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, '' ' ' ' - -- : - : : : : - ' " ' ' ' " '" J- 1 ii , 1 . ! ' ' ii ; i 1 i m 1 "No Favor Swayt V$i No Fear Shall Ave" j j ; From rirst Statesman. March 28, 1851 a- . ' TIIS STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 1 ! CHARLES A. SPRAGU1V Editor and Publisher ! -' . . - . :-. ' ' . i S ; f ; ; Member of the Associated Press ' ' -1. i , :;; ' ' f r -i ,"";.'. ' . - . . - - t The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches-credited to it. or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. 'Home U the Sailor" I The navy it planninf a great show for next x Saturday. "-Home is sailor home from the sea," and the event will be .given national recognition . on October 27t Navy Day. And with reason, too, for the navy has demonstrated its power and ti- fighting quality through -three and a half years of heavy going. Every seaport of conse quence will have ships from the great fleet on hand for the celebration of Navy day. ' Wherever possible, as in San Francisco bay 'nd up the Hudson in New York, the'shfps of the avy will parade and it is a thrilling sight to see battleworn: ships stage a parade. The bull- dog battleships, the grim cruisers, the - sleek destroyers and the venocous submarines with other auxiliary' ships- which now constitute the fleet will make an impressive sight as they sail in parade formation for folk on land to see. The navy has a right to be proud because it has, been the arm which made possible the . work of the army, the marines and the air force. In the Atlantic the navy kept open the sea lanes over which men and supplies crossed to the battlefields of the old world, In the Pacific the navy kept open the sea lanes, imposed a strangling blockade on the enemy, and slugged it out with the Japanese navy until the latter was utterly destroyed.;' Let the navy then strut its show on, Navy day. It. has earned the privil- 8e- . ..-'1,1 , ' f . There is another reason for the navy to rade. That is to impress the traditionally land- locked mind" of Americans of the necessity fl . maintaining a strong, navy. While new weapems may require new emphasis in defense planning, .and while we pray that the United Nations 'will become a successful me"arfs of preserving peace, the temper of the world is hot such; as to risk military weakness on our part. To us '1 fa lis the chore of policing the Pacific, which requires ample naval strength in various cate ' gories. j' ; j " While hundreds of naval craft will be tied up and. held only in reserve, we will undoubted-, ly keep in commission a navy larger than that . of any other country and much larger than our pre-war navy. For this reason the navy must maintain a much larger personnel. The war Inductees are eligible for discharge according to their point-rating, but we cannot let the num bers of rnn in the services get too low or we will not be able to man our ships. For the present, the continued induction of 18-year olds may suffice to maintain the necessary strength of both army and navy. , The. navy, however, hopes to build up its strength through voluntary enlistment, j ' j. . .v To encourage men to remain-In the nayy' or ' to join up, 'the term of enlistment is being graduated. Instead pf a single four-year shift, volunteers may sign up for two, three, four or six years. The age limits are 17 to 30 inclusive. The navy is endeavoring to make its service appeal as a career for young men; and assuredly it has much to offer them in the way of special- ' Ited training, travel, promotion and retirement. Land-lubbers who see the navy-on-parade next Saturday, or who visit the ships during these days when they are open for inspection, will miss the-full significance' of the day if they regard it merely as a homecoming after glorious victory. It is a demonstration carrying an ap pealsan appeal for continued support of the ,- force which still remains an essential part .of our national 'defense. 1 l WfT VttXt U? AND FIND TW 1 V i DkrHMWIiNrlMmilrhiii f -;- i Ir siwMiit wita tat Wtrthirtii ' I . . Free Korea f 1 : 1 Home to Korea after an exile of over SO years. Dr. Syngman Rhee, who has headed the organi zation of exiled Koreans working for restora tion of their native country to freedom, is back in Seoul. On his return he challenges the di vision of his country between the occupying armies of the United States and Russia. He expresses fears over what . is going on north of the 3th parallel which marks the boundary between the two forces. And ht serves notic that Korea must be restored as a unit or else its' people will continue to fight for freedom, j The division ot the country into two ad ministrative units seems unfortunate. No ex planation is given, but the obvious oiie is that Russia wanted representation in-that area and General MacArthur and the United States gov ernment acquiesced. ' i The pledge, however, i for the ultimate res toration of a free Korea. That was; made at Cairo and Japan jwas; forced to signfaway all claims Ho KoreaThere i yet no reason to sus pect that Russia : plans to remain in Korea longer than is-necessary for the Koreans to organize for self-government. 