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paqi roun Th 1 OSZGON STATESMAN SbUi ' Oroe. Morning, January 11, 1148 1 f I "No Favor Sways Ut; No Fear Shall Awt" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 . TIIE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY; CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Our Daily Meat The butcher a mighty man is he, although it was the village blacksmith who rated the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With kpife and aw, with cleaver and grinder he con verts cattle to steaks, roasts and hamburgers, wine to bacon and sausage, sheep to mutton. No one writes a popular song about the butcher, though he does have the honor of starting off the nursery jingle, ahead of the baker and candlestick maker. Now whether it i to take belated offense at public neglect or merely to keep step with electrician, busdrivers and motor workers the butchers in the big packing plants have gone on strike. This indeed is one way of getting attention. When meatless Tuesday gets to be meatless weeks and months, as soon it must in the large cities if the strike continues, then Mr. John Consumer and his family will become aware of the importance of the butcher in their daily lives. It will not be possible to put the blame on OPA or on the farmer. The butcher will himself claim the blame. No satisfactory wage Increase no butchering: no butchering, no meat. Those of us who live close to the grass on . which the cattle graze and are served chiefly by local .killing plants unaffected by this na tional strike may be complacent about the plight of the millions dependent on the regular performance of Swift's and Armour's and oth ers of the big packers. But "give us this day our daily meat" will be no idle prayer for those who. in this day of cancelled meat ra tibning. find their markets as empty of meat as in the bad old OPA days. And as in those days we may expect the meat bootleggers to be resurrected who, for a price, will provide you with everything from choice steaks to pig's knuckles. Yes. the butcher is not a man to be sneezed at in these times. In the business of provisioning the people he is quite as essential as the grocery clerk, the railroad .engineer, the milkman and the hog-grower. He must be kept happy or he will not work. For the present he looks with acorn on the meat-hungry who drool for choice roasts or even for ham to brother their break fast eggs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, one of the minor poets, brought in the butcher in one of his poems on "Points of View": Bonnet in hand, obsequious and discreet. The butcher that served Shakespeare with hie meat Doubtless eMeemed him little, a a man Who knew not how the market prices ran. So, today the striking meatworkers can look down on the poets and painters, the politicians and bankers, the preachers and merchants who know so little as to how fares the butcher who provides their daily meal. - A Two-way 1iuiiiitt If there were any Pacific war correspondents at that Miami meeting at which Admiral Nimitz praised the coverage of war news, they must have fflt just a bit uncomfortable despite their pride. They were in the unusual circumstance of being" lauded by the very man who made it possible for them to do their job. Whatever praise was merited most certainly should have , gone in jut as great if -not greater degree to Admiral Nimitz himself. The occasion at Miami was the annual con- vention of managing editors of newspapers affiliated with The 1 Associated Press. As in every similar convention since shortly after-war started, mention was made of noteworthy work in the field of war corresponding. In fact, we have known correspondents who declined to attend such conventions because of the embar rassment atttndent upon the eulogies therein. It is not the fault of the great majority of cor respondents that we are getting tired reading about what a fine job they did. It is the fault of some newspapers and newspapermen who never seem to get tired patting themselves and their profession on the back. And we are still puzzled why the so-called fourth estate should think it was so - remarkable just because it refrained from publishing war news which 'niJjtht have been helpful to the enemy. What "patriotic American citizen would do otherwise? ''. It was nice of Admiial Nimitz to say lauda tory things about newspapers (they contributed to victory "as much as any other institution"), and correspondents ("I admired the vigor with which they called their shots." as well as their "tirelessness and fearlessness"). And there will be general agreement with his expressed pleas ure that "unfortunately necessary censorship" has ended. But there isn't a newspaper or correspondent in the world who went farther beyond the call of duty, in facilitating and providing war news for the home front, than Admiral Chester W. Nimitz himself. Bouquets are fine things to throw, and the traffic in this instance should be two-way. Nice Fifiure, Bui How fait the wheels of, reconversion appeared to be twirling, before the monkey wrench of work stoppages was thrown