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"Earl C. Brownlee Sheldon F. Sackett Publishers Editorial Salem. Oregon Wednesday Aug. 15, 1928 F How little do we know that which we are!' 4 How lew what we my be! ' The Intense surge of Thne and Tide rolls on and bean afar Our bubbles; as the old burst, new emerge, -Lashed from the foam of age;, while-the graves Of Empires heave but like some passing ware. Byron. Either McNary-Haugen or Jardine rpHE Eugene Register, commenting; on the J. Hoover speech of acceptance, has the following to say about the farm relief para graphs: "What Hoover is and how he will think and act are pretty well exemplified by his proposals for the betterment of agricul ture. He would have an adequate tariff for the protection of the domestic market for farm products, and development of water ways for reduction of the cost of transport ing farm products to market. He would fos ter cooperatives to reduce distribution costs and these cooperatives would include farmer owned and farmer controlled stabilization corporations to dispose of surplus crops. He would aid these corporations by advancing government funds for their use.' There is no doubt that Mr. Hoover is sin cere; no doubt that he will secure farm re lief And there is little doubt that some of the farmer owned and farmer controlled corpora tions proposed, to dispose of the surplus of major crops, and to be advanced government funds for their use, will adopt the equaliza tion plan, the main idea of the, MbNary-Hau-gen bills The fighting point of them And perhaps some of them will adopt the ' Jardine plan, which would supply the equal ization funds from the United States treas ury, with the idea that in the course of years the marketing of the surplus of the major crops would wipe out the funds advanced for equalization purposes ; that is, there would in some years be profits made on the sales abroad of th& commodities not consumed or held over at home. But the farmer owned and controlled ' corporations that obliged the growers them selves to bear, or run the 'risk of losses would be in greater favor with the whole people than the ones the managers of which would be content to lean entirely on the strong arm , of Uncle Sam. But, any way, Herbert Hoover promises farm relief, and he is not mealy-mouthed does he deny that the getting of it is probab ly going to take a vast amount of govern about saying how he is going to get it nor ment funds. What he has in the back of his head about paying back these funds he did not explain in his acceptance speech. With the McNary-Haugen idea or the Jar dine plan, of course the protective tariff will have to be invoked. Neither would be work able at all without it. Without the protective tariff, the marketing agencies would have to buck up against the surplus crops of the whole world. Not The Ship's Fault TONDON newspapers -are having a good j HpaI nf fun over the failure of American -athletes to do the things expected of them in the Olympic games, c; , ; , . One of the reasons commonly advanced by London writers is that the Americans are not properly quartered on the liner President Roosevelt. It is said that the dining room is "stuffyfand cramped0 and 'that the living ac commodations are not such as to promote the best of health and spirits. . . This may all Je very true. But you might remember this: the London press never loses sight of an Opportunity to take a poke at American ships. If the Olympic debacle hap pens to offer an opening for a roundabout whack at ships that are trying to compete with British vessels, it can be imagined that Where Would We Be Now? SAYS the Eugene Register: Speaking of prohibition which, intentionally or otherwise, is the great popular issue of this campaign Hoover says: "I do not favor the repeal of the 18th amendment. I stand for the efficient en forcement of the laws enacted thereunder. "Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment. noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. It must be worked out constructively." There speaks a good American familiar enough with the achievements of his coun try m the past to know that great social and economic experiments can be carried , through to successful completion and courag eous enough to attempt other great tasks for the luture. 6 What if the signers of the Declaration of Independence had quailed in the face of the bold assertion: "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator witn certain inalienable rights, that .among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of hap piness; that to secure these rights govern ments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." What if they had listened to the chorus of those who were sure that it couldn't be done--that mis-government was so firmly ingrained in human nature that it was use-i less to root it out? Where would we be now? What if Lincoln had hesitated at freeing the slaves? What if he had said that eradi cation of slavery was too great a task to be undertaken? Slavery is as ancient in institution as the taste for intoxicants. The idea of prohibi r tion is today no more revolutionary than was the ideaof a government by the people, for the people and of the people a century and a half ago. What right thinking American, knowing " w in uw pas i, wiii dis agree with Hoover when he savs that i ) great