The man who has not anything to boast of but his
illustrious ancestors is like a votato the only good be
longing to him is underground Sir Thomas Overbury.
j Aland the Henl
AL SMITH put the sofe pedal on his immigration attitude
in his St. Paul speech Thursday night
He tried to make it appear that Hoover and his party a
platform are on all fours with himself and his party's plat
form on the immigration question
In fact, if the matter were not so serious, one woulc pity
AI the same as he must pity the hen trying to spread herself
nvor t with more eesrs than she can cover. On his gold
en special tour Al made a stab at straddling the equalization
fee issue, the prohibition question, the protective tariff, and
several others - I .
He fairly spread himself, but the reaction all over the
country shows that all these eggs got nopeiessiy uui A
nest in the cold weather of public opinion.
There are limits in the spreading capacity of hens and
men.
nlace! in the Tammany strong
hold. Those boys know how Al wants more voters in New
York from southern Europe; how wet he is, how he stands
on the tariff, what he don't know about the equalization fee
and farm relief, and all the rest no matter what he has to
tell the hayseeds and dubs or me rest 01 tne country m y
ing to catch outside votes. They know Al from the ground
up. It's all right with them, they say to themselves, with a
knowing wink. j
The Vital Issue
SAMUEL G. BLYTHE in the Saturday Evening Post sets
ft forth what he believes to be the fundamentals of the
campaign and they can all be summed up in a phrase on-
tinuance oi prosperity. ne;p 7 I
politics is that it is too political; tnat tne politicians wm ut
allow a real issue to become dominant and that we indulge
mostly in straddle politics. Further, he asserts that we are
the greatest nation of political wire walkers and gum shoers
tho world has ever known. But the one important thing, as
Mr. Blythe sees it, is that we should continue to be the most
.. v.o rrvnf nrnsnerous. the most vital country,
maintaining our standards of living which are higher than
anywhere else in the "world.
Blythe calls on the voters to make their choice not for
i ?t? A. - vs4 s
political or party reasons, but on tne aouuy, experience, iu
cation and fitness of the two nominees for the task of con
and holding our Drosperity. Paying i
high tribute to Alfred E. Smith he yet finds the democratic
rniMatP wantinir in the Qualifications essential to carrying
ihe load as the nation's foremost business man; finds him
C,. r,f t,w fwrt vpars' actual exierience in business
uussranu " j
vi.,irr v interval hetween holdinir public offices. To tier
bert Hoover he gives the credit of the better education, wider
vnanpnrP anrt more intensive training iui me wituu.
Problems. Mr. Blythe rates Hoover as a business man, not
a politician, and while he leaves the reader to draw nis own
conclusions, it is obvious that the republican nominee has, in
liia mind. a. much better rating as a candidate than his able
opponent! i
Night School Needed j
, ; ays the Corvallia Gazette-Times : This Mister Raskob
he seems to have lucid intervals. His latest pronounce-
. ment is to the effect that the farm aid problem is one for
deep study. We think he is right and that when he gets his
candidate back to the sidewalks of New York they should go
no-pthpr tn a niffht school and study it at least enough so
that when Al starts out again his supporters can tell whether
... . .i i a.: x i il:. i V o ti
ne is lor or cgainst tne equalization iee. miu nu is
py warrior' who was to be such an outspojeen speaicer, ana
call a spade a spade. It is all very puzzung. 10 one not in
politics and who knows nothing about it, it seems that he
could have answered the question by a plain Yes or No."
The Corvallis paper makes a good suggestion. The night
school course ought also to include lessons on how to be sop
ping wet in New York, slightly damp m Wisconsin, and Done
dry in the south. Also, another, on how to be for all the
southern European immigration that wants to come among
the Tammany braves, and for the soft pedal on immigration
in the rest of the country.
The Ethics! of Nuts
TETWEEN the owners and non-owners of walnut trees
13 there is being waged the annual battle royal. Each fall
many citizens act according to the primitive ethical code of
our savage ancestors wno gatnereo tne iruits oi wie lwresu
unhindered by property rights. Each passerby gathers a
handful of nuts and goes his way cracking and eating them
... . . m. . ' ? 1 f 1 iV.l
with no thought oi tne owner wno naa vainiy imaginea inai
the nuts were rightfully part of his winter store. Three
helpful suggestions are offered:
Let the owner of the walnut tree take up his abode be
neath it and catch the nuts as they fall.
Plant more walnuts and encourage everyone else to do
likewise and some day there may be enough nuts to feed the
hungry passerby and still leave some for the owner.
" Try to arouse a respect for property rights which will
include even walnuts.
Didn't and Don't Know
TN an address before the Albany, N. Y., chamber of com
X merce on January 26 of last year, Al Smith said, among
other things:
"A chain of farmers might help the situation, at least
the business methods embodied in the situation would bring
the only relief I can think of.
"When the farmer stops sitting on top of the world and
begins thinking and keeping the rules of economics, he will
begin to help himself.
