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From rim Stattioua. March 25. IsSl
Chakles A. Spracub . Editor ard Publisher
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Pressure on Reorganization BUI
- The Oregonian, commenting on the "yes votes" of Ore
gon's short term senator, A. E. Reames, observed that "we
may now all confidently look for speedy action on his recom
mendation of Judge Fisk as collector of customs." Indeed the
action was speed y; because almost before the paper was in
the hands of readers word came of the nomination of Fisk
by the president fori the collectorship. It must be that the new
dealers think that Reames will stand without hitching in the
further fight for the reorganization bill. So it will be interest
ing to see how the Capital Journals "wire your senator (s)w
campaign comes out. - i
The report from Washington is that the administration
used terrific pressure to defeat the Wheeler amendment to
this bill Jimmie Roosevelt worked against it Senators were
threatened with having their WPA funds cut off unless they
jumped through the hoop. There were promises to exempt
favorite bureaus from disturbance in return for votes to
defeat the Wheeler proposal. x
Even the old lobbying investigation committee was re
vived, and effort made to turn tables on groups which were
opposing the bill. Frank Gannett's committee on constitu
tional government which fought the court bill and is oppos
ing the reorganization bill was put on the grill and its execu
tive secretary was ordered to produce the committee's record.
The secretary refused, and Gannett, a newspaper publisher
who supported Roosevelt in 1936, declared the order was an
unconstitutional invasion of liberty. Wednesday the secretary
refused to produce letters written to him by Gannett, de
claring the senate committee was just engaged in' a fishing
expedition, such as was condemned by the late Justice Holmes
in a court decision.
V-j Yesterday the battle was over the Byrd amendment to
keep thejiomptroller general (the ofker who audits accounts
and expenditures) an independent official. This off'ce has
saved the taxpayers a good many thousands of dollars, which
has irked the spenders greatly and now they want to make
it subservient to executive will. In view of the votes on other
amendments it appears the administration will be able to
defeat the Byrd amendment and pass the bill in the senate.
Passage through the house oughtio be even easier because all
house members will be up for reelection and democrats do not
want to incur administration enmity. After the next election
it is very likely that the democrats in congress will be more
independent; but then the damage may have been done.
"'--!-'" aaaaaaaaM aaaaasaai a
! IEU Gets Recognition
I A regional director for the NLRB in California has certi
fied a local of the IEU as the bargaining agency for a lumber
mill at Westwood. The action requires only the approval of
the NLRB to become effective. This is the first time the IEU,
which is the independent, labor organization which succeeded
the old Four-L body, has gotten any favor from the officials
who, administer the Wagner act. In this state the IEU has
. been subjected to a long and costly inquisition, with hearings
in Portland and Toledo, which are not yet ended. The indica
tions were that the NLRB agents in this state were hostile to
the IEU and were anxious to brand it as a "company union."
The Four-L organization was clearly tabooed by ' the
Wagner act; but the IEU made every effort to square it
organization with the requirements of the new law. .It is
therefore entitled to recognition as a bargaining agency.
The great principle of the Wagner act is that workers
shall be protected in the right of self -organization. That prin
ciple is sound. It means that employers should not dictate the
union employes should join. But it also means that any bona
fide organization the workers select of their own choice is
qualified for recognition, regardless of whether it is AFL.
CIO or IEU. "Of course the old unions object to fresh "com
petition " but a little genuine competition, free from "juris
dictional disputes," might be a wholesome thimrin th lahnr
movement.
Hitler and Brazil
While theJUnited States
put the Monfoe doctrine on the shelf, it is by no means un
conrnedwith affairs in other portions of this hemisphere.
yHHehce it doesn't relish the implications of Germany that
.- Adolf Hitler has something to say about the internal policies
in Brazil. The dictator there. President Vargas, abolished all
political parties. His offense was to include the German nazi
Dartv in Brazil nnrfar hi hn Tha navnn ntt;.
called this action "extremely amazing," and thinks the Bra
zilian Germans should have the right to "advance their racial
culture and build up their organization unhindered."
