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PAGE FOUR 111 OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, January 28. 1948 tesoti pmuummm I "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall A From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher I 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. Useless Recriminations The probe of Pearl Harbor and criticism of General Clark's strategy in Italy take a back seat, as far as surprises are concerned, with Winston Churchill's disclosure that 100,000 ' British Empire troops surrendered the great naval base of Singapore to less than one-third, that many Japanese. Admittedly, in modern warfare strength doesn't always rest with numbers, and the Brit ish strength undoubtedly didn't constitute all first-line soldiers. But it cannot but be won dered what a hulabaloo would have gone up in this country had American troops been simi larly defeated. Churchill himself confessed the episode pro vided "an endless field 6f recrimination," but won his point that no investigation.be under taken at the time because of its undoubted impact on the war. ' It is not to throw stones to point out that 400 marines held off 10,000 Japanese and an entire task force at Wake island for two weeks, or that the surrenders of Bataan and Corregidor were to overwhelming forces. We made our mistakes, too. But unless some good is to be derived from continually harping on the mis takes of war-darkened years a period which never would have occurred at all if far more serious mistakes hadn't been made long before it's time to quit digging dirt from the past. The tragedy of Pearl Harbor and Anzio, or Singapore, can't be rectified now. All in all, if the world's statesmen don't make any more mistakes than its military leaders the future, indeed, will be brighter. Let's look ahead. NoTJO Work in' Meat PlanU The refusal of CIO packing house workers to return to work when the department of agri culture takes over the packing plants is under standable. They are on strike for higher wages. The government will pay the same wages which prevailed before the strike. How then will re turn to work help the workers win their wage demands? The war being over, the patriotic Appeal has little weight. But with the CIO refusal to work in the pack ing plants' the score is evened up on disregard of government requests. Phil Murray and Wal ter Reuther have denounced Big Steel and General Motors for scorning the terms of settle ment urged by President Truman and a fact finding committee. The packing house workers are as prompt to spurn the government as the employers. The fact is that government seizure of a struck plant settles no issue. It may, if workers return to work, supply goods or services to the public; but the contention between labor and management remains and it may take a long time to conclude a deal so government can turn the plants back to owners. In case of essential .industries like public utilities there is justifica tion for government intervention; but ordinarily it should be avoided. A shutdown is apt to spur both, parties to quicker settlement. Workers without jobs are eager to get wages. Employers without produc tion to sell are anxious to resume plant opera tions. In the case ot-steel. President ' Truman is following the right course in not jumping in to run the plants. Some distress will result, but - distress itself is a prod to action. Monroe Sweetland, gone from Oregon for four years, working first in the labor division of WPB, then setting up the CIO organization for raising money for war welfare projects and later with the Red Cross, has come back to the state and purchased the Molalla Pioneer. He and his wife are moving to Molalla and will give active attention to the publication of the paper. - Long a leader in left-wing political thinking Sweetland may be expected to make the Pioneer a medium for expressing his views. Well, we can stand some such publication to serve as an editorial irritant in Oregon. The state has lacked such since Rod Alden sold the Woodburn Independent and Col. Church be came prosperous. . Russian papers do as good a job promoting , bad relations with this country as the Hearst papers. Tass news agency has been stirring up trouble over American administration irv Korea, accusing Americans of poisoning Koreans gainst the USSR. This charge is of questionable truth. Even the Koreans have heard how Rus sia rules its own country. In a southern Oregon city a man killed him self by putting the muzzle of a 36-30 under . his chin and pulling the trigger. He was con siderate, though; he went out to the woodshed to perform the deed instead of messing up the family bathroom. They put barbed wire on Waikiki beach, made a military base out of Tahiti, told us there were germs in kisses, and now they're bombarding the moon. Is all romance to be atomized? Statisticians tell us the world has been at peace only 8 per cent of the time in recorded history. As far as we're concerned, it can start on that other 92 per cent right now. .Jt's all very well for the scientists to say the atomic wave won't be over 5 feet high at a distance of 500 miles we're still glad we don't live in the Marshall islands. The chief reason for the close-in slugging at the UNO meeting is that representatives still thiok .first of their national interest and second. 