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:v.v-". THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEU, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1928 The Oregon Statesman " IrB4 Dailr Kiaapt If Jay Wy TXXB STATESMAN PUBUSHLNQ COMPACT v 115 Casta Camaaarelal attract, gal . Ow - ft. J. BMdrieks , , Irl a Ma&aarry -Ralph O. Otrtia -ctar D.Carlaoa Botalla Baaa Xu , Raipa H. Ktetalag. Adwtistar Vaaagar uajs E. umr , - apanas)ana W. H. Hcaasraaaw C: reals tioa ataaasar Rparta E4itar I E. A. Wta - - Uoek i-itor Kaaav W. C. aar . - Faaltiy Miw Vaasftaf Estto Oil K4!tr BCEKBJBS O- TKX AMOOlA'aSO mil Ta JUaoaiatae Prasa la axcteaWal aaiitW to tka aaa for paatUatiaa f all Bcva dipteh cradHad to it r M eUarwisa craditcd ta Uia paar as alaa ta tool am pabbaaa sjcaii - . ,: . t - . , , ..s. - . ' i BUKjrxM omczs: . ; Ucaibax Salactad jOngaa STawapaoan reia Cms EortMtUUm Doty A Btypaa. 1st.. ParUaad. Baearity Bid.; Saa. rraaciaea, Saaram Bld.; La Aafalaa, Chaator a Cosaaarca Btd(l T. Clai C, Haw Tort. ItMSt W. flat 8t: Chios. Marqaslta BUg. Busiatas Offleau-Zt or SSS Bociaty im TEXEPHOBX Hows Ppt.-3S ar 104 7oa Daparticut Cxealatija Offte Eataraa a taa Peat Otfiaa la Saleav Ongoa. as sfca4-lasa auttar.. .. . . Janoanr 15. 102S - , . And the second la like unto it. Thou sba&'Jote. thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the wophets. Matthew 22:J-40. - "IS CRIME A DISEASE? existenceis one of great excellence. It Is devoted largely to the business interests of Salem and Marion county with a resume of some of the many Industries of the land in that district, the greatly improved .highways, the scenic beauty of the valley and of course to the slogan campaigns which are a unique feature of the Statesman each week. Its new press enables it to be printed in twenty-four page sections and the advertising patronage is all that can be desired. Of its'annual edition the Statesman says: .''The Willamette valley, of which Salem js the center, is potentially the richest and most populous and most uniform ly prosperous section of the world; has more franchise crops and more. resources than any like area on earth; more strings provided by nature to its bow of possibilities ; and manifest destiny makes sure the prediction that in good time their development and U3e will come about. That is the certain prospect and that the sure prophecy. The greeting in 1928 is given with the hope and belief that the incoming year will see larger strides in the realization of the prophecy than any 12 months in the past 7, a- - TWETITY-FIYE YEARS AGO o ! " ! i -' ' o I (From Oolamia of the Btatesmam, JaaaWjr lOt 1908) A lone sea gull war seen to fly orer the housetops of the city yesterday. ' j , The honorable Geor re E. Cham berlln was Inaugurated Goyernor here today to succeed Goyernor T. T. Geer. ! .- I ' 1 Albany It is the general opin ion that the fire which destroyed the factory of the Sugar Pine mill and fixture company was of incen diary origin. The lose was about 115,000. . ! .1-" , Eugene Bosse, the experienced flax worker and grower, is making preparations tor sowing a large acreage to flax near Salem this coming season SHOULD BE PRIMARY AMERICAN POLICY CHICAGO, Jan. 14 Filling ihe family sugar bowl costs America $2,293,422 every day, according to Harry A. Austin, secretary of the U. S. Beet Sugar association, in an address here.: '. I , ;V::.-.-. - f. "The United States consumes approximately twelve and three-quarters billions pounds of sugar annually, or more than 100 pounds per capita," said Mr. Austin. "At an aver age price of six and a half cents per pound, the nation's an nual expenditure for sugar would amount to about $826, 000.000 a year. "Of America's total sugar consumption, we are producing" in continental United States less than 20 per cent. The re mainder we are importing either from our so called insular possessions or from foreign countries. Encouragement of greater - development in botrr the domestic beet and cane sugar industry should be a primary American policy. If the United States can absorb its farm products in the home market, it will benefit both the producer and the consumer, ' "The United States and Great Britain are the only great nations of the world importing sugar to any extent. Other countries have long been producing sugar enough for their domestic needs. Even Britain, with its traditional f ree trade policy, has recognised the economic soundness of