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i i 5 - i' i i I $ pAor four Th OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, January 6, 1949 ' MHtfii MM GRIN AND BEAR IT By Liclity "No Favor Sxoayt Vt; No Fear Shall A tee" From First Statesman,! March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN; PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher : i Member of the Associated Press 5 :! The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of an news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise. credited in this newspaper. Prisoners in the Dock 1 j Caesars of a day, who strutted and puffed out their breasts for a decade as though they were supermen, turn out to be quite ordinary specimens of humanity, now 'that they are ljned up in the prisoners' dock at the Nuernljerg trjiala. The men whose frown sent shivers thorough nations and whose leering laugh chilled thousands to the very .marrow of the bone are, In capitvity, so manifestly common that the wonder grows they ever were able to dominate the scene in Germany, even with Hitler as , front. ' " David Low, famed English cartoonist, visited the trial scene recently, and with pencil to sketch and pen to describe he set down his Impressions of these a rcrr-fiends come to book. Here in, part is the word picture he gives for the New York Times magazine: "Goering turn out ' to be about S feet inches, still fat despite weight lost in prison; Wly. you would say, until you noticed the cruel rut of hi. mouth: vital, with periods of rumination when the countenance Is sicklied over with desperate worry. Goering stands out by a mile as the boss in this company ... "The appearance of Hess Hook me bark down to skin and bones, going bald, wild eyes set in deep-sunken cavities. he has a nervous twitch and jerky movements ... 'Slreicher.the obscene Jew baiter. Good Lord! ( I that him? No loatheaome ape, but" another little man with another nervous twitch. He has a trik of throwing hi head right back and contemplating the ceiling with an air of preoccupation with higher things . . "In London e once used to know as German ambassador a bouncing bounder named Rib bentrop . . . Here he is now. changed sur prisingly into a meek person like a family solicitor, with disordered hair, pursed lips and large' spectacles, fuming shakily with a sheaf of papers ... 'The most pitiful figure in the company is Funk. Funk is the picture of funk. With the earphone clamped like horns to the fat, sick face sagging into the small dumpy body, he is the perfect model for a gargoyle . . . '"Opinions might differ about the award for the 'nastiest person present' but I should choose unhesitatingly Frank, the butcher of Warsaw. He wears a fixed sneer and mutters. A dirty piece of work ..." So these are the remnants' of the super geniuses of the master ra?e! What a contrast from the days of the great party rallies in this same old city of Nuernberg! The same small men with the same wizened, poisoned minds. The change comes through the deflation of their power. Stripped of -the prestige and unform. of office and of the weapon of terror with which they held millions in bondage, they seal down to the level of common criminals. It m goad for the world taaee them so. The .eight may educate the people against holding tyrants in awe. '' , V -. -' i HuhIiY Pasture, Again The one j proposition on the city ballot at Friday's special election is the resubmission of the proposal to authorize issuance of city bonds In the amount of $125,000 for purchase of the 43 acres ofj upland in Bush's pasture for city park purpose. This was approved in the voting f last summer, but because of failure to ad vertise notice of election the vote wai held Invalid. The question is now resubmitted. It should receive the same verdict of approval by the people. In the deal. Willamette university will ac quire for $25,000 ten acres of lowland to be u.d for Its athletic field, This money will be, added to the $125,000 proceeds of the bond Issue and turned over to the Pioneer Trust com- -pany. representing Mr. A. N. Bush, in payment for the upland. Thus the full 100 acre tract will be retained for park and recreational purposes. The uni versity will have a good field for its athletic department and will make its facilities there available for other local use. The investment is one in Salem's future, and , is made primarily for the benefit of coming generation. In years to come if the land is acquired now it will bring happiness and gorjd health and beauty to residents of and visitors to Salem. Let us reaffirm the decision of last summer to acquire the uplind of Bush's pasture for park purposes Two lyrau Conitiiiioii i Admiral Emory S. Iand has resigned as chairman of the maritime commission to become president of an