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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1945)
page roux Hi O2SG0IT STATE3IIAIT. Scdea. OratyonV Tatffiday Morning. Feirndry IS, ISIS 0 it" i -t 1 fv 1S s'if : i 5 ".- "No Favor Sways Us; Wo Fear Shall Awe? ' From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 i THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher, '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 otnerwise credited in ,mis ; newspaper. cm isr' - " - What Is Left of Berlin It is going to be interesting, to say the least, to find out just what Is left of Berlin conti-j nental Europe's largest jctiy. I ! ' . There can be nq sentimentalism in connec-s tion with its destruction it brought it on it-; self. But those less militaristic, who in better times spread their j culture over the city's 431 square miles along the jriver Spree, would find; the change a bitter: on4. j ! ; Such buildings ai the ministries of justice (aj eagerly press down the grass around tne mue sai misnomer) and state, the university or uer- j Moms and Crocuses and Spring - J It was just a little crocus,' and how it got in the middle of the yard would seem a mystery. But there it was, bravely bursting into flower in defiance of wind and rain and cold and the ;jnore imminent hazards of a little 'wagon and .tiny feet which splashed among the grass be tween showers. -;j "Mommie, look!" The happy voice of a child vies with the struggling rays of a be-clouded nn in sudden amreciation. Childish hands flower. "Is it yellow or orange, jviomnue, ana can we have more?"' "Look hard and maybe you'll see some more," Mommie smiles watching the youngster tender ly. "Oh, Mommie, here's another." And there was, two or three of them. Mommie had put them out some time-ago. - "Let's dig a garden, can we?" There was only one answer to that. We could, wet ground or no wet ground, and if conditions weren't right that day it's safe to say f Mommie will do it all over so those wide blue eyes won't be disap pointed as spring comes to the valley.- There are other Mommies, too, who have planted flowers for tiny tots no longer tiny, some of whom will rest eternal in foreign lands, and others still so far from the peace and beauty of a home's back yard. These Mommies will be planting flowers this spring. Maybe that boy jn the far corners of a scarred earth, or that girl la the thick of war and destruction, would like to see them when they get home. ; Would they like to see them? "Mom, you've got a new azalea since I've been gone. Your yard is so pretty. Please let's always have flowers." I There'll always be flowers, folks. And Mom Will keep the sunshine of nature and love for you when you come back. So long as there are Moms and crocuses and spring, there'll be light in the darkest days on earth. There will always be a place to call home. Secrets Decrease The fact that Admiral Nimitz has seen fit to disclose that Guam is his new headquarters, 3800 miles west of Pearl Harbor, is in almost startling contrast to the navy's policy earlier In the war. Not that there is any quarrel with the early-day censorship when military infor mation, due to our own deficiencies, was even more important than today. But few expected so frank a disclosure of the move so soon. It is a direct defy of the Japanese, and definite in dication that American might in the Pacific has reached a point that shots can be called with out fear of interception. lin, state library, protectant cathedral, the Kai-j ser Friedrich museum and university what tofl j must thousands of Hons; of bombs have taken! And the Under den Linden, Leipzigstrasse, Friedrichstrasse, leading shopping zones, and the Brandenburg Gate, Opernplatz, Gendar- menmarkt and other notable parks and monuvL ments they won't all survive. : ' They must have jfuffered, even though major targets included huge factories turning out elec trical equipment, machinery, chemicals, loco- ; motives, furniture and scientific instruments; or perhaps the Tempelhof one of the world's largest and best equipped airports or the city's superhighways and 20 great railroad stations. The Russians held Berlin for three days 185 years ago. Will they bej the first now to tell us j what happened to capital of chaos? I eraru Guidepost ;i- According to estimates of the war department 250.000 veterans will want to relocate on the Pacific coast when the war is over. They will make a counter tide of migration to the war workers