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Making Japan Self-Supporting
Business and political, fear and jealousy com
bine to foil efforts at making Japan self-sufficient
just as they obstruct similar attempts for
Germany. Both are kept going largely at the
expense of the United States, This country gets
tired ofs picking up the check and is anxious to
getboth Japan and Germany off the dole.
france in particular doesn't want to see Ger
many revived economically to a prewar level.
It sees in a restored Ruhr the arsenal which
gain could outfit an aggressive Germany. It
wants to keep German steel production no high
er than its own. Likewise on Russia's side of
the iron curtain the immediate neighbors of old
Germany are not nappy over Russian ideas for
rebuilding Germany.
In the orient Australia, the Philippines and
China frown at the thought of Japan's indus
trial rehabilitation. They suffered from Japa
nese competition before the war. China' remem
bers particularly Japanese trade , penetration,
backed with military pressure, which led to' the
boycott of Japanese goods. The Philippines, now
independent, remembers the destruction
wrought by the Japs in the war and fears com
petition of Japanese-made goods.
According to United States News, however,
American policy now is directed toward getting
Japan on its feet. Between costs of maintaining
our army of occupation and our outlays for food,
oil, fertilizers, medicines, etc, we are out about
billion dollars a year in Japan. Since the pop
ulation of Japan grows at the rate of over a
million a year that support burden will increase
rather, than diminish unless we permit or help
Japan to. revise its industries.
The policy is sensible. It is not right to keep
nation of tens of millions of people perma
nently in bondage. We should do our utmost to
pull their military teeth and direct their think
ing on lines of activity other than aggression on
their neighbors; but we cannot act as permanent
wet-nurse to Germany and Japan. Through
agencies like the United Nations and the alli
ance for north Atlantic security it ought to be
possible to prevent these late aggressors from'
resuming their military adventures. That done
these people should be free to go ahead with
economic- development.
Composition of Forestry Board
At present thV state board of forestry consists
of 11 members, three serving ex officio and
eight by appointment of the governor on the
"authoritative recommendation" of several or
ganizations such as, the state grange, the forest
fire association, West Coast Lumbermen, Wes
tern Pine association and certain livestock
groups. A bill, SB 326, has been introduced to
do away with the system of nominations and
let the governor make the appointments in his
discretion. The change is in the direction of
Testing more power in the governor.
The composition of the board indicates an at
tempt was made at a compromise between tim
bermen and stockgrowers, who used to do quite
a lot of battling over brush burning, etc. The
forestry program has of course gone far beyond
that stage.
, Another reason for the original arrangement
may have been to insure that forest regulation
( would be in the hands of practical men. Again
Aims Unchanged in Russian Shalte Up
By Stewart Abes
WASHINGTON, March 7JP
The basic aims of Soviet policy
remain the same, -. whether An
. drel Vishinsky or V. M. Molotov
Is foreign minister. These aims,
as they are now understood bp
many informed officials and ex
pert observers in Europe, will be
' discussed in an-
ether j report in
this space. Yet
those best
equipped to
speculate are
inclined to be-
. lieve that Molo
tov's replace
ment by Vishin-
' sky may pre
sage an impor
tant change, not
In Soviet aims,
but in Soviet
methods.
Stewart Affto
- To understand what Vishin
sky's appointment is believed to
mean, it is nece-sary to exam
ine the attitude of the Kremlin
to the post of foreign minister be
fore Molotov succeeded ' Maxim
Litvinov In 1939. This attitude
had something in common "with
that of the rich English family
to the family solicitor. The solid-
, tor is trusted to handle the un
pleasant business of dealing with
strangers. But he is expected to
obey orders. "And he Is not asked
to dinner he la definitely ... not ,
one of the family, ,
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Molotov's two predecessors,
Foreign Commissars Chicherin
and Litvinov, were clearly in this
category. Neither was an "old
Bolshevik." Neither was, a mem
ber of the ' Politburo, and thus
neither bad any , influence in
forming policy. By the Politburo
members, the foreign commis
sar's task was considered menial.