I That same idea prevailed in pre-war jdays. German
kultur was regarded as superior to national loyalties. The
. same theory of German superiority was espoused. It is a
dangerous doctrine, leading inevitably to clashes with less
I Germans in Germany have the right to determine their
own form of government; but when they try to package
their ideas for export they are bound to run into opposition.
Hitler will find it lessasy to force compliance in Brazil
than he does in central Europe. Not only is there a wide ocean
between; but Uncle Sam migftt take the Monroe doctrine off
ine sneu and put it back in the
They Do not
In SDite Of DOVertv nnst-war
city. The cafes were crowded;
"-"r". ciiuc uuiif iw, urougn in naa our a scniii
ing left in their pockets. Now a change has come to Vienna.
The cafes are silent; smiles have gone from the faces of the
people, even though they mass along the streets and shout
"Heil Hitler" when der Fuehrer comes along. The Associated
Press correspondent gives the following picture of Vienna
today:
VIENNA, March 21.-$F)-People do not sing much In Vienna
an? more.
Sometimes a inarching column breaks into "Flags unfurled'
, The S. A. (Brownshirtsi marches by.- . . -: .
For decades on a sprint evening tike tonight It used to be
Drink, drink brother of mine! Leave aU your sorrows at home,"
at suburban wine festivals.
This epitomizes as much as anything the subdued. If more
purposful spirit that traditionally Joyful Vienna has sained from
her short Naxt rule.
Ton. donl see many smiles, races, are mora serious, there
are too many arrests and suicides tec laughter. -
Prussian efficiency Is replacing Viennese gemuetllchkeit
JftTiality.
Political uncertainty of previous years has disappeared, but
uncertainty remains orer coming currency measures and among
the Jews. -
The pope has appealed to General Franco to stop bombing of
civilian populations. It is a humanitarian appeal; and the pope Is
certainly the one to make it. He la the head of the .greatest religions
body in Christendom, and Is the spiritual authority whom the Span
ish nationalists profess to recognize and esteem. Sarely the plea of
the holy see cannot so unheeded ere Is the desperation of war. The
civilised world revolts against this ruthless slaughter of non-combatants,-although
the mass murder which anodern war entails Is
proof Itself of lack of civilization. , . .
The stock market slumped again Wednesday. No, It wasn't Mr.
floorer who mads a speech; It was his successor whose first drire was
to raise prices ("do it we will").
Ia the early days of Hitler there was a book- or a saying, "Little
Ifan, What Now!" The "What Now? part Is still appropriate. .
in its cood neiirhhor nnhVv has
display window.
Sing in Vienna
Vienna ten a cfill a frianUtr
there was always good music
Bits for
Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Fred Lockley visits 2-24-38
Salem Indian school and
finds some interesting and
a few new things to tell about:
(Concoluding from yesterday:)
Fred Lockley quoted Senior Clerk
Charles E. Larson of the Salem
U. S. Indian training school as
saying: "The first graduating ex
ercises at Chemawa were beld un
der the big fir trees here in June
1885." ,
That Is, the first after the
school was, in February, 1S85, Te
mored from Forest Grore to Sa
lem. V
The writer was present at those
exercises, and remembers that
temporary platforms were erected
to accommodate those participat
ing In tbe exercises, and the in
vited guests, and that the roofs to
shot out the sunlight's glare were
made of fir boughs.
The ceremonies were impres
sive. All the buildings tben erect
ed (or nearly all) were of logs,
and were of a temporary nature.
But good work was being done,
and the foundations -built for the
great Institution that tbe years
developed.
V V
Mr. Larson was made by Mr.
Lockley to say: "Chemawa' comes
from the Chinook language 'che'
meaning new and 'rnawa' mean
ing talk. By accident the first 'w'
in 'wawa' became changed to 'm,'
so the school became 'Chemawa
instead of 'Chewawa.' "
That ir one version. It may be
the correct one. Che or chee in
the Chinook language or jargon
means new or late or lately, and
wawa means talk. Let's have what
"Tarn" McArthur, in his "Oregon
Geographic Names' says of this.
