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" - Tfc. CTATESIIAIf, Salrin. Oressa, Ikszsdsj. trnrn!??,, Jaaaary .23, 1S33 . PAG2:rOU3 V p" J;. V. . it- y f ( - 1 .?ATo Favor Sways Us; Na FearShaUAwe'1.. .... . From First Statesmen, Marches. l5t v C- ; Shixdon F. jSACKEnr? t EdUorand 'itanagefl V Charles A, Sprsgus, Pres. - - Sheldon F Sackeii. Becy. -! .Member at the Associated free ' 1 V Tbe Assjetatetf Press to esrroatvety eetitled te the use tor pubHcu- Horn of all bwi alapstcbae credit to It er sn sthsnriss credited to ,. this paper. , , ' . . , " ,- r Lumber Fights for Health Th nnrthwpst'a lrw lnrJnstrv of lurnher lickinor WOUflds ,:' incurred in 1938 and preparing to renew the fight for better tK- business in the current year. The last 12 months were poor - ones for lumber. In the average, mills and camps operated at half time and prices were at cost or lower. - - ' Great injury was sustained to the industry by the de pressed export market. The continuing Japanese war on Chi na coupled with the almost total extinction of the market in England and her colonies, produced the smallest volume of offshore business in 30 years in the northwest. Only 280 mil lion feet of lipnber was exported, which is one-twentieth of the northwest's cut " The West Coast Lumbermen a association lost its stur Av fio-Vir tn nwantnro th British market, with the announce- ment of reciprocal trade agreements which will give only slight relief . Higher freight rates blocked some snipmenra to fliA mMWpt A a result other softwoods gained in use so the northwest's fir and pine tho natinn'a snftwnnd cut for !.? per cent in 1931. - . - tVij ittTnhor nfrtrrrer hnwffw. was not entirebr jdoomy. Imber held its own as a material used in the construction of In TTnlArl Sfatmt- Western Homes 1 --VfWpWW V JlCfl III UMe v-aa-a-ar m ew - w ' Foundation, a subsidiary of the West Coast Lumbermen s as-alafw-m ?m nraonftl work with retail distributors In -nrtrintr uion the latter . the use swiM m Un fichtinir California imUdinff restrictions on ' No. 3 lumber (which, now gluts the northwest market) pro poses to utilize this lumber in pre-cut rraming wnicn wiu command a good market. ' ... The lumber industry does not propose to take its prob Jenai lying down. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the s- Aifnn U TriHr fnmifri ftf bnilders tQ find-OUt just what r. deifications they want Jn ?c trade are considered as never before in wonancr out a saws program. The industry is extremely conscious that it caimot ; -expect profit for manufacturers slmnly by cutting down ' trees and sawing two-by--four. Mills which have proved prof f itable are primarily spedalty producers; makers of plywood, v-; tottery separators, broom handles, box shocks and kindred lines. ' The fight of the lumber industry for renewed economic )' health is the prime financial strurie of the Pacific north J; west. Half of the industrial pavrolltf this region denends on lumber and its by-products. No permanent and widespread prosperity can be expected in the northwest without marked i;' improvement in lumber prices and quantity of output. ; - . Pirfcing on Perkins j - , Miss Perkins may be.jfuilty of poor practical and polit ical judgment in refusing an immediate bearing on deporta- Hnh rf TTtmDriimM tin Ywr tfftmaa i Tint nne WOrthV Of impeachment Representative Thomas of New Jersey ought to know that 4i woman with Mba Perkins' cut of chin and perennial hat wouldn't change her mind. Like Mrs. McPher son; she has told her story nd can'be depended o sticking : Miss Perkins could have for (WtnrfiTiflp TtritfoxM hv a. -months ago. That hearing would have disclosed whether or not .Bridges was a communist. The bearing wouia nave re vealed whether Bridges or the communist .party, assuming be w momVior aAvevntnA nvpThnrvor at thtt government bv force. If the latter had not been of labor would have had ample reason to defer ner aeporca tioniecision until the United States supreme court passes on the Stecker case. In that appealed action, the court will de