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The OHEGON STATESMAN, SateciV Oregon, Thursday Morning, Aprfl 21,' 1938 PAGE FOUR efc CB)rej8ongtdtcmaaii "No Favor Swaya Us; No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, liar eh 28. 1851 -CHARLES A, SprAGUE - Editor and Publisher THE STATESMAN PUBUSHING CO. Charles A. Sprsgue. Pres. - - - Sheldon F. Sacketr, Secy, fttrmbrr of the Asocltrd Press; The Aswoojntwl Plea U tlulvly entitled to the um tor PuW!0 Um of ll new dtapaUcbe credltrd to ll Of not otherwise credited la this paper. ' Across the Two events served this week to focus attention upon the bizarre type of politics practiced by our neisrhbors across the ri,Kt nVor- th Aerh nf Mavor John F. Dore of Seattle VVAuxxiaAajk a " y w and the attempt of Vic Meyers, a special session of the legislature in tne absence oi vovernur Clarence D. Martin. - Politicians in the state of punches and none has ever been accused of hidmar his talents nr thp nolicies he wished to Dromuleate for public consump tion, behind a bushel. The torchlight parade, brass band type of politics is played there to the limit. , It has long been whispered about Olympia that Governor Martin did not dare leave the state for fear of what Vic Meyers would do; and his airplane trip east this week was, in fact, his first absence. t in ih nresent case. Mevers had loudly demanded special session to provide for increased relief and to take other action he deemed necessary. He was in California when ... m as . -J A, J 4-1 Martin, with virtually no advance warning, aepaneu iur me national capital. Meyersindoubtedly felt that the only logical thing to do was to rush home and assert the powers he had atlong last acquired. It is not certain that Meyers reatly cares especially whether the session convenes or not. The fact that Mrs. Belle Reeves, secretary of state, had become governor in the absence of both Martin and Meyers, coupled with the elected governor's speedy return, apparently has checkmated Meyers' scheme, although that may remain for the courts to decide. ' . ... kH But the orchestra leader-politician's gesture may be set down as just another of those stunts, on a par with jumping into a watering trough at Walla Walla, whereby he seeks to insure himself a place in the sootlieht. . "Spectacular too was John Dore, though differing in method in that he stuck closer to the subject. He was spec tacular in his manner of representing clients in court, and three separate attempts to disbar him from law practice were made, all unsuccessf uL When he iirst ran for prosecut ing attorney he ofered to serve without pay and was accused of attempting to bride the voters. When he first ran for mayor he promised to "move the city hall out of the labor temple." Thus he was alligned against the part labor was playing in city "politics at the time. On taking office he slashed his own salary and those of dozens of city employes. He was defeated for reelection by a labor-business coalition in 1934. After that he was able to reverse his viewpoint and effect an alliance with Dave Beck, and on this tieup he rode into office again in 1936, When the AFL-CIO split occurred, he stayed with Beck against the Harry Bridges faction, and sent police to protect plants picketed by the CIO although he had refused to. interfere with AFL pickets. Public sentiment changed again and Dore was out of step in the recent elections, being further handicapped by the illness which finally proved fatal. If he had lived, he wouH still be in politics one of the outstanding examples of -the "practical" ODDortunistic type of politician which the voters in'-many sections of the United States seem nit to resent possibly because few men of deeper convictions can be per suaded to seek public office, and because those few are handi- a a 1 X A ' ' - cap pea Dy tneir scruples wnen it te But there was another side isjt and a swashbuckler in public life, he was a devoted family man and a lover of literature. Secondary only to the question as to why men of his type reach the top in politics, an inter esting