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New York Is Republican
SIMON D. Fess, United States senator from Ohio, has just
mad a wmort on the situation in New York. He finds
that Al Smith in the four contests when he was elected gov
Mw YnrV lost the state outside of the" city of New
Ynrk hv an averaee of 364.733 votes. He has each time earn
ried the citv but in no case the state.
"New York is'republican in national affairs," says Senator
Fess ' "'-' .
Am a in annnrtrt of the statement he cites the fact that
Harding carried every county in the state over Cox, and re
ceived a ereater vote in every one of them for president than
Smith received for governor, iiaraing received waoa uue
votes for president than Smith received for governor. In
1924 Coolidge carried every county in the state over Davis
and won by a plurality oi 8t ,ztz. ms vote iur jjwuu
io qa7 mnr than Rmith received for irovernor. These fig
ures, Senator Fess argues, "show that the vote for governor
'cannot be taken as a gauge oi uie voie iw yrcaiu
: ' York,,
And he predicts this will be especialy true this year; that
Hoover's candidacy carries no contingencies adverse to repub
licans, save those wets who will place indulgence aoove pna-
cipte and that this will be more man overcome uy me J
democrats and the women's votes. Senatw Fess says in 1920
and 1924 the republicans had seven-tenths of the women s
vote, and this year that ratio will be increased. He thinks
former stay-at-homes upstate will be at the pojls early and
that the anti-Smith territory will come down to the -metropolitan
munties with the jrreatest avalanche of Hoover votes
HiHato in tho hisfcnrv nf New YorltftelectionS
. t. j:-- JiHn QmitK will lvuias follows: Lightning 4.528 or 32
- Ana senawr ress prc. y.v u. " IIZltH-r cent of the total; campers and
the republican business man in ine cuy, wno, wmie ne uwa h t . 2 217 r 1$ cent. in
"r for Smith for governor, will not vote for him for president; cendiarism, 2.136 or 15 per cent;
and in addition also Smith will lose to Hoover certain foreign
elements who will show their appreciation of Hoover's relief
service in saving from starvation the women and children of
the fatherland during the war. Senator r ess concludes nis
report with the following three paragraphs :
"The elements which are operating, as I find, them, are
strengthening republicans in republican- strongholds and
weakening the democrats in democratic strongholds. The in
dications are that this will continue to election.
"Both parties are well organized to get out the vote, which
'--will-be in Hoover s favor and will increase that advantage.
Hoover will become stronger from day to day, while Smith
will become weaker. Thjs appears inevitable from the char
acter of the issue, which tends to align all the moral issues
on-ttur side.
"The figures analyzed in th light of the present forces in
operation justify placing New York in the republican column
by a safe majority."
HUXTKRS DO CAUSE
FIRES, SATS PORESTKR
Salem, Ore., Sept 17.
To the Editor of the State mas:
Reference Is mads to the com
munication from Dr. Laban A.
Steeres appearing in your issue of
the Oregon Statesman yOf Septem
ber IS. -
In spite of the doctor's state.
ment of 30 years experience In the
woods, which most hare begun
when be was not yet Jiye years of
age. he shows enner a aeciaea
lack f information or a rare dis
regard of facts. - According to fig
ares compiled by the U. S. forest
serrice and the state forester's of
fice, the total number of fires and
the causes for the period of 1921
to 1927, tnclusire, are as follows:
Fires from all causes in the
forests of the state for the sevens
year period totalled 14,293, and
sre divided into the major causes
Chemists to Farm Rescue
CHEMISTRY proposes to do for the farm what it has al-
ready done for the industries other than those on the
land
And the record of that accomplishment promises great
things.
The American Chemistry society has launched a movement
intended in time to elevate the farmer to a position of great
prosperity, its leaders say agricultural waste in this country
alone amounts to a billion tons, of which, twenty millions of
tons are corn cobs and 150 million corn stalks. These cast-
offs are being put to work now, but there is need, says the
society, "for a careful and; systematic study by great num
bers of scientists on all substances and materials which
can be made from the fanner's products." TheTInstitute of
Chemistry is going to tackle this problem.
