Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1945)
FAcrroua Tli OHTGON STATESMAN, Salem. Crayon. Friday Morning. September 7. ItU ... : T' mN Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Aw f from Firit Statesman, March 2$, 1831 : .- . . - ; r . W.: - ; THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUX, Editor and Publishers . : Member of the Associated Press The Associated Presi is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of til news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper 1. Si if, T-A W01V 0 WASHINGTON, Sept 6. The Pearl ' Harbor matter has. devolved into aveml-subtle politi? new dealers , ', Mr. Roose and con reports, have A Whale of a Dinner IX lend-leaseless Britain -has to eat whale meat, as recent stories have indicated). as a possibility, we'll have no trouble squeezing out another tear for our cousins across the sjea. We have in mind a brief, but sufficiently long, experience when Eureka's whaling station ' wair going full blast not long ago. The northern California coastline was quite excited about its potentiality as a new food center. Great whales we're harpooned, dragged ashore,- skinned, eut up, , by-producted, and put in huge poolers. Meat markets advertised the dark red , meat as pointless - and cheap. A world-wide news: service sent reporters and- photographers to record the steps from foam to frying pan. The photographers talked two pretty girls into having a whale steak with pictures. The girls, heroes both, toyed with the meat, piinced a few bits, finally cleaned up their plates, acted happy, made little comment. Then the photog raphers and reporters tried it. . The Result stories stressed two factors, the hardiness of Eureka girls alnd the unmitigated fishifness of meat which science calls mammal There; wasn't much heard" of whale meat after that, IV sold briskly for dogfobd, but the argument as to whether it was subject to feedral meat inspec tion promptly died. So did the whaling station. Proponents cried that "it's fine if soaked in vinegar for eight hours;" "you didn't give it a fair trial;" "your cook didn't know how to fix It." And such all may have been true, jtoo. But having got in on that sample which the Eureka girls ate, we'd still prefer broiled shoe; leather garnished with fish oil and garlic. Then again, sErfgland might like the stuff, who knows! Turning Pages Back ! S . The war Is in that staeef which ! corresponds to running the film backward) Truk and Ra baul, how importantly they loomed irr the news of two and three years ago! For over a year they have been forgotten, almost never appear ing in the reports of military operations in the Pacific. They had been bypassed, and their garrisons were left to die! on the vine. Now the remnant of the Japanesg forces are surren dering these oatposts, following the surrender in Tokyo bay. We have to finish up our mem ories to recall how bnce thejf seemed formidable barriers to American progress. j I It was the leap-frog strategy, which shortened the war. Truk, described as klmost invulnerable to capture by assault, was jgfven a side-swipe by fleet and air forces; and effectively .im mobilized by the seizure of Guam and Saipan. To go back now and mop un these points through the mere formality of accepting their surrender is like turning "back the ages of war history but the experience is a most pleas ant one, in great contrastj to the losses that would have occurred' on direct assault. ! I The little woman is getting back into shape at Rochester, N. Y. Gymnasiums and reducing parlors report that a peaceful battle of the bulge is progressing quite rapidly since V-Pay because the gals don't want their soldiers to find a "pleasingly plump' ' substitute for the size 14s they left behind. And just when ration ing is going off. too. ' i j fm-k- - U2TUS7r' I maneuver of the -v:v vvw.' x-fT-L, vr,.:i.v ."-: :i-r. ' to Drevent exposure oi ?s- SvirvA- ffftra.! ' .jV.n.iKnit. II' l ' 10" I If I I ! I i I i I I I i I r-.JZi -; : , t - Wrj VI i- ) f XCXV' - -daily railed I '"'ifrSY. fiT V JSt &:!J?2S2S7 Sr- the theme that i jW' tf&' - ' -WTp le.rtorake it I XXTuJM - y fJ.- Vi ' r. Jb. i .. i mm in v. - . I f VtF A N. 