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Z.'onlag.UorcIi.Xi. Media B ANNS ROWS ? : THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of The Associated Press - j The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. Fendin' in the South Political attention has been brought to focus on the south, especially after the article by Gov. Sam Jones of Louisiana in the Saturday Even ing Post and one by Carroll Kilpatrick in the Harpers monthly. Gov. Jones raised aloft the banner of southern revolt against the Roosevelt party, and Kilpatrick reviews the symptoms of the political malaise in the south which stirs : men like Gov. Jones and former Gov. Frank Dixon of Alabama to speak out against the national administration. They talk about a Southern democratic party, but there is al ways a wide gap betwen talk and performance when it comes to forming new parties. Phil LaFollette found how hard it was to make a new political party function. What do these southern politicians have to gripe over? Up here we had thought the south was in the saddle, with most everything com ing its way. Here are some of the political pains the south erners complain of: First, the Roosevelt friendliness to the negroes. The negro is always problem No. 1 for the white south. As Gov. Dixon says, and many others, "Leave the south alone and we will solve the negro problem," and "The interference of the Roosevelts has done more harm than good in handling the negro question." The white south feels deeply on the negro question, and its feeling goes way, way back to before the Civil war -(pardon, "war between the states," suh) when slavery was hailed as the "peculiar institution" of the south. While the "Eleanor clubs" among negro women have been proven to be a myth, the often demon strated attitude of friendliness of Mrs. Roose velt toward the negroes, and the order of Pres. Roosevelt against racial discrimination in war industries stirs the embers of old fires in the south. We of the north may condemn those prejudices, but that doesn't render them non existent; and northerners themselves are by no means free of race prejudice. GeneyTalmadge was defeated for reelection as governor of Georgia, but his successful op ponent made it clear he stood firm for "white supremacy" himself,. The politicians are always ready to hop on the ''nigger question" when they want to catch votes. Second, labor unions. The south is "agin" unions. They are coming in now, but still the feeling is hostile. There is a reason for this, too. The south feels that it was ruined by the civil war and reconstruction, blames most of its troubles on the "damned Yankees," claims it has been held in economic bondage to the north ever since. In late years the south has been waking up industrially, and has used its low wage rates and freedom from unions as bait to attract northern capital. The Wagner act ties the hands of employers though, so the union organizers can operate; and the wage and hour act reduces or eliminates the wage spread be tween the sections. The south, the vocal, politi cal south doesn't like this. Third, federal agricultural policies. The plan tation south .doesn't like the Farm Security administration one teeny, weeny bit. For the FSA has tried todo something for share-croppers, helping them become landlords, and tried to help small farmers in the south become independent of the storekeeper and the money lender. The dominating group in agriculture in the south wants plenty of cheap labor. It also wants to grow cotton, with government braces under cotton prices, but no restriction on acre age. Even with two crop's on hand southern senators successfully resist efforts to divert . acreage to other crops. Fourth, the poll tax bill. Southerners, most of them, were bitter against the bill in congress to abolish the poll tax payment as a requirement to vote. This device is used not only to keep ; negroes from voting, but to keep the poor whites, sharecroppers, etc., from voting. This permits retention of political control by the - upper levels of the white population. What is the national significance of this southern revolt within the democratic party? Forming a Southern Democratic party might - satisfy local pride, but it would be futile, as foolish as its prototype in 1860 which ran Breckenridge & Lane as its national ticket. Its more probable course of action is to send anti-Roosevelt delegates to the next national convention, If this move fails then they might aulk at election time, repeating the count of : 1928 when Hoover carried Florida, North Caro lina, Virginia, Tennessee and Texas. There is this present development, a tend . ency of republicans to ally with conserva tive southern democrats to upset the nation al administration. This is not a natural al liance, because traditionally the republican party has been friendly to the negroes and in the industrial states by no means anti union. 