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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1928)
Earl C; Brownlee Sheldon F. Sackett Polishers Salem. Oregon FRIDAY Sept. 28. 1928 Editorial L As good almost kill as tnan as kill a good book: tl itt- - u:iia rMervnnhle rrenture. God's tmaae. h, tnhn drxtrovs a aood book kills reason ttself. Jol Miltorf Mexico's Presidents UNLESS General Plutarco Calles has had a change of heart since the strenuous days of his pre-election campaign, it is well for the republic of Mexico that he is to retire grace fuUy from the office of president in the very near future Die elevation of Emilio Portes Gil to that stormy post may be looked upon with much favor by friends of f1? iJl w u tnr nr. pvpntual solution of all the smaJ pbtethM bi kWping the United States and Mex- ico so neany av swwi ua Mexico has suffered a military complex of the most l..-..! t. ,o Uhwtriniis Don Porfino Diaz was re- Uucthe -ore than 30 ears of stem commasd in the presidency A rapid succession of rabid, wicfcedmen followed, through the mihtaiy channel to the republic's highest office, until the compact between Al varo Obregon and Calles seemed to settle matters by rotat ing these two in office. Then Obregon was removed from the picture by an assassin's bullet and Calles, for no very ap nrpnt reason, announced his withdrawal'frcm the political limelight of the presidency. In spite of the seeming harmony that developed between the United States and Mexico under the Obregcn regime and continued at least in the later.days of the Calks regime both were anti-gringoes. They had such a small hatred of the United States that the late Mr. Obregon, who spoke English excellently, refused to converse in our tongue. He would i;aAn cttnnti'volv a Enjrlish was sDoken and understood it perfectly, yet he frequently voiced his refusal to reply m kind. I Repeatedly and consistently in his pre-election cam paign, Calles figuratively crumbled the adobe walls of polit ical gathering places with his denunciations of the Jilted States. Early in his career as chief executive -he manifested his ill will by forcing measures and methods totally anti United States upon his people. ' He should meanwhile, be credited with the benefit of the doubt in the admission that he, did change his tactics, outwardly if i not otherwise. Calles, nevertheless, holds an energetic hatred for this nation. More than that he is a "red" of a wide stripe and made no effort to conceal the Just pridr to his election he addressed the Mexican fed eration of labor with the statement that, once elected, he would bend Ms best effort toward the establishment in Mex ico of the second soviet. This well-known fact has never been held against him in his relationships with the United States, although he did put forth much effort to accomplish tha vprv objective. Calles, as well as Obregon and their immediate predeces- sors following Porfino Diaz, were ay eo-m-ine-wooi nuuw ists. whose ballots were bullets. Gil is the first. civilian ex- ecntive the republic's history contesses. lie is saia to De talented, friendly and progressive. Those who know the marvelous capabilities of Mexico and the Mexicans will fer vently wish that Gil will prove up on nis wonaenui pos sibilities. I The New Tammany r" v - fig 1H 50H6 AMD DAHCE TXM116HT WE SHOW X TT SETS "'S. """J l A I T TAKMAMy rOU OSD TO KHOW. I ST, . T jp r WE WAS NOT SwClxiH THEHTHCRt DAys) HTlZt ( Lt 5 G,v 6 6 A f H AHt T)lDHT HAVS SiKH FAMCy (GOVS A I EE I WE GOTReSOVTS.iO HtVElk MIND I ' X V HANO t I TH TACT THAT WE WAS UHB-t FIN EI- I ' S i. ,s V VtoO &wyS HAVE GOT OS BEAT, V) we -J EE: ( SALUTE THIS 5WELV. NEW TAMMAHE6-. V, IT ' ' Wt TIWY HAVt NO CLAW AT ALL EffTfr " i - 'S EE fA. COKPAREO TO THIS NEW TAMHANyHAiU I hmMtt M ' 3 JyyooKTmtijExctPTciwfHo'Kj - WiM I . old o&k two blocks from as.) on Oregoa towbee a beautiful fel low, many robins, so manr little yellow warblers that I could not count them so or more at a time and as many as eight to ten in bathinc at once, several beautiful goldfinches, and one chickadee. I, am sorry I cannot report Bullock orioles or western tanagers for at this time of the year we have many, and my husband tells me there have been many around for days, but it just happened that during my SO minutes watch none bare come. I. do not mean to say that ev erybody could have as many bird friends about their yards imme- But I do know that - nay ?v had no squirrels have them with a fe. , ..j of protection of and catering to the birds. We not onlv mike them iurf m of plenty of water in summer Bii! we keep out a large feeding tabl well supplied all winter, and thej have learned where they are wel come. We would not permit fquir re Is and we do the best we can to protect the birds from stra: cats. A Washington Bystander' WASHINGTON -Br Kirk L. Simpson Sad news next. He also can and no doubt Down on the Editor OLD Ed Howe says in his memoirs that always it is the lot of an editor to have his community down 6n him. Quite , likely he is right, speaking as he does, with 50 years' experi ence. But the editor isn't the only pebble on the beach of un popularity. As a rule, the preacher comes in for a good deal . i i i iUi. He- TUn OI criticism, most uanners