THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. RATF.M. OREGON
MONDAY, MAY 21, 1934
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Japan Current Myth
Edward L. Wells, United States weather bureau meteor
ologist for the Portland ares in a statement in the Oregon
Ian, demolishes the myth of the influence of the Japan
current on coast climate and the delusion that the extremely
mild winter this year was due to it. While in much of the
western United States the winter was the mildest on record,
In Alaska and the northern portion of the Facific coast it was
one of the coldest and severest experienced. Obviously if
the Japan current had anything to do with the weather,
its effect would be for uniformity,
"Ocean currents do influence the weather in certain
frts of the world," admits Mr. Wells, "but they themselves
are caused by the weather." lie continues:
The chief cause of the movement of ocean water In currents Is the
friction of wind on the ocean surface. The aecond important cause Is
found In differences in density of ocean water. These deferences in
density are due. first, to differences in temperature, and second, to dif
ferences in salinity: differences In aalinity are caused by differences in
dilution and concentration; dilution comes from rainfall and from fresh
water poured Into the ocean by streams, and concentration results from
evaporation. Preerlnr also plays a part in determining the salinity of
ocean water in the polar regions.
The Japan current never reaches the coast of Orepon,
Washington or British Columbia rind is therefore not a fac
tor in climatic conditions. It is the proximity of the Pacific
ocean that influences the climate. The water is cooler than
land in summer, warmer in winter, the prevailing winds
westerly and carry the modifying influence of the ocean in
land, though interfered with by mountain masses. When
the normal drift of air is interrupted, abnormal heat or cold
result. .
Cold winters are caused when great masses of cold air
move from the far north into the region cast of the Cascades
and there were no such movements the past winter. These
masses stagnated in the far north, and then moved diagonal
ly southeastward to eastern Canada and the northeastern
Btates, some to the gulf states, bringing severe winter weath
er late in the season, while the Warm air from the Pacific
brought mildness to the coast. Just why the cold air masses
moved east instead of south is unknown, but there is nothing
to indicate that fundamental factors which control the
weather have changed and nothing to indicate that succeed
ing seasons will on the average be milder than those of the
piist.
Darrow's Report
The report of Clarence Darrow excoriating the national
recovery administration as encouraging monopoly and
recommending a return to the anti-trust law proportions,
suspended for the recovery program and terming theNKA
watchword of "fair competition an illusionary phrase was
to be expected, for Darrow is by nature and temperament
"agin the government." While narrow's sympathy is al
ways with the "under dog", especially criminals and public
enemies, there is nothing constructive in his entire career,
mid his great abilities have been spent in destruction of law
and order.
Darrow declares the "choice is between monopoly su
stained by government, the trend of the NRA" and a "plan
nod economy which demands socialized ownership and con
trol" and characterizes the sanction of government to sustain
profits as "regimented organization for exploitation.' In
other words Darrow favors the communistic or socialist state
as the only planned economy, cither of which means the des
truction of democracy.
Darrow counsels the abandonment of efforts to pro
mote fair business practices, a return to the chaos of unre
stricted and ruinous competition and takes up the cudgel for
the chiseler, the sweat-shop and child labor. Prices should
be determined by competition rather than by regulation or
price fixing, he declares.
That the administration would appoint Darrow, a known
critic of the New Deal and print his report, effectually dis
proves charges of attempted dictatorship or suppression of
free speech. Repeatedly the president has asked for criti
cism and published it in full, hoping for constructive sug
gestion in carrying out his program of recovery through the
process of trM and error.
Neglecting the Bath
It looks as if Hoover's ideal of two autos for every
jrarage was nearer realization, judging by the number of
motor vehicles in use, than the ideal of a bath tub in every
home, for investigations by the department of commerce in
dicate that approximately a third of the population never
take a bath, at least in their homes, for they have no bath
tubs. So there must be many more autos than bath tubs.
It will be rememliered that when Henry Ford laid out
his model factory town, with a bath tub in every cottage,
later investigation revealed that many of them were used
for storing coal or other commodities and few for bathing.
It was supposed at the time that this was due to the large
percentage of foreigners, unaccustomed to such luxuries, but
the department's survey indicates that many native Ameri
cans regard bathing as a comparitively untried, new fangled
fad and are hostile to the innovation.
