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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SATURDAY, MORNING, AUGUST ttO, 1924 Iaauad Daily Except Monday by THE STATE SMAK rrBUSHIHO OVXTAM. SIS South Commarclal 8t, Salam, Orafoa B. J. Ilandrirka 'a I. Brady . ,Vaak Jaakoaki Editor KEMBXB OT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS j Tha Aiioetated Preaa la xelnaiTaly entitled to the aa for rmbli-atjoa of al. awa diapatckea credited to it or not therwiaa eraditad Id thia paper aao also tae local iiwi peblianed nereis, i ; BUSINESS OFFJCK: . " , --. Thomas F. Clark Co New York. 141-145 W-nt 3th 8t.; Chicago, Marinette Baild- lif, W. a. urothwani, Mp. . (Portland Offico, 838 Worcester Bldg., Phone 6637 BRoadway. O. T. William. Mgr.) Boiiaeta Office Kawa JJapartmant l TELEPHONES: - 3 1 Circulation Office IS-lOA Society Editor lob Department - - 583 - i 583 106 Entered at the Poatoffieo la Salem, Oregoa. aa aeeoad-elaae nattar. BIBLE THOUGHT AXI PRAYKU I Prepared by Radio BIBLE SERVICE Bureau. Cincinnati, Ohio. If parents will hare their children memorta the daily Bible selections. It will prove a priceless heritage to tbera H. alter year , '.- ' - August 30, llTit I LAW OF LOVE: rLove worketh no ill to his neighbor: there fore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 13:10. j .PRAYER: May our love, O Father, be such in power and prac tice that all men shall know that we are the children or uou. WHY THE METHODIST CHURCH?, ; A prominent member asked thewriter why the-Methodist church was 'singled out in this corner of The Statesman of yester day in the appeal for a perpetuation of the Willamette Pageant and the preservation of the hjstorie j memorials here of the beginnings of civilization in the Oregon Countrv - And the answer is that it so happened that the Methodist church was the one to send the first missionaries to what is now Salem; locating their first buildings on the Willamette riv?r at a point below Salem, on "Mission Do.ttom," and later erecting the.' first dwelling on the site of Salem, on Broadway, the exten sion of North Liberty street, near Mill creek, where they also built the first saw mill and flouring mill- j " .So the Methodist church" is the church to lead off in this rnnst. imnnrtnnt nrnipp.t i .! i. . And the writer is not a member of the Methodist church. Another thing: What is everybody's business is nobody's business. Some such organization as the Methodist church; more, some devoted man or woman, must take the lead in this project, else it may as well not be started, and it would be a failure or an indifferent success if started. One lone newspaper reporter, John Stephen McGroarty, one single voice in a wilder ness of indifference, started the now great Mission' Play project iear Los Angeles in Calif ornia. - He wrote the play. He put it on. He continued the work, from very small beginnings, day end night, i He attracted a few supporters by his devoted en thusiasm. Then wore and more-- S . I . . , And now the wide world knows of the California Mission Play, and many in far places know of California only through this play; and money is being showered upon McGroarty from every country of the world to be used in constructing magnifi cent buildings to give the play a suitable home j : . And more. than this; the spirit engendered there for the preservation of things dear to Californians is growing and growing, and other old Spanish missions in that state are being preserved and historic sites are being given attention ; and even forests and individual historic trees are being guaranteed against destruction! and passed on to posterity. j ' ' The man or woman to take up the perpetuation of the Willamette j Pageant here and the preservation of our historic memorials need not be one of great renown ; but he or she must be one of great devotion; with honesty of purpose; with the enthusiasm; of a burning zeal. j- i The home of McGroarty was burned. He said San Ysidro,' the patron saint of homes, nodded one night, and was off watch, and the fire came. Friends in many places sent him money to Rebuild his "little high house" in the green Verdugo hills. But lie replied that his home was insured and he devoted all the inoney to forward construction work on the buildings for the Mission Play. -'' . ' ' . -'- '-"j r . 