PAGE FOUR
Th OREGON STATESMAN. 'Salem. " Oregon. Friday Morning. March 30. 1S4S
reaou
"No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall AwtT .
From First Statesman. March 28. 1841 j
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher i
Member of the Associated Press i
1
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.
Morse Opposes Service Bill
Sen. Wayne Morse took the floor in opposi
tion to the work-or-jail bill which squeaked
through the house with a seven-vote margin
Wednesday. Morse declared: ;
It will be a dangerous day for our represen
tative government in America if the senate
ever votes to vest in on man such tremendous .
Power. , l .
' He was referring to the authority vested
. In Director Byrnes of the office of war mobili
zation and executed through the war manpower
commission for placing workers in war jobs
and holding them there, which the bill would
grant.
There are those who see in this legislation
a conditioning of the American people to the
yoke of permanent government regimentation.
That is the menace which Senator Morse sees.
That fear may be exaggerated. We have already
vested in the president vast powers,; which
viewed in the abstract are alarming to menas
of popular liberty. But the congress has put
definite limits of time for all these wartime
grants of autnorny. ome, line lena-iease, uve
definite expiration dates, though they have
been extended from time to time. Others are
limited to the war and six months thereafter.
At any rate these powers will terminate; and
presumably the war manpower act carries a
-similar termination date.
K Whether the danger forseen by Senator Morse
is false or genuine could only be proven by
the lapse of time. The fact is that it is unneces
sary to assume the risk. The enactment of the
national service bill at this stage of the war
cannot be justified on any sound ground.. The
German phase of the war is moving swiftly
toward victory. The goods to sustain the fight
ing are pouring out of factories. Already there
are decreases in the number of workers en
gaged in war industry "due to decline in con-
tracts. War Manpower Commissioner McNutt
Viimanlf ronnrt a a Tvsitive betterment in the
situation. Conditions are not such as to justify
legislation of this character at the present
time.
The contention that this is necessary in order
to hold up morale' of the fighting forces is
absurd. With our armiea winning sweeping
victories in every theatre . there appears to be
nothing wrong with its -morale. At home the
people have been pushed around considerably
of late to demobilize the joy brigades. It hardly
. seems necessary to add this measure to the
list! just to improve morale either at home
or abroad. .. .x
It looks toThe Statesman as though govern
ment officials had jumped to the conclusion
that a service act was needed back in the
time of, the. December reverse in Belgium, and
now are determined to carry the idea through
In spite of altered conditions. ,
There is an odd inconsistency in the attitude
of many left-wingers. It occurs in the whole
field of the power, of the state. Traditionally
the democratic idea was the retention of liberty
in maximum degree by- the people. But the
neo-liberals are the .ones who keep piling
uuues on me sxaie ana -maKing inaiviuuais
yield more and more to the state. The incon
sistency appears in English political thinking
as well as our own. We happened to listen
to a transcription of an English forum on
' the subject of postwar conscription, over KOAC.
The conservative member of the dialogue was
inclined to favor it; and the socialist member
thought it would be a good idea to have every
one working for the state for a period. The
conservative seemed to see it as a military
necessity; the socialist as a social good. So the
socialist' though leads to regimentation, which
is the very antithesis of our traditional con
ception of liberty.
That same philosophy seems to affect- the
mm King on mis national service act nere.
Some favor it because the army and navy say
it is needed; others favor it because they
think everyone should be working for the
government. The latter philosophy is dangerous
as Senator Morse points out. And the compelling
argument remains that national service is not
needed now.
General Eisenhower says that he will make
formal announcement when organized German
resistance on the western front is broken.1 From
the looks of the headlines we ought soon to
say: "Well, what's he waiting for?"
Editorial Comment
SEA-GOING AIR BASE .';';:
Among naval men the battleship-vs-carrier debate
is still warm. And among fliers the old Question
of whether land-based -planes e'xeel carrier-based
planes is good for a verbal battle any day. Both
debates are likely to be practically influenced by
a powerful argument in steel just set i afloat at
Newport News by the United States navy. The
Midway, 43,000-ton "flattop," is twice as large as
the carriers which won the battle from which she
takes her name and if successful in action may
Iter several aspects of modern war.
