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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1928)
" Earl C. Brownleb Sheldon F. Sackett Publishers" Salem, Oregon . TUESDAY AVO. 21 eatares EditooaJl F J it . Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln. V A Fool's Errand NOSING his tiny 40-foot yawl into open seas, Paul Handloss, brave man or fool, is off to Tahiti from Astoria to the Society islands by way of San Francisco. With him are two lads recruited as a crew after the parents of his first youthful companion had reclaimed their son from weird wanderings. Mrs- Hpndloss, and the four sons of her seafaring longshoreman of a husband, are to step aboard the toy boat at San Francisco and continue the 3600-mile voyage to Tahiti, undaunted by the seeming folly of their pilgrimage. The chief pilot and father con fesses he is not a navigator, but he knows how to get to glamorous southern waters, be cause he had been there before. He is siaic--ing the lives of wives and sons against the guess that he can find his way in a iuuie craft over deep, dark, unremitting seas. Somewhere beyond the heartless billows (if his little craft proves sturdy) Handtoss expects to, educate his sons in the arts ana philosophy and, perhaps, to absorb into his own peculiar mind some of the story-book atmosphere of the tropics. f But if Handloss proves no better as a men tor in the arts and philosophy than he con fesses to be as a navigator; 11 he has no more of learnimr than he has of common sense the world will be little improved by the education his four boys may gain at the hands of this unusual fa.thr. v New Use For Airplane rUHE San Francisco office of the Southern A Pacific company reports a new use for the modern airplane ; employed as a help in bridge engineering, in which it aids in secur ing valuable data, according to C R. Hard ing, engineer of standards for the Southern v Pacific, who last week completed what is v believed to be the first aerial inspection of a bridge site. Seated comfortably in the cabin of the great tri-motored Fokker plane of the Rich field Oil company, Harding and a number of his associates flew to and fro over the waters of Suisun bay at elevations ranging from a few hundred feet to more than five thousand feet. The purpose of the flight was to com plete data required for construction of the company's proposed railroad bridge over the bay. "From the plane," Harding said, "it was possible to get a more comprehensive view of the site than otherwise would be possible. Bars and obstructions under water could be seen with ease, and the results of this inspec tion are of undoubted value "The data gathered convince us that there is no possibility that the proposed bridge will in any sense be on obstruction to naviga tion. The life span wiU beP Qver the naviga tion channel and will provide a clearance of 135 feet above high water. Keep Your Eye On Them ORLANDO HOLLIS, son of Mr- and Mrs. Moody Hollis, of Eugene, made an aver age grade of 107 during his three years in the University of Oregon law school. Dur ing his four undergraduate years in the Uni versity of Oregon, he made an average grade of 1.13. That means that during his law school course he lacked only seven hundredths of one point of scoring an average of the high est mark that can be given to any student. During his undergraduate years he lacked only 13 hundredths of a point of making that almost impossible scholastic honor. Another Eugene youth, Elton Edge, has graduated with an average mark of 1.36. Commenting m the records of these boys, the Eugene Register aptly says: "Much 6 tress is laid in these days upon social and athletic prowess in the colleges, and it can not be denied that social and athletic leader ship is useful in later life to those college graduates who are fortunate enough to have established it. v "But keep your eye on Orlando Hollis and H.lton Edge. High scholastic achievement, such as theirs, is still the most important ob jective of college life- They will never regret the efforts they have put forth to win it." An "Official" Strike THE textile strike at New Bedford, Mass., where thousands of woikers are idle as a protest against' reducing their wages to an -average of something like $18 a week, - may now be said to be official v ' The president of the New Bedford Cotton Managers- . sscia tion has issued a bristling! statement charging that the strike is being carried on by communists and, bolsheviks. That sort of statement is quite the. thing these d3 3- It is easy to make, and will be swallowed whote by many excellent people, no matt.r how much evidence is offered in refutation. But it often te. trying to failed Presidential War Power A MONG the problems that the next ses- xJl sion of Congress win tackle will be, nrobablv. the knotty Question of the powers which devolve on the president as a result of his constitutional position as commander in chief of our armed forces. This question was raised in the last ses- Sion m conneeuun wnn tiie uipw,u ui um ines to Nicaragua, but was not fully discuss ed. Doubtless the senate will consider it again, however. The Constitution gives