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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, Norember 16, 1938 "No Favor Sways Us; No Feat Shall Aict" ' from first Statesman. March IS. 1851 CHARLES A. Spbague THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A- Sprague. Pres. . . Sneldoa F. Sackett, Secy. Mrmbrr of thm Associated Press The Associate Pt Is exelualvel entllled t lbs ufs for "b,'c?; tion of all mwi dlnpstehsa credited to It of not iberwte crsdlua m this paper. -. Treasury Shortage An audit reveals a large shortage in the accounts of the county treasurer. The grand jury is probing the report of the state auditing department and presumably will assess the re sponsibility. This paper will not anticipate the findings of the jury, and believes the public will do well to withhold judg ment until'this inquisitorial body presents its report. The incident emphasizes the value of the independent audit made by the state auditing department. Previous audit ors failed to discover the shortage, though it appears to have existed over a period of 15 years. Whether they simply fell down on the job or feared to disclose the shortage we cannot say. The SUtesman has been a staunch supporter of the state auditing department. It has proven its worth on numerous occasions. Complaint is sometimes made that it costs more than other audits. But if other audits fail tp reveal the whole truth of what value is their service? Commissioner Hewlett, who called for the independent audit, deserves credit for in sisting on it. - - Colorado Keeps $45 Pension Extent to which sentiment for adequate old age pensions as been solidified is reflected in the almost 2 to 1 vote where by Colorado refused to eliminate the onerous $45 a month pension under which it has been laboring for nearly two years.' . . . . There was a strenuous campaign on this issue in Colo rado, unnoticed by the outside world except when it became a physically violent campaign instead of merely vocal. Sound trucks which were being used by opponents of the pension were overturned by throngs of pensioners and their backers. Colorado is in serious financial straits, not all occasioned by the necessity for paying this pension. The Colorado legis lature seems not to have been responsive to public demand in the past, and it framed the tax setup in that state so that the burden falls to heavily upon people of modest means and permits non-resident landowners to escape taxation almost entirely. For this reason and partly because of the pension .burden, a "tax strike has prevailed there in recent months. - Colorado ignored the "means test" requirement of the federal old age assistance provision a provision called in Oregon the "pauper's oath so far as possible and got into some difficulty over that. Meanwhile its pensioners are re ceiving far less than the promised $45 a month, relief needs are being slighted and the state is going "into the red" for "state expenses. The day of reckoning is still ahead. Sympa thize as we may with Colorado in its dilemma, the lesson to the nation in Colorado's decision is that the pension problem must be solved in a sane manner and that the solution must include pensions that will afford a decent living. ' Seventy Years Wedded Golden wedding anniversaries are noted more or less reg ularly in the columns of Willamette valley newspapers, though not too regularly , to make such news commonplace. Sixtieth anniversaries are much more rare. The first news item recording a 70th anniversary that we have observed ap pears in Tuesday's issue of the Eugene News and quite prop erly, it is heralded with an eight-column banner across the top ot the front page. George M. Dillard and Martha Clark were married near Cottage