social and economic experiment of pro hibition which our country has delihortW undertaken must be worked out construe- mcijr uiux not precipitately abandoned? British two, if The writers are going to strain a point or necessary, to make the most or it. American Olympic failure may be hard to explain. But it does seem that some better Reason than ; the quarters offered by the President Roosevelt must be at hand. The Movie Producer's Problem ITY1 the poor moving picture producer m these trying days. He is a man who vnnof Trio lr a xxrt(rtxr Htficirms .. The new talking movie is at the bottom of his trouble. : Shall he "go in for it? It will mean ditching most of his present star actors and actresses and finding new, ones who have brains and can really act. It will mean con structing elaborate new studios. It will mean devisine ah entire new technique of production. It will mean knotty problems in connection with the foreign market; for French and German and Argentinian audi ences won't care for pictures that talk in English The movie producer must guess right on all of these questions, for his existence hangs in the balance. It looks as if the days of easy money in the movies were about over. This will be field day for the Salem Nut Growers cooperative at the Sky Line or chard. The members of this cooperative and their friends will this afternoon meet and get acquainted and cpmpare notes, in the largest and perhaps the best walnut planting in this district 212 acres in grafted walnut j trees, and loaded to the limit with walnuts. The walnut crop of the Salem district is growing to be an important asset; with an annually increasing return; new money brought here from long distances. Under New Management Bits for Breakfast By R. J. Hendricks ' The Etrich tow machine, now being in stalled at the state flax plant, costing $15, 000, will very soon pay for itself in the sav ing of labor and the recovering of a larger percentage of spinning tow. This accentuates the statement that the state flax plant here is not only the largest plant of its kind in the worldy but also the most efficient and up to date in equipment. And only a fair start has so far been made. The Florida storm has moved over to Georgia. and Florida's population will move to Oregon. It's vitamin "E" that makes men wild, scientists say. Which leads the Bend Bul letin to remark that this must be .the chief kick of central Oregon moonshine. J udge Sabath of Chicago who has granted more divorces that almost any Other man on earth, says that most of them are the result of early marriage. "Kid marriages," said the Judge, "are an awful mistake. They do not know their r own minds. ' Who's Who says the Judge was- married at 18 so it is evident that he speaks as one having au thority. , - . . , Yes, Hoover Hooverized in his speech of acceptance. He said all there was to say on - the great issues, and then quit And he did not side-step once. Did not make even a ges ture of dodging. Some hardy Texan has offered a fabulous prize for the first airplane hop to Hong Kong. -Jf all we suspect about Hong Kong is true the winner will deserve his reward. Toward a New War? By Bruce Catton TUVERY so often a book is written by one Hi or another of the European statesmen who ; played leading roles in the drama of July and early August of 1314. wnenever such a book appears it is hopped upon by his- torians, who immediately dissect it and emerge with certain statements, admissions or inferences with which they seek to prove that one side or the other was chiefly "to blame" for the beginning of the World war. The latest books of this kind come from Serge Sazonov, Russian minister of foreign affairs from 1910 to 1916, and Raymond Poincare, French president when the war started, and now prime minister. Every book has been seized and examined by all manner of critics They prove, cry some critics, that Germany and Austria, by villainous design, brought on the war. Not so. cry other critics: they prove that France and Russia caused it. And the long argu ment goes on, even hotter, not to be settled in our generation. But such arguments, after all, seem a bit futile. Why, at this date, use up good paper figuring out whether Russia mobilized before or alter Austria 7 Why bother whether France urged Russia on to war or tried to hold her back? What difference does it make? Aren't these questions rather beside the point? . .. . - It would be infinitely better for us to un derstand, once and fo rail, that the World war was an inevitable outgrowth of the whole European "world power" system. It simply had to happen. , . Glance at Sazonov's book, for example. He gives an unintentionally damning picture of the great old game of international politics. He tells how Russia had her "sphere of in fluence" in the Balkans, workincr for "an outlet to the Mediterranean" ; how Austria and Germany sought a "pathway to the Dar danelles"; how France, fearing Germany, had an understanding with Russia, and how fengiand, also fearful, had an understanding, too"; how every European capital lived in an atmosphere of fear, suspicion, hatred and ambition, with war forever on the horizon. Such being the circumstances, it is hard to? see how the war could have been avoided. ' It came and hit each nation involved a blow from which it has not yet.Tecbvered. t Have the old circumstances changed? Is