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paq2 roua i i Tht OUTGO!! STATESMAN, Safoxa. Ortgon. Wednesday Morning, Nortobtr 7. 1945 'No Favor Siaoyt 13 1; No Fear Shall Aw"! From First Statesman. March 28, 1891 Ii i I THE STATESXIAN' PUBLISHING C03IPANY; I CHARLES A. SFRAOUE, Editor and Publisher - Member of the Associated Press l' j .1 The Associated Preea la exclusively entitled to the use, for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.. The Case of Italy Italy remains in a state of suspended anima tion. It is neither dead. nor alive. Recognized as a co-belligerent of tht allies it is an occupied country. Once an enemy, the allies withhold terms of a treaty of peace. The result is stale mate. - j ;' The reason .for the diplomatic paralysis is the failurfe of the foreign ministers to agree at London. They fell apart on a question of proce- f dura though the terms of new treaties with Italy were not in dispute. The conference ad journed in deadlock; which leaves Italy neither juried nor resuscitated. . f -Foreign Minister Alcide de Gasperi demands for Italy that the allies "cease living and breath ing an atmosphere of armistice and uncondi tionaT surrender and giva Italy a peace. It is a timely demand which should be heeded. Italy has suffered grievously for Mussolini's sins At best its prospects are poor. But Italy has a population of some 40,000,000 whose suffering should not be prolonged. At long last the terms of Italy's, surrender in 1943 have been' made public. They Avere severe; but the numerous rumors that floated about concerning them are shown to be false. In fact, no reason is apparent why the secrecy was maintained for years and for many months after V-E day. The allies ought to proceed promptly to get peace treaty for Italy drawn and signed. There is no need to compound Italy's punishment by postponing the conditions of settlement. Italy shorn ' of its grandiose ambitions can resume a place among the decent nations; and it is time now to assist its leaders in getting on with the huge task of Italian reconstruction. Costly Adventure Another chapter in the famous Biddle-battle with Montgomery Ward was written Monday When the supreme court, at the request of the department of justice, refused to consider the case of the Ward seizure and kicked it out of court. When the war ended the army surren dered the Ward stores the only record of sur render in this war since Bataan. The court then declared the issue of the seizure "moot" and refused to hear the case, j However, we haven't heard the last of it. The treasury is to be called on to pay the $800,000 in wage increases to Ward employes which the army allowed. Quite a costly adven . ture this attempt to beat down Sewell Avery's resistance proved to be. Sam Garland who died at Lebanon Saturday was an example of a man whose-fame far out ran the limits of the city in which he spert most of his life. A man of imposing presence, his powers of mind equaled his fine physique and he was recognized widely through Oregon as a lawyer and as a leader in affairs. A demo crat from the old south, he cherished deeply the principles of Jeffersonian democracy. His name is one to "hold in high respect in the history of 'Oregon. John L. Lewis begin throwing his weight around in the labor-management peace confer - ' ence. He won out over. opposition of Philip Murray of 'CIOUo get his United Mine workers represented on the executive committee of the conference. It really seems as hard to rget labor leaders to agree as to get employers and labor representatives together on a bargain. naiTonai tommgni UNCLE. TOM IN A CHANGING WORLD Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom has again become the center of i national controversy, after four-score quiet but flourishing years as one of the hardiest stalks of corn in the field of Ameri 1 can literature and drama. Only this time poor old . Tom "is on the other side of the controversy. We may be striking at a press agent's baited hook In mentioning the matter. But even If the current Uncle Tom's publicist. has encouraged the dissension, Its origin seems to have been spontan eous. It all began in Bridgeport. Conn., a few weeks ago, when a trade union council, a Negro organiza tion, a group of ministers and local members of the communist party objected to a forthcoming theat rical performance of this beloved chestnut. They said in effect that it held the Negro up to ridicule, recalled his former degradation, pictured him as Irresponsible and subservient, and tended to pro mote anti-Negro sentiment. Similar groups in New Haven asked that the show be banned there. By good luck or good press agentry, official bans in both cities were lifted in time for the scheduled openings. The free advance publicity doubtless created a happy echo at the box office, and that should have been the end. But now the revolt against Uncle Tom seems to have spread all over the eastern part of the country. The Civil Liberties IJnlon and the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People have stepped in to defend the play against the threat of "an epidemic of censorship." This Is all a