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PAGS FOUir "The OREGON STATESMAN, Saletv Oregon, Tuesday : Blonting October 13 1938 Founded 1SS1 A'o Fat'or Siroy 17; A'o F?ar SAatf Aice" ' From First Statesman, March 28, 18S1 ' Chaalxs A. Spsagde Sheldox F. Sackxtt THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. 1 Member of the Associated Press ' Tbe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of s:l news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in tliij paper. - . ? . "Endless mHE Capital Journal ribbed I by ouotine from editorials by quoting from editorials - itself. The C-J however lives in or three -ears ago. The Ogn is competent to take care of For over three years it has swallowed with a gulp of its adam s apple, the Roosevelt program of relief, doles, gratuities and boondoggles. Four years ago, against such forms of relief, calling a speech of Borah s against an appropriation of $375,000,000 for direct aid to the unemployed one "that sounded more like a soap-box orator's harangue that that reasoned . tt . i j . f,lor: t"1, f:,11' Wva' tne oiii noia mat renei is a munmes and until thev have foHor-ol (rnvornmort cViniiM n sets an evil precedent as it will The Journal had it figured $48 apiece to each of the unemployed, and in a couple of months he would be back demanding more relief. "Under such a policy the limits of credit the nation on the way to bankruptcy. j The editorial concluded : I . "England has given the world a lesson in what federal aid means with its! dole system. It has nearly wrecked the country financially and 'created a nation of paupers. Yesterday another example was staged in St. Johns. N. F., where government aid created a riot for bigger and better doles and the premier and ; other officials were attacked 'by the mob. i. j ? "We would have similar scenes in our own country once the ' precedent is established of the government taking care of the people instead jof the people the government." 1 The "endless drain" is here; and at the present rate the nation is well "on the way to bankruptcy ; and the precedent is getting firmly established for the government "taking care of the people". But of course the Journal says the Great Humanitarian should be reelected. Ethiopia After Conquest TR. TOM LAMBIE, secretary j Cross during the late war, and long active as a medical missionary in Ethiopia, has returned to this country. In an interview which he gave in teresting facts iabout conditions since the collapse of the gov ernment of Emperor Hailie Selassie. Addis Ababa is orderly under Italian control : "I never my life." South and west of the disorder; but he predicted with the rainy season ending now the Italians will send expeditions to bring the country under control. Lambie expressed the country was broken guerilla Italians. The natives seem disposed to accept Italian rule: "Every time I go to town I see fnwn v i- r i wi Via I a i Viwt Z nn-S am 99 """"'B Between the departure of arrival of the Italian column ital. "We saw looters running fuls of booze jand -fancy provisions and all sorts of things from . the stores." Looters -would loot looters, j "Why they would shoot you for a shirt. Lambie, who heads the said that on the arrival of the them his organization was not no suoversive propaganda ; and cu uv trie iiaiianK. xiic auai-A. oa xiaiy ya jL.in.upia was not jusuiiea in in- lernanonai law, ana 11 virtually Europe underj an orderly system. But in the end Italy Will prooaDly bring a better government and a better civilization to Ethiopia. The New Bootleggin THE price of milk has been raised a cent by the milk board. Cream prices will be readjusted upwards to follow. Which brings to mind the reports of a growing business in "boot leg" cream. Cream prices are already high, and some produ cers think they can profit by undercutting the scale price or it may be they are not permitted to sell to remilar dealers. So the word gets out, and a trade is built up. The business has to be handled rather secretly, iust like the booties in moonshine. Some of the "best people" are cream bootleggers. Maybe with the "illicit" trade will grow in What will the future be? ers' and "agents provacateur" and "milk-stool pigeons" to get evidence agaihst the poor farmer's wife who wants to earn a few pennies! for a dress or the babies' shoes? We have felt that the real test of the milk price law would be in its observ- ance. The possibilities for violation are widespread, and the experience oi proniDition revealed a tendency for "personal liberty" even to the point of breaking the law.1 How exten sive cream bootlegging is, or how much secret rebating there may be on the; milk price we do