-
i There is but one straight road to success, and that
is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is
useful. Capacity never Jacks opportunity. It can not re
main undiscovered, because it is sought by too many
anxious' to use it. Bourke Cockran.
How Does This Happen?.
The New Industry Idea
TITHE idea of organizing for the purpose of securing new
JL industries and helping old ones is being discussed in San
Jose Calif.
"The -following are the two concluding paragraphs of an
editorial discussion of the proposition by the Mercury-Herald
of that city; that newspaper, by the way, being owned and
mihlished bv the Haves brothers, who were the pioneers in
the large development of the Lake Labish section near Salem,
and are conducting the major industries on the land there
now.;
"The city that wants to develop industrially will see to it
that everything possible is done for its existing industries,
and that if they need help that could be given, it is extend
ed." says the Mercury-Herald. "Some cities have spent so
much time hustling for new industries that they neglected
the encouragement of the old ones.
The San Jose idea is one that has long been advocated
by the Statesman. Who knows what Edisons and Westing
houses and Henry Fords and Jim Hills and Goodyears are
among our boys growing up in and around Salem, -or are
among the men of the present generation here ?
Who can dream what "Acres of Diamonds" are in the
virgin territory of the Salem district?
Witness the Mayo brothers building a city on their pa
ternal farm in Minnesota, founded on ideas helpful to all
v mankind. Witness the cities built by Henry Ford around
the pioneer homestead of his father in Michigan, near Dear
born and Detroit.
Vision and leadership have the greatest fields in Amer
ica for their useful endeavors here in Salem and the great
Willamette valley, capable of sustaining 25,000,000 people in
independence and- comfort, where a bare half million now
live, outside of Multnomah county.
We have a start in the flax and linen industries; but
$100,000,000 a year and more is only a little distance ahead
in time, in these fields. ' ?
We will this year harvest a walnut crop about a tenth
the size of that of all Manchuria, and a fortieth of that to be
gathered in California; but we have more good walnut land
than California possesses, and a far better walnut country.
There are hundreds of millions annually bound up in our
essential oils possibilities, where we will get only a half mil
lion this year for our peppermint oil
And so on and on through a long list of products and
possible products in which we may excel of which may be
broucrht to marketable condition here at lower cost or to
ggreater advantage or of higher quality than may be done
elsewhere in the wide world.
Let's get the superiority complex. Let's have a real
growth here, according to the opportunities that lie all
about us.
'The Newsboy a Merchant
Fis more or less an American tradition that the newsboy is
a poor, fatherless young chap who supports a widowed
mother, and probably, a sister or two by the pennies he earns
selling papers.
The people of Salem know better. How many of the
solid citizens of this city did not sejl or deliver newspapers
when they were boys ? How many did not; have a Statesman
route?
Nqwi comes the census department to announce that
very few newsboys are in this class. Most of them come from
good homes, it says, and are not driven to selling papers by
hard necessity. :
It is a good thipg for us to recognize this. The newsboy
is an ambitious young business man, putting in his spare
time wisely and profitably. He is learning early in life things
about the world of business that most young men do not
learn until they reach their majority. Selling papers is an
x excellent training school. It is not by accident that so many
of our prominent business and professional men earned their
first pennies in that way.
Don't pity the newsboy who sells you your paper. Ad
mire him, rather, as an energetic, capable young American
who has ambition.
Boxer Indemnity Students
OF one hundred and thirty-seven Chinese students due at
San Francisco on September 6 fifty-six are receiving
support from the Boxer indemnity fund. , The United States
in 1908 remitted to China $10,785,286, still due her of the
indemnity imposed on China for the damages to American
" Interests and the expenses of the troops sent to China during
the great anti-foreign upheaval in 1900.- China devoted this
money to education and we have been receiving each year
groups of keen young Chinese to study in our universities.
China could have used the remitted money in no wiser way
for her own interests, while to the United States it has been
a rich yearly dividend in goodiglk
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The best walnut planting in, Oregon is perhaps the Sky,
Line orchard. But there is plenty of land here that may be
had for $100 an acre or less, owing to locality, that will make
as good walnut orchards hundreds of thousands of acres of
such land in the Willamette valley. Tell this to every one.
TnLs is the best walnut country in the world. -
This is a long dry season, but not for the West Stayton
and, Lake Labish , districts, where they make it rain when
. they need it, with irrigation water. A look at the crops they
are growing js "good for the sore eyes.
; "The greatest adventurer- in husutn welfare of our
times," is what a prominent American once called Herbert
Hoover. It will be a high privilege to have that man for pres
1 ident of the United States.
.- The city sewage will smell to high heaven as long as
Salem is without the modern sewage disposal plant which she
needs.
' The Statesman's 'Fourteen Points'
A ProjressiTe Program To Which This Newspaper
n Is Dedicated
1. A
arrk-aitaral
at tha fflllifWi valley.