termine the debated question of whether or not mere mem bership in the communist party-is a basis for summary de portation of an alien from the United States. In choosing to defer the searing until the court acts. Miss Perkins has let the public believe she is shielding Brid- m mrtA mho hm nnf AftorrtA an eventual hearing. If .mem- . " bership in the party is not a t will continue. Sooner or later the Issue must be faced. Miss 'Perkins delay, nevertheless, is legally explainable and a discretionary choice permitted the secretary of labor. In nosense can it be construed as a high crime and misdemea ' 1 nor and worthy of the use of -the weapon of impeachment If " tit were an impeachable oversight, the blame would rest with the president, not his rabinet member. Mr. Roosevelt knows t : what Miss Perkins decision has been and unquestionably has approved it " Unemployment Art Surgery Success : A neat little legislative amendment to the Oregon jmem 7 ployment compensation act is now the law of the state and a certified copy is winging its airmail way back to Washing . ' i ton. Unless the pipeline information from the social security board has been wrong, the minor legislative surgery cures V the original act and gives federal officials opportunity to ' certify the Oregon act The $6,000,000 crisis for Oregon em ; pfoyers who would have been compelled to pay that much pay- roll tax in 1939 without off setting benefits for employes, is past. ' ; . - . AH the legislative amendment does is to say that insofar -, as unemployment benefits go the federal reference to a la bor dispute shall prevail, not the anti-picketing act passed T November 8, 1938. The senate committee on revision of laws wanted a clause In the amendment putting a "kingVex" on the picketing bill but Washington thought this was unwise so the house struck it out and the senate assented. Now that the furore, over unemployment compensation is over and unemployed workers can get their 16 checks with out reference to the anti-picketing act,' that much praised and greatly maligned statute can for the moment be forgotten by the public. Neither organized labor nor employers' groups want the legislature to touch it The legal higherups for AF of L and CIO say the courts wiU invalidate the act, section by section. Any legislative' action, they claim, would only jeo pardize labor's chance to give the measure a knockout wallop before the bar. .;,; i "f "f1 ; f L So to the courts and not the governor or the legislature goes the anti-picketing bffl. Because judges are less talkative than legislators and because there is no 40-day limit on their pay checks, the legal fight on the anti-picketing bill will be less dramatic and more drawn out than a legislative battle, . , AH parties to the controversy 'save the judges andthe barristers can temporarily rest from their labors. :-s '? A famed economist solemnly asserts in a current bulle tin : "if the figures are written in black ink, the enterprise is succeeding; if they are written in red, It is not succeeding." One doesn't need to buy a business service to learn that. , - "Hacket Buster Dewey estimates New York" City has ' lost mere than a million dollars in nickel subway fares taken ty a izlz cf creeled inspectors; Tb next place for ths cickle grabbers to operate will be on parking, meters. , "' " . 0aUjafaJafMU asW v: . ip comprised only 25 per cent of the last year compares TO do of lumber. The association. lumber. -The general needs of quieted the persistent demand rrrmnlf't ' exhaustive' hearing found the case, the secretary basis for deportation, the pres- Dito for-, : By R. J. HENDRICKS Memories of Crooked 1-2C-1S riaser eoantiT, namM . for chief; aarUas back . -to tbe batUe of the Ablquat (Coatlaalas from'' yecterdar) Joe Uitchell said he did not re member old Crooked Finger,. the chief vho"wM said to be barled la the shade of a fir tree; one that te now staadms at ths corner of the old place which father took as a squatter's claim. Under the Scotta Mills date line. The States man of last Friday had