The OREGON ' STATESMAN, Salemy Oregon, Wednesday Morning June 7, 1939
PAGE FOUR
-No Favor Sway Us; NaFeat Shall Awe"J -
from Fjrst Statesman. March 3. ISll T-
Sheldon F. Sackett - Editor and Manager".
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. '
Charles A. Spragne. Pres. - .: - Shtidon r. Sackett, Secy.
M-mbrr of (be AMwrlalrdi ITtm
Tit Anocmtn) fieaa Is escluelveir entitled lo it use far nwbUca
ttoa of all mii diiatch credited U a or net otherwise credited ta
.;-,? ' Boosting Scal Security ;
As soon as the lower house of -congress' interred ,the
Townsend plan bill by a lusty majority of 302 to 97, a good
many editors in Oregon and elsewhere hastened to "jump on
the Townsendites while they were down" and point once more
to the economic fallacy which they had discovered in the plan
four years go.Many of them
men and particularly the three from Oregon who voted tot
the bill, bringing Into question both their judgment and their
sincerity. . : . r i
In idvance of the inevitable defeat of the till. The States
man pointed out the obvious bad faith of the house majority
which favored action on the bill, and of the majority in the
committee, in sending out a hastily considered measure just
introduced, rather than the one which had been before the
committee since the previous session of congress and miernt
be presumed to be better drafted and more nearly reasonable.
That bill also would have been defeated if brought out; but
the majority's strategy leaves an "out" both for members who
voted "eye" and for those who voted "no" The latter may ex
plain that they favored the other bill but not this one ; the for
mer, that theirs were protest votes. The strategy was made
all the more obvious by the
smenrlmpnta-
. Whatever the merits or flaws of the Townsend plan, its
influence in hastening the enactment of social security legis
lation cannot be denied. It forced the administration torn
troduce the original social security act; at this session it
and the more radical pension
amendments which would liberalize the payments, advance
the starting date and delay the increase in social secuntv
taxes trip result beincr a reduction of the "reserves" which
are not beinc kent in the treasury anyway.
On Tuesday word came of a drive to liberalize the old
age assistanc peyments of the temoorary social security pro
gram, accompanied by a pronosal that the federal govern
ment accerjt a heavier shre of the cost and thus relieve states
of some of the burden. The wisdom of this rjroorram in its ef
fect on the federal treasury may also be in doubt.
But the permanent social securitv law is still subject to
criticism on several counts, amone them being the harmful
effect on business of the tax which creates the reserves, the
use of those reserves for current governmental expenses, and
its failure to care for the needs of persons in manv occuna
tions not covered. These objections, the Townsend plan would
avoid. That plan's concessional advocates will always be
able to claim, without successful contradiction, that they wre
working through the Townsend proTam toward a sensible
pension law. How much they would have had to change it,
they probably will prefer not to say.
Legal Responsibility of Unions
v Confirmation by the supreme court of the conviction of
Al E. Rosser in connection with the West Salem box factorv
fire writes finis upon one chapter of the labor terrorism story
for Oregon. It has been demonstrated that in this state the
criminal laws and the machinery of justice are adequate to
deal with the criminal aspects of such tactics as prevailed in
Oregon for several years prior to the "roundup" of 18 months
ao.:,-.- .... - v y
4 There remains another chapter the question of unions'
' liability for damages resulting from the acts of their agents
, or members. A civil suit involving insurance in connection
with the West Salem case is now under way in federal court.
developing some rather startling testimony Tuesday ; but the
civil actions against unions and their officers have not yet
come to trial
On a grander scale, a similar issue is headed for judicial
determination in the east: in a sense it will be a double-barreled
test. The CIO has filed claims for $7,500,000 damages
with the NLRB. based upon the board's ruling that 5000
Workers were unjustly discharged by "Republic Steel, which
: is also faced with a damage suit involving 16 deaths which
resulted from violence in connection with the 1937 "little
steel strike. But Republic Steel has sued the CIO for triple
damages under the Sherman act of 1890. It is ironic that this
law, enacted for the purpose of curbing monopolies, should
be invoked by a large corporation against a labor organiza
tion, but it has been successfully invoked in the past in the
famous" Danbury Hatters
damages were assessed against
cott, and in the recent Apex
federal court awarded $711,932 against individual members
of the CIO union.
Like most Questions, there are -two sides to this one.
