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The OREGON STATESilAN, Ssdea, Ore-on, Wednesday llorain-, September 30, 1935
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"No Favor Stray Vii No Far Shall Awe"
From First Statesman. March IT. 1851 i
Cn.AJLE3 A. SPRACL'E
Sbeloon F. Sackett
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
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tion of ail news dispatches credited to it or sot tiiunrlM credited to
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More of the Same? !
Avery apt answer to the democratic demand from the re
publicans for something constructive is the retort: Just
what are" the democrats proposing that is constructive?
Is their answer going to be "more of the same? j ;
Just what. is the democratic policy for the next four
years? Having had four years in office, the Rooseveltians
should be able to outline a specific program for the immediate
future. What is it?
Shall we have four years
mounting by from two to four
Shall we have four more year's of a prosperity which rests
on unstable foundations of government borrowing and spend
ing, and a rubber dollar of uncertain value? j j
Shall we have four more years of boondoggling, of ex
travagance in relief administration, of worthless works, or
absurd ventures like the Florida
Shall we have a revival of
opoly, and its regimentation of
Shall we have four more
ill considered legislation, so defective it will not measure up
to the requirements of thh constitution? j . !
Shall we have four more years of planned scarcity, the
destruction of food animate and growing crops?,
Shall we have four more years of increasingly heavy
importation of corn and wheat and other foodstuffs into this
country? .- M! i .
Shall we have four more years of a policy which deprives
American farmers of their foreign markets? j
Shall we have four more years of policy which turns
southern share croppers off the land, and takes away the
jobs of cotton workers while prices to consumers of cotton
goods soar? I . j
Shall we have foifrmore years of a labor policy which in
creases" industrial strife, encourages, strikes with attendant
turmoil and loss to wage-earners, employers and consumers?
Shall we have four more years of a labor policy which
proposes no sound basis for social justice, but transfers pow
er to ladical labor leaders? 1 I
Shall we have four more years of whipping up of class
divisions and invoking of class hatreds in a country which
ought to be free from class lines? !
Shall we have four more years of a rubber stamp con
gress and a supreme court threatened by the encroachment of
the ambitious executive departments? I s
What specifically are! the democrats proposing? Are they
going to try to amend the constitution to give the central gov
ernment absolute powento dictate the economic and industrial
life of the people? Are the going to pack the supreme court
with more yes-men for the new deal? Are they going to turn
loose on the country a fresh crop of Rex Tugwells eager to
"make America over" along lines they have figured out in
Harvard university or Columbia? M
' It seems to The Statesman that the democrats have quite
as big a task in being "constructive" and "avoiding general
ities" as the republicans. .
' In brief the constructive and definite program of the re
publicans is this: , j 1
1. Balance the budget by eliminating waste and if neces
sary increasing taxes. f
..Restore and preserve' free enterprise, subject to reas
onable regulation by states orthe federal government, in
their appropriate spheres. . t
S. Establish prosperityion a firm basis of private work
and effort. providing adequate employment at good wages ;
on the basis of a sound currency and of restored trade, both
domestic and foreign, j I
4. Hold fast to the civil liberties guaranteed by the con
stitution, and now threatened by alien forms of social organ
ization. ' !
5. Assure to labor jobs and to farmers markets and to
consumers prices determined by fair competition instead of
monopoly. i '
6. Develop the American conception of democracy, free
from class divisions and animosities ; with ownership of prop
erty widely distributed; with liberty for individuals to rise
to the top by use of their energies and resources
' Heading the republican ticket is Alfred M. Landon, gov
ernor of Kansas, a "typical American"; no inheritor of a for
tune, but one who has in the hard field of business demonstra
ted his own competence; no political messiah or worker of
political magic ; a man who knows the people because he is one
of them; a man who has shown independence of judgment and
of character; a man who proposes to invite the nation's lead
ers to assist in the solution of national problems. Second man
on the ticket is Frank W. Knox, another "typical Amerjcan'
who rose from newsboy to become proprietor of a large news
paper, who served honorably in two wars, who is vigorous,
who has a progressive viewpoint without the fringe of hazy
radicalism, j
These men, on the constructive platform" for saving the
country proposed by the republicans, are worthy of the suf
frage of the American people in the November election.
