THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON. THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1928
The Oregon Sta tesman
lrA Dily f.xrept Monday Yy
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
SIS 8tth 0"biBrcil 8treat. Satan, Orrfaa
K. J. fB4rieka
Iri S. MeShrry -Ktlpa
C. Cmrat -Mcalla
Base
Maaa-.r
- Hfsagaf Kditor
- City tailor
' Sceiat Kditor
alp H. KJatiiac Adrtaic Ms-
Uv4 . Rtiffier - - Supar-ataadaat
W. 11. Headersaa. Cireslatoa HaaafW
K. a. HUM LlTMlwk E4:taf
W. C- Ubaarr - - - Paaltxy lat.f
ItCJJBEE 07 IHa ASSOCIATED IUM
Tsa AnocUteti l'rru is .eli.ly anUUad W ttt w ft paaUeat; at UX
nawi d.ptch- credited ta it or at tUt-rciH eradital i .aia t-apar a aiaa
lacai pcbinbed barcia.
Faetfie CoaU Re.eaeiiiaua -Dot: Stypaa. FortUad.
Secarily Bldg.; San Fraaciaco, Staiaa Bldf.; hot Aajalaa.
01 1 Matters Pacific Bids.
Taoroaa f. Clark Co.. Sow York.
Chicago. Maraaatta BM(
128-138 W. Slat St,
Basiscti Offiea 23 or &3
Society Editor .100
TXlSHOSS
Kaai I apt. 34 a 5M
Jat DapartaMBt i
Circaiatias Wiaa
aacond rUfa BaH.
w a KHMI
nsed to fast: and
And tne aiscipies . ii. .nri f
thev came and say unto Him, way oo me aii "
. . . . JlantKlAa fast nftt?
-the Fnarisees iasi, uui " , h(1. th, hridet
. . ..:u - iko hriHu rhtmber fast, wnlle tne onae-
And Jesus said unto
room is wun mem: . - whentBe bride-
them, they cannot iasi.- uui u - . , ln
I! ' -vn k. toir.n ir from them, and then shall they last m
(rUVUI JBlS v-aa,a. r
those days. Mark 2:18-19-20. .
THE INFERIORITY COMPLEX AGAIN
- TTia priitr of The Statesman has a dear mossback and mis
taken friend who finds fault because this newspaper contm-
.... ii ' i ik wfonrioi vanifs
ually and everlastingly cans attention iu me p- .
in Salem, and in the lands of the great trading territory
that surrounds this city
Tells of what may be done in dairying and flax growing
and manufacturing: with filberts and walnuts and strawDer
- rtesand the bush and tree fruits, and with mint and sweet
cherries, and corn and celery and bees and poultry and the
leonmes. and sheep and goats and swine and poultry
And in the other industries on the land in which we excel
or may excel; in which we can do better than other sections
by either producing superior marketable products or by turn
ing them off at a lower cost than can be done elsewhere.
articles and advantages. Why, not? What one man has
ught not continually pick out the good yields or the superior
This mistaken mossback friends thinks The Statesman
lone another man may do. Does this friend thinx it would
be better to publish to the world the small yields and scant
profits or the losses? Does he think that would be encourag
ing in the way of securing more uniformly large yields and
profits and major successes?
The editor of The Statesman believes this valley is the
greatest country under the sun in potential things the land
f diversity the country of opportunity.
: He believes we should get rid of the inferiority complex
that infests a small minority here. .
Men with the inferiority complex poked fun at Fulton when
he was building the first steamboat. One of their number
wrote a book proving that a steamboat could .not carry
enough coal to fire her boilers to keep her engines going and
propel her across the Atlantic
And the first steamer to cross the Atlantic carried as part
of her cargo a consignment of these books !
Westinghouse, when he had perfected the air brake, visited
the outed office of a great and pompous railroad president,and
when he was finally admitted to the august presence was told
that the great man had "no time for d fools !"
Edison was hampered by the inferiority complex tribe, and
Marconi with his wireless, and the Wright brothers with their
experiments in flying. The young chemist who found the
secret of" aluminum was regarded as a thriftless visionary
by all the New York millionaires, until he finally went to
Pittsburg and found the Mellons and they took up the idea
of making metal out of clay, and made the young man mod
estly wealthy before he died, a few years later and on his
idea they made themselves the third richest family in the
United States.
