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t. : J : i 1-- MC2 roua 4 1 ; OrXGOH STATESMAN. Eolarn, Ortgon. Wtdntsdoy Mordng.OdoUf 1 1SU Wa Favor Stray Vt; No fear Shan Awe ! . v. From First Statesman. March 28. 1891 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 'CHARLES A. SPRAGUX, Editor end Publisher . Member of the Associated Press ' The Associated Press "is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatcher "credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. st is East I General MacArthuf has plenty of difficulty la getting the; Japs to dp things the way he, wants them to. He instituted 'freedom of the press, Patton h Relieved - There was nothing else that General Eiseni hower could do than relieve Gen. George Patton, jr. from command of an army of occupaf guject only to censorship on i occupation mat- tidn in Germany. Patton's j administration of tefs, but a Japanese government functionary Bavaria was doing violence to the orders of hii suppressed eopies off papers containing news of superiors and; his defense of his methods was the emperor's visit to the .general". The func- so absurd as to make his retention in command tionary thought it would be bad for the people impossible, to read such news. So MacArthur had to tnter- vene and order circulation Of j the papers with i the report of the visit. . ': . i j" ' ' The economic section of AMG ordered) banks -Y and financial to make reports in an 'effort to HrZmc the foreign gold holdings "seized by the Patton has proven himself a brilliant if flam boyant field commander.' He Is considerable o ans exhibitionist, but he proved his ability as a field officer in Africa, "n Sicily and in France and Germany. It does not detract : from his laurels as a battle commander to relieve him JaD armies, but some of the .bartking officials of duties' of ciyil administration. His tempera failed to c6me through with the information, so ment jis riot adapted to routines of directing AMG had to - crack down on them ana close civilian affairs and his ' mental equipment u the Institutions,! including the Bank of (Japan., poorly furnished with political intelligence. Le 1 Now part of this jmay be guile on the5 part him return to this country and do a joldier s of the Japs; but part , of this failure to give work until the time comes for him to retires, prompt cooperation jmay be due to the differ- Writing up his own account of his campaigns erice between Japanese and western methods and explaining his own tactics as an operations 6f thinking. East is still the east, and west j the west. Prof. Harold X Noble if the University of Oregon who has a background of knowledge of Japan based on piany years of residence in the orient and service as major in the marines during the present war, had an article in last ,L . ......-.--..- .,., - . j'. ' I - - . . . J ... . . ...... i . . - : :: I r "" I r 1' se just urn's 'so sow ) '-y ";aga'. ISNT ENOUGHWEARS I ' ' ' : - GOlNSTb EDUCATE TOU I -Y,. mmw mr,t ml w- I. , BktribuM kr tint FMitam InHat br inmwt TW Wtfktatrtaa Star A Course in Humanity i off icer . would be an important assignment that should $rove valuable to military students. His successor, Lt.' Genl Lucian K. Truscott, commanded the fifth army in Europe, so ht knows something of the problems of military. government. He at least will not repeat Patton's week's Saturday Evening Post- on "What It mistake of failing to differentiate between naas Takes to Rule Japan!" He made special mention and non-nazis. gap separating American . '1 of the psychologica and Japanese, sayin A major source of trouble in our occupation of Japan lies in the great gulf between Occiden- tal and Oriental ways of thought and conduct. Frequently what out commanders may take for Insincerity and sabqtage will prove to be merely an alien approach -to the solution of a problem. . 'There is an enormoiia gap between our thinking and that of the Japs as to propriety, as to what y :. may be done, as to how things may be done. 1 V Often they are incapable of thinking, and hence ( ,.!"o'f doing," any other way. We can no more order! 