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page roua ftatesmatt er Takes Over1 TS m on lueei I 5 I ' ! ! S - f - i 1 -1 . Tht Associated Press news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited Call for Nominating Assembly There, is growing demand over the first dis trict for a party assembly at which nominations may be made for the congressional vacancy. The Oregonian and the Oregon Voter, both pub lshed in Portland but with statewide circula tion, call for party nominations. The Astorian Budget recommends a plan similar to that pro posed in The Statesman last Saturday: Under the circumstances it would seem to us that the obvious thing to do would be for each of the two major parties to call an assem bly with proportional representation from each , of ten counties involved and to ballot on the various candidates. True, the winner would still have to run as an independent but there would be nothing to prevent the two parties subse quently endorsing the candidate selected at the . assembly. r We are not too certain, that the candidate of such an assembly could not run with his party designation. The law does appear to forbid it. In any event the publicity attendant on such a representative' assembly and the probability that the nominee would be one whose party affiliation is well known would general support of his own party. Such an assembly- would discourage self starters. Knowing the weight of the party would be behind the one named at such a representa tive assembly the prospective candidate would hesitate to step out as a candidate. And it wouldn't be so easy then to get 250 persons to gather in an assembly. The party heads in the state should take the lead ih directing party practice pattern in selec tion of a candidate. Degree for Truman Baptists down in Texas are bothered about the indulgence of their most prominent fellow Baptist, President Truman who confesses to Baptist convention passed a resolution advising are held for investigation and possible trial Baptist colleges not to grant Truman an honor- as war criminals. It's a bit J difficult to see why ry degree until he reformed. Baylor university, a Baptist-supported institution, went ahead and did so, its president ignoring the convention's action. Baylor previously had granted a degree te a Texan even mbre famous than Truman for his poker and whiskey-drinking. Jack Gar ner. It was Baylor however that turned down a $25,000 gift from a St. Louis brewery concern. Fame, as is well known, is not" limited to the total abstainers; and if colleges are going to recognize men on the basis of their achieve ments . they can't very well ase the alcohol test or they will leave out many who merit kudos. And besides the "children 4 of evil" are often smarter making money than the "children f light." A Mockery, oi Humanity The revealing diary of Julius Streicher, be sides condemning the man himself as an un principled opportunist to whom murder and Immorality meant nothing, provides - graphic proof of the rotten core of nazism. It portrays Hitler as a man afraid either to 'irdemn or condone the" Infidelity of his henchmen and their wives; Goering as the 'kind of a military i leader who blackballed the promotion of pilots because he"Was at odds with their families; other wouldbe fuehrers as. slying, conniving, beastial, brutal, godless. The diary is no prosecutor's compilation of guess-work data.. It is a self-portrayal, and 1 therefore self-condemnatory, of a man who but for a trick of fate 23 years ago might well have been in the German seat of power. Thei account should figure heavily in the war-chim-inal trials, not as specific evidence but as the pattern of thought surrounding the men whose lives will be at stake. It is a mockery of hu - manity. . , - i - A flank attack on Pacific Power & Light Is indicated through tht formation of a power "cooperative, Interstate Electric with of fices at Pasco. Heading it is Claude Baker 'of Walla Walla who manages the Pacific Coopera tive, wholesale, in that city. Lacking the power of eminent domain the only way this co-op could acquire PP&L would be through pur chase. To do that it would have to pay a big price. This naturally raises the question whether it is proposed to capitalize the tax savings now allowed to cooperatives. If so it certainly would be a grave abuse of the exemption granted co operatives on income taxes. Yet that apparently was the deal in Nebraska where American Power it Light got a huge price for Nebraska Power common stock. OPA rules that prices of new automobiles can be only a little higher than in January. 