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PAGE FOUR Tli OREGON STATESMAN. Satan, Oregon, Saturday Morning, March 16, 1948 refion Mmn MM 'So Favor Stcay$ Ut; No Fear Shall AwtT From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor add Publisher Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. IkmgrefcMonal Reform After a long interval of time congress has gotten round to investigating itself. Senator LaFollette cf Wisconsin and Representative Monroney cf Oklahoma headed the committee on, reorganization which endeavored to test con gress for various ailments. Naturally the com mittee fourd nothing wrong with the congress so far a? Its heart and head are concerned. But it digestive ystem doesn't function very well, and for i) lis exercise it doesn't accomplish a great deal. Major it-commendations made by the com mittee are a reorganization of the committee system. Letter provision for forming party pol icy and study for legislation and relieving the member of many of his chores for his district or state. The ir.ost drastic change would be to cut the standirg committees from 33 in the senate to 16 and fxern 48 in the house to 18. Members would ter9 on fewer committees and have more time :o inform themselves on matters coming be lore their committees. In addition more generous provision would be made for research ttffs for standing committees and policy-mak.r.g committees for parties would be created. Each rr.trr.ber would have an executive as sistant at $8000 a year who would be expected to serve at :he ' business agent" for the mem ber's -'coriM.t uenc-y. Members would have an increase in .salaries to $15,000 a year to relieve them of seme financial worries. Three days a week wcIdVbe given to sessions and three days to committee hearings, and a regular sum mer reces-i- ould be provided. Then there are additional recommendations for pay increases "for house ir.d senate employes and for improve ments in tr.e chambers. The recommendations are really very modest. committee? or the seniority system or the op portunity for filibuster in the senate. Even so, it is doubtful" if congress will adopt many of the chances proposed, particularly the one re ducing the number of committees. A fetish is made of committee memberships. The member likes to flaunt the number and variety of com mittees he serves on as proof of his indispens bility both to the congress and to his home his titles even if it should mean cutting of some of his labor. For all our pride in our form of representa tive government and in congress as a law-making body we must admit that it is an exceed ingly cumbersome form. Congress itself finds plenty of fault with administrative bureau cracy, but congressional red tape and slothful-m-ss is just as bad. Notthat members do not v ork hard. They do, very hard; but with primi tive tools in the way or organization and rules. Until co"Tess moves to reform its own proce dures it o-ght to suspend its criticism of bu reaus and departments. Senator LaFollette has given this subject v-;-ry much study. The report of the joint com rrrttee ought not to be pigeon-holed but taken tip and acted on. If the senate and house would bet. the salary increases would prove money well spent. Put That Cudgel Down mi: tees adjudge what building is necessary and what i not. ih a move avowedly designed to prlovid an equitable distribution of material. i; certainly one which should win instant and dtterrtiined opposition. In fact, the move comes closer ;than any other contemplated program torojstcr the contention that there is a plan afoot to perpetuate the OPA indefinitely. L. C. Stoll. Oregon director of the federal employment service. is quoted as having said S-r.asr Morse informed him of the restrictive pi an., "although no indication was given that Mori" was instigating it. No matter its source, however, such action is ndjt in keeping with the overall picture of reconversion. Surrender of freedom of action in wartime does not mean we now should be told who can build a business or a house or who can't. The OPA was formed to prevent price profi teering and to spread food and other supplies j jdiciously during times of emergency?-It still thinks it should keep price ceilings on some things, ration others. Maybe so. But this is no time to let it step out into a new field just be cause it? former duties are gradually becoming non-essential. If anyone has th money and can find the "material and labor with which to build a house, l?t him build it. Lets don't have Washington promulgate another list of rules which a local committee would have totollow in setting it ! up as judge. The war production board, the fairly good job it k.eping the lid on civilian construction. Just ix-'-ause they have been out moded is no reason for OPA to pick up part at th-ir cudgel now just when materials are showing signs of loosening up and when it isn't be claimed that such material must be used only to make the world safe so that Stalin and Churchill can squabble in peace. The Glorias are in a family tiff. Gloria Van-rl.