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The) OZEGOIt STATESMAN. Sclem. Oregon, Friday Morning, December 21. 1945
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From rtrwt Statesman. March It, 1131
THE STATES5IAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. 8PRAGU1 Editor and Publisher j 1
I ' Member of the Associated Pre i! ,1
The Aseactated Press to exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of oil
new dispatches credited to it or not other wis credited in this newspaper.
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tact-finders Stalletl
'The fact-finding panel seem to have stalled
on the fint hill. Remember the oil strike of
several months ago which President Truman
ended by ordering the navy to take over the
oijl company operations? A fact-finding panel
has been working on that dispute for some
time, but now it is held up waiting for instruc
tions from the White House as to whether it
should consider the question of prices with re
lation to wages. And the General Motors panel
is' hung up on the same obstacle, pondering
whether it should look into General Motors
prices and profits in its effort to find the facts.
Tpe UAW insists on opening up the company
tyoks, while CMC says that profits and prices
are not at issue,' lying in the province of OPA.
The motor company says it will withdraw if
the board takes up this subject and the UAW
may withdraw if it doesn't. '
Since the fact-finders are purely extra-legal
boards at present, they can go no farther than
the parties are willing to let them go in their
probing. It will take legislation, which the
president has asked for. to give such panels
real authority ;and both labor and industry
dinivian birth. It is heartening to know that
Bergi, Affleck and Mengucd, who claim Salem
as their home, may come home to a Salem
where there is opportunity for them to serve,
and be respected whether their ancestors land
ed at Plynuwth oratplisisland. ; j
Gas Company Wants Increase r
The Oregon public utilities commissioner has
the rare duty of passing on the application of
a public utility for a raise in rates. The Port
land Gas & Coke company is asking for an
increase of 10c per thousand cubic feet in its
charge for space heating. It claims that ; the
fuel oil it uses costs 43 per cent more than
when the rate was fixed and total production
costs have gone up 60 per cent. lr
For most of the period since the first world
war the cost of utility services has declined.
Even since the present war there have been
decreases in electric rates orrebates to cus
tomers. While costs have increased, the added
volume of business has resulted in higher net
profits. The gas company has! also enjoyed a
large increase in gross volume but now com
plains that even with the greater volume of
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tWav resist allocation of such authority to con- business its net is inadequate. The public utility
duct probes into disputes. commissioner will have to make his investlga-
Our government seems to be in about tne
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same stage it was in 1940 and most of 1941
trying to do everything "short of war. It has
held a labor-management conference which
proved futile. It has tendered its conciliation
scvice to disputants -but its conciliators get
nowhere in the big disputes. It is now attempt
ing fact-finding by a panel of disinterested
citizens; and that is slow motion and not very
promising. Maybe if the strikes continue the
government will get mad and "go to war"
against industrial tie-ups through measures for
compulsory fact-finding or compulsory arbitra
tion or for labor courts.
Meantime, President Truman must feel like
old Noah in the ark. The White House is afloat
on a flood of strikes and the doves he sends out
haven't yet been able to pick up an olive
blanch.
tion and enter his decision.
The point to be noted is that in spite of
general inflation utility rates have largely; re
mained stationary or even declined, which of-
A Pack of 1 roubles
News Behind the News
By PAUL MALLON
national
public at
fers some evidence to dispute the assertion that (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole
rate regulation is impotent. Just because we f or in part strictly prohibited.)
do not have prolonged and generally futile rate
cases we should not conclude that the public
authorities are asleep. j They follow closely : the
financial reports of operating utilities and are
prompt to note when a fair j return is being
exceeded and to move for rate reductions to
consumers. The public has been tremendously
benefitted by vigilant regulation of utility
rates. i'. ? : :
Berpl, A f fleck 'anil Mengucci
When paint Is once again readily available,
a goodly quantity 'should be used to obliterate
a sign which advertises to persons arriving
here by stage that 98 per cent of Salem's popu
lace was born in the United States. Various
business concerns and organizations have at
times been credited or blamed with responsi
bility for that table of statistics, which is prob
ably no longer accurate if it ever was. What
ever its source and inspiration, it is now not
even funny.
