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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2G, 1924 Imu1 Daily Except Monday by THB STATE SMAX FUBUSHTNO COM? ACT " SIS Soatk Oommartial St, Belam, Oregoa y K J. neadrickc Joka L. Brady Freak Jaakoski Jfenater Editor Maaatar Jqft Dept. . MEMBEB OF THB ASSOCIATED PKE88 Tke Associated Pre 1i exclusively entitled to the im for publication of all Mwi dispatches credited to it or act othtrwiae eradiUd ia tale paper and alao taa local aews published herein. B. J. HEXDRICK8 President - OABLB ABBAM8 Soc rotary J. L. BRADY I Vlee-PresidenW BUSINESS OITICE8: Sew Tork, 141-145 West Both St.; Chicago, Marquette Build- Tkoaaaa r. Clark Co. (Portland Office S36 Worcester Bldf, Phove fl63T BBoadway, O, t. Williams, lift.) Inf. W. B Orptnwahl, Mrr. Business Office Mews XJcpartaaeni - - , Job Department TELEPHONES: IS Circulation Offloa SS-lOt Society Editor 68S 688 108 Entered at tke Pestofflee ia Salem, Or ion, aa second ease matter. .. .. - TR.KTlTnTTNI A H 1 1 N II K.Y RRPUKLIR If the United States continues to grow at its present rate in the next fifty years it will be impossible for the country to feed and maintain itself. This is the deduction of Canadian economists, who believe that America's extremity will be Can ada's opportunity. Not for exploitation of this country, but for economic unity between the two nations. - The Canadians point t out that fifty-eight years ago we? had a population of only 38,000,000 and today it numbers 110, 000,000. This means increased consumption in every line, with a, corresponding decrease of farming lands and cattle ranges. According to one paper, "Wallowing in gold and up to its ears in food, the United States today is at the peak of its national productive ability; but if, during the next fifty-eight years, its population continues to increase as it has in the past, 1981 will see that republic a hungry force, seeking at all costs room for expansion and additional productive lands." ' -jv'Tjie'. Canadianjournal" looks for this country then to set forth seeking whom it may devour, and absorb Canada and Mexico. Ilowever, it regards this possibility with unutterable joy stating that in economic affinity with the: United States lies a Dngnt iuiupe ior-tne juommion. ine nungry repuouc will Unite with productive Canada on economic terms of the latter '8 choosing and a union of the manufacturing United States and its agricultural neighbor will be of tremendous value to both. " ' .- , " However, the Malthusian dream of these Canucks will not disturb, the people along the Pacific coast; and more especially in Oregon, and more especially still in the Willamette valley, which is capable of maintaining in prosperity ten, twenty, thirty. times its present population, and then some. ,The dream of Malthus is being put off further and further each, succeeding year, by new discoveries and processes and capabilities of food production. . -It is a dream that will never come true Though there is a great hope that it may come a little nearer to realization soon m the United States, in order that the! demand within our own country may catch up with the supply of the standard things we grow on our lands. IX ILLUMINATING MOTTO A motto is something that Is sap- posed to fit into the character of the man or institution to which it Is assigned. President Coolidge had a motto over the fireplace of his home in Northampton. The motto read: A wise old owl once lived in an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the less he heard Why can't we be like that wise old bird? That is a fine line-drawing of the president. He does not talk much but he does make values. Coolidge has grown steadily from the day he entered the White House. He has grown because people have seen the earnestness of the man. He has talked little, but every time he has opened his mouth he has said something. Coolidge has reached the point now that he practically has no op position in the republican conven tion and his program is such that he will be elected. Hamilton Holt says the democrats can be counted upon to throw away the presiden cy. He says that under a construc tive program the democrats can win, but upon criticism of the re publican administration they will lose. The latter is clearly the in tention of the party, and in such a campaign the silent, honest, de