John S. JFriesen, whose West
by lavor vandalism, is entitled
As to the liability of the law-abiding majority of union mem
bers, the argument has so many sides that it is futile to trace
them. And-there iff no intention here to try the cases before
they reach the courts, hut merely to use the local situation as
a concrete example. This is a phase of labor relations which
is farther from satisfactory solution and a definite formula.
than the points covered in the
which are -also subject to heated, debate in .congress and
throughout the nation. i
. Tax Revision Need Shown
Sometimes when a harmful trend is reversed, one enter
tains s perverse sense of regret that it didn't continue to the
Inrdt, so that the extreme of
perienced. When England and
nich the world was deprived
what would nave happened if they had stood pat ; when goon
tactice were-halted in Oregon; the public wondered how bad
conditions might have gotten
: when recovery of a sort set .
question as to whether business would have come to a com-
. plete standstill remained unanswered. ; r
in this last connection,
query; just what relation the
as did take place. The recovery was world-wide; but from
1932 to 1938, the United States
jor countries in this respect
the 1923 -volume of production; France, the other nation
'which had a New Deal, was next at 77 per cent, according to
- Leslie of Nations figures; The Netherlands had climbed
. back to SO per cent as had Canada ; Great Britain had gone
over the top to 116 per cent: Germany.perhaps by bootstrap
pullir-g, to 12S per cent, but
, per cent have no such explanation.- , " - .
' .1 j'j At present the blame for the United States slow recov-
: ery is being placed by business which ought to know part
. - ly upon Europe's unsettlement but, in so far as any domestic
. solution is possible, upon the tax program. The vestige of the
undistributed profits tax, the capital stock tax and the excess
profits tax are the items under fire, not only from business
v but recently from the treasury department with the condi
tional support of the White House.-
Confidence that the administration will stick to this at
tituda is scanty, in view of past reversals apparently inspired
by the left-wingers among
- theless the nation is weary
ments, and the demand lor action to back up words is grow
. iri steadily. . . ;
also assailed the 97 congress
arrangement which prevented
schemes brought action upon
case in which $232,000
workers for a secondary boy
Hosiery case in which a lower
Salem business was wiped out
to redress from some source
- Wagner act, the details of
its damage might nave been ex
France backed down at Mu-
of the opportunity to find out
if they had gone unchecked
in after the depression low, the
there is another unanswered
New Deal had to such recovery
held last place among the ma
It had regained 72 per cent of
Norway's 127 and Sweden's 153
the president's advisors. Never-
of uncertainty and disappoint
. ,
ntiln for
Dreatifasd
By B. J. HENDRICKS
The Salem pictures ia 6-7-39
Portland Sunday Journal
were good, but historical
notes need some corrections:
The rotogravure section of the
Portland Oregon Journal, last
Sunday's Issue, devoted a page
to "Salem, the 4 Capital City,"
vita splendid pictures. -
But the historical notes in
connection ' therewith need cor
recting. The notes follow:
S . :
"Salem, SO miles south of
Portland, on the banks of the
Willamette river, is not o n 1 y
Oregon's capital city; It Is the
Ocoad city In slxe ta the state;
one of the state's most beautiful
and' enterprising communities,
and probably la second to none
in historical Interest and back
ground. The. community was known
as Chemeketa and The Mills aa
early aa 1840; as The institute
In It 42. and finally, in I84, at
the suggestion of on W- H.
Wilson, .member of Jason Lee's
Methodist mission, was named
Salem meaning place of peace.'
U
"The city haa a Lumber of
'firsts' to Its credit among
them the .first woolen mill west
of the Rockies, 1157; the first
federal court (district) session,
1859.-'
"Most of the state institutions
are located at Salem, which also
Is site of the annual state fah
which has grown f-om small
beginnings to large and import
ant proportions.
s ,
"Salem is center of the larg
est hop acreage in the United
States, and, with increasing
acreage and development of flax,
the potentialities for the manu
facture of linen loom large.
"Salem's educational pride is
Willamette "-university.
s s s
"Willamette, original.- known
as the Oregon Mission Manual
Labor school, is the oldest edu
cational institution in Oregon. It
was founded in 1834 by Jason
Lee, Methodist missionary, and
was incorporated in 1855.
'Old Jason Lee home on
Broadway street was the first
frame house in Salem, built in
1840."
