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7- THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
1 S CHARLES A. SPRAQUS Editor and FuMUur ', '
- A , ' Member of the Associated Press . jo :- j.
The AModaUd Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newsbaper.-
Labor Elections
So far as we know, every strike vote held
tinder the Smith-Connally act has been over
whelmingly in favor of . striking Early returns
on the Chrysler vote are said to run 20 to on
in favor f striking to enforce demands. The
General Motors; vote was said to be nearly six
to one for (the strike. Since the balloting is done
under authority; of the NLRB, the correctness
of the figures is hardly to be doubted.
TThat workers , should vote overwhelmingly
for the strike is really not surprising. It does
not mean they; want to' strike or even that they j by rail from New York to Dayton, then was
expect a striked It means they want to maintain ' placed in the care of j Phil O. Parmalee, dare-
a solid front against the employer and to j give
their negotiating agents the strike as a club to
support their arguments." A negative voteMm
the strike question would leave the union exec
utives helpless. -Labor feels it must back up its
leaders, though;' a majority-undoubtedly hopes
for a peaceful Settlement of . the issues.
In view of this fact the' holding of expensive
elections, at government expense is a waste of
money and time. The Smith-Connaljy bill
should be , repealed. Government activity
should be limited to conciliation, unless it be in
the case of vital services like utilities and trans
portation where intervention may be warranted.
President Truman , sticks his neck out when
he proposes to outline a government wage-price
policy next Tuesday . night. But with the war
labor board's powers pretty much exhausted
and OPA subsisting mostly on borrowed time,
what authority will such a government policy
have? What both industry and labor need to
learn is that the war is over and our economy
both as to wages and prices will have to be
based on the compulsions of the marketplace.
Government counsel may cushion the transi
tion; that is as far as government should go.
Just Maybe It IMakeH Sense
j The working' of the Oriental mind defies com
prehension at times, and from the statement
of Admiral j Nagano' it would seem that such
working hardly could make sense even in the
' Orient. : - -
The admiral, brazenly admitting "full re- SAN FRANCISCO, Oft 26-;P-Tbese are troub
sponsibility,, for ordering the attack on Pearl lous times for Chinese commanders, and the cares
Harbor, says (1) the attack "achieved far great- tjf the day weigh more heavily on none ihan Geo,
er success than I had expected," and (2) "I
. made no mistakej in issuing final orders to at
tack Pearl Harbor" because "without, its suc-
cess the Japanese : would have been defeated
earlier."- ' '; . .' ..-..'; i
If there is an coordination at all between
. those statements,; it might be found in Nagano's
claim that war was inevitable because of the
attitude of the Japanese army and that the
navy "had to doi their duty as military men."
''.' But the logic, if any, is evasive.
Putting all his contentions together, one can
conclude only that the Japanese military, frus
trated by trying to do to much with too .little
in China,1 needed a cause celebre to arouse
sufficient support for an .Asiatic campaign, and
believed it could best carry out its work there
by Keeping America busy in the Pacific -and
hoped to keep some of its gains despite an in-
tvjtable defeit, Someway, Nagano's words bols-
ter the theory -.that very few leaders in Japan
ever believed- an; outright victory over America
possible.! If that theory is correct, it is the only
sensible piece of reasoning Nippon has prO
; duced. 1 ' ' - .
Nagano says he expects to be tried as a war
, ' criminal. So far as he or any other Jap war
monger iara concerned, all we
! what!"
It's bao( enough to worry about whether these
new cab-in-front locomotives are going. back
ward or forward, and now we're told the new
cabooses will have bay windows instead of
cupolas. There are some things about progress
a bit upsetting. ' .
Tire- rationing may end December 31 and
little Elmer can now plan on getting back that
casing he .as using for a swing.
Editorial Comment
PACKAGED LIVING n
Che Research Department of The Nebraska Farm
er has studied the amounts spent by typical urban
and farm families for packaged fobds. In both
groups care was taken to balance the 'incomes so
that findings would be as' nearly average as pos
. sible. The urban families spent $47.85 a month for
Itju, niui kuiik iui mvmcu gwua.
farm families, though using- much home-rawed pror
duce. spent $33,78, with $8.25 for packaged foods.
