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Charlcs A. Spbacve
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Movie Propaganda j
THE democratic papers that hare been denouncing prop
aganda in the movie houses need to draw in their horns.
For the game is one the new dealers started themselves
The shorts now running in opposition to the new deal are b&
ing properly labeled" at the close as paid advertising spon
sored by The Crusaders, a non-partisan organization which
four years ago was working along with FDR for repeal of pro
hibition. . ' j .
But the new dealers were first to see the opportunities
for eploiting the picture public. Away last summer the WPA
called for bids from news reel concerns on the job of making
movies which according to the specifications Were to be of
such quality that "the finished production is to be of such
high entertainment standard as to be acceptable for exhibi
tion in any commercial theatre within the United States."
That the purpose was propaganda "for the, WPA is proven
by the fact that one of the terms of the contract as set forth
in the form of bid, was as follows : I
"8 DISTRIBUTION The contractor shall agree to
cause to be released andor distributed one jnewsreel story
on the subject of WPA activities each month during the life
of this contract through the medum of a nationally distri
buted newsreeL I
There you have it. Talk" about poisoning the minds of
the people with cleverly planted propaganda. Probably this
was what prompted opponents of the new deal, at their own
expense, to run as paid advertising movie shorts to combat the
new deal propaganda paid for at the expense of the public
treasury. ' . j
The contract was awarded by the government to Pathe
News, a nationally famous newsreel concern.
No wonder William R. Weaver, writing; in the July 15
issue of "Motion Picture Herald" saj's: "The, Work Progress
Administration of the U. S. A. has set out to' buyjts way to
the theatre public." '',-
One of the first of the propaganda films was produced
by Rex Tugwell's resettlement division, which brought in a
foreign camera-man to film the story "The' Plough that
Broke the Plains", as part of the propaganda for Tugwell's
"planning". The Fargo Forum of Fargo,-N.sD. exposed the
tricks used in this film. To exploit the drouth pictures were
shown of a steer's skull, all blanched, lying on th cracked,
parched earth. The Forum charged and it was later admitted
that the skull was just a photographer's "prop" moved from
spot to spot. You can find the blanched skeletons of steers on
the western, plains most every year; and you can find dried
out water holes where the earth is cracked every summer. But
the new dealers didn't scruple at falsifying the film and then
circulating it as scare propaganda among the people.
Significant was the declaration of one film company
when the call for bids was announced. Universal newsreel
in a page advertisement in the Motion Picture daily of May 21
declared its policy in part as follows : J
"From, now on the newsreel you show should be Indepen
dent. " .-):..
"The Universal Newsreel Is utterly independent of every
thing except your audience. j :
"It has no candidate for political preference.
"It is not carrying favor with peace advocates of war seek
ers.
"Don't let your screen be used for propaganda by anyone
- or any intern t. . .-. MM
"The Universal Newsreel Is happy and free." p
The Universal was the only standard newsreel company
not invited to bid on the WPA picture project !
Harry Hopkins will insist that the WPA films were
purely "educational" and not political. He is the chap who
. thinks he can get away with anything because, to quote him,
the "people are too damn dumb" to catch oni Well, the Cru-
tional." The difference is that the theatres run the Cru
sader films as paid advertising, while the WPA films get no
sponsorship label, and the theatre gets no pay for the prop
. aganda advertising. It is not that great public projects have
not ween puuiicizea. .rrojecis inte ooumer aam, Donneviue,
etc., have had ample publicity by newspapers and newsreel
companies, done for their news interest, not for propaganda
purposes. j
Propagandaby republicans, how can it begin to compare
with the endless stream of propaganda passed out by the
new deal agencies and paid for out of the billions appropriate
. by a compliant congress?
Too Much
LABOR organizations have been running to the government
to get officials to discipline naughty employers. Under
' Mr. Roosevelt, and under former executives too, govern
ment has exerted the crackdown, the most memorable inci
dent being the threat of Roosevelt I to send the army in to run
the anthracite mines at the' time of the coal strike in 1902.
