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"No Tavor Stray I; No fear Shalt Au
lrom First Statesman, March 28, 1131
TOE STATESMAN PUBLISHING. COMPANV
' ? ' . CHARLES A. SPRAGUB, Editor and Publisher
- Member of the Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use (or publication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Vis
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Tung Oil and Feathers
Slowly the frozen channels of world com
merce are thawing out Once the shipping is
relieved of the immediate task of caring for
the military, transporting men and supplies, it
will resume picking up cargo for carrying
. across the oceans. Already China, which is eager
to restore its export trade in order to get much
needed "imports, has made an estimate of what
is accumulated for shipping next year. Accord
ing to H. D. Collier, regional chairman of tho
China-America Council, the Chinese govern
ment report it has the following quantities of
goods now ready for shipment:
Fifty-five million pounds of tung oil, 3.3
miljion pounds of bristles, 3.7 million pounds of
raw silk, 17.6 million pounds of wool. 6.6 mil
lion pounds of tea, 9.9 million pounds of egg
products, such as albumin. and dried yolks, 1.1
million pounds each, of sausage casings and
feathers, 1 million hides and skins, 110 million
pounds of beans, .66 million pounds of seeds,
and 22 million pounds of medical substances.
There are also 1300 tons of tungsten, 2400 tons
of-antimony and 200 tons of tin available for
export.
Quite a miscellany, to be sure, but still famil
iar articles of trade with China. Tung oil is
used in paint manufacture. Tea and silk date
from the earliest days of commerce with the
west, over the 'caravan routes and by sailing
vessels. The dried eggs may alarm domestic
poultrymen. Not all this stuff will come to
America. Other countries doubtless need the
egg yolks more. But we can use the feathers;
far pillows that Is, not for mixing with tar.
severity. The purpose of (the law is good, not
to let this country become the dumping ground
of the criminals of other i countries. But soma
way should be provided! for leniency where
circumstances warrant it Baer has been spared
deportation to a Germany he left as a baby (ho
claims to have been born in this j country).
There may be other cases less publicized where
friends will not rally to their protection. Con
gress should revise this lew.
Senators File Protest
The protest which The Statesman was quick
to support against the recommendation of a
civil aeronautics board examiner who opposed
basing a flight to the orient from the northwest
has had repercussions in (Congress. Aroused be
cause of this threat to northwest development
and sharing in air commerce with the orient.
18 senators from 11 western states addressed
a communication to the CAB urging it to over-
recognize the Puget
Northwest; Airlines
has stirred up sharp
llaer Gets Panlon r
One of the laws passed in the campaign for
Immigration restriction was one which directs
the deportation of aliens who have committed
offenses against the laws of the state. It has
been retroactive in character, and under it per
sons who had served their sentences for crimes
committed years before, were picked up and
shipped back to the country of their origin1.
The law is rigid: the only way deportation may
be averted is through an executive pardon.
This was the plight In which Walter Baer
of Portland found himself. Governor Snell has
wisely granted him conditional pardon for
1 offenses committed over 2$ years ago so he'
will not be' separated from his family and ship
ped to Germany. During this editor's term as
governor, his case came up. At that time his
deportation was not, imminent because there
. was no intercourse with Germany. His sponsors
were advised, however that if deportation did
actually threaten they should present the case
1 again. What Governor Snell has done this writ
er would have done under the same circum
stances. In fact we did issue a pardon where
sv resident of Portland was about to be deported
to Canada. His offense had been a violation
of a city ordinance many years before. After
wards he married a citizen of this country, es
tablished a good business and was living as a
responsible resident of the state. The applica
tion of the rigid deportation law seemed very
unjust in his case. Accordingly he was given
a pardon, has continued in business in Portland,
end not gotten into conflict with the law.