development however, for flasks Oregon cream to be traded in an old tree, by Oregon women. "And Sudden Death" ijk strange succession of fatal IA nw,.., f !,,. .!, Xl. P?ess for last Week. A boy m Canton, Ohio 'Was killed by lightning while r practicing on a football field. A woman! near Hillsboro was struck and killed by a run- away engine on a railroad that Two logging workers were they were loading a log. Two men' on a rescue mission were swept; to death on rocks. . . j - - If .. - Ten miners were killed in Idaho when a cable of the hoist broke and let them fall 1,400 feet to the bottom of the shaft. There were of course other fatalities. two drownings at West Salem, one CCC boy killed ord for unusual accidents set time. 1 ''".'!....' Recommends THE Eugene Register-Guard, made its choice, for Landon editorial endorsement thus: j . We recommend Landon calmly as the better man for pres - ident because we see in him some hope of intelligent management and we see none In the madcap Roosevelt paces. ! We cannot view 35 billion public debt and 11,000,000 nn- employed and say that the New Deal has been wise or efficient. -whatever incidental good may have been accomplished. Landon has serious limitations, but we believe he will meet responsibilities with courage and good sense. : " j V 'I Roger W. Babson. business prognostlcator, says It ' might be S dauKnter to take over the business instead of sons, who often make a fizzle. Sons may be bad, but with daughters there's always the danger of son-in-laws. - i - j auggestion Is made that Oregon should provide an airplane for Its chief executive. One thing always leads to another i Wouldn't that - saake it wise to have a lieutenant governor. Just in case ? Editor-Manager . Managing-Editor Drain" it into the Oregpnian last week, in the latter paper of some two in the latter paper of some two . - a glass house in that regard. on Feb. 17, 1932 it was stern logic of a United States sen- . j xi . ii . . . I aiull lutwpponenis ui matter ior tne states ana com- j exhausted their resources the Ko ro11o4 nn oTirl .-ll nn if I mean an endless drain on the out the bill would give only would soon be exhausted and general of the Ethiopian Red New York he revealed some in saw better behaved soldiers iri capital there is great internal opinion that although the warfare Would not harass the some Ras or other that I know i : - the emperor on May 2 and the I May 5 it was "hell" in the cap through the streets with arm ! leper hospitaL in that country, Italian generals he assured political and would engage in I said they had been well treat- j i shattered tne peace hopes oi i o reported to be patrons of the the price going up some more volume. i Will the state employ 'snoop not know. It is an interesting not of moonshine but of pure furtively, behind ne stump oi accidents were reported in the ; t : I ; ' was being abandoned. killed when a cable broke as in a truck upset; But the rec- last week will stand for some " -!'.. Landon independent newspaper, has for president, concluding its Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS 10-1 3-3 C Jefferson Davis, secretary of war, told Governor Curry about the Coast reserration; the officers then guarding It: ' t Continuing from Sunday: ) Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Robert Christie Buchanan, who had charge of the closing acts of the regular army forces in the so- called Rogue River Indian war of 1 lApf . M .. V. . fA. ItU AAnntM In 1855-6. fought for his country In its wars from the Black Hawk to the Civil war. His grandfather. Andrew Bu chanan, was. a brigadier general on the American side in the Revo lution. Robert C. Buchanan was born ! at Baltimore, Maryland. March 1, 1811. His mother was a sister of the wife of President John uuuiij fluaiuo. v. 6" Quincy Adams. Robert C. gradu- ated from West Point with the class of 1830 and he was In the Black Hawk war or i83z; ne aiso senred in the Seminole war. 1U war he wit captain of a company of the 4th infantry, in which U. S. Grant was a lieutenant; servea witn uener- als Taylor and Scott, and was brevetted major for distinguished services at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. He became lieu tenant colonel Sent. 8. 1847. at the taking of Molino del Rey, where he led his troops and forced the doors with his own hands. Shortly after the close of the Mexican war. he married Miss Winder, a granddaughter of Gov- ernor Lloyd of Maryland. He was made a major In the regular army Feb. 3, 1855. and for the next 10 years, with the old 4th infantry, 'served in our Indian wars of the Pacific north west, along with Grant, Sheridan, Judah, Crook. Alvord, D. A. Rus sell and others. At the beginning of the Civil war, Buchanan s regiment formed part of the defense of Washing- ton. From November 7, 1861. to March. 