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Salem Oregon Featurires . Thursday October 18, 1928 TheGwbBafl Herbert Hoover S 77 x -nr u-iZI bg dead, the sco;- And They Lived Happily Ever After fotdiMrMbe d, frontier alttvh he dead, dogmas b do He vnll possess something higher than all greatcauntry, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole hejiven. Victor Hugo.i A Reminiscent Biography By WILL IRWIX (Etrt tm U. book prtllmh 7 Tm Ontmry Co.) The Editors Say "Hoover WinsV t ' . -ii i- - j tho ami- 1 5n 53 E UnrtStlururedry aKord'aA accurate aoundinz WTnnrp tkan 900 editors of x . i I it- f 1 ft 7 1 1 I completed a pou wiucn da'TO to repfy E3r opinion of the probable m HPHitor & Publisher also ascertained from a poll of the oiHf rpd the Drobable choice in editors wnai man me w-. :- , -tVloa. renresenta- their own state. The result showed eidered doubtful. - : interested. Fifty liear state wnne uuiy xva " - . . , iq New York state editors foresaw a Hoover victory and 19 a . "ssLrr.s; tkSntaSr and io STtalSSSr ev'ldiior o? S 33 voting said that Mr i j i ;n rhoir nnmp state. TOe poU iwealrf that tBe SSi south" w still solid with editor, finding Smith a I favo g though Kentucky newspaper leaders thought Hoover tne la- - ' ! Considering that all types of "?"2 proached, democratic as iSSS papers with varying: types oi wlia"1V"T ""!" - I " ;0rrino sTiH nrorjhectic. Insofar as any Mil before the real day of voting can be authentic, this test !5?u-lilnUv. n overwhelming tide of victory com- Ul mc cuuuia """i , , ing in for the republican standard, bearer. How lirvs tKe Nation? NATURALLY enough, there is plenty of one-sided talk and floods of prejudiced words in advance of any such momentous event as a nationa election, uewui " to facts sometimes proves interesting ana eiiiiKvC6 i u oiffo the chin to fall where they may. v,o TolitiVal record of a eeneration shows Wilson to have been the lone democratic occupant of the nru: xr 0;r.0 riovplanH retired in 1889. In spite of this interesting fact, Vermont alone has maintained uninterrupt- j 11 rcnnhiicnTi nanner iur iu vcaia. vtt, eu aiiegianc w -- v.M - - t, uj rim Massachusetts. Minnesota and renn gylvania have broken faith only once, while Oregon, Utah c,m rioVnto New York. New Hampshire, Michigan, In diana and Illinois have stepped from the straight and narrow Oregon has been true to the republican cause except in the campaign of 1892, when it gave a quarter of its voting strength to the third party, and in 1912, when it alhgned with 40 other states in electing Wilson. These political side trips made by republican states have not seriously effected the result, although the record reveals that 10 states have consistently gone democratic for 40 years and three other states have broken out. 01 the democratic lineup only once in the same generation. The Solid South gets its reputation from the fact that in these 40 years only Tennessee, and that state only once, lias deserted, with Oklahoma, one the fringe of the "solid belt having done likewise once in the 20 years it has enjoyed w fcv-aavwvs - No normally republican state went to the democratic side of the fence in 1924, although Wisconsin did strive vain ly for the election of LaFollette. On the other hand, Ken tii.irv nnrmallv democratic, was in the republican fold in that war. ronntinc Kentuckv and. Oklahoma as parts of the "RnliH South." that far-famed area of 13 states controls 143 - electoral colleee votes. A total of 266 votes are required to elect. mm 1 I The Diary of a New Yorker BY CLARK KINNAIRD Y. M. C. A. Exirollment T IGHT-THINKLNG Salem men will view as a privilege. MX rather than a duty, their enrollment as members of the ritv Y M f!. A. This oriranization has srown steadily since its advent in Salem years ago and today is housed in an attractive, effi cient, well-constructed home on Court street. During the last year the "Jf" has extended its service to 2500 people, a liberal Dercentaee of the citizenry of Salem. That this num ber ranks high compared with the national percentage is in dicated by the fact that throughout the United btates x. M. C. A. membersliips now total 1.000,000. The "Y" stands, but more than that, works for every good cause whether it bethe physical development of .the in dividual member or the mental or moral development of the manv bova and men who seek spiritual counsel from the Y, If. C. A. It is because of this