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. Earl C. Brownlee Sheldon F. Sackett Publishers Editorial SALEli. O&EGOH SUNDAY Every man will have his own criteron in forming his judgment of others, I de-? vend very much onjhe effect of afflictfrn. . I consider how a man comes out of the f " I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold wiR he for a month tnthe fur nace without losing a grainCedL . " Blessings From Fire BACK of the haunting memory of a screen of flame and smoke and a deluge of water that took toll of the Statesman's press room Saturday morning, there appear what may prove to be blessings in disguise. More important than the slight handicap the fire places temporarily upon the publica tion of a complete newspaper are the man ifestations of fine friendships from a thous and quarters ; off ers of aid from fellow pub lishers; .helpful Service from individual friends. ; Akin to these as a heart warming after math of near-disaster is the splendid loyalty of employes who clambored into the maw of flame and through veritable cascades, de- iiant to danger, to save equipment and ma terials, to prevent the spread of a fire and to make it possible to hang up the cheerful sign: "Business as usual." Salem's fire department may sincerely be credited with checking a blaze that might have wiped out hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of .property, for the States- mans press room and the adjoining frame structures in which the fire started, were in extremely dangerous proximity to filled warehouses and to the Spaulding mills and lumber storage yards. Fast and effective work on the part of the department not only stopped the flames, but saved the Statesman s valuable newspaper press and other equipment. The precautions taken by firemen before they showered water upon the flames virtually' saved the great press from damage. The unkindly cut of fire is that it should come at a time when all energies are bent toward the upbuilding of a greater States man; when the details of renovation and preparation for added facilities are present ing abnormal handicaps, to which fire adds another. Without question, the shacks in which the fire started and the Statesman's press room to which it spread, were hazards that should not have remained. Their destruction may point a moral and cause the correction of equally dangerous tinder boxes elsewhere in the city. An added blessing brought by flame, then, will be the new fireproof and thoroughly modern press room that will be built imme diately at the rear of the mam structure on the Statesman property. To the Salem Capital Journal and to the Portland Telegram, which offered their press facilities for the period of the emergency, and to all the good friends who appeared in what threatened to be a much more trying hour the new publishers of the Statesman express their most sincere appreciation. The American Nirvana THE Rev. Arthur R. Macdougall, Jr., Bingham, Maine, writing in the current issue ofThe Congregationalist, Boston, and Chicago, asks," "Is not happiness the Ameri can Nirvana?" If the student is not "happy" in his work, the teacher is a failure. If in dividuals are not "happy then the environ ment is wrong. If married couples are not "happy," they rush to the divorce court. Mr. Macdougall believes we Americans are in the grip of a thoroughgoing selfish philosophy of life; not only selfish but foolish and futile, since it has no basis in reality. The hanniness nhilosonhy cannot bear the rrinrm1p nf self-sacrif ice. Consider Aris- totleV anthropology. You will recall that Aristotle asked a very old question and found a very noble answer. He knew too much about life to make the happiness mis takethat is, to make it the chief end of life. He knew that happiness, in the fairy-tale sense, was not possible. Too much pain and sorrow is inevitable. And so the great Greek thinketuconcluded that man was made for action to do things. And since action was his chief end in life, then the only possible contentment was to be found in the expres sion of the Creator's purpose. Mr. Macdougall ; makes the mistake i of ,v,aT.ooPT-iTinr this particular land of Nir vana as distinctly American. It is not. It is instead, cosmopolitan and has been the goal of a considerable part of mankind since the beginning ' , ' . , And always the great teachers of human ity have pointed the way to happiness in the opposite direction. , . Conventions are good. Salem should be made the convention city of the northwest. : We should have a great auditorium. And a bowl. Must have them. But we need indus tries more. The development of the flax and linen industries up to the point where we can " get specialty mills will be worth more than many conventions. The specialty mills will : employ more people than the primary mills. ' But we must, have the primary mills to fur nish the yarn to the specialty mills. I A Clubbing Bargain 1 A TTrT rTTT A T wul -tnt-i mia ti osvr-n -fftr g yXXlVlJfH gUVU AVI vUiiv a u Jl Salem newspaper readers by an ar rangement entered into late last week be tween the circulation departments of the Oregon Statesman and the Portland Tele- - . 