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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1922)
THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1922 Marion Automobile Company in Business Two and One-Halt Years and Has Never Shut Its Doors Thje Marion Automobile com pany has now been in business exactly two and a half years, ac cording to George E. Halvorsen, manager, having been founded on Julr 29, 1919. During this time the garage operated by the com pany has never closed Its doors except in cold weather, and then employes have been on hand to give the public any service which It might demand. That this continuous service Is appreciated by the public Is shown by the fact that during this time, according to Mr. Halvorsen 's esti- MS mad Rim Parts for all Cart Frea Expert Advlca IRA JORGEX8EX ISO South High Straat mate, over 250,000 people have visited the garage for automobile service. Over 300 cars have ben sold by the company during the two and a half years. The gar age has stored over 20.000 cars and has sold over 170,000 worth of gasol'ne. Mr. Halvorsen esti mates that over 10,000 people have stopped at the garage for information concerning roads and directions. During this time the organi zation has grown from a concern of five people to one employing 25. From time to time different departments have been addsd un til now the company ha the fol lowing departments: Car sales, repair shop, service department, car washing, and accessory and tire sales. In conversation with a States man representative, the manager expressed the opinion that the T BURNS. THE POET OF THE Eli PEOPLE tl PEASANT FOLK His Admirers in Salem Celebrated the Birthday of the Scottish Bard on Wednesday Evening Last, With Proceedings Appropriate to the Occassion Robert Burns Was Born January 25, 1759 The Address of Rev W. C. Kantner. attention to another. This is it: j accidents of birth and the pree- "Ye ugly, creepin' blastit wonner. sure o circumstances. Detested," sbuun'd by saunt and j sinner. . ... ... . . j" .. .... "for a iaai an. a u: a i . dare ye set your fit npon A man's a man for that; AUTO TOPS The Busiest Shop in the State "There's a Reason" My materials are guaranteed by the manufacturer and I make this guarantee good. As to workmanship, my former connections with such firms as Jenning's Trimming and Top Shop, Coyer Motor Co., Auto Trimming Co., and G. G. Gerlbert speak for themselves. At the latter con cent I received the highest salary of any trimmer in the Northwest My prices are right Skilled workmanship and ability to buy right take care of that .V- Opp Walter E. Grunert Auto Trimmer . U. S. Bank Phone 793 256 State f 1 ANNOUNCE that they have taken on (he dis tribution of the line of Tires in both ''A We solicit your tire business because we are prepared to render you real tire Service. We have just received a complete stock of Masons and we would be pleased to have you drop in and look them over. It will continue to be our endeavor to give our customers More Miles Per Dollar Vick Brothers 280 South High Street 1 (The following paper was read on Wednesday evening, January 25, by Rev. W. C. Kantner, pas tor of the First Congregational hurch, at the meeting of the Burns club of Salem, held in cele bration of the birthday of the poet, and it is published by re quest of the; club: ) , It Is fitting that the sons of old Scotia and oth?r admirers of the bard should observe the anniver sary of the birth of Robert Burns. It is he that has given wide re cognition to the "banks and braes of Bonny Doon" and to the many glories of Scotland. Dr. Johnpon, as we all well know, had ' very little affection for the Scotch, and so in his fam ous dictionary of the English lan guage, he def'ned "oats" as food for horses in England; food for men in Scotland." He forgot to add, "But what men!" For that little country of highlands and lowlands has given to the world men of brawn and men of brain; men at whose feet the rest of the world has been pleased to ait philosophers, teachers, essayists, preachers, poets, novelists. And yet among them all. Rob ert Burns stands forth in his own sphere, thg peer of any one of them. Blest in a remarkable degree with the. poetic gift, he proved himself in his 37 years a genius of the highest rank. Ever since his lamented early departure to the beyond, all Scot land and the English speaking people generally, have honored him as the truest interpreter of the heart of his people. His pictures of Scottish life, as seen especially In nis "Cotter's Saturday Night," his love of na ture to which h gives voice In his songs and shorter poems; his mastery of the humorous and the grotesque so strikingly shown In Tarn O'Shahter," and "The Jolly Beggars";.; his hatred of hypo crisy and sham, accented in his poems on; "Holy Willie"; his tenderness! of heart as revealed In the verses,? "To a Mountain Daisy'' and "To a Mouse," each of which were victims of his plowshare; his songs ; of love and his "To Mary in Ijeaven" these serve to show us the many-sldd soul of this poetfc genius. Handicapped by his limited school privileges, he nevertheless was able to walk and talk with the "knights of culture" when he appeared in Edinburgh in the in terest of a possible second edition of h's published poems. It was a letter from Dr. Blacklock, him self a poet, to a friend, in which the poem's were so highly com mended, that led Burns to venture on this Journey to Edinburgh. In speaking of this letter Burns remarks.' "The Doctor belonged to a set of critics, for whose ap plause I had not dared to hope. His opinion that I would meet with encouragement In Edinburgh for a second edition fired me so much that away I posted for that city without a single acquaint ance, or a Bingle letter of Intro duction." The second edition, and later a third edition, followed, and the name and fame of Burns were se cure. , His works." savs one. "are singularly various and splendid. uage and thoughtfulness of He had an admirable ear for har- "re he writes of the con growth of the organization dur lne the : next year will be still greater. "Peoplu are beginning to real ize," says Mr. Halvorsen, the val ue of a service that never sleeps, that Is -founded on knowledge born of long years of experience, and that Is accomplished with the minimum of time and expense and the maximum of courtesy and fair dealing. Moreover, the pb lie realizes that a first class pub lic garage, maintaining an