'Pftiff' nd sully proud Ay ' i x?0 "V ' official n a m e i j 7 f -w'' f (rarely men- VNs mm Open at Last Ta rtatilnrt TMI.kr tV&t A VtillTCOUM f A Mil VPT1 Tt A I S JL A M M mm m finH th inirrwlients for those so-called war- " BiT ",w BIB J time recipes. - '?' j: I i Give Up Hop Control ': Give the hopgrowers credit for cutting the apron strings tieing them to governmental con trol. A decade ago hop prices were so low that growers lost money. This was after the initial price splurge on repeal of prohibition. Many jubiped into hop-growing, the general depress aion was on, and growers had a difficult time. Finally crop control was worked out and Senator McNary obtained special legislation to establish' hUThere is no doubt it speedily cured, the ail ments of the hop industry. i j , The war sent prices soaring, since1 irnports were cut off and demand rose, OPA's ceiling was well belowlthe peak set by the market but has been -at ; a profitable level. The growers have agreed now to let crop control legislation expire and wil) try to stand on their own feet.H Strong individualists, the growers have always operate! on independent lines except whei they Interpreting : The War News By JAMES D.I WHETE ' Aimiated Pre Staff Writer r, a SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. e.-iirVJapan's special "peace envoy" at thetime of Pearl Harbor, Saburo Kurusu, says he didn't know jthat the sneaJc attack: was being cooked up at the time. He Is also "hur that Americans put part of the blame on him. This is reported by Frederick -B. Opper, American broadcasting company reporter whe hunted Kurusu up at his summer home in Karu izawa where he found the retired diplomat living qletly, dressed in natty brown tweed and appar ently anxiou( to talk. li Mr, Kurusu is certainly entitled to his just share of the benefit of the doubt, although hC does con cede to Opper that "of course tbei got into a tight squeeze. They will bej hippier Japanese government had manyf if: they can get. along that way. Come heavy over production or'excessive'foreign competition . they may race for tm government sheltejp tent again. At least they are to be commended for v their willingness to cut loose from government leading strings and try to stand on theij" own feet. One wonders when wheat and cotton growers-will develop equal stamina.' J. j Slecretary Jimmy Byrnes takes umbrlge at the reflection" on Secretary Hull in the rmy naVy report on Pearl Harbor,' saying it .was the firsts time the military had ever seen (fit to ' criticize civilian officials. Yes, but it was the first time we ever had a Pearl, Har pot- The - boards of inquiry would have been delinquent tnj! their duty to the public as well as tq their own services if they had ignored the relation of; the civil to the military arms in auchTmo- ments of international crisis, i i . Editorial Comment J. D. Wkito SALMON FISHING AN ART f.r J It might not inspire poetry, but the process of fishing for salmon near Celilo falls with rod, line,' sinker and glittering spinner deserves more than passing notice. Fly fishermen of the purist tariety who disdain the heavy tackle sport could i learn many a lesson from the salmon-seeking fraternity. When ! fully understood, salmon fishing lis L re vealed as a sport that brings out some of the higher virtues ef its followers. Where among fly fJsfcermea could you find a man so devoted , to his pastime as to spend hours or even a full: day perched on a rock above the swirling water wait-. lng for a strike, all perhaps in vain? j ) The novice trout fisherman who curses the line that wrapt around his neck; has mild tribulation compared with that of the man who wields, a salmon rod. AccountermenU of the latter" sport Include a bamboo pole IS feet or thereabouts in length, and an oversize reel containing about 100 yards of stout linen line to which is attached a piano-wire arramement that keeps the sinker and bail from fouling- It la a man's Job alone to handle the equipment with its pound of lead or iron sinker, but the real test of patience comes when all or part of tha- bait aianmaly gets "hung up.f as it Invariably does, in the rocky crevices of the river floor.' : An observer who has sampled the sport might suspect that some anglers sit all day with linkers and other gear fastened tightly to the bottom of ! have the cake and eat it, too. for a genuine Interest plans to cover many possibilities, just as your government has:' Kurusu appears to stick up for General Hidekl Tojo, the Japanese premier who is generally credited with 'master-minding the Pearl Harbor strategy. ".