Did you read the names of the Salem men
who were among the first of the 96th division
to return to Fort Lewis? Bergi, Affleck and
Mengucci might have come straight from an
All-American line may be native Oregonians.
We don't know where they or their parents
were born, but we do know where this trio
of, men has been. The ancestors whose names
they bear weren't on the Mayflower, but the
v y men of this generation have completed a series
of ; adventures just as American as any under
taken by the Pilgrims: In the far. reaches of
the Pacific they bore arms beneath the Stars
and Stripes.
In the newspaper reporter's code, the place
of a man's birth is usually the least important
' fact In his life. Tying together all the portions
of a career in an obituary, it seldom rates more
1 than mere mention.
We can't speak for the 93 per cent, but we
could call attention to the fact that a Salem
merchant who was born in Holland has done
one- of Marion county's biggest jobs in the war
loan campaigns.! There- U a beautiful State
street store, built with the years of effort of
' a ' Russian-born American. That fine portrait
you display so proudly may have .been' taken
by a prominent Salem photographer of' Scan-
Editorial Comment
A; REUNION ViTTJ HATS ENJOYED '
The Associated Presa carried a story during the
weekend from Miami Beach, Florida of the reunion
of 54 of the famous 79 fliers who took part in the
d'ytiajht raid on Tokyo April 18. 1842 all of
whom with the single exception of the leader.
General Jimmy Doolittle, had trained at Pendleton
Field from Pearl Harbor night to early February,
1941.
Pendleton people knew all of those 79 aerial
crusaders, and moat of the families in this city
knew one or more well enough to have them in for
dinners or parties or some other similar occasion.
Some of them are dead now; and some of them
are crippled, but most of them survived the raid
and the subsequent ordeal of escape, and now are
together arain. "We've been renewing old acquaint
ances." said CoL Stanford Chester, one of the
raiders. 'The bunch has a great deal to talk about.
There's time for fun later on." j
So went the story from Miami Beach and it
mentioned, also, that Sunday the "bunch went
deep sea fishing, and also paid homage to two
comrades who died hi crash landings in China
Immediately after the raid," three who were put
to death by the Japaaese, and others who suc
cumbed from treatment in enemy prison. camps.
It must -hare been a-grand reunion, one that
rone of those present ever will! forget just as
riwe of the 54 surviving: ever win forget those
tMrty seconds over Tokyo."
And wouldn't it have been even grander if the
reunion could have been held here in Pendleton,
hre those ladj were liked almost as much as
i i their own heme towns? .
V. e d bt very r i h if there Is a single other
r!to in the U. . -vb ere those 54 men in the re
im n would have n-ceived such a sincere welcome
n-i it I A hv hen fnrtunat
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About the only remaining exclusive function
of the British house of lords is to sit as a court
of last appeal in cases 1 involving the death
sentence. To the peers as a cout William Joyce,
Lord Haw Haw -of German radio fame, tap
pealed from his conviction, and Kieath sentence.
The house of lords voted to sustain .the verdict
and stentence, so he will be hanged for treason.
The British, whose accent Joyce mimicked over
the radio, will get the final haw-haw.
