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SEVENTY-SIXTII YEAR
SAIEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING; JUNE 27, 126
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Father .Jails Elder Son-
to Keep Younger Honest
, Wanted to .Take His Brqther "Out of the Ordinary Housed
. Looter Class and Make Him a Real Stick-Up Man" '
- Karl Keene -Tells Judge O , ' :
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father's hope to save one ; of
- his . sons . ;frpm a career, of
crime prompted him' to turn
an older son over to the court
: , in Kansas City, 31o4 with the
hope they would put him in
the penitentiary. : - j ? -,
The " father, 'George Keene,
said flis son, Karl, 23 - years
old,rwas a highwayman; that
he was starting his other son,
George, Jr'-13 years old, on
the:crime -pathlby. takingithe 1 :
lad with 'him. i Karl has. con- . , S
il George; admitted that the , cti f'iSSSTi -
. - bravery of his brpther had. t . i- t -prompted
KintLto Accompany left, Karl Keene, above
his older brother in his crime.iS?K Ge.Jn; : below,
- 'I wanted to ow.hmiiiown.Jlw3eene,:Sr.;:
- v to" niake good Karl told 3e: n
' Thad B. Landon, when the boys came to trial. "I was doing
the best I could for my brother; I wanted to see him amount
to something. , : ? - .
T wanted to take him out of the ordi
tlass and make a real stick-up man x)xt of him. He can. make
a lot better money if he is a real stick-up man," Keene said:
j.nirty-nve years," -pronounced the court. ,
, Keene had pleaded guilty to robbing, a street car conduct
or oi (, ? iie was arrested several days ago, following' the
hold up of a grocery, store in which his y ounger brother par
ticipated.. , The boy was sentenced to three years in the reformatory.
Splashing Kids Defy Heat
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Byr Robert J. !H.Kiphuth, ,Yale Swimming Goach.
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G"ET SKT! Biutgf Ami the swimmer, half -crouched, on the dg f tbe pool,, swings Jils arms forward and flashed Into Ui air like a
-torpedo.' ' Stretched oat almost horizontal, head slightly' lowered, he skids Into the water on his chest. - While he still in the air
; his legs start thrashing powerfully; from the hips; and when "he .'hits, he's plowing through the water nuder fall steam. That's the
racing start ine way jjonnny weumnuer, one oi Amencav graue speeu swunmers, is uous. - ,
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"When you go to a big bathing beach .on a hot summer day,
or to .the "old swimmin hole," jbr to sa swimming "pool Sn .a
college or YMCA gymnasium, -and see the thousands of Jnen
and women; boys and 'girls particularly boys splashing and
shouting1 and paddling' and 4iutting.through the water,-ybure
likely to think that just about everybody there is knows Jiow
to swim'. k ' -v' V "'''':!''
And yet there are hundreds who are frightened into shiv
ers, atthe thought of plunging into a river; or 'lake, simply
because they haven't given it the right kind of, try; there
are as many more wha are able to paddle around' and keep
themselvesrafloat and do half a dozen strokes, after a. fash
ion, but who will never become real swimmers because .they
don't take'the trouble to .learn properly. ' . ' '
All of these people arermissing a lot. Swimming i is a
thing that everybody can' do, and do right. More than that
it's a thing that supplies an amazing lot of f un that frequent
ly means the difference between life and death and that is -an
excellent body builder. -It's for all these reasons that a num
ber of colleges and universities 'have made it 'compulsory for
a student to pass a swiirtming test'before they canget their
diplomas.. ., ' " ' J . ? ," ":
, When I hear fellows say that swimming is a thing theyTl
never be able.to learn, or I that .'water has got their "goat" or
something of the kind, I always think of the case of the
sophomore at Yale who came to me a couple of years ago and
told me he wanted to be shown how. He was a strapping big
fellow, and looked like a real athlete, as I told him. V
"That's what they all say," he grinned ruefully. "But I
might as well admit that I've always been afraid of the water.'
Just the same, I want you to make me go in -push me into
deep-water if you want to!" ;
- He would have let me do it, if4 I'd thought it best. But
that would have been-just wronff. Likely he would have
gotten mouth and nose full, and 'choked, and struggled and
batted the water,' and sank once or twice, and then he'd have
been more frightened than ever. ; .
