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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning:, June 10, 1937 i ; w resoti 'No Favor Sways VsrNo Fear Shall Aw e" From First Statesman. March 28. 1851: Charles A. Spbague THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Sprague. Pres. Sheldon F. Sackett, Secy. Member of the Associated Press I Tba Associated Press Is exclusively oUUed to the uso for public tlon of all nw dispatches credited to It or not otberwiss credited la this pnpei. Taxes and fNE would never suspect J. J opher, much less a moral philosopher. Yet, impromptu, he assumed the role when reporters quizzed him on his return from Eneland. askine him how he felt about the pres ident's thrust at rich tax-dodgers. In an unusual burst of lo quacity the financier said that tax-paying was a matter of law and not of morals, with the inference that avoiding taxes In every legal manner possible was not immoral. The cure he said bluntly lay with congress which permitted the loopholes in the tax fences. A lone time ago the Jews asking him if it was lawful moral law) to give tribute to i i r . il.i. l.'.i. renaer unto Vaesar inai w hich instruction to comply with the dominion. In other words, on to distinguish between political izenship requires conformity to is something different from the Die. the taxpayer perjured himself m swearing to nis re turns, that was a violation of olates no moral law m paying law requires. The history of taxation his wit against the taxgatherer. "farmed" out tax collections, ritorial rights for collecting taxes. He of course waxed fat on his "commissions." The harried taxpayer grew skillful in concealing his possessions to escape the demands of the rapa cious collector. Smuggling grew tariffs. One of the canons of taxation is that it be not excessive or it invites evasion. Or if the individual diverts his energies taxation has been a frequent cause of revolution and a stim ulus to migration. An interim committee is meeting in Sa lem to consider tax problems, cited "an evident need for additional revenues for the state and the various counties." But taxes can only parallel incomes and wealth. Too heavy an extraction dries up the source of taxes. In the field of business individuals work for themselves and for their families. Their is secondary. Until this fundamental is changed the govern ment cannot expect its citizens breaks" on his returns of wealth or of income. I ' The Prime Issue j i FRANK MURPHY, duly elected and inaugurated governor of Michigan, has decided to exercise the prerogatives of his office. For some months he has been permitting the CIO organizers to run Michigan Now he has started giving orders himself. He ordered Homer Martin of ;the UAW to "get those lights back on" after power had been shut off in Flint and through the Saginaw valley. j There can be but one government, and that the one op erating within the political frame. Lately the powers and functions of government in city after city and state after state have been usurped by union leaders, particularly of the CIO breed. They have interfered with persons in the exercisd of their constitutional rights. They have interfered with traf fic, have cowed the federal employes charged with transport ing the United States mails. Their picketing has gone far be yond "peaceful picketing"; they have made open threats of violence unless their demands were complied with. Either we have the political government functioning, or we have some unauthorized group functioning as govern ment, or else we have anarchy. . I The prime crisis before the country is the restoration of law and order. This means that labor organizations are sub ordinate to the law, as well as business men and private in dividuals. It means that persons should enjoy their ancient constitutional rights without molestation. A continuance of rioting and public disorder is to feed the maw of revolution. The sooner the duly constituted authorities discharge the ob ligations embraced in their oaths of office and maintain and defend the constitution of state and nation the sooner indus trial peace will come as well as civil peace. I There can be no compromise with lawlessness and dis order. Faulkner's THE June number of National Geographic magazine con tains color plates (nos. XII and XIII) showing mural paintings in the new archives building in j Washington. Both the paintings were done by Berry Faulkner, the artist who has been .commissioned as one of the muralists for the new state capitol. One panel in the archives building shows Jefferson