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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1927)
V SECTION, TWO Pages 1 to 8 BefteHcrnca Classified C L EAN 'ANID V 1 G ORO US - - i BSC 3 aVJiVJSTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1927 fr, . I 1 -PRICC FIVE CENTS ' LIFE l THE irfTER- One of the Outstanding Ed itors of the Country Finds It Changed (The western editor of the Con gregationalist. Boston and Chica go, hail been making a trip In the Inland Empire, or the Inter moun tain country, and he writes the following for that newspaper:) So this is Idaho. I have usually thought .of Idaho as a desert -what I had seen of it in crossing the state ft few times had giren me that impression. On this trip I hare ridden through the farm ing sections of what Is known as the Inland Empire and it seems that; I hare spent the' time in a great garden. The fanning in this section ia mostly of the dry va riety, yet I hare seen hundreds of fields of wheat, oats, and hay al ready harrested or ripe for the harvest with a yield equal to that of many sections of the' country that have a good rainfall. I have been spending two weeks at young people's conferences -one in Washington, the other in Idaho, both at lakes In the moun tains. Yesterday wahad 9 long automobile ride, passing from one camp to anohter. We came down a twelve-mile hill, with a descent of 3,000 feet. I This gave us a fine lew ..of the valley for perhaps six ty miles. ' The1 experience brought me a new appreciation of the farm wealth of our country. I noticed a sale sign listing a 320-acre farm at 990 per acre. .Although mar keting is. costly in this section, land brings a good price. The automobile has brought great changes to the mountain sec tions of the country, changes more noticeable perhaps than, those in other parts. In a former day all travel here, save that by rail, was by horseback pr mountain wagon. Vehicles had been developed which would j stand great abuse, and western horses were as tough as the f wagons. Life was ' primitive then', and lack of money brought great hardships to matt and beast. Now all travel, save that by rail, Continued ob pig 5.) T 0U01CAT1 PASSES; CRIER OUT Capitulation Made To News ' paper; Occupation Once Flourished PKOVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP)-i-Town crying just doesn't , pay the way It used to, and so an other ancient New England voca tion has passed into history. Walter T.. Smith, last of the Massachusetts town criers, has put away his cap and bell at the age of 78. Lameness has bothered him, and hard times have beset the town crying business in recent years. Yet town crying once flourished in his old community on Cape Cod. Two or three criers trod the wooden sidewalks as recently as 1900, when Smith took up his call ing. The clang of their bells and the . heralding of their announce ments were as much a part of vil lage life as is reading the news papers today. For a small fee the criers would aunounce steamer sailings, news of shipwrecks, auctions of ships, gear or furniture, or advertise enter tainments. But of late business has been so poor that Smith has made ionly $300 a year. In an nouncing his retirement the aged exponent of a dying vocation capit ulated to the newspaper, his mod ern successor. v J X K- "I put a notice In the paper so tLey wouldn't bring me any more work jthis summer," he explained. "I've done my last crying. I'm used upi It finally got my feet those i concrete sidewalks and with my game leg I -can't' be on the Job any more. ' "Yes, I kind of think town cry ing is done. It has been dying out for a ! long time. They used to have one on Nantucket some years back, i I guess I'm .the last one. It's too bad, 'hut there Isn't any money In it. fid one .will take It np. When I i had trouble with my leg last year I tried my hardest to get " some young man to take my place. I coold't get pXte oat of 50 asked. Likely- enough, they'll nev er have another after me. "I . stayed as long as I ; could ' walk It.j I've had to give it up. I'm going down to the wharf this summer and holler shore' dinners. That's all I cando. . I guess I'm . Jbrough crying." - Texas Rangers Find - r. " ' 1 i " ' ' P X I ' , ') i - : f t 1 I .v " K si . , . t I I - . . . : I J Tv . r 11 I-' f s t ' r V l i "- ' tfi I Texas Rangers would rather talk of hobbies than manhunts. Capt. W. W. Sterling (left) delights to make ice cream; Capt. Tom Hickman (above) to judge rodeos, and Capt. Frank A. Hamer (be low) is proud of his acute memory. SM RELIGIONS LS R ep re sentatives Expound Principles of Brother hood of Their Greeds lOWA CITY. Iowa, (AP) Aviators lost at sea can ascertain their positions within 3 5 miles by using the stars as a chart, says Professor Charles C. Wylie, Uni versity of Iowa, astronomer and mathematician. A pocket star