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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1924 Iad Daily Eeep Monday ay . j TBS STATES3CAN PT7BU8HTNO 002CFA SIS Boats Commareial 81., Salam, OrafM " it. J. Handrirka ho L. Bradv "Task Jaikoakt . - JCdlur llXUSU Or THE ASSOCIATED rKESS Tha AiaoeIata4 Praaa la azclaaiyaly an titled ta tha bm for pnMiMa nf al. m 4iapatchaa rraditad to it or sot otharwiaa traditad ia ai pa par a ad alao tba loral itai pabliihad hereto, i BUSINESS OFFICE: 1 Tbomaa F. Clark Co.. Now Tortt. 141-14 W at 3th St.; Chlraro. Marqnetta Build- inf. W. S. TflthwaM. Mr'. '(Portland Office. SSS Wo re eater Bid., Phone 6S37 BRnadway. Ci F. Willlama. afftr.) Raataaaf OffW Haws Dapartnaat TTLEPHOKES: ' . 28 Clrca'ation Otim . - SS-106 ;8oiety Kditor Job Department - 6BS - 583 1 08 Entered at tha Poatoffiee U Salem, Qref on. aa aaroad ulaaa matter. r t , BIBLE THOUOTTT AND PRAYER Prepared by Radio BIBLE SKRVICU Bureau, Cincinnati, Ohio, j It parent will have their children memorize the daily BIMe selections. It will prove a priceless Heritage to tnem ir. aiter yer f Atagnst 27, 1D24 i COD FORGIVES AND HEALS:-Bless the I Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: who forgHveth all thine iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruc- PRAYER: Most Merciful God, Thou art of purer eyes than to behold Iniquity and yet .Thou dost daily pardon us, and Thou art sver willing to cleanse and heal the penitent sinner. : i - . - - - ' . A tme eitizerTof a real republic can not exist as a separ ate unattached fragment of selfishness, but must live as a con stituent part of the whole of society,? in which he can secure Lis 'own welfare only as he secures the welfare of his fellow 3c i. AnnlnraA TY-oci1ont rfnnlulft in bis flceeDtance aadress '.And that is a bit of experience taught by our independent form of government that should be commended to those who find themselves too busy on election day to go to the polls and cast a ballot . ; : j . And Oregonians are among I the chief offenders in this l espect. ; v ! At the last election less than half t the qualified voters .throughout the country actually voted. Those who neglected to do so are trying to exist as V separate, unattached fragments of selfishness.' , If their welfare has not been secured as they think it should have been, it is their own fault, for they have made no move to secure the welfare of others. Legislation satisfactory to the majority can be secured, and officials acceptable to the major ity can be elected, only if all the voters take the trouble to record their preference. r I - J l The people of the Salem district are going to be given an opportunity, before long, to get a potato flour and starch and dextrine factory there. They should not neglect the oppor tunity. It will make the cull potatoes worth as much as the others, and it will boost our potato industry as nothing else could.. We will have linen factories and sugar factories, and we should not pass by any opportunity in this fielq. . ;:, noTHEms m tragedy ; ;l (Los Angeles Times.) j Hut nt tha ravril finer rlptnila nf tb Tpnnol1 Jlnd TiOPih rriir.e. out of the slews of confusing psychological verbiage and hair Fplitting testimony of alienists. and counseVanent "infantile emotions" and "mental sickness' and "enlarged inquinal Tnri1o' on 'V?aTnncrwTli!a " on1 oil tVio et nf it nmp rm P poignant, heart-searing incident the grief-stricken, humble sympathy of the mother of the Loeb boy who, in her crushed fchame and abasement, compelled herself tff call upon the mother of the murdered Bobby Franks. 1 " ' . , . , ; Twice she rose in her mortified courage to make that call, only to be denied. A third time she was received. In faltering wretchedness, with bursting heart, she tried to express the terrible sympathy that was hers for the mother of her own boy's dead victim. She had not gone to plead, to make excuses, ior belittle the dastardly crime of her own son. In bitter and sym pathetic humility she had gone ! to make what paltry verbal amends were possible, to express, as one mother to another, her ruthful compassion for the terrible tragedy: her own boy had wrought. ' ':"v.'' V-V"':: " i?: . ' r Ilad Bobby Frank's mother risen up in: her soul-searing wrath, had she shrieked her misery and heaped insult and con tumely upon the mother of her boy's murderer Richard Loeb's mother could have borne, the infuriated lashes in her abashed misery, ; her shamed and tortured sympathy. But here was tragedy; heaped upon tragedy, for Bobby Frank's mother has lost her mind. And coals of fire were heaped upon the wretched woman's head as