fhe OHEGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon; Saturday Mornla& Septembert2S, 1933
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"Aro Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall A tee"
From First Statesman. March. 28. 18S1
Chahlcs A. Spkague
SHEUKJN F. SACKETT .
THE STATEoMAK PUBLISHING CO.
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Crop Insurance
ThOTH candidates for president are proposing crop insur-
O ance as a bid for farmer
holding back may be able
-ear. Campaigning is a sort of
petitive bidding is the order of
the AAA checks plus soil conservation plu3 crop insurance
Landon advocates payments for producing instead of not
producing, plus soil conservation plus crop insurance, plus
I warehouse receipts for storage
Crop insurance is no new
Dakota tried hail insurance in the non-partisan league hey
day. Private companies offer hail insurance and fire insur
ance for standing grain. They
iof general crop insurance, but
Perhaps it would be possible to determine the law of ave
rages which Would govern crop production, weighing in prop
yl er proportion floods, drouth, frost, cutworms, cinchbugs, boll
weevil, hot winds, downy mildew, corn borer and potato bugs.
But the actuary who can figure it all out in advance would
have to be a combination of Einstein, a soothsayer and the
Witch of Endor.
Insurance is something
ciple; but it requires facts and
so complicated as crop insurance covering even a single crop
over a vast territory, with a
jtions involves assuming hazards very difficult to measure in
aovance.
Even if the loss ratio could be determined, the problem
of allocating assessments on farms and of adjusting individ
ual claifns for losses at the end of the crop season is hard
! enough to tax the wisdom of a Solomon. I
The pertinent question that
i the loss ? Is this to be one.more vast drain on the, government
treasury; or will the funds for the benefits be derived from
premiums paid by the eligible beneficiaries? If the govern
j ment is to foot the bill, which would be quite in keeping with
i the easy-spending habit of the administration, then here we
have winning boondoggle idea
i mg m a manner to satisfy even the most ardent spendthrift.
This paper is not hostile to crop insurance, provided it
is worked out on a sound basis. It would think much better of
the proposal if it were not a gadget dangled before the eyes
of farm voters just a few weeks before election.
Another Spanking for Father Coughlin?
WORD from Vatican City isto the effect that Father
Coughlin may get a stronger "warning" unless he pipes
down in his bitter attacks on President Roosevelt. He
was previously reprimanded by his bishop for calling the
president a liar, and made personal apology therefor. Later
he characterized the two candidates, Roosevelt and Landon.
- one as carbolic acid and the other rat poison. In a speech this
week he referred to the president as anti-God because the lat
ter says "destroy and devastate." j
The priest xf Royal Oak is so intemperate in his utter
ances lje destroys what influence he might otherwise have.
Rome objects because it stands by the principle that "in ev
ery polemic, authorities should be respected." Father Cough
lin aoes no creait to noiy oraer
Dution to American politics.
Question
iBinci apuai journal queries: "II it cost to get a
JL 5,000 republican majority in a rock-ribbed little GOP
state like Maine, what will be the cost in the populous
doubtful states with ten times the population?"
To which The Statesman responds: "If after the boast
; of Gov. Brann that the democratic administration had poured
i $156,000,000 into the little state of Maine, the democrats then
lose this state by a 5,000 majority for senator and a 40,000
majority for governor, how much will it cost the federal treas
I ury for thd democrats to lose (or win in 48 states in Na.
; veinuer; .
The coming of Edward P. McGrady to San Francisco as a govern
ment representative to intervene as conciliator in the longshore dis
pute may be welcomed by those hopeful of a peaceful settlement of
the trouble; He is familiar with the situation, because he worked out
the agreement two years ago when the general strike was called in
San Francisco. While a labor man himself, he has enjoyed the respect
of employing groups. Even if he is unable to effect a renewal of the
agreement in the time remaining, he may succeed in keeping negotia-
"'- " ouifjmft m uiuuuu
Be "-wueen lctoria or spam Is visiting her son in New York.
This country ought to have a friendly interest in Spanish queens. It
was because Queen Isabella took a frieiidly interest in a traveling ad
dlepated sailor with a crazy theory about the earth's being round, and
was willing to gamble a little on him, that this continent was dis
covered. In recent years there have been doubts about whether the
discovery did the world any good or not; but few people seem dis
posed to move back to Europe, and none to Spain at the present mo
ment.
