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"A'o Fa tor Siray 17s; A'o Fear Shall Awe"
From First Statesman, March 23. 1S31 ; '
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Charles A. Spraguc - .... EditorManager
SHELDON F. SACKETT Managing-Editor
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
Member of the Associated Press !
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t Tli Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publlca-
L tlon of a:l nna dispatches credited lo It or not otherwise credited in
tUU paper. j .. I ;
Women Lead Revolt
r
QIGNS of revolt are appearing in Seattle and the state of
Washington asrainst the intolerable conditions which have
... . -
. developed in Seattle in the
a .H.,cfr; l-.o,.n w
"i"ujii vo 'c - uiuuuii uuuci iuc vuuuui vi lire
labor dictator. Dave Beck. Who
clude control at the city hall
Dore and political influence with Governor Clarence Martin.
Martin is now a candidate for
one he has onsistently dodged
Tuesday night women of
tion to the governor challenging
non-partisan, it was merely demanding establishment of law
f ul processes in Seattle, where
ceen suspended through the power of the racketeer element.
It was by no means an attack
abuse of power by the labor lords in Seattle.
Under that power farmers
with produce to market within the city limits. It is reported
that business concerns pay tribute for "protection" to the la
bor dictators, much after the
Chicago during gangster days
-vcollected for"nrotection" arainst hired thno- RpatIa inHn-
tries where nrivileow nre nhti.r1 M hv fha n
t,rt i mi j . i
lBclude cleaning and dyemg, laundry, milk, produce and tbeer
- . ,
, urganlzed labor should spurn leadership which degener-l
and crush the unions. There IS no substitute for fair dealing,
and when any group has power the temptation for its abuse
must always be guarded against. The march of Washington
women on the state capitol in Olympia was & sign of revolt
lmrir 1 Vk aViaiiIw rmmm. . ...
owuuiu &cic a warning 10 uiuse occupying seats 01
power, wnetnerj political or labor.
Waterfront Truce Extended
nnHE new maritime commission spoke with authority in the
X' waterfront crisis on this coast when it called for an ex
tension of the truce. The commission said it nnt nnlv re
quested, but expected compliance with its insistent demand
for enntinnpn nf vL-nrh- Th .n,W0 mni; wuu
r ... ...v v. .;v.o ,,f..w uu aw
rity, the employes also complied attaching a condition that
the truce be expected to be fruitful of results." So the truce
remains. j j
f...
.uuv 1V , uiC m me new smp suusiuy program, irie
government has put $100,000,000 in its hands to spend in I
bolstering the American merchant marine. Natnrallv tne
shipowners whose home ports are on this coast are not anxious
to get in bad with the commission which has the ladling out of
this vast fund. f t
: Also the commission has great authority in the matter of
the working personnel. While its
there are claims that it would
pioyes wno arbitl-arily tied UD
naturally do not want to antagonize the mmmii
vrt i 4.- ' v . "7 . .
; Not only is tne commission active in preventing a tie-up
01 operations. It is aggressive in working out a solution of
the dispute. In the end it will probably cut the Gordian knot
by telline each side what it must drt nd fWi riAi.
grants to yield!
t.u m (Jiuuaumiy mere wiu oe no snipping strike, uat
will the parties really get down to the cooperation which is
necessary for successful operation? That means fair dealing
on the part of employers and honest service on thelart of the
workers. If the new agreement is to be scrapped before the
inl- in fin- Ki iVrifoiino t,;i,:-. v..n x i : .
i, , 1 a 11
mc wtfiuis u tusuy wj mera
sues win not De permanently
vorK must accompany the new
Dr. Lee of Albany College
T WT K T T A fT TTVTT-n T
liv. tv-rn-oj-fvxj nuivij jjjcrj
MJ days ago at the age of 75.
me ai ier jrraauaxing irom
A fi.. j a
rf AriA lncf if nf irr A1VvnM
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registrar or dean, usually filling several of these of fines at
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UM.. LKt; BHS a man OI aiStinirUlSned talents. Ha WAS n I
musician, serving regularly as
ciuu. xie was a minister 01 tne gospel and a ereat liible stu-
dent. He was active in communUy Kfe
t. 1 , , .
tiaieriuu anu service groups.
