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; 'PAGE SIX Tfie OEECON STATESMAN, SaleM, Oregon, FrlZEy Morning, Jtaie 17, 1 ; t ttjsoniitatesinari "No Favor Sways Uz: No Feat Shall Awe" i From First Statesman.' March 18. 11(1 j 'Charles A. Spkacue ' " THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. -' Charles A. Spragua. Pres. - - - Sheldon f. Sackett. Secy. J Mrmbrr of the AsHortatrd ITr :'.-; ' ThH Aaocht'd Pm U oluv.l, ntliird to h um for PWlc--Mon of all na dUpMrh. rrrdlld lo It othcrwta credited la this paper. i (nonrre5iS The congressmen are going- inh.'n iracfiimrfnn sinrp int called into a special session which merged session. - There is no simple statement which w-Vi-i ho: Vi anneroH in rh Tintinnnl Canitol I LU 111 4H3111 11 St. VW 1 - iw w V t t J CA I ii nivtrimotaiv eoven mrnVi TVio standing triumphs and has suffered outstanding rebuffs. The trouble has been similar to that of a hijrh school football team which somehow gets the notion, before the season opens, that it has a chance to win the champ'onshiD. Its thoughts are on the distant climax, not upon the first Saturday's ball game. ! Congressmen have been thinking too exclusively of votes and not f the nation's welfare. Nevertheless there have been moments when a sufficient number exhibited what appeared to be commendable courage. Even at such moments the susp icion arose that they may have had an ear to the ground as in ithe case of the reorganization bilj. Was it the inherent faulti Iness of the bill, or was it the flood of telegrams, that dictated its defeat? The congress passed a crop control bill, hastily drafted, and it is already reaping the disapproval of the farmers whom it' most direcMv affected. It passed a wage and hour bill, the merits of which are still sharply in dispute. It passed -the spending bill, wisdom of which is widely doubted, and let it self in fox tidal waves of criticism by failing to divorce the ladministration of these billions of dollars from political ad ministration. It passed a big navy bill and housing bill. These constitute the successes of the administration. ! ; The administration was rebuffed in the defeat of the re organization bill and in the passage of a revised taxation bill which in part corrected the faults of the previous tax setup. This latter was not a total defeat, for the "principle- of an undistributed profits tax was retained as a face-saver for the administration. The proposal to extend the TV A principle throughout the nation remains buried in committee 4 Conspicuous in the analysis of the session now ending are the things not even attempted. There has been a wide spread demand that the Wagner labor relations act be amend ed so as to extend its penalties for "unfair practices" to labor organizations. Not even a gesture was made toward consider ation of this problem. It was too hot a potato, r? . 4 Likewise congress has neglected to do anything about the plight of the railroads. In part the blame for this failure to act must rest with the president, who had the problem un der consideration but dumped it back into the hands of con gress without any definite recommendations. 4 It can scarcely be said that congress made any construct ive moves toward solving the nation's economic problems. The tajc amendments constituted a timid step in that direction; the spending bill aimed in that direction but was merely a repetition of methods that have been tried and found want ing., r I 1 . ! :i What; congress did accomplish was to free itself , for the time being, from the domination of the White House. Even though it bowed to the presidential will on many; issues its action on the reorganization bill and taxation served as "as sessment work" on its claim to independence, which there fore will not go by default. j . '4 The session is over but the fight it developed will go on through the summer and fall; the fight over this same issue of the right of congressmen to independent thinking and ac tion. The session laid the groundwork for such a contest, the verdict to be rendered in the outcome of the various primaries arid in the general election in November. These ballots will have a large bearing on the future of government in the united