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From First Statesman. March 22. 1211
THE STATESMAN
Charles A. Sprague. President
MmNi tt
tVm of an mi iwatcb awaltae
ttalo paper,
Two European -Wars: What Next?
KiUf nrminr vmV
French war which still defies attempts xo assign n up
quately descriptive name, the world has been lulled into com
parative confidence that it would be "localized" to those na
tions. Originally the fear was that all Europe would spring
to arms; when Italy stayed out the war-hating portion of hu-
monthf taoTvo? frnm fortfi?f tr Hnn artrl TjerhaOS Overdid lu
Russia's enigmatic position was
rious concern.
Russia's position with respect to the war that started
i no rrmh 1rr now than it was then ;
but the Soviet Union has now
war against Finland. "Un rorm it snouia De a cnei encoun-
Ia. nrlfk 4 Via m itivmia tinf fnr mnmpnt In donbt. Finland will
be crushed; with what attendant slaughter, depends upon the
Finns resistance. . I r
Tf l nftorlv fuHl trt HiariiM the Russians' instifications
and excuses for their attack.
was interested only in maintaining her independence ana ner
neutrality. By no straining of common sense may one credit
the tales of Finnish "aggression" and "atrocities" against
T?Moia n nJ rf nor nhiWf If i fust an pihisc and a thin-
ner one, at that, than is contained in the German White Pa-
Poland THrtAtAra need no ex
cuses and they usually contrive
them.
Aafm Finland. It la lust
question is, what next? When
collaborate with Germany in the mopping up or to set a lim
it on the nails advance, nobody seemed to know just which
England and France refrained from slapping Stalin's wrist
They were fully occupied elsewhere and there was just a
snred 01 jusxuicanon ior vne ooviets occupauon, wm
the Polish government had already fallen. i
In the present circumstances logic suggests that Eng-
una aiiu rniice wui icumu liuui wmjtuu
against Russia; they have no definite commitments to Fin
land, no obligation to defend her integrity except perhaps a
general obligation implied in the League of Nations covenant,
and nobody is paying much attention to that. Russia had ex
actly the same obligation, for that matter. '
It remains to be seen what Norway, Sweden and Den
mark will do, but there the logical answer is "nothing," for
even united, the Scandinavian countries are not prepared in
a military sense to cope with the Russian war machine. So
for the present it would seem that Finland is to be gobbled up
and that the affair is to stop there.
But eventually, if order is to be restored in Europe and
the "self-determination of peoples" reasserted, someone will
have to do something about the territory that Russia has
grabbed at this opportune moment and that is not an en
couraging prospect for early, general peace.
In the meantime, Russia's pose as a force for peace and
world justice stands completely unmasked. What are our few
remaining admitted communists going to say now?
History in
It fell tp our lot the other
me eoiioruu auues, u visit & tocai mean j auiu were oi.
through a couple of hours of the 16th century while Bette Da
vis and Enrol Flynn, with, benefit of technicolor, raged and
marched through theJTrivate Lives of Elizabeth and Essex."
Though we expected to see the doorman flourishing a halberd
as we merged on a very, drab and very twentieth century
High street (which was without benefit of technicolor), we
had a very attractive sense of satisfaction. '
History is usually locked up in tomes, the pages of which
live and speak on most occasions only to the initiate. Occasion
ally in the past some Gibbon, Macaulay or Trevelyan has
made it great literature, though still caviar for the general
(whichtJa us) ; and occasionally too a Harold Lamb, a Lytton
Strachey or a Maurois has turned it into a boudoir-and-bat-tlef
ield sketch which may be done with art (as with Strach
ey) or may be done without art (by a Harold Lamb). In any
event history is to most people DAR monuments, arid librar
ies, and something which it would be nice to know more of;
nd to others, lest we forget, it is bunk.