And the farmer of the future will not by any means depend
entirely on the prices he gets for his food crops.
The meat packing industries of the United States make
their net profits from what once went to waste. There are
saw mills in the Salem districts that are kept out of the
"red" by the utilization of the saw dust that was until recent-j
ly burned ; especially the part of that by-product that is used
for making paper. There is scarcely an industry apart from
those on the land of which this may not be said of some
branch of it, if not of the whole 0f.1t.
The most useful man of the present day in many respects is
the chemical engineer, and it is gratifying to know that he is
going to work in a major way for the industries on the land.
He will lift land values and farm prosperity as no one else in
the word can.
Life in Liechtenstein
MUCH is Ming made in European circles of the tiny prin
cipality of Liechtenstein where women vote, the jail is
empty, there is no poverty and an income tax of one per cent
meets all the bills. Before the war they paid no tax at all.
It sounds like an ideal sort of place
JBut Liechtenstein has 'only 62 square miles of territory,
.between Switzerland and Austria, or what-was part of
Austria before the war; has a population of only 10,000, and
a recent American visitor there found no automobiles. They
eke out a living farming the steep mountainsides. Most of
them don't know what an electric light looks like! They have
one good dirt road. (They haven't a soldier or sailor, cannon
or warship, merchant vessel or airplane.
The placid, uneventful life they lead may be idl right for
the Liechtensteiners, but it has no compelling appeal for the
great outsrae wona.. -
smokers, 1,973 or 14 per cent, and
lorrlne 649 or S per cent. These
figures absolutely refute Dr.
Steeres' statement to the effect
that 'hunters and campers cause
the smallest number of fires of
all. It will tbus be seen that
campers and hunters lead the list
In the number of man-caused fires.
Lightning fires do not originate
from a preventable cause' and
hence cannot be considered In
analyzing man-cansed fires. Dis
regarding these, it will be seen
that the camper and hunter is re
sponsible for nearly 25 per cent or
one fourth of all man-caused fires.
These figures are public records
and can be checked by any. one
who desires to do so.
The above figures also show
nnwis BdiUBduioa jaqnini am n?tn
second in fire causes is absolute
ly erroneous. It is evident that
the doctor's safsinformation comes
from his 30 years experience and
observation without an effort to
check the facts. Perhaps he
makes the same assumption that
the general public does in that he
considers a'ny fire Ih a slashing
as a forest fire.; while in fact the
majority of slashing fires are
fires that are set under permit
and are supervised by a warden
or ranger. It is only when they
escane from the area for which
the permit Is Issued that they are
classed as forest fires.
: It is, true that as a rule the
camner and hunter is careful with
fire in the woods. Nevertheless. It
is also true that whenever there
has been a long, continued drouth
prior to the opening of the deer
season, immediately It opens there
is a sudden Jump in the number of
fires that have Co be handled by
the ' already overworked wardens
who are In the employ of the tim
ber owners and the state.
This vear will finish my fortieth
(beginning 1889) in timber work
in Oregon, the greater part of this
time spent out in the field, ana
while I do not claim to know all
there Is to know about saving the
forests from fire. I probably feel
about as young Dr. Steeves would
if I were to come out with a long
dessertation telling him how to
handle his business,- which I
know nothing whatever about.
P. A. ELLIOTT.
State Forester.
