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Salejx. Oregon ' SUNDAT - Sept. 1, 1928 Earl C. Brownlee - Sheldon F. Sackett Publishers Editorial 1 Success liest not in achieving what you aim at. but tn j riming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing fcr- ward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter. Horton. . S MNot Without Honor" thpm Deculiar sanction, these words were spoken by the world's highest authority : A i - . Zi . V. oavo in nia ram mintTV- We propnei is noi wuuuui uuuwi ot r - are living in different times, but this negative form of a truth holds for all ages. 1 A leading Salem woman recently received a letter from a friend at Bellingham. Wash., which said, among other "at ttoHW i nn thp same committee with Con- gressman Hawley. He says Mr. Hawley is one of the finest men who ever entered the congressional nans, nc mj home people do not realize how much their men do in Wash ington and that it takes years of experience to accomplish things." ' The reference is to Lindley H. Hadley a member of the Washington delegation in the lower house of congress, and Willis C. Hawley of Salem, chairman of the ways and means committee . t Ani Tno statesman has freauentlv Dointed out the fact, i m that Mr. Hawley stands very high among his colleagues and generally in official life m Washington, ne is aumoniy on many matters, and this goes without question there. iTo ufo tho f nriff nlank nf the rerjublican platform ilL wsavtv- i. v ---- - - adopted at Kansas City, because it was recognized that he was the best qualified man to do wis. n Mav HHvprAH in the lower house of congress a notable speech on the tariff, giving the history of our tariff legislation Reaching back to George Washington ; for the first gen Ani law nacsH hv th first eoncrress and sijnied by the first president was a tariff act for the protection of our indus trious people. That May speech contains a mass of digested facts and figures and comparisons concerning our various tariff laws and the effects of their workings upon the business of the country that has never been equaled. This speech is being used throughout the country in the present campaign. Salem is the home city of the man who holds the most important committee place in congress, and is entirely worthy of it, both on account of his character and his ability and ex perience with its great duties, but also on account rifJiis ca pacity and disposition for hard, grinding work, which he per forms day in and day out, without reserve. The people in his home city who know the facts appre ciate all this; but it is only right and just that a larger pro portion of all the people throughout his district should be bet ter informed and more generally appreciative of the high quality man who is their spokesman at the-seat of power in Washington. . . Hold Your Wheat THIS is the advice of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine: "Hold your wheat." He says "there is no sound ecpnomic reason for depressed wheat prices," and adds that world markets indicate that better prices will come if farmers who are equipped to do so will refrain from rushing their wheat to market. In July of last year Kansas Gity received 18, 000,000 bushels of wheat, this year, 35,000,000 bushels. The combine harvester, has aggravated the marketing problem; harvesting is finished quickly and the wheat is rushed to market. Mr. Jardine says the world production of wheat is only slightly above that of last year, while the average price for August was 27 cents a bushel less And the increase in world wheaf supply is offset by the decrease in the rye crop of Europe ; and there is an increased consumption of wheat in Europe. The increase in the United States is 6,000,000 bushels a year, due to increased popula tion. m Mr. Jardine promises legislation to correct the situation in this country in. case of republican victory in November. But the holding of wheat from the markets will help now. With the increase of consumption, the United States will soon wipe out her wheat surplus. Then the protective tariff will take care of the situation, without any need for further leg They Say - ' Expressions of Opinion from Statesman Readers are Welcomed for Use in this Column. All Letters Mast Bear Writer'i Name, Though This Need Not be Printed. DEMAND FOR PLEDGE IS DEFENDED Salem. Ore.. Sept. 15. To the Editor of the Statesman: I am interested in Mr. Millie's argument in Saturday's States man, in which ho asks the ques tion. "Why sign a pledge to obey the law?" This is not a new ar gument; it has been raised before, both here and in Portland, where the same pledge against secret societies is required; and it ought to be frankly faced. Mr. Millie is perfectly right when he argues that it would be useless to require pledges forcing us to refrain from bootlegging or stealing; for these are laws that we have made ourselves, through our delegated representatives, and It would of coursebe absurd to take a pledge to do'what we