are uu wit: cuuuciuucu usv. storekeepers, the fruit dealers, the sheepmen, the landlords, if they are important enough in the community to attract any attention at all, have their detractors. Public off icials have it handed to them on all sides. The fact is, it is an American habit Perhaps a human habit To express displeasure about other people's conduct. Commenting on Ed Howe's statement, the editor of the Yak ima Republic says: "As a rule we run down their achieve ments while they live and give them credit only after they are dead." But he adds : "A redeeming quality of our hu man race -both before and after the ministrations of the undertaker at the neighbor's home is that it doesn't mean half what it says. Our experience is that if we got where we needed help we could have it about as quickly from the man who denounced us a few days back as from any one else in the crowd." And then the Yakima editor concludes : "In the interests of the truth, we shall write our own epitaph." The Yakima editor will probably do no such thing. It would take more words than could be engraved on a tomb stone of tablet, in, order tocover anything like all sides of an active editor's experiences with and his reactions to the good and the seamy sides of life, as lived by the people of any given city or section, or the nation or the world. He would have to make a book of his epitaph. Fair Weather a Gamble THE Portland Journal, in the course of a fine editorial ar ticle on the state fair, says : "The law requiring the state fair to be held the last week in September ought to be changed. The date is an injustice ' to the fair. It pitches the show at a time which the records 'show to be most subject to inclement weather. All that can be done should be done to hold the fair under bright skies, for it is a great picture of a state of magnificent possibili ties." - Formerly the fair was held on the dates agreed upon by the managers of the principal fairs of the northwest ; Oregon usually drew the first days of October. The legislature was asked to fix the present dates, as the earliest to be found in the proper circuit to mesh up with the other major exhibi- Bits for Breakfast Consolation days S Today and tomorrow, at the state fair - "U For all the people of Oregon who hare not yet seen the great est and best displays and attrac tions in the history of the fair. By IL J. Hendricks "The King of Kings" opens at the Elsinore tomorrow. Everybody must Bee this great picture, the jilver screen masterpiece The 2.500,000 production, and :.he first attempt ever made to portray the supreme tragedy of the ages, the crucifixion of Christ. led up to by the final months of his public services. S This Is the greatest talked of picture of the present day, and every one in the Salem trading dis trict will of course want to see it. W The Salem canneries Are ret ting towards the end of the big prune rush, but pear packing will so on for two or three weeks yet, and the great pumpkin pack will start next week. There are per- naps state fair visitors who do not know that the greatest pump kin canning operations in the country are carried oa.in Salem. When you eat pumpkin pie, any- wnere in the country, if It be per fect pumpkin pie. it is perhaps made from Salem canned pump kins. He is the prise optimist of the age who kids himself into claim ing Oregon for Smith. Witb. the straw vote showing 4 COO 6 for Hoover and 17.000 for Smith in Maryland, the chance of Smith carrying anything much outside of the Tammany districts of New York City appear tUm. As to Ore gon, he has not- even a "China man's chance' This state will run four to one In favor of Hoover. . Lane county claims more stand ing timber than any other county in the world; a tremendous total of around 55,000,000.000 feet. The 111 saw mills of that county cut last year 3(5.000,000 feet of lumber, and the Register of that city says the industry is now de cidedly on the up grade. That makes up a fine showing. But Eugene, Lane county and the whole state will be vastly better off wben more of the timber is worked into furniture, paper and other high priced articles. S Salem is the largest payroH city in this section of the United States, in proportion to her pop ulation. But there are going to be a lot of big increases In the next six months to a year. The linen plants will figure in this, and the West Salem cannery, and a lot of other industrial concerns, some of which are not yet on the taji in a public way. watch Salem e dinner bucket brigade. As it grows so grows Salem. "The democrats propose to spend 1250.000 in Virginia to save it fpr Smith. That shows how badly Tammany wants to win this election. That you may visualise this a little better, there are 2.300 precincts in Virginia. At 3260, uvu mat maxes over xivu per precinct. That would make about 12500 in a town like Corral lis. Any time the local republican or ganuation spends one ' tenth of mai amount u reeis mat It nasi They Say -- Expressions of Opinion from Statesman Readers are Welcomed for Use in this Column. All Letters Must Ber Writer's Name, Though This Need Not be Printed. been on a political debauch. But; the significant thing about this is that it betrays the fact that the democrats there must be