Grove on November 18, 1868. As children, they had crossed the plains in covered wagons with their respective parents. Now Mr. Dillard is 89 years old and Mrs. Dillard is 88. Longevity is of course the primary requisite for couples who have ambitions to celebrate their 70th wedding anniver sary. Early marriage helps. Beyond that, it does seem that a couple married in 1868 had perhaps some advantages toward that accomplishment that do not exist in the Willamette val ley today. They had to work hard on the home place that they carved out of the wilderness; they were privileged to work side by side. There were' no movies or night clubs or bridge clubs which might interest the one and not the other. A "community of interest" was inevitable. If "the first ten years are the hardest," it was much easier for them to avoid "drifting apart" than it is for young couples today. Yet the analysis of these advantages might point out the possibility of their attainment today, by any young couple starting out in life with an ambition to celebrate, in the year 2008, 70 years of wedded happiness. . Grange Comes to Oregon The national grange convention opens in Portland today and hundreds of delegates and members from throughout the United States are converging upon Oregon. Members in this " state, including many from the Salem vicinity, will go to Port land to look on. The farmer is outstandingly an individualist Down through the ages, farmers have needed a meeting point through which they could exchange views and recognize com mon needs, a "voice" through which they could make those views and needs known to the public at large. The grange lias come to be the largest and most influential of such agencies. . Oregon welcomes the national leaders and the visiting members of the grange and hopes their stay will be enjoyable and their meeting prof itable. Upstate Oregon invites them to see more of the state than merely the host-metropolis, and Sa lem would be delighted to show any who stray this far, the at tractions of this center ofjstatejroverament. . What's this ? Some weeks ago it was announced in a casual way not calculated to arouse suspicion, that the Ore gon license plates for 1939 would he yellow with black letter ing, thiscombinLtion having in a news release from the Oregon State Motor association showing the colors of all states' 1939 licenses, it is announced , as "black on lemon yellow." It looks like a start. on'' that scheme of alternating between lemon yellow and orange, col ors of the two big state schools, which was suggested, some months ago. -Z- " -.-y " " Portland voters rejected an initiative ordinance tighten ing restrictions on dogs. In San -Francisco, the number of persons bitten by dogs recently constitutes a near-epidemic. There are always two sides to the dog question in cities. If . dog owners exercise care that their pets do not endanger the public or become nuisances, there is less provocation for dras tis legislation against them. ; ; The $30-every-Thursday backers are gearing for a fresh start down in California. What they are after is the penny a . day from the oldsters. There's a big chunk of money left over from the campaign fund which will go quite a ways for "expenses." , : Progress is rebuffed again. The board of education of New York City has decreed that junior high" school students may!be taught the "facts of life" about birds and bees, but must not be told how mammals reproduce. v ' Both Popeye and Mickey Mouse have been banned from fascist Italy. We are more than ever-convinced that The Stateseman prints a superior type of comics. Kemal Ataturk led a full life. The world hails his pass talesman Editor and Publisher. proven best as to visibility. Now. Bits for Breakfast - By R. J. HENDRICKS Roll of honor grows: H-16-38 men who learned here . and saved the Union .'or . America, democracy for world: S V (Continuing from yesterday:) Robert Ogden Tyler shill be 79 on our glorious scroll. Born at Hunter, Greene county, N.