The method however is a two-edged sword, as the organiza
: tions on the waterfront have reason to suspect. For the stiff
; reply by the doughty admirals who temporarily constitute the
'maritime commission carried something of the mailed fist in
words that were no velvet glove. The unions promptly ac
quiesced, unwilling ot defy the government agency. But. they
can see the danger of labor being made to dance to govern
ment music. , ' i : -
It is natural for; the public, worn out with the turmoil
on the waterfront, to demand decision by authority, to bring
. peace and to get the'strife off the front pages.
v With proper respect for the merit of arbitral award in
case of industrial dispute there is the menace of coercion
and of creation of more bureaucratic authority in establish
ing government agencies with powers such as the maritime
cjimiiissiun assumes, n is tne popular tning now to run to tne
government with every cut finger. The business can be over-
worked until the country is oppressed and overrun with gov
; ernment. -i V M j I
The danger ahead is of too much government, too many
with political authority; too little flexibility in the economic
and political structure. Government should be the very last
resort, not the first, in case of frictions. Patience has been
worn thin on the waterfront, so the "last resort" theory may
be in place there. But the habit is apt to grow to the ultima!
breakdown of government or the creeping paralysis of enter
prise. . ' : ' . j
The farm credit administration is beginning a campaign to get
the-farmer borrowers to pay up. The landbanks are , warning farm
ers they must bring their obligations to a current basis, and a letter
from the 'Information agent starts with the statement: "Getting oat
of debt Is the best investment a farmer can make any time." Very
true; but surprising gospel to come In times when spending Is the
rage, with the Jederal government, sponsor of the banks, settinr the
pace. But Jhen, nobody gets a headache at a champagne party so
long as the drinks last: i
An "old timer" calls to tell us the "1. O. G. T." referred to In
t ho old copy of Willamette Farmer described in this column a few
days ago was the order of Good Templars. It was a temperance organ
ization, sometimes ridiculed under the nickname," "I Often Get
Tight". It used to meet, along In the early days of Salem, in Rector's
hall, an early day . assembly place located just south of The Statesman
building. - . ' ' ; . . ! -
A Japanese volcano baa been belching hot lava. It is merely fol
lowing the national tradition of Imitation and trying to copy the
voUtical orators in the USA. r
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Managing-Editor.
Government
Bite for
Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
10-17-38
Jefferson Davis, secretary
of war, told Gorernor Curry
about the Coast reservation:
the officers then guarding it:
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(Concluding from yesterday:)
Not only on Rogue river, - but
throughout all of southern and
southeastern Oregon and ; north
ern California, was the so-called
Rogue River Indian war of 1856-
1858 over.
Old John, Its moving spirit.
and the last of its leaders to
surrender, was a captive and on
his way to the res e r v a 1 1 o a,
brought In by the command of
EL O. C. Ord, then a lieutenant.
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Lieutenant Ord was a part of
the picture in the ending of the
Rogue River Indian war, and the
same man, then Major General
Ord, was at Appomattox, with
Generals Sheridan and Grant, to
receive the sword of Lee the
three of them having learned
some of their lessons of success
through handling and fighting
Indians in the Oregon country.
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Historians generally spoke of
Chief John as "old" John. He was
not very old. Mrs. Victor said of
him: - . . r
"When dressed In civilized cos
tume, he presented an appear
ance not very different from that
of a hard workings farmer of
Pennsylvania or Ohio of 50 years
of age." i
She also said o him: "Chief
John was a bolder, firmer and
stronger man mentally than any
chief west of the Cascade moun
tains."
He had -also stoic savage cruel
ty and lack of pity characteristic
of the outstanding types of his
race when roused by deep hat
reds. . '
Lieut. Ord was born in Mary
land in 1818 and was of the
1839 West Point graduating
class; fought in the Seminole war
and did garrison duty at Monter
ey, Cal., in the Mexican war; be
came a brevet captain in 1850.
He sent arms and ammunition to
Oregon from California for the
use of citizen soldiers fighting the
Cayuse ,war in 1848, after the
Whitman massacre. These sup
plies arrived too late to be of
use as intended, because the news
of the need of them reached Ord
after the trouble was about over.
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Ord in the Civil war quickly
became brigadier general of vol
unteers; defeated the great rebel
cavalry leader. J. E. B. ("Jeb")
Stuart at Dranesrille, Va.. Dec.
21, '61. (Sheridan was the only
other commander to defeat
Stuart.) Ord became a major gen
eral of volunteers May 2, 1862.
In Oregon, besides bringing in
Chief John and his tribe, Ord
rounded up the Mackanotin.
Chetcoe and other tribes in south
western Oregon and northwestern
California. i !
Besides John F. Reynolds, ac
cording to the Jeff. Davis letter
in charge, at Fort Urapqua. sev
eral other low ranking officers
who in the Civil war achieved
high ranks were stationed at Fort
Umpqua. Among them was A. J.
Hardie, who was one of the six
West Point graduates ot 1843,
including Grant, who saw service
in our early Indian wars; the
others being Augur,- Dent, In
galls and Judah.
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John Fulton Reynolds was born
at Lancaster, Pa., in 1820; grad
uated with the 1841 class from
West Point.