The survey was based on . families of average
size as determined . by the Bureau ff the Census.
The significance ofwthe findings is in the fact that
American business concerns have learned how
to prepare foods so efficiently and attractively In
packaged form that their products find a place la
both rural and urban life. Undoubtedly modern
science will make possible easier methods of feed
ing people. Already concerns are planning com
plete meals of frozen foods that will come in pack
ages. The development of Individual home lockers
for handling frozen foods is a promising field. Some
6000 community locker plants are now in operation
and plans arc under way for a sizable expansion
of the business. The dehydrated food business will
doubtless be expanded. Frozen meats in standard
sizes will . appear on the : market; in increasing
, amounts. .' . ..''.
It is all part and parcel of the increasing trend
to make life easier and more efficient for the house
wife. After the experimental stages are over busi
ness efficiency will get more and more packaged
foods of all types into a price range which permits
the average family to use them. There may be those
who will remember the nostalgic days when Mother
spent hours over the hot kitchen range. But tech
nological advances plus expanding, knowledge In
th realm of nutrition will make it possible to feed
nation beter than ever before with- much less
labor. New York Time.
"No Favor Swaya Vs; No Fear Shall Awe
From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 r
The Qolh of History j
The twenty-fifth anniversary of air express
won't call for any special presidential proclama
instigated the
devil pupil of Orvill Wright, for the final
63-mile jump by air. . :
' Parmalee and a store executive sat on the
lower wing with the package across their knees.
There was no cabin or cockpit in those days.
They made the perilous trip in 66 minutes. The
silk became souvenir neckties. U , j
The entire New' York-Columbus journey took
23 hours; it now takes four hours. The package
was the only air shipment' of the year; for the
first six months of 1945, domestic air express
shipments totalled 1,060,729. The initial experi
ment was carried out with the cooperation of
an express firm i which f now is synchronized
with the Railway Express Agency. ' 1 j
The record of:whof acquired those ties; np
longer if available. But la neck-piece made ot
the cloth of history would be worth having. j
Some bureau must have made a mistake. It
let red tape be busted so badly that Vancouver's
empty war housing actually can be used by an
ordinary civilian nowj f j
Anyway, the
the market at a
are paid for.
Interpreting
The Day'js News
By
"Tu Tso-Yi,
Fu is a husky,
commander who has been called a warjord. Jtfst
; now Generalissimo Chiang. Kai-shek has given him;
the difficult assignment? of recovering Chinese ter-j
ritory in the strategic! northern! ;
provinces of Suiyuan, Chahar and!
His forces represent one of those I
prongs of central government au
thority which are reaching hope
fully back into Japanese-occupied
North China. ' T I
Other prongs have the ; benefit
of American air transport assist
ance which can set them down
hundreds of miles ' and j months
ahead of ground strategy.
nomads in the
, Japanese Take
can say is "so
YJ ;
tions but the event certainly should not go un- .
recorded. '.It has an interesting background of
resourcefulness and progress. ,
It was on November 1, 1910, that there left
Nework for Dayton, 0. the first piece of mer
chandise shipped by air. It was an oblong pack
age of five bolts of silk, consigned to the More
house Martens company at Columbus, O., which
experiment The package went "
new cars are coming ,i back oni
time henrmost of thej old onea .
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JAMES D. WHITE
I t ' ; . :it
comparatively young 1.58) army
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Si
But not Fu troops, who must d. watt
march through the : arid foothills of the Mongolian
plateau or ride on what, rolling stock the 'Japanese;
have left on the ooe available railway. There are
no airports to accommodate big air transport move
ments. .- : J-' . , ; -.'j
, Before the war, ) Fu vas governor of ; Suiyuan
province, and he wrestled with the problems of
controlling the impact of his own Chinese settlers
against the primitive Mongol tribes who lived as
northern part of his province,
Over -
Fu recognized the defects of the Chinese policy
toward the Mongols, and had his own ideal of what
to do about it But; the Japanese came': in. from
the east, cut his poorly-tquipped troops to ribbons,,
captured his one "railway with east, got most of his
artillery, and drove him i to the western part of
Suiyuan where he since has maintained : headquar
ters at the dusty village of Shenpa. j - j
He spurned Japanese offers to becomes puppet.
