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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Moralnsr, March 10, 1937 I r PAGE FOUR (presort 'No Favor Sways Us ;.No Fear Shall Aice From First Statesman, March 2S, 1851 j . , Charles A. Sprague THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. . Charles A. Sprague, Pres. - - - Sheldon F. Sackett, Secy. Member of the Associated Press ' 1 ! Tbe Associated Press IS exclusively entitled to the use tor public- ' tlon cf all news dispatches, credited to It or not otherwise credited Is this pa pet. j ' . . . : ' I . The Capitol Expansion Plan . J THE action of the legislature in adopting the plan for cap itol extension in Salem as recommended by the architect and by the state planning board, and approved by mem bers of the capitol reconstruction commission makes a def inite settlement of. the capitol program which j has vexed the governor and state of ficials and the citizens of Salem and the state ever since the old capitol was destroyed. It is not pertinent now to rehearse' the contention of 1935 about capitol location. The special session of that year fixed the place for rebuilding in the old tract between Court and State streets. That decision, no wearer, merely postpones imai settlement of the question as to where future expansion should occur. i The fronting of the new capitol on Summer street left only one direction for satisfactory expansion, north along that street. The legislature has just ordered the purchase of the four blocks to the north, and made an appropriation of $300,000 for the purpose. This sum will not buy all the blocks. It will permit buying enough for immediate needs and per haps leave a balance for purchase of parcels which may come on the market from time to time. Governor Martin previous ly urged acquisition of the land for future needs. While he made no definite recommendation to the legislature, he is not unfriendly to the program but has shown justifiable concern over where the money was coming "from. It was found pos sible to finance the program without borrowing from the ac cident commission, which will save the state interest, with out creating any actual deficiency in the general fund in the treasury. r j Assuming the governor's approval of the law, the cap itol commission will still need to obtain the approval of the board of control before purchasing any land or erecting any building. The reservation of power would appear sufficient to protect the state against mal-administration of the pro ject. And: the commission itself has shown its ability to do . a very creditable job for the state. j There is not the need for immediate action there was with the building of the old capitol. The state officials can take plenty of time to plan its work, and take plenty of time to negotiate with property-owners' in the , district affected. We should very much regret it if a disposition to hold up the state was manifest. Future legislature will resent any "hold up" and the whole city will suffer in consequence. - With the four blocks eventually acquired and a mall de veloped in the center of Summer street, leading; to the mas sive capitol, it is easy to vision a most imposing and beautiful civic center, an inspiration to the citizens of Oregon for gen erations to come. - i Bonneville Battle j THE race is on between the politicians, the bureaucrats, the army, the grange, the, chamber of commerce, the pri , vate utilities, and the big industries to see who will con trol Bonneville dam. The army built it and wants to run it The politicians want to use Bonneville power for political power. Industrialists vision cheap power for plants on the lower Columbia and the grange wants free juice without cost to the taxpayers to trickle up Coon hollow or along Sheep ridge. Congress is to decide who gets to control Bon neville, with the president making conflicting recommenda tions for the guidance of congress. - Oregon interests, both grange and c of c, do not want Bonneville pooled with. Grand Coulee or any other project. That is about as far as their unity goes. The grange wants none of the energy to reach consumers over private power lines, fearing rake-offs of profit for the private companies. The chamber of commerce group doesn't want to see existing investments wiped out by government tax-free competition. The army is scrapping the Washington bureaus over who will give orders at the dam. - j In a congressional committee hearing yesterday Con gressman Mott vigorously opposed the bill which Cong. Smith of Washington state rushed in bing a mimeograph of Roosevelt's recommendations. Mott wanted the