;I "don't 'mean to say that everybody , is afraid- of ; getting
ducked- not by any means. But some people are, and it isn't
a thing to be ashamed of. Anybody can go about overcoming
such a fear, and do it just as successfully as this big sopho
more did. ; 4 . . . ";. ' k : -
.The first thing I told him to do," to his surprise, was simply
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Two Hundred Per Day Fini Water Fine in Pool, Records Set
"". . ' in Chinninff Contests, While Mothers and
Kelatives Look On
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-v V. Like a cool, green oasis in the midst of hot Salem streets
, was; the way; the 13th street playground looked to more than
v 200 children during the beat of the last few days. " The shade
of . the biff ?trees. and the festfulness of the grass, beneath;
together with, the cool depths of the brook flowing through
. the. grounds, proved an irresistable attraction. '
- Not only the children, but solder: persons, parents, f and
babies Un arms felt the !call. ' Mothers, grandmothers, aunts,
and cousins with the children were on the grass beneath the
trees, playing on the newly -Erected apparatus, -or, -clad in
.. bathing suits, diving,- sliding or jumping into theu sv4mming
pool fprmed by damming the' brcok. r tl
- Several "Shetland 'ponies were there for children to ride,
besides -another pony hitched to -a' small cart, i in which the
- children made many s trips around the i grounds.
Contests ;qf .various kinds are heldi OnThursday -Rose,
; ; iioiiert won a free style swimming race for girls, with-Louise
Cramer JBecond" and -Mary Kelleher third.? Helen Binner; took
, tirttf honors in the ' backVstroke, with? Rose Hoffertf second
- . and Mary Kelleherthirdi-;Ci;, q c -. ( j ;
Donald McGee took first in a chinning contest for boys by
; . - ' doing the stunt 12 times. Joseph Maury was second with 10,
1 1 Bob Meyer third with eight, and Howard Ceylon and Orville
j . Baker-tied for fourth. -; tl ; L- :Zl ' :".
i. ' f . Philip Doddridge won a 50-yard dash" in the"water." while
;t .. ob Meyer placed secrond.RobertHurlburt took diving hon
ors, with Bill Yarnell and Clifford Baker placing in the order
- K Viamed. Paul Meyer took first in an under water diving con-
3 test with his brotherBob; second. -Walter Petos was third.
7 ; : First place in a 50-yard dash went to Guy Hart,";with Ken-
U v dall Mad son second. .- - .. ,
j , Hdmer Smith has .been appointed assistant supervisor ai
. . tne groundS'to nelp out JLouis Anderson. He wui.hejp with
. . . the games, at the pool, arid in other ways., ; .
Nothing ever breaks right for the farmer' according to
- Mr. Dooley, who continues, at Finley Peter Dunne's command,
with: "If it ain't too dhy,rr oats at's too wet f 'r hay. . He
prays Tr rairi till his pants ar-re wore I out at'th knees, an'
whin it comes it washes away all his seed. He's about raised
. th morgredge on his house whin th tornado comes, along an'
i (Casual Essays by a Quiet Man.)
For eight days the thermometer Ijad played around the
100 degree mark, sinking three or four degrees during the
sweltering- nights; the towering buildings that had roasted
a spot of grass, enclosed in a high iron picket fence to keep
the children off. Not because in that: great "center of civil
ization'' Manhattan's children lost a child's inalienable right
to stretch their backs on green grass, and chew a clover's end,
but-becausfrire-4rrsemnychiW
that, save for the forbidding iron fence, there would be no
grass; even to look at. . ! "v"1.- :'v ' ,. ;
1 High on the sides' of 'a lowering apirttnent housed built
close to others as.'hot "and drab, ashout. came from. th.e little
metal landing of a" fire escape. ; I looked up. " Story, after
story, the steel stairway climbed, zig-zagging back and forth
with every floor, leaving a little platform, perhaps three feet
wide, and eight feet long, between flights of the steel steps.
There a young son of a Manhattan and a neighbor's cljild
played in' "safety" 50 feet above the . traffic in the- street.
That: was their park. ' They entered it through a half open
window, escaping from, the Iieat of the interior into the
slightly lower heat of the fire escape platform. Poor men's
children, and the only park they knew. Perhaps the only park
they ever will know during the years most boys and girls play
in the sand lot, swim in .the stream, : and protvl through the,
delicate green shades and the cool shadows of country groves
and forests. ( ' ' A?
