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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1928)
EA&LhC. Brownlee Salem. Oregon ': SUNbAY ?'. . sepi. a fconsi Sheldon F. Sackett if. n Publishers E .V 4S s "3 'i -1 3 i r When! Is a Man Old? ARE young heads or bid heads the better? Should there be more young executives, since the president of one of the fastest growing automotive firms is merely 35? Or nnmiitm ha reserved for the older men? Insulin was discovered by Frederick Banting when he r0 91 . Hirftavoror nf Aluminum iust out of a small col- lege and died a very young man; Darwin s theories were worked out before he was 30; w imam inn enierea uw.u"- versity at 14 and was prime minister at 523. l ne lisi migni ue extended mto columns pages. -- On the other hand, Benjamin Franklin was of most serv ice to his country after 60 years; Gladstone renaerea nis greatest service to parliament after he was 60 years old ; Bis mark held Germany in his iron hand when he was 84; Cer vantes was near 70 before he wrote Don Quixote; George H. PnrflanH at tint far helow the VV UMalilS wao a jicok v . - - anfi.nr mot-v anH "Thp fevered Waron" was written by a man of mature age who had begun his writing career only a few years before. : . , ' In our present time: John Philip Sousa is 74, Thomas Edison is 81; Hindenberg 81, Henry Ford 65, George Bernard Shaw 72J Clemenceau is nearing 90 and working better and harder than ever, and one of the youngest men in Salem, Joe Baker, who is in the nineties, is as active as a lyoungster, though he came to this city as a boybefore it was a town when it was "The Institute," the forerunner of Willamette university, which cradled Salem. Wallace Meyer, writing in the Magazine of Business, 1 says : "What, after all, is an old man ? I saw some at lunch today. Nervous, worrying about the new boss and his pol icies, i Their stomachs further front than their cheats. Ci gars in their top pockets. Skin dried out from too much steam heat Old men at 35, 40 and 45." The above comparisons and statements point out that neither age nor youth is a virtue. Many old men have not profited by their years of experience -and some young men am nA fnrriaa Hofm-A thov rise. the nuarter centurv mark. All of which points to the fact that accomplishments and work! go not to young heads nor to old, out rainer 10 gooa neaus that are used to the best advantage. Who Calls For Speed? SOME of its more enthusiastic sponsors promise to put the proposed council-manager charter on a special election ballot regardless of developing opposition in a very large group of citizens. There seems to be no question that Salem is favorable to a chanee in the form of its government. The charter un der which that change must be made, however, is an im mensely important document. There is no agreement gen erallv upon the details. There is a demand for time to con sider, which some of those who are extraordinarily anxious, do not wish to grant. So many objections have been raised to the proposed charter, so many oddities, so many loopholes have been found, that voters will find unnecessary speed a costly mis take. It might be pertinent to ask who is demanding a spe cial election and why? If there is any truth in the definite statements that the city manager is already hand-picked; that the man thus se lected will be authorized to place and displace his own audi f tor; that a score of other possible danger points exist in the proposed charter, it should not be submitted to the people at on early election. Its deleat would be assured. There has been no campaign of education in connection with this charter as a basis for intelligent voting. There are numerous questions that should be answered about the in tent and purpose of this particular charter. Meanwhile in telligent voters will not welcome' an opportunity to vote upon it. How Salem Grows IN a growing city and district, one thing leads to another. The indirect benefits of developing industries on the land and in our cities and towns in ma.ny lines lead t oindirect ad vantages larger than the primary ones. Note the news item in The Statesman of this morning telling of the eight railroad switching crews, comprising forty men, against none up to fifteen years ago, and three regular crews and an extra one during the fruit seasbn five years ago. This all means direct and indirect growth ; increased ton nage in a hundsed and more ways, due to growth in the city and the expanding trade territory of Salem And this growth is only fairly started. Read the news item. V Grants Pass having started a new comers' organization under the tender name of "cradle" club, thinks she has stum bled onto a great idea and wants to pass it on. She is inviting her southern Oregon neighbors tqjoin in the movement. SJie has lnciudexl Klamath t ails in her list, and has even offered to send a delegation over the mountains to aid in getting the first "cradle" club started there. But the Klamath Falls people want to know who is a new comer. The parent club people at Grants Pass say one who has