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T1i OZTOOrr CTATEaiAN. Ccdera. Oregon, Sunday Morning. fpWniber 1 1813
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"No Favor Sway Us: No Fear Shall ; a
' From first Statesman, March 28, 1891
TOE STATESMAN PUBLISHING C03IPANY
CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher 4
v Member of the Associated Press
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the tue for publication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited hi this newspaper.
Timing the Surrender News
Advance news about the Japanese surrender
ceremonies said President Truman would speak
briefly hour not known. ' This prompts the
thought that President Roosevelt would have
arranged it differently. With his keen sense of
timing he would have, 'had the time definite.
And what is more he would not have staged an
. event of such ' transcendent - importance on the
eve of a double holiday!
As it is, the surrender story will fall pretty
much on fallow ground. When folk return Mon
day night the show will be over, the papers old.
The effect will be missed by a vast number of
citizens who on some other day would have
.followed the surrender1 news through several
columns.- The typhoon and the Japs delay forc
ing postponement of the surrender have worked
to blank it out for millions of Americans.
The story will be reported all right. Somehow
or other the reporters go to Japan, after the
early negative from MacArthur's Manila head
quarters. -For one thing. Admiral Halsey let the
navy correspondent go on the first planes. The
army correspondents were not long behind.
Now by count of bylines there must -be one
reporter to every second lieutenant in Japan.
Editors have to chop stories to get a fair repre
sentation of the stuff that is offered.
- It's great news, too: stories of the occupation,
descriptions of the Jap cities and people, inter
views with rescued prisoners, sample quotes
from English-speaking Japs. Too bad the stories
come when newspapers still are under restric
tion on newsprint consumption. j
. Spite ojf MacArthur's bad timing, the situation
Is not without its compensation. News editors
on a Labor day holiday usually have to milk the
wire" dry to get enough real news to fill a front
page. This time they have no trouble just turn
on the faucet from Tokyo and let it run!
Politeness No Screen ; I
There 'are numerous- heart-warming .stories
now as men and women j&nfined for 'years in
Japanese prison! camps emerge from their long: '
night to communwate With relatives. Some like :
Major Boyington, air ice, hud been given up for
dead. Great is the rejoicing as "relatives learn -that
their long vigil and constancy in hope are
rewarded.' . :' f;. ' j ;' ' --'- I ' J ,!"? ''
Unfortunately, the news is not all good. An
American doctor who was 'captured on Guam ,
estimates that '23,000 of jhm 30,000 American
troops in the far east at the outbreak of the war '.
have died, most of them J victims of Japanese
brutality and neglect, the; estimate seems very
high, and we should await official word before -accepting
it. But the' stories that are released '
reveal the sadism of the Japs, their .base cruelty
in treatment of prisoners pf war. This; fact we
must not forget even;aa w are made happy
with each report of survival. The politeness now '
being shown by the Japs to our occupying forces
cannot screen the memory of this savagery.
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The Questions Arise
Startling new evidence that simple, unadul
terated day-dreaming from bottonrTto top was
responsible for the tragedy of Pearl Harbor is
contained in the statement of Commissary Stew
ard Derreil Dirks.
At Spokane, Dirks said his transport "passed
. through the Jap battle fleet between Guam and
Wake'' in November of. 1941 the month before
the war begun- There is no word as to whether
such information was- relayed to Washington,
Dut it seems .certain the . transport would not
have kept! the event a. secret. Both Guam and
Wake Were . United States possessions. - The .im
minence of portentous events was -well known
leading either to war or renewed: peace.
Failure to take full cognizance of the presence
of the Japanese fleet, if Dirk's story is borne
out, was one of the major .causes of the help
lessness of Oahu in the Japanese' stunning at
tack. It seems to be becoming more and , more
evident (as pointed out by Columnist Paul
Mallon on this page and former Correspondent
Wendell Webb on page 1) that any courtmartial
of Admiral Kimmel or General Short might
throw these men in much the same light as the
unwarned and, ill-equipped garrisons ofl j the
mid-Pacific bases which fell in the early days
of the war ' . ,
Assuredly, Admiral Kimmel had no. orders to
get'his battleships out of the trap of PeaA Har
bor and yet the Japanese fleet days before was
known to be.between two American islands and
within striking distance of Hawaii. There are
many factors still to be' explained, about Pearl
Harbor, but they point more and more away
from the big base itself.
