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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
CHARLES A SPRAGUE, President
Member of The Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication nf all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper.
Congressional Boner
' Having been assured repeatedly that "the
supreme court reads the election returns' even
though its members are or used to be out of
politics, and having seen recent indications that
other government off icials read 'em, one might
feel safe in assuming that congressmen likewise
have that habit, inasmuch as their own continu
ance in office is decided at each general election
if not sooner. Of course congressmen do read
election returns and this month a great many
read them through tears. But since November
3 there has been an accumulation of evidence
that -they have misinterpreted, the election
results.
Mpst recent item is the protest reputedly
endorsed by seventy-five or more western con
gressmen against the December 1 institution of
mileage-gasoline . rationing. They ask that it
be postponed three months, and suggest that it
ought to be cancelled entirely if investigation
proves it unnecessary.
Their interpretation of the election returns
seems to be that the "discontent" vote against
Incumbents, largely democratic 4 incumbents,
was inspired by the lack of willingness to make
the sacrifices asked in the name of the war ef
': fort. That viewpoint's fallacy we have here
tofore pointed out. .
But even if it were the correct interpreta
tion, it must be borne in mind that mileage-
gasoline rationing was not devised as a sacri
fice to aid the armed forces. They get first call
on the rubber in any case. This rationing's
purpose is to keep the nation's automobiles
rolling, not to stop them. It seems fair to as
sume that adequate investigation has already
been made.
HarhlM) accounts of the nrotest meanwhile
have hampered the rationing registration pro
gram, some auto owners having heard at third
or fourth hand that the effective rationing had
already been postponed. ,
The dividing line between proper protest
against wartime regulations and unjustified
grousing about wartime sacrifices is, we will
concede, almost invisible. Some regulations
may be unnecessary, others so bungled in their
enforcement as to be inequitable. An example
of the sort of bungling to which objection may
properly be made, is the OPA's recent refusal
to recognize a population increase in northwest
ern Oregon in connection with meat quotas.
That such an increase occurred has now been
proved. But in the case of : mileage-gasoline
rationing the need has been demonstrated.
Westerners will be justified in demanding that
in its administration there be due recognition
of this area's peculiar transportation problems
involving "wide open spaees";and lack of pub
lic transportation systems in rural areas. But
the protest against the entire . program is. un
justified and not even n the interests of these
congressmen's constituents. They'd better for
get it.
Save Rubber: Save Lives
From various quarters has come critical
comment upon the fact that though United
States military casualties in some engagements
have been high, they have not . equaled the
number of" 'home. front casualties due to
accidents? - -
Nevertheless, though industrial' accidents
doubtless have increased with the stepping-up
of industry ,Mt is worth noting that reduction in
traffic speeds inspired by a desire to save rub
ber has resulted in a decidedly worthwhile sav
ing in lives.
For the first nine 'months of 1942 the na
tion's traffic fatality toll was down 24 per cent
from that1 of 1941, but even this does not
measure the total result, for the 40-mile "and
35-mile speed limits were not in effect in the
early months of this year. The truth is that in
September the reduction was 40 per cent; in
August-it was even lower, 43 per cent. Reduc
tions in January and Frebruary were only 8
per cent, gradually increasing thereafter. :
Officials of the National Safety Council
credit the saving in lives quite largely to mileage-gasoline
rationing and anticipate even
greater, savings when this program is extended
to the entire nation. In comparison to the same
period in i 1941, the total saving in lives ; was
6610. Oregon's saving for the year to date was
32 per cent, or 90 lives, the best showing among
he three Pacific coast states. :
Economy Begins at Home
Nothing can be done about it until and un
less the : president gets the notion, 'says Paul
Mallon. ;Aad what can't be helped, there's no
use crying-oyer. On the other hand, some cry
ing might. help give the president the notion.,
About 1936 when the new deal was booming
right along, personnel of the executive branch
of government -was pushing up from the half
million mark toward a million. In 1934 it had
been around 661,000; in 1938 it was up to 824,
; 000. In World War I it had stopped short of
.. million. But late in 1940 - or early in 1941
It passed the million mark; in July, 1941, it was
1,391,689. This last July that's the only time
it's officially counted, apparently it was up to
2,327,932 and still climbing, t ,
Washington, DC, had about 480,000 popula
tion in 1930; it was up to 663,000 in 1940 but
now it boasts 832,000. Verily, the capital of the
world! I
Though expansion of federal employment is
: inevitable in wartime, there is trustworthy evi
dence to confirm the common sense assumption
that a lot of these federal employes are per
forming no useful tasks; that Uncle Sam him
self is the biggest hoarder of manpower in the
nation. Now that he's starting out to solve the
manpower problem; it would be well to recog-. .
nize that manpower economy begins at home.