into it, is shown in December figures of building permits which in the northwest were 237 per cent larger than In the same month of 1944 and 12 per cent above November. Permits in 39 leading northwest cities for December totalled nearly $10,000,000. accord ing to Pacific Northwest Building data, with Salem's $192,904 second in Oregon only to Port land s $2,305,750. The Salem figure was 58 per cent over November and 2040 per cent over December a year ago. Oregon City, Klamath Falls and Medford also showed phenomenal in creases. Oregon's increase! over November was 76 per .cent, the highest for any northwest state, and Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Colum bia all mora than doubledUheir total jpermita over December of 1944. n M Nice showings, these, but a building permit now has little if any more effect on actual con struction than did the January 1 lifting of paper rationing insofar as the availability of news print is concerned.' Paper isn't rationed, but just try to get a little extra of it! A La Hitler 1965 f One of the most intriguing stories in; years perhaps a la Hitler of 1965, who knowi? comet from Alaska where an aged Russian monk named Gerasim Schmalz is declared to bear a marked resemblance to mad monk Rasputin who ruled the Czarist court of Russia 30 yeara ago.- . . l - : ! ; Schmalz, they said, arrived on the island of Kodiak; in 1911, shortly after the dissolute Ras putin' was reputedly poisoned, shot, beaten and tossed into the ice-packed Neva river by Prince Yussopoff in a desperate, move to break his hold on the throne. : I V Both natives and whites art said to have remarked on Schmalz resemblance to Rasputin, immediately on his ! arrival on Kodiak. But he never made known His identity and in the face of repeated questioning withdrew from' public associations. Not until one of Alaska's famous artists managed to get a picture of him did the identification become more than idle conjecture. According to the artist, when he super-irn;-posed the picture on a likeness of Rasputin, the resemblance was unmistakable. And there the matter rests, with Schmalz volunteering no proof one way or another. He merely goes on guarding the tomb of "Father Herman," who came to Kodiak in 1799 after leaving his Mos cow flock with the promise that he would re turn in 150 years to save them from their troubles." The father died the same year he arrived 147 years ago. Why Schmalz guards the tomb is another : mystery, but it has been watched over constantly for nearly a century and a half by members of the Greek Orthodox church. I :. " ; If Rasputin were alive now, he would be 73 years old. And there are many in Alaska who think that Schmalz is the mad monk himself. From all that history tells us, it can't be so. Rasputin's body supposedly, was recovered and buried fn a silver casket, and the question of his fate has long been settled. The Hitler legend hasn't even a body to quiet conjecture. Some goat herder on Maui probably will be accused of being the mad paper hanger 30 years hence. ;: Interpreting The Day's News By James D. White Associated jPress Staff Writer .- i SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17f-P)-A major Russo American contact over a vital Pacific problem is taking place behind Closed doors in Korea. : Upon the progress made behind those doors de pends how soon 25.000,000 Koreans can get started toward national life in the modern world. The meeting is being held five months, after Japan surrendered and ended her 35:year en slavement of the Korean people. Its job; is to re lieve the "situation"! which has. grown out of that surrender; Korea is divided by the 38th j parallel. North of that line live eight million Koreans in a Rus-s sian occupied area containing most of the important mines and in dustry. ; i Farmers In South The southern halfls a predoml- nantly farm population of 17 mil lions under American occupation. This division, which has been almost airtight, has prevented the1 economic recovery of the country. The recent big three foreign ministers meeting in Moscow decided that a 4-power trusteeship (un der Russia, the USA, Britain and China) should be set up for Korea for five years. In the meantime a provisional government was to be set up with which a joint Russo-American military commission would cooperate in rehabilitating Korea! economical ly and getting it ready for independence in 1951. This commission now is meeting In Seoul, the Korean capital, in the American zone. The Rus sians agreed to meet: in the American zone after the Americans let it be known that if" the meeting were going to be in the Russian zone they would take American correspondent in with; them.! Thus far the Russians have refused, politely but firmly, to let American correspondents enter: their j zone. The Seoul meeting ; is being held in Camera, and, upon reported Russian insistence, the only news to be released by: the" conference will be ' in the form of joint communiques, which frequently are not too informative. Thus, word of actual progress is not likely to emerge quickly. Nor does progress depend entirely . upon the meeting