Manr generations of college
iage. Many of nis former students were in the congregation
2".? !he Presbyterian church Monday &tU,lSSi'ZJrtS n,d"r.,e1
funeral. They could not help but feel the truth of what he
pastor. Dr. Stocker, said of Dr. Lee's passing, "It is the end of
- an epoch for the college." Assuredly for them the college
wouia not De tne same With Dr.
... ... . - . .
A long life Crowded With
The feeling of grief at his passing, was mitigated by another
cauonon, mat 01 victory, r or ur.
phant life; and his influence
.juie uiw ciose contact witn mm.
Progress on Water Program
M
ONDAY night the city council will probably award the 1
laf- t rr fnntn.f -T 4l, .
TT-aZ. MW.UW ?xlu ier system, tnat
i for the pipeline to connect the intake above Stayton with
the new reservoir on Fairmont hill. Bids come well within
tne esumates oi cost, as nave previous bids on important un-1
its; so the city will gets its comnleted nlant at less than nr.
lginal, estimates. Decision has
lenai to De used; Dut the council will scrutinize closely the
various combinations offered. i j
At the reservoir site one unit is nearing completion with
its concrete over all poured. Scaffolding for support for the
roof of the west unit is in place and that job will be done be-
TffiSTf If' t.e west end of Rural aven
a,ilc "v in.cxcswK, snowing
is carried on in large scale jobs,
comrjarison with orrlinarv wnrV
svsteminSVnSding water
system is going ahead. .Objectors are now silent wtin Vi I
work is done we are confident
u tiijr win ue receiving
Z?
. z: " " -"unuiun. uppiy ior present -and future I un
nccua. me ena is in signioi a long, nard right,1
. The Capital Journal complains because of picture propaganda at
the movie houses which seeks to gain votes against the pTeaent ad
ministration. We do not like propaganda mixed I with our ?ntertoln
ment either: and think all such horta should be plnly ladled
"paid advertising, paid for by . . .- before it atarte to runf Burthe
republican propaganda can't possibly keep up with the constant stream
of propaganda which has oured out ot government agencies for over
three years, paid for at the public expense. At least democrats aren't
,w taxed to pay for the movie shorts which pain them so. while renuV
lieans are forced to pay for a lot ot the administration's ballvhoo
form nf larior racketeering W
v, u
has extended his DOWer to in-
through domination of Mayor
reelection ; and the problem is
ever since the P-I strike.
Washington presented a peti
him to action. The group was
constitutional guarantees have
on organized labor, but on 'the
cannot drive their'own trucks
fashion of business firms in
when tribute was levied and
1 I
. 1 a m I
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powers have not been tested
have the power to penalize em- I
shiDDinflr. And the emnloves
6 "AZZr. " '
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ana 10 tne men men tne is-
settled. A will to peace and to
settlement.
t . f , : ,1
wno aiea in Aioany a
few
gave all but nine years of his
wv a . ... I
v imams coiieire in the ser-
T T a l ll I
v..v6v. t vaiuc iu inwiy m t
nresident or actinc
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pianist for the Albany Rotary
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vouth Came linger hia xiito-
Lee enne I ' 4
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Useful service came tn art eH
Le Had really lived a trium-
spreads out among those who
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not been made as to the
now concrete construction
though this is large only in
!
the approval will be unani-1
water Irom a fresh mountain I
. intakeTeuir SnlymM
Bits for
Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
10-16-36
Jefferson Davis, secretary
of war, told Governor Curry
about the Coast reservation;
the officers then guarding it:
W "a "V
(Continued from yesterday:)
He (General Augur) was promot
ed to .the rank of major general
as of date of the battle of Cedar
Mountain, Aug. 9, 1863, for gai-
I lant and meritorious service."