"It Can't Happen Here"
IT seems almost incredible that an entire town could be
snuffed out by flames within a few hours," as was Bandon
in the night hours a few days ago. People live ordinarily
in such security that they think catastrophes must always be
remotefloods in Texas, drouth in Dakota, fires in crowded
cities. Scourges of fire or, famine or disease "can't happen
here." Yet they do come, at times, unforeseen. i "
The Bandon fire, coming on top of the heavy fire loss in
Tillamook county three years ago should knock clear out of
our heads the customary complacency that forest fires will
not occur again, or if they do happen, will not prove very de
structive. There is simply no sure way of stopping a great
wall of flames "crowning" through the wooded country. Oft
en all that can be done is to wait for nature to send rain or
damp winds.
Such being true, much sharper discipline is necessary to
protect cities and forests in the timber country. This means
limitation of movement into the forest area in the times of
low humidity. It means no burning of slashings until safety
is assured. It means much greater restriction of hunting priv
ileges in the fall of the year. What is the pleasure of a few
deer-hunters compared with the preservation of the-state's
forest wealth and scenic beauty? The state must preserve
these resources or it will become an empty, uninhabited waste.
The immediate necessity is the relief of the destitute! Cit
izens of Oregon should respond with great liberality in pro
viding cash as well as commodities for Bandon and vicinity.
Permanent reconstruction will call for careful planning in
which non-residents can do very little, aside j from properly
constituted authorities. But now, make a donation to the Red
Cross relief fund. Do it today ; as a measure of your sympathy,
and a token of gratitude that you have escaped the loss and
suffering which befell those poor people. j ; 1 1
Fairview Hunters Return
From Trip with Two Deer
FAIRVIEW. Sept. 29. Two
fine deer were bagged by Harry
"Allison and son John, HaTen Ua-
Editor-Manager
Managinff'Ell'r
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of deficits, with the public debt
billions a yeafT : -
ship canal? I
the NRA with its aid to mon
business?
years of hasty enactment of
ruh and .Mr. ; Bass of. Fatrriew
neighborhood, who returned from
a hunting trip in eastern Oregon
Friday. Will Marley, W. J. Pent
ney end John Reed lett Thursday
on a deer hunting trip to eastern
Oregon. 1 j ( .
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Bits for
Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Beginnings of the 9-30-36
Oregon state training
school for boys: matter 1
was opened by Statesman f : u
Looking over the files of The
Statesman for the last days of
1 1886 and the opening ones of
1887, searching for items about
the first bridge across the Willam
ette, which was at Salem, the
writer found a good many inter
esting facts, 4 ;
The reader will recall the direct
results of the search in the series
of this colnmn taking up the three
issues, Sept. 12-13.
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The fight for a bridge haying
resulted in Tictory, the publishers
of that period were emboldened
to go forward in advocating a
number of other things promising
the city's owth and the coun
try's development. J.
Among these were a woolen
mill, canning a n d packing con
cerns, street railways, prohibition
of live stock and poultry running
at large on the streets, etc, and
further state institutions Includ
ing reform schools for delinquent
boys and girls.
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- The Issue of December 17,' 1886,
contained at least three articles,
under the titles, "The i Reform
School Matter," "For a Reform
School," and "Reform the Par
ents First
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The first named article opened:
"The Statesman has aroused con
siderable interest in the question
of the establishment of a reform
school in this state," and went on
to say that at the time 10 sus
pensions stood against unrnly
boys in the Salem public schools.
It was argued:
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That it is right and proper to
suspend unruly boys from the
privileges of a free education at
the hands of the public, there can
be hardly a question -for It is
not the proper thing to inoculate
the good and well behaved child
ren with the presence of the bad
and unruly.
"When you find rotton apples
in' your bins you throw them out.
for fear that they will make the
sound ones rot. This is the same
principle.
"But the question again recurs
to us, what will we do with the
ungovernable youth? Will t we
leave them on the streets to go
through a training for the pen
itentiary, to sink clear below the
stream of decent society?
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Would It not be better to pro
vide a cure for them If possible?
Would it not be a sound principle
of business to establish a reform
school?
