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fh tlx r v v. ff - fiT j?- r-V, :if V? SECTION TWO Pd&s 1 to 8 Societi&'Editorial Classified CLE A N A N D V I G O R O US SEVENTY-SIXTH YEAR THE OLD CHICKEN HAWK TREE STORY Many1 People Like the Hawk Cunning Protects Them for Time,. Then Fails Vy Rev. Ernest H. Shanks Id the field back of the orchard there stood an old cotton-wood tree. It was a big tree as far hack as I can remember. There was a great big limb that extend ed above all the others, and it was a favorite place for the chicken hawk to perch, for from it they could look all over the farm in ev ery direction, and see over into the chicken yard at the other side of the orchard. What keen sight a hawk has, and howfar they can nee. If there was a hawk in the country anywhere about, he al ways found the old cotton-wood a favorite place. My father had an old long-bar reled gun. "We called It a squir rel gun. It was a muzzle loader Father made his own bullets in the molds. He had a large pow der horn-. He knew how much powder to put in and how to load, pushing the bullet dow'n on top of the powder with the ram-rod, and then the percussion cap on the tube under the hammer. Fath er was a good shot, and many the hawk that fell a prey to his care ful aim. There was a clump of blackber ry bushes not far from the cotton- wood that could be reached from the orchard fence without attract ing attention. We usually knew when a chicken-hawk was about for the chickens would set up a great cackling and make such a fuss that we would go out and look. Usually we would see the hawk circling about. At the sight of anyone coming out the hawk would make for the cottonwood. Father would get the old squirrel gun and creep down along the or chard fence to the blackberry patch. He seldom failed to get Mr. Hawk if he stayed long enough. One day the largest hawk we had ever seen "came "and" landed in the top of the cottonwood. Father wag working in the field opposite and saw him light. He left me in the field with the team, where I was to move about occasionally to keep the attention of the hawk, and he went to the house to get the gun -and powder horn. Then he came out along the orchard fence. I moved about with the team and the hawk was watching me so that he did not see father enter the blackberry thicket. Pres ently I heard the gun crack, and the hawk came fluttering down to the ground. The shot had broken his wing so he could not fly. but my, how he could run and fight.. We had a race to catch him and a hard figh to kill him. He was t!u; biggest hawk we ever saw. Some or the neighbors said It was an eagle hawk, and that he prob lly would not have bothered the chickens, but would have fought 'Onntinuert on pa etc 8.) f ii rn'iEU" Londoners Enter Into Heated Debate .of Pronuncia tion of Word f-ONi (ix. -(A!) America us arrivui- j indon for the first utile are always at a loss whether 'lie famous street, Pall . Mall, xliould he pronounced "Maul" or KMell." and, now Londoners them-" I'lvr's have become confused -and have entered into a controversy "'Ii a hope (,f settling the ques '" Tor all time. V Lloyd Jahies, chairman of 'he advisory committee of the KritiHh Broadcasting Corporation, has nruerf critical listeners to 'be ! uitable. reminding them that ' K U. O. ofifcial used an un familiar pronounciation it did not v.-.i w I II If I W I.I121.L 1. 1 It? UllllTlclI I'as illitpralo t'ot klley. Mr. .lames pointed out that the Nrst oxfwnl dictionary, now out of 'ate. Rave Mall as "Maul," but Hie ermtite clubmen , who make fhHr tmnie fn the, fashionable i (enough fare promptly ant indig-J '.nuy arfirmed that such a pro fi'in. intion was Impossible, It is "Men,- in?y contended in chorus. l II. C. officials say they have r' intention of making a decifoii, and have suggested that the pub lic by a post card vote decide "whether one of the world's best Jtnown streets should be spoken feo that it rhymes with helI,, or mk "all," gr gUterwisg;,, 111 HI '" MB Oregoitians to Sail From Quebec f LEGEND OF "INDIAN GIVER" ROT SO TRUE Experience of Member of Tribe Makes "True Sports" of AH Blackfeet GLACIER PARK. Mont.--(Spe cial.) The odious expression "In dian giver" (meaning hot for keeps) which is applied to people who give something and then want it back, never fitted the Blackfeet tribe after the Great Spirit brought disaster to Napee, an old man of their nation ac cording to the present day oracles of the Glacier National Park res ervation. Here is a legend that lives vividly among young and old: Many moons ago an aged In dian traveling met a coyote and made a companion of him, just like he would a dog. The day was hot on the prairie and the Indian and coyote came upon a huge out standing rock on the plains. The old Indian took off his buekskir coat and' spread it over the rock. giving the garment to the prairie landmark. After resuming his journey with the coyote it