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Th OSZGOH STATESMAN, Sedan. Oraoi Thursday Marnlng, February T. 1343 PAGE FOUR ' j a 'E3gyryl i I P n 1 r- i ! Mr NUNN 151 . i' - "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe From First Statesman, March 23, 1851 THE '. SPATES J1APT PUBLISHING COSIPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUI Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press , I 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.; Corrupting Basketball i Intercollegiate basketball faces ruin by the manipulations of the betting rings. There have been numerous complaints of ; bribery of play ers to get them to "throw" games, thus permit ting the bettors who arranged the deals to clean up handsome profits. This week, after admis sion of players on Brooklyn college team that 'they had received $1000 and were promised an other $2000 for throwing a game to Akron a grand jury investigation of the scandal has been ordered by County Judge Samuel S. Liebowitz. j This practice seems to have become wide spread. The stakes are high. There is great notvular interest in basketball.! Crowds attend- ; ing games are large. Betting is common as it is on football gamtes. Seeing the chance for big f profits the professionals have moved in to fix j the games, which1 they have been able to do by jjwavingja few big bills in the faces of some ! players. If this practice is permitted to con r;n.,a iUa enirit will Ko pnna nut of intercol legiate basketball. The public; will turn from it iin disgust. ... i Some years back the same vice got started in, organized baseball, and the confidence of the Jpublic in this great national ! sport was badly jshattered. Kids were broken-hearted when jthey learned that some of their baseball idols iwere crooked. Fortunately baseball quickly : cleaned (house, adopting drastic rules against j betting which it has not hesitated to enforce, as lit did some months ago in the case of an owner ' "in a major. league team. ;; College authorities should be prompt to stamp Ijlouf this evil, even if they have to cancel games and stop long-tours. The purge will help clean tip the sport and restore public confidence in I college "athletics. As for the panderers who 'would corrupt the sport they deserve the con- - demnatidn expressed by Judge Liebowitz: a "To .corrupt a college boy is to destroy him in , j his formative years. If these vermin dealt only I ,with punks like themselves, the gravity of the ' crime would not be so bad. But when these vermin 'stretch their wretched and filthy paws - into our college halls they pollute the flower : of our country's youth, and they have got to be ; destroyed." : V i The whole country hopes that the decisive ; action of the Brooklyn judge will result in a ' complete cleanup of a bad mess by severe pun ' lshment of the corrupters of youth and a purge of the collegians who yield to the temptation of bribes. Hitler Makes Talk y Again it was the ranting Hitler whose voice. rode the: ether in an effort to bolster the Ger i man people into fresh sacrifice by continuing ' the war. He besought even the sick and infirm. ; to work "to the last ounce of their strength." Again he insisted that Germany would fight on that he, dedicated to Germany, would continue as leader" in the struggle. t ; But even Hitler could not overlook the crum ' bling of his fortress Germany. He admitted that soviet armies were penetrating into tne neari of the reich, and that tens and hundreds of thousands of people were being exterminated in the east. - - ; : , ; ' , Timely indeed was the interjection of the ( ghost voice which jibed Hitler with this: "And ; look how you've ruined the country." That fact : surely must be penetrating the -consciousness of ; the luckless Germans who now by millions are j refugees on the highways, fleeing the soviet , armies. They must be virtually without hope, iifor they know they are fleeing into Berlin al ii ready bombed, and they know the allies pound j at the western wall. ' For Hitler and for Germany now indeed it is ' Goetterdamerung: the twilight of the gods. Dental College ; f 1 j The state board of higher education is op posed, we understand, to accepting the offer of the North Pacific Dental college rof its plant, free of cost, on condition that it be containued as a dental college under state auspices. The board!, harrassed by demands for money for ex isting; units of the system, J feels it could not spare! the funds it thinks would be necessary to maintain a dental college. !; J ' . The decision as to a dental collegehould not be made by the state