'I 1 What Koreans need to do is to learn how to govern themselves. They have long been a sub ject people, utterly helpless under Japanese domination. The Korean exiles were completely impotent in any effort they made to drive out Japan. Only the f chance involvement of the B PAUL MAI AjOM 1 . i United States in war in Asia brought the pos- (DUtrlbuUon by King reatures Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole Modernized Transp ortation System Labelled Economic 4Musr By Industry Believe it or Not News Behind the News sibility of freedom for Korea. Judging by re ports the Korean leaders are divided, their peo ple unpracticed hi government. For Americans and Russians to withdraw now might; open the door to chaos in Korea. t i The best solution may be for a single govern or in part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 My bare mention of the campaign of self-professed liberal leaders to abolish the industry of com mercial domestic science in the ing authority to rule the whole of the country, brave new world, through the transition. Lacking that and we brought a ton of object to any commission for Japan the pres- letters from both ent plan seems the only one practical Neither sides the house Russia nor the United States could withdraw wives and the gracefully and turn its portion over to the other dom"tfc- country. Meantime, the Koreans should- busy J5 themselves setting up local government and rathr agreed getting ready a constitution under which they witn wt liberal may operate a national government. It's too pretense that early for them to turn to bite the hands which such work was broke the shackles Japan had clamped on.Korea as a leading na- for a third of a century. V - V General Eisenhower reports that communists dominate the Berlin' local government Well, the Russians, did 'one thing: they -cleaned out '?: the'nazis which was . better than what Patton ' did at Munich. ". - f ! prefing In tori The Day's By JAMES D. WHITE Associated Press Staff Writer 7 S La Belle France The cartoonist may very well draw a picture ' of La Belle France picking herself up from the sad welter of the recent past with a re$l show of spiril and j of hope as a result of the French elections Sunday The French people, voted, nearly unanimously, to authorize a new con stituent assembly' to draft a new. constitution to replace that of 1875 on which the Third Res public operated. By a vote of nearly two-to-one French' electors approved continuance, of the provisional government of which General de- chemicals. SAN rRANCISCO, Oct. 22.-)-The big family monopolies in Japan; the Zaibatsu. are said to claim that they were forced by the military to cooperate in Japan's war effort. f ! ! Their cooperation was insignificant, it is further claimed. I Sv " .M , ! In July1944, the United States foreign economic administration issued ian incomplete list of the major pre-war Japanese jndustrial firms presumed to be behind Japan's war effort. It listed several hundred names. r, ' r j Here are the firras in Japan proper which the FEA listed as bearing the names of the two best known of the Zai batsu trusts (there are about ten altogether): ; la Tokyo: Mitsuibishi dockyards ship building, 'i Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Engineering Works engines, boilers: X Mitsubishi Coal Liquefaction Co. -carbonization-liquefaction of coal Gaulle is president. f While granting authority to draw up a .new constitution is ' no guarantee of the value of the document that emerges or of its success In practice, the fact that the French people are wanting to make a new' effort to establish their democracy and to regain their national prestige Ja reassuring. : The French have within them selves great qualities which need only to be harnessed under reasonable controls to bring a restoration of their former glory. . General de Gaulle may be a bit difficult as an individual, but at least he has brought a welcome degree of cohesiveness in France and given a lift to a people whose previous dissen sion had contributed to its national prostration. V If now the love of ia patrie" will prevail over, the jealousies and the greeds of individual Frenchmen, the world again may have reason to respect a country long is leader among the civilized nations of earth. i Have you noticed the fact that fewer, freight trains "are going through on the Southern Pa cific 'now? It's true. Shipment of war freight ; stopped abruptly with Japan's surrender, and shipment of civilian freight has not hit its stride yet. SP reports c" loadings for last week" wejre 65,035 as compared with 64,354 for the corres ponding week a year ago. ' -M r'l I. D. Whit Paal Malloa tional weekly wrote it "beneath the personality" of the individ ual f .. Now my column deals only with fmajor events, the inside on the economics, political and international news of the hour, and some may say the proposed abolition of this industry 4s not a fit subject for me to delve