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I . page roim Th OSEGON STATESMAN. Scdem, Oregon, Sunday Morning. August 23, IMS "No FaioT Sway$ Ut; No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CBMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher 1 Member of the Associated Press 1 The Associated Press Is exclusive! entitled to the use for publication of all : news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper, f Seeding the Burn The Statesman would take the advice of State Forester Nels Rogers on the matter of seeding the Tillamook burn with field grasses. He dis courages the plan which eminates from a meet- were greatly reduced, and its income from serv ices likewise. In addition, the dominions like Australia and South Africa and the; dependency of India have built up large balances in London. Britain cannot pay these debts immediately. Its needs for imports of foods and materials con- ing in Forest Grove, asserting that a mat of grass -tig. and it must jk to foreign countries for over the Durnea area mattes an easuy lgnneu gnts or for credits, I torcn. inis woujo increase rauicr man umiuiuii the danger of new fires. The best' natural protection against fires is slick leaf brush at first, followed by a new crop of forest trees. It is much easier to stop or smother a fire in green brush or trees than in gras3 which dries out as soon as the rains stop in summer. What Rogers proposes is a compre hensive plan for restocking the area with forest growth fir, hemlock, cedar. There should be broad fire breaks and plenty of roads and trails for protection purposes. While it is true that the present fire has de stroyed the new growth that was getting a start ,6ri portions of the area, which sets back the harvest of trees by perhaps another decade, the fire is not without some benefit. It has destroyed a vast quantity of forest litter, snags, down logs, While it was necessary under the law to end lend-lease, the United States ought not $o ignore Great Britain'! plight. Self-interest if nothing else should prompt us to assist that country in getting on its feet. Perhaps out of some of tha other funds congress ?has generously provided means can be found to finance British require- ments; giving Britain ?a little time to effect its own reconversion. ! r 3 - i ft .1. Interpreting ine vucir imwwu By; JAMES D. " WHITE ! " Associated Press Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 25-iirV-Rolling in from debris remaining from former fires and from the Pacific in the wake of war come rumblings of later logging operations. As long as this mate- civil1 war in China. , ' ' t . Americans trying to focus clearly on ine prunes picture, muddled as it is by the past and shrouded by the future, might keep a number; of factors in mind. I : - H I- -I ' First is that the situation is incompletely reported. Chungking's self -protective censorship still operates. Relaxation has been? promised, f " jj but for the future. i News -Behind ftho Nov! By PAUL' MALLON ' . . (Dilution by King Future-Sydlt tacJteproductlon in whol. - r,rt trletlv prohibited.) -JU- 1 fcy inm t with Tfc W,lilinu Mi Return of the Hero rial was there in great abundance it was a men ace. Better have the fire now than five years from now. Without doubt there is still a large quantity of combustible material, but it must be far less than before the fire. Perhaps it is getting down to where future fires may be easily con trolled. As far as erosion goes, grass seeding might halt that, but the country is already badly eroded. There is hardly a level quarter section in the whole area. The only economic value the land has is tree growing. Replanting with forest is the only practical thing to do with it, and the need for that is most urgent. We must look at this with no narrow vision, but in terms of a great state forest in which the state will invest millions to create great future wealth. If the state will not do this it should step aside and invite the federal government to convert the area into national forest. - J 'KHZ m J. D.; Whit From Radjer Tokyo Almost plaintive is the AP dispatch from Manila admitting that Radio Tokyo has! been scooping. correspondents attached to the Mac Arthur headquarters on the general's plans for occupation of Japan! It says: The developments marked one of the Strang- i est situations of the war's end, in which AmerK i j can correspondents found Tokyo radio always ! their most potent competitor in supplying news of major events. j Only because Tokyo radio had been broad casting them for 45 hours were MacArthurV landing plans and dates of the beginning of the ; occupation announced here. The correspondents In Manila had been forced to stand helplessly, unable to break stories about which they all knew. This is restrained language for a baffled newshound. We can well imagine the fulmina tions behind such screen of polite expression. It must be bitter as gall for newsmen at Manila where the Japs were given notice of MacAr thur's plans and requirements to have all the publicity come from Tokyo, without even a handout at Manila. But what makes them burst their blood ves sels is the refusal of MacArthur to let American newsmen accompany the first airborne troops into Japan, The Japanese have inquired about the number of, correspondents to expect and in dicated a desire to give them assistance in their work. But MacArthur has ignored their inquiry There is no assurance that