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PAGZ FCU2 Tha CZZGiGlI CTATTSMail, Salem, 0KFffl Vdaday I Tarda Saptes&cx S. i:i2 n n " ! :. i I IS TOE STATES IAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. S PRAGUE. President " iScmber of .The Aaandaled Preai The Associated Press la exdustvel7eDUUed to the-use for pabUcaHno of til mi ttfcrpsichea credited -to. It -or not otherwise, credited , Is this newspaper. - Pistol at Confess' Head - I have- told-the congress that the admin is t ration cannot held the actual cost of food and clothing down to the, present level beyond a: October L. -- t. - v , Therefore, I have asked the congress to pass ', legislation under, which the president would be specifically authorized to. stabilize the cost of living, including. the price on all farm com ' modi ties. The. purpose should be to hold farm ' ' prices' at parity, or' at levels of a recent date, . whichever, is. higher. The purpose should also be to ' keep wages at a point stabilized with today's cost of living. Both must be regulated ' at the same time; and neither can or should be regulated without the other. . . At the same time that farm prices are stabi lized, I will stabilize wages. . This is plain Justice and plain common , sense. - v'.''.- ' I have asked the congress to take this action the dispatch which the stern necessities of .war require. .', . - - f ' :V . ." ' I have told the congress that inaction on their i ; part-by that date will leaveijne with sin ines V capable responsibility to the people of this t. , country to see to it that the war effort is no longer Imperiled by the threat of economic " chaos . .... In the event that the congress should fail to act, and act adequately, I shall accept the re sponsibility, and I will act. President Roosevelt A pistol, it I s being said, is pointed at the congress' head. If you discover rhyme and metre in that sen tence, it is an accident and we are sorry. This is - no occasion for levity, " ' Discussing the president's fight against infla tion for the third successive issue, we again endorse his s objective and applaud his de--: termination. But the spotlight now is upon that pistol And its aiming and in this there is cause for regret. ' Thoufh already we have .quoted the presi dent's fireside chat at some length in order to 'include sufficient background of the pistol- pointing gesture, u -seems advisable to -add two other -paragraphs heard later in the -address: Tke American people - can be sure-that I will -use my powers with a. full sense of re sponsibility 'to -the constitution ; and ; to -my -country. The American people can also- be sure that I hstU not hesitate to ise every : power vested in me to accomplish the defeat ot-our-enemies- In any part of the world where our safety demands .such defeat -When the war i won, the power under ; ".which I act will automatically, revert to the . people to whom they belong. Heie the' president admits that he proposes to exercise, powers which are not his in peace 1 time aoRd from-the fact that he discusses their ' propriety, one may fairly judge he recognizes it is aestionable. His candor, in any -event, Is 7 reassuring .arid sb is the forthrightness of his pledge that - these powers will fee restored to the people when the war is won. Those people who have - been- shouting dic i tatorship" .since M34 might now have a field day but it would he most harmful thing, and ' could-accomplish no good. r r. - Has-a pistol ever been pointed at' your head? It is a most unpleasant experience. But -a .great deal depends upon the circumstances. More often than not, or at any rate, quite often; the gesture is justified. ; And that is just the point.- In this case it is If congress had done its duty, the pistol- i n 4 1 m aw a f s4 mvsV tfsi bWav. V AAae.ww aviiiMssj n vuiu vr wvii iivvvooat j "After 1 election. J Wait Cuntil after election." That' has been the chorus. Every decision -which , might tit end two dozen voters must be post poned until alter election. The, public is sick of 4t. No doubt the president is sick of it too. But because- the public is sick of it, the presi dent -hzs near-universal support in his present . move to force congress' hand. t . .' Yet it will make a great deal of 'difference, whether congress does what thepistol-pointing president asks, -or whether the president is forced to act independently under questionable - powers. If congress acts, the form of repre ' sentative government is maintained and Uke wise.its substance, for a plebiscite would bring the same result. - Congress, had better act." It is our .guess that congress will. . Indeed, . this friction between. , the , president; aj result fortunately..Though : farm prices to the ret?rontued to "stabilized wages, he : has been a brazen uiu-jtoi. oenr- -aown -on. mai. issue ce -ma on ( . wim the unions farm prices; ipoasibly due to a .belief that he The part of .already had the power to 'deal with -wavges. in his message, "But congress, with its neck' bowed,' may "go bloc men have the whele ho -and enact a raeasure which will ; selfish politics, la leave, m .question as to the-adequacy -of wage sUbjlizatiori. - ' : . - - '-,-v.. Meat ndOTitat ---SS-iv Meat ratioaiEtg 4eem td be in tier--nd 5 whoiare-we lo Jack? It's just anothesof those sacrlf ices .whkhmay -be good f or us nd if it ; ? isn't, -think '--of e Greeks .and .the .'Poles, and ' i of our eoldieta now war prisoners ' or net rubsosUng on a handful ' On-the other hand, here 7 are our. gyanaries bursting: witt wheat-and though it's m radical , and -almost thinkable idea' in some aections 1 where laxmer have set ideas-as to whata auit : ableor cattleousi hogs, what's the matter -with a big program ofTeeitag wheat to livestock and produdEg-tneat? . Even-that, ia -riew of the shortage of little pigs.iid carrea, -might not' meet the need; perhapa we -should -still face meatless daysC But whUe his objective it would, provide meat for men and for others who really need it. - In -the "-one-hundred years ago" column in the New York-Herald Tribune we came across a reference to the Locofocos." What centenari an remembers them? They wera the new deal- ers of ItVUrrs and got their nam from the ' fact that when thi bunch got out of control at a Tamiry jmeetin, the regular democrats turned oul the-.gas lights, -tut the insurgents, prfvpctled to orjjinize by the light of Tocofoco f , fi. . - ''- - ' . "Ao Toror icaya Us; Jtfo Teor Shall AwtT From First Suiesman, Llarch 25, 1S31 ! Anyway, Thinking One hundred eminent scholars held a five day "'Conference on , Science, Philosophy- and -Religion" recently in New York, and wound , up with a formal statement which included ac- ; cording to one press account, 'a challenge to . thinkers around the globe to discover new . techniques by which men may 'think together; and more clearly so that the dictator-breeding world condition of 'intellectual confusion and spiritual deterioration might be overcome. Taking a quick glance at the conference agenda, you might conclude that these men were seeking, as the headline suggested, "new formu las lor thinking and that would be something forbidding to lesser minds. ' ' ,. 'What they really sought, but what they may have been less well euipped to seek than some less profound minds, was a formula to encour age, not more profound thinking, by the few. -but more thinking by the many. And that is a challenge, . .".-. Labor day weekend civilian casualties were only about one-third of normal. War's com pensations even extend to he conservation of human life on the home1 front News Behind the News By PAUL . MALLON (Distribution by King Features Syndicate. Inc. Beprs ductknt in wtu: or in part ttrtcuj prohibited ) WASHINGTON, Sept Mr. Roosevelt did not . submit his Wage-price program to congress Labor day as planned. All he said to congress was (in effect): ; ' " . "You repeal that obnoxious farm-price inflating f , it rx rasf -ttaflM up toward inauguration of -an overall economic control board, made up of various .government department chiefs. (McNutt Henderson, Davis, Eccles, Nelson, Wickard.) Mr. Roosevelt tired of creating super-boards on top of failures, .and mindful of -some inner criti cism, then -seemed to swerve toward . naming - chairman -of the board with .such .strong powers that be could be popularly known as a cxar over prices and wages. :"-; . For that job he possibly had decided upon-a man, not too much of -a laborite, or farm bloc man, to be suspected of favoritism in aciminiiteriag wages and prices. " ." ... . .;:. ;..-. ; Presumably he wanted someone who would es tablish the confidence of the country (Baruch and Lehman' being mentioned in most of the news paper accounts, although some threw in the names of Justice Douglas, and-, other left-leaning new dealers who did not fill the requirement or Mc Nutt who is already running for president in 1944.) ; When Mr. Roosevelt tried this program out on congressmen in advance, he, ran into objections, mainly from the farm bloc. Some of them, like Senator Norris, of Nebraska, -spoke out publicly. A day or two befdre the president was scheduled 0 to speak, Norris openly warned him congress would "raise hell" if he thus trampled on its constitutional prerogatives. : ' ' r ' . So the president decided to give them three weeks to do it the' regular way, their way if they could. His threat to do it anyway October 