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Oregon Journal Sees Truman Defeating Self a By Abusive Campaign Poper Which Supported Democrats Many Years Comes Out for Dewey By David Lawrence When a newspaper which has •upported Democratic candidates for the presidency in nearly all elections during the last 46 years announces that it will this year support Gov. Dewey, the reasons given for such action constitute a significant development. The Oregon Journal, although independent in Its attitude toward all parties, has been regarded in Portland and outside as a Demo cratic newspaper. Only in .1940, when it turned to Wendell Wlllkie, did the Journal veer from its ad herence to the Democratic party in presidential campaigns. It turned then because it opposed a third term, but it nevertheless supported the late President Roosevelt in 1944 When the war was on. It is interesting to note that among other reasons the Oregon Journal has expressed dissatisfac tion with the abusive type of cam paign that President Truman has been waging. Here is what the Journal said, in part, in its an nouncement. “As an independent newspaper, the Journal has followed the pres ent presidential campaign with deep Interest and concern and has determined to support Gov. Dewey for the presidency. The reasons are: "We have had a Democratic ad ministration for 16 years and, ex cept for the recent loss of congres sional control, the Federal Govern ment has been in the hands of the Democrats . . . Hu Lost Leadership. "President Truman—pathetically brave, and sound in his demands for price reduction and more hous ing—in descending to the level of his Missouri training in campaign vilification, has lost leadership of the nation. “Gov. Dewey has abstained from class appeal and yet has tacitly rec ognized in his appeal for labor harmony that the American insti tutions, law and liberty, could not continue without the faith and support of men who toil with their hands. Above all, Gov. Dewey holds a deep responsibility of America's New World leadership. Unity at home he correctly defines as the way to win the peace, just as unity was the secret of winning the war. “In 16 years, bureaucratic agencies have multiplied and no bureaucrat ever willingly leaves the payroll. Dewey promises a spring houseclean ing in January. It is necessary. “Gov. Dewey cannot alone do all that he pledges. The support of the Congress is not only essential but is candidly the biggest chance he takes in view of the record of the Eight ieth Congress. He has, however, more support, less divided, than any thing President Truman can com mand. If in November the Demo crats wTin a Senate majority, his po sition would be more difficult. “He has a proof of liberalism in his runnig mate. Gov. Earl Warren of California, who Gov. Dewey promises is to be a full partner in his administration. In these grave times, both at home and abroad,1 unity, constructive action, economic progress, the broadening of liberties and the blessings of peace are in cparably related to the future of America and, we think, to the sur- [ vival of this civilization. For these reasons, the journal supports the candidacy of Gov. Dewey.” Liberalism Unquestioned. The Oregon Journal is regarded as one of the most important news apers on the Pacific Coast. Its oeralism is unquestioned. It cer ainly has championed that cause •.ansistently. Inasmuch as Gov. Dewey cam paigned in Oregon in Hie primaries, rhe Journal had an opportunity to familiarize itself with Gov. Dewey's way of handling himself with the people. More important, however, lias been the Dewey behavior since he accepted the responsibilities of a candidate who in all probabi'ity will become the next President. The American people like to feel that their candidates for high office are not lacking in dignity. The con trast between the Dewey and Tru man types of campaigning is grow ing so noticeable as to cause dis cussion on every side. Mr. Truman is defeating himself with the independent voters. The Oregon Journal’s stand is sympto matic of the attitude of the inde pendents who do not consider them selves partisans in any presidential election but who find it necessary to swing their support to the candi date who gives the maximum prom ise of a respectful as w’ell as con scientious approach to the problems of the day. (Reproduction Rlthtl Ruerved.) "OE»r»nu*<l, K* BhrlnkM* ^ euisnnt X o«r" SKC»^st CE. *777. c»r. C». »4 N. E AfM MEN AND WOMEN Needed for pleatant and dignified work Experience not necessary. Strictly salary basis. Short hours. Five - day •week. Chances for advancement. Special inducement for those with cars. Fortonal Inltrvitwt Only For dtlailt, tot Mr. H. Brown Sturgeon 2539 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Roam 320 Monday and Tuesday, October 4th and 5th 9 to 12 A.M. 1 to 5 P.M. This Changing World Little Official U. S. Heed Being Paid To Communist Moves in Far East By Constantine Brown Little American attention is be ing paid now to happenings in the Far East, chiefly because of the threatening cataclysm in Europe and eleventh - hour efforts to avert It, at least temporarily. Chinese Com munists, strong ly supported by Moscow, are making longer strides against the National government of G e n e r alissimo C h i a n g Kai shek than they ever made in the past. The Soviet Constantine Brown. government not only Is providing its stooges in China with the