4 Jap to avoid indirection and circumlocution than we can- successfully order him to stop . ''breathing. ; : ' ' hV; j i : . j ' . While this may txplain how the Japs react to American orders, and may -make administra Ttion of islands harder, General! MacArthur can't ' base his commands! on approval (ft a Japanese tea party. If the Japs need to be educated in . American- ways they will get the chance to , learn and learn fast -I'Si'-'lt . - The significance to Americans at home, how ever, is that they should not get excited jover the headlines which report what Appears to be drastic action by the general or obeuracy on (the part of the Japs. We cah set i. down ;to difference in thinkijng between the eapt and the 'west, with. full confidence that the Americans will impose - Iheir J will : on the Japs , withoi submitting to any foolishness! i - Prof. Noble thirika that the humiliation pf their great defeat 1 will penetrate deeply in Japanese -conscioufness. To enforce this j im pression he thinksit advisable that we "show the flag" in all parts of Japan. Tfe Oregon professor is not pessimistic about cur, future . relations with . Jaj anj He reports ' here I was i no mass hatred of Americans among the Japa ? eses people. Whil some Vera bitter i'the aver V age' man was eithei indiffereni or actively liked j and. admired Ameticans.'i If jtjhe terrorists jwo have dominated Japan - for Hmany yearsl are eliminated we should be able the people, .though they j will deal of training d make m democracy in Japan genuine., f j ? ; ; ; f .. ; ; - It would seem impossible for Japan again, to become a threat to the world, with Soviet Fishing on the Umpqua ; The- Umpqua is famed as a fishjng stream only a little lesa than the ,Rogue and.the Mcf Kenzie. Salmon are caught in its -estuary at i a. t Tir: i . l. K clk..l m.L rieeuspon anu 'u,lc u, omu rApans and gestures encountered as game in the Umpqua s on the Rogue, an$ i everywhere, f 1 there is trout fishing a 1 along the river. Now Begging is done with blood the sute game-ommission mas siationea a dio- curdling waits, the display of logist oa the river; to maxe a longerm stuay of its fish beds, food supply.tc.; The river merits such a .study, and ontheasis of knowl edge gained it' can be preserved as a great fish ing stream. stubs of amputated legs and. arms, and : the merciless sacrl flee of children to extract aim from passersby. 'Many cities have! their beggar' but in Shanghai its a cold, calf culated business, actually. oper ated under a half-dozen beggar "guilds," all said to be. under the -eye of a Fogin-rlike beggar king, reputedly one of wealthiest men in China. j jThe comrqbn belief is that tiese guilds :, are so well-fixed nahciallv that thev. hold stock SAN FRANCISCO, Oct f2.-P)-Mr. Inbetweeji , ifc the Shanghai exchange and Interpreting Th War News . By JAMES D. WHITE Associated Prsa llStaif Writer 0 Br Richard Cashing I (Subbing for Kenneth L. Dixon) SHANGHAI, i Oct. 2 -iJPi- Nol where in the world is begging: such a highly organized and flourishing racket as In Shang hai, and Americans are slowly , becoming hardened to beggar's A I 1 CO could be heard talking all the way from China today This Mr. In-between isn't like' the one in the song. It's -a good x idea to mess around with hin). iere are very many of him in China and he hasn't had much to say about "what happens to him and his Country. He hasn't; been heard from here for a long time. . j; r i He isn't a member of the Kuomintang (partyp which has beei running the, country, and he isn't a communui who wanis io i eiorui it radically. He isn't narrowed by Jto get along with require a great with an emerging States occupying 4 Russia looking down its neck,; China and a watchful United island base in' the western pacific. But, there. , is always me rcnance oi, reversals oi lortune I among nations, and our; miljtary government . should do a thorough Job of purging Japan (of f its terrorists ahd "militarists and breaking the power of the ,.;Sierarchy j which has dominated 1 the people of that! country for a long period! of i time. '.'The suspense was ; awful,! but the Chicago .Cuba and DetroHk Tigers finally squeezed I 'through tto . win pennants. We wonder if'j they the responsibility of supreme pow-1 er nor by the prospect of ; getting i a chance to get a little say-so, and he's , talking now. ; t He is just a citizen who has been on the outside