Free Enterprise
The anti-trust division of the department
justice has moved in on suppliers of metal cul-
verts in the northwest, securing indictments
charging them with price-fixing and conspiracy
to monopolize. Several of the companies axe
subsidiaries of American Rolling Mill company
of Ohio, which is a principal supplier of Tnetal
for the culverts. The complaints accuse, the
parties with dividing up sales, ganging together
on bids and restricting the amount to be fabri
cated to prospective capacity of market to ab
sorb the output at the agreed price. I
The principal market was Hvith government
bodies from the state down, to counties and cit
ies; so if the rice has been rigged the public
treasury is the one which has suffered. !
Free competitive enterprise which private
business has been clamoring for often gets
stabbed in the back by its loudest supporters.
But maybe the' freedom they have in mind is
to gang up on the public. ! L
An Old Nary Custom
of Tho Literary
Guidopoot
Br W. O. KOGUS
AMXXICAS FLACI Df TM W0U
by N.taaaJet Perfer (Tikis: .?)
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Nevd- Behind tho New
By PAUL MALLON '
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iuwn Airporu i l, .. : - :-:
Towns over in Polk county have been looking
into the matter of local airports. T Dallas
folk concluded after studies were made not to
go in with Independence and Monmouth for a
jo'mt airport. Instead," Dallas would have its
own; and the other two communities a joint
airport. t. j . 1
Municipal airports are largely proposition
of trying to keep up with the Joneses. They are
an expensive luxury, serving very few; people
and producing no income of consequence. The
smart towns will be those that consider care
fully whether the outlay tc gratify local pride
comes within their-, means, j Most of them can
get along with a wide ; field for local air en
thusiasts. ' !
United Airlines is 'going to spend a half
million dollars to "modernize" their offices.
Let's see, just how Old Is the oldest UAL ticket
office?:' : i r: - ! . - l
Interpret
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The War Neivo
By JAMES D. WHITE
Associated ' Press SUtf Writer
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It's too bad, this unhappiness of former Pre
mier Tojo. The mayor of Yokosuka says he is
"worried," and a Domei news agency chief says
"we don't care much for him any more." We
can believe the first statement,' doubt the sin
cerity of the last, and adi the tope that the
unhappiness turns into nothing trivial."
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A.Japanese spokesman says that his country
is ready to pay the price of defeat. Now please
don't some one propose lend-leasing this debt
away. ' J t ,-. -.
Editorial Comment
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Some of the distinguished reseach chemists, physi
cist and biologists who have written for us on the -way
great discoveries aire made still harp on nature
and seem to think of science In outmoded terms.
Like' Clerk Maxwell, they maintain that it is the
function of science to discover the order of nature..
Clerk Maxwell's Victorian contemporary, Thomas
Huxley, defined science as "organized common
sense," which is tenable only if we bear in mind
that what was common sense, even fifty years ago
. in physics is not common sense today. The men who
1 have given us the new conception of the universe
and the atom say nothing about nature.1 According
to Niels Bohr "the task of science is both to extend
. the range of our experience and to reduce it to or
der.r Einstein uses much the same language when
ha says that 'the object of all science, whether
natural science or psychology, is to coordinate our
experiences and to bring-them into logical order.
To Jeans the aim of physical science is the discovery
of "the pattern of events which controls the phe
nomena we observe," even though "we can never
know what this pattern means or how it originates."
The unanimity of these opinions is striking.
Nature is thrown out because it is unknowable. '
, Yet others persist in thinking that It is their task
to fit the world, to their perceptions and not their
perceptions to the world. Philosophers were trying
to tell the scientists all this centuries ago." Now that
the great scientists of our time have drilled down to
the rock-bottom of the universe, they reach the same
conclusion. Perhaps' Eddtngton has expressed that
conclusion as tersely as anyone: "Science aims at
constructing a'world that, shall be symbolic- of the
world of commonplace experience." New ; York
Times. , i .. ' : .;;!
