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PAGE FOUR ; The OREGON STATESMAN, Salenv Ooa, iSondaj j Morning Octobir 24, 1937 .J. rcjsongitatemaatt " v "No Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall A ice" From first Statesman. March 23. 1851 , ; CHARLES A. PRAGUE - . Editor ard Publisher THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. -.. Charles A Sprague, Pres. "-. - . ; Sheldon 1. Saekett, SexJy.'- Member of the Associated lrra Tim Aaauclated.rTrss la xrlusrvely -aatttied to the um foi publl a- tton of nil isewsr diaiwifltra ered'trd la it or not etherwlaa credited ta this papor. - . . . . . . ' Chinese Writing as Art Oriental architecture and painting seem alien to occiden tal tastes. The westerner, accustomed to the solid walls and the piercing spires of European -and American architecture, regards Japanese and Chinese multiple sagging roofs, their queer frames as things to be studied but not admired. Oriental painting too is foreign to that which holds favor in western lands. The root of these ex pressions of art m China is given as calligraphy, their writ- ing. : '! , . ' ' - - r That idea is odd to modern Americans. There was a time when writing here was an ait, in the days of the Spencerian system, and when the writing professor came round from town to town and held classes in penmanship for four weeks periods Recall" the beautifully shaded writing on the black board with the inevitable bird done in shaded strokes? The typewriter and A. N. Palmer destroyed the "art" in our writ- ing. The Chinese, whose writing looks to us like chicken tracks across the paper, is really developed into an art. A re-r viewer in a recent issue of "Books" notes the connection in art between writing (calligraphy) and painting in China: "la both China and Japan the art of. writing is intimately ' connected with the art of painting, but is considered as being even more important. Writings and paintings are executed with the self-same implements and both are spoken of as 'ink re- mains.' In China a beautif ul thought expressed in perfect cbar ' acters la called a 'Written Picture. It is hung upon the wall of the guest hall and brings to the room what the Chinese call light.' i ; -J-'The rt la very, Tery difficult to master. Strength, delicacy, rhythm; balance, decision, speed; all these are required and a wrist atrong as iron yet flexible as a willow branch. It is not to be - doubted that, in the writing brash, the Chinese possess a medium for the expression of emotion denied to us poor mortals who In- dite our thoughts by means of a Koh-i-noor 2B, or a Parker pen. With the writing brush they Improvise, as our musicians impro- rise." ' s - , ' . - In Lin Yutang's book' "My Country and My People,' which Pearl Buck calls the truest, the most profound, the most complete, the most" important book yet written about China," calligraphy is regarded as basic in the art of the far east: . "So fundamental is the place of calligraphy in Chinese art as a' study of form and rhythm in the abstract that we may say it -- hav provided the Chinese people with a basic -esthetics, and it - la through calligraphy that the Chinese hare learned their basic motions of line aid form." So it is that the pagodas with their, sagging roof lines find their origin in the top lines of some Chinese written char acters. The frame of Chinese temples which always stands out is inspired by the vertical lines of Chinese writing. The curv ing bridge with balustrade over the small stream is an inter pretation of lines in Chinese writing. ' .The great calligraphists who have thus inspired art ex ., pressions in architecture and painting, have derived their ar .tistic inspiration from nature, from plants and animals, as Lin Yutang says, from "the branches of the plum flower, a dried vine with a few hanging leaves, the springing body of a leopard, the massive paws of the tiger, the swift legs of the deer, the sinewy strength of the horse, the bushiness of the bear, the slimness of the stork, or