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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1928)
H i i i . .. . . - . .... I til ' - i - I If - " I I I tt, MkMH r hsiv pen succeed in life have aU J. ill, 19 iviiwiir v - . ways been cheerful and hope fid men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men, facing rough and smooth alike as it came. Kingsley. A .Washington Bystander The Ideal Tax System PERHAPS the ideal tax system will never come, or, at least, it is likely to be worked out long after the present generations shall have passed away, if ever. An approach to the ideal system would be a single tax on incomes the direct opposite or yie " on land, the idea worked out by the school of Henry George. A !mYv SvtrfwvmA QVXTAl iM fix the navment of the rev- etaues of all government upon those who are most able to bear lt Upon those who have net incomes derived from any 'mUFir a time, at least, it would have to be supplemented by taxes upon privileges or luxuries; upon things not in the list J il rf Ufa The income tax measure on the Oregon ballot would make the property holder pay twice in order to wachonly once the man with a net income and having no property. tv r. wih luv nn hia land, and pay again on the net income, if any above exemptions, on the earnings of the same There is another very serious fault of this proposed tax, xi i M;.iio Tf ia th nrovision to Day any put mere uy iuc o'-"'- - - , , . ju j excess into a fund for the payment of bonded indebtedness. and forbidding any cent of the excess to goto appiy on re storing the state base of taxation. It would still leave the state "in a hole- and take away the chance in another form of income tax of appealing in the future to this source. The state of Oregon cannot go on piling up expenses . anv wav tn ret sufficient money to pay them. Ways TTAVAAWW m7 ' """af ' 9 tnnof VkA Trr n1 at! And a proper income tax with property exemptions is one way. ...... j v It is perhaps the way the most likely to be approved by the voters. Almost ay otner way wouia nave a xaijse uwujr of opponents. Witness the defeat of tne toDacco tax. Any way, the legislature, through its committees hav ing access to expert knowledge, ought to be left with its hands untied, free to search for a way or ways to balance the ttate budget. . The wise thing is to vote down the proposed income tax measure, and leave the field open. Turks May Speak English REAL p"rogress is being made in Turkey. The abolition of the fez was epochal. The fez dates back into antiquity. It was like taking his religion away from him to the Turk; and he has been fanatical in religious matters. The removal of the sultanate, the bandishment of Sultan Mohammed VI, who also happened to be the holy caliph, titular head of Mo hammedanism throughout the world, was a grave event in Turkey and other countries where the caliph is the reputed descendant of Mohammed himself. The person of the caliph was revered with religious awe. Abolition of the harem and its forms of polygamy in favor of monogamy struck again a deep blow at ancient Turkish ideas And now, having struck a death blow at practices that through the years have largely helped to keep Turkey among the backward nations of the world, the new leaders have or dered and are installing a brand new alphabet, the same as we use with a few additional letters to designate special sounds ; taking the place of the ancient and difficult Arabic. These are all but mere besrinninfirs in the epochal program of Mustapha Kemal and his advisers forecasting reforms mak- mg for the removal oi tne oust oi centuries. They are no more surprising than would be an order in that countrv for the use of the'English language; the lan guage of Shakespeare, with a few hundred thousands of meaningful words added, and about 5000 a year being still added ; made up from all the languages of the world, ancient end modern, to express the thoughts and feelings and things of this rapidly moving era of progress and invention; things the existence of which was. not before known. Already the English is almost the universal language of trade and com merce, in which the originals are written or duplicates made of practically every bill of lading or manifest in all the inter- national business transactions of the world. WASHINGTON Cries of re- MQtmant from supporters of Gov ernor Smith's eandidarr over the pro-HooTer sctlrlues of Mrs. Ma bel Walker WfUebrandt. tsalst&at attorney general, serre to draw at tention sharply to the fact that folks on the gov eminent payroll , do not all enjoy the same rights to political life. liberty and the pursuit of tho t thrilling pas time of stump oratory for a f arored o f f 1 ce seeker. - There is a -By Kirk L. Simpson- regular crevasse Kirks L. Simpson more i n a n a Flmple line of cleavage, between so-called "political" employes of Uncle Sam and those permanently In his (service under the general title of! "federal classified employ es," as to what they may or may not do in the way of partisan poli tics and get away with it. If . the civil ' service employes have any doubts about it. all they have to do Is look about their offices and and they will observe posters sent out by the civil service commission beaded "WARNING" in large and glaringly red letters, followed by the subhead: "Political activity of federal classified employes. Political Dont's The "warning" supplemented the - routine circular of the com mission broadcast in April, cau tioning them as to legal restric tions on their political activities. Inquiries from such employes for more detailed information and the near approach of a presidential election" prompted the supplemen- ary "warning.'Mt includes 14 par agraphs of political dont's, sum med up at the top by a statement that a classified employe 'of course, may vote as he pleases." 