4- , ;.:v". I McGroarty asks nothing for himself ; not even glory? he asks all for his beloved California. It might have been written of him:" : j " , - - ! ' ' " ; . -. - "Work, thou, for pleasure; J Paint, or sing, or carve, the thing thou lovest i " ' tho' the body starve; . j ""'7Tj."l. He who works for glory, misses oft the goal; -". He who works for money, coins his very soul ; ' ' Work for the work's sake, and it may be ii ; That these things shall be added unto thee. " The project for a. pageant and for the preservation of our memorials here must have a leader with the spirit of a Mc- Groarty." And this lea'der must: have the definite backing of the great Methodist church. This combination would bring the backing of the Congregational church, the Baptist church, the 1 Catholic church and the other churches that were active in our ! early pioneer development; and it would enlist the aid of Salem people and of people all over this coast, and throughout the ( United States, and in all the civilized countries of the' world, and on the mission ields; members of those churches, and men . and women of other churches and of no church affiliations. , But there must' in the beginning be some man or some ; .woman worthy and capable, and he or she must have the definite t support of some great organization known to be likely to endure throughout the years. . i ; : i. recently, modestly retiring when she became the center of attrac tion. Just when we were al looking at Mars and trying to get a line on It we find it disappear Ing fading j away t into almost nothing. It j is a great pity be cause we were beginning to estab lish relations with Mars and to have a whaling good time specu lating on things that could not be proved orfdisproved. , THE OXE ISSUE The republican party has cleaned house. Every man who was charg ed with being derelict in office was indicted or driven out of pub lic life. That cannot be made an issue. There is Just one issue In this campaign and that is econ omy, retrenchment. Is It suppos able that John W. Davis, an aristo crat, should inaugurate and prac tice economy. He lives in the most' exclusive residential district around New; York. Who could give the country a more economl cal government ban Calvin Coolidge, who has always lived in a rented house and a few days over a year ago was debating seri ously whether or not he could buy a flivver. Davis knows, nothing of the burdens of common people. Coolidge has always been poor. has never lost his touch for the people, with economy always an issue in his home. Unnuestionably t l a a " L . m m a. iuoiiuge is me man ior ine great masses of the people to trust. TO ItETItEXCII France has at last decided to use some business sense. When the war was ended France was drunk with power. It thought It would never have to work any more; it expected Germany to sup port the government for the bal ance of Its life. After months France settled down to work. Af ter still more months France has decided to retrench In public ex penses. They have maintained an army pf over 700,000. They subsidized Poland, but they did not pay the interest on their public debt. If France gets down to business and uses any economical sense it will get on its feet in a few years. LOOKS LIKE MURDER We are sorry that ". Governor Pierce lifted the quarantine on deer hunting, The effects of the rain are over, the forests are dry, but the worst feature is that the deer are congregating around the drinking holes. It is not sports manship to kill them. It is slaugh ter. A man cannot help but kill them the way they are congre gated. We wish there was some way for Governor Pierce, to re Issue his proclamation and pro tect these deer. ANOTHER DISGRACE The Wineberg case is simply one more case added to the scan dal In prohibition enforcement in Oregon. ; This venturer came out here without credentials, ' over- persuaded the Oregon officials and got away with $8,000 of our mon ey. There is no telling how much tribute he levied on the liquor in terests. It appears now that he is a crook" without character, who would stop at nothing. Some of these days there will be a reckon ing of this law enforcement. You cannot enforce a law by putting characterless men in important places. . 1 . i EXIT ANOTHER BUSINESS GETTING BETTER t J, ji There is no mistake now that business is improving. Everything indicates it. There are activities where there used to be sluggish ness. The loading - of cars is around ' the million 'mark each : 'week. The figures are interest ,'ing because they represent normal, solid prosperity in contrast with the under-healthy stimulus of war ' business. At last, after many years our "adjustments have been made and lour Industrials foundations are sound. In July this year loadings , took an upward turn with 910,000 cars for the week ended July 12; ( 920,000-for the week ended July 26; 9 43,000 for the week ended , August, 2; and 942,000 for the ( week ended August 9. Authori . ties now expect that car loadings : will ; steadily approach the mil ; lion mark; reaching it probably early In. September. As there is no more depend able indicant of general Industrial anl business conditions than the .volume of car loadings, these gains show that the tide of pros perity is Tunning in this country approximately as full as it ran during the unprecedented flood t ! 