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111 11,11 1 11 . ......... ... ... , -r - - - f - - - ? - - . .. -f tn a i nn stn hi I minni ; BUUKbir muub The only hope of preserving what is best lies in the practice of an ; immense ; charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere re- sped fori opinions that are not ours- Hamerton. . " ' v. - '' : - - ' . ; ; They Are Moving . South CI IX textile mills of New BedfonUIass.nay U be dismantled and moved to other local ities or the corporations themselves may dis solve and sro out of business. If that is done that town, loner noted for its cotton manuf ac taring plants, will be seriously crippled as the force employed in those six mills numbers v. . iv ties and competition from other parts of the country, especially from the south, are the reasons given by the directors for the con j templated action. There is no getting away from the com petition of the cheap colored labor, of the south, by the New England mills; other than the textile mills, too. The protective tariff cannot be invoked, because the south is a part of the United States; of continental United States not as the Philippines and Hawaii, the free trade sugar of which insular possessions of ours is sought to be limited in quantity to be allowed to come in without paying a duty. There are a . number of things happening in the south, besides ihe operation of more textile machinery, to make that section strong for the protective tariff-. " ?Not the least being the foreign competi . tion affecting the great truck garden indus v tries below the Mason and Dixon line. , This new trend in affairs in 'responsible in part for the gesture of the Houston platform in favor of a protective tariff; thus giving a sop to the democratic vote of that section. Leaf From Experience FRANK JENKINS, editor of the Eugene .Register, haaa little scrap from his own experience to offer, as follows : Governor Smith's plan to stand on the steps of the New York state capitol while de livering his speech of acceptance was intn Q VrwVri hat hv rain. It sedTlS appropriate that an extremely wet speeeh4 world should be accompanied by extremely wet weather. A Contrast the sunny blue skies of Oregon .on Wednesday with the drab drizzle that drove away the admiring crowds who yearned to hear and see Al on the greatest day of his career. Remember that the summer skies pf Oregon are almost invariably sunny and blue. . ; ' But don't try to make a New Yorker be lieve it. He will assure you solemnly that he ' has been told on the f est of authority that it rains every day of the year m Oregon. This writer, making a small purchase in a New York store, requested that it be mailed to his home. "Let's see," said , the salesgirl, looking again at the written address. "Is Oregon a suburb of New York?" New York is quite certain that" Al Smith is going to be elected. He just can't help it, because New York is for him. That is the point of view of the typical New Yorker. Just how well informed this point of view is may be judged by the fact that a great many of those who hold it do not know that Oregon isn t a suburb of New York. " ; ; A Clarion Call" FT1HE feading editorial of the Portland Tele- I gram of last night was in part as fol lows : . "It cannot be too often emphasized that Oregon's first need today is industrial leadership. We need capital and capable ex ecutives who will put it to work to release the frozen values that lie in the millions of horse power i in our rushing waterfalls, the raw materials supplied by millions of forest acres, our fertile valleys, our fine-f ibered wools, our prize-winning dairy herds, our fish-filled streams all these so far representing but a small part of our potential resources. It is a significant fact that whereas Washington has 31.5 acres of land for each inhabitant and California 41.9 acres, Oregon is so sparsely settled that it has still 78.1 acres of land for each man, woman and child in the state. In a way, these figures dramatize the situation. Many of our farm products perish for lack of people near at hand to eat them. Some of our industries languish for lack of a nearby market to absorb their output. Our outgo ing commerce suffers for lack of return freight that might .find ready demand if we had a large population, whose prosperous in dustries gave them funds fo rextensive pur chases. We must have people before we can have the interlocking activities that make a great prosperity." This is a clarion call. The Portland