resided there five years or less. But the Klamath Falls reaction is that this would includeat least half the population. That would, the answer is, make an. unwieldy cradle club. It is suggested that the Klamath Falls club be born twins, or triplets, or the age be cut down to comport with the jejune name. If you imagine Salem is not growing, follow Street Com missioner Walter Low one day in his work of superintending the various street paving jobs. And he has another year of CA 1 I A. X. 1 " it aireauy cut out xor mm. Blocking the Air Lanes ! II r- WIT- ; '111 LAN 1 VKJ I , I rc c-nct I i v J In Cxecho-Slorakia a shoe maker with hydrophobia bit fire persoas- and made them rery sick. Will those cobblers nerer learn to stick to their lasts? About the worst could happen is for back Hoorer. thing that Hearst to- Os West's Job- as democratic national committeeman in Oregon is our idea of nothing " to brag about. Now that all four of the boys hare accepted their nominations thejr can fight it out to a finish on NoTember 6. Wasn't tfilt Miller a candidate (for something or other? Sam Koser says that sewer stench hasn't been brought to the attention of the Board of Cqh-J trol. If they will Tisit the outlet i that will not be necessary. There's already a note of sad ness crerp'ne info the turkey's gobble : ure sign of thanks giving for all but the gobbler. Literary Guidepost - 4: The bst remedy for reckless au tome bile driving is a jail sen nc cys he McMinnville News Reporter. This is exactly our idea. Motorists who hare been ignor ing "school stops" all vacation would do well to remember tnem before the fair sessions open. Even Gene Tunney Is going to publish his "life story". And we thought Gene was a modest gentleman. Those who often say they shud der to think what clothing the women will doff next need have no fear. The ladles know they have just about reached the limit In allure. Isn't it a shame that it usually is the girls with warped legs and serrated shins who wear those lit tle half-socks? A Washington Bystander -By Kirk L. Sbnpson- WASHINGTON It is a little startling, at first glance, to ob serve Washington enthusiastical ly urging Honduras and Guatema la to submit their ancient boun dary dispute to the Central Amer- I c a n Tribunal for arbitration. Unusual dip lomatic p e s sure ' has been exerted on Hon duras wh icb held out for ar- b i t r a 1 1 on by 'President Cool ldge or Chief Justice Tar ft. Not so lonVaaro. Syretary Lan sing waa blunt y telling; the now defunct Cen tral American Court of Justice to mind its 'own business when on Costa Rlcan complaint it under took to consider1 questions arising from the Bryant Chamorro canal rights treaty between Nicaragua and the United States. The court expired with the treaty creating it cue to Washington's cold- shoulder attitude, largely. Imperialism Cry Avoided There is a very wide difference between the Tribunal and the de funct court, however. The former is not a purely Central American permanent body, subject to ines capable political Influences, but merely a panel of Pan American jurists of repute. North. South ind Central Americans, from which each party to a submitted dispute would select a disinterest ed member, those two judges to name a third man either of the panel or outside it as presiding of ficer for the purposes of the en, suing arbitration. No sovereignty question could be taken up with out the assent Of the Central American government involved. Bearing that picture in mind, it la easy to see that Washington nas glimpsed a chance to make a graceful diplomatic gesture, invit ing; Pan-American cooperation in adjustment of Central American differences. Who5 could raise the cry of imperialism, particularly as two great American owned ban ana companies, one with Hondur an and the other witlf Guatemalan contacts, have developed the pro ductive value of much of the dis puted territory and will be affect ed by the outcome? These com panies, Washington liolds, have nothing to do with the boundary row which far antedated their ap pearance. Any disinterested arbi tration should amply care for their legitimate rigfits. Past Experiences Honduran pleas for . American arbitration falls on deaf ears for several reasons. For one thing. President Coolidge had bitter ex perience in the Tacna-Arica ar bitration impasse. Although he acted only as an individual, not in the name of the Unifed States government, demands for police work by the United States to in sure a fair pledecite arose clam orously. More than that, however, anti-American propagandists in Latin American and abroad have pictured the "Colossus of the North" as trying to hog the whole show in Central America and maintain a virtual lonenanded protectorate over the five little re publics against their will. Wkat Washington would .like to see happen would be selection of a South American panel mem ber by each disputant . and the third member picked by those two from qualified international jur ists in the United States who have no government connection. Such a man as John Bassett Moore would