Mates. ! Mother Nature : The new crop control law growing season and Mother Nature is seeing to it that it is a thorough test. Reports to the Agricultural Adjustment ad ministration indicate that the wheat crop will be well over a bUIion bushels. On top of that prospect, there is a carryover of 200 million bushels from the 1937 crop. Add those two figures and subtract the normal consumption needs and you get a surplus of half a billion bushels for the crop control ma chinery to handle somehow. ! "Reports of rust damage raised wheat prices this week but they are s till low. If this damage becomes as widespread as some reports indicate, the picture may be changed entirely. J Based on the estimates prior to this development. how ever, there were statements from AAA of f icials I that "stop loss" guaranteed price loans would be put into effect for the first time in connection with wheat, although cotton and corn growers have previously received them. I f It was also expected that the government would come into possession of considerable wheat, as it did back in the Hoover farm board davs. but that production control provi sions, to be put into effect for next year, would even up pro duction and allow the government to dispose of this surplus. But here another worry appears. The production control ma- rViinprv wnnlrl rail fnr ncTea.tr reduction next year to less than 50 million acres as compared to the 80 million acres m wheat this year. The officials considered this too drastic, and intrndnr1 a last-mirniti hill to modify these restrictions. S On the same day that the government forecasts revealing this situation were made public, reports came from Europe of a drouth which has drastically reduced wheat crops in Great Britain, Switzerland, central European and Balkan countries and Morocco. The situation was so serious that Italy was re ported to be considering extensive purchases of wheat from hated Russia. Nearly all of the European countries are seek insr to build ud their suDolies of wheat in anticipation of pos sible war conditions, and it though its domestic crop was not greatly affected, might have to divert funds . from its armament program to purchase wheat. f This situation in Europe may in part alleviate the United . Slates wheat surplus problem, subject to credit restrictions. Meanwhile there is another angle at home. If there is a huge surplus, the guaranteed price loans will look highly attract ive; but they will be available only to "cooperators the crrowers who will sism uo for crop control next year Thus there will be pressure upon these growers to comply, and no doubt many of them will, at the tire program even more than The Bowl of - This af ternoon and tonight "Bowl of Rice" party for the relief of civilian suffering in China will be held. It is an unique project, well planned, sub stantially sponsored and worthwhile in every way. ; No large contributions are being sought from any indi viduaL A mu.rter. the price of a ticket to the "Bowl of Rice' party, will iro a lonsr way in child alive for a week; Recent reports said 60 million Chinese non-combatants were starvin ?, including 20 million children. Most Ameri cans' sympathies are with the Chinese in their struggle against Japan, but it is not necessary to take sides in order to assist in this modest way to ple whose only part in the conflict is to suffer. Complaints that farmers all over the nation are being told what to do from orfices in Washington, are answered by pointing out that tte writers of the best "mammy" Editor and Publisher Adiourns home. They have been on the November, when they were - - w into the regular . ri j - will characterize during:' those ap- 1 - administration has won out Tests AAA is getting its first test this was thought that 'Germany, . same time resen ing the en- they already do. Rice Party at the Fraternal Temple the China: it will keep a Chinese f relieve suffering among peo songs never saw a cotton neia. - Sage of Salem Speculates By O. fL TALMADGE A LITTLE " BIRD TOLD ME Tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet, tweet tweet! A man, red light, no cop, A car, no stop, kerflop. Tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet, tweet