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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1928)
J 0 I It i.j; H I It it 1 1 a S4 Earl C. Brownlee Sheldon F. Sackett Publishers Features Who ne'er has raftered, he hiw llyed but half. Who new failed, he nerer atroTe or Bought. Who never wept. Is stranger to a laugh. And be who never doubted nerer thought, v : Goode A Little Girl's Garden JT is submitted that the followinfr from the Portland Telegram of last night is a pret tv Diece of editorial writing: "Margaret Sharpe, a little 10-year-old girl of Freewater, Oregon, has been aeciarea win ner of the girl's prize in a Nation-wide gar AtTntr rontest conducted by the Woman's Home Companion. The August number of , the magazine announces the award ana pub lishes Margaret's letter, describing the pro cess that transformed a 'corner where noth ing was growing but weeds, into a tiny flow ering paradise. She says: I spent 45 cents for seeds I bought pars ley, sweet alyssum, petunias, mignonette and scarlet runner beans. Mother gare me the snapdragons, larkspur, poppies and nastur- tlums. Grandmother gare me the four o'clock. Just three of my marigolds came up and the chickens scratched thww up. so I set snapdragons there. Mjr four o clocks grew so big that the rain broke one off. Then 1 tied the rest to stakes. I took some of my flowers to church. anil to school and some to sick peo ple, but I gave most of them to mother. I gave mother mjr parsley. I intend to have an other garden next year and to take better care of It." "This simDle storv is as wholesome and sweet as the little girl herself of the twice planted scarlet runners, of the patient water ings from the nearby creek, of the gay nas turtiums that 'were just loaded till it froze.' "Margaret, we are glad your garden grew so well. Reading your letter, we seem to catch the spicy fragrance of your mignon ette, see the poppies dancing on their slender stems and the lazy four o'clocks, their sleepy heads so heavy that you had to prop them up with stakes. It is fine that you won a prize and that you were so thoughtfully gen erous with your garden treasures. "These things are pleasant now, and when you are quite grown up and old, you will find that you were growing all through your garden summer something more preciou and lasting than the flowers the habit and the love of making neglected corners beauti ful. We suspect that you will be doing it all your life." - Morrow in Mexico 1J-THEN D wight W. Morrow was sent as Tf United States ambassador to Mexico part of our so-called liberal press was even more caustic than usual." It made it plain that Mr. Morrow had connections with the unholy Wall street institutions which handle forcicm loans. The fact that he also knew much of Mexico was largely overlooked. To send a man of accomplishment and large ability instead of a second rate poli tician to Mexico City was a novelty which caused many to wonder what it might do to ur international relations. Things have " been happening quietly and surely ever since Mr. Morrow arrived. He has collected the finest library in Mexico, dealing with Mexi can land and mineral laws. He has been able to straighten out the tangled situation over American rights largely because he and his staff have completely mastered the facts in the case. He has made many friends and has won a social position in Mexico seldom, if ever, approached before by an ambassador. This experience suggests that we must seek men for the foreign service with higher qual ifications than we have been willing to ac cept for Latin American service in times past. r John R. Law's in Town BRING on the executioner and 'oil up the guillotine! Whet the blooming axe and off go the heads of councilmen. The pub lic shall be saved and benefactors of the body politic shall be glorified! Meanwhile there's to be a clean sweeping of the councilmanic deck and a nice new bunch of aldermen will sit in the seats of the mighty f pirates who have been guiding the citv these many moons. Glory be.' there's to be law ih this here bailiwick, or by ginger, old John Ri Law himself will know the reason why. - - . - Any honest, active, successful business man who thinks he can get one of those well paid soft-snap jobs around the council table, where he is richly rewarded with fault find ing, had better adjust himself to the right eous demand that he go-out of private busi ness. I ' There is no reason why we should not have progressive, successful business men on the council and 410 reason why they should not be paid grandly, (as they are not) except that the oracles say no man shall be a busi ness man and a councilman at the same time Let's pocket our wish for a businesslike city administration at the hands of business men and populate the council with business men who haven't any business. Let's enjoin everything