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mNo Favor Stray Us; No Ftar Shall Atae
From first SUtesman, March 28, 1831
. 1TJE STATESMAN PUBLISHING- COSIPANY r -
CHARLES A. SPRAGUK, Editor tod Publisher
Member of the Associated Press
Th Associated Prats la exclusively entitled to tha usa for publication of all
. news dlapatobea credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Return of the Japanese
Tha' returning" 4900 Japaneaa tailing, from
Portland on fha transport Gen. W. H. Gordon
art by no means as disconsolate as might be
supposed. While Mm persist in believing that
Japan has won the war, others who admit the
truth arc not reluctant to return to the land of
their ancestors. They may be going to a country
with a standard of liring ,far lower than our
own but they will be withl those of their own
race and look forward with relief to escaping
the race prejudice which has pursued them in
America. There are values other than creature
comforts: the spirit of man has claims aa well
ai his body.
. The parents remember the discrimination -against
members of their own race who may
have been qualified by education for profes
sional work, and discrimination ' against Japs
except for the Jobs the. whites did not want. .
they prefer to take their children home where
the environment is more friendly even if the
labor is harder and the returns meagre -'
Fear of hostile acts or of discrimination has
forked to keep many of the relocated Japs
from returning .to this coast. According to fig
ures of the War Relocation authority, of the
112.000 Japanese who lived on this coast prior
- to relocation only 40.6 per cent are back in
California, 33.6 per cent in Oregon and 26.9
per cent in Washington. The agitation raised
by the hooligans' thus "paid offMn frightening
Japa and preventing their return, though those
who have come back have generally suffered
little abuse.
Not all of the relocation it due to fear of re
turning o this coast. Many found homes and
employment elsewhere and are satisfied. Others
. know of the housing shortage here and do not
care to buck it. While it is better to avoid con
centrations of foreign population it does the
coast no credit that the redistribution is partly
forced by racial intolerance.
Though the relocation centers, except Tule
lake. are closed, we have not heard the last of
relocation. Secretary Ickes last week proposed
the Japs should be reimbursed for their losses
because of the involuntary transfer of resi
dence. These claims will run into hundreds of
millions of dollars. Added to the cost of main
taining the centers it makes the country pay a
heavy price for west coast safety.
atom bomb was adopted (which passes the buck
to that body). The powers, agree to continue
their backing of Chiang Kai-shek, and call for
a unified and democratic China. We made con
cessions to meet Russia's demand for a voice
in Japan's bossing. An 11-nation commission
is to determine policies, but General MacArthur .
remains the single executive in charge. A four
power council will "advise" the general and
review his policies. This seems quite compli
cated and will probably hot work very well,
but we can afford the concessions if the other
gains stick.
Other points of friction seem to have been
discussed but not decided, like Iran, Russo
Turkish relations. However a great deal seems
to have been accomplished in this conference.
Now let us .hope the powers do noil start dis
agreeing on the terms of their agreement!
River in Flood
If the weather bureau's prediction proves
correct the Willamette river here will be at
flood stage today. The estimate is for 31 feet
of water above the low water mark, or about
the same as three years ago.
Those living in the floor of the valley won
der where all the water is coming from. While
it was rainy for days, the total downpour was
not unusually heavy. The answer is that melt
ing snows in the Cascades has swollen the
Streams to bring them to flood stage:
A real flood is always a devastating thing;
but like other great catastrophies it has a cer
tain fascination. The broad expanse of water,
the surging, tawny currents, the logs and
stumps and debris racing along with the cur
rent or tossed in a whirling eddy draw thou
sands of' spectators. Man and his works seem
quite helpless when nature's elemental forces
break loose in wild fury.
Thanks to careful preliminary organization
both of warning and of rescue service, it is not
anticipated there will be the-loss of life or of
property such as was experienced in 1943. The
disaster group of the Red Cross and of civil
reserves was geared for prompt action, and
evacuated people and livestock from the low
lands. Once we know that safety is assured for those
who live along the river we can enjoy, as
. spectacle, the scene of the great river in flood.
Many will visit the river bank today.
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Agreement at Moscow- 4
In the past the enthusiasm accorded initial
reports of international conferences faded as
subsequent understandings or misunderstand
ings developed. So the public it a bit chary
about tossing a hat m air over the reports
of agreement among the three foreign minis
ters who have just finished their meeting in
Moscow. It Is dear though that Byrnes and
Bevin are much more cheerful than they were
after the Londan conference which came to a
dead end. The text of the agreement would
seem' to confirm their optimism. At least the
new mission to Moscow has improved the tone
of our relation with the USSR.
