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Sheldon F. Sackett
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Smf.il. Oregon
TUESDAY
Aug. 28
Publishers
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. ; I The joys and sorrows of others are ours as much as
- theirs, and in proper time as we feel this and learn to
live so that the whole world shares the life that flows
through us, do our minds learn that Secret of Peace--
Besant. ,
- The 1 934
HPHE various conferences of the Methodist church covering
tVia torrifnrv that was included in the Oregon Country
have either given sanction to the proposed 1934 centenary
celebration of "the coming of the missionaries of that great
church to begin the works of civilization ana nnsuaiuvy -And
the last general conference of that church at Kansas
City took favorable action concerning tne project.
It is high time that organized-work were begun prepara
tnnr tr makinr th centenarv celebration the epochal under
taking its historical significance warrants. The setting will
be Salem and this district. Just below Salem, at Mission
"RAttnm. flip first work was done. At Salem the first preten
tious building was erected, to be used as a hospital, postof
f ice, store, and for general activities and headquartersr
And that building, the first dwelling house built in what
is now Salem, still stands. .
The beginnings of the first institution of higher learning
' west of the Missouri river were made nere; iney d.ossuhicu
v into Willamette university.
and became the outstanding
foreign country to ordered government under tne s oiara anu
Stripes, lies in Lee Mission cemetery here. The first white
child born in the Oregon Country lies there. So do many of
- " the men and women who aided in making early Oregon nis-
; tory ; who helped to keep the
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the Pacific ocean, and from tne oanaman wru w tuc
fornia line, from becoming British territory.
"There are contemplated early plans for organizing the
mnvpmPn t fnr the nrorjosed centenary celebration. They
should take on ambitious undertakings. They should look
to big things ,
They should appeal to and expect the support of the whole
great Methodist church membership, covering the wide
Something outstanding in the way of a great pageant ought
to be included. A memorial building should be among the
things proposed. There should be a program for the pageant
that will be worthy of being repeated every year, or every
few years, perhaps, at first. Finally, this pageant should
have a set of noble buildings, like those of the Mission Play
at Los Angeles,! commemorating the missionary Vork of
early California.
A Time Without Veterans
EIGHTY-ONE years after Winfield Scott's triumphant
army entered Mexico City there are three survivors of
our war with the southern republic. One Mexican war vet
eran is living at 100 years of age in Missouri and the others,
both 97, reside in Washington, D. C, and in Texas. A fourth
veteran, a mere sprout of 102, died during the year in Ohio,
the pension bureau at Washington reports.
Salemites not vet in what we now know as middle life can
remember when a whole carryall load of Mexican war vet
erans turned out for Memorial day parades, Fourth of July
processions and other patriotic occasions. None is left either
in Salem or any place west of the Rockies. In a brief span
of years at the most the last follower of Generals Taylor and
Scott will be cone.
Only three remain of the 116,596 who participated in the
Mexican camDaicm. Thousands of the several millions who
worp thp hlufi or the crav in
, v live. Thousands of Spanish war veterans are in acctive life.
1 ' Hundreds of thousands of veterans of the World war are
vounur men.
It is startling to realize that
see the time when the last Grand Army man, the last bpan
ish war veteran and the last American Legionnaire will have
answered his final reveille. And who the final survivor of
each war will be is as deep a mystery as the identity of the
unknown soldier who sleeps on the gentle slope of Arlington.
It would be interesting to know if America can have a hun
dred years of peace and if the United-States will be without
. a single war veteran when the last survivor of the World
conflict goes.
There Are
,.-.JPHE Corvallis Gazette-Times
- X Brooklyn lectured to some prisoners the other day on
the unrighteousness of violating the prohibition law. ..When
he Jiad finished, he learned that five of them had not under-
stood a word he had said. They were all imported. Under
the tuteleee of Tammany, it will not be long till these five are
made into citizens, such as they be. Tammany controls liter
.jdly hundreds of thousands of such European dregs. What
is needed in this country more than anything else, in addition
'to our immigration restriction law, is a law to make it more
diff icult to become a citizen with the right to vote. An Amer
ican boy has to live here 21 years before he cair vote, yet 90
per cent of them know more about our government at tne age
fnf 1ft and have lots more respect for it and its institutions,
than these ignorant foreigners
I citizens in a short time for voting purposes only.