The federal law ought to be altered so it
will not force the immigration authorities to
reach back over the years to pick up those who
have long since served their sentences and be
come decent members of society. There ought
to be some way of modifying' its automatic-
Editorial Comment
-
rOLNTING TOWARD SOCIALISM '
With the cessation of war-industry activity in
the northwest the use of power from the Bonne
viUeraad Coulee lines is. falling off. The Bonne
. vllle administration publicity office, vocal on many
, ether subjects, has little to say on this reduction
In power demand. It has run into hundreds of
thousands of kilowatts, we understand, and the
trend is still down. , . &
In the face of this condition it is not surprising'
that the Bonneville administration Is trying to find
new markets nor, in view of the Bonneville record,
that It proposes to seek markets by invading terri
tories already adequately served even though to
do so involves the construction of costly trans
mission lines. Although Bonneville promoted the
formation of the Central Oregon PUD if found
It originally unwise to run a line up the Deschutes.
Now the project heads plan to build not only a
line into Central Oregon but to carry it on into
Klamath. t
Carried to the extent now contemplated by the'
Bonneville authorities a. line is planned even into
Utah these developments wilt have various effects.
One to which the irrigationists object is the de
struclion of power values In local projects relied on
to help pay project costs. Another is loading Bonne
ville, as a government investment, with such heavy
coats that a tax conscious congress will refuse to
meet the subsidy that is Involved. Still another .
might be further Influence for the movement to
Increase Bonneville ' rates not only to end the
subsidy but also to put the rates on a competitive
basis with those of other government projects,
notably Boulder dam. At Boulder the rates, higher
than Bonneville's, are paying out the Investment .
A result of the prospective Bonneville develop
ment that Is hardly even mentioned and rarely
discussed but definitely in sight is the socialization
of the po Industry of the west and, proceeding
from that step, the taking ever by, the government
of all sorts tt other businesses, mines, forests, trans
portation, corrjnunicatioa systems and so on. Such
U the rrcrrsm of the Socialist party and such is
the rrcrrara cf the Public Ownership League of
.rr. .:-a. Csrl D. Thompson is or has been an
t'::, :cr rr ecrloye of each of those organizations.
I!i is cn the L'-nneville pay roll. ' v -
n.jnr.ev.l'? r Acs a great show of Industry pro
m t'"on I cf r -source development. It says no
thm? of socialistic aims but all the evidence, in
V chi hr.g rarticularly this Thompson employment,
joints to their presence. Bend Bulletinj " : :
rule its examiner and
-Sound country for the
flight to the orient. This;
-rejoinder from some miqwestenv congressmen
who assert that the letted of the senators con
stitutes improper political pressure on an Ad
ministrative body. " . I (I
Whether it is pressure or not the fact remains
that the wes, is arousedi and means business.
The recommended route, from Minneapolis; to
Edmonton and then to Ahchorage, Alaska, will
not satisfy the entire western half of the United
States. The senators are merely reflecting local
sentiment. The CAB has io pay attention to the
demands of. the Am er; can people and
scarcely ignore this formal protest, j
The west does not say j that the Minneapolis
based flight should be 'denied; but that one
routing should use the jj SeatUe-Tacoma base.
The reasons for the demand are that otherwise
the northwest would be Virtually cut off from
air travel to and from the orient by an Ameri
can line; and that such deprivation would deny
to the northwest participation in the, commerce
with the orient which
based on this coast.
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St vriiiMtit vita Tfca Vakita a
Tho Literary
feuraeposi
!; - By W. G. Rogers
Sticking to Their Ship
Franco Totters
As Government
In Exile Ready
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15 -tfV
As relations worsen between Gen
eralissimo Franco and the alMes,
Spanish republicans are increas
ing efforts to win major-puwi
recognition; for their, governmenv-
This regime, established in
Mexico City some four monms
ago. hopes to take over as a "care
taker" government in Madrid
when and if Franco is ousted.
Recent S Danish republican de-
vetonment in Washington in
clude: i . , r
L Registration with the state
department of Juan Means, for
mer Soanish embassy secretary.
as aeent in the U. 5. lor tne
exiled reeime.
X Visits! to Acting Secretary of
State Dean Acheson by Fernando
De Los Riot, foreign minister of
the Mexico City regime, and Juan
Negrin, last premier of republi
can Spain!.
can
historically has been
Senators Cordon and Morse joined the Wash
ington senators and others from the west in
signing the letter to the
commended for going directly, to the board
which has the final say,
CAB. They are to be
in the matter.