The question of procedure in preparing the
treaties lor Romania and Bulgaria, which made
the road bleak -at Landon was solved about on
the lines of Byrnes' proposal at the former
meeting. The big. powers will .prepare the
treaties with the enesnjrtaiea other .than Ger
many but all will be -submitted .to m .general
peace conference next spring: This marks
progress.
Items en the agenda which were inched with
political high explosive the atom bomb. Chine
and Japan were kept wet down. The previous
proposal of the United States, Britain and
Canada for a UNO control commission for the
Editorial Comment
vsivmnxD criticism j
It Is matter of regret with citizens of the com
munity to .ase the agitation stirred up about a
recent lacssnti tha state training school for boys.
'. The incident' refmed to was the chastisement ot
two of therlnmetea .deserving punishment
Wof tbis -eoanmwmtf who have observed the
school rfreaa the thwe it was first located ka this
vicinity, jaad have seen the trials and tribulations
of tha vstssMS superintendents working with incor
rigiblebejsiawd undermanoed staff and at times
very poor baipart, have always been sympathetic
wtth tba head ot ths school. On account of our
prmimiir So tba instltH4Mi we know what Is going
on there asxl whan sa account of a justifiable pun
. Ikhmantiottwo ot the Wai hue and cry is raised
for She aaalp ttf M. TJ. Tasller, tha superintendent
it It .petfarlly uaviamiaudabie why the local dti
ans teal autaed.
It k ra&Tattable that ttwe daily papers have to
put on their sobsktar aeta when they know so
little stnhe facts, aadrby ths4r actions are helping
crests wmfwlon end fwssswaya. at the school. The
power of the prase, ah saia be used constructively
Instead t destructively as tn tha present case. As
It U, their readers la this section suspicion that
someone want a job and they are taking this means
of setting It ! "
Dn Woo2y is hell la the highest respect In this
enmraunitr; We think he 1 doing the best possible
with what he has to week with and are very pleased
to see the state board of eoatrol standing by him.
Voodburn Independent
News reports indicate that we may join
France and other powers to cancel recognition
of Franco in Spain. At the same time we are
preparing to recognize Marshall Tito as boss
in Yugoslavia and the soviet set-ups in Bulgaria
and Romania. Tito fought the Germans while
Franco is a legacy from Mussolini and Hitler.
Both are totalitarian, and the bird of democ
racy loses a few feathers in the deal.
Market news: Prices of pickles to rise slight
ly. That's a sour note for just after Christmas.
Newer Behind tha Woiv
- i; By PAUL MAIXON -(Distribution
by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction tsi waoie
.or in part strictly prohibited.) -
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be-up,, but bow many w"'.
, The administration wants, high
nriM hut how can it move them
higher than now .in the face of
the coming restoration of com
petition? ' . '
4. Will people - pay the prices
asked? Will, labor's human-leadership
strike on and hold back
production? 3 Will the human
leadership ot the -administration
accomplish its purposes, and. to
: what degree? ' ; .
With a congressional eiecuou
ahead, how far will the spending
faucets of Inflation be turned
still- further?
V These are matters no - human
WASHINGTON, Dee. SO The
business prophesies for 1946 aae
taking a common line predict
ing prices will go higher, and all
the rest of tha business picture-
will fit into,
that inflation-'
ary pattern,
witlv higher
" general , public
earnings, a
continued sell-,
ers' market,
v and a high - le-
- vel free flow of
: money.
The 8nly
' thing I know
t for sure about it is that always
rin the past, when the great bus-
J I
can possibly now know.
iness- prophets unanimously fi- SaMS
agreed on the future, it seldom- flO aUIIClUry
turned out their way. - . "
When Mr. Hoover was elected, ' falUQCPOGX
au were sure were wouia oeiwi;
cars In every .garage and two
chickens in every pot; yet with
in histpresidential span we were
at the depths of all time.
By W. G. Borers
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The Safety Valve
LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS
Depressiaa, "Cared .
" Mr. Roosevel.t we all thought'
at first, would surely cure the
depression, but: it never got.
cured. Then later, wa all thought
it would never get cured, during,
the latter part of the Roosevelt
regime, and along came the war
and pushed us yo high out of it
we cannot yet i' see the. ground
through the economic strato
. sphere. "', ' . -
' Thereafter during the war,
the .great prophets all agreed
there would be a terrific crash
at the end, with great . unem
ployment Now here we are at
the end, with our Christmas sales
much higher than last year dur
ing the war, with more jobs un
taken than men unemployed,
and we. are 'now thinking of a
higher plane ahead unanimous
ly, as usual.