It was merely to play out the
farce of maintaining relations
; with the "bourgeois" world while
the real Instruments of Soviet
foreign policy, the international
communist parties, worked to de -
ttroy that world.
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the program has grown far beyond that con
ception of state duty. The state is no longer a
, sort ok sideline strawboss on fire prevention and
' suppression. It is actively in business both as
director of forest protection and aa leader in
conservation. It seems timely therefore to revise
the lw covering appointments to the forestry
board and to vest full discretion in the gover
nor fr making the appointments.
Oregon has had an excellent board of forestry
Under the present system. We anticipate that
many perhaps most of the present members
would be retained. But the system is artifice!
'and the major interest, that of the general pub
lic, is quite In the minority.
I Some fear may be expressed that we might
get a governor who would make poor appoint
tnenti to the board and fuin the department.
Well,! we run that same risk with other depart
ment!: highway, industrial accident, etc. The
prevention lies in selecting good governors, and
the cure in getting rid of those who bungle their
Jobs. I
Forestry is one of Oregon's most important
concerns. The board governing it should be
composed of the ablest persons who are avail
able, without restriction of nomination by
groups with special interests. The pending bill
merits favorable action by the legislature.
Leave it "Unemployment
Compensation"
I An omnibus bill to cover amendments to the
unemployment compensation act has been in
troduced, HB 443. Since it has been pretty well
agreed to by representatives of employers and
laborf organizations probably it will go through
without much change. The bill changes the name
from unemployment compensation to employ
ment security. This is evidently an attempt to
upgrade the title; but it has a false meaning.
The law provides compensation in periods of
unemployment. It provides no employment se
curity whatever. The title should be left as it is.
Besides, every name change means expense in
overprinting stationery and adds to public con
fusion. ,
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This country put a ban on export of certain
Industrial machinery to Russia a year ago. Now
I Russia threatens to reduce sharply its export of
; manganese and chrome to the United States.
These are strategic materials needed in making
f hardened steel, and Russia has been the prin
cipal source of supply for both. Trade, one sees,
;is a two-way street; and cutting down of ex
; port or imports invites similar action from the
part living at the other end of the street.
"Girl from Manhattan" is screened says a
I newt account. Now if she is filtered too she
: ought to be all right.
Remember the explosion of munitions at Port
Chicago near Saa Jtanciseo in 1944 when -II
merchant seamen were killed? A federal judge
has approved consent decrees for payment of
: $39000 to heirs of the victims. The charge wiH
: be met by congressional appropriation.
Russia Mr.
before a senate' committee to assure it he plana
no appeasement of the USA, but will continue
a "get tough" policy.
Molotov's accession! to the for
eign ministry marked a basic
change in the Kremlin's concept
of the foreign minister's role,
Molotov is a member f the Polit
buro, f and has been considered
second only to Stalin in that ,
powerful body. Molotov is an old
Bolshevik be has been at Stal
in's right hand for almost thirty
years. And Molotovsi first act as ,
foreign minister was jlo negotiate
the Nazi-Soviet pact with the ob
scene Joachim von Ribbentrop.
!
Until that time, it had been the
cardinal rule of Soviet policy that
Soviet aims could only ultimate
ly be achieved by the disintegra
tion of the non-Soviet world fol
lowed by world revolution. The
pact signalized the first Soviet at
tempt to substitutes diplomacy
for revolution. The Kremlin
clearly expected that the conse
quence of the ideal fwith Hitler
would be a war between the
Axis capitalist system and the,
capitalist system off the Allies,'
in which both would.; be destroy
ed, leaving the Soviet Union to
inherit their power.
This- first great effort by the
Kremlin to achieve fits aims by
diplomatic means filled in the
end. Yet Molotov remained both
foreign minister and a member of
the Politburo. After the war, the
Kremlin clearly anticipated a sec
ond, and more successful, diplo
matic effort. By alljthe laws in
the holy books off Marx and
Lenin, the capitalist powers, in
their blind greed. Should have
fallen out among- themselves in
the desperate struggle for mar
kets. As the tension mounted, the
Soviet Union could make a diplo
matic deal to divide the world
with the most powerful capital
istic center of power, the United
States, with the lion's share go
ing to the Soviet Union.
