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PAGE TOUR Th ' OREGON STATESMAN Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning. March 21, 1941 NHIIMI Hit mKo Favor Sways U$; No Fear Shall AxotT From First Statesman, March 28, 18S1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY j CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press . . j Th Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of an news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Creek Shipping Slowly tat steadily ocean commerce Is re suming under ' private operation. During the war merchant shipping was under contrtol of the allied fovernments, and private firms en gaged in importing and exporting had to have government permission or allotment of cargo pace for their operations. Foreign trade still is under some measure of government control if only for the exchange required in payment for cargoes, but it is veering more and more back into private hands. The American Mail line again is operating on regular schedule to the orient. American-Ha-waiian and Luckenbach lines are resuming inter-coastal shipping. Other lines are getting bold of th;ps and restoring former routes or Venturing ir.to new ones. Not mfsr.y foreign lines other than ships from .Soviet P.jfrfia are calling at northwest ports but it wii r.ot be long before British and Nor wegian &r,ps will drop anchor in Columbia river and Pjget Sound ports to take on or dis chargr carf o. In the r.ews is the report of the arrival of a Greek rtttmer, Elias Kulukundis. at Portland to open a monthly sailing service of Greek ships between the Pacific coast and the Medi terranean. This ship had called in Portland previously in 1939, to pick up scrap iron and lumber ici Japan (a bitter memory, to be sure). Its return r.derscores the fact that little Greece conducted a substantial shipping enterprise be fore the v ar. Thin business helped Greece, as umilar business helped Britain and Norway, to pay for the goods it needed to import. Shipping and trade come easy for the Greeks, bcaue they began the business back in ancient times, pushing their marine commerce over the Mediterranean to the-pillars of Hercules (Gi braltar) t founding colonies of which Syra cuse on Sicily was chief. Modern Greeks have 'nr.j u.tii country s acuvuy in commerce. They tic no: go in for fancy liners as -Mussolini crowded iialy to do. They go in: for freighters, many cf them slow and dirty luggers carrying the dull freight of the world. But the business pays. Ji v,cw of Greek suffering during the past few years her people are doubtless more eager than ever to get into peacetime business that their country again may be self-supporting. Investigation va Action - This move on the part of the war department to in veil irate th? so-called caste system in the army ftr res us as a lot of poppycock. There will be many stories as there are witnesses, and ali v . be more or less true. There have In-en zt rt.iT.y degrees of discrimination between offerer? and enlisted men as there are com panies, bittalions, regiments, divisions and arm ies. Commanders of each group have used their c'A-n distietion. and many times it has been a bad tr.tiCe. The facts will be admitted here, denied there, and the investigation will end up Fv- repoit,r.g what we already know that a Custe ivirrem exists. Oe of cur major weaknesses seems to be a tendency :e investigate something when direct act-on in tre form of a uniform and mandatory program i the only cure no matter what is found 1c have been true in the past. The war dparlrr r.t knows or easily can find out what hi torn fcing on without going through the expensive and time-wasting process of a formal in' esffTiit.on. If the 1". S. military is to become in reality a citizens' army, the war department must make U o ry specific directives as to the treatment mrA r-ijvileges due the various ranks in the s-svie tnd a formal finding that a GI was t'O'rf'ri out of a hotel in Rome in 1945 or was o'herwisr treated rudely by his superiors out side th' ,;r.e of duty won't constitute a cure. There w denying that in some theatres the cute m reached proportions far out of fcne even with the generally-accepted theory that thje- should fee some definite line of de n:arcatKn between officers and enlisted men. Lets W,k the fact square in the face, accept i as factor needing correction, and act accord in illy. Editorial Comment MlSTt.fc frTROKE OR FOX PAW? Dif.'.m.:.'t have their own war of conveying h:r;tv For n.-'y.ce. the United State is sending the bdy of U.r late Turkic ambassador to Washington b-t- k tc 7..;ikey oo,jd the battleship Missouri. The tmlfsador h been dead two years. His b1y 'doing a well as ould be expected" in vu-i in '.rahinton. There ano reason why it hd: to i -nt home rfgnt now. When Lord Lothian, B -itih i.rribaMdor to Washington died a few years io h . et.