PAGE FOUR
Tft Utttuui WAtW4AH, sxxiexa, ogoau Saturday Morning. February 3. ISIS
-No Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall Aw
I From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
V Member of the Associated Press
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to (he use for publication of all
news dispatches credited to u or not omgwm crwutw ,m mi ucwayayc,
Buzzer for Nurse
Any person who has been ill in a hospital
knows how important is the buzzer at the head
of I his bed. With it he can summon a nure to
bring him a drink,, roll him over or perform
otjier of the necessary duties required by a j sick
person. Only now the nurse can't always re
spond and a nurse's aide may bethe one o ap- s
pepr. She can do the non-professional tasks
wtiich nurses formerly performed themselves.
L bust now the army and navy are pressing
thje buzzer hard calling for nurses, more nurses
tojhelp care for wounded from the widely scat
tered areas of combat. Last week The States
man carried a special advertising campaign to
stimulate recruitment of nurses, and already
eight have volunteered for duty.
. jCongress has been considering a bill to draft
nurses in order to meet the army demand. We
believe with proper, appeal this draft will not
b4 necessary. We hive a letter from a non-com
iri the medical corps who is stationed out in the
Pacific. He expresses opposition to the draft-
llg Ol B SptvlAl viaaa vi y- uh-ojivhui " -.
Me has found also that nurses create no little
problem at base hospitals. Their residence sec
tion must be fenced off, and soldiers have to do
mkny "chores" for them" from carrying baggage
. toputting up clothes lines. On the other hand
there is testimony of the readiness of army
' purses to undergo severe hardships of army
camp living and of their great service in care of
injured men. It would seem that with adjust
ment ! of demand to essential need (not using
nurses just for clerical work overseas) and with
well directed appekls such as those now being
Wade, the supply can be augmented sufficiently
"without resort to drafting.
To fill the gap from the prospective Joss of
ntlirses a recent special effort was made to en
roll persons in nurses' aide classes. The re
sponse was excellent, a sufficient number en
rolling both for day and for night duty to meet
the immediate need. This will be a great help
caring for the sick as the number of graduate
nurses here is reduced.
Some days ago there was an interchange of,
letters in The Statesman on the subject of com
pensation for nurses' aides. It is true that these4
aides receive no pay for their work. They un
derstand that when they enroll. And there is
no doubt that hospitals do benefit from this
service. But the hospitals themselves are es
sentially service institutions. Any savings they
ixiay make" in their operating costs flow back
'into the hospital to retire indebtedness, to pur
chase new facilities to provide better care for
' the sick, or to replace wornout-equipment oi
I'. supplies. '
The hospitals are. exceedingly grateful to the
: nurses' aides for their work, not so much from
any financial consideration as from their con
tribution in helping care,-for the ill, which is
the hospitals' prime reason for existence.
i These are difficult days. We must take care
. of the sick and wounded in military service and
mussend out a sufficient number of nurses to
provide this care. And we must take care of the
ill at home. Fortunately under the combined
efforts of the hospitals, the nurses, the Red
Cross, the nurses' aides and the public we are
I doing a pretty good job for the military -and for
i civilians. We must carry on through the "tight"
'period of several more months until military
; needs relax or new graduate nurses become
available.
contracts, would get an even break in return to
production for civilian use. Finally Jimmy ;
Byrnes had to settle the dispute which ha did 1
by modifying the orders of Nelson. Later Wil
son resigned in some disgust over the whole. r
affair. ,-t
Events proved that the army and navy wera
correct and the advocates of early reconversion
wrong, which certainly exonerates Wilson and
others of his viewpoint from the charge of mis
managing their public duties in the interest of
their private concerns. Now reconversion has
been shoved clear into the background. It is
frankly stated now" that even after V-E day re
conversion will , be a controlled and gradual
process.
