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FAGiroua Th OGCIJ STATEMAM. ScUa, Oregon, Vdaeaday MoreSag. October 21 IMS " s n It 41 v The Associated Press Is exclusively entit'ed to thai use for publication of all jnews dlapatcbaat eraditad to it or Dot otharwiaa eraditcd In this newspaper. Department of Defense , The experience in the recent almost every authority to the principle of, unity of command. Modern warfare calls 'for com bined operations in which the navy, the air arms and ground forces must coordinate their efforts to wrest victory at a minimum of cost We had such unity of and Europe, under General largely an army show; but still fication was required for success at the various beachheads and oh invasion routes. The Euro pean campaigns will long stand as an object lesson in tht value of proper organization and unified command, ' ' jIn the Pacific, commands were unified by freas, but in the end there- was . overlapping. Army plana bombed Japanese cities without correlating their attacks with air operations from the fleet air arm, Out of this experience, general MacArthur made a strong plea for Unification of authority in national defense. J The question becomes acute as congress con siders measures to abolish tht war and navy departments and create a-single department of defense. The -army favors this unity at the top; the navy is opposed. General Marshall regards it as vital; to our future security. Secretary Forrestal and Admiral King want separate es tablishments with coordination through (he joint chiefs of staff. The navy fears that it would be "lost; in the Shuffle" if the identity of the navy department Is destroyed. In the past the navy has always fared better than the" army in appropriations and the admirals fear this advantage would be lost if the navy is made a bureau in a depart ment. Secretary Forrestal expressed the fear that the single establishment would be too, big for a single man to manage, and that originality In invention would be blanketed. One dare not give an offhand verdict on a matter as vital as this. Unity would not wipe ' ' out service jealousies, nor would it guarantee cooperation in the field among the men, of lesser rank. It should, however, establish the important principal of unity" and 'coordination which has been woefully lacking in the past. - On the! business side the argument for unity really wins. The two arms have gone their separate and costly ways with little attempt to synchronize their buying or to standardize their requirements. If good business, methods could be employed huge' savings could be made which would go far to meet the demands the services are always making for additional funds. On the showing thus far made the case for consolidation seems stronger. The imperative need for unity of effort makes necessary the subordination of local pride of the service arm. With war taking more of a third dimen sional aspect the necessity for unity will in crease rather than diminish; "Aa Ithere See U" j The homesick war brides from Australia who told on Americans when they got back home were refreshingly frank. They failed to find the United States as they had pictured it from the movies and magazine advertisements (thank the Lord). But what; they resented most was the American "pace that kills." "Absolute bed lam" is the way one bride returning to Sydney A escribed this country. Other comments: "Everyone rushes around like lightning;" "Everyone is fast and everyone is selfish." ' So now 'we have a chance to see ourselves "as ithers see us." We get our quick-step living compared to the slow motion of Australian folkways. On the whole we may say the Aus tralian womenfolk were both correct and gentle In their criticisms. After all, haven't we been hearing the comment of our. own returning service men on the habits of living and charac teristics of the people 'as they have seen them in Australia, in Italy, .France, England and Germany? j The root disease, of course, is just homesick ness. After all what a venture it was for these brides of wartime to cross a big ocean, land in cities or villages or countryside with "in laws" whom they had never seen before, and try to adjust themselves with their husbands whom they had known but a few months still off at war. Love has to be pretty strong to Editorial Comment VNIVERS1T UNDERCURRENTS . I This fall and the end of three and one-half years of war have brought to Oregon an undercurrent of restlessness and a questioning