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page roua . The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon. Sunday Morning, October 23, 1943 "To Favor Swayu Us; No Fear Shall Am From first Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY T CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher !' i Member of the Associated Press of an The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for Dublieatlmi news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. ' fatiort of Hypocrites ! 1 A California horseracing promoter is dicker g in Portland for a site for a track! and the regon racing commission has indicated infor ; tally that it will give him .a license. So Port md has in sight a local .Santa Anita or Bay leadows or Long acres. i Racing horses is not the: real interest of the , romoters; it is funning the pari mutuel setup. That the people wager on dogs or horses -takes no difference. In 1944 the aggregate of ets placed at tracks was $l,126,000,00Ond the tal will be larger this year in spite of the osing of tracks the first four months of the j LIFE magazine, has a 'good . editorial in its ist issue on "The Race Horse He May Take ur M6ney away from Us j But He Need Not takers Hypocrltes.'Mt sayi in part: To begin with, it is obvious that horseracing : Is not' a sport at all. either In the .calisthenie or the spectatorial sense. "The turf" was well defined seven years ago by Paul Gallico as a collection f "eager, greedy people, all swept together by the rommort fever engendered by trying to obtain something for nothing. It is true that their pulses sometime pound In time to the hoofbeats; if that is "sport" so is jumping - up and down on one leg in a doctor's office. It (Is true that a certain amount of fresh air can be absorbed at a horse nark.; but the increasing numbers who attend the races by teleohone . or at a bookie's drop do not absorb it. All true "spectator sports" allow the spectator some .. mental or emotional participation. He knows the rules, forsees a long pass or a double play, Identifies his own sagging I wits and muscles with tome nimbler hero's. Put who identifies himself with a running horse? Or even with, a locked? Probably only other jockeys. For the , va.t majority of track fans it is not one's self that rfuns or rides:, it is one's $2 . . . Theire is a matter of public morals involved here riot unlike that in prohibition. Government -lotteries are a well-recognized form of taxation,, common throughout the, Latin-American world. . In thefU. ?S. they have generally been considered bad policy. Yet 19 state governments, in the hypocritical American way, are now. accepting the easy tax money in public lotteries without " admitting that their standards of fiscal morality :i have jchanged at all. They must pretend that horseS attract a special, healthy kind of gahv . bling.'that the public is really more Interested Jn thesport than in the dough . ... - As for the "turf it will: remain a colorful front for gambling, an alfresco numbers game. The dullest eye enjoys Hialeah's flamingos or the, sartorial gamut at Saratoga.. But when we spectators, or the people who4axus, ask the purpose of this handsome gathering, let us stop : telling each other lies. It is far better to be a. j nation of confessed gamblers than of phoney horse lovers. The pretense is like trying to add our guilt to the lead in the poor brute's saddle. I If "Portland Downs" gets to running the dog- ies will have some competition, but the prob fbility is that the horses will attract t new jallery of suckers who pretend they are wateri ng horses run but really have their eyes on he "Win-Place-Show' board. ought to.be holding hearingi on the great ques tions arising out of this discovery: Shall the scientific knowledge be given to the world? Shall private research be) permitted looking to practical utilization of this energy? Should nations be invited to prohibit military use of the atomic bomb? These arp the real questions, . and they are for the congress and president to -decide; not for some unknown commission to Settle. President Truman'sJf reference f Saturday to the atomic bomb as a "sacred trust" held by the -United States is vague That trust must be translated into concrete policy. . ! Mutual Respect ji j j Norway at least knows now to play host, ex press appreciation, and say goodbye graciously. Of all, the countries the "f anks have occupied, Norway has adopted the (friendliest tone,' and Its official account of the departure of the last "4700 Americans earlier this month commented that the temporary occupation troops "came, saw and conquered." J f-i- "On Wednesday, October 17, Oslo bid sad farewell to the last contingent,' the govern ment information agency said, and several Americans were presented with Norwegian- dec orations "in recognition of their outstanding service in the liberation of Norway." The feeling of admiration and refpect must have been reciprocated, alt' least in part 70 of the departing troops left brides and many others said goodbye to fiancees. The colonel in Com mand said marriages anjd engagements were "unusually high." I ' " . ' 7 j s Norway hasn't asked anuch of the j United MVeaHMeaeaeMeaeiHMMMewewBeWMMeMMenMBWBaMBwMaM frfnmhra Th Thinker-1945 Tho Literary Novo Behind the News GuiddDOst Bj ff. G. ROGERS ; I 1 BLACK MgTROPOIJS: A STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE IN A NORTHERN CITY, by ft. CUlr Drake and Hor ace R. Carton (Harcourt, Brace; $5. BronzevQle, Chicago's teeming Black Bel is defined and de scribed lsf greatest detail by these authors. Second largest j ; By PAUL MALLON 1 (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction la whole I 1 or in part strictly prohibited.) ! Ctitu Msvlu that's tuhvitho i n Mil si nn ton. lMnr wegian Relief in the United War-Chest list of ftf" Negroes in this .beneficiaries was a majors reason the chest was too well accepted. . 