1 Then the very name "republican" re mains anathema to the solid south. The basis of the southern revolt therefore hardly seems one on which a permanent alliance of republic ans and southern democrats could be effected. Most -political observers would say that if the federal crowd is determined to renominate Roosevelt it can do it. With the tremendous power in its hands that seems axiomatic. South ern senators and congressmen with more power now than ever since civil war days, will hardly commit suicide and sacrifice ' their committee " chairmanships just to defeat Roosevelt. They will probably continue to damn him in the cloakrooms and still keep him in of f ice, if they can't nominate another democrat. . - The administration has a few cards it can play too. What about a little deal for a ticket of Roosevelt and Byrnes, for instance? Think what popular Jimmy Byrnes from South Caro lina could do to heal the wounds in southern democracy! ; ' , Both coal mine operators and the war labor u board will do their utmost to effect an agree ment fcy which there win be no suspension of -' . ' " - - . i - "M Favor Stpays Us; 2Vo FeorJShall Aioe" from first Statesman, March 28, 1891 li must be broken. He's been "asking rpr it a long time now. Upstate papers (except Klamath praising their in" Most of "show.l News (Behind The News By PAUL IV f J . .i ..-?. PanI MiUoa who are distant. The same Is among; nations. own-c-or should. urn cauea -a- nairway between them. to suggestions half-way toward him, and, unthinkingly, tneif neaos in way it seems They would rise in righteous sionaries to the does that not believe ihe is a so back to the old There has of the average coal mining. It is unthinkable that there should be a general strike In mining of coal, which is a basic essential in manufacture of war materials. The president does the right thing in Jetting miners land operators know that the decision of the war labor board must be respected. If John Lj Lewis defies the board then his power How Imuch of the black market we read and hear about is real, and how much Is mee talk we do not know. We have a feeling that the black market bogey is being used by interests desirous of breaking down OPA regulations. OPA needs to be more realistic, especially in handling matters like meat, and holding off butter buying for a week while shoes wre off the market only a day. But patriotic Americans will try to work within the OPA framework, not outside it, either by dealing with thej black market; or lending it any encouragement. Falls) ara b.b. teams for their "fine show alone them didn't "place," let MALLON (Distribution by King features Syndicate. Ine. Repro duction In whole or to part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, March 2S Men in thir own daily lives seem to me to have set a pretty good example for the planners of the post-war . world. No man lives entirely to himself, yet no man sacrifices his integrity or his ideals to another. He gets along with his neighbors, holding op posite views in a friendly and cooperative spirit, but jhe does not sacrifice his own views. It is within this scope that he practices brotherly! love in his own daily life. He does not practice it to the idealistic ex- font rf trvinil tr lwa Vli ,wvt door neighbor as much as his immediate family. j It 14 only natural for a man to care for those who are around him more than those He always will. j true to an international extent Each; nation first considers its After that, it cets along with its neighbors in an agreeable, friendly, negotiated spirit as best it can. ; j Not ! all get along with all. But each adapts itself to the realities of existence which i are the; common laws of each individual man in his work,: his lif4, and his community. j i Noi individual that I ever heard of carries brother ly love to the extent