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A .Nw Yorker at Large
Rr C3. D. Senaoor
NEW YORK.- Roving at ran
dom from the Battery's wall
to Central Park, anyone may tee;
The girl art student, leaning
against' Washington's statue in
front of the Wall street sub-treas
ury whUV she sketches the tower
of Trinity church. The, elam-ven
dor on Mulber
ry street, his
cart surround
ed by. hungry
ghetto . dwell-
r s. : scooping
steamed clams
from the shell
with . adept
tangoes. " Agi
tated y m n g
f o 1 k, - youths
and girls, ges
turing in vigor
ous arguments
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A Washington Bystander
CLICKS
A couple of tropical twisters
and Florida's much advertised
real-estate developments have
gone back, to swamp, sand and
pine barrens. -
WASHINGTON It is a-whim
sical twist that puts the republi
can national campaign organiza
tion in danger of becoming an un
willing source of financial contri
butions to the war che6t of John
ny Raskob, generalissimo of the
Al Smith campaign. Yet such is
the case right here in Washing
ton, the nerve center of the Hoov
er drive for the presidency.
It happens that Hoover Great
ueneral Headquarters, to which
the republican
Jiominee was
Introduced on
his return from
Palo Alto, is lo
cated in a Mass
achusetts ave
enue mansion
belonging to
Mrs. Francois
Moran, aged
83. It i one of
two big city
homes Mrs.
Moran owns.
C k A VAt t
ia L. Slav. The other: "Tut
on more socially elect Wyoming
avenue.
There wassa day when Massa
chusetts avenue was the very core
of the residential section favored
by the rich and great It still
discloses huge piles of masonry,
many with for sale begins, in cer
tain blocks of its wide, tree bor
dered stretch, sacred from the
profaning touch of street car rails.
Names that bulk large in the so
cial or business world are connect
ed with these castles. Very rarely
is there a name of political promi
nence, past or present.
-By Kirk L. Sinpsotv
Salem's Chamber of Commerce
has started a , membership drive
No merchant can afford to forego
membership in this live organisa
tion.
War Conscription Favored
fESOLUTIONS favoring conscription of Wealth, labor and
MX property, as well as. man power of the nation in case of
j war, antf indorsing the Kellogg, treaty to .outlaw, war were
adopted at the recent-annual reunion of tlie Second Oregon
United States volunteers, held -in Laurelhurst pirk, Portland,
recently. Copies of the resolution were forwarded . to the
president of the United States, the governor of Oregon and
to the Oregon senators and representatives in congress.
"Individuals, like nations, jBee'm to have trouble in. deal
ing with the soviet Russian government. , Oregon men con
tracted to supply 1700 horses but the agents for the Soviets
rejected many of the first shipment and refused to examine
' the remainder of the horses offered., A suit for $71,500 Is
the result of this effort to open trade negotiations with these
erratic people-who are law unto themselves and refuse, to
be guided by accepted standards of honesty in business."
xcnange. The Oregon men should have known better.1 On
the average, Oregon men able to handle a deal for 1700
horses do. v' ' . . - -
t Indications are that Colonel Lindburgh must cave in
herited much of his common sense from his mother. Mrs.
Lindburgh, instead of loafing at home and basking in the
glory of her aon's fame has gone to .Turkey to teach in a
. ' a ' - : . '
The democratic leaders are using a megaphone, with a
calhope accomrjaniment, to shout their song against the
yiiuaycrmg campaign.
. A Moscow newspaper says the people of the Russian cap
ital drink more vodka than milk in a year. The milk must be
.terrible, , . ' ,v -, , -
Hoover very properly rapped Al
SmRh's plan for letting down the
immigration barriers.. The quick
est way to ruin this country
would be to admit a flood of cheap
Ehropean labor.
Salem's boys and girls are look-
ing'forward to next week, but not
because the fair opens then.
A man who hunted without a
license shot and killed Sfcnother
whom he mistook for a deer. Won-1
der how' much slaughter he would
have committed if he had obtained
his license?
I Isn't it almost time for certain
Portlanders to attempt to lay the
blame for Salem's sewer stench
upon the state supreme court?
" A hot coin tossed from a Port
land 'hotel window burned a hole
in a woman's hat. Ours burn holes
in our pocket and they're not so
hot, either.