General Doolittle's heroic Tokyo raiders did the
"impossible" in getting two-motored bombers off
the old Hornet. Who knows but navy pilots will
be taking. Fortresses off this new sea-going airport?
liar runways will be long enough to hurl winged
bomb loads- far heavier than any projectile fired
by guns." The success of American carrier planes
against Japan has not finally demolished the theory
that , land-based craft should be better; but has
left it badly in need . of reconstruction. Against a
floating airfield bigger than many a small town's
the landlubber's advantage must taper off.
. In the debate with the "battlewagona" the car
riers have less concrete evidence. Most opinion
holds that carriers and battleships are both neces
sary, the latter to carry the brunt of attack and
maintain heavy firepower. But we have only begun
to hear of the firepower that rocket-equipped planes
will carry to ranges far beyond the 18-inch gun's.
Even a fighter plane armed with eight five-inch
rockets' packs the same broadside (for one shot)
as a light cruiser. Add larger bombs and torpedoes
to the offensive power of a Midway's planes, and
It looks as if the battleship men will have to launch
new coun ter-argum en ts .-Christian Science Monitor.
is
Sturdy Dutch 1 - I
While our eyes are following the arrows
racing from the Rhine into Germany we forget
there is a section of the map omitted from
current pictures of the j western front. That
istfhe Netherlands.. Actually the most of The
Netherlands , is still occupied by the enemy.
The allies- have liberated only the southern
portion of the kingdom of Queen Wilhelrniruu
She visited her. native land the other day,
still was unable to go to The Hague, to Ams
terdam, Rotterdam or Haarlem, great cities
nf hr mnntrv. I
The sturdy Dutch are still holding out against
the invader; of that we may be certain. But
they suffer severely. A Salvation Army officer
who was interned in Holland in 1940 recently
arrived in this country j in an exchange-of
nationals. He reported: I
"It is hard to 'realize that Holland as it is
now can be put on its feet again. The condition
of the Amsterdam people is more than pitiable.
All they can buy are the meagerest of rations;
neither clothing nor any of the other com-,'
modities of which there used to be abundance !
in prewar Holland, are to be had. People patch
and repatch their clothing and even then
there are great difficulties because to find darn
ing cotton or wool is no mean task.
"Many Dutch people tried to get something ;
to eat from the country but the Germans Were
constantly frustrating them by confiscating
what food they had been able ' to obtain.
German guards were posted at strategic cross
roads; whenever anyone approached they would !
search him and take away any foodstuffs he
might carry, including a few potatoes for -which
he had doubtlessly paid a high price."
This spring, rations have been further re
duced and the people have only bread and
potatoes and little else to live on. j
There is anxious concern for the early libera
tion of The Netherlands lest the people suffer
permanently from the malnutrition imposed
by the "master race' the Germans. The im
mediate objectives of the British and Canadian
forces which operate! at the lower end of the
line along the Rhine seem to be to get into
the Ruhr. The idea is to destroy the German
war-making machine there and defeat its arm
ies. The expectation is that if this is accom
plished Germany will hftve to evacuate Hot
land. So far the nazi rule has been not to
yield ground except under necessity. Thus they
Germans ;still scatter their armies in Italy,
Austria, Holland, Denmark and Norway. So
it may be that the allies will have to turn north
and clean the nazis out of The Netherlands.
The freeing of the Dutch ought not to be
delayed a day longer j than necessary. They ;
have been a stalwart bulwark; against nazisnv
and should not be allowed to suffer any longer
than can be helped. Nor should we be so
greedy of ample food supplies that we withohld
foods that are so desperately needed by the
people of The Netherlands. I
' ".V HENW4CWA80UT fT-j?-1 1
i , .' yf STORTING THOSE SKTY (Ik 12-
i . .
. . AT ilE FRONT!
Tank GI Has Tooth
Shot Qut But Won't
Got Purple Heart
j
By Robert Wilson
(Substituting for Kenneth L.
" ; 1 Dixon) '
ON THE WESTERN FRONT
-(ff)-The latest humor harvest
miles across Germany and fired
60' rounds at fleeing German
tanks. Then he stopped to resume
getting breakfast Not an egg
was, broken. -Two
treasure hunting PFC's
DMrifcrtai hr Ktac T
br inMimM with TtM WatWastoB Stae
First Man on the Line
along the western . front turns of the Eighth division spotted a
up a G who lost a toom 10
enemy action but didn't get a
Purple : Heart-n MP whose
pocket was picked by a Nazi
prisoner, and a tanker who put
all his eggs in one basket.