S. Emdmt repabtteaa gov-
eraemt for
eoanty Md city.
d. Ckaa
' aad fair
O. UnbalMlng of
roa Omm
aV A noder ettr
- -Salem,, adopted after
. tare coastderattoa' J aH
, VOtcTk. V; ,vr'4 '
. Helsrml eaooaramaaana ta
boct- tint '
. Ucr pioacars la
' tantl eatorprlse.
IV Park "and plajrgrotad
for
for all peoplo. ,
a. CeataallaaUoa wfthia tho
capital dcy area at an atete,
afficaa aad tastttatioaa,
10. Coatprrbeaalra plaa for tha
develoameat of to Orcoav
' State Fair.
11. Coaservatioa of aataral ro
" aoarcca for tba pabUe good,
19. Sapcrlor school facOiUea,
of
to c nopnalloi
IS. Frateraal aad ' social - oV;
gaalzaUoa of tha caatast
posslblo aambesof per
14. Wtaatac Marloa coma.
ty fcrUlo lands Ito bJgh-
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Tho load speaker Is nothing-
new. Wo knew one who used CO
call down stairs at 10 o'clock at
night: "Audrey, hasn't that young
man rone home yet?"
Are you qualified to rote in the
November election?
The fenows with those "bugle
horns on their fllrrers are the
ones who refer to the girls as
-sweeties.- .
Enforcement agents coal cat
down drinking among women by
exploiting the fact that whiskey
causes fat.
The reason most of us old-tim
ers iff. the newspaper game nevr
get sore and sass the boss is b.
cause there are too many sixth,
grade kids ready td step into our
shoes.
If you hear some fellow say in?
women aren't as attractive as they
used to be, ask him if water iu e,
on and green apples taste as good
as when he was younger.
3its For Breakfast
Br R. J. Hendricks
Tour Ideas wanted
S a
'Says the Salem chamber of com-
merce weekly bulletin in the cur
rent issue, on the following:
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Council manager form of gov
ernment
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Annexation of suburbs
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Traffic congestion at downtown
street corners
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r.mtrnrvn tree tree nlantinc.
Silver Creek Falls. Industries and
w Ut t,jk,tuiw, ia-u oi Wal
lace road and bow to get It pared,
buy at home and how to enforce
it, public market, elimination of
advertising signs along Pacific
highway, how to prevent solicit
ing of advertising by all sorts of
schemers who have. books, charts
and banners and who play one
merchant against the other.
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That Is a rather large order
Manager Charley Uson has
made up. The suburbs will have
to be annexed if the oeoole in
them are to be counted as a part
of Salem's population for the 1930
census. The reader's idea on all
the rest will be welcome In these
columns. ,
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- Talking of a public market we
have been talking about it for a
long time. But the present public
market at Commercial and Mar
ion streets now has the disDlavs
and booths of several local pro
ducers. Among them is one from
Grand Island, down the Willam
ette river, where such wonderful
vegetables and fruits are grown.
Have you seen this?
The celebration of tho golden
wedding anniversary of W. T.
Rlgdon and wife of Salem on
Thursday was an event that was
notable in the annals of Salem.
W. T. Rlgdon has ieen and is one
of the useful men of Salem and of
Oregon. He has written a great
deal about the pioneer history of
this state; of the Oregon coun
try, and is writing more. He was
one of the first to offer substan
tial aid to the missionaries to this
region. He has written some very
good poetry. The v Rlgdons have
been good ertlxens. They have
Maintained a hospitable homo and
had always a helping hand In all
good works. They have reared a
family of fine children who are
good men 'and women. The great
crowds attending the reception on
Thursday, and the many letters
and telegrams of congratulation,
all show forth the truth of every
thing in this paragraph, and of
much more In the way of com
mendation for such lives .that
might with truth and rich de
serving be written.
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The proposed merger of two
soft-drink concerns with combined
assets of forty-five milion dollars
is just a light reminder of the ex
tent to which soft-drinking has
increased in this country.
W W
Progress of peace beating the
swords into plowshares: beating
the plowshares into niblicks. De
troit News.
When fhe agent offers you some
thing "offered only to the beet
people" and you say you are
oroke. he thinks therm r tn
" liar In tha mn-m X
ter the war in 1917 with the Gen
eral Staff functioning in full au
thority. It was done by virtue o:
hte executive act restoring to the
staff all the powers of which the
National Defense act of 1916
sought to strip it as an aftermath
of the century old struggle be
tween the line of the army and
the permanent military bureaus
in the war department.
Wiiat happened was that the
bill specially restored to the bn.
reau chiefs, the adjutant general,
quartermaster general, judge ad
vocate general and others, legal
powers they had exercised before
the General Staff law was enacted.
