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"No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Sfiall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 Charles A. Sprague - - Editor and Publisher Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS 11-25-18 They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. " Charles A. Sprague, Pres. - - - Sheldon F, Sackett, Secy. Member of the- Associated Press Tha Associated Press ta exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwla credited in this paper. - Roll of honor grows: men who learned here and eared the Union for America, democracy for world: (Continuing from yesterday:) From 1841 to 1854, Ripley com manded the armory at Spring field, Mass. In '54 he vas transferred to the arsenal at ClaSS War and New Deal I Watertown Mass., raised to a Karl Marx rave the world the idea of Class Wawnd T E1 Franklin D. Roosevelt has given America the reality," writes to California a, chief of ordi- Lawrence Dennis in the American Mercury for December, nance, of the Pacific Department, The article auotes the Au crust Gallup poll to show a distinct and in 1857 was made inspector .cleavage between economic classes in their political views. It "eTom thMa ? aTffi 1 "j 1 NO, WE havent presto FAT-REDUCER., BUT VE HANE SOMETHING- MUCH BETTER.. NON THIS HERE l& GUAOAWTEED "TO HAX A HIPPOPOTAMUS LOOK. Like a gazelle im six "tfeEATMEMTS .SrtMJ. iVJRAPlTUP? tit cgraphy. ) " When the Civil war opened he was on a special mission to the Orient. He hurried home, and. April 23, 1861, was appointed army, with rank of colonel, and, the following August, brigadier gen eral. He bad. the essential task Of supplying the army with arms and ammunition. He -re tired Sept. 15, 1863, tut con tinued to . serve as inspector of armaments till 1869; was In '65 brevetted major general for long and faithful services. He had served his country over 55 years, in four wars. He showed Roosevelt extremely popular with groups on relief or " somewhat close to the relief line, and almost as markedly un popular with groups who had no idea of ever being on relief. The writer assumes that the Class War will go on maei- initelv even thouirh Roosevelt may lose his grip on the "have not" voters, a development he considers distinctly possible. He cnlef of 'ordIulllVe of tnJ concludes that it will develop into a real menace to aemocra cy unless the "have not" vote, or a commanding fraction of it, can be cantured bv a conservative leadership, as in England where conservatives advocated the dole. He considers this less probable in the United States. - What the writer neglects . to discuss is whether there is actually any basis for a class struggle in America. If there is, if there exists a real conflict of interest between the "haves" and "have nots." there is no sense in the "haves" attempting to carrv on the battle: the "have nots" are more numerous and it is only a question of time until they find out where died at Hartford, Corrn their interests he and storm that obiective Wltn Victory inev- -- - i table. - But the new deal for nearly six years has been pursuing what its strategists considered that obiective and the "have nots" are no better off than thev were. When the "haves" are permitted to prosper, the "have nots" are at least comfortable 1 -ill 11 1 1 1 1 1 J 1L. il, ana some ox mem are aoie to pusn aneaa anu juiu uie naves. Conversely when the "have nots" attain reasonable economi comfort, their buying power is of considerable benefit to the prosperity of the "haves." Therefore if, as it seems, the Class War is based on an economic fallacy, it will end when that truth is realized by all parties or a majority. Some progress toward such a realization may be observed in the results of the November election, which apparently occurred after the Mercury article was written. Furthermore as William