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i f AGE FOUR Tb OSEGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning. July I. IUS resott esroati USS Porter Sinks. But No Lives Lost! "No Favor 5uayf Us; Wo Fear STiaZI Atorf i: From First Statesman, March IS, 1851 . ; i.'.i : I j THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY I CHARLES A, SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher 1 .'!';' Member of the Associated Press if J The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of U . v news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited inj this , newspaper. 1 Hanrlv "Anrlv Vinson ' willing to put, up with poor accomodations but, liantiy Army Vinson , , hav hekn ieiectivil planning Fred Vmson has been I a Handy Andy in the h such a chorus of complainU arise-j -K-'- - : kit koiin ; To Gwt Horn and Thls 'Proyf It government for many years. So many times has he been shifted one might I judge him as jack-of-all-trades and master-of-none. within the SDace xf a few years he has been congress- . man from Kentucky, federal judge, director of war stabilization, head of RFC, director of war mobilization. Now he has been chosen to succeed Henry Morgenthau as secretary of the treasury. President Truman has picked Roose velt's ex-handy man for the highly important Job of guiding the country's finances through the war and postwar period. Roosevelt had the habit of playing his favor ites, sometimes not very successfully. He shifted his men around from job toujob like pawns on a chessboard. Old faces and names wer continually bobbing up In new j spots. Vinson, however, is rated much higher than a court favorite. And for the new assignment he is giyen credit for having special qualifications. ' Vinson cut his eye-teeth -on. taxation as (chairman bf the subcommittee on taxation of jthe house ways and means j committee. This is Svhere tax bills originate or come to life and jwhere legislation is finally whipped into shape. Vinson had generous experience there. This gives him special equipment for the treasury portfolio because the nation's finance and 'economy depend largely on our taxing system. .Mbrgenthau's management of l war financing jhas Jaeen reasonably) satisfactory, but he never (did succeed- in getting on well with congres (sional committees. His recommendations usual ly were tossed out the window and he was a forlorn figure in his appearance before com Jmittees of congress, Vinson, an old hand as congressman, will have a better approach to the congress which, ifter all, is the tax-levying "body. It is not an easy tjask which Vinson assumes. The government debit rose during the last fiscal year $57,679 million to a peak of $258,682 mil lion. Continuing war costs will roll up new increases this year. The job of the secretary of the treasury is to keep money, on hand to ;meet bills. This means he must seek to main tain the country's , credit so bonds can be floated successfully and collect taxes in huge , amounts. The pinch may come when national ! income drops faster than do public expendi- . tures. ; The debt situation is not too unfavorable, however. For one thing, the interest cost is very low. The computed rate of interest on the public debt for the last year was 1.936 iper cent. For the war debt the average interest cost was 1.75 per cent as compared with 4.25 per cent for the first world waif. With an i abundance of capital seeking investment, in terest rates will' remain low, which makes the burden on 'the current budget much less. '! Vinson has no reputation as being a "funny 'money" man. He is not one, who! would be : expected to resort to tricks on investors; and he is tough enough to call for continued heavy ! taxes for financing our government, which is ; the only honest and sound method of doing the 'job. He is not a Wail street banker, but he is I one to have respect for the counsel of men experienced in finance. In this new assignment he may consider himself no longer the conven ient tinkerer and trouble shooter for FDR, the I catchall for heavy jobs, but as the man respon sible for ..directing national fiscal policies as J the country emerges from long and costly war- 1 I s ': lack of beds, lack of seats, lack of water. Only a few days ago jdid ODT cut reserva. tion period from 30 to five days, and only now is. it reaching ox for sleepers in overnight service, diverting j them j. to soldiet use. Why weren't these steps taken before? Why today, to civilians, manyj of whom have no urgent business requiring travel now? We had plenty ;of warnings, but people get callous