1942. Then that means your trade-in car will get down fast to the same level. Editorial Comment QUICK 8EXV1CE One innovation promised the post-war world by the Pullman ear builders is to be a cafeteria that can feed three times as many people as the familiar dining car. Waiting for a table and dawdling over a meal will be eliminated. Patrons can be handled with the speed of a quick-lunch room. This may appeal ts' a Nation with a sense of hurry. Some persons wish to eat at once when appetite rings the bell. Most people hurry merely . ' from habit ..' The train will not. get to the destination any quicker. The magazines will be no more interesting. Card luck will be no better. The merry little chil dren whose parents let them romp In the aisles still will have sticky fingers. K : Taking time to think the thing through, we won der if the minutes saved by quick-fire. feeding in lh cafeteria will be worth the fun of eating leisure ly in the good old dining car. San Francisco Chron- i "Wo Faoor Sways Us; iVo Fear Shall Awe" I " "'.i '; '. From First Statesman, March 28. 1SS1 " : THE STATESMAN . PUBLISHING COMPANY f CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press . ' is exclusively entitled to the use for Sales Tax Cat j ! "Nice kitty," Was what Claude Buchanan of Corvallis said as he pushed the sales tax cat (with four or five of its nine lives left) out. ing hearings, which will provide an open xorum for tax tinkerers plucking the tax for more public At this stage the commission insure the very ' But knowing members we are sure they started backing oil when Claude introduced! his sales tax kitty. To them it smelled like one of those jplack-and-white striped animals that frequent the country lanes. i : : - . .. On Monday's market Ejecember. rye touched $1.92ttc a bushel at Chicago. Thisfwas 11C higher than wheat. Rye is V favorite Speculative vehicle. Its volume is far smaller than that of wheat or corn, so traders can make its price swing in a much, look like a safe General Douglas, MacArthur has ordered the arrest of ex-Premier Koiso and 6yegon-edu- cated Yosuke Tti Tovgf to,. eionoA a nart with tr axis oowers. Thev Matsuoka should are we? If so, lose a war ourselves. Interpreting The Day's News By James D. White Associated Press SUff Writer General Shigeuro im rrVioruf end he chose for palace and express his belief and. take full responsibility...:! f instead, in nis omce, no cora-j mitted harakiri with a sword. He was m a nurry, so ne siii wore his uniform (although ; fie has been retired since 1936) and did not dpn the traditional kimona. In a note left behind, he admit ted frankly: "I cannot endure as a soldier of our country tof appear before a court of allied powers." Given Barony for Conqaost The general, who was made a m barorfin 1935 for World war t, churia. In that Job Manchuria and personified. Df all in this newspaper. -publication in front of the state commission lor siuuy ui Oregon taxes on Monday. Claude is president of the Oregon Taxpayers' j; f deratiort. He is a. farmer himself, but not of jjtl.e Mort Tompkins anti sales tax school. 2 The Taxpayers' federation. is primarily op posed to property taxes. It wants to prevent further piling up of taxes on property;' and to permit reduction of projxsrty taxes) it would use a sales tax to supplement the" income tax, s already dedicated to "property tax reduction. The state commission is now set up in busi ness with a tax expert, Sj-J. Barrick; to guide its investigations. It is getting around to hold to presen their schemes lor goose and meeting the demand revenues of the game; the members of chiefly must sit and listen. the convictions of sbine of the wider afcj The rye pit doesn t place fori amateursi Matsuoka no as foreign minis- V be accused as a war criminal. He was a mouthy, bitten foe of the United States; but that hardly makes him si war crim inal. As far as the axis pact is concerned Japan never gave Germany and j Italy any particular aid, greatly to Hitler's disgust. We certainly aren't going to start trying late enemies be cause they were patriotic their own countries. we should make sure never to SAN FRANCISCO, NcM 20.-(,HWhat Baron Honjo did before he killed him- mnrA citrnifirart tKsn the mMV his long military career. He read in the morning papers that he was going to be arrested as a war criminal. As no one had come to arrest him, and as it already was nearly 24 hours after the order had gone out, he worked, fast.-- i I' . 1 First he told his son Jhat he would go- to the 1 I'll -v the conquest of -& .1 v ..J. - ,. f MAI 1 i . D. Woita Manchuria in 1931, made it clear that both as a Japanese and as a Japanese militarist he did not propose to submit to allied Justice for what he has done in other words he took his own life to show his conviction that everything he hat done was right. j . . 