study suggests itself such a public character and attempting to guess what Dore, the man thought of Dore, the politician. , The Kilowatt-Year Bonneville power is coiner to be sold on a "kilowatt-year . basis. The kilowatt-year is a new unit of measure. Adminis trator J. D. Ross has promised that Bonneville rates will not only be low, they will be simple ; and. he has set. out to educate the public about electrical costs and the measurement of electricity, both of which are mysteries to most people. A kilowatt. Ross explains, is simply the amount of elec trical energy consumed in amounts to a horsepower and amount of energy consumed by a 1000-watt lamp in an hour, .ouid a kilowatt-year is the amount of energy a 1000-watt lamp would use in a year, burning steadily. That amounts to 8760 kilowatt hours. ' - . But when industries or public utilities buy kilowatt years of power they will be charged on a basis of steady op eration, so thAt all-day utilization will be encouraged. If it isn't tased, it. will just be water over the dam, literally over .the Bonneville dam. r No, We don't have to burn the street lights all day, after the manner of the little boy wlic didn't heed glasses but wore grandpa s after he died so Ute idea is that use of electricity for heating and such purposes will paid-for kilowatt year in use. In the matter of wholesale energy, we've been talking heretofore about costs in mills per kilowatt-hour; when it comes to retail power for ordinary domestic use, it is charged for in cents per kilowatt-hour. The retail cost ia eight or nine timed the generation cost, as any public power advocate can tell you. The multiplication is everhead costs. . ; But here's a sticker. The hydroelectric commission, in estimating costs of the seven-power district voted upon recently, listed purchase ot Bonneville power as half of the total annual expense. How can that be? The answer lies partly in the lower cost of power to industrial and other heavy users ; and partly in the fact of 25 in transmission. " ' :' Invention of. the kilowatt-year suggests that Bonneville power will be so cheap that this larger unit will be necessary in order to announce the rates i Saving Precious Sight For the past SO years National Society for the Prevention of Blindness has been carrying on its good work, fighting the diseases that cause blindness, the causes of accidents that injure the eyes and the chief reasons of eyestrain. ; ' r - In the past, year the organization has received special help toward its goal, because has been carried on to stamp of the most important of all report notes with approbation the enactment in severa states' of laws requiring pre-marital medical examinations for both parties and blood" tests for expectant mothers, the latter making it possible for precautions to be taken even if syphilis is present, to protect the.ejresight of the infant at birth. .- We wonder if the Oregon legislature, in rejecting the first "mentioned of these measures last session, took into account this extremely important angle of the social disease evil 7 . . ; . - 1 - ii - i - ' - i - v Tbe Commanity Concert organisation Is conducting its second annnwl campaign and tbe response is reported to be "way bigger than last year" When this program was first introduced here many people wouldn't take the word of the sponsors that It would be Impossible to boy tickets after the brief selling: Also, the pa bile's eyes were opened" w he b outstanding musicians of recowa vert brought to Salem tor the first time. The Statesman has "keen asked to glrs the program a boost bat It's hardly necessary. Columbia lieutenant governor, to call Washington never pull their comes xo campaigning, to John .Dore. An exhibition in tracing the development of burning a 1000-watt lamp. It a third. A kilowatt-hour is the wrjuidu t go to waste. Koss refrigeration, cooking, water help to keep the bought-and - ' . - . based upon distribution and '." -' ,- - ; - per cent estimated losS of power in ordinary monetary terms, an organization known as the of the energetic campaign tha out