THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, UTXJESLBER , 1U27 UE1EG IP , OeClLIFOM E. A. Rhoten Tells of What ' He Saw In Neighboring State To South - E- A. Rhoten . returned home Friday from a trio Into California. - J W havta been gone lometMn over w ,2' T"W r. ' Elslnoro Theater . :-7: Comedy la supposed to be close-! ly akin to tragedy. The greatest comedian and critics say the best comedy ' is that which Is mingled with, pathos and I If this is true then Charlie Murray, who Is fea tured In "The Gorilla." has all the laughs coming to him. -The Gorilla" Is the hilarious and hysterical mystery comedy coming 40 the Elsinore today, in : two weeks, traveling by automo ! bile, Mrs. Rhoten accompanying I him on the trip. In speaking of j the trip and condition in Calif or nla. he says: ' -we traveled approximately S 500 miles. Our own speedometer I registered ,. 27 7 miles, and we traveled with others perhaps 700 ; miles more. On the trip Into Cal ifornia, we followed the Pacific highway to Red Bluff, and then took the : west side highway Into San Francisco, following the coast line to Los Angeles and Tla Juana, and there turned by way; of the Inland route through Bakersf leld, Etockton, Sacramento, etc. A few hundred miles were used In mak ing aide trips out of Los Angeles Into the southern California dU- ; trict; also we stayed ,a few days In San Francisco and made a num- vber of eld e drives out of that city. ' J covered too much territory to secure the real details regarding vCalIfornia. but did get a very good general survey of the entire stated Weather conditions were good, no rain from the time we left Salem until we reached home. We passed through some sections where It was said that frost. nevervlslts one town had a banner out pro- Claiming that this was the 44 th consecutive year without frost: We saw peas and beans growing for the 1928 crop.; Orange trees with fruit of all stages jta well as blos soms. California Is a large state, with varied industries. A part of California la very rich, from an agricultural and real producing standpoint. ; The section from jt resno nonn to Sacramento ap peared to be perhaps the richest. However the orange groves In the extreme southern part of .the state claimed tremendous . returns , per acre. The southern" part of T. the state has a wonderful climate, un equaled any. place In,, the United States. This Is a wonderful asset. It? has attracted people from -over the United States as i place' to "live.1 . JvV' ,.' -r". .: Ttmendoiu Growth -California, and the lower part especially, has made, a wonderful .growth In population the past few - years. Long Beach had a popula tion of possibly 15,000 In 1910 while now it Is estimated "to have approximately 147,000. ' Other towns claim similar gains. One frequently hears the report of how California, and, especially the extreme southern part, has' passed a boom period, and now Is In bad condition. We failed to find any evidence of any serious setback. It la probable that building has ' slowed up, for there were no great amount of building activities In progress, but I failed to eee any abnormal vacancies In either, the ;' : residence or business districts. As l far as I was able to observe, gen eral conditions are good. There are many wealthy families' that have palatial home's, but really I could not see that they were any great asset, for -this class was not ; spending much money, only for ; their actual living. However. tiTe re is a clas, that has been com- 4 DAY 5 Bis Acti AUDITILLE Xhe fiarcea v ' (1 -v '; h.S- tt . i J 'YA. i ' n "... v i i Jt ; , J ;ts4 'i : f v-- Nw-:.. J Jl t .sT -. . " V i t r 1 k : . t -t V t C'.szr i i 1 I .J r,-lsu. team. . . : clA " T;.- . And one must ! not forget the gorilla himself. " There Is where Charlie Murray and his pathos and comedy come in. ilt's comedy for the audience to see him. playing around cliffs, -housetops, cellars, etc etc., with a nine foot, four hundred pound ; ape man, but as for Murray, let; the' pathos speak tor. Itself. ;Jus. place yourself In the same predicament and! imagine the fun.--: '4. ;..