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PAGHFOUa -Wo favor Strays Ut; No Fear Shall Art err From First Statesman. March 28. 151 . , Charles A. Sprague - - Editor and Publisher I; , ; j THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. - Charles A. Sprague, Pres. - SheIdonF. Sackett, Secy, p Member of the Associated Press . ' ; - x " Tfcs 'Associated Frets Is exclusively entitled to the ass for publics ' j tloa cf iII mii dispatcUes credited to It or not otherwise credited in i this papet. , ' , ! Child Marriages mHE marriage of a strapping hillbilly of 22 in Tennessee :to a girl of nine has been widely publicised by news ac-"p-counts and press pictures. Even the picture of the preach er 'who performed the ceremony and called down the bless- lrigr or uod on tnis piece or craaie snaicning nas oeen puo lUhed; also the day-after picture of the child-wife playing with a dolL The scandal of such a marriage has roused the country,-and has brought to light some appalling facts. One is that the number of child marriages in this country has ben increasing. A 1920 report showed over. 300,000 women had married when under 15 years of age. Subsequent sta tistics" show increases in this number. Considering the.finger of shame that was pointed at "Mother India .this country may vera well be embarrassed by such disclosures v ; ! There are seven states in the union which permit girls of 12 to marry. In ten states the old common law limit of age 12 for females and 14 for males prevails. Tennessee ap parently had no limit, but its legislature has taken steps to reform its laws. - . ' ? i Y" Child marriages are almost uniformly failures. Often they are shotgun affairs to throw a cloak of legality around youthful sex indulgence, with the expectation of prompt an nulment. -In 1928 the Russell Sage foundation found that in 250 cases wfyere the ages ranged from 11 to 17, out of 90 cases where follow-up history was learned, 11 couples had separated after a few days, seven in a few weeks, eight in a few months, and 16 never set up any kind of home. Only 16 cpuples were still living together when the report was com piled. In half of the 250 cases the licenses had been issued illegally. ; The institution of marriage I been invested with religious and cult, to write" laws in a field so affected by tradition and dominated by the roost primitive instincts of the racer It may be though that the joining lie Johns, 22, and Eunice-Winstead, 9, at Sneedsville,-Tennessee, mav stir ud nublic sentiment to a Doint where no marriage may be performed marriageable age. India, Japan. China and Turkey have in troduced statutes to fix the United States ouzht to be eauallv orocrressive. I - - Seventh fTlO suggest to the legislature I higher education 'be derived from licensing pmball ma i chines or by slicing off some of the liquor revenues must Have been as repulsive to. Chancellor Hunter as they should be to the average citizen. Try as one may to discount the idea tif "tainted money" it is impossible to stomach the thought df using revenues directly from these sources for financing education. The Eugene News correctly describes the six pro posals offered as "obviously j The needs of the state system are genuine. Faculty sal aries -are among the very lowest of any state university sys tem. Enrollments are at the peak; the income has been dras tically reduced. The shrinking base of the state s assessed valuation offers the gloomy outlook of further shrinkage in income. t The best proposal offered fixing the 1930 valuation as a substantial increase. j There remains a seventh source, which while explored by the executives of the state system and rejected, might be studied further for additions to income. That is the increase in fees to students. Private institutions- have tuition charges far in excess of state schools, yet they maintain good and growing enrollments. If the state cannot or will not provide sufficient money, then the state board should not hesitate to increase the tuition. Unless the schools get proper support the student bears the burden in impairment of quality in the education he gets through classes too large or through pro fessors of lower grade because underpaid or overworked. Jhe student ootid well afford to pay five or ten dollars more term in tuition if that insured him instruction of a higher quality. , : The legislature is sympathetic with the cause of higher education. It will do everything it can do within the limits of resources and in the exercise of good judgment If then a .deficiency remains the board should increase the student v fees to supplement its income. Cuba Libre A LETTER