Oregon Statesman THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS - Inm4 Dally Kxcvpt Unity kjr TSE ITATZSKAS PUBUS&XHQ CO! IIS Saata CocumtcUI St, 8lw. ONM B. J. Haadrlek fr4 J. Toia -Iri 8. Me8hrr7 Parkar Bmi 4acad Base a ' alaaafaT If aaaf tag-Editor - Ottj EVfttor Talafrapa Kdtlor Boetaty Jtaitar W. H. Haadaraaa Ralph H. Klatsiaf Frank Jaskaaki E. A. Kaotaa - -W. O. Caaaar - OiMUatioa Managa Aaarti(iar Maaatti Maaaf a Jaa lpi. LjvMtaek Editor - Poultry Editor - r - f xeksxb or the AssooxATZo rasas ' Tka Aaaoetatad Praaa la axehiaWaly aatitlod ta the aaa for pukHearioa af all tni tapateaaa araditad to it or aot otaarviaa eiadiUd U Uia papar a&4 alaa tfca loea aw pukHihad harala. BTXMHESa OITICEIS Kallar. IS 8 Wanat TIM- Voxi.nl n aaaaaa P. Clark Co.. Saw York. 12 136 W. Slat St.: CkUaf Xarqaotto BMf. TEX7B0KESt Job Departnaat it Kawa Departmaat 29 or 10 Cirealatioa Offtaa as Baaiaaat Of flea S9 or Sit Soeiaty Editor loo Eatorod at tko Poat Offieo ia Balam. Oraa, la-elaaa aiatta. ii Trainer si. JOY FOLLOWS UNDEHSTA NI)IX(t -"And nit the - nrinla urotit Urelr way to eat. and to drink, and to end portions, and to make great mirth, because they bad understood the words that were de clared unto them." Neh. 8:1. OUR CANNING INDUSTRY Salem has eight canneries; seven packing fruits and one putting up beans and pumpkins and salting cucumbers and making pickles ' Besides a large vinegar factory and several oackiritr and barreling plants and a fruit juice factory and cider factory ; ana several more allied concerns m prospect And there is going to be vast room for extensions in all these lines r for more canneries, for grape juice and jam and jelly plants, etc. Several more canneries for Salem are now in prospect. The canning industry of the United States as a whole is a , huge one, and growing very fast So that one of the comments which .visitors from other lands frequently make on the United States is that we use so large a quantity of canned goods, that we, figuratively, take our meals out of the can. - According to recently published figures the approximate .value of American preserved foods totaled over $500,000,000 last year. Products included vegetables, fruits, sea foods, pickles, preserves; and milk and meats might appropriately have been added. Including some 200 canneries in Canada, which buy most of their supplies in the United States, the total value of the supplies consumed by canners is estimated at $100,000,000 yearly. There are 5,000,000,000 cans used, and about the same number of bottles and jars. Ten billion labels and 300,000,000 boxes are required. Sugar to the amount of 6,250 tons was used for sweetening. Although previously a majority of canneries operated at only from three to six months, many are operating the entire year now, and the number of year around canneries is increas ing as products out oi season are tound to keep the canner s equipment busy the entire 12 months. A few of the most common fill-in products arc spaghetti, oysters and baked beans. While most of the food products sold are put up in cans, the number of glass receptacles used is growing. Even now over $150,000,000 worth is preserved in glass. Exports of canned vegetables in 1925 amounted to $5. 900,000 and fruity $20,800,000. Our canned corn evidently is liked the best abroad, as some 24,300,000 cases of this product were exported last year. Tomatoes came second with 19,- vou.wu cases, peas tnird witn i,uu,ouo cases, and over 14,000,000 cases of baked beans took their places on the dinner tables of our neighbors across seas. Peaches led the fruits followed closely by Hawaiian pineapples. We are far better off than the emperors and kings of the "a. aaa a -m jm a . a V V.nt Vin Vlr1 1tal HA 1tQn(1 Sfi fol Ifi's I . 1 - J A . I 1 -wll1 1 Sk.Y k ancients wno, as it win be recalled irom tales in the old iatmi 1,101 UM a nunuwnut - , . ' . , , . . . , . abduction. It was est a pleasant broken trunk tray and covered verse when an especially elaborate celebrative meal was desired. Americans and those who buy American canned i i At : f ii u i i ii. , jgooaa nave me aeucacies oi ine worm Hpjeau ueiuie mem in tins and glass receptacles whenever the appetite calls for them and with no greater effort than a visit to the corner store a block or two away. The increased value of things put up in glass containers in 1925 in the United States increased in value 40.6 as com- ! aa -vnA tra'4Vt 1001 nnrl i nr o a ca in roliia ff "T rv"vrl Q ir lilatkG TMlf 1111 CftACA VTt,A4 d,kfaA OUU iiiVl V-C?V J all VUfaw V. a in tin cans grew in the same period from 15 to 29 per cent And there will be continued steady growth And Salem ought to be putting up in cans now corn, peas, tomatoes, asparagus, carrots, beets, and a dozen more vege tables and fruits not now included in our annual pack, which is away above a million cases annually, as against only 30,000 cases in 1910 But which ought to be doubled soon, and have a continuous progressive growth for an indefinite time. Herbert Hoover says our population is not far away from the time when we will not be able to feed our people from our land - . And the Willamette valley should live fully up to her "opportunities, with not a slacker or an idle acre. Then 10,000,000 of the people of the United States w ill live in this ' .valley. By Clement C. Moore. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through, the house t Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, j While visions of sugar plums danced through their heads ; j And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, j Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, j When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, j I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow, Gave a lustre of midday to objects below; When what to my wandering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer? With a little old driver, so lively and quick I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled and shouted and called them by name : 4Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Praicer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall! Now, dash away, dash away, dash away all!" As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly. When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So, up to the house top the coursers they flew. With a sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas, too. And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot ; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack. His eyes how they twinkled ! His dimples how merry ! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry ; His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, 'And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He had a broad face, and a little round belly That shook," when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist, of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings ; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle ; But I heard.him exclaimere he drove out of sight : .'Happy Christmas to all, "and to all a goodnight sorry to have troubled you. Come on.; CUC We'll go-to Keene." With that they toot themselves off,; and Janet ascended again to the attic. She unlocked a trunk, from which Celiw thrust a pallid and perspiring face. "Have they gone?" "Aye, the gomerals! Trampin through the lad's "house wi sairch warrant! Much they found! f "Come, lass, ronie back tae yer bed." , (To be continued) trainmen directing 'jthe vork of clearing the tracks. , The bodies ot four children were t$mong those recovered. of the NATION 'FOOLED' ABOUT NAVY DECLARES BUTLER (Continued from page I) j the back porch and were permit j ted to go home through the back i eate. The next time they attend j the conference they will find not j only the front gate and the front ! door open, but they will be invited to sit on the hair covered sofas in : the front parlor. "For one. I have come to realise i that nations, like individua1:?. have always been governed by force and will continue to be so governed. Having succeeded in inducing the nations to destroy some of their great ships, I supposed that a friendly relation had begun and that when America sank some SOO.OOO tons of good steel those other nations would approci.ite the Kenerosity expressed in our will ingness to sacrifice. "But when I learned in the past week that those other nations have built more ships than they sacrificed and that the spirit of the 5-5-3 treaty was not observed through the construction of small er vessels than those limited by the treaty, I began to conclude that America had been fooled." The known injured i S- J. Keith, engineer Ponce de Lone. ' R. M. Pierce, road foreman, rid ing in Keith's cab. ' Mrs. Wi'.'iams 3 nd small daughter, of l)et -:it. ' All were rerwrted seriously hurt and Mrs. Williams with (her child were taken to a hospital s t Cedar town, Ga. ) One of the physicians "Pt here on a relief train estimated that there were a5 or morel injured persoms. The body of the firemat of the northbound train was pianed to the cab by wreckage, but reescuers could not reach it. J The whole town of Rcfr-kmart turned out to assist in rednoving the wreckage from the dead and injured. Cedartown.' is 17 miles from Rockmart. ' I FACTORIES GET SUPPLIES Despite a slowing dqwn in auto mobile production, most Michigan factories - are bringing in larg amounts of raw materials against the time -when production will in crease, according to a survey by the Pere Marquette railway. Bits For Breakfast 3 you ffrVI MAgSARET CAtAEgQM CHAPTKU TH1RTV-SKVEX On the way to Fitzwilliam Scott Nixon what he might expect if it was not clearly demonstrated 'told l V A good county agent would justify his employment in the 111111 n wiiuin vivi' in nriv iiiik til k.iwjw s. vj ux Jxh. iiiaiui nmuj- tries on the land in other words, he would be worth about ;40 times his cost.5 ,Wc are not living up to our opportunities, by several very long shots. 