itself. The big three decisions on Korea were explicit enough to prompt rightist-led Korean demonstra tions against trusteeship, but they may leave con siderable room for the exercise of outside factors which have-no direct relation to the Korean prob lems as such. , U. 8- Russia in Policy Clash A typical example is the secerning conflict at the UNO conference in London between American policy for exclusive trusteeships and the Russian policy for collective trusteeships. Another is the question of Iran. Still another is turkey, the Mediterranean, and the Dardanelles. And there are China's tangled relations with Rus sia in Manchuria. ' ! Right now things are going smoothly In Seoul, at least on the surface. Delegates have dined to gether and toasted each other and pledged co operation. j But if Moscow should feet too much real or fancied pressure in other regions of her immense but compact bargaining area which' spans the great Eurasian land mass, then the Russian atti tude in Korea might . conceivably grow ; touchier, if not tougher. i DbtrftmU fc. Kiac Fwtara gysefcalf r amaccBMat Willi XU Waaia1a The Most Unkind Cut of All News Behind the News The Safety Valve I i By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by King Feature Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction ta whole i - or In part strictly prohibited.) f i;'. 1 I J. U Whit. r faal Malloa j WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 The least noticed or discussed major news of these days is the perma- ntnt new world estab- i lishment orga nized by Mr.; Byrnes at Mos cow; and imp-; lemented at the London UNO meeting. j N e i t h e:r congres s m n nor people are talking much bout it. al though the effects upon people everywhere will be greater, per haps, and last longer than the effects of current strikes and demobilization (the two topics absorbing the popular mind). The unfolding facts disclose the basic deal, which the Amer ican' state secretary made for renewed cooperation of Russia In the world organization, is founded upon a validation of Russian conquests in eastern Europe and American coopera tion ; to secure the most valued posts in the UNO for Russia, j Chairmanship of the "politi cal and social committee," which will handle such affairs through out the world, went to Dr. Man- Uilsky of the Ukraine, one of the many soviet socialist re publics (a geographical Russian state) which Stalin caused Mr. Roosevelt to recognize as an in dependent new nation at Yalta. Russian Dominated ji "The economic and financial Committee" chairmanship went to Konderski of Russian-dominated Poland. ; (The Byrnes Molotov candidate for president of the assembly earlier narrow ly failed of election.) J But Byrnes was careful to keep! almost equally divided be- j Jweeh the big three the more! mportant "economic and social j Council," dealing with the same; delicate worlds problems now obviously involved in revolu tionary changes, fj This council is a little auton omous UNO in itself, being lit erally ; empowered to go into practically any i subject in any nation, ; and even the top secur ity Council of UNO only lias authority over its general ap- the following understanding of many a Byrnes friend as to what changed him from his adamant stand for the Atlantic charter, and Roosevelt freedoms for small European nations at the foreign ministers breakup, in London last summer, to this new policy (read no more into this, tha n thet r sta tement ) : ' British Would Use Us The British, who are our na tural world allies, being simi larly democratic, had proved no mora cooperative inside than out in all postwar dealings. Their socialist government was rather plainly trying to move us as its pawn, just as the Rus sians would like to use us. Apparently Byrnes figured he could do as well siding with the Russians as he had been doing (with total lack of success for anything) while siding with the British, who earlier had helped us set up this UNO system against a reluctant Russia while Churchill was in power. So Byrnes, whose mind works like that of a wholly practical politician, decided to try siding with the Russians awhile to get UNO started. As this is the formative per iod of the new world, the price in principles proved rather high. The Russian conquests have been validated in perpetuity throughout Europe, with a cor responding decline in the chances of any of those nations ever getting the Atlantic char ter for themselves. Atom Is Guarantee Atomic concessions were made to an extent which is not even yet clear, although it is quite clear the atom bomb is to be used to guarantee this new formed world forever, in addi tion to armies and airplanes (Byrnes speech at London). But both congressmen and people are somehow pleased that UNO can get going, and they are disinclined to make a point of the circumstances. Neither -Mr. Truman nor Mr. Byrnes has ever been asked to go into these matters in a press conference. Indeed, their offi cial position is there has been no change in policy. LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS What Have We Been FUhtlng For? To the Editor: It seems