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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1936)
J 1 - PAGU rouu Th5 OXIEGON STATESIAW, JSalsa, Oregon, Tlxurstuy r.lornln-, October 1, 1W6 Founded 1151 "A'd Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall Aive", From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 : Charles A. Sfsague - - - . -Shewn F. Sackett - . - - . THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO, Member of the Associated Press : 4 Tli Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the o for publica tion of all mis diapatciws credited to It or not otherwise credited In thU paper. Rights of fflHE historic position of governments is that they have a right to protect the legitimate interests of their nation als who may be domiciled Britain developed the policy to of British power in the minds' of backward peoples in all quarters of the globe. " In recent years the policy ternationalists. who assert that precipitating war. Especially demned,- the use of diplomatic protect the property rights of j 1 11 ji tanas, inis nas Deen rounaiy cenouncea. me raaicais, aeciare that the government should let the interests of American cit izens go in case of troubles in a foreign country. ; Now a fellow named Lawrence Simpson has 1 been im prisoned in Germany for fifteen months awaiting trial on charges of propagating communism. . A group of radicals waited on the secretary of state and became insulting in claiming nothing had been done to "protect" Simpson's rights as an American citizen. They wanted to turn on the heat to get the government to exert "strong diplomatic pressure" in Simpson's behalf. Before the assembled newsmen Secretary Hull brought out a thick file of papers covering the case, showing the state department had taken an interest in it. Simpson is entitled to full American citizen, and if accused of offense against the law of another power is entitled to a speedy and just trial, which he has not had. Likewise other American citizens, rich or poor, are entitled to the honorable protection of this government against injustice from .some other country. The trouble with the radicals is that they are quick to denounce the constitu-i tion or international laws and customs if they feel they stand in the way of their own pet notions ; but are quick to invoke ail the rights in the books when their own ox is gored. Give them their rights, but don't deny them to the other fellow either. , Give the People a Chance ; WHY not give the people a chance to view from a safe dis tance the operations of building the new-state .capital? Why build a high board fence about the premises to shut off the scene? The people are intensely interested in the cap itol development. After all it is their capitol, erected by their money. It would not be very expensive to substitute woven wire for the wooden fence for reasonable stretches on. the State and Court street sides, and across part or the endsJtoo, for good measure. It would cost almost nothing to cut down the size of the fence so folk could look over into the building site. - ' . j ? I " Give the people the opportunity to watch the building go up, though of course with proper precaution against per sonal injury, j The most severe Indictment of "Christian" Spain vai written by West brook Pegler. Scripps-Howard syndicate writer. Spain la a count try -where Christian teachings hare been spread for centuries; so that If erer there was a country which should be won to the philosophy of brotherly love it ouht to be Spain. Tet what a rory record there is in the present civil war. Women In hard-pressed Bilboa helped slaughter the captive fascists. In Toledo before its fall to the rebels many priests are reported slain. The fascists "cleansed" Toledo of the "red influ ence" when they captured it. The armies of the fascists are the Mo hammedan Moors from Africa, ancient enemies of the Christians, who were driven from Spain centuries ago. They now become the agents f "Christian fascists to restore to power the church and the polit ical reactionaries. Depressing indeed is the story of how the Spanish people violate the principles of the Christian religion in fighting their blood brothers. - ' Germany is making a move to Improve its credit position in this country. A registration certificate has been filed with the SEC with a prospectus outlining the plan to issue 885,000,000 