-rhly retrains went home aboard a cruiser. Si we a.e obviously ing far beyond the ordinary c uitr:i'. W-hy? . a gftuje of frietvl fines to Turkey, which is re rne").v -.r.reatened with a Russian invasion. Use of th W.'souri -is significant as this is our newest and nvir? powerful bittleship. It is also our best known fhp since the surrender of Japan took p'a ;e ri its deck; A gd uick tf it work.'. But suppose Stalin rmerobeif that neither the Missouri nor our other bat?efctpv aie amphibious. They van net go ashore t fight the Russian army. Russia is more im I'tmous naval aftirk or naval pressure than ar,y fit il nation Wi tist.-ry. And the use of the Missouri for thij purpose at this time- is bound t) antagonize the red czar, who is evidently in a pretty ugly frame of mind rizht nw. So one gue im as grxxi as another as to whether thia rruUe i a master Mioke or the inter national counterpart f an av kward individual opening his mouth and putting his foot in it. -.Bkr Drmocrat-Hi"-wM Tidal Wave? : I In a "letter to the editor-' in one o the cur rent magazines, inquiry is made as to whether scientists planning the atomic bomb test in! the Pacific realize that: in thai region the earth's crust is thin, and if fractured by the test, letting millions of gallons of water rush into the molten interior a tidal wave might result which would engulf coastal cities. Doubtless scientists have reflected on this point as on many others in giving their views - on the contemplated test in the mid-Pacific. And evidently the authorities in control the navy and army air force rare willing to take the risk of tidal waves, destruc tion of fishlife, making the water radioactive. Truth to tell, however, they are by no means sure just what the results will be. That U one reason for the series of tests: to find out The explosion ofi the atomic bomb releases a tremendous force, as has been abundantly demonstrated. Detonated in the air the, effect of the blast is dissipated within the area of a few miles. The result will be very different if an atomic bomb: is exploded under water, because water is relatively incompressible,! so the pressure from the - release of the atomic energy will be transmitted for long distances. Even so, the Pacifier ocean is so vast (71,000, 000 square miles of surface) and so deep (13,440 feet mean depth) that the pressures generated by the atomic bomb explosion probably will be absorbed without either cracking the crust of the earth or creating a tidal wave on continen tal shores. 1 We need to realize that while atomic energy in the plutonium bomb is far greater than any other form of energy which man hat handled, it cannot compare in strength to the force j of earthquakes and cyclones. It still is a local phenomenon, great in comparison with previous employment of force and great in its potentiali ties; but distance remains a safe defense, unless the performance off Bikini atoll gives us a new surprise. I j I I GffTMSU mm w! rmtiTTAKE AtNBMKTAlK ' - - - m m aW aw -w mm. B BP SP SP PS tt t i i tiny Glutton for Punislinient Tho Literary Guidepost By Adelaide Kerr IV - fiim Paal Mai ton WOMAN AS fOKCE IN HISTORY, by Mary R. BearS (MacmllUa; Mary Beard, a pioneer all her life, has pioneered again on a subject that will afford study and discussion for a long time. In "Woman as Force in His tory" She attacks the idea prev alent in historical writing and current thinking that women were a subject sex throughout the ages. She ; presents impressive evi dence to show that, through the centuries, women have been a positive force. 1 In searching for the origin of the "haunting idea" that women were a subject sex, Mrs. Beard says she encountered two illum inating facts: (1) the idea was first given its most complete and categorical form by Ameri can women who were in rebel lion against what they regarded as restraints on their liberty: (2) the authority whom they most commonly cited in support of systematic presentations of the idea was Sir William Blackstone, author of Commentaries on the Laws of England which reads in part: ''By marriage the husband and wire are one person in law; this is,? the very being or legal existence of the woman is sus pended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and con solidated into that of hte hus band." Mrs. Beard tests the le gality of Blackstone's stand and finds it wanting, tests the subject sex theory and shoots it full of holes. : Looking down the centuries, she presents women as a force in civilizing primitive mankind; fo menting, instigating and fighting wars, playing a powerful politi cal role; taking an active part in the commercial and intellectual life of. the Middle Ages and the powerful movements of mysti cism arid heresy and wielding DTP This treat of strike at the Salem I alumina plant seems untimely. It is not at all unlikely that the RFC which foots the, bills for its opera tions would relish some excuse for discontinu ing operations