Sales executives of a large auto manufactur
ing firm think the war will be over- soon. A
sailor at Midway wrote to the head office, ask
ing if it would be possible for him to make
monthly -payments so as to get one of the first
cars turned out after auto production is re-
"No Tavor Sway Us; No rear. Shall Aioc"
From Tint Statesman. March 28, 1851:
Too bad national education week and mileage-gasoline
rationing registration did not
after all coincide in time. If they had, edu
cators would have had no trouble inducing
adults to "visit the schools."
We'll Have to
Feed the World
By HERBERT HOOVER I
in Collier's
A starving world must be fed after this war
ends. That has been promised to the victims of
the war again and again by President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill. Even if it had not
been promised, we would have to do it if we want
to make a lasting peace instead of lasting anarchy.
And we will need to do it unless we are willing to
stand by and watch millions of human beings die
afte we have made gigantic sacrifices to give them
a chance to live.
If this war stopped tomorrow, j there would be
millions of permanently debilitated! adults and mil
lions of stunted children. But there will always be
millions who can be saved. If European civiliza
tion is to live, they must be fed. j And especially
this must be done for the children or we shall be
faced with a generation of physical degenerates
and potential gangsters.
But if these promises are to be lwept we shall
'need to begin preparedness long beiore the war
ends. That preparedness means some new direction
and new strategy for American agriculture. It
means preparation of supplies from South America.
It means advance agreements with our allies as to
control of world supplies, finance, shipping and ad
ministration. It means creation of! organization in
advance, with an understanding of the huge vol
umes needed, the kind of food needed, the source
of these supplies, their transportation, distribution,
and the economic, social and political problems
which must be met I
There are more Horsemen that follow modern
war than at the time the Apocalypse was written.
In modern' total war, Famine and Pestilence are
accompanied by four new recruits whose names
are Revolution, Unemployment, Suspicion and
Hate. These additional destroyers make the job
harder to manage.
That there is and will be famine, needs little
demonstration. Already 148,000,000 people in the
occupied democracies in Europe and Asia are short
of food; millions of mem are actually starving, and
our allies are obviously running on very short
rations.
The nazii' food supply is sufficient for their
evils of today. They are working hordes of prison
ers on the farms and robbing some of the occupied -territories.
But their internal production will grow
worse as the war goes on and there is less to steal
from the subjected peoples.!
In fact, the whole oft Europe will continue to
degenerate in. domestic food supply. The reasons
for that are simple enough: Europe in peacetime
and by Europe I here mean Britain and all of Eur-,
ope exduding .Russia has to import large amounts
of food for human beings. That is bow cut off by
the blockade, - except to Britain, and some small
amounts to the neutral countries, j
On top of this, under the pressure of total war,
field crops decline year by year. Manpower and
horsepower are increasingly drained to the war;
farm implements cannot be replaced; fertilizers are
diverted to explosives; planting is less effective,
and harvesting less perfect. Also, the animals, in
Europe are in considerable degree dependent upon
imported feed. In consequence of the blockade,
some part of the dairy and breeding; herds must be
slaughtered early in total war, and domestic feed
for the remaining animals decreases because more
fields -must be turned to direct food for humans
and thus still more of the flocks and herds must be
slaughtered.
In the last war, the principal food animals of
Europe cattle, hogs and sheep decreased by over
70,000,000 head, and that Is again taking place. The
invaluable chicken vanishes, and fishing is greatly
diminished. Thus the stream of animal products
steadily , decreases. To all this must be added the
ravages of armies and scorched -earth policies, i
Nor will famine this time be limited to Europe,
for these causes are also working in Asia and '
Russia.
It Is difficult for Americans to picture wide
spread hunger or starvation. We have not had
such a thing in America.
