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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON Z 5 Friday Morning, September o; 1927 i; Iiie Oregon 1J leased Daily Except Monday hj ' . THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CXJMPAN1T SIS Booth Commercial Street. Solo. Oregon . J. tfendrtckn Irl S. McSherry lUlph O. Curtis Victor O. CarUoa Beaalln Baneh " , - Manager . Uaatrlnc Editor i, City Kditor Soorta ' Kdrtnr - . Society Editor - MB MB EH OT THE ASSOCIATED ttEAB ' Tee A Modeled Pra ifc ecluily entitled to the ttae lor pnblicatioB of all newe JUpawbea credited to it or mot otherwise credited in thi Aer and also the local mown pahliahod herein.. ' ' ' BUSINESS OFFICES; : : :. -' ' , O. B, BelL -S Reenrity Bide;.. Portland. Ore., Telephone Broadway 920. Thome P. Clark Co., New York. 128-13S W. 31t St; Chicago, Marquette B'd. Dotv 8 type. I ec, California repreaeutatiren, Sharon Bldg., an Franeiaeo; Chamber f Commerce Bldg.. Loe Angeles. : TEUEFHOHES Kew Dept..2S or.lOS Bnainoas fflee.i.23 or 58S Boeiety Editor 10fl Entered at the Peat Office In Salem, Oregon. a aecoad elaaa matter. - - , ' (ptember O, 1027 : i -O worship the Lrd with the beauty of holiness: fear before Him, all the earth. Psalm 9 6:9. . . .. 1 1 '"- i ' 1 1" ' -imp i ' PUMPKIN CENTER" OF THE WORLD "When will the Slogan" page be out with Salem as the pumpkin. center of the world?" cynically 1 inquires the" Sips for Supper jokesmith of "our hated contemporary." Not soon, likely - . ' For, there are so many other good and more important things to Sloganize 'in this land of diversity, and, according to-the scheme of things made and provided,' there can be only 52 Slogan subjects a year; one each Thursday i . Though there would be room for several hundred sub jects besides ; sort of sub-slogans. . And Salem as the pumpkin center of the world would not be out of place asone of these. It would not be hard to convince any one of this fact who could be shown the car . load after car load and the long processions of truck and wa ggon loads of the raw materials for canned, pumpkins piling 'their burdens mountain high at the 13th street plant of the Oregon Packing company the fall of each year. These - become I the canned pumpkins bearing the world : renowned Del ;Montertrand, used for pumpkin pies in all the lands bordering on the seven seas I In; the. logging camps of the tall forests, in the frozen north, under tropic suns, on the dining cars of, the railroads, .on the tables of the best hotels, on the bills of fare of the ; ships that sail the great oceans Everywhere ; for pumpkin pie is one of the most demo cratic of all pies; originating with, the Mayflower pilgrims -.of New England, and thus having an ancestry worthy of the Daughters of the Revolution, or any other daughters or sons of blue blood and proud lineage. i Perhaps it ought to be added (or should it?) that the pumpkin pies of comemrce are not pumpkin pies. They are squash pies r For just as the Hubbard squash of New England makes thejffljing for the famous pumpkin pies of that section, far ) famed as 4the Boston baked beans of the same origin, the j canning, pumpkin is a squash with a college education; Bur- banked and bred through many generations for the particu lar place it is designed to fill in the filling of the pumpkin j And Salem comes very near to being in fact, the pump kin center of the world. Will likely become just that kind J of a -center as more canners follow the example of the Del Monte people in specializing on the Salem district quality stock for this pie of perfection; worthy to be named in the t same breath with the nectar of MORE ENGLISH BEET r -The total area under sugar beets in England this year I was 221,900 acres, according to official report of the ministry " of agriculture, against 95,900 acres last year, an increase of 76 per cent, and nearly four times the acreage of 1925 i And other factories are being built. One is to be erected at Hull, and the site for another one, the Bedfordshire