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1 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Mar. 21, 1944 Ca pital JJournal SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED MAHCB I. IMS An Independent Ntwispr Published Every Afternoon Ecpt SundtT ! ChemeVel St. Phone Buitnent Offlct M7U Newt Room 5T3; Society Editor till GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor nd PublUhef FULL LEASED W1KZ HER VICE Of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS SUBSCEIITION RATES! BT CARRIER' WfkU. Uonthlj f.7S; One Ye8r. 19 00. BY MAIL IN OREGONi Mommy HQ. Bn Mnih. 18 00: One TT. I W. The AMocUted Preii li exclusively entitled to the use lor publication of !l nwi dlipi'ch" cruJUM to It or olhcrwiit rrrdltrd In tnU paper, intl Uo 1oel new Willkie Calls the Turn When Wendell Willkie told a gathering of republicans at Oshkosh, Wis., the other night that "The ablest politicians in the republican party are but amateurs compared with those now running our government," he put his finger squarely on the factor which threatens to perpetuate the Roosevelt administration in power for another four years. For the President and the most important of his advisers have an uncanny faculty for creating or appropriating popu lar issues and in grabbing credit for them. Willkie warned that the leaders of the republican party have got to abandon their reliance on cheap scheming and political manipulation to win elections. Defeat, he said, con fronts the party if it seeks to play "smear politics" instead of meeting issues squarely. Willkie's own candidacy for the republican presidential nomination does not detract one iota from the truth of the criticism he levelled at the Dewey-pledgcd candidates lor coiv vention delegates whom he described as representing a "nar row isolationism and economic toryism, or the MacArthur supporters who ask election on "the basis of no discussion of issues." The latter group, he charged, "seeks to represent through silence, all divergent viewpoints." i The trouble with republican leadership has been its failure to keep pace with the changing political thought, and its refusal to battle openly and couragcausly even for the dis credited principles it secretly espoused. There has been too much pussy-footing and shush-shushing as regards unpopu lar, worn out theories of government; too much trust in negative campaigning. Willkie represents a new kind of leadership leadership that believes "issues should be discussed and determined by the people ... in restoration of individual initiative but in retaining the humanizing influences of recent social gains." May Do Something About It There have been millions of words written and spoken of late years on the subject of the growing encroachment of the federal government on the rights of the states, a tendency which gained ground during the depths of the depression when states and local governments grasped greedily for fed eral financial assistance. But nobody has done much more than talk about it. : Now comes Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland with the proposal that the whole problem be objectively studied, with a view to remedial action by congress. He asks in a resolution presented in the senate that each of the governors of the 48 states prepare data on four phases of federal-state relations as a basis for post-war action. The four points are : 1. Proper field of taxation as between the federal government and slate and local governments. 1 2. Proper division of authority between the federal and state governments with respect to the regulation of commerce. 3. Proper percentages ot contributions to be made by the fed eral, state and local governments toward financing of post-war work, welfare and social security programs. 4. Tile functions of government which should be exercised exclusively by the federal government, those which should be exercised by state and local governments, and those which may be combined or exercised Jointly. ' Some answer to these problems must be devised if local and state, governments are to escape being swallowed up in the growing momentum of federal centralization. The Surplus Spud Problem Potato dealers are worried over the fact that new potatoes will swamp the market within a lew weeks unless the fed eral government speeds its program to move the 138 million luisliel carry-over on fllarcn 1 trom last year s record crop of '180 million bushels. And little seems being done to get the old crop of spuds out ot the way, though the government program contemplated dehydration for starch, for industrial alcohol, for cattle feed and various other uses. Normal consumption is expected to reduce the surplus but the potato dealers organization says that "little is being done." to move the !!() million bushels expected to be on hand as the new crop reaches its peak, lhe war tood administra tion explains that on March li a contract was let for shipment of 5000 carloads to sugar beet plants for dehydration, and these plants report that they are not running to capacity. ; The potato trade estimates that all the sugar beet and starch plants of the country could take care of only a lew thousand of the estimated 24,000 carloads of old spuds that must be moved to be saved so some other use must be found. The query naturally arises as to why, when there is such a shortage of alcohol for war purposes tjiat all distilleries have been stopped from making alcoholic beverages, causing thereby a nation-wide shortage in whisky, those surplus po tatoes are not utilized for making alcohol. Germany gets nearly all her alcohol from potatoes, and under the nazi regime has built many distilleries and subsidized the Prus sian junkers to grow potatoes merely for alcohol. New Deal bureaucracy is overlooking a bet. Showdown