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Tfc OSGOH CTAimiAIL tdssu Oracoa, WwJsssdUry l lodsg. Fthruery 21 ISIS pag2 roua v. -.41 a MM J "Wo Faror Strays I7; Wo Fear Shall Awi". From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member ol the Associated Press ji . . ji The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication ol all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. aaEW vwt (m okiy mope 1 tm&m m Revolution in Logging In the space of 10 years, says The Timberman, the logging industry of the west has been revo lutionized. The twin tools which have accom plished this revolution are the motor logging truck and the tractor. The tractor, equipped wth bulldozer blade in front makes roads into the woods over which logs may be hauled out y4ogging truck. The same power machine, equipped with an arch behind, can lift and dragheavy logs from the woods to the loading platform. Trucks, of course, have largely replaced rails in transport ing logs, except for the long haul. We have seen this transformation in logging, almost without realizing it. The North Santiam basin at Mill City and Detroit was a type of the old operation 15 years ago. The Hammond com pany had a big mill at Mill City, had logging camps above Detroit in the Breitenbush and French creek districts, moved logs by rail. The company closed down its operations and the communities that had depended on it seemed doomed. Local interests at Mill City started a mill, however. Trucks and tractors came into use to provide it with logs. Later other logging camps using the same tools were opened. Small mills were started as far up as Idanha. And probably as many men have been employed in the region and as many board feet of logs and lumber turned out of the North Santiam basin as during the days when Hammond was running full blast. J This has indeed been a revolution, the extent of which is hardly appreciated by those outside of logging. Now another invention is reported: a "skyhook" a machine for high-lead logging. The skyhook travels on cables across canyons. It holds logs in a firm grip, instead of letting them swing as was the case with the old pulley -- cable arrangement. This should prove of great value for logging the places difficult of access. The effect of these modern inventions is to increase greatly the volume of merchantable timber. "Where formerly it was not practical to log isolated pockets by railroad, now they can be reached by tractor-built road, and logs hauled out by truck. These new tools are sam ples of modern technology, the application of power in new types of operation. Strike at Iwo Jima Marines seem to have drawn some of the very toughest assignments of this war: Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and now Iwo Jima. This vol canic islet, like Corregidor shaped like a tad pole, has been made into a bristling fortress by the Japs, as was Tarawa. With the overwhelm ing strength of the Americans the conquest of the island is certain, for the Japs can get no re enforcements, but its rock soil will be reddened with much blood in the process, and not all of it Japanese blood, either. Capture of Iwo island, however, will give us an airbase only 750 miles from Tokyo. That is close enough so that fighter planes can go as escorts to our bombers. The high command makes its calculation that the' ultimate saving in life and in time is worth the initial cost. Old Age Maximum The house has passed Representative Har- vey's hill, HB 52, which removes the $40 maxi mum limit from grants for old age assistance, i Four years ago when the writer recommended removal of any limitation (the maximum was then $30) the pensioners would have none of that but insisted on inserting the $40 figure, i With maximum now being eliminated grants i can be made on the basis of need, with regard of course to funds available. Since the federal maximum is one-half of $40, the latter figure r will remain for all practicalpurposes the maxi i. mum, except for certain necessitous cases. This fact has been learned from experience that the more is paid, the greater the demand : and the more people endeavor to get on the as- Editorial Comment NO GUESSWORK HERE Coos county's agricultural leaders have no inten tion of allowing any veteran of World war II to fail in the pursuit farming. They decided this some time ago and in recent months they have made plans that are almost certain to prevent any such disasters. Stories of careless treatment of returning veter ans may be heard almost any day now in any lo cality: Unless one has the direct testimony of a veteran who has been mistreated it is