'lay express his political vie privately" and may make political contributions provided he does not pay them over to any fellow fed- Herbert Hoover shows himself to be a good dirt farmer. He is making a success of his 1313 acre farm in California. But he has guessed wrongly at least twice. He raised this year a crop of 2,500,000 pounds of Spanish onions, .on 90 acres, but much of it was a total loss because it could not be marketed in the east, on account of ruinous competition from Spanish onions that came in duty free, from Spain. The product from that country undersold Hoover's onions, raised 3400 miles across country and by American farm labor. Mr. Hoover guessed wrongly on long-staple cotton, the price of which went down to a tenth of what it was in the post-war boom, when it sold at a dollar a pound. So he shifted to short-staple Peruvian cotton. No wonder Mr. Hoover is in sympathy with the southern truck gardeners who have been driven out of business by duty free competition from low cost labor countries, and are asking for protective duties. Speaking of optimists, the man who gets comfort in fa y vor of Al Smith's chances from the Literary Digest's straw vote figures is entitled to unanimous election to the presl dency and all the other offices of the club of optimists. He cannot even see the hole in the doughnut. Scott Bullitt, the democratic candidate, tells us that it's almost impossible to please some people. He says an editor who last week virtijusly accused him of being "wet," asked him to have a drink last week and was indignant because he refused. Yakima Republic. Joe Robinson, democratic candidate for vice president, says the democrats are not afraid of losinir the solid south, but he is impressing upon them that if southern democrats do not stop declaring for Hoover the solid south will be all shot to pieces. . A lot of democrats will refuse to believe the Literary Di gest s straw vote till they see it the niarht of the election. And then they will wonder how such things could be, when RasJ koo promised so much. , Long periods of hard times have followed in the wake of every democratic tariff. It would be the same again. Like causes produce like results. "The predictions are for a heavy frost. We urge all good uemocrats to iook to tneir gardens. Cregoman. rOWS thls-for hokum? 'KV'':'-j4'''s The head of a company employing several score ef salesmen dealing with farmers used to-UlIAUaneiUf t'' "JP- "If yon go to a farm and they itave a doc. don't delay a no ' aent learning the dog's name ad don't lorget- IJ, The next timer Tm cymi, do sure 10 ou k ao oy name, u s a gooa-aog, or a ' pretty dog, nay so. f FlndLout the names orthe-chfUMn, too. And see-that the childran know your name. It Is almost impossible to qq is summer job. -, m anything Mi. meaaiy -relations tnta a caller who knewa jromr erotism of the Staaferd student dec and ehildzea tjjr&ame -asd who n personally kaewm' tar name U t ey. R returned ia September era! employe or make them while on government premises. In con clusion, the warning uses this lan guage: : t "The restrictions against politic al activity . . prevent him (the employe) while in the service of the whole public from turning his official position to the benefit of the parties into -which the whole public is divided, or from becom ing perniciously active in pontic Active Part Forbidden . The civil service rule Is quite general, merely forbidding any ac tive part In political campaigns or their management. Supplemented by the 14 specific prohibitions and ed by the commission's warning as "some of .the forms of activity held to be forbidden," however; the regulations seem to leave the fed eral classified employe little outlet for hfs political feelings. He may not. for Instance, serve on any po litical committee, be an officer or committee member of any poUtlcal club, have anything to do with po litical rallies "except as a specta tor," express bis own views pub licly or cantass for votes "for auy party, faction, candidate or meas ure," be in any way active at the polls "except marking and deposit log the employe's own ballot, ' aerve as an election officer "unless the election. laws of the state rt quire service regardless of federal employment and provides a pen alty for refusal to serve," or be in way connected with publication of political matter, "signed or un signed." He may not be himself a candidate for or hold local orrice. distribute or wear campaign but tons, adorn his automobile with campaign stickers or signs, or cir culate, even without signing him self, poUtlcal petitions "including initiative and referendum, recall and nomination petitions." And Just to tuck in any possible loose ends. Don't No. 14 