1862. he commanded a brigade of McClellan's Peninsular campaign with General Sykes's famous "regular division." June 2 1862, he was brevetted colonel for distinguished services at Gaines's Mill and he received the brevet of brigadier general. March 13, 1865. for gallant con- dct at Malvern's Hill, where he drve Part L h.f ,ponf!lderai! forces from the field and cap tured a flag. He was in the second battle of Bull Run, where he earned the rank of brigadier general of vol- unteers for distinguished and meritorious services, conferred Nov. 29, 1862; and he command ed his brigade at the bloody bat tle of Antietam, and was in front of the famous "stone wall at Fredericksburg, when bis com mand suffered serious casualties. March 4, 1863. he commanded the defenses of Fort Delaware. March jor general for distinguished ser- 13. 1865, he was brevetted ma- ices in the second battle of Bun - ..u. rn 1868. Buchanan was put in charge oi the department of Louisiana. Troublous times were "fy"w"'iw . " w" .in. riod of the hated "carpet bag! rule. General Buchanan installed the newly elected Governor H. C. Warmouth and Lieutenant Gov ernor Oscar J. Dunn, the latter a Negro. - He commanded Fort Porter. N. Y., in 1869-70. and died at Washington Nov. 29, 1878. He was familiarly called "Old Buck" by his soldier followers. and was respected for his firm ness and faithfulness to discipline and nIs brery in every danger a.nd. tea"atness in all emergen- cies. S W The pages of history have much about the man "Capt. A. J. Smith and his first dragoons" letter GoVernor CurryrwhoTa, said to have1 charge of the first of the new ports. That was Fort mentioned Jn the Jefferson Davis ,:f. 1 mm ( a) But the writer cannot find any thing about "Capt. D. Floyd Jones" of the 4th infantry In aft er years. Mrs. Victor in her In- Mm onf once, on Jage sleTasat Fort Humboldt early m ' 1856. "" - r"" "Z:-:,:z:,,r cent City to protect friendly In dians, and to guard army supply trains." (That meant pack trains.) , ; But in after years much was near a larougaoui tne nation or Capt. C. C. Augur, at the second fort. (That was Fort iioskihs.) Also of "Capt. & Bvt. Major J. Vhat wnT 6 the Umpqua, maintained princip- ally to keep the southwest coast Indians on the reservation from running away and going back to their original homes. However, at the time when Jeff, Davis wrote to Curry, Capt. A. J. Smith had gone from Fort Yamhill to southern Oregon, and the next year (1857) was with his dragoons helping finish the so called Yakima war in eastern Ore gon and .Washington; and until 1858; for that war lasted two years after the Rogue River war was finished. At the date of the letter Capt. David A. Russell was In charge at Fort Yamhill, with 2nd Lieut. P. H. Sheridan assisting. Sheridan arrived there .April 25, 1856. and relieved Lieut. W. B. Hasen. and had charge until July 1, 56. when Capt. Russell took charge-t-and they two had charge until the Civil war be gan. The time Capt. A. J. Smith spent there must have been very short, for Fort Yamhill A was known as "Hazen's camp" when Sheridan arrived and- relieved him. and very little had yet been done toward providing adequate ouiiaings. (Continued tomorrow.) , On i'he Record I ' By DOROTHY THOMPSON 1 Grouse for Breakfast 'Good morning. Have you got the papers? What's In them? How Is the campaign going?'' "The Giants are three up "Don't be silly I mean the pol itical campaign of course. "The political campaign? I am decre as in sly I F i aware of a poll- I 1 k v- v-.;:-: ' f .... 1 .......... Z ? Do you call It J campaign when OoroUf nmpM two' large hostile forces are retreating in the same ! direction? "The same direction?" "Ten.. Toward a liberal-conser vative position. In other words toward United states. I am not young .woman, Interested in this uuivsigu. ui iuci uiurc, a uu uut wish to discuss sitnaUons or con i ditions. I hope you have noticed that it is an exceptionally beau tiful day. Your dahlias froze last nighte, but the asters did not. Can you explain that? Why do dahl ias blossom last and freeze first?" I want to talk about the cam: palgn. : You act as though ; there were no Issue." There are many issues. But tb. chief one Is whether there are more nuts In this country or standpatters, whether there are more lookers-back upon lovely yesterday, or more gazers forward into a be-tinseled future. If the nuts have the more influence the the present incumbent will re main. If nostalgia is. tops the con testant will succeed So you think the present gov ernment Is Ymtty?" As nutty as this glorious attt umn. It Is thoroughly nutty. The D.A.R. ladles. I observe, are per turbed about Its radicalism. They seem to fear that we are headed for Communism. Fascism, and atheism. I understand that the fi nanciers are certain, or some of them are, that we are bound for bankrutcy. You will permit me to reserve the opinion that we are headed for ebullient prosperity. I fear, with Its usual unpleasant accompaniments. Already I am be ing informed by tLose who call themselves my brokers that the moment has come when fortune awaits me in the stock market. with no contributing effort of mine. But the government is nutty." 