-rbilt Stowkowski has cut off the $21,000-a-year stipend of her mother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and tells her she can go to work to support herself. Or, if 65. she could ask for old age assistance of $40 a month. t . 1 Chester Bowies, economic stabilizer, says that production is held up by "feer and doubt and blind self-interest." His own contribution to Uay the "fear and doubt" is a 26-page docu ment to supplement the wage-price order. Gerhardt and the 29th j When the 91st division was activated at Camp White in 1942 its comifiander was Maj. Gen. Charles H. Qerhardt. It: wasn't long be fore tories came seeping through on what a "tough guy" he was. He made his men swim the cold Rogue river; put officers through rig orous physical training. He was worse than a martinet for discipline, a stickler for mili tary etiquette and perfection in dress. Officers grumbled a lot; some thought he was "nuts!" All were greatly relieved when he was de tached and assigned to command the 29lh di vision. i If The story of the 29th and o( Gerhardt makes quite a piece in the current Satevepost. Because of its extensive practice in amphibious land ings the division, originally Maryland na tional guard outfit (the Blue-Grey division), was selected to participate in the initial land ings in Normandy. The division landed at deadly Omaha beach on D-day; managed to push inland at fearful cost; 'captured St. Lo which opened the gate for Patton's dash across France; swung right to capture Brest after a bitter siege; moved into the Aachen vicinity; with the 104th (from Camp Adair) held a thin line during the battle of the bulge; crossed the Roer river and captured Julich after bitter fighting, and then Munchen-pladbach, which opened the Ruhr to the allies. In ten months of combat the division's casualty lists ran up to 20.688, one of the largest of any division. Now back to Gerhardt. The writer .Stanley Frank, says: "The characteristics that gave the 29th in dividuality stemmed mainly,5 however, from Maj. Gen. Charles Hunter Gerhardt, wholhas been compared with General Patton, a similar ity not inspired entirely by the fact that both were old cavalrymen . . . Gerhardt was a" fa natic on discipline and especially rough on of ficers, regardless of rank." f But others than Gerhardt brought fame to the division. Its assistant commander was Brig. Gen. Norman D. Cota who made the famous remark, when the blood of his men was red dening Omaha beach: "Hell, we're getting killed here! We might as well go in farther and get killed." They went and many of them did get killed. One who did was Maj. Tom Howie, a Virginian battalion commander. With the challenge. "Pou'll see mi in St. Lo" he led an attack when the allied 'advance was be ing held up at that enemy position. Howit wis killed, but his loyal troops carried his ! body into the town when it was taken and placed it before the altar of a ruined church. j "Nuts" Gerhardt may have been, but the division under his command rolled up a great score for itself in the hard fighting in Europe. 1 MA 1 J. D WhIU The new housing administrator Is going to crack down on commercial construction and hardest of all on amusement places. As far ai Salem is concerned the latter jpart of the order locks the barn after the hors got out. Interpreting The Day's News By James D. Whit Associated Press Staff Wriur SAN FRANCISCO, March 15j-(P)-America has a hand in educating at least one out of every ten students in Chinese colleges and universities, ac cording to a recent authoritative; estimate. This transplanting of Yankee ideas and methods continues in more than a dozen higher Chinese institutions of learning. All are Supported at least partly by American funds and partly staffed by American teach ers. M Most of these institutions (and others) now are making their way back to recently liberated campus en. A picture of the handicaps they face is provided by United Chinf relief, which helped raie money for them during the war, and txf other source. It Nearly all have been looted. Neglect has continued where loot, ing left off. Heating systems have frozen and burst. Machinery his been allowed to rust and wear out. Laboratory apparatus has been stolen. Reconstruction Comt High $ AH this will cost millions to repajr or replace. Moving back is a struggle. One refugee university now at Chengtu in wets China nlust first move its faculty and students 200 miles In its single avail able bus to Chungking (which Willi take 70 days), and then down the Yangtze riverja thousand miles to Nanking. Students and teachers like are im poverished by inflation, under nourished after years of a wartime diet. J But to campus after campus, - the trek back is beginning. j