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: 1 THE OREGoN STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1924. Trinity Choir, Members . On Picnic fettChamnoea f SIL.VERTON, Or., Sept. , 2. (Special to The Statesman). Trinity choir enjoyed an exception ally interesting outing In the form f of a picnic Sunday afternoon when f-lU members motored, to Champoeg and spent the day at the historical site of the old town which -was r destroyed by fire so many years f-ago. Following the picnic dinner the remainder of the afternoon was spent In swimming and visit- f Ing the Pioneer Memorial build- L Ing which Is also the home of an f old artist. Theodore Gegouz, who t has some really tine pieces of art I at the building. For six years Mr. r Cegoax has spent his time at ! Champoeg, sometimes painting, r sometimes working with clay, and sometimes entertaining the few ( visitors who wander In and other P times just playing on his violin, la much treasured possession. Mr. rGegonx is now expecting a son V4 from New York whom he expects J perhaps he will make his future rhomg. -- 1 Those going report that through M Aurora, although the way is con j siderably longer, the road is very t much better than the shorter 4 route through. West Woodburn. r BABY PEGGY She is strong for Dessert" Drawn by C' R. Macauley P" '. THL child ws shut ih r : THAT BUR SCOtt. HAP AH - HOW1 YOURE.. OH LOCATION, PEGGY VOO DON'T KNOW ; YIHtRL YOU . ARE. THIS IS OOlMi BE. aooo YO u RE LOST, PEGGY! YOU'RE HUNGRY ON THE GREAT DESERT f VVAKT ICE.CUEAM THAT o WHAT I ALWAYS WAVE FOR MY DESERT I ...... Prunes Quit Dropping . And Most Will be Saved Prunes are not dropping as rap idly as they were lasfcj week and growers are confident ' that they will be able to save the greater portion of this year's crop. Be cause of the fruit dropping it was feared that the driers would be swamped, and some of the fruit would be lost. The recent cool nights have checked the drop of the fruit. ' ; Driers were slowed up a little Tuesday as they have caught up with the first rush of early fruit. Here Is Dr. Frank Crane's Opinion of LL V. an mogi By RAFAEL SABATINI Publication of this great romance by "the modern Dumas begins in The Oregon Statesman ion September 7. 1 , 4 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, seme because I want to find out something in them, and some because I ,like them. The latter, howeyer, arf ew. :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 events "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 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 me. MI do not hesitate to say that this is the best story I have read since The Count of Monte Cristo.' ; , - j . -' "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 ' ; '", '' ' . ". "It has something more than style, something rare, the rarest thing indeed I know of in writing. It has creative imagination. i "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 Conan Doyle. I replied to hint that his wishes-were modest, and that he prob ably failed, to realize that out of , the j 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. T i t "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 chanr, yet skillfully kept from being nauseated by its brutality. "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, fn 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: j " "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 cne of the great books of the world. ; "It took me out of myself. It opened a door through which-1 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. running, have the .paper delivered to your I home by telephoning your order to .The Statesman, Phone 23, or by mailing a post-card order to The Statesman. If you are t 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 l : . . : : .7 :' ; j 1 ' !'- 1 ' : : : li. 1 .. . -i . ' - ,y ' V - : .J , . ; . i ' - : . t - . -. ' The Oregon Statesman 213-215 SOUTH COMMERCIAL STREET but the real rush will get under way the latter part of the week. By the end of next week the krpater portion of the naryest should be at the driers, ' ' -J. I GENERAL MARKETS T PORTLAND, Sept. j 2. Hay: Buying prices: Valley timothy $21; ditto eastern Oregon $23 to $23.50; alfalfa $16 f. o. b.; clo ver $14 to $15; oat hay $16; straw $7.50 ton. Selling price $2 ton more. ; - NEW YORK, Sept. !- 2. Hops: Steady, state 1923," 33c to 38c; 1922. 18c to 20c; Pacific coast 1923, 23c to 26c; 1922, 20c to 23c. PORTLAND. Sept. 2. Grain futures r Wheat, hard white, blue- stem ;and ' Baart, September, Oc tober $1.40; - soft white Septem ber, October $1.33; western white September, October $1.32; hard winter, September, October $1.24; northern spring, September $1.23; October $1.25; western red Sep tember, October $1.23. Oats, No. 2 white : feed, Sep tember, October $32.50; No. 2 gray September, October $36.50. Barley, No. 2, 46 pounds Sep tember; October $37.50; No. 2. 