Get rid of the inferiority complex here in Salem, and this
city will speed forward to 100,000 population, and have only
a fair start then. It will have 100,000 people working in the
- flax and linen industries, supporting directly and indirectly a
million people iri this territory. More paper mills will be built
here. There is enough pulp timber in the forests back of
Salem, with a down hill haul all the way, to feed a dozen
,cr score of paper mills here and to do it for all time ; with the
Jmrvesting of the timber and the conservation of the forests,
- which are coming. A hundred beet sugar factories are pos
sible in the Willamette valleyi backing up the greatest dairy-
.ing industry in a like extent of territory in the world. Hun
drcds of thousands of acres ought to be irrigated in the Wil
:Iamette valley. No other section of this country can do this
.with anything like as small an outlay as is possible here. This
will make of the Willamette valley one great orchard and
garden and green field with crops and factories that will
maintain ten million and more people in the most general
.prosperity and affluence of any like number in all the
world.
All these things will come about, and more. It is so writ
ten in the alphabet of nature; in our soil and sunshine and
showers. The circumstances that make one impatient are the
slowness of bringing these things to pass. "Eventually," says
', the familiar advertising slogan, "why not now?"
Why wait? Why not get rid of the inferiority complex en
tirely, and take on the superiority complex, and go straight
ahead? "Straight ahead." That is the slogan of southern
-California; of Los Angeles, the city built on worthless sand
dunes, that, under the impulse of that slogan, is forging to
ithe front with the full belief of her people that they are des
;.:tined for the first place among American cities. And eoinc
: strong.
YouH see them come so thick and fast they won't have
room to park.
If some one starts to hanging crape, just go and pull it
down.
Get right out and start to shout, boosting for the town.
There's lots of money in the world; there must be some to
spare,
So keep right on boosting, and you will get your share.
We have no room for knockers, it's boosters that we need
To make the town grow bigger, and give it lots of speed
When things are looking punkest just fasten on a smile-
Put up your hammer, quit your knocking, try and boost
awhile.
A. BOOSTER.
.(The above was written for the Slogan pages of last Sun-
day; but through an inadvertence did not reach the office till
yesterday. 33d.)
COME TO SALEM AND SEE
HAWAII WILL CELEBRATE DISCOVERY BY COOK
(Eugene Register)
Fiberflax has been definitely proved to be a profitable
crop in Oregon. Last year, in the Salem area, its average
gross value to the farmer was $65.35 an acre. It is so well
understood that flax is a profitable crop that the acreage now
offered is in excess of the capacity of the penitentiary plant.
In other words, the farmers of the Salem area have learn
ed that it pays them to grow flax, and so they want to in
crease their acreage of it. - - .
The old idea that flax is destructive to the soil has been ex
ploded. It has been learned by experience that when grown
in a five or six year rotation it gives increasing returns to
other crops.
That is to say, instead of being destructive to soil fertility
it actually adds to soil fertility when grown in a proper ro
tational system. This means that flax can be grown in
definitely in western Oregon and that as result of growing
it soil fertility will increase instead of decline.
These are some of the high lights of an address delivered
by Colonel W. B. Bartram, manager of the penitentiary flax
industry, to the Salem chamber of commerce the other day.
They are of the greatest possible significance to communities
all over western Oregon.
It has been said that Oregon farmers will not grow fiber
flax. They are signifying their willingness to grow it in
quantities greater than are now needed.
It has been said that profits from flax are unpromising- to
the farmer. No grain crop we can grow will show better av
erage returns than $65.35 per acre.
It has been said repeatedly that flax is destructive of soil
fertility. Actual experience shows that instead of damaging
the land on which it is grown it improves it when grown in
proper rotation.
The prosperity-of the south and it is a very considerable
prosperity is built upon cotton. Cotton is a textile. It pro
vides both a crop for the farmer and raw materials for the
manufacturer, thus in turn proivding industrial payrolls.
Flax is a textile. It, too, provides crop for the farmer and
raw material for the manufacturer. It has been proved that
Oregon can produce fiber flax equal to the best in tfie world.
The Oregon community that fails to keep abreast of the
new developments in the fiber flax industry will be over
looking an opportunity that has tremendous potential import
ance.
" a.
- nM
! teipiiiisiKir
a At..
is attending tne meeunt: oi m
annual session of the Homoepafh
lc medical society of Oregon.