the ruggedness of the pine branch.", j ' , t; Cultures possess their own characteristics; and to be un derstood and appreciated one must know their origins and meanings. Louis Adamic's "The Return of the Native" re vealed to Americans the fact that the Slovaks and Serbs who in 4&is country were known as menial workers in -mines and mills, possess a culture of varied pattern and rich beauty, centuries old. Knowledge of the art qualities of Chinese writ ing may enable those of the west to be more sympathetic and appreciative of the art of the orient. Steak Twenty Centuries old How would you like to have a steak off a beast 20,000 years old? No, not from the mummy of a carcass buried in an Egyptian pyramid or preserved in the dessicating air of a Nevada caveBut a slab from a mammoth refrigerated for 20 centuries in Arctic ice? Such a carcass has been found on Wrangel island in the Arctic ocean by a band of soviet scientists, whose quest was noted in this column many months ago. Press reports from Moscow say that even the hair and flesh of this beast whose species- has been extinct fronu pre-historic times, are pre served intact. It will be transported in ice to Moscow for sci entific study. .. TVAV7Mot V Anto tMnmmAlk 4- 1 i.4.A,l ? 4-V... - jr tire uuij luouuuvui iu istr iuuuu suiatb tu uic Arctic ice is the Bereskova mammoth, now preserved in Len ingrad's museum. ; Dogs belonging to the discoverers went right after the meat on this beast, until they were driven off. The new. find is being protected against ravenous dogs and "wolves. : : . . , Ice is of course a prime refrigerant. Stories have been related of the recovery of bodies of persons who lost their lives on glaciers, the, moving mass finally dropping them at their melting snouts.' , " The attention' of the world has been directed toward the exploration of Shiva temple, the land island in the Grand can yon, where the small animals presumably have been isolated f ,r many thousand years. The chain.there of course is contin uous. With the Wrangell island specimen, the world now has the "fresh" corpse of an animal dead these 20,000 years. The timeaeems long; Actually it is a brief moment in the" span of aaimal life on this globe, and a far briefer segment of time in the history of the planet as recorded in the rocks. - Boys' Training School Says the Eugene Register-Guard: . - . "Oregon baa been penny wise and pound foolish In its pol icy a to penal institutions. For JuTenlles, it has provided the Woedburn farm -which has long .been sadly overcrowded. For other offenders it has provided the penitentiary. It has provided nothing for that-very numerous anfrhnportant class of offend era who are between childhood and maturity. . In the interest of accuracy it should be recorded that the boys training school plant at Woodburn has a capacity for about 200 boys. Its present population is about 85. The num ber has been as low as 65. Why the low population? First, Oregon boys are pretty good boys. They may indulge in mischief, and some of them . get over the border into juvenile crime; but on the wjiole the boys of Oregon are law-observing. Another reason for the low population is the good parole system used there. The school has about 600 youth on parole all the time. The number of violators who are returned num ber about 20 per annum. That is a small percentage. Some of course graduate into the penitentiary by committing serious crimes,. but the majority are reclaimed to useful citizenship. When the Woodburn school was built it was planned to locate an intermediate institution on the former site, south east of Salem. The law authorized the changes but the legis lature never put up the money. The old site is now used as a pen annex. . . i - Cabinet members have been put in ahadow by more colorful In dividuals with more money to spend or more power to administer: Hugh Johnson.' Donald Kichberg, Harry Hopkins, Rex Tugwell. Three members are however of ."cabinet" site: Cordell Hull, secretary of state, Harold Ickes, feisty