scared to death. The republicans have nev er carnea Virginia. The nearest they came to it was when Hard ing got 87,000 to Cox 141,000." York, however. o m small- tions in this corner of the country, and to fall after most of Je Jf6 f the harvests snail have been over : Also on days more likely to be without rain than in any week in September, according to the records. Especially more likely to be without rain than the first week or ten days of September. The information of the Journal writer must be wrong in that respect. Some chance must be taken in respect to weather in any week of the year even in July or August, though the average number of days without rain is the small est for this valley in those months. all the way from two to one ta Corvallis Gazette-Times. f A New Yorker at LargeT - n n rumour I NEW YORK With bootlegging what it Is, the petty purveyor of outlawed liquor is ecUpsed In the public eye by the more picturesque big boys of the industry. Here In New The Straw Vote - rpHE straw vote being conducted by the Literary Digest X gives 46,000 votes for Hoover in New Jersey, with only 17,000 for Smith, and 11,000 votes for Hoover and 7000 for Smith in Maryland-- . . . Showing that Smith has very slim chances in New York, : Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, as indicated by the New Jersey trend Also that West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Oklahoma, and even North Carolina and perhaps some "other ) southern states like Florida and Alabama are poor n lit. l a - - a it t t J - r4 , i : omun Deis, in me ugm oi me snowing in xuaiyiana. The poll of Ahe Literary Digest in 1924 indicated the re sult almost to a shade; it was 99 percent prophetic; and the straw vote being taken now by that magazine is more thor ough in respect to all classes than the one of 1924. - As the matter now stands,: Smith looks like the worst licked presidential candidate in history; end the landslide in 'that direction is likely to increase rather than diminish.. -"' CL O. Seymottf closer to the consumer than the speakeasies of the gurgling forties. Sever al apartment dwellers have reported a lit tie bootlegge in their build ing. namely th s u perintendent or Janitor. It's convenient for the householder and money ta the bank for the "super." There are no statistics, of course, to show . how extensively tne casement bootleggers operate But they seeavto be fairlv namerl ous. One family that had a drink dispenser on Riverside drive found another In the building in the sign tie to which they moved. MIM turned revenue agent for a month." said a representative of the electric light company as be called at an apartment house in the Fifties near Pack avenue. ! could show the prohibition bosses where a flock of bootleggers hang ut. He had Just walked through i speakeasy in the basement of the house to get to the fuse box in experience far from "new. he Jeclared. Dumbwaiter Delivery Then there is the experience of the Lady in 3-F. One day she had occasion to look for something in a trunk in the storage room. Pass ing the box in which the family radio had been delivered, she no ticed a hinged cover had been fit ted into it. Investigating further, she found the large case filled with quart bottles of homemade wine. The superintendent entered Just as the housewife was peering into the boxHe said nothing, but that evening a bottle of the wine wa 3ent up via the dumbwaiter with the "super's compliment. The next day the husband's beverage business was solicited. I can supply you with wine, or choice liquers, at any time," the superintendent said It developed that he kept no whiskeys, gin or beer, but a fairly complete stock of Benedictine, brandy, chartreuse. Cointreau and the like, as well as the wine. But 11 beer, or "hard ticker." was dedrred, he knew where to get it. His own stuff, he said, excepting what he made him self, was all genuine "delivered right off the boat by a sailor friend." ' J This same superintendent. It might be added, once boasted hat he was worth than some of the tenants. It seems he had -4 1 0, JO 0 deposited in savings banks; Reading And Riding; " . It Is true that IS minutes a day itu books wll provide a liberal education, ' the subways of New -York are the elassrcaras of alar ilung. university. Roseburg. Sept. 17 Absence of Birds Noted by Visitors To the Editor of statesman: 1 have Just returned from a week's visit in Salem. Salem is always dear to my heart for it once was home to me. I taught three years in your public schools. I am back tnere two or three times a year and I have enjoyed watching its remarkable growth within the last few years. I always think It" the most beautiful little city in the Pacific northwest. Its attractive homes, spacious lawns, and wide streets are a delight to me Three tines in the past year I have visRed. Salem, and each time I have grieved to find an absence of birds. In walking through the state house grounds this past week I watched carefully for birds. I should have seen many beautiful varieties of small birds for they are now beginning to gather ev erywhere in their- first small flocks which are to grow Into lar ger ones soon, for migration south ward. I can almost truthfully say, "No birds." Of course, there