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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President
1 ' Member of The Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for
news dispatches credited to It ox not otherwise credited
Satisfactory Service "
Politics wears in normal times many of the
aspects of a three-ring circus. It naturally fol
lows that at campaign time showmanship is, or
Is generally considered, an asset, no matter how
'little relation it bears to the day-by-day ad
ministration of public affairs.
As the lists, close for the primary election
it is emphatically obvious that these are not
normal times. For an unprecedented number
of offices which are within the gift of Salem
and Marion county voters there is no contest.
Only one candidate has appeared, Some of those
assured of nomination by default will have op
position in the- general election next fall; un
opposed candidates for city offices and for the
judiciary will not.
For this unusual situation the times are
largely responsible. Against the easily recog
nized and inexorable trend of the times, this
column in company with many conscientious
citizens, , voiced futile protest. In general, the
dearth of candidates is regrettable.
And yet, now that the lists have closed, cer
tain contrary observations are appropriate. Par
ticuarly in the cases of city and county offices,
where government is close to"the people, the
absence of contests though attributable in part
to individuals' reluctance to make the race, un
deniably denotes also rather general approval
of the character and ability, and in the case of
an incumbent, the record in office of the single
candidate who has offered his services. Granted
that no one was anxious to run it is still true
that if the lone candidate had not been general
ly . acceptable, some group of citizens would
have "drafted" an acceptable though possibly
reluctant one to make the race.
This appraisal of the situation is applicable,
we are confident, to the candidates for the sev
eral uncontested city offices. Most remarkable
is the position of I. M. Doughton, already as
sured of the mayoralty, for the reason that he is
. not an incumbent though he has served the city
in oilier capacities for many years and thus is
no dsrK horse. Likewise Paul Hauser, city treas
urer, and Dave O'Hara, unopposed for his fifth
ward place on the city council, are entitled to
consider that they already have the voters' en
dorsement. Congratulations to all three are in
order.
. , f ", Among officers whose tenure is at the suf-
. ferance of Marion county voters, it is equally
apparent-that Circuit Judge Max Page has
., served to the satisfaction of the great majority,
- that County Judge Grant Murphy has served to
the satisfaction of republicans, and that Joe
' Felton has i performed acceptably the duties of
Salemrdistrjct justice of the peace. And as in the
case of Mayor-elect Doughton, there is another
rtoteworthy circumstance that applies to these
thr each was appointed rather than elected
to serve his present term.
The case of Congressman" James W. Mott
who is enabled to forego his biennial primary
campaign but will face opposition in Novem
ber is, we conceive, slightly different. His un
broken series of victories since 1932 serves to
discourage opposition in the absence of wide
spread dissatisfaction with his service. It is
known that prior to last December 7 there was
. criticism of his votes in opposition to certain
of the administration's preparedness measures.
The objections then raised, we may fairly as-
': sume, are now generally viewed as no longer
pertinent, while his record in support of coastal
and naval defenses in the Pacific stands to his
credit. Failure of any republican in the district
to oppose him thus is evidence, not of a total
lack of disssatisf action, but of the absence of
objection so strong as te inspire an assault upon
his strong political bastion.
Offices which are statewide in their scope
present a slightly different situation but felici
tations differing only slightly in degree are due
I Bex Putnam, state superintendent
struction, and Justices Percy R. Kelly and Harry
H. Belt of the state "supreme court.
. Though congratulations already are in or
der for those candidates nominated or actually
elected by default barring unlikely write-in
campaignsVsuccess it would not be fair to as
sume that those public servants who are op
posed for renocnination actually lack equally
general approval; their opponents may be self-starters.
But this discussion was opened with
some remarks about showmanship and its re
lation to politics and public service. And one
observes that whereas the neophyte Circuit
Judge Max Page has no opponent, the veteran
Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan has two. And one
Just can't help wondering . . . about politics in
these unusual times . , . and showmanship . . .
and cause and effect.
