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,!' . , j J - Earl C. Brownles - vm I I Sheldon F. Sackett , : 1 I M j Publishers ' . . . SALEIi OREGtiM SUNDAY Sept. SO, 1928 4 l - - - Ml .5 I self-denial, no, brains, no character are required to set up in the grumbling business Robert West ; Roll Your Own Diploma' THE above facetious title in Charles Merz's "Great Ameri can Band Wagon'eads the PPff sv n,.t.'nnln Amprica. The oddities of campus ways and curriculums are displayed for the author gets under the ' i XI I ' see it as me ruyu w i - ;vo;rv is not so well expressed.in the regular,work ofthe umversy i 'MtMnnn and corresDondence work. The schools oi- fering correspondence work are legion and from their aaver iTL t.i tw will make you anything you wto develop a magnetic personality, or become a ex"ue SSth hundred thousand dollar salary. Shop girls, day la borers, and messenger boys and all others ve equal cnan i iv. j A Mmimndpne( schools. Only too many of ihese sSxls 'cosisTo 'a Rioter and a few poorly paid .x lfT -rlZZZ J.v,t,K11v rhprk turners according to Clerical wurB "y - ' - . -v a set of prepared answers. Thousands of dollars go to such f leAr. FJZZrJZ, v,o om,enefit in most cases could be closed out many sucn scnoois, dui nuuu. e. - ----- r!n ,arOrthilitv. To cartially save the.pubhc, some dencTand by their- work, along wjth some few oT fte J better w ..i. i. -KMiMi helnf b1 contributors to - commercial bwwi ""r F .- American Ufa. vf -" . --' pondence work but brings the SLion courses,now.ppen - people to profit P the evening nours at tne aaiem w8u awi v News and Its Headlines THERE is pointed merit in the criticism implied by a cor respondent whose letter appears elsewhere on t Page. That thVstatesman or any other self -respectii, newspaper 1 I J urmn hv snouiu ever w uyvu j - , T , . , v.;i ahampf ui thinint an the Northcott chicken till UmIVIC O UVll J C7 - . a f.m. torv is. of itself, terrible. That the fact should be ag gravated by distressful headlines is adding insult to injury. TTcoiin.- nf course, are thoughts that editors would much prefer .to leave unex pressed. The decent newspaper will always strive to tne limit of its mental and mechanical abilities to avoid the grue some and the unpleasant, r- ;... . . There has come into journalist generally a quality that 'fof0 fiio bonaafinnftl for the sake of its attention value, or i nii ttrof monv nPwcnAnpr makers choose to define as reaa- er demand." It cannot be said mand the sensational, much less the gruesome, uux mere is justice in the contention that many readers do want this strange spicing m wetr uicw w. news iu w tion always to satisfy the appetite. The universal effort to make a newspaper'attractive to all types and conditions of readers must be made to account for many things that good taste, mature consideration and mere necessity migni ruie asuusu j.c www uxiu, . pHitorial uoint of view, would provide perpetual sources of lively, fresh, clean, Interesting news, with never the neces Ritv for settinir into' cold Drint a word of the wickedness, the strife and the hatred of mankind: Yet our mode of being re quires, it seems, that the newspaper chronicle each day the - strange and varied story :of our civilization; requires us to strive eagerly to pick the roses from life's garden, but to be - forced by circumstances to piucK tne tnorny stems ,as weiu On To San Antonio THE drum corps of Capitol post, American Legion, Salem, will be off for the national convention at San Antonio on Tuesday; the opening date being October 8. Our boys bear with them 10,000 samples of fiber flax : attached to pieces of-linen cloth, bearing the inscription, "This cloth is made from long-fiber flax grown near Salem, Oregon, only place in the United States growing this kind of flax, suitable for fine yarns and linens. Capitol Post No. 9." Besides this, our boys bear generous donations from va rious Oregon counties, such as Tillamook cheese and Clatsop salmon, to give the delegates to the great patriotic gathering - an idea of the manifold resources of Oregon, the land of di- K varsity and country of opportunity. The flax samples, especially, ought to help 'bring the . next Legion national convention to Oregon. A similar ap peal secured the next Legion state convention for Saleru. Laconic But Meaningful AN editorial in the Oregonian of Friday read, "Woids, woids, woids." For a long time, Joseph - Oregon. At the Astoria convention that nominated T. T. . Geer