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The UKEUON STATESMAN, Salem, . Oregon, Friday Morning, September 8, 1939
(BrcfiDtttatesmatt
"No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall AweT
i From First Statesman. March IS, 18S1
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
'Charles A. Sprague', President
The AmocUled Pre to .dutfToiy entitle to thr use 'Sb,'c;
.Hs "lapatcbe. credited to U or not otherwise credited lo
itlon
this paper.
' (jacldng the Siegfried Line
Shortly after "primitive man learned to do some of his
fighting- at long range-by throwing stones--one whose aim
was a mUe poof or whose supply was runing low or who ,waa
just a bit more resourceful than the rest, ducked behind a
tree or boulder, and in that instant invented what we modern
ly know as fortification. ' uit..
But immediately his adversary was faced with the ineces
sity for inventing ways to overcome the advantafire of forti
fication ; and when he had done so, the fortified onehadto im
. prove his shelter. By the Middle Ages, feudal warriors i wre
building those massive castles of stone with moats and draw-bridges-and
still attackers found ways to circumvent them.
Gunpowder borrowed from the Chinese was a great boon to
the attack, rendering obsolete most of the fortifications ill
existence at the. time. m ... ut
Warfare subsequently became more mobile and fortifi
cation went into eclipse; but with the development of weapons
so deadly that open fighting meant mutual suicide, resort was
had in the World war to trenches, utilizing Mother Earth as
the principal element of protection. But once agam offensive
ingenuity gained the upper hand. Trenches were blown up, or
stormed and captured. ; . " -.. ...
Now the totally new thin brought into use with the
opening of the new European war is the "permanent trench ,
the theoretically impregnable underground fortification. Two
more 6r less parallel lines of such fortifications stretch along
the French-German border; the Maginot line, on the French
side and the Siegfried or Limes line on the German side.
On the Maginot line all that meets tlie eye is a row of
"mushrooms", from which protrude the guns which are pre
pared to pour a withering fire upon any attacking force, the
gunners equipped with charts which show exactly wherV to
f tha aiTtiiinr Amp tn tmlverize a foe anywhere in view. Out
in front are rows of upright steel posts to thwart a tank at
tack. Down below is a veritable city, with sleeping and living
quarters underneath 20 feet of reinforced concrete. If one
section of the line should be captured, steel "bulkhead" doors
will isolate it. Even poison gas cannot penetrate this strong
hold, for greater air pressure inside will hold it out.
Across No Man's Land is the Siegfried line, upon which
Hitler depends toJceep the French and English out of Ger
man V while he mom xm on Poland. The casual student of cur
rent European affairs which
sumed that the Siegfried line was more or less a repuca oi me
Maoinnt line anrl that it was eauallv imoreirnable. Therefore;
the world was thrilled at reports that 'the French had
"cracked" the Siegfried line. .
These reports then turned out to be too sweeping; the
French had driven the Germans out of the front line of
"Dillboxes' and back to the main fortifications a consider
able feat in itself but not nearly
upon the main defenses is yet to come. '
r However, it is a mistake to assume that the Siegf ried
line is as stronsr as the Maeinot line. The latter was built leis-
urely and with painstaking thoroughness over .a period of
" years. The greater part of the Siegfried line has been built
hastily by a half million conscripted laborers within little
. more than a year. It was reported virtually completed in May,
but there were reports even then that all was not to Hitler's
likinfir and that a shakeuo m
general it is agreed that this line is not the equal of the Mag
inot line, partly because of haste and lack of resources, part
ly because of the German theory of military mobility; the line
was built not solely for defense, but as a base for attack; it
is more open, more above-ground.
; Yet military experts agreed last spring that cracking the
Siegfried line would be "impossibly expensive" and you
know what that means. Expensive in human life. But the
French, selecting the weakest point in the line, are bent on
, cracking it, And if history is any criterion, they will, just as
their forbears armed with cross-bows and broadswords scaled
the walls of those old stone castles which now make such pic
turesque ruins. .
