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fl.Ty p-- r- v Crg-n, '. "No favor Sway Us, No Fear Shall Awe t - - mm First Statesman. Hnh IS, U51 ' ' THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY v - CHARLES A. SFRAGUE, Editor tnd Publisher rablished every rurr11 Easiness office SIS &CommerclaL galea, Oregon. Ttlepheae S-ZtiL Catered at the postofScs at Salem, Oregon, as second class matter under act of centres March 1, 11731 fo Must Know The worst mistake American officialdom has made thus far in the" new war is not its tragic underestimation of the enemy, but its equally tragic and wholly inexcusable underestimation of the American people. Underrating the strength and determination of the enemy is a terrible error because it means unnecessary bloodshed while the nation makes up for unpreparedness. Underrating the strength and determination of our own people creates nflt'c"'! disunity and . confusion conditions which stymie the maTimum war effort required . to counter , the thrusts of the enemy wherever they may occur.- --; . When our leaders show by their actions that they-do not trust the people, the people in turn distrust the leaders; the result could be chaos. The best evidence of Washington's lack of ' confidence in the citizenry is Washington's at tempt; as Columnist Joseph Alsop writes, "to try to do the job on the basis of business-as-usual,.' politics-as-usual and the usual doses of poisoned 'soothing syrup for the American people." : : --..:..'... The gravity of the situation in Korea, for instance, is still being elaborately concealed from the public, Alsop reports. A report from John Osborne in the current "Time magazine is the first inkling we have had of the kind of war the Korean war is a war which "forces upon our men in the field acts and attitudes of utmost savagery," a war in which perhaps for the first time American GIs have to machine gun civilian refugees, men, women and children, as standard operating procedure. f Administration officials have failed to keep us well-informed, not only on the battlefront situation but also on the background for war and on our war aims, not only on what we have not done but aXo on what we must yet do. They have; glossed over the hard and ugly facts evidently because they are afraid of our re-' actions to the truth. Maybe they , fear our reactions will be expressed at the ballot boxes next November. Maybe they are afraid our reaction will be the kind of snivelling with drawal that expresses itself in all kinds of foolish behavior, from burying ourselves in torn bomb shelters to embarking on a national orgy of "eat, drink and make merry for tomor row we die." So they feed us pap, to placate the politicians and the cowards. V. v We believe the officials who would appease the people with corn and circuses are making the same mistake the Caesars made during the decline of the Roman empire. The average American, we hope and believe, Is no smug slob, primarily solicitous of his "well-larded, coiled, greedy, ; peristaltic gut" (from David L. Cohn's "Household Hints for Hoarders") and his 1950 hard top convertible with two complete sets of brand-new tires. The average American, we hope and believe, still retains the same spirit that made Valley Forge a shrine, preserved the Union in a civil . war, built the Westsent the Yanks over there, waded through hell to hold Anzio, raised the flag on Iwo Jimo, and is big enough to shrug off lies and insults and beat off armed aggression to keep the United Nations dream intact. The average American today, we hope and believe, has at least the courage and resolve the. British people showed when they their lives during the Blitz. , But 'SHfr'f'il!? Grim Spectre of Korean War, Backed by Red Propaganda By Junes D. White l ' AP TarUgn Neva Analyst SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20- The grim spectre that looms be yond the Korean war is not me$e- ty anotner world war, but en drawn largely upon i! racial lines and therefore much harder to pre vent, contain or . stop. v This tendency ' toward racial war is due part ly to long-range communist planning. ' Nik olai Lenin and Joseph Stalin both wrote, before World War I, how the collapse of capitalism could be hastened by subverting capitalist colonies. B,ut the danger of racial war is also partly due to certain polit ' Jeal weaknesses of the west which irobably gave the "Russians the dea In the first place." One of these weaknesses is the western attitude which non-westerners often take as a racial superiority complex. Another is the imper ialism which was possible in the past because of this attitude. ' -: - ' Even though the western world v now generally realizes that Im perialism is no longer practical (to say the least) it still displays . this racial superiority slant. This ; naturally enrages those who feel i themselves stigmatized as infer ior . . - -. - .