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Oregon Statesman ". " ! Daily Kxeept Monday fcy THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPA3TT SIS 8Mth CmumkuI Stmt, SaJaaaOrasea It J. Rmlitato , -Irt 8. Mcfbrrr ' Balpk C. Carlia - . Vletor D. CiriNi .' . KonIIi Baa.a. . . . .- Vaaacer Vutif Kdttor CSy Editor . 8 porta Fditar Society gaiter - ... . - I ....... , . . ' ' ...,''.',..'..'.:."'' , : ... . t 1 r ' - '. . :..!- ' '. '::'-.; ... "..,'; - - " - .... .- - . j - - ' - " , - ' ' ' H . .. - ' ... ..''.,, -.. ..." ... . , , ' . . : - . ' , THE OSCGOrT UTATZZllAlu CAIXM rCZZGOlT, TUISDAY UOZlUltGVOVIZZZZZ 13.1:27 ' - ' - .11 ' " ' Ralph. H. Kletuar. .adTartUtar. Hrr being harried by the increase in phone users, in the city, and in the surrounding country. This development is marked. More so than' elsewhere in this section. Salem has a new factory. A paint making factory. It is J1?'"- Maalaieai Da, ft fino Arlftinn tn nnr fnriiiafri'ol : V l.jW J w. u. Headanaa, Cuxalatiea Meaarar, " . . .mwmmm uv, auuuut)Wiu W. C. Coaaer- - - Paaitry KaiVar . ' . arXMnEB Or THB ASSOOIATXD TXRiS s Tna AaaocUte Pttu is In)T.iy aatiuaa U taa ate ler paalieaUoa a all eUateaa rredited ta it ar sot tei-wiae credited ia this paper aad aleo tha tal aewa aaaljecad aeraia. -;, ...:. . btjszhxss ttccess oitB ImptHn Pacific Cot RewHuewtatlrae Xotr a rwiimi. aeearcrj nia(. ; Has sraaeiacav -iar jMac.; l-aa r alteti Aaralaa, CaaaWr t Ctaairti Bld. so on down the line. 1 1 X. w Tri. J2-13 W. list Si.; Ckieaffo. Mariuatta Bide BaahiaM 01fcaa or Si ftueaty Editor i ft TEX.EPHOITES Kaws lep53 or IOC ab . Dpartm.al C'rruiatioa Office 58S ..S8S sterd at tha P.r Offica ia Hal. a. Qrezoe. as cand-claaa mittar. '.'':. Awember, 15,-18527 -t At the same time cams the disciples unto Jeans, saying. Who !s th rreatet In the kingdom or heren? And Jesas called a little hilLto him. and set him lit the midst of them. And said.. Verily X say unto you. Except ye be converted and become as little children. r hall not enter the-kingdom of hearen, Matthew 18:1 t. 3. ; SUPPORT IT - (Portland Journal) j " At Salem there are two linen mills They are manufac , turing flax products froni Oregon grown and Oregon pro- f ceased flax; They are- selling (excellent .products at low ! prices. They arc maintaining pay rolls. ; Tlisy are turning i out products that compare favorably with the products of , long., established flax manufacturing firms, over the At A lantic . One plant cannot now.) meet the demand for its products. H ; ' ,-;:;-;-;C -; , '. ;... Back of those plants are farmers growing flax. They are reaping excellent profits- where a few years ago they' were struggling o make revenues meet expenses.-- Back of those manufacturing plants are busy establish S ments at the Oregon penitentiary, processing flax for ananu , facture. They are .-keeping formerly idle - prisoners busy. They are providing, thef prisoners 'with a'-wage;1 They are helping to' pay the cost of maintenance of the state peni- l tentiary. - , f . . ' Back of those flax manufacturing plants are other busi- 1 nesses. They want a home market for their products. Ag riculture needs a home market for its products. In main- ' tiining and increasing their working forces, those plants are making a home market for other goods. As , they en large to meet the demand for flax products they are in creasing the demand for other products. And they are sell ing customers .high . graded flax ? goods -at" remarkably, low prices. ; -,:.r-f;'v ?r4- : . v ; . One firm cannot meet .the demand f orbits products. The other needs finances' It Jias the bestrniachinery obtainable But it cannot develop its business to meet demands because of the lack of adequate financing. - f J ; Portland subscribed about $130,000 in stock for that plant. But Portland only bought, $70,000 worth of stock. It fell S60.000 short of its quota. Subscribers in other, cities also fell down. Consequently that-plant is not developing as it could develop because of the lack of capital. - ' I The flax industry means much to Portland and the rest of ; Oregon. It is providing farmers with purchasing power. i It is reducing costs at the state penitentiary. . It is'providing payrolls and home markets. It