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; From Tint Statesman, March 23, 1331
TOE STATESJ1AN. PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHAMJCS A. SPRAGUX. Editor and Publisher
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news -dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Labor Mutt "Bargain
The current wave of strikes proves that high
wages are no deterrent to-striking. Those in
the highest wage brackets of mass production
industry, like the motor workers are on strike
t GMC. Another well paid group, the electric
workers, have voted to strike; and the- steel
workers, whose wages are the highest in his
tory, have set January 14 for walking out, de-
War Coordination
Navy-minded AstorianiBudget picks up WaU
ter Lippman's suggestion; that the president in
struct the chiefs of staff General Eisenhower '
nd Admiral Nimitz to? get together and de
velop a plan for governing the military forces.
Both the A-B and JJppman seem to forget that ;
that there was a Joint board study made. Which
concluded that a single department of national
i spite their 6wn contract with a no-strike pro-' defense was advisable. This was signed by the
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vision in it. In Seattle, printers who already
enjoy a very high wage and have been offered
a very substantial increase are 'Still striking,
depriving that city of its daily newspapers.
navy members except Admiral Richardson. Lat
er, however, the navy officers retracted their
recommendation. Admiral I Nimitz himself
"changed his mind' on the subject. The Wash
This is the end result of unionism which be- ington high naval officers, headed by Admiral
comes monopoly. Collective bargaining becomes King, have been violently opposed to consolida-
a joae wnen uie union leaaers aa as me steei
workers did,' throw down si demand for $2.00
day increase at the first session with employ
ers and announce there would be "no bickering
and no compromise." That is not collective bar
gaining, it is collective holdup.
In Seattle the publishers negotiated with the
regular scale committee of 'the typographical
union, came to an agreement which was initiat
ed by both parties, including the representatives
of the, international. When it was submitted to
the union for ratification it was rejected. That,
of course is the privilege of the union, but it
tion, fearing the navy would be unduly sub
ordinated. -J " - f!H
Carl Vinson, chairman of the house naval
affairs committee, is-very-unhappy over Presi
dent Truman's endorsement of the unification
plan. A veteran legislator who has concentrated
on naval affairs, it is only natural that Vinson
should reflect the navy viewpoint. But the
solution will never be found-merely by listening
to the conclusions of partisans who are already
steeped in their convictions. Broad-minded
statesmen, studying the fact and reviewing th
opinions of all parties, will! write the ticket for
bargaining, which
to an agreement-
denies a fundamental of
means that both sides come
and stick there
Meantime, see what happens: Willys Motor
company has been down for some time in pro
ducing jeeps because of strike in a gear works
, In another state. Briggs is shutting down In
- Detroit because the strike of glass workers
the future.
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From what we have learned of the business
of running a modem war we conclude that uni
fication is needed. And j one place where there
should be better coordination is between the?
armed services and industry. We have no doubt
if the full story could be related lhat there was
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of automobile bodies
run for lack of- parts from struck suppliers. The
ones who suffer in this chain of consequences
are the workers who are laid off, as well as
the employer,
Labor can't claim the rights of collective bar
gaining and repudiate its responsibility to bar
gain. It cant operate as a monopoly and expect
the public to support its cause. The prevailing
epidemic of strikes is building up resentment
which may find expression in legislation taking
away from labor the "rights" which now it is
abusing. . -
navy-army control, surely - the Alcan highway
would never have beenj built, or the Canol oil
project. We won the war, all right, but not
without big blunders both in ! planning arid
executing. Fortunately few! of the blunders re
sulted in loss of life, for i the military plans
were executed with great success, despite the
frequent lack of coordination of the services.
Behind the News
or in part strictly prohibited.)
The Aftermath of War
On the optimistic side of the picture In this
worried world, there stands out one paramount
fact despite 'the. tragic deaths in action and
the thousands of disrupted homes, the United
States after (three and a half years of war has
emerged with potential manpower far stronger
than before the conflict. I
This all-imoprtant item, coupled with the
fact that neither our cities nor our country
aide shared in the flaming j destruction of other
lands, is in marked contrast to nearly every
other nation in the world ond a transcendent
cause for thanksgiving.