Mrs. Franks gazed at her in vague and terrible incomprehension and only said, "I am sure Bobby will be coming - back pretty soon. I wonder why he doesn't come hornet" ! Every mother .reading the story of that poignant, nerve wracking interview must shudder in ghastly sympathy for Mrs. Loeb. Thrice unhappy woman. " No fine, ennobling sorrow this -7-but shameful, bitter, abashing ; sorrow that can know, no earthly solace. " . -. ' Fortunate, indeed, is Leopold's mother that she died before this grim and hateful thing could come upon her. The.tragedy of the mothers'that no tears can wash clean.: ALAS POOR RORICK . A short time ago a woman from the so-called effete east said the trouble with Oregon was that it didn't hare any traditions, A lot of fellows went to work and de molished what ones we did have. It looked like a cruel thing to tear down tha mental fabric built up around King Tufa tomb In the Elkhorn, but we accepted It In the interest of science and truth, which are supposed to be hand maidens.. .Now comes - a lot of ether gods being dethroned. The walla of the supposed "bur led city In Thorn lake. In eastern Oregon, which Were thought to be the relics of a forgotten civiliza tion, are not the wprk of human hands, but merely volcanic, for nations, according to a report made by Dr. Varren D. Smith. Dr. Prltir found the walla, which sK..icd to be of masonry, and to foIIo'T regular lines, to he r.crely v.: '. the geologist! call c!as-!2 tildes." These ribs rep x , nt crntA's which In the course " '; ; .t ia filled with -?rf-l r?V.;h walls were built by human beings, but close examination revealed that they did not follow tegular lines similar to masonry walls. An Investigation was also made at Hanna lake because of the' tra dition that salt deposits were to be found. , That was exploded; no salt was found. We must do better than this. If we are going to do anything in the line of tra ditions we certainly made a bad start this year, ' THK GANG SPIRIT The object of the YMCA in Sa lem is to direct tbe gang spirit so that the boys will unconsciously assimilate ideals of fairness and detestation of foulness In ' play. Precisely the same principle Is be ing applied in the hop yards. - It enables the people to entertain themselves . In such a way that they profit from it. ' - . , We have a wrong conception of the gang spirit In boys.' It Is ab solutely an expression of boyhood. The popular conception1 of the "gang" is of a group of reckless j-c!ir:rers ar. 1 ycuns men,' led . -, . -- desired when not engaged In bloody feuds among themselves. The gunmen and assassins of fic tion and the movies have probably given credence to this Idea. It is quite probable that the concep tion is ' erroneous. The gang spirit is an entirely natural thing in healthy, normal boys. , They are gregarious ani mals and' like to run in herds. Every small town has its Hinkey dinks of some variation. Gangs are not necessarily vicious.' They are dangerous in offering the con tact with bad companions. Satan still finds mischief for idle bands to do, and the gang headquarters is often -congenial for the hatch ing of mischief. , PLACES FOR THE BOYS I The; Corvallls Gazette-Times cannot see the new day, the light is so bright ; or the editor is so blind that he cannot see" an inch ahead of his; nose. The Gazette Times knows that in the old days the first business of the office holders was to get places for the boys. We used to have men loaf ing around the statehouse grounds who never worked. : The result was a public reaction. We do have too many boards. And the progressives do not develop these boards. Each board was created for a purpose. It has come to be almost as bad in that respect as It was In the old days. The pro gressives demand house cleaning while in the old days the hoys had to be taken care of. The next legislature must reduce expenses, the people of Oregon are; over taxed for government, and they are demanding relief. The stand pats would let well enough alone they would grin while the peo ple would suffer. A FARM COMMISSION' President Coolldge is determ ined to find some way of going o the bottom of tbe farm troubles. He is going to . appoint another commission to make a thorough economic survey so that he may be informed of the exact situation of thejfarmer. Of course, the con ditions are not bad any, more, but there is liable to be a "recurrence of the same thing again, and the way to prevent this, is to have legislation on the statute ' bookr the same as we have for protect ing the banks. What the reserve act-did for the banks, agricultural legislation can do for the farmer. GUESSIXO OX MARS There are. about