r- .. ... 4.
PAGE SIX
The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, September 1, 1939
"Vo Favor Sways Us;. No FedrShaU Awe"'
From First Statesman. March 28, 1851
- THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
Charles A. 8prague,.Prealdent 1 "
MaWt Om AiMdaUt frttt
The Associated Pnm la acluafvalr entitled to nm for PoWte
tion of ail news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la
this paper.
-A
Municipal Costs in Salem
I ' At the insistence of the state auditors, Salem's municipal
officials have prepared a 70-page booklet comprising the pro
posed city budget for 1940. Though the thoroughness in
volved is to be commended, the bndgefa bulk is calculated to
make it more uninviting to the layman than its more stream
lined predecessors. Were it not for. the vigilance of the press,
the average taxpayer would know nothing about this matter,
highly important though it is. to him as an individual
In a nutshell, the budget proposcs expenditures of $812,
060 well leave out the odd cents throughout and through
various deductions this would mean a tax levy of $396,377.
But because of the 6 per cent limitation, it is necessary to re
duce both of these amounts and the tax levy cannot be more
than $385,960 and it is virtually certain not to be less.
' One desiring to make an extremely safe and cautious re
mark might be constrained to say That's a lot of money." In
deed it is ; and yet the City of Salem levied once before a lar
ger tax; $395,810, just ten years previously, in 1930.Oid pio
neers who were around at the time recall that in 1929 when
that levy was determined, Salem was booming right along
Aand there had been extensive street and bridge construction.
A few years later at the depression low, the city fathers man
aged to cut the levy down to $349,788; now municipal costs
are again on the upgrade.
- Though the tax levy in 1930. was higher than that anti
cipated for 1940, millages will be1 higher, for assessed valua
tions in the city are down ; in 1930 the total was $17,591,573 ;
last year it was $15,029,502. About a million dollars of that
drop is accounted for by removal of the water utility from
the tax rolls for which the taxpayers will be compensated
some day in reduced water rates after the water department
debt is substantially reduced. This offset would already be
noticeable had the city not spent a second million, in round
numbers, for intake and pipeline. But meanwhile the taxpay
er is buying water at little less than the old rates, and is car
rying also a higher tax burden. The remainder of the assessed
valuation drop is represented in part by the state's purchases
of city property and in part by depressed values which are
now climbing back upward, assisted by new construction. The
higher millage is in this latter respect not a serious matter be
cause the taxes aren't paid, in final analysis, by the property,
but out of the income of its owner. ' j
f More properly, municipal costs should bear a closer rela
tion to population than to assessed valuation, from the stand
points both of necessity and ability to pay. If Salem's imputa
tion now exceeds 30,000 compared to 26,266 in 1930, Citizens
might fairly expect a 15 per cent increase in total costs. Act
ually there is no increase compared to 1930, and less than 11
per cent increase from, the trimmed budget of the depression
year 1933. Thus it may be seen that in relation to municipal
growth, municipal expenses are not staging a runaway.
, There is however no evidence that municipal costs have
ever been 5s low in Salem as they might have been under
strict businesslike methods. The, budget committee will be
forced to trim some items to stay within the 6 per cent limita
tion, but its responsibility is greater than that; it should trim
every item that can be trimmed without hampering municipal
operation ; partly with a view to cutting the total levy if pos
sible, partly to make room for some of the desirable increas
es, including one to pay the cost of augmented fire department
personnel. .We will have more to say later about individual
items. ' ' I
For the present there is one other matter that merits at
tention. Of the $102,978 in. the budget outside the 6 per cent
limitation, almost the entire amount is for debt service, and a
considerable percentage is for interest Paying off bonded
debt and refusing to .vote new bonds is the easiest and most
effective single method for reducing municipal costs in the
future. . -
! The Streets of Franco
j. For some time past we have been in monthly receipt of a
'smooth-paper propaganda sheet bearing the grandiloquent ti
tle "Spain and purporting to spread the gospel or the New
Spain beyond the borders of that unhappy land. As one ex
pects the particular gospel involved is a slavish devotion to
Generalissimo Franco and all his works, to an extent which
becomes slightly nauseating as oneontinues to read.