-if-i.:i -The Gorilla- Is an adaptatfon of Ralph Spence's stage play of .the same name and - combines all the elements of tun and chills that made the - legitimate version - so popular. The situations : In : the motion picture have been enlarged over those In the stage play. It fas reported to be a combination of the -weirdest, spookiest - mystery and the greatest comedy Imagin able, t - '- Murray and Kelsey have the roles of the two dunfb detectives. Mulligan and Garrity, ; whose greatest problem If to keep logeth-i The gorilla is a whole melo drama in himself. - His huge bulk ana tremendous size present a ferocious aspect. A four hundred pound gorilla is menace enough for any picture. . ' - ' 1 1 Oregon Theater ?1 ; More than -ten cases of iodine swabo--enough to stock an emer gency hospital, ten times over went into the1 making" of Jackie Coogan's new starring - vehicle, "The Bngle Call' which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: presents at the Oregon theater, last time today. f They weren't used for accidents in the spectacular Indian battles that mark, the new historical ro mance as a matter of fact the lo- fdlne swabs are what made the In dians what they were.' Iodine rtxb- ed on the skin lightly makes a perfect disguise for an "Indian J and several hundred extras were so bedecked for ihe picture. f J There are many real Indians in It, too,; a tribe commanded I by Chief Standing Bear and several others, all playing screen actors tor the replicas of historic plains battles. Vju y j J . j;--; . .The new story is a vivid drama of life in the plains in the '70's, with Jackie as the son of a caval ry captain i in - a -frontier post. Claire Windsor plays the heroine, and Herbert "' Rawynson, Tom O'Brien, Bodll Rosing, Sarah Pad- den, Johnny Mack-Brown and oth ers of note ftfe In the' cast, direct ed. by Edward Sedgwick. f ; Ing to California from throughout the United States and Is still com ing that Is a great asset; and that is of those who are active in busi ness, .bringing money with them, and. are willing to spend it. High Prices "Prices of real estate are much higher than corresponding values In Salem. They ask larger prices and gtt it. Then' another thing that has helped lower California materially has been the oil wells. These have made smany people very wealthy.' A man -who has been' In moderate ; circumstances throughout his Ufa and suddenly finds that he has an income of say SS00 or 11,000 a day is a good inender and makes business- ac tive. There are many of this class. The fact of some one with a. few thousand dollars playing the oil game :- and going broke does" not Beriously aff ect.' general business only so' far as this one. individual la concerned. V On- the contrary, his pending7 his,moE(e)r,imlght make general business conditions more active. :Z I believe 4.hat lhe person who waits for" a slump in lower California, in order to. buy land dent that time would not permit a careful search with such a num ber. The officers were releasing them from "the seven lines .just about as fast as the . highway would accommodate the traffic It was approximately 18 : miles , into San Diego, and .numerous traffic officers were In evidence along the way. We passed a number of au tomobiles that had been stopped by .these traffic officers, and I was Informed that the traffic offi cers on this particular line had to be very, active as a drunken per son driving an automobile Is not conducive to safety on the high way, to say the least. ? f-v 1 i We returned from 1 Tia Juana to San Diego and registered at a hotel and were shown to. rooms on the' fifth floor. The windows were open and Just as we entered our rooms the air .was filled with the music from the church tower just across the street." We looked out of the window! and found that' we were located just across the" street from the Methodist church and the chimes were playing 'How Finn a Foundation, ' etc. , this . was -'followed 'bv other well known church hymns,:; A' large electric lighted! A ,).,. , ft with ai man who is waiting ifor a lessening In values, of Balem'prop ertyA There is nothing In sight as I vie it that would indicate such. 