- Y.. December 22, 1831, he llTed till December 1, 1874. His grand father was adjutant general to General Israel Putnam, Revolu tionary war hero, and three of his (Tyler's) uncles were army orricers. He graduated from West Point with the class of 1853, assigned, a 2nd lieutenant, to the 3rd Artillery. He participated In the move ment of troops to Salt Lake and San- Francisco In 1854-5; pro moted to. 1st lieutenant Sept. 1, 1856; engaged In the "Indian wars in what is now the state of Washington.", The words Just quoted are from the Dictionary ot American Biography. How Tyler engaged in the In dian wars of what is now the state of Washington would make, a story much too long for use here. Very briefly: , It was March, 1858. The Oregon part of the general Indian war to stop covered wagon immigration and destroy the whUe race, started in 1855, had been over for nearly two years, but the Wash ington part of it still raged, es pecially east of the Cascades: the. conspicuous leader being Chief Kamlakin ot the Yakimas. General Newman S. Clarke. Fort Vancouver, had newly been given command of this district for the regular army. He want ed action. Early in March, '58. eight companies of the 9th in fantry, regular army, came from San Francisco, In command of Col. George Wright, and he. was ordered, from headquarters at The Dalles, to make an end to the bloody business. S U He proceeded in direct and bloody ways. The place whero Lieut. Robert Ogden Tyler came into the picture prominently the picture which finished that war, is well told in "Early In dian Wars of Oregon" by Fran ces Fuller Victor; a rather of ficial book, published with the help of our state treasury, auth orized by our legislature. In the very last pages of that boos:, before the muster rolls, com mencing on page 4.1, under date ot Aug. 31, 1S58, one finds, quoting: "Wright encamped his com mand in the vicinity of Four Lakes (not far from the site of present Spokane) to give the troops a needed rest before bat tle. . . . Wright made, a recon noissance in that direction (of the four lakes) with a force con sisting ot two squadrons of dra goons, . . . four companies of artillery, armed with rifle mus kets ... the rifles battalion of two companies of the 9th In fantry commanded by Capt. F. T. Dent (brother of Mrs. U. S. Grant): one mountain hcwltzer, ... and the Nex Perce brigade, under Lieut. John Mullan. At the camp was left one company of artillery, a howitzer, and a guard of 54 men. ... Lieutenant Kip of the artillery. In his . . . "Army Life" has written . . . of the scene of . the battle of "Four Lakes." (Here are lengthy paragraphs from that book, emitted for brevity.) H S "Lieutenant White with the howitzer battery, supported by COMPANY A UNDER LIEUTEN ANT TYLER and the rifles, was sent to the right to drive them (the Indians) out of the woods. . . . A few discharges of the howitzer . . . soon dislodged the enemy and compelled them to VtnTm refuge on the hills. . . . Minie balls and long range ri fles were things with 7hich now for the first time they were to become acquainted. ... In a few minutes ... the fire became too heavy and the whole array (Indians) broke and fled toward the plain. . . . TYLER'S and Gaston's companies were there, burning for revenge, and soon they were on them. . . . The dragoons captured 800 horses (belonging to the Indians), the foot troops assisting in driving them to (Col.) Wright's camp 16 miles above Spokane falls," (No town there then.) All the 800 horses were