'f; It remains to be seen what Japanese will say about his suicide, but in the relatively few such military suicides since the surrender there has been no Japanese disapproval reported except in me case ui luiiiici riniucr mucu iuju. the criticism was merely j that he bungled the Job and did not follow traditional methods. It is. possible that some Japanese may say of Honjo: "Good riddance to the j man who did as . much as anyone to start World war II in Man churia." I ; But the high probability is that: most Japanese will be pleased that one more J high Japanese militarist -has avoided : making an accounting of his career and his motives which means Japan's before allied justice. That is just human nature. Trained Under Warlord f True, there was some murmur of doubt in Japan in 193. about what the Kwantung army was doing in Manchuria. General Honjo was' its commander in chief, after an army career which took him! throueh the allied occupation of Siberia after! and through two years as an advisor; to the old bandit-warlord, Chang Tso-lin, of Man4 I Honjo got jhls sights set squarely on' how to grab it. In 1931 his army! struck suddenly after some skull-duggery about anf incident, and took Manchuria easily. When a league of nations commission brandedj this aggression, the Kitantung army set up the puppet empire of Manchoukuoand dared .the world to do anything about I it. The world did nothingf Japanese investment and fortune-hunters poured! into Manchuria, developed it into An industrial empire, and the murmurs in Japan against Honj and the Kuantung army fell eff accordingly, if was all right It worked. Japan was getting awa j with it.; !.- -,; i j . . --I. ; ' ; I It may be true that the world is better off without men like Shigeuro Honjo, but it may gain littlf when he uses his own death to give a shot in the arm to the spirit of Japanese militarism which he tktrftte4 by Ktag Fattens SrUcU fcriamacoMat vita Tb Waaaiactoa Star hfc Literary Guidcpost By W.JG. Rorers Tfitl BACH READER: A UrE.Of IOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH IN BETTERS AND DOCUMENTS, ed ited by Hans T. David and Arthur IendeI (Norton; Si). I'The ornament of his family, thje pride of his country, and the dearest, most intimate fav orite of the musical art" ... so Bach was described by his first important biographer, Forkel, who wasjbornjin 1759, the year before Bach's death. jfNearly , a fcentury after his death, it wa complained that his grave wal no memorial to him in Leipzig, where he lived as' Thomas-Schule cantor from 123 on. 'It tdok the 19th cen tury to restore to Bach his rightful reputation, and the 20th puts no ; bounds to its admira tion; it would indeed go far be yond Forkel fin honoring him. This book proves it, as do the echoing concert halls. David and Mendel give us 400 pages of primary j source material, con temporary letters, contracts, ac ounts, title pages, photographs, lections j of musical scores. If iJach's renown were one whit less great, the editors would not jjiave undertaken this mammoth lask. nrforrried with exemolarv I""'-" "' l" - prmieu V. I Bach i was the culminating jbxiint in decades of experimenta tion in, his? country, France, Italy, England. 'He borrowed jwhat he needed, made the most )f it. With characteristic enthus iasm and a i romantic disregard f or facts, Wagner called him a mr imiracle I man a revolutionary. HOn the contrary, he simply grew out of already prepared soil, but grew marvelously. His extraordinary talents were recognized in his .own time. It was in Leipzig chiefly that he encountered difficulties. Inviting him there only as third or fourth choice, I his superiors in school and council .quarreled with him. Letters; pro jand con in the Ern- estl dispute are reproduced. Genius wasn't enough to spare him the petty annoyances such as lesser men have to put up with; but mere was enough of the stuff of lesser men in him to make him fight for the privil eges attached to the position to which his genius elevated him. GRIN AND BEAR '.s' T- "' v. V.-'.-. ,'.-' vw 'We're glad to have you back 7 : hadnt been for the war i "if:.. .,. Lj ' . . i ' ? f i ? t Jt v.tt III ;"?. I :J TaV 11 -II. i.