board, which is purely an administrative body, but by the legislature! And one fact that needs to be taken into con " sideration is what will the state do for dentists if this school closes? At present; some 70 pel cent of the dentists practicing in Oregon" are graduates of North Pacific.! There is no other dental college west of Minnearjolis and north of . - San Francisco. To permit .this institution to pass out of existence, as it must under condi tions imposed by national agencies,' means that Oregon and the northwest tnajr suffer for lack, of dentists, whose numbersNeven before the war were not too great for a growing 1 population. North Pacific has been self-supporting. Even if under state auspices more expense should be entailed, that expenditure' is as much justified for dentists as it is for pharmacists, mining en gineers and school teachers. We should not 'overlook two other factors if the 'decision rests merely on dollars and cents First, the cost to Oregon students who would have to go else where to study dentistry, and second the very considerable amount of money (some $700,000) whichj students attending NOrth Pacific expend each year in Oregon. if We must look to the future, to a growing pop ulation which will need professional services. A school which has served the northwest so long and so competently ought not to be allowed to die just 'because of fear of some-cost, or jeal ousy on the part of schools that are already un der the wing of the state. Portland is already aMoted medical center, topped as it is by the fine University of Oregon medical school. The dental college adds to its distinction as a health - center. I f .. . ' . . This legislature ought to take action to save North J Pacific as a going institution for the training of students in dentistry.! Natural Question . Joe Carroll, grandson of the Joe McKees is staying with them while acting as a pageboy at ; the Oregon legislature. During the first few j days of the session, a picture appeared in a . Portland newspaper showing Joe in the group. H His little brother Paul looking over the photo- j graph saw Joe, but searching further asked: 4 -"Where's Roosevelt?" Jefferson Review. ' ;if Shows how minds of children become indoc trinated! " I :.n Old Man Rivers -i I : . ' I -. i. .. ' ': ' ; -"- - ' t - i. --!;, i- ' , g- 1 - ' - - ; 1, . " : - ,, ,:--.; ; WLiteranu I UliP Guidejp6st SHSDDQB ': '1sw irfSrt ar r ..ATTH FROIITI American Doughboy Is Ardent Admirer Of Russian Soldier By Robert Sanson (Substituting for Kenneth Lb v Dixon) WITH AMERICAN NINTH ARMY, Jan. 28.-(Delayed)-(P)-The company commander was sending a midnight patrol across the Roer. . ' ''' l "And when you cross the river be sure you ask the' password before you Cre. The Russians might be on the "other, side," he said. The Russian soldier now racing toward Berlin, has no more ar dent admirer than the American doughboy on the western front.' For instance an outfit from the 450th infantry regiment north of Brachelen has erected a huga top kick. sign in plain view of the German lines which says: Welcome to Ivan." - Followers of the ancient Amer ican pastime often referred to as game that broke up with all par ticipatants bellowing "the war is ; over" and rushing to pack i their bags. , x ; It seems the pot already con taining v lira, pounds, francs and guilden was raised one ruble..' 1 An intelligence officer walked into tne situation room ana assea "what is the name of "that new outfit that set up a 3 command post in Brussels this morning?'! r "Where?' asked a startled col onel. ' f added, "has a big red star shoul der patch." 0 And there is the one about a mess cook complaining to his r : ' "These new men in. our chow line. Their English is terrible and all I can make out is that they keep asking for vodka." "BRAZILIAN LITIRA TURK," hj Ere Verisslmo (MacmUUa; 2). . you can't have everything In one writer any more than you can have everything in cm horse, as farmers say, and Veris simo is a case in point H haa fascinating style which should win him thousands of readers, but he expends it upon a sub ject which won't -attract the at tention of the many who? look for books on the shelf of mys teries or popular novels. But perhaps I'm wrong about this; perhaps it's the reader, not this chatty, witty Brazilian, who deserves to be compared to a - horse. We readers these days are apt to j demand pretty - strong meat from our writers. ! Our senses are jaded by big black newspaper headlines, or by fic tion with gruesome murders, or by tales of blood-curdling inter national intrigue. A story must roar and. thunder like a