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wax roua Tli OnSGOir STATESMAN. Satan. Oregon. Tuesday Horning tWpltwbe It. IMS PWMM MM i i "i7o Taoor Stoav Us; No Fear Shalt Ave From First Statesman, March 28, 185 1 if . THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING. COMPANY; CHARLE3 A. SPRAGUE, Editor, and Publisher i : Member of th Associated Press - ji The Associated. Press is exclusively entitled to the vie for publication of .all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. .Hi ADI'.JCAL. Hi GLAD 1 V'EX;tXVTr.,VAL Bt&YTtf ABOUT 13 IP WE'D LOST IT? Not an Unhappy Day ... . We had in mind for this ' page a cartoon showing a dejected-looking youngster hunched up at a schoolroom desk saying "Aw, heck" because his vacation had ended. But after mak ing the rounds of a few Salem schools yesterday morning when fall classes opened, it appeared that such, a cartoon would come a long way from reflecting the majority of young thoughts. There were lots of really- happy faces that "first day. Some of the little Sallies and Billies, of course, didn't look overjoyed at the prospects of foregoing neighborhood frolices, play stores and visits in the country, and one eight-year-old girl couldn't keep back the tears as she rounded a schoolhouse corner. -But the tears didn't last long. They couldn't, "not when the Other-Sallies and Billies were having such a good time getting acquainted with ' their new "teachers and re-acquainted with themselves. And when their lot now is compared with papa's and mama's, or particularly grandpa's and grandma's, there really isn't a thing to feel sorry about (unless it was that brown dog which still waited patiently on the stone steps even after the bell rang). There's a lot besides 'reading and 'riting and rithmetic and also besides the fourth routine in the modern school. V" c The Nurses Score " - The", plaudits for ar job well done should not overlook one of the outstanding professions, in importance and in contribution the American nurses. A compilation of facts by the American Journal of Nursing shows more than 42 per cent of the 242,500 active professional nurses in the nation volunteered and were certified for service by the army and navy, and nurses who remained at home assumed a huge load from the added duties thus thrust upon them. Nearly 1000 nurses have received military awards or citations; hundreds of them devoted their time to training the largest classes of stu dent nurses ever enrolled; and 'many, others furthered the home nursing program of the Red Cross, taught and supervised 181,477 volunteer nurses' aides, helped in the collection of blood, and assisted in more than 70 major disasters within the United States itself. . I The journal also pointed to a particularly significant item 84 "schools of nursing now admit young negro women, compared with 29 . four years ago. The profession can well 'be proud of its war record. An Important Project . National attention will accrue to Oregon this winter when initial steps begin in the reforest ing of the devastated Tillamook burn, j j , Around 250,000 two-year-old. Douglas Fir and Port Orf ord cedar seedings are to planted monthly starting December 1, under a schedule worked out by State' Forester Rogers! Tree planting crews will be located at the old Keehers CCC camp west of Timber; to carry put re forestation of the burned; area near Cochran. The Cochran area was chosen from a standpoint of fire hazard, there being but few snagi there and these being removeable during winter per iods when bad weathef makes planting impos sible.' i I .-V' .. ! ji I . Rogers also said j there, would be extensive experiments in direct seeding in other parts of the great burn. The areas for this activity' will have to be carefully selected, and if proper pre cautions are not taken rodents will take 100 per cent of the seeding. Whether the fire lias re duced the rodent population to an appreciable extent remains to be jseen. Poisoning may be the answer yet. Airplane seeding also is to be utilized, with germinatiohi and survivalj to be checked next year. ' j i- ! The planting program now is entailing the collection of 4000 bushels of Douelas fire" cones. from which a ton of seed. Is expected to he ex- (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole P4ng unknown circumstances. : tracted. Around lOOOf pounds of PnrtilfWnrd ' or in part strictly prohibited.) I - Wants Cards en Table ' Cbtrilnrtai fcy Sine Tmtarm SrwBcaU by unilMt wHk lb WMfeiastoa StM The