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The OREGON : STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Salurday Horning, Norember 25, 1939 PAGE FOUIt Noro Eobind Today 'o Nowa Two Hove Allies Advance . Ditb for B R J HKNi: KICKS Qui By PAUt tiALLON ' w.m east "No Favor Sways Us: No Fear Shall Aw J From first Statesman. Uarcb X. 1&1 . THE STATKSM AN Charles i Th AmrtaM Pr. U eaetasi - Moa if all oewe Siapatrb. ervditad tuta papr. Handcuffing It needs hardly be reiterated that The Statesman be - Sf5Sf ftlem and vicinity ought to patronize Sa- Unity. This is the best policy only T Hints contribute in taxes and otherwise to fare, bat also because their continued ration overjr period ofars is proof that they are responsible, that the goods they of to are as represented and that in case of a misunderstand tnz resulting in dissatisfaction, adjustment may -he .made to remedy the situation. None of these things are true with re spect to itinerant peddlers and solicitors. . On the other hand, when if comes to drafting and enact InW legislation which will force, rather than persuade, the res idents of a community to do their buying m this wise and prudent fashion, even if it can be done legally and without in justice, extreme caution is necessary; and there is no better proof of this than is contained in the peddlers ordinance passed hurriedly this week by the city council and now await ing position by the mayor. The essence of the ordinance bill is found in the section which makes it unlawful : . . .to go from place to place or from house to house carry m Ii A- Afhrinr tnr ala anT eoods. wares, merchandise or service not having been requested or Invited to do so by the owner. tenant or occupant or saw place.' The next section provides which we note with gratification, from a selfish standpoint, solicitation for newspapers and periodicals; The other major exemption would permit the sale of Oregon agricultural products. - . r However it should be observed that uninvited solicitation is prohibited not only in homes but in places of business. On the face of the ordinance a traveling salesman representing a wholesale house would break the law the moment he entered a retail store .to solicit an order. Insurance salesmen ana au tomobile salesmen would be prohibited from visiting business of f ices not to mention homes, if selling was their moti ve. And while The Statesman's circulation solicitors might call to sell subscriptions, its advertising solicitors and commercial print ing representative could go nowhere except where they were invited. - ' . - I ' ' Actually none of these regular salesmen would be effect ively handcuffed ; their work would merely be made unreason ably awkward. If they were welcome in any given business establishment, they could take the advance precautionjof ob taining a written or preferably, a printed invitation. Slf the ordinance goes into effect, our commercial printer will un dertake to furnish such invitations in blank at reasonable rates. - f - J- " ' - ; : . . - I -.. But by the same token, the citors would likewise be able to get tnemseives mvuea wiio homes and thus circumvent the serious purpose of the ordin ance bill. This would be the procedure of the food peddlers wrtnA activities inspired the drafting of the measure. There would be other solicitors who could not obtain such standing invitations because of the "one call nature of their business. Would the ordinance stop them? No, they would take to the relenrthne. where no ordinance in the world could get at them. ,And there are features of telephone solicitation which are nhieetionable than door-to-door canvassing. Some of nnr choicest frrfuds Are neroetrated over the telephone. On the other hand there hive manared to stav off the manufacturing businesses and selling their products from door to door. These praiseworthy entrepeneurs would be har assed by the ordinance in question; possibly forced onto re- lief. ; -; :-i-;-f--;i r "i The truth is that anv attemnt to handcuff business enter- prise is likely to prove not only unfair but futile. Govern ment, national or local, has only two legitimate concerns in connection with business ; taxation and protection of the pub lic It is entirely proper to require that peddlers obtain licen ses, for which they must pay fees in lieu of taxes, and to em power the