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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1926)
- They Called Him Governor But He Knew What to po Jay Shafr& Crowd Was "Up-and-Doing" Country Youngsters, une used ills Head and tial "Dirl" Farmer and Senator By ESCA "Governor!" That , eyed 14-year old Jay Shaff some 25 years ago by the fallows in his crowd. , Now the fellows in Jay Shaff 's crowd were up-and-doing country youngsters who lived near Clinton, Iowa. In the country, a boy learns to rely upon himself. Those fellows weren't any too ready to acknowledge a leader. Yetf they called Jay Shaff "Governor." Not because he was bound to be boss. No. For quite another reason. If you could listen back in on some of the talk that on years ago among those boys rolling hills and fish the waters of the Wapsi river, .you d soon learn the real reason. "Let's go catfishing," some can catch all we want now." Sniffs from the others: "Come off. They're not biting." "Catch all we want, huh ? Who says so?" I "Governor Shaff." Triumphantly. "He told me to get you fellows together if you wanted a mess of catfish." "Why didn't you say so then? Sure, we will go if j Gov ernor s going." . :'" . ' That was the way the whole crowd felt "Governor jkne,w what, to do.- - I . Arid he was always ready to pass his knowledge along. Quietly. There was so little spread-eagling about his leader ship, that it sometimes puzzled people. . One fellow's mother once asked curiously, "Why do you boys all call Jay Shaff 'Governor?' " Her sdn chuckled a little. "Because he tells us what to do, that' s all," ho told her. "Governor" Shaft didn't lay down the law; he justlcnew what to do, and told the othersi They could take it or leave it. Usually they took it. They, knew Jay Shaff. Knew? that somehow he always knew what to do; and that he got it done. Fishing or farming, ''Governor" Shaff was on the jobf He was a self-starter. vAnd a fine finisher. : r Take for instance, the matter of "Govenfor" and the dozen or so yearling calves always cavorting around the Shaff farm. From the time Jay Shaff .was 11 or 12, he took sole charge of these yearlingsfed them, watered them, made their beds, and slicked up their bedrooms every day. And he did it without any jogging. Cold winter morning after cold winter morning, "Govern . or" rolled out of bed without being called and went out to -feed a dozen rambunctious yearlings before he fed himself. Try that on your own self-starter. When it came to cultivating corn or raking hay or patch ing fence, "Governor" made the same sort of record.! He knew what to do, did it without being told, and did it well. No wonder he and his younger brother Herman could usually have for the asking time off to go hunting or fishing. No wonder their father could take an occasional hour to go swimming with them. 1 But even then, in the midst of work and good times, "flnvernor" was lookine ahead, read his father's agricultural other magazines and books. men. Mulled things over thought them out. It was his habit of sizing up situations that : j made bin the boy who knew what to do. And it was his habit of. sizing up situatioTTthaf sent him? to 'low State College at Ames when few boys of his neighborhood thought of going to college. Jay Shaft didn't go from Clinton high to col lege because the crowd was going. Nor. was college a habit of his family. Young "Governor", wasn't following tradition; he was blaz ing a trail, a trail to more effec tive farming. He was graduated from Iowa State at the age of nineteen, In spite of specializing in scarlet fever and tonsllltls in his senior year. Oh yea, and mumps! One after the' other, he had all three. Such a series of calamities would have wrecked the ' graduation chances of most students, but it couldn't spoil "Governor" Shaffa Hoping' for a chance to go to Chi cago on a stock-Judging team from Ames, he had worked far ahead In his studies to leave time free for the trlpJThat f orehandedness sav ed hta. graduation date. "jiat like i Governor to be ready "for "anything "that , happened," chuckled his friends. Well, he-, was graduated on schedule time anyway. Then fol lowed a "year on the great farm that lias "Veen; owned by the Shaff f amiUoylfceariy fa tcentury a yearthtr gave the -young Ames man a chance to size up once more the needs of the future. Then he was off again for more special work,i at the University of Wis consin this time. He packed in two and one.. half years of law study then along: with the valuable course In-agriculture that gave him his master's degree for a far mer 4n a day when master's de grees were far scarcer than they are now! . That' was Jay Shaff! Always looking, ahead, always sizing up future needs, always studying out what to do. : He wasn't so deadly serious cither. With all his hard-working wnyshe as a mixer, and could hold '' hist ctwu'Ia-any fun-loving crowd. If a joke needed a final flip, jbe knewrwbato do. One summer on one of his first days home from, college, some of Buster Brown Shoe Store. High class, stylish looking, comfortlgiv Ing. long wearing shoes for the leant money. Go and be convinced. 