Progress and Poverty" Through the Years
Periodically in American
perity has walked out of the corn belt into the arms of the
populace, advertising hope for all and two calves, for every
cow. He has been met by bitter denunciation from the east,
which sees in such maneuvers red ruin and the breaking up
of laws; with circus day-publicity banners on every barn in
the midwest; and usually with a violent political battle at the
polls. In the latter the high priest of a new order is usually,
bested; times get better of their own accord, and before long
the whole matter climbs into a niche in the history books, con
tent to find surcease there from worldly cares.
This, roughly, has been the experience of Greenbackers,
Populists, Free Silverites. and others who have sought, in all
sincerity, jto crack the public jackpot for the benefit of one or
another group. This may be the experience in the present day
of Townsenders and Thirty-Thursday advocates; certainly it
was the experience of one old-time spell-binder of a better
day. Henry George, whose hundredth birthday occurred last
Saturday. ,
Henry George, almost from birth, made a profession of
poverty. As an indigent sailor he came to San Francisco in the
'60s, married, and settled down to a life of nothing. This ex
perience he never forgot, and it later became the mainspring
of the writings which made him famous. .
j As a poor printer, and then as a poorer reporter, George
labored away dn the banks of the Golden Gate. But one day,
while riding, he was stirred by a new vision, the light of
- which he spent the next 30 years in spreading to all the im
poverished classes of the western world. His great idea, brief
ly was this: Land, in itself, isworthless. Only if people live
on it or within range of it does it have any value in itself. It
produces crops of diferent kinds, but these are the outcome of
the cultivator's capital improvements and his toil; they repre
sent only income which is definitely earned. Npt so with he
value of land which comes only from its location : this is mere
ly value which is Conferred by "all of society, by the fact that
society naturally tends to specialize, and to depend on differ
ent members for. different things. Therefore, all; the value of
land which is the result of society should be taxed away for
the common treasury, while the occupier should be left in pos
session of all the -proceeds from his improvements and his
toil. This wis the famous "single tax" idea which figured in
his most f ambus bookj,f Progress and Poverty," and in most of
his writing and lectures thereafter.
His proposal, which he considered a sure-fire, means of
ending poverty was variously
onomists of great learning and little else; by Tammany poli
ticians who, lacked even the great learning; and by Theo
dore Roosevelt-1 George traveled widely in this country, and
in England ahd Ireland, preaching the emancipatory gospel
of the single tax, and warding off the blows of less acute pro
phets of his own stamp who thought their own ideas were
even better, . . ' s . . . , -. .
, - ' George's plan for the taxing of all economic rent was no
touchstone from which could
economic ills ; the problem was not, and is not, so simple as
all of that. He failed to see unearned increment? in capital
and in labor (cfreny movies
fied to be taxed away as the
describes most of ushad as
so significant. The assault
military officers resulted. Jn
history some prophet of pros
- criticized by professional ec
be drawn the nostrum for all
star) if which was as well quali
unearned portions of the price
Bits for
Breakfast
By ! R. 4. HENER1CK3
Slanders against Oregon 9-8-39
pioneers concerning their
treatment : ot the Indians
found here in the early days:
(Continuing from yesterday:)
Think of the idiotic statement
that "In the Oregon legislature,
the subordinate Indian agents,
the Methodist clergy, and the
Know-Nothing political party, all
were directly implicated in car
rying on systematically a series
ot massacres which o sane
Imagination would describe as
they officially described it As an
'Indian war.'-. Women were regu
larly' clubbed to death, and in
fants dashed against; trees."
"In the, Methodist- clergy, the
Oregon . legislature," ad absurd
um! 1 ! I Any one at all convers
ant with j early Oregon history
knows those charges and impli
cations to be false; maliciously
so. ;".