looking in. He is Mr. In-between, 5 ; This particular Mr. In-between happens to be a Chinese educator named Dr. Lo Lung-chL He talked to DydeTarnsworth of the Asso ciated Press. There are a Jot of Chinese like him, who think the Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek's leadership ; has been too pre occupied with' preserving its own position and the Chinese communists too anxious to turn the Kujo 1 Sf J. O. White mintang out and take its place. Mostly In-betweens ; i Most Chinese are in-betweens and wei haved't heard from them because of the Dress censorshiD exercised b? the Kuomintang governmit. I " hl a member ampuUted so as i I t At au m will extend the anxiety of prolonging the world series. 4- baseball fans T - by Editorial! Comment I MPAN8 TROPRtZTOKS'. l . KvH ' The four great family trusts thai have dominated ! Japanese finanre and industry are slated . for ex- f tinction of wealthj and power.; and probably for ? trial of the heads as war criminals. . ( l ' Thefirst to go was the last created the Aikawa i clan unheard of -20 ; years agot j which skyrocketed 1 to wealth and power on the Manchurian exploita tion. . . ; - tV , . -.-f! :!:!; :-- ;iVJh'- There are three jothers' long known, Mitsui, Mlt- jubishi and Sumitomo each controlled .enough jac t tivity in their alldted : fields to control tfte whole industry, and worked benevolently to. eech other. : - Their interests, stated in' percentage of the jwhole were: Mitsui, cotton, i 14; j paper, 78; cement, ) 17; mining, 17; coal i shipping. 11; electro-chemicals and engineering, each 3 per cent; Mitsubishi, wheat, . rfjiugar, 19; beerj 17; shipping, 37; also banking, insurance and warehousing: kmutcjuo.jwarehbu ing.,20; wires andj cables,! 32 per cent; also, trust ' Investment ' I ' ' '! ;' ' ! I Hi rohito's personal fortune is scattered in these Industries and in Tokyo real estate. The imperial family wealth is about 4 per cent of the national total. . .'f !."; ":' vr'-1--i:i--: y: ! ? The! three' remaining great trusts have operated j with far greater control thai) the wildest pictures we ever knew in trust busting eras. They made pos s Lle,' and to an extent not defined, encouraged i'tha Japanese war of conquest The head of Mitsui ranks among the 10 richest men in the world. In proportion to national wealth, the three Japa-r-e indu.trir.l clan Irada ore the richest in the wuiX-rSin rrntlco Cl-ioiJtla. I'' operate much as any other ma jr business 'concern. ' Got A .System I T.hey take! care of their mem bers, providing t transportation for the legless to designated' street corner in the early morn ing, and distribute containers pf rice throughout the city at noon. Should a beggar die, the" guild spends a good sum on an elab orate funeral because that's ! a beggar's aim in life blowing out in style. f. . ' . s Beggars are seen everywhere lin front of the luxurious hotels and ' in the filthiest slums and are a constant source of amaze ment to American sailors and soldiers whoi. at first were filled with compassion at their artful ways to gain a few pennies. On many blocks, day or night, the pedestrian is confronted by at least a; half-dozen grovelling beggars who lie quivering, wail ing, rolling their eyeballs in ag onized manner, and stretching oiit their hands for alms. Cripples Best ; -i j A withered or severed arm or leg is naturally an asset in the profession, and there are tales oil some beggars who actually formed child contributes to tha beggar's curbside setting of ab ject misery, while many normal ones are deliberately underfed for the same purpose, Not in frequently a woman may be seen sitting beside the body qf a dead child and wailing a pi for money. ' Some children are taught to quiver and. moan constantly from afly infancy.. . - j Shakedown j A more straightforward shake down technique is that of jam ming the entrances to "churches, hotels or residences during Weddings, parties or other scdal events and howling until a pay off is made. . j One frequent racket is worked this way: ! . A beggar with a nonstop wall parks at the gate of some prom inent household, disturbing the residents all day. The next diy another, beggar goes on duty, arid the next another, until finally the houseboy is informed that this nuisance, can be stopped with fthe gift of a little money, but (hat otherwise it will coa- tinue, indefinitely., If by chance a beggar fails get his fancy funeral when be dies, others make money on the body by carrying it to a door step and stating the price re quired for removing it The houseboy rarely will undertake to do so, because of the custom that requires burial by the last person, touching a body. Besides, he may be. party to the racket Body Awaits Payoff j ' I The body lies beside the door until a payoff is made, and even .then the -victim cannot be suns it will not be 'returned surrep titiously the next night. 