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PAGE TOUR TW OBEGOIf STATESMAN, Or9oa, Tuoaday Morning January S, 1948 NMNMI MN tateBtaau "So Favor Sway $ U$; No Fear Shall Aw" from First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 1 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Prees Tho Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to ft.or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. it ran minx Krrlaination This yean will see a resumption of reclama I tion work which was largely held to mainten I ance durini the war years. The reclamation bureau has! balances of $17,000,000 on hand and a supplemental appropriation of $20,000, 000, so if cn now proceed vigorously with its program. j Major northwest projects include the Des chutes in central Oregon, which has been under construction! for several years; Vale and Owy hee in southeastern Oregon; Anderson ranch and Cascade dams in southwestern Idaho; Mini doka in southeastern Idaho: Port Falls unit of Rathdrum prairie project in northern Idaho; Roa division of Yakima project in Washing? ton; Columbia basin project in Washington. Further investigations will be made on the Palisades project in southeastern Idaho and the H initry Horse project in western Montana. On the Deschutes project the bureau hopes tto deliver water next spring on 20,000 of jthe 50.000 acres in Jefferson- county, and to' com plete a portion of the remaining work by 1947. Work on the Owyhee includes a wasteway for the north canal and on the Vale project laterals to serve an additional 1000 acres. In Idaho the Anderson Ranch dam will store 80.000 acre-feet to supplement the supply for the fertile Boise valley. The Cascade reservoir will provide water for 25,000 acres of new land and supplemental supply for 83,750 acres. The biggest piojm-t of all. however, is the Columbia basin project to be watered from the pool ( behind Coulee darn. A giant pumping plant will be installed to lift water to irrigate 1.200.000 acres. For starting this project nearly $19. 000.000 is available. In the west we have more land than water. Expensive works are. required to store water and then to distribute it to thirsty lands. These great works have proven their value, however; so the west is pleased to tee work begun or resumed on great projects. They will provide many homes for farm families and produce fod and fibers for the use of mankind. Zionifciii an Olmettgion Raymond Daniel!, writing from Munich to the New ,York Times, confirms some of th comments of Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick E. Morgan about an organised effort to get the Jews out of Poland. According to Daniel I the Zionist underground in Poland rather than worldwide Jewry is forwarding Polish Jews to Munich, a center for displaced persons, with hopes built up for their -eventual migration to Palestine. Vjrnii passports are used to expedite their tiavel. - ; Meantime. Su Frederick has refused to resign lin.ier pressure Iwcause of reaction to his .'com ment, .on the serious problem which he has h-td to face as head of UNRRA in Germany. Jacob S. Trobe. director for Germany of the Ameruan Jewish joint distribution committee, wiule disagreeing with Morgan, remarks that it would be unfortunate if he were asked to leave his post. The reaction in London offices of UNRRA was plainly too panicky when it bffcought Morgan's resignation without any ef fort to investigate the truth of his remarks. Kuiope's Jews have been through terrible eVper-it-m en and Zionism seems to have become art ovei whelming obsession for the remnant. Yet there is not room in that little country for all the' Jew.v who escaped Hitler's wholesale slaughter. It does them wrong to set them airjft m Kurope. to become homeless wander ers df pendant on the charity of other peoples. Kir Fiederirk bluntly, brought the problem Into focus; and it should be faced squarely, rot' dodged. Jewish migration from Poland com plicates the problem of displaced persons in Germany, and should be halted until some means is found of settling those already clus tered about Munich. Night-Driving Both pedestrians and automobile drivers 'Should be aware of the risk of accidents during the evening hours, Streets at best are poorly lighted, and it is very easy for an auto to run d'w.n a pedestrian , at a street intersection. It makes for safety if the pedestrian wears light colored garments or carries a light-colored um brella. Lacking these it would be 'well for the pedeitrian to carry a newspaper wfhose light Color would easily be visible. This applies espe cially to elderly folk who are not so nimble as young people in leaping out of the way of approaching cars. Motorcar drivers ought to be doubly careful when they drive atfdusk or at night on city streets. The tiny ounce of preven tion is better than any cure after a collision. Another change in superintendents at the state blind trades school in Portland. This office has been a source of, trouble ever since the school was taken over by the state. Only one of the numerous superintendents has resigned except under fire or pressure. The institution Is not an easy one to administer, and there is a lack of qualified men for such type of work. Then sometimes the commission itself has been in disagreement over how the school should be run. In view of the record it might be well t consider placing the institution directly under the board of control, like the others.