This Bee son skunk should . at
this point be sized up. 'Bancroft's
writer of Oregon History, Fran
ces Fuller Victor, gave him some
attention, page 404 of volume 2,
though she herself, when she
came to write her own book, "In
dian Wars of Oregon. found no
room for him; evidently thinking
be was not w o r t h It. On the
page named, one finds Bancroft
saying: j -
About i this time a person
(note "a person") named John
Beeson, a foreigner by birth, but
a naturalized citizen of the V. S.,
who had emigrated from 111. to
Rogue Riter in 1853, wrote let
ters to the papers, in which he
affirmed ! that the Indians were a
friendly, hospitable, and generous
race, who had been oppressed un
til forbearance was no virtue,
and that the war of 1853 and the
present war were Justifiable on
the part of the Indians and atro
cious nj the part of the whites.
He supported his views by quo
tations from military officers and
John McLoughlin, and made
some good hits at party politics.
He gave a truthful account of
the proceedings of the Democra
tic party; but was unjust to the
people of southern Oregon as he
was censorious toward the gov
ernor and his advisers, and ex
cited much indignation on either
hand. I
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He. then began writing for the
S. P. j Herald, and the fact be
coming known that he was aiding
in the spread of prejudice already
created against the people of
Oregon by the military reports,
public meetines were held to ex
press indignation. Invited to one
of these, without notification . of
purpose, I Beeson had the mortif I
cation of having read one of his
letters to the Herald, which had
been Intercepted for the purpose,
together with an article in the
N. Y.i Tribune supposed to ema
nate from) him, and of listening
to a series of resolutions not at
all flattering. 'Fearing violence,
he says, fl fled to the fort for
protection! and was escorted by
the U. S. troops beyond the scene
of excitement.' Beeson published
a book of 143 pages in 1858
called A Plea for the Indians.'
in which he boasts of the protec
tion given: him by the troops, who
seemed tp regard the volunteers
with contempt.
He seemed to hare found his
subject popular, for he followed
up the 'Plea with 'A Sequel.'
containing an 'Appeal in Behalf
of the Indians: Corresoondence
with the British Aboriginal Aid
Association: Letters to Rev. H.
W. Beecher in Which Objections
Are Answered: Review of a
Speech Delivered by the Rev.
Theodore Parker: A Petition in
Behalf of the Citizens of Oregon
and Washington Territories for
Indemnity on Account of Losses
Through Indian Wars: An Ad
dress to the Women of America,'
etc. ; In addition, Beeson deliv
ered lectures on the 'Indians of
Oregon in Boston, where he ad
vocated his peculiar views.
"At one of these lectures he
was confronted by a citizen of
Washington Territory, Sayward's
Pioneer! Reminiscences. MS.. 8-
10; and at a meeting at Cooper
Institute, ! New York, by Captain
Fellows of Oregon Oregon
Statesman Dec. '28, 1858. It was
said that in 1860 he was about
to atart a paper in New York, to
be called The Calumet: Rossi's
Souvenirs. In 1863 Beeson en
deavored to get an appointment
in the Indian department, but be
ing opposed by the Oregon sena
tors.! failed Oregon Argus. June
8, 1883," - ;
(A "fat chance-w o u 1 d the
Beeson person have to get such
an appoinment with the approval
ot United States Senators James
W. Nesmith and Benjamin F.
Hardin of Salem, in. 1863. Ne
smith had served in the Rogue
River war of 1853, and knew how
much "abused" those Indians
were. He had passed through
their country in 1848, and knew
them as cowardly butchers and
thieves. He had been the inter
preter at the famous September
10, 1853, meeting on Table Rock.
General! Joseph Lane presiding,
when he and his 10 white com
panions i escaped with, their lives
through! a-miracle; the miracle
being: the wonderful handling of
the conference by Lane.)