to warnings and; think that "one Pull- man space for me'f "will hot be missed. Sharpet" restrictions were Reeded! Jo meet the situation! a Kamikase Jap suicide plane sank theiU. SL S. destroyer Williaoi D. Partoe eff Okinawa early la and they were belatedly Imposed. All the bt not a sinrU American life was lost. The Porter Is pictured morUUy stricken from Um sleepers in the country, H necessary, snouif explosion of Jap svltUco pkme and npMly stakta as the LCS 1ZX (forecrottnd), wUeh reocaed AfclM,,,T 1 1 iiuA.smi. xv 4 v T 4 i OCCUPIED GERMANY -ff-The mainUdea of various enter- tainment fand educational pro grams now- Under way i through out the occupation army is, oi course, td prevent homesickness. I with that in mind, company E., of the 3S5th infantry regi ment, recently held a sort of Gi Hit Parade contest It was to pick the songs most popular wiUi the doughboys so the 4th divi- sion band could concentrate on f them. j.. Hearing the songs the liked best the. GIs were eitpected to get music on their minds and forget; how L much . wanted home. v" a. ! : M be utilized to transport I war veterans on lon journeys, limiting civilian travel to that urgent ly necessary. if 1 I f - Macy's to SaniiFraricico M 1 . ' is!'1 I . y-. : j - I Announcement that R. H. Macy & Co. 1 buying the old O'Connor, Moffatt and Co. store in San Francisco! points up the planning of big merchandisers to become bigger. Macy'si in New York does the biggest retail volume of any store in the country. It has a fevjf branches, but this purchase is its first on the west coast. It is reported to have 'plans for further expansion! as th was comes to an encjj. Allied Stores, a store holding company, has been very active in adding retail units. In the northwest its operating! organization is the Cj. C. Anderson Co., with numerous stores in Idah, eastern Oregon and Washington. It is the most aggressive of the 'chain store outfits at present in entering new towns.? The older organizations have mostly just held steady during the warj Wool worth's reduced the number of its stores slightly. They will probably all try to multiply to take advantage of the spending orgy anticipated whenjnvilian goods are again produced in volume. ; The forecast in retail trade seems to be for increased competition among increasingly large retailing organizations, i ' ' - j all the Porter's crew, stands eft (International) tva . . tpsa ' ! 1 a - a- roewo isenina tne Nevo ( By PAUL MALLON ! (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole i I or In part strictly prohibited.) ! Pullmans for Soldiers M ODT was caught with its shirttail out in the movement of troops from eastern points of debarkation. Stories of returning veterans be ing shipped across the continent in crowded, -antique daycoaches are not pleasant reading. In their eagerness to get home the 'men are Editorial Comment CONTRIBUTION TO CLAEITY ' Friends and foos alike-of the Murray "full env j ployment bill" have tended to muddle the Issues by too free use of politically handy phrases and over-simplified arguments. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Eccles make a-contribution to clarity when he points out that tha true objective should be "stabilized economic progress," not "continuing full employment" at war-time j levels. Too much emphasis, says Mr. Eccles, has been placed on government's residual responsibility to step in to check a deflationary spiral by large expenditures, and not enough on government 'a initial respon sibility to encourage private enterprise. -t. The 60,000.000-Jobs slogan, seized on as tactically expedient, may not depict the real or even a desirable goal. As Mr. Eccles remarks,1 it might be ' possible to achieve .continuing full employ ment but at a very low standard of living. That is not what the nation strives for. That would be no more than stabilizing the economy on a share-the-poverty basis. On .he other hand, those who oppose the Murray BUI have over -emphasised full production as the goal, implying that a healthy if not a 60,000,000 employment level would automatically follow. But unless full production shares, with labor the bene fits of labor-saving, inventions,! and with the con sumer the results of cost-reducing methods, this goal could prove to bo as disappointing as the many Jobt for little money. 