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'4 7 THE OREO ON STATESMAN; SALEM. OREGON 9 - The Oregon Statesman . Iiud llaij Kxerpt Utmdtj by THE STATESMAN KrSUSHXHO COK7AVT - 215 8oath Commercial St., 'Baleta, Or. ton : ft. J. Maud rick - Fr4 J. Tx; i -Le M. MrrimaB An4r4 Bunch - 1. - v - YMcr si Uaa?iaf -Editor J - - City EdiUr J Society Editor ". W. II. Hen i man Kalph H.Kletsing Frank Jaskoski E. A. Rhotea , ,W. C". aner ' Circulation Wi(r Adrtinf Manarer - Manager Job liept. ; Litvoatocjt Editor ;.- PooUrjr Editor - . .; - , , MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED? f BESS " . - T AftMiate4 Vrett is exclusively eatitled to tko'uao for publication of all new dispatch credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and aiao the local nw pablUaed aeraia. - v . - business orncES: Alltert Bjrara, 33 Worcester Bldr Portland. Uro. Tbomar. Clark Co, New York. 128 138 W. BUt St.; Cbics-o, Harqoetto Bid. Uoty A I'ayae. Hharen Bld.. iU Francisco, Calif.; lUjtein, Bids, la Anjelorf. Caiii Buslneta Off Society Editor i ." W TELEPH0KE3: t .23 or 581 -i,-' -i . :s :j ... , Xew IenartaMnt93 hr 10 106 Circulation Offic..jS8S v Job lpartmeat ; 5bJ KnUred at the Post Office In Rabns; Oregon, a aeead-claaa matter. V September 10, 1026 ' , THERE IS ;BUT-ONE GODr-"Thou are great, O Lord God, for there Is none like Thee, neither 4s there Any Cod besides Thee." 2 Saitt.7:2t.'. THE WILLAMETTE PAGEANT AGAIN Edgar Lloyillampton, in Current History for September, puts "forth theckimst of! Los Angeles as the art center of the western hemisphere." He gives a large place to the moving , picture, industry, the irresistible lodestone which has "drawn 'artists of the crayon, brush and other allied crafts; the his torians arid 'statisticians the musicians : and a Aors, and the . writers Ky:;' .'. i',: ' . - And Jie shows that, from very recent and very small be ginnings, it has now "forty important motion picture produc ing companies and at least two hundred smaller or individual onesHere is his presentation of the statistics of Los An geles moviedom: . . . ; ; . ''They employ 300 directors, some sixty stars, whose names and places are known in every virilized country, hundreds of featured play er; hundreds of small-part players other hundreds who do important bits, 30,000 extras, and 50,000 additional employees who work in various other branches of the Industry. The gross salaries" paid to these people total $1,500,000 per week. The annual product consists of 600 full-length pictures and some 2,000 of the two-reel variety. The total footage. Including prints, is 6(3,000,000, feet in other t words,' 125,000 miles of Fairbanks,, Chaplin, Pickford Swanson, Bill Hart, and the rest, enough to go five times around the earth. The cost of these pictures to the producer Is $170,000,000; they go forth tQ'the American public through 20,244 theatres, and to all other Ivilized countries the 'prints are senout In forty-two different janguasesr---an.d .according to the report, are viewed each! should be repaid. The question is not what did somebody think in 1917,. bnt what is It wise to tbink'now? , Vl "In the modern world, Industrial, nations are so integrated, by mntual investment and by trade relations, that political isolation Js an illusion. The overseas Investments of the people of the United States now aggregate perhaps eleven billions of dollars, arid we are investing annually, overseas" at the rate of a billion a year. ..... ' i .'"Europe" today is, and long has been, our best customer,- consum ing 'of our' total exports more than double the amount of any other. ebntinent.. In a Jvery.reaf sense, therefore, European buying in the iwprld .markets Is a decisive factor in maintaining the price of our entire home product." It is not conceivable that- the rest of the world will continue to trade with; us during 62 years in which .every one of them would have its own Industries burdened by crushing taxes. f J Every country in3 the! world -1ms bad the experience of a vast and hopeless debtor class, and has realized that every so often it is neces sary. to wipe off the slate and start afresh as in a Scriptural' year of Jubilee. This releases the energies of men. restores hope, cures poli tical disorder and gives life a fresh start. The analogy applies per fectly to the present International situation. The United States needs, not dollars, but a confident, prosperous'and