From Jan. 1, 1942 to July 1, 194S, the census
bureau listed 10.569.000 births. Deaths on the
t v battlefield totalled 263.000, and from other
causes 3,137,000.
In the next 12-month period, hundreds of
thousands of servicemen will settle into civil
ian life, marry and begin rearing families so
that an additional sharp I increase in births
as was recorded after the; last war is inevit
able. Statistics now indicate that in the 1940-50
decade, the net population gain j probably will
approximate 13.000.000, compared with less
than 9.000,000. from 1930-40. j
There is nothing in these figures to paint a
Pollyanna picture of war or justify its recur
rence. But they provide new assurance that the
physical strength of this nation is adequate for
Its role in world affairs.!
There is one bill for $100 which taxpayers
will pay with a chuckle rather ; than a gripe.
It was presented to congress by Rastus Davis
of Winona, Tex., who said a trail from his
depleted watermelon patch led straight to a
nearby army camp. If Rastus watermelons con
tributed to the winning of this war, he can be
a proud man. H i
WASHINGTON, Dec- 22.
The public received but a faint
notion of the life-death machina
tions of the nayy top command
(not the young fellows) to de
feat the unification of the armed
forces. Finally navy Secretary
Forrestal secretly hied himself
to certain invisible advisers be
hind the White House and sought
a deal against the basic General
George (ATC) jplan of aligning
the bureaus into one department,
so as to increase navy power in
the new setup. (
This was the!
last attempt in
a gra n d i o s 4
campaign1
which navy'4
Admiral . King
started immd
. Right now is a good time to remember that
insurance company's statement as to why
people live longer now than in former times iti ar thi
more of them climb into bed when they're sick George report
lruteaa or simulating a martyrun iront and
trudging off to school or work where a dozen
or so others may catch;! their- infection. fi
had been dis
closed exclul
sively in detail
in mis column
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The situation in China is one to give observ
ers palpitation of the heart. Conditions there
rem to swing with the regularity of a pen
dulum, alternating from optimism to pessimism,
from hope for Chinese unity to fears of internal
warfare. At the moment the pendulum la on
the optimistic swing with some prophecies of
compromise between the nationalists and com
munists. Within a week j it may change. The
one enoou raging sign is i that there still isn't
very much shooting of bullets going on, mostly
verbal bombings.
The negro who tackled Bishop Bruce Baxter
didn't know - the bishop-1 was something of a
college athlete in his day. It happens he was
a track man, a 100-yard dash sprinter at Ober
11 n; but he didn't use what remains of his
flcetness in running from his assailant. His
friends admire his courage and hope his in
juries do' not prove serious; but suggest that
next time he use his feet instead of his hands.
Editorial Comment
YAMAMOTOI CKYSTAL BALL
All this time we have thought the late Admiral
tsoroku YamaJnoto a scoundrel and a fool, end now
we mutt retract; he wss not a fool.
. Most ' famous for Ms speech about dictating
peace terms in the While House,' Admiral Yama
moto had seemed just another Japanese primitive
. vV did not know his own country's strength
or relative lack of it .
i It now comes out, I the posthumous memoirs
f Prince Konoye, that Admiral Yamamoto knew
rwe about -relative stremgth than had seemed; he
knew all tber was to knw. Koiioye asked him
tfore Tearl Harbor about Japan's chances in a
wr acslnst the United State. Yamamoto replied:
j -V.'e will run around at will for about haU
yf r or a year. But if it stretches into two or three
- -years I have no confidence-in a successful ending."
TlMt'i callicg it, AdmirsH San Francisco Chron-
It seems like the Willamette valley has had
Just about everything this year except a bliz
zard and seven-year locusts. If
JIusiaYlsair Ago
By J. M. Roberta. Jr. . j; ,
NEW YORK, Dec. li-fr)-K year ago tonight
the armies of General jpwight Eisenhower were
making one of the greatest defensive fights in Am
erican history and, to Adolf Hitler's last desperate
bid for victory, one manjptood up and said "Nuts!'
