The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, August 15, 1937
PAGE FOUR
"No Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall Awe" ,
From First Statesman, March 28. 1851
Charles A. Sprague - - Editor and Publisher
. THE STATESMAN PUBLIS HING CO.
Charles A Sprague, Pres. - Sheldon P. Sackett, Secy.
, Member of the Associated Prs '
Tho Associated Presa Is exclusively an titled tho as for publica
tion of all oew dispatches credited to It or not 'Otherwise credited la r"
. this paper.
Homemade
; A few weeks ago we coticed a man well along in years,
with stooped shoulders, drop into the tonneau of his old Star
touring car a pair of singletrees. They were fresh with red
paint, rather small in size, probably for some light piece of
farm machinery. So that, we reflected, is the way it is done
now. Vr: :'y " ; .
In the man's youth, as doubtless he Tecalls, providing a
new singletree, or doubletree, or wagon tongue meant not a
trip to town in a gas-propelled buggy, but a job to be done on
the farm. From some place of dry storage a short length of
well-seasoned wood would be extracted, and the farmer with
his hand tools would start to shape it for the purpose desired.
In the midwest oak was preferred, redoak or whiteoak,
though ash or hickory might be used.
It might be there was no proper wood on hand for use.
Then the farmer had to go down to the wood lot or the pas
ture by the creek and cut down a sapling of sufficient girth
and length. It was a hot job on a summer day, down in the
bottom with no breeze moving. The creek -was shrunken to a
series of holes with a trickle of water between. Its bed was
baked to a lead-colored stiffness. Flies buzzed ' around the
norses hitched in the shade.
--
Cut the tree and top it and
careful not to swing the sharp axe so far it cuts your foot,
Then hew it into rough shape, bore a hole for the king-pin,
bolt on the iron fittings or drive them on snug-tight, and
the new tongue is ready for the hayrack, A hot task as the
summer sun blazes in a fiery sky; but there's no waiting if
Queen and Bess have cracked the old one, and the harvest is
coming on.
The village wagqnmaker could do a neater job, but that
"was a half-day's ride" in a hack or wagon over dusty roads ;
fchd besides there's no cash till the grain is cut and hauled.
... Now the chore has left the
.into town and pick up a singletree fresh with red paint, but
sunnier in us dimensions man
cneaper and easier. .Besides the tools are no longer sharp jn
the farm toolchest. Wrenches and pliers have displaced saw
and chisel
TVA Makes Contracts With Industries
" Faced with the problem of disposing of its electric ener
v
gy w order to derive additional
long-term contracts with big industries, including the hated
Mellon aluminum trust. A little-while ago . TVA entered into
contract with Monsanto Chemical company. Recently it
jiiiade contracts with Victor Chemical works and the Alum
inum company. The Victor company will construct a new
11,000,000 electric furnace and use 8000 kw the first half of
1938, 16,000 kw in 1941, and estimates its demand at 32,000
kw for the latter year. The big Aluminum company is buying
tu,uuu lew ot primary power,
and 40,000 kw of dump power.
of TVA, justifies the contracts
trial contracts also will give us
diversity that will permit distribution in hours and season of
(power to cities and plants." . ...
That is exactly the plea this paper has made: that sale
,01 Bonneville power should include industry in order to bal
ance the demand for power and to balance the economy of
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.cg-uu. iu iuaiier wuo is aanumscraior, a conservative
tir a radical, he will if honest come to the same conclusion as
.Director Lilienthal of TVA.
t'
TVA has even srone farther and made a contract with
the Arkansas Light and Power
ated Dy tne natedHJectnc Bond and Share holding company,
f6r sale of power with no stipulation as to resale rates. It has
done this, because it has the power for sale and needs the rev
enue. ' ' . , ; .
- "IMs paper has no fear of
He is expenenced in the business; and we think will face the
problems of Bonneville with realism. We , do not rate him
such a knave as to scuttle Bonneville because of his rjrior lov-
airy to Seattle. A lot of the hullaballo going up from pros and
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anus over nosa is political Duncome.
