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Pasr Four "( LA GRANDE' KTENTNG 6Bi&fifRVEKj ttA1 GRAfJDE. ORB. Wednesday, November 16, 1932 (IneorpormUd) lntfipiMleot Nwi HA HOLD M. FiNtiAr . Business Manager Published evenings, except Bundsy. al 1710 8Utb strsst, L Oraxido. Oregon. Entered at the Poetofrice of La Orsnde, Oregon. M Second Class Mall Matter under act of March 1, 1878. OWlOIAli PAJPEH OP UNION COUNTY AND THB CITY OH LA UHAHCI MEMHEK OK ASSOCIATED PBKHO The Assoolsted Press la exclusively entitled to use for publication,; of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise cerdlted'U pub-' Usbed herein All rights of republication of special dispatches la this paper and also the local news herein also are reserved. National Advertising Representative M. O. MOO EN BEN CO.. Inc. Ban yranclaco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. Chleafo, Detroit. New York , SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier Deilj, one month In advance , Dally, iu months In advance , Dally, single copy Hy MaU Dally, per month In advance , Dally, per six months In advanoo Dally, per year In advance . '1 fro 6.00v ADVERTISING RATES Display, foreign, per column men Display, local, par column Inch . Time contract prices on application Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither pov erty nor riches: feed me with food convenient for me. Proverbs 30: 8. ATTm Attn snrr A tr I 1 1 uurv wai , . Hy J. R. Williams ST AkMBoWS W OH , HE. "TUAV4 OTVAW PtoFVt-'. y " N5 "" S5 SB A NOT f CAM'T HELP x WA9 3i THivjWisV tig WsebS fef "O' TriAcr. H HOW MUCH 'AT MOOM ' 3 I 0 tc HIS &TUMM UftW THecTttff V. ,"""" OUVJU ruJ - c ig by hea sctfyict, mc. RCG-u. s. pat. oft. J Other Papers Say: s A GOOD SYSTEM GONE WRONG The American people have seldom exhibited greater wis dom than they did when they invented the parole board for penal institutions. It added a truly human element to the treatment of criminals. But they have gone to the opposite extreme in their attitude toward the parole board, now that they have created it. Instead of giving it the careful consideration that all human institutions require, they have gone away and left ' it to run itself as though it were a piece of automatic ma chinery. Seldom has there been a more evident gap between theory and performiince. Seldom has it been more clearly proved that even the best of governmental ideas will not work in a democracy unless it is put into the hands of wise and conscientious men who are fully supported by an en lightened public opinion. All of this comes to mind as a result of the sad experience which the state of Ohio has had recently. In the past month in that state there have been three murders committed by paroled ex-convicts. Two of the murders were uncommonly atrocious.' ,.... Each of the paroled men had been out of prison only a r short time when he committed murder. In each case it is very easy to see, now, that the parole was a tragic mistake. And in each case all that Ohio can do about it is to punish the guilty man and hope that such a thing will not happen again. Unfortunately, such incidents and almost everv state has similar ones lead to a general outcry against the parole I system itseit, urging that when men are convicted of crimes they should be compelled to serve out the entire sentence without being shown any leniency under any circumstances, j The public sees thugs at large, committing new crimes before ' their original sentences have expired, and quite naturally it j wonaers 11 tne parole system isn t a mistake from start to finish. What they fail to' see is that it isn't the system that is all wrong so much as it is our way of handling it. The parole system is everything that its supporters claim or it would be if it were properly administered. No iron-clad system of rigid sentences can fail to work injustice. The parole system tries to make criminal procedure elastic enough to provide justice for all, and to prevent the making of hardened crim inals out of men who slipped once but would go straight if given another chance. But we have left the system, in many instances, to run itself; which means, of course, that politics has put in its Tiand and made a mess of things. What we need to do nbw t is to revamp our method of administering the parole system. yur own ncetuossness is what is really the matter, just as in many other governmental problems. DANGER IN ECONOMY ' The cry for economy that is abroad throughout the land is a sensible demand on the part of people everywhere. Governments local, state and federal have spent too much money. The time for retrenchment is at hand, and expenses should bo reduced until people are better able to bear the costs of unnecessary activities. That is where the rub comes. What one man considers unessential, another insists is vital and necessary. To agree upon items to bo chopped out of an appropriation bill is never an easy job for legislators, or for citizens. However, there is one thing that should be unheld. Thnf. is sound and sensible expenditure in behalf of public educa-' tion. Nothing has done as much for the nation as the money J put on our public schools. Nothing would do as much harm ' m our opinion, as a iooiish and absurd policy of retrench ment that would cripple our schools. There