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' - ' S : . - i I- .,..! .-. i; r : '. '"4 ... '"". -..)'"' ' ' ' i ' i: - - ''..-'':''- . -V. .. ' 1 .' . ' ':. ; i - .' PAGE FOUR The OSEGOIf STATESMAN. Satan. Oregon, Tuesday Morning. Inly 10. 1943 ,!' - I - . I . ii i i I-.'' V ... I . - ' ': : : i - . .-v --. V . :- ' - v- Doughboy Wcmt v ' TiVA . . To Get Homo and V tCfiOtt m r.. - j , ( I i - I "No Favor Sway' Ut; No Fear Shall Awe 1 From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 i j THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO&IPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publishers Member of the Associated Press 1 J , 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. Temporary But Human ! It is to be regretted that there have been au thenticated evidences of discrimination against the Mexicans here by invitation to help us with the harvest. Howard Blair, manager ot the farm labor supply center at the fairgrounds where nearly 350 of the workers are quartered, says in several instances Mexicans have been refused icejj cream cones, cokes, candy bars, beer and other items. ' J ... Blair concedes that merchants have a real problem, with scarce items, in supplying per manent residents and customers, but points out that the discrimination of one merchant works a. hardship j on others who seek to play fair with all residents of whatever nationality or . creed, j j . - - ' The Mexicans are paying their way. There is a daily deduction of $1.29 from their wages, for food and kitchen help expense. They have a! 3 a. m. breakfast and 6:30 p. m. supper at the fairgrounds, and take a basket lunch to the orchards. Upkeep of the camp itself is paid by the county farm labor council. Most of the workers are family, men, and hope to take home sufficient money to acquire a little plot of farm land. In the meantime, they also would like to leave some of their funds here. By far the greater proportion of businessmen have welcomed their trade and furthered international relations by their cour tesy. The minority ought to do as well in treating fairly these workers from old Mexico. Divided It Stands ?i The community of Mill City lost its news paper, the Iiog, many years ago when the town suffered adversity with the closing of the big Hammond mill. Recently a new paper, the En terprise, was established there, and has pro gressed to 138 numbers of its first volume. The Enterprise looks forward to fresh growtiv in the Santiam valley when the Detroit dam Is constructed. Right now it is concernedwith getting the community ready for big events. The publisher, Paul Robinson, calls for sugges tions, as he published the following meditation on the query "Where is Mill Citj? Pick up the "Oregon Blue Book'f.anl you will look In vain for the name Mill City. Other towns of the state: are mentioned that arc not half the lze in population, but they are incorporated, and only incorporated towns receive notice. Pick up map of Oregon, and Mill City with 1400 people isn't even on the map. If new capital was interested, if any information was wanted, there is no one to write to. No i mayor, no secretary of a boosting com mercial elut we don't have them. Should you need . law enforcement officer, you might borrow on from somewhere, but you don't need any. because we haven't a law or an ordinance to break. Mill City is located at odds. The Santiam river runs through the center of town, one half being in Marion county and the other in linn county, although sub stantially more homes are in Linn county than in the Marion county part. Still if a letter is addressed to anyone in Mill City it comes to Marion county, as the postnffice is in Marion county, and the govern ment calls that "Mill City." The railroad depot to tn Marlon county and named Mill Citv; the bank is in Marion; county and called the Mill Citv State Bank. Consequently. Milt City must be in Marion county. Then here we are. nearly a thousand strong, . living in Limn county. Are we in Mill Citv? Or are there two Mill Cityi? Or do we live adjacent to Mill City. One way out. maybe not logical or legal, would be for the Marion county Mill City to incorporate and then, by special election, "take in." "annex" or "consolidate the Linn county Mill City. Next year this "part of the woods" Is going to need a head; we are going to need police protection . and many things we haven't got now. Hence it isn't too early to start plans for the early future. Has anyone a suggestion? t i Legion Points the Way Invaluable publicity accrues to the northern "Pacific coast states by virtue of the lead story in The American Legion magazine for July. And also in iit ia a j well-voiced thought of the potentialities! -inherent in the area's war-attracted population. 