who plan to return to their former homes. It's clear we will have a population prob lem in the early years of the peace, providing employment, permanent housing and commun ity services. There will be a spreading of this population out from the overgrown war centers to the smaller cities and rural areas. Salem and other, Oregon, towns will be right in the path of this resettlement. Moral Obligations? T : : So the report of the Crimean conference frees Germany of; "all moral - obligations" to On The Beam abide by the rules; of war. That's what Paul ; Schmidt of the German foreign office said in an angry outburst yesterday. He also said Germans henceforth would conduct war "with all suitable means; no I matter how grim the effect' . I; .!'; K". My, how Nazidom changes, or does it! Of course Germany was abiding by ;the rules; of war when her warplanes started the murder of j Britain's civilians. And the slaughter of Jews was done exactly according to Hoyle, no doubt 5 of it. I j: "j j j The Stockholm dispatch regarding Schmidt's comment also said ihat the report jof the Big-3 jj conference caused "by far the wor$t explosion" j correspondents ever had. seen at the Wilhelm- j strasse. i - j From here, it looks like writhing would be a better word than explosion, j And jit still looks like the Yalta conference did the best explod ing of the fast-watting German hope that there is any escape whatever from the 'folly of the way of the transgressor. j . And Jf Schmidt Was alluding to poison gas, there -is. reason to believe that perhaps there really is something behind the oft-repeated ru mors of fanaticism borne of unstable minds in the party's high command. The Allies-are on German soil. And it certainly can't be any se cret that the Allies have poison gas too. Things don't add up to much but the death j rattle. I News Behind the Nevs " By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole . ! or in part strictly prohibited.) i A "Free German" committee in Moscow which is headed by Field Marshal von Paulus, ' the German commander who surrendered at Stalingrad, calls for the German people to stage an insurrection and throw Hitler out. We won der if this "Free German" committee will be set up to run the part of Geimany which Russia liberates, like the Polish Lublin committee. At that the Russians seem to do a better job of propagandizing than do the allies. Our psycho logical warfare has pretty much flopped. Maybe it's justice and maybe no but there won't be much hue! and cry raised because 73-year-old Benjamin Franklin Male of St. Helens isn't to pay a legal price for a slaying in West Virginia 40 years ago. Yesterday, in Fair mont, W. Va., Male was given an upbraiding for having remained away from the law so long, and then a suspended j sentence On good be havior. We don't know the details of the origi nal case, but at least Male has a long record of good behavior to rest on. ! Interpreting Editorial Comment GIVE EM LAND LOTS OF I AND I - We don't know how you feel about it, but lis tening to hot-house crooners singing "Don't Fence Me In" often gives us a feeling we would imagine Is not unlike swallowing some bacon fat on the end of a string. ' Some of these gentlemen live like ' cats, or owls or bats venturing out of their apart ments only at nights, and never getting further from downtown New-York or Chicago than you could throw the Brooklyn bridge. - They Stand before the mike in a smoke-clouded -night club' or on top of a 40-story building in a pile of brick-work called a big city, and bleat about how they'd like to "straddle their old saddle" and ride and ride 'neath starry skies above. Oh brother! Bing Crosby? Sure, Bing can sing it. He's western, anyway. Comes from Spokane. Besides he plays; golf. Furthermore, he' knows the differ ence between a horse and a chimpanzee despite what Bob Hope says. Frank Sinatra, we don't think likes to sing it much, because the soxers don't squeal when he pleads "lor "land lots of land." . But, honestly, some day one of these cowboys is going to tie his pinto to the bar in the Copacabana, , and head out to God's country where land lots of land means the great west And well bet the fresh ir kills him. Astorian-BudgeL The War i News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Slow recession is reported of flood Waters in the f west I still virtually immobilizing Allied striking power along the Roer and; Maas. It encourages be-1 lief that General Eisenhower can soon throw his, full offensive weight into Action there to match new Russian penetrations; in the east that double the i threat to Berlin and menace Dresden.