a aevs re port reading la part: : "The Albert Hettwer residence on Crooked Finger was burned to the ground Wednesday afternoon, (the 18th), whea the - woodshed earnest - fire, presumably . from blase John Hettwer, father of Al bert, had in a forge there. The fire spread to the honse bat loss was held to that and the wood shed by work of the Scotta Mills fire department. "The honse was only recently modernised. It was built years ago by Dr. J. H. Mintharn ancle of Herbert HooTer. W "The huge fir tree in the front yard, under which old timers here declare that Chief Crooked Fin ger was burled, was damaged somewhat in the Wednesday fire. Hettwer will rebuild. The loss. estimated at more than 11 5 Of, was not eovered by insurance, r W The house which burned erected by Dr. H. J. Mia thorn, uncle of Herbert Hoover. Dr. Mia thorn was superintendent of the United States Indian training school whea It was moved from Forest Grore to Salem, and was instrumental la baring the- more made, in order that the institu tion might hare more land, need ed tor .self support and for the setter training of pusus. Dr. Miathora was a founder and president of the Oregon Iad eomziany. which established -the prune industry here; which rial ted Highland addition to Salem, etc., etc Herbert: Hoorer, orphan. Ured la the Mtnthora home, at Forest Grore, on Crooked. FtngeH prairie, at the Indian school, to Salem, until he went to Stanford- unirersity, on . his way to becom-J Inr the world's leading nrmrag engineer, greatest almoner, -presH dent of tbe United States, -etc., etc The- Mlnthom home la Highland addition still stands, under other ownership and occupancy. S The body of Chief Crooked Fin ger of the Molalla tribe of Indians, Is supposed to hare been buried under the fir tree mentioned, a little way southeast of the Dr. Minthorn house, the Hettwer house, recently horned and to be rebuilt. It Is bettered, in the -Crooked Finger district, that two child ren of Chief Crooked Finger were also baried under the same fir tree. S V V Other prominent early residents of the Crooked Finger, section were the Matloeks. Dr. I I Row land, maintained, a country home there, near the .present Hettwer place, during the last years of his life. He had been the first elected Oregon superintendent of public instruction, superintendent of the Oregon asylum for the insane, as it was known then, prominent physician, etc The Crooked Finger district is, roughly, the section between the Ablq.ua and the Butte creaks, or rirers. The Abiq.ua Is the first main stream north of Silrer creek, on which is located Silrerton. and Butte creek next, The marker for the battle of the Abiqua, largely due to the deriltry of old Chief Crooked Finger, is near Butte creek, north, northeast of Silrer ton. Many new residents of Ore gon, and some old ones, among the readers of this column, would ao doubt be glad to hare the setting and the history of that battle. This accounts for what follows: The Bits for Breakfast column in the Issues of June 13 and 14, 1920, contained an article copied from a March, 1877, copy of The Statesman, siring an accurate-account of the battle of the Abiqua. The original article was writ ten by Ralph C. Geer, a leading pioneer of the famous 1847 im migration, tarorably known by practically all Oregonlans of his day. Mr. Geer was a county clerk and recorder of Marlon county and was prominent in many ways in the life of early day Oregon.. Geer was himself a participant. Learing out the words of intro duction la tbe article of 1877 and of Its, the main portion of It will appear, beginning: V "All old Oregonlans know that la the winter of 1847-8 a great many men were called east of the mountains to punish the Cayuses for, the murder of Dr. Whitman and family, and It becoming ap parent to the settlers, as well as Thinking About DEFENSE FROCK A LI as eniTned ty rmlTcs ts r?eciil ccaeera ef Ecp. Asrew J. llzr (left) (D.