1 "The garret, sir. , He mounted, discovering only cobwebbed beams, an array of locked and dusty trunks, two or t.'iree decrepit chairs, a neap of vt Thcrj: must be no thought of slacking up on the campaign ;oftr sugar beet acreage, till the 1500 acre point K reached, and . Ki ROnO Vr.. rWMn frsr 1 0U '.nrut f nrtOTV vThe Test Will be . nv v v a v v k a v a - ' a'a ' - af a ik. aV 1 av ' a vara a waft n T V all ! a." I f lir ' I I I U a IIIX Illa-'l ih . aw aiivi uuii, u ii; inu inuuv vi uioiuiio , i..m...v.v valley the sugar bowl of inc. pnftcd StatcC' ;t : f' (jct a idozcii sugar factories within a radius f 20 miles of $alem, and there will be number of additional skyscrapers in Ihteciiy. ; :; ? r K c --4 s Extend the Christmas cheer campaign for six weeks, at least rtill-field work opcns'-upry--y'U .1 I unve. Arrived tLtre. Kixon learned at the store that the Smith house lay down a lonely road at the edge or the village and was without neigh bors, but detected no indication that the menage had dissolved into thin air over night. Before visit ing it, Scott insisted upon obtain ing a search warrant. The sheriff, amazed, said that there was noth ing wron with Mrs. Smith; her shofer had been to see him about seme business that very morning. But Scott, arbitrary as usual. would accept no refusal. He ar gued that nobody knew anything about this woman, who had ar rived only a week before and might be a clever crook. His daughter had been kidnaped, and by this and by that he intended to investigate every suspicious house in the state, if necessary. The sheriff scratched his head, ad mitting that the lady had been unable to give any references, and eventually, not averse to an active share in the excitement, consented to accompany them. A few min utes later the three Ftood on Mrs. Smith's perch, hammering at the door until - Janet composedly opened it. ."I want to see Mrs. Smith," Scott said abruptly. - "She's not in." Her tone was serene, her dignity unruffled. "Where is she?" "I think she went to Keene. sir." "Well, I'm going to search this house.. Thi is the sheriff. A young lady has disappeared and I t"Hve she's here.". . welcome, 3 since ye have t he . la w with ye. Rut it is u hard way to treat a lady like her. Ve'H find obody hern tint, me." x She flung wide the dHr, ami the three entered; Nixon and the fheriff. impressed by the old S-ots woman's a'ast ere. aggressive xc-;ptH-tabilHy, . already convinced that they pursued a wild goose. Nevertheless, the house was thor oughly searched. Janet, calm and disdainful, following' them about. Scott peered into closets and un der beds and behind large, niera of furniture, corning at last to the door to the attic. : - f- "Waal's up here? he demsntl- vith an old carriage rug, and sev oral rolls of wall paper. Satisfied that no one could be strceted in the house, he led his party to the barn, returning, baffled, to the kitchen door, where Janet stood, dour and rigid, fol lowing their investigations with visible disapproval. ; "Where did this Mrs. Smith come from?" Scott questioned. "Are ye suspicious that maj-be he hid the young lady in Se attle?" was the biting reply, and i the sheriff lll-advisedly permitted himself to chuckle, winning a glare from Scott before that gen tleman again attempted to bore through to Janet's soul with his penetrating gaze. "How long have you worked for her?" "1 worked for the master many a year before ever he saw her, and for his father and mother before him. Thirty years I've been in the family, and this is the first time I've ever seen a house search ed by a sheriff. Rut then, we've lived always among gentlefolk." Even Scott was not armored against that shaft. His flush deep ened, and under the old woman's steady scrutiny he fonnd himself constrained to a certain explana tion. , "Humph! My daughter was kid n'aped last night. We're trying io find her. and something I'd heard about Mrs. Smith . Well, Last morning to shop early a S "a And you will have to, if would avoid the rush. W a There will be a special