"I have suggested more new things in the last six years
for the state than any other man, I fully believe, but I can't
think of any way of really helping the farmers. If they can
bring me a good suggestion I should be glad to adopt it The
fact is tbey are the only ones who can save themselves
Hawley on His Job
fflHE Eugene Register says: "Representative W. C Haw-
X ley, of the First. Oregon congressional district, is in the
pleasant position of being unopposed for re-election on the
November ballot this year. Nevertheless he has been mak
ing a tour of his entire district, renewing acquaintances and
familiarizing himself with the needs and wants of his con
stituents. The fact that, as chairman of the house ways and
means committee, Mr. Hawley. has become a national figure
does not lessen his interest in his district. And that is grati
fying to the home folks."
; - Mrs. i Hoover, Helpmeet
A T two of the receptions given her husband in New Jersey,
''
As nearly as the New Statesman
can figure, Al Smith seems to be
the political Finnecan.
At least the paper mill's direc
tors hare agreed to "look into'
the cinder nuisance. : They will
And the outlook black.
"Major Arrested Upon Dishon
est Election Charge" says a head
line in the New Statesman. Those
dishonest charges certainly are
worrysome.
Probably the speeches at the
livestock bang.uet contained a lot
ef bull.
To some editors nothing is
right except such things as they
happen to advocate.
L
Old Oregon's Yesterdays
Town Talk From the Statesman Our Fathers Read
ttepC 88, 1903
Thu lsth annual fair of the
Second Eastern Oregon Agrieul
tvral society will open in The
Dalles September 29 and continue
five days.
Salem public schools opened
resterdar morning with a total
enrollment of 1168. L. R. Tra
ver, superintendent, expects an in
crease of at least 300 by next Men-
day.
The weather man certainly nan
been good to the state fair so far.
Have you registered as a voter?
"Smith Wants Alien Bar" head
lines the Oregonian. First he
wants to get them into tnls coun
try and then into a saloon.
A paragrapher on the Oregon
ian, after hearing Irving Berlin
sing, says that as a vocalist he is
fine song writer.
When it comes to "wolds"
Smith is a "bold."
Al
.What with the world series and
the election coming along, news
paper men will have plenty to do
for a while.
A New Yorker at Large
GL D. Seymour
NEW YORK If Broadway
were really the hard-bolied boule
vard it pretends to be, it would
not be the Elyslan field of such i
multitude of panhandlers.
The English
scholar and
columnist, D.
Bevan Wynd
ham Lewis, vis
iting these
shores, was ap-
. proached the
other day by a
, man who pro
fessed to be a
violinist. u n
able to work be
cause his fiddle
was in pawn.
Mr. Lewis was
touched by the
tale, to the extent of $40 to help
set the instrument out of hock
His satisfaction in the good deed
was tempered, however, when
Dorothy Parker, , writer of cyni
ml verse, informed him that she.
-:oo, bad contributed $45 to the
supplicant, convinced all the
while that he was a fraud
The out-of-towner visiting New
York is usually less gullible than
the native. A big and bronzed Tex
an was approached in Times
Square by a furtive fellow who of
fered him an excellent diamond at
a ridiculously low price, and mum
bled something about wishing to
avoid buyers who would notify
tne police. The Texan recognized
the genuineness of the gem, but
3U spec ted trickery and refused to
buy. When, later, he told a police
man of his experience, the officer
explained that it was an old trick,
and that a fake stone would have
been subsUtuted when the money
and the gem 'changed hands.
Publisher De Luxe
Dealers in rare books have the
names of a number of Broad w
folk on their mailing lists, but
there is one theatrical producer in
Sew York who helps to supply the
dealers themselves with new
wares.
He is Crosby Gaige, and he is
in the publishing field solely as a
bibliophile. He publishes only lim
ited editions in specially designed
formats, each book intended to be
a collector's item. Among authors
whose work he has sponsored are
AE (George W. Russell), Maxim
Gorki. James Joyce, Siegfried Sai-
soon and Li an O'Flaherty. On his
Ust, too, are George Moore, W. B.
Yeats, James Branch Cabell and
Edwin Arlington Robinson, whose
"Tristram" won the Pulitzer prize.
Gaige has spent years picking
up manuscripts and first editions
here and abroad, and some of his
more than 7,000 volumes have
cost him several thousand dollars
apiece. His motive as a publisher.
aside from the desire to help col
lectors fill their shelves, is to en
courage little known writers of ex
ceptional talent.
And this; is not saying anything
against any of the other agencies
or men working in that direction.
There is room for all of them, and
aeed for their best services: The
right kind of a county agent would
mesh up with all the others and
help them,; and they would help
him. If a county agent did noth
ing at all but get a major irriga
tion program started here, the in
creased taxes that would result
would pay many times his salary
and expenses for a long time.
Kentucky's legislature created a
commission to advertise that state
and the commission, in turn, has
published a handsome magazine
called "Kentucky Prorress." A
good example to follow.
The Jefferson Review says the
"wet" who says he is against pro
hibition because it does not pro
hibit is harder to believe than
Baron Munchausen.
Os West's work for Al Smith re
calls the title of Cotib's story "The
Thunders of Silence."
An infant in America, at birth.
is worth $9,000, according to the
statistician of the public health
service. Some of them certainly
have deteriorated with age.