Dog shoots man made the news from New
Orleans. The news was that the dog died 6$j
remorse after snapping the gun-trigger in a
leap and wounding his master. j ;
interpreting j j
The Day's News
By InsseU Brines 1
(Substituting for James D. White)
IT'S TOMORROW OUT HKR.R,
LJent. Cemdr. Max BfUlcrJ with
News Behind the News
v By PAUL MALLON k
(Distribution by King Faatures Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction: In whole
- ; -i ' ' ' or In part strictly prohibited.)
v LUut Conar.
Kcrie (WfcltttMey
phatatraphs
cnarus r.
- Hour; S3).
What's new that can betwrit
ten or read about the war, Max
Miller asks, and comes closer'
than, most authors to finding the
answer,
Wih j fighting over, "his t sxt is
a sort of quiet reflection, a re
flection from six. or eight months
away,1 of the conflict in the Pa
cific. He writes about islands.
: ships, planes and white, brown .
and black men; about raiii that
pours Mdewisei about sand in
your eyes and mud up to your
knees fat the sane time! and
about tho desperate need of dull
logistics, since it's a subject he
must
floor
treat, for "a sex twist, a
snow, a good tune, a ro-
TOKYO, Dec. 25HP)-jjGeneral MacArthurf has
placed on the Japanese the burden of constructing
a new Japan, with the remark that his political
and social sculpturing virtually is complete Butj
the Japanese point out two major weaknesses in
the allies constructed framework of their future,
state. ' : 1 1; - 1 : - ! ; - i
One, they say, is retention of Japan's tight and
often-perverted family system, which j Miss isae
Ichikawa, noted suffragette lead- ! ( 1
er. calls "one of the manifestations
of feudalism." ! ) ; - '
Second is the continued freedom
. from imprisonment on War crim
inal charges of thousands j of army
and kempeital colonels find maj
ors and their civilian ! cohorts.
! ! mance or sonwtrung.
w As you will remember! from
Miller's "I Cover the Water-
fronts and He Went Awiy fdr
; a-While, this former newspa-
; permah is master of a very spe-
k cial, gentle, precise and effec-
tive prose. He faltered a bit,; I
thought, in his last book, which
: was about the war? but m this
: one he returns in full flavor. If
! you're not acquainted with his
style, try it here. There are pho
tographs to match.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ARTS.
ItcS !jr Dagobert D. Runes aa4
Harry G. Schrtckel (Philosophic si
Library; 10). j
Here is culture condensed to
1000 pages. The subjects are .
architecture, dance, sculpture,
painting, decoration, mus
erature. theater and film. Every
thing is arranged- alphabetically
and there is an imposing
contributors .
. WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. For
some years it has been the an- i
nual custom of this column, to!
-weigh its facts-and truth account
at this season measuring debits ;
and credits. Let us balance the
books for 1945: , - . J
There were two shabby, Jf in
consequential mistakes, which I
will leave until
last. On the oth
er side, the led
ger shows deb
its beyond any
previous year.
Working back
through th e s e
past t w e 1 v e
mo n t h s, y o u
will find, y o u
read here t h e
Truman labor
L-V-
Mama
list of
i. d. wait
MOM. rM HOME! by Syi Haff (Sn
blaaay, Diru; S2). i -
This cartoonist is "bitterly
ungrateful to World War II for
the Ideas in this book," but you
won't I be. Hoffs draftsmanship
and ideas match very neatly. He
can get rough, but he can get
laughs, too. Many of these ap
peared in the New Yorker, to
which he made his first bontri
bution when he was 17.
SPANISH HANDBOOK, by Laarastea
r.' aiaiM (carmau . Nartuma
Pms; StJt).
The elements
These men. say the intelligent and
well-advised Japanese, were the
real fanatics whose jingoism re
suited in the "tidal wave for war"
whereon Japan's official , leaders
bobblca, either by design or
chance. ii .'
Geed QaalHlea Tee 1 !'