wrong to place too much credence in these reports. At any rate, it is highly unlikely that any such stories will come out of the agricultural areas of this county. The plan proposed by Coos county farmers is sim ple, and looks to be foolproof. In the first place, the capabilities of a veteran who intends to be a farmer will be thoroughly investigated. It will be determined how much work he is physically capa ' ble of doing and to what extent he is able to operate a farm without outside advice. If a young man has all the qualifications' but ex perience he will be given a chance to work on a farm for a year, at a living wage. At the end of that time he will be moved to productive acreage which he can either rent or purchase Farmers believe one of the greatest dangers is that veterans may, without consulting anyone, put money into acreage that could not under any cir ' cumstances provide a living for a man and his fam ily. For this reason a committee has been appoint ed to thoroughly survey the entire county in order that the agricultural possibilities of all acreage may be determined. The farm leaders will see to it that no veteran moves onto land that is economic ally unfit for farming. The farmers are determining, too, what consti tutes an economic unit In other words, how many sheep, or how many cows, or how many chickens, or how many hogs, or how many turkeys must a veteran have to make a living? All of this indicates that the farmers in this county want to take all the guesswork out of farm fhg for returning veterims, They want to be sure that when a veteran goes to farming he will have at least an even change of being successful if he is willing to work and also is willing to call upon ex perienced farmers or the county agent for advice when he meets problems which he cannot solve. Coos Bay Tunes. sistance rolls. . The more public welfare Is dom inated by politics the greater thejjsums that must go to finance it. I Moral Discipline? j While the request (order) of Jimmy Byrnes, director of the office of war mobilization, to close places of entertainment at 12 midnight is for the announced purpose of consefving fuel one cannot help but wonder if the prackdown isn't also for the "moral discipline" of the peo ple. It has no doubt seemed unfaii and incon gruous to men fighting in tough batiles to know that folks at home are indulging in extravagant pleasures. Crowds at Palm Beach and crowds at city hot spots of entertainment seem out of keeping with the sober tones of wartune. So it may be that Director Byrnes is serving as social i monitor for the nation to bring it to its senses that after all "there's a war on." i . The order will cause a minimum pf change in a community like Salem. Few places of resort hold open after midnight. Those jthat do ean advance their closing hour, although here the factor of saving coal is not involved because little coal is used for fuel. Portland, which has blossomed out somewhat flamboyantly with night lift in that formerly sedate metropolis, will be vexed to hive to pull down the blinds and lock the doors when the hour of midnight strikes. Once again pleas jmay be put in for the swing shift workers who miht wantto dance from midnight to davjrn. '" It would be a mistake however to suspend all entertainment, theatres, eatng places etc. The strains of wartime call for spme diversion. Peo ple ought not to live all the time jengrossed in their work and theil worries The offense comes in the over-indulgence, the reckless jspending.the gross sensuality marked by) heavy consumption of liquors. Whether or not 3irectof Byrnes had any moral purpose? mixed in with his desire to save fuel, his order will serve that end, sobering the people at home. And that isn't bad. And this is Lent too, which is arf appropriate period for holidays from indulgence. I I k 7 TUri VYASNr "Nfl lfl Mill' f s. I v At ir!r iMMNtfti vhtaw r u n i i . t i. Ti AVVHO5JU0TrCTr7rTy?rr'lff II I . ! in ... f iv . mm . . tw w tiiBtr . sw jrrrlt!l 1 LLrLTlfiN ; ' 1 1 Gill 1 1 . 