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PAGE FOUR Hi OKEGOIf BTATESMAIT. Satan. Chon. 7eIne3aT Morning, Beptetaber If. Iff "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall AuV .' From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 THE STATESMAN PUBUSHINC COMPANY CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher J Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the us for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper; H is' i't i ' N y - - Soldier Assistance ,' f A clear-cut statement of policy in regard to soldier labor is outlined in a statement I from the army ground forces replacement depot num ber 4 at Camp Adair, and it is herein presented In the belief that the statement answers-many uestions which have arisen-in connection with. tuch work: . "Numerous request a pi continually being made tq headquarters, ajmy ground forces re placement depot No. 4Camp Adair, for that. Installation to furnish soldiers to harvest crops and work in canneries in this area. In order to make the maximum number of soldier work-) . ers 'java'ilable, it is standard depot policy for all soldiers! going on pass or furlough to be informed tiat there is a serious shortage of farm and cannery labor and to be told where to apply for; this work if they desire employment during their pass or furlough period. In addi tion, all depot personnel are informed regularly that such employment is available to them during their off-duty time on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons and Sunday. Again, sol diers who are scheduled to be separated from the. service in j the near future will be given special furloughs pending their discharge, pro- vided their-services are not . needed in their organizations, land these men, informed of local employment opportunities in the same way as those being given regular furloughs, , may elect to work if they so desire. "In connection with the availability of men on regular furlough to work, it should be ex plained, however, that the average soldier stationed at army ground forces replacement depot No. 4 receives only two furloughs a year, each one giving him 10 days plus additional travel time to and from his home, and that such furloughs are for the general purpose of furnishing him with the opportunity of visiting his family and taking recreation, al though the soldier may, of course,' use his time in any way he sees fit. Under these cir cumstances, most soldiers elect to take advant age of the chance to visit their homes, rather than work. 1 "It must be borne in mind, too, that the assigned military mission of army ground forces replacement depot No. 4 is to process and train replacements to be sent overseas to the occupation forces, and that, although it is the! firm desire of that installation to aid in supplying military labor for local farms and canneries, soldier laborers can only be obtained on a volunteer-basis for work during their off duty and furlough time, since no authority exists which would permit their diversion from essential processing and training tasks or their ' delay in departure for overseas for the purpose of taking civilian employment. Jt is obvious that military personnel with definite and neces sary work to do cannot be made available for the performance of non military tasks under contract, as can prisoners of war. "In this last connection it might be pointed out that there are currently 1098 German pris oners of war from Camp Adair at work har vesting crops and that .some 500 additional prisoners from another station are now picking hops in the Independence area a total of 1596 prisoner laborers made available by military authorities to help meet local farming labor needs." i Bridges, subject of two prolonged deportation jt hearings whlcft at one time all but led him to an outbound ship, for years claimed organized persecution on the pari of anti-union employers. They in turn contended he was a rabble-rousing communist and, to say the least, put nothing in the way of his deportation. But some of them, even so, admitted to i a slight admiration for the $75-a-week chief of the ILWU who said ha kept off-color company for the sake of the men he represented 4ut denied the charge of sub versive affiliation.' (i Bridges is an haranguer of top note in 1939 he insisted if certain concessions weren't grant ed his union it would cease to exist as a strong entity within J60 dayi. But there have been few instances of anyone claiming that: he didn't keep his word. f; Jf American citizenship and the reasonableness of approaching middle age may yet make Harry Bridges an acceptable; successor to some of the sincere labor leaders of the past. A democratic nation has given him his chance. fi - " 1 1 . DfateSMrtM by Ttmt Tti SraAcat V rafit with TW WhiBftMi Star A Nation Acclaims Him It will be a happy day when the world sees the like again of JohnMcCormack. 3The hum- -, , . .. ; . : , . , , SiSfriuSt 23' News', Behind the News radio, has' been missed since his retirement j' ; By PAUL MALLON 1 seven years ago. Now fee is dead, but the mem- (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction tn wnole ory of his golden songs andt his shy philanthrop- : i or in part strictly prohibited.) J lm will live a lonff. longtime. IS . 1 j WASHINGTON, Sept 18 This ?