in three per cent bonds to be exchanged for past due coupons on bonds Issued by Ger man states, cities and private companies, but not including the gov ernment issues known as the Dawes bonds and the Young bonds, which have been partially paid during the last two years. The amount of German municipal and corporate dollar bonds outstanding is near ly $900,000,00. Most of it has'been in default since July, 1934. The foreign countries have been very faithless in meeting their obliga tions, although in some cases the countries were so greatly impover ished of gold they couldn't pay up.' It is hard to see how.. Germany can resume its debt payments now, so lacking is the country in foreign exchange, and in foreign trade by which foreign exchange is acquired. The chances are good for a real tug of war between Governor Wart in and Judge John C. Siegmund. The governor has commuted sen tences of prisoners from Marion county to the penitentiary and made them Jail sentences and sent the men back to the county Jail for keep. The county court says they are state prisoners and the state must pay for the food even if they are domiciled in the county Jail. Now with a man as stubborn in his convictions as the governor pulling against a man a "sot" in his views about spending the taxpayers' money as Mar Ion county's Judge, the public will see a real show with a good pros pect for the rope breaking before either gives in. In fact, the only solution in Klpht Is for Sheriff Burk to leave the keys lying round and then some likkered trusty will let the men all out. J . The police chief at Terre Haute threw Earl Browder in the town Jail to prevent his speaking in the city. Browder is communist candi date for president. So long as- the United States government doesn't regard him as a dangerous character to be at large it would hardly seem necessary for the Terre Haute police chief to get: panicky and try to suppress his speaking. Such moves are Just the incidents which the radicals want to claim the role of martyrs. Let him get a soapbox and blow off his steam. The American-born Simpsons seem to be getting into the news. There's Lawrence Simpson, detained In Germany and accused of ped dling communist literature, whose case has caused considerable stir In this country. Then there's Mrs. Simpson of England, travel com panion of King Edward, who has been getting a deal of publicity late ly. Needless to say. there is no relation between these Simpsons. While Oregon suffered from, a disastrous fire which caused dam age running into many hundreds of thousands of dollars and cost nine lives. Colorado was suffering from an unseasonable snow storm. The blizzard contributed directly or Indirectly to 11 deaths and the dam age is reported at 'millions of dollars." There is competition even in adversity. . ' v ' . The comptroller of New York state has Issued a statement of New York finances, which shows that Governor Lehman has cut the expenses of that state by 1100,000,000 during his two terms as gov ernor. We do not know the facts, but considering who Governor Leh man's predecessor was, we should think it was easily possible. If there Is no such thing aa mental telepathy, how does the evening telephone operator figure out to call you Just, when you climb into the bathtub? Corvallis Gazette-Times, i j . " Make another test; try a cold The bureau of education reports that one out of every four per sons In the United States Is In school.' Other reports have had it that one out of 12 or so Is on relief or unemployed. Most of those left have government Jobs. So whonell Is there left to do the work? 1 ' j . i There are so many "planners" rushing to Bandon to "plan" the new city that one can't help but feel concerned over the outcome. Ex pert advice needs to be heavily diluted with practical experience. Sam Brown, Zimmerman : ..... And Lafky Speakers at North Howell Meeting NORTH HOWELL, Sept. 30 ' With an explanation of the public utilities measure to be offered on the ballot in November. ex-Senator Sam Brown, opened the meet ing at the North Howell grange hall Monday night, called, for ben Editor-Manager. ' Managing-Editor Nationals ! in a foreign country. Great a high, point, and put the fear , - . , ! ; has been hooted at by the in it is just another means of has dollar diplomacy been con offices of the government to American citizens in foreign 1 rm 1 1 J l enjoyment of his rights as anf&oys, it first set aside 100,000 shower, mornings. efit of local voters. Herman Laf ky of Salem also gave introduct ory remarks, concrete information abouj the Bonneville dam project, which he compared to the T.V.A. The principal address was made by ex-Senator Peter Zimmerman of Yamhill county, i His talk was strongly In favor of the formation of public utilities districts and he clearly explained the situation and answered the question of an at tentive crowd of voters. 