4 a. gram, 'mrougn a ciuomng oner ine two daily newspapers win be made available to subscribers by carrier at a combined rate of only sixty cents a month. In other words, readers may subscribe for the Statesman and the. Telegram at a very; slight increase over the cost of a single sub scription. This method of circulation exten sion is practiced by. many of the leading newspapers of the United States and has i . - " I proved especially popular . among r-acui coast papers. The clubbing plan of adding to circulation has been in vogue in the magazine field for many Tears, but, more recently has been adapted in newspaper practice. v Throueh the arrangement between the two circulation deoartments in this case readers will have the local morning paper for iresn news from home fields and abroad, and will be served in the afternoon with one of the most rapidly growing newspapers in the west. The 'plan provides the subscribers with a complete, progressive newspaper serv ice at a small increase over the monthly cost of either paper. The Statesman, which has applied for membership in the Audit Bureau of Circula tion, has only one goal:. To gain the great est possible number of readers in the least possible time, by the most legitimate meth ods. The clubbing arrangement announced todav is in complete accord with rules of the Audit Bureau and all subscribers under the clubbing plan will be counted in the States man's totals when the bureau makes its offi cial audit. Why The Rush? C1ALEM voters have twice been offered a I O commission form of municipal govern ment. Twice the offer has been rejected. Yet there are unquenchable enthusiasts who would try the same thing again, in a some what made-over guise. The result, under present circumstances, no doubt, would be J the same. Fundamentally, city manager- A Snake In The Grass. . ' 7- 1 - : -i , i,i r cj. . r-n . n i I iS ' , A Washington Bystander By G. D. SEYMOUR' 'I Bits for Breakfast An efficient fire department S council administration is sound. The plan, ed VekTow, Val To much better prepared, is .growing m favor do and when to do it. and scores of cities have adopted manager- Chief Hntton could handle a ial charters. bigger fire department. He will Tha. SoW Tla ia o onaT-fnT-o in wanv F eTen an opportunity to do so. respects from the more popular forms underl'e;rSalem 13 soing to grow every which administrative authority in American cities is passing into the hands of managers. There are serious questions as to many phases of the proposed charter. These ques tions have not been answered. Until they are answered to the entire satisfaction of a majority of t voters there seems to be no par ticular reason why voters should be rushed into the expense and the uncertainty of a special election. Why the rush? -By R. J. Hendricks The mythology, the folklore, the literature, the religion of all peoples have dealt with the true and lasting satisfaction to be found in service and self-sacrifice over against the elusive and temporary enjoyment found in unalloyed self-seeking. The happiness which can bring laughter to the lips in the midst of privation endured in order that another f el- ow being may have comfort has been tested and found to he the Simon-pure emotion. Happiness of such a character was that found by the Chicago laborer who, In order to give a neighbor woman a place to stay when her baby was born, let her occupy the room with his wife, while he himself, slept in the park. "Rather tough on you, wasn't it?" said a friend to him. But, laughing, he an swered, "Oh, no. It only rained three nights." ; An assemblage in Holland of 500 young men, delegated by similarly minded groups m most of the nations of the world, seek the Utopia of a warless world. Their purpose and enthusiasm is not to be daunted by the piffle peddled by those whb cannpt see the glory of a day when the fisted hatred of na tions is abandoned and peace mantles the world. . Because these young people, and their counterparts, in this' generation -or the next, will bring an end to war. - If there are people in Salem who are under the delusion that the voters of this city will cast their ballots for a charter that would make' an autocrat of a city manager, let' them consult the residents of Astoria and La Grande. They got plenty of that kind of ex perience "more as plenty," as the old song goes. The community clubs are going to take a big part in the opening day of the state fair. Great idea. Then there will be a state fed- jeration of community clubs. The Statesman's "Fourteen Points" A Progressive Program To Which This Newspaper Is Dedicated A greater Salem a greater Ore gon, -v- , :w - :;: Industrial expansion and agricul tural development, of . the Wil- v bmette valley; 3. bf- Efficient republican - government . for nation, state, county and city. Clfnn news, just opinion and fair Jces ' r ';;,v: t i' r U; I; ilUingpf Oregon's young " " a , industry. . , M.drrn city charter for Salem, :d after mature consider-. - : - t all voters.. ;e'"' r judgement to - beet - ; r H rj end other pioneers uixl enterprise. " ' i - Haground develop .'