1 .x i .v a in kr t iruiii'itiri i i in i 11 - t ! i " I; X lVTri I V i f fftl I If. I III. I ' . " ' Distributed by Daf Tmiarm Syadicmt ! ' ttt tmaiMt wKk Thm Wahiactoa 8U 1 1 i ' - 1 '.' ' ' ... I : " ' '- - '' Iff ' i '- " ? fl&Mfr' & 4S " (KZ 'THE FRONT! U3 Nauxo-PsTchcrfrlc Doctors AccomplUh, Miracles Every Day Market at Hand Henry Haag, a successful dair farmer of Reedville, Washington cour ty, advanced soma very sensible and worthwhile suggestions in a talk at the Kiwanis club jTuesday noon. He urged that agriculture be considered as full working partner of industry and business. And he pointed out the huge market which agricul ture provides for city-made merchandise. - Huge quantities of Duilding material and farm ma chinery and household furnishing can be ab sorbed by farmers IF they nave the purchasing power. ;i That is a thought worth We can very well cultivate ket and not letimrselves be by the will-o'-ihe-wisp of costly illusion of made-work by government to provide jobs. paying attention to. his vast farm mar- swept? off our feet oreign itrade or the One of the Moscow papers ing China's government at sidering that Russia has China, the curtain lecture in ill grace. j The meeting of the "big sea is said to be "amphib agreements do not prove has been lectur- Chungking. Con done little to help from Moscow comes three" n the Black ous." Must so the t&o "fibibus." Interpreting j The War News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST " 1 II' 1 Savage as is Japanese resistance on doomed Iwo Jima, the dominant factor is that a huge armada of American warships, transports and supply craft is riding it out around the tiny Islet 70Q miles or less off japan's home coasts unchallenged by sea and virtually immune even from air attack:. More than 48 hours after jfirst echelons of vet eran marines poured ashore, bo effective help had come to the besieged enemy jgarrisoiW I ' Eyewitness accounts told j of Anjserican naval planes by the hundred swarming the skies. There was only passing and uncertain mention of any land-based enemy planes putting ii appearance. Tokyo broadcasts intimated that hafily-escorted U.S. plane carriers! were moving ir ven, closer, hardly 600 miles off the enemy's home coast, to renew the smothering air attack'. tht lideared the air and kept it clear of Japanese fighters and in terceptors while the first Iwo Jima beachheads were established and extended. The Japanese press and radio renewed warnings &at evel an American invasion attack on the hom island smight be ex pected at any moment. ": Had other evidence of absolute American control of the sea established beyond the Pacific in the na val battles in Philippine wafers beeit lacking, the bold move to seize Iwo Jima would have proved it It pointedly confirms tht terse declaration of highest ranking American haval luthorities in Washington and in the Pacific theatre that the world's widest ocean has been complply bridged; that the way is open new, fori landing in China or in .Japan itself at any time the men and equipment are available or at, any point American judgment may select ' " j ,t . In point of fact however, seizure of Iwo Jima is but another of many probable moves to consoli date effectively the naval victories already won that have reduced Japanese sea powe4 even in Japa nese waters to little more than: potential nuisance values. If it comes lout at all; it can rome out only to certain complete destruction, , It still is to the European; theatre that the ob server must look for some answer as to when the final step in the long leap across the Pacific can betaken. s ' ! f Renewed assurances were given a the Crimean meeting by Churchill that he whole weight of British sea, air and ground power wobld be in time thrown against Japan. : ! Even in the offidal Washington Version of ithe latest Roosevelt -Churchill Pacific strategy talks, however, it was emphasized that no ti until the war in Europe has been virtually ended can Britain turn fully to that task. , Not until then, also, can the American fpes adequate foi the Jo!j be available. Words With a Familiar Ring THe! Safety Valvo LETTERS FROM STATESMAN , REAPERS WOULD BUT PARK To the Editor: Please permit, me to again break hi on you with an offer which to some may sound pe culiar, especially coming from a new j citizen. According to the vpte tecently cast we lost the op portunity of securing a vacant piec4 of property large enough for a City Park. Just because a few (stay at homes) who have no civic! pride who are so dila tory in their, habits that they don't seem to care, or are too contented within themselves to think enough of Salem to help pronjote Salem's growth. I think we should get together and, form a Syndicate or some such! body, to promote the pur chase of this piece of property to be used by the live people not Zompies or Crepe Hangers, or thesej people who strip the gears from the wheels of progress. For Shame! j T I eonsider it a disgrace and a shanie for these Zombies, Mum mies! Crepe Hangers, eta, to be permitted to take part in our civiq welfare, because; they are the very same who want all the benefits of progress, but will do everything with their (small po tato pdeas) to stop the wheels of progress. Ciic