is helping build Portland and i Oregon. . ' " Cannot Portland and Oregon vision what the flax business ; means ? And visioning what i means, can they refuse to provide the small amount of capital needed to establish an industry that means millions to the state 7 ii pkkg ra mm is he Manufacturing Paints, With Factory In Hands ;of a, ' Man Who Knows . "Silk's exterior . and Interior house paints, roof and barn paints and stains. A guaranteed home product. Factory 2 84 S' Portland Road, Salem, Oregon, i . Phone 276S- , . - i i. . . That Is the wording of the card of a new fndastry in Salem, used ta introdueiag J. C. Silk at the Salem chamber of commerce noon meeting yesterday. ": ; i The number of the factory Is straight across the street from the Standard Oil tanks and office. '-. - , It I Permanent; ' :' ' ' This is a permanent industry here. Mr. Silk, has bought the property. He has his ! residence there. He is here to stay, Joining the procession of progress in Sa lem, with the idea of being a part of the growth of this city And see-1 tlon. The factory has a 375 gallon a day capacity mill. Mr. Silk hai been in the business of paint mak ing nearly all his life. I j, He .has been with several large concerns In the past 1 years. He knows all the ins and outs of paint mak ing. , - f , . Some of the money . that has been going : to California ' for rpaints, from this city and 'district,1 will remain-at home. The orders are -already coming nicely." ' ' There are seTeral adTantages in harlng a home paint factory. The freights are sared. Then colors can be made up here, on the spot. This will be a great advantage, to particular people. The reader can think-of many others. . - ; . -What Salem makes makes Sa lem,- This applies to paints, as to many other things already, here and coming steadily. diploma in pharmaceutical cheap istry and one in music. The previous year, the propor tion against the school of agricul ture was still greater, there teing 78 graduates in agriculture as compared to a total of 497. Figures or registration showed only a lKtle orer 10 per cent of the total in the school of agricul ture; 355 there to a total of 33 20 in the regular scholastic terms. The short courses would probably snow a greater total ; in agricul ture, but the figures did not show a- segregation of these students Into departments. ' THS E.:0HMNG yIlGUI.IENT -AUNT HEX Qwinesi Hits For 13xesaJf ast -o i I I The above from the Portland Journal of Sunday is to the point 1 . .'.rvH- 1J'S ;- Andf answering the concluding question, they certainly cannot, with justice to themselves. With fairness to their promises. With that good faith t which ought tomark aD dealings' between man and man and city and city Nor in justice to the early full development of the flax and linen industries. They will . develop in good time. " It is in the cards. It is in the nature of things. The natural con ditions are here" for a great fundamental industry, as old - as. the race. " .X"r "1 ; C," ; The flax and linen industries here, on a stupendous scale, ' are as certain as that water runs down hill ; seeks its level. r : But there is an opportunity to put this development far on the way, with a very little money, compared to the benefits of the expenditure of that small amount; and compared to j the prof its, direct and mdirect. ( " ' " " ; Pqt the two Salem mills to operating, with three shifts, and there will-be specialty mills here. They are waiting to come. There are at least three now waiting. The specialty mills will employ more people than the first v- The ones furnishing the raw products for the specialty mills. ; Supplying the ysuriw;;';.:-i--:V;':)riO ' ' This is for the immediate present the first major duty of Salem and Portland and the whole of this valley; to supply this additional small 'amount of working: capital. ;' ' " ', 'We should have a drive for the. amount, here in Salem - and in Portland and all up and down the valley. ; It can be put over. It will make the original investments good and -sound. It will start the full development of the flax" and linen industries here. It will lead i to great . things not in the far distant future, but in the near future 1 A new phone building j A company owned building, and