The present plan of WPB is not to attempt to i
move the supplies from Europe fto the war -fronts
of the Pacific but to supply the latter
with new goods from American factories. The
reason is the time element. j l would take j
months longer to pick up and move the sup
plies from Europe than to divert the flow from
American factories to the orient This saving of ;
time should result in saving of lives too by pre
venting Japan from consolidating defenses in
China and on the home islands; ' !
This information means that supplies for ci-
vilians that had been expected for delivery ; .
early this year will not be available, except in
very limited quantities; This applies particu- ,
larly to metal goods and electric appliances.
However the country is reconciled o that depri- ;
vation and eager to do anything which will
really shorten the war both wars. r
Reconversion Deferred
! Recall the abuse the doltar-a-year men of
WPB took last year over the subject of recon
version? Donald Nelson had laid out a plan
for early reconversion, but -after he went off
to China subordinates in WPB held it up at the
, behest of army and navy procurement officers.
Left-wingersi accused C. E. Wilson, vice chair- -man
of WPB, and other industrialists loaned to
the government, with stalling reconversion so
that the big-corporations, still busy with war
Editorial Comment
NOT NOW j ;
Cogent reasons against taking up the question of
comDulsorr universal military training at this time
' are those advanced by 12 presidents of American
universities in their letter to President Roosevelt.
These leaders do not take a stand against univer-
sal military training as such; they do urge that this
issue is one to be left until the war has ended.
There is no. reason in the war itself why this de
cision should not wait. : The proposal has no con
nection with the prosecution of this war; it is for
peacetime conscription. It embodies a revolution
ary change n American policy. No such far
reaching change ought to be decided under the
stress of war emotions. It should be considered
- nnlv at m tim WrVlttn HiaM an Ka mnl ilalikarafiKn
The signers of the letter point out that we now
, know nothing of the conditions w shall face in
; the post-war; world or of the strategic problems
that may be. posed for us then. They understand
1 ! that universal military training is only one element
i ' j in a national defense system. That will require
t changes in' our economy to make sure that we are
r technically afid industrially geared to defense re-
! quirements. They fear that if conscription should
' be- hastily adopted and then be found to be a mis-
1 . take the reaction will make it harder for the people
' to take other; measures needed for a well-rounded
! defense system. - , :.' -v. ;.,vT v
.' -When the decision is made the university heads
j believe it should be made solely on the basis -of
j military requirements. As educators they find un-
warranted the . notion that military training has
', collateral educational and social values. If, after
the war, it shall be determined that it is necessary
for the defense of the country that all young men
i shall have a year of military training, they say they ,
will be for it for that reason only. They do not be
lieve the pill has any sugar coating.
These men bead. 11 of the leading universities
of the United States. That they are not scholarly
recluses but men of affairs, awake to what is go
ing on in the world, we are made aware when we
note among them Robert G. Sproul of the Univer--city
of California and Donald B. Tresidder of Stan
ford. San Francisco Chronicle. ' "
i ttatrfctJ by IUt rmmr Bymaioto f
hr mmimhI with TW WutiattM Sult
1 - i
Turnabout
Perpelual" Occupation
If the publication of Secretary Morgenthau's
plan to reduce .Germany to a peasant economy
inspired the Germans to fight ; on, as was
asserted by Governor Dewey, than Harry
Hopkins's contribution to postwar planning will t
encourage them to continne the fight. For Hop- ;
kins in an article in American magazine pro
poses a perpetual army of occupation in Ger
many and Japan. He also advocates a year of i
compulsory military training to build up our
national defense. Hopkins writes j
I have no doubt that powerfulf forces in Ger
many and Japan are preparing even now; for
their next attempt to conquer us. We will try to j
keep them impotent, but only a perpetual army
of occupation would be able to prevent them
from rearming eventually. I I I I
This experimentation in foreign; policy mak-
ing by intimates in the administration seems :
very dangerous. It bears a color of authority
which cannot help but be disturbing. Because
of his close association with president Hopkins j
may be thought to be expressing the president's
own views, which is extremely doubtful, though '
the president has endorsed compulsory military
training. The proper, source of information in j
subjects as important as the treatment of Ger
many is the state department or the war-department,
and not Harry Hopkins.!
