4 i I 1:1 FACE FOU2 Ik OZZGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oreaon Tuesday Morning. Nownbe 8, IMS li)rejaottlitaf estakti I -I- ' I "No Favor Sways U; fYo Fear Shall Awe" ' From Fint SUtesman, Much IS, 1M1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAQUZ, Editor! and Publiaher - Member of the Associated Press The A dated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Government Wage Increase Last week the, Truman administration en dorsed a proposal to increase the pay of federal employee by 20 per cent, except that compen sation of congressmen, federal judges and top officials in; Administrative departments be in creased 110,000 per ! year.-The increase would boost the wage bill by $415,570,000 per year. The "laborer is worthy of his hire" whether, he is a government clerk pr a congressman,! but the proposed increase, coming as it does after a 15 per cent increase for "white collar" fed eral employes, seems ill-timed. There is more p to the- advantages of the employe in federal offices than appears on the surface. There are such privileges , a tenure under civil service, vacation allowance " which may be cumulative, ; sick leave, and retirement pay on very reason able terms as to length of service and amount of annuitv. If the civil servant is underpaid In limes "of inflation, i he "is' overpaid at other . periods in the economic cycle. As a general rule, lew leave federal service, it is a constant magnet drawing men and women from other employment. The state, for instance, j is con- stantly losing, men to the - bureau of internal revenue or the interstate commerce commission or I other federal agencies. If the federal gov ernment increases salaries by another 20 per cent, states will be put at even greater disad vantage in Obtaining help. The correct policy would seem to be to see if,' with the return of peace, there may not be reversal very soon of the inflationary trend. A j wage hike by the government would be def initely inflationary and might in itself set off thp spiral for further ballooning of . the price wage structure. If economic forces are allowed to! operate, naturally government employes will sojm obtain an increase in real wages (buying power of money j wages) which may be as much as! 20 per cent. Why stimulate the factors which will throw the Economic structure further out of balance? . Pearl Harbor, her planes knocking the Japs off balance in the Marshall in February; 1942. While she missed having j part n the; decisive victory in the Coral sea by only a few hours, she contributed greatly to the! startling and history-making upset against great odds in the battle of Midway a month later! j Sinkings of the Lexington in ; Coral sea and the Yorktown at Midway, left the Enterprise, Saratoga and Hornet the only farriers in the Pacific for a brief time. Then cime the Wasp. The latter, as well! as th Horiiet, was sunk shortly afterwards. As new carrieri poured out of construction yards to Join the Pacific fleet the glare of publicity no i longer, was centered on any one or twoj ships. But jjthcr Enterpriser carried on, doing ner full share. Along with such cruisers as the Pensacola hnd Salt Lake City she rates as one of the workhorses of the Pacific war. f .!' f . I U :; ' The Enterprise has had an hohorabia "career, has suffered, heavily from: battle damage and has earned ihonorable Iretirement. But let her find berthat Mare island or Bremerton, on federal government annuity. Oregonians do not want her as substitute! for! the old Oregon. Simplification Welcomed Oregon was a step nearer having a simplified income tax form today and the ruling will find general approval. Circuit Judge Duncan held the forms valid and dismissed' the suit of F. H. Young of the business and research bureau. But an appeal to the state supreme, court still appears probable. j j . . The argument over the; simplified forms has been technical centering? on the-: contention that the law, as now reduced to the forms in question, was not the same as passed by the legislature. The state tax commission itself in stigated the original suit in supreme court in an effort to ascertain just where it stood. Simplification certainly is something to be desired. It there is nothing legally wrong with the current) effort in that direction, taxpayers will get a deserved break. . "Big E" Not Wanted City Commissioner Peterson of Portland has proposed that the carrier .Enterprise be berthed in Portland harbor in