While bathing was a custom of the ancients, and prac
tised as a religious rite by the Jews, Mohammedans and
Huddliists, and public baths a social feature of Crook and
Konian civilizations, there have been prolonged periods in
history when bathing was in popular disfavor except at spas
for cures.
It is, we believe, less than a century since the first sta
tionary bath tub was invented in America, and only within
the last half renlury that even hotels, let alone houses, had
the bath till) feature. At the turn of the century, a bath till)
to a floor was the rule in many large hotels and the barber
shop bat:is wi re in community use for a once a week cleans
ing. So it is perhaps not surprising to find that people who
insist on autos and radios neglect the bath tub as a su
perfluous frill.
Stalun- 'liie i-liiui enter
tained in honor of Mis. V. N
Phelps, who conducted the class In
the D. C. room of the high iwluxil
tshe was presented with a polled
plant In appreciation of her work
Curtis were the diversion of the evc
CliiK. alter tilth a luncheon was
served. Present were the hoiioicd
suest Mrs. Phciph, and Me.sd.unes
Elizabeth Menu, Christine fSchulle
Hattle Louehner. Ella Shay, Chas
Lampmnn, Oeo. Mnlscl, Mary Dott
ier, Ceeeha Mertr, Mary Klntz and
Mrs. Etstl.
News Behind
The News
By ran) Malhm
Washington, May 21 The man
behind the Darrow report la Mr.
Char lee Edward Russell. It vai his
in visible has d a
which guided ttwpf'7J
"'
Chicago icono
clast, in (act, Mr.
Russell seems to
have toad at least
as much to do
with the report
ms Mr. Darrow,
He likewise serv
ed as Darrow
ear; Darrow s pall MAM.ON
hearinff is not
what It used to be and much of the
open testimony escaped him.
These Xacts are important wi.
Russell s background.
Mr. Russell was one of the oricln-
al muckrackcrs ol "Everyway s
Magazine" years ago. He was a
member of that troupe of Upton
Sinclair and Lawrence Richey De
tectiveJournalists who exposed
the meat packers and nearly every
one else. He once ran for governor
of New York sLate on the socialist
ticket. Recently he has been living
here quietly as a writer.
Mr. Russell was reauy tue inspir
ation for Mr. Darrow's recommen
dation for socialised ownership and
control of industry.
The truth Is, Mr. Darrow Knows
little about industry, but Mr. Rus
sell Is a specialist in that subject.
Where the administration put it
all over Darrow in the back-stage
scuffle was on publicity.
No one can beat him in a crim
inal case before Jury, but he was
a babe in the woods when he came
up against the skilled White House
publicity men. tit Knows it now.
Darrow made bis report to the
White House May 4. If he could
have handed tt to the newspapers
the same day his charges would
have been a national sensuiion. Any
good publicity man would have ad
vised him to have given copies of
the report to press associations, at
least conlidentially. He thought of
that himself, but decided that the
report was made to the president
and the President should handle
publication of it.
The result was that the NRA
spent the following two weeks pre
p;iring a complete answer to his
charges. Its report was sent to Mr.
Roosevelt May 14.
I3y publishing the 9.000-word ans
wer simultaneously, the 9.000 words
of charges were at least partially
smothered.
The effect was to create the Im
pression that two good haters like
Darrow and General Johnson were
Just throwing 18,000 words at each
other.
The White House inner clique Is
quite angry at Darrow, but not ad
ministration left wingers. They re
ally like the recommendations of
the Darrow report. Although they
cannot say so publicly.
In this crowd are the young lib
erals of the administration who
have been hoping from the start to
direct the NRA into socialization of
industry. They have never liked
Johnson or his tactics. During the
last few months, they have been
parsing around the poison on him.
The result ol tnis may do me
loDDing off of a few liberal heads,
because the White House apparently
does not side with the liberals on
this subject.
At least the biggest liberal heads
have lately become uneasy, and one
has already made preparations to
ro back to the private practice of
law.
Heat The White House has turn
ed its furnace blower on Chairman
Steagnll of the House Banking
committee.
Apparently, President Roosevelt
is none too well pleased with the
fact that Mr. S tea sail is handling
three Important ad m lustration bills
housing, loans to industry and de
posit insurance. In a re rent private
conference at the executive man
sion, St ea Rail's loyalty to the ad
ministration was discussed.