of of American college life. We hear , in the living! organizations, and on the steps of the library. Therej is a questioning of purpose and of future by those who are spending four years of their lives in pursuit of higher education. We are working toward some goal, the saying goes but .now perhaps we find that this goal has indefinably changed, j . , : !" We who have been at the university during the preceding years begin to wonder at times whether our studies find "activities wilt take us. to the things "we had hoped for. And whether we still want the things we had hoped. for. ' . ;r- .Many of the returning servicemen have found this unrest too. "During the two years that' I was overseas, I thought of nothing but getting back , , to the states. and graduating from the university, and Kalgan was occupied by nearby Chinese com i 'Now that I'm here, and. faced with 12 terms of munist forces. if j i j studying and living on a campus, I wonder. . Prince Teh, the inner Mongolian puppet, of the Just can t seem to settle down .a discharged! flier was heard to say. V. Wars are naturally! followed by a period of restlessness and readjustment Present conditions result in a feeling of aimlessness for many of us " which only time and circumstances will overocme. Beneath these conditions, the idea ity remains, the game gradually things will swing contact with outer Mongolia and Russia which was :"into a meaningful focus again and all of us on all' conspiciously lacking When Russia signed the recent t campuses will know why we are here. The human , treaties of friendship with Chungking,! leaving! the j desire for; education, basically, does not change. Chinese communist problem purely an internal af 4 University of Oregon Emerald,, . ,, , -fair, to be settled without outside Interference, k- wt ouruya n iw dim AWI t- From First SUtamu, March It, 1131 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A." 8PRAGITE, Editor and Publisher icmbr of the Associated Press put up with the inevitable pangs of homesick ness for old scenes and more familiar faces; We do not hear from the hundreds of Aus tralian war brides who are not going home. Probably they have' experienced similar emo tional reactions to their .sisteiCVho Jjava jre- iiirnaA a tha hnm1nrf Rut thV IN sticking? war converted command in North Africa X out len our "language,"- getting meral Eisenhower. It was quainted with; American manneri and catching . : but stUl the utmost uni- the American pace which gotten the nerve of the utmost uni their sisters. That only "more than 50" of the many hundreds of Australian girls who came to America are reported as returning on the one liner shows thai; the majority ; ire sticking it out. And among the 50 there will surely bo some who find the old life drab and dull and their affections really transplanted to the coun try across the Pacific. : i - 1 I Compulsory Training Peacetime compulsory training is objection able to the American"" people, and its endorse ment by President Truman does, not overcome those objections. While we will still need ground forces, they will become less important as war fare becomes more scientific. Japan's army Was nearly intact and undefeated on the homeland, but naval blockade and aerial bombings "brought Japan to the dust of defeat. We can dp better for defense, by training a small army, with a larger national guard land reserve J force, jand . putting emphasis on specialized training and technical skills. 51 .. " ': : .( A year's drill would be of little Value. After a few years what value it had would be pretty well lost. Demand for one year would soon be followed by demand for two; years; then j for three years.4 That was the record of conscrip tion in France We should avoid it here. i Interpreting ; ! j The Day's News By JAMES D. WHITE j Associated 5 Press Staff Write? j He hardly would vote otherwise than he thought his disinterested friend," Soviet Russia j wanted him to. - ' ! However, that is only part of the real question, which is , whether or not a majority of these Mon golians, who have; lived under So viet protection since 1 1924. would not have voted the same way any-, way, no matter how the election was conducted. ' ,j There is good reason to think they would have. p j In the furious conquests of Gen ghis Khan, the Mongols apparently burned them selves out, and reverted to their tribal life in! the brief -blooming pastures of the Gobi uplands. They lived in felt tents in -a society roughly approxi mating that of the bronze or early iron age, became . converted to the lamaistic sect of Buddhism, and submitted to the authority of the rising Manchu dynasty which conquered China in 1644. - j 1. Mogols Remained : In China 1 " When this dynasty: was overthrown by the Chi nese revolution in 1911, the Mongols remained part of China, but, as'. the early republican govern ments of China grew weaker, the northern, or outer Mongols, split off in . 