- - l , Held dispatches from the Allied command cen- j ters make no secret that! preparation: "for a culml- natuig pile-driver smash has reached a stage where ' only terrain conditions are withholding it They picture at least two powerful and all but inactive.! armies, the American Ninth and the British Sec-1 ond, fretting at the enforced delay until the flood runoff of combined thaw; and Nazi blown dams' is f complete enough to permit major operations again. Russian forces in the Oder valley are knocking f at the gateways to Saxony north of the Sudenten f mountains. Below two-thirds encircled Breslau. 5 "RETURN TO THE VINEYARD," ky Mary Loos and Walter Dmranty (Donbleday, Doras; S2JM). This looks like a book written with the aid of a wall chart and. dozens of tabs. 1 Take tabs for hero and heroine, skip two spaces and fight, skip one and love, skip three and enter jealousy, skip to the bottom and all is welL Some 30 persons in the Euro pean village of Vineyard surviv ed World waxII and, at the start of the novel, have been herded together to return home. They defy Ref Repat, a refugee repatration board, quit Marke town where they would have been regimented; and settle in a cave near Vineyard. They set out to rehabilitate themselves; one of them is confident all Europe will be inspired to hoist itself by its own bootstraps back to recov ery if their experiment succeeds. You have here, you see, at tacks on bureaucracy and regi mentation, criticism of too much international planning,' a de fense of rugged individualism and the hint that if we let Eu rope alone with' her own post war troubles, everything will come out for the best. But there is more than reha bilitation. .There is love, or more accurately, sex. Men and women, boys and girls, the blind, crip pled, aged and infirm make love all over the place. It is describ ed from the first gasp to the last grasp. What's more, love is used two ways in the plot: first, it drives crazy people sane and sec ond ... and perhaps the more 4jW Wrs- Pal MaDoa usual order . people crazy. it drives sane Besides rehabilitation and sex, there are extraordinary coinci dences. The most amazing is the discovery of a family which re treated deep into the hills, let trees grow over the road and re-; mained isolated j and untouched by World war II . . . a sort of Sleeping Beauty episode. Besides rehabilitation, sex, and coincidence, there is sentiment: a boy whose life is saved when he gets a darling pink-bellied Puppy; a priest who loses reli gion and regains it; a German who proves that not all Germans WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Popular predictions that the end Europe is a matter of days or a couple of weeks, are not justi fied by Inner military facts: They represent glib hopefulness of commenta tors, not the soundest Amer ican military judgment. , I The Nails show intention of fighting for everything, and particularly forf Berlin, the cap ture of which may require more time than is being allowed for the end of the war. Nazi morale is ' weakened but not broken. More Germans are taking advan tage of opportunities to surrender , when confronted with an easy chance to escape from Hitler (or is it Himmler?), but not on a large scale. I - , (v f . j Truth is' no large force sur rendered either to the Russian advance through Poland across the Oder, or to us. The bulk of their gang clings to the Goebbels idea that nothing can be gained by throwing down their arms. They display no desperate short '. age of any line of equipment, ex cept planes. Periodic thaws already are de veloping to slow down the at tacks. The Reds had to cross the Oder at Breslau 4n boats. The weather on our; front can hardly become worse than' it has been lor weeks (bitter cold, snow and thaws) but at present thaws are creating natural floods- to add hazards to the artificial dam flooding' of the upper Roer. The Canadians are currently accom plishing great f success around Kleve, but a few miles ahead is the difficult Rhine , river . and a little to Ue south, the - Rhine water hazard is only 15 to IS miles in front of us. are eviL i ? Finally, i since nothing ever came out so welL the ending" is perfect. This .' entire novel is made up. There isn't a thing in it that's reaL nor a thing that's Tealized. ' - i ; . ! longer period. may have to MOURNER'S BENCH Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, California educator, doubts Jhat schemes to re-educate Germany into a" democratic way of life ; will work.