of taking his weekly pay) check iand going up and down the neighborhood! distributing it either to friends or foes, j or both; alike, j Certainly, he does not borrow money from his family so to speak, to distribute even more than! he earns or that he can afford. If any individual man jid such things, ; he would be considered a fool. Yet j proposals have been made that we do col lectively what each of us knows to be foolish, as far as he himself is concerned. No nation: can ex pect to live alone just as no man can live alonej Inter-dependency is also a natural law. ; ' j But to carry it in a; post-war settlement beyond the practical point, which each man has set foil himself in his own way of living, is, to my mind, to carfy it into the realm of impracticability. It will not -work. j Buti if we adopt the common sense individual basis, jit would not be 'necessary for us to sacrifice our; national ideals a bit, or open our j national purse lot the' people's money and wider thiri is sensi ble to live agreeably with the other fellowL j We can protect ourselves by maintaining our own army and navy alertly and fully to assure jus peace and protection at home. We need not adopt any foreign notions as to how government should be conducted. ; We do not have to go half-way to themjiwith a sacrifice of our ideals. j Men and nations of integrity do not sacrifice ideals, and the few who try are not respected, and generally are not successful, or at least do not live in peace and comfort; with themselves and others. Patriotism and national self-interest cannot be compromised. It should run as deep as its! inherent spiritual belief. No man worthy of his salt expects to compromise his fundamental religious ideals, whether it be Atheism, Agnosticism, Buddhism, Christianity, or Judaism. j i Many seriously, religious-minded Americans do not top to think that they would be deeply of fended if anyone proposed that they compromise thei. Methodist, Baptist or Catholic beliefs half way, (to Buddhism or Agnosticism. They would not think of whittling down their beliefs half-wav the Mohammedans and expect the Mohajmmedai to meet them in a post-war world at some poi Yet, in international noli tics, where th nail Wealj of the United States is concerned, they list that as Stalin is coming 1 half-wa; toward democracy, we should carry democra arfirmaUon at least that is th to me. j certainly not nod their heads. indignation if Buddha 'sent mis United States to convert their flock half-way Jto Buddhism. j ! : Therefore, I think the foundation of the current ; argument is all wrong. The impression! has been ' built! up that a man Sis irreconcilable enithet if hi in what Mr. Wallace suggested, or - and - so conservative txvinc to.rei international ways. j 1 1 been iui iiri th?n mm m ,..1 in the world that I have been able to Observe in my I lifetime. Certainly there is no part 4f the his tory pf this world of international relations of strife from; the; beginning that anyone wants ijo go back to, as far as I have been able to observe.; J The course must always be ahead. But In plotting that (course, idealism will serve us only if it Is constructive,,' and X ? think the practical ; idealism man in getting along with the peo ple; arouna mm in his daily ale will serve the na tions1 a good example. Any stronger idealism would 9f hllM a eAllft Keel I finman lm.4!n h i , Aunt Shy lock Today's ffiadno IProgirainnis KSLM WEDNESDAY ISM Ke, T AO News la Brief 1M Rise n Shine 730 News 7:45 Morning Mood. 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Each day the current day's prog-rasas will be. paklUbed as eswal aaa. ta aedittoa. the first half of the next day's schedules will appear ea the comics page. COIN CBS WEDNESDAY 7t Ke. AO Northwest Farm Reporter -:15 Breakfast Bulletin 20 Texas Rangers 6 .45 KOIN Klock 7:15 News SAO Consumer News 8:15 Valiant Lady 830 Stories America Loves 8:43 Aunt Jenny B OO Kate Smith Speaks 9:15 Big Sister 930 Romance of Helen Trent 9:45-Our Gal, Sunday 10:00 Life Can Be Beautiful 10:15 Ma Perkins 10:30 Vic and Sade 10:45 The Coldbergs 11 AO Young Dr. Malone 11:15 Joyce Jordan 1130 We Love and Leant 11:45 News 12:15 News 1230 William Winter. News 12:45 Bachelor's Children. 1:15 Uncle Sam 1 30 American School of the Air S AO Newspaper of the Air 2:30 ThU Life Is Mine. 2:00 Old Chtsholm TraiL 330 Keep Working. Keep Singing. America 3:45 News 4 AO Milton Charles 4:15 Sam Hayes 4:30 Easy Aces 4 :4S Tracer of . 