It is evident that practical reasons eitherihave
delayed or prevented allied action on either 'prob
lem. Aside from its ills, the family system hat
many good qualities of particular value during
the present crisis. Its reformation belongs more
properly to an education program than to official
orders, which are designed primarily to remove'
the barriers for Japanese efforts on their ovrn be
half. Imprisonment or trial of all of Japan's one
time fanatics would not be feasible or possible.
Nevertheless, both problems demand an impetus
for self -improvement which the Japanese thus far
have not demonstrated.! if - !:-
The family system welds together people of the
same blood in tight, self-sufficient clots. They in
turn are bound together In neighborhood associa
tions and a series of other groups, which retain
the vestiges of Japan's eld. clans. In jail, the in
dividual is subordinate j to the group, and ge is
the primary criterion for leadership. At the top
is the emperor, envisioned as the Mather" of the
en ti re Japanese "famHy.? ; 4 l
. Miss Ichikawa's objections primarily were' based
on the lowly position of women. She remarked
that .the women themselves could modify it over '
a period of time, through .teachings imparted to
the eWldren, ' . .. , .11 .1 i
, Indirldaal Saberdiaated!' I ; j( i
The family systerr and its psychology present,
two basic Impediments to democracy. It is difficult
to teach a conception f the individual's Import
ance in a state when he is completely unimportant
. in its basic group. When age is the main recom
mendation for influence, governments are? throt
tled. :. - : - . . r - i.i '-Mf- 1M
Japan's steel core of fanaticism now, is invisible.
Thousands of jingoists were killed ) during the
: war and defeat doubtless changed many more. But
many leaders, though inactive, are living, i
Tojo was a. colonel when he became the brains
. of the dominant military clique. The cruele&t kem
peital commanders were of the same rank. The so
called "younger officers provided the. muscles and
datinx of the militarist era. ; - "V S Ji I
Many Japanese seriously wonder, now what they "Hepe tneyH nave
mediation ; solution some weeks
ahead of the event. The solution'
was set I forth as a .Truman ob- .
Jective of 'the, labor-management
conference the. day it opened,'
and earlier - (Oct SI) the- pro-;
posal had been advanced as a .
logical means of ending the
strike chaos. The General George
report,' urging unification of the
armed forces into a single de
partment with the air wing equal :
and separate from army and ;
navy,. was exclusively discovered"
and published (Oct 8) in this '
spot from the complete obscurity
in which the combined chiefs of
staff bad buried it since April. .
legraa Carried Forward
-
A congressional 'movement was
successfully launched to carry
forward the program it present
ed, and finally Mr. Truman ad
vocated the plan to congress.
The Ma cArthur f move to abolish
Shintoism in Japan was recom
mended as indispensable to con
quest of Japan' as early as Au
gust 15.
The hidden facts - about com
plete destruction of army prop
erty in the China-Burma-India
theatre were first published No
vember Lj bringing an. immedi-
some handy words and phrases
and pronunciation rules are in
cluded compactly in this book
designed specially for "mariners
and traveler In Latin America."
ire 8oing anrwhen they may reappear
a I I'
of. grammar.
GRIN AND BEkR IT "ByLichty
U l; 1 IgSJY . ' . )
aew ears ea the read la f every Wdy
irlvtn' se slew and carefal. eaat make llvln' a merer
ate reversal of policy by the sur
plus property, board, land later
also by the army. - A hospital
slated for destruction Was offer
ed for public sale and; other de
struction stopped. I
Two- days after the October
9 column asked "why? .why?
why?" should we give! away the
atom bomb and urged scientific
defenses be sought to the prob
lem first (advocated originally
August 21), Mr, Truman an
nounced -his policy against re
lease of the bomb to other na
tions, j
Pablicity Drive Sqaekhed ,
Mr. Truman thus effectively
crushed a fullswing national pub
licity campaign to give the bomb
to Russia : and thereby appease
her, (scientists were almost un
animously shrieking: ( "Give it
away"), although the Campaign
a has been resurgent (Attlee-visit,
Byrnes' promise to Moscow). ' "
' The youth draft 'act was not
- defeated as urged in this spot
for. 15 months, but was delayed,
although the war department has
, not yet come- to the point of of
fering a democratic method of
youth training, so vitally need
ed, nor 'has the forecast of Mr.