- He says edu cational philosophy is developed from within a peo ple and cannot be imposed forcefully from without. - It sounds reasonable. - Even in so" axiomatic a matter as multiplication tables, modern educators have abandoned i rapping on ' the knuckles to beat ' knowledge-into young brains.- The process seems veil more dubious as a means of transferring the spirit of the four freedems into the flux of a na tion of several overlapping generations : . Dr.'Dykstra sees as the only hope of re-education that Germany may "hit the sawdust trail" and keep heading that way. The late Reverend Billy Sunday held it to be the only way to regeneration. He provided the sawdust, the tent; theexhortation and the verbal brimstone required. ; But the one essential ingredient was repentance. That had to be supplied by the sinners. San Francisco Chron icle. . Ukrainian troops have expanded their trans-Oder . urrm? iVAfmiP ' Til7A W T9 if 1 bridgehead to the north,; south and west to come : 1 Hh lUUING IULA 1V MOSSler virtual! v fihronct tt mrrtriiHp a 4Ka :nAi4k i " r r r acing Berlin along the middle Oder., ' Konev Ukrainians have swept beyond the Oder f to the Sudenten foothills. They hold an 80-mile f arc that reaches from captured Striegau, 35 miles west of Breslau, to the Sorau area due south of the left flank of White Russian, armies at the Bober- Oder confluence where thf Berlin siege ring begins. Within the arc lie the headwaters of the Bober and the Queis rivers twb of the three possible ! water barriers guarding the roads to Dresden, Leip- f ig and all Saxony and protecting Berlin from the j southeast Only the Neisse defense i line remains I and Marshal Kone'v's advance elements were within less than 20 miles of it in the Sorau region by Ber- i lin admission. - They ire even closer to the west of captured Bunzlau along the direct Breslau-Dresden I road, "r-i :-. '"'f' --; --1: ..-: - Berlin broadcasts indicated Konev Was twinging northward west of the Bober to effect contact with ; White Russian armies on his right, outflank the middle Oder defense line and join in the converging , attack of Berlin. Moscow bulletins gave no in& l mation of that The. Russian silence as to recent developments on the middle and lower Oder see- J rtor 'continued, doubtless covering thel bringing 'up "of fresh troops and regrouping df forces for the ! ..final assrolt.;; ;rn-Airi.--i-i ;r.-; . , There is no doubt, nevertheless, that the Russian sweep across the Oder valley has brought Dresden J . into virtually as imminent a peril as Berlin. It cov- i ers not only every approach to the plains of eastern 3 Saxony- around - the north end - of the Sudenten i -range, but also every mountain pass route. " .'-. -- . The Nazi plight on that sector fully Warrants Ber- lin intimations that the situation there is even i graver than that of Berlin. , ; "Mom, if ya were seventeen, would yaa consider me a good catch?" , do; c. . , ... "- f V d) Each army , unit be chased down nd capturecL'(Mosbys unit from pur civil conflict has not, sur- rndered yet)J j ; j- The Nazis look upon their movement as a world revolution which win one day revive, and their resistance also will surely be carried even beyond surren der. ; Already we have t detected signs of their underground or ganization functioning .thorough ly behind ourj , lines in France, Italy and the lowlands.. They will become the communists , of the &ture with undercover workers every country. (At the time of the Ardennes breakthrough they . lad precise and full Information )f our military condition from Jieir invisible underground). ,t Dumped out of Europe, in the snd, they may, well land in Ar j entina, the only nation favor able to their purposes (Spain be- ing defunct) and thus we might well find them in our hemis pheric lap, as. our own major postwar problem. j This war is not like any other modern one. 