1 J Strange to say, Shanghai aH ually has some legitimate, hun gry beggars. They usually , ckn be identified by their; lorig, string hair, because the organ ized beggars get haircuts now and then 1 jt. Unless they join the frajtermiy, however, the. independents die , off rapidly. , j if Tholitorary Guidopost By.W. O. Rogers THE HOUSR OP KUKOetJ y Paal ., Sett WtwtH, Hfhtoa MlffllBi , ! as.is. I .. , j Mowrer, a Chicago Daily News' reporter even, before he went : to college', and' subsequently for eign correspondent from 1010 to 1940 or thereabouts, writes of our world and times in an infor mal, easy-going style. He is not a historian, but a newspaperman and while he doesn't dig deep, he at - least covers ' an incredible j amount of ground. Probably no u V man can dig and run too. , ine oiaer generation oi reaa ers will, enjoy his account of the first war: events preceding it the many people who, though in high ' places, still weren't high enough to foresee the conflict the fighting, and, interestingly, the way we Americans learned to dislike bur friends the French whom Mowrer valiantly defends. The younger generation will en joy his account of the unstable Europe out of which World War II sprang. I Mowrer pays a sincere tribute to Victor Lawson, owner of the News and an organizer of The Associated Press, recalls Frank Knox admiringly as a newspa perman. ' -1 The book is not only about the house of Europe . . . awkward title by the way . V . but also about the house of Mowrer. He makes history and autobiography overlap. A TREASURY OF SATIRE, select ji an4 edited ky E4ar Jehasoa (St 1 moa A 8cbatUr; S3-SS). I Here are more than 750 pages of prose and verse, from Aesop and Aristophanes to Wilde and Wolfe, and about 60 other au thors in between. The editor con strues the word satire broadly, and lets his selections run long enough to give you their real flavor. Legion Post Head Names 37 Committees Capital Post No. American Legion, this year will sponsor services under 37 separate com mittees, Cmdr. I. N. Bacon re vealed at the first regular October meeting, held at Legion hall Mon day -night In announcing the 1945 44 program. Bacon called atten tion to the increasing amount of Legion work now required by the growth of the post's membership as a result of. the war's end and the return of the younger men. - Speakers at the meeting were Hugh Rosson, state director of veterans' affairs. and Jerrold Owenj on leave from the American military government- unit stationed in Germany. Both talks' were well received and the meeting was fol lowed? by the serving of refresh ments and informal discussions by the various committee members of the activities planned. ' Bacon announced the following- committee' appointments: , f, Associated veterans: Les Newman, Trd Gahtodorf and Walter Zoael: Aipericaniam. Aubrey Tuhui(. George Gabriel and O. E. Palmateer; Athletics; Oliver Huston, B. X. Owens and Ira Ptlcher; AuxUiary: George Gabriel. Don Madison. Austin Wilson. W. H. Anderson. Bob Wyatt. Merle Travis and Stuaxt- Johna; Auditing: Syphus Starr, M. Hiwke and Sid Mansfield; Armistice: Rex KlmmeU nd Earl An dresen; .Aeronautics: Brazier Small: Bud get v members . of the executive commltte: Boy Scouts: Bill Dolf and Louia Griffith ; Beaver Boys' State: A. L. Crose. Aubrey Tuning and R. D. Woodrow. Burial: Lloyd Demarert, Tred Gahls dorf . Uoyd Higdon and Virgil Golden; Child Welfare: Waldo Mills. Chet Z urn watt and George Averett: Color Guard: appointments incomplete: Community Service: J. T. Edwards; Commissary: Bill Poorman, George Teller. Elswortb Deariag, Jess George and Gene ' Eck erlm; Degree Team: Jim : Turnbull; Emergency : Ralph Campbell and George Edwards: Flowers: Mem Pearce. Graves Registration: Reynolds Ohmart; Judge Advocate:' Fred Paulus; Legis lation: Paul Hendricks; Marion County Council: . Al FeUen, Art Johnson and Luke Jensen. Membership: ReX Kimmell and Wal ter Kirk; Publicity: E. Grant; Post War Planning: Gene Vahdenynde, Carl Gab rielson, B. Boise, and Dan Fry; Red Cross: Charles Huggins; Reemploy ment: Donald McBain, Irl McSherrr. Carl Abrams and William Harry Bau lie; Speakers: Carle Abrams, Irl Mc Sherry, MiUer Hayden . and Douglas McKay; Sick and visiUng: C V. Rich ardson and E. Richey. sr.; Service Officer: Ray Bassett; WresUing : ap pointments incomplete: World War U Veterans: Herman Doney, W. ,B. Mc Carthy, James Garvin. Frosty Olson; USO: Members of the buildinff com mittee; United War-Chest: Jacob Fuh- rer. Entertainment : Stanley Kruexer. Jim Garvin and R. W. Frost; Fourth of July: Stanley Krueger and W, B. McCarthy. Additions to a number of these com mittees are to be made as required. Commander Bacon - explained. L GUESS WHAT'S IN THE GRASS, I story by Lacy Spragne MltcaeU, I pictures ky Edward Glanaoa (Scott; S1S9); THIS IS THE BREAD THAT I BKTST ATE. adapted ay I ma Sl f montoi Black. Ulostrated by Allea luau (aeon; L) State Guard to Practice Firing A portion of company K, third battalion, Oregon state guard, Is making tentative plans to go to Camp Clackamas this weekend- to practice firing .30-calibre arms, i Of the 23 men and two officers Who participated In the overnight bivouac September 22 and 23, one, Sgt J. W. Rhodes, qualified as ex pert riflemen; thiee, First Lt Har ry T. Manning, Cpl. Elmer Klein ke and Pvt. Severin Lange, quali fied as sharpshooters and 14 qualified as marksmen. . Regular meetings of company K are held each Monday- night at the armory. The organization is seeking recruits. Dean Baena Marls osc tb Tell Story of Bomb -Project . . - i While features of the atomic bomb continue, to be highly, guarded secrets, the story" of tha Hanford project, that great west- 4 plant where the bombs were manufactured in an atmosphere ' mysterious even to the thousands of employes, Is a subect for dis cussion and speculation among in dustrialists and among just-plain-curious persons across: the nation . declares Dean : Buena Maris of - Oregon State college, who will speak on certain aspect., of .the project 1 at next Monday noon's luncheon of the Salem Chamber of Commerce. 7 : TJeaa' of Women , Dean Maris, loaned by the state system of higher education to the project to serve as a Msort-of dean of women," was- the one woman among the project's 187 executives. She comes to the chamber as speaker of . the meeting planned in observance of National Business Women's week, sponsored here by the Salem Business and Profes sional Women's club, whose mem bers have been Issued a special invitation to the luncheon, first of the fall season in the C of C dining-room. Housing and personnel work were major tasks, assigned to her, r but variety featured her year of work' at the northern Washington -; city in the desert. Womenj talk no more perhaps- less than men, she maintains. One of her duties was the orienta tion of the feminine members of the office staffs, and one phase of ' . that orientation was emphasis on the secret nature of thej smallest detail of the work. No woman was ever involved in revealing In formation ?f security importance -so far as she knows, she told a' States representative Tuesday. iniaad in iii -ii in i 'a. bp in Marion County Court To Figure Boundaries .Marion county court is trying to figure new boundaries, new , - boards and whatever else may be required in splitting eight pre cincts of the county where more than 600 persons are registered. iiiiwvbu tu uic piwnn, mimii as aeucaie as splitting an atom. County Judge ; Murphy declares with a grin, are Salem precincts Nos. 1, 2, 3, 7 and 17, Salem , Heights, Hayesville and West Sil Parents looking for good books for very young children would have to hunfar before finding anything better , than these sim ple stories and gay illustrations. In Guatemala and British Hon duras there is a species of; turkey whose Dlumaae vies in solendbr f (Most heartrending, however, with that of the peacock. The bare la 4k&iL lisa nf -Viilrlral A cVtn nt tha haosl la Kin V N,. u, -".. . mm mAAM AA .WA aw aa w. The Safety Valve LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS 3 RIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty Dr. Lo told Farnsworth that American trodjps landing in , Tientsin might Indirectly complicate the solution of China's internal fight between the Kuomintang and the communists.