The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, October 6, 1936
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"Ao Favor Sicay Us; No Fear Shall Aice"
From First Statesman, March S3, 1631 i
Charles A. Sprague -Sheldo.v
F. Sackett -
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
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, The Mass
ITlHE October National Geographic magazine has very in
X teresting pictures from Spain. One picture shows a dem
onstration in a city controlled by the government forces.
The cheering crowds have their arms raised in the clenched
fist of the communist salute. Another picture is of a rebel
itronghold. There the crowds give the fascist salute of the
stiff arm with the palm of the hand forward. In each picture
the score was virtually unanimous. Only children , or one or
two on the outskirts of the crowd failed to give the appropri
ate gesture of deference and loyalty. j
; All of which shows the working of the mass mind. Why
should all the people in Madrid give the communist salute;
and all in Burgos give the fascist salute? Because they fear
to do otherwise. Undoubtedly when the rebela captured To
ledo the survivors who were not jailed joined in giving the
appropriate gesture to the new rulers of the city, f ;
Such forced, unanimity is unnatural. There must be
many among the people of Madrid who are not friendly to
the united front rulers ; and many irt cities now ruled by the
, rebels who are loyal to the Madrid government, j
In Germany and Italy and Russia this same expression
of unanimous loyalty is expected and received. It must be an
amazing spectacle to see such vast assemblies of people re
spond in unison, without a dissenting murmur, in a manner
to meet the approval of Hitler or Mussolini or Stalin; amaz
ing because the normal mind of the people is not so onesided.-1:;,
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must be nothing more depressing than this fear of
self-expression, fear of saying anything which would get to
the ears of Ogpu of Gestapo. Fortunately in this country no
such goose-stepping of the minds of the people jis required.
..Criticism of the new deal is tolerated, and berating of the
economic royalists" is indulged in. j
The great safeguard for the American people against
these newer forms of social organization lies in; the ancient
American habit of speaking the mind, of refusing to con
form, of enjoying being an "aginner". We just cannot con
ceive in this country of all the people in Chicago being ready
to go through motions of loyalty to one political idea,; or all
the people in Spokane doing the same. Some one would be sure
to give a "rebel yell" to destroy the unanimity.! The United
States in the past has recognized the virtue of minorities in
I preserving a balance. So long as minorities are permitted to
be vocal there will be no regimenting of the mass mind in this
country. j
Business Boom I
BUSINESS over the country is enjoying something of a
boom. Democrats may claim it is a result of their policies.
Republicans may assert it is belated, that the new deal
held recovery back until after the supreme court gave its ma
jor acts lethal sleep. Without arguing that point it remains
true that business moves in cycles. The recent depression was
one of unusual duration, accounted for by its universal ex
tent. Rarely does all the world
normal operation of economic
toxins of depression and permitted business resumption.
Recently the department
or. the physical volume of production since 1920 in the major
countries of the world. In a summary of this report the Bus
iness Bulletin of the Cleveland Trust country notes that it
shows the increase in production in foreign countries in the
period after the war was much faster than in the United
States. By 1929 the score in the United States was 117 and in
the remainder of the world 136. In the depression production
in this country swung to greater depths than in foreign coun
tries. Here and abroad recovery was begun in the summer of
;1932.- . ii - j j
Another fact which this government report shows is
that other countries have made more rapid progress in recov
ery than has the United States. By June of 1936 foreign pro
duction was ahead of that of the early months of 1929 while
in this country it was below the levels reached in 1923. The
recent spurt in production in the United States has undoubt
edly put the marker up much higher on the charts. One more
fact was brought out by the report, and that was the recov
ery abroad has been more steady; in this country the fluctua
tions have been numerous and acute.
While the time was ripe for business reviral in this
country, one cannot help wondering if the present boom is
not just another of the periods of stimulation which may
flatten out or which may gather strength to go on into wild
inflation as in 1927-29. The inflation process is working now.
