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r page roua Tat 02EGO:i STATESMAN, Scdexau Ormolu Wednesday Morning. Jaraary 17. 1S i I - 1 - i i ; : ' "No Favor Sways Vt; No-Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESJIAN PUBLISHING C03IPANY . CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher ; . Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Death Held Throttle . I A pathologist testified at the inquiry into the causes of the disastrous wreck on. th Southern Pacific near Ogdea on December 31 that the en gineer of the speeding mail 'train, which crashed into the Pacific Limited ahead was .dead of a heart attack before the crash. Here indeed was "human failure" Which resulted in fthe death of 50 others. 1! .j I . f ' The catastrophej and its cause lend support to our contention that better automatic control! are needed in train operation. As fre under stand there are devices which stop a train when it passes a stop signal If not, sureljjf the dis coveries of radar can be adapted to railroad safety. l; ' ' j J;. ;. . The wreck calls another thing to mind: the strain which is on railway trainmen today. This dead engineer was 64 years old. Not ;1oo old, to be sure; but was be, like many other trainmen, being pushed to the limit because of the de mands for transportation? The heavy burden of work is wearing: out men as well as machines. This time death held the throttle and bore a weapon of death into sleeping passengers. In spite of pressures work must be kept" within limits of endurance. I 'GI Joe' Tabu ; I It's to the ashcans with the label "GUoe." The soldiers resent the term, says William S. White, fresh back from Europe, the army newspaper, has a desk rule against use of GI Joe. The preferred reference is to Yanks, Americans or soldiers. AP correspondent Stars and Stripes, New University President After year's search the state board of higher education has found', man to serve as president. 1 of the state university. This was no an easy job- The brilliant record made by Dr. Donald M. Erb gave them a mark to shoot at, and the board would not be satisfied with run-of-mine material. In Dr. Hrry K. Newburn it is satis fied it has found a president who can measure up to the responsibilities and the opportunities of president of the university. '. -, j Scanning the field the board found not a host of qualified men who were applicants for the position. The salary of $7500 is not so attrac , tive as once it wasj-because of the general rise in university salaries. The position is a bit cir i cu inscribed because it is subordinate to the. chancellor's of fice. So it was not an easy mat ter td get a top-flight man. The board no doubt considers itself fortunate that Dr. Newburn is willing to accept - the Oregon position; Our earlier rumor was. to the effect that he had de- : clined. ..v y,. ' Ht? Newburn comes to university adminis tration through the training school of public v school education. After graduating from a teachers college in Macomb, 111., he was in pub r lie; school work in' Illinois for five years. His graduate degrees are from the University of . Iowa where he rose to the rank of dean of the college of : liberal arts. This background of preparation in various , levels of education should prove valuable in his new. position, for the university is closely related to the general school system of the state., : , Dr. Newburn comes at an important moment in higher education, when colleges and univer sities' will get the backward flow from war, when curricula must be, adapted to veteran ; groups at the same time it serves .youth coming , up from high school. .He comes when Oregon's higher . institutions stand high in public favor, so he will have abundant opportunity to release his capacities for leadership in a widening field. , Employment Service When, back in 1941 or 2, the employment of j rices were taken over by the federal govern vment, the states put a tag on them: "Return when, war is over.'. The federal government had put up most of. the money for running the offices, but the states took pride in operating them. I .Since the take-over the states have, not Freeway and Free Enterprise let the federal eovernment foreet that the deal s i i " was a loan and not a permanent grant., Gover nors' conferences have reiterated the intention of the states to ask for return of the employ ment offices. Governor Snell in his message :' took the same position. . I " - Doubtless the reiteration is due to knowledge of the acquisitive propensities of the federal government and is prompted by doubt that the latter will ever yield control of these offices. The protesting governors will find their fears confirmed in this passage from President Roose velt's last budget message: : To promote employment opportunities and to assure the proper' occupational adjustment of returning veterans and war i workers, a strong, integrated system of public employ ment offices is a basic necessity. We can best accomplish this objective by the establishment, through permanent legislation, of an effective ntaional employment service with adequate coverage throughout the nation. For the re- conversion period we should provide assistance for travel and retraining of waft: workers. In the first worldj war "doughboys"! was the common expression. It isn't used much now' though