1 - i "Full" production, with its benefit equitably j aha red, might bring the nation what it properly ' wants, short of the 60,000,000 Jobs. It could bring ; a much higher standard of living. And what does ;a high standard of living mean for a people if there- cannot be fewer of the- young and the I elderly who must work for their food-and shelter, r. if there cannot be, more full-time mothers and home - makers, if there cannot be increasing Interpreting The Wail News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Ajaoclatcd Prcra War Analyst Events beyond j the Pacific' leave no doubt that -the air and sea blockade of the Japanese home islands has been! f completed by American forces in preparation for the next major move against the foe. And it hat been accomplished even before redeployment from Europe ; to the Asiatic war theater is more than well started. 1 I The past week j brought definite ; evidence also that by-passed enemy gatrisons on Pacific islands from historic Wake to the Solomons and New Guinea are dying pn the vine; and that the power ful jaws of an allied east-west annihilation vise have been set in place in Burma and Borneo that - spells doom for ' trapped Nipponese invaders Jn Indo-China, Malaya and the Dutch Indies when the southern squeeze is1 driven home. General MacAff hur's formal announcement that the campaign to redeem the . whole Philippine archipelago had been completed in 250 days high lighted the week's developments. In that timei a greatly superior Japanese ground force had been totally destroyed j except for remnants impotent to impede the attack on Japan itself. That was promptly capped! i however, by disclosure that medium bombers of the; 5th air force had shifted their operating base from Luzon to Okinawa and in the , ever j increasing air immediately -joined . assault on Japan. Linked with MacArthur's assignment of General Stilwell to . command the loth army with head quarters on Okinawa, the 'shift of one powerful wing of his air power to the same forward base is significant .Its mission is primarily strategic at the moment but when the hour for invasion of Japan comes, the 5th air force teamed up with navy carrier planes will be in a position to give ground troops close tactical support. " 11 j " ,, t Pending that, ; round-about communications via rT"T a HI? A T9 T Korea between JaDan and all but Isolated enemv vrliil AlllJi 11 WASHINGTON, July 7 In previous ; columns I concluded the Russian system is not' com munism, socialism, bolshevism or Marxism, but a despotism in the name of (but not by) the lowest class ec onomically, in tellectually and spiritually, and I came to the: decision our demo era t . Ic way of life had no valid grounds for fear of Russia Pani Halloa except from the governmental standpoint. Her people are friendly, like able, not grim like their govern ment, and her production and her methods, as well as her so cial results, are so far inferior ' to ours that our lowest share cropper 'or poorest-paid worker would think he was in , heaven nowj if fully informed of com parative conditions. I narrowed the ground of ir ritation and possible trouble be tween us, to the single factor of the political attitude of the Rus sian government, in my search for a common ground of genuine understanding which would en able us to live in peace in the post-war world. Unlike her people, her eco nomics and her production, 'ner socio-communal despotic govern ment is competitive, aggressive, sometimes belligerent and nearly always unfathomable, and therefore frightening, or at, least unsettling. . j The core of this trouble can be found in the conclusions made by our globe-girdling editors who went out for three: months to .promote a free press. They of fered an interesting! report, ex pressing hope that a pledge for . free exchange of Information, without censorship lor political use of news, would be incor porated at San Francisco. (It was 'not.) ! I i I judge also they did not find much hope for press liberty, or even much -will for it, outside of the British Empire and the Unit ed States. You cannot have lib erty without a free press, and you cannot have a free press without liberty. j! The San Francisco agreement pledged freedom of language, but what good is that, without free dom of speech? i But what does Russia think? Her editors were sol far from our line of thought as to be com pletely incomprehensible of our meaning of freedom. They think it is freedom, to work under a . complete government censorship of all their news not just, mili tary news, but economic news, political news and every other 'kind.';- i f I They write only What the gov ernment wants, and the govern ment is a singleheaded dicta torship operated by one legal pary of '4,000,000 people in! a population of 183,000,000. j From the news standpoint, as from every other, Russia