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4 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SAliai, OREGON THURSDAY MORNTNG.VaiARCH 3. 1927 Oreg on Statesman . Iaauad Daily EiMBt Honda-, Iit - THE STATESMAN PUBUSHUfG C02XPAHT 315 South Coouaarcial St, Salam, Orego aw. Headrtcka - - - - . Mitr Irt 8, MeSherry - i - rH!& "T1 AadradBanch ; . - Boeletj Editor W. H. Henderaoa Clrcalatioa Htugtr Ralph H. Kittling- - Advertiaiag Manager Frank Jaskonki Manager Job Dept. IS. A. Rhotea ..... Lirktock Editor W. C. Conner v - ... Poeltry Editor fr 'Spv KEMBEaor THE ASSOCIATED PXESS ii.iJf f1? ta "'' entitled to the for p-hlieatioa f aU newt ffiahU.ffi'&fc " fr W Uo . Leal BUSUTESS OFFICES: &a rA28e,ty Bldlt- rortlaad. Ore. Baainaa Office Society. Editor . 23.rta TELEPHONES: 10 Kewi Dent. 23 nr 1 nt r-;. iI7 . " ' " vi..ibww viHW . O 5 J lUUored at the jot Offie, j Satem, Oregon, a aaeoad el w matter 4 ' -i i i naaiaae m.- hinwar of the Mprisht Is to depart from evil; he that keepeth !fh'ry'l!M goeth before destruction 3 a ih ttfi-'P ,1 i re fa" Better to be of an hombi' spirit wlthth,Joyly, than, to divide, Ihe snail with the nrn7 p!!P1, .''. - -; tafcl God and You A LENTEN MEDITATION By the Rev. Charles Stelzle God fights your battles. te?thoSJ?o night."ne 8ba11 8187 a thousand- bu' two shan put 'iilfefyirld P?.an,i yu- you have a majority that can -You need not sear your soul with bitterness because of the malice lsely. w.itn God. and he Hgntfftg the irV - manner oi.evii gainst,, you,f a Mr . t- . " a :va 1 - i THE SLANDER OF SALEM ?ace was one of a gTeat many Salem people who per sonally expressed to The Statesman and its editor yesterday resentment at the impression given out by the principal of the Salem high school that drinking by our high school stud- A a enis is general, and that the people of Salem, are indifferent to this boyish depravity, and are rather disposed to take it as a joking matter, And that" prohibition is a failure in Salem. Mr. Race has been in Salem a long time. He was for several years city recorder, and in that position assisted in law enforcement. , He said all old Salemites remember very distinctly the time when Salem had 18 saloons, and he declared that they averaged at least 1000 gallons of various brands of liquors, or 18,000:gallons in all; perhaps a great deal more, counting the wholesale liquor house that operated here , thn , And? he defies any one to show him' that there re 50 gallons of booze in Salem now. And he declares -that-the people of-Salem are not indiffer ent to law enforcements Almost to kive last .man and woman here, the people of Salem are alert and anxious for the observ ance of our laws; especially the laws against the sale and keeping; of. intoxicants.- - He believes the slander against the good name of Salem ought to be nailed ; that those who utter it ought to be called upon to, attempt to prove i which they cannot do, for. it is not true. ' They are merely rumor mongers ; traducers of the good name of Salem. CHINESE REVOLUTION SUCCEEDS Associated Press dispatches in The Statesman of yester day tolid of the activities of the Cantonese armies in the vicinity of Tsingtau and Cheefoo and southern Honan prov inces $ And this means a great deal to those acquainted with Chinese; geography. - At phanghai the nationalist, forces were only about 800 miles or halfway from Canton to Pekin. They are -now, at Choefoo and in Honan province, only about 200 miles from Pekin. ; - :. ' i;: .; A : . ; .Thii means thet veryjearlv1 ending jpf the Chinese revolu- tion an(l the complete dominance of that great country by the forces fighting for a republic. North of Pekin there is only Chang, the Mukden ex-bandit and war lord, and his hireling army will be easily disposed of by the victorious Cantonese forces and the well drilled and equipped forces of Marshal Feng, the Chinese Christian gen eral, who is northeast of Pekin. He whipped old Chang and sent him back to Mukden with his ragged forces twice, when he was much less completely prepared with a fighting mach ine than he has now, With 176,000 thoroughly drilled and loyal troops, devoted to the ideals of the present revolution. OUR GROWING HEAD LETTUCE INDUSTRY Th Salem district is the largest shipper of head lettuce in Oregon, and that industry has great possibilities of growth here, and will no doubt become in time a major industry, in our increasing family of industries on the land! With the use of irrigation it will no doubt grow in time to the. stature of a gigantic industry,' shipping thousands of cars annually. It is possible to put 100,000 acres of land in the Santiam irrigation district under water, running from Salem east to Mehama, north to cover Salem prairie, and -Bouth 'to Marion and Jefferson. All of this 100,000 acres, wifh nmnor cultural mpthod. and the useiof the right ferti- l Va t g-Km rmrmm Jizcrsran. be made to yield a high quality head lettuce. ffirheatf lettuce industry is one of our newest operations ;1ioV':-Tt sturfprl with the shioment'of six cars three years ja g r Y Silk rthe production of a ; total; ou t pu t of ! what woqld SaveQilled -fifteen earn the second year;- with ?1 cars last !y'(nd; prospect for & larger output this year. ; . 