signed by Major Jaime Marine, aide to CoL Fulgencio Batista, has been handed to every employer j of prominence in Cuba. It calls for a confidential report qf all employes, giving their names, race, religion, and "if possible, photographs of workers who have shown them selves to be agitators. The explanation is that the material is necessary for forming a "bureau of social labor prepara tion . it is part of the plan by which the army is moving in on labor to prevent any disturbance of the existing army regime. Just over the signature of the major to the letter are the words: "For the liberty of Cuba". j " Liberty seems to have as many crimes committed in its same as has religion. In Cuba the labor organizations will be directly under the authority of an army-controlled bureau, which means that liberty there will be destroyed. The United States fought one war for "Cuba libre'. That was in 1898, and the blowing of the Maine, which pre cipitated the war, occurred just 39 years ago tomorrow. But, if the dictatorship of Batista; the ex-sergeant who now runs affairs in the "pearl of the Antilles, follows the pattern of European despots, his rule may prove as tyrannical and bloody as that of General Weyler, the last Spanish governor of Cuba. Up to Public Opinion PRESIDENT Roosevelt's plan to increase the membership of the supreme court so it will comply with his will is a grave threat against the It is as grave a threat against the independence of the leg- isiauve Drancn oi ine government, it seems to be a safe con clusion that, left to their own judgment the congress would defeat the president's proposal. The chilly reception iriven the -proposal, the wry face most part made, even if they did swallow the dose, is pretty Cood -proof that they at heart opposed it. The only way it will be enacted Is lor congress to function as a rubber stamp hw?v annnllanf Via will vf tha m ooi. I With the party machinery in his hands the president will -be able to force the legislation through congress unless there is a stirring of the people in protest. The only pressure that the congress will yield to other than that of the presi dent, is the pressure of public opinion Newspapers may state the issue. It is the rising up who will stop his program, if Ia years past folk used to time in railway stations waiting time la doctors' offices waiting It Is to be hoped tbe sltdown ren's minds about holding a sit . :. is an ancient one which has social convention. It is dif fi in holy ( 7) wedlock of Char unless the principals are of age limitPat 15 or 16. The Source that part of the support for inspired by desperation. is to stabilize the base by the minimum. That, will provide Independence of the iudiciarv. the democratic senators for the of plain citizens all over the land it is to be stopped. i. spend a considerable portion of their on trains. Now they kill just as much their tarn. ; strike doesn't put notions In child - up strike just about bedtime. The? CUE Bits for Breakfast By- R. J. HENDRICKS Two mill tax and 50e poU tax In Marlon county: Trafalgar: "That day that Kelson died,? .1805: 'h ' V . , : . In the September term, 1850. of the commissioners' court for Mar ion county, according; to records that hare lately come to light, a passage reads: j' i "The court now proceeded to fix the percentage for county In come .at the rate of two mills on the dollar and 50 cents poll tax. .,::v,.: S Sf.V ,'r That was that." No Other direct taxes for 'county purposes, ; and not many Indirect taxes, the lat ter being confined almost If not entirely to ferry and "grocery" licenses, the latter one war in which the harsher name of saloon was sometimes disguised. - Marlon county had not yet even, her first court hou.se, and there is a question whether Just then she had a jail, i : i ;, " : f One finds a $5 warrant baring been drawn in favor of Riley it Kendall at the April, (1851. term. for rent for the court. ' The room was perhaps in a building used partly for other pur poses, like a. hotel or boarding house. The writer does not yet recognize Riley or Kendall. It may bare been Rlely or Reily, and some other variation in the manner of spelling the second man's name. ; v. . : : Some of our early pioneers were careless about spelling, and others were meticulous above the aver age among- us now. The average intelligence was as high as now, here in Oregon, or almost any where else. j . Present at the September, 1850, term were Madison Keen, survey or; Wm. J. Herren, sheriff; I, N. Gilbert, clerk, and J. W. Grim, Ja cob Conser and J. M. .Garrison, commissioners. j , - V " The commissioners drew $.13 124 each for the term, salary