for governor, the beginnings of the end of his grip were ' made. The next day, an editorial in the Oregonian, of which Harvey Scott was then the editor, read, "Now there arose up : a new long over Egypt, which knew not Joseph ;.McKinley was-elected, president of the United States , after one of the hottest campaigns of bur history, in which the gold standard was the chief issue. The day following the flection, the New York Sun, then edited by Charles A. Dana, had this editorial: "Righteousness exalteth a nation," Three laconic but meanignf -' ther one of them needing any explanation. ? The epigrammat tic form'of expression did not die with the Spartans. " -"IW The Sunday Fair r . , ; , ; . . : THE Sunday fair today is a generous and wise departure ; ;'from the usual thing, by the state fair board, nit is a response to the wish of thousands too busy to see the great exhibition' on other J T A a ana nas ine iuu assent oi, neaxiy every exmoiior ana conces- aionaire-''e--rif 'i - , '. There will be a full program, for the day with just one i exception. All concessions exhibiting anything not in accord with the spirit' of a respectful ' Sunday observance will be . excluded. - ., - v; V-Ait 4 cJ-C''Z This is in the nature of an experimental departure. If ' ft patronage sufficient to justify the extra- expense .shall re sult, no doubt future fairs will .extend over seven days in stead of six. " 1 ' The. Hebrew Way fpHERE have been felicitations In Portland and elsewhere X, In the "paat.few days over no man seex ms own, out eacn nis neignoors gooa," wrote tt. Paul tq the earlyristian church at Corinth; Zr?:. - In English, French, Italian, German, and Latin, the verb runs in this way, 1 am, thou art, he- is."- But the old He brew people arranged their verbs the other way around : "He Is, , thou art, I am - - ' - Hie precepts of real brotherhood are very, old,, but the Trorld has In the last 2800 centuries departed far from, them. There are manjvsigns pointing to the hope that it is finally to follow then in spirit and in truth. " - u a- - a . . According to schedule, It And It will repcit next year. surface and finds a great heart T lTl Xr T n I n V? LllCf L1V W w" " I nol 'only offering corres- classrwm:taSalem. The e. TTlft fJPTTiajlUii Ui HCna w sometimes forced to carry that readers as a group de Simon was the political czar, of ul and historic editorials, nei- days. It is all set and going t a m ' ' ' ' I the celebration of their holy I a m is, the biggest state -fair ever. N I HiProtea : : ; : OutFoT Big Game T I -The Mother Tree j ; f 1 ; . - J I - i I HV".;"'"7 7 ' , - -r" - . - . MfZ&ZsT I Such loreiy shades of oW di , V , Tl ' ' :' 7T s browni i HOCTTIMG AT CLAY : - Ar: i With erery Ilttto psslr breexs, L; .. - . . H 55 7 J I like to uea tnem m mo una; v Hfc rUN Ur It- S 1 - 'DZt-G I fJ l' d. wattle 1 them. hear the X";,rU! SX- - I Or gentle rastuaf. someumes 1 1 p . - i . r;? ; .V ' -n . I Can hear ' fly ' Borne off - upoe fcyow wind. And wating to me left behind, "Good-by!" And then, they aay to - me. "Take rood care of our mother tree!" So I hare placed myself on, guard Protecting bird. -for they work ' hard . . - ( ;.'.;;'; Destroying insects. Don't yon see ""V"J ? How I protect the mothers-tree? 9' ExpreasJoas of Opfnlow from 8tatnnnan Retiders . Welcomed, for Use In this Column. AH Letter Mast Bear .Writer's Ki Though This Need Not be Printed. - ' GRUESO.HK HEADLINES DESTROY GOOD CHEER Salem, September 25 "To the Editor of the States, man: I picked up the Statesman 'n such a happy cheerful frame fit mind this morning;. And I had read the sickening headlines . of he Northcott cas before I rea 'zed what I was reading: "Boys Used as Chicken Feed by North cott." r"l am these days slowly recor ding from a year of sickness and nerrous prostration. I strive earn estly to think cheerful thoughts, and to help myself to recover as rapidly as possible. I like to readl the Statesman. I pick out the oolitical news, the notional news, the local news, the editorials, the society page, and I carefully avoid the gruesome articles. If I could do any good by reading them I suppose I would try to read them. But as I can do no good, and as they distress me badly I wish to avoid them. But In the seven words of that headline this 'morning I got enough of a mental picture to blot out all of my cheerfulness all of my contentment and to leave me a sick, shaken woman, too nau- seated to think of food and the brightness of I my day was de. itroyed... - .. ; Perhaps you will think that you are not publishing, the Statesman for the benefit of tick folks. But, I Lwill lose much pleasure If I hate to j stop reading the morning pap er, 'i: - ' i V!The questions in my mind ar 4.1. ro not manr nther neonle feel as Ii do about this matter of) distressing neaaiinesr T 1 . 