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1 1 TOE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1927 The Oregon laiaeS Daily Except If oadey by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPART, 215 Root a Commercial Street, Balem, Orccoa R. J. fle4rik 11 8. MrSherry fcalph C??irtia Aadrrd Beech - . - Mi . fMaaarinf KUiter City K4iler - -Telegraph tfditor - - boeicly Kditor v KEMBEB OF THE ASSOCIATED FEE S3 The Aitoeiated Prett U exclutWely entitled to the for publication of all aawa dia Kateaee credited to it or not otherwise credited in tnia paper and also tke le?al newe pub eked herein. BUSINESS OFFICES: B. Bell. 223 223 Security Bldg.. Portland. Ore., Telephone Broadway 9240. Tfcomaa P.Clark Co., New York. 12813b W. 3 lit St.; Chicago, Marquette Bldg. Itoty A Stypee, lac, California repreeeatatives, Hharoa BMg 3 an t'reneieeo; Ck amber f Commerce Bldg., Ioa Angelrs. TELEPHONES Baeiaeii Office 123 or 583 eiety Editor 100 Newt rpt Eatered at tke Pest Offiee in SaWm, May SO, 1027 nllappy is the man that findeth wisdom, "and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchan dise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. Proverbs 3:12-13. " OREGON THE PIONEER ' Oregon is the pioneer state in sterilization of the feeble minded and unfit; and Dr. JN. Smith, superintendent of our state institution for the feeble minded, is a world authority in this field But until May 2 the supreme court of the United States had not passed upon the question of the right of a state to s6 protect itself against a vitiated blood stream. The case was that of a woman in the Virginia institution for the feeble minded. She is unmarried, but is the mother of a feeble minded child, and her mother, also feeble minded, is an inmate of the same institution. The Vriginia law or the subject recites that "the health of . the"patient and the Welfare of society may be promoted in certain cases by the sterilization of mental defectives" under cireful.jSegUBy. thai the commonwealth is support ing; iim:isWttJotij8 many defectives who, if now dis carged wuM.become a menace, but who if sterilized-might discharged with benefit to themselves and society" And in' the supreme court decision just made, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote it, maintains that society has the right to require that' the mentally weak shall not bring children into the world who will themselves be feeble Oiinded and a burden to the dependence. "Three generations of imbeciles are enough," summed up Justice Holmes in his written opinion of the court. Only Associate Justice Butler dissented from the majority ruling of the court, and he filed no written opinion. t There are now fifteen states which authorize this opera tion. The World Almanac places the present number of feeble minded persons in institutions in the United States at 39.3 j3er 100,000 of total population, as against 22.5 in 1910. The tide has been rising h Whereas with. a reasonably general and rigid enforcement of .sterilization laws throughout the United States, 'according t)ie Oregon practice, the whole! nation w,ould be pretty well rid it the worst types of mental weaklings within the next two generations. y It is a great wonder that . CITY GOVERNMENT FORMS DISCUSSED (Coiinued from pace 1.) ... 1 district is entirely independent of other city departments. .- i In conducting an investigation on successes ,pt' the managerial form it was found that 54 per cent of the. towns and cities using the plan, employed .: managers from within their own corporate lim its. Of 350 cities adopting such k government;-104 have kept the same manager four or more years, i- In Salem ; the manager would hire city employes with the ex ception of the recorder and coun cilman. His full time would be ppent as a professional, handling the business of the city. All di rect non-policy business would be conducted without delay, promot ing centralized responsibility. With til bis Importance and power, he . would ttfl be responsible to the council for his ' acts, placing the office much on - a . par with the business manager of a' private): corporation who is responsible to the. directors. , Men; of the engineering or law profession are preferred for the position almost entirely, according to Miss Marvin. I , Wheeierw-Water system being enlarged and mains extended. 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TODAY ';'H'v . ;: Quality Sfioesg At Lowest Prices Ever Offered By This Store , ' -7 ' i i .'.- : v, ; " i -r i ., . . . . . ; - , - ' BISHOFS CLOTHING ' ANB iWOOLEBI MILLS ; STORE, fcc" begun this measure of protection long before. , " ' "' No doubt all states will witifi.ftf in, unc wnn me ruies oi common sense, now tnai Justice Holmes has put the seal of legal approvalrto the practice . And there is no other one thing that will prevent more misery and crime and degredation in this country; no other one thing that will so lift up honesty and intelligence. EDISON 159 On the basis of an eight hour day, Hugh Weir, in an article for a recent issue of Success Magazine, decides that Thomas Alva Edison is 159 years old. By the calendar he registers in his 80th year. Mr. Weir learned that Edison worked 18 hours a day, six and sometimes seven days a week the first 50 years. His inventive work began at 22." The average man, working 8 hours a day wouldshave to live 147 years to put in the same number of working hours. During the last six years Edison has been taking things easier working only 16 hours a day, which would