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7 THE CAPITAL' JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON 4 MONDAY, JULY 30, 1934 Capitayyournal Salem, Oregon Established March 1, 1888 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 130 8. commercial street, xeiepnone asai. New 4881. OBOROB PUTNAM, editor and Publisher rtllX LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION BATES Bv carrier 10 cent a week: 45 cents a month: is a Tear In advance. By mail In Marlon, Polk, Linn and Yamhill counties, one month 60 eents; 3 months sl-26; s months $2.25; 1 year 14.00, Elsewhere 00 cents month: 6 months $3.75: 15.00 a yeai in advance. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication oi au news aispatcnes credited to it or not otnerwise creaiiea in iius Paper and also local news published Herein. "With or without offenst to friends or foet I sketch your world exactly as it goes." Byron Shirt Organizations "Shirts" a pamphlet by Travis Hoke and published by the American Civil Liberties union, a survey of the new "shirt" organizations in the United States seeking a fascist or nazi dictatorship, lists the history of these mushroom orders, which are a combination of European movements and the old Ku Klux Klan, ominous because they are symp toms of the kind of organization which afflicts almost all the major industrial countries in economic crisis. They are as menacing to the future as the communists, perhaps more o. The shirt organizations listed with their history com prise the German-American Nazis, the Silver Shirts, the White Shirts, the White Legion, Gray Shirts, Khaki Shirts, U. 8. Union of Fascists, Order of 76 and Dress Shirts. new organization, the American Fascists, Order of Black blurts, is not listed. The German-American Nazis "Friends of New Ger many" as the congressional investigation disclosed, are fi nanced by the German government, and practice drilling by arms in foreign uniforms. They have captured most of the United German societies, have enrolled some 60.000 mem bers, and are raising a war chest of f 5,000,000 with the avowed object of some; day seizing power and establishing a nazist state. Stores pay $5 a year to display its emblem, members pay $1 a year for, a coat lapel button besides dues, Violence against Jews characterize gatherings. The Silver Shirts,1 organized by William Dudley Pelley at Asheville, N. C, who rules as dictator under the title of Chief, and mixes astrology, Hindu mythology, evolution endocrinology, divine revelations and horoscopes in its mys tical ritual, is in temporary financial straits and his propa ganda organ suspended for debts. He claims for the Silver Legion a membership of over 100,000, a strictly "Christian militia to save America as Mussolini and his black shirts saved Italy and Hitler and his brown shirts saved Germany." 'ine unuorm consists of silver shirts, blue corduroy knickers, golf stockings or puttees. The "Silver Legion" is anti-Catho- Jic, anti-negro, anti-Jew, and anti-Red, but the Jews mo nopolize its progaganda. The White Shirts, militant "Crusaders for- Liberty'", were organized in 1931 by George W. Christians of Chattanooga, Tenn. The order tends to be radical when the community to be coverted is radical, fascist when it is re actionary. The gold standard and the federal reserve bank are the principle objects of attack and the Jews its principle siuiiiuaity. a zee oi u is cnargea. rue crusades are its inspiration. White shirts with a large red crusaders cross on the middle front with small crossed American and red crusaders flags on the left breast are worn. It proposes a marcn on wasnington to coerce the government. The White Legion was formed in Alabama and has car ried on a campaign against negroes, communists, and strik ing miners, and is an outgrowth of the Ku Klux Klan. Gray Shirts are officially "The Pioneers" or "The Pio neer American Home Protective Association, incorporated at Glens Falls, N. Y., m 1932. It claims a membership of p.uuu. it abacus tne ; ew Deal", Dram trusters, and com The "Khaki Shirts' (U. S. Fascists)" were an outgrowth of the bonus army march,? on Washington, anti-Red, anti Semitic, anti-Federal Reserve bank. With its commander-in-chief, Art Smith, in jail for perjury and its chief of staff in jan ior mansiaugnter, the order has apparently collapsed. isesiues khaki shirts, army breeches and boots, either xrencn caps or spiked helmets comprised the uniform. It proposed a lascist dictatorship. lhe "U. S. Union of Fascists" was established in New Jersey and claims a membership of 500,0000 among Italians In America. Its objective is to win power for fascism and establish a dictatorship if communism threatens the nation. JThe uniform features an American flag emblazoned on the The "Order