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L :'.(.' .N, .''..i:!-i.l.., l'.'r..:Li.,it';i:."-.li( - The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, iareii 3 193T 4' . ... I ; ' - J PAGE FOUn "No Favor Sways Us; No Feun Shall Axe e" From First Statesman, March 28. 1851 , Charles A. Sprague - - Editor and Publisher THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING ! CO. Charles A. Sprague. Pres. - - - Sheldon F. Sackett, Seer. - " Member of Che Associated Press ' Tt Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the ose for pubMoa- . j Hon cr all -news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this papei. . . 7. ! ! . I Is Relief a Permanent Load? RELIEF is not a temporary problem, is the opinion of Har ry Hopkinsi relief administrator; and it is coming to be accepted by the people as more or j less permanent, at least so long as the present philosophy not of being your brother's keeper but of making some one else keep your bro ther, prevails. Mr. Hopkins, at least; has done little to make relief non-permanent, though it may be noted that whenever he proposes cutting down the load the mayors gang up to demand no reduction. i:' j. , " In an interview in Washington last week .Hopkins said the country may as well make up its mind that a very sub stantial number of persons are going to have to get "their share'' of the national income by means of various types of government benefit. Hopkins believes that the full man power will not be needed in production of goods, and there are oth ers unfitted for work. Asked if this continuing subsidy to un . employed would breed a class preferring the dole to private - employment Hopkins replied that he had an abiding faith in human nature's instinctive aversion to taking something for nothing. - J j -.r ; ' Such optimism is interesting. A glance at the stock ta bles or at the gambling devices should convince one that there is one hope which sustains the American people that of getting something for nothing. Through: the centuries of ex pansion in this, continent people have been accustomed to "taking a chance," and their adventuring has resulted in re markable industrial progress. . j j Hopkins further stated that the day when private char ities could be depended on to. the cost will be met with taxes. I Not a comforting prospect. The persistence of the heavy relief burden, anomalous as it is. in a period of recovery, is both baffling and discouraging. Accompanying it are reports of shortages of skilled; labor in certain fields. Is the problem one of economic organization, or is it one of social reconstruc tion? Is the trouble due to the fact that the human material is deficient, or to lack of vocational' training? Or is it due to exclusion of the unskilled from opportunity to learn and work at a trade? v j The Hopkins despair ought not to be accepted without protest. The weak and incompetent will probably have to have a lift; but there is enough work to do of one kind or another which ought to give employment for all. There should be continued attack for a solution of the problem which re mains as long as there are several millions of employable men and women on the relief rolls. Reasonable Building Program THE senate will have on its Calendar for today decision as to a building plan f or capitol construction . in Salem, which has been approved by the joint ways and means committee. In brief it authorizes the state capitol reconstruc tion commission to erect a building, expected to be a library, and to acquire, all or part of the four blocks north of Court street from the new capitol, lying between Court and Center streets facing. Summer street. For the building $550,000 is appropriated and for the land purchase $300,000. The financing is obtained by paying joff the balance due the industrial accident fund on the off ice building and agri culture building, which amounts to about:$181,000; and then obtaining a fresh investment from the industrial accident fund, secured by the property with repayment to be at the rate of $50,000 a year. Collection of rentals would continue to go toward meeting the installments. . i, i By a separate bill, now in the house, the highway com mission would be authorized to buy a site, subject to the ap proval of the capitol commission, and erect an office build ing. This would be discretionary on" the highway commission, not mandatory. . j , j This program would complete for the time being the program which the special session of 1935 failed to finish. The amount authorized for the capitol $2,500,000 was $1, 000,000 short of the sum