Earl C. Brownlee
Sheldon F. Sackett
Publishers
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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of love and tender
ness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their
lives withx sweetness. Speak approving, cherring words
while their ears can hear them and while their hearts
can be thrilled by them Beecher.
v A Good Suggestion
T71ARL RACE, for a lonsr time city recorder, and whose in
JCi terests in Salem are sincere andpunself ish, suggests that
there should be a filing by the
will furnish opportunities to
to come
So that there may be the proverbial "books in running
brooks," and beauty in green grass arid flowers and all the
other things that will delight the eyes and lift the souls of
future residents f the "City Beautiful" which Salem will
become ; is now wiell on the way towards becoming, above the
average in this country, or anv country.
Old residents here know that the east 58 acres of the
"Bush nasture" is the Drooerty of Salem: given by a volun
tary deed of bequest by members of trie Bush family heirs
. of the estate of jthe late Hon. A. Bush. The use of this 58
acres for park purposes is deferred under the conditions of
the beauest. Otherwise, the gift is in perpetuity and irrevoc
able; conditioned only upon the use of the beautiful tract for
park purposes, j '
This future park will be in the center of the coping teem
ing population here. It will
who will come after us, and to the majority of those now liv
ing in Salem who shall continue to make their homes here
So Mr. Race believes it would be the part of prudence and
. in the spirit of forward looking business sagacity to begin to
prepare for coming into the full inheritance that is vouch-
sftfcni to Sil c to.
There are a number of streams the waters of which,
filed upon now, Blight lend themselves in future years to the
further beautification of Bush park; with fountains playing
and streams babbling and birds singing and green grass
growing' and flowers blooming
secrets of nature's story.
Why not?
I Why not a
matter in hand,!
with authority
The state laws provide ways to
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the city, for thej
park site belongs to the-city.
Value of
I
F there is a reader of these
ing the valui of irrigation
him drive out to jthe West Salem district and see the bean and
cucumber harvests going on there ; and let him note the won
derful tomato crjop coming towards a great -harvests and all
the other truck garden and other luxurious growths. Or let
him inquire of iny hop grower in this, section who employs
irrigation to insure and increase his tonnage. Orbf any -of
the growers of fcelery and head lettuce and mint and other
good money crojs in the Lake Labish section. The biggest
thing that can possibly be done at the present time for" the
future great wealth of the Willamette valley is the securing
of major irrigation projects, looking to the application of
water to every jslacker and idle acre between the Cascades
and the Coast ilange, from the Columbia river to the Cala
pooias. There ik in the use of water on the land in the dry
growing months! of the summer
pireoi weaiin ana pupuutuuu, a cuuuiry suouimuig a gicaici
population thanj that of Belgium; yes, twice or thrice that
number, and maintained in plenty.
Chicago and Crime
TJRESS dispatches say Chicago is aroused over its crime
JL wave. Jusfc why it should
set condition is? not clcear. -Of 760 murders committed in
Chicago and Cook county in 1926 and 1927, one-third remain
unsolved mysteries. Only ten
760 murders. Convictions for
violence were oily 22 percent. Common sense and decency
suggest that Mayor Thompson stop his bombastic America
First campaign and. give 'some time to cleaning up his city.
Such a man finds more pleasure in using his guns on Great
Britain than on Chicago gangsters, and safer to threaten to
burn books from the public library than to enforce the law.
Presidents Must
A SELF labelled liberal magazine recently gave cynical cast
to an article about presidents and nresidpntial rAndidatps
attending church. Its correspondent, who knows Washing
ton, insists that much of the faithful church habits of Presi
dent Coolidge, Harding, and other presidents have been ac-
quired after thsy reached high office. The same writer as
serted that Hoover suddenly became more interested in the
inside of Quaker church in Washington and Smith more in
terested in attending mass after the conventions had met.
.What if this waiter is correct in his reading of motives? It
pays high tribute to the place held by the church In American
me that its political leaders
how seldom a Irian may take part in public worship he wants
positions of greiat public trust held by men who do.