chart and a watch set by Greenwich "star time" are the necessary instruments. The star chart. Professor Wylie ex plains, is a map of the heavens j with the hours laid out on the east and west line, the astronomer's right ascension, porresponding to longitude on ordinary maps. The declination, or latitude, is on the north and south side. On a watch set by Greenwich sidereal time, the stars always cross the meridian at the same time they cross by the ordinary clock on March 21. Every star, Wylie says, crosses the meridian at the same star time throughout the year. It is by their observation that the standard clocks at the United States Naval Academy are regulated. The process Is described as sim ple if the sky Is clear. From his plane Ihe lost aviator suspends with a string any snyill heavy ob ject. Sighting up the string at the sky, he notes the position of the object as: related to the stars. Marking this -on the star chart, the declination of the overhead point gives the latitude in de grees. Next he consults the Greenwich watch, subtracts the right ascen sion from, its reading and has the longtitndo in hours, minutea and seconds. Multiplying this by fif teen, the degrees of longtitude are computed. Knowing both latitude and long itude, the aviator can mark his po sition on a map of the world. "With ordinary care says Wy lie, "the aviator should make an error no greater than the diamet er of the moon. This will bring the point he marks on the map of the world at least within thirty five miles of his true position.' ; Use of a small sextant and the Watch, with the tables of the gov ernment nautical almanac, woald give a position 'within a thousand feet, he says, i I Five passengenrare said to have paten their , dinner- in comfort in an airplane s flying over Pari the other day, These air diners are going to require new regulations. W here" for in st ance will weTthrbw the melon rindi.and the . ginger ale bottles? - ' PRESENT Scorn Hero Role, Time For Peaceful Hobbies AUSTIN, Texas. (AP) Ter rors of law violators over vast stretches of border country, the courageous little band known as th eTexas Rangers is-made up of men whose private lives differ lit tle from. that of merchants or pro fessional men. The rangers, like the Northwest mounted police, seldom fail to "get their man" and they fight when necessary, but in private life their interests and hobbies are var ied and surprising. For instance, Captain W. W. (Bill) Sterling of Laredo, a tall, sun burned cow puncher who was graduated from the Texas A. & M. college, is very proud of his ability to make Ice cream and mayon- ( Continued on page 5.) U. S. Protects Biological Survey a Zf7Q Zzgs , U S Department of Agriculture: if Bureau o Biolooical Subvev - -:' f iZT- Washington, o c . ; j A - A1 P i rv jc. j- i ry I X a. "ZSs i u&a n,s, wr,, a X.,' i ' v A tksi -W-J JT ---&J O Brrf ftetuge &nd Game Prtserr Forest Service ? e &frd fftfua snct Gam fir Other Federal Agencies Bird fiifvg and Gw ; Federal Bird Refuges p and Game: Preserves Into four Upper Mississippi Valley states reaches a new fed eral project for: protection of fish, ' wild birds, and animals, bringing the total acreage of federal wild life preserves to 10,000,000. - . ; WASHINGTON (API Tt'n mil lion acres of land wilt be embraced - , i in federal preserves for the pro jection of ' fish, fowl and game when. the. go vernmen t acquires the Upper, Mississippi wild-life and lams, refuge in ten northwest. Regulations for the new pre- Mayor of Detroit Visits His Mother's Birthplace BERLIN, (AP) The little Bua bian town of Tnttlingen, in WurtT termber, is greatly excited over the unexpected recent visit of Mayor John Smith of Detroit. Mayor Smith, whose mother was born at Tuttlingen, came unan nounced and asked whether his uncle. 85 years old, and his aunt, 73, were still alive. They were. Villagers" showed him where they lived. The astonishment of the old people at the meeting with "Hannes from America" was great. The news spread rapidly and the wholes village was soon in an up roar over the visit of the "boy" who had honored his mother's ' birthplace by becoming "burgo- l master" of an American city. Fish, Fowl, and Game r ' On Ten Million Acres of Preserves serve were signed jointly on-June 24 by Secretary ' ofAgrictilture Janline r.and Secretary, of Com merce ILoover. . f ' ", '. V t Nor "".Is the ' total of protected havens '.for wild life represented by the tederal 'acreage, for almost every state has converted areas of ADVEHTISING KEY TO FARM SUCCESS , . f , .Optimism and Advertising Will Build Up Land i and Other "Values (C. E. Wantland.