Tele gram in the above only hints at the vastness of our potential ability to sustain a teeming population in plenty. If the Portland chamber of commerce, leading off, should enlist the aid of all com mercial and service organizations in the Wil lamette valley, and a c oncentrated drive should be made for major-irrigation projects, we would get them And this would give us beet sugar facto ries, and these would make the Willamette valley the greatest dairying district in the . Justifying a Confession A CAREFUL reading of the defense by Al Smith of his bad legislative record, as exposed by William Allen White, discloses that Mr. Smith confesses to the record, but attempts to justify it. His vote to permit saloon swithin 200 feet of a school or church, he said, was to accommodate a certain hotel which was serving liquor anyway. His votes against the gambling bills and against early closing of saloons was made because theJaws "couldn't be enforced." His vote against an effort to control prostitution was cast be cause the measure was unconstitutional, Well, Mr. White said that Al probably had his reasons- Al has told us what they are, after first denying that he had any such rec ord and statin? that White was merely mis led by a Jfrotestant minister. After White showed the record, Smith admitted it and gives his reasons. The public now will have to decide whether they are good or not. These thines, with the development of our flax industry, and our walnut, filbert, mint, fruit, drug garden, seed and bulb and othei industries, will give the Willamette valley 10,000,000 people, and more, against the less than 500,000 she has now, outside of Multno mah county And all this is only a part of what may be done in the whole state in securing a large population for Oregon. "We are only in our swaddling clothes in Oregon. We are only crawling; not even walking yet. Another Shell Game? of tvese sums IP NOtt GUESS MrVCU F" V SMITH ADDRESS Chairman Of Western Head quarters Speaks Highly Of AFs Speech SALT LAKE crTY, Auz. 14. (AP) Fred W. Johnson, chair man of th Democratic . western headquarters here said today that Governor Smith' acceptance speech was "a v dear, straight forward exposition of his Tiews. typical of the man who delivered it." "The words were direct; not era aire; their meaning always clear. never questionable, and bnrnins honesty permeated them all," he added. His attitude on the tariff plan was especially acceptable to the industries of the west. The sag gestion regarding consolidation of bnreans and the elimination of un necessary departments is meeting the hearty approval of voters in these rocky mountain states, ac cording to reports coming into this office. "in meeting tne larm proDiem fairly and squarely, he rained tne farmers of this section to his standard, while his decided stand on states rights struck a respon sive chord, for many more import. ant matters than prohibition are Involved in this democratic prin ciple." CERTAIN middle western cities are report ing that the (Chicago "racketeer" and hii methods are being copied in their localities. The racketeer, in case you don't know, is a high-binder who levies tribute on small busi ness men garage owners, dry cleaners and the like under threat of putting them out oi business. Men who don't pay find then places bombed, their delivery wagom wrecked, their employes attacked. It's quitt the thing in Chicago; but, until recently, it hadn't spread to other cities. Prompt police action can check this men ace wherever it appears. The situation ir Chicago is hopeless, for the moment, because of the peculiar tie-ups between politics and crime. Other cities, not working under such difficulties, have only their police and prose cuting attorneys to blame if the racketeers get a foothold. If ly further proof wereneeded to assure us that half the world doesn't know howthe other half lives, it might be found in this review from the Yakima Republic: "Dan gerous unrest prevails in eastern Europe. The Croates want self rule; the Lithuanians would a little rather than not engage the Poles in a fight; Italy is looking for a place in the sun. Of course, it is simply impossi ble that another war should break out in Eu rope, but somebody may forget that just as they did 14 years ago, v and see what hap pened then."- , f i " Here is a matter that needs early attention1 if Salem is to make the showing she ought to have in the 1930 census. 