tweet! - A good little story, but ever staccate. Lacking In detail. As a matter of fact. It was thought as first that the man was only slightly braised. A further ex amination several hours later, however, developed the fact that symptoms of internal Injury hid developed in the interim. Where and what is a man's Interim? Clyde Madsen of the Madsen Baking company reached home early in the week from a two week trip to Alaska. Clyde's story of the trip is Interesting, particu larly so to this writer because of the fact that G. F. Talmadge and wife of Seattle, who were accompanied by Sidney W. Rog ers, a leading lawyer of Newport, Wash., and his wife, formerly Esther Talmadge, a daughter of G. F., were taking the trip at the same time. The Talmadges are cousins of this Talmadge. for which of course they are not to. be held accountable. One of the pleasant incidents of travel, I am sure they and Clyde found one another congenial company. I have Just given the ' "once over" to the east and printed scenario of the film story, re cently, finished, of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnaped," and it looks mighty good. This feature Is dated for the Grand theatre Saturday. Scottish rivers have poured a lot of water into the sea since I read "Kidnaped." That was at a date not far removed from 1890, and Stevenson was in Samea, which after much wonder ing in search of health (he was a victim of tuberculosis) he had decided to be the ideal spot. He died there in 1894 at the age of 44. "Kidnaped" is a tale of Scotch warfare, and my somewhat hazy recollection of it is that it caused the heart of me to pound against the ribs of me, and the hair of my bead to prickle at its roots quite delightfully. The an nouncement of the picture sug gests that I read the tale again. But I think I shall not do so. Better, perhaps, to leave well enough alone. WOMEN' When Eve tyought woe to all mankind Old Adam called her wo-man. But when she wooed with love go kind He then pronounced her woo-man. But now, with tolly and with pride. Their husbands' pockets trim min. The women are so full of whims The men pronounce them whim- men. " . This, which I find, of all places! on the current Editor ft Publisher's editorial page, was written by that guy "Anony mous," and it is no credit to his somewhat illustrious family. Thinking she might blow np en tertainingly, I showed It to a young woman who works In a local filling station. No explo sion. The young woman said she thought it was cute. And perhaps she was right. : Gut j there ain't no use In dodg in Man was made to work; Perkolater's Junk, no fudgin'. When it falls to-pork. Walk eight or ten blocks of a Sunday morning on almost any Salem residence street. A radio in each. Few exceptions. And by far the greater number of radios are giving ' out religion, either in sermon or music. Rath er significant. A sort of enjoyable sadness comes over a fellow when some thing or other occurs to send his thoughts back to a place where many years of his. life, most of them happy ones, were spent. Frank Hutchinson, of the state printing office force, with Mrs. Hutchinson, has just returned from a trip to the old home in northeastern Iowa. ' They report an old fashioned springtime in Iowa, and many changes amongst the folks we used to know and the spots with which we were once familiar which, as life goes. Is also an old fashion. I reckon the person who keeps faith with the belief that tomor row is the best day of the week will get along all right. I chanced to meet up with Cap Blsbing on State street one day thia week. Cap's old eyes 'were dancing in such a way that, they agitated his bushy eyebrows. "I just gave a feller a piece of my mind." he said. "I told him (the kind of louse I considered him to be, and after I doffe It I felt a heap better. The feller didn't suspect what I was doing. 