fit this picture. Perils of governmental entanglements or international political bias would be escaped. So Secretary Kellogg, with Roy T. Davia.'merican min ister to Costa Rica and who head ed the last fruitless commission effort to solve the boundary row. sitting at his elbow, is insistent on Tribunal treatment. A contemporary says that this campaign is a fight be tween Broadway and Main street and that Broadway is a long and well populated thoroughfare. But it is to be re membered that there are thousanda of Main streets. Mr. Raskob may be only an efficient "wet" business man, but he is rapidly learning to be a politician. For in stance, the other day he sent a message of congratulation to the new "dry" democratic candidate for senator in Missouri. John Raskob says he has never met a man who under stood the McNary-Haugen bill. But he has not been asso ciated with the millions of farmers in Ihe corn belt states 1 A. a 1 a . ana oui in xne great open spaces west of the Rockies. A New Yorker at Large The Statesman's 'Fourteen Points' A Proarressive Program To Which This Newspaper Is Dedicated 1. A greater Salem a great 2. Imdwtrlal exjMUMkm mmi grlealtaral development eC the Willamette vailey. 3. Kfflclemt republican , gov ernment for nation, state county, and city. ' 4. Clean news, Jast opinion and fair practices. -5. Upbuilding ef ' Oregon's young linen ind act ry. H. A modern city charter for Salem; adopted after ala ture consideration b y . aU . . voters. . VUv:" 7. Helpful encouragement te - beet sugar growers and : other pioneers m agrical ' t oral enterprise. ' 8. Park and. playgrowd de 10. If velopmeat for all people. Centralisation Within the capital city area of all state offices and Institatioas. Comprehensive plan for the development of the Oregon State Fair. 'uii.oervation of natural re sources for the public good. 12- Superior school facilities. encouragement of teachers and active; cooperation with Willamette nrreraltjr. 4 13. Prateraal fi and : social or : ganlratton of the greaiest n' possible nnmbcr of per - : sons.' 14. .Winning to Marion coun- , ty's fertile lands the high- - cat type of citlTenahlp. , , NEW YORK Sights of the citv that aren't in the guidebooks; or why messenger ,bofs make haute so siowiy; A white rat capering on an au tomobile hood, attracUng a crowd re tne car a motorist wants to sell. French sailors, several of them negroes, roistering up Fifth ave nue on shore leave from the liner they brought from. Havre: when the crew struck. Rock drillers deepening the excavation for a new Broadway skyscraper beside tne half-block square hole some wag has scrawled: "A Scotchman lost a dime here." Chorus girls taking the air be tween acts, on a theater fire es cape above 4 2nd street. Other chorus girls hurrying from re hearsals to their rooming houses across Broadway, their legs bare and with loose wraps cloaking the bathing suite or gingham rompers in wnicfi they drilled. Policeman driving up the stivet an itinerant vendor of dancing paper dolls, and tearing to shreds the puppets la a carton the fugi tive has left behind. A negro youngster in a pea-green silk shirt, Charestonlng for pennies ana nicxeis at a' seventh avenue corner. Two motorists coming to blows over simultaneous efforts to occupy a parking place. . Aloof Chauffeur x An impeccably tailored foreign visitor strolling on Park avenue, rod carrying an elephant trainer's hook for a walking stick. Work nen sanding the exterior of the Ritx-Carllon to restore its lime stone to pristine whiteness.- Every stroller who stops to look-remains said: to wipe the powdered stone out I tad i ne pamarcn on eight-foot 3tilfs. concealed by striped 'canvas trouiers. passing out cards of a new beauty shop. Chauffeur at wheel of a massive imported car, sitting granite-like in. pretended unawareness of a crowd clustered around the glittering hood and the long grey body. a new electric shoe shiner with whirling brushes. which keeps a throng all day long ai me beventn avenue window it occupies. Aue muo in a sixtn avenue store window who waves a wand over her head with real acrobatic finesse to lure wanderers to her demonstration of an easy chair wnicn turns into a double bed. ouvw Kirm Knouea aoout a stage door : west (ft Broad-av. where a director will presently dis cover wnetber any of them are suitable clothes horses for his budding revue. A truckload of hogs squealing across town on 46th street. They Say- Expression of Opinion from Statesman Readers are Welcomed for t'ae In This Column. Please Sign Your Name and Indicate if You Do Not Wish It Used. 4 . of his eyes. More Bright lights Urchins, stripped to the waist, romping in a hydrant shower near Tenth avenue,' most of them with little cloth bags of aafoetida tied about their necks to keep them healthy. Boy bootblacks soliciting trade la Bryant park, each hoping that some day be will have the shoe-shining , concession for a whole skyscraper all to himself. Workmen assembling a new balb-stadded electric sign above Broadway. Wasn't it Gilbert K. Chesterton who, viewing Times square at night for the first time off in time. 