therei Already layoffs have oc curred; and those who strike may find them selves like'a baseball player on occasion struck OUt. i1 ; I Behind the News, By PAUL MALLON j j (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Re production in whole or in part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, March 20 The food situation; is so deeply buried beneath a mulch of propaganda! dozen farmers could not pitch it off in a year, i We were feeding wheat to hogs only last year and the year before, and now we have to eat black wheat in bread. Yet we still have a prospective surplus of 150,000,000 bushels for the end of the crop year, and crop prospects are good. The late winter provided good moisture through the breadbasket section of the farm belt. Winter wheat looks fine in most areas. There Is no deficiency of supply, j Many stories have been told labout the black wheat order, both as to its causes and effects. The one which I believe has not been told as far as I know. Is that the change does not make much difference, as far as increasing the available supply of wheat My most trustworthy experts tell me the order con templated leaving a mite more of the dark husk in the ground wheat. It did not contemplate any deterioration in the quality of flour, and has had less influence upon white bread than upon darker bread. The saving will be limited in amount to the quantity of husk left in the flour which cannot be much. As far as health is concerned, the vitamin content of the new flour would be reduced by only the same mite of Replacement. t ? Af vantage May Be Taken ef Order This is the official position in the matter, and any deterioration in the quality of the flour or bread is what might be called unofficial. Some parties may be taking advantage of the governr ment order to foist poorproducts off on the public at the same old prices, j j f The socalled black bread step therefore appears primarily a strategem to" bring home to the people the necessity for food roncrvation a strategeni which opens an excuse for abuses, a deterioration in quality, and secret price increases, and is a typical old RooseveKian method of "bringing thing! home to the people." S The move for curtailment of portions in restaur ants opens similar vistfs. The OPA Issued this order and specified the sme old high prices should be charged for the smaller portions. If the govern ment wanted to save food for Europe the .natural thing would have been to cut the prices as welt as the portions. That would have saved both the food and the consumer. But by this old Roosevelt-1 ian way of doing the thing, the public is wheedled; into another hidden price increase of inestimable: proportions because the restaurants can I reduce; quality, dispense nearly I anything they have left in the icebox and excuse themselves by saying to the customer "we are (feeding I the starving mi Europe." t ; ! i j Overhauling Dees Net Seem Complete j Enlistment of Mr. Hoover to head the campaign on the newly discovered! famine in Europe there--fore, may not represent -the complete overhauling1 of the food program I though was first indicated.! Exactly what Mr. Iloo'ver is to be, remains toj be seen. He did not immediately get the Lehman! job in the futile UNRRAj but only the prestige of leadership, and went off to Europe to find the scope of the famine, which must be apparent td our armed forces on the ground there since last fall. Indeed, Mr. IIoov reeled off all kinds of futures about it hefewm iht left.i What do these strange events mean? For once "Arithmetic ain't Important, Pop' The government figures your tax. I am stopped by the confusions of Washington. J the O.T.A. figures year prices, and fact-finding committees figure am asking you the answers. : Ji If yea're making any money!" (Continued from page 1) but this appeal to party disci pline comes from a singular source, just a few weeks ago he endorsed the candidacy for con gress in j New York city of one Johannes Steel, nominee of the American Labor party, a prom inent writer and radical, as against the democratic party's own candidate. Wallace himself is an exfrepublican, of a family of Iowa; republicans. His pres ent loyalty, like that of Ickes, is primarily one of loyalty to his political principles rather than to! the democratic label. If he were a senator he would as quickly desert his party ma jority on an issue of major prin ciple as anyone else. The country had an example 6f an attempt to apply the pol icy of the purge back in 1938 when President Roosevelt allow ed himscjf and his administra tion to be used in trying to de feat members of congress who history-making influence through j ideas launched in French salons. In a brief survey of modem history she cites the part wobien played in the growth of Communism, Fascism and Nazism. This is no book to race through between dinner and bedtime. It requires study and concentration