- la ft 4 Via rvaf-utov erXAWrlnvm rvf W a vaTi oav ww u w sloppy attempt at suicide; Its a shame the ... ft d.be-trrin- Japanese couldn't recognize the deficiencies in peoit spreading through the country is a general uprising for a 20 to SO per cent j-wage in crease. All the big unions of tit' country are in on it, the lumber men of the north steel, rubber, the A F L's interna tional machinists, of-the the man until after he tried to bowibut. u i The War Newjs I By JAMES Di WHITE j I AsKciated Press Staff WritM- Interpreting PanJ MjOIm SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. lBHiPr-Dispalches from China were late today because in victory the S"", "!fb?t Uth nnfen,ary of AFL unions, and tolkdOTdentL'i' .,L".,JU.:.:. even the moder- Ln.nese sp.rits ran paruc-u.-nj nn te weU-run railroad brother- where General Ho Ymg-chm. chief of staff to the CJO auU) worken and generahssimo,, declared the;entire city back under radicals are simplv front-running Chmese sovereignty. Thete is no more international for , cleverlplanned and well- "'"V7T'T.v financed campaign of aU unioniza lui iuinims. ouaiiiwi ta vulllv 1 ' to go after wage increases. The board has become a help less but hopeless nonentity. Its powers are doubtful. New labor secretary Sch well en bach has been sending no cases to it, and his dis regard of it has become almost an established official position. The board in turn decided to consider nothing, except upon request of both emnlovera and eranlnve. v which limited its power in a situ ation such as is arising, to prac tically zero. ; i ' Before these developments, the unions ' particularly the radicals, A century ago thT British torcS the Chinese P take- AFL' mMibehind it The sudden switch back A century ago tne jjrmsn xorcea uie t-mnest WiHia rrM for -instance, told h , Brilge Am erican Opinions will vary as to how heartily Harry Bridges should be welcomed into the fold of naturalized Americans, but we can agree with his statement in the naturalization court at San Francisco: I believe I have had more opportunity and more reason to appreciate the fact that being an American citizen is a priceless possession than most applicants." Bridges said his acceptance was the culmina tion of a 17-year attempt at American citizen ship. That may be. although it is well known that he did not follow through with his initial filing of papers to that end. But there may be reasons outside of citizenship which motivated hi delay, and anyway . those years are past. Bridges, the Australian longshoreman who rose to labor eminence with his vigorous leadership of the San Francisco -strike In 1934, can now be called an American. He should be proud of , it, and during the war years there has been no evidence to indi cate that he would be otherwise. If in more peaceful years he comes anywhere near as close to coordinating the efforts of employes and employers as he did In times of national stress, he will earn a better name than he has had. Editorial Commont AN EXPANDING INDUSTsiT One industry that is certain to show tremendous expansion in the immediate future is the produc tion of frozen food. ' In the Willamette valley huge warehouses and freezing plants are being erected, in addition to substantial installations already operating. Around Salem literally hundreds of acres of snap beans, corn and ether vegetables were sown this year for freezing. The unusual sight of SO or 60 acres of to grant trading rights tn a concession on mud banks of the Whangpoo river, mmwmmm and other powers claimed similar f-" privileges. Shanghai was little more than a weed patch, but under foreign domination it grew into one of the world's busiest ports, tunneling goods to and from the interior of China. j Today Chinese troops patrol the former French concession. The new . Chinese municipal ; govern ment is lodged in the , quarters built by the governing ' body of the international settlement. Subject to Chmese; law fand the J. P. WkiU William Green, for-'instance, told the Dubinsky garment workers he thought all labor should have just about this proposed wage advance. Truun Nat Informed Strange as it may sound in an inflation-scared administration, high official backing has height ened the national delimma but not backing by Mr. Truman. . My inside information shows conclu sively the president,' while favor able in general to a high-wage high-price policy, knew little of the developing in and outs of this situation, i i He certainly did nothing inside, police authority foX the first time in theii lives are several thousandYBrijtish and French and sev or to encourage it. His direc erat hundred Americans. JThey are the merchants, of economic stabilization, Will missionaries, teachers and others who'' failed to iam H. Davis, however, held an get away before the Japanese took oVer. Many unfortunate off-the-record press conference about two weeks back, which; was practically an invita tion to the unions to demand even a greater increase. While he did not permit direct quotation, the Drese . unanimously reported he who got away expect to return.. N Longer Have Protection i !i Since the abolition of extra territorial status they no longer have the protection of Jtheir own consular courts in legal disputes. Thus in Shanghai. Chinese administrators will meet their first test as authorities of a great power thought wages could be increased Jn the post-war world. As, trade revives the foreign- 50 per cent "without increasing ers in thir midst will be paying Chinese taxes "the