It will be difficult to chain the horses when they .get in full
sweat. The public psychology remains the same as before:
eagerness for -quick profits and willingness to speculate to
get them. Eventually the end will be the same, j
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Manners and the Times: ! '
lyITH the attention of those who dwell ?within the clois-
jL tered walls of universities distracted by political cam-
paigns, it was a refreshing variation when President
Dodds in opening Princeton last week, took for a text of his
discourse, the words of Lord , Chesterton : "Manners must
adorn knowledge." Politeness does have a part to play in the
relations of men, and of women too. This is not merely the po
liteness of tipping the hat to a passing acquaintance, or greet
ing with a handshake a friend home from a journey. There
is also the courtesy in business and public affairs which is
the hallmark of good breeding. - j s ,
. President Dodds said: "In public affairs, as in private
dealings, the inescapable essential to civilized; living is re
spect for the opinions and sensibilities of others. If it is not
dominant in the domestic affairs of a people it will be ab
sent from their international relations, and peace and pros
perity will suffer." j
In the midst of a campaign where emotions easily outrun
judgment there is call for remembering the canons of cour
tesy; When the election is over partisans will still have to live
together here ; and it will be a good deal happier if curbs are
put now on bitter speech or uncivil invective. The truth must
be told ; and its telling is no breach of politeness. It is usually
the untruth which is accompanied by words which give abra
sion to the feelings of opponents. Manners must adorn know
ledge, as that paragon of etiquette. Lord Chesterton, ob
served; and not in many years ha3 civilization been in so
much need of ornament of just that kind. ) -
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: The favorite device ot the easy-spenders is to justify the mount
ing debt load by pointing to other countries and showing how much
more heavily burdened they are. The competition appears to la mis
ery. Instead of shunning the high debt of other nations these prod
igals seem to Telcorae a policy which puts American taxpayers with
the downtrodden, tax-ridden folk of other lands!' I
' The political parties are campaigning -with sound trucks which
tour the countryside and mix politics with "O Susanna" and "Happy
Days". They are not a success because no one can heckle a canned
speech, and be told to so and hire his own hall. - j ,
In a reminiscent mood Columnist O. CK Mclntyre muses: "O, to
stand by a clear stream and see the sycamore leaves pirouette down.
Don't disillusion him. The sycamore has given way to a gas station
and the stream Is drainage for the Industrial district.
. Editor-Manager
. - Managing-Editor
Mind
jro to pot simultaneously. The
laws finally worked off the
of agriculture issued a report
Bits for
Brcalcfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Sheridan house still 10-6-36
stands in its original
location, at what was Fort . '.
Yamhill, and well preserved: ;
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(Continuing from Sunday:)
Quoting Sheridan's book further:
"On this Information I concluded
it would be best to march to the
Tillage by a CIRCUITOUS ROUTE
Instead of directly, as at first in
tended, so I had the ferry boat
belonging to the post floated
ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF
DOWN THE YAMHILL.. RIVER
and there anchored. (The capitals
are In each case being used to
help in reconstructing the scene
on the ground after nearly 80
years.)
"At 11 o'clock that night I
marched ray 50 men out of the
garrison IN A DIRECTION OP
POSITE TO THAT OF THE
POINT HELD BY THE INDIANS,
and SOON reached the river at
the ferry hoat.
"HereJL ferried the party over
with little delay, and marched
them ALONG THE SIDE OF THE
MOUNTAIN, through underbrush
and fallen timber, until, just be
fore daylight. I found that we
were IMMEDIATELY IN REAR
OF THE VILLAGE, and hence in
rear, also, of the LINE OCCU
PIED BY THE REFRACTORY
INDIANS, who were expecting to
meet me ON THE DIRECT ROAD
FROM THE POST.
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"Just at break of day we made
a sudden DESCENT upon the Til
lage and took its occupants com
pletely by surprise, : even captur
ing the chief of the tribe, 'Sam.'
who was dressed in all his war
toggery, fully armed and equip
ped, in anticipation of a fight ON
THE ROAD where his comrades
were in position.