' Nothing of the sort has han-
pened. Instead, the - non-Soviet
world Is united fori its own de-
fense as never before. The "peace
Offensive the last Soviet effort
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Vlshinsky doesn't have to go
to make a deal with the United
States at the expense of the rest
of the world has failed.
Now Molotov is replaced by Vi
shinsky, and at the same time the
leaders of the International com
munist movement are forced te
acknowledge publicly their alleg
iance to the Soviet Union in case
of war. Vlshinsky is not an old
Bolshevik Indeed, as a 'former
Menshevik and deviatianiit he
has had to exhibit an execption
aUy agile servility to survive. Nor
is he a member of the Politburo.
And the only other member of
the Politburo concerned with for
eign affairs. Foreign Trade Min
ister A. I. Mikoyan, has also been
replaced. Thus the "bourgeois"
world has been cut off from di
rect contact with the Politburo.
These facts suggest an obvious
conclusion. The Kremlin has
abandoned hope of gaining its
ends by diplomatic means, and
the role of foreign minister will
therefore revert to what it was
before 1939, while the great ef
fort to prepare the Soviet Union
for war will be redoubled. Mean
while, the communist parties will
abandon the attempt to build a
mass following and so to gain
power by legal or semi-legal
means.
Instead, a hard core of "revo
lutionary elite,' an absolutely de
pendable instrument of Soviet
policy, will resort to whatever
illegal tactics may be necessary to
; weaken the non-Soviet world,
and ultimately to seize power by
force. . -
; All this is, of course, wholly
, speculate. The replacement of
'Molotov could simply mean that
he is being groomed to succeed
'. Stalin, or on the other hand that
he is to be punished. Yet the the
ory outlined above is considered
reasonable by those qualified to
judge, and It fits the known
facts. Under any circumstances,
: one thing is clear. The world, and
this country in particular, will
need cool courage and steady
nerves for a long time to come.
Tpromnrs
(Continued from page 1)
Morse-Ives draft of labor law.
On the senate floor the conserv
ative republicans and democrats
amended the bill to make it
tougher' on labor. Then the
bouse added its bit The result
was the Taft-Hartley bill which
was adopted over the protest of
Morse and over the veto of the
president.
In the hearings in the senate
committee the administration
spokesmen have not made too
good a showing. The general
feeling was that the bill could
stand some substantial change,
retaining some features of the
present law. Senator Tart indi
cated a readiness to consider
changes in the present law and
said he would approve of some
changes. Someone from the
White House must have called
signals, because instead of work
ing over the draft submitted by
Secretary of Labor Tobin the
eight democrats voted to send
out the bill Mas is."
It will be unfortunate for the
country and damaging to the
.cause of labor too lf the new
labor law merely re-enacts the
Wagner act with the milk-and-water
alterations of the Trnman
bill. What the country needs is
' not one-sided legislation, but a
law that- will preserve equities
between labor and management
and give some protection to the
public interest. Neither side can
get all it wants and shouldn't
nave everything.
Senator Morse is working to
With Watson at tho Legislature
When Will the Solons Quit?
Little Chance Seen for March
By Kalph Watsen
Today is the 58th day the legis
lature has been in session. Yester
day morning, after the members
of the senate and the house had
enjoyed a week end rest, they
came back to
their tasks feel
ing fine, fuU of
pep and optimis
tic. Speaker Van
Dyke and Presi
dent Walsh went
into a huddle
and came out full
of prophecy and
seeming good
news though
they did not
quite agree on
the essential de-
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Threw la More Zeros
To the Editor: One statement
on your editorial page of the
March t Statesman is surely a
solecism of no little Import It is
in fact such a gross error that I
do not Imagine for a moment the
editors did not know better. Ob
viously, it is a mere slip but one
that should find correction from
some source.
The statement in question, that
now the visible universe has been
pushed to the limits of one billion
light years or a distance of six
trillion miles leaves one gasping,
to say the least Since the nearest
tar to the earth, Proxima Cen
taur!, is some twenty-five trillion
miles away, it necessarily must
follow that all the congeries of
stars and nebulae that we see on
any clear and moonless night are
quite beyond the confines of the
visible universe!