syphilis, regarded as one causes of blindness. The society's - -: vy: ' v campaign closed.. Now they- know Stage Door to Be ' Willamette Play Offering to Be on Saturday as Highlight of May Weekend Events The -thirty one characters In Edna Ferber and George Kanf man'a "Stage Door" which will be presented by the Junior claaa of Willamette uniTersity Satur day night. May 7 at Leslie jun ior high achool aa a part of the May : weekend f esthrities are re- nearsing nignt ana day to per fect their parts for the produc tion. Tne play Is not based on the recent motion picture D the same name, although some of the characters are the same. When "Stage Door" was pre s e n t e d on Broadway In 1337 Margaret Sulliran played the leading role, in the moiion pic ture which was seen this last year Katherine Hepburn was Terry and Mary Elizabeth Kells of Salem wiU take the leading role in the junior play. - The plot , of this comedy re Tolres about two stage-rtruck gins, one or wnom finally goes to Hollywood. The dialogue it clever and fast moring takes place In three acta and six scenes. Most of the action takes place in the living roo-n, of a boarding house for stage ?irls. Mrs. Oppen Directing Mrs. Chester uppen, the di rector, has been . working 1 with members of the cast for over a month and three weeks f re hearsals are still left yMIss Rose Ann Gibson and Miss. Martha Herman are assisting Mrs. Op pen with the coaching of the Play. The cast includes the follow ing people: Mary Elizabeth. Kells, Terry; Verna Vosper, Kay; I ma CalTert. Jean; . Dorothy "Wright, Olga; Geraldine Parke. Bei nice; Barbara Jones, Mat tie; Eliza beth Fitzpatrick, Mary Harper; Margaret Wright, Mary McCune; Margaret Ayers, Madeline; Marj- orie Jones, Ann; Betty Wethey, Bobby; Lorna Barham, Louise; Wilma Schneider, . Susan; Enid Winningham, Pat; Mtrgftret MacKenzie, Kendell ; Rose Ann Gibson, Tony; Maitha Herman, Ellen; Beverly Brown, ira Or- cutt; Robert Farmer, Frank; Robert Wilson. Jimmy; Carroll Drew, MUhaaser; Bad Kohler, Kingsley; Stanley Eland, Bur gess; David StahL Larry ; Al Vosper, Billy; O. Whitman, pho tographers; Sidney Schlesigner. Gretzel. - Mt. Angel Folks Starting Travels MT, ANGEL A number of lo cal people left huere Monday for extended visits to distant points. Mrs. Frances Butsch, Miss Lou ise Butsch.' and Misa Audrey Eb ner left this morning by root or for Wisconsin where they will visit with relatives and friends. Likewise traveling . by motor are Valentine Enerle, Miss Hil da and Miss Christine Eberle, who left for North Dakota where Mr. Eberle will be married April 26 to Miss Katherine Moffen- beier. - Father Alcuin departed at 4 p. m. via private eare xor port land. There he will take ship May 2 for . London and thence to Budapest, Hungary. The Mt. Angel band serenaded him Sun day afternoon as a special ges ture of farewell. All the various organizations presented him with cash donations to help add to the pleasure and comfort of his trip. Play Day Slated By Five Schools VICTOR POINT Valley View, Silver Cliff. Mc Alpin and Union Hill fcchools will join the school here for the third anrnal "Play day April 29. A program and competitive sports are planned with a ' bas ket lunch at noon. 4 Teachers of the schools are Mrs. Daphna Hunt, Miss Sadie Roth, Miss Clara Olson,' Mrs. Ethel G u 1 v 1 n and Mrs. Sara Smith. V- V . May Back Home Once the toast of two continenta and a theater star of the gay nineties. May Tohe. 72, la back In United States and has just re ceived her naturalization papers, restoring the citizenship she lost when she married Captain Jan Smuts. Boer war Stero. This new pboto of the former owner of the luckless Hope diamond was taken - in Boston. . r. Hi . , , U v: "V Two Ten Years Ago April 21, 1028 Salem Elks inaugural ball will beheld Monday night and Frank W. Durbin, jr., is the new ex alted ruler. W. H. Stevens, was elected by Pomona grange of '. tar ion county as Its delegate to state grange meeting of Rainier. Mrs. La Moine Clark, principal, told history of Arbor Day at special assembly of Leslie junior high school students: Twenty