PAGE SIX The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning:, October 0, 1938 Founded "No Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall Awe' From First Statesman, March 28, 1S51 Charles A. Sfracus Shelbon F. Sackett ' THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. - i ; , Member of the Associated Press i The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for public, don of all mwi dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper. . ' i - - On Student Criticism j jk STUDENT LETTER which appears in the week's issue of xVthe Willamette Collegian; which is off again to a fine start as the campus newspaper for the university, carries friendly though critical comments about the professors. One of the points raised by the student is expressed thus : "We want professors who will reveal to us the meaning, the significance, the validity of what they are teaching; We want our thoughts to be ruled by the spirit of the things they expound, not by a heavy mass of undigested facta." I l1 If the student critic means that he wants the work of the classroom to be vital, his suggestion is of value. But if he means that the labor of accumulating knowledge may be short-circuited, and the professor hand out) neatly labeled packages, pre-digested, with directions for dosages and a guarantee of results, then we fear the student is doomed to disappointment. Or if the critic means that each lesson should hate a moral tied to its end to link the subject-matter with, current personal or social problems then we believe he has a wrong conception of college education. I It is but natural for students in a troubled age, and for people generally, to look for the answers rather than to be interested in the laborious processes by which the problems may be solved. But in teaching there is more to" the matter than the answer; otherwise arithmetic might be taught by showing the children how to look in the "answers" section at the back of .the. book and copying down the j numbers there reported. i There are far too many people who, lacking the back grounds of knowledge, are professing to lead multitudes even more ignorant. That is why Jhere are so many weird cults and creeds and "isms" afloat today. People are too gullible; they have not developed faculties of intelligent criticism. They are won over by the last person they hear who has a plausible message. It takes time and mental effort to study and analyze "and compare before one can arrive at an intelli gent conclusion. . Schools and college are the places where, this capacity for. study and analysis is developed. -Besides the patient accumulation of a broad background of factual knowl edge must come the equally patient synthesis and correlation of facts (or factors) before a satisfying result may be ob tained. With due respect to the modern psychologists who insist there is no transference of "mental discipline", we are old-fashioned enough to believe the habits of study and of thinking acquired m such studies as mathematics and science and languages for example, with, their emphasis on' precision, are of value in .the general intellectual development of - the '' student. ; : V -. , . ;- ; There is at present a great surge toward the social sci ences, so-called. Enthusiasm for social readjustment runs high. It is easy for the student to scorn the subjects which appear to be less vital, more dry-as-dust ; and to find fault with the professors who are not busy, in classroom or out, with stump speeches. Alas, it is dangerous to foreshorten ' the process of intellectual development Youth should be seasoned and not just kiln-dried. - " J , Professors, like editors and preachers, have a tendency to fall into ruts, to make their courses ones of deadening routine. They deserve no defenders. Real teachers may make even the dullest of subjects have vitality and significance. But the student must never forget I end, and without genuine effort on his part he will never qualify as an educated person, Trimming IT'S EASY to be an economical governor when public senti ment says "cut taxes". It's hard to be one when inflation ary psychology (is in the air and the pressure groups start to apply squeeze. -Gov. Martin realizes that, but he will realize it even more before the legislature is over. The worst of it is. that in many cases the demands are warranted by actual needs, and there is a general desire for meeting those de mands. The governor will need to buy a stock of extra pen points because he will need them before he gets through bis job of budget pruning before the session opens. Among the heavier loads the state will te asked to bear will be general salary increases to wipe out the salary cuts of 1933 and subsequent legislatures. State institutions have ex panded populations and higher living costs, so their