1 The story,! written by Robert Ormoisd Case, Is entitled "Go Northwest, Soldier," and de clares that In this region "the paths "toward - - the chance .to earn and maintain his own niche pf security - - - are broad and plainly marked." -The story, which was distributed to a million homes, declares "there is plenty of room the Willamette valley alone could support double its : present population; permanent residents have attained the upper level) of the world's highest living standards; half the nation's Editorial Comment 8TA8SEN AT SAN FEANCISCO Commander Harold Stassen, former republican governor of Minnesota and a much-talked of pos sibility for the presidential nomination last year, has taken the spotlight at the San Francisco con ference of the United Nations. Studious writers and observers at San Francisco have been point- ing to him as th . "forceful j and commanding" figure in the American delegation. He has steadily gained in acceptance from the istart through show ing : great breadth of understanding, courage in 'breaking away from precedent and pre-conceived Ideas and in displaying a type of leadership that hag caused him to stand out In the beginning Commander Stassen, in accept- ' ing the appointment of President Roosevelt, frankly said he considered ' the appointment a "political liability.'' It has - turned out to 'be quite the con trary and -new his more mature advisers in the . republican, party, quick to perceive his demonstrat- . ed leadership' m a most difficult situation, art counselling him to finish his work at the conference and temporarily withdraw from the active scene. In short this means that once the conference has done its work Commander Stassen will return to duty with the navy no doubt, refrain from public peaking for the time and stand by for the 1948 presidential scene. j. .. .... . At San Francisco Commander Stassen and Sen ator, yandesberf by their conduct hve given strength, to the republican party as having men capable not only of International understanding but of international readership. It has been ap parent their" counsel and persuasion have been headed by delegates of other countries and Mr. Staasen's boldness andplainly-spoken thought have been effective!, Seasoned writers almost every where have agreed-he ha pointed his destiny t toward 1948 in no -uncertain "way and probably, 'without Intended effort in that -direcUon.--)regon City enterprise. ' !' - - standing timber is irf Oregon and Washington; it is one of the (nation's ; finest dairy regions; underwriting the Northwest's industrial future is almost half the Ration's: potential hydro electrical power."! ij " i .j. J-;' In the last paragraph, the! story says: "Thus, in pin-point summary, the; Northwest's three great primal assets4-timber, agriculture and power loom like giants against the postwar horizon."- J . J " f ! ; In regard to war J workers, the ) story com mends the Kaisey interests for using an "in ventory of the Northwest" to halt a homeward stampede which threatened a serious cut m: production, and mildly criticizes "local resi-i dents" who "hadn't I taken the trouble to tell them - - - that their peacetime chances were! better where they were, that to be 'Jharooned'l in the northwest should not be regarded Hash an alarming "but fortunate 'circumstance." -;. The Legion has done this area a service by playing up "Go Northwest. Soldier." It's up to the Northwest to live up to the opportunities: cited 'for it. I Japan's Choice Admiral Nomura ;warns the United States that insistence oh unconditional surrender will cost us blood. He fails to mention that further j resistance of Japan will cost: the Japanese peo-j pie blood in ratios tunning up to 13 to one. He does not mentiori, what we- are aware of,; that unless the ' Japanese j military party is! definitely crushed now, the job will have-to be done over a generation or two hence. Lives lost now ought to save more , lives through preventing another outbreak of war. Nomura was the ambassador, to the United States at the time of Pearl Harbor. .While there was no indication that he was informed of the treachery plotted for Dec. 7, 1941, his advice to this country evokes no agreeable impressions. Memories of pearl Harbor still rankle. !? The Japanese propaganda., is perhaps- de signed to buoy the fighting spirit of the Japs themselves. Surely there isn't the slightest hope of delecting us from! j our purpose of complete military victory. Theji events; in Europe should convince Japan that' the j allies are not to be stopped short of their goal.kThat goal is de struction of enemy military power and preven tion of future aggression. When that is assured our fighting forces will be glad to stop dropping fire bombs and shells on Jap cities and decimat ing the ground forces of t! ' ; i i . - . Snuikeas he enemy. The choice lies with the Japanese. Interpreting The . War News it L. ?ress By KIRKEj L. SIMPSON; Associated Press War; Analyst : The promised American saturation bombing of Japan's home islands in preparation for the next major move against the- Asiatic foe is well on its way fcnow everi thoUgh probably few if any ships or personnel redeployed ; from Europe have yet gone into action. i ' i T Current figures from : the 21st bomber command show that its Marianas based Superforts flew 