Christ mas prologue with a local cast at the Elsinore tomorrow, along with the picture, "The Winning of Bar bara Wrorth." Some of Salem's outstanding talent will be in the prologue. "a It would well pay the people of Salem to provide the salary and expenses of a county agent for the poultry industry alone. A good man could put Salem on the map in a few years, as the Petaluma of Oregon, with an industry bringing more than 520.000,000 annually to this city. s s There is no other industry that would bring more patronage to all classes of our business men. Some of the $20,000,000 would get into every single pocket. m "a The saving of the lives of chicks (hat now die needlessly would be worth several times the salary and expenses of a county agent. a S And this is only one line of de velopment that is needed here. . S The right kind of a county agent would put over the beet sugar acreage, and assure the building of a beet sugar factory, which industry alone would em ploy five or six men doing the work of county agents, in order to insure profits to the farmers grow ing sugar beets. And this would mean rotation and hundreds of thousands of dollars annually add ed to the value of other crops that mesh in with sugar beet growing, and great increase in the dairying and other live stock industries. SEEK PERMANENT TEXT BOOK INJUNCTION NOW Continued on paga B.J they said they were opposed to entering into contracts with the publishers for textbooks adopted at the annual meeting of the state textbook commission, and would welcome a permanent injunction in the Graham case pending legis lative action. It was said that the resolution was adopted by the majority mem bers of the board of education be cause of criticism leveled at the adoptions of the state textbook commission. 130 DIE AS FAST CRACK TRAINS HIT IN GEORGIA (CuBUnueui from pass 1) sought to penetrate the wreck age. Mingled with the screams of the injured in the debris of the all-steel cars were the frantic shouts of those who sought to free them and the commands of &iro rtof &Anei Yfr4 Life.-Pseoreef YotX. none isf YovfAiL y- JJC4rC J- mm my- HECKE & HENDRICKS tnaitraite of All Kinds . . Telephone 101 lleilig Theater Lobby. 1S9 North High -aBOl FUN FIT FOR A KING! AT THE i ELSINORE NEW' YEARS MIDNIGHT MATINEE The Last of a Series Mfans vou can M, See Our Service You can See Our Service as a matter of omission as well as commission. As a matter of omission our drivers omit all damage to lawns, windows and weather boarding. And as a; matter of commission they gather up all spilled coal, clean up the walks and leave your home just as they found it. As a housewife remarked the other day, "While unable to be at home tomorrow I know that it is perfectly safe for your drivers to make delivery during my absence. You, too, will find that it is not necessary to forego a visit to friends or a meeting of the club when Hillman Fuel Company is to make delivery of your fuel. NILLMAN FUEL CO. Our Telephone Number is 27 or 1855 Cfiristaas SI and Silk uppers T IT 1 Hose AT (HIT JUST RECEIVED LARGE SHIPMENT OF McCALLUm HOBS All the New Colors WE ARE PLACING. EVERY PAIR ON SALE Ladies' House Slippers Regularly sold at $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50, to close out 65c 95c $1.35 McCALLUM SILK HOSE Regular $2.00 Values on sale at $1.75 3 Pairs for $5.00 500 PAIRS SILK HOSE Up to ?1.50 per pair all go at $1.00 Men's House Slippers We are finishing up all our men's slippers. Every pair must go, both leather and felt. Regular price $2.00 to $6.00 goat 95c $1.35 $1.95 $2.95 kjxxt enure stock mens women s. dovs and children's shoes all on sale at ridi culously low prices. TT!1! 1 ... V'TT - ' nanan Fiorsneim Archpresvers NEVER BEFORE ON SALE Are now going at closing out prices. Any of the above mentioned articles make very practicable presents. SF Rubber Heel Day Every Wednesday. We Ik VWPut Heels On Any Shoe For Half Price.S? (& . Repair Dep't. Our shop, is quipped with all new machin cry. We use nothing but thQ very best grade of leather that money will buy. Mr. Jacobson in chargo of thi department, is an expert in his line ha spent years in fac tories and repair shops ' and will do nothing but high grade work. V StlbY Shoes Fm Pimp . 1 326 3tstea HaltoU5AS55X - ViLstfcfo FoctAftliaoeff Do Your Feet Hurt? CM removed without pain, or oreness. ingrown, nail s removed and treated. Pains in feet," weak foot; flat foot, ! foot strains and fallen arches adjusted. Do not suffer.;- I will give you the best that sci4 1 enco can ' produce in ; scientific chiropody. . ' V . Consult - - Dr. 31. D. Vinyard ( - .... -, , , , . . " i I If ...... .... - - " ----- ' ' " : --vt.j