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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
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Soviet Assistance Termed
America's “Great Mistake
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Watch Your
Kidneys./
H elp T h e m Cleanse th e Blood
o f H a rm fu l Body Waste
Tour kidneys are constantly Altering
F“ 1*
I'o m the blood etream. But
kidneys sometimes las In their work—do
not act as Nature Intended— (all to rw-
move Impurities th at. If retained, may
K ^ V . c h i n ’' . ^ ” * nd “ P“ ‘ ‘ h* Wh0U
o.?.3í - - pt.0 ? ,
b* n*k(fin« backache,
pare stent headache, attacks of disaineaa,
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Other eigne of kidney or bladder dis
order are sometimes burning, scanty ot
too m a frequent
urination.
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treatment la wiser than neglect, use
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country over. A r t your m ightorl
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