1 - Bib for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Beginning of the 1 0-1-3 Oregon state training school for boys: matter was opened by Statesman: (Concluding from yesterday:) Then Mr. Henry proceeded to prove (to his satisfaction) that the place to begin was not with the boys but with their parents, ": "In order to correct successfully any growing evil yon. must begin at the beginning of the evil. I care not of what nature or character the evil sought to be corrected,' he said. ' ; "To my mind,'! he added, "the parents of these or any other dis obedient children need reforming first. I do not know that I am per sonally acquainted . with one of these 10 children, or their parents but I am a pretty good guesser. and the following are my conelu sion and remedies in the prem ises: f : First, if you will carefully en quire into the lives and individu alities of the parents of such child ren, you wlU doubtless observe that" they are Ibud talkers, fault finders, suspicious. Jealous, ego tistical, rather shiftless. ... I lay the faults of such children to the feet of the parents, and would kindly suggest to the legislature that, before it establishes a" re formatory school for hardened acres of land in the Umpq.ua valley for the purpose of colonising the parents of the ungovernable child ren in all this great state of Ore gon; . . . and all such parents be placed therein: and that all child-1 ren at weaning time be taken away. ... and placed in the re formatory school for a term of 1 0 years, where they may be properly reared. This coarse is the only safe and reliable remedy." t . S Mr. Henry's plan would have in volved a prohibitive expense, for he prescribed a high wall around the 100,000 acres, with only one entering gateway. But he seems to have been in earnest. The fight for a reform school was a vigorous one, and action was not taken by the legislature at its 1887 session, but the 1891 legislature passed an act estab lishing that institution. For it 504 acres of land were purchased, the first buildings er ected, and the institution opened in 1892. That land was released to the Oregon penitentiary in Mar eh 1929. for its "annex." and the school was removed to its present site near Wood born, on a 273 acre tract that had been purchased and buildings erected; the name in the mean time having been changed to Oregon state training school The law establishing the Ore gon state reform school provided and made rules for a department for girls, and it was planned that buildings for that department be erected on the companion 'hill (which the penitentiary poultry department now occupies)' when an appropriation shonld be made therefor. But this never came to fruition. and in 1915. under a new law, the Oregon Industrial school (for de linquent girls) was established. near the Falrview Home (oTiglnal ly called institution for the feeble minded.) S A great many good things have in the 44 years of its life accrued to the credit of the reform school the name of which was changed to training school. The writer had intimate ac quaintance with the first 409 boys who received training at that In stitution, and knows that only six of that number went definitely wrong in after years that. Is, served time in other penal institu tions. : . .. The reader may be interested in the career of number one in that list who shall, for obvious rea sons, be nameless. He had stolen about everything loose on the Portland waterfront. He was that city's number one bad boy; was kept in the Multnomah county Jail for six months, await ing the opening of the state reform school was committed and re ceived his proper designation, No. 1. " ' "-: He was not a "born" bad boy. No boy was ever born bad. Oh yes, the writer knows this will be dis puted; that most people think children are born bad or good. They are born Into circumstan ces, environments, bad, good or In different. Some are born weak, physically, mentaUy, morally. The