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n OHEGON BTATE22.IAIL Scdera. Oregon, Sunday Monu December 2. ISIS
' "No Favor Sway Ut; No Ftar Shall AvhT
From First Statesman, March 2S. 1831,
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TOE 5TATES5IAN PUBLISHING COSIPANY
CHARLES A. 8PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
liembtr of th Anociated Preaa
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Nominating Assembly j-jj
The Capital Journal solemnly pontificate
against any party assemblies to make nomina
tions for! the vacant seat in congress in this dis
trict. With its democratic leanings, perhaps it
sees an opportunity through a multiplicity of
republican candidates a chance to elett a demo
crat. And the democrats-have1; already called a
nominating assembly of which;its congressional
committee would be a nucleus.
What we -favor for republicans is a represen
tative usmblv. with delegates apportioned on
the basis of each county's vote for James W.
Mott in the last election. That would be fully
representative of the district, f of such size and
distribution that no charge of .."packing" could
British Propose Advance
: British leaders are more advanced In their
thinking than our own at the moment. While
the Initiative for creating the United Nations
organization was with the United States, neither
. President Truman nor Secretary Byrnes has said
anything that would extend the authority of the
new organization. This seems quite urgent in
view of developments since the charter was
written. In Great Britain, however, Anthony
Eden, former foreign secretary, called boldly for
the review of tHe veto power of the big powers
in the (security council, calling it an anachron
ism. The next day Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin took a step farther when he urged estab
lishment of a d'rectly-elected world assembly
with legislative powers. The important thing' be made; and should enlist united support! of-;
to note is that both labor and conservative party! party members.' . ''.'! i f j
spokesmen agreed on vesting additional author-j Such an assembly will not restrict any one
it in . lTnitiJNtinna organization, from be in ? nominated by an assembly, but! it
' The veto power is quite indefensible. The would show them up a$ lstarter$ running
powerful nations must manifest a willingness1 on their own steam. .9-4. !-. .
to submit to a majority vote in the security
' council without retaining the right of individual
r veto. While Russia has been a staunch advocate
of this right," its retention gives' that same right
to China and France which really are quite imp
potent now as world powers.
1 Regrettably our public officials have spent a
, good deal of time "roughing" j Russia ffc their
peeches. Thus Senator Johnson of Coloradjo
in a speech in the senate last; week said .the
United States should use .its power,', including
lat of the atomic bomb, to enforce world peace;
. l 1 1 a. 11 T ! ......tJ.'J .Jj
ptn ittiit
wouldn't stand
her. It has not
King us around
tat we should tell Russia we
r being "pushed around" by
been noted that Russia is pus
anywhere. But our attitudes have served to
repel Russia, make her crawl into her shell and
grow more isolationist. In. reading speeches like
that of Johnson or of Senator Wheeler, Russia
may well inquire, "Who's shoving?" j
The United States should use its great powers
affirmatively. Boldness and vision are re
quired at the moment .to give vitality , to the
newly-born United Nations organization. In
stead of deserting the infant, as many publicists
seem prone to dolour leaders should nourish it
and encourage its : growth. President Truman
shows doubtful wisdom in just (dumping into
the lap of UNO the accumulated disagreements
of the big powers. That might very well smother
the Infant in its crib. Surely we can effect some
orderly settlement of the war iissues and: then
give the United Nations a healthy start. And
we should be ready to go as fa as Mr. Eden
recommends, immediately, and cancel the power
of veto.
Failure At Conference
The mountain of the labor-management con
ference in Vushington labored j and brought
forth not even a mouse. On every important
issue there was no agreement between the two
parties represented. The CIO plea for recom
mendation of immediate, substantial wage in
creases was killed, being opposed both by AFL
and the employer groups. Management's plea
for the principle of union responsibility met
with labor opposition. The parties could not even
agree on getting up fact-finding or other ma
chinery for settling or preventing disputes.
About all that emerged in the way of a resolu
tion was one calling for the strengthening and
expanding of the federal conciliation service.
The others were mere pious phrases.