started to rain and old Napee sent the wolf back for the coat. But the rock wouldn't return the coat and the coyote came scampering back to the Indian with its tail hanging between its legs. This made the aged brave mad and he retraced his steps in haste, grabbed up the coat and started on his journey. He and the coy ote hadn't gone far when they heard a loud rumbling noise. Looking back they saw the rock rolling after them. It bowled over herd of buffalo, killing many and came bumping over the prai rie in pursuit of them. The coy ote was flattened out dead. Napee saw a night hawk soaring in the sky and called to it for help. The hawk flew down just as the over heated rock burst in two with a loud explosion. Wiping the cold sweat from his brow, the Indian went on his way badly frightened by his horrible experience. But he was a mean and selfish old man and hadn't learned the moral lesson of the incident. For when he came upon the night hawk s nest he gave vent to his savage nature Dy forcing open the mouths of the young mgnt nawKS until iney bled. The old night hawk had follow ed and the Indian ran into tlie lake thinking he'd escape the fur ious parent bird, but found he couldn't keep hta head above wa- er lest the hawk pick his eyes out. So Napee drowned. The Blackfeet Indians to this day relate the legend and point gravely to the moral of it, viz: When you give or trade with anyone, don i expeci anyiniug back, no difference what the loss or suffering may be." Thus it came to he me mono oi me Blackfeet t do trading "for keeps" and in Trading with other tribes they always laid stress ph the fact that they strongly dis countenanced making a bargain and not standing by it. i Famous Cowboy Coyote Quartet Great Howlers GLACIER PARK, Mont. (Spe- ral)iWlicn the tourist season ends the famous Glacier aNtional Park quartet cowboy guides winds up with its final chorus. They're all familiar figures to the Amerl- ;an touHst; viz.: Bullrig Til) bets. Hatkamore -(Red) Hanson, Tip Tibbets and Diek Bronson. Twas the Binging of "Tho Coy otes Call" and "Don't Bur y . Mb On the Ione rfdlree ' that puts his quartet In a class by itself in the tuinds of tlie "American tbur-i sts. They are known for . these two original hits among travelers from everj; sigt & thS CaJoife ; ; n n 'ft. SS Montnairn POAUTLANO, Ore. ( Special. ) The Oregon delegation which will attend the Paris convention of the American Legion next Sep tember will sail from Quebec on the SS Montnairn of the Canadian Pacific Line instead of on the SS Orca of the Royal Mail Line from New York, it was announced today by CarJ R. Moser, of Portland, department France convention of ficer of this state. The change in assignment of the Oregon Legionnaires will not only afford better travel accomo dations but will enable the veter ans to land at Antwerp, Belgium, with a stopover in Brussels while enroute to Paris without addition al charge. Under the new assign ment the advance and return sail ings for the Legionnaires of the state will also be much better, it was announced by Mr. Moser. Under the new assignment the Oregon Legionnaires will shove off from Quebec on September 9. The SS. Montnairn is one of the fastest ships in the trans-Atlantic service and with a length of (513 feet and 25,000 tons displacement is steady in all kinds of weather. An outstanding feature on the SS. Montnairn is the excellent ventilation throughout the entire ship. With special air shafts from the promenade, the inside rooms are as well ventilated as the av erage outside room. The public rooms on the SS. Montnairn, in cluding a richly furnished smok ing, room, a veranda cafe with windows on three sides, a large dining saloon, lounge, and an airy winter garden deck with large windows and wicker furniture, are some of the added attractions of the ship assigned to Oregon under the change. Under the better sailing plans for Oregon, announced by Mr. Moser the Legionnaries .who wish to go in advance of the main movement may sail on the SS. Montcalm of the same line from f Continued on pace 4.) PREPARE FOR New Orleans is preparing for Mrach 1.. .Ilercare.Mardi Gras strtsets ; tightj types of carnival 1 ) ; I . t ' Srt , mS ft Y h ' i ir2jC?mT jLXy-f . ; " --W'?S SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY 1 -&aa i i ii i r - a... i ' J MAN HAS VARIED INTERESTING LIFE Became School Teacher and itinerant Preacher in Beautiful Oregon The subject of this story is now a man above 50 years of age. He is not a remarkable life though the Incidents here related are out of the ordinary. His earliest memory includes a beautiful grove of beech trees in which was located a school build ing and meeting house, situated at a cross-road in southeastern Indiana. This was the center around which was clustered a neighbor hood of thrifty Friends. His father was a minister and teacher in the academy for many years. In this grove was the religious