tank battle before it catf hold our . interest . . :J.i -i Verissimo " writes about Bra zilian . literature. He links his i country's politics with the rise and spreading 'power of the calls him, who had ten or more wives without benefit of djvorce. The mystery is cleared up however when it is revealed that he is an ex lion tamer. . -.;::;: Interpreting The War News l j By KIRKE L. SIMPSON v A ! j ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST Proof that American policy in the Philippines ' was good is seen in the many evidences of loy , alty by the Filipino people. When the invasion ! forces approached the shore at Subic bay, they i saw an American flag planted on shore, with ! jubilant jFilipinos waving greetings. These same i Filipinos will be of great help when the time comes toj ferret out the Japs from the caves and . jungle houses. I j The war in Germany is reaching the point ? where the fight announcer says: a left hook, a ? right hook, an uppercut all landing , on the I groggy chap in the ring who is trying to last t until the gong sounds the end of the round. Editorial-Comment Great surprise has been expressed over the San Francisco street car conductor, the "ding dong daddy of the D line" the S F Chronicle - Bank of England, but find the uterature nas been largely zaitn ful to the French model, espec ially in. the 19tht century. Occa sionally he lighjtens. his histor ical matter with' summaries of the stories from his comparriots' pages . l i he himself is one of the most distinguished of con temporary Brazilian penmen.' " If we could read 'only- one Brazilian book, he recommends Euclides da Cunha's ! MOs Ser toes," published in 1902, which he calls ."beautiful, clear-minded, truthful, . courageous, unbias ed and dramatic." Today, uf his opinion, i literature j '"has 1 just come of age. " ; ' .. 1 - But before joi read "Os Ser toes" I think you ought to read "Brazilian Literature" To be good neighbors we need1 to know what Verissimo says about his country. ' , : , Verissimo is not, certainly, a genius, but the is intelligent Some of hist forceful 'phrases, smartly turned, are just as grip ping as the big black headlines. Sometimes a writer's study can' reverberate even more loudly than a whole battery of Long Toms. .'.;)." ;, ,.':;"-: j "V':I"", I Paul Mallon ; WHERE FRANCE IS WEAK General De Gaulle is demanding that when the j war ends the French army be installed along the Rhine for its entire length. He thinks that would j make for French security. t . Would it? The Maginot line did not safeguard f France. -The Germans went around it and flew right over it. Will not future armies do the same 'i way, if mere are future wars? Do the Russians actually' need to worry much about boundary lines? . Wil4 friendly borders assure safety? Of Vhat value ,is strong-front door, or rear door, if the roof is ; vulnerable? rA-i ' l Possibly this subject will .,be- discussed when 1 Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin meet President Roosevelt is in a more detached position than the others and might well say to Stalin,-," Joe, the. ma't- ter of where the line" fence is located is not very" I important , You know what airmen do. You oc ' cupied much of Poland after 1939 and it did not save Russia from attack." , He could remind Win- , ston Churchill that 'Hongkong was a liability, not an asset, to the British. ' I " j j' The way for nations to be safe against aggressors I is not to permit aggression. If they cooperate they , j can provide that tyj of security. Fortified borders j will not assure safety. , " . In the case of France the Maginot line was more of a handicap than a help. The French thonght they were secure when they were not They neglected air power and did not have enough tanks. . They were not organized for modern fighting and were defeated, j - : r:: - " What France needs worse than an army on the Rhine is j an improved French government No army can: be strong if its government is, weak and no government can be strong if it is subject to dis missal on a moment's notice. Pendleton East Ore- jgonlan. ' - . - The swift and deadly Russian advance on Berlin down the Warthe corridor toward the Oder, which is a bare 50 miles from the doomed city, holds the center of the war news stage almost to the exclu sion of other developments in Europe or across the! Pacific. ' . That istrue because it is in the Oder loop bisected by the Warthe (Warta) that the fate of Berlin cer tainly and perhaps of Nazi Germany seem destined to be decided within weeks or even days. In ac counts; from Moscow as this Was written, Russian! forces