occasionally one notes the modification "doughf eet." - .. ; - 1 m-i Even more objectionable is for the stay-at-home to try to speak for the men in the service. It got to be a habit: "GI Joe demands this," or "GI Joe won't i sttnd for that when he gets back." Congressman Clare Booth Luce blew the fuse. on that in her speech at the republican national convention!. Since then there has been less inclination to act as spokesmen for the 11. million men and women in service. . . . v . The way we feel is, if the soldiers don't like the GI Joe stuff, out it goes. J The least papers can do is to spare their; feelings. Interpretin Labor Bills for Oregon It wasn't many months ago that the Oregon Labor Press was berating the Wagner act and the national labor relations board operating un der it and going so far as to favor the act's re peal. Now S. Eugene Allen, editor of the OLP comes up to Salem with a state "little Wagner' act which he hands to the senate labor and in dustries committee. Whether the former: ex pression was written in a mood of temporary disgust because the CIO had put over some deal with NLRB, or whether the later submission of the state bill is "submission to the opinion of higher-ups in the labor movement we cannot say. But here it is, a baby Wagner act for Ore gon. Take t or leave it. f The five-bill series includes other proposals than compelling employers to recognize and negotiate with labor organizations. There are auch things as "equal pay for equal work" for women; right of collective bargaining for mib- 4ic employes, with time and a half for "all over 4 hours weekly (firemen 48 hours). Allen, m-ho switched hij registration to republican prior to the last election, is surely putting his new party comrades who control the legislature, up against the fun on labor legislation. i ! Something tells us the upstate agrarians will 1 not like these bills especially the time and a j half for over 40 hours! 1 Editorial Comment COLD VACCINES j None of; the so-called vaccines for the prevention I of the common cold has been proved to be of any j value, and none jean be recommended for indus- trial groups or for individuals, and their uncon- trolled use should be discouraged. That was a statement made by the Council of Pharmacy, In a ' recent article in the American Medical Journal, ; commenting oft the report of the council, the Jour nal says: j; "In spit of the overwhelming evidence on the; subject, some pharmaceutical firms continue to en gage actively in the promotion and sale of various 'vaccines for the- prevention of colds. The air . waves and the drig counters are crowded with so called preventive or cures of these types, which do not serve any Recognized purpose other than to lighten the public! purse." In the same issue of the Journal there is a report ! by a group of physicians to the effect that physical fitness tests givea AAT cadets recovered from acute,' uncomplicated upper respiratory disease to determine if it wal" safe and beneficial for mem to participate in physical training programs, reveal that they could do so earlier than had been -commonly believed and that the participation reduced ; the tune of hasp Times. " ' jf 1,1,'t l ! ; 'll!ljlJllfe::fll'i ilW l - . 1 . j - .'m'- J - ' . , : ' t ni.tjfc.to4 Vr Xlmg Wmtmim Symeato fcy rfi.giw(j triUt TU WMtegf St Power to Act ' , , . ATTIIE FROim Musldccis Become Medics to Scdrog Wounded Tfcmka ON THE BELGIAN FRONT. Jan.. 5-(Delayed)-ff)-A bunch of musicians have turned medics up here In the cold, snow-covered Ardennes forest, and some of America's better known bandsmen- are playing mercy Instru ments In a frontline medical ex periment. ,r - ' " - They are in the 84th division's new "convalescent center" which sends slightly . wounded dough boys back into action within 10 days instead of the , month or six weeks it '1 would normally i .require. V j It's still an i experiment . but during .tne month weve had the center in ope ration? weVe sent morel than 35 per cent , of our total cas- ualties back in to action within 10 days," said Maj. Robert J. Day. Omaha. Neb- the division boys don't know the reputations of their ward attendants. They only know theit division is tak ing care of them which Is a lot better than being shunted around from, one replacement depot to another. : - The officers jistill don't know, whether the, army Twill extend the idea to othkr divisions, but they do know that the command ing general of their army group sent them congratulations, saying they were "salvaging more fight ing personnel than, any outfit in the European theater of opera tions." j ,1 J4 Kfmtli Km SSGOEDDS 1 r 1) (Continued From Page Paul : HaUM ust the usual ; campaign to Another "freeway" ibill has been introduced in the legislature. Who will object to it? ; The "little fellows," those j who run the;- roadside businesses, the service! stations, tourist' cmps, vending stands; and those who own real estate, bordering main road, rights-of-way. '.They see in giving the highway Commission control to de termine points of ingress and egress and? set backs of structures interference with their pri vate business. They might agree in theory that roadways free of business fringes are more at tractive and more appealing jl to tourists? but business is business, and they fear the shutting off of opportunities for, men in small justness. Thus there is a "human" side to the contention as well as an aesthetic side. The Wari News By KlRKE E SIMPSON ASSOCIATED PEESS WAR ANALYST With the Nazi Belgian bulge al) but flattened out and British and American; armies on both sides of it on the offensive, Moscow now discloses a Red army attack of tidal wave proportions rolling across , the plain of Poland. i . ' j "J ; I'.