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 --Allied colonial
chickens are coming home to roost after spending
years in the nest of the international thief, Japan. !
Some are emerging! from Japan's ''co-prosperity
sphere of greater east! Asia" with little more than
their pinfeathers left 'None will forget the experi
ences of the past years! m a Japanese coop, f - i
But none is forgetting, either, that it is re-entering
its former coop. i I : j
In recognition of this, various allied colonial
powers have promised to enlarge
the coops in the future put in
biggerdoors and windows, and to
let the chickens move around more
freely.- :.. ; " -1 '
We're back right where
began 1 17 years ago, says Pef-
- fer In; this bopk en important
addition to the lengthening list
of profoundly helpful studies of
our foreign affairs. j
1 We washed our hands of Eu
rope when we- revolted, against
- England, but they have. not stay
ed washed. A complete break In
the ties with Europe, eur fore
fathers though V would; end in- .
volvement in Europe's j wars. If
for a time that worked,' the time
was short Beyond arty doubt -whatever,
this writer asserts,
America is now inescapably a
part of the world, sharing in
I world peace and also in world
. war. Two wars within one gen
eration ought to be proof enough,
he says, especially since we en
tered both despite the most dili
gent efforts to stay out k
. He sees two main paths pen
to America: "to prevent war1 or
to make itself strong enough to
win wars when they come,": pos
sibly with a system of alliances.
In agreement with other recent
, writers, ; he favors prevention
and urges us to make up i our
I- minds to submit to the sacrifice
i of our so-called ' sovereignty to
1 whatever extent international
I cooperation necessitates. For in- !
stance, if a new invasion of Ethi- i
! opia threatened we should have
to give! up some of our oil ex
port trade, . vote money, send
; men and arms to punish the ag
gressor, ' and all this by direc
tion of some world league or
congress.; . .
The alternative would be! the
creation; of .a monstrous military
state, costing fabulous sums,! re
quiring two or three years out of
the lives of our youth. l
Europeans and Asiatics Ure
better informed about interna
tional affairs than Americans;
tney have had to be. So the fell,
ing points registered by Peffer
will bej more - readily accepted
abroad than -at home. It i we
really Hope to be good neigh
bors, w need to be understand
ing neighbors, and willing to lend
a hand In emergencies. The au
thor thinks intelligense in this
field more efficacious than our
traditional idealism. . !.
ml
raat Halloa
WASHINGTON, Sept T Too
much already has been written
about the Pearl Harbor reports
but yet nothing which would
establish a 'clear public under
standing of what happened, j
This is because the reports
themselves are incredible. The
facta offered are generally true
and run, but
they have been
presented as if
23 lawyers and
clients were all.
shouting at
once their indi
vidual accusa
tions and de
fenses' in a mass
trial. 1 For in
stance, War
Secretary Stim
son generously
covers Mr. Roosevelt from blame
with evidence that the late presl
; dent predicted what ' happened
13 and again 11 days in advance.
It nevr enteaed Mr. Stimson's
mind that if Mr. Roosevelt had !
sutn information or belief, and
did not advise General Marshall
and Admiral Stark, he was -culpable
beyond their guilt What
is the - all-too-apparent fact; of
the ;wattert 'Mr. Roosevelt ex
pressed many hunches and ' be
liefs at many times, and this, hap
pened to have ( been . one ex
pressed twice, upon which nei
ther he nor anyone else acted.
Now this double-scintilla of evi
dence is magnified to create a
picture Which is not accurate.
The report is all like that Mr.
Stimson says ! army intelligence
had inside information Novem
ber 17 the Japs were to attack
five days later, and he congratu
lates that service on thi incor
rect information, which, having
proved false at the time, may t
have led the army chieftains to
be suspicuious of that source and
relax vigilance (if any).