worthwhile work that such men as W. L Staler, president of the board. T. A. Livesley, Tom Kay and Paul Wallace, along with scores of equally rep resentative citizens, support the institution and encourage the secretary, C. A. Kells, in the splendid work he is di recting. For the same reasons Salem citizens should and will. enroll in the "Y" which asks no funds save those of member ships. Active or sustaining members alike can do their part to make the Salem Y. M. C. A. increasingly effective during the coming year. Exclusive Central Press Dispatch to the Oregon Statesman NEW YORK. Oct. 17 Out of the 'maie of autumu openings, -Faust." produced br tne Theatre guild, has attracted the most at tAntlnn but not the most faroraMo reviews. Indeed, the critics nac found It dull, and are purzled. Goethe's masterpiece, as translat ed from the German and fit to mala stars of the past, has Deen popular fare. Now. here It la. un abridged as It were, m a proioguw and nineteen scenes, an isngusu vrion br Graham and Tristan Rawson. and directed by Frederick Holl. the director of the Berlin Volksbuehne (People's tneaierj. Here it Is, in all its supposed glory and the critics find no glory. Gilbert W. Gabriel, highbrow critic, tires to explain In these words: "Most of all. maybe, youll won der. why try a 'Faust at all in English? The sumptuous clang of TJoethe's phrases, the surge and majesty of his great cadences, the exultant and warm color of hit words of heavenly wrath and fiendish Irony. . . how could Eng lish, any English, recapture these passionate resonances which are half the gorgeousness of 'Faust' in the original? ... Perhaps it Is just the pinched speaking that this British transla tion seems to call for that turu3 each famous passage into a cool, thin trickle: Or perhaps the cast, finding itself in semi-modern cos tume (period of 1820, by Lee Sim onson), had decided to live up to the Kate Greenaway atmosphere and be nicely chirrupy and teacup- py about its conversation. At any rate, we had all the sing-song ana none of the sonority; much phon- Iness and few of the phonetics." Those who remember Sir Henry Irving and his production may weep. The old always looks better. George Gaul plays Faust, Dud ley Digges is Mephistopheles and Walter Vonnegut is Wagner. Grace George, whom the road knows so well, is to return to the Broadway stage soon In an English play. Her husband. William A. Brady, will be the producer. She up to their movie reputation again. would be In 1932 in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Georee Washington. Min imum cost would be $100,000,000. Mayor Walker and Governor Smith must approve. Since Philadelphia had an expo fizzle several yeara ago, city aaminisirauons naven been eager to "Join in" Chicago. I believe, plans one for 1933 or thereabouts. It held what probably was the most successful one in 1893. Since exposures have been made of exploitation of the jobless by some private employment agencies. some of the organized workers are demanding that labor unions oper ate job agencies. Bobbed hair in New York now is so long that curls show beneath the hat. You're quite out of it if the hair doesn't show. Well, the night clubs are Uvlng MUST hurry over the twelve years atter Herbert Hoover's nrfTPntnrouA life in the Aus tralian gold rush and the Box er war. Looking back I see that be had added one quality. Under the modesty and shyness lay an air of authority expressed not in speech, but somehow in uncons'd ered mental .attitudes. During those exciting years of China, it seems to me. his entity came per fectly Into him. From that time forth he was the Hoover whom all the world knows. His journeys covered the world, but always the home port was Sani Francisco. His way of life in thia period has given rise to the persistent reports that he was out of the country for twenty years. As a matter of fact and record, he spent only one of these years 1907 wholly out of the Unit ed States. The Hoovers had by now two sons. They must be edu cated at home, the Hoovers de cided. The head office of the business in San Francisco presenuy stretched like an expanding rip ple. There was a main branch in New York: and lesser branch es ringed the world. Hoover be came distinctly a cordlnator. an executive, an eliminator of waste and folly. Hoover Goes Ahead In that period of far-flung ac tivities between 1901 and 1914 Hoover boarded an ocean liner as casually as