In the Mexican war he partic
ipated in the defnese of Fort
Brown, Texas, and was engaged
in the battles of Monterey and
Beuna Vista. f t
At the outbreak of the Civil
war he was commandant at West
Point, and at once became a brig
adier general of volunteers, in
command of the Pennsylvania re
serve corps before Washington.
He was in the seven days battle
before Richmond, showing bril
liant tactics at Beaver Dam creek
but was later captured at Gaines's
Mill and afterward exchanged.
Next year be was in the Pen
insular and- Northern Virginia
campaigns and in the succeeding
Maryland campaign in command
of the Pennsylvania volunteer
militia for the defense of his nat
ive state. . ' '
In November, 1862, he was
given command of the first corps
of the Army of the Potomac and
promoted 'to the rank of major
general of volunteers.
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How did the Indians fare after
they were brought to the Coast
reseveration and guarded by U.S.
soldiers at . the three posts de
scribed in the Jeff. Davis letter?
Sheridan in his memoirs admit
ted that at first they did not fare
well: especially the tiroes in the
Siletz section, where he was ob
liged to interfere. The tribes near
Fort Yamhill, under Capt. Russell
and Lieut. Sheridan, were treated
and handled well; Sheridan gen
erously gave much of the credit
to Capt. Russell.
Mrs. Victor in her book said
among other things not creditable
to the government: - -. - . u
"At the reservation affairs did
not move smoothly. It was for the
most part a rugged and heavily
timbered country, bounded by
mountains on one side and by the
sea on the other. The Indians
complained that" the forest did
not afford game. The bouses hast
ily erected were not Inviting. The
shops, mills, farm machinery and
other beneficent gifts promised by
tne terms of the several treaties
were absent ... Even the com-
commissary department was a
failure, because congress delayed
making appropriations . . . The
quarterly expenses, of the Siletz
reservation (she should have caid
the Silets part ot the Coast res
ervation) , wbleh the Indians
found so desirable, ; were over
1100,000. a large part of which
sum was - expended ta , Improve
ments. - i - j :
The agent. R. B. Metcalf.
found his pay to be so meager as
Interpreting
-By MARK
! WASHINGTON, D. C, OcC 14.
The Immense advantage of the
radio to Mr. Roosevelt Ilea in the
persuasiven ess
of his TOlce. I
mean the tones
of his voice, the
lmbre, - as dis
tinguished from
the ; meaning of
his -words. The
hearer is moved
emotionally by
the ; tone, and
thereby is lulled
Into a coma with
respect to ; the
MAIS MUUvau
meaning Of the words.
Then the
listener, having heard the speech
over the radio, does not read it in
the newspapers. ; The result is
that, since the radio came,
speeches are judged by the ear,
rather than by the eye. And the
speaker whose voice has the more
charming appeal to the ear. has a
great advantage.
I have alluded ' before to the
charm : of Mr. Roosevelt's voice,
and have received letters of pro
test. There are some to whom Mr.
Roosevelt's tons and ovr-tones are
unsympathetic, but those are only
a fraction of the electorate. To a
great majority, Mr. ! Roosevelt's
cadences are agreeable. If the pre
sident's addresses were deUvered
in - the Ccecho Slovian tongue,
they . would be listened to with
pleasure. He could recite the Pol
ish alphabet, and it would be. ac
cepted as an eloquent plea for
disarmament. One could say of
Mr. Roosevelt's speeches what
"Mr. Dooley" said of the late
Senator Beveridge's ."Ye could
waits to them. Or. as a versifier
once said ot ephemeral popular
songs,
; "Provided the tune has a right
good swing,
"It doesn't matter what words
you sing."
: Yet, I suspect the republicans
could overcome Mr. Roosevelt's
vocal perusasiveness. Indeed
might even turn it into a boomer
ang. This campaign could be turn
ed into a real debate. Let the re
publicans delegate competent de
baters to take up each of the
president's speeches, examine it
with a cold eye, analyze It from
the point of view of the Intellect
rather than the emotions, and
present to the public a clear men
tal not emotional picture of
what the president said. o
The president's recent appeal
to. the farmers began
"In 1932 I pledged my admin
istration to a farm policy that
would help the farmer. Tonight
"every man and woman on an Am
erican farm who has read today s
market reports knows that we
have done what we said we
would do."
. About the accuracy of these
words there could be some de
bate. But let us Ignore, as a point
irrelevant here, the assertion that
"we have done what we said we
would do." Consider the infer
ence conveyed by Mr. Roosevelt's
persuasive tones. The Inference
is that the rise in prices of crops
between 1932 and -1836 was due
wholly to the president's farm
policy. This implies that but for
Mr. Roosevelt, crops priceswould
still be where they were in" 1932.