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I That is the readiest explana tion ' of the propaganda blast axis radio stations loosed Tues day when they announced that a Tokyo conference had reach ed complete agreement on "crea tion of a new world order based on' justice and guaranteeing eternal world peace. j There ma be some deep, hid den significance that escapes this observer but it seems most like ly that the chief purpose of the meeting was to combat a feeling of isolation that must be gaining among the people of Japan. ; Actually the meeting served to emphasize the fact that Japan : has only the flimsiest communi- - cations with her partners in Eu- - rope. The president of the Unit ed States; and the prime minis ter of Britain have met . three times since the Pacific war be gan. ' Mr. Churchill has visited Mf. Stalin in Moscow. 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Messrs. Stahmer and Iadelll are la the orient for the duration. Because - Japan .-1 remains ' at peace , with, soviet Russia ber diplomats can travel home from Europe by a circuitous route through Turkey and Siberia but no such road is open to the Ger- mans and Italians. The only s effective link i between Berlin and Rome and Tokyo is the ra dio. There is a small trickle of highly important ; materials . by submarine and an occasional sur ' face, blockade runner but these channels are, useless for effective exchange of ideas and plans. - The .people of Japan must be beginning to s realise that they, are increasingly alone . in their islands ; wedged - between - the 'great Asiatic continent, which ; contains so few friends, and the Pacific ocean, in which the might, . of the United States is Increas-' ing daily. Some of them must - realize that all the territory they have conquered : along . Asia's fringe and in the islands of the . Pacific forms only an outer pro tective shell that may collapse one day and let in a flood, of hat red and retribution. , Chapter IS ' (continued) vt Yea. 1 wasf Amy con fessed. 1 knew it? was stupid, when I saw wou were Interested In Allan Reid. But it really .wasn't what you did, or might do, that made me feel so afuL It was Curt was 'javing about you all the tfahe-"5 "I So Avery had fostered Amy's jealous dislike of me, to make -sure we wouldn't become friends, aho wouldn't confidci In it! What a strangely simple! explanation for the one riddle rd never been able to solve: in my; mind, when I had found some! kind of an answer to aU. the outers. j At last the Inspector camO la ' much graver looking than visu al and for the last time took his seat behind the improvised 'desk.,;.!' ,. . . . J - "Well, it's all over,? he told us with calf satisfaction. "We! got his confession dwwhlin writing. So now I guess you'd all like to hear what I ; know J And I want you to f HI in a couple of holes for me," : ' . v ; Then he ' started ids beloved teetering and presently 1 was thinking out loud, j j "Had me stumpel t first this case had. Mostly cause every body was lying to; me. Looked like something wa up for fair; over to the Burtort house, when even the maids was in it 1 ettie acting like the wis Mae, with them changed brooches and compacts all Over the placef and Miss Amy having! randyvoos there and all. Thought1 of all kinds of shertanigaha. But never that it simply was Mr. Bruce be ing in town. Didn't even guess it Sunday, when Miss Kay; told me who the murderer- was." "I told you? jf I gasped in credulously. ij ; j "Sure. You swore it was Stella Avery you heard scream, didn't you? Well, she wouldn't snoop ed around in no house but for one reason: her husband. Maybe she seen him slip; in thej back way some time. And having; Miss Burton on the bran, she figured him'n her was meeting there in secret Beats me'-she didn't catch onto her mistake when she found but Miss Amy beenjthere too. Just goes to show how a woman car run her mind into a groove till she can't get it out gain ;; : ' He paused i and peeteredl and his face shadbwedp:' ' . .,'; "Awful dumb 1 jjeen Sunday," he accused,! himself suddenly. "Figured he'd keep a while and didn't need - watching . righi off, what .with t being Sunday and' most of my men off duty, j Holy smoke! I near died ; when Miss Wentworth ning rie up and said they was a hew murder! "But what's