place. of the hulk of the battleship Oregon. The Oregonian protests, however, and will accept no substitute. That in all likelihood reflects the attitude of most ' Oregonians. They are still sore because the old battleship was taken away for scrap. Moreover, the Enterprise has no identification With Ore gon; and that fact is barrier enough for pro-vincially-minded Oregonians. j . Secretary Forrestal has stated that the "Big E" is to be preserved, along with the Consti tution, the Olympia and other relics of past naval glories. This recognition is deserved. The Enterprise is one of the top hero-ships of World War II. The great carrier figured mightily in the desperate defensive actions early in hos tilities. She was in the first, naval strike after Editorial Comment TTIOSE AUSTRALIAN BRIDES Not often does the U. S. A. receive such a tongue lasninc irom loreien visitors as irom a croup oi Australian brides who after coming here decided they could'nt stand us and beat it right back to mother, bidding romance and everything else on this side of the Pacific goodbye. The comments are that everything here was dreadful." We were all in a constant rush, our people .were self centered and . selfish and even the children smoked and drank. Unmentioned- but. probably more important than all the other factors combined was martial incompatability. Perhaps the Aussie girl didn't look quite as alluring after Mr. Yank got back where he could see our own. Bt that as it may, we shouldn't smugly brush off the complaints. They have some basis. This country v Is in something' of! a turmoil. Those of us who've been here all our' lives have noted that, and we don't enjoy It either. Especially would foreigner notice this if dumped down, as these girls doubt less were, in a place like San Francisco. Doubtless a little could be found by a foreigner arriving . in Sydney, though a loyal Aussie might hot notice it there. He'd be giving thanks for MGod country." As to the other grievances, we have selfish peo ple of course, and so has Australia. But many who may seem selfish on casual acquaintance have hearts of gold down underneath. But the Australia girls didnt stay long enough; to find this out. So of course has Australia and every other land. We hadnt noticed smoking and drinking by children and doubt if there is much. Any would be too much, of course. But there again one notices things in a foreign country that would pass un noticed in his or her own. i Meanwhile a story from Australia says other Aussie brides are impatiently waiting for boats on which to come to America and other engaged girls are hoping their American sweethearts, now amroute here, will send for them. They evidently give the wails of their disillusioned sisters no more weight than they deserve. Baker Democrat-Herald- Higgins Gttture In New Orleans Andrew J. Higgins announced he would close down the Higgini industries be cause three of its plants! were ; closed ipn ac count of a strike. This should be takeh with three grains of salt. First, the Higgins war con tracts were ended; so it was vey easy- to ter minate activity in his plant; Second, hii postwar plans for employing 30,000 perfons may hava been largely promotion hopes rither than real blueprints. Thinf'after'a suitable period he will probably reopen what plants he Wants! to oper ate, f f. h .if :,.:fl . " Industrialists -do not throw away plants of real value or plans for development ijjust be cause of labor troubles! njie modern industrial ist is a lot tougher than that,! which ia, one reason he survives. h." J.-, I ., .' -7 ! ; n ' ' ''-' . - ' - ( 5TBIS BIAMBDTHING f I -- -wC4 :.--J?r.,. z--MV.- nm nrii-pi Stewing in Our Own Juice Tho Literary Guidcpoot ! By W. O. Rogers MID COVNTBYt .WRITTNOS FROM 1 THE HEART OF AMERICA, e4tt4 ky Lwry C. Wtahcrly (Unierlty f Nekruka, CreweU; S3M. Short pieces, sketches, stories or poems, bfy nearly 100 writers have been selected to f how what's cooking in 4he heart of the continent f The better known names - in clude Katharine Ann Porter, Caroline Gordon, Walter Van TU burg Clark James Stevens, Er skine Caldwell, Marl Sandoz, Ruth Suckow, Eudora Welty, Au gust Derletljj, Stanley Vestal, Al len Tate, Robert Frost. ' The source was regional maga- zines, which perhaps explains . how New England's Robert Frost happens to be claimed, presump tuously, - by the midwest; how Sandburg, $herwood Anderson, Haniel Xonk, John T. Frederick are omitted; how some of the authors, Suckow and