6,500 sorties in the 39 days from June 1st with a loss ratio of substantially I one-half -on-one-per cent, or 39 ships. Thatj evidence of ineffective loss figure ia convincing enemy defenses either in air or from the ground. During June alone the big bombers accounted: stroyed, a figure that whole 39-day June-JulyL for 138 enemy planes de means that during the period the foe's air losses ran four to one or more. i Yet as of this date the promised 1,000 Superfort blows have been no more than half realized 'on any particular day QnSy twice in July, did the attacking fleet reach the 600 ; plane - mark. Not only is full B-29 deployment against Japan yet to be reached, but better weather Conditions for. long range missions are to be expected after the mon soon bred rains in the China! sea region end within the next two months. j ' 1 . ; Both the bomber command 'recapitulation and Japcasts from Tokyo stress the recent increasing diversion of Superforts from! incendiary and bomb raids to mine planting. Added! to naval surface and subsurface and army-navy air patrols ranging all the seas about Japan, aerial; mining is tighten v ing up the blockade of Japan another important notch. It tends to make the movement of even coastal and fishing craft in Japanese territorial waters precarious and must 'gravely increase food shortages. The west monsoon seaion that so greatly hampers M By Dee Whitehead j (Subbing for Kenneth t. Vxon) FRANKFURT ON MAIN, Germany-P-The bulk of the once great wehrmacht now held prisoner In the American sone of occupied Germany to to be. demobilized and returned to Civilian status before winter. I The army Is filtering German manpower back into" Industry and agriculture after; screening out SS troops, nazis, .war crim inals and other strspects. -j The primary task f disarmament- - separating the soldier from his weapns - -f has been completed and now the principal job is to get members; of the de- fCF 0SEDDDS tHsMbatal ay Kia Tmtmm ww itwuiai tu Tka Waal Thereve Been Some Changes Made The Literary; Guidcpost " Br W. G. Rogers "THE WORLD, THK nJESHi AND FATHER SMITH," by Brace Mar shaU (Heachtoa Mifflin; fZ.). It's odd, I find, that this novel can be made up of many very good people and' yet be a very bad novel. All the virtues are here: religious, moral, social; all, that is, but one: the literary vir tue, j Marshall writes about the Ro man Catholic Father Smith, his bishop and his colleagues' and some members of their flock in a Scottish city. Despite art" oc casional comment that is both smart phrase and profound ob servation, the material is taste less. Murder is not exciting, hu mor doesn't draw laughterj and pathos doesn't; draw tears. The book opens before World War I, closes in fvbrld Wajr II. It boils ' down to aBout three decades of conversation on what the priesthood should do about life, love, labor, liturgy and kher things. 1 ti i j Catholic' himself, the author has a perfect right to take down the clergy's hair and reveal What goes on behind the .scenes My objections j have nothing to do with religious or sectarian plat ters; I just find it inept Without i doubt the authot in tended this as an optimistic hook, ending on ia note qf hope. Some how it goti turned around int4 a discouraging book . . . at least for me. j It's a Noble Endeavor gone wrong. News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited.) m WASHINGTON, July 9 Henry Morgenthau's side of his resig nation story told how he had be come irritated b y constantly recurring ru mors of his im pending depar ture, that these were interfer ing with his work, so he went to Presi d e n t Truman and s a i d he Would not stay raal alaJloa unless he received backing. Mr. Truman offered to deny the rumors. Mr. Morgenthau thought the denial should prom ise his continuance in office "at least until Japan is defeated.? The president seemed to feel this would commit him too far. Mr. Morgenthau wrote out his resignation, although he had not planned doing so. The other side of the story im plies that many of Mr. Truman's highest - placed associates :, were worried about Mr. ' Morgenthau possibly succeeding to the presi dency, a position for which he would be the first to concede his unfitness by temperament, ex perience or ability. good New York banking connec tions, but expendable. Now he I will continue at the treasury until probably August 15 when i his successor, Fred M. Vinson, will take over. ! ' As a matter of lull truth, Mr. : Morgenthau was slated to go iany way when his Bretton Woods plan cleared congress and the war,, loan drive wound up. There was no logical excuse for him to continue to delay fulfill ment of the custom, permitting a president to choose his own cabi net, without the slightest em barrassment Indeed, this column was able to lead off, in Newspapers last May 24: j "A complete cabinet shake down is coming, j State and treasury will surely be involved in addition to agriculture, jus tice and labor." j Both angles of that forecast (Continued from page 1) in two. That