budgets call for more money. Higher education will come with in sistent demand for additional funds to take care of the greatly increased enrollments and to meet competitive salaries for faculty members. Relief costs will mount under the pension plans which probably will call for age 65 limit instead of 70 to participate in old age. pensions. Other appropriations will be needed to keep pace with federal social security legislation in grants for the blind and for dependent children. New buildings are" needed for the state library and public offices. Chief Budgeter Wharton will be busy from now until the legislature meets trimming the preliminary estimates. Then the ways and means committee will scrap over items for most of the 40 days and 40 nights which mark the legislative flood. The final decision is made by the governor when he lias the appropriation bills before him. 1 Gov. Martin is giving notice that he will insist on living within income, with no increase in taxes. If he is able to, and keep the people satisfied he will be either a mathematician or a magician. j Oregon was visited this week by the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, who tried to succeed to Buey Long's mantle as the country's biggest rabble-rouser. The Rer. Gerald L. K. moved Into the Townsend tent with Dr. Townsend, and was here campaigning for Lemke. He took cracks at the Oregon Townsend leaders, and accused them of bad doings on their political affiliation. The Townsend movement has been cracking up at the top for, months. Clements got out, and Mc Groarty followed him, then underlings of various descriptions. Father Townsend got off with Father Coughlin, and then kicked Gomer Smith out of a seat on the board. The result of the unseemly scramble and contention Is to disclose except to the super-believers the mis-leadership they have been following. The appeals for money are not being met as they used to be; and of course when the higher ups fall to get their salaries they will shift to some other promotion, real estate, washing machines, politics or peace, which promises to keep the wolf off at a minimum of effort Townsend enthusiasm seems to be fad ing around here. There have been few mass meetings lately to whip up we iauniuL. Gossips are busy on both sides of the water with the publication of news that the kind's friend. Mrs. Simpson, is suing for divorce, charging Mr. Simpson with Infidelity. Friends of the lady assert that no marriage with the king is in contemplation. Since she is an American born commoner such a match would be too much of a shocker even for the precedent-smashing king to attempt. It is probably lucky for King Edward Just a plain fellow living, say in they didn't have divorce courts, affair differently. The power Industry is being stirred into action for expansion of lines. This year twice as many country lines will be built, for the country as a whole, as in 1935. Part of the spurt of energy is due to political agitation. .Another part is due to the growing actual demand in rural .territory, plus ability to finance extensions with improving business conditions. The northwest is one of the most heavily sat urated districts with rural lines. are now available to about IS per 18S1 Editor-Manager Managing-Editor that he is on the real working the Budget that he is king in England, and not Tennessee. In King David's day, so David had te manage his love I In the lower Willamette valley lines cent of the farm homes. Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Jefferson Davis, sec re- 10-16-36 tary of war, told Governor ; Curry about the Coast reservation; the officers then guarding it: S (Continuing from yesterday:) The date and incident of Fenner seeing "John, the celebrated fight er, with 150 of his warriors," crossing Coos hay (or an arm of the bay), are confirmed by Dr. Glisan's diary. His entry forTuly 1Z, 1856, reads: ? "Old John's band got off on the 10th instant, escorted by Major Reynolds' company and a detach- ment of company E, 4th Infantry. . . The troops took with them over 200 splendid mules, 160 of which were used as pack animals. . . I rode out in the afternoon to Major Reynolds": first day camp, and partook of a parting dinner with him." S V - Meaning that he (Dr. Glisan) rode out from Prt Orford July 10. 