I wonder:
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Consisting of about 40 pages
of reproductions, some- eight or -10
of them in color, and aShort,"
authoritative text, these' books
appear handily just in time for "
last-minute gifts. : V" -
- But they're more- than hand- .
some volumes for a library ta
ble. The subjects are two hn-
portant' painters and one sculp-
tor. Degas and Rouault represen
tative of a new creative eca and
Rodin of an old one. The 'texts,
though sharply condensed de
scribe the place of each man in
the art of our time and the re
productions, which are" identi
fied as to title, medium, size and
provenance, . are an aid to the
student and a delight to the art
lover. - . '
Jewell clearly faced the most
difficult task in writing about
Juvenile delinquency, results. Boost often, because
of too much time on the hands of youth which is
not directed along proper lines of endeavor.
By the same token, adult delinquency is largely
the reruU ef such an abundance of spare time. Most
everyone has more leisure because of these times of
horter work weeks, labor-saving appliances and
IN trend toward more personal liberty.
Tha r.L'ow who is busy at his Job, playing with
M hotfcy. ending in healthful recreation and
fvo'Jrs tiae to a aohadule-of study or self m-
rrovemrnt isn't .getting inio smwu.
1 just doesn't have time.-Orefon City Banner-
C. j ier. ,
interpreting
Bay's News
By -sUehard Bergbab
. Wubrtttmtna for James D. White)
CHTNBSIXN, Maachuris, Dec J0-(VMora
than 1000 Chinese eomraunists In a -prison camp
:hare -are -being igiven intensive: "political training'
to aw thair nranunkt philosophy and instill
theories at use .Kuominteng central government,
national army Italian .report.
The .prisoners, -who -range from piping-voiced
youngsters to anarled, toopcd- old farmers, are
haaring. lectures -awery : -nwrning-,
and sitenwon ttesujneu to create,
faith in and allagiance to the'
Chiang Kai-shek government
"Our main job here is re-educa
tion." MsJ. Gen. Liu Kuang-Ylng
told me. He Is politics! adviser
to the Central government army
in Manchuria.
Nat Rada at Heart .
"Most of these people will most
likely become- good' citisans, he
said, "because- they are- not really
communists at heart. j. wast
General Liu, who is in charge of afl communift
prisoners In Manchuria, operates this camp .far what
was formerly the Chinese district jail. Most et the
prisoners live in barred cells. , I saw many cells i
' that housed six or seven men. And in one small
cubicle I counted IS men. -
The general ordered all the- 1158 prisoners aut
to stand at attention on the drill ground for my
visit and agreed to my request to select individuals
at random for questioning. He remarked, however,
that all of them disclaimed any, particular ffilia
tion with communist ideology or the communist
party. . ' ' . .
One youngster said he was Kwan Hsing-Hua, 17,
a farm-bred boy who had been working as a clerk
at a mine when he -joined the communist police
guard. '' '
Taii VJL Na Oaad.
Kwan said ha had-been given two weeks of train
ing by the communists, mat they armed him with
a Japanese rifle, which they said they had obtained
from tha Russians, .and told him the communists
were fighting for a greater China and that the
Central government and the United States were
"no good." - . -
Another prisoner with a typical story identified
himself as Liu Cheng-Wu, 30, a former peddler who
was drafted by the communists north of Tientsin
and had fought against the Japanese.- He said his
communist superiors told him the Central govern
ment was corrupt and that the United States was
supporting it while the Russians were supporting'
tha communists. ' -
General 'Liu said he was giving the prisoners
mass instruction in "spiritual cultivation, ethics,
Chinese history, world politics, comparative study
of political principles and general citizenship.' One
af the text books, he said, was "Destiny of China,";
by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
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began its work. Millions lived in
wretched slums, - in utter de- :
pravity. Vice, crime, disease
flourished. Youth grew up as
street gamins. Men and women
were debauched.
Times have changed. Living
conditions have greatly im
proved. Laws regulating light
and air and sanitation in tene
ments have rescued families
from the foul darkness in which
"the other half" once lived. Bet
ter wagea have lifted them from
utter poverty. Parks, play
grounds, recreation facilities re
lieve tha monotony of their ex
istence. This transformation has not
come Just because of the Salva
tion Army. The Army perhaps
did lest than such social reform
ers as Jacob A. Itiis and Jane
Adams and Florence Kelly to re
deem humanity by aiming both
at improving conditions and at
removing some of the causes by
which those conditions
flourished: low wages, political
corruption, no recreation. The
Salvation Army has always kept
in mind the "salvation" of the
individual, regarding his person
al redemption to decent living as
fundamental for an improved
world. But its open espousal of
interest in those who were down-and-out
drew attention of other
groups to social problems.