behind it? Why did Avery skill Stoddard and Bruce?" Aunt MiUie asked im patiently. I . : "Mostly out of l j greedf-and some but of hate,'! the Inspector told her soberly.! ?He wanted money. Always did? Married "the rich Stella tabby for it and got fooled. Had I to wrk mor4, for less, and had a jealous wife rid ing him besides. S4- that radium looked goodfto hini.? j "Yes, but4f Aui Milhe part ed, and broke off' jkS the Inspec tor went oni . ' j . "Had tried! to get away be fore, Avery had. The time he drove ; Miss Burtort to meek Mr. Bruce, and ; his wife "thought they'd eloped together "Mr. Burfbh you! mean," Libby cut in; sharply. "Sorry, ma'am, fit riles Mrs. Miss Kay if I call him Burton, and Jollimar Burton's too long. So we've compromised on j THr. Bruce. Thellnspetbr gav. Mrs. Libby a weak imitation of his jovial smile; and proceeded with his tale. "And thenHhey was that there accident and he had to stay put Well, seems like he went to Mr. Bruce when he was better. Home Wter 150, 000-Mile Trip , , air i - - s ...a. yt)..lr. m f ansaBsBsassBMaasasa,.,aseaaM i MtlH m some of the aeeesserie. she far W iittaSl mea BortH Africa and had the kind of answer made him j boiling mad.; That'a- right He ... told me Bruce gave him the run-around. And he seemed terribly upset about his murder , and asked me as! Brace's heir for a Job. Any Job, to long as it took him away from his wife, I reported. "lie would." : the . Inspector nodded. "Would taken anything, and wriggled himself into your good graces, so you'd show him the letter with the! directions to the radium if they had been any. Only 1 things kinder changed last night. Miss Amy; what he tell you about how Stod dard died?" J . "He said Bruce killed him by accident Amy was trembling in spite of her heroic attempts at self control. j - i .; "Avery let Stoddard Into the house, didn't he?j ' ."yes. He stayed and waited for him after I left" Amy ad mitted, i i i You knew that? And you let him look? Let him! try and steal something out of a house your own father was responsible for?" the j Inspector asked sternly. "Oh, no! No. Inspector! Amy defended herself. "Professor Stoddard didn't mean to steal . anything. He onlyj; wanted to make sure the thing was scien . tifically possible, and then he was going to consult my father about it how to contact Bruce, and get his consent to an expedi tion." She stopped! and glanced pleadingly at her father: "That's whit Curt told me, Dad. Please ' believe me. I ' "Sure ho f believes that you swallowed it Seeing you was in loyf ! with him,; the Inspector answered for Conley ForrestalL What he tell you 'happened when Stoddard was in the house?" . "They looked for the safe and 1 couldn't find it" ! And made so mich noise Mr.. Bruce came down and caught em?" : ' ! ':. ' :! Yes. He started to fight them in the darkj without seeing who; they were. That's how Stoddard' was killed--by Brtfce. And then Cujrt called lout and Bruce rec ognized his voice, and they they; planned what to do. That Bruce should leave town again and he - knew; Curt would pretend nothing" Chapter 38 "Fine pack of lies! Guess Miss Burton's story is more like the truth," the Inspector commented.! "But you believed Avery all right didn't you, . Miss Forres-tail?- .V ,... -J ... . ,V. believed him all along. Even, when he . said , Gala had killed Bruce, in revenge for her acci dent Amy j told hjim in a; very; small voice. " I " "Sure you did. Tliat's why you told him all you could worm out of (your father. How Mr. Bruce was at his camp, nnd how he'd be coming to town soon, and tell the police who he thought had killed Stoddard.". L "I know. 1 shouldn't have done it, i Amy acknowledged miser- ably. "But he said he had to knbw." So that he could protect Bruce." i j..';.' ; ..;;. --.r.' 'So he could gei there before Miss Burton and Miss Kay and shjoot him! ' The Inspector slammed his hands! down on the desk angrily. "If he didn't think of j everything, the!; dirty skunk! That red herring of yours, the Jordan boy; guess! he was his -idea-too?"; . . rj i- -fNo. Mother's. She didn't un derstand, and wanted to silence Stella, Amy told him. jrimm -well can't hang her . for having no brains," he mutter ed under his breath, and then. aiier a pause, veered to me. "Cfuess I needn't draw you a map now, of why I asked you to keep things from Mr. Forrestall?" ,1 (To be continued) .; . -i; r- c -