'Now, look here, you can't just throw off snap judgments like that. How is it nutty?" Lord, it's full of the kind of soft-headed benevolence that doesn't become any person over the age of ten. Uplift. Knows nothing of the nature of man. The human race, my child, has one chronic disease. That disease is the glmmies. It is endemic, epi demic, and chronic, and woe be tide the government that cries aloud in the market places 'Come ye, come ye, eat. drink, without money and without price, eat and be satisfied. Because they come ye. It is a trait of the human race that it is never satisfied, nev er has been, and never will be. . ." There are many unemployed and many destitute. Even now." i "Naturally and of course. Let them be fed and housed. But what an idea that the government ere- ate work for every seamstress. paieontougist and hod carrier! Work, is work. Succor to the poor is something; else again. Aid to the unemployed Is still something else. All mixed op, because of nuttlness. Having rendezvouses With destiny. Reconstruction of society by dancing on the green. It's arty." 'I did not know you felt so strongly." I do not feel stronalr. But since yon nave directed my at tention to this theme, which does not particularly interest me. I am andon.. The Man CoBDiled by Relok E. Morrlaoa who baa made bis koae in Oregon for 15 years. Mr. aferrtsoa was bore ia Kansas and attended the University ot Kansas. Ha was onneeted wits the editorial -department et the Kansas City Star for ten years previous to his Bering to Portland, Oregon. ed P?esidISt? chang" the current larl" toward government spend- Eing and wasteful government aid? This question was asked by a young man. . ' In Landon's campaign for governor of Kansas, he told ev ery audience "I am in dead earn est" in referring to the savinas he expected and the lowering of taxes ; program. - - When elected he had to deal both with democrats and ' repub licans in tne legislature to ob g00d. He took off his coat and tain laws to make his promises waded in with determination not, it is true, in the same man ner as President Franklin Roose velt did or President Theodore Roosevelt or as President Wilson did. j: In many ways he is much more effective In getting results than any of these. v He works with, rather than against men. He worked with his legislature in a harmonizing cap acity. He reasoned with them in a quiet way and obtained coopera tion. He said, "We must do this because the intelligent people de mand It." He didn't use the per sonal pronoun. He worked in "dead earnest" as he promised tb do in his cam paign speeches; he accomplished those promises, not by dramatiz ing himself to the peopleot as an alibi to them in case hefailed. but with quiet, peaceful . penetra tion into the good will -and con fidence of those fellow elected of fice holders. ' Governor Landon has his own peculiar ability of leadership and, if elected president, he w i 1 1 In "dead earnest" carry out the peo ple's mandate because as governor he has proved his ability to ob tain results from members of the legislature over original opposition. pome. i. suggest mat you con sider he fact that next to !The Shootln of Dan McGrew and: 'Off Agin, On Agin, Gone Agin, Fin nlgan the favorite poem of the American people, and almost the only-one that the average Amer ican-can quote is The Psalm of Life. Now, the point of that poem is that if we strive with approp riate earnestness we can leave 1 large footprints in sand. My know. ledge of-sand Is that no footsteps imprinted in It .survive the first tide. And the tide in inevitable Note also the line 'Let ua then be up and doing with a heart for ANY fate.' That's us Old Am erica rushing gallantly forward with an eye to any fate, no matter what that fate is. Making, in fact, a rendezvous with it." - i e - ' "Since you feel so deeply, I pre sume you will vote for the' Re publicans." ; "My enthusiasm is insufficient to propel me to the polls. There are fewer bees In the Republican bonnet, but there are more moths. I do suffer accutely from nostal gia. I do. not