In the present state of very
general prosperity, the "other
half or the "submerged tenth"
or FDR's "one-third ill-fed, 111-
clothed, ill-housed" has been
greatly reduced in number. One
wonders if the Salvation Army
. ha sat lost its "customers." The
"poor and lowly" are by no
means as numerous ss they were
15 years ago.
Perhaps not, but still there are
THE ARMY'S "REASON"
NOT APPARENT
To the Editor:
? I note with interest your edi
torial of the 27 December, "We
Can't Blame Them." I would
like to make soma comments.
For the entire-duration of the
war tha army has hidden be- j
hind the excuse that it couldnt
divulge its plans or intents. This
has been true. However, behind
mat simple, , irrefutable argu
ment lies a multitude -of sins.
When I was first inducted I
was told that the arms had a ,
reason for "everything. It didn't
take long to find out that any-
that they were moved only for
the most . efficient operation of
the army organization.
You suggest , that the army
keep them busy. You have
newspaper office.' You have a
man who' sets type. Now sup
pose you put two or three men
in his place. All would have an
easier time. But now put 20 '
men in that one man's place.
Keep them busy? With what?
' I was an instructor of B-29 pre
gunnery at Lowry field. When
the school closed down last July
about 100 instructors were left
without jobs:. From July until
November when I was discharge
Let us look at the facts we Rouault . . . still alive and in his
thing the army did was done in , ed, I performed no useful work.
the slowest, most inefficient
manner pssible. When the boys
came back from overseas - with
50 combat missions to their
credit and were made instruct
ors, they were not allowed to
teach what they knew would
aava other lives, because such
material didn't agree with the
army manual. Countless, other
things were' the same. Any GI
could tell the same story. ."The
army has a reason for every- :
thing." So personnel on the west
coast are shipped east, antiper
sonnel on the east coast are
shipped west Is there really a
-reason, do you suppose? That
is, a reason that contains one
iota of good sense, Too many'
boys have seen too much coun
try to make it seem plausible
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I was made clerk in the arma
ment school. If I worked half
heartedly, .my work took two
hours a day. Two more men
were brought in to help me.
Keep busy? It is no wonder that
men become restless. Men .with
families at home who need
them. Men who have an educa
tion to complete. Men who can
see years slipping- away never
to be regained.
I wasn't a solitary case. There"-
were hundreds of men on Low
ry field who did nothing but
sweep the streets, pick up.ciga
ret butts or do KP. The other
occupation was lying-in tha good
old "sack." All tha while tha
discharge- center was operating
at 50 per cent capacity. .The -discharge
of these men could have
in no way hindered .the dis
charge of high point overseas
veterans.-
The demobilization program
has reached a disintegration for
a very simple and obvious rea
son. The original high point
men held key positions in all
units. When they were dis
charged tha replacements were- -the
men- in the next lower ;
bracket Next month the score
was ' lowered and these men
were discharged. WeekL after '
week, month-after month this
proeess continued. Disintegra
tion te a fitting word but it ia
- " hardly a- necessary condition.
T f i ' After VJ day the army com
ty ijlCIliy plained that their discharge
maenmery was nor, running
smoothly and hence accounted
for the slow? rate of discharges.
And yet veterans of 50 or . more
missions had. been in the states
for eight or nine months daing
nothing. They should have been
home for mat entire time. They .
had plenty well dona thair
share, of the fighting.
' Peacetime military education
is being -. advocated. Naturally,
our officers would like to keep
their jobs. They pay better than
do those of the ordinary en
listed man of the lower gradesv
However, it is too bad that not
more ordinary people cannot
know the waste that is made of
men's lives in tha army. A year
many whom fortune has played
ill, many who have not had the
strength of character to stand
prosperity. Then there is moral
wreckage in society which does
not arise out the state- of the
purse. So there is still work for
the organization which the
Booths founded; and perhaps
mora in years ahead than mere
has been recently. Miss Booth's
recent birthday brings her into
the news, - and serves to refresh
the public mind on the work of
the organization in whose growth
she played a very Important
; part " "': "' ; ;
have, atom by atom, and behind
the atoms. They say there will
be "higher prices." Prices xn
erally are baaed on the avail
ability of goods.