The Corvallis newspaper is
if the state and city of New
But in Oregon" and especially
i criticism will not hold good.
For, under the tutelage of
zenship classes that have been
i tamed on the average splendid
of them have had a very good
customs.
The city of Bend isTinsrr
campaign for a commission-manager form of municipal gov-
t eminent. The preparation of
under the direction of the Kiwanis ana L-ions ciuns tnere. -
t Salem should take the lead
1 1934 centenary celebration, and there should be no delay.
There is a vast amount of work
The Statesman's 'Fourteen Points'
A Prorritssite Program To Which This Newspaper
i'-t;.: Is Dedicated
H. A greater Sal
great-
er Opbcosu
SL Industrial exnansioa and
agricultmral development
of the Willamette valley.
3. Kffideat" repabUcaa gov
eminent for nation, stat
county and city.
4; Cleaa news, just optnloa
; and fajr practice. ' -
8., Upbuilding .... Oregou'a
young lltaea industry.
- 8. A modern city charter for
Salem, .adopted after 'ma
ture j consideration by all
' Yoterfc-'--r---:1"1" --
v 7 Helpful encouragement to
Dec suirar growers . ana
other - pioneers lu - agricul
tural enterprise.
8. Park ' " -onnd de-
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Celebration
.
hoArler! the earlv missionaries,
leader who directed this then
territory west or tne Kocnies to
3 f L.amJm 4- ItA foil-
bur war between the states still
children now born will live to
Exceptions
says: "A federal judge in
who become machine made
perhaps not far from the mark,
York only are concerned.
in Manon county, the above
the Salem Y. M. C. A., the citi-
turned out here have con-
material for voters : and most
understanding of our laws and
through the preliminaries, of a
the proposed charter has been
in organizing for the nroDosed
to do.
veiopment for aU people.
ft. OntrmHmtkm within
capital dty urea of all state
office and institutions.,
lO. Comprehrswfeu plan fotho
development of the Oregon
U. Conuerration of natural re
source for the public good.
12. Superior school . fadlitieu,
etuxmragrzaent of teachers
and active cooperation with
PT& Willamette ; university. 5
IS. Fraternal and social
possible number of per-
14. Winning -ta -Marion -coun-;
: ty fertile lands the high
est type of dtixenship.
CLICKS
Pear season again and last night I
we couldn't even draw a second i
pair.
More than one thousand new
subscribers to the New Oregon
statesman In 20 working days.
That shows what Salem thinks of 1
Its morning paper.
Was It really aUgators ; that
chased that writer when he swam
the Panama canal or was it
snakes?
Coolidge actually shot at a
crane with a revolver and hit the
bird. He probably, wore his 10-1
gallon hat.
The Bend Bulletin suggests the
hunters while away the time be
fore deer season by shooting some
of the cougers and bob-cats that
take unauthorised toll of domestic
animals.
Any time Baker thinks its 10-
story hotel is the tallest building)
in Oregon outside Portland. Sa
lem inrltes them to come and put I
the measuring stick on its First
National Bank building.
Spoiled children, sagely says an
alleged authority, are the fault of
parents. And then who is to blame
for the spoiled parents?
Pretty soon the racation season
will be ended and it will take
more than a bad case of sunburn
to attract any notice.
That fellow who advertises
"Time to get in your winter fuel"
ought to be reminded that some
Body always is taking the joy out
of life.
A big wind did much damage in
Phoenix, Arizona. Now if it had
blown in Los Angeles no harm
would have resulted they're
used to hard blows.
Stanley Orne of the Oregon wins
the steam-heated cuff links. He
played the hero and brought John
Barrymore from Canby to Port-
und by auto when a fire blocked
e actor's train. Just suppose
hn had been forced to ride a
lebean bus! Shudder! Shudder!