build- proposal of the governor of Newfing up a home sugar industry by government encourage ment. England now grants a bounty of four and a quarter cents a pound on all beet sugar produced in the British Isles." At a recent meeting of the New York crime commission, Governor Al -Smith of that state said: "I don't think a judge should have power to sentence a man to death. Many criminals get away because a jury will not return a verdict of guilty in thefirst degree because it balks at the idea of shuffling a man off into eternity. The -jury should deter mine only the question of guilt or innocence. The case then should be turned over to the state for submission to a board of the highest salaried men in our employ. The members of this board should include psychiatrists, alienists, lawyers and experts. They should be paid at least $25,000 a, year each. This board should also be given the power to recom mend the transfer or parole of prisoners." The proposal of Governor Smith in brief is that the power to punish criminals be taken from the courts and transferred to boards composed of highly paid experts. -He would per mit courts and juries to render only a verdict of judgment as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, ami upon con viction of a felony the culprit would be turned over to the experts who would determine what would be done with the criminal. This proposal has provoked and will continue to bring about wide discussion And ought to. One writer says the York is one of the most radical suggestions affecting crim inals made in a century." That is not true. It is the same doctrine that has been held for a considerable time by every forward looking, ex perienced and thoughtful prison superintendent and penolo gist in this country Only turned the other way acaund, and differing as to the procedure in the courts For all the people named believe in the indeterminate sentence the absolutely indeterminate sentence, not the piece-meal and half-way indeterminate sentence, like the one in' Oregon and a number of the other states. And like that provided in the Baumes law in New York and the Lewis law in Oregon, and the same or similar thing in a number of. the other states. The indeterminate sentence (absolute) means that when a person is convicted of a felony he is sent to prison with out ar te of release being fixed. If he is never fit to be release is kept for Da- To be fit to be released he must make i .owing of reformation, and ability to take his place as a law abiding person in society, capable of earning his living I aiding in the support of those depending upon him, i , y. Thar Jl presupposes reformatory treatment in prison. That means employment. It means in most cases schooling; education ; training training in both knowledge and habits of industry. It -esupposes expert knowledge on the part of those Viavino the anthoritv to narole. or to release under some other form of outside supervision, with opportunity for re ports and observation And all that brings us back to expert knowledge; to prnerta hiriilv naid or otherwise: and to the rules of com- xnon, evry day "horse sense." 1 finvemor Smith is not radical at all. He is just differ ent, nd he has touched "the springs of discussion of the most important matter before the people of this country Fnr crimp entails onr niaior expense bill. And it is the greatest heart-break we have. It affects the innocent more than the guilty. Its costs run through private and public property; through life and limb; through all the courts; throutrh a maze of expenses leading up, to the grim prison wjilt and throucrhthe cost of keepinir the men behind locked doors. It is a long, long trail. Wt .'.fail in our treatment of crime if we do not do'tnree thing;; We must improve conditions and environment to prevent crime. We must reform the criminal. We must stop the breeding of criminals, or rather of possible and probal criminals - For 2 "natural born" criminals are very, very few; pro portion tely to the whole number. It is. nearly 100 per cent environment and training or lack' of the right training. ' "Is Crime a Disease?" which, is the heading borrowed from the writer mentioned above, who ''jumps on" Governor Smith, is used to call attention to this man's arguments against Governor Smith's proposal.;" He sets up a straw man, in the shape of one representing the criminal as a man with a disease, which he says Governor Smith must believcl every