The state printing office has started work grinding out the voters
pamphlets. There will be a massif matter dealing with the various
measures the voters will pass on in November. The mess is almost un
iformly bad. In fact we do not recall a time when as little rational
legislation was proposed as this year. Ordinarily we encourage voters
to read the pamphlets and come to their own conclusions about the
-merit of the measures. This year the advice Is hardlr necessary. The
voters can rote no on all the bills and not go far wrong.
Foreign engineers have been visiting the power projects In this
area and are quoted as exclaiming a great deal over what they see at
Bonneville. A Swede looked at the Columbia and said it was "unbe
lievable , ten times as big as the biggest river in Sweden. Give him
a Paul Bunyan book to stretch his Imagination a little
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Al Smith graciously concedes the air to FDR for the night of Oc
r fna 8a8 he will not begin until after the president has fin
ished. If It is to be a catch-as-catch-can debate Al hasn t conceded anv
thing. He gets in the last word. j "
Japanese indignation "knows no bounds' because Individuals of
their race have been picked off In China ports.iThe bounds of their
indignation doubtless extend to the west margins of China.
"Chinese dictator steps into breach" reads a headline Very un
usual. A breach Is what a Chinese general always steps out of.
Kakacka Buys 7
Acres Near Scio
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SCIO, Sept. 1 5. Sale of the
iTa Abbott 7 -acre traet at the
south city limits of Scio was re
ported this week. The new own
er is J. F. Kukacka. who recently
sold his 80-acre farm a mile so t fe
west f Scio to eastern parties for
17.000 as a cash transaction. - Mr.
and Mrs. Kukacka plan to make
the new place their permanent
Editor-Manager
Mav.aging-L. ' ' r
votes. In fact the farmer by just
to drive a hardjbargain this
farm auction in reverse, torn
the day. Roosevelt flourishes
on the farm.
idea in this country. North
have even toyed with the idea
never ventured into the field.
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which is proven sound in prin
not guesswork. And anything
wide variety of growing condi
arises is this : who is to bear
which would accelerate spend-
and makes no worthy contri
Exchange
ircuuiug lunuer discussion of the
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home. Mrs.! Kukacka, who is re
cuperating from Injuries resulting
from an auto accident near' Scio
in July, 1934, contemplates mak
ing a trip soon to California on a
visit to relatives and friends.
i J. A. Withers, Swift & Comp
any representative in Scio for a
number of years past, this week
closed a deal for the former Ru
dolph Borovlcka residence and.
land consisting of one acre. The
Withers family has occupied the
premises under lease for several
weeks. It la considered one of
the best properties In Scio. -
Bits for
Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Cost of the 9-26-36
burned capitals;
when the second one
was finally completed:
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It does not matter a great deal
now; but one finds in the last Ore
gon Blue Book, under the caption.
Capitol Building," this para
graph:
The structure was completed
in 1876, four.years after the state
legislature had authorized j its
erection at a cost of approximately
9325,000. The massive c o p p e r
dome which now gives , the build
ing a degree of uniformity with
the capitols of other states was not
a part of the original edifice; nei
ther were the porticoes with their
two-story Corinthian columns. The
porticoes were added in 1SS8 and
the dome was erected in 1893."
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One does not need to add "build
ing" after the word capitol. A
capitol is a building.
The legislature had not "auth
orized its erection at a cost of ap
proximately $325,000."
The - legislature authorized Its
erection according to plans to be
adopted, and made an initial ap
propriation of $100,000. The ar
chitects, Krumbein & Gilbert,
Portland, estimated that the cost
of the building they designed
would be about $500,000. It turn
ed out to be about $150,000 less,
including many changes and re
pairs made in the 20 years from
its beginning in 1873 until the
dome was put on In 1893.
And the porticoes were added
before 1888. They were added in
the period of 1883-6.
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The New Year Statesman of
January 1, 1887, had an article
in which it was stated that Thom
as McF. Patton from Marion coun
ty introduced a bill in the lower
house of the Oregon legislature of
1872 appropriating $100,000 for
the commencement of work on a
state house.
