V S outhern Oregon News Review, Thursday, August 8, 1946 P egged Lawn Bench Is E asily D ism antled » Eternal 'No' Is Typical of Russians o h tl P Soviet Assistance Termed America's “Great Mistake By BAVKIIAGE at a o ! J i f¡ i } I I E K E in n com fortable bench 1 1 th a t you inny stu n - fur the w in te r in four sections by rem ov­ ing tlio peg«. A ll of the other pieces of fu rn itu re in this group ure made in the same m anner. \ i » m j laafyal a n d C n m n irn ln lo r WNU S ervice, 1616 Eye S treet,N .W ., Washington, I). C. An a rm y officer, back fro m a long to u r of duty in G erm any, called on m e th e o t h e r day He was p re t­ ty g rim about the s itu a tio n in Europe and into every few m in ­ utes of his con­ versation cre p t the w ord •‘ Rus­ sia .” “ I lik e to ta lk about A m e ric a 's g r e a t m is ta k e .” he said. “ Ger- m a n y is s u p ­ posed to have lo st the w ar by m a kin g m istakes; by a tta ckin g Russia, by not in v a d ­ in g England a fte r D u n k irk , by th is and by that. I contend th a t A m e r­ ic a ’s great m istake was not staying out of Europe u n til G erm any had licke d Russia. I mean sta yin g out in every way. Because w ith o u t A m e rica n supplies Russia w ould have been beaten.” I rem inded h im of the fa c t th a t A m e rica wanted a short w ar. th a t we had opposed C h u rc h ill’ s plan fo r a tta ckin g Europe through the B alkans and thereby obta in in g pos­ session of the tro u b le -m a kin g s trip o f te rrito ry w hich the Russians now dom inate fro m the n o rth e rn border o f Greece up through B e rlin . We wanted to shorten the w a r by leav­ in g the eastern fro n t to Russia w hile the western allies smashed the ’ in j G erm an power entrenched F rance, the Low C ountries and Ita ly . Thus, m illio n s of A m e rica n live s w ould be (and w ere) saved. C h u r c h ill F o re s a w B a lk a n In flu e n c e C h u rch ill p robably foresaw the d iffic u ltie s w hich w ould arise w ith a Russia able to expand her in ­ fluence up to the fringes of western Europe. Roosevelt believed th a t the w a r m ust be won q u ic k ly and he thought th a t by g iv in g the Rus­ sians e ve ryth in g they asked fo r in the w ay of m ilita r y support th e ir suspicions would be rem oved and th a t they would play b a ll w ith the A llie s in the peace and a fte r. He believed th a t S talin needed peace so badly th a t he would come around. G eneral E is e n h o w e r h im s e lf d id n 't achieve any m ore of a re a lis ­ tic vie w p o in t in re gard to Russia than Roosevelt d id —i f we are to be­ lie ve his som ewhat verbose Boswell. M r. B utcher, in his 900-page d ia ry. B utcher w rite s : ‘ ‘Ike said he felt th a t . . . the m ore contact we have w ith the Rus­ sians the m ore they w ill understand us and the g re a te r w ill be th e ir co­ operation. The Russians are blunt and fo rth rig h t in th e ir dealings and any evasiveness arouses th e ir sus­ picions. It should be possible to w o rk w ith Russia if we follow the same pa tte rn of frie n d ly co-opera­ tio n th a t has resulted in the great accord of a llie d u nity, . . .” Roosevelt and the generals were proved rig h t when they said S talin needed peace. But they were wrong when they thought he W'ould come around. The state departm ent un­ derstands the situ a tio n now and, as the recently concluded m eeting of the foreign m in is te rs dem onstrates, appeasement has been over fo r some tim e. We know Russia ca n ’ t fight and doesn't w a n t to. Russia knows we can’t fig h t w hether we w ant to o r not. She is acting ac­ co rd in g ly and according to h is to ric a l precedent. T r a