It follows:
"Chemawa, Marlon county.
Chemawa is one of the I n dl a n
names in tbe state that had sev
eral fanciful meanings attributed
to it, including 'our old home,
'true talk and 'gravelly soil.'
There la little on record to sub
stantiate any of these meanings.
Silas B. Smith, Clatsop county
pioneer, is authority for the state
ment that Chemayway was the
Indian name for a point on the
Willamette river about two and a
half miles south of Fairfield
where Joseph Gervais settled in
1827-8.
"The same name was also ap
plied to Wapato lake. Indian
names were bestowed generally on
account of physical peculiarity,
and not for sentimental reasons,
and the name may mean 'gravelly
soU. bat gravel is neither pecul
iar nor abundant at either one of
the places named. Many Indian
names began with Che and Cham,
particularly those applied to
places in the Willamette valley,
such as Chemawa, Chehalem, Che
meketa and Champoeg. For in
formation on this matter see ar
ticle by H. S. Lyman, Oregon His
torical Quarterly, volume 1, page
316."
The writer believes Prof. Ly
man was right, as to Ch, and
wrong as to Cham. How can that
be?
Well, Rev. J. L. Parrish, the
last surviving member of the Ja
son Lee mission membership, or
at least the last one who remain
ed in Oregon, was a resident dur
ing a long period of the city of Sa
lem. S
During the last two or three
years of his life, he told the writer
about the Ch of the Indians found
by the first settlers In this part of
6regon. The matter came up in
a long raging dispute over the
correct spelling of several Indian
names, among them Willamette
and Chemeketa. One side defend
ed Wallamet and Chemekete.
Judge M. P. Deady would not al
low any spelling but Wallamet,
even in court papers before him.
Rev. Parrish no doubt knew
that che or chee in the trade lan
guage meant new or late or late
ly, and that wawa meant talk, for
he understood Chinook, perhaps
as well as General Sheridan knew
it who called it the court lan
guage of the western tribes.
V .
But Rev. Parrish told the writ
er that Ch, with a guttural sound,
away down in the throat, meant
to the tribes here when tbe first
whites came, place and that
Chemeketa was place of gather
ing; Chemawa, place of the wil
lows, Ch-ampoeg, or Ch-ampooich
(first name), place of the sand.
The French name of Champoeg,
or a place near, was Campment du
Sable, or sand encampment. That
was very general, in the early
days.
Solomon Smith's son, who told-;
Prof. Lyman about the location
of Chemayway, or Chemawa, may
have been right, as to the place
where Joseph Gervais lived the
place of the main "wolf meeting.
But the Gervais house was two
miles by direct trail below the
original Jason Lee mission house,
where Lee landed and commenced
bulldmg It Oct. , 1834.
And Rev. Parrish told the writ
er that the place of the first Lee
house (and houses) was by the
Indians called Chemawa. Both
spots might have been called Che
mawa. place of the willows. Wil
lows might have grown on both
locations and all the . way be
tween them.
One should not be too cock sure
about what was found along the
river there 104 years ago. The
river bank was then at the mis
sion sit about a mila east of
where it Is sow, and at the site
of the Gervais house about two
mUes east.
S
The flood of 1881-2 played hob
with a lot of things in that neck
or the woods.; Among other
things. It robbed Marion county
of a lot of rich land and put It
Into TamhlU county where it
has been since, paying taxes at
McMlnnvillo Instead of at Salem.
- Or would you say It was the
other way around that tt was al
ways to, Yamhill county, though
before 1881-2 on the west side of
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Statesman Readers
WATER AXD FIRE
To the Editor:
Yea Tusko was "an eyesore
and no earthly good" but Port
land had to get help to let loose
of the animal. They could chain
Tusko and we would like to see
the city council get close nough
to chain "Shelton Ditch." This
beautiful stream is like an old
sow we had in Indiana one time
if she couldn't get under the
the fence she'd go around it or
jump over.