criminal is, or he would not bring forth such a pro posal ' , H '. '.t:' And proceeds to "knock the block off? of that straw man. But this all falls down, for the reason tbatfGovernor Smith does not necessarily believe a man who commits crime i has only a disease that must be cured by the doctors and " experts. l::-'''-V;:!v'-v :-v-T,ts:i s. M'ff'ti,' Any way, that is not the truth. Or at least disease is not a good name for what ails the criminal, in the great majority of cases. If he has a ; disease ; that is, if he is habitually criminal, or born that way,", society has but one thing, to do with him, and that isyto confine him and. make him as gainfully useful a possible in his permanent prison home. , ' IX he Is not' a "born criminaV there is hope for him, and it is the duty of society to hold out the torch" of - hope to him.- For his good. And for the good of society . r The information contained in the above dispatch should be broadcasted to every individual in this country, and its significance impressed upon-all our people For Mr. Austin is right as right can be; the development of our domestic sugar industries ought to be a PRIMARY AMERICAN POLICY, as he says. This year we produced a little over a million tons of beet sugar in this country, and a little under a hundred thousand tons of cane sugar, and we consume, as he says, away above 6,000,000 tons of cane and beet sugar annually Above 111 pounds per capita, which was a recent estim ate And we get nearly all the rest of our sugar from Cuba, which country enjoys the benefit of a preferential duty on raw sugar that benefits no one but the Wall Street barons who refine this Cuban sugar along the Atlantic seaboard And injures every one else in the United States. It is dishonest. It is unfair. It is a disgrace to tnis country ana the members of both houses of congress. The development of our sugar industry in this country would fill the Willamette valley with beet sugar factories. This should be a part of a PRIMARY AMERICAN POLICY. ' There cannot be too much said concerning this, so that the. whole people of the United States may come to realize the importance of it. i The careful reader has no doubt noted gradual improve ment in the make-UD and printing of The Statesman, since 'ft,, om'vai rf tViA nw nress of this newsiMiper. There will be further improvements. The press is capable. It will do all that was promised for or expected of it. But the me chanical force had many things to learn, and has yet. And the publishers, too. There have been necessities that were not calculated upon.. Some of them expensive ones, too. The are more to follow. But the whole scheme of things ! workine out mradually. The new equipment is capable of great service to Salem and the surrounding country, in mak- inc risible the publication of a newspaper wonny oi ine field, which is the ambition of the publishers. It is as good a "plant" as is possessed by newspaper of f ices in this coun mnr with several times the nooulation of Sa- I.X J lit nmuj t. . - f rtt no nf them with trreater prospects than 1CU1 - AU to AiVb vuy - " - 'K ' Salem. ;;-'v o-I General Markets I -o POBTUn) ' Ore.. Jan. 14. (AT). Bntterfat ataady;; 8e atatioo, 49e tAck, 50 68 fob For tla ad. PoalttT ata4r: haa-r kaiia 23&2c: Hrht 15 a 20c; aprinr 20321e: broilan 225e: pekin Whit docks 80a: eolorad Baminal; tarkaya aUra 25I7c. Oaiaaa ataady; local Sl-65 0S.tO; po Uto 7SeU5 aaek. LIVESTOCK FORTIAJn. Ora.. Jan. 14. fAP). Beeatpta for waak (arorozlajatetT) : Oat- tla 3,805; cairaa ISO; bo(i ,5; ahaap Cattle Oomsarad wttb vnk aro; A II elaaaaa atroaf, fully SOa kichar: ataera aad ball 75o p in apoU; bait ataara ia.50 witk balk of daairabla klada 1X. 75 up; off qaalitT down to S9: too heif er ia load $10.50; eowa 9.25; m odium and lower frad aba atock SS.50 down; cotter 46.50: bulla moatlr t6(aT: ealraa $7 10.50; -oalor up to SIS. Hoc Compared with weak ago: But cher euun 25 to 50c lower: feeder Din rtay; bulk light buteher for week y.50 ;. aeattarlac amaU lota Konday $9.60 (Eouuf aar $8.50 after Mon day); heaTlea and undarwetgbta $9.35 down ; pack in c sow moitlv lTfliT!Ui. t J - T - H oneep oamoarad with w..k .... in cusses ruiiy IWK1I: lamb 50a hlrhar- lauoj.ioi wooied lamb reach eo ia; yearUnn $10; good to choice ewe quoiea ?3(a6. CHICAOO G&ATJT CHICAGO, Jan. 14. (AP). Faced b, iBcreaed country offering, and by a cold o i promote eniargement of crop moTement, corn Talue toda uneroa a material setback. Wheat gave . , : m as a remit of profit- -' ir oi neiaers. vora cioea neary. 