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- PAGE FOUR "Vo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Aw" , . ! From First Statesman. Marcn SS. 1851 ! Charles A. Spragub V- Editor and Publisher THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO? 1 1 Charles A. Sprague Pres. Sbeldoo F. Sackett, Secy. ' Member of the Ansoctaled Press ! . i Th Associate Prtfi la exclusively entitled t th, aM tor PuWJc- lion of all news diitpalche credited lo U or aoi otherwise, credited tills paper. : i fr "I : . Homes and Housing Projects ; ' Current arsrument In Portland over the advisibality of iponsoring a housing project, inspiring a "letter to the ed itor" in which the writer questioned the justice of providing even a little luxury for the less successful memDers 01 society while those who strive harder or more intelligently and succeed a little better will still have to provide for them selves." : ' J ; That is indeed a moot Question thoese days, popping out not only in the matter of housing projects but in such mat- ters as federal Duymg or. cutter jor iamnies on renei -wimc self-supporting families haev.to get along with substitutes. But as for the housing issue, that has heretofore been threshed out from nearly all possble anglesin congress when the housing bill was up for passage.- "Fourteen solid naw nf flrcmmptit on this bill amear in the record of house proceedings for June 2. One interested address even though some colleagues assailed it as not pertinent to the subiect. was that of Kep. Ulare m. lioiiman oi imcmgan, svho said in paid: " I remember the old home In which I li red when I was first ' r married, and I still live In the same one. The cost above the foundation was Just 51000. Of course, it did not have a tinted jit, Dorcelain bathtnb In.wnlch flowed hot and cold scented, water. ' but, after all, the old lady and I and they came along, thank God could get clean, nrst, in ine . ' ! old wooden washtub, which we hauled In from the wood shed, and later, as improvements came. In the nice, shining gal rf vanized tub, by the use of the soft "soft which; we made ourselves. I 1 And "gentlemen would be surprised how a .good dose of soft soap tv in real hot water mixed together in a old wooden tub will make ' s one Jf eel not only physically clean but mentally and morally i i clean ; :. - - '-". l i ' "Do you want to know what a home is ad what it is for? i ' It is not a big place that sets away back behind a stone or iron i fence in some city orsurburb . f. My ideas of a home Is a little i I ; place that Is setoff by itself. - A place that is sacred to the family, r-; where mother reigns scprAne, where each has hia part of the toil, or the pleasure; where each is the other's counselor, helper, i sympathizer; where each is a part of the whole, and the whole . is one of happiness or sorrow, if sorrow comes. j ; "There may be no' cnlmneyin this home of mine . . . "i and the bed I sleep on . . . is sitnpiy some old pieces of rope i tied to the crosspiece at the head of the bed, and drawn tight with !; a stick twisted in, and u may be possible there Is nothing in 1 the mattress but some straw, a luxury Indeed compared to the old - corn husks that some of us used to sleep on. I . "But It Is . . . a place that Is your own. where you are king, . i where you wife is queen and the raggedest, diriest-faced kid when i helfrawla up on your kneee is a pTince or princess, a gift from the J gdkA '. . . That In part, and a very small part, is a de-o-:' sprfjption of a place that may be called a home." J ' y-' Apparently it was Eep. Hoffman's ; thought that a resi dence which' people couldn't afford could never be such a home as he described. He something of hollow mockery m this more abundant life for which people are not required to pay in the real medium of useful services. Probably ilas, he did not have time to up with the suggestion that opcupants will neither own motto, on the wall will not be "Franklin be kind to me." Justice to i SjTnpathy for thesVunder dog! is an ment. but one so eenerally held that jts really entitled to take pride reflected self-sympathy. The der dog and identifies himself with others in that position. M Somehow or other, Helen Wills Moody is' always getting the worst of it in public opinion. Five years ago, in the midst of a final match for the