" WASHINGTON, Dec. 20
The republicans are being
pinched and pressed by a de
mand for a for
ward - looking
platform-which
will rouse the
people to en
thusiasm. The news
has caused
them to look
weak on this
score. A state
ment of prin-
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Interpreting
The ayfs News
By John Roderick
(Substituting for James D. White)
YEN AN, China, Dec. 20.H"P)-Chinese commun
ists' national aims which certainly will come tin
der close scrutiny at the forthcoming "peace talks"
at Chungking never have veered from MaoTse
tung's oft-repeated program. I 1
Mao is chairman of the political bureau of the
Chinese communist party. His report to the seventh
party congress a few months ago proposed: I
Firstly Establishment immediately of a provi
sional coalition government;- ,
Secondly Inauguration of a
regular permanent coalition gov
ernment through "free and unre
stricted elections." P
The peoples' political council,
which includes elements ; of . tne
national communist, democratic
Safe
LETTERS
READERS
Wenld Net
J. D. White
league and youth parties, could
name the interim coalition govern
ment. Any deviation from this gen
eral program will run into head'
on opposition from the commun
ists. ".?!!;
"We cannot scree to any or all
so-called measures, proposals or other empty talk,"
Mao said, ?which diverge from this" general fprin
ciple no matter how beautiful they may sound."
Waal New Assembly j ?
Nor . will the communists approve a meeting of
the national assembly,: whose representation , they
assert was "fabricated" eight years ago . by ; the
ly j accumulated
and then watered down for full
agreement among republican
members of congress, failed to:
please the national committee
at Chicago, j
A number! of national com-
mitteemen, thought there.'
should be something stronger,
more flashy, and they extracted
a promise for the creation of a
committee on development of
national policy.
This committee is now ap
pointed, one a member of con
gress who is a national com
mitteeman; two others who are
lawyers and state leaders (but
no governors); and three wom
en. The committee has no intra
partisan complexion which is
noticeable, except that all are
representatives of the big
. states. It is to be a permanent
committee, to - function as a
platform declaration board from
time to time, consulting, they
say, with members of congress.
Publicity Stunt
Frankly, nothing flashy- can
be expected. My information
suggests the wiser, heads at the
highest desks in the party were
thinking of publicity more than
anything else in this move. They
see Mr. Truman holding fre
quent press J conferences from J of? it all is!
issues generally, in
least. (He has been
saying some things about Mr.
Truman I jwhich I are getting
around, bi tt not in the news
papers.) j
The republican? position is
presented; only in : congressional
speeches I irhich are read only
in the congressional record,
which is o say hardly at all.
The hue and cry for a stirring
platform, therefore, may bring
some balancing publicity.
Votes Con it
But actually, the real plat
form has been written, not in
the watei ed-down declaration
of the conj pressmen, but in their
votes. Yo l hear people say
these days there is not much
difference between a republi
can and a . democrat, and when
Valve
FROM STATESMAN
'Spare the Red1
which his every word circulates
throughout the nation.
The titular head of the re
publican party. Governor Dew
ey, not only j suffered a political
impediment of speech through
defeat, but has chosen - volun
tarily to- remain tongue tied on
To the Ediitor:
I am just an ordinary citizen
and a subscriber to your paper.
I haven't been near, the boys
training school except for driving
by it. But t am in thorough ac
cord with Mr. Eugene Prescott's
piece in thf Wednesday morning
paper. j
jf it takps a strap to control
six foot husky boys I should say
use it Fori some of them they
need it now-a-days. I i sometimes
think our youth are very unruly
.especially the teen-age boys who
have fallen to petty thievery and
stealing purses and' stealing
gadgets off of Cars and even
stealing sugar. Maybe the cause-
of strap, when they were at the
government. (Chiang Kai-shek has ordered the
assembly convened May 5 1948, but the com- h .
munists want it postponed until Oct. 10, to permit f'lonV AlVri JJ7 AR TTP
election of new represenUtivesA f f f111 -f1 P12- f.f
"Getting to the root of this matter, if they do
convene this packed national assembly they will
only drive themselves along the road to death
and create a situation of split and division,? Mao
predicted. 'ft,: I " tl';
He said if the present assembly is called it
would pass a constitution "which in reality sup
ports dictatorship and; opposes democracy entirely
without a popular basis." The communists j will
bring to Chungking their draft proposal for a new
liberalized constitution, i : f s .