presenting the Declaration of Independence to Thomas Jefferson. The other is a panel showing the signers of the Constitution. i Brilliant coloring marks the work. True portraits of the nation's founders are made for the figures. The work is clear ly conventional in its mood, that is, nothing of the so-called modernistic stuff like that of Grant Wood and other mural ists. "' j , Many Salem people take the Geographic and will be in terested to look up these color plates. Others may consult the magazine in libraries. i If persons wish to pursue the subject further they may go to the state library and ask to see the collection of repro ductions of works of all the artists who are now working on the capitol assignment. - j National Commander Colmery HARRY W. COLMERY, national commander of the Amer ican legion, who visits Salem today is described as a nat ural leader, a man of boundless energy and keen mental facilities. He won the silver bar of first lieutenant in aviation during the war; and in Kansas, his home state, his post-war services have gained for him an enviable reputation. He is a college graduate, took a law degree at the University of Pitts burgh, and has practiced his profession in Topeka since the war. j Colmery's year as commander of the legion has been marked by forceful, enlightened leadership. He has sought to make the legion a constructive force in American afffairs, exercising its leverage not alone for the selfish interests of members but for the participation of the legion in the patri otic, peace-time service of the country. Salem is gratified to have him as its guest today ; and will listen with interest to his utterance. A suggestion is made that a la fighting weeds be established may oe avauaDie 11 not upaonea up xsuczen river, mis wouia never do. According to some farm leaders the farmers would rather hare the wild morning glory and mustard than- to let any manufacturing plants defile the scenery of the Columbia. ! The son hid Its face in South America Tuesday for the longest spell In 1200 years. Judging from its internal pains, the world, if one could view It from a distant planet. Is holding its face In its hands. The rose festival has made good again as a primer for the rain pump. gtate8mati Editor and Publisher Morals P. Morgan as being a philos sought to embarrass Jesus by (in the Jewish sense of their Caesar. The reply of Jesus to r... J. .'.IammIaJ - nu vacsai a ia tuicipicicu as law. without approving Roman this tax question Jesus seemed law and "moral law." Cit the law ; but the moral code political code. sir, for exam the moral law. Otherwise he vi- to government as little as tne shows that the individual pits In ancient times government giving some individual the ter into a fine art to escape high tax may not be avoided the into other fields. Crushing and the resolution creating it sense of obligation to the state to give the tax collector "the Paintings plant to produce chlorates for use at Bonneville where cheap power Bits for Breakfast. By R. J. HENDRICKS Service of Rer. J. P. 6-10-37 Price In Libby prison; a classic: he was pastor of Salem's pioneer Friends' church: V S ; Rev. J. P. Price, born February 14. 1843, was pastor of the High land Friends' church, Salem, in the period around 1907 and 1908. That, is the pioneer church of the Friends (Quakers) In the capital city of Oregon, dating back to the early nineties. Herbert Hoover, former presi dent of the United States, who spent his boyhood years in Salem before going away to college, was a member, and still retains his membership In that church. He contributed liberally . to the cost of the present (second) church building. S S V Rev. Price served long as pas tor of the Friends' church at New berg. Before coming to Salem he had been Friends church pastor at Portland. O. L. and B. P. Price, Portland, are sons, also Dr. J. C. Price, Newberg. Mrs. A. T. Hill. La Grande, and Mrs. F. A. Elliott, Salem, are daughters. O. L. Price is manager of the Portland Ore- gonian. m m The Price family came to Ore gon in 1892, from Illinois, in which state Grandfather Price, father of Rev. J. P. Price, was a pioneer settler. Mrs. F. A. Elliott remembers that her father was diffident about discussing his experiences in the Civil war; was hot easily Induced to talk of them. A little while before his death, however, which occurred on Oct. 14, 1911, at Newberg, Oregon, he wrote a short account of a period of that service and his recollec tions as a prisoner of war. This was in response to importunities of members of his family. Mrs. Elliott