licensing officer to refuse licenses in case the sell ing scheme involves fraud. But the license tax must be fair and not prohibitive, and any refusal of license must be based upon the public welfare and not upon anyone's desire to stifle competition. . ' Problem o Periodically the chaos on some semblance of order, like the dancing shapes of a kalei doscope. Yesterday, for no reason at all, the following arti cles appeared from nowhere at about the same time: 1. An editorial in a southern Oregon paper frankly anticipating war with Japan as an immediate or eventual outcome of Am erican denunciation of the 1911 trade treaty; 2. A news re port in which the Japanese ambassador expresses his opinion that it would be much better for both America and Japan to renew commercial relations instead of indulging in nose- thumbimr across the Pacific: Woodlock in the west coast edition of the Wall Street Journal in which he reviews the hypothesis of a French writer that the European struggle will inevitably turn into a conflict be tween orient and Occident rather than a war for balance of power or western ideologies.- There is nothing particularly remarkable about these articles except their sudden contiguity; yet in a way they raise into higher relief the problem of the significance of American-Japanese relations in their setting in world history. As an immediate problem, of course, the matter of the commer cial treaty with Japan is the most pressing. American sentl . cent is still strongly in favor of denying the little brown men the favor of American scrap-iron dumps, and is still willing to accept shipping stagnation and higher-priced (but better) crab meat in consequence. Nor it is likely that the Nipponese will go into such hysterics when they find the war. material shipments shut of f that they will send their fleet to bust up . the Golden Gate bridge in protest. ; - - Certainly the most interesting problem to toy with, and perhaps in the long run the most significant, is whether pres ent events are merely one stage in a long period of historical evolution looking toward a world-wide struggle for predomin ance (not actual domination) between, the ancient forms of oriental despotism and intolerance, and hard-wrung occiden tal principals of constitutionalism and individualism. The theory implies a Franco-English vs. German conflict, with the Italians harrying the Russians through the Balkans, and a f ull-biown Japanese war while the Russians roost on 'the sidelines so far as actual. fighting is concerned and take ac- . tion only when they march in claim an unmitigated despotism of America as they can chip off from both Japanese and Am ericans. Great future for "all concerned, . That nothing like this will bet, perhaps more." But ho one can deny that the deepest cur rents of history are those which are least apparent, and that as ret the Pacific problem has been given few. whirls in the present concentration on Europe. It is worth while occasion ally to take a look around the full azimuth, and to attempt to assay what may be new ships XThere Magna The copy of Magna Carta which has been on exhibit in ; Eriti-h ravilion at the New York world's fair, said to be 41- ; Izii cl th3 four early, copies till ia existence, will be .PUBLISHING CO. Sprague. Freemen c the ' Aactta rrees i sTIaaSrw! to tt a eo. otfcrwi. - " - far pahlloa i credit te the Peddlers - store, nuuaws, . uiuiis or certain exemptions, among itinerant peddlers and soli are many worthy citizens who relief rolls by developing home j the Pacific i ; .the editor's desk tumbles int6 and 3. a column by Thomas F. s" . to pickrup the pieces and pro in all of Europe and as much ever happen is at least a 40-60 in a strange quarter- Carta Is Safe History and destiny ot Salem linked - witk the story of missions, with, most strange starts: ' ( Continuing -from yesterday:. Had the sudden shower which , caused the famous "haystack meeting" not burst out from the clouds at its day and hour, there j would not hare been a Christian mission to found Salem. f Had Samuel John Mills' become a farmer on the land willed to him by his grandmother, which be Intended to be. Jason Lee l would not hare responded to the Macedonian call of the Indians be yond the . Rockies and Oregon's 1 capital might hare become Eoia, or Buena Vista, or Oregon City. Portland. Eugene. ; Corvallla,: or one of. a dozen other candidates. In 1S06. 