secretary of the Interior, Henry Wallace, saystic, secretary of agriculture. Hull la doing a fine Job with foreign affairs and his program of lowering tariff barriers to restore world trade la the real constructive economic effort f the whole administra ' The doctors have all gone home. They left behind no resolutions ca war and fascism, Bonneville power or the Scottsboro boys." They also did nothing about colda ana constipation. " temples and pagodas with their Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Liberty Woman's club 10-24-37 is Oregon history minded: Temple hill at the border of that historic district: At its meeting of last Thursday, October 21, the Liberty Woman'a club started a study of "Oregon The history, the rivers and moun tains and beauties and advantages and resources of the state of their nativity or adoption are. to pass la review, to the end that they may be understood better and ap preciated more: By Invitation," the writer was the guest speaker at that meeting What he had to say, substantial ly, will follow in this column, be ginning: v ; This will be the first time have spoken In .the Liberty dis trict for nearly 41 years. The Uime before was the last night of the McKinley campaign, at the Liberty school house; not the present one, of course; the old one. ' ' I trust you will not be unduly alarmed when I tell yon the last speech was about six hours long. - It was this way: I waa chair man of the congressional commit tee, and had been canvassing far and near over the First district, including all the Sunnyslde school houses out this way. Liberty was a populist stronghold then, and it was for that or .some other reason saved for the last. I was also as sistant superintendent of the Ore-' gon state reform school. Just across the hills from here, the lady who was matron being first in command. She came , along to Liberty, with one or two of her friends, behind the streamlined bay team. Fanchon and Bridget. The day of automobiles had not dawned. I had by that time become ra ther self assured; thought In my youthful exuberance that, among otner tnings, i was able to go against the world on- the main Issues, Including the money ques tion; and that waa the big sound money versus free silver campaign McKinley .against Bryan. I have concluded since, that I knew And still know nothing about sound money rend believe nobody else in the world knows anything about it. W I finished my speech, in say 40 to 60 minutes, and the chairman suggested adjournment, bnt mem bers of the opposition parties beg ged that they be allowed Questions for the speaker to answer. The chairman held that it was a re publican meeting, and no time had been arranged for a debate. But I volunteered to attempt answers to any questions that .might be pro posed; being, as heretofore inti mated, rather puffed up with self assurance through experience. Well, the verbal duel opened and it was not over until 2 o'clock in the morning. One of the heck lers carried a cane, and used it In giving force to his questions which alarmed the ladies in my party. They were frightened at what they thought was a prospect of losing their driver. But no phy sical harm came of it and Mc Kinley and Tongue were elected. as some of the ladies present will perhaps recall. It , was Tongue's first election to congress, the sec ond election by districts. So much too much by , way of introduction. I am asked to talk about some phase of Oregon history. Six hours would hardly introduce this favorite subject. And I must not go beyond 30 or 40 minutes unless you repeat what happened to me out here 41 years ago. This is a very old country. Horner in his latest Oregon His tory, 1931. pronounced Oregon a very old part of the earth." He quoted Agasslz, foremost natural scientist of his time, as saying America was "the first dry land lifted out of the waters, hers the first shore washed by the ocean that enveloped all the earth be side. -Oregon, a portion of that re gion which Agassis describes. said Horner, "is ao