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cs.zz roia TU OSZGQU CTATE3MAN, Wen, Oreica. gssy llcrnfcr, 23, 1851, i'The Ring- Business" ! -."A Fam Sways Vt; No Fear Shall Am r From rim 8uttesmaa. March 11. 1IS1 ' jr -Sheldon Sackett - ' - Editor and Manager. THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING XX). V ' . j " Charles A. Spraf ue, Pm. - - Sheldon F. Sackett, Secy. Member of the Aasoctated Press ,. " Tha Aaaocixtrd Praaa Is exclusively otltM to iho um for publics, n ' ttoo of all Mwt aiapalrha) credited to II or not otbarwta credited la 'i ' x ttua pipir. You "Can't See" Television? ' ! From the purely mechanical standpoint, television has 5 arrived. Several companies have. perfected broadcasting and ' recdving equipment up to a fairly acceptable standard.. FVom the economic and social standpoint; television is in compar "able position to Bonneville dam. Nowhere in the-United j States is it operating: except on an experimental basis, and mountainous difficulties lie ahead. - ! 1 1 f Typical of the difficulties is that involving frequencies. I Nineteen channels have been reserved for television in the frequency range between 30,000 kilocycles and 300,000 kilo f cycles. Most of the receivers soon to be placed on the mar- ket are capable of receiving only the seven channels below t - - - . . ... i - A- V t 150,000 Kilocycles, some win been developed to receive any oi xne is cnanneu ui ius higher frequencies. And so far, one television channel re quires a frequency band width of 6000 kilocycles, which is S boo times greater inan xne requirement iur omnia jr wuuu broadcasting, and 5V& times greater than the entire radio 'broadcast band accommodating 800 radio stations. Obvious i ly, this will greatly limit the number of television broadcasts unless some refinements are possible, and while some tele ij vision engineers claim they are making progress in this 1 direction, it involves defiance of a fairly well accepted physical law. li ! The natural answer would be the establishment of a 1 few nationwide stations and the necessity for development f in this direction is enhanced by the financial problems. The federal communications commission television committee, F in a report gust released, asserts. that "cities of less than ' 100,000 population may have difficulty in supporting one : television 'station, and in cities of population less than 1,000,000 it may be difficult tions on a profitable basis if reliance for financial support must be placed upon advertising as the only source of in come." However, the committee reports that practical tele vision service on a nationwide scale is not likely to be pos sible soon; numerous technical, organizational and financial problems remain to be overcome. The most' difficult immediate problem involves stan- t dards which would enable each 1 television broadcast. It would ksuch standards and ; some, at least, of the companies inter jTested in television are urging, that this be done to facilitate ! commercial expansion of the industry. But in view of the . C certainty that further improvements will come rapidly, the i committee foresees a dilemma; either technical progress will be retarded so that these standards may be maintained for fia reasonable length of. time, or :i altered and all of the first sets il - TWrtitP ia twrmir! Trnoress that has been made, the (Obstacles appear all but insurmountable. Will they be over C come? Not in a year, nor entirely overcome in five years. The answer is. of course, eventually, yes. I In some foreign countries television has progressed more rapidly under government control. In "tight little" England the British Broadcasting corporation is already conducting Kiworltoefa An o wWAfofil Atvttlt 1 ruT fATlt ftf till A d population owns sets meaning possibly 