g ic H is to r y In s p ire s ‘N o -Is m ’ B ut anyone who studies Russian h is to ry knows th a t the eternal ’‘no” w hich seems about the only answer the Russian statesmen are allowed to m ake, comes fro m som ething fa r deeper than m ere stubbornness. T his “ no-ism ” is only one of the m any ty p ic a l c h a ra cte ristics w hich the Soviets have revealed. I t has nothing to do w ith the fa c t th a t they believe in a theory of p o litic a l econ­ om y w hich is opposed to our own. I t is a deeply im p la n te d q u a lity w hich is Russian ra th e r than m ere­ ly Soviet or C om m unist. And so when you read "S o vie t Russia evoked the veto fo r the sixth tim e in s e cu rity council h isto ry. . .” (m aybe the 16th tim e by the tim e you read th is) . , re m em ber i t ’ s an old K a lm u c k custom . M other Russia has ta u g h t her c h ild re n fro m the days of the invasion of Ghengis Khan, th a t when a stra n g e r beck­ ons, the only answer is ’ ’no, no, a thousand tim e s n o !” In fa ct, a Russian seldom says "n o ” once— it is alw ays “ net, net, n e t!" Of course. Ghengis Khan d id n 't take “ n o " fo r an answer. Which is about the course the rest of the w o rld can fo llo w —i f it can. L e t’ s hope the process w o n 't be as ru g - ged. A NO TH ER G R E E K 1*1(01 L E M . . , With homes and food hard to get, people are not adopting babies in Greece as they did In prewar days. About 14 a week come to the foundlings’ home in Athens, some left on the steps of the home, like the one the nurse is taking at left, while others are put Into the foundling box at the gate, where l)r. Anastasios Goulios, right, is looking for new arrivals. ACER'S REVIEW Atom Bomb Blast Sinks Battleship and Carrier CROSSROADS: Heavy Dam afte A lthough accom panied by none of the fanfare of the firs t surface test, the un d e rw a te r explosion of the a to m ic bom b in B ik in i lagoon p ro ­ duced equally s ta rtlin g results, w ith the one A -charge s in kin g no less than ten ships and h e a vily dam ag­ ing six others. H ours a fte r the blast, the w ater of B ik in i lagoon rem ained too hot fro m ra d io a c tiv ity set o ff by the bom b to p e rm it close inspection of the damage. Clouds along a 30- m ile fro n t became contam inated i w ith a to m ic p a rtic le s and naval ob­ servers disclosed th a t ra in fro m the 1 mass could be deadly. ' A m assive colum n o f w ater, h u r­ tlin g m ore than a m ile in to the Pa­ i c ific sky. and a th ic k sheet of spray and steam that rose to 9.000 feet, follow ed the detonation of the bomb, w hich was touched off by ra d io fro m beneath a m edium la n d ­ i ing ship. V eteran of two w o rld wars, the 21,000-ton battleship A rkansas sank | w ith in five m inutes o f the blast, and the 33,000-ton a irc ra ft c a rr ie r Sara­ | toga also w ent down. The battleship New Y o rk, the Jap dreadnaught Na- gato and the destroyer Hughes and tra n s p o rt F a llo n w ere severely c rip ­ pled by the charge. OPA Battle Has Political Side W hatever one m ay th in k of the in tric a c y of the economic theory be­ hind the OPA, its p o litic a l im p lic a ­ tions are a thousandfold m ore d if­ fic u lt to assess. As congress battled over the ta t­ tered rem ains of the p rice control la w , m any a congressman who th o r­ oughly detested the whole set-up be­ gan to w o rry a little as to w hat m ig h t happen back home i f he were held p a rtia lly responsible fo r w re c k ­ ing the agency. I t was a ll rig h t fo r the representa­ tive s of fa rm com m unities. The fa rm e r would reap the re w a rd of h ig h e r prices first. B y the tim e he fe lt the effect of h ig h er prices on