Allen White pointed out in an article quoted in this column recently, the "great middle class which in each of its individuals is both capital and labor, holds the balance of power in this country. In 1934 and 1936 its weight was thrown sympathetically on the side of the "have nots" but its favor was recaptured by the "haves" in 1938. Two circumstances contributed to this result. The "haves" had apparently learned their lesson in the virtue of moderation and the middle class had apparently concluded that the Class War was a fallacv and the goals of the "have nots" were chimerical. m l.'CJAA'.m rn. il mWX, lOFZi TTTZ-fcH FRIEND. El J?m zzzcd&mjan, t jj getting- a sj&ur ff XS WELL,NOWtEALL 1DOMTKNOW. souee.Tmbusiwg IT FUKA FRIEND. NE& HA-HA A VERY ' TSEAI2. FRIEND. -If B Frrls for. a FRIEND X DONT yiANTtBECM ANN fcfciDGCVNHEM THBTvOOP'EM PEDOElbWAJJC Aoaaastr. 1 KEAUM UK&tD BUS ISACVWDG CDCWTAlUFOe. THEFSlENOV0 TDlO her she VMS BEfilMMlN tO LOOK tVXOOHCi. TEOPLEiM ttZO&ST&RESl ARE so &&-HEA1ZTEM 60METHM& OUT of The big- bertha who ISMAWKKx AUTTlE PUR CHASE "FOB. A FRIEND." "Wix To U. CtkiLAi - las tuin Winfield Scott Hancock is ac corded the number 99 on this illustrious and lengthening roll of honor. Born at Montgomery Square, Pa., Feb. 14, 1824, he lived till Feb. 9, 1886. He was in the 1844 West Point gradu ating class; went to the 6th In fantry, was two years in Texas, then with General Scott's army. Mexican war. He was brevetted for gallan try at Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Cbapultepec. He was in the Seminole war, Flori da, then border wars of Kan sas, with Harney s L tah expedi tion, and in quartermasters' du ties ON THE PACIFIC COAST. s s In the Civil war, McClellan made him brigadier general of volunteers, Sept. 23, 1861; his brigade made up of men of the 49 th Pennsylvania, 43d New York, 5th Wisconsin and 9th Maine regiments. He early trained them for field duty, and they were In the actions-of Crampton's Pass, South Moun tains and Antietam. They became the 1st Division of the 2nd Army Corps, and Hancock was raised to major general (volunteers) Nov. 29, 1862. He helped win the day at Chancellorsville. Hancock's division of the 2nd earned ever lasting fame and he the honor of being one of the great soldiers of the Civil war. S V He virtually selected the field for the battle of Gettysburg dissuaded Lee from attacking at once by similating a strong position on a broad front. The second day. (July 2), Hanc-cl commanded the left wing, which thwarted Lee's all but success ful attempt to turn the federal army's flank. It was Hancock's corps which, the third and last day, repulsed the Confederate army's desperate thrust at the Union center. There General Cost of Democracy - The statehouse reporters figured out that the general election cost $300,000. That included only the cost of conduct ing the election and the sum total of all statements of cam paign expenditures by candidates, their backers and the pro ponents or opponents of measures. It did not include, any fig ures on strictly county or city elections, the cost of which can not be estimated with any accuracy. Neither did it include the various costs connected with the primary election last May, which presumably were about equal to those of the general election. Taking everything into consideration including the shoe leather or gasoline required to transport more than 350,000 voters to the polls, most of them twice, the independent cost to newspapers and press as sociauons oi collecting unoiiiciai returns, and tne voiumeer service of candidates' friends, it is extremely doubtful ifaDre- gon and its people got off with less than a million dollars as the total cost of electing officials in 1938. , Rather a sizeable bill. Now if we had a dictator, think how much less costly all this would be. The dictator would ap- Hancock received