and everyone and behead any councilman who dares to continue in a pri vate business and sell honest merchandise at honest prices to the city. ' It's all so shocking! Why, the law has been defiled! But there are laws and laws We'll chuck the laws we don't like and as sume the lily white garb of purity when our own ox lis gored. Anything will do, so long as we c&n run this old city just the way we want it. . Give us the wicked scalps of these council men. we 11 hang era up in the puDiic square while spellbinders prate of law breaking and proclaim to the anxious masses that business men who are qualified to conduct business are disqualified from council membership. Three Per Cent Crime News fOHE Baker, Oregon, Herald sent out an in JL' quiring reporter the. other day to inter view 44 people on the subject of crime news in the papers. Averaging the replies re reived, it finds that in the mind of the aver age person crime news bulks as about 30 per cent of all the news in the papers. - Now.the fact of the matter, established by careful measurements made last spring .by the class in editing of the University of Ore gon school of journalism, according to the Eugene Register, is that crime news occupies about three per cent of the space devoted to news by the newspapers of today. ' And this is about the same percentage that was devoted to crime news by the papers of a couple of generations ago.. Why does the average person overestimate so grossly the amount of space devoted by the papers to news of crime and scandal? Is it because the average person himself con- aiders this type.of news the most, interest ing; and so reads it fa the exclusion of other news ? - It is suggested that some investiga- - tions along that line might be worth while. It is to be presumed that the marketing -of the cold storage pack of strawberries and loganberries in cans and cartons this year in .'the Salem district will be carefully lowered. - The idea seems promising the idea of a family in any city where there is a cold stor- j MovieTest Frauds THE press agent has done his work so well that we all profoundly believe that if we touch the movies we fill our hands with gold. A short time ago promoters appeared in Seattle to offer film tests. Anyone se curing proper make-up (furnished by the promoters for the trifling sum of seven dol lars) and meeting other stipulated require ments, could try out for a film which was to be "shot" locally. The men from Hollywood, ever eager for new stars, would watch the production and contracts would come flutter ing down upon the participants. The use of school grounds were secured as the propei set for the picture. Hundreds, old and young, flocked jto the test and paid their money. Someone got busy investigating and with no trouble at all showed up the fraud and every thing went flat except the promoters money bags, which bulged with their ill-gotten gains. The crooks will move from Seattle and will try it elsewhere, and the amazing thing is it will work. BSSSBSSSBSSSaBSSSBSSSSSBBBaBaBBaBBBBSSSBBBBaaB ... r- lr -To The Rescue Salem. Oregon SATURDAY An. 11, 1028 Bits for Breakfast By R. J. Hendricks There is a suggestion that Salem, the home of the formative years of Herbert Hoover's boyhood and early manhood, should De maae headquarters for the Hoover presi dential campaign in Oregon. Good sugges tion. The Coin For Old Age By Bruce Catton TENJAMIN FRANKLIN, obviously, would JJ not have liked Belle Livingstone at all. Belle Livingstone, it should be explained, is more or less the queen of New Yorkrs Bo hemia which mean sthat she is the femi nine leader of the forces who like to flit about the joy-haunts of Broadway and adja cent streets. i Now in an interview the other day Belle Livingstone, went directly counter to old Ben's most cherished maxims. She an nounced! that no one should save money. "Spend your money while you have it," she remarked airily. "Spend it while you have it, jeven if you'll need it later. Take it and have a good time. You never can forget the memory of a good time." ; There! will always be Benjamin Franklins in the world, and there will always be Belle Livingstones. And the two classes will never understand one another. Their philosophies are diametrically opposed. They are the ants and the grasshoppers of this world, and they never will be able to see with - each other's eyes. " - . - : I Indeed, most of us have these two diverg ent personalities "within us. When an occa sional windfall in the shape of an unexpect ed check arrives, we are torn between two desires, j Shall we put it in the bank against future heeds, or shall we take the wife and go downtown for a large evening? Save it or spend it? Have a good time now or ex ercise prudence and foresight? It's always a s hard question. The Belle Livingstones" often come to grief. Keep your eye on West Salem w s