8ue of Atomic Power There was staged in the senate in recent days n important battle. It (was over the question of Aether the Johpson-May bill creating a com mission to control the atomic bomb should be Referred to the senate committee on military f fairs or to a special committee. Now that nay seem like a mere natter of procedure: but he issue went to the very heart of fhe atomic omb question. I " ; ') Over;, in the house the bill was referred to he house military affairs committee where it as marked "rush" and hustled along with nly one day. devoted to public hearing. War lepartraent spokesmen endors'ed the bill. Few f the scientists who worked on the atom bomb vere privileged to testify.!; This rush act by he house committee on a measure of such great mportance undoubtedly helped senators to dopt the resolution referring the senate bill to i soecial committee, of which Senator McMahon f Connecticut ha been named chairman. ; The Johnson-May bill would give to a nine nan commission absolute control over the use md development of atomic power. It , would e free. to withhold information from congress nd other government departments and could nuzzle the speech of all employes. To give to kn independent commission unrestrained power ver a scientific development which may revo- utionize the world makes possible an autocracy ;uch as this country has never dreamed of. Instead of avoiding the issues involved in the fiscovery of control of fission of the atom by Vrappinjf the problem in a package to be hand-, d over to a commission not responsible to the jeople or to congress, the; senate and house Interpreting The Day's Mews By James ij. White -)l Associated Press IStatf Writer i'rM : SAN' FRANCISCO, Oct. ll.-MJPy-A map of world misery for this winteir probably, would ighow China as its biggest and blackest center of suf fering. , ...... ij The Chinese, who comprise a '" ,fifth of the - human; raceJ have been fightingie war forj eight years. Their economy and stan dard of living already were low when war hit them. Brightest spot on the m a p would be the western hemisphere, which war has touched littib with its blights of hunger,1 exposure and disease. B rightest in this hemisphere is the U. S. A.,fwhich approaches the end ol meav ra- j. d wihita tioning without complaint. We still eat better than ayone. ' . ' j In Europe, libera ted coiintries are getting some first-aid from allied armies! and from thei United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration. UNRRA needs more money, chiefly from!: the United States, which carries, the biggest share of its support, determined on- a pro-rata basis iaCCord lng to national income. ! I 5l This country has agreed to give UNRRA $1, 350,000,000, and so far has! provided $800000,000. Congress is now debating about appropriating the balance. ; I ' . ' ) j Z3e.eoa.aae Chinese Need Qelp ' WW ' UNRRA officials estimate that about 150,000, 000 Europeans are on "the! borderline of i starva tion," and some time ago guessed that there would be 230,000,000 Chinese whjl would need relief of some kind. 1 The Chinese have their ;ibwn national relief and rehabilitation administration. Its chief, Drr T. T. Tsiang, holds the rank of cabmet minister Dr. Tsiang estimates that Chiiia will have toi spend about $3,500,000,000 on this work, which) China plans to finance herself except for $945,000,000 which is being requested of UNRRA country, itt is represented as ty pical of otier big centers of Ne i ffrn liff ni th north According to tradition a Ne gro was the first settler in tht area. The jcity was both a sta tion and a terminal on the pre Civil Wa Underground Rail Way. Tw world wars have helped tol boost Br&nzeville's population! above 300,000, until every 10th Chicagoan is a Ne- Tht Negroes enjoy consider able political freedom, though they may J not aspire to some top qffice. Within their com munity, insofar as it is separate from the Ivhite city surround ing it . '. I and that is not very far'i they are free to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness In the best white tra dition. I Beyond that, Negro opportun ities are very harshly restricted, these writers reveal. Theoretical freedoms do not coincide with actual freedoms, and what the law allows; isn't always what the Negro If gets. In a depression they are last to be hired, first to be fired; a job -ceiling bars them ' from most positions above the rank of semi-skilled worker'. Unlike White-skinned, foreign peoples, wjio can quickly move from' the poorest areas to better residential ! districts and become assimilated! as uhquesti oned Americans! Negroes art re stricted toi high-rent, slum sec tions bordered With a color line seemingly as effective as a prison wan within which dis ease, vice and crime flourish. Intermarriages are rare, and emphatically disapproved by Negroes, to whom social equal ity does not mean sexual equal ity. "1 Richard i Wright supplies a provocative introduction. 