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projects but some of them have not been able, to pay theif i carrying the burden of the guaranteed interest on bonds;
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- ; July .23, 1925 "
RULES FOR RIGHT LIVING:- He hath bewef me, O man. irhat
is good; And what dotli the Lord require or tbee. but to do justly, and
to lore mercy, and to walk humbly with thy. God? llicaa CrS.
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SALEM GROWS :AS AN: E0UCATI()NAL CENTER
cost and upkeep. On. one project alone, Where the original
cost was estimated ; at $2,500,000, expenditures have been
made to the extent of $6,715,000. Only' 65,000 out of the
estimated 100.000. acres are in use and $6,728,000 is still
unpaid by the wa.er users on this project. How these user3
can ever meet their obligations is a puzzling question.
I In spite of this showing, however, the indications are
that the next congress will be urged by the Interior depart
ment4o spend at least $50,000 more on existing projects.
Reclamation has been a perplexing problem" for Oregon.
The state has guaranteed millions of dollars worth of bonds.
The legislature of 1925 ' found it necessary to appropriate
$50,000 to pay only. a part of this guarantee interest past due
and it is probable that the emergeicy board will before the
close of ; the! present! biennium be called upon, for further
appropriations for further payments -of interest" .unpaid
under the state guarantee. ' ' ' .
, "The Secretary of the Interior upon his' recent visit to
Oregon took the attitude that before the national government
should id , iii? financing Oregon projects the state 'should
assure the financing of the settlers on . the irrigated lands
over a number of year? while accumulating sufficient means
and influence to finance themselves. vWith the' state already
with a general deficit occupying space on the state's finan
cial horizon added to the uncertainty of the number, of years
required to finance the settlers, even though the need for
extension of projects be desirable, Oregon should not assume,
at this time, this grave responsibility. The policy of using
non-irrigable lands more intensively and more generally be
fore further extension of irrigation is sound judgment. Mean
while the state's obligations to her citizens who "are on irri
gation projects should be met cheerfully and promptly.
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Salem was birth marked as an
educational center.
It is likely that Salem's second
linen mills will be on their way
very soon;; that the Portland sub
scriptions; as pledged will be fin
ished in a few days, and the con
pany organized and put in condi
tion to get down; to business orr
dering machinery, selecting site
According .to the increase of
school population in the past five
years. continued till that year
Salem Is destined to pass the 30,
000 mark in population in 1830
But the growth of population has
been increasing of . late, and tho
number may be exceeded by t'ue
census year. . , '
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. For cities are not dad walls
and factory chimneys and paTd
streets and tall spires and count
ing houses and banks and stores.
Cities are great as their people
diate their influence for good in that the people of Salem ought to
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are great: -as fthey,- accomplish
and nrptiarlne for construction of i things worth while :as they serve
buildings.- ' : their day and generation and ra-'brlng a lot of tradeto Salem, and
Salem's highest deetiny is in re
maining an educational center,
along with various other outstand
ing advantages; atfd in increasing
her lead as an educational cen
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A, delegation was in Salem yes
terday from Polk and Yamhill
counties, pushing the idea of get
ting the road from Salem to Day
ton made a state highway and
paved.. These people have already
succeeded in having thia road de
clared a county market-road; but
they insist that it ought to be
paved, and that the .expense will
be Justified, giving short rouie
from Salem to Portland, It would
strike the west side paved highway
at Dayton, -and the distance from
Salem to Dayton by, way or the
proposed route is .22 miles.: , It
would shorten the .distance, be
tween N'ewberg; and Salem s 12 to
15 miles, over, the route by wsy
of Rickreall. These tfeople '"1. the
new proposed improvement would
Baker Ray Barkhurst of
Portland pars -"$100,000 for Snow
Creek and California- Consolidated
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- Salem was born in a school house She wp cradled Iby a
Khw?t'eerX..SaIema,n1i;W University; were born
ms.rVThis cirr began her existence withy thV beginnings of
rt this Yifst institikion of higher learning west "of the Missouri
.. .rivl; and her influence has radiated a?
i a cHwrtowafas an educational center; as a rallying "point
of 'cultural adVantage , Is it any wonder that, with .such ibe
giniiuigs, with .such nurture, the time should have come when
it might jbe skid truthfully that there are m6re colleges,
acadcKilcv universities; schools in a narro tiripjof Ithe Vil
iameti 3 yalley running as far- south as Eugene than in any
territory vf equal size in the whole wide world " . i
iAn Jtgreat instituticms, too; some great-in attendaijefe;
somegrcit in useful servic; in glorious records, in thfluexicefs
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and onto the missicto fields of the backward districts in but of
the ray places at the ends of the earth.
