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TAG T0Z2 lia CZZcdll STATECMA1L Cdssu Qrtgcau Ttoaday Itelagr 1 si - . ' - i : . t . . . . - , . . i i .... ........ ' I . T j "Yo Favor Sways U; No Feat ShaU AwT From Fixat SutMau. March II. Hi 1 , ' THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAQUE. President Mtmtwct Th Aitoctofd Press The Associated Prw to esclusitoly n titled to the as for pablicatloa of all ntws dispatches credited to tt or not other wise credited 1b this newspaper. ' , , .:'- -!;': A Third Term H , , A everything wo value most la life may bo at stake la 1141, we ahoald concentrate on the rltal Issues Immediately be fore us aad not bo distracted by those problems which seemed of major importance until dwarfed by the Imminence of the threat- to i oar existence as. a tree nation A. D. Whiteside ta Dan's Review. .. . There's a riot call, and the dignified chief of police, who ordinarily wouldn't venture out of the house without every brass button buttoned and shininjr, dashes forth in his dress ing gown and pajamas. It doesn't make a bit of difference so long as he has his loaded pistol, though it may be helpful If be has time to pin his star on somewhere. As for his dig nity, then can be picked ud later. ( The president of Dun & Bradstreet has said the thing in bis way, and right below we have said it in our way. That which we;f eared, the third term, has come upon us. But that which we fear is so much greater that we have little time or attention to spare for contemplation of what we have lost. : We may be able to Dick it un later, only slightly damaged. Until such time as the riot demanded decisive action, the chief of police might experience some embarrassment over his informality of attire. Fortunately the president in assum ing office for the third term was able to incorporate an in direct answer to the third term objections within a direct appeal for greater effort in fighting the graver peril. , The third term, so objectors insisted, was a threat to democracy. It is democracy, again, that is imperiled by the International crisis. Thus the president could have been re ferring to both when he said : "Democracy is not dying." The promise that democracy is not dying and the pledge that democracy will not be allowed to die ran like a refrain through the inaugural address. And well they might. ; Democracy is in peril from without and from within. Some well-intentioned citizens are so short-sighted as to ar Sue that because successful invasion of the United States wquKTbe well nigh impossible, a victory in Europe for the totalitarian powers would have little meaning for Ameri cans; that they can afford to let it happen if doing something to prevent it appeared to involve more than minor incon Venience. The truth is that already : and increasingly the axis' existence is a menace to democracy here; that the necessity lor ever-increasing diligence in preparation for defense has aspects involving dangers to democracy; that American in volvement in the war, of which there is a growing possibility, would temporarily wipe out many phases of democracy; and that an axis victory on the other side of the Atlantic would create further perils to democracy here even if invasion never was attempted. We might go further and say that the dan ger to democracy increases every day that the war continues and that other dangers to demoracy will lurk within the conomic dislocation which will follow the war no matter how it terminates. Thus it was a weighty promise and a courageous pledge that President Roosevelt voiced as he started his precedent Jhattering third term. Neiher can be fulfilled without the United support of a people who realize that the riot call has founded and there is no time for worrying about brass but tons -of, if you prefer, that everything we value most in life may be at stake. It Happened in San Francisco. - Incidents are' things that happen, as a rule, in Tokyo. fhanghai. Borne, Berlin, rarely in London, and never in the 'ni ted .States. Almost never, that is. Last Saturday one hap pened here, right in San Francisco. When incidents happen they usually involve a number of persons indiscriminately labeled students, "party mem Ders," "mostly workers" or, when the reporting is bad, "dis Affected elements." Their activities what constitutes