little mystifying to those of us whose first book-reading and play-going fell somewhere , between the end of the Civil War and Henry Wal lace's discovery of the Common Man. and included an early acquaintance with Uncle Tom. We may nave been told then , that Mrs. Stowe's classic fanned the flame of abolition and stirred up North, era sentiment for war, but we never suspected that her fanatical liberalism of 1S52 would be called i reactionary 93 years later. We may hava realized j then that her most iamous wot was anu-oimon x Legree, but we never dreamed that it was anti- TJncIe "Tom. In this troubled world of today -there are other Jobs for tha well-meaning, liberals more Important than banning this museum piece of the liberal, slaverv-hatinc Mrs. Stowe as anti-Negro. With a little searching they can find several dozen flesh- . . - . W . . . L A. - . ......... Waiting fori Santa Claus ) The city council hiss decided tq wait for San ta Claus. The agents of. the civil aeronautics board hava been whispering that Santa Claus will be along soon with a bagful; of greenbacks to spend on airports. Ther Salem can hold out its tincup and get it filled with epough to build an administration building at thai airport. Hence the tender of United Airlines is turned down. The Statesman! holds noil brief j for UAL, but it has felt that W early solution pf the problem was important J to accelerate fuller use of the airport by commercial lines. The city lacks sufficient funds to do the work, and the propo sition submitted by j UAL (teemed one to begin bargaining on. It city waiting for share in federal gives usfreal pain to see the Santa Claus, jand eager to prodigality. W know of no m - m m ft reason why the federal g government snouia build Salem an administration building; and many reasons why such government spending should be curtailed. F . ... The protests against federal regimentation and extravagance anid deficits seem quite hypo critical when communities tine up to participate in federal bounties. Walkie-Talkies The walkie-talkie radio 1 ( SOLfjy TO PRSSERYEilhE PIACE OF 7HVJDRiD. i ' i R WE NOW mOWTHJSTOTUTOOtmSUREJ I i l 0330008 f (Continued from page 1) r . . U I i I I ij m i i i i n ii I l I J I I MUD ST rrsiil wMfc Tha W, sets 'jvere good for bit with word they the army, but we cringe a; are to be produced for general ssale. The cost of from $50 to $100 a set yill be ho deterrent; so we may expect many sales of this new device to tie a man with communication. Office to doctor of homej to automobile may be spanned by these walkie-talkie sets; also house to tractor or I camp fto fishing boat. In other words a I man even when he hunts Tho Literary Guldopoot and at Hassuna the foundations of buildings made of bfck hava been foupt, as well as the tools of husbandry. In addition - to artifact like the sicklie and fragments of ce ramics Which have been pieced sr together In earthenware pots and -jars and ewers, grave-oi me Hassuna 'man have been found. The skeletons show- very little V difference in sie and brain cavity from modern man. Well, there is something in this news of a civilization 8000 years old which snags one's reflective processes. For one thing, man is old; andi physical form and mental capacity he has changed little in 80T centuries. Another thing is that though men and their communities die and are covered with the dust of time their "civilization" shows remarkable power of survival. Between old Hassuna and the present, millions of sickles have been made and used and de stroyed, but the idea of the cut ting tool for the harvest has sur vived. The Hassuna sickle mere ly informs us of how early such a tool had been devised by man. In 80 centuries flood-and fam- m r i I ine and pestilence and wart have Newo Behind the Neivoi.ssi-s-st Guardians of the Peace "'By W. O. Refers around his ears and can't shake himself free ducks;! or takes a walk in a crowd. The lariat )f comnunicatlons will loop THE" BOSTONIANS. fcy Htary Jimm, withiaa Imtraedoa y Philip lUh (DU1; S3); THE SHOKT SToaiES or henbt james, , lct4 Jd wltk introduction hr CllfUa Fadinua (Raadon Hvatc; TheFadiman edition contains 17 stories, the first, "Four Meet ings," fidated 1877. the last, "The Jolly Corner," 1909, and those in between arranged chonologi cally. ?The Bostonians" was done in thel 1880s. In The Tone of Time" two women compete, not for a man, ! 1 By PAUL MALLON j (Distribution by King Feature Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole j ' or in part strictly prohibited.) ! pull him irL The telephone has done! much to bind the world with fires: butlMarcohi's wireless is doing i j . . a tighter job with impulses ton the ether. Maybe but far a portrait of him. In thor ia nrnrtieal value frtr these ma ena voce J "FourlMeetinss" a New England audiphones, but they helrf destfoy the great spinster wants desperately to i . i -!L-i i ' it i 'visit Tftimru hut 1m th Furnn silences, which i is w thinking is done. : nere and when the heavy The retail price of butterswent kip five or six cents a pound. This oes not mean more profit to the retailer, the cpeamey or he milk pro ducer. It simply i means the