and expenses, the sheriff $7.87 for at tendance on the court, and the clerk the same amount as the sher iff. Besides, the clerk got a war rant for 837.18 for fees. Do you know how .many kinds of tax you pay now? ! s V "Lloyd's of London, a great screen production recently pre sented at a Salem theater, would be better understood by some who saw and admired it,! with these words entitled "Trafalgar." de scribing the great picture of the battle scene by Stanfield, the Eng lish artist: j - - V "In 1805, Napoleon planned to invade England and . collected a hnge force on the coast of France. Before he could cross the Chan nel the English fleet must be de stroyed or drawn away from the English coast. The latter plan was tried first. The French and Span ish fleet sailed for the West In dies with Lord Nelson, the Eng lish admiral, in hot persuft; but before Nelson could cross the French (and Spanish) fleet doubl ed back and was overtaken by Nel son at Trafalgar. "Under Lord Nelson were i7 men-of-war. The combined fleets of France and Spain numbered 33 vessels. V "Nelson led the battle line in his flagship, the Victory, flying the famous signal. . 'England , expects every man to do his duty.' "When the battle ended 18 of the French and Spanish ships were captured, the natal power of France was broken, and all danger of an invasion of England was at an end. But the victory cost Eng land the life of her greatest sea man, for Nelson was struck down in the midst of the battle." V V The six last of the 14 verses of "Trafalgar," Wm. C. Bennett's celebrated poem, follow, with only tbe original quotation marks: Twaa where they clustered thick - -est .1 That through their line we broke, j And to their Bucentaure first r Our thundering broadside spoke: We shaved her; as our shots, boys. j t Crashed through her shattered side, She could feel how to keel. That day that Nelson died. Into the Don's four-decker Our larboard broadsides pour. Though all we well could spare her -Went to the Bucentaure. Locked to another Frenchman, Our starboard fire we piled. Gun to gun, till we won, That day that Nelson died. They've done for me at last, friend!" Twas thus they heard him say, "But I die as I would die, boys. Upon this glorious day: I've done my duty. Hardy!" He cried, and rtill he cried. As below, sad and slow. We bore him as he died. On wounded and on dying The cockpit's lamp shone dim: But many a groan we heard, lads. Less tor themselves than for him. And many a one among them 1 Had given, and scarcely sighed. A limb to save him I Who there in glory died. As slowly life ebbed ' from him His thoughts were still the - same: ,-,:;' "How many have we now, boys?" Still faint and fainter came. ,: As ship on ship struck' to na His glazing eyes with pride, As it seemed, flashed and gleamed. As he knew he conquering died. We beat them how, you know, : boys. . i' " "'- : :., ; Yet many an eye was dim; And when we talked of triumph. We only thought of him. And still, though fifty years, .boys. Have gone. who. without pride. Names his name. tells his tame. Who at Trafalgar died! G ON ' CTATX3LIAN, CcJn, "tlMUEW MODEL" CHAPTER XVII "Don't let's talk of me. I want to hear all about yourself. Where are you living?" Mrs. Vandaveer asked Jimmy. YYY - "On Elizabeth street. Down in Greenwich Village. Elisabeth street used to be a fashionables residential street several decades ago. It's shtbby now." "But fuU of atmosphere." .she supplemented. "I suppose you have a studio?" "Of sorts. More of an attic with a good-eixed skylight. But it, suffices." - , : r V i Mrs. Vandaveer' clasped -her hands dramatically together. He noticed 1 she had beautiful, slim bands, extraordinarily white.. An effect produced . by hand . cream carefully applied after every washing, and by sleeping In rub ber gloves nightly that were fair ly lined with tissue creams but he vas not to know that. "I would adore seeing your stu dio. Wo-rld you think U a bother it I dropped in some afternoon -to look at your wbrkt" : What could he say but that he would be glad to see her, although he was afraid she would not think much of his abode? . - But I'm mad about artists. X mean" she corrected herself auickly "I'm enormously Inter ested in creative work. Over In Paris I've loads . of friends who are painters and writers and sculDtors. and some of them' live in the Latin Quarter. A. delight ful memory - came back to . her. "I even had a studio once n Mont- parnasse - where I hoped I'd do things. But I'm afraid 1 1 dldn t accomplish much. . - . Which was an understatement. Unknown , td her husband Joel, who was residing with her in Par is at the time on the