fac- tory, has been definitely located at Blunham, six miles east of Bedford to be ready for the 1928 crop, for which acreage J is being contracted with the farmers. ' In the county of Sussex, the largest agricultural county near London, the sugar beet was the farmer's best crop last . year many- growers clearing 10 ' pounds (about $50) an acre after spending as much as 20 pounds an acre on the crop. II British capitalists are also establishing beet sugar f ac etones in the. colonies. A British company capitalized at V. $2,000,000 has been completed according to word received by the New Westminster board of trade. The company will ? acquire a large tract of land in the Fraser valley worked by English and Scotch labor. The plant, it is expected, will be located in New Westminster. - ' In the mean time tens and scores of thousands of acres Y of land in the Willamette valley, suitable for sugar beets ."Cipable of producing a larger per acre tonnage and with a higher sucrose (sugar) content than the English or Brit ish Columbia farmers can grow I 'Are lying; out as slacker ' economic waste, and inexcusable, when it is considered that the dairying and live stock industries, and every other indus- try on the land, needs the indirect help of the beet sugar in- , dustry - Needs the clean and rotation cultivation, and the by-pro if ducts of beet growing and manufacturing. . ' - - ' Again and again this is to make the Willamette valley j to stabilize the business and and towns. . . ; . - TIIIS IS (Eugene Within the past few weeks, the state flax plant at Salem has sold 157 tons of flax is an astonishing sale. It is as astonishing as if Eugene should sell a trainload of fabricated steel products to Pitts burgh. - ; - ' . I Belfast is the linen center of the worlds ;Its flax fiber along with the. Courtrai fiber of Belgium, has been rated as the best in the world. Yet here we see Belfast coming to Oregon for flax fiber. r f F- .'!" : V' : It is not impossible that this Oregon fiber, grown in Oregon soil, may be shipped to Belfast, manufactured there into linen products and shipped back to. Oregon and jsold Over Statesman Ralph H. Kletaing - Advertialnr Manager Gno. K. Martitt Snpt. Mechanical Ilepi. W. H. tlenderioa Circulation Manager K. A. Kooten - : - JLiet.ck Editor W. C. Conner -I Paltry Editor Job Iepartnint Circulation Office ..5HS -5SS the gods. SUGAR FACTORIES or idle acres. . This is a great ; the thing; most . vitally needed a great farming country,and growth of, all our valley-cities ; f,,. . ALL TRUE ; ; , Register.)! t fiber to Belfast, Ireland. That Oregon countersto' Oregon people. What a waste that would involve! T . " . , Imports of, linen fabrics into the United States reach the huge annual total of $100,000,000 a year. Think "what it wmild mean i f half of that - , brought to Oregon. r ' J ' It is conceded that linen fiber equal to the best in the world can be produced in Oregon. We -shall 'be standing in ...... , . . 1. f.i our own llgnt ll we uo not, manutaciute mis iiuer 11110 uiien ; hwa fiina trnvlfllntr npw nflvrolls and new nrosneritv for our ItV X lli MtJ " I state. . "The stone which the builders rejected, the same is be come the head of the corner.". You have perhaps heard this. Or even read it. Something like this is happening to the Agaraeranon went lnto tne hoaa6 beekeeping industry. The newly organized Mead Honey ha the trader reported, and after a company; -Salem, has orders for five car loads of horiey, andwhne the people went away, not .M,' , , - seeing more entertainment in pros- one of.4hem.is a bid for many cars that might follow, for ex- peet Tnen clytemnestra had them port. The .orders cannot be filled with our local supply, for (an called back, and she came out the regular trade is taking it outside horiey. This is very gratifying to The Statesman, for this paper has for years been calling attention to the vital importance of the beekeeping industry in the great fruit dis trict of which Salem is the center. The industry; coming up from almost