Landlady Smith Fan
Having followed the march of
fashion to her home farther out.
Mrs. Moran had her Massachusetts
lvenue home on her hands when
the Hoover forces began looking
around for a suitable personal
headquarters for the nominee.
The former commerce secretary
did not want the business of the
campaign to intrude on his home
life on S street, just a .few doors
up the hill from the house to
which "Woodrow Wilson retired
from the White House and where
he died.
The Moran house, close by one
of the busy circle hubs of car and
motor traffic, offered a very suit-
aDie site lor Hoover purposes and
it was promptly snapped up. The
nominee holds forth there, reserv
ing only the most private and con
fidential of his conferences for his
S street home and dinner table
treatment.
And not until it was all an ac
complished fact, with the head
quarters throbbing with the pun
of manifolding machines grinding
out campaign "handouts" and the
clatter of typewriters and the bus.
tie of folks coming and going on
campaign business, did It develop
that Mrs. Moran is an, ardent
Smith fan. Her voting residence
is Virginiaand she has announc
ed her intention not only of vot
ing for the New York governor's
election, but of working for it
hard, as will all the members of
hers of her family.
September 19, 1903
Attendance at the state fair
fell off a little from the high
figures of yesterday, when more
tnan Zu.OOQ were id-attendance
The sale of fine registered stook
at the fair grounds has not prov
ed very successful, only a few
bidders appearing.
Hon. P. H. D Arcy has been la
vlted to deliver the memorial ad
in front of the c o.m munis t
headquarters opposite Union
square. In token of school days.
wrinkled Canal street hawker
ith his two-wheeled barrow
aeaped with red. green' and yellow
pencils, two for a cent.
Allen street, once a lane of
dives,' how bright with quilting
spread for exhibit in front of its
vlry goods stores, and agleam with
urass, bronze and wrought iron
rare. The market for candelabra
and metal ornaments has centered
along this narrow way where the
-ifvated trains -overhead seem al
most to scrape the sides of the
tenements as they clatter along.
Here and there is an expensive
motor car parked beside the curb,
its owner a collector, looking in.
side a shop for a finely-hammered
xnlck knack.
and cleaner sidewalks of Park
avenue. The modest sign over a
drug store that la still only a dru?
tore: "N. Who Is Known A
A Very Good Apothecary."
Old men browsing in second
hand bookstores along Fourth av.
nue. . Youngsters posting f Souk.
oat to watch for the superlnten.
dent while they steal a game of
handball against the forbidden
wall , of an apartment build ine
The Japanese restaurant on Sixth
avenue, where seaweed is the most
popular dish. Yon may have it
boiled, bated or broiled, and the
culinary operation will be per
formed before your 'eyes on a ga
plate brought to your table. It U
dark green, and paper-thin.
A butterfly, strange fugitive
from a florist's shop, trying to fly
across Fifth avenue and being.'
whirled about in tha wind oC
speeding traffic.
ft
Seaweed For launch
A boy bootblack, his box ol
brushes quite obscured bcu'ind u
gaudy campaign poster pamed ou
its sides. A wrinkled matriarch
ui wkite lace cap and raggeu
ihawT, taking her dog tor a wain
ith as mucn pomp as if she were
periorming that rue ou the widti
i ' p-n."'' Ski
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dress commemorating the hun
dredth anniversary of the death
of Ireland's martyr, Kobert Emmet.
H. H. Market, the new physi
cal director of the Salem Y. M.
C. A. has arrived in Salem and
w ill begin his duties at once.
The fine buggy of J. R. Lnn,
hop merchant, was completely df
mollshed when the horse took
fright and ran away as Mrs. Lini
was untying him from the yard at
the home. 540 State street.