has walled herself in against the world, completely j isolated her self. Our reporters there are confined to the Hotel Metropole for living room, may not frater nize with Russian officials for people, can get news only which has been printed in the few of ficial government papers. : But their reporters roam the United States at will, indeed even have I representatives at tend all our press conferences, including those of the president, and write freely anything they wish. . M f I How is ltj possible to live, in peace with a completely self-isolated nation, which believes free dom is suppression, and liberty is autocracy? If ; understanding is the basis of peace, how are we ever going to know Russia, with out free news from her, much less understand her? S I have heard some people say. she suffers from i an inferiority complex. 'Perhaps. It is true also her government seems to be Slavic on personality, and there fore can be sensitive at the same time it is suspicious, emotional ly aggressive and even belliger ent Perhaps, also, she is afraid to let her own people know too , much, and therefore feels she ' must censor any! understanding , of their government by them as . well as by Us? f I might attempt to track down the why of this were it not true that the same attitude of the government extends far be yond news into other fields. Rus sia refused to go into our ; air ' conference at Chicago,- even to .discuss letting airplanes go oyer her country. As matters stand now, she has isolated her j air from the world as completely as 1 she has isolated; her land and her news. ; . Before the war all our world flyers had trouble getting per mits , to cross Russia. To get into Russia by land or sea is as difficult a task as by air. In all ways Russia seems bent on liv ing outside the normal world, and she is taking all she can get of Europe into the same im penetrable subterranean cham ber of isolation with her. How are you going to live In peace with that, whether you love it, appease it or hate it? I hear some people attribute this all to Russia's suspicions of us or of Britain. Suspicious of what? No one wants Russia. No one. around here would have it I do not think the ground for Russian isolationism is "suspi cion" or "fear." It might be an inferiority complex, and it might be purposeful politics. ! Whatever interpretation you accept, the conclusion is inescap able that unless this situation is eliminated, there cannot be peace. The first thing I would do to ! put us on an even mutual plana is to have congress enact a law putting us on a reciprocal basis as to rights. Whatever rights Russia grants us, we would grant her. - j The law should, of course, ap ply to all nations. If their syst- ' tern requires them to house our news correspondents in isolation, i her correspondents should ; be similarly restricted in this counj try. If her air is closed to the United States, our air must be closed to her. If she denies our citizens the 'right to free travel in her coun try, her citizens should not have the right to free travel here. If the democratic party is denied representation in Moscow, the communist party should enjoy no rights among us. If our press is suppressed there hers must be suppressed here. This should be done, not in any belligerent way, but merely as acceptance of her principles for her, retaining ours for our own people. It should be a basis of mutual understanding where by we both may live In per- . manent noncompetitive peace. Thus, we could eliminate 'irri tants which are bound to make for trouble, and do it fairly and ' justly, without criticism or an tagonism. Thus, also, we can eliminate both fear and suspi cion. I . Kenneth Dixon However, af- I ter asking the men of his first platoon .to submit their list .of favorite songs, Tech, Sgt. True Lofton Of Windsboro, I La-t was forced to report: i r j "I am) afraid that the purpose of the ptogram is not a complete success fin this platoon." j One look at the list his men had submitted showed why: ! 1. Show Me the Way to Go Home. ! f 2. Hurry Home. j 3. Home Sweet Home. , . 4. ;Myj Old Kentucky Home, t 5. Hope on the Range.! j 6. Back Home in Illinois. ! 