were robins and there were English sparrows. I searched the trees for deserted nests of our song birds.' Have you tried it there? They are few and far between. But this Is what I did see: Every now and then a squirrel darting up and down a tree trunk or running out to the end of a long branch. At one home lawn in that vicin- itl a lawn where there are sev eral fine large trees. I put in much time searching carefully not a single nest could X discover, ex cepting one robins' nest hidden deep in a holly tree. The robins had to brave that thicket of thorns to get away from th squir rels, n the big trees squirrels ran up and down, and neighbors and friends of little squirrels fed them nuts, and squirrels seemed to rule the lawns and the tree branches around there. I discovered that ' the children and even the grown ups of the neighborhood were enjoying squir rels. So I fell in and enjoyed them, too. I found that I could take ntits '.o the backdoor steps, so common nd so confident have squirrels be come, and call, "Tip, -tip, tip. tip. tip!" And usually in a very few minutes a squirrel would come running down the trunk of a tree ind across the lawn, and If I held out a nut In plain sight, and sat very very still, he would venture closer and closer and gather as surance that I was his friend, un til he would reach up, lay one lit tle paw on my hand and, with hisl lips, take my nut and eat itt per haps not even running away to eat It. but staying right there with an appealing look for another and he got it. Oh, yes, it was lots of fun! . I came home the 15th. We have only a few trees. I took a walk about our -own little yard which It right down. in the center of oui anall town within two blocks of :he business section. Here is what we have had this year: two vigor wren's nests, two bluebirds' nests, ied one robins' nest. In order 'hat I might write you honestly .he birds I could see beneath my itudy window In 30 minutes, I have sat there this morning and watched, f We have a bird bath 'here on a pedestal and four shal ow trays fined with water. Here stwhat I saw: two fUekera, four California: woodpeckers ' (this year's children that hatched in as Yes, we have garden pests. But we 00 not nave to right as we would if we did hot have so many song birds. With goldfinches and house finches and warblers and bluebirds and wrens at work on the foliage, and chickadees and nuthatches in such numbers as they come and work n the un dersides of branches, and ' wit! our good old California wood peckers and the downeys and the flickers at work on tree bark to say nothing of robins on the lawn and about the garden and I have not mentioned one-third of the varieties, why. ione month las' winter (and there are not so many as in summer) my husband and I kept count and had 26 varieties with all of these birds, we do not have to fight aphis and earwig? and slugs and ants and all such pests as much, by a long way, ar we would without them the birds are great helpers. ' And think of the joy the bird? give with their pretty songs and their splashes of bright color! There is entertainment enough any day in a yard where birds are protected. I cannot, think pf any good that squirrels do. No one can entertain Diras ana squirrels, too. vve nave to choose between squirrels and chipmunks and stray cats or birds. Two years ago we bad a little humming birds' nest with ?c tiny white eggs, and were guard ing it with great care, and pride. Then my husband found the branch on which it rested torn down and the wee egg shells 3trewn in bits on the ground and ?av little frisky Mr. Chipmunk scurrying away. .In the first place, your squir rels in your state house grounds are not going to let song birds build. They will run out on .he branches and blow and scold at any little, birds that dare try to establish a home. But if a pair suc ceeds in completing a nest, when the, little eggs are laid the squir rels will eat them. It is just a plain question which will you have, song birds to protect the trees and flowers and to make glad with their song, or will you have squirrels? awaited those members of the cabinet who had remobllixed in Washington -in time to sit on the president's- first post-vacation round - t a o 1 e talk with his of; ficial family. They learn ed at once that a three months sojourn in Wis consin had not altered the a, fl hBtimss will enforce a rigid requirement that the executive departments hold down urgent or general de ficiency relief applications fb be made to the second session of the seventieth congress this winter. There will be an Interval of. near ly four months of the present ap propriations year remaining, how ever, after he leaves office March 4 and the final expenditure vs. savings record of the year will b written under authority of tl;e presidential fi-.next White Honse tenant. nanclal policy in the slightest. The thing up permost in his mind was the Kirks L. Slarmses indicated defi- - cit of more ban 90 millions General Lord had figured out in detail after a careful survey of the money spending activities of the last ses sion of congTess, and duly report- d on his visit to Brule. Savings Called For ' It was not a new idea by any means. In round figures, tne ame discrepancy between income