parents of some sinned before them, and gave them "wolf" teeth, to the fourth or fifth generation. Is that not what the Bible says? 1 But the normal child Is made good or bad largely by environ ment; by training, education. Or he or she may in some way gain the urge to be good or bad, and may decide his or her own destiny. Thus, the -lowly child of "poor white trash" may become a President Lincoln. ; - Or a black child bora into slave ry may become a Booker Wash ington. : Well. Portland's prixe bad boy of 1891-2, who was the first boy to be received at the Oregon re form school, grew up to be an am bitions, honest, . asnirlnr. trust worthy young man. He attained the position of chief engineer of a great manufacturing plant, an Inventor, a respectable husband and father, a good high class American citizen. ... And, to the certain knowledge of the writer, who had the direc tion of parts of their careers, 394 out of the first 400 boys In the Oregon reform school came out average citizens, and a consider able number of them outstanding in ways of honorable endeavor and use fa In ess to their day and gen eration. Can the! reader think of many things that would give him or her more pride?" ' age pr MBefi. - If a . By D. H. The Editor's Letter J A New York editor once wrote toj me, , : : Longs years ago: He'd received my verses, he says! A feUow, it seems, can do to me, Imlghty near anything under the And why I'd sent 'em be couldn't! see, - ..'-;v. They pained him so. I The verses were terrible, ', plus, : says he, -; No sense, no rhyme, , And he'd not dreamed such Terse 1 could be, Until that time. Then the editor, having had his fit, Enclosed a check! And such a letter how account for it? Maybe some writer can account for it: I can't, by heck! That is to say, I could not ac count for it long years ago. But now I understand almost. Many writers, more particularly young writers, fail, I think, to consider the fact that editors are of as varied types of personality as men and women of any other profes sion. But an editor, despite his personal ; tastes and Inclinations, must make a publication attract- ve to a sufficiently large number of the buying nubile to make thel publication profitable. I have an idea that the editor who wrote me i the letter above mentioned meant, mora than half, what he said about my verse. Bnt at the same time he saw In It some quality of appeal to the public. rThis. etj course. Is only a theory. He mayi have been merely trying to be numorous. Anyway, he sent a check. ; . 1 think I shall never forget that check. : 1 was pretty young at the time, and was, X fear, somewhat notorious locally as a waster of golden moments. Furthermore. I was a victim of the whistling hab it, ana was otherwise handicap-; ped. One of my most serious I weaknesses, was a disposition to! associate with people I liked, re-! garojess of whether they were or were not "respectable." 1 reckon I have been told that a man or a boy is known by the company he keeps as many times as anybody in the United States, perhaps in I tne world. I am annoyinr yoa I with these details, because they I nave a bearing on the check mat ter. The check was for eight dol lars. I figgered It was worth about eight hundred dollar to me. Perhaps more. Such things are difficult to figger exactly. Anyway, I paraded the cheek about that community for more I than a mraV .wn. iuImU. .f t I". .1 'rwl -Vr I wuw usu uiu always aakias for mora wares. Tfco na- disparaging remarks aa to t h e tioa iaeipUa. ska w. an c un likelihood that I would ever V11 " mount to . hill of beans, even if Vr.?. JT. I didn't Come to Some Sort of dis- nm thaa war. sari th renariL. Tha graceful end. 1 know this waa an 1 evidence that gerui nature. As a matter of fact. I f-my father told me one day at din-1 ner that he could not Imagine wnere i had got such a mean and spiteful streak. But mother told him X had got It from him. So lather shut up. rln the course of its review of a motion picture called "Don't Turn 'Km Loose," which, by the way. Jt rates at. three stars al- most two and a half tO be exact, I ""wj gires tne iouowiAg infor mation: "Gun moll Maxlne Jen nings is a Salem. Oregon, gat who chucked over the life intellectual as expressed by a college educa tion ror the life emotional as Hollywood knows It. This took some globe-trotting. Atlantic Clt- ied it as Miss Oregon; got hipped out in the