- ' " ''.'. V';--;, .' , - - - J! I : . -1 ' L J 4 ' - - - i 6 . t -i PACE roua Thm 02EG0II STATESMAN.' Sclaa. Orejon. Sandcrf Morning. rbrttarr?2S. IMS - V '.r:- ' ; ' . ! V-' - - - ' - - ' ' ; y A, j; y NUKNt "Wo Fooor Sways Vt; No Fear Shalt Atoe", I From First Statesman, March 23, 1831 I THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher 1 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 otherwise credited In this newspaper. ! i - 4 - ... ( v i' . f 'We Three Kings' l'We, three kings of Orient are" could apply to King Farouk of Egypt, Emperor Hailie Se lassie of Ethiopia and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. This was the trio which visited Presi- . ... . . i ent Roosevelt aooara an American wsraup m reat' Bitter lake, an arm of the Suez canal. ey did not come, from very far off an they t bring gilts, ana -iney came separately father than in company. But it must have been 6uite a scene when three kings of the orient vis ited the president of a distant but famous de rnbcracy. " " King Farouk is the successor of the ancient Pharaohs though his empire is not so broad nor bis grip on power so firm. He might have made conversation with President Roosevelt by point Jog to the spot (if it is in that vicinity) where the hosts of Pharaoh were drowned when they pursued the Israelites fleeing from their slave labor (making bricks) for the Egyptian rulers, though not without some compensation (leeks and garlic) i Emperor Hailie Selassie might have discussed a trip in state made by one of his predecessors in office, the Queen of Sheba, who traveled by caravan to visit King Solomon in Jerusalem. She brought gifts of gold and spices and had a good time at Solomon's court. Poor Hailie Se lassie, we wonder who loaned him the coat he wore when he called on the president. It looked a bit like a GI overcoat. But then he should be happy. He is back at Addis Ababa, and Mus solini is jibbering in a north Italian resort. The one who could come and be sure of re ceiving every possible consideration was King Saud, and that not because of the fame of his ancestors or predecessors in office. For King Saud's country is rich in oil, and the rulers of Britain and the United States and Russia do well to treat him with deference. King Saud brought along bis own camp, and pitched his tent and laid, his' bed on the deck of the de stroyer. As a devout Mohammedan he prob ably was not offered any of the president's "old fashioned" drinks. He brought' along his own mutton, on the hoof, and his milch goats. But the president made him feel right at home. It was a deft touch, that of Roosevelt's in in visiting these three kings of the orient tq call. 'Two of them, Farouk and Ibn Saud, preside over key countries, whose good will is invalu able for world security. Their assistance in the war is appreciated, and their continued cooper ation strongly desired. And we have no doubt that the three kings of the orient left the Amer ican destroyer with kindly thoughts toward Mr. Roosevelt and the great country of the Occident over which he presides. V , B. B. Beekman r . The Beekman name belongs in the roots of Oregon history. C. C. Beekman was a pioneer express agent and banker in Jacksonville at the time it was a center of gold diggings. (The town is still a veritable museum piece rich in antiques and historical lore). B. B. Beekman, whose death in Portland occurred a few days ago, was a son of the pioneer banker. Given a fine edu cation at the University of Oregon and at Yale, the son became a teacher and then a lawyer. His great interest in his later years was pioneer history. He sponsored the C. C. Beekman prizes for high school essays in Oregon history. He served as member of the board of directors of the Oregon Historical society and was an active member of the S. A. R. and of Masonic groups. He was a familiar figure about the Portland hotel where he resided for SO years. Quiet and unostentatious, Mr. Beekman used his means and his influence in behalf of worthy causes. and maintain its full staff will be wound tip by i July next," the university has a $50,000 "war, i fund" contributed by its! friends to tide it over until the end of the war permits normal enroll-f ment again. All this is most encouraging ! President Smith in his two yeas of service has proven himself a vigorous executive, a man I with a broad vision for the university, and witEj ! marked ability in seruring wholehearted co-y I operation on and off the campus for his pro gram. The old university prospers under his young hands. " - 1 f .J :" f Get on Bandwag6u Turkey and Egypt have declared: war on the;' axis powers. So have! several of the Latin American nations in recent weeks. These decla- j rations are based on advice from