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PAGE FOUU tL9 VKtMUn STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, -ltiestay Morning, octooer z, ivatt 5 Founded 1151 "So Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall Axce" " From First Statesman, March 28. 1851 ZO.KS.lX3 A. Spkagcs Sheldon F. Sackett THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. . Member of tit Associated Press t The Associated Prtu Is xcloslvelr entitled to tha u for pubi:-. tkm ot a:l mwi dispatches credited to It or Bot otherwise credited in tW j paper. ' Tar T lrriitfltinn i. - ' ' ' : " - " I- . REAL ESTATE OWNERS are applying for relief through a constitutional amendment limiting the millage levy for taxation. The method is to allow the state six mills for 1937, then the rate must step down until lor iy-ia ana suDse quent years the maximum would be 4.8 mills. For subordin- , ate taxing units the 1935 levy would be taken as a base, and then it would scale down until for 1942 the maximum for each unit would be 80 per cent of the 1935 levy. Another very imoortant section of the bill is the one which requires that all property be assessed at 50 per r' i -1 1 I- 1 A 1 1L Ilgures snail ue useu tu ;y uie u. un. ; The contention of the promoters of the amendment may be stated simply. Tangible property is now forced to pay more than 80 per cent of the taxes which are levied and col lected, while it represents 'only 50 per cent of the wealth of the state. The other half represents intangible property such as stocks, bonds, etc The burden has grown too heavy for real property to carry; so taxes have gone delinquent. In cities som buildings are being torn down just to escape the tax burden. : - , i In 1934-a tax limitation amendment was voted down v161,644 to 100,565. The present measure is not so drastic as the one two years ago. . ! The trouble with this amendment is it is only half com pleted. Where will the "remainder of the money come from to run the government with ? The realty owners say, "That's not our worry". ; perhaps not ; but it is the concern of the voters; and before they vote an arbitrary limit on tangible property taxes they will want to know just where the lost revenues are to be obtained. Hint a sales tax' and people get their backs up. The only source in sight other than a sales tax would appear to be the income tax, with sharply lowered exemptions and increased rates. We doubt if the people would vote such an income tax; and if they see it or a sales tax in sight they will probably vote down this amendment. . U In some respects the proposed amendment is late. Prop erty values including assessed valuations have discounted the high tax feature of property ownership. The effect then of a lowering of tax burden on property would be to increase net income for owners and very quickly boost property values. Ultimately by the grinding laws of economics adjustments are made to whatever burden scale property) is forced to bear. On the whole that adjustment has already been made. On another way property is in line for some relief, ex cept for local burdens, and that is by increases in tax receipts from corporation, income and intangibles taxes and other in direct sources. About the best that property; owners may hope to do is to fight legislation which will increase the bur dens on property. They will have plenty of opportunity for that in the next legislatre. - I Until some satisfactory substitute is devised to replace the revenues which the tax limit would cut off for the city, the school districts, etc., we recommend, j : . Vote 311 X No. : ! Prosperity Notes j ' fiROM the Oregon Journal for Oct. 16, 1936: j ' LDiiea aiaies aieei common auiancpa 2 points 10 a new , five-year high at 77 to lead an active rise on the stock ex change today. c i i ' ' "The rails were carried higher by widening demand In spired by higher earnings and a new six-year high In car load ings. Chrysler joined the new highs by crossing 129 to the best levels Since 1929 bull market days. . .- Coppers made new highs , . . . Silvers followed. Demand for copper was sustained. It was 'reported armament companies were heavy buyers of the metal -In Europe." ' From the Orecoh Journal for Oct., 11. 1929: "New high round on the l tia 9Mnn nt atvr Va An that advance took in a wide range of stocks. "New York Central. around 230 was up 9 points from Monday' low in tardy response ? 