1856, to be with Major Rey nolds end take dinner with him at his first day camp from Port Or. ford, the major and his men hav ing custody of the fierce Chief John and his immediate band, on thelr.way to the Coast reservation. bound for the Siletz section of that reservation. That was a wild country then, rough and without roads, and the cavalcade did very well to reach the fringes of Coos hay on the fourth day out. j - Who was Major Reynolds in charge of that motley brigade winding in ' and I out of the near jungles close to the ocean coast of southwestern Oregon? What was the future of this captain and brevet major who had charge of the Indian leader that had been the ablest and deadliest foe of the whites of all the chiefs west of the CadcadesT , : - Well, he became one of the out standing heroes of the Civil war. From being a captain and bre vet major fighting and handling Indians in pioneer ; Oregon, he rose by virtue of merit, bravery and splendid leadership to the rank of major general. S V He came up to the pivotal part of the battle of Gettysburg in charge of the left wing constitut ing the first, third and 11th army corps and Buford's cavalry divi sion and opposing ; the van of General Lee's army. ! Reynolds saw the necessity of fearlessly riding In front of his lines; . This to deploy, organize and en courage his forces. w s He thus organized the move ment that led the Union forces to victory at Gettysburg. But in that action, after the battle front had been arranged as he willed It, he received a fatal re bel bullet. Dearly won was that victory, in the Joss of Reynolds, and, in nu. merical proportion, many thous ands of times more dearly In the loss of men on the contending lines of carnage. . "a But he was acclaimed the chief hero of that field. A magnificent monument stands on the battlefield of Gettysburg at the spot where Reynolds fell, as one testimonial to his superior leadership. And . many more marks of respect and gratitude were shown to memorialize the man who performed the closing scene of the Rogue River war of 1855-6. by escorting Chief John and his hand to the reservation. S The nation's birthday was cele brated at Port Orford In 1856. Let's get the setting from some entries in the Dr. Glisan diary. They follow: I - "July 2, 1856: This morning Capt. Ord's I command arrived, bringing In the famous old John and his band the terror of south ern Oregon. I "July 5, 1856: Testerday the grand anniversary of our nation al independence was celebrated by a federal salute of 13 guns at dawn of day, and 31 (for the then 31 states) at noon, and at 9 p.m. by fire rockets, which were sent up rom the highest point of the heads, to the great admiration and astonishment of the Indians, most of whom had never seen the like before. .-. . After our nation al salute all the officers assem bled at the colonel's quarters and partook of refreshments. y v "We were then informed by Colonel B. that he HAD THE PLEASURE OF ANNOUNCING THE INDIAN WAR ON ROGUE RIVER WAS CLOSED." "CoL B." was of course Brevet Colonel Buchanan. United States army, who for several weeks there to had been In charge of the pro secution of the so-called Rogue River Indian war of 1855-1 on the part of the federal govern ment. ' . The Dr. Glisan diary had said. In its. entry of June 15, 1356: "CoL Buchanan. Capt. Smith Capt. Augur, Dr. Milhau (army surgeon ) , Lieut. Chandler. Lieut. Ihrie ... arrived this afternoon with 700 Indians. The latter, to gether with the 400 now . v. here, makes 1100 Indians, all of whom are to be moved forward to the Indian reservation . . . as soon as the colonel can hear from the command at the mouth of the Rogue (river) as to whether old John's people and the Chetcoes and Pistol River Indians are com ing In." ;, : ' . ".. The July t entry said: This morning Captain Ord's command arrived, bringing In the famous old John and his hand the terror of southern Oregon." Thus was consummated the scene of the drama that Justified Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Bu chanan In announcing at the cele. bration of the Fourth of July. 1856, that "the Indian war on Rogue river 'was closed." ' -.-(Concluded tomorrow.) Interpreting By MARK WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 The latest Installment of the Literary Digest poll gives Governor Lan- don 7 13.451 votes, 'and Mr. Roosevelt 485, 392. In other words it ; gives Governor ."- L a n don 56.9 percent of the total. That would mean a rather overwhel m 1 n g republican ; vic tory.' -. Three in- wi.tt. stallments of the Digest poll are yet to appear con ceivably the final results might give a reduced majority to Mr. Landon, or even give a majority to Mr. Roosevelt. But the Digest experience with previous -polls sugests that the present indica tion of a republican victory will continue to the 'end of the poll, certainly that it will not be re versed.. ,; . . i, ,V .. . ' Because of the Immense' scale of the Digest poll,; much , more ex tensive than . any other national poll, and because of the tested ac curacy of this poll In previous presidential elections, the com mon tendency is to accept the Di gest's 'present indication of a re publican victory. If we accept the Digest's past accuracy as convincing, if we ac cept this poll as a barometer, then we would be obliged to conclude that the republicans will win com fortably