you or I take a trol ley car. His cabin became a float ing office. Mrs. Hoover followed or accompanied him in so far as her boys and their education per mitted. I can mention only a few of the notable enterprises on which he stamped his character. At Broken Hill, in Australia, he re vived a seemingly worked-out lilac mine. At Kvshtim. on the western slope or the Ural moun tains, he developed what grew to the most important metallurgical center in Russia. In the Malay Peninsula was a mining puzzle in both chemistry and engineering which, in the course of some per plexed years. Hoover solved. Where had been Jungle grew a community of 25.000 people- And at home, in many engineering The Way of the World By GROVE PATTERSON i -i A,ii ! 1 or works woover n administrate hand. Aside from his authorship of various technical books, Hoover s bent for scholarship is in his pas sion for Stanford University. Her bert. Jr.. was graduated there in 1924: Allan is now a student there. In 1912 Hoover became a trustee. The School of Business Administration and the Food In stitute are" of his creation. Final ly, he collected the war library which his fellow trustees have In sisted on naming after him. This unique collection may prove his greatest service to Sanford. A Typical Action When as a boy of twenty-three he first got a salary above bare necessities, he made Lester Hins dale a kind of distributing agent: sent him monthly from Australia a generous remitanc. Most of this . . relatives sum went to one m in process of education; and the rest to working students in Stan, ford who found the going hard. I have this rrom iimsuaie. not from Hoover. . . He main tained the habit. For twenty y' I have in California or New York observed men or woman f ur ? ft Jm. fillMlfl 9 common acquaintance " smoothly through a crisis. years later perhaps. I win that the solvent was Hoover. 4 a ha HreW toward the end or hi. ifal firhtinr thirties, mind and spirit were rising Sain ?. overlap their barriers, in crossed lines with Hoover. During a three-day wait for a steamer we picked up threads of old Intimacy. And on the third night we talked of his future. "I'm getting to the point." he said in effect, "where I'll oon have an independent income. I m dissolving all this foreign work; the boys are taking it over. I am Interested in some job of public service at home, of course." He Generalizes When I pressed him for partic ulars he answered by interesting generalities. So many problems would yield to common sense, honest intention and cooperation. We were leaving to sentiment so many things that didn't belong legitimately to sentiment. We could save so much waste by co ordinating our activities. In such work, somehow, somewhere, a man of his experience might find place and usefulness Who am I? With whaiormi of t musical entertainment is my name connected? Name he artists who started my concerts this season? How old is Thomas Alva E li- son 1 Whose last words on the scaf fold were: "It is a far, far be;v r thing that I do. than I have e.-.-done; it is a far, far better r. that T co to. than I have t-v: known?" In what novel did th-y appear? Give the line following: "Poems are made by fools like me." "The way of the Just is upright ness: tnou, mosi uiuaui. ' weigh the path of the just," Wh'tj does this passage appear Miu Bible? JIMMY JA3IS j l r-jn i Kmj ai inc. 1 1 was last seen la the provinces In,' "The Road to Rome." New York may have world greatest exposition. 'the It Bits for Breakfast Clifford W. Brown THERE must have been tender thoughts in the minds of of many Salemites as they joined in welcoming home the triumphant American Legion drum corps. Thoughts reverting to the memory of the man responsi ble for the organization of the drum corps Clifford W. Brown. He not only originated the idea, he furnished the money needed to pay for the first uniforms and equipment. He took pride in the splendid work they did and gloried in the trophies they garnered in friendly rivalry. Heartfelt regrets there must have been in the minds of many that Clifford W. Brown was cut off in his prime and could not be present, except in spirit, to join in thewelcom ?ng home of his boys, who did their city and state proud at San Antonio and came back wearing the well-deserved laurel wreaths of victory. : ( The other day we had a kind word to say for Franklin D. Roosevelt, nominated for governor of New York. Hfe now comes forth