. ijr.r p eople. - - : f 9. J10. 11. 12. li 14. re- , Centralization within the capital city area of all state offices and i institutions. ; . ; Comprehensive plan for the de velopment of the Oregon State Fair. ' rvv-r : Conservation of r natural - sources for the public good. Superior school , facilities, en ; eonragement of teachers and ac- tive cooperation with Willamette university. ? j - - Fraternal and social organization of the greatest possible number of persons. , t Winning to Marion 'county's fer tile lands the highest type of ' citizenship. - : ? year. Also, Salem has a good police force. It Is not half as large as the 'rules of the game call for, as estimated by experts. 1 But the crooks of the country know they are not safe In Salem. The Bits man believes Salem Is the most orderly city in the United States, compared with any other muni cipality of her size. W "W This is a livestock valley. But it will be a hundred times more so, with major irrigation projects, the bee. sugar Industry and all the train ol biicial things that will attend ai d follow them. Our Idea of the world's softest job: Shoemaker for Lindbergh. Life. S S She: "I didn't think you'd break your engagement with Eva; you said she was your dream girL" He: "She was but I woke up." S As She Understood If. The bank teller handed back the check given him to cash by Mary H. Schmidt. "You forgot the H' when you indorsed it," said he. "Ach, so I hat," apaiogWod Mary. And then she wrote hurriedly, "Age 23." Capper's Weekly. Another Scotch Story A Scotchman returning home after several -years' absence in Australia was met by his three brothers at the station The brothers had grown beards during his absence. "What's the bright idea?" he asked. " Weel fine ye ken ye took the razor awa wl' ye!" The Epworth Herald. S The Way of All Flesh I see Biggins is still driving his old car around. I thought he had sold it and ordered a new one. He had but when he saw it ad vertised as a "used car better than new" he couldn't resist the bargain and paid 1 100 extra to get it back. Exchange. . s S Miranda's Wedding The color scheme when Miranda wed Revealed her" folks as patriots true; The rroom looked red and the bride looked white. And her dad (who paid the bUls) looked blue. The Epworth Herald. iab a bank robber. Oregon isn't ixactly a healthy place for crooks. With Hoover back in Washing ton the whole country feels bet-J er, even If he Isn't president yet. He might as well take a look around and see if there is any. thing he will need when he take's up his abode in the white-house. Los Angeles judge puts' a jury on trial for discussing a murder case, which looks a bit like "the biter bitten." North Dakota is shivering in freezing temperature while eas tern Oregon swelters. It's a pity the Weather Man cannot balance things up. You can't keep a good down or burn one out. paper With the mint-lulen extinpt It seems sfrange that the mint crop still snouia be so valuable. Some movie stars are hard hit by color-photography especially those with the bright red noses colored by moonshine. When that Salem man's wife read that her husband said he would kick her out if she smok ed cigarettes she got quite a boot out of it. WASHINGTON One aspect of the new Kellogg anti-war trea ty ia erring much concern la offi cial circles. It mar rrre new Im petus to that always actrre element of public opinion generally group ed under the term pacifists, ' Peace moves of this sort hare been followed before by renewal of efforts sometimes embarrassing for political reasons to cut or re strict drastically the size and na ture of the armed forces of the country. Neither White House nor state department puts in with any idea that the treaty can alter national defense requirements, however hopeful may be the outlook that it will act as a further deterrent to war. Their motto is still "keep your powder dry." Silenee Peace, Policy It Is a trifle difficult for a gov ernment to explain fully Its na tional defense policies In view Of necesary diplomatic rencenses. Those very restrictions on too free discussion of possibilities that in volve other countries' motives -and the. like are sometimes even more potent for peace than public de clarations K peaceful purposes could be. Every language recog nizes thai as between individuals. Each has Its equivalent of "least said, sooner mended." By nature and training military folk are scoffers at the efficacy of peace-by-scraps-of-paper en deavors. In Washington they scoff privately rather than publicly as a rule.