133 years ago; Sam uel John MUls and three other student of Williams College, Massachusetts, caught In thnnder storm, took refuge in a havstack: thus resulted the fam ous bars tack r rarer meeting. The young men experienced deen religious feelings and made resolutions concerning their spir itual Urea and their clTic duties. In-1810, 129 years ago, Sam uel MUls, Gordon Hall, Adoniram Johnson. Samuel . Newell . ana Samuel Nott. at the house ot Prof. M. Stuart, organised what became the American Board ot Foreign Missions, made up then from the Congregational. Presby terian and Dutch Reformed churches. t .-':! .;: . I; That haystack prayer meeting opened a new era in the History of civilization. It marked a change, an upward trend In ; the worldwide . ideals -of universal brotherhaod. Those Ideals have suffered many 1 jolts, but their threads hare widened from tnat rainT day. They date back to the Sermon on the Mount and other expressions of the Golden Rule, positive and negative. The hay stack prayer meeting represents the beginning of the time when there was a moral rearmament movement devoted to doing something about It. S Samuel John Mills was born Amril 21. 1783. at Torrington, Mass., his father a Congregation al minister. His youthful ambi tion was to become a farmer. He experienced deep feelings on count ot the revival of 1798, and tor two years was sure he would go to helL In the autumn ot 1801, due to the Influences of his mother, he I was converted, and resolved that he must preach the gospel. : V r. i. That year, he sold the farm bequeathed to him by his grand' mother, and entered Morris Aca demy, Litchfield. In 1808 he went to Williams College as a student. and the first year was ' a leader in a religious revival there. He became Imbued with the idea that he must go abroad and preach the gospel to the heathen; the first time that such an en terprise had been considered In the United States." says his bio grapher. -V. V ' i "He proposed to several of his friends that they should become foreign missionaries, and secured their favorable response, wrote his biographer further. Mills graduated from Williams CoUege In 1809. and spent a few months at Tale, in the hope ot enlisting supporters ot his mis sion projects there. His stay at New Haven, however, was fruit- leas, save for the discovery of Henry Obooklah, a native ot the Sandwich Islands, who had late ly found his way to New Haven. In 1810. Mills went to Andover Theological Seminary, taking Obooklah with him. Obooklah was converted soon after, and his con version resulted In the' founda tion a few years later of the Missionary School at Cornwall, Massachusetts. In the seminary, Mills talked about missions Incessantly. Dur ing 1810, he and three ot his friends presented a paper to the General Assembly ot if aaaacna- setts. In which they declared their desire to go as missionaries to the heathen, and asked for counsel. As a result, the Ameri can board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was formed. which In 1811 sent 12 missionar ies to Calcutta, and by 1820 had 81 missionaries under Its charge. On his graduation from Ando ver in 1812, Mills was licensed to preach, and sent by the Connec ticut and Massachusetts : Home Missionary Society on a tour of the country beyond the AUeghen- ies, from Cincinnati to New Or leans,. In company with John F. Schermerhorn, In 1814-15, -and made a second and more exten sive journey with Daniel Smith: preached, distributed . Bibles and tracts and formed Bible societies; made sacrifices, suffered hard ships; with Schermerhorn, i pub lished a book ot their experiences and findings; organized the Am erican BttSle Society of the United states; started the move ment that resulted In a school tor educating Negro preachers; work ed among the poor in New York City; planned work In South Am erica; hoped to go with Obooklah to the Sandwich Islands. In 1817, Mills offered his serv ices, with. w. Ebenezer Burgess, to go to Africa and find a place for homeless Negroes. The re sult was the colony ot Liberia, Africa. , May 22, 1818, MUls died of fever -on Ms return voyage, and was buried at sea. v Continued tomorrow.) : deposited "for temporary safe-keeping in the Library of Congress. ; h-J-v.. ---:";: ' : It wouldn't be difficult' to discover in that something symbolical the apparent fact that "the United States is almost t the only safe haven, at the moment, 'not only, for Zlana Carta but for tha liberties it helped to establish. y y Wfir-V ..... 