a wound which point his subordinates, all down the line including municipal never fully recovered officers, and that's all there would be to it. There would be no Hancock's troops were in the slofiva usuinn V,o rJiVtor. wnnlH Wilderness and Spottsylvania -make the laws and let the people know what they were in due course. No county courts, no city councils. It would be so much more economical and efficient. - . On second thought however, the economy is doubtful The people might not like what the dictator did, or he might suspect they didn't like it: so he would have to have a tre mendous bodyguard and a complicated system of spying on the people to stamp out any possible revolutionary plots. He would have to have a large. army of police, and if he planned to ride in a parade, enough plainclothes officers to search all the buildings along the route for firearms or bombs. Considering everything, it probably wouldn't be any less costly and it certainly wouldn't be so satisfactory to the ma jority of us. Guess we'll struggle along with democracy and all its faults for a while yet. ; As we have mentioned before, one great lack in the per sonality of Adolf Hitler is a sense of humor. Chamberlain's proposal to colonize German Jews in a f ormer German col ony and Mayor LaGuardia's arrangements for a Jewish police patrol to guard the lives and property of nazi officials in New York did not penetrate to his funny-bone, if any. Mussolini gets along better because he has one, even if the side of it that would permit him to laugh at himself may be slightly atro phied. ; v Blackfeet, in which he received his only serious wound. For the next eight years, in terrupted by returns to Taos and by buffalo hunts to supply meat At Bents' Fort, he trapped with Bridger's or Fitzpatriek's (or his own) parties, and many epic ad ventures date from this period In 183 6 he married an Arapahoe girl whom he called Alice, and they had a daughter, Adaline. In the spring of 1842, after the death of Alice, he took his & year old daughter to his old home in Missouri and provided well for her education. Returning from St. Louis he met John C. Fremont; served as guide to Fremon't first expedi tion, June 10 to Oct. 10, '42; returning to Taos near Feb. 6, 1843, he married Maria Josefa Jaramillo, sister of the wife of Governor Charles Bent. S V On Fremont's second expedi tion (1843-4), Kit shared the honors of guide with Thomas Fitzpatrick, while on the third, which left Bents' Fort August 26, 1845, his functions were un designated. In the California conquest, he bore an active, daring part, after the capture of Los Angeles, when he was appointed "lieutenant on special service" and ordered east with dispatches. Meeting Kear ney's column Oct. 6, 1846, near Sorocco, New Mexico, he was compelled to return as guide. He fought in the battle of Pasqual. On the third night after the disaster, with Lieut. Edward Beale and a Delaware Indian, he accomplished a desperate feat cr .wling through the Califor nians' lines to. bring succor to San Diego. (Continued tomorrow.) Radio Programs Alexander Kerensky, visiting in Oregon, says there is no difference between the fascist and the communist dictator ships. New evidence to support that view is now developing. Communism was based on taking things away from the "haves" and giving them to the "have nots." Fascism prom ised to protect the "haves" against this threat But now both take from the "haves" and keep what they take. The "have nots" are worse of f than before. v This column was slightly in error in stating that the milk control act had bee upheld by the state supreme court; as the news columns recorded, it was the milk grading act that was approved. The case involving the milk control act's con stitutionality has not yetbeendecided. . The publicity department of the New York world's fair announces that practically