Tht OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, October 4, 1933
f ,1'AGE FOUR
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"No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Aw
From First Statesman. March 18. 1851 ' j
Charles A. S tragus
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. .
Charles A- Sprague. Pres. Sheldon F. Sackett. 87
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Tha AMOctntrd p, I. xclual.tj entities' the ''rJ;
tlon of all Dtti din patches crcdltrj ta U or not eUrwla credit
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Solution Necessary Soon i
r Rnnsevelt was campaien-
Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette; during one ol
his stops and publicly referred
r..ii ri;fn. o tu?9v ntv
me except just before elections," or words to that effect. At
present mere is a campiK w" "u r tw.
it national in scope. The views of William Allen White at this
time on national questions could scarcely be considered po
litical.
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most significant of which is that a solution for America s ec-
onomic ills must be found soon
democracy is, he declares, - the
wrl f-r -. tVinl if Will VQ "Vl rd ffif
all of us, workers, investors, consumers, to make in peace
those inevitable compromises that are needed to guarantee
the maintenance ;of free institutions." . 1 i r
vTcoif
works a good eight hour day although' he employs' about 40
liv a mnsnmer. White sees the situ-
ation something like this: That capital and labor have be
tween them "got us citizen consumers in a pretty bad mess.
He blames capital for having opposed, in times when it could
more easily have conceded, the inevitable in the way of the
eight-hour day, collective bargaining (which both major par
ties insisted upon since 1&20) and pensions for the aged.He
blames labor for going outside its proper sphere, that of bat
tling for better wages, hours and conditions, and becoming
"politically class-conscious." ,
, If labor succeeds in dividing the citizenry into a class
conscious proletariat and a class-conscious plutocracy, it will
defeat its own legitimate purposes because "the middle class
will have its will and way. For the middle class is the real
owner of American industry. . . The middle class thinks and
feels chiefly as The Consumer. And before, the middle class
demands an increase in either interest for investors or high
mrl XT rroa fn-r thA wnrkpr. the middle class will demand fair
f prices and a stable industry.
; S But in enforcing tne will oi. tne miaoie ciass ior a just
solution of the industrial problem, White warns that govern
ment will be an imperfect and uncertain arbiter, because gov
ernment is political and this problem reauires better intelli
gence than is exercised at the polls. It will have to be settled
outside of politics ; in other words by intelligent; voluntary
compromise between capital and labor. That is, not quite vol
untary. There is the aforementioned compulsion of the mid
dle class consumer, and on the other side, the compulsion of
the alternative; increasing relief rolls accompanied by high
er "taxation to pay for relief. ! j
Business must "put itself through the wringer" of re
duced capitalization, even writing off much of the bonded
debt of certain industries, or government, finally becoming
unable to squeeze out enough in, taxes to finance the relief
necessities, will "man the wringer, and God help the invest
or" White warns: ' . I
f ; "No matter who turns the crank, republican or i democrat.
fascist or communist, the result will be the same. . . With wages
' 9r taxes these Idle workers must be fed. If the workers draw
wages they will be free men: If they lire on taxes, the govern
ment that feeds the unemployed will control their rotes. IV" &-
man 'nature. ; ; j,. :
- -V "Surely tn private Industry on this continent -there Is an ad
equate margin of operator'aproflt wide enough to keep Ameri
can commerce afloat as, a going concern, allowing, for decent
earnings, for living wages, for attractive price to conaumers
that will move. the goods. And surely again. America can produce
brains in a free Industry to solve this terrible problem somewhat
outside of politics without too much government aid or control. . .
"No other institution on earth baa such survival value In hu
man happiness as democracy. . . Half of the civilized world today ,
beyond our borders has surrendered the rights, privileges and
blessings which democracy accords to free men."
"Should not the roaring waters of disaster flooding ever
nearer the feet of those who follow the tyrants, warn! us to turn
tcrthe wars of peace with justice which are the only guarantees
or rreeaom i
Chamberlain
Alfred Duff Cooper, conservative, first lord of the ad-
ii li r T : l..MVoM1A7n' MMKCnAf vsm'ffnml in die.