"I at once put Sam under guard,
giving orders to kill him instantly
it the Indians fired a shot; then,
forming my line ON. THE ROAD
beyond the edge of the Tillage, in
REAR of the force lying in wait
for a front attack, we moved for
ward. . V
"When the hostile party realis
ed that they were completely cut
off from the. Tillage, they op.me
out from their stronghold ON
THE RIVER and took up a line
in front, distant about 60 yards
with the apparent intention of re
sisting to the last.
"As Is nsual with Indians when
expecting a fight, they were near
ly naked, fantastically painted
with blue clay, and hideously ar
rayed in war bonnets.
"They seemed very belligerent.
brandishing their muskets in the
air, dancing on one foot, calling
us ugly names, and making such
other demonstrations of hostility.
that it seemed at first that noth
ing short of the total destruction
of the party could bring about the
definite settlement that we were
bent on. ' .: 1- : -
"Still, as it 'was my desire to
bring them under subjection with
out loss ot life, if possible, I de
termined to see what result would
follow when t h e y learned that
their chief was at our mercy.
"So, sending Sam under guard
to the front, where he could be
seen, informing them that he
would be immediately shot if they
fired upon us, and aided by the
cries and lamentations of the
women of the village, who depre
cated any hostile action by either
party, I soon procured a parley,
"Tlje insubordinate Indians
were under command of 'Jo.
Sam's brother, who at . last sent
me word that he -wanted to see
me, and we met between our re
spective lines.
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"I talked kindly to him. but
was firm in my demand that, the
men who killed the woman must
be given up and my six-shooter
returned.
"His reply was he did not think
it could be done, b u t he would
consult his people.
"After the consultation he re
turned and notified me that 15
would surrender and the six
shooter would be restored, and,
further, that we could kill the
16th man, since (he tribe wished
to get rid of him anyhow, adding
that he was a bad Indian, whose
bullet no doubt had given ' the
woman her death wound.
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"B said that if I assented to
this arrangement, he would re
quire all of his people except the
objectionable man to run to the
right ot his line at a preconcerted
signal.
"The bad Indian would be or
dered to stand fast on the ex
treme left, and we could fire upon
him as his comrades fell away
to the right. ;
"I agreed to the proposition,
and gave Jo 15 minutes to 'ex
ecute his part of it. (Sheridan
spelled the name Joe. Oregon
historians generally spell it Jo.
He got it from General Lane. The
manner of its bestowal-is another
story, to be told later.)
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"We then: returned to our re
spective forces, and a few minutes
later the 15 ran to the right flank
as agreed upon, and we opened
fire on the one Indian left stand
ing alone, bringing him down in
his tracks Beverly wounded by a
shot through the shoulder, f
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"While all this was going on,
the other Indians of the reserva
tion, SEVERAL THOUSAND
STRONG, had. occupied the sur
rounding hills for the purpose of
witnessing the fight, for as the
Rogue Rivera had been bragging
tor some .time ' that they could
whip the soldiers, these other In
dians had come out to see it done.
"The result, however,, disap
pointed the spectators, and the
Rogue Rivers naturally lost
caste.'
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Conner Fined $7.50
SILVERTON. Oct. 5. Arthur
Conner was given a S 7.50 fine and
cost on a disorderly charge Sat
urday morning by Judge George
Cuslter. -
Interpreting
By MARK.SULLIVAN
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. Presi
dent Roosevelt in his Pittsburgh
speech denied the charge, made
some weeks ago
by repub 1 1 c a n
"vice - pesidential
candidate Frank
Knox, that "no
life insurance
policy Is secure,
at savings ac
count is safe."
And at Pitts
burgh on the
same night Col
onel Knox re-
Mark 8aatn petted the
charge, amplified it, Insisted the
charge is true.,
! As in many cases, the differ
ence of opinion hangs upon par
ticular words. The words used by
Colonel ' Knox, "secure" and
"safe", are not the fight words.
These words,' as commonly used,
Imply danger of bankruptcy, dan
ger that the life insurance com-'
panies ; and savings banks may
tail and close their doors. There
is no such danger, and Colonel
Knox did not mean to say there
is. He explained, in his repetition
of the charge, that this is not
what he means.