(1- When Opper asked him if Tojo didn't use him and Admiral No mura as a peact front lo cover the attack, Kurusu replied that "I don't- think that's quite fair to General Tojo. I know from speak ing to him before he left Tokyo that ht wanted peace." . , - j. " . - .(Opper isn't one, by th way to be taken in. He rotted for many weeks In the infamous Japa nese bridge house jail in Shanghai before he was repatriated in 1942. He Icame out weakened! and embittered. He is not likely to swallow 'Kurusu's sto"ry without combing itj thoroughly.) t f Which means, if you accept Kurusu's story, that Kurusu actually believed Tojo really wanted peace, " That is where Kurusu may have made7 his ; mis take assuming you accept his story., , Sure, Tojo wanted peace. Let's be "fair" to him. All Japanese wanted f peace. But they 1 also wanted to ' keep everything they had grabbed. In Asia, and to have Carte Blanche to keep on grab- :ftng. too.w: -..,-!; ,:!4'1;'.;. That's the catch. The ! Japanese militarists (in cluding Tojo) would have been all; too happy to keep their loot and. not fight anybody. Who wouldn't. ' ' For ten years, ever since they saw their aggres sive policy in Manchuria -was bringing them ' into direct . conflict with western power, their whole policy was one of appeasing those powers to avoid open , war, meanwhile moving cautiously te-; take still snore, of China and j southeast Asia into their economic, and political sphere. J By the late fall, of 194 V it Was apparent to nearly all well-informed people in' the orient met,; with her axis tie-up with Germany and Italy, Japan was throwing more and' more caution overboard and taking bitea instead of nibbles out of Asia. , i Xven so, most observers hardly thought the Japa nese would dare open conflict. But there waa a general under estimation of the extent to which the Japanese had convinced themselves that the western powers were "soft democracies' and would not 'fiht back. t -f , f; ;- That certainly was a big factor; in convincing the militarista that they could grtlaway with It If Mr. Kurusu believed Tojo as be says he did. he may have mistaken a greedy determination "to GuidcDOst By W. a IOGEM THB WHITS TOWER, By Jaatas ftaaucy IHkaaa (Uppiaeott; S3). Martin Ordway is piloting a. damaged bomber back from a raid on Germany. All his crew is . killed, he is completely lost, his motors are failing, so he jumps. He lands : right in the narrow Swiss valley where .as a youth he once spent a vacation. Even he thinks it'a a curious coinci dence. . ; ... jjr -: ' ' Half a dozen people there, in cluding Martin, are obsessed ' with the 'Idea of climbing the White Tower, a peak hitherto in-accessible- from the side on which they propose to approach. These ambitious folks are a ! . native guide,,' an Englishman, a ; Frenchman, a Nazi and Carla, a ; ; Viennese. The rest of the long novel de scribes their hazardous attempt, and you may; if you wish, read into their individual experiences -some idea of their national dif ferences. In sports it's- a good tale, especially for mountain-' climbing addicts; for the arm--" chair reader it's sometimes pret ty steep going. JANUAKT THAW, ky Bellamy Pat-: trtdes (Whittlesey Haaie; SZ.TJ). Concocted of sugar and spice and everything nice, this story is .about an old Colonial house .made k of ,Mhuge,, "mignificenr and "stupendous beams; a bee yutiful maple that shades it and a wicked old flaw in the title. A New York writer nd his family fall head over heels In love with the place and buy it, though the mysterious couple that once upon a time inhabited it sold to an intermediate party' with the understanding they could return to live there if they wished. , ; The New Yorkers move in, the? couple reappears, and there are complications; elegant parties held7 by- the new - owners with the ragged couple in the offing, i i .A'.Vi m I L -ft.