Battle of the Potomac News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON attack upon - the very American I capitalism, which has furnished I from its toil the money to save J you twice, has created threa ten- cedar seed will be obtained from. Curry county. -The seed will be used in direct planting 'and in the production of seedlings at the nurse ty. Data regarding the sesults of various methods used in overcoming the problem of reforestation will prove of invaluable aid in years to come. There are few project! more important 'to this : i state. I 1 ' 1 WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Continued from Sunday)-Now the idea is being advanced that it is. not correct to say the Brit ish want to cancel the $29,000, 000,000 of give-lease obligations more of A home-builders' magazine says bathrooms need extra cabinets. fAnd in some instances maybe an extra raxor strop, too. ;l Interpret ins The War Neivo By JAMES D. WHITE Associated Press Staff- Writer We're Cheered, Too There probably isn't a business ,in existence that doesn't think it had an exceptionally touch time during the war and newspapers are no ex ception What with a voluntary censorship code, which made a few subcribers irate even though newspapers couldn't help it. and the restrictions '. on newsprint, which made it impossible to pub- lish as maiy or as large pictures and stories as was desired, there were plenty of problems in publishing. Some of them are gradually dis- - appearing and we welcome the changes' just as do other businesses similarly affected. Censorship is mostly off, and while we had no quarrel with its necessity the change is a wel come relief. And now comes word that perhaps soon there will be a modification or elimination ' of regulations limiting the use of newsprint (the paper on which newspapers are printed). There will always be the problem of space, since col umns won't stretch nor will too many vacant ones fill by themselves. That's Just one of the griefs like those prevalent always in 'any in dustry, peace or war,' of course. But it'll be j happy day when newspapers have a chance to i meet such problems themselves, . in the best SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. l7-(f-If you can figure out the personal paradox of Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma you may be close to one key to the Japa nese militarist and the j system which makes him perform. . Homma, you'll recall, is the man Americans think of as the butcher; of Bataan, responsible for the infamous death march.;! f; He 'steps calmly off a train in Tokyo and tells American newspapermen that he really didn't know about the march, but that he is ready to! accept responsibility for what his subordinates may have done. - .. 1 j - -j . . In 1939 Homma was commander-in-chief at Tient sin in norm China. The story then was ' that he wasn't-one of the military radicals - ' i ' but that 'he had been sent & there f" by the Japanese high command as ! a-"reliable" commander to control the rabid young officers who were 1 back of the blockade of the British! concession end who were having f a wonderful -time undressing Brit- isn mna otner westerners at tne ' bioekade barriers. jj ;!:. Homma held an interview. We were surprised to find 'this heavy set general quite jovial,8; frank and showing none of the jittery self consciousness which affected most Japanese officers. ij !' ' He seemed the calmest Japanese officer I had and get $8,000,000,000 money to fm ance their planned social ist purchase of their own In dustries. Tech nically j this is true; actually It is . not. . They have ; come here with great piles of import export ; figures, claiming they lost their trade . t during the war (certainly not to us) and saying they will use the new money to buy more foreign ; exchange than the export-import bank can" furnish them. I have seen oher figures showing they! broke about even on exports and imports during the war, aside from give-lease. Pa MjOIob te interfere' at all f with their plans which logically anticipates dislocation of their whole fin ancial system. A person. must pinch himself to ascertain if he has lost his' senses when faced with such boldly proclaimed unreasonable ness, but this is all a matter of public record, a record merely obscured for the present by care fully contrived propaganda. Empire Population Hare, JBritain is a nation of around 47,000,000. people, roughly one third of our population, al though her empire has 557, 000,000, more than a