air transport trade group. Vice Chairman Admiral Howard Vickery also has resigned, because of ill health. These men have served their country through "a most critical period ar.d made a most important contribution to military victory. Before war could be carried to the distant enemy, shipping had to be pro vided. That was primarily the task of the mari time commission. Because it did its job well and got ship j built, .the problem of ocean trans portation forj our armies overseas and our al lies was solved. The big job done, it is under standable why Land and Vickery would like to. retire. Work on the maritime commission is still highly important. Disposition of the govern ment merchant fleet, development of policies for our postwar merchant marine will call for fine intelligence and plenty of fortitude in the face of conflicting pressures. The country has been well served by Land and Vickery; others of equal competence must be found to take their placet. If there is a bright side to the sugar situa tion, it is the .fact thai a new ration stamp" became valid so soon after holiday fruit cakes and egg r.eegs had depleted the 1945 supply. j '$1 What Good is it Doing? ) j ' No one .much less the American public, can add two and two and get anywhere pear four in this buck passing free-for-all familiarly known as the. Pearl Harbor investigation. It has turned into nothing more than a time-wasting, money-wasting field day for tht airing not even the washing of 'dirty linen, and opinions are five cents a hundred. 3 I Latest "disclosure" has Capt. E. M.Zacharias claiming to have warned that an attack was coming, months before Dec. 7, 1941!. Another has navy planes scouting for Japs on the fateful day but in the wrong direction. I ) If the investigation-has boiled itself out to such testimony as this, it should end. Captain Zacharias,cbmmarider of a cruiser in the early days of war and an expert on Japanese affairs by virtue of long study in the Orient, is an able man. Hut in 1941 he was just anomer navai One of ear seoais ret ashore! he restarts a laadliur aofeht be touxher officer and why his opinions have a bearing on the guilt or innocence of General Short or Admiral Kimmel u beyond understanding. j As for the naval scouting planes rseveral carriers and smaller elements of the fleet for tunately were at sea on Pearl Harbor day and it would have been startling, indeed, if some sort of a "cover" was not provided. But as for actual "scouting" fori JP who was j it that had to inaugurate the sol-called' Hawaiian dawn a patrol which radiated to all points of the com pass fror Hickam field after December 7? It was the army, in B17i which skimmed the' Pa cific for! 'hundreds of 'miles. No comparable navy equipment was available. j . If there is not luifirient documentary evi dence in. plain English-regarding the; orders, directives and replies in connection with the army's and navy's pre-war preparedness, the chiefs ofj staff should be held' to account for it. If there is such evidence, it shouldn't take too much interpretation to analyze it, : and to question those with whom it is immediately concerned. It is high time the Pearl j Harbor investigation stopped being a sounding board for. recrimination. . ' f : . Interpreting The Day's News By Janes D. White j j Associated Press Staff Writer f SAN FRANCISCO, Jani 5. -( -China has no oj cupation troops in Korea but geography dictates a vital Chinese Interest in- what happens there. ( ' Chinese Manchuria lies! to the west, and Korea dominates the shipping of the Yellow tea and the gulf of Chihll. From the Russian standpoint, Korea flanks the sea of Japan, and from northern Korea you can see the sometime soviet naval ; base it Poeiet bay, and the mountainous coast leading up to Vladivostok, Russia's principal, Pacific port. I This week there has been quite a show in Seoul, the Korean cap-l Ital. with certain Koreans agitat ing for independence. This agita tion follows the big three decision! In Moscow to place Korea under! a four-power trusteeship jof Rus-j sia, China, America and j Britain. After five years Korea will be-1 come Independent under a govern ment which is to be established on a provisional basis In the mean time YellUar for Independeaee But this week in Seoul some Koreans yelled for independence right away.j To make the point clear they brandished knives and pursuaded other Kor eans to march in parades and demonstrations. They heaved rocks at American occupation troops and scared Korean servants; away from American jobs. Behind this reaction is the Korean political pic ture. It contains these elements, at least : 1. The "provisional government" of Kim Koo, who recently was flown back to Koreai In an American plane from Chungking, where jhls un recognized regime had developed in the