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Why not use public school
tivities of the districts where
house may be converted into
an agency which will provide
recting the spare time activities
in the opinion of the United
MV!.L 1 A A A.1 .
wuicii uut wuy a tea mat mis
ready being done in hundreds
boards are more and more making provision for the super-;
visum oi civic, irecreauonai ana social activities, ii nas is
sued a leaflet which will direct any school board toward ac
complishing this end
t
- .Although he is past eighty,
inventions, and jone of the latest is a safety lamp for miners,
to reduce the likelihood of gas explosions. Its special feature
is a battery on which Edison is
than 50,000 experiments, , to
state of efficiency.
There is room for large capital to be employed in the bulb
industry of the Salem district.
wide.
The Statesman's 'Fourteen Points'
A Progressive Program To Which This Newspaper
V Is Dedicated
1. A
greater Salem m great
er Oregosu ,
Industrial expansion and
Agricaltaral ! development
of the Willamette valley;
Efficient republican gov
ernment for nation, state)
county and city.
Clean news, , Jnst opinlost
ad fair practice.
I'pbniidiiig of Oregon's
young linen Industry.
4.
5.
6V
A modern city charter for-
Salem, adopted after ma
ture consideration by all
voters. "
Helpful eswonragemeat - to
beet sugar growers . and
other pioneers! In agricul
tural enterprise.
Park and playground de
city upon water rights that
beautify the Bush park in times
be accessible to the residents
and trees whispering tne giaa
...
council committee to take tne
to make the water tilings i
do this. It is the business of
A A V J
Irrigation
lines who has doubts concern
for the Willamette valley, let
season the making of an em-
be termed a wave instead of a
hangings resulted from the
murders and other crimes of
Co to Church
dare not ignore it. No matter
buildings more, for all the ac
they are located? The school
a community center and made
facilities for organizing and di
of the people, old and young.
States bureau of education,
m 1 1 - J ATA .
may De aone pur mai ii is al
of communities. Local school
Edison is still busy with his
said to have performed more
improve it to its present high
Make this known far and
velopment for all people.
9. Centralization within' the
capital city area of all state
offices and institutions.
10. Comprehensive plan for the
development of the Oregon
' State Fair. .
11. Conservation of natural re-
- sources for the pubUe good. ,
12. Superior school facilities,
encouragement of teachers
and active cooperation with '
Willamette university.
I. Fraternal $ and
of the
of
14. Winning - to lfarioa coun-
. ty's fertile lands the-high
- - est type of citizenship. - j
CLlCJiS 1 1 Clutching at a Straw
"Oregon hors win prises la Cal
ifornia" says a news item. Its cer
tain they weren't "road nogs" as
the California brand tops that spe
cies. - '
Sometimes It Is just as well to
rive the courts a chance to func
tion,. For example those boy bur
glars -have not yet oeen convict
ed. Now Llndy Is Ashing In Ore
gon, is the Lone Eagle reauy a
-fish eagle?,"
Senator Robinson has been giv
en a holiday by Arkansas: And af
ter November the entire nation
will give him another.
New York democrats are dis
posed to blame that cloudburst on
the prohibitionists.
That man from the John Day
country who saw his first street
car in Portland after nearly 60
years must have been waiting for
one on the Alberta street line.
A subscriber telephones in to
say that "What Salem needs most"
is a better, wates system. Ditto, ad
lib
LdUarabtree; actress, left an
estate "of jmore than 13,000,000.
Now' who will hare the courage to
ask how the ladies of the stage get
those diamonds and furs on week
ly salaries of S50?
Hare you taken advantage of
that clubbing offer whereby you
can get the New Oregon Statesman
and the Portland Telegram for 60c
a month?
"Hail Hits Walla Walla" says
an oregonian headline. Pretty
gooa marksmanship, we call it
The chances are fairly rood that
the man who, according to a news
article, "vanished in the river at
Portland," was drowned.