7 Myj Home in Indiana. ; i 8. Home in San Antonio. I 9. My Blue Ridge! Mountain Home, and i 10. There's No Place Like Home. I . ' I. ! . I ! Speaking of home in San An tonio, it: will be some time before PFC., Manuel Fernandez, of that Texas City, gets back there if he has io go via the army's dis charge system. Manuel is a line company soldier in company B 334th infantry regiment; and has three children. Yet he has only 21 points. r : i ' j The' reason is that Manuel was married at the tender age of 14, became! a father when he was And speaking of the 334ths company B some of the boys were remembering the other day that Christmas present they got back there in the Ardennes forest when the battle of the bulge was at its toughest point A little liaison plane kept fly ing back and forth over their foxholes. Suddenly it swooped very low and dropped something oyer the second platoon. The men . ducked, Instinctively and then crawled out over the snow to- pick it up. N . j It was a. canteen full of dry gin with a note attached saying: This is the best we can do. , It's all we have got" 1 . You can add the Rogers broth ers , of Rosemont, Pa., to the overseas reunion list Neither Corp. Richard of the 325th field -artillery nor PTC. Thomas I of the 568th antiaircraft battalion knew the other was around when they got passes to Heerlen in , Holland recently until they met there for the first time in two years.,- . V .'. ' . J ! ' ' ft i i DTP HWlfTPffl t (Continued from page 1) flow all over the northwest over the nation, in fact Congressman An gel 1 argues that industrial employment must De sumuiaiea to provide marxets for . produce from these acres. There is no need: to get into a hen-or-the-egg argument over i northwest development Agricul tural and industrial development must march together., It is easy to see that the population (esti mated at 350,000 to 400,000, rural and urban) on this I vast reclaimed area will afford a tre mendous market for farm ma chinery,- wearing apparel, lum- 15 andlnow all his children are, ber, hardware, etc., etc. Port- over 18 years of age, hence no help at all in the point system. f ' ' i - Practica" Religion ' by Act. John U Knlfht. Jr. Counselor on Religious Ufa, Wllnete inttrerty.-1 I received a letter last week from ajsailor friend of mine (SK 3c) who is now in the Pacific.. Knowing that there was soon to be a new arrival at our home, he devoted most off the letter to that coming event. In that letter was the following brief paragraph, which needs no furth ' er comment: J ' "Let's hope and pray that he may have a clean, bright, peace : ful world to grow tip in. Let's make sure .that he,! and all of his generation, are taught that war is not a thing of romance and glamor and a strong way of life, but that it is an ugly, bestial, . useless thing,' and an admission of failure, an acknowledgement that civilization is not something we've accomplished j but merely, something we're striving for." The Literary Guidopoct By W. G. Eogera armies in China have come under American air attack. Rail bridges and tunnels on the Korean Manchuria line were targets ofi the strike. It illustrated the fact that air encirclement of Japan has now 'extended to every northern avenue! of. approach to the Asiatic mainland as well as to western sea lanes across the Yellow sea. Perhaps the most startling episode, of the week in the Pacific, however, was the appearance! of a Japanese hospital-ship off Wake.: On interception by . an American! destroyef it proved bound f or that island to take 0" sick and wounded members of its; garrison. Re-examined on its return tripjj it was found loaded with close to 1.000 enemy! army and navy personnel in Such condition from illness or hunger that Japanese doctors said many could hot liye to reach Japan. The ship was waved! on its dismal way; by the American destroyer com- mander- -J i ; . ; I 4-;v -'-v-jf There Is no known precedent for that Incident in the Pacific War. The action of the American commander in permitting -the ship to 'visit Wake and return to Japan unmolested with the doleful freight could have been foreseen; but the fact that it was sent) but at all on such a mission- by the foe is a reversal of Japanese practice. No prev ious attempt to succor the sick and wounded: on by-passed - islands1 has fever been reported. They were i left to die: with; their still able comrades in every case, - 'j - ; N : ;' - Just why the; exception" was made in the ease of Wake It is difficult to see. There was virtually no chance that) the ship; could escape detection by American se and air patrol and no indication that it attempted; tor do so. Yet by that unprece dented mercy vesture td which the American numbers who can dele paid j employment while, command replied in kind, the pUght of the re- i i scs MU!r4.. J ! J m ... ami LiriM r-- i . J"'- i.'VJ JL . r.y f thev train for areater service? Neimer-cumberr- of "jobs"! nor quantities of things are in themselves sufficient measures of a nation1 welfare. CadsUan Science Monitor.