44 pounds, September, October $'37.' ; ;fj " Corn, No. 2 eastern yellow shipment, September, October $46; No. 3 ditto September, Oc tober $45.50. Coolidge Does Not Belong to Klan, Secretary Says NEW; YORK. Sept. 2. Presi dent Coolidse is not a member of the Ku Klux Klan and is hot In sympathy with the organization, his t secretary, C." Bascom Slemp, stated in a letter to Joseph Bran in, editor of a newspaper syndi-, cate, and ; made ) public today by Mr. Branin. ? . ! The letter from Mr. Slemp was in answer to one by Mr. Branio. "Concerning the iCu Klux Klan, wrote the secretary! "the presi dent has repeatedly stated that he is not a member of the order and is not in sympathy with its aims and purposes." . Red Cross Will Ship Clothing Immediately i WASHINGTON, I Sept. 2. Im mediate shipment of clothing and hospital garments for v more than 2,000 Yictims' of the Virgin Isl ands hurricane, last week was an nounced today, by Red Cross headquarters. President Coolidge had sent a message of sympathy to the stricken1 islandere earlier in the day. ':- ."More than 100 casualties and increasing - medical problems among the Jtelanders evicted from their homes by the hurricane are calling for Increased relief from the American Red Cross," the an nouncement said. Approximately 300 houses of the poorer- people were destroyed in' the, islands of the St. Thomas and St. John it was added, point ing out that the United States navy administration is co-operat ing in. the relief work and is making a surrey of the rebuild ing' problem. Material for recon struction must be shipped from the United States, It says. Divorced Husband Held On Suspicion of Murder ANACORTES, Wash:, Sept. 2. Paul Isberto, divorced husband of Irene Isberto whose ' body . was found June 24, floating ifl,A skiff in Rosario street 10 miles west of here was arrested by Sheriff C. R. Conn today and taken to Mount Vernon for examination on suspicion of slaying his wife. Isberto said he returned today from an Alaska cannery where he had been working since leaving Seattle April 22, and that he did not know anything of his wife's death! WINS OX FOLX. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2.- Bert Colima. claimant of the Pacific coast middleweight championship lost to Bob Sage on a foul In the first round of a echedufed four round main event at Vernon are na tonight. 4They were mixing at close quarters about the middle of' the round when Colima sudden ly whipped over a right which the referee said caught the De troit attorney below the belt. Saee was carried to his corner suffering acutely. Princess is Better LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3. An operation today reduced the spread of the blood poisoning disease of the bride o -rince iSrJK of Den mark, the former Miss Frances Lois Booth of Otawa. and the princess is resting comfortably in a local Hospital, it was announced this evening by her physicians. IMAGES OF OLD WORSHIP FOUND HERE (Oontiaaed from pg 1) then due to two causes, nature in the first case and man In the see ond. Man took advantage of the natural form of these rocks; to. shape them to his needs, thereby finishing the' process begun by na ture. ; "Their shape is a 'crude repre sentation of the phallus which was at one time utilized as an ob ject of worship by various races over the world. ' "To the primitive mind there was nothing debasing or salacious in this worship. It was a natural reverence for the organs of reproduction,- by which the race was perpetuated.; Symbols represent ing the sex organs were erected in fields to insure pood crops, and modified forms of these symbols appear in our modern religion. v "In viewing these monoliths they should be regarded in ' the same light as -they were by the people who constructed them. i. e., awe and reverence . for the reproduc tive processes of the race," without which we would not be here to en Joy the blessings of life in the 20th century in America. Unfor tunately our attitude, toward sex matters is in certain respects so far below that of the men who shaped these rocks, that they would. If publicly exhibited, create an unwholesome and morbid cur iosity,",' . . - A LoDC.Sweep In connection with the study of this ancient shrine of phallic wor ship on the Cunningham farm, let it be noted that prior to the com ing of the Christian reigion the na tives were relglous. There were at least four forms of worship practiced throughout the .Pacific northwest by the ancient Oregon- ians. Phallic . worship was the first. It wast frtllnwful hv nun wnr. ship which among the more intel ligent natives probably included veneration for the moon and stars. There were also fire worship and aform of totemlsm closely akin to the worship of stone images of animals and human beings. 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