of '76" is an under cover organization, does not wear uniforms, but members spend their time finger printing everyone they can get hold of, and spying, they claim, on racketeers and radicals. They have a general an tipathy to bankers, racketeers, communism and Jews, and are irienaiy to the nazi cause. Many other movements are avowedly fascist in tenden cy, reactionary and patrioteer, as well as nnti-communist and anti-New Deal, such as "Sentinels ot the Republic", the "Al lied Patriotic Societies" of Now York, "American Christian Defenders", "American Vigilante Inlellegence Division", "American Constitutional Educational League", and others being utilized as the intellectual front of American fascism as well as by republican politicians for the fomenting of dis content against Roosevelt. Thev propoiiv come under the bend of "Stuffed Shirts." A Fine Choice The appointment of Edward E. Urodie, publisher of the Oregon City Enterprise and former minister to Sinm and later to Finland, as chairman of the Oregon Liquor Control board is to be commended. Mr. Brodie is not only an outstanding editor, an experi enced politician, and tactful diplomat, but a successful busi ness man as well and it requires all of these abilities to guide Oregon's experiment in the liquor business. . Mr. Brodie has also hud the benefit of observing at first hand the effect of prohibition and its repeal in Finland, and the experiments, mistakes and successes made in that na tion's taking over the industry. If anyone can complete the success of the Oregon experi ment, which seems already on the way, Mr. Brodie is quali fied for the job. News Behind The News By Paul MaUon Washington, July 30. Hearings granted to domestic Interests, connection with the foreign trad agreements with foreign countries negotiated by the state departmen: have turned out to be Just what was expected by the discerning, When the bill, giving the president power to negotiate agreements In volvlng changes In tariff rates, was first drafted and Introduced, It con talned no provision to give those industries affected by the agree ments a chance to be heard. The republicans raised a big outcry over this and insisted they would not permit the blU to pass, would fill buster against It, If necessary, less the blU was amended so as to Include hearings. Democratic leadership hearkened to the plea, or threat, ana ooug ingly adopted the feature demand ed by the republicans. But it was nevertheless generally believed by those familiar with such things that the hearings would not amount to anything and that they were just a sop thrown to the high tariff people. The first hearings under the new act are now being held by tne tar If.' commission on the Cuban com Medical treaty, and the proceedings seem to justify the predictions as to their value. What the Cuban treaty contains has never been dis closed to congress or the public, and neither Thomas W. Page, vice chairman of the commission pre siding at the hearings, nor any oth er government ofnclal will tell wit nesses what its provisions are. This puts prospective witnesses wholly in the dark because they do not know whether their business Is affected or not. A Connecticut tobacco grower came before the commission and wanted to find out If his product was affected by the terms of the agreement, but Mr. Page told him he could not give him the informa tion. Thereupon, the Connecticut Yankee thought he had better be on the safe side and protest any how. Other witnesses have fol lowed his lead and have testified as if their products were not only go ing to be affected but affected ad versely. Witnesses must tell their own stories because they are not per mitted to have attorneys argue their cases for them. The hearings are nominally public, but that does not mean you can walk right In with out any formalities. No one Is al lowed to enter unless he fills In i slip of paper giving his name, whom and what he represents, and the reason he wishes to testify or be present. Those who Imagined there would be a repetition ot the old congressional tariff hearings, where witnesses appeared with a battery of legal counsel, filed immense briefs, had rolls of charts, exhib ited their wares and made stump speeches to the committees, find the new methods strange and dis appointing. Investigations Despite adjourn ment, a considerable number of members of congress could stlU be occupying themselves with nubile affairs in ways already marked out ror them. Twelve senate Investiga tions authorized by the 73rd con gress were continued into the 74th, and eleven house Investigations are still alive. With . the usual mem bership of five on each committee, these twenty-three investlBatlons.it all were active, would require the attention oi 115 legislators. Most of them, however, have suspended operations lor tne summer and some are doing the work preliminary to siriiug up in me ian. ' One of the latter sort Is the spe cial committee to investigate the munitions industry, which is head ed by Senator Nye, of Ni .