1, implied his own doubt that the farm bloc would relent and let him do if ' No one now doubts the wisdom of freezing wages and o rices. It should have been done nine months v ' ago, wheXthe war the fairest and jr. twoKveiu men uia me wmie fiouse. -' It should have been done last spring when the present Henderson price setup was instituted by congress over, twe-thirds of the prices . of :the nltinn 1ltrin mOttnt nntoMhwl mnrt Minn. - congress and ing down- the unions. . His various labor boards let some union wages ease up. higher along a cost of -living yardstick 4 and in the pending General Motors case a. labor board panel even went beyond the cost of living, justification for a further wage increase. The farm Wocmensaid:";-;':;v:;-vj!.iW ;'. - ' ;; . "You are letticg the tmions -get theirs; we "win get ours.' vV--.:;v;:. f.'7--; This weakness subsisting- prevails in his messages TWhile his presentation of of rke daily. y ' -. case agauist forward, and non-political, and his. plan, fcract carries the -same honest, open handed general tone, nection, but only in connection with prices.) ' AH he said about wages was that he proposed to "stabilize" them himself. His program, in the service important question of whether his program will work, or even whether it will be fair and firm can be answered only after it is announced. People will look very closely, for the wording of the labor provisions especially, to see whether he will leave ; enough loopholes through which unions can edge their particular stipends "still higher. v Also the character of , the man he will appoint to do the Job may be more revealing as to the real extent Of his program, which is now being pre maturely christened by the headline writers as a "wage-price freezingt device, v ' ". , So far it sounds more like wage "stabilization" and price "freezing.'' law within three weeks, and allow me treely to move against our rising . threat of inflation . disaster, or I will put by pro-, gram into effect regardless of your restriction.' Something happened the last - " few days before the message to cause a change in White House . plans.- 1 v The president's trouble-com-' promiser, Judge Bosenman, had submitted to Mr. Roosevelt sev- -eral recommendations for ex- -ecutive action without coqgres- ' sionsl approval. These headed - started, as Bernard Baruch (still . smartest economist in contact ;with run up. The Henderson system poliUcalinakeshift comnromise.': and farm bloc. . : . it that Mr Roosevelt did -not tell and the story with which the'iarm justified themselves for their own that Mr, Roosevelt was not hold in the president's position ! stilT rising wages and prices is straight uhi uvitwmj now, or now umuy, ne wui siW- lizew "union wses,-(significantly, perhaps, he does not use the words "fix" or "freeze" in this con - ' therefore, cannot be analyzed yet is unanswerably right, the most 'Sun Spots' CadlBo PtrogtrainrDs KSLM WENE30ATUH K. S:4S Rise H' Shina, -T.-0O-News la Brie . 7 Rise "N". Shine. T3 News. 7:4S Your Cospel Program. 80 Countr Aseat. S:1S Stun Kenton's Orhceetra. ' S JO News Brevities. S atHoward Barlow's Ccart Orch. ttf Pastors CaU. t:lS Ai Perry a Sort aiders. :1t0 TmpnlT Music. -.M9mUo Hudson's Orchastra. SS Ta the Ladies. - , r- IS Aw World te erew. 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Lewis, jr.-, used by the Mary, is a - device which -fits over thssurface of a compass ta -enable the operator to take baariags oa distant -objects. It has split kaar -sigbuv has been in - not for. maay -yeara , .. , ond costs . arproximitely -vi, . . v "A r X. j T - r These Instruments , art -essential quipment to every American ship which comes out of th shipyards. ITtth th scores of ships now being completed each month, we need many of these lostruments. Your purckase of War Bonds and Stamps ' . wi3 tt!p pay for utenv Invest at least tea fercext of yocr Income ev ery payday In thes Interest. bear ing Government securities. V. S. TrtMrj Dtfrrtmtnt 7'V - ' j -f. .It vTA. if These ached ases ara- saapUed fcy the respective tUUeax - Aay varla Ooas noted by Usteaars are dae ta chances aaada hy tta atatlaaa with at neoce te this newspaper. AO radio atatlaas saay ha eat Crssa - the -an- at any 44S Johnson ffamUy. 4 JO Newa ; -4 AS Analysts of Propaganda. .0 Captatn Danger. 