That question arises because Mr.
.stea all, and his alter ceo, Mr.
Goldsborouqh, have more advanced
ideas on banking than Mr. Roose
velt. For instance, Messrs. Steagall
and OoldsborouKh have been play
ing with the Idea of tarkinit the
bank payy-off bill or a more liberal
deposit Insurance scheme on one of
the administration im-astires now in
Mr. Steaeall's custody.
The White House Heat Is being
privately applied in various ways to
keep Mr. sunurull a simon-pure ad
ministration man.
All of which bathers Mr. Sleacall
not at all. He stepped aside from
such pressure last Thursday and
went to the circus not once, but
twice. He liked the afternoon per
formance so much that he went
bark strain in the evening.
The lion's Jaws lnteitstrrt him
most, but he made no effort to test
thera personally.
NMca Experts in bitter words
words seem to acrce that Damm
lost his lour - oru crown to Johnson
this time. Darrow scored with such
phases as "ln.-.iine practice and
yrotrsque absurdities," but John
.m blanketed his adversary by ques
tioning his gocd faith.
Comptrollrr O'Connor of the rur-rri-ry
nmnrd a Texas audience re-
ROMANCE FILM
IS AT CAPITOL
A tale of thtilhnc adventure wtth
colorful romance cornea to the
vrren of the Capitol theater Tues
day and Wednesday with the First
National picture, "Mnndalay.
It 1m set m the pteture-mue back
ground of the Orient, in that sec
tion of Burma where the whites
come in contact with the natives.
The romance doe not concern
Orientals, however, though there
are many of thera appearing In the
production, but the whit man. and
particularly that breed of soldier of
fortune who turns to gun running,
traffic In women and other illicit
tradx
There Is an unusually strong
cast which includes such players
as Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortex,
Warner Oland and Lyle Talbot in
the featured roles. There is a long
list ol talented players among the
members of the supporting cast,
some of whom are Ruth Donnelly.
Reginald Owen, Hobart Cavanaugh,
David Torrence, Rafaela Ottiana.
Ettenne Ghardot, Lucien Littiefieid,
Bodtl Rosing and Herman Btng.
oently by coming out strongly in the
fourth paragraph of his speech and
asserting flatfootedly that "Texas is
the largest state in the Union." The
real ban mot of Mr. O'Connor's
speech, however, was his assertion
that Mr. Diegs of Dallas "has In a
brief period won a high place in
Washington. Mr. Digits Is my as
sistant." Senator Glass was explaining to
a friend the other day his anger at
being left out of the stock market
conference along with Senator Bob
Wagner. Said Glass: "Bob says be
is a philosopher, but he got Just as
mad as I did Well, almost."
Dusky Roman
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plfP
Eddie Cantor ani the Goldwyn
girls appear In "Roman Scandals",
playing at the Hollywood theater
Monday and Tuesday. This Is the
famous comedian's fourth annua)
mimical comedy, succeeding his
"The Kid from Spain" of la.t year.
Goldwyn maintain hi tradition for
lavish prodnction, beautiful girls
and lilting music
ARLISS SCORES
IN NEWEST ROLE
George Arllss, whose character
portrayals have brought him piaJse
from critics throughout the country,
rises to the greatest height In his
career in "The House of Roths
child." playing at the Grand the
ater the entire week. In the opinion
of those who witnessed the film
play over the week-end. Selection
of his supporting cast was excel
lent with the play reaching a pleas
big climax in the concluding tech
nicolor sequence, with the natural
tone three-color process used for
the first time in a big production.
The vast expanse of the coronation
room, with its brilliant court en
semble, should mark a genuine step
forward m screen technique.
The Napoleonic warg tn Europe,
with the House of Rothschild, Inter
national bankers, when no nation
could make war without first con
sulting the bankers. Is the period
of the play. Arllss plays the role of
a Jew who rose to world power, a
part he previously portrayed In
"Disraeli The picture may be In
terpreted as a vindication of the
Jew, of capitalism and of Interna
tional banking er as a fine enter
tainment Dialog is exceptionally
clever and came from the pen of
Nunnally Johnson, writer of hum
orous stories in the Saturday Eve
ning Post.
SOCIAL WOKK.ER GLKST
Sil ert on Prior to her return to
her home In New York City Mrs.