the entire United States fleet will visit the iair. It had better visit the San Francisco fair also, or well have a new national issue in 1940. Red Cross Scans Aid to Refugees WASHINGTON, Nor. 24-(-Chairman Norman Da via of the American Red Cross announced tonight that the League of -Red Cross Societies had decided to in quire into what emergency-assistance ; could ; be given European refugees. . ; r';. , ' The action was taken, at Paris today at a meeting t the execu tive committee of the league, Da vis said. . ' ; . . -' : - '' Davis, chairman of the board of governors of the league, said he had recommended the Jeague explore the- question of ' giving emergency assistance to "Jewish MMd othf.r kom&lesa relusees" ua-1 til an inter-governmental commit tee can work out a permanent solution. . ; The League of Red Cross Soci eties comprises the Red Cross or ganization of - II nations. Ex-Utffity Chief Harry Abell Dies NEW ORLEANS, Not. UHJtj Harry C Abell. 9, who until his retirement few years ago had been an officer In several large public utilities and holding com panies, .died, here today after a week's illness. . " He " had served for a time as vice president . of the Electric Power and Light corporation, af filiated with the Electric Bond and Share. . actions, and on the campaigns that led to Appomattox. He himself, Nov. 6, '64, was ordered to Washington and entered upon a period of recruiting. He be came a brigadier general of the regular army Aug. 12, '64, and major general July 26, '66. S In the Central Military de partment Le fought Indians, commanded the department of Louisiana, of Texas, of Dakota, and the Atlantic, the last named from Governor's Island, New York. He was the democratic nomi nee for president of the United States in 1880; defeated by James A. Garfield. S S This peculiarly distinguished roll of hoaor comes to the cen tury mark in assigning number 100 to Christopher ("Kit") C&r Bon. He was born in Morrison county, Kentucky, December 24, 1809, died May 23, 1868. His father's father fought in the Revolution, moved to Kentucky, then to Boone's Lick, district of Missouri. His father, while burning timber, was killed by a falling . limb. In 1825, his mother appren ticed him to a saddler, but the next year he ran away and Joined a Santa Fe expedition as "cavvy boy." (The cavvy boy of the American hunting and . trap ping days was the one who had charge of the horse herd.) S In the southwest, after sev eral shifts of occupation. Kit was engaged by Emlng Young (whose name Is written . large in Ore gon's early history) as one of bis party that left Taos in Aug ust, 1829, crossed the Mohave desert to California, and after trapping the San Joaquin and othe streams returned to Taos in 1831. This was his high school ; he came out a certified trapper and Indian fighter. In the fall of 1831. Kit Joined Thomas Fitzpatrick In a trap ping venture to the north, and in the spring of 1833, after win-, tering at Robldous's Fort, Unl tah. reached the trappers', camp at present Pocatello, Idaho, Just in time to Join In a Tight with Free Masonry Is Banned in Poland Property and Records Are Seized; Heavy Penalty Decreed on Strikes WARSAW, Not. 24-()-Got-ernment decrees today outlawed the once-powerful Polish organ ization of Scottish Rite Masons and provided life imprisonment or capital punishment for certain kinds of strikers. One order forbade general strikes and those which would harm the national defense and paralyze the transportation of foodstuffs from the country to towns. Several small strikes now In progress in Poland were not affected. All Free Masonry in Poland was banned. The only two Masonic or ganizations were the French rite, which was of lesser importance and had gradually disappeared, and the Scottish rite which was said to have had as many as 1500 members about 30 years ago. Masonic property was ordered confiscated for the benefit of charitable institutions. Masonic files were consigned to state archives on the condition, it was reported, that they not be opened within 50 years. Life imprisonment or capital punishment was provided for par ticipants in strikes harming na tional defense. Imprisonment up to five years was established as the penalty for persona taking part in general strikes or. those endangering food supplies. KSLM FXIDAT 1570 Xa. 7:30 Sew.. - 7 ;45 Time O' Dy. 8:00 Foursquare Church. 