Years A30 April 21, 1918 American steamship Lake Moor sailing on her: maiden voyage- with- a naval .rew aboard was sunk by enemy submarine In European waters April 11. Fire of incendiary origin de stroyed an estimated 60 cords of wood belonging to State Cottage farm according to Dr. R. E. Lee Stelner, superintendent. Miss Faye Bolin of Willamette university took first prize of X50 in oratorical contest of the Intercollegiate Prohibition asso ciation of Oregon. Oleman President ofStaytonPTA STYTON F. D. Oleman, prin cipal of the Stay ton grade school, was elected president of the Parent-Teacher association at the regular meeting Monday night In the high school auditorium. Mrs. Earl Miller Is the retiring president. Other officers elected are Mrs. George Maisel, rice president; Mrs. Hal Cufiel, secre tary; and Mrs. Howard George, treasurer. It was decided to attend the annual council meeting of Marion county at Aumsville May 7. The new officers will be installed at this meeting. ' A capacity crowd enjoyed the program put on by the Stayton grade school pupils. A style show was staged by the grade school sewing classes under the super vision of their leaders. , Also a 4H exhibit, and a . musical pro gram by the Schuetx family were enjoyed.. '.-:'-.v' Sunday Schools Present "Easter Music, Readings TURNER The Sunday school' Easter program at the Methodist church. Included a welcome 1 by tiny Donald Williams, Illustrated song by the juniors, readings by Eunice Bear, Geraldine Edwards, Mrs. George Pemberton, and Lo rene Edwards; exercise- - by pri mary class,, music by choir, or chestra, Misses Helen and Helena Witzel, Clyde Barker; Mrs. Ag nes Bear, pianist; sermon Rev. Bruce Groseclose. - . Mrs. Groseclose presided in the evening when a. one-act play "A Message of Hope" was given by members of the Epworth league: Ellison Whittaker, Rob ert and. Virginia Sorenson, Pearl Bower, Frances Clark. Also oth er program: Reading, Rachel Riches; Instrumental music, Hedges brothers; vocal duets. Mrs,, John Mickey and Rachel Riches, accompanied by Mrs. E. C. Bear; also numbers by the young people's choir. Special numbers at the Chris tlon church were: - Vocal duet, Betty peets and Jennie Glsse; reading, Carol Standley; Easter sermon by tha pastor. Rev. En gene ; a Hawkins, her. G. E. Williams occupied he pulpit In the evening. . The) young .people of the church sponsored aa early morning prayer Berries and breakfast. ., . it - Fisted Fighting Man ioit,. :ssyt ri Radio Programs xodt nnntsDAT 940 Kc :30 Market Rtport. 6:35 KOIN 'Klocfcv Ivan, Walter and Frankie. 7:45 Kyea of the World. 8:00 News. 8:15 ThU and Thit with Art Eirkham 0:00 Mary Mar caret McBride, Radio Columnist. 9 :15 Newlyweda. :30 Romance ot Helen Trent. 8:45 Onr tial Sondaj. 10:00 Betty aad Bob. 10:13 Hymna oi All Cnurchea. 10:30 Arnold Orimm'a Jaagb.ter. 10:4S Valiant Lady. 11:00 Big 8ater. 11:15 Annt JeJnny'a Real Life Storiea. 11:80 Console Moods. 12:15 STra. 12;30 Helpful Harry. 12:35 US Army Band. 1:00 Mj-rt and Marfe. 1:15 Pretty Kitty fcelly. 1:30 Judy and Jane. 1 :45 Current Questions. 2:00 Let' a Pretend. 2:30 Speed. Inc. 2:45 Hilltop House. 8:00 Hollywood Kood Secrets. 3:15 Howard Philliys, Songs. 3:30 Newspaper ot the Air. 4:15 Baekfronndinf the JJews. 4 :30 Strinj Trio. 8:00 Maurice Orchestra. 5:15 Leon . Orews, Organist. 5:30 Marshall Grant, Orjanist. 5:45 Boaka Carter. 6:00 Major Bowea Amateur Hour. 7:00 Man to Man Sporta. 7:15 Little Show. 7:30 CBS. 8 :00 Seattergood Batnea. 8:15 Hollywood Screonacoops. 8:30 Kate Smith. :30 Caatilliaa Gardens. 10:00 Five Star Final. 10:15 CBS. 10:45 Oxxie Kelson Orchestra. 11:15 Henry King Orchestra. 11:45 Black Chapel. XQW THTJSSDAT 620 Kc 7:00 Organ Concert. 7:15 Trail Blaxera. 7:4S 'ewa. 8:00 Cabin at Crossroad. 8:15 M argot of Caatlewood. 8:30 Stara ot Today. 8:45 Cobweba and Cadentas. 9:00 Kay Towers, Troubadour. 9:15 The O'Meilla. ' 9:30 Your Radio Review. 9:45 Musical Iaterlnde. 9:45 Homemakers' Exchange. 10:00 Stara of Today. 10:15 Mrs. Wigga of Cabbage Patch. 10:30 John'a Other Wife. 10:45 Just Plain Bill. 11 :0O Standard School Broadcast. 