1 The real danger is inflation. I
hope the reader will not stop at
that forbidding word, for what 1
hope to do is to explain, in part,
what inflation is. Colonel Knox
Thursday night used a more . apt
word, "dilution." "Dilution of the
dollar" is an accurate description
of what the administration is do-j
lng. "Dilution" means watering ;
the milk, and the average man
grasps what that is.
What is the fiscal practice of
the : administration that dilutes
the dollar, and thereby causes
peril . to lire , insurance policies
and savings bank accounts? The
practice is not easy for the aver
age man to understand. Bankers
and .business men understand 1t.
Economists understand it per
fectly. Some of them try to make
it clear to the public Few suc
ceed. Possibly I may not succeed.
But I shall try the device of be
ing very simple.. The erudite wili
understand that in being simple
I am obliged to omit many quali
fications details- and technical
terms. 1
President Roosevelt describes
what he does as "borrowing.?
Strictly, It Is not borrowing at
all. If it were borrowing in the
ordinary sense, as the average
man understands that word. It
would be less dangerous. How
ever, let us see just what it is.
Just . what takes place. Let us
imagine tha scene:
Mr. Roosevelt wants some more
money. He wants it to spend on
'qjoddy. or for relief or what
not.. There is sot as much in the
treasury as he wants. He sends
for Secretary of the , Treasury
Henry. Morgenthau. 'Henry,"
says Mr. Roosevelt, "I want an
other billion." "Okay, chief,"
says Mr. Morgenthau. Mr. Mor
genthau calls up the bureau of
engraving and printing. "Print a
billion of short term bonds." says
Mr. Morgenthau.
Now. essentially, what hap
pens? The treasury takes a piece
of paper costing a fraction of a
cent. ; It takes some ink costing
another fraction of a cent. On this
piece of paper, with this ink, the
treasury prints the word "bond,"
and the figure "1,00. It is
now a $1,000 government bond.
It is a perfectly good bond.
This bond Mr. Morgenthau
takes to a bank. The bank ac-'
cepts the bond. In return the
bank credits the treasury with
$1,000. "Cr edits- Is the technical
term. The bank now says that the
United States has $1,000 on de
posit in the bank. The bank does
for the government the same
thing that it does for a private
citixen when the citizen brings
a thousand real dollars to the
bank. You will , observe the gov
ernment gets its deposit much
easier than the citlsen.
Against this so-called ''deposit"
of the government, the adminis
tration draws checks. These
checks the government passes out
to pay for 'quoddy. to pay relief
workers, or what-not. There Is
now another $1,000 in circulation.
It la all that simple. That is
the way the government "makes"
dollars. If not too much of It Is
done, there Is nothing irregular
about it. But the reader will see
it Is Tery different from the Way
he himself "makes' dollars.
The average man makes dollars
only by work, by producing goods
or dealing in them. The admin
istration makes dollars by a kind
ot magic. The average man knows
that for him to get a thousand
dollar bank deposit in the bank
he must work and Bare.
For clarity, let Us say the dol
lars ' of the average man ' are
"earned" dollars, while the dol
lars i of the' government - are
"made" dollars. ;
Now, what is the effect of all
these government "made" , dol
lars? What is the effect on the
average man's "earned" dollars,
and on life insurance policies and
savings?
In the banks. In trade, every
where, a government "made" dol
lar is precisely the same as the
citizen's "earned" dollar. Every
government "made" dollar, intro
duced into circulation, mingled
with all the "earned" dollars, is
a kind of watering of. the milk.
Anybody can see how It works.
Every time the administration
creates a dollar In this way it
takes a tiny fraction off tha purchasing-
power of every other ex
isting dollar. If this "watering-of
the milk goes on long enough, the
milk will become very thin. If it
goes on long enough, eTery dol
lar will be so reduced that it
will take a whole dollar to buy a
pound of coffee or a pair of socks.
Colonel Knox is quite certain
this will happen. He said the con
Exhibits at P. I. .