'r--'J-r"'speIal'"Prodctios VMuch of California is devoted to special production -that is, one section will produce almost noth ing but grapes; another, livestock; still anothertree fruits, etc. We spent a day in the Petaluma dis trict where the White Leghorns reign supreme. . Flocks of from 5,000 to 20,000 birds are com mon. ' One .hatchery has a capaci ty of approximattly 2,000,000 ba by chicks at one j hatching. - This sounds pretty big, but I counted the incubators and estimated their capacity, and found that It checks very close. - "1 . Also in Tla Juana "We drove to .Tla Juana, Mex ico. Those who do not believe in the Volstead act on account ot.it interfering with I their personal liberties would find Tla Juana very much to their liking, as there was apparently no effort being made to Interfere with anyone's personal 'liberties A party ; of five of us visited this city' on a Sunday ; afternoon.: There were thousands of visitors there; they were largSry from the lower Cal ifornia cities and were there for a Sunday's drunken; carousal. There dance halls and gambling games were ? running wide open. The crowd was composed about equally of men . and women, and made np to a large extent! of the younger set. ? There ' were? girls and boys who did not appear to be above the high school age, or, perhaps not eren that old,) who were drink ing and then dancing as long as they' were able .to' star on' their feet. Mosk of the younger gener- atlon ' appeared : to . be ' drinking beer, while the older and veterans at the business were calling for whiskey, ?5 The crowds were not made up of residents of Mexico but of Americans from the United States. Tla Juana is but a short distance 4eyond the border line; and a large signboard at the bor der line proclaimed that the gate would be shut at p. tiL . However,- we-were -tipped" off tht if we ' were actually . in line" at ' o'clock, we would be .permitted to get out of Mexico, tha evening. So we got in line for the return trip about 5:30, and as we were being re-checked into .the U.- S. by the Immigrition officers there were seven lines of automobiles waiting tor this service and by glancing back those lines appeared to be at least' half a mile long. This will convey an idea of the number of cars and people who were visiting Tla Juana that day. The officers at the line made no attempt to search our cars. The Immigration officer simply looked la and said. 'I see you are all Americans. How ever, if their' suspicion had been aroused, then - there, would have keen a careful search. It is evl- church - tower. NO greater , con trast'-would . be possible than to 'imagine the significance, of .the two, one tne jazz music, If such it might be called, of a Mexican dance hall and the other the chimes of the church. -, ;. Comntry Is Prosperous f : "No unusual amount of unem ployment was in evidence In Los Angeles, and the surrounding country, no more than one. would expect In a city, of this size. This refers to the transient labor class. However, there 'are small cities in this district as well as localities, in the larger 'cities 'that seem to be populated with a class in comfort able circumstances, but could; not be classed as wealthy. I talked with a number of this class that hare a living Income from various sources. Many of them own their own homes, and plan to live there the balanew of their days. They have come from various parts of the United States on ' account of favorable climatic conditions, and It seems that those of this class are constantly increasing; more of them coming each year. They are bringing In money from outside sources, buy t good comfortable homes and are good citizens and a great assest. : It is not fair to Los Angeles to leave the impres sion that this Is their only source; because they do have num erous, large Industrial and manu facturing plants, and many of the big manufacturing concerns in the middle west and far east have either established branch plants in this section or such a move' Is in progress. So far as pretty parks and places of amusement are con cerned, California has' done much more than Oregon, as to devel opment. When it comes to natural beauty, - however, 't and natural scenic drives and. other places that would appeal to the heart , of a person who eniovs natural beautv. the northwest has California bad ly defeated. It has been said that God made the northwest, and man made California. The Calif ornians arestrong believers In their own state, and. are, rightly good boos ters. No exception can be taken to that attitude. The It Can't Be Dose, clubs are apparently, better organized in Oregon than they are in California. We met a number of Salem people, among them, are Mr said Mrs. Wm, H. Fleming, Dr. and Mrs. FalrchUd, Mrs. Deyoe and others. We trareled - brer pared roads practically the entire distance. There are