Shertage New
When there are ahortages any
amount can be charged for .
goods, and collected from the ;
people, if they have money as
they do now.-
But in the next year ahead '
we are planning to get back to
our peacetime mass production.
We' havemore machines and.
men thanever before. War has
developed manufacturing short
cuts, for production.
, As production brings goods to -the
market competition will be
restored. This means not only
competition in quality but in
price.
It is quite clear then that the
expectations of expanding pro-,
duction ahead will work against
higher prices. Indeed, mis will
work gradually as production
swells Jn theJatter months of
we., year toward lower prices.
Uaieas Seek Raises
But tha unions are 'wangling
great unprecedentedly- large,
vage- increases from industry, V
and this development coupled
with tha announced intention of
the government I to maintain a
high price . level, will surely
force- prices higher, they say,
Yes, certainly- this would seem
to force an increase of the price
of union-made -goods. On tha
other hand, people have grown,
during the war, to-be satisfied
with patches, with old things,
with repaired machines.
. If only the unions get these
tremendous wage increases, and
the rest of us must plod along
on our same.aalaries m the face
of higher prices for union-made
goods, the common" foresight of
the business prophets may not
prove true.' ' "
There has been every other
kind of strike in this country,
except a buyers strike. The con
ditions being created may force
one:. ,
Therefore, I believe the hum
an element will determine the
course of business for 1949. We
know the economic factors. We
do not know how the people will
react to them.
Wage Trends?
We- know the ahartages of
goods wilT not be completely
cured by next year, but a plenti
f d supply will be restored in
: ny lines. Union , wages will
middle 70's. Degas and Rodin
hava won general ' acceptance.
In the nearly three decades since
they died, they have fallen neat
ly into a fixed position in art
histories. Tha painter's laun
dresses, dancers, nudes and race
track scenes, though sometimes
brutally frank are recognized
as an aspect of beauty, and the
painter himself has. become
something of the same tart leg
endary figure as Whistler. The'
sculptor, so utterly lifelike that
he,never perturbed, the lay pub
lics as French, modernists hava
done, is beginning in fact to. lose
the edge of his reputation among
connoisseurs who ask where- his
sculpture begins and where his
copying stops. -t-.r
Rouault is more-of a problem.
He's n expressionist; what ha
feels in an object rather than
what he sees, is what he tries to
express. The good American
public is apt to-demand -.of a
painting something it can identi
fy, and to -shy-off raimily- from
emotion; so Rouault' s roughly
drawn figures, his bold black
outlines, his strong color have
failed so far, despite several big
exhibitions devoted to them, to
make much headway with that
ultimata judge; tha man in tha
street. -
On top of this Rouault is in
terested in social .problems. He
satirizes judges, he ... but read
for yourselves..
Jewell is art editor of the New
York Times. Mauclair was for
merly art critic of Le Figaro.
Adams is director of the Colum
bus GaDery of Fine Arts.
WHEAT PRICES 80UD
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29
OPA said yesterday It had no plans
for Increasing- wheat ceiling pric
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Distinctive Styling
Practical
Hclision
fcy ev. John U Ralght Ir.
Cowaatlar aa RmUiAaom UtL.
jmrarsity. .
"Oh. eaeaa en. PraC 8aodrrass--Its New Year's Era let's teach
aft a aaaall one before we gar
of "military eduction" would Every good picture or paint"
! , , "i"? In fcouW be mounted in a
andt4 weeks of KP. Is that frame compatible with its tone
what we will wish upon our or meaning. Nothing Is mora
yomnr ; detrimental to a good pieee'ofart
1 am.OUt n0,i V : than for it to be poorly or im-
iuw-Kin iui lursw ; -properly frasned
"Jf, lov oi my muwies Consider the ways in which
are still in. They want out too. tha figure of . Christ has been
.What transportation ahortage- is framed In creeds, in cclesiax-
hoiaingiip the boysstattoned in cal orders, and in aocial systems
the states? And yet they cant, entirely incompatible with his
get out character suid his teachinea.
mv v u mtiur .:,: Mouung nss Deen mora detri
those who like It and let oth- mental to the Christian eauae
ers out? Some men like to make : than that! It is high time -that
some use of their Uvea. ,we begin to build a framework
-r- . David F. Bases ; c living which win properly
; ; Roate Box - - ,diitply the character nd will of
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Not just another ring but aa
entirely new design, skillfully
usnionea la 14kt. Rold. A
worthy setting- for- a Stevens
flawless diamond.
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