to me we have a war right at home, when in this hous ing shortage our city is so narrow they couldn't go outside the city to save a home for a widow who has always been a fine citizen. She has paid her $50 for protec tion from the city fire depart ment; has a son in the service for our country. Our men sup posed to protect the homefront couldn't even save her home. When they were first called it would have taken only a little to have saved a home. Did you have a son on the battlefield who was shot? If he was saved by a buddy who helped carry him to safety; what then will this wom an's son think when he learns the men at home wouldn't save the home for his mother. The city certainly owes this widow a home no home can replace the old one and the mem ories there. What are you going to do? Mrs. W. H. Wilcox. 1860 S. 12th Ave. DtP 0S3OOQ3 (Continued From Page 1) crop, the United States is now producing at the rate of a bil lion bushels a year, while the domestic consumption for ail purposes runs to around 770 million bushels. Export wheat runs into the same foreign com petition it did after the first world war, with the Canadian price now about 40c a bushel under the United States price. Similar difficulties will be faced with other export-crops like cot ton and tobacco, with world prices below domestic prices. Johnson recited and endorsed the plan stated by Secretary of State Byrnes for the stimulation of international trade. This looks frankly to removal of trade re strictions such as the quota and embargo system, reduction of tariffs, bringing subsidies for export under internatio nal agreement, eliminating restric tive international cartels, and international study of major commodities. I told Johnson after his talk that the principal resistance he would find to this loosening of international trade would be from American farmers. Our fanners have been educated to protection two ways. They want tariffs high enough to keep out competitive foreign products: Argentine meat and pears. Chi nese eggs, Canadian wheat and meat (or cattle). New Zealand butter. Mediterranean filberts. Also they want government sub sidies to take up the slack be tween domestic and world prices of - wheat, Cotton, tobacco, rice, etc. And the pressures exerted through the farm bloc in con gress have been sufficient to maintain these policies. The Hull trade agreements didn't chisel very much off of farm tariffs. The prospect is, therefore, that our export surplus crops will find heavy going over the longer terms, except for gov ernment price support. There may be some moves to increase flow of trade through lowered tariffs and other barriers, but the farmers will be loath to accept this, preferring the sure crutch of government support to the uncertain one of free international trade. The other address I wish to report gives a more optimistic forecast for Pacific coast agri culture. It was by Dr. Marion Clawson, regional analyst of the U. S. department of agricul ture, of Berkeley, Cal. His topic was "The Expanding Produc tive Potential of Western Agri culture." He cited statistics to show Use. remarkable expansion in value of crops produced in the western states, with only nominal increase in acreage. This has come about through increased irrigation, but primar ily through greater speciallia tion. Farmers have turned from less profitable Items to more profitable ones, those with higher prices and with less com petition. Hence western , agricul ture has fared better than agri culture for the country as a whole. Dr. Clawson anticipates that this trend will continue; but an even more favorable pros pect is due to the more rapid increase in population on the west coa..t, which will give a greater local market. This might represent a con clusion as far as the future of agriculture is concerned. In general the outlook is favorable for the primary crops, for the next few years because of the international deficiency in foods and fibers. For specialty crops like fruits, the prospect is good for the domestic market but not for export trade. For the longer period agriculture faces diffi culties such as it experienced after the first world war, but has the pattern of government support which congress prob ably will extend in case of dif ficulty. Farmers on this coast should be relatively more pros perous than those of the coun try as a whole. Requiqm Mass Saturday for Mrs. Anliock Requiem mass for Mrs. Iniis A. Anhock, 80, who died in her Portland home January IS. will be said at St. Stephens church, Portland on Saturday at 10 a.m. Commits! service will be held at the Shaw Catholic cemetery at 3 p.m. Mrs. Anhock was born in Wis consin and came to Shaw 52 years ago. She lived in that com munity until 26 years ago .when she moved to Portland. Surviving are children, John W. Anhock and Mrs. Louise Mc Gee of Portland, Mrs. Edward Rooker of Macleay; six grand children and 15 great grandchild dren. A brother, Roman Ha user of Greenburg, Neb., and sister, Mrs. Emily McPhee of Los An geles, also survive. William Anhock, the husband, preceded her in death two years ago and is also buried at Shaw. The Literary