8:15 Salon Mclodiei. 8:30 Haven of Rtt. 8:45 Newt. :00 Paiior a CaU. 8:15 Friendly Circle. 9:4i Prof. Thompson, 10:00 Hawaiian ParadUe. 10:15 Newg. 10:50 Piane Quia. 10:45 Voice of Experience. 11:00 Home Town. 11:15 Statesman of tbe air, Maxine iiuren. 11 :30 O.-ganalities. 11:45 Value Parade. 12:35 News. 12 :30 Hillbilly Music. 12:35 Voice of the Farm. 1 '00 National Emergency Council. 1 :15 Midstream. 1:30 Girl Meets Boy. 1:45 The Hatterfields. 2:00 U. 8. Kavy. 2:15 Johnson Family. 2:30 House Party. 3:00 Feminine Fancies. 8:30 Dr. Van Wyck. 8.45 Salvation Army. 4:00 Fulton Lewis Jr. 4: IE News. 4:30 Dramas of Youth. 5:00 Sinfonietta. 5:S0 Johnny Lawrence. 5:45 Dinner Hour Melodies. 6:30 Hal Kemp's Orchestra. 6:45 Tonight's Headlines. 7:00 Curtain Time. 7:30 Hits and Encores. 7:45 Texaco Circle Service Boys. 8 :00 News. 8:15 Spice of Life. 8:80 Nation's Play House. 9 :00 Newspaper of the Air. 9:15-Fun in Your Kitchen. 9:30 Jan Garber's Orchestra. 10 .00 Chuek Foster's Orchestra. 10:30 Jose Manzeneres' Orchestra. 11:00 Shep Fields' Orchestra. 11:15 The Squires. KOW FEIDAT 20 Kc. 7:03 Story ef the Month. 7:15 Trail Blasara. 7:45 News. 6:05 Ted White. 8:15 Viennese Ensemble. 8:30 Stars of Today. 9:00 Music bv Cugat. 9:15 The O'Neills. 10:30 Dangerous Roads. 10:45 Dr. Kate. 11-00 Betty 4 Bob. 11:15 Arnold Orimm'a Daughter. 11:30 Valiant Lady. 11:45 Betty Crocker. 12:00 Story of Mary Martin. 12:15 Ma Perkins. 12:30 Pepper Young's Family. 12:45 The Guiding Light. 1:00 Baekstage Wife. 1:15 Stelia Dallas. 1:80 Vie Sad. 1:45 Girl Alone. 2:00 Houseboat Hannah. 2:15 Singin' Sam. 2:30 Hollywood Newa. 2:41 Johnny Johnston. 8:00 News. 8:15 Candid Lady. 8:30 Womrn's Magazine. 4.00 Stars of Today. 4:15 The Holdens. 4:80 Stars of Today. 4:45 Musical Interlude. 5:00 Criminal Case Historiea. 5:30 Army Band. 8:00 Government at Tour Service. 6:15 Talk, C T. Haas. 6:30 March of Time. 7 :00 Orchestra. 7:10 Uncle Esra. 7:45 Jimmy Fidler. 8:C0 Amos V Andy. 8.15 Orchestra. 8:30 Death Valley Days. 9:00 Circus. 9:30 Fireside Hour. 10:00 Newi Flashes. 10:15 Sports Graphic. 10 :&0 Orchestra. KEX FETDAY 1180 Ke. 6 ,0 Musical Clock. 7:15 Family Altar Hour. 7:80 Financial Srvice. 7:45 Sweethearts of the Air. 8:0C Dr. Brock. 8:30 Paul Page. 8 :45 Originalities. 9:00 Sonthernaires. 9:15 Pario Show Window. 9:30 Farm A Home. 10:15 Agriculture Today. Lightning Storm Noted, New York NEW YORK, Not. 2 l-iWith cold winds beating heavy flakes of now down into Manhattan's canyons. New York felt tore to night winter was here until -bang! ' About midnight thunder and lightning started a terrifying fire works equalled 1 locally only by violent summer thunderstorms. Tbe lightning continued for more than an hoar. I. m - . I Mrv smm espmmw W9r Tessssmseflssaemjm1 15c Any Time MICHAEL WHAICH IYHH IAftl s mi f V kt n mm m m m -"-vVHamiisBMBSsV Lm h-i 1 1 1 i I I d r m i i a i i Last Times Today The MARX BROS. in "ROOM SERVICE". Hit No. 2 "Storm Over Bengal Patric Knowles Starts Saturday - - . - Wp:? K 4 The Host b ' It ! "i V Lxcmng . 1 Star-IIatch Vf 3 4 321 of the Decade! - ?j3 ft I J f 1 ' I I ' , 7vV tmtaoM Masons i onus aar mu torn ski routs -starr num V a. aaiTeu utvsi rsestcriMLm rias Sad llit - . "Down in Arkansaw" Weaver Bros, and Elviry 1 10:30 News. 10:45 Home Institute. 11:00 Current Events. 11:15 Latin Americans. 11:30 Orchestra. i 12 :00 Dept. Agriculture. 