forbids: "General political leadership or becoming prominently identified with any political movement, par ty, or faction, or with the success or failure of any candidate for elec tion to pubUc office." Herbert Hoover A Reminiscent Biography By WILL. IRWIN (Extract from th book published by Tb Cental? CO CLICKS typewriter Chatter, More ear pern I Frivol, of Uea. f TTomen and Events. What a whale of a difference three-tenths of a point makes. . X. , - - ' - Levine's plane was wrecked In its 'attempt to take off for Rome. Unfortunately Levine was not In jured, j . feolivia is in the throes- of a "dry" campaign. Don't, those peo ple know they cannot stage a suc cessful revolution without liquor? f - ' " Columbus Day came and passed without many persons discovering anything of importance.' ' V- -r : . The straw vote conducted by the Literary Digest shows a strong trend to Hoover In the South. And U also shows a stronger trend to the republican nominee in thore sections where majorities mean electoral votes. A New Yorker at Large T?v G. T). SVvmour Probably they will use the straw left over from the straw votes to manufacture some new brand of breakfast food. All young husbands and prospec tive husbands of Salem will rejoice at the news that the New Oregoe Statesman ia sponsoring a cooking school. Someone has stolen a school house In Mississippi, and now the sheriff is engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. And now baseball has 4ts own 'whispering campaign." "Hold Everything" certainly is an appropriate title for the play in which a Portland flapper ' is starring. If there were some way of pro hibiting prohibition in the present presidential campaign it would help some. The attempt to start a "whis pering campaign" against Milt Miller died-a-borning. Nobod was interested enough to listen. , "The hardest thing." mourns Capper's Weekly, "Is starting to work." Bet that editor plays golf. Another war has broken out in Chicago. If only Cal Coolid would Tecall, as G rover Cleveland did, that Chicago really Is in the United States and send some reg ular army soldiers in there, order could be restored. Automatic Fire There are too many stories al ready about cigaret lighters that won't work, but this one is true. At a stage premiere recently the hero had to light a cigaret so that he might burn a hole in the drawing room drapes. Until he HERBERT dc hed ed page .cut THE Becond great move in Her bert Hoover's life came in June, 1591, wnen ne wem ixuui Salem, to Palo Alto to enter Ice land Stanford university. For six years he had lived in Oregon with his Uncle John Minhorn, whom he had Joined soon after the death of his mother in Iowa. He found the university in the last of Its birth-pains. The camp us was still Vtorn up" and re sonant with sawing and hammer ing. He entered conditionted in English composition it was not until Just before his graduation that the condition was made up. Here HOover knew first the Joy of the Intellect, here he felt the initial stirring of his higher pow ers, here he found his wife. With in fifteen years his interests and wanderings were to embrace the globe, bat those golden hius above Palo Alto were always the pole to his compass. He was pressed by financial need. The registrar needed a tem porary clerk. Hoover, got the Job: Later he obtained and operated a laundry agency. Minor Disapolntment In the meantime a minor disap pointment. Professor Branner did not arrive to open his engineer ing department until the begin. ning of the second semester. Hoo ver then registered In geology. He fell under the direction of a great natural teacher, one of the great est I have ever known, a scholar to the marrow of his bones. Bran- ner's code nevertheless envisaged the application of scholarship to practical purposes. Association with Branner was in itself a high' er education. Circumstances threw Hoover and Branner into close personal relations. The new professor need ed a part-time secretary; by vir tue of his experience as an office boy Hoover got the Job., Before long Branner perceived the qual ities of character and mind hid den. beneath tha placid surface of this gangling boy. Branner was preparing a sur vey, and a topographical map of Arkansas. Needing assistance, he put. a proposition to his office boy. So In the summer between hit - freshman and sophomore years Hoover tramped the Osark's with surveying Instruments on his shoulder. - , In his sophomore year, under tutelage of his friend Sam Collins, Hoover first became interested In university politics. The students ware entering a turbulent era. In the first semester enterprising seniors had formed "the student body" to take control of collegiate activities. Greek letter fraternities had combined at the birth of the university to control its politics. They had no organised opposition'. In 'Hoover's second year there arose a prophet of the non-fraternity men whose name was Zion. He set himself squarely against the fraternity 'element,-announced his candidacy for persident .ot the student body. Collins . swung in behind htm. and Hoover - fol lowed. Partly through their ef forts Zioa won. r: J; Stadeat Problem : . . In the summer .of - it Jt be tween his sophomore and Junior years ' Hoover thought not only but on the his first creation