peaceful world as a field for' its industrial and commercial operations. That condition can not be brought about so long as we continue to exact payments up to the'capaclty of the debtors to pay. J "If the foregoing observations are sound, the United States is not justified either in morals or m a long view if Its own best Industrial and commercial interests in adhering to its present policy rwith re nH in ih p figment of the" Inter-allied debts. The ' time has come when'tnese- questions, including the British settlement, ought to be reopened. . Personally, J Relieve: that a mutual cancellation , poucy witi wise. Such a policy' ought ttt relieve England, France Italy,, Bel- gium ana ipe rest, oi our wttr.iuiir,uui.u b i uiv v, their debts among themselves, and In turniought to require' the re lease of some part of the burdens Imposed upon Germany. This should be done at a round table, where a representative of the Unite States should be authorized t6 speak with authority and td aemonsvate io .-. (k. nrM that America's interest is not In dollars but in LAI V A COV VA. a,av w " - i. . . 1 1 reconstructed International order. Jf. week, by3O00Q,00O people, who pay $750,000,000 annnaHyo-see' the : motion-pictures made in the' en tire world ftoday the i them, "Of. 0o -, ynitetL-Statea proa aces 99 per cent, and of these 85 per cent ere pro- fJK ; Mr Hampton tells of many, phases of the artistic life and . progress of his city. 'Here'; Is a paragraph f: 4The extent to rv which they unselfishly devote their time, energies and, money to fostering the arts, is both remarkable 'and inspiring. One ' j of the happiest examples of this finds its express iozr io : The - Mission: Play; . This : playj or rather pageanfj by John Steven .McGroarty, an old-time LosAngeles newspapef man, dramat- s 'izes the period bf the padres" and their missions, of a hundred yearsago. It is put on in the village of San Gabriel, ten miles eastof . Los 'Angeles. Here, with such ; stars as Frederick Wdrfle.Tyrone Power, R. D.'MacLean, and' a cast of several hundred; it hasTun continuously for more .than fourteen years playing to millions of people. The extent to which it'is viewed v in' the light of an institution' was finely demonstrated in a recent announcement of a guest of performance,' in honor of those who had seen the play as many as five times. The response would have 'filled; the playhouse at least a dozen times.. Jt .was learned. there were 5XX) people who had been present as many as twenty times." j He - tells also of ''The. Pilgrimage Play," now known as America's story of the life and deeds of the Christ, written - and produced by Mrs. Christine Wetherell Stevenson, a saint ; ly woman who two years ago bequeathed both the play and its theatre to Los Angeles county ' " f 1; An' open air theater, lighted by a huge cross blazing against the sky from the top of a near by hill, the location of the theater being across the boulevard from the Hollywood v btwl,;l'.,";v-v-, ; ;. ''.- , . 'Hi.-- This leads to the repeated inquiry, why not a Willamette pageant in Salem?" It should represent, the work of the early . Methodist missionaries, who made the beginnings of civiliza tion in the Oregon Country; who were, instrumental in saving to the United States the region from the British Columbia to the California line and from the top of the 'Rockies; to the Pacific ocean, that, but for them, would now be under the British flag instead of the Stars and Stripes. J , -Here is' a theme and here a 1 setting for a pageant that will live for generations if not forever, and that will draw favorable attention, in-a million -ways fromthe ends of the earth.' . ' '. . ' y- - ; f-r:;--: '. Is there not a devout Methodist, man or woman, who can get the vision, and follow it to glorious ends? Here is a - thing- that will redound to the glory and 'greatness of Salem in ways beyond the power jof word to tell." ;- I n The above expression of the views of Mr. Baker has given rise to a greater amount of newspaper comment in this coun try than was brought out bv the Clemenceau letter. A sam ple comment is that of the New York World, as follows : "?he debt discussion; is not closed. For, even granting that this country will continue to desire to collect huge sums from Europe for the next two generations, there is the problem of how Europe will pay us. She can not pay us in gold we have.it. She can not oav us in hats or