government has quit paying a five-cent subsidy !jto hold up produc tion. The department! of agriculturei very wise ly, is seeking to terminate 1 food Subsidies. It's a step in the right directio. Now that Manchukuo-can go back to being called Manchuria (evn thoijgh their boundaries aren't synonomous), ;if they'll just let us say Abyssinia instead of Ethopia we could take our 25-year-old eeokraphy out of the iattic. r J - : Big Steel and LittleSteel must have red faces, for miniature Oregon; Steel a teacup-size war baby plant in Portland, picked Joff the first postwar foreign xirders f?r stel4-$2,000,000 worth. The explanation seems to be that Oregon Steel had a salesman! who didn't wait for WLB or OPA or XYZ but went dut and febld steeL ! i i !s I liitcrprQi The Dayfs Npvo By James D. White ) Amociated Pr Staff Write: -SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6.-$P)-Thp White House yesterday indicated how seriously the situation in China is regarded in Washington. ; i It was the White House, not the navy department, which issued the denial of Chinese ; communist charges that American marines already had become involved directly in China's "c vil wa;r. Chinese communists (today toned down their ac cusations, but did notj retreajt from; their funda mental stand that merely by being in north China the marines represent; American, meddling in China's internal af fairs, i Hard on the heels of the White! House's denial, today came a dis-jf patch marine-occupied Cities China, which quoted ! ,4. , J..A . ' R Wbit visit Europe, but less the Europe in fact than the Europe of her imagination. In "The Beast in the Jungle" a man learns, but too late, that the most precious thing about life is that it requires to be ived. "Booksmith" is the servant who, rather than be him self, reflects the society in which he is fa menial. In "The Real Thingl an elderly couple fallen on hard times presume they can serve n artist better, as models for genUefolk, than professional model And in "The Bostoni ans" the cause of woman's eman cipation, a movement that isn't made Wholly absorbing, is be trayed by a girl who merely seems to fall in love with a man who is-merely said to be in love with hr. In other words James' problem was precisely the problem of the real thing. Even in the remark able "Birthplace" he deals with a subject far removed from the ordinary. He wrote, as it were, with mirrors, or with diction aries. Instead of producing fic tion, ha produced books which might be called an intelligent man's uide to personality. He was one step removed from life, too mUch the gentleman to be the grept novelist, though he was indubitably one of our greatest writers! As he was an expatriate from America, his characters are expatriates from this world. The jneasure of his novelistic failure nay be seen in a compari son of j; his Mrs. Tarrant's salon to the Verdurin salon in Proust, to whop he is often likened. If yu . want to get on the James bandwagon, you could pull yourself up easily by the help o these volumes, one for each hnd. You would be Join ing a distinguished company. WASHINGTON,' j Nov. 6 The Baruch letter to congressmen lifted the veil about a foot on the "whole inner picture. Without mentioning the labor management conference, the Att- lee visit, the New York and Detroit elections or any ojhej: matter spe c i f l c a 1 1 y,;this now unattached elder advisor of the nation pene trated these and all other current economic a r g u ments filling the ru mum papers wiui at least one fresh ray of light. His flashlight beamed on the problem of production as the root of all economic evil. Delay and curtailment of it by strikes and otherwise boosts inflation, he said (as it does, because slack production makes ! more critical the shortage of goods, which in turn causes higher prices, which must continue until production satisfies demand.) Should Make Us Wary The current brakes upon pro duction also should j make us wary of giving away what goods we have to foreign nations, es pecially those like England, Czechoslovakia, France and Rus sia (he mentioned these specific ally in his meagerly reported let ter) because by giving-away, we reduce what production we have available to fight inflation. He got off his own beam on two other points, it seems to me. He said tax reduction also threat ens inflation, without recogniz ing that a reduction in the vast Truman . spending ' budgets pro jected publicly for jthe next twenty months, is the '' first logi cal way io curtail the govern ment fiscal threat, j " h A spending reduction in an in flationary period like this is cer tainly more important than the meager tax reduction which continues war levies at nearly 90 per cent of war levels. Need Deficient aMterlals Also he lit once upon a rubbish argument when he worried about our farm and mineral resources Personally, however, rather than climb aboard, I shall be content to walk along beside lit. eye the GRIN AND BEAR IT from Tientsin, one of .the n nojjthj "unofficial sources" to the effect that fthe marines, having just about com pleted their work of j disarming Japanese troops, would be leaving soon and expected