Guidepost By W. G. Rogers IT'S STILI. MAI.ONF.Y, OR TEN YKARS IN THE BIO CITY, kjr Ruurll Moloney (DUI; S2.SS). Moot of the material here ap peared first In the New Yorker. It isn't sliced thin, and it is a feast. If you don't think it's fun ny, the trouble is with you, not Maloney. The original essays are accom panied occasionally by comments on how the New Yorker tieats manuscripts, which is, in a word, rough. Maloney tells about the editor's note of congratulations to a contributing poet who had just won a Pulih.er prize, no less; the note ending by saying that they were, by the way, re turning his latest batch of poems as not quite right for them. There is a slightly deprecatory introduction by J. J. O'Malley, but it's still Maloney. RrVCll.LK TOR RADICALS, hf Saul D, AllBnky l. of t'hlrag; IZW). People's Organization, called a revolutionary democratic ex- M.rUiu'l i.tn- Tlu. ..... .. ..n its funds is the only practical GRIN AND BEAR IT restraint upon its scope. On this council the British, United States and Russia each have jabout equal representa tions, each able to control five votes in all reasonable expec tations, while France has two and China one.; Bides Lffie Up ij For the United States we can no doubt count on Chile, Co lombia, Cuba and Peru in a pinch; while the British might be expected to sway Belguim (?), I Canada, Greece (?) and India. The Russians own the Ukraine, control Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and seem to be able to: count on Norway ( ? ) . j Thus! the council, which was Contrived at San Francisco to bring the new deal to the world, starts out with ; equal power of American democracy, British socialism and Russian commun ism. These are ; the brass tacks of the nutter. j But underneath this new tacking is the new American foreign policy of rapproachment with i Russia, as; against Britain, which has never been explain ed. The Byrnes speeches at UNO are as unrevealing as his post Moscow statements here, as to point and purpose. The reason ing behind our new policy has never been presented, even un officially. My inquiries have developed By Lichly Vt V .' if ' .1 , I r-r. rr "GranUug your lack of experience Miss Soodgraas, , there are thing- we assume need m explanation!" periment and tried out in Chica go and a few other places under Alinsky's guidance, is the subject of this somewhat perplexing book. The author advocates the or ganization of the people for Ihe benefit of the entire community: he wants to give the common" man a voice in affairs. But the name he picks Is a misnomer, for he doesn't or ganize people, he organizes or ganizations; he gets together a congress of unions, churches, clubs, factories land so on. Hence the common man seems still to have no voice but to be obliged to speak through his present leaders, whom Alinsky claims to mistrust. Furthermore, the by laws do not seem to give much power to the common man. Fin ally, actual accomplishments to date are meager; wherever Peo ple's Organization is going, it hasn't gone far. Alinsky's program includes higher living standards, better housing and no racial discrimina tion. He is "loved and respected" in Chicago's Jungle, according to the jacket, but "hated tnd feared" by the "right people There is little in the book to explain why this should be so, or why the reverse might not be true. State Mountain Roads Still lev SALEM, Jan. 17 -(&)- Oregon's mountain roads were icy today, while fog hindered traffic on the Pacific highway at Portland, Sa lem, Roseburg, Grants Pass and Medford, the state highway com mission reported. The daily road report: Government Camp Partly overcast, 31 degrees. 48 inches total snow, packed snow and icy throughout district. Santiam Junction Clear, 12 degrees. Roads normal except for light packed snow and some ice which is sanded. Total snow 84 inches at summit, 44 inches at junction. Odeli Lake Slightly over cast, 15 degrees. Packed snow to milepost 52. 103 inches of snow at summit. One-way traffic at Oak ridge. Siskiyou Summit Fog ex- Norblad Expected To Go to Capitol j Bv Next Week-end SALEM. Jan. 17 -4- Walter Norblad. Astoria lawyer who was I elerted last Friday as the first ' district's new representative in : congress, probably will be able to go to Washington next week , end. the state elections div ision said today. , ; The division has received offi i rial returns from eight of the 10 1 counties -in the district, with Polk ' and Yamhill counties still mls I ing. When the mi.sing counties report, Nnrblad will get his cer tificate of election which entitles him to go to congress. tends one mile south of Ashland. Highways normal. Klamath Falls Roads in good shape. Temperatures 2 degrees at Sun mountain. 4 at Quartz moun tain, 12 at Green springs with fog, and 13 at Klamath Falls.! Meacham Spots of snow and ice on Old Oregon Trail between miieposts 253 and 269. Total snow 24 inches. Austin Packed snow on roads, but well sanded. STEVENS Watches - Diamonds Jewelry Black onyx with diamond Our selection is complete. Gold or gold filled crosses. With or wlth ot sHamon. 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