- gust over Chamberlain's yielding to Hitler. Harold Nicolson,
labor member of parliament, attacked the premier bitterly in
a speech. So the applause from those gratified that peace
prevailed is punctuated by these notes of opposition.
j What, does it all add up to? The opposition to Chamber
Iain ja policy has two legs to stand on. There are the genuine
imperialists -wfoo fear the Rome-Berlin axis will injure Brit
ain's might by imperiling her line of empire and building up
" overshadowing strength in Europe. Then there are the, left
wing groups who hate Hitler and believe Chamberlain has
been drawn into support of the Fascintern. Their sympathies
are With the Comintern. It is this group which normally has
r opposed wars as imperialistic. This time they were ready for
a showdown with Hitler. L
fin the immediate consequence these results stand out:
Britain and France have been humiliated. Their prestige has
beert lowered by these "upstarts", in world affairs. Also Rus
sia has been isolated; that nation was not represented at Mu-
'nicli; and some attributed the reluctance of France and Brit
ain to, go to Czechoslovakia's defense to dread of lining up
with Russia. ? " . ' - ' ' ' . ; " :
' Now all of these explanations of Chamberlain's course
seem to us strained. Why not put it on this ground: WTould
you! if you were prime minister of Britain; say the word to
launch a new world war? Perhaps Hitler was only bluffing
(he; did back up when Chamberlain refused to make the last
.concessions) ; but that was a thin margin for ! peace, and
Chamberlain was unwilling to risk finding out by being too
belligerent himself. In brief, it is quite as logical to conclude
that Chamberlain's purpose was to avert war which might
"result in the collapse of western civilization as to attribute to
him other and more .sinister motives. The price of peace was
high; there is no guarantee that war has been permanently
' averted. ' But if and when the war comes, what will it settle?
What did theJast war SETTLE? f '
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From the "Valsetz Star
In snite of the shutdown
uorotny Anne xiouson is swu Kcttiiiij uuv.m , lawm
with the aid of Nellie Hendrickson, as assistant 'editor. Dor
othy gets off some paragraphs in her -mimeographed sheet
which prompt many a chuckle. Here are a few samples:
? "We still stand for peace but there Isn't any." j
1 "There ls lots of trouble in the world but we can't hear any
of ft because none of our radios say anything on account of the
men wanting ten cents more so our camp is dark and down and
we have no electricity only coal-oil lamps like mother used to
have years and years ago when she was ten." ?
. "I had to stay home most of the summer and practice the
piano and get my teeth atraightened, and now school has opened
aad I have to study fractions. Life is a problem." !
i- "Mrs. Anne Heyden, our postmistress, came over the hill on
horseback 30 years ago, and tas been here ever since. She has no
car, and there are no horses'" j ' ; . .
t "Mra. D. A. Grout left real fast for Salem to have her ap
pendix out." ' ' '
- ' "The Bridge Club has opened, and the girls all argue."
Editor and Publisher,
hrniich-Kansas he met William
to tne nations mus. "v?r
tTAfwl fripnd. who agrees with
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WhifA unfolded those views, the
or it win De too iaie. o .l"s
primary necessity, but he
IK. harder even than war for
laborer and capitalist he
That means industrial peace."
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and Peace
of the lumber mill at Valsetz,
Bits for
Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Five of the men ! 10-4-SS
who In California j
in the '40s-'50s got
training for work of '60s:
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(Continuing from yesterday:)
The fourth man In the list of five
being " considered In this aeries
was William Tecumseh Sherman,
born in Lancaster, , Ohio, Febru
ary 8, 1820. and living until Feb
ruary 14, 1891. ; i -:.
"Cump," as, he was known In
boyhood, came of ' a long line of
Quaker ancestors, with some of
the purest blood of 'the early set
tlers of the colonies In his veins.
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He came into a family of 11
children, the father of ; whom.
Judge Charlea It. Sherman, dying,
left them and their mother very
IKor, and so most of the children
were given out ' to relatives and
neighbors, in whose homes they
were very welcome.
It was the lot of "Camp" to go
into the family of Thomas Ewing,
whom "Cump'a" father had help
ed in his law studies, where he
C'Cump") grew np with all the
privileges of the sons and daugh
ters of the Ewlngs, and one of the
daughters, Ellen, was to finally
become the bride of "Camp."
They never knew the exact time
when . they ceased to think of
themselves as brother and sister
and become lovers; engaged when
she was 18, and not married tiU
she waa an old maid at 26, owing
to the poor finances and prospects
of "Cump."
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Tecumseh came from the great
Shawnee Indian - chief, whose
name was really Tecumtha, mean
ing Shooting Star, who would not
allow the alaughter and scalping
of white women and children, and
who desired justice and peace be
tween the far flung tribesmen he
ruled and the early settlers in the
new territories west of the Alle
ghenies. ;
To men like Judge Charles
Sherman there was nothing but
shame in the reports that Ameri
can soldiers, when Tecumseh was
killed at the battle of the Thames,
war of 1812, had cut long strips
of skin from the dead chief's
thighs so that they might have ra
zor strops as souvenirs of victory.