Tha water has to stoop three
feet at times to get under the
cement bridges In Salem. So
the water commenced to go
around by cutting1 in behind
the abutments of the bridges It
saw that was too slow so it
commenced jumping over.
When the city council was
drilling; dry holes around Salem
hunting for water they sure
would have been out of luck if
they had struck "Shelton ditch"
their drills would still be float
ing down Willamette river. If the
city wants to catch all the "water
and sewage" in their basements
instead of having the sewer exit
at the Willamette bridge mid
way north and south of the city
they should have it to connect
five miles up the river so as not
to miss anything. Although In
place of having the exit by the
brldga to show people what we're
got we think it would be much
better to have the exit five miles
down the river to afford suffi
cient fall for the water. The
bridges along "Shelton ditch"
have been so constructed as to
dam up the water and we think
the men working to repair the
damage have found out the dam
med water will go through like
a. bow-legged man trying to head
a hog In a ifarrow lane. Please
don't misunderstand me as to
which one goes through. Jt sure
will be a difficult matter to stop
the erosion of "Shelton ditch"
and to keep the ditch from filling
up with gravel.
The people -in this part of town
are thankful for the incinera
tor, the slaughter house and
"Shelton ditch.- If one tenth
of the money spent in the city,
oa account of the ca Itol burn
ing, had been spent on "Shel
ton ditch" It would have been a
starter to help the city led loose
of the problem.
Now Mr. Editor if we are blow
In in at the wrong end of your
"valve" we wish you will T-lease
excuse ns as we are busy try
ing to Invent a valve that will
absorb the luperabundanc of
water in "Shelton ditch.'
W. D. RUSSELL.
2245 Shelton St,
Salem, Ore.
PARSf CONVENTION '
DELEGATES
To the Editor:
I lire In Polk county, one of the
most productive In the state.
Polk county has been afflicted
lately with the usual seasonal con
ventions so called "Farmer's Con
ventions. which met rn Dallas
the county seat.
When the medical associations
Ten Years Ago
March 24, 102S
Junior chamber of commerce of
Salem high school la sponsoring
first Marlon county typing and
bookkeeping contest to be held
Saturday, according to Miss Cecils
Graham, instructor. -
Willamette unirersltr men's
-glee club quartet will sing at the
cnamoer oi commerce luncheon
Monday.
danrhter u hnn t Vf
and Mrs. Jtalnh Cooler mtunii,'
morning. Mr. "Cooler manager
of the Bishop Clothing Co.
S
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age o
Speculates
By D. H.
THE STREET BATTLE
An army of wind met an army of
light.
And straightway ensued a most
terrible fight,
Then an army of rain came sweep
ing that way,
And presently mixed more or less
in the fray.
And the pavements turned red,
and then turned green,
And a cop said that worse he nev
er had seen.
Some night, probably, it will take
place again.
Why no one' can tell, nor can any
say when.
Wet pavements will flash back
the green lights and red.
The streets will resound with the
rain's martial tread.
Perhaps yon hare known such a
battle or two.
A trial for old eyes (hard on um
brellas, too! )
And that reminds me a gale
of wind roared over these parts
several days or nights ago,
heavily laden with rain, and some
thing somewhat strange occurred
that night, of which I was a wit
ness. I had been to a theatre, and
had remained comfortably snug
gled down on the small of my
back until the bad man of the
smash hit then prevailing had
been disposed of, and the leading
man had snuggled up to the lead
ing woman with an expression
suggestive of a calf suffering from
ill health on his face. Then I had
sighed and stepped forth into the
windswept street. A few feet in
advance of me was a woman car
rying an umbrella up. Present
ly we came to a street corner, and
on this corner the wind seemed
suddenly to double its strength. I
saw the woman's umbrella go in
side out, and I saw her clutch
wildly for the protection of a tree
one of the few remaining in
that thoroughfare. And then my
eyes filled with rain and the wind
momentarily took my. breath. An
instant later, breathing again and
able to see, I looked for the wom
an. She was gone gone with the
wind somewhere. Naturally, I
was a bit mystified. But there
were colored light from a garage
sign dancing In the rain, and I de
cided that I had missed seeing her
go. However, it wan an nri, cir
cumstance. Odder than I thought.
