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IINDAYlORKlNCi. MClHifl, wrf- 1 w r- 1 to 8 1; I- t; r x f SEVENTYrTHIRD YEAR price five cents' SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH. 30, 1924 I II i. m I IV I I Iftl tfTO IIII1MVCJ pPages it ( SALEM ORBANIZEO i 1 FOB PRAYEB Cottage Prayer Meetings Begin Tuesday and Con tinue Until Revival - For the first time in many years all the Protestant Evangelical Churches In Salem are uniting in a concerted program of prayer. Cottage meetings are to begin on Tuesday next in all parts of the city. No denominational lines will be recognized. Neighbors will meet tot pray. Meetings will begin at 7:30 and close at 8:30 a. m. and will be held each evening, except Church Announcements Will Be1 Found On Page 2 of rPart 3 TODAY Mondays and Saturdays, until the great Evangelistic campaign be gins on Palm Sunday, April 13. Regular church prayer meetings will continue on their accustomed nights. Newspapers will be asked to car ry details daily as to places and leaders for these prayer-meetings. Window cards will be used also to announce the places. Read the papers carefully. Watch for win dow cards. Everybody is called to join in prayer with the neighbor hood. The .city is divided into five districts. Central district is bound ed by D street, S. P. Ry and Mis sion street. Rev. W. C. Kantner is directing this section. North ern District is bounded by D street and Southern Pacific railway. Rev. M. C. Clark is head of this section. Southern District begins at Mis sion street and lies west of 12th street. Rev. C. F. Miller will di rect this section. Northeast district lies between State street and Southern Pacific railway. Rev. R. U. Putnam, director. Southeast District is headed by Rev. C. W. Tibbett and lies between South 12th street and East State street. All who may desire prayer meetings in their homes should call the district leaders in which the home is located. An Ohio Farmer, obliged to lead his cow on the highway, tied a red flag to her tail as a precaution. The Latest Styles in Haircutting and Mar- ; Y celling Are Our; Delight v... We Do Ladies' Barbering That Is ! Fashionably Correct Our nine trained operators are here to give you the best there is in the way of service. The new violet ray for scalp I v and facial work is a part of our work. 1 ; Model Beauty Parlors (Xi-'-j 1 1 2 N. Commercial St. V THE OREGON STATE CAPITOL L t...,,r- tuiTw "'"TiS8TtiTTyr'''''TpT"'' vfc Ml , ? v i ISL . ' , , . , Vi f vr - J-J- . - --r r- . .7;5.''-..; ' '.?M.v- .. ,: 5C J'-I V mk M0'? ; s. mil ' S1MII.W , FILES HDH Incumbent Stands 7 on His Record As Aspirantfor . Another Term- HOME CITY WELL SUIT ED FOR LINFIELD COL LEGE SAYS CATALOG The annual catalog of Linfield college for 1923-24 is oft the fpress, - It 'reveals an enrollment of 270, of Which 116 are men and 154 women. The freshman class shows 100 students. Speaking of the location of the college the cat alog says: The town (McMinn ville) with a population of about 3000. is well suited to be the home of an educational institution of the type of Linfield college. Its people are prosperous and are interested in education." The senior class snows a mem bership of 38 students who will graduate at the June commence ment. "Linfield college is the new name given to the Baptist college at McMinnville, Oregon, hitherto known as McMinnville college. The change was made at" the semi monthly meeting of the board of trustees on January 10, 1922. By this action Linfield college has become a memorial to the life aid work of the Rev. George Fisher Linfield, late principal of Waylaid academy, who in the prime of his years passed away as a sacrifice iipon the altar of Christian educa tion. The memorial was created at the instance of his widow, Frances Eleanor Ross Linfield, dean of women and a member of the board of trustees. To recip rocate the action of the board, and to express her approval of the ideals and work of the college, Mrs. Linfield has desdei to the institution several pieces of real estate in the city of Spokane, Wash., representing a total value of about aquarter of a million dollars." Other statements taken from the catalog are as follows: Lin field college was founded 67 years ago through the foresight and faith of our Baptist pioneers. This institution received a charter from the legislature on January 30, 1858, and has1 continuously devot ed itself to the cause of Christian education. On January 10, 1906, the Rev. Leonard W. Riley, D.D., was elect ed to the presidency of the college: The general assets on January 1, 1924, were $16S,282.65 as against $47,500 in 1906. The en dowment fund has increased from S54.020.21 to $437,537.47, not in cluding Mrs. Liufield's recent gift and the debts of the college, amounting to $34,653.63 in 1906 have all been paid. Further developments are now being planned in regard to build ings and endowment. "Linfield college will receive from the Rockefeller Foundation $200, 000 on condition that $400,-, 000 be raised for the college. In view of our participation in the benefits of the New World move ment of the Northern Baptist con vention and the gift of Mrs. Lin field it is confidently expected that this amount will be raised within the limit of time set by the gen eral education board, that is, be fore November J, 1925. This will bring the total endowment to above $850,000 and justifies the forecase that the million dollar mark will be reached within the next few years." Hard Times in Sea Trade May Be Nearing End (By Mail) LONDON, March 12. The de pression in shipping which began so suddenly in 1920 still prevails but the bottom has been touched with regard to bad freights, said Sir Alan Anderson in his presi dential' address to the Chamber of Shipping. Without wishing to ap pear too hopeful or to encourage anyone to speculate on an early return to prosperity, he believed there was evidence that the posi tion of the British Mercantile Mar ine was improving and that it had profited by the medicine of adver sity. There was still a redundant fleet of vessels in all countries, and sur plus tonnage was one of the two main factors governing freights. No less than 75,000,000 