pride they know nothing about, and now is the time to assent ourselves. Having been a Government Structural E n g i -neeri I have been in Europe and most of the United States, build ing highways, dams, flood con trols! laying out war production jetties! etc., and 'have moved to these taxes. wis Deauurui city to mate mr home here. I must say that X am cha grin tied and ashamed when I fully realize that there are those living in our midst who think 1945 is 1845, coal oil lamps, swa; bade horses and are will ing o stay in the mire of anti dihr rian periods to say nothing of oic-cart days. Bing instrumental in having a large financial corporation erec ; a 20 story apartment hotel and jmedical dental building here in Salem, I say this: I personally -will pledge $100 toward the purchase of Bush's pasture whih leaves 2 109. other people who voted for Salem's City Park. I firmly believe a park to aj city is as essential as our streets, ; highways or airports. Financing this wiH be easy. We thenj can dedicate it i to Salem Beaatlfol Salem, the criterion of residential cities of America, so let us pull together and watch Salem growl S , . . ; -I Thank you : I Very Respectfully J J. LEE J - Your Federal ncome . jNe. tt, ; Tax Deductions Taxes are,! in general, a deduc ' tfble item in arriving at net in come for Federal normal tax and : surtax purposes. Whether you should deduct taxes in your re turn for 1944 depends in part on tie method you use in making ' your return, and In part on spe cific provisions of law, A. Special Deductions By special provisions of law you may deduct in computing your adjusted gross Income to which the tax in the tax - table iji the return applies, taxes chargeable against rental or roy alty property (in schedule B page S, of Form j 1040) and taxes on business property (in Schedule C, page S, Form 1040). B. Other Deductions I Taxes which are not allowable ifi computing your adjusted gross Income may represent taxes on investment' property or; taxes on other nonbusiness property per- j spnally owned. j f If you use your Withholding : Receipt Form W-2 (Rev.) as a return, or if you file Form 1040 and use either -tax table or the standard deduction then you may rjot deduct any; taxes referred to in the preceding paragraph, be cause you will receive an allow ance in lieu of such deductions. If, howeveri you file Form 1040 and itemize! your deductions on page 4,: then you may deduct; taxes.; J - In general deductible taxes in clude State and local taxes, per-j sjonal property taxes, real estate; taxes, and certain sates taxes,! subject to the following general; lmitations:j f.- f (1) Taxes are generally deduc tible only by the person upon! whom they are, by law, imposed;; (2) Taxes for local benefits, such as assessments for street! sidewalk, sewage and other local improvements which tend to en- The Literary Guidcpost j By W. G. Rogers ENGLAND IN THK EIGBTEKN- EIGHT1ES." fey Betea MerteU Lyn (Oxfora; M-M). The state should not interfere with the people "even for the preservation of life, health and education." If the laboring class es are "poor, squalid and. depen dent it is because they have no ; efficient desire to be anything, flse." Any governmental regu lation of wages or hours "would be a ridiculous and unthinkable invasion of individual freedom." Public works . "strated for the -relief of the- unemployed . . . are. in the long run an injury Instead of a" benefit to the com munity." An employers' liabil- ity act "would interfere with freedom of contract and the right Of property and would discourage investment of capital in indus try." All this reminds us of the more f xtreme statements of opposition to federal measures, labeled loosely the New Deal, to end Unemployment in the 1930s. But these quotations come; , . . and Mrs. Lynd has done well to as semble them . , . froni England's i9th century "economic liberals," who in their day opposed any Governmental interference with what were regarded as the "na- ural" hardships thrust by a de- ression upon a people in a highly mpetitive society. Mrs. Lynd, who with her hus- nd's help tackled Middletown, taken on England alone . . . th a word of thanks to Mr. nd and .others for assistance. The hullaballoo of war may have inade many of us forget our own slump, which came just half a Century after the one about which f he writes. We can be glad she did not forget j She does not belabor the com parison; indeed, she makes less pi it than this review; does. But it is immediately plain, from a Reading of her absorbing book, that she though the i lesson of England would be pertinent and Salutary. !' tThe old