: In the most recent edition occurs an article describing
the restoration of the street names in Madrid to their ancient
. - form following the suppression of the Loyalist armies and the
triumph of the Franco brand of fascism. The street Amor de
Dios Love of God) , we are informed, has , again received
back this title after having been called by the name of "a
tenth-rate republican scribbler ; the Travertin del Conde
Duque, called by the Loyalists Dr. Zamenhoff street, has like
wise regained its former designation! Other streets in the
Spanish capital have also lost the names applied to them by
the besieged citizens of Madrid.
y The article is all very solemn, and not unreasonable, un
til in its last paragraph it makes a somewhat comic blunder.
"The Gran Via's three sections," we are told, "which hither
to bore names of little repute have now been formed into one,
named Jose Antonio Primo de Riverar the founder of the
Spanish Phalanx, and the martyr whose doctrines have taken
root in Spain. In the same way, Madrid's finest avenue, the
Cajstellana. has been dedicated to the Generalissimo Franco,
while ftthpr wnpral anrri a Mnl and Fanitil rtava ulan fo.
- - - w ve ajNVOOa W eWKWetejaa BeMaS Sal V.V
servetjly received the names of important streets." !
Not that one expected anything better, but this is poor
,1 logic and worse, much worse propaganda. Why is it honorable
and desirable to erase the temporary names applied by Loy
' alists in favor of the traditional names of old Madrid, and at
the same time equally honorable to jettison the name of "Ma
- drid'a finest avenue," iniavor of a dull little general whose
face and policies remind one of a petit bourgoisis shopkeeper
. in a provincial French town? Franco's methods are certainlv
. no more honorable than the horrors which his literary min
. ioms ascribe, to the Loyalists, yet, being victor at whatever
cost to human self-respect, he demands the trappings of his
. conquest This is no quarrel of ours, and we have every anti
. cipation of seeing, in the course of time, tHe signs marking
the Via Generalissimo Franco, go into the same incinerator as
those now above the' ubiquitous "Adolph - Hitler Platze" of
Germany ; yet it is vaguely amusing to be considered the dupe
of .such paltry, artifices as this sort of writing represents.
v" ... . ... . -;
l. " .Wasco's PUD Prospects
V Wasco county has voted its PUD but even the public pow
er enthusiasts there are, with justification in view of events
. elsewhere, dubious about' early acquisition of a distribution
system and delivery of power by the district At a "victory
dinner" the other night Congressman Walter Pierce took is-
. . sue with the present Oregon PUD law and said the people
. . ; would have to pass one to suit themselves. Principal changes
. he suggested were a ban on competition between two utilities
in the same area and elimination of the provision which per
mits municipalities to vote themselves out of the district
Other objections have been raised to'the 1939 PUD law
but these are new ones. Each has in it an. element of compul
sion It is in truth to the mutual advantage of the neonle and
... of the utility whether public or
;peuuon, since competition in tne neia ox power service is un
tduly wasteful ; but a law which would forbid an existing util
ity to operate because a PUD has been organized, whether or
private, that there be no com-
Bits for 1
Breakfast
' B; R. J. HENDRICKS
Old -deed comes to light t-l-Jt
showing- Dr. Elijah White's, " f
farm was near the present
IfcGilchrtst loganberry patch::1'
(Continuing from yesterday:
fiat some one will Inquire why the
deed to the 40 acres which was
the mission farm was not recorded
long ago. i
Well, no deeds at all were "re
corded In Marlon county till nine
rears and a day later." The' first
deed recorded was made October
It; 1854, and recorded November
7, 1854; made by Alex and Mam
ema Aubichon, husband and wife.
to John Mathoit, transferring 111
acres of the land I claim of the
makers to Mathoit. , That's the
war the- deed was written, or at
least recorded. j
The man's name was probably
Jean Ungras Alexis Anbichoa, for
such a French Canadian settler
was here; also a Jean B. Anbi
choa. Probably the writer of the
deed guessed a little at the Mau
ema spelling, for both husband
and wife signed with their cross
es; they had not learned to write,
She was of course an Indian wo
man, or half Indian. That
the rule In those early days.
Among the first recorded deeds
In Marlon county; the making and
recording dates were frequently
wide apart. That Is. people
ceiTed , deeds and put them away
till recording was started. - Also,
they were more careless In such
matters than is the rule now.