liberative Calvin Coolidge will be elected. Ml M PROBLEMS Adele Garrison's New Phue of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Copyright 1921, by Newspaper Feature Service, Inc. SEEING YOURSELF Th? story is told of a rich man who put mirrors all around his house. There is such a thing as you call fadr, but this man had a theory. He .believed that the more people see themselves the less they are likely to be conceited. It is true that occasionally a man ad mires himself, but the average man is disillusioned every time he looks in a mirror. We are given to nursing our looks, and we need something to see ourselves as we are, "wart and all." It looking In the mirror does this, then look ing in the mirror is a good thing and should be encouraged. 'BETTER HOMES" AVEEK -It is not -elear with which emotion we are supposed to! dilate upon receiving the alarming news that Napoleon's shirt is about to pass from, the possession of the "French people. ":. -tfFrom absolute! v reliable cable messacres from En rone it, is disclosed that when Napoleon died one o his servants ofce. Archambault became possessed of the conqueror's, shirt. Jt was handed by him down to his descendants who, in turn, as a m i niti U-v F rml Ana m Mft 4 DtAtluNl lnl A.l 4 Via ,s uetrn ntir 4- v tli ikin . Ull v a sv avs ?i O juw viij avuiivu ti'V gututvuv i j iul - teum at Malmaison. " . J v ; The, aforesaid desoendents of the aforesaid Archambault,! l. . I J M ' ' ' - i . ...11 .. 1. 1 peing nrra pressea ior money, now, propose io sen ine revereu article to the, public. The 3Iuseum at Malmaison is absolutely inconsolable, but has no money with which to purchase the underwear, in question which seems, therefore, about to be lost1 forever, to the French nation.; vt. Its ultimate disposal is yet a, question of the future ; but it will probably pass to the possession of some oil millionaire from the United Mates with a hankering lor the shirts of the -noble dead.; . V " . ?..v:--iv . ,f Napoleon may have been a great man; and again he may not have been. , Moralists and ethical savants differ as to this point. But, whether a,' great conqueror or merely a great mon ster, it does not seem very clear to the lay mind just what, thrill anyone French curator or American millionaire couldos sibly get out of owning his shirt ' .Though this is not to intimate in any way that it was not a good shirt - Hut one owner for oneshirt seems to be the legitimate limit. . 'K.'t:;- : There-is this, to say, however, with reference to shirts in ' general : , The time is coming wben the best and most durable shirts in the world will-be furnished by the linen mills that will - be located at Salem. It is possible, to produce enough linen of that kind here to give the whole world a change of shirts; and there was respect for '.'changes of fine linen" away back at the dawn of history, as was proper, and is proper today. NAPOLEON'S SHIRT The selection of Mrs. Winnie Pettyjohn as the head of the "Bet ter Homes" week observation in sures an active, energetic conduct of a week that has large possibili ties for Salem.. "Better Homes" week this year will have the united support of the realtors, and that organization is strong enough tp put over something that will not only be a credit to the city but win De educational to our own people. Wc are trying to bring in new people and should make a hard effort to do it, but it is just aa important, if not more so, to ell Salem to Salem people. IT llofyicMl Air Passages Opea at Of ho Nusc and Throat Ck-ar Word comes again from Cali fornia that the foot and mouth disease has broken out again and that six counties are affected. No time should be lost in re-establish ing a quarantine. It would be a great pity to have Oregon cattle contract the disease. Of course the mischief may already be done, but a careful watch at home and an effective quarantine would make assurance doubly sure. We must not get that disease. Luther IJurhank Jias elaborated a prune that is six inches in circumference. Given Salem district soil and sunshine and showers, it will be swelled to at least a foot. This will sim plify the '"business of getting full of prunes, and filling the world full of the Oregon prunes of price and quality. OBJECTIONS MADE A NEW THEORY Oregon is so strong for the Mc-Nary-Haugen bill that we cannot sympathize with tho objections that are