as many guess es out on Mars as there are scien tists observing that planet. In fact with anybody and everybody guessing we know mighty little more about It than we did before. It isvgoing to be some time before we establish, relations with Mars, and: the day Is far distant When commercial travelers will put an extra collar in their grips and light out for there, by way of air plane. However, It Is an Interest ing study and where one man's conclusion are Just as good as an other's. In this hot weather It is mighty fine to think that there is a raging snowstorm in Mars. That at least disposes of one thing Mars Is not heaven. r : 'ABIG TOLL Scientists have discovered the awful-' fact that Insects take one tenth of all the products of Amer ica. With our waste Iq . other lines added to this waste it looks criminal for us -not to make a more determined warfare on the insects' which are destroying the country. ; : There must be a continual un interrupted fight; , we must have our scientists earnestly seeking new ways to destroy these insects. We cannot afford to waste a tenth of our profitable production. This Modern Magellan's Dream Is To Encircle ' " 7 , ,:! Globe Alone in His 24 Foot Sailboat, The Shark t 1 - "fx i-'"""'"f f '' ir fx : si i I M 'V'1 i Iff - x- P I I Zif ( j Iv. a - V V. " 1 it .i . i A- ft inrn irrrf nnr w winf - if, wiii mail nil '(iflii'-mfriiirwMir rfmmniir.inii i iiiiriiTiiwifwmiiimnrifin i,i ijimiB m milium iimmimm ii himum, iff Sleeping by day and navigating by night, - Dimetrios Slgelakis hopes to sail around tbe world, a distance of 36,000 miles as he maps his course. Dimetrios, a seaman from the' Island, of Crete, 28 years old, built his craft, a converted life boat with a small box-like cattaj at Hoboken, J This photograph was taken as he was raising the Greek and Amer ican 'flags on the Carcharias meaning "The -Shark, ; at : the Battery in New York, preparatory to leaving for Gibraltar. v PROBLEMS Adele Garrison ivevr Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Copyright by Newspaper Feature Service CHAPTER 252 - With crocodile tears falling down his rugged cheeks, Clarence Darrow pleaded for the Chicago derelicts. He said it wasn't good for posterity to hang them. Bless your soul, Clarence, that is why we are hanging them." Such peo ple must not be permitted In any way to Interfere with posterity. Better if something had happened before they were born. THE X'lTY IS WILLING ' The city is willing to have certain car tracks of the street car system taken up and busses substituted, with a transfer sys tem established. This will save money and still provide us a good service.. It lookes like a very practical change to make. The vacation habit Is being over done. We think.lt is time to draw the line when' the prisoners at the penitentiary start to take theirs. 1 T FUTURE DATES T 'Anrnat 28-81. Pai-lfia Gormait annaal confereaea. Center fetreet Hilhtdlil chnrch. - : . . . THE , WAY MADGE CAME TO RECOGNIZE 'DON RAMON." ; "Say that over again slowly.' My father's voice was sharp, in isive, . altogether foreign to . his, lsual soft, suave tones. J. obeyed; lis injunction at once. , M "This handkerchief either be onga to Grace Draper or was giv ixi or sold by her to some one 2lse," I said. "The embroidery in the corner la her handiwork, I am jertaln." f Let me see It." . He held out his hand, and I put the flimsy, dainty trifle within it. ( Holding It up to the light,: he, scrutinized it closely, laid it down igaln, looked gravely at me, and aaid: ' '.- . "There are many other women who do exquisite needlework. And the design is not an uncommon one. What makes you so sure that it is Grace Drapers handker chief?" "For two reasons," I replied. "First, because I have watched her at work at this particularide- sign so many times. Second, be cause i recognize a aevice wmcn I discovered in ; it years ago. '. If you look at the bit of embroidery in 'just the right iway you willsee that the ' initial 'G' is cunningly entwined . In the four-leaved-clo ver. It is like this " I took up the handkerchief, stretched the embroidered corner taut over my left hand, and with a tiny pencil caught up from my father's table,- illustrated my meaning ,',"1 -see." The words came measuredly, 'Then there can be no mistake. It Is her handker chief. It was in this Don Ra mon's possession. Then he What Is it, daughter?" For I had jumped to my feet. My ears, quicker than his, . had caught a crash as of breaking glass. The next Instant came the sound of feminine shrieking, mas culine objurgation, . the rush ;of feet along the lower floor of the house, and Katie's voice crying: "O-O-O- coom .oveek, everybody Somebody keeled!" "That's Don Ramon." ' My father was Close behind me as I tore open the door and rush ed down the stairs. -: The front d6or stood wide open, and through it I saw Katie running across the lawn toward a big limousine which leaned groggily against the giant elm on the roadway, j and from which the screams were issuing, while directly across the road, the most reckless taxi-driver - In , the section I was crawling, apparently unhurt, from under his overturned light car. ; -- Tt i:; .Halfway down the steps I stop ped, looked at the group of 'peo ple emerging from, the big car, turned and grasped my father's arm. "That's Don ' Ramon Almirex. and the people with him are his host, hostess and daughter," I whispered. "Make some excuse to keep Lillian and Mother Gra ham in the house. -You are the grip upon my; nerves, I hurried down the 'path to the wreck, where Katie was already In effi cient action. jThe chauffeur evi dently had been struck with flying- glass when , the . car: collided with the tree, ! for the blood was running from jhis forehead Into his eyes, blinding him. : That he was; otherwise unhurt, I guessed from the vigor, with which he proceeded to stanch the blood with a towel which -Katie had in her hand when she ran out of the dopr, and which she promptly put to use. 'As I reach ed the gate, Katie skimmed past me on the,, way j back to the house. 1 "Nobody hurt mooch, I guess," she said as she passed. . "But I bring down some hot vater und dot first-aid stuff, not so?" "Of course,"! I said, looked ap praisingly at the group before me, pand decided that the hysteria of the older woman whom her hus band was trying to quiet was gen uine, but that the apparent swoon of the younger woman, whom Don Ramon. was supporting, was a clev er simulation, j I have seen too many fainting persons .to be de ceived. ; At Last the Truth. : ' - I. wasted no time on amenities. I had .gauged the people at my i i .... previous glimpse of them as the type, of newly; rich, who think discourtesy and arrogance to be the A, B, C of : aristocratic de meanor. I would do for them what humanity demanded, but I had no wish to become chatty in the pro cess. " I ,JV ' :,. i , Vr "".'; "Better take your wife up to the house,"' I said to the head of the party. "She can lie down." ' I can't stop . her," he said helplessly; as she struggled in his arms, sending shrieks and peals of hysterical laughter impartially into the air. . "I can," I said a bit grimly, for a woman In hysterics when her child is injured always disgusts me. - And for all the mother knew her daughter might be seriously hurt. Thereforie it was with in ward . satisfaction that I took the richly dressed j woman by the shoulders, as If she were Katie, gave her a quick. Violent shake, and spoke roughly, firmly. ' "Stop this at once, do you hear, and go up to the house and lie down." '' V She gasped as if she had been struck in the face, but her shrieks subsided, and her husband began to lead her toward the house. "My daughter,' the man began. "Don Ramon says it is but a faint." . . - ' "I am sure that's all," I return ed. "I'll see to! her," and as he moved toward the house I turned to the mysterious foreigner. "Lay her flat ion the grass,' I commanded, "and let her .have some air." - . I was looking! straight at him as I spoke, and he must have seen the recognition in my eyes, for aa he obeyed my command and step ped back beside me, he spoke ont of the corner of his mouth, a trick I well remembered. , 1 "Just as you 'say. Lady Fair." and. I realized at last the truth which had been eluding me since I first saw him in the train, and which had flashed upon me while' my father was talking. v .'The. mysterious Don Ramon Al mirez was Harry Underwood! v (To be continued.) CHICHESTER S PILLS Texas Republicans Seek Nominee for Governor HOUSTON, Texas. Aug. 26. After welcoming bolting' demo crats' who quit theirarty follow ing the nomination of Mr3. Miriam Ferguson of Temple for Goyernor of Texas over Judge Felix Rob ertson of Dallas, the republican state executive committee j ad journed this afternoon until to morrow without selecting a nomi nee for governor to succeed T. P. Lee of Houston, who refused to make the race after being nomi nated by the republican state' con vention at Fort Worth. ! j Lions Club Perfects i Silverton Organization ' - : i -SILVERTON, Or., Aug. 26. (Special to-The Statesman.) The Lion club perfected organization Monday night at Silverton with a charter membership of 20. Offi cers elected were: President,! Carl Benson; first vice president). Al bert Webb; second vice president, H. B. Wells; secretary, J. I A.j But ton; treasurer, Elmer Olsenj tail twisters. Axel Larson, L. Cramer, and W. Cooley; board of direct ors. Reber Allen, Pearl McCleary, Alfred Jensen and A. O.iNelson. Nomination Coupon The Oregon Statesman Seaside Competition - ; Good for 100 Votes I nominate as a member of The Oregon SUteeman Seasldi Vacation Competition. . Name ....... Address . . . . . Nominated by Note Only one of these entry blanks will be accepted for any one member. A candidate may be nominated by herself or a friend. - . NOT GOOD AFTER AUGUST 20TII . The Statesman's 1 Great Seashore Contest THIS BALLOT WILL COUNT TEN VOTES For . ; Address ........ Good for ten votes when filled out and sent to the contest department by mall or otherwise on or before the expiration date. Here Is Dr. Frank Crane's Opinion or By RAFAEL SAB ATINI Publication of this great romance by "the modern Dumas" begins in The Oregon Statesman on September 7. "When a man recommends anything he likes to his friends, he is in danger of being a nuisance, whether the particular thing is a kind of smok ing tobacco, a necktie, a brand of religion or a new book. At the same time, . when one strikes something which pleases him immensely, it does not , seem to be quite fair to keep it to himself. ' " ; "I read many books, swarms of them, galaxies of them, oodles of them. I am expected to read them; some because other people are reading them, " 1 some because I want to find out something in them, and some because I like tljem. The.latter, however, are few. To come across a book that takes . one by storm, holds him, fascinates him and gives him that rare intoxica tion that meets the inmost passion, is an event. ; "Recently I went upon a long journey and spent many days upon the train and steamboat. Upon this journey I found a book. It was entitled 'Captain Blood,' by Rafael Sabatini. I read H, first languidly, then inter estedly, and at last I went at it as a drunkard consumes his liquor or a child ' V" devours sweets. ' . ' : 1 - -' : . . i MI passed it on to the other members of my family. Each read it and each was consumed by the same flame that had consumed me. "I do not hesitate to say that this is the best story I have read since The Count of Monte Cristo.' ' "I do not judge of it as literature. All I know of it is that it is good, swift, clean English. But it is hot of its style that I would speak. "It has something more than style, something rare, the rarest thing indeed I know of in writing. It has creative imagination. : "A magazine editor once said to me that he wished he could get hbli of a good story , every month, something in the best manner of Conan . Doyle. I replied to him that his wishes were modest, and that he prob ably failed to realize that out of the billion or so population of the world there were probaby not more than three or four individuals who could create a story, a really fresh, vivid, gripping story. : ; I -Av. i - : ; ' .. ' -: j . :i "In 'Captain Blood' Sabatini has proved that he is one of these few. "It is a story of bucaneering days in the Spanish main, one of the most romantic and adventurous epochs of the world. And the reader is taken into the atmosphere of the time, and is made to realize all its vivid charm, yet skillfully kept from being nauseated by its brutality. "The best thing about it is J that it is an imposing taler a wonderful yarn. The reader is not interested in its descriptions, in its literary values, . in its English, in this or that; he is interested in Captain Blood and before he gets through he is better acquainted with Captain Blood than he is with his neighbor who lives next door. V: !':. & L ':-'-- l : ' ! ' "Whether this is a recently published book or not, I have -not taken ' the pains to inquire. All I know is that I have just read it and I count it ' one of the great books of the world. ; . . ' r "It took me out of myself. It opened a door through which I escaped ' from all the commonplace things of life. I am a thousand years old more or less, and it is very rare that one can tell me a story interesting enough to blot out all of my surroundings." In order to be sure not to miss any issues of The Statesman while this story Is i-unning,; have the paper delivered to your home by telephoning your order to The Statesman. Phone 23, or by mailing a post-card order to The Statesman. If you are out of Salem you can have the paper come to you by mail. Simp ly send in your out-of-town address accompanied by the sub scription price of 50 cents a month. Address The Oregon Statesman 213-215 SOUTH COMMERCIAL STREET . ... 1 "'" MUd J ( ' -MS. V ' 1 i "-a ai -. V " ' f only ono either will heed'