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&ALEIJ. 0EEG0H THURSDAY Sept. 27, 1028 Earl C. B&owklee Sheldon F. Sackett Publishers itorfa 'mm 'eaftores Ed A great deal of the joy of the life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, every thing which he attempts to do. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic. William Matthews. Thf Hone of" Dreamers ' mHE abolition of poverty has been the hope ofareamers A throughout the ages. It was in the mind of Plato when he set forth the plan of his "Republic," which he believed ;v, w nrVoi so tVio vrfeet f orm of jrovernment. It was c;- TKrmn Mnrs ''Utorjia." It was the mam thought of Cabet and Saint jSimon and Fourier of the early Robertus and Karl Marx and Ferdinand, Lassalle and others of the German school j Indeed, from the Esseries in their communistic villages of ancient Israel to the modern settlements in America where property is held in common, as in the Amana society in w, this dream has been dreamed. ' Now, Mrs. Raymond Robins, who has undertaken the task of directing the campaign activities among the indus trial women of the United States, gives as her reason for ac cepting this responsibility the statement that "never before has a practical statesman set out to prove how, to a very - large measure, that idealistic state can be attained Ke I erring 10 neroen xiuuver aa mc f101-""" man" who has undertaken the task of "providing a job for every man and woman whoi needs it." Mrs. Robins has been in the thick of the fight for better laboring conditions in this country for years. She wi s pres ident of the National Woman's Trade Union league for fif teen years, president of theilriternational Congress of Work ing Women for six years, and served on the committee on education of the American Federation of Labor. vT- "The increasing use of machinery takes sweat from the backs of men, but it also takes jobs from them ; it is throwing men out of work by the thousands, says Airs. KODinson, ana the argues that this makes a tremendous problem, but she asserts that, fortunately for the nation, we have available the services of "the greatest economic mind of the age." She de clares that Herbert Hoover is "the one man who has the vision, the experience and the ability to handle the situation," and provide a job for every man and woman who needs it. One woman in every five in this country works, says Mrs. Robins. People as a whole do not realize the extent to which women are employed in factories today, she says. She declares that these factory jwomen must vote for Hoover to prevent their standards of living being lowered to European levels. ', Hie two principal women who will hel Mrs. Robins in her campaigning among worhen industrial workers are a boot ixud ixicc worker and a glove worker by trade. Tne people of Salem have heard Mrs. Robins in some of the hot campaigns of the past; and they have also heard her distinguished husband a number of times. He 13 one 01 tne ablest platform orators in this country. tTMU i From the Inside tE New York World, one of the most conspicuous sup- X Dorters of Smith, condemns his stand on immigration: .. 1 : 1 j v.. - 1- calls it a nunwise proposal,: wmcn can uu uotuiiig uui awak en antagonisms and jealousies without any compensating na tional benefit." The World gays: "The plan which seems to be Governor Smith's, is to base the quotas on the 1910 or 1920 census. The effect of this would be to decrease thequbtas of Germany, the Irish Free State, and Great Britain, and to increase the quotas of Italy, Poland. Greece, and Russia.! "No quota system can, of course, be ideally satisfactory ....n,lu4ir Tha wortr affhrf rf T-OQrritl ATI , which la nrtTO a settled national policy, involves disappointment and dissatis faction. But the present law is in operation, nd there is no sense in reopening the question and starting a debate all over again as to what percentage of Irishmen, Germans, ,Poles, and Italians should be admitted each year." Mr. Hoover in his acceptance speech favored an amend ment to remove the provision that causes the separation of families, which Smith offered in his acceptance speech as one of his reasons for demanding a change in the quota While Mr. Hoover holds that the quota basis now in ef fect carries out the essential principles of the law. The difference is as wide as the poles ; and the immigra tion question is becoming one of the hottest of the issues be fore the voters inNovembe4 as it ought to be. The prosper-j ity of the United States' demanding as a prerequisite a job f or every1 man and woman with a will to work, is