copied and has preserved what her father then wrote. The matter came to the atten tion of the writer of this column' through a -visitor of Mrs. Elliott who, having had the rare privil ege of reading the unique manu script, was moved to tears, and in sisted that it is a classic, and ought to be shared with the pub lic. I So this column Is afforded the privilege of giving the classic to the public, and it will no doubt go down in history as such. The title of the copied manuscript is: "A short account of James Par ker Price's experience in the Civ il war, written a short time before his death in 1911." It is to appear in this column just as originally written, begin ning: s s "In 1860 we moved from Car rol county, Ohio, to Edgar coun ty, Illinois, and settled at Bloom field. "In this year Lincoln was elect ed .president and in 1861 the Civil war broke out and for five years things were in an unsettled con dition. By 1862 the war was In full blast. Every day you would hear martial music on the streets; it was nothing uncommon for men to start to their fields, tie their teams to the fence and go off to enlist for the war, some never to Bee their homes again. Is "I remember one of those days we were In the field harvesting when a recruiting officer came to our town of Bloomfleld and father said, 'We had better go to town.' I was ready for my heart was just bursting with patriotism. When the call was given for vol unteers there was a time for seri ous thought, and I took the pen and. enrolled my name. Other boys and men followed. I saw fa ther, with the tears rnnning down his face. He came up and laid his hand on my head, then turned away without one word, but it spoke volumes. . "Ten went away from our lit tle village that day. Only three or four ever saw the old home again. "I left the old home August 15th or 20th, 1862, and went into camp at Mattoon, Illinois, and started to the front September first; landed at Louisville, Ken tucky. There we met the Army of the Cumberland that had followed Bragg's army from the South. "The Union forces met the reb els at Perryvaie. This was my first introduction to the battle field. The battle lasted two days, with a victory for the Union for ces. I was detailed to help bury the dead. "From here we had another en counter with Bragg's army at Crab Orchard. From this on for about four months we , were on Bragg's heels. We met at Cumber land Gap, then Bargetown, then Bowling Green. Here we had a permit to visit the Mammoth caves. This was the opportunity of my life. 1a U "The next battle was Nashville, Tennessee, then Liberty Gap, then on to Murfreesboro (or Stone Riv er), here the rebels captured 2600 on December 31, 1862. "We were kept in the jail and jail yard for three days, and after they had unloaded some cattle they put us aboard and started us for Atlanta. Georgia. "Being the first Yankees who had been taken through the South you can imagine that we were a curiosity. You would have thought so if you had heard the remarks when we came to the stations, such expressions as, 'I do not see their horns;' and 'why, they look like we-una. " (Continued tomorrow.) Andrew Wunder Removed To Hospital at Stayton SHAW, June 9. Andrew Wun der who has been very sick the past week, was taken to the Stay ton hospital Tuesday. Mrs. Arthur Adler (Kate Am ort) and two daughters of Santa Barbara, Calif., are visiting rela tives and friends. Mrs. Adler for merly lived here, but for the pas IS years she has made her hozm In Santa Barbara. : Interpreting By MARK WASHINGTON, June . In the strike area in Ohio, the post office department has declined to deliver to factories packages of certain kinds. Inside the factories are workers who fear to go out because the factories are sur rounded" by strikers, members of C.I.O., armed In various ways. To the beleaguered workers, persons outside have mailed packages of food, medicine, clothing, news papers and the like. These pack ages the postoffice department re fuses to accept or deliver. The de partment says it will deliver "normal" mail, but not the mail it considers abnormal. Apparent ly from some newspaper dis patches, the decision between what is normal mail and abnor mal, is made by agents of the strikers, of the C.LO. About the whole strike the only information available is that which comes from newspaper dispatches nec essarily written hurriedly. But this detail whether or not the censorship of mall Is conducted or assisted by agents of the C.LO. is immaterial. It is just possible the postoffice department could make out a case to sustain its