and intel lectual heart-throb of the com munity. At the altar of this meeting-house their young people re peated their marriage vows with out the aid of minister or justice, and from this same altar their dead were carried to the white fenced church-yard across the road. The name of this communi ty was significant, "Hopewell." Years passed and the scene shifted to far off Oregon, in the beautiful Willamette valley sur rounded by mountains, fir-clad and blue, crowned with peaks of eternal snow. Here the hardy pioneers of the early 50s found a haven, a goodly place, favored by sunshine and rain in season. They builded a church as the first element of stability, around which clustered the homes of a satisfied and prosperous people. (Continued on page 8.1 m i "GREATEST" MARDI GRAS OF ALL what it expects to be the greatest Mardi Gras in its history scenes:-Top Jeft,Rex, King of Misrule, riding through the maskers ; below, Rex's loyal MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1927 ROSA PDBSELLE PAYS TRIBUTE TO PIANO Instrument Bought by Fath er and Mother Stiil in Home Holds Memories Miss Rosa Ponselle, whose beautiful voice delights thousands every year at the Metropolitan Opera House in New Pork, was recently persuaded to talk about her career. Ponselle, as she is called, is not a prima donna, at least in the sense that she doesn't like to talk about herself. She would much rather say nice things about the various factors in her life that made it possible for her to make the success she has. It is because of this fact that Ponselle paid a singular tribute to the piano. The Metropolitan star rather wistfully declared that it had been a real source of in spiration in her work. "You know" she said, " I often become depressed, not that I am over-temperamental or anything like that, but a singer sometimes gets fed up with work just as a business man does. When such is the case I just sit down "at a piano and play some of the songs I used to play when I was a little girl, and in a few moments I am fine again. You might like to know that the piano my mother and father bought for me when I was only five years old still stands in our house in Meri den. It holds for me so many sweet memories that I wouldn't part with it for all the money in the world. It really started me on the road to fame. "Then again the piano, besides being a means toward getting one in mental shape to sing is such a help in so many other ways. How could a singer learri the many new operas? And what a frightful thing it would be to have to sing a concert without a piano to give the voice the background it needs so much. Yes, indeed, the piano has done much for me. I owe it a deep debt of gratitude. In fact. I believe every child in these great United States should have an opportunity to study this greatest of musical in struments. s "They say a singer or a violin ist is a better artist if the spe cific study ig preceded by a cer tain amount of piano education and I firmly believe it. It is a marvelous instrument and de serving of every praise given it." There have been many instanc es "of grand opera stars descend ing, so to speak, into the realm of vaudeville and musical comedy but few in the field of light music have ever been, able to span the gap existing between vaudeville and the operatic stage. About eight years ago an Am reican girl born in Meriden, Con neticut, of Italian pUa-entage, as- Continued o 8.) subjects jamming the streets 60LHTIUES OF TURKEY SHOI Breaker of Traditions and Royal Seals Opens Cham ber to Public CONSTANTINOPLE. (AP) Jealously guarded from the public eye for almost 500 years, the Im perial Ottoman Treasure Chamber has at last been opened as a mus eum by the new Turkish govern ment, breaker of traditions and royal seals. Tourists and natives are daily pouring into the Treasury which is situated within the Seraglio built in 1453, a palace so huge that the retainers alone used to number 5000 and the guests that could be entertained therein on great feast days, 10,000. With a 25 cent ticket, anyone may enter now to behold what re mains of the fabulous wealth of a dead empire. The most striking object is the throne of solid gold studded withj diamonds, rubies and emeralds captured by Sultan Selim the Grim from Shah Ismail of Persia in the battle of Chald irair. The value of this throne Is estimated at thirteen million dol lars, and it was merely as some thing to sit on during the Shah's campaigns. It was the conquering Selim the Grim, Ottoman ruler of the 16th century who first filled the trfeas ure chambers to the ceiling, put his seal upon the door, and ex claimed, "I have filled these chambers with gold. If any of my successors can so much as fill them with bronze, then may they break my seal." Tradition holds that its was because of this ut terance that the treasury has never been opened to the public until the present day. Round the wall of the