As to his idea, "perpetual" is a long word. It
is absurd to think that a single generation can
project any policy ad perpetuam. ' I
Interpreting ' i
The War Neiv
i By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ' ANALYST :
The Russian advance upon Berlin down the Oder
river box corridor in Brandenburg appears slowed
down on the last lap, but whether due to concen
. trated Nazi resistance or to a Russian pause to
bring up forces for the final cross-river plunge is
far from clear. ' "I ' i
There remain only two city defensive bastions of
the Oder box position, Frankfurt and Kustrin, both
on the banks of the river itself." Both are reported
by Berlin to be under immediate Russian attack or
artillery fire which implies that Russian advance
elements are well beyond the front in the box and
. on both sides of the Warthe corridor, J
If that is true, it means that I the battle of the
'Oder crossings is now in progress and the fate of
Berlin is hanging in the balance. It means also
that the Russian commander of the main cutting
wedge of the forward sweep from the Vistula, Mar
shal Zhukov, has satisfied himself that his northern
flank stands in no grave danger of a Nazi counter
thrust in force from Pomexania which could pene-
trate the Warthe (Warta) corridor deeply enough
to cut or jeopardize his main communication lines.
So far as it can be traced, the right Dank of the
White Russian army penetration wedge to the vi
cinity of the Oder is the only real danger point
The indicated line lies for miles from the western
side of the Danzig corridor along the Vistula at
no great distance north of the Warthe river val
ley through .which run main Russian communica-
tions assuming that the Germans had concentrated
heavy forces in Pomerania above that line, a rela
tively shallow break-through into the Warthe val
ley could disrupt the Russian threat to Berlin. V
There has been no indication r from Russian or
Nazi sources that any such German concentration
north of the Warthe has been InJ progress. On the
contrary, it seems probable that Russian air scouts
have noted considerable movement of enemy -forces
westward out of Pomerania via Stettin to escape
the very obvious danger of entrapment which the
Russian advance across, the Oder plain east of the
river to within 40 miles of Stettin represents.
. It seems doubtful that in view of - round-about
communications available and the probable lack of
any sizeable Nazi ammunition or supply depots m
Pomerania that there Is any real threat to Zhukov's
communications from mat direction.
:' South oi the Warthe, Russian lines run along or
at points beyond the Oder all the way to its rise in
the Moravian gap sector. There is no danger point
there to invite a German "counter-attack unless it
could be mounted in lax greater; force than the
Nazi command has available for i offensive pur
; poses. :; v -if , ; j .f ' '" '
Thus there is a-conviction that it there has been
a slowing of the. Russian pace, iiis due more to
efforts to bring up the forces necessary for the
final thrust than to intensified wad heavily rein
forced German resistance east ol the river, The
, Nazis hold too narrow and restricted -a bridgehead
east of the river in the Frankfurt-Kustrin sector
r for more than delaying action. ::.
Your Federal
Income Tax
- Ml ' No. 25 . .
MISCELLANEOUS INCOME ,
Income from miscellaneous
sources should! be 'shown : in
Schedule E on page 3 (on back
of pagel) or your Income tax
return for 1944. j This will include
net profit (or loss) from partner
ships, income from fiduciaries,
and other incoma such as rewards
or prizes, and amounts received
from alimony or separate main
tenance. It will also Include re
coveries of bad debts' for which
a deduction was taken in a prior
year, as well as! health and acci
dent benefits ; that are received
as reinbursemeiit for medical ex
penses for which deduction was
taken in a prior year.
Where an individual is en
gaged in business or j prof ession
in partnership with I others, a
partnership return (Form 1065)
must be filed 'for the partner
ship. This returjn is filed , for in
formation purposes only, as par
tnerships are not subject to In
come tax as suCh, but each part
ner must repori his share of the
net income (or loss) from , the
partnership in his individual re
turn. This net income (or loss)
should be shown in Schedule E,
together with
with reference
ship.