'either." Cap is a master , at saracasm. Discovery: Some promising talent on the Saturday afternoon Buckaroo matinee at the Holly wood theatre. Drop Goon Charge For Evidence Lack EUGENE. June 16-)-Lack f corroborating evidence resulted today in dismissal of labor terror ism charges against Vera Bailey. Dismissal was by Judge G. F. Skipworth on motion of District Attorney L. L. ftTay. Ray stated that only the evidence of alleged accomplices was available and did not warrant prosecution. Additional charges against Ray W. Blaine, already sentenced to a year and a half in the. state pen itentiary and whose appeal is now pending before the supreme court, also were dismissed. Ray said Blaine had previously been con victed of a similar crime and there was no reason to prosecute further. .' t' summer ;. f:--''-"';;1' "'':''' -:;V I H0VEM8EB Wjrfk; -'SSV ' g:' ' ELECTIONS yiEfe ' ' ' . 1 g - i '. ' - Radio Programs XSXSC FEED AY 1370 Kc. T:30 .Sews. 7:45 Time 0'Dy. 8:00 The Merry makers. 8:30 Hits snd Kncores. :4a News. :M The Pastor's Call. 9:15 The i'nendlj Circle. :4& Boice of Experience. 10:00 Women in the News: 10:15 Hawaiian Paradise. 10:30 Morning Magazine, 10:45 Kice Bowl Party. 11:00 Community Builder News. 11:15 Statesman el the Air. 11:30 Hollywood Spinsters. 11:45 Paul Small. 12:po V.lue Parade. IS:15 .V. 12:80 HiUbily Serenade. 12 ;85 Voice of the 1'srm. - 1:00 indication of Science Buidinf at K. F. World a Pair. 1 :SO Popular Salute. 1:45 The Johnson family. ;00 Mayor V. . Kuhn. S:05 U. S. Kit; i Submarine. X: 15 Community HaJL S:45 As the Story Goes. 1 :0O icminist Faocies. S:30 News. S:45 Hut Yoea Wu. 4:00 Mr. Mergenthwirker's LoMl:es. 4:80 Radio Campus. i 4:45 Prank Perneau'a Orcfc. 5:00 Bab Crosby 'a Orch. 5:15 Senator Hamilton Fish. 6:30 fcpice of Life. :00 Popeje the Sailor. 6:15 Dinner Hour Melodies. 6:30 Sports Bullseyes.. S:45 Tonifht's Headlines. 1 :CO Waltatime. 7:15 Bice Bowl Party at Kew York. 7:30 The Lone Ranger. :00 Harmony Bali. S:15 News. S:SO Sin(-inS Strings. 8:45 Sons ef the Pioneers. 0 :00 Newspaper of the Air. 8:15 Softball Games. 11:00 Ererett Hoaglond's Oreh, I KEXrjUD AY 1 180 Xe. 6:45 family Altar Hons. 7 :30 Pinaaeial Serrice. 7 :45 Viennese .Ensemble. 7:58 Market Quotations. 8:30 National Farm and Borne. 9:45 Jack and Loretta Clemens. 10:02 U. S. Marine Band.. 10:15 Little; Boy Blue. 10:80 News. i 10:45 Home Institute. 11:00 Current Erents to Public Schools. 11:30 Your Radio Review. 12:00 department of Agriculture. ; 13:30 Newe. 12:45 Market Reports. 12:50 Talk by O. M. Plummer. 1:S0 Financial and Grain Report. 1:85 Little Variety Show. 2:00 Waahiugton Calls. S:1 5 Marlowe and Lyon, Pianos. 3:25 News. 2:30 Johnnie Johnston. 3:45 Dinner Concert. 3 :00 The Four of Ui. J:B0 Goin Places. 3:45 Voices of the Night. 4 :SO Sophisticated Strings. 5:30 Dick Trscy. 5:45 Speed Gibson. ... 8 :00 Aviation News. 8:10 Paul Martin's Musie. 7:60 Sons of the Plains. 8:00 News. 8:15 The Night Watchman. 8:80 Revna. 9:00 Baseball. Ten Years Aso June IT, 1028 : Salem Rabbit and Small Stock association will hold their semi annual show Tuesday. F. II. Zln ser Is president and Paul W. El lis, secretary. :' Local Kiwanians will observe all Kiwanis night with a dinner tomorrow at which Dr. Thomas E. Green of Washington, D. C, and recently elected to the Chevaliers of the French Legion of Honor, will be the main speaker. Louie Anderson announced yes terday that all three of the city playgrounds would be going; full force on Monday. Miss Doris Nep tune will assist at 14th street playgrounds and Max Langford Is the lifeguard. Twenty Years Aso June 17, 1918 i Miss Edith Campbell, a teacher In the Washington school, : left yesterday for Baker where she will act as stenographer to county fruit inspector there. ) Miss Lillian Guff In has resign ed as head of the public speaking department of the Salem school and will leave soon for Illinois. A new musical organization In Salem is the Apollo club and Jus tice George H-Burnett is the hon orary president of the club. First concert will be June 21. The Literary "Gild" 10:15 Orchestra. 11:00 Sews. 11:15- Charles Runyan. 11:80- Orchestra. - I KQW FRIDAY 620 Xe. 7:00- Originalities. 7:15 Trsil Blasers. 7:45 News. 8:00- Vaughn De Leath, Singer. 8:00- Carlton and Wayne. 10:45 Betty Crocker. 11:45 The Guiding Light. 12:00- Singin' baoi. 12:30 Rush Hughes. 1:00- Martha Meade: 1:88 Your Radio Review. 2:0- Betty Walker'a Kitchen. - 2:30 Woman's Magazine ot Air. 8:30 Sews. 4:30 C. S. Army Band. 5:00 Radio Show Window. 5:30 Armand . Girard. 6:0(K First Nighter. 6:30 Jimmy r idler. 