3 e v t 1 9 2 3. -;- - ;: -v . i ' RECALLING JULES VERNE The previous generation was thrilled as well as astonished at the imagination displayed by Jules Verne, a French writer; He had one book called "Two Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." People were loath to read It because it was so preposterous, yet we have had submarines for several years, doing precisely the things Jules Verne outlined. Then he made a trip around the world in 80 days. People were thrilled with Jt. They never thought It would be possible to make it practical. The world fliers are just completing this, and while they have been many days on their journey the flying time has been only a few days. Jules Verne with his submarines and his elow way of circum-navigating the globe are old fashioned and out of date.; We must have some new literature to make a thrill in that line.; : : IV : RUN AWAY 3 1. MIS ;. Mars has always been regarded as masculine the embodiment of strength and power.; Possibly that Is true, yet certainly it hasn't been running true to form; rather has Mar displayed feminine qualities ine scieniuic "world is becoming bold now and is proclaiming that the Japanese current, which we have cherished so long, is a myth. They declare that this supposed current is simply the regular course of the water and that there is no such thing as a Japanese current. We are un-learning a lot of things that we took great pains to learn, but it is all right if we are finally to get at the truth. : : ' SCORE OXE There has been a consolidation of an Oregon firm and a Califor nia firm. Unusual as It appears, the headquarters of the combined firms will be In Portland. Oregon. California has over-played its hand in demanding that Oregon be a commercial tributary to that state. But the reaction has not been as pronounced as circum stances warrant. ; OUT OF THE WAY-PLACES ; v It is good to open up the for ests. It Is good to make resorts, but we must not forget that out-of-the-way-places are a great joy to tired men. .One reason why hunting is so popular is because it takes men back to the primeval. They get off the beaten paths and travel where man seldom travels. MAX OP C3 WIXS DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 29. II. C. Deck, an unpretentious little carpenter of Plymouth, Ohio, won the grand American handicap trophy at the ATA traps at Van dalia this afternoon." He is C. years of age, the oldest man ever known to win the diamond, trophy. BOOGER BOOS By Daisy Baker. Hay -Onc't when I wuz a little boy, An' useter run away When my ma wuz busy, An sent me out to play. She always told me to be good, An min what I'z about. Or else a BOOGER BOO might :. come ' An' cut my eye-balls, put! It useter keep me scared to death An always mindin ma. An' kep' me bringin in the wood An doin chores for pa, 'Cause every time my thoughts -;y wuz bad, "" I never had a doubt, f r But I that the BOOGER-BOOS y might come f An cut my eye-balls ontr" I heered my pa, the Other night When I'z behind the 'door. Say he wuz skeered as anything, An.' likewise mighty sore. That queer things wuz a-bappenin In this country round about. That BOGUS BOOZE had just ..about , ; Cut his High-Balls out! In GooI ShatM! Income Tax Collector (to the atre ; owner): "I believe your statement, but I MUST see your figures.", , if- Theatre owner: jp'Then you should have gone to the dressing rooms not to the box-office." Mrs. Bernard Hahn i , A Probable Exception "A scientist says, here in the paper, remarked Mrs. Fumble- gate. In the midst of her reading, "that in five years more we'll all be flying." V 5 . "Maybe some folks will be, but not my hired man," i responded Farmer Fumblegate. -h- "He'll do well to crawl, let alone fly." Etiquette For Eaters Folks at table are not lonely Park your legs on your side only, & " ?.'.'.' "'S'.-lt' ' One's appetite one loses One's heart-beats start to miss When someone near one uses His knife for emphasis.; !!":-.; . ; Some table cut-ups are alright. If they are clever and polite; But I am apt to get the fits When someone cuts his meat in bits. " i Edmund J. Kiefer J You Never Can Tell Man: "Now I don't know much about you flappers, but when was your age " Flapper: "You were never my age. I'm fifty-seven, and a grand mother! Ralph Roberts Air Mail Aviator (to pilot): "Slow down over there, Jim. My girl lives .on that farm, and want to drop her a line." The one piece bathing suit the girls are wearing may have no hooks, but they certainly don't lack for eyes! ; i; The Fun Shop Hall of Fame ' We nominate for The Hall of ramelMrs. Rosalio , Barker be cause she has attended thirty-five wedding receptions in her life, and never oace has she lifted up a piece of! silver to see how heavy it was. J : John ; Martin Cowley because though he has been an after-din her speaker for eighteen years he has never once begun his speech by remarking that' the previous has reminded him of the story of the two Irishmen. Walter Torrey because when, on June 28, 1924, his wife depart ed for the country, he remember ed -to see that alt the electric lights were turned off, the tele phone discontinued, the milkman notified ! to stop bringing milk. the windows all locked, the ice man ordered to bring no more ice. the cereals and other! perishable food taken over tpj '.'mother's," and the neighbor's children bribed not to mark up the fence during the summer. A S Matter of ' Degrees A friend was congratulating Farmer Diggs upon his son's grad uation from college.