Stevens, for instance, have not put their best foot forwari. POOL'S APPRENTICE, by Martia Monkacit (Readers Preu; S3). A boy named Imre is the hero stretched out, as in a Procru stean bed, to fit the 450 pages of this novel. , ; Imre and his playmates lived, back in 1900, in a little Hungar ian village among whose poverty .'stricken families the government farmed out harmless lunatics. Out of the mouths of babe and fool, in the traditional romantic manner comes the wisdom which Munkacsi wishes to impart. The boysplay a prank, gossips uncover it the madness of a race riot is idissipated by the dis- In that case, unless ourj troops withdraw, tney covery of oil in local fields, the would be aligned with Chungking Against the com-kpi)t c a wicked man to cheat a News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by King Feature Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited.) Interpreting; . The Day's News : Br James D. White '; Associated Press Staff Writer i SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5.-P)fPart of China's, "civil war" is occasioned by a Japanese hangover. Japanese militarists devoted considerable plan ning time before they surrendered Jto keeping Kuo xnintang and communist China apart, and their efforts were not entirely unsuccessful. .. It might almost be argued that if. they had plan ned it that way, China's post-war confusion could scarcely have woraea om more io their lSking. - Chinese communists actively are resisting the-return Of central gov ernment troops to what! ws Japanese-held territory. This threat ens to wipe out the beginning of a peaceful- settlement which Chungking and red ' leaders had agreed upon. ' I " j '.. i Because American troops " are supporting the return of Chung king troops, there is perhaps dan ger that the unuea staies may become more actively involved. Paal MaUoa J. D.; Whtta . poor widow is foiled, there s a murder, a hussy is smitten with leprosy, Imre gets rich on the songs of crickets . . .it takes a smart author to weave this va riety all into one book. To Munkacsi's credit it should be said thai when painting in his background he does the job sim ply and wel, and gives, the little town of Render a distinct native flavor. He's already at work on another njvel, : but I ' hope it doesn't take any time at all from the photogf aphy which brought him a greatly merited fame. munis ta in north China' and the dynamite here la that while the Chinese communist! at present have no demonstrated support from Soiet Russia, they act as though they though; they might be able to change that one of these days. Mavtng Nearer kWssla j "'- This column already has pointed out: how they seem to be moving northward toward inner Mon golia. If they could consolidate there, they would be adjacent to the i Soviet-dominated outer Mon ' golian people's republic. The : suspicion is voiced in Chungking that they may hope thus to offset the. treaties of friendship which Chungking signed recently with Moscow which gaye Chungking a free hand to settle her own; internal problems. Communist troops under two commanders, Lu Cheng tsao and Nieh Jung-chen are reportedly -j i fvjiri nri n rp menacing the important' coal town of Tatung and ijrlvlil VilJJ OCiiVlA 11 i the Suiyuan provincial Capital of Kweisut If these iorcva arc upciaiunj wiui use tuciigui wm muuuii with which , Chungking gives tbent credit, they are exceeding anything any) communist army has ever done before. They have existed for years, behind Japanese lines, in a wilderness pt barren moun tains and could make nothing fnore formidable than a hand-grenade, j f f . When Japan surrendered: last August, Chungking charged that in some cases. the reds exceeded their authority by disarming Japanese. There is thus some suspicion that the Japanese may have ar range to let some of their equipment fall into red hands. ': ' ' - . j- : - Playinjr Om Asalnst tb Other f This would be nothing new. For a decade the Japanese military played a doubll game in China " which is not generally understood. They -fought Chungking and red forces at times, but carefully managed not to dispose of either faction decisively. Why should they? Why fight Chinese when Chinese would save them the trouble? f The Japanese used "the j communist menace" as an excuse to invade north China in 1937, but never launched a single decisive campaign against the reds. If any proof of this were needed, one has only , to remember that j Chinese comnlunism : made ita greatest strides well 'behind Japanese lines. The Japanese army jnorthChfna headquarters at Peiping was the administrative center for this decisive Japanese policy In China. fThe personnel of this command is now In the custody of Chungking officials . who have assumed command;: in north China with American help. J It will be difficult to tell whether any post surrender Japanese material got tot. the reds, because about all they had anyway was what, they had ' , captured from the Japanese or Japaoese nuDnets. : but presumably an accounting will be ! demanded "What's the t"h? Ttm eeeJd've waited tm aaerw one of these daya.ii' .!