- You thus now have two, huge problems in re-educating people , which have to be sabred pretty mech at the same time. The so- called white races of the west have, to register the rather im portant fact that for all their technical superiority they are , heavily outnumbered; jthat-fail-ure to adjust themselves to this " reality, sooner or later, will in vite extremely grave trouble. On the other hand the non-whites have, to be convinced that the whites-really have caught on and mean to do something about it and that the problems involved are so -enormous that they can- ot be solved without great pa- tience. ' ITc'ry, IrTtt SI, 1 - i 1 S n people knew what they were called upon to face, knew what they had to fight with, knew what fhey wen fighting for. Winston Chur chill was not afraid to tell them the truth. He promised the British blood, sweat and tears, with no chocolate coating. And their response was one of the most magnificent acts of collec tive heroism in history. Once they had the facts, Churchill said "give us the tools, and we shall finish the job." 1 . , . Americans today have the potential tools and the latent spirit to finish the job. But we ' do not have the facts. We have not been told the truth. Corn and circuses will not inspire the American people to respond to Secretary of State Acheson's appeals for strength and sac rifice. Statements by Secretary of Defense Johnson that everything is just peachy will not encourage the people to mobilize. : i The public, as much as the boys we send into battle, must know what we are called upon to face, what we have to fight with, and what we are fighting for. . , Someldf. Signals Crossed? Resolutions passed by the west coast caucus of International Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's union meeting in North Bend last week must have come as a surprise to the Ore- ' gon Labor Press, published weekly in Portland, i In its issue for Friday, August 18, the Labor Press 'said editorially: "That the communists are still in full control of the Longshoremen's union has been demonstrated. The Bridges gang prevailed and the opposition didn't have a chance. . . . James Fantz, Portland communist of long standing, was named to head the caucus. He is well supported and surrounded by other communists; Bridges and his traitorous crew have their clutches firmly on the maritime i industry so far as their jurisdiction goes. . . There is no obligation in a democracy to protect those who . are traitorous and who seek destruction of dem ocracy. Bridges is guilty of both charges. James Fantz is guilty of both charges. . . The communists - are a menace to the world. They are intolerable in a democratic nation. And we ought not to be silly enough to be victims of their deception." In a story datelined North Bend, August 18, an'Oregonian staffer reports that west coast longshoremen Friday cut all ties with two left wing organizations the World Federation of Trade Unions and the Maritime Federation of the World, ousted Harry Bridges as honorary president of the MFW, and adopted three res-, olutions supporting the American war effort in Korea.' ' - j With James Fantz as president, the caucus supported a resolutionr that "we go on record without any double talk that we will support our government and our president 100 per cent in this great crisis and we will load any and all cargoes destined for the war overseas." But resolutions critical of the Bridges administration j of the union were killed. ' , The longshoremen's continued support of j Bridges may be suspect, but their resolutions I supporting the UJS. war effort certainly do not j follow any communist line. The Labor Press ! evidently ' regards the caucus's actions as de ceptive . .. . or maybe the Labor Press just published an editorial based on conjecture which proved false after the paper went to press. A good many people keep one eye on the war headlines and the other eye (the good one) on - market quotations. They try to ride Korea's 111 wind into' personal fortune. fought for the British Racial War Looms Behind It's typical of this situation that North Korea didnt wait, and that the west anpears to have de luded itself with its own fictions about oriental patience. At any rate, a great many westerners , were surprised at North Korean impatience. 0- Ah, you say.'but the Russians are back of the North Koreans. That is exactly the point The Russians drag in their propagan da machine and start broadcast t ing. They take the truth and twist It to their own ends. : And what is the finest grist for their mill? dose to the best is the unsolved part of the assimilative problem in the United States of America. . f Non-whites like Asians lap up this stuff. It conforms to what By David Taylor Mark AN EDITH WHARTON TREAS URY, edited with an Introduc- tion by Arthur Hobson Qulnn (Appleton-Century-Crofts, $5). - Edith Wharton, at the time of her death in 1937, was a great literary, artist Her superlative satire on the comfortable New York society into which she was born, her brilliant style, and her rich understanding of the essen tial drama of human relation ships gave her writing lasting significance.' The editor, has selected her Pulitzer prize winning novel. The Age of Innocence,' three novelettes and eight of her finest short stories. These represent an admirable cross-section of her work early and late; American and European in background; realistic and imaginative in style. Each item is included here with reason. Obviously, a great social satirist should be repre- sented by a novel like "The Age The Old Maid," short stories like "Autres Temps," "After Hoi-- beln," and -Xingu," in which ah portrayed American characters in tragic or comic situations, Literary Guidepdst they have and have not learned about white races in general. The Russians play upon their frus trations, and you have got a nice basis for a racial war. You can do something about this, you can be careful to act as though you believe in ideas and institutions that are above race differences like the United Na tions. You can welcome any as sistance to the U.N. cause, which ,1s being done. But this is not enough. Asians need positive evidence that their problems rate just as high in world consciousness as those, say, of Europe. A running argument goes on in the United States as to which is more important Eur ope or Asia. I think most Asians would welcome wider recognition of the idea that both Europe and Asia are parts of the same world. with a sense of social values al ways in the background. Equal ly skillful is her portrayal of Americans in contrast with Eu ropeans as in "Madame de Trey mes," or when, as in "Roman Fever," the contrast lay in the European background and the characters were American. . Another field in which she ex celled was that of the tragedy of lives limited by poverty or by other circumstances. Thus, after "Ethan Frome" the choice of Bunner Sisters' was inevitable. Her treatment of divorce finds one of her best expressions in the story "The Other Two." Sim ilarly, her long association with artists, both in France and Italy, where she spent the last part of . her life, made the choice of a story like "The Moving Finger" necessary here. ': Another field in which she ex celled was the supernatural. Here too, the editor made the ob- . vious choice. "The Lady's Maid's : woman's watch over the fate cf the mistress she loved. "A Bottle of Perrier" in this field, adds the touch of the east to the super- naturaL .. . f X -1 'yl . 1 - II'' ' Ir ' , Ingrid,s Home In Stockholm Popular Spot By Henry MeLemor STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 21 A small, unpretentious, green wooden house, half hidden by trees wnose branches throw shadows on a dreary canal, is fast becoming one of the ma jor snowpiaces I , of Stockholm. Guides tell you that almost as many people want to see the snug little home as want to seel m supero me dieval castle of Drottningholm, the magnificent City Hall, or the National Museum. . The cozy house was the dwell ing place of Ingrid Bergman in the days before Hollywood beck oned and she was known chiefly as a promising young graduate of the Kungliga Drama tiska Tea- tern here. The sightseeing boats pass in front of it near the end of their . two-hour trip over the lakes and through the canals which give Sweden's capital its name.. "The Venice of the North." . When the passengers are told that on their right is the place where Ingrid Bergman raked the leaves, cooked the food, washed the dishes, and all the other things that a good Swedish housewife does, necks are craned to the cracking point, "oh's and "ah's" all but rock the boat and the skipper of the boat knowing human nature, throttles down to a mere crawL . If the boat I was on is typical, tourists pay no attention to the next five minutes of the trip, so busy ; are they discussing Miss Bergman's flamboyant departure from the role of staid housewife, whether or not her career, is ruined, whether she gives a hoot if it is, and the mystery of why she chose the balding Rossellini when she undoubtedly could have gotten a man with a full head of hair. : - -' - ' ";!- - ' I (This last annoyed me. What in the world is wrong with a man who is growing bald grace fully?) If you don't care to explore the insides of museums, libra ries, public buildings and the like, most of Stockholm can be seen by boat Along about the third month of a trip many tour ists find the Insides of historic buildings almost repellent I am entering this stage now, and by the time 1 get to Switzreland I probably wouldn't cross the street to hear an Alp yodet ''' The symptoms of this disease, known by the rather long . name of ."let's-iit-outside-while-the-others-go-in" are very pro--nounced. You know you are catching it when, no matter how beautiful the staircase, you find yourself counting the number of steps it has. Another symptom is the disinclination to walk the length of a gallery to see a Rem i brandt or a Velasquez when you've already seen one. Stockholm is the ideal city in . which to catch this toumst fa- . tigue because it is such lovely . city that you need not feel ashamed about not going inside buildings for your beauty. Other cities may have one or two more bream-taking views than Stock holm, but certainly no city can match it in the endless number of delights to the eye it has to offer. . ; . . ' - ' - It is a city of islands, and the ' city fathers bare seen to it4 that Man has 'not, been allowed to ". crowd Nature out of the pic- HOW TO SILENCE THIS ture. To walk about Stockholm is to walk In a vast park. Hun dreds of sailboats dot the blue waters. Graceful bridges con nect the many islands. A few minutes' walk from almost any of the commercial centers and you can see ducks and swans paddling around in the main waterways. , I havent seen all of Stockholm k by any means, but it must have fewer ugly buildings