Then, too,- Senators Nesmith
and Harding knew the facta re
ferred to in the words "about this
time,' in introducing the matter
on the : "person named - Beeson"
by the Bancroft writer. j -
The time was around May 27-8,
1856,. when the Battle , of the
Meadows was fought: the days
just! preceding the last stand of
old Chief John. No normal per
son clothed in his right mind, had
any, warrant to defend old John,
of land. In addition to his theoretical deficiencies, he failed
to understand the importance of industrial advancement in
economic life, much as the Physiocrats of France had done a
century earlier. Altogether though his hooks attained enor
mous currency, and his influence was felt in American poli
tics on more than one occasion, he failed to work any deep
change In political or economic life in thi3 country. His ideas
were pushed aside with increasing prosperity in the '80a and
'90's; and his name passed from the lips of the common man
to those of the economic theorist and antiquarian.
"R
edheads Are
CHAPTER S4.
Carol. Mike and Wish sneaked
out to the Sutler's pantry and
made themselves some sand
wiches. They laughed a good
deal as Wish made Mike forget
how hurt and miserable she was.
Carol was perched on a Bench,
eating olives and gesturing as
she gave' advise. ,
"I keep telling her. Wish, she's
a foor to spoil Handsome, sue
won't be able to manage him.
t couldn't do a thing with Dusty
it I didn't put my toot down,"
Carol gave - a fin imitation- ot
putting, the foot down, except
that her heel hit Wish's ', toe.
The din from the other room
was increasing. ... . '
More people had come, so they
had to leave their little retreat
and join the rest " in the noisy
drawing room. Just then a pretty
blonde exclaimed: "Must we take
her along, too?" -
Baby Talk.
Certainly! Handsome - re
torted. He thought it was fanny.
Then looking straight at Mike,
the pretty blond continued: "But
Handsome, if we told her we
didn't want her to go along.
would she come just the same?"
The blonde used baby talk very
effectively, and everybody howled.
Mike forced a laugh, too.
The party continued. Mike was
seething Inside.
Tm going home. Wish, she
said at last.
"I wouldn't, I think it would
be a mistake, Mike."
"I'm tired. I have to get to
work early in the morning. I, live
in Brooklyn and I caVt stay out
all night! ' Mite's temper wasJ
up.
'Take it easy. We don't , win
a world s championship every
day."
But the whole thing got too
much for Mike. Finally she went
over and pushed her way through
the admiring women again and
announced she had to leave.
Handsome came over to her
when she came out of the bed
room with her coat and hat on.
"If yoo do this silly thing, you'll
be sorry." His voice was flat
as he tried to keep down his
anger. .
"Handsome, I'm tired, and
bored. I'm going home. Please,
let's not quarrel." She did not
explain that she felt dowdy, the
only woman in the room not
wearing a dinner dress.
I m not quarreling. I said not
to go! His anger blazed through.
Wish tried to intervene. "You
stay, Mike."
Grand!
I haven't had time to con
gratulate you yet, Handsome. But
it was grand:
Thanks." He stood looking at
her, begging her, silently, not to
go.
I can't go, Mike. You're mak
ing it hard for me, please stay."
'Good night!" And Mike was
out the door with Wish follow
ing.
Mike was weeping hysterically
when she got into Wish's car.
He let her cry for a long time.
until they reached the Brooklyn
bridge. Then he tried to soothe
her. ...
Wish let her out at her door,
and she slipped into the hall
way. When he'd gone she
walked around the block many
times until all the lights were
dimmed in their apartment, ex
cent the one in Jimmie's room
Then she went into the house. J
It wasn't until the next day
that Mike first heard ot the girl
called Iris Hansen.
Mike did not see Handsome the
next day. Had she known it was
to be three days before she would
see him, she could not have en
dured it She did her work,
smiled and chatted, talked end
lessly about Handsome's world
series triumph. And she lived
from minute to minute, Just wait
ing to hear his voice.
The first morning she wrote a
little note, and left it tn his box
at the desk. When he had not
come by noon, she contemplated
telephoning him. . But she could
not endure the thought of Ray
Travis being there to hear. As
the newspapers came in, she ran
through all of them to see just
what each said about yesterday's
victory. In them she came across
the photograph ot Handsome and
a girl called Iris Hansen, In
one of the tabloids. It was taken
at the Inferno. It showed crowds
around his table, asking for auto
graphs, ana the girl called Iris,
sitting beside him.