long for the eood old times and the eternal simplic ities, particularly when they are preached by as astute and self protective a crowd of citizens as we possess. Besides, the challen ger is a mystery. Apart front two old ladies who have been dag up to testify that they taught him school, and my old friend,! Bill White, he seems to have passed unnoticed for forty-seven years. And for some peculiar reason that seems to be an asset. It does not move me. Not to action." r "Nonsense. He is Governor of a great state." ,i "Nonsense nothing. Tell me the name of the Governor of Neb raska." ! e . e "Then I can only conclude that you are one of those revolution ists who will fearlessly risk ten minutes of his cross-word puzzle time to cast a 'protest vote f off Browder, Lemke, or Norman Thomas." "Your Instinct for e r r o r is something for Freud and Walter Pitkin to Investigate. Again, no. Thomas represents Social Dem ocracy, which flowered perfectly and got frost bitten In Germany and Austria. Lemke is not a cand idate. He is an actor in a play written by Huey Lone, financed by Townsend, directed by Cough un and still ably press agen ted. although it expired a month ago. by Gerald Smith. And Browder. the Communist., announces that Moscow no longer intends to ab sorb us, but is zealous to support us as part of a popular front. along with the Siamese Nudist Junta, the Finnish Bath Cult, the interesting movement for the in dependence of Hollywood under Upton Sinclair and Will Hays and an other forward-looking efforts. in fact, the Communists have be come altogether too lovina; as ZinovKV recently discovered." "Just another totally destruct Ive thinker. I suppose yon think you could have picked some bet ter candidates." a do Indeed. ! , so. ana w. n o m would vou P1CX7 "I would pick a man of learn ing; a man of authentic learning Some one who has some time or other gone through serious men tal discipline and has got out of it tne kind of freedom, couraea. and wisdom that such mental dis cipline gives a man. Some one. also, who Is a doer. An executive. But not a business man. Nobody with the buylng-and-selling men- tauty. some one who knows the world, the big; world, and has had to compete la it. Some one who has had wide experience in get ting on wltn many sorts of oeoDle. In conciliating and adjusting." "1 suppose you think the coun try is teeming with such people?" "Not teeming. But they exist. There Is, for instance, Mr. Robert Hutcnins. A scholar. An historian. A lawyer. A gallant soldier. Dean of the Yale Law School at twenty nine. President of the University of Chicago at thirty. Modern but not cracked. Turned a great in stitution upside down to adapt it to modern needs, and didn't break any eggs in the process. Has to be a financier. But not as an end In itself. Understands the thought and the movements of the world. Has to get on with all -sorts of people. Genuinely superior - man. Now. imagine picking a President because he's Just a home-body; j u s t a practical, common-sense fellow like you and me. I no more want an average' man like me governing-this country than I want my cook to make coffee just like mother used to make. If she can't do better than that I'd fire her." ; - i . ' . "You seem to me' utterly friv olous. Do yon think there 4s noth ing wrong with this country? Don't you think we need a pro gram?" ' There is nothing wrong with this country. It is western man's best break in history. But there is lots wrong with us. We Amer icans have delusions of grandeur. And the program is to get ira over it. AH this talk about waste and extravagance. . . . "You kick about It yourself." "Sure I do. But how can busi ness In this country kick about waste arid extravagance and keep its face straight? Hasn't business earnestly carried on a conspiracy - an open conspiracy In the ad vertising columns to persuade every American family that a 31,600 Income will support a 3700 motor car and a $100 radio? AH this talk about borrowing! Hasn't every American individual been financing himself, on the Install ment plan? Get what you want and pay for it tomorrow? Boon doggling! Is that thing up in Maine . . . "Passamaquoddy? "Passamawhat? Is that crazy Idea? Well, and was the Ford peace ship a crazy idea? The Flor ida ship canal? Yes. and how about. fee Florida hoom? Did Roosevelt make that? Ukuleles for hill billies, though maybe that's Republican propaganda, but. any how, how about the hlll-biUy fMlKktl i tun fa. vm fka I . - - - ' 1 " " " " " i I ,' ' l . ?4-r, 'A '-i V?iS. ,s S-. i VtJ r y ' ?'!