the Big Three nations that unless they actually declare war on Germany and Italy they: will not be invited to attend the San Francisco conclave on world organization nor given a place at the peace con ference to follow the war. So they have rushed for the bandwagon. I We do not understand why these nations need to be belligerents in order to have a place at the San Francisco meeting.? That is a meeting to frame finally the organization for world order. To it all nations ought to be eligible except en--emy states and those lined up with hem. They can make no greater contribution to the allied side in this war through formal declarations than they already are doing: The necessity for these nations to become' belligerents is not ap- . a i,' parent. . 8 . ' J' ' As far as the peace Conference is concerned these small nations will have little to say any way.' They didn't at the Paris conference in 1919. In international affairs power is still the measuring rod, and the small nations, lacking power, have to.take what is given them. They very well know, however, ' that they wiil fare better under the overlordship of America and Britain than in a Hitlerite world. -' I I u -m ' -m kmh wisr, 1 1 4""- "ri ' -! ! li .'AT THE FRONT! Tpurafioa' VlrhiallT Becomea Obsolete , . InTrench Papers W irmnmt wftk Tk WaklutM au A Casualty of the! Battle of the Potomac uw irrrnnriTsi i , (Continued from page 1) News Behind the News (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole " y or in part strictly prohibited.) -i- I ' . i Street Lighting I A study by an illumination expert finds that Salem's street illumination 'is deficient iExist- ing lighng units are not efficient and the city is advised to make an increase in the amount it spends for street lights. For a beginning we might suggest thai State and Court streets leading up to the capitol have all four instead of merely the top light turned; on. As it is, only the top globe is luminous at ' night, and the walks along the park are poorlyi lighted. Those approaches to the capital from town ought to be bright with Kght. The in-; stallation is there; all the globes should t used As for the rest of the city the council should study the report and do all it can to provide am ple lighting for city streets, Adequate illumi- nation is needed for personal safety, to make crime less easy and to prevent auto 'accidents. In Germany Hitler is dubbed the "forgotten man." But he's not gone; that's the trouble.. , Interpreting Willamette Prospers 1 " President G. Herbert Smith was able to pre , sent an optimistic report to the board of trus tees of Willamette university at its meeting last ; week. Witji recent bequests whose value is es- -timated to equal an addition of about $240,000 : to the endowment, the undergirding of the in- ' ; stitution is greatly strengthened. Pledged or I paid toward a new building fund for men's dor mitory and infirmary is a sum now amounting to nearly $120,000 out of a goal of $321,000. While "the V-12 navy unit which, has been of j great value in enabling the college to operate Editorial Comment "MUSHr f ' s. There are many things without which a soldier must do in the line, but munitions and food he must ; have., Trucks can take them only so far; ration par ties have to come for them and carry them back on 1 foot. That is no easy task when the ground is bad, the weather worse and enemy fire worst of all. Just now General Bradley's fighting men face all of these. The ground is a shambles, the snow is ,j deep, enemy snipers keep busy. Slogging through snow with a heavy load of rations is not easy for men. . Dogs are to be tried out, and 160 Eskimo huskies, two dozen sledges and as many trained; drivers have been flown to Belgium to carry chow : ( to the men up front f Dogs have Jeen used in this war to accompany patrols, to carry messages, even to detect mines, but probably this is the first time they have been used to take food to the front Trained huskies, should do admirably. The green pastures are not . $ the heaven of the husky; he would lie down in , snowy wastes. For the snow is his element He love to run in it, At night he will curl around and let it swirl about him to- be a warm blanket To him nothing is more enjoyable than the prospect of a sledge trip, unless it is the trip itself. He knows these preparations above any others and his howls of anticipation are something to be heard. Harnessed, he will hardly wait to start, and once started becomes the nearest thjng on four feet to perpetual motion. The heavier the load the harder he will pull. And for courage nothing can surpass . him., .;''- v-, . ., ;.