Congress sole pow er to declare war, but it gives the president powers over the army and navy which en able him to out the country in a state of war without any declaration by Congress. Buch anan has been the only president since Jef ferson who did not feel that the president could land forces on foreign soil without con gressional consent. AIL the others have as sumed that he could- " It has been pointed out that" a president could force the country into war without con sulting Congress at all; and the whole con stitutional question doubtless will be dis cussed in the senate. It may be guessed that hn aitito-f inn -will Y-oma in. m n h n n omrl I lirri tendency of late has been to lodge more and; more power in the hands of the president, and it is doubtful if this tendency will change now. Not So Happy In His New Suit Business is good in the United States. Car loading figures for the country last week showed substantial gains over the corres ponding week of last year. The bountiful winter wheat harvest is beginning to make itself felt. Other crops are doing well; in cluding livestock. The cotton crop looks like 14 V2 million bales. The . metals industries are improving, ingot production 01 U. 0. steel increased 4 per cent in the week. Build ing continues at an exceptional rate. These are excerpts from the current weekly report of Henry Clews & Co , the "owls of Wall street." sully a bad indication. It ia. no t ted to until all other methods of break or settle the strike have Gypsies Among Us By Bruce Cation HUNGARY, land of the Gypsies, wants to see no more of them. A government de cree, just issued, rules that the Gypsies shall be" wanderers no longer. They are to be transformed into responsible citizens, liable to military service and subject to all the mundane laws that affect other Hungarians. They must put away their picturesque cos tumes and give up their own language, and they must settle down and take to working for a living. This is probably- all very sensible and proper. Gypsies are a disturbing element. They have been known to steal things : worse yet, they unsettle us, and by their very ex istenwjfnnt that our way of life is a big mistake- The Hungarian government doubt less, is wise. But if may be that enacting the degree wil". prove easier than putting it into effect. The Gypsy is not only a man of different blood than ours ; he seems to have a different kind of soul. Not for him are the standards, rewards and triumphs of the civilization of which we are so proud. He has a different set of values. We seem to be born with the impulse to look ahead. We are always wondering how we are to fare next year. Life has certain tangible, material rewards, that can be felt, touched, seen and handled; houses, automo biles, bank accounts, and the like. Under our standard, the successful man gets these things and the failure does not. A way of life that leads to them is good,nnd a way of life that does not is bad. All of this is foreign to the Gypsy. Life is a much more easy-going affair to him. Its rewards never lie in the future, nor are they things that can be weighed and measured. They are, instead, emotional reactions; glimpses of new vistas,, the pleasures of carefree wandering, the delight of the open road. The mere process of living, to the Gypsy; can be enough if .it is tackled right. A man with such standards is doomed in this modern age. We scorn not only, the past, but the present also. The future, to us, is everything. Getting, making and doing are great words -in our vocabulary. What it we do fail to taste the fine savor of life, as we go along Are we hot working our heads 00 the - liypsies must conform to our standards. 'This world is no place for, their philosophy. Everyone must work Idling is an art that is out of date. But it wouldn't hurt us to be a little bit less sure of ourselves. We are coming peril ously close, to the point where we shall be trying to live by bread alone. It may be that the Gypsy-is wiser than we think. ! I mjK NEW (f "IAFKSE W By G. D. Seymour NEW YORK, -(AP) A few years ato New York became aware of a new type of Russian immigra tion. Instead of laborers and peas ants from western provinces, to some 50,000 of whom New Yorkj elves shelter, were coming mem bers of the nobility, fleeing the bolshevist revolution. Barons were found serving as doormen of res taurants and princes washing dish es. There are in New York today some 10,000 of these- new immi grants, genteel and university trained. Instead of settling on t lower east side, where their coun trymen found homes, they have colonized uptown around 125th street. Socially they, have achieved a leadership among their country folk not unlike that which they commanded in the motherland. But economically, save for a few engineers and chemists who found good positions, the new Russians are on the same level with the peasant immigrants. Th'e two groups work together in factories and shops, their standards of liv ing are alike and they mingle free ly. . BYSTANDr less scenery can a motorist really enjoy at 40 miles an hour? By Kirk I. Simpson WASHINGTON ( AP ) Cabin eteers on summer jaunts have two main