. Communist views on industry in the new 'gov
ernment envision use of an enormous amount of
capital coming from two - sources: funds accumu
lated by the Chinese, and foreign loans. ! '
Seek Fartlfa Leans j: ! ? .- V
"Foreign loans are 'welcomed because they will
be beneficial to both: Chinese, and people abroad
to develop large-scale light and heavy industries'
and modernized agriculture," they said. "On this
basis the field for foreign investments In1 China
will be extraordinarily large."
As for labor, Mao's program outlines an eight
. or ten-hour work day, unemployment relief, social
insurance; rights of trade unions combined with
. protection of interests, : private and cooperative
enterprise. ... - j ;1 : If
The land program calls for ownership by the
tenant of the land he' tills, as well as a plan for
transforming a large -section of the rural popula
tion into an urban group for: running future fae-''
torie. Mao estimates there are 380,000,000 peasants '
in China. - J ' ' j
When a new democratic coalition government
appears, Mao intends to hand over the communist
eight route army with a proviso the government
do likewise t with its forces.! The latter are in '
"serious condition 7 he maintains. He urged re-
the republicans attempt 1 to get '
together to compose honey-dew- !
ed words into broad generalities, ;
which will be agreeable to ev-j.
ery person and offend no one, ;
this seems to be true.
Actually, it is not The re-;-publicans
have made a ' record
of ' Opposition to the Truman
administration in which the '
cleavage between the two , is
clear. It could be accurately ex- j
pressed in lone sentence. The;
republicans are against the CIO I
economic, political and interna
tional theories of government;
the Trumarj administration is
against them; only in exceptions
and not as a rule. (Full employ
ment ; spending, unemployment
compensatioii, labor control leg-
islation.) The republicans vote
against them in such complete;
majority as to establish a party
character, i :
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Waste of Time
It all seems a little extran-i
ecus, therefore, to talk- about
soul-stirring j platforms, and his
tory rather j indicates it is a
waste of time. No party in my
time has won an election with
a ; declaration of principles.
In my 30 years of modern po
litical experience, the ins have
always remained in until the
people got tired of them and
voted them but What was said
afeout issues never seemed to
make much; difference.
In particular, platform decla
- rations havej been the least im
portant phase of politics. The
leaders get together and haggle
over J language for weeks and
months. Finally they come out
with many thousands of words
which have ibeen leveled to the
lowest conimon denomination
of appeal, and the day after
they are issued no one ; can re
member what was in them. !
j This 4s necessarily so. Look
at the democratic party exper
ience for proof if you need it
While Mr. Truman has taken
one position j on issues as a-titled
leader, his democratic congress
men have generally taken an
opposite stand, as they did with
Mr. Roosevelt
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-
lacked and our own pouucai I Adm. Richmond Keiiy Turner, ies
aneUbinders aenerously fed our tifring , before the . Peart Harbor
i American ego. At last the old committee today described an or
1 world has doffed its cap to the der sent to Rear, Adm Husband
new, though not without a feel- Kimmel 10 days before Pearl Har
. ing of regret, as though an age bor which was aimed at preparing
) had passed. the fleet for war.
It is true that the. United On Nov. 27 1941, Kimmel was
! States has set the pace for the sent a dispatch which advised it
, present age, with Jts emphasis was to be considered "a war warn
! on industrialization, on the harn- ing? and instructed that he "exe-
easing of natural energy to ease cute an appropriate defensive de-
the labor, of mankind. Blessed pioyment preparatory to carrying
i with rich resources and peopled out the tasks assigned in WPL
i by men with inventive genius 46 :
i and organizing ability, our coun- rhe letters j and figures stand
try forged the weapons of vie- for! war plan No. 46 which was
j tory in two -wars and provided part of "Rainbow 5," the general
a standard of living -for its peo- plan for operations in a war with
i pie which is the envy of the rest Japan. . : .