- ---i.: Wherever dogs are used the' command "Mushl" i heard. Just what it means is a matter of dis pute As good a guess as any i is that it is a cor ruption of the French habitant's "Marcher "Get going!" With huskies the word needs no whip. It wili start off a dog team at breakneck speed. Are' rations to be delivered to Bradley's men? Load the i pledge. Harness up the huskies. Pull on your snow i packs. And "Mush!" New York Times. War News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON I ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST?, The answer to Nazi ability to maintain hnj or-': ganized defense aground .within the roofless; citadel that lies between the Rhine and the Oder may be evident soon. ; And when it is, the duration of the war: in Eu-; rope can be answered with some reasonable degree jj of accuracy. ' f I 1 1 ; Germany was face to face with another supreme test I t -t! There was no question: but that the final phase of J a coordinated Russian-Allied winter drive to crush i the wehrmacht was on although the full scope and : direction of simultaneous massive ground attacks I from east and west had yet to develop. , . f Under cover of a sustained Allied air bombard-1 ment that blackened German skies day and night I with bombers the big push began. In an anniversary order to Red armies issued J while Allied bombers were ripping at every vital j Nazi communications key in. preparation for the culminating break-through ground attacks, lremier 1 Stalin again defined the Joint objective as annihila j hon of the German army.;; For the first time, too, he 1 disclosed officially that) the iRussiathAllied oflen- 1 that if he makes a loan and loses, the government will share the loss pro rata with the bank er, up to a $2000 maximum. .' But: on a $4000 loan banking practice, based, on experience, will permit only' a 50 per cent : loan. The banker might be will ing to make the loan if he had the underlying security, but in stead of the government making a flat; guarantee up to 50 per cent of a $4000 loan, it merely off ers to d i v td e the loss, and where several thousand veterans are seeking J full 100 per cent loans j there are bound; to be losses! ' 4: , 1 : ! I' And the government requires the banker'to make these loans at the very low rate of 4, per cent! fl' " . j',. :f t What Is the result? The bank er, who is lending chiefly not his own money but the money his depositors 1 have left with him, cannot make 100 per cent loans I on such j a deal, because there tare sure to be losses and the interest rate is too low to absorb such probable 1 losses, even With government sharing. When this is explained to the ex-doughfoot or the ex-seaman, he is apt to say, as he turns away: "Just 'what I was afraid of; another gyp." This lending' deal is not as practical as the FHA lending ar rangement in which the govern ment made a guarantee of the lop ten per cent on loans for housing, permitted a higher rate of interest and then took a small. percentage for an insur ance fund on such loans. This has worked out very well both for borrowers and for the banks and lending agencies and for the '. government ' j It Would seem that radical re vision is necessary before the lending provisions, particularly for business loans, will be of much value to ; veterans. Better to let the normal methods of business prevail in which the veteran can obtain credit accord ing to his own credit rating than to hang up hopes which; cannot be realized. 1 i ' ... '-if - ru miiim ; ' PALM BEACH, tla... Feb. 24 .-A lawyer-business man who is , government official listened to a group of the learned and wise among his - associates, discussing whether. Stalin won the Livadia conference, whether lefteist to talitarianism (quasi; communism ) will sweep Europe, what our own post-war future . Is, for more than an hour before he broke in to say: "I think com munism or some similar disinte gration of our system is ahead of this country : in the next fifty years. But I think it is coming, not because of Stalin, but because of our own foolishness. We have not met our problems wisely and soundly. We are hot doing that today. . .'J i It is inevitable j furthermore, that our people will soon sweep aside the coming communism in whatever form it takes, as soon as they experience it They do not want it They will fight to get out of it, and to restore soundness in values all values money, morals, religion, liter ature, art, economics. They will return to common sense for many generations thereafter." No one present disagreed. A religious leader noted the same 'symptoms in 'his line of work as the banker found in his. On the religious sidei the 'decline of popular faith in soundness ;of moral values was evident-4A disinclination toward 'common practices which f mikes for health, happiness iand perman ency. ' I . . The banker noted that the