4 per cent see the broadcasts tnore or ; less . regularly: Government" ownership i might expedite . progress here bmk tne united states nas ;j developed radio to a higher degree than other countries through private promotion, and would be loath to accept . . Corruption in Law Enforcement Evidences of conditions "shocking and almost beyond belief in the operation of the Washington state "patrol is alleged in a report just issued by a grand jury at Olympia. iThe report deals principally with the activities of William Cole, who resigned last January as chief of the patrol, and ;his alleged use of the police organization's equipment and .man-power, to feather his own nest. Cole has been indicted upon charges of grand larceny and misappropriation of state ! equipment and the labor of state employes to his own use. I . I Chief among the findings of the grand jury was that ja virtual parade of paddy wagons and state trucks for the ;past several years wended its way over highways from piym jpia to portions of eastern Washington and back to Cole's iranch, carrying sacks of wheat, livestock, loads of. potatoes land other products. Among other things carried to the former tchief s ranch were loads of pipe, cement, shingles, veneer and 1 other types of lumber for building purposes ..." , v l There was, the case of the transportation of a heavy bulldozer from Grand Coulee to the chiefs ranch without cost to him, in the guise of "an experiment in overloading on the highways." But the even darker implications of the .case are contained in the observation that these "Cole ranch caravans", would "usually follow close upon the culmination of labor and strike difficulties in various localities of the -.state." The jury concluded that it was Cole's habit to inter vene unwarrantedly in labor strife and then collect his toll r -I" Corruption in law enforcement agencies, as is charged ,in this case, is nothing new, though it has been rare in state wide agencies such as the Washington patrol If Oregon's experience has been happier, some measure of the credit of course belongs to the personnel of our state police,' and an other portion to the state officials who" selected their offi cials. But in the last analysis the people should pat themselves ; on the back J their refusal to fall for jitterbug politics such e as prevails in the state to the north is the. real explanation. Beyond that, there is no room here for smugness. There are plenty of communities in Oregon where law enforcement by the local agencies is far short of what it. should be and there again jitterbug politics may be found at the bottom of i the condition. . i , - - , Film Punches no Longer Pulled i m. ' h . ' - '' : - In recent years it has been the policy of Hollywood to ; offend no foreign country. Mexican . villains were "out;" royalty even though its nationality might be anonymous was never ridiculed, and only, the mildest of fun could be ' poked at the people of any land those people were all cus- tomers, for the sale of American' films had been interna- i tionalizedV : t "V-' :. j - : i - ., , ' . . .- t " Recently there has sprung up a tendency to reverse this policy with respect to the dictatorships. It so happens that the first picture of this type to reach Salem, "Confessions of i a Nazi Spy," is appearing this weekend in a local theatre. . v . The; story is based upon the disclosures following the arrest and during the trials of several German nazi spies in " United States last year. In true Hollywood fashion the facers proclaim the picture a warning to Americans of danger to this nation involved in such goings-on. Their is are hardly substantiated by the facts of this par 't spy episode. They claim further that this warninsr the purpose for which they braved nazi displeasure and t its and