recommended by the governor and which was approved at different times by both houses of the legislature, only to be cut down through disagreement over site in the closing hours. The location is very largely determined by the action of the last session in putting the capitol on the old tract and of the commission in making it face north intoSummer street. Under the leadership of the commission a comprehensive plan is being developed, which will be harmonious and serviceable, and the buildings promise to be both practical and beautiful. The financing makes only a small call on the general fund ; and the faithful performance of the state in its under- laiung vn use state oiiice Duiiaing snouia give assurance tnat ' its trust fund character is not and will not be violated. There is an evidendesire on the part of the legislature to complete its capitol group job; and the plan offered is one whkh received the approval of the joint ways and means committee and appears to merit the approval of both houses and the governor. V j. cicct v iciury ; j . . THE steel companies gained a real victory yesterday , a victory over themselves. By their action in establishing a 40-hdur work in the mills and a $5 minimum wasre cou pled with, in some cases recognition of the union they have succeeded in oreservinir npacp in th fnrlnafrv With ho men ace of a severe and costly strike lifted from this great indus try there was a promptupward bounce of stock prices. In vestors and speculators evidently regarded the promise of peace as a better assurance of profits to the j steel mills than the increased wage bill was of losses. j I In mass production industries the time is definitely in the past when decisions as to wages, hours and working con ditions may be made by the management 'solely. Labor has its side and should be consulted. The steelmen, under the pow erful prod it is true of the national administration, have cap itulated in a degree at least. For once it would appear that the operators and managers have shown greater statesmanship than usual. . ' ; Billboards have been proclaiming the virtue of "The American Way" of high wages and good working conditions. It is good'news to the country to note that the employers who probably paid for the displays are also reading them and put ting them into practice. Meantime there is: need for a better distribution of income among earning groups, for there are many classes of citizens with incomes far below the level suf ficient for a proper living standard. Enlightened ethics can help secure this, as well as statutory compulsion. Floor Lobbyin N observer feels that there ing on the floor of the house, which doesn't stop with the taking up of sessions. The practice is not confined to the "wicked" or the "virtuous" lobbies are just as insistent and ubiquitous as the representatives of the interests, vested or invested. -There is also a tendency for reporters to roam over do. the job is gone; henceforth .V; is altogether too much lobby Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Historic Aurora; Founded by a people who banished selfishness utterly in one generation: ? ,- !; : (Continuing from yesterday? You will find the proofs in the U. s. court vaults in Portland. The property was all common, but mostly ia the name of the leader. Dr. Kelt After his death on De cember 30. 1877. no one being pn hand to take his place, many months having pass'--I. it was de cided to wind up !" affairs (of 4 the colony; to divide the property. But how? Probate was first asked in the Marlon county court. It was case No. 829. But no progress could be made there, because the property was in both Missouri and Oregon. and, besides, there were no exact precedents. They faced an un charted sea of legal procedure. , So suit No. 752. by a bill in equity, was started in the U. S. district court, Portland- under Judge Deady, by W. H. EHinger, Portland lawyer, both able men. Three decrees were entered. Brief ly, first, on July 27, 1881. that the , property had been held., in trust for all members. Second, Sept.' S 19, same year, that the trustees and managers be directed to dtride all, the prop erty "in such manner as In their judgment will tend to equalize the shares of each." The third decree, given January 22, 1883, declared that the report of the committee or trustees be "in all things confirmed and i approved." and that the distribution was "a Just and final settlement of the affairs of said community." V Brief words, to confirm vast de tails, involving the division of about 83.000.000 worth of prop erty. Including 23.500 acres of Improved land