'W' : PA Z&Zr-ZJ. 111 Xr, 1. ?'Could not the headlines beither an nnninal one snd wa are so - worked as to auraci me at tention of those wbo enjoy that sort of mental food, and at the same time not be offensive to those who wish to' avoid such reading? 3. "Could not that sort of news always be put in a certain, well de fined part of the page where It could be easily found or avoid ed?" Respectfully. MRS. J. R. CARRUTHERS Opinions of The Press The - plain tact, la that the liquor - business Is a corrupting business. This country knows it, so does Canada and so does Great Britain with its immense brewevr and whiskey Interests. Bootlegger, bartender or whiskey bureaucracy, r the smirch is about the same. Good sense and decency on th$ part of the people Is of infinitely more Importance than all the schemes for prohibition or control. x Everett, Wash. Herald. A few years ago when Florids4 prosperity was the dairy topic of every newspaper, ? we never be lieved It. possible that It would be necessary to Issue a'., nation-wide call tor aid for people of that state. The unexpected happened when the state was hit by the re cent, hurricane with wide-spread losses. The American Red Crosr has taken charge of relief wort and a call for, many millions of dollars has been made, to assist not only in Florida but also Porto Rico where losses . were even greater. Josephine ,J county has been called upon to raise $100 and already a quarter of taia has been subscribed. Other commun ities are reaching their, quotas. American generosity Is a wonder ful thing.- Grants Pass Courier,' - The elevation of Dr.' T. Tem ple, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of this city, to that of superintendent . of the Salem district. Is n splendid rec ognition of merit and ability and devotion to a cause. He is an ble theologian, a substantial citizen and man. and deeply devot- ea to the cause of Methodism His promotion, after many years of fatthfal -work, wilt mean-the less; or Dr.- and Mrs. Temple to the local church and to this city, a fact which occasions general re- gref. But the recognition extend ed them occasions . a great i deal mora gratification thaa ? regret. and there is a very larga circle of menus, not ? members of that church. who Join with the- eon gregatlon In extendiag congratula tions and u wUhlng them God speed in, their, new- work and in their new home. Med ford News. The age of conseat.tn Cuba may be reduced from 21 to 16 years if present proposals are favored; . . , I r 'era 3 x-- I - Nancy Anri Held "Extremely Silly" THE propaganda lies of Hindu Ism lead American's to look at Nancy Ann Miller, the Ameri can girl wife of the former Mahar ajah of Indore through a veritable fog of romance, although Amer ican s wno live in India and see the real situation, consider her merely silly. So says Marie Corner, gradu ate of Willamette university. In a letter to Salem friends from the Methodist Episcopal Mission Girls' school, Mecosa Bagh, Nagpur, Tb- aia; wirere she is teaching. Miss Corner, writes Interestingly of . her work-and of the native reactions to Miss MUler's marriage. . She sars: - ' jD8t now is supposed to be the (rainy season, but It has been ra- short about 10 inches, the aver age rainfall for this time of year, It Is still very hot that sticky kind that gets on one's "comfort." Our garden is growing rapidly and . we hare had some crisp. let tuce from It this week. Ton cant possibly know what this means, but to us, who hare to depend up on the lowly, potato and onion, for our chief diet during the hot sea son and .until fresh Vegetables come, it means as much as one of the most expensive sundaes. ". i I -am enclosing f wo' notices of Nagpur university union society debates. Anyone who has ,1 . uni versity degree IS eligible to mem bership la the union, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the Thursday night debates. They are held In English, and I get a real thrlU from studying the varied throng. Young Indian students, Indian politicians, and missionaries take part. Dr. Sir Han Singh Gour who opposed the resolution on the dl- f CLICKS 'As we see it; considerable