"Some will say reform the par
ent first. True they need reform
ing, but this does not settle the
question. Many of these boys will
sometime be parents themselves,
and it is a poor time to begin to
reform them after their habits
have been made a part of their ex
istence. The legislature meets in
January, and it will have a chance
to give us something definite and
practical on this subject.'
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The matter under the second
named title read in part:
"The attention of the Oregon
legislature is respectfully directed
to the fact of the need of a reform
school in this state. Such instita-
tions have been established and
are conducted In most of the
states of the union, and are re
garded as necessary adjuncts and
helps to "tho preservation of so
ciety." .
"There are now standing 10 sus
pensions of boys from 10 to 18
years of age from the Salem pub
lic schools alone. These boys are
troublesome and disobedient, and
are especially annoying to lady
teachers, and they must be sent
out on the streets, there to ac
quire habits of vicious idleness,
that will fit them for cells In the
penitentiary. '
'
"It seems hard to send these
troublesome boys out of the school
room Into the streets. : but their
presence is made unbearable by
their conduct there, and it la a
necessity. Then what is to be done
with them?
"Will you leave them on the
streets to grow up criminals and
outcasts of society?
"Putting it down on a solid
business basis, will It nay for the
1 taxpayers to let this matter rest
as it now stands?
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"Will we have no other place
to send the criminal and ungov
ernable youth of our state except
to the penitentiary?
"The penitentiary Is surely not
a success as a reformatory insti
tution. To mix these "with the
criminally vicious and to associate
with the vilest outcasts of society,
who are not in sympathy with the
laws of restraint or the rules and
usages of honesty, honor or de
cency, la surely not a good school
for the youth who is already on
the downward path, who is al
ready out of sympathy, out of
step, with the tacit rules of re
spectable society and good order.
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"This Is a question that de
serves the attention of our . legislature.-.
"The proper care of the youth
of the land is the hope of the fu
ture progress and morals of our
country. As the twig is bent the
tree is Inclined, is an axiom. . i
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"Of course the establishment of
a reform school will not settle
the whole question of the ungov
ernable and hoodlum youth of the
state, but the writer wishes to
hazard the prediction that It will
be a great help, and will be a
paying investment to taxpayers.
"With this opinion in view.
pubUe attention is directed to the
subject." - i -
The third title was over a com
munication by George Henry, in
which he said he had noted the
appeal of The Statesman for a
state reform school, and the state
ment that there were then stand
ing 10 suspensions of boys from
10 to 18 years of age la the Sa
lem pnbUe schools.
(Concluded tomorrow.)
On khe Record
'- V By DOROTHY THOMPSON
Claims of Dictatorship
f I have waited to comment on
Hitler's proclamation at the Nur
emberg Party Congress until the
.German newspa
pers should
each here and
would have an
f ficlal German
text before - me,
Sow - the papers
ire here, and the
text baffles the
imagination. .
loubt if e v e r a
ipeech was made
in history, in
suiting to a larg
er number of na
tion, and - Insult
Dorotty Tfeompioa jBg to . ordinary
Intelligence as well. The
speech contains a long list
of the - specif ic claims of t !-. e
German dictatorship. Were these
claims tenable, . Mr. Hitler would
stand as the greatest miracle man
in history, and. a most powerful
argument would be made for dic
tatorship everywhere. Inside Ger
many not one of them will be
challenged in any newspaper or
any platform or In any publica
tion. Outside Germany It Is more
difficult to contest them, because
all the facts are not known. But
they ought to be analyzed on the
basis of what Is known because
the people of the democratic world
have ' been treated to very mis
leading propaganda.
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Mr. Hitler's insults to Russia
are one thing. They are sui gen
eris. As Sir Austin Chamberlain
who will not be accused of pro-
Soviet tendencies remarked, "It
will be difficult to find a parallel
for such a gross attack by the
rulers of one country upon the
government of another." But
these remarks were given wide
notice here and need not be gone
Into. What was not so generally
noted was that Mr. -Hitler did not
confine his caustic comments to
Russia. He embraced In his dis
dain all the nations of Europe
"with the exception of one -great
power (Italy) and a few other
countries," 'Everywhere else,"
he said, "we aee the Epasms of
Bolshevist revolution." j
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That "everywhere else" is an
Insult to every democratic coun
try in Europe, Including the
"Great Power" of England, which
with democratic institutions Is en
joying unparallel prosperity and
social unity. Bolshevism looms as
an Immediate threat only in Spain
where German intervention has
increased its menace; In France
there Is social disorder precipitat
ed by the fear of German Fascism
and by the persisted-in deflation.