and the towns of Aurora, Oregon, and Bethel and Nineveh. Mo., among about 1S0O people: 18,000 acres being in Marion and Clackamas counties, this state. How ; would you go about it? They took the r u 1 e of days served, mainly. Persons who had been members from 1844 to 1881, 37 years, got most; but property went partly according to trade, occupation, family, etc., and some who had advanced money at the beginning were allowed for that. The tannery, for instance, was not given to the tinsmith, nor the brickyard to the blacksmith, and farm families were kept together by having their land intact. i . V V In the first decree, notice was required to be given to all, mem bers, as of Aug. 1, 1881, that the colony was dissolved, and that they were "on 'their own," but that If any one was dissatisfied he or ' she would have time and opportunity to complain and state the reason or reasons. Well, what happened? 1 V "W : There were complaints. Can you guess whet they were? No one complained of his of her share. The complaints were like these: Fritz, our neighbor, ought to have another cow or horse or a plow or wagon, or tools or imple ments, etc., etc., or another fam ily would need a little money on account of poor crops or sickness, or for other reasons. What hap pened with these complaints? J Every request was allowed; every cent asked was paid. The writer had this from the man who paid them, the treasurer. They naturally had a good surplus of money, as a colony, and did not need to borrow, after the first years. ' In fact, the colony loaned mon ey. Some of the richest pioneer merchants of Portland were bor rowers, and there Is no word In dicating a defaulted note. That is recorded proof, under oath, in the U. JS. court records, that those people banished self ishness. Vastly more is available. Time forbids further mention. How is 1t with the average es tate, even In the best society? Do you hear of heirs renouncing their shares in favor of their brothers and sisters even blood brothers and sisters? For nearly 20 centuries so called Christian nations have par roted the precepts of Christianity; tut only a few rare souls have practiced them in spirit and truth. The pedple who labored and loved their fellow men here prac ticed them, and thus banished selfishness. They obeyed the Eleventh Commandment, did not merely give it the show and forms of obedience. m S Kagawa in Japan. E. Stanley Jones and Gandhi in India, Albert Schweitzer in Africa, Chiang and Feng, chief Chinese generals, and the leaders of progressive thought in other nations, know and ; de clare that the coming of universal peace depends upon following the precepts which guided the found ers and pioneers of Aurora. They know words and doctrines alone are not enough. They are aware that the distressed and dis tracted earth needs a social Chris tianity, as taught clearly and sim ply by Its Founder; that this alone ! Is sufficient for every clime and every time. i (Concluded tomorrow.) the floor more or less at will, where their proper place is in the press gallery during the session period. This condition will probably be corrected in part when the legislature moves into the new capitol. Its quarters there can be controlled much better. There will be many more com mittee rooms. Spectators will not be ranged on the same floor as the members but on balconies. Large lobbies will en circle the rotunda on the floor where the chambers are lo cated. :: i - , : ' r. . 1' A ' . .-.;. It is indispensable for law-making for representatives of interests affected to appear; and legislators are desirous of hearing from all sides so proper laws may be framed. It is therefore wrong to give an invidious twist to the designa tion "lobbyist." But it is highly important to keep the lobby ist in his place, and that is off the floor of the houses. ' . ' v- " I -V; ,.: - ; ' , : " " " - ; " ';' i . - . . t . -- -"'''' - 's . : . , ; .i. - ''- "Many famines of Europe" LUXURY MODEL CHAPTER XXXI The second week was not so happy although It "began welL On Sunday, Luana and he drove in the funny little borrowed car to Jones' Beach on Long Island and ventured Into the water which was chilly but exhilarating and on. the way home they had a delicious dinner of Long Island duckling at a roadhouse. and were very happy after their long day together; Tuesday night they dined again at the little roof restaurant on Central Park South. The baritone sang the same love songs, and the violinist played with the same fer vor, and the chicken was equally good. But Jimmy-was worried: A pompous letter from Mr. Wal lace Briscoe, received that morn ing, had Informed him that the exchange to Pari had been ar ranged, and a second-class reser vation had been booked for him on a liner scheduled to sail at ten o'clock on Saturday. That meant only three more evenings with Luana! He tried to tell her about it, but he was tongue-tied. "Jimmy, let's go to a movie." Dinner was over. "Darling. let's go in the Park. I have to talk to you. I have an aw ful lot to say to you. Let's sit by the Japanese Lake, and watch the reflections of the stars In the wa ter." "Why so poetic?" But she lored the poetry In Jimmy. Arm-in-arm, they walked under the trees and down to a secluded bench beneath a blossoming hawthorn.