"The more we meet together,"
says tne Hubbard Enterprise,"
the happier we are.,Whleh does
not go for bill collectors, so far
as we are concerned.
After all, life has its comoen-
S vtions. The Hood River News hap
pily ooserves that even if Al
Smith is defeated he will be able
to say that he got a box of Oreeon
apples out of his candidacy.
Detectives looking for the
thieves who stole 50,000 cigarettes
ought to be able to find them.
There's bound to be a lot of fire
back of all that smoke.
The Statesman is willing to bet
that man who offers a S25.000
prize for the best solution of the
problem of making prohibition
prohibit is not going to vote for
Al Smith.
One learns that 50-year old eggs
are worth $25 a dozen in China.
Just think of the fortunes we
wasted on barnstorming actors in
the good old days.
Who remembers when the ladies
fia "figures?"
Perhaps we ourselves will scale
Mount Hood when that tramway
is built.
Guiding
Your Child
By Mrs. Agnes Lyne
it is admittedly a breach of
good manners to make personal
and critical remarks in public. Yet
oicen grown-ups who are unfail
ingly courteous and decentlv con
sraerate or each other's feelings
are neara to criticise loadlv and
emphatically the short comings of
a cdim. w-
John sits at dinner. In the pres.
ence of guests he is sharply re
minded that there is egg on his
chin, that he is chew with his
mouth closed, or that he is spill
ing his soap. If John doesn't care
how he eats, this sort of rebuke
will not change his attitude. If
on the contrary, he is trying his
best to master the complicated
ritual of knife and fork and
spodn, the sense of failure thus In.
duced will only add to his diffi
culties, a
Little Betty riding on the street
car is harshly reproached for wip
ing her shoes on the dress of the
lady sitting next to her. The pass
engers stare. This reprimand in
the presence of strangers will
either humble the child's spirit or
render her callous, ready to let
future recriminations leave " her
untouched.
Billy's poor school report Is
commented on in the family cir
cle. Before his brothers and sis
ters he is singled out and asked
to account for himself. He is
shamed in their eyesxand made to
feel a culprit.
The immediate rebuke, -publicly
ed. Perhaps Betty must be dealt
able method of discipline. Im
provement In Billy's school work
will have to be achieved by subt
ler means. John's manners need
to be slowly and carefully train.
ed. Perhaps Betty must be dealth
with on the spot. Bnt the correc
tion ought to be tactfully made in
such manner that no one else is
aware or it. For correction never
achieves its aim when It injures
the child's self respect.
Bondholders See
State Engineer
If embers of the - bondholders
committee of the Warmsprings ir
rigation district held a conference
here Tuesday with c Rhea Luper.
Slate engineer, fat connection with
the proposed reorganization of the
irrigation project. It Is not like
ly ' that a definite plan of reor
ganization will be adopted for sev
eral days. The district embraces
approximately 12,500 acres of ir
rigable lands and owes more than
S2.000.000.TOf this amount fl.
6(0,000 represents bonds Issued
by the district.
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Old Oregon's Yesterdays
Town Talk From the Statesman Our Fathers Read
August 29, 1903
Rev. W. C. Kantner and family
returned yesterday from Newport.
S. S. Train, the Albany post
master, is here for m short visit.
A large party of surveyors is at
work at Nobile, laying lines for a
preliminary survey for a railroad
to tap the timber belt along the
Cascadia range south of that
place.
Assessor Charles Lembcke and
deputies today will finish the work
on the big Marion county assess
ment rolls.
The Salem Military band will
Bits for
By R. J.
That's a good idea
To file on a water supply for
the future Bush park, so as to
make it the most beautiful park
In the country, without excessive
cost.
W
And. by the way, it would be"a
good idea to file on mountain wat
er for the city's whole supply. Sa
lem should own her municipal
water supply. Ought to do it now,
or in the very near future.