It amounts to saying that Mr."
Roosevelt brought about the re
covery from depression. If that
were true, then Mr. Roosevelt
must have been responsible for
the recovery that has taken place
throughout the world. And if Mr.
Roosevelt is the agency that
brought about world recovery,
then he -is subject to a serious
charge of lack of patriotism for
having discriminated against Am
erica, for having brought about
a greater recovery elsewhere than
he brought about in America.
I suspect that every competent
economist in the world would say
that . the recovery from this de
pression came about through na-
, Ten Years A30
October 17. 1926
' Formal dedication ot the
Knight Memorial church will.be
held today marking another pro
gress of . Salem churches.
A blazing troop ship laden with
munitions drifted today, an in
ferno of death to 1200 Chinese
soldiers. .
'. Stutt of Oregon will cooperate
in nnr movement looking toward
a reduction of telephone rates.
Twenty Years Ago
October 17. 1916
Annual state convention of Bap
tist church opens here.
i City budget is cut down for
year 1917, tentative figures near
ly $10,000 less.
Bitter battle going on in the
Transylvanian passes. Bucharest
report extremely strenuous war
fare waged. .
to offer no inducement for him
to remain; though he did remain.
and came out at the end of Tour
years with $40,0001"
That was a sample of a per-
cnetage of federal funds intended
to be used for the benefit of, In
dian wards going into the pockets
of unscrupulous and money hun
gry white men.
Some renegades remained in
the southwestern Oregon "sticks"
after all the parties conductd by
the U. S. soldiers had been de
livered to the Coast reservations.
But, July 2, 1858, Capt. Elisha
II. Meservey of the volunteer mil
itia reported from Gold Beach
to Governor Curry at Salem:
i "The last of the red men have
been captured AND SHOT, only
women and children spared, and
THEY are enroute for the reser
vation . . . This portion of Ore
gon will rest In tranquility." s
That report had a least a note
of finality satisfying to- whites
whose relatives had been - ruth
lessly robbed and murdered and
their buildings burned.
the News
SULLIVAN
tural forces, that the reepvery was
as an to ma tic aa tne- depression
Indeed, I suspect the - average
man would say this. If he put his
mind on it. Yet of all the falla
cies in the con temporary , world.
tne most widespread, the one that
will influence the. largest num
ber of votes In this election, Is the
fallacy that the party In power
brought about recovery. That fal
lacy, in some past periods of ris
ing prosperity, has operated to
the advantage of the republicans,
who happened to be In power at
a felicitous time. And I suppose
the republicans are barred from
complaining . when the fallacy
happens now to operate In favor
ot the democrats.
Mr. Roosevelt really thinks he
did It. He said once before that
he and his policy brought about
the rise in farm prices. He said
it under circumstances, which
showed how deeply he believed
it. On May 31, 1935, Mr. Roose
velt devoted an hour and a quar
ter In an extraordinary press con
ference to' attacking the supreme
court's decision in validating N.
R. A. One of bis reasons lor at
tacking the N. R. A. decision was.
he. said that the same principle
of law, if applied to Triple A,
would invalidate Triple-A also
Triple-A had not yet come before
the court. And invalidation of
Triple-A- I quote from an ac
count of what Mr.tloosevelt said
as printed in the 'New York
Times. June 1, 1935: "If we
abandon crop control, wheat
would immediately drop to 36
cents -a bushel and cotton to 5
cents a pound."
Some of the other accounts did
not include the word "immedi
ately" but no matter. Competent
economists knew that neither Im
mediately nor within any foresee
able future, neither by an ad
verse decision ot the supreme
court on Triple-A nor from any
other foreseeable cause, would
wheat drop to 36 cents a bushel
or cotton to 6 cents a pound. 1
recall suggesting that if Mr
Roosevelt would like to make a
bet on his prediction, takers could
be found.- . -. j .
In due course, the test of the
president's Judgment came. On
January 6, of the present year,
the supreme court got around to
Triple-A. The court, invalidated
Triple? A. That was more than
nine months ago. And wheat and
cotton have not dropped in price.
on the contrary they have risen
The error of Mr. Roosevelt's eco
nomic understanding suggests
that he is a poor not a good con
troller of agriculture.