-. b t .... e Another Major Engagement OtP I 0HMD0 (Continued from page 1) due ceremony and entered into in good faith by the young women. For the Americans how ever they were mere marriages of convenience. They do not ex pect to remain in Japan and do not expect to take their brides with them; which simply mens broken faith which sullies the reputation of all Americans. General Eisenhower favors granting permission for wives of service men to join them in the "European theatre, both .for enlisted men and for officers. This would be wholesome! in many respects but would 'not solve the problem for the Un married. And in many cases ?the wives would not be able to join their husbands because of I ill ness, care of children, etel It would moreover put' an added strain on the already bad hous ing and .food situation in Eu rope. " j The best thing to do would be to bring the army home. But that can't be done all at once. Presumably we will, have an army of occupation abroad:; for some considerable, time. The im mediate necessity is to establish better discipline and moraleThe place to begin is with the jbf fl eers. Their indecency sets a poor example for the soldiers. It is too much to expect Com plete continence among thous ands of young men, but breaches of morals can be greatly reduc ed by proper discipline. And .at least there can be some educa tion of the American soldier so that he doesn't assume that ev ery female walking i along the street of a foreign city is fair prey for his passions! i This is an old army problem, as the literature , of; wars and battles proves. We feel ashamed that our own officers have ac complished so little In handling this problem after the fighting ended, so that our j troops are acquiring a bad reputation in the cities they occupy. 1 IT By jLichty C rJC Chn Ttma. be r Snodgrsss. but 1 .disagree that If it you'd have my Job ewf--- '? Father Makes. HeroicEffortto Save Children LEWISTON, Mont., Nov. 20-(JP) Two small ranch children were burned to death early today and their parents critically injured in an heroic attempt to save them from their flaming home. Dead were Jacqueline, 6, and Geraldine Gore, 4. With his clothing nearly all burned off and his badly-seared flesh exposed to near-zero tem-i peratures, the father, Lloyd Gore, 31, struggled half a mile through deep snow for help after he had saved one of his children and was overcome in an attempt to rescue the others. i He had .carried one-year-old Michael Wayne Gore to safety and was attempting to reach his two daughters when he was over come by smoke and flames. Mrs. Gore, who is 26, went into the flaming house and dragged out her unconscious husband. She started back for the other child ren but by that time the flames were too intense. Turkey Exliibit Entries Due Soon McMINNVILLE, Nov. 20.-- Entries for the fifth annual Pa cific coast turkey exhibit here Dec. 3-8 are "expected to pass the 500 shown at the last show in 1941. The premium list doubled this year, includes $1000 m prize mon ey and 32 special awards. W. p. Bleitz will manage the show, open to the public Dec. 4 with the first day limited to receiving birds. Judge for live birds is H. B Griffin, Sonoma, Calif.;' dressed birds, F. E. Fox, Corvallis. West Linn Paper Plant Will Expand SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 2(Hjf) Crown Willamette Paper compa ny has furnished plans to con tractors for expansion of its West Lmn, Oregon, plant, lor menu facture of book paper. 1 PROFESSOR ZANE DIES EUGENE, Nov. 20.-JP)-Death of Nowland Brittin Zane, University of Oregon associate professor em eritus of space arts. Was reported here today. Zane, who retired from the university faculty in fall of 1944 because of ill health, died Sunday night at his Siltcoos Lake home. The widow, and two Chil dren Marjorie C. and Carlton M. survive. ASK SALE OF FISH ASTORIA, Nov. 20M;P)-Sale of halibut caught in drag fishing nets is sought by the Otter Trawl ers union, which has petitioned the international halibut commis sion. To aid conservation, : the commission requires all halibut to be line-caught, and those: ac cidentally trapped . during drag fishing cant be sold The dead fish are wasted, the union said. CXOSURE DATES GIVEN CORVALLIS, Nov. 20-AVThe state AAA today advised farmeri to note these closing dates for 1945 commodity loan programs: " Dec. 13 Late potato crop; , Dec, 21WheaV barley, flaxseed, rye and oats; Feb. 15 Austrian field peas, hay and pasture grass seeds. 1: PORTLAND, Nov. 20-i-The temperature here skidded to season's low of 29 today, recorded at Portland airport The downtown weather station had a minimum 'S.t j CHICAGO. .Nov. 20-iff)-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the army's hew acting chief of staff, told the American Legion tonight he fav ored unified control of the na tion's fighting forces and a uni versal military training program with a minimum of one year's instruction. j The five; star ! general's speech at the national commander's ban quet climaxed a day in which Eisenhower practically took over the 27th annual convention of the Legion. Earlier the supreme commander of allied forces in the European theater had received the Legion's distinguished service medal from National Commander Edward Scheiberling after a tumultous welcome in the convention hall that brought tears to the eyes of the recipient. Tonight the