-Ey.), chzxaam CX tbe Casse ciliary af.!rs 9r".'".t, Ca. rtU la licy. Dew W ' Eart kOCi.U)T rtl!ra slT n,y aiT ffyTTnml:irti" Dancer Ut, and IZn, Qseagt Buharfchat Bavealed as a CarlstmarCra bride, tar of the start and aaees. is Buhmrbma, her haBet director, ia w naamea at satmund, X. T. 73m omnesr had been nnked rniHumicany wtth Docglaa Falrtanka, Jc, the screen actor. -THuaasar xrrs ' :4S Tim 0'JT. :00 Kanfatc MiUtiMS. S:15 B e'Ctoek CBppcs. S:45 Km. 4-taUc'l Cfl. S:1S VriaadlT CircU. t:45 Gotatmt 8ynM Bptakliig for xaiaaui jraxatrua. 10 .00 Hit b4 Imoni. 1S:1S Sm. 10:SO MoniBf MfcfiU. 10 :3 Optra t 11:00 Katioa's SehMl of tk Alt. 11:80 OrgulitiB. 11:45 Hoiirw Whitpm. 13 :00 VJu rarms. 13:15 Htm. 12 :X) Hillillr Seraaads. 1Z:4S QeoS BeUk mad Trslaia. 1 :0O latercMiBf gitti, 1:15 Miaitrvamu 1:0 Tw Keybtafaa. 1:45 Book a Wwt a :00 Brm4 Cclliaa. S:15oaasa 7aaUy. 3:80 Weber's Concert Orchestra, 1:45 Hage Ifanaco'i Orchestra, S0 reaaiaiae raaaea. StlO ' BaaHa Caaapaa. S(45 Boots Oraat at the Piaa. 4:O0 raltoa Levis, Jr. ?4:1S Uaaie Harria' Eollnreed Im 4:S aa e( Time. Mart OmU'i Orchestra, titQ Jenaay Law rente Ctah, S:45 Oiaaer Bear Kslodies. S:15 Shafter Parker. f :S--LeialasiTe BeaaSop SUtesmaa t tae Air. :45 Teaicht'a HeadliBea. I 7:00 rkaatom POot, , T:15 Walts Time. T:0 Oreea Heraet. 8 0 Krwa. :15 Doa't Tea Etliere It S: SO BUI Carlton's Orchestra. 8:45 Jiauay drier' Orchestra, 9:00 Kewspaper at the Air. t:15 6 lea Gray 'a Orchestra. t:I0 raawas ln Trials. 19 rail Harris1 Orchestra. 10 :S0 Ckiaaay Taato Orchestra. 11 .-0 Shea rieids' Oithaslia. 11:15 Jack HcLeaa's Orcheetra. MM. S.SO Market Operta. erSS XOIJf Klock. 8:00 Vewa 8:15 Ota Owhaaa. S:S This aaS That :IS Haaey Jaaiea. S:80 Besaaaea ef Hetea Treat. Ui Oar CW Saaaay. 10:00 The Oelaherra. 10: IS Ufa Caa Be BeaatixaL 11:00 Stf Bister. 11:15 Real Uia Storiee. 11:80 Scheel ef the Air. 11:00 News. If :1S Siaafa' Bsbl IS:S0 Beattergeea Baiaea. to Gorernor Abernethy. that there was danger of an Indian outbreak; the settlers formed or organised companies of what we called home guards, to be la readiness at a moment's warning to defend our wires and children and each other at all hazards. "In this neighborhood (the Waldo Hills) I was chosen captain of as brare a company of mer as erer mustered, and we met erery Saturday at Squire Dunbar's for drill. Other neighborhoods had their companies. Captain Allen Dary had a company of caralry on the Santism. Captain Dicky Millar had a company between the Abiqua and Butte creek, and. If I remember right. Uncle Sam Parker had a company near 8a-. lem. V "In February. 1848. we held oarselres ready at a moment s warning, for the signs were omin us." (Continued tomorrow.) Foreign Menaces Is Bride St -j- i 4i Vara Zortu Bietured vita her husband. Geom their New York home. The two 1:00 Pretty Kitty Kelly. 1:15 Mr rt aad iaarfa. liSO HiBte Hawse. 1 t4S 8Uaatothar. 1M CarreBt Qaestieaa. S Lti'i PreteaS. 1 :S HelU A (am. 8:00 Baaed.' Tae. 8 ao KevaaeaeT M th Air. 4:80 La W. Drevs. 4 :45 Tea for Tare. 5: five O'Ctack Plash. f:15 Hewie Wiagv i:30 Jee Peaaer. :O0 Kaior Bewea. "J T:00 Taaa Up Time. 7:44 Aseerieaa wawpetata. 8:00 Usiae Stwy. 8:X) Kae Sauth, Jeha Barry Btera, t:S0 I Waat a DiTaree. 10:O0 PIt Star Proa! 10:15 Niratcap Taraa, 10:80 Orchestra. 11:00 Orchestra. e e SZX TKUaSOAT 1180 Xa. S:SS Maalcal OtaeK. 7 :00 FanUly Altar Hear. 7:30 riasaciaJ Berries. T:45 Bretthcarta. 7:5 Itsrket Qaotations. S:0 Paal Pace. 8 :45 Chriatiaa Beirace. S :00 aealheraarrea. t:U Oserfa Griffea. S:80 Parm aaa Beeae. 10:15 Arrieeltere Toaay. 10:80 News. 10:45 Hoeae lasUtata. 11:00 School 8rBBaear. 11:45 Radio Keriew. 11:50 U(ht Opera. . IS : 00 Dept. Asmahara. 12 :lfi Uraaa laai Baaaaj 11 :25 HiaU to Heaeewtraa, 12:80 News. 18:45 Market Seporta. 18:50 Qaiet Hear, 1 !J0 Clab Matiaea. S:00 Orcheetra. 8:1S Piasadal aaa Grata. S:80 Laat Trie. 1:43 Careataae Qals. SO Opera flails. S:15 Patricia SUaMra. S:SS Newa. 8:80 Orchestra. 4:80 Orgac 4:15 Maaieal Ooatraata. 4:4 Oiahestra, 4:45 Orcheatra. 6 :00 latere tiag Meichhers. 5:10 Pre oa Barprisea. 5:45 Clele D'Axtray. :00 ArtatWa news. 4:10 Phithameaic C eat art. 4: SO Towa Meetias. 8:00 Haws. 8:15 Lt H. Orererj. 