reporters may be on hand to witness the great act of Japan's sur render on the battleship Missouri, although we expect that correspondents and photographers, especi ally the latter, will be on hand to report MacArthur's descent from the skies and grand entry into Tokyo. Oh well, if American newsmen can't make it, we'll still get the news from the Japanese reporters! Rockefeller Out Nelson Rockefeller, who really did try to do a good job for the United States through Latin The dissident communist radio functions in i Yenanl and hasf broadcast many reports of the4 aggressive action its 'troops are taking toward occupation of key Chinese points as the Japanese surrender. It broadcasts accusa . tions that Chungking General issimo Chiang Kai-shek is a fasc ist and is dealing with traitors in restoring Chungking influence in the JaDanese-held part of China. S I American correspondents have visited" Yenan in the past, but even if any are there now, Chungking's censorship could operate to screen what they; might have to say. This is because the Yenan transmitter has no formal arrangement with the outside world ! for commercial traffic, and press dispatches from Yenan go out by land; wire via Chungking, where I of course they are subject to censorship. The next thing to remember is that tbe present j dispute is merely the latest phase of a iong-contin- j uing rivalry where, in recent months anyway, each ! side has made! offers (Chiefly distinguished by pro- j visions known to be unacceptable to the other. Each : meanwhile has entreated the other to put national j interests first and forget the past. The present impasse seems typical, with both sides making subtle faces at each other. Chungking's j Generalissimo J Chiahg"humbly" asks jMao Tte-J Tung, the red leader,! to come to Chungking to con- i fer on how to avoid civil war. From the Chungking standpoint this is perfectly reasonable, because as the head of state Chiang does not go to others; they ; come to him. if - ' j f ; - " y ' But from the communist viewpoint, this; invitation i is one which automatically would place, Mao at a disadvantage in negotiating he would be making : the first concession. The reds have buili up strong ! popular support and resent assumption! they are in the wrong. And right or wrong Mao Tze-Tung is not forgetting that Chiang Kai-shek's forces once chased him and his ragged red army 4000 miles in a bloody, civil; war after Chiang became supreme! in China with communist help. f i So instead Of accepting the invitation himself,! Mao sends his deputy, Chou En-Lai, and another red ; negotiator named Lin Tso-Han, both of Whom have spent months In Chungking before this in regoti a-; tions which, failed. Not very promising, to speak' conservatively k Vj It may be noteworthy that neither side has pro posed meeting at an intermediate point, such as Sianfu. If Chiank Kai-shek remembers that he was kidnaped at Sianfu In 1938 (not by the reds, but while he was dickering with them) the reds can; ' recall that the settlement reached there did not last' Each side blames the other for the lapse, ' j The third thing to remember about the present phase of the impasse Is that both sides realize they are aproaching a showdown either negotiated, or,' failing that, one to be fought out in tragic civil The Literary Guidcpost By W. O. Rerers THE FKKK STATE, ky D. w. BrcfU (Kaepf; St). Few defenders of the free state which - the western Allies have fought so desperately to preserve in the last six years are so elo quent or so persuasive as this Scotsman. His ; little - book was written to explain to Germans why they lose wars; it's equally important to us for it explains the other side of the question: why w win them. He apologizes for the evil use to which Americans and British alike devote freedom; for politi cal parties and politicians; for our armies constantly pestered by civilians. But politicians, he asserts, de spite their faults are the "only alternative governing class to courtiers, policemen, soldiers gangsters," and Germany's trag edy is her prolonged lack of a "real political life." Democracies may be inefficient but, as Brogan notes, "if the object of military efficiency is to win wars, military efficiency, In the German sense, is a contradiction in terms." You'll enjoy this book for its ideas and the clarity of phrasing; even if you hated it, you ought to read it THKEX MEN IN NEW SUITS, ky J. B. rrtesttey (Harper; StJS). Pretty idea, excellent title, dull and commonplace workmanship ... that is this new novel by the author of "The Good Com panions." Three soldiers come back to their homes in England. Repre senting the upper, middle and lower classes, they go their sep arate ways, one to a wife who has been playing around with the Yanks; one to farm parents who have labored and saved and f ashiened a secure niche for him, and to heck with the rest of the m . 1 11 ' I tie. t tiu W 1 1 J French Ex-Premier 1 Y7.-rts4 Win. Nm- . IS Fame as Mayor Wnin out mr Individual lnde- ' pendence of thought 1 figured If the Morgenthau tax collectors could take me, anyone could. They knew, that - and did . not come around, but now they have come . in gain, and I do not mean reasonably, but fero eiously. They sent a fellow In here who says he will take me re 'gardless of the fact that his own bureau set up my tax business in the past There seems to be a change. (Please do not consider ; this news, you editors who have ! complained I do not carry th ?dirt, but taxpayers, please take ! notice, and pay no morel than 'you re laTUy required to. Aft- 'er alL we are paying $45,000, ! 