"Elizabeth and Essex," however, broached the barrel of
the past, and made it drip and gurgle with Falstaf fs sack and
canary wine, the fee of the laureate. Hollywood for once hired
extras who flourished pikes and bowed in armor without
making themselves and the audience feel like fools; and with
. its usual lavishness made Tudor dress and Tudor furniture
fairly reek with opulence. Bette Davis was a masterly Eliza
beth, and Flynn a perfect Hotspur of an Essex ; what matter
that in cold truth the queen was 34 years older than her lover,
and of the age of 68 when he was beheaded? This was in tech
nicolor, both in filming and in plot; nor could it have been
aught else and remained as convincing or as good entertain
ment. I
We liked "Elizabeth and Essex," and we trust others
did likewise. It was perhaps not the history of the schools
nor of the patriotic societies; but it was as faithful a ren
dering of the hot blood, the fire and passion of the 16th cen
tury and of the daughter of Henry VIII, as one could get this
side of The Globe in Southwark; it rang with the conflict of
iron, and creeped with the intrigue of courts where assassin
ation and the block were conventional political strategies;
above all it centered in the problems of personality rather
than in those of events, and thus took on a stature much above
the ordinary. We repeat that this was history seen through
technicolor; but we insist that it was still good history, of
manners and morals if not of dates and battles, and that it
was princely entertainment. i . '
Cridiron
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One consolation even for the football fan at the termin
ation of the football season, is the thought that the football
fiction season is also n earing its close. Short stories and seri
als of the gridiron run on a little while after moleskins are
hung up, on the editors theory that fans' interest brought to
a boil over the final games takes a little while to cool off.
True enough, at this season your dyed-in-the-wool foot
ball fan will read anything about football ; in the case of fic
tion, always hoping against hope that it will be worth read
ing. Generally speaking, the two themes that receive the
poorest treatment at the hands of magazine fiction writers
are football and newspaper work. For some reason baseball
fares a little better. Perhaps this is because false sentiment
cannot so easily be concocted in a diamond setting.
Why are the football stories and the newspaper stories
so poor? Probably it is because those are subjects concerning
which semi-pro writers, just trying to break into the paying
fiction class, already have a certain fund of information
which they consider adequate without bothering about- re
search. Everybody who knows the difference between a lat
eral and a touchback feels qualified to write a football story.
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Imagine the embarrassment of the chief of police and
other city officials down in Huntington, W.Va, where eight
"rebel" policeman went out on their own time and clamped
the lid on vice in the community. The officers can't be fired
because they're under civil service, and they can't be censured
because they're right. So the chief has put two of them on the
."Tsanized vice squad but still his face must be somewhat
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nf the Gcrman-Polish-British-
the only point affording se
launched an entirely separate
The world knows that Finland
to look foolish fa attempting
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Mfno had." For the World, the
Russia moved into Poland to
Technicolor
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night, such being the state of
Fiction
Bits for
Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Salem's greatest glob 2-1-1 9
trotter is home on a very
inh-Qenent visit; has beea
on the go for about St years:
(Concluding from yesterday:)
We left our home' grown globe
trotter lq France, yesterday, af
ter sereral months in Italy.
From 'la belle France" she
went to Germany, "then to Scot
land, Ireland" and Wales, in the
order named. -
la Scotland she receired a leU
ter from I , ("Lew") Aldrjch.
then assistant cashier of the Ladd
a Bush bank, Salem, who had
eharge of her business affairs,
telling her that she would better
come home. v '
She came, remained a while,
finding eTerythlng ia good order,
under the able .management of
Mr. Aldiich, and next went to New
Zealand, by the popular route-
that takes one first to Tahiti,
queen of the Society Islands, in
the section of the world where
missionaries were said to furnish
table delicacies in the old days;
but where the tribe of globe trot
ters who know their ways around
the planet delight to consort in
theso modern days, owing to de
lights of climate and society, etc
Mrs. Mlnto had been ia our own
Alaska; llred there three years;
was a real m usher; - digger and
panner of gold.
On her way to New Zealand on
the trip mentioned abore, she
made a stay on Raratonga, one of
the Cook islands; beautiful be
yond telling. Then New Zealand,
and, again Australia.
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Then New Guinea, of the Ma
lay group, and, next, New Zealand
once more; next, inside the Bar
rier Reef, and after that a Ylslt
to Thursday Islands, and follow
ing that a stay at Singapore. Brit
ish capital of the Straits Settle
ments. Next, two 'more interesting
months; in India. Where next?
Oberammergau and its Passion
Play. One wonders what will be
come of the Passion Play in Nasi
Germany, or what shell be left of
it after the schrechllchkelt that
Is substituted for the Vaterland
in its pristine glory? (If, indeed,
anything is left of Nasiism.)
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Next, for our homo trareler in
far places, was Italy once.mbre,
then the Holy Land again, and
after Greece, Albania, and Meso
potania, and Greece again;
Greece for many months.
Then Bagdad, and Ur, birth
place of Abraham; then Persia;
was 1C days In Persia with a prl
rate car; then a week in Nazar
eth, and then two months in Tur
key, in and out of Constantinople.