That session of the legislature
was of course held in the Holman
building, still standing, northwest
corner Ferry and Commercial
streets, and the bill was signed by
Governor Grover In his office.
which was the corner second floor
room in the present Statesman
block, across the street south; in
which room, by the way, this is
being written.
"The structure was completed
In 1876." says the Blue Book. It
was a long way from completion
then, but work had progressed far
enough for the legislature to meet
in regular session in September
of that year in the building, the
house on the third floor of the
north wing and the senate imme
diately beneath on the s e e o n d
floor. And the state officers by
that time were housed in the
building. i
The New Year Statesman being
quoted said: "The building Is
NEARLY completed now, with the
exception of the grand dome."
The office of Secretary of State
R, P. Earhart furnished for that
number of The Statesman a list
of the state warrants drawn on
state house account to that date.
following:
1872-4
1874-6
1876-8
..$ 90.649.53
99,761.24
2,195.61
1878-80
1880-82
1882- 3 .
1883- 6 .
Total
28,999.67
. . 414.40
924.06
. 75.000.00
.$298,144.51
That was "exclusive of rnnvlrt
labor, by which the excavation
was done, and all the brick made.
and inclusive of all necessary re
pairs." as the rsew Year article
said. -
It was stated that the 175.000
for the 1883-6 period was expend
ed under the direction of W. F,
Boothby, supervising architect,
and included the "new assembly
(lower house) hall, the rotundas,
steDS and antiroarhp anil frown
ing the departments of justice and
tne senate chamber, besides plas
tering and completing all the base
ment proper, and furnishings for
the supreme court and assembly
halls." f
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The dome, added in 1S9.1. nt
about $50,000. Counting It at that
ngure, tne total cost. Including
repairs up to that date, was $348,-
144. al. (The reader has nerhana
noted that the items given from
Secretary Earharfs office figure
up slightly less than the total
printed.)
There is no wav now tn f fnrt mil
which was correct, the rt?ui tntmt
or each of the items making It
up; likely the latter.;
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There Was no mat tnr e-rnnnf a
because W. H. Willson, who plat
ted the original Salem town gave
the capitol block to the territory,
and what was the territory's be
came the state's. .
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That is. Willann mari
ise to give the block, and. thmirh
she did not Join in the platting.
Mrs. willson signed the deed to
the Territory of Oregon.
The caoital block was In Mn
Wlllson's half (north half) of the
aonation land claim.
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The reader will note that when
the state house was first occupied,
in the summer of 1876, it had
cost only $190,410.97. - i
The writer recalls that tn ffc
spring of 1884, when lie first saw
me Duuamg. the whole south
wing. was yet unfinished, and a
great ' deal more besides. .Work
had not been started on ba t
and west steps, nor on the porti
coes, xne construction of the dome
came nine years later.
(Concluded tomorrow.) ;
Leaving for College :
KEIZER. Sent. 2 5. Howard
and Erma Cole are leaving San-
uy tor Eugene to tutia tne
Northwestern Christian college.
They hare both been employed re
cently at Montgomery wards.
Interpreting the News
By MARK
WASHINGTON, S P t. 23.
Newspapers last week reported
that a salient American figure had
retired for
time o an ivory
tower of silence
and lnconspicu
ovmeii. One
despatch read:
"Tucson, Ariz.,
Sept. 17. (I. N
S.) S e cretly
touring the Unit
ed States' to stu
dy rural rehabil-
1 tat ion a n d
i Mars Snnivan grasshopper con
trol projects," Rexford iy Tug
well left here today after his In
cognito had been learned. His des
tination was unknown."
Other despatches said that Pro
fessor Tugwell had had influenza
and had 'gone to a hospital for
treatment. Need for rest and quiet
would adequately justify the in-
cognity .same on the hospital rec
ords. 1 Yet here is a strange thing.
Here is the man who proposed
most of the ideas in the new deal,
and who persuaded President
Roosevelt to adopt the ideas,
urged them on congress and fas
tened them on the country. And
here are those Ideas, land
the president, engaged in a
campaign in which the new
deal is on trial for its life. Yet
here is the principal author of the
hew deal silent on a desert in Ar
izona. ! Professor Tugwell's silence and
inconspicuousness, we may be
sure, is not due wholly to influen
za. Even were he in the best of
health, most of us surmise. Pro
fessor Tugwell would be incon
spicuous in, this campaign. His si
lence is part of the silence of oth
ers high in the president's circle.