American' Bankers association does not oppose the side of the -Bretton Woods agreement which proposes giving money awey for rebuilding the world, but only the foreign exchange part Even bankers have become so con fused and disillusioned they no longer think it unsound to give money away the people's mon ey .in the federal treasury. , Mr. Roosevelt currently wants the Johnson act repealed, so that restriction may fbe removed against giving the people's money to nations which have not ser iously tried to repay us from the last war. Last time the bank ers : made .these loans and the individual investors lost . Now all' seem to think it will be an improvement to give the money out of our treasury and make all Were it not for parasites, many insect pests might increase to such an extent that growing of sives were now intimately coordinated, fitted to crops would be impossible wuiuai strategic ana tacucai pattern. tj n . . Whether that was me direct first result hi a mUuW,-, wtxyi a ei'' r 'iie "-" i itary way of the momentous Churehffl-Roosevelt, j 1 lUUlNly IDlliA By iMOSSler Stalin conference at Yalta or.had been previously I ' - ' worked out is not yet clear. . It seems certain, how1 ever, that further aggressive moves to tighten the I screw on the tottering last segment of Hitler's once I sweeping Axis hold on continental Europe Were in 5 the making. I f. . . i t i Further evidence of the impending German col lapse came during' the week from Turkey, lln des i Derate hasto to Join in the United Nations - victory march, Turkey formally entered the war. - Her a j tion came too belatedly, to influence greatly the ; military situation except thai it exposed die-hard I Nazi garrisons on the islands of the Aegean to im-1 mediate close range attack. The complete clear I ance of that sea for Allied naval and air aid seems ; apt to be the first war mission of Turkish forces, i There were further indications during the week s also that a Nazi withdrawal! from Italy might bei impending. It will involve terrible risks for Nazi! divisions pulling back out of the Ertruscan line ! across the head of the Italian peninsula if and when; it comes. They must nuke their way somehow J across the wide open sweep of the To valley, to I reach Alpine passes, already Under sustained Allied air attack that lead into Germany or Austria. There I were indications of softening of the defense of long I stubbornly German held heights on the Italian front j which suggested the retreat in the south had begun. There are no recent official Allied or Russian: estimates of remaining German divisional Strength : either on the east or west fronts by which to measi ure immediate possibilities, But east as well as west the wehrmacht faces :.ptishingoddsas .thej most decisive moment of the war draws near, while ? overhead it stands naked to ceaseless Allied air at-; tack. These can be no doubt as to the end, only as ' to just when and how it will come ; the ; people losers. Truly this represents disillusionment in fi nance. x . ; I ' have found nurses so disillusioned by wrongs they see in medicine that they are ; coming to welcome social ized medicine, even' though they know it means that communal system will cause the end of all except the purest scientific am bition in medicine, that doctors will have to become politicians to get ahead in their profession and seek salaries and ; appointments through the political mill in Washington to the destruction of the best ideals of their profes sion, and to the worst interests of the common man, the patient I found abused; religious and race classes of four people de siring to tear down our civili zation, thinking j thereby their condition would be improved, not realizing that with all its defects it has afforded them the best haven their people ever had in all the history of the world, bet ter than any other nation af fords them today or any nation will afford them in postwar. Here we are then the youth, the serviceman and their fam ilies suffering confusion and lack of hope along with the doctor, nurse, negro, the worker, the re ligious man, the business man, the banker. ; ! What are we going to, do about it? 1 Sit Mown j and await the fulfillment of the mass of dis couragement? I j Np well ordered nation would. The problems must be attacked and; solved. Confidence in our future must be restored. This nation was Wen more dis couraged twelve years ago at this very time. A fresh, brash pres ident this same Mr. Roosevelt arose on the capitol steps and said there was! nothing to fear but fear. - jj, ' He thought he: could do the job and he did enough of it to get the country out. of the basement, and would have jdone more if he had not started playing around politically, packing the supreme court, with