How can we be so certain, that
the uncovering of the deed to the
"old" mission land claim dirulges
the near location of the Dr. Elijah
White farm? WelL because It Is
true It does Just that.
The lines were described in the
deed from the surrey of Jesse Ap
plegate. The "old" mission farm
had been in process of abandon
ment since 1840, after the arriYal
of the Mayflower of the Pacific,
the Lausanne, and the beginning
of the removal of Lee mission
headquarters to the Indian camp
of Chemeketa. which became Sa
lem. That's what started Salem.
When the three Annlpirato fm
Uies of the fimam 1843 nvirMf
wagon immigration arrived, they
movea into vacatea - old mission
buildlnzs for the winter the
Winter of 1843-4: Inst la rifif the
snaw i amines alter their arrival
with the 1844 immigration, for
the winter of 1844-5.
Jesse 'Annlerat ha1 loam!
aud worked at purveying in Mis
souri. It was natural that he was
called upon generally for' such
services alter nis arrival In Ore
gon, i
u
This writer is no surveyor, hut
any surveyor can take the fore
going aescriDtion and auickiv rind
approximately the "north line of
Dr. White's claim" and the
"northeast corner of said White's
claim," and thus show that the
Dr. Elijah White land claim was
close to that of the "old" mission
But this writer believes the sur
veyor would be obliged to correct
some errors in the making of the
aeea Dy tne person who wrote
it: of course in long hand; not
errors in spelling like Sloo i for
slough, but in the directions of
the compass. Errors which would
be plain to a surveyor.
W
When Jesse Applegate made
the survey of the "old" mission
claim. Lewis PL Judson. mission
ary, was evidently with him. and
drove "a stake in the prairie") 24
chains from the granary on a line
passing net ween tne hospital and
tne tog camn southwest ot
hospital." and "continuing
same course until it strikes
the
the
th
right bank of a sloo (slough) or
iaae in a southeasterly direction
from the aforesaid buildings,
thence meandering up said right
bank of sloo (slougb) to a red fir
tree in the north line of Dr
White's claim."
If this writer is correct, the
line from the "granary" touhe
starting: stake was 1584 feet long
mat is zt chains, es ieet to
the
cnain. u not correct, any
veyor can amend.
sur-
We can estimate the location ot
the starting stake from the point
wnere stood the granary . well
where was the granary? Those
whohave visited the site of the
old mission know where stands
the marker. The marker is a few
feet northeast of a large maple
tree that stands in a hole. j
That otos t.l . . 1
first log house built for the. mis
sion, oexinninr Oct. s. 1824. of
oak logs hewn on oue side, 43 by
18 feet. Since the flood of 1861-2,
that large tree has crown in that
cellar hole. Two more log houses
were built close to and next east
of that original house, one begin
ning Dec. 7. 1835. the other in
1837, likely late in that year.
S .
The fourth bulldinc erected fin
the 1836-7 period) at the mission
was the srranarv and haraJ it
was only a tew. yards north of the
place where the monument utanrt
That makes four. The fifth an
sixth houses ! were the "smith's"
(blacksmith's) ahon op houa. 'a
little east and south of the three
original ones, and the one to be
occupied by Alanson Beers and
family. He was the-original black
smith. - - " . -
The seventh house was the one
of hewn logs built in, 1827-8 for
the doctor; the first' one, as Indi
cated heretofore, beiag Dr. EUJah
White. ' j
. That house was the one near
where the stake in the prairie wag
set for the starting point of the
Applegate survey, on the line that
ran between it and the hospital
the stake that was 24 chains from
not the PUD makes a reasonable purchase offer, certain
would violate the spirit of "due process." . i
t j Municipalities have been permitted to vote as units on
inclusion in a district, on the valid assumption that their in
terests are different from those of the nearby rural dwellers.
Penying them this right would not only be unfair but would
be likely to become a boomerang.
- In general, Congressman Pierced plea suggests that the
PUD people insist upon, being handed ' a few aces and kings
before the deal begins which does not greatly bolster their
argument for the intrinsic worth of the public power ideal H
Latest To Be Indicted in Louisiana Scandal
I s v.