national women's tennis title, she injured her back and defaulted to Helen Jacobs. Al though it later developed that the injury was serious, some sentiment persisted that she should have stayed on the . court and taken her beating. I r V This year Helen Moody tried a comeback and, though obviously slowed up by her years of retirement, managed to battle her way through the younger set to the Wimbledon finals where she met Helen Jacobs again, j This time the situation was reversed: Helen Jacobs injured a tendon" in her ankle, and thereafter was helpless. Helen Moody won .the match as quickly possible, saying later she thought that was the humane thing to do. . ; 1 ; i f Somehow, Helen Moody is in bad again, though what else : 3he might have done is hard to imagine. The bitterness that followed the 1933 episode had its effect - in1 the actions of both! top-notch stars on this later occasionV It explains why Helen Jacobs did not default; also it explains why Helen Moody uttered no word of sympathy. But the sympathy goes td Helen Jacobsbecause she was long ago cast in the role of under-dog inthis rivalry ? ! . 4 : Tennis is only a game; but the human tendencies there exhibited hold true in other aspects of life. 'Sympathy for the underdog very easily becomes injustice to the performer of greater ability. : : : i Tlie Vicksburg Anniversary , Why, in the celebration of anniversaries, thef all of Vicks burg,' whose 75th anniversary came last July 4th, was over looked, we do not know. Gettysburg got all the publicity. It was more spectacular as a battle but it was not as complete a i victory for the union arms as the capture of Vicksburg. The fall of this strongly fortified city, resulted in cutting the Confederacy in twain, led the way to Sherman's penetration of the deep south, and by cutting off the supply base for the , Arms' of Northern Virginia hastened the surrender of iee s army. - 1 "! - General. Grant was in command of the federals and Pemberton of the confederates. Grant found Vicksburg secure against an attack from the north, so he marched his soldiers down the west back of the Mississippi, and ran supply Ioats past the batteries. ; He movied eastward to seize fackson, the state capital, and foil off an array under Gen. ;' U E. , Johston. Then he closed in on Pemberton, trapped him in Vicksburg and starved out the army .r Gen. Pember ton surrendered nearly 30,000 men who were liberated on 9 jarole, 170 cannon and 50,000 small arms.! Grant's great victory led to his being made lieutenant general in command of the northern armies, and under his leadership jthe union Jde was victorious. - - '; In: the roundup of the anniversaries Vicksburg should lot be neglected. Its name was far more familiar to those who lived in the midwest than Gettysburg, because their own kindred fought there, an&some of them died there. Mexican workers refusal of whose wage demands led to exporta tion of oil properties in Mexico, are said to be working when they get York for wages far less than they were recelring. They hare the sat isfaction though of spiting the wicked owners, though such compen sation batters no parsnips. . Editors of the Klamath Falls Herald and Roseburg "News-Review chanced on the same day to summarize the material which arrived in :he day's mall. The coincidence is remarkable, not that they wrote on :he same theme at the same time, but that two editors: in the state opened their mail one day. v j Secretary Ickes urged price cutting by big I corporations. He nakea no offer of tax-cutting by the biggest corporation .of all, USA, :ac. !. , j -tjb. Some people pay as they go; othen pay at they owe.' , and the kids sa came.. They along felt, presumably, that .there is he "had something there," but develop it. Instead he wound in these new houses that the nor pay for adequately, the " God bless this home" but i the Strong admirable senti possessor is not in it With some it is merely individual has been the un Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS More about the first 7-1Q-3S irrigation in Oregon, and Sheridan, Ord, Grant, I generals present at Appomattox: (Continuing from yesterday: Quoting still from - Sheridan's Memoirs; "Our main difficulties weTe 'now orer, and in due time we reached The . Dalles, where almost every one connected with the expedition rofed it a wretch ed