present attitude. It is just possible the department is following om long established rule, that it has done the same thing on previous occasions when some kind of emergency has giv en rise to an abnormal quantity and kind of mall. If this Is so, the department ought to hurry to make it clear. The postoffice department Is described as giving a reason for its refusal to deliver packages to beleaguered workers. The report ed reason is that the postoffice department does not wish to take sides. Take sides. That Is exactly what the postoffice Is doing. If it Is departing from its normal course, its action has the effect of help ing C.LO. to win the strike: The postoffice department is taking 6ides and, whether the depart ment realizes this or not, it Is us ing force.- j Ten Years A30 Jane lO. 1B2T Harold Eakin, president of Willamette university alumni as sociation has announced plans for alumni banquet Monday at Willamette gymnasium. Ralph H. Mitchell of Portland, editor of the Daily Journal of Commerce will be the speaker at today's luncheon of Lion's club. O. L. Martin and G. Raford Ely of Salem have returned from a fishing trip to Valsetz com munity. Twenty Years Ago Jnne lO. IBIT President and Mrs. H. J. Tal bot of the Kimball College of Theology were hosts at their an nual reception to the students, faculty and friends Wednesday night. Miss Ola Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester C. Clark, has graduated from the agricul tural college at Oregon State col lege in a home economics course, will enter Willamette in the fall for master's degree. . Dr. Carl G. ' Doney will deliv er the baccalaureate sermon this morning as a part of the seventy-third annual commencement exercises of Willamette university Nothing Gets by Me; Lady! the News SULLIVAN C.I.O. Is using force as an army uses force, to isolate what it calls the enemy. In this exertion of force, C.I.O. Is assisted by the postoffice. that is, by the federal government. Much lack of clear thinking, tragic in its results, arises from failure to understand what force Is. and to realize that there are different kinds of foroe. In Michigan during the General Motors strike at Flint, Governor Murphy made just this mistake. General Motors had procured from the courts an order directing the sheriff to remove the sit-downera. Since the sheriff could not. alone arrest and remove several hun dred sit-downers, he asked Gov ernor Murphy for help. Oovernor Murphy did not give it. Through out the strike, Mr. Murphy took the position that j there must be no use of "force and violence." But there was "force and vio lence." While Governor Murphy was using this phrase in on sense. General Motors was using it in another. General Motors, In their application to the court for the removal of sit-downers, said the sit-downers were occupying General Motors' factory by "force and violence." True, there Is a distinguishable difference between the force and violence used py sit-downers, and the force and violence that would come Into existence in an effort to remove the sit-downers. The distinction Is between what may be called static force and active force. Sit-downers occupying a factory and preventing the own ers and non-striking workers from entering may be said, by a stretch of immagination. to use a merely static force. But one one kind of force is used by one side of a struggle, the only kind open to the other side is active force. If the struggle is to be kept sub ject to law, the active force can only come from the agencies of law, from the sheriff, the police, the state or the nation. And when the officials of government fall to come forward with leeal force- there is breakdown of law. There upon, the next step is illegal force, that is, force exercised by private Individuals. This latter may come from the party to the controversy that Is deprived of legal aid and its legal rights. It may come from the owners of the property or, in the case of a su-aown strike, from workers who are not engaged in the sit-down and wish to go back to work. Or, the informal force may come from the public In the form oT some thing like a vigilance committee. Thla Is what happened at Her shey, Pennsylvania. Sit-down strikers occupied the Hersbey Chocolate factory, denied access to the owners, to the non-striking workers, and to the farmers who supplied the . factory . with milk. The farmers, seeing what had happened nnder Governor Murphy of Michigan, took the law into their own hands. Adopting active force, they went into the Hersbey factories and overcame the static force of