on November 3. There Is no use arguing against the bar ometer, if we assume the barom eter to be accurate. The question becomes whether the Digest poll is an accurate barometer. Even though it has been accurate In previous elections, is it accurate in this one? During previous campaigns the Digest's forecast has been ques tioned by those whom it disap pointed, or those to whom it seem ed incr editable. During the 1933 campaign, republicans could not believe they would suffer such a disastrous defeat .as the , Digest poll forecast. During the 1 9 2 8 campaign, supporters of the dem ocratic candidate, "Al" Smith, could not believe he would be beaten by any such overwhelming proportion as the Digest poll pointed toward. Similarly, In the present campaign, nearly all dem ocrats strongly dispute the Di gest's forecast of serious defeat for them. Some neutral observ ers dispute either the forecast of so great a republican victory or the forecast of Republican victory at all. . Many other polls differ from the Digest Index. One poll con ducted on a nationwide scale, but reaching only a very small frac tion of the number of voters reached by the Digest, points to ward democratic victory. .Some local polls of states or parts of states point toward the democrats carrying decisive states states which, if carried, would probably mean democratic victory in the nation. Of all the state polls,4 the one most difficult to reconcile with the Digest one, is the poll of Maryland conducted by the Balti more Sun. The Sun sent straw ballots to every registered voter in Maryland, amounting to 755, 000. The latest tabulation of re turns gives President Roosevelt 172.673, Mr. Landon 95,493. That is, Mr. Roosevelt has about 64 per cent of the total vote. Gov ernor Landon only a little over 35 per cent (minor candidates, communist, etc., get nearly 1 per cent). : This outcome of this Maryland poll Is discussed Intently by poli ticians and observers. It compos es the best single bit of evidence on the side of those who dispute the Literary Digest poll. True, the Maryland poll is of only one state. Landon . . The an ' Compiled hy Ralph E. If orrlsoa wh has his ha in Orca for 15 yaara. Mr. Msrriaoa bra im Kanaaa and attended th Universitj of Kanaaa. Ha was . onneeted with tha editorial de partment ot the Kanaaa City 8tar for ten reara prariena te hi morinf te Portland, Oregon. : After listening to and reading the speeches ot Landon, the re-, publican candidate for president of the United States, the people are saying "This is an American statesman." A shrewd commenta tor said: "Mild and equable and pleasant without a hateful, envious or pro vocative word In his lexicon, Alt Landon continues to grow. It is genuine growth that finds Its nur ture In traditional Americanism In the fundamentals of that fruitful and unprecedented past to which the new dealers . hare' made it fashion to poke fun. ' i "They said he couldn't talk. But did they mistake can't for can dot language for logic, and rhetoric for reason He talks plain horse sense. Ha has challenged and com manded the serious attention of millions ot Americans who were waiting for a voice. That it Is a neighborly voice, low ot pitch, un prejudiced, cool with calmness that only makes that rolce mora effective. "Landon has become a national figure in his own personal right, the spiritual purposes of which are strikingly impressive. In his Chatauqua speech, ha talked of free expression how many news paper editors if no others, know it had been Jeopardized? From that first speech, after his ac ceptance, ha has been placing his definite, concrete views on record. "Continually ha has in states manlike manner conveyed to the electorate how he will act when elected president. He has given his views on taxation, on govern ment and business, on social prob lems, on education, on interna tional relationships. Ha is In dead earnest. He Is talking, not as a politician this way In one locality, another somewhere else, but as a statsman pointing not only the way for present governmental America to recant; but also di recting the paths to follow. ; I f I i 'A 1 M the News SULLIVAN But Maryland is itself a kind of barometer state.: It is a barometer of the nation. It has been literally true of Maryland (as it has not been of Maine) that as goes Mary land so goes the nation. During 44 years, ever since 1892 (when Maryland, so to speak, ceased to vote" under civil war Influences) In every presidential election, Maryland has gone the way 'the country went. When the country went republican, so did Maryland. When the-country went democrat ic. Maryland did the same. Con versely, when A Maryland : went either way. the nation went-the same way. This has happened In ten successive presidential elec tions. ' This extraordinary record (not duplicated, I think, by any