! AVjinamette University has struggled up from its meager
beginnings' until, it has become more than, a two milHon dollar
school; and it" will be aten million dollar school in a tenth of
the? tint- it has taken to attain its present size. -The Univer
sity-of Oregon at Eugene takes rank among the best of the
state schools of the country, in all ways. Oregon Agricultural
College at Corvallis stands at the head of ; the Whole list, in
proportion to the population .it serves and. from which it re
ceives 'its support. The Oregon Normal Schobl of 'Monmoutn
is in some respects a tv the . head of the list in the United
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" In both quality and size.
T.-v'ilQur state v schools; for the blind, for the -deaf, and our
training schools-, for erring boys and girls, stand high
- :So' does our;U, S--Indian -training- school, with nearly
1000 students ; if not the'largest soon to be. the, largest in the
H . ; We have Albany College, at ArbanyLinfield College at I WSi
XTHT!nriwilt Tat' Villorr of MowKortr Vanlfit TTnivoiiitv I " f-:-:-:!:!:1
at Forest Grove;, Philomath College at Philomath v Mt. Angel I f
College at )Mt Angel Academy and Normal at : Mt.. Angel 1 1
'r-' All in Salem's trade territory; in the Salem district J
f There are numbers" of other smaller institutions in this
territory - We have a splendid public school system, keep
ing Wee with theTapid growth of our city-- .
t 1 And we have one of the coast's best business colleges
jthe Capital Business College. And we have numerous fine
private schools and music houses- " ' !
- ; And we have the chance to make Salem a great music
center, arawlnstudents from far places. This would be a
spiendid thing. , 4t can;and sKould be done.
. The construction of . a' new Catholic school in the north-
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At a result of all the-above. witness:" . '
'i 'lOregon ranked first in the intelligence tests1 given to the! BILUY'S UNCLE Vv tC&'-'ftt. v
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or navy during the world war ' - '
' : I Oregon stands third in the list of the states in literacy
Oregon and Arizona are the only states west ot the Miss
issippi riverfthat Require eight months of school in, every
district each year v'"-'v: ;
Only one state m the Union, New York, exceeds Oregon
in its requirement of a minimum school term-r-
7 rOrcgon is first in the Union in the per cent of school pop
ulation in' daily 'attendance -.
Oregon isj first in students in institutions of higher leam-
And second in 'those Attending high schools i
And iri fact, in nearly every way, Oregon is taking the
, katt ;' holding high -the , torch, r The beginnings here were
' right i they remain right ; they will continue to be right to the
end of the chapter. "-.'.
v' ,'Do yoii wonder that we are proud of Salem ;of Oregon;
; of -thlj great northwestern corner of this great country I-
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IRRIGATION AND. TIIE STATE
, '"'Protest 'against 'further expenditures of government
xntncK, on reclamation, projects is growing more vigorous.
' Secretary of Agriculture, Jardine, himself a Western man
; and acquainted with reclamation projects said recently in
; auiddress at the state agricultural college Of Iowa t
i ; V;-',, "In. the last few 'years we have had forced upon us
"th'e fact that more expansion in agriculture is not ncVcs-
':':!?;:Mrnygood.'!Putt!Bf people on land where they cannot
living and where their products not only bring
; J- ;;, j!i?mno profit but force down the; prices for. others
, v i docs not benefit the farmer. 1 ' - '
, . "We mus't : consider before expandihg our agricul
tural areas what we are going to aise on the new land
i -and what we are going to do with the products alter
! The sentiment has for some time prevailed tnat. mere
is mere land now available for crops than it possible, to
utilize in an intensive or. efficient; way. ''and ; that further '
cxr::"-iivc bond-cxtcssions for irrigation should not be mac j
at rrcic-t. ' ' "r "
' Not only has extravagance ; markedmany ycrnmcnt'
we have raised them.
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