'Preparations ..for .taking the census will be going forward soon. There are several outlying sections of Salem j that are not included in the corporate limits.' The people only will be counted who are with' Jn those limits, or belonging there by some rule of the census takers, like students away at school. The asylum and penitentiary i are in the city limits. Mayor Rodgers helped see to that, just before the 1910 census was taken. Al wants a commission to say what cor tent of alcohol makes booze intoxicating; but in the next breath he wants, the states to de cide for themselves. The latter is the more reasonable. What would make one man drunk would not give another even a bracer. Our nut crops will this year hit it up to wards the 'five hundred 4 thousand dollar mark. With the fifty million dollar mark in the not far distant future. That is the point California has reached in her walnut crop, and Oregon is a far better walnut state than California, and western Oregon is . tne oniy section of the United States that can produce filberts on a commercial scale at all, outside of sections of western Washington ana a small strip of , northern Calif ornia "Another harvest is oh in fell blast our mint harvest, which will bring. us a.half mil. lion dollars. And point the way , to one of the trreatest of all future industries on the land; the industry depending upon our es sential oils, of which we have about sixty here, a number of them with greater prom- ise than is held out ior peppermint ou. The Statesman's "Fourteen iPotots" A Progressive Program To Yhieh TMs lieaspeper Is Dedicated 1. 3. 4. 7. 8. A greater Salem a greater Ore gon. Industrial expansion and sgi-icsf-tural development of the Wil lamette valley. , . v Efficient republican government for nation, state, county and city. Clean news, just opinion and fair practices. Upbuilding, of Oregon's yotxng Vcain indostry. A modern dty charter for Salenv ' adopted after mature , consider " alien by: all voters: ; :v Helpful encouragement ' to beet - sugar growers and other pioneers -in agricultural enterprise. Park . , and playground redevelop-- ment for all people. -" ?."-" 9. 10. 1U 12. 13. 14. Centralization within the capital city area of all state offices and . institutions. Comprehensive plan for the de- velcpment of the Oregon , State ' Fair. Conservation of natural , . res ! socrces for the public good. V Superior school facilities, en couragement of teachers and ac tive cooperation with Willamette imiversityV-x: -t.K Fraternal and social organization .' of the greatest possible number of ptrsmmumm Winning to Marion county's fer tile lands the highest type of' citizenshipc f. Bits for Breakfast No excuse Cor idlers Or there will be none in the Salem district after hop pic ting gets into full swing. S Bat the Bits man holds no brief for unemployment conditions here after hop harvest.' Salem needs more Industries, and is rofnr to set them. And the industries on the land are capable , of being Seared up to give work to tens of nousands more people A great blessing now Nrontd be major irrigation - projects being put under way. The work wou'J mploy thousands: would speed ip many lines in the cities and owns, too. We can get these projects if we will go after them, ind keeo after them. Invite them, and let it be known that 'his valley is ready for them. S Albert Richard Wetjen. dean )f the book and magasine writing -ult in Salem and outstanding fig ure in that field here, has a story in colliers for September 1st. en titled. "The Sovereign of the Sea. Of course, It is a sea story. It is a gripping tale; tells of events that might happen on any similar voyage. The ending is on a par with tne best ones of O. Henry. That great short story writer, as every one -knows, brings nis read er right up to the last page or paragraph or word, and then gives him a surprise or a thrill. That's what Mr- Wetjen has done. The sovereign of the sea. . Who is he? What is it? It is the cargo. The college professor who says By R. J. Hendricks young people need to be taught to, Shaver. make love never had any experi ence at Willamette, at the Uni versity of Oregon, or at the Ore gon Agricultural college. The "old Siwash" of his college days must have been a strange school. Yes, we have seed time and har vest every month in the year. An other harvest is in full blast; the stilling of our mint crop. It will bring about a half million dollars to Salem this year. One day, it will bring ten millions and more; and the other essential oils and their cousins will bring a hundred millions. Our soil and sunshine and showers furnish the natural conditions in perfection, and such industries everywhere will follow the lines of least resistance. 