old that we seek its earliest records In tha rocks whose atrata are .leaves written in succeeding centuries." s v.,v "Some of the first pages of the 'Oregon atone book,' added Hor ner, are embossed with aea shells and bones of atrange animals. They teach na that the region waa once beneath the sea." - ' He might have told of lime atone, formed of salt aea shells, over in Polk county, as thick as a tall house Is high.. Lime stone is perhaps as thick in the hills a few miles east of here. We know it is there, because the spring that supplies the state tuberculosis in stitution with drinking water is heavy with lime; When water of that spring was first enclosed with concrete and piped to the then boys' reform school, it could not be used in the boilers there. Mill creek water had to be substituted. All water running into the Willamette riv er is "soft" water.- Tour red hills are full of iron ore, the volcanic ash that was spewed up when this part of the terrestrial sphere was much hot ter than Washington, p. C, in summer time, with congress in session. . Prof. Thomas Condon In bis day told us graphically of, the "Two Islands" that are now Oregon which first emerged from the sea. and of the different ' geological epochs; 'when huge reptiles, like the brontosaurus SO feet long flourished in one of them ; ' that the reptiles diaappeared through changes of climate, and in their stead came the mammals, some of them very . large, like elephants, camels, etc., the petrified bones of which we find in the Willam ette valley; notably in the vicinity of Newberg. . (Continued xn Tuesday.) Radio Programs 8 .SO Moraine BwaJtatioa. :00 Dr. Coarbeia. vrfanltt,- MB8. 9:15 tot riii jd coicmble. 9:45 Martha and HI. ME8. 10:00 Chamber oreh, MBS. 10:80 Mrwa. 10:45 Muaic matter. 11 :00 American, Lntharta enurch. 13:00 8tnnc editmbln. 12: IS Popular aalnt. 13: SO Song abep, MBS. 11:43 Sand of Tim. MBS. IrtO Moods sad Mataay, MBS. 1 :S0 Melodie nemoriea. 1 :45 Oklahoma Ootlawa. 2:0e Jimmr Lnaeeford'a ercb, MBg. 2:30 Martha Clark, soprano, MBS. 2:45 Rabbi Masaia, MBS. S:00 Thirty rnioatM ia Hollywood, MBS. 2:30 fopnlar rariaty. 4.-00 8taa Lomax. MBS. 4:15 Raymond. Gram Swing, MBS. 4:80 Ted Wecaaa' arch., MBS. 5:00 Stardust reriew, MBS. S:80 Haart aongi. :00 Orgaaalities. 6:15 Dmp Sooth Choir. MBS. 8:30 Today's hita. 7:00 Vineant Lopea oreh, MBS. 7:30 Gospel Broaaoaating Assn., MBS. S :30 Hancock, ensemble, MBS. 9:00 Newspaper of the sir, MBS. 9:15 The Passing Parade, MBS. :30 Wayne Kint-'a arclu MBS. 10:0 Freddie Martin's orch.. MBS. 10:15 Ted Weems' oreh, MBS. 10:80 Kay Kyser'a oreb.. MBS. 11:00 Jimmy Lonceford'a orch, MBS. 11:30 Salon mnaie, MBS. KOW ST7WDAT 620 Kc :00 Press Radio aswa. - - S:05 Ward and Massy. 8:15 eighbor Kelt 4:10 Sandsy sunrise program. :00 fintlis and Hatamith. :0 Chicaca Round Table. 10:00 Stars of today. . 10 :S0 Moraiag concert. 11:30 Back Home. 12 :0O Tapestry o( melody. 1Z.30 tsieyele party. 1 too Kay Towers, troubadour. 1:15 Radio comments. 1 :3u Stan a( tomorrow. 2:00 Marion TaUey. 3 :80 Time of your life. S:00 Posey piayleta. 3:15 Newt. 3:30 A Taia of Today. ' 4 :00 Professor Pwxslewit. 4:30 Sunday apacial. 4:00 Coffee boar. 8 :00 Manhattaa Merry-Go-Sound. 80 American album of familiar m aic 7:00 - Hawthorne Boas. 7:80 Carefree carnival. " 8:00 Interesting Neighbors. 8:15 I Want a Di force. S:3 Jack Baaay. 9:00 Night Editor. 9:15 Treasnre Lslsnd. 9:30 On Man's family. 10:00 Newe flashes. 10(15 BrrdKe to Dreamland. 