In the case of trust funds set
up for beneficiaries, an incoma
taxi; return (Form 1041) is re
quired to be filed by the trustee
or fiduciary. However, the dis
tributable portion of' income is
not taxable to the fiduciary, but
must be reported In Schedule E
of the individual income tax re
turn of the beneficiary or bene
ficiaries, "together with an ex
planation (in Schedule E) of its
source. - . I
Other income to be reported
In Schedule E might; arise from
incidental transactions apart
from the taxpayer's regular bus
iness or profesfoh; but gains or
losses from the sales of secur
ities would be reported in Sched
ule D (unless the taxpayer is a
security dealer, in which case
the results of j the business are
reported in Schedule C for bus
ines or profession).
In Schedule ;E also would be
included any income from gam
bling Or other like 'winnings.
Winnings fromj gambling, what
' ever the source or character,
.must, of course, be reported by
f the taxpayer; he may, however,
I deduct on page 4 of the return
'any gambling! losses incurred
LITERARY IGUIDEPOST
.ByWJG.Rogers-
an explanation
to the partner-
-TH THURBEK CARNIVAL," y
. Jtmn Thar her , (Harper Broth
ers; S2.TS). J
. Opening with, a preface writ
fen by James Thurber on ' the
subject of "My 50 Years With
James Thurber," this book con
tains stories and illustrations
from eight Thurber. books, and
six stories not previously pub
lished in book form. i
This is a 'fairly inclusive an
thology. I do not recall offhand
what was omitted. Even the
drawings and j articles which
Thurber preferred to leave out
would probably make, if pub
lished in another volume, a wit
tier book than anyone else in
this country has produced In our'
time. ' ; , f
The stories are- fascinating.
They . will draw- tears, now of
laughter, now of sorrow. A cou
ple of them are devastating sa
tires on spy, gangster and mur
der stories. "The Catbird Seat,"
"Memoirs of a Drudge' (on. a
newspaper) and - "The Secret
Life of James Thurber,'' which
is a parody on Pali, are master
pieces, i ; i j ;
But it is the cartoons which
I enjoy most From the academ
ic, art-school point of view,
Thurber draws very badly. As
scoffers say of modernist paint
ers, so they could' say of Thur
ber: any child could do better.
But when you look again at
the floppy-eared dogs, the men
and women created with a quick,
brilliant, Inspired line, the seals,
rabbits, bats, you ' realize that
Thurber draws perfectly, liot
according to nature as we see
it but as he sees it, perfectly ac
cording to his nature.
It's too bad that such cartoons
as Touche! "All Right, Have
It Your Way - You Heard; a
Seal Bark," "I Crane From
Haunts of Coot and Hern!" and
i You Said Everybody You Look
; at Seems to Be a Rabbit" can't
! be preserved in something more
I substantial than a book. .Of
; course, j however, some of them
i are , reflected i contemporary
creative work; for instance, one
: story and one cartoon in this
; volume, put together, would jre-
semble Broadway's deservedly
successful , play "Harvey," and
they antedate it by some years.
. The humor and wit of these
. cartoons, mostly from The New
during the year up to an amount
equal to the winnings.
Yorker magazine, lies deep,
keeps welling up fresh; like the :
pitcher of the old woman in f
Greek mythology, these pictures
. never run dry. It's some sort of
magic ;
DIP
SHHU8
(Continued from page 1)
acres in the heart of town, which '
it can improve and develop as :
funds are available. We must ;
not miss this opportunity. ,
As I see it, the purchase is
warranted, not so much for the j
present as for the future. Look
ahead to the time when Salem
is a city of 100,000 people, which
is not a visionary possibility.!