5 8c to 1 18c Bet tower; wheat Vi to He off and oats ub- """iw o (ffi-uc down.' POHTLAKD GBAIN rwsjLAjii,, ore., Jsa. 14. (AP) mont ZdTZ"U tam.Ba.rt. both "" .MHi federation, both $1.28; joft . white, wettera white lota $1 27 hard wiutw koth $1.23 HrVrt her. both, $1.42 H. a. Oat. No. 2. 80 pound to gray both $40. Barley. S. 2, 45 $38. Corn, No 25: No western red W. F. and dit- pound B. W., both Jswell Oardaar, "who Is a sjrado-, aU ot.Ut Salsm high school la Uio class ot 1127. fiaf UtsttU student of yoIcs under Hiss Lena Bell Tartar. A slmUar class of elsbt pnpUa had also boon organ ised at Clear Lake by Miss Gard ner. ! . The road man Is still busy with a trader, setting It In good condi tion for future paving. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hoffman hae recently returned from a ten days trip to Vancouref, B. C. They! went by train to Seattle and mo tored from there withfriendsJ They Tiaitcd the Bremerton nary yard and witnessed a large ship just starting for Nicaragua with a detachment of marines. The Hoffman declared that they enjoyed the trip aa a: change but were glad to get back 1 to Rei ser and Its' Ideal cUmatei 3 DVOIICES I Tl WIVES APPLYING IN EACH ' CASE; TWO DESERTED Legal separation is sought from their husbands by three wires who filed dlTorce complaint in circuit court here yesterday. Tbe three are . Winifred Phillips, Hazel Johnson and Lucile II. Irby. Luclle Irby bases her request for divorce on tbe contention that her husband, Steven Irby, desert ed her on December 12, 1924. They were married at Vancouver, Washington, on July 3, 1924. Hazel Johnson seeks a divorce from Edgar A. Johnaon on the ground . of cruel and inbuman treatment, alleging that he threw things at her. was abusive in va rious ways, and continually used language with her that was not fit for her to hear. She asks tbe court to award ber a complete eep arction and grant her the custody of a minor child. She also wants $50 a month with which to sup port the child, S50 as suit money and $250 as attorney's fees. They were married July 2. 1922. Winifred Phillips charges that her husband deserted her on Feb ruary 1, 1926, at Tulsa, Okla homa. They were married on Oc tober 2, 1925, at Kansas City A general demurrer to the com plaint was filed yesterday on the same day the complaint itself was filed in the Phillips case. Both the complaint and the demurrer were filed by lawyers located in Albany. 2 C T. sinnnMnft - $ ditto both .aits " Millrua, standard both" $30. BAT ; vm.tw; utitra Oreeon tim- V. V. tMtM ItXI ' Hilt. , , eelliBi; price 13; straw $2 nr tam t'J a ton mora.: Children's Chorus Formed : At Keizer By Miss Gardner KEIZER, Jan. 14.-(Special) A children's chorus of iwir voices has been organized at Kei zer; nnder tha riirr Inn as nfl.. wwwm va miN TRUSTEES SALE Stock of General Merchandise located at Turner. Ore.. Stayton, Ore., and Aumsvilto, Ore., wilLbe offered for sale by pealed bids. Bids will be opened at 11 o'clock A. M. on -Friday. January 20th. This stock Inventories Stayton, $5907.50; Turner, $294.06; Aumsville. $907.89; fixtures Stay ton, $1328.00; Turner, $717.60; Aumsville, $966.25. Certified check for ten percent of amount of bid must accompany bid. Stock may be Inspected Tuesday-, and Wednesday, Jan. 17-18. Right re served to reject any or all bids. Bids can be submitted on Individ ual stores or all 3 stocks eogether. O. W. INGRAM, Trustee. 671 Pittock Block Portland, Oregon. J13-1 4-15-1 7-18-19 I Jlltm Tor Break Well fteetf them all : . & But we hare too many Idle peo ple now. V H S The Salem T tree employment of flee last week, had 145 people applying for Jobs, and only 49 of them were sent oat to Jobs. That's better than no jobs at all. bat It la not enough. As the days grow longer and spring opens, there will be more work here and w .will need all tbe laborers we can get when harvest times come. , We cannot get along In the summer without the people who are Idle how. Beglnnlngwlth toe first Sun day in February, the 5th, the Slo gan pages will be taken over into tbe farm and Industrial section of the Sunday statesman, which will be printed In tabloid, form, .with colors. Also, the Weekly will be discontinued at the same time and the Sunday Issue will be sub stituted for that list of farmers, at oi f Ml to J and fin year. This will add to th attractiveness, and the value, the