an in cident, in other words are usually such things as pasting posters on embassies, calling "down with" something or oth er, shooting an innocent bystander or two when he blows his nose at the wrong time, or when the mob's spirit gets a little out of band; or just being ornery. .i Usually the consequences follow a fairly well established pattern, too. The hurt government sends a cavalry captain or a diplomat to the foreign ministry, of the government Whose people caused the incident, an apology is asked for in high-fahftin' terms, is usually sriVen in terms even more high-falutin', and the incident is declared closed. The .per sons responsible are officially reported censured, and every body knows all they got was a medal or maybe a raise in pay. We're used to this sort of thing abroad : people there don't seem to be so responsible, or energy which they don't Use in football or something else causes them to get em broiled with each other in various senseless ways. It's when It happens at home that it looks strange, and a little serious. The San Francisco episode atarted simply. The janitor in the German consulate on CTFarrell street hung out the red swastika flag as per orders to honor the founding of the second not the third German reich. A couple of gobs, or ex-gobs, in the street nine stones below saw them. The gobs tot a little mad, decided to take things into their own hands, And without inquiring whether the Germans iiad a right to hang the flag out or not, went upstairs in the building, caught the banner, and pulled it down. A crowd cheered, and the lid went off, all the way from Washington to Berlin. As incidents go, it wasn't very notable: and to Ameri cans it seems to be very "typical," and, truth to tell, a little satisfying in this particular epoch in the worlds history. Cer tainly it seems hardly more Jtelligerent than the president's speeches. The point is, though, that it has already given the German kept press a chance to yell about American antag onism to Germany, about American blood-lust and all the rest all untruths, but air good stuff from a domestic Ger man propaganda viewpoint. More important, for the sake or some Saturday-afternoon foolishness, it gave the Ger mans a chance to let already bad relations get generally worse, on a pretext that couldn't easily be argued away. The government -has apologized, and if the gobs get back to the fleet this time they won't be handed medals; but nobody need be surprised if the Germans mob one of our embassies, or openly confiscate a few hundred millions worth of our property just for an "incident" of their own. That, in the end, Is the trouble with all incidents: one thing leads to an- otner. ... - Defense Aviation Disasters The Corvallis Gazette-Times makes reference to "our regular weekly bomber accident,"- a phrase sufficiently ac curate to merit serious attention. The-situation is brought home to residents of the northwest by the circumstance that the most recent disaster involved a bomber from McChord field in Washington. It occurred only 12 days after the navy transport crash which killed 11 persons on Grundy Peak in California t the victims including three men who had bailed out jpf a iomber that was to trouble only two days previous ly, an incident ' which also had caused one death. T . Unlike fatal automobile accidents, airplane crashes are still news, and thus the public is aware that the toll of fa talities in the nation's' aerial defense program is even greater than a "weekly bomber accident; would Indicate.: It"isa rare cr 7 when at least one army or navy fuer does not: plum met to hi death. i r- - 1 . i: The bomber and transport disasters have been , accom panied by and presumably caused by bad weather and it is true that the west and indeed the entire nation has had a lot of "unusual" weather lately. The weather may account for the accidents but it does not excuse them: Commercial Bits for Breakfast By R- J. HENDRICKS Ore ton had a state '1-21-41 legUlatnre before ahe : ui a atato. and it chose Unit United 8tates senators: Membera of the Oregon legis lature, if they will tarn to past lit of the Oregon Bloo Book for 19X9-1940. mar note, under -the heading, "Senators la Congress from-Oregon: i :t w8mlthuIolaaoa, term of office Fob. 14, 1119 Mar. -!, list, elected by legialatare, Also: ... . - ' . "Lane. Joseph, .term -of office Feb. ' 14. 