- v.. French Cling to Privileges The French once more have set up their au thority in the French portion of Shanghai. While the other great powers relinquished their claims to extra-territoriality France has not; and French authorities picked up an accused French collaborator and whisked him from Shanghai to Saigon,-French Indo-China. ; Extraterritoriality rights -were claimed by; the western powers for years. By this means foreigners were not tried in Chinese courts but in courts of their own nation. This was a hu miliation to China, and several years ago the United States and Great Britain renounced these claims. This gesture promoted better re lations with China, because it ended the affront to China's sovereignty. France cannot hold out longer as a country with special privileges in China. The pressures for; equality in treatment are too great for France to withstand. Butter Shortage . Butter is still one of the 'problem children; for the nation's food bosses. No longer subject to count of red points it still is scarce on market shelves. According to the department of agricul-j ture the supplies -for this quarter will allow a' little less than one pound of butter per person per month. However, the total is some 60,000, 000 pounds more than for the corresponding period one year ago. The trouble, according to? creamerymen, fa that butter is less profitable; than other dairy items under existing price schedules. The cows are going to the milking parlors all right,! and giving down their milk; but too much is being1 siphoned off for ice cream, cheese or fresh milk uses to keep butter production up to demand, Come spring and fresh grass the tune may change, with calls to Uncle Sam . to take the butter surplus off the market. Crown jewels of the old Holy Roman empire are back in Austria, where they belong, relics of the days of One-time Hapsburg power stretching from Spain to the. marches of Hun gary. Austria can look at these evidences of past glory and meditate on how the iron cross of Germany has worked her own humiliation - 1 M J, D. Wkttt The relative importance of highways and housing hasn't much to do with the current situation because each program uses a different group of critical materials, the American Road Builders' association says. But after looking at the holiday traffic toll of 500, we'd say that housing was a lot more important, regard ' iWs. Families of six aren't wiped rout by acci dents in bath tubs A Canadian paid $5 1,000 for a Hereford bull off the Lazy D ranch in Oklahoma. The buyer must figure on steak inflation. i f Interpreting The Day's News By James D. Whit Assoc isted Prca U Wrrter SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7.-4VA political tldai wave has hit Japan. j In its wake the Japanese appear to be floun dering like fish washed up out of a sea of totall. tarianism, into the air that is free at least of their former limitations. H S ( General MacArthur's latest directives bar from public office all Japanese who helped lead Japan in her war of aggression. It seems to have marked off so many big fish that the effect in American terms can only be imagined If it suddenly were decided that any American who so much as made a war bond sales talk during the. war could not now hold an official position. As. the Japanese generally sup ported their war, the directive thus can sweep about as clean as American occupation authorities want it to. The Tokyo press says it hits the present cabinet full force with the principal exceptions of Premier Shidehafa and Foreign Minister Shigeru Yoshlda. Points Straight to Diet Members It obviosly points; straifht at UIC jo mruiuciB VI U1V l tVHV 466 man diet who were elected under the Tojo regime. ''if This seems to be another of those occasions when some stupendous development so dazes apa4 nese politicos that the cabinet, which ordinarily topples promptly under lesser .'strains, hangs on from sheer instinct irr all the confusion. The Shidehara cabinet has been meeting without: lis premier, who is in bed with a coldi a situation reminiscent of crises under the: late Rince Knoye. It has asked General MacArthur to allow its doubt-; ful members to continue in office until the, new elections, which the diet is supposed to set for this spring and which General MacArthur ; will approve as soon as he is convinced that the election! can be democratic. Liberals Afraid U Speak Oat After the surrender, two political liberal and progressive sprang up scribed as being much in the tradition of the old Seryuaki and Minseito parties,' both of which! pro-! moted the Interests of certain large financial family; cliques. ; j Both socialist and communist parties also ap4 peared, but, as General MacArthur himself said recently, leftist and liberal leaders in Japan were afraid to speak out frankly, because of their; fear of the entrenched bureaucracy, the police, and a possibly resurgent militarism, t j f Recent MacArthur reforms have changed j this situation somewhat. The military has been; dis-j armed and demobilized, the police put under closo