There were raids back and forth through; the yearsj
but nothing catastrophic. ,
When Japan surrendwred, Fu marched east, re
taking the railhead at Paotouchen and his provinical
capital at Kweisul.'-J; . . .
That was where his troubles begin. The Chinese
communists came up from the south and captured
the highly important coal mines at Tstung. Fu Jonan-i
aged to get them back, but more Chinese commun
ists came into Chahar from the east and captured
the capital of inner Mongolia at Kalgan. Meanwhile
soviet-sponsored outer Mongolian troop came in
from the north and j approached Katgan!
Only yesterday was it announced in Chungking
that the Russians had agreed to give back that part:
of irmer Mongolia they had occupied, and to give
it back to Fu rather than the Chinese communists, f
While this appeared to pull the rug from under;
the Chinese communists! (who were talking of mov
ing their capital up to Kalgan, a cold place indeed
but cozily near communist outer Mongolia) they:
apparently had Other eggs in other baskets.
Seat CommaaisU Hot Message - ; L j
Today Fu sent communist leader Mao Tze-Tung
a very hot message accusing him of trying to move
100.000 red trobpi northward into the Fu bailiwick.
"There's m limit 'to our patience," telegraphed
Fu, adding that his troops thus 'far had Jheld their
fire when allegedly attacked by the redst j
"I must make it crystal clear that I have' received
no order from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to
return fire," he said, thereby making clear a couple;
of other things. One wfur that he would welcome
such an order- unless. Mao controls bis boys, and
the other was that he- wanted a clearer policy front
Chiang to follow. M f -.:"' . ! i', - - S
All of which adds up to the probability that this
man may become an important key in what happens
in this area, which is remote and isolated but of
great strategie Importance. -f
Central government and communist forces both
are trying to fill the vacuum left by surrendering;
Japanese, and the policy of sovieet Russia, while
clear ; and unmistakable , in treaties signed with
Chungking, easily can be kicked around by inter
ested local parties.
Fu Tso-Yi, back in the. news after eight years , of
running an exiled provincial government in a mud
village, is right in the middle of ii. - '
iimimi with Tk iMiuita sue . A r orward Pass
The Literary
Guidepost
By W. a ROGERS
THE SMALL GENERAL, by Robert
SUndtsh (MacmUUn; $2.50).
On an island in a lake near
Soochow, the honored Sung liv
ed in I comparative ease, wor
shiping) his ancestors, matching
' wits wth fellow Chinese, even-,"
tually poming unpleasantly into
contact; with the Japanese.
His son. Small General, who
by the! end of the story has a
son of his own name, continues
in ; the I tradition of his father,
. but discovers, thanks to his love.
Peahen", that China is more than
- his island, more even than Soo
chow and Shanghai.
Mingled with scenes of grue
some violence, there are' very
tender! passages. Writing simp
ly, with an occasional quaint
.touch, : Standish evokes an ex
otic ' civilization and makes it
real, and admirable.. You can
read volumes of history without
getting; so intimate; an under
standing . of China as Standish
. supplies. T
For me, his only failure comes
in the pages . , . there are only
a few of them . . . where he in
terrupts his story to offer un
necessary background material.
The novel is no vehicle in which
to drive a moral home.
STUART LITTLE, by E. B. White
(Harper: $2); THE WHITE BEER.
by iamet Thurber (Harcourt,
Brace;, $130).
Two i writers best known by
New Yorker readers try their
expert hands at books for be
ginners. Thurber has done it before,
especially in "The Great Quil
low," but this is a first for
White, j Thurber's old-fashioned
fairy tale is unexpectedly sweet;
you 11 enjoy it even while you
'note that he seems afraid
youngsters might cut themselves
on his customary keen-edged
wit " . : .