in genuity will be requisite to make the punishment fit the crime in the Northcott case." All that the State Fair needed la order to-1 break- all records sood. weather . -. Gene .Tunney and , Polly. Lao ier will be wedded in Rome. 1 Pre- lumably the altar will be illamin ited with Roman eaadlea, - V'Pumpklns begin coming to Packing Company says a States man headline. Rolling in, presum ably. " -. " - The State Fair , board certainly made a hit by holding over the big show-for Sunday,-, Something like nine in every 10 baseball fans mourn today because the Athletics failed in their gal lant fight for the pennant. , . Salem's American Iegion. drum corps is off for San Antonio Tues day with the good wishes of er- ervbodr attendlnr its members.'' With the democrats the vital Is sue seems to be ! for Ale and Al for-All.- , Jast why anyone who believes tn progress ; should oppose - the county agent elan has not yet be come deaf, ::; vf ' 'UUt illller 'is stspptag hlrl, artraad the Imperial hotel ta Port land these ' days, Somebody him and called his seaater.M King Victor Emmanuel ta abeu' to . abdicate: Prcaumably he hat ibtaiaed Mussolini's ' consent 'Z U that step, t z. vqirce question Is the man whr has been working so hard in the Indian Legislature to hare the age ofj consent raised for girls in In dia. He has several daughters of his own who have gone to college at Isabella Thoburn College, and two weeks ago one of them came here to call on one of our girl? who was in Isabella Thoburn and is! now attending Hislop - College here. This girl. Constance Gour. sails next: month, with her sister, fdr England 'where she will take up -medicine. L'From the clippings sent me by mother, Nancy Ana Miller has gotten a -lot of publicity by cast ing her lot with the former Ma harajah of . Indore. Those of U3 who have lived here long enough to know what the actual condition of women,, is, and more especially when lived with a man of the Mahara)ah'8 character, think her extremely siiiy. to say tne least. It she Is looking for romance she will certainly find it In a cheap and very real form, , She was not welcomed with such open arms as some of the American"; papers would lead one to' believe. The other wives of the establishment naturally do not have much love -for Nancy Ann. The rumors which j have been started 19 America about so many Christians turning back to Hin duism through Nancy's influence are absolutely without: foundation. They are merely the 'propaganda lies of Hinduism. If the people at home could see one of the Hindu priests, a mass of filth who peers dut of greedy, -tI1 eyes at you. and who; sits .by the, temples or roadsides), clothed mostly In ashes and long hair matted with cow dung; and If they could get Just one little glimpse of some of the filthy, green saered rivers and 4- ! "Distress South Crews'-placid ly headlines the Oregonian. Which wins the1 fur-lined bath tub for meaningless heads. Sad to; relate, there! was nobody to play a march .when the union organists: in Salem marched out. t Bet that Molalla man who lost a arestllng match with a doe which be seised when It was entangled tn wire, fence wouldn't let any body's sheep bite hint. . j.'-- i v- f - '-v;-v At last the. New York "Wotld" Asa admitted that Portland Is in Oregon and that -the Battleship Oregon is in Portland. . They all learn, sooner or later. - A newspaper that Is destructive Instead of coaatrttetlre in policy is a liability to, a community Instead of an asset. ;r la our Oregon prosperity and happiness let us not forget the norm and flood -victims in Flori da and Porto Rico, f . Register berora October or forfeit your right to rote Novem - Al Smith wants an ,aWett bar? Also he wants to be bar-tender. ; Soap and movie cameras, says the Klamath News, have effected the greatest changes in the old time cowboy. I ' ' 4- Almea Semsle MePherson ad vertised gay Paris la a big way the other day and likely wUl cause a let nf talks to go there, snd lot of folks who have been there to d a tat of explaining Atmee said among I other things. "Gay Paris Is polished on the out tide but It 1sb rattenest city In the world at the leere Walla TfalU ilunetin. waters that so caUed Hindus bathe in and drink, and then Imagine my sane American girl wanting to take up with such a religion snd what it propagates, I am sure that any element of romance or thrill would be lacking. ". I surely wish that you might make us a visit, for I am sure that you would love my