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Corrections: The Indian name
for Salem's site was Chemeketa.
place of meeting, city of refuge;
dating back indefinite?. It
was known as "The Mills" after
the Jason Lee mission aiills
(saw and grist) were built (un
der one roof) In 1840; the ma
chinery arriving on the Lau
sanne June 1, that year, at ort
Vancouver, it was known as
The Institute," beginning with
Aug. 13, 1844, when the Oregon
Institute opened for its first
classes.
It was officially known as Sa
lem Feb. 15, 1850. when the
North Salem plat was fUed. and
when, March 2, that year, the
plat of down town Salei. was
filed, and Jan. 8, 1851, when
the plat of the original town
was filed; of "Boon's Uland,'
where the mills were located
Rev. David Leslie, from Salem,
Mass., named the town, not W
H. Willson. Note correction In
spelling, Willson, not Wilson.
Willamette university was
never known as the "Oregon
Mission Manual Labor school.
That was the name of the Indian
school of the Lee missio . Wil
lamette university was not
founded In 1834 by Jason Lee,
Methodist missionary, and it was
not incorporated in ' 855, or at
any time.
It was founded February 1,
1842, by an independent board.
meeting at the Lee mission
(original site 10 miles by water
below Salem), its first building.
completed In 1843, was on Wal
lace Prairie (present Bu.h farm
headquarters) a mile north of
Salem's north municipal line, but
no classes were opened there.
That building and elair to its
grounds were sold for 13000 and
the money used as part payment
of $4000 for the Indian manual
labor school building (costing
$10,000) of the Lee mission.
then being dissolved.
S
The territorial legislature of
Oregon, meeting In - rooms of
the Oregon Institute, chartered
that Institution as Willamette
university, Jan. 13. 1353; prob
ably the only instance In history
of an educational Institution be
ing chartered by the law making
body of the country holding its
sessions in a building owned by
the institution.
me "jaaoa Lee home." pres
ent SCO Broadway, headauarters
Confer on Squalus Raising
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Moving msrtly, tie Navy XZh Command la T7asLIngto nshea plana,
to raise the Svial&vT&3artmnS3Lll.lL. Ffctoad In con.
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KSLM WEDKESDAT 150 Kc
0:30 Milkman's Serenade.
7:30 Newt.
7:45 Hita and Encores.
8:0O Morninf Meditation.
8:15 Haven of Kesl
8:45 Newa.
:00 Pastor's Call.
9:15. Orgmnalities.
9:45 Bamin a Minute.
10:00 Freddy Nigel's Orchestra.
10:15 Mews.
10:30 Morning Msgssine.
10:45 Women in tne Kewi.
11:00 Trie Tones.
11:15 True Story Dramas.
11:80 Mno Unis.
11:45 Vslne Parade.
12:15 News.
12:80 Hillbilly Serenade.
12:45 Masieal Salnte.
1:00 Interesting Facte.
1:15 Mnse and Music
1:80 Adrian Bollini Trio.
1:45 Tiny Hills Orchestra.
2:00 Popular Varieties.
2 :S0 News.
2:45 Manhattan Mother.
8:00 Pacific Parade.
8:30 Let's Flay Bridge.
1:45 Fulton Lewis, jr.
4:00 Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra.1
4:80 Welcome Neighbor.
S :00 Swingtime.
5:80 Back, Bogera.
5:45 Dinner Hour Melodies.
8:15 King and Qneea arrire la the TJS.
8:30 CordeU Hull tirerU Royal Visitors
8:45 Tonight's Headlines.
7:00 Work Wanted.
7:15 Waltitime.
7:80 The Lone Ranger.
8 :00 News.
8:15 Concert Melodies.
:00 Newspaper e the Air.
8:15 Hits of Today.
9:30 Edwards Old Timers. "
9:45 Brad Collins Orchestra.
10:00 rights for Armory.
10:80 Billy McDonald's Orchestra.
11:0 Tomorrow 'a Newa Tonight.
11:15 Stan Myers Orchestra.
11:30 The Squires.
11:45 Midnight Serenade.
KEX WEDKESDAT 1188 Kc
8:80 Musical Clock.
7:00 Family Altar Hoar.
7 : 80 Financial Berriee.
7:46 Business Parade.
8:00 Dr. Brock.
8:80 Farm and Home.
9:15 Agriculture Today.
:so ratty J
tor the mission, was the first
residence of any kind erected on
the site of Salem by and for
whites; work on it begar as soon
as the saw mill, a few yards
away, waa ready to operate In
1840, finished 1841; standing
yet on original site.