Tragedy, you may say,1 that hundreds of these children
no .thousands-grow t6 manhood and' womanhood', knowing
milk only in bottles, country only in pictures, and never bend
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tneir.toes TO Keep iresnjsiUDDie irom cutting mio uare acbu
' More tragedy that they do not knoV what they are missing.-
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- f Within easy walking distance of parks and country, rivers
and foothilIs,-less than a iong'trip to the coast, I, also a poor
man's sonVplairto steal away next week to some cool beach
or do a little fishmg or swim in cool water or bask in the sun
with the glorious blue of high summer overhead.
y- They are poor men's 'children in the east. I and mine,
poor men's children in the bounty of the west. " 1-
Spiritualist Church Rjeaidy
Lacks Pastor, listeners
Odd Will Calls; for Edifjce and Library, Trustees Combine
Both to -Make. CiHc Auditorium: in ; Case Congre- .
gation - Does Not Appear A 1
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By: E. E. PIERSON
(Central I Press Correspondent.)
BLOOMINGTON, 111., June 26. Plenty of money tQ pay
.the preacher, an imposing church, Teady for occupancy, but
"Without any congregation to be edified by the sermons or to
enjoy the completed building. That is the extraordinary
situation at Leroy, an attractive village of 2,000 inhabitants
in southeastern McLean county, as j the day of dedication of
the $300,000 Spiritualist meeting place draws near. ;
.The completion pf the edifice marks the final chapter in
years of litigation over the will of J. T. Crumbaugh, wealthy
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VOLUME I.
Published la the interest of -ho eeklng full and aecmrate smrvey of tbe
yrff4 ; " week local developments s - v':
NUMBER 20
- "Busyvkeaders" starts another reviewtof the past week's
important local happenings;,- - u ;' :-- :J - . ; y:'f- "
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One month' to' a day after the voters of Salem refused a
grant of $15,000 for support of the Salem Zoning and Plan
ning commission May 21,' the commission, declaring that Its
program could not be carried on without funds, tendered its
resignation; which was unanimously accepted. Mayor John
B. Giesy immediately anndunced that the personnel of a new
commission: would be: made public in-.the'near xfuture. ' 1
Declaring that Salem faced a potential fire hazard Alder
man W. W. ; Rosebraugh I entered a .plea ?f or ipecautioriary
measures with" the result' that city council invited I the state
fire marshal to aid in making a survey nd recommendations
covering local conditions;! AVt- ? -f A f
The first swimming tragedy of the summer was narrowly
averted when the apparently lifeless body of Charles Meu
chel, 15 year old son of 'John Meuchel, 587 'North "Liberty
street was pulled to a raft with grappling ho6ks handled' by
Ben Taylor, from the nine foot water near Taylor's .bath
house; - Revi veld after some work, the boy. recovered by-night
. Extraction of gold from the sands along the Curry county
beaches through a special process is proposed by the Pacific
States Refining company which has been given a lease on ap
proximately, a, mile of .beach south of Bandon. by the state
land board. : The company proposes to spend ? 100,000 in erect
ing and equipping a plant, ; , , A.; " -A' ' 1
In a light poll cast to name two school directors for the
next three years, Dr. C A. Downs led with '264 votes; other
candidates following with s Mark D. McCallister, 257-, 'William
Gahlsdorf, 210, and Dr. - Henry E. Morris, 7l i Dr.: Downs was
continued in office whilif Mr. McCallister wa3 sworn in on
Tuesday evenin?. ' . --AX:;:ticn
crilctcifcrthe American Lc::n drpartnict
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of Oregon convention at Coos Bay to-be held August 5, 6, and
7. was a feafure of the meetinc of Capital -Post No. 9. The
following were elected to 'represent the local unit:
Bassett, Clifford W. Brown, Biddy Bishop, Carl D.
son, Lyle Dunsmoor, Vic MacKenzie, Lloyd T. Rigdon
Shaver. Carl Steiwer and Brazier SmalL Alternates
Newell Williams, Normal Jones, Morris Race, Frank
Jr. F. Maison, George JVlaynard, Robin Day, King
Breyman Boise and R. C Stevenson. .
' The hotly discussed queistion as to whether.or not the union
high school at Gervais should be dissolved was decided when
supporters of the school voted down the proposal to dissolve
the district. . '
-Ac A-: Tuesday, June 22 . . -
' Architects submitting ; plans . for the 3 new south ' Salem
school building to be erected ton the. recently purchased Tux
edo tract, will be invited to appear before the school board at
a series of special meetings to begin on Monday, June 28, in
order that directors may weigh carefully the proposals pre
sented by. the firms. Two will appear at the special meeting
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The lure of the dirt track will grip Salem on July 5, when
crack auto racers of the' northwest, under the auspices of the
American - Automobile Association will take the state fair
grounds track in competition for the northwest chkmpionship.