have already agreed to do. But the laws governing the schools are not made in this way; the pupils do not govern themselves, nor make the rules of the school; if they were able to do this, they would not need to so to school at all. lhe ultimate authority of the school rests in the people them selves; and the pupils, not having arrived at the age of citizenship, can exercise no authority. The principals who have -been carried away by the idea of "democracy", and who have instituted a system of discipline administered by the pupils themselves, have generally had cause to regret It. What pupils need is wise and just leadership. It is what they themselves desire and they are almost pathetic in their eagerness to find a leader. Since they do rot constitute a self-governing body, it cannot be argued that they have already pledged them selves to obey the Iw; and when ever a regulation made by the properly - constituted authorities seems In danger of being evaded or defied, it seems wholly fitting to enforce a pledge. Even in the case of the laws of the state, a wise judge will often require of a habitual drunkard that he sign a pledge of temper ance., in order to strengthen the Infirmity of his will; and if this is desirable in the case of mature persons, it is much more so in the case of those whose wills are still undeveloped, and need to be strengthened by a definite pledge. J. C. NELSON. Principal of Salem High School. Who Is Running It? "VI THO is running the democratic campaign Mr. Raskob ft or Al Smith? In June, the democrats adopted a plat formwhich certain farm leaders claimed endorsed the equal Hzation fee,' and the canny platform makers let them believe it. On August 3, Al Smith announced-that he did not favor the equalization fee. The New York Times headlined it "Smith Repudiates Equalization Fee." The New York World headlined it "Candidate Is Explicit on Equalization Fee Against Definite Idea." Both of these papers are democratic and supporting Smith t But last week Mr. Raskob in the middle west said it was not true that Smith was against the equalization 'fee. The next day Al said Raskob was not authorized to speak for him. The truth of the matter is that Al is against it in New York , and for it wherever if will do the most good to be for it, as he is for a protective tariff in the platform to please the north and for the Underwood bill in his acceptance speech to please the south. "We doubt ifAI knows what either one of them means," is the comment of the Corvallis Gazette-Times. Freshman Week WILLA11ETTE university is having its second annual "freshman weekL" This departure in college ways is cf recent introduction and is being widely adopted through out the country by progressive institutions. Its purpose is to give the incoming student a sympathetic and adequate intro duction to the complexities of- college life. The freshman needs counsel concerning his studies, and how to fit into the new life in the most efficient way possible. Formerly the faculty too largely neglected the fleshmen in favor of older students and the freshman class was treated en masse. The upper classmen largely ignored the new stu dents while the sophomores chief business was to make the existence of the bewildered freshman rather" problematical. The extremes of hazing have passed from our better campus es as a sign 01 more socialized thinking upon the part of both Administration and students and this new step of giving real help to the student is still another advanced step in efficient rrwtol It vivm a W llliiigi "HOODLUMS" CHARGED WITH DESTRUCTION Salem, Ore., Sept. 9. To the Editor of the Statesman: Having just returned from a trip of over a thousand miles on the wonderful roads and highways of Oregon, I was interested in your column of "What They Think" re garding road signs. I am in accord with the most of those you Inter viewed that the road advertising sign is a nuisance. But what pro voked me most on the recent trip over these Tine highways was the wanton destruction of the fine enameled mileage and road mark ers which tho highway department has put up at great expense. These signs are used as targets by boys and men who ought to know bet ter. Some of them are so badly shot up that it is impossible to read them. The majority .of them show one or two bullet marks. It cannot be expected that the highway department is going to go around and replace these ru ined markers very soon. Hence they will be up tor years as a monument to the hoodlums who care nothing for public property or the beauty of scenery or high ways. I think you should inter view some of your readers on what they.