7 :00 Amos 'a' Andy. 7:15 Uncle Lira's Radio Station. 7:30 .-Sketches in Sound. S:00 Death Valley Days. ' :0 Circus. 9:30 Fireside Hour. 10:00 News Flashes. 10:15 Glenn Shelley. Organist. 10:43 Fiddlers Three. KOAC FRIDAY 650 Ko. 9:03 Homemakers' Hour. . 9:05 'Time Out." 9:40 School for Brides Color Schemes of Kitchen and Bath. 10:15 Story Hour for Adults. 11:00 The Bcllmts. 11:30 Music of the Masters. 13:00 News. 12:15 Farm Hour. 12:1 Pest Control. ' 12:30 Market and crop reports. 1:15 Variety. 3:00 Homemakers' Half Hour. 8:15 Your Health. 3:45 Monitor Views the News. 4:00 Symphonic Half Hoar. 4:30 Stories for Boys snd Girls. 5:45 Dinner Concert. 6:15 News. J 8:30 Farm Hour. :30 Agriculture Viewed fey Editors. 6:45 Market sad Crop Report. 7:00 4H Club Summer School. -Fishing Conditions. -Swindles to Sail Portland Bet ter Business Bureau. KOIN FRIDAY 940 Ks. Market Reports. KOIN Klock. News. Yours Sincerely. This and That. 11:30 Kate Smith Speaks. ' 11:43 News. 1:30 Mnsie for Fun. 3:13 WPA Band. 2:30 Songs for Yea. 1 5 :00 Aeolian Trio. 8: IS Newspaper ef the Air. 4:00 B (grounding the News. 4:13 Leon F. Drews, Organist. 4:43 Boake Carter. 8:00 Hollywood HeteL 6 :OQ Columbia Square. 7:00 8cattergood Baines. 7:15 Lam and Abner. 7:30 Andre Kostslaaeti Orch, 8:00 My Secret Ambition. 8:30 Fishing Bulletin. 6:45 Little Shew. 9 :0i Ted Fiorito Orch. 9:30 Slumber Boat. ' -10:00 Five Star Final. - ' 10:15 On the Air. 10:45 Henry King Orch. 11:00 Pasadena Orch. 11:80 Leighton Noble Orch. Forest Fires 8:0 8:30 6:30 6:33 BUS 0:45 10:43 Battling the worst forest fire thia season, thousands of firefighters recently sought to bring a raging conflagration under control in the vicinity of Qnllcene, Wash., in the Olympic National Forest. Strag gling for three days, ttOO C C C workers and some 800 civilians fought feverishly to surround the blazing timber. A heavy fog subsequently lowered over the Olympic Peninsula which enabled the men to gain footing and bring the fire virtually under controL Vigilant watch was kept to prevent the blaze from breaking ont in other places, Arline Cross Is Queen Candidate Arline Cross, popular and pretty Salem girl, has been se lected to represent this city in a current contest to elect a queen and four princesses to rule over the annual St; Paul Rodeo, Jfuly 2, 3, and 4. A native of Kelso, Wash., Miss Cross has lived in Salem for the past 15 years. She is a graduate of Salem high school, and Is em ployed by the Retail Clerks' Un ion No. 992. Fond of all out-of-door sports. Miss Cross excels in swimming and horseback riding, likes to cook and sew and her; hobby Is collect! .it photographs. Miss Cross is the daughter of Mr. and, Mrs. J. M. Cross, 265 N. 21st street. Her campaign for queen will be managed by June Armstrong. Drill Contest Won By Poison Creek KLAMATH FALLS, June 1. (JPy Poison Creek grange, Harney county, placed first in a drilj team contest held rn connection with the state grange convention today. The Eastern Star team of Deschutes county was second; Midland. Klamath county, third. William A. Schoenfeld, dean of Oregon State college's agriculture college, addressed grangers at to day's session on corporation farm ing, declaring It forms one of the most serious problems before the state and national grange. In some sections, he said, absentee land lords own as much as 70 per cent of the farms. He described the farmers on these farms as "a hopeless mass ot- humanity un fortunate victims ot circumstan ces." Accidents Fewer In State in May Oregon traffic accidents dropped 455, injuries 186 and deaths 11 during May, 19S8, when com pared with the figures for May, 1937. Secretary of State Earl Snell reported Wednesday. Snell said the showing made in May this year was encourag ing aud indicated that drivers were becoming more careful in the operation ot motor vehicles, Sweep Over Olympi c Peninsula Interpreting the N By MARK SULLIVAN WASHINGTON, June 16 The outstanding feature of the con gress Just closing was the, rela tion between it and the president. This congress was elected in the same election that gave to Presi dent Roosevelt an nnparalleled victory, carrying all but two states. The congress that came in with him was similarly un paralleled. In the Tsenate. .Mr. Roosevelt's party had 75 out of 96; in the house, 333 out of 435. To speculate upon what a presi dent might have done with such a predominance in .congress would be a futile toying with an historical "If." " The fact is that after Mr. Rooeevetl had had this power in congress for 32 days, he, on February 5. 