- ..... '; : r.H ..-;...,:: . this waa a direree' eeartT i WASHINGTpN, Nov. 5 The General George report for uni fication of the army and navy has now been pried loose from the Joint chiefs of staffs who had hidden it froml President Truman and the public eye .since last April. j The prying ( Job was done by Senator Johnson of Colorado, acting chair man of the miji i t a r y affairs committee. lie went to the White House and demanded the right to se the : report In connection with the hearings tin his bill and the similar Hill bfll p r o p o sing to authorize the unification. ;He not only, got the report, but the White House furnished pho tostat copies f testimony taken by the George committee from 65 officers at ?the fighting fronts in the field, afid all this has been released to the press the past few days. The George report, you will recall, was first published in this column October J. The release of the. full document now confirms what was then presented to you. Thus the stalemate worked by Admiral , King of : the nsvfr to ' throttle the nove: for a single department. Has .been broken. SitaaUoa Stlli Hasy. - - - But the inner situation' la not entirely cleaf yet The only known opposition "now to this agreed method of modernizing the national defense is restricted to fhe chairman of the naval af : fairs committees in the senate and house. The others have come around in the past few weeks. But the old navy crowd is doing , its utmost to delay action and rather successfully. - The prospect now is that the Hill and Johnson bills will not be .acted upoe before the recese of congress Which means they cannot be passed before next spring. Overwhelming support will rally to Whatever final de- III ! . I I kng-aybe4j'd tcstefc tailed arrangement is agreed up on between Johnson-Hill and the war department authorities, but the delay of action will be costly. Will Require a Tear The plan will no doubt require a year to be brought i to full working efficiency. The changing of the status of bureaus all down the line will require at least that much time. j. Simultaneously also, a reor ganization of the top men in both services is in. prospect. Ad miral King will go as will Gen eral Marshall, and there is -a definite determination . tov move younger men to the top of the new1 single department in which the younger generals of the' afr force, for instance, will have equal standing as a third , de partment alongside . the army and the navy under, a single cab inet chief. Change to Be Delayed The departures of Marshall and King were slated for the first of the year, but an effort has been made to induce Mr. Tru man to keep Marshall on for a while to promote the youth draft plan which is his main current interest now, and to keep General Eisenhower in Europe because of, the difficulties which have arisen through Russian tac ticsL .there, delaying genuine agreement on the peace setup. V ..There is no valid reason for these delays, v. The new plan should be launched immediately and the changes, in personnel could best be made with the .launching 'of the program.- The delay in presentation of the re port since last April already has postponed for a year the inaugu ration of the new setup. King- Argument Lost -'Admiral King and the old line navy people have presented their testimony and .have .dearly lost the argument. Their -complaints have been rejected by the vast majority Tf congress. To put the matter off how - further and further, is to tamper dangerously with the defense of the nation. The new defense plans cannot be worked out until unification; is accomplished. As everyone can see it coming eventually, de cisions made now are necessarily mSV LilCllty only of a tentative nature In both t (Continued from page 1) 'review of the events of the war may be deduced from the fact that he sought to get from Ger - man