fashionable Champs Elysees, Lorraine had done plenty in her Latin Quarter studio, on the sly. ' There had been the young painter. Raoel Destouches . . , Then Anton Katisloff, the Rus sian sculptor.. . . i How fierce but how wonderful ly had Anton made love!. . "I may be going-over to Paris very shortly," said Jimmy Ran dolbh eagerly, "because the School of Architectural Design in New York often makes an ex change of students on a short summer couVse. Three or four French students come over here. you know, and New York ones take their place." "But how wonderful! I may be going over shortly!" . Lorraine gave him the full benefit of her beautiful jade eyes. "I usually go over to Parts for the late Spring race-meetings. Paris is romantic as a dream in the merry month of May. It would be fun to see Paris together, wouldn't it?" She smfl ec at him under her' long thick lashes, and he had the curious. breathless sensation of drowning in shining green pools of light. Luana - Waters quickly gained the reputation of being New York's loveliest model. . Her success was amaslng for an-' unknown girl. Needless to say, it aroused plenty of jealousy among: the -other mannequins In the House of Quackenbush. ' Success brings envy and back' biting, and all the more so where beauty la involved. The pick of the big social func tions in the well-known "little season" fell to Luana. Mr. Quack enbush was shrewd. ' He wished his loveliest and most talked-of model to appear at all the newest and smartest haunts and night clubs where the rich foregath On the By DOROTHY To My Valentines . TIE HABIT of giving presents should always be encouraged and all holidays perpetuating the custom should be sup ported. Still, lace paper and scarlet hearts Is some what childish. 'f One might sub-1 atitute the ever welcome gift of books to can at tention to the feast of hearts. So here is a list Ooratfty Ttwpiw of . s a g g e s ted Valentine greetings to some of our leaders and popular heroes. - For Franklin Delano Roose velt: "Quo Vadis." 1 For Henry Morgenthau, jr.: "Never Ask the End." : For' Harry Hopkins: "Mutiny on the Bounty." ' For James A. Farley : "The Big Money." . . For Lieut. CoL James Roose velt: "The Tan Also Rises." For Eleanor . Roosevelt: "Ar ound the World In Eleven Years." For the United ' States Con gress: "In the Steps of the Mas ter." For the Supreme Court: "One More Spring." For the Democratic party: "A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads.' For s the Republican party: "Wake Up and Live." For Alfred Mossman Landon: "Live Alone and Like It." i For John Hamilton: "The Sound of . Running Feet." ! For Herbert Hoover: My Life and Har-l Times." For William Lemke: "Gone With the Wind. - - Tor Earl Browder: "The World s niuslon. ; For Father Coughlln: "Whv Not Try God?" . . .MY " ; '' - For Joseph Stalin: "Dead Men TeU No Tales." For Adolph Hitler: "How to Win Friends and Influence Peo ple." For General Goering: "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals." For Benito Mussolini: "This Expanding Universe." Oregon, Sunday IIorr.L-., February 14 1S37 ered, dressed in his most exqui site creations. ! She must appear, too at tbe big charity balls, and at the. smart race . meetings. Indeed, ,: every-. where that le 'monde qui s amue is found. . . v Luana soon grew accustomed to It. and lost seme of her shyness, as was natural. What 19-year-old girl would fail to enjoy making a stir In"' expensive and exclusive places, secure In the knowledge that she was groomed ana coii fured anfl dressed and shod ex quisitely and that the eyes of in numerable, women and men Too attractive, important men- about town were turned on her admiringly? It was dazzling to a girl who had been kept short of money all her nineteen years, and whose existence had been almost that of the convent in its seclu sion. :; i.: ::,:: Amrtd. in a diing gown. Luana would appear at the side of Adolphe Quackenbush 'on the op enlng night of plays-or perhaps her new-friend, Jimmy Randolph, would be her escort. v Though Jimmy enjoyed the theater, he did not enjoy having his expensive ticket donated by Luana or rather, by the House of - Quackenbush. - He resented that. -v;.'