'to the offering of valuable rights. . . Lackawanna; Norfolk and Western and New Haven were all higher . . . Public utilities were .strong under the leadership of Consolidated Gas . . ; . A new iBvonie wu L m it?u r run up s (wiun ai n. iup ' ,per stocks responded to the publication of September statis- ; tics i . The band should start up than the one in 1928 and 1929? l Judge John H. McNarv i , A LL OREGON WILL MOURN the passing of Judge John H. McNary, a distinguished native son. Salem was his :: home through practically all of his life, though in his years on the federal bench he spent the working days of the week in Portland. Here his friends have been ; and here his -friends grieve over the loss which they have sustained, y ' Judge McNary began his career as reporter and city editor on The Oregon Statesman; and remained through Kfe a warm friend of this paper. He became county recorder, then Studied law, served as district attorney, and practiced his profession here with his brother, now Senator Charles H. McNary, for many years, until his appointment as federal judge in 1927. He" was studious and diligent as lawyer and iidge ; and a man of great personal charm. His modest bear ing, his keen intelligence, his warm sympathies were char acteristics which bound those he met close to him. ; His life was rich in accomplishment, most of which he brought with his own efforts; and his memory will long be prized in Oregon. ! Election npHIS IS THE SEASON when politicians try to become X mathematicians, or astronomers who can determine ac- curately the poll of the ballots next Tuesday Brief items of, interest, in case you have not already learned them, are: ? Total number of electoral votes, 531 ; Oregon casts 5. Highest number for any state, 47 in New York. Pennsylvania has 36 ; Illinois 29 ; Ohio 26 ; Texas 23 ; California,22. " Results of elections since 1896 have been t 1896 : McKinley, R. 271 ; Bryan, D. 176. i : 1900: McKinley. R. 292: Brrs.n. D. 15. i 1904 : T. Roosevelt, R. 336 : 1908: Taft, R. 321; Bryan, D. 162. 1912 : Wilson, D. 435 ; T. Roosevelt, P. 88 ; Taft, R. 8. : 1916: Wilson, V. 277; Hughes, R. 254. " 1920: Harding, R. 404; Cox, D. 127. 1928 : Hoover, R. 444 ; Smith. D. 87. 1932: F. Roosevelt, D. 472; Hoover, R. 59. Hayden for Justice j MILLER B. HAYDEN is running for reelection as justice of the peace. His opponent is one William McKinney. , ; This is NOT William W. McKinney, competent young Salem attorney, but another William McKinney, who is not an attorney at all. . Wre do not know who he is, and have found few who do. He is reported to have had a job on the' govern ment's resettlement-project at Silver Creek Falls; and to have been a salesman, a school teacher and an insurance agent Certainly his training is not one to earn him the job sis justice of the peace. - ' J ; Voters should not be confused. .Vote for Miller B. Hay 3en. :. ... " J Editor-Managtr llanagxng-Editor Amfnrlmnt I cent of its true value, which 4- i recovery was entered by the stock tiiu all tnnfrel cnnflHenpe Th "Happy Days are Here Again . I Facts : Parkxr. D. 140 Bits for Brealcfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Sheridan's famous ride; 1 0-27-3 ff how It was actually made. as told by Sheridan himself in his bookr "Personal Memoirs:" (Continuing from Sunday:) Meanwhile Lowell's brigade of cavalry, which, it will be remem bered, had been holding on, dis mounted, just north of Middle- town ever since the time I arriv ed from Winchester, fell to the rear for the purpose pt setting their led horses. "A momentary nanic was cre ated in the nearest brieade of In fantry by this withdrawal of Low ell, but as soon as his men were mounted they charged the enemy clear -no to the stone walls in the edge of Middletown: at sight of this the Infantry brigade renewed its attack, and the enemy's right gare way. . . "The accomplished Lowell re ceived his death-wound in thia courageous charge. "ALL OUR TROOPS WERE NOW MOVING ON THE- RE- T R E A TINO CONFEDERATES, and as I rode to the front Colonel Gibbs, who succeeded Lowell. made ready for another mounted cnarge, out x cnecaea mm irom pressing the enemy's right, in the nope that the :swinrine attack from my rirht would thrnw nmi of the Confederates to the east of the vauey pike, and hence off their line of retreat through Stras burg to Fisher's Hill. " . "m - ' The eagerness of the men mnn irostratea this anticinatlon. how ever, the left insisting upon keep ing pace witn the center and right, and all pushing ahead till we RE- UAuiAil UUK ULD C1MPS AT CEDAR CREEK. "Beyond Cedar creek, at Stras burg, the pike makes ji sharp turn to me lert toward Fisher's Hill. and there Merritt -united with Custer, they together fell on the flank of the retreating columns, taking many prisoners, wagons and guns, among the prisoners be ing Major General Ramseur, who, mortaly wounded, died the next uay. S - "When the newa of the victory was received. General nrant di rected a salute of 10 0 shotted guns to be fired In