John L. Lewis took the spotlight at the close
as he had at the beginning. He scored the labor
groups for being divided among themselves
John L., the great divider, himself! He pointed
to the unity prevailing among representatives of
employers and called on labor to put its house"
in order and unite on policies. This stance,! in
view of Lewis's previous course, will maka even
more bitter the strife between CIO and the
Green-Lewis combination of AFL and UMW. '
The 1943 conference failed, as did a previous
similar conference held in 1919 after the first
world war. Perhaps too much was attempted.
Chiefly the tensions are so great that neither
aide is willing to make any compromise, prefer
ring the traditional method of resort to strikes
and lockouts if direct negotiations fail. f:
The result is not merely negative, it is a minus
quantity. Industrial peace is set back in con-
sequence.
, One Iftue At Election
' Since the only proposition to receive an af
firmative vote in the special election last June
was the one on the purchase of the Bush Pasture
tract, that k the only one that should be re
submitted at the special election next Janu
ary 11. -All other propositions should be held
over until the Max election. J f -.
The parking meter question can go over until
then without serious difficulty. The question of
franchise to Salem Electric received a-negative
vote in the June election on top of a previous
negative some months before. i
- The one matter which the discovery of tech
nical invalidity affects is the Bush Pasture bur
chase. That invalidity was due to. the city's own
error. The people should be given the chance
to rectify that error without having the ballot
cluttered up by other questions.
Lumber Strike 'Ends
Monday the whine of the saws will be heard
in lumber milla over the state, and the smell
of fresh-cut lumber-will till the air.- The sound
and the smell will be most welcome. Workers
will be glad to . get back on ' a steady payroll
at comfortable wages; 1 mill - owners will be
pleased to be turning out lumber again; dealers
will rejoice at the prospect of renewal jot stocks;
builders will be really jubilant; over the promise ,
of getting materials..- . . if ;:' I
The unions did not get alt they asked for,
though they held out until they inched above
the CIO settlement. On a dollars arid cents ba
sis the CIO workers have fared better because
they lost no time, and within a short time they
probably can get concessions of another 2 He,
AFL gratified its pride by nicking the bosses
for the higher figure. But we may well leave
the rivals to appraise their own gains and losses.
The country can be happyi that the strike is
over and the mills will quickly all be running
again. . ' ' ' j l:
Interpreting
The Day's j News
By James D. White 'I
AMociated Presi Stff , Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. l.f(P-Through China'
flow two of the world's largest -and most riotous
rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow. 1
Both rise in the remote central Asian uplands
and flow 3000 miles across China's scarred and
troubled land before they, dump, 'their load of silt
wearily in the Yellow sea. j i'-
Their whims affect the" lives of tens of millons
of Chinese, often fatally, and jtheir whims are un-.
controlled. ( I 1 ' -
China has a plan to do something about the
Yangtze, but apparently hasn't A ; . i
cided what can be done about -Vf
the Yellow river, which has chang-f
ed its course dozens of times in
recorded history, flooding; vast
areas and setting the stage for
famine. " I f
Yaactse River Dam Planned
Wi tha Vanfft, A mpriran urA
Chinese engineers are working otil "7T
nlana fir b Ham tn ha Ihe firqt
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in a series which the Chinese al- J T !
SMriMad Kfaut FWIani SmJIaate
Tha Literary
Guldcpost
' By Howard' W. Blakeslee
A Job for An Expert
News
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Behind the News
; By PAUI MALLON
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole
or in part strictly prohibited.)
ATOMIC ENERGY IN WAR AND
PEACE, fey Gvssaer O. Hawley mat
Uaau w. LifMB (Re tali old;
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This book retells the facts and
principles given in the official
! SmjUh report of the war depart-
tment But the new book explains .
the facts with examples that are
I easier to understand than the
. official account
Hawley is chief technical edi
tor of the publisher; Leifson! is
head of the physics department
at the University of . Nevada.
The book also gives a word
and model picture of atomic en
ergy and atomic explosion which
most r e a ders can understand
without too much study.