other state though I hare not check ed this statement) has given Maryland a kind of superstitous standing with politicians and pol- itical correspondents. Every 'four years? since 1892, any gambler who could have known in advance how Maryland would go, would have been able to bet successfully on the outcome in the nation. It Is for this reason that bet tors, predlcters and observers puz zle over the outcome ot the pres ent Maryland poll. Here is a state with a remarkable predictive rec ord now forecasting democratic victory. And here is the Literary Digest likewise with a remark able record, forecasting republi can victory. It is impossible to reconcile the two barometers. If the Maryland poll pointed only toward a slight democratic vic tory, observers might dismiss it and rely on the Digest poll. For Maryland commonly goes one way or the other by only narrow ma jorities and conceivably might this time be wrong. But the Maryland poll points toward 64 per cent for Mr. Roosevelt and only about 35 for Governor Landon. Almost any politician or observer would be willing to bet that it Maryland on November 3 actually goes demo cratic in so large a proportion, the country as a whole would go democratic It Is the extraordinarynesg of Maryland poll that causes mysti fication. The poll actually gires Mr. Roosevelt a larger per cent of Maryland's total vote than he had In 1932. In that year Mr. Roose velt's proportion of the Maryland total was just under 63 per cent. It would be difficult to find any one (except possibly tha most in fatuated of new dealers) who thinks for one moment that Mr. Roosevelt will this year get as large a proportion of the total vote in tha nation as in 1932. In short, as respects proportion of the total vote at least, the Mary land poll seems fantastic. Repub licans' may take what comfort they can in an adaptation of an old legal maxim if fantastic In one respect, fantastic in all. In yet- another respect, the Maryland poll is extraordinary. The total number of straw bal lots sent out (to the entire elec torate) was 755,000. Out of these, 269,840 have been returned bear ing the name of the voter's choice. That is, 35 per cent of the straw ballots, more than one-third, have been marked and returned. This Is extremely unusual. The com mon experience ot newspapers or organizations that take polls of this kind is to get back less than 20 per cent. I am told the Literary Digest commonly gets hack about 16 per cent. The usual experience of business men who send out cir culars with request for answers is to get an even smaller percent age of replies.' Does the extraordinary number of replies In Maryland mean that the democrats are on their toes and eagerly send back their bal lots marked for Roosevelt, while the republicans are less alert? Does it mean that many democrats who intend to vote for Governor Landon when In the assured sec ret of the voting booth, neverthe less do not care to show their in tentions on straw ballots? Anyhow, this head-on discrep ancy between the Maryland poll and the Literary Digest one is rather more discussed by politic ians than the issues of the cam paign. After the election, the post mortem will ba Interesting and should throw some light on what type ot poll Is the best barometer. Editorial Comment From Other Papers BOOKLET The f mall boomlet which has been created under New Deal leadership has the same elemnts of weakness which undermined tha post-war boom had distrib ution of work and profits, mount, ing debts private and public, mounting taxes, the dangers of sudden and disastrous reaction. To people who art dealing with the concrete problems of business and employment tha glib cam paign statements are not reas suring. Eugene Register Guard. Ten Years Ago October 16. 1926 Mrs. Emma Cole, 79, of Jeffer son was killed immediately as her car was struck by another one on tha Pacific highway. Howard P. Savage of Chicago was elected national commander of the American Legion. Lions club will hold old fash ioned dance and fiddlers contest at armory next week. Twenty Yeers Ago - " ' - October 16. lilt Registration la city is higher, figures show Increase over last year. Prohibitionist's train ' attacked In Detroit, MIch missile hurled through window. ; ' - r ' - . aB-B-BB, aBBBBBBBaaaBBSeaWaaaWaa ItC ant Commander Swan loafed to his feet and ,as though he were greet ing his oldest friend, cooed at Dor emus, "My dear fellow, so sorry to have to trouble you. Just a rou tine query, you know. Do sit down. Gentlemen, in the case of Mr. Dor emus, surely we need not go through the -farce of formus in quiry. Let's all sit bout that damn big silly table down there place where they always stick the in nocent defendants and the guilty attorneys, y know get down from this high altar little too mystical for the taste ot a vulgar bucket-shop