But it is still a long cry from Bol
shevism. 1
That many claims which the
Nasi government makes - for the
support of Us people and the ad
miration of the rest of the world
display Germany under dictator
ship as a modern Eden. Unem
ployment has been reduced from
six million to one million. The
dispossession of German peasants
has ended, and the agricultural In
come Is higher than in any prev
ious year of peace : trade has In
creased; the German port towns
are lively with ship - building;
many factories have doubled.
tripled and quadrupled their
workers; automobile factories are
increasing tremendously; and
motor cars will increase from
45,000 in 1932 to 250,000 this
year; the deficit of states and
cities has been removed; ; the
Reich has an increased tax rev
enue of, five billions: the German
Reich has roads unequaled any-
where In the world. These are the 1
high ' points of the Fuehrer's
claims..
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What Is there In them?
1 The International Labor Of
fice recently reported that Ger
man ; citizens had been removed
from the unemployment rolls in j
the following manner: by absorp
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tion la increased business laregly
due to the Immense armament
program which is busy manufac
turing goods of no use to Ger
mans except to fight with; by
spreading work in the factories
whereby more people work but for
less average weekly wage: by in
creasing the army eightfold and
intrpdneing universal compulsory
two-year military training; by re
moving women from industry; by
work camps which demand com
pulsory- service of all young men
for a stated period; by the forced
emigration of over 60.000 Jews,
2. The peasants have been saved
from foreclosure by completely
limiting their ownership rights;
no peasant may raise credit on his
land, mortgage it, or sell it. Nor
may he sell his products to any
one except government agencies at
fixed prices, and he must deUver
fixed quotas. Agriculture enjoys
a monopoly of the domestic mar
ket at the cost of high food prices
and definite shortage to the urban
consumer. .
3. Trade has been restored to
almost the position which it oc
cupied when Mr. Hitler came into
power at' the bottom of the de
pression. Today trade is on the
Increase everywhere In the world
German trade under the Republic
surpassed the figures of 1913.
4. Ships are being built and the
government is paying heavy de
ficits for their building. The whole
Merchant Marine has been social
ized, and the amount of the deficit
is kept secret.
6. Production Is enforced, by
government order, many factories
being compelled to undertake re
organization at a loss. Armament
orders are making others pros
perous. 1 .
6. In the democratic country of
England which Hitler referred to
disdainfully under his blanket In
dictment, the number of automo
biles has increased from 223,000
in 1931 to 348,000 in 1934. Last
year Germany had less than half
as many autos as England; In spite
of the fact that autos in Germany
are exempted from taxation be
cause their widespread ownership
Is desired for military purposes.
and in spite of the fact that there
has been a vast increase of party
and army orders for motor cars.
There are more automobiles in
democratic France with less than
two-thirds of Germany's popula
tion. 7. The. deficits of states and
cities have been taken over by the
federal government and thus "re
moved." Debts owed to foreign
creditors have been "frozen."
8. The Reich certainly has an
Increased tax revenue. The in
come tax begins at a wage or sal
ary of 900 marks (8225) a year.
on which a flat 10 per cent Is paid.
With compulsory party contribu
tions and the compulsory social in
surances, the total taxes are 30
per cent of such an income.
9. The great housing program
which Hitler points to with pride
hss not proceeded faster than un
der the great building days of the
Republic. Democratic England has
rehoused 50 per cent of her en
tire population since 1918; Hol
land and Sweden are almost com
pletely rebuilt. All without dic
tatorship. -
mem
Mr. Hitler also made some
grandoise claims for the renais
sance of German culture. About
that it is more difficult to judge.
But so far not a single novel or
play of International recognition
has emerged from Nazi Germany.
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But there is one claim that can
not be denied. "There Is not a
Socialist, a Communist, & Center
Party, or a bourgeois party mem
ber left in Germany." That claim
cannot be disputed.