'r - ; ! PASADENA, , Calif. -)-Walter Payne Was perplexed by the con- stant attention of passing inotor 1 sts as he drove to his butcher J'hop. Upon arrival he found that ds pet pullet, Biddy, had hitched a ride on the front bumper from . his home nine miles away. , -:: : - 7, . AT THE FRQHT! Yank Correspondent Has 'Quiet Weekend la SlftQfried Una - The groundls bad in front of the American $th army and Brit ish 1st and it may not be solid i ..for two months. This Is the con- , jdition facing General Eisenhow er's promise of a large scale of i ifensive. The Russians have not yet been stopped, but they have been slowed down for ten days. After jfighting the bridgeheads over the. Oder on the direct route to Ber lin, they had to stop in that cen ter of the line, not particularly because of German opposition al though it was strong, but in or ,der to protect the flanks of their jextended supply lines. They next strove for Settin to upset an organizing German counterattack from the north and to lop off jthe Danzig and Pomeranian in- ' dustrial districts. Initial success was not great and the battles are still in pro gress. Hitting then in the south, they met unexpected success be ing 35 miles beyond Breslau northwesterly) at this moment. Here they had bypassed many ' good Nazi defensive positions and entered the plains of Saxony where the ground greatly favors further advances. i But how can you get immedi ate or even early surrender out of this situation? As long as the i i - Nazis retain control, there is lit tle prospect of surrender, and there is no immediate prospect that they will lose control. They obviously hope to make another Stalingrad out of Berlin, and . may, at least, make it a Cassino. They have lost no great masses of men or equipment in the win ter fighting and no peace emis saries have yet come into our ines. And ahead, March is the Worst month for military action. Their actions indicate ' that When the end comes, it is likely to take an unexpected form. The Nazis clearly intend to surren der only army unit, by. unit (as In our Civil War) rather than tllectively as in World War I. This is likely to lead to a jrse condition than ; after the Civil War and extend over a By Thobura Wlant (SubsUrating For Kenneth L. Dixon) ! WITH THE US 30th DIVI SION WEST- OF PRUEM, Ger-rnany-vSVPat MitchelL of New York, an energetic Stars and Stripes correspondent who for merly worked for the New York World-Telegram, s uggestsa weekend In the Siegfried line so we take off in his beat-up jeep ' through a driving rain. Soon our arms are sore from operating Windshield wipers which only slightly Improve our vision for about two seconds per swipe, j En route to the 90th division throughg axle-deep mud we pass through St. Vith, a town in name only. St. Vith died a horrible death from allied bombs. It once contained 400 buildings but only nine are standing. The effect of the bombing was the same as a steamroller on a crate of eggs. ' , s Rain and more rain. Passing vehicles throw mud over us. Mitchell resembles an African. "You should look in the mirror If you think I'm filthy," he says. ! It is getting dark as we cross the German border. We are about reconciled to spending the night in the jeep when we spot a military policeman. The next town," he says, when we ask for the 90th division. We are so close to the Ger mans that we can't show any light We grope around until we find Capt James C McNa jtnara of Sioux Falls, SD, a public p-elatlons officer who formerly Was a Los Angeles radio man. I Few houses of the little j Ger man town are still standing but McNamara finds a place for us to sleep. The next room is occupied by seven cows, one sheep, one dog and one cat. I "This isn't exactly the Wal- Your Federal Income Tax I . Ne. 34 J INTEREST DEDUCTIONS Interest on indebtedness, 1 with certain exceptions, Is an allow able deduction from income for Federal income tax purposes. In computing normal tax and sur tax, deductible interest includes both Interest incurred In connec tion with a business or profes sion, and interest on personal indebtedness. Whether you should deduct interest expenses in your return depends in part on the method you use in making your return, and in part on spe cific provisions of law. . A. Special Deductions i By special provisions of law you may deduct, In computing your adjusted gross income to which the tax in the tax table in the return applies, interest chargable against rental or royal ty income, and interest on busi ness debts. Interest chargeable able against rental or royalty in come should be deducted in Sche dule B, page 3 of Form 1040 for 1944, and interest on business debts should be deducted in Schedule C on the same page. J B. Other Dedactlons I Interest expenditures which are not deductible in computing your adjusted gross income may represent interest on personal debts, or interest incurred In the production or collection of