-wTS:2W. ' - -' - ' It Can't Happen Here By SINCLAIR LKWTIS The rabbi was unable even to answer, but little Dr. Schmidt (he had a doughnut moustache, a beer belly, and black button boots with soles half-an-inch thick) said, "Macgolln, I support I may talk frank with an old student, there not being any reporters or loutspeakers arount. Do you know why you are drinking; like a pig? Because you are ashamt! Asbamt that you, once a promising re searcher, should have solt out to freebooters with brains like de cayed liver and " "That'll do from you. Prof!" "Say; we oughtta tie those sedi tlous sons of hounds up and beat the day light out of 'em!" whim pered one of the watchdogs. Macgoblin shrieked, "You high brows you stinking intellec tuals! You. you Kike, with your lush-luzurious library, while com mon people been starving would be now if the chief hadn't saved 'em! Your c'lection books stolen from the pennies of your poor, dumb, foot-kissing congregation of pushcart peddlers!" "Get Out!" The rabbi sat bespelled, finger ing his beard, but Dr. Schmidt leaped up, crying, "You three scoundrels were not invited here! You pushed your way in! Get out! Go! Get out!" - One of the accompanying dogs demanded of Macgoblin. "Goine to stand for these two Yiddles in sulting us insulting the whole by God Corpo state and the M. M. uniform? Kill 'em!" Now, to his already abundant priming, Macgoblin had added two huge whiskies since he had come. He yanked out his auto-, matlc pistol, fired twice. Dr. Schmidt toppled, Rabbi De Veres slid down in his chair, his temple throbbing out blood. .The house man trembled at the door, and one ot the guards shot at him. then chased him down the street, firing and whooping with the humor of the Jokei This learned guard was kiUed instantly, at a street cross ing, by a traffic policeman. Macgoblin and the other guard were arrested and brought before the commissioner of the metro politan district, the great corpo viceroy, whose power was that of three or four state governors put together. . . Dr. de Verez, though he was not yet dead, was too sunken to testify. But the commissioner thought that in a case , so closely' touching the federal government. it would not be seemly to post- pone tne trial. Against the terrified evidence of the rabbi's Russian-Polish houseman were -the earnest (and by now sober) accounts of the fed eral secretary of education, and ot his surviving aide, formerly assistant professor ot philosophy In Pelouse university. It was proven that not only De Verez but also Dr. Schmidt was a Jew -which. Incidentally, he 100 ner cent was not. It was almost proven mat this sinister pair had -been coaxing innocent Corpos into De v eres s bouse and performing upon them what a scared little Jewish stool pigeon called "ritual murders." Macgoblin' and friend were ac- dames who buy artificial eye- tasaes and spend money for that awful stuff women put on their imgernalls to make 'em look like Lady Macbeth directly after the killing? Conspicuous waste. That's ns. And who invented Hellvwoodt Who pays Walter Winchell? Who press agented Anna Hauptman? Who supports Aimee Semple Mac Pherson?" e - ' ' "You are pessimistic this morn ing." "I am not. I am optimistic. This country Is apparently foolproof. It must be." - Kew Terk Htrald Tribnae Syndicate Same Old Silhouette? quitted on grounds of self-defense and handsqmely complimented by the commissioner and later in telegrams Jfrom President Wind rip andj Stfcretary of State Sara son for Ihaving defended the commonwealth against human vampires and one of the most hor rifying plojts known in history. The policeman who had shot the other guard wasn't, so scrup ulous was i Corpo justice, heavily punished f-merely sent out to a dreary bef, at in the Bronx. So everybody jwas happy.5 ' But Dorp mus Jessup, on receiv ing a letter from a New York re porter Who had talked privately with' the surviving guard, was not so happy. .He was not in a very gracious temper, anyway. County Commissioner Shad Ledue, on grounds of bumanitarlanlsm, had made him J discharge his delivery boys and jtmploy M. M.'s to dis tribute (of cheerfully chuck into the river) the Informer. He hadf read about Rabbi de Verez. and; seen pictures of him. He had o n c e heard - Dr. Willy Schmidt speak,- when- the state medical association had metjat Fort Beulah. and. afterward Sad sat near him at dinner. If they were murderous Jews, then he was a I murderous Jew too, he swore, jand it was time to? do something, for his own people. That evening It was late In September 1937 he did not go home to dinner at all but. wltn a paper Container of coffee and a slab! of) pie untouched before him, he stooped at his desk In the Informer office, writing an editorial which, when he had fin ished it, he marked: "Must. 12 pt bold face box top front p." The beginning of the editorial, to appear the following morning, was: :i - . Believing that the inefficien cy and crimes of the Corpo ad ministration were due to the difficulties attending a new form of government, we have waited patiently for their end. We apologize to our readers for that patience. - It is easy to see now. In the revolting crime of a drunken cabinet Smember against , two innocent jand valuable old men like Dr. Schmidt and the Rev. Dr, de Verez. that we" may. ex pect nothing but murderous ex tirpation of all honest oppo nents I of the tyranny of Wind rtp and his Corpo' gang. - . : . - Not all of them are as vicious as Macgoblin. Some are merely Ten Years Ago October' 13. 