Nationwide hunger and Starvation mean grim
suffering, incalculable grief over wilting children,
physical degeneration, stunted growth, distorted,
embittered minds and death. Its lasting effect is
one of . degree and time.' Adults can recuperate
from months of undernourishment Children ' can
stand less. In fact, the undersized, rickets, and the
death rate among children are the sensitive -barometers
of starvation. Not even during our Civil
War was there a' town or city where these effects
reached one tenth of what they are in certain cities
of "the occupied democracies at this moment
John L. Rand
If, as Oregonians and particularly Salem!
folk like to think, this state has in recent dec
ades elected to its higher offices, men who were
in the aggregate more sincerely! public-spirited
and conscientious than the average of such of
ficials throughout the nation, one explanation
is that Oregon has remained preponderantly
rural and has frequently chosen for these of
fices the outstanding men from its smaller com
munities where honest merit is more : readily
recognized than, in a metropolis,
Such a man was John L. Rand, who served
21 years as a member of the j state supreme
court, contributing to its decisions the benefit
of a keen, penetrating legal mind and a gift
for brevity in the statement of his conclusions.
He was at once well-balanced, positive and
fearless in his performance of the judicial duty;
as an individual he was genuinely friendly and
unaffected qualities apt to be developed in
such communities as those in which he served
as college instructor, city attorney and district
attorney; communities sufficiently modest in
size that men are judged by their acts, not by
their pretensions.
Wendell Willkie has been advocating, all
around the world and forcefully,; a second front.
Some weeks ago this column hazarded a guess
that in doing so, Wendell knew quite definitely
there would be one, and soon. Whether he did
or not, the second fronWias been opened; if
not precisely the one he and Stalin wanted, one
at least as good and in our opinion better.
Sweetheart in Every Port
acflSo (Programs
SILK-SATURDAY IMS Ke.
:45 Rise ti' Shin.
T:00 News.
T.-05 Rise 'XT Shin Cont
7 30 News.
7:45 Your Gospel Program.
8-00 The Eaton Boys.
8:30 News.
8:35 Gilbert & Sullivan Music
S. -00 Pastor's Call.
9:15 Music a La Carter.
8 :30 Popular Music.
I 9:43 Ray Herbeck's Orchestra.
10:O0 World In Review.
10:O5-Jaclc Feeney, Tenor.
1030 AJ Terr? and Buckeroos.
II .-00 Musical Horoscope.
1120 Hits of Yesteryear.
12 rOO Organalities.
12:15 News.
12 JO Hillbilly Serenade.
12 35 Willamette Valley Opinions.
1:00 Spirit of the Vikings.
1:15 Chuck Foster's Orchestra.
130 Milady's Melodies.
1 :45 Harry Brewer's Orchestra.
2 :0 Isle of Paradise.
2:15 Sincerely Yours.
230 Sing Song Time.
2 :45 Tune Tabloid.
3:00 Gloria LeVey, Wlllard Amison.
4. -00 Singing Strings.
4:15 News. "
430 Teatime Tunes.
5. -00 Wohl Sophistics tea.
5:15 Let's Reminisce.
530 Sunset Trio.
8.-00 News.
8:19 War Commentary.
830 Silver Strings.
8:50 War Fronts Review.
7:00 Weekend Jamboree.
730 Willamette Valley Optnloaa.
730 Five Novelettes.
8:00 News.
8:15 Hollywood Quartette.
830 You Can't Do Business With
Hitler.
848 Sterling Young Orchestra.
8. -IS Edward's Old timers.
945 Johnny Measner'a Orchestra.
10 :00 Let's- Dance.
1030 News.
1045 Harry Horiicks Orchestra.
11:00 Popular Salute.
1130 News.
8:45 Good Morning Club.
7 K)0 Sunrise News.
7:15 Memory Timekeeper.
1:00 Haven of- Rest:
830 News.
845 Old Songs.
O Geeaa of Melody.
9:15 Woman's Side of the News.
S30 Thia and That.
100 News.
10:15 Bayer's Parade.
. 1030 Hello Agon.
11.-00 Journal Jontora.
1130 Concert Gems.
1145 Luncheon Concert.
1830 News.
1248 TB A,
130 Matinee Varieties.
148 One. vs. Ore. State, Football.
438 News.
445 AU Star Parade.
8:00 Amerienn Casio Club.