The navy blames State Secre
tary Hull claiming his ultimatum
to the Japs November 26-provoked
-the attack, whereas the
army and navy had advised the
government two weeks earlier it
was not ready yet for .war, as .
the Japs were superiory Thia ,
seems to be the common! service
conviction, and is in accord with
the theme of all the reports In -:
which everyone involved blames .
But to the chickens, it Will still
loo nxe Demg . cooped up eco-J
nomicany and politically ( by an
"owner." ij - il ', : . .
Japan offered most of them an
ersatx freedom during the time
they were in her imperial gunny
sack, and did a great deal of talk-
.V-..4 14 J .1- -1 in a.
tug iiwui ii ana wnai uoerauon I.D.Whit
.from the white man was going to mean. - ... j :
It would be silly to think that this did not take
hold in many colonial I minds. - That it did rot ag
gravate existing content Human nature wants free
dom and responds to talk about it, regardless of .
the source.-; : ' j r -
Some of Japan's departing conquerors have got
in some nice licks which will not lessen-the con
fusion in the colonies and other dependencies they
are leaving. : . . ; '-''':.,'.; '';;'-:: 'i r;
In. French Indo-Chtna, the independent state of
"Viet Nam" has been set Up in the state of Annam
under an "emperojr named Bao Dai. .1
In tHe Netherlands East Indies another Japanese
sponsored "independence; move is afoot This is
not new, but after starting it when they conquered
the Indies in 1942 the ; Japanese kept it well
squelched. Now It blossoms just as the Dutch are
about to move back in. j-; tf . -
The British have moved back Into Burma with
no fuss reported, and probably will encounter the
same reception in Malaya.
At Hongkong, the sovereignty of China is not le
gally involved, because; It became a British 'crown
colony .(like Gibraltar) by treaty more than 100
years ago. But in the minds of some Chinese,; Hong
kong means something! like British possession of
Manhattan Island would mean to the United States.
So Chinese prime minister T, V. Soong is jon his :
way to London for negotiations, probably concern
ing Hongkong although that haa not been specified
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By .Lichtj---
every other one except himself.
What are the known - (and
omitted) facts about that? Usu
ally in these matters, I would
grapple with the 200,000 words
Of the documents, and then set
out to find the answers; but this
time it would be a waste of eye
sight and footleather.
3 The Jap attack on Pearl Har
bor, any military man will tell,
could not have been organized in
less ' than , three months.; The
whole Jap campaign of war, as
It skillfully developed against
us, with perfect timing pf the
Seizure of Guam, invasion of
Malaya, conquest of Singapore
and Invasion of the Philippines,
took six month to organize and
12 months to plan.
No American, official 'men
tioned or unmentioned I knew
about this, oc, did anything about
it All officialdom f ailedJ The
nation -was caught flatfooted.
And now in reports all official
dom is trying to say: "It was not
I who failed, iV was the other
official." f
r In my opinion, the Japs had
been planning thii war for 20
years, and the attack actively for
a year, and seized the moment
when we were getting deeper
and deepec4jrivolved in Europe
to stab u in the back. -They
chose- the .moment when our
European commitments had
reached, such 'proportions we
could - hoj . handle them and
reached for the knife they' had
been whetting so long to just the
precise point' This, I am, sure,
will be the judgment of cool his
tory. Yet in one election cam
paign, the responsibility of Pearl
Harbor was successfully laid by
the Rooseveltian democrats up-.
oh those who had a few years
earlier voted in congress against
an appropriation for Guam. Such
Is politics. ,
The report makes at least one
thing clear. Any observer reed
ing of the superficial stories must
now know- why Kimmel and
Short were not court-martialed
and tried. -.They had the goods
on higher-ups in Washington, '
and a trial would have given
them the opportunity to present
' j There is no porticularly inside
story being handed around here
on the matter, except that Mr.
Truman was advised to delay the
reports until the Japanese occu
paion quieted down. Congress
men told him to hold it until oc
cupation was complete, or pub
lication could serve some pur
pose. He does hot seem to be
"the political timing kid," as he
chose- the day of occupation of
Japan to do it. jr
' 1 Also many congressional auth
orities were so displeased from -
the-ontset that a joint congress
ional Investigation seemed cer
tain, r .;"!