being made, j One objec tion advanced . is thi't , the bill should havo been drawn on simpler lines, leaving the market to exist ing agencies and confining the government function to collecting the tax on exporting wheat and re bating it back to American grow ers.; The senate has Just defeated the Norris bill which to all pur poses did that very thing. The McNary bill simply undertakes to relieve a distressful situation. Possibly it should havebeen con fined to the emergency of wheat at this particular time, bat practi cally it is meant as a precedent so that if other industries get in the dumps there will already be a law on tho statute books to meet the emergency. The McNary bill should bn passed and tried out at any rate. We must work out some plan of relieving the depression In parts of agriculture.' - if man is drowning it Is no time to talk of methods of saving hi. It la time, to jump In and pull him out. That is the wheat situation. It la time to Jump In nd puij the wheat farmers out. ) AGAIN DANGEROUS A LAW UNTO ITSELF The republicans of Benton coun ty assembled at Corvallis and re solved on a pre-convention gath ering to name a ticket. Certainly they will think belter f that. The democrats thought they would try this but abandoned it. Of all peo ple the republicans ought to up hold the spirit of the law. This is no time to rock the boat. Richmond School Pupils Enjoy Poem About Spring Since these earthquakes have become so common, science has tried in vain to offer a solution It has remained for an old colored man to find a theory that is most promising of all. He says that so much oil has been taken out ot the earth that the axis has become dry and hot boxes have caused the dis turbances. We commend , this theory, but let the colored brother tell it himself: : t -? "' "We has received anuder warn in' not to go pesticatin' into do ways ob Providence. De earf, my breddren, revolutes on its axles. ?ud it takes? a right smart ob grcae to keep it lubbricated. So de fcood Lawd done put petroleum inside re earf to keep ro axles greased. "Den, bye and bye, 'long came all deso hyah He companies, punch- in holes in de ground clear down Into de bearin's, and quensecontly all de lie come squlrtin' out. Fust thing we know dcre'a a hot box, and de oarf squeaks and rumbles and dat's de earf quake. If dey don't quit t purty soon dere won't be" no moan grease left and de earf will stick tight on Its axles and won't go 'round no moah! Recently the Oregon States mar, published a poem by Miss Audred Bunch at the head of the society column. M'ss Bunch is in receipt of the following note of appreciation: "Dear Miss Bunch: Please ac cept this little note as an expres sion of appreciation from my pu pils for your poem published in the Statesman on March 21. The poem was learned and then each cnlld wrote a note, then one was chosen to be sent. When you know that each little band was laboriously trying lo make his note the best so it could be ser.t you will pprhaps realize its value to them. We thank you kindly. "Yours truly, ; I- "MRS. BURCH." Accompanying the above letter the following from ths pupils was Jnclosed: "Miss Audred Bunch: Our teacher found your poem about Spring In the paper. She liked it so well that she brought it to school for us to learn. We are enjoying it very much aud thank you for the poem. "Yours1 truly, "Pupils of 1 A and 2D grade, Richmond School." CHAPTER 135 HOW MADGE EVADED A DANGEROUS QUESTION My father's address! At this request from the lips of the mysterious foreigner who bad come to my aid upon the delayed and darkened train, and who said that he was a friend of my father's I involuntarily stiffened into sus picion even though his request on the face of it appeared to be only a ruse to divert the curious attention of the other passengers in the car. But I was on guar,d definitely. I wondered if perchance his pres ence on the same train with me was a deliberately planned thing, in order to become possessed of that carefully guarded secret, the address by which my father might be reached by me only in the gravest emergencywhen he was engaged in his secret trips for the government. Not that I needed to be on guard against giving up that sec ret. I could not imagine any com bination of circumstances which would permit that information to pass my lips to any one save an other accredited agent