Dr Kildare
: Lew:, Ayres was never the best actor in Hol
lywood, nor .even the most glamorous though
any fellow who could lead successively Ginger
Rogers and Lola Lane to the altar must have
known most Of the answers. One always did get
from a Lew Ayres picture an impression of sin
cerity and integrity; He was the fellow in "All .
Quiet on the Western Front" who was sickened
and disillusioned by war; the faithful personifi- -
cation of Erich Marie Remarque's autobiograph
ical: character. By the way, we wonder what
Erich is thinking now? , ' c . ' .
But we know what Lew Ayres Is thinking,
for he Is on his way to a camp in Oregon for
conscientious objectors where he will cut wood
and; pay $3$ month for the privilege From
his statement f or the press it is evident that
whatever may be his failure to see the realities ;
f the times, he is aware that this step may
mean the ruin of his personal career. And of,
course, even about that other, matter he Is right,
in a way. H everyone should refuse to fight
there would be no wars. What he fails to see is
that his solution has been rejected for the time
being and that nothing can be done about it
until this, mess is settled 'the right way. And
we doubt whether he sees the difference be
tween this war and its predecessors but what's
, the use? It's too big a question to discuss when
e startei rt tt discuss Lew -Ayres.
u L. Lew AyrJ obviously b
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sincere.' He is imperiling his career and not
for the sake of saving his skin, but for con
science' sake. It just goes to prove that even in
Hollywood all is not tinsel and sham. Ayres
played the role of war-hater on the screen;'
now he is playing it in real life. And just poss
ibly his is one of the most downright heroic acts
performed by a member of the film colony thig
season. Still, it's a pity that Lew can't at this point
translate his other major role into real life.
Surely he wouldn't object to a wartime career
dedicating his knowledge of the healing arts to
the alleviation of suffering. And the nation
could use a diagnostician of Dr. Kildare's talents
to great advantage in these, times'.
The tire salesman who is called into the army
has one consolation; his job ought to be waiting
for him when he gets out. At any rate, no one '
will be filling it in the meantime.
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON
(Distribution by Km Features Syndicate, Inc. Repro
duction In whole or in part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, March 31- The nazi Mitz
General Last arrived in the north quietly a few
days stack, just about the time the soothsayers of
Pael Mallea
of public in
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CO.
publication of an
la this newspaper.
the Swedish press were conclud
ing Hitler would not invade them
this season.
List has never been known
as a sightseer or ski fancier, but
is the tank general who ravaged
France, Yugosalvia and Greece
with speed unprecedented before'
in warfare. He is the nazi lightning-caster
although he did not
cast very much in Russia.
; Sweden, of course, does not
merit such high class military
attention. A nazi sweep in from
Norway, coupled with landings
from Denmark and Germany, at
Malmo and Trollenberg, should duplicate the Nor
wegian job with the use of no more than ten or
12 German divisions.
Sweden, while promising now a hard fight, is
not known to have the military wherewithal for
formidable resistance against a force of 150,000 or
more.
Thus is the familiar pattern of conquest being
laid. First diplomatic pressure, then suppression
of newspapers, then visits from German officials,
new from a blitz general.
A3 the while propaganda has been circulated
to make the Swedes fear a Russian victory and
conquest from that quarter, if Germany loses. Fin
ally now there has come the lull of security, which
means the time is ripe for lightning.
Few here were impressed with the threat to
Sweden when discussions were warm in the press
a week or so ago. There is not much for Hitler
to gain there. He is getting the iro nore and some
other materials. It is true this limits him to his
pre-war share, but that seems to be enough
Some see military advantage for him in the
strengthening of his Finnish and Norwegian posi
tions, if he takes Sweden, but mis would not be
worth the effort involved. Sweden is just another
easy victory lying around loose at a time when
nazi victories are getting fewer and harder. "
The thaw is now on at the Ukrainian front in
south .Russia. Within a week or two, the roads will
fee good for tanks. In fact, Hitler could have start
ed besstre this if he intended to keep his old mili
tary pace.
It the weather has not delayed him, what 'has? .
Is fee holding back the leash on the great forces
he has amassed at the southern Russian front In
order to time that drive with something else?