000,000' a year out of the sweat of our brows and minds, and if it he Roosevelt administration, j with all its powers could not take an adverse critic that way J l do not think the Truman ad-f j ministration can take, you ,oc !me.) It has great power but if it wants to destroy the power of ? right,; let me be the first to faU. I would not want to live in the kind of a world tax collector decrees, for me and changes. .... f IncidenUlly, 1 we ai-e paying ! about $45,000,000,000 a year into this government for the privil 'ege of having a new (Truman) ;tax man come around to chal- LETTERS FEOM STATESMAN jlenge and destroy what a Roose- KSJUiEiKS I even lax man inoujni was mi- f pregnable, asked for, and got As I say,' this has put me out jof the humor of trying to find I any WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-Ido not know anything today . . - .j If rou are looking for Inside stuff, skip this one, or, on sec ond, considera ation, may be this is the in side stuff. I just decided to read the pa per s like you do today . . . after all, why should I so out w o r rying my rami Msitoa J head and digging up inside stuff when the tar collector just came in and reminded me that what- ever my brain and energy devel- op must be taken by him, in great part; in fact, in whatever part he decides, he told me . . Those fellows had a way about them in' the Roosevelt adminisj tration, a way which avoided me, because I knew that inas4 much as I was contesting for reality and facts in the face of an administration which derided both, I had better set my bookj keeper up on their basis. What ever they wanted I gave themL It seemed a shorter price than The Safety By ROBERT C. WILSON (Substituting for Kenneth I L. Dixon) PARIS, Aug. 25-iP)-Edouard ' Herriot, three times premier of France, is winning new fame to day as mayor of Lyon, where he jis solving France's most press ! ing problem how to get enough to eat j The capital daily "voice of JPa ris" hails him as. f the conqueror of poverty and the black mar ket," reporting Lyon as perhaps the only city in j France where there is enough to eat at reason l able prices, with plenty of meat, fish, fruit and vegetables. "Since i Herriot has been back, the milk ration has doubled," a worker fsaid. J I In France today this is as if an American politician sudden ly found hundred-dollar-a-week j jobs for 10,000,000 workers. ii . Even taxi rides are rationed I in Paris. The city has 220 cabs, j but the only way to ride them is with a priority card good for doctors, pregnant women, and I the sick and wounded. Slowly, I steadily, France Is getting back I on her military feet, adding a new armored division this week I to the . army. In France as in I America, radio programs are the I target for severe Criticism. There I are no flinging commercials on the French air because there is no advertising, but "Laurore I editorially complains of the lack of good music of France' today f is "expensive noise." economical French are com plaining that the Petain trial cost $20,000 daily The atomic bomb announcement led the French to take inventory of their mineral wealth. They find re assurance in the radioactive de posits in Brittany and the Py-t renees, and the rich radium beds of Madagascar, all of which are "enough for peace needs." ! OCT Tffnrmrs (Continued from page 1) : France is suffering her worst f drought in 50 years. The situa- tion in southern France is called I "catastrophic" by the agricul 1 ture ministry. .The wheat har vest is expected to fall 35 per world; and the third to the; group cent below prewar levels, ex- which schemes to keep its pow ers and privileges. .. They will not act declares one, "like a lot of 'half -starved dogs round a lump of horse meat" An other asserts: "We don't want the same kind of men looking after our affairs." 1 tending bread rationing through all of IMS. A fifth of the vegeta- ble, potato and fodder crops I were wiped out by the lack of rain, further aggravating -r the I country's food shortages. crowding into town, - and the housing accomodations simply aren't here. It is plain as a wart on a nose that a rapid expan sion in house building will come here, now that materials I are thawing out. In spite of high costs the building will go for ward out of sheer necessity! for housing. I That necessity may result in grief in the future, to those Who buy over-priced houses. A writ er in the July Harper's gives a warning: "Don't get stuck with a house." He says: j S "In the next few years many unwary home-buyers, including many returning veterans, are go ing to endanger their financial futures. Houses bought in haste will provide unhappy places in which to repent at leisure; so the wary buyer will move slow ly. He will discount many of the gaudy claims that 'home ownership is the sure-fire way to get good housing at cheap cost' .He will consider not only Concerning: the C.O.'s j t To the Editor: In your "It Seems to Me" col umn of Thursday, August .16, you discuss some of the diffi culties which appear in the stand which the conscientious objector takes. j Permit me to state at the out set that I do not .like the term conscientious objector, because it is a negative expression. I dp not object to war simply be cause, as you said, it is immoral and senseless. I am a pacifist