the things he had to buy, OPA p robably would be forgotten. B u t congressmen fro m in d u s tria l cen­ ters were in quite a d iffe re n t position. "These com m unities are heard fro m th e m om ent the missus encounters a m a rk u p at the corner grocery. T hat is the reason th a t a num ber of Re­ p u b lica n s supported the a d m in is tra ­ tio n stand on OPA. I f the R epubli­ can p a rty is to capture the house of representatives next N ovem ber, it w ill have to p ic k up votes in the | cities. C o ng ress Scans T y p e s o f C lo s in g I t took some tim e fo r congress to m ake up its m in d w hether it would a d jo urn “ sine d ie " (w ith o u t date set fo r reconvening), as they usually do when a session comes to an end, o r w hether they would “ recess.” When congress m e re ly recesses it can reassem ble w ith o u t a special p ro cla m a tio n by the P resident. When the P resident calls congress in to session he has to issue a proc­ la m a tio n . T h a t’ s a ll the C onstitu­ tio n demands. He doesn’t have to d e liv e r it. Out of courtesy, how­ ever, the W hite House alw ays tele­ graphs the president of the senate and the speaker of the house. B u t the p ro cla m a tio n is not good unless the G reat Seal of the U nited States is affixed thereunto. Nobody can do that b u t the se cre ta ry of state, fo r he is the keeper o f the seal. So along w ith the p ro cla m a ­ tion, the P re s id e n t has to issue a w a rra n t, o rd e rin g the se cre ta ry of state to do the a ffixin g . I m ig h t say th a t the secretary of state u su a lly delegates th is task, w hich re m in d s m e o f a story, which, 1 believe, never has been printed. When S ecretary of State H u ll had been in office 12 years, there was a lit tle o u tb u rst of congratulations. President Roosevelt, .as they were ta lk in g p riv a te ly , re m a rke d : “ C or­ dell. you are the sole guardian of the great seal, as you know .” He paused, and M r. H u ll re p lie d : “ Yes, M r. P resident.” Then the President, looking him s tra ig h t in the eye, asked: “ Where is it? ” I t was H u ll's tu rn to pause. “ I d o n 't know ,” he adm itted. “ I ’ ve never seen it . ” B a rb e rs to Boost V o c a b u la r y T o o I t is probably fittin g th a t along w ith the d o lla r h a irc u t w hich has m ade its appearance in m e tro p o li­ tan barber-shops, we m ay find the barber presenting us fo u r-d o lla r words. B arbers long have been known fo r the q u a lity of th e ir v e rb ­ al output and in some cases fo r the q u a lity as w ell. Now they m ay have a chance re a lly to reach the heights, fo r the leader of a b a rb e r’ s union has offered to “ e n list the aid of 10,000 ba rb e rs” in a cam paign to get some of the fa cts o f a to m ic life across to the custom er. O fficials of the a irlin e s have in ­ structed th e ir stewardesses to tra n s ­ late. fo r curious passengers, the name “ G rand T e to n ,” ta ll peaks in Idaho, as “ Sweater G irl M oun­ ta in s .” T h a t’s w h a t Business Week te lls me. ATOMIC CONTROL: Russ Rejection T u jo t o ronniTvai Mrtv bi m o r id n m 7 «ga n r s rv rn m O) ru ts , MAKI T h e ro n s tru rtlo n Is io sim p le th a t a ll you need Is stock w idths ot lumiM-r, a hand saw , a screw d r iv e r and u b ia r e and bit to bore the holes fo r the pegs. P a tte rn 21H for the bench: No. W.’l tor ta llie s In tw o alaasi No. 2112 tor the c h a ir; a re I5 r each postpaid, o r a ll th re e to one nddresa for 35c P a tte rn s give la rg e ru ttin g d ia g ra m s of sit p lre rs . illu s tra te d directions and a complete list of ma­ terials. Send orders d ire c t to M ilk . R U T H W Y E U I Nl’ K