as much1 bound up in this as is the protective tariff as enunciated in the republican platform. j The present quota gives Us around 4,000,000 immigrants a year, or something like 1,000,000 new laborers, not counting those who slip in over the Canadian and Mexican lines and the "indirect immigration," or the births in the United States I And the total of new workers coming in and coming on now is as large as we can in safety digest. No one not total ly and hopelessly tarred with the Tammany stick can deny this. I 1 r Is This Our Gene? 1 iuv . s. -jxssmmmmmmm II NICE. 0 UUfcfcN MAKlki. J5v 'iMI im iUmUr rToMg IMB&JJl TO vvl Afrt 5ZZ V V-7 ' I ; vV TJI QW" 111 I ' " ' 1 , i A Washington Bystander Sr Kirk L. Simpson WASHINGTON There is no cies and all for years constantly Lmore lonely or aloof spot in Wash ington in these days of hectic pre election political speculation than the majestic capitol building it self; the rery hub of the nation's political life. With its rast bulk looming grandly from the gardened hillside of its setting at the eastern end of the mile or so of Pennsylvania avenue, which is the gamut of public life ip Washin gtoce the gteat build - lne is all but m deserted by its Klrka i- lnpsoi usual uproari- ' ous political population. 11 is given over to the care takers and the slow trickle of late sinnmer tiourlst traffic wandering about the echoing corridors to barken as tired voiced official guides re cite for the millionth time the story of its evolution. Not a baker's dozen of senators or representatives Is to be found of the two office buildings which house their personal quarters. Hardly a handful of the perma nent employes of congress of any rank remains on the job. The political lords of all the mm pomp ana circumstance are on mending fences at home or taking their share in the national cam paign. Their henchmen of the con gressional payroll are away vaca- tionfng pr doing their political Dit for te man or the party to whom they owe their Jobs. Set Amidst Beauty Never is the scenic setting or this structure, which is tne polit ical heart of America, more beau tiful than in this season of the year, Down the sweeping hillside! roll the 'old lawns, smooth, close cropped green velvet under gold-j n sunlight. Mighty shade trees, each a perfect, specimen of its spe under the watchful eyes of skilled tree-dentists who hare plugged every burrowing inroad of decay with life-saving cement, cluster In Dicturesaue irregularity among the bordering clumps of many hued shrubbery. On the wide, empty reaches of the terrace, where all a long bright day will net see a hundred people pass, the stone boxes that greet each season with its own special btossoms and coloring are aflame with scarlet sage, vma arainst the neutral tint of the stone work. The noise of the city below comes up to this place of peace and aulet as a vague, far off hum of life, all but lost la tne rustle and sigh of the wind among the old trees, trees ihat tomorrow will, be flaming themselves in a k-iot of red and yellow and orange under the first touch of nipping frost. Quadrennial Quiet Only at four year intervals does this brief time of restful uiet brood over the capitol. It is al most invariably coincident with the summer recess of congress in preparation for presidential elec tions. Then only does the grinding of the cumbersome government legislative mill stop utterly; then only is it that the continuing com mittees, busy with a score of prob lems! stand a ad pause while their members get about their own or their parties' political business out in the country where the votes are. Among the government depart ments in the city down below there is always the steady, day -by day business of government in progress. Cabinet officers and high officials may come and go on summer official jaunts- or va cation outings; but the daily grind keeps up for hundreds . of petty chiefs and the tens of thous ands of government clerks, mere are never enough of those away at one time to make their absence noticeable in the rush hours of the day, LOEBi LEOPO NOT TO GO FR Denials Made as to Likeli hood of Obtaining Par dons for Slayers re 4 111' p m. he A Yankee Roams Abroad It Is Too Low THE current Salem chamber of commerce weekly bulletin, under the heading, "Why Salem Population Is 27,000," says: i - - - "All estimates of population of cities are made on, the - 1920 census, and then the increase in water users, telephones, school enrollment, electricity users and postal receipts. The average' increase since 192Q of the five named is 63 per cent. An Rstimafo 97 W rvnrilof in i or. inoroooa nf nn per cent 6'ver the 1920 census. zM '- xiiixi is au ngiii. oaium s present population, in wnai is termed her metropolitan district is more than 27,000 That is, including all her suburbs, sucbyas West Salem and the built up sections to the north, east and south, not now within the corporate limits But the census takers1 of 1930 will not be allowed to enumerate any one not within the city limits or fixed there by actual ties, like those of a student away at school, or a crammer, etc., etc if balem wants to show up in the 1930 AAw0ta Mrlth A WAMI 'Jfl fuVI wwwiilAftAU .