalf of Chessman: he accepted both these offices only on the Insist ence of the people of his own ' community. Democrats as well as republicans gave him toe nomination' for senator, and when the highway appointment was' offered him his local people urged him to take it So Chess man is in, the position of either retaining both offices to satisfy his home folks ot dropping one to meet toe valid criticism against a person holding two such offices. One" thing is oer tain, however, he will not quit the senate because of the need ling Which emanates from Mult-' jxomah county.' politicos." If Chessman . gives up . either position - (and if . he doesn't this . will be .toe first time, a member of toe . highway commission . has served at, toe same time as a legislator) , I hope it is not toe senalorship. He can do far more good1 for the state and for his home community as; a member .of-the senate than he can as a member of toe highway com - mission.- The highway . depart - ment is Tunning ; smoothly, toe . highway v program iswell out lined, so a change oft the com mission would cause ho serious . interference with the function ing - of . this - important depart ment --'; 7i ".v1 :t . .. But toe senate will have to wrestle with some serious and critical questions. It will need ' as many men as it can - get of Chessman's qualifications. He cant be spared from toe senate nearly so well as, from the high way commission. So if he con cludes not to continue to hold ' two public offices I trust he stays in the senate tand yields -the other appointive position to some one else. 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