No investigation is needed to
show Pearl Harbor was the
greatest failure of the Roosevelt
government the whole govern
ment from top down (for they
could not find a goat to hang It
on) and petijaps the greatest
failurt In Americaa history, i
White House, Still Restricted; (
Uniform Ride" May Be lifted;
Back to Farm Move Studied
- By the Washington gtaff ef th AMocUUd Prass .,i
WASHINGTON, Sept l-iifhlf you're hoping to make a tour of
the White House during, that long-deferred trip to Washington, you'd
better forget it for a good long time at leasts Word around the White
House is that the mansion probably will not be reopened to the public
until next year, if -then, j , ; . - .,
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. n.t ml utm MthWIU; The armr and navr are reported to be
considering relaxing tneir- reguiawona wm
wearing uniform off duty.
JDuring the war, servicemen liv-1 would offer a good opportunity
ing at home were obliged to wear tor man-toman contact between
their blues or khakis even if they Americana and their erstwhile en-
just had a couple of guests in to j enrue, and even some of their
play gin rummy and woe lime-understood allies, such as
them if they were caugni wearing Russia.
slacks to the neighbornooa movtei I The Japanese, for example, are
ereat lovers of baseball.
Ambassador er sporii: liook tor .
top-ranking sports autnonues xo Japanese Ships: The guess In
put a bug In Secretary? of-State us .hipping circles is that
Byrnes'1 ear about setting up a CSxinm wm com out of the peace
special division to promote inter- ulkg with most of the Japanese
merchant fleet or what remains
of it
This would help China establish
herself as a trading nation. The
UJS. wont need Nipponese ships.
felf-Serrke: Another guess by
aue shinninv mn
MacArthur win let Uve Japanese
use weir own snips, mannea oy
their own seamen, to pick up scat
tered garrisons and - haul .them
home. This might take as. much
as a year.
TKai TT 9 - la sanvaAasei tn mm leu
i nirxy-eigni volunteer woritn, mnA mmrl M, vmt
who served an aggregate total of 1 v, - -
over 700 hours per month pro
cessing applications and attend
national goodwill through ath
letics. ' ;
Sportsmen maintain that sport
Volunteer
OPA
Workers Get
High Praise j
erans home.
Leber Pie tare: Most labor lead-
era sa tv1 Sliiilsis lilllsieit ttHtl mm ha.
rZTllZ r U transition to peacetime
commended Saturday by ueorge I ,m j i.
XZSTa - ? strikes but they're keeping their
SSJ1I r S HJV w I W-, SmMBy eanl m i .
gram; which has been under the m , 7 w,u
SrSion of the boaTd's chairman, l 'T?t"
m, n T.h,m aZ thrown open on wages and other
Robert Craig, saying that approx- 7 ,7.
imately 71 per cent of the work w!,fc " , rT Lf " 1
1val wa -arrimA v tKm mJ weapon wnue
. . ... - lolants are reconverting, but must
au Doaras in uie oaiem area i . , . .
will be consolidate and . located wai mP1oy"
at the ChemekeU street office in DC"1 "viiian proaucuon.
Salem. The nId staff in Saim u However, i the labor-management
r I M ?ia 1 1 i a a a 4 a a
to be reduced from 11 employes to e wui oe neia aooui xnai
- I tune. . Labor leaders can be ex-
Volunteer members who have I pectea wtryto how a Ught rein
served at the Salem board In- while agreements -with employers
dude K. E. Wilkinson. G. E. Ed- r possiwe
wards. E. J. Scellars. J. X. Foler. I ' s
KAsneth Wilonn Kinth Ttur - Baek te the Faraa! Farm leaders
c.m r-im-t.. t v c. t a tare worried that there mar be
Lewis, C, H. Byrd, M. E. Canfield; another. "back -to-the-land-,. move-
A. C. -Baker. W. R. Mefford. Mrs. : I menu uerore tne war, they say.
K. E. Wilkinson, Ronald Blische:
Grover. Hillman, Paul Irwin, J.