W
i This will cost a great deal more
jhan It would cost when a former
mayor vetoed thesordinance the
council passed, after a favorable
vote by the people.
"
Also, it will cost a great -deal
more than the sum that would
have sufficed a couple of years or
so ago. But it will be worth it.
The longer the matter is put off,
the more it will cost. Every new
1000 of population raises the val
ue of the franchise, according to
the just rulings of the courts. But
that is another argument for early
action. This argument will always
be good, so long as Salem is a
growing city. And it will be a
growing city as long as any read
er of this paragraph shall live
and perhaps for several hundred
years longer.
Salem has a great bean cannery.
How big a cannery, putting up a
high quality, product, do you think
Butcher Boy Directs Hunt
For His Own Love Letters
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 23.
(AP) Three ardent love letters.
written by Leo P. Kelley to Mrs.
Myrtle Melius shortly before her
tragic death, today were thrust by
KeUey himself into the opening
day of his trial for her murder.
The secret hiding place of the let
ters in the palatial Melius home
was revealed by the accused lover
of the society woman when he was
taken there, with his trial Judge
and jury, to view the scene of his
admUted five years illicit love-
making and of his asserted crime.
Officers who opened the letters,
found with a photograph of the
handsome young butcher boy In
a false bottomed drawer of Mrs.
Melius dresser, found them to
contain fervid expressions of Kel-
ley's love for the then wife of
Prank Melius, wealthy sportsman.
During the official court tour of
the house Kelley himself, smiling
and' at ease, whispered to a news
paper reporter: -
"Look In that bureau. Two of
the drawers have false bottoms.
Under them you'll find something
Interesting."
Captain of Detectives Ray Cato
was notified and drew forth the
photograph and under It the let
ters.
The dresser, containing the ev-
a visa r i
m (HHIIIH
hold a concert at 3 o'clock this
afternoon; the extra one given be
cause that last night was so short.
George D. Goodhue has return
ed from eastern Oregon where he
has been Belling cream separators.
He sold a carload and a quarter
on his last trip.
L. D. Gibson, Polk county hop
grower, was in the city yesterday.
.
The Rock Point grain pool of
70,000 bushels of oats and 5,000
bushels of wheat has been sold.
Bidding was quite active, fall oats
going at 31 Vz cents and spring for
30 cents.
Breakfast
Hendricks
Salem could have without irriga
tion?
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- Many things Salem can do, and
ought to do, to make this a bigger
and better city. But the thing
that will do more good than all
the rest put together is the secur
ing of major irrigation projects.
They will bring a string of bene
fits too. long for the counting.
U u
And major irrigation products
are like the grace of God. We can
have them by asking for them.
The same thing applies to beet
sugar factories.
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Americanism: One grocery store
three filling stations, five ready-to-wear
shops for women.
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The question Lo be decided is
whether there are more Smith re
publicans or more Hoover demo
crats. -
Press a button and soapsuds,
salt water, scented water or other
toilet preparations gu,sh from a
spout in a bath attachment a Cal
ifornia inventor has introduced.
As many containers as desired can
be connected to the arrangement
and they are installed in a conven
ient position for use while bath
ing. S
An admiring friend has pre
sented the Governor or New York
with a St. Bernard dog. Let's see.
That's the dog that goes out into
the mountains in the snow with
a bottle -of rum tied to its neck.
tdences of the Illicit love affair,
was located in Mrs. Melius' sec
ond floor bedroom, the room in
which she is declared to have been
mutilated and beaten to death,
and where her nude body was
found.
The visit to tbe Melius home In
the fashionable Wilshlre boule
vard district,' was one of the open
ing acts in the trial of Kelley. af
ter the selection of a Jury of six
men and six women.
Data Sought On
Salem Air Port
Information about Salem's pro
posed municipal airport was be
ing gathered in this city Tuesday
by A. B. Dean, representative of
the Portland Cement , association,
the data being desired principally
in connection with, a series of ar
ticles about airports which Is run
ning in the association's publica
tion. Mr. Dean also has offered
to the local airport commission
use of all the pertinent data which
his company has collected on the
subject, for '-' the - commission's!
guidance in planning" the airport
here.