Silent also is Professor Frankfur
ter. Others talk. President Roose
velt talks. National Chairman Far
ley talks and how. A hundred
minor new dealers talk. The acoly
tes and apprentices of the new deal
talk. Its- recruits talk Including
those recruits high in democratic
leadership whose status in the new
deal is that of forced conscript
They all talk; they talk much and
they talk loudly.
But those who invented the new
deal, the high priests of it, those
who intellectually are its com
manding generals they are silent
and unseen. One recalls the mili
tary technique of a valiant com
manding officer celebrated by Gil
bert and Sullivan In "The Gondo
liers"; In enterprise of martial kind,
When there was any fighting,
He led his regiment from behind
He found it less exciting.
But when away his regiment ran.
His place was at the fore, O
That celebrated.
Cultivated.
Underrated,
Nobleman,
The Duke of Plaza Toro;
When to evade destruction's
hand,
To hide they all proceeded.
No soldier in that gallant band
Hid half as well as he did.
He lay concealed throughout the
war,
And so preserved his gore, O
That unaffected.
Undetected,
Well connected
Warrior,
The Duke of Plaza Toro.
While I quote that musical sat
ire, because it is amusing and
partly pertinent, I would not will
ingly create the impression that
It really applies to Professor Tug-
well. To some of the other Intel
lectuals, yes they are timid mice
temporarily emboldened by hav
ing a powerful friend In the White
House. If that friend leaves the
White House they will scurry back
to the calm of their academic clos-
Editorial
Comment
From Other Papers
TRUE THEN, TRUE NOW
,The charge made by Frank
Knox that "Under the present pol
icies of this administration no life
insurance policy is secure, no sav
ings account is safe" has stirred
up something of a tempest. The
Republican vice-presidential can
didate has gotten under the skin
of the New Dealers.
The Incident demonstrates how
much weight is placed on the
words of Alf Landon's running
mate for nearly two months ago
virtually the same charge was
made by another and It went al
most unnoticed.
At Yellowstone paTk on July 25
Orval W. Adams, second rice-president
of the American Bankers'
association and executive vice
president of the Utah state nation
al bank, of Salt Lake City, in an
address before the Montana bank
ers association said "We know
that the continuance of the pres
ent spending and borrowing pol
icies of government can lead to but
one end, the destruction of the
savings or our depositors." Mr.
Adams made no reference to In
surance, companies but his state
ment was as applicable to them as
to savings depositors. .
, The Adams address, which was
entitled "If Our Depositors Only
K n e w", received considerable
mention at the time of Its deliv
ery but nobody objected to what
he said about savings. It is only
when the charge is repeated by
Colonel Knox that the New Deal
ers get stirred up.
Of course It was as true when
made by Frank Knox u when
made by Orval Adams. The col
lapse of boot strap government fi
nancing hurts everybody. Bend
Bulletin.
Endorsed OARP Leaders
To Attend Monday Meet
SCOTTS MILLS. Sen IS. The
Townsend club will meet Monday
at 7: 10 p. wu. at theTdd Fellows
hall, with Frank DeLano to tfe
llrer an address on -Loyalty."
The four , endorsed Townsend
candidates will ho special guests.
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SULLIVAN
ets. But Professor Tugwell Is not
timid. The intensity of his hate for
the American system as It is gives
him a truculent boldness. If he
were not restrained, by some In
fluence outside himself, he would
stand out In front, denounce the
"propertied czars," declare the
destination to which he proposes
to take America, and tell the
world to like it or lump it,
Whether Professor Tugwell has
been told by Mr. Roosevelt to be
silent during the campaign is a
thing no one can surely say. The
intimacies between those two are
not for the ears of outsiders. But
one can surmise a smiling order
from president to professor,
"you'd better lay off. Rex, for a
little while. No hot stuff. Until
after election , I'm going lo work
the other side of the Btreet. I'm
going to go to the right I'm going
to tell 'em bedtime stories, sing
lullabies to them. I'm going to
hold conferences with insurance
presidents and public utility heads
You know- lion and the lamb
stuff green pastures and still
waters that sort of thing."