a large one U That is being forced In; Salem, by the growth, of the serrice in this city and ; the surrounding country. There will be no room to expand otherwise, much longer. And. there will hare .to be constant! expansion. So we are to hare; a big new building, before rery long. .Efforts of the sonlng commis sion, to Insure uniform set-back and wide streets, should hare fall support. Our wide streets are a great drawing card. This feature is remarked by nearly erery sew-! comer U The first two telephone girls In ISalem care . still young. Look young, too. It is a far cry from these two employees to about 100 new, in so short a time; a little oyer 30 years. And a far cry from a payroll of around 50 a month to one of around $120,000 a year. This Is a fair marker of the way Salem has been growing. And the growth now is swifter than here tofore. It is cumulatlre. 5 . 5 S W . ' . "'1 Erery new employee of the tel ephone exchange makea for an In crease of Salem's population to the extent of at least lire, counting the direct families and the indirect In crease in other lmea- that is, the "butcher, the baker, and the can dlestick maker,? or other lines of business and the. professions, i . A lot of good jokes were told at the i telephone anniversary ban-l quet at the Marlon hotel last night. Some of them at the ex pense of those present. There le not space or time for more than one this morning. Mrs. Ruth Biehn, who has charge of the 75 hello girls in the Salem exchange, started her phone career at Eu gene. A drummer called for a number, and . the hello girl, who was new, did not understand. The drummer grew impatient orer the delay, and finally hung up the re ceiver with the words, "Go to hell!" The hello girl was sens! tire. She was in tears. She re fused to work longer, unless there was an apology. The drummer was sympathetic, when the matter was explained to him. But he did not- know how to go about the apology. Finally, he 'rang op the girl, and told her something like this: "Are you the young lady I ' "Pa dian't enjoy our trip lo the city. . He says a steam radiator may be more comfortable than a fireplace, but he can't see how the tobacco chewers get ' along." (Coprris&t. 1027. Publiaaar. Sjndieata) POOR PA By Claade OaSaa "May te goln to marry again eo she's brought us her first hue- band's enlarged picture to keep for ; her.-. ' (CopjTiskt. 1927. PabUahara 8raajeta Mystery Man'' Looms Up In Teapot Dfome Oil Case ' WASHINGTON, Nor. - 14. lOperaUrea. PROHIS GRILLED BY WET U. S. SENATOR : (Continued from Page One). men, tne senator said, "went-Tree and one Is now a district adminis- trator." List Made Up , . Senator Edwards gave the fol lowing "Incomplete" list by states of killings by federal agents: Kentuck 27; Virginia 23: Geor gia 19; Texas 15; Florida 14; New York 13; Arkansas 10; .West Virginia 10 ; Alabama 9i-Missi- sippi 7 ; New Jersey 5 ; Maryland 4;- Pennsylvania 3. - -i -i'i The cause of the large number of killings, in the enforcement of prohibition, he declared ' Vlies in the character of the men who enforce- it; grafters and busy bod lea." Generla Lincoln C Andrews statistics of discharged prohibi tion, agents up to February 1 1920. Senator - Edwards said. , re vealed that 875 men of a stand ing staff of 3. COO persons twer dlscharred "for all sorts of aeoun- drellsm.- including 215; for -fn-iiaMlted. by telling yon to go to toxica t ion and ' misconduct. ; and 123, for extortion, bribery or sol- (AP) Another man of mystery appeared suddenly today in the picture of the oil conspiracy jury scandaL - - He was introduced by William J. MeMullin. gorernment informed against William J. Burns and his detectives who shadowed the Fall Sinclair trial jury, but his identity as well as his connection with the ease was carefully guarded by the federal attorneys. The stranger came here from Philadelphia with MeMullin in the latter's automobile; was closeted with, gorernment counsel for near ly an hour And then left the Dis trict of Columbia supreme court' with a gorernment agent and un der' strict injunctions not to talk. He probably will go i before the grand Jury tomorrow. The secrecy which the prosecut ors threw about the. new witness eonrlnced observers that his tes