-i-.r The east-west : ultimate squeeze play long ago ' projected at Teheran seems to be taking shape at last How long it will take to throttle Germany into submission is beyond calculation, but there is new and grim warning to the foe of the purpose behind it If i 1. ': ! i ! ' j "The war will go on until unconditional surren der has been obtained," Prime Minister Churchill told parliamentary hecklers. 4 - : Moscow left no doubt of the tremendous scope of fhe twin attacks launched over the weekend ini; Po land. That the whole German defense 'front from, the north flank of the Carpathians to Warsaw and beyond is under concerted Red army pressure is Nazi-revealed. Russian bulletins covered two main ' . thrusts. boring in beyond ej 'Vistula.! - ' ' 1 In the west front line, reports estimate thatlthe Nazi bulge driven more than 40r miles, deep Into Belgium at high cost has bjeen cut to a bari IS miles. Less than 400 'square miles of the maximum of 2000 the enemy, once held there remain inlhis , bj omciai American estimates mac lean ' toward conservatism it cost the Germans 90, more than twice American lpssesj! to gain nothing but a brief delay in the Allied winter1 offensive. That the respite will be bHe at best and may Sal ready be over Is indicated by the British attack in Holland on the Meuse sector and the counter thrust down the Moselle valley ing the Nazi Siegfried line anchorage of Trier. The scoe of neither the Meuse npr the Moselle opera tion is yet clear.1 M " j j ' ' i : ; s 1 1 - i -The site of the British army attack in Holland, just north of the American Roer: sector and the Aachen salient into Germany,! suggests more than a diversion operation. It could jbe the start of a new. Allied effort to stab through t the Rhine across the Cologne plain. ' , , , 1 News i Behind the News - ' j By PAUL MALLOlf r w (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole I or In part strictly prohibited.) I I WASHINGTON, Jan.! 1ft The pounds, j and a .'.$1730 ceiling wouxa nave meant . ruination or this production process. So now the ceiling will be upped to $18 so as not "to discourage the pro duction jof this additional meat " ' But in order that the price to the consumer not be raised, the government is to pay the pack ers an additional $1 per 100 pounds Subsidy out of the treas ury1, andj the taxpayes, pocket beoJcs (i secret price increase under, which f those who pay taxes actuallyj pay a portion of the price on steaks bought by everyone). . ' All this j retracing and self repudiation by the government officials naturally tended to de moralize the cattle industry and scare off production. ! - ! Worse than this, the war man--power commission is threatening to draft farm help and the war production board is cutting down or out the j allocations for pro duction of new farm machinery. The local draft boards in farm communities,' however, have shown some signs of revolting against ; drafting more farm help, and frankly, I doubt that WMC orders will be obeyed. ) Tet it is lear that farm help, new machinery, and parts for repairs willj be scarcer than last year. If -spring weather is bad, we will be in trouble. As for large reserves, we simply do not have them jn any line. : The department of agricul ture is now out holding meet ings to get! the farmers to in crease planting, and extension directors are doing good con structive wbrk, but the OPA, WFA, and tie other government bureaus are jdoing nothing to ex tend production that I can see. , Indeed, there Is constant, quar reling and bickering Oil policy between , OPA and WFA which Is somewhat demoralizing, and Coordinator Vinson's office is full of left-wing boys who al ways have sociology uppermost in mind. j I : - , It is evident then that this new food scare' has more valid ity behind it than in former cases, although the wrong rea sons are beingl offered by the administration; naturally enough. In order to cover its old mistakes. ' "People are eating more," they say, for instance. X , doubt that this Is true. . The Germans seem to. have captured a large quantity of our canned goods to their Belgian smash, and there is some black government is sponsoring a food scare. ' New York's Mayor LaGuardia has been call ing for meat less days. Lo cal rationing boards are put ting ' out to their newspa pers around the country alarming -pre;-dictions of scarcities. Some people ire concluding it is ; government frigh get a desired popular reaction. but this time it isj reaL , Hardj as this may be for the average maidless I housewife .in the kitchen to belieye, after all" the stuff she has! been hearing about treat - food! stockpiles in i government hoarling 4o feed , the world, and arge reserves bought Up by the panny and na vy, ;ime; truth is fre could lose ' this 'war on the jfood front if : we do not have good crop weaj-; ther this spring. j i. j;J Behind the tightening condi tion is an explanation the gov ernment is I not telling, j namely5 that itl