1 1 Through the ambitious experimenting; venturesome spirit Kri;aUring industry of the group of. farmers, mostly Ameri- lcfln7drapanesef on the Labish Meadows lands ,north of ISal? hlhicity is on the way towards becoming a great head IcUr"'1' center- - ; , , , likely that some of the lettuce crops will be found to be better adapted to different locations; though none of them will be better flavored or have larger heads than the Labish lettuce. Roy K. Fukuda, the pioneer and leading spirit of that group of vegetable growers, who started the now wonderfully successful celery industry there, commenced experimenting with head lettuce several years ago. The head lettuce growers are still experimenting, and will never be through. They want the best, the same as they have attained with their celery; the best that can be produced in this. country, or any country. 'v Whenever they can be certain of having attained this point, and can convince the consumers of the fact "the sky will be the limit" to the expansion of the industry. There has been going on and there is still under way an enormous ex pansion 6f the head lettuce markets in this country. Nearly everybody La eating lettuce, and the best trade wants head lettuce, and'the best quality obtainable of head lettuce. Cali fornia, the largest producer of head lettuce is now making shipments to England. . ' The Labish farmers, Japanese and American, are by ho means through experimenting with new vegetables with a view to producing them on a commercial scale, in car lot shipments.' They are experimenting with asparagus, with new varieties of onions, and with a lot of other vegetables. Their "million dollar highway" will be more than a ten million dollar highway before many years ; that is, the proposed paved county market road through their district will have hauled over, it more than ten million dollars worth of produce annually. ; iip'io i aaVJetaaaV aB La Ail Mmepon dMW v Apart ment mast b by 'iblriter, mint be written on one. id -fti-tnt paper only, and a sou Id oof ftoflj(ar than 150 word. i.'1-,:' . qUw Drhtn to Drink . Editor Statesman: " " t do not care to answer any of the charges of drinking made by Prof. Nelson of pupils in the Sa lem high school. They are too ab surd, but I would like "to say this: If Prof. Nelson cannot express himself before the student body of the high school so as to be bet ter understood by them, than he would lead you to believe their parents understood his interview in the Capiat Journal, then I say no wonder the boys are driven to drink. I wonder the girls aren't. V ; ' Numb Skull. Safem3, Starch 31,. 1527. T Bits For Breakfast O- Lettuce consider lettuce 2 tr i 5 ..,, 4 1 A a jnriustry3vjll not be located ex-j'; . . jTT . " ' ' I o And, under this head, head let tuce s s For that bumble vegc?talJe has Lecome an aristorrat of the break fast table, and more particularly of the dinner table. The lettuce with t college education, the head let tuce, has become the favorite both of the four hundred and the four niillion; -and the hundred million. : ; V tur grocers must take advant age of "this appetite, and furnish, a? can be furnished here, great quantities of the tenderest, crisp est head lettuce produced, and build up a gigantic lettuce .indus try "a Built on quality, following the lines of least resistance, taking ad vantage ofour soil and showers and sunshine that make a superior product possible. You can't stop industries built on such solid" foun dations. They get above the dead level of mere competition. They travel I in a class of their own. There Js always room at thf top. Salepi is getting a goo many apartnient houses; but tb re will be oel for a good many, v ith the new industries being and t4 be es tablished, and with larger! forces of state employes that will follow the erection of the state office building. t ! How do you, Mr. Ordinary Citi zen, like the idea of being classed with the indifferent crowd here in Salem, paying no attention, ex cepting in a joking manner, to the general drinking of the high