1921 and formed an Soviet Russia close to China Inner Mongolia, aside from areas Chinese colonists, priesthood down the old conception tion, set up schools! and health clinics, introduced it in the Side, better livestockr the capital of to an objective, Japanese, got out king, where he of the univers- they might be in ii SAN FRANCISCO,' Oct. 23.-(ffJ)-There Is a cer tain amount of eye-brow lifting in this country over a plebiscite In outer MongoUa. : ! - This is because last Saturday, apparently, without a dissenting vote,' some 850,000 outer' Mongolians (who live on an Asiatic plateau one-fifth as large as the United States) voted .themselves permanently free of China and formally into the orbit of Russian-influenced nations. - ! j The voting obviously was not the kind we do in this country. Every voter had to sign his name. -! i. D. Whit autonomous republic, They, were influenced, of course, by the political changes taking place In conomics which would pre Siberia just to the north. 1 : parf f or .. the war she has lost. did ! not recognize this remiblic. but in 1924 signed a mutual assistance pact with it, which the Chinese: vigororusly, but futilely, pro tested. The inner Mongolians the ones who lived remained under Chinese control. remained a re; housing disease ridden Mongols who are estimated to have given some 90 per cent of their young men to the Lama priesthood, which thereby controlled Mongor politics, education and society as well as religion. -. ,;- jiff :.' . V I j . However In outer Mongolia, most accounts agree that under the .Russians the Mongols pared j the to about 10 per cent of the popula and? even built a few factories around Ulan Bator, fthe capital, which was con nected with Siberia by a railway. I V Inner Mongolia Invaded by Japs i Inner Mongolia, meanwhile, was; invaded by the Japanese, and its tribal ruler, Prince Teh, headed a puppet government at KalganAj ' In the ten years that I lived in north China,! not far from Mongolia; I never heard of ' a single Mongol, except an occasional Lama priest, leaving outer Mongolia in order-td live in the inner or Chinese-dominated part, i ':, j -. -. When Japanese; surrendered last August, outer Mongol troops made a 600-mile forced march across the desert into inner Mongolia, but did not occupy Kalgan, They stopped short of that. In an airplane and flew to Chung- is staying today. I ine Mongouan question now comes to the lore because there is a Chungking report that the Chi nese communists i may move their capital from Yenan, In Shemsi province, to Kalgan. In that case a position to establish the political I ' f EVEN" IF YDlTfftSSEDA MZMlQStJ K - 1 (.NtlPRESraT, IT Y.0UID (mSj AWk,, ; f pl ' Thp Literary Giiidcpost , By W. O. ROGERS THB CURTAIN FALLS; LAST DATS or THE THIRD REICH, ky Count rlk Bruottt (Knopf; S2). The last days of the crumbling German hierarchy, resorting in desperation to intrigue and show ing! itself petty and often, de--spicable, are described in the first -authentic account of its kind that I have read. Tfee j Swedish author, in Ger many to seek the release of Nor- wegjans and Danes held in con centration camps worked through Hiinntler and eventually trans mitted Himmler's offer of sur render , Bemadotte denies most em phatically that Hitler died a hero's death, and warns against letting! Germany make its leader a martyr. Hitler was so ill in the last ? months, said Schellenberg, head of the information service, that he was hardly able to walk , . across a room, and yielded more and! more to uncontrollable rages. His mistress Eva Braun, two subordinate fuehrers, Kalten brunner and Fegelein, and Fege lein's wife, Eva's sister, were sup posed to have dominated him. Schellenberg believes Hitler died of an Injection administered by persons unknown on April 27. JAPAN AND THE SON Or HEAVEN, fcy WUUrS Prtc (DncB. Sloan at Prc; S2.1S). - Tjty Hirohito as war criminal ' andl turn . his uncounted riches 1 back to the people, bar his son from the throne, occupy the de feated i islands two to four de-f cades guide the Japanese toward democracy . . . this is in essence Price's prescription. Similar recommendations are being repeated more and more urgently by other authors. But Price, who for five years lived in Hayama as Hirohito's neigh bor, supports his case against the. .emperor cult with 'fresh argu ments. After some interesting and (to " me) brand new information about what Gertrude Stein would call fthe Sun God's "daily island life,. Price recalls Japan's de liberate,' planned adoption, with in three-quarters of a century, of the kind of religion, politics yamrtsm. nna onuin even neip- ed. Price says, to entrench the monarchy. That was a day. to rue.f ' 5.