1937, asked the congress to give him what, if given, would have amounted to dominance over the supreme court and all the federal courts. To say this proposal split Mr. Roosevelt's party in congress in half is inadequate. From that day, only a minority of Mr. Roosevelt's party believed In him or was willing to follow him True, Slightly more than a half ot Mr. Roosevelt's party in the senate supported, his court pro posal; only by aid of all the 16 republicans was the court pro posal rejected but many demo cratic senators who went along with Mr. Roosevelt on the court proposal did so with utter unwill ingness and dismay. The rejection of Mr. Roosevelt's court proposal in the senate was followed in the house by rejec tion of another proposal that would have given him much ad ditional power, the bill for the reorganization of the executive departments. Another measure desired by Mr. Roosevelt, the wage and hour bill, was also re jetced by the house. Thus, during the early months of. the present year, a president whose party had much more than two-thirds of the senate and .much more than two-thirds of the house - had nevertheless lost his leadership of both bodies. This leadership he recovered to a large degree. Under pressure from him., the house actually reversed itself on the wage and hour bill. It passed, in May (in a much changed form, to ,be sure) by . a' vote of 314to 97, the wage and hour bill which in December it had dejected by a vote of 216 to 198. This regaining of power in congress by Mr. Roosevelt Is practically without precedent. So rarely as to be practically never does a president in his second term regain a once lost control over congress. Mr. Roosevelt's feat is more remarkable in that economic conditions were unfav orable to him. Simultaneously with the action that lost Mr. Roosevelt his control of congress, his attempt to change the courts, a business depression began and continues. Increasingly until this day. . -'. Bids Are Opened For Flood Control PORTLAND. Ore.. June Bids on Willamette valley and Warren ton flood control projects, totaling more than $400,000, were opened by Portland district Unit ed States engineers. Projects and bids Included: Straightening and strengthen ing Molallarive r banks, low bid of $191,610 by Babler Brothers, Portland; rebuilding levees, con structing tide boxes and .building drainage ditches at Warrenton, low bid of $171,756.85 by Gilpin construction company, Portland; building Marshal Island levee In upper Willamette. low bid of $48, 755 by United Contracting com pany, Portland; Lamber slough channel clearing, low bid of $15. 437.50 by Pacific Building Mater fals company, Portland, and Wil lamette river channel dredging at Lincoln bar. low bid of $9625 by racmc Building Materials com pany. Celery Growing In Display Case Eight fat, growing stalks of Lablsh celery were planted, liter ally, in the Salem Realty board's display booth at the chamber ot commerce yesterday to attract at tention to the lake district's thriving industry, Clifford Har old, chamber official, announced. Ronald E. Jones, manager ot the Lablsh Celery Growers associa tion, who supplied the exhibit ma terials, said 200 acres of Lablsh lands are now planted to celery. That, under all the conditions, the president- should regain hi control of congress. Is remark able, for his good fortune, the reason lay largely in one event, a primary election in one state. In Florida. senator, Mr. Pepper, running for renomlnation on a record ot substantially 100 per cent sapport or Mr- itooseveit s measures, coupled with promise of similar support In the future, won his renominatlon by so large a majority as to be, under the circumstances, striking. It creat ed a strong Impression that the president was still popular. In all politics and all history, there is much that is fortuitous. Other primaries in other