committee to wait for the text of a senate bill now being written by MeNary and Bone and other northwest sen ators. Maj. Gen. Markham, chief of the army engineers, ap peared to ask an amendment to give control of operations of ' the dam to the army, rather than to an administrator ap pointed by the secretary of the The battle over Bonneville eral power program. The president, who has endorsed var ious ideas, some of them conflicting, is not ready to announce a permanent policy, waiting apparently on the outcome of pending cases or of his court change plan. Meantime work men are finishing the dam. By 193ft it will be ready for turn ing energy onto transmission lines. Who is to market its pow er? W hat group will be boss Washington for the next few months. , Help From Legislators rr was only the persistent and courageous work of a num ber of legislative leaders which gained for the capitol pro gram the approval of both houses. In the senate President Franciscovich and Sen. Strayer and Sen. McKay introduced bills on the subject. Sen. McKay ership or the bills because of illness at a critical time. The two former senators, joined by Sen. Walker of the ways and means committee, fought the battle through. They insisted on making the appropriations immediately available to gain advantage of any federal aid that may be had. I The hardest battle was in the house where Rep. Ronald Jones and Ellis Barnes of Multnomah county bore the brunt of the fight. Both were members of the ways and means com mittees and so were familiar with all the details of the plans which had to be altered in the midst of the fight to meet ob jections to use of accident funds. The situation was threat ening on the last day of the session when the labor bloc tried to use the capitol bill for leverage for. votes against HB 477. No trading was done and the capitol program won on its mer its. Barnes, who had been chairman of the house committee on capitol reconstruction in the special session was deeply interested in the adoption of the program; and his aid to Jones was of great value. i I - Highly important as a factor in the capitol group pro gram was HB 353, the highway office building enabler. Rep. Walter Fuhrer exhibited great skill in surmounting parlia mentary difficulties in getting this bill through the house and Sen. McKay was on hand to steer its successful course through the senate. j ; Gov. Martin has always had the vision of an enlarged area for the capitol and of a harmonious planning of a cap itol rrrouD. While he. like many others interested in the nrob- lem, did not get the exact land with the commission in good spirit and his continued support i is relied on for the adoption of this permanent oroerram for the Oregon capitol. "Farley to talcs President's classified as a dog-bites-man bit of Editor and Publisher as soon as possible after grab interior. j links in with the whole fed of the work? Eyes will be on had to give up persona) lead preferred, he has cooperated ; i i ' side" runs an Ogn headline. This no news. I Bits for ; BrcaWast : By R. J. HENDRICKS More about Prof. 2-10-17 M, Q. Lane, Oregon ; man, brother of James G. Blaine; need of a hell? V . . A question was raised in this column several weeks ago con cerning a man who went in Ore gon under the name of Prof. M. Q. Lane, and achieved considerable prominence here In the ; closing years of the last century. The question was about his real Identity that Is, was he a broth er of the great Maine statesman. James G. Blaine or perhaps a half brother? Such speculations were rite then. Sarah Hunt Steevea contrib uted an answer, used in the issne of Feb. 18, saying the man in question was said to have been a half brother or full brother of the Maine statesman; that the Oregon man always wore very fine Prince Albert suits of black broad cloth, and it was hinted that these came from the famous brother. Mrs. Steeves remembers that wben she was a young girl she attended the Rock Point school in the Waldo Hills, where the Oregn Lane (or Blaine) was a teacher; that he was a fine teacher, though his discipline was a little severe and his pupils sometimes thought he had eyes in the back of his head. b , Also that he was a very tall, thin man, resembling very much the pictures of Abraham Lincoln. Miss Florella E. Phillips of Sa lem, old time bookkeeper for the water company, Steusloff Bros, and others, remembers Prof. Lane very well when be taught in the South Salem public school. . m The building in which he taught was hen located about where the 1500 block Is now, west of South Commercial street, a little north of (below) where the Fairmount section