are in school affairs, like every other activity, some unessentials, some extravagances inherited from ih'e boom days. These must, and should be, clipped. In case of doubt however, it would be better to retain them than to dispense with them before we are certain of our ground. Chats With Parents A DlSII.Ll SIONKI) CHILD By Alice Juilson Pfsile Perhaps one of the most disillu sioning discoveries that a child makes Is that his parents are not, after all, omnipotent. A little boy, whose father denied him a toy because he said that he had not the money to spare, asked him why ho did not make some then. "I can't Just make money.' the father explained. "1 have to earn it." "But I thought you were a king and kings can do anything," was the plainly 4sappointed reply. The child's disappointment is Injury to his self-esteem which such a discovery entallt. His father Is a part of himself. - His presumable omnipotence increased the child's own feeling of importance. In the nursery such disappointments arc not se'Jous, for the child readily adjusts himself to the newly discovered fact. It Is when In school he hears re marks which lead bim to the con clusion that his father Is not as rich BEH'ARIv DANGER AHEAD! As we see It. this country Is go ing to need clear thinking during the next six months or more, as NEVER BEFORE. Already people are coming into this offlco to herald Tuesday's election as a great victory for the Democrats, and a great triumph for the Wets. t , In one sense this of course Is true the Democrats won a great victory; the Wets triumphed In this state and throughout the country. But In another sense, this inter pretation Is & mistaken one, and un less this mistake is recognized, great and lasting harm may be done. If, for example, the Democrats should take this victory to mean, popular repudiation of established Republican policies tariff protection. sound' money, the Hoover program of rehabilitation ' and reconstruction. etc.,' etc, they would be guilty of a serious perhaps a fatal blunder. They would fail to realize that this tremendous vote . was essentially PROTEST vote a blind revolt against the party In power not an endorse ment of either Governor Roosevelt personally or the traditional policies of the party he represents. More than that it was a revolt in which hun dreds of thousands of Republicans, who still believe in fundamental Re publican principles, Joined, and with out whom the Democratic triumph would have been Impossible and with out whose support they can't succeed. him. and telling him he should not; In the same way, if the radical Wets talk about such things they will have ' should take this; wet vote as merely for Quality" Impressed him with the fact that they feel inferior and so the child concludes they really must be. FARM Pltom tTS PAY FEES OF J!HI COLLEGE STL' DENTS expressing a desire for a drink, pull ing down the bars and flooding this country with beer and light wines, be fore some machinery for proper regu lation has been set up, they would also be guilty of a serious, perhaps a fatal, blunder. For the wet vote, as we see It, was BANNERS ELK. N. f! f.v . a cec ' tern of accenting farm nroH,, tr ' NOT that. It .wasn't so much a vote or as smart or an Important .a .per- student for expenses at Lees-McRae FOH llo.uor- ' as a protest vote sonage as the fathers of other chil- college here has enabled 100 to re- ' AGAINST Prohibition a part of the dren that he really is likely to suf-main jn school this year "! overwhelming resentment against fer. ' tw. u . . . I conditions as they are, and the de- At such time, th parent own ! JatL tTsuly'the cZlerX' ' mand f" 8 CIWNOE' W"rt n man polso when he begins to discuss the f ,, PP'y the coll68e tor " ; date expressed or Implied, as to pre- subject with them makes a great deal of difference. If they are su:e of themselves; If they discuss their stat us frankly and naturally; If In short they give no evidence of feeling In ferior the child can usually make peace with the facts, whatever they may be. But If they show that lils remarks founded In part, at least, upon .the t upset them by becoming angry with At the beginning of the f!:jrt se-1 SHOULD that change result In mester the college took in on stu- turning liberty Into license; In re dent account eight cows, one mule, tarding the progress of true tem 470 pounds of beef. 84 pounds of perancc. Instead of accelerating It; honey, and many bushels of grain. In making conditions from a moral j standpoint WOBSB Instead of BE7T- Odd Sleeping Posture TER, then there would be a popular Ducks, geese, ilamingos and her- revolt, so overwhelmingly, that this country - at the next election would ons often sleep standing on one lee councrJ;'al V ne ' ' c not only go bone dry. but stay i HOOVER LOSES JOB, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS ONE FOR AN EX-PRESIDENT HOSIERY RUNS- GOOD BYE FOREVER! Kayser 'SANSRUN" HOSIERY Is Here $1.35 (Guaranteed Not to Run) "CJANSBUN positively guarantees an end to annoying, expensive i5 hosiery l-uns. "Sansrun" cannot run I It's knit by a revolutionary new process which makes It Impossible lor a run to start. 