- " . QRJN AND BEAR M mm m m w - a a b j t v a a w-.- a ar m m u w mm - -- m lima n.AAUsimB' a .w muwt.y y MTMcvMat wMk Tta W Ms Stat ' - J f i t-k 1 i ' ; b . v . I . . . s : iaaaMMaMswaHHHHpHHMM'AM'aMMaMi-. -mrmmmmi'' i "I knew; they're what yon called gvldbrkks la the army. Doctor bat la cfviliaa practice, think, of them as a goldxalnet . sums TPrormrR (Continued from page 1) issue I think the bar association would j quickly get beyond " its deptlpiit attempted to guide or ' control ?' the instruction within law schools. A law course is more than mere . ; instruction in the rudi ments! of a trade, familiarizing the student with the terms and tools of law. It is a study of the great structure of regulation un der which modem society exists. While - the great body of law governing human relationships is of ancient origin, still law is not a frozen body of doctrine, but something with the flexibility of the vast human organism which it serves. It must relate itself to the present and the future as .well s to the past; and so very properly finds place on a uni versity campus where it bears some connection with the other segments of modern education. It may be that universities and law schools are the breeding place for much "evil" doctrine. Most of the bright young minds who have set out to reform the world and the courts came out of law schools. But so, also, with less publicity, have come those of conservative ideas who cling to old forms and old conceptions of law and government. To at tempt to build a mold within which legal education should be cast wpuld be futile in the ex treme. ; Mixing the metaphor the wines of new doctrine, inev itably burst old bottles. ' As far as improving the qual ity of work done in law schools is concerned, the approach is far simpler than the difficult one of consolidation under pressure. That is to amend the law so that only graduates of accredited law schools are admitted to take the state bar examinations. The American Bar association has set upj standards for law schools and has an accrediting commit tee. The state Is mature enough that it. can recognize the ABA standard, and schools which want to survive should qualify under hat standard. Beyond that u aoea not seem tnat the state bar should go. IT ByLichty Goal Planned For Infantile Paralysis Fund Setting a tentative goal for. the infantile paralysis campaign for Marion ? county, selection of - county chairman for the annual drive .for funds, and the introduc tion of Oregon's .new director for the National Foundation of In-r fantile paralysis, formed the bus iness for the luncheon meeting of the Marion county committee for infantile paralysis on Tuesday. The new regional director, Eu gene Hall, with headquarters in Portland, gave a short talk point ing out the importance of contin ued contribution toward the cause of infantile paralysis- victims. He suggested that a backlog of funds should be built up during the years when Marion county has only little call for funds, so that the money may be available in case a serious epidemic hits the county. Dr. Lewis Clark, state director of the crippled children program, a new resident of Salem and now on the county infantile paralysis committee urged Continued inter est in the cause of infantile paral ysis. I Mrs. Grace Ttuelen, a former county chairman tin Polk county Nebraska, and now living In Sa lem attended the meeting. The Japanese farm unit aver ages 2.7 acres. j . CIRCUIT COURT) City of Salem vs Elizabeth Quin cy and others; complaint to quiet title to specified real property.1 Melitta Boyce vj Winsori Boyce; cause dismissed on motion of plain tiff on grounds that a reconcilia tion has been accomplished. Henry Palmer vs Earl Miller and Benicia Miller; demurrer. : Rosa Lee Lawrence vs Harold James Lawrence; amended- com plaint