Then Rumania, Greece once
more, after which came Czecho
Slorakla, Hungary, Austria, Ger
many again. Then went to Den
mark and Norway and around, the
North Cape and to Ha mm erf est;
thea Finland with the midnight
sun. Then, with a Studebaker car,
through Finland, on good and
fair roads. Saw i herds of wild
reindeer, so' great they looked
like they would nerer, end. She
had a trailer, and it serred up
toward the Arctic Circle for eT
erythlng from a mail car to a cof
fin carrier.
Took the train at Helsingfors,
Finland, and went to Sweden;
homeward bound. But risked Ger
many again, then Lithuania, Es
thonia, or as now spelled Estonia;
LatTia, Poland then to Moscow
and across Russia's transcontin
ental railway line to Manchuria;
on, on to China; then Manila;
back to China; to Corea. China
again; Formosa then up the
Tang Tse rirer to tha head of
narigatlon. Then to Manila again
and home, in 1934.
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Next, about 20,000 miles in the
United States, halting at Nor
folk, Va. Then oft for France and
Spain, Italy, Sicily back to Man
ila. Then British Borneo. Among
the Philippine Islands on boats.
Then Britain; to Australia to see
the new Australian tree bear
platlpus and the new strange
duck ichldua.
Then so the Solomon Islands,
New Guinea, and other islands on
the rererse side of the globe
the other side from. us. Visited
the Isles of Spice, Dutch East
Indies, which help to make that
little speck of Europe fabulously
rich. Went to Slam, China, Sai
gon of Cochin China, Singapore,
Sumatra, Japan, Sumatra again.
Went with another lady the entire
length, of the Congo rirer; Tisited
the French Gold Coast; aU orer
Africa, except Timbuktu. . Had a
camping tour of three weeks in
Kruger national park; saw myri
ads of wild animals and ' fowls,
many strange. Went 2000 mUes
orer African roads. Saw Victoria
Falls three more, times. Saw the
spot where Li rings tone died. Ia
one kraal district, in 400 miles
opened 100 gates. Flowers! Large
spaces of Africa - are- .flower
prairies of - grand dimensions
nature Is so Uriah on the so-called
dark continent! -
Next. Capetown, then Rio, then
New Orleans, then Boston, Grand
Coulee, British Columbia, Seattle,
Salem; home! -.
' The foregoing does not eren
"hit all the high places" of the
23 years' - wanderings of Mrs.
Mlnto. It is the result of just a
rambling short talk. It does not
pretended to be all correct as told
casually by our home globe trot
ter. She could teU orer the mak
ings of a score of books. She is
still proud of Salem; is pleased to
be a small part owner of the Mln
to donation land claim, linking
her to pioneer Oregon. On her
mother's side, she is a great
granddaughter of "Uncle Tommy"
Cox, who bunt and owned the first
store In Salem, Oregon. -
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What is she going to do next?
Why, trarel, of course. Miss Edith
Hsxard of Seattle, old time Sa
lemlte, and Mrs. Mlnto are plan
ning an auto trip to Texas and
other southern parts, for what
the people in other northern sec
tions would call the winter
months. They may go before this
Th OHEGON-CTATES1IAN, . Salem,
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Heather was stfil and . white,
her wide eyes fixed on the track
as if frightened by what she saw
there. Going into the baekstreteh
Rattle and Roll had opened up
fire lengths on Knight Errant
still In second place. Slim groan
ed with anxiety. Would ' Draper
lose his head and foolishly take
out after this "morning glory" T
Not if he remembered Slim's riding-
orders. But. muddled . with
last night's drinking and tha mo
ment's fury, how much would
Draper remember T -I
Knight Errant was in the back
stretch straightaway now and
811m saw the Jockey loosen the
reins and let Knight Errant out
a little. "He's Just beginning to
run!" Slim reported through
tight lips.
The real racing was about to
begin now. Time Supply mored
up and challenged, but Knight
Errant mored . right along with
the challenger, surging forward
Ilka a war on an angry tide.
That supreme effort killed off
Time Supply. He began to drop
back, raced into defeat.
J Midway down the baekstreteh,
game little Top Row made a run
at Knight Errant. One mora
Draper let out a wrap of reins.
Again Knight Errant cascaded
forward! Top Row had fired and
tell back, a beaten horse.