A K S Bedford H ills , N. Y. D ra w e r 10 Enclose IS cents for P a tte rn N o 204 N am e A dd ress- Turtles Supply Both Sport And Foot! in Australia In A u stralia, tu rtle riding is a popular form of beach recreation. Bathers who sight .swimming tu r ­ The A rgentine governm ent Is tles usually pursue them and, ap­ fro m behind, c lim b guaranteeing these scientists u n lim ­ proaching ited funds, com plete scie n tific lib - aboard a husky specimen. ■ e rty and absolute personal se cu rity The tu rtle never upproves of this j fro m police te rro r. The head of m ounting technique, hut a special I one im p o rta n t A rgentine scientific rope h a lte r keeps its head where group inform ed the I’ eron govern­ any angry tu rtle ’s head belongs. m ent that Nazi scientists ure doing M any s k illfu l surf-bourd experts ' w ell but s till are not o p e ra tin g rap- ride the tu rtle s standing up—a feat • id ly enough to sa tisfy the Argen- re q u irin g unusual s k ill and b a l­ , tines. ance. A fte r n refreshing cruise, the ATO M IC RAT RACE tu rtle -rid in g enthusiast m ay de­ U. S. atom ic delegate B ernie Ba­ cide to make soup of his old mount. Rack in Business H ittin g at the use o f violence de­ signed to a lte r B rita in 's position ifi the tic k lis h problem of setting up a Jew ish hom eland in A ra b -d o m i­ nated H o ly Land, the L a b o r gov­ ernm ent released a w hite paper in London p u rp o rtin g to show th a t p ro m in e n t leaders of the Jewish agency fo r Palestine had unified underground organizations fo r a re ig n of te rro r. B asing its contentions on in te r­ cepted messages between high agency o fficia ls in London and J e ru ­ salem, the governm ent said th a t the firs t co-ordinated outbreak of vio ­ lence closely follow ed a co m m u n i­ cation re ve a lin g th a t the three m ain underground groups had been lin ke d together fo r jo in t action. War Spending Hits High Peak fo r consum ers' goods and services and 55 b illio n d o lla rs fo r p ro ­ duction equipm ent. The fe d e ra l governm ent was the only u n it w hich w ent deep in to the hole, the tre a s u ry re p o rt reveals. W hile spending 365 b illio n dollars, the federal governm ent took in only 156 b illio n d ollars in taxes, le a v­ in g a d e fic it o f 209 b illio n do lla rs. State and lo ca l governm ents took in 58 b illio n d o lla rs in taxes, w in d ­ in g up about 8 b illio n d o lla rs ahead as th e ir expenditures am ounted to only 50 b illio n dollars. In d iv id u a ls and co rporations fa re d best, w ith a p ro fit o f 201 b il­ lio n d o lla rs. T h e ir Incom e a fte r taxes were paid totaled 773 b illio n d o lla rs w h ile th e ir o ther expendi­ tures were reported as 572 b illio n do lla rs. The 8 b illio n d o lla r surplus ac­ r OPA: ASTRONOMICAL FIGURES F u rth e r evidence th a t w a r tim e ^ spending soared to a stro n o m ical peaks is contained in a tre a s u ry de­ p a rtm e n t re p o rt disclosing th a t n e a rly a tr illio n d o lla rs was spent in th is co u n try d u rin g the six de­ fense and w a r years. F ig u re s com ­ puted by tre a s u ry analysts show th a t the exact am ount spent through the calendar years 1940 to 1945 was 987 b illio n dollars. The burden of a rm in g and fig h t­ ing costs accounted fo r unprecedent­ ed spending by the fe d e ra l govern­ m ent, w ith a to ta l o u tla y of 365 b illio n do lla rs, o r about three- eighths o f the to ta l. E xpenditures o f state and lo ca l governm ents, citie s and counties am ounted to about 50 b illio n dollars. The re m a in in g 572 b illio n d o lla rs was accounted fo r b y spending o f in d iv id u a ls and