The authors draw a very clear
picture of reasons why produc
ing atomic power that will b
either economical or more use
ful than steam, oil or hydroelec
tric power is beset with serious
difficulties. They . say it. is a
fairly safe guess that there will
not be j any atomic-power planes
or autos fpr an indefinite future.
CHALLENGE IaT CBANGSHA. by
Pl Hughes (MatmilUn; $2.50).
The third battle of Changsha,
Ij WASHINGTON, Dec. 1-World
War III ia in the making, testifies
Patrick Hurley, fresh from
China-l - " ! '"j. . v f
f j We are drifting toward war
With 1 Ijtussia with certainty and
speed, asserts;
democratic sen
ator Johnson of
Colorado. ; j 1
s Thee are not
e x t raordinary,
but rather com
mon j utterances
of general opin-
!;
1 Ifet in China!
the Issue . is
moving toward.' : paoi
stab I lization. j Through the
strained honey-bunk of political
arguments, events are penetrat
ing inevitably. The Chinese army
has our modern equipment and
training. .. j; .
I The communists had only the
arms , they were able to steal or
capture from the Japs. The
course t of nature, therefore, : re
quired the communists to fight
MaOee
and nr'retire tn th norths
as 1941 ended and 1842 started, $ hiljis. They are doing both. ,
is the subject of this novel, writ- Transportation Provided
1
1 J. O. Wbita
i ten by a diligent author and re
1. warding for the diligent reader.
If it's a little too talky at the
j beginning, that's In part because
of the method, which pays off in
1 the closing chaptersv Hughes of
I fers a considerable variety j of
I characters, A m e rican, Chinese
and Japanese. He seems f most
I successful in transcribing i inci
dent; the story of Sgt. Tanaka
j and, the girl Lan is a blood-
i curdling masterpiece. .
LEAVES OF GRASS, y Watt Whlt
I man. prrfarc ky Bernard Smith
(K9Pf ; $2). i
A pocket-sized edition of 550
! pages; this is "an exact tran
scription" of the 10th edition
j supervised by Whitman and pub
lished in 1892, but omitting
j First and Second Annexes.
1 With only a brief preface and
uncluttered with notes, this is a
j pure "rendezvous with my
j poems," which have been called
I the greatest; written by ! any
American. ; - WGR
Light Intensity, climate and soil
produce marked variations in the
GRIN AND BEAR IT
ready refer to aa the Yangtze val
ley administration
The long-range goal is to build
a system of flood-control land power dams around
Ichang where the Yangtze roar down out of the
Szechuan shelf through its famous gorges, just be
fore it spreads out through the flat land of the
Hankow area. Special locks and canals would 'en
able steamers as big as liberty ships to go all the
way up to Chungking, nearly 1500 miles from the
coast. The project would; produce the biggest con
centration of hydroelectric power in the world,
irrigate 60,000,000 acres of landand regulate water
flow to reduce floods through the 1000-lower valley
that leads Ia the m. . : i ' ! ' ' I
This project has been outlined by John L. Savage nutritive value of fruits and vege
of the U. S. bureau of reclamation, who drew plans- tables. . ! j )
for Grand Coulee, Boulder and Shasta dams in this
country.' ' 1 " it ' . j.