school students? Of course, you do not like. It because it is not so. You are not indifferent. And there is no such thing as general drinking by high school students. It is a straw man, set up to throw verbal rocks at, and build up a theory of the failure of prohibition. And that is not so. either. Prohibition is not a failure. It is a greater success every clay, and will go on towards more general good to wards the ideal of a sober nation. now ,being conducted for a large t sale on the Ochoco national for est, ."which sale the residents" of Prineville and its vicinity are anx iqus,4 tb see' made, and which will herp" 'to-maintain and possibly may extend common carrier railroad facilities- in the vicinity of that city. "Large sales, the terms of .which allow 15 years or more tor cutting of timber, are made at irregular intervals as opportunities arise to carry out the policies I have men tioned. It happens that there have been no very large sales of nation al fo.rest timber in Oregon during the past year or two, although the cut, including that under sales made previously, has not changed greatly. "In 1925, .there was sold 388, 582,000 board feet and the amount cut was less than 229, 28.r,000 board feet, log scale. In 1926. the sales totaled 107,556, 000 board feet, and the amount cut was 236,661 board feet. Lum ber sawed in Oregon in 192 5 was reported as exceeding; 4.200,000, 000 board feet, and, although def inite figures are not yet avaible, the 1926 lumber production in the state was probably ; at -least as large. "Only between five per cent-ajid sue per cent of the limiber sawedt in Oregon comes fronlogs grown part of the state wesi of the Cas cade mountains, the Douglas fir region, less than three per cent of the lumber cut originates on na tional forests. These figures in dicate that national forest timber is not being cut in quantities suf ficient to play a large part tn any current overproduction in Oregon. They also indicate the conserva tion of the timber iaIe"policy now in effect as contrasted with the pressure to sell agjunst which the memorial protests. ; 1. "After careful; consideration of the memorial. I do not feel I could consistently make changes in the existing policies' for the sale of national forest etumpage-in Ore- gon. STUMPAGESALE POLICY TO REMAIN AS IN PAST : "!.?.-iCSatiaoed from page r.) hew; crop by proper provUion while; harvesting the old is an es sential feature of our policy. "Under these policies lew large lales have been made in Oregon or elsewhere which would not have been made if the recommenda tions of the memorial had been in effect, and those few represent lbe efforts of the department to salvage deteriorating timber ; be fore, there was further Ions' to the United Stafes. , - ' ; 1 ne large gale made , on the Malheur National forHi in loss to Fred Herrlck is an Illustration of how national forest ales are often earnestly desired b; the lo cal residents and lead to the con struct ion and operation of n rgenl- lfS needed ? common,' carrier rail roads.- The ; forester lnfori ne NELSON OPINION RAISES ""FURORE OF DISCUSSION (Continuej from page !) been prepared1 by Rev. Thomas Acheson. prendent of the Salem Ministerial association: .... . , '."No one cjn observe wlthdfut deep concern bio recent statements of! Principal sTelson to the local press relative? to prohibition and its effects uptn high school stud ents. While' we are long since familiar with the unworthy mo tives of certain interests which seek statemeits derogatory to pro-t hibition, we feel the issue raised here should not be permitted to go unchallenged. Doubts Statement " "We would take serious issue with the statement that drinking among young people is on the in crease. -We rather doubt that Pro fessor Nelson is quoted correctly Lere. . On this very issue we quote from a survey of juvenile delin quency made in New York fbr the years 1910 and 1325. ! fe "From an average of, 13 pef thousand of population during the" wet years, juvenile delinquencf had fallen during the dry years to an average t)f ' 11 for ' every tea thousand of population. ) iiut to debate thta point Is be side the mark.. It does not take any stretch of .the imagination to conclude 'that the - present jazzy tendency aroused by a. ruthless ex ploitation, of youth by . unscrupulous-, commercial Interests would leadjfo far greater excesses among youth, were the saloon still here. "The thing that should arouse every lover of Salem .and its youth is that Professor Nelson calls attention to a condition that has been allowed: to pass unchaW .ienged namely that drink is at the disposal of .minors in this city and