and outgo for the year was In sight when the regular govern ment business meeting was held before the White House family started westward for the summer. Wrhat was new, however, was the calm notice given the cabinet eers by their chief htat he expect ed them to live officially so well within their means from now un-j til June 30 next that they can turn back to the Treasury unex pended balances of current ap propriations that will eliminate! the indicated deficit: It is possible, of course, that Treasury estimates of the tax yield and other agencies ot in come that go to fill up Lncle Sam's purse will prove a bit pessi mistic. That has happened berore. The last session of congress was nclined to cut loose a little In authorizing expenditures because Secretary Mellon and his assist ants appeared to have under- 'alculated what would be collect ed and the Treasury had rolled up sizeable surplus. With a nation al election just ahead, it was a great temptation to men who must run for reelection to use up rthat surplus in ways they thought would be helpful in the November vote getting. CLICKS If AI Smith stays out of New York long enough, and has enough practice, maybe he will learn to speak the American tongue. A hunter shot and killed a man riding a white horse, under the impression that be was shooting some sort of wild game. So far no NImrod has mistaken a man driving a fliwer for a Jaek-rab bit. If Portland would devote its ac tivities to widening some of tt -downtown alleys that go under th name of streets there, and let th. residential thoroughfares alon-, the result might be worthwhile. It certainly is fitting and prop er that Hogg & Son should walk off with a good slice of the prizes for swine at the fair. t Owen Ogden; of Salem, takes pen in -hand to tell Borne Wash ington paper that Al Smith is cer tain of victory here because ha beard some irrespoaaibles applaud the Tammany candidate in a mov ie. Will someone please break the sad news to Hoover? Seaside has 200 widows, count ing "sod," "grass" and "sand" va rieties. Remember what Tony Wel ler said! That Northcott case gets more revolting as new details come out, day by day. Just because Dan Moody of Tex as is not going to support Hoover is no reason why Herb need re tire from the race. Evidently Oregon believes in bigger and better state fairs, judg ng from Wednesday's record breakin? attendance. Result Problematical Department budgetary officers are now worrying with possible economies to carry out the Cool- de fiat. Just how it Is to be ac complished by any department f not yet apparent. It will be a dav to day, week to week, month t month affair of small savings. n- doubt, the fort of economy cam paign General Lord dotes upon. In the aggregate, these may pile up a tidy sum remaining unex pended out of current appropria tions at the end of the fiscal year. Or they may not. It seems to depend at this . r. . . . . 1 writing on how tne next president.; of the United States looks at the i a crow helped a golfer in Okla matter rather than on what Presi-jhoma by carrying a ball close to Win. loe or draw the Amer ran Legion Drum Corps is goin : o do this city a lot of good a' he San Antonio national convert lion of America's former fightin ; men and women. Probably that California baby that uses a six-shooter's muzzle for a teething ring will employ a bowie-knife for a toothpick later. dent Coolidge decrees' He can on ly order that expedlture cuts be made; the accounting will be made to his successor In office and there may be no member of the present cabinet still in author ity when that Is done. Whether Hoover or Smith takes over at the White House, the cabinet changes by present outlook will be just about as sweeping. President Coolidge can con trol expenditures up to March 4 the flag and dropping it on the green. And we heard of a moth out at Illahee club that got into Carl Gabrielson's golf stockings and made a "hole in one." Since the war the creation of new countries and the renaming of Mystery Fish Is Subject of Talk . ASTORIA. Ore.. Sent. 27 (AP) Experienced river fisher men here today were endeavoring (old cities have served to repeal to luenury a "mystery"' fish taken in a trap near the mouth of the Columbia river. The fish resem bles a "skate" or ray. but Is equip ped with two fins of a vicious ap pearance on the backbone near the tall. Black soots eonr th body. The marine animal is on rfi- play here. Salem certainly is a popular city. Even Sheriff Bower's county hotel is crowded to overflowing. about all the geography we learn ed in school. Florence Herald. Wouldn't it be kinder not to notify the candidates at all until after the election was all over? This would save one of them a terrible disappointment. Water bury Republican. According to the Weston Leader the difference between buying a seat in United States senate and one in the New York stock ex change is that the buyer gets the latter when he pays for It. That scientificrastrument, just perfected, which is delicate enough to record the buxxing of a fly on the top of Mount Everest, would be just the thing, suggests the Roseburg News-Review, for the democrats to use during Al Smith's campaign trip. 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