because I believe that there' is a way, better than war, to settle . our differences. My stand is po sitive, not negative. : I realize that some arrive at the position of a conscientious . objector from philosophical rea soning. They do not claim to be religious. Others from an eco nomic point of view. We Qua kers (who maintain the pacifist position) start from a distinctly religious experience. We feel that our experience of God takes out of our hearts everything ' that leads to war. This convic tion is strengthened by the defi nite words of our Lord and Mas ter: "Love your enemies bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray, for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven, Love, bless, do good to, pray for, do not seem to us to mean to kill. We profoundly respect and admire the young men who have felt it right to go at the call of our country to foreign lands and there have shed their life's blood. There can be no compari son between their sacrifice and that made by a young man in civilian public service. However, this they all have in common: they each have done what they felt was right A submarine of ficer recently said to me: "That is what we are fighting for." j. Since we are all members of society we cannot avoid reaping tne Denents which we all pray the present needs of his f amily "-"J follow this disastrous war, Worried by an increase in crime, black market trading on It's prophetic, but trite. People I the sidewalks, night clubs stay- 1 ing open. till dawn, and "quad- rupling" of prostitutes, Paris papers are saying -that the city threatens, to become "another 1 gangster-era Chicago." The ever like these won't make the new world, because they are not real people; they resemble comic-strip characters paper thin, with at tached tabs bearing words. suite. 'i ''.it .. If th nast IB hit rrttrinn this nukM holh iMm anxious to maneuver . to -the last possible moment QRjIS AND DEAR IT ueiore a decision is iorcea. aii reporw v-nunxjemg. He is blamed with the bum judgment on Argen tina, helping that country to crash the gate at San Francisco. The subsequent activity and at titude of the Peron regime in Buenos Aires showed how unrepentant it was. Most people haye been holding their nose over the recogni tion extended to that country. As further evidence of contrition on the part of our government the president has appointed Spruille Bra'den, now ambassador to Argenina, as Rockefeller's successor. Braden has been pretty frank, in his talks in Argetina, incurring the dislike of the ruling officials. But the people have greeted his public appearances with ap plause. This elevation by Truman is a very plain slap at the regime trying to hang onto power in Argenina. America, is out as assistant secretary of state. Xenn, and Japaneser-iwsent a picture of both fill the void which surrendering Japanese forces will leave. Each Wants as many marbles in his pocket as possible for trading purposes.' : Each side thinks the showdown may mean politft cal life or death. The fundamental red demand is political equality in China and Chungking fears that would mean the strong democratic appeal ot the red reform program loosed within its rural econ omy which is dazed by the war and which might see little more than landlords and usurers to be lost in a change, i i . s : ' . ! The fundamental Chungking demand is that the reds give up their separate army and copollary poll tical independence. The reds fear that without guns to defend themselves they would be fcerded into concentration camps by what they say Is the fascist element in Chungking. i ! j There is nothing much new in this situation. Be fore the war the rest of the world didn't care enough to bother, and during1 the iwari it was too busy. But now the seemingly irreconcilable differ ences, between Chungking and Yenan loom large in Washington, Moscow and London. t , I Chungking is the recognized government of China. Not even Moscow regards the Chinese com-. munlsts as eommunists, although the American writer, Edgar Snow, who has spent much time with them, says that while they operate as Agrarian re formers now their ultimate goals remain communist :- goals. , I I . , i . f . j v , I Chungking has in its pocket six brand-new and still unpublished agreements - with Moscow. The Chinese reds have nothing butiait accompli they appear to De trying to expand from; day to day. Those agreements may or may not contain fate of red China, but until they are published. maoeaverhig' before- the showdown in Quna is like ly to continue. ; : Britain and Lend-Leaae Prime Minister Attle revealed surprise as well as chagrin over the termination of lend lease by the .United States. And Winston Churchill pulled the stop on our obligation to a faithful ally who had held the fort while Ameri can armaments were prepared. Yet both, must know the terms of the lend-lease law, that ship ments were to end with the war's close. ; Attlee confesses : that the termination puts Britain "in serious, financial position." That is doubtless true. Britain existed as an import ing country, paying for its excess of imports by interest and dividends - from overseas invest ments and by services-such as shipping and in surance. During the war its foreign investments th the By Lichty wee! German eaa claim he; was never Naxi What eaa Ceo. - , - Nippaes claim he sever wuH T ' but probable future needs. He will appraise the special dan gers of buying in the