liberalism, failed, she arges, saying: "It left men free live without the material basis jf life, free to speak but with nothing of their own to say, free to believe but with nothing posi- Tinnr th vain nt th nrnnertv taxes, are not deductible except ive to believe in, free to worship amounts allocable to maintenance Put with nothing in ; which to of Interest charges; i (3) The tax must be a tax for public purposes. Charges for gov-; ernmental services such as muni cipal water; bills, parking meter charges, service fees,' and the like are not deductible as taxes, but are deucttble as expenses if incurred in a trade or business.' place their faith." Flashes of Life LOS ANGELES-W-Three po lice officers found out today how t feels to be inside a cell look ing OUt ", ' v : i The three, J. H.' Connolly, P. D. Fisher and H. Peters, failed to "THE YOUNG IDEA" By Mossier &VV til- ' t !;'. ' .... ..t . .: , . T..J. - Vrink issued bench warrants for them. They appeared, only to hear jthe Judge order the ; bailiff to take their revolvers ; and lock them up until the case ' was called. : ij " " . isM - -T- 1 i r p.X!se" - .. rr- Couli I help it if the bos was later INDEPENDENCE, Kas. hit's legal," bulked the judge, so jthe deputy made out another marriage license for Lt R. E. ' Bowles of Washington, D. C, and hls bride of a year, the former Ruth Ellen Dodge of St Paul, v; Minn. - - - . 1 The lieutenant, now stationed at Coffeyville army: air field, jexplained: "Our first marriage : beremony, which took place in . Baltimore in 1943, was so much fun we vowed we'd have a cere- mony every year we are to gether." , - HELENA, MonMP)-Rep Larry W. Busch of Baker, Mont, fhas found, a new use. for, big jfeet I Today-he planked his number il3s on his desk in the Montana jhouse of representatives - with ithis note inscribed- on the soles ;in white chalk: ' "Vote for house bill 110.", " It passed. k ; I By A: L Goldberg (Substituting for Kenneth I i Dixon) WITH THE U.S. SEVENTH ARMY I IN ALSACE-Pr-There Was the whistle of a German 88 -millimeter shell. A slim Ar-, xansas youth cringed in a shal low ditch at the edge of the woods and shouted a warning to his captain to duck. The shell exploded. Twenty-four hours later the soldier was in a hospital behind the lines, shaking and twitching, unable sta remember what had happened. He was a fairly typi cal case of combat shock and battle exhaustion. In less than a half-hour a doctor using a combination of psychiatry and neuro-therapy had dug into the youth's sub consicous and cajoled out of him the tale stored in the recesses of his mind. ;The twitching is gone and his exhaustion is being remedied. Another man has been salvaged for army duty by neuro-psychl-atric doctors who accomplish similar j feats dozens of times daily. ' The figures on the number of men thus reclaimed are neces sarily secret but the doctors say amazing success is being at tained in refitting men for front line duty. Jin two recent weeks 40 per cent of the patients who reached one hospital were returned to duty. And this was after "screening through two forward field stations. 1 As the boy from Arkansas re lived his hours of terror and his mind yielded to the doctor's coaxing questions, he unwitting ly disclosed his own story of de votion to duty and to his fellow soldiers; f f The doctor was Capt Barlett Stone of White River Junction, Vt, the head of the department is Capt William Magee of Grantwood, NJ. The patient was given an in- -tra venous injection of sodium pentothoV which relaxed him into a dream world while the doctor searched for facts. 1 Lying on a cot the . youth stirred j uneasily as Captain Stone imitated the whistle of a shel) and then banged the wall near the soldier's head. "Get down! Watch out Cap tain," the youth muttered. Alternately by whistling and slapping the cot to simulate hells, then reenacting the roles of various soldiers on the pa trol, Stone slowly drew from the deep recesses of his memory all the pertinent incidents that the young soldier had been unable to remember. You could see the patrol try ing to get from foxholes to the cover of the woods, then being forced to dig a hasty ditch for shelter and finally making their : way back to an aid station. Each time : Stone's whistle sounded the youth shouted, "Look out Captauv .Get, down, sir, or, "are you all right Cap tain?" - i You got the idea that he was a pretty good captain, but you got the idea also that here was a pretty good soldier.' "It looks like they got us zeroed in here," he went on. "No, sir. Captain, I'm all right; I want to stay here andfight All my friends are out here. They're depending