Elizabeth Robinson It In &lvarton
over Sunday and Monday at the
home of her brother and slster-ln-
law, Mr. and Mrs. James Manning.
Mrs. Robinson is an employe of the
Brooklyn charities as a social wor
ker. Her husband is well known in
Oregon as Dr. Claude E. Robinson,
a University of Oregon graduate
and author of the book, "Straw
Votes," a study on political predic
tion. He was student-body president
of the university during the year
1924 when he was tn his senior year.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Calef of Port
land, relatives, accompanied Mrs.
Robinson to Silverton.
Per capita foreign trade of May-
lasia exceeds that of any other
country In the far east except Uie
Philippines.
CHANGES MADE IN
LOCAL COURT ROOM
Material changes In the setup hi
Judge McMahan's circuit court
room were made by the janitor's
force there Saturday afternoon, the
jnrv box being moved from the
south to the north side of the
room and the Judges bench being
moved three feet to the south. Trie
lawyers' table was also cut down
three feet and moved to the cent
er of the court section of the court
room. The new changes allow an
easier access to the Judge's cham
ber without disturbing the court or
Jury. The windows will also he
frosted as the situation of the
court room has caused a glare on
sunny days uncomfortable to court,
jiKlce, jury, lawyers and auditors
alike.
Gates Edwin Seams ter who has
been spending several weeks at
the home of his mother. Mrs. Euna
White, has left for the CCC camp
at Mary's River on Hoover Flat
where he will work during the sum-p-t
mrnhs.
Silverton Miss Phyllis Waldner i
has returned to her home in Sil- :
verton from the Lincoln district in
Polk county where she substituted
during the past six weeks for Miss
Lois Vernon who was IU During
her stay at Lincoln, Miss Wuldner
made her home with Mr. and Mrs. !
E F. Buckles.
iliTHTlTfTnTT
I wish to express my ap-
prrcialHin tn my friends and
vutcrs of M.irion County who
exprrsncd thentM-lvm an Mt
ifird with my admintet ration
u trinity Judge.
1 ran avture thrm I will
eratiuue with my bent efforts
to merit their ronfntrnee.
John C.
Siegmund
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Tmtm on Safrty, Dual-
Grip Cxwih m low M y
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A CERTIFIED INTERVIEW WITH CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER FRANK VIOLETTE, PANAMA CANAL ZONE -K
ssasjw
"JVe punish cars down here. ..but let me
tell you how my flymoum tane .
1 "Ten 7Mr In Panama taiifht ma
Co tnk. precaution, many iwopta
cnwlook. I wuMd a tough car.'
I1 He talks very little about his
luperviaing million! ol aonar.
worth of ranama'i construction.
But ask him about car . . .
" In the Canal Zone, our everyday
driving soon ptwes to us how ear
take, punishment. I've found "at
of all the low-priced cars, Plymouth
stands up the best.
And Mr. Violctte isn't surprised
that Flymoulh proved to be the
strongest. As an engineer, he knows
from long experience that steel rein-
RA.N-K VIOLETTE is "iUistedU the safest form of
vmitruction yon can have.
But nyrnorrth engineers didn't
atop with this one safety feature.
They added Hydraulic Brakes the
safest brakes made.
Then, they built in extra comfort,
too...withpatented Floating Power
CTpne mountings and Individual
Wheel Springing.
Any Dodge, De Solo or Chrysler
dealer will oemonstxatc Plymouth.
2 "We depend on steel for safety tn the Canal and in oar bulldiad.
We' found It's poslilr proof atUlnat ewrthlnt from term Km
to earthquakes. So I knew a Safety-Stsel Bod? would be atronaast."
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3 Som of our roads wertttt built for eemfort. But m? Plrmoitth 4 Mr. melaeasansl Mr. Martins. President of his rmitructirm mm nan. M,f, -.t. tit.
Was. Its IntllTldmil Wbsel SprioslnC leTels oS the bumps. Aa4
UyJrsuUc Brakoa keep ma out of man uneipcctcd mud bulce.
Da Lots Plymourh. Ptynsouth prices beftln at IM at the factory. Tims narmenrs ar
ranged to It jour budget. Ask for lbs Official Chrysler Motors Commercial Credit Plan
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