s Also, on North, East and South Salem For this city and all its sub urbs are due for a steady growth. If you should go away and come back in 10 years, you would not know Salem. It will in that time trow to SO. 000 and up; well on ;he way to 100.000. S Friend at the writer's elbow ays the hardest job your kid fa- ea is that of learning good man ners ana naDits wunoui seeing uiy. "a If you are to see flax pulling lone with a machine, you will hare to hurry. But let us hope there will be twice tbe acreage, or nore, to pull next year. "a It you have visualized seed growing in "this district as a small ndustry. you are due lor a sur prise, if you will read the Slogan pages In tomorrow Statesman. Dr. William J. Mayo is quoted is saying that "simultaneously with Vienna's introduction of a pure water supply from the moun alns her per capita consumption )f spirituous and fermented li quors was reduced to 40 per cent. It can hardly be said that Ma jor Idzikowaki. the Polish aviator Is out to make a name for himself. satisfy almost any one. a e . The danger in electing a town born president is that historical societies will have too many apart ment houses to preserve. Nature doesn't seem so grand when you observe the kind of peo ple to whom she entrusts the du ties of parenthood. A typical magaziae editor la one who yearns for stuff that is clever and yet as dumb as he thinks his readers are. Philosophy Is the comforting realization that weeds look about as green as grass if you keep them mowed. W Says a neighboring paragraph: "So far as this writer is concern ed, he has no sympathy to spare for Doris Dean Arbuckle, the cur rent wife of Fatty who is suing for divorce because her husband re cently became intoxicated at a wild party and attempted to make love forcibly to his women guests. Doris knew what he was getting when she took Fatty for better or worse. She knew she was get ting a piece of badly damaged goods. We do not believe, on gen eral principles, in denying to those who are unsuited to each other the relief of divorce, but in Doris' case it might be poetic jus tice to compel her to keep what she dragged out of the matiimo- DU PONT COILS OUT FOR SMITH Long Anticipated Public An nouncement Made by Wall Street Man He has name enough already to nial garbage heap." Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talk From the Statesman Our Fathers Read age plant being able to supply a pound or 10. 15, 30 or 50 pounds of berries to families 'They often reach a point where it is a ques- uu uuicu auu ouib UIlil& CBWUUSUUieuiS. UII i kiuit uun uiujf i sc (kuw, auu ovurcuuica they don't even know where the next meal J is to come from. But, if you have the right temperament, that sort of thing : isn't the worst thing, that cam happen to yon. As Belle Livingstone says, 'you never can forget the memory of a good time." And while memories cannot be classed .as coin of the realm, thev are, nevertheless,' a rare and valuable! kind of currency. They; buy other things than meat; serenity-, contentment, happiness, sometimes. ? . Tj I We tend to get just a trifle! too serious. In our- eagerness to lay a way money for 'a secure old age we forget that" old. age needs other things besides icasrr in the bank. It needs, , most of alL memories ; memories of laughter and song, of days and nights of carefree, youthful happiness. ; Those are the things that bolster one up when the shadows begin toj lengthen.' ''r - . .. . rr. '- Salem needs a commission form of govern-1 iWe don't need to go -the whole way with :ment.N The wav to tret it in the war the tw-1 Belle Livingstone. But we mizht listen to pie will vote for it. -Let's have have no more!nat s has to say. There are worse, crimes v2uds.- " ' v , .- ' t"n improvidence.. , - instant order and as fresh as the day they came from the vines or bushes; fresh" straw berries or loganberries from Salem any day in th year in nearly every city. If this thing goes over as big as it looks like it may, -there will soon come a time when no such berries here will ever be left unpicked ; and our berry, acreage will grow enormously. The seed industry of the Salem district is large now; growing very fast, as ; will be shown in the Slogan pages of The Statesman of tomorrow. But it can be made to grow . veryi much faster and I towards'a : gigantic industryr-which it i bound to become. We have here the natural conditions, the soil and sunshine and showers, and the development of -such industries is - bound ; to follow the lines of least resistance. ': v.' .- .-.r.-. . 