nothing a few short years ago, is now flour ishing. Taking on abundant life. It will become a big industry. It must. Within a few years, car . lots will be supplied from here. They will be . common. And, .in due time, train lots will not be uncommon. See how easy it is to get 50,000 hop and prune pickers for the Salem district. It will be the same when we grow sugar beets. We are used. to getting laborers in large numbers. May we promise state fair visitors that, the city dump will be a thing of the past byjthe time of the openng of the 1928 fair? , " ,. . Senator Reed Smoot of Utah is out gunning for the people who would scuttle the American protective tariff ship. He is able to head off that bunch, though backed by some of the most powerful interests of this country. ft IATM ON MOMM UnTMSOUMI TMt UH THS PRIVATS LOfFCS ' OF HGLSN iW JOHN Wtla THE CHARACTERS Helen, an ancient lady with mod- rn ideas. , Menelaos. her husband while she stayed at home. Hermlone. her daughter and sev erest critic. Orestes, her nephew young en ough to have ambitions. Eteoneus, gate-keeper by calling: philosopher by instinct; moral ist by observation. . t Adraste, handmaiden and friend to Helen; scandal to 'iribst ev erybody else. Charitas. the lady next door, Damastor, a boy who strayed from the family door-step. v Cliapter III "We have news." said Eteoneus, ond I don't like to tell It." "Tell us, Eteoneus." said Helen. We can stand the news, good or bad!" "Agamemnon is dead," said Eteoneus. "Menelaos!" cried Helen. She went over to him, and stood by his side.' "My brother is dead!" repeated Menelaos. "I didn't like to tell you," said Eteoneus. , "Who how did he die?" asked Menelaos. "He was killed." said Eteoneus. "Aegisthus killed him." "Never! said Menelao. "It's: a A - Picture-Story of the J Drama by Laurence Stallings and. Maxwell Anderson 4 A "Little Affair In Manila - . SECJOXD JEPISODE ;i Pride wounds heal more slowly, than -heart . f wounds, which "are supposed to leave 'deeper-. ' 7 scars than Injuries to the flesh. .The" blemish on - Plagg's ego left by the Shanghai Mabel episode ' was still red when the mfrtnes of the Legation: ' iiGuard at Peking were transferred to duty in the y-A Philippines. The Islands were peaceful, the Su- ; jj: an1. Taalogs gave; the saldlers ; no anjlety.-'.. So'Sergi. Flagg wa3 atbirst tor adventure, d-" total of new business conld be;11 e"ct a tribte penalty from .. af all. They may be filled with OF 6RSK1NO - fiTmt IHTlffHO f K. "'"ir S3m J (mistake. Aegisthus couldn't stand a moment before mjr brother in .a. fair fight!" "No. he couldn't," said Eteon eus, "but it wasn't" -a. fair fight. Agamemnon went iato his house, as the trader reported to us, and thinking himself safe at home, he too'.; off his armor and hung up h's - sword. Then they killed hi-" ..a 1 "They? Who were they?" cxieq Helen. i "Tell us all," saM Menelaos. "Who killed my brother?" "I believe Aegisthus was most to blame," said Eteoneus; "he's the one Orestes is after, now. and it may be "he has already paid him bad: for it. The messenger says Clytemnestra was' implicated." "My sister, my sisiter! : I knew it!" cried Helen. "I knew in itif heart she would murder him some day." "Helen." said Menelaos, "yon and I have had difficult moments, and I've said hard things about you. to your face, but I don't be lieve a sister of yours .would do that. I can't believe it of a wo man so near to us, of your blood. This murder is Just the sneaking kind of thing a coward like Aegis thus would plan. Moreover, if she had done it, the people would have killei her In revenge before this. My brother was never what you could call popular, but Jhis men World War :::.:;: A K I i i. i M that was tnfore made perfectly pi cn lo outing WE hot in JMsnlla'tharflay. Whila Sefgt. were t devoted .: to him. : 4 ; , - 5 i t There's soother thing z too," 2.lil Hermlone. Clytetone8tra kuows there will bVsome sort of revenge for this raurd. , Orestes 1 Aejrlsthus, but If Clytemnestra twere Implicated, he would have to punish her (00 all the murderers, : ia fart- She understand where ;suh a deed would end." 0reates wonidn', vn Orestes wouldn'. kill his moth er," said. Menelaos; "otherwise I agree wltl your argument. I think Helen is unjust to her sister. . . . Eteoneus. did the messenger gire you any further details?" These are the details," said and made them a speech, she said she had enjoyed such admirable relations with her neighbors that there was no reason why. she should not take them into her complete confidence. She had, she said, just killed her husband. They probably knew tat Aegisthus and she had been living together, and considered themselves man and wife In the eyes of the gads, If the gods had noticed it. ; She had doubted that Agamemnon would return rather hoped he wouldn't, for he had murdered their daugh ter, and she was bound by every pious obligation, as they would readily appreciate, to slay the mur derer of her child. She had there fore drawn him into, a remote part of the bouse, had invited him to rest, and when his armor was re- moved, had killed him. In a great; burst of jealousy, which she men tioned -with regret?'she had also killed Cassandra. It was clear now, she .said,' that this second murder was unnecessary, but it's hard to think of everything at the time. She would now take Aegis thus as her lawful second hus-. band; she had accepted no aid from him In killing" Agamemnon, for after all, the feud had to do with her daughter and not with her love-affairs. Aegisthus was entirely j innocent. The messenger considered it quite a speech." said Eteoneus, "and at first it was well received, but fhe people began to notice, as they thought it over, that she really was shielding Aegisthus, arid trying to lay the blame where no vengeance could strike. The messenger says hat Oiestes will have the people with him if he succeeds in killing Aegis thus, but if he fails, they'll prob ably stand by Clytemnestra she has the situation well In hand." "Of course she has," said Helen. "She undoubtedly planned it all, even the speech, long-ago ,She leaves nothing to accident. She murdered him. I'm glad at least she didn't pretend-otherwise." "Don't you think yoju'd . better go help Orestes, fattier?" said Hermione. "I'm going within the hour," said Menelaos. "I'm going to help Orestes have his vengeance on Aegisthus." "And on Clytemnestra?" said Helen. "Dear me, no!;said Menelaos. "We'll, leave her to her guilty con science. But Aegisthus is the vil lain. I do believe, all the more' because she defended him so en ergetically. I'll be back at once, in time for Pyrrhus." "Bring Orestes back with you," said Helen, "and the wedding can take place without further delay. It will rehabilitate that branch of the family, socially I mean, to have the alliance with your daughter, and it will take the poor fellow's mind off his terrible troubles." ' .X-.-.vfl- Eyes Met Quirt's v:s - '7 ' I f, - - , - - . - t ' - - . . A-W-:: : i ::v- V ? , i " - r . . - . - - ,x w - - ', r. : r ..:..-: r- . ...... . - venture appealed In the" physical form of a Span ish fenorita, the toss of whose heal and the wordless language of whose dreamy eyes lured him' with a. power beyond resistance. . j' " A" little 'fUrUtion a little chat In Spanish eloquent than correct, but -which understandable in the hills. Flagg foraged , , And it was ever so .a parriage. the same old driver, but Quirt, not i:"l"3:.LV. T i 7 " , for aandwfcies la . . r: -jA-r::;ictlVi2- 3earaESrleiieJItIc3-1 ; K - CoiyrM 'vszr ". "iMThat wedding can wait.", said Menelaos. " - ' . 5 f'OC "course It can," said Helen. "Meanwhile, what will yon do if you meet Clytemnestra f now? Won't it be rather awkward for you to pass the -time of day while you're- killing her lover? I And won't it be still : more awkward afterward? I'm . thinking that since Agamemnon " is gone, you must ; approach Clytemnestra, as the surviving parent, when you ar range .the details of Hermione's wedding, and - perhaps it would therefore be wiser to keep out of this feud-i-especiaily since Orestes seems able to bear her wrath." "I don't see that at-allv", said Hermlone.? fHe ant keep' out of the feud, mother. ..'He might Just es well go now fund help fOrestes, and I can marrySwJtont IClytem nestra's approval. " (n. 