begins. The building still stands, some what altered. It is the main part of the Barkus feed mills, 887 South Commercial street, moved a little east and several blocks north of its original location. No other structure as old as that, which was a public school build ing, still stands in Salem, u s Miss Phillips remembers that Prof. Lane had a son, and that his name was Melvin G.. probably the same as his father's. She thinks this son in a recent reguE&r or special session of the Oregon legislature had a minor rosition, door keeper or assistant door keeper or something of the kind. S HenTy C. Porter, Aumsville. pioneer resident of that section and one of the oldest living na tives among the whites of Marion county, remembers Lane. - He recalls that Lane taught the public school at Turner. Mr. Porter thinks that Lane had been a preacher, and he re members him as a public speaker and an able one. He recalls an occasion upon which Lane was making a public address and was interrupted by a heckler who raised the question of the existence of a helL "I do not claim to be an im peccable authority on that lately disputed question, remarked Lane, "but I am sure of one thing, he added. "I am sure that if there !s not a hell, there ought to be one. and I will go farther and giro it as my unqualified belief that there should be many more than-one helL In fact, I believe there should be a hell In every town ship!" "W The heckler was not prepared for so sweeping and all Inclusive a statement, and the laughter of the crowd was so hearty as to bring him to decide he was through and licked. V "W Lane added that he himself had been guilty of conduct that was a disgrace to his profession. The way he said it, or some hint or tradition, caused Mr. Porter to think he bad been a preacher at some period of his career. Any way, his sweeping belief In the need of not only a hell bat many of them, left thejnfer- ence with his hearers that he himself In his own opinion might derive benefit from the punish ments provided in such a place or state. A question has been referred to the writer concerning the his toric Importance of, the house at State and 15th street now being torn down to make way for a modern apartment house. - The Bits man believes the one with the history is another house in the same block. But more on this later. Of course, every one knows that James G. Blaine came within a few votes of being president of the United States, in 1885. and, in 1885, missed by a scratch again becoming the republican nominee, which, had he won in that eon test, would have given him the presidency. The writer (and his wife) sat In the national conven tion of 1889, and heard the long est cheering In American political history up to the time 17 min utes for Blaine. Some that have followed have made that seem short. 1 ; : Electric Line Extended To Serve Four Families HAZEL GREEN. March t The power line Is being extend ed north from N. P. William son's to serve four families. Otis Phillips. D. W. Lowery. Walter Boucher and George Hatch. Phil lips and Lowery recently bought S-acre tracts and built homes snd George Hatch, whose house burn ed some time ago, is planning to build soon. While the power line Is being Installed the 44 and 117 telephone lines are ont of order. Where i- '.' l 7 jf .'; ti - : It &w : if! rss'T5 fcjfe i ll Ifl ! - j'fs7 111 i r -y My LUXURY MODEL CHAPTER XXXVII Luana got a room in her old hotel over on the west side, for until the . business was on a pay ing footing, she must economize. At three-thirty, promptly, she presented herself In the Vande veer suite of offices on Wall street, and shortly thereafter the con tract was drawn up, signed and sealed. Luana was to have, a drawing account against profits, of one hundred dollars a week. The clause set forth that the account was to start from the date of signing. She walked out into the bright sunshine, feeling as though she owned the earth. Followed days and weeks that were amazingly busy, but she loved every moment of them, even if often she was dog tired. To have one's own business was a vastly different matter from working Tor an employer! No snubs. No snippy orders. No hav ing to be out till all hours of the night in exotic gowns that would attract embarrassing attention. The public as yet did not know of her venture. The opening would probably be towards the end of July. - An ample collection of gowns must be assembled before then. Luana worked with a will, in happy anticipation. A temporary workroom had been rented over near the East river and a competent staff had been hired. Luana spent her en tire days in a cubby-hole in the