- think of the hoodlum with the rifle, who amuses himself by shooting up highway markers. A heavy fine should be assessed against all offenders apprehended and school children should be told to regard public property as if it were their own, as it really is Road markers are put up at public expese for the benefit of travelers and not for targets for a set of hoodlums to shoot at. A TOURIST. The WeexJ Law IF we have an efficient weed law 1 should be enforced. No lover of fine lawns and beautlfal gardens can believe It right that all such should be left defenceless, against weed patches on neighboring lots which produce seed which is scattered over his lawn and gardes by all the carrying agencies of nature. A Chicago Judge got mad dear through when a man un der a subpoena banged a telephone receiver in the jurist's ear. The bf Render is serving jail sentence for his offense. Any body; who has ever talked over a telephone, will know -just how the judge felt about it. The regrettable thing is that . we can't all be judges on certain similar occasions. A lot of folks would be in jail if we were. : , San Francisco is making an effort to pipe natural gas from Bakersfield. This causes a cynic to wonder why anv- body down there should want natural gas when other varie-1 Science has found a way to make shoe buckles from milk. Now If the savants can discover some method of getting milk from old shoes they will have achieved something worth while. "Labor Picks Tillamook" head lines Che Oregonian over an arti cle announcing selection of that city for the next state convention. What has Tillamook done to be thus picked on? One wonders if the three Seattle boys who staged seven holdups and shot a policeman are examples of. modern educational methods encouraging self-expression and selective occupation. A headline 'announces "Screen Actress Weds." That's not news. Now If the man had bitten the dog. then New York comedian who re moves canaries from a fellow ac tor's whiskers has been arreted for cruelty to the birds. Now If he confined himself to removal of other fauna found In the beard Jungle he would run no risk of falling afoul of the law. "If your 21st, birthday fails on N'ovember 7, you can cast a ballot In the national elections Novem TheTake-OH Vk ,r I HOPPING OFF ON A J yiaVWr, ut,. - - iff oj Stevens Resumes Stride A Review of "Homer in the Sagebrush" TheTrain of Editorial Thought Well here we are. Long time getting started, because there's been much to do. And much joy in the doing. There remains much yet to do. Fires and floods not withstanding, things are taking shape and there's sunshine on the horizon. Maybe there's a bit of time to calmly talk things over from time to time. Fire, of course, proved a set back to plans and a blow to hopes for a running start for the New Statesman. Soon, though, even the embers will h concealed by the walls of a fine, new press room building. . Got a little peeved the other night because we had to wait five minutes for a long freight train to creep across State street. Five minutes out of an eternity of time. Five minutes out of the mad rush of a single day. Five minutes for deliberate contemplation -of the fact that freight trains, no matter how they creep when we are hur ried, take out of our valley the wonderful products of our soils and mills and factories and bring in the things we need for susten ance and a more complete happi ness. Trains, both slow and fast, have brought riches and have ta ken out golden harvests have brought in-people to build Salem and to populate its countryside. Only five minutes out of a busy day for contemplation and trib ute. m Western White wheat was quo ted at $1.14 a bushel in the last market report we chanced to read. There are in Marlon county scores of good folk who grew up on soft white wheat bread and paid less than half the present cost. Still the same good wheat, moving for ward In price and value helping the world to move forward. S "L Roy Hewitt looks philosophical ly at Oregon's gentle rains the envy of California and other less favored spots. "Rain is the differ ence between Oregon and Califor nia." says he. But we's allowed A Wasliington Bystander CLICKS j WASHINGTON. Announcement that Herbert Hoover is to make his single campaign speech in the south at Elizabethton, Tennessee, early in October took Washing ton s corps of political observ 2T3 completely by surprise. Very few of them had ever heard of the place." They found it to be a little town of less than 5,000 inhabitants, pre sumably, way over in the ex treme north. eastern section Krk I- Simpson of Tennessee; the center geo graphically of what looks on the political maps like a tri-state isl ald of republicanism, completely surrounded by a'democratic sea. The selection of the jump-pff place for Mr. Hoover's drive at the Solid South is credited to Horace Mann, who directs the southern campaign from Washington; a sort of Hoover field marshal for the south as George Moses oper ates In New England territory. The fact that Elisabethton Is Im bedded tn not only Tennessee, but North Carolina and Virginia coun ties as well as that have decided republican tinges to their polit ical histories, sticks up like a sore thumb. But Just what may be the strategy motivating the nominee' or his south front chief-of-staff in picking s remote small town In a sparsely populated section to