1SS9. Mar. S. 1141. elected by legislature. , How could that be 7 How could they bo elected by her atato leg islature before there waa a atato of Oregon, and begin their terms the day Oregon became a atato, through the signing of the bill therefor by President James Bu chanan T (Their salaries presum ably beginning Feb. 14. IBS.) (Smith would need his aalary. baring only 17 daya to genre. But think of his mileage!) Well, Lane drew the long term, and was already la Wash ington, being delegate in congress from the - territory of Oregon. (But he did not get the reelection which he coveted, at the hands of the 1840 session of the state legislature of Oregon the first one after Oregon actually be came a state. Most of the histories of Ore gon that hare been so far pub lished are mixed on the answer to. the above question, or are blanks on the matter. - -But the History of Oregon by Charles H. Carey Issued in 19X2 explains the matter. Very briefly aummarixlng what Mr. Carey wrote: "The election at which the peo ple decided to frame a constitu tion was held In June, 1857: the constitution was to be submitted to the people In November for their approval. a "The constitutional convention met at Salem (in the old and first Marlon county court house where the present one stands), August 17 (1857), bo that the summer and autumn of 1857 were well filled with political agita tion In which slavery oversha dowed every other Issue. Pro slavery Democrats advocated, on the hustings and In the columns of the newspapers, the Introduc tion of cheap (slave) labor- to develop the country. John WhI te ak er, afterward the first state governor, championed slavery to avoid the evils of race equality. "The principal contribution to the anti-slavery political literature of the period waa an exhaustive article written by Judge George H. Williams and printed July 28, 1857, In The Oregon States man, which had thrown open Its columns to both aides in the dis cussion. ... 'One free white man.' he said, la worth more-than two negro slaves In the cultivation of the soil, or any other business that can be influenced by seal or the exercise of discretion. . . . His letter was profoundly influ ential in determining the 're sult. . . . "The constitutional convention itself was not, however, prepared to accept responsibility for com mitting Oregon on this issue. . . . The first resolution, which was offered by Jesse Applegate, . . . declared that, since the question of slavery should be decided not by the convention but by the peo ple, all discussion of the issue should be held out of order. . . . The slavery Issue and that of ad mission of free negroes ... were made Into separate proposals, . . . disposed of by being submit ted to the people apart from the constitution Itself. ... "In view of the rancor aroused by the predominant negro issue, . . . It waa not surprising that a month of contention should have resulted in a distinct political cleavage - la which Democrats were arrayed against men of their owa party .... - wi -- - "At the election of November 9, 1857, the people adopted the constitution proposed by the eon s'tltutional convention, by an af firmative vote of 7195 to 8215, a majority of 2920. Slavery was rejected by a vote of 2415 to 7727, a majority of 1082 against, "Free negroes and mulattos were excluded from Oregon by a vote of 4840 to 1081, ahowlng considerably mora opposition to the presence of tree negroes than of -slaves. W V (The Marion county rote was 1024 for the constitution, 252 against; 214 for slavery. 1055 against, and 76 for free negroes. 1115 against) Said the Carey history: "The impatience of the terri tory to don the habiliments of statehood, once a constitution had been adopted by the people of the territory, led to an anticlimax in the election and Inauguration of a fun set of state officers before Congress had adopted (passed) the act creating the state. S It "Conventions were held and nominations were made in the spring. ot 1854 for various state officers, oa the assumption that statehood was assured and there was talk during , the aesslon ot the legislature of 1857-8, indeed, of proceeding precisely as if the adoption ot the constitution by the people was all that waa necessary.