0 rs&rtir' i ? s. f- r-. ICniaht By Chapter SO Knight Errant endured with remarkable ' equine stoicism a trying ordeal as the veterinarian probed with his long forceps, fin ally locating and withdrawing the sponge Charlie Bassitt had confessed to secreting In the horse's nostrils months before. Two nights after the operation. Knight Errant came down with a fever. There was an anxious night. while Heather, Slim and Snapper stood by the horse, awaiting the veterinarian's verdict. "Infection I" was his diagno sis. "Get him to a high, dry cli mate at once If you want to save him!" Recalling an old friend. Fop Logan, who had a small ranch la Arizona, Slim arranged to take the ailing Knight Errant there In borrowed van. ... The colt re cuperated rapidly and was soon exercising dally on the ranch's quarter-mile track, with the hefty but able Snapper In the saddle. And so. in virtual hiding. Knight Errant was kept for three weeks in Arizona. e e SUm knew at last he had a great race horse, trained to the minute. In the trailer van in back of his roadster as he drove into Santa Anita nine days In advance of the big race. The problem of getting a good jockey came ap one night when Sum exclaimed, "Dimples Dra per! Well get him!" Then his enthusiasm died. "Aw, he's riding at 'Hialeah. The Colonel won't let him off," Snapper said, gloomily. "Well." commented Slim. Vu wire him anyway." Driving to the telegraph office Slim told Heather he was going to give Knight Errant a final hard race in the San Antonio day after tomorrow to put him on edge for the big race, t "But, Sum, Comanche will sure ly be entered In that race," Hea ther protested. "Good! I hope he Is," Slim re plied. "Well find out how good Co manche is. And how much better Knight Errant is. We have noth ing to worry about-nothlng at all!" . e Hearts quickened In the long line ot boxes overhanging the broad sweep of Santa Anita. But none beat faster than Heathers as a reborn Knight Errant, his black ' coat richer ' in sleekness than ever before, in the unmistak able glow of health and fitness. marched with his quick, nervous tread down the track to the starting gate. , - A hush, as though it sensed the Import of the race this day, fell over the vast throng of the 40,- 000 as sixteen horsesthe fittest and fleetest on the grounds- paraded j by the - stands for the running of the San Antonio at a mile and an eighth. The-San Antonio preceded the Santa Anita by. only one week. Edith Ashlelgh was in ' a box adjoining Heather's. Flushed with pride and confidence In her black knight, - she even felt - a lenient kindness tor . Edith. . v "Sorry we must bo rivals to day, Edith," she dimpled. : "After all, they re two grand horses Comanche and Knight Errant and it's a shame they can't both win.' Edith cashed ; back, "Let us just say, 'May the better horse win,' with our fingers crossed. and pray for a dead heat," she smiled. ' -. h"'' ; ' . ? And only the moment before arrant jack Mcdonald Ldith and Heather had spoken so , solicitously ot each other s horse. Slim Maynard had been down In the saddling paddock telling Knight Errant's rider. Davey" Jones, in eiiect, to 'ViimV nnminch for a loon. "Either that big horse has Knight Errant's number or he hasn't," he told Jones. "This race will tell the tale. Open up all the daylight you can on Comanche in the eariy running. "And when Comanche makes a move at you in ine sireicn nae Knight Errant out with the whip, to the limit. If we can lick him at a mile and an eighth today we can do it at a mile and a quarter next week." Slim left the paddock and started for the box to Join Hea ther, harrying, for the horses were searing tne siarung gaie. The field left the gate In perfect alignment and. as usual. Knight Errant's blazing early speed took him to the front . . Neck and neck for an eight of a mils up the stretch they matched stride for stride. Knight Errant, a neck In front, refusing to surrender an inch ot ground to the big horse. Dolan. crouched low, his on comancne's necK. sensea urn was beaten. He reined Comanche over toward the, rail where Knight Errant was saving ground. In a moment Dolan had Comanche locked against Knight