'm Patches still serve as an indica tion of poverty, but they're on casings now. Al's promise is to consult the best minds about farm problems Nobody consults the hardest hands. S The objection to saving for your old age is that you can't save your appetite for old age. ' S Ton think you would buy bet ter stuff than the magazine edit ors do, but so would they if they had a chance. S Salaries paid by the consumer include those of the salesman who forced the article on him and the collector who forces pay from him. Colonel Shortridge says wom an's vote Is dictated by her hus band. Colonel, meet Mrs. Clem trans-Atlantic passage the Amity Standard recalls the remark of Asa Redman, aviator, more than a rear ago: "Th eocean ain't halt wa SILVERTON-HOOVEI) C UB NHS 1 SILVERTON, Ore.. Aug. 4. (Special) The Hoover. for Presi dent club met for the second time Tuesday evening. The meeting, was held in the K. of P. hall and .a good crowd was present. A large number of women were in attendance. A. L. Larson, presi dent of the club presided. The speaker of the evening, George Keech, mayor of Silverton, introduced by Dr. A. F. full of airmen yet. Flappers of China now have to pay a tax for getting their hair bobbed. Another hair-razing atrocity. We are informed that a sea ele phant eats 600 pounds of fish at a meal. Guess we wUl stick to our canary as a pet. So far as the Statesman is con cerned, there doesn't seem to be much importance attached to the question whether Os West or Bill King becomes democratic national committeeman from Oregon. Blackerby, republican state com mitteeman for Marion county. Mr. Keech is an able speaker well in formed on the poli teal issues. Mr. Keech was born and reared in England. In his address the speak er called attention to the fact that labor was paid a great deal bet ter here than in European coun tries. He knew this, he said, from his own experience. He credited this condition and ..the American prosperity In general to the pro tective tariff policy ot the repub lican party. v Touching- upon the prohibition question Mr. Keech was reared in drink environment, and had al ways ' opposed and voted against prohibition, bat that now after ten years of prohibition he had ab solutely been converted in favor of the. Eighteenth amendment, that he would now work ten times as hard against its repeal as he had worked against lta adoption be fore. Kathlen and Beatrice Booth, Eleanor. Jane Ballentyne. Ruth Hvbbs and Dorothy Thomsen ren dered several Instrumental and vocal selections. Pursuant to Instruction at a prior meeting, the secretary had prepared a petition recommending that a voters' registration place be established at the Howard stare in the Northaide Addition and that W. G. Howard be appointed reg istrar. The petition was approved The women by unanimous vote decided in favor of a joint or. ganizatlon with the men and the president was instructed to ap point an executive committer among the women to work in co operation with the officers of the clnh. The next meeting of the rluh will be held at the K. ot P. hall next Tuesday evening, August 28. All are welcome. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Adams expect to leave Silverton Saturday for Seattle, where they will visit their daughter, Mrs. Norman F. Creasy. On their return, they will tour the Oregon beaches. Mr. Adams plans to be away from his duties at the First National Bank for at least two weeks. Mystery Man In Portland Wants To Know Identity x PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 24. vAP) A man who said his name might have been Arva Ridgeway and who declared he went to slep in a ' Nebraska wheat field and woke up in Portland was placed under observation by police physi cians Thursday and is considered a probably case of amnesia. He said he could remember no name other tnan Kidgeway but that even Ridgeway might belong to someone else. He believed he is married but can't remember his wife's' name nor what she looks like. He is about 30 years old. dressed in blue overalls and ap pears to be ill. He could remem ber, he said, that be had been in Hersbey. Nebraska. Southern Pacific trains now give a long hoot, two short ones and another long one when ap proaching grade crossings. And the fool auto drivers who try to beat the trains to it don't ever give one hoot. The mere fact that a New Jer sey boy whistles and catches fish at the same time does not prove or disprove the theory that fish have no ear for music. Tne fort land oregoman's so ciety editor recites that at a re cent gathering the guests were entertained with "music and singing" which probably described the situation exactly. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talk From the Statesman Our Fathers Read We would like to take some of those Salem folks who think the half-sox immodest back to the Kentucky mountains where most of the girls are proud to own a single pair of shoes and often never own any stockings at alL Uncle Sam invoked the old pirate .law when that gambling ship which has operated orf the California coast was seized. That's the stuff. Those ramblers are pirates, anyway. Ex-countv Judre G. P. Terrell came up from Portland yesterday morning ror a oner business visit. Hon. ,1. I. Patterson came up from Portland and has gone to his ranch in Polk county. Elmer Will of Aurora, was a Sa lem, visitor yesterday. - . ... , ..;-:.,. James Harms, the - hop dealer) has gone to Eugene. ' ' e , Dr. W. H. Byrd Is in San Fran cisco for a few weeks. I. T. Schmidt of Olympia, pres ident of the Salem Brewery asso ciation, is again in town. The heavy rains are threatening the hop crops, with some growers already reporting that hops are New Device Will Save Crews oi Sunken Vessels WASHINGTON. A u f. 4. (AP). Successful use of a sim ple breathing device designed for rescue of wrecked submarine has been accomplished . in .experi ments conducted oft Dahlgren. Va by two naval divers who de scended 110 feet In a diving ben and arose to the surface without iU'ffecta..:sil .?;WvrVi: ; 1 : The device consists of a bag of oxygen and a jnouthplece strap ped on the head, and weighs only two pounds. The tests were con ducted, by ;lrleuL C B. Monsen; submarine and diving expert, and Chief Gunner's Mate Thomas Ea- dle, holder of the medal of .honor for rescue work on the submar ine S-C : : " - turning black. in their yards. , . D. H. Looney, Jersey breeder, living near Jefferson, has lost one of his most valuable cows. Last year this cow held the milk test record for the entire northwest fair circuit. i A San Francisco wholesale firm has purchased the woolen mills property at Marshfield and wlU in stall a large and modern plant to manufacture matches. , ; : .'' -:-r Arthur Welch will be new Jan itor at the Salem postoffice after September 1. . ;- - . Barbs Al Smith says, his speech "hit the mark." la view of the fact that he used a ecatter-gun and took a shot, at all creation, that isn't surprising. . Probably those men who started out to cross the Atlantic in a 32-foot boat and landed in Ber muda got thirsty. ; --. v A golfer at Lake Placid, New York, hit an opera singer with a golf ball recently. The chances are that the singer was going to sing at the clubhouse that night. Isnt It fanny what Insignifi cant, unimportant things can amuse persons .of shallow mental ity. Wallace C. Gaines, Seattle man who is to hang for the murder ot his daughter, is . pleading for mercy. ; Tne .cnances , are nis fdaughter did, also. " -. . Wonder why so many professed prohibitionists ot Oregon motor to Canada on their vacations? Senator Curtis resorted to words with the bark on In taking Al Smith to task for his stand on the liquor question. . "A busy man has n otime to kick every yelping dog that snaps and snarls at hie heels. , . CHIEF OF MUlflf Ul MACLEAT, Ore.. Aug. 14. (Special) The members of the Hartley clan held their annual re union August 1 at the horns of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. C. Tekenbarg near Macleay, that being the or dinal Hartley home. f Sixty relatives were present, the oldest being James Clayton Hart ley,' S3, of: Hlllsboro mad the youngest, little Miss Vlrgle Pat terson of Salem, age tour and a half months. . Officers elected, were: C. L, Hartley of Salem, president; . H. A. Hartley, Silverton. vice-president; Dr. Harvey Hartley. Golden dale, Wash., second ( vice-president; Miss Merle, Bowen, Silver ton, secretary; Miss Jesse Hart ley, Silverton. program committee. The next meeting will be held at the old horns site the third Sun day in .August, 1929. Commenting on the news that another filer is to attempt the "Well, now. what time do I hare to git to work mornings? asked the new hired man. : "Any time you like, responded Farmer v Fumblegaie. V "So's it ain't later than'half-past tour." 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