1 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Mar. 21, 1944
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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
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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
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