SOUTH
NEW YORK. Aug. Z&. (AP)
The New York Times tomorrow
will say Senator Pat Harrison, of
Mississippi, who represents the
southern states on the advisory
committee of the democratic na
tional committee, says the south
is being floded with antl-Cahtolic
and anti-Smith propaganda.
"I never saw anything approx
imating in bitterness and in its
character the campaign that is
now being waged against Gover
nor Smith In the south," the
Times will quote the Senator as
saying. "I will not say that it has
been launched and is being main
tained by the republican national
committee, but if not, somebody
very close to the republicans is
sending out the false and mislead
ing propaganda, based on misre
presentation and untruth, with
which the south is now being
flooded.
"Pamphlets sponsored by the
women's Christian Temperance
Union, and the anti-Saloon League
and other organizations, attacking
Governor- Smith are reaching us
daily in great numbers from good
democrats in the south who have
been receiving them though the
mails. The mails are being flood
ed with this stuff. Some reports
already found through an investi
gation pertain to an alleged oath
to the Knights of Columbus.
"I do not know who Is paying
for it, but I know that people are
getting them who do not pay for
them."
"As soon as hte people of the
south who believe in fair play
find out and we put the blame
where it belongs, they will fall
from this republican ticket like
leaves from the trees in autumn."
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BELIEVED WRECKED
SEATTLE, Aug. 28. (AP)
The Victoria-Seattle monoplane
which vanished Saturday is at the
bottom of the sea with the five
men and one woman who were
aboard her, was the growing con
viction of searching aviators to
day after they had scanned vir
tually every square mile of land
on which the plane might have
crashed.
While other fliers marked time
in the absence of any tangible
clues, Alex Holden, forest 'patrol
aviator, whose father. Dr. D. B.
Holden, was aboard the missing
craft, continued his search from
the air today. Lieutenant Com
mander J. D. Price of San Point
made a reconnaisance flight in a
naval plane with a photographer,
and Percy Barnes, air mail pilot,
went over the territory carefully
on his regular run to Victoria and
back. Coast guardsmen were
combing the waters in the vicin
ity of Washington and Oak har
bors, while shore parties were
searching the land between the
two harbors.
While Oak Harbor residents re
ported that the lost plane was
seen Saturday night flying low,
aviators generally . clung to the
theory that she neves-got that far
south, but crashed lnthe Strait
of Juan De Fuca Just off Wash-
ingon harbor. Coast guard patrol
boat 272 from Port Angeles began
dragging operators there late to
day when an oil slick was discov
ered on the surface of the water.
The possibility that there may
have been seven persons on the
plane instead of six arose today
when Ernest Eve, president of the
British Columbia Airways, oneraUl
ling the missing shop, said D. So-
l vex, avy r - had
MISSING
Ar New Yorker at Large
By G. D.
NEW YORK. Down in Cort-
landt street, between lower Broad
way and the west Manhattan wat
erfront, loud speakers lilt ail aay
an impenetrable din.
They are the raucous heralds of
radio's bargain - row, where
vacuum tubes and A batteries and j
trickle chargers are . vended Just
as fish are hawked in South street
or frnl tand vegetables along the
teeming-curbs of the east side.
Four years ago a radio dealer
onened in Cortlandt street a
branch outlet for disposal of sur
plus goods at cut prices. Other
shops followed, - and today prob
ably no equal area anywhere con
tains so many radio wares. It
centers In the single block be
tween Greenwich and Washington
streets, where 18 dealers in radio
equipment have crowded out ev
erything "but a,pet.store, a lunch
counter and a cigar shop.
To The Highest Bidder
A distinctive feature of Radio
Row, next to the pandemonium of
its belchine loud speakers, is its
auction sales. Several shops dis
pense goods only under the crier's
hammer.