Have you registered?
According to Salem residents.
the question of bobbed hair does
not exist. Its a matter for the la
dies to settle for themselves.
Persons who live in glass
houses ought to dress in-the dark.
Our idea of something or other
is a carpenter driving nails and
pulling them out again just to get
in a full day.
It sometimes takes a fire to
show how much junk a paper can
get along without.
If popular wish could put the
Athletics in the lead and keep
them there, that bunch of hard
hitting Yankees would be beaten
already.
What Salem would like to know
is, if the proposed new charter, as
drafted, were adopted at the com
ing election, who would manage
the city manager.
Opinions Of
The Press
Fruit sections of the state of
Washington are in no humor to
tolerate a railroad strike and the
chambers of commerce and traf
fic associations of Yakima aud
Wenatchee have done well to urge
the appointment of a fact-finding
commission. The- orchardists are
having troubles enough of their
own without adding a tie-up on
the railroads which will make it
impossible to get their fruit to
market on time. Yakima Repub
lic
Governor Smith repeatedly
barked back to Thomas Jefferson,
Andrew.. Jackson, Grover Cleve
land and Woodrow Wilson for in
spiratlon in his acceptance speech,
and once he quoted the familiar.
"Equal privileges for all, and spe
cial privileges for none ' the slo
gan of one of Bryan's campaigns.
But he did not once mention the
name of Bryan. And probably it
was just as welL The late Com
moner, would not have rejoiced to
be mentioned with approval by
anybody who had the suDnort of
Tammany. Belllrfgham Republic.
Phil Metschan, chairman of the
Republican State Central commit
tee, tells The Spectator that Her
bert Hoover's speech of acceptance
is the most statesmanlike utter
ance he has ever heard. The Spec
tator is Informed by W. C. Cul
bertson, chairman of the Demo
cratic State Central committee,
that Governor Smith's speech of
acceptance is the most statesman
like oration that was ever uttered.
These statements are not so con
tradictory as they sound; Mr. Met-
scnan am not hear Governor
Smith's speech and Mr. Culbertson
did not hear Mr. Hoover's oration.
Portland Spectator.
Only in recent years hare our
people stopped long enough to
make this country great. Suc
ceeding generations of countless
millions of Americans will find
the ragged sides of such peaks
as Mt. Hood a healing and sooth
ing lniiuenco la their lives. When
that time comes fortunate indeed
wui oe me man wno nas exer
cised forethought enourh to nro-
vide himself and family a home-
sue in ine racinc Northwest. Mo-
MinuTUie Telephone-Register. :
' A young man who was reared in
Bandou has won the distinction of
being the best soldier fa the state
of Tennessee. Old Man Oregon Is
justified la expanding his chest
quite a hit -over this victory, and
Bandon should be doubly proud.-
Bandon Western World.
"If we could only mow the lairn
in 'winter and shovel snow la sum
timer! Toledo Blade.
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Old Oregon's Yesterdays
Town Talk From the Statesman Our Fathers Read
August 28, 1903
The United States vice consul
at Beirut, Syria, was assassinated
Sunday, a cablegram received at
Washington says.
Miss Lelo Nicklin and LeRoy
Gesner left yesterday for Berlin,
Germany, where they will study
violin under Hochschule Joachim.
Fred Aschenbrenner of Dysart,
la., formerly of Salem, has return
ed here to make his home. He has
purchased a fruit ranch east of
Salem.
W. E. Flnzer, the new adjutant
general, returned to Woodburn
yesterday.
Two young women living be
tween Salem and Dallas have
Bits For
'By T J.
Have you noticed them
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Or perhaps feasted on the
strawberries now in the Salem
markets? They are from the
coast country from along the
Roosevelt highway, which is do
ing many things towards the de
velopment of the long neglected
territory along the Pacific ocean
in Oregon.
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Strawberries mature late in
most districts over there; and
most excellent berries are grown
in some sections within sound of
the breakers.
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Also peas. Wonderful peas.
Salem markets are now getting
them from the coasT districts.