mismanaged its :food supplies situation last year and " is now ' reaping tie harvest of its mistakes, M H Look at poultry.! The govern ment last summer thought it was faced with an over-suDDlv. ex pelted the war to be won swift lyiin France, and discourage poultry raisers from hatchin eggs. That now proves to havi been very bad judgment . an there is a shortage of poultry. in hogs, the farmers wen similarly scared of Ian over-supH ply, and' reduced their feeder! schedule t upon goverximent ad-j vice. We'are now sport on porkJ The sheep feeders ' ran into! cold weather at lambing time last year, and we have a short age1 of lamb. II" Beef has been j handled so sloppily as to discoirage produc-. tion. Last summer both the OPA and WFA (war food administra-i tion) promised no jceiling price would be put on cattle, but one is now. about to bef applied. An investigator Went I out to the ; midwest to h&d . hearings andi reported the fanners were for a $17.30 ceiling.1 This proved to be false, j Feede stock had been bought for around $18 to put; on 200 to 400 j additional market seepage corruption from army supplies in France, j but it is hard to believe the effidal excuse that si soldier in France eats more than In the United States. Lend lease is takfrig no more, and,' indeed, ourj own supply situation is prevent)aig us from living; up to commitments. I asked food authorities why it is that the government has always proved to be wrong; in its food planning activities. The law of averages should make it right once in a while, even if! they did hot try. rThe answer I got was this: j "At the start of the.wak the best brains in both business and . agriculture came in' here to help work out our war! problems. These men have nearly all re turned to private endeavor, some disgusted. Remaining here are the sociology boys,; the left leaners, without much ability,. -who yearn for a better world more than they strive to make this one work right' The I" :;: ; Safety Valve clearing company's surgical chief. "By the old system of evacuating them farther to, the rear we'd ; be lucky to get 10 or 13 per cent back that soon." It's an experiment because normally a division clearing sta tion Isn't supposed to keep pat ients more than 72 hours. Thus, when the convalescent . center was set up, army red tape pre vented any personnel being available to operate it : "That's where the band mem bers came in," said M.Sgt Wil liam Disbrow, Cranford, N. J: It takes 37 men and officers to means to perpetuate much of the waste and inefficiency which are inherent In the existing sys tem: What we have is a multi-dis trict pattern handed down from pioneer times, without regard to balance of assessed" valuation. We have about; a third of the school districts which have been levying no school district tax at alt - - -I - - We have many Uistricts main taining no school, but keeping up their district to avoid slight ly heavier taxation, by sending their' pupils to adjoining dist- run the center, and 28 of them ricts. LETTERS FROM READERS STATESMAN A LOSING GAME ! - To the Editor: We read in the paper where a professional gam bler has just been given 12 years In the penitentiary for manslaughter. Seems;, to me some of these good men In the legislature would take this gam bling racket apart and make these men work at something es ! sential instead of preying on hard working men. I also read, this in the Statesman, where Mr. Lyle Janz of the Better Business Bureau of Portland lectured be fore the Kiwanis club i in Salem about these men all set to get the -working men's bonds after the war. .They are getting them right now and every dime they can lay their hands on. These .workers will be thrown on relief when work gets scarce and Mr. Janz- has sounded the right warn ing. They are holding Tup the war effort also, j by keeping came from the division band.' They set up 200 ; cots, Utters and ' pallets on the floor of an old Belgian castle and sent for the band boys.' " Sgt Phil Ford of San Francisco and Alameda, Calif; who used to have his own band on the west coast was one of the first . to show up. He brought along his clarinet and saxaphone and com posed novelty pieces and songs in his spare time. When he isnt making beds or . changing dresings he's singing sons to . the - boys "Cigaret or ; Poppa" and "Uncle Sammy, Take Care of My Gal' are two of his compositions mat the doughboys like best Along came CpL Charles (Pap py) Powell, Ontario, Ore., and although now he's jtuning "taut nerves of shaken ioldiers, ; he also had a big string bass with wbicli he used ' to shake dance floors in Sun Valley J Idaho, Los Angeles, and other p aces. Sgt Al Deharis of Uniontown, Pa., beats, out on bedpans the tunes he used to drum in'Herbie Kay's band. . I " . Most famous of all Is CpL Otto (Coco) Heimel, New Orleans, La., whose guitar provided ac companiement for 13 years for i Gene Austin and made the fam ous best-selling record "My Blue " Heaven." CpL Bill Sadler, who once had his own outfit in Cin-' cinnati and elsewhere In the mid west ow tickles the battered : division piano. Others include: ' j Pfc. Pete Castellano, New Jersey trumpeter who starred with Bob Crosby ; and Ina Ray Hutton; PfC Rudy Pompili, Philadelphia saxaphonist; '.and Sgt William m Notini, LowelL Mass.,; alto saxa- phonist f who played in Richard Himber's band. j . - Most of the wounded dough- i . S wa7 regular school is like Topsy: workers up at night playing a losing game. Mrs. F. W. Allen, Portland. LITERARY GUIDEPOST I 5, "TIIE YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier American approach- The surprise surge down the Moselle the right wing of the American Third army posted south of the Belgian bulge mjay also be valley by primarily talization. Corvallis Gazette- a feeler to test enemy dispositfon. Its initial prog ress indicates relative enemy weakness at that point . j;t;q '1 ! ! .;,-l-..