Famous Now. . ,
Mike was more reasonable
this morning. Sneaking to hen
self, she thought in this wise:
"I must expect that. He's a fam
ous person. Hell be photographed
with many people. I must keep
my head." . . .
Six o'clock. Mike slowly
checked up stock. He had not
called, nor stopped to see her.
Desperately she wondered if he
had received her note. She could
not walk across that lobby to see
whether It was still in his box.
who was a savage as cruel and
relentless as psychopathic Adolph
Hitler was ever imagined.
V -
The "person named John Bee
son" was encouraged somewhat
by the quarrel which existed
while he was in southern Oregon
between General John E. Wool
and the territorial officers and
the militia of Oregon i and Wash
ington. General Wool was in
charge of regular army affairs on
the Pacific coast I
WhUe he was afterward useful
in high commands during the
Civil, war, he showed himself a.
narrow and - bumptious martinet
on this coast, with the Idea that
our pioneers; and their soldiery
did not know how to handle In
dians, while, of course, he and
his regular army people knew all
about such matters! !
(Concluded tomorrow.) V
By Vera Brown
The. beUboys would know, and
the room clerk. She couldn't!
Mike waited until seven. Then
she started tor home. Bat she
could not go there; She walked
over to Fifth avenue and got on
top of a bus. She- rode for a
long time, way up town and then
back again to 42nd street , At
home they'd think she was with
Handsome and they, wouldn't
question her. It was well after
11 when she got home. ' Tonight
her mother was waiting.
"1 wanted to talk - to you,
dear. Mrs. - Shannon had: been
dozing in her chair. - She looked
faded and old, and Mike's heart
smote her. ' , t
"Yes, Mother,' she answered.
"Tell me all about the big
day. And what did you two do
tonight?"
Mike made some kind of
answer but Mrs. Shannon sensed
that something was wrong. "I
saw that photograph in the paper.
Mike. That's not right."
Mike laughed. "Mother, dear,
he'B . famous. We must expect
that. He'll hate a lot ot pictures
in the newspaper with a lot of
people. We must get used to the
idea. Don't yon worry!" , She
dropped a kiss on her mother's
head. "Go to bed now, Jimmie's
awake but m read him to sleep."
Waited Up.
He waited up for yon last
night. Mrs. Shannon' said.
I just couldn't get home any
earlier," but Mike could, not meet
her mother's eyes.
Jimmie's were sharp too. But
she managed to satisfy him with
her story of the game. That night1
after he got into bed, Mary
was awake and she had to report
further. There was no escape
for Mike.
Next morning, before she left
the house, she wrote Handsome
another little note. She dropped
it into the box at Times Square,
knowing it would reach him by
midafternon at the latest. "
At noon, Mr. Downey asked her
to take some newspapers to the
board room where the receivers
were meeting. That gave her a
chance to walk past the desk,
glance at Handsome's box. Her
note of yesterday was still there.
"He'll call me in a. little
while." Mike was getting Jumpy.
Tonight was the dinner given
by sports fans to the winning
team. There's to be speeches and
presents. It was a stag dinner and
Mike planned to go home and
listen to the broadcast with Jim
mle. "Ill feel better for he wIU
call me then." ,
Another day. Mike fled home
to hear the banquet put on the
air. When Handsome's voice
sounded, with its pleasant laugh
ing drawl, she had to make an
excuse to leave Jimmie's bedside.
She could not bear it, so natural
and casual.
Another day. And no word
from Handsome. The people at
the hotel were beginning to whis
per. Mike and Handsome had
had trouble. She wasn't seeing
him any more. Nobody dared ask
her. Toward night Wish came
by, stopped off to talk to her.'
Even Wish didn't dare ask. The
hurt in her eyes was too deep. He
did not i have the courage. Ho
talked about Handsome casually.
. KSUC FRIDAY 1370 Ke.
6:30 Milkman's Serrnad.
7:30 Sjw.