. In November, 1862, he rejoined
Ws corP3 an io Pt in the
I Louisiana
fnmnaicrn via a c...
ond in command at New Orleans,
At the siege of Port Hudson he
commanded the left wing of the
army, and for meritorious ser
vice" on the occasion was brevet-
ted brigadier general, U. S. A.,
March 13, 1865, receiving the
same day the brevet of major
general, for service in the field
during the rebellion.
S
This was remarkable, for few
such distinctions were bestowed
during the Civil war for special
acts.
The reader will note that Gen
eral Augur received two, and he
will recall that A. J. Smita,
whose life he saved back at the
battle of th m i)nv In onnth.
lern Oregon on that fateful day of
May 28, 1856, received three.
"a
vu. jlo, iooo, 10 August, 1300,
Augur was commandant of the
imouiugivu. I
Jan- 15, 1867 to Nr- 3, j
the department of Texas until
March, 1875, and department of
th? Gulf tin July 1, 1873, and
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wvs.
of Missouri; tnd in 1855 he re-
tired.
S
e naa, since me civil war.
xougnt practically every Indian
tribe in the United States that
raised a disturbance, and settled
many vexing troubles.
In charge of the department
peT?Mi I'i-Tb?n he
Hayes-Tilden presidential election
oispuie tnreatenea armea uprls-
iss. Augur was able to allay
hOBtlle feelings to the extent of :
preventing bloodshed.
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The reader has already had a
f "rtlT5 J?1 Angur m tne
finds" on page 3 8 6rMrsTvicto?!
"Indian Wats," these words:
'On arriving at Vancouver he
ffinlPISlr P.2
Anrt of kh 4th inf.nt tn
reenforce Mjajor Reynolds of the j
3a rluie.ry4 wno was directed to
protect the friendly Indians and
me army stores at tnat place."
Her second reference to Capt.
Augur was concerning his saving
tT ,mas8acre Cap. A. J. Smith
"d mm"d lntne L""
AugSr nidenTtTverVifin
the .He TWmi w.?. which,
tbis writer j has shown, was the
8ame war or a iart ot the ame
movement -the war tft end th
wniie race.
on page 429 we find Mrs. Vic
tor yiug: "Being driven up the
Yakima to where the river flows
through a gap, they took a posi
tion well fortified noon the
heights, but on being charged by
the regular troops under Haller
and Capt. Augur, hurriedly eva-
cuated it, leaving It la their pos-
eifkciala - Bn I
" .
mis. means tnat, in response
' of Brevet-Major Gran-
Tiu O. Haller, who had been
with his company to his relief .
Tne aate when Hauer and Au-
, " " ... .K I
xs.iiua rirer, as jars. icior re-I
latH V9a notnho. ItU CW. I
wrote that Haller and' Augur had
. " o unu
I or the Indians, with their worn
out ones.
It is evident that Augur was
early in i85. and did not get
ack to eip finish up the so-j
SKI J.wi ST
:; ;;i.v.:
iu MCvmpQiu.
But Cantaina J. A. Hard! and
A - J Smltn were in the finish-
f-0,1!!? ,f.In,t the TakI-
AUU iUCU aaVlUtatW
w
Besides, Capt, Angur, after the
completion of the so-called Rogue 1
riVPP w f.. ..re . . j
Kiver war or is5-c, was need-
ed, with the force under him, in
rettmar ,- fX. Vk"
e"ins the tribes onto the reser
"". avwuiUK lliCUl IUCI O.
with his headauarters at Tort
Hoskins, capt. Augur had gen-
L ZP
ration
w. ...
ma-I11110 irou" and sent him to Port
orrora wnere, joyrmiy, the mm-
VZngf him on AB?ttle"'R "k-I:
Eneas, the halfbreed firebrand
wbo induced Chetcoe Jennie,
ntlZ,101!?7 A5t ?en
22351 S AVhSlo
make them strong.