-th Dako ta. Scores of investigators for this committee are at work gathering material for the opening sessions of no committee later In the vcar. Perhaps a half dozen or so of all the committees are carrying on by holding hearings during the sum mer. Certain ones in the list don't look so awfully serious and give off an odor suggestive of Junket. The uurtiens of the senate committee Investigating "Conservation of Wild Life" would appear to be not very depressing nor would the "Com mittee to visit the Philippine Is lands" find the work cxhaustlns unless uie members wero poor sail ors. But, when they all act to work and begin digging into the subjects of oil, crime and criminal nractices bankruptcy, campalmi oxocndltures and oven tin, it should not be long ui-iore mo uac oi revelations be gins to flow again. THOUSANDS PASS BIER OF SLAIN AUSTRIAN LEADER This Associated Press photo, telephoned from Vienna to London and then radioed to New York, shows the assassinated Austrian chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, lying In state In the chancellory in Vienna. His death was the signal for a widespread nazi revolt. Thousands passed through the chancel lory for a last view of their fallen leader and other thousands attended his state funeral. BANCROFT ACTS DIFFERENT ROLE IN LATEST FILM George Bancroft, the rugged, good natured screen actor whose broad, uproarious laugh and smil ing villainy skyrocketed him to screen stardom, is featured in the lead role In Paramount's home spun drama of a truck-driver and his rise to success "Elmer and El- showing at the Capitol theater Tuesday and Wednesday In a dou ble feature bill. "Elmer and Elsie," however, pre sents this virile actor In a new type of role, reminiscent of the highly successful character he played in Lady and Gent.' Bancroft is cast as Elmer Bisbee, likeable, good na- tured, truck driver, whose chief concern is a good time, and who cares little for a wife or for suc cess until he meets Frances Fuller. His views, however, take on a de cided change when he marries her. He becomes avid for success, but he declines his wife's offers to aid him. How she contrives to win him pro motion, while permitting him to be lieve that he Is a, self-made man, furnishes the substance of this en tertaining and human story of everyday people. Roscoe Karns and George Bar- bier are also featured, and furnish most of the comedy relief In the film. Nella Walker and Charles Scllon are prominently cast. The other portion of the bill Is The Lucky Texan." featuring John wayne. Fo rum Contributions to litis col umn mutt be confined to 300 words and signed by writer. To the Editor: I wish to com ment on IE. S. Hammond's mob-law philosophy In his forum communi cation In your paper of the 27th. He states mob rule Is equally wrong nen tne strikers use violence as when vigilantes make communistic raids. And, further that strikers have an unquestioned right to strike and to persuade others not to work as long as they don't use violence. Do we have to wait for violence? In a country like ours where supply and demand rules In commodities and labor supply It Is tne workers' privilege to quit work wages or conditions don't suit him or If he can get mora monev elsewhere. But to enter Into a con spiracy with his fellow laborer to coerco Is a different thlim. Such grandscale conspiracies as strikes. even without violence, are un-Am erican and should be illegal. On the other hand, the action of the vigilantes may appear to be mob rule but It Is based on a back ground of legal sanction of either written or unwritten law. Let Mr. Hammond observe that the peoplo lr. a self representative govern ment are the proponents of all law and merely hire law makers to make the necessary laws as sanc tlonable under the constitution and officers to enforce them. If our law makers have not Inaugurated laws In cases of crying need and if our officers do not enforce them citizens have, and will, and may take it upon themselves to put them into effect just as an employer may have to do the Job himself if his hired help fails to do it. wny should our officers have to wait until the communists break the laws? When by the very avowal of communism they are traitors to this country. Or until some one swears out a complaint? History disproves Mr. Hammond's assertion that mob action by leading citizens does not promote order. Who is going to deny that aU the "tea par ties'' ana "neck-tie parties" have not accomplished anything? ii we always would have to wait until