, Political Coup
Undoubtedly the president
more rakish angle, and to his
coup with a supreme court appointment. The senate, when
Van Devanter retired, "nominated" one of its number. Joe
Robinson, conservative at heart, who long had aspired to a
seat on the court. Death took Robinson, relieving the presi
dent of embarrassment in naming or not naming him. The
senate uproariously defeated the president's court packing
bill, which put him in ugly mood. By nominating Sen. Black
to the court the president has picked a man whose political
orbit swings much farther left than his own; and by picking
'senator he spikes possible rejection of his appointment be
ceuase of the old rule of senatorial courtesy. That is why the
president, in all probability, is jubilant over his success at
putting the senate in the hole, besides getting a radical on the
highest bench in the land.
He has put the senate in the hole, true enough; perhaps
he has put the country in a deeper one. None of the presidents
since days before the civil war has put a man with a ku-klux
mind on the supreme court
f No wonder the president didn't go to the banquet with
the peace dove flying overhead. He was home mixing the as
tringent with which to dose his enemies in the senate. The
era of good feeling is laid to rest along with the "breathing
speir for business. - .
Distribution of Railway Wealth
The magazine Railway Age contrasts conditions with the
railroads in 1916 and 1937 thus :
"In 191 C the average freight rate of the railwaya as meas- -ured
by their average revenue per ton-mile was the lowest In any
year in history, being only 7.1 mills. In- the first four months ot
1937 it was 9.31, or 31 per cent higher.. In 1918 the railways
were earning an average return of 6.9 per cent on their invest
ment. In the first six months of 1937 they earned at an annual
rate ot only 2.76 per cent. The average hourly wage ot railway
employees In 1916 was 28.3 cents per hour and their average an
nual wage was 3892. Their average hourly wage in 193C was
9.1 cents, or 144 per cent higher, and their average annual wage
31,735. or 9$ per cent higher." -
In the face of those statistics it Is hard to shore up the
talk about the rich getting ricer and the poor poorer, at Jeast
as far as the railway workers is concerned. The investor in
railway, securities, however has been getting poorer progres
sively since 1916. '
, The Corrallis O-T says the
conducted a research to find the
The survey showed in the big majority ot cases the tails curved to
the left. It was Just a case ot protective troplsm on the part ot the
pigs. They knew the direction the
than curve to the right for tear of
A new photographic lens has
can record light from nebulae 80
the earth, rays which left their
this planet There would be better
er direction and showed what was
years. . ; ; - v".
The Dallas Itemlzer-Observer
res cf the Softball league. Tiat
tatemaau
Singletrees
trim it. skin the bark, and be
farm. It is cheaper to whiz
tne old nome-maae piece;
revenues TVA has signed
30,000 kw of secondary power.
David E. Lilienthal, director
in this language: "The indus
necessary balance, that is. a
company, in the irrouD domin
J. D. Ross for administrator.
tilts his cigarette holder at a
intimates is gleeful over his
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federal department ot agriculture
direction In which pigs' tails curled.
DA was pointing, and knew better
being plowed under.
been made which works so fast It
million lights years remored from
source before dinosaurs grated on
sale for a lens that pointed the oth
going to happen in the next . ten
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devotes Its editorial column to box
a one way to get the column read.
Bits for
Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
When Senator 8-15-37
Nesmlth . fought in
congress for a branch .
mint at The Dalles, Oregon: '
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(Contlnufhg from yesterday:)
Still quoting from the Nesmitb
senate speech:
"While the fate ot the meas
ure, rested witn i tne nnDiasea
Judgment of the honorable sena
tors who compose the finance
committee, I had : no apprehen
sions of anything but a favorable
result: but when my bill was sent
on a voyage ot discovery, first
to , the casemates of the treasury
department, and thence to the
genius who presides over the pa
rent mint In the city ot 'brother
ly lore, I was apprehensiTe that
should never again , behold the
fair proportions of my cherished
offspring.' My worst fears have
been realized. My bill has : re
turned from its i peregrinations
hawked at, torn, and dilapidated
by the stupidity and ignorance of
the company it has kept, and its
mangled remains are now before
me in the shape ot a recommenda
tion for an assay office.