White on the contrary, though
he simplifies, remains the same
writers Stuart, second son of the
New york tattles, is a mouse;
conditioned by his height, or
lack of it, he has plausible ad
ventures and proves as loyal, in
telligent and brave as any hu
jnan. It'll be harder now to an
swer the question: Are you a
man or a mouse??
Both books aire illustrated'. ,
MANY LONG YEARS AGO. by Of-
den Nsh (Little. Brown: $2.50).
Here are about 200 poems,
GRIN
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spoke from the balcony over the
postoffice to urge enlistments
and Hote Darrow, who had been
a drummer boy in the Civil war,
played the. long roll that brought
everyone up standing. Then one
legged Squire Buffmgton regret
ted his lack of a leg prevented
his enlisting again to serve his
country.'
The youth had responded as
youth always does when the call
to service comes. Too small a
town for a militia company,' the
men drilled on the street until
they as volunteers were ordered
to Des Moines. That group . went
out to the Philippines. Most of
the national guard state mili
tia it was called then went to
Chattanooga and on to Jackson
ville, to ' languish, most of ths
time in army camps and have
only brief ; war experience 3 in
Cuba. i - r .
By fall most of them were
back. The campaigns had been
short. The sweeping victories at
Santiago and Manila, the glor
ious charge of the Rough Ridk
ers up San Juan hill had given
the country, which had been at
peace for over 30 years, a real
thrill. . The hometown barbecue
was one way of expressing the
people's fervor and pride.
Not all the men came? back.
Our drayman, who ha
gone
with the group to the
?hilip-
pines, died there of dise:
The
southern camps reek
fevers. Typhoid pursu
irith
,wno came home l y
. the delirious cries of one
phoid sufferer bedfast not far
from my home. j
The Spanish war looks puny
now, as indeed it was in com
parison with either of the world
, wars which followed it. But the
pattern ; was similar, including
criticisms .of how the war was
being run. The Spanish war did
Nash's collected works as of to
day. Few; writers get as many
laughs per line, or have a line
with as many laughs.
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formala b before the
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ed those
et recau
ty-
reorient the thinking of the
United States, making the first
break with continental isolation.
Our involvement in this recent
war, via Pearl ; Harbor, is really
the consequence of our involve
ment in far eastern affairs which
resulted from the Spanish war.
It is a long time since that
homecoming barbecue in 1898.
The navy today is coming in
from some of the" same waters
and some of the same shores.
Agauvthe Philippines have been
redeemed from, alien hands. The
scale now is too vast for a vil
, lagej celebration. Today a great
nation appropriately pauses to
salute the navy: which comes
home, heavy with the honors of
victory.
Flashes of Life
BUFFALO, N.Y. -Jfy- Over
three years and three months
after Sidney Gross was summon
ed to appear in city court on a
speeding harge, he arrived to
"make an explanation to the
judge."
Gross, told Judge Patrick J.
Keeler yesterday . lie had been
unable to report because the
summons arrived - July 9, 1942,
the day before he was scheduled
to leave for army duty. He said
he has just been discharged from
the army air forces and "would
like to settle the score."
Judge Keeler dismissed the
charge, "in appreciation," he told
Gross, "of services you have ren
dered your country and of your
honesty." f
BALTIMORE -P)- Girls who
have ' been sweating out the
shortage of available males dur
ing the war can take a cue of
better times ahead from Joan
Lilley, brown-haired employe of
Third service command, who this
weekend will have a blind date
with 3000 men.'
It happens because she was se
lected pinup girl by the officers
and men of the aircraft carrier
Randolph, in Baltimore for Navy
day observances. They will be
her "date" as a banquet and for
mal ship's party Saturday and
pinup dance Sunday.
ST. LOUIS-WVThe tax col
lector is trying unsuccessfully to
gVe back $500,000.
lit seems that 13,500 taxpayers
in the eastern district of Missouri
paid the government too' much
money in the last two years, and
then forgot to leave their ad
dresses for a refund.