war-time capital of China's national government. ' ! , ftaeeeesls Exiled Leader j ; j I Kim Koo, now called: the "president'' of this group, presumably succeeds (without explanation) Dr. Syngman Rhee. exiled Korean leader who spent many years in American until he returned to Korea shortly before Kim Koo got there, hortly after Rhee arrived he startled many people by declaring that in some respects he sided with com munists and others who wanted land reform. Since then little has been heard of him, and the talk is mostly of Kim Koo, I Kim Koo took this stand: if his provisional gov ernment is recognized, and if opposition arises (such as from the leftist "people's republic" group). Kirn said he woul deal with them "just as Chiang Kai shek is suppressing the' Yenan government" (of communist China). j Moscow Support Prom bed j This brings us to (2) the "people's republic," which says it isn't! a government but which the Americans found already set up when they got into their half of Korea! after Japan surrendered. It is made up of local Koreans who stayed through out the Japanese occupation and who say they want to redistribute the land to peasants at the expense of wealthy Koreans who worked with the Japanese. :; j. Reports from Seoul say this group supports the Moscow decisions on a trusteeship and that j it had nothing to do with the .strong-arm demonstrations this week in Seoul which are laid to Kim! Koo's group. j ip j :;' I 3. The unknown factor is what group, if any, the Russians -art supporting. Kim Koo says Korean communist are not organized. The northern half; of Korea remains sealed off under Russian occupa-i tion. The Moscow agreement stipulates that f a Russo-American military commission shall I be es-. tablished soon to coordinate the two halves -of the country. It now is seriously separated with little contact between the agricultural south under the Americans and the industrial north held by Russia. China has no troops in j Korea. But Kim Koo. fresh from Chungking, looms large in j Seoul as Korean factions try tq getj together to set up the? provisional government agreed upon at Moscow. Utaa Saipaar I L 1 I -1 ! . D. watte ii i News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction la whole or in part strictly prohibited.) ; 4sw V eaal M alios WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 The imagination of Jules Verne could hardly encompass the practical, o f f 1 c lal con cepts of j the next war, which lie be hind the cur rent debate on unificat ion of the army and navy, the atomic b o m b issue and youth draft. It is not a fully accepted theory of what the next war will be like, but rather the prac tical vision of the uohidebound and thinking men of the mili tary trade. It seems to me to be so sound that I Unhesitatingly present it as authentic, even though it has not been offered publicly be yond the limited reports of air corps Generar Arnold. Further more, it furnishes the key to the congressional Issues under debate, to wit: Be Oa Oar Owa Sell Point 1. The next. war will be fought on our own soil. This is a logical expectation because this nation ' has no mental ca pacity for aggression, but only for defense, and science has de- , stroyed the value of our geo graphical ramparts (the two . broad oceans and two vast, weak and sympathetic adjoining na- tions). Point 1. The invasion will come from Europe or Asia or both simultaneously. This is cer tain because the only nations which could conceivably oppose us politically and who might have the military resources to challenge us are in those two continents. Point J. Practical military theory would require an invad er to lay down a bombardment of directed missiles across the great circle ' route of Arctic waste upon our larger cities. The logical point of attack would not be New York or San Fran cisco, but Chicago, through which all the great arteries of east-west travel run, and the Detroit area, origin of motor production. Use ef Atom Preamble These conceivably could be severed and destroyed by miss iles much larger than the V-2, probably Including the atomic bomb. The prospect of attack no doubt would contemplate leveling the big auto plants and Chicago and its vast rail yards as flat and thoroughly as Naga saki was destroyed. It could be followed by direct bombing at tacks from airplanes. No doubt both methods would be used in any thorough scheme. From a military standpoint, these ventures would have the nature of an artillery bombard ment, a preparation for attack. Point 4. The invading army would come entirely by air. An initial force f 10,000 to 20,000 planes tarrying 40 or more men each could seize the destroyed area. Their weapons and tanks would come by air, as would their supplies. Daily j reinforce ments could build j up their forces