- , ; : ; ' , . "There were now three parties, the old line Democrats, ths so- Third Act in the World Drama ........ .. fFK&$ Radio Programs XSLM TTTESDAT 1340 Xc. 6 :30 MUkmmn Maladies. 8:4S- SuBriM Bslute. T:4Vt Hit nd Encores., 8 :00 -i-PopaUr Variety. 8.80 News. 8:45Tun Tsbloid. 9 :00-f-Pmstor' CU. 9:15--Pcpvlar Music. 9:45-)-Melodr Hart. 10.00- The World This Koraiaf. 10:15Sinf Bong Time. 10:80 Hits of Season Past. 10:45 Fopnlar Music 11:00 Hnsieal Horoseopa. 11: SO Popular Masic 11:45 Vain Par.de. 13:15 Midday Maws. 12 :30--HillbUly Serenade. 12:85 Willamette Valley Opialont. 12:30 Popalsr Masie. 1:15 lle of Paradise. 1:10 -Western Seremade. 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' ' 12:80 Pepper Young's Family. 12:454 Vie and Sado. 1:004 Bsckstage Wife. 1:15 Stella Dalies. 1:80 Lorenso Jones. 1:454 Younc Widder Brown. Today's Gordon By ULLIB L. ilAOSEN R.6. Tea. you can have a gar den of annuals that would be very lovely. Tou are fortunate to have the house built in a location where there are a few native trees to start you out. I shouldn't think that the owner would object to your planting perennials and shrubs If you wish, but as long as she does object, yoa can do very well with annuals. Among the new annuals listed In catalogues this year are the pink honor bright pe tunia!, acablosa peace, apry, the hashy, dwarf French marigold of maroon and orange coloring ; the deep maroon pompon xlnnla, black rnbyi and the rosy morn phlox. In growing annuals, you do have the pleasure ot making each year a brand new adventure, Tou do not have to stay to form as much as 1 you do with perennials and shrubs. HJL A chemical rued to ster ilise soil to prevent dampening off is copper carbonate dust stirred at the rate of one ounce Into six quarts of water. Water the soli afterj planting the aeed. Mrs. R.N. Ton can "aUp" Af rican; violets by their leaves. Just place! the leaf In a aaucer of aand ud leafmold and keep It damp. -1 have been told that the leaves will root in just water also. . - Likely your home is too warm fori the Ivy. The little Ivy does best la a tomparatively cool place and with plenty of water. called National Democrats, con stituting an Independent element, and the Republicans. - j (Concluded tomorrow.) aviation has all bat overcome weather hazards. The airliners either go through or stay on the ground. Defense aviation faces a challenge to . achieve comparable safety v standards. The situation with respect to; the defense aviation disas ters resembles that which developed in the winter of 1934-35 when army aircraft attempted to jcarry the airmail with tragic results. , . '. ! j. " ' ' : . . War is a precarious business but that is no reason why preparations for a possible war should be almost equally costly in life and defense eauiDxnentJ Dead aviators and shat tered planes are not going to help defend America against an enemy.- . ; - su . -a- . . .- . - 1-; 'A--n Hhl - v: I 'I-1--' -2 Tneao acnodnioa axe aa potion sy o ro apocdTo stationa. Any earlaUaaa ate ton by listeners are duo to chanxea maAa oy Ma acaouia wisaoss sera tt paper. 3:00 Girl Alone. 2:15 Lone Journey. 9:30 The Guiding Light. 3 :45 Life Can Bo Beautiful. 9:15 Newa. 4:00 Rirardo and His Violin. 4:45 H. V. Kaltenbora. 5:15 Jack Armstrong. 5:30 Horace Heldt'a Treasure Chest. 8:00 Hill Cadets on Parade. 6:30 Fibter McGee and Molly. 7:00 Bob Hope. 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S:1S Uttto Sod IttMllHMi S:4$ Hew. 4:80 ateriee for Bara and Olrl. :O0 On tho Onmpaaoa. S:45 Vesper. ' 8:15 Now. 8:88 Fetes Boar. T:30 CioehoeleToklaa If salt. T :41 faaeaanara FWum. S : 1 MrsbwbMd Mow. 8:45 Book Chat. 8:04 08C Bona Table. 8:88080 Cadet BaaA. 8:45 School at Education. . t- WOTilK'S "WEDGE 1 Chapter -""-- - - nt And aeartr forty roars psa-aa boforo tho troth of tho old wona an's words waa proved, i ' For ft was In the Enrlasd of lilt that tho : fortune ot tho Hoaso ; of WaJJenfela finallr fonndorod. Tbo BrltlahJBroadcaaUna Com pany; weathsr lorocast at alno o'clock that nlrht Informed their distUosloBod; Ustonors that there woald be -sllaht rain aproadlng from tho wast with sonny periods over ' oastsra and "sosUi-oaaUni Ensland. No no irM.auipilaod. thereforo, whoa ths followlna moralns jloldod a thlck bUaket Of for. over the sreater partr, of eastern . and aoBtn-easiern w land. -;. . - ' t iPioAAlnr arrlmly thrsifs