1 August 11, 1003 The Independence and Mon mouth Water & Electric Light company has secured control of che water power of Sidney, and rill commence setting up poles and wiring next week. A total of 128 students were en rolled at the Capital Business col lege for the year just closed. Deeds filed at the county re corder's office the. past week ag Tregated S29.60S. " e' '- ,' i The 'fire department was out last evening to extinguish a blaze Jit the Capital Lumbering com pany's mill at the foot of Trade jtree-t, Ellis Purvine left yesterday for a month's trip to eastern Oregon points. , Attorney George G. Bingham Barbs Toung couple Is planning on being married to the Hollywood bowl which seats . 20,000 people. The bride has kissed herself Into something. The U. S, attorney's office says the flow of rum on Broadway will be dammed. That's all right, but they don't need to swear about it. It Is to be hoped that th com pany -that plans an- airline tevm New York to Bermuda knows Its onion..: : .:.: ; - Thirty bilUon cups of tea are consumed each year tn America. How'd you like to betthe Iceman? .Elks in the Tosemlte Valley are wearing new fur coats of light tan, bat don't tell your wife. t Twentyslx - prisoners In tn Clairrtux prl3on. in Paris, were released , for their courage in fighting a fire. The fire wasn't the only thing that was put out . has Joined his family at Newport. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Albert hare gone to Cascadia for a two weeks' outing. Salem business men hare rais ed a purse of 12.000 for 2:17. pa cers to be raced on Salem day at the state fair. County Commissioner William Miley has returned to his home in Aurora. This Date in American History August 11 ISO 7 Fulton's first steamboat. "Clermont." made a trial trip. 1357 First Atlantic cable broke. 18 S 2 Independence, Mo., surren dered to the Confederates. 1886 Carlyle D. Graham went orer Niagara Falls in a barrel. Editor of Defunct Salem World Faces Circuit Court Suit The World Publishing company Friday filed suit in the clrentt court here to recover $1000 from C. M. (Jack) O'Day, formerly ed itor of the Salem World which was printed by the plaintiff corpo ration. 'r .-. : , t r ;,';:?"'; The complaint alleged that O'Day "received this amount" of money between May S and July 21. nil, but . that he . faded : to credit It to the publishing concern. 4? If aramn , car pwned by O'Day his been:, attached ,lh connection with the salt. i Washabel Paper . ;You can make any wallpaper washable by going over it first with sizing and then using a clear shellac This r Advisable for the NEW YORK, Aug. 10. (AP) Pierre S. Du Pont, chairman of the : boards of two of the largest corporations in the country, and nominally a republican, today came out flatly in support of the presidential candidacy of Gover nor Smith. In a formal statement issued within 24 hours after he had been granted leave of absence as chair man of the General Motors cor poration, Du Pont said Governor Smith has the "strength of char acter to correct the evils of pro hibition law enforcement and make recommendations necessary for the solution of the liquor prob lem." Places Man First While ordinarily a republican. Du Pont said "I have always inter ested myself in the plans and pol icies involved and in the personal ity of a candidate more than itf a name of the party and I believe that no intelligent voter can do otherwise. "The platforms of the two pre dominating parties have become reconciled to a degree that makes choice between them difficult. Neither platform presents a stand on any important question differ ing materially from the position of the other." Dry Law Chief Issue Du Pont reviewed Governor Smith's political record, especial ly his election four times as chief executive of the state, and adder: "Governor Smith has proved him self an able executive, one who can; be entrusted with the conduct of national affairs." Turning again to prohibition. Du Pont continued: "The really important issue be fore the country, namely that of maintaining intact our original form of government and the lib erties of the people. Is not dealt with in either party platform. The issue has been raised by the 18th amendment to the constitution. Nine years of experiment have proyed that "prohibition" does not! prohibit, strong drink is still readily obtainable, and the ill ef fects of its abuse remain with us." Flays RepabUcans "Governor Smith, both before and after his nomination, had spoken clearly in favor of modi fication, Du Pont said, addlnr further: "His declaration in fa vor; of modification gives greater encouragement than: does the non constructive opinion of his oppon ent." He added "nine years of repub lican domination" have failed to correct "killing of Innocent citi zens and of the guilty without trial violating the search and seizure laws,, conducting illegal reports, employing men to entice others to break the law. spending public money to acquire alcoholic evi dence, "holding up" Innocent cit izens and many other immorali ties of the enforcement division." Mr. Du Pont, also chalnan of the; board of the E. I. Du Pont de Nemours company. Is a personal rnena and business associate of John J. Raskob, chairman or the democratic national committee. Raskob said he did not beUeve his associate would become- a member oi . uie democratic . advisory com mittee. . ' , , - , Oregon's Mortality , v 4 Rate Among Babies Lowest in Country The , infant mortality rate in Oregon Is lower than in any other state In the anion, according to a bulletin Issued here Friday by Dr. bathroom, kitchen and children's William DeKleine of the Marion room. - . 