Slim's glasses moved from
Knight Errant to the back of the
pack to pick up Comanche, Just
beginning to lengthen his stride
and pass trailing horses on the
outsid.
Quickly Slim ran his glasses
again to the front. Knight Errant
had just caught the tiring Rattle
and Roll. Draper was easing Mm
back for the breathing speU
Heather's horse would need be
fore the valiant stretch ordeal
gainst Comanche that was
bound to come when the big
horse made his run.
The tension eased momentarily.
Slim clicked his stopwatch as
Knight. Errant came to the pole,
and marreled at Draper's in
stinct for rating his mount.
" "Perfect!" he breather. "1 told
Dimples It he could rate Knight
Errant three-quarters in 1:10 4-5
and i still sandwich in a short
breather, he'd win the race. And
Draper is right on schedule, the
watch .split at 1:10 4-5."
Knight Errant was on the rail,
earing ground and ready to round
the far turn. Suddenly Heather
touching Slim's arm, felt him
grow-limp.
"What is It, 811m? Something is
wrong?" Her blue eyes pleaded
for an answer. Slim's response
was toneless, "He's lost a stir
rup." But it was worse than that.
Slim knew. So did Charlie Bassitt,
lown by the rail.
"Doublecrossed!' Bassitt
is printed. Mrs. Mlnto Is always
ready. : - , ; ..
These ladles - were trarellng
companions once before, in that
general direction. " A
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Oregon, Friday Morning JDeoember 11939
AsLCLeLLl
By jack Mcdonald
groaned. "Tre been crossed. Ton
can't trust nobody around a race
track any mora. That kid's flash
ing my mirror on -the wrong
horse."
For It was Knight icrrani, not
rvimanrh that wsa blinded by
the reflection of the lirld Santa
Anita sun from . a mirror niaaen
in a tree by the track I Slim,
4iviiiir ii the blinded. 'mad
dened horse bolt to the outside,
completely out or Drapers-control.
Tha gap Knight Errant open
ed on the field closed behind htm
llko a door slammed in. a hurrt
eaner And Comanche sped forward
through space like a comet!
811m saw Knight Errant floun
dering. It was as If the horse had
suddenly . broken into a . miuion
pieces. But In a flash Draper had
rtth.rM the reins as If nicking
up the shattered pieces and put
ting them togetner again, wun a
mighty lash of the whip on the
ansa he got xuugni sirrsnt
It was a grim battle now round
ing the bend for possession o
th rn Knirht Errant hadn'
surrendered the lead. But Com
anche was gaining with erery
stride.
The two horses were entering
the stretch.' Knight Errant; in
front by two lengths, was Jiug
ging the rail. He swung Just wide
enough as he hit the stretch for
Draper to hear rrom be una:
Oimii tin. Im eominc thr on r li
lt was the cry of Morgan on Co
manche. Pushing on Knight Errant with
every ounce of strengtn, nis neaa
hjnt Iaw ore the horse's neck.
Draper turned and barked de-
nanuy;
"Hang onto my saddle, you
might set second.
Draper did open up room for
Comanche, but Comanche nerer
got through. Sum's strategy had
Comanche lost ground by going
to the inside but quickly came
again. To the tumultuous roar ot
the crowd that echoed to the
peaks of the Sierra Madres, the
two horses came to tne eignin
pole head and head with both
riders flailing away with their
whlTM-
Serentr yards from the wire
they were still head to head. And
in that final le&D to the wire
Comanche was onlr a nose off
Knight Errant. Draper reached
tor the whip, gare his horse one
mlvTitv rtnal laah. then shored on
his neck, literally hurling Knight
Errant under tne wire.
Winner by a head! the Judges
didn't wait for a nhotO.
Slim and Heather looked at
. nthAr Their faces 'shone.
"I thought you said you were
going to faint if ne woni" sum
whftATMtd.
"Mar I?" squealed Heather
happily. "Oh, Slim, when?"
"Hraf k. Yelled. And now!"
He opened his arms. She fell
Into them, shaking wun tears ana
exultation and laugnier.
naaattt nnffin an an enorm
ous cigar, had a stack of SlOt
tickets In his outstretched arm,
ready to hand them to the cash-
lb
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150
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ler, when two detectlres, one on
each said, stepepd up.
'.Well . take these," said one,
snatching them from Bassitt'a
hand.
Wera been tailing yon all
day, Bassitt. They caught the
kid up In the tree with the mirror
red handed. Come along, the
Judge's got some questions to
ask you
- Bassitt, eren in panic, went
through with his customary bluff.