made the picture. The truth is that as, always, , ti.f7 h d box-office receipts t in mind. Its true purpose is ibeirs fulfilled; the picture is a box-office success. ; The real lesson of the picture is for Hollywood itself; ithat it can profit by, neglecting to !pull its punches" with -vx-respect to realities cf the world today, " A receive oiuy nve. rtu km mvc to operate two television sta receiving set to receive any be a simple matter to establish the standards will have to be rendered obsolete. By B. J. HKMUR1CK3 King Loals PUlipp S-2S-SI of Fr&ac car a lift ' to the St. Pant CatiuU church: Capt. Muxes story: .. (Concludins from yesterday:) The $22 for the coffin of the piiaelpei merchant of St. Louis T Does the young; reader think that was cheap? It was rather high, for the time. The great grandfather of this writer, buried near there In that period, rested In a coffin that coat $8. And he was a well to do physician. He llred at Wa eonda old Waconda ghost town that was killed by the railroad which passed; It up and farored Gerrals. Times haire changed. H S ... Gerrals largely took the place of St. Louis, too, though its CathoUc church, second in Ore gon in age, . still flourishes. The administrator of the es tate of Captain Henes of coarse was obliged to giro a Vmd. It was a '216,000 bond. The bonds men, quaUfylng for the amounts named, follow: F. E. Eldridge, 15000; James Cacey, $2000; A. C. Keen, $2, 000; Mathew McCormic, $3000; Andrew Lashapell, $4000; Geo. B. Miller, $800. Note that it was $800 to the good. "Andrew Lashapell" signed with a mark. That is the way the person who took his oath spelled the name. His real , name was Andre La Chapelle, and he came to the Oregon country in 1832, or before, in the employ of the Hudson's Bay company. U The adrertlsing that was done by the administrator of the es tate of Captain Menes furnishes some items of historic interest. The notice of appointment was published in the Capitol Chron icle, Salem, the $6 bill receipted by J. H. Upton, publisher, for the fire Insertions, beginning in number 25 and ending in num ber 29, volume 1. The receipt was dated March 23, 1868. The numbers show that paper was only 25 weeks old at the time of the advertisement's first insertion. The foreman of the paper, swearing to the inser tions, was John D. Yates. , The Chronicle became the historic Salem Mercury, of CoL ("Bud") Thompson. Upton, when he first arrived in Salem, worked in Barker's furniture factory, vhlch stood on the site of the Marion hotel. He next had a paper t Lafayette, then In Curry county; also was a lawyer, and a so cialist in politics. Went to Langlois. Curry county, and prospered. S W The notice of final settlement was in the Oregon Unionist, Sa lem, of S. A. Clarke, who re ceipted the $5 bill Sept. 4, 169. Henry Denlinger swore to it as foreman; a well known old time printer. The American Unionist pub lished the sale, notice, getting S1Z.Z5 for it; sworn to by H. T Levins, foreman, ' Nov. 10, 1868. The same paper got the citation to heirs notice, receiving $14; the receipt by Huntington & Co., per Bowman. w s s That was J. W. P. Hunting ton, whose wife was an Able gate. He was at one. time an owner of The Statesman. He was Oregon Indian commis sioner; died . in Salem. . and had the largest funeral turnout la history here, up to that time. . Rev. Bartholomew Delorme, wbo came from France with the party arriving in IS 4 7 as one of the two deacons soon became the cure (pastor) of the St. Louis Catholic church. and prominent in Oregon CathoUc affairs generally. He was the parish priest at SU Louis when, September 4, 1850, he attended. to the , burial of the body of the Dorlon Wom an In that church, and wrote the record in the old register, which has lately been taken to Portland for safer keeping. "In