U
(The Journal write must hare
had the Impression that log or
other houses were on Salem's
site before 1840. The first house
of whites waa the one for the
mills, under one .orL The In
dian tribes found by the first
whites In the Willamette alley
had no houses.).
The thanks of Salem, are,
however, due to the Portland
Journal for Its beautiful roto
gravure views of the Capital
City.
of the Milk and Honey?
9:45 Show Window.
10:00 Home Institute.
10:15 Home Folka Frolie.
10;80 News.
10:45 Alice Joy.
11:00 Nature Trail.
11:15 Popular Waltsea.
11:30 Voice of American Women.
11 :45 Saxophobia.
12:00 Club Matinee.
12:30 News.
12:45 Dept. Agriculture.
1:00 Market Ueporta.
1:05 Quiet Hour.
1 :45 Orchestra.
2:00 Curbstone Quls.
2:15 Financial and Oraia.
2:25 News.
3 :30 Orchestra,
2:45 Box Score Extra.
8 :00 Orchestra.
8:80 The Mauhattera.
4:00 Boy Shield BeTue.
4:30 Harrington's Music.
5:00 Horse and Buggy Days.
5:80 Marian Miller.
5:45 Cowboy Rambler.
:00 Sherman Presents.
6:80 Abe BereoTits.
7:00 Your Health.
8.00 Sports Reporter.
8:15 Newa.
8:30 BasebaU.
10:15 Orchestra.
10:30 Orchestra,
11:00 News.
11:15 Police Reports.
11:18 Organist.
11:45 Sports FinaL
XGW WEDNESDAT ItO Sa,
7 :00 Viennese' Ensemble.
7:15 Trail Blaxers.
7 :45 News.
8 :00 Organist.
8:15 The O'eNeUls.
8:80 8tars of Tedsy.
8:59.40 Time Signal.
9:00 8iager.
9:15 Let' a Talk It 0r.
:30 UiBftmi Beeds.
9:45 Dr. Kate.
10 :00 Betty and Bob.
19:15 Grimm's Dsaghter.
10:80 Valiant Lady.
10:45 Betty Crocker.
11:00 Mary Martin.
11:15 Ma Perkins.
11:30 Pepper Young's Testily.
11:45 Guiding Light.
12 :00 Baekatage Wife.
12:15 Stella Delias.
12:30 Vie and Bade.
12:45 Girl Alone.
1:00 Midstream.
1 ;15 Houseboat Han mas.
1 :30 Hollywood Hashes.
1:45 Orchestra.
2 : 00 Americas Schools.
2:151 Lore Mystery.
2 :S0 Woman's Magasias.
8:00 Easy Aces.
3:li Mr. Keen.
8:30 News.
4:00 Band.
4:15 Fsahions 4n Hsrmeny.
4:80 Hollywood Lobby.
5:00 Stars of Today.
6U5 Musiesl Vignettes.
0:00 Kay Kyserrs KeUefa.
7:00 District Attorney.
7:18 Edgewater HoteL
7:30 Orchestra.
1:00 Tows Hall Tonight.
9:00 Orchestra.
10 rOO News flashes.
10:15 Tsaya and Gleaa.
10:80 Orchestra.
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XOrjF WXD3TXSSA.T 9 Xe.
8: IS Market Beporta.
8:20 KOUl XUeck.
7:45 News.
ae--ceaiss.
8:1 Neney James.
8:89 Hekn Treat.
8 :45 Our Gal Sunday.
9:90 Oeldborrs.
9:15 Lite Can Be Bssutifsl.
9:45 Yews Sincerely.
19:00 Big Bister.
10:15 Ann! Jenny.
10:45 Whea s Girl Marries.
11:00 This and That. "
11:45 News.
19:00 Pretty Ktty Kelly.
12:15 Myrt aad Marge.
12:80 -Hilltop Hesse.
12:45 Stepmother.
1 :00 Seattergeed Baines.
1:1ft Dr. Sweaa.
1:80 Sisgin' Seas.
1:4589 Yes Want to Be.
2:0 rieteher Wiley.
St IS Hell Again.
9:80 Baxry Weed.
9:45 Let'e Wares. -
8 :00 Newspaper sf the Air.
4:00 Tea for Twa,
4:15 OrgenUt - .
4:90 Beadmnstee. . ' -
S9 Star Theatre.