BETHEL, Oct. 5. W. L.
Creech, who has been superin
tendent of swine at the Oregon
state fair for two years, is hartng
about 45 of his Berkshires at the
Pacific International stock show.
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the News
dition I have described is a
"simple fact." He said it "steadily
eats away the value of the dollar."
He said inflation is "Inevitable."
Colonel Knox said this on Thurs
day night. That was after It was
known that Mr. Roosevelt had
entered into a stabilization agree-'
merit with France and Britain.
Some persons think that stabili
sation abroad will help, mildly at
least, toward averting Inflation in
America. Others, and apparently
Colonel Knox is among them,
think the stabilization agreement
will not avert inflation of the
dollar. It is true that stabiliza
tion can at best only help, and
help but faintly. , The only real
safeguard against inflation is for
the government to stop "making"
dollars in the way I ' have de
scribed. That means the govern
ment must stop spending more
dollars than it -&as, must keep
within its income.
For the distrust which many
feel about ; the administration's
fiscal practices, there is one rea
son easy for the average man to
grasp. The country has seen Mr.
Roosevelt appoint many fiscal ad
visers and officials and has
presently, seen those fiscal ad
visers resign. The list includes
Mr. James P. Warburg, who re
signed and has written hooks and
articles declaring that President
Roosevelt's fiscal : practices are
dangerous to an extreme degree.
The list includes Mr. Lewis Doug
las, whom Mr. Roosevelt appoint
ed director . of the budget, who
resigned, and who. has since writ
ten and spoken as Mr. Warburg
has. The list includes Dr. Oliver
M. W. Sprague, whose skill and
experience Mr. Roosevelt describ
ed in lofty terms, but who re
signed and has followed the
others in expressing grave appre
hension. The list includes Mr.
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, a
high-minded and able banker
whom Mr. Roosevelt appointed
under-secretary. of the treasury,
but who resigned and, like the
others, has uttered serious warn
ing. . Xew York Ilenld Tribune Syndicate
"It Can t Happen Hre7 sinc lewis
By SINCLAIR LEWIS
Attorney General Porkwood
Senator Porkwood graced the
position of Attorney General, and
all the other offices were accept-)
ably filled by men who. though
they had roundly supported Win
drip's almost socialistic projects ;
for the distribution of excessive
fortunes, were yet known to be
thoroughly sensible men and no
fanatics.
It was said, though Doremus
Jessup could never prove It, that
Windrlp learned from Lee Sara
son the Spanish custom of getting
red of embarrassing friends and
enemies by appointing them to
posts abroad, preferably quite far
abroad. Anyway, as Ambassador
to Brazil .Windrlp appointed Her
bert Hoover, who not Tery en
thusiastically accepted; as Am
bassador to Germany, Senator
Borah; as Governor of tha Phil
ippines, Senator Robert La Fol
lette. who refused; and lis Ambas
sador to the Court of St. Jame's,
France, and Russia, none other
than Upton Sinclair, Milo Reno,
and Senator Bilbo of Mississippi.
Mrs. Adelide Tarr Gimmltch,
after her spirited campaign for
Mr.-' Windrlp. Vas publicly angry
that she was offered no position
higher than a post in the eustoms
office la Nome. Alaska, though
this was offered to her Tery urg
ently indeed. She had demanded
that there be created, especially
for her, the cabinet position of
Secretary ess of Pomestle Science,
Child Welfare, and Anti-Vice. She
threatened to turn Jeffersonian,
Republican, or Communistic, hut
in April she was heard of in Holly
wood, writing the scenario for a
giant picture to be called They Did
It in Greece.
As an insult and boy-from-home
Joke, the President-Eject appoint
ed Franklin D. Roosevelt minister
to Liberia. Mr. , Roosevelt's op
ponents laughed Tery mach. and
opposition newspapers did car.
toons of him sitting unhappily in
a grass hut with a sign on which
"N-R-A." had been crossed -out
and 'U.S.A. substituted. But Mr.