'WutVSrTa-pecT. - Style and Constitution A critic of the structure and phraseology of the United Nations charter writes: "The subordination of precise thought to promiscuous wording has been cited as one of the characteristic symptoms of a disintegrating civilization . . . This document would not be more difficult reading it would be far easier for the average man to comprehend if its language were clean and clear and definite and tough as is that of our federal constitution.' He touches one of the prime virtues of the American constitution: its literary clarity and economy of words in expression. Credit for this should go in great degree to Gouverneur Morris, delegate from New York. He had this advan tage to be sure, of working in the single medium of the English language, while the UNO char ter had to be written to meet the ideas of men of diverse tongues. Few realize, however, hbw important is the style used in a public docu ment like a constitution or charter, or hbw much of the success of ourj own constitution is due to the clear style in which it is written. fJz&t1& ZiiS ASSIGNMENT W NUERNEER3 P i SfAW )Srkii ' pretty soon, MR. president Ztm&J&r TZWJ?& CM IS STYMIED OM J - iS-ZT V TvCM, these cases until he rz V L HATCH ACT CASC IpHljfe: " JtfHlfo Sltkjr' Democratic Process "Town Meeting" Thursday night had for Its ' question: "Is there a substitute for strikes?" The discussion ranged all over the lot, and as is generally true, didn't settle anything. An swering one question from the floor, Dr. j J. Raymond Walsh, pro-labor economist, said in his view a labor union, had the right to strike any time it wanted to for any reason its mem bers desired. The question dealt with the right of New York transit-workers to strike as threatened unless the city submitted to refer endum the question of sale of city-owned pow er plants. If the transit workers have the right to strike to try to stop the proposed sale,' accord ing to Walsh's theory the electric workers would have the same right to strike to try o force the sale. If labor unions take on such func tions - how will either orderly government or orderly industry function? Labor has full right of expression of its political views; but to apply mass economic, pressures on political issues en dangers the democratic process. . . Dhtrftuu hr Kic rssteBss SuUfeaU sxrs i wiik Tto WaaMastoa 1IM A Geographical Problem DIP I 0000000 rnmnmrn The national park service U going to find out whether Crater lake really, burps or not, A geologist has been sent to the lake and a sound recording device lowered over the rim to be suspended ten feet in the water. It will pick up and report any seismic disturbance which may account for the reported clouds seen three times over Ihe lake by park employes and visi tors. Now if the ancient volcano has the stom-ach-ache, let it belch. I Interpreting The Day's News ' By James D. White Associated Press Staff, Writer i SAN FRANCISCO, Jan; 25-p)-More than 80 years ago the king of Siam had an idea, and it's still paying dividends. i Noting that I America had large tropical areas such as Florida, he wrote to President Abraham Lincoln offering a herd of elephants from which we could build up a source of motive power. Lincoln replied with thanks, saying we had loco motives. . j il ' . I '. Today, Siam has reason to be grateful for Ameri can goodwill as she tries to get , back on the track after; her brief excursion as Japan's only inde pendent allyin the Pacific war, For the American view that Siam's alliance with Japan was not the wish of. Siamese people is behind the terms of the treaties which Siam today is sign ing with her recent enemies. ; Siam became a constitutional monarchy in 1932 after a blood less revolution. But in 1939 an army officer named Luang Pibul Songgram set himself up as die tator with strong leanings toward Japan. After' Pearl Harbor he declared War on the allies, Includ ing America. J - The United States ignored i, and a free Siamese delegation remained in j Washington. Revolutionist Return 'yr In the summer of 1944, soon after Hideki Tojo fell in Tokyo, Pibul Songgram was voted out of, power by the cabinet, and the same men who had led the 1932 revolution came back into power. The Siamese went back to calling their country Siam and looked hopefully toward the peace. There was trouble with China. Certain of Chiang ; Kai-shek's generals, including Chief of Staff Ho Ying-chin, talked of sending Chinese occupation,: troops to Siam. (There were riotf in Bangkok, the Siamese capital, involving the big Chinese busi- ness community.) Peculiarly enough the Chinese never had had