Slogan campaigns, designed help in building up a larger and better city backed by a greater and more progressive country. Of course, regular Daily subscribers will get the Sunday issue. v Salem Is to hava better tire pro tection; and more ot it, as the city expands. The people have provid ed for -this by a continuing mill- age. tax. In receipt, of a letter which the writer eridently . intended to -ha sarcastic, ..criticising The SUte5T man for jprinting a story without giving names. . But the writer carefully remains anonymous. What are the bells tolling -for? Not a dirge,-but a basketball vie- tory for Willamette university. Ni merous . people r called up The Statesman last night to find out what it meant, because it was a clear: night and the bell could a beard all over the city, and out in the country. May it ring often nobody objects. MOTHER ACross,Sick Child is Constipated! Lcx)k at Tongue No matter what ails your child.' a gentle, thorough laxative should always be the first treatment given. If your little one Is out-of-sorts, half-sick, isn't resting, eating and acting naturally look. Mother! see it tongue is coated. This is a sure sign that (he little stomach, liver, and bowels are clogged with waste. When cross, irritable. feverish, stomach sour, breath bad! or has stoinache, diarrhea, sore throat, full of cold, give a tea spoonful of "California Fig Syr- - . . . Lop. and in a rew nours am mo r . j jj ..... J constipated puisuu, uuuie.ooi.cu food and sour bile gently moves out of the little bowels without griping, and you have a well, play ful child again. Mothers can rest easy after giv ing this harmless, "fruity laxa tive" because It never fails to cleanse the little one's liver and bowels and sweeten the stomach and they dearly love Its pleasant taste. Full directions for babies. i - t . v i ' r & 1 f i Tv 1 children of all ages and for grown ups printed on each bottle. Beware of counterfeit fig syr ups,. Ask your druggist for a bot tle of ''California Fig Syrup;" then see that It la made by tha "California Fig Syrup Company." FREE VOTING BALLOT This ballot is good for 200 votes for the candidate in tlie Oregon Statesman Subscription Campaign, whose name is written on it. Do not fold. Trim, Name Address: VOID AFTER MARCH 10TH, 1928 ANYONE CAN VOTE FOR FRIENDS L 0. If you will get the full perspective of the certainty of the rnid develoDment of our flax and linen industries, and many others here, and do not come to the conclusion that Salem is certain to have 100.000 people before very long, you need ts liova vour VlPAr? eVamined. And the process of. thati growth is. going to mean many .things in the fortunes of those who get the proper perspectives arid, visions of what all this is going to mean. A growmg and progressive ciij provides numberless opportunities for the resoiirceful and industrious man., . . . v ' v V 3 Not'the least of the benefits that are being gained by the prope? employment of prison labor In Oregon is the founda tion being laid for rnore tree labor. Outside the walls of the prison: And even on the inside, the numbejr of free laborers will necessarily rapidly and largely grow. ' - , ; THE STATESMAN ANNUAL (Portland Oregonian.) The Salem gatesman annual edition of .sixty-four pages .- --its forty-swond in the severtyisht years of the" rjaper's'from CouDle of 60 Years Join h PORTLAND, Ore..X Jan.14.i-(AP)-r-Two llres that were inter woren for a years hT childhood romance and bonds of matrimony hare gone '"out together, lnterwor-; en now 4n death as they were tn life. . Torensoa inelaon. 70. died at :1&. o'clock this morning, fol lowing a stroke auf fered last j night. His death came but a few hour later than his wife's. Mrs. Nielsen, who was but a scant fewj years his Junior died last nigai QQQ DQQ i htve been brought on by her hus- Vm acute. Illness. . - jy met when theyfwere chil dren In Denmark. For many years the Nielsens . Ured ' t Junction Clty Ore, He .larmed and . con ducted a real estate business there before coming to Portland, four years ago. " " , 1 - " bis. heart failure, said U SHEEP STXLIi AUVE SEE TUESDAY'S STATESMAN A SECTION OF THE PAPER VOTED TO THRIFT WEEK i- VARTKO, v Wales, . Jan., 1,4". ' .. .... j.' . i.-.t K. A1) TWO sneep ouneu ; nuur four -feet of snow since the big Christmas storm three weeks ago have -been discovered alive. Classified Ads .i , t: . e if - i ic- w J . u- Y: ho 1 ute4r II i .-a. i(Bi''-t. a j$a;.. "j --.. e 3. f in " U