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SO NAZIS WONT BE BUFFALOED!
From that mythical personage "the
spokesman" of the German government
comes the statement which confirms the
sinking of the American freighter Robin
Moor by a Nazi submarine and the wording
Of that statement is rather remarkable:
"We won't be buffaloed by any American
or English discussion concerning the Robin
Moor. Whenever any ship with contraband
sails for England we'll shoot at it, whether it
is the Robin Moor or anything else."
Well there you have your "incident" to
provoke a declaration of war. The Robin
Moor was not bound for England but for
Cape Town Africa. According to our state
department . she was not carrying contra
band. The Germans, of course, will argue that
South Africa is part of the British Empire
(though not officially at war). They can ar
gue that any kind of useable goods nowadays
is contraband. And they can contend that
our whole rigamarole of "neutrality" has
been a sham from the beginning.
This is no time for quibbling . The sink
ing of the Robin Moor is Germany's answer
to President Roosevelt's recent declaration
in which he re-affirmed "freedom of the
seas." Furthermore it was an act of wanton
and deliberate cruelty. The U-boat captain
did not keep his promise to wireless for help.
He left the survivors of the Robin Moor
adrift in the vast South Atlantic. Obvious
ly it was his' belief and his hope that they
would perish "spurlos versenkt" (sunk
without a trace).
People old enough to remember the inci
dents leading up to the last war will recall
that in the early winter of 1917 we armed
our merchantmen and warned Germany that
we would defend against submarine attack.
The answer was Admiral Von Tirpitz's fa
mous warning of February 1, 1917 that all
ships entering war zones would be "sunk
without warning."
The sinking of the Robin Moor comes
without any exchange of warnings. It ex
ceeds the outrages of 1917 in ferocity. It
should make it perfectly clear to everybody
that the issue is barbarism. The legalistic
technicalities should not matter.
For many, many months we have chosen
to say bluntly that the United States is at
war with Germany and deplored the politi
cal camouflage of our dangerous situation.
There can be no peace or pretense of peace
for the United States until the power of
Hitler is broken.
There should be no more half truths or
half measures at Washington!
DAN BEARD'S UNIQUE CHOICE
When a man gives up a distinguished
career in the fine arts to become leader of a
youth movement, there is material for
thought. In his early manhood, Dan Beard
was the illustrator of many of Mark Twain's
most famous books, and his work is still
held in high regard as art. Art connoisseurs
say that the drawings reflected a man who
understood both humor and pathos.
Had Dan Beard chosen to go in the field
of art, he could not have achieved any great
er fame than he did as the founder of the
American Boy Scouts, but it would have
been a different kind of fame. Why did
Dan Beard prefer the admiration of boys to
the plaudits of the sophisticated "lovers of
art"?
The ready explanation is that Dan Beard
himself loved the open country. As a boy
he had roamed the wooded hills of Ohio and
Kentucky (the Daniel Boone country). He
had never quite "grown up". He was moved
to pity youngsters cooped up on the streets
of New York. He was a simple soul who
preferred simplicity to the elaborate pre
tenses of "the artistic life."
Maybe so. A true artist is supposed to be
a seeker after truth. Perhaps the main fact
of importance is that Dan Beard did the
thing he wanted to do, lived the kind of life
he wanted to live and made himself the
master and not the slave of his craft. He
painted his ideal into millions of boyish
hearts.
New York police arrested a pigeon for
carrying policy game slips, proving it's poor
policy for the game to go coo-coo.
The yarn trade has improved greatly
fishing, not cotton.
Elevator in Chicago dropped three stories
and the operator was fired. For falling
down on the Job?
All little kids in cities should be taken
to the country so they'll know that flowers
don't grow on hats.
Saving for rainy days is fine unless it
makes you fail to enjoy the sunny ones.
; .
The silver lining of most clouds is tar
nished from lack of use.
WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK
AIRPORT PROSPECTS .
(Salem Statesman)
The benefits adulterated somewhat by ob
ligations of the actual establishment of defense
training centers as distinguished from the dis
tribution of defense contracts, are already being
realized by Portland, Pendleton and the Astoria
Seaside area. Similar benefits are anticipated
by Medford and Eugene though there are hints
that they maye have to share them, if their ex
pectations actually develop, by Grants Pass and
Albany, respectively.
Salem may expect to be similarly favored only
from one direction defense aviation. Because
Salem had the foresight to provide . a commo
dious airport, the wisdom of which was in doubt
for most of a decade, there are prospects, no one
may say how substantial, that some of the func
tions of the army aviation training program may
be allocated here.
Observing , the experiences of these . other
cities, one may conclude that the community's
attitude and activity may have important bearing
upon whether or not this possibility becomes an
actuality. The city has already expended a rea
sonable sum upon expansion of the airport, and
is reaping the benefit in a large federal expendi
ture. From this point on the outlook is based
principally on conjuncture.
Having made such an investment, the gov
ernment might be expected to make some prac
tical use of it. There are strong hints that it so
plans and that the city would profit from ob
taining ownership of still more land In the air
port vicinity in the furtherance of those plans.
One could wish for something more substantial,
but that apparently is not the army's way of
doing things.