If the country is to be denied
Professor Tugwell's voice until
November 3, the republicans
ought to reprint some of his old
speeches. This campaign needs
paprika on both sides. Pep for the
new dealers, and Irritant for the
republicans, would be provided by
reprinting the speech Professor
Tugwell made to the democratic
state committee at Los Angeles
last October. The speech which
began "how deep are the sources
of your indignation?" The speech
in which he said: "We must draw
together, nursing the sources of
that anger which has driven us
forward and making more and
more clear the great hopes which
pull us in the same direction . ."
The speech which contained the
phrases "deathW struggle of indus
trial autocracy." "disestablish
ment of our : plutocracy." The
speech in which Professor Tug
well said: j
"It la well enough known by
now what the leadership of Pres
ident Roosevelt commits America
to; it is also well enough known
by what methods further achieve
ments will be made . .;. our best
strategy is to surge forward with
the workers and the farmers of
this nation, committed to general
achievements, but trusting the
genius of our leader for the dispo
sition of our forces and the tim
ing of our attacks."
The strategy ef "timing our at
tacks" includes, apparently, the
device of soft pedalling during a
campaign for reelection.
But that speech of Professor
Tugwell ought to be circulated. It
might explain why the commun
ists want Mr. Roosevelt reelected.
New York Herald-Tribune Syndi
cate Ten Years Ago
September 20, 1026
Willamette Bearcats defeated
by University of Oregon '4 4 to' 0.
New parking ordinance went
Into effect today. Residents sub
mitted In a peaceful and orderly
manner.
Beet sugar factory ; here will
care for cfop of 8,000 acres of su
gar beets.
Twenty Years A90
September 26, 1016
Bombs have been reported drop
ping along the northeast coast of
England.
: A Warner auto trailer which is
practically a home on wheels is a
feature of the auto show..
A three year old tot was killed
by a passing wagon about 6 miles
south of Salem.
"ItCantH
Dorrmui ' Jcssup. liberal Vermont
newspaper man, the central figure of
Sinclair Lewis' novel, sees hla fears
realised In the presidential nomination
of Buss Wtndrip, a second Huey Long.
Running on th Democratic ticket,
with the support of Radio Bishop
Prang's .League of Forgotten Men. his
platform is a combination of Ameri
can phrase-making and European Fas
cism. He has backing in most strata
of political thought. Kven Europe Joins
in. ending General Balbo, Putxi Hanf
staengl and Ramsajr McDonald to
BtiAnp for Buzs. who tours the coun
try by special train, advised by L
Sarason, to campaign against Repub
lican Walt Trowbridge.
Most of the mortgaged farmers.
Most of the. white-collar workers
who had been unemployed those
three years and four and five.
Most! of the people on relief
rolls who wanted more relief.
Most of the suburbanites who
could not meet the installment
payments on the electric washing
machine,
Such large sections of the Am
erican Legion - as believed that
only Senator Windrip would se
cure for them, and perhaps - in
crease, the bonus.
Such popular Myrtle Boulevard
or Elm Avenue preachers as. spur
red by the examples of Bishop
Prang and Father Coughlin, be
lieved they could get useful pub
licity out of supporting a slightly
queer program that promised
prosperity without anyone's hav
ing to work 'for it.
The remnants of the Ku Klux
Klan, and such leaders of the
American Federation of Labor as
felt they had been Inadequately
courted and bepromised by the
old-line politicians, and the non
unionized common laborers who
felt they had been inadequately
courted by the same A. F. of L.
Back-street and over-the-garage
lawyers who never yet wangled
government jobs.
The Lost Legion of the Anti-
Saloon League since it was
known that, though he drank a
lot. Senator Windrip also praised
teetotalism a lot, while his rival,
Walt . Trowbridge, though he
drank but little, said nothing at
all in support of the Messiahs of
Prohibition. These messiahs had
not found professional morality
profitable of late, with the Rock
efellers and Wanamakers no long
er praying with them nor paying.
Bread in the Desert
Besides these necessitous prac
titioners, a goodish number of
burghers who, while they were
millionaires, yet maintained that
their prosperity had been sorely
checked by the fiendishness of the
bankers In limiting their credit.