incompe tents and leading; class warfare for political purposes. He put the stock market In its properly i regulated place for one thing. , ; ; But behind him1 there must be built up in this; country a popu lar following for what everyone who can think, realizes is simple common justice and soundness. Sounder leadership must rise to the I top. in all classes to pro mote the tilings we know to be good, to , make, , class- surliness, hatred and greed less popular, less j condensed, to promote a na tional teamwork out of our fool ish strifes. : -,Kf.. - - A; leadership j inspiring confi dence in postwar reconversion must be established in Washing ton! I ' Understand ex-Justice ames Byrnes is now back in favor at the White House and is to be come increasingly !a greater pow er and influence- He may be able to do this job, especially if the top brains of the country are ranked in as it was for the war production task, j . . .. There are men among the workers who are not of the Hill man stripe, among the clergy who do not want to compromise .'with communists, among the ne groes who know) what is wise and,, just, to business who know thisf foolishness i cannot- last, among bankers who know what 'sound' values really ere, doctors who wul stand for fairness and justice.. ' Let them speak up and assert themselves, and furnish leadership for good in this coun- try. .,. -. y j z -: , )yjz. It thev do. veu will soon see the looserunning "political shysH term, - hate mongers, greed go getters - our whole gangster idealism with its hard material ismfade fa popularity: There is iustfication for disillusionment, but ; this very condition should I By Louis P. Larimer (Substituting for Kenneth L. ; Dixon) . j PARIS-Fi-Epura t i o n . that ominous French word meaning purge which only a month ago screamed from every Parisian newspaper,? virtually has become obsolete. Ye! no one expects it -will remain thus. ; When I left Paris February 1 for a visit, to sections of Ger- many now occupied by the allies, "epuration! seemed to j have reached a climax. Such a dra-. matic figure as 76-year-old "fighting Editor Charles Maurras, or such "an erudite man of let ters as 35-year-old Roberf Rra sillach had ' supplied plenty of readable material to the French press; ;y.4 -'V- 'r- Crowded I though the French one-sheet dailies are for space, theirf editors nevertheless re served plenty of room for items to bear put the one word ; head line, jEpuration." 1 r Onj my return to the French capital I looked in vain for the familiar headline. The fact is that the government apparently grew! tired of prosecuting over 70,000 cases and decided that all those dealing with , central ad ministrative officials must be finished by February 15, all af fecting local administrations by March 15, and all charging trea son, collusion with the "enemy and others involving the possi bility of the death penalty by Mayjl. ' ' " That decision satisfied exact ly nobody t it seems, unless it was the government itself. But even! the cabinet seems to have doctors and had i tongue in cheek when it passed the; decree for speeding up and thereafter dropping all . purging.' I r j' The government, as well .as everybody else, cannot answer the fundamental question: what 'will be the attitude of the millions-: of Frenchmen who are either prisoners of war in Ger many or else have been dragged into the relch as conscripted la borers? Ad of January 31, only 5845 of over 170,000 cases had been tried, Including 471 with the death penalty. These figures show how The Literary Guidepost 1 By W. G. Rogers "THE HIOEOUT- ky Kfom Hstr ky (SuAn Hm; S1.7S). Hostovsky, well known Czech oslovak writer who has been translated into many European languages, is introduced at -last to American readers in this very short, powerful novel. It's a story of redemption. A Czech engineer discovers there is no escape for the reasoning adult front his terrible responsibilities in a world menaced by Fascism. Like the ship which puts into a safe, harbor instead of riding out the storm, the engineer tries to hide for the duration of the war. For months he remains conceal ed from all humans but one; Jie shuts life out But life ,is too insistent, his barriers prove ineffective. He cannot endure being a recluse in an ivory tower, or.a hermit in a cellar hole, even though, by ceasing to be one, he must com mit j himself to the tremendous conflict from which he has fled. Hostovsky f declares, in I other words, that no man can be alive In these days and yet evade the issues challenging mankind. This sounds more like, philoso phy 1 than fiction, but that's my fault, for in fact it is not Hos tovsky has done an exciting story' with thrilling passages. It's true, however, that his characters la