timony is regarded as of high Im portance ia corroborating If not extending that already given by MeMullin against Burns, hie son, Sherman Burns nad the Burns Opening the third week of Its inquiry, the grand jury was in ses sion only a brief time today and heard only two witnesses. ' Wil liam J. Burns and his sons, W. Sherman, and W. Raymond, ap peared at the court house and f InaUy j obtained permission to go before . the grand jury tomorrow under 'certain stipulations as. to their testimony. These stipulations were not made ; public, but gorernment counsel aald the elder Burns would not be permitted to make any "stump speeches and must confine himself, to testimony per-l tlnent to the Investigation." Burns urged that he be permit ted to go before. the inquisitorial body to present his answer to Me- Mullin's charge that reports as to activities of the oil jurors and a gorernment employe were fabri cated with the idea of using them as a basis for asking for a mistrial In the Teapot Dome case should the defense fin a such a course necessary.1; Nell Burklnshaw, assistant dis trict attorney la chargeof the In vestigation. at first declined to ac cede to Barns' request, but aner the three detectives had conrerrea with District Attorney Oordoa and Burklnshaw it. was agreed that they could appear tomorrow in the! grand jury room. The attitude of William J. Burns today was in sharp contrast with that of a week ago when he first appeared here to testify be fore the grand Jury. A week ago the Internationally known detec tire talked freely with the news paper men and set up a backfire against the goTernment with charge that a federal employe had made contact with one of the jur ors. Today Burns' manner was sub dued and he appeared , rather nervous. lie taxaea rery iittxe with , the correspondents who crowded about him both before and' after his conference with the prosecuting officers.' Before he left the court house he gave in structions that all of, his men were to meet him outside. He called especially for Charles G. Ruddy, of Philadelphia, who was alleged to hare been in charge of the jury shadowing operators. ' . There also was a change in the attitude of the opera tires them selves..; Heretofore they; : bad mingled freely i and taked much, with the correspondents, but today they kept to themseres in one part of the corridor. Some of them gare evidence of apparent concern at the turn of events following Mc- Mullin's disclosures. POLICE HANDLE CROWDS Reserve Forres Force Milling .Slobs Back From Bodies PITTSBURGH, Nor, 14. (AP) Police reserves were "called out late today to control the milling mobs in front of the Allegheny county morgue In downtown Pitts burgh, where the bodies of 21 victims of the north side gas ex plosion rested. Thousands of peo ple, many only curious, fought to get into the death house. ' When Coroner W. J. McGreg or's appeal to the mob to be. fair and pernit those seeking missing relatives . and friends to enter. went .unheeded, the police were summoned. Finally the crowd was Inform- EACH CAa V GvSTKT CJKfi C2 VvOs 'r, We sell nothing but depend able, standard cars at bar gain prices. If 7pu,jwant a used Chrys ler yobr judgment Is good. We hare them at right prices. JFitzgerald-Sherwin . Motor Co. Corner. Liberty & Chemeketa . ; Telephone 1132 The House of Courteous .' ,;:; . xerrioe' V 9; ed that none of the bodies would be placed in the chapel cases and a majority of the crowd turned away.. Some however, their faces marked - with lines of anxiety, stood firm and these were admit ted. They were taken to the em balming rooms in groups. One woman ran screaming- - from the room. "That's Beaver. I know him. My husband must be dead too; for they worked together." One hundred and fifty fresh-, men thought they were good' enough to make the Missouri uni versity football team. And. of course- they had to be shown. V Read the Classified Ads letting money. Do yon want to read a summary of the report of business for the past year of a cooperative that is probably the best 'managed and most! successful organization of the kind in the world? Then read In The Statesman: of this morning the summary of the report of the California Fruit'Growers exchange, which is the cooperative