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; 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.
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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
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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