neces sary war equipment and technical advice, but also has increased Gen. Mao Tse-tung's forces with fresh and well-trained Japanese troops, reportedly to the tune of 140,000 men. These are prisoners of war be longing to the once-powerful Kwan tung Army. In 1945 they were taken to Siberia, where they were screened. The “hopeless cases''—that is, those who believe firmly in the Emperor and in Japan's survival—were sent to labor camps and the Siberian mines. Those w:ho expressed their willingness to serve the Red empire were put through a thorough in doctrination and organised into military units to serve Moscow's purposes. According to official statements of the Tokyo government, which are supported by evidence from Chinese intelligence, the Communist forces in China now have added to their ranks some 140,000 first-class Jap anese soldiers, principally aviators and tank experts. These units, which have been in corporated into the Red armies of the Far East, are doing an excellent job for their masters and are prin cipally responsible for Gen. Maos spectacular successes against the de pleted, war-weary and sadly un equipped divisions of Gen. Chiang. The National Government's posi tion is increasingly difficult. Besides an overwhelming economic crisis, due principally to the undeclared war which Russia is waging against Gen. Chiang through the Commu nist regime, the Chinese government is faced with a fast-tiring army. The excellent troops which the .United States trained during the war are Just about spent. Whatever remain are a mere shadow of the past. They lack artillery, ammuni tion and planes, as well as gasoline for the few planes which remain. It is true that Congress appro priated about $125,000,000 for mili tary support to China. But only a negligible amount of equipment bought with this money has found its way to ports controlled by the National Government. Although the Nanking government was prepared for a long time to use its remaining gold funds for military equipment in the United States, the State Department's embargo on the ex port of war materials prevented such an operation. Last year, under pressure of the special sesssion of Congress, the State Department was coerced into liberalizing that policy, but this lib eralization was nominal. In the months since then China has ob tained from this country a limited and insufficient amount of military equipment. There are still some in the State Department who consider the Chinese Communists as nothing more than agrarian reformers and Gen. Chiang’s government a reac tionary organization. The world situation has become so grave that we cannot neglect any potential theater of operations. And there is no question that the Far East—and particularly China—will be called on to play an important part in the event of a third world war. While we are devoting all our at tention to Europe's potential and our strategic p.anners are debating the ways and means of coping with possible Soviet aggression in West ern Europe and the Middle East, the China theater is being neglected because, it is said, "there is noth ing much we can do about it.” We permitted the Chinese Na tional armies to disintegrate by adopting a shortsighted policy in an area which the Soviets intend to exploit militarily. Their Siberian flanks are now well-secured by the almost-complete control of Man churia won by the Chinese Reds. Siberia is regarded as important militarily because in the event of a Russian showdown with America, it appears highly probable that the Russians will attempt to attack Alaska from that part of the So viet empire. Nominally Manchuria was re turned to China by agreement of the big powers, but the U. S. S. R. maneuvered so well, and we were so lamentably weak, that it is Russia which now controls that vast terri- ‘ tory in Eastern Asia. On the Record Iron Curtain Hangs Over Soviet Mind, Study of Vishinsky’s Demand Shows By Dorothy Thompson One always looks forward with apprehension to the meetings of the General Assembly of the United i Nations. Again we read mutual ac cusations and never that sober and candid de liberation which the magnitude of the crisis re quires. Mr. Vishinsky opened the meeting with a demand for a reduction of all armaments b y one-third. There is nowhere on earth an objec tion to this or more radical re Dorothy Thompson. ductions. But his accompanying speech was a harangue against the United States as a scheming aggressor, and an attack on the American viewpoint (also held by Roosevelt) that disarmament with out effective controls repeatedly has been tried and failed. ••If,” sneered Mr. Vishinsky, “we take into consideration that the American plan provides for the transfer to an international control bodv not only enterprises but whole industries. • • • It is not difficult to understand what the American plan may lead to.” We can only see that it would lead to the international socializa tion of the greatest potential source of energy mankind ever is likely to have. We cannot see why an in ternational Socialist should oppose it except that it is inconsistent with the veto, the Iron Curtain and the plan of any state for world domina tion. Mr. Vishinsky quoted articles from the American press describing how another war would be fought, as proof of American plans for aggres sion. But to describe a perspective is not to champion It, and what Is discussed privately in Russia Is printed openly