diplomatic relations with Siam and negotiations had to be jforwarded 'through Wash ington until Chungking decided to send a delega tion to Bangkok. . ' i The British, meanwhile, were- negotiating t' treaty, and strenuously denied reports they were seeking to acquire such a dominant influence as to make Siam practically a vassal. Their original . terms were never revealed, but after some talk with the Americans a treaty was signed which everyone said was satisfactory. Te Torn Over Rice Supply '! Siam returned to Burma territory she had grabbed before the war, agreed to abide by future international agreements! on tin and rubber, and promised to turn over her rice surplus to the Brit ish. In the meantime, America, told the Siamese they also would be expected to turn back to Indo china the Cambodian jungle grabbed from French Indo-China before Pearl Harbor. J Now the Siamese have signed a treaty of friend ship with the Chinese, and diplomatic relations juje. to b established for fthe t first time between Vie two only4 sovereign riatfoMfjvasV'AsuC mm iff T "Try J. O. Wtatts (Continued From Page 1) man earth-bound. We now are toying with forces whose im mensity taxes our imagination; the unleashing of wild energies in nuclei of matter, the grasp ing of rays which leap the chasms of galactic systems. Sir Isaac Newton, who - died In 1727, discoverer of the law of gravitation, said this toward the close of his life: "I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst .the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Newton's observation is still true, in spite of all the amazing discoveries in the two centuries since his death. The new phy sics, the new chemistry, the new astronomy merely serve to show how much vaster is the ocean of truth remaining to be charted. The Literary Guidepost By W. G. Rogers Holy Name Society To Meet at Stayton The Willamette league of the Holy Name society will hold its bi-monthly meeting at St. Mary's Catholic church, Stayton, Sun day evening, January 27, with President-elect Edward Hammer of Mt. Angel presiding. Represen tatives from 12 valley parishes will be on hand to discuss regu lar business and to hear the prin cipal speaker of the evening, Rev. Damian Jentges, OSB. Rev. Math ew Jonas, pastor of St. Mary's parish, will be host to the gath ering. 1 THE TUStQCJOIS, by Any Sets (HoughtM Mima; From rags to riches, or how to make use of sex appeal, is the ; theme of this novel about a girl, named Santa Fe for the city where she was born in 1850. Her Spanish mother and Scot tish father, both cast off by their families, die early and the girl is brought up by impoverished Mexicans. She proves to have , second sight; she can tell you where you lost your money, what is in your pockets or even something about the future. This helps here in an affair with a handsome gringo medicine man, with whom she runs off east ' where she rises to the pinnacle of society. If you're interested in impro bable romance, in a picture of our country unlike what it was, and above all in a seeing-eye girl, you'll dote on this. STSELWAYS OF NEW ENGLAND, . tr Alvln F. Harlow (Creative A Press: 13M). This is the first book in an ambitious railroad series that proposes ultimately to tell the story of the United States as it was welded by the singing rails. It is a good, sound start, al though it is to be hoped that fu ture volumes will open up the throttle a bit more and carry the general reader . faster through the complex financial and other details that at times slow Harlow's book almost to the speed of the first trains. Carefully documented, well il lustrated, the book traces rail roading in New England from the early 1800's, when some be lieved they "were of the Devil," to the present when airplanes, the bus and the automobile are bedeviling the railroads for sure. -PF THE GREAT PACIFIC VICTORY, fcy Gilbert Cant (John Day; S3.S). Obviously we are still too close to the conflict to get a definitive or even an outstand ing history of the war. In writ ing this excellentj acc0UI,t of the Pacific Ywar since Guadalcanal, Gilbert Cant was! even closer to events than we are now. In spite of this he has produced a live ly, well-balanced' account, that does not spare criticism when the author thinks it due. How ever the very multiplicity of ac tions in the vast Pacific cam paign makes the material diffi cult'' ta ' handle, 1 and riof tnfre-r Santiam Snow At Record High Snow at Santiam Junction. sum mit reached a depth of 118 inches Friday, record for the current winter, R. H. Baldock, state high way engineer, reported. Packed snow was reported throughout the entire Santiam district and chains were advised. A light ; snow was falling at Odell Lake with 10 inches of New Snow and a total of 117 inches at the summit. Other road conditions: Klamath Falls Packed snow on surface of some roads with sand ing operations in progress. ; 'Medford Fog. V Astoria Rain. Columbia river highway closed at east city limits with detour through