- This isj because the marines are to be replaced by -Kuomintang troop, who then, may start lighting the cdmmurist : troops which are all around Tientsin. I ' Hi. Lo does- not say so, but he seems to be suggesting that taking over such isolated' ar ats ( from ' the Japanese might well await .sme c in clusive political settlement in Chungking of he , whole commuriist-Kuomintang disagreement. ! if Dr. Lo is head of thfydemocratic league of Ch n'a which is a coalition of three small parties all of . which are in between the : political , extremes rep resented by the Kuomintang and the reds.. Agree en Conferences v ' J'T " -The. reds and the Kuomintang have agreed on one thing to hold the minority parties which Dr. Lo's -group represents. These small parties, in tiQie, . are due to be legalized along with the communllts, ' ao that under ' Kuomintang law it will no longer be illegal for a Chinese to belong to any polit cal group except the Kuomintang. p 1 if ' Concretely, the in-betweens right now agree ith -the communists that China ought to have popular elections, and they don't want to rush. into his business of holding a constitutional assembly which the Kuomintang wants to hold this coming No vember. ..if ';:'!. . . ..f:"' ' ' --'' ! 8eek Broadened Role " !l - Beyond this, we don't know just what .the in betweens actually propose for China by way Of democratic reforms. But it can assumed that 'they feelther voices in China should' broaden the , rule that the Kuomintang has. .been giving the country for 20 years. Also that the commun sts, who would abolish landlordism and usary, tw of China's best-known purses, might do that too br ipt fy andV destroy much that is good in China today. - Most. of all the in-betweens want to- avpid cjivil wart This is getting to be a very popular Idea . indeed in China, where war has deadened life; for eight long years. , Maybe that's why the Chungking censor, a Kuo-' I am for deublinr Congressienal salaries bat ' the asstunptien that mintang official, let Mr. In-between have his say If will attract men of hither caliber I consider a foul attempt te eodT today to the world outside. China. I f- "!' my distinguished career" - - , , .... j Recognition for Entertainers " Tojthe Editor: r Does any American however much he - may admire English importations to our screen and stage reaPy believe that this country' has no performers as good as Dame May Whitty or Sir Cedric' Hardwicke? CrUinly, I think highly cf their ability as actors, but If their mother country. Great Britain, , values it ao highly as to confer titles upoi them, despite their having at ! tained a largepart of their suc cess on these shores, I don't I see i why our native American performers of jsqual talent and even greater popularity ' should go unsung. Since this country is not a monarchy, we naturally can't re ward our. foremost entertainers with knighthood but surely, we s can award them a special medal, a suitable and ; equally . Im pressive wayto grant official recognition of our; "greats? of the show business! .. ,-v: Think of it; Amos n Andy, after an overseas tour, return to the radio on October 2, to start their 20th year on the radio and millions of ; Americana; are their rabid followers. And what about Paul Whiteman," (ha long time beloved jazz king, who jto Stil going strong? Cant we show our patriotic pride in the enter tainers we've; developed, in our own country, via awarding them a medal? It's about time we took some official notice of their con tributions to our national life, i , (Signed) W, jT Douglas.! 4208 S. W, Condor t Portland L Oregon. , m J ' f a 1 Hen vtp. hnrh l - ViVil ..a At . M An nouncingtAe return e ti ; , . 1 1 s a " j i e - e ; fl! be?nniB ft limited quantitJ. Come m and let as show you these Ibrea U .t.T.. With the unique Sterling ffidT paltera j " aBmaaBaa-- - - - ' f! ' ' ' :'J--'' v !- ! r