This matter will be before the city council
Monday night. The proposed expenditure is not
great; neither is it inconsiderable. There are some
fine points relative to the degree of probability
that the rumored program will.develop, on which
we are not yet adequately informed. If the pros
pects are well substantiated the city should take
whatever steps are necessary to cooperate. A de
fense aviation development of reasonable propor
tions would be more nearly an unmixed blessing
than a large military cantonment.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By JOHN W. KELLY
WASHINGTON, D. G, June 13. While the
war department plans activities inland in Oregon,
the navy is arranging to strengthen its coast po
sitions. From San Diego to Alaska the navy will
establish sectional bases in the coming year, pre
paring nest's for small craft, from where they can
dart to sea, scout and return to these shelters.
There is more than the sectional bases in the pro
gram; there is an extensive plan for the construc
tion of small craft to use the bases. Unless the
information is incorrect, some of these small boats
will be built on the Columbia river.
Starting at San Diego, there will be a base at
San Pedro, San Francisco, Morro bay, Eureka
(just south of the Oregon line), Coos bay, Astoria,
Seattle, Port Townsend, Port Angeles and Neah
bay. Then a jump to Alaska, with sectional bases
at Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, Ketchikan, Petersburg,
Juneau and Seward. Such is the set-up, but later
there is a prospect of other, bases being located at
Crescent City, Gold Beach, Yaquina and Gray's
Harbor. First estimate is for $50,000,000 and if
this isn't sufficient a deficiency bill will be intro
duced next year. This money is for the stations
not for the small craft. Cost of each station will
be a trifle less than $1,000,000, with a few stations
in excess of that amount depending on the com
plement of boats, the housing facilities required,
etc.
FROM end to end the Pacific coast will be
pockmarked with these small facilities and at long
last the admirals have come to realize Oregon and
Washington the Pacific northwest are worth pro
tecting. Heretofore naval activities have been con
centrated at the bathing beaches of southern Cali
fornia, and attempts to arouse their interest in the
Columbia river region have met with a fishy eye.
The navy is now going to town in the northwest
and from Eureka (practically in Oregon and be
longing to Oregon geographically) to the straits of
Juan de Fuca there will be a navy patrol.
With approximately 60 sectional bases (they
will be scattered from Portland, Maine, to Trini
dad, to Cuba, the canal zone) a substantial fleet of
small craft will be required. A few of these boats
will be built on the Great Lakes and worked down
the Atlantic coast, or reach the gulf via the Miss
issippi, but on the Pacific coast there will be work
for more shipyards; new shipyards.
Some of these boats will be the swift mosquito
type, built for high speed (60 m.p.h) and carrying
torpedoes. Others the 160-footers. Both of these
types can be constructed of wood. All of the mos
quito boats have hulls of wood. These and the
larger boats can be made on the Columbia river,
the engines for the speed boats being put together
In the east. A yard at Coos bay, where one sec
tional base is to be located, has tentative orders for
eight boats, larger than the small torpedo craft.
Before July 1 the navy should have Its appropri
ation for the bases and thereafter let contracts on
a cost-plus fixed-fee, the fee not to exceed six per
cent. It is understood that the navy already has
Its eye on the sites required and ho landowner will
be able to upset the national defense program.
Oregon fruit and vegetable canners will have a
better chance to do business with the army if the
Walsh-Healy act is abrogated. Under this law,
which has been a handicap to the army and navy
since its inception, any concern filling an order for
either branch of the armed service in an amount
more than $10,000 must comply with the wages and
hours set by Secretary of Labor Perkins. The can
neries, which have seasonal operation, are exempt
from the wages and hours act and none of them
have taken contracts direct with the army and
navy, which might place them under the jurisdic
tion of Madam Perkins. Army is discovering that
in purchasing canned fruit and vegetables it is run
ning up against speculators and has decided that
if the Walsh-Healy act can be suspended it can
deal directly with the canners. Labor unions (who
wanted the law to apply to orders as low as $2,000)
are preparing to resist any weakening of the Walsh
Healy act. It is no secret, however, that the army
(and navy, too) is fed up with union demands with
excessive cost of army camps and the constant
handicap of strikes.
Starfish being the sworn enemy ot the oyster,
congress wishes to save the oyster and make the
starfish contribute something to humanity other
than being used to decorate the radiators of cars
returning from the beaches. The starfish wraps it
self around the oyster and rips it open. Congress
men wish to preserve them from the starfish and
has voted $10,000 to have the starfish studied. There
is a hint that it might contain vitamins and if so
scientists may discover a way to use these com
mercially. Best oyster bed) on tha Oregon coast
are at Yaquina,
PLANE STRIKE ENDS AS MASS MEETING VOTES "BACK TO WORK" "Back to
work was the vote of the C. I. O.-U. A. W. strikers at the North American Aviation Com
pany's Inelewood, Calif., plant at a mass meeting held after the U. S. army took over the
factory. Principal speakers at the meeting were these nine strike leaders, deposed by the
national C. I. O. for leading the "outlaw" strike in defiance of C. I. O. orders. From left:
Elmer Freitag, William Goodman, Walt Wiitanen, Robert Mallory, Wyndham Mortimer,
Lew Michener, C. I. O. regional director; William Blackman, David Simpson and William
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