9:00 OrgaaUU
9:30 AskTlt-Basket.
7.-00 Aatee '' Andy.
7 til - I wm and Arner.
. 7:30 Paul Whittle a Orchestra.
S .09 Osagbwsters.
8:80 'ews. Views, 8ports Reviews.
8:45 Qseea CoremaUoa.
9:45 Camers Clsb.
19:09 PiTO Star Final.
19:15 Orchestra. -19:43
Nightcap Yarns.
11K0 Organ.
11:15 Orchestra.
KOAO WTOBTRgDAT WO Ks.
9:00 Today's Pregrsms.
9S Hoasamakers7 Hesss.
10:00 Weather Forecast.
19:18 8tery Hear for AdsltS.
11. 00 Alexander Hull.
11:80 Musis al the Mstters.
12 0 Kews.
12:15 Farm Hesr. . '
1:15 Variety. -
3 .-00 4B Club Assembly.
8:15 Travel.
8:45 Monitor Views the Kews.
4:00 Bymphonie Half Hour.
4:39 Stones tor Beys and Girls.
:15 Ke
9:89 Farm Be
Te 4H Swsamrr School. -8:15
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4 .
The Safety
Valve
Letters From
Statesman Readers
To the Editor:
We defeated the Townsend
bill and it only took us a brace
of days to do It. Though It la a
reasonable plan that covers all
elderly dtisens that would sur
render their Jobs to our junior
unemployed and contribute dou
bly in circulating more money,
We will now revamp the pension
law we enacted a few year ago
and although it only covers not
to exceed one-half of our elderly
citizens, we will tlx it so it will
pay those it covers a little bet
ter and a little sooner, without
any regard of class legislation.
we noiier about the taxes we
Imagine the Townsend plan In
effect would cost us. without
thinking at all about the alpha
betical set-ups that are costing
us a lot more tax money which
the Townsend plan in effect
would immediately eliminate.
Commence with the WPA and
go on right down the line and
see how many governmental set
ups that are a charge on the tax
payers that you can enumerate
which the Townsend plan in ef
fect would knock out. Consid
ering the tax burdening govern
mental set-ups now existing, it's
easy to comprehend that the
Townsend plan In effect would
lower instead of raise our taxes.
With all these numerous tax-bur
aening governmental set-ups we
conunue to nave million unem
ployed. The Townsend plan in
effect would establish ell adults
on the payrolls and that consti
tutes prosperity. The only way
to forever defeat the Townsend
plan is to offer a better one and
it is not in sight,
Respectfully,
R. D. TURPIN.
To the Editor:
Tour editorials are, with few
exceptions, very good and we re
gret therefore, the necessity of
taking exception to one appear
ing la the May 25th number of
your paper entitled "It Can't
Happen Here." As parents and
Christian citizens of this fair
country, we feel that your edi
torial must not go -one" Uenged.
"Laugh" Indeed! The Ameri
can people can 111 afford to
laugh at the numerous snbver
slve activities and propaganda
that is .being- disseminated
wholesale : throughout . - r . na
tion. The Bible 'story teUa ns
that tt was while the farmer
slept that the enemy awV his
tares la the- wheat field and
is unwise wane we, who pro
fess Christianity, either ileep or
go sdoui aoxing with rur eyes
closed, that all the foreign, hell-
oorn 'isms are worxing tirelessly
day and night to gain a strangle
hold upon, us aa they have done
on other nations, f
As Will Rogers said: "All
know is what we read In the
papers" aad that Is just where
our trouble comes. T- Ameri
can people are not' thinking for
themselves, but are swallowing,
hook, line and tinker, i") the
Godless propaganda that thov
read in the- papers, hear over the
radio or see enacted o the
screen.
Regardless of what the Satur-
oay Evening -post or any other
paper may say to the contrary
we are here- to say that Tr. Ger
ald .B. winrod is every ' eh
man of God, who is pouring out
his very life blood to defend our
nation and ; the ; Christian faith
against the inroads A comma
nism, fascism and all the othe
neii-born 'isms that are it work
here la America. . One of the
communists' commonly ns.u Sa
taale lies :1s to brand a fuan
wnoni tney recognize as a power
against them, as a lascist .That
is their cowardly way of blind
ing the public eye . to the real
issue before it. We spent mil
lions for border def ens from
possible aggression by foreign
powers aerosa the sens, while
within oar country. Its very heavt
ia being bored out by the God
toa termites, most of whom are
rriraatTTTamad -foTnlrjsera and we
areuppoaed.ta sMxthlng, say
QDnn" t On DBK(K(IDD'(iII
- tiy DOROTHY THOMPSON
XT.