- Which was foolish of him, as Lit ana often told him, but she was up against the well-known, pride of a Southerner. "I simply have to have an es cort,. Jimmy," she "would tell him. Mr. Quackenbush Is busy, and if you won't come with me. I'll hare to go to the show with that detes table, oily little Armand! ' Luana heartily, disliked the right-hand man of Mr. Quacken bush. . - resides, was he not Yvonne's boy-friend? . . The other girls might be jeal ous of her, but not so Yvonne. Or so Luana imagined. - That Yvonne, .for reasons of politics, was capable of hiding her real feelings under a gushing ap pearance of affection for the girl who paid half the rent of her apartment, and who obligingly absented, herself on Armand's calling nights, was something Lu ana had not reckoned with. 1 Nor was Luana aware that Yvonne in her heart resented the fact. that she was in the position of recipient of the crumbs that figuratively fell from Luana's ta ble. In the way of theater tickets. invitations to balls and parties. and smart functions, and fetes for charity. ' Behind her back, Yvonne sel dom lost a chance of belittling Lu- ana to Armand, and even lying about her. - "She is ze deep one. Ze steel waters run deep, if she is so good, so prop-aire, why she pick up a young man on ze roof-tops? The nights I go out, he come in and is alone . with her for hours and hours. Armand, It Is my bellfe thees young Jeemy Randolph is her lov-aire!" Armand fully believed it. Noth ing; would give him greater plea sure than to cut Jimmy out. He believed, too, ihat Luana was merely coquetting with him when she repulsed him.' Not that he had ever had a chance to put her to the test, since Yvonne had eyes like the proverbial hawk, and was jealous as a she-devil! To allay any suspicions about Luana, and the amatory feeling she had roused In him, he went Yvonne one better In his belittling of the girl when she was absent. ' "American women have no fire, no emotion. Seldom Is a French man ever happy with an Ameri Record THOMPSON For Leon Civilian." Blum: "The Last For the Duke of Windsor: An anthology of the plays of Shake speare, containing the following: "As You Like It," "'Comedy of Er rors,": "The Tempest," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Love's Lbor Lost," "All's Well That Ends .Well" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor." . . For Mrs. 8Impson: "Death Comes for the Archbishop." For Stanleys Baldwin: "The Last Puritan." e For Carter Glass: "The Gold bug." . Tor Walter Runciman: "The Twelve Pound Look. For Samuel Untermyer: "Na than tbe Wise." . -. For Norman Davis: "Look Homeward, Angel!" - -? For Halle Selassie: "A Passage to India." r : -r A--.. ' ' ' ' ' ' . '' For John L. Lewis: "The Green Murder Case." j : For Alfred E, Sloan: "A man Could Stand Up" and "Some Do Not." - i For Governor Murphy: " Be tween Two Worlds." . - For General Hugh ' Johnson: "The Sound and the Fury." For Walter Winchell: "Private Lives."' For Clifford Odets: "Return I Dare Not" For Mrs Elizabeth Dllllng: "Elizabeth and Her German Gar den." ' For Mae West: "Gray's Anatomy."'.'-' For Peggy Hopkins Joyce: "Nine Old Men." : For John . Barry mo re: "What Every Woman Knows." For Shirley Temple: "My Life in Art." Y::: .-.. For-Leon Trotsky: "Condemn ed to Live." , For Dr. Townsend:. "Over the Hills to the Poor House." For Upton Sinclair: "This Be lieving; World." For the Dionne Quintuplets: "If I had Four Apples." .For John D. Rockefeller, Sr.: "No Quarter Given." ,,-v!, . e- -P.S. It Is not necessary to send this column' "My Ten Years la a Quandary" or "Let to It to Jeeves. We have copies already. MAY CHRISTIE can, . he would unctuously an nounce. "The women are all spoil ed and selfish. They have no real passion." r-. . ; . - V: j " "Howf? clev-aire you are, Ar mand!r You are the clev-airest, handsomest man in New York." Yvonne would fall into his arms, secure in the knowledge that what American women lacked, she had . . . plus. 1 i "This Luana is not really pret ty. She has a flat bosom. She has no hips." j ' ' - Yvonne would beam; at that. Armand was a true ja r 1 1 s t . Yvonnewas crazy about him When an ardent girl of her type loves, she can be ruthless in the chase, and woe betide anyone who comes between her and her sweet heart! ' The friendship between Luana and Jimmy Randolph ' flourished apace. ':'-) There was no hint of love-making. Memory of Gerald Bruton was still strong, though Luana realized perfectly . that she had never really loved the man who had gone through a meaningless marriage ceremony with her in Yuma. Arizona. She Shuddered when she thought of its sequel in San Diego, when Gerald had been arrested.' Her one fear now was that the successful, much-talked-of young model, Luana Waters, j might be linked any day in the newspapers with the erstwhile Elizabeth Har mon! : - i "I Mr. Quackenbush - insisted on publicity, and the more the bet ter, from the point of view or his business.