conceivably jj within a week's time to the power of a substantial army. Fields En Route Needed Greatest enemy hafard of the attack no doubt would be to secure air cover for he landed army, but this could be pro vided if fields along: the route across the Arctic were seized simultaneously by the invaders and stocked with fighter planes and supplies. Our problem would! be to mus-j ter greater military air and lanrj power at the points of invasion and buiVd it up faster than the invaders could build up theii forces, pushing planes, tanks and men in to annihilate the invading forces. The speed with which this defense culd be put into action would decide the out come of the invasion; This, at any rite, is the bare nucleus of the next war's pros pects as of today. It seems to say primarily that unification of the, armed forces is essential. Complete coordination and im mediate use of every weapon would be necessary. The ' navy would ' protect commercial sea and air lanes and bases in the oceans, but the primary respon sibility would rest upon the air, land and supply forces of both branches of the service. Speed Is Critical Faeter It would seem to require also the maintenance of a scientific and substantial air and land force equipped and ready to move at a moment, since speed is the 'critical point. The youth draft would be of little conse quence in such a -war. The war could well be over before such reserves could be mustered. Now science, terrifiod at its own discovery of atomic de struction, wants to prepare our defense on that , score by out lawing the use of their weapon. This no doubt will be done, but unless all the natural laws of war and human beings are simultaneously repealed. and men become angels all of a sud- den, every effective weapon will be used in the next war as in all past wars. Gaa Net Effective Weapon Scientists say poison iis was outlawed and not used in this past war.. It was not used be cause it was not an effective weapon and only for that reason. It required perfect weather conditions, and the slightest deviation in weather . could make the gas more de structive ' toward users than to their enemy. Rut gas has been Used in vio lation of treaties. Mussolini used it in . Ethiopia when hia hard-pressed Italians could not clear out the barefoot natives any other way. His. planes sprayed mustard gas upon the ground to burn Iheir feet. A nation at war for its life na turally will use any effective weapon at its command, regard less of treaties. If this concept of war U cor rect, it answers clearly the mili tary problems we are debating. I submit it for that reason only. No one here believes any na tion is in a position today to carry out stch an attack. It can not reasonably be expected next week, next month or perhaps next year. It is merely the next war problem with which we are. faced and for which we must in all common sense make new, revolutionary arrangements to face. Practical Religion by Her. John L Knight, jr. Counselor on Religious Ufa, Willamette jnlverstty, In days when majority opinion and majority action are too often glibly accepted as right, we would do well to remind our selves of a maxim stated by Wendell Phillips in a speech of 1859: "One on God's side is a majority." We need to feel this strongly if our religious living is to have vitality and efficacy, A man of real fafth should know that when he staods for truth, righteous ness, love, justice, peace,, and all eternal values her'does not stand alone, but rather God is with him. There is no (greater, strength, no greater support, no greater majority than that! 9330000 (Continued From Page -1) in 1944 amounted to $16,600, 000, but the average number of polio cases in a year is only 6500. For combating heart dis ease, however, the annual col lection is only $100,000 while there are 3,700,000 cases. There was raixed in 1944 about $15. 000.000 to be spent in the cam paign gainst tuberculosis, but the number of cases 1s down to 680.000. There are 660,000 cases of diabetes but the annual col lection for battling this disease is only $30,000. In the study re ferred to, Gunn and Piatt, not ing this disparity, say: "It Is not irrelevant to raise the question:' Can the whole private health movement be well served when two voluntary health movements, fighting two diseases, obtain from the pub lic $26,000,000 in one year, while very many other public health dangers of greater j indi vidual or 'collective importance must be combatted by all the other . voluntary health move ments with only a fraction of this amount?" There Sis, moreover, no dimi nution of the appeal even when the need! may be tapering off, as in the ; case of tuberculosis, where remarkable progress has been made in reducing the num ber of cases and the mortality rate. The ; U. S. public health service has added a tuberculosis division with a budget of $10. 