8:00 Morning Meditations.
8:15 Haven ot Kest.
8:45 Newt.
9:00 The Pastor's CaU.
9:15 Happr Gang.
9:30 Al Sack Orchestra.
9:45 Radio Garden Club.
10:00 Sam Koki Hawaiian.
10:15 News.
10:30 Morning Kagatia.
L0 :45 Thomas C'cnrsd Sawyer. '
11:00 Maxino Bnrea, Wonea's Editor
of Tn Statesman.
11:15 The Cotitir.rntals.
11:0 Piano Quis.
11:45 Women in the Kewa.
11:50 Value Parade.
12:5 News.
It: SO Hillbilly Serenade.
12:35 Street Reporter.
12 :5 Musical Salute.
1:00 TBA.
1:15 Interesting Facta.
1 .30 Len fialro. Organist.
1.45 Popular Salute.
2:00 Our NaT.
2:15 The Johnson Faaaili-.
2:30 Kewa.
2:45 Manhattan Mother.
8:C0 Feminine Fancies.
3:30 Stremline Swing.
3:45 Fulton Lewis, jr.
4:00 Welcome Keighbor.
4:30 WOR Symphony.
5:00 J. Davis Orchestra.
5:15 Shelter Parker.
5:30 Music and Manner.
5:45 Gordon Country Choir.
6:00 Joe Reichman Orchestra.
6:15 Hilo Serenaders.
6:30 Friday Promenade.
6:45 'Tonight's Headlines.
7 :00 Symphonic Strings.
7:15 News Behind the Kewa.
7:30 The Lose Banger.
8:00 Xew.
. 8 -15 Wnternaire.
8:0 Johnny DaTia Orchestra.
9 :00 Newspaper ot the Ain
9:15 Hits of Today.
9:30 Roring Reporters it the Fair ia
Saleas.
10:30 Leon Mojiea Orchestra from State
Fair.
11:00 Tomorrow's News Tonight.
11:15 Henry King Orchestra.
11:80 Garwood Van's Orchestra.
11:45 News, Views and Melody.
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KGW FKIDAT 20 Kc
6:30 Sunrise Serenade.
7:00 News.
7:15 Trail Blasers.
7:30 Musical Clock.
7:45 Ssm Hayes.
8:00 Orchestra.
8:15 Th. O'Neills.
8:30 Stirs of Today.
8:59 Arlington Time Signal.
9:00 Eyes of the World.
9:15 Let's Talk It jOe.
9:30 Meet tlisi Julia. u
9 :4S Dr. Kate.
16:00 Betty sad Boa.
10:15 Arnold Grimm's Daughter.
10:10 Valiant Udr. .-
(-10:45 Betty Crocker. r
(1:09 Story of Mary atarlia.
11:15 Ma Perkins.
11 :10 Pepper Veaag'a Family.
tl:4 The Gaidiar Light.
13:00 Backstage Wife.
It:15 Stella Oolta.
12:80 Tii and Bade.
12:45 Midstream.
1:00 Orgs.
1:15 Trio. -
1 :30 Hollywood News. ' '
2:151 Lot a Myatery.
2 :30 Woman's Mags sine.
S :00 Orchestra.
8:15 Jesse Crawford.
8:80 News.
8:45 Angler and Haatef.
4 .-00 Miss Treat's Children.
4 :30 Star of Today.
5:00 Walta Timet. 1
5:80 Cocktail Hoar.
5 :40 Mnsicai Interlude.
5:45 In the Good Old Days.
. -00 Orchestra.
6:80 America Unlimited.
' 6:45 Orchestra. .
7 :00 Penney Iranians.
7 :SO Orcheitra.
6:00 Good Morning Tovigfcf.
8:80 Death Valley Day.
9:001 Want a Job. :
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aa, though' he was. unaware that
there was trouble.
- Who's Switched?
Perhaps It was seeing It in
black and -which which so terri
fied Hike. Next: morning when she
got to -work, somebody had left
a. newspaper marked for her to
see. 4 It was a paragraph in a
Broadway column:
"What national hero has
switched from a. redhead to
blonde, now that he's famous?"