- maimng enemv i ffarrison on Wak wm fullvvdi. t closed. The island is ripe for recapture at any time. "We need new postwar subscription Ideals, : Sneedby! What j with The visit of the enemy hospital ship was a virtual that GI SUl of fclrhts, nobody will be waiting their way ttimgh inviution to come and take it ' :ooueaeay 4aaoreT'Wjtrf.- 1 i "TOLSTOY AND HIS WIFK." ay 1 Tuthoa Polaer, traaslataa y ' tnehmUM Wr4a (Nartoa; S2.TS). With things Russian very much in the public mind at present, this stirring account of the great novelist and moralist who lived in the old Russia but won the indorsement of the new Is very timely.' :. " ' .The book Is much more, how ever. It records the-life of a. genius. Polner, friend of both count and countess, is more in terested in the- man than the penman. Assuming we ! know War end Peace,'' "Ann Karen lna" and the other unforgatta bla novels and assays, he gives . a . brief rounded portrayal . of the young office who had the reputation of sowing wild oats, the perplexed suitor, - the hus band inflamed by hot passion and hot temper, and the troubled philosopher who reasoned, from observation of his own wealth, that poverty was preferable, yet was unable to break away from his riches until almost the end of his life. ' . ; Sonya Behrs jwas still in her teens when Tolstoy, 34, married her. It is a long and ; arduous i journey from, jthe early- days when he wrote that feach day I spend .away -from you I worry ' and think about you more viv idly and passionately to the wretched time when he confided to his diary: "As long as I live, ' she will be a stone tied; with a yope around my -neck" "p . Before the end came, the : countess, fighting desperately to preserve- foe herself and 'chil dren . the big estate created by Tolstoy the. novelist but men aced by Tolstoy the - practising Christian, weuld be caught rifl- ' Ing his . papers la the dead - of night . ' " . " " L " Faithful church member in youth, the writer eventually at tacked organized religion . so rashly: that, he was anathema tized, j In his personal life he ' attempted to revert! to a primi tive state. ;" j: . Re was compacted of contra dictions. His relations with his wife, whom he made in his own likeness but could not make over in his next succeeding likeness, was only one example. He con demned money wrested from the poor, but kept on using it. He land as gateway . should profit greatly from this market and from the commerce it creates. ; ' It may be that Grand Coulee's lower power cost will provide enough subsidy to finance the irrigation project ao that Bonne villa could sell on its own level. However, it seems reasonable to consider the northwest as a single power grid with standard rates for i energy from govern ment plants. : .The coastal area must realize the Value of the back country, not only as a producer of pri mary products: agricultural crops, livestock, wool, minerals, etc., but as a great market for goods which we produce. And development of the interior de pends greatly on utilization ; of its water resources. T There is still a wide margin for improvement in such utiliza tion. Much water ii wasted through seepage in poor canals, through runoffs. As time goes on these wastes will be reduced and greater production obtained. This will contribute to the fur ther economic development of the northwest - One has only to visit areas G like the Yakima valley, or the Malheur project or the Southern : Idaho projects to see what mir ; acles irrigation works. . We on tills aide of the mountains 'must . not "be shortsighted and pinch ; down against reclamation either for lower power costs or for less Important uses of water. ! ! PHILADELPHIA-iM a y or Bernard Samuel sent presents to other cities In connection with an airport opening and today listed these return gifts: Crabs from San Francisco; a crate of oranges from Los Angeles; box of -cigars from Pittsburgh; a Ifl-vallvn - v &r.!' but WM nd trinf of trout from Lake Hiwuuij ntinwaw ne rents- Michigan. ad 'royalties on his plays, but " ' ' . when s, the countess accepted them, he . took the money to GLENWOOD, la.-fa'V-Mrs. T. succor: the needy. , L Smouse turned back the j . , , -. 1 ' " ; Pge of , time when she ap- Mnhmvri 1 - , pearea at church wearing a 'J!!S7&l m mT HftT' hat 1888, she S!r wm 'JS? " be the style to SlwetS Sbr- V 4 WW your w bonnet for the No7Tlo?i 1rm nnt tim on Easter Sun- xmov. i,im :; -j , ;. day, but on the Fourth of July. -i-Waaaaad r i' i 1' WoaaJag rate Y, XV I - i a Terms f".'a--i Arranred H Hi Court EirteY Store news 9.Z9 - l:C9