the sit-downers. Something of the same kind oc curred in connection with a pick eting strike of workers on a re lief project in New York. A re sponsible observer saw the pick iters on relief "spitting and vail ing vile names at policemen: I saw that happen and an officer sam to me, "And we have to take it.' " Now "Dittlnr nrf r-nllln o- .11 names" may . be looked upon as oniy a mna lorm 01 force. A blob of sputum does not ordinarily do physical damage. But it is force all the same. The point is that the agencies of law, the police, are apparently nnder Instructions not to take the legal action which they would take as a matter of course against an ordinary vio lator of law. What the whole condition means, the separate Incidents emerging throughout the country, is that illegal force is now in widespread use. It is increasing, of course; any kind of violence, when unchecked, always increases and leads to new kinds of violence. In the transition through which America is being taken, the stage of violence has arrived. What is to be done about it by the vic tims of the violence, or by the order-loving portion of the people, will presently emerge.. The. attitude ..of., government everywhere is the same. Govern ment tries to say its attitude is non-intervention. They may hon estly but mistakenly and fatuously think it is non-intervention. But failure of the agencies of law to enforce the law is decidedly something different from non-intervention. It is the sign, among other things, of a weak govern ment. Because the federal admin istratlon at Washington reaches out constantly for more powers some may think of it as an admin istration acquiring more strength. But that way of thinking makes a sad failure to distinguish between sue and strength, between a cen trallzed government, which is one thing, and a strong govern ment, which is. quite a different thing. The attitude of government In all three of the cases: the fed eral government in the interrup tion of the malls in Ohio, the state government in the automobile strike, and the municipal govern ment in the ease of the relief spitters the attitude of govern ment in all the cases is one of weakness. And what happens to a country which. In a time of stress, has a weak government is a thing we shall presently see. XOIH THTTMDAT 140 Ke. :30 Kleck. . 8:00 Sews. 8:04 Sou of ftoaevrs. 8:15 Rhythm an 4 Roman? t. 8:30 Romanes ot Helen Trent, drama. :00 Bettr an Bob, aerial. 8:15 Hymae of all churches. 9 -at Betty Crocker. 9:48 Who' who in tho sews. 10:00 Eif Sister. 10:15 Aunt Jenny's stories. 10:30 Edwin C. Hill. 11:15 Cooking lor ina. H;00 Sows. 12:15 Pretty Kitty Kelly, drams. 1:00 Hi Iyer eereaade, 1:15 Mary Cullen. 1:45 Newa. . 3:SO Nowiyweds, drama.- 25 Berries n orch. S:O0 Western homo. 5:00 Major Bewws, amateurs. 6:00 Y or Trwe Adventure, T. Gib- boas. 6:30 March of Time. 7:00 Scattergood Bainea. 7:15 Lloyd Vantages. 7 :30 CaTalcede of America. 8:30 Alexander Woolleott. 8:45 Hollywood spotlight 9:00 Kose Festival events. 10:00 Color Fantasy. 10:16 Gloskin orch. 11:00 iltpa trick area. 11:30 12 JicElroy orch. - XGW THTTESDAT 620 Xe. 7:00 Morning melodies (KT). 7:30 Petite musicals (ETT). 8:00 News. 8:15 Story of Mary Martin, drama. 9 :00 Margaerite Padnia, aiag. 9:15 Mrs. Wigga Cabbage Patch drama. 9:30 John's Other Wife, serial. 9:45 Just Plain Bill, drama. 10:30 It's a Womaa'a World. 10 :45 Ray Towers. 11:00 Pepper Young's Family, drama. 11:15 Ma Perkins, seriaL 11:30 Vie and Sade, comedy. 11:43 O'Keilla. drama. 13:00 Siagia' Sam KT). 12:15 Kews. 12:30 Foltow the Moon, drama. 12:45 Guiding Light, drama. 1:00 Hollywood ia Person, variety. 2:00 Woman's magaxine. 8:O0 Eay Aces (fcT). 3:15 Argentine trio. 3:30 Mar; lietrieh, sing. 3:45 Moon Glow, melodies. 4:00 Rudy Vsllee, varied. 5:05 Beaux Arts trie. 5 :45 Piano surprises. 6:0O rMusic Hall, varied. 7:00 Amos 'at' Andy. 7:15 Showboat, variety. Radio Programs , Sage of Salem Speculates I ; - -,, By D. H. 1 ALuVl AlJCiJta ILLUSION Please make me a child, again. . Just for tonight! . Thus the bid prayer to Time in its flight. It must ' be quite tiresome for Time, I should say. To keep ever going in just the same war. Wherefore 'tis suggested it go back a bit. And give slowpokes a chance to catch tin with it. A heap of illusion's been lost on the . way, Adown the long years from the then to today. No one but a child does real hap piness feel. Those grand trustful days while illusion's still reaL O well. 1 reckon, after alL Time would 'only waste Itself by turning back in Its flight. But when a feller feels he's gotta do a