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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
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the conquest of
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. 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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