- tar-. !fit?ZNNE TWV:DI2ZON By Robert Myers (Subatitutinf-for KenneUx L. DUen) GUAM -(JPy- Admiral Nimitx humorously calls himself the un- V official one-man chamber of commerce for Guam but even he " will have a hard time selling the island to American-service men as a post-war playground. . .Guam admittedly is a pretty , island, as islands go. Green veg etation blankets ' its rolling ter rain. Looking north from Nkn ltz hilltop headquarters, the view is not unlike southernCal- ifornia around La Jolla. ' Nimitz keeps a small, bound booklet .in his; desk drawer, . which, ouilines the history of the .island and habits of the ; pee- . pie and let it be said that the people are certainly friendly and .less avaricious for Visitors' spending, money; than at resort ; spots in the United States and elsewhere. ' . - Nimitz stresses attractions such as good fishing and hiking. The service men declare that they prefer, hunting for amuse ment, refreshments and enough., points to get back home. That sort of hunting is, of course, hot chickens ana cows getting in th way of smartly ; dressed people, modern plumbing versus Chic Sales. " ; .. .-. ' '' Though some people may en Joy it, it seems to me more a " washout than a thaw. 1 , ' :. '! THE BOOK FOB W10 WOODS -MEN, ky Beraare 8. Maaoa; S). - ' This book, illustrated r with drawings by .Frederic H. Kock and by photographs, is just what the title calls it The young man - on bis own in the wilds Is taught how to use ax, saw, wedge and other, tools; he'd do well to find room, for this m his knapsack.- included in post-war plans. Unquestionably the navy has brought, tremendous improve ments and the groundwork has been j laid for further develop ment, r Guam may even con tinue te be the navy's greatest Pacific; base, though no an nouncement has yet been made on that point V' But as a mecca for tourists that'll another matter. . The isl and will probably remain too re mote: land - surrounded by too much water for travelers in any large numbers. Guam, say the men who have been! here months, sometimes works ! strange quirks onSnen. Some call it getting "rock-hap- . py."H - Jack Smyth, British correspon dent said he was watching ma rines drill $n the baseball dia mond down the hill from Cine- pae.1 fThey were drilUnc tn beautiful formation," he explain ed; ''then, as I looked, they sud ' dealy disappeared at a point just past third .base. It was very odd, I thought. Smyth added that possibly the marines vanished behind a new type of camouflage or that per haps he was just seeing things maybe a mirage. ' -j On a walk. I saw a sailor stop. 'He was talking to a butterfly on a busbi The sailor said his case shouldn't be considered extreme until he heard the butterfly talk ,; back.:;,, - - ' MGivb;';B6&lndP:tEiol : ' : ' i ' By PAUL MALLON -. (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction la whole . " : or tn part strictly prohibited.) : long been murmured off-stage In congress. Lately there has been another unconfirmed story in cir culation that . Mr. Roosevelt re-, quired the half-fleet in the Pa-, cific to remain largely bottled uii in Pearl Harbor for fear of giving Japan an-opportunity to gtirt shooting. Admiral Richard son is said to have been relieved of pearl Harbor because b re fused to eet the Ships up at anchor In that small space, with out maneuverability, like -ducks' on a pond. A powerful segment within the navy would like to have these matters publicly explored to clear its name, and is quietly pushing the investigation idee. ' along. : ':. ' - v. In the facenof this phalanx, the administration seems coming around to the view that there iniist be an investigation, and in tends to do the next best thing about it run it themselves. Signs 1 arie visible that they intend to take the Issue out of the hands - of ; the republicans and carefully choose the investigating commit tee, not only to protect the fair name of Mr. Roosevelt but them selves politically. i Such Is the probable culmina tion of the. current controversy, ' but in my personal opinion, the administration is making a mis take. The Truman government is . now in no discernible", political danger. The . fair name of Mr. Roosevelt in history will be what- . ever it will be, whether the Pearl Harbor facts reach full daylight or not His 'name is in no danger I jean see. But the morale of the navy and the army is in dan-. ger from this situation. A sicken ing condition has been caused In the services by the manner In which the whole Pearl Harbor .blunder was covered over"all these years, and those deemed re ' sponsible were' allowed to oc cupy the most prominent war jobs, or get retirement pay and otherwise were protected. jl understand, for instance, that the two lieutenant'-colonels at . Pearl Harbor, shown in the army board report t6 have been alert to; the danger and wanting to do something about it, have never Paul Mallow ; - gones and get on with reconver sion or whatever It is we are doing? Among themselves, they ! say: De mortuis nil nisi bonum," '(say nothing but good of the dead) as if the worst of all blows to American arms was how a matter of etiquette. '- ' Hence also, Mr. Truman did what he could for his old chief by blaming the ipublic and con gress for the . disaster. As the whole departmental .administra tion below Mr. Truman had i blamed one another, this ' drew 'the blame over every one in the country except Mr. Roosevelt (as Mr. T. waa then serving In con gress.) All this, of course, rep resented genuine inner fear of what a full, inquiry, might do not. only to the president but politi cally to the party. ; Seeing .this, the Republicans , started championing in congress the cause of an investigation. They have Insufficient strength . alone, to force one, but they are getting quiet helping hands from some non-new-dealing democrats who want Justice done. Deeper inside, an invisible impetus for exposure Is coming from of all places the navy department 'and to a lesser extent the army. .1 Mr. Roosevelt, you will recall, recognized his talent for naval strategy, having once told a friend of mine before our war, .he believed; he could place the fleet in certain positions around the world and win the European war. He got big appropriations for his pet: department and is .supposed to have been the god father of the fleet It can now be related a large part of the navy did not like this. He ran things too much his own way, which . was not the way of those ad . mirala who retained independent minds. .4; " .;;. He gave away the destroyers to Britain, moved half the fleet into the-Atlantic and left only half of it to face Japan, thereby opening the opportunity for the ''Jap attack. These criticisms have. been promoted throughout this war. A corrupt , condition has re sulted, harmful to ' Initiative, alertness and efficiency. r ' jAn investigation could act like a democratic purge to cleanse this condition, and establish a ' sounder navy and army morale. - ' ' jl think the Truman administra-. , tion is running a great political ..rick In frstni,. ' An' V.1!I . . .uux hi cm . v.. mi. of this internal deterioration but ; might gain great prestige by let ting the facta fall'whers they should in a fully free non-political inquiry. . GRIN AND BEAR IT LfiF iaasiaHK. asssMaaiB. ,iaBsssssjak.uliaaBaHaMBakaaaw aaaaw irm rmrs BjT Uch ly " (Continued from paga ) the river. In mora than a few instances! this con clusion might be correct, since there is a (school of, opinion that holds it desirable -to have; the fish. If he's in a striking mood, yank the tackle free. These practical-minded gentlemen reason that it'a better to take a chance with a fish -than to pun back mightily on the line, probably breaking tt with loss el- sinker, spinner or both. ! ;Free or "hung up," the fUherman's line is. al lowed to ataj in one place most of the time, per- 1 tt K in woria peace. s : ; . j That wouldn't be the first time! that Japanese diplomats have been made stalking horses of mOi tary aggression. Japanese history is full of that tort Of thing. Sometimes it has been obvious' they were the victims of military deception. At other timea it appears uncomfortably obvious, that they There is an absence of hara kiri amonx JaDanesa diplomaU that ia a little difficult to explain ether- mitting the salmon devotee to observe -fully the Vise, They would be the first te claim that they are - even more patriotic than the military because they have always had to stay around and lose face by cleaning up diplomatic messes which the jnilitary provoked. . ''.' ' t But I can think of no Important Japanese diplo : mat who ever cleaifly acknowledged the guilt of wohdrously boiling currents and eddies of the Celilo channeL Even if he sometimes returns empty handed, or perhaps with nothing more than a small steel-head, the i patient sportsman has absorbed something beneficial from the outdoors., Such fishermen thrill to the graceful leap of a large pink-sided salmon just as wield ers of fly rods X i A 1 his country, or whomever initiated any neeotiationa sense a quickened pulse when the big rainbows ; . to give