poem he's gotta do it, that's ail. I am getting into a way of lis tening to neighborhood stories. and I feel somewhat guilty about it. Little dramas are being played daily, dozens of 'em, in the homes of this and other towns. Most of such stories should be permitted to enter freely at one ear and pass rapidly out at the other, but the transmission facilities between the ears are not always adequate. Yes, I have read of individuals whose throats were cut from ear to ear. but that is a different sort of story or Isnt It T Anyway, a tale has been related to me con cerning a man who is Jobless and a woman, his wife, who is not. So, naturally, having a job, the woman is the breadwinner, and the man, not having a job, does the housework. . It is their own business, and is all right enough, so far as I can see. If there were no more to it than this It would not be worthy of any notice what soever. But now there is trouble. The man has struck. It is not strictly a sitdown strike, although the neighbor across the street re ports that he sits a good deal. He has simply declared . that he will not do the washing any more. He says his health won't stand it. He demands" a washing ma chine. And mebby he should have a washing machine. Great Bobby Burns! a man's a man for a' that, isn't her Waiting for a few -words with the manager of a certain Salem business office one day during the week, my attention was called to a letter from San Francisco, which should be of interest- to many people here. Inasmuch as it has reference .to a boy who not many years ago was merely one of the numerous local kids taking music lessons. There is, it appears, usually one out of dozens of such students who "go to town" in a musical way. Titan Producers of San Francisco are promoting at present a radio, program of 102 pipe organ numbers by Elbert LaChelle. I reckon Elbert Is en titled to full rating in the "home town boy makes good" class. I met up with a pretty old man that Is. he was Quite old. al though not especially pretty, and anyway "pretty" as an adverb is a good word in such a connection, but might be misleading it the vocal accent was misolaced a day or two ago. I asked him his age, but his hearing seemed de fective under such Questioning. although it was sharp enough otherwise. But I know he is get ting along in years, because he spoke of a belief that existed in his boyhood that a horsehair im mersed in a bottle of rainwater with one end protudlng, would eventually turn into a water snake.' Furthermore, he sunnle- mented comments on the recent circus with the statement that back when he was a boy so many 8:15 Symphony hour. 9:20 National Guard maneuvers. 10 :00 News. - 10:15 O'Brien's "Harmonica band. 10:30 Stadium activities. 11:00 Bal Taberia area. ' 11:30 Desert orch. To 12 Weather reports. . XXX THURSDAY 1180 X. 6:80 Musical elack (IT). 7:30 Vie and Sade, comedy. 7:43 Gospel singer. 8:00 Financial. 8:15 Grace and Scotty. -8 :30 Chriitisn Science program. 8:45 Strollers matinee. 9:00 Home institute. , 9:30 Merning concert. 10:30 News. 10:45 Baritone BaUsdier. - . 11:00 Light opera, , lhtOWiiiM v. 12:30 Pioneer stories. -1.2 :45 Markets. . viub matinee. - 1:00 Mary Marlin sorlaL 1:15 Escorts and Betty. . 1 :80 Gentlemea of Rhythm. . 1:45 Roso show. 2:15 Kogen orch. 2 :80 News. ; 2:35 Cho-Chu Marti aei, slag. 2:45 Summer, melodies. 3:00 Pair of pianos. 3:15 MarshaU'a Mavericks. 3:S Cbin in the Cotton. 4:00 Shields revue. 4:30 Pleasant Interlude. . 5:00 News. 5:2 Speaking of sports. 5:80 Midaite in Mayfair. 6K0 Piccadilly Music Hall. 7:00 Night club. 7:30 Festival band concert.' 8:00 News. 8:15 Tad Lewis arch. 8:30 Baseball, Portland Seattle. 10:15 Ambasssdor orch. 10:35 College Inn orch. 11:00 News. . 11:18 Haven of Rest. 11:30 Charles Ruayaa. To 12 Weather and police reports: XOAC THTTRSDAT 650 Kc 9:00 Today's programs. 9:03 Homemskers' hoor. 10:00 Weather forecast. 10:30 Story hour for adults. 11:15 Facts and affairs. 12:00 News. 12:15 Farm honr. 1:15 Variety. 