workroom, at her drawing-board, or draping material on the dum mies. It was fascinating work. To dream beauty, and then turn it into reality with her own hands! That was her happiness, with Jimmy three thousand miles away from her ... But they would have a glad reunion. The only fly in the ointment was that, under the terms of the contract, not even Jimmy must know of her arrangement with Mr. Vandaveer. She had written Jimmy that she had a new and promising Job. But the contract was to remain a profound secret. The days of summer that were crammed with exciting world happenings went by. ' The big water front strike was on In San Francisco. Luana had a letter from her stepfather, telling her that the national guard had been summoned from Los Angeles, and that he had gone with them to patrol the strike area. "Hell love it. He's a bora fighter. Luana felt a wave of pride la the pluck of the old colonel. Later, her pride was to turn to keen anxiety ... A telegram from the colonel's lawyer In San Francisco informed her that he was lying unconscious in the military hospital there. He had sustained a head Injury from a brick hurled by one of the strikers. There was some fear of a skull fracture. Mr. Vandaveer urged her to go at once. He bought a tieket for her on the fastest trans-continental plane service. Loans armed la America' coolest summer city on k golden morning. She drove straight to the Presidio. , . , Followed two days ef sus pense. The third morning he rallied. He opened his eyes to find her at the bedside. The x-ray examination proved to be much more satisfactory than was anticipated. Still sot out of danger, there was hope of his recovery, it soothed him to have Luana there. All day she stayed at the hospital, sleeping at night In the matron's bungalow on the grounds, so as to be within call if anything should hsppen. - Col. McCarthy had an excellent "Unpacking" Is Needed I constitution. Progress was good. "You really must go out and get some fresh air, my' child," the kindly head nurse told Luana. "or we shall be having you on our hands as the next patient." Luana had friends in the many hilled city, notably Nancy and J as pay Payne. This was the young couple who had eloped to Tuma, Arizona, and who, in a double rprcmonr that InrlnrtArf LniM ! (under her real name of Elisa beth Harmon) and Gerald Bru ton, had been united in wedlock by the "marrying Judge of Yuma." Each day, Nancy had come to the hospital, and was continually on the telephone with Luana. A new, greatly improved Nancy, entirely happy in her shiny little new flat that commanded a won derful view of the bay. As a bride, Nancy had entirely succumbed to the spell of her Jasper the same Jasper she had laughed at, and snubbed, and Jollied along as a suitor! "Flirts make the best wives," Jasper had assured Luana, with a twinkle. "Darling, my flirting days are done," smiled Nancy. The erstwhile butterfly had turned into a model housekeeper, whose world circled round Jasper within the four walls of her mod est little home that was as neat as a new pin. Nancy's own fingers had made the gay chints curtains that hung at the windows, the pillows that covered divan and settee. Nancy went to market every morning In the shiny coupe her startled par ents had given her for a wedding present. Nancy did the cooking, leaving only the cleaning of the apartment and the washing of dishes to the little maid who came In dally. "It seems so terribly unfair that I should be so awfully happy In my' marriage, and that yours should have turned out so badly," she told her friend as they skim med in the little coupe through Goden Gate park. "I could cry when I think it was I who urged you to it, darling! A thousand times I've regretted it for you!" Her eyes filled. "Will you ever forgive me?" "Of course I do. Nancy. Good ness me, I was no child! I was vain and flighty and silly. And X paid for ray nightlness. "And you say . you got an an nulment? That the brute was mar ried already? Well, that simplifies matters." Luana briefly told her of the interrupted honeymoon that the honeymoon hadn't even begun when the "bridegroom" was ar rested la San Diego . . .! "It was la the Los Angeles pa pers about your eloping with him but somehow your name never did get Into the papers here in connection with him or his ar rest. Nancy sow told her. She added: "Be sure I didn't breathe it to -a soul, and Jasper kept absolutely mum. We went to Yosemlte for our honeymoon, and directly after that, he got a Job in a bank here, and here sre lire. Luana explained her change of name, and told aU about her. New York experiences. . "TouVe a brick. My, you're got