killed, except such as could be made immediately useful. A plains In dian without a horse- is nearly helpless. On Oct. 9th, CoL Wright. summoned the last band (the Walla Walla Cayuses) to his camp. They came. Ho or dered the guard to hang four ot their warriors, as an example to the rest. Altogether, thit month, he hanged 16 Indian warriors as examples. He warnea all the rest that he would keep this 'up till they had enough. That ended the war to stop the covered wagons and destroy the white race. General Harney I the next year succeeded General Clarke, and opened the country to -settlement (it had been closed five years), and It hi been so open ever since. (Need will be found later to refer again to that war. In connection vith other men whose names are to or to he In this series.) V v-- In 1859 -Lieut. Tyler was sent to the Sioux country In Minne sota, and th opening of the Civil war found him garrisoned at Fort Columbia recruiting sta tion. New York. He accompanied the relief ex pedition to Fort Sumtjr, S. C, in April, 1861, then went to Baltimore to assist , in opening that city to federal forces. , In May he was transferred to the quartermaster's department and opened a supply depot at Alex andria, Va. S "W . September; found him eolonel Tjna NtH uata wnl Now Showing Lb EQTDjI They'll Do It Every uhSip WimBt &m OUST ABOUTaST &B"lrC SSKS? -VS2S',02 fSu: W -though, i 5gg: I Mr oSenrT . f AbP SORTED VUHEN HE M HE DOESN'T W JJ ? J,. P.T t mmh.-VvhatsThi, ) starts pwing- J ( "to read all MAJU HAS VbMESS SWEETIE "I rrUKEACUB THE POST AGO.HESUl. I ALEEADMBEEM ) f ONCv &END& HM Ft &EARGOHG- ) V CARDS. J HOPlMG-TD I SORTED! J I POSTCAEDS NOW- THROUGH A J 5s--- FWOA . ' jl CtttK. IHim. t JOHM L.OAVIPSON - NEW NOfctCl of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Ar tillery. The -v following spring ('62) he was in the Peninsular canfpaign. He prepared the bat tery to bombard Yorktown. The Confederates withdrew; there was no engagement; the bat teries moved for an attack on Richmond, which never occurred. At Gaines's Mill June 27, '62, his batteries did good work in assisting the federals north - of the Chickahominy. In the re treat to Malvern Hill, Tyler brought off all his guns but one and used them in repulsing the Confederate attack on July 1. Thus he earned the rank of bri gadier general of volunteers, dat ing from Nov. 29, '62. His bat teries fired on Fredericksburg. In the Gettysburg campaign, Tyler had the artillery reserve of 130 guns, used under the di rection ot Gen. Henry J. Hunt, chief of artillery, who disposed of these guns to a maximum advantage, especially in stopping Pickett's charging infantry. In 1864 Tyler's artillery serv ed as infantry throughout the Wilderness campaign. Its dis position at Spottsylvania May 17-24 drove back the Confederate forces under General Richard Ewell. (Continued tomorrow) Ten Years Ago November 16, 1028 Members of state textbooks commission will meet here Mon day to select one third of the text books to be used in public schools of Oregon the next two years. i Congressman W. C. H a w 1 e y spoke before Prof. Lockenour's class in American government at Willamette university Thursday and later addressed the students at the chapel hour. Fift Aso een Tears November 10, 1923 Sounty Judges and the county commissioners ot Oregon will meet in Salem January 4 to 6 ac cording to Judge H. H. Cross, president. TJ. G. Boyer, county clerk for Marion county, will go to Portland today to attend the state meeting of county clerks which is In ses sion there. The Call Board STATE Today "Little Miss Broad way' with Shirley Temple and "Love Takes a Flight" with Bruce Cabot and Be atrice Roberts. Also Mick ey Mouse cartoon. Thursday Joel McCrea, Bob Barns and Frances