finals, but made a B' way body and music disnlav. from ' whence back to Hollywood t o r Roberta and has been lotus-eating I BTcr Since. - i . i Time gallops On! Eastern news- papers are already referring: to the oiilntrmleta a , I -. girls - - - . - . " - x.vums I ! Most of ns who have lived In western Oregon or in northeast ern Washington or in northern Idaho have known forast fires. and the ordeal is not unknown to people who have lived in certain otheiv sections. Inclusive of Can ada. There are few ordeals more trying. It Is considerably worse I than : many ordeals which are characterized as bad. It is filled With menace. It causes the throat I and nostrils to sting and eyes to smart. . Tis not unlike a vena-1 eance in the lurid air. waving Its i red arm, exposed and bare, or a gathering of fiends, who, near, al lied, o'er nature's wounds and wrecks preside. Imagine that, if you can! The report Is again going I . S";4 fr?.?-- g out a uu maim, auow tae I saying Is a trie one, but I reckon I may as well repeat it and hare It over with. It is certain te . ... r , i awuwr ur u7Wy. ABO I U. is true. But the knowledge of it never extinguished a forest fire, although. If giren serious thought before a tire begun, it might have exerted a preventive influence. - A young m a a In a midwest town had a ticket which entitled him to a chaneeV at winning a XT a ft autnmnhiia nffr4 i.w iu -I sociation. He was a poor young j man, who worked in an uptown restaurant, a mile distant from I the fair ground, and he had never won a prixe In a raffle, so he for- got about his ticket. He did not attend the fair the afternoon of the drawing. His wife was there however, and when the announce- j ment was made that her husband held the lucky number, she was I a great help. She dashed to the I piatrorm ana laintea. ' Tne rule i was that the holder of the- lucky J number must claim the prize with- j In ten minutes. Somebody phoned the young man. and he forthwith covered the mile through heavy traffic, and reached the- judges', ? TALMADGE stand with exactly 45 seconds to spare. ' Prcbablr pretty close to l a wona s decora. right sort of Inspiration. - One and another! may disagree On matters such as arts. But it really doesn't matter if :, They have congenial hearts. : I have been making a practice of late of asking different lndi- I vlduals to explain the Spanish sit I nation to me. The explanations I given are quite Interesting, b u t f they are similar; to the chromo I cards we used to iorder from Con I necticut 100 no two alike, with your name neatly printed thereon. for 10 cents. I reckon It must have been a profitable business. Connecticut folks are not in the habit of advertising their products In publications of general circula tion for Just the ! fun of it. The card people doubtless knew what they were doing, j It la difficult to feel as certain about the Span iards. .." ; L ! We have seen in local theatres daring the past; several weeks news reels showing scenes of ac- Hon In the Spanish war, but none or us, so tar as nas been invest- igated. can get a line on whom the rifle men and women are aiming at. They do things much better In California lettuce war. - Mrs. Murray at Home SILVERTON HILLS. Sept. 3 ft. Mrs. C. V. Murray who has been HI for several weeks was able to be moved to her home here Saturday. She Is now steadily gaining and It was thought that in two weeks' time she will he able to he up and about again. : , The Story go Far: It i a aerioua Ubisl aiiar utm tun o( depmsion. ery ioao fooH It. oven at .the ladiea' aigkt diaaor of toe Fort CM .VT." " ZZTdJlri .,f?b.,f! old cnoch to joa ia sroator war aKywHBre. ine ildr,wi are delivrrd by Bricadier General Herbert T. Edsewivm. V. 8. A. (rt.), and Mrs. Adelaide Tarr utmaitcB. if. 0 a. K. saU-aaffracict, 8oldier-Mothar tss loyslty-osth aapport r. Wkes Hrs. Giastitck advoeatrs woman's yieldias of the Tote and their reran to tno koaao, to have atz cUldrea apMee. Ionaoa tke.i preaeher'o widow aad aaaaaswr of a soBer-boardias hoaao, riaea to aak sboat tao anmarrted sir: "Shall mho taro her sis kids rat of wedlock!" Bat this heckling only stirs th pakr to srater niWonht artist Btr.,t.. s. labor Ml-. aotioos out of K4 Kaasis. for power, and power ia it own . Tfc. ? ?"". t. rioie. ai- '"'h' B" J5,' ee,fwe! are without military tramlnr tha aionooa total ox res atndenta beatea p fa 69. Irftrinda apriags ap