clothing: we exclude them with our tariff. She can not Day us in wines and liquor, we have prohibition. j-Fop42 years, by the present program. the debt settlements, are of necessity Douna 10 piay a. pari in our tariff policy, in our exports, in our position as a credit or. in'our political destiny' and in every important relation; simultaneously I ship between Europe and America. Political considerations are not with Mr. Baker now; he has only economics on ms side. But sooner or later he will have the better of the argu ment," ' A sample comment on the other side is that of the Wash ington News, as follows : "For the United States in the pres ent state of world opinion, ,to cancel all the obligations owing this country as a result of the war and conditions following the war, would have, an ill effect, not a good effect, upon the world. The validity of all contracts between nations, the whole basis of international relationships, would be seriously impaired. The lesson that would be drawn would be that of any nation that cares to be sufficiently unreasonable and unpleasant about its debts can escape paying them." : Times change: Opinions change. International relation ships change- ; KVS"l,:'- :-' ". -'irV::" J"-: y.-. . As witness thexpresent friendly .relationships- ;betweeri France and Germany, as, compared with the "intense bitter ness tf the' war period- r ; "t And there are reasons to expect continued softening of feelings in this country, to say nothing of changes of views concerning expediency . - I And we may look forward to a reopening of this whole Subject, and it consideration and possible settlement along the Jines suggested by. Mr. Baker. ' ' ' . .. ' " : ' s i If i t . Some time- will be required to wok ;out the proper and prescribed rotations and prepare the contracts for the grow- - ing of the 1927 crop of -fjax for the state ii 1 -i ':' 3 - FORA SCRIPTURAL JUBILEB lewlon D Baker ?bf Cleveland' Ohio, secrervof war in the Wilson cabinet; wrote for "Trade Winds," the monthly puoiication or the Union r Trust company; of that city, his views on the subject of European debt cancellations; as fol- . -'The character of the Interallied debts Is -simple. Attempts to divide them "up Jnto pre-Armistice and post-Armistice: ldans;7tb sep- ri um amouBii wnicn were spent, in tnia country or elsewhere,; or to divide them into- classes' based on th things purchased, as for in- stance, arms for soldiers on the one hand and food for thS civil popu- latien or money for the maintenanc9 of credit on the .other, are worse tha useless. 1. y,r , ; UB , I . ,. 'f . ; - ; , 'The fact Is that not a penny of this money Would Ijaye been lent s by,'us,- or have -been borrowed by any of out debtor, nations, jbutfor the war." Their' need for it arose, out of the contributions and sacri ! flees made by them in the war, and bur willingness to supply it arose out of our belief that it was necessary, to our own interest, to sustain their military efficiency until, the Armistice, and t.hh economic sta- bility after the Armistice, la order to prevent collapse whYch would have cosi us vastly more than the money which we supplied. J "Nor Is It very Important to lnqutre whether at the time of the zaakLa; cf tlese so-bailed Ioaaslihera.. wa'ali iaT a ( 'that ibcy J V Mrs. Sarojlnl XaWu V Nowhere Is the new status - bf women, so startlinly, noticeable, as in " the far eastern ' countries where women have been kept tra ditionally in the background, fn India a Ionian, - Sirs.': Sarojinl Naldu, . has been elected as the PjVesleyan university. first president of the Indian Na tional Congress, -tW office,, for merly held by M. K.' Ghandi. ,. j- The 'newly elected head of the Swarajists was educated at the woman's college of GIrton. at Cambridge, England, and at that time showed a good deal of poetic talent. This ?was jn the' 90's, be fore her political interests developed,'- Sponsored by Sir Edmucc Goose the work of the young. In dian poetess in English was ad mired by the London circle where shone such literary lights as Os car Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and other . famous authors, and she was the darling of London't liter ary world. I Mfs'. Naidu had. published twe volumes of poetry which were ad mired . in England and America In the second volume she brokt away from the Victorian Influenc es that found inspiration in exotS themes and turned her gifts tc exploiting