states, following soon after the Florida one, had outcomes from which no each impression fafprable to Mr. Roosevelt would have been deduced. In one. primary, in Iowa, an attempt by Mr. Roose velfa intimate lieutenants, almost certainly with Mr. Roosevelt's ap proval, to prevent renomlnation of. a senator who had opposed his court proposal. Mr. Gillette, wag disastrously defeated. The Iowa primary was" held June 6th. the Florida one had been held a month before,' May 3rd. Had those two dates been reversed," had the Iowa primary . . . sn S 1 ,81 occurred on May ra, we suuuiu probably not now be recording that Mr. Roosevelt regained con trol of his party in congress. On the contrary, we might readily be saying that Mr. Roosevelt's bare loss of control at the begin ning became a rout toward the end. . .-' . .. The conflict between the presi dent and congress, had the ap pearance of a seesaw struggle for dominance between, on the one hand, a strong leader in the white house ambitious for more and more power, and, on th other band, a congress deter- mintd to recover its status as a co-equal branch of government. But something else went on, too. The opposition to Mr. Roosevelt came mainly from his own party, quite possibly Mr. Roosevelt would have had little trouble if he had stayed within the bounds of traditional demo cratic policy. This gives an ad ditional significance to the re sistance to him. One might say that Mr. Roosevelt sought to im pose a new , philosophy on the democratic party, that the demo cratic leaders, in congress felt out raged, and that the stake in the tug-of-war has ensued is whether the democratic party is to eur vive. or whether it is to survive, or whether it is to be swallowed up by a new party, the New Deal party. That tug-of-war is still on. Viewed in this light,- the outcome of the nomination and election of .a new congress this summer and fan may be a major turning point In our history. New York Herald-Tribune .Syndicate 1st Rural Power Project Finished ASTORIA, Ore., June 16-(JP)i Oregon's first rural electrification administration project was com pleted when current was turned in a 22-milelln e In Nehalem valley, which serves about 250 families. The area, near one of the iso lated districts which last April approved the defeated seven-county utilities plan.: received energy from an RE A project completed after a year's work. Electricity will be turned Into various lateral branches when they are finished. The entire pro ject provides 41 miles of line with a possibility that between 10 and 15 more will be added later. Sponsor of the project was the Nehalem Valley Cooperative asso ciation, composed of Nehalem val ley residents who obtained an REA loan. - Reunion June 26 For Steamboatiiien The reunion and picnic of Vet eran Steambatmen's Association of the West will he held at Cham poeg park Sunday, June 2$.- Officers of the group of which Captain John W. Brown is Com mander and Captain Arthur Riggs Is Master, invite members, famil ies and friend to attend, bring their lunch, and prepare to stay all day for a program of music, speaking and other erents. Joint Memorial Service Held by StaytorT, Salem Odd Fellowg, Rebekahs - STAYTONA Joint memorial service was held by Stayton Odd Fellow and Rebekah lodges at the Walker-Howell funeral home in Salem Tuesday night. Those attending from Stayton were: Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Vaa Nuys. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Boyer, Mr. and Mr,. Grant Murphy, Mr. E,Ge0r" Cole- R- - Wood. Mrs. Ellen Reynolds, Mrs. Etta Brew r Frank Stupka, Mrs. , Byron Schnck. Mrs. Edgar Hamlin. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Wright and Mrs. Bee Johnson. HP. II. Steitcer to Head Gas Tax Study Group PORTLAND. June IS State Senator W,- H. SteiweV to day was elected chairman of an Interim committee named tn ntnrw distribution of gasoline taxes and license fees amont the various po litical subdivisions of the state. Stelwer Is from Fossil. Girl Born to Klemans KEIZER -Mrs. Max Klmar. and baby girl, Norma Jean, are expected -home Thursday from the Deaconess hosnltal. where h baby was born June 7. Mr. and Mrs. Kleman arrived here IX from the midwest. .