Roosevelt declined with so ami
able a smile that the joke seemed
rather to have slipped. r
The followers of President Win
drip .trumpeted, that it was sig
nificant that he should be t h e
first President Inaugurated not on
March f o-irth, 'but on January
twentieth, according to the pro
vision of the new Twentieth Am
endment to the Constitution. It
was a sign straight from Heaven
(though, actually, Heaven had not
been the author of the amend
ment, but Senator George W. Nor
ria of Nebraska), and proved that
Windrlp was starting a new par
adise on earth.
. The inauguration was .turbulent
President Roosevelt declined to
be presenthe politely suggested
that he was about half ill unto
death, but that same noon -he was
seen in a New York shop, buying
books on gardening and. looking
abnormally cheerful.. - 5
-More than a thousand report
eds. photographers, and radio men
covered the inauguration. Twenty
seven constituents of Senator
Porkwood, of all sexes, had to
sleep on the floor of the Senator's
of f ice. and a hall-bedroom in the
suburb of Bladensburg rented for
thirty dollars for two weeks. The
Presidents of Brazil, the Argen
tine, and Chile flew to the inaug
uration in a Pan-American aero
plane, and Japan sent seven hun
dred students on a special train
from Seattle, n
Bttllet-Proof Chariot
A motor company in Detroit had
presented to Windrlp a limousine
with armor plate, bullet-proof
glass, a hlden nickel-plated safe
for papers, a concealed private
bar, and upholstery made from
the Troissant tapestries of 1670.
But Buzz chose to drive from his
home to the Capitol In his old
Hupmobile sedan, and his driver
was a youngester from his home
J town whose notion of a uniform
for state occasions was a bine-
j Any End to This?
QS "H HAS A ?X PWT
JVfri CLUC3- I'LL GCT AM
S n Jy . gums, en? u;s r r
'WM' SHKr GAS uj.LtJ
fl5w-5 y swTtie( a city i:
vMJfA' Five MiMures j
. VlW " C BUT THEV HAV6 OMf
W. THAT CAM WIPM OCT TUB
Topav. Jx (prt
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serge suit, red tie, and derby hat.
Windrlp himself did wear a top
per, but he saw to it that Lie e
Sarason saw to it- that the one
hundred and thirty million plain
citizens learned, by radio. evn
while the inaugural parade was
going on, that he had borrowed
the topper for this one sole oc
casion from a New York Repub
lican Representative who had an
cestors. I
Bat following Windrlp was f an
un-Jacksonian escort of soldiers:
the American Legion and, im
mensely grander than the others,
the Minute Men. wearing trench
aelments of polished silver and
led by Colonel Dewey H a 1 k in
rcarlet tunic 'and yellow riding
breeches and helmet with golden
plumes. .
Solemnly, for one looking a lit
tle like a small-town boy ;on
Broadway, Wtndrip took the oath,
administered by the Chief Justice
(who disliked him very much in
deed) and. edging even closer to
the microphone. squawked. "My
fellow citizens, as the President of
the United States of America, I
want to Inform you that the real
New Deal has started right this
minute, and we're all going to en
Joy the manifold liberties j to
which our history entitles us ,
and have a whale of a good time
doing It! I thank youI'V , f
That was his first act as Presi
dent. His second was to take! up
residence In the White House,
where he sat down in the East
Room in his stocking feet a n d
shouted at Lee sarason, "This is
what I've been planning to do now
for six years! I bet this is what
Lincoln used to do! Now let fern
assassinate me!"
His third, in his role as Commander-in-Chief
of the Army, was
to order that the Minute Men! be
recognized as an unpaid but of
ficial auxiliary of t h e Regular
Army, subject only to their own
officers, to Buzz, and to High
Marshal Sarason; and that rifles,
bayonets, automatic pistols, ftnd
machine guns be instantly issued
to them by government arsenals.
That was at 4 P. M. Since 3 P.