- "So Frank has tonic out a Ph. D., has he?" . , "Mebbe so," replied the fond parent, "but, ye know, things sometimes gets turned around. Seems to me like he's come out a D-rh." : . , - Alice A. Smith Tho meaning of S. O. S. on an excursion boat. SAVE OUR SEATS. Alonsr Cam1! Ruth! "What will my little Ruthie do when Grandma is very old and is taken away by the angels?" "I won't let the angels take you. granny,' replied the: five-year old Ruth. "I'll tell Dad to have you stuffed." The Gabber "Half of . the pleasure of a vaca tion is in telling about it after wards." said Tarklngton. who had just got back from a Jaunt. "H'm!" returned J. PI Gloom, "you appear to be a regular glut ton for fun." . The' Jlnfflc-Jangle Counter Youth is bound to. have Its fling; Shutters have a wicked swing. : Elsie Furness. . a Jo'- Ships their : harbors try t,o win; Fighters spar and sail right In. Gertrude Heller. . . j The melancholy ; days have' come. The saddest of the year. My summer suit is all worn out. And winter isn't here!! Neil Xelson , - i Worries hurt and vex and harry; Moving vans have loads to carry Doris Kremer. ; , . -j Into the grinder fell our pup; You never sausage cutting up. ; Fred Cruse. Kings of Smokej Anna; "What sort of Is Kate?" i i Belle: "Sot so good smoke rings around herj" Harold a smoker I can Judell. . It loesnt Pay Helen: "Do you believe In mar ry ne for monpv?" , . Jane; "No It's bad business." Norma Talmadge. The Editor's Gossip Shop We have had some letters asking why we run jcontribu tions from certain contribut ors more than once. , re are not' concerned with the contributor as much as with his contribution, and, if the contributor can 'hit the nail on the head" six days a week he can "make'f this de partment six dayg a week. The same applies to you. We shall be only too gladi -and we speak most sincerely to ac cept as much of youi material as possible if what jyou send in is the type we can use.. Do your fun-shopping early : : ; 1 ! NEW CORPORATIONS I i The following articles of incor poratlon were filed yesterday: Natwick, Inc.. Medford; incor porators. Orble Natwick, Isabel Neff, Porter J. Neff, Thomas swern; capital, ? 5, 000; merchan Silver Blue Fox Farm, Inc.. Jen nings Lodge; incorporators. G. W Permele, George A. Klinski, D. S Parmele; capital, $10,000. ,. Wite-Lite Sales corporation of Portland; incorporators, Lewis J Bronaugh, George E. Pendergass, Alice Agler; capital. 15,000 Morris Plan : company. Inc., of Portland; incorporators, N. A Nielsen, M. jGotthardt, M. C. Ru bin; capital, $50,000. MIT MARRIAGE PROBLEMS Adele Garrlson'e ivew REVELATIONS OF! Phase of A WIFE Copyright by Newspaper Feature Sarvica CHAPTER 255 WHAT THE ACCIDENTAL GUESTS DEMANDED AND ' COMMANDED. I - - Just what game, was illarry Un derwood playing? This was. the question that said itself over and over in my brain as, with my sup porting hand upon the arm of the young girl I had just brought into the house from the ; automobile wreck, I followed Lillian up the stairs to her room. Rarely, I reflected. I could one find a more bizarre situation than this, with Lillian and this girl both ignorant of the fact that the elder woman's recreant husband and the object of the younger woman's romantic adoration were the same person. And it devolved upon me to keep them, both in Ig norance. So I postponed my rcflec tionj upon the character of llarry unaerwooa b scnemes until 1 haq decided how best to! preserve his assumed Identity. "She Can't Rest Here" - ' i With the opening-, of Lillian's door, however, I found myself plunged into a maelstrom of ex cited talk, as their father and mother greeted, their daughter. This effectually banished all in trospection and retrospection, and made me come perilously near to losing my temper in childish. futile fashion. ; "Are you sure you're all right. Helen?" the mother demanded. "Why! You're letting her stand alone by herdelf!" ! She turned on me as accusingly as if I had been a; paid attendant, derelict In duty. I made her no answer, but turuecji to help Lillian move an army cot made soft and comfortable with gayly-colored blankets and pillows to a position near the bed where the captious mother was- reclining. "If your daughter wishes to lie down." Lillian said, ""she may rest. here." .: : . ."'" "Is there no hed. the man de manded pompously, "where she cab be comfortable?" !' "Where is Junior?" I turned to Lillian. . - : . j "In Mother Graham's room," she replied. "I turned Mariocn and Junior over to her."