failure; Indeed. General Rains himself, could not think . other wise, but ; he scattered . far and wide blame for the failure of his combinations. VThis, of course, led to crimi nations and recriminations, which eventuated in charges of incom petency preferred against him by Captain Edward O. C. . Ord, ; of the Third Artillery. "Rains met the charges with countercharges against' Ord, whom he accused of purloining Father Pandoza's shoes, when the soldiers in their fury about the ammunition destroyed the mission. "At the time of the destruc tion a rumor of this nature was circulated through' the camp, STARTED BY SOME WAG, no doubt in jest; for Ord, who was somewhat eccentric in his hab its, and had started on the ex pedition somewhat Indifferently shod in carpet-slippers, here came out in a brand new pair, of shoes. - V S "Of course, there was no real foundation for such a report, but Rains was not above . small things, as the bringing of this petty accusation attests. Neither party was ever tried, for General John K. Wool, the department commander, had not , at hand sufficient number of officers of appropriate rank to constitute court in the case of Rains, and the charges against Ord were VERY PROPERTY IGNORED on account of their trifling char acter. ' "Shortly after the expedition returned to The Dalles, my de tachment was sent down to Fort Vancouver, and I remained at that post during the winter of 18 55-56, till late in March." S Listen, you student of Ameri can and Oregon history! Turn the clock up from those hard and sordid days in the wild Yakima hills during the deep snows of late November, 1855, when Cap ain Ord and Second Lieutenant Sheridan . were enduring hard ships together, in primitive, drab surroundings, the first named falsely accused of petty-pilfer ing, as far beneath' his nature as the Pacific's low tide level is from Hood's topmost pinnacl turn the clock up to AprU 9, ise&, at Appomattox. Present there to receive the sword of Lee were three Union generals, whose leadership had brought about the turn of events tnat culminated in the gestures which marked the ending of the greatest armed -struggle in his tory up to that hour.: Who were the three? They were this same Ord, this identical Sheridan, and U. S. Grant, who had three years be fore left, serving here in the Oregon country while ranking as first lieutenant, having been promoted by the death of Col. Bliss to the captaincy of a com pany at Humboldt Bay, Cal., and there had resigned from the U. S. army because rebuked . by hardboiled Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Buchanan In a harshly barked order told to quit drink ing! too much or resign; and having resigned, was at the time of the experiences together of Sheridan and Ord in the pioneer Yakima district making a poor out! at earning a decent living for wife and children, with o intention of eter again entering a military career; his wife from' a proud family, herself the own er of slaves, which she held till the Civil war was over. History Is full of startling shifts of fortune, but few are more engaging than the ones Just mentioned, the " foundations of which were largely laid in the pioneer Oregon country whUe fighting and dealing with hostile Indian bands. Now, a little more on the Ques tion, or rather, the several ques tions, raised in the third para graph of the first article of this series: . ; : t - Irrigation was used, on a con siderable scale, in growing crops at the Whitman mission near the site of Walla Walla, Washington, as early as 1837, and in the few years ! thereafter at some of the branches of that mission. In pres ent Washington and Idaho. That may be considered the first use of irrigation-on a major scale In the Oregon country outside of Oregon state's boundaries, though the Hudson's Bay company used water for the purpose on limited areas at several of its trading posts, ! above Oregon's present north boundary line. ! - Next major Irrigation project in the Oregon country, after those of the Whitman missions, was the one established by the Catholics, in the Yakima country me one mentioned in tnis se ries by. Sheridan. f - s The ; beginning of irrigation there jwas In 1852. That was several years at least four or five- before Capt. D. A. Russell and 2nd Lieut. P. H. Sheridan Ir rigated their jointly owjaed lands near Fort Yamhill, of which they had charge, from 1855 till they were called away to the Civil war in 1861. (Concluded on Tuesday.) ? Ed Gilberts Leave for Trip to Calgary, Canada SHAW Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gil bert and children left Thursday morning for a visit into Calgary, Canada. They will visit William and Paul Gilbert. Mrs. Mary Larson who has been visiting for the past month in Marshfield has returned home. The .ORECO STATESMAN, Vflem, I? 3- . : v . . 