1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 Want to hop upon my typewriter today for - a ride through the, wondrous labyrinths of economic fiction of the administration's price-wage dilemma? It is a scientific trip, but as on the roller I coaster, the scenery is considerably faked and most of the trip is; in darkness. There is no . extra charge, as you bought the pa per. I ; On your left you see OP A Adminlstra tor Bowles telling congress he must have au thority to keep paat - MaJlaa , down the prices of new houses and real estate to prevent goug ing. He also! says his OPA will have to be; continued beyond next July 1, so great is the pres sure, for pride increases and in flation. Just beyond there in the dark corner , art Mr. Truman's econ omic advisers, telling him tht - opposite, namely wages can be increased materially without in creasing prides. You cannot see them, you may only hear what is leaked out; to tht press about what they sap "Answer Weald Be Ready I can imagine if Bowles heard them tht would assert, he had already squeezed the differen tials of profits to tht limit through OPA, by freezing prices .while other branches of tht ad ministration were permitting un precedented (wage increases by devices such as portal-to-portal, regarding, anjd what-not. on demands for a 30 percent wage increase. Black Statue Animated That .animated black statue there in the darkness. on the ex treme left is CIO's Sidney Hill man, and the blackrobed figures behind him . are the hired union economists thinking up reasons for 30 percent wage increases. VaUu 4 it,u u u:ii iiuutc, jua nidi, uuw nuiuiaii ' V turned around for a moment He R6 1 171 Oft (Continued from page 1) was false. Ley, who served as minister tf labor, in the nazi government, who organized the "strength - through - joy" move ment to enlist German youth in the cause of Hitler, not only for sakes the nazi doctrine of anti Semitism but inscribes a moving appeal to the German people to return to decency in their rela tions with Jews, r Alas for the repentant Ley, the , virus , of the; infection he denounces has spread farther than his voice of confession and admonition can Scarry. You can not unleash hatreds and fears over the world and then call them back at wilL 1 v The evil of racism and of. re ligious bigotry is not merly in the injustice visited on the group that is hated, but also in its poisoning the minds of those who succumb to 'it Jesus was a victim of religious prejudice. I have thought that his mean ing in one of his utterances from the cross might be clearer if two words were added, so it would read: "Father, forgive them for they know not What they do TO THEMSELVES." Hatreds have a toxic effect on those who. nurture them. Such persons become suspicious and embittered, unhappy them selves and a nuisance to their friends. A sane mind cannot af ford such a luxury as anti Semitism. For proof, look at the warped German mind which, Dr. Ley now tries to 'straighten , out There is a golden rule for the emotions as well .as for action: Regard others by the same rules by which you want to be es teemed. ' Practical probably was just being notified -one 'strike has been called off, and issued orders to start an other orte somewhere, to keep things going. Those young meri in the bright light yonder are tha newspaper men. Their agitation is due to their confusion as to how to Te port the anonymously leaked news from the Truman econom ists. The one in the phone booth has decided the news means a j 24 per cent wage increase is justified without an increase in prices, but those older, more ex perienced fellows in the back ground, are: pointing out the hedging done by the advisers and realizing the recommenda. tions do not mean anything at alt. Clearer Thinking Needed The economists i had figured that if you deduct taxes from business profits now, the differ- by Rev. John L. Knight. Jr. Counselor on Religious Life, Willamette jnlversity. There is a vast difference be tween a settlement and a com munity.! A settlement consists of a group .of people living within a given geographical area, who are thrown together primarily because of their physical prox imity. A communityj on the oth er hand, consists of a group of people living together in a given "area who are botud together by deep interest in and concern for the common welfare. Perhaps ' our failure to recognize this es sential distinction has been one of the weaknesses of our demo cratic life. In each '. our settle ments we need a del -.ite sense of community. We need it in the world also. Earl Copley uccumbs to Heart Attack Earl R. Cooley, state supervisor of agricultural education with' the division of vocational education since 1030. died unexpectedly Fri day night at his home here from a heart attack. v .! Son of H. W. Cooley and ijthe late Daisy Adeil Bowman Cooley, he was born Oct , 18" at Suring, Wis., and with his family moved to the Waldo hills district. Oregon, when he was approxi