that some are-having .ac cess to it. We deplore the fact that such a condition exists, but more than this, that apparently Professor Nelson has been driven to make a public statement in order, to secure proper action. "ldo-not believe there is any more- drinking today than there was before prohibition." said Rev erend. Norman K. Tully, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. "In those days, I knew some boys who drank; I do not know any now. Then, I was familiar with the lo cation of many blind tigers; I do not know where any are now. I have not seen a drunken man in Salem since I have been here, nor have I smelled the odor of liquor on any man's breath. "I don't believe boys are any worse now than they used to be. I've talked with many of them. When I was a boy, liquor waa many times offered to me. I be lieve it was easier for boys to pro cure it before prohibition than it is now. I consider Professor Nel son's article A'ery unwise. While we believe that the per centage of students who drink is small and 'Jthat certain interests are bent oh, 'unfair exaggeration of conditions nevertheless we want' to know what our law enforce ment officers are doing? They have been - appointed and have sworn to guard the sacred inter ests of tle people. Surely the public must become suspicious if inaction Continues." Meeting Expected Rev. Acheson indicated that a special meeting of the ministerial association, with law enforcement as the subject, would be called soon. "Wihile I am a staunch objector to liquor in any form. I believe Professor Nelson is in a great measure right in his contentions," declared Rev. E. J. Harrington, rastor of the Free Methodist church. "There is no question but thafc there is more drinking among the youth fJian there used to be. The boysNirinK for the sake of sport. They don't like it. If liquor was available to every body at low prices, most of the fellows who now drink wouldn't touch it." I "If it is true that the boys who Professor Nelson speaks of know where liquor may be obtained, jtliey should be called before the Rrand jury," declared Reverend F." jO. -Taylor last night. "As for hiquor drinking in Salem, I am very sure that the facts will not bear out Professor Nelson's con tentions. ; "I feel It is most unfortunate that Professor Nelson permitted himself, to .be quoted in the way he was. It was very unwise add can only create an erroneous im pression of conditions here." HOi GRANTED EXTENSION OF TIME Alexander of "locating. Hirsekorn, accused building, construct- NEURITIS CURED By Chiropractic Adjust ments you can get relief almost instantly, by re lieving the pressure upon the affected nerve. Don't Suffer Let Chiropractic Have a ' Chance Consult Dll SCOFIELD Straight Palmer Chiropractor JttMl .New llniik Ithlg. " Salem , Writing Advertisements ifl qx V $ If You Ilaven'rAdvertising .Training Consult ,825 Oregon BUIg. - ' ' Ition 'hone 705 Ing, and estabifshing"Va"bu6dIng for laundry purposes at the corner of B and 15th streets. a r.estrlctel residential xoneriwas granted per mission yesterday to delay his ap peal until 4 o'clock next Monday. Mr. Hirsekorn, under, the 24 hour appeal limit.: was to have appear ed in police court yesterday After dodo, but" application to the city attorney gained approval for an extension of time. . - X Hirsekorn, it is said, continued) construction work for the laundry building in spite of his failure to obtain sanction from the zoning commission; A complaint was filed by Fred A, Williams", as pri vate attorney for the city. ... Ray Smith: has been retained by Hirsekorn as attorney. . When asked last night if he would take the case to a higher court should the ordinance be sustained here he said Mr. Hirsekorn had the mat ter under consideration, but was not prepared to make a statement at this time.' : similar case . involving the Portland zoning commission law was4 recently carried' to "the su- 'Pay Me as You Are Paid' XX . ... p. .... j - ''i r,-tltlTTrnrT1fiMraf BATES THE EYE MAN" MAKES Glasses that fit Convenient Terms - r 457 State Street With Burnett Bros. preme court where - the lower courts action in sustaining the city ordinance was confirmed t. . - - - T . cfli&i is When I Alamied! rHcavm-I Nairn Dropl" CONSTIPATION, biliousness, coated tongue, feverish Vv headache, sick stomachthen is the time when mother reness'vpon Dr. CaldielTs Syrup Pepsin. "My son had been' constipated and bilitus since birth. At the age of five he had such an attack of sour stjmach and bad breath I had to take him out- qf kindergarten." It ivas then I gave him Syrup Pepsin. 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