- J "Out with it, Jimmy! You look like bad "news." He drew a long breath, but didn't look at her. "Saturday morning X sail for Paris." An incredulous: "What?" He said dully: "It's quite true." She breathed: "You're going to be away long?" "A three months course, Lu ana." . - I A silence that was heavy as lead lay between them. "Might I ask why you've kept this back? Why you didn't tell me before." "I did the day I first met you, Luana. You remember? I said " "That, you hoped to go?" she finished for him. Bitterly she add ed: "But never a word to me that it had been decided!" "It hadn't, not till- till He stopped. I She rapped out: , "Till wheu? What are you ifrald of' "Till I met Wallace Briscoe the other evening." An Incredulous: 'You asked him for the transfer?" "No." A miserable "no." "He offered it to you?" He couldn't lie to her. He re mained silent. That roused her suspicions. "You met him the nleht you dined with Mrs. Vandaveer at her apartment. Was It through her?- Wretchedly he nodded. - "111 not go, Luana. Ill not leave you. 131 call It all off." She Ignored that She persisted: "Mrs. Vandaveer asked him? Was that It?" "Listen. Luana," he said des perately, "I'd told her at her cock- "Brother to the Ox" are living In poverty eugseeUns From Farm Tenancy commiueo'e icvpon tail party that I was Interested in studying this summer In Paris. In fact, she brought; It up first. It I remember aright. But no, she didn't not then but after she'd seen- my drawings down at my studio that was the day on which I dined with her " ."After you'd missed your ap pointment with, me?" Luana In terrupted him, shaken with jeal ousy. I "I told you my clock had stop ped " "A grand excuse! Why not be open and say plainly that you were so busy.discussing your trip to Paris that you forgot the time, and everything? I suppose she's going too? Why don't you admit it?" Here was a facer. What could he say?" ."Is she going?" Luana de manded In a voice hard and, cold. "I I think so. I mean, she says she .usually gos over for the races." "Ha! I can 'imagine the plans you've made to see Paris togeth er!" She drew a 16ng. sobbing breath. "She asked Mr. Briscoe to transfer you. and he agreed to do so, and you're known It for 11 days exactly, and ' kept it under your hat all this time . . ." "Luana, I only heard (from him this morning. It-lt wasn't def inite " , - "But It was in the air? Yon knew it was as good as settled. iou usea Airs, vandaveer as as a cat's paw because you wanted to ftave . me. You wanted to be over in Paris -with her!" Love knows no logic. There was no arguing with her. He put his two hands over her own. His left hand was uppermost.- A beam of light from i nearby lamp gleamed on the an tique Ting upon .his little finger. "She gave you that. too!". Lu ana shrilled, beside herself with a sudden, swift suspicion that was like the turn of a knife. "I was in her home this very afternoon. waiting for her in the Italian sa Ion, and in a case I saw several rings as like that as as two peas r "It was given as a good luck talisman, Luana," he protested. "Good luck? Bah!" With a quick movement that tore her hand on its aged edge, she wrenched the antique ring from bis finger and flung it in the lake. Jimmy was amazed at Luana's exhibition of Jealousy and temper, and of what amounted practically to an act of vandalism. But before he j could say one word to her, angry or otherwise, she was' off like a deer up the path that led to the highway. A taxi with its 'flag up hap pened to be passing. She hailed it,. gave an address at random, and Jumped Inside. They were off, whirling- along 59th street to wards Columbus Circle. In the passing light of a tali street standard, she saw a tiny red mark on the border of her jacket, and glancing at her hand, she saw that her palm had a jag ged scratch on It where the sharp points of the ring had torn it as she dragged it from Jimmy's lit tle finger. ; She felt no