' -
: 1 i .
v.-. , : i
w r
Nenrln T. Harris
Here are three more New Orleans officials Indicted
by a federal grand Jury In that city on charges of
usinr the maUs to defraud the New Orleans par
lab. Levee board of nearly 8500,000. Left to right.
XSUt rniDAT 1J70 Xa.
6:30 MiUuaia's Serenaa.
7:S0 Kews.
7 :S Weaternairet.
8:00 Uoraiag Mcditationi.
8:15 Ha ren ot Kert.
8:4S hews.
9:00 Ths Pastor's CsIL
S:li Happy Ganj.
0:30 Hilo Srenadr.
0:45 Radio Garden Club.
10:00 European wi.
10:15 News.
19:30 Morninj lftcazine.
10 :45 Thomas Conrad Sawyer.
ll:0O Stateaman of ta Air, Uaxiaa
ituren. Homes Editor.
11:15 John Airatw. Orcaaiat.
11:30 Piano Qaii.
11 :4 Women in ta cws.
11:50 Valua Parade.
12:15 Newa. ,
12:30 Hillbilly Serenade.
12:36 Willamette Valley Opinion.
ll:4i Uuiical Salnte.
1:00 Ted Fiorito Orcaestra.
1 :15 Interetrint Facta.
1:30 Lea Sa!v, Orcaaiat.
1:45 Elias Breeakia Orcbettra.
2:00 Our Kary.
2:15 Johnaon Family.
2:30 Newa.
2 :45 Manhattan Mother.
8:00 Faminina fancies. Salute
Salem.
3:30 Streamlias Swiof.
S:45 rulton Lwi, Jr.
4:00 Welcome Neighbor.
4:30 WOR Symphony.
8:00 Olinger Playground.
5:15 Shatter Parker.
6:30 Ernie Fiorito Orchestra.
5:45 Al Sack Orchestra.
6:00 Joe Reiehman Orchestra.
6:15 Uinnar Hour Ifelodiea.
6:45 Tonights' Headlines.
7:00 The Continectals.
7:15 Neiri Behind the Ken.
7:30 The Lone Ranger.
8 :00 Xewa.
6:15 D. S. Recording Stars.
8:30 Freddy Nigel Orchestra.
0:00 Newspaper of the Air.
9:15 Swingtime. ;
0:30 Mai Hallett Orchestra.
0:45 Pulton Lewis. Jr.
10:00 Mntzr Marcelino Orchestra.
10:15 Henry King Orchestra.
10:30 Carl Ravarza Orchestra.
11:00 Tomorrow's Sews Tonight.
11:15 Many Marcelino Orchestra.
11:30 tiarwood Vatt'a Orchestra.
SOW FRIDAY 620 Zc
6:30 Sunrise Serenade.
7 :00 News.
7:15 Trail B lasers.
7:45 Sam Hayes.
8 :00 Orchestra.
8:15 The ONeiUs.
8:30 Stars of Today.
8:50-40 Arlington Time Signal.
9:00 Eye ef the World. .
9:15 Let' Talk It Orer.
9:30 Meet Miss Julia.
9:45 Dr.' Kate.
10:00 Betty aad Bob.
Build Courthouse.
PWA Advice Here
Proper" for County now
to Act Alone Due to
PWA Liquidation
Marion county was informed by
tne PWA weaterdaw that now.
with PWA being liquidated. "It
would be proper"
to construct the
for the county
proposed new
with its own
courthouse here
arailable funds.
xnat taere ever was an
thought on the part of Uncle Sam
mat Marion county couldn't build
the courthouse by I t s e 1 1 it It
wisnea was somewhat of a sur
prise to the three-man county
court.
The i notice accomoanled th
county's applications papers sent
a when a 12(1.010 PWA loan for
the $550,000 courthouse project.
It cited that as no nw P C A an.
propriatloa was made by congress
the Kranarr: that was on th Hn
"between the hospital and the log
cabin southwest of the hospital."
There were nine honsM In all
at the "old" mission." The eighth
was the nospttal. The ninth was
the one on "the farm ,rrontl
opened by . a Canadian,!, which
uee naa pongnt tor . tne mission
a 1837., the house on the nnr.
chased farm ; to be ; occupied by
Rev. David Leslie and family and
Rev. H. K. W. Perkins and wife.
(Continued tomorrow.)