It was almost Christinas in Bastogne. ,:
The "screaming eagles" of the 101st airborne
division, with some elements of other divisions
trapped by the advancing Germans, hardly 10,000
men hi all, were standing! off five nazi divisions and
parts of three others. The little- town, a hub of
the Belgian road system down which Hitler had
' hoped to drive to Liege and Antwerp, was sur
rounded. j; $ :
The Americans were (fighting from fence rows,
roadsides, and from shattered buildings, not from
prepared positions. Supplies were short Tomorrow
they would receive morel; by parachute from C-47's
circling overhead. But on ; the nfght of December
22, they were short, and!: the Germans thought the
' Yanks were whipped. j
The German commander sent in a surrender
ultimatum. Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe' re
plied with his famous, laconic "Nuts? Just a year
ago tonight ji
Christmas Eve at Bastogne in 1944 was "quiet1
according to the official 'regimental journals. Com
pered with others during the week in which the
ten thousand held off a ( hundred thousand, it was
quiet But in the surrounding fields and behind
the rubble piles of the town's outskirts, Americans
fought ceaselessly to prevent these Germans from
Joining the others in the "bulge", who would even
. tually be trapped and lorn to pieces because of
the men who stood fast t Bastogne. g
That night McAulifff chose to tell his men of
his reply to the German ultimatum, and it senta
wave of enthusiasm through the troops. Red maps
of the encircling German positions, overiayed with
a big, green "Merry Christmas' went out tog the
troops. I
General Patton, suddenly wheeling north with
an army which had been headed directly east, even
then "was driving his men with almost superhuman4
speed toward the relief of Bastogne. His tanks and
lorries bore the Christmas present relief which
McAuliffe had said privately was th finest: the
101st could have. McAuliffe knew they needed it
but his men refused to admit It They just faced the
encircling Germans and, as Cpt William H. Fow
ler of Jacksonville, ria, put it, "mowed 'era doVn."
They , fought on ammunition dropped from the
sky; treated their wounded with cognac and cour
age; and described themselves to rear headquarters
as "the hole In the doughnut" U '
Patton's men arrived, cutting northward through
the Germans, but two!; days late for Christmas.
Those of McAuliffe's men who could fight no longer
were carried out those' who were- able stayed onto-
finish the job, and the dead were buried. In
terred with them were the last hopes of the nad
nation. 'Christmaa of 1944, in Bastogne, had seen
.tothatt.. r,J t
Pant M anus
a report which King had sup-:
pressed by bottling it in the joint
chiefs of staff since last April
when it was-ubmitted, marked
urgent.
Navy Feels Self SUpplnf
The navy is j not fundamental-;
ly opposed to he theory of uni
fication, in my opinion. It feels
itself slipping. iThe battleship is
not obsolete orc even obsolescent.
Its usage has merely been sur
passed in importance by new
weapons, recently the plan and
now directed hiissiles including
the atomic, bomb. Its aircr ft
carriers are valuable for sea
commerce "purposes, but tot- real
ly effective bombing, a land
based plane is needed. Ship air
craft cannot carry the necessary
heavy loads of today's big bombs.
The whole navy is going the
same way. The! frontier of Amer
ica is now inj Canada and the
northern wastes, to which place
a defense commission recently
has been dispatched, to study
the air up to 40,000 feet through
which directed missiles are like
ly to come from Europe to this
country. : f
Invasion by ships has become
a minor threat now that it is
feasible for thousands of planes
te carry -armies the shorter air
route across the northlands.
Truth Moat Be Accepted
To observe this scientific fact
is not an expression of prejudice
against sea defenses, but merely .
an acceptance of the glaring
truth that their ' importance is
secondary (to keep sea lanes
open for supplies, to watch the
back door of our shoreline, etc)
To the navy this means di
minishing approprations, power,
jobs and rank in the scheme of
defense, and the admirals have
sought to beat the facts of sci
ence by keeping their show sep
arate. In a single i department
their importance will face review
by air and land men. -
So they: pulled every: inner
political wire to keep I the presi
dent from' getting the George
report, the congress from; acting
upon it and the White j House
from endorsing it Faced now
with defeat they want to make
the unification in such a way'
as to protect themselves as much
as possible. . j
Kotatien Concession
The courage of Mr. Truman
in resisting this connivance was
firm. He gave but an I inch. This
inch suggests the office of chief
of staff rotate among' the three
separate departments of the
armed forces, at two or three
year intervals, and that a co
ordination j bureau work put the
detailed organization under
neath. : ' j '
These are the only .concessions
Mr. Forrestal appears to have
won in his last-minute contriving.