the law makers get through with the lobbies and the officers with the politicians it may be too late as we have Just experienced. ii our scnoois and our leading citizens would" teach our children' the duties and prlvUeges of a self representative subject we would not nave to wait lor our law makers to make the needed laws but we would lorce tnem to It. and our law en forcing officers would likewise have to realize that thev are the Deonle's employes and not the people's boss es, and that the people can de mand them to do what the people wans oona ana u tney aon't do they will occasionally have to do It tnemseives ana feel that they have a rigni to ao it. PHYSICIAN. M.D. Salem, 7-28-34. Birthday Observed Lyons Mrs. Alex Bodeker enter tained a number ot girls Friday af ternoon honoring the thirteenth birthday anniversary of her daugh ter Constance. After an enjoyable auernoon reiresnments were served to Lucille Lewis, Wave, Glenda, Esther and Ruth Lyons, Zola Savcy, Mildred Berry, Margaret Fehlcn. Dorothy Aynes. Evelvn Vaughn Helen Hlatt, Constance and Betty Jean Bodeker and Helen Bodeker of Mill Clty COAST TRIP ENJOYED Turner Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Har ris, accompanied by- Mrs. Anna Johnson and two daughters, Edra and Anna, have returned from a several days' motor trip on the coast to Ooq utile where they were guests of Mrs. Johnson's son-in-law and daughter, Mr, and Mrs. William Kel ler and family. Since the trip Mr. and Mrs. Harris have been in Port land for medical treatment and to visit with relatives and friends few days. 11 i f0T 'vrsm 1. Efflux imam, m3 WEEK It IdleManeyis Unprofitable Nobody profits when money is idle. Those who have legitimate needs can't fulfill them, community activities dwindle and money in the bank doesn't earn its "keep." So, you can understand why it is our poli cy to welcome applications for justifiable loans. It is good business to keep the mon ey employed. D. W. EYRE Manager L. C. SMITH Assistant Manager K. B. WENGER Assistant Trust Officer Salem Branch of the United States National Bank of Portland Head Office i Portland, Oregon Thanking yon plenty much many people trying Sukiyaki Dish Coming back visit us one time two time three time maybe more. Everybody liking Sukiyaki How get there? Yon walking down Commercial street te Flta fishing market then yon stepping upstairs. There wc are 11 A. M. to 2 A. M. Jefferson Dr. J. C. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Kellet ol Grants Pass, went recent visitors at (he home of Mr. and Mrs. R, C, Thomas. Etayton Burl Thomas Is attend ing the Pioneer Pageant at Eugene. Thomas Is assisting Rev. W. H. Ly man at Uie Christian church this summer. Monmouth Mr. and Mrs. James Tllton, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Van Loan, Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Hog meler, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Gillette, Mr. and Mrs. Orval White and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Smith comprised a motor party which held a picnic supper and moonlight swimming party in the Willamette river at in. dependence Thursday evening. Called Back Recently W. W. Hus band, who had been for a long time nsslstant secretary of labor, special izing in Immigration matters, re signed his post and thought ho ould have a rest from nubile dut ies for a while. But, just as he had settled down in Vermont for a pleasant summer's holiday, lie was summoned to Washington to un dertake some special work abroad in relation to Immigration, Silling In Since Donald Rich- berg moved upstairs out of the NRA to become President Roosevelt's co-ordlnator-ln-chlef, the NRA Is be ing guided through the morass of legal intricacies by a young Cali fornlan, still in his early thirties. Blackwcll Smith. Smith came to the NRA from a big New York firm, started as a member of the legal staff, and. within a year, rose to become as sistant administrator for policy and chief of tile legal division. Tall, am iable, and hard working, he la re garded as one of the bright stars In the new deal's legal firmament. Ills name figures prominently In those whispered speculations about "the new commission that will eventually take over both the NRA and the federal trade commission.' There are no plans yet for such a commission, but when, as, and II such a board is created, "Blackie" 1 Smith la expected to land there. oet-OENERALStoday rf7 The finest of tlret at their lowed prices on the easiest of terms that'swfiattheGeneral Tire Accept ance Corporation offers you. The G. T. A. C. hat number of conven lent payment plana. One l bound to wit your need. You may pay weekly, semi-monthly or monthly at you with. Come in today-, ride away on GENERALS. 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