1 1 11
' , f "" ,-
f VVt - -l - V
7 I k v
s s , - " I ; X - '
" v 1
i '
.s ,r , I
"ft 1
VM-X-'.-. '''J
VaJ ) v " '
- '
Robert Newman
10:15 Arnold Grimms Daughter.
10:30 Valiant Lady.
10:45 Betty Crocker.
11:08 Stvry of Mary Marlia.
11:15 Ma Perkiae.
11:S0 Pepper Toung'a Family.
11:45 The Guiding Light.
12:00 Backstage Wife.
12:15 8tella Dallas.
12:80 Vie aad Sad.
12 : 45 Midstream.
1 lOO Organ.
1:15 Trio.
1:45 Hollywood Newt.
2:00 Stars of Today.
2:151 Lore a Mystery.
2:30 Weman'a Magazine.
3:00 Orchestra.
8:15 Jesse Crawford.
8:30 News.
8:45 Angler and Hunter.
4:00 Miss Trenta Ohildrea.
4:30 Stars of Today.
5:00 Walts Time.
5:30 Cocktail Hour.
5:45 Whimsical Swing.
6:00 Orchestra.
6:30 America Unlimited.
7:00 Orchestra.
8:00 Good Morning Tonight.
8:30 Deatk Valley Days.
9:00 I Want a Job.
9:80 Orchestra.
10 :00 Newa- Flashes.
10:15 Organist.
10:30 Orchestra.
11:00 News.
11:15 Orchestra.
.
XEX FRIDAY 1180 Kc.
6:30 Musical Clock.
7:00 Faanily Altar.
7 :30 Financial Sertiee.
7:45 Melody in 14 Time.
7:55 Market Quotations.
7:57 Cost and Pound Itesas.
8:00 Dr. Brock.
8:30 National Farm aad Home.
9:30 Patty Jean. -
9:45 The Market Broadcast.
9:45 Listen, Ladies."
10:30 News.
10:45 Alice Joy.
11:00 Fashion Muaicale.
11:15 Current Erenta.
11-30 U. 8. NaTjr Band.
11:4j Between the Bookends.
12:00 Organ Concert.
12:15 Talk, O. M. Plummer.
12:30 News.
12:43 X'S Dept. Agriculture.
1:00 Market Reports.
1:03 The Quiet Hour.
1 :45 Orchestra. ,
. 2 :0O Curbstone Quia.
'3:18 Financial aad Grain Reports.
2 :20 Musical Interlude.
2 :25 News.
2:30 Orchestra.
2:45 Studio Party.
8 :00 Orchestra.
3:30 Four Belles.
8:45 ABC.
4:00 Thia Moriaf World.
4 : 1 5 Jamboree.
4:30 Don't Forget.
8:00 Plantation Party.
no federal allotment could be
made for the project.
The voters ot Marlon county
decided the question tor them
selves before PWA liquidation
was thought of -when they last
year rejected a special tax meas
ure designed to psy the county's
share ot the project's cost.
School Conference
Dates Calendared
The Marion county non-high
school board yesterday through
County Superintendent Agnes C.
Booth announced its itinerary tor
conferences with local school
boards over tuition contracts for
'Amazons' Husbands Bid Goodbye
' j'' 7TyZ
' ,
fit.
8 tif
f t" '
ii
V- i
f N ' i
- i
J 1
I
fMookeri sed when tirU ef tit women's territories kissed
& SafS4- "ba odbye at Sarrey, EngiandAman.
left for annual training under canvas. But with nrt!!!- tf!!!yiu
m Europe, London fir. this ceJedy Sy ttgSt&ZSS
i
1"
1
-
Herbert W. Vfaugepack
they are Norvin T. Harris, member of the bond
firm; Robert Newman, said to be one of the richest
men In the state, and Herbert W. Waugepexk, a
member of the Leree board In 1937.
5:80 Problem Corner.
5:45 Cowboy Rambler.
6 .00 Ladder ai Faaao.
6:45 Freshest Thing in Town.
7:00 Frank Wataaabe.
7:15 Fire in the Movataine.
7:20 Musical Interview.
8:00 Sperts Reporter.
8:15 Newt.
8 .86 BesebalL
10:15 Earle Seller.