Mrs. Ida Mae Kelly's son, who
left home at Holt, Mich, to be-
come a private first class in the
10th armored division, is out In
front of i the 1945 - hardluck Gl
derby. German shrapnel knock4
ed out one of his teeth. The
medics informed him he was Ir
eligible for a Purple Heart be
cause the tooth was false.-
What happens, to policemen in
old jokes actually happened to
Sgt William Tox of Ridgewood,
L. I, who was frisking a group
of captured Germans: Brother
MP's called him into the office
and handed him his wallet, right
out' of the pocket of slippery,
lingered j Nazi" in . the prisoner
cage. i
Sgt. William Shake of West.
Terre Haute, Ind, was getting
breakfast when the call came to
arms. He put a dozen eggs in
a basket, but the basket on the
heavy iron. safe in a pile of
rubble. Licking their lips' in an
ticipation, Mario ' Chiriaco, De
troit, Mich, and PFC Kaden (no
first name given), Elizabeth, N.
J. attacked it for an hour .with
hammers, axes and crowbars.
Inside the safe they found 12
neatly stacked packages of K
rations. . -
The 30th infantry division boys
thought they had nabbed a Nazi
genenu, ne was uecKea out m
such highly ; polished gold and
glittering braid. But grilling by
Capt '".Roy Avis; Council Bluffs,
Iowa, unmasked him as a rail
road station train caller overrun
in! a German retreat '
jit may not be funny to Paris
bartenders, but Brussels soon is
to become the' largest rest center
in the European theatre with the
formation of the Belgian leave
section commanded by Lt. Col.
Frederick Kraschel, Harlan, la.
" One of the attractions is a
mammoth dancehaU where a bar,
commanded by Lt Victor Spence,
Detroit Midv dispenses beer,
soft drinks and ice cream with
News Behind the News
f By PAUL MALLON j
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole
I ' , or In part strictly prohibited.)
Ml
Faal fttaUaa
Over at Corvallis an Easter egg hunt is sched
uled for next Sunday. All week there will be
a nation-wide hunt for Easter ham. ; i
Interpreting
The War I News
By KIRKE L, SIMPSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST '
Despite a tactical security news blackout vir
tually all along the flaming west front in Germany
the broad pattern of the Allied attack is beginning
to take shape. j . , '- I
It could be seen clearly in consolidation j of
the American First, j Third and .. Seventh army,
sectors beyond the Rhine into a single huge knife,
cutting its way into the heart of the great central
German plain. It cart be discerned, too, now fin
the swift development of an encirclement threat
to the whole congested Ruhr area and the difficult
terrain south of it where stiffest Nazi resistance
has been met j .... j f. I .- - -
The news blackout' on the First army front
was raised sufficiently to disclose that 'its tank
columns had wheeled suddenly:: northward above
the Lahn to leap 40 miles or more toward a
junction with Field Marshall Montgomery's1 arniies
slashing eastward over the Westphalian plains.
"While the exact whereabouts of Montgomery's
most advanced elements was unrevealed, field
country around Munkter. It seemed certain tihat 1?? Putin one man in
j WASHINGTON, March 29
The manpower matter did not
come out in final form from the
Congressional negotiators exact
ly as expected.
The labor
draft was j de
featedand buried, true
enough. Mr.
Roosevelt's j re
commended course was
lost But in its
place, i a new
pro g r a m ! was
devised which
is popularly advertised as a la
bor freeze. t
The: title; is not exactly accu
rate. It would freeze all labor
excepting strikers, the ; ones
whose labor is apt to matter
most in war production, (ac
cording to the bill's sponsors
Who should know.)
j They proudly and officially
proclaimed that exemption in
.both houses j of congress. !They
say strikers do - not terminate
their employment at least not
legally, and therefore are be
yond freezing.
: r You would think then that the
union leaders would be cheer
ing. They are not AFL's Green
calls it "a slave bill,' and CIO
Is also against it as well as the
Manufacturers association: and
the chamber of commerce (ac
cording to a house member who
polled them all.)