000,000, apd publicly supported treatment hospitals are far more numerous than before. Yet the private appeal is continued at high pressure until, to- quote from Dr. Dublin's article in the SURVEY Midmonthly for Oc tober: "The present problem confronting tuberculosis agen cies is not so much how to raise money as how to spend it use fully." 1 : Years ago I urged that the seal sale campaign should be broadened for support of gen eral health programs, and the share, of money retained locally does help support the Marion county health work and is by no means confined to work against tuberculosis. But this broadening- should be national and publicly recogni7.ed. The huge sums which are raised now to help the victims of infantile paralysis ought to be spread to include treatment for all crippled children. The sentimental appeal is the same, and the response is a generous gesture on behalf of all stricken children. These are temporary and par tial cures for the present bad situation. A more permanent remedy may be proposed by the committee of the National Health Council now being set up. If it follows the suggestions made in the Gunn-PIatt report it will recommend a pooling of fund-raining efforts with some improved means of apportion ing the proceeds, which now follows the rule of every man for himself and devil take the hindmost. It means no disloyalty to the cause of public health to criti cise the methods now in vogue and to demand reforms. And perhaps one way to quicken the step for reform would be for contributors to insist that the organizations begin to cooperate if they expect continued public support 69 color plates and SI twotone lithographs excellent mechani cally but distressingly uneven In esthetic quality. While DeVoto calls this no more than a "visual report," the reporters have very varied abil ities. To put Benton, Binford. Peirce, Burchfield,, Corbino be tween the same covers with il lustrators like Dale Nichols, Nor-, man Rockwell or even Bernard Lamotte is to make ill-assorted bedfellows; to expect that illus trators can interpret the quality of America is to assume that if you see the surface you see all; and to say in the preface that "abstract and evperimentpaint ings are (this is DeVoto's gram mar) left out of. account" is to leave out of account Criss, Spag na, Pippin, represented iiere. It's bad, also, to omit the size and medium of the original. The Safety Valve LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS . Discipline Req aired To the Editor: Apparently the Woodburn case has created a golden opportunity for sob sisters 'to beat their breasts and l!ood Oregon with emotionalism verging on hys teria. In the interests of fair play I should like to call your atten tion to a few facts that can eas ily be verified. As supervisor Mr. H. L. Taylor has commanded the respect and in many instances the admiration of the boys. Two years ago when he planned on leaving the school the boys pleaded with him to stay because he harf given them' fairer treatment than they had ever known. Indeed, they presented him with a pen and pencil set. purchased voluntarily and. spon taneously with savings' from their small allowance. His con tinuing contact with many boys long after their release has con tributed to genuine reform. These factors combined with simple justice and idealism re sulted in Mr. Taylor's , decision to remain a decision which he later had occasion to regret. In January 1945 he was sent to Josephine county to pick up two incorrigibles . who had escaped. On the return trip one of these handcuffed young gang sters kicked Mr. Taylor in the face when he turned to clean the rear window in the car. The other then slugged him unmer cifully with a bar of soap in a sock. Between them they beat him up so badly that he suffered a brain concussion, required three stitches between the eyes, shattered his glasses and trans formed his face into a mass of bloody battered flesh. One of these hoodlums was sentenced to one year In the penitentiary; the other was not even tried for his part in the assault. This little session of sadism rated one paragraph in the Port land papers. Contrast this with the reams of bathos mat have been lavished oh the Woodburn affair. Clearly, some disciplinary sys tem must be administered if the Oregon State Training school is not to degenerate into a prep school for Leavenworth or Al catraz. Military discipline may be the answer; the Navy has means for coping with its male factors. ! Sincerely, J. L. Roemer ETM 2'c USNR Oakland, California. Most Oregon Roads Continue Improvement New snw fell Saturday in sec tions of eastern and central Ore- ; ion, but most road conditions in ' the state continued to improve, R. H