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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-
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year are the pink honor bright pe
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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
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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
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place! the leaf In a aaucer of aand
ud leafmold and keep It damp. -1
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fori the Ivy. The little Ivy does best
la a tomparatively cool place and
with plenty of water.
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- j (Concluded tomorrow.)
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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 )
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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
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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.
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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.; :
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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.
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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
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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
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