Petersburg, and the nresident fT.fnrnlni j r once thanked the army in an au- . . . . -. lograpn letter. (President Lincoln's letter. dated Oct. 22, 1864. at Washing ton, and directed to Major Gen eral Sheridan, read: "With great pleasure I tender to you and your orave army the thanks of the na tion, and my own personal admir ation and gratitude for the month's ODeration in the short andoah raller. and estteciallv for the splendid work of October 19, 1864. ) i . . "The direct result of the hattl was the recanture of all the ar tillery, transportation and camp equipment we had lost, and in ad- anion Z4 pieces of the enemy's artillery, 1200 prisoners, and a number of battle flags. "But more still flowed from this victory, succeeding as it did the disaster of the morning, for the reoccupation of our old camps at once reestablished a morale which for some hours had been greatly endangered by ill for tune." S " So ends Sheridan's deacrintian of events leading up to the battle or ceaar creek, and of the battle itself. It was not till after the battle that Sheridan learned fully what had taken place before his arrival. General Jubal A. Early, leading Confederate general, had con ceived a brilliant attempt to re gain what had been lost at the battle of the Opequon a month to a day before. But the timely arrival of Sheri dan, after Earlv'a lurnrli nfrht attack, brought disastrous defeat. ana soon followed the complete cleaning no of the rich Shenan doah valley and this was the last action of consequence by General Kany, the whilom hope of the Confederacy in that field. Within a short nerlnd r.,nni Early, with three of his compan ion generals and 15 to 20 men, escaped across the Blue Ridge. uenerai Karlr made a in at stand later, after the surrender of Ltoe, or which he . had not ret heard. He. was discovered with a few companions crossinr the IfU. sissippi river below Vicksburg in row ooai, leading two horses. , rrooners under SherMan thr gave chase, capturing the horses, but not the men. They were on meir way to join Confederate troops in Texas who had sur rendered, but of whose surrender Early was not yet Informed. (Horses were valuable, hnt the Ut S. forces had more robel nrl. oners than they wanted.) m General Early wrote a letter tn Sheridan demanding nav from the government for the two captured norses claiming they were his private property, as he had taken them in battle from United States forces in bis aggressive days. -mat was the last appearance of General Early's name in the history Of the Civil war and Can. eral Davles In his book on Gen eral Sheridan wrote: "There is no record that the rlalm he an mnA. estly urged has ever been acknowl edged and paid by the United States treasury." That was written in irony. ; V . Nearly every reader of this column has seen the great poem. Sheridan's Ride." by Thomas Buchanan Read, leadinr noet and artist of the Civil war period and many Of them have reoiteH ft nr heard It recited. Some of them will recall with high feelings how the words rolled on the last day ot school. That poem was nredfeated urxm the notion that General Sheri dan rode 20 miles from Win chester to Cedar Creek on that memorable morning of October ! is, l54, mounted on his fam- jr. tie Record By DOROTHY THOMPSON i Xatioaalisne and tbe CT-s There waa never a better mo ment in history for an intelli ent and liberal conservatism with i- principles and a policy to assume the leadership in almost ny west ern country.- The 4 ore a k a o w n of Marx ian ism. which has been the rallying idea i for most of the forces w h I e h were working to brine about Porotby Tbompsoa fund amDtll changes in social structures, is, I think, irreparable. And this in spite of the fact that much of the Marxian critique, of the cap italist system is unanswerable. The potential productive capacit ies; 'its failure to keep the eco nomic apparatus .continually func tioning; Its failure to prevent the growth oC a large population liv ing at sub-marginal, standards these are all facts, and for years now," they have overshadowed the other unquestionable advantages of capitalism; the fact that it has been accompanied by a greater amount of political liberty, civil rights, opportunieies for the es pecially fit, and has produced more wealth than the world could once have dreamed of. .,- But the Marxian answer to the problem is based upon premises which have been demonstrated to have little political reality. The Marxians propose the expropria tion of Capjtal, either by force or by law, and hope to achieve this by the organization of the non owning classes, into a class- con scious party. They have argued that the non-owning classes are the overwhelming majority in any