830 Tnie ia the Hour.
a .-OO Churchman's Saturday Might.
830 Secret Lofton.
7.-00 John B. Hitches.
7ns Movie Parade.
T-10 noixetlme
14S Louie Prime Orchestra.
8:00 Halls of Montezuma.
8:15 Ruas Morgan.
8 30 Johnny ' Masters.
845 Abrina-Rey Orchestra.
9:00 News.
9 as Anson Weeks Orchestra.
930 Jan Gsrber Orchestra.
1ft 300 Bobby Sherwood Orchestra.
10:15 Herb Holmes Orchestra.
. 1830 News. v ' - if
1048 McFarland Twins Orchestra.
1 1 iUt rreddie- Slack. Orchestra.
1138 Anson Weeks Orchestra.
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KKX NBC BATUKOAT 1198 K.
80 Musical Clock.
70 Blackbawk Valley Boys.
7:15 Mirandy of Peraiasinon Hollar.
730 Hank Lawson's Kntatita.
8:00 Stars of Today.
8:15 Service-Men's Hop.. ""
830 Breakfast Club.
8:00 Reading tn Fun.
' 9 -JS Christian Science Prograaa. ; -
830 Breakfast at Sardi's.
10 DO National Farm t Home.
1038 Washington Luncheon.
1045 Victory Twlna.
11:00 Fantasy ta Malady -1130
New -1
1 45 Southornairea.
12:00 Newe.
12:15 BN.
1230 Market Report
1235 Land t Trio.
1245 News.
1:00 Club MaUnoa.
15 New
20 Pacific Coast Football.
430 BN.
SAO Ambassador Hotel Orchestra.
530 Little Blue Playhouse. ..
8 DO Hop Harrigaa.
830 Sootlirht Bands.
7300 The . Green - Hornet, . .
730 Red Ryder.
8 .00 News.
8:15 Gibba Si Finney. ;
830 BUtmore Hotel Orchestra
835 News.
9:00 BN. "
930 News.
945 Hotel Penn Orchestra.
r00 Danny Thomas Orchestra.
1030 The Quiet Hoar.
11.-00 This Moving World.
11:15 Bal Tabarin Cafe Orchestra
1130 War Newa Boundup.
5"- - - . ' e --...,'
SrOIN CBS SATCKOAY 971 Kc .
8 DO Northwest Farm Reporter -
8:15 Breakfast Bulletin
830 -Texas Rangers...-, .v. ,
- 8:45 Victory Front.
70 Koin Klock.
7:15 Wakeup News
730 Dick Joy. Newa.' " . ,
745 HUI BiUy OMsnptons.
: 8 DO Consumer Newa. .. .
8:15 News.
8:20 Tchaikowsky Serenade.
8:30 Let's Pretend. .
Iheatre of Today. . :
These seh ed ales are (applied by
Ots respective staUoms. Any varia
lions noted by listeners ara Sao te
eaaages aaada ay taa stattoatt ;wttn
at noUee te tbta newspaper, t
AM radie stations nay ae eet I
the air at any Ua ta ta
f national defease.
930 Kid Critics.
9 :45 Strictly Instrumental.
10 DO Country Journal.
10:3O Adventures in Science.
10 45 FootbaLL
11:45 News.
12:00 Football.
1:30 CBS,
2 DO News. '
2:30 CBS
3:00 Portland Traffic Safety,
3:15 Calling Pan-America,
3:45 News.
4 DO CBS.
430 Martha Mears.
4:45 Newspaper of - the Air.
5 DO Dance Orchestra.
830 Harry Flannery. Newa.
, 5:45 News.
835 News, Eric Severeid.
6 DO Air Flo of the Air.
8:15 Leon F. Drews.
8:45 Saturday Nigni Serenade.
: T:l5 soldiers With Wings.
745 Franer Hunt
8 DO Thanks to the Yanks.
830 Hobby Lobby.
8:55 News
9.D0 Hit Parade.
9:45 Don't You Believe XL
10 DO Trvo Star Finns
10:15 Les Hite. Orchestra.
1030 Sports Headlines.
1035 Gene Krupa Orchestra.
10:45 Man Your Battle Stations,
II. -00 Henry Busse Orchestra.
1130 Manny Strand Orchestra.
ii:s3 Mews.