These were the supporters who
looked to Berzilius Windrip to
play the divine raven and feed
them handsomely when he should
become president, and from such
came most of the fervid elocution
ists who campaigned for him
through September and October.
Pushing in among this mob of
camp followers who identified po
litical virtue with money for their
rent came a flying squad who suf
fered not from hunger but from
congested idealism: Intellectuals
and Reformers and even Rugged
Individualists, who saw in Wind
rip; for all his clownish swlndler
ism, a free vigor which promised
a rejuvenation of the crippled and
senile capitalistic system.
Lpton Sinclair wrote about
Buzs and spoke for him just as in
1917, unyielding pacifist though
he was, Mr. Sinclair had advoca
ted America's whole-hearted pros
ecution of the Great War, foresee
ing that it would . unquestionably
exterminate German militarism
and thus forever end all wars.
Most of the Morgan partners,
though they may have shuddered
a little' at association with Upton
Sinclair, saw that, however much
income they themselves might
have to sacrifice, only Windrip
could start the Business Recovery:
while Bishop Manning of New
York City pointed out that Wind
rip always spoke so reverently of
the church and its shepherds,
whereas Walt Trowbridge went
vTtadrrp, fhe hi
jppen Here"
hofseback riding every Sabbath
morning and had never ' been
kndwn to telegraph any female
relative on Mother's Day.
bn the other hand, the Saturday
Evening Post , enraged the small
shopkeepers by calling Windrip a
demagogue, t and the New York
Tiitoes, once Independent Demo
crat, was anti-Windrip. But most
of the - religions periodicals an
nounced that with a saint like Bi
shop Prang for backer, Windrip
must hare been called of God.
Jiven Europe Joined In.
iWith the. most modest friendli
neis, explaining that they wished
noj. to intrude on American do
mestic politics but only to express
personal admiration for that great
western advocate of peace and
prosperity, Berxelius Windrip,
thre-came representatives of cer
tain foreign poferi, lecturing
throughout the land: General Bal
bo! so popular here because" of his
leadership of the flight from Italy
to Chicago in 1933; a scholar who,
thpugh he now lived in Germany
aitd was an inspiration to all pa
triotic leaders of German Recov
ery, yet had graduated from Har
vard University and had been the
most popular piano player in his
class namely. Dr. Ernst (Putxi)
Hknfstaengl; and Great Britain's
lidn of diplomacy, the Gladstone
of the 1930's, the handsome and
gracious Lord Lossiemouth, who.
a$ Prime Minister, had been
known .as the Rt. Hon. Ramsay
MacDonald, P. C. .
I Tours the Country . . -
JA11 three of them 'were expen
sively entertained by the wives of
manufacturers, and they persuad
e many millionaires who. in the
refinement of wealth, had consid
ered Buzz vulgar, that actually he
was the world's one hope of effi
cient international commerce,
Father. Coughlin took one look
ai all the candidates and indig
nantly retired to his call.
I Mrs. Adelaide Tarr - Gimmitch.
who would purely have written to
the friends "she had made at the
Rjotary club dinner in Fort Beu
lah if she could only have remem
bered the name of the town, was
as considerable figure in the cam
paign. She explained to women
voters how kind It was of Senator
Windrip to let them go on voting,
so far; and she sang "Berzelius
Wlndrlp's gone to Wash,'? an ave
rage of 11 times a day
.Buzz himself. Bishop Prang,
Senator Porkwood (the bearless
Liberal and friend of labor and
the farmers) and Colonel Osceola
Iuthorne, the editor, though their
pHme task was reaching millions
by radio, also. In a 40-day train
trip, traveled over 27,000 miles,
through every state in the union.
qn the , scarlet-and-silver, ebony
naneled. silk-UDholstered. stream
lined, Diesel-engined, rubber-pad
ded, air - conditioned, aluminum
Forgotten Men Special.
It had a private bar that' was
forgotten by none save the Bishop.