Mr. Roosevelt's recent cam
paign speech to farmers achieved
fallacy by commission and .fallacy
by omission. He gave a detailed.
compact summary of his actions
about farming. To the ear, it
sounded thrilling. The summary
omitted to say that Triple-A had
forbidden farmers to grow more
'potatoes than the government dic
tated. It did say that Triple-A
(until the supreme-court invali
dated it) provided fine and im
prisonment for any farmer who
sold "bottleg" potatoes, or any
customer who bought them.
Mr. Roosevelt turned to the
farm program now proposed by
Governor Landon. About this
plan Mr. Roosevelt said of all
things that it would cost too
much.
Think of that! now Franklin
D. Roosevelt ! counting the cost.
About the merit of the charge I
know nothing. There may be
something in it. Yet the specta
cle of President Roosevelt mak
ing a charge of extravagance
against Governor Alfred M. Lan
don of Kansas- that is something
for what I am told is called, in
the regrettably vulgar idiom of
this unregenerate day, a "Belly
laugh." Sew Tork Hrld Triton Eyndict.
. Compiled sy Ralph C MorrUon wh
kw udt his hem ia OregoB for 15
years. Mr. Morrison was bora in Kansas
an4 attended th Unirersity of Kansas
He was . onnecttd wits the editorial de
partment of the Kansas City Star for ten
yean preTions to his moving to Portland,
Orefoa. . ! .
What will Alfred M. Landon do
as president of the United States?
William Allen White, the great
Kansas editor,, who has been, one
of the canniest political commen
tators In the. United States since
the days ot Theodore Roosevelt,
has been one of Alf Landon s
closest friends since Alf 's college
days. After the death of his first
wife, Alf spent much time with
Mr. White bathing himself In the
atmosphere of a normal home and
getting , hold Of himself. Mr.
White has given us something on
which to base our judgment as
follows: :.: - .. ! l. . ...I "
"In a sense Landon Is a pioneer.
Lincoln was. Landon has more ex
perience In politics and in busi
ness and in dealing with men -and
Influencing them than Lincoln
had. . ' .1
"This much Is sure. Alf M. Lan
don will be a fair man. 'He ex
hibits no vanity. He judges men
shrewdly. He ; keeps his own
counsel. He lays his own . plans,
projects his own way.
"In his inaugural address and
his messages to the legislature, he
has quoted Hegel and various aca
demic economists. ' In the living
room of the executive residence,
one may see the old fashioned
standard magazines Harper's.
The Atlantic Monthly. Scribner's,
often The Nation's Business, The
Saturday Evening Post. The New
Republic and the Nation,, always
a New; York daily newspaper, and
invariably a good - novel and the
current book of sociology or pop.
utar science.) He respects the
world of books and the university
cloister. 'Before every Important
political move he has made in
Kansas, he has consulted an aca
demician, but Landon has not
given the professor executive
power. He has taken the expert's
wisdom, bet has kept power for
himself. : i 4 .
"That Is his sort canny and
candid. At once forthright in m
Landon..
The Man
By SINCLAIR LEWIS .
The .guards were not far down
the corridor, and their rifles were
already loaded. It was In less than
a minute' that Aras Dilley was
saluting from the door, and Shad
was shouting, "Come here! Grab
this dirty crook!' He pointed at
Fowler. "Take him along outside."
They did, for all of Fowler's
struggling. Aras Dilley jabbed
Fowlers right wrist with a bay
onet. It spilled blood down on his
hand, so scrubbed for surgery,
and like blood his red hair tumb
led over his forehead. ;
Shad marched out . with them.
pulling his automatic pistol from
its holster and looking at it hap
pily. Doremiis was held, his mouth
was clapped shut, by two guards
as he tried to reach Fowler. Emil
Staubmeyer seemed a little scared,
but Effingham Swan, suave; and
amused, leaned his elbows on the
table and tapped his teeth with
a pencil. - -
From the courtyard, the sound
of a rifle voile y.. a terrifying
wail, one single emphatic shot,
and nothing after. .
- . CHAPTER XX
The real trouble with the Jews
is that they are cruel. Anybody
with a knowledge of history
knows how they tortured poor
debtors in secret catacombs, all
through the Middle Ages. Where
as the Nordic is distinguished by
his gentleness and bis- kind
heartedness to friends, children,
dogs, and people of inferior races.
Zero Hous, Berzelius Windrip.
The review In Dewey Haik's
provincial court of Judge Swan's
sentence on Green hi 11 was in
fluenced by County Commissioner
Ledue's testimony that after the
execution he found in Green hill's
house cache of the most sed
itious documents: copies of Trow
bridge's Lance for Democracy,
books by Marx and Trotsky.
Communistic pamphlets urging
citisens to assassinate the Chief.