country; that they will naturally attract to themselves the classes whose ownership Is ephemeral and unreal tbe debtor-class in any economy, notably the poorer farmers plus the salaried intell ectuals whose discontent Is sup ported by Intellectual awareness. A struggle will be organized by this numerically superior class, and with the Instruments of dem ocratic representation, and the power to cripple capitalism by the strike, they will capture political power. The principle appears to be per fectly logical, but the fact Is that it simply has not worked, even given the most favorable possible circumstances. Those favorable circumstances are: Economic de pression with consequent wide spread social misery, and civil lib erties which guarantee a forum for the expression of social dis content, and afford an opportun ity to educate and to organize. In a large part of the western world economic depression has been al most continuous since the war; in some section it has been acutely aggravated by a lost war. England had ten solid years of depression before she began to emerge from it; Germany and most of central Europe have had far more downs than ups. Most western countries were, from 1919 to 1932, polit ical democracies, in which Social ist and Communist class parties were legal. In Europe Marxian ag itation was prodigious; its liter ature is Immense; and at mo ments class parties have legally held the power. But, unless dem ocracy itself has been definitely threatened by an antidemocratic dictatorial a 1 1 a c k, as it is in Spain, it has been impossible to organize the class struggle to the point where the workers will stand toether and fight, either with force or with ballots. They have been sufficiently strong and united to bring about Immense social - disorder, to hamper and even cripple the working of cap italism. But they have not ex propriated it. And, eventually, they have been countered by Fas cism; which, in the showdown has invariably proved itself more powerful. The argument of the Marxists that their collapse Is due to the superior financial , power ot cap italism and its ability to use that power to purchase the instru ments of force, simply will not hold water. There have repeated ly been times when capitalism waa flat on its back ana wnen tne in struments of political power were definitely, already, in the hands of the representatives or tne working classes. That was true at one time in Germany; it is true at this moment in France. Why do they not use that power to carry their philosophy to its log ical conclusion! - The reason ' is that the Class Struggle Is not a reality. The class idea Is not the strongest force dominating the minds and emo tions of even the most exploited. When Mr. . Harold La ski com plains, as he did in a recent is-. sue of "The Nation," apropos the meeting o! the Trade Union Con gress in England, that the work ers did not seem to realize the truth of the class struggle, he put himself in a really comic posi tion. For if the workers do not realize it, and cannot be mobil ized for decisive action around it. then the class struggle simply does not exist. No revolution was ever yet made by a syllogism. There are psychological forces en ormously stronger than class In terests. And of all t h e s e, the strongest. It- would appear. Is Na tionalism. For is not the whole history of the last . twenty-fire years one universal assertion 01 the FACT of nationalism? Inter national class solidarity could not prevent the war; it could not pre vent the peace that was made; ou 9 war steed. Jet black except ing for three white feet. The readers of this series, now drawing to a close, know that the distance of the ride was only about 12 miles, and that It was not made at all In the manner described by the poet. But it was a great ride and a great poem. too, and a great picture illustrat-J ing the poem, ? (Continued tomorrow.) it could not hold together great economic complexes like the old Austro-Hnngarian Empire, which from a Marxian point of view wax an Infinitely preferable field for operation than half a doxen small states. And since the war. In the revolutionary epoch through which we have been living. Is it not an outstanding fact, . that whenever the class idea has con fronted a clear National Idea, whenever class interests have confronted national Interests, the class Idea and the class Interests, hare capitulated? The ease with which Mussolini, well-trained Socialist that he was, swung the emotions of his nation away from the class strugle toward the idea of the revival of the Roman Her itage; the ease with which Hitler swung the aggressive Instincts of the German masses away from hostility toward tbe bourgeoisie and