The train fares were the gen
erous gift of the combined rail
ways. -
I Over six hundred speeches were
discharged, ranging from eight
minute hallos . delivered to the
crowds gathered at stations, to
two-hour fulminations In auditor
iums and fair grounds. Buss was
present at every speech, usually
starring, but sometimes so hoarse
that he could only wave his hand
4nd croak, "Howdy, folks!" while
He was spelled by Prang. Pork
wood, Colonel Luthorne. or such
volunteers from his regiment of
secretaries, doeto ral consulting
specialists in history and econom
ics, cooks, bartenders and bar
6ers, as could be lured away
from playing craps with the ac
companying reporters, photo
graphers, sound recorders and
broadcasters. Tieffer of the United
Press has estimated that Buzs
thus appeared personally before
more than two million persons.
I Meanwhile, almost daily hurt
ling by airplane between Washing-:
ton and Buzz's home, Lee Sarason 1
Supervised dozens , of telephone 1
dynasae, la fci tnce
By
SINCLAIR LEWIS
girls and scores of girl stenogra
phers, who answered thousands
of daily telephone calls and let
ters and telegramstand cables
and boxes containing poisoned
candy. . . Buzz himself had made
the rule that all these girls must
be pretty, reasonable, thoroughly
skilled, and related to people with
political influence.
For Sarason it must be said that
in this bedlam of "public rela
tions" he never once used contact
as a transitive rerb. ,
The Hon. Perley Beecroft. vice-1
presidential c a n d I date, special
ized on the conventions of frater
nal orders, religious denomina
tions, insurance agents and trav
eling men. .
, Colonel Dewey Haik. who had
nominated Buzz at Cleveland, had
an assignment unique in cam
paigning one of Sarason's slick
est Inventions. Haik spoke foe
Windrip not in the most frequent
ed, most obvious places, -but at
places so unusual that his appear
ance there made news and Sara
son and Haik saw to it that there
were nimble chroniclers present to""
get that news. Flying in his own
plane, covering a thousand miles
a day, he spoke to nine astonished
miners whom he caught in a cop
per mine a mile below the surface
while 39 photographers snapped
the nine; he spoke from a motor
boat to a stilled fishing fleet dur
ing a fog In Gloucester harbor; he
spoke from the steps of the Sub
Treasury at noon on Wall street:
he spoke to the aviators and
ground crew at Shushan Airport,
New Orleans- and even the flyers
were ribald only for the first five
minutes, till he had described
Buzz Wind rip's gallant but ludi
crous efforts to learn to fly; he'
spoke to state policemen, to stamp
collectors, players of -chess in se
cret clubs, and steeplejacks at
work; he spoke in breweries, hos
pitals, magazine offices, . cathe
drals, crossroad churches forty-by-thirty,
prisons, lunatic asy
lums, night clubs till the art ed
itors began to send photographers
the memo: "For Pete's sake, no
more fotos Kunnel Haik spieling
in sporting houses and hoose
gow." Yet went on using the pictures.
"For Colonel Dewey Haik was a
figure as sharp-lighted, almost, as
Buzz Windrip himself. Son of a
decayed Tennessee family, with
one Confederate general grandfa
ther and one a Dewey bf Vermont,
he had picked cotton, become a
youthful telegraph operator,
worked his way through the Uni
versity of Arkansas and the Uni
versity of Missouri law school, set
tled as a lawyer in a Wyoming vil
lage and then in Oregon, and dur
ing the war (he was in 1936 but
44 years old) served in France as
captain of infantry, with credit.
Returned to America, he had been
elected to congress and became a
colonel in the militia. He studied
military history: he learned to fly.
to box, to fence; he was a ramrod
like figure yet had a fairly ami
able smile; he was liked equally
by disciplinary army officers of
high rank, and by such rough
necks as Mr. Shad Ledue, the Cal
iban of Doremus Jessus. '
Doctor Mareoblin
Haik brought to Buzz's fold the
very picaroons who had most
snickered at Bishop Prang's sol
emnity. -
All this while. Hector Macgob
lln, the cultured doctor and burley
boxing fan, co-author with Sara
son of the campaign anthem.
"Bring Out the Old-time Musket,"
was specializing in the Inspira
tion of college professors, associa
tions of high-school teachers, pro
fessional baseball teams, training
camps of- pugilists, medical meet
ings, summer schools in which
well-known authors taurht the art
of writing to earnest aspirants
who could never learn to write,
golf tournaments, and all, such cul
tural congresses. 1
Truly, as Bishon Pran said.
the apostles of Senator Windrip
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