watch, the big Zaibatsu -financial combines ditto' the emperor denuded of his divinity, and the mam; war criminals listed. ' Hundreds Are DtsstaJJAed - f Now the small fry of Japan's war -making, too dinky for war criminal proceedings, are kicked, out of their bureaucracy niches and the door slammed against the return of their kind, j ( At least 500 high officials and several thousand! minor functionaries are disqualified, one govern-! merit source estimates. j Who will take their place? General MacArthur also said recently of the Japanese people that "as' Hnwranl rtir Kui'A ha1 nn miutImim svWhJ it in any way." The. fish must learn to, breathe the air. DistriWteg hf Kiaff FM Braetato "The Mourners1 Tho Literary Guldcpost Br David Tar lor Marks BsassweBSMSSBsaBtssMaaBM DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION. A Re sort the Cllrs, by BJmt riae (CrewcU; SZ.M). Whither higher education? This is a question of more than passing interest to all citizens at a time when the GI Bill of Rights has focused attention on the American college. The nation's educators are themselves- divided , on the an swer. Some, led by Dr. Robert; M. Hutchins of Chicago, would like to see college curriculuma adhere to a study of the classics. Others, led by'TJr. John Dewey, advocate a system of (education that would be more immediate and practical. To throw further ligfit on the problem Dr. , Fine has! made a survey of 5000 veterans 'Who have returned to college, to determine what they want from their edu cation. He has polled,' too, par ents and high school students to learn their views. J Dr. Fine's extremely readable analysis and his conclusions are perhaps best epitomized by the following anecdote: A professor and ferryman were rowing at sea, when the profes sor asked: "By the way, did you ever study Latin?" " "No," came the answer, "I never did.' "Too bad," aaid the professor, "one-quarter of your lite is gone. . . . Did you ever study philoso phy?" "No," the ferryman replied. "Too bad," said the professor, "half your life Is lost. . . . Didn't you ever take a course in early Greek civilization?" "No; not even that " The professor shook his head sadly. "Three-quarters of your life is gone." "By the way,", interrupted the ' ferryman, "did you ever learn to swim?" "No," the professor replied. "I never had time for that." "Too bad," said the ferryman. "Your WHOLE life is lost. The boat is sinking." GERMAN EDUCATION AND RE EDUCATION, by louuf C. Ea ftlaun (littlilt tonal Univ. Press; SZ). The re-education of Germany is today one of the most crucial problems we face. But unless we, understand the German educa- News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction tn whole or in part strictly prohibited.) Ml WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Mr. Truman pin-pricked congress to act' on his labor legislation, but at the time he spoke, he had already set in motion the very same machinery for the two na tional test strikes of the union labor campaign General Mot ors and steel. The fact-finding panel for Gen eral Motors waa even then com pleting its work although the company had refused to. sub mit its case. The president was quite ang ry in private; because Gener-' al Motors refus ed to cooperate. As the inside yrmie nouse r,., ailo eye saw the situation, the Gen eral Motors people were trying to arouse the country through advertising and otherwise against exposure of its private buitiness methods and profits from the union gaze. Appeared U Be One Klded I do not want to bet-ome in volved in this side argument. Technically, I gather the com pany did not refuse to submit books but promoted discussion of whether company profits should be the measure for setting wage scales, never contending that it was unable to pay any particular rate. Personally, it seems to me one sided justice to require one party to a dispute to furnish profit data without requiring the other to disclose its profits also. In short, the public interest should be served by fact finding, not alone the union interest. Whatever the sound of justice of this matter, the presidential panel went ahead to get what it called "the facts" and my inner agents tell me the panel merely found its work made a little tional background, we are doom ed to failure. Dr. Engelmann's analysis of German education from the time of the Empire is concrete and accurate. It is of Interest to everyone concerned with the causes and cures of ag gressive militarism. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichly ; partiesthe These are de WSk it lif S)w. o T . I I more difficult but not Impossible by the General Motors position. Profile Ease nee ef Case I believe the highest govern ment officials here considered the profits dispute as shadow boxing and leaned rather sharp ly to the union side. But if the prof its-gauge f o r wages was a shadow melee for motors. It was the essence of the steel case in which 700,000 men, the largest strike band of the postwar striking season, ex pected to walk out January 14. The union plea for increase there has run into the dead-end plea that the company has no peacetime profits with which to pay Into this matter (last quarter profits) price admin titntnr Bowles is checking for the presi dent. Mr. Bowles has been in structed to complete his report by February 1 and. the fact find ing panel will then come in with a decision February 10. In Res las ef Kuperflally The proponed steet strike, therefore, as soon as Mr Tru man acted, entered the realm of superfluity. Why strike January 14 for a settlement which is promised February 10 by ma chinery already functioning? Such a strike would only deprive the workers of their wage in come for that period.. Radicals and leflwingers with in the union wanted to strike anyway, but the crowd around President Phil Murray could see rather clearly it would be a use less walk-out and early sought method of avoiding it. Thus the president's machinery was already functioning without legislation in the two major na tional strike irutances. Unable to lassie Sebpenea Its work was only slightly im peded by its inability to sub ponea witnesses and require both parties to " present their cases. There even seemed a prospect that a cooling off period would be effected in the steel strike until February 10. For these and other reasons there seemed little prospect the president's strategern of trying to side-track the public pressure against strikes! from the White House to the broader shoulders of congress would be fully effec tive as far as current strikes are concerned. It4f not deer how much speed the legislation might contribute to settlements. News-wise readers may find it enlightening to keep one point in mind while persuing the hot words now being exchanged by both sides, and by the politicos involved. These strikes are all part of the union campaign to force a general 30 per cent wage increase upon the federal govern ment. One Basic Factor Moreover, as a whole, they represent the postwar surge of the unions to enhance and apply their new. great power over na tional economics, to control all economics. All the other argu ments are extraneous points ex citedly pushed forward in the heat of bitter conflict. As the strikes continue and expand, the; debate becomes leas and less reasonable and further away f rom : the simple, sound, basic principle of common jus ticeas distinct from one-sided justice. In such a debate, so few speak for the public Interest, which is the paramount interest. Neith er unions nor companies has the right to destroy the public's rights to service and goods at reasonable prices and just wages. Synthetic oils have been devel oped that wilt continue to flow at " Aad that's where we fought far eigsreU over render Is where temperatures : as low as 121 de year mother battled far meat and there's where the ratio beard : grees below ero. They are for waa dug !!". use In airplane hydraulic systems. DTP I S33DD0B HnTirrrni (Continued From Page 1) employment bill for example, which Senator Morse and a few other republicans had approved, is not communist, merely crack pot. Loftily it proclaimed every man's right to work, but its sponsors never stopped to think that about the only place such a right is denied is at the picket lines of struck plants. The full employment bill provided no government guarantees of em ployment, but left the inference that such was its purpose with no plan for financing the ex pense. When the congress sub jected the bill to sober analysis and heard from the cpAintry, they refused to pass it ih its original form; and if doesn't 'look as though the Truman-Morse team would 4e strong enough to pull it through. Mors .has endorsed fact-finding, along with the president, though labor is opposing it. But fact-finding is something of a deceitful label. There have been fart-finding panels under the railway labor act. but in nearly one-half of the cases reviewed parties- at interest have rejected the findings. Morse was, I be . Iieve. a member of the railway panel in December, 1941. which . "found" the railway workers en ' titled t3 arTeight cent increase. The railway workers spumed the award, high pressured the presi dent and finally obtained higher wages. In view of the disrespect shown fact-rinding reports by worker groups! there is little to induce the employers to go along on the Truman recommendaUon. During his campaign Senator Morse frequently criUcized the Wagner: act as one-sided. So far he has done nothing to even up that piece of legislation. He has been critical of the Ball-Hatch bill which does seek to provide Increased union responsibility. In view ' of his experience in the field of labor relations Morse ought to be able to draft a bill which would cure some of the evils that grew out of the labor bills of the' Roosevelt adminis tration. Oregon republican, and not "old guard" republicans, either, would like to see him turn his hand at this task in stead of launching his one-man crusade against republican con servatives. Tax Answers Br J. W. MAI.ONEY. COLLECTOR Or INTERNAL RKVFA.t't:. PORTLAND No. 1 1. What Federal tax form must be filed by January 15th? Your 194S -Declaration of EU mated Tax (or an amendment of your 1945 declaration). t. Does everyone have to file a declaration? No. This filing should not be confused with the regular time for filing annual income tax returns, which must i be filed not later than March 14. 