family of girls. From the smallest to the oldest they are an interesting lot, and surely tax all of my resources to give them the training they get, let alone all that I feel they should hare. There are 80 in the hostel. It seems to take most of my time to see that they are re ceiving the balanced, nourishing food necessary, keeping them clothed, or at least mended, and seeing that the work of the com. pound goes along like a partially oiled machine at least. I do long for time to give them more indi-' vidual care tor their ttttle souls' sakes, but. as we are so short of missionaries, I must be ,content 10 up wnai 1 ran in a general way with the occasional opportun ities for Individual touches. , This ; afternoon tha school oh. served Arbor day. A pretty little tree has been planted In the front compound and there are to be ap propriate , services. . I was plan ning to get some pictures, but it is clouding up, the first In weeks. so maybe we are going to get our much needed rain. ' . I should like to be In Salem for homecoming, and for Just a lot of Willamette functions, but I shall be there in spirit. Just give the members of '22 my very best wishes and regards, and tell all Willamette friends . that I often think of them. Two years from now I shall revel la It all. My present plan is to see the Passion Play ou my way home, be sides the Holy Land. Egypt. Switz erland, Italy, France, England and Scotland. This Is, of course, pro- riding I can possibly save a little to add to the travel allowance rranted us for a direct route. There seem' to be so many urgent demands upon the little coming our way, but just the same we are happy and try to make the most of every single opportunity which comes our way. watc oj IK. . TTTB ARE still discussing the ' claims made by the United States to the territory now com prising our state, and we find that the last item of claim was based upon the Treaty of Louis- iana ia 1803, with Franceand the Treaty of Florida in 1819, with ' Spain. ',. -... -V,r .. . "T.v y-t Myvi I The terms, of; this latter are of particular value in this dis cussion, and will be outlined in ' Jtv I 1 detail in our A New Yorker, at Br G. O. KKW YORK. This l tha story of a girl who has been SiCindrel- la three times and who finds her greatest adventure still ahead of her. Not yet past her twenties. Hope Hamnton has known fame , a a mAttnn nletur actress. , she k has starred in musical operetta," and she has become the wife of a New York mUlion aire.. Now - she Is to hare her chance In grand opera as a lyric soprano ' this season with the Philadelphia Grand Opera company . o f which Leopl Stokowskt l'r honorary mn, leal director. Some ', t e r rears aro Hons Hamnton wax a O. r Seymour f Houston, Texas, schoolgirl who had won a beauty contest In her home I city and had come to New York looking for work In the movies. New York was as much of a pic ture-making center as Hollywood in those days. Hope got several extra parts to play and finally was cast la a leading role. She rose quickly to stardom in such pic tures as "Lawful Larceny", I and "The Gold Digger,' and the late Marcus Loew engaged her to make personal appearances at new theaters he was opening. " --7 It irked her that she .could only make speeches to her aud iences, so she determined to learn to sing for them. First she sang popular songs. Finally she essayed arias. j A stage pnjucer cast heir as prima donna ;of . ''Madame Pom padour," but she never got to New York in the production. Last, Bits for By R. J. If you have any doubt S Concerning the value of irriga tion for the Willamette valley, go to the state fair today. If you have not already gone W V . And examine the West Stayton section of the Marion county ex hibit In the new pavilion. You will see a squash, there big enough to load a wagon ; big enough to make pies to feed a regiment. V You will see tomatoes that wil compare with the best grown in any country, and many other sam ples of such excellence to as tonish you. Then look at the celery. This is produced in the Laibish district under Irrigation, and it is the best ?rown in the world; better than the famous Kalamazoo; Michigan, -ttlery taking, prizes over the Michigan product at the national vegetable shows. V .What Marlon county and the rest of the Willamette valley need, above all other things,' in getting their idle and slacker acres into full potential production, is more i irrigation major irrigation pro jects. This would bring beet