'What a magnificent spec- r for a man who could r The New Pre-Election Study is Urged SALEM. Sept 1. To the ed itor of the Statesman: There comes to my desk today consti tutional amendments and mea sures compiled by Sam Koser, sec retary of state. 1. This booklet contains 4 7 pages. 2. It is. S7 days until election. 3. Read j two pages a day and you liave it read and studied and thought over by November 6. 4. Put a stout string through the book, out it in a conspicuous place and see that every member of the family reads and under stands. I 5. See that each member of each household, eligible to vote, shall be properly registered, prop erly informed and ready to go to the polls Tuesday, November 6. and cast an intelligent and deter mined ballot for high ideals and good government. lOO Per Cent American Swimming Hole Nuisance Deplored SALEM, Aug. 29. To the edi tor of the Statesman: Could you ?ive a writ'e up In your splendid paper on a very serious topic namely: Atthe end of Court street where Millj creek flows, there is an erstwhile swimming hole, which is well patronized. Children and youth to 18 years or more, are there at various hours, even up to 10 p.m., with swearing, ob scene language, bullying and the things attendant. Today, August 29, at 11 a. m. young menfwere in swimming en tirely naked and we who have to live near the creek feel we might be in the jungles of Africa for all that law and order are con cerned, f A fire is; built by these young bandits, or whatever you may call them, every day and up to 10 p. m. They hlp themselves to pri vate property and do not return it. Twice I (have appealed to the police and as yet nothing is done to stop the' thing and give peace and quiet, s ' Your pager seems to be clean. so I am asking for the good of all concerned that you gfre a write up on this subject. Peculiar things also, are done in this beautiful city when; anyone tries to get justice through the channels of city government. Any effort on your partwilf be appreciated! by all he residents In our locality. The newspaper that has a con structive and not a destructive policy is the One which helps the community and. in the last analy sis, prospers most. That married man who claims he out-argued his wife ought to make a good living writing Paul Bunion yarns. By RICHARD O. MASSOCK NEW YORK Americans are just now becoming acquainted with one of the most distinguished women in Turkish history. Her recent appearance at the Williamstown, Mass., Institute of Politics introduced ilalide Edib Hanum. novelist and ardent na tionalist, to the United States. A lecture tour will make her per sonality even better known .But "The Turkish Ordeal" probably will best serve to widen the bound? of acquaintanceship. Halide Edib has experienced an extraordinary life. Daughter of secretary in tjie sultan's palace, she was educated at tho American college in Constantinople, married to a scholar, the mother of two children, "divorced and remarried to a doctor-politician, and more than once a refugee. Her autobiography has already been published. In "The Turkish Ordeal" it is supplemented with an eye witness account of nation alism's travail. So closely is his tory interwoven with memoirs that sometimes one is hardly dis tinguishable from the other. It is modern Turkey's story told by a zealous partisan. The Halide Edib she pictures, however, is not alone the intense patriot, black swathed, harangu ing multitudes after the occupa tion of Smyrna by the Allies in 1919. Nor is she always the same woman with a price on hex head who fled from Istamboui under a rain soaked heap of bags on an ox cart, who hid in a mud hut in An atolia, who dressed the wounds of torn soldiers, and who served as a sergeant in the army that ad vanced Mustapha Kemal to the presidency of a new republic. There are times when she is a very feminine person, sympathis ing with the simple, gossipy pea sant wives and trying to enlighten them as well as their country's leaders. She is frank in describing An atolian life. She is candid, too, in expressing her opinions and im pressions as .when she writes about the present head of the Turkish government. "Jake," she says, "any man from the street, shrewd, selfish and utterly unscrupulous, give him the insistence 'and histrionics of a hysterical woman, who is will ing to employ any wile to satisfy her inexhaustible desires, then view him through the largest magnifying glass you can fin and you'll see Mustapha Kemal Pa sha." Madame Edib is set out to show the English" speak In? world that the Turks were more sinnod against than sinning. Her narra tion of Greek and Armenian atro cities against Turkish persons and, property and of br nation s strug gle for political jindependence is harply realistic. 