that church?" some one will ask. Tes, the burial was in (under the floor of) the chirch. It wUl be recalled that the record in the old - book was in French, .and for . that and sev eral other reasons It was' for a long time lost to history, and the object of wide and constant search. The marker in that church was dedicated Sunday. April 7, 1035. . . S v The papers In the jacket at the Marion county court house in the case of the Captain Menes estate settlement 'contain most of the well known early Canadian French names' connected 'with Oregon history. Some member of practically all the old famUles among our earliest settlers traded at the Captain Menes store, as shown by notes g 1 v e n for purchases and credit items on the books. W S . DeLoars traded there, des cendants of Francis DeLoar, one or the two men with Lewis and Clark who remained here .and settled, in 180S. Francis De Loar and his Indian wife erected the first house of a white man as far up as ' the suburbs of present Salem; a half mile north of the Bush farm headquarters house on Wallace prairie. Then the - Qervais . name ap pears; going back to 1812; back to the John Jacob Astor party. And so on through the Belliques. the Chamberlaines, Charlevona. Payettes, Ponraarfes, Tfresnals, Pichettes, Dupres, , Dubolses, An blchons, Areouettes, Bonafontes. Depots. Ducharmes. Gregolres, Ladtroots, La Plattes. 3agnons, Osants, -Vaadalles, Ue., etc. M.' G. Folsy, the first printer In Oregon after Hair, who brought the crude press t the Spalding mission : from; Hawaal, had become a settier nea.- ,45t. Lonla. marrying a widow there. Folsy was a good Menes cus tomer.' , - - Woald It not be a pity ft t' Marlon . ; coanty t eourt house burned down and destroyed such irreplaeable records, many thous ands of them? -'It would not eost a. rasr sum A O 4. -be?- saw smrsAT 2o z. 8 :00 8unrU Brognm. 8:80 Chicago &onnd Tabto. :00 IfDsie for Itodan. 10:00 Dinner at Aunt Fnnl't. 10:30 Start of Today. 11:00 8nnda7 Drirera. 11:80 Nan the Plac. 13 :00 Hansen Serenad. 11:80 A Ilea Jo. 13:45 Nawa. 1:00 Orrheatra 1:15 Radio Comments. 1:80 Otto Clara. S:00 Stars of Tomorrow. 8:80 8mca Wa Remamber. 3:45 Poeey PUylata. 8 :00 Prof eisor Paxilewit. S :30 Band Waton. 4:00 CharU McCarthy. S :00 If erry-Go-Roand. 8:80 Albam of Familiar Muic. 6:00 TTie Circle. 7:00 Walter Wiachell. -7:15 Irene Rich. 7:30 Jack Beany. S :00 Hollywood Playhouse. 8:30 One Han'a. Family. 9:00 Night Editor. : IS Grouch Oak. t :45 Orchestra. . 10:00 News Flashes. 10:15 Brides to Drramlani. 11 :00 Orchestra a XOXBT STKDAT 4 Xx. 8:00 West Coast Chorea. S:80 Salt Lake Tabernacle. 9:00 Chare of the Air. 10 :00 iemocracy in Aetioa. 10:30 Americana All 11:00 Columbia Symphoay. 13:00 Words Withont Musi. 13:30 8t. Lonia Braea. 1:00 The World Today. 1:30 Problem CUnie. :00 Silrer Theatre. 1:30 Gateway to Hollywood. 8:00 Old Songs of the Chorea. . S:S0 News. . 3:45 WiUiaa Wallace. 4:00 Dance Hoar. 5:00 Evening Hour. :00 Knickerbocker Theatre. 8:30 Leoa F. Drawn. 6:45 Capitol Opinions, 7 :00 Spelling Bee. :80 Orchestra. S:S0 Kowa ana Reviews. S : 4 5 Orchestra. t:00 Philharmonic Orchestra. 8:30 Orchestra. 10:00 fire Star Final. 10:15 Organ. 10:80 Temple Sqnar. 11 :00 Orchestra. 11:30 Prelude to Midnight. a a KEX SmrDAT 1 183 Xe. 7 :C0 Down Melody Lane. 7:80 Dr. Brock. 8:00 Jlniic Halt t:0O IJuiet Hour, f :S2 Orchestra. 3:45 Radio Tips. 10:00 Marie Key. 11:30 Feetrret of Muaie. 13 :0O National Vespers. . ' 12:30 Tapes try Musical. 1:00 Family Altar Hour. 1:30 Bookman's Notebook. 1:45 Ray Parkins. 2 :00 Watson, riot ism Jetsam. S: IS Singer. . . 8:30 Radio Oaild. 