. V!
Before I had ever beheld the
American congress I was so ver
dant as to suppose that great
questions affecting the country.
or any portion of It, were decid
ed by the intelligence and good
sense of the members, without
reference to the narrow, contract
ed and antiquated prejudice of
some old fogey of some previous
generation, whose views could
only be valuable as an Illustra
tion of what might be said by an
active, energetic and successful
competitor for the capital prize
at the world! fool fair.
"My constituents are an emi
nently practical and unsophisti
cated sort of people. When I re
turn to them I shall be called
upon to give an account of all
the deeds and misdeeds done- by
me in this body; and among other
things I shall be called upon to
explain why their prayer lor
branch mint was not responded
to. Well, sir, in my shame and
confusion, I shall have to state
that Mr. Pollock was opposed to
the measure. They will naturally
enough say,. We sent too to the
American congress to urge our.
claims, and cannot see what Mr.
Pollock had to do with, the ques
tion. Ton cannot imagine, sen
tors, how the people, In their sim
plicity, will, be startled and sur
prised when I deliberately pro
ceed to tell them that before a
branch mint can be established
for the coinage ot their gold, the
Mil must be sent to one James
Pollock for approval or disap
proval!
If I am so fortunate to con
vince them that this Pollock is
a coordinate branch of this great
and . glorious government, they
will very naturally desire to -know
what grounds and upon what rea
sons he based his refusal to so
just a demand. Then I shall.be
forced to unfold to i them the
mighty, profound and luminous
reasons of the philosophical, as
tute and recondite Pollock in this
wise: 'Oregon ians, yon .might
have had a branch mint to coin
your gold and your silver at your
doors, and thus save you from a
loss of 15 or 20 per cent, of the
precious metals tor. which yon so
industriously delve in the earth,
and of which you are dally being
robbed, either by speculators or
by reason of the rise, expense and
delay incident to sending your
gold and silver thousands ot miles
away to be coined; but the truth
Is, that by some recondite process
beyond my comprehension, and
known only to the great political
alchemists, the profound Pollock,
after submitting branch mints to
the torturing process of decom
position and analysis,! has dis
covered that their component
parts 'consist of treason, seces
sion, withdrawal from ' the Un
ion.' abrogation- of constitutional
compacts, denial of federal an
thority, disregard of oaths, usur
pation of national prerogatives.
stealing of public property, arson,
and murder, all of which, when
recombined into a modern branch
mint, constitutes the essence i ot
all crimes latterly known s dis
integration!
'Why. sir. after this lucid
statement ot the evils which our
people in their simple: credulity
have . invoked upon their own
heads, when again the people ot
Oregon, Washington, and - Idaho
Territory petition you for the lo
cation ot a monster ot so hideous
mien In their midst, you will be
enabled to silence their clamors
at once by the bare mention 'of
'Pollock Disintegration.!' or .'Dis
integration Pollock.' Why, sir, its
effects will be as instantaneously
soothing as the cabalistic invoca
tion ot the 'Manitowa' which
frightens the young Indian to
sleep, or the bare mention of that
devil in English which reduces
white urchins to a state of pro
priety If not ot slumber, Mr. Pol
lock, it would seem, has not only
found time to draw his annual
stipend with the greatest regu
larity. but has devoted some of
his leisure hours to an : examine
tion of the Constitution of the
United States, upon which instrn
ment he - assumes : to become
commentator, and with the great
est self complacency proceeds to
Inform as that 'coinage is one of
the highest and most Important
attributes of national sovereign
ty, and should be exercised and
controUed in such a manner
win tend to strengthen rather
than weaken the national govern
ment and then proceeds to sug
gest that 'additional coinage es
tablishments tend toward nation-
al disintegration.