Tongue Point Naval base. One-way traffic in vicinity of Manzanita. Baker Clear. Some ice on pavement. ; Bend Seven inches new snow. Road slippery at Lapine. Packed snow on road. IRRIGATED CROPS TOTALED Gross crop values of more than $3,000,000, an average of $80.62 an acre, were received in 1945 by farmers in the central Oregon irri gation district, near Redmond, Charles E. Stricklin, secretary of the state reclamation commission, was advised Friday by department of interior oficials. quently the reader finds it dif ficult to distinguish the forest because of the trees. Better maps would have helped. JW DimeCampaign Group Checks Drive Totals (Story also on page 1) A mid-campaign resume of pro gress in the March of Dimes was given by various members of the Marion county chapter of the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at a meeting Friday in the Masonic building offices. An nouncement was made of the to tal of $1571.25 taken in by the street booth of the "Mile of Dimes" through Thursday, but other totals were unavailable as the 500 milk bottles-placed in the stores will only be collected at the end of the campaign. Present at the meeting were Dr. W. J. Stone, chairman; Lawr ence Fisher, treasurer; Mrs. David Wright, vice chairman; Mrs. Ruby Bergsvik, secretary; Roy Houck, county chairman of men'e divi sion; G. W. Lancaster,; Salem chairman men's division; Miss Dorothy Cornelius, city chairman for women's division; Mrs. Harris Lietz, county chairman of wom en's division; the Rev. George H. Swift, Dr. Hugh Dowd, Maxine Buren, Albert Gragg. postoffice; Milton Coe, state rehabilitation department; Fred Zimmerman, Mrs. Stanley Krueger and Mar jorie Bergsvik. To Re-Develop Burned Area Plans for protecting and de veloping the Tillamook burn, ravished by fire during several previous seasons, were discussed at a meeting of the state forestry board here Friday. It was decided to divide the burned area into districts, each protected by a fire break. Nels Rogers, state forester, said this would go far toward controlling future fires. Reseeding of the burned area will get under way this yjear with federal and state funds now available. STATE TEACHERS TO MEET PORTLAND. Jan. 25-?) The Oregon State Teachers association will gather here March 28-30 for its first statewide meeting since 1942. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichtj IMS. Ouoca Thm. Im Veterans? Counsellor Tells of Traps Ready to Catch Ex-GIs Getting the civilian readjusted to the veteran, rather than trying to readjust the veteran, is the big problem facing Oregon today and in the months to come, Carl Freilinger of Portland told executives of the local veterans' service committee Friday at; their weekly luncheon meeting in the Quelle restaurant. As a member of the advisory committee of the state depart ment of veterans' affairs, Mr. Freilinger said he runs across some people who think too much is being done for the veteran. "But we have only reached the starting point in aiding the vet eran,' Mr. Freilinger said, "be cause only a little more than half of Oregon's veterans have been discharged. When most of them have returned about July 1, then the real job will be facing vet erans' aid organizations in solv ing the ex-serviceman's prob lems." The biggest three, he said, are employment, housing and educa tion, and these problems are be coming more serious every day. Mr. Freilinger told the local exe cutive committee that rackets and "unethical" deals to get the returning serviceman's money is another problem veterans' groups must help solve. Many injustices can be reme died if veterans' aid organizations will take concerted action to per suade agencies concerned to change their methods. Cases were cited, one of them . involving Portland apartment house own ers who evicted tenants because the contract was "broken" when a baby was born to a veteran and his wife. By calling on the asso ciation of apartment house own ers, Freilinger' group was able to show the Injustice done by this practice. One vicious practice still ope rating there concerns a collec tion agency which calls on the in debted veteran immediately after his discharge and files suit for debts incurred previous to his service. On top of the debt is piled a fee for court costs and nptary and attorney fees, Frei linger said. The Portland advis ory committee found that the ag ency is operating within the law, j but the practice is "unmoral and unethical," Mr. Freilinger de clared, and the only way it can be stopped -in through coercion and public resentment. Chairman of the Salem advis ory committee's executive body is H. C. "Hub- Saalfeld, Marion county service officer, who pre sided at the meeting and intro duced the speaker. Mr. Saalfeld submitted a "topi cal index" of agencies to which a veteran seeking help should be referred, and when complete this index will be used to avoid dupli cation of work and to keep 'the veteran from getting the "run-aound." "It's nice ther-re civilians again