Just about this time every year, Der Fuehrer
disgorges what he likes to call a surprise. In 1940
it was Norway; last year, Yugoslavia and Greece.
vIt is inconceivable that he has been consulting the
muses all winter without indulging his penchant
for surprises.
The south Russian drive might bear more world
weight if -Coupled with occupation of Sweden, but
particularly if timed with a Jap attack on Vladivos
tok. '
The Japs have not reinforced their south Pacific ,
armies lately. No more steaming transports have
been discerned moving toward Java or New Guinea.
In fact,, the New Guinea drive has bogged down
in a flood in the jungles halfway to Port Moresby
from Lae and Salamaua (on the north shore at the
peninsula),
The Japs there have barely enough forces to
take Tort Moresby (which they no doubt will do
eventually) but not enough to go ahead fr em P there
into Australia. It is doubtful also whether they
have enough in Java, for further conquests.'
Consequently a question is arising as to when
or whether the Japs Intend to move attbarwin.
From bases at Timor and elsewhere they jean con
tinue bombing so Genera MacAr thur will be unable
to maintain formidable airfields along the north
shore for attacks on them. They inay figure this
Is enough and not even attempt landing1 on Austra
lian soil, r
Suspicious Jap troop movements .have been
noted north of Nanking, ' indicating reinforcement
of the northern front. It is Just possible these troops
are destined for Manchukuo and sprang action
against Vladivostok.
Thaws should start in about two weeks on the
Moscow central front, but the muddy period gen
erally lasts much longer there than in the south.
It may be six to eight weeks yet before the fighting
terasa U good in that area, r ,
' ; - But no one here can see the possibility that Hit
ler's annual spring sensation -will break there. He
needs oil. It lies a few miles ahead of him on the
Uteainian front. Unless he gets it this summer, he
wiH have a hard time going through another winter.
- Importance of oil to the nazis has been stressed
so often, and Hitler has so frequently found a
way out, that the subject has lost its vital signifi
cance to many people. He seized supplies in Hol
land, Belgium and France, and then acquired the
Rumanian, fields, to skip the oily grave which so
many experts had dug for him. But there are ,OQ
more supplies to be confiscated, and the Rumanian
fields cannot support indefinitely the extended
kind of war he has been forced to in Russia.
; . ' Therefore, the Near East must be his main ob
jective, or he must find a magician who can make
c3 out of lost nor -
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By LTLLIB U flADSEN .
M. M. asks. hoar to rid the
lawn of moss. She says she
raked it oft last year but it is
back Just as thick again' this
year.
Answer Indications are that
her lawn needs fertilizer. Moss
grows best on lawns in a rather
poor, sour condition.'. Hake the
' moss off again. . Be sure the
drainage is good. If the soil
'seems to be packed, spike it with
a lawn spiker. Use a mixture of
' compost, Jbalanced fertilizer and
x sand and spread evenly. Get this
" on at once and then fertilize with
" balanced fertilizer in early
June ". " . - " '' - '
: O. N. asks If she should divide
. , the primroses while in bloom.
- She says she. has heard it wiU
not injure then " . ;
- Answer- If tasry ae crowing
in her own garden, I would sug
gest not disturbsg them untu
after, their, bloocning season. As
soon as they are Crushed bloom-
: ing, dividing may be done. Some
sort of a marker . should be
placed along side of those she
wishes to divide
If you are purchasing prim
roses, it Is usually suggested to
purchase them while in bloom
so that the color you Wish may
-be. selected. If they are watered
when planted, , they will ' not
show much', suffering from the
ssova t
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By EDITH BRISTOL
. Chapter S Continued
. That's all I wrote about my
first day's work but not all X
learned. I learned , that my em
ployer was generous, prosper-'
ous, drove a good bargain, that
his wife was extravagant and
that he couldn't spelL
"The spelling Is your Job, Miss .