' of the world. ; . - Turner said defensive deploy-
i An added reason for overleap- ments under, the plan, had been
ing the Atlantic is the growing worked out in detail and should
: importance of the far east, par- have sent the fleet out ready to
! ticularly China.' The : defeat of fight, extended reconnaissance,
i Japan ended one threat but and dispatched submarines for
( solved no other problems. In- surveillance and possible attack
: stead it left others in its wake, on Ian approaching enemy.
; The far east becomes a sensitive Deploying Required .
political spot on the earth's sur- "Instead of being concentrated,1
; face, and the UNO wants to be Turner testified, "it (defensive de-
located where its seismograph pioyment) meant that the conv
? may record the tremors and mander.in chief of the Pacific
j quakes in Asia as its political fleet could take operating stations
1 "crust" settles. 1 fori the most probable attack."
Though the sceptre of power That, he asserted, would have
: may have passed from the coun- sent fast ships northward, the
I tries of Europe, it will be recog- direction from which the attack
nized as the nursery of western actually came, to cover an area in
culture of which our own is but which there were no islands from
an extension. From the Mediter- which enemy could be reported,
ranean 'basin and from Europe 'Against such a fast force as
came the arts and sciences which might be expected to make any
compose most ' modern civihza- attack, he said, the American bat-
tion. What of the older cultures tleships would have been of "no
of Egypt and the near east sur
vives came to us through the
filter of Greece and Rome. From
Homer -to Housman, j f rom Phi-
use except to combat landings.
He; added that the proper disposi
tion for that sort of action would
have been at sea, where they
deas to Rodin, from Pythagoras could move in on landing forces.
to Einstein, from Plato to Ber- pM( Carht i '
trand Russell, f com j Galen to fleet six battleships, six
Pasteur, from St. Augustine to cruisers and a dozen destroyers-
John Wesley, from Aristotle to was ught m the harbor.
the Curies, Europe was the , .. . . ... .
cradle for man's inteUectual and ? Re,atm 8 '"Pectaons as to
moral development! Europe's fa,pne?
contribution is part of the herit- at fcdrop around Nov.
age of aU.humanity. : 25, or 26 in the vohime of com-
Nor should we conclude that nunicauons among Japanese fleet
Europe is a spent force. Wrecked "mtsKcfwUSe? f condude tha
though it is economically, ruined b f Japans navy was at
as are its cities and factories and '' - . "-'
,r.nh it ma5- i From other information, he
spiu, ii was ppicui pan oi uie
fleet would be used in an am
phibious movement into the south
China sea. He declared -the re
mainder of the Japanese units
j "could go - only two places" to
versities and scientific research, defensive deployments in the Jap-
aucw uMuiudm uuiiias ana 10
raid Hawaii.
Turner said it was his
some 400,000,000 people west of
Russia, rich in varied natural re
sources and abundantly rich in
human skills. If it will only let
Wars, alone and concentrate on
its industries, its arts, Its uni-
there ia no reason why it cannot
continue the ' intellectual and
spiritual center of the world.
Tho Literary
Guidcpost
' By W. G. Re-aers
SOLDIEK OF DEMOCKACT; A BI-
was ms own
opinion that there was about a
"50-50 chance" as to which of
those two places the. Japanese
would move and that "a lot of
other officers felt that way too."
Curiosity Gets Best
ogkafbit or d wight cissM- Of INcw Jewelry Qerk
DMttlMty, Draa; U4).
how a normal boy, a scrap- j
WACO, Tex-, Dec.' 20.HP-Po-
Itr-a rt. C r W- i '
nr Sw1 In TTane.. n 1 w' - MO Seven
' . 7 . " Ti J 1 Policemen dashed to a local iew-
student with apparently no ab-l7 "4 Jrw
k;- -i i3.V - . elry store after the emeriencr
bell rang twice, urgently, today.
"The store was covered front,
and back," said Maxey. "Nobody
came in; nobody went out
Tie -mm aa w
told in this detailed biography. I Z l w.