Then the residents will arise and
call blessed the people of this
generation who, had the fore-
sight to give and to acquire the
100 acres for a public park con-
veniently located, and chiefly in !
its native state, for large portions 1
of the tract should be left in ;
natural condition, . with merely
clearing of brush and laying out ,
of paths. f
This acquisition should be re
garded only as the first step. It ,
"should be followed with the lay-;
Ing out of a program of park I
development, including acquisi-1
tion of larger areas where
needed. All this will cost money;
but our people will get the bene- ;
fit- . i
It will be a great thing for the
Salem of the indefinite future
to retain Intact the Bush pasture
for a park and playground; Let
us not fail to seize this oppor
tunity. ;;;;
Flashes of Life
TOPEKA, Kans.-(iP)-The
Kansas house of representatives
was chewing the rag today over
a coyote bounty bill when some
one presented an amendment to
include wolves. ; ";?
Rep. rFrank M- Fisher, Paola
- explained . the difference this
" way: - . . ;
Gyotes howl but real wolves
;i whistle."
"THE YOUNG IDEA" Bj Mossier
'
TA,RRAGUT, IdahoPr
They're belling the cats at this
U.S. naval training center.
Brought in . originally to rid
the . place of mice, the cats in
turn became a menace to wild
life so now Xt, G rover C
Schmidt is outfitting each tab
by with a numbered collar com
plete with a bell to warn birds.
BERWICK, Pa.-P) -Columbia
county ration board members
found their steel safe looted to
day of a big bundle of gasoline
stamps all cancelled and worthless.'-
" i
GODFREY, DL-P)-Students
at Monticello 'college, fashion
able girls school, were asked to
contribute to the mile of dimes
campaign on the-basis of 10
cents for each child they hope to
have. ..Hi- ;.''; fj :'.
- Total: contribution: -$200, an
average of 70 cents each.
First teeth braces, then shavMer braces and mw these large
' v rimmed bmoeulars! , Cow do ym expect ma U have . ?
' - avea aa once af giamarT" r:
NORTH ADAMS, Mas.-iV
Bateman's store advertised this
way in the Evening Transcript
today; I ;-t- . -v
"Come and see a nice selec
tion of pictures of beef,; pork
and lamb.":- j I
The invitation; also advertised
"choice, , juicy, tender salt tat
pork tender boneless -minced
ham.- ' . 1
. AT THE FRONT.1 ,
Just Saying Goodbya
Zsnl Easy for Yank
Ltarlng for Horn
IN FRANCE, Jan. 28-(Delay-ed)-ff-Fr
three days he tried
to write what it felt like to be
ff o i n home.
He had always ? " Mi
fieured i
pie just one
big outpouring
of delight
- But It. was
mnr than thaL 5- '
He ; got the f AM
news while , , ; i
working j along UlUJXJLi
the front One KmmHi Dixe !
thing that dull
ed Its edge was the realization
he would have to go back up
there a few , times more. Sud
denly now, he found himself
flinching from ordinary sounds
friendly artillery, for instance.
He kept going untn the job
was done but he had to drive
himself. Being alive was much
more important than doing bis
work. Being alive was every
thing now. , "
He felt the expected surge of
delight all right but once back
up along the line he was
ashamed. There was bitter
fighting in the Ardennes forest
then with snow several feet
deep and zero winds stabbing
like icy bayonets through the
- heaviest clothes.
Before going, back up there
he had ' been chattering, wildly
happy, but now he ' was silent
You can't remind men in hell
there still is a heaven some
where, i '
. He told a few of his old
friends and took their wives'
and mothers' and sweethearts'
phone numbers. They didnt re
sent his going, although they
knew their right and need was
much greater than his.
But they couldn't go yet at
least and he could, and that
was that But still he fell silent
He tried reminding himself
he had been over much" longer
than most of them but then he
passed the bodies of a few who
would stay forever and .that
didnt help either.
Sometimes he would just let
himself think a little, about
knocking on the front door at
home and then happiness would
well up so strong and thick he
could scarcely contain it
But then the terrific, murder
ous blunder of the whole Bel
gian breakthrough would reas
sert Itself and the 'old bitterness
would return. It seemed wrong
and actually unholy to be hap
py in the midst of it . , 4
Just saying goodbye wasn't
simple. It went without saying
that many of them he would
never see again even if he re
turned tb this outfit after his
home leave. And it was impos
sible not to wonder as he shook
hands with each one and said
"keep your head down" if may
be this would be one of those
who would not be around much
longer.