price of manufactured goods." personal . and corporate and if an American's Nearly everyone spoofed this in automobile runs down a ' Chinese in the crowded credible assertion as petty political street he will face prosecution in a Chinese court, poppycock, except the union lead not an American court. I i f ers, who seised it as a handy If foreigners do not receive justice, there will handle, j . ! be trouble. Some of them, especially old timers "That much! is known. If Mr. used to the old days when a Chinese policeman Truman wants all the facts about couldn't touch you, will be very hard to please. sub-rosa troublemaking, he should But it can be assumed that the Chinese (will make CU each member of the war labor serious efforts to deal fairly with foreigners- if board on the carpet and ask if he for no other reason than because the revival of has talked lately to union leaders, trade in Shanghai is one big key to China's recovery advising them that now is the time irora we war. had been campaigning exclusively on the unemployment lime. All their . propaganda focused upon getting legislation- from congress. It is true,, the campaign was not proceeding satisfactorily and failed to generate much public enthusi asm, although Mr. Truman was yto the line; of wage increases, 1 . . . ji ; i i i suis.es ana snorter nours i uie miners, John L. Lewis is especially hitting at his latter, theme for his wage increases) caught the ad ministration with its. shoes off. Schwellenbach, for days after the start, was unable to move. Publicity Excellent His , initial publicity on assum ing his post had been better than excellent. Indeed, ?Mr. Truman, himself, got off to a good start with the unions. Neither is popu lar or unpopular among the gen eral run of union leadership, but both are favorably regarded. Schwellenbach had planned a general industrial-labor national conference to meet the strike wage - price condition everyone knew would arise eventually from the peace. It was to have been held two weeks ago under prod ding from republican senator Van denberg. The latest talk heard around the labor department is that hopes are held for such a con vention in November, by which time the fires now visible may be in full blaze; The only excuse I can find for the delay is that the' labor leaders wanted to get some free rides to Europe this month. They passed word around they were going over to "line-up the communists." Tart observers suspected a "with" had been omitted before the word "communists," and all 'agreed there was a grave question of who would line up whom, and whether For some time, with American advice, the Chi- GRIN AND BEAR IT nese nave been working over their legal coda as it applies to foreigners, trying to ring it mora into line with western practice. : t Getag Kan Own Show j; ; 1? " " But they made it clear they are going to run their own show, especially in Shanghai which has been the symbol of foreign domination,' General; Ho emphasized that Chinese law would be the only law in Shanghai, j with ho special iprivileges for anyone. Chinese military headquarters are es tablished in the Cathay hoteL swankiest of the British hotels in the settlement A British news. paper, the Shanghai Times, was closed down todays- - ..j.. mm; juhu qcupcucu AW - SOOQ as he was released from Japanese internment At the same time the; Chinese are preparing to hand back public utilities to their oririnal By Lichty carefully tended pole beans in one field may be American and British oWnersL The Jananes had -I I l i. ..: i ' i r i I r T uuservru in rots couni. In The Dalles a considerable tonnage of apricots was frozen this year and the Columbia Cooperative growers, in their new plant, will have frozen close to 100 tons of peaches by the time the season closes. Incidentally, the availability of such a means for processing local peaches is proving of great value to -growers this year: Due to the unusually dry season many assail peaches were 'harvested. Size is not Important, when fruit pulp is produced taken them over. The Chinese know they are back; in ; Shanghai only because American transports flew, them in. Their goodwill toward Americans appears in con- trast to the measures taken regarding the British." xesnpers 'to Be Tried -h t g ; ;. But the Chinese also arei conscious! that the western powers gave up extrality only after Japa nese conquest had Wiped out in actuality: And tney may remember; too; that tha Japanese, In and frozen. Otherwise, there would not have been j an empty but highly valuable propaganda gesture. a profitable market for much of this fruit No one expects the frozen- food industry to drive r canneries out of the field, but no longer is there any question that it will-play-an increasingly Im portant part In our economy. One company now is making plans to freeze, tropical fruits and otter unusual types of food, and -ship them by air to the United States. Even before the war one could obtain freshly frozen seafood from" the Atlantic coast, In Pactfic-coa&t markets. Ernansio .may-be expected " ia this and other lu.es. Ihe Dalles Chronicle. - " - Sill i Jf&32e7 3 : ' vi,fG . f went through the motions of giving up their -own extrality before America and Britain got around to it ..