- At the Spring meet of the Unit ed. Hunt association on Long Is land she - was repeatedly photo graphed. During an al fresco luncheon in the famous: Turf and Field Club at the same place, the press photographers Were busy with their cameras and Luana had as much attention in her smart racing clothes si the best- known Society woman, le was impossible to bide , her face. Fuppose someone from Los Angeles or San Diego would rec ognize her? But after a time she grew ac customed to the risk. The only course possible if she: were ask ed point-blank would be to flat ly deny the conn action. Jimmy's absolute honesty, his straightforward point of view, charmed her and yet made her afraid. - . Y ' . - If her deception was vnvelled. if he learned she had 'given her self what amounted to a new Jden tity,- under an assumed name. would her friendship I with him come to an abrupt finish T - How much that - friendship meant to her she did not yet fully realize. . . .... . But, the knowledge that at the end of a busy .day she! would see Jimmy, that he was accompanying her to some function, was like a little song in her heart. ! The cheerfulness of one who. In tbe first days of their acquain tance, ; had been often strangely moody, whetted the curiosity of the French girl.-Yvonne. She thought Luana a fool to bother with a penniless yOuth like Jimmy Randolph when she could have her pick of many eligible men. "Art-eests? Poof! Sel-dom do they have money, Luana. As bew tee-ful as you are, you are wasting tne timer She felt it magnanimous to tell her so. since during the eve nings Luana often spent with Jim my that were within his narrow means evening of dancing In some modest roadhouse. or at tending the movies, or ridlnr on bus tops up by the side of the Hudson Yvonne reaped the ben- eflt of theater tickets, or tickets xor big charity fetes or balls. "He has a wonderful charac ter," Luana would say anistlv. "He's an architect, not the kind or. artist you're talking of. One of these days he will make a great name lor himself." Yvonne had sniffed: "Yea when you are old and faded watt ing ror him, my friendJ" , (To Be Continued) Ten Years Ago February 14. it2T No classes were held at Par rlsh yesterday for the reason that water became mixed with the oil weed in heating plant, making It Impossible to heat building. E. A. Rhoten was called to Yakima. Wn., today to arrange for a dispersal sale o herd of Jersey cattle owned by Erickson brothers of Yakima, j Salem now has an official flag pole located on corner of Che meketa and High; before national emblem floated from small staff extending from building, i Twenty Years Ago February 14, 1MT Large audience heard Willam ette Women's Glee club make in itial appearance In chapel last night. Dr. B. L. Steeves elected presi dent of board of trustees of Will amette university . at meeting In Portland. Willamette's 1 share of late A. E. Eaton will not be less than $100,000 Instead of $33,000 previously estimated. ; Mammoth Interstate bridge be tween Portland,- Ore., and Van couver. Wash., across the Colum bia river win be offlciaUy opened today. Two huge American flags hig-lt upon the draw span win be unfurled. Delegates Elected ALBANY. Feb. IS J. F. SUIU wel was selected as delegate from the Albany Townsend club and Mrs. Maude Pratt Lewis as alter nate, to attend the district conven tion to be held in Eugene. At the convention the election of a con gressional disrict manager Is to be selected. - SaPsCiy Promote Temperance Education To the Editor: . I do want to most heartily com mend you' on your fine editorial on the Carney Bill (SB17). Referring to your editorial or Oct. 11th relative to the state ment made that "what is needed is temperance education ' the Na tional Women's ; Christian Tem perance Union is carrying- on an Intensive educational program at the present time.; In order to help the National In its temperance ed ucation: campaign Oregon is launching beginning Sunday, Feb ruary lUli, to and including Feb ruary 20th, ; a financial drive to raise , our share of the- f 1,000. 000.00 National Temperance Edu cation Fund. 1 - " The following committee head the. drive in Marion county: Mrs. Fred J. Tooze, Jr., chairman, Mrs. D. J. Gillanders, Rev. L. Wesley Johnson, Mrs. Mason Bishop and Mrs. Lydla Lehman. Every mem ber of the W.C.T.U. in Marion county, Oregon, is asked to. give something ' herself and get five others to give. Thanking you for your help in this; I am i Sincerely yours, . RUTH E. TOOZE. Large, Spiny Word Salem, Oregon. To the Editor: - ; Do I misunderstand you when X assume that you refer to the -present habit of the Supreme Court in . nullifying acts of Con gress ty declaring them' uncon stitutional as "one of the funda mentals of our government struc ture"? If I do not misunderstand you, then