11:45 Mystery Chef. 12:00 Pepper Young's Family. 12:15 Ma Perkins. 12:20 Vie and Sad. 12 :45 The Guiding Light 1 :00 Refreshment Time. 1:15 Story of Mary Martin. 1:30 Rush Hughes. Commentator. 1 :45 Ir. Kate. 2:00 Bennett WoWerton. 3:15 Bonnie Stewart. 2 :30 Stara of Today. 8:15 Candid Lady. 8:80 Woman Magaxin of the Air. 4:00 Easy Ares. 4:15 Dr. Keen. 4:80 Nw. . . 4:45 Orchestra. Nazi Supporter Indignant men and women at a London Socialist "Save Spain" demonstration turned on the Hon. Unity Valkyrie rreeman-Mltford and seriously mauled her. The young" and charming daughter of, Lord Redesdal has been an . avowed Nasi aympathlxer and has hreatened to become a German WW M 5:00 Rndy Vale. 6:0 J Uood Xewa ot 1938. 7:00 Mnsie HnlL 8:00 Amos n' Andy. - ' 8:15 Standard Symphony Hour. 9:15 March of Time. 9:43 Orchestra. 10:00 f.ewa flashes. 10:15 Orchestra. 10:30 Meiody Memoirs. 11:00 Orchestra. 11:30 Orchestra. To 12 Complete Weather Reports. HI-THURSDAY 1180 Xc 8:30 Musical Clock. 6:45 family Altar Hour. 7:15 Organ Coneurt. 7:30 Financial Herriee. 7 :45 Viennese Ensemble. 8:15 Popular Waltzes. 8:30 Christian Bcience Waltzes. 8:45 Howard Thompson. 9:00 Time for Thought. 0:15 treorgo Griffin, Tenor. 9:30 National Farm and Home. 10:30 News. . -. 10:45 Horn Institute. 11:00 The Vagabonds. 11:15 Let's Talk It Orer. 11:30 lot and Pat. 11:45 US lept. of Agriculture. 12:02 Melodic Strings. 12 :15 Saxophobia. 12:25 Songs ot Yesteryear. 12 :30 News. 12:43 Market Reports. 12 :50 Y our Radie Review. 1:00 Club Matinee. 2:00 Brass Hatters. 2:15 Don Winslow. 2:30 Financial and Grain Reports. 2:35 Radio Rube. 2 :45 Washington Calls. 3:00 RakoT'a Orchestra. 3:30 News. 3:35 Tun Twisters. 3:45 Dinner Concert. 4:00 Dorothy MscKenzic. 4:15 Leo and Ken. 4:30 Elvira Hios. 4:45 Cadet a Quartet. 5 :00 Beaux Arts Trio. 6:00 Milestones in American Ifusic. 6:30 Dinner Melodies. 7:00 to 8 Silent to KOB. 8 :00 News. 8:15 Thursday Show. 8:30 Baseball. 10:30 Varietiea. 10 :35 Uptown Ballroom Orchestra. 11:00 wa. 11:15 tilts Safety Program. 11:30 Charles Bunyaa, Organist. To 12 Complet Weather and Polic Reports. KO AO THUSSS AT 5 SO Xc 9:00 Today's Progras. 9:03 Homemakers' Hour. 9:05 "Time Out." 10:00 Weather Forecast. 10:15 Story Hour for Adults. 11:00 School of the Air. 11:00 Today' News. 11:06 Nature Stories. 11:15 Listening to Opera. 11:30 Musie of the Masters. 12 :00 News. 12:15 Farm Hour. 12:16 Bmlding Program Ore gon Handing Congress. 12:30 Market and crop reports weather forecast. 12 :48 OSC Extension Service Farm Hashes. 1:15 Variety. 2:00 Tha Hobby Kxchang. 2:45 Garden Club Program. 3:15 Your Health. 3:45 Monitor Views th News. 4:80 School Ufa Series "Vacation ing In Oregon" H. E. In low, 5 :00 On the Campnaes. 5 :4. Vespers Dr. K. J. Harper. 6:15 News. 6:30 Farm Hour. 6:30 R. E. Brooks, "Rodent Control and Grass Improvement. 6:45 Market and rop reports weather forecast. 7:00 A. W. OUTer "Protein Supplement end Hog Feed' 7:15-lo. a Fletcher. 7:30 Com to Oregon. 8:15 Taking the Fear Oat of Inferior ity Feelings "Find Your Job nd De It Dr. Howard B, Taylor. M. A. Haines, Toledo, Dies While Spending Easter with Browns PIONEER Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Haines of Toledo came Saturday to spend Easter at the home ot Mr. and Mrs. Archie Brown. Mr. Haines became seriously ilk Sat urday and pased away ' Monday with leakage of the heart. Mr. Haines was about 75 years old and leaves his wife and a son in Washington, and a daughter In Portland by bis first wife. Two Girl Babies Slake . Appearances on Easter SILVEBTON Mr. and Mrs. Hannaa are annoanci g the birth of a daughter, born East er Sunday at the Silterton hos pital Mrv and I MnC Aaron Sykea of Gervals are 'announc ing, the birth of a daughter also born -Easter Sunday at tha Sil terton hospital, , . - Sage of Salem Speculates By D. IL POLITICS O. let's sing a song of politics. Of elections gone and those to " come,, Of voters that somehow strangely . mix In temporary perpetuum; Sing to the various candidates, , Eying the flood where the lightnings restt - ' Waiting