Mike tucked: the" -paper away
and went on calmly. TodayfMike's
panic had . turned into rage. - If
he came, she ! wouldn't talk to
him! Today's newspapers Showed
photographs of Handsome with
the- new- car which ha been
given to him. i
Mike could ! work up a fine
case- of indignation against Hand
some. But, she would soften
soon. ; , She looked down at her
ring now and j then for reassur
ance. ' She knew Handsome loved
her. He couldn't get along with
out her. He'd said so. Then
anguish would engulf her. Three
days and she had not heard one
word from him!
Abjectly miserable, Mike went
to a movie that night, stayed
through two shows, huddled up
In the back row. It was a sad
picture. ... It was almost mid
night when she came home. But
the whole flat; was lighted. The
family was waiting up for her.
'Where have you been? Hand
some's been waiting to see you!"
Mary cried.
"He's got a swell new car!"
called Jimmie from the bedroom
"He took Mom and Mary for &
could- not answer. She
managed to say something about
working late, land went on into
her room. When Mary came, she
pretended she Was asleep ...
Next . day, at his usual break
fast time. Handsome came up to
the counter. Mike knew the head
bellboy edged ' closer to listen.
"Good morning, Mike. Sorry I
missed you last night"
"I'm sorry, too." She could
barely get the words out.
"Your mother invited me for
supper, tonight All right with
your
"Yes.
"What time are you through?"
"Six, as usual."
Odd how a few little: words
could make the world seem so
different! But when she climbed
in beside him in the handsome
new sedan, it was difficult for
tthem to talk. Mike blundered
in. everything : she tried, she was
so afraid of breaking down.
"I'm so sorry, Larry. Forgive
me."
"That's al right. I was furious
with you, but I got over It."
"I suppose I was childish."
"You were.'
His tone made Mike angry.
"You'd have been angry at me
under similar circumstances."
Angry?
"Do I ever get mad when the
boys talk to you, Mike?"
"Well, you all but broke your
pitching hand on Lee!"
"You know why I socked
Dusty?" Before Mike could
answer, he added, "By the way,
was your date, last night with
Ralston? He's in town. I saw
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By DOROTHY
' It Would', seem essential that
while we are considering means
of cushioning this country against
the economic
shock " of war,
and reconsider?
Ing whether the
existing neutrality-
legislation is
actually In the
best interests of
o v r neutrality,
we tshould also
rhave a- ntollcy
idopted regardV
Inr . nranmndi.
ly regarding propaganda on the
air. -
The spoken word is prorably
far more inflammatory than the
written word: The human voice
is a more potent conveyor of emo
tion than is the printed page; it
is less likely to appeal to reason;
it is more capable of being mis
understood; from time immemor
ial it has been used to sway and
control masses, and this possibil
ity has been incalculably aug
mented by the radio and the
power ot reaching millions.
During the past fortnight a
vast amount of time on the air
has been, given to broadcasting
the news from Europe, and. to
gether with the news that comes
from official bulletins and com
muniques and the reports of
American foreign correspondents,
we have listened day by day, on
short wave and on rebroadcast
ings of phonograph transcriptions,
to the official propaganda of for
eign governments.
This last, particularly, seems to
me to be of very doubtful policy.
It is technically impossible to
prevent the American people
from listening to the short-wave
broadcasting directly1 from all
countries, but I wonder whether
it is in the public Interest for
any great network to assist for
eign governments by relaying
their counsels to Americans so
that they are available to every
one with a radio.
Unless some general policy is
adopted one network doing this
will encourage other networks to
do the same out of competition.
This war is a peculiar war:
peculiar in many ways already,
and bound to develop day-by-day
surprises. But one of its most
powerful weapons will be sound.