into, frankly, I knoW'of nothing . more important to every human being: than what the senate will do with taxes. Whether you work at a ma chine or a desk, you have a home and tile conditions under which you lve in it are as vital as life itself. Borne Real Contribution Dignity? What is more digni fied than a dean, well kept, com fortable home. What service contributes more to humanity than those which contribute to the oy of living.' Personality? What personality is most respected and loved in this world than, that of a smil ing, genial friendly human being in whatever -walk of life. What art contributes more to the happiness of the individual than the art of cooking. I am only interested when these non sense! peddlers propose their funnyj business in economics, politics and world affairs, but whehfthey propose to abolish cooking they really get me riled. What do they eat? No doubt vitamjn pills and bicarbonate of soda, as I have heard one of them say. They do not know the dig nity of a well-cooked steak over a charcoal broiler, one about two inches thick, not rare, just slight ly pink in the middle, flavored when done with a little butter and pepper and salt Stew Has Personality What breathes more personal ity into the human soul than a roast turkey, done so the juice spurts when you stick the fork into the ; crisp browned skin. A pheasant stuffed with onions, carefully basted! Why even the lowly beef stew has great per sonalitygreater to me than a lot of glum and bitter people I know. , ' But few people can do it right. As a matter of fact few can do any of these things well, so far have we been led away from the Elysian fields of the kitchen by propaganda pipers and prevari cators. The best stew I get .is what I make myself, and the next best is in a one arm res " taurant, where the cook is bet ter on the subject of beef stew than the; fancy cooks of the high ; priced hotels. Cookinc ftot Undignified Cooking is not beneath the dignity Of anyone's personality. I do not care how great he or she may be, and I include the doorman of the Savoy hotel in; London whose dignity surpassetfi anything I have seen, including the United States supreme court. Why then do these fake liber als propose to abolish the art of living, by repudiating its plain social significance? The first an swer which would probably oc cur to anyone is that they are nuts. They are obsessed, like the communists with whom they fraternize, with only one ideal of life politics. ! They see nothing more in hu man existence. There must be ho joke iwhich does not convey a political meaning, no stage play or movie without political prop aganda significance and now they have put politics ' into the home. "Most Stupid" Effort They are trying to 3Convince. every maid, cook and servant that such work is beneath them in order to nuke them rebellious . . J, i. , GRIN AND BEAR IT By Liciity Richard Neuberger who had a series of ar ticles on electrification of railroads r ought j to make a trip to Eugene. Along the highway ;he would see workmen removing the trolley wires from poles of the Oregon Electric' railway while on the other side of the righof-wayare the transmission lines of Bonneville administration carrying millions of kilowatts of Jow-cost elec triciiy. i ; .ihwwi .' ....-.- -. -ill ' ' ' i. .-. ::-' tv' IT W& i'"V S -aV jimr"- JAZZ China-;? ill against their jobs. If there is one thing which will ruin any man on any job, it is his conver sion to the theory that the work is beneath him. He cannot do the job justice, and he cannot have happiness in his work. He ruins both the pleasure of living and the work he is doing. It I took my job that way I would never earn a living. Of all the; political bunk worked off on these United . States as valid liberalism and forward looking progress, . this effort to mislead public thought is the most, stupid. The Safety Valve LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS Leaders tation except the automobile. Highway authorities say the de pendence of thei farmer on motor transport is Indicated by the fact that 1,000,000 trucks and 4,000,000 passenger ears are on farms. Sur vey indicate there are many more autos than telephones or modern bathtubs on farms. - - The automobile people like to tell tnu story:, ; When a farm wire wasasked by a U.- S. department of agri culture investigator why the fam ily owned a car' and) not a bath tub, she replied with surprise, "Why, you cant go to town in a bathtub." Bv ALEXANDER R. GEORGE , ' WASHINGTON, Oct 22.