again, crylas. ''SadUtie iouwh ' bonast Jesaap leapa ia to poor the aootkias oil. Jeaaap, liberal editor sad publisher of the tewa paper, aiks Lorindaj to spolosiie. Bat both bis rhidinj sad i her paBiteaco karo s taint of irony. After the dinner; Krancia Tasbroasa, indoatnaliat. apbraids Jes- lOT Uborai at Vw """9A' f ttitode toward the labor racketeera.' tenons that Senator Baas Windrip. coaa- aerioua ti torpart of Haey Long; kae a food chance to be eresideat. Under that (uritt m. S-ime, be aara, they'll all face the firins squad, tory sad literal alike. Jeaaap gets s letter from s college teacher tell ing of tko growth of faaeiam ia the school, and it ia with, creator interest that he awatta the broadcast of Radio Bishop Prang. Aa ha fears, Bishop Praay throws the strength of hi Laruo f Forgotten Men behind Windrip. Windrip, a nomination, immediately iste.es a platform confirming! all of Jeaaap's fears. He deciarea for complete federal control of all fiaancea: destruction of Jews; limited ineoaiea; disfranchisement labor anions ; religions ' restrictions oa " emw io oarrv, muri 01 woman to her place! in the home; the fallow for commnniat ; finally, abac dictatorial power for the president, 'T" b ""a adriaory board. JoP ia amaaed at the snddea bloomias oi eaas mo Ledae. his aarlr hired man. who tatea srtirs lead the Windrip rallies. few dart before the election, Jasanp goea to Bass's final rally in Madison Sqnare Garden. On the streets he sees the Minote Men, Windrip 'a own prirato uniformed army. An old man is knocked down by the Kinnto Men for cbeertag Booaeroit. Windrip, at tko rally, at first appears so tired, aerroaa and hamble that Jeaaap has a thrill of hope that ho will aot bo elected. Bat aa the candidate talks on. the editor finds himself ab sorbed sad excited. MaTbe Buis is all S, ht thinkt; maybe he'a the man the .Btn. B:!l?.Bt.itr J aiity. what Wiadrip. aetoaiiy ..i57 oaaaot romembeV. Baas is elected Cr.f'V'Jfuf.?..' .!?J?,BJ windnn. tha ehuf. rwim - Tm..ti Jeop is disgaatod. Ha borie bim- aelf ia hia attic a tody to read aU tha books ho nerer got aroaad to. -Today's InetaUment He Doesaft Know , i And for a newspaper editor for one who most know, at least aa well aa - tbn ncTMnnaadli. Wtory, . geography, economics. iwklitlmi lHu-atnr. mwiA m K vt of playing football pit was mad dening that it seemed Impossible V " uww u a.uww aYByiauia; surety. .TJ flaBt Vtw wr,.. .11 .h 7"' T I "'.i" Jf?' a fL in,5lr fLJZ f il. t cUonI1 BeCT l a sound general statement regard ing almost any economist. Once. modestly enough, Doremus had assumed that he had a decent knowledge of finance, taxation, the gold standard, agricultural expor ts. and he had m!lin:ly Pontmeated everywhere that lib- t' B1"" wouw pasioraiiy Ieaa Ull' - tte socialism, with governmental ownership of mines a1 railroads and waterpower so 'ettling all inequalities of Income that every lion of a structural steel worker would be willlnr to ll down with any Iamb of a con- tractor, and all the tails and tn- oercuiosis sanatoria would be ciean empty. - row ae knew , that -he knew nothing fundamental and, like a lone monk stricken with a conyi- tion of siu, he mourned, "If ' I only knew more! . . . Yes! and If I could only remember statistics The coming and the going of "ItCanVH How It Now Looks to the Geography Class! lS . t;. -jwow m ' WBS-w a.: -J.-... . t r appen Here the N.R.A.. the F.BLRJL. the P.W.A and all the rest, had con vinced Doremus that there were four sets of people who did not clearly understand anything whatever about how the govern ment must be conducted, all the authorities in Washington; all of the citizenry who talked or wrote profusely about politics; the be wildered untouchAbles who said nothing; and Doremus Jess up. -But," . said he, 'now, after Buzz's Inauguration, everything is going to be completely simple and eomprhenslble again the coun try is going to be run as his pri vate domain!" Julian Falck. now sophomore In Amherst, had eome home for Christmas vacation, and he drop ped In -at the Informer office to beg from Doremus a ride home after dinner. On the way they stopped for gasoline at the garage of John Pollikop, the seething Social Dem ocrat, and were waited upon by Karl Pascal sometime donkey englnemau at Tasbrough's quarry, sometime strike leader,-sometime political prisoner in the county jail on, a thin charge of inciting a riot, and ever since then, a model of