on me. Why don't you go back, sir? Ill hold them off until you get out" The fact that the soldier was unable to remember what had happened to him complicated his combat shock because it wor ried him. When the youngster came out of the narcotic sleep, Stone filled him In on the miss ing details, ') then told him to' go to a ward wherp-'he would get a complete-rest lure. "Captain, I. can't stay in a hospital," he protested. "They need me up on the line. That's where I , belong. That's where my buddies are." . Stone, led him off still protest ing, i. "We wont send him back to the line," Magee said. "This is the second time he has been In, so well send him to i job in thej. rear." . r r Maj. Harold Golden of Her kimer, NY, head of .'this base hospital, said the frontline men thus transferred do excellent work.' . . ''' tThey are motivated by loy alty to the men up front They work their heads off in supply jobs, for instance, to make sure their pals aren't let down. They know how it was," he said. Air Force VeteraniRelates Saga of High Adventure : 1 With CJtehault in China By Irwin Harris News Editor. The Statesman Jv. saga of high adventure and danger, first as a member of the famous American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) in China; later as a pilot of transports, fighter planes and Superfortresses for the 14th U. S. air force; and finally capture by Japanese and escape from a Nip prison camp, was related hy cape bieven (Rusty) Curnmings at the Tues day noon luncheon meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the Golden Pheasant - ; ' The young captain, "recently honorably discharged because of wounds received in action, joined the KSLM radio staff last month and is now located in Salem. His home town is San Francisco. At the time the AVG was or ganized in China in 1941, by the thin Col. Clair Chenault, Curn mings was serving as an instruc tor hi the Chinese air force under the employment of the Chinese government He resigned his posi tion to enlist with the Flying Ti gers, and helped fly supplies to China over the hump. j Becomes 14th Air Force "We eventually became the 14th air force under General Chenault in i China. Our airfields were con structed mainly by 'Chinese coo lies. At Kweilin where I was sta tioned, 78,000 coolies worked on our field. Gas was still our big gest problem. It cost $50 a gallon to get gas to the planes in China and I never took enough higheif mathematics to figure how much one bomber mission cost" the captain explained. As pilot of a B-29 bomber, Curnmings took part in the first Superfort raid against , Paramu shiro, June 15, 1944. On his sec ond Superfort raid the tail of Curnmings plane was severed by a Jap fighter pilot who crashed into the big fort, but the captain and his crew parachuted to safety in friendly territory. i "It was on our third-- mission thati we. really got into trouble," Curnmings recalled. "Two of our motors were shot out and rather than; let the still secret B-29 fall into; Jap hands we decided to let the ship crash with Its bomb load still) in place and bailed out over enemy ground. We were captured by Jap troops and taken to a prison camp where the command ing officer was a colonel who spoke perfect English and claim ed to be a graduate of Columbia university. ' .' , ; .j Treatment Bad "At first we were treated fairly ; decently, but when we refused to answer questions, the Japs started to torture us. We were beaten constantly and suffered all kinds of indignities. Finally on the 87th day in prison camp we were told to bend over so the Japs could beat the backs of our legs. The men refused. As ranking officer of the Americans, I was told to order them to bend over. I re fused and was slashed across the . forehead with a Jap saber. This touched things off. A little master sergeant from Brooklyn grabbed a sub-machine gun from a Jap guard who had become engrossed in the show, and started to mow down the Japs. During the ensu ing ; confusion 27 of us escaped into; the nearby jungle. "After days of walking in which eight of our group died from dysentery and other jungle ills, we reached the Irrawaddy river in Burma. Here we built raft and floated more than 300 miles down the river until we again neared Jap-held territory. We left the raft and split up into small parties to head for friendly lines. Of the four in our party, my : navigator, - Lt Dick Creegen, and myself finally reached the Chinese lines and General Che nault personally came after us." ! Newspaper advertisements for Marine recruits were published In 1866-; 1 ! STEVEX3 ! ... 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