-;P)-Industrial leaders and highway officials rate modernization of the nation's higriways a an eco nomic "must " i T - They say that the three-year -$3,000,000,000 highway im provement nroeram now being launched by ine ment and the sUtes ; should be continued over a long period. Better roads will pay dividends, they contend, by- reducing motor ear fatalities and - by Cutting .the cost of distributing billions of tons of farm products and merchandise. . The American association of state highway officials predicts that within IS years moto vehicle traffic may be double the pre-war levels. It sirs "the national econ omy cannot expand without a cor responding expansion in transpor tation. Eyery step in the growth of the nation has been based on highway progress." j The association, citing the 40, 000 deaths on roads and streets in 1941, says: M,0ea Aaaesicans May Die -We cant afford to km 80,000 Americans a year in the future when traffic is double the pre war level. Postwar- highway buil ders must give safety and capa city; to every mile of the road." Paul G. Hoffman, chairman of the . committee for economic de velopment, says a highway mod ernization program "is long ov erdue, to make roads and streets capable of handling increasing traffic." . ( Tests have been made to meas ure the cost of inadequate high ways. ' ; At Iowa State college five new automobiles were driven 38,000 miles apiece during the course of a year on gravel and pavement The cars operated on gravel had a record of two miles less per gallon of gasoline, twice as much oil consumed, tire wear twice as great at 25 miles per: hour, 58 times as many punctures " and heavier wear on brake drums, cylinders . and bearings.; Discussion of Republican's Conclave Due PROPOSES INITIATIVE To the Editor: j After reading your column "It seems to me" concerning the awful racket of dog racing in "Portland permit fa suggestion that might be carried to the or ganization of churches and oth ers interested in the suppression of this gambling curse, that if these people want to win let them start an initiative. Useless to go to legislature for relief when the dog racing promoters have attorneys hired at huge sal aries or fees and a well financed lobby. It's time to stop soft soaping the public with so called arguments that county and state fairs must obtain such ne farious subsidy in order to ex ist. Certainly our state fair and county fairs were; able to carry on in the past without support from this iniquitious and demor alizing sport. W. Hi Johnson, E. Center st. The Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS Mitsui Mining Co, dyes, chemi cals, soda. 5 Mitsubishi Paper;: Mills paper, chemicals. Ia Yokohama: I ;; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries dockyards, heavy machinery, aircraft j In the Osaka-Kobe area: , Mitsubishi Mining Co. smelting, refining of noa- ferrous metals. " - j. Mitsubishi, Heavy Industries shipyards, boiler and machine shops J 1 Mitsubishi Shipyards shipbuilding. ! ! Mitsubishi Electric Mfg. Co. general ; industrial and hydro-electric equipment, aircraft. , ! Ia Nageya: i - -! ,-' - ! "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries aircraft, engines, magnetos and' miscellanous accessories,, hydroelec tric and general industrial equipment (At the end . pf the war, this aircraft factory, although destroyed by U. S. bombing was called the biggest in the world.) I, 1 1 ' 'fe . - ! . Mitsubishi Electric; Mfg. Co. power plant, rail way, mining and electrical equipment. ; . ' . Ia Hiroshima: : 11 .- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyards, boiler and machine works,' electrical equipment and air craft. ' ' 1 Ia Shomonosekkl . Mitsubishi Heavy Industries engine works, dock yards. - - . S S Mutsul Mining Co. non-ferrous metals, dyes. synthetic oil. m f la Nagasaki: $ . . Mitsubishi1 Heavy Industries shipyards, engines, steel works, armaments: 1 j Mitsubishi Electric Mfg. Co. magnetos, genera- tors, hydro and steam power equipment, aircraft i Mitsubishi I)oc)ryards shipbuilding. . In OmaU (Miike)t Mitsui Mining Co. chemicals, explosives. That is fpr Japan alone. The list does not include the many other firms which these two groups con trolled but which bore -other names, nor their vast holdings in Korea :and Manchuria and occupied "New that the war's ever, Itaodgrsss, do yea think It anseemly te paEHISTORIC CAVE PAINTINGS, kjr Max Raphael (BoUtasea Series, PaaUteoa Fret; STJS). For people interested in art and archaeology, this is a revo lutionary booki for it lifts cave paintings from the. status of crude work to the; level of con scious artistry, done by a man who, however hairy, was aware of social conflicts and sensitive to purely aesthetic values. It is not primitive art declares Raphael, whose books have been printed in Germany, where he was born, and inj France, but not previously in this country. He studies paintings . . . there are 48 admirable full-page re productions ,. . in; the caves of France and Spain j but particu larly those at Font-de-Gaume, les Combarelles and Altamira, and concludes j with a detailed estimate and appreciation of the significance and artistic content of the Altamira ceiling. It's a far' cry, in time, from his artists of 12,000. or more rars ago, but in many; fundamental respects they were; strictly mod ern. The text explaining all this is not intended, apparently, for popular consumption, , but if you take it slowly youj will be well 'repaid." . " i . f WHY ABSTRACT? fcf HBalro HUer. Henry MUler a WnUam Saroyaa Nw Dtractloas; SSJS). HUer the artist explains why he paints so-called abstractions, and the two