Among the refuge universities, the University of Nanking, Ginling college, Cheeloo university, and Yenching university were at Chengtu, where west China university sheltered; j them in its per manent campus. - Returning te Nankin- U . The first is returning toNankiog, where ita campus was occupied by a puppet university. Gin ling colege had puppet troops quartered in its home campus at Nanking during the war. Cheeloo still has to wait .until a thousand Japanese wound ed and sick are moved from the? military hospital which the Japanese set up on its Campus at Tbinan, Shantung. Yenchinf university, at Peiping, reopen ed last October with a small staff of teachers just out of internment camps. f Lingnan university at Canton has been reclaimed by its faculty, which moved three different times during the war. Hua Chung university, of Hankow, faces a long trip home from its refugee site -in western Yun nan province. Hwa Nan womens college is return ing to Foochow from the interior, as is Fuklen Christian university, which holed up in the Fukien mountains along with Hangchow Christian college. DbtnovM by flat Trntmrm Sn ST wtiniMMt with TU WMttsgtM flat End of a Beautiful (Wartime) Friendship Tho Literary Guidcpoot Br W. G. ROGERS TWO MUtaOKS, ky FtUr Polaaf (Creative A; S2.75). Half their parentage a mys tery, Mary Edmett, dead, and her adoring brother, William, alive, dominate with a strange force this unusually adept novel. Their half-brother Derek, who unlike them can identify his real father, has invited William to live on his sheep ranch in wild country more than 1,000 kilome tres below Buenos Aires. That's about as far as a man can get from the London where he had been brought up and the Paris where Mary was married and he, to be near her, worked for a time. Death, which could not sunder the almost pathological bond be tweem William and Mary, proves lees potent than greeneyed Anitilde, Derek's native wife. She is a novelist's find, a seduc tive woman who hasn't heard about the 20th century yet; and where some men can't give their girls anything but love, baby, William can offer also hairdress er, manicurist, dressmaker, even London and Paris. William has extended his childhood nearly to middle age. Half-brother Derek, a cool piece if there ever was one, deplores his obsession, then curses his re lease; for independence means nothing if you can't prove it in the teeth of the one who had denied it, and William with one gesture annihilates two decades, lays Mary at rest in her grave and cuckolds Derek. K couple of minor characters, rascally Achaval and promiscu ous IMarguerita, are worth meet ing. De Polnay sort of sidesteps in to his story, guides it subtly, writes It as if he, like you, were reading it. It's an intelligent novel, though not a great one, but the one kind is as rare thee days as the other. NT TALON IX VOVB HKART, jr Htmey Brff (Datloa; U). Forty-two poems compose this volume by the author of The Manatee," which, though widely read, was one of the sor riest novels of 1949. Three of the 42, "The Lone Rply," "Two" and "Haunted HouV," are cre ditable effort; two more may be described as not negligible aphorUms. The other 27 are worthy successors to the novel. 933100 rrprormre (Continued from page 1) presents its report. It would be much better for the city council to issue merely a revocable per mit for use of the street, with out the extension of a franchise for five or ten years. It is fooliaih to insinuate that withholding this franchise will deny rail service to the indus tries of West Salem and the Dallas branch. Those desiring removal of the tracks from Un ion street have no such purpose or expectation. Other connec tions to the main line are possi ble at not prohibitive expense. The layout of trnrs-virHti-i facilities by rail and highway was one of the lirst t, ,.i.s tackled by the long-range plan ning commission. Immediately apparent was the need to break the "iron ring" constricting the city. Studies are in progress for grade separation of the main line by means of a tunnel or by shifting the line eastward. Either treatment would call for removal of the tracks on Union afreet, which is needed anyway to give the downtown area breathing room. Obviously then no franchise of much length should be given to the Southern Pacific for use of Union street. Since the railroad pays no fran chise tax for use of the street there is no necessity to grant any franchise at all. The neces sary conditions upkeep of its portion of the street, etc. could be taken care of in a revocable permit. These changes can't be work ed out in a matter of days or months, and necessarily will be a subject of negotiation between the commission, the city and the railroad company and perhaps the state. And the city should keep itself in the best position possible for bargaining. PAY BY THE WAISTLINE THERMOPOLIS, Wyo March 15-(P)-Ladies attending a PTA meeting here were served lunch and the charge was a cent for ev ery Inch of waistline. There was no announcement of proceeds from the lunch. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Liclity ; , I & fife "I don't' care how they accommodated you in Japan You can scrub your own back! S. P. to Bring Industry West Southern Pacific railroad has now in operation several plans to bring , industry and commerce to the west coast area Henry Fee, Willamette valley district freight agent of the railroad, told the Salem board of realtors at the boards weekly luncheon Friday noon at the Marion hotel. Eastern industrialists, manu facturers and financiers are being contacted by company men in an effort to shift a large share of the nation's industry westward, Fee said. Ninety industrial prospects for Oregon are in the making in addition to a nation-wide adver tising campaign, he stated. Information on the available sites contiguous to the company's trackage is now being gathered and the realtors were told that they might obtain this informa tion and keep it available for use. Fireman Back After Injury Walter Eberhard city fireman, is back at work after suffering a severely, cut hand while fighting a fire Thursday night at 1945 Berry st. Several stitches were required. The bedroom fire was caused, fi'remen said, when paper cover ing an opening in the chimney was ignited and spread the fire to the bedroom of the Otto Mehl hoff home there. The fire was ex tinguished before it spread to other parts of the house. The Berry street fire was one of four which firemen extinguish- Nips Impotent But Problem "Now is to Get Nation to Do What We Believe Essential (Followtaf b the lat of a Mrtes of wrn articles on Jaoaa fey Own LaUlmorc, on of Aaurkt'i foromoat aotlioiiUea on tho Far Kast, -oaUtor of tka feest-aoUiac -SolaUoa la Asia," an director of tho Walter Hlaoa Pato School of InternaUoaal Affair. Mr. La Ul mo re has Jort returmeo frosa a flrtt-haaa surrey of coadlUoa ba Japaa as special a4 visor to the staM artntcat't reparations mission.) Copyricht. 1SOS, Overseas News Agency, Inc. By Owen LaUimore WASHINGTON, March 15.-(ONA)-We are now entering on a second stage in ; the occupation. In the first phase, carried out with a skill which everybody has admired, the Japanese were disarmed and made militarily powerless. General MaeArthur may have political trouble coming along in the future, but It will not take the form of large uprisings which are both armed and organized, because he has seen to that very effectively. He has now established controls which make it impossible for the Japanese to do anything that he does not want them to do. 1 In the second phase, the prob lem Is how to make the Japa nese do what we do want them to do. The question here goes beyond General MaeAr thur. It concerns owea L tumor e the directives sent out to Mac Arthur. He has very wide free dom of action, as the responsible man on the spot; but he has, all along, acted under directives from Washington. This is sometimes forgotten when "MacArthur's pol icy" is criticized. U. 8. Policy Paramount MaeArthur is the man who car ries out a policy which is laid down for him'by others. The steps taken by MaeArthur are found to reveal to a certain extent whether the policy given him is, vague and hesitant or precise and energetic. In the early months, policy was primarily American policy. From now on, policy toward Japan will be more and more a combined pol icy of the Allied nations; but American policy will continue to be the most importantingredient in Allied policy. There is no disagreement on the general proposition that the Japa nese, after being deprived of the ability to make aggressive w'ars, should be encouraged to become, first, a peace-loving people and eventually, it is hoped, a demo cratic people. But Just how do you issue directives to people to be come peace-loving and democratic? Dlrectlres Sole Recourse Obviously, you can't. All you can do, in practice, is to issue directives intended to weaken the position and the effective opera tion of people whose past records or present tendencies are unpeace f ul or undemocratic, and to strengthen the position and the ability to do things for people who look like hopeful prospects. That means issuing directives which bear down on some people and do not bear down on other people, or even give them actual benefits. All of which means that the coming phase in Japan is the phase which 'will be the real test of statesmanship and political know how. Up to now, the Japanese ed within an hour and a half Thursday night. The others were minor chimney fires at 2142 N. Commercial St., 430 N. 22nd st, and at 15th and Ferry streets. IPajjIbllie n&ecroirdls CIRCUIT COURT Charlotte June Bladgen vs Lou is Hugh Bladgen: Default of de fendant filed and motion to set for trial. Emma Buechler vs Aaron Buechler: Default of