Whew! That's something, as
the boy said.
Seriously, however, it may be
Interesting to note that in 1930
the boundaries of the known uni
verse were 10 million light years;
In 1938 900 million; and at pres
ent as your editorial pointed out
one billion light years. Since light
travels about six million million
miles in one year, the thought of
multiplying six million
by one billion (to learn the size
of the universe in miles) Is ail
rather staggering.
But supposing the universe to
be a mere six trillion miles in di
ameter, or semi-diameter even, is
like supposing the corner grocery
to be the limits of the earth.
Julian Wallace Graham
P.O. Box 764
Literary Guidepost
TO HELX. AND BACK, by Audio
Murphy (Holt; $3)
By W. O. Rogers
This young good-looking au
thor started life as the son of a
Texas sharecropper. When war
' came, he didn't have the phy
sique for service in the Marines
and couldn't make the para
troopers, but managed to squeeze
into the infantry. Even there he
looked so sickly that kindly of
ficers wanted to keep him out of
battle.
But battle was what he had
longed for, and he was deter
mine 1 to do his bit. Coming out
of the war with a commission,
the Legion of Honor, the Con
gressional Medal of Honor and
19 other decorations, he seems
to have done not only his bit but
the equivalent of all of Texas'
bit too.
Equipped with that kind of
recced, he might be expected to
do a book about "How I won
the war. and It's very much to
his credit that he tells how his
buddies and he did it In fact he
describes a couple of his exploits
in a way to nuke them seem
worthy rather of a pat on the
back from his commanding of
ficer than of the highest honor
It "
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obtain a reasonable compro
mlae. He wants a stronger bin
than the Truman version yet
without certain features of the
T-H law. It may come to pass
that be will have more to de
with writing the new law than
anyooe else. It all depends on
how many democrats get in step
when the White House cracks
the party whip.
talL
Speaker Van Dyke toll the
members of the house that if they
would get in and pitch he could
see no reason why the session
should not be adjourned "within
10 days or two weeks," which
would get us all out of the marble
fortress either on St Patrick's
day or by March 21 at the latest
President Walsh, who does not
bubble over with optimism quite
as easily as his colleague across
the corridor, felt that the "oper
ation sine die," as they would say
in the armed forces, most probably
would have to be delayed for an
other 10 days, makig the time of
Weald Save Cenrthease
To the Editor:
A letter written by Holllstcr
Chamberlin, a former Salemlte
how living in Xnglewood, Calif.,
was received by his mother Mrs.
M. L. Chamberlin of 695 N. Lib
erty St
Excerpts from his letter fol
lows: "Dear Mother:
"Your good letter came this
morning, telling about the folks
and of how there was talk of
tearing down the old courthouse.
Z agree with the editorial which
you sent me. It is indeed a shame
to be always wanting to tear
down the old building and trees.
In New England and back East
they value such things highly
and are proud of them and L for
one, do not think they improved
so terribly much on the New
State House or Capitol building
as they say. Sure its nicer, a-
finer and has more shiny white
marble, but it does lack the dig
nified old stateliness and im
pressiveness of the old building,
"with its tall rounded dome and
massive pilLfrs and broad sweep
ing entrance stairway. Remem
ber? Anyway, I'm aH for leaving
the Courthouse as is, if my vote
counts for anything.
Hollister's father, the late M.
L. Chamberlin, was county clerk,
official of the state land board,
state senator and member of the
Salem school board for many
years, a man deeply interested
in community affairs.
Mrs. M. L. Chamberlin
699 No. Liberty
the U. S. government can be
stow. It's only when you think it
over and match his account with
the official recognition of it that
you realize the full extent of his
extraordinary heroism. And it is
just that, I think, that reticence,
or incompletion, which estab
lishes the remarkable authentic-
ity of these pages, or if a hero
is never a hero to his valet he's
rarely a hero to himself. To Mur
phy it was a lot of smoke, a ter
rific frequently, a matter of los
ing this temper. The temper he
lost at home meant a licking; in
battle, it meant a victory.