Chief Tecumseh spoke and read
English; had a secretary, Billy
Caldwell, chief of the Potawat
amis, whose cabin was on the site
of Chicago.
So, Judge Sherman decided to
name his next boy Tecumseh. He
had to wait till after the arrival
of one more boy, whose name was
already determined by the moth
er, and two girls. The time came,
finally, Feb. 8, 1820, when red
haired, redder faced Shooting
Star arrived: William Tecumseh
Sherman. i
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The family which took the red
head, that of Thomas Ewlng, then
poor, was soon prosperous, after
ward affluent and prominent.
Thomas Ewing became United
States treasurer. He was the first
secretary of the interior Of the
United States. When "Cump" and
EUen were married, ' May Day,
1851, at the Ewing home in the
nation's capital, . flowers of ; the
season bloomed over Washington,
and when the groom turned -with
the bride on his arm, to receive
congratulations, "it was the presi
dent of the United State (Mil
lard Fillmore), followed by his
entire cabinet, by Webster, by
Benton, and by most of the cap
ital's great men, who pressed for
ward," wrote one of Sherman's
biographers, Lloyd Lewis, Contin
uing: -! s
."Only one face was absent
Henry Clay's. The lion of "all so
cial occasions why didn't he
come? At length here he was
Handsome Harry, so old, so fee
hie, walking slowly through the
bright crowds to kiss the bride.
Many brides, many babies, many
women he had kissed in his 73
years. He always did it well. To
Ellen he gave a large bouquet and
to Maria Ewlng he said. In his
charming way, that' his invitation
bad gone astray, but that he had
come, anyhow. That made the day
supreme." (Maria was the mother
of Ellen.) ;
Thomas Ewing had secured for
"Cump" the chance to attend and
he had graduated -from West
Point In 1840. sixth in his class.
Went as a second lieutenant to the
Seminole war in Florida, gained
his first lieu lancy in 1841. Was
in the Mexican war; was sent to
California on the troop ship in
18 46 that carried I ;ck. Ord
and others destined for future
high places. Young Sherman was
made what amounted to adjutant
general by Col. R. B. Mason, first
military governor of California.
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In 1850, Lieut. Sherman had
been sent to Washington bearing
official dispatches by : General
Scott. '. (Really, General Scott
knew of his long engagement, and
sympathized with him.) After the
weddinaj came a honeymoon trip,
and, returning to Washington, the
groom found himself a captain, of
date Sept.. 27, and orders to report
at the city of his ch''ce, St. Louis.
Not long afterward, EUen was
home with her mother, when the
firr. baby, Maria, earner In the au
tumn of 1852, another baby came.
Elizabeth, and another stay with"
the grandmother. A captain's pay
would not properly support, a
growing family at an , posts. His
f ther-in-law, now wealthy, of
fered many chances to Sherman
to manage parts of his property.
But . his self respect demurred,
and .he resigned fror the army
and accepted a banking position
In San Francisco, with an interest
Jn the bank, being started by a St
Louis concern. So, the little and
Increasing- family accompanying
him. he went back to California
in 1853; worked hard but the
boom In San Francisco waned,
and a business that had prospered
became unprofitable.
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cisco vlgilaa4es- craze, without
sympathy with It; not that some
scoundrels hanged did npt deserve
their fate, but because aay kind of.
London Crowd Outside Parliament Building
At
; This radiophoto from London shows the huge crowd
outside the parliament building waiting; tensely for
word on the Czech crisis. This picture was made
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mob rule Is langerous.'
"May 1, 1857, the seventh an
niversary joI his wedding," Lewis,
biographer, wrote, "Sherman
closed, ithe (bank) office, 'and,
with house safely rented.' brought
bis family home." (To Ohio.) '"In
bitter cbXTHn." Lewis added, "he
borrowed 8837.50 from his fa-ther-iQ-law."
Sherman had hoped
to make 350,000 In six years. In
San Francisco, and be indepen
dent, j He would have succeeded
but fori the breaking of the boom,
after the gold rush waned. .
- (Concluded tomorrow.)
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Londoners awaited parliament decisions
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Barbers Honored,
25th Anniversary
1 SILVERTON The silver wed
ding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs.