sources their own analysis of the causes of their defeat The summary of the interviews with Iranking.members of the German command runs like this: i j The Germans had no overall strategic plan for prosecuting their conquests and absorbing them Into the reich. ; I From 1938 on there waein the : German command Ma constant i conflict of personalities hi which military judgment was increase ingly subordinated to Hitler's personal dictates." j The failure to invade England after the collapse of France in 1940.' - ' i The attack on Russia in 1941; Hitler's dependence on his own Intuition; the Stalingrad cam paign in 19421 . I The Germans were surprised at the invasion of Worth Africa land in spite of their superior numbers they failed tq throw back or contain the allied inva sion in 1944. Allied air power. When military critics review American participation In the world war what mistakes will they find? They will find many. : General Marshall admits that the margin between defeat and vio tory was very narrow at times. A serious blunder might have been, if not fatal, extremely costly. During the war the swivel I chair strategists had plenty of Criticism, but we haven't heard much from them of late. There jwere mistakes, chief of which : was Pearl Harbor, of course. The 'defense of Alaska was attended : with blunders: first letting the ! Japs get a toehold in the Aleu i tians and then the frantic effort made to defend Alaska --the ; costly and absurd Alcan high way and the Canol oil project History will examine the Ital : Ian campaign carefully and crit : ically and may find its results ; did not justify the diversion of men and material for continu- ing the attack above Rome. The failure of supply to sus- tain the army's sweep into Ger- . j many in the fall of 1944 van : hardly be accounted a blunder. 'SOS performed miracles as it "l was. ; There must have, been failure I of. intelligence or of tVc, t J c al I command t the . time of the, Ar- depnes,, counter-attack, last ,be ; cember. That it consumed, need- ed German reserves as General Marshall asserts does not ex- cuse allied failure at that point At home we have seen many evidences of war department : mistakes and ' extravagance. Fa cilities were constructed at hea ; vy cost and then used but a few ! months, like Camp Abbet Some camp locations wece so poor as to; make a scandaL Procurement : was something of a panic, and 1 we shall probably find, as we did after the last war, ware ' houses full of supplies far be j yond any possible army needs. After the game is played it is j possible to go over the play and see the mistakes that were made. : The Monday morning quarter- backs do that regularly. This ; ought to be done for the war de partment. Surely, we won the ! war; but if we had it to do over j again surely we could improve ; on our record. But then, we I might make, .other and worse ; blunders. .' : services. If Mr. Truman eonsld- ers the state of the world such that he cannot demobilize speed f ily and completely; it then must H.be similarly urgent to get the t unification plan into action as 4 the efficiency - of the armed ! forces Telie Just as much upon i that as upoh the number of men ! retained. Restaurant to Be Constructed Issued a building permit Mon day was Mrs. Lottie Smith, opera tor of -the Lions Den at 1610 N.. Cottage st., who stated she intend ed to build a one story restaurant building at 1590 Fairground rdn at a cost of $8700. " Mrs. Smith said Monday that present arrangemenls with the Hollywood Lions club would cease after the first of the year. The club, 'which owns the Cottage st building, has been : holding its weekly luncheons there- . Other building permits issued from the city engineer's, office Monday went to Earl Riggs. to re pair a dwelling at 995 N. Winter st, f 1000; Max Gehlar, to' repair. a paint hop at 250 Court st., $300; J. C Knight to alter a dwelling at 1340 Hines st, $100Q; K. H. Hol comb, to erect a dwelling at 1780 North 18th st; $2000; and to Tall man Bros, to erect a garage at 275 Division st, $5500. tlearings On Casey ; 4 Set for November U - Preliminary hearing for C. H. Dunn,' who waa arrested Moaday on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, has been set for November 8, deputies from the office of county Sheriff Den ver Young said later in the day. ' ) Dunn, who makes his home at the North Salem 'hotH, was al leged to have passed two fictitious checks on two Safeway stores in Salem. He had been employed