to follow Mrs. Beard through the mazes of 'history and the docu mentation: incorporated in her text. But she has written a book which every man and woman should read a book which sheds light on the future of women and the world by shedding light on their past. had opposed some of his wanted legislation, notably the supreme court packing bill. The attempt backfired, and the purge idea was dropped as a bad political blunder. Wallace will get no where with his proposal nov: Those born and baptized in the democratic faith will not take orders from a late convert. Nevertheless the issue raised la one of the perplexing probi lems of the practical workings of our system of government. What is party policy? Who de fines It? What discipline may be or should be used to enforce It? Republicans have had diffir cuties in thejr day as demo crats have now in developing a working party. Then republif can regulars wanted to drive out the "insurgents" and if my memory is correct they did deny Bob LaFollette, sr., of some of his claims to seniority after his independent candidacy in 1924 Under the primary, system, party discipline has pretty well brok en down. The winning candidate, for governor or president often is looked to as the exponent of party policy, the platform itself being regarded as a vague catch-all for vote-getting pur poses. But party independency has prevailed for most of this century save in exceptional situations, as in the "first hun dred days" of the new deal, There is real need for strong er party discipline, based on formulation of party policy on a democratic basis. That need exists even if Mr. Wallace is a poor salesman to offer a rem edy. Our parties suffer from too much independency and fragmentation. But such is the extent of our liberty of thought and our applause for independ ency in voting that there is little prospect for early imiKwition of party halters on members of congress. Therein lies one weak ness in the practical workings of our system of government. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty M eV . t . .nvsMsaj w -jw m m . 01 k The Safety Valve LETTERS llOM STATESMAN READERS "CLEAN BREEZE" To the Editor: In church on Sunday morning we were going through the us ual routine of songs, announce ments, meeting the budget, etc. As part of the usual routine, I was about half asleep. Then a man in the congrega tion rose and In simple but stir ring terms asked that we do something for the starving peo ple In other lands. "Those people are hungry," he concluded, "and if we, as a body, can't see fit to give them some help we'd better close our books and for get it all." Immediately the air was clear ed. Others rose and spoke with like feeling, and action was taken. For me, at least, this episode gave tone and meaning to the whole meeting. I woke up. I felt more inspired by this one ex pression of generosity than by all the rest of the service. Thinking it over afterward, I am wondering if this example may not show somewhat of the conditions which prevail in many modern churches; condi tions which are described var iously and at length by those seeking a remedy, but which may be summed up in two words: lethargy and impotence. But if the clean breeze of spoil- Building Permit j Issued for 818,000 1 Store, Apartment j Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Town send took out a city building permit Wednesday, authorizing construction of an $18,000 store and apartment building at 930 Broadway. Jack Melzer has received a per mit for a $15,000 house at 193d Saginaw st. Other permits issued: Lenn C. Davis, $5000 house at 555 N. 22nd st.; H. E. Pade and C. B. Keen, $5500 house at 2280 Broadway; Roy Eilert, $500 ga rage at 705 Thompson St.; J. O. Scott, chickenhouse at 1585 S. High St.; Dr. Tom Dunham, $600 alterations to house at 1885 S. Church st.; M. W. Welch, $500 alterations to house at 545 E. My ers st.; P. J, Hibler, repairs at 1590 S. Commercial st.; D. E. Woodry. apartment alterations at 345 Bellevue st. Salem Band To Entertain State Teachers The Salem high school band under the direction of Vernon L. Wiscarson, local band and orches tra director, will present a pro gram of music as part of the sec ond general session of the 43rd annual convention of the Oregon State Teachers' association which will be held in Portland March 28 and 29. The Salem high school band is one of two school musical groups which will appear on the general session programs. The other group is the Jefferson high school chorus of Portland. The Salem band is scheduled for its appearance Thursday af ternoon, March 28. Wiscarson Is also on the pro gram committee for the Oregon State Teachers' association de partment of music, which will hold meetings Thursday and Fri day mornings, March 28 and 29, in connection with the conven tion. " Second Salem j Toastmaster Club Organized Salem's second club of Toast masters completed preliminary