12:15 Organ Concert. 12:25 Hints to Housewives. 12:30 News. 12:45 Market Reports? 12:500. M. Plummer. 1:05 Studio Party. 1:30 Club Matinee. 2:00 Affairs of Anthony. 2:15 Financial and Grain. 2:30 Landt Trio. 2-45 Curbstone Quia. 3:00 High School Football. 5:00 Swartout'a Music. 5:30 If I Had a Chance. :00 Aviation News. 6:10 On Wings of Melody. 7:30 Football Facts. 7 :45 News. 8:00 High School Football. 10:00 Orchestra. 10:30 Bradley's Varletiea. 10 : 35 Orchestra. 1 :C0 News. 11:15 Charles Runyan. - KOIN FSTDAY 940 Kc. 6:30 Market Reports. 6:35 KOIN K'ock. 8:00 News. 8:15 Deep River Boys. 8:30 This and That. 9:15 He. Honor, Nancy James. 9:30 Romance of Helen Trent. 9:45 Our Gal Sunday. 10:00 Tbe Go'dbergs 10:15 Life Can Be Beautiful. 10:30 Mid-Morning Melodies 11:00 Big Sister. 11:15 Real Stories. 11:&0 Hello Again. 12:00 News. 12:15 Singin' Sam. 12:30 Seattergood Baines. 12 :45 Fletcher Wiler. 1:00 Pretty Kitty Kelly. 1:15 Myrt and Marge. 1:30 Hilltop House. 1:45 Home Service News. 2:00- March of Games. 2:15 Men Behind the Stan. 2:30 Hello Again. 2 :45 WPA Band. S:00 Postal Oddities. 8:15 Newspaper of the Air. 4:15 Backgrounding the Kews 4:30 Fashion Chats. 4:45 Hollywood Scrapbook. 5:00 Roadmaster. 5:15 Hou Wing. 5:30 Jjeon F. Drews. 5:45 Preferred Program. 00 Hollywood Hotel. 7:00 Grand Central Station. 7:30 Mostly Musle. 8:00 Sports Glass. 8:15 Lum and Abner. 8:80 Burna and Allea. 9:00 First Nighter. 9:80 Jack Hale v. 10:00 Five Star Final. 10:15 Sophie Tneker. 10:45 Orchestra. 11:45 Black Chapel. , KOAC FWDAT 660 Ke. 9.03 Homemakers' Hour 10:15 Story Hoi.r for Adults 11:30 Mnsie of tha Mi.t.r. 12:00 News. 12:16 Agricultural News. ia:ao Market. Crop HeporU. 12:48 Pest Control. 1:15 Variety. 1:80 Stories for Boys and Girls 2:0f Club Women's Halt Hnr.' 2:45 Guard Yonr Health. 8.15 Know Your Town. 8:45 Monitor Views the News 4:00 Symphonie Half Hour. 4:30 Elementary Education. 5:00 On the Campuses. 5:45 Vesper. 6:15 News. ?:frrLcu,hIr Viewed by Editors. 6 :45 Market. Cron Rnnrt. 7:00 Food .Industries Dept! ":'5 Horticulture Dmt ?:J0 Musie of the Masters. 8:15 Business Honr. Finds Gas Tricky SCIO - "Bud" Martin w ... vereiy Durnea about the bodv at i nome near Bllven Don tr.t week, when gasoline exploded as ne was attempting to start a fife wun tne liquid. 2nd Feature MiT-BATTERING THRILLS ! With Jack Laden Also News, Cartooat and Serial, 7iasouoraon'i Trip to Mars, Continuous ,. -Performance t- r Sunday 2 to 11P.M. CHAtUI BUGGtlJ DOLOaiSI awdtfcs) wovWt yeaaeest tea Ska .WINfOAU S age o f Sal em Speculates By D. H. TALMADGE 8 II II" i r V v if On General Principles Be thankful. This week I've heard- It said There ain't much to be grate ful for. . And t'were better had they said Instead Thanks for less, when there is no 'ere. Be thankful. Ponde what might have been. Without its good seldom comes a day. Feel gratitude, this is what I mean 'Tis a right good feeling, any way. . One thing I am grateful, for that during the year so few peo ple have told me things for my "own good." It is not much fun to treat courteously a person who does not wish to be treated courteous ly, preferring a grievance, us ually fancied, but it is good discipline. Greens and Grandmothers I had two grandmothers, in accordance with the usual cus tom. Both were of the higher type of grandmother. But I sun- pose this was not specially out side the family. The Iowa grand mother was Inordinately fond of greens, particualrly of the dan delion variety. The New England grandmother did not like greens, those of the dandelion variety least of all. This created a sort of rift between them, as it nat urally would. The Iowa grandmother said that greens were very efficacious in preserving the youthful fig ure. The New England grand mother scoffed at the idea. She preserved her youthful figure by eating an apple, raw, every morn ing with