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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON; SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 291928 Example of What Indian May Become Who Seeks Best, Avoids Worst Silk Trucks Guarded by Intricate System Against Bold Thieves L L CENSUS BUREAU SEEN SOUTHWARD TREND IN POPULATION CENTER MEETING PLANKED Oregonian Star Writer Finds Ella McMunn's Hew Book Very Fine Native Son of Salem In Big Movements Fof-Building Greater State Excellent Program Arranged Dr, Carlos Montezuma, Wi Once Visited the Salem School At Chemawa For Joint Gathering At Fairview ! M UI WIN Oil SMILES OUT mm 0 DAIRYMEN Ml SM6E CAREER OF FAMOUS 111 DO N6 GREAT WORK tjr mm- ' ft t K - j J,filD J OffO it IND1ANAPOOS V -r (Ben Hur Lampman 1b one of the" Portland Oregonian's star writer. He has read "Sevei Miles Oat." Ella McMunn's new - book, and the following is what he said about it, on the editorial page of the Oregonian of last Sunday:) Ella McMunn has published an other book. It Is a thin little book and frail, so much so that Ella would not call it a book when he typed on the envelope, in : which mine came, this legend. "Booklet from Ella McMunn, Sa lem, Or., R. F. D. No. 8." And this is a route, so it Is told, that wends somewhere in the vicinage of Lake Labish a strange name, and not without a certain Borcery. It is Ella's second book, and dear ly kindred to her first, which was quite as thin as this one, and as f'ught with that delicate intl- f macjr of sentiment, and of frank ness, which distinguishes all that Ella writes, or has written, or shall write. And it is called v ''Seven Miles Out," which we take to be an allusion to the distance at which it was written from any town, you comprehend, and from! theaters . and crowds, and the laughter, and philosophy of people who, even as Ella McMunn, de light fn the weaving of the printed! word, the sketching of verbal pic tures, the inky perpetuation of a fancy. Here and there in ber book. though she is always Ella Mc Munn, and all her tales are of the farm whereon she has lived so long, looking outward somewhat wistfully at life, is the introspec tive candor of Thoreau that sin gular attention to commonly un . regarded detail, in visual things as in tne's -own heart, which claims fellowship with the reader and : is not denied. But there is naught of the cynicism that was found near Walden Pond. The flewers of Lake Labish are gentler blooms, Albeit often faintly sad of fane. And do yon not know EUa McMunn? "Have you never read ber? Here are the opening para graphs of the essay on "Poor ..EUa," with the -warning that -yor must not assume it to be one of ;telf pity for It is net: 4 Yesterday morning when my mother called me, 1 could de tect a note of alarm in her usual formula. which, for "all the years I can remember, has - been, "Child, do I hear you?" She came out of the kitchen, calling, "Child! Child!" before I could roll out of feather bed and announce that I was on the way. "I kept calling." she" said, "because I thought you were dead." And I remarked very .sternly, "That was no way to should "have fortified I, yourself with a great breakfast, -bete. looking around for any t sws. AjMr sure that you would find ' C as I have, in 'reading of 11a made nests for the hens. 'it day of windy rain when 1 feathered dissembler of all pretended to be in an jess of haste. Eggs are eggs h to !' ke Labish, seven miles out f the conversations she had her mother, who in several Cbas always round Ella in fable. And of the hinges :;$" which she hoped to transform . . ;rocer s box to a cedar chest . . ... ... an oi now aevus possessed tnem And of the pet lambs that, so soon , as they were loved and had been taught love being warmed this comprehension by the glow of a human heart bleated thinly and were away to those far, fair -fields where clover blooms for ever.. Of the dogs that are both friends and children to .her, and that are called "Bobble" and ."Bow Wow," and of how Bow Wow quite forgot ; his jealousy and ministered to Bobbie in an hour of pain. Yes, of sundry mat ters and incidents such as these. One .need not be amazingly clever to understand this book that Ella has written. It is such a relief not to have to be clever, nor even to be constrained to pre tense. If you are attended by sympathy her' book will flow smoothly away .before your grate ful eyes, like the current of gentle stream. It ought to, in any event, for it is the heart of Ella McMunn. HKX DECIDES OWNERSHIP LAFAYETTE. La. Judgs O; A Martin has won a reputation , as a Solomon because of his wise Judge ment in several cases. Here is an example: Two negroes were squab bling over the ownership of a hen Judge Martin listened carefully, then said,: "Bailiff, produce- the hen. The hen was brought u from- where It had been confined. Then the judge carried the pro testing hen to the middle ot he street on which the rival clalm- ants fired, and turned her loose. It clocked indignantly for a mo ment, then walked to one of the two ben houses. "That hea knows her own home' said the Judge. Case) dismissed. -.i. Experts say that there may be n aniomoiaie- war. next year. IVe're xoinx to do tbw beet we can to Seep ovr old drrer out. of , the trenches. ; 4 i.