By ten in the morning every
store-front set has been turned on.
Half an hour later the auctioneer
comes to the doorway, gets a knot
of loiterers about him and holds
aloft a big package.
"Here." he proclaims, "Is a
standard radio accessory of use to
every owner of a set. Its value is
$4.25. To it I will add this book
let on radio engineering and a
copy of this popular magazine.
Five dollars and seventy-five cents
worth, and it goes to the first man
with courage enough, with fore
sight enough, to say 75 cents."
It takes some haranguing to
find a bidder. Finally a bystand-
. M
er, to hasten me snow aiong, oi-
fers 75 cents. Then follows a
A Washington Bystander
1 By Kirk L. Simpson :
WASHINGTON. British Ad
miralty dislike of the 8-inch gun
cruiser, dear to the American
naval heart, and presumably of
Washington plans for building up
the cruiser
fleet with such
ships, must
have played an
important part
in connection
with the Fran
co-British naval
limitation deal.
Despite with
holding of the
details of that
deal from pub
lication, it is
clear enough
that cruiser limitations are in
volved. - The London-Paris deal may,
and no doubt does, provide a face
saving escape for France from the
global tonnage impasse at Geneva.
She seems ready to trade actual
limitations by tonnage of certain
types of submarines for accept
ance of the principal of global
tonnage limitation. -.
n other words, the project now
put forward is that the universal
arms limitation treaty toward
which the Geneva conferences
have been painfully struggling
should allot each naval power its
due number of tons- of warships
without any restrictions as to the
type or class of ships to be built
within that total tonnage other
than as to size and armament
which would identify each class.
Simultaneously., however, agreed
building programs to run, say, ten
years would be worked out which
would in fact tlx the tonnage for
each power in restricted classes
for that period.
Where IT. 8. Comes In
So far, no difficulties for the
United. States would be involved,
although It all looks like merely
beating around the stump the
original Washington plan of limit
ing by tonnage each category of
taken a bus to the flying field in
Vancouver and might have gone
aboard. -
A report from Victoria of the
crash of one bf the search planes
today proved unfounded.
Rehearing Date
Is September 10
Rehearing of the case involving
an application for the establish
ment of a grade crossing at Ada,
Douglas . county, will be held at
Roseburg September 10. according
to announcement made by the
public service commission Tues
day. On September 11 the com
mission will conduct a hearing at
Coqutlle in connection with the
application of the Coos Bay Boom
company to discontinue its fran
chise. Tobacco Concern
To Observe Law
The Union Tobacco cpmpany.
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with headquarters In New York,
today informed Mark McCaUtster,
state corporation commissioner,
that It would comply . with the
"blue sky" law. The company un
til recently gate stock coupons to
all purchasers of Its cigarettes.
The corporation commissioner
rheld that this was a violation of
the state corporation laws. The
company was ordered to desist. '
The democratic national com
mittee has made It plain that cam
paign contributions of a . dime
will be acceptable, v To us exper
ienced political observers that can
mean only one thing. The demo
crats, are trying to get a contri
bution from the elder Rockefel
ler. Spokane Spokesman-Review.
; Hlstorv is the comnlement
of
poetry. Stephens.
Seymour
peroration on the benefits pres
ently to accrue to this brave trail
blazer who has taken opportunity
thus by the forelock. Interest u
planed, necks crane.
"Now," says the
blandly, "we'll take
auctioneer
this inside
and see what the man
got for 75
cents.".
The crowd tfoops Inside and the
auction la on. The man w4io sot
a bargain lingers in vain to see
what, his grab bag holds. It u
laid aside and designedly forgot
ten while the auctioneer calls at-
teniion lO Oiuer siuiica. - rHs
ernoon the sale has grown spirit-
ed. But tne mornings urst m.i.
der has wandered away, anJ 5iu
package lies unopened on the auc
tioneer's table, destined to ni.-n
another day's sale.