11:00 Bal Tabaria area. 11 80 atainatinsa- 13 K0 Weather reports' .kbx aTOixaT use n. 8:00 The ijniet Hoar. 8130 Novelty arch. 9 :00 Prophetic hour. 9 :30 Radio city musle halL 10:30 Spelling bee. lljOO Maie Key to RCA. 12 :00 Tempo for yaata. Ten Years Ago '- - -' October Si, 1D27 -1 .; Improvement -' ' of Willamette river, farm relief legislation and port demand for a 35 foot. chan nel are the three Issues to re ceive -consideration by Senator Charles L. McNary following his arrival in Washington. : Re-organization of the Cascade council, Boy Scouts of America, met last night with Charles Wip er elected president of council. Rhea Luper, state engineer, left here today to inspect the Fort Vanney and Gold Hill Irri gation districts and the Meadows drainage district. Twenty Years Ago October 24, 1017 Tomorrow, Liberty day by proclamation of - President Wil son, the nation, faces the test of determining whether the second liberty loan of 1117 will be suc cessful. As a farewell to the students upon his departure for San Jose, Calif., Dr.; Jamea Lisle spoke in chapel yesterday : morning; he has been curator of the Willam ette museum for many , ycara, ' Malcolm Gilbert, a .member of Cmpany M. Third Oregon infan try, ' addressed the student body of Salem high school yesterday on food conservation.-. - ; I saw him first! 99 12:15 Home folks frolic , 12:30 Fishfaed ad Kigabottla. 12:45 Christiaa Science program. 1:00 Family altar hur. 1 :30 Beth Chandler. 1:45 NBO program. 2 :0O Metropolitan opera aoditiooa. 2:30 Snaahlaa melodies. 3:00 Health spot dream girt 3:15 Song cycle. 3:30 Novelty arch. 4:00 Papolar classics. 4:15 Catholic truth boor. 4:80 Seein' Stan. 5:00 Concert trio. 5:30 Silent to KOB. 8:00 Irene -Rich. 8:15 Richard Montgomery book caat. 8:30 Sports by Bill Mock. S:4S Newa. 9:00 Everybody aiag. 10:00 Josef Hornik. 10:80 Calvary tabernacle jnbilea. 11:15 Charles Roayaa. organist.. 12 :0O Weather and police report. XOIX STJaTDAT 940 Xe. 8:00 Conecrt from Bataria. 8:30 -West eoaat thnreh.' :00 Strnday breakfast dab. 0:30 Salt tke tabernacle. 10:00 Chorea of tha air. 10:30 Poet'a Gold. 11:00 Lew Whit Entertains. 11:15 CES. 11:45 St. Lnla serenade. 12:00 New York Philharmonic orch. 2:00 Sihrer theatre, "First Love." 2:30 Old songs of tha church. 3:00 Joe Penner. 3 : SO Romantic rhythms. 4:00 Jeanaette MacUonald. 4:30 The Laff Parade. 4:45 Eyea of tba world. 5:00 Columbia workshop. 5:80 Studio. 5:45 Fireside quartet. 4:00 Sunday evening hour. 7 :00 Sunday news review. 7 : 15 Hollywood showcase. 7:30 Newa and reviews. .-00 Glen Gray arch. 8:15 Community chest. 8:30 Leon F. Drews, organist. 8:4S Studio. 9 :0O Modern strings. 9:30 Dorothy' Dix. 10:00 Sterling Young orch. 10:15 Hollywood melody shop. 10:4-5 Bob Ccosby orch. 11:00 Door to tha Moon. 11:30 Sterling Young orch. KSLM MONDAY 1J79 Xe. 7:15 News. 7:30 Sunrise sermonetta. 7:45 American Family Robinson. 4:00 Organ Recital. MBS. S:lfi Brg Freddie Miller. MBS. 8:30 Today 'a tune. 8:45 K ewe. :00 The Paster's Call. a:u The Friendly Circle. :45 Coral Strands. 10:00 Oddities ia tha news. 10 : 15 C a r a o a Robinson Buckeroos, MBS. 10:30 Information service, MBS. 10:45 Neighbor Jim. 11:00 Variety abow. 11:45 four Keyboards, MBS. lirOO Vslne parade, MBS. li:15 News. 13:35 Farmer's Direst. 12:45 Tribute to TJ. S. navy, MBS. X;00 Natiaaal cmergeaey, MBS. 1:15 Streamline Swing, MBS. 1 :30 Popular aataU. 1:45 Frank Sartiao a rjh, MBS. 2:15 Monitor news. 2:30 Jehneaa Family, MBS. 3 :45 Panaiar Tariaty. 2 :55 Oklahoma Outlaws. 'S700 Feminine Fancies, MBS. 3:30 News. 3:45 Radio Campus. MBS. 4:04 Henry Weber's orch., MBS. 4:15 In Lawa, MBS. ..' 4:30 Memory Chest, MBS. ' 4:45 This Side of Twenty, MBS. 5:00 Melodic memories, MBS. 5:30 Jack Denny's orch., MBS. 8:10 OJtdoor reporter. - 6:15 Phantom Pilot, MBS. 8:30 Frank Bull's sports talk, MBS. 8:45 News. 7 Vocal varieties. 7 :15 8TATE8MAN OF THE AIR Ron Gemmell, sports roundup. 7:30 Swingtime. 8:00 Harmony ball. 8:15 Newa. 8:30 Spice of Life. 8:50 Musical waves. 0:00 Newspaper of the sir, MBS. 0:15 Paul Wbiteman's arch, MBS. 9:45 Charlea Gay lord's arch.. MBS. 10:00 Dick Stabila'a arch, MBS. 10:30 Ray Kestin-'S area. MBS. 11:00 Jimmy Lonceford'a oreh., MBS. 11:30 Frank Sartino's orch, MBS. - a KQW MONDAY 420 Xe. 7:00 Just About Time. 1 :30--Keeping time. 7:45 Newa. 8:00 Stare af today. 8:30 Orgaa. 8:45 Gospel singer. 9 :0 Virginia Lee and Saabeam. 9:15 Cadet quartet. 10:00 JoaWbita. 10:15 Mrs. Wicrs of Cabbage Patch. 10:80 John's Other Wife. 10:45 Just Plain Bill. 11;00 Jerry - Seara arch. 11 ;15 Women ia headlines. 