-uTiii ' v V - jWi ... - "t-'jin Z7 . , I " 'H . I STOP OF STEADY AT WORK! MAKING DELIVERIES IHOURSOMIN. WAITIN6 FOR LEFT6A, AT 7.-SOAM SOMlNJATC 6hfeC - X ATC It V JUe -1 . uieuoei valuable loads of sun true that above are guarded from robbers by a system permitting drivers to follow only main highways and regulating their every movement. Scores of po licemen watch trucks of the Silk Association of America and the de vice shown below records each truck's operation. FARMERS' SPH6 Inadequate Support Makes It Impossible To Secure Best Results Improved " opportunities for apeadlng money effectively as well Las for making money re required to hold good farmers to farming. Dr. C. J. Galptn of the United States Department 'of Agriculture said recently In an address before the Third Annual Bankers' Farm School at Fayetteville, Ark. Doc tor Galpln, who is in charge of the work hi farm population and rural life in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, outlined what he des- crrnea as a great social engineer- ing job." and denied emphatically that a farmer if he learns by ex- perience the comforts and advant ages of life would cease to be a farmer. Doctor Galpln declared that un der the present merchandising sys tem 29.000,000 farm people are' scattering their patronage among trading, costs In 39,000 small towns, email villages, And hamlets, which because of inadequate pat ronage and cutthroat competition do not provide farmers the quality and variety of goods which are available to city people. The re maining 8.00D,O0A of the farm population have adequate trading centers. "The present 39,000 and more of trading posts," he said, "are not capable of.taking care of the modern wants of farmers for goods. The volume of business for each post is too small; the necessity for each farm family to travel in divers directions to sev eral trading centers in order to get the qngta of goods needed is most wasteful. It is Intolerable to expect a farmer who has modern scientific techniques for producing and getting Income to depend upon an antiquated, ox-driven, merchan dising system to fnrnish him goods in exchange for income." Doctor Galpln characterised the services sod facilities for rural health, schooling, and religious worship as "in deplorable shape the Nation over.'' He said. "It Is notorious j that the farmer's health Is not safeguarded ade quately by rural organization of medical care, and that the cost of such medical! care as he gets hi exorbitant in j comparison with Its value. Competent doctors, clinics. hospitals are concentrated in towns and cities out of the farmer's reach. Public health supervision covers less than 20 per cent of ru ral America. The whole neaitn situation -for 20,000,000 farmers Is as primitive as the ox and wooden Plow. 1 "The need of better and cheaper rural scnooung is a commonplace to educators. Church facilities constitute the most deplorable single rural social situation. In adequate religious education and training for farm children, bitter sectarian division, and destructive competition characterise large ru ral sections of the Nation. Doctor Galpln declared that one great principle Involved fn modern merchandising, health, echool, and church facilities is "sufficient vol ume of business per unit of operation.