j were storming forward x across i the whole width of the loop both above and below the Warthe. i With the swift toppling of Landsberg, last city re-' doubt east of the Oder in the Warthe valley, the way was open for the expected battle of the Oder? crossings but with no definite evidence yet at hand ! to indicate that an effective ; Nazi defense front! actually exists along the west bank. 1 The speed with which Russian columns have swept around hopelessly isolated Poznan to con verge I by every available route on the Frankfurt-' Kustrln-Schwedt sector of the Oder raises doubt that the foe even hopes to hold the river itself for any length of time.' - " ( It is an axiom of milftary tactics and particularly of German defensive technique to; slow up and deaden the forte of an enemy approach to a pre-' determined holding line well in front tf it. In variably up to now the Nazi command has followed that practice. It was especially; called for in the foretold of the Oder loop both because the Oder is the last moated position before Berlin and because the Russians with 250 miles of hard winter going behind them and terribly extended communication lines to maintain could normally be expected to slow up soon in any case. f f f? ; ! North of that main Russian attack front spread ing widely across the Oder loop on both sides of the, Warthe, Red advance guards i have also ap proached so close to the port of Stettin at the Oder mouth as to turn all West Prussia and Pomerania into the same sort of internment camp for isolated Nazi armies as is East Prussia. i - The) same thing is happening far; to the" south In the Carpathian bulge. Russian columns rolling soutawestward from the captured Silesian indus trial hub are reported beyond Cieszyn. That is a long stride through the Moravian gap that leads via the valley of the Moravia direct to Vienna and .Bratislava. The Russian thrust there threatens to trap an German forces still in the .Carpathian bulge and bring the Danubian gap between the Alps and the Carpathians under direct menace from the northeast and north as well as from the southeast over the Danubian plains between Budapest and Vienna. --:,; -; ' -fiT-1 ' . For j political as well as military purposes the Danubian gap has incomparably" greater signifi cance for all continental Europe than Berlin. It has" so figured in every major continental campaign in history to have created long ago the axiom that he who holds Vienna has his hand 00 the throat of all Europe: ; (Continued from page 1) f from despoilation. ,The freeway bill, wisely administered, seems a modest approach in this di rection. ;;. I: What the sponsors fail to ap preciate however is the revolt of the, "small business man. Those now established in road side stands, j. service stations, motor courts fear they would be put out of business if the bill is made to apply to existing highways. And they see in its ap plication to new highways a cur tailment of opportunity. J Under the growth of corporate ; business the ; individual enter- , : priser is pushed more and more to the fringes. Thousands S of men who do hot like to be fac- ' ytory employes or store clerks, who want to be independent and run their own business, have 1 found opportunity in these high way service stands. For them . there is no punching of a time clock, no taking orders from a foreman. yThey are independent enjoy a comfortable if not rich living, i They I see in legislation ' like the freeway bill a menace to their security through cur tailment of business' opportun ity. And landowners see their speculative hopes of profit ac cruing from highway construe-. tion chilled-by the use-restric-, tions permitted in this type ot legislation, j my . Oddly, the ! opponents of I SB 28 propose SB 120 as an alter-' nate. This' would give zoning powers to the highway commis-;j sion over strips 1000 ft in width from the center of highways and over a strip 1000 ft wide front-! ing the coast shoreline. Within, - Its limits the power granted ' thef commission is far more drastic than that proposed in SB j 28.: I can see why the commissidn, would shy away from such re-. sponsibility. - SB 120 imposes! : and allaying fears of Jhe road side proprietors. The coast high-! way association for example, in stead of coming in to oppose SB 28, ought) to take the lead in working out plans for conserv ing roadside beauty which is what they are promising to tourists. ;; j It seems to me that the legis lature might give the commis-' sion power to set up a sample limited access highway. The un- . built section of the Wolf creek highway from Banks to Port land would be suitable. . The commission could build this as a through artery of traffic, and could pace at convenient in tervals' turnouts where clusters of service accommodations could be located. There would be a channeling but not a denying of individual "opportunity. The ob jects of greater safety and con servation : of roadside beauty would be demonstrated. , - ; Why not try a sample? Flashes of Life FALLON, ,Mont.