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' 4 :00 Backgrounding the New. 4:30 Mary Loa Cook, Songs. 4:45 Boake Carter. 5:00 First Person Singular. 6:00 Wayne King' Orch. 6:30 Crooners' Choir. 6:45 American Viewpoint. 7:00 Henry Baase Orch. 7:30 Pick and Pat. 8:0O Monday Night Shew. 8:30 Leon. T. Drews, Organist. 8:45 Koger Pry or Orch. 9:00 Bob Grant Orch. 9:30 Phantom Violin. 9 : 45 Whispering Jack Smith. 10:00 Five Star FinaL . 10:15 White Fires, i . 10:45 Jimmy Dorsey Orch. 11:15 Del Milne Orch. , 11:45 Prelude to Midnlte. f-. KOAC MOHDAT 660 Ke. 8:00 General Sociology. 9 :00 Homemakers' Hour. 10:15 Story Hour tor Adult. 11:00 The Bellman.; 1 1 :30 Mnsie of the Master. 12 :00 New. 12:15 Neon Fsrm Hour. , 12:16 W. & AverilL 12:30 Market Report. 1:5 Stories for Boy and Girl. 1 :45 Monitor View the Kews. 2:00 Homemakers' . Half Hour, Jr. John Gilbert Kreid. 'A Statement From 4. I '"I - f SallGcim TO THE CITIZENS OF SALEM: . Several years agro I founded "The Voice of the Capital City, KSLM, and was Impressed at that time with the splendid cooperation extended by the: townspeople and merchants; Recently we needed to prove that we.snould have a more powerful station to better serve the city and surrounding ; communities. Many of Salem's business and professional persons willing-ly gave of their time to testify in our behalf. Today, I wish to Pubucly thank each of you for your cooperation, and promise that JiouM will grow with Salem, and do Its best to warrant your continued fPPvrJf m,e,ciose b "mindinsr yu that "WHAT SALEM MAKES MAKES SALEM.. . . Let's buy Salem-made products ... 1 ii ' Interpreting the News By MARK tULLiyAN WASHINGTON. July S Pres ident Roosevelt, at his Isst press conference preceding his journey water mil tila wa.ra.tinn to follow. was in a cheerilr' jocose mood. At these conferences It 1 Prt of tha routine that as soon as all the newspaper men are In the . room, the man at the door gives the signal to begin by call ing out. in a ritualistic tone, "all In." On this occasion, Mn Roosevelt In the same tone, as if carrying on the manner of ritual, said, "no news." But the newspaper mn many questions. Some were about recent developments in Indiana. Some one asked Mr. Roosevelt If he had heard "the tidings from Indiana." Mr. Roosevelt replied with a pun, he thought Mr. Tydings was the senator from Maryland, That got a laugh, r Theii the question er explained that the , Indiana democratic leaders had said that' their forgiveness of Senator Van Xuys for resisting the president's court proposal was not opposed by the White House. Mr. Roose velt replied that be know noth ing about what had happened in Indiana. Then the -questioner Ingeniously recalled Mr. Roose velt's distinction, set out in his recent "fireside chat," between himself as president and him self as.- head of the democratic party. The questioner asked, "as head of the democratic par ty, how do you feel about' the prospect of Senator Van Nuys being renominated in Indiana? Mr. Roosevelt replied that the questioner had better consult an astrologer. " SThe astrologer device for avoiding an answer Is new. Mr. Roosevelt used it several times in answer to questions he Pre ferred not to reply to, or about which he preferred to be cryptic When some one asked him a question designed to bring out his position about Colorado where another senator who op posed the court proposal, Mr. Adams, Is up for renominatlon . Mr. Roosevelt declared he had given no thought to It and again referred the questioner to an as trologer. Clearly Mr. Roosevelt was not In a mood to; say any thing about the excommunica tion of democratic senators. i If one were engaged in mind reading, one might wonder whether it was Mr. Roosevelt's subconscious mind that , led him to think of Senator Tydings when he was making a humorously evasive answer to the first ques tion dealing with his position on senators who opposed ' his court measure. There are of these democratic senators to come up for renominatlon this year. Among them Washington gossip says there are three whom the administration Inner circle would especially like to defeat. Even after they got their fingers burned in the attempt to defeat Senator Gillette of Iowa, and after the apparent surrender to the popular support behind Sen ator Van Kuys of Indiana, it is Said they still cling to the no tion of defeating Senator, Tidings of Maryland, Senator George of 6:30 Agricultnr Iviswed by Editors. 