there a new atmewphere abroad? No. Italy has her "sphere of influence" across the Adriatic ; Jugoslavia has her own ideas of ex pansion and rivalry ; France has her allied "buffer states" to the east of Germany; Eng land negotiates with France regarding naval spheres in the Mediterranean ; Poland and Lithuania, even now, are at swords points over something else, v i v - The old play is being re-enacted, and there is no reason to doubt that it will have, sooner or later, the same kind of climax. A new war is in the offing; quite a way off, perhaps, but certainly there. While there is still time, we .might begin charting- our course so that we can stay clear of it when it breaks. Flax pulling about over V There will be very little if any to harvest after this week. This Is In answer to several In quiries; one good soul woke up the bits man from a sound sleep the other morning, inquiring where a flax pulling machine might be seen In operation. There are machines running in the Aur ora and Macksburg and other dis tricts; but it is hard to direct in quirers to them they work so fast that they often finish the fields before the expected time, and move oh to other fields. U Hop picking is to be late this year; In the majority of the fug gles or early variety yards the work will commence from the 23d to the 27 th, and in late hops the picking will be delayed to the 1st to the 6th of September. A week or more late all the way around. Though the picking of fuggles hops commenced on Monr day in one or two Independence, yards, some & 0,0 00 workers win be in the Oregon hop yards the early part of September. s v Good woman, friend of the Bits man, wants two things done. First she wants the cur dogs, that Infest her neighborhood and destroy the flowers taken up. She wants to know if we have not a dog ordi nance, and if so why it is not en forced. Then she wants the boy who rides horseback over her sidewalks to be restrained by his parents, if he has any, or by the police, if that is the only way to stop bis depredations. There is a state industrial school down Woodburn way that would be a good place for this boy, if there is no other way to handle his case. About the only organized busi ness that still contrives to escape government meddling is crime. m A specialist is a man who looks T N TWOBJGBLAZES Storage Garage Destroyed and Planing Mill Dam aged; Loss $45,000 Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talk From the Statesman Our Fathers Read August 15, 1003 James J. Jeffries, the champion heavyweight, won an easy decision over Jim Corbett at . San Francisco last night. Corbett retired in the tenth to save himself from further punishment. Salem has been asked to exhibit plums and other fresh fruits at the Iowa state fair at Des Moines. Kola Neis, the hop merchant and Albany brewer, was attending to business here yesterday. Miss Hortense Kimball has gone to Boston to take a two years' course in musical studies. The county road viewers. Road Master M. A. McCorkle, B. B. Her rick, Jr., and Grover Simmons. were in the Sidney district yester day to survey the route of the proposed road petitioned for by J. W. Jory and others. J. T. Hunt is president of the newly organized Rock Point grain pool association. Vacationists at the Cascadia Hot springs have had consider- BOARD MOVES TOSELL SHIPS Bids to be Onened at 11 o'clock on November 15 Announcement WASHINGTON. Aug. 14. (AP) The shipping board today approved the form of advertise ment and specifications for the proposed sale of the United States lines and the American Merchant lines. - Under the . specifications ten different plans under which bids may be presented are offered. The plans offer practically every pos sible method of sale except the sale .'of the ships individually. The bids will be opened at 11 o'cUrck on November 15. - The specifications invite bids for purchase with provisions of guar anteed operation over either a five or ten year period 1L HKlUft, AUg. 14. ( fcpe- I Thm Cliarantoo nf nnoratlnn ri- : 1 1 MTt f - . 1 1 1 . udi;-ioDies, wun a loss ag- quire8 tnat the Leviathian, flag- gregating $45,000, occurred here ship of the United States lines Monday night, when the Allen fieetf ghaI1 make two round trips Brother s garage virtually was between New York and United destroyed, and the floor in thelKinedom or French nort each six- you over charges you $50, and planing room of the Silver Falls ty days between March 1 and De- tells you to have that tooth pulled m S Big business isn't so smart. JJ. S. Steel says it paid 111 million too much taxes in 1918. and you and I wouldn't make an error like that. A hick town is a place where nobody has the crook arrested be cause so many relatives and neigh bors would feel hurt. "W Who ever expected to live to see the time when a woman could say "damn" without seeming that kind of woman? "W Athletic girls are wonderful, but imagine a lovelorn swain passion- ately kissing a snapshot of a mus cular dame going over a five-foot hurdle. nuiDer company was Durnea. cember 31 of each year and a mlnr Fire was discovered in the gar-;mum Qf thirteen such coyages age a few minutes after midnight, across the Atlantic each year. For with the local fire department on'the other vessels of this line, the the scene at 12:10. and additional George Washington, America. Re equipment arriving later from