sugar factories, elt would make this the greatest dairying country in the world; it would help the flax in dustry vastly, and It would aid every other industry on the land. It would give the Willamette val- I 1 x 1 - - t ill, v 1 : r . . r Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talk From the Statesman 0nr Fathers Read Sept. 30, 1903 H. S.' Glle went to Albany last night for a short business visit. The 54 th annual conference of the M. E. church In Oregon will open In Salem -this morning. Jay J. McCormick, for the past two years chapel guard at the pen itentiary, is leaving to make hie home In Portland. He recently re signed the position here. ; Hon. B. J. Miles, who was the first superintendent of the Oregon state reform school, is visiting In Salem and vicinity. He Is superin Oregon f - next sketch Large vmoirr 1 season ih got another chance, as star In Stgmund Romberg's oper etta, "My Princess." Phlladelph lans heard her sing, and. the other day. the chance came to sing in their -opera company. It was an opportunity she had dreamed of since first she took a voice lesson. She will sing the leading role of Miml in "LaBoheme on Novem. ber.Xf, and the name part of Masanet's "Manon" later In ' the season.';: ?. ( - ' Wolfhounds and n Pom Meanwhile Hope Hampton had met and married 'Jules Broula tour. In the early days of motion pictures he had' share In build ing; up the manufacture and sale of movie 'camera film. Today roy alties bring hlmj an income which Broadway is told rans Into seven figures a year.' . ' . They have a home on Park Ave nue, at Ninetieth atreet not an apartment, but! a three-story man sion with a garden and a law. There Hops Hampton keeps Mr don: She usually has eight or ten. and they range from great Russian wolfhounds to -the tiaiest white, haired Pomeranian In the world, a ane-pound: dog purchased for her In Europe by her husband. . The Broulatours spend much time in travel, oftenest to Egypt, Turkey or tha Orient. ' Qnee. of Premieres) j: r Since - before her marriage, Hope Hampton has been the most regular of New York'a first night ers." At every notable theater op ening she is a center of attention, v. She has been caUed best-dress ed womari, In America, and a lead ing woman's magazine sent her abroad a fewears ago solely to pose for pictures n the v newest Paris fashions Laurels enoughti'Not yet. Hope Hampton wants to be a grand op era star. -1'.;-' ? . ' Breakfast Httodriclta ey a population of 110,909,000, with a half million in Salem. ir you will visit the fig display in the new pavilion at the state fair you will be 'convinced that an other string is being added to the bow of prosperity ia this land of diversity; The managers of .the Willamette Fig Gardens, Inc. mak ing this display declare that this "Oregon's -future money making frdlt crop." It is worthy of trial. Our state cannot hare too many tringa to its bow in the line of coney crops. H ' v We listened in Wednesday to a -adlo speech by some actor man n New York.;j He said he was neither a republican nor demo crat, but an "agnostic." His speech was much franker than any of the -boasted' frankness of AL He gave his reasons or rather his reason, which was that he thought Al would Xlnd a way to have the 18 th amendment and the Volstead act repealed; Wbat we got out of it was this -he represents the riew--point of millions of city, people who have received the Impression from Al that that's what he In tends to do. He said he didn't care if Al couldn't speak the English language correctly and ate peas r jth his knife, he was thirsty and wanted to get a. legitimate drink. We don't care how thirsty a man s, we should think he would rath si, have enough; to eat." Corvallis Gazette-Times.:; tendent of the Iowa reform school atJEIdora. 1 , Dr. W. S. Mott left last night for the Coos bay region on profes sional business. Attorney John A. Carson left yesterday for Seattle from where be will sail, in company with a New York man, for Valdes, Alaska on , business in connection wKh mining litigation on which he has been working the past year. , The Rer. P.i 8. Knight has gone Oregon City to attend the gen sral association of the Coagreg 3onal church.; rE TAKE a great deal of satisfaction in the fact I that we have" inrarporated in , our . service everything that ; would add to the comfort or 1 ; convenience of those we serve. Ours; is a. service second to none: ! CLOUGHrHUSTON C? JEiskncHVeuneral Service.' PHONE TZQ 't-i J f -girt