'fact I don't wish her approval. I intend to have nothing ti do with her." "But you can't : Ignore your mother-in-law," said Menelaos. "Do you know, Hermlone, it might be wise to- reconsider the whole situation." I like Orestes belter than ever, but In marriage you have to reckon with the relatives. Marriage is a frightfully social in stitution. I have absolutely no so cial leanings toward Clytetanes- tra." , ' ' , " "I can't let - Orestes drop, if that's what, you mean." said Her-j mlone. "I'm committed to him I'm engaged I've promised my self. I thought you knew that, father. , I'd like to marry with your, blessing, but I shall marry Orestes." f'l don't think that's quite duti ful,"; said Menelaos. "You ought to listen to a parent's advice. We used to respect our elders." "I respect your elders too," said Hermione, "but you are breaking faith with me." "Hermlone," said Helen, "that's not the way to speak to your fatti er! The question isn't whether parents deserve the courtesy; the question is whether your own na ture is fine enough to prefer courteous expression; . . Marry Orestes when you like, so far as I'm concerned; it's for you and your father to work out."i i "The only way I'll work it out," said Menelaos, "is to postpone the whole matter. I'll go now and do what I can to help the boy; after that we'll see." "You may wait, as you say," said Hermione, "but it's only frank of me to repeat that I've nothing to gain by waiting." "Oh, Hermione, can't you have some sense?" said Helen. "Your father will, help Orestes now, and afterward, jnst because of that help, the wedding will follow quite naturally. If you only wait, you'll see. ' "She wan't see anything of the kind!" said Menelaos. "The rela tions are distinct. If I thought they weren't', I'd let Orestes han dle the. whole thing myself! He'd better not think I'm committed to him for life, as Hermione says She is, just because I join him, now to avenge my brother's murder!" Chapter IV "You don't think he will?" said Hermione. ' " v lTm sure he won't," said Eteo neus. : "I don't like to think my father a coward," said Hermione, "but It will be difficult to explain his staying home now. Decency . re quires him to see justice done." ; "He's no coward, not in the or dinary sense," said Eteoneus. "Your mother dissuaded him. You heard her do it When she began urging him to go help Orestes, so that he could arrange the sooner for your wedding, and when she reminded jhim that he'd have to som jpnrw -4 r tnqu'sitlve Wink a cafe the Senorita waited outside, and what the novelists calL'the long arm of coincidence' pushed Sergt. Quirt Into the picture. . , .The languorous - eyes4 met Qulrfa inquisitive wink with-welcome, and the ride to the hills stanea, out-wunout: provlsons ,ifc-ww i m 4 --- t uw oauio. uyiw, lue oiuw : ... vl4h- . ol ; Inwo with tha Tfim rnnrifa SS THE MORNING ARGUMENT AUNT HET Ry Robert Qullleu ' "Jim was ' so lazy we always thought he'd have to be supported by the public some day, but It surprised us some when they Bent him to the legislature instead o the poor farm." - , ' (Copyright. 1VS7, PablUhere Syndiente) arrange the wedding details with Clytemnestra, I knew there'd be no-helping Orestes, and ; no wed ding. I'm no .one of yoar moth er's devoted worshipers, but you have to admit she's clever." " : "Eteoues'V do you think: Orestes is strong enough to meet Aegis- thus?' : . V . ; -. "Alone, yes; but if Clytemnes tra is helping- her lover, Orestes should be careful. The combina tion was too much for Agamem non." They ought to cut her throat first, and do for Aegisthus after ward." ' ... "How bloody-minded you are, Eteoneus!" said Hermione. "You could have been another Pyrrhus, if you had given your attention to it." . . j "I suspect you mean no compli ment," said Eteoneus. "What's