Mt. public. President Harding, and Angel and the pumper from . president Roosevelt the guarantee Salem. will be one round trip between When the firemen left the scene New York and a United Kingdom, at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday morning, a French or a German port each all that was left of the large gar- March 1 to December 31 of each age building was the concrete 60 days during the period between front. year with a minimum of ten such Fifty two automobiles. Including voyages a year over the route, three new.Whinixst machines, nnrt The required operation for the all tools and equipment were vessel of the American line will burned. Insurance Carried The Allen Brothers, Clay, Floyd. be 45 round trips between New York and London each year. Twenty five per cent of the Tammany-Chapter Five Obey Tammany The Corvallis-Gazette Times, pursuing its history of Tammany prints a fifth chapter in the ser ies, of which the following is the greater part: This is the fifth chapter in a series this column has started to write about Tammany. We were Inspired to do this by a statement of the Oregon Journal that Tam many "was "merely a charitable organization" and a statement by Alfred Emanuel' Smith, common ly called Al Smith, that "he Is proud to belong to It." We left off with several hundred millions having been stolen from the tax- ninmi hv Tweed nr. nerhans we should say he took it from them I for charity. . Here . Is a samnla of the hold the Tammany ring had on the leg islature. It got -its new charter through by a vote of 30 to 2 in the senate and 116 to S in the house, though the charter was rotten on its face. But, Tammany arguments were Invincible. Tweed himself confessed that he gave one man $600,000 to use mad that he paid two republican senators $40,000 each. As the 9800,000 man was a democrat. It looks like a rank and outrageous discrimination. May be, of course, the republicans didn't need so much 'charity. Samuel J. Tllden, democratic can didate for president, said the leg islature that year cost Tammany over a million dollars. It cost a similar amount at the next session for Tammany needed more charity in the form of the viaduct railway bill. This empow ered the company, owned by the i-ammany rug to nulla on or above any street In New York and provided that the city itself should take- out stock In the company to the extent of 15,000,000. - The ."company" was authorised to wi den and grade any street; street grading being the favorite outdoor sport of Tammany. It furnished charity to so many Immigrants and thousand of padded payrolls. " Newspapers In both New York! and Albany were heavily subsid ised. One of the Albany papers needed charity so much that Tarn many gave It $207,000 forgone year's official printing, the legal rate for which was $10,000. Dos ens of reporters were on Tammany payrolls at from $2000 to $1500 k. year for "service.'" That was real charity. The thing was so brazen that New York became hardened to it, knowing that Tam many had the riff-raff vote which it always depended on. The New York Sun suggested a public monument to Tweed to be known as "The Robber Baron. Tweed in a letter to the Sun took it serious ly and declined the honor. The next day he gave his daughter a wedding with all the pomp of roy alty, one dress costing $5000. On his country estate at Greenwich, he built an enormous racing sta ble, the frame work and stalls be ing of choice mahogany. No won der Al is so proud about it. Barbs Reaber and Dewey, had $ 8.000 ;Pce or tne vemeis must oe paia inmnnpfl r.n v. nA at the time ot delivery ana tne building and $2,000 on the con tents. The fire loss at the garage is placed at $40,000, building and all. All but 15 of the 52 autog de stroyed were in storage there. The fire is thought to have orig inated from defective wiring in one of the cars. The task of quenching the flames was made almost impossible by the frequent explosions of barrels of oil and the welding tanks. While there are several resi dences near the garage, and one next to it, these were at no time endangered, according to the re port of Fire Chief E. L. Starr. Second Alarm Comes The local firemen had had only an hour's respite from the garage fire when an alarm summoned them to the Silver Falls Timber company's mill to fight a fire un der the planing room. The fire department, ably assisted by the night workmen from the mill and the mill's own fire apparatus. managed by hard fighting to con fine this fire to the planning balance in equal annual ments over a period of years. install- fifteen PHOUND TENUIS III BASEBALL GAME Yesterday afternoon a baseball team from the Lincoln grounds invaded the territory of the 14th streeters but was repelled with an 8 to 2 ecore. Marvin Ritchie, star Lincoln pitcher, went in in the second inning, and allowed only one run for the balance of the game. This; afternoon Lin coln and Yew park' teams play. This morning the younger boys' gun club of Yew Pork will receive its weekly instruction in the use of firearms. Teams have largely been chosen for the girls' track meet which able excitement, occasioned by the appearance of numerous cougars, parties there report. The Lusterine Manufacturing company, with headquarters in Salem, has been incorporated 'by A. H., Glenn A., and Florence J. Schaefer. San Morris of Chemawa has re fused to Join the Portland Browns as he considers he was not made a fair offer. Morris was given $35 for pitching the Sunday game, but holds that was not enough, consid ering the crowd. This Date in American History August 15 1824 Lafayette revisited Amer ica. 1863 New York City voted $3, 000,000 to buy substitutes for conscripts. 