10:30 Dog Race Retnrna.
10:85 Orchestra.
11:00 Organist.
11:45 Sports FiaaL
e
KOHr FRIDAY 840 Ka.
: 15 Market Reports.
20 KOIN Klock.
00 It Happened la Hollywood.
: 15 KOIN kloek.
:45 News.
:00 Military Band.
15 Whea a Oirl Marries.
;30 Romance of Helen Treat,
?45 Our Gal Sunday.
00 Goldbergs. ,
8
9
9
9
9
10
10
mie can ale BeautlraL
:30 Consumer News.
:5 Tours Sincerely.
:00 Big 8ister.
:30 Singing Organist.
:5 DaTia Cup Drawings.
:00 This and That.
45 News.
:uo Pretty Kitty Kelly.
:3 Myrt and Marge.
:30 Hilltop House.
:45 Stepmother.
:00 Scattergood Baiues.
:15 Dr: Susan.
:30 Siagia' Sam.
: 45 Organist.
:00 Fletcher Wiley.
:15 Hello Again.
:00 Newspaper of tka Air.
:30 Shadows.
:0 Professor Quia.
-.30 Krat Nighter.
:0O Grand r.ntr.l Si.i:..
i 10
I 11
II
12
i:
12
12
s
6
6
:30 BelieT It or Not.
7
7
00 Amos 'n' Aadr.
:15 Lum and Abner.
7
8
8
9
10
10
10
Jonnny Freaeata.
:30 News and Reriewa,
5 Memory Street.
: 15 Orchestra.
:00 Fire Star Final.
: IS- rVi artetmT Yaana
:30 Orchestra.
e ' i
KOAC FRIDAY 660 SCa
9:00 Today's Program a.
9:03 The Homemakers! Hear.
10:00 Weather Forecast.
10:30 Views of tka Newa.
11:00 Variety.
11:30 Music of tka Master a.
12:00 Newa.
12:li Farm Hour.
6:00 Dinner Concert.
6:15 News.
6:30 Farm Hour.
8:15 The BuaiaeaT' Hour.
8:45 Music of the Masters.
the new school year. The sched
ule ronows:
Thursday. Sentpmhor t r.e
ferson, 9 a. m.; Turner, 10:30
a, m.: Aumarille, 1 p. m.; Stay
ton, 2:30 p. m.; Mill City, -4:30
p. m.
Friday, September 8: Silverton;
o:aw a. m.; tscotts Mills, 11 . m.:
Canby, 1:30 p. m.; Hubbard, S
p. m.: Woodburn. 4:30 n. m
Dates will be set for .the .'fol
lowing week for meetings with
other district boards not includ
ed ib me present scheduled trips.
' ' ' j
Prunes Worth $600,000
MILTON-FREEWATER In
31.--(P) The nearly-harvested
prune- crop will gross 1800.000,
it was esumated today by valley
yivuutciB,
va I
CPira itDne
vx By DOROTHY
ECBASEZ ILVFAME1
Do yon feel as I do a fantastle,
..imllVa " ml onalltv abaat
everything that has happened in
this week of l I
strain 7 some
thing ominous,
which Is not fear
ot war? ' Some
thing that fills
the nerves with
(orebol I n tv
which Is not fore
boding of a great
struggle? A sense
of sickness a si
though all the j;
nrll ail aar. iw"v"
body In It, and yon end I. were
sick in our nerves and in out
brains and in our hearts. A
We hang on our radios and lis
ten to persuasive voices retailing
tiaara anil . MntrnTtfntr" ajrents.
CI listen to my own voice on the
m1I lntrnrrlne'' OTATita. It
seems like somebody else's voice.)
We read the diplomatic notes
ezenangea oeiween tne neaas oi
states. (Never did they seem more
use neaus oi states." Never less
like spokesmen for nations of
people.)
The letter of Premier Daiadier
on Saturday to Adolpfa Hitler.
"Very esteemed Herr Reichskan
seilort ... In this hour . . . se
vere responsibility ... No doubts
as to my amicable reelings .
Strengthen neace . . . Assert -an
nnrlrht rrWnraHnn' .