tons, or 12rc of the world's tonnage, was over 25 years old. Sir Alan hop ed they might, without improprie ty, suggest to owners of this im mense mass of obsolete or unsuit able tonnage, that they would be doing not only the world, but themselves, a service if they gave full employment to the shipbreak ers. The other factor governing freights was the world's business. While signs existed that in this nation and in the world trade had touched bottom and was beginning to improve, the. .health of interna tional trade was still precarious. If the patient were left to himself he would pull through, but if an attempt were made to hasten this recovery by stfong medicine1 or magical panaceas, a dangerous re lapse must be expected. Ship own ers would unite in hoping that the governments of the world' would endeavor to? arrange the finance for international trade, to set the stage, and would then leave inter national commerce to work out the result. "LET THE PEOPLfc RULE" What's gone wrong with. Gover nor Pierce since he went to Salem? Has he changed his Views on pol itics? Has he retraced his steps from the attitude taken far years in eastern Oregon when he advo cated "let the people rule?" Oh, that slogan, how sweet it used to sound when the governor with his marked oratory and straight stature so eliquently pour ed forth into the ears of the pro letariat, "let the people rule." But, something has happened, Walter "ain't what he used to be" for in appointing Jefferson Myers to the office of state treasurer, the governor insisted that the commis sion be made out to 1927, the end of the deceased treasurer's term! A general election is to be held this fall when, according to all rules of the game, a new treasurer should be elected to till the unex pired term of Treasurer Hoff. ' Yet the governor "ignores 'that dear old slogan, "let the people rule," and by bugernatorial edict attempts to -continue Jefferson Myers in office over a regular elee tion. Oh, Walter. Walter, has the as sociatlon with those Willamette valley fellows changed your ideas of pure democracy? Heart Ten ding it is, indeed, to see you- an exponent of the people who almost competed with William S. Uren for years turn to the official edict to thwart the will of the peo ple at a regular election L& Grande Observer. ' Treasurer Must Be Elected This Year, Says AttorneY . Attorney General Van Winkle yesterday wrote an opinion upon inquiry by Secretary of State Sam Kozer holding that a state treas urer must be elected this year to succeed the late O. P. Hoff. Governor Pierce appointed Jef ferson Myers Hoff's successor, to serve until 1927, but the attorney general holds that under the con stitution Myers can hold only un til his successor is elected and qualified in the election of this year. i' Sam A. Koht-b -Saturday, fil ed his statement as , a candidate for the republican nomination to -succeed himself as secretary ot state. His slogan is Present see-", retary pt stats. Asks second term ; on hu Vecordii- ; i. His. platform folio wst ! "11 1 am nominated and elected; i I will,, during my. term of office, continue Jo perform the duties oft secretary jot stats in the same care-- ful, conservative manner as in the; , past; apply- the added experience: and knowledge of public affairs to : a more intelligent consideratloon therfebir' continue to serve the peoi-i pie to myf all ability believing;1 as I always have, that ft poblic oK f fetal is, in fact, a public servant; "I ' submit 'my conduct of offH cial dutleB uring the time I havi filled the office as a pledge of! the mannes in-which I shall per-' form them .. should the people.' again honor me by nomination and' election to -this important of f ice.T l Others who filed Saturday were: . , Charles 'JShelton, Baker, or. republlcan'-Tiomination for repre-j sentatlve In the legislature tor the'; 26th representative district, com; prising Baker county. ; John1 u. - Stevenson, Portland? for delegate to the national demo-r cratlc " convention for 1 the thirdt coagressional district, promising:; to support, the Oregon democrat') ic voters'chpice tor president and" vice president. . ?- ' Howard C. GHdea, McMlnnvilleyi for republican nomination, for disr i trict attorney of Yamhill "'county.' Georga ..Thomas,- Portland.', for republican nomination t or state senator from the 13th sen-j atorial district, comprising Mult- nomab, count yv ; .. ' i J. TS. BennetU Portland for -re-, publican nomination for represen tative In. the legislature from the 1 5 th representative district, com prising Multnomah county.. Do.naid XpnusvEugeneIor dem'' ocratlc flbmlhatlon -fot-dlstrict afc ' torneybt Lne cowtyi,4 V ' Walnut Trees Advocated i To Produce jioumy Revenue LODI, CafeMarcji) 19. -jh. H.j Taylor, a lqeal walnut .enthusiast,, has submitted, to tn San, Joaquin County supervisors nd ,thd Auto-! mobile Association a novel" plan for) doing a war with taxes while bean-f tifvtng thefptfbllfi roads. sfTaylor'r, scheme Is to- plant 'walnot'ttees on both sides of the county! highway? at intervals ot J0O Jeet, and to care for them as ordinary shade Itrees. 5 At the end ot ID years, Ify. Tay lor explained,"-"the, county) would t be one ,bf th$- most widely fknown; in the United vSUtea because of the beauty of Its highways and the walnuts would pay aiarge share oft the county's i taxes' and road up-f keep." i y-Wv I 1 The County; has more than 23 Of miles ot roads, practically all pav-f ed. Planted to" -walnuts thb tree, would occnpT-the-ltiiTalemt of a grove of 1S68 acres and Wouldt bear at least 50 pounds ot nuts to each tre at the end. of-10 years, or 13,000,000-pounds which wouldl sell for at least 15 cents a poundj net or $195,000 annually ; " I 4 An Aid to Savings If yoti were able X know jiist how much your living expenses were and how much they will con tinue to be, you would be able to put aside a cer tain an$un$' H.payd, wouldn't you? A checking account here at the United States National gives you ari accurate record of expendi tures and enables you to budget them for the next month. At the same time you can budget so much -for savings, too. Easy, isn't it? 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