In come other than rental or royal ty income, or interest incurred in the management, conservation or maintenance of property other than rental or royalty property. I If you use your Withholding Receipt Form W-2 (Rev.) as a return, or if you file Form 1040 and use either the tax table or the standard deduction, then you may not deduct any interest re ferred to in the preceding para graph, because you will receive an allowance in lieu of such de ductions. If, however, you file Form 1040 and itemize your de ductions on page 4, then you may deduct these interest items on page 4 of the return, supported ,by an explanation attached to the return. C. General Principles .Interest on personal indebted ness, may include interest on a mortgage on a home, interest on the price of household goods pur chased on the. installment plan, as well as interest on personal loans. Interest paid on a judg ment or on delinquent unpaid taxes is also deductible. It is not necessary that the indebted ness be secured by a lien or mortgage for the interest to be deductible, but there must be a legal obligation on the tax payer to pay the interest STEVENS dorf, but It's the best we have,. says McNamara. CoL John C Whitcomb of Durham, NC, chief of staff, has , picked up a story about a re placement soldier; found walk ing away from the front ' j "You're going the wrong way, son," the commanding officer told him. "The front's the other way." - - V "I knoW it, sir," the replace ment replied. Tm within I 20O , yards of the krauts but my sights are set for 500. I'm moving back so I can start shooting. ' . j LL CoL Robert P. Booth of Eugene, Ore, reports his men working over one of more than 200 pillboxes knocked out by the 90th saw seven Germans come out with their hands up. The Americans , searched them and went Inside to cheek the pillbox. On the floor was a 'German of ficer with" a bullet through his head. Under questioning, the soldiers said the officer had re fused to let them surrender. ' 1 Our animal neighbors start stirring at daybreak so it's use less to try to sleep longer. Then we hear some noise in another room. There are six GI's pound ing typewriters and running off mimeographed copies of the "Snipe r," the division's daily newspaper. McNamara's ' staff, headed by Pvt. James T. Delbel ' lo of Chicago, hasn't failed, to publish since D-plus-18 although the outfit's always been in ar tillery range. They wore out their original mimeograph ma chine and now are using a "lib erated" German one. Delbello's assistants, are Pvtsl David C. Rattner of the Bronx, NY; Bernard Berlin of New York City; Pf c. Pierre Charpen tier of Lynbrook, Long Island, NY; Cpl. Gerald Buckles of Glenwood Springs, Colo.; and Sgt Herbert Peake of Chenan go Bridge, NY. - SJCEOQB urn 13 (Continued from page 1) a fixed limitation in the consul tution. Congress is not dumb,' and congress writes the tax laws.' The congress Is eager to reduce taxes as soon as the war condi--tions will permit So why not leave the problem in the bands of congress? ' j There are numerous plans be ing worked on now for postwar taxation. They all contemplate removal of the excess profits tax and point toward reduction in rates for individuals and corpo rations. , All the expressions of administrative heads acknowl edge that taxes must be revised so as to encourage business ac tivity, though it is admitted by alt both those in and those out of government, that taxes must re main high in order to carry our debt burden and meet the ex penses of government. Postwar finance is one of the most difficult problems confront ing the nation. It would be a grave mistake to tie the hands of our elected congressmen and senators by a limitation such as is proposed by this self-constituted committee, i 4-H Auditions Set Saturday Auditions for the annual Mar ion county 4H radio broadcast over station KOAC at Corvallie will be held in the Salem YMCA Saturday morning, February 17, from 9:30 to 12 Vclock, according -to James Bishop, county dub' agent Try-outs will of necessity be limited to club members whose leaders or teachers reported them to the agent' ; AH . .j Opportunity, is given each year to broadcast a county club pro gram, which will be given this year February 28 from 7:30 to S pjn? at the Corvallis station. ; The' auditions enable proper talent to be selected. E. AT Brit ton, KOAC agricultural programs manager, wfll be present to make the selections. 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