Dee in "Wells Fargo." Saturday ; Midnight show, Robert Taylor in "The Crowd Roara." GltAXD Today Loretta Young, Ty rone Power and Annabella in "Suex." Saturday "Girl's School." with Ann Shirley, Ralph" Bellemy and Nan Grey. HOLLYWOOD Today F a m i 1 y night "Yon and Me" with Sylvia Sidney and George Raft. Friday Two features Hop along Cassidy in "Bar 20 Justice" with William Boyd and "Love Is a Headache" with Fanchot Tone, Mick ey Rooney and Gladys George. ELS1XORE Today "Men With Wings' with Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland and Louise Camp bell. Technicolor. Thursday "The Mad Miss Manton" with Barbara Stan wick and Henry Fon da and "I Stand Accused" with Robert Cummlngs and Helen Mack. CAPITOL Today 'Frankensteln and "Dracula- with Boris : Karloff, plus "Attic ot Ter- ror."- . Added: News, Popular Selena and Cartoon 5 Time Radio Programs XSLM WEDNESDAY 1370 Xc. 7:30 K. 7:45 Tim o'Dy. 8:00 Morning Meditation. 8:15 Hit and ncores. 8:42 New. :00 Paitor'i C1L 9 :15 Friendly Circle. 0:45 Prof. Thompson. 10:00 Hawtiim Paradiie. J O.l 5 Xwa. 10:80 Piano Qui. 10:43 Voice of Experience. 11:00 Hometown. 11:15 Organalities. 11:0 Willamette Uaiveriity Chapel. 11:43 Value Parade. 12:15 New. 12:30 Hillbilly Serenade. 12 :35 Voice ot the farm. 1:00 AU Tear Club. 1 15 Midatream. 1:30 PTA Piogram. 1:45 The Hatterfieldf. 2:15 The Johnson Family. 2:H0 Nation School ot Air. 3 :00 Feminine Fancies. 3:45 Gus Lozaro Ensemble. 4:00 Fulton Lewis, jr. 4:15 National Book Week Talk. 4:3 J It' Box Office. 5:00 College .t Music. 5:30 Johnny Lawrence Club. 5:45 Dinner Hour Melodies. 6:45 Tonight's Headlines. 7:00 Waits Timj. 7:30 Lone Ranger. 8 :00 News. 8:15 Masters ot the Bates 8: 30 Dick Jurgens Orchestra 9:C0 Newspaper ot the Air., 9:15 Fun in Your Kitchen. Mao Crystal Oardens Ballroom. 10.00 Sbep Fields Orchestra. 10:30 Chuck Foster' Orchestra. 11:00 Jack McLean' Orchestra. KEX WEDNESDAY 1110 Kc. 6:30 Musical Clock. 7:00 Family Altar Hour. 7 :30 Financial SerTice. 7-45 Bradley's Varieties. 2:50 Musical Interlude. 7:55 Market Quotations. 8:00 Dr. Brock. 8:30 Story of the Month. 8:45 Originalities. 9:00 Alice Cornett. 9:15 Radio Show Window. 9 :0 Farm and Home. 10:15 Agriculture Today. 10:30 News. 10:45 Home Institute. 11:00 Nature Trail. 11:15 Music by Cugat. 11:30 Walts Favorites. 12 :00 Dept. Agriculture. 12:15 Orchestra. 12 :30 New. 12:45 Mariet Reports. 12:5C Quiet Hour. 1:15 Club Matinee. 2:00 Affair ot Anthony. 2:15 Financial k Grain. 2:20 Fran Allison. 2 :Z0 Musical Interlude. 2:35 Your Navy. 2 45 High School Football. 5:00 Shield Revue. 5:15 Sons of the Lone Star. 3: JO Swartout' Music. 6:00 Now and Then. 6:30 Festival of Music. 6:45 Sport Column. 7:00 Sports Parade. 800 News. f:15 Orchestra. 8:30 Design for Music. 9:00 Orchestra. 9:30 Wrestling Matches. 10 :00 Orchestra. 10:30 The War.derer. 10 :4 j Orchestra. 11:00 J'ews. 11:15 Charle Runyan. . SOW WEDNESD AT 6 2 0 Kc 7:00 Paul Page. Singer. 7:15 Trail Blazers. 7:45 News. 8 03 Ted White. 8 : 15 Viennese Ensemble. 8:30 Stars ot Today. 9:00 Ray Towers. 9:15 The O'Neills. 9:30 Tens and Tim. 9.45 Dorothy CrtndaU. 1:15 Words and Music 10:30 Dangeroes Roads. 10:45 Dr. Kate. 11:00 Betty and Bob. 11:15 Arnold Grimm' Daughter. VfV svfl smniEusns WHITNIT ftOUCNi; -Pins Feature No. 2 'I Stand Accused" . with. Robert Camming Helea Mack HURRY! TACT O . "MEN All FRED BlacMURRAT -VAX KAT MLLLANT) LOUISE C43IPBELL 11 By Jimmy Hatlo 11: JO Valiant Lady. llS--Betty Ciocker. 12 :C0 Story of Mary Marlia. 13:15 Ma Perkins. 12:30 Pepper Yoong' Family. 12:45 The Guiding Light. 1 :0C Backstage Wife. 1:15 Stella Dallas. 1:30 Singin' Sam. 1 45 Girl Alane. 3:00 Houseboat Hannah. 2:30 Hollywood News. 8:00 News. S:15 Candid Lady. I.?0 Woman' Magazine. 