Some telephone peas were in the
markets here yesterday, that were
grown within a few hundred feet
of the beach sands, that "would do
credit in size and. flavor and oth
er qualities to the finest ever
grown anywhere.
There are roadside ntands along
the Roosevelt highway that are
offering home grown vegetables
of a wide variety. The potatoes
grown near the ocean, in, sandy
soil, over in Tillamook county,
are often of. the finest texture and
flavor.
One thing brings another. What
the Roosevelt highway doing
for the coast country, the propos
ed highway across the Cascades,
mrougn tne Hogg pass, will do
for the central-Oregon territory,
and the mountain districts be
tween the Willamette valley and
the sections on the other sMa
When all Oregon is connected
with paved highways, we will the
better erallze the wisdom of the
state builders who gave Oregon.
Guiding
By Mrs. Agnes Lyric
PTNTSHINQ WHAT'S BEGUN
It is a common adnit ratlin.
leave unfinished tasks whbh
have been begun. .
We are all familiar with the
man of the family who gets the
porch half screened and lets the
matter rest indefinitely. We know!
the woman who enthusiastically!
enrolls for a series of lectures on
ly to cease her attendance after
the first two or three. Since such
habits , are fixed in early child
hood - they cannot -but persist
throughout life.
It is therefore worthwhile .to
train "the-child so that he will
begin only such jobs as he la will
ing and able to finish. The fouT
year old.ambltiou to make a wire
Another Weigty Problem
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cleared enough from their prune
ranch the past two seasons to
lift a $1500 mortgage and build
an $800 home.
win ana Lloyd Mott are on a
hunting and fishing trip to Ya-
chats.
W. N. Gatens, prrvate secretary
to the governor, returnel yester
day morning from Long Beach.
John P. Jones, traveling pass
enger agent for the S. P., was in
Salem yesterday to join a group
of 350 G. A. R. members who are
going to the annual encampment.
Miss Lena Cavanagh, who has
been visiting Miss Wiggins for a
few days, has returned to Turner.
The Cavanaghs are planning to
move to Salem.
Breakfast
Hendricks
her motto, "alia volat propriis,"
or "she flies with her own wings."
Oregon its the greatest empire of
all the states, in diversity of re
sources. W
Beginning in the late afternoon
Saturday, near the summit of the
Coast Range, and extending to the
Pacific ocean, there were gentle
showers, lasting till Sunday eve
ning. In the valley below the 500
foot level there was no rain at all.
We are only 50 miles apart, "as
the crow flies," but we live in two
different kinds of climate.
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Some of the Oregon coast ' re
sorts have become permanent
towns, where people live and do
buslnees the year through. Among
the best of the beach hotel places
is the Lake Lytle hotel, at Rocka
way, conducted by Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. Watt, well known In Salem,
which is now kept open the year
through.
More than 2,000 acres of forest
land in California were swept by
fire recently the blate being start
ed by sparks from a horse's hoofs,
according to the report of the
state forester. This is believed
to be the first verified instance
of an occurrence of Ihis kind, al-
tnougn other fires, starting in this
manner, have been reported.
V
A new type of wheel having
two tires, one within the other,
and said to be adaptable either to
motor or trolley cars was exhibit
ed recently. The outer tire is of
solid rubber, the other, inside it,
is pneumatic and is incased in a
steel frame next to the hub. This
arrangement is said to take the
strain from the outer tire while
the inner one acta as a shock ab
sorber. Punctures are also eliminated.
Your Child
cage for his new rabbits should be
diverted to the more suitable en-j
terprlse of arranging their nest
in a box, while his father makes!
the cage. Ia this waj he Is spared ;
the frustration which would hav j
been his if he had attempteda j
make the cage and he still has the
pleasure of accomplishing his
jhare in making a home for hiT
pets.
The nine year old girl. Inspired
by her mother's skill, wants to
embroider a difficult and tedious
pattern on a luncheon set. It
would take her several weeks to
finish it. No child's Interest would
last that long. She. should. . In
stead, be given a simple design
-sZ HALL.
which a tew aays worjc win see
completed.