mately six years old. His first aehoolina- was at the Witzel school. He received his bachelor of science degree in agriculture from Oregon State college in 1923. There he affiliated with Aipna Gamma Rho fraternity. In 1925 he married Mabel E. Marcus, Sa lem, who survives. Cooley was vocational agricul ture instructor at MCAruiur, Calif, from 1923 to 1925. In the latter year he went to a similar position at. Myrtle Point, ure. where he remained unui mso, ai- , though he was an instructor in agricultural engineering at Ore gon State college in addition io his public school work; j War Veteran A veteran of the first World war, he was a member of Capital post No. 9, American Legion; a reserve officer from 1923 to 1925; a member of the First Presbyter Ian church, i the Oregon State Teachers association and ' the American Vocational association, and was the state adviser for the Oregon chapter of Future Farm ers of America. Survivors Listed Survivors, in addition to the widow, are a son. Earl Cooley, jr., and a daughter, Betty Adell Cooley, both of Salem; his fath er, H. W., Cooley, Albany; sisters, Mrs. Harry Howe of Lebanon and Mrs. George Berry of Albany; four brothers. Warren R. Cooley, Dr. Monroe R. Cooley and Marvel L. Cooley, all of Albany, and Lee W. Cooley, Cottage Grove. Funeral services are to be held from the Clough-Barrick chapel at 2 pjn. Monday. ' 2? Stopped With the advent of modern sci ence could go to wage increases. ence we havejsecome one great Interesting ride? You have mean The Chinese say tms wores oux ai aoou wo bUnd , whee, acta like gn UNRRA dollars for every. Chinese , whereas eye and blea the blind to feel urttvKA is spenamg siu lor every iiui the difference between grass or uian max ior every rote nu v-cciwiuvov. Fditorial Comment fjOMETHTNG ADDED I After reading agai? the lines on living standards ? hich we reprinted . yesterday from the Oregon f Statesman,, the thought comes to us that there s something missing. We refer specifically trf the I stanza from Omar, which ww quoted as follows: i A Book of s Verses underneath the Bough, H A Jutf of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me in the Wilderness Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! Yes. we're sure ftf it Omar, according to FiU- 'e41d.! whose. translation is given here, used the !ine, "Beside me singing in we nuoenwM, completing the grouping "wine, women and song jwme centuries before a German verse maker put the idea into many words. -Bend Bulletin. Editor's Note: Thanks to the ever-alert Bulletin far catching our omission in copying the quotation. A few ' quatrains beyond the one quoted Omar vain alluda to the trinitr of allurements: Ah, frnake the most of what we yet may ipaw, Before we too into the Dust ,descend; Dst'Vmto Dust, and under Dust, to lie. Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and sans End! el1 Aural It Ar' rth si" fnirfanAa One of the chief def ifciencies - in Europe is , , , food. The situation is not quite the same in! China, ' f as indicated by the fact that the Chinese expect to KUN AJND I BLAR IT .rmA mi .hntit tia ooo 000 of their UNRRA ere- f 1 ' dit for food imports. 1 Serious Famine Threatens. i i Americans report fron China, howtveri that a serious famine threatens! the Chinese northwest next spring due to a drought which has killed win ter, wheat. ;,; ' i Three out of every f our Chinese families live on farms, so the country normally produces! almost enough to feed itself, j I ! 1 " One big trouble is that there is no adequate way to distribute the food aised. Meanwhile, the little Chinese industry that; existed before tfoe war is largely destroyed or paralyzed, so that there isn't enough, fuel and factory potential to keep the peo ple warm this winter. Millions wear the j ragged remnants of "the clothes thejr had when war began. The country's few railways cannotj resume normal operations until thf communist question is under control, because the Reds hold big sections of them. " i" ;-' . ! '-J ' ' Allot Much fer Clothiag - I The Chinese are alloting as much money for clothing as they are for food, and more than thatf much to restore communications, including river transport. They are spending half as much on medicines,-and more than, Jhalf as. much to get mines operating again. : If 1 There are estimated to be 25,000,000 Chinese who fled to West China to Escape the Japanese and who now want to return to jthe coastal arear. Mov ing them back is a huge problem. j ; Several important cities, including Kweilin, Liuchow, Changsha, Hengyang, Laohokow s and Hankow, are mostly - - in some cases entirely - -destroyed. ; Inflation has blown prices up to mora- than a thousand times their pre-war level. i , , These are the things that make China's spot on the World's misery map so big and black this Winter. seen nothing: yet, and I that literally On the right is Reconversion Director Snyder telling congress exactly that. He says the admini stration has no program for put ting a price jceiiing on housing, and would pot accept such a course unless assured that such restrictions would not interfere with the anticipated building boom. j " ' , Beyond him in the background you see strikes in the lumber in dustry, the most important of all building materials, based up- J By Lichty