- - ' i "Then," I turned to the man, "your daughter may come into my room if she wishes." "That is more like it," he re torted. "And, we must have a doc tor at once. No one knqws what injuries any of us may have sus tained.1 Please telephone the near est physician, as well as Dr. X. from Southampton. Then we will have some attention right away." "Oh! if I could only see Dr. Y," the woman sighed, and her hus band responded promptly. "Why, you shall! Just telephone New York while you're about it. Here! j I'll give you the address and the money." 'j "There is no telephone In the house," I said frigidly, for my nerves! were getting frayed by the man's impertinence. A. Way Out I "No- telephone! No telephone !" he repeated with an air of having discovered me in the unpardonable sin. "Well! you will have., to go after the nearest doctor, and tele phone: the others on your way. How about the car? Will It start or cah that taxi man get his fliv-j ver started?" ' "I do not think either car ' is usable just now," I returned. His irritation exploded into an oath for which he made no apology- . ! i;- '--.- i - - "But you must have some kind of a car here," he said. "AH farm ers have; generally, -You certainly can go to the nearest telephone in it. Look here, my dear woman" he evidently misinterpreted the amazed look I game him "we ex pect to pay, and pay well, for any service you may give us. i So please hurry up that doctor call, and see that my wife and daugh ter have some tea or" "Look here, my. dear man." I interrupted him briskly, imitating as nearly; as I could his pompous tone and manner. "You are mak ing a slight mistake. There is no service to be obtained in this house for payment. You have thrown upon our hospitality by accident, and we will try to make you as comfortable as possi ble until you can get away". you will kindly change your tone manner while you But are -fr and your here." "But," I he stammered. "I I can't accept cnything without pay ing you for it " , "Then you .will kindly remove yourself and your family from the house at once," I said brusquely, "but I shall very gladly take care of them if they are "willing to ac cept our hospfitality.,' ; ' "Oh, Dad! Don't fe an anointed idiot just because yon were born that way!" his daughter demand ed from the cot where she had thrown herself. TCan't you tell the real thing whin you see it? I'm awfully much -obliged to you, Mrs. Graham, for my-part, and I'll be mighty glad to rest here a bit. I don't .need any other bed than this. Lt's awfully comfortable- Andif you -go for a doc tor, don't you think ypu ought to take Don Ilamvon with you? The once-over - from a pill-singer wouldn't do him little bit of hurt." - '-;'.' ' ' . Despite her crudeness ,1 could have hugged her for the way out that her solicitous thought for "Don Ramon" had given me. (To.be continned) FUTURE DATES I I Aueimt 231 Parifie 0rmnn annual conference. .Center Street Methodiit ebnrch. September 3. Wednesday, Labor dar. ; September. 12, Friday National Ie fenxa day. ' , September 15, Monday, Willamette Bni Terttity opens. September 22-27, Oregon StaU fair. September 17, Wednesday Constitu tion day. September 29, Moudy -Salem public rhoola atart. November 11, Tueaday --Armistice day. Here Is Dr. Frank Crane's Opinion of ; .. . Capt .n 1OO0 By RAFAEL SABATINI 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, some because I want to find out something in them, and some because I like them. 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. ;- :' -' :i: - ;- vR'o., . "Recently I went upon a long journey and spent many days upon the r train and steamboat. Upon this journey I found a book. It was entitled 'Captain Blood,' by Rafael Sabatini. I read it, first languidly, then inter estedly, and at last I went at it as a drunkard consumes his liquor or a child devours sweets. "I passed it on to the other members of my family. Each read it and each was consumed by the same flame that had consumed mer "I do not hesitate to say that this is the best story I have read since The Count or 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 not of its style that I would speak. I : : - : ; ' ' i v 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 hold of a good story every month, something in the' best manner of Con an 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. ii "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. , " . ,1 .. l''N - . :l ; - "The best thing about it is that it is an imposing tale, 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 -, 1 "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. "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 blo.t out all of my surroundings." . , f In order to be sure not to miss any issues of The Statesman while this story is running, 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. 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