pain, however. As a soldier' In battle Is supposed to feel no pain at the time of his wounds. I She was fur io u s ly Indignant with Jimmy and Mrs. Vandaveer, plotting behind her back to meet In Pa rib, and Jimmy receiving val uable presents from tho woman! How dare he! I Wasn't he hers? All hers? ' She wouldn't ' tolerate c. divi sion in his interest, in his affec tion. She wouldn't be made - fool of no, not by the best man In the world! f ' "What are you going to do all summer, without f Jimmy j her heart asked her now. That made her still angrier and more reseqtful. Jest when things were going so lowest peasantry 'I by MAY CHRISTIE beautifully between them, on the very day that she had got the glad news of her annulment, this had to happen! 8he was glad that she had flung the ring In the lake, glad that she had left Jimmy flat. She would punish him further. . She would caU up "Handsome' at the Yale club and ask him to meet her somewhere, and let Jim my hear about it. ' A3 the -taxi swung down Broadway Into the theatre traffic, she had the driver stop at a drugstore, and paid him off. and went Into' a telephone booth and put her idea into prac tice.' "Handsome," however, was not at his club. She looked In the telephone book to find if his home number was listed. Hadn't he an apart ment in the Sutton Place area? He had. I - The voice of someone who prob ably was his valet informed her that: Mr. Carew had not yet re turned from a weekend at Mon tank Point, on Long Island. "Tell him Miss Waters tele phoned," she said recklessly. She would get even! She was glar to the core that she had kept the brooch, and she would find some opportunity, be fore he sailed, to let Jimmy know that she had deliberately misled him about the "dollar shop," that It was a valuable piece of jewelry that had come from "Handsome!" Tit for tat. That was only fair play. She sat at the counter and had a soda, for.lt was a warm night and she was thirsty. "Say, miss, what you been do ing . to your hand?" asked the' drugclerk. "Nothing. '. A little scratch, that's all." But It had begun to smart. "Bill, looka here a. second." A white-coated young man came from the prescription depart ment. "Take a peek at the ' lady's hand," said the one at the soda fountain, jerking his head in the direction of Luana. Presently, and rather to her an noyance, 8be was behind the scenes, having a disinfectant dab bed upon the scratch,, and a strip of gauze wound around her hand. Thereafter, she walked down Broadway and entered a newsreel theater, which featured, in part. some vivid travel scenes ... Jim-J my was to travel, see the world? When he was gone evenings like this were to be her portion? Anger died, and tears sprang to her eyes. Why had she acted so? . Why had she been so hasty : ! . .. ' Yvonne came Into the dressing room of the shop next day, during the lunch-hour, to find Luana hnnflv air Ath !n ar rnns-Ti Hd.. nf her own costume designs. M' . "Always you are working. : La- i ? Vaaa! Ner-aire do Z see you any more! Yvonne reproached her. "My goodness, Yvonne, yon don't think I'm going to be a mod el all my life, do you? Haven't you any ambition?" "Your hand what is ze matter with It?" Yvonne demanded cur iously as she came nearer, and saw the strip of guaxe wound around- Luana's right hand below the knuckles. "I scratched It. Nothing seri ous." - Luana went on with her drawing. Yvonne looked over her shoul der, her eyes as bright as a ferret. "Meester Quackenbusa you theenk he like you to do that?" she asked softly,' Insinuatingly. But Luana did not take in the real import of the question, un fortunately. "What's It got to do with him what I do in the lunch hour?" "So? You don't care, no?" Boldly, Luana was copying the models for her own use! ThatMras Yvonne's opinion. In the building where ahe lived. Oh the I By DOROTHY "I! TT iji. of course, utterly lmpossi- lt hli to lav down a hard and fast program for preventing world Ivwar, but it Is the thesis of tnis col umn that should a war of world proportions o e cur, any neutral ity legislation which we may pas today can not be counted on to keep us out of it, and .ViJ w ill ii v our OMMtr TbMipwi hands, limit our inuuence. ana restrict our power which now, in time of peace, may be u$ed to help . prevent such a war from occurring. If war comes It i wljl be statesmanship on the spot jtnd not compulsion on the government to act In any rigid way irhich will keep us out of it. We could, to be sure, frame an almost sure! and fool-proof neu trality policy. If we decided that we dfil not care what happened in the rpst of the world, and were