The child who begins too many
things at once will, for all his
fine initiative, reap only a sense
of failure. If he tries at the same
time to make a garden, build a
raft and embark on an intensive
Boy Scout career, he will do no
.single one as well as he should.
He must not be allowed to bite
off more than he can chew.
When once a piece of work . has
been begun the child should be
made to finish it, although he is a.
little bored and would prefer the
thrill of a new adventure. Such
discipline is wholesome and is a
realistic foretaste of what will be
expected of him when he is grown.
FOR LOCAL CHURCH
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug.
27. (AP) Pastors of the Ger
man aietnoaist cnurcnes or ine
Pacific northwest were assigned
at the closing session of the 24th
annual Pacific German conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
Sunday night. With the close of
the conference looms the termina
tion of its existence. A vote to
merge with the Oregon conference
was taken and the union of the
two groups now awaits the vote
of the Oregon conference accept
ing the German Method Uts.
The appointments, read by
Titus A. Lowe, Portland, follow:
A. F. Cramer, Rex, Ore., district
superintendent; , H. Finbeiner,
Bethany and Grand Ronde; G. A.
Magg, Connell; F. A. Schumann,
Rodney avenue, Portland; J. C.
Mueller, Newberg. Ore.; F. H.
Luecke, Logan, Clark and Oak
Grove, Ore.; C. A. Wentsche, First
church, Portland; G. S. Roder,
Richfield ; George Kleinbach,
Ritzville; H. B. Mann. Rocklyn
and Davenport; A. F. Hilmer, Ro
salia; E. J. Aschenbrenner, Spo
kane; P. J. Sehnert, Salem, and
J. A. Beck, Walla Walla.
Rev. E. J. Aschenbrenner. who
has been appointed to the pastor
ate at Spokane, is the present pas
tor of the German Methodist
church here.
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BYSTANDER
WASHINGTON. Washington,
the great unofficial or government
employe bulk of it. is accustomed.
if not resigned, to political impo-
tency at election time. It has
been voteless so long that few
Washington ians proper would
not know how to cast a ballot.
It never gets accustomed, how
ever, to being out of the political
spot light or in the class of a tank
town on the great party political
circuits, despite each dose of that
medicine every four years. It dis
likes to take its political news out
of inbound press dispatches, as it
always reels it is the political hub
of the whole. works.
Just at present, the capital Is
very much off the main line. Hoo
ver is 3,000 miles away; Smith
not as distant geographically, but
very remote politically. Most of
all, the absence of the president,
nerve center of daily doings that
touch closely the everyday lives of
hundreds of thousands of folks,
although these details rarely get
beyond the city limits in the news,
maes Washington feel remote
and neglected.
Perhaps things will pick up a
little later. The presidential cam
paigns may operate out of Wash
ington to some degree, once the
acceptance speeches are In and
the fight starts la earnest; Or
maybe senatorial smelling com
mittees with political slants will
liven things up a bit.
They Argue, Nevertheless
It is a curious commentary on
this vaunted scheme of represen
tative government for, by and of
the people that the place where
more folks vitally and personally
A New Yorker at Large
-By Kirk
NEW YORK The complaint is
voiced by summer pilgrims return
ing from Greenwich Village that
the Montmartre of America is not
what is used to be.
The pat retort is that is never
was and yet the Village has
lost, in its current metamorphosis,
a lot of the luster that it once
had for visitors to New York.
The sight-seeing busses no long-
stop among studios, and the col
lege boy patronage has declined
dismally, lured to uptown centers
of gaiety. Some of the Inns and
the bizarre cafes have reduced or
dispensed with cover charges In
efforts to lure patrons from out
side the Village, and several
proprietors or once-popuiar re
treats have moved northward.
Sorburbs Win Favor
Gone are many of the artists
land writers who made names in
Village haunts. Kugene O'Neill
and Sherwood Anderson, to name
but two, have left within four
years. -Some of the Villagers, irk
ed because their havens became
too thronged with playboys and
idol-hunters, have moved to West
chester county or to Long Island
like " the sculptor who lately
quit the "Village in dudgeon, after
uninvited guests at his studio not
only kept him from working, but
started a golf game in the living
room with his prized malacca
cane.