'Mistily sheer, yet unbelievably durable. See them today! In All the New Winter Shades Health I certainly for a generation, perhaps in definitely. In other words a great responsibil ity rests' upon the shoulders of the new leaders of the Democratic party, who sincerely wish to lead this coun try to a "better day" and a great responsibility rests upon the shoul ders of those, who oppose prohibition, and want a system of liquor control, which will be t.n improvement, from both an economic and a moral stand point, over the present one. "Go slow, don't let control get into the hands of rabid Democratic par tisans. on one hand; Wets on the other." That should and we hope will be the watchword of both factions. If it ISNT If the wild-eyed radl- tia w gum cuniroi tneu im gnmi. ,t came through the lungs, the re victory, instead of offering a golden I It wcre likelr to be dlsafitrous. LOGIC AND MEDICINE Whenever the dictates of simple logic are applied to medical practice without the safeguarding checks of experiment and experience, serious results are likely to follow. Among certain primitive peoples the treatment of pus infections In the chest consisted In making scratches in the scalp. These wounds , . . i would oecome miected and pus or the rabid fn,u . W. WWII. c Their logic for this procedu:e was simple. They argued that there was pus in the body and that the pus sought for a way to come out. When opportunity for useful service, may well prove merely a pitfall, leading to failure and ultimate destruction Medford Mall-Tribune. CSttjwtac ffltl fill yWm ' vK 8S5- pr -IfflZV 41 'CocMDsE Herbert Homer w ill he ev-Prw.lilmt Homer nevt Mnrrli I . . . and lliere ore liiillnilliins Hint lie may heroine eoiinrrtnl Willi Lelaml slan- furcl iinlvmltr Kv-iresllrn!s ham done varied tlilnss. . . . Mimnx-. a poor man. was clad to serve many years as Justice of the pini-e, nhiTcus Tiifl served as elilet Ju.llie of the I', s. supreme conn. . . . (ininl tailed In the hanking and hrokriiise business, but Cool- hlRe has been aellve as director of a life Insurance company. ' Hy HODM'.V Ill'TrilKIl (NEA BchvIco Correspondent) WASHINOTON On March 4. the United States will have two living cx-presldenta, Calvin CoolldKe and Herbert Hoover, for whom no nntlonal reward other thnn Blory has been provided. CoollrtKO. upon retirement, went Into tho writing game, and did very well. Ho also Is a member of tho board of the New York Lite Insurance company. Hoover plans to lieturn to private life, he hns announced. That feems to be a welcome haven to most of our ex-prcsldents, and even Theodore- Koosevelt once.aald. "There Is something nttractlve about rc- the provisional congress of the Confedefotc state, and also being elected to its congress by Virginia. He died before he could serve. Andrew Johnson, who came so close to Impeachment, was later elected to the sennto from Tennessee. Thcodoro Roosevelt could not quite keep out of politics after Ills term, but he was a writer of unusual ability also. William Howard Tart, after leaving the White House, performed not Bble service In International arbitration, then served for nearly 10 years ...v., u.o.nuumi ua unti jusuce oi me supreme court. Therefore, they reasoned, if they scratched the scalp, the pus would escape through the scalp and thus the lungs would be soared. .. J We have a counterpart to this fan- MFXONI) DISTRICT tastlc reasoning In the common be- ItBPRKSKNTATIVE lle n "Dad blood." There afle many Walter M. Pierce has been elected Wh0 believe tnat Pimple and va .J"i , , has Been elected eruptions represent congressional representative from - , ( , . , . . . . V. , this the second district of Orppon. I mner'a's w'hlch the body Is trying The democratic avalanche swamped, . f' , . ., .. , his opponent, Robert R. Butler. Re.- Tn0 u not ";isonable" in publican incumbent, who had served ! th0 sense of the word, but this district since 1928. Mr. Butler nevertheless some treatments exploit will serve In the forthcoming short ; the ayra8e man's acceptance of rea sesslon of congress, which usually re-i sole renlctllcs mains in session until the prcsiden- Tnus has 1x611 offered such a rea tlal inauguration In March. sonable explanation of and treatment his successful fight for the congres- f ,Ian4, "nd dePMltecl the bauf slonal seat. He and his able wife. ' fm P0,"6 we" not abla t0 Cornelia, Marvin Pierce, former state! c"lM,te "tm a"y other way. librarian, attended meetings in every i ''"r? h ! f major community in the county, and ere? both l".th bd "eld of ex" Mr. Pierce talked to hundreds of Pcrlence nntl la th0 laboratory, shows citizens here. I dlseases r tbe thyroid are due to n. ' Imany causes. Mr. Pierce Is one of the most staunch Oregon Democrats. He was born in Illinois In 1661 and came to Oregon In 1883. He has been a far mer, school teacher, superintendent of schools, .county clerk, attorney. state legislator and governor. He was elected governor of the state In 1922, and was defeated at the end of his first term by the Republican, I; L. Patterson. Although, as we have said. Mr. Pierce Is a great campaigner, his elec tion at this time Ib hardly a great personal triumph. Any Democrat would probably have done as well or better. Tho people were voting that way. The new congressman is 71 years of age, and a prominent local , Democrat has told us that he has promised' to step out of the picture after one term. His Job Is being al ready eyed by some of our well-known