James P. Finnegan, collector
of internal revenue, said some of
the persons hf e been traced to
as many as 10 addresses without
being located. . i
"We'd like V deliver these
checks and we don't doubt that
the taxpayers would like to get
them," Finnegan said. "It's all
just a matter of getting together."
Coos Bay Hotel Sold ;
To Portland Firm
COOS BAY, Ore, Oct 2-(-
A bid to purchase an unfinished,
eight story, downtown . hotel by
walle-Campiah I company, 7. Port
land, was accepted yesterday by
the Coos county court. j
Under contract terms, the com'
pany must complete and furnish
six stories of the building .within
a year at a cost of $125,000. Con
structi on must ; begin within I 30
days.". !"-'; ' i - - -1
McKinneys Consider r f
Place in California !
SWEGLE Mrj and Mrs. Will
iam McKinney are down in Tar
lock, Calif, where they are con
sidering a new home.
The scherzo in music takes It
name from the 'Italian word for
"joke, . 4,jji t- st $ 0ii:t :.
Inexperienced Velerari
Farmers Prove Problem
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Many war veterans who have a
desire to -engage In farming but
have had no farm experience are
creating an agricultural problem,
evidence . disclosed at a meeting
of the. farm security commission
here iJriday. .j- .: v :
"Under -good- management,"
Cecil Youngstrom, district FSA
supervisor for western Oregon,
said, "well qualified farmers need
have ; no fear of the future." I He
stressed-th necessity for diversi
fication in production, v
The district embraces all north
western Oregon counties. .
Willamette Ghest
Contributions Up
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Contributions of faculty and
administration officers to the
Willamette university United War
Chest drive are nearing the $1000
mark, Dean Daniel H. Schulze,
head of the campus drive, has an
nounced. Already past the $700
mark, a sharp increase is expect
edVthis week end when many
faculty members who have been
away during the summer term re
turn to the university for the opl
ening ot the new semester,
k Dean Schulze has headed Salem
Community Chest drives on the
campus since 'their inauguration
nine years ago. '
Oregon Wlieat
Crop Reduced
CORVALLIS, Oct. It --VP)- Hot
winds, cold weather, drouth and
hail reduced Oregon's 1945 wheat
crop td 21,000,000 bushris, the
state director for the federal crop
insurance corporation said today.
- Willis. G. Boegli reported that
more than 20 per cent of the in
sured farms 'in Qaker and Uma
tilla counties qualified for insur
ance because yield dropped below
the guaranteed production level
75 per cent of each farm's normal
yield. Total lossi 12,548 bush
els.
Wheat crops ; on 2700 Oregon
farms will be protected under the
plan in 1946. . j j'
Convalescent
Home Condemned
PORTLAND, Oct, 2 -()- The
state welfare commission today
was told by Mrs. Eva Gilder,
Portland, that she called upon; an
aged man in a convalescent home
and found him in a bed unmade
for, days and infested with bed
bugs., ! c
She lodged a complaint against
the home, one of 40 in Multnomah
county certified 'as suitable for
the placing of welfare recipients.
The state board said since the
convalescent home in question
cared for fewer than five persons
it was not under state jurisdic
tion, but under the city health
department State Health Officer
Dr.vHarold Erickson reported the
case to the city, i
Portland,, Salem Phone
Calls Total 150 Daily
An average of more than '
50
telephone calls are serviced daily
over two state trunk lines between
Salem and Portland, the state
board of control was advised here
Friday by Roy Mills; secretary of
the state board . of controL
Mills said approximately1' 100 of
these calls originate in the Salem
capital buildings and 50 in Port
land. The cost to the state under
the leased ; wire setup, is about
$750 a month, j .
Portland Schools Close
To Visit Navy Ships
PORTLAND, Oct 26-4)-Pdrt
land school children observed
premature Nvy day today, i
Classes were .dismissed at noon
and students, free to tour the
waterfront ! scrambled aboard the
seven craft docked here. By night
fall the curious kiddies had asked
navy men a million questions
many cf them repetitions.;
Vine Crops Injured
In Recent Freeze !