-, who calls himself "Agricultural Optimist," has been spending a few days im Salem, searching the records of tax laws a-t the capitol and else where (for California has its tax problems, though that state has no direct taxes on real property), lives up to his handle; he is truly an optimist concerning potential land values on this . coast, and throughout the country. The following article, written by him for the Los Angeles Realtor, ex plains in . part the basis of his Optimism. It is" well worth read ing. He was especially interested in the Slogan number of The Statesman of last Thursday on Advertising., , The artlele in the magazine of the realtors of Los Angeles was printed funder the heading, "Advertising Can Solve Agriculture's Problems," as fol lows:) ."Advertising is the greatest power for good or evil in all the world today." "Nothing can withstand the force of a good idea whose hour has come." , "Advertising can solve the problems of agriculture" says President Dana of the Pacific Coast Advertising Clubs. The ad vertising brethren, as well as farm land owners and agents, say "Amen." Agriculture, the basic Industry, has many problems. It has had many so-called saviors during the past few years. They blew up. Some of the latest remedies pro posed, will probably meet the same fate, but "advertising" as a rem edy carries with it the promise of success. , Legislation may assist, and credit facilities for the farmer, as favorable as for other business men, are necessary. Some experts claim the only remedy .must be to adjust production so as to prevent a surplus. Opposed to that theory are the optimists who, while ad vocating a better balanced pro duction, urge better crop diversifi cation , the introduction of new crops, better marketing methods and especially, intelligent, persist ent advertising to Increase con sumption, to find outlets for any surplus and assist generally in improving the operations of farm. (ContiBued on page 8.) its own it to conservation projects, andhundreds of farmers have lim ited, hunting expeditions on their property,'.' , v Figures' 'from the It. 3.' Biolog ical ; Su rvey, . issued Jn ly - I , show from 155,000 J fo "200,000 . acres invplvee? In the Mississippi wild ADMV'.TDAlMO nrknio i ! IN ARTS-sQF KITCHEN v . AX FT.. RILEY SCHOOL r 1 . T-v ill : . iimmmw :: or -Nt1 "l;Jiiiiiplillttt r . A afiuad of regular army officers who recently r completed the course k baking; Lower picture Riley, Kansas.- . Some Authors Do Writing In Bed,, in Bath Tub, r Stand ing ;Up? Other Methods 4 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) Perhaps an author in a tub of water wanders in fancy over the South Seas. Maybe his downy bed becomes a bunk in an Alaskan mining camp, or the subway car in which he rides, a continental express train. At any rate, unconventional are the surroundings in which some fiction wfritera do their daily stunt. Continued on pare 6.) life pToJect,:3e,00Q acres' of which already 1st under - contract; to thts govern m'enf at $5 per acre. - Most ot thfi1 territory is meander 'land; unsuited -1 oagricnltural purposes, but a number of owners are ask ing asj mnch as" $ 2.6 j per acre. shows field bakine ovons at-Fnrt -. - JUNCTION CITY Kas. (AP) Napoleon's conviction that an army- travels on its stomach is shared by the war department of the United, States-- It maintains a cooking school atiFort" Riley to train bakers,"ro6ks and mess ser geants in the art of feeding sol diers, and through its activities the government has learned how to insure soldiers an ample diet on 33 cents apiece a day. " A class of bakers and cooks, first set up at Fort Riley in 1905, was made into a real school in 1908, and now more than a hun died. men graduate yearly from the cooking school, to become in structors in similar schools in each corps area. Officers, too, are trailed in culinary arts a'nd mess management. The secret of feed ing soldiers on 33 cents a day lies, officers sayr in quantity buying. careful handling of foodstuffs and a knowledge of how best to pre pare them. : i Here are some tips for house wives from the military kitchens: Hash is never served. Meat patties or croquettes are made from the cold meats that cannot bo utilized, otherwise. Left-over bread is never thrown raway. It is diced, toasted and used in soups Soups are a regular item on the army menu. Bones are not cooked with meat, but ire removed and boiled to make soup stock. Enough soup to feed 60 men can be made from 38 to 45 cnts by the army method. - j . Cheaper cuts of meat than' those ordinarily used n the home are prepared appetizlngly. Brisket, flank and chuck take the place of prime rib and loin . on. the army menu. Leit-over, potatoes .reap pear at the nextimeal as "hashed brown." I . The army system is applicable to civil life, for-most of the train ed cooks and bakers upon retired ment have started cafeterias! or bakeries of their own. '. Modern Scots Find Old Armor To Be Too Tight EUINBUROff,Scotland (AP) A group of husky Scots who par ticipated in a historical pageant at