This is the first war in history
which the whole world can hean
In one country at least, so far,
the war is being conducted by a
revolutionary government . which
has an incredibly perfected tech
nique of propaganda. This is
Germany, The Nazi regime over
threw the German Republic and
captured the instruments of
power Inside Germany largely by
an astute, ruthless, subtle and
cynical platform and radio propa
ganda. Each of its separate
campaign s against Austria,
Czecho-Slovakia, Poland and. now
against Britain and France was
preceded by a barrage of words
over the air. That barrage now
continues, both as an instrument
of war and as an instrument of
Nazi ideas.
It happens that of all the war
rine nations Nasi Germany has
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the strongest sending station on
tae continent, ueporta of the
Warsaw- Broadcasting: Comnan.
are very difficult to hear and
are transmitted by speakers with
a bad English accent. The
la) true for France. German v.
however", has an announcer whose
.ngusn is perfect and whose
voice, transmitted from a phono
graph record, is as clear as if
he were speaking from the United
States.
: ) '
The German rovernment itself
is bo aware of the nower of the
spokeu word that immediately on
the outbreak of the war it first
prohibited listening to foreien
broadcasts on pain of arrest, and
decreed the death sentence for
any one who reported further
what he might have heard. Fear
ing, apparently, that eren this
wag Inacequate. It then confis
cated all short-wave sets.
The British government has
done nothing to hfnder its popu
lation from listening to any for
eign broadcasts believing that the
die having been cast and Britain
engaged In a JIfe and death
struggle, its people are Immune.
Furthermore, we are assured that
there is no censorship of broad
casts from England by repre
sentatives of American broadcast
ing systems, except for reports
about military operations which
are. of course, forbidden to every
body. That Is apparently true,
but it may not remain so.
;
And certainly the broadcasts ot
American correspondents from
Berlin are not only censored but
apparently partially, ordered. I
heard two broadcasts this week
from American correspondents
which were obviously transmit
ting very clearly what the Ger
man government wishes the rest
of the world to know or think,
but which in the most relied way,
in a manner explicable only to
students of the German situa
tion, attempted to convey certain
other facts as clues to conditions
there.
Is It really in the public in
terest that this should go on?
o .
The German propaganda, un
like any other that I have heard,
relates also to the reporting, often
falsely, and always for propa
ganda, reasons of conditions in
the United States itself. It is,
of. course, primarily designed,
from this viewpoint, toward in
fluencing our neutrality policy.
But do we wish to have it in
fluenced by them, or by any one
else except bv ourselves?
'
What would be our policy if
Russia In one way or another
became directly Involved In the
war? Would we , wish the propa
ganda of the Soviet government,
which is also the center of the
Communist International, dis
tributed here, over the ether, by
courtesy of American networks?
, And, finally. In these ex
tremely critical times when, from
day to day, the most delicate
decisions must be taken by our
government for our safety and
security, do we' want a free-for-all
expression of the opinions of
individuals every time we turn
the dial?
Do we want to hear Gen. John
son, presented as a military ex
pert and presumably commenting
on military affairs, make remark
able (and most inaccurate state
ments) about why we entered
the last war?
What he said was Immediately
taken up by one country abroad
and retransmitted to the world as
an expression of American opin
ion. Or: do we. for that matter,
wish to hear Dorothy Thompson
except as she confines herself to
an attempted analysis of facts?
. This columnist, who Is seldom
inhibited about the expression of
convictions In the printed word,
is aware that on the air she is
exercising a brief monopoly of a
certain space of time over major
networks, and this, together with
the extraordinary power of the
spoken word, seems to her to
Justify the establishment of a
clear policy.
I do not presume to recom
mend a policy, but I do sug
gest that one should be made.
) ' .
. Also, it would seem to me that
the reports of the war, which
have Interrupted all programs,
might well be summarized into
two or three reports a day. For
one thlngr I do not see how, in
the long run, the present system
can go on without damaging the
press and bankrupting the broad
casting companies who must take
the time away from advertisers.
But apart from that, the news
Is exciting, and since we have to
keep oar heads cool. It would
seem wise to have our nerves
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