courage!" Nancy declared admir ingly. She added: "But I shall always call yon Elisabeth, not Luana. .The colonel was so Improved next day that Luana accepted Nancy's invitation to stay at their flat. Nancy would drive her to aad from the hospital, and certainly It would be much pieasanter to occupy the shiny little guest-bedroom in her friends home than be in the matron's bungalow, kind as the busy matron was. Mr. Vandaveer sent a lengthy night-letter to her, to the effect that she must remain in' San Fran cisco till her stepfather was well on the -mend. After her weeks of intensive work in the appalling by " BIAY CHRISTIE heat and humidity of New York City, the cool breezes of the city on the ocean would set her up and strengthen her for the even harder work that was to come on her return. The strike came to an end and the water front was no longer a danger sone. Luana revelled in roaming .round Chinatown with Its spices of the orient, its enchanting shops where she could buy wonderful kimonas and embroidered coats and robes for her own not-ao-distant opening. She loved the mystery in Chinatown with its great paper lanterns and gilded balconies and dragons, and Its slant-eyed Inhabitants. She loved the Chinese restaurants with their succulent dishes and queer sweet meats. When Nancy was busy, and her stepfather resting, she would take long rides up and down hill on the tiny cable cars. Fishermen's wharf intrigued her, and Harbor Fish Grotto. She would eat shrimps fresh out of the ocean, and revel in the tarry smells of ships and fishing, revel In the forest of masts and spars along the water front, with the gulls flying and crying, giving one such a sense of adventure, of just being about to set forth to the far corners of the globe." The romance and tradition of San Francisco seeped through her blood, making her heart sing with Joy. Even the gray fogs were dramatic like. something out of Limehouse, or a mystery story. And she was never tired of watch ing the little boats ply to and fro across the blue waters, with their musical notes of warning, or listening to the surge of the ocean on the beach. With Nancy and Jasper of an evening, she would dine in the quaintest little restaurants that were flavored with old Italy, Ger many or Spain. Next morning, she would tell the colonel all about them, and he would come back at her with remtntaoeaee of the Botiemlan restaurants of his own young .manhood. Coppa's, Sanguinettl's, Solarl's. and the Trovatore. "One had real food then in San Fran cisco! Those were the days!" he would tell her. - "The Monkey House" had been s great place then, with monkeys climbing and chattering over the grape- arbors as men drank their steins of beer of a leisurely Sun day. . Luana told him about Chou Chon. She had ' left Chou-Chou with one of the girls In the work room who had taken a great fan cy to the tiny monkey ' Bat she did not mention Jimmy, to whom Chou-Chou had so quaintly introduced her! ' San Francisco must hare been even more fascinating; when the cobled streets ran straight down to the wooden piers! When three masters and four-saasters sailed through the Golden Gate ... when the gold rush was on . . . tell me about It," she would draw the colonel, who was nothing loath to satisfy her. He told her of the : gold rush. ot Spanish raneberos ; and Fran ciscan priests. He had been brought up in 8aa Francisco and. as a ;rery young child, remem bered the prairie schooners, com ing into the city. He told her of the wooden side walks, aad the crowds of horse thieves. These were the days ot hoopskirts aad gay bonnets .and elegance) . , . Of the earthquake, too. he told her, and of that April morning just after sun-up when the world crashed about his ears. But even then, there was a queer gaiety and a vivid sense ot living zest fully, what with the refugee camps and the levelling of class il Unctions, and. the new cam araderie. Never before had the colonel n me By DOROTHY XNew Epoch in Steel It is . now three years since i sat flnji" t h'e j Immaculate dining room of a Braddock steel worker now n e r o i c the housewife who can keep her eartalni fresh in Brad dock and heard from his lips the fascinating and terrific story of a decade of at tempts to organ ize steel. T he man was com- ..i m.. nleteiy discour aged. I'Steel j will never be or ganlied," he said. "Never. They Willi close the shops first." And It Is nearly) half a century since my Own grandfather, the Scotch man! Donald jGrierson. coming to this j country aflame with a Cal vlnUjtici passion for .human Jus tice! took to the soap boxes in Pittsburgh, j ran afoul of the au thorities, ahd went