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NURSES know, and doctors have
declared there's nothing quite like
Bayer Aspirin for all sorts of aches
and pains, but be sure it is genuine
Bayer ; that name must be on the -package,
and on every tablet. Bayer
is genuine, and the word genuine
red is on every box. You can't go T
wrong if you will just look at the box:
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Where Rent Figures
Rent for the Hoover headquar
ters, which will come out of war
chest Dr. Work and his aides are
busily trying to fill, will go into
a new motor car, Mrs. Moran
avers; but may not some of it bei
put into that work for Smith, or
may not the new car be used to
boost Governor Al's. candidaey?
What could be fairer for a Smith
worker than so to use money ob
tained from Hoover sources, and
Mrs. Moran has already done a
little mass meeting' work among
the women of Washington is
Smith's behalf. '
Bits for Breakfast
One thing about observance of
Constitution Day was .that most
people found out what ft was all
about, for the first time."
Perhaps Portland's city council
was looking at that Canyon Road
spending orgy when It used the
pruning knife so ruthlessly the
jther day. t
. "Now that the primary scrap is over there will be more
time to pick apples," remarks the Yakima Republic.
Belcrest memorial park
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What Is it and what does it
mean?
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This enterprise is far enouzh
along now to speak definitely. Bel
crest memorial park is 50 acres of
rery good land that was until a
short time ago a part of the Bruce
Cunningham farm. It is about 10
minutes drive from downtown Sa
lem south on the Pacific highway,
then on the county paved market
road a short distance, with a rrav-
eled road turning west leading a
few hundred feet to the entrance
of the park. This graveled road
will later be paved. The owners of
me park have dedicated a atria
for the proposed sky line boule
vard that will lead another way
"um aaiem to the park.
This is the fourth memorial
park of just its kind in the United
oiaies. i ne oiners are the ? Val
halla. St. Louis; Glen Abbey San
Diego, and Lake View. Minnea
polis. How just the kind as Bel
crest? V
In that all the montv received
from the sale of the first hnrlal
sections.: 10 by It feet, suitable
for .six interments each, with the
fc.r m 7 irceniage-ior
o - ji v.u9a, kvci id ine
By H. J. HsswiricW
igain Is to be the vogue. Has that
tnything to do with the approach
f winter?
Fashion's arbiters say
runu This goes on here till the
ouuaing i or improvement fund
reaches f tO.000 and the endow,
ment. fund $7C.ooa. Tha endow
ment fund draws Interest: is loan
ed the same as other trust fund?
re loaned, as provided' by law. I
Till last forever- I -t! A
The average Oregonian nov. I ban this. ii .m in.-
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Next we shall, of coursas have
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the burial charges. Tha markers
will be about $37.50 and the bur
ial services $25. So every new In
terment will add to the endowment
fund, and thus give more means to
perpetuate the improvements and
further beautify the property.
Enough sections have already
been sold to provide for the im
provements to be undertaken with
in next few months, ' and enough
sales are in process of being
made to pay for all the improve
ments and make up the whole of
the original $76,000 of endowment
money.
So Belcrest memorial park is a
certainty. It will be there forever;
a beauty spot. Too location is su
perb. The outlook is grand. It wUl
never be a mere "graveyard."
There will never be any tomb
stones, to disintegrate and decsjc
and tumble over. The bronxe mar
kers will be flush with the surface
of the park, which will be one 'per
petual green lawn, set in sur
roundings of flowers and shrubs
and shady walks and lakes a
setting of permanent and : peren
nial beauty. , f S
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No matter what profits may ae-
erue to the- promoters; no matter
what gains may come to the orlg
inal buyers of sections, in the long
run, as well as the short run, this
ts the cheapest kind of a j burial
place, becaufe of the elimination
of the cost of tombstones, "concrete
m other mrba, annual care, etc,
rhese are all eliminated on taken
re of by. the .endowment; fund.
EI
ers for the interment "and from
From Maine comes word! that a
TOfde who wore a. suit of striped
Iack and wuite ticking was-killed
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