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SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR. -- ' V j J.- X SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 21.U925 " ;.. ; ' o -: ; :' ; ' ,
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Salem Girl Has Feature Article I
Accepted by Eastern Newspaper
MJss Audred Bunch Tells How Grace Smith Changed an Avocation
. . 4Into a Vocation; Now Assistant Attorney General i
MIss Grace Elisabeth ; Smith
has the distinction of being the
first and only woman in the State
of Oregon ever to hold the office
vr Assistant Attorney General, all
because she was a little siter who
would not be outdone by her three
legally-minded brothers and law
yer father. i i
As - far as Miss Smith's position
goes, there are no more ' than
three or four other-women In the
entire United States on the pay
roll of -the State in such a status.
And the truth is that the name
of onljr one other; Mrs. Franklin
P. Adams of Indiana, is actually
available at this -writing., i
Miss Smith's unusual success
follows an interesting formula.
Her vocation grew out of her avo
cation. Perhaps that Is why. she
regards it with such enthusiasm
In fact, Miss Smith's satisfaction
with her position is so absorbing
that. she becomes not only a great
disciple lor the legal; profession,
but also a devotee of every kind
of work in .the world that i3 en
nobling, as well.
f "But how did you happen to
choose law in the first place in
stead of, for Instance teaching?''
we asked, as. passing through the
law library we found her ; in her
office on the second floor of the
Oregon Supreme Court Building,
practically adjoining: the State
House and across the street from
the campus of Willamette Univer
sity, the oldest liberal arts and
law school west of the Mississippi
Kiver. ; .--'; !
- "But I did teach," she remind
ed, "for three years.; And then
rame a nervous breakdown. And
for the change I went into my fa
ther's law office as Deputy Re
corder, my father W. D. Smith,
being at that time County Re
corder in Guthrie Center, Iowa."
"And. then what?" f we asked,
like a child intent upon an inter
esting story.
"And then,! she finished. "I
enrolled in the 'Capital City Busi
ness College at Des Moines."
. "And graduated?" i we suggest
ed, feeling how fitting that was
for. the future Assistant Attorney
General of -the State pit Oregon to
,'No," she denjU.ri didn't; My
tuition t paid up for that. And
the president toW rj jne lcould
come back any ,iimev But at the
end of three - months - and three
fweeks a position was offered me
and I took it."
After that the family moved to
Oregon, and Miss Smith applied
for and received a position .1n the
office of the I Secretary of State.
The work was congenial ;and in
teresting, but in time it became !
tnore or Jess routine - to this effi
cient, future " Assistant "Attorney
General of the State. She wanted
something else something ,.for
her evenings. - .? ..
So in , order, "to have some
hard work to - .do" -something
large to accomplish she took up
the study of law as a pure avo
cation. Then, all at once, in 1917,
. she found herself graduated. And
in the same year she found her
self admitted to the Bar.
In February of 1918 she left
the office of the ; Secretary of
State -and went into the Attorney
General's office as legal stenographer.-
In "September of the same
"year she, became a law clrk in the
office, in which position she re
mainded until September of 1921,
when a vacancy arose for the of
fice of Assistant Attorney - Gen
eral. And to this ; place ' Miss
Smith received the appointment,
just three years after coming into
the Office as a stenographer. And,
as the reader well f knows, few.
enough are the stenographers
who have ever received such a
signal promotion in such a short'
length of time. ; J " ' j
Because it still seemed almost
incredible that a woman should
have such an active interest in
law. and. yet. be as essentially fem-i-inine
as Miss Smith is, we asked
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her again if the liking Kvas in the
family. Of course, jthere are
many women interested in the
judicial side, but the legal re
search aspect seemed for Eome
reason a definitely different mat
ter, ' J Ui i ; l :ji ! i . ; ? 1;
4 "Such i marked' ! interest in the
law must5 run in the family?" we
ventured.1 I " M ' ' i
- And when Miss Smith j told us
that not j only was her', father : a
lawyer, but that two oil her three
brothers had been graduated
from colleges of law, one from
Yale University,! and had been ad
mitted. to the Bar. and? the third
had held, the position 'of County
Clerk, we decided thatj It rather
was. ; .-'.M"; j ;-; ! ,
When Miss Smith awoke to the
realization that her.jvork had
"stolen" her hobby. It was nothing
if not characteristic jthat she
should i look ; for; a ne!w hobby.