- I But the point is, in so far as the new peace treaty and Its pos sible reactions at home are con cerned, that the men who made it agree with the- military folk that It does notjustlfjr any change fn th afs or nature of Uncle Sam's warlike equipment, main tained for his own protection. They hare no Illusions about that. Incidentally, nw that Secretary Kellogg has rendered service to the cause of peace, not only in the new treaty, but also In fostering a termination of the long dinlo matic estrangement between Chile and Peru, possibly he could be in duced to try his hand on a snarl at home that needs attention There Is the rupture of football amity between West Point and Annapolis still getting nowhere fast. An adroit and skillful dip lomat -seems called for. Privately, many officers of both services who are long enough out of the academies for their natural Alma Mater ardor to have cooled a bit admit that the row which ru the great lnter-serrice football classic down and out for this year at least was a silly affair. Army contends It was Navy manners bad manners that caused the break. The soldiers take the posi tion that their sailor colleagues made a scrap of paper out the four year playing treaty and tried to force adoption of the intercolle giate three year player rule by tactics equivalent t holding a gun at Army's head. Be that as It may. If the player rule Itself, or some player rule, is not the real bone of contention, a solution. of the difficulty and res toration of the great, colorful Ar my-Navy game to the sporting and social calendar ought to be appar ent to a skilled negotiator of suit able standing. A New Yorker at Large By KIRK I SDfPSOX NEW YORK1 Newcomers In this fall's chorus girl crop on Broadway outnumber the veterans returning from the shows of a sea son ago. Among every hundred girls who storm the stage doors seeking employment, 65 bring faces and figures new to the re- rues and the musical comedies. The most accurate way of reck oning the chorus girl population of New York is through the mem bership list of Chorus Equity, the association to which the girls must belong if they are doing stage work for any of the major pro ducers. The association includes from year to year about 3,800 chorus folk, of whom some 2,700 are girls. Each year there are more novices, and this year they are more plentiful than their experi enced sisters coming back for an ther season in the spangled ranks. Whence and Whither? Where does the new talent come from?. Much of it from cities throughout the country where, as in St. Louis and Atlanta, munici pal summer opera nas given girls a taste of chorus work or Little Theatre experience has inspired them with a yen for, the stage. Other girls are products of danc ing schools from Perth Amboy to Seattle. SUU more, out of school and ready for work, select the theatre in preference to the office or the store for no more romantic reason than that the pay is eood and the work interesting. Fifty dollars a week the aver age salary .of chorus girls this fall 4s a more all urine- wage than stenography or pedagogy offers to one whose talents In the three fields are about equal: a wage good enough to atone for the risk of occasion unemployment. But the chances are that close to a thousand chorines of 1927 got married nor is it likely that any considerable number got Wall St. brokers or sons of wealthy 'mer chants. Most of them married mod est-salaried young men and gave up song-and-dance routines for roles of housewifery in which they fit as trimly as their sisters who abandoned teaching or office work to wed. A Transitory Career The pay of chorus girls has ris en, because it is difficult to find gqod 'dancers' for choruses. JCven the novices in most cases--have studied stage dancing, for the wholly untrained girl with oaly a pretty face and a comely flgifre ia incapable of the feats required of chorus workers nowadays. The Literary Guidepost By RICHARD G. MOSSOCK NEW YORK The political show. Is mostly hokum put on ty none too clever players, assisted by managers and stage hands who. if more or less efficient, are not overly . scrupulous. At least,-that Is what Prank R. Kent, principal Dolitlcal correspondent of the Bal tlmore Sun, contends In "PoUtleal Behavior." Kent, who has lifted the lid off the political pot-before, now pre sents "the hitherto unwritten laws. customs and principles of politics as practiced in the United States." He does it candidly. In realistic terms that go direct to the point And each