Errant s flanks. "Comanche! That big tramp! Look at him! He's stealing a free ride oa Knight Errant's flanks!" It was Snapper, groaning down by the ralL Standing 17 hands 4 inches, and towering over Knight Errant, Comanche leaned his 1800 pounds heavily on Heather's horse. In spite of the lugging-in tactics of his equine elephant rival which he -had once served as a lowly work-horse, Knight Errant shouldered this extra burden and hung on with the courage of buUdog down the final eighth mile of the grueling distance battle. They thundered toward the wire. Just a stride from the fin ish line Knight Errant, his liquid eves afire with, rage at being shoved around by the bigger horse, turned his head and sank his teeth savagely into Coman che's neck. :". The vast crowd roared lis dis approval. Nearly half the fans clutched Comanche tickets in their hands, i-' Because Knight Errant turned Taking OH on Geenuutalr force officers enter war plane t&rough ttna bomb bay at we of the naxl bases from vrbich raids are carried out. This is orae of the first photos of German aerial activities from tae nasi side since the start of tbe war. This photo Is by News of tb Day Kews- reel, . .. .,... 33 his head at the wire the finish was close, and over on the odds- board the word "PHOTO" was flashed in red lights to Indicate a picture would bo necessary to de termine the winner. Slim was tense. "There's going to be trouble! he told Heather Instantly after the two horses crossed the wire. And he headed excitedly tor the judges' stand. "What happened?" Heather asked Edith, bewildered!. Slim left. "I believe your horse savaged mine," Edith replied softly, yet accusingly. Heather on her feet. flushing with indignation.. "Comanche was the one that started It! Be ruined Knight Er rant's chance!" "ChaneeT" queried Edith soft ly. As it to say: "What chance would that little trouble maker have against my Comanche la the first place?" Edith maintained her famous Ashlelgh poise, outwardly. 8he might not have had she seen what was happening on the track. For Comanche, unseen by his mis tress, was tae vteum or anotner fit ot manlaeal fury on Knight Errant's part. As soon as the two horses were unsaddled in front ot the Judges stand. Knight Errant broke loose from his groom and kicked Co manche with both rear feet. The two Jockeys had unsaddl ed hurriedly and carried their tack to the welghtlng-ia scales. At Dolan's heels was "Davey" Jones, Knight Errant's rider, in a race to be first to get the Judges', ears with his version of the crowding and savaging inci dent. There was a flurry In the stand. while outside fans were howling tor a disqualification, though no two persons seemed to have the same version of Just what hap pened. ' The camera had shown Knight Errant winner by a comfortable nose. But over the loud speaker came the judges' decision: "Tour attention, please. ' The stewards hare ordered Knight Er rant and Comanche both disqual ified for fouls and placed them last in the order of finish." . . The crowd moaned gustily. "Boy. what a - day tor stooper!" Snapper said, gleefully. edging up to 811m. Snappers -was speaking ia the race track vernacular. Steopers (Continued on page 107 Death Flight nr i errrTWnTOtf- NOV.' 2 4 Diet . . mMbm interna tional communism Including that of the united eiaiee ," .,,Z go underground again, la lta fifth new period reflecting fire changes ot world revolutionary policy since the red conquest 01 MesBbersntp oi uw wnnmwi party Is to be pared down to perhaps 85,000 (tBey bare been little careless about member ship in recent years.) What will bo called " multaat flghllng force" wfll be created to work tmslde again by trickery and in flltratloa to promote the rev -In tlon through creating discord la H available organisations, a lAia eomnromlslng stan to ward "imperialism" (how the . . Jt a9a commies can use u w what Stalin did in Poland will be a mystery to anyone but a com munist) and toward "capitalism" la already oeing aoopiwi. lar fronts" or what Is left of them are being abandoned. Financial support will be withdrawn from such deluded liberal outfits as the iMn far Peace and Democracy (committee evidence nows IM cofflnum y v wu tributed about IS per cent of the league budget, j The change appears to be partly a result of exposures, partly be cause Stalin's course is pub)' ly In defensible In every nation except Russia. ' ia thla new "undernund dis cord" period, the militant nndls couraged mar even turn agr'nst the new deal. You will shortly hear them denouncing it as a "fake liberal outfit." ' This new deal change did nat lack invitation. Ton will recall how FDR recently went out of his Hyde Park way to question leralitv of Earl Browder's Boston remark about the US being ready for "a quick transition" to social ism. Browder has used stronger language than this on previous oc casions without rebuke. Various distinct stages of com munism which led up to this cur rently evolving one: 1. Direct revolutionary period. 