Mary, Mrs. Greenhill, Insisted
that her husband had never read
such things; that, if anything, he
had been too indifferent to pol
itics. Naturally, her word could
not be taken against that of
Commissioner Ledue. Assistant
Commissioner Staubmeyer
(known verywhere as a scholar
and a man of probity), and Mil
itary Judge Effingham Swan. It
was necessary to punish Mrs.
Greenhill or rather, , to give a
strong warning to other Mrs.
Greenhills by seizing, all the
property and money Greenhill
hatT left her.
Anyway, Mary did not fig,ht
very vigorously. Perhaps she re
alized her guilt. In two days she
turned from the crispest, smart
est, most swift-spoken woman in
Fort Beulah into a silent hag,
dragging about in sbabby'and un
kempt black. Her son and she
went to - live with her father,
Doremus Jessup. ,
Some said that Jessup should
have fought for her and her pro
perty. But he was not legally
permitted to do so. He was on
parole, subject, at the will of the
properly constituted, authorities,
to a penitentiary sentence.'
So Mary returned to the house
and the overstuffed bedroom she
had left as a bride. She could. not
she said, endure its memories.
She took the attic room that bad
never been quite "finished 'off."
She sat up there all day, all ev
ening, and her parents never
heard a sound. But within a week
her David was playing about the
yard most joyfully ... playing
that he was an M.M. officer.
The whole house semed dead.
and all that were in it seemed
frightened, nervous, forever wait
ing for somthing unknown all
save David -and, perhaps, Mrs.
Candy, bustling In her kitchen.
The office was deader than his
home. The worst of it was that
it wasn't so very bad that, : he
saw, he could slip into serving
the Corpo state with, eventually.
no more sense of shame than
was felt by old collegues of his
who in pre-Corpo days had writ
ten advertisements for fraudulent
mouth washes or tasteless cigar
ettes, or written for supposedly
reputable - magazines mechanical
stores about young love. In a
waking nightmare after his im
prisonment, Doremus had pictur
ed Staubmeyer and Ledue in the
nformer office standing over
him with whips, demanding that
he turn out sickening praise for
the Corpos, yelling at him until
he rose and killed and was kill
ed. . Actually, Shad stayed away
from . the office, and Doremus'a
master, Staubmeyer, was ever so
certain self-sufficiency. His charm
hi a cordial modesty. He is senti
mental as a girl and wise as a
serpent a curious fellow. But
what man is not when you know
him well as he stands under the
klieg lights of even transitory
fame?"
Conservation Unit
Plans New Budget
DALLAS, Oct. 16 The di
rectors of -the Polk County Agri
cultural Conservation association
met and prepared a budget for the
new program. The directors from
the various parts of the county
are: C. W. Brandstetter, H. D.
Pence, Robert Mitchell. H. N.
Dickinson. W. Frank Crawford. H.
P. Elkins, and Claud Hoisington.
It Is not -definitely known what
the total amount of money will
be that can come to Polk county,
but it Is estimated to be over
$100,000 and may even rearh
$14,000. according to W. C. Leth,
county agent.
Budgets for the various county
associations are not supposed to
exceed B per cent of the total
grants in the count, but because
it is difficult to determine the
costs of - administering the pro
gram . and of- making the field
measurements, the committee felt
it necessary to make the budget
a little high in order to make ad
ditional allowance. It is estimated
that the expense of the. program
will be about $S000 althoagh'the
budget as prepared - called for
about $S000. 1
nlere
i friendly and modest and rather
nauseaungiy run or praise tor nis
eratsraanship. Staubmeyer seemed
satisfied vWhen, instead ot the
"apology" demanded by Swan,
Doremus stated that "Henceforth
this paper will cease all criticisms
of the present government."
Doremus received from District
Commissioner . Reek a jolly tele
gram thanking him for "gallantly
deciding turn you great talent
service people and correcting er
rors doubtlss made by us in ef
fort set up new more realistic
state. Ur! said Doremus and
did not chuck the message at the
clothes-basket waste-basket, but
carefully walked over and ram
med it down amid the trash,
i He was able, by remaining with
the Informer In her prostitute
days, to ' keep . Staubmeyer from
discharging Dan Wilgus, who was
sniffy i to-the new boss and un
naturally respectful now to Dore
mus. And he Invented what he
called ! the "Yowyow editorial."
This was a dirty device of stat
ing -as strongly as he could an
indictment of Corpoisra, then an
swering it as feebly as he could,
as with a whining "Yow-yow-yow
thats what you say!" Neither
Staubmeyre nor Shajl caught him
at it, but Doremus hoped fear
fully that the shrewd Effingham
Swan would never see the Yow
yows. I '
So 'week on week he got along
not too badly and there was not
one minute when he did not
hate this filthy slavery, when he
did not have to force himself to
stay there, when he did not snarl
at himself, "Then why do you
stay?'! r .