here. The Soviets certainly have plans—as we do—in case of war with any specific enemy. Both states maintain war colleges. But these are not a cause of war, but a symptom that no effective system of collective security—nor any enforceable law to deter ag gressors—exists. . The Soviets are the unfortunate prisoners of their own ‘‘principles,” which include the “principle” of the “inevitability” of war as long as “Communist” and “capitalist” states exist, and as expressed by Lenin, whom Mr. Bevin quoted. Lenin has been dead a long time, but unfor tunately there is apparent return to this theory—if the Soviets ever veered from it. The same view is expressed in a j recent book by the Soviet deputy president of the Council of Ministers (Stalin’s aid), N. A. Voznesensky. Again the “principle” is repeated that imperialist expansion is in herent in capitalist states, that the United States of America is the most powerful contemporary expres sion of such a state: that therefore war is inevitable and could be pre vented only by the military and economic disarmament of America and the world hegemony of the U. S. S. R. Vishinsky refers to the Identical passage quoted by Bevin: "Lenin taught us that the fate of all revolutions has been decided by a long sequence of wars and that with the civil war we ended only one series and had to be prepared for the next series.” Now, a state that believes war is inevitable can only be preaching disarmament (without control) as a means of making the disarmed its victims. The most dangerous thing in the world is for a state to believe it knows the certain outcome of his tory. It thereby puts on blinders. Lenin knew nothing about atomic energy, which upsets all his notions of "matter.’’ Marx’s predictions about the “inevitable” development of capitalism have not been sus tained by events, as the Soviet econ .omist. Yevgenij Varga, pointed out 'and for which he was purged. I World War II did not develop ac cording to Stalin's anticipations: and the Soviet system has not freed j the country of cyclic problems aris ing from imbalance between produc tion of consumers’ goods, capital goods and savings—as Voznesensky ; admits in the same book. The Sovlet i Communist mind is simple to in anity, and for that reason danger ous The Iron Curtain between West and East is a result of an Iron Cur tain in the Soviet mind. (Released by the Bell Syndicate. Inc) LOUIE —By Harry Hanan css J—I ] —1 SOUND .-W-1 mi WU mTlitM. »»c * Tussle in Wyoming Dewey, Popular in State, Helps Robertson in Senatorial Battle By Doris Fleeson CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 1.—Dem ocrats here are attempting to un seat an incumbent senator, E. V. Robertson, with a warm, wholesome personality who has so far never lost an election —Gov. Lester C. Hunt. Barring a Dewey landslide, a Hunt victory is forecast. Hence another intensive Dewey day today In a State having only three elec toral votes. Gov. Warren will be along later. The irony Doris Flooson. of It is that Gov. Hunt, who has given the State a sensible, middle of-the-road administration, fits much more closely than Robertson does into the Dewey-Warren frame work as they have been building it in their campaign speeches. Senator Robertson, one of the few Senate millionaires, is a conservative isolationist, one of six who, to the end, said no to the European Re covery Program. His distaste for part of the company he kept—Sen ator Taylor, the Wallace candidate for Vice President—was absolute, but principle prevailed over the per sonalities involved. Senator Rob ertson was also for Senator Taft before Philadelphia. But Republicans must organize the Senate if they can and their margin at present is four, with sev eral of their incumbents in danger. So governors Dewey and Warren are seeing their duty and doing it. As the classic political gag has it, Robertson may be a ao-and-so but he is their so-and-so, at least until after the Senate is organized. Bowa to Necessity. It can be said absolutely that Gov. Dewey will bow his head to this iron necessity in every case, al though he has let one of the Re now, as before... There’s No Change in a CHARGE ACCOUNT at D. J. Kaufman's Men's Stores • No Initial Payment Is Required! • No Interest or Carrying Charges! • Take 3 Full Months to Pay! Pay V3 in November Pay V3 in December Pay Vs in January D. J. 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Dewey also criticized the bill and asked Senator Revercomb to consent to its amendment in the special session. The senator re fused. Following nu nomination, Gov. Dewey protected his position by public disclosure that he had told West Virginia politicos asking help this fall for Senator Rever comb that he had his doubts. Now, his advisers explain, such doubts are luxuries Gov. Dewey can’t afford this year. Probably they are rather pleased to have said doubts well publicized in pivotal States where the public may be less realistic about politics. Gov. Dewey himself is popular In Wyoming. He carried it in ’44, and a great reception is planned for him. Again, President Truman has probably Improved his position in the Western State with his plain speaking and Democrats say he might make it. But the edge is Dewey’s, and the Democrats will be well satisfied if they can hold him down and extricate Gov. Hunt only. Naturalized in 1927. It will not be easy. 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