. Lane"; he was gruff but not un
kind., "When other men were
learning how to spell, I was
finding out how many yards of -
aggregate goes Into a mile of .
highway. Now I hire them to
'spell for me." '
I learned that Bin. Gregg and
Sydney spent m u c h of their .
time in an apartment on Russian '
.Hill in San Francisco; that Cra- -ven
was managing the business
and Martha Gregg managed the
household; that Lance; ha been
called from his last year in en
gineering at the University of
California to help his uncle aft
er the accident. f
, All that October day I filed
and sorted papers, took dicta
; tion and typed, while outs13
the open -Windows Castaway
basked, warm and brown and
fragrant in the autumn sunshine,
and the distant surf pounded on
the rocks. i
When Kobe, Mr. Gregg's per
sonal servant, came to wheel the
chair out of the study at noon,
my employer-looked at me with
a steady, penetrating gaze:
"At the agency they told me
you were a young woman who
could be trusted." .
I looked just as squarely back
at him. "I am, Mr. Gregg."
"All these records and letters
from the Gregg Construction
company"- he nodded toward
the metal filing cabinet with its
stout bar and padlock "are
strictly confidential."
"You can trust me," I said.
"I'm gambling on that. But X
want to make it plain how im
portant these papers are. Be sure
to lock this cabinet when you
- leave the study at night or noon.
Lt Kobe bring me the key. Un
derstand?" "Ill be very careful, Mr.
Gregg," I assured him.
Bits for Breakfast
By K J. HENDRICKS
Pioneer life in 4-1-42
the Oregon Country
as seen on Fourth Plain
near Vancouver, Washington:
a V
(Continuing from yesterday:)
"Soap making was a simple op
eration. Even the laziest house
wife could make it by merely
pouring the lye and grease into
barrels and setting them in the
sun, but most preferred to boil
it and have done with the trou
ble and the mess. Pork rinds and
any kind of surplus fat went into
the barrel to contribute toward
the family's soap supply. If soap
failed to make its appearance in
due time, the housewife cheer
fully attributed the -fault to too
much salt in her grease. She
poured off the lye, boiled the .
grease in water to freshen it,
and began operations the next
day. After the soap had hard
ened it had to be put away in a
dry place to 'set for at least
two months, for the newer it
was when used the faster it
would spend itself In water.
"The few beauty preparations
Fourth Plain women used they
made themselves. One was
honey soap, made by melting,
down soap two pounds accord
ing to the recipe and stirring in
a half cup of honey. Made in
large quantities, it would keep
indefintely and would soften and
whiten the most weatherbeaten
skin. Good for a bleach, too,
were sour milk- or buttermilk,
faithfully applied at night.
Honey was used also as a hand
lotion, rubbed well Into the
freshly washed hands. Its soft
ening qualities made it equally
valuable wives- and cows! for
softening a cow's teats.
V V
"Another salve, the one beau
ty preparation' thoroughly ap
preciated, was made of white
wax, spermacetti, and sweet oil,
scented with rose or lavendar.
For hair washing, rain was In- ,
finitely preferable aa it was for
almost every other ptopese, but
water softened with borax could
be used in the summer. A hair
wash might be made of alcohol
and castor oil, scented with la
vendar. There were whispers
that certain food ladies, whose
hair remained dark after their'
ages made dark hair immoral,
were in the habit of touching
it up with sage tea.
"Vanity went no farther, how
ever, than sage tea and honey
. soap. For, rouge and such non
. sense the Fourth Plain house
wife had no use the life she led .
" put color ' enough Into her
; cheeks. To pretend that home
"aking on Fourth t Plain was
- sy and always pleasant is of
. course false, because the Plain
was nd continued to be for
tto&J years a pioneer commun
r T. but, for. the Fourth Plain
housewife., busy with washing,
1 Zoning,, baking, and occasion-
neininsr wim ux una
Clearing - . iu.. mi
1 . . wuexsr waa nu uauc sur
a mtrrrt .:
nrL Time nnl-r' In ha
PPy for such blessings as were
hers.
5 Doctorin The task af
doctorirt. on " Fourth Plain feU
eiy fo the lot of the early
- dar
-'..
mother. True. Vancouver
Portland and their city doc
were net far, off, but the
Tlease finish up that Durfet
file first and get it locked usw
out of the way. I'm depending
on you." His eyes were search
ing, -v r. '
' "You can depend on me."