the hour when the jolly i ; old fates Shall say ."Let the bolts be un - suppressed!" V -Sing te the day that wiir surely ..." come;,:. - " '" . When a smile will adorn each victor's face. And their friends will cheer ad libitum The losers? they'll be around some place. We can nse our own Judgment about a song for them. It'll de pend a good deal as to how they take it. TASTE I reckon it is not entirely clas sical m its nature, but BussTrlb-. by's definition ot taste has a cer tain ! flavor, a suggestive Pun gency, which, It seems to me, en titles it to serious consideration.' Buz says taste is nohing more nor less than knowing what kind of cheese one likea best. I remembered Buzz's definition of taste while engaged in looking at the most recent variety show a stage show, and rather well managed, I thought to. be seen in Salem. The average stage show, as it has ever been, is of a nature to turn one's thoughts in the way of finding a reason to account for the fact that your fellow listeners and seers do not always agree with you as to the merits of an act. The best yon can expect is a partial concurrence with your opinion, as evidenced by the ap plause created by the act, al though I have known acts, and not long ago, which set an entire audience to applauding its head off, which expression I am using here not because I endorse it, but because it seems in accord with popular favor as an expression in dicating unanimous approbation. There were two acts on this re cent bill of varieties that appeal. ed to me. One was a demonstra tion ot the dance in America by an old gentleman with white hair. who stated, merely aa an aside and not because he expected any body to be much interested, that he had last appeared at Tony Pas tor's in New York In 187. I don't know his name. Possibly not many do. Assisted by a plump lady, he began with the dances ot George. Washington's day and closed with the prevailing rhum ba and big apple. stuff, as seen, on the floors of public dance places Well, it wasn't what la known as a knockout, but it went over pret ty well, and it was plain to see that the old gentleman was satis fied, for which I was glad. The other act that caught my fancy was put on by a youngwom an and three Pekinese dogs. And right here 111 reveal a secret. When old Mr. Angell was heading the society for the prevention, of cruelty to animals (office in Bos ton) I agreed not under oath. however, but because I had seen with my own eyes a good deal of cruelty inflicted upon animals in connection with stage perform ancesto depart from any thea tre showing an animal act to walk up the aisle and at the box office to state my reasons tor do ing so. Quite a number of folks were doing this at the behest of fr. Angell peace to his ashes! and I reckon it had some effect of a nature beneficial to the animals. At any rate, animal acts are in no way today what they were years ago. This Pekinese . performance, for example. Those pooches did astonishing things, accompanied by the young woman. And I am sure they enjoyed it quite as fully as am sne. x Possibly more so. She had further to go, being a human, than the pooches had to get Into the spirit of the performance. And i aid not arise and walk in a dl nified way to the box office and register my indignation.- After the show I did. however, tell the young woman in the box office that I thought the dog act was swelL On the down grade,. Per- naps, nut I am not' worrying fcreauj aDOUl 1U ' A ou have heard, doubtless, the expression "between hay and grass," which' means in fa rmt no- country that the grass is not far enouga aiong ror razin and the nay is sua considerable ot a way from cuttin. The exnreneinn. t recall having heard it from -the tips oi iarmers in tbe middl west, is uttered in a minor key ana signiiies war feed will have to be boueht to ret tha through several weeks of spring appeuie. . tnis nas been a some what late SDrinar In fhl, .oii and a typewriter lass Ulls mt tha nooona on ner machine ; are be tween a sickly gray and black, which is giving a new twist to the (DifiHiKi tie. are available hettTat V abosnv eoBTeiifent terW D. W. Eyre, Manager .