8:80 Nasaa It Game. 8:00 Friendly Kaifhbors. t:80 lea Hockey. 10:80 Orchestra. 11:00 Mews. 11:16 Paul Carsoa. , a e XQW THVaaDAT t X. 7:00 Story at Moata, 7:15 Trail Blasera, 7:44 Mews. 8:05 Ted White. 8:15 Jlnrietewa Gasetta, S:S State of Teaay. -J0 Jaa Bareiafa Wife. 0:15 The O'Moilla. 8:80 Teaa aad Tisa. 10 rf0 John's Other WUa, 10:15 Jast'Plaia BiU. 10:80 Daarereaa KHada. 1045 Dr. Kate. 11:00 Betty aad Be. 1U15- SraelS Sriaua'c DamfhUS, 11:80 VaUaat Lady. 11:45 Hymas of All Charchos, 1S:00 Story of Mary Marlia. 18:15 Ma Perkins. 12:80 Pepper Young's ramilj.' 18 :44 Oaidias Liht. lH) Baehstare WUa 1:11 Stella UalUs. 1:80 Vie -aad Bade. 1 :45 Obrt Alaaa. 2 :00 Heaeebeet Baaaah. 2 :1a Radio fteriew. 8:20 Oalliea Brothers. 3 :80 Orchestra. 2 :45 Johnnie Jehastca. 8:00 News. 8:15 Malcolm Clalra. 1:25 News. 8:80 W mat's ktaaasiaa. 4:00 Easy Aeee. 4:15 Mr. Keea. 4:80 Stars ef Today. 8:00 Kady Vallee Hoar. 6:00 Oeod Kewa el 1889. :00 Masie BalL 8:00 Amos 'a' Aaiy. 8:1k Bympheny Hear. 9 :15 Swingiag at the O. :80 Orchestra. ia-oo Nwa Plaahea. 10:15 Gentlraea Preferred. 10:80 Orchestra. " xoao iHuatoAT 6e Xa, f 9:08 HoaiesaakerB Hoar. 0:00 Xeichbor Remold a. 10:15 Story Hear for Adalta. 10:54 Today 'e Mews. 110 ehoTthaad ceatsrt. ll:80 Masie at the JtaataTS, ' :.i 18:00 Kewa - -- ; ' . ArricaHaraUewa. - ,5 18 :0 Market, Crop Bases la, V l:la variety. . 8:00 Hotae Oaidea Baas, i 2 :45-MJoard Toar Health. 8 :1S Cities at the World, 8:45 Monitor Views the Kewa. 4:00 Syphon 1 Bait Hoar. 4:80 Stories for Boys aad tHrl. 5:00 Oa Ud Calf si as. - o 4:45 Vespera.- s- J Wf,3t . 4:15 Kewa. . 0:1.3 Arriealtnra YWwe4 ay- ZdltoTs. 4:45 Market. Crop Boa acta. 7 rtO Animal Haahaadry Iep4, .' T:15 Bredrat Orsnfe. , . f :20 Xaighborhaai Jfewa. ' S :15 Oretaa Past, Praaeat, i j S:45 ' Pafestera ia Aetiea. ' "Covboy and Indian Game Fatal ' for Lad HATFIELD, Ky Jaa. 25-(V A 10-year-old cowboy7 went ; to the "last roundup today.vM Ldtirson Jf abry saccumbed to to- tan us developing from aa arrow woaad aaffered tea days ago walla playing JTCom boy aad Indlaa.!Li. . Defease Against Trrrorisatioa It la. a curio ua thins; that al though the American people spend a large fraction of their national income for pur poses of defease, there is almost no popular inter est ia defense problems- and a lamentable lack of knowledge. of them. A bOI was in troduced into Coa grass oa Wednesday which pro noses to add MO 9 airplanes to the Army. t ' Howerer, the statement by Gen eral Arnold, that wo only intend to operate 8,300 ef these planes, keeping the rest for training and reserres, must be taken into con sideration. Vost military experts beliere that 8,000 airplanes for opera tire purposes are ezcessire. Airplanes tctome obsolete; the serrtcing of. them is extremely expensire. end there Is always the danger that If we maintain too large a fcrce In time of peace a retreaeh rocnt Congress will get sick of the cost ani economise too radi cally. This is what happened In France. In the early 193v's the French builc up a huge air force; then-there were labor troubles, a demand for Increased focal serr ices and a resultant economy ware on Armaments; and sud denly France found herself la a rery had position indeed. For an lr force cannot be. built once and for all. It must go oa being built an the time. . The most important single Item ia defense is to hare a, de fease policy; te hare that policy co-ordinated politically and mili tarily, and to. hare a continuing program for. implementing it. Ia the matter of air defense the most important thing is to bare aufxielant planes to meet any immediate crisis sufficient! that is to say. for aa initial effort and an airplane industry- capable of rapid production and replacement. The great adrantago that the Germans enjoy in the air orer the British and the French, for instance, is not that they hare 10,000 planes eating their heada off on tae rarlous striatum fields; That is to aay, it ia not an adraatage to Germany, except for blackmail purposes or unless they amteud. to use them immediately. If