to get out! by sigh of relief on the part of the eahfrneck com-, manders, who have something like 7Q,000 troops strung out along the north China 'coastj in an area where a nervous patrol or sentry; could touch off in the darkness a very jserious incidenf. When the marines feave, central . government troops will be in possession of jthej ports, cities and railways which they helped secure. These further evidences of American aid to; Chungking, among others, will remain in cjhina: 1 j Services of the U.; S.jarmy fir forces in moving thousands of central government troopl into areas often claimed by the feds. 44 U. S. fleet service! inj ferrying ither Chungking : troops by sea jto advanced points, j vl Lend-lease equipment; sent to China during the war to fight the Japanese. I j ' Surplus American material in ;; China destined to be sold to Chungking, including Imore than i 15,000 trucks, jeeps jand cars. J j v:'.- - This is enough to ijndicate the concreteness with policy was for war against Japajn and the disarming of Japanese troops. General Wedemeyer expressed one American . interpretation when he admitted it inadvertently aided Chungking" in its: dispute with the reds. fruits of this By Lichty ' end blood characters., more, menacing to our way There is little doubt, that! the fr - Ul 1IIC utau utror w ' . . - - , " . -r- - 7 - .--.. ........ . , . . J , , ' . 1 jS along! with Interior Secretary ; Ickes, who is nearly always bad! company for. a seeker of "objec- j tive economic truth. j j With all these nations owing jus ; money, we should be able to stock f up on deficient minerals (if the administration would de vote itself to this); and most people are bragging about jthe ability of Agriculture Secretary Anderson to get the farm pro duction straightened out from its war mess next year. Mr.' Baruch's gleaming could have gone further and veil Could have gone higher. Fundamentally, honestly and ba sically, what are the tap-root causes of the condition we are in? There is but one. j The world is being pressured into political economics, domes tically and internationally. Here especially we are striving to do the right thing politically put not the right thing economically. Want Us to "Give Away" I In international .affairs, some crusaders want us to give things away for political reasons. Mr. Attleej is coming over to urge jus, according to his inspired press, to give away the atomic bomb. In my well advised opinion, Mr. Attlee is not much inter ested in the atomic bomb, but primarily in getting the money, delayed, from us anything upi to or over $5,000,000,000 to set his financial house in order so his socialist party can buy industries for his own purely political pur pose.'; ' I No Economic Case j He has never made out an economic case of government need of these industries (see past columns) for any other than his purposj, to prove socialism. He . has presented us with no pros pectus of reconstruction for Britain showing how she could use our money to make more business for us or her to expand production. He has not offered his people any sincerely conceived produc tion plan along these lines. In deed, he does not think along these lines, but on socialist poli tical lines. I What this poor sick world needs is to get away from poli tics and back upon the beam jof realism in economics. By throw ing away the atom bomb or money in bad loans for political purposes, we can destroy the world; ! j (a) By giving more people the atomic 1 means of destroying t, and fb) by whirling ourselves up through politics into an infla tion which will destroy us as j a major power, make us bankrupts like them, with complete ruina tion of our forces for good and for peace in tne world. I Every nation recognizes today we arej the remaining major in fluence for good which does ef ist m the world. We must main tain ourselves in order to be able to use that influence. lapsed. Conquerors have risen and died. But the human race has kept going and its discoveries and inventions have kept on ac cumulating. Maybe these reflections will comfort those who are now jit tery and see in the atomic bomb the possible destruction of civi lization and of the human race. Man is really a tough animal, measured by his capacity to sur (I will have more on this soon, with the domestic angle of . the subject; to complete the picture.) Herald. reds, who received nd lend-lease. gainst the-I think' sheM hJrev efflrteacy expert lftfw jmuOOnay efficient nae ef ear employees, way am i wey. struragr: W. McKinney New Presiclent of Salem Kiwanis i W. !W.t McKinney was elected presidentj of the Salem Kiwanis club at the annual meeting Tues day. He' will succeed Frederick Klaus, Other officers are Guy Hickok, first "vice president; PWi Schnell. j second vice president; Glenn McCormick, treasurer. ! I The four directors elected for the next year are Dr. Charles Tlurdenj iRoy. Riee.-iBerney j Vap Supreme Court Affirms Verdict Upholding Will , The state supreme court Tues day affirmed Circuit Judge R. Erank Peters, Tillamook county", i a suit attacking the will of the iate Margaret Walther, valued at approximately $12,000. 