- That la," be-sald. "for merebandlsiaf, v sufficient aum- tCratiaaesV ea page ras HU LUNCH HOUR IH0UR3OMlN. STEADY AT WORK MAK1N6 DEUVe&IES STOP OF I HOUR. RtPORTS AT 630 EARNS OVERTIME TRUCK USED AT U8HT-Hhjr? NEW YORK (AP) Adven ture lovers who mourn the days when knights met riltians in com bat hare only to climb into the driver's seat of a silk-laden truck and swing into the open toad. Sooner or later they'll find adven ture in abundance. Silk in the raw state has a huge fascination for criminals. And the thieves who specialize on silk rob beries, are plutocrats in their pro fession. They often spend hun dreds of dollars on equipment. Rspe ladders are used to pass by the burglar alarm. High apeed rats, expensive electric drills', and an automobile are tools of the trade. Because of the thieves' skill protective system of its own has been devised by the Silk Associa tlon of America. It shields 500 trucks travelling thousands of miles of highway in five eastern states, but the machinery is little in evidence. Here " is how it works: . Along a main highway a huge truck rumbles. As it approaches a cross road the traff lc policeman begins to register Attention. His T(, tallomm th truck. He notes driver and helper. And be keeps watch until the truck vanishes from sight. Had .the truck swung off the main road, or had its driver acted 30 III Ik ii"t tr ls:rf'f : CHICAGO PLANS $30,000,000 EXPOSITION rvTiMfflfa 7 -ry To celebrate its centennial In 1933 Chicago plans a world's fair greater than jits famous Colum bian exposition in 1893. The even twill be held in Grant Park and on tire artificial islands alony the Lake Michigan shore (see map), on one of which Chicago will be recreated as it looked In 183? (lower right). Rufus C. Dawes (Inset) heads the exposition committee. Above is the administra tion building of the 1893 exposition, long since rased. - By Lb A- Brephy-; . t AiMeMd Ptm TtmXm Editor) CHICAGO (AP) The glory that was Chicago's in 1893 Is go ing to be re-created In 1933. . In the 35 years that have' elapsed since the World's Columbian Expo sition Chicago has burgeoned Into a city with 5,000,000 people within It metropolitan reach. It Is plan ning, another world's fair on a scale that, would starrer the lm- aginatlon of the throng 'who mar ("Oregon Business," the maga zine of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce, in the January num ber, has as one of its leading ar ticles a deserved tribute to Whit ney L. Boise, brother of R. P. Boise and Mrs. J. H. Lauterman of this city, and well known to all old residents here. The ar ticle was written by J. K. True bridge and is as follows:) Land settlement work will in time make Oregon a very great state, says Whitney L. Boise. If it does, much of the credit must so to Mr. Boise, for he has been chairman of the land settlement work of the Oregon State and Portland Chambers of Commerce since the work began. ' "Why do you do such work?" Mr. Boise wag asked. "Just for the sake of the de velopment of tne state, ne re plied. "The development ot the jtate has made valuable the lands which my father and my wife's father owned. I believe I owe something to Oregon to pay back Oregon nas been kind to our people. "This," Mr. BSise went on, "is the last part of the globe In the temperate zone which has not been developed, and I believe the greatest development of the fu ture is going to take place in' the Pacific northwest. The qne-fam ily diversified farm, with the use of electricity, is not only going to be highly profitable, but it will make the joy of living greater than it ever before has been In the farm life of the world." , Mr. Boise makes trips to all parts of the state in the Interest of land settlement. He Is known in almost every community In Oregon. The value of his serv ices and that of his co-workers may be judged from the fact that more than 3200 families have been located on Oregon farms through the chambers of commerce cam paign. These families brought with them new capital in excess. of $1-2,500.000. They are occupy ing 75,000 acres of land, the greater part of which was not pre viously in profitable production. Mr. Boise's family background is of unnsual historical Interest. He was born in Salem in 1812. His father was Jadge R. P. Boise, who came to the Pacific coast via the Isthmus of Panama In 1850. His mother came to San Francisco on the record trip ot the clipper ship "Flying Cloud," which sailed from New York to San Francisco in 89 'days. Judge and Mrs. Boise were married in San Francisco in 1851. W. L. Boise graduated from the University' of Oregon in 1880. He lived in Salem until 1884, when he came to Portland. He was ad mitted to the bar in 1885 and practiced law in Portland until (Continued m pf 5) veled at the great machinery hall, were made giddy by the towering ferric wheel or gasped at the glit tering midway 35 years ago. Chicago's second world's fair hasbeen incorporated and launch ed upon Its formal way, with Ra- f us C Dawes, banker and brother of .Vice- President Charles G. Dawes, as president.. Substantially the second exposi tion ; will attempt to .ehow ' the worlds progress in ' the 49-year When Oregon dairymen meet for their 35th annual association meeting