they do not nsc them and use them soon their rast number will be a dlsadranUge, and that fact is known te military experts and giree other eountries the Jittera. But trom a long-range rtew- point, the great advantage which tae Germ ana enjoy la a keyed aad co-ordinated system of mass production v by which they can make new planes faster than aay -other European power. Therefore, in the matter of air defense, our greatest prcbtom m to see that the sir industry is given erery possible asshrUace ia preparaing for rapid aad efficient production. We need immediately to create a Joint selected committee from the Naval and Military Affairs Committee of ebota houses of Congress, supplemented perhaps by the most competent members of other committees dealing with appropriations, whose business it will be to go into the broad principles of national defense and the co-ordination of those prin ciples with our foreign policy. For, la the world as it Is to day, we cannot afford to: Indulge ia a foreign- policy that we are not prepared to back up with tore. If we do indulge in it, we eoa tribute immeasurably to the chaos iar the world, we diminish our own prestige aad we sub ject onrselree to foolish and aa-' necessary risks. Neither can we hare a military policy without a clear foreign policy. Our armed forces must know what it is they bar got to . defend .before they can plan efficiently. f.v Mr. Raymond Swing, in ' aa article published la "Ken" la September, said that oar real policy is to be prepare! to sar the British empire ia time of war. If it is, then -we need a defense program way beyond anything we hare yet contem Slaying Charge V...- M "v' . a ' Police in OJcago Ditened with stnsrrmrnt as Joseph. Borys, 62, he had slsia a araman with a hatcaet aad had -kept tat body ta Ida apartment for 3d hoars. .While the body sty oa a backroom bed, Borys and ids wife went about their regular routins a Banal - and delayed ' notifying police "so ws xxmld bars a quiet day." Borys declared. " Tmi alam woman waa Ifra Frances Plc trowakt, whom Borys accused of swindSnff aha out of aa apart"' mexir. Enuaznav oqos esrpressed aoaa doubts. as ta the. truth ogvi Tiorys cotfesslon derjfto VSm .;ajrfJbt body,. plated, and w had better under stand, that we can. exhaust la suck aa effort erea. the prodig ious resources of this country. I doa't think that, any such idea la ia the minds of ths Ameri can people, ' .... . J . 1 But erea a minimum defense policy would. It seems to me, in voire a great deal , more than the demands of the pacifist groups that" we prepare to protect our shore-from the invasion of hos tile troopa. - laternatlonal warfare today is carried on oy terror, und the air weapon ia the first instrument of terror! tation. No military expert believes that you can win a war with airplanes. Yoa can neither cap ture nor hold any posititns with airplanes. But you can coerce' peoples into' changing their political and diplomatic policies by the scare of bombardment. You can, with this care, force them to aban don . Important strategical posi tions which, they bold, ion can erea force them to change their domestic governments, to a ban doa civil . liberties, and .thus to disarm what will always be the basis 'Of civilian morale public opinion. Ia the last-six months we bare seen this happen in Eu rope. When Winston Churchill told America in a recent broad cast, "the stations ae closing down, the lights are going out," he frankly stated "I do aot know how long such liberties the lib erties of tree speech and of free opinion will be allowed." And It Is the fear of German air planes that is undermining Brit ish aad French liberties. a Since freedom is, shore all. what Americans prise aad, above all, what they are willing to de fend, it ought to be a funda mental of our policy that we will never allow possibly hostile pow ers to establlah air bases within striking distance- of our sboreav That ought to be a -permanent, continual and- undebatsMe item of our foreign and military poller. Against that eventuality we ought