gambler like myself. After you. Professor; after you, my dear Captain." And. to the guards. "Just wait outside in the hall, will you? Close the doors jStaubmeyer and Shad looking despite Effingham Swan's frivol, ity as portentous as their uniforms could make them, clumped down to the table. Swan followed them airily, and to Doremus, still stand ing, he gave his tortois-shell ci garette case, caroling, "Do have a! smoke, Mr. Doremus. Must we all be so painfuly formal?" I "My name in Jessup, Comman der. Doremus Is my first name. I "Ah, I see. It could be. Quite so. Very New England, Doremus." Swan was leaning back In his wooden armchair, powerful trim hands behind his neck. "Ill tell you, my dear fellow. One's mem ory is so wretched, you know. Ill just call you 'Doremus,' sans Mis ter. Then, d you see, it might ap ply to either the first (or Chris tian, as I believe one's wretched people in Back Bay insist on call, ing it) either the Christian or the surname. Then we shall feel all friendly and secure. Now. Dor emus, my dear fellow, I begged my friends in the M.M. I do trust they were not too importunate, as these : parochial units sometimes do seem to be but I ordered them to invite you here, really. Just to get your advice as a Journalist. Does it seem to you that most of the peasants here are coming to their senses and ready to ac cept the Corpo fait accompli? -J Doremus grumbled. "But I un derstood I was dragged here and if you want to know, your squad was all of what you call 'importunate' I because of an edi torial I wrote about President Windrip . I "Oh, was that you, Doremus? Ton see? I was right one does have such a 'wretched memory! I do seem now to remember- some minor incident of the sort you know mentioned in the agenda. Do hare another cigarette, my dear fellow. "Swan! X don't care much for this cat-and-mouse game - at least, not while I'm tha mouse. What are Tout charges against me?" - , -v- I "Charges? Oh, my only aunt! Just trifling things criminal li bel and conveying secret informa tion to alien forces and h 1 g h treason and homicidal incitement to violence yon know, tha usual bores ome line. And all so easily got rid of, my Doremus, if you'd Just be persuaded you see how quite pitifully eager I am to be friendly with you, and to hare tha inestimable aid ot your experience here it you'd just decide that it knight be tha part of discretion $o suitable, y know, to your ven. erable years-! I "Damn it, I'm not venerable, nor anything like it. Only sixty. Sixty-one, 1 should say." I "Matter of ratio, my dear fel low. I'm forty-seven m'self. and I have no doubt the young pups al ready call ma venerable! But as I was saying, Doremus :lWhy was It he winced with fury every time Swan called hiss that?) "with your position as one of the Council of Elders, and with your responsibilities to your fam ily It would be too sick-making, it anything happened to them y know! yon Just can't afford to be Premature Harvest H appen too brash! And all we desire is ... for you to play along with us in Druiai, wouia nave oeen comiort your paper I would adore , the ing after the easy viciousness of chance of explaining some of the the three judges. Corpos and the Chief's still unre vealed plans to you. You'd see such a. new light!" Shad grunted, "Him? Jessup couldn't see a new light If It was. on the end of his nose!" i . "A moment, my dear Captain. And also, Doremus, of course we shall urge you to help us by giving us a complete list of every person in this vicinity that you know of who is secretly opposed to the Ad ministration." "Spying? Me? "Quite! "If I'm accused of 1 insist on having my lawyer, Mungo Kit. terick, and on being tried, not all this bear-baiting " "Quaint name. Mungo Kitter Ick. Oh, my aunt! Why does it give me so absurd a picture of an explorer with a Greek grammar In his hand? Tou don't quite un derstand, my, Doremus, Habeas corpus due processes of law too, too bad! all those ancient sanctities, dating, no doubt, from Magna Charts, been suspended oh, but Just temporarily, 7 know state of crisis unfortunate ne cessity martial law " . "Damn it. Swan " "Commander, my dear fellow ridiculous matter of military dis cipline, y know such rot!" "You know . mighty well and good; It isn't temporary! It's per manent that is, as long as the Corpos last." "It could be!" ; "Swan Commander you get that j 'It could be and my aunt' front the Reggie Fortune stories, don't your "Now there is a fellow detective-story fanatic! But how too bogus!