at Fairview, February 1 and 2, they will have a program that is in reality a report on re sults obtained or in prospect from use of special investigational funds. These were appropriated by the legislature since 1919 for use by the Oregon experiment sta tion on dairy problems. The meeting; this year is com bined with the Multnomah County Breeders school; under the auspices of the state : college extension service. By holding the two to gether a program of interest to all dairymen Is possible and a large attendance of milk producers around Portland is assured, says J. Luscher, Gresham, president. Remarkable progress has been made in finding methods of controlling Infectious abortion through Investigation made pos sible by the special funds, reports P. M. Brandt, secretary of the as sociation. Through knowledge thus obtained the college herd has been freed from abortion, and oth- ler herds have had the method ap plied with such apparent success that the livestock sanitary board is considering i a plan of putting It into effect throughout the state. Problem of sterility, nutrition, use of minerals, and pasture util ization and values are being stu died now with progressive results. These have a prominent place on the convention program which follows in full: Wednesday, .February 1 10:00 Call to order, minutes; ap pointment of committees. 10:80 '"Anatomy andPhysiology of the Reproductive Organs of the Cow," Dr. B. T. Slmms, Ore gon Experiment station. 11:30 "Preventing Breeding Troubles In the Bull," Dr. W. B. Coon, Forest Grove. 1:16 "Sterility In the Female," Dr. C. R. Doaham, Oregon Ex periment Station. 2:15 "Feeding: Minerals." P. M Brandt, Oregon Experiment sta tion. Thursday, February 2 10:00 "Infectious Abortion," Dr B. T. Slmms. '1 11:00 "Economic Loss from Abortion In a Good Farm Herd," C. C. Dickson, Shedd. ll:30-"Llvestock Sanitary Board Program for Abortion Control,' Dr. W. H. Lytle, Salem 1:00 "Needed Dairy Leglsla tlon," J. D. Mlckel, dairy and food commissioner. 1:30 "Pastures How Cost Can Be Reduced by Good Ones." Dr I. R. Jones, Oregon Experiment station. 215 "Care of Freshening Cow and New Born Calf Udder Troubles' Dr. B. T. Slmms. Business . Meeting. Adjourn ment. 2 wW?S: . . . a , . , A At - tapse ueiweeu me iwo, uui me ao-i tall of what will be the high-light features remains to be worked out. . The projected exposition will cost $30,000,000 the promoters es- timate. Chicago raised $10,000,000 for the Columbian exposition. The 7- 7 h7. 7, . . , i. . ... tin some way In the end: if not in U93 fair sprawled over 6(8 acres.!, 7. . . ' . . and that of 1933 will cover up ward of 700 acres. The- aecond. present plans, fair, according to wUl be held la tCMtisMS-M saga'S) e or ir'iz -stl e ' f j- '. ... t .... St.' J " The United States center, of Indiana for another decade after Oklahoma and Florida nrobably upper map shows the movement of the population center since 1790 and the lower map the movement in the last few decades. W. M. Steuart (below), federal census director, forecasts a national popula tion In 1930 of about 124.000,000. DOES CRIME NEWS Ml 0 1 PEWS? A Klickitat, Wash,, Sut-' scriber Argues That It Certainly Does Not Editor Statesman: Since the article in your last Sunday's paper headed "Crime News Makes More Crime News" does not accord with the views ot some of us who take The States man, we think it is not only privilege but a duty to express our views also. We do this with all kindness and good will and In tentionally for the best interest of society. It is not, however, In tended to further more discus sion; for this will be the only ar gument we shall present, regard less of what others may do. In the first place, by nature it devolves on newspaper publishers to give the general news, other wise it would not be a real news paper but a partial or biased pub lication; unless in case the pub lisher makes a specialty of some thing else, such as politics or re ligion. And, of course. It neces sarily includes that all matters are truthful and Impartially and de cently expressed or narrated Relative to the effect on society of criminal news, we bold that crime news does not make more crime news, but rather to the con trary that publicity of crime? curbs or prevents crimes. Thai these are facts, we ask how else could the criminals be apprehend ed and caught were It not for their publicity or as the former article put it, "The columns of the newspapers with top-heads put in large black type, standing out boldly to catch the eye of the reader quickly and hold his atten tion," etc. Were it not for this