for the Satellites With the Russian army advancing into sight of the Car pathians, Hungarian sources state that the Hermans, swiftly completing the occupation of Hungary, have set up a nazi puppet government at Budapest and removed Regent Ad miral llortby, Premier Kallay and Foreign Minister de (.ihyczy to Germany as hostages. Hitler has maintained large forces in all of the Axis satel lite nations to meet such emergencies. In Hungary some 150,000 German troops have occupied strategic points to prepare a last ditch stand behind the Carpathians against the approaching Ked army and to forestall a Hungarian peace move. In all probability the same strategy is being employed by Hitler in Humania to stall off capture of the oil fields. Simi lar German pressure undoubtedly accounts for the rejection by Finland of the Russian peace terms. The governments of most of these satellite countries owe their jobs to Hitler and the people have little to say, i It is becoming evident that the Allies have a hard fight ahead before their reach Germany and can get little support from the unarmed and systematically starved people of the occupied countries let alone the. satellite nations. There will be an all-out struggle that will complete the devastation ot Europe before the Koich itself is reached. Hungary like Finland will face the weight of the Russian army as well as Allied bombing and possible invasion if she does not surrender and eventual share in Germany's down-fill. Revive Story of Amelia Earhart Taken to Japan by Rescuer By Eugene Burns Marshall Island, March 4 (Delayed) T)The possibility that Amelia Earhart Putnam, world famed aviatrix, ran out of gas in the Marshall islands and was taken to Japan has been revived by a remark of a mission trained na-G ' rieWar Today By DeWitt Mackenzie An interpretative analysis of war developments by a fam ous Associated Press war correspondent. live to Lt. Eugene T. Bogan, New York City. Lt. Bogan, a former New York tax lawyer and now a represen tative of the Marshall island military governor, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the Pacific fleet, said Elicu, the 30-vear-old native, limited himself to these statements and stuck to them: 'A Jap trader named Ajima three and a half years ago on Rita island told me that an American woman pilot came down between Jaluit and Ai- linglapalap atolls and that she was picked up by a Japanese fishing boat and the trader Ajima heard that she was taken to Japan." Elicu insisted that he beard of no man being with the "Ameri can woman pilot." Fred Noo nan flew with Miss Putnam as navigator on her world-girdling trip. Lt. James Toole, 26. Waslv ington, D. C, added "Elieu told me the same story. He was pos itive in confining himself to what be was told by Ajima, the Jap trader. Ajima in telling about the 'American woman flyer.' would be most impressed of course with the woman flyer, and the importance of the man would not amount to much females are so inferior in Ja- Novelties In the News pan. The story was first told to Lt. (j.g.) William J. Bauer, Long Pine, Calif. "It came out of a clear sky one evening," Bauer told Lt. Bogan. "Elieu asked me: 'Have you heard of a white woman flyer who ran out of gas in the Marshall islands?' " Bogan added: "Bauer being a flying instructor near Miss Putnam's summer home In Cali fornia almost jumped out of his skin." One of the Marshall islands commanders depreciated Elieu's yarn as "a third-hand story based upon gossip." He added: "I do not wish my name to be used but ' I certainly wish you to say that a responsible naval official does not believe there is a chance of her being alive." A small airborne motorcycle, about the size of a child's tri cycle, is being produced for use by British parachute troops, Henry Ford's prediction in a coyprighted interview for the Atlanta Constitution, that the war will be over in two months is a right tasty morsel to roll under the tongue and it will at tract a lot of attention, coming as it does from a man whose name is a household word the world around, Mr. Ford leaves us a bit up in the air, however, because he withholds the reasoning back of his prophesy. The consensus among observ ers is that the fuehrer is reduced to such straits that his resistance might blow up most any time. We must hasten to add that there are plenty of indications, including his stand at Cassino and today's report of his occu pation of Hungary, of his inten-1 tion to make a bloody fight of it. Hitler Short on Reserves When the nazi gangster does decide to quit, the end likely will be quick. He doesn't in tend to battle until the last dog is dead not if he's the last dog. We must remember that Hit ler's strongest weapon is his army, and the bulk of that is on the Russian front. This once terrifying whermacht has been woefully reduced in strength by slaughter and he jio longer has reserves to meet the Muscovite onslaught. The present disaster which has overtaken him in southern Russia is a sign of his growing weakness. The once all-powerful luft waffe is but a shadow of the mighty arm that almost crushed England. The resources which Hitler stole from occupied countries have been used, and Europe is as bare as Old Mother Hub bard's cupboard. It's important to note that the cumulative effects of the al lied air onslaught, especially the bombing of war industries, are just now making themselves felt in a big way. Each day finds the momentum of disaster increasing. ' Now Playing for Time All this the nazi dictator has recognized. That'i why he has adopted his strategy of playing for timein hope of a . lucky break, such as a split among the allies. He plans to fight a delaying action and finally de fend himself on his own fron tiers. There's widespread be lief, however, that he will sur render