11:30 How ta be charming. 11:45 Three Cheers. 12:00 Peppe Young's Family. 12:15 Ma Perkina. 12:80 Vie and Bade. 12:45 Tba O'Neills. 1:00 Rav Towers, - troubadour. . . 1:15 Guiding Light. 1:30 Ptary of -Mary Martin. 1 j45 Refreshment tune, Singia' Sam. 2:0 Hollywood news .lashes. 2:05 Bonnie Stewart. 2:15 Curbstone auia. 3:34 Monday Bluee Chasers. . : 3:45 Gloria Gala. S: 15 Woman's macasins of tha, air, 4:00 fady af Millions. 4:15 Tom. Dick sad Harry. -, 4:30 Newa. 4:45 Top Halters. ft - - MAAAsykUeTsvwvt 4:55 Cocktail hoar. 4:00 Stars at today. J30 Vanity Fair. 8 n) Gien Gray' a orch. 4:15 Paal Carson, organist. 4:80 Hour of charm. 7:30 Barns snd Allen, o.Utt Amoa 'a' Anay. : 15 Uncle Exra's radio station. 9:00 Fibber McGea and Molly. 0 :30 Voa Pop. 10:00 Kewa liaahea. 10:15 Glena Shaitay, organist. 10:80 Josef Hornik. 11 KM) ambsisador hotel orch. 11:15 Rteardo and hie violin. 11:30 Jack Masaia 'a music. 12:00 Wnataer reports. KEX MONDAY 1180 Xc. 4:30 Musical clock. 7:O0 Family altar hour. 7:30 Over the breakfast table. 7 :45 Viennese aasemble. 8 :00 Financial service. 8:15 Hollywood Hi Hatters. 8 .SO lr. Brock. 9:00 Home institute. 9:15 Bailey Ax tan. 9:30 Tba aew world. 10:00 loat and found items. 10:02 Crosscuts. , 10:30 News. 10 :45 Grace sad ' Scotty. ' 11:00 Great' moments ia history. 11:15 Radio ahow- window. 11:30 W cetera farm and home. 12:30 Newa. 12:45 Market reports. 12:50 Song cycle. 1 :00 Forum luncheon. 1 :30 Rochester civic orch. 2:00 Neighbor Nell. 2:15 The Four of Us. 2:25 Financial and grain rCpcrts. 2 :u Originalities. 8:00 U. H. army band. S :59 Press Medio am, 35 Charles Sears. 3U5 Ranch boys. 4 :00 Strinxtime. 4:30 Food magician. 4:45 Herrick and Johnaon. 5 :00 Concert Petite. 5:15 Fairchild and Carroll. 6:30 Silent to KOB. 8:00 Land of the Whatsit. 8:15 f-Lum and Abner. 8:30 Sports by Bill Mock. 8:45 Newa. 8:00 Homicide Squad. r 9:30 Memory Lane. 10:00 Wrestling boats. 10:30 Stetson -varieties. 10:35 BUtawa hotel arch. ll:O0 Newa. 11:15 Paal Caries, organist. 12:00 Weather sad police reports. XOAO BCObTDAT BM Ka. 9S10 Taday's programs. 9U1 Tha Haaasmakar's hour. 10:0ft Weather -foreeaat. 10:15-!Stary baar for aduHa. 40:45 Daibart Moore, aiaUaiat. 110 School af tha air, 12 :00 Newa. 12:15 Nana farm hour. 1 1 1 Vrimtw 3:00 Home viaits with tha extension stall. UJeen rerdae. actinr cloth ing apeciaUst, "Suiting Your color ta xaa." 2:45 The travel hour. 2:15 Tour haalth. 9:45 Tha Maaitar vhs ths sews. 4:00 Tha symphanie aaar. A. -30 StariOT far boys sad glrla. -6:00 Oa tha eaaxpaaea 3:4a Veepers, Sev, p. Vincent Orsy. 8:15 Newa. a:) Farm hour. 80 Daaa Vktar P. Morris, ths world ia review, a . atomr vmnirsis v. 8:80 KOIN alloek, Ivsa, Walter and cranua, S :00 KOIX news service. . 8:05 Sena at the pioneers. a -I .V Tki mmA That MI. A - rt.LL " IWlABWO. 9:00 Mary Margaret MacBrdie, radio - vvtmsasasasiw , - 9:15 Kdwin C. HilL : 9:30 Romance c.f Helen Trent. 9:45 Our Gal Sunday. 10:00 Batty sad Bob. 10:15 Hymns of all churchas. 10:30 Arnold Grimm's Daughter. 10:45 Hollywood ia parson. 11:00 Big Sister. It SIS Aant Jenny's real life stories. 11:30 American school af tha sir. 12 :00 Silver serenade. 12 :15 Magazine-of tha air. 13:30 Jennie Pes body. 12:45 Tba Kewlyweda. 1:00 Myrt and Marge. 1:15 Pretty Kitty Kelly. 1 :45 Homemaker'a institute. 2 :00 Variety matinee. 2:15 Mary Cullea. 3:30 Newa through a woman's evea. 2:45 Children's hoar. 3:00 Western home baar. 8:30 Newspaper at tha air. 4:30 Eton boys. 4 :45 Bookworm. 5 :00 Maurice arch. - :1S- Haathmaa melodiea. f.-- - 5:45 Newa. ; - 6:00 Radio theatre: Spencer Tracy sad AA ay Wrur i "Arrawsmith.' 7:00 Wayao King's arch. 7:30 r. S. department af edacatloa, S :00 Srattergood Bainea. 8:15 Around tha world "with Boake Carter. S: 80 Pick and Pat. 9:00 Horace Beidt's arch. . 9s80 Maaieal moments. . ft ra.mii.. . 10:00 Five StarFiaL 10:15 White Firoe. 