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Sergeant Grlbble performed -the perilous feat of repairing the retraefc&Ie laxtlirx rear of a heavy plane while la flight working -head down for ne honr while twa compxn- tBS held Lin by the feet Dy JAMES HILTON Chapter il - . And then Charles Rainier went on to tell the story of his uncle 1 and that first visit .to Poldini's historic restaurant: ri don't think I ever told you about him he was a charming and very short sish ted archdeacon, and the only one out of my large collection of - uncles whom I really liked. Her liked me too, I think we often.' used to spend a day' together. -One evening during the Christ mas holidays, we felt hungry aft-: er a matinee of Jack and the Beanstalk, so as we were walk ing to the nearest underground station he said, "Let's go in here for a snack' and it was Poldi nTs. .1 think he, mistook it -for some sort of cheap but respecta ble teashop anyhow, we walked in, all among . the pretty ladies and the young men-a bout-town ; -we were cynosure of every eye, as novelists r in those days used to write because It wasnt at all the kind of place a Church of England dignitary:; would - nor- mally take his schoolboy nephew to, and my uncle, with his white hair and flashing eyes (the drops ( he had to put In them' made ' them flash), must have looked rather like Hall Caine's Chris-, tian about to create a disturb ance. , . Anyhow, old Poldini he's dead now, scenting some thing funny about us, pretended all bis tables were booked and asked if we'd mind dining up- stairs so up we went," my un cle blinking his way aloft with : out a word of protest, and pres- - ently Poldini showed us into a ' cozy; little, room furnished In" blue and gold, with a very thick carpet and a convenient chaise longue against the. wall and gilt cupids swarming in a suggest ive manner all over , the ceiling in fact, Poldini took charge of us completely, recommending a la carte dishes and serving them . himself, and as the meal pro-' greased my uncle grew more and more surprised . and delighted still under the impression it was an A. B. C, or some such place; -and when the bill came I snat ched it up and said I'd -stand treat, -and he said, My boy, that' is very generous of you'--and by Gad, it was, for it took all the money he'd Justgiven me as a Christmas present But I never .let him know, and to the end of his life he -always used to. tell, people he'd oever-enjoyed a bet ter meal than -at that eating .house off the Strand. . . -eating house, mind you! He took a long breath and addedr "So that's -where well dine tonight among the ghosts of the past a couple - of milords entertaining the toast . of . the- town and rather .bat tered toast, if youH pardon two bad puns at once." When I look back on that eve ninx I iefnember c h 1 e f 1 y, of , 1 course, the incident that crown ed it; but I can see now that the entire masquerade was somehow Haulier's last and rather prepos terous effort to tease a way into self-knowledge, and that the cli max, though completely acciden tal, was yet a fitting end to the attempt I realized also, even if never before, how near he was ' to 'some catastrophic, breakdown . partly from o v ;e r w o r k, but Bos voir . IBireaCifest Bt R J HENDRICKS First to introduce , ' 9-9-42 :, navigation of the air ". . -into the military service . .-f'i was Captain James Allen: .v s s -(Continuing from yesterday:) , "In 1887 Brazil, , together with " the Argentine Republic and Ur- . uguay, made war .on Paraguay m and its "despotic ruler, Lopez, and the Brazilian minister', at . Washington was empowered to secure the 'services of a skilled , aeronaut . Mr. Allen was recommended by Prof., Lowe and leading of ficers, and together ; with his brother Ezra, who had aided him in Virginia, departed with two tine balloons for the seat of war. . , - '.,. ."This Was far . up , the .,Para guay river in. a dense forest .where the 'armies had ;lain,Vcon fronting . one '; another, --- for' 14 , months. ."" ' ; ' " y -' ' ' , "In spite of vexatious delays - 1 11! . A I I t in getung. msieriiu wiui waicn to manufacture gv of difficulty In .transporting - his equipment and In" spite of attempts to de - stroy the balloons, which - were dreaded, by the Paraguayans . as - much as by the Confederates, a . morougn acquaintance with the enemy's f ortificatiotis .and clr- cumstances was jtairtedV ad the . allied troops were so Tmceuraged - that the deadlock of months was ; oroaen, tne Paraguayans - were ""-'"" n.wuui. ers ana topex was-siain. - V. V . . " , Thei. army officer and , offl- cials declared that, there was not ' t enough money ia Brazil to re ward Captain -Allen, but he was . unable to get the $33,000 that had been promised him by the government in case he was suc cessful, and went back to the ' United States with 410,000 only. "JuIy 4, 18S3, in the presence .of, 100,000 spectators on Boston common, Mr. Allen ascended to the height of 8,000 feet above the city, and. on July 4, 1871, with his wife and" daughter and oth ers, he" ascended from Troy, N.Y., more than 5.C00 feet ' -U-r "On July 10, 1871, "his son, James K. Allen, made his first ascension alone, In a small bal- -loon from Troy; reaching an al- chiefly from the fret of things that could not be forgotten be- cause they had never been re membered. And all ..that day, -ever since meeting Nixon, the fret had strengthened behind an Increasing randomness of acta and words. We drove to Poldinfs through the rain, and were 'glad to find the place reasonably unchanged still with its priva tearoom up stairs, little used by a genera tion that no longer needs such an appartus of seduction, and therefore s 1 1 g h t ly melancholy untfl gardenias and ice buckets revived . a more festive spirit Then, with some commotion, the Navoidas arrived, the pianist ra- thf nale and slum in a Ion overcoat with an astrakhan col lar, and Madame very florid and voluble with heavy gold bangles and ancient but good - quality furs, obviously "bewitched (but by no means ill-at-ease) at the prospect of dining Intimately ' with: English nobility.'. We soasi discovered that both of t h ess) were equally accomplished! champagne bibber, but whereas Madame grew livelier and gay . er with every glass, her husband sank -after the first half-dozen into a settled gloom from which he could only stir himself at in tervals to murmur to the waiter a demand for "trouts" for there had , been some confusion ' over his order due perhaps to the w a 1 1 e rs reluctance to believe that . anyone In 1939 would ask for truites bleues in addition to Beluga caviare, steak tartare, , and English rosbif. But aUi that too, and to Rainier's feverish de 1 light was in . the halycon tradl lion the age "of monstrous din ners and fashionable appendici tis, the; one most often the result of the others. Presently, after the popping of the fourth, magnum, Madame grew sentimental and talked of her romantic adventures in all - parts of the world a recital gar nished with copious quotations from the poets, of whom she knew so many in various langu ' ages that I began to think it real . ly must be a passion with her quite as genuine as that for He . idsieck; he liked amorous poet ry besV Jd ; there was sorae : thing perhaps a little' charming in the way she obviously did not - know which was Joo hackneyed 'to quote so: that from a worn ':, out tag of Shakespeare she would : swerve into a line from Emily i Bronte or Beddoes. A few words she wrongly " pronounced or Aid not understand; she would then ask us to correct her, quite sim ply and with an absence of sehV ' -- consciousness' that made piquant . her theatrical gestures and over studied rhythm s. Suddenly I realized. In the mood of half . maudlin pity that comes -after a ; few drinks yet is none the less ' percipient that she was a sadly disappointed woman, getting lit tle out of later life that she real- ly craved for, without a home, a wanderer between hotels and ; casinos, listening to the same old Brahms and Beethoven in half ! empty concert halls, tied for th r. rest of her days to a flabby ma- .(Continued on page 9) - titude of 12,000 feet and land ing; in a forest in Putnam county, 100 . miles - distant making the trip in less than two hours. , "In 1874 CaptAUen visited San Francisco, having been en gaged to make captive' ascen sions at Woodward's . Garden to add to Its attractions as a pleas ure resort." - . , "In 1879 he and his son, who . had ' how become his partner, : went to Ohio on invitation, and f: at Dayton,' Troy and elsewhere . made . ascensions together or , singly in the Glory of the Skies and the. Monarch of the Air. .V " . w "v;:;- "At Lowell,' Mass, in 'lag, - Capt Allen went up in bat-, loon, the weight of which, ln- . duding ballast, ropes and pas sengers was 1374 pounds: In 1888 rhe was called to Brooklyn, N.Y," to navigate the Campbell r air ship, an elaborate and beautiful- - ly wrought piece of mechanism. He ascended in it tova height of : 200 - feet and then found that : it -could-not be controlled, and advised Its owners to abandon xneir attemptt - to use it as t means. ' of transport; - anothea - aeronaut essaying to navigate it - wasearried out to sea and -lost with his eraft ' - . . Cantain Allen was married di Providence, . B-L. Oct. 15. r84s w Ajua wane f xeias, (note iur ther along), who survive with . three sons and. one daughter. He , died In Providence, Sept: 14, JI837.W . " . . - - - ' V i - - ' 4-. , (Note: Captain Allen was not married to Jane Fields. He mar ried her. She was -married to him. 5 Men marry women. Wom en are married to men. May they be happy (and grammatical) ever after.) -(Continued tomorrow.) Tad fx Ctast Ldhio . TUS flQNT AC1 Of AHEUCAN : cj3i::ess t fi::a::ce , Stmd frm umpk mfj 415 t i Sta raaajco, OH.