Governor Chamberlain Tester-
day re-appointed J. B. V. Bolter
of Monmouth, S. B. Eakin ofEvt
tene and Associate Justice C. E.
Wolrerton of Albany members of
the board of regents for the Mon
mouth normal school for another
period.
a a
Commencement program for
the public schools will be given
at the Opera House June 15. Each
of the 15 graduates will gire a
three-minute speech. Superin
tendent J. H. Ackerman will ad
dress the ctasBv'A -small admission
fee will be cWtr
The grand opening of Shields"
amusement park will take place
next Monday evening.
a a
A reorganisation of the alumni
areociatioa of the Willamette uni
versity music college has been ef
fected, largely through the efforts
oi uean rTaucisco ocicj.
I
-MoH Nl'MSKUU--
Capt. James Cook of England discovered the Hawaiian Islands 150 years ago in August, and in
that month this summer the United States and Britain will join the islanders to celebrate the anni
versary. The reproduction below of "The Death of Capt. Cook" is from a painting by Webber, who
accompanied the explorer. Cook was slain by natives at Kaawaloa in 1779. Above at the left is a
statue of Cook in London, and at the rignt u monument at the site of his death which will be dec
orated In August.
YOU CANT SAW WOOD WITH A HAMMER
Some say that things in Salem are getting rather punk,
But, boys, don't get discouraged; that's just a lot of bunk.
If some fellow could not; make it, and went against the' wall,
Dont blame it on the town just because he took a fall.
If some mossback had money, and then went on the rocks,
' Don't go out and holler and start a lot of knocks.
; If you can't own a great big car or gain a lot of wealth,
: Don't lay it to the country- just lay it to yourself.
i If you have got into a rut so deep you can't see out.
Don't knock but start to boosting; someone will help you
-- .out t .
Just keep riabt on boosting from dawn until its dark; ;
The editor of the Eugene Register should visit the flax
plant at the penitentiary, and the linen mills in Salem, if he
has not done so or if he has not done so lately; and he
should bring a delegation of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce.
He will find the most complete and up to date flax plant
in the world. (It will be much better a couple of months
later.) He will find inmates turning out the best flax pulling
machines ever built; building them at a cost of $1100;
against the $2250 price of the inferior machines first
brought here. He will find a number of inmates doing as
good work in treating flax as if they were getting $10 a day
each. Some of these men, on release, will be competent to run
threshing, retting and scutching plants at such points as
Eugene
And the time has arrived when it will pay any Willamette
valley city to take this up privately. Every single operation up
to the finished fiber and spinning tow is now done by ma
chinery Excepting one operation only. That is drying. So far, that
must be done in the sun, to give the fiber "nature," in the
vernacular of the trade. That is, resiliency; spinability. ITiat
hump will be passed, too, some day, by the genuius of chem
istry. But let the Eugene people come and see. They will be
surprised ana pleased. They will go home "bugs" on the flax
and linen industry for this valley.
!f the recipient had not a dime to
bis name.
The "Owls of Wall street,"
Henry Clews & Co., say these
things in their current weekly let
ter: "The week's news indicated
an encouraging situation in many
lines of business. According to
government analyses, industrial
production continues large. Manu
factures remain in about the same
rolume as a month ago when they
were found to be of unexpectedly
sizable - proportions. Automobile
production, has held up excellently
to the present time. The output of
imnerals and metals, with the ex
ception of coal, has continued to
grow, and even in the case of coal
reaction Is less than the usual' sea
sonal amount. As pointed out last
week,- the production and demand
for copper and for non-ferrous
metals generally has been unusual.
Building contracts have continued
to maintain their volume at a high
level."
S S W
The following from the Portland
News touches a subject that is as
interesting and important in Salem
as in Portland: "Released from
college for the summer, students
who hare gathered in Portland are
faced with an employment problem'
that is nothing short of pressing.
VI any of them have less than four
months in which to recoup their
finances for another term a t
school. And a. large number of
them hare so far been unable to
find work of any kind. Money to
these students means more than a
'stake' to be squandered in one
wild week in town. It means, to
many, a living as well as more ed
ucation. In some instances it will
mean the difference between a di
ploma and the kind of student who
goes in the door "and out again.
The employer who hires one of
them cannot fail to realize a fair
return in energy and ambition.