against what he dextrously created as an "alien element" these are startling phenomena from which one is forced to learn. Perhaps the most amazing dem onstration of. the virility of the national idea Is Russia. Today the idea of Russian nationalism is far stronger than the idea of inter national working-class solidarity. This fact Is daily demonstrated. As a result that country is in a serious diplomatic dilemma, and is totally incapable of a clearly Integrated . policy.,' Her national pride rests, in her prestige as the world's finest workers' Soviet. Her children are brought up .to believe in tbe moral and technical superiority of tbe working-class state. They are trained In the idea of the world class struggle which will finally consolidate the earth according to the Soviet pattern. But Russia's national interests are all against the wealrening.of the democracies at this moment by Internal social strife. Therefore, every gesture she makes is In hibited. At one moment she blust ers about Spain, and In the next she withdraws. Mr. Stalin can not possibly be the leader of the Russian nation and the leader ot the Communist International. The two things cannot be integrated, either in political reality, or even In a syllogism. Leon Trotsky, who remains logical and intellectually honest, foresaw and foretold the doom of the Popular Fronts months ago. And I am quite sure that Mr. Trotsky's prophesies will be fulfilled. Already, in France, one is speaking iOf the "French Front" to include Socialists, Communists, and Fascists! ' This history has, I think, a di rect bearing on events at home, and what that bearing seems to me to be will be the subject' of another column. The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers To the Editor: During the debate on the non compulsory military training bill. one of the argument of the mili tary group which opposes the measure has been that it will re duce the number of officers pro duced at Oregon State college and the University of Oregon. The war department statitistics however, refute this contention. and support the practicability ot tne non-compulsory set-up. In 11 leading schools with compulsory R.O.T.C. nnits, including O.S.C 10,350 students were compelled to take the course their first two years.,Out of this number only 1,457, 14, took the advanced work which made them ' reserve officers.' These officers cost $739 each. But, eleven other leading uni versitles with non-compulsory drill. Including the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin, 2,883 elected the first two years, but of .this number, 1,243. or 43 took' the officers training course. So'just as many officers were pro duced under the optional system, at a cost ot only S30 each, a saving of 59 over tbe compul sory schools. This is Just another reason why many veterans are voting "Yes" on the non-compulsory, military training bill. LETHA STRIPLING. Ten Years Ago . October 27, 1926 A son was born October 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E.. Jones of. Brooks. This is their first child Brown Shoe company of St. Louis, Mo., has ordered thread from Miles Linen Mill. Salem citizens David Eyre, W H. Dancy, William Gahlsdorf, F N. Derby, and U. G. Shipley were present last night at school board meeting to adopt budget. Twenty Years Ago October 27, 1916 Willamette Bearcats are trying to get into condition to play Col ombia next Saturday, Russell Brooks has established a Hughes news bureau at W. U. from which republican literature is distributed. Marion hotel, including new-annex, is to be thrown open to pub lic for reception and musical en tertainment Friday as part ot Sa lem week celebration. Traffic Deaths Gain ' PORTLAND. Oct, 2 6 -(-Oregon's hopes of an improvement in Its traffic accident record-for 1931 received a setback today when the state motor association announced tbe period ending Sept. 39 showed a 40 per cent in crease In mishaps.; II '.ZsAhi'S'fil V&HlK "s?A- SI It Can't Happen H The superior Do rem us Jessus, the bookman, was almost as dreary in retirement as Banker Crowley would have been. He stayed In his third-story stu dy and read as long as his eyes would endure it. But he irritably felt Emma's " Irritation and Mrs. Candy's Ire at having a man around the house all day. Yes! He'd get what he could for the house and for what small share in Informer stock the government had left him when they had tak en it over, and go well. Just go the Rockies or anywhere that was new. , But he realized that Emma did not at all wish to go new places; and realized that the Emma to whose billowy warmth It had been comforting to come home after the office, bored him and was bored by him when he was always there. The