fourth of the population of the earth. Her payable production Is not im posing aside from Woolens, lin en and Scotch whisky but her empire produces every material which we need, and ? in most of which, we are short. Her in ternal . debt (excluding give lease) is, as near as I find, around $100,000,000,000 ($4 pound), or also roughly a third of ours. In short, her people are about in the same debt fix as Certainly they need many things. I Perhaps they will use I'ours. While we have three times the money for that purpose, al- more people, we alsa have more J. D. Whit ever met, and his only impatience was with' a Japa nese interpreter whose' English was very poor. Homma got fed up and talked to us directly in polished English. He seemed perfectly reasonable except that ha insisted he knew of no instance where Japanese troops; were misbehaving, j chore of conforming to essential but sometimes discouraging restrictions. f r. An atomic bomb is to be dropped on a Japa nese battleship, so that the navy can study its effect. ;To save wear and tear and cutlery, per- haps it would be the humane thing to ask if there are any hara-kiri prospects who would like to be aboard. 1 ' , ' . : ' ":v . , Editorial Comment ALL HONO TO DBSHAZEB , . Corporal Jacob Deshazer, the Doolittle flyer from ' Madras, whose release from a Jap prison camp glad dened, in particular, his friends in Jefferson county, has written his mother .that he wishes to return to Japan as a missionary. Bearing no hate for the enemy who treated him and his fellow captives so mercilessly this young American would return good ior evil. . : "-'":- As we read of Corporal Deshazer's hope for the future we could not but remember a long letter from the conscientious objector and movie actor, Lew Ayres, a copy of which had been recently mailed to us by, so the evidence indicated, an objector at the Wickiup camp. Ayres went to some length in this lettet to a friend to point out that only by fol- ' lowing the teachings of Christ could the world be same from destruction. The Wickiup "conchie, it was obvious, was using the letter's argument as justification lor bis own stand against military service. I ' . . . We made bo argument with Lew Ayres. As a natter of fact, though he went tf-the" beginning to anobiector's camp he went from it before long into a service where, though be did not bear arms, he aided his fellow Americans Jn their needs grow ing out ef army daty. Obviously, it was not cow ardice that first put him into the objector's camp. -And now we have Jacob Deshazer, a professed Christian and believer ia Its tenets, ready to serve his God s he has served his'country. He saw' no inconsistency in serving his country in the armed forces He sees cone in turning to the Bible from , bomb. ' AQ honor lo hinv4iead Bulletin. though! not all r with vs. But only by our capitalism bailing them out, can they put themselves in a financial posi tion for their; expensive social- , ism. Without the cancellation of the $29,000,000,000 and more cash, - and the export-import bank and the ; Bretton Woods foreign, j , exchange funds, j will ' they be able financially to swing their purchase of their bank, ' railroads, ' etc? No one will or can deny this. - Would Finance System In the truest sense, "therefore, ' they are using : our money ' to finance; their anti-capitalist pro gram and they do' not want to pay . interest on it while paying ; double interest to their own peo ple for; the purchase, and can celling our give-lease while mak ing repayment of real lend-lease to their; own colonies. It b un- questionably true, then that they propose to drain from our capi talism the fruits with which to kill their own, and Laskl and the ', other socialist mentors at home than three times more debt. While she' Is reducing hers and cutting her commitments,-we are enlarging ours. : , A fair agreement would not appear difficult it both nations exhibited a reasonable attitude. I know what I would do, if confronted by the proposition Britain has built up for our chief delegate; Will Clayton. If I could keep my temper in the face-of such British impositions upon my ; intelligence,' I would send Keynes and Halifax home, and tell them to send over Prof. . Laski and the chancellor of the exchequer, as "we " must deal with' some one of authority to. know what they are going to dol I would say: ;,;-. : ' "We bailed you out of the lasi war, and we wQl bail you out "This money is extracted painfully from our people. It represents sweat of their brow. Get your cards out of your hat and on the table, and we will work out something fair to both sides.