All those days he remained
superstitious about writing home
and saying he was coming. And
so- he became tongue-tied and
did not write at alt
Happiness stayed a strong
emotion, but it wasn't pure any
more. A lot of it had been
swapped for humflitr at San
Pietro, for hopelessness at An-
zlo, for a terrible, unchanneled,
helpless wrath jit every ceme
tery all along the way.
And always this mixed emo
tion was shot through with-that
crazy, inexplicable wonder asvto
why he Mr. Anybody had any
better right to be alive than all
those who were dead. He Won
dered if these things would
straighten out become more
simple, when he got home or if
it . would get more complicated.
Faintly he feared what he
might find there if neool
there would be able to under
stand, or if they lived in a dif
ferent world altogether if he
- would feel out of place, or if
It would really seem like home
again. - : " i ' :
Then suddenly he thought
that probably j the ' average sol
dier going home felt much the
same mixed up way, with hap
piness and humility, pride and
fear and futility all stirred up
together.- : 1; v -i - ,".-.-'
And so even If It still did
not seem to make sense, he
thought he might as ; well write
It that way.;;, j,-;.v! ,
(Editor's note Dixon Is com
ing home on leave).
Paul Mallon
Is On Yacalioa
Moree j Enters
Senate Debate
'. til - i. v
On Aluminum
WASHINGTON, , Feb. l-iJPf
Senator Morse (R-Ore) injected
Into senate discussion of critical
war metals the fact that an alumi
num plant In Oregon was shut
down last year with the explana
tion that there was an over-pro
duction of the metal now listed
scarce ! . ;
Morse's remark. Iniected dur
ing a speech ; by Senator Bush-field;.(R-SD),
was the Oregon
senator's first entrance into sen
ate discussion.! 1 i
"One of the great aluminum
mills in my state of , Oregon was
closed down because ; of what was
said to b e - an overproductioni"
Morse observed. "However, a
considerable amount of the tax-'
payers money was spent in build
ing a great aluminum plant in
Canada. Am I; to understand that
the senator has evidence that
there is now a shortage of alum
inum?"
Bushfield repliedV "I have been
quoting from ! Mr. i Krug'a an
nouncement 'that aluminum and
alcohol have been returned to the
critical list" j i "
Court Upholds
Findings of
! uAUVA-
with one excention' wn tmKaM
, p ; ww auwa
In A deorM filter) In irmiJf mmi
here by Judge David Vahdenberg
i xvuunam t a us in ; tne sanuam
and Mill creek water rights con
troversy which saw as principal
uujxvuii lue v.iiy or. saienv Ore
gon PulD and Pa nor nmr.9nv
Thos B. Kay Woolen Mills com
pany. A. D. Gardner WiTlon.f.
Valley Water company and Don-
1 M A.
er oroiners. ! i
The decree was modified as to
the North Santiam by decreas-
inff th amrumf v .11
the state fish commission for pro
tection of fish between Gardner
intake and the Willamette river.
The state engineer had allowed
200 second feet at this point and
the decree cut it to 50 feet
A large number of water rights
were determined by the decree.
Papers on the" case are aH In
Klamath Falls where Judge Van
den berg used them in reaching a
vuuviuaw over maze of ex
hibits, i .. .
Appeal Filed
On Meter Suit
'Appeal was; filed in the state
supreme court here Friday in the
suit brought by James Hickey, at
tacking the consUtutionality of an
ordinance under which parking
meters in Portland are installed
and operated.;;, f
Defendants in the suit involva
Mayor Earl Riley and other Port
land city-officials. Circuit Judge
Franklin Howell, Multnomah
county, held' for the-city ..of Port
land. -:- - j;; ,
.. Hickey contended that the.
parking meters are operated for
revenue purposes and are not
within the police powers of tha
municipality.
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