4 , , County Health demonstration. V We Can't All Be INDBERGIS But we can at least follow his example. Lindbergh leaves nothing to chance. He tests his engine, he studies his maps, he routes his course. He takes every precaution that is humanly possible. So should you. Have you made provision for the future or are you foolishly taking a chance. Did you realize that thou sands upon thousands of travel accidents occur every year and there's no telling when you may be a victim. Think of yoxit loved ones and secure this protection today before it is too late to take out a .1(5) Travel Accident Insurance Policy for every member of your family between the ages of 15 and 70. You can easily afford to do it for the cost of each policy is only $ .00 a year Here Are a -Few of the Many Benefits Pays $10,000.00 For loss of life by wrecking or disablement of a railroad paaseng-pr car or street, elevated or underground railway car. passenger steamship or steam boat. In or on which insured is traveling as a fare paying passenger as specified In Part I of policy. Pays $2,500.00 . - For loss of life by wrecking of public omnibus, tazicab, auto stag which is. being driven or operated at the time of such wrecking or disablement, by a licensed driver, plying for public hire and in which the Insured Is traveling as a fare-paying passenger or by the wrecking or disablement of a passenger elevator, hands, feet or sight, las speci fied In Part II of policy). Pays $1,000.00 For loss of Ufa by wrecking f a private automobile or private horss drawn vehicle of the exclusively pleasure type as provided in policy, by being track or knocked dowa white wslkiag mm a pablis hihwy. by a moving vehicle as set forth In policy), or being struck by light ning, cyclone or tornado, collapse of outer walls of any building, in the burning of any church, theater, library, school sr municipal building, feet or sight, specified ia Part IV of policy. Pays $20.00 Weekly For injuries sustained in any rifanner specified In Part I or II which shall not prove fatal or cause specific loss as aforesaid but shall im mediately, continuously and wholly and prevent tha Insured from per forming sseh sad every daty pertaining U say aa devery klid of business (As specified in this policy) twit not exceeding is consecutive weeks. Pays $10.00 Weekly For Injuries sustained in any manner specified In Part IV which shall not prove fatal or cause specific loss as aforesaid but shall Immediately continuously and wholly prevent tbe insured from performing each and every duty pertaining to- anavand every kind of business, (as specified in tha policy) but not exceeding In consecutive weeks. Hospital Benefits If a bodily Injury for which a weekly Indemnity Is payable under this policy. Is suffered by the Insured, and IX on account of said bodily Injury the Insured la removed to a regularly Incorporated hospital, the Company will pay tha Insured (in addition to the said weekly lndni- nity) for a period not exceeding .five weeks, 7.f0 par weak. Emergency Benefit Registration Identification an Aid Tha Company will register- the person Insured, and If Insured shall, by reason of Injury, be physically unable to communicate with relatives or friends and In a condition requiring Identification, the Company will, upon receipt of meaaag giving your policy number. Immediately trans mit to such relatives or friends as may be known to It any Information respecting the Insured and will defray all expenssa to put the Insured la communication with and In tha cars of relatives or rriends, provided ucn. expenses shall not exceed tha sum of One Hundred Dollars. INSURANCE APPLICATION 'I AND , ' SUBSCRIPTION BLANK THE NEW OREGON STATESMAN Salem, Oregon. Gentlemen Dat. -, 192. Addreas City Stat Occupation Phone You are hereby authorised to enter mv nhiKriniinn t. Oregon 8tateman for on year from data. It Is understood that The New Oregon Statesman U to be delivered to my address regularly each 1 oay vj your uungnna carrier ana I snail pay him for tha aama at the regular established rate of 60c per month. - 1 e, a nclS!nf JmVYntt Policy fee. I am to receive a 111, 00e.se Travel Accident Insurance Policy tisued by the 'North Amer ican Insurance Company t Chicago, llllonia. . I am not at preaeaC a subacrlber to Tha New Oregon Statesman - I am aotra ubacrtber to the Oregon Statesman Name ; f , - ', A 31 V