organization Wednesday night." named themselves the Capital Toastmasters and established Thursday as a regular meeting night, the Hollywood Lions Den as place of meeting. Stearns Cushing is temporary; president of the club; Don Goode, temporary vice president; Otis Rawlins, secretary-treasurer, and Ed Randle, sergeant-at-arms. Twenty -one men signified they would sign the charter. The group will meet next week with the Salem Toastmasters on Tuesday night at the Marion hotel and hold its own first regular meeting at the Lions Den on April 4. Ek-Willamette Prof Speaks To Rotarians Economic capitalism and eco nomic collectivism had better learn : to live together or there will be no world in which to live. This was the conclusion voiced by Dr, W. C. Jones, former pro fessor of economics at Willamette university and now president of Whittier college at Whittier, Calif., in a talk at Rotary club Wednesday noon. Four spectres, provincialism, egotism, selfishness and dogma tism, stalk the world today, Jones said In a talk on what he termed "world politics." Provincialism he defined as a slavery of words using the example of those who would keep their state or terri tory from certain peoples. Define 'Spectres' Egotism he defined as those who as Hitler did believe they are "better than some other class;" selfishness was defined as the fear "there will not be enough to go around;" and dogmatism is becoming an "economic dogma tism following the religious dog matism of the past." The 1 United Nations organiza tion wjll succeed only if there is growing spirit of tolerance and forbearance in the world, Jones concluded. ' Educational History Jones came to Willamette In September 1929 and went to the University of Oregon in the fall of 1941 and to the California col lege in 1944. In the course of the talk he referred to the many changes in conditions during the 17 years since he came to Willamette. He was Introduced by Tinkham Gil State Highway Board to Open $3 Million Bids The Oregon state highway com mission; meeting April 4 and I in Portland, will open bids on numerous road and bridge pro jects Involving expenditure of more than $3,000,000. These projects, which State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock said Wednesday are part of the state's postwar highway program, include; Grading and paving of .68 mile of the iJudkins Point-Springfield Junction section of the Pacific highway In Lane county. Furnishing 10,000 cubic yards of crushed rock in stock pUes on the Waldport rock production pro ject in Lincoln county. Reconstruct existing bridge over Mill creek on' the Dallas-Coast secondary highway in Polk county. Group Hears Recruit Plan The plan for recruiting the postwar army to the strength of 1,600,000 currently organized was presented to a company , of rep resentative citizens from valley communities last night at the Marion hotel by army officers. Col. W. F. Griffin outlined the need for a volunteer army and the opportunities it offered to youth for learning trade skills and for a permanent career. Lt. Col. William M. Cohoon in charge of recruiting for Ore gon and southern Washington pre sided and answered questions from the audience. Others in at tendance were Maj. S. D. Stan field of the Salem recruiting of fice and Lt. C. G. Folen of the Portland office. Floor and wall tiles are shaped under a pressure of about 2000 pounds to the square inch before being fired. I taneous generosity could sweep ! through our musty churches might not our lungs be filled, our spirits refreshed, and new ; vigor imparted to our whole en- i dcavor? E. Whealdon Rt. 2, Box 113 Turner, Ore. Wright Funeral Slated Today Last rites will be held this morning; for Clarence Eugene Wright, Oregon native and Bell Telephone employe for many years, who died at his home, 1186 Broadway, Sunday. He was reUred from the tele phone company in 1934 after 32 years in its service. He had lived in Salem the past year and earlier had lived in McMinn vtlle, Tuft and Yamhill. He was born at Vamhill May 6, 1877. He leaves his widow, Anna; four son and two stepsons. The funeral will be at 10:30 am. in Clough-Barrick chapel, followed by 'interment in McMinnville's Masonic Cemetery. Firenlone President To Visit Salem Store Leonard K. Firestone, presi dent of the Firestone Tire and Rubber company of Akron, O., will visit' the local Firestone out let on Liberty street next Tues day morning, George Klngan, Sa lem Firestone manager, is inform ed. Firestone is to be accompanied by Robert Davis, Los Angeles, Pa cific coast sales manager, and E. J. Stevens, Portland, district man ager. The group also will vUit stores in Eugene and Corvallis. The koala bear is the most pop ular Australian animal. STEVEIIS Watches - Jewelry Pins, Earrings, Bracelets, Chokers, Identification Bra celets, Anklets. You will find our selections complete. Phone: tilt VTt mm Open An Aecennt S39 Cenrt Street J