125 JN'orth Commercial St. . () H.-P. Woodry & Son, -271 Com'l. St.. furniture store; ; Bar gains in furniture of all kinds. Agent for Lang ranges, best made. Also auctioneers.. , - () Pomeroy. ft . "Keene, lewelers, never fail 'to give yon 100 on the dollar.: Watches, clocks, pins, charms. Standard high v grade stock in all departments.- - (). Picture time is here. r For your films and kodaks and kodak sup riles see Nelson & Hunt Drug gist, corner Court and Liberty gtreeta. Telephone 7. - : (?) T TOE OlbsGON JrATESlilXN, SALEM, OREGQll ' V T V - . ' " ' : .V ' ' 't VTUESD MORNING JULY, 20.926 U " 1 J ' ' ' T - ... .t ...... ....... ..- .. ,. : .. . ... :rr Is Now Known as Influen G. RODGER keen- went who used to hunt over Ipwa's fellow would suggest, "We figuring out the future. He magazines, and a good many Listened to the talk of (older the catle roved off Into the bottom lands, and the three Shafts had to saddle up and bring the wanderers home across-the WapsV eiSith, the younger brother,- picked out his favorite catle-chasing horse. and his father selected his. Jay hadn't been at home long enough to have a favorite right then; so he looked at a new horse standing there, a long legged pacer, and said: i "She looks as though she'd be a good cattle-chaser. Guess I'll take her." And Heman and Mr. j Shaff looked at each other behincj Jay's back and grinned, and said, "she's a great cattlerchaser!" I So Jay took her, and rode along all happy until it came to fording the Wapsl to get to the side the catle were wandering, paced paced to the middle where The iof the stream and lay down and i rolled. over. History doesn't, say. but doubt less up on the hanks Mr. Shaff and Heman did , likewise. Certainly they let out a big laugh, j They weren't afraid of Jay's"" getting hurt; he was far too alert for that, And they had" known perfectly well what the pacer would do She always -did It if you didn't watch her; that; roll was pjart of her method of crossing a ford. But "Governor" knew what to do. He cooly sorted himself out from the pacer and the Wapsi, and remembering that they'd soon be crossing back that way; with the catle serenly announced that one of the fellows who had de clared the pacer was a great, cattle-chaser could have the fun of riding her the rest of the trip. And one of the fellows did, finessing the pacer safely I back over the ford with the skill of previous practice, and getting a good grin out of the fact that you could not catch ''Governor"! hoth coming and going. "Governor" Shaff could make a quick decision and make it right And Jie could make a big deci sion and make It right. That's why he went, back on the farm after he got his master's degree at the University of Wisconsin. He leaned toward law. But his lather needed his help ; then, too, he liked he man-sized freedom ion the farm, the variety of work, the life in the open air-- and he though going back to the place that bad always been farmed by Shafts.- - - So he went , back to the home place, this boy who had the fore sight ..anA strength of purpose to prepare himself, for- farming as comparatively few men are pre pared. - '. The Midget Meat Market! never fails to give you the finest meats and fish. ' There Is but one place in Salem to get the finest fish.' The Midget Market has it for you; ( ) -". .'. . . -, -1 ... ; At Shipley's the ladles of Salem have satisfied themselves that they can get the finest spring and sum mer frocks; coats and dresses ever shown in this city. () Now. thirty-nine. young: man. Jay O. Shaff is one of the outstanding farming world--? figures in the On the 400-acre rarm on Which be lives, he has a big heme witb every . modern convenience; his great barns are built to satisfy the most exacting cow; two Iowa State College graduates have charge of his scientifically immaculate dairy where a big butter-maker turns out a single making 500 pounds of the sort of butter that set) you longing for a stack of buck-wheats a mile high; his own grata eleva tor stands down by the interurban tracks; his tenant farms dot the country, and his tenant farmers get a square deal and more. ; A handful of husky young sons are hunting over the same I hills and fishing the same waters where years ago "Governor" Shaff hunt ed and fished. They are learning to handle animals and run machin ery at the age when it's easiist to learn those things. They're getting ready to be farmers if they Want to be. Not otherwise. Jay O. Shaff is leaving each of his sons to pick the work he likes best. Lucky young Shaffs with an understand ing dad who knows what, to do! And lucky community, tool Jay O. Shaff serves the whole state. In 1917, he was elected to!