10 Vearo Ago May 28, 1929 Mrs. Mabel Walke Wllle brandt, the first woman to be appointed to a high gorernment office, is expected to retire, as an assistant attorney general. . Miss Anne Morrow, daughter of Ambassador and Mrs. DwUht Morrow, and CoL Charles Lind bergh were married at the bride's home in - Knglewood, New Jersey, May 27. y Elsie Tucker of Salem will receive the Joseph. Albert award this year at Willamette tnlrer sity and Kenneth. Litchfield of Portland was winner of. Colonel Willis prize. May 28, 1919 Miss Buth Bedford and Miss Joanna James, accomplished pianists, appeared in recital . t First Congregational church last aight. . - A. A. Michel of Salem 'has been - reelected secretary of the atate connclL Knights of Co lumbus, which met in Salem re cently. . ' ... j i . : r Attorney Robin .D. Day, WB0 saw serrice in France -with rs and flame diYlsion. of AKF, will give Memorial day address at Hubbard. - ... ! ' t." to make the present court oonse fireproof, v r - - , . ' And to render th fifth si cry BSBiiu, ,aiaa ureprooi un, yes and to pat ta a -uw .aleraior. 4:00 Orehoatra. 5:00 Now and Then. S : 30 Organist. 5 : 45 Catholic Truth Society. S 00 Portraits at Dusk. 6:80 Cheerio. . 7:00 Book Chat. 7:80 Concert Ensemble. 8 :00 Sports Reporter. 8:15 News. 8 :30 Orchestra. 9:00 Everybody Sing. 9:30 Church of the Air. 10 :00 Memori ia Miniature. 10:80 Family Altar Hour. 11:15 PoUeo Reports. 11:18 Organist. XOrjf XOYBAT 949 X. S:15 Market Reports. 6:20 KOIN KJock. 7:45 News. 8:00 Melody Rambling. 8:15 Nancy James. 8:30 Helen Trent. 8:45 Our Gal Sunday. 9:00 Goldbergs. 9:15 Life Can Be Beautiful. 9:45 Yours Sincerely. 10:00 Big bister. 10:15 Aunt Jenny. 11:00 This and That. 11:43 News. 12:00 Pretty Kitty Kelly. 13:15 Myrt and Marge. 13:30 Hilltop Hons. 13 :45 Stepmother. 1:00 Scattergood Baiaos. 1:15 Dr. Susan. 1:30 Singin' Sam. 1:45 Adventures ia Science. 3 :00 Fletcher Wiley. S: 15 Hello Again. 3:45 Orchestra. S :00 Newspaper af the Mix. 4:00 Tea for Two. 4:15 Inrin Too. 4:45 Let's Walts. 5:00 Radio Theatre. 8:00 Orchestra. 6:80 Zddia Cactor. 7:00 Amoa 'a' Andy. 7:15 Lura and Abner. 7:80 Model Minstrels. 8:00 Cavalcade of America. 6:30 News and Reviews. 8:45 Melodies. :Ot Baker Players. 9 :30 Romance and Rhythm. 9:45 Camera Club. 10:00 FUe Star Final. ' 10:15 Orchestra. 10:45 Nightcap Tarns. 11:00 Organ. 11:15 Orchestra a a XOAC MONDAY 550 X. 9:00 Today's Programs. 9 :03 Homemakers' Hoar. 9:80 70th OSC Commanetaeat, 12:00 News. 12:15 Farm Hour. 1:15 Variety. 3:00 Extenaioa Tiaits. 2:45 Guard Your Health. 3:15 For Scandinavians. 3:45 Monitor Views the Kowa. 4:00 SymphoaU Half Hoar. 4:30 Steria tor Boys and Girls. S: 45 Vespers. 6:15 News. 6:80 Fsrm Hour. 7:80 4H Club Program. 6:00 OSC Round Table. 9:80 Progress in Ortgea Apicultars. :45 Personnel if snsgesMsk a KXX XOHDAY 1189 Xa. 6:80 Musical Clock. 7 :15 Viennese Eaaomble, 7 :80 Financial Service. 7 :45 Aeeordiana, 8:00 Dr. Brock. 8:80 Farm and Homo. 9:15 Agriculture Today. 9:30 Patty Jean. t .: 9:45 Show Window.' 10:00 Home Institute. 10:15 Homo Folks FroUe. ' " 100 News. . 10:45 Alice Joy. 11:00 Great Momrts la History. 11:15 Maatot 8ingTa. -11:80 Voico of American Wornea. 11:45 Melodic Strings. 13:00 Club Matinee. 12:30 Newa. , 13 ;45 Dept. Arrlci I tar. , l:tr Market Report. 1:05 Quiet Hoar. - 1 :45 Wbisporing Rhythm. - , - 2:00 Curb tone Quia. it 3:15 Finaneial and Grain. 1:20 Mesical Interlude. 3: 35 News. - 3:80 Rsy Perkins. s:s xour svy. 8:55 Mosieal Iateelud. , , S:90 Organ Oowcert. t S e Orcheatrsv 85 Sriearo on U Msrth. 4:00 FHA Topics. 4 :05 Martln'a Haste. 4 :80 Silaoaett iw Bin. i 5:040 House of Charm. 5:30 Msrisn Miller. 5:45 Cowboy Rambler. 6:00 Tru or Falaa. :30 Magnolia Bless ems. ' - 1 :oe Wstt'e taa Big Idea. . . 7 : 80 Orchestra. ...j. 6:O0 Music for Ilea. 8:15 Nwa. 8: SO Forum and Agin 9:00 John Dm's Music. 9:80 Wrestling Matches. " ' 16:80 Orchestra. - if .. "' V 11HH Xewa. 11:15 retire Reports. ' ' 11:18 Organist. . . 11:45 Sports Final. - - a . - SOW etOnUT-6S6 c 7:00 Viennese Eaaesabla. 