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And one item Mr. Hitler failed
to mention. 'He did not claim to
have balanced the budget, al
though he might have made the
claim and no' one could have con
tradicted it. No budget has been
published since he came into pow
er. What the national debt is, no-
hC
ft
an
Boss Windrip, rmrla' eoanterpart of
Haey Lose, esptmre th aemoeratU
presidential nomination on a platform
airvacly luctst. tie ana follower la all
partr. fanned in diefo at Wiadrip'i
demag-ociam, fcai little chance. The com
inornate put op neves parti ee. Jeaanp, in
Kew York for Ban'a final eftmpairs
. a ...
aaareaa, gets ais nrai vietr of tne can
didate's private army, the uniformed
eUanee, nia strongest enppertera being1
penaion hooter, like Shad Ledoe, hired
man of Deremn Jeaanp. central f iron
ex tne novel jeasup. Vermont pobllshr,
la aopperting- the republican Trowbridge,
for he feela Booaevelt'e emergency third
aaunie jaen. America a waiu snirta,
domineering Broad war.
Same Old Platform
W 1 a d r i p started prosaically
enough. You felt rather"sorry for
him. so awkwardly did he lumber
np the steps to the platform
across to the center of the stage
He stopped, stared owlishly.
Windrip outlined his too-fam
lliar platform Doremus was In
terested only In observing t h a
Windrip misquoted his own fig
ures, regarding the limitation of
fortunes. In Point Five.
He slid into a rhapsody of gen
oral ideas a mishmash of polite
regards to Justice. Freedom
Equality. Order. Prosperity. Pat
riotism, and any number of other
noble but slippery abstractions.
Doremus thought he was being
bored, until he discovered that, at
some moment which he had not
noticed, he had become absorbed
and excited.
Something In the Intensity with
which windrip looked at his and
lence, -looked at all of them, his
glance slowly taking them in from
the highest-perched seat to the
nearest, convinced them that he
was talking to each individual.
directly and solely: that he want
ed to take each of them into his
heart; that he was telling them
the truths, the imperious and dan
gerous facts that had been hidden
from them.
"They say I want money pow
er! Say, I've turned down offers
from law firms right here In New
York of three times the money I'll
get as President! And power
why the President Is the servant
of every citizen in the country.
and not just of the considerate
folks, but also of every crank that
comes pestering him by telegram
and pnone and letter. And yet.
It's true, it's absolutely true I do
want power, great, big. imperial
power but not for myself no
for you! the power of your per
mission to smash the Jew finan
ciers who've enslaved you, who're
working yon to death to pay the
Interest on their bonds; the grasp
ing bankers and not all of 'em
Jews by a darn sight! the crook
ed labor-leaders Just as much as
the crooked bosses, and, most of
all, the sneaking spies of Moscow
that want yon to lick the boots of
their self-appointed. tyrants that
rule not by love and loyalty, like
I want to, but by t h e horrible
power of the whip, dark cell, the
automatic pistol!"
Paradise on Earth
He pictured, when, a Paradise
of democracy in which, with the
old political machines destroyed,
every humblest worker would be
king and ruler, dominating rep
resentatives elected from among
his own kind of people, and these
representative not growing in
different, as hitherto they had
done, once they were far off in
Washington, but kept alert to the
public Interest by the supervision
of a strengthened Executive.
It sounded almost reasonable.
for a while.
The supreme actor, Buzx Win
drip. was passionate yet never
grotesquely wild. He did not gest
ure too extravagantly; only, like
Gene Debs of old, he reached out
a bony forefinger which seemed to
jab into each of them and hook
ont each heart. It was his mad
eyes, big staring tragic eyes, that
startled them, now humbly plead
ing, that soothed them.
He was obviously an honest and
body knows. And if anyone did.
he would be sent to prison for
publishing it. I suppose, under
the law of "divulging information
damaging to the interests of the
nation."