What the bill actually pro
poses is to give War Mobilizer
Byrnes authority to freeze men
in certain areas (not defined)
mnder "penalty of jail for a year
for $10,000 fine and to do cer
i tain other things, but the bill
'itself neglects to -- say j union
j strikers are exempt j
Hence Byrnes might not agree -I
with (the advocates of the pro
I gram in congress and might try
I to use the legislation to freeze
j workers against strikes in
I which case a court would have
I to decide, after the strike is
over,! no doubt j '
But Byrnes can and probably
I will I delegate the authority to
j Manpowerer McNutt who might
j have: other ideas. j ;
Thus the most important an- -
gle of the legislation is still un
j decided. If strikes, are exempt
! then; the government could look .
ment action, if any (war labor
board, plant seizure, etc.)
In short the measure merely
hands Mr. Byrnes a lot of strong
sounding but not very clear
powers. It furthermore tells him
to handle them for the follow
ing purposef
(Section tA): "In order ade
quately to support the army and
maintain the navy during the
present wa and to carry into
effect the purposes of the decla
ration of war pledging.all the
resources of the nation to bring
the conflict to a successful ter
mination, every individual not
in the armed forces shall have
an obligation, when called upon,
to serve the nation in an activi
ty essential to the war effort
But the bill does not do that
The powers do not fit that pur
pose. It does not propose to
draft anyone or in anyway
rally new workers.
It does give Byrnes power to
regulate hiring, rehiring, solici
tation and I recruitment of labor
by employers. He can alsb put
ceiling on any plant and there
fore, put any, plant out of busl-
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back of his tank, rumbled 23 ''chocolate cauce.
fused - stuck in the radiator
of McEyoy's Jeeper. '
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falls into enemy hands, just as
Hitler's' autobahnen are for Ger
many now. This fact was a mat
ter of grave concern in Oregon
in the early stages of the war.
It was realized that our numer
ous paved highways leading to
the coast would be most con
venient for Japs to use in ! ad
vancing inland if they should ef
fect landings on the coast. It
may be disclosed now that very
careful plans were laid for i de
nying to the enemy the use of
these roads, and fortunately the
country through which ihey
passed was such that this could
have-been accomplished without
too great difficulty. .
Engineers of the highway de
partment studied each highway.
They had locations set for blast
ing off cliffs in narrow portions
of canyons and for- blowing up
bridges.. Experienced woodsmen
CHATTANOOGA, March 28.-
(P)-W- W. McGhee, Chattanooga
timberman figures he was stung
literally for $10,000.
In a circuit court suit he asked
that amount of a railroad, claim
ing he j suffered permanent in
juries from more than 100 stings
by bees: which escaped while in
shipment
The Literary
Guidcpost
By W. G. Rogers
were also enrolled in the state
ness or put it on a small scale guard with the special duty of
or large scale business. Yet he falling trees across . roadways.
that vast industrial com- "TITI? ?VniTTJr! ! ini? A" 1 ml
stone-built factory, cities. I wmux -t jjy ifiussicr
Montgomery's armor was swinging southward also.
and that the actual gap 'between the First army
in the south and British-American tank forces in
the north was Jess than JO miles. ;
A junction would cut off the whole Ruhri It
might completely trap many thousands of Nazi
troops still deployed in
jnunity of overlapping.
Their encirclement probably would leave exposed
a wide and virtually unmanned gap along the
canal connected Ems-Weser river line. :- : I
- The northward wheel Jot then First army tends I
to verify the impression that frontal attack! on
the great Ruhr " industrial hub was never - con- j
tempi ted in original Allied plans. Defended even f
by secondary troops, jit represented another Aachen t.
or Casino on an heroic scale and the casualty I
cost of clearing the j foe out of those miles upon i
miles of naturally strong defense positions must I
have been very great if'1
Instead the Ruhr; valley has been by passed I
both north and south.! Now it is. in immediate I
danger of being pinched off in a matter of days 1
if" hot hours with minimum losses. Entrapment !
of so large a Nazi garrison as i apparently still I
clinging to the Ruhr salient could be the final I
knock-out blow In the jwst i
Just ahead of the First army lies stem of the I
Coblenz Leipzig super military highway. It leads -jto
junction with the mam Ruhr-Berlin autobahn j
just south of Hamm, less than SO miles distant I
! from the last officially reported First army spear- i
head at Langwiesse. That would be a two-day J
march for General Hodges' armor at the pace it
is moving against indicated feeble Nazi resistance.