"It Is true, sir, that our fore
fathers in forming the Constltu
tion ot the United States did de
fine the powers of congress, and
among a variety ot specified ob
jects placed within its jarisdic
tion was that 'to coin money and
regulate the value : thereof; bat
Mr. Pollock is the first of the
great commentators ; who has
found it necessary to raise his
warning voice against a libera
exercise ot this 'one of the high
est attributes or national sover
eignty,' so essential to the pros-
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Ten Years Ago
Aagust 15, 1027
Bids are to be opened today
for the new $125,000 First
Presbyterian church which will
be built soon on the corner ot
Winter and Chemeketa streets.
- Seymour Jones, state market
agent will leave today for Klam
ath Falls to investigate the po
tato situation.
Got. Patterson, Justices O. P.
Coshow and J. L Rand of the
Oregon Supreme court will leave
Wednesday for southern and
western Oregon where they will
inspect a- number of highways
now under construction.
Twenty Years Ago
August 15, 1017
A peace proposal made by
Pope Benedict was . delivered to
all . the belligerent nations to
day.. A reception was given last
night in Portland for 14. Col.
Carle Abrams, by the United
Spanish War veterans at the vet
erans' headquarters in the court
house Miss M. , &t. Boff of Portland
has taken brer the management
of the Willamette Sanitarium
since the resignation ot Misa An
na Berg.
penty ana general welfare of a
great and powerful nation. His
profound reasoning would seem
to indicate that even the limited
exercise ot this great prerogative
was only a safe experiment when
conductd at the parent mint at
Philadelphia, and under his own
personal care and supervision:
and while no danger la to be ap
prehended from 'disintegration
upon the slip of land between the
Delaware and j Schuylkill, yet,
from some ocralt reason, the
most cure ana disastrous conse
quences were sure to follow the
exercise of this wonderful power
beyond those magic limits.
(Continued on Tuesday.)
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By DOROTHY
Ooncernlag Point of View i
The critic who Is skeptical of,
or in opposition to, many ot the
tendencies and measures of this
Third New Deal is called upon
to explain himself it he would
avoid being allied with ideas and
attitudes which are by no means
his own. , Re may find himself
appalled at the company hich
welcomes him and embarrassed
by his admirers. Because ., be
has been . opposed to making the
Supreme Court a jury of yes-men
for the Eecxutlve or of Congress,
he will have attributed to him
all the ideas of Mr. Justice Suth
erland; because he doubts the
premises on which the Black
Connery wages and hours bill is
based, he will be called a cham
pion ot ruthless and unregulated
sweating of labor, and an oppon
ent ot all social and economic
reform. If he believes that pub
lic and legal protection tor trade
unions Implies legal responsibil
ity on the part of trade unions
for fair practices, he will be
hailed as a spokesman for Mr.
Tom Girdler and the dominant
sociology ot Wall Street.
Nor can he honestly say that
he does not care, or blame the
dumbness of the public, o retreat
into a fortress of intellectual
arrogance, , For the function of
the writer is to make himself
understood, and the extent to
which be is misunderstood is
the extent of his failure. If he
writes opinion on public affairs
plainly he writes to influence the
course of those affairs, other
wise) he would commit his opin
ions to a diary.
But his dificulties are great,
It is symptomatic of the strains
of the society in which we lire
that things are increasingly rep
resented in Black versus White:
that differentiation of opinion
eren, on so empirical a thing as
method, is suspected of temg
treason to progress or on the
other hand an assault upon or
ganized society. I cannot recall
a time, except during the war.
when debate was more conten
tious, acrimonious, or intolerant.