12:00-8 a. bl Music A News,
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KGW NBC SATURDAY 828 Ke.
4.D0 Dawn Patrol
8 DO Everything Goes.
7 DO News.
7:15 Aunt Jemima.
730 Music of Vienna.
745 Sam Hayes.
8 DO Organ- ConcerV
8:15 James Abba. News.
830 Coast Guard oa Parade.
8 DO Music Room.
8:15 Consumer Time.
930 Whatcha Know, Joet
10 DO Pan-American Holiday.
1030 Ail Out for Victory.
1848 Newa:
llrOO Stara of Tomorrow
12 DO Eastern Football Gajaea.!
930 Three B
Trie
8 DO Joseph Calllccnio Orchestra.
s:aa wsojs.
930 fioligioa la the N
85 Deep Melody.
of the Ajneticaa.
-43 Uptoa Close. 4
8j8t. narai Hotel Orchastra.
:r Sports Scrtsts.
830 Charles Dent
5:4a By the Way.
oa Hatlssisl Bars
830 Can You Top ThatT
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-7:15 dek
T 89 Ciaud or Opry.
8 DO Truth or Cwmaqusacas. i
38 Abie's faiab Roaa. i
9 DO News. ;
30 Story Xdi tor.
1 JW MiisWol imerkido.
19:15 Traveia of Mareo Polo. !
M34 St -rrancta Hotel
i9 35 News.
II DO Organ
11:15 Hotel 1
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1130 Nov
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Shift.
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N -.18 The
11 D Huaie of -tho at,
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U:1S Hour. - . l " .
u 1 DO Favorite Classics.
1:15 Variety Tuna.
1.-45 Oraan Moods. . i -
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' ' 3:15 Onuar Parade. ' i :
S 45 US Ma? aiss. i
-3 DO Songs trora the Htus. !
8:15 Marvels of Vision. , :
' 830 Echoes of WaikUd. h
-S:45 Newa ' - :
4D0 education for Preo Moo. -4:15
Artists in RedtaL
430 Stories for Boys and Girls.
- 5:00 OSC Radio Speech Class Plays.
9:15 On the Campuses. i
530 Evening Vespers. , -
845 If a Oregon's War. f
U'- :15 News.; i .K:M:i
830 Farm Hour.
T30 Grand Opera Tonight.
8 :1S Excursions In Science. '
, 830 Music International. - i
8.-45 Traffid Safety Oaiz.
8:00 Music of the Mastesa. -
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80 Langwortb o-owrsonaa Quartet .
, 830 Oospel Broadcast. -90
News Briefs.
9:05 Organ. Violin, Harp Trio.
9:15 Spiritual Interlude.
930 Popular Salute.
19:00 World in Review. i
10:15 Moonbeam Trio.
1030 Tunes of Tomorrow
11 0 American Lutheran Church
110 Langworth Chortstars
IS 30 War Commentary.
.12:45 stahan Grajoda. "
1 AO Young People's Chorcb '
1 JO Romanoff's String Ensemble
S0 Isle of Paradise . ..J .
8:15 Church of Christ.
830 ongs. Herb Jeffrey.
t5 Miracles and Metodlea. -
S 00 KB5 Sunday Symphony.
-. 8:30 Boys Town (:..
4:00 Four Square CospeJU
' 4:15 Modern Melody. '
4:3a Alex. KirUiofi. Trio.
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8D0 Tontghfs Headlines.
8:15 Anita Boyer St Tomboyers.
60 Langwortb Gypsy Orchestra.
7 DO Shepherd of the Air.
730 Lang-worth Novelty Group. .
, 7:45 American Folk Singers.
8 DO Devotions. -
8 30 LevtWw a Salon Orchestra.
SAO News.
9-15 Organalities.
930 Back Homo Hour.
10 DO News.
10:13 Soldiers of the Press.
KALS MBS SUNDAY 1338 Ka.
8 DO Wesley Radio League. -8:30
Central Church ot Christ.
8:45 News.