- p We lost our last victory not only at the peace table, as is generally known, but in the post war financing, as is not gener ally known.' Germany never paid a net cent ! of their reparations, which drew our pity to such an extent that we ultimately took the lead in their cancellation, considering them so heavy as to be an unjust barrier to peace. Churchill once produced in the house j of commons the full fig ures on reparations paid by Germany ec sompared with the allied money borrowed (largely from .the i United States : and Britain) by Germany. He showed they just about balanced. Took Advantage of U. S. Germany took fjom us money in loans (which she never re paid) practically covering in full what she paid France. Actually then our people, our taxpayers, paid the reparations which we io pitied Germany for bearing. And we do not even yet generally realize the trick Germany played on us, making us allies assume her whole burden and enabling her to rearm swifter for the sec ond war against us. We can lose this victory the '. ; The Chinese people are held beck, in ; making their revolu- ; bona, by extreme poverty which prevents accumulation ef capital goods, by their monosyllabic lan guage which Is inadequate for the expressions of scientific knowledge, and by lack, of liter acy. -; i- ; , , i .. 1 All these factors make China's reconstruction, as a modern, democratic state supremely 8 dif ficulty jr ' " f . Dr. Judd praised Chiang Kai shek as one of the "giants of the earth," a j Moses trying to weld a mixed people Into a single; na tion. His message la one that merits a wide hearing. Ameri cans need this knowledge ,so they may have a ' sympathetic understanding of China, whose welfare is now; so cldsely wrapped up with our own.jj As Congressman Judd said: "Europe relates us with the past thei Pa cific with our future'. same way. More, we can utter ly destroy ourselves, and our way of life, by falling into these foolish financial pitfalls, With which we are being presented. . i esr m m OKINAWA Somehow the war doesn't' seem a thing of the past out here. ": ; Okinawa Is still, foreign soil for thousands of American boys whom war took' from their homes. The postwar' plans made for them in the crash of their plane en route to Japan. They hadn't known the war was nearly over. , f .But the enlisted man, sloshing through Okinawa's mud, or chok ing it, would be a dastardly as--; ly, under the most favorable cir sault upon their honor for ,u . cumstances, and your . , planned By Liclity nese military shrine. He made the usual bow, and turned quickly and walked down the steps. As he passed us correspondents he smiled briefly and ; may even have winked. We argued about that afterward, because shrines are solemn places and other Japanese about us were fairly quakfng with the usual "trepidation.; it- Still: later. I saw Homma . personally "i lift the YTRIN AND RF AR TT blockade. As the barriers swung open alriaamic VrAXAi11 11 crowd of thousands of Chinese who'd been isolated from their homes and jobs by the blockade surged through the street '- . ji ; Homma. stood like a rock, almost apart from a small squad of his troops. Anyone could halve stuck a knife in his bread back and got away in that ' rno!. that flowed past ;him; like a. flood. He just -.stood there, smiling. ' .. d - When Homma accepted Wainwright's surrender on Corregidor I was still in Shanghai. A Japanese acquaintance who had gone down to witness the surrender told me that he was apprehensive that Homma's troops might get; out of hand, because of the bitter defense the Americans had put up. - ; They had been told the- Americans were a bunch of drunken softies, he pointed but, and were furious "that the fight had cost; the lives, of so, many Japa nese after they had been led to expect a pushover. He Indicated that Homma wasnt in a good post tion to clamp .down because his younger; officers suspected him of being pro-western. . J; . Now Homma says he didn't know what took place after Wainwright surrendered, and most Americans will doubt him. But it might be partly trite. The real Question is, did he want to know, and did he make any effort to find out what went n, or do ; anything about lt? ' f 4 ' ; J : -That's still a mystery, and Homma himself sheds no light on it wheat he takes full responsibility for f what happened, The interesting thing is that unlike many other high Japanese army men-such as Tojo Homma doesn't try to escape into suicide but even travels back to Tokyo to give himself tip. ' He may "be an excellent actor, of course, and such a gesture would strengthen his act. But among - Japanese army commanders Homma has had. more than the usual experience with the English-tpeaiing world. - i -: , - , j ' .. He knew far better, than most Japanese what he- is gettmg.into by taking the rap for Bataaa. 