traditional life and re ligions in India., ' Mrs. R. B. Metcalf of Provi dence, R, I., and he r friends. Miss Maude 'Fisher -of New York and Marion Smith - of , Wiscasset, are the first white women ever, to accompany a MacMIJlan arctic expedition. Danes living 160 miles above the Arctic circle wel comed them, the first American women they had ever seen, when the "Sachem" sailed into their harbor. frs. Charles A. Robinson "of New York City is the flaglady of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. She was recently received In aud ience by the pope, and presented the pontiff with an American flag. a John E. Andrus, nationally known as the "millionaire strap hanger," because he travels to and from his. business in New York City in the subway, has a beau tiful sculpture of Julia Dyckman Andrus, his late wife, erected at the entrance to the memorial home for orphan children bear ing her name at Yonkers, N. Y. One of the oddest occupations for women is that of rat-catcher Nell, Kitty and Rose Jarvis, aged respectively 21, 23 and 12, assist their father, John Jarvis, and their mother and two brothers lh rat catching and insect extermina tion in London. Jarvis, the fath er, is 4he official rat-catcher to the London city council and hi most government offices. 1J claims to be the only rat-catcher in Great Britain whose father ant. mother and grandfather on both sides nave iouowea the same trade. His wife also has been rat-catcher for 25 years. " "Crowd your life and keep mentally alive," Is the advice' of Mrs. Bernice S. Pyke, of Lake- wood, O., who certainly follows her own rule. Mrs. Pyke is national demo cratic committeewoman for Ohio, president of the board of educa tion of Lake wood, vice president of the Lakewood Club of Cuya hoga County. She Is also a business woman and a homemaker. Her little book shop In Lakewood has flour ished for more than three years. and her home, where she is bet ter known as Mrs. A. B. Pyke, is a real home for her h usband and son-John who is a student at Ohio "After an hour's planning most of the work in a home is purely L Oppo Your' Golden Automobile rt unity . Prices reduced on reconditioned used automo biles. t 'Neatest, cleanest and most select stock - o used automobiles exhibited in Marion cquh-; ! ty will be displayed in the beautiful salesroom at 3 65 North Commercial street4 this week. Exceptional offerings,: wide "range of . , models including: ; Ford; Ford Coupe, . Fqrd Sedan, Ford Roadsters; Buick ; J Touring, Buick CoupeV.Nash-Touring; . : -y . Jewett Sedan, Elssex, ChevrolefcCoupe,; , v p. Chevrolet Sedan, Cadi H a c . Sedan, Rickenbacker Sedan, r v : ' ' " : Look these cars oyer now , Entire salesroom ; devoted to used automobile display this week. ; It is your opportunity to secure a good car and 'save money. ' ,: JMd F,W. PETTYJOHN CO. :; 365 N. Coml St v : . -. Phone 1260 CADILLAC physical," c sh& says. "Women just think they havent the time for other things. A few more ac tivities than the day will ; hold prod you on and pep you up. ; '"When John went away - to school I wanted . something defi nite to do. Lakewood -needed ' .a bookshop, and because I was on the board of education, it seemed people were always , asking ; my advice about reading so this was the logical outcome. V. I like the idea of service, and meeting people in the store as I do In i politics. . Life is a matter of - association with personalities, after all.' v . Mrs.Pikeoriginally from Chil licothe, O., attended Ohio Wesley an -university ' but-received ber degree from - Smith college. 'J For some time she coached dramatics, af Western,: Reserve university, Cleveland, and then married. . - ;t j Wardrobe Trunks as low. at $24.70 and aa high as $8St 18 Inch Cowhide Hand 'Bags with, leather lining reduced from $8 to 25.90 Mar O. Buren. 179 N. Com!., () Bonesteele Motor Co., 474 S. Com'l., has the Dodge automobile for you. All steel body. Lasts a lifetime. Ask Dodge owners. They will tell you. () NOBLE FRENCH PRUNE irsei The besfprunc'for commerciarorTiome nse f orHiveral reasons: . . 1 " First, because it is the best. : ' ' , : ; " V v Second it is a very large, beautiful prune. " ; . Third, it is an extremely sweet, prune. . , : : ; Fourth,' it is a very quick, easV drying prune; does v v ; not drip and dries in about Jiaif the .time of the - ' Italian. . It is . harvested in August." 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