Greenwihch Village has passed
through many phases since it was
a northern outskirt of the bud
ding seaport of New York. It be
came an art quarter first because
of cheap rents. Half a dozen years
ago exploitation began to attract
visitors in numbers, seeking the!
artist and his model in their na-i
tive haunts. Apache restaurants
sprung np to feed the gaping pil
grims, and New England spin
sters hastened thither to open
antique shops. Now new apart
ments are replacing many a land
mark, and every time an old
house is razed or.a back-yard gar
den demolished, a- little of the
glamour of the region passes too.
The Harassed Motorist
A driver's license is the first re
quisite of the New York motorist
and many a- new resident who has
considered himself a capable anto-
mobollst on more open roads gets
stage fright when the time comes
to take a test on New York
streets.
One applicant took the examl
ination for a license thrice and
failed each time.
I can't understand it!" he told
the inspector gloomily. "Back
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WASHINGTON Igrj
(concerned-with the election m.i.
come are concentrated than is the
case lajwgcn cine in me country
is just
a political oystander, con-
cerned
politics.
wholly with speculatire
The usual beginning made by
Washington political speculators
of this vast unofficial group is:
"What chance has Smith?" They
feel strongly that the political
"Ins" have a decided edge on the
"outs" In any party struggle fo
control, so it s a natural enoug
starting point.
Messrs. Hoover and Smit
mignt wen oe surprisea ai me
heated disputes that question can
start, even in voteless Washing
ton. Cabinet's Part
Another thing about this hot
midsummer in Washington is the
way the cabinet scattered once the
national convention matter van
properly attended to. They van
ished to the four winds, two of
them, Mellon and Davis of Labor,
going abroad; Davis of War to
Honolulu; Hoover and Work to
the political tall timbers and out
of the sacred White House offi
cial circle. Kellogg, as cabinet
dean, remained on the job, but
packing for a quick jaunt to
Paris. New in the post office kept
up office hours, dealing out ad
ditional air mail contracts.
The huge government depart
mental family meanwhile n
awaiting with lively interest an
nouncements from' Hoover's polit
ical poste de command or else
where as to Just what part th
cabineteers are going to play in
the campaign, or the president
himself for that matter.
L. Simpson-
home I've driven the fire truck
for fifteen years."
' Speaking of motorists, "there's
the one who never could remem
ber about the city's one-way
streets alternated throughout
most of Manhattan Island. but
never could recall which streets
were for east bound traffic and
which for westbound. Finally ho
'devised a formula for remember
that the even-numbered streets
were the east-bound streets, and
now, whenever doubt smites him
as he drives about the town, lit
repeats to himself confidentially:
"East is even, east Is even, east i.s
even."
And he Is like the frequent vis
itor to the ciy who never could
get in mind the difference be
tween an American Plan hotel and
one operated on the European
Plan until he concinced himsplf
that American plan stood for "All
Paid" and European "Tlan for
"Eats Plus."
Bondholders to
Confer In Salem
The bondholders committee of
the Warm Springs irrigation dis,-,
trtet will hold a contrence in
Salem today in connection with
the proposal to reorganize and re
finance the project. It was paid
that the committee would outline
some definite plan of reorganiza
tion, which later will be present
ed to the state reclamation com
mission. Rhea Luper, state engi
neer, will attend the conference
as a representative of the reclam
ation commission.
The good don't die youn?. It
Just seems that way because tlu-y
Ket
over It while youn:
Sun )
Francisco Chronicle.
The two unfortunates whose ev
ery idle word may be used against
them are the prisoner and the can
didate. San Francisco Chronicle.
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sy, gout; reduces pain and
swelling through direct
action on the stomach,
liver and kidneys: S1.50
bottle; guaranteed by WL
Nelson & Hunt Druj? Co. tj
Corner Liberty & Court I
'Telephone 7 B
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