of the citrus fruit growers of Californiathe producers of oranges, lemons and grape fruit. This organizations does many things in the way of help- ing the member growers of those fruits to produce the largest and best crops, and it does many other things In getting the crops marketed to the best advantage It advertises H advertises in many ways, from personal calls to. magazines and newspapers; and it goes strong in the regular news papers. That is where it gets its most direct and quickest contact with the consuming public, and the most effective, both for immediate marketing results and in cumulative Prerv upstanding forward looking business man and i,,.pr nf Oresron ought to read and digest this summary.L Agriculture, ind every one else who nas any mieresi m ine growin 01 our industries either on the una or m u.t W3t. 'km is to hare a telepnone buH Jlnj-'a large, Lcompany . building.- The tiraa when thi3 must be provided is STATE COLLEGE NAME- CHANGE ELUSIVE ISSUE (Continued from Page One) matter arises out of the fact that it la an- official movement op posed to a popular usage which has no connection with acta of the legislature. - : ? That - body may change t the name, or It may refuse to change it; hut It can pass no law which will prevent students, or anybody else, from calling the school whaJ they please. ' J- i Among, the etn dents, there Is apparently, a well organized . de termination to change the name to "Oregon State College. H r The official college newspaper uses the new name, the old col lege pennants and banners have been discarded .and the new name ensblasoaed on new ones, and all publicity sent oat by the associa ted students Is- date-lined "Ore gon State College. ; The ; - name seemed destined to achieve recog nition everywhere, except in the columns of certain ; newspapers which decline to recognize it until It becomes offldaLt -1 . ; f j ; ' ; - These newspapers tnay ie num erous If University of Oregon alumni ' are general in opposing the change, for graduate of the Eugene school are to be found in a good many newspaper ' offices throughout the state. t ? . , ; But this agreement' is not be lieved likely, for come ' on these University of Oregon "men have been objecting for years to the name "Oregon Agricultural Col lege" on the ground that It gives the college too great an advantage In seeking financial support in ag ricultural communities, .. . Jl recent report of the registrar dbcloses that in a recent graduat- fug class, of the 476 students who received diplomas, only 81 ; were enrolled in agriculture. - The list Includes: 81; '.engineering, Ivil 15, electrical 40. indnstrlal arts 13, mechanical 24; forestry, 9; logging engineering, ; home hell T Well, I am sorry, and J want to, apologize to you, and to tell you you do not have to go.". :;: ;y Excess Tongue The priest was busy spreading oil on the troubled waters of Cas ey's marital sea. 'Now, Casey, you know that: a married couple should pull to gether like a team of horses." "Sure, father, an' they, probably would it they; had, hat one tongue between. themVijV j ;; ;VJ ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTOCK Notice is hereby given that the undersigned by order of the Coun ty Conrt of Marion County, Ore-4 gon, has been appointed ' adminis trator of the estate of Levi Allen Geier, deceased. All persons hav ing claims against such estate are required to present them within six months -from the date of this Notice with the proper. Touchers attached thereto to the under signed at No. 39t Salem Bank of Commerce Building, Salem, Ore gon..-. '-. ;. .. .I";- Dated this 9 th day of Novem ber. 1927. . ... JOSIE. M.. ANDERSON. - Administratrix. 1 W. C. WINSLOW, . Attorney for the Estate. , 15-22-29D0-13 , . : If!" J ; llS i THe Best, Gift of All in Daddy's Eyes -A Photograph of his HEALTH L1EAIIS EVERYTlini G DON'T give up! Of course Rectal and Colon disorders cause nervousness, embarrassment, des- aotxUuo. Wtt aa om Mai Imtmit .Mm Mtbob BW koapMaf era(iona. fail to bring Senrut re Bet. Fee 15 ara tha Chaa. 1 rw. maCT(icaa asctkod baa aacceaaraiiv eorractl bate vmwm lalaalaa- kack k.tts ntai ity to taeaaaatfa of mi w. rKiU ia aU waAca U hi. 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