2 :00 4-H club assembly, 3:00 New trails to aid Oregon. "Hum r in Historical Records,' Uow. ' ard Mc Kin ley Corning, executive supervisor, writer project, WPA, Portland. . I - 4:0O We listen to music 4:30 Stories for boys and girls. U z. of the youngsters in his home town rubbed themselves with crushed angleworms with a view of be coming contortionists, after a cir cus had come and gone, that practically all the fishing had to be done for. quite a spell with salt pork- and grasshoppers, which was very, unsatisfactory. That certainly must have been a long time ago when boys were no smarter than that. A small boy, in from the ranch with his mother. to buy supplies. was in one of the markets a day or two ago when the fire siren sounded. He pulled at his mother's skirt. "Listen, ma," he said. "somebody's callin' hogs!" ' The theatrical week-end locally was characterized by films featur ing Edward O. Robinson at two of the houses, a somewhat excep tional bill of vaudeville combined with pictures at another, and the usual home talent programs at the three houses which " supple ment their regular screen attrac tions with such features at Sat urday matinees. There ate rumors of changes to occur soon; One of these has to do with; Zollie Vol chok'g elevation to al responsible post in state university promotion which." will require his entire time, and thus far no suitable successor to him in the Sal e ra- gang" activities has been sug gested, nor probably will bo. The Grand announces a showing of Lost Horizon," Ronald Colman, Wednesday and Thursday. The re- action of a select few who saw a preview of the feature Friday was decidedly favorable. There is little question as to quality of the pic ture. The critics do not snarl and snap at one another over an or dinary picture. One of the peaks of the week's entertainment thus far is Robinson's characterization of a young American who went to ' England with a view to accomp lishing a piece of business promo tion in 30 days, which under the English system would require 30 years. Interesting and: filled with humor. Think of staying in a private residence so large that a , trip to the bathroom and a shave co2nmed the better part of a day! Quite a few Interesting Items In the general news of late. I was particularly attracted by the item announcing the death of a man, being given gas for a minor op eration, who exploded in the sur geon's face. Also there was some thing of charm in the. statement that a fabric is being made from paper which is so exact an imita tion of "all wool" that only an expert can tell the difference. It is said that even the moth millers are deceived by it, but it has been observed that it produces death In the Insect, before great damage has been done. Hardening of the arteries, I presume. It Is true there was consider able congestion of traffic at down town Intersections Saturday, due to the fact that the laying ot the lines for the traffic -signal sys tem went on regardless of busi ness hours. But I am not sure it annoyed anybody seriously. I have observed for years that, given the choice of two routes each leading to the same end, the majority ot men and women will choose the one involving contact with the greater number of other men and women. The natural Inference Is that la their hearts they like the dodge and shove and roar, regard less of what they say. I recall something overheard oa an elevated train in Chicago dur ing Columbian exposition days. Two mldwesterners, in town to see the big show, looked down into the midway when the train stopped at that station. Condi tions seemed ideal for a midway trip. But the two mldwesterners did not get -off. "Aw," said one, "let's wait till the crowds get there." and the other readily agreed. But that, of course, was not business logic. It was .only human nature. GLANCES An event of the week in this office: A bouquet of beautiful roses from the W. Q. Krnger gar den ... Advertising Manager Keith at the coast Sunday with a family party. Sunburned . . . A ladies wear shop going Into the room on Court street recently oc cupied -by Sulpley's . . . A man wearing an overcoat seen t emerge from the .Senator hotel Sunday. Perhaps from Arizona- . . A returned outer describes the Pacific highway as "a drive of great beauty, bounded on the west by the Pacific ocean and on the east by hot dog stands" . Straw berry time. Tons ot 'em In pros pect we hope . . . Birds' Junior symphony concert at S o'clock these mornings. The parent birds have little time to devote to music. Too much worm digging. Worms must be sneaked up on silently ... A party from Louis iana in a good looking car parked on Court street a day or two ago. Mebby : buying warmer undies. Anyway, looked sort o' stunned when somebody said, "Hot, ain't it?" . . J It is perhaps a good, siyn and perhaps it is not, but Wil lamette valley folks, here and there, are eating pie for break fast . . ; How hot is hot water? Purveyors of tea have different Ideas ... Dozens of long sum mer trips are in the planning. Most ot them will materialize. Some will not. 6:15 News. 8:30 Fsrm hour. 8 :1S Pishinc conditions. 8:45-9:00 The American scene.