Several days later I chanced to
hear of a man motoring to Salem
on the Silverton road who that
night had brought into town a
rain-soaked little woman whom
he had found wandering half
dazed near the fairgrounds. It
does not seem entirely reasonable
to suppose that the little woman
the stranger brought to town that
night was the same I had seen
leave the theatre, still, it was a
mighty strong wind, and it it had
carried her over a mile or two of
housetops It would have dropped
her about where she was found.
But, mind you. I don't say it did.
There are days In this valley
when the winds roar in from the
sea. lightly tempered by the
coast mountains, and there are
other days when an icy current
sweeps down the gorge of the
Columbia from off the plains to
the east and travels up the
Willamette, but for the most part
our winds are of the description
mentioned in the Bible as being
tempered to the shorn lamb.
And on such days men gather
on Salem street corners and ex
change reminiscence of the winds
they have known in other places.
Not tornados, although one oc
casionally hears tornado men
tioned, but straightaway move
ments of air sometimes lasting
for days or for weeks. Many
of us have known the bite of
the nor'easter of the upper At
lantic coast, and many more of
ns have felt the polar breath
which occasionally sweeps across
the midwest plains from Hudson
bay. There are those, too, who
have seen the sea lashed to
mighty fury off the south At-
met In Portland for their conven
tion, physicians and surgeons of
national reputation were dele
gates. In fact if any other crafts
men had attempted to come into
the meeting, they would have been
challenged for proper credentials
before being allowed the right of
assembly.
Polk county has some real
farmers. I mean real "he" farm
ers who have made a success of
their operations. In fact the woods
in Polk county are full of good
farmers who would have done the
county an honor to represent it.
As a general rule when a farmer
wishes to make an exhibit at the
state or county tain he tries to
end the best he lias. He sends
the fattest and best cattle and
bogs: he takes the wild, oats out
of the bundles of grain and sends
the best heads and stalks he can
find and leaves the Inferior or
small bags and rants at home.
It is not because Polk county
lacked tbe material tor her farm
convention delegates but would it
nt be a good xilau for the farm
ers eowventions to check up and
be little mere rigid on who is
ouaUfUd. to dictate and attend
their meetings?
I am not qualified because X
tana by the old fashioned srade-uid-aoe
method but I would sug
gest if Pols: county farmers can
not get some one who Is a real
farmer to represent h e m at
their future meetings, that they
call on one ot my neighbor
fanners, who farm with a one
borsa oattit, but he-Is a ood
fanner. Let' as get btm a new
alt and send him to the eon
VfeBUoas. Ha cam tell how and
when to plant the cor- and lime
the alfalfa, he knowa and does
aot guess.
Probably next time give the
Polk farmers a little time to
crape on the red mud from bis
boots and go to the conrention:
it would be as easy- as cleaning
on the paint.
A. F. APPLE,
Salem, Ore. ;
em
TALMAOGE
lan tic coast An old sailor, one
of the twangy old men who once
frequented the shores of Nar
raganaett bay -and perhaps do
yet, althoufh when-1 knew them
they were almost entirely ot the
wind-jammer type, which, if not
extinct, is greatly lessened in
numbers once, told me of hav
ing seen a cow blown inside out
in the country a few miles back
from Hatteras. I was young
then, and I suppose listened well,
for those -old salts appeared to
derive great delight from telling
me lies, tall tales of the sea, a
grace which, though perhaps I
should not admit it. I still retain
to some extent. I speak of it aa
grace. Possibly that is not the
word. It is a harmless and
pleasant way of beins of service
to one's fellows, and it requires
the least physical effort of any
method known to me.