- the house of representatives in Iowa's legislature. In 1922, he was elect ed state senator from Clinton county. As head of the senate com mittee on highways, he holds one of the most important chairman ships in the senate and is in a po sition to fight effectively tof the good roads farmers need. He has been a leader in the movement to stamp out tuberculosis in Iowa herds. He is always looking ahead and planning for prosperity of all. Jay O. Shaff is a man of power ful influence; a farmer whd has learned his business, scientifically and practically, from A to 2; a farmer with a legal training! who knows a good law from a diid or a back-action bomb; a farmer! who is a fine mixer, equally at hoihe in overalls among his hired hands or in tweeds among city men. Wherever he is. his words! car ries weight. Associates everywhere will tell you, "Jay Shaff lg; the man who knows." j Not so surprising when yola re member that "Governor" Shaff was the boy who knew. The) boyj who knows, who sizes up situa tions and studies out what to do. Is likely to grow up into the man who knows and does an j out standing job wherever he iis. Courtesy "The American Boy." W. G. Krueger, realtor; progres sive, fair; equitable. Growing city and country make possible buys that will make you good money. Complete listings. 147 N. Com'l. ! () Tyler's Corn Remedy takes the soreness out of those corns you're been trying to rid yourself of for months. Sold only by Tyler's Drug Store. I () Eiker Auto Co., Ferry at! Lib erty St. Autos stored, and bought and sold. Cars washed day and night. Low prices and service1 will make long friends. i () Bonesteele Motor Co., 47'4 S. Com'l., has the Dodge automobile for you. All steel body. Lasts a lifetime. Ask Dodge owners. They will tell you. ! () Halik & Eoff Electric Shopj 337 Court St, Everything electric. from motors and fixtures and! sup- piles to wiring. Get prices! and look at complete stock. F. W. Pettyjohn Co., 36$ N. Commercial. Hudson-Essex qual ity cars price reduction effective June 9, 1926. Buy your new car now. () . Smith & Watkins for tire serv ice at a lower cost. Vulcanizing and retreading, tube repairing. If you have tire trouble Just call 44. VIbbert '& Todd Electric Store, High at Ferry ,Sts. Everything electrical. Good service and low prices are bringing an increasing traae to this store, i () H. L. Stiff Furniture Co., lead ers in complete home furnishings, priced to make you the owner. The store that studies your every heed and Is ready to meet it, absolutely. jo A. H. Moore, 235 N. High1 St, apartments, and store where I you can get high quality furniture! and inrnisnings for every room in your house. ;() PORJXFOIWIATION j ABOUT RAILROAD. TRIPS Phone 727 I OREGON x ELECTRIC of - VJe Sell. F JT - - i ; BECKE & HENnmrKs Insurance of AH Kinds , . Telephone 101 i i ; . Heillg Theater Lobby; 189 North High PAVE STREETS FASTER KAY URGES ALDERMEN (Continued txmm i.) street and if they do ho ; want it the city disposes of it v David Pugh appeared before the council to ask that hlii petition to build a combination residence and store at South Chu rch and Howard streets be grant pd. The petition had been brougt t up at a previous meeting and; action had been deferred. The ojncil ar gued on this matter, jfi ially de ciding to refer it to the zoning and planning commission which is expected to be named soon. The petition of the Capital City Bedding company, to ejrejct a fill ing station in Parrish addition was granted, although lone of the property owners In thai district appeared in person to remonstrate against it. Sixteen other persons had signed a remonstrance against the petition. . j j A petition for paving Washing ton street from Fairmoiint avenue to a line 75 feet west of the alley between blocks 25 and 26 was not granted, the council deciding to adopt the original petition on this matter which called for paving the street on beyond the The recommendation alley, of the street improvement committee that the alley in block! 17 in Nob Hill annex be vacated was adopt ed. ! ' The petition of the Star Ex change to erect an electric sign at its new store was granted. A motion was passed to bring up at the next meeting the matter of installing sidewalks on, portions of Lincoln, Myers, Liberty, and North Capital streets, j A petition for a storm sewer on Liberty street between j State and Ferry was referred to ; the sewer committee. I i A petition for an electric sign at 4 54 Ferry street was! referred to the committee on lights. A petition for paving Lee street between 24 th and 25th) was re ferred to the street improvement committee. j ! A petition for an electric sign at Nob Hill and Oxford streets was referred to the cominittee on lighting. A motion to grant a petition for changing the sidewalk j line on Summer street near Fairgrounds Road to save some large shade trees there was granted A pre vious motion to refer the matter to the new zoning commission was lost. The city attorney! was em powered to draw up an! ordinance to meet this case. T A petition from Oliver Jory, who had failed to bond his prop erty In time, to bond Itj under- the Bancroft act, was granted. - " ' ' A petition for the Improve