march, as is well known, only made the south more bitter against the north. After living for 84 years un der the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy, the last 80 of which was only a symbolism, the people of Dade county voted on July 4th last to rescind their proclamation of secession and rejoin the United States. Vicksburg, Miss., likewise mad,e the last July 4th historic by holding a celebration on that date, unfurling the Stars and Stripes and having a "damYan kee" MaJ. Gen. E d w a r d H. Brooks of New Hampshire, for speaker. That was the first July 4th celebration since General Pemberton surrendered that city to the union army under Gen eral Grant on July 4, 1863. It has been a date of shame ever since. In this war so many nor thern, soldiers have been trained In Mississippi and so intertwined are the loyalties to a common cause that Vicksburg f 1 n a 1 1 y surrendered again. - 'j It would be a mistake to con clude that only ashes remain of the hates and the hopes of the old south. Senators Bilbo and Eastland of Mississippi put on recently in the senate, in their opposition to the FEFC appro-' priation, a demonstration of bit ter race prejudice, which shows one has only to probe in the ashes to find embers still alive. There remains- a large body of opinion- in the south which, While accepting the verdict of the Civil war, adheres to old at now have been fulfilled. I am therefore inclined to be- I Ktude on such a subject as race lieve both sides of the story, Mr, Morgenthau's and the Untold one that Mr. ' Truman's friends, knowing well the personalities Little note was taken of the ' involved, nettled Mr; Morgen- "DESEBT ISLAND DECAMERON -selectee by H. A lie a Smith. COea bitday, naran; S2.M). i If you're a castaway, a book is probably a poor substitute for a girl, but if it has to be a book, this would be an excellent choice. It contains some 40 stories having to do, most of them, With the girl who isn't with you. It would repay reading before you're shipwrecked, too; j ' 1 - ! THK BRIDGE." by Staaley Bans shaw (Drwtea; StJtS). I "A poetic drama," this bok has for subject the construction of a "bridge" to a better tomor row. The chief characters are capitalist, materialist worker, and dreamer. I -must confess myself In complete disagreement with both Alfrd Kreymborg , land Louis Untermeyer, whose high praises appear on the jacket GRIN AND BEAR IT Burma or elsewhere major military activities, in in the southeastern Asia command battle zone diminishes to Just rainy weather in the north; but it does restrict air activity to some extent and increases losses in planes and ) personnel due to other than enemy action. Around early Septem ber the monsoon will blow Itself out in the Indian ocean and the Bay of Bengal, however, and from then on stepped-up 'allied assault by air, by se and on the ground can: be expected at both ends of the trans-Pacific battle front ? British official commentators note that present activities by the 14th army j im Burma are "to a great extent in preparation for what is to come" since the west monsoon "still dominates operations." They conclude that battered. Japanese army rem nants in Burma have been; trying to set up "a coherent defense line" between the Sittang and Salween rivers "to cover the approaches to Siam ,and Indo-China." .;r:" jj4.'.ir . I . The British 14th army, in due course to' he joined by the 12th now in process of concentration -at Rangoon, was not halted by the monsoon season ' , last year. Despite rains that deluged Burma, it prepared the way for the subsequent sweep to Rangoon and is repeating this year. According to ' its command, General Slim, two-thirds ot its "fight ing troops' and some 80 percent of its adrninistra tive personnel "are Indian." , : "Nothing I can say about them (Indian troops) ' could be adequate to express ray admiration for the part they have played in the (Burma) canv . paign,". their commander added. r ; ; V -. -. ir..Si;3.-,iil &'i-?' I. ! . ft Ui t?ZT ;, ' ' 0 thau into making the break. The equally important resig nation of Supreme Court Jus tice Roberts lacked such 'thor ough explanation,: He dodged , inquiries.1 Yet his associates knew he was so completely out of tune with the Black crowd on the court and the majority trend of that tribunal, they1 were not surprised when he grasped the excuse of his crossing of the re tirement age, to bow himself out diplomatically. ; Justice Roberts was such a pleasant friendly r&an he was accustomed to call his associates brother." The Black men would naturally consider such friendli ness a weakness. They are bit ter. Unquestionably splits on legal interpretations have cut harshly into the personal lives of the justices. That bench is no place for a friendly man. I Now the i Black faction has been in the majority only about half the time, mostly, I believe, ' , In union labor cases in which By LlChtV they haw rewritten the anti- trust law and greatly expanded the immunity of unions, i In other cases the Stone-Rob-' erts - Frankfurter