determined to restrict our polit ical, military and economic inter eats to this hemisphere, we could do sol But no one has even, sug gested that we prepare to pay the prodigious price Involved. .Th4 neutrality biU thinks .of ns whollf aas sellers, and not as buy ers, i world; trade. But large sec tions of American Industry de pend lupon imported materials. The President, under the neutral ity bill. Is compelled, under cer tain conditions, to keep onr ships out of war cones. Suppose there is a war Involving Japan and Eng land, find Japan manages to block ade British and Dutch possessions In the Far East, which are the chief source of our rubber supply. Without rubber our automobile industry collapses. Will we stand by in such a case? . Il ; T 1 1 I - American naval policy is cer tainly jnot confined to the defense of the: American coast. Mr. Cordell HuU'4j policy.! is certainly not pre dicated by our withdrawal from worldf 'trade. but by precisely the opposite. And Mr. Hull is consist ent. To the members of the Coun cil onM Foreign Relations, he said Thursday night, that "It is not be yond (the power of statesmen to day to! check 'and reverse the drift toward world anarchy," and he suggested the! principles laid down at th4 j Buenos Aires conference as a battel for ending this anarchy. That tneans. rthe loval accentanc by nations of the rule of lawr uarajnteea for the t integrity . of each.jnd implementing renunci ation! of war by methods of in stantiieous co-operative action." Thes jara positive, and not nega tive proposals. ' i II : i .-' As Ifar as the Americas are con cerned this jcountry has already entered upon a scheme for collect ive consultation and collective ac tion Id -case a war threatens or breakjs out n this hemisphere. But the proposed neutrality bills ins possibly! wreck even the re sults iof the Buenos Aires confer ence and even any scheme for col laborative action between the Am-erica4- For. although both the Hous$ knd Senate bills exempt the American republics from the arms and ether embargoes in case of war Between them and a non-Americas) powerj they make an arms embargo mandatory In case of war Between fcwo American repub lics. jShouId.l for Instance. . war break! ou( between Argentine and Brazil, jwe would be forced to stop war Supplies jlmmedlately to eith er beUjgerent;. England, Germany, Frandej or Italy, however, would be frIito PrOTl8ioi either or both of thf m, so that one or more En ropeaH powers might determine the rsilt of a war on this hemis phere! I Conceivably, the result might be to turn an American re public Into a j new Spain, and all that we could do would be to en force fa! blockade. And that would almost certainly mean war, pos sibly of international proportions. Also, fuhder the terms of the Bue nos Aires treaty, we would imme diately enter into conference with tne bfeiflgerents and other Amer there as a ("little dressmaker" extreiieiy. clever, in carrying out even the roughest design. Yvonne drew p4dly, but together they had madej more than one, gown that was in exact reproduction of the 300jahd S40 models in the Hous Of Qnackenbush, and these Yvonhej had worn on weekend trips jwith Armand where there was ioj likelihood of "the boss" or any or "the girls" seeing them to I appear m "copies," with out authorization, -would of course mean instant dismissal! Yvonne had been, on the Verge of making actaal cash money from the "little dressmaker" by going even farther in design-stealing. Bat Armand had stepped in! "Y4ufool! j Yon could be sent to prison for) that! Jailed for a few pjaltry dollars!" Anything 11 legaf bnj the gi-and scale "had rea son" to jit, but anything less than the gtand scale was asinine, be cause! of the risk If one were caught. fThus Armand'a logic. r ? i ... iooe mixea up wun a cheap, gossipy ilittle dressmaker in one's building was courting disaster, wholesaler, now? who could keep his and ret car hand. A (wealthy TheTej was one own $of nsel. someiy, prer on Eighth avenue in the Iqwfer Twenties .j. . But Ar mand did not tell Yvonne about him kod his; offer. That was Armad!i secret. "Mf dame Vandaveer she do not come to the shop near-ly so of-ten now." Yvonne remarked, a new ajKj thrilling suspicion strik ing her is she leaned over Luana's shouldeif. "Yesterday ahe send for you ok the telephone, Luana. You go? What she Iwant with you?" Willed 1o'lt Jimmy and their jquarrel and his imminent departure, the 'name of Mrs. Van daveef was one she did not wish to hear.) Luana did not reply. But a'vslow.j burning red crept from the V-neck of her gown to her cheeks In .an uncontrollable