for annulment charges that defendant was married and had a wife living at time of alleged marriage to plaintiff June 3, 1936; ceremony performed at Eugene; complaint asks Custody of two minor children; answer denies that defendant was already married at time of marriage to plaintiff. Effie Gooden vs! Arthur Gooden; answer admitting snd denying. Geraldine D. Cross vs Harley V. Cross; order of default. State ys Dean Anderson, sche duled for jury tria Monday, Octo ber 29, at 9:30 a.m. PROBATE COURT Ernest1 Busch guardianship es tate; annual report by Ruth I. Busch, guardian, shows total re ceipts of $1480.531 and expendi tures of $1313.18. Ralph E. Barnes estate; final account by Majella Barnes, ad ministratrix, shows receipts and expenditures of $3234.98; hearing set for . November 1 28. Peter W. Ditcheh estate; order settling final account. - Norman Kenneth Willig estate; order approving final account of Minnie M. Willig nd closing es tate. 1 ' -; ! -. Elmer J. Mauk estate; final ac count by Clair E. Mauk and Earla Smalley, joint administrator and administratrix shows expenditures of $502.24, with claims totaling $417.25 yet to be! paid; hearing set for November' 24. ' ' Walter Louis Sprogis guardian ship estate; order . discharging Frederick B. Hiller as guardian, he having been appointed for sole purpose of assisting minor in exe cuting a mortgage, which has been executed. f , ; ' Gladys Lydy guardianship es tate; petition fori authority to spend not to exceed $200 for ward's clothing. Louis Lachmund estate; fourth semi-annualacouniby .'Margaret Famous Names Appeal Cases Is there anything in a name?, state supreme court attaches were wondering here Tuesday. Included among, the defendants la cases now on appeal la the supreme court are a number of outstanding names. These include Milton Scott Anthony, Woodrow Wilson Newburnf George Wash ington Durham an Cornelius Price .Long. Durham , and Long wereconvicted j under the habi tual criminal law which carries life sentence in the state peni tentiary. Newburn is accused of a serious statutory offense. : Another man, George Raper, was convicted, of selling liquor. Speed Pledged In Decision on Forms for Tax j A decree with all possible speed, in the state income tax short form ease now pending before him. was promised Tuesday by Circuit Judge George Duncan. ! The case, brought by Frederic- H. Young and Oregon Business & Tax Research against the tax com mission, was heard Monday by Duncan and taken under advise ment. The Judge said he would study tt and prepare hi decree in comparatively short time so that tht appeal to the state supreme court (assured no matter what the decision) might be' made with dispatch. However, another state case, is in his files ahead of the income tax litigation, that of Consolidated Freightways vs the public utilities commission, Centering about col lection of mileage fees for trips allegedly - made for purposes of inspection. - The, Young-tax commission case attacks the validity of the statute providing for. a short form income tax return, plaintiff alleging that the measure as signed and pub lished is not identical with that passed by the legislature. Salem Teen-Agers To Attend Rally 'I Reservations for 200 Salem teen-agers have been made at the Civic auditorium in Portland Jor next Saturday night's Youth rally, DeVerh Fromke, director of the Salem Youth Center, announced Tuesday. The 200 young persons will travel from the capital city in "modern hayride fashion. From ke said. Trucks loaded with straw have been secured for the trip. Feature of next Saturday night's rally in Portland is the appearance of Dr. Torrey John son of Chicago, international di rector of the Youth For Christ rallies, now on a west coast tour. Weather won't stop the jaunt, Fromke said, but should it rain the party will travel by bus. F. Lachmund and Donald C. Rob erts, executrix and executor shows receipts of $17,860.38 and disburse ments of $37,050.08.. Albert J. Kaufman estate; Anna M. Kaufman appointed adminis tratrix of son's estate. Minnie M. Huff estate; appraised by Leo N. Childs, C. M. Byrd and Irene RoemhHdt at $5242.88. ! William Ht Mitchell estate; Ralph C. Zimmerman, administra tor, discharged and estate closed. Amy E. Roberts estate; final ac count of Oscar Lee Carpenter, exe cutor, approved and distribution ordered; receipt for $3.78 state in heritance tax. Arthur Keil, Jr.; "Dorothy Keil, guardian, authorized to sell speci fied real property in Multnomah county. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Alvin D. Edlin, 33, U. S. army, San Francisco, Calif, and Reatha H. Th iessen, 28, stenographer, Sa lem. Arthur Braden, 33. mechanic, Jefferson, and Mary Brooks, 22, cannery worker,, Salem, i Frank J. Tschida, 26, farmer Ontario, and Elsie Hopfer, 22, Mt. Angel. Francis E. Delaney, 27, shipping clerk, Philadelphia, Pa., and Geor gia I. Tobey, 18, student, 827 Kent st., Silverton. ' MUNICIPAL COURT Monty Weddle, Jefferson; viola tion of basic rule, bail $10. rof its From ysterBeds Over 0300,000 PORTLAND Oct tt-(Special) Promoters charged with fraud in connection with " oyster beds on Coos Bay received j in excess of 1300,000 from their sales opera tions, U. S. District Attorney Mason Dillard has declared. Three of the men, listed as X. Robert Erriom, J. R. Barton and Glenn R. Munkerajali of Salem, were freed on $10,000 bail each yesterday. A, fourth j man was in dicted but his Identity' was jtot disclosed. He is understood to be in a Hospital here, j j Dillard said many rural resi dents of the Willamette valley and the coast counties, as well as other parts of Oregon and j Washington, had been induced to invest in oyster beds,' each comprising one eighth of an acre, on representa tion the beds would be planted and cultivated, and the product mark eted on a cooperative and share- cost basis. ''...!', - False Claim Charge! It was contended! (those indi cated had made false claims of yields and dividend! checks, with promises of $130 to $400 profit per bed each II months. MThese ' defendants ingratiated themselves 'with prominent and highly respectable members of the Farmers' union, arranged for oys ter feeds to be given -at meetings of the union's locals, furnished free oysters as an advertising at traction and served) the same to large numbers of union members. "Defendants represented that investments in oyster beds were available only to members of the union, intending thereby to create in the minds of investors a belief that activities of the promoters, in connection with their, sales of in terests in oyster beds, had the in dorsement and approval of the union and its officials. Reports Attacked "It was further) part of said scheme," concludes the complaint, "that said defendants did mislead and lull said investors into inac tion and a feeling of security in their investments after said in vestors had become obligated to pay and had paid their money and property to defendants, by making favorable reports to investors in cluding references j to investors' holdings at Coos bay and the pro gress being made by said defend ants in the seeding, cultivating, harvesting and marketing of oys ters, by representing to investors that profits were being made for investors from the operation of investors oyster beds, and by dis tributing to investors a share of alleged profits therefrom; said de fendants well' knowing that said reports were false land fictitious and that there were no profits from oyster bed operations." E. Robert Errion and J. R. Bar ton, who with Glenn R. Munkers were indicted by a federal grand jury charged with using the mails to defraud have no official con nection with the Coos Bay Farm ers' Cooperative, an oyster grow ing and marketing cooperative. In July, 1943, The cooperative was reorganized and Charles B. Davis was elected manager. A month later offices held by j Errion and Barton were declared ! vacant. The cooperative ' continues to operate and according to Manager Davis is making good progress. Warren Gray 'of Marion is presi dent of the cooperative. I Leadership in Youth Work Cited as Need The need for responsible leader- snip in regard to youtn "still our a a- a M I ' I greatesi, asset was empnasizea in an address before; the Salem Kiwanis dub' Tuesday by Lyle Leighton, executive of the Cascade area Boy Scouts. j Scoring adults who accept posi tions of responsibility only to dis- , appoint the youths who look up to them, Leighton said such inci dents "leave a lasting and damag ing impression with! adolescents " He sought additional attention for the troop sponsored by the Kiwan is club in the Richinond district and said that area j warranted every effort to set-vie Its youjth. Leighton also cited outstanding j work of individuals find organiza tions in youth leadership. j A talk in behalf of the Ipurrent Safety Week campaiga was given, by Ralph Eyre, .-i I i j STEnLIIIG i Olla VE.U BABY CUPS il THE IDEAL GIFT Yes, we engrave the name!; M COURT STREET r