What she r decided ujpon was
short story I writing.; At the pre
sent time she is finishing a second
term of extension, work with the
University of Oregon and upon its
completion is looking forward, to
entering upon a third, j ; t
! "Butwhen is it you will com
plete i your j schooling. Miss
Smith?" a friend once asked, j
"Well, great-grandfather lived
to be hinety-four" i3 :he answer
we smiled to hear. I N i
I And so It goes. Sh who likes
her work in the gtoridus first of
life is not apt o tire ofj it through
a single one of thema!ny promis
ing years that! yet stretch ahead.
And again, she who hks one tal
ent is apt to have various talents.
Miss Smith is her owfn example.
There are few of her own
townspeople, even, Jwho remem
ber her as the personality back of
the first " organization in Salem,
Oregon, of a branch of the Busi
ness Woman's j Club.j But it is
true and 'Miss Smith, that anoma
ly of the club jworld, ah organizer
who never ajresj j for officei was
the first ! chairman Jf the little
nucleus that first met in October,
1919: i And all along t has ' been
her; vital, womanly interest In all
that she affiliates herself with,! in
all that she undertakes, that has
stood back -of her.; ' -t - j
. Aside from being la : charter
jm ember. jof , the . Business and Pjcp-.
fessionai Woman's Clu in Salem,
Miss Smith is an active member
of the P. E. Oj. Sister hbod and al
so 'of the Salem Arts lieagae. She
is a member, iii j fact the newly
elected,; chairman, j off a progres
sive, local writers.: eljub. ! She is
one of the assistant superintend
ents in the Sunday School. '
Miss Smith, likes hr home as
she.Jikes hef work: iwith hr
whole heart, j And th ropf. that
has sheltered her; andj her three
brothers and bister I has" reverber
ated with a merry laaghter s of a
happy family. She. ' 4eshts In
work about the hodse, helping
her charming mother in the kitch
en and in the sewing room, and
with social affairs, formal and in
formal. 5 And Miss Smith not only
loves cokery, but loves music and
all the arts.
The psychologists.' jr'ou know,
say a visitor: who lea"es a room
where he has had a pleasant hour
Is apt.Jta token of his relutance,
to leave a possession r more be
hind.' So the other afternoon
when' we .went' back for. both
notebook and a p nk-checked
handkerchief Miss Smith, the frst
and only woman in Oregon "eter
to hold the office of Assistant At
forney General and , orje of an al
most negible number in the Unit
ed States, counseled us again ; to
remember that , she Was Just an
ordinary woman. 't
I Well, possibly . . . , t .
And while we wojn't exactly
agreer with Miss Smith that she
isn't any, more j interesting' than
her ! contemporaries ; at least
there; might be -wiser jthings th'an
tryingMo argue with 4 legalist "
strain your eyes
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CRUMBLING SUBSOIL
plays tricks with
Streets of rome
. ROME. Despite reassuring
statements and glib explanations
which have been made by the Ro
man municipal authorities of an
unusual series of street collapses
and cave-Ins, the fact I that 61
of these disquieting accidents have
occurred within the brief space of
several: weeks is causing consider
able alarm here.
The first of these accidents was
a cave-in which caused a large
section of the Via Ripetta to fall
to a depth of about six feet. The
collapse occurred in broad day
light, the ground falling away
several feet in front of a crowded
tramway. But the proximity of
the , Via Ripetta to the Tiber .River
offered- the apparent explanation
that the recent heavy rains and
flood condition of the river; had
caused a weakening of the al
luvial .sub-soil along the river
bank, j; i ',-' r ' h
Within a fortnight after this
collapse, however, there were five
other more or .; lens similar acci
dents in various'' sections of th,
city, some of them far from the
river, and the Romans, always
ready to Inject melodrama Into
the simple, facts of daily existence,
rw in the series the presentation
of . a new source of terror. The
inhabitants of southern Italy and
Sicily live under the Damocletian
sword of the ever-present prospect
of telluric disturbances; would
the Romans have to live In con
stant dread of the possible effects
of a crumbling subsoil? '
To this .question the authorities
have hastened to give an emphatic
negation, (asserting that; each ac
cident! had a special cause -. and
that there was no one underlying
cause for all of them. : In some
placcsj ltja explained, too much
new construction was weakening
the subsoil; in others, rain-water
seepage had caused - weakness,
while, in still others excavations
for building foundations had un
earthed ancient sewage systems.