ment of Garnet street! from Ne braska avenue to D streot-wasjre ferred to the street imiprofejiMnf committee. :;: vfr;r A petition to appoint a public affairs committee, to b! a stand ing committee, was lajid on the table until the next meeting. The proposed committee Will handle matters not -already Under any standing committee anji usually referred to a special committee. A petition from property owners on North Commercial street to prevent shopowners tere from piling Junk on the sidewalk was referred to the committee on health, and police. The city's share for ' improving Brooks avenue was authorized to be bonded under the Bancroft act A petition to build a conetetr laundry and enlarge tbje present one at Fifteenth and B streets was referred to the planning! and zon- Ing commission to be soon. The remonstrance a appointed ainst i in- proving River street between O. J. Hull Auto Tort & Paint Co. Radiator, fender jand body repairing. Artistic painting adds 100 to the appearance of your auto. 267 S. Commercial. (w) Capital Bargain House, Capital Tire Mfg. Co., Mlke'a AUto Wreck ing. Three in one. Bargain center of Salem. Thousands of! bargains. II. Steinbock, 215 Center. . () Bits For Breakfast Again, good mornlng-H m "m -h . i Good morning to the second party of the members of the Na tional Editorial association, pass ing through Salem at 6 o clock this morping m m m On their way from the annual meeting of their association Los Angeles, to Alaska! -ta "k I ; They have seen many jfine cities and much fine country!; but they are missing Salem and i the Salem I district. They are thu s missing JMIiti Cm jfnftTJUiiATTue- YooRjAfe - 'TS So 3-Mf feS!rVJoppekr: 5aF Bcsl&ARYWfcafe:- Commerclal street and the ; Wil lamette riyer was referred to the city planning and zoning commis sion. - . The ? resolution introduced by the ways and means committee to authorise assessments for improv ing River street was adopted. Several resolutions for assess ing money to Improve Norway street between Capitol - and Win ter, Myers street, Warner street between i Tile Road and Hunt street, and Fifteenth between Oak and Mill, were adopted. .-; , A resolution to appoint a build ing' code commission, to act .with the city engineer was adopted. A bill to aceept the deed of a parcel of land from Oscar Red field and his wife was found to have been vetoed by the mayor because a period had ben substi tuted for a coma in typing it. The council voted to sustain the may or's veto. A new ordinance will be drawn to cover the matter. Another veto of the rKayor was sustained no an ordinance to assess the cost of improving River street near Water street. In this ordinance the word "hard sur face" had been used where it should have read "macadam." A bill to assess for the Improve ment of Myrtle avenue from High land street to Fairgrounds Road was passed. A bill to segregate some of the property on North Capitol street for the purpose of assessing for the improvement of North Cap tol from Shipping to Madison was passed. Alderman Patton stated that the city should do something to get cheaper sand and gravel next year, as the county is buying it for a price considerably under what the city pays. A motion to have the street improvement com mittee investigate the matter was passed. A petition from Harry Ralph for a license to conduct a card room at 190 South High street and to sell soft drinks was referred to the committee on health, and police. La Grande Iron works, twice burned since 1924, with $50,000 loss, will rebuild. The Bake-Rite Bakery. Busj every day supplying best hornet with bakery goods of all kinds; baked in a kitchen clean as your own. 345 State St. () Parker & Co., 444 S. Commer cial. Don't fail to see Parker about repairing your car. Expert mechanics at your service. All Work guaranteed. () the prove tation value '-9 P ice, H :: - :; :i The i : m n P 1 f i ri W 1 1 i the fastest grqwing city of its population (25,000) in the United States, with the best prospects of any city of its size from the At--lantic to thr Pacifier and they are missing the laud of diversity and the country of opportunity jwith mere strings to!" its bow than any other on this continent. T - . -V . - We are" Just, bgittniag as an Industrial city. We have one can nwy that packs 240,0) cans of fruit in one day; and we have eight canneries and several pack ing houses. We have! the biggest paper mill of its kind in western America, and now doubling its Capacity. We? have many, other factories. But w are only just fairly started. H V The flowers this morning pre sented to tlo touring editors are from the state hospital. Tnat in stitution is one of the most beau tiful in florescent and other at tractiveness in th whole world; t.nd Salem is the City Beautiful in fact and In the making. m S S These flowers are presented through the courtesy of J. J- Mc Govern, the night man (the one on the owl or what the editors would call the graveyard shift) of the Southern Pacific passenger de pot here. H