politicians. Including our Informant. A satisfactory factor In the Pierce election Is the certain, definite ad vantage which should come to the district through its congressmen be ing a member of the controlling party In the house. That should give Mr. Pierce opportunity to be of '. real service to the district, and to j tho country. This newspaper, which mildly opposed Mr. Pierce, pledges ' him Its full cooperation In his efforta toward that end. Klamath Palls Her- ; aid. .' I VPOWDER 25on 25t You save In using Kc.Use only: As as much as It required of soma others. ,9,tSooiretfet Double Action 7 MENTAL AITKT1TK What kind of race would we have if the minds of men mid women demanded food with tho same insistence that the stomach does ? Suppose, your brain, if neprlected and forgotten for a tfny, would set up the same insistent clamor for sustenance that your appetite does. Would you know more, or do you, maybe, take care of the normal cravinR that visits intelligent minds' and see that you provide a diet for the thinking machine? Truth is supposed to le the jroal of education and philoso phy, and- religion, as well. The truth will "set vou five " How many of us realize that the best pursuit of truth comes only when a mind is free of passions, prejudices and popular superstitions? How many of us make any systematic effort to remove these cobwebs from our brain's? concurs. He has Indicated he does not know what he will do when he returns to Palo Alto as a prlvnte citizen. Orover Cleveland, like Coolidcp. wn nn i,,., .. . tiring from office and becoming a private citizen." Apparently Hoover Job as trustee of the Equitable Life Assurance soHet.v nf vv-t it is novauic mni lew oi our ex-presldents have gone Into business, most of them leaning toward literary or educational activities when they renounce politics. One of the exceptions. General u. s. Grant, became a partneii In Grunt Ward, a banking and brokerage firm. He had little aptitude for the business, and never took an active part In it. The bus iness was toreetl to bankruptcy, leaving Orant so poor that he pledged his medals, swords and war trophies with William H. Vanderbllt for a loan of S100.000 to make good his losses. Knowing he was dying of a throat cancer. Grant wrote his memoirs for money to provide foj his family. He flnl-hed four days ahead of death. Vanderbllt gave the war collection to the National museum. Many have felt thnt a man who has served his country as president should he relieved of the necessity of seeking a livelihood. Pensions for ex-presldents. like those of other civil servants, have been suggested Roosevelt felt this would be "unpleasant." but Anc'rew Carnegie felt so stsonsly on the subject that he once planned to endow every ex-presldcnt with an Income of SJ5.000 a year. A storm of popular disapproval of any such private benefactions for public servants arose, but the Carnegie corporation Is even now authorised to make such payments If acceptable But rumors are heard that he will also do some w.(iling, and possibly that he will become Identified with Leland Stanford, his alma mater, In which he has had a continued Interest since college c'iays. It ts sug gested thnt he might become a chancellor of the university, or perhaps lecture there. There would be excellent precedent for that, us Benjamin Hnrrlson lectured on International law at Stanford after he became an "Kx." Cleveland became a trustee of Princeton, ond occasionally lec tured there. Mndlson became rector of the University of Virginia. Taft lectured on law at Yale. Most of our ex-presldents have kept tho wisdom and experlnec they acquired In office at the dls)osal of the country in one way or another, some unofficially by w:ltlng and iersonal contact, others by continuing In the public service In lesser capacities. John Adams nerved his state (Massachusetts) In an Important consti tutional convention In 18-jo. Thomas Jefferson, a poor nvan on leaving the White House, further Impoverished hlmseU by continual entertaining of political friends at Montleello, and yet had time to found the University of Virginia, and denlftn Us buildings. James Monroe, also a poor man. was content to accept the humble olflcv of Justice of the peace, and filled It for many jw.rs at his homo nenr Charlottesville, Va. John Quliu-)' Adams was elected to concrcss f:om M.issai-Imsett alter becoming an "Ex." He died "In harness." stricken with paralysis on the very floor of the house. Martin Van Buren also kept In hand In politics, running unsuccessfully tor the presidency again on the "Free Soil" tlcss't in lata. John Tyler was quite active alter hia term, serving as a member of Carnegie, nevertheless, in his will, left SIO.000 a yoar to Taft and his widow, and S5000 a year to the widows of Cleveland and Roosevelt. Those presidents had been )ersonal friends. A definite means of placing the experience and wisdom of ex-ptesldents at the service of the government often has been dtscusseov senator Royal 8. Copcland. for instance, proposed that all ex-presldents be made life members of the senate, with tho privileges of the floor and the salary of a senator. Without a constitutional amendment he could not vote but his advice would be valuable In debate. Copeland felt. 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