10 'ii Ftm nf k. SM.ia 11:00 Bob Croaby arrhT. " ji; ta riot unapt errs. - - 11:45 Serenade. ia tba Night. Nail Wound Suffered TJNION HILLr Donrlaa Raatur of the Heater Logging eompany near Detroit hm been ill. suffer ing from running a nail in his root -and vaccination. : He ia lm- -provlag jsow. Oh the By DOROTHY A Confidenco dame In any " free or semi-free economic-system, the psychological factor ia of great lmpottance. Prosperity or de pression, wheth er the curve moves - upward or d o w n, w ard dependa to a large extent, on what course peo ple think it is going to take. For on that bas is they take their risks or re- Dnratay Thompson , fnse to take them. Any 'system of free enter prise depends for expansion on the willingness of large numbers of " people to take risks in the hope of gain. .Risk is an element of its nature.. It Is also an element of any other economic eystem. Prosper ity under any form of collectiv ism can, theoretically, be order ed and controlled. Theoretically, under collectivism, there 3hould never be any depression. All work and labor being organized under one cover, it should, the oretically, be possible to keep it constantly producing at higher and higher levels, and the re turns being socialized one should move to higher and higher stand ards of living for everybody. Tht is the appeai of collectivism to the orderly and non-pre-iatory mind. But all experience shows and the world Is replete with such experience at present that collectivism by no means elim inates risks. There are risks which no body of supermen can control or foresee, since they can not yet absolutely control na ture. There are risks which He cutside the area of their control, but have repercussions upon it. The Soviet Union has existed as a completely controlled economy for twenty years, but has not been impervious to advances or regressions elsewhere in the world during all that time. And there are the greatest possible risks in the minds and characters of the controllers. Not being gods, nor even super-men, but serfectly ordinary politicians, themselves running constant risks of cabals from oth. er ordinary but ambitious noli ticians.'they also move this way and that. Improvise and expert ment, are sometmes wise, "and of tener -men being men -in err or. They also euess. And thev guess without a thousand fine signs that In a free economy tell them whether thev are hot or cold. If they guess right, there are nronta and in a collect! vist economy the distribution of those proms is also a headache, alnce one cannot distribute only roads. senoois, dams and public monu menta which can be given to peo ple collectively, but also must distribute shoes and meat and clothes. One cannot presume that -everybody wants precisely the same things. In the same quantities, so one must distrib ute money. And then the 'col lectivisU also have to decide, and quite arbitrarily, whether Jones ia more valuable than Smith or Brown. So the Joneses, Smiths and Browns live in constant Tisk regarding the arbitrary price placed upon their relative val ues. And if they the controllers guess wrong altogether; if they misestimate the effects of their actions then, in place of profit there is loss, and that loss is also socialised. Everybody shares it. If the mistake is big enough, millions starve. That also has happened in Russia. 0 Risk to go on with banalities, which are so banal that many people despise them on the ground that what is axiomatic is uninteresting even if true risk is life. It is its condition. It is risky to be born, risky to live, and. even with modern embalm ing, the grave promisea no per manent security. Capitalism is risky, collectivism is risky. But of all risky systems, that which la partly one and partly the oth er is the riskiest. oo a Actually the whole civilised world lives under such a double system, and actually,-such a dou ble system has thus tar added most to the health, wealth, and happiness of mankind. We pay taxes into a collectlvist fund, and put savings, if any, into some form of private stocking. We drive privately owned and man ufactured automobiles on public ly owned and manufactured roads On the Nose . 