Communistic piety. ; Pascal was a thin man. but sin ewy; , his 7 gaunt .and humorous face of a - good mechanic was so grease-darkened that the s k I n above and below his eyes seemed white as a fish-belly, and, in turn, that pallid rim made his eyes, alert dark gipsy eyes, seem the larger ... A panther chained to: a coal cart. "Well, what you going to do after this election?" said Dore mus. . "Oh! That's a fool ques tion! : I guess none of us chronic kickers want to say much about what we plan to do after January. when Buzz gets his hands on us. He low, eh?" "I'm going to lie the lowest lie that I ever did. You bet! But maybe there'll be a few Commun ist cells around here now, when Fascism begins to get Into oeonle's hair. Never did "have much suc cess with my propaganda before. out now, you watch!" exulted Pascal. "You don't seem so denressed by the election, marveled Dore mus, while Julian of fered, "No yoa seem quite cheerful about it!" "Depressed? Why rood Lord. Mr. Jejsup, I thought you knew your revolutionary tactics better than that, way you supported us in the quarry strikeeven If you are tne perfect tvne of small can- ltalist bourgeois! Depressed? Why can't you see, if the Communists had paid for it they couldn't have Ten Years Ago October 1 l a Twelve drum legion cities will take part In the drum corps competition this af ternoon at American T-asHati Haw at the state fair. Gas price ' war reaches Salem. local stations to .retail petrol for zo cents today, effects three states. : New buHdinr asked at atai. fair for livestock display. Increased bowing makes it necessary. Twenty YcmTS Ago . ', . V.. .imaaaSSSBBmaBBBWaaah - - October 1, lilt War ia certain if MnatiHoss win, says. Wilson as he addresses young democrats. Johnny Stump of Dallas recelv. ed a $S0 pig and two weeks at summer school In Industrial con test. .-;-,, Good weather, record J crowd make ISIS state fair success, at tendance twice that of any prev ious year. , l!: ' By 1 I SINCLAIR LEWISs tMa .Iili . . "w ntyiums more eiegant ror our purposes than the election of pro-plttocrat, itching militarist dictator like Buzz Windrip! Look! He'll get everybody plenty dissat- isnea. jiut they can't do anything, Darenanaeu against - the armed troops; Then hell whoop it up ior a war, and so millions of peo ple wm nave arms and food ra tions In their hands all ready ior tne revolution! Hurray for tuss ana John Prang the Bap- ust:- "Karl. It's funny about von honestly believe you -believn In vuinmununi! marveiea young juuaa, iron i you? "Why don't you go and ask your friend Father Perefixe if he believes In the Virgin?" i 100 Per Cent American "But you seem to like America. and you don't seem too fanatical. Karl, j i remember when I was a kid of about ten and you I sup pose you were about twenty-five or -si then you used to slide with us and whoop like hell, and you made me a ski-stick." "Sure I like America. Came here When I wag two years old I was:born in Germany my folks wern'ti Heinies though my dad was French and my mother a Hunkfe from Serbia. (Guess that makes; me a hundred per cent Am erican! all right!) I think we've got tne Old Country beat, lots of ways. Why say .Julian, over there i a nave to call you 'Mein lien or 'Your Excellency or some fool thing, and you'd call me, l say-uh Pascal! and Mr. Jessup here, my Lord, lie'd be 'Commendatore' or Herr poktor!' No, I like it here. mere symptoms of possible fu ture democracy. But but what burns j me up It Isn't that old soap-boxer's chestnut about how one tenth . of 1 per -cent of the population at the top have an ag gregate income equal to 42 per cent at the bottom. Kis-nroa nv that Are too astronomical. Don't mean ?a thing in the world to a fellow: with his eyes and nose down Jn a transmission box fel low that dosen't see the stars ex cept after 9 P.M. on odd Wednes days. But what burns me up is the fact that even before this De pression, in what you folks called prosperous times, 7 per cent of all the families in the country earn ed $300 a year or less remember those weren't the unemployed, on rellert ; those were the guys that ,had the honor of still doing hon est labor. F MO Dollars a Week "Five hundred dollars a year Is ten dollars ;. a week and that means one dirty little room for a family of four people! it means $.eota week for all their food eighteen cents per -day per person for food! and even the lousiest prisons allow more