of the gov ernment, like Lillian or Allen Drake. But the request made me suspect the motives of the man who had asked it, and revived again the uneasy feeling I had concerning him ever since his en trance into the train. I let no hint Of my alarm es cape me, however. Fortunately, I had in my memory an address in Washington which always had been my father's ostensible head quarters, and I dictated it, slowly, painstakingly. "You will find him there," I said, "or if he is not there, any message you leave will be prompt ly forwarded to him." He wrote it down as if much j depended upon the accuracy of his transcription, then he looked at me and I felt as though the eyes behind the thick glasses were gim leting my pretense. And I was sure was not mistaken as to the sar donic little quirk to the mustached lips. Madge's Suspicion Grows. "My felicitations to your father. Mme. Graham," he murmured. You are as discreet as you are quick-witted. But, listen the train is moving!" It was indeed true, and for a few seconds I forgot ,my disturb ing reflections concerning the mys terious foreigner in the joyous an ticipation of being carried out of the terrifying tunnel. But it was a short-lived hope, for the train lumbered groaningly along for a few feet, then stopped, while the motor gave a few discouraging thumps and also ceased function ing. Died at first!" A man near the front of the car chuckled appre ciatively at his own gibe, and the men seated near him laughed per functorily. The voice of the little girl whose mother was keeping her occupied with wagers on the start ing of the train carroled triumph antly: "That's another penny you owe me, mother," iind the mysterious foreigner smiled benignly at me. "The wonderful artlessness of a child." he said. "Which reminds me. Your own little one is well after his terrible experience of the spring?" "Very well, indeed." I returned and my suspicious wonder increas ed. The man knew and had filed in his memory altogether too many facts about me for the alien stran ger he professed himself to be. "Pardon me, I can guess that you do not wish to talk about so terrible a happening," he went on, and my mind fastened mechanical ly upon the distinctly American "guess," and as mechanically filed it away for future consideration, "but I have grandchildren of my own" did I imagine it, or was there another amused little quirk to the lips beneath that white mus tache, "and. naturally, horror seizes me at any mention of a kid napping. And when I read the account of the outrage upon my old friend's grandson 1 was in South America at the time, and the papers reached me after the whole thing was over I was ter ribly shocked, and I always have been curious about it. The papers said that the man who did it was killed, and his accomplice received a long prison sentence, while there was mention of a woman who es caped. But her identity was not revealed. I have wondered often tell me was she not the guid ing spirit in the affair?" If your nostrils are clogged and your head stuffed because of ca tarrh or a cold, get Ely's Cream Balm at any drug store. Apply a little of this pure, antiseptic, germ destroying cream into your nos trils and let it penetrate through every air passage of your head and membranes. Instant relief. How good it feels. Your head is clear. Your nostrils are open. You breathe freely. No more hawk ing or snuffling. Head colds and catarrh 'ield like magic. Don't stay stuffed up, choked up and miserable. Relief is sure. Adv. I discuss that terrible blasting epi sode which had shattered my health and nerves for so long. "I hare reason to believe so," I answered. "But you will pardon me, I cannot refer to that time. It is too horrible." "Oh!" he exclaimed contritely. "A thousand pardons! I will not offend again. It must have been indeed horrible for you. If only " He shut his lip quickly as if he had been betrayed into saying something he had not meant to uter. And again the convictioon forced itself upon me that if I could only pierce the mystery of those thick-lensed glasses I would make a startling discovery. (To Be Continued.) EDITORIALS OF THE ' PEOPLE Things To Do The Boys and Girls Statesman The Biggest Little Taper nl tho World Loads ' of Faa Copyright, 1923, Associated Editors. Edited by John M. UlOn, PETER Pl'ZZI.E SAYS Curtain a church community and get a gay city. Double