fire the Big Bertha of the southern drive Is not as easy to understand. -By Kirk L. Simpson- winkle, democrat, by virtue of the overwhelming democratic vote of the southern counties of the dis trict which runs clear from the Tennessee to the South Carolina line and is obviously shaped to "gerrymander" the five republi can mountain counties out of the picture. Even Catawba county, in the center of the ninth, has republi can leanings. Coolidge carried It against Davis four years ago, but the balk of the voting strength of khe district is in the three coun ties to the south and strongly democratic. Republican Since Johnson ' Elizabethton Is in Carter county and & part of the First Tennessee congressional district which has been republican virtually since the days of Andrew Johnson, the Greenville, tailor whose staunch unionism in the Civil war days held the region for the north and brought Johnson himself to thef vice presidency to succeed Lincoln when the latter died from an as sassin's bullet. The district Is now represented In the house by B. Carroll Reece. republican, vet eran of four successive terms and successor to Sam R. Sells, repub lican, who served six uninterrupt ed hitches. - To the south, and very close-at hand beyond the Stone mountains Carter county is flanked by five mountain counties of North Caro lina which are in the Ninth North Carolina district. That district Is Slcmp Territory Northward, in Virginia, the Eliiabethton region of .Tennessee abuts on Washington county, cen ter of the Ninth Virginia that gave Campbell Slemp and his son. stout republicans, seven terms in the hoase between them C. Bascom Slemp, was formerly secretary to President Coolidge and is a wheel horse in the Hoover campaign In the south. The-district has been democratic since the sixty-seventh congress. At any rate, one thing is clear. Mr. Hover will have many died-in-the-wool republicans about him when he makes his personal ap peal for southern votes. He will not have to rely on "Hoovercrats." as Hoover democrats of the south land are sometimes termed. emphasis to remain in the wrong place in the matter of our rain. Oregon rain transforms the land into richness not into a Los An geles flood. Shall we let 'em live down there, or back in the mid west and east, with their sum mer ears in a sunstroke and their winter ears in icicles let 'em live until they discover Oregon and the mists that now and then re fresh our air and soil? We might, quite properly, tell the world the real facts in the case and let the world judge for Itself. We're back ward about setting the record straight for folk who have been misinformed. Saw a Salem business man Fri day night scrubbing out his own fctore getting ready for another day. There's such a thing as being too proud to work, and suffering the inevitable consequence. Then there's such a thing as doing what ever task presented and putting all of cheerfulness and industry into the doing, and enjoying the fruit and pleasure of getting the job done. W It may piously proper to ask on Sunday morning as to the future of churches. Statistics at hand re veal that there are 200,000 chur-J cues In the nation, with 200 de nominations represented. There are 150,000 ministers The church homes of America represent an investment of 13.000,000.000 and maintenance costs J300.000.000 a year. In 1927 these churches show ed a membership gain of 573.723, in spite of the fact 'that the num ber of churches and the number of ministers decreased. The church then, may be cutting down over head and buUding up congrega tions. The future of the church can not look very shaky in view of such facts. nnuTIl Tf THE MULOimoa Jtr Kit This latest book by the north west's finest writer Is In meny re spects his firmest and best work. Paul RunTin. air. dicicu" - iumi written under the direct encouragement of H. l Mencm. was an epic of the wooas ana sci. Hnn in vigorous prose the leg ends and myths that have gather ed about the heroic Paul Bunyan- and his Billy Blue Ox. lormmg hat is perhaps the first Ameri can folk tale. :, Following the wide success of "Paul Bunyan" Mr. Stevens pub lished "Brawnyman" which Laur ence Stallings, author of "What Price Glory ' ranked with the beet of Sherwood Anderson, Sandburg and Ring Lardner. .It Is thunder ing saga of the construction days in the west, a tale of the drifting laborer, the team hand, the dirt shoveter; a joyous Odyssey of men and women and liquor. It lifted Mr. Stevens definitely to the front rank of American novelists and made him the first writer of gen uine and lasting merit to come outj of the northwest. His third book,' "Mattock." a tale of the American . army In France, was a divergence from the thread of his work. Critics are di vided as to its essential merit hough all have acclaimed the writing and the truth of the deep psychology It contains. It reveals somewhat heavily the Mencken in fluence and is at the heart of It a brilliant if unnecessary indictment of the Methodist church. Yet apart from