9 DO Detroit Bible Class .
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B R. J. HENDRICKS
Many changes have 11-21-42
come to ! the Oregon V
Country, territory, state:
and views, habits, customs:
a n "a
(Continuing from yesterday:)
A blunder was made in this col
umn for yesterday, wherein it
was made to appear that a part
of the purchase price of The
Statesman in' 1884 came from
some of that "Jeffed for by the
printers on the old Portland
Standard of rTony" Noltner;
- some that should have gone to
unemployed or otherwise needy
printers. -t ,
That was an embarrassing ,
mistake. The disposition of that i
money was on the contrary dis- -posed
of In favor of the interests
of the needy printers. That pol
icy has lasted for over 80 years.
There is something ' more to
say. about the contrast between
, newspaper reporting in Oregoav -fifty
and more years ago - and
now ' -,-t . . i - - ' .
The Oregon, legislature to meet
in biennial session next month
will have attending it in the ca
pacity of newspaper writers per- .
haps more than half a hundred
men and women.
Forty to sixty years ago it had
two two men; no women. A
woman reporter would have
been considered out of place.
In the. first place, there was '
m the way "house bQl two hun
dred and four," Well, what was
house bill 204? What did it do?
WeU, mere- was , no house bill
zo. it was a joxe. it was a bar
rel of whisky with a tin, cup,
handy to the reach of every
member of the legislature and
hie secretary and bis aasiatants.
-. ; . . ; , , y::
"Once (or twice) in a while,
some member would move to ad
journ, to consult house bill 204;
Any way it was -actually con
sulted, and did sot require a mo
tion to consult it. And no woman
was known to consult it.
And there were no typewrit
ers. A woman clerk would have
been obliged to take down her
stenographic notes, if she could
have taken them at all, in "long
hand," and she would have been
obliged to write- the notes In
single long land, with, in the ear
liest pioneer days, no way of
making a copy except by writ
ing a second copy of the original
one,
- There were no typewriters, as
early as 1884.: Very soon after
that year, typewriters began to
come. , The first two were
brought by this - writer and Jo
Old-Faahloaed -Revival
Charles SV roller.
ttr actor
Ola Hymns - aad -Gospel
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J tMBal Eroaacast
By CLARENCE BUDINGTON
Chapier Severn f-
Too&F the intruder bellowed,
"Scram!" replied Feter,
Th behemoth noticed Darn
ley, and stared at her. I don't
know you, he said, "but I want
to. You can come, too. Youre a
new one. X know all the old ones.
Where do they come from, Pete? '
And they're all hungry. You're
hungry aren't you, beautiful? -
"We're talking: business, said
Peter.
Til ' help 'you. It's my forte.
Crab your hat before I perish in
this famine. Well go to Thirty
Nine." - - ,.,..
"We might as well give in,
Darnley," said Peter. "Miss Car
fax, this midget is Adrain De
Croot
"Oh, exclaimed . Darnley, fl
had no idea it was so late, I
- Will - eat," : said De Groot.
-Don't set a record. Don't be the
first girl in New York to refuse
free meaL
She looked to 'Peter for a sug- .
gestlon. ' ,; ir
"Give in," he said. -He always
gets his way or annoys you to
deaths ' ' ". : '-
, She wanted to give in; she
wanted to see Thirty-Nine, for
even so far away as her home
. town she had heard and read of
it currently the most famous'
eating place in Manhattan.
"Are yon an artist, too, Mr.
De Groot? she asked.
What is an artist? Heaven
knows. A radio comedian Is of
ten: called an artist. Likewise, a
trapeze performer. A chef .is an
artist. According to . De Quincy,
a murderer may be an artist
He halted and stared at her. Do
you mean you don't know who I
am?" . - "
"I'm sorry," confessed Darn
ley, .
"I," said De Groot, "am a his
torian and philosopher.
"Which means," explained Pe
ter,; "he earns his living by- writ
ing a column in the -papers un
der the pen name of Mister Man
hattan." "Oh! exclaimed Darnley.
"In which," said De Groot, "I
am ; both historian and philoso
pher." '
"And snooper, too," added Pe
ter.: "If," said De Groot, "you bring
to the light of day hitherto un- '
known details of Caesar's affair
with Cleopatra, or what Marie
seph Albert, whose widow died
during the . past week, here
thai is, Mrs. Joseph Albert: He
was. a banker, or bank clerk; not
a newspaper man.
- What was the make of that
typewriter? :.,Was it the Yost?