And tne reply or aooii Miner:
I, too, have neyer overlooked
. . rrave resoonsibllities . . . old
front fighter . . .-horror of wsr
. . . tried honestly to remove
tried vear after year . . . clear de
cision made difficult ... do not
doubt my sense of honor
The Issues are carefully phrased
and formulated. Nations are per
haps preparing'for war. The
heads ot states are writinar the
White Papers now by which his
tory will judge tnem. Tne issue,
thv aar. la not Dan lie or the
Corridor. The issue, they say. Is
whether Germany is willing to
rtppntiar without threat of force.'
Britain, France and Poland
who are Britain, France and Po
land? Did you ever meet them?
havei asked for peaceful negotia
tions. Germany who is Germany?
Did yon ever meet It? demands
immediate "righting ot a great
wrong."
:
The words are all hollow. It
makes one sick to listen to them
wherever they come from, on
all sides. And now I know whst
it Is that gives ns this sense of
sickness. It Is that nobody in the
world Is saying one simple truth
f ul word.
Nobody is saying not only what
he thinks but what he knows. What
everybody knows. And that sim
ple truthful word is that the world
will go on like this, in crisis after
crisis, as long as the Instruments
of power of a great nation are in
the hands of a man who is. an ar
sonist, a liar, a murderer, a black
mailer and a thief.
This is what makes us sick In
side. The word which Is meant to
say strona-. true thinss that everr.
body knows, that every newspa
per correspondent has known for
years, mat Mr. Chamberlain
knows, and. Lord Halifax knows,
and Monsieur Daiadier knowa
and! the common people all over
the world know, not excluding
millions or Germans.
-
We know that Germany is ruled
by-a gang-. By the super-racketeers
ef history. We know that
they come into nower hv 11a hv
promises that they never intnrirt
o keep, by throwing the country
into; a panic; mat they made a
final coup de grace by setting fire
to their own Reichstag and by
biaminr It on somebodv that
a year later they went on a ram
page of wholesale murder: we
know that It is they who "occupy"
a great countrr. and iiy tor
tured the innocent, stolen the na
tions! wealth, often for their own
personal uses, and preyed, like
pirates, on the world.
We know that Hitler has hrnv.n
every promise that he ever gave.
tie maae a non-irrrinn nat
with! Poland In 1934 at the point
ot Marshal Pilsudskl's pistol, for
the late Marshal Pilsndski nnriar.
stood the nature of Mr. Hitler and
his movement Hitler broke It uni
laterally the moment he was readr
to strike. In between on
, w .UUi
different occasions the dates are
Jan. zs. 1535: Nov. fi. 19S7- r.k
20. 1938. and Sent. 19 it,J
reiterated publicly that he was sat-
isnee. with the present arrange
ments re rar dinar Poland ami that
there was no cause of contention
Detween the two nations. His For
eign Minister Rlbbentron. a lata
as Jan. 28, 1S39, denied that Ger
many nad any quarrel with Po
land; And on Sent, ffi lias navu.
in the Sportpalast in Berlin, nit.
ier saia: -rn sndetenian i-
last territorial demanri t ha.
make in Europe."
Therefore all this talk about
peaceful negotiations" i hnnv
and everybody knows it Every
body knows that you cannot make
any kind of
threat or force or without an.
mresi oi iorce. dnrinr a mnh i.
tionl Or Without: a niASnllnlt..
that! will be worth anything from"
one nay io anouier with the pres
ent r government" of flarmtn
Everybody knows that thia aroV,
ernmeot .rules by a camarilla,
and a. Pretoria n nnarif nt einV
tangs, lniormers, terrorists and
professional liars calling them
selves propagandists; that it has
corrupted' the word, the word of
truth, as It has never. 'been cor
rupted.
Everybody knows that jthis gov
ernment fills Sll countries with Ita
spies and propagandists nrona-
gandiats who have not even any
thing to.prooarate: rerolntioniata
without a revolutionary Idea;
idealoglsts without an Ideology;
for where is the Ideology that can
make a front against Communism
ana swir.cn from one moment
to
the next to
a "Hell Hitler Rot
Front!"
Th Frenchmen ) tl.. tvt.
- - uw nnv tuia
year have marched tt tka
Une have not gone In order to set
cure the right to "peaceful nego
tiations." The Englishmen mnd
I
aemaeea
EBecapn'oil
THOMPSON
women who have equipped them
selves with gas masks and pre
pared for air raids for the sec
ond timethis year have not done
it for a legalistic conception. They
are not prepared to fight for the
Polish Corridor or Danzig.