7:15 Trail Blaser. tt4S Kews. ' . v :. S r0 Organist. 8:15 The O'Kollaj: "" ' sao Star of Today ' - ;6:59 Ttma SigaoA - 40-Cobweb and Cadaaas.Vv; 1 1 ft bet' r T,h It-Onr. n -i .s. w :a 9:45 Dr. Kate. 10:00 Betty and Bob. 10:15 Uriaam s Daughtec. 10:30 Valiant Lady. 10:45 Hymns of AH Churches. 11 :00 Mary Marlia. 11:15 Ma Perkins. 11:30 Pepper Young' Family. 11:45 Guiding Light. 12 :00 Backstage Wife. 13:15 Stella Delias. 12:30 Vie and Bade. 13:45 Girl Aloaa. 1 :00 Midstream. 1:15 Houseboat Hannah. 1 :0 Hollywood Flashes. 1 :45 Singer. 3:00 Science ia the News.' 2:15 I Lot a Mystery. 3:30 Woman' Msgasin. 8 :00 Orchestra. 8:15 Song Sweets. 8:30 New. 8:50 Too Tim Tunes. 4:00 Band. 4:15 laaaioa ia Harmony. 4:30 Song Shoot. 6:00 Star of Today. 6:30 Orob.es tra. tS0 StuCio Party. 7:60 District Attorney. 8:00 Armchair Cruises. 8:15 Orchestra. 6:30 Al Peerce. 9 :0O Hawthorne House. 9:30 International Events. 9 :45 Orchestra. 10:00 Newa Flashes 10:15 Blue Moonlight. 10:30 Martin's Music 11:00 Orchestra, The Safety Valve Letters From Statesman Readers To the Editor: In what respect will the "Green River" ordinance bene fit Salem? What per cent of house to Louse solicitors and peddlers are residents of Salem who clothe and feed their families and care for their families by patronizing local merchants in every line of business? What per cent of these peo ple are taxpayers in Salem? What per cent of these same people have been unable- to se cure employment at anything eise 7. Will this obnoxious ordinance revive business in this or any omer city or town! Will this obnoxious ordinance curtail, advertising expense for business men? Will it reduce big overhead expense in general? If business is good in Salem. then it is a fact that ped lers and solicitors are not a hinder ance but rather a help to Y tter business conditions. (The United States Supreme Court decisions make a distinction be: ween "peddler" and "solicitor."; :xxk it up. They are not classed aiiae.). To sum it up, it seems ridicu lous for the capital city of Ore gon to foster such a foolish or dinance. GEORGE J. SMYTH. V Mrs. Dunn Honors Daughteiiri-Law NORTH HOWELL Mrs. M. A. Dunn entertained Wednesday afternoon at her home 'or the pleasure of her daughter-1 -law. Mrs.. Percy Dunn. Assisting the hostess , were Mrs. Ernest Red ding. Mrs. Alvia Noren, -a. Bob Dixon and Mrs. Roy Dunn. Guests ; were Mrs. V. Van Brocklin, Mrs. Steve Schmidt, Mrs. Andrew . Schmidt, Mrs. Er nest Dunn, Mrs. Bob Fleming. Mrs. Don ' Cutsforth, Mrs. Peter Schmidt, Jirs. : c t,B Waltmaa. Mrs. R. A. Beer, Mrsr Thomas Bump, Mrs., W. M. Oddle; Mrs. 8. Baughmaa, Mrs. C. J . Hagan. Mrs. Albert Schmidt, - Mrs. Bert Reveal, Mrs. John Besls, Mrs. Lester Leighty. Nellie M. Xuve. ofTa. Maria Milne, Miss Vreda DUchen. Mrs.' Pete Dltchen; Mar tha Vinton, 7M r e , ; M. f Schaap, Mr - IL C. Espe, Mra.'F; B. Kurre Mrs. R. C. Jefferson; Mrs-Cecil- Beala Mrs. Vernon Beats, Mrs. D. Southey, - Mrs. .1. IL Beals, - Mrs. i Tony ., Pfan, Mrs.' Dom Ksnrmst aad U r s ; ; R.- C ' itamsaeay ' -v - " By DOROTHY .Death, of a Poet vmat Toller was a docL, and he came of age in the twentieth century. It 'is almost the whole epiiapn. jseing a poet, he was afflicted -. with nerves and with imagination. The poet's nerves are a sort ' of adlo sendlnsr and re ceiving station; they quiver to waves which leave the stolid undisturbed. It Pacts is the Joy and taar aroAr of the' DOet to feel more - than wnat nappens to himself; to feel and respond to arhat hannens I to people ae has never met, never seen, far away, nothing too far away. it ia the enrse of his imagi nation to see to see. . though staring at a blank wall. To see forward, and back, in tne presenx, what was. and rhat is coming. When joy and .peace are the rou tine of the times h