ports of call now that Her bert Hoover has been nominated and has set up a little White House out in California. Custom requires them to call at the regular summer White 1 House if possible; also It's rood personal politics. - The corps of Washington correspondents camp ed in the vicinity usually against presidential will find things dull at times and a visiting cahineteer always gets into print, whether he's a real news bearer or not. Holdover Prospects With their former cabinet col league keeping open house la Cal ifornia a second summer duty is imposed. Wilbur of Navy was at Stanford almost in time to greet the nominee at the ear steps. Da vis of War turned up there more recently, enroute to Honolulu. Which has raised the question lu Washington as to their possible hopes of succeeding themselves ic the event of Hoover's election, an event of which they, as good re publicans, are already certain, no doubt. What chance would they have? Most Washington onlookers fall to credit them with any. They see no compelling political reason for the retention by Hoover of Wilbur and Davis. There may. It is ad mitted, be some personal question in Wilbur's case, due to friendship between Stanford's most distin guished graduate and the brother of the naval secretary who heads that Institution. But that Hoover of California needs the help of Curtis Wilbur to'carry his home state Washington refuses to be lieve. And why, it Davis election services are urgently needed in the corn belt, was he o complete ly ignored in the vice-presidential tow-wowing at Kansas City, In fa vor of his Kansas neighbor Cur tis? Davis Record Davis has personal political strength . , 4art of Mis souri datii K park com mission active... .-i St. Louis. He wears the only decorations for val or in war to grace any cabinet chest. He's an American Legion naire of some note, also a former national guardsman of standing He made good as post war mem ber of the War Finance corpora tion and as assistant war secretary had good contacts in handling in dustrial mobilization problems. Yet when Secretary Weeks died, President Coolidge hesitated long in naming a successor, leaving Da vis on the anxious seat as acting secretary. It took the aviation up roar and Davis' handling of the thorny "Billy" Mitchell case, end ing in the air crusader's court martial and subsequent resigna tion under sentence, to turn the cabinet appointment Davis' way. The Missourian has never ap peared highly influential at the White House. Take the case of the recommc-ndations made by a Re servist committee at the war de partment that the second defense, test be held, on Armistice Day, Senator Hiram Johnson of Cal ifornia is in Astoria, but register ed under a camouflaged name. Must be a bug under that chip. ntent In Xew Roles A Russian colonel of the czar's court, with a university degree, was for several years a grave dig ger In a Brooklyn cemetery. He is more content now as an express handler. The solicitor-general of the short-lived Kerensky government, a man of about SOT, washes dishes in a big midtown hotel. Many new immigrants work in bakeries and biscuit factories, and others In piano factories. A num ber who were physicians in Rus sia, being too old to pass Ameri can medical examinations, became union painters. Those of artistic bent have found commercial art a profitable field. . The older ImmlgnMits not p;i . ployed as factory hands or labor ers work as tailors la the clothing trades, or opera to small business es. The downtown Russian colonics In the lower east side are in Kast Seventh street and Cherry strp"t Tompkins Square on avenue A ha.-, become known in that crowd .1 neighborhood as "Russian Park" because the one-time subjects if the czar gather there by hundre.h each evening to sit on the benehe Av debate bolsevism, play checker and drink buttermilk. j Imperial No Longer The fugitives from bolshevism once expected to be called back to resume their places in a new mon archy, and they reassembled In the United States their old groups the Imperial Guard association. army and navy federations, and professional associations. The still survive; but for sentiment'; sake. The newcomers now know thev will never go back, nor do they want to. Almost all have sought citizenship, and those who hal titles new disparage their use, pre ferring to be known for what they are in a new land. This Date in American History August SO 1S33 Birthday of Benjamin Har rison,' 23rd president. 1861 Convention at Wheeling adopted an ordinance furt'i--new state of West Virginia. I8z uiarnevine. Tenn.. surren dered to Confederates. 1300 rresiaeni jonnson i claimed rebollioa in Te suppressed. !