Whatever the geographical layout of the Allied
attack, however, its prime objective is entrapment f
and destruction of enemy troops in the field. The '
fast closing Ruhr pocket; bids fair to yield an ;
even greater toll of Nazi prisoners and casualties '
than did the swift clean up in the Saarland and ;
Palatinate west of the Rhine. That cleanup paved
the way for the mass victory drive into the heart I
of Germany. j
jail for a yea? somewhere for
quitting his job, and letting
: thousands! of men strike beyond
I the penalties of the bill, and re
t strained only by other govern-
cannot enforce the obligation to
serve "on every individual."
How this new program hap
pened to spring up is a secret
of the congressional conferees
who h a v e done little talking.
Only two 1 opposed it (Dewey
Short, the! Missouri republican
in the house, and Joseph O'Ma
honey, the? Wyoming democratic
senator, both of whom thought
it un-democratic.)
My - information is that the
guiding sponsor of it on the in
side was Sen. Warren Austin,
the Vermont republican , who
favors much more - a labor
draft I think he got his. main
inspiration! from the army.
The army has favored a youth
draft (fof peacetime military
training) as well as labor draft
for war and has the draft solu
tion in mind for practically ev
ery problem or as much draft
as possible.
Congress overwhelmingly re
jected the notion, so it put the
draft ideal into this "freezing-in-certain-areas
-except strik-ers-or-is-it?"
bill. No doubt it
expects the ideal to be imple
mented later..
-. This explains the confusion
still existing in this latest pro
gram as to exactly what should
be done. I It was an effort to
All this was designed to slow up
enemy progress until our own
armies could reach the valley for
counter-attack. The scheme was
carefully worked out with the ap
proval of army officers respon
sible for coastal defense.
Fortunately it was never nec
essary; to pull the defense plan
"VICTOaiA THKOUGH THE LOOK
INO GLASS: THE LIFE. Or LEW
IS CARROLL,' It FlercBC Becker
Ltaaoa (Slmaa g chaster; $3JI).
Alice; "tried to fancy what the
flame of a candle is like after
it is blown out" With this rash
quotation which in effect ac
knowledges that the task she
has set for herself is impossible,
Mrs.- Lennon begins her last
chapter.
But lf; Alice, to . conclude, the
quotation, "could not remember
ever having seen such a thing."
sheand Lewis Carroll should
be with us today, for in this
book we see the flame flare
again as much as it's ever likely
to.
C. Li Dodgson was a man of
many facets, all of them oddities
which indubitably added up to
genius.! He was reverend, artist
photographer, writer, mathema
tician, lover of little girls, and he
was Lewis Carroll. He used card
board mats to save table linen;
he kepi his means so he wouldn't
out of the files; but U should be; ZtZZZi
Vent 1IT nil rmxriamii fwun
kept up and reviewed from time
to time as part of our defense
policy, j
In construction of future high
way the military phase should
not be overlooked. Such roads
should be designed with a few
to their use by our own; forces
and so they might-be rendered
useless to an enemy if in his
possession. Hitler's experience
shows the need for considering
the dual problem of roads in
war-time. : i
Flashes of Life
ROCKVILLE CENTER, N. Y.-(JPy-The
family of Allan J. Cam
eron was startled by a loud hol
low thud. I .
Cameron, thinking a boiler had
exploded, dashed to the cellar.
Nothing seemed amiss. Running
upstairs, he looked out of a
front window and saw an in-
" flafawt full aMittinnMl lif raft
compromise two opposing ideals, , m the of Smit y
Six of the neighborhood: chil
dren were already -in it J j
Army officials at Mitchell field
retrieved the raft, explaining it
was jettisoned by an airplane. -
and the result could not be oth
erwise.
the kettle in a 10-minute walk
up and down his room; he en
tertained young : guests with a
kind of Rube Goldberg - Sandy
Calder gadget
Thought there are an occasional
sophistication and polish which
do not precisely match the sim
plicity' of thei strangely naive
Victorian,- this book interprets
sensitively and imaginatively the
author) of "Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland." The biographer
introduces Ellen Terry, Gilbert
and Sullivan, Tenniel, a 'pair of
Alice's; She notes the left-hand-edness!
that : inspires a stanza
about the White Knight Dodg
son's birth in ; the Cheshire of
the Cheshire Cat the .learning
by rote which sets Alice wrong
on what is the capital of what
This is relevant p rotund : ob
servation. If it doesn't carry us
quite to the tum-tum tree, or lift
us to j the rare level of ufflsh
thought that must be blamed on
the recalcitrant Carroll, not on
Mrs. Lennon.