PORTLAND, Oct 2-(JfVMany'
vine crops were injured in a freeze
in the Willamette; valley a week
agoythe weatherj bureau said yes
terday,, and farmers are rushing to
Itet other .crops. ; indoors before
lower temperatures become fre
quent:; . , . , j.;-r- ;:(
Squash, pumpkin, cucumber, to
mato and pepper vinee were killed
in the first freeze, but green to
matoes were uninjured. . The buj
reau reported during the past
week, nut and ! sugar beet har
vests were progressing and wal
nuts were dropping freely.
Minters Are Guests
Of Former Neighbors
ORCHARD HEIGHTS Mr. and
Mrs. H. W. Minter of Seattle were
overnight guests i of Mr. and Mrs.
QL H. Wilson Wednesday. MinteT
Is employed at the Sand Point
Naval base in Seattle. j
-Their son Willard Minter. sea
man 1 e, U x now stationed ! at
Guam. Another son, W. T. (BOD
Minter, Is. somewhere in the Pa
cific on the carrier Saginaw Bay.
The Minters ere former residents
of this community. - -
Middle roye
ReportsjMany
New Bmldings
. MIDDLE GROVE Mr. and
Mrs. Clifford D, Forse and two
children, recently of Colingo,
Calif., who were temporarily lo
cated at the George Brant home,
have moved to a place they pur
chased in the Swegle , district
Mrs. Brant is Fbrse's sister.
New homes under construction
on North Hollywood avenue in
clude those of E. X. Polxell, E.
D. Lawrence and Chester Steph
ens. The Lawrences have lived
the past year in Vanport City
and expect to return to this com
munity aa soon as their residence
is completed. '
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Holcomb,
re-
cently of Four Corners, are oc
cupying the. Doeltgen house on
North Hollywood avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Chapman,
for 20 years In business in South
Pasadena, Calif, have moved
their auto repair business to this
community. A new concrete tile
garage and a garage house are
almost completed across the road
from the A. C. Steinke service
station. They are living tempor
arily at the home of his father,
Fred Chapman.
Mr: Rose, who has occupied the
old Bruhkal house for j severaU
years, has purchased acreage on
Fisher road and is constructing a
new modern home.
Mr. and Mrs. Avalt Miller and
two children, who have lived foi
several years in a -house belong-
ing to Mrs. Lena Bartruff, moved
this week to a place near Lincoln
in Polk county
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie" W. Candle
and family of Silverton vicinity
will . occupy the Bartruff house.
Luella and Claudia will be en
rolled in the grade school here.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery P. Schlapia r
and baby, daughter, temporarily
with the Candles, Mrs. Schlapia's
parents, will move soon to a farm
near Scio.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Satter,
accompanied by Mr.- and Mrs.
Gordon Fleming, made a. hunting
trip to the Prineville country. '
Success was with them when Sat
urday night Fleming, while the
rest set up camp, went out' and
picked up his deef , 'and Sunday
Satter got a four point 200 pound
mule deer. They irerned home
Wednesday night: '"'i i,v V" !
State Future Farmers
Convention Scheduled
PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct 28-6PV
-A state Future Farmers of Anw .
erica convention will- be held in
May with about 400 expected to -attend,
the group's state execu
tive committee announced yester
day. Earl R. Cooley, Salem, state vo
cational agriculture director, said
the national convention next year
in Kansas City, to which Oregon'
will send two carloads of boys,
will have 17,000 delegates.
, State FFA officers will conduct
officer training schools in the
Willamette valley next week. Sec
retary Leonard Perlich, Salem,
addressed a banquet at Gresham
tonight
Gale-Size Winds, Rain
Lashes Washington
SEATTLE, Oct"2 JP) One
community was isolated, a second
was washed by two feet of water
and a $17,000 Wingdam project
on the Nooksack river was' de
stroyed yesterday by floods which
climaxed .24 hours of steady rain
fall in northwestern Washington.
Gale winds which had lashed
Bellingham, center of the storm.
Were subsiding tonight aa the dis
turbance moved Inland across the.
Cascade mountains, but the rains
continued. . . '
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