Competitive Harmony
Outside in the street, the babel
of the loud speakers has gained
volume. Men shout to make them
selves audible an arm s reach
away. Automobile horns sound
like erace notes in the muitison-
ous chorus. The rumble of pas.s
lng trucks sinks to a whisper and
the thunder of the elevated U
stifled.
But daily an old grind organ
woman draws her battered box to
the curb and begins to twist its
handle. Only once in a while,
when the clamor of every loud
I speaker dies away simultaneously.
can be heard for a fleeting split
second the banging tinkle of her
tunes. But she unheeding, grind
away as though all the street were
dancing to her music.
Republicans are saying that Al
Smith lacks experience in national
affairs, which, of course, would
not seem to a democrat nearly as
erious as a lack of votes. Chica
go Evening Post.
combat ships. But the London
Paris deal goes further and cre
ates new categories not only of
submarines, but of surface craft
It clearly foreshadows a new Ad
miralty drive to limit the number
of 8-inch gun cruisers and leav
construction of 6-inch gunners un
restricted except by the general
global tonnage total. And there
the shoe begins to pinch for Wash
ington. That's where the three-
; power conference coiiapsea wiin
Washington and Tokyo returninp.
a polite "No, thank you," to every
different formula designed to
reach the same end.
What seems to have happened
Is that London did a littl dicker
ing with Paris to obtain at least
a degree of submarine limitation
Big, sea-going subs would be lim
ited; little coast defense U-boats
would not. But to offset that con
session under which France coull
arm herself with small subs
ennu?h to make things difficult
for the JJrltish navy in the evenfcl
of a clash, the British retain an
ace in the hole by reserving he
right to build small cruisers, de
stroyers and other small types of
anti-submarine craft ad lib. The
only type bf cruiserto be limited,
apparently, would be the Anieri
can favorite 84nch gunners and
the London-Paris deal seems to b
leading up to a new suggestion
that they be placed-In a special
class of offensive warships.
Cruisers Important
Right there the project steps
hard on Uncle Sam's toes. Ameri
can naval opinion holds tho 8-inch
gunners to be about the only typ
of cruiser valuable for American
purposes. For one thing, they
alone would have fuel capacity
sufficient to afford protection., self
sustained, along American ftado
routes in any sea, a factor th
London Admiralty probably does
not consider vital because of Brit
ain's far-flung net work of fuel
ing bases.
ST. LOUIS. Auk. 28. (AP)
John J. Raskob. chairman of the
democratic national committee,
predicted upon his arrival here
late today with a group of eastern
democratic leaders, that Governor
Smith would receive 309 of the
531 electoral votes for president.
Naming the states which he
thought Smith would carry, Kas
kob's formal statement prepared
enroute to the notification exer
cises for Senator Joe T. Robinson
at Hot Springs. Ark., claimed also
for Smith at even chance to carry
electors.
other states having a total of 57
Raskob. who will confer here
with democratic-leaders of eisht
middlewestern states before pro
ceeding to Hot Springs, Ark .
Wednesday night, claimed for
Governor Smith the "solid south.'
inclndlng- Kentucky, Tennessee
and Oklahoma,-and New York.
New Jersey. Rhode Island Wiscon
sin, Arizona, Colorado, Maryland.
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mon
tana, Nebraska. Missouri. New
Mexico, and Nevada.
There seemed little doubt, Ras
kob said, that Connecticut. Dela
ware, Indiana. North Dakota.
South Dakota and Wyoming
should be classified for smith.
HOB DECLARES
8KII1 EftSY VICTOR
Americans are cents per
capita poorer than they were a
year ago. We don't see how this
could happen under a republican
admintst ration, but np doubt DrmH
Work will explain it pretty clear- "V
Iy and then explain his explana
tion. The New Yorker.
It Is as natural to die as to be
born: and to a little infant, per
haps, the", one Is" as painful fc
ths other,- Bacon. .
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