defendant entered and motion to set for trial docket of March 18. Juanita Luella Bair vs Kenneth A. Bair: Defendant files answer admitting and denying. Willo Mae Lawson vs Otha E. Lawson: Default of defendant en tered. Donald Walter Mott vs Virginia M. Mott: Default of defendant entered. Eleanor L. Macintosh vs Sam uel Macintosh: Default of defend ant entered, Harry P. Reid ys Maxene M. Reid: Default of defendant en tered. La Faye Currier vs Leonard Currier: Default of defendant en tered and motion for hearing filed. Evelyn Cokeley vs Archie Cokeley: Decree of divorce re stores plaintiffs maiden name of Evelyn Moore. William A. Gabbard vs Ella Gabbard: Default of defendant entered and application for place on divorce calendar filed. Steve J. Marecek vs Opal Mare cek: Default of defendant entered. PROBATE COURT Edward Adam Beach, estate: Petition to set aside homestead property denied. Brook T. Hedges, estate: State denies certain allegations in an swer of Mabel Sullivan, adminis tratrix, to petition of state for finding and order of escheat. Thomas Marsland, estate: M. H. Stuhr, executor and trustee, files annual account. Marie S. Chambers, estate: Ap ril 23 date set for hearing on fi nal account of Joseph W. Cham bers, administrator. Jar..es G. Theodorian, guardian ship estate: Annual report of Pio neer Trust Co., guardian, ap proved. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Harold D. Reust, 24, utility op erator, route 1, Salem, and Elsie Bona nan, 20, clerk, Salem. Elmer Leo Rose, 19, farmer, Independence, and Doris Faye Moles, ScotU Mills. JUSTICE COURT Lee T. White; charged with threatening to commit a felony, dixmissed on insufficient evi dence. lien Johnson; charged with non-support, held to answer af ter preliminary examination. MUNICIPAL COURT Joe Bello, 2110 Mission st., fail ure to stop, $2.50 bail. people' as a whole have not only bowed their heads to all orders, but bowed them rather willingly. They have decidedly not objected to the breaking up of the -old framework of militarism. The end of the war was a relief to them, and anything that lessens the pros pect of war in the future is a further relief. Orders Were Obeyed The emperor's surrender orders were scrupulously obeyed; but paradoxically, this great act of national obedience to the imper ial command was also the greatest blow which imperial prestige ever suffered. The effects were not sudden, but are still slowly ac cumulating. The psychological point is simple: the emperor, who throughout the modern history of Japan has been the personal sym bol of victorious wars, triumphant aggression, and military institu tions, which steadily increased their dominance over the lives and minds of the people, had person ally to announce defeat and to command acceptance of defeat. The first time that the imperial voice was ever heard in a nation wide broadcast, it was heard as the voice of defeat. Consequently, the Japanese have instinctively looked elsewhere for orders, and General MaeArthur has become more and more the personal symbol of authority. What will happen now, when the situation-which will not remain frozen makes more orders neces sary, and when the new orders will inevitably have to take the trend of, hurting the interests of some people and favoring the in terests of others? Evasive Action Certain Those who are hurt will, of course, squeal. They will cook up every possible excuse for having the orders toned down. And whether or not they succeed, they will also resort to every possible kind of evastive action to escape the full effect of the orders. But what about those whose In terests are favored by the new directives? There are two ways of issuing such directives, and the difference between them is all important. If they are worded and issued in one way, even those who are offered present or future ad vantages will be cautious. "Wait until this has gone a little further," they will say. "We can't tell yet. And remember, the mili tary occupation will end, some day. What if the people we have always feared are still strong at that time? They'll take it out of our hides, and we'll be worse off than we ever were." Would Enlist 3upport The other way of issuing such directives is to word them so en-' couragingly, and issue them in such an assured manner, that both the people who get immediate benefits and those who see a hope of future benefits will say "Banzai MaeArthur! Hurrah for the Ameri cans! If we get behind this and shove, it'll work!" By doing things in this way, we could create enough support for our policies in Japan to do the Job of holding down the stubborn mjnority which will have to be held down anyway. But to do thing in this way we need pol icies that are more than mild and permissive. We need to go out openly for what we want, and te give open encouragement to Japa nese who respond. 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