up the conquests gained by military aggres- -ire rising. The kinship-is more than accidentals j ston. f 1 - "It's lease talk. Gentlemen, te say that Taa met famiUar with the ' The DaDes Chronicle.. ' - They have given them up, but under pressure, vital tssees f the day! Hew else weal I be able te evade them? I I I ' -i 1- -mn f . it staaapeded Into legislation like that demanded- in 1942. Work er! haye had years at high wag es and- the foresighted have ac cumulated savings. There may be a brief period ef readjust- ., meat but the present unemploy ment compensation 'should help to tide the impecunious, over that period. If we should go into an economic tailspin which is not , Indicated, then unemployment compensation will not be the answer but some form, of relief. - Durmg the last legislature I endorsed a minimum ,of $20 a week in recognition" of the high er cost of living. , The legisla ture raised the benefits from $15 a week for 18 weeks to $18 a week for 20 weeks. This was hardly; enough; but we should stick to it and not rush to the federal government for addition- - al handouts. - Under ' conditions ' of modern industry there is basis for socializing the burdens which come ' from I unemployment; but always we must. preserve a large degree of individual responsi bility. ! Otherwise we merely en- courage general idleness. , There can; be no substitute for work and effort to find work; which simply, means that there is still room for a large measure of " self-reliance -. rather than state i. paternalism. ' ' Celebrities Speak to Guests AlHuae V.S. Alderman Picnic (Sea story-on.) page 1); . " ' At the annual picnic on his mammoth farm at Dayton Thursday, U. S. Alderman played host to many Celebrities, some of which were asked to address his 3000 guests. I i ' Burton Hutton of Portland,) KAXJS farm editor, ' introduced - by . Rex Warren, farm production manager, was master of ceremonies. "The whole world is hungry, said Marshall Dana, editor of the Oregon Journal, as he surveyed the large group facing the new speaker's stand near the bean fields. Dana .was not referring to the picnickers, but to the place agriculture will. have in postwar work. "If food won the war, then food will, win the peace," he in sisted, as he urged production to continue at peak as long as the need .is so great," X. L. -Peterson, state .director of agriculture, and representing Gov. Earl- Snell, congratulated the fanners of Oregon upon their great addition to America's food supply, referring to Oregon's $300,000,000 crop of last year with "almost am equal one being pro duced this year." j . rUkher gseaks : ',. " ' This huge project points the way to increased . production through Irrigation,7 said Charles A. Sprague, former governor of Oregon - and publisher of The Oregon Statesman, urging the increased use of irrigation for Willamette valley v agriculture. Rex Putnam, state superintend ent of .schools, took the oppor tunity to urge the young pickers to let nothing stop them from re turning to school to continue the education which will fit them "to help maintain prosperity and WillianvL Teutschhead of the college extension division, spoke on the freedom acquired through American agriculture - and urged farmers, young and old, to "main tain that freedom by following the improved methods . of . farm ing. " ..,(. Alee XairWawed , . ' , Also Introduced were E. B. Salmon. ? Portland banker. . Carl Francis, Dayton and "America's youngest maTr, Dr. Harry Dil lon, Linfield's "youngest, college president in ibe United SUtes," Uel Dunston, representicj New berg, and W. I Jackson,' Albany editor, .; - .- ' ' v' -r ;. -.i Mrs. Bruce Spaulding was solo ist, and additional music ' was furnished by the Singing Sen tinels of Portland,' groups from Camp Adair and young members of j the Alderman bean picking v During the' program an air plane gave a cover-crop seeding -demonstration, throwing , crim son clover seed on the beenfielda already harvested. TEUCKS TO BE SOLD ' MEDFORD, Sept e.-iA-lOs- cetlaneous trucks and parts will v be disposed of at a spot sale Sept' I7by the office of surplus proo- STEVEIS First 6ioic of Gifts lea that boy 'overseas. J r , ? Bill Faltls. Money Clip. Cig arette lighters, 1 Key - Watch Chains, Expensla Wskh Bands, IdentifleaUea Braeeleta. , , OPEN AH ACCOUNT j''Vv:;4.m;CEtreet .-," IZ Court Street t