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Filipina Voters in Years ;
- ( Increase Half Million
. MANILA, June 20. Approxi
mately 1,800,000 ballots .have been
"printed and will be distributed to
th Various provinces of the Phil
ippines to be used at the national
elecfloiron June 9, when members
of the House ( of Representatives,
one half, the membership of the
Senate, and provinical governors
and other provinical officers will
be chosen. . - ; . . , .
Comparing these figures with
those of the election of 1922, there
is an. increase of approximately
446,000 voters this year. ' i
The province of Pangasanan in
central Luzon heads the list of the
provinces in the number of voters
this year, 129000 ballots having
been sent to that province again3t
123,000 in 1922. The city of Ma
nila has 70000 qualified voters.
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Among the College Annnals of
Merit Is this ' Normal School
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i Among the many . college an
nuals published at the close of the
school year Just passed "The
Norm" is worthy of special men
tion. . ; ..
Its general design Is very at
tractive. The dark green semi
flexible covers are: embellished
with a gothtc plague, Including the
silver seal "Oregon Normal
School" and the words "The Norm
1325" in bold relief. v
The art features balance well
with the literary scheme and are
executed with, skill and discern
ment. . ; "t ;
The typography, the work of the
Statesman press, is the result of
painstaking effort and high grade
of the printers choice and applica
tion of type forms emphasize
further the attractiveness of "'the
book.
i In literary style, subject matter
and expression The Norm portrays
scholarly ability, conscientious
etfort, fine esprit' de cops among
students and faculty and genuine
loyalty to the institution repre
sented. Berkeley's Anti-Noise Law .
Excludes Nocturnal Pianos
BERKELEY, Cal, The much
advertised, anti-noise ordinance In
this college city in construed - by
City Attorney. Earl. J. Sinclair as
excluding piano , practice at late
hours in. the evening. Running of
scales and .other, such j trying
modes, of perfecting one's tech
nique chould come before 9 p. m.
the city attorney held recently,
In reply to complaints of neigh
bors . about a music student's
nocturnal practice.
i Roosters and canaries have been
legally, silenced in previous inter
pretations . of the ordinance. So
have cats and needlessly . used
motor horns. Nevertheless the air
of Berkeley is not always quiet
through the night.
rted Tsipe' irisfsted Pilots
: Be Instructed How to Fly
, CROYDON, Ju-lSIWtoiiiir.
pilots and. mechanics at this air
station had a good laugh- at the
expense of government red - tape
tecently. All the air express pil
ots are members of the air force
reserve, andane or two were. up
fjor their annual training as re
servists. , To the amusement " of
their fellow pilots and . officials,
fhey were not allowed,, owing to
Regulations to take up an airplane
by themselves. i
They had to go through! the
itlsual instruction sitting In pupil's
seat while the instructor showed
them how to fly the planes. "
OF THE CHASSIS
1UAJLL Y IN 1 WU oJtuULliN Ui
An Exclusive Feature
. 256 State Street
Cleteland
DEAD LETTER OFFICE
WASTE IS AVOIDABLE
; POSTAL CHIEF AVERS
WASHINGTON. .4 Postmaster
General New has determined to
attempt to curb careless corre
spondents ; and prod parcel post
users who are responsible for a
drag on the- postal service which
causes an enormous" economic and
considerable financial loss each
year.. - - - . L .' ;
With a view to reducing dead
letters and parcels, now going to
the dead letter office at the. rate
of 21,000,000 and 803,000 parcels
a yean the 'postmaster general
designated the Week of June
1 to 7 as "Better Mailing Week,
during which a nation-wide cam
paign will be conducted to edu
cate everyone to jusemore"care In
the addressing of 'mail.