4Ulm .m t TI7- Icancelled the post-war rehabili;' u"lu x t'. .j ' ' In the rain, which is uliiwi nawnuK na . w is mi war aniaw and we will clncel I these. But -we are not fools. This is getting to be a ' permanent proposition. We can support our own coun try but not yours alsoj indefinite- it - frequent and heavy, Okinawa is particular ly gloomy f The grey tombs blank, impress ive against -the hillsides; the pines weighted and dripping; the grey forbidding skies ready momentar ily to loose, another, torrent to -wash down the red. clay paths through the green hills, to make rivers of the lakes in the' boggy gullies, to "make soup of the-com-1 ' pany streets; and thick, heavy glue j of paths where no coral had been laid.; Coral roads slick, and .ditch- j es muddy streams . ,.t Outside the ship's service, the noon line-up of " enlisted men, sloshing in the clinging mud, mov ing slowly to the counter. Here they buyramong othi things, the "latest" news, from the states. They learn about America's tnood as war ended, and it adjusts itself to peace. -! ' " ' - "!-' 1 Some . of the youngsters who bought papers and magazines went back to move- their tents they were flooded out They laughed, and joked about it, working knee deep in their private lake, moving soaked cots and bedding and - gear . . . !'"v.." " " ' - - : . No, somehow the war doesnt 'geem ."over"r-on an Island where there are no night dubs or race tracks, arid taoviee are the great and only entertainment' and beer coveted luxury. - " - We attended a little ceremony honoring a dozen or so fliers who had gained postwar security here end before victory.' It was in a dreary drizzle, and the words we heard were old familiar words as we stood .around the flag-draped shapes, andj the faces 9f those around us were strained and tired war-weary, war-hating, war- the sd2em ea4 ef the war eaeffct everyone aprepared stricken yet angry faces. The men notice hew faded and shabby the billboards areT under the flags hid had their war wont really be over for them ing through th dust clouds! that wiu louow, ooesn t get angry, not often. ; "; v "-' - - Might be because he knows the folks back home, who know the war is nearly over, are his old neighbors and friends. And j he's not blaming them. : . '.. 1 s r. . . . ... .... . : r f " J .;;, ----;-.vi.i::v.vj fii-t ;'-'i ' ' ... . . ' I Sift'' V ; I - ., . N- r , . f "1 (MSI Information Sought Concerning Home Freezing Unit " .Because of numerous requests fori information- on - refrigerators for; Oregon farms and ranches, the experiment station at Oregon State- college is undertaking the design of a two temperature walk in refrigerator and freezing com partment, Marjorie Tye, : .home demonstration agent has been no tified. .;)!' , It is Ithe desire of the college to adapt, the design to the needs of the prospective user. ' For that reason the criticisms and Com ments of those who already have such 1 units are -'solicited. Those who have any kind of refrigerat ing equipment other than the or dinary household unit, are urged to submit comments. The size of the; unit, whether too large or too small, whether considered worth the Investment and a brief de scription of it are some of the items that would be of assistance. Comment may be sent to Miss Tye, home demonstration agent, Salem. GAEOLXXX BUftNS CHILD COOS BAY, Sept. l?-irpHJer-ry Irvine, Sleepy Hollow, idled of burns yesterday' after matches he wait playing with ignited a can of gasoline.-:;- - , :!., T - : - :-: One . of Beajamin Framklin's most important inventions was bifocal spectacles. 1 (Continued from page 1) China to become modern (west ern). ' :-'"',: . . First, China Is very old. It was long isolated geographically Sta bility, not change, became the -nbjective.