"FIRST WHISPERS Or THE WIND
IN THE WILLOWS7 wltk iatro
anctlo by EUpeta Grakaa1 (Lip.
plcU; SLSS).
1 .:
"
SAN FRANCISCCH Muni
cipal Judge Edward Molkenbuhr
fined a cab driver $50 for re
fusing to take a fare where he
wanted to go, closed his 'desk,
stepped from bis -office and hail
ed a cab to go home. . '"
. "Sorry," said the driver, f'can't
go that far." . i
The judge .wrote down his
number. ; r . ; j : .
Now almost 40 years old, "The
Wind in the t Willows," which
was the pet of many readers, in
cluding the Roosevelts. the other
Rooseyelts, is traced back to its
sources: home,' farm and, family
of the; English writer.
The author's - widow recalls
that the animal's adventures
were told first in letters, to Gra
hame's son. Her book, a loving
tribute, includes some previously
unpublished Grahame pages.
"I wander if year pay digs what we have In mind, Tommyf
. -GRAND COULEE, Wash.--An
expert looked over the Grand
.Coulee dam. Jle was a beaver.
. ' . Captured in the- main power
house, the eager beaver was toss
ed back into the Jake and when
last seen, was paddling rapidly
away, probably full of new: ideas
about dame. ; ' "
i . f ''-"'- f r
LUZON, P. L, March t7P
Returning to ma advance; com
mand post a.fter desperate
night Japanese banzai charge
had been repulsed, Sgt Bernard
J. McEvoy, former West Orange,
N. J4 mQkwagon driver,; $nd a
colonel, were hailed by the driv
er of another vehicle, j f i -
"Hey Mae, what are you 'doing
with that hot cargo?" ; s j
A hasty inspection showed four
sticks of Japanese dynamite
Chiiia Seen
As Postwar
. The Chinese empire is a nation
of many divisions but is not a
nation "divided against itself,"
Prof. R. T. Johnson, head of the
animal j industries department of
Oregon; State college, told mem
bers, of the Salem Lions dub at
their noon meeting Thursday in
Hotel Marion. .
t "Passing from province to pro
vince in China Is not like passing
from state.to state in this coun
try," Professor Johnson said, "be
cause each province has its own
government and levies taxes on
everything coming across its bor
ders. After irninr tn fhinn sn
aide to the U. S. ambassador I was
loaned to the Chinese government
to assist them with their animals.
"I learned : that although Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek is tha
head of the government other pro
vince heads had minds of their
own. The further I got from
Chunking, the looser was the em
pire affiliation. There are 435,
000,000 people in China. Of this
number, 85 per cent or about
four, out of five are engaged in
agriculture and it takes that num
ber of agricultural workers to
feed the populace.' In the United
States it takes one out- of five
to feed us.
"The . JTananei inrl rc&rmona
l - r . " uuiuuk
halve made inroads into parts ol
China's trade and when this war
is over we must contend with that
influence. The Chinese have not
forgotten that while thev wera
our alley we were sending their
enemy, Japan, scrap steel for tools
of ; war to be used against them.
We must overcome that
fThe Chinese government is
sending representatives to this
country to study or methods. Re
member when one of these agents'
shows up in your community and
ao tne best- Dossible hv him ka.
cause he Is a selected man and
is; a really big shot in China.
"At present the Chinese ara
having a hard time eating. Tha
Japanese have about all the best
land under control. The Chinese
are pushed to the mountainous
area. And remember, in China
there Is more land above the 10,-
vyu ioot level than In the rest of
the whole world. Through 4000
years Of civilization, and subse
quent cultivation of the land
China's earthy is worn out It has,
naiurat resources untold, unde
veloped.' A market lies there, but
we must learn where it Is and
what it is and then go after it"
Security Plan Needs
Provision for Change
WASHINGTON. March
-Herbert Evatt, Australian minis
ter for external affairs, urged yes
terday that the world security or
ganization make provision for its
own "orderly change." I
There should be oeriodical re
views of the charter, which the
United Nations plan to draw up
at their San Francisco meeting
Evatt said.
STEVENS
The jewel of everlasting
beauty and loveliness.
Choose and wear it
Proudly. Th birthstone
for AprU.
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