6:45 Market Beport aad Re views, g 7:45 New. .. .. For over a year we! have attempted to procure permission to increase our power from 100 watts to 500 watts. We have penriission now to do so. : I ' a L7act5 no and KSLM intends to help make Salem grow. ThU Capital City deserves a bigger station, and the Fed era1 Government, realised this fact so they granted1 us permission to increase the power of the station five times . . . Now we are busy planning" many improve- ments to better serve YOU with the finest radio pro grams available in America and Europe. i Through ; the Mutual Broadcasting System we are able to present many ' ! f ine programs not only from the United States and its territories, hut also from European centers. Our President . .Sincerely, H. B. READ, PRESIDENT. I 1....U mn A Canlln, K m ll h nf South Carolina. As respects Senator' Tydings, It would .seem that it his sup porters are as determined as were the ! supporters of Senator Van Nys : of Indiana, the admin istration Inner circle might be compelled to recede. Maryland ia like Indiana In that it has been a pivotal state, rather equally divided between the re publicans; and democrats. In Maryland as in Indiana it is pos sible that an implacable opposi tion shown by the adruinitra tion to the renominatlon of a democratic senator might result either in an independent demo cratic movement, splitting of the party, i or 1 the election of a re-, publican. ; Maryland, in short, contains almojt as much possi bility of dynamite for the admin istration as Indiana. South Carolina and Georgia are different. If the adminis tration circle -'wants to salvage something from the attempted purge of the 9 democratic sena tors who opposed the court pro posal,, they might take f change in these two southern states. In these states there could be prac tically ; no possibility of the re bellion going so far as to result In the election of a republican, and in these two states an in dependent democratic movement would be. less a threat than la Indiana, i . . The fate of these 9 democratic senators, the outcome of the at tempted purge, is the most .im portant present aspect of politics in either party. If all 9, or an Important portion of the 9, such as 5 or or 7, were successfully purged, that would mean that the democratic party Is to be In the hands lot the president and his friends; it -would mean that the democratic party' would be a new deal party. : On the other hand. If the 9, or a large majority of the 9, are renominated, it will mean the democratic party remains with in, the democratic tradition. The outcome of success of the 9 or most of them would be that the democratic national convention in 1940 would be controlled by democrats of the older type, democrats symbolized by, for ex ample, Vice-President Gamer. The situation presents a deli cate problem for Mr. Roosevelt as he sets out on bis trip on Thursday. He is to makfl speech es In states where two of the 9 are candidates for renominatlon. His speeches, and also his ac tions, his attitude, will be watch, ed as with microscopes for sny sign of his intentions or wishes. Possibly Mr. Roosevelt Lmay de cide to avoid any aggressive--step against these senators. He may take a different course. Among the states he Is going Into are four in which democratic senators who supported his court proposal are up for renomina tlon. Theses senators are Bulk ley of Ohio, Barkley of Ken tucky. Thomas of Oklahoma and McAdoo of California. Conceiv ably Mr. Roosevelt may confine himself to a so-to-speak defen sive position. , He may give his blessing to these four and adopt an attitude of neutrality with respect to the senators who op posed his court proposal.. New York Herald-Tribune Syn dicate. Hi! t- -