The navy may be able to make
; this, inch a mile and achieve a
. political power in the d 2W de
partment beyond the realities of
Its- Importance if congress fol
lows Mr. Truman's recommen
dation in these two instances
(and this is possible because the
navy is powerful inside con
gress.) Inside Game Starts
Around this point, at any rate,
now hinges the inside game. The
navy no longer can hope to stop
unification. Indeed, it cannot de
lay legislation: beyond 90: days
more. The i commander-in-chief
has now spoken. But it plainly
still hopes to keep its old game
going somehow or another in
the new department ,
What the situation demands
is a thorough jshakedown of old
blood and traditions in the new
single department and General
Eisenhower is (the man to do it
What is needed is not a com
promise between the forces of
air, army and navy, and 1 rotat
ing influence J but command by
a man who knows the proper
value of all three and how to
keep each in Its right place.
Eisenhower as supreme allied
commander is jthe only man who
has used all three in North Af
- rica, Italy and France ' (Mac
Arthur's command was divided.)
He is not- bound by partisan ob
sessions, but properly encourag
ed, would wield judicious auth
ority, fair to j all.
Danger Apparent
Imagine a navy man who had
never directed land-air ; opera
tions functioning two or three
years as chief of staff over all
three branches!!. Such a' course
plainly wouldj be unwise, if not
dangerous to national defense to
a Pearl Harbor ,extent.
Thus, at the moment of a
great victory for an efficient
armed force, there- is ; a grave
underlying danger that the whole
purpose of the move will be lost
as! usual in politics, armed serv
ice politics, which will I decree
compromises, where leadership
is called for.
This is 'a job Mr. Truman will
have to meet, because congress
can only furnish him the request
ed tools. !
of gambling laws,- added : this
counterweight as sop to local
sentiment: , -1 '
Jit recommends ' to the law
enforcement bodies a policy In
this respect which takes into
consideration the character
and needs of Klamath county,
includine its toooeraphy. in- :
dustry and inhabitants."
. Whet this means is simply to
instruct the v authorities that
Klamath county is peculiar and
as one of the centers of the cat
tle and lumbering industry it
ought to survive as an 'antique, a
reproduction of j Dead Man's
Gulch, or Cowboy Shantytown,
with a tolerance of the old cus
toms which modern movies say
are authentic like gambling,
easy, liquor and easier women.
Which is pretty much bunk. Cow
hands and loggers drive auto
mobiles and get to town every
few days. They have radios-' and
daily newspapers; nd most of
them are married with" homes of
their own The urges and the re
straints of a population of 20,000
people do not vary greatly over
the , state ot Oregon and
gambling, I have noted, is toler
ated in towns . noted for piety.
The local demand; for the unlaw
ful vices springs jpuite as much
from the vendors and profiteers
.as it does from jthe customers;
and the former class are much
more powerful politically. -
It would seemi that the time
has come for Klamath Falls and
the other cities with a wild west
complex to mature. The law
should not run out south of Bend
and east ot Ashland, nor east of ,
Heppner, nor west of Clatskariie.
The Klamath grand jury instead
of patting the enforcement' of
ficials mildly onj the back and
then slapping them briskly in the
face should grow up, too; and
recognize that its! community de
serves to live within the orbit of
decency established by the laws
of the state. j
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through St Augustine and on
down. The French revolution, '
consequently, seems to this author-prince
a moral retrogression, '
the Marxian creed is the "great
est of earthly heresies of our
age;" and society "should be a
'mirror of the Kingdom and a
type of Christ's Mystical Body." j ;
Loewenstein lauds Bismarck s
Ems dispatch; quotes Dr. Nich-'
olas Murray Butler, to whom he
dedicates the book, in praise-of
Kaiser Wilhelm j II; regrets the
overthrow of Napoleon III, re
gards Belgian-French invasion of
the. Ruhr in 1923 as a "gross
violation" of the Versailles trea
ty; calls indeed for people to
"abandon the unthinking, notion
that a republic per se is some
thing superior to monarchy."