In the language of the Street. "How do you get, that way, and what do you mean fun damental"? The power of the Supreme Court to nullify legislation is not granted specifically in the consti tution.. It was assumed by Mar- snail, as I believe you have point ed out In former editorial. It may be implied or it may not, but to can it fundamental Is surely asscmlng too much. That it Is not fundamental Is surely Implied by the constitution Itself when It gives Congress the power to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court by making it sub ject to "such regulations - and such exceptions as the Congress shall make." This clearly gives congress the power to pass a law forbidding the Court appellate jurisdiction over any laws it may pass. This seems to be not gen crauy Known, dui there is no doubt that the members of the Court know it and would recog nize such a law as within the pow a r-...... J ..... V. WWU&l CM . . . . .. xi, wnen speaung or "govern ment structure" you had omitted the word fundamental, I should not have objected, but I have al ways felt that fundamental was a large, spiny, dangerous word and should be handled with care. , Yours truly, FRANK E. J UDD. (Editor's Note: The power of the court to pass on the validity of laws" passed by congress is a muer ei aisputs; put the journs or tne constitutional convention and the writings of The Federal ist clearly indicate the power Is not an "assumed" power but one implied In the section which says "The judicial power shall extend to all cases In law an .4 ...it. arising under this constitution." Salem, Ore, io the Editor: The consti tution of the. State of Oregon is still under the threatening clouds of dictatorship, notwith standing the unanimous decision of the United States Supreme court to the contrary. The only thing criminal about this law is that it was ever en acted, and It will remain a dis grace and a crime until it Is re pealed. It's humiliating to have to apologise or excuse a legislature for enacting such legislation; even during times of hysteria: for little did they realize this laV waa conceived for a crimin al purpose. And obviously that purpose was to coerce and sup press those honorable and , stu dious workers who consclentous ly labor for the greatest good to the greatest number -of fel low citiseas. And not one real criminal has been prosecuted by this act: And furthermore Her bert Hoover, F. D. ' Roosevelt. Al Smith. James Reed. Alf. Landon, Father Coughlln and a host of others an have said time tad time again, and said truth fully, thinp about this govern ment; That a workman can be locked In the pen for saying. This is criminal! Lincoln has said The man who will not in vestigate both sides of a subject Is dishonest." By what authority can the 'Bill of Rights be de nied the people: or what reason can be given for : denying them the opportunity to gain all poss ible knowledge of - every- Issue: And to freely discuss these Is sues with their fellow men? This Is well named, 'Criminal Syndicalism. This Is dictator ship. Yet those hypocrites who put this law over and are still defending ft, talk Jeffersonlan democracy and the republican ism of Abraham Lincoln while they assassinate liberty by pro moting force and violence. Vhey dare not meet logic with logic, dare not trust the orderly pro cesses of democracy, for well they know they "Can not fool an the people all tbe time." "so they would resort to bullets when they fafl by ballots; and go to great labor to hide their tralt orous principles of fascism by making , a strawman they dress in red. - Mussolini and Hitler boast that they have divided the world Into two factions and they despise democarcy and are at war with Christian principles and Fascists everywhere approve . of this: de spotic law. And an who believe truly In 'Government of the people by the people and for the People" demand that this be repealed. , .v- v':""- Yours for. the truth that sets men free - T. J. Shlpler U15 Plasa 8.t J V alve How t Improve Liquor law Y. I v Monmouth, Ore. To the Editor: . . Read In r the accounts of the do ings of the .Oregon legislature i-t - i In soastnn 1ft' both amusing and disgusting and not .t ail enconraelne. home oi us. ii.oTia vf nnrnn. have been es pecially noticing tne ouis sup posed to Improve tbe State Liquor laws and so far they are as much of a farce as the law, known as the Knox Liquor law, which they claim to be trying to Improve. J WelL. maybe there are citizens who are too dumb to see through them but we are not all that dumb. As 4 thinking : and law- abiding citizen of Oregon, I am suggesting that the beer tavern in Salem's leading