for some time at a sand and gravel company and was arrested as he drove a truck for that company. V-Bond Drive Leader II If ";l Mai App ces ointments With! the Victory Loan on in full swing, -Douglas Yeater, chairman nf th Marion county war finance committee, has announced appoint ment of the complete list of chair man wnrklnf in various oivuions and on special eventa during the drive. The list foUows: i Is ii n- IViuclaa Yeater. with ftancis Smith and Dr. X. X. Bor ing as co-chairmen. . Ipeakera bureau? Wendell Webb, chrmah: Glenn X. McCbcmlck. co- . cbeirmeB. . , chairman.: - Special represenxauve; atuut nim er. . . . Special aoucuatien: ueort iucn. Industrial and payroU amines chair man: Dent a. Koeo. . . Retail j chairman ana cm urn an iot Jatie Brd. co-chairman, Fred Star- rati, ce-cnairaiw,. . . . - - - - Woraen a diriKn: Sirs. Beaaia Kay aer, chaarman. Civilian oeiense: hiss nazci iaryr. chairman. - . . Cradle; rou and nonor rou: atra.- ner Kline, chairman. . . . Asricultural chairman: Frank Doer- ner. " i ' ' . sute cmDloTM division: , itoy mius. chairman. 1 . . ' .' ," Special events: Jonn a air a auinun A M-4imi MnmlttM! Ted BltlWB. Ernest Crockatt. and Mary . Whit. Publicity: Mrs. Marian Lowry riach er. -chairman. - - - . - nulla , multeity: 'Glenn . K. McCor mkrk. chairman. . . Cttficet manager, auanor.- aecrerary treasurer of th committee: Lawrence . risher. County war stamps chairman : rran cia Leaerer. ' County schools: Mrs. Carmalite Wad dle, chairman. - ' .i1'.,. Salem! city schools: ' Mm Mathilda Gillea, chairman. Citv Mialovea: Lawrence Brown. chairman. . County employ ea: Denver Young. chairman. . ' Official photocraphers: Jeaten-Mil-ler. McEwan studio. Chairmen tat towns and communitiea of the county are named as follows: . Turner: Mrs. Menry weianaar. cnatr man; Mrs. Louis Hennies, co-chairman. St. Paul: S. J. Smith. Gervais: George Wadsworth. Brooks: Ronald Jones. . Stay ton: C. B. Anderson. Mill Ctty: D. B. HU1. - Sidnev-Talbot: Mrs. Nellie Wieder- ker. ! Wood bum: Miles Austin. Aurora: Fred Dental. Mt. Angel: James Fournier. Silverfon: James Clough. The chairman for Jefferson wlQ be announced soon. Loyar Warner Succeeded by Billings Man Lbyai- Warner, manager of the Salem f J. - C. Penney store sine -1942 afkT active in civic; affairs, : was succeeded as local 'manager of the merchandise firm today by . Mai Bj Rudd. district manaeer tor .: the organization a) Billings, Mont, Ihr the last fntir war 'r. '' ' i Warher," who started ; with the Penney store here 4h' 1927, said . he was: leaving the organization "with jregret and appreciation." : He leftj Salem some years ago and successively was manager of -the -firnfs (Laramie, Wyo store', disj unct manager at Denver,- Colo., and opened the district office at,r Salt Lake City before . returning here-34 1942 no make Salem my ' permanent home.' . . I mi Stay In Salem U It was indicated his current change was, prompted by his de sire remain here rather than accept! an advancement to a lar- ger territory. Warner now is pres-.. ident bf the chamber of com merce; and the community chesty ' a member of ' the board of the) YMCA and the Knife and Fork . club, a member of the Kiwanis, ? Elks, Masons and Shrine club and ' the rrst Methodist church. He will retain his home at 960 E st. Rudd 'started with the Penpey company at LaGrande in 182S. He was manager at Seaside for a year and aj half, at Miltori-Freewater for five years, at Albany for thra Lyears 1938-40), and district man ager at Portland for a year and a half. He declared Monday he con- ,. sidered himself an Oregonian, by ' virtue lof long residence,, and fapi precis td the privilege of making: Salem! my. home. ' r. Active; at Biniigs ;...,r.'.'. I" V Rudd,- a native of Mitcheil, SD, . was active uj the commercial club, Masons, Shrine and th" . ' wican Lutheran church at BiU : lings. He and Mrs. Rude. Wve two aqns. Bernard, 16, of Kemper Miutary.academy, Mo, and Don ald 14, who will enter Salem Jun ior high. The family pl.ns to move here as soon as housing, facilities can be obtained, either in. apart ment pr residence. Waiher said h had no plans to mak Mown as yet, and that he would ;Just rest" for the hxt two or .three months.- . Greenland la Denmark. a posaessioa of STEVEIIS Ladies .and Men's Black i Onyaf with Diamond. . . . ; Classically Beautiful Distinctively Designed. J k ' . 1 Badge! rayasents fhone tilt Court St. t. eri aaar ' ' ' aeaast.il i nBaniasar( tl aaanMw! ... O.ii.li '- -v-