2. Who does have to file Jan uary 15? Three groups as follows: (a) farmers, (b) persons who filed a 1915 declaration of esti mated tax. but wish to change their estimates, (c) persons who should have filed a 1945 declar ation but have failed to do so. 4. Did everybody have to file a 1945 declaration? No. only per sons whose wages last year ex ceeded . 5,000 plus $500 for ev ery exemption except their own and persons who had over $100 income outside of wages from which tax was withheld (assum ing their overall income was at least $500). 5. "What are some examples? A wageenrner with a wife and one child has two exemptions be sides his own, and if his wages exceed $0,000 ($5,000 plus $500 plus $500). he had to file a 1945 declaration. Also required to file were merchants, landlords, law yers, doctors, and others who re reived income from which tax was not withheld. a. Why is January 15 a spe cial date for farmers? Other tax payers were required to file declarations last March, but the law specifically permitted farm ers to wait until the next Janu ary 15. Tomorrow. How to file new or amended estimate. Eno8 Hosteller of Sheridan Dies in Salem Hospital WOODBURN, Jan. 7-(Special) En os Hostetler, a resident of Sheridan who came to Oregon from Missouri 45 years ago. died in a Salem hospital today. He was a native of Middleburg, Ind, (Nov! 28, 1873.) Survivors include the widow. Miners, of Sheridan; two sons, Archie and James, of Sheridan; and three daughters, Ina Wolfer of Amity, Lfllie Yoder of Hub bard and Bessie Barkell of Sheri-J dan. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday from the Zion Memorial church at Hub bard, with interment at the Zion cemetery. - Adjustments to Labor Needs Held Essential Business must adjust iUelf to the demands of the. so-called labor movement, Lfee Cneart, Portland automobile dealer and for the past 23 years closely connected, with automobile manufacturing, de clared in an address at Monday's Saleni Chamber of Commerce luncheon meeting. "The automobile: industry is in difficulty no more and no leas than any other business. It just happens to be huge,? Cosart main tained. No one, he said, wants to go back to the days before the re cent war when one-third of the families in this country had , in comes of less than $1000 a year, incomes that averaged $500. The "labor" label, he insisted, is misplaced as . currently used. Most of the people in the United States work and could rightfully claim to be laborers, Cosart said, adding that labor difficulties to day have arisen out of clouded issues and leaders have lost their power. Because of those difficulties, no one can predict, he declared, when any me person can get a new car. Cosart advised against buy ing a revolutionary model this year; 194(5 cars, he maintained, will be better than those of 1942. but they will not represent any great engineering development be cause manufacturers' skill and plans have gone into war mater ials during the war years. Eighteen per cent of the steel production of the world gos Jnto auUwnobtles, he pointed;. 'out, add ing that the threatened steel kit Ike thus threatens automotive assembly lines. Chains Needed On All Passes In Mountains New snow has made chains nec essary at all mountain passes, the state highway commission said Monday. The daily road report: GOVKRNMCNT CAMP Saowmr 30 degx M inctiM total wow SANTIAM JUNCTION Siwin hard. 32 dsra. Four incttaa n hww Uf night Roads throughout ect Ion ar backed Snow at hurhar ! rlvatton and Bluah at lowvr eicva i lion Slippery Chains aoo!utl)r nre I rary . ODELI. LAKE Still one-way Uaf- f K- abov Oakrtdttr on WiUametto hih- 2S dvcrv Pour Inch nrw mow Chain advind SISKIYOU SUMMIT ON PACIFIC HIGHWAY Snowing hard I torn wtlle p1 3M to oond staU tin Road In bad condition, very altrtt Twi Inch now enow on Panftr highway' and on rout S4. 24 dr Chalna re quired KLAMATH FAl.tJI Two inrh-a new itnuw an Quarts wtounlaln. but aU aande4 Ftve lorlwf now anow on Hayden mountain on fir ran Sprina highway Still snowing Su Utrhoa new snow al Sun mountain on Uio rjallr - California hlhwev brinmuj iota I anow to las tin li 37 4iiin SI ill snowing, but being plowed ami aanded FTJf'.FNE - - MrKeive highway at HI closed at Blue Rlvor triage ASTORIA - One-way Umttm on Nehalem secondary highway at slide eat of Ajtorta Columbia nr high way closed at rut city UmtU of As toria, but traffic betng detourad through Tongue Point naval baa. PFNDI.ETO - Cloudy, high Bourn -west wind. MEACrlAM Snowing lightly, pock, ed snow and Ice from mitepnets 345 to 279 on old Oregon Trail Icy and, slick In spots chains advised I -A GRANDE o.sowina. one -hair ,wh new snow last night BAKER Snowing, one-half Inch new snow last night BEND Snowing hard. Jta Inchea new hww lat night at Lapirw ' Snow beginning to drift OCHOC.O HIGHWAY Service creek Mitchell section opened today BURNS Three inches new snow. stUI soowlng JOHN DAY Snowing Unruly, one half Inch new snow. One-way trafne north of Srmst creek AUSTIN Ntn Inches new snow, nowiag hard WILSON VILLI FIRRY Closed y high water. BEIXEVUE - HOPEWELL HIGH WAY Closed by high water ALBANY - CORVA1XIS EAST SJDK HIGHWAY Closed by high water lively Pieces of Cotum Jewelry . . '. Qipsj, Phis, Bracelets. Earrings . . . j See Our Selection ! jLn Pearls ... Oseai Am Aatieajus. SCTeao jaw S2t Court St