-mJM l- - . M v-uouo w iwi oivuim puUiauuU -aim W ula&e SUTc it, sue wiu nave 10 move in ims airecuon dv frettuur tne uuui, uy buuuius lulu uie city 111111 us. - - " T A. 1.1 1 r-m 1 1 ' n wust ueiorv tue xiu census was laxen, wnen ueorcre r- T - J A . . - xvoagers was mayor, me penicemiary ana asylum were voted into the city limits, by a majority of the residents of those a. ' 1 ll m . II 1 a a mm a a. sections ana 01 tne Dauois cast oy tne residents 01 tne city at the special election held for the purpose. (There were, of course, not many votes cast in the outside districts. There would be more, many more now. Manifestly, the inmates of - a a. . a a a tne two insutuiions aia not vote, nor a largre proportion 01 the employees; the latter mostly having their actual legal residence eisewnere.1 " r . , -.- - But all inmates were counted in Salem's population, in both the 1910 census and that of 1920. They had a right to be, under tne census rues,! (Even a man in a city jail has his residence there, though he remain only a night.) Salem is a city of 30,000 population now, counting the residents of her built up suburbs. LONDON English society claims few more fascinating or dashing members than the Mahar ani of Cooch Behar, who is known as India's most beautiful princess. She has taken a hunting-box at exclusive Melton-Mowbray, where the Prince of Wales rides, and is riding to hounds this season. There's modern India for you! If one were seeking an up-to late heroine for an Indian novel, she could be found in this lithe bobbed-hair enchantress, who has defied all the rules of the Orient for the repression of women. The maharani is the widow of the late Maharajah of Cooch Be har, who died young, and is the mother of the small heir to the throne. She is daughter of that famous potentate, the Gaekwar of Baroda. America will remember her brother, the late Prince Jai Singh, who blazed a fiery trail across the firmament of Harvard a few .years ago by means of a Monte Cristo income and an in clination to spend it. By DE WITT MACKENZIE man-eating tigers come from. The prince was known as about the greatest sport India boasted, and the dignified gaekwar didn't ap prove of the match. The gaekwar told his pretty. black-eyed goddess that she could tear this particular rose from her heart. There was some weeping, but the black eyes flashed a warn ing which the princely pap didn't see. He put his foot down. The princess also put one of her own dainty feet down, and then she put the other down before it. She kept on putting them down in this progressive manner until she ran into the arms of her handsome shiek. In other words, she eloped. The gaekwar naturally was ruf fled, and a coolness sprang p be tween him and his daughter. It was some three years before they "made it up." This reconciliation took place during a conference of 40 of In dia's greatest princes, among Modem Maid The princess provided her ro mantic land with one love story it won't forget soon. She gave her affections to the youthful Mahara jah of Cooch Behar, who ruled a rich state In Bengal, where the Princely Whims The prince, like his sister, was independent so much so that he gave the gaekwar some worry. I myself prevented a "scene" at a leading hotel, when the prince suddenly decided he would show bis American-bred spirit of dem ocracy by calling a tonga to ride through the principal streets of the capital to a 6tore he wished to visit. A tonga is a straw-littered two-wheeled cart, something like an Irish Jaunting car, used by the lower classes. It is drawn by an emaciated horse, driven by an evilly dirty native. The porch of the hotel was rill ed with princes, and I protested to Jai Singh against the scheme When he was obdurate, I put down my foot, a la gaekwar. "Don't forget you are the son of the gaekwar," I said. "Princes don't ride in tongas. If you do this it will make yotT ridiculous and will hurt your father. I won't per- A New Yorker at Large Rv G. D. SVvTnour whom the gaekwar was one of jinit you to get into