corporations, the figure in clu d in g 517 b illio n d o lla rs A R G E N T IN E ATOM BOMBS The fascist A rg e n tin e governm ent has com pleted elaborate plans fo r going in to the atom ic-bom b busi­ ness on a scale p a ra lle l to th a t of the U. S. The Argentine Sdentine asso­ ciation has proposed and re- reived approval of the Argen­ tine war and navy departments Io finance Importation and op­ erations of the best nuclear physicists In the world, Includ­ ing German refugees. Even as B ik in i re ve rb e ra te d w ith the explosion of the second a to m ic bom b test in the P acific, Russia turned thum bs down on the U. S. proposal fo r in te rn a tio n a l co n tro l of the a to m ic energy. Addressing a closed m eeting of the U nited N ations atom ic energy co m m itte e on controls in New Y o rk, Soviet R epresentative G ro m yko as­ serted th a t the U. S. suggestion th a t the veto be e lim in a te d in a to m ic re g u la tio n could not be accepted by Russia because it would tend to destroy the p rin c ip le o f u n a n im ity ruch has confided to friends that he among the B ig F iv e in p re se rvin g is m uch opposed to having chair- postw ar peace. [ m anship of the a to m ic com m ission G ro m yko also rapped the p ro ­ i rotate each m onth. This means that posal fo r establishing an independ­ A u stra lia n F oreign M in is te r H er­ ent agency fo r the co n tro l o f a to m ic b e rt E va tt. U nited Nations dynamo, energy, d e cla rin g that the U .N . se­ now steps down as ch a irm a n . c u rity council consisting of the B ig The A u stra lia n is about the only F ive as perm anent m em bers pos­ m em ber o f the atom ic com m ission sessed both the power and means who has Soviet Envoy G ro m yko to deal w ith the problem . ' a fra id of him . The other day G ro­ m yko opposed a decision by m a ­ jo r ity rule, proposing a tw o -th ird s vote instead. E v a tt was on the , Russian in a flash. No sooner had P resident T ru m a n " I t 's not necessarily true. Mr. signed the com prom ise OPA b ill ex­ ; G rom yko, that the m a jo rity is a l­ tending the agency u n til June 30, ways w ro n g ." rebuked the A u stra ­ 1947, than it swung into action to lian. stabilize the n ational economy, On another occasion, Gromy­ w hich strained w ith the rem oval of ko was protesting against the controls. Raru<-h plan. Instead hr pro­ posed immediate destruction of Passed after the President all existing atomic bombs and had vetoed an earlier bill, the release of the atomic bomb se­ compromise measure contained cret by the U. S. many provisions designed to as­ sure both producers and distrib­ When B ernie B aruch, liste n in g utors of adequate working m ar­ through his ca r phone, heard this gins. However, it modified the he became alm ost apoplectic. B ut original Taft amendment, which before B aruch could speak, E va tt M r. Trum an charged would al­ took on the Russian again. low manufacturers unwarranted “ You know, M r. G ro m y k o ," said profits, by setting up ceilings E v a tt, "n o t a ll the p a rlia m e n ts in based on 1940 prices plus in­ the w o rld w ould approve a ll the proposals th a t you m ake here. I f creased costs. they did, it w ould be a d iffe re n t w o rld .” PALESTINE: Hit Terrorism U N D AU N TED VOYAGER . . . U nw anted by his A u s tra lia n m oth­ e r, 2 - ye a r - old D aniel Joseph Sprague J r. tra ve le d alone to San F ra n cisco on the S. S. M onterey w ith 688 other c h ild re n and w a r b rid e s. Aboard the ship, the blond, wide-eyed little boy was “ adopted” te m p o ra rily by M rs. E dna M a ye rh o fe r, 22, who w ill jo in her husband in B ro o klyn , N. Y . m issionary