Praleet Will Coal UOa.OM.MI ii! . . i
Latest reports from Chungking say that the first
big dam to be started has been scaled down because
of cost and the length of time it would take to
build it. From a $1,300,006,000 dam taking ten years
to build the plans have been slashed to a $300,000,
090 dam which can be finished in six years. Within
a radius of 300 miles live more people than! the
entire population of thef United; States. I j
The Yangtze Is also a great trade artery, which
the Yellow river is not But the Yellow is even
more of a flood problem, i After it wanders through
the inner Mongolian plateau and cuts down through
the Shansi-Shensi massif, it hat to find its Way
across a flat plain some 500 miles to the sea. I I -
Slowed down, it dumps its silt and thus builds
up its own bed, whereupon it breaks out through
man-made dykes and finds a new course periodic
calfy. I . - S; - '
Keferestraiiea Belt Necessary f ' - ' I
The Chinese recognize the direj need of reforestra- ;
tion of the uplands where this river gouge out
its silt They know that If they cbuld'cover the bare
brown hills of northwest China With trees and grass -the
Yellow river would Catch less silt and would
be less subject to spring flooding. ' ' j
' They have considered various ideas about how to
harness this violent river just ' before it reaches
the plain, to lessen floods and to irrigate the great
fertile flatlands which it now devastates from time
to time.;- -' ' & .' . V-j
. Right now they are faced with a more immediate
problem. This is whether" to keep, the Yellow river ;
In its present channel, which partially flows into :
the Yangtze through the Grand canal, or restore
h The (United States army has '
provided transportation to the,
Chinese to extend their reoccu
pation 'jof their (country. This is
natural as the ; established gov
ernment of South China (Chiang
Kai-shek and the Kuomintang)
was our ally and member of the
big five of the! United Nations,
i No j government anywhere
recognizes the mmunists gov
ernment of ' the; northern prov
inces.! They got no lend lease.
Russia j could hot furnish the
communists arms except by
treacherous violation of the
UNO agreements. Stalin thus has
let the latest China affair work
toward its natural destiny, and
So have we.- :;' !
fi The bulk of China thus seems
likely to be stabilized soon, but
its communist problem may not
be sol vied. The communists back
in their mountain lair will never
be - a .threat to an equipped
China, j unless they get Russian
erms, and Russia cannot furnish
these tinder its world treaties.
But a j solution; of their status
Will remain, j
jSolattoa Something Else :x
I ,:This jexample.of the progress
One chemist says we. should drop bur atomic
.bombs in the river. Wfldlifers will object to that,
fearing the radio-active bombs will kill the fish.
There even is protest against using bombs1! as
. , . . . . . ine xangue urougn me urana canat, or restore
depth charges in tests against warships for fear u to l9St,Jnlnej farther north. The river
they wouia aesiroy.me iuxi m me ui,
the Pacific is 70 million square miles in size,
as " Admiral Nimitz explained at the beginning
of the war, so even an A-bomb wouldn't inter
fere must with the ocean's fish life. ,
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of affairs is typical of the con
dition elsewhere in the world.
In! Europe, the political conflicts
raised by communism are mar
ching event by event toward
stabilization though not solution.
The Austrian election settled
the question there, excluding
the communists. The French
elections finally caused the
communists to congeal with .
their worst enemies the social
ists, or threaten to do so. To
date, communism seems work
ing toward a j lower level of .
power in France.) Elsewhere,
the world is settling down one
wy or another, sometimes fit
fully, toward a new status quo.
My private diplomatic infor
mation suggests that as soon as
it j does settle down, renewed
Russian cooperation is in pros
pect -.. j : .
Polities. Net War '
The enigmatic policy of the
soViets has been authoritatively
pictured to me as a diplomatic
game to hold the . UNO world
peace agreements in ; abeyance
until Stalin could find out how
much he coued get, otherwise;
how much territory and power
he could accumulate around the ;
world, before entering upon the
San Francisco deal to maintain
thereafter a permanent world
status quo. It is pressure poli
, tics he is playing, not a war
game, our best-informed people
think. j
If they are wrong in their
current waiting game (which
seems working well enough so
far), it must be said respect '
for Russian warpower is not
high anywhere, on this conti
nent Russia did not have much-;
- power in this past , war except
endless manpower. Her weapons
were not .superior. She has no
air force today, comparable to
, Britain, much less to ours. She
bis no fleet She cannot threa
ten the world by either sea or
air. i .
; War Unthinkable
Her vast land armies could
over-run Europe and Asia only
if and after the United States
, demobilizes. Until i we destroy
our armed superiority-, disman
tle our planes and ships, war is
. uTathinkable for the Russians.
jXager as our soldiers are to
get home, I often wonder if our
demobilization policy, is justifi
(Continued lTom page l)
Prudential Insurance -company'
sold its New Bligh building. In
Portland several office buildings
owned by insurance companies
have' been sold.