that cart, but the most powerful. Prince Jai Singh also was in Delhi, for no greater reason than that1 he wish ed to amuse himself. I saw much of him, because he liked to talk about America and the good old days. He was fed up with his life in India; the United States had spoiled him for the Orient Bits for Breakfast 1 A youthful Milwaukee -inventor who was working for a salary of $30 a week invented a gas burner which not only burns 100 per cent of the !gas but which cannot be extin guished when a pot boils over.; Now he receives a salary of $15,000 a year and owns one-fourth bf the stock in a $300,000 . a. 1 1 a. a j a- 1 corporation tnat nas oeeu toxmeu w maauiaciure we Durn-i Mrs. IV, W. Osbom of Eugene era. Opportunity sun vjmocjra iinnidoen once at every gsasrt jisitinc at the home of e. f. Portland day at fair 'b V Also Willamette valley day : and it will not be out of order for Sa lem ites to go out and help the metropolis to break another record. It is open house at the state in stitutions this week. A severe test on the rules of hospitality at every one of them. Bat they be long to the whole people, as does the state fair itself m And yesterday it looked like ev ery owner was coming during the week to inspect his or her property. V That would be an Impossibility, but if every state fair visitor could inspect and understand the 'opera-. uons land prospects of the indus tries at the state prison, there would be no question about -the unanimous support of the people of Oregon getting behind the pro gram for 8000 acres of flax for the state flax industry, to say nothing of the building of a new 11 an arrangement could be made to issue low interest bonds on the project itself, the iorlson could buy 1590 acres of land that would be needed for a sew: plant, and begin to erect thereon the industrial and other buUdings. gradually transferring the opera tions to the new site, and finally selling the old site, and using part of the equipment and mater als and junking tfaTrest i The whole charge of the' inter est could be met, together with a sinking fund that would wine out the principal In & short neriod of years, besides maintaining the ( By R- J. Hendricks entire cost of running the insti tution. in otner woras, sucn an ar rangement would result in taking the cost of maintaining the insti tution from the backs of the tax payers and this might be done at ence; at one stroke. The indus tries would both maintain the in stitution and pay for the new land and buildings and equipment. That was done by the Minnesota penitentiary at Stillwater, the new site containing 1000 acres, in 1905. and there is now a surplus of over $4,000,000 in the revolv ing fund; which could be increas ed at the rate of 1500,000 to 1. 000,000 a year, and still allow the ales to the fanners of that state of binding twine agd farm-- ma chinery and rope at prices under those . paid by farmers in other states for the same supplies. And the Stillwater institution sends to Yucatan, Mexico, and the Philippines for most of the raw materials sisal and manlla hemp, whereas practically all the raw materials for the Oregon prison industries may be grown or found here at home, V There is another great advan tage here in Oregon making the prison industrial operations the basis of building up vast private ly owned industries, like linen mills, etc. i V The papers are making a good deal of the faot that a Pullman porter named Charles Curtis is go ing to vote for his namesake on the republican ticket. Salem can match the story. There's' a fellow in town named Smith who. is also going to vote for his namesake, I will get a motor car." n I borrowed a car from an In dian friend and accompanied the prince to a pottery store, where be bought, with scarcely a glance about half the-stock for his "mu seum" in Baroda. M. E. church will convene in Sa lem next Tuesday. Over 200 peo ple are expected to be in attend ance. The season's work of the T. M C. A. will open this afternoon. The Willamette university fac ulty met last night and organized for the ensuing year's work. Prof W. P. Drew was chosen secretary, Freeman Eldredge of Fairfield Is a Salem visitor. -Salem wood dealers report that Salem residents are faced with a wood shortage for the winter and several dealers are ordering con siderable quantities of coal. r rawSs Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talk From the Statesman Oar . tthers Read At the end of the second day fori tbe new year In the Salem schools the total enrollment had 4306. a gain of 118 over the previous day, figures compiled late yesterday showed. The second day total this year is 42 more than the same period a year ago. 1 There are scores of children who have not -reported to school for the year, superintendent George W. Hug reports. A number of children are still working in the canneries and It is presumed otb- srs have preferred to attend fair this week, than, to report to school. Englewood, 34; "Garfield. 