1 370 Railroad completed from Kansas City to Denver.. 1911 President Taft vetoed bill to admit New Mexico and to admit New Mexico and Arizona to the Union be cause their proposed con stitutions provided for the recall of judges. 1912 New York Supreme Court allowed trustees of Sailors' Snug Harbor to sell real estate purchased in 1790 for $10,000 for $25,000,-000. FLAX HARVEST NEARLY Tow Machine From Bohemia To Be In Operation In Near Future Flax harvest is about ovrr There will be very little left to bs pulled after thta week: This will include all the acreage of the growers who contracted with the Vancouver linen mills, to whose relief the state of Oregon came when the Vancouver concern rould not fulfill its contracts. The managers of ttie state flax plant arej doing-better than they promised for" the growers who were in distress over the falling down of the Vancouver contracts. They promised to stack it. In. stead, they are building a new shed for it, so it will be as well taken care of as the flax from tht 3000 acres that was , contracted to the state. Some Good Flax There was the product of about 600 acres to be taken care of thai had been contracted to the Van couver concern. Some of it was not worth pulling. But a good deal of it turned out to be fair, and some-of it good. There will be perhaps over 400 tons of it. Of course, the new shed will not be a loss to the state. It will be needed in taking care of the 1929 crop, which should come from twice the acreage of contracted flax of this year; and will surely represent the product of over 3000 acres and ought to yield a larger tonnage, for this was not a good flax year. Tow Machine Hcr The big Etrich tow machine lias arrived at the state flax plant. It came from Bohemia; the first one to come to the United States. It Is a $15,000 machine, represent ing its cost delivered here. It came somewhat damaged in ship ment but is being set up and will be in operation in a week to ten days. This machine will take the short flax and turn it into an ex cellent quality of spinning tow. It has a large capacity; is so effi cient that it will soon, pay for ft self in the saving of labor and the recovering of a larger percentage of fiber, than can be accomplished by any other machine or method. The whole state flax plant op eration is getting into quantity and quality production. There is not another plant of the kind in the world that is as large, or as well equipped with efficient and labor saving machinery. That ii a noor.the lostinad at but it is absol- Cleveland gunman muraerea another man .who wouldn't pay him a $35 debt. His methods are a bit strong, but there's a future for that man in the collection agency field, at that. What with Mr. Tunney leaping off into matrimony, it begins to look as if Colonel Lindbergh is Just about the only really distin guished bachelor this country has. left. . ' Lowenstein, the Belgian finan cier whose estate shrank so ter rifically Just before his death, leaves only $40,000,000 to his wife and children. Don't you like the way we're able to say "only $40,000,000"? New York has found out that Its prevailing winds are four miles an hour faster than Chicago's, r Chi cago might havr turrender the title of "Windy Xlty.r It It didn't still have Big Bill Thompson. Afff: vy. The new dollar hills are going to be a third smaller than" the ones we've been using. And they will undoubtedly be, just as hard to stretch too. $5,000. M. C.-Woodard of Silver ton is president of the timber company. CLUB MEMBERSHIP REACHES N AH dry agents on highway pa trol service will wear a distinctive blue can with a large shield on it, says Commissioner Do ran. The aim is to distinguish them from hold up men, - Agreement on the part of the Salem Rod and Gun club to sell the traps and trapshootlng equip ment which has been its property, to the newly organised Salem Trapshootlng club for $200 was reached at the special meeting of the dub Tuesday night, - The yote on the proposal was unanimous but ft was not taken until after protracted discussion. In which a misunderstanding on the part of some of the fishermen members was ironed out to the ap parent satisfaction of all concern ed. 'V Believing that the trapshooters were planning to withdraw . and weaken the ' club, some - of the members objected to the entire transaction. - ' - ; The objections were withdrawn after it had been explained that ; the trapshooters, while forming a separate organization, had no in tention of withdrawing from : the old one. - ' . The price at which the trap shooting equipment is to be sold, was worked out by a committee from the two clubs. Chris Koitz re presenting the Rod and Gun club and Cliff Eraas the trapshooters, at the high school athletic field, utely true. I Many concerns are strusr- - y , . glino; against the mortal- fti jV" I ity rate in business. W"J I We make it our duty to p") J 1 1 open the door to a sure J l-J I and profitable means of I (( I escape, by offering a Jj, I I . new and high-grade type r ( j 1 ' of work. - I I Commercial Printing . . Department of J