when allied invasion of the reich is imminent so as to save the country from manhan dling. With this background we ask ourselves what happens when the red armies have stormed their way to the reich frontier or when an American-British-French invasion force is on Ger many's western border. It would be one of the seven won ders of the war if any allied army stood on Hitler's boun dary in two months. The communist organ Pravda of Moscow makes significant comment. It says the Germans are on the verge of chaos and i that the time is ripe for decisive blows "from the east, west and south." That's a call for quick inva sion of western Europe, to co ordinate with the red onslaught. making lt a criminal .offence to distribute or publish anon ymous political statements re lating to candidates for fcdrl office. A maximum penalty of one year imprisonment, a fine of $1,000 or both is provided for violation. Under the measure,, the names of those responsible for publishing or distributing pam phlets, circulars, cards, dodg ers, posters, advertisements or any other statements concern ing candidates must be stated. If the material Is issued by a committee, association, corpora tion, names of the officers must be given. Pure Elections Bill Passes House Washington, March 21 (P) The house Monday passed and sent to the senate legislation I New Low Prices "JACOBSON" Unpointed Furniture Drawer Chests, End Tables, Bedside Tables, Mirrors SHOP R. D. WOODROW'S 325-345 Center St.' Salem, Oregon j(itciiiiiiiiiiiiiciiitiiiiiiicii!iiintric3ni mien iiuiicinii iticiiiiiitiiiuiciniiiiniutci tiiiiciiiiitnii!ic ujiiiuiinr a Stevens Charms and Bracelets Many Interesting and clev-' er charms for your charm bracelet. Doth in Gold and Silver Jewelery Repair Work Done On The Premises arnmi cjniifirfntitiHirfjJiitimHiiitrniiicHtitfniiirrcitMtrMiiiiiciinuiniiiinin ciiinu nriftuniit(ciiTniiiifiinTtir (Rt trip AModatrd Piths) No "Ladder" Today Williamsport, Pa. Sheriff Joseph M. Schmucker has ac complished what he set out to do when he took office last January. He's talked Lycoming county into moving a pole which has served as a ladder for escap ing county jail prisoners since a horse thief first used it in 1896. llriW WfVSfe WIST 'COAST OfJ S SZ? I I B II tOPlT? WXICOI0UIJ MEXICO CITY Sgt. Loll Regrets Chicago An invitation to a child's birthday party was de livered to six year old Marilyn Gunricrson after a round trip across the Atlantic ocean. It was posted Feb. 5 and went to Sgt, Harry Loll, a Chicago sol dier stationed in England, who wrote Marilyn that the invita tion had slipped into one of his V-mail letters. He added: "Believe me, if I were close by, I would have tried to break in on that party." The Unafraid Evanston, 111. Miss Arlinc Hippie didn't scream when a young man snatched her purse she chased htm. The purse snalcher jumped a fence; so did Miss Hippie. Finally she caught him, snatch ed back her purse, containing her pay check and $5, and walk ed away without further mo lestation. ' She told police her story af ter she got home. SOUTH OF THE BORDER, TOO, our war trains roll Do you know of the clone teamwork achieved by Mexico and the United States in this war? Picturesque areas of Mexico now provide mate.' rials for V. S. war production and foods in amazing variety, while products required by Mexico are moving south. As is the. custom of good neighbors, we supply each other's needs. Important factors in this international team work are the railroads linking our two countries . . . Southern Pacific in the United States, Sttd Vacifxco de Mexico, and the Rational Railways vf Mexico. These railroads work together in transporting prmlucts of our two countries. Sjrf Pociflco de Mexico, a you may know, in JvlVs srenic and interesting West Count of Mexico m,itr. Crossing the border at Nogalcs. Arizona, this 11 00-mile route runs oulli to Guadalajara, ll passes through ilie cactus forests of Sonora and rirh agricultural regions . . . touches at the tropic, pea port a of Guaymas and Mazatlan . . . climbs into the wild Barrancas (gorges) where breath taking vistas are revealed at every turn. Ours is the only U. S. railroad with a line in Mexico. And from our daily contacts there we can report to you that wartime Mexico is still a land of special charm and friendliness. The Peopfe ot Mexico, like ourselves, are very busy now ... Lovely Michoacan, where peacetime tourists daw the "Dance of the Old Men," is furnishing resin and turpentine. Blue Gulf waters off Guay mas, Topolobampo and Mazatlan. famed for martin and sailnsh, yield vitamin-rich shark oil. Mercury, silver and tungsten come from the quaint old hill town of Taxco. Manganese from Jalisco, Durango and Chihuahua. Mahogany and balsa woods from Tchuantepce. Heneqin fiber for rope from Yucatan peninsula where ancient Mayan cities lie in awesome ruins. Acapulco. in the tropic zone, sends us banana, limes and cocoanuts. We are receiving coffee from Orizaba and Cordoba, and cattle, tomatoes, gaxbanzo from Mexico's fertile west coasL From Guadalajara, southern terminus of Sud Pacifico de Mexico, Mexico City is an overnight trip via the National Railways of Mexico. The, Rational Railways are also linked with our linea at El Paso, and at other border points served by S.P.'s Sunset and Golden State routes. We cannot ask you to travel now, because of our great war load. But when peace comes again we hope you'll ride with us to Mexico. , They have a proverb there: "Once the dust of Mexico has settled on your heart, you. have no peace in any other land To learn bow true this proverb is, invest in ar Bonds now. For War Bonds will make pos- . sihle fine train trips after the war, when you can make such trips with a clear conscience. IP The friendly Southern Pacific Tune in "THE MAIN LINE," Wed. 8 p.m., KALE