swathes of fog; alons tho Batter sea Bridge oad. Matthew Beef palled his coat closer aooni tua ears and famed over ths weathsr. the RB.C. forocaat. the railroad bocanso his train from Colchester had been late, tho underground railway bocanso ho had sot his heel ahnt la a closing door, and finally the llshtlns company for not provldlnT, 1b his opinion, aaf ficieat street lamps. i Owlac to the fos;. Boers arriv al In London had made him too late to fetch his sister and ac company her from her house as ha had promised. That waa bad. that waa. Amelia waa In a proper atato over this 'ere Business an no mistake, neither. Couldn't wonder at It really, seelna; as ow young; Bert waa all that waa left to er. like. Beef, himself, hadn't cottoned to his nephew much, bat still the lad waa not as bad as some ot the youngsters nowadays, no. not by a long shot I An' now he'd gone and done himself In. ! Absorbed by funereal thoughts. Beef had been walking along without taking that proper care which a pedestrian desirous ot preserving his life, ahoald exer cise. In consequence he-suddenly found his foot descending Into space he had merely atepped off the curb and before he knew what had happened he had can oned Into something large and darkly clad. ! Ere, 'ere, arhat'a all this?" asked a graft voice. ! Mr. Beef polled his hat off his face and glaring at the police man said. "Why don't you look where you'se agoln?" j "Now, now, sir, admonished the policeman and broke off to peer closer at the round, red face ot his Tia-a-Ti. "Why. bless my soul. air. If It isn't Mr. Beef! I don't expecks as you'll remember me. Sergeant, bat I used to work under you when you and Mr. that is. Sir John Meredith was oa tha Dove cases. ! Matthew Beef, pleased at being recognised after his retirement, stared round-eyed at the other and nodded. "I've got you mlad. Tour name'a Smlthers. Never for get a face nor a name neither, and the old brain-box still works even It we 'are retired. That is. "WOTAITO WEDGE" WOTAJC A pagan god of war aukl Ttetory from Nordic mythotogy, promiaeat at e o the lis of Hitler as aa Inspira tion of the new Germany. j. WEDGE -A flight of geese ia ! F- h a ped foraaatiom. "WO TAHTS WEDGE The heaves! ly Insignia of Wotaa, aad the symbol of ths famous WaUesw I tela family ta this novel ; the wedge was teteocd oa the fore. ' arms of all its males. he adde4 onneceesarfly. fsae aad Sir John ? 1 . ' j v Ton always "ad a phenora . . . phenom.L ;good memory j ger geant, beamed t h o constable. "Dp la town Xor tho dayi airr" Ex-Deiectlve ! Beef A - ovrieasit shook hf a head. "Just for the mornln'.f An ahowlng i slip of paper tojSmlfiera, "Can yoa tall me where thl-place lsT j ' Whythatfe. where th Coron er's Inquest ll on, exclaimed Po lice Constable Smlthers,1 "Tonng feller goie and knocked aself off Mrs. filaiter'a boy. Are 1 you In terested pn the case, sirf 1 "My iephew,M nodded Beef gloomily j "And I've come bp to offer support, -so to speakv to my sister. I ! ,f,;j . "Very rlghl and proper, too. air, agreed jthe polleeman. "X thooght jif yoa was takla an in terest. Sergeant, that perps there might be more In the easel than what meeta xne eye, If youl take my meahln."! "No," Jsald beef. "As far; as1 I can s s 4 It's4 straight I forward enough, Jporo ;ladl" j . "No ao;rt of- plot nor Iothint aaggested the consUble wfitfully. "There's ino mystery aboat young Bert'a denth, said Matt&ew Beet shaking ila head, bat In Uhis, did he bat khow tt, he was wrong. (To bo; continued ) I t t I Id A it! 6o ' f i i .in tho Pi etc 4- LONDON, Jin. ; 2 0-irr4An onion auctioned at a football inatch brought $12.4.1 cento for the; Shef field war; fund. today. Onions, rery scarce, have a controlled.' price of aboat ten cents a poand.1 j T i ! BlSMARCKi ND, JanJ ZGf-CAV Doctora pondered a diaarmament problem-i-howi to remove; a three inch toy! plsto from the; stomach of a flTeiyear-oJd boy. I Ervin Simpson ot Haxelton three days aga put the metal play thing inl his f mouth, chocked and gulped. Doctors are giving nature a chance to relieve iErvln but fear fthey may have to disarm him thesjiselres via an operation. i CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mb., Jan. 20 (fl-rhe collision of two: auto mobiles may be news, but the col lision of an automobile aid a boat is really pews.? ; It happened here whenr