curtail again and get a standard of value. Curtail a scarf and get a choke. Double curtail again and get an article of apparel for warming the hands. Curtail a crayon and get a sticky substance. Curtail again and get that which is gone forever. Double curtail an alcove and get to breathe heavily. Curtail again and get a vesstl used in cooking. Double curtail the organ of taste and get a verb meaning to lift with pincers. Curtail again and get a standard of weight. Curtail again and get a preposition. Randy Riddle Says If an English teacher is a book worm, what is a geometry teacher? Answer to today's word puzzle: Parish, Paris, par. Muffler, muf fle, muff. Pastel, paste, past. Pantry, Pant, pan. Tongue, song, ton, to. AN ARITHMETIC PUZZLE IF BILL READS THREE PAGES WHILE 3DHN READS FWE,WHER WILL BILL vt WHEN JCWN IS CN 75? Salem Streets Editor Statesman: In this morn ing's issue you quote me as saying that our streets are 99 feet wide, as the result of using the survey or's chain, which was 99 feet in length. What I aimed to say, and What I think I did say, was that our streets are one and one-half chains wide. Gunter's chain, the one used in America, consists of 100 links, and is equal to 66-feet; so 66 feet and 33 feet make 99 feet. The blocks were five chains wide by five and one-fourth chains long. The one-fourth was used for alley, leaving the lots two and ii-half chains long, and where they were cut into eight lot3 each, were made 82 feet wide, or one and one-fourth chains wide. Where the blocks were cut into ten lots they were one chain, or 66 feet wide. The chain was, no doubt, a very old one and the links badly worn. When wo consider that 500 links measured the side of a block it is readily seen that a very little wear Answer to today's riddle: A geometry teacher i3 an angleworm. Answer to today's picture puz zle: When John Is on page 73, Bill will be on page 45. STORIES OF PRECIOUS JEWELS Queen of Gems, the Diamond The queen of precious stones Is the diamond. It is of greater value than any other precious stone, and is undoubtedly the most beauti ful. The most desirable Is of a pure white hue, but it is found in pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, brown and black. Diamonds have their main source in South Africa and their variety depends upon the mines from which they come. There are found most of the exquisite while jewels and the rare, unusual specimens. The Indian diamonds were un doubtedly the first diamonds to be discovered and are of a hard, steely brilliance. Colored diamonds are found in large numbers in Borneo, while New South Wales produces small, extremely brilliant stones which are very costly. Is Hardest Mineral Diamonds are of great import ance in the manufacture of other precious stones. Because the diamond is the hardest of all mine ral substances, its dust can be used effectively on the other stones. It ' cuts, polishes and slices other gems. The. edge of a crystal is rounded and used to cut and en grave glass and steel. The black diamond Is used for boring hard rocks. Diamonds are cut in several ways. Two diamonds are securely fastened and rubbed together un til each has obtained the desired shape. A "rose-cut" diamond, is one which is flat underneath and topped by 12 or more little facets, the. uppermost ending in a point. A "table" diamond has a large, square face on top, Burrounded by four smaller facets. Brilliant Is Popular ( The, "brilliant" cut Is the most modern, and shows off the beanty of the diamond best. It is eat . in faces both at top and bottom, the principal face of which Is flat. There are 58 faces altogether,1 Jl on the top and 24 on the back. A very slight Imperfection may, , greatly lower the value ot the diamond. j . Many curious superstitions are connected with the diamond. ' It was believed to ' be magnetic, to strengthen poisons, and sometimes to be capable of driving away mad ness. The diamond was believed to influence its wearer to he good and brave. It Is especially lucky for all persons horn in April to wear diamonds. The illustration shows how dia monds were once used in England to make frames for painted min iatures and 'cameos. in the links would materially lenthen the chain. This accounts for the fact that all the lots over run the original measure. The chain used was probably one brought out from England during the Colonial days