-PhFarmer Chris Johansen had to make a 50 mile trip each morning to get from house to barn to milk ' the cow. A bridge over a stream between the two had collapsed. But the trip is no longer necessary. The bridge has been rebuilt and the cow went dry; PUEBLO, Colo.-P)-The Re tail Credit Men's association of Pueblo has met and elected their new officers.. i f' . They are all women. ' BATTLEGROUND, Wash.-i'P) -Now it's known as Elmer Carl son's durable bull. The 800-pound Guernsey fell J YMCA program and of how fine through the cover of an aban- turn 'em over" tell about a The " Safety Valve LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS : ' APPRECIATES WORK OF YMCA ) t Staff, Commander Service Force, U. S. Pacific Fleet co Fleet R O. Sah Francisco- To the Editor: ; . r. I would like to publicly ex-, press in some manner my appre ciation of the program provided by the Salem YMCA for the sons of men in the service- , For the past year I have been out here in the Pacific while my wife (known to many Salem J residents as Kathleen LaRaut) . and . 11-year-old son, Bob, have .. lved in Salem. Every man in such circumstances wonders a lot about: what bis boy is doing without a dad. Mothers may be ever so understanding and love able (and she certainly Is in this case) but a man likes to think that a dad is needed too. Where will his boy meet the right kind of other boys;, where will he come in contact once in a while with a man's man, who' wfll be interested in him as a kid who is the apple of some father's eye? Well, the S a 1 em YMCA has done a lot in this connection. Bob has attended their straw berry work-camp and their reg ular camp; he swims in their pool, plays in their gymnasium; goes on their tours and picnics. Most of all he has profited from a special program the YMCA has provided for sons of service men; trips, movies, etc.. In which some man takes the place of the absent dad. I'm very very grateful for all this I hope you can -put this letter or some part of it in your paper, just to show how . thank ful one father is that Salem has a progressive YMCA. I've known Claude KellS since my days in Willamette he's a prize among Y secretaries and t hope Salem appreciates him and his - institution. - AIT that X have told you of the - Poker luck was 1 bad for. Pvt Alex J. MacKanlch, ' Carnegie, Pa,- the other day." Gradually b.4 donated all of his German marks, Dutch bulden, French irancs and Belgian francs. Finally he dug clear down and fished up a. lone American dollar bilL "You guys take; foreign mon ey?" he asked before putting it Into the game. I doned well and dropped 53 feet into a few inches of water. Hois ted out by means of an auto wrecker the bull snorted, trot ted to a nearby hay stack and set to eating. ' it is, I have learned about in let ters from Bob. He's a satisfied customer and I think that is the highest praise of all. Very sincerely i . C. GILBERT WRENN Lt Cmdr- U.S.N.R. Your Federal i Income Tax . - N. 23 . ! I Interest Income , Interest received from notes! auues rar outsiae tne field of wn.nt Amrft. !,.; highway building and parking. ' , , , . The engineering costs alone for Is On Vacation the necessary studies preliminary : to zoning would be huge. i The interests, of the contend-; ing. groups do not appear irre-' concilable. Too poor a job: of education has been done. Pro-, ponents have gone at the matter, the hard way, attempting to in- j form the legislative committees as to need without first building j up support - among the . people sources is taxable, with certain exceptions, and must be reported as income on your tax returns, j Wholly tax-exempt interest in cludes interest on (a) 'obligations of a State, Territory, or political subdivision thereof, or the Dis trict of Columbia, of United States -j possessions; (b) obliga tions ' issued prior to . March 1 , 1941, under the Federal Farm Loan Act or amendments to the Act; (c) obligations of the Unit ed States ; issued on or before "THE YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier September I, m7;and (d)Trea- - i i , : . . J 1 sury notes issued before Decem- . : I . -T f ""'--'' fsr-ji--"Jt i! Sore nobody wants UV ber 1, 1940 and