"If everyone who mailed a let
ter of parcel' put a return address
on the envelope (and the proper
place is the upper left-hand cor
ner, not "the back)," says the
postmaster general, "the dead let
tqr office could : be closed and a
vast amount of money time and
energy saved. More than 99 per
cent of dead letters contain no
clue to the sender on the eneve-
lope. . . , ; I;
"Mistakes are bound to occur,
but investigation of claims and
complaints divulges that in the
vast .majority r of cases it Is the
mailer rather than the postal clerk
who makes the error;. We are go
ing to try to d6 better. We are
striving for that goal of perfec
tion, and we would like for- you
. to cooperate with us and help re
ducing that appalling dead letter
revenue. It can be done by:
"Addressing letters, plainly,
leaving out nothing that will help
the carrier make delivery:
"Putting return address in up
per left-hand corner; u
using strong cord and stout
paper." i
Of 621,803,000 pieces of mail
which went to the dead letter bf-
Jice last year, 100,000 letters
were in perfectly blank envelopes.
Cash removed from dead letters
amounted to 155,523 which was
turned-lnto the United States
treasury because its owners could
not be located owing to lack of re
turn and pther addresses, Postage
stamps amounting to $12,165 were
similarly found in undeliverable
and unreturnable .malU" Checks,
drafts and money orders amount
ing to $3,546,542 likewise were
found but they represented only so
much paper because Jhey -could
not be cashed and have to be held
a year for reclaiming, then to be
destroyed. . ,
The revenue of 'the dead letter
office is sufficient to keep that in
stitution functioning but it is not
nearly- enough to pay the annual
bill for support of "Nixie," as pos
tal employes call a letter or par
cel so improperly addressed that
it cannot be delivered to the- ad
dressee nor returned to the send
er without special treatment. Thfe
special treatment, called directory
service, costs the taxpayer i $1,-
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Celilo Falls, Columbia's First Plunge
Held Grandest Scene in All Northwest
Early Day Pioneer Aptly Dewribes First Visitto Famous Beauty
Spot; Trip Made From Walla Walla In An Open Boat
As one stands on the rocks ov
erlooking the Celilo Falls, it is im
possible to disassociate the vision
from one that would include the
hardy, unselfish ones who etand
out in the history of . the settle
ment and development of this
great country. In keeping with
this thought I cannot do better
than quote from the journal, of
one of the first and noblest; whose
holy ambition was cut short soon
after these words were written. iby
a merciless tomahawk. Mrs. (Dr.)
Whitman writes or her trip down
the Columbia under date of Sept.
7. IS 3 6. " We set sail. from Walla
Walla yesterday at 2 p. m. Our
boat is an open one, manned with
iaix oarsmen and a steersman.
"I enjoy it very much; it is a
very pleasant change in oujman
ner of traveling.'The Columbia is
a beautiful river. Its waters are
clear a crystal, arid smooih as a
sea o glass, exceeding in beauty
the Ohio; but the scenery on each
side of it is very different.-
"There is no timber to be seen,
but there are high perpendicular
banks of rocks in some places,
while rugged, bluffs and plains of
sand in others,' are all that greets
the eye WeSailed until. near sun
set, when. we landed, pitched our
tents, supped our tea, bread and
butter, boiled ham and potatoes,
committed ourselves to the care of
a kind Providence, arid retired to
rest.-. -n'i " .
"Sept. Ith. Came last night to
the Chute (above The Dalles),. a
fall in the river not navigabfe;
There we slept, and this morning
made the' portage. All were oblig
ed to land, unload, carry our bag
gage, and even the boat, for half
a mile. After loading several with
our baggage and sending them on.
the boat was capsized and placed
upon the heads of about twenty of
them, who marched off- with 'it
with perfect 'east.