-;s Through many I cen turies China has passed through almost all types of experience, lt therefore reads the present in the light of the past, whereas the western peoples think in terms of change and progress. r j r In China the ruling organiza- tlon has been the family, not the state. ' The family held tfirst : claim to a person's affections. . The family, not the state, looked " after its own. There was no word for nation in the Chinese (I lan guage, so it is a difficult process . to weld the Chinese people into a nation. -:;'' -ji . ? j The philosophy of China is one of patience. Long fingernails, the long robe, were -the symbols of the - Chinese, not long , swords. Reason, persuasion and patience, not force, were the means for solving problems. Soldiery j was the lowest profession, akin to banditry. ; The businessman was . held in low esteem. The Chinese say, "No man gets rich in j one generation' and Is honest land takes care of his relatives. This attitude gives peace of mind to the Chinese, whereas westerners, restless to attain' mastery over v nature, worried about "things", .'have no adequate philosophical 1 preparation for failure. The Chi nese with their sense of time's . length do not wrestle with! im - mediate . problems, but accept, their lot or leave solutions to time. - . TI.o LItorary Guldcpost By W. O. ROGERS i ; mtcholoot or srx kelatiahs. hart; S3). . - Sex, blamed for so many dif- . ferent . things ever since Freud . called it libido and set it on the - loose like a bogeyman, is exoner ated in this book on: all scores but one: it's still sex. ; : Dr. Reik, pupil of Freud's and a sincere admirer, nevertheless contradicts his master on numer ous important points, and what's more, makes sense. He Writes very well and though his mes- sage Is serious, manages to intro : duce some of the funniest stories and wittiest remarks ever to get into a scientific, work. But then of course he discusses a perverse subject which has us all fretted to death one half the time and ; irreverently joking' the other. ; . Sex, he claims, is just sex, no more and no' less.' It's some thing to satisfy, like hunger, and just as wicked. The cave man' who went out hunting a girl with - a shillalah was impelled by the sex urge pure and simple. But Just as civilized man has changed vother habits,. so he has . changed iiabits associated with ' sex; the author believes. Love, "not ; as necessary as sex" and . m - ia.' . . arising more irom -opposition man submission to sex, is one of the ways in which we have learned, so to speak, to gild the lily. -' Taking hypothetical young couple as example, he finds their, happiness is in three parts: "love, ego-gains, sex-gratification. He denies sex can be sublimated, that lack of" sexual satisfaction drives man to write great novels or compose everlasting symphon ies; denies any considerable sex ual origin of neurosis; denies sex- . ual perversions are "only sexual in their origin and nature." There are chapters on jealousy, , infidelity, promiscuity and num erous other aspects of the rela tions between men and women. . But he keeps pretty consistently away from the physical; his con cern is the emotional, the "soul" . . . though he uses the word only once or twice . . . rather than the body. The nature of his invest!- A. . 1 j' . a 2 i . K a uuu is inaicaieq in oil quota tion from Wilde: that women "be gin by resisting man's advance and end by blocking his retreat' Dr. Reik is frank, and merits your attention. Home Extension Units to Meet Here Friday Officers of the Marlon county home extension units will meet Friday, September 21, to receive training in conducting a business meeting, and simple parliamentary procedure. Mrs. Azalea Sager, state home demonstration , leader from Oregon State college, will give the instruction. The meeting is scheduled from 10:30 to 3:30 in the demonstration room of the Portland Gas and Coke company. All officers of the 23 home exten sion units in the county have been invited to attend, it was an nounced. During the norning sessiofi an installation, ceremony for nev members -of the Marion county home extension committee and the officers of all units will be held. Time will be allowed in the morning for group discussions in order that each officer may have an opportunity to discuss the problems of her particular of fice. ' Officers handbooks have been prepared in the office of Marjoria Tye, ; home demonstration agent, and will be distributed at the meeting. . , ' The Marion county home exten- for the meeting. P STSVEIIS lIAIIuTACTUnmG JEVTELEIIS 1 el w iiir1jia,ti : " "-' fca'sassCLfcjfcMtt , -UnhiinfYif id -jf afft TSAta? . 5 Levely mottntings ef -varioes designs te enhance the beauty of yBr diamonds. Diamond rings cleaned a a d checked renrdlMji mt Iuh rmchased. . f Vntheeit Charge' Extended raymenU S3f Ceort Street