home to Scot land to die there, I wish that Scotch "grandfather were -Alive. He would j fall upon his knees and attribute the (victory in a strictly secondary lie to John Lewis. OnJjf God, hej would say, can ac complish miracles. i i 11 Those whose lives have never been! touched jby contact with men of blackened! faces and grease stain overalls will hardly Imag ine rht the Agreement, so peace fully! signed the" other day be tween fMyroni Taylor ' and John L. Lewis, means to the workers of this' country. The news will be read; with excitement, not only in Pittsburgh and Chicago and New York, and in jail the great indus trial i centers ef the United States, but 3t .. will j be read In Hungary, Serbia Croatia and Czechoslo vakia, j! from j papers written - in queer characters, by men who also remembjer Pittsburgh, who have also served part of their llvej in steel I have heard the story bf strikes and fights, of black towns ind company police, of WJu'nctlans and detectives, not only! hi Homestead and Braddock, but In ja whitewashed peasant cot tage; in thai village of Magraral mas in the heart of Hungary. "Suxe,I splk English, too. Sure, I was In America once. In Pitts burgh. 1 1 worked in steel. I got trouble' with j my lungs and my brother died, j I got the farm so I com home.; In Pittsburgh I lived in af house with wallpaper. Not like Jthls. We went to the 'movies.' This: town is dead. Made good money :in Pittsburgh. It's all right if ytumind the bosses. If you dont"--Hls eye- traveled around his wd-room domain, a cottage' witbf white walls, and gayly paint ed beams across its celling, of high beda covered IA bright quilts, of a colored tile stove. "This place o. a-ittoo. I was lucky. I own Stee workers, in the midst of the jfwar, , helped to f onnd - the Czechoslovak nation in Pittsburgh. Thefr enemy j was the Hapsburg empre three thousand and more milei fwayr Then they thought about bational freedom. Their heroes Iwere Masaryk and Benes. Som of them, though, thought of anothe fight for freedom. The freedom of a j man to have some thing to say j about his job. But they! spoke I no English, or very little). Hard (to organise. Good Wilspntan I Democrats. helping Amefick to win the war. with one urges toward freedom. Dangerous radiali. it, they expressed . the othef irge.S I v .: A ;fe w weeks ago I said, before the fLeague for Political Educa tion! "The sponsoring pf general and responsible trade union or ganisation is the most conserva tive fprogTamj which any one can adopjt la this country today.'? That Is znr belief. At the center of all of our political discussion, wheth er itis the Issue of union organi zation or the issue of the Supreme Count. s the j conception of prop erty ,f of what constitutes private property. And that conception is chanklijg, all lover the world. The Idea of the defense of property is the basis Of our Constitution, and i even the radicals of their day, i men like Jefferson, recog nized 9. nor did they wish to destroy the idea of private prop erty fas; a right, because they re alized. Hand, ;I think. Correctly, that the widespread distribution ef private property la a condition of asueesstsl democracy. But If this Is true, then one must, for the yery sake bf the Idea of prop erty.! extend jits meaning to !n eludej the only property which the majority of people la this democ racy.? now at the height of a ma chinal and Industrial civilization haver fhelr Jobs. .We must recog nise jthet theL-worker has a prop erty kight Infills Job, - J I f X nave never felt, for instance, that the argument against the sit down! strike, on the ground ot its being! an offense against. property right, was altogether valid. For that argument presumes that only stockholders and management have (property rights la aa Indus- i I i and Luana been so close to each others It was a heart-warming ex perience. He! even said to her one morn ing, g Jook of wistfulness la the blue yes that used to be so sharp: Wh jdon't you come home, Elizabeth?" (He could never get used i to the name Luana.) "Not the orange grove, but to San Fran cisco i?d like! to live here." 1 pniy one day . . . after I've mads; good.: . I have to make good; first. dddy , . . I'd like to live ere . ,." : felt touched, and choky. He really wanted her. Was lonely. Nancy's happiness made her en vious f it had been Jimmy and she, Mw. la' that darling l;tUe apartment looking down' on the ships! and the blue waters . . . The Angelus bells brought tears to heir ieyea, they were so beautl- fL I J She. fwould wander along the cmoacaaero. loosing longingly at the ships from France. To Be Continued) biecor THOMPSON