Still, it cannot strictly be said
to come under the head of bear
ing one another's burdens.
A Salem famijj repapered the
spare bedroom last spring a
cheerful scheme of tiny flowers
on a light background. Aunt
Prunnella came for a visit during
the Christmas holidays. Aunt
Prunella is somewhat along in
years and her hearing and eye
sight are rather the worse for
wear. But she is still he?pful.
During her visit she occupied the
spare bedroom. . During her stay
she swatted most of the tiny
blossoms off the wall paper. She
said she never knew a place
where there were so many flies
in the winter.
Trifles, so called, may be
mighty important. Suppose a
great National dictator, while en
gaged in delivering a speech to
an immense gathering of citizens,
were to have one or two but
tons drop off. and he was com
pelled to use both hands to
hold up his pants and was un
able to gesture. It is quite im
possible to conjecture the pos
sible reeult of such a trifle. Per
haps a declaration of war.
A toy will chew up enough
paper wads to shoot at halt the
pupils in school, and enjoy the
doing of It immensely, but if he
finds a wad of paper in an ice
cream soda it makes him mad.
He can't take it.
Advice to a young writer:
Don't send a funny sketch about
a boil to an editor who has a
boil. He may have a sense of
humor greater than his boa, but
it is a bad bet. Anyway, there Is
no such thing as a funny sketch
about a boil.
A letter from a talented writer
at Portland contains a truism.
"May 1938 give you enough pros
perity to maintain your health
and happiness. These blessings
are net supposed to be dependent
upon material, abundance, but
they have a strange affinity for
it, ju?t the same."
Excerpt from another letter,
this one from an old friend In
New England, who is the father
of a son, one of the boys who
are not understood by their
teachers or by their parents, who,
I recollect, said the boy would
grow up and appear regularly at
mealtime, but that was about all
that might be expected. As a
matter of truth, the boy made a
first class electrical engineer of
himself, but of the big salary
chaps. His father says, "It Is
not what we know, but the use
we make of It that counts - a r
that and the use we do rot make
of it. Parents- and teachers do
not always know that the effort
to bend a boy's individuality and
spirit to meet their requirements
may have an effect diametrically
opposite to the one intended.
. Nor is it only boys. Ret Kip
per owned a colt. Ret didn't
figger that the colt was any dif
ferent than its brothers and sis
ters had been, o y for some
reason it seemed more difficult
to break In to farm wnrV t
said he thought it was just pure
cussedness. Then one diy dur
ing harvest a bee or a hornet
or some sort of stingin' Insect bit
the colt, and the colt ran away,
and did not hesitate until it
reached the barn, a quarter-mile
distant. Ret looked at his watch
when operations (eased, and hsn
pened to look at It again short
ly afterward, when one of the
men asked Vm for the time.
Then be exclaimed. -howHV wild
cats! that colt made It to tbe
barn In 40 seconds!" Such was
t3 discovery of a racehorse that
made its own e r considerable
money on the track and ultimate
ly sold for more money than
Ret's farm brought him In 10
years. When I was a kid St
years ago I heard the story to l
and theorized upon In many
stables. The favorite reply to
the query, "how did It happen!"
was "How did Abraham Lincoln
happen? Only a tradition now,
and very dim.
Shirley Temple, whose latest
release. "Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm," fa now current at tbe
Grand, has been 'mentioned in
the news from London during the
week, having been awarded want
ages In the asm of $10,000 be
cause o a libelous attack made
apoa her by a London publica
tion last October. Twentieth
Century-Fox. the producers of
the picture -Wee Willie Wilkle."
were awarded damages of 7.00
In the same action, from which
fact it la inferred that the libel
ous article pertained fa some
tianner to that picture. The
libelous article was not read In
court.
Second on Harmonica
ROBERTS Baddy Zlelke. who
Is a sophomore In senior high
school - won second in the har
monica contest held recently In
Junction City -