A transfer of title makes no
more floor space for tenants,
however. Sometimes , it ia ac
companied by a raise in rents;
but that' provides no additional ;
space for occupancy. What then -will
people do who must have ;
room? The ready answer may
be, as it is (or meeting the hous
ing shortage: Build more office
buildings. But any seasoned in
vestor is chary about that The
memory" of the Empire State
building and of other, ambitious
towers. Is too vivid.
There is this additional., bar
rier: The- high . cost of construc
tion i-and of building operation.
An) office building is a long
time1 investment To build at
current high prices would re
quire rentals much higher than
those prevailing, to meet taxes,
operating costs and give a mod
est return on capital.
In Portland, for example, the
state used to pay around 80c or
$1.0Q per square foot per year
for rentals. That is going up to
$1.20 now. In a new building
the! charge would have to be
from $1.50 to $2.00 : a square
foot to make it pay out Invest
ors will hesitate to take on the
risk j of maintaining occupancy
, at such high rentals over the
necessary period. 1 "
The answer may be consider
able! decentralization. I notice
that I in Portland a one-story
clinic building will be: erected
out! in what has been a resi
dential district to provide offices
for 20 doctors. The ground cost
is much lower than downtown,
the one-story type of construc
tion is economical and the ope
rating cost is low no elevator
expense.' '"'
There Will be solutions found,
without doubt Necessity is still
fertile as a mother of invention.
But no one is going to wave a
wand and conjure up attractive
office space for dentists and
doctors fresh out of the army
and navy. It will take planning
and money. :
Prcctteal 4
Religion
' r Rev. John U Knight . Jr 1
Counselor ea Renglous Ufa, . . i
Wiuametta jnlferstty.
- Professor Palmer, of "Harvard
university, used to tell the story,
of a young boy who was lying
in bed j very late one morning.
His mother called and called
but still the lad did not appear,
on the ! scene downstairs. Final
ly his mother went to his room
i and said, "Aren't you ashamed,
of lying here so late?" to which,
, the boy answered, "Yes, motherj
I am i ashamed, but I would -'
rather be ashamed than get up."
Modern civilization seems to
1 be saytof this , same thin to
: Christ. I W a r e admittedly
ashamed of certain evils, injus-
tices, and inequalities which
i exist in our everyday world, but
we are too comfortable and eom-
placent to get up. Our Christian -1
conscience must become strong
L enough! to arouse us to action.
Safety Valve i
LETTERS FROM STATESMAN
READERS
INQUIRES ABOUT.
COMMITTEE V
left the old channel in 1938 when the Chinese blew
up the dykes to stop a Japanese; advance. " j
The Mold channel" wasn't very oll only about'
75 years. Before that "China's sorrow' had flowed
somewhere else .
. i j wicuu nuicr in
DV LlClllV ble by the condition of the- barons' and if I
, J world as H is. While mothen, tnut vu iil mnvrt m.
To the Editor: '
Your "It Seems to Me" edi
torial on the recent action of
the: federal house appropriations
committee in deleting. the ap
propriations for -"the 'Detroit and
Derena reservoirs m, the Wil
lamette valley comes at a time
when the Willamette valley is
aain largely under water.
Oregon as a whole and the
Willamette valley in particular
would be interested to learn if
Oregon is represented on this
committee, and if so, just how
did our members vote. . '
The power barons are carry
ing on a feud against the gov
ernment's power program and
your editorial is to be commend
ed in its fairness in presenting
to the property owners of the
Willamette valley the highlights
of this feud.
The U. S. engineers have de
veloped a very fine project
tending to eliminate the yearly
flooding of the valley, and these
projects should not be denied
Oregon just because the power
barons have an axe to grind.