It may 'intrigue you no end,
but seems to me unlikely to con
vince you. .
Safety Volvo
LETTXSS T1021 STATESMAN
ADXXS ' 1
SINS OF AXZNTf
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To the Editor; ."
' I am just an ordinary cithtea -too.
Nor have I been near the
boys' training school, but I anv
the mother of two ' teen-age
boys and feel qualified to apeak
my piece. f t '
I know ir If Mf word,
but if the following: were- true
we'd have fewer problem chil
dren. " i " ..
If more people, especially
parents, would attempt to' un
derstand chadren from baby-
. hoed .up. '
If they, would only look down
underneath mat crusty exterior
to a child's heart
; If women could only realize
that ' raising a - good citizen la
mere worthwhile, more satis
fying, than a career.
If more women would stay In
" the home-and make a real home ,
out of it
In other words. If we would
Instill just a little of the good
old fashioned "home and moth
er" ideas in our own sons and
daughters, future generations of
children wouldn't be whipped
for the sins of their parents. .
Mrs. C C. Stevena"
1293 N. 5th.
DEPORT"1 THE !
OBSTRUCTIONISTS
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To the Editor:: ;
I read In yesterday's paper
that Gov. Snell is thinkingof
signing or not I papers ordering
deportation of j Walter E. Baer
who is now chief assistant en
gineer In construction and re
pairing of naval vessels. His
.misdoings of 20 years ago have
been paid for.; Why not turn
to unheard of doings now? With
building material very scarce,
fuel also, and a poor chance for
it to be better soon, why not
deport the instigators and their
side kickers who uphold strikes.
If I remember right ; Harry
Bridges was ordered once or
twice, a long 'time ago, to' be
deported.' It is 'plain to be seen
Walter Baer has repented of his
wrong doings of 23 years ago
and is doing things of benefit to
the U. S. and the. returning sol
diers who fought for. our pro
tection, j
." ,, y E. i B. Cochran
Salem. ;
Reclamation Survey
Slated for The Dalles
In event $1,500,000, recently
instated in the general deficiency
bill is retained ; and approved a
survey of reclamation possibilities
in The Dalles area will start early
next spring, John W. Kelly, Ore
gon post-war commission, was ad
vised by federal Officials Saturday.
The Dalles reclamation proposal
covers a large area of fruit lands
which in a dry year, suffer from
lack of irrigation. ' t
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Tho Literary
By Lichty Guidopost
By W O. Kegera
"De fee have W a4eh last year's tree? Ct yen farajet yen're
: a tree sergeea Jest ence,1 and bmy new treeT j
U.S. CAMEBAimS VICTOV VOL
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Capt Edwar auteasa, USN, e4
tU4 y Tom Maleaey aBUskS
y U.S. Cftmvra. stritat ay
DncU. SIMS rwtwf. M).
Here are nearly 00 pages of
.the cream of the war photo
graphs in the :finl year of the
struggle, an4 it seems to me
very unlikely that youH ever
,see- a better Shook in this field.
There's some text but it's
mostly pictures and the fact that
Steichen selected them is a guar
antee that they're the best avail
able . . among other sources
was Press Association. You will
have seen some pf them In news
papers, but i the reproductions
gain a lot on smooth-finish paper.
They are classified: Roosevelt,
- Europe, -. wai . children, 1 subma
rines, aie- raids. Pacific mop-up,
Philippines, South Chine sea.
Manila. Iwo Jim. Kamaksrxe
and so on. -. I - '
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rtac Hat ti I Vtamrnm
., riMMi- SSk.
' Germans are view here under
the aspect of the constant con
flict between nationalism and
internationalism, or the pull to
ward a unified European-Medi
terranean world and the opposite
pull toward tectional dominance.
They are viewed also on the
basis of philosophy, of history
stemming from Apostolic times
Chrismvia la cdmost here. Buy quickly, but buy vrlaelyl
Com In to rnaU your teUcuWol quality ift feat will
moan much to those) who recett fim. Oux nara. on
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