than that, And the magnificent remainder of t.50 a week, that means -- nine cents: per day per person for clothes. Insurance, carfares, doc tors bilis, dentists bills, and for God's sake, amusements amuse menjat and all the rest of the nine cents a day they can fritter away on their Fords and auto lirosgand, when they feel fagged, skipping across the pond on the Normandle! Seven per cent of all the fortunate American families where the old man has grot a Julian was silent; then whisp ered, "You ,ka w fellow gets discussing; economics ia college theoretically sympathetic but to see your own kids living on eight fen cents, a Iay for grub I guess that would make a man pretty extremist!- . : Doremus fretted, 'But what percentage ef forced labor In your Russian lumber , camps and Sib rtan Prison mines are getting; morel than that ? ; "Haaa! Thata an baloney! That's the old standard come-back at ervery Communist just like once, twenty years ago, the mut tonheads used to think they'd crushed any racialist when they snickered 'If all the money was divided up, inside five years the hustlers would ' have all ef it again. Prob'ly there's some 'stan dard coup de grace like that in Russia, to crush anybody that de fends America. Besides!1 Karl Pascal glowed with nationalistic fervor, "We Americans aren't like those dumb Russki peasants! Well do a whole lot "better when we get Communism!" . And on that, his employer, the expansive John Pollikop. a woolly Scotch terrier of a man. returned to the garage. John was an ex cellent friend of Doremus; had. indeed.- been his bootlegger all through Prohibition, personally raning in his whisky from Can ada. He had been known, even in that singularly scrupulous pro fusion, as one of Its most trust- r worthy practitioners. Now he flowered into mid-European dia lectics: - - . r Evenln. Mist Jessup. evenin. Julian! Karl fill up y' tank for , you? i on want t watch that guy he's likely to hold out a gallon on you. He's one of these crazy dogs of Communists they all be lieve in Violence instead of Evo lution and Legality. Them why say. If they hadn't been so crook ed. If they'd joined me and Nor man Thomas and the other in telligent Socialists in a United Front with Roosevelt and the Jef- fersonlans, why say, we'd of lick ed the pants off Buzzard Windrin! Windrip and his plans!" ("Buzzard", Windrin. That was good. Doremus reflected. He'd be able to use it in the Informer! ) rascal protested. "Not that Buz zard's personal plans and ambi tions have got much to do with iL Altogether too easy to explain-ey-. erytning Just blaming It on Win drip. Why don't you read your Marx. John, instead of always' gassing about him? Why, Win drip's just something nasty thst's been vomited up. . Plenty others sflll left fermentinr in the stom ach quack economists with every sort of economic ptomaine! No, buzz isn't important it's the sickness that made us throw him up that we've got to attend to the sickness of more than 30 per cent permanently " unemnlored. and growing larger. Got to cure "Can you Trazv TovariKheB r-rira It?" snapped Pollikop. and. "Do yoa think Communism will euro UT." skeptically Wondered Dore mus. and. more politely, "Do you .ww mina K.ari Marx had the dope?" worried Julian, all three at ouce. ' You bet:your life w ant" said Pascal valngloriously. As Doremus, driving away, looked back at them, Pascal and Pollikop were removing a flat tire together and aaarrelins- hitioriw. quite happily. (To Be Continued.) Pall of Smoke h orted,Va!setz VALSETZ. Sent 3ftwiv - shift in wind to one coming from um west, vaisetz was enveloped in a pall of smoke at noon Mon day it was thought the smoke, which nearly obliterated the sun, was coming from the Depoe bay fire. ' Several Valaeta mm(. vitally Interested in the Bandoa re.-. h. e. Starr has a nephew, Henry Hartley, who fa tnnrtn. ' tend en t of Bandon schools. Mrs, waiter Johnson and Mrs. Bert Babb left 8undar for the fire area. . Mrs. Babb's' home before her marriage was . Bandon. Sev eral members of her family were heavy losers In the fire. They owned a number of business tn liv ings there.' Glea Shocklev ha the theatre and has started a reg ular . twice-a-week echorlrtto n shows, i : . ; The WPA crew which fca hern workinr in Valsota thia anmMt has completed its tas ef bull i ing 120 sanitary toilets and l - moved out. This project has J t proved materially sanitary cond' tions here. Rep