46; Grant. 2; Highland. 54; Lincoln, 23, McKlnley, 16; Richmond, 34; and Washington, 29i u The second day enrollment fot this year and last shows these figures: , 192? Englewood ; 2 SO Garfield ,, , ; 203 Grant ; 302 Highland 2-71 Lincoln L-- 140 NEW YORK Every town, how ever large or small, possesses some vacant lot which attains dis tinction as the center of itinerant events. It is the circus grounds, the baseball field, the site of the visiting evangelist's tabernacle. In New York such passing shows came to anchor for years 0 the plot between upper Broadway and the Hudson river at 168th street. Tbe New York club of the American League had its baseball dia mond there in pre- Ruthian days when . it was called not the Yankees but the Highlanders the name com ing from the el evation of the site. When Bil ly Sunday waged York campaign stood on the circus and to the GL D. Seymour his last New his tabernacle plot, and many a carnival preferred it indoor arena of Madison Square Garden. Now the New York Medical Cen ter owns the property, ana nas already reared $20,000,000 worth of buildings in a project which is ultimately to contain a dozen units and a $40,000,000 plant. But another vacant lot has been found. It is just north of the Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, and carnivals, boy baseball teams and wild west shows keep in tumult all summer. what was until lately a grassy open space between two buildings. Ineffective Wit A professional man of this city. retired with competence, visited England this summer and deter mined to gratify an old longing for a suit of clothes tailored in Bond street, London. He entered at . random one of the oldest and most conservative shops. While he was being measured he request ed that the hip pock of his trousers be made particularly am ple. The tailor answered that the suits he fashioned contained no hip pockets, but the customer persisted. I have a ranch in the west," he explained when he was able to make no progress otherwise, ana I need a place to carry my pistols '' "Pistols!" asked the tailor, with a startled look. "Certainly," said the profession al man. ."Out there my neighbor and I exchange greetings each morning with pistol shots." "But, sir, that must be a haz ardous practice." "Oh, no. A slight flesh wound now and then, but never anything serious." The tailor dropped his poise and his tape line and exclaimed : "Why that's the most amazing thing I ever heard of!" The gentleman departed chuck ling at his strategy. When he re turned his suit was completed. It had no hip pockets. CHICAGO. Sept. 26. (Al'i An. assertion by HInton g. na bsugh. chairman of the s.atB board of pardons and paroles, that Richard Loeb and Nathan I pold. slayers of Bobby Frar V could apply for parole in sc . . n more yero, uue 10 an error in papers committing them to j, penitentiary for life, today with general denials that t was any possibility of tbe "t: slayers" obtaining their free,: Clabough asserted that commuimem papers or ixeb and and Leopold, sentenced to l'f for murder and 99 years for kid naping, did not provide for ton. secutive sentences and as a re-. it the sentences ran concurre-.:;v with the life sentence taking pre cedence. He declared (hat slayers whom be described as 'pampered pets of Joliet," serving a life sentence would eligible to apply for a parole 20 years and that time off good behavior would reduce that to a little more than eleven y-.tr imprisonment. They have alu.tdy served four years. William A. Rittenhouse, first assistant to Robert E. Crowe, te state's attorney, who prosecir. l he slayers, declared that "if Xr. Clabangh and his board does iM duty there Is no way to get tho- boys out until death releases them," edding that both Judp3 and prosecutor had gone on .rv ord when the boys were sentenced against ever giving them their freedom. Clarence Darrow. noted crlmln.