group, repre senting what might be called the "legal front" of the court, frequently has been joined by Justices Reed and Jackson to make a majority of five against the Black group, j J If ? Mr. iruman ' chooses as Roberts', successor i anyone who will Join thj Black group, the court may be gone for the next 10 to 20 years. .1 If he appoints another Reed or Jackson, the present deplor able predicament of the highest tribunal will be still further complicated. ji -" 1 ; ' j If he tries to get another Stone or Roberts he will, at best, be able to keep the court bewil dering. situation, but if anything had happened to Mr., Truman dur ing the few days interval ; after he accepted the resignation of State Secretary Stettinius, and before he appointed James F. Byrnes to that first cabinet post, Morgenthau would have been president as next in! line. Now Messrs. Truman and Byrnes are going to Berlin for the big three conference (but not together, as a j precaution) Mr. Morgenthau was; still clearly next in line until his squeezed resignation placed him in a po sition where unquestionably he would have to decline the office. This situation may not have worried Mr. Truman, but asso ciates working in his interests no doubt were the- authors of what Mr. Morgenthau thought to be "irritating rumors." Around the top of this admin istration Mr, Morgenthau had been regarded as a man with relations. "W h i t e supremacy and "protection of the white womanhood of the south" are still slogans to rouse the fight ing blood of many a southerner. Steadily though, the ! spirit of unity spreads, and steadily the basic' precepts of : democracy: liberty and equality before the law, gain recognition; Dade county and Vicksburg: are to kens of a desire to join with the remainder of the United States to work, out our common des tiny. " ' ! feated army back to their homes to pick up peaceful pursuits, v Priority is given coal miners, 1 .-i cultural and transportation workers and former employes of i i.j..JfJ mhlcli must Ka , revived. i (. - s-onnd nrioritr is given ! t women, third ' to men over j 50 -years of age and fourth to non - Germans forced to become part of th wehrmacht Soon there j will be a general discharge of. prisoners without regard to those categories, but the discharge rate will be based on the ability of areas to absorb manpower and general labor needs. .,' "So far," a member of the US group control x p u n c i i said, "these discharged soldiers have been very docile and easy to handle. There has been no trou ble with them and no serious in cident" !;!."! This is probably due to the careful method employed. Since m 1 1 i t ary government officials are In close touch with local sit uation thev are able to deter mine whether more or less man power is needed ! in any given area. i No policy has been announced on whether discharged troops whose homes are in Russian, British or French rones are to be returned. This, is a matter for the allied control council in Ber lin, j ' i Gloria Swanson Would Get Rid Of Fifth Husband NEW YORK, July M-Gloria Swanson, stage and screen actress, today filed suit for seperation N. Davey. ' 'j j ; in supreme court Miss Swanson A J S AAA - - ! a tu ami i,wu a ww .temporary alimony and $25,000 for 1 her counsel. M - j She was married to the 52-year-old Californian ; In Union City, N. J last January 29. Previously, "Miss Swanson had been married to screen actor Wal lace Beery, Herbert Somborn, the' Marquis de la Falaise de la Cou draye and Michael Farmer. CirMS. Onae Tims. If. BUFFALO W. Va.-vf)-The Have report frees Boa. Say Is evMeat be sUdy U. g. amy aeereU. tee Ueg-Hasw wish to knew hew many paints XBC need fee discharger citizens of this town (pop. ) apparently are satisfied with the present mayor, recorder and ove councilman, j - -1 Not a single voter appeared at j the polls In yesterday's biennial election, not even the officials who prepared the ballots which were blank because there were no announced candidates. . The state -attorney general said the present adrnirustrationmust carry on until the next regular election In June, 1947. .w..-- Fires Raging on Vancouver Island; Forests Closed , VANCOUVER, B. C. July 9 (CP) -All forested areas on Van couver island and British Colum bia's lower mainland were ordered closed to logging operations and thepublic today, because jof forest firest still raging in five areas on the island. si ' j The ban, announced In Victoria by Lands Minister E. T. Kenney. is effective at midnight and will mean an enforced holiday for some 8,000 men in logging camps. Operations will remain closed until the extreme fire hazard now prevalent along the B. C. coastal region has eased. An estimated 1,500 loggers wiU b engaged in fire-fighting. .; i THE 17ATCII THAT Vi worse ; . V. . , i 9 m i r i Tve diaeoyartd that ea inaccurate watch Is than ne wateh mt mil. Iif HARVSL keeps sptit-secood time, so important for studio work and social engagements." HildegarJ Si if Wi MaW TUm'i hrmm Htm i - - 'ft -Oil ' ft- r, TESM3 or coun .- - - l -.: . v