try. Legally, no doubt, that Is still true. But li cannot see it aa a moral Issue. The argument against the sit-down 1 strike, which seems to me really tenable, and im portant, la that it is a technique which permits -a small group of workers to coerce, possibly, a ma jority The removal of coercive practices from employer-employee relationship is the first construc tive way to answer this argument For if workers hare an unques tionable right to organize into independent unions, if that is gen erally accepted In industry -as fundamental; then the quid pro quo which labor owes, -is to use tbe rpeans of reason, persuasion and appeals to personal and group interest which trade unionism offers, rather than the coercive weapon. I ' Opposition to trade unionism has often centered In the acensa ion (hat the trade unions are rackets, run by racketeers for racketeers, and. at the expense of workers as well as employers. It has many times been true. Put I think that the history of the la bor struggle 'in all countries indi cates that when the trade unions lack (status, either with employ ers, ojr before the law, when they are pushed into the gutter, they tend o adopt the manners of the gutter Proud, responsible and honest trade onion leadership, unions which, have extended their activities to include the cultural education of the workers, flour ish inj those countries where trade unions) have been1 lifted 'from an onteaat net it inn and entnhl inhcwl as an integral part of Industry, theoretically respected and taken for granted.! If we are moving now toward such a new status, and can expect something of the same results; If. the days of es pionage, injunctions, private po lice. private detective agencies. furnishing thugs to both sides, err. (actually, beginning to be numbered, then every member ot. the piablic can be thankful. And patieijee Is a reasonable counsel. In tl e matter of the working relationship between capital and labor, this country- has been the most anarchic in ' the western world; We will not establish order overnight. ; ; Meetings Slated Today, Woodburn wjoDBURN. March 9 The .Presbyterian i Ladies Aid society win meet at the church Wednes day afternoon - with Mrs. L.- R. Tweedle. Mrs. Marchal Hicks and Mrs. Clyde Whitman as host esses.! The program will be In charge of Mrs. D. J. Gillanders and Mrs. H.l F. Butterfield will lead the devotions. All members and friends iare invited. There will he election of officers. The Woodburn Rural club will hold Its regular monthly meeting at the) home ef Mrs. M. B.I Myers, on the Pacific highway, Wednes day afternoon with her daugh ters, Mrs. Minnie Bissell and Mrs. Lela Hughes as assisting host esses. Marion county local No. 1, order of Oregon Workers Al will -hold a box social llancel and program at the city hall club room Thursday night, with the public Invited to attend. - Glenj Ballard Is Engaged To Preach For Liberty OREGON STATE COLLEGE, Corvallh, March 9. Glen S. Fax on. Albany; and Margaret Scboel er. Corralll; will represent Ore gon State college against speak ers from Willamette and Portland universities and Pacific and Lin field colleges lathe state old line oratorical: contest tomorrow at Pacifle university at Forest Grovej 1 Faxon will make a plea for the liberalisation of the practices and beliefs of the Christian religion In in hi oration, "A Spiritual Challenge- Miss Schooler, s e c o n d place (winner In this annual con test last year; wfll portray the life work of Jane 'Adams, la her ora tion. Ameriea's Mother of Men." This Corvallia co-ed is also a member of the -Beaver debate squad;. Ten Years Ago Marc 10, 1P3T Adjutant General George A. Whit of . Salem Inspected the Columbia Beach site for the an nual. Oregon t national guard en campment, declared the location ideal. State basketball tournament will start today, tea teams la Salemj. opening game at 3 o'clock. - i I V--r : . Lane Morley, a local business man, j win open a real estate and insurance office la First Na tionalj Baak t building today. -, Twentyj Yews Ago ' 1 March lO, 11T . .rreaiaeni wuaoa .oraerea-ine army (of merchant ships against Germ any's ! ruthless submarine warfare, and at the same time Issued! a proclamation calling aa extra is. session of congress,- April Boys la high school launch military organisation, Frank ZInn, Thomas McGOchrist snd Kenneth Asplawall appointed to secure! information and to con fer wth Got. Withycombe as to securtfcgjyf rifles and. equipment. Basketball treat tonight: Cap ital National Bank, Ray C. Baker, captain; and Price Shoa cow. Dr. F. Ii Utter, captain. "U piay wot cnampionsmp oi mercial basketball, league. -t