They are' prepared to fight to
get rid of Hitler. The cry In their
hearts is "End this infamy i End
this rule of blackmail! End this
barbarian persecution which is the
more disgusting because it justi
fies itself in unctuous words about
purity or race!' " -.'
e
Whatever the governments may
say in their diplomatic letters, the
people of the world are becoming
a posse on a man hunt. They are
after somebody who has been prey
ing on the world fsr too long
xnis is. tne truth that every,
body knows.
i e
And disgust fills every heart.
It rises, a gorge in every throat.
To get rid of a man, and a camaril
la around him. a whole world, a
whole civilization, three hundred
million people may have to go to
war. .
These people are alike In every
thing essential. They live in the
same kind of houses: with minor
variations they eat the same kind
of food; they work at the same
occupations; when they are per
mltted to they read the same books
and see the same plays; they lis
ten to the same music; they have
the same, hopes; they worship the
same God. -
Not one-of them anywhere in
the world wants to go to war. Xot
a Frenchman! not an Englishman
wants to bomb a single German
town; not a German wants to bomb
a single English or French city
To work up the Germans, the
Propaganda Ministry has to lnrent
the most egregious lies about
atrocities. It has to provoke retali
ations in order to claim that atroc
ities have been committed.
There la nn tieliaf in
in the status quo nor any desire to
preserve it. There is something
wrong with the status quo when in
all countries there is either tyran
ny and slavery or unemployment
and chaos. '
The people of the world feel,
somehow, in their nerves and
hearts, and in their minds, too.
that we might just as well be
standing at the beginning of a
great era of intelligent and af
fectionate co-operation as at the
beginning; of universal destruc
tion. The will to that era ia every
where in all countries, and not
least of ail, in Germany. But it Is
being strangled to death. It is not
only at Danzig that a hand is on
the windpipe of a people strug
gling for breath. It is through the
length and breadth of this earth.
That hand must be taken away.
a
The leaders of states must know
this, i And woe betide a govern
ment that brings back far the
second time in six months its sol
diers from the trenches with an
other little victory for Hitler!
Copyright. 1939, New York .
Tribune Inc.
sC'larklA1a4alA aPlaI..
Stage 4H Show
Champion Animal Shown
1 11? n
uj Alice noDeris in
necent Judging . j
Champion animal r tt.. sm.
erdale dairV
l0v.L4"H show heI Tuesdav was1
exhibited by Alice Roberta it . !
announced yesterday. Rirhard !
Jensen won a calf awarded by
Wallace Rich e fr- k.. a .
animal shown. !
The show was held at the
Cloverdale school with Ovid O.
nckard. Marlon nwnr k.
world's . champion cow as judge.!
Lawrence Roberts. Sr t. laaHoi
of the club and the 'cloverdale
armers Union sponsor.
vie class awards included:
Tearlrnr rlaea in.. di
iirst; Richard Jensen, second.
Senior ralf t... t.i.i )
. ,w . - cai i u sers,
first; Herbert Booth, second.
. moI cair cUm: Alice Roberts,
flrstr Buddy Richards, second;
Ned Jensen, third. .
Sheep . class. one exhibit:!
pinkie Hedges, first; Herbert I
Booth second, and Carl Schif
ferer, third.
University Group I
Planning Retreat
ThJfan"tPlannm8 retreat for'
the University vespers group will
?PB tbo coast cottage of Col.
and Mrs. Carl Abrams at Road s
End in a few weeks. Tentative I
dates- have been set for Septem- I
ber 18-19. 2diss Margaret Upjohn, j
chairman of worship for the grousj :
wilt act as hostess. j
This is the fourth annual plan )
ning retreat ot the group.
Dick McNees is the incoming
president of TTnivsraitir v..nnr.
and lias a large staff of co-workers
to assist him In planning tbsj
year's work. The weekly psrticl- :
paiion of the camDus srrouD last
year at First church was' near
the 600 mark.
Mutual -Don Lee
Salem
on
Feminine Fancies"
Today
3:00 P. M.
? over
MBS--1360 Kc
Salutes