, "James Willos and Ellsworth Kelly must hang for the mur
der of John Sweeney, state prison guard, in the rJen break of
August .12, according to a 'supreme court ruling. All SS-Tas
.eignments 01 error set up py tne attorneys lor tne conaemnea
men as a basis for their appeal were set aside. - . Y
" , .-'Wednesday, 'Jane 23 - '
"Kicks about public camp grounds come from : traveling
tod long they are dua to road fatigue," declared tourists at
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Rev. E.-JL Shanks. Writes Modern Interpretation of :Fainou3
Child's Rhyme for Juvenile Sunday -Statesman1
Readers This Wreek j
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By REY. ERNEST II. SHANKS '
Do you remember the Uiitle J Nursery Rhyme about the
le kittens ?fc It gofs ".-like this: - - ,..
Three little, kittens lost their mitten -: . Siti
' ' And set them down to cry,
You naughty kittens, you've lost your mittens,
jcou can's nave any pie. . , . "
It was .very, very careless, thoughtless. , and altogether
naughty, of .them: to do such a thing, t No doubt , they were
.playing when they should have been at work.. They put their
mittens down somewhere and forgot about where they "put
them.. The. mittens were intended to keep their hands warm
and clean. Now their hands were cold and soiled, such dirty
hands for respectable kittens. Besides, those mittens had to
be made. They cost time, money and hard work.. . -;- - -A;
: j Now they are lost and1 all that work was for. nothing.
Three, pairs of good, new, warm, expensive mittens Host, all
for the carelessness of three little thoughtless kittens. Of
course: they should have no pie, nor anything else to eat until
they were sorry for what they did. Maybe an -empty plate
will make a full head. -The next time these kittens, go out to
play they will keep their wits about them. A
(Betty, Kathie and Ruby were three little girls. They were
sisters. They, too, were sometimes careless and thoughtless
and being, thoughtless they sometimes made lots of trouble
and deserved punishment. . - - . n -I ; i :
' j One day -Kathie put on a brand new dress. -Her mother
had worked so hard to make it. It was not easy for mother
to do this for with all the household duties she had .to do the
sewing extra. It was a nice dress and made up in an' attrac
tive style, suitable for 'best wear." 4 - 4: 4 : i . ."A A I 'v;.
Kathie. thought' it. would be fine to put it on and see bow
nice she '.looked in it. Just then Ruby called her 'from te
garden where there were -some ripe berries, itathie' ran out
to the garden and before she evem 'thought "about" her new
dress, she was picking the ripe' berries and her dress was
stained and the briars had plucked at the clothand catching
at one side tore a big three-cornered place. The new dress
was ruined. Carelessness; and thoughtlessness on the part
pf Kathie spoiled the dress oh which her mother had worked
sojhard. . . ... , . "
(.Ruby had a new hat. .It was a( real milliner-made bat,
bought at the store and for a good pricey "She veas very proud
of It. 'It was all flowers and ribbons just like a milliner knows
how to make it up to look sopretty. It was becoming, , too,
with its bright colors that just suited Ruby's style. She had
ben trying it on before, the large mirror in the sitting room
She laid it down for a moment to look at a book her sister had
brought in, and then went off to play with her sister, forget
ting all about the hat. . The door was left open as she went
out and the playful puppy came in just to look around. He
spied the new hat on the chair where Ruby had left it. When
she came back the hat was an indiscribable ruinl Of coursd
th pup did not realize he was doing1 anything so terrible. It
was" Ruby's thoughtlessness that was to blame. - 5 t
j Betty was the eldest of the three sisters. One .day sne
decided to make a. cake for dinner. Her mother said she
might-do it, and cautioned her to k"eep her wits about her and
Betty put the heat on the oven so as to have it ready by
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Boosts Texas Village
From 2 to 10,000 Persons
Sheriff Red Waters, the .Town's Two-Gun. Two-Fisted "Gov-
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tBORGER, Tex., "June 28. Borger; known as the "Ec
Town.bf the Texas -Panhandle," in the center of tha'r
rannanaie ou iieia,,was tnree montns old June g. Tha t:
ing youngster was able to report on its "birthdav" ths.t if
a population of more tb.an:10,CC0, with the city, limits in:
ing an area seven miles lonr and one mile' wide. ;
f'Booger Town" has been described as the most "v.i "
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