No one will make the mistake
of thinking that in finding Mur
phy a reliable writer, I thereby
belittle his phenomental feats. He
who saw so many friends die, and
watched and heard the final agon
ies of other human beings, knew
what chances he was taking. But
about all be was shot with was
luck, and he wasn't the worry
ing kind.
There is some quite ordinary
soldier talk, and some very good;
some incidents are sad, and some
very funny. I suspect that where
he sticks to what he remembers
he's st his best and that the dull
passages are filler.
MOSCOW, March 1 Members ef a Nerth Korean gevenuncnt delegatus pees gmard ef kener after ar
rival In Meeeew. They were greeted by A. I. Mlkeyaa (seeend from left) and Andrei Gromyke (third
frees left). Tne Masasw radle seeeeacae Marek 4 that JOkeya had been relaaag ae amlsdator ef
foreign trade by M. A. Mama ft ev and that Greaayke k4 been naaaed first epty amlnfeter far foreign
affairs, replacing Andrei Tfeatnsky who was naaaed foreign adnlstor. Al left Is Klsa Ir Sen, chairman
ef the Nertt Korean cabinet, and fenrth frees left Is vice Oialrsaaa Pak Hen En. Others arc nldentl4
fled. The Koreans were alee received by Prime Minister Stalin. (AT Wlrephete te The Statesman vis)
radio frees Meeeew). .
the final whistle blowing fail on
March 31.
Senator Dean Walker, who sits
up in the front row where the
oratory surges and whirls about
him, was not even as optimistic
as his presiding officer. He sug
gests, off the record, that this soon
adjournment stuff is all wishful
thinking, and he adds at least an
other week to the guess of Presi
dent Walsh, to make the last dsy
drsg into sight about April 9 or 9.
Hlsh Spots te Come
And, when you stop and fig
ure about it the senator from Polk
and Benton very probably has
something on his side of the argu
ment The main high spots of the leg
islative program or agenda, or
whatever you want to call It are
tax and fiscal legislation, old age
assistanoe or social security legis
lation, road and highway legisla
tion and the job of revamping the
labor statutes relating to unem
ployment compensation. There are
other matters of more or less im
portance, some of which are fair
ly weU on their way through the
one house or the other; all time
consuming in their consideration.
The tax program of the j house
has just commenced to take final
shape and be started on its way
to the senate. Two or three . of
the bills of lesser importance have
been put through the house and
sent to the senate assessment and
taxation committee. When the
whole batch gets there will have
a very definite influence upon the
time of final adjournment '
The senate assessment and tax
ation committee has been "going
to school" in nightly sessions for
a long time now, and it has come
to a fairly definite composite idea
of what tax legislation ought to
be passed. That idea, more than
likely, will not mesh with the
house program as it finally is sent
to the senate and the senate com
mittee wiU take its time to re
mould it Then, when the! senate
backs its committee and passes its
bills wiU come the time of confer
ence and final agreement between
the two houses, or no ordered tax
program.
Beads. Pensions Are Problems
Then the road stuff. The house
highway committee has been at
gripe with the major, chore of re
making the truck code and, as far
as indications go, the committee
is not overly hostile to the log
gers and their problems. That may
make a high hurdle when the bill
gets into the senate, and there is
a lot Involved in that bill not only
from the point of revenue but of
road operation and control.
Then the solution of the social
security problem has hardly start
ed on its journey through the
house. It calls for $50 a month for
some 23,000 beneficiaries, and has
n't even started to suggest a way
to pay the bllL "That" as Joe
Harvey remarks, "is up ! to the
ways and means committee.
Then there is the big consoli-
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448, re-writing the unemployment
compensation cade, renamed the
"Employment Security Law." It
has just been printed.
Yes, taking it all in all. It would
seem as though the prophet from
Polk might have the best of the
argument I
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Brewster home at Woodland,
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Purchase of a record -player
Jointly by the Odd FeUows and
Rebekahs was announced at Mt
Jefferson Rebekah lodge Tuesday,
and it was decided to add mem
bership attendance to the pink and
green contest Refreshments were
served by Mr. and Mrs. George
because people once)
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