-y al lawvpr whnw ripfpnne of tho l! 111 I... in for youths generally was accredited with saving them from the gal lows, characterized Mr. Clabatigh'H assertions as "a lot of bunk," and "the brain child of somebody suf fering from a brainstorm." He de clared that the slayers could n t apply for parole until they had served 20 years, and that th. could not obtain their freedom then if anyone objected. Judge John R. Caverly who pn- sidd at the trial said he had n-v- er discussed the case since pas.s:iK sentence and never Intended to do so. The Servant Problem Variation 6,837 of the Servant Joke concerns the housewife whose negro maid fell ill on the day of a dinner party and des patched to the rescue of her hos tess a girl of less experience. "Can you serev?" asked the hostess. "Oh, yes," the girl as sured her, and she listened atten tively while her mistress explained the arrangements for the dinner. The guests arrived and dinner was announced. The party enter ed the dining room to find the maid seated in the master's chair at the head of the table, the roast before her and the carving knife clutched in her right hand. WORLD'S LARGEST MI DESSAU, Germany, Sept 26.--(AP) German aviation interests are continuing their Tjuest for now air records following upon comple tion of the huge Zeppelin dirlgiblo that is to attempt a flight to Am erica, the Jankers works'announc- ! . ed today that Is is constructing a-AjS wings capable of accommodatin fifty passengers. The, company is also completing a new type of sport and stunt machine which it is hoped break the world's speed record. The Leviathan plane, known as J-38 is so large that It cannot Ih built in any of the shops here ard construction Is, therefore proceed ing in the open air. The machine has a span of 147.6 feet and a length of 75.5 -feet. It will h powered with four motors of 501 horsepower each. llfiEOEST IN RID GIIOWS IN AUSTRIA Sept. 27, 1903 . A list of il new books have been added to the Odd Fellows li brary by the association.. Oaborn, 17 Court street. Julius Wolf. Silverton -hop buy er, waa transacting business here yesterday. McKlnley Park . Richmond Washington Parrish Junior . Leslie Junior Senior High .226 .233 .212, -256 -T74 -405 -42 1928 308 290 266 267 166 ,224 240 229 191 :s2t S6f 93: VIENNA-i (AP)- Love of good music that can be obtained at lit tle cost from the air has resulted in a steady Increase In the num ber of radio listeners in Austria. In the last 12 months. 45.875 lis teners have been added to bring the total to 293,408. Licenses are required on many receivers, the subscriptions, which goes to .the broadcasting company, being graded according to the in come of the head of the household. The i ee is 30 cents per month on earnings below 8100 a month, and 85 cents if above that figure. The biggest fee is paid by radio dealers living in cities of more than 20.000 population. On the other band, a large nam her of private Individuals and In stltutions are exempt. At present there are 4,373 households of de serving unemployment, 922 blind persons and 186 . ; hospitals and kindred establishments which are not assessed. In Reserving cases, '.he cost of Installation is borne by the broadcasting company. ' The Oregon conference of the Total .- 4264 A scientist says the feet bf a bee are Its organs of communication. Poealbly. when eommnnicAtln 4396 with lu-oirn Jdnd Toledo Blade. No. 4 of a Series of 4 Educative Talks Outside People Are "Watching This Company Sale of stock in the Western Paper Converting Co. has not been confined to Salem. - Men throughout the state who know about the wonderful field of operation for this plant have been quick to see its future and to invest in such a plant. Stock Sale Soon To End To finance new build ing operations a small amount of common and preferred stock is yet available. People Interested ' in making purchases at par should consult . . . HENRY JONES Fiscal. Agett Office Phone 2358 Home Phone 696 A typical telegram received last week by Henry Jones, fiscal ag ent for tbe company. Is from C. L. Barton of Portland, and reads: "Understand your company to pay dividend soon. If so re serve me one hundred shares of stock." Western Paper Converting Co. is not a promotion proper ' ty but a rapidly growing, high ly successful manufacturing plant. It's gross , business in three years has risen from $225,000 to $600,000 annually. 'It's capiat stock authorized is $300,000 with $145,000 sold. Its present operations call for a new building and for a limit ed time $45,000 stock Is avail able tor public sale! Western Paper- Conrerting Co. PO. Box'367 afem--.Tei 2358 - esMes eases mmmt mmtm ; ; INFORMATION BEQUEST 'Without obligation or cost, please supply me with further mf ormation regardino; your plan of distriba- u?!Lf hmited portion of CapitaLStock set aside for working capital. Please send this, request to the home office,, Salem, attention of Henry S. Jones, - financial manager. - . (NAME)! (ADDRESS). V 1 z 1 ;