these debatable matters it contains some vivid and brilliant pictures of tho American troops, and many ex-service men of the 162nd will recognize many of the characters. j It is with this latest work. "Ho-j mer in the Sage Brush," that Mr. j Stevens finds his stride again. It is a book of fine stories linked by a' thin clear thread. It is indeed the first book of stories of first class merit and value to ever come out of these parts. The old days of As toria. The Dalles, Portland, Seat tle, Prineville, Tacoma, Vancou ver, Virginia Uity ana many towns in Idaho come to life again in these pages. There are stories of river captains, miners, sawmill hands, teamsters and bartenders. "The Dancehall fisherman." "The River Smeller," "Ike the Diver's Friend," and "The Bullpuncher" came very close to bein little classics. Never before has tl.e vast Oregon territory taken iu firm place in literature as It does here. The story of "The Hardshell El der" will bring memories to.many Old Baptists of the days when a preacher was a man as well as a figure to hammer ' in the pulpit. The story of "The Little Angel" will cause regretful sighs from those who swaggered and drank in the old days. Mr. Stevens Is the first writer of this northwest to give certain elements of that day their proper places in the saga of the past gen eration handling it all with ad mirable restraint and a very def inite art. He seems to have defin itely drawn off from .the Mncken influence and strikes boldly out on his own. With "Homer In the Sage Brush" he becomes the most dominant figure in the literary circles' of these parts and emerges very plainly as the "father" or northwestern literature. There has been no one before him with the talent anjiire to draw the vari ous - elements into a coherent whole, to attempt the story of the making of the west out or the raw materials the pioneers left. James Stevens lives in Tacoma. where he went after working in a bend, Oregon, sawmill while writ ing "Paul Bunyan." He was born on a farm at Albia, Iowa, and at the age of 10 lived In the sheep-and-cattle country around Weiser, Idaho. He became a hobo-laborer with the title of Appanoose Jim mie and worked throughout west ern logging camps, sawmills and on reclamation projects until he began to write. Since 1924 his articles and stories have appeared in the American Mercury, Satur day Evening Post, Plain Talk and Adventure magazine. He is occu pied at present on an article for the Mercury dealing with North western writers, and another ar ticle from his hand appears in the Saturday Evening Post for Septem ber 15. His many friends in Sa lem will read his latest book with keen enjoyment because it fully vindicates the faith they have had in him. Albert Richard Wctjen. Bits for Breakfast By R. J. Hendricks By asking for it S S Salem can get a furniture fac tory By just keeping on asking for it, and telling the reasons why this is the best place in the coun try for scores of furniture fac tories. - - u s s The same with major irriga tion projects, bee tsugar factor ies, and a long list of other things that would build Salem into a city with 100.000 people, and not be half started. S V Nature evens things. The faster your life, the sooner you get to slow music. V N Soon or late some hateful dry republican will quote Al as saying he'd rather be tight than presi dent. Exchange. With all the advance poll be ing taken on the coming election, a lot of candidates are taking their medicine through a straw Flint Journal. A mock air battle, with ten The son.Plaes participating, will be stag- uver Lonaon. m spite of its admittedly sham character. It may yield some casualties. Provi dence Journal. Hollywood ; Sunday ""Monday rhc dirt with in JT nana ) m Red tbif CLARA Y OWVV A A JC A Tuesday ' Wednesday IIIaATOF A FOLLIES GIRL All l Coming- : - A . ! Richard Barthelmess in j 'The Wheel of Chanced Richard Dix in, "Easy' Come, Easy Go. yx ... 1r ,. T Don't Let This Happen to You! I SMITH'S AUTOMOBILE was equipped with the beet "skid" chains money could bay, and be was driving slowly. No traffic law was broken sUH there was an accident. - Someone killed 1 Smith was "farslghted.' Do yonr eye glasses meet driving requirements? Blake -iuauHHOH p&one for an appointment. Pomeroy & Keene Jewelers and Optometrists Salem. Oregon ' Clouqh-Huflftoh Cb& History qfgafem andffje State of Oregon TtlE nations were beginning to awaken to the desirability and the value of the northwest, and we now approach an en of more or leas noticeable strife. The United States laid claim to this section on account of the settlement made by the party sent out by John Jacob As tor, and which early in the sprino; of 1811 established themselves o: the souih side of the Columbia River. Ycart of Experience are placed at the disposal of all who call upon us. This is one of the reasons, perhaps, why we are so often called. The public demands exper ienced service from the funer al director. CLOUGfrHUgrON C? ber . held down by Representative Bull-