- "By gosh, I believe I can. You
look to me -like you had some
. thing, more under that red hair
than- boy friends : and movies, -Well
get along." His wheel chair
moved through the door. 1
The Durfee file. Something '
clicked. That was the man they :
mentioned at the dinner table
the man who would r e 1 i s h a
slight case of murder. I went to
work on the papers. It merited ?
reading, this Durfee file.
Chapter Fear -
It seems Worth Durfee,
Gregg's neighbor at the north, "
had been engaged in litigation
with my employer for years over
a boundary, the file disclosed. :
Gregg, finally, had won the bat- :
tie.
Driving an automobile with
faulty lights. Worth Durfee was
the man : whose : car had sent
Gregg's machine hurtling
through the fog and darkness to
the cliffs below. -A damage suit
for $50,000 so the records told
me followed the accident. And .
Gregg, carried Into court on a
stretcher, - must have made a -good
witness in his - own behalf
for he won the suit The case,,
now under appeal, might be set
tled if Gregg would accept the
compromise of cash offered by
Durfee that offer, as yet un
answered, was the last paper I
added to the file before I care-.
fully returned it to its drawer
and locked the steel cabinet.'
Now the top of the desk was
clear. Tomorrow I'd ctart on the
- files of the Gallina dam and
from the mass of letters, speci
fications, papers of all kinds, ac
cumulated during Mr. Gregg's
illness, on that tremendous piece
of construction. I could see
weeks and weeks of work be
fore me. The exact type of work
I love bringing order out of
chaos.
(To be continued)
seven miles to town was a long
way in a crisis, apart from any
financial consideration, and a
mother had to be prepared.
"Remedies consisted largely
of supplies which any pantry
shelf afforded. If the housewife
kept strictly for emergencies the.j
items of turpentine, powdered .
alum and sulphas; she was sure ;
to be able to evolve treatments,
of varying: efficacy, for almost
any known complaint.
S "a. "a
f
"The invaluable 'ounce of
prevention' in illness was used la v
some families but eyed askance
by the more fastidious, since it
consisted of a piece of asofetida '
tied on a string and worn about
the neck all winter. The odor of
asofetida, bad enough at best,
became almost unbearable by
the time spring rolled around. So .
most preferred to take their
chances- on treatment rather
than on prevention.
"There waa a saying that a
soiled sock worn around the
neck served the same purpose,
but one never heard of its being
used. It may have been a mock
ery of those who relied on the
pungent asofetida. -
"Most valued remedy in tha
pioneer medicine chest was
whiskeyt used to treat every
thing from snakebite, through
sore throat, burns and inflam
matory rheumatism.
"The snakebite cure, never
needed on the Plain where"
nothing more venomous than a
garter snake was ever encount-
ered, of course consisted . of '
keeping one's self saturated in
spirits until the danger was past,
"A longing to test the cure waa
a favorite joke among men who
on the whole were sadly temper
ate.' " '
' (Continued tornosxow)
Tho
Safety Vafvo
Letters tram Salesman
-Readers ! f
THEY ARE AFKATD -
To the Editor: Somebody Is"
afraid tonight
Today our fox terrier Petty
was poisoned.
She is the eighth dog poisoned
here. Eight dogs in nice homes
with boys and. girls who loved
them. - t
Somebody Is afraid tonight
They sneak in the ', night
They fear to be known. A pot
soner is a sneak killer. -'
Somebody Is afraid.
We saved quite a' while' for
Peggy's license.
Petty stayed at borne most of
the time. She followed us girls
at night and waited for us. She
killed more rats than any other
dog. She tried to say "Good ;
inorning every' morning. ' "
Somebody need not be afraid. ,
They will not be found. They
are safe to get many more dogs.
Butr eight pets have been poi
soned, and they are- out to get -r
more.
. . We will try to forgive the one
who did this. We are 10 and 14
years old.
FRANCES - and " YVONNS
CARVER. T E. Judsen St