seven 'miles of the highway between Dunsmalr and Redding which is now under construction, and traveling : over this portion was necessarily slow Otherwise the roads are good throughout.' The small boy 'who used to be unable to swallow the -one-grain quinine pill his mother gave, him In apple butter has now grown, up ant can swallow anything: the b f -tlesger brings hiax' - FLO FJISI TJL Id ADDRESS COVERS FIELD FROM ROTART TO RAILROADS Smlttlng words of wit and wis dom like the swift and precise bul lets from a machine gun, accur ately aimed. Edward Fi Flynn, ot St. Paul, speaker of Rotary and Railroad fame, , held spell-bound his hearers at the chamber of com merce luncheon yesterday, - ; Mr. .Flynn eovered more - terri tory in his 3Q minute speech than any other speaker appearing be fore the chamber. From ethics home from the logging camp soon. - Pringle school is preparing a lit tle Christmas program, f Tom Davison was a frequent business caller in Pringle vicinity last week. . - . i Question of Military Authorities Comes Up la business to railroad -service and announced. SHANGHAI, Dec. 5. (AP) , Supremacy of civil authority over military rule is the cardinal point on which Cantonese nationalists wllf enter this week's conference of, the central executive commit-! tee of the Kuomlntang, or nation alist political organization. It was development figures; from com-i parlsons of European conditions with those of the United States to an effective rap at the institution of war; from an estimate of Eur opean monarchs to a brief resume of happenings at the international Rotary convention, the speaker touched here and there, quoted poetry and related funny stories, building It all finally into a de lightful "pattern. "Faith marches ahead on the highway of progress," said Mr. Flynn, in effect, "and nowhere should there be greater faith than In the Pacific northwest, with its multiplicity ot opportunities. But In addition to faith, there is need ed men who deliver the goods. We can't all be captains, for crews are needed, but each. has a service to perform kIo it. The law of compensation has kept railroad companies out of the red, according to Mr. Flynn. While automobiles have increased in number . 3005 ' per - cent since 1912, cutting heavily into the pas senger traffic of railroads, the loss has been made up by the carriage of automobiles, accessories, and gasoline. . :;;ci " ,: Government control of railroads was flayed by Mr. Flynn, -."If rail roads 'were under government con trol, you wouldn't have any more, to say about them than you do now about the post office. The rail roads are yours. "Railroad taxation on American roads in 1905 were $58,000,000, now it is S400.ooo.ooo, all. of which is- ultimately: paid by t the public servedJLayjegislation det rimental to the railroads, then; is a dig at you. - . "We must give "Packard-eight' service on ' the ' railroads for the public won't stand for 'Ford' ser vice. To give this service high class workers most be employed. Salaries have been Increased 124 per cent since the days when a 770 ton arerage : was parried on railroad cars. . Now we carry 7,000 tons to a car. : : - , ... "Don't talk of paving employes less, because that' would be a step backward.' We want the present conditions, not pre-war normalcy. Mr. Flynn is director of the Bur lean of publle relations, and as- tslstant tq the- vice-president of 4he Great Northern Railway company. He is also a director of Rotary International. SB E VALUABLE PRINGLE FARMERS PLOW WBULE WEATHER GOOD i PRDMGLE, Dec. 5. (Special.) Farmers here that have plowing to do are making good use of the favorable weather. . Percy Robins has -Just built a new henhouse. .; ' ; pnngie community club met last Friday night. There ; was a full house and a long session. The young people are preparing a pro gram f er the next community meeting. . . . j .;. ..... ' Miss Helen Sealey, who works in Salem, has arranged to' board at home for a time. ; William Propst is expected Other policies of the Cantonese at the conference which it is hoped will result in healing the spilt within the nationalist ranks, are the doing away of an attempt, to create antl-foreignism, land con tinning the drive against the un equal treaties, the - expulsion of communists from the Kuomlntang and' greater power for the provin cial government. v '.. " ' Y Wang Ching-wei. former chair man ot the, executive committee. speaking as chief of the delegation from Canton, asserted tonight that tomorrow's meeting will be the most important held in China In recent years. . ' ' China's future for many years Is hanging in the balance and the determination depends iupon the outcome'- of this conference," ' he said. : . . . Infantile Paralysis Hits -JSchool District jTeacher ? "''- ' ' ' t : VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec 5 (AP). Mrs. J. M. Owens. 