writers, Saroyan and Miller, identify HUer as a painter worthy of; the reader's confidence. jj , - Abstract art is, after all, rt a fundamental aspect of which is its real inexplicability through the ase . of words.! It a painter could say what she feels, be would say it instead of paint ing it The problem of explatn- Intersections Bad Street intersections are costly to the motorist The Iowa tests yndicated that at a .speed of 35 miles an hour a smgle stop and start normally wears away about as much rubber as a mile of tra vel. At the same speed a single stop and start by an average pas senger car consumes as much gasoline as .15 mile of driving on a straight road.' Another study showed that making Tour or five, complete stops per mile on the streets of downtown Boston increased gaso line consumption 50 per cent over what it would have been if the streets had not been con gested. It was estimated that $18,000 per year was being wasted on each, mile of the streets surveyed because of this extra gasoline cost alone. Travel to Increase An increase in truck transpor tation is expected to result from newly located industries and de centralized communities where rail , facilities may not be avaU able. The wartime advance of air transportation may mean a shift of substantial volumes of light weight freight to the air. But highway authorities' say the motor vehicle will be supreme in the field of short-run local travel essential to the daily conduct of business and community life. Dependent en Highways A total of 54,000 communities, or four out of every ten commun ities in the Unijf d States, depend entirely upon the highway system for both passenger and freight service. A total of 2320 United States cities, with . a combined population of 12,600,000, are with out any local passenger transpor- quently, insoluble, and indeed numerous attempts have failed. Biter's success is the more notable because he addresses his arguments not to the connois seur but to the man in the street His meaning might have been even clearer if the book had been Ulustrated. - SEVEN PAINTKRS, fcy A. C. Wart (Oxford; l-iJ. CaUed "an introduction to pic tures," this is elementary but soundly informative. The seven are Jan Van Eyck, Leonardo. da Vinci, El Greco, Vermeer, Con stable, Whistler and Cezanne. The. only excuse for, letting Whistler represent America is that Whistlers -are easy to find in England. j ' Discussion of plans for partici pation in the coming convention of the Oregon Republican club to be held in Portland at the Mult nomah hotel Friday and Saturday, November 2-3, will be among mat ters taken up by the Marion coun ty chapter, Wednesday evening, October 24, at the chamber of commerce rooms on North Liber ty st, according to announcement Monday by Judge B. Felton, presi dent. ' ! Ralph Cake, Portland, national committeeman for Oregon will ad dress the meeting and Ray Carr of Portland, state president of the Oregon club will outline the pro crram fnr thA Nnvpmdrr mwt ' Invitations- to state; and county officers 'and republican, organiza tions of the county have been sent by W, W. McKinney, , secretary treasurer and the local officers announce that veterans of World War II will be welcomed to the meeting. The meeting' is also open to aU republicans interested in the future progress of the party. ' . Efforts ' will be made to have the 1948 convention held in Salem and it is probable that the name of Felton will be presented for. state president Delegates to the ' state meet will also ; be selected at1 the meeting Wednesday. As Marion county held ! the highest honors in the last presidential election in polling the. largest vote of the-17 counties for the repub lican candidate for president, the Marion county committee which conducted ne camoaism so suc cessfully with the help of other organizations, believes that .this county should be recognized by the republican club of the state in having its members i elected to some of the important of fices to be filled as well as'bringing the con vention to the capital; city. 6 Cases to Go Before Court Six cases are scheduled for heaN ing when the state supreme court opens its fall term for eastern Ore gon at Pendleton next Monday. The cases are: City of Pendleton yslolman, Tudor vs. Jaca, Gallagher vT Gal lagher, Scott vs Han, State vs. George Washington Durham and Banks vs Community church. Durham was convicted of being an habitual criminal i which car ries a life sentence In the state penitentiary. - j ' George W. Wilson Murder Case Appealed Appeal to the state supreme court of the case of j George W. Wilson, under life penitentiary sentence for the slaying of Leroy K. Logan in Multnomah county. in June, 1944, was filed here Mon day. j Wilson originally was indicted on . a first-degree murder charge but was convicted of; second de gree murder. Circuit Judge Walter Tooze presided at the trial in the lower court In Portland. ing. abstract art ooks, conse-" STEVES K Y"- Available Irtdividnally - or in Exquisitely Matched Sets. Extended rayaseats rheae till S3 Ceart at ' 11 3 "& i t K J- -