effici ent continuous service. .Is as es sential to the development of a city as first class hotel service, for In, this automotive age the public demands garage as well as hotel service. It. 6hall always be our policy to keep in touch with the most modern garage methods to give the public the latest in the line of automobile service, and to give courteous and efficient service to all car own ers at all times." mony and exhibited mo?t exquisite delicacy and purity of taste.'' While tnost of his finest works are composed in his own Lowlan3 dialect, yet he shows himself a fine master of pure English. We wonder how Shakespeare could write such marvelous dramas with such meagerness of educational preparation for his work, but is the mystery less puzzling in the case of Burns, whose school days proper ended before his twelfth year? The usual answer to this diffi cult question is genius, gifts, tal ents, inspiration, and yet all these require a background of re source in respect to material in order to produce such master pieces. Follow that ploughman poet as he turns down the Mountain Daisy and listen as bis heart speaks to the uprooted flower "Wee modest crimson-tipped flow er, Thou's met me in an evil hour. For I maun crush amang the sten re. Thy slender stem; To spare thee how Is past my pow r Thou bonny gem. "There in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread. Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble gulset But now the share uptears thy bed. And low thou lies. "Such fate to suffering worth is given. Who long with wants and woes has striven. By human pride or dunning driv en. To misery's brink; Till wrenched of every stay but heaven, He, ruined, sink." And everybody is familiar with those lines, "To a Mouse" "But mousie. thou art no thy lane. In proving foresight may be vain, The best-laid schemes of mice and men, Gang aft agley, And lea'e nought but grief an pain For promised joy." Probably "The Cotter's Satur day night," already mentioned, is the finest of his longer poems in the serious strain. It is so well known that I need simply refer to the tribute he pays to the humble peasantry and the home life of his day. as possibly illus trated not only in his father's house but In many Scotch homes, when he says her. Sae fine lady? i The rank is but the guinea's Gae somewhere else and set j stamp; your dinner, j The man's the gow'd for a' that." , On some poor body." j- A friend of mine who had been j a missionary in India in speaking of the sacredness with which all forms of life, but that of human life, are "regarded in that country aeciared that should a Hindu find such a creature on himself as Burns saw on the "fine lady", he would not think of destroying it: he would simply transfer it to the person of some one else re marking, "Go seek other pas tures." Burns touches every phase ot life and particularly the life of the peasant, and thus he becomes the poet of ail the people; of the common people in that he reflects their OTTiprioncflo n f Ka ju 1 1 ti rf1 because he can speak in the lan cui- common people For it is quite generally true that most people duck their heads when they hear the cry "Low bridge." Burns i3 loved because he hates falso pride, bigotry, hypocrisy, and shallow "pretense wherever found, because he can see the worth of the man who is a man despite the May the prophetic utterance of , this loved Scotch poet come into ; glorious lulfHment - Then let u?' pray that come It may. ! As come It I for a that Thajt pense and worth, oVr all the 4rth. May bear th gree, and tJhtt; r ' For a that, and a that, It's com in yet for a that. That taaa to man. the warld oT, Shall brothers b for a' that. Read the Classified Ads. V I- "From scenes like these old Sco tia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad." AJid of course no one reads the Inimitable "Tam O Shanter without finding In it some sound philosophy as well as some rich humor. For Instance these lines, "O. Tam hadst thou but been 9A wine As ta'en thy aln wife Kates advice." When in need of any- thing for your Bicycle See 1 SCOTT 'The Cycle Man' He carries one of the largest stocks of Bicycle Supplies in the state and employs., expert., repair men to do the work- Bicycles Tires and Repairing gars 'Ah, gentle dames it greet. To think how mony sweet. How mony lengthen'd sage vices, Tha husband frae the wife pises," and usually at cost. me counsels ad Tire Repairing of the highest order. We are proud of our rec ord for satisfactory re pairing service. Every day re hear from our satisfied patrons who have again come to us with their troubles. 'We would like to give this same class of tire service to you. May we talk over tire troubles with you? HOFFMAN & ZOZEL Katty Korner . Marion Hotel THE gear and pinion in the rear axle of the New Series of the good Maxwell are made with a care and precision, and of materials, ordinarily found in cars of a much higher price rating. So carefully are the various parts fitted to each other that continued quiet lis made certain. Such details of better manufacture assure the owner of the good Maxwell lasting satisfaction in his car. "M.lV t'i Touring Car, SS85 Roadster, $885 Sedan, $1485 Coupe, US5 GINGRICH MOTOR & TIRE CO. 371 Court Street Phone 635 M v JL Good AXW E L Li dls-high P3 if 05 -j mm mi Ml in Or take this quotation, beauti ful and suggestive, "But pleasures are like POP' Dies spread. You seize the flower, the bloom Is shed. Or. like the snowfall In the riter A molnent white then melts ror- ever." . And in thesa davs of moonshine and bootleggers, the poet's warn ing may not be out of place, Now wha this tale o' truth snau read, ' Ilk man and mother's son take heed: When'er to drink you are inclined. Or cutty-sarks rin In your mind. Think ye may buy the Joys o er dear: Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare." Our poet's songs. "John Ander son, My Jo John," "Auld Lang Syne." "My Love, Is Like a Red, Red Rose." "Bonny Doon," "Flow Gently. Sweet Afton," and "Com ing Through the Rye." are ail ol them sung everywhere. ( Should there be any doubt left in the mind of any one of tts as to the superior genius of this re markable man. I am sure it would be dispelled at once when we re 264 N. High Phone 1995 member that Burns was able to find a poem even in a louse. One Stanza of that poem If known to all of as, the one rfei 147 So. Commercial St. rin- to "seelnr ourselves as otn era see ua!' , But I wlsti tQ U.