bat they jast don't have the rathtudaW nd i-lkf twrlomgtuV R. C. Shepherd New President Farmers Union ZENA, Jan. 25 -(Special)-One hundred attended the Spring Valley Farmers Union meeting at the Zena school house Jan. 18, with Ralph C. Shepard presiding. Admitted to membership were C. E. Caldwell, James Smart and Kenneth Hunt. New officers are Ralph C. Shep ard, president; T. E. Burns, vice president; S. B. Dodge, secretary treasurer; Clarence Martin, door keeper; Worth Henry, conductor; executive committee members Roy Carr, L. I. Mickey and Fred Muller. It was proposed to hold a pie social at the February meeting to raise funds for the national edu cation project. Juniors under the supervision of Mrs. L. I. Mickey, presented Russell Hicks, president, in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Alma Knower, state educational director, had as her topic "Why the Farmers Union has so much to offer rural youth." A skit, "Peace is the way of life" was presented by Betty Dodge, Fred and Patsy Basting. Leonard Perlich, state president, spoke on the junior program for unity and equality among all peo ple. Viola Perlich gave a pianj solo. Frank Crawford, sr.. described the plans for the building of the Farmers Union Livestock cooper a-! tive association and called on mem- j bers to support the project. Vance McDowell spoke on the Health clinic, and told the cost per person and per family. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Ralph C. Shepard and Mrs. S. B. Dodge, assisted by Mrs. Wal ter Kime. 800 Veterans Attend VFW Entertainment More than 800 veterans from Marion and Polk counties jam med the hall of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Marion post 661, at Church and Hood streets Thursday night for a program of speeches and entertainment spon sored by the local VTW post. Douglas McKay, master of ceremonies, introduced Lt. Col. George E. Sandy, chief of veter ans personnel section of state se lective service, the principal speaker of the evening, who spoke on veterans' rights and benefits and organizations. Other speakers and special guests included Brig. Gen. Ray mond Olson, state adjutant gen eral; Col. Carlton Spencer of the U. S. selective service; Hugh Ron son, chief of state veterans' af fairs; G. O. Pike, state service officer of the VFW; William Bail lie, Marion and Polk county di rector of U. S. employment ser vice, and Aubrey Tussing. repre sentative of the unemployment compensation commission. S. G. Dempsie of the First Na tional bank and Rex Gibson of the U. S. National bank were on hand to explain the subject of Gl loans on real property to the veterans. After the business gathering Monty Brooks, Portland, furnish ed entertainment in the form of vaudeville acts. Phil Ringle of the local post was general chair man of the evening's meet, while Onus Olson was in charge of the program and ceremonies commit tee. Commander Harlan M. Bones presided at the meeting. Rose-Flower Cluh Formed At Dallas High DALLAS. Jan. 25 (Special) Members of the Dallas high school consisting of 11 girls and one boy, met with Russell T. Daulton, as sistant county agent, in the home economics room at the high school Tuesday, and organized the Bud ding Rose and Flower club as a 4-H club project. " They selected the name "Budding" because this is the first time any of the mem bers ever belonged to a flower club and they know they will have to bud before they can become fully blossomed. The officers elected were Ros ella Niebert, president; Connie Power, vice president; and Ruth Anna Nelson, secretary. The other charter members are Irene Frey, Lila Taylor, Buryl Parrish, Irene Wallace, Lorena Quiring, Carol Fawver. Keith Holdorf. Betty Hyatt and Wanda Quiring. The members selected for local leader Mrs. Madeline Power, Dal las, and Dr. E. W. Benbow, Pres byterian minister, Dallas, as hon orary local leader. Daulton hopes to organize a 4-H Rose and Flower club in West Salem and Independence communities. SWISS HAVE EARTHQUAKE BERN, Switzerland, Jan. 25HP) Earth tremors toppled scores of chimneys and balconies in Sitten tonight. Police said there was no loss of life. Tremors lasting four to seven seconds were felt In a number of Swiss places at 6:35 pm. local time, causing wide spread damage. Health Conference Set For Aurora Jan. 29 A child health conference will be held on Tuesday. January 29, at Aurora, conducted by Dr. W. J. Stone of the Marion county de partment of health. From 9 to 11:30 a.m. infants and pre-school children may have a physical ex amination, vaccination against small pox and immunization against diphtheria and whooping cough. From 1 to 3 p.m. school children may receive physical examinations and . vaccination against small pox and immuniza tion against diphtheria. Routine tuberculin tests will be offered to alt first grade children. s - Diamonds Watches - Jewelry Massive, masculine rings for men. See ear complete e 1 1 e e tlon mt births tone, emblem and signet rings. Badget Payments 13t Court