The symptom is fairly uniTersai
In all those countries where per
sonal and individual opinion still
can find "expression, but it Is
peculiarly glaring in the United
States. It testifies to something
which seems to me quite as great
a cause for concern as other.
more patent and obvious evils in
our communal life, such as pov
erty and crime. It is the fact
that the "body of people who
share any common standard of
Intellectual reference Is contin
ually crowing smaller.
t is not only in Russia. Ger
many, and Italy, that truth tor
the sake ot truth is repudiated,
that reason Is held to be Itself
a rationalisation, that ends are
held as something completely
apart from means. . The: attitude
Is characteristic of our own
thinking.
The1 dominant British philo
sophy Is empiricism, which de
mands a' constant - check upon
theory by reality. But in Amer
ica empiricism degenerated into
pragmatism which is a rejec
tion of theory altogether and the
Philosophy of rule-of-tbumb not
to be confused with realism. It
dominates much of oar univer
sity life and unconsciously in
fluences prevailing attitudes. It
has found almost perfect ex
pression in the New Deal, and in
Mr.. Roosevelt's earlier speeches
In which he said that his pro
gram was to try various reme
dies out of the medicine closet,
and reject those which didn't
work. That is how we launched
a Tellef program which was coun
ter to both theory and experi
ence, only to find that you have
great difficulty later In rejecting
or changing any thing upon
which several million people
have come to depend.
0
But it Is nonsensical to indict
the New Deal for this. One
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needs only to recal the complete
contempt tor rational processes
of " the Hoover epoch. It had
Cassandra who howled up the
wind, warning of, coming col
lapse. Only when the collapse
was upon us did any one listen
to them. Then they bad their
day In Washington, and did a
good job, for they were hte in
ventors of the Idea of the elas
tic budget, the advocates ot gov
ernment spending in a deflation
ary period, the heretics who
challenged the theory that a
household budget was synony
mous in Its laws with that of
a nation. Some of them came
out of Wall Street, and were
economic advisers to great bank
ing houses. Two or three of
them did the most constructive
and radical thinking in the na
tion in 1933. But where are
they now? In Limbo, described
as Economic Royalists and Re
actionaries because they do not
think that what was good for
1933 is necessarily good for
1937. The men of theory, rea
son and experience of the first
and short-lived New Deal have
given way to the men of "ideas"
of the present New Deal and in
place of a really imaginative
and scientific program aimed at
mitigating business cycles, head
ing off and deflecting unemploy
ment, and providing for an ex
panding economy by means of
long-range rational policy and
largely automatic government
controls, we have a crowd of
idealistic internes carefully di
agnosing pimples and writing up
elaborate prescriptions for them.
We do not even hare a rocab
ulary of words which convey
semi-precise meanings. The good
old word radical has passed out
of American spech along with
the type of mind it represented.
Our radicals are all liberals and
progressives, though what sort
of a mental animal a Marxian
liberal may be I do not com
prehend, although I see them all
about me. Policies are charac
terized by perfectly extraneous
epithet. I cannot see to save
my life what the question of
balancing or unbalancing the
budget has to do with liberal
ism or conservatism. It is a
technical question to be judged
by rational and realistic tests of
probable social results.
Presumably everybody wants
to live in a solvent, stable and
expanding economy, and a dig
nified, safe and creative society,
doing good work tor fair re
muneration. And most people
want to avoid a catastrophic rev
olution. Whatever measures can
secure us these wil be the right
measures, and the business ot
the social critic is to judge with
whatever capacities he possesses
wnetner or not measures pro
posed are taking us in that di
rection. He may prove to have
buessed -rightly or wrongly, but
certajnly the humanitarian im
pulses of the authors of legis
lation will not be his criterion.
But I am aware that fewer
and 'fewer people believe there
is such" a thing as disinterested
and objective thinking. The
psychologists and neo-Marxians
have seen to that. They have
told ns that the operations of
cur minds are purely rationaliza
tions of our basic economic prej
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