Army legal authorities read the
act that way; the department of
justice concurred.
Old Oregons Yesterdays
v Town Talk From the Statesman OnrTathers Read
Baker Upheld
The General Staff was legally
relegated to a capacity of mHItary
advisers; the chief of staff had
no definite coordinating author
ity. Secretary Baker himself, as
a lawyer, so read the law. But he
found a loophole of escape from
its clear meaning.' He held that
the first responsibility for Inter,
pretation of the act rested with
him as secretary of war. And in
that capacity he elected to say
that the act confirmed the .staff
in all, its previous powers and
duties, flying in the very face of
every legal opinion on the point,
including his own
On that slim legal basis of Gen
eral Stif authority, the country
went to war a year later and be
gan mobilizing its full military
power. On the flat of one man.
Secretary Baker, alone rested the
legality of all the vast power
wielded bv the staff organiratior.
at home or by Pershing's general
staff In France. Ultimately con
gress duly legislated it back into
more definite legal existence and
in the post-war defense act of
1920 its place was secured beyond
onstion by statutory enactments
certain of judicial approval should
thoi-A "'or ! Tian t leg
It.
Total amount of receipts at the
county clerk's office for the month
of August was only f 189.80.
The Salem Flouring mill has
started a run of 8.000 sacks of
"Sttner" brand flour for export
io japan.
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Albert. 12-year old son of Wil
liam Claggett, fell from a buggy
yesterday afternoon and broke bis
right arm above the elbow.
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Senator W. H. Wehrung. pres
ident of the state board of agri
culture, is in the city looking af
ter the work at the fairgrounds.
Tho members of company "lf
are drilling every night this week
for encampment which begins
snortiy.
A runaway enlivened Commer
cial street for a short time yester
day. The Salem Press club is arrang
ing for the annual meeting of the
state editorial association to- be
held here October 22 and. 22. E.
Hofer. R. J. Hendricks. Scott Bo-
sorth. A. W. Preseott aad F, P.
Toevs are the committee oa ar
rangements.
The governor has been Invited
to attend the national irrigation
congress which convenes ia Og-
den. Utah, the middle of the
month.
CLICKS
Eight more nations signffy their
eagerness to sign the American
anti-war treaty. Which goes to
show the human tendency to climb
aboard the band-wagon, even If
it Is I necessary to scramble over
the tall-gate.
Just as we suspected he would.
Joe Robinson accepted the dem
ocratic nomination tor vice-president.
A Washington Bystander
Br Kirk L.
Tnat macs
WASHINGTON
kidded -brass hat" organisation
of the army, tha General Staff,
celegrated its twenty-fifth birth
day the other day. The event went
aaoUced by the public at Urge.
present
members of the
ttatf la Wash
ington marked
it with aa. Ar.
my and Naff
club luncheon.
General Sam.
merall. chief of
staff, and Act.
log Secretary of
War Jardiae at
tending. i" There- w as
considerable discussion
of tho accomplishments of appli
cation for those 1 5 years of the
general .staff, principle i to - the
American - army, particularly ta
view of the fact that the staff was
terribly tested In the World war
before tt even readied voting age.
There was no room for doubt
that military opinion Is now- and
always has been agreed that the
task of mobilising, equipping,
training aad ahipping S.tOO.tOO
mea to France, fightiag oat suc
cessfully America's part in the
war, recalling the overseas forces
With Al Smith and Joe Robin
son mixing the liquor and water!
irom now umu ins eiuuu,
democratic campaign takes on the
flavor of a long toddy.
Some of these one-eyed Salem
drivers act aa though they cant
anyway.
This seems to be "Have a Fire
Week.-
Stockton's city manager has re
signed, which may or may not
mean something to Salem.
It looks as If even those -spot
less reputations eaa acquire
freckles.
There , are so many English
aad demobolising the whole 5 channel swimmers lathe water
Ott.OtO strength of the war army these days its a wonder the fish
have room there. .
was made possible efficiently only
through general staff machinery.
Birth And Rebirth
Much was said at the lnncheon
in tribute to Ellhu Root, who fath
ered aa war secretary a quarter
century ago the flrat-Geaeral staff
law. Much credit also was given
to Major General William H. Car.
ter for the Important part he play,
ed in that straggle for modern
military principles of organisation
aad. command. But ..it is to the
calm political courage of; Secre
tary Newtoa D. Baker alone that
permuted the United States ta en-
It takes one of those amart-al-ecks
who know it all to show how
Ignorant a man really eaa be.
Nothing speaks louder than hush
money.
When Shakespeare said "AH tha
world's a stage he must have had
a vision of Oregon s rugnways oi
today. .
At a quiet little party nine ar
tists of Salem assembled the oth-
can be ascribed the sliuattoa that for night. It is . astonishing how
many .cultured persons, including
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