A new marble shop, the Blaee-
ing Granite company, has opened
a branch at the corner of Lincoln
and South Commercial streets.
D. W. Tarpley of this city suf
fered a broken right arm when his
team ran away while he was out
driving in Portland.
The O. R. A N. company's new
dock In this city is practically
complete and the company is once
more doing business at the . old
stand: One of the pleasing features
is a new board walk from the
dock to Front street.
Tne- new Oregon seal, author
ized by the last legislature, is now
being used upon all official state
documents.
Oscar Steelhammer went to Sil
ver ton yesterday to spend a few
weeks with friends.
Coroner A. M. Clougb and fam
ily spent yesterday visiting rela
tives in Yamhill county. The long
trip was made by team.
Thirty-four students were reg
istered at Willamette university
yesterday, although the college
will not open until this morning.
Gypsy Gyps Man
Uut ot Big Roll
Officers Learn
BEND. Ore.,! Sept 2t. (AP)
Police and the sheriffs office here
today were hunting for a gypsy
fortune teller who, D. Sphier, lo
cal business man. says, gave him
two one dollars bills In exchange
for a $1,900 roll.
Last night Sphier visited the
palm reader, he related. She told
him she would tell bow money
could be safely Invested, provid
ing he Had it on his person. Sphier
obtained $1,900. The gypsy asked
to see the money, then instructed
Sphier to go out and buy a new
handkerchief, to be folded around
the bills.
The brain that finds genuine
amusement in a simple typograph
ical error would rattle around in
side a mustard seed.
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Gaige comes from an old New
England family, and on his "farm?
in Westchester county is an old
barn, long since vacated by cattle
and horses, in which he hopes
some days to set up a hand print'
ing press. If he does, his week
end guests are forewarned, some
practical experience in typography
awaits them.
Another producer, Horace Livfei
ngni, is Deuer icnown as a Dub-
nsner man as a theatrical en-
trepreneur. Philip Goodman whose
Five O'clock Girl" was one ht
the musical comedy hits of a sea
son ago, also has done some mihl
lishing. Among the collectors is
Gilbert Miller, theater
who commutes between New York
and London. But Gaige is the onfy
u Z K nem wno is a puK
uy collectors' items.
WilMSMMS
(G)c
T AT 1
Will Deliver
Bits for Breakfast
Mrs. Hoover responded to introductions with short and
graceful speeches which were unique not only for their sense
of fitness, but because they marked the first occasion upon
which the wife of a presidential nominee has. joined him in
public utterances during a campaign. - . '
' Many: women voters are being attracted to the republi-
MnMf.'. xatsA In lAuAWv.n n Marion and Polk counties
. , V rTV " L Tr might be made, to provide several
. of the Girl Scouts of America, as by his own abundance of thousand more seating places. The
'-those qualities. . . . ,falr u frwin md there are al-
Fair Holds Over Sunday
And the eleventh hour folks still
ssaSr? 10 plle up a rrd
u V
editorial In the Oregonian of yes
terday, and no odd v..
ability to read will need any ex
planation. The air has been full of
u fw more deer have
utjou nuea man hunters;! but we
shouldn't be disappointed while
the season has some to go," Uys
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"Some of the Portland nanr
posong run at Eugene for
barring cigarette smokers from ft
scnooj teaching staff; but then
the metropolis is a ribald place
anyhow," says the Eugene Regis-
w V
TheEugene Register also savx:
Lane county's exhibit at the state
fair has attracted the favorable
notice of the Portland news writ.
era. Deservedly so, of course." (De-
ciaeaiy so, without question.)
"W V
uiaerjy lady at the state fair
Wednesday, in the record crowd.
sam she could not come back on
Thursday- she was too tired, and
she could not find a place to sit
down. The seats were always all
occupied. Another year, this mat
ter should have attention. If there
Is no other way," a public subscrip-
By R. J. Hendricks
.J
ways more things that ought to
K. u iner 13 mn7 with
"u,lu w w ior naving them
linn. C tvi. i ....
is no criticism, for
uuiiisBffleni is Doth consider
ate and efficient. It la just a sur-
feader? Wbat " d 7U dear
Man down in Texas says that,
every time AI Smith in his golden
special tour tried to explain any
thing, from the protective tariff
uu me equalisation fee to the
oiiierence oetween being sopping
wet in one state and bone drv fn
another, or for more Italian im
migration in New York or more
German immigration In Milwau
kee, etc, "he got out on a llrab.i
; . . - f i
And he might have added th.
Al at the same time provided the
voters or the country with the
saw with which to cut off the limb!
The million dollar special train
was turned Into a political suicide
special.
The Bits man is for a Marion
county agent: absolutely. The
right kind of a man can make him
self worth many times his salary
and expenses. Marion county Is thm
most forward and forward looking
county in Oregon in an agricultur
al way. It has a greater number
of farms than any other county in
the state. But It Is capable of do
ing all the way from twice to a
hundred times as well as It is now
doing, and a county agent who
"knows his onions' and Is not
afraid to work can help wonderful-1
17. jua.no a county might increase
its cash farm, crop returns; bv
many millions annually, and ought
to do It.' v
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