Secretary Had Cats the Gordiaa
Before congress adjourns it
should pass Secretary HuU's neu
trality legislation as it stanos. to
leave tne neu
trality ; position
as it now is, in
a time of
intern a 1 1 o n a 1
Canger, would
be inaction of
supreme frivol
ity. The exlating
legislation Is
vnstatesmanUke,
amateurish, and
It does not hare
the aupport.
Pet 9191 Thwsii
either of the state department. r
of any awrtoBa and objective
student of foreign affairs.
The -proposals of the secretary
derserre the -most favorable con
sideration, tint, because they
come from him. Nobody in the
cabinet enjoys a more universal
trust aad esteem than does the
secretary of state. He is not Im
pulsive; he is singularly free
from .prejudice; he is. In this
administration, remarkably con
sistent; "he is not susceptible to
pressure -groups; and he is a
man of peace.
The proposals deserve favor
able consideration, in the second
place, "because they have been
worked out through months of
thought and discussion, concen
trated upon all phases and all
possible results of a policy by
those people whom we hire to
execute our foreign policy, who
know most about the Interna
tional situation, and who are,
for the most part, wholly unpar-
tisan.
They ought to be udopted, in
the third place, because they
make sense. An embargo on
arms to all belligerents, as pro
vided for in the present neu
trality act, puts us in the posi
tion of adopting a rigid policy
regardless of what the national
interests may or may not be. It
cuts off the Industrial resources
of the United States from those
countries which are weakest,
which have no great arms In
dustries of their own, which are
most unlikely to attack an7 one.
and most likely to be attacked
It is inconsistent, even in this,
for it does not make it manda
tory to forbid the sale of all
essential war materials, and thus
it discriminatory against our own
industries.
It would forbid the sale of
airplanes, for instance. In time
of war, but it would not auto
matically forbid the sale of iron,
steel, copper and cotton
And the result of it would
simply be that if these were not
embargoed too, foreign nations
would take our materials and
work them up In their own fac
tories, at the cost of our manu
facturers.
Politically, the present act is
lamentable. The implication that
all essential raw materials ne
cessary for war might be em
bargoed, simply means that In
case of a war fought' on two
oceans, we agree to take our
ships off the seaa and our goods
off the international market, and
treat ourselves to a panic and
a frightful depression
Since nothing would more
please the aggressive and revo
lutionary elements in the world,
they are heartily pleased with
the present act.
The German, Italian, and Jap
anese press all think it is Just
dandy, and whenever it la sug
gested that it be amended, they
cry "war-monger; at the sug-
gestors.
e
The proposals of Mr. Hull
which have been thought
through with great deliberation,
are an attempt to achieve the
purpose for which the neutral
ity legislation was originally
framed.; to keep this country
out of war.
But they also provide that
this country should keep a tree
hand, with regard to its own
national interests; should not
put itself In a position where
It may be assisting our potential
enemies and Injuring our friends
and they permit ns to maintain
a maximum of world trade. In
the event of foreign w&r. with
a minimum of risk of being em
broiled by attacks upon our na
tionals.
e
Under Mr. Hall's program.
American vessels would be pro
hibited from entering combat
nothing and do nothing about
it jast close our eyes, fold our
hands and laugh it off nd wait
for the inevitable collapse of
everything Godly, pure and de
cent for which our beloved
country '. and ita Constitution
stands. God forbid that Christian
America should come to this
place, but grant rather th-1 we
may employ all of our faculties
in being alert at all limes to
tight the advance of atheistic
communism " in ' America, lest
fate like that of Russia, Spain
and various other countries be
fall us. Yes, it can happen , here.
- We farmers - be lie-re ;n pro
tecting the borders of oV farms
by bnlldlnf rood substantia
fences to prevent the neigh ors
stock, from running- er our
fields; but we do not atop, there
and expect our crops to flourish
merely because of that precau
tion. We realize that lnt mal
defense against the inroads of In
sect and weed' pesta that would
destroy our crop, li more Im
portant than the extern 1 de
fense and therefore ve maintain
an unceasing vigilance . Jn fight
ing them. ' The wise farmer dors
not walk blind-folded across bit
fields, so as not to see the pests
at work there, for he knows that
"It Can Happen Here"! and there
fore is ever. alert to rvert a
catastrophe to his ero;
Fascist or Communist, it mat
ters not : - - ' :v- :
For... both were ' cooked la the
same black pot.