He it was who did the same
with old Chief John and his son Uf
wSVic
itMimhi. nu rnv. i
ttenPti capture and all but
.w
ST -J&gSttrSgFZS
Now, as to "Capt. ft Bvt. Ma
jor J. F. Reynolds," who. accord
ing to the Jeff. Davis letter, was
in cnarge of the third post, on
the Umpqua, guarding the In
dians." On Oct. 30 to Nov. t. 1934.
this column had a series on the
diary of Dr. Rodney Glisan. U. S.
army surgeon In Oregon in the
fifties, and afterward one of the
founders of the city ot Portland.
Interpreting the News
By MARK SULLIVAN
f WASTINGTOX, Oct. 14. Re
publican Vice Presidential Candi
date Prank Knox la giving two
d a y a of. earn
paignlng to the
upper south,
Virginia and
North Carolina
One wonders if
the republicans
hare informa
tion leading
them to think
they hare a
chance there.
In the 1920
camp a 1 g n. Mr.
1 nuramit ai me renubllcan nrwl.
deatial candidate surprised ob-
frTe r "'n a ip into
Tennessee, which, up to that time
had been a solid unit in the demo
cratic solid south. : Democrats
jeered at Harding's foray. Even
republicans and neutral observers
felt that probably Mr. Harding
was merely doing an amiable
courtesy to some old Tennessee
friend or other. Yet when the re
sults were counted. Harding and
the republicans had Tennessee in
the bag, a mysterious stranger in
the republican group of states. It
was not, of course, Harding's one
day of campaigning that did it.
What had happened was that
scouts had reported quietly that a
condition existed in Tennessee
which gave the republicans a
chance, and Hardin's visit was en
ough to put it over.
ii, mis year, iae repuoncans
have any chance in Virginia or
nvi m ' vaiunua, it uiua teai kjll
conditions known to the republic
poll, up to the most recent com-
pilation, has not given any figures
for either of the two states. But
ilf"1"!,8"1
tion has been that the solid south
is in this election as solid as in
any preceding one. So far as I
know, n o n e of the Washington
political writers now surveying
the country has thought it worth
while to include " any southern
state in hit travels. If anything
unusual Is under way in that ter
ritory, it has not come to the at
tfn"on of observers who make it
their business not to miss any-
thing. Possibly Candidate Knox's
present trip may have no purpose
beyond encouraging the perm a n-
ent republican organization In the
ecting one or two congressmen,
To accomplish that in Virginia
would not be extraordinary
Yet the fact is there is some
thing exceptional in the south. It
is a sense of deep disquiet about
the new deal. If all the south is
going for Mr. Roosevelt, it is do
ing so with deep misgiving. Be
cause Virginia has an electorate
which is relatively small and'rel
atively high in Quality, it may be
the ferment expresses itself there
earlier and with 'greater serious-
ne tha? it hB yef aSalnVd
otneP aouthern states. Every Tot-
er in Virginia knows tharthe two
democratic senators from that
state, Messrs. Glass, and Byrd are
two or the ablest men in Ameri
can public life. And every voter In
Virginia knows that both these
senators " are deeply disturbed
about the absorption of the demo
cratic party by the new deal. Pos
sibly it woald take only a little
organisation and drive to cause a
good many Virginia democrats to
vote against Mr. Roosevelt while
remaining democratic with re
spect to the rest of the ticket.
Whether or not Virginia or any
L
andon..
The Man
i;OBipues 07 nsips &. Himwi was
tu mmAM him Boats In Orwcoa far It
jesrs. Mr. HorrisM u bora ia Ksassa
u w.B;". Vstn t..7du.ri.i
prBi -s vm jr . m
Orofoa.
riMmmn,r Tnrlann uM MCAIlt
ly: "We must remember that ev-
ery wmo u hi.oiuu.bui
pai by us or we must pass the
debt on to be paid by our children.
"No parents like to leave their
children a heritage of debts and
mortgages. The present adminis
tration's daily mounting deficits
are closing the doer of opportun
ity tA vrnir ehiblren and my child-
-t not lose aight of the
punnc aeot is just as
much of a liability to each and ev
ery individual as private debt.