W. Nash, W. A. Reeves, Dr. R JD.
Blatchf ord, Frank ' J. Spears, Ar
thur Rahn, Anita V. Paxson,', H.
9. Pearson, Glenn L. Rice, E. A.
Miller, Hunt Clark, Robert M.
there already were too many per
sons dependent on farm income
and per capita income was dis-.
couragingly low. '
Department officials have quer
ied representative' farmers in ev
ery section of the country." Most
Fischer, Mrs. Fred Gast, Donald of the farmers questioned say they
McCarger, Warner Brown, H. L I believe fully 75 per cent of those
Staver, Qiarles Heltzel, Sam who left rural areas during the
Chambers, Mrs, Axelaon, Mrs. I war will return because of unem-
Robert Craig, Leone Michels and I ployment and crowded conditions
Herman
Jochimsen.
in cities.
63330003
TTrnrmrg
Practical
nolisiori.
"New that the war's
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ever, Mr. Fotaik. which dm vm tiink m -
s. ana il
irst uie cucaen or me erf '
r ev. John U KjUght. Jrn : -a
Couaselor ea EelicK, Ufa, 1 ' '
WUUmette diversity.
"Bettw is a dinner of herbs
where love is, than a stalled ox
and hatred therewith." (Prov.
15:17).
Many an hour Is spent ! by
some people in despising . the
luxury of the rich. Yet centuries
ago the writer of the above
proverb knew. th secret to real
happiness-real happiness dwells
where love is. It is not the meaL
i( rfnor the house, nor the occasion,
(Continued from page 1)
as a commodity. The unions de
mand a living wage and; expect
the employers to furnish it They
demand also a rising standard
of living. This haa come; partly
through the needling of - unions
but primarly through the tech
nological developments of the
age. . 1
.Unions have now entrenched
themselves in power even be
yond their numerical ratio. By
political alliance in which labor
furnishes the votes and politic
ians furnish the laws and the
, court decisions, the United
! MX. A M at A
I amies ior 12 years nas had a
j labor government, without., the
' label. It is not surprising, then.
i uiat some unions haveTrown ar
i rogant until collective bargain-
; ing in many instances Is .merely
tne presentation of ultimatums
by the unions.
j Some unions are run as tight
monopolies, gathering the usual
j evils of monoply. They are ex-
1 elusive as to membership, re
gardless of skills or character.
Officials of some unions cut the
swag for themselves and sell out
' their members without' consci-
lence. Abuses are protected in
j which workers suffer and pub
lic interest is Ignored.
I The country ' wonders now
whether it is in for a renewal
of struggle between unions and
employers. Probably but the
odds are largely with the unions
t ; prtscnt As result the
-strikes may not be as numerous
or as serious as is feared. The
urgent need i' not for truckling
to employers so much as reform
within . organized labor's j own
bouse, installing 1 seme I real
democracy in midline unions,
bringing e better sense of re
sponsibility to members and the
public, , and seeking jn expan
sion ; of ( production the true
earning of. real wage. ; 4 1 ,
but the spirit which exists at the
meal, in the home, during the
occasion which really counts.
..-W might paraphrase the old
proverb' in these words: "Better
is a bowl of soup where love is,
than a T-bone steak and hatred
therewith.,,
Carl H. Cover Is
Now Commander
Carl H. Cover of Salem, has
been, promoted to commander in
the U. S. naval reserve, at naval
air station, Seattle, where "he; is
on duty in the executive depart
ment : t
Commander Cover, whose wife
is In Seattle and whose parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Cover, live
at 484 N.E. Laurelhurst Place.
Portland, Ore., has been on active
duty in the navy four years and
nine months.
Before Joining the navy, he was
a personnel' director for the Ore
gon state unemployment commis
sion. He is a graduate of the
Northwestern College of Law. -
- J W1UU HU1I1I QWI
sits in the water is called her trim.
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