H
n n
appen mere
mericuls leader; a man of sorrow
and acquaint with woe. ,
Doremus marveled, "I'll be
khangedl Why, he's a darn good
soit when you come to meet mm:
And waVm-hearted. He makes me
feel as lit I'd been having a good
eveninef with Buck and Steve Pere
flxe. What If Buss is right? What
if In Spite of all the demagogic
pap that, I suppose, he has got
to feed out to the boobs he's
right is claiming that it's only he,
and not Trowbridge or Roosevelt,
that can break the hold of the ab
sentee bwners? And these Minute
Men. hfc followers oh. they were
pretty jiasty. what I saw out on
the street, but still, most of 'era
are mighty nice, clean-cut young
fellows. Seeing Buzz and; then
listening to what he actually says
make you think!"
But what Mr. Windrip actually
had sajd. Doremua could not re
member an hour later, when he
had come out of the trance.
He was so-convinced then that
Windrip would win that, on Tues
day evening, he did not remain at
the Informer office until the re
turns ifere all in. But if he did
not stay for the evidences of the
election!, they came to him.
Past his house, after midnisbt.
througli muddy snow tramped a
triumphant and reasonably drunk
en parade, carrying torches and
bellowing to the air of "Yankee
Doodle' new words revealed Just
that week by Mrs. Adelaide Tarr
Gimmitch: '
"The snakes disloyal to our Buzz
We're riding on a rail, -
They'll! wish to God they never
ras.
When we got them In jail!
it f rtvii at
nd buzz and keep it up
To victory he's floated.
You were a most ungrateful pup.
uuie&i xor juuzz you voiea.
Every! M.M. get a whip
- To use upon some traitor.
And every Antibuzz we skip .
Today, we'll tend to later."
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I Warning Kote
"Antibuzz," a' word credited to
Mrs. drimmitch but more prob
ably Invented by Dr. Hector Mac-
goblin, iwas to be extensively used
by lady patriots as a term ex
pressing such" vicious disloyalty
to the jState as might call for the
firing $quaL Yet, like Mrs. Gim-
mitch'sf splendid synthesis "Un-
kles, for soldiers of the A.E.F..
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it nerer reaiiy caugai on.
Among the winter-coated par-
aders Doremus and Sissy thought
tney could make out Shad Ledue.
Aras Dilley. that philoprogenitive
squatter from Mount Terror;
Charlef Betts, the furniture deal
er, and Tony Mogliani, the fruit
seller, raost ardent expounder of
Italian! Fascism in Central Ver
mont. I
sure of) it in the dimness behind
the torches, Doremus rather
thought that the lone large motor
car following the procession was
that of j his neighbor, Francis Tas-
broughl
Next; morning at the Informer
office. -Doremus did not learn or
so veryf much damage wrought by
the triumphant Nordics they had
merely! upset a couple of privies.
otrn down and burned the tailor
shop sign of Louis Rotenstern. and
somewhat badly beaten Clifford
Little,? the jeweler, a slight.
curly-bjeaded young man whom
Shad ledue despised because he
organised theatricals and played
tne organ In Mr. Falck's church.
Thai night Doremus found, on
nis front porch, a notice In red
chalk Upon butcher's paper:
You 3 win get yrs Dorey sweet
eart n A less yon get rite down on
yr belljr and crawl in front of the
mm and tne League and the Chief
and I
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A friend
It was tue first time that Dore
mus hid heard of "the Chief, a
sound "American variant of "the
Leader? or "the Head of the Gov
ernmerft." as a popular title for
Mr. Wtnrip. It was soon to be
made official.
Dorenus burned the red warn-
By
SINCLAIR LEWIS
ing without telling his family. But
he often woke to remember it,
not very laughingly.
CHAPTER XIII
And when I get ready to retire
I'm going to build me an up-to-date
bungalow In some lovely re
sort, not in Como or any other of
the proverbial Grecian isles you
may be sure, but in somewheres
like Florida, California, Sante Fe.
& etc., and devote myself just to
reading the classics, like Longfel
low, James Whitcomb Riley, Lord
Macaulay, Henry Van Dyke. El
bert Hubbard, Plato, Hiawatha, &
etc. Some of my friends laugh at
me for it, but I have always cul
tivated a taste for the finest in
literattfre. I got It from my Moth
er as I did everything that some
people have been so good as to.
admire In me.
Zero Hour, Berzilius Windrip.
Certain though Doremus , had
been of Windrip's election, the
event was like the long-dreaded
passing of a friend.