to keep a continually watchful eye. If there la even any threat of it happening we should. act. For to be. free lram the blackmail ' which has darkened the continent of Europe is the prime condition of our being free at all. Aad such a policy may carry as farther from our shores than we think at the moment It is not a xaattar of our immediate national lntareat whether, for in stance, Germany takes tbe Sude tealand and. by taking it makes the whole of Czechoslovakia into a German colony. But it is a matter of our na tional Interest whether Germany should take back the Germaaj territories of Denmark and make Denmark into a German colony. For Denmark controls the' Faroe Islands, owns certain po sitions la . Greenland aad exer cises control orer certain terri tories in Iceland. When Balbo ftew to America he came via this' route to Labrador. Newfoundland might be aa ex tremely exposed point, aad Major Elliott insists that wo ought to lease aa air base ia Newfound land aad be prepared to prevent towkeee dean; ears boors of tedious ..tbat farork foods tasts bet- -oae couldn't ask far Complete reports aow oa Os See the sew 1931 CtffFxK to'deauVa' boar. TtoSsna III Jl wUrk...taatorlbt foods taste bet- J i PJ I i tsrajhat "oas tualiut auk far saore JfmjjfS J Ceeteto reports aow co gls here, l''j : KTst Have Purchased a Large Shipment of . Westinghoiiie Refrigerators Ranges Water Heaters and Washers AU 1933 liodels y . TO BE SOLD AT GREATLY IlEDUCED F3ICES IT WILL PAT TOU TO DEAL WITH EXCLUSIVE ELECTRICAL SPECIALISTS . - - r - . 1 - tema.Ousi So. - r i n: bbsix. until febList J ! TbewTosi Wia Flad V m' zzs n;le22tt -it-xt to poTTistca by force, if necessary, any change la: the political status at Green land. '! -'4. The aamsh would hold trne, of course, of the Bermudas and other Caribbean sites. And the same of Mexico. - A foreign policy and a defense policy cannot be changed from administration to administration. It, takes four years to build a battleship, r A nation -cannot Implement a foreign policy, and then suddenly change its mind, except at great cost and with great rirk. Our defense policy should oe above party and should be rooted into a strong and wise public opinion. Congress can do much to make such a public opinion if it creates now a Joint committee to review the whole problem and etJIghten the American people regarding it. Out of such a committee might eventually grow a perma nent organisation like tbe Brit ish Committee of Imperial Defense. lO Years Ago January 26, 1029 C. A. Sprague, co-publisher of the Corvallis Gaxette Times, has acquired interest In the Statesman - 1 and will Join present publishers. Sheldon Sackett and Earl Brown- lee, here as manager on Febru ary 1. Dr. Vernon A. Douglas has been appointed assistant county physi cion under an order of tbe Marion county court handed down Friday. 8. R. Van Trump, for many years horticulturist for Marion county, baa been, reappointed by the county for another term. 20 Yearo Ago JaaauuT 2A, 101 As a part of a movement to care for returning soldiers who are without funds officials of Willam ette university announced yester day to take ia enlisted men from cantonments and nary without charging tuition. With the lifting of the influen sa baa tomorrow Salem will once , again resume Its normal business course. A business merger of interest is that of E. M. Crolsan, who for many years hss been doing bus iness in Salem as the Crolsan Realty Co., who has now trans ferred the whole of his real estate business to C W. Nlemeyer. Rod and Gunners Hold Yearly Feed AURORA The Aurora Rod and Gun club held its annual get together and feed Monday night with a large attendance, includ ing visitors from other ciubs. Officers are: President, Charles Euller; rice president, P. M.' Will; secretary, B. M. Cole. Guest 'speakers were State Game Commissioner Lock wood aad Captain Walter Lansing of the state police. Moving pictures of wild animat life were interest ing aad amusing. Saturday aight the Aurora firemen's balL which drew a large attendance, was held.