His I answers to that challenge
came glibly and conventionally
enought: "He was ; too old to
start in life again. And he had
a wife and family to support"
Emma;, Sissy, and now Mary and
David.i ,
All Stbese years he had heard
responsible men who weren't be--ing
quite honest radio announc
ers who soft-soaped speakers who
were- fools and wares that were
trash, land who canayishly chirp-'
ed "Thank you. Major Blister"
when thy would rather have kick
ed Major Blister, preachers who
did not believe the decayed doc
trines 1 they dealth out, doctors
who ; did not dare tell lady in
valids ; that they were sex-hungry
exhibitionists, merchants who
peddled brass for gold heard all
of them complacently excuse
themselves by explaining that
they were too old to change. and
that they had "a wife and family
to support.'
Why not let the wife and fam
ily die of starvation or get out
and hustle for themselves, if by
no other means the world could
have th echance of being freed
irom tne most Doresome, most
dull, and foulest disease of hav-.
ing always to be a little dishon
est? 1 ; fr . "
I Thoughts of Etape
-So she raged and went f on
grinding out a paper dull and a
little dishonest but not forever.
Otherwise the history ot Doremus
Jessup- would he too drearily
common to be worth recording.
' Aga)n and again, figuring it
out on rough sheets of copy pap.
er (adorned also with concentric
circles! squares, whorls, and the
most improbable fish), he esti
mated! that even without selling
the Informer or his bouse, as
under j Corpo espionage he cer-r
tainly pould not if he fled to Can
ada, he could cash in about $20,
000. Say enough to give. him an
income; of a thousand a year
twenty dollars a week, provided
Tue could smuggle the money oflt
of thelcountry, which the Corpos
were dally making more diffi
cult. Well, Emma, and Sissy and
Mary and he could live on that,
in a four-room cottage, and per
haps Sissy and Mary could find
work. I
j But!: a3 for himself
I It was all very, well to talk
about men like Thomas Mann and.
Lion Feuchtwanger and Romain
Holland, -who in exile remained
writer! whose every word was in
demand, about Professors Ein
stein or salreminl, or, under Cor
poism.) about the recently, exiled
or self-exiled Americans. Walt
Trowbridge. Mike Gold, William
Allen IWhite, John Dos Passos,
H. L. Mencken, Rexford Tugwell,
Oswald Villard. Nowhere in the
world, ! except possibly in Green
land or Germany, would such
stars, be unable to find work and
soothing respect. But what was
an ordinary newspaper hack, es
Budget Group For
Jefferson Named
it
Two Special Policemen Are
Assigned For . Duty
f on Hallowe'en
JEFFERSON, Oct. 1 . At the
regular meeting of the city coun
cil, a 1 communication from the
federal administration of public
works In regard to waiving liqui
dated damages in the sum ot $20
a. dayj and the necessary engi
neering incurred on ccount ot ex
tension of time was approved.
Councilman W. L. Cobb an
nounced that only four persons
refused to sign the petition pre
sented' toward the building of a
new city hall. Application for
funds; will be made to the PWA
Immediately, for this project.
Name Budget Group
The following persons were
named on the budget committee:
L. L. Shields, Dr. J. O. VanWin
kle, Harry Roland, E. A. Barlow,
and W. S. MeClain. They will
meet with the city council Wed
nesday evening, October 21. On
the election board there were
named: Bertha Curl, Grace Thurs
ton, and Mrs. L. H. Knight,
judges; and Miss: Anna Klampe
and Ruth Cobb, as clerks.
Special police for Halloween
will be B. B. Smith and A. Wil
son. I -
The water committee was in
structed to look after the busi
ness of putting la a four Inch
By
SINCLAIR LEWIS
pecially If he was over forty-five.:
to do In a strange land and
more especially if he had a wife
named Emma (or Carolina or
Nancy or Grlselda or anything
else) who- didn't at all fancy
going and living in a sod hut on
behalf of honesty and freedom?
So debated Doremus, like some
hundreds of thousands ot -other
craftsmen, teachers, lawyers,
what-not, in some dozens of coun
tries under dictatorship, who
were aware enough to resent the
tyranny, conscientious enough not
to take its bribes cynically, yet
not so abnormally courageous as
to go willingly to exile or dun
geon or chopping block partic
ularly when they "had wives and r
families to support." . f
Doremus hinted once to Emil
Staubmeyer that. Emil was "get
ting into the ropes so well" that
he thought of getting out, of
quitting newspaper work for
good. -
The httherto.frlendly Mr.