treasury hang the satin robes and the jew eled daggers worn by various sul tans, beginning with the costume of Mohammed, conquerer of Con- tantinople. There bangs the ar mor, glittering with gold and dia monds of Sultan Murad the Fourtlr TonuuBiTi ut Bagdad, an insane giant so strong that he used to lift his portly chamberlin by the belt and carry him around the palace, and so insane that he had his subjects executed for dis obeying his law against smoking and drinking. He himself in -disguise used to climb upon the roofs of Stamboul "dwellings at night and poke his head down the chimneys. If he detected the faintest odor of to- toacco, every occupant of the house was beheaded. He alone in the na tion could smoke his narghile and sip his wine, and every time he puffed the "hubble-hubble" or put wine to his lips, a palace cannon boomer to remind the nation that the sultan was above the law. There too hang the befurred robes of his equally insane broth er and successor, Ibrahim, whose insanity took the form of a pas sion for fur. . Under his reign the palace was lying with fur from the floor to ceilings, taxes took the form of pellets, and he who failed to lay his monthly quota of fur at the feet of the sultan. lost his head. There is also an exquisite be- jeweled dressing table brough back from Rqssia by a Turkish ereneral. Baltagli Mehmed. as a souvenir of Catherine the Great, following a romantic love affair between the flirtatious czariua and the Turkish warrior. Other thrones besides that of Lthe Persian shah are on view, one being of solid gold used by the sultans during the great religious! feasts of Bairam. Another if of the tulip-loving Ahmed the Third, inlaid with tulip patterned moth er of pearl and turquoises, while from the golden rof bangs an em erald as large as a large man's fist. The room containing the royal jewels has not yet been opened to the public. , , Hawaiian Froqs Will Go on Trip Through Orient HONOLULU. -Special. Two thousand pairs of frogs who have been wont to boom their basses and quiver their tenors into the moonlit beauty of Hawaii's nights, will soon be given a trip to the Orient, if an order received by H. L. Kelly, the territory's fish! and game 'commissioner, can be? filled. , .'! According to Kelly, an order ban deceived from a frog fancier In Japan who desires the Hawaii-' an type of croaker in his business. Whether the desire of the local amphibians "grows" front A ' hunch that their ; environment In thd "land bi '.melody 'makes them more p61ishfd serenaders.'of from the possibility; that' their J edible hinder legs have been made larger by surf riding Is causa tor local BpecnlaMon. The order will be filled if pos- Methodist Church Prat am, Oregon S SCHOOLS TO MEET FBIDAY OOUnty Convention tO Be at Pratum IVlethodist Church; ftnnri Prnarnm - UUUU r lUiaill The County convention of the Marion County Sunday School council of Religious Education will be held att the Pmtum Meth odist church on March. 4 and 5, A. number of state and local leaders will be present to give ad dresses and lead in the discussions. Among them will be Rev. E R. Martin, Mrs., Jean M. Johnson and Professor R..R. Hewitt of OAC There will he three institute ses sions as follo-ws: and. at each one the following' subjects will be dis- cudded: 'Cht istian Friendship, "Christian Fellowship" and 'Chris tion Leadership." Special attention has been call ed to the county and district offi cers conference on Saturday and a large attendance is urged for this meeting. It is understood that all of the delegates, who need transporta tion, will be bet at the Salem Stage terminal at 1 p. m. on March 4 or at 9 a. m. on March 5. The officers for the county or ganization are: Ivan Hadley, pres ident; Miss Emma Schlfferer, sec retary-treasurer; Mrs. Fern "Wells TJatfghertyV YOnhg Peoples' Dlvi sion superintendent: Mrs. H. F, Shanks, Children's Division super intendent The convention text will be: "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord my strength and my Redeemer." Psalm 19:14. The complete program follows: Friday, March 4th 3G p. m. Song Service, Mrs -.faui suKe. uevotionai ser vice, Rev. Dumas. 00 p. m. Institute Session- Theme, "Christian Friend ship;" "Ye are nry friends if ye do whatsoever I command you." John 15:14 Children's Division, Mrs. C W Cady, Chr.; D, Steinef, Mrs. Wm. de Vries. Young Peoples Division, Mrs G. H. Thompson, Chr.; Rev. T.'P. Allen, Mrs. Jean M Johnson. ". Adult Division, Fred de Vries, v;nr.; nev. u. j. (inlanders. Rev. John Fran 2. 3:00 cp. m. Address. Rev. D. J. Gillanders. Music. Address, Rev. F. P. Allen. 4:00 p. m. Registration and Alignment of Delegates. 6:00 p. m. Basket Supper Dele gates bring -baskets. Friday Evening, March 4th :30 p. m. Song Service, Mrs. Paul Silke. Devotional Ser vicesj Jtev. E. R. Martin. : 0 p m. Address, "Working Together," Mrs. Jean -M . Johnson, stato secretary. Pageaht. 