1117-21, when open armed revolt in Russia was followed by similar unsuccessful efforts in Germany, Hungary and elsewhere. t. NEP (new economic policy) period, II 21-28. which compro mised extensively with capitalism even in Russia . where, pay was given to workers, etc S. Civil strife period, 192I-3S. when civil war and strife were promoted directly by political ac tion In various countries, a mis take which brought the rise of fascism. 4. Popular front period, IMS 29, when the seventh world con gress advocated coat-tail rid-ag which resulted in the French and Spanish cooperation and ia Browd er, communist candidate for presi dent, endorsing Mr. Roosevelt's re election. , wrong Inside the navy, but navy T1TM T"TTrT Ifflt X. 1 - S:0 Milkntsa McMiss, T:0 Kswa. T :A5 Kaaarcka sf S;0 Msesl Airplsas Oa. S:li TfcU Wsasarfsl Wseli. S:S US Army Bsad. S: Vmwm. SK) Fwtn'i CsO. t:13 & Millar's Oreasatra. :(0 Herts OssU's Orcksetra.. IS ;0O Wsttersairsa. 1S:1S . 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Newsmen are not permitted to talk with any naval official without going through the publicity section, and the pub licity section refuses to make appoints nts except on routine happenings. Newsmen assigned as public ob servers at the navy department be came aroused recently, signed a round robin asking Edison to bold press conferences U !ce a week. Finally, naval publicity announced Edison would hold one every two weeks because he was too buiy to' hold them oftener. (President Roosevelt welcomes press confer ences twice a week. Slate Secre tary Hull holds one every da. Army officials are alwsy open to consultation although- neither Secretary Wood ring nor Asaiatant Secretary Johnson holds regular meetings.) This bi-weekly solution only added amusing confusion to na val recalcitrances. Mr. Edison's first press conference was post poned, because he was absent. Wbsn It was held a week late, a lieutenant commander In the pretts section requested newsmen to limit the conference to ten minutes because Mr. Edison was busy. The aide to the secretary notified reporters as they entered the room that chairs would not be provided since the conference was to be short. It was and unproductive. , 1( Net result of all this is the naval department occupies a plane apart from other govern ment activities, a secret I Te cloud from which no Informs tlon emanates, not even In for nation beneficial to navy pur . poses. Publicity advisers there are not to blame. Their efforts hare been mined by the admirals, who ap parently are working on the not wholly illogical assumption that as long as their budget maker In the White House is their friend, they do not need to worry sbout any one else. Worker Survives Terrific Shock TILLAMOOK. Nov. 24,-m-John Harris, SS, of Timber, with stood an electrical shock of 11,000 volts today and escaped with hand and foot burns. physician said Harris "re markable" physique saved him. He was working for a Portland Junk company dismantling the old Garibaldi sawmill at the time he touched the power line. ft: 10 Mlltoa Baric. 4:00 Area. Akeleia PUra. S:10 Prala4a te Daek. 1:00 Caatel Car Tea. T:10 Watl't Mr Mam. :O0 Katiaaa) Bar Dear. ' :00 Hetel BUlmere Ore. 0:10 Retabew Re4aavee Orek. 10 :OOv Aeibaaer Uetel Orek. 10:10 Hetel St. Fraaets Orta. 11 100 Oreffeaiaa Vswa. 11 lift Bat Tabari Cafe Orek. HtfO CHr-jple Hatal Orca. XOrK aATTTSOAT Kc. :00 Market Reperta. 4:0ft KO Kleck. ti4ft This s4 Thai, S 1 1 ft HeaAliMrs. S :S0 CaaMC Mews, ft :4ft Meralag BesU. :0 Ceaatry JaaraaL e:! Let's Pra taaeL ISjOO What Pries Assarieat 1S:S0 Hell Asaia. 11:00 Brsah Creek rIUa4. is:t 11:10 Kewa. It :4ft Chart Peal. srgs. 1 :00 ' Cheett. 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