publicity. and thus the committal of crimes kept from the public, a perpetrator of an atrocious crime would b better enabled to make his escape unnoticed and thus to repeat the crime again elsewhere. ' Besides. scapegrace of the neighborhood where the crime was committedJ known just verbally, naturally would think, "well, that fellow got away with it, even not men tioned by the newspapers or no ticed much by the public; I'll do something worthwhile," and would be encouraged rather to outdo the respective criminal. As to parents with their chil dren gloating over such newspaper accounts of atrocious crimes, it only serves or should only serve as an opportunity for the parental to make favorable impressions on1 the minds of the children to dis courage tbem in committing! crime. In the Hickman case, aj ihubui muuia ' oiTo saia 10 me boy or girl: "Well, If ever a man needed hanging he is one that does. And that's,. what he'll get. else sent to the insane asylum for live. My, it does seem a person should have more sense than to - do 8UCh tWngs; for crimes don't pay, but instead they are degen erating and bring about trouble and suffering. Indeed, it Is an established fact that those who commit crimes must suffer for it this world In . the next or both. This Is what the Bible teaches etc., etc ... wvw -ru I . Ig sir, -QUI i was ra aut-ui In fact; It la such teachlag ora hurry, to get the eats I didn't! realities that prevents crimes, tornotlc when I lost It.' persens railylMierlt crimtaaJdischarsed. Stw IB3CT 4 HU, .,,1 r5o ivWhi I W ,430 Y BLOOMIN6TON 7 bs .C 1 population probably will remain in the 1930 census, but gains in Texas, will pull it aouthwestward. The WASHINGTON (AP) After two decades of movement north and westward, the nation's center of population In 1930 probably win turn again toward the south west. Industrial expansion of the south tfnd extensive development in Texas, Oklahoma and Florida is regarded by officials of the census bureau as likely to give a southward pull to the population center, which was placed by the 1920 census at a point about two miles straight west of Whitehall, Ind. The westward movement which continued at a rapid rate from the time of the first census, in 1790. until 1910 is likely to be still further retarded by the industrial movement to the cities, but po pulation gains in California, Washington and other western states may offset the cityward trend enough to keep the general progress toward the west. The movement westward reach ed its height in 1860. when the center of population Jdmped 80 miles In a decade, from West Vir ginia Into Ohio. The movement northward was most pronouncr In the decade following, when t point swung 13 miles to the north. The progress between 1910 and 1920 was northwest for 9.8 miles, while the decade preceding 1910 brought a movement 39 miles rfcrthwest. Experts In the census bureau point out that an increase In po pulation in the south and west will affect movement of the po pulation center more than a larg er increase in the cities of the middle west, because of the near ness of the latter to the present enter. WT. M. Steuart. director of the census, forecasts a population of about 124,000,000 for the United States In 1930. The figure in 1920 was 105.710.620. Labor-saving machines devel oped by its own men will speed up the work of the census bureau in the 1930 count, and more enumerators and tabulators will be- employed than before. It is estimated that 100.000 enumerat ors will be required to handle the count in the 500 census districts 15.000 more than the number employed In 1920--and that more than 6.000 persons will, be needed to tabulate returns at Washington. i The bureau plans to collect !n 1930 figures on distribution. In cluding wholesale and retail sales of all goods at market points, to supply Information on marketing and gelling. As In former years the census will embrace figures on population, agriculture and manu facturing. proclivities, but they are brought abont by their environments bad associates, bad examples, Ig- 'norance. erroneous teaching, or no teachlnS at a11 of realities and right-living. A-P. STRAIHO. Klickitat. Wash.. Jan. 20. 192S. ANYWAY IT GOT BY COATSVILLE. Pa. "My friend was sick, he-was hungry and he wanted some hot dbg sandwiches, ice cream and pie; so I started to Coatayille to get him the , eats, so declared a man ar raigned la police court on a charge of driving an auto without a muf fler on the exhaust, the machine creating a great noise. "Was the muffler on the car when you start ed r 'Yes; air. but I was to such He was I K J v j.