Anyway, its keys were of woodVv
It was queer looking, compared
with the present Underwood or
any other of a' lot of other makes.
How did the newspaper re
porter in the legislature get a
copy of his report, when he had
to have a -copy?J
In the case of The Statesman re
porter and the reporter for the
Oregonian, they generally ex
changed copies, when needed by
the one or the other, or both.
V W
They "invented", the way to
make the accornmodatlons, when
that would serve. They each had
a carbon sheet, and instead of a
-stylus,- as in a former day, each
had a hard leaded, pencil that
served as a stylus. Thus the one
reporting the house (generally
this, writer) would make two
copies-with one writing, and ex
change his copy with the report
er of the Oregonian (in the other '
house), so that each had the du
plicate, and did. not have to hire '
an extra reporter for the other
house. . ; -;-'":;''- '
This writer took the house for
several years, and AL Holman
took the- senate, and each furn
ished the other a copy; this for
several sessions.
In the case of these two men,
they did the same thug in get
ting reports -of committee meet
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Antoinette did the , night she
didnt appear at the opera, you
' are a scholar. If you print the In
. side story of the Cooper divorce,
or why Freddie Peters left for
Europe between two days, you
are a snooper. Well, It pays bet
ter." ; , " . .: ; ';
"Mias Carfax," said Peter ex
perimentally, "is the original of
my last Metropolis cover." '
. "I knew her face was famil
iar," said De Groot, "but,"" he
turned upon her rather terrify
lngly, "do you i know anything?
Are you ; intelligent?"
"I do and I am," she said.
He gaped, then moved to the ,
door and, Jerked It open. Darnley
- and Peter followed him. ;
! "I'm srry if this annoys you,
Darnley whispered to Peter. "I
. didn't mean to bother you. I
wouldn't even have come to your
studio, because, after all, I hard
ly know you.. But I did need to
ask a few questions of some
body." "And," he asked almost invol
untarily, "you don't want to tear
my ears off?' -
"Why should she want to tear
your ears oft?" demanded De
Groot, ''Now, if it was my ears
there's a souvenir for a lady."
, "It was Just a way) of saying,
said Peter, "that Miss Carfax is
an incredible young woman."
"They all are," grinned De
Groot, "during the preliminary
stages. Nothing wears off a girl '
quicker than incredibility. The
better you know them the less
incredible they grow, untQ they
bore you and you go looking for :
another incredible one.
"He sounds, said Darnley,
"like an old maid discussing ba- '
bies. Did he ever have a giri?"i
"Thousands," mocked De .
Groot "Women are afraid to be
alone with me." j' i f-
They alighted from the taxi at
Thirty-Nine land climbed the
stairs to the dining-roam. Every
body seemed eager to be noticed
by De Groot who waded through
the crowd in the lobby like a
buffalo wallowing through a -morass.
A table was- found for
them against the wall, Darnley
between the two men. Then De -Groot
commenced in-ai zipping
voice to point out celebrities to
her, adding comments upon their
character or habits or compan
ions with an amazing freedom.
(To be continued) -.,..
ings, or any other kind of news
which both newspapers wanted.
; Inimodern days, with type
writers, and most experienced
reporters writing shorthand, dif
ficulties are less. The picture is
a much different one. Reporters
come from all large towns in
the state, and remain throughout
the session. '
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In those days, salaries bf state
officers were small. The secre
tary of state and governor re
ceived $1500 a year each, and
the state treasurer 1800 a year.
Tomorrow, this column will tell
some of the things that were
done about this. 4 j-
( Continued tomorrow.) !
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ASYLUM ATTENDANTS BOKN
Good asylum attendants are
born. They are not made. They
must be the kind of men and
women who are good hands In
that line. If they are not, they
have no business there.
' This writer helped get a situ
ation for a close relative, as an
attendant at the asylum for the
Insane. .That attendant remained,
there several years, and did well
and waa pleased, and official
and patients were pleased. ,L
He-did the same for another
close relative. That relative did
not want to remain would not
have remained for $1000 a
rnonth. And the patients would
have been displeased if the sec
ond, relative had remained. Fill
ing, those places with the kind of '
people-who are suitable for them
is a- particular task. Do, not be
unjust in. -commenting oa the
troubles of a "bug house.. 1
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