present hectic market He will make his final decision only after he has - considered all the possible al ternatives by which his housing problem can be met". I - ' , :-That is sound advice. Wlieth-,. . r a. house is a good or poor - buy depends not -alonef oa its , market value but on the heeds and. situation Of the family icon- .. sidering it'r The family which is permanently situated cad at f ford to. pay more f or ' a house : than those who are transient " Shoppers for houses must con- sider the house- size in relation to their needs both now and dur- ing the . coming years. ' They should avoid "being, stuck" with ra house too small as their fam- . ily grows; or too large as their children take wing from: the ' ; home nest , . i I i . Finally the purchaser; should measure price not only in terms ot cost and present market but : in . terms of his own financial ; situation. The article referred ' to recommends the "100-times" rule. Compute how much you can ' afford to pay monthly foe a place ' in which to live, including cost of heating and estimate of taxes : and insurance per month. Then multiply that by 100. Thus if one ' can afford to pay $SQ . a ' month for housing, he can ' af- ford; to buy a . $5000 house (try and. get one!). That, I should say, is a conservative rule.' Home ownership has long been - fostered. It gives a family a real feeling of security, of holdiag a ' place in a community. But home ownership that. is insecure loe cause of its financial burden can be a source of great worry. In the present tight situation pros pective purchasers should not - thrown caution to the winds or their dream home may become a headaefe -..-, i t inside news today. Why ! should I work, or why should anyone, when a government has jthe power (and exercises it) to take your sweat and your ener gy in whatever proportion it decides? Fairness, justice, and law do dot mean anything, this j tax agent told me, so why should jl sweat Actually he decides i what my income shall be, and changes it from year to year to 4 I suit his purposes. This fellow actually pretends I should dis i regard all the rulings of his bu jreau in the past and accept this ' somewhat cloudy mind on all i propositions. Why should I work? Why should anyone? ; They promise us, they say, an easy living in luxury at what 1 ever figure the politicians de- ride for old age' (I'm getting old enough to receive anything they j mightpermit) so why work. Let i us all, oppressed people that we l are, just follow the ' advice of I Mayor LaGuardia, who said it would be foolish of us to cash ' pur bonds and buy anything, I and what we need is a govern I ment ; which, will pay us some- thing. . " LaGuardia might be irreason I ably right Why not discourage our capitalistic system and let everyone live off the govern ! ment Frankly I have half a mind to join with them, abandon all my principles, integrity and ! what I like to regard as a de- cent, understanding honor, and i join those who want to live off I the government instead of sup porting It If the covernment wants to ; pay me, why should I pay the government unjust extraction. If I feel lees interested in peo pie's rights tomorrow, I may I submit you another column showing how the Hillman ad- ministration (pardon me, I i meant Truman who was cleared j. with Sidney at Chicago and is ! developing congressional affairs now that way) planned to stam- pede the government and take I congress at a cost of $6,000,000,- 000.' ; If you do not see me aeain. just say I joined the CIO and fishing. STEVEIIS ; Diamoada JUsiat Whfla You Wcdt Neither can we, nor would we. escape from the- burdens which it entails. We air shall help pay ucuvs. mna Dion 11t lTfl . j j . ... ... . wminH. w. .11 v. V: oeciaea 10 live oir the govern- eat the fr,,it fP Jtu!1: " through taxation. As have olanted. Z ' ter of fact Improbably wiU go wells- others have ; digged. We live in houses others have built We can balance the-account only by passing on to others the cre ations of our intelligence, arid toil, and bequeathing to coming generations a better world than we have known. j It is an open question whether humanity has made its greatest progress towards liberty and justice by means of war, or by the methods of peace. j It is a difficult problem to al ways know what to do In cer tain situations. If a tyrant threa tens our liberties, it is hard not to resist with . force. However, tyrants are not immortal. Truth and freedom have persisted in spite of them, and often without the resort to force. . j - The stand of a pacifist takes a lot ot faith: faith in God that He can and will care for us; faith in mankind that there is In them that which will respond Ito just treatment; faith in the rigfct, .that it will ultimately prevail. Let me assure you that I read .your editorials with great plea sure and profit This is not writ ten for the sake of -argument, but only to attempt to show that our position is not the result kf crooked thinking, but is the only . position consistent for some of us as followers ot the Prince of ' Peace.-;, -v;-. .v-. j - An enemy conquered 1 still an enemy. An enemy made into afriend ceases to be, an enemy. One can hold a man down only by staying- down with him. Mil ton once asked: "What can war but endless war still breed?' I Chasl C Kaworth, I - - 410 W. Rural Are. leveal the brilliant loveliness yew oiaaend with a aaedeni aaeutla. 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