- J Bits for Breakfast The New Statesman feels sorry for that little girl who tried to make a pen-wiper out of one of her mother's dresses and found she hadn't enough material. We suggest to our friends that an appropriate birthday gift would be one of those modest lit tle $10,000 bills Uncle Sam is just now printing. Wine seized la New York was found, on analysis, to contain sheep gelatin, tannic acid, tartaric acid powder, potassium bi-sulph- ate, citric acid, calcium sulphate and brilliant filtering dyes. Also it probably contained a liberal per centage of headaches and fights. That German musician who played the piano 82 hours at a stretch must be training for a place in some dance marathon or chestra. The Statesman respectfully sug gests this amendment to Tam many's song title: "Yeast Side, Nov. U.TargelTto orfrer;acTflsilWeta' Slde- A Around the Town." invasion of that victory anniver sary. As acting secretary, Davis held it up until his hand was for ced when the story leaked out. Then he dashed to the White House and was, so to speak, sat on. President Coolidge turned down the recommendation flatly without bothering to explain why. He said to hold the defense show on the Fourth of July, if it must be held, and this was done. By way of explaining the White Houss course, a well authentfeated story of the time credited the pas tor of the President's church, a reserve chaplain with having heat edly opposed Armistice Day for defense test purposes when the question was up -before a chap lains corps committee. Be that as it may. from that time until the Mitchell episode, acting Secre tary Davis was very gloomy as to his cabinet prospects. The Statesman's "Fourteen PoInW A Progressive Program To Which This Newspaper Is Dedicated 1. 4. 7. A greater Salem a greater Ore gon. Industrial expansion and agricul tural development of the Wil lamette valley. - Efficient republican government for nation, state, county and city Clean news, just opinion and fair practices. Upbuilding: of Oregon's young Hnen industry.. 'odern city charter for Salem, Med after mature tonsider- by all roters.- ul encouragement to beet r growers and other pioneers i . Tricultural enterprise. Fa i k 'and playground develop ment for all people. 9. Centralization within the capital city area of all state offices and institutions. 10. Comprehensive plan for the de ' velopment of the Oregon State Fair. V 1L Conservatiojn of natural re sources for the public good. 12. Superior school facilities en couragement of teachers and ac tive cooperation with ' Willamette university." 13. Fraternal and social organization of the greatest possible number of persons. 14. Winning to Marion county's fer . tile lands the highest type of citizenship. . Old Oregon's Yesterdays, Town Talk From the Statesman Our Fathers Read Fred Heiskell, of the Little Rock, Ark., Gazette, thinks the slogan ought to be changed to "Ale for Al and Al for Ale." What we would like to know is not why the girls in Hollywood are tinting their toenails a deep pink but how the newspaper man who first commented thereon found it out. The Albany Democrat-Heraldl tells that a girl motorist ran her car upon the sidewalk there and seriously injured a pedestrian. Like the Canadian "Mountie" the flapper of today "Always gets her man." Hoover left for the east happy in the knowledge that he doesn't have to worry about the Pacific coast states. They're for him. A second busy season in tne Salem canneries, with a long run in sight for some of them. V One Salem cannery concern, the Oregon Packing company, has now over 1000 people working, in its two plants. That is high mark for a Salem cannery. Cucumber picking is making busy times in the districts in Mar ion, Clackamas, Linn and Benton and other valley counties where this vegetable is grown for the pickle factories. In the Aurora section, some Filipinos are help ing. They make good in the "cuke" fields. By the way, they are American citizens. Born that way, or taken into citizenship when the United States fell heir to the Philippine islands. V All the coast resorts along the Pacific from -Seaside south are busy. With about five years more of state highway construction, the Oregon coast country is going 10 come into its own with many millions added to the wealth of this state, tn timber and agricul tural resources and in many other ways. A large part of the country back of the Oregon coast line is almost virgin la development. m V Polk county is making- over the road by way of Dallas, Buell and the Wallace bridge. Construction work makes parts of it rough and dusty now. When completed, this win make a cut-off to Tillarfook coast points that will save 20 odd miles. V V William S. Falrhar.k tln,.. locomotive engineer, stepped down from his cab at San Francisco one day last week, aftejp a service of 40 years. He had completed his run from Frisco, joining the rankB of the company's pensioners. Nowj he plans to see the world. "It's! me iirst chance I've had to tra vel," said the veteran who in more By R. J. Hendricks where a fourth of the farms, ar already electrified, and a vigor ous policy of rural extension w:M amount to an expenditure of sow eral hundred thousand dollars ty the Portland Electric Power com pany. Installation of poles an i wires for a high-voltage aroun.l the population center of Washing ton, county is progressing: rapidly. The line starts from Beavrrtoi and runs in two separate din-' tlons, carrying 25,000 volts. Tin-i.' is a distributing plant at Beaver ton to handle the electric energy manufactured at the Oak (Jrov station. One routing follows. alotK the Tualatin valley highway through Reedville, Hillsboro. Cor nelius and Forest Grove. Running to the north from the other limi winds along county road afur county road, through Cedar Mill-. North Plains and Banks. The two lines are .to join at Forest (inm Weather-Beaten Flour Mill Has Stood 70 Years PARKERSVTLLE. Ore.. Aug 2 (Special) The old Parkersvill flour mill, built here 70 years ao. still stands. Beneath the sli.nl of mightly balm trees and over grown with evergreen blackber ries, this old mill stands a mon ument to the Parker family wh built It in 1858 before the Civil war. Fifty feet from- the old mill n ah arm of Lake Labish, in whi.