-.-.-. a ss -x I -. II MlTCHAi. I (The Chemawa American. weekly newspaper published ;i: the United States Indian train h.? school, has been printing a serin of articles on "Famous Anieri.-an Indians." The one appearing jr. the current issue, of Jan. 2.1. by Joseph Alexander, . Cheniaw.4 student, as follows:) There are few stranger rare.-!-; than that of Carlos Montezuma a full-blood Mojave-Apache. In dian. The history of his life read-! like a thrilling chapter from a dime novel. "Captured in a mas sacre which almost wiped out hi, tribe, carried off Into slavery, sold to an alien, educated anions those whom he had been taught to regard as blood enemies, an i then to win high honors at th. hands of his benefactors." was Dr. Montezuma's life In a brief statement. Dr. Montezuma was born at Weaver's ranch, a short distanr from Superior, Arizona. He wa dragged about the first two or three years of his life from one place to another, as his tribe wa In continuous warfare with tin American soldiers. During that time he was alternately carried from the Grand Canon country t the lower; reaches of Senora, Mex ico. Jusjt as it appeared that his life was to be cast in a more pea. -ful channel the most stirring epi sode of his life occurred. Ai rangements were made whereV his tribe was to enter into a true with the government. While men of the Mojave-Apache tribe were counseling with the army officers a raiding party of Pima Indians swooped down upon an unprotect ed camp of a lartv number of women and children, which was located a few miles northeast of Phoenix. The Pima band killed all the women and children that were un able to escape. A few fleet-footed ones ran and hid and in this way saved their lives. As the P.ima band was riding away the boy began crying- and they found hlui and did not have the heart to kill him.' so they took "him to their village a short distance south of the Gila river in the Salt river valley. Dr. Montezuma's parents wer victims of this massacre. He a then little more than a baby. 11 was kept by his. captors until he was four or five years old. As a child he then attracted the at tention of a Chicago man who w touring the country and lie pur chased him from the Plnias f or thirty dollars. He took him and gave him all possible educational advantages. He graduated fro:;; the University of Illinois, tli. n from the medical department of the Northwestern University aiid honors at Chicago and took uj the practice of medicine in that city, where be practiced for some twenty-five years. At the tin of his death he was recognized as an authority on intestinal disord ers. He was also a physician in th Indian service for aome years, during which time he was for two or more years at the Carlisle In dian school. Dr. Montezuma passed away on Jan. 31, 1923, at McDowell. Ari zona, where he had gone hoping to recover from tuberculosis. Mis last Illness was brief. The cli mate of his birth state did not help him as It was hoped It would. Funeral services were held at the First Baptist church In Phoe nix, at which Major York, of the United States army and a pet sonal friend of Dr. Montzunia: Colonel McCllntock, state histori an of Arizona, and Reverend lr. Percival, spoke. The day follow ing his remains were Interred a' McDowell. At his funeral Ir. Percival said ip part: "The life of Dr. Montezuma symbolized for us the wonderful relationship between two peoples, the red and white, the Indian and the American, the first and tl last American. His life links to gether in a marvelous way th- past and the present of our conn try. Its oldest savagery with it- newest civilization. He was no; an old man and yet within the half century of his life he has run all the gamut of primitive tribal life, ok savage warfare and mas sacre", of capture and slavery, of travel across the great plains to1 the cities of the east, where h grew up with "the metropolis of tne middle west, studying In our schools, learning the lessons of the streets of the bl city, fight Ing the battle for higher educa- uuu, mil ne husui bo ir the slums of the city and the res ervations of, the we3t and help heal and uplift his own people and the newer (immigrants to these shores. He saw the worst of our civilization, but he chose the best. "His life becomes a two-fold lesson to us today. To the Indians in Fish Creek canyon. We got he Is an example of what any In dian may become who will avoid the worst and seek, te best In our civilisation. "To the American he is a re minder of what capacity the In dian possesses. "Pis life says to us: 'Give tc (Cntistt4 pats ) ,