-,.: . :-.nr Until Shanghai gets shaken down again as a big operating port and its communications to the interior are reopened, things are likely to be con fused "as the Chinese reassert authority over an area which has done as it pleased for a hundred years. Tempers on all sides are sure to be tried. ntir the-: great -port ?nergea.tfronv-the past easd' fWlsh to ksew it vmnr term slse-prevent Josu.Nlpren Indastry fakes -it placeih U astwar present i: i Ia laauito AaatcajL productr-- the line would be prone or erect At any rate, Hillman, Meany, et al are all over there, and the labor management conference is an un fulfilled hope they caused to be delayed. 1 Piecemeal Campaign Yet the developing strike situa tion plainly shows this is not a condition to be settled by one plant or even one industry. The unions are tactically presenting their campaign piecemeal plant by plant and no doubt are planning settlements1 on that basis, but the points raised are national in in flationary import as well as all other phases (employment prices, production, etc.) The labor-management confer ence had high on its unofficial agenda the question whether there should be j another federal labor board (CIO wants it). Its basic hope was to find a common mech anism for dealing without strikes which -flaunt the public interest and do great injury to the nation. Whether; Messrs. Truman and Schwellenbach . will move along this obvious line, or choose an other course such as calling the union leaders into conference with them, I have not yet heard. It is their : whirlwind, their first and certainly the biggest labor has generated i linct the sitdown strike. HONOLULU-fjD-S t e p right this way, ladeex and gentlemen. Step , right this way. It's free. NoUne penny will it cost youto lookSit probably the only! Ameri can soldiers in this part of the Pacific who are not counting their discharge points, do not expect to go home soon ind are , actually comparatively happy about the whole business. - Furthermore that's right ser geant, step right up close , and stare- at t h e m - furthermore they're not asking "when do we go home?" J If you listen closely yon can hear what they're asking. It's "Where are we headed for? - Curlew Sight I Don't be bashful, folks. Ge right ahead and ask questions. It's a strange and curious sight to see men such as these, f- Why don't they carel about points? Well brother, It's be cause they don't have any to speak of. - ;" . Why don't they expect to go home soon? WelL mostly be cause they just came from there. Any why aren't they having hysterics in barracks about this business? WelL bud, they think it's only fair that they do their share over here and let the bat tle-weary boys go home. Teen-age Eager You see, they're teen-age, pink-cheeked, eager replacements who are awaiting . occupational reassignments here at the 13th replacement depot They just got out this far and pretty soon they'll be shipped on somewhere else in the Pacific to take over a peacetime policing job.jL Most of them are kids who got caught in 18-year old induc tions six months or less ago. Few of them are bitter about! being stuck with a long stretch In the Pacific, now that the war is over and other people are going home. Mostly, they just feel (not with out reason) that they're mighty lucky the shooting stopped be fore they started. I "Points?- asks Pvt Dilf Ruf fini, 19, of Jamaica, N.Y. Then he nods and grins. "Oh yes. points. I've got five. I guess we will put in a year or two, do our share and then get out of it I hope." They A rent Nervena Pvt Roland L. Ott another 19-year-old five-pointer " f r o m Albion, Mich, explains why he and his buddies aren't nervous about their plight: - "It's only fair that we young fellows relieve the veterans. There should be- morel than The Literary Guidcpost Br W. G. ROGERS THE CIVILIZATION OP TBI RC NAISSANCS IN IT ALT, by Jae Borekhudt (Phaidoa Press; S2J). Italy was becoming a unified nation when this classic study of her people,' "first-born among the sons1 of modern Europe," was published in Switzerland in 1860 by a little known Basle professor; And though this book did not establish the author's reputation, it will keep it alive as long as our civilization and culture retain the Renaissance's deep imprint Scholarship alone would not have made this so enduring. Burckhardt's .other qualifications are a profound insight into the dynamic character of the Renais sance, a great sympathy for the giants of men : and women . who peopled the city States and a rich, ! dignified . yet ' animated prose. Furthermore, in one ele mentary respect he succeeds where most other historians of this period, from Dante to Mi chelangelo, have! failed: he draws the outlines clearly, in stead of parading his erudition in a ' welter of details. It makes exciting reading, too, even in comparison with the gory war news with which the press has been filled for six years. The age which produced great art, architecture and writ ing let great quantities of blood,, and in all modern times man has rarely been so energetic, so wil- j foL so individual and so fascin ating. The un trammeled passions which characterized that epoch boil hot on Burckhardt's pages. There are innumerable obser vations which have or seem to have an unexpected relevance to our day. There's room toquote one. of special pertinence to us in democracies who think the un democratic peoples are thwarted: "Political impotence does not hinder .the different tendencies and manifestations of private life from thriving in the fullest vigor and variety." . The text is supplemented