If Oregon is represented on
tins1 committee, I feel certain
that its representatives vote for
Oregon rather than the power
am wrong
Election Will
Cost $18,000;
Notices Sent
i Plans j for the special election
to be held Friday, January 11, to
choose 'a successor to the late ; " 1
Rep. James W. Moft 1st Oregon!
district, j are under way by Secre
tary of State Robert S. Farrell.
! David; O'Hara, in charge of the
state elections bureau, said the
election would be tonfined to 10
counties, with the polls open be
tween R a.m. and 8 p.m. It was
belieyed, unlikely there will be
any special counting boards, thus .'
reducing the cost .which O'Hara
estimated at '$18,000.
i: Of this ', amount, - the state's
share will not exceed $2500AYot- "
ers pamphlets are not printed in
connection with special elections.
The law provides that . counties '
shall provide the ballots, pay
rentals for voting booths, and de .;
fray, the expense of the election
clerks and judges. Judges and .
clerks now t receive $4 a day. ,
Sheriffs, under the law, must I
distribute the ballot boxes and i
arrange) the voting booths. Clerks
and judges of the election will be
provided by, the county clerks. j"V
Sample ballots will be furnished '
on the Same basis as at primary
and general elections: j
Notices of the special . election
already have been- forwarded: to .
the county . clerks. .
Nominations for the special
election must be filed with the
state department not "later than
Monday, December 31. Such nom
inations; can be made either by
assembly: of . not less than 250
voters or by petitions 'carrying
approximately 3600 names.
Short Form for
-, - i- ' I N 1
Taxes Gets Set
For High Court
Efforts to advance arguments
in the ! appealed -, case of F. H.
Young, Oregon Business and Tax
Reseair against the SUte Tax
commission, involving validity of
the 194S legislative act providing
tor snort state income tax forms,
were being made here Saturday.
i The supreme court indicated
that it would hear the arguments
.raw weex, provided the briefs are
filed by? that time. 1 ;
Young contends that the biU
signed by Gov. Earl Snell was not
the one; approved by-the legisla
ture Circuit Judge George Dun
can, Marion county, recently held
the lawj Valid.
.Yours truly,
, ! . G. KingwelL
Editor's Note: . Oregon is not
represented on the house- ap
propriations committee. Friday
. the ! house voted to restore the
flood control : items rejected by
the committee.
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fathers, sons, husbands are pro
testing the slowness of their re
turn to peace, the obvious world
situation rather suggests the na
. tion may be moving faster than
prudence warrants.
In any event war with Rus-
sia -can come only through at
' tack by her. This nation lacks
the spirit of aggression. While -
some people may think, if they SliniTtlPr Sohool
do not say, that now is the time ulluuVr otuuul
to end the Russian threat to Til t PrPS t Kv I fl PPtt
world peace, this nation has no liVIUttU
- . (What we : want is peace with
By 105 Students
Russia, and we : aimnlv Ho tint f
know how to get it Appease- Besults of a questionnaire giv
nient failed. Byi it we brought en Willamette student last
Russia out of isolation up .to week revealed that 105 students,
harnessing in die UNO. but we predominately , sophomores a n d
have not been able to get her Tf" art Interested in." attend
to drink. She was then walking t", -ummer session next year,
away with everything loose in The majority ot these students
the world. , ' want a 10-week session which
Impasse Arrives . would earn, them 10 semester
i Now. our insistence uoon rea- hours i credit. -
son and diplomatic defense of The object of the questionnaire
the Atlantic Charter freedoms was to determine when and what
has brought a diplomatic im- nna OI summer session should be
passe beneath which events are planned, if any, and what courses
turning more our way. We did would fee offered.
.not fall lor the communist pro
paganda In China, urging and
" trying to frighten us away from
' our duty to the established gov
. ernment our ally. ,
; Add all these factors up and
situation, a- difficult problem.
wnicn, u properly and insistent
ly I managed in a truly American
manner should not lead to war
i.uufc a negouatea genuine un
:eeatUiia like this weald happen Jt swtUiA.jd 'erstandMigT of a hewworld
i ; aa an only ehildT . ; , sions. You get only a strained sUUifc 'rT L
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