her breakfast. Incldent- tuij, is my memory serves me, neither was highly successful in controlling adipoise, et fat, or plumpness, as one may wish to term it. ine matter finally settled aown to a longevity contest. The miaaie west grandmother liked the word longevity. It seemed in her ears as dandelion greens on ner tongue. The New England grandmother said if suited her wen enough to put the matter on a longevity basis, and we'd see what we would see. Years ronea on, but the subject of greens and anti-greens was kept alive by the grandmothers and the families. It ended in a Joke on both grandmothers. Each died in her 84 th year. And it was pretty much of a Question, too, which had beet retained her youthful fig-flgger. , I recall an incident somewhat in this connection that alw. ;-s caused a laugh a very small and discreet one, but still a laugh that occurred .one day when I was accomnanvlnr the New England grandmother on a shopping tour. One of the early type of slot weighing machines. These scales were not depend able at that stage of their exist ence. Grandmother, who at this time weighed somewhat in ore than 2 pounds The noveltv of the proposition intrigued her. She stepped onto the platform of the scale and put" a nickel in the slot. The needle begun its tour of the dial. Then, with an odd rattle rattle. It stODned balked refused to go a pound or a fraction of a pound higher. The scale recorded grandmoth er's weight as, 63 pounds. I did ! not carry the story to the rela tives in the middle west. But after we had reached a point some distance from the scale grandmother winked at me. "What do 'you think of that ;or youthful flgger?" she asked. And all the argument about greens didn't amount to nothin. I once had a pleasant talk with a foreigner in Portland. He did the talking, ' while I made believe I understood. He seemed a good sort of person, and I reck on what he said was not of a serious nature. Anyway, the sun rose as usual next morning. Suggested by H. W. L. I not some men who labor Bewail an unkind fate; Though they've learned an un kind fate, They've not learned to wait. Life is filled with sad mem ories. The last man who said to me 'let me take your pencil for a minute" hasn't returned it yet, and that was three years ago. Speculators Draw Brookhart's Fire PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 24.-i!p) -Grain and cotton market spec ulators today drew the fire of Smith W. Brookhart, ex-US sen ator from Iowa and champion of agriculture in the legislative halls. "The American farmer doesn't get cost of production for his pro ducts because his prices are fixed by a bunch of gamblers in the speculative market and he has no voice in the control of those mar- Kets, Brookhart. here for the closing session of the national grange convention, said. The Call Board ELSIXORE Today Double bill, "Room Service" with the Marx brothers ano Storm' Over Bengal" with Rich ard Cromwell and Ro chelle Hudson. Saturday Double bill, "The Sisters" with Bette Davis and Errol F 1 y n n, and "Down in Arkansas" with Weaver Bros, and Elviry. CAPITOL Today , Double bill, "Listen Darling" with Ju dy Garland and Freddie Bartholomew and "Want ed, by the Police" with Frankie Darro. STATE Today Warner Baxter, Mar J or ie Weaver and Pe ter Lorre in "I'll Give a Million" and Michael Whalen, Lynn Bari and Henry Armetta in "Speed to Burn." GRAND Today Shirley Tem ple in "Just Around the Corner." HOLLYWOOD Today The 'JDeed End Kids" In "Llttl Tough Guy." Friday Double bill, "Judge Hardy's Children" with Lewis Stone, Mickwy Roo ney and Ceceli. Parker and "Stage Coach Days" with Jack Laden and Eleanor Stewart. ' era a a i LAST TIMES TONIGHT 4UGttei2a ai?fliliag,f .with Judy Garland and Freddie Bartholomew Plus 2nd Hit Frankie Darro in Wanted by the Police" SATURDAY -Continuous 2 Till 11 P. - ONE DAY ONLY M. 4 Stage Performances