Mrs. W. L. Perklnson left her; auto parked oh a street near the slop ing wharf on the Mississippi river front. . Tie cat rolled down the wharf and crashed Into the aide of a boat used by United. States engineers). Both the car and boat were damaged.; : i ! i EOUTIl BRITAIN, Conn.;. Jan. l-VPy-IV easy to Identify the boys who! have been playing; hock ey at the Purchase school.! They cut hockey sticks from a clump of Sumac and near the group to a man. nao sumac poisoning, j Jan. aro alr- SALT j LAKE CITY. Up) Tooele county office ra searching for a hlt-and-fly plane. Sheriff Alma Whtte jsald a small pUjae, flying along the high way west; of GrantsvUle, struck the top of aja automobile driven by Ralph A4 Olsort of Ellsworth. Ia.. and carrying his wife and two children.! j None was Injured and the plans flew offj apparently undamaged. tne sberif aald.1 The Safety Valve Lottscs from Statesman BSsxidora i LEGISLATOR'S PAT ! To the Editor: And so the 1141 legislature la again In motion for forty or more days. There may be 12SS or more bills for them to look over and thresh oat. ! They are still paid 3.00 per day. t All other state officials have received small and large raises, j I hear It will coat legislators at leaat $2.0 per day in Salem for comfortable room and boardL No snore boarding tor ,$2.tS to 12.1 per week. Uko ia pioneer days. Mors to do, mere cost to live too, no raise due. i Do they Uko' any of this boy cott, caused from an old mistake that doesn't get corrected? I think not. i No criticism ot Salem's hotel price, but these gentry cannot now live In hotels and go dolled np; and pat on sirs like people Sere's the Bombed Illustrious J Tot seven hours 4.3 to R) German bombing r-,Tt attacked Britain's aircraft carrier, ths Eustrloui, sj3 Slrnge and srhea fha attack was ever, ths Ulas trlons managmi to come into a lCsdUerranaaa port under her own power. : It was the heaviest attack vpoa a sinsis British warship of ths sraz. Hare than 1PQ,CG4 pounds of bombs were dropped oa the 3"aa ag. wnusa waa snniglsTss ta AprO. 19Z9. expect them to on Oregon Pay, 12.00 a day. I vision the! right r. f I'll To break even or make si prof it.. I hope these legislators -will soon got "snooks' and be j lucky to rent f vacant building, pat in movable bunks ' and hire, sleeping aacka. so they will be hooked up for cheaper sleeps. To better lire within thetr hire. I oggesU they go "dolled up la lehimaeV-eweep, I rip-track and lumber-Jack cloth esj1 Some people r say they! can live on nailaj Maybe these legialators can lives oa dried fruiti If ao.. I suggest they eat It for breakfast (dried ipples j might be beet), drink water for dinner; and by evening.! they ofight to be swelled ap for supper I and not care to eat. Bep that Op every dayi while there and their grab paght to come chfeap. j i Drink! natural liquor for. they cannot drink higher priced istuff. Drink the kind that the horses, cows, aheep, goats, geese, guinea pigs and June! bugs drink! Nei ther chew nor smoke. Just watch somebody else ilo that aad Imag ine It 1st themselves. i I . Go nowhere snd make 'no dates, for all ladles know that he Is a poor mobnshlner; bootlegger: or. hot air peddleii that cannot beat IX.Ot p dayfand so it will b "nig- legialatofs. . 1 (1 At their home of evenings; thsy can read, talkv play cards, i curse everybody elso. Bunch their busks and have stag 4ances galore and fight among themselves 1 When tired ! and sleepy 1 after dancing and fighting, they can re place their bunks, elide into their aacka. a !ad take a anoose. Ot course.- seme shay anore. but if others who may be carrying f 'con cealed six ahooter weapons get mad and go to ah oo ting, they should eaiy shoot a bluff; not shoot right at s the loudest snor ing and IspoU aomebody like Pat did. Leading reason for -not kill ing . anyone Is that they would not want a ntan for breakfast, dried fruit Is to be their dish. 1 They can wash, shave and bathe oat In the rain. ; j j I - If they ever get over sore and break away, they will win ihelr day. j - I . I For: IWhere there la a IwOl, thero ts! my way, to get If ca, three dollars si day. - i However: This plan will do on ly f o r i tho sjenteslators. Poor Ladyslatora. -They wClfhavs to wtrr la, aosae oter way. I - I . - j . ELMER MATBIS; ' I . I . i Baker. Oregoa.; . I - . i ; . I . 5 I : . r - ; '