M., all oTer the country, band! of
M.M.'s had . been sitting gloating
OTer pistols and guns, twitching
with desire to seize them. i
Dictatorship 'j j
Fourth coup was a special mes
sage, next morning, to Congress
(la session since .January fourth;
the third having been a Sunday),
demanding the instant passage of
a bill embodying Point Fifteen of
his election platform t h a tj he
should have complete control ot
legislation and execution, and f the
Supreme Court be rendered Incap
able of blocking anything that it
might amuse him to do. j
By Joint Resolution, with less
than half an hour of debate, both
Houses of Congress rejected, that
demand before 3 P.M., on January
twenty-first. Before six. the Presi
dent had proclaimed that a state
of martial law existed duringfthe
"present crisis, and more than
a hundred Congressmen had been
arrested by Minute Men. on direct
orders from the President. The
Congress who were hot-headed
enough to resist were cynically
charged with "inciting to riot;
they who went quietly were Inot
charged at all. It was blandly ex
plained to the agitated press by
Lee Sarason that these latter quiet
lads had been so threatened by
"irresponsible and seditious ele
ments" that tfiey were merely, be
ing safeguarded.- Sarason did! cot
use the phrase "protective arrest"
which might . bare suggested
things. : - . 1 ,
i To the Teteran reporters Itlwas
strange to sea tha titular Secre
tary of State, theoretically a per
son of such dignity and conse
quence that he could deal with the
representatives ot foreign powers,
acting as press-agent and yes-man
for even the President. : 1
There were riots, instantly! all
over Washington, all over Amer
ica. -
The recalcitrant Congressmen
had been penned in the District
Jail. Toward it, in the winter ev
ening, marched a mob that was
noisily mutinous toward the Win
drip for whom so many of them
had Toted. mong the mob bus
zed hundreds of Negroes, armed
with knives and old .pistols, for
one of the kidnaped Congressmen
was a Negro from Georgia, the
first colored Georgian to hold high
office since carpetbagger days.
Surrounding the jail, behind
machine guns, the rebels found a
few Regulars, many police, and a
horde of Minute Men, but at these
last they jeered, calling them
"Minnie Mouses" and "tin sol
diers" and "mama's boys." The
M.M.'s looked nervously at their
officers and at the Regulars who
were making so professional a
pretense of not being scared. The
mob heaved bottles and dead fish.
Half-a-dozen policemen with guns
and night sticks, trying, to push
back the Tan of the mob, were
buried under a human surf and
came -up grotesquely battered and
enuniformed those who ever
did come up again.. There were
two shots; and one Minute Man
slumped to the jail steps, another
stood ludicrously holding a wrist
that spurted blood.
Voice of the Marter
The Minute Men why, t h e y
said to themselves, they'd never
meant to be soldiers anyway
just wanted to have some fun
marching! They began to sneak
into' the edges of the mob, hid
ing their uniform caps. That in
Btant.. from a: powerful loud
speaker in a lower window of the
jail 'brayed the Tolce of President
Berzelius Windrlp:
1 "I am addressing my own boys,
the Minute Men, everywhere In
America To you and you only I
look for h?lp to make America a
proud, rich land again. You have
been scorned. They thought you
were the lower classes.' . -They
wouldn't give you Jobs. They told
you to sneak off like bums and
get relief. They ordered you Into
lousy C.C.C. camps. They said
you were no good, .because you
were poor. I tell you that you
are, ever since yesterday' noon,
the highest lords of the land the
aristocracy the makers of the
America, of freedom and justice.
Boys! I need you! Help me
help me to help you! Stand fast!
Anybody tries to block you give
the swine the point- of your bay
onet!" -
A machine-gunner M.M., who
had listened reverently, let loose.
The mob began to drop., and into
the backs of the wounded as they
went staggering away the M. M.
Infantry, - running, poked .their
bayonet. Such a juicy squash it
made, and the fugitives looked so
amazed, so funny, as they tumbled
in rrotesque heaps! -
The M.Ms hadn't, in dreary
hours of bayonet drill, known this
would be uca sport. They'd nave
more of It now and hadn't the
President of the United States
himself told each of them, person
allr. that he needed their aid?