Staubmeyer said sharply, "What'd
you do? Sneak oft to Canada and
join the propagandists afainst
ine enter t jo tning doing: xou a
stay right here and help me-
help us!" And that afternoon
Commissioner Shad Ledue should
ered in and grumbled "Dr. Staub
meyer tells me you're doing
pretty fairly good work, Jessup,
but I want to warn you to keep
it up. Remember t h t Judge
Swan only let you out on parole
. . . to me! You can do fine if
you just set your mind to it!" .
"If you just set your mind to
It!" The one time when the boy
Doremus had hated his father
had been when he used that con- .
descending phrase.
Perhaps his worst Irritations
were that Staubmeyer had push
ed a desk and nis sleek, sweaty
person into Dor era us 's private of
fice, once sacred to his solitary
grouches, ' and that Doc Itchitt,
hitherto his worshipping disciple,
seemed always to be' secretly
laughing at him.
Under a tyranny, most friends
are a liability. ' One quarter of
them turn "reasonable" and be
come your enemies, one quarter
are afraid to stop and speak and
one, quarter are killed and you
die with them. But the blessed
final quarter keep you alive.
When he was with Lorinda,
gone was all the -pleasant toy ins
and sympathetic talk with which
they -had relieved' boredom. She
was fierce now, and vibrant. Shd
drew him close enough to her,
but Instantly she would be think
ing of him only as a comrade in ;
plots to kill off the Corpos. (And
it was pretty much a real killing
off that she meant! there wasn't
left to view any great amount of
her plausible pacifism.)
She was busy with- good and
naHlall a 0 T A v4 Vtnnnw
had not been able to keep her
In the Tavern' kitchen; she had
so systematized the work that
she had many days and evening .
free, and she had started a cook-i 1
ing-class for farm girls and yonn?
the provincial and Industrial gen
erations, h a d learned neither
good rural cooking with a wood
fire,' nor yet how to deal with
canned goods and electric grills
and who most certainly had not
learned how to combine so as to
compel the tight-fisted little loc
ally owned power-and-light com
panies to furnish electricity at
tolerable rates.
"Heavensake, keep this - quiet, -but
I'm getting acquainted with
these country gals getting,, ready
for the day when we begin: to, or
ganize against the Corpos. I de
pend on them, not the well-to-do
women that used to want suffrage
but that can't endure the thought
of revolution," Lorinda whisper
ed to him. "We've got to do
something."
"All right, Lorinda B. An
thony," he sighed.
And Karl Pascal stuck.
At Pollikop's garage, when he
first saw Doremus after the jail
ing, he said, "God, I was sorry
to hear about their pinching you,
Mr. Jessup! But say, aren't you
ready to join us Communists
now?" (He looked about anxious-- '
ly as he said it.) x
"I though there weren't any
more Bolos.
"Oh," we're supposed to be wip
ed out. But I guess you'll notice
a few mysterious strikes starting
now and then, even though there
can't be any more strikes! Why '
aren't yon joining us? There's
where you. belong, e-comrade!"
(To Be Continued.)
ter main oa Ferry: street; and
making some changes ia the wa
ter mains at Clark's service sta
tion near the north city limits.
C. 8. Emery was paid $125 for
the lot on Third street on which
the city well is located. Various
other bills were paid. ,
Funeral Services Held I
For Anna Odekirk, 58
WOODBURN, Oct. 1$. Funer
al services for Mrs. Anna Ode
kirk 58, who died Tuesday ev
ening in Portland, were held from
St. Luke's Catholic church Thurs
day morning at S o'clock. Mrs.
Odeklrk was a daughter ot the
late Jacob Miller of Woodburn,
and is survived by her widower,
Tom Odeklrk of Tillamook; son,
Albert; six brothers George.
Henry, Ben. Matt, Jake and Laurence-
all of Woodburn i a sister,
Mrs. Katie .Hereford of Portland.
Interment was in St. Luke's cem
etery. Barbara Jean Brown Is
Laid to Rest at Cervais
GERVAIS, Oct. IS. -Barbara
Jean, eixht-months-old danchter
of Raymond and Margaret Brown,
died at a Salem hospital Tuesday
morning following an operation.
Funeral services-were held at the
Pioneer church Wednesday r "
ternoon. Rev. D. J. Gillanders t f
Woodburn officiating and burl i
waa in the Pioneer cemetery 1.1
der direction of th th
el of Woodburn. . :
it' ' ''