balding Eisenhow er delivered in an overflowing ballroom of the Palmer House the address 'which he had previously announced: would be "the most important of my career." In his prepared address Eisen hower, emphasized "the priceless battlefield! value of training," and asserted "this value has per sisted during all the wars of his tory." j And then, turning to the con troversial Issue of unification of the war and navy departments, Eisenhow.er declared : "Every con sideration ; of efficiency, economy and progress in research demands the closest possible unity among all our fighting forces, all the way from the top to the bottom," he said. "This great and necessary purpose, I believe can be best achieved by unified control at the top." ; Defense Starts Case m l rial Of Yamashita MANILA, Wednesday, Nov. 21- (JP)-Co. Harry Clarke, chief de fense counsel today assailed the motives of prosecution witnesses Joaquain Galang and Narciso Lu pas as he opened the defense of Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, on trial for his life accused of con doning wholesale atrocities by his Japanese troops. Clarke j produced letters which he said showed both had offered to assist American (prosecution) t uthorities if they were given con sideration of their own cases and safe conduct out of the Philip pines. Both , Galang and Lupas face trial in Philippine courts as col laborationists. Clarke' said he would show that Yamashita never gave his consent for, nor! ordered, atrocities and that communications were poor apd he could not reach certain areas readily. H said letter from Lupous asked the counter-intelligence corps for protection, money,, supplies and for passage to "New York or any other Latin American country" in exchange for testifying against Yamashita.' Yamashita showed great com posure and even smiled yesterday as the prosecution ended its case against him and the U. S. military commission trying him rejected a defense motion for acquittal. Plane Seats Will Go to Veterans WASHINGTON. Nov. 50 a Airlines started nlana v make available for returning sol- aiers aDOul 70 per cent of the seats on flights from the Pacific coast Traffic executives of the airlines met here to discuss what they described as operational problems. T rt INKER -. Lewi, It schweUeaftaeli. secretary ef la er. struck this tbenratf al ose la am apaearaaee kef ore a cam aaUtee of the boa ef rrpre r. jaeBUttvet. taWashtagtea. -- .. ... - S. . J ' V:,: ...... f ' - L.?ar,-;,!r-. us i SILVER CoL C M. Me-' Quarrie of Chicago, commander of the 132nd Infantry, examines one of the silver bars ancovered la Japan and taken te Karat-' suka naval depot Profs Divide Opinions on Draft Question WASHINGTON, Nov, 20 -UP) Educators' presented a divided front on tiniversal military train ing todajf at a house military committee hearing. ' Dr. Gedrge F. Zook of Wash ington, president of the American council on education, flatly op posed the proposal outlined by President! Truman to congress last month. Dr. George William McLelland of Philadelphia, president of the University of Pennsylvania, sup ported it bn the ground there was "no satisfactory alternative" in keeping the nation prepared. As an alternative to legislation which would require every able bodied youth to take one year of military training at or near. the age of li, Dr. Zook proposed: (1.) Elimination through inter national agreement of compulsory military services from the prac tices and policies of all nations." (2) Appointment by the presi dent of a national commission to study every aspect of defense be-. fore, congress acts on compulsory ; training. j . - (3) Establishment of definite quotas of minimum military needs to assure defense, with every ef fort made to meet these needs through Voluntary enlistments. (4) Tliat "we concentrate upon the fundamental and vital issue of world organization to preserve 4peace and security by strength ening the existing United Nations organization." Sunday School Groups -Attend Dallas Church PEDEE Kings Valley and Pedee Sunday schools were invit ed to tie Evangelical church at Dallas Sunday to hear the Rev. Sandburg, a returned missionary from China: i Mrs. Sarah Bush of Kings Val ley is j visiting her sister, 'Mrs. Simpson, at Simpson's camp. Archie Kerber and party of four from Gold Beach -were elk hunt ing at Heppner and got the limit of elk. I- PASTOR TO LEAVE - PORTLAND, Nov. 20-P)-Dr. John Leypoldt will leave his pastorate at Tr i n i t y Baptist church here and go' to Bethany Baptist; church, Milwaukee, Wis., officials said today. Gifts of Jewelry te Match Tear Dreams An unmlliut m1oi. m v 4VUW of Costume Jewelry from wmcn 10 cnoose. Convenient Layaway Plan ai no extra cost! , 339 Coori SL I aM 1 j I -fc V "wiaaa(esi!fj