- TALMADGE old saying. But are typewriter rib bons affected by variations ot heat and cold, like the Ink on a printing press Lorina- Schmidt ad mits certain misgivings as to the nnwer of "Lost Horizon" and The Awful Trnth," which he Is putting on at tne tjraaa mis weekend in a double bill. He may Ho niAAnitnt.lv surorlsed. Both ot these features are worthy of sev eral vlewings, and tha customers will know what they are letting ire in for. which is not al ways the case when the quality of a film is yet to be determined. TYPE AXD ERRORS I suppose that the errors which have occurred in print since that glad day in the middle of the 15th century when John Guttenberg completed the printing of the first book from movable type total a tremendous number. . Millions and billions. Yet the first person is yet to be found who is responsible for an error in print, or wno, at any rate, admits It. : There are moments when, re flecting somewhat bitterly upon the frequency and ill nature which have characterized the typ ographical errors in my exper ience, . I have conceived a f eelin s of dislike for that stubborn Teu ton, Ilerr Guttenberg. Why could he not have dug a can of worms and gone fishing? But no, the minute the chores were done he was back at his Inventions, mov able type and the printing press. . He should have known that no good would come ot it for him. He died in poverty, practically starved to death. It is rather tough luck to become the victim of an obsession like that. But perhaps he did not think so. Pos sibly his reward was far greater than we realize. Anyway, he put his dream through, and the world was en riched beyond measure and the typographical error began Its tour of the centuries. There was a typographical err or, or what may pass aa such, In this column of The Statesman last Sunday. The Oregon state tuber culosis sanatorium was termed the Oregon state tuberculosis aud itorium. Who was to blame? Perhaps, who prepared the copy, perhaps another. It does not mat ter. : But it serves as an Instance of what may occur at any time. . There is not much to be done about it. One may say he Is sor ry, as Hank Tibbs did the day his pet dog bit the lady' principal of the village school on the leg. The lady principal was but recently como .:fom Chicago, and she should have known better than to cut , across the. Tibbs back yard when the dog was at, home. She was a good teacher, I guess, but the women folks said - she was dreadfully affected, whatever that may have been. They aald she modeled her gowns from pictures of Sarah Bernhardt. Hank said he was sorry and was pretty sure the dog was sorry, too, and that might have closed the incident if the lady Principal had not said she was glad Mr. Tibbs and the dog were aorry, but ahe thought she should go to Chi cago and have a Pasteur treat ment and that Mr. Tibbs should pay the cost of the trip. But the husband of the woman who had taken the lady principal to room and board said - to "Hank, "Don't he a sucker. That dog bite never even so much as broke the skin. I know because well, because I found out. : . An incident like -that makes good gossip material in a small town. And sometimes a typo graphical error la a newspaper imparts a pleasant zest in life to the hearts of a certain class of readers whose sense of humor de pends for its existence upon the discovery of frailty ln others, "t AIMS NOT TO PLEASE Some old writers say man - a worm, V . r . f.'J101? by twi8t nd . if 1 ble Bot t0 aulrm When comes my turn for the :. hook. -PIX, Stayton. j- Blossoms Nearinc Beautiful -Stage Now at . "fERTY- Orchards here abouts did not make a very good showing of blooms Sunday even ?SH : h"d,y P- t their best. Prune orchards on the hill still -5 ?ry PPeranc but are tA l? the ta where a w .f aa!ne will bring white bl08ams to ot of rJht Hf part of tb week III ababJ,L,liext Sundy win hm. ? St bloom days in the hills sections. . Modernize Farm And ' City Property the R. ZIJ?L - lonaI. Ask rVte..v ' .... - - W aJUallflp J aaa.M, riligs.. JUr. 0.