And an early response to their
needs will give Portland business
men a human as well as a finan
cial interest In Oregon's education
al Institutions."
bany has returned to her home af
ter an extended visit with the
Misses Coehow of this city.
a a a
Dr. G. C. Eshelman of Salem
a mi v l it
W . a I SaW NMV
ajt. .MA ,
DErM NOAH'.-IR COFFER
QAVtZ A TEA, WHAT WOULfi
HC DO WITH HIST
INVITATIONS:, - POSTUM?
, AjJ.A.
DEAR. NOAH IF WK
wAhrrco to Osuli Flower
A POTATO, WOULD THE
str i scan torrrocg ?
AT
THAT OUTON TO 1
NcV4 -rawer. '
THE MORNING ARGUMENT
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
o O
June 12, 1003
The Salem cannery has started
the season's pack of choice Wil
lamette valley fruits and vegeta
bles, under the direction of Man
ager George W. Holcomb of Portland.
a a
Miss Gertrude O'Brien of Al-
AUNT HET
By Robert Quilfca
"I never reminded Pa of his
brother that went to jail except
one time, an' that was once when
he interfered while I was spankin'
our first boy."
(Copyrifbt, 1928. Pnolikaera Eyadieata.)
'i' A a?-..'
mi
By
PA
CaJIasi
"Our daughter an' ber husband
are livin with . an' while they,
treat us pretty nice, we can tell
there are times when we're aw
fully in their way."
(Copyright, 1928. Paoliakara BTmdieala.)
A flax pulling machine made at the penitentiary plant is
all boxed up and ready to be trucked to Portland and shipped
direct to England. It goes billed to an English bank If is
geared up all ready to run, and directions are being sent that
will enable any good mechanic to run it. The price is $1700
which gives a profit to the state of $600. Thus a new export
business is established in Salem. No tiling how far it may
go. The spare parts side will be big in time. It is already es
tablished. This machine the English firm is buying for $1700
is worth at least twice as much as the first machines the
state of Oregon bought from the Canadian manufacturers for
$2250 each.
Bits For Breakfast
-O
I
That looks good
S
Every plant that does barreling.
so far as the B. for B. man has
learned, is putting up some of the
one pound cartons ia waxed pa
per, for cold storage shipment.
This indicates a wide distribu
tion on orders, and a wide Interest
over the country.i With these car
tons, and the 15,-.30 and SO pound
cans, there re prospects for a
steady Increase , of the; strawberry
acreage., in the! Salem district. We
are going to a 24,000,000 crop be
fore long. ".. .
A. . H. , Woodward, Birmingham
capitalist, rated one of the weal
thiest men In the south, has Just
received a priceless legacy from
his mother. Woodward has reach
ed the point where he doesn't seed
any more money. But this legacy
wasn't money; It wasn't anything
that money could ever buy. His
mother's win was read recently,
after her death. In It was the fol
lowing paragraph: 'I wish my son.
A. H. Woodward, to knew that he
has never given me cause for un
happisess or worry during . his
life, and U Is my desire that he
remember me As giving to him a
perfect love." That Is the priceless
legacy the rich Mr. Woodward received.-It
Is worth far more than
any monetary bequest could pos
sibly be worth; it would bd so eves
66JJ
Soto II'cS fecawDns"
THERE'S always a new ex peri e ice ahead something: you
n t done before and which calls far a decision.
ve-
laVt
You become engaged and immediately you are called upon
to decide on the purchase of many, many things you never
bought before. . I
t
You marry and furniture, draperies, silverware, china, talk
ing machines, oil-burners, gas-staves, automobiles claim your dol
lars and call for your choice.
A baby comes and again yo i face a new experience in pur
chasing clothes and powders an 4 blankets; in buying a crib,
baby-carriage, foods, toys.
Next what school? For the years pass incredibly fast. Once
more, a new decision.
Every room in your house requires a choice. Every meal
served in your dining room results from your having decided on
what to serve. Every day confronts you with a multitude of pos- "
sibilities from which you must select those which make life hap
pier and better, and make the dollars go farther.
How on earth are you going t make those decisions? How
can you know what you want and what you don't want? How
can you buy to such advantage that youll seldom, if ever, have
occasion to use that futile phrase, "I wish I'd bought something
else"?
v Read the advertisements read them carefully. The adver
tisements are an encyclopaedia of news and information oduSSr"
things you want and need.