-ti fish constantly jump and eddy thi water on a hot August afternoon. Three score and ten years hav-t weathered the old mill and soften ed its outlines to a silver gray. The small-paned windows, throimh which three generations have look ed, are still intact. If this old building could speak, it could tell of mighty changes that have been wrought here. It could tell of grists of wheat hrnnrkt hv ox team In srlv days. than four decades of service has t It could tell of strong and stalwart men who now sleep tneir last 10ns August 21, 1V03 The prune growers of , the Wil lamette valley yesterday organized a fire relief association for the state prune growers 'benefit and protection. There are to be no pecuniary profits or dividends for any stockholder. ". The Oregon national guard will encamp at Gearhart park next week. Captain Evan M. Johnson, Jr., of Vancouver barracks has re ported for duty to the- governor to act as instructor. The city streets have been in darkness several nights, due to breakage of some of the machine ry at the Citizens' Light and Trac tion company. Secretary of State T. L Dunbar has gone to Astoria to attend the regatta. v Mayor and Sirs. C. P. Bishop re turned yesterday afternoon from Newport. T. A. Livesley returned fyester- day. from several days' outing at the. Linn county springs. - The Lowc-nberg ft Going com pany paid J 97 into the state treasury for convict labor for, the Northwest Stove Foundry lor the month of July. -- , . - . - - . - . . .: ... A aumber of Satomltea, includ ing Frank Truckee, Rube Landoa. J. W. Meyers and Cooke Fatton, will appear at Shields' park to night la an amateur bill, follow ing the regular performance. Look before you leap" seems to be the attitude of Salem's Lions club with reference to adoption of the nrooosed amendment to the city's charter. Or perhaps they ob ject to "buying a ptg in a poae. Barbs Numerous fires this summer, In cluding Jthe recent blazes at Sll- verton and Ellensburg, wasu., in dicate that it Is not the- forests alone which are subject to this menace during the dry months. - A correspondent writes In to suggest that perhaps someone al ready had told both Hoover and Al Smith of their nomination prior to official notlflcatldn.. Both ap pear to have received private tips to tnat effect.' ,. "Smith Gets Alligators' says a Portland Oregonian headline. Still, It might have been snakes. This paper suggests that the Antarctic relief expeditions might just, as well accompany Byrd and the other two, just to save time.. How much of Oregon's match- 7 f 1TTD CLUB MEETING Iff BROOKS BROOKS, Ore.. Aug. 20 (Spe cial) The Brooks Community club held Its regular meetins in Kamp i nail in Brooks on Thurs day afternoon, the business meet' lug was conducted by the presl- aent, Mrs, John Dunlavy. After the business meeting a reading entitled. "Towzer Mast Be Tied Up Tonight." was given by Mrs. George Harding. The after noon was spent piecinc ' auilt blocks, embroidering and in social conversation. The following com mittee served refreshments: Mrs. Sylvester Harris. Mrs. C. T. Brixey, Mrs. Cecil V. Ashbaugh, and Mrs. George Harding. In the group were: Mrs. B. F. Ramp, Mrs. John Ray, Mrs. Mary Martin and great-grandson, Mrs. Sylvester A. Harris and daughter. La Von Harris, Mrs. Geoge Hard- ing. Miss Ella McMunn, Miss Marie Dunlavy, Mrs. A. E. Harris, Mrs. H. R. Sheurman, Mrs. Virgil Loo mis and daughters Delphine and Bertha Loomis, Mrs. Cecil V. Ash baugh and daughter Kreta Fas Ashbaugh, Mrs. Wlllard Ramp and daughter Cleo Ramp, Mrs. C. A. Bailey and son Robert Bailey, Mrs. C. T. Brlxley and daughter Winnt fred Brixey, Mrs. Bell Ingham nad Mrs. John S. Dunlavy. - The next meeting will be held In Ramp's hall Thursday after noon. August . SO. Mrs.- Virgil Loomis, Mrs.. A. E. Harris,'' Mrs. F. Ramp and Mrs. John. Ray ate on. the committee 10 serve next time , traveled hundreds of thousands of miles. V The farmers of the Salem dis trict have made and are making great progress in the extension of power lines. This section will hv be up on Its toes to keep head of the Tualatin valley. sleep. It could tell of land cleared and drained, of the planting of lm- , mense gardens of celery and headC lettace; of onions and strawber rles; of the draining of swamps and building of homes. " Ot all these tha old mill could telL I TurrfOver a New . Leaf --. ' v ' . ;-- Don't squander your hard-earned money on printing- that is not satisfactory. Turn over a new leaf and see us for your printing needs. Commercial Printing Department r f t I I 4 arnnn Phone 583