Del Barber was observed Satur
day night in an Informal program
and supper at the Woodmen of
the World ball and the presenta
tion of a gift of silverware by a
group of friends. J. J. Lewis was
master of ceremonies. Sam Yoder
of Wood burn gave a number of
readings and music was enjoyed
informally throughout the ere-
' The Barbers were married at
Vancouver, Wash., 25 years ago
and have made Silverton their
home since then. For a number
of years they were active mana
gers and owners of the Hubbs
Planing mill and are now retired,
living on a small acreage- on the
Mt.' Angel highway. Both are
prominent in the work of the
American Legion and auxiliary
and are active in civic and social
affairs of the city.
Jesse Maulding, Recent
Silverton Visitor, 111
SILVERTON HILL S John
Mauldlnr haa received word that
hia brother, Jesse Maulding. is
confined to a -hospital at Grants
rasa. He is suffering from pnen
monia.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Maulding
naa been spending the summer
nere with relatives and were en
route to their home in Los
Angeles.
Fift
een Tears
At,
October 4. 1923
Beginning this fall those enter
ing Willamette university law
scnool wui be required to hold
two years of college credit instead
of one, according to Dean I. H
Van Winkle.
J. M. Derers. attornev for utatn
highway commission, will be
Lions club speaker at regular
meeting on Friday. j
Cost of new Willamette univer
sity gymnasium will approach
closely the 3100,000 mark. Build
ing will be formally opened home
coming weekend, November 10.
Ten Years Ago
. " . October 4, 1928 ! .
Baseball players wearing the
colors of New York Yankees and
St. Louis Cardinals waited today
for the world . series to open - to
morrow. Salem's Boy Scout budget cam
paign started off with , a bang
when S. E. " Pur ine, captain of
one of the campaign teams, re
ported first contributioa to $4,000
fund to be raised this week.
, Mrs. O. P. Hoff. house mother
of Alpha Phi Alpha sorority, re
turned to Salem Monday after, a
two months' trip to Europe.
Last Day!
Edw. G
Robinson
"I Am ,
the Law
rmsw-riN)
rLfo TU31UKKO W ) j
By DOROTHY
: "Perhaps t h paclflst-hu--mane
idea is q.uite a good one
in cases where the man at tha
top ihas first thoroughly con
quered and subdued the world
to the extent of making him
self the sole master of it."
Adolf Hitler, in "Me 1 n
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What happened on Friday is
called "Peace." Actually it is ah
international fascist coup d'etat.
The- Four -Power
-Accord" is
not" even a dip
lomatic d o cu
ment. It is cer-
1 talnly not a nor
mal treaty. - -is
such a fan
tastic - piece of
paper that it-is
difficult to de
scribe except as
a hurriedly con-
3toUi TaevsM cocted armistice
made in advance of a war. to
permit the occupation by : Ger
man troops of a territory which
by sheer threat and demonstra
tion of force they have con
quered by "agreement."
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All" of the territory "where there
are more than 50 per cent of
German-speaking peoples will be
evacuated by the Czechoslovaks
and I occupied by the German
army within 10 days, although
there are hundreds of thousands
ot people in this territory who
are either not , German or are
anti-nazl and therefore consti
tute a racial and political minor-;
ity. I-.--." :.;-"r..r
-This document provides no
protection whatsoever- for their
lives, their properties or their
Not a clause indicates that they
are to be protected -in any man
ner from this occupation.
Those -of us who know and
have seen what the nazi author
ities! do to political minorities
realize that this can only result
in a panicky flight Into the in
terior ot Czechoslovakia.' It means
the open establishment of 'ter
ror, i . ": :.-- ) -;
No consideration is paid any
wHcra in hi fantastic document
L to the reapportionment of finan
cial: and industrial interests r
banks or industries the owner
ship ot which is not necessarily
on the spot -and this in spite
of the- fact that the British and
French governments know that
in the occupation of Austria the
property ot political minorities,
and ! in particular of Jews, was
simply confiscated,
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There is not the most elemen
tary consideration of Justice.
An international commission
will determine further territories
in which a plebiscite la to be
held, and will fix the conditions.
This will give plebiscites in
areas containng more than 60
per cent Czechs, although no ple
biscites will be held In areas
containing more than 50 per cent
Germans. "
The pressure of the nazls in
mntiiuoui territories by Ger
man troops, their immense and
innninrlr organized propaganda.
their house-to-house and name-
hvwmima Tinlltical OrnUMtlOn
the 1 ever-present threat that if
the I territories go German t h e
political minorities irill be ex
terminated, will assure the out
rAmi of these nleblscltes. One
might Just as well cede them to
Germany In the first place. .