V Sorry, brother editors, that you could not have stopped in Salem and given our city and surround ings the once' over, and sampled the superior brand of hospitatity that id one of the prideful attrib utes of Oregon's capital. .. .. Just a note to. the editors pass ing through. Salem is the world's loganberry center;,. it is the fine linen center of this continent; it Is the filbert center of. he United States; it. produces better walnuts than California; it cans more strawberries than any other city in the world; it is the peppermint First National Bank, the bank of friendship and helpfulness in time of need. Interest paid on time reposits. Open an account and watch your money grow. () The rug and carpet department of the Hamilton Furniture Co. is one of the most complete in the state. All rug prices below regu lar list. () D. H. Mosher, Merchant Tailor, is turning out the nobbiest and best fitting tailor made suits to measure. 100 business and pro fessional men buy of Mosher. () value of reputation value of a man is what world. He may be ever it, he's worthless. The value of a watch, a skillet, an automobile, is what it does, the worth it shows its user. It may be of highest" serving power If it can't prove it, it's useless. The repu of any product is the known proof of its worth. of that known proof is When you buy an advertised watch or skillet, you buy value withia reputable manufacturer's name behind it You don't have to wait till you use it to know it. Thfc qualities which made it ad vertisable have proved the worth for you. You need only ask for the product by name. Fastened securelv to that satisraction. Read the advertisements. with established reputations ft At The Theatres The Elsinore Gloria Swanson in "The ; Untamed Lady" and America's Polar Triumph." Lieut. Commander Byrd. U. S. N trip across the north pole. Oregon - Reginald Denny 5Where Was I?" I in BLIGH William Fairbanks and Phyllis Haver In "A Fight t the Finish."-'. - ;"v:; : rj, ,- v. oil' center of the new world; it is the birthplace and center of the evergreen blackberry Industry. All the four great sweet cherries of commerce, excepting one, were originated here. It is ths goose berry center of the United States; we beat Kalamazoo with our cel ery. ' We have produced nearly all the highest record Jersey cows of th. world. These are just a few of the things that might jbe said about this country, of diversity and land of opportunity, Mm riitv School district votes S5.000 bonds for high school ad dition. ! MHRRIQ nPATH CASE IS PENDING (Continued front Pf a statement that the First Baptist church is In possession of f Inee that there was a plot to kill Dr. Norris. The church has held no meeting since Saturday and could not issue a statement Without a meeting, he said. . j j Mickle, who descriebd him self as a "general assistant to everything around the First Bap tist church" earlier in the day had issued a statement telling of the alleged plot. ' t i Mayor H. C. Meachaim friend of the slain man and the object of attacks in the Searehligh, OTgan of the First Baptist church, de clined to be drawn into: a discus sion of the case. He merely re peated that Chipps had gifen him no intimation that he intended to call on Norris last Saturday. Norris today sat in his study where the slaying occurred and UMMER COLDS are lingering and annoying. The vry first night apply V VaroRuo Qvmr IT Million Jm Yftrly he does, the worth he shows so good inside. If he doesn't 1 that you can recognize " ... vm. m. a. w , They familiarize yoii Si . received callers, telegrams ana letters, and conferred with heads 6f the various departments of the church. The calm with which he faced 6000 persons at his Sunday morning service apparently had largely deserted Um. Thomas Jackson, chief of detectives, stat ed Jiue today that the police had uncovered nothing which could he, made public before the grand Juryj sits on the case. Asked spffi- eallj about the dlaapparau,j o j Mrs Fannie Creer, switchboard operator at the Westbrook hotel,! 'reported to have heard Chipps' conversation with Norris before he wenjt to the church, he declined to ahswer. -1 W J '. liw S. Grevemberg, room clerk j at tiie hotel, also reported to have heai-d Chipps' end of the conver- I Ration, reaffirmed his refusal lo talk!- -:? j iL;X ... - X i The Salem Hdw. Co., most prol cresslve. Every accommoaatior eiven to those in need of ben j hardware supplies. Work and pros, periity Uie motthi 120 N. Com'l ( ) ulrich A Roberta, realtors, 122 N. Commercial St., know property values and make for you profit able investments. Will both save and I make . you money.. - , . () Iita W. Jorgenaen, 190 S. High St. I Parts for all makes of cars. Best equipped auto accessory store In this section. Prompt and re liable service the rule. () If you're hot Just step iip to our Foun tain Lunch tomorrow noon! You'll like the tksty sandwiches, salads . and cooling drinks. ROYAL CAFETERIA 460 State Street a II The it. WW V ! "1 4. t '-f J." f II.