1 The suit was filed by Johanna Zenger and others, appellants, against Ulrich . Myss, executor of the estate. Judge Peters upheld the will. The court also upheld Judge Franklin C. Howell, Multnomah county, in the case of Eueidas K: Scott, appellant vs. Robert T. Piatt and others, a suit involving partnership funds. Supreme Court Hears Disbarment Proceeding A disbarment proceeding in volving Ronald L. Reillyj and Tom Kerrigan, Portland attorneys, Was heard by the state supreme court here Tuesday on complaint filed by the Oregon state bar. The com plaint and subsequent hearing resulted from attorneys fees and settlement of the Plimpton -Kelly estate in Portland. A decision in the proceeding was exnerted within a few weeks. Over Oregon (By tht Associated PrsV PORTLAND, Ore, Nov, -Charging that OPA practices in crease rather than decrease in flation, the Oregon Food Merch ants association today asked the bureau be abolished, because "in flationary pressures through arti ficially produced scarcity" are de clared endangering business and retarding production. I - ! KLAMATH FALLS. Nov. - An Inglewood, Calif., minister and his wife escaped death last night wnen their automobile left The Dalles-California highway north of here but was stopped from plunging 73 feet by a tree. The Rev. Herman S. Ray, a Baptist minister, suffered bruises and his wife severe back injuries and lacerations. ST. HELENS, Nov. 6 The wooden steamer Multnomah, launched here in 1914 and ac claimed the largest ship ever built in this area, will be sunk as a breakwater soon just 1200 yards from where she was built. . ' PORTLAND, Nov. Police Chief Harry M. Niles said today he would ask city council for ad dition ; of 50 men to the force. Nilea wants another 50 next year. . S VANCOUVER, Wash, Nov; 6 Workers at the Kaiser Shipyard here will go on a two-shift day next week. Graveyard shift work ers will be transferred to other ahifta. . - . PORTLAND, Nov. Lo- BeUi Lumber company, Longview Wash, will build a retail lumber yard here, PORTLAND, Nov. Plans for construction of a sawmill of 20,000 board feet capacity near Galea Creek was, announced to day by E. O. Lessard. - '. Peace Must Be Organized If It Is iro Be Enforced Peace is more than an absence Df war. It must be organized and enforced and the United States must do its share in the organiz ation and enforcement. This was the statement of Dr. R. Ivan Lov ell in a talk to the Salem Kiwanis dub Tuesday. "V-E or V-J days did not bring peace, nor did Pearl Harbor begin he war" the Willamette faculty nan said. "People are less opti mistic for the - future now than (hey were immediately after the jWorld war I, but that is because this war ended with the atomic bomb leaving problems to which ho one knows the answer." ' 12 New Members ire Initiated by Graphic Art Glub The Salem high school Graphic Art club initiation dinner was field Tuesday evening at the Spa with 12 new members accepted ijnto the club. Officers of the club ire: president, Peggy Hedges; vice-president. May Erickson; sec retary, Elsie Douglas; and treas urer, Coral Nelson. The adviser is Mrs. Ruth Sitlinger. The hew members: Doreen Han non, Ellen Wrigiesworth, Virginia powers, Velda Ammon, Jahola Keyea, Irene(McLeod, Donna Jane Macklin, Jean Lee, Roma Nelson, Dorothy Goldsby, Alice Stewart, Stta Jo Dodd. , Four Willamette Classes to Meet For Nominations Meetings will be held on the Willamette university campus this roon by the freshman, sophomore, j inior and senior classes to nom inate class officers for student elections Friday. , In addition to the nominations f r class posts, freshman must c loose a representative for the s udent council and one upper cass student will be selected for the office of student body secre 1 iry to filf the vacancy left when Ust spring's nominee did not re turn to Willamette. Nips Charged With Cremation of Fliers SHANGHAI, Nov. 4.-fDelavedl W-The army disclosed today that nme Japanese soldiers and a civil ian had been arrested and charged with cremating three American fljers after parading them through trie streets of Hankow last Dec. l(j and beating them into insen sibility. Maj. Willis A. West, Portland, Oi-e., who made the announcement sajld there was some doubt whether the Americans were dead when cremated. jThe atrocity "first was reoorted two weeks ago, but the victims' names never have been announced. Tkey were on a Superfortress that ircsnea near nanKow, central Chinese city. ! :tiines VIrg. Mrg. Roosevelt Speaks In Favor of Training HYDE PARK. N. Y, Nov. 6.-(yP) Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said to day she favored a year of uni versal training and added: "Boys arid girls should spend that year in, learning the meaning of democ racy." 'I would like to see -the camps established near great centers of learning," she said at a meeting of! Dutchess county school teach er. "It should not be a year tak eni out of their lives, but a year off opportunity iowclry From Stevens A wide and fascinating variety. Pina, Earrings, Brooches , . . Matched Pin nd Earring Seta, Rings, Bracelets, Pe aria and Necklaces. Ore Ae Aeeennt .IJt Cevrt Street t.Y - V .I- - . , I enfMWttiS.!