8:30 p. m. Address, "Interna tional Friendship," Prof. Roy R. Hewitt, O. A. C; Saturday, March 5th 30 a. m. Song Service, Mrs - Paul Silke. Devotional ser- (Continued on pea 8.) Duelists Often Save - Skins and -Hurt Hearts BUDAPEST (AP) Hard work and excitement proved more dan gerous than flashing cavalry sa bres in & recent duel that, is send ing a ripple Of laughter through society. ''- ; . .-. When Couat Paul Palffy and Priedrich Lederer, son of a weal thy merchant', measured swords on the field of honor. they found themselves too equally matched. They executed thrusts, parries and moullnets -'during1 eight Ions rounds without scratching - each other. " The doctor In attendance seeing -signs of exhaustion and knowing the men. Insisted tipon I an1 examination, - He had the dnel stopped . because tho duellists I hearts were at the point tot - col-1 lipse.- ' Bo the combatants, risking thelf I lives for a bar-room quarrel, stag I geNd off the field, reconciled. ' H PRICE J1VEGENTS ciisr in raco: HilililRDS Excerpts .From .'"Sp36ch.!oT Member of Mexican Con gress on Etomfng Issue (The following remarkable ar ticle "Christ in Mexico" is taken from the February 17th Issue of "The Congregationalist, one; of the leading religious newspapers of the United Stales.) (Editor's Note: In view of the charges, apparently officially sup ported by Secretary of State Kel logg, regarding Bolshevist and atheistic revolutionary tendencies in Mexico, peculiar interest attach es to the following address In the Vf AvInh . 1 t, evidently has been under the im- ptation or being a nod." The aaaress or Deputy Solo Y Gama Is taken from "The Mexico Microb " a bi-monthly paper, published in Guadalajara, and edited by A. C. I Wright, veteran missionary of tho American Board in Mexico. It was reprinted in the "Microbe" from "Mexico," the official organ of the Methodist church In Mexi co. It stated that 'Mr. Soto Y Gama is a member of no charch; )' The President of The Chamber a of Deputies: "Deputy Antonio. Diaz Soto y Gama has the flpor," Mr. Diaz Soto y Gama: shall close my discourse, and I wish to open It by honoring that holy Name which the Church' has forgotten namely, Jesus the Christ. (Applause.) ; 'And' i In naming his name I am certain that I have the sympathy and' hearty jj endorsement of each ' memner of this august body Th think ing men of this assembly and" the thinking men of Mexico tiellete in, and love the Christ! There Is nothing. . . .1 know of nothing. . We know of nothing more beauti- ful, more revolutionary, more 4 "moving, more holy, or more pro gressive than the Gospel of Christ. ... 'As a Christian, t agree with my fellow-deputy Mr. Crlsela. In many things, but I do not agree that the present revolutionary. tendencies aim at the unchristian- ization of Mexico. The revolu tionary party would like to see all former Christians become ones more, and we" ourselves would like to be better Christians. We constitute the, revolutionary party would rise above our past failure? for along with the great things we! have done we have sinned and there Is but one Person -who can save us, namely, Jesus our Lord! On, would that the revolu tionary party had the courage to raise high his banner! 'I would place our faith and our future in the hands of tho matchless and Irreproachable Christ the axis " of our present civilization. For he and he alone can save us from present corrup tion. ... I "TomorOw I shall be told that (Continued on PK 4.) VIEH DISCOVERS DAIVUBE DISAPPEARS Court Proceedings Bring Out Fact That Famous River Goes Dry in June ; VIENNA (AP) The Viennese know now that they have been celebrating the "Beautiful Blue Danube" for years and years when In fact science shows the Danube; flows by here only half the time. The Danube is a disappearing river. Court proceedings between the states of Wuerttemberg and Baden, in Germany have brought out proof that the famous rivef, , set to song by Strauss, gees dry every June before It reached the Wuerttemberg border and that the Rivet Elta, the principal feeder, 10 miles further on, furnishes the water that flows by Vienna, Ulm, Budapest and Belgrade, . in the Danube bed, In summer and autumn.-.'- ' Ti'-- : '!s;t':-!:A: The ten mile stretch of channel , that goes dry every year, between ,: Immendigen and Tuttlingen, here--tofore has been a mystery. The river obviously had flowed down through wide cracks but no one ever, discovered where it went. By strongly coloring the water, the scientists who testified Id the ' recent German controversy say they determined that the dtsai pearingr Danube flowed " Under- ground about-ten miles and reap jpeared In. the -so-called Achkopf river that runs into the Ach river This f U turn flows Into the Rhine and evehtually Intd the North Sea.' Therefore; it Is only the excess wa- ter,'l,ttid part that flows by. hero in winter arid fpring, that la tho Viennese Danube which runs Into lthe Black Seat