35, a teacher in the Harmony school district, has been stricken with In fantile ; paralysis and the school has been closed for ten days. Pub lic "gatherings have been forbidden. This is the twelfth case of In fantile 'paralysis reported In Clark county, but the first in which an adult has been stricken. ATONES FOR 25 YEAR OLD " PTLFERTNGS CLEVELAND, O. Twenty five years ago Morris Garfinkel oper ated a" small store. One day, al though he did not know It, a small quantity of candy disappeared from the 'store. Now Garfinkel has .received a letter from a man containing a money order for fif ty i cents, confessing the larceny now quarter of a century old. "Iow thatl want to be right with DUES HERE INFORMATION ABOUT ; MANX CITIES FILED AT C OF Cv l! Population directories for a number of American cities have been received at the chamber of commerce office and are available for jthe use' of persons who wish to get information from them, y The R. L. Polk company which has provided these directories,, in tends, to make up a new directory of Salem citizens' as soon as the houses have been re-numbered. Directories at the chamber of- Lflce are of the following cities: Albuquerque.' N. M.; Atlanta, Ga. Albany, N. T.; Astoria and Rensselaer; Astoria and Clatsop county; Bellingham and Whalom county; Bremerton r and Kitsap .fcounty; Bute. Mont.; Bakerstleld, CaLJ r Buffalo, N. Y.; BalUmore, Birmingham. Ala.; Caron's Colum bus; Coeur d'Alene City and Koot enai t county; Dayton, O.; The Dalles; Denver, olo.; Detroit, Mich.; Dallas,' Texas.; Ellensburg, Wash.; El Paso, Texas; Flint. Mlcb; Fresno and county; Glo- versvllle and Johnstown;- Great Palls and Cascade county; Great er Pittston; Grays Harbor county; Homestead; Indianapolis; Jack sonville and South Jacksonville; Kansas City; Ln caster,, u.; ewis county; Muncle, Ind.; Moline and Rock; Island; Memphis, Tenn,.; Mobile, Ala.; Miami, Fla.; New Orleans. La.; New Albany and Jef fersonvllle; Newport. R. L; Ogdeh City; Oklahoma; . Olympic and Thurston and Mason county; Pe oria City; Reno, Nev.; Richmond, Va.j f Sanford and Sprlngvale; Syracuse, N. T.; Shreveport; Sa lem' and Marlon county; Spring field,; 111.; Seattle, Wash.; Schnec- tady and Scotia; Sandusky; Spo kane, Wash.; San Diego City and county; , Santa Monica, Ocean Park, Venice; SawteUe and Brent wood Heights; Sacramento. CaL; Santa Crux and Watsonville; Stockton City, Cal.; Sacramento, Call; San Francisco. aL; Toledo, 0.;iTacoma, Wash.; Tampa, Fla.; Twin Falls City and Twin Falls, Cassia; Gooding, Jerome and Min Idok acounty; Vermon and Wll barcer' county; Wallace and Sho shone; Walla Walla city and; coun ty; i Yakima city j and county; Yonkers, N- Y.; Yukon Gazetter; Los Angeles, CaL " ! HEW INCORPORATIONS The Seaboard International cor poration, with capital stock of 175,000 and headquarters in Fort land, has been" incorporated by Fred JJronmsrt, W. K. PhUlips and C. B. Cann Other articles filed in the state corporation department follow: ;. C. W. Frledrlch & Son, Oregon City, 140,000; C. W. Frledrlch, R. R. Frledrlch . and Genevieve Frledrlch.. -z ' -: Carl A. Theobald Productions, Inc., Ashland, J10.000; Carl A. Theobald, E. O. Harlan and J. N. Dennis."- . " ? Westerberg Pole and Piling company. Inc. Portland. $5000; Q, Welnsoft, W. O. Sims and F. C Westerberg. N Wledman Holding company, Portland, $50,000; E. L. Wled man. Ella. KeUy and Carl' Wled man. . Willamette Valley Southert Railway company, Portland; no tice of dissolution. Scientists say, that life, ejrei with the aid of oxygen, would b impossible above .45,000 feet be cause" of .'the low atmospherU pressure, acdording to an answer ed question In Liberty. The Pennsylvania railroad has now: put on a smoking car for wo- cents will atone for my luvenile men. But we'll Dei tney aian pilfermgs. put; it Just back of the tender. 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