bor under some handicaps. The scheme of the book is old-fashioned and dated: told in a letter by the engineer to his wife. There are, besides, some co incidences Swhich strain reader credulity such as a couple , of meetings left too much to chance to bear the weight of plot as signed to f them,-though here again Hostovsky s . characters, sincerely felt and drawn in the round, come successfully to the rescue of faltering situation. Finally, the engineer's experi ences spring somewhat melodra matically from his supposed in vention of a. sight for anti-aircraft guns-! , . . I wish, by the way that publishers would read then manuscripts as carefully as they expect critics to: the book's Jacket describes the de vice! not as a ' gunsight ! but a Domosignt i-iV-"' ' The real proof of the novel is the way people in it come to life. TL!s lacks sc;er doubla feature and we've seen teth pictaresr be an inspiration: to fight impossible is the task of com pleting all cases under indict ment within the allotted time. Thei innate feeling of justice in the average Frenchman re bels against the solution decreed by the?' government even though it is recognized that judicial ma chinery was being dogged by the incessant purge trials. . Why shouldj those go srot freeso the . average ' Parisian asks . who either j byj chance, or . because they knew legal tricks, escaped being tried in the first . wave of purge jfever? y-( .v-v---;. Others go farther and point out that no really rich people have been placed on trial .and it . seems j justifiable . for them to deduce that such persons were in a bettor position than the poor in engaging clever counsel, , if not actually making money talk to judges. v - ,.- ;"j- ; ;--V -, ', Dropping the purge of gov ernmental apparatus entirely by March: 15 arouses grave fears in the leftist political parties lest the spirit of Vichy rather than that of reborn democracy will animate France's v a s t govern mental machinery. , . One j thing seems demons trat-. ed byj the course of the purge trials so fan the worst off de fendants were the wielders of the pen. They had no alibis. They jwere committed in writ ing, their signatures affixed to editorial expressions which left no doubt about their attitude! The average Frenchman now is probably so preoccupied with daily worries about food, shel ter arid a job that he is ready to accept the cabinet's decision -to end the purges quickly. It's another question, however, what Will happen when French war prisoners and conscripted laborers reach home again and see men holding jobs who they knew to be Vichy collaborators, who perhaps even helped In se lecting conscripts for Hitler's war effort Many thoughtful Frenchmen in private conversation shudder at the; thought of possible clash es ahead when these forced ab sentees rejoin their native com munities. The Safety Valve LETTERS FROM STATESMAN REAPERS PRAISE FOR PARENTHOOD To the Editor: -, In the column "It Seems to Me" of Sunday morning you ex pressed a fine, sensible truth.7 We missed seeing the editorial in the Oregonlan, but Judging from the answer sent to that editor; y a Salem man, E. J. Benner, we are of the opinion your views differ 'on the popula tion Increase. Mr. Benner seems to think many children born to a nation is the cause of wars. Well, It's a good thing we didn't fall behind France along this line, Or we too would be at the mercy; of our enemies today. Greedj is the cause of wars, not children. Jesus says "Suffer the children to come unto Me; and forbid them not, for, of such is the kingdom of heaven." Young mothers today waiting with their children for their husband's re turn, t is a shining example of our great nation, and they are faithful. H MRS F. W. ALLEN 3625 S.E. I7th Ave. Portland , . . Practical -Religion ,,n"elor 00 BMligUmm ijuZ Wnmett -mlTrtty - V 1 4once attended a summer -. camp where those who attended had many moments of high In spiration. Upon each inspiration al moment the director of the camp advised us to write down our highest ideas or convictions. - These; written thoughts - were placed fax a sealed envelope which , was then mailed to us by 1 the director some six months, later. .They served as reminders of convictions which we had once held but from which we might have swerved.!f - -, Thej Bible reminds 1 us of the great convictions made by man. kind in its highly inspirational moments. We would do well to J8. them again and again fal fcrder jthat we do not lose or faU below; j the God-given purposes ; -"d Ideals of mankind. stives I o & DlAMOirD3 QUAtrnr akd isautt You Will both be happy tnW hoiee of an ejjgagement-Wed-dinf ring ensemble from our large collection of perfect Dia monds! in " i- TarmenU i ) Store Coerst :2 A. M. to r. ax. ! 7 i -1 y i