Baldock.' state highway en-' gineer said. Only major highway ! now closed is the McKenzie pass. ' Approximately 22 inches of new! snow had! fallen by Saturday aft ernoon on Sun mountain and 11 j fnchs of inew snow was reported j at Government camp. j j Saturday's road report: i i Government etmp Snowing ; hard with 42 inches of snow at ' summit. Packed snow throtghj-: out entire district. Temr-erature 25. ; Kantlam Junction Broken overcast. High northwest wind. Ten inches new snow. Packed snow on roadway. Chains advised.' Thirty-nine inches of snow at summit. Odell lake S n o w i n g hard. Packed snow with 93 inches of snow at summit. Snow removal equipment in operation. Chains required. All traffic getting through. Klamath Falls Twehty - two inches new snow on Sun moun tain. Total 103 inches. Snowing lightly. Eight inches new snow on Quartz mountain. All roads sand ed Grants Pass Broken overcast. Astoria One-way traffic east of Astoria because of slide on Co lumbia River highway. Closed at east city limits of Astoria with detour through Tongue Point na val base. Also one-way traffic at milepost 42.4 on Oregon Coast highway. Pendleton Rain. Baker Snowing. Temperature 32 Bend Snowing lightly in Bend. Packed snow and ice throughout this district. John Day , Snowing lightly. One-half inch new snow. Still one way traffic north of Service creek but probably will be open late Saturday. Wilsoaville ferry Closed by high water. Crippled Ship Remains at Sea SAN FRANCISCO. Jan 5 P Heavy seas prevented the navy tug Bagaduce from getting a tow line aboard the crippled transport St. Mary's, so the heavy cniiiwr Nashville continued to assist the troop-laden ship in making port, the navy announced today. . The navy had announced earlier that the tug would take over the towing job, heguri by the Nash ville January 2. The St Mary's, with 1866 sol diers from Okinawa aboard, ra dioed for assistant- when several bearings burned out during a storm several days ago. Both vessels are ex pec led to j make port here at 6 a.m. tomor row, the navy said She had beeri dueTto dock today tut towing de lays prevented it. Tho Literary Guldcpost By W. G. ROGERS MKN WITHOUT Ot'NI, kjr DvWttt Starhami, latrSwraa hy MJ. iM. Nlrmu T. Kirk (Blakktoa; ) The author, who is AP . war analyst, is the first to acknowl edge that he wrote hardly half the text, and that anyway the book cynsists mainly of repro ductions of paintings. 118 of them in color, telling dramatically the story of army medicine. John Steuart Curry, Fred Shane, Manufl Tolegian, Ernest Fiene, Franklin Boggs. Robert Benney, Joseph' Hirsch, Law rence Beall Smith, Howard Baer, Francis Criss, Peter Blurae and j Marion Greenwood visited our hospitals, watiihed doctors and nurses, saw medical corpsmen on maneuvers or in the front lines. They returned with remarkable paintings now . in the U.S.-owned Abbott collection, from which 137 plates were made for this book. Some of tbem Aren't pret ty, but seem unusually authen tic. On the other hand, many are vivid and gripping; they give you the feel as well as the look of war. Captions are by Maj. Clarence Worden. Mackenzie interviewed the artists and wisely lets them tell their own stories. PORTRAIT OB AMERICA. Sit r Almee Crane, prefsra by BeraarS DeVoto, (HyDrrioa Presa, !strt nlra by Dnelt, Sloaa Si Pearca; $10). A picture book or a travel book, rather than an art book, this is a hodge-podge of art. post card scenes and Illustrations with Congressmen Ieave On Investigation WASHINGTON, Jan. 5-(4-Eight congressmen left for the far east today, intent on investigating everything from silk worms to money.. The legislators represent four house committees naval, agri culture, interstate and foreign commerce and appropriations. Traveling in a navy plane, they expect to visit Japan, China, Ko rea and several island bases. Pastor New Portland Junior First Citizen PORTLAND. Jan.3 5. -fP- D. Thompson L. Shannon, prst Chris tian church pastor, today was named Portland's 'JUnior first cit izen" of 1945. ; His selection was innotinced by the junior chamber pf commerce. In addition to many civic jobs here. Dr; Shannon was 194S presi dent of ' the Oregon mental hy giene society, vice Tchairman of the state liquor commission's ad visory committee, and a member of the jgovemor's veterans and Russian relief committees.: The (battleship New York pounder! shore emplacements at Okinawa for 7S consecutive days, the longest enga nement any U. S. warship! has ever been in iamoiul cottSt-nes a. 9Hotleftii rSettinq Extended Payments tilt The beauty of diamonds is often ob scured by old-fashioned settings that interfere, with the full reflecting powers of the stone. Let us strip off these unattractive settings, and re mount your diamonds in modern style. Diamonds Reset While Voa Walt. SM Ceart St.