Treasury bills and Treasury certificates of in debtedness issued prior to March 1, 1941. Interest on United States savings bonds and Treasury bonds issued prior to March 1, 1 1941, is wholly exempt on hold ings of such bonds up to $5,000 principal amount (savings bonds valued at r cost and Treasury bonds valued at face amount). If you have two or more kinds of such bonds with different yields, you may make your own selec tion each year. of the bonds on .which the interest is to be treated as wholly exempt -:,v i .The interest (on United States savings bonds I and , 'Treasury bonds issued prior to March 1 j 1941.) on a principal amount in excess of $3,000 Is only partially tax-exempt It is exempt from normal tax but it is subject to surtax: You should therefore in clude : in the -groos Income re ported in your 1944 return the full amount of interest, received on these partially exempt secur ities. Then if you file a With holding Receipt as your return or if you file Form 1040 and use the; tax table or the standard deduc tion, you .will receive an! allow ance In lieu of the partial exemp tion. If, however, you file Form 1040 and itemize your deductions this interest will be included in your net income on line 3, page 4 of the return, for the purpose of computing the surtax; and then you subtract it from line 3 in figuring the income to be en tered on line 7 for the puropse of computing the normal tax. Interest on obligations issued on or after March 1, 1941, by the United States or any agency or instrumentality of the United States, is subject to normal tax and surtax. However, in the case of obligations issued at a discount for example, war savings bonds, where income is reported on the cash basis, the interest may be reported each year as accrued (shown in a table on the bonds as the increase in the redemption value), or it may be deferred until the bonds are cashed or come due when it must all be included as income in that year. When 88s came whamming into his area, Pfc Merrill Shelton, Greenville, Tenn, tdived behind some strong-looking wooden boxes- "'""'. "i S " .' A".,'. As soon as the barrage lifted he stood up and casually inspect ed his barricade. ! Painted in big , black letters across the boxes were three in itials: TNT." I : Nearly 84000 Dimes MarcEl Approximately $4000-had been contributed toward the Marion county quota in -the March of Dimes drive of the National Foun dation for Infantile Paralysis , as word was received that the cam paign has been continued for an other two weeks, Robert Minton, campaign chairman, announced last night , r Wednesday was to have been the final day of the drive, but among the events scheduled in the campaign was the Battle of the Bands to be held on the night of February 12 by the musicians union at Crystal Gardens fori the benefit of the polio fund. ; School children ' accounted for more than $750. Various sports events broughtin $900, and the Willamette university ; booth on Liberty street collected over $600. Special gifts amounted to approx imately $500, Still to be reported was the contributions made through motion picture theatres throughout the county, j r Additional special gifts includ ed: T. A.f Livesley $20; Douglas Yeater $10; and Paul Wallace $5. The report does not .include the contributions placed In milk bot tles scattered throughout the city and county. The fund received more than $400 from this source last year. . f New Workmen's rnmnanonf!i TI11 Expected Today I A bOl I repealing the existing workmen's compensation law and substituting the so-called three way workmen's compensation act probably will be dropped in the The measure was drafted under the direction of the Oregon asso ciation of -insurance agents legis lative committee. Insurance under the new bill is compulsory, either by insurance in the state fund, jnsurance by a private carrier or by self-insurances f - o f ' An employe, under this measure! would receive 66 I per cent, of his weekly wages per week with a top limit of $25. The amount paid for Injury or death will not exceed $7500. Under the existing, compensation setup the commis sion has paid in excess of $18,000 to the widow and children of a. deceased worker, records show. STEMS . " . Bracelets Earrings " . : v Wng " VI cups ; , . Flna !( DIAMONDS WATCHES JEWELRY Stevens & Son has an - outstanding selection of chic Costume Jewelry . . . youll find many, many pieces to add a sparkling - touch to your costume . tor daytime and evening s . wear. . .. .. Credit If Desired Diamonds ; Ke-set ' While Yea Walt 3 ') Store . Hours: tft. A, M.', to c r. M. Net Open Saturday Nights