'At last tre've agreed on a i ii I ! neio members they'll either listen to KSLM or . huy their own radio" Record THOMPSON and stop in public parks and at private hot dog stands. In some activities public and nrivatA n. Lterprlse are inextricably mixed aa in raiiroaas, communications, and in most countries, utilities. Public and private economic ac tivity exist separately, in collab oration, In competition, and, ev en merged, in all the nations of the western world. But the mix ture is risky. Because govern ment economic activity opeiatea under quite different conditions than private economic activity, with certain advantages and oth er handicaps, and for somewhat dirferent purposes. The risks cannot be eliminated. But they can b enormously mitigated, or they can be enormously en hanced. , : Now, in this country, and at the present moment, the risks have been enhanced. And bv a simple fact. No one. today, knows what rules he is playing under, or whether today's rules will he tomorrow's. He is not even rlear in his mind what the objective of this government is; in terms, that is to say. of realism, snd ac tual policy. He does not -ven know who his governors really are! Is the government th cab inet? Its members rush out into the street te buy the newspapers and see what the President's pol icy is today. No one In the cab inet, with the exception of Mr. Cummings. knew of the Pres ident's plan to reorgapize the su preme court. No one in the cab inet, with the possible exception of Mr. Hull, knew that the Pres ident intended to reverse the American isolation policy until he did it. We are governed by ghosts. We read books issued by responsible government author ities, but written ' by somebody else. We listen to speeches, ut tered in high places but prepared by semi-aqonymous people and privately denounced by official supporters. P r o n u nciamentos. which have world-wide repercus sions are spoken, at one press conference and modified at the next. Is the government out to rem edy egregious abuses in the eco nomic system, or does it believe that these Abuses are Integral to the economic system and that the system Itself must be pro- , foundly modified? If so, how? Is a hearing conducted for the pur pore of ascertaining facts, or is its object punitive and propagan dist? Who Is. at the moment, conducting affairs? The person nel of important posts changes with kaleidoscopic speed. Yester day this office was held by a man friendly to business rea sonable and co-operative. Today it Is suddenly in the hands of a man on a crusade. Or vice ver aa4 There ia no functioning civil service in the most important po sitions affecting economic life. Ths facea change, and so do the tempers and policies. One could adjust oneself to any consistent program, - however radical. But not to adventure. Not to sudden shocks. Not to dilettantism, am- ateurishness, uncertainty. The artificial enhancement of the sense of risk simply means that the lovers of risk come out on top. It is the conservative business man who becomes afraid to move. The speculators are never afraid. They have trained themselves to live dangerously. And some speculators will hare been very happy during the past few days. A few. probably, will shoot themselves. Denouncing them won't do any good. Wheth er they thrive is a matter of cli mate. War was alwavs the Hunt ing ground of profiteers, and a struggle between public and pri vate enterprise Is also a form of war. Mrs. Calavan Host For Marion Group MARION Mrs. J. L. Calavan was hostess to the Ladies' club on Wednesday at her new home in the Parish Gap district. Fifteen members were present and much work was accom plished on the club quilt. Visitors were Mrs. John Fish and her mother, recently from Twin Falls, Idaho. The committee for boosting the use of Oregon products asked for further time in which to Investi gate and secure Oregon labels. It was voted to hold a social dance on Hallowe'en night at the WOW hall for Farmer Union members and their families. . . By thornton something! If tve have