g ets post W ASHINGTON - H ere’ , the in ­ side story on the sudden appoint­ m ent of John Leighton S tuart u , new A m e rica n ambassador to China. O rig in a lly . P resident T ru m a n planned to appoint L t. Gen At W edem eyer as umbassudor to C h i­ na. As a m u tte r of fact, Wedemey- e r's nom ination already hud been typed and wus on the P resident’ s desk. However, lu st week G eneral M u rsh u ll sent T ru m u n an urgent cable udvising that he fin a lly hud found one m an who could act as a m ­ bassador und who was on good te rm s w ith both the C om m unists and the C hiang Kai-shek group. M a rsh a ll also pointed out that Stu­ a rt had live d in China fo r 50 years and spoke fluent Chinese So, 24 hours la te r. P resident T ru ­ m un nom inated J Leighton S tuart to be A m erican am bassador- to China. cum ulated by state and lo ca l gov­ ernm ents and the 201 b illio n d o lla r surplus piled up by in d ivid u a ls and co rporations e xa ctly equalled the fe d e ra l d e fic it of 209 b illio n do lla rs. T h a t is not a coincidence, a cco rd ­ ing to the tre a s u ry analysts, who in sist th a t “ to ta l spendings and to ­ ta l incom e re a lly are the same fig ­ ure—they are the head and ta il o f a co in .” In other w ords, one m an’ s e xpenditure is another m an's income. These figures, the tre a su ry de­ clares, e xp la in the o rig in o f the enormous fe d e ra l debt. The fe d e ra l g overnm ent was re q u ire d to b o rro w to pay the excess o f its spending over its incom e. I t s till owes th a t m oney plus some e x tra b o rro w in g and some p re w a r debt, am ounting in a ll to m ore than 268 b illio n d o l­ la rs. NO CONGRESSMAN IS G U IL T Y The case of A ndrew Jackson M ay and his backstage w ire -p u llin g fo r w a r profiteers illu s tra te s tw o defects in our politico-congressional system w hich sooner o r la te r m ust be cured. 1. The almost • life - or • death power of the chairm an of any congressional committee over executive branches of the gov­ ernment. 2. The fact that certain con­ gressional districts are so dom­ inated by political bosses that no m atter what a man does in Washington he can’t be defeat­ ed for reelectlon at home. C ongressm an M a y comes fro m a d is tric t in the K e n tu cky m ountains, m a n y o f whose people now regard h im as som ething of a hero. They believe th a t Ja ck M a y can do no wrong. P rio r to M a y ’ s incum bency his d is tric t sent a R epublican, John Langley, to congress. He landed in ja il fo r bootlegging. B u t even a fte r he had been convicted. L a n g ­ ley was re-elected to congress. And when it became cle a r th a t Lan g le y could not adequately represent his d is tric t w h ile behind bars, his lo ya l constituents sent his w ife to congress. A ctu a lly, the g re a t m a jo rity of congressmen are absolutely honest. M isguided and fre q u e n tly w rong they m a y be, but m ost ot them are honest. B IK IN I A F T E R M A T H A ir C hief G eneral “ T oughy” Spaatz is not happy over the a ir fo rce ’ s role in the firs t B ik in i test. The b o m b a rd ie r and p ilo t, who dropped the bom b m ore than a thousand feet w ide o f the m a rk , are in the doghouse perm a n en tly, Both w ill be tra n s fe rre d to ro u tin e as- signm ents. G eneral Spaatz feels there is no excuse fo r th e ir wide miss. . . , The B ritis h cabinet has decided to settle 250,000 a nti-R us­ sian m em bers o f the Polish arm y in England p e rm anently. /« aS we// “ Ht,‘S xt timt y°ur £ ~ r ju s r ^ flNP oUl Invest in Your Country— Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! 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