4:00 Easy Ace. 4:15 Mr. Keen. 4:30 Orchestra. 4:43 Musical Interlude. 5:00 Stars of Today. 5:30 Hobby Lobby. 3:00 Paul Carson. 6:30 Martin's Music. 6-45 Variety Parade. 7:0 Kay Kyser' Music. 8:00 Amos 'n' Andy. 8:15 Edwin C. Hill. 8:30 Orchestra. 9:00 Town Hall Tonight. 10:00 News Flashes. 10 15 Gentlemen Preferred. 10 .30 Orchestra. KOAC WEDNESDAY 550 Kc. 9 :03 Homemakers' Hour. 10:15 Story Hour for Adults. 10:55 Today 'a News. 11;00 Our Neighbor. Mexico. 11:15 Olden Times in Oregon. 11 30 School of Music. 12:00 News. 12:1C Safety Talk. 12:C0 Market. Crop Reports. 1:15 Variety. 2:00 AAUW Study Club. 3:15- Know Tonr Town. 3:45 Monitor Views the New. 4:00 Symphonic Half Hour. - 4:30 Stories for Boys and Girls. 5:00 -On the Campuses. 5:43 Vespeis. 6:15 News. 6:30 Agriculture Viewed by Edjtor. 6:45 Market, Crop Reports. T :C0 Farm Cropa Dept. 7 :45 Consumers' Forum. 8:13 Music of Czechoslovakia. 8:30 Pacific College. . KOIN WEDNESDAY 940 Xe. 6:S0 Market Reports.' 6:35 KOIN Klock. 8 :00 News. 8:15 Hillbilly Champions. 8:30 This and That. 9:15 Her Honor, Nancy Jame. 9:30 Romance of Helea Trent. 9:45 Our Gal Sunday. f 10:00 The Goldbergs. 10-15 Life Can Be Beautiful. 10:35 Mid-morning Melodies. 10:45 Womea in the News. 11:00 Big Sister. 11:15 AunV Jenny. 11:30 School of the Air. 12:00 News. 12:15 Home Service New. 12:30 Scattergcod Baine. 12:45 Fletcher Wiley. 1:00 Pretty Kitty Kelly. 1:15 Myrt and Marge. 1:30 Hilltop House. 1:45 Hello Again. 2:'i0 March of Game. 2:15 So Yon Want Te Be. 2:30 News. 2:35 Castilliana. 8:00 Red .Cross Program. 3:05 Johnny Herfori. 3:15 Newspaper ef the Air. 4:15 Backgrounding the News. 4:S0 Hollywood and Vine. 5:15 Howie Wing. 5:00 Tea for Two. 5:30 Rainbow' End. 6:00 Leon F. Drew. 6:30 8'ar Theatre. 7 .30 Ask-It-BaskeU 8:00 Little Show. 8:15 Lnm and Abner. 8:"0 Paul Whiteman. 9:C0 Gang Buster. 9:80 Orchestra. 10:C0 Five Star Final. 10:15 Let There Be Music. 10-43 Orchestra. STARTS THURS. 2 HITS The Gcsh-darndest . . . Grandest mix up of mystery ... fun ... and ro mance since thfe THIN MAN"! flRBftRfl sTflnuivnr HEIUW FOnDfl 1 1 1 A ftADO WITH WINGS" in Color with Sage of Salem eculates ; a By D. H. The last fly of summer sits Ign on his nail. Perhaps thinking ot r the sea son just closed. The things that transpired . when due without fail, And the many more things that were only supposed. Perhaps he has thoughts, with a little fly sigh, Of swatters evaded, by skill or by chance. Of friends that huve gone the ,. long trail to bye-byx, Of a- heaven of Laid beads on which to dance. Intelligent insect, this fly on the nail, I'm ' sure he knows Einstein as well as' best f.en, He knows that by fate he is held without bail, And life's but a buss from the now to the then. A possible improvement in the last line of the abore U suggest ed by an acquaintance, whose literart Judgment, I hope, is bet ter than his manners, he being an orer the shoulde.- reader. Howerer, here is his, line, and the reader may use e her, or both, as he may wish--- "And life's but a buzz and a bite now and then." Current news . weeklies at the theatres show details ol the ded ication at Ardmere, Okla., of the Will Rogers memorial building. An immense crowd in attend ance, including Mrs. Rogers. Mary, Jim and his wife and Bill. A life-size portrait of Will, de clared by the official announcer for the occasion to have 'never met a person he did not like, which statement is too broad to be entirely convincing. It stands to ordinary reason, f. think, that Will Rogers disliked many peo ple, or at any rate certain of the qualities of such people. More accurately it may be said that the people whom he disliked liked the way he disliked them. Aren't hat pins in vogue any more? It has been a long time since I have seen in the