flush. I Yvonne misunderstood its meantegj knowing nothing of Jim. , my'a ctnection with Mrs." Vanda veer; $he took! this as proof posi tive of aomethinr else! (To Be Continued) Record THOMPSON loan 4 powers. But we would enter thai conference with our -hands tied. Before It atarted. we would remove from our representatives anything with wnicn meyrcoma bargain, If aU the South American repnbHes should j agree with ns ypon one course- of action, and one! should refuse to arbitrate, we would he compelled to treat the recalcitrant" exactly like the rest. An (emasculated state department could do little more to compel ar T .a A. W itiAKIa bltr&tion than to apeak noble words. J m This country Is not prepared to offet collaboration In the enforc ing J of peace upon the whole word. But then let us at least keep our heads clear, our tongues uncommitted, and our hands free for whatever emergency may arise in this anarchic world. Legislation whl h compels the government to act pn any rigid way to meet "cir cumstances as yet completely un predictable will, I am convinced, one day. rise up to plague us. ' Copj1riTht.ltJT,NewTorltTrltUB Inc. the Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers ENCON8ISTEXCY To tie Editor: W wonder what k I n d of a world this would be if everybody was I frank and sincere about everything" they do and say. took! an active part in helping elect! a 17. S. senator who is in the ,70'sJ He now declares people of thatlaee are unfit for activa rinfv Democrats . declare the relief set ip is not political bur when they have a measure to put over who Inrf does the loud and long talk On, it Is Mr. Hopkins. Tbje U. S. supreme court lately handled down a decision on the criminal syndicalism act which has been praised and applauded by a l the labor unions and rad icals. It was Just right. Now they are :aking .sides with the pres ident against the ; court. It reminds me of a story of a farm ;r who lived in the middle west. A neighbor observed this farm r was acting queer so he spied on him a day or two. The farmer would send the dog after, the milch cow., when he went out to milk he. would invariably hug the cow and kick the dog. The neighbor Informed some of the t uthoritles on sanity to hap pen j round about time and watcl i the farmer. tSo one ap Jearcd in due time and was sur prise I to. see things happen just as h had been told. When he took the farmer' to task asr to why he. was acting this way, he told him, well I haven't been feeliig just right lately. It seems that J am "just about craty for, some hing to hug and something " to kirk. So I suppose that is the way with a lot of the American peo ple, they are just . about crazy for something to hug and -something to kick. So they hu& the president and kick the supreme court .- Ou' governor has done eTery thing humanly " possible' to keep the legislature from lowering the age limit to 66 and pay a pen--sion of 30 per "month. Pensions of, 1500 ner month are all right-but pensions of $30 per xnontn - will" Bankrunt Uh country The-legislature has ap propriated money for overythlng conceivable--out when) they got readyi to appropriate money for pensions Mr. Pearson S reta nn and sbunds -an "alarm about bank ruptcy. . - : Qh! .Just a littlA mnr. cln. cerltyt K. H. BLAKE, - 201 S. Commercial. 1 (Ten Years Ago March 31 007 , James W. Mott. ttmw Astoria and. member bf wuih- ture ann6nhces he will nook- publidan nomination to congress and otapose W. C. Hawley. Glcfeon Stolz Co. la oldAst man nfactirine business tn sti.m which! has been conducted under same J name throughout history, says Dr. L. R. Burdette tn r.nnr given I to Salem Botarv 1 W - Justice CeOrrn M Dm.. Oregob supreme court and grad uate Of Willamette nn!vi r class of 1885, addressed univer sity itudents at chapel exercise under auspices of Blue Key, na tional honorary fraternltv - - w - . TvyentyYcars Ao March 3. IO it MrsL Isaac Lee Pattrnit vin presidSe at state R-faich.wiil be held in Eu- X rruiaT nd Saturday. Mrs. Ji ajHelteet. Mrs. George Post -V1-- i-aman Appiegate are .saiemi women whn win IS. , UI..C w Dr.fO. C Belllnrpo i.v. .wwuea. ana -om nu. ... r. j-s m tuberculosis of throat. I ? Vf nienes wilt be admit- a nosDltaL Robert Paulus, manager of Sa lem Hult union and Fred Ewing xT".lKr to Dall to speak before 25eJ Tolt Growers asso- Tetachers Bleet Slated -SCIP' March I. The Scio unit lL.i,lty 'chers' clubs is' to meet March 10, according to plans announced at the last seasion. me entertainment committee con sists cjf Miss Tarr and fr wii. son. Wjhlle J. H. Tnmtilwmn -r, W. S.f Snyar are tn nrnriA speaker for the