Ickes, resignation yet come true.
The propaganda of the. Chinese
r communists to lure us away from
our obligations to our war-ally
in Chungking was exposed and
defeated for the present at least
and the army cleverly carried
: forward its program of aid which
the communists desired to break
up. (See column Nov. 13.)
Ahead With Developments '!
The Russian policy of this gov
ernment has worked through the
first 11 months of the year away
from . ineffective appeasement
and ; toward a realistic applica
tion of United Nations principles
and the four freedoms which
has been the line of this column.
In the ' course of i the .Truman'
government generally, I think
readers of this column have been
constantly ahead 'with accurate'
forecasts of coming developments
without exception (cabinet
changes, forecasts of policy, etc).
And congress has , held up ; the
unemployment compensation bill
and watered down satisfactorily
thv full employment bills, as ad
vocated. ' ' , "
The negotiations of the British
loan originally followed the;
points made Sept 17: and Sept
18 in two .columns which resist--'
ed the then current trend of pub
lic; propaganda . and . favored a
genuine loan on genuine terms,
rather,, than a gift., to support a
socialist experiment (we got in-"
terest anyway.) This victory for
Justice was, however, made half
hollow by the final concessions.
Depression Claims Refated j
The ClO-new dealer hue! and
cry that peace would "bring de
pression and great unemploy
ment was denied and discredited
In half a dozen colamns sine,-
'spring and we have no' depres
sion yet Congress joined : this
thought against the CIO depres
sive bills In this inflationary era.
. Communism was objectively ana
lyzed and defined in three col
umns in June to . disprove the
popular fallacy that Russia is
a democracy, and proofs of this
since then have been accumula-
- tive. The column for May 25
-was censored out of the papers
because it reiterated previous
disclosure, made first February
15, that Stalin had agreed at
."Yalta to declare war on. Japan.
' But July 4. a few days after a
government official and a con-
' gressman ' made - similar public
assertions, I rewrote .the fact
again Jor publication, and It was
"published" thartlme: Events later
Pitoiless Plane
'Buzzes9 Toivn
CHIIXJCOTHE, 0 Dec 25-UP)
Residents of two Ross, county vill
ages shuddered yesterday, when
they 'learned that the large air
plane which "buzzed" - their com
munities during the night did not
have-a soul in it -
The twin-engine army transport
craft, which had flown alone for
900 miles after its pilot and crew
bailed out over - DwigM, Nebr.
crashed in an open field 12 miles
west of here.
The phantom ship flew over
Bourneville twice, some residents
of the 200-population' village in
sisted. The whole town wa
awakened. Joe Capretta.va farmer,!
declared, "it almost hit my-chim
ney.'' ! v .. v
The ship came down a short
time later, about 10:30 p. m on
the farm of David Summers, eight
tenths of a mile from Bourneville
IUDC E Chief. Jastke Sir
Geoffrey Lawrence (above) ef
the Naeraberg trials Is : the
"teaghesi' character la the
eeartreeam. reports AF writer
Was Gallagher. t s .
Bulldog Dies
Saving Family
BOSTON, Dec 25.-(-Wings,
an English, bulldog, gave his life
today to save his mastera family
as. fire swept through the home
of' Edward J. Powers, Jr, 1 early
Christmas .morning., - -
The bulldog raced through the '
house frantically until ha waken
ed Powers. The mother aroused
their two children Barbara, 11,
and Edward, 12, ;while her hus
band sounded an alarm. ' -
When firemen arrived the chil
dren were safe outside the house
and Mrs. Powers lay unconscious
just - inside the door, where she
had fallen and injured her right
arm. ; ;;. .v "' '" -' ' ,'v-
The origin of the blaze, which
destroyed the single family wood
en dwelling was not determined
When the flames were extin
guished firemen found . Wings'
body huddled in a charred corner
of the second floorv- - ;
Witness Quits . : .