1926 King George and Queen Mary accompanied by Duke and Duchess of York tonight witnessed "Rose Marie. Santiam mine value certain, actual operations, begun, machin ery ordered, shaft will be sunk. Harry Stone and Col. Abrams will speak at the "Y" dinner to night In connection with 35th anniversary.. Twenty Years Ago October 13. 191C One of the most imnortant dan in Willamette history is the in auguration of President . Carl Greg Doney as 17th president of the University which will take place Friday. Construction of fortv-f!v miles of railroad between Wilderville Waldo, Oregon, will begin short ly, -j One killed. more . will die m result of battle waged, by police men and strikers ia Standard Oil II By SINCLAIR LEWIS Incompetent like our friends Ledue, Reek and Haik. But their ludicrous incapability of their chieftains to go on with out, check." Buzzard Wlndrlp, the "chief," and his - pirate gang A smallish, neat, gray-bearded man, furiously rattling an aged typewriter, typing with his two forefingers Kevelt ia the Office Dan Wllgus, head ot the com posing room, looked and barked like an old sergeant and, like an old sergeant, was only theoretical- 1 ly meek to his superior officer. Ho was shaking when he brought in this copy and, almost rubbing Doremus's nose in it, protested, "Say, boss, yon don't honest t God think we're going to set this up do you?" "I certainly do!" "Well, I don't! Rattlesnake poison! It's all right your getting thrown in the hoosegow and prob ably shot at dawn, if you like that kind ot sport, but we've held a meeting of the" chapel, and we all say damned if we'll risk our necks too!" "All right, you yellow pup.' All right. Dan, I'll set It myself!" "Aw, don't! Gosh, I don't want to have to go to your funeral after the M. M.'s get through with you, and say, 'Don't he look un- Lnaturai: " . "After working for me for 20 years, Dan! Traitor!" "Look here! I'm no Enoch Ar den or or. what the hell was his name? Ethan Frome or Benedict Arnold or whatever it was! and more 'n once I've Hc'ieS some galoot that was standing around a saloon telling the world you were the lousiest highbrow editor in Vermont, and at that, I guess maybe he was telling the truth, but same time "-Dan's effort to be humorous and coaxing broke, and he wailed, "God, boss, please don't!" "I know, Dan. prob'ly our friend Shad Leduo will be an noyed. But I can't sro on staariimr things like slaughtering old De Verez any more and Here!' Gim me that copy!" j While compositors. Dressmtn. and the young devil stoodVaitor. nately fretting and snickering at ciuuiBiuess. i o rem li nno-orf up before a type case, in his left hand the ' first composine stick he had ' held in ten years, nnd looked doubtfully at the case. It was like a labvrinth n hi. Forgot how it's'arranred. Can't find anything except the e-box!" he complained. "Hell! I'll do it! All vou nn- syfooters get the hell out of this! xou dont know, one doeeona thing about who set this up!" Dan Wilgus roared, and as tha other printers vanished! as' far as the toilet door. In the editorial office. showed proofs of his indiscretion to Doc Itchitt, that enterprising mougn awkward reporter, and to Julian Falck, who was off now to Amnerst but who had been work ing for the Informer all summer, combining cnprintable articles on Adam Smith with i. extremely printable accounts of golf ami dances at the country club. "Gee. I hope you will have the nerve to go and print it and same time, I hope you don't! They'll get you!" worried Julian. "Naw! Gwan and print it! They won't dare to do a thing! They may get funny In New York and Washington, but you're too strong in Beulah Valley for -Ledue and Staubmeyer to dare lift a hand!" brayed Doc Itchitt, while Doremus considered. "I wonder it this smart young Journ alistic Judas wouldn't like to eoe me in trouble and get hold of ti e Informer and turn It Corpo?" Emma and Sissy He did not stay at the off till the paper with his editor a 1 had gone, to press. He went home (Continued on page 7)