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Below the main fall of the wa
ter are , rocks, deep, narrow chan
nels, and many frightful ' preci
pices. We walked deliberately
740,000 a year. In New York City
alone it costs 1500 a day to loo
up addresses. Approximately 200,
000,000 pieces of mail yearly are
givendirectoi7ervlce. . The sim
ple addition of a return address
woud obviate it entirely post offi
cials say. . "V ' '
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June with its brides, graduates and lowers is the .time of all
times for music. At no time are weVin the mood for mu::c
more than Junb time. You are not getting your sTiare of happi
ness if you arenot prepared to en joy musicits June time.
For the bride or graduate we have beautiful baby grand C3
low as $685-or W dandy bungalow upright at $350. Then too
we Jiaye the larger grands in the Knabe and Hoddorf f we aho
have i the wonderful Ampico that in comparable instrument
that reenacts the worksnof the great artists ; scf perfectly '. . tlir.t
there is no difference. SOLD ON TERMS WHEN DESIRED.
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We have a complete line of Portable Phonographs at $17.50 to $40; or nothir.rr
will give you more pleasure on the. camping trip than a portable phonograph.
You may exchange it on a larger one at anytime. . ,
among' the rocks, viewing the
scene with astonishment, for this
once beautiful river seemed to be
Cut up and destroyed by these
huge masses ot rock.
T "Indeed, it Is difficult to find
where the main body of water
passes. In high water we are told
that these rocks are all covered
with water, the river rising to such
an astonishing height." ; .
"As I sit this beautiful spring
day,' hundreds of feet above this
roaring cataract, the words of this
gifted martyr,, penned almost a
century ago, come with compelling
force. Not the force of rushing
waters so much as the unwavering
urge of human and spiritual
progress.
"Under circumstances extreme
ly pprimatlveUhis -great soul was
fable to recognize the work of the
Infinite. '
Some years ago, in' company
with a matt recently from the east.
was viewing soma of the bean-
ties of this matchless west, I naz
arded the remark that. ' by . com
parison, the; beauties of the east
seemed 'artificial, hand-made. His
reply was1 in all earnestness: "If
you could travel up the Hudson
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Eye Examinaticiia
This skilled optometrist of the present day re
lies upon no superficial or outward examinat
tion. - " ' ' ' '' "
' We should be able to recognize the presence ,
of obscure diseases and direct the patient pro
perly when these are present. 1
We are frank in the treatment of our patients
and never fit glasses unless needed.
If your trouble is only momentary eye tire,
or your eyes are down because your health is
be!w par, hereou will be -advised for your
best interests. "'
TOR.1C
hztgzs Morris
.101-2-3-4 Or&cH,!is, S;TiSi, Oreson
Is
The Kh2
Is world's finest Piano. If yqu .will exarKine tho
wonderful Kriabe you will at once understand why
it is used arid endorsed so extensively by great
artists. . - " '
We carry a'complete stocic of ICnabes in granMv
uprights arid ampicos. ; .
Your old instrument accepted as first F-iyct;
the balance may be arranged on easy terns.
Portable Phonographs
GEO. .
432 STATE STREET
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tYdur Leading Music Dealer for
river, you wouid .be compelled to-
admit it was Goa-maae. -
So, as I watch- the scene before
jne today from thia vantage point.
In Its ever changing hues of sun
shine an shadow, Involuntarily
something within me exclaiei,
"God made." .
, During the countless ages since
t,he Inland Empire was a xast sea
and some tremendous force of na
ture released it, the waters of this
great region have rolled over the.
basalt rocks of this gorge.
Today, the great rocks anions
which the river was lost when Mrs.
Whitman made -her elow and ted
ious Journey withIndians to Fort
Vancouver,, are almost covered
with a foaming, plunging Tolamjs
of water. The roar, as it reaches
me, is as the distant sea, beating
ceaselessly upon a rockbound'
coast.
:. ' The Royal Salmon, true to Its
God given instinct, is rushing up
these boiling chasms, that it may
deposit its "spawn In the sheltered
streams .high, up in the mountain
fastness. Evennow. as in ges
agone, I can see the native Red
Men, with gaff or net standing on
rocks over the turgid waters, pa
tiently awaiting the luckless. sal
mon that ventures too near.
hThus the dim past is linked with
the present. While the Red Men
toils with gaff or net, there rolls
past him on either side of the riv
er, great, modern trains, on tracks
of steel; edded to these are wo n-
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