1 Dickens Novelised' The life of Charles Dickens has been ' woven Into a biographical novel by C. E. Bechhofer-Roborts. English author, under the &-. lightening title of "This Side Idol- A" atry."l I With sympathetic detail is Die hired the novelist's rise from a 1 depressing boyhood to brilliant genius, but e is shown, too. as a man fond of adulation, delight ing to call himself "the Sparkler" and '.'the Inimitable, surrounding himself with admirers of his own choosing, and so self-centered that ho reared a barrier between him self and his wife which separate! them at last after she had borne him nine children. Bits for Breakfast ! CLICKS "Jardinei Believed in Favor of Tram" observes an Oregonlan headline. That doesn't mean that he will have to ride on the thing. And nowiAlmee faces a grand- jury inquiry into her real estate operations. xnat woman certain, ly knows how to keep her name In the news, i An Irate citizen bit the ear of the mayor iof El Clrrito, Cat, nearly off because he resented bis street assessment. Probably .he couldn't gef the mayor's ear any other way. A Detroit racketeer and gun man was shot and killed by an andentlfied; man. Thars Ran. Perhaps they will klU each' other readi" Oregon leads others follow. Busy day yesterday w V iuouKn many Salem people were at the coast and mountain resoris ror the Labor day holi days, the streets of this city were lined' with automobiles and the stores and shops filled. Ii Salem will be a busier city next Saturday and every week end day till after hop picking and the state fair, and. with the opening of the schools, the balance of the year. , The Albany-Yaquina passenger train will be annulled on Tuesday. Its place will be taken by stages. In the old, days, it was the custom to go to the seashore and remain there at one point for the dura tion of one's vacation. S You are in no more danger in an automobile than in your own home, according to a recent com pilation. About a fourth of thel a .... . . "V accidental deaths in the United States last year were in homes and about the same number were in connection with automobile travel: about 25.000 each. But the reader will probably argue that more people stay at ' home than ride or are run over by autos. And some of the auto us ers are at home occasionally. It seems to be a general rule on the highway: the less horse lense in the driver, the ' more horsepower in the motor. V The farm problem probably would not seem so acute it the rural section cast only 20 per cent of the vote. This is all changed. -Now the vacationist, loading his baggie on his own car, flits from one re sort to another, staying nowhere more than a few days. Still, in spite of this, the summer resorts grow in number and size. New port has become a big town and from that city along the Roose velt highway clear to the Colum bia river thereu are new resorts every few miles. Ana so it is in By R. J. Hendrick nearly every line of endeavor. New days bring new ways, and old institutions languish. Bnt in their place others spring up, and the world goes on. New jobs come for old ones lost, and in some way or otherthe average standard of human comfort keeps on getting higher. Perhaps the stages will give way to the airplanes before long. National Conventions always leave a group of men tp be known in future as having been promi nently mentioned for the presi dency. Toledo Blade. "Strange Fugitive" by Morley Callaghan an impetuous and dis contented lumber mill foreman turn bootlegger apd takes a worn- '' an. but goes to a violent end still loving his deserted wife. "SUWtOtX AUTHORITY" WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY THE MERRIAM WEBSTER Because Hundreds of Supreme Court Judges concur in highest praise of the work as their Authority. The Presidents of all leading Uni versities, Colleges, and Normal Schools give their hearty fajqrsc merit . All States that have adopted a large dictionary as standard hjvj selected Webster's New Interna tional. The Schoolboolu of the Country adhere to the MerrianvWebtcr system of diacritical marks. The Government Printing OfEce at Washington uses it as authority. WRITE (or mmpl pasa of the N'n WWt. HKdnca of Regular ivi India rapsis. FREE. G. AC Merriaai Co., H nnmnmmna nnm"nl 7 SHOPPING EYES A NERVOUS woman newer enjoys shopping:. If small things annoy and upset you while shop ping, think of your eyes. Most likely your glasses do not meet shopping requirements or freqnently they slip down and should be adjusted. Come in and tell us the trouble. Pomeroy & Eeene Jewelers and Optometrists Salem, Oregon Clouqh-Husfton C6 HWtory 6 galcm and ftp State of Oe9on When, in 1804, the Lewis and Clarke expedition crossed the new ly acquired Louisiana Territory, they followed the Mississippi River to its headwaters, crossed the Rocky Mountains, reached the Columbia River, and followed it down to the Pacific They camped on the north side of the river's mouth, on Cape Disap pointment, and remained there the winter of 1805-06. " and have been learning about our business for many years, which is another reason, why so many of the people of Salem and vicinity look upon us as THEIR foneral director in time of need. 1 1 trs. try i jHJtsnncxwerrun I PHONE i- w- 'r- r v or-jf" Statesman I - r ' . " 1 1 CLOUGH-HUSTON & tral SenHc, 12D - - ' -- - ' - -' '.-: -. -:,--ju. s-r- .v.;;r