than any other capital anywhere. Even though I knew that Sweden was ahead of the rest of the world in social progressiveness, I was not prepared for the sight of the Old People's Home here. It is situat ed on a high hill, and is the first big building travellers by ship see when they enter the harbor. Everyone seeing it takes it for' the Royal Palace, it being about as big and a more handsome building than King Gustav's Royal Palace. Stockholm being as lovely as It is, and having so many ad vantages, it may puzzle you to know that thousands of Swedes dream throughout each year of the vacation that will take them to Copenhagen for two weeks, or longer if possible. - Tomorrow I will let you in on some of the reasons for this Swedish exodus to Denmark. Better English 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "Several hundred acres of land has been purchased." 2. What Is the correct pronun ciation of "viscount"? 3. Which one of these words is mispelled? Operetta, opinion ated, opressive, opossum. 4. What does the word "pro vident' mean? - 5. What is a word beginning with det that means "abomin able"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "Several hundred acres of land have been purchased." 2. Pronounce vi-kount, 1 as in vine, on as in count accent first syllable. S. Oppressive. 4. Mak ing provision for the future; fru gal; saving. "The provident man can look forward to the future with equanimity." 5. Detestable. GRIN AND BEAR IT "Jest seme elty peeple asking 6 we get seaae sheets, puleweases er sqrleas re stock . . ONE? EQQOjOS (Continued from page 1) a candidate to administer the whole program of controls. Its supporters will argue, and with merit, that only by integration of controls . can economic order be maintained as we go into a war economy. . Sparring on the outskirts are the private interests: manufac turers plugging for commerce; la bor unions plugging for Maurice Tobin and the labor department; other groups supporting Brannan and agriculture. In this it looks suspiciously as though the real purpose is for special interests to control the controllers. The needs of the country will still be obscured by the demands of separate groups. Lots of lip-service for patriotic sacrifice; lots of close in-fighting to have the sacrifice fall chiefly on the other fellow. . Poor President Truman. He will have to be switchman green for go, red for stop, amber for wait - till-we-make-up-our minds. Some how the administra tive establishment isn't (me to rive the oeoDla confidence in its competence. Even now the ad-1 ministration seems to have very hazy idea ox where it is go ing and less about the optimum rate of speed. Necessity however may become a powerful pres sure for reorganization. FISH GATHER AT RIYEB ASTORIA, Ore Aug. 20 -ff)-Salmon fishermen reported today there appeared to be a large con centration of chlnooks hanging off the mouth of the Columbia river. With five more days of 'commer cial season remaining, the fisher- men are hoping the salmon toon head upstream. Property damage from torna does averages about $12,000,000 a year in the U. S. by Lichty directions. aa4 if by any chaaee a .- - - . ft .V f. vi jii Jrm Mr v m a m Ministers to Hear Methods of Handling Cured Menial Patient Methods of handling patients hospital treatment - for emotional meeting of many of Oregon's ministers September 25-27 at Roseburg. All ordained ministers In the state have been Invited to the meet ing which will be held at the veterans administration hospital. Leaders oi discussion groups wui oe nospitai run members and ministers of various demoninanons. The minixtert will be conducted on tours of tne neuropyscniatric wards at the hospital and round table and panel discussions and question forums are scheduled. Ministers at soseburg wui pro vide housing for visitors. About 100 representatives of every de nomination already . have "signed to attend the conference. The program Is being snonored jointly by the veterans adminis tration and the Roseburg Minis terial alliance. , - . Guard Reserve Ready to Add Air Division PORTLAND. Aug. 20-CSVThe Oregon national guard reserve Sat urday took steps to add an air di vision at the order of Gov. Doug las McKay. Major Gen. Thomas E. Rilea. state adjutant general, named Brig. Gen. Harry C. Brumbaugh to head the air service, and said it would be organized among ci vilian pilots. Gen. Brumbaugh also commands the state's reserve guards, which is being organized to serve in case the national guard is called to ac tive duty. Flans can for the air groun to have 18 flights, each organized on geographical districts. Reconnais- ance, courier duty and transporta tion will be the primary purposes ox tne air group. .it group. - Rilea said the state's fly- s already have pledged co- Gen. ing clubs operation In any plan. The staff lor tne air division is to be named in a few days, after which a call will be made for volunteers. Baby Sitter Saves Lives of Five Children TACOMA, Aug. 20-tfVThe lit tle community of Graham, 20 miles south of here, is proud of the fact that it has a heroine as one of its citizens. This is little freckle-faced 15 year-old Bonnie .Mae Brown who unaided saved five Hunter chil dren their ages ranging from 10 months to 11 years from their blazing