It has always been my belief
that the government should raise
the major portion of Its revenue
from direct taxes levied on the
net incomes of Individuals and
uri... ,.. a
corporations. When this Is done,
,i. -, mnA
l ' , I v it!
knows just how much the govern
ment is costing him.
'On the other hand. If the ma-
?or Tton ,of, tB government's
TLnVri
and hidden taxes taxes upon
such things as food, clothing, gas
oline and cigarettes then the
main burden falls upon those of
small income and the cost of gov
ernment is hidden. In this case,
it is the wage earner, the salaried
worker, the farmer, and the small
business man, who have to pay
most of the bill."
July 9-34 of last year a series
was run in this column giving
the theretofore unpublished diary
Arthur Fenner for a part f
tne year 186 ; Mr. Fenner hav
ing been prominent in Salem and
Roseburg in after years.
The Fenner diary for Monday.
July 14. 1SSI, read:
"John, the celebrated fighter
with about 150. ot his warriors,
were crossing the bay at the time
on their way to the reservation,
under the guidance of Unele
Sam's boys.
That meant Coos bay. and the
vessel on which Fenner was a
passenger was b o a n d for the
mouth of the Umpqua, which it
reached the next day, bringing
Fenner on his way to Winchester,
which town was afterward nearly
all moved to Roseburg.
(Concluded tomorrow.)
other southern state secedes from
th4 democratic column in this el
ection, it Is certain that immed
lately after the election the south
will give expression to the feeling
which prevails there about the
new deal. If Mr. Roosevelt Is re
elected, he is going to have a
rendezvous with the south, and
tne soutn is going to speak stern
lr (to him. Not only southern
democratic senators like Mr. Glass
and Mr. Byrd, who hare already
opposed the new deal in congress.
but other southern democratic
senators who have so far support
ed;. Mr. Roosevelt s program, are
determined that beginning with
the first session of congress after
the election the democratic party
must be democratic. In this atti
tude they are supported by the
overwhelming sentiment of the
democratic south. .
To a degree rather greater than
In the rest of the country, puh
lie opinion In the south flows
from persons having intellectual
leadership, county judges and
members of county bars, news
paper editors and other profes
sional and business leaders. Most
of these have an especial rever
ence for the constitution as such.
and an additional reverence aris
ing f r o m particular safeguards
which the south feels the consti
tution has given it. Among south
ern leaders of thought there is a
strong feeling that the democratic
party as a whole and the south
especially has been "sold down
the river" by the new dealt 'hey
are disturbed bjr the threat to
states rights which is inherent
and foremost in the new deal phil
osophy. Tney have come to sus
pect that the democratic party is
being deliberately changed in
character by those who now con
trol it. They think the party is In
a process, partly tnrougn aeuo-
erato manipulation and partly
through evolution, which by 1940
will make the party something
utterly new, something whicb
would for a time go by the name
'farmer-labor party" but which
later would become very far re
moved indeed from the democrat
ic party of traditlon.-
If southern leaders of thougbt
believed the best way to prevent
this would be to vote for Govern
or Landon, they would Hot hes
itate to do so. Many think the best
way for them to hold the demo
cratic party to Its traditions is to
remain In the party, vote regular!
in this election, keep their party
status and therefore their in -
fluence in the party and then,
right after the election proceed to
evict the new deal from the place
it has usurped.
Their concern Increases as time
goes on. More ana more 01 tne
southern democratic press draws
a distinction between tne aemo-
cratic party ana tne new aeai. 11
the campaign were a few weekslwltB the effort to ret at Shad, to
longer, outright rebellion might
appear in the south.
The Safety
Valve
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Letters from
Statesman Readers
What is Being "Freer
To the Editor:
The American neoole that favor I
a democracy and uphold the con- j
stitutlon, as most of them do, are I
in the main a v e r r generous. I
peace-loving and humane people. I
Our public school buildings are
dedicated. I take it. to teaching
of the christian religion. And I
while the churches are broad- I
minded in their tolerance of lec-1
turers propounding the beliefs of I
other denominations' other than
their own, I do not think that the I
churches are thrown open to
atheists every or any time that
such lecturers wish to propound
their heretical doctrines, on the I
plea of "free" speech, and for the I
same reasons our schools should I
not be thrown open to communist-1
socialist lecturers with their
heretical doctrines against dem-1
ocracy, on the plea ot "free" I
speech. I
We are exceedingly lax ana iid- I
oral (?) to allow "Workers'!