add another 12 years to the working age of the average man. Edison associates figured for Mr. Weir the contribution made by Edison to the industrial world. In America alone the industries founded on Edison inventions involve 18,750 mil lion dollars, a force of 935,000 men and an, annual payroll of 1,615 million dollars. Of the industries electric railways lead in capitalization with 6,000 million dollars, light and power systems second with 2,000 millions, telephones 1,500 millions and motion pictures 1,000 millions. In annual payroll motion pictures lead the dozen The miles of surfaced roads and highways in the Pacific coast states are given as follows: California 18,002 miles; Washington, 17,271 ; Oregon 10,754. It will be observed that the state of Washington has nearly as . many miles of sur faced roads as California, a much larger and wealthier state. Oregon, a late comer in the field, has lately made the greatest progress of all the states , in this country, in this respect; especially marked on account of the average sparse popula tion of this state, and low value of property in proportion to the mileage covered. "There is one enterprise in which the automobile has no chance whatsoever of succeeding the horse and that is in the circus business," remarked a man who saw the circus in Salem Wednesday. Speaking of standing armies and great navies as peace preservers, perhaps you have not observed that Germany, without an army or navy, isn't being jumped on by anybody. o o I Bits For Breakfast I O O Welcome the plumbers V b They are the harbingers of civilization. S mm The comforts of life would be smaller to an extent we seldom ponder without the plumbers When you ring central in Salenv do you realize how many hello BISHOP'S o I -.(- -J Several Lines of ere long follow Oregon's leiut . ' f , the line of average decency and YEARS OLD? industries. girls are at your beck and call? There are 72 of them And a more faithful bunch of young ladies you will not find anywhere. They come from, homes in all sections of the city; they represent a cross section Of the good people of this city. And they will average up very well in all respects with any other 72 young ladies in Salem. S ' So much for the hello girls who sprve you and probably know your voice, ,, kindly . or harsb. or -fault nnding.ttboagb-.you do- not k&ow themi. il, .xy . ; '.' : . -w : S v . Don't worry about the rain: ..If you bad the sorting of the weather yon would "probably make a worse bungle of It, ' Done leads, thousands astray. This is especially true of .baseball lope. S S ;- The larger a man's salary, the earlier he can knock off in the afternoon. , f An exchange inquires, "why do people' write crazy songs when the water I.s waTm enough for : them to drown themselves?" AID PROMISED TOWN STRICKEN BY BLAST (Controlled from pace. 1.) possible the, rebuilding r of the; school. The village itself Is un able to rebuild the school. Gov ernor Green announced f funds would be taken from the state's coffers for the purpose, if volun tary aid of Michigan's citiaenry proved insufficient. "It is hardly possible," the gov ernor said, "to imagine a more terrible catastrophe than yesterr day's at Bath." Will Aid Burials He followed his proclamation with announcement that he per son ly would defray funeral ex penses for those of the victims whose families were unable to do fellliaiiilillSiMiiiilifc ilfalllMUiiiiuwtUl so. Tbe governor was on jHfa scene of: the blast yesterday and saw tbe tragedy in all its horror. Bath tonight remembered that today was to have" been the date of the annual school picnic. Night fall saw not happy groups of children returning from tbeir play, but nearly a score 'of homes ob serving the hush of death -with funeral wreaths on the door. Here and there on a street corner stood groups of two or three', discus sing in a low breath what might have been and what is. Picnic Was Planned Kehoe's part in the tragedy was brought more vividly to mind by Miss Bernice Sterling, teacher, of the first grade. , Early Wednesday, moaning -She said, she called Kehoe 'by ; tele phone and asked .concerning. ar rangements for the-'nse taf a plot on his farm for the picnic site. "When are you going to have the picnic?" Kehoe countered., "Thursday," Miss Sterling re plied. "Well, If you're going to have a picnic, you'd better have It right away," was the treasurer's re joinder as he ended the conversa tion. Less than two hours later ex plosions rocked the school build ing. Wife Murdered The fate of Kehoers wife, re cently returned from a Lansing hospital, was. cleared up. Roye Cole, a Saginaw county deputy sheriff, searching through the ruins of the Kehoe farm house and butbulidlngs," found portions of the woman's- body. The skull was crushed. State troopers ad vanced the theory that Kehoe, be fore throwing into operation me chanism which blew up bis prop erty, killed his wife and transport ed the body to the outbuilding in a light cart. The cart contain ing Mrs. Kehoe's personal be longings and some articles of jewelry stood nearby. The recent illness of Mrs. Ke Qiiltdren &y MOTHER : Fletcher's Castoria is especially pre pared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind .Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishriess arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, "aids the assimilation of Food; giving natural sleep.' To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Absolutely Harmless -Xo Opiates. 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