In organization. All student activities should lie under control of the student body and the active manager should be a bonded and double audited student body treasurer. The common treasury should col lect all gate receipts from contests and shows and. should pay all ex penses. That was the essence of a constitution, which with minor modifications, still governs stud ent activities at Stanford. "Collins, Kimball, Zlon, Wil bur., Herbert Hicks and Lester Hinsdale, leaders In student life, saw that the man for treasurer -the most Important Job was Hoover. His abilities had dawned upon them, not burst. However, they found that Hoover needed persuading. He believed that the treasurer should draw a modest salary, but this he refused to take. No Salary Wanted "No, sir," said Hoover emphat ically. "If I accept this nomina tion and get elected I take no salary. Otherwise they'll say I'm backing the new constitution Just to get a paid job." On these terms he was finally persuaded. So they nominated for student body presi dent Lester Hinsdale, for foot. ball manager Herbert Hicks and for treasurer Hoover. Presently fences and pavements blossomed with the leg end In colored chalks, "Vote for the 3-H ticket," and Stanford was in the midst of a campaign without precedent for heat and intensity. The Three-H's won and presid ed at a loud rally of triumph and broke Stanford precedent by op ening cigars for thecrowd. At once they set out to fulfill their pledge concerning the new consti tution. (To be continued) - The philosopher who edits the Klamath News is moved to marvel at certain phases of matrimony. "We are a queer people," he sav3. "Too proud to buy a second-hand car yet willing to accept a second hand mate in marriage." What does he mean "too proud to buy a second-hand car?" We nominate for the presldeu of the Optimists' club that Condon man who, according to the Globe Times of that city "was in the city Tuesday to buy 50 head or steers for breeding purposes." The poetical lady who raves of the beauty of Autumn's garb does not refer to scenic slickers and napping galoshes, of course. Hoover's Alphabet By MABEL F. MARTIN Oregon Flooded With Propaganda On Power Firms WASHINGTON. Oct. 12. (AP) The circularising of Washing ton and Oregon schools with mon nmnhi on nower topics prepared by private utility representatives was brought out here in the; In vestigation by the federal trade commission, through testimony of Mrs. Clare K. Trip, director of the waahinrton Industries education KurAAti At Seattle. Norwood W. Brokcett. director of nubile relations for the Puget Sound Light ana rower company, Seattle, and H. L. waitner, mana ger of the Oregon Public Utility information oureau. ruruauu, wir named br her as having practically written the pampnteis which bore her name as author. Qh Mtimated these had reached 50.000 school children In the two states Most great men come from the forma And believe us. they stay from them. tod. Multnomah Press. v fttS NEW YORK. Twenty-four years ago, when May suuon was winning the national women's tennis championship for the first time, she was. also changing some notions about what the well, dressed f e m 1 nlne tennis player should wear. She' discard ed the -wide feathered hat and the sweep, ing dress, often plain black. worn by otner players of her sex and donned . ttirn of lieht- er hue, ap- - K,,"'A peared hatless, ana aoon:. -her skirts so that they would not trip her In the course ot a retreat to the baseline. The May Sutton ot 1904 Is now Mrs. Bundy, momer u youngsters, but she is still a rank ing tennis played and her apparel is still distinctive. At the recent women's championships at Forest HlUs she played on cansecuur days in a white satin uress unu in green, yellow and gray silk at tire with cloche hat to match, whereas all her competitors ad hered to the conventional white linen, twilli or gabardine. And h departed further from custom by wearing Jewelry a loose mother-of-pearl choker. - Political Note Campaign cigars are,' missing this year from the New xor headquarters of the presidential campaign. Visitors to nauonai party offices are offered clgarets instead, in any of hall a aozen popular brands. Women party executives, dis pleased by the incense ot political stogies, maneuvered the compro mise on cigarets. Most the feminine politicians have pack ages of cigarets on their desks for callers, , and one woman leader who does not smoke carries a handsome gold case filled with fags for the convenience of visit. ors. Poems that Live A1 "ONE WAY TO LOVE" LL June I bound the rose in sheaves. New, rose by rose, I strip the leaves And strew them where Pauline may pass. She will not turn aside? Alas! Let them lie. Suppose they die? The chance was they might take her eye. How many a month '1 strove to suit These stubborn fingers to the lute! Today I venture all I knew. She will not hear my music? Sol Break the string; fold music's wing: Suppose Pauline had bade me sing! I, My whole life long: I learned to lovr. This hour my utmost art I prove And speak my passion heaven ox hell? She will not give met heaven? Tis well! Lose who may I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest' are they! Robert Browning (lSiz-ltS9 couldnt pro- ceed. He. labored in vaiu a flame from his