help fully, bj 1 100 photographs of buildings, 'paintings and sculp ture ilustrative of the age and accompanied by notes by Ludwig Goldscheider, who . also writes the foreword. The translator is S. G. C. MWdlemore. r v. -: utr Terrors enough of us to send every man With a year's - overseas duty home. It wouldn't be decent if we thought we shouldn't do the ' policing. ;- ' Besides that with the feuding over now It may not be so ba according to Pvt James Metcalf, 18, from Philadelphia. His seven (count 'em) points should enti - tie him to a respectful audience in this gang: , For us younger fellows the occupation will be a chance to travel and see lots of interesting things, and have some unusual ' experiences all migMy educa tional." . :. ;-; v Education Worry :That education business does trouble some of the boys, such as soft-spoken Michael Neiss, 19, from Bronx, N.Y,' who admits 'that by the time he gets back to college he already could have i had his degree In engineering. However, Reiss is taking some armed forces institute courses in tne meantime ana minus -we are fortunate our education wa just interrupted, not cancelled entirely, like some." Several Of '; the youngsters strongly favor keeping alive the same induction dog that just bit , them drafting of 18-year old. Five-point Francis Dee Olsen, 18, from Moline, 111., thinks that Way: .. They should continue to draft 18-year olds, at least until a vol unteer regular army is capable of handling the occupation." Net Ail Arm Young Not all the newcomers are that 'young, eager. Here and there you encounter one like gray-haired Pvt Edwin L. Sutton, 38, of Camden, N.J., a married r man ' who has two kids, and for three years was deferred as essential because he was a railroad brak-man. tiwv &'m i m i . ruefully, ."the draft board had to fill its quota and there were very few men left so here I am with the emergency all over." But most of the youngsters- in this strange squad of soldiers take much the same attitude as Robert Erickson, six-point pri vate from Macomb, III., who's sort of looking forward to a year or so in Japan. " ' . "Besides," he says, "we can help a little after all those other guys who have done so much." That's all folks. Keep moving. After all this is only a sideshow. Under the big top youll find thousand of ,; veteran soldiers, sailors and marines still joining their voices in that old battle Weary ballad entitled: "We wan- urn g m a ivurc, In a Roman house, the central room, or atrium, contained the hearth and a hole .was, cut In. thea roof to'bit our the smoke.-, (Continued from page 1) j electric goods, and such heavy industries as manufacture of locomotives- and rail passenger -cars. ,' It is also noted as a publishing center the Curtis Publishing co., publishers of Saturday! Eve ning Post and Ladies Home Journal. According to report, Curtis is preparing to add tots magazine list and to print "pocket-books' now popular with the reading public. t- I visited a friend who has an executive position, with Cuneo Eastern Press, This printing, es tablishment is devoted chiefly to magazine and catalog publica tion. It prints Life - andjTime magazines, also Good House keeping and Cosmopolitan mag agines. I saw presses turning and sections of Life magazine,1 also collating, stitching and trimming, all by machinery. j r : The mechanics of Time publi cation is interesting. Copy is re ceived by teleprinters from the editorial offices in New York. A tape is punched which feeds into teletypesetters attached to lino types. In the makeup depart ment everything Is standardized so page forms can be speedily filled out proved, then sent i to the foundry for making of elec tro plates. The printing is done on rotary magazine presses, ex cept the cover,' which Is done on flatbed presses: because of the color combinations required. - The timing has to be very close. Copy starts-flowing In at l.pjn. on Monday, By 12 boon : Tuesday finished copies are Com ing out in the mailing room. In case of important news breaks, presses are stopped and forms changed as with a t newspaper. Also, if news of major import ance is pending the issue may be held up for some hours. ; Time is also printed at the Don nelly plant In Chicago and; in a , plant in Los Angelas. Foreign - editions are printed by offset process and sent by plane to 'other, countries. ".; Complaint here Was the same as elsewhere in the printing in dustry lack of competent help and of paper. Removal of (mag agine paper) rationing does not j. make any more paper it merely makes paper, a bacon-hunt! ... Dr. Haynes lo Talk On Racial Relations Dr. George E. Haynes, executive secretary of the department of race relations of the Federal Coun cil of Churches, will be the speak er at an open meeting of the Sa lem Ministerial Association at 8 p m. tonight at the First Baptist church. Prior to the meeting, he will be the guest of the ministers at a dinner meeting. '; Dr. Haynes was the first negro to graduate from the New York school of social work and is con sidered one of the nation's fore- ssost authorities on race rela tions. VISITORS HERE -EAST SALEM Mr. and Mrs John Woodburn of East Turner road drove to Seattle on Saturd; to spend the weekend at the home) of their son, Harold and family. wr $ HICGEDLY CASED, H ' SSU1TT, DEPENDACLEJ J Mi sL Mi9 O mm .: Try New Shipment r of Watchea. Many Styles. Both Ladies' and Men's. SSI Ceort Street 1