"All right. Hell with this coun
try, ir it's like that. All these
years I've worked and I never
did want to be on all these com
mittees and boards and charity
drives! and don't they look silly
now! What I always wanted to do
was to sneak off to an ivory tow
er or anyway, celluloid. Imita
tion ivory and read everything
I've been too busy to read."
Thus Doremus, in late Novem
ber. And he did actually attempt It,
and for a few days reveled in It.
avoiding everyone save his family
and Lorlnda. B ne k. Titus, and
Father Perefixe. Mostly, though,
he found that he did not relish
the "classics' be had so far miss
ed, but t h p s e familiar to his
youth.
Then he saw that in everything
his quest failed him.
The reading was good enough.,
toothsome,' satisfying, except that'
he felt guilty at having sneaked
away to an Ivory Tower at all.
Too many years he had made a
habit of social duty.: He wanted
to be "in" things, and he was
dally more Irritable as Windrip
began, even before his inaugura
tion, to dictate to the country.
Buzz's party, with the dener
tions to: the Jeffersonians, had
less thana majority in Congress. ,
"Inside dope" came to Doremus
from Washington that Windrip
was trying to buy. to flatter, to
blackmail opposing Congressmen.
A President-Elect has unhallowed
power, if he so wishes, and Win
drip doubt with promises of
abnormal favors in the way of pat
ronage won over a few. Five
Jefferson ian PanFreumon had
their elections challenged. One
sensationally disappeared, and
smoking after his galloping heels
there was a devilish fume of em
bezzlements. And with each such
triumph of Windrip, all the well
meaning, cloistered Do rem uses of
the country were the more anx
ious. All through the Depression."
ever since 1929, Doremus had felt
the Insecurity, the confusion, (he
sense of futility in trying to do
anything more permanent than
shaving or eating breakfast, that
was general to the country. He
could no longer plan, for himself
or for his dependents, as the cit
izens of this once unsettled coun
try had planned since 1620.
Privilicr? of Planning
Why, their whole lives had been
predicated on the privilege of
planning. Depressions bad been
only cyclic storms, certain to end
in sunshine; Capitalism and par
limentary government were etern
al, and eternally being improved
by the honest votes of Good Cit
izens Doremus's grandfather. Calvin.
Civil War veteran and ill-paid, il
liberal Congregational minister.
had yet planned. "My son. Loren,
shall have a theoligical education,
and I think we shall be able to
build' a fine new house in fifteen
or twenty years." That had given
him a reason for working and a
goal. .
His. father, Loren, had vowed.
Even if I have to economize on
books a little, and perhaps give un
this extravagance of eating meat
four times a week very bad for
the digestion, anyway my son.
Doremus, shall have a college ed
ucation, and when, as he desire.
he becomes a publicist, I think
perhaps I shall be able to help
him for a year or two. And then
I hope oh, in a mere five or six
years more to buy that complete
Dickens with all the Illustrates
oh, an extravagance, but a thing .
to leave to my grandchildren to
treasure forever!"
But Doremus Jessun could not
plan. "I'll have Sissy go to Smith
before she studies architecture,"
or "If Julian Falck and Sissy get
married and stick here in the Fort
1 11 give 'em the southwest lot and
some day, maybe fifteen years
from now, the whole place will be
filled with nice kids again!" No,
fifteen years from now, he sighed.
Sissy might be hnstlina hash for
the sort of workers who called the
waiter's art "hustling hash;" and
Julian might be in a concentration
camp Fascist or Communist!
v The Horatio Aleer tradition.
from rags to Rockefellers, was
clean gone out of the America It
had dominated.
It seemed faintly silly to hone.
to try to prophesy, to itive un
sleep on a good mattress for toll
on a typewriter, and as for saving .
money Idiotic!
(To Be Continued)
Ten Years Ago
September SO. 192
Captain A. J. Spong. well known
rfrerman owner of "Spone's Land
ing" passed away last night.
Classes in the new Salem
branch of the University of Ore
gon extension division 'have start
ed. L '
Twenty Years Ago
September CO, 1916 -Neutrality
of
Is
muck doubted, firmness is urged
iu ueairng with U. S. v
Will Tanner, servinr Mm t r
manslaughter at state orison r! it-
appeared tut night.