lighter, and fi nally, halting the action for a moment, crossed the stage to ob tain and strike a match, r A moment later a comrade came onto the stage, and he, too. drew out a lighter and applied it to his cigaret. The play would have gone on as briskly if his lighter hadn't functioned, but it ignited at the first twist. Nobody was more nonplussed than he when the audience broke into louder applause than it vouch safed to any subsequent develop ment of the play. Cixaret lighters, incidentally, are becoming the bane of theatre managers. Once they could keep the house dark at brief intermis sions between scenes to produce or retain dramatic effects and to keep the audience in the spirit of the play. But lately, whenever the lights are down for a few sec onds, cigare lighters begin to lift their tiny flames throughout the house, throwing grotesque shad ows against the ceilings as the spectators peer at their programs to see what comes next. - The practice violates the spirit if not the letter of the fire ordi nances, and it Irritates stage man agers who have a motive in keep, ing the audience in pitch dark ness; but ibseems to be another of those things that nothing can be done about. Old "Oregon's Yesterday Town Talk From Toe States man Our Father Read Portland Federal Building Located PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 12. ( AP ) Portland's new million dollar federal building will be lo cated on the west side of Sixth street, between Main and Madison streets. Official announcement of the selection' was made last night in Washington, D. C, by Carl T. Schuneman, assistant secretary of the treasury. October f3, 103 . "Common Sense." writing to the Statesman, says the proposed sev en wards for Salem are foolish ness. The present four, enlarged, should be sufficient, he says, Dr. D. II. Coleman, president of Willamette university, and family left for New York on business. They will be gone four weeks. Miss Emma Miller, one of the telephone girls, returned from a Portland visit. His Grace, the Most Reverend Alexander Christie, D. D. delivered the dedicatory address for the new convent school in the Catholic par ish at Woodburn. The Rev. R. O. Baekwell, who has filled the pulpit at Leslie M. E church and the church at Lib erty, left with his family for bis new charge at Medford. Objections to the slander cast at Salem over recent stories about the water supply were largely re sponsible for an extra lively coun cil meeting. . Use of Monograph Denied by Howard Monographs on public utilities nrenared br MrsClare Ketchum Tripp of Seattle are not In use in the public schools of Oregon, ac cording to announcement made here Thursday by C. A. Howard, state suerintendent of public in- struction. The denial was issued by the state superintendent fol lowing the publication ot press re ports that the monograpns naa been accepted in some of the schools in this state. Bits for Breakfast By B- J. Hendricks EFFICIENCY: WHEN Hoover was m nis. early twenties, his employ, era discovered that if they sent him to a mine that did not pay. he could find a way to make the enterprise profitable ; - and at the same time that he was increasing dividends for the - stock-holders, he was Improving living , condi tions for the workers. Hoover never waste- a mlnnte. To "his treat humanitarian- undertakings he has brought not only the custo mary- amount of sentiment and an unusual capacity for aeu-sacrince. biit something, far rarer in hu manitarian work; ths clear, coel head of the bnalneas man and the engineer. After Hoover took hold of the Mississippi flood relief. scarcely life-was lost, . " tTo be, continued) - You'll be surprised. .. At the resiliency of our prune Industry, after an almost 100 per cent failure of crop. It Is not dead, nor even has it got one foot In the grave. See Slogan pages' tomorrow. N V S "Al Smith doesn't look like a winner to us, but we must say that his chances have improved this week. John E. Ballaine, once so-called progressive- leader, has come out against him. -Yakima Republic. (There are cases like this on both sides. 80- many people take themselves so very seriously. believing they cut so much politi cal ice by what they do and say.) H - This is s big country-, and It is going to take a lot of rotes to elect the president. The Al Smith voters all lined up would make the big gest army the world ever sawi and yet the Indications axe now that he will not - get within even hail ing distance of the White House. Bet Congressman Hawley will see the maraschino bunch coming tn December, when' he begins to line op the new : protective tariff law. and will gjve our cherries the rats they need In competition with the small sweet cherrtea of Spain, Italy and France. -The maraschino makers had their Innings the Jasi CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH Grand Opera House, Comer Court & S. S. 9:45 a. m. Earl Gregg, Supt. Classes for all ages. We have just started the honor grading sys- lem. iTainea xeacnws will be in charge of your children. PREACHING SERVICES: 10:50 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. "HOMESICK" will be the title of the evening message. This will be the fifth in the series entitled 1 "The Boy Problem." 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