only difference was that she did not aeem capable of admitting that one might, without actual fiendishness or any signs of hot-footing it for Reno, be bored by one's faithful spouse. Only once did he go back to the Informer office. Staabmeyer was not In sight. and it was evident that the real editor was that sly bumpkin. Doc Itchitt. who didn't even rise at Doremua's entrance nor listen when Doremns gave his opinion of the new makeup of the rural correspondence pages. That was an apostasy harder to endure that Shad Ledue's. for Shad had always been rustically certain that Doremus was a fool. almost as bad as real '"city folks,' while Doc Itchitt had onee appre ciated the tight Joints and smooth surfaces and sturdy bases of Do- remus's craftsmanship. Day on day he wafted. So much of a revolution for so many peo ple is nothing but waiting. That ia one reason why tourists rarely see anything but contentment in a crushed population. Waiting, and its brother death, seem so contented. For several days now, in late February. Doremus had noticed the insurance man. He said he was a Mr. Dimlck; a Mr. Dimlck of Albany. He . was a gray and tasteless man. in gray and dusty and wrinkled clothes, and his pop-eyes stared with meaningless fervor. All over town yon met him, at the four drugstores, at the shoe- shining parlor, and he was always droning. ."My name is Dimick Mr. Dimick. oL Albany Albany, New York. I wonder if 1 can inter est you. in a wonderful new form of insurance "policy. Wonnerful!" But he didn't sound as though he himself thought it was very won nerful. , He was a pest. , He was always "dragging him- self into some unwelcoming shopt and yet he seemed to sell few pol icies, if any. Not for two days did Doremus perceive that Mr. Dimick of Al bany managed to meet him an as tonishingly number of times a day. As he came out of the Wes sex, he saw Mr. Dimick leaning against a lamppost, ostentatiously not looking his way, yet three minutes later, and two blocks away, Mr. Dim let trailed alter him into the Vert Mont Pool & Tobacco Headquarters, and lis tened to Doremus's conversation with Tom Aiken about fish hatch eries. " Doremus was suddenly cold. He made it a point to aneak uptown that evening and saw Mr, Dimick talking to the driver of a Beulah Montpeller bus with an Intensity that wasn't in the least gray. Dore mus glared. Mr. Dimick looked at him with watery eyes, croaked. Devenin. Mr. D r e m u s; like t'talk t you about insurance some ; time when you get the time." and ' shuffled away. Later, .Doremus took out and cleaned his revolver, said. "Oh. rats!" and put it away. He heard a ring as he did so, and went Anxious Observer! Vvv downstairs to find Mr. Dimick sit ting on the oak hat rack In the hall, rubbinb his hat. -I'd like to talk to you. if y'aln't too busy," whined Mr. Dimlck. "All right. Go in there. Sit down." "Anybody hear us?" "Not What of it?" : Mr. Dimick's grayness and las situde fell away. His voice was sharp: "I think your local Corpos are on to me. Got to hustle. I'm from Walt Trowbridge. You probably guessed I've been watching you all week, asking about you. You've got to be Trowbridge's and our representative here. Secret war against the Corpos. The "N. u.' the New Underground, we call it like secret Underground that got the slaves Into Canada before the Civil War. Four divisions: printing propaganda, distributing it, collecting and exchanging in formation about Corpo outrages smuggling suspects into Canada or Mexico. Of course, you don't know one thing about me. I may be a-Corpo spy. But look over these credentials and telephone your friend , Mr. Samson of the Burlington Paper company. God's sake be careful! Wire may be tap ped. Ask him about me on the grounds you're interested In In surance. You're going to be' one of us! Now phone!" Doremus telephoned to Samp son: "Say. Ed, is a fellow named Dimick. kind of weedy-looking, pop-eyed fellow, all right? Shall I take his advice on Insurance?" "Yes. Works for Walbridge Sure. You can ride along with him." "I'm riding!" CHAPTER XXVI The Informer composing room closed dawn at 1 1 In tho nlnr. for the paper had to be distributed to villages 40 miles away and did not issue a later city edition. Dan Wilffus. the foreman, remained after ttie others had gone setting a Minute Men poster which an nouncea mat there would be a grand Parade on March ninth, and incidentally that President Wind rip was defying the world. lan stopped, looked sharnlv about, and tramned into the atnr room. In the light from a dustv electric bulb the place waa like a tomb of dead news, with ancient red-and-black posters of Scotland county fairs and nroofa of inde cent limericks pasted on the walls. From a case