Born in Texas, where his fa- r """7 wn" oeu
. - I buttnn was fnr n
sorbins goal, porn of ancestors
with pacifist religious convic
tions, grew into the general in
command of the armies which
defeated Germany In the -east is
correctable!
that Mr. WooUey should be left
alone to run the : school.
Mrs. W. H. Thomas
415 Pine St.
Salem, Oregon.
By Lichty
M ::il
K -w -i ni i , -iii
age. And I believe T KaB Qwh Records
' A republican tells me none of
the Truman program has been
enacted by jhis congress except
the bill to abolish war' time. I
. have not checked' this, but I
have - heard authentically that
the democratic congressmen
have met and decided they will
, net attempt! to' draw up a state
ment of party problems for the
v coming race, but will let each
man run on his own record,
using" the Truman coat tails or
not, as each chooses. There is
be no democratic "platform "
: My ideaj is that unless yon
have, a single man heading a
ticket you j can't get a concise
and j worthwhile declaration of
principles the people can un
; derstand. Only in the expres
sion: of individual personality
; can such cleavage be expressed
i clearly to the people. . i
Now I know many fine polit
icos believe that a strong asser
- tion at Chicago would have
electrified j the people, and are.
sincerely hoping one Will now
eome from the -new committee,
t In theirj fond hope, wey re-
. sVund me ; of popular public
thought ' during the- depression.
Nine out pf -sen men then-believed
that if some particular
economic device could be cre
ated the economic faults of civ
ilization ' could be perfected".
'They thought mere was such'a
thing as -a panacea. They coo-
: eocted all , manners of such
. schemes, many oft which were
- - put! into -effect. v-J ir - i
j They were just wrong in their
original premise; it was not true ,
- that there ! could be such ; a
t T
V-! Choc TiM fca.
ther held a poorly paid lob.
Dwight was taken back to Abi
lene, Kans., to live on what was
definitely the wrong side of the
tracks. Uncles, aunts grandpar
ents were fairly well to do, but
Dwight's own father -never made
much money. I By contrast " the
six sons were markedly success
ful and two of them, Dwight and
Milton, achieved international
reputations. ; i
Dwight learned the need for
hard work, the value of money.
He won respect with his fists,
and on the football field. He
went to West Point somewhat by
chance, his scholastic record was
undistinguished and, because of
a bit of violently unjust disci
plining, he suffered a- knee in-;
jury barring him from football.
In World war I he proved too
valuable in camps at home to be
sent abroad. Later he served in
the Philippines, Washington,
France and the Panama Canal
Zone where he was inspired by
then Brig. Gen. Fox Connor to
: dedicate himself to his profession
with a seriousness new to h?n
He rated first in his class in the
army's toughest school, at Lea
venworth, and was notably rea
dy for war when war came.- . I
Ardent admirer of his subject,
Davis presents his case with el
oquence. He correctly lays -great
-emphasis- on Eisenhower's suc
cess in creating unity in the in
ternational command; makes - a
laughable-figure out of Giraud;
aligns himself with the many
who have criticized the state de
partment's treatment of de
Gaulle.'' i - ::l - -
An exhaustive study, this will
remain an essential book In the
history of America's role- In
World War VL A .
BELGIUM RATIFIES PLAN
BRUSSELS, Dec IQ--The
Belgian chamber of deputies and
the - senate today unanimously
ratified the Bretton Woods mon
etary stabilization plan. (
. ', h . r.avt had IJii Hwtwar, "79" reunion. formation of the conscription .system which he "WeU, they ft aice
rton East Ore;:a.
terms "rotten to the core"
la back ef the ater, bat they wen'i rent
nnless we-bay jthe sierefT
A bridein Morocco sits motion
less, eyes and mouth closed for
thing." I do not believe there five .'days after the big -event,
can be sutfi a thing a an elec- while women passing by come in
' trifying political platform. ' i . to look at her. ..) : -. " :
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