Is the "oet joyous, the most expansive; when conflict and violence are the routine, he is wounaea a thousand times and felled with a thousand blows. If he ia Terr treat the ilowe tmner him into a blade rharo enough to cut through all con fusion. If he is verr areat ! e leebmes Judgment when all judgment is suspended. Such a one was Dante. Toller was not very great. But he was wholly poet. ). He was not arrest enoueh for the awful violence of the times In which he lived. Who is? , He looked upon the world nrith torn-oDen. incredulous even. They remained to the end in credulous eyes. They looked eagerly for beauty, serenity, dig nity. Justice, truth. What they saw appalled them. Toller was appalled to death. There was the youth, hasten ing home from golden student days in France, hastening home to Germany to Join his regiment, to fight Germany's war. He was a German and a Jew. In 1914 all German. In 1914 a Euro pean, educated and cultivated beyond the average, but. in the critical moment, a child of the soli that bred him. He was not in the war long. He was gravely wounded. But he had seen the trenches the mud and the barbed wire and the cold officer bureaucra cy barking at men about to die, and the . comradeship, too, and the common wretched humanity. Crippled behind the lines, he saw the war snatch the bread from the mouths of children the bellies bloated with turnips; the women handing their own scrap of margarine across the table to the smallest one. He saw what was before his eyes and what was not before his f eyes telegraphed to those sensitive nerve ends,' beating on them intolerably. Peace! Peace with Victory! Peace without Victory! What was any longer victory or not victory, in this shambles that the world had become, this blindness, stumbling and falling in its own excrement? To stop it to stop it before it stumbled and fell for the last time! His fatherland now was out there In the mud, and 'among the prisoners parading dully months on end, years on end, ia the prison camps. His father land now was a race of men who spoke English and French and German, and cursed the war and prayed for peace. " So -he helped organise the mu nitions strike. Some one had got to help stop this war. The soldiers came home. There was revolution in the air. When soldiers come home from a long war there Is always revolution in the air. : The revolution was a fantasy, a poet's fantasy "Shall we not shatter it to bits and then re mould It nearer to the heart's desire!" - And what was the heart's de sire? Brotherhood. The comrade s h 1 p of the trenches. In the prosperity and serenity of peace. The sword into a ploughshare, the sharing of everything among everybody, the eternal dream. Eloquence is the poet's gift. Toller had a childlike radiance. The masses listened to hLn. Bat revolution is not a universal Easter. It is violence.-; Revo lution is more war. There were soldiers tod soldiers. The guns turned in two directions. 'Th officers were stronger.' " The poet and the war casualty was a O vents cists low; large over, 1 li uiL $ my m THOMPSON traitor.' He went to prison for five rears. : e There are worse places, for a poet in the twentieth century, than prison. The orld, per haps, is worse. They put him in a madhouse first pernaps he felt himself among the sane. ' The prison walls were thick; there vas solitude. Perhaps through so much stone the 'waves were spent. So he could write. He wrote about masses about masses and men. His heart was with the revolt of the poor. His being recoiled from violence. He loved people, not masses. He was a sorry revolutionist he had no power to hate. His play, "Men in the .ass," came out from the prison walla and was played in many lan guages. . He wrote poetry. He wrote of a war cripple. The play was too painful . . . the exacer