news a mention of a gentleman being stabbed by a lady with a hat pin, and it used to be ot frequent occurence. All sorts -of "experts" are necessary to the making of a world. A few days ago I was limping slightly because of a sore toe. My limp Interested a stranger. He stated that he had made a study of limps, and he would tell me which one of my toes was sore if I would bet him a dollar he was unable to do so. I did not bet. but I volunteered to give him a cup ot coffee if he would name the toe. He agreed and named a toe. It was not the toe that was at fault that he named, but I paid for his coffee. It was worth a nickel just to see a man show off in that way. As a matter of fact, my limp was caused by wrinkled hosiery. I met up with an oldish gen tleman at the - corner of Com mercial and Ferry streets one day last week. He was looking longingly at the parade ot autps, : PLUff- 3rd Blood-Chilling Show "Attic of Terror" . With ' FLOYD GIBBONS HORROR I SHOW!! 1 V TKi 2 SuptfwShoclefi y . of ffr CnTUryl y f7 WHILE HIS VICTIMS AND 1 SLEEP! , . v rmsassr f XrmmU . . rraat aeute ( tt afk affa M - lai atlaaalallai f at fen ii . i a-- TALMADGE north-bound and south, bound, fairly continuous on that cor ner, and he said In reply to a bit of questioning that he aimed to get a ride to Eigene. He would walk and think - othing of it, only bis old leg wound was fussing. "War?" I asked. "Yeah," he replied, "Bunker Hill." Then we both tittered an odd sort of titter that suggested two old and rusty saws engaged in separating some difficult sub stance from itself. . A Joke in passing, even though it be a very poor one. Is better than no joke at all. Some individuals have the -art highly developed of telling an inquisitive Individual to mind his own business, without being offensive. "Suez," film showing at the Grand theatre since Saturday, id a vivid story of the difficulties overcome by a young French no bleman, Ferdinand de esseps at that tremendous ditch, the Suez canal. "Suez" is an excellently well done picture, meaning, in this instance, that it gives a more comprehensive knowledge of the gigantic proportions of the enterprise, as well, as the situation in Europe during th troubled reign ot Louis Napoleon and his queen, Eugenia, than one might get from weeks of desul tory reading. Desultory reading, by the way, is the kind most of us de when we read history. Lo retta Young is acceptable as tht Empress Eugenie, featuring of course the well . known hat. which has been imitate.!, off and on, ever since by stylish women all over the world. Tyrone Power is somewhat more than acceptable in the role of De Les seps, that being the sort of char acter he portrays best, as ex emplified in the "Lloyds of Lon don" picture. Annabella, as the harumscarum granddaughter of a French sergeant of infantry, does what appears to me an ex ceptionally perfect bit of work one of those difficult blending.? of character in which the tragic and the humorous are very close to each other, and, I judge, not easy of portrayal. Ferdinand de Lesseps dreamed great dreams. The Suez canal was the first of them. And it came true only after he had lost everything in life that was dear to him. A Jewish prime min ister of England, Benjamin Dis raeli, encouraged by a far-seeing queen, Victoria, made the Suez canal a reality. I recall some what dimly that de Lesseps later attempted to put through anoth er dreamy the cutting of a ca nal across the Isthmus of Pan ama. The attempt failed mis erably. The Panama canal be came a reality through the ef forts of Theodore Roosevelt. Dreamers hare done much for the world, but a few of them have only saddened by their ex perience. . t Arlak his iU f Uvtars; J4 ! mm if S.1 I ing thus: "Attaboy. Ataturk.'' --