ifyra. cTfe They do not stop to think that war production was entirely dif ferent from peacetime in volume, cost, etc. . You know production costs and prices primarily depend on volume (remember how mass production cheapened articles), and peacetime costs will involve many other factors, including salesmanship, advertising, etc. In war, the factories had only one customer, the government, and he fixed the price as well as the profits., ; Don't Get Toe Diss? But do not gaze at that too long or you will get dizzy and thus develop the necessary qualifications to be an econom ist, yourself. The fellow in the straightjacket there at the right is the former reconversion offic ial let go by Mr.j Truman, for figuring out there Would be a 50 per cent wage increase without a price increase. Notice the effect on your ear drums i going through this tun nel, as when you ride a subway under the river. We must be near the" White House. It is pres sure generated by jthe CIO-PAC to keep Mr. Truman earlocked until he decides the union way. Now we come to that heavy figure there the shadow with his back turned is John L. Lewis. He is not sad. He always keeps hUback turned. He has just called off the coal strike. Strikes Tee Expensive They say he was not critically interested in the pause of the strike which was ' to force the coal companies .to let foremen Join Lewis, and the strikers were losing so much in money, and possibly his union In dues- and expenditures, that the expense may not have Justified what he would get in dues, from the fore men. ' . j ' . So he called it Off. announcing he did so "in the public interest, thereby becoming the first labor leader I can . recall who ever claimed he . was stopping a strike fer the public. This should "put him In the imperishable hall of lame. Lewis is always first in everything. But here we are! again out In the clean : fresh air, light and .sunshine. Not a bad trip, was it? You must come along with me again -sometime. I live In this damn tool place. Never a dull . moment " i human ! settlement on the face of the earth. It is now our task to convert that settlement into a world community; that is, into a composite of people interested in the common welfare in the good of all mankind. A feeling of world community, a sensitive ness: to the. needs of all peoples, an interest in the common wel fare of all mankind are basic to human happiness. Yeah It weald be sdee If we could get t ad while The Girl Scouts was founded by Mrs. Juliette Low in-, 1812 in Stroke Claims Salem Teacher Mrs, Evelyn McK inlay, teacher in the Salem schools for 15 years, died at a Salem hospital late Fri day. Her 'death followed a stroke, suffered j earlier in the evening, shortly after she had returned from her classes at Parrish. school. Mrs. McKinlay was born in Sum ner, Iowa in 1890 and came to Oregon some time ago. Her hus band, Joseph Frances McKinlay, whom she married 28 years ago, died in 1941. Her activities included member ships in the Presbyterian church and in the Spanish American war veterans ' auxiliary. Surviving are a daughter, Evan geline McKinlay of Salem; two sons, Lt Philip F. McKinlay of Hamilton Field. Calif., Sgt. George A. McKinlay in France and two brothers, Philip Fortner of Baker, Ore, and 'Harmon Fortner of Chi cago. , Funeral services will be an nounced (later from the Clough Barrick mortuary. Man In Suicide Try City police returned Earl.W. Wells to the Oregon state hos pital Saturday after the man at tempted to commit suicide in the alley.; back of the' Marion" hotel earlier in the afternoon. j Wells, who had made a preous attempt at suicide in the 1700 block on Center street a few weeks ago, had come down town, accompanied by one of the hos pital attendants, to do some shop ping. In the crowdr, he eluded the attendant and after a few hours search by police, was found with both wrists slashed. He was regarded by police as being de spondent, not mentally deranged. Small Cities Seek To Purchase Surpluses Some plan whereby small cities of the state may be in a better position to purchase surplus war commodities was discussed here Friday by Herman Kehrli,. Eu gene, executive secretary of the League of Oregon Cities, with Roy Mills, secretary of the state board ot control. Kehrli said that under present conditions it was difficult to ob tain, surplus war commodities, due to the priority setup. It was sug gested - that the-, small cities . list their-demands, send them to the surplus - war commodity depots, and then have the commodities placed, m warehouse pending Portland to Share in Kaiser, Enterprises PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 21-(P)-Portland will share in Henry Kaiser peacetime enterprises. Here for the launching of tht vessel built at 'his Swan Island yard. Kaiser said the yard is "in. the transition stage," and that ha could not make exact predictions. The! s is a chance the city will help in automobile production. Home building is already planned, the industrialist ; said. "The world is ours," he said, "to provide a better way of life. About one-seventh of Bolivia's population is engaged in mining. iJ0 Designed to di p I a j diamonds to their greatest advantage. Many styles with or without side stones. 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