Schools" which are conducted by I
nearly every unit of the commun-I
1st party. At these schools new I
members ana party functionaries i
are educated in the basic ideas of I
communism ana are given aitoucn mm, hut no mere vulgar
course of instruction in the meth-I
ods ot carrying on revolutionary I
work. Do you think any American I
citizen could go to either Russia,
Germany, or itaiy ana conauci a i
scnooi on -aemocrmey- ime ana
sound aa Its principles are? I
It seems to me that "we the I
people" tne builders or America
t least ought to be allowed tne l
privilege of keeping sabverslve
spesaers out ot our own fidiic i
schools, when we allow the com- i
munist-SOClalistS to Conduct!
a . a x - a I
without being berated so yocifer-
onaiv on this Tree" sneecn nusi- i
ness, as "we the objectors" are I
berated. What is being "free" I
any way?
MART C. BROCKWAT
1812 N.E. 51 Ave.,
Portland, Oregon.
Ten Years Ago
October 13. 1020
fAAmA PUPIS aalafWatnf aaf A 1-
fred E. Clark to keep eye on rates
of telephone costs in other states.
Kimball Pipe organ at the new
Knight Memorial church will be
dedicated tonight.
Twenty Years Ago
October 15, 1M '
- Women have put pep into cam- j
palgn for presidential candidate.
Hughes special attracts many.
Search right or mans is sun i
claimed, may search genuine mails I
fo:nd on neutral vessels on high I
seas or in aiuea parts.
mew scuooia as mey see winorter. nltvfnrly lnlrrl(ln Ih.
1 - TheKibitizer
I 1534 mHM-n-ta..- " " Zy I
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smr I 111 '- -3tiv J
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"It Can't Happen H SITS SINCLAIR LEWIS
BIme. Defarge II
I A wild woman from the moan
1 tains in another existence she
I had knitted at the guillotine had
( thrust through to the counter and
j was howling up at Shad, "They're
traitors! Hang 'em! We'll hang
I you. if you ston us! I want my
1 To thousand dollars!"
I shad casually stooped down
1 from the counter and slapped her,
1 Doremua felt his muscles tense
1 revenge the-good. lady who. after
all, had as much right as Shad to
slaughter him,, but he relaxed,
impatiently gave up all desire for
mock heroism. The bayonets of
the M. M.'s who were clearing out
the crowd were reality, not to be
attacked by hysteria.
snaa, from the counter, was
blatting in a voice like a sawmill,
"Snap into it, Jessup! Take him
along, men.
And Doremus, with no volition
whatever, was marching through
President Street, np Elm Street,
and toward the courthouse and
county jail, surrounded by four
armed Minute Men. The strangest
thing about it, he reflected, was
in couia go on mus, on
an uncuariea journey wnicn mignt
take years, without fussing over
pians ana tickets, without bag
gage, without even an extra clean
handkerchief, without letting
Emma know where he was going,
without letting Lorinda oh, Lor-
lada could take care of herself.
But Emma would worry.
He realised that the guard be-
side him, with the chevrons of a
squad leader, or corporal, was
Aras Dilley, the slatternly farmer
from np on Mount Terror whom
he had often helped. . . or thought
he had helped.
"Ah, Aras!" satd he.
"Huh!" said Aras.
"Come on! Shut up and keep
moving!" said the M. M. behind
Doremua, and prodded him with
the bayonet.
It's Kot the Pain
It did not. actually, hurt much.
but Doremus spat with fury.-So
long now he had unconsciously
assumed that his dignity, his body.
were sacred. Ribald Death might
stranger.