When the remnants of Congress
ventured to the Capitol, they
found it seeded with M.M.'s,
while a regiment of Regulars, un
der Major General Melnecke, par
aded the grounds. .
The Speaker of the House, and
the Hon. - Mr. Perley Beecroft.
Vice-President of the United
States and Presiding Officer of
the Senate, had the power to de
clare that quorums were present.
(If a lot "members chose to dally
in the district jail, enjoying them
selves Instead of attending Con.
gress, whose fault was that? )
Both houses passed a resolution
declaring Point Fifteen tempor
arily In effect, during the "crisis"
the legality of the passage was
doubtful, hut just who was to con
test It. even though the members
of the Supreme Court had not
been placed trpder protective ar
rests. . . merely confined each to
his own house by a squad of Min
ute Men!
Bishop Paul reter Pranr had
(hit friends said afterward) been
1 '
dismayed by Windrip's stroke ot
state. Surely, he complained, Mr.
Windrip hadn't quit- remembered
to include. Christian Amity in the
program he had taken from the
League of Forgotten Men. Though
Mr. Prang had "contentedly given
up broadcasting ever since the vic
tory of Justice and Fraternity in
the person of Berzelius Windrlp,
he wanted to caution the public
again, but when he telephoned to
his familiar i station. WLFM in
Chicago, the -manager informed
him. that "just temporarily, all
access to th air was forbidden,"
except as it was especially licens
ed by the offices of Lee Sarason.
(Oh. that was only one of sixteen
jobs that Lee and his six hundred
new assistants bad taken on in
the past week.)
Prang lateifeeea
Rather timorously. Bishop
Prang motored from his home in
Persepolis, Indiana, to the Indian
apolis airport and took . a night
plane for Washington, to reprove,
perhaps even playfully to spank,
his naughty disciple. Buzz.
He had little trouble in being
admitted to see the President. In
fact, he was, the press feverishly
reported,; at the White House for
six hours.'though whether he was
with, the President all that time
they could not discover. , At three
in the afternoon Prang was seen
to leave by a private entrance to
the executive offices and take a
taxi. : They noted that he was pale
and staggering.
V ' (To Be Continued.)
Nora E. Ivie to
Speak at 'Lake
CLEAR I.AKP. "W g. Town.
send Club No. 9 will mct at th
Clear Lake schoolhouse Wednes
day night, October 7 at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Nora E. Ivie of Oregon City.
Trill be the speaker. This is to be
the first of a series of three lec
tures to be given by Mrs. Ivie.
The women are requested to bring
pies, and coffee will be served by
the women of Clear Lake.
Mrs. C. W. Pugh lost a valuable
cow Tuesday from alfalfa bloat.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Orey drove
to Maupln recently to visit their
daughter, Leona. Mrs. Bob Gray.
Gray Is employed here by the
state highway department. Miss
Neva Smith accompanied Mr. and
Mrs. Orey. -
I Otto Russell filled his new pit
silo this week. The pit Is 8 feet
wide by $ feet deep by 50 feet
long. Corn and sunflowers were
;1
sea to nil the silo.'
thur Williams Rites
Will Be Held at 2 P.M.
oiiitaniu.i. iiti a .rnnarx i
services for Arthur Williams who
died at Portland Saturday will be
held from Larson A Son chapel
Tuesday at: 2 o'clock. The Odd
Fellows and Delbert Reeves post
bf the American Legion will be in
Charge of the graveside services.
Ten 'Years Ago
- October C 1026
! Flood waters at Oklahoma City
breaks levees. '., . f
i
1 Putnam's i slogan for ballot Is"
Opposed to Prohibition".
. Higher capitalization is need of
local creamery men.
Twenty Years Ago
October 6, 191(1
: Liner Franconia sunk by U-boat,
enemy submarine.
Charles, Warren Fairbanks,
U. S. Tlce-pTesident nominee vr:n
speak in Salem today. -
c Yesterday, busiest day of r'i
son at county clerk's office, 203
people coming to register..