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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 . .
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(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 .- - - .
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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
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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. . , ;
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