Not till they had almost reached
the courthouse eould he realize
that oeonle were look In r at him
at Doremus Jessup! aa a prls-
oner betag taken to 'Jail. He tried
to be proud ot being a political
prisoner. He couldn't Jail was
Han.
The county lorVnn at f h
back of the courthouse, now the
center of Ledae's headauarters
noimn tt tm
or any other lail extent aa a r-
r w
curtous. inferior sort of neoole
k. At a . . .
selves arrested
. Tft tntn ,
To go into that shameful bark
door he who had always stalked
into the front entrance of the
courthouse, the editor, saluted by
clerk and sheriff and judge!
Shad was not in aight Silently
Doremus's four guards conducted
him through a steel door, down a
corridor, to a smalt tell reeking
of chloride of lime and. still un-
speaking. they left him there. The
ceirhad a cot with a damp straw
mattress and damper straw nillow.
a biooi. a wash basin with one Un
5 er, a pot, two hooks
for clothes, a small barred win
dew. and nothing else whatever
except a Jaunty sign ornamented
with embossed forget-me-nots and
a text from Deuteronomy. "He
shall be free at home one year.
i nope so!" said Doremus. not
very cordially.
Philosophy ia a Cell
It was before nine In the" morn
ing. He remained in that celL
without speech, without food, with
only Up water caught in his don
bled palm and with -one cigarette
an hour, until after midnlrht and
la the unaccustomed stillness he
saw how In prison men could even
tually go! mad.
"Don't1 whine, though. You here
a few hours, and plenty of poor
devils u solitary for years and
years, put there by tyrants worse
than Wihdrip. . . yes, and some
times put there by nice, good, social-minded
judges that I've play
ed bridge with!"
But the reasonableness of the
thought didn't particularly eheer
him. J -
He could hear a distant babble
from the bull pen, where the
drunks and vagrants, and the pet
ty offenders among the M. M.'s,
were crowded in enviable com
radeahipi, but the sound was only
a background for the corroding
stillness.'
He sank into a twitching numb
ness. He felt that he was choking
and gasped desperately. Only now
and then did he think clearly
then only of the shame of im
prisonment or. even more emphat
ically of how hard the wooden
stool wits on his ill-upholstered
rump, and how much pleasanter
it was, I even so, than the cot.
whose mattress had the quality
of crushed - worms.
Once he felt that he saw the way
clearly: j
"Theptyranny of this dictator
ship isn't primarily the fault of
Big, Business, nor of the dema
gogues Who do their dirty work.
It's the! fault ot Doremus Jessup!
Of all the conscientitious, respect
able, ldiy-minded Doremus Jes-
sups who hare let the demagogues
wriggle: in, without fierce enough
protest.1 .
'A few. months ago I thought
the slaughter of the Civil War
and the agitation of the violent
Abolitionists who helped bring "it
on were evil. But nossiblr they
had to j be violent, because easy
going citizens like me couldn't be
stirred up otherwise. If our grand
fathers ;had had the alertness and
eoaragef; to see the evils of slave
ry and Of a government conducted
by gentlemen for gentlemen only.
there won Ida t have been any need
of agitators and war and blood.
It's; my sort, the Responsible
Citizens who've felt ourselves su
perior because we've been well-
to-do and what we thought was
'educated who brought on the
Civil War, the French Revolution.
and now the Fascist Dictatorship
It's I who murdered Rabbi de Ve
res. It s I who persecuted the Jews
and the Negroes. I can blame no
Aras Dilley, no Shad Ledue, no
uuzz winanp, nut only my own
timid sbul and drowsy mind. For
give. OI Lord!
"Is it too late?" !
And What of LorindaT
Once again, as darkness was
coming; into his cell like the ines
capable ooze of a flood, he thought
(unousiy;
And about-Lorinda. Now that
I've been kicked Into reality got
to be one thing or the other:
Emma (who's my bread) or Lor
inda (my wine) but I can't ha -r
both, i
"OhJj damn! What twaddle!
Why can't a man hare both bread
and wine and not prefer one be
fore the other?