ot eight-point, once used for the setting of pamphlets but superseded by a monotvne machine, Dan picked out bits of type from each of several com partments, wrapped them In scraps of print naner. and atnrml them in the pocket of his. Jacket. The raped type boxes looked only half filled, and to make un fnr ft he did something that should hare shocked any decent printer even ir be were on strike. He filled them up with type not from anoth er eight-point case, but with old ten-point. He turned out the lishta on the third floor and clumned down stairs. He glanced in at the edi torial rooms. No 'one was there 8a ve Doc Itchitt, in a small circle of light that through the visor of bis eye shade cast a green tint on his unwholesome face. He wan correcting an article by the titular editor. Ensign Emil Staubmeyer. and he snickered as he carved it with a larre black oencll. Ha rala. ed his head, startled. "Hello, Doc." . i "Hello, Dan. Staying late?' "Tub.. Just finished soma 4oh work. G 'night." "Say Pan. do yon ever sp old Jessup, these days?" "Don't know when I'veseen him. Doc. Oh yes. I ran Intn Mm at the Rexall store, -couple days ago." Still as lour as ever afcent regime?" ' v. . aw : at at "Oh, he didn't say anything. -V ZO-X7 By 2fS SINCLAIR LEWIS Darned old fool! Even if he don't like all the brave boys in uniform, he ought to see the Chief is here for keeps, by golly!" - "Certainly ought to! And It's a swell regime. Fellow can get ahead in newspaper work now, and not be held back by a bunch of snobs that - think they're so doggone educated Just because they went to college!" "That's right. Well, hell with Jessup' and all the old stiffs. G'night. Doc!" Dan and Brother Itchitt nn smilingly gave the M. M. salute, arms held out. Dan thumped down to the street and homeward. He stopped In front of Billy's Bar, in the middle of a block, and put his foot up on the hub of a dirty old Ford, to tie his shoelace. As he tied It after having untied it h lfvnViut on anil dnwn iVia street, emptied the bundles in his pockets into a battered sap buck et on the front seat ot the car, and majestically moved on. Out of the bar came Pete Vu-. tong, a. French-Canadian farmer who lived up on Mount Terror. Pete was obviously drunk. He was singing the pre-historic ditty "Hi lee, hi low" in what he conceived to be German, viz: "By tins gays immer, yuh longer yuh slimmer." He was staggering so that he had to pull himself Into the car, and he steered in fancy patterns till he had turned the corner. Then he, was amazingly and suddenly so ber; and amazing was the speed with which .the Ford clattered out of town. i W X . -w a . -e v uioag wasn t a very goo a secret agent. He was a little ob vious. But then, Pete-had been a spy for only one week. In that week Dan Wllgus had four times dropped heavy pack ages Into a sap.bucket in the Ford. Pete passed the gate to Buck Ti tus's domain, slowed down, drop ped the sap bucket Into a ditch, and sped home. Just at dawn. Buck Titus, out for a walk with his three Irish wolfhounds, kicked up kthe sap bucket and transferred the bun dles to his own pocket. - , v And next afternoon Dan Wilgus, in tae casement or Buck's house, was setting up, m eight-point, a pamphlet . entitled "How . Many People . Have " the' Corpos Mur dered?" It was sfghed "Spartan", and Spartan wii'6ne "of. several pen names of Mr. -'Doremus Jes sup. ' ; - "r . -- They were all all the ringlead ers of .the local chapter of the New Underground rather glad when once, on his way to Buck's, Dan was searched by M. M.'s unfamil iar to him, and on him was found no printing-material, nor any documents-more incriminating than cigarette papers. The Corpos had made a regula tion licensing all dealers in print ing machinery and paper and compelling them to keep lists of purchasers, so that except for bootlegging It was impossible to get supplies for the issuance of treasonable literature. Dan Wllaus stole the type; Dan and-Doremus and Julian and Buck together had stolen an entire old band printing press irom ine informer base ment; and the paper was smuggled from Canada by that veteran hnot. legger. John Pollikop, who rejoic ed at being back In the good old occupation of which repeal had robbed him.. It is doubtful whether Dan Wil gus would ever have Jsfined any thing so divorced as this from the time clock and the office cuspid ors out of abstract Indignation at Windrip or County Commissioner Ledue. He was moved to sedition partly by fondness for Doremus and partly by indignation at Doc Itchitt. who publicly rejoiced be cause all the printers' unions ha neen sunk In the governmental confederations. Dan grunted to Doremns. "An right, boss, I guess maybe I'll (Continued on pare 111