Cralgnullar Castle : are convinced that they are jigger men than their ancestors, h v v - -. For , the fete jthey had to don ancient armour, and most of them were unable to j squeeze into it. There was plentjr'of armour, but only a few of ithe participants found a suit which was even an approximate fit, They were all too big for the metal, apparel. The . tightness of the armour compelled all the larger men in the cast to obtain' other costumes, and a tiondon theatrical firm was called on to supply posthaste some armor of more recent design, pro portioned to the' stature of twen tieth yehtury Scotchmen. But if the warriors of old were smaller, they must at least , have been men of brawn.. Swords ued by soldiers in the days of . the V ScotUsh , King James IV." were' so- heavpr ; they could hardly - be raised above the heads, of the participants In the pageant; even " atter a night .of j practice prior to the cv Qt, ? SCO T CEirEiJ FACTOR irrninfri nihTfiriu nUIOllUHU America " Would Not Be America without . Scotch and Their -Descendants - - (Writing in. the current issue of The Corigregailonallst, Boston and Chicago, under the heading. "Scotchmen in American History," Rev. Rodney' W. itounaup. pastor of the' Congregational church at Laconia.' N. H.. says:) In Princes Garden, Edinburgh, b. memorial Is to be placed in Sep tember, provided by people of Scotch - descent : in the United States. i' The memorial will take its place alongside those of "Walter Scott and Robert Burns, world famed in literature and world loved by all reading and thinking men and women- There Is an old saying that the Scot is never so much at v home; as when ' he Is abroad." -The people of the Uni ted States have reason to applaud that sentiment. - ; Early Arrivals The Scotchman's place in Am--erican life dates from the middle " of the eighteenth century. Not able were the Scotch arrivals on New England shores in the John and Sara in 1652, prisoners of war captured by Cromwell after the ; battle of Dunbar and sentenced to be transported to the American plantations and1 sold into service. Though many-Scotchmen from the ' earliest time came as free men a large number must have come as indentured servants. " For a time that was the highway to independ ence and freedom. .The historian , Beard maintains that "it is prob able that the number of bond servants exceeded - the. original twenty thousand -Puritans, the yeomen, the .Virginia gentlemen, and . the -Huguenots - combined." ; . ' The earliest current of Anglo Saxon civilization flowed to Am- erica within the banks of .Puritan, and Cavalier streams; within- a century's span of time it flowed a river of life in Scotch and Scotch-Irish- 'channels, w a" mingling -of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic elements. With the beginning of the eigh teenths century -the frontier was being extended and quHe largely by the settlements of these new comers. The seacoast'of the At lantic "was its frontier three cen- tnrles ago. In a hundred years the frontier at its most extended ' spots scarcely reached back one (Continued on pag 6.) FIKCIAL REVERSES HITTING JAPflflESE Number; of Nobles Reported As Being Virtually Paup- . ers At Present ; v' TOKYO (AP) A tumber of Japanese nobles, who formerly, rode In high-priced automobiles and entertained lavishly, are re ported" to; be Tirtnally paupers as a result of a money situation which caused the government to declare a three weeks morator ium " - . , . , . The suspended bank which caused most distress among the first families of the empire was the Fifteenth Bank, called tho I "peers' bank" because its de positors and stockholders num bered most of the- peers of Japan, When it closed Ks doors many of the nobles, having all their money In the institution, went Into tem porary retirement. They are still there, and some of them are said' to be in difficult straits regarding food and clothes, t i ' Prince Matsukata, son of one ; of- the veteran. vstatesmen of the Melji era, was managing director of the peers' bank.; He has given part of his private fortune to help pay the bank's liabilities and has announced that he will surrender all of his wealth, if necessary, to pay the- other depositors. Frinr Matsukata's fortune is estimated at several million yen, his depos its in the : Fefteenth bank alone amounting to more than 2.000. 000 yen.1 ; v " Prince . Shimazu, head of' an other of Japan's oldest families and , a heavy sufferer in the bank suspension, announced his inten tion of 'selling hir palatial man sion fn the suburbe of Tokyo, famous , for Its beautiful gardens. Prince Shimazu had deposits of 1,200,000 yen in the; Fifteenth bank and held stock amounting to about 1.000,000 yen in a dock yard concern that Is In financier straits.' The-Shimaru familv for tune was once estimated at t'J.- N O UNI JOOjOOO yea, V