and brought across the plains in the early 40's. Possibly Allio Moores might give us the history of that chain. W. T. RIGDOX. OAC Party Is Enjoyed By.Silverton People SILVERTO.V, Ore., March 24. (Special to The Statesman. One of the most distinctive social af fairs of last week was the Silver- ton OAC club banquet to the Sil- genet clarence Harwood of Albany. verion nign scnooi seniors. ine , . . . atmosphere of OAC was given to ! FollowinS the bnqxiet the club the dining and club rooms of the j and its guests enjoyed informal WOW hall by the many penants, ' dancing. light shades, cushions and table runners of the orange and black. These colors were particularly ap propriate as they are also the Sil verton high school colors. Sopho more and junior girls assisted with tho serving. Frank Riches, president of the Silverton club, acted as toastmas ter for the occasion. Miss Eleanor Adams, president of the senior class, responded. Theodore Hob art spoke on "College Life," Al bert Hobart spoke on the alumni. Dean Peavy of Oregon Agricultur al college, spoke on higher educa tion. Out of town guests were Dean Peavy, Da-w in Peavy, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hobart of Port land, Miss Marion Chase of Eu- FUTURE DATES I March 27, Thursday County Commas-. ity federation to mwt lit Hilem Heiphti. March 28 to 30 lli-Y boy convea-: tion in Salem. April 2, Wednesday Democratic ean- . didates for United State senate to b entertained at dinner Marion hoel. April 7, Monday First Annual Iadinc , night, American legion. McCornaek halL ! April 12 and 13, Saurday and Sunday; no.aK.lt S.lm r. Votiin t CtvtnrA nark - April 13, Sunday Kranjelistic earn- paiKn opens at armory. April 17, Thmr.day Annual inspecios (Company r . lond iniantry. April 19, Saturday Dediratioa at atatue "The Circuit Rider," . ia ataU house grounds. . I, May 18, Friday Primary eleetios it jf Oregon. r - al convention tnets in Cleveland. June 14, Saturday Annual Mario! Connty Sunday School picnic. . June 24. Tuesday' Democratic natioa al convention meets in New York. June 27-28 Educational conference '. rtniverdity of Oreon. Ena;ena. R e a d the Classified Ads Cap'n Zyb CIGAU BOX FIDDLE Any fairly good-sized cigar box can be made into a fiddle which will play a real tune. Take off the hinged top of the cigar box, put a neck on the box, fix up a bridge, CIGAR BOX FIDDLE PEG FINGER CIGAR eox yySTR NG 1 Perhaps they tall them musical comedies Jecans.e the music Quite often is such a joke. ..- and run a regular violin string from one end oi the box over the bridge andriTp along the neck. The ! string should be fastened to the movable peg at the end of the neck so the fiddle can be tuned. Use a regular violin bow to play this instrument. The negroes down South used to, and still do, make lots of these fiddles, and how they can play them! The only thing which you will need in order to play a simple tune will be a little practice. Of course, you can't expect to be a Kreisler or a Mischa Elman right orf the bat. CAP'X ZYH. "If Only " There was something inscru table in his voice, which had hard ened perceptibly as be talked. It was almost as if he had a personal antagonism toward the miscreants who had taken my boy. And there was an almost malevolent eager? ness In his list question. , . " But not with this stranger could Ford Given Poire ThU jatsle Win TOtt Frlee f aa is I at I 8 IS 8 12 I 92 ! S Th fiKurea represent correiipond Injr letters in ths alphabet Fig ure 1 Is A, 2 In n. nd o on. The ten fig-tire ppell three word. What are the wnrdu? To Mas, Women, Boy tad dlrls All can hare in the.r eauy-to-wln prize. enfl the three worda on eheet of paper, neatly written, with your name and addrens. First prize, 19S4 FORT TOURING CAR. Besides this vplendid first prize we are going to give away thirty-nine other prizes. Sa4 Tour Aarwer Act Quickly .THB 7ACTTXO KOaCEBTXJLS 809 . Commercial St Halem. Or. "I Came in Reply to Your Advertisement in the Or egori Statesman." Every day scores of efficient workers tell this to employers seeking competent help. The "Help Wanted" and "Situations Wanted" ads in the Statesman are the great meeting place of employer and employee. Through them, employers quickly obtain the exact type of man or woman needed. Competent workers locate good jobs. When you are looking for efficient workers or for work advertise in the