point Is frankly illustrat ed by specific eases and Instances. Perhaps his most sensational charge la that of corruption. Cam I algn fund accounUngs are a farce. he declares: thousands of dollars are spent in every campaign which never appear in the party records and elections are decided by the amount of money available for the Indirect purchase of votes through runners," "watchers" and other election day hangers-on. Political behavior, among other things, is "seeming to say some- thins without doing so." answer ing criticism evasively and avoid ing embarrassment - warily, and, according to Kent, spreading scan dalous whispers by means of "poi son squads. V To win ballots away from the other fellow, give a good show, is on of the rules, for "the great mass of the votess are . . swayed wholly by their prejudices or per sona Interests." . -4 y,;..; u 'What Is to be done about it, the writer does . not say. In fact, he disclaims ; "any desir to reflect opon the democratic - scheme ' of government. which ; with, all Its faults Is probably the best yet de vised for ns anyway and. for which there seems- no practical or aceeptable subsUtut. , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Joins the company . of immortals whose literary portraits are being retouched by that industrious biog rapher, Emit Ludwlg. . "Goethe The History of Man'jls dons after the 'familiar manner of the same author's "Na poleon" and "Blsaxaxk." jMtLwlg' Goethe is primarily a human be ing, a man of loves, passions spiritual conflicts. The book, as the biographer points out in an in troduction addressed to George Bernard Shaw, 'displays in a slowly moving panorama" th? landscapes of the great poet's soul. The Faust cycle of Goethe's life. from bis impulsive youth through his development as a political and social observer, a biologist and a teacher, as well as a poet, to a grand old age is unfolded through letters and conversations, -welded together by Ladwig's pictorial con tinuity. Like the Lone Eagle he Is. Lindbergh soars Into the sky nor tens any man his destination. We would like to meet a real farmer who wants farm relief. More people In the United States are wondering just now which clubs will fight for the world's championship than which political party will win. The Astoria Budget Is all for promoting an Astoria-to-Astoria airplane race. Why not a Salem- to-Salem flight? It's not as far fetched as it might seem. Odysseys From abroad come two novels about odysseys. In "Storming Hea ven." Raipn fox spins a yarn 01 high adventure in post war Rus sia. The wanderer is Jonn Jonn son, a fifteen year old romantic from the wharves of San Fran cisco, in search of an ideal. There is little romance in -vasco," oy Marc Chadbourne. And that Is un usual, for the setung is in the South Seas. The story is that of a French war veteran who, unable to settle down to the dull monot ony of office, cinema and books. tries to escape it all, witnout mucn success. CLICKS Phoenix-like, we raise from our ashes. Saturday morning's fire depart ment demonstrated a number of things, chief among which Is that Salem's fire department Is 1 0 per cent efficient. Quick thinking is an Invaluable attribute and particularly when applied to firs fighting. . : ' Apparently everybody La Salem who owned a tarpaulin brought It to The Statesman on the run when yesterday's firs started. As a re sult, machinery worth many thou sands of . dollars was saved, v . ; Sitam twi1!a Mntnra An art a of barfiarg andYtroohla's officers According to the Klamath News, Al Smith never split any rails but his job of splitting the democratic party was thorough and workmanlike. The Capitol Journal was prompt In Its offer of Its cresses when it learned that the States man's press room had burned. Which Just goes to show what true courtesy can be. TWILIGHT! Pomeroy & Keene AT THE sunset of life vision needs are particu larly exacting. Greater vision comfort is your assurance here. Our optometrists recognize and fulfill every demand of eyes of age. Jewelers and Optometrists Salem. Oregon Pomeroy & Keene " Jewelers and Optometrists -Salem, Oregon . Cfouqh-Huflton Co& History qf Salem and to tote oj Oregon rriHE United States' first claim to A the disputed Oregon land was, as we have seen, based on the ex plorations of the Columbia Eiver by Captain Gray. f The second claim was based upon the explorations of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who were tent out with a party by the United States Government in 1804, across the newly-acquired Louisiana ter , ritory. EACH ITEM of a funeral director's equip ment always plays a part in the service he renders. With one item missing or defective, his serVice is short of perfect. That's why we are so particu lar about our equipment. " CLOUGH-HUSTON C? JQUHnciiVefiuneral Service.' , PH0SE12O