.'The track'll hare a fine dam
age suit on Its hands when I get
through with 'em," he threatened
defiantly.
"Sure." said the Micks' smugly
"you can file the suit in Alca-
trax.'
(To be continued)
Church Conclave
Held at Turner
TURNER A district conren
Hon of the Christian churches of
the county was held Monday at
the Christian church here, with
good attendance.
O. W. Jones is the new local
pastor, he and Mrs. Jones baring
been transferred . from Bend,
where they were called Wednes
day to attend a funeral. They
win return Saturday.
Reception Given
For Minister
STAYTON Rer. and Mrs.
W. J. Hamilton, newly appointed
minister of the Methodist church,
were honored with a reception in
the church Monday- night. Rer.
Hamilton tilled the racancy left
by Rer. Bruce Groscloso, who
with his family mored to Amity.
A grocery shower was given for
tne new minister. A corered dish
luncheon was held at : SO. fol
lowed by a program.
Prices Effective Friday and Saturday
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SoarcbJight ' San Wan
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pogepe jMdn
: Bluo Mill Schilling;
Large Jumbo, Fancy-
None Sold to Dealers
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Your choice tlPn f - r
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Pfflsbtrrya Best Flour . . . Van Camp's Pork & Beans . s . mite Satin
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News Behind
By PAUL
WASHINGTON, Not. 80V
ffrTjMnwd'nir output of American
factories this month will hoist
the federal reserve board ba
rometer of industrial produc
tion op to V2A per cent of "nor
mal.' December will carry
up still farther, to 127-28
. highest on record in the history
of the country 2 or 8 points
shore the biggest prcrtous
boom month of Jane, 1019
and 8 or B points shore the
arerage.for that historic year. ,
' These' are inner calculations
made in advance by Mr. Roose
relt's economists, whose accuracy
is attested by their record on past
predictions as recorded monthly
ia this spot. ,
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Arerage, 19 2 S
Arerage, 1922
Arerage, 1928
May, 1929-
June, 1929
July, 1929-
Aug., 1929.
Sept, 1839
Oct-, 1929 w
Not. (est'd.) -
.119
. S4
. 8S
. 92
. 98
-101
.102
.111
.120
.124
Other evidence ot firmness In
the expansion lies in revised esti
mates of national Income. Income
makes business Just as much as
business makes income.
' It Is estimated authoritatively
that total Income payments ia No
vember will reach a new high of
89.1 (1929 la 100), up nearly a
point from last month, 8 points
from September.
Cost of Urine has swe in
creased ia tha same period. The
gorernment clocked it at 8SL9
lm September (1929 equals IOO)
. gad .this month. Whole
sale prices hare risen bat
North Liberty, at Chemeketa
176-Size
Navals
Vi Case
90s
COLUMBIA MEAT DEPT
; UdU or 7hoU 2:'.
Armoura Star '
north's ElcKkhawk or
Strlft Premium
lb."
Jlrmour's Cooked
pienzes
Roady to Cerre
ii.
Today's News
MAILON
1 . t t as(its avorv.
thing with . it employment, pay
rolls, railroad traffic, sales and
building as you will note from
the following chart. (Each figure
is based on the 1923-26 averages
as 100, and each is seasonally ad
justed to represent the percentage
of normality existing at the Inter
rals stated.) .
' Note weH the good balance that
the chart discloses underlying the
situation. -More, production Is
gradually lmproring employment,
which is making larger payrolls,
which brings more department
store sales, which requires ship
ment qf more goods, and all make
for more building.
a
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ti
Sa
106.0
66.2
89.7
93.2
94.2
94.8
, 9S.7
97.2
101.0
102.5
m mcq no
110.4 107 111 117
46.7 '65 69 28
77.9 62 85 67
85.0 62 85 62
86.5 67 86 62
84.4 69 86 67
89.9 70 89 72
92.6 77 91 72
101.3 80 90 71
104.8 82 94 71
slightly from 70.1 in September
to 70.4 in 'Norember.
All these elements therefore
balance . well on a substantial
foundation.
This should augur well for
1140, but the men who read the
figures for Mr. Rooserelt still
hare a hankering for the belief
that a more or lees mild and gra
dual reaction is coming after the
first ot the year. They base it on
the fact that 8teel Is being pro
duced at an unbetterable rate of
04 per cent of capacity and some
f the sroductlon (they do not
(Turn to page 12)
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