- - "And . that's Evelyn Waugh! Tou-e quite a literary man for so famous a yachtsman and horse, manj Commander." "Horseman, yachtsman, literary mant Am L Doremus, even in my sanctum sanctorum, having, as the lesser breeds would say, the pants kidded off me? Oh, my Doremus, that . couldn't be! And Just when one Is so feeble, after having been so, shall I say excoriated, by your so -amiable friend, Mrs. Lorinda Pike? No, no! How too unbefit ting! the majesty of the law." - Shad Interrupted again. "Yeh, we had' a swell time with your girl-friend, Jessup. But I already had ;the, dope about you and her before. . ' : j Helplessness : Doremus sprang up, his ehalr crashing backward on the floor. He was reaching for Shad's throat across the table. Effingham Swan was! on' him, pushing him hack into another chair. Doremus hic cuped with fury. Shad had not even troubled to rise, and he was going on contemptuously: "Yuh; you two'll have quite soma trouble if you try to pull 7 jpy. stuff on the Corpos. My. my, I Doremus, ain't we had fun. Lindy and you. playing fottle footle theae last couple years! Didn't nobody know about it. did they! But what yon didnt know was Lindy and don't it beat hell a long-nosed, skinny bid maid like her jean have so much pep! and she's been cheating on you tight along, sleeping with every dog gone man boarder she's had at the Tarjern, and ot course with her little squirt ot a partner. Nipper !" Swan's great hand hand r an ape with a manicur held Dore - muS in hll chair. Rhait anlcV.Mil Z. 7 rimiit3!'ieZer been sluing with fingertips together laughed amiably. - Swan patted Doremus'a back. He was less sunken bv th InsUlt to - Lorinda . than h tfca - . , , . teellng of helpless loneliness. It -av uue: ina nirnt as nniot 5,-L tttM, T bea V Ud u ""-moving . redhead anything 4w Jt even the M.M. guards, had come 'more familiar than "Doc") V - In from the hall. Their rustic (Continue! nn m hi V ' By 2r2 SINCLAIR LEWIS l Innocence, however barnyardishly In at a Swan was placidly resuming: "But I suppose we really must get down to business however agreeable, my dear clever literary detective, it would be to discuss Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sav ers and Norman Klein. Perhaps we can some day, when the Chief puts us both in the same prison! There's really, my dear Doremus, no need of. your troubling your legal gentleman, Mr. Monkey Kit teridg. I am quite authorized to conduct this trial for quaintly enough, Doremus, it is a trial, despite the delightful St. Bo toiph's atmosphere! And as to testimony, I already have all I need, both in the good Miss Lo rinda's Inadvertent admissions, in the actual text of your editorial criticising the Chief, and in the quite thorough reports of Captain Ledue and Dr. Staubmeyer. One. really ought to take you out and shoot you and one is quite em powered -to do so, oh quite! but one has one's faults one is really too merciful. And perhaps we can find a better use tor you than as fertilizer you are, you know, rather too much on -the skinny side to make adequate fertilizer. Dishonorable Parole "You are to be released on parole, to assist and coach Dr. Staubmeyer who, by orders from Commissioner Reek, at Hanover, has just been made editor of the Informer, but who doubtless lacks certain points of technical train ing." You wil help him oh, glad ly, I am sure! until he learns. Then we'll see what we'll do with you! ... You will write editorials, with all your accus tomed brilliance oh, I assure you people constantly stop on Boston Common to discuss your masterpieces; have done for years! But .you'll write only as Dr. Staubmeyer tells you. Under stand? Oh. Today since 'tis al ready past the -witching hour you will write an abject apology for your diatribe oh yes, very much on the abject side! You know you veteran journalists do these things so neatly just admit you were a cockeyed, liar and that sort ot thing bright and bantering you know! And next Monday you will, like most of the other ditch-water-dull hick papers, begin the serial publica tion of the Chiet'a Zero Hour. You'll enjoy that!" Clatter and shouts at the door. Protests from the unseen guards. Dr. Fowler Greenhill pounded In, stopping with arms akimbo, shouting, as he strode down to the table, "What do you three comic judges think you're doing? "And who may our Impetuous friend be? He anoys me, rather," Swan asked ot Shad. "Doc Fowler Jessup's son-in-law. And a bad actor. Why, couple days ago I offered him charge of medical inspection for all the M.M.'a in the county, and he Said this rad.h1 mrt I Aleck here ha said you and me ana commissioner Reek and Doc Staubmeyr and an ot us were a bunch of hoboes thst'd be dig ging ditches rn a labor camp if we hadn't stole soma officers' uniforms! Ah, did he indeed?" purred Swan. ' Fowler srotested: "He's a liar. I never mentioned von. I don't leven know who von ir." I .r " . I J uawa, (uwt sir, worn- mander Effingham Swan. M. J. !" "Well, M. J., that still doesn't I enlighten me. Never heard ot you!" Shad interrupted. "How the I hit aa v . I acfc yui iu Junius. I Fowley?" (He who had never 1 riarl -11 v . . i f V J A. r? i ... " w A O