And we will have to it their
Ibrew -"'..-,--..
Unless we. cook' a dlt'.rent
stew.
- Smeerely,.
;-:. . HELENA a GILHAM, '
R. S. Box-Tit,
Salem, - Ore. ,
areas. American citizens would
not be allowed to travel in those
areas. All exports, to any bel
ligerent, would have tLe titles
transferred to the foreign pur
chaser so that they would cease
to be American before Ihey left
our shores.
Loans and credits to belliger
ents would be prohibited, and the
solicitation of funds tor beil'ser
enta would be controlled.
I consider the latter one of
the most necessary conditions for
obtaining real freedom of ac
tion ta this country and real na
tional solidarity in case of an
international war. Wltaout it
every belligerent will t trying
to raise a war chest here from
sympathizers and the war will be
transferred to our own soil in
dangerous rifts in public opinion.
And finally the munition con
trol board should be maintained
for the regulation of the arms
traffic.
e e
It any one thinks that these
proposals give great power to
our own government let him ask
whether he would prefer greater
powers to be given to other gov
ernments which is what the
present neutrality act, in effect,
does.
And let him consider that un
der the present act a general
embargo over all essential war
materials and without that the
act would be useless would
mean a complete and tottl con
trol by the government over the
whole foreign trade and a de
pression which might well mean
complete control over all pro
duction. Mr. Hull is to be congratulat
ed on having cut the Gordian
knot into which our foreign pol
icy was tied by the present neu
trality act.
He has offered a Lrot.ram
which is not. in the first place,
an open invitation to Herr Hit
ler to take the bit in his teeth
and break out in a new place
next week; which is not a prom
ise to cut our own throats for
the sake of maintaining peace;
which makes it clear that our
policy is to keep our own na
tionals from being killed and our
own ships from bsing torpedoed;
which reduces risks to a mini
mum and keeps freedom and in
dependence at a maximum.
e
There is no single measure
which it is more important for
this congress to pass before it
adjourns. But there Is a good
chance that it will not be passed
unless public opinion makes it
self felt.
Copyright, 1930, New York Tri
bune, Inc.
Lions' Programs
Knocked Haywire
Chairman Says 'Come, See'
Only Way of Telling
Wfaat'll Happen
The program chairman of the
Salem Lions club has sworn oft
announcing his luncheon club of
fering In advance, after two false
starts in a row. according to this
week's Issue of The Capitol Lion,
the club bulletin.
"We absolutely refuse to be re
sponsible for the program this
week," the bulletin announces.
"Two weeks ago we promised
motion pictures but instead we
thoroughly enjoyed a talk about
stunt men by Captain Bob Ward.
Last week again we told all and
sundry that we would be shown
moving pictures but instead we
had a thrill of listening to a hu
morous dissertation on movie life
by our distinguished visiter Ed
ward Everett Horton, the great
comedian. So. Instead of sticking
out our necks again, we merely
say, come one, come all, to see
tor yourself what will happen this
Thursday noon at the Marlon ho
tel." The club so enjoyed Actor Hor
ton's talk last week that tt elected
htm Into permanent honorary
with the Llona lapel emblem.
Salem Is Entered
In Traffic Race
Salem's entry In the .9:9 ci
ties Traffic Safety Contest has
been received in .the office of
Earl SnelL secretary of state and
sponsor of the contest, com
pleting the list of cities in the
first division, it was announced
yesterday.
The city's blank was i gned
by Mayor W. W. Chad wick.
Cities in this division are As
toria,' Portland, Salem, Eugene,
Medford and Klamath Palls, all
of which have aent their offi
cial entry blanks, Mr. Snell an
nounced. The contest runs from May
1st to December 31st and at
the end of that period the city
having the best record In ac
cident improvement in each di
vision will receiTe a se of
highway plaques designating the
city as the 1939 safety award
winner. The plaques will be
suitable for placing on standards
at the principal entrances of
the city and will serve as
awards.
Time Change
Today Only
, Due to special broadcasts
of arrival of king and
queen of England in the
U.S. at.'
6:15 p.m. ;
The "Work Wanted Pro
gram will be heard to
night at
7:00 pan.
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