-r I .; A breakthrough to Trier beyond the last indK cated American position there would put Patton's hard-hitting armor astride-rail and highway com munications leading directly horth in rear of the south shoulder of the German! bulge Into1 Belgium. It is too early to classify the twin British and American offensive moves o4 both flanks of the Belgian bulge as resumption jof the winter cam-, paign. The mere fact that they could be under taken within a month of the launching of ; the Nazi; drive fa significant ; It bespeaks both Allied inten-: tion of resuming full scale offensive operations in the west with minimum delay and the Possibilitv that enemy weaknesses in those sectors have been detected and are being exploited. . il' t - r' J - ; ;! , - ' " r n h - - rt .u.r - "Let's ge back la the ballroom where we caa be aloner "Tint seckkt msToar or the ; WAS," la tw Tatamn, fcy Wt--lyTlMt SerUM'sr fl). The secret history of this war Is no longer Secret history,, for Root has told all in 1200 pages. .plus an exhaustive Index. Root . spent two years on the writing, and they followed, many years -of firsthand observation. His was a mammoth effort, and , worth every minute of it; youll :find the : reading worth every minute, and no effort at alt Root comes ; up with two rec--ommendations: - Never ; forgive those who have helped the en- .emy or compromised with him, . and never temporize with demo cratic principles. He has; a -vast fund of incidents showing not only that the axis was ruthless but that the democracies were stupid or ai least indifferent to their noble heritage, and In some respects they are still be ing shipid. ; ' If the work, is a little 'unbal anced, as the; author admits It may be, that presumably is be cause he has more information about some matters than about others; anyway, only time will drop the circumstances : of the last momentous decade into ' proper perscpective. i f ' , Root's point of .view may be illustrated best by hi dismay at the ! U. S. state department's handling of the French situation. , He can't see any Justification for accepting Franco of Spain but rejecting de Gaulle of France. He presents some ' most damag ing evidence against Gen. Gi raud. . . . v ; It is safe to assume that most of bis facts are, dependable. Lib- By W. a Roger erals will not I quarrel with his conclusions. His c o n j e c t urea alone may be subject" occasion ally, to argument And it might be added that the material is not! all exclusive; PerUnax, for Instance, presented a lot of com parable information "in "The Gravediggers." But this is an over-all picture such all had not been published before ibout this The work Is dedicated to Gen. de Gaulle," champion of democ racy." Root too, now' becomes an important champion of de mocracy. -';iT - a . We .. have imposed on- the multi-district p ajt t e r n many struggling small high schools with high per capita costs. We have union , created on top of districts and a non-high .school organization embracing remain ing territory. , ; This patchwork it Just growed. There ought to be a sweeping reorganization,1 putting territory into greatly, enlarged districts in some cases Into single county . districts. This would permit evening up of assessed valuation per pupiL It should permit con solidation of local schools and of small high schools. It-would permit trained supervision, greater care in teacher selec tion, J centralized purchasing. If this were done the schools would not ' need the $5,000,000 they are now asking for. It "Could" be done by revising the 1939 reorganization law' and giving the reorganization board the final authority. The reorgan ization should be thorough and not timed; and provision might well be made for a review of district organization every 30 years or so. L . People do not travel by steam boat on the Willamette any longer, but they keep the school districts of a pioneer age. Mod ern roads permit unification, giving better schools for the money expended. AH that is needed Is legislative courage. OPA Refers Market Case To Portland The price panef of the Salem office of price administration an nounced Tuesday that "due to the technicalities involved and . the complexity of the violations," the case against William L. Lewis of the Paramount market had "re ferred to the Portland district of fice for determination." . f Paul A. Hale, OPA board su pervisor for this area, said "in my opinion the board . is acting very wisely in this case. Briefly, the survey shows that there were 33 violations of the group I ceil-' ing prices and tht at the time of the survey the- legal ceiling prices for the Paramount were al leged to have been those of group 4 stores, or about 4 to 5 per, cent below those of group 2 stores." 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