bation of an open wound. e He came out of prison into the republic which iad impris oned him and into, fame. The republic was careening msrrily, withr.the ancient regime sulking and plotting, the trade anion bu reaucrats riding high, tb so cialist ministers hobnobbing with aristocrats and profiteers, who flattered them to their faces and sneered behind their backs. The parties of the left quar reled, quarreled interminably irr dialectic ' dialogue ; the night clubs thrived; over everything was the tinsel of borrowed money. The poet enjoyed his fame. But the nerve ends tele graphed: Bad news! Bad news! The open, ingenuous eyes cloud ed and were appalled. The end of It was Hitler. - This was the pure revolution, its very acme. It was conserva tism wrapped in black and red embracing its own death. It was violence with "order" and "discipline'' on its tongue. It had none of the yearning, in fantile and argumentative cruel idealism of the leftists. It was not the revolution of the trenches. It was the organized revolution of the top sergeant. ; It was not the anarchic street fighting of the Bavarian rising. It fell into line; it marched; it heiled; its destruction was syste matic. Nihilism ran wild in its heart, but outside it stood pan oplied, serried, proclaiming an awful power. The mass was automatized. The nation was a tank. The poets fled from that place. The world is dotted with the German poets. And Toller, of course. Against the armored . world he was Enemy No. 1. Cu rious. It is not I wrote, it is not it was not in hlm to hurt a fly. . The poet Is a man of words.' Words are his breath and his life. In them, and in them alone, is ease for his suffering and sublimation for his personal and vicarious pains. Exile ripped the words out of his mouth.' He was a man of words without a language. He was grateful to New York. He watched America wonderingly, admiring the great democracy. He was at the PEN conference and visited the White House. That was a day of joy. "So ought great democracies to live," he said, looking at the big house, not too much bigger than its compatriots. We visited Arlington and walked through the house of Lee. "He was oa the other side in the Civil war," I explained. His eyes grew large with Lppi ness. "And his home is a public monument? I had heard that, but I did not believe." "We love him now," I said. "We think he was very greatly " wrong." !.' "There are no special tombs for officers?" he asked. We were driving through the rows on rows of small white atones. "If the family wanna put one up they can." the taxi driver ex plained. "But the country don't pot up no special ones. After all, they all died the same. I guess they: flgger." The poet looked at the ceme tery. "It is very peaceful, here," he said. "Peaceful and demo cratic" : e The words would not come, in a strange country, to ease the pain. And the waves kept beat ing endlessly .... his mother . . . they broke into her home and tore his- last letter from around her . neck.' 1 She wore it as an amulet. Had he ever brought her luck? Mothers are strange. They arreted his sister. In Cxecho-Slovakla. his brother. His . (Turn to psge 12) The threat of illness is nightmare that often hangs iheavily over many a housenoid. 'But delay and neglect fn the treatment of apparently trilling mav serve only to increase the hazard. To "save" on doctor bills may prove poor economy. An mi-It constultation often ore- serious .complications. And it is equally unwise to "take chances" in the compounding of your Pliy&ician's prescriptions. . Come, to iFRESCRIPTION pharmacy -: where . you are as sured f ron, potest drugs, the aervicea of registered nharma. and fair prices based 6rT overneaa, : resulting ironi volume and quick turn-' : ' . : Capital Brcrj Store Cor. Libert? & Suit ' Ph. SUB e? 3