home late Friday night Bonnie Mae was baby sitting for Mrs. Lee Hunter who went to a store for some food. How the fire started In the little two-story frame home, no one knows. But Bonnie Mae sustained burns on neck and arms and lost some of her hair to the flames as she bravely went into the blazing up stairs to carry two of the children out climbed a porch to get a third, carried the baby out of S downstairs room and saw that the 11-year-old was safely out danger. And after that the brave little miss went back Into the house try to save the children's cloth ing, but this quest was not success ful as the entire house was aflame by that time. - CJ. TT OWCCl XlOlTlC Lumber Strike In Sixth Week SWEET HOME. Ore- Aug. 20 -UP)- A strike of loggers and mill- men of the Willamette National Lumber company here faced its sixth week today with no im mediate prospect of settlement About 450 men are involved. The dispute began July 12 when loggers quit work over the oil charge of head timber faller Jack Hussey, president of the CIO- IWA local S-2S5.. Mul workers later walked out In meetings aimed at settlement one of which was held last night the company has charged Hussey was nrea lor incompetency. It was argued that the timber, fallen on the company's tract in the high Cascades east of here, was broken unnecessarily. Union Business Agent Ed McSorley denied this was valid, claiming the head fall er was nrea oecause he Is pre sident ox tne xwa local. Reports of Unrest In Com ie Korean Areas Received TOKYO. Sunday. Aug. 20-Un- Reports of unrest in Koreans areas conquered by the communists ere received today by General MacArthur's intelligence staff. "The liberated' areas are not YOUR ICE CREAM STORES Hand-packed for that Heavenly Tasto .1 HANDY LOCATIONS DewBtewn 22S 8. Liberty who return to their homes after problems will be discussed at a 13,000 Men Strike at Farm Machine Plants CHICAGO. Auev 20 Ovr 13,000 men are on strike in four International Harvester plants in tne miaie west this week end. Gerald Fielde. director of the Harvester conference board of farm equipment division (UE) said members of his union about 13, 200 of them were off the job. At Harvester's Chicago tractor works. 5,000 FE members left their jobs. Fielde said 4,000 were out in Louisville, 4,000 in Rock Island. I1L, and 200 in Rock Falls, 111. The FE and International Har vester are in dispute about wages. The FE and the CIO United Auto Workers have rejected a company wage proposal. FE-Harv ester talks will resume Monday, Fielde said. The CIO group continued its discussions with Harvester today. The union leader would not com ment on the recessed negotiations, but said that the men would not return to work. Flelde's union represents 27.000 workers at 11 Harvester plants in the midwest The UAW represents 22,000 more in eight plants. Harvester announced that it had given an unspecified wage boost to 18,000 of its salaried employes. T T I sitiA 1CCI1A JUU1AC XoiSliC j I ' " Keeps Packard Strike Alive DETROIT, Aug. 20 -(Sunday)- (AV A single issue stood in the way of complete agreement early today on settlement of a live-day strike at the Packard Motor Co. Bargaining sessions continued into Sunday morning. 1" The critical issue was a . three- cent across the board increase for maintenance men, demanded by the CIO United Auto Workers- Agreement however, was reach ed on the other major points of the dispute. A five-year contract and an insurance plan were agreed upon to cover Packard's 8,000 em ployes. Spokesmen for the company and the CIO United Auto Workers were hopeful that the dispute could be ended In time to permit a return to work Monday. The union struck at midnight Monday. It demanded an "ade quate" pension plan, a wage boost, a union shop and other benefits. KingFarouk OTins $45,000 At Resort uty DEAUVILLE. France, Sunday. Aug. 20-(ff)-King Farouk I of Egypt vacationing "Incognito" at this resort city, won 13,000,000 francs (about $45,000) In three hours of gambling early today at fabulous Deauvllle casino. Sis latest success came after a generally successful midnight-to- morning session at the gaming tables Friday night and early yes terday. Friday he reportedly won heavily at the baccarat table. To day he was equally successful at chemin de fer. He left the casino at 2:45 a. m. Farouk returned to his hotel at 7 a. m. yesterday from the bacca rat game. The pile of chips in front of him there had ranged most of the time between 8,000,- 000 and 10,000,000 francs ($22,800 to $28,000). The amour : of his winnings could not be learned, but he was the most active bet- caller at the. table Baccarat is a card game resembling 21 or black jack. Chemin de fer Is a variety of baccarat too quiet," the spokesman told correspondents. He said this is one reason why communists now are beginning to feel a manpower shortage In the front lines. "Lne communication duties and rtfuuclhW aecuritv actions tr unrn ?"f i?"JlV present at least they can attain added units in any one sector only by pulling them out of some other sector of the front" . He didn't say whether dissatis faction of the populace derived from forced labor or from poli tics stimulated by allied guerrilla actions. . , ; 2234 rairgreesds Bead rarziag Let ' ) 144 ilttlltltt.KIHMIIDU M It