In Mansfeldt Case
: . '.'. ' - :" .'
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 25.-
The ..trial ;of - Mrs. : Annie ; Irene
Mansfeldt to determine v whether
she is inocent by reason of in
sanity ; of the - slaying . of i nurse
Vada Martin last .Oct 4 will- pro
ceed tomorrow despite' Withdrawal
of one of her main defense wit
nesses... . - . ; : . . -.
Dr. t Joseph Cattot'Jwychiatrist
who' testified for Mrs. Mansfeldt
irr the trial Which last Week ended
with her manslaughter -conviction,
announced last night he-was with
drawing because her attorneys had
a tA. A 1T . I:-,. '1 " W
Ca?SSi:r!JT T the.aanity hearing.
saawva saaaa vi 4yi iiaia itwj-
laser SaaabUe Disdosad
FrosB the San Francisco con
ference, this column carried the
only published accounts' of the
inner fight of the navy and
Senator Byrd to get island bases
in conflict with the Stettinius
"trusteeship" program; it fore
cast in advance, the Agenda and
outcome 'of the conference and
it published the only account of
how Hillman tried to. capture
the International labor setup and
failed, j (I believe no one else own, in a book now nublUhaJ t
has yet published this latter . Binfords & Mort, Portland ($2).
Arrests Follow Finding
Black Market Supplies .
AN CHORA E, Alaska, Dec, 25;
(JPy-The Anchorage Times report
ed yesterday several soldiers and
civilians J were arrested fol
lowing the discovery of "black
market operations in stolen army
supplies valued at $2500." ., .
The report; said ' the supplies
filled '- an army three-ton, six
wheeled truck. It added those ar-i
rested were in the hands of the
army and the federal bureau ' of
investigation. - - V
w
(Continued from page 1)
story.)
Skipping much more of the
same in. earlier months of the
year, I come back to two mis
takes incidental, to a September
column, I reported government
employes have 30 days vacation
and SO days sick leave, whereas
they have 26 actual work days
of vacation and 15 days aick
leave, but are allowed SO days
"in meritorious cases" and sick
leave is cumulative up ' to '90
days. I did not bother about ear- ;
rim is Kailyufs ' story of
MCrooke-backed Oxen," Then
follow extracts from the writings
of James Fennimore Cooper,
Washington Irving.: Francis
Parkman and others.- Illustra
tiona are reproductions of 'old
Prints which add "both' to the
color and the authenticity of the
book. . ,.
All chronicles of the early west
refer to ' the buffalo. Its meat
sustained many a party migrat
ing westward and many a lone
rection because the substance of trapper or trader or explorer.
ine potni was accurately nre-
aoted, but it Is herewith made
: for the record, if anyone cares.
Paesa trreaaaaalr AttriWted !
As for the other, I erroneously
attributed the redundant poem
"A Rose Is a Rose, Is a' Rose,
Is a Rose" to Archibald Mac
Leish, i the Roosevelt propagan
dist laureate, whereas it was
written by Gertrude Stein, the
erroneous attribution was writ
:. ten from San Francisco without
' my usual office research file?.
For this I am sorry either for
r Miss, Stein or Mr. MacLeish, ji
do ot know which. The point
about the -redundancy of - Mir.
MacLeish's international prop
aganda still holds firmly.
Thus are the books cleaned fo
1948. The 1945 balance indicates
you can do much good in this
business if you work at it ,
w . uoom was sounded when
contractors . slaughtered buffalo
by the thousands to supply meat
to the construction., crews and
when , hunters killed them for
their hides. : -
Travelers on the Kansas Pa
cifiv Union Pacific and Santa
le railroads could see great
herds of buffalo grazing along
the tracks, so close that passen
gers amused themselves shoot
ing the animals from the win
dows of the trains.
The buffalo survives now in
game refuge areas or in zoos, but ,
it also lives in the history and
literature of the west and Is
sculptured on our five-cent coin.
Dean Powers does a good job in
assembling the story of the buf
falo from the literature contem
poraneous with its reign on the
prairies.
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