"Unless, maybe, we're all com
ing into a day of battles when the
fighting will be too hot to let a
man stop tor anything save bread
: I i.mtta toaTb n. too hot to
let him atop for that!"
But Doremus slipped again from
this lirlng agitation Into the
trance Sof waiting waiting; and,
catnapping on the hideously un
comfortable little atool, he was
dazed when at some unholy late
hoar (It was Just after midnight)
he was aroused by the presence of
armed M. M.'s outside his barred
cell door, and by the hill-billy
drawl of Squad Leader Aras Dil
ley: -1
'Well.- guess y better nit up
now, better git up! Jedge wants
to see you jedge sars he wants m
see yon. Heh! Guest did?? er
think I'd be a squad leader, did
yuh, Mist' Jessup!"
Doremus was escorted through
angling corridors to the familiar
side etnrance of the courtroom
the entrance where once he had
seen Thad Dilley. Aras's degener
ate cousin, shamble in to receive
sentence for clubbing his wife to
death. . . He could not keep from
feeling that Thad and he were kin,
now. A Prisoner Waits
He was kept waiting waiting!
-for a quarter hour outside the
closed courtroom door. He had
time to consider the three guards
commanded by Squad Leader
Aras. He happened to know that
one of them bad served a sen
tence at W'indsor for robbery and
assault; and one, a surly young
farmer, had Tieen rather. doubtful
ly acquitted on a charge of barn
burning In revenge against a
neighbor.
He leaned against the slightly
dirty gray plaster wall of the cor
ridor. "Stand straight there, you!
What the hell do you think this is?
And keeping us up late like this!"
said the rejuvenated, the redeem
ed Aras, waggling his bayonet and
shining with desire to use it on
the bourjui.
Doremus stood straight
He stood very straight, he stood
rigid, beneath-a portrait of Hor
ace Greeley."
Till now, Doremus had liked to
think of that most famous of rad
ical editors, who had been a nr Int
er In Vermont from 1825 to 1828.
as his colleague and comrade. Now
he felt colleague only to the rev
olutionary Karl Pascals.
His legs, not too young, were'
trembling: his carves ached. Was
he going to faint? What was hap
pening In there. In the courtroom?
To save himself from the dis
grace, of collapsing, he studied
Aras Dilley. Though his uniform
was fairly new, Aras had man
aged to deal with it as his family
and he had dealt with their house
on Mount Terror once a sturdy
Vermont cottage with shining
white, clapboards, now mud-smeared
and rotting. His cap was crush
ed in, his breeches spotted, his
leggings gaping, and one tunic
button hung by a thread.
"I wouldn't particularly want
to be dictator over an Aras, but I
most particularly do not want him
and his like to be dictators over
me, whether they call them Fas
cists or Corpos or Communists or
Monarchists or Free Democratic
Electors or anything else! If that
makes me a reactionary kulak, all
right! I don't believe I ever really
liked the shiftless brethren, for
all my lying handshaking. Do you
think the Lord calls on us to love
the cowblrda as much as the swal
lows? I don't! Oh, I know: Aras
has had a. hard time: mortsraeo
and seven kids. But Cousin Ileniy
veeder and Dan Wilgus yes, and
Pete Vutong. the Cannek. that
Uvea across the road from Aras
and has Just exactly the same kind
of land they were all born poor,
and they've lived decently enough.
They can wash their ears and their
door sills, at least I'm eursed If
I'm going to give uo the Ameri
can - Wesleyan s doctrine ot Free
Will and of Will to Accomplish
ment entirely, even if it does eet
me read out of the Liberal Com
munion!" Aras had peeped into the court
room, and he stood giggling.
men Lorinda came ont after
midnight v
Her partner, the wart Nipper,
was following her. looklnr aheeD-
ishly triumphant.
Linda! Linda!" called Dore-, i
mus. his hands out. ignoring tho
snickers of , the carious guard;
trying, to mora toward her. Ar.-3
pushed him hack and at Lorln ' i
sneered. "Go on. more. on. there"
and she moved. She seemed twist
ed and rusty aa Doremus would
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