Czechs and political minorities
are i given the right of option in
and out of the ceded territories,
but they must move within six
mnnthi. and the conditions for
exercising 4 the option are left to
a (ierman-uiecooaioTK cwuuuis
slon, which simply means: that
th. i loft to the Germans.
considering the relative 1 power
position. : - .' ;
Compared with this the Treaty
nf i Versailles is a KTeat humane
document and a normal and
raltnnahlA treatV.
The Treaty of Versailles al
lowed German nationals mcor-
nni-atl in the then new Czech
tate to vote for German
nationality. They were given two
years in which t make a aecv
slon and then twelve months in
which to exercise it three years
ini i all and the treaty guran
teed their right to retain owner
chn nf tholr landed Drooerty in
the territory of the state that
they left, guaranteea inetr ngai
to; carry with them movable pro
perty of every aesenpuon, ana
prohibited the Imposition of any
export or import duties to - be
t. it Act nnnn them In connection
with the removal of such :pro-
pcrty
We know that the political
minorities in Austria since the
nati occupation have not been
allowed to move . anythng. and
that the property left . behind by
those who fled was confiscated
In the Torm of an "emigration
tax," a treatment of - property
usually described as bolshevism.
' The Treaty of Versailles was
made - after five months of , de
liberations, into which . scores of
experts were called as experts
and not as partisans.- -
But on Friday Czechoslovakia
was disposed of by four men
who In four hours made a Judg-
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ment of the case - in which the
defendant was not- even allowed
to present a brief or be heard.
The very basis and spirit of
Anglo-Saxon law was violated.
What ruled that conference was
nazi law. Not one of the four
men who thus arbitrarily dis
posed of a nation had ever set
foot Jn Czechoslovakia, nor did
any of . them understand t'h e
others'- language except Mus
solini. They had a German inter
preter. They decided on the pri
mary basis of a report issued
by a man who also until two
months ago had never spent any
time at 'all in Czechoslovakia.;
Furthermore, L o r d Runci
man's report, though it recom
mends the ceding of the terri
tories to Germany, categorically
denies that the Germans had
ever been terrorIzed," fixes the
blame for ihe failure of, negotia
tions on the Germans, states that,
at the time of- his arrival many j
Sudetens still desired to remain 1
in Czechoslovakia, and accuses
tie Sudeten extremists, egged
on by Germany, of provokin?
the demonstrations which, on the
German side, , were made an ex
cuse for demanding armed occu
pation.' -
By every document of the Brit
ish White Paper, Germany is
shown .to be guilty of provoking
what was" nearly an all-European
war. -And "the punishment for
this guilt Is that she received
everything that she was going to
fight the war over. "
.... ,.: -.
This ''everything" -is more than
t h,e Sudeten territories. It is
more: than a free hand in the
East. It is the domination ot
Europe. "
It Is a fascist coup d'etat,! in
vollvng not only Czechoslovakia
but involving Great Britain and
France. : "
In this whole affair, described
as an attempt to keep peace, the
democratic process has been com
pletely suspended. In both Brit
ain and France the facts have
been suppressed by the exercise
of government pressure oa the
controlled radio and on the
newspapers. The people of Eng
land : and France are confronted
with a fait accompli without
even being able to gain In ad
vance possession of the facts on
which it is. based! The Runciman
report was published the . day
before the fait accompli!
v Not only is Czechoslovakia, dis
membered .what is left is de
stroyed as a democratic repub
lic. It will be utterly impossible
for the new state to exist, .under
the conditions created, as ; any
thing except a military and semi
fascist dictatorship. There will be
enforced labor. There must be
in order to save the nation at
all! : -i; -
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The "world today is hailing Mr.
Chamberlain as a prince of peace.
But Mr. Chamberlain Is actually -the
Von Papen of a coup d'etat
which makes' the one of 1933
trivial. Like Von Papen and Hu
genberg. he apparently believes
that conservatism can sleep in
the same bed with fascism, Mr.
Chamberlain's kind of conserva
tism can -only be swallowed by
fascism.. Either Mr. Chamberlain
is another Von . Papen, the un
witting dupe and tool of a pow- w
erful conspiracy, or he .is a fellow-conspirator.
." ." '-)--
Let us not call this peace.
Peace is, not the absence ot war.
Peace is a positive condition
the rule of law.
This peace has been estab
lished . on lawlessness and can
only maintain : Itself by . further ,
lawlessness.
This - peace has been estab
lished by dictatorship and can
only maintain itself by further
dictatorship, j
This peace has been estab
lished on betrayal, and can only
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