the trouble-with Pyrrhus?" "He's a brute," said Hermlone. "He doesn't mind ' killing women, not a bit; In tact, if he were in Orestes' place, I dare .say he'd r&ther kill Clytemnestra and let Aegisthus go free." "There's something to be said for that point of view; she's the guilty one," said Eteoneus, "and she's a woman." "Just the reason - for sparing her," said Hermione.1 ! "I know," said Eteoneus, "that's the last word in fine manners, but I don't believe in it. Women make most of the trouble in the world, and it's weakness, I say, to spare and its weakness, I say, to spare them their punishment. Otherwise they'd always be doing as they liked." : . - V "You ; are talking nonsense, Eteoneus, and you know ' better. Women are defenseless before men." ' - ; ; , "Are they!" said Eteoneus. "Clytemnestra!" "That's a special case, and it's not what I'm talking about," said Hermione. "I repeat what I said, that women in general have a hard time, and that men treat us so badly we los eour respect for them." ; "It can't be'. done': said Eteon eus. 'You can't treat a woman so badly we lose our respect for isr provided you still; show some sort of interest in her." (To be continued) . , Copyright, 1925, by the Bpbbs ' Merrill Company : Several years . ago : Governor Coolidge made a record in Bos ton for courage, and now Gover nor Fuller proves that the quali ty in Massachusetts governors has not run out. k ' vwjjjr-r-? av. and with a dlf- duel between POOR PA Ry CLaudrt CalUa "Every few months Ma finds some excuse for tellin me how moch life insurance her sister M ell's husband is carryin. " (CopyrichC 1927. Ptahlithera Syndicate) EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE Ml correspondence (or tma deport ment matt bo nigB4 kj the writer, I oil be written on one aide of tne I neper only, eel ekoeld lot no lenre I L 'he ISO werde. Editot Statesman: The death of William Davis and burial in Haiel Green cemetery recalls the events" of . the 70's and 80'a when the . three Davis ' bro thers, William, Samuel, and Hans, owned and operated a saw mill In Hazel Green on the Little' Pud ding river. . , , ; " j ' . This mill supplied much lumber for near by places on Salem prai rie and Howell - prairie. Logging was carried on with oxen, or rolling the . logs by hand with cant hooks and hand spikes into the stream. - Hans Davis, youngest of the brothers -operated the steam en gine which furnished power. So correct was the silver watch which he carried that the whistle of his engine at 7, 12, 1, and 6 o'clock became the rule and guide for other time pieces in the surround ing neighborhoods. Horses hit ched to the . plow would stop in their tracks at this welcome sig nal for relief from toil. It was the ambition of- many young men to work in the mill, turning screws, off bearing, or in the timber. For such pioneer men at James Tanner, Andy Conner and Isaac Stevens, feeding threshing machines -or driving horse power e powei the was no. small accomplishment These workmen and others in the language of the were glad, "When Hans pulled the string." . " ' . , ' E. B. Fletcher. VET COMMITS SUICIDE Thirty Eight Year OIrt- SfrKmnt InliMlctt 1jm Fume PORTLAND. Sept. 8. (AP) Richard Tasala. about 38. died here today as a result t inhaling gas fumes In a room in a local ho tel. His body was found by the landlord. Papers in the man's clothing showed that he had been honorably discharged from the ar my in July. He was a first ser geant and a veteran of the world war.v ; - The body was turned over to the coroner who was malting ef forts to locate a sister said to re side In Astoria. , Pictures from the Fox Film iTo'Be Shown at The Capitol Text from the Scenario TV To the Hill In Other Company from the cafe door. His sandwiches had turned to Dead Sea fruit before they were pasted. . Score another mark for Quirt's foil. .The red scar of Peking on Flagg was matched by a Manila-: cicatrix, 'And that marks. the real begin ning of a much bigger story a long continued men who fought for the lore. or.