hotel be closed and that those "Beer-toting" bell hops who deliver their wares all night be dismissed and that our . legislators sober up and spend their nights sleeping so that they will be clear-headed and efficient enough' to draft some bills that will be of benefit to the people of the state.) Then, maybe; our gen ial senator from Polk county can figure how the needy old people of Oregon can be cared for with out wrecking the finances of the state and without making more hundreds of boys and girls into rum hounds in order to pay their parents and grandparents a star vation pension. Possibly if the senators and representatives all get down to business at will be possible to get tho . Idea across to them that they are paid by us, the people of Oregon, to do some thing besides drink beer and raise their own salaries. Possibly' also the people would be willing to in crease their salaries if they would once show that they are even worth the present $3.00 per day. I To heln these legislators. I am making a few suggestions as to how to Improve the liquor law: 1. Place a penalty on the liquor dealer who breaks the law in any respect. . j . 2. Enforce the interdiction law, placing, the penalty where it belongs, on the liquor seller. 3. Make it a felony, with a real penalty, tor a liquor seller to sell liquor to an individual till drunk, then accept counter checks, then collect the money by means o: threats of arrest when the persot becomes sober. 4. Stop the delivery of booze into dry towns and communities. 5. Correct the law which al lows hotels to serve beer after 1 a.m. 'by its delivery to rooms by the bellhops. C. Take the booze out of res taurants, i drug stores, grocery stores, hotels, service stations, etc., so that the non-drinking cit izens . can buy the necessities of life without buying them In sa loons. '4 : r Y 7. Establish a hospital where the victims of the liquor appetite can be cured at state expense. : Then as soon as enough Oregon citizens wake up and face facts. out of the liquor business so that the children of the state of-Oregon can have food and care in stead of the money going for beer, wine and whiskey. ; ENID L. JOHNSON. Thinks Stalla "Democratic 1 Dictator ! West Stayton, Ore. To the Editor: Editors have the opportunity to publish the political and econom ic events that trananlre. Whn they are confused in their, own mind as to the significance of those events, they can and do confuse their readers. Suclf' is the situation in your editorial of Wednesday, Feb. 3rd, 1937, titled "Retreat from Socialism." No matter how skilfully a writer may use his words, if he does not con fine himself to facts he soon drifts Into error in his published arti cles and conclusions. 1st Max Eastman is not a communist and has never been in sympathy with their program. He belongs to the International group that prepared the way for Hitler to acquire pow er and It la natural fnp film tn at. tack and, belittle the-results ac complished in Russia or U.S.S.R. He can not see the difference be tween a dictator that rules by edicts aa Hitler does and the dem ocratic decisions arrived at through discussion under the communist program of action. Stalin being the secretary of the communist party la Russia, occu pies the same position in the state as Earl Browder does in this country and nothing he proposes can be made into law until it has been accepted by the law making assemblies of the land. There is no' straight road to socialism. It lg-gs like a stroke of lightning ?v bndf ,ke a river and may to the unthinking appear to retreat i . times, but only to gather great er strength; at the next turn. Nu attr bt Max Eastman may ltoJUn M 'wording Uihat hr bn accomplish ed. These facts .show the U.S.S.R. has made the most rapid advance economically, politically and so cially that has ever taken place. These facts; also show that events have taken place such as sabotage in industry causing enormous loss ?: T?ih !if " Property; that individual murder of officials had been planned and taken place, in an effort to destroy those who nad directed the reconstruction of the country. We in America have Vd !nall enemy to over come in comparison, when Bene diet Arnold turned traitor and President Lincoln was shot by an Msassin. Also in the union, and tL iL??1 tb lKyer. but ?t! Ja,tr" ar no common, tats. They are the graduate, of te? "Crab aU o mat ter how ye cet It." A study of SowsThaJ'S"1 f the V S -SET . 0,9 fownment pro Tides facilities tor any perioi to E?5!f!X,6. vny PrPl action, c to Publish any Idea he may devel op. These facilities are free v. of printing press, issuing of leaf (Continued' on page I)