again showing his superiority to his Tammany surroundings. In a speech he frankly and completely ab solves the leaders of the republican party of any participa tion, directly or indirectly in the "campaign of bigotry. We hope rough neck Al was listening in. -Corvallis Gazette AI Smith says He is going to carry Ohio and Pennsylvania And Senator Robinson, demo cratic candidate for vice president, says he wonld not 6e surprised to see Oregon and Idaho go for the Smith. V Well, that would surely go ut wb. Aoa tne cnaaces are just about as brilliant as than Uor a gutta percha cat u climb out of hell. The way it looks now. Smith will b In luck If he carries half the states of the solid south. He seems to have not even a ghost oi a cnance any where else. Under the heading. "Those Who Come and Go,'" being tales of rolks at the hotels, the Oregon Ian of yesterday had Raymond Z Henle, a newspaper .correspon dent of Washington. D. C, say mg. arter he had motored to Salem and return In the party of senator Koblnson, candidate for vice president. That's fine. But the farmers of By B. J. Hendricks- BY FREDC KELLY By FRED C. KELLY BUSINESS chief once said to me, as be closed down his desk tc go to a ball game at 8 o'clock. "Tomorrow I may hare to b- here until 7 o'clock. Bat today, when I don't, I'm going to grab of ..a littlerecreation. rm not going to stay here Jast to try to make i rreeord for tbe n amber of boors pat in at the o Vice. Business is mot a mere endnranco tst. Dinner Storie Knew His Athletes Amusing evidence of the hold which the Olympic games laid upon the British public mind is furnished by this little yarn. A careless pedestrian, mooning tne. strand, round a bus down upon him. By an inspired series of leaps and hops he galn- sd the refuge of an island A girl died from a beating in one. Attempting to protest against treatment . of another guest, the young woman, in spite of the fact her rich escort tried to defend her, was struck by an attache, it is al leged. T-xlay in the Past On this date, in 19Z. Queon Marie of Roumania arrived in N- "It sounds like politics or gov-. York City from Europe on a Visit the Willamette valley want a lot of farm relief, and thejr expect to get it, at the hands of a republi can congress and nsasldent. They want a higher protective duty on walnuts and cherries, and a still higher rate on filberts; and there are numerous other things on (hat list. They want the- sugar Industry developed, with higher tariff rates and the Caban dlf ferentlal abolished, and encouragement in numerous other ways for the b,eet sugar Industry. The Willamette valley farmers are doing well comparatively, but they are pot dotng well enough not by a long sight. CLICKS Typewriter Chatter, More or Less Frivolous, of Men. Women and Eve Is. Hoover's Alphabet By MABEL P. MARTI S INTEGRITY Not one figure of the Peace Con ference, but many, called him tha bearing j Snsie statesman of the war period who came out of the struggle with The untarnished credit. Elements in has driver, having drawn op his Europe that would trust neither government nor official nor coni- If people realised how hard It is to write timely, snappy editor, lals maybe they would read more of them. Ice in Salem the other morn ing. And the store windowg dis playing those long-legged. scratchy ones. It won t be long now. Monday a man appeared in slm with a "Smith for Presi dent" badge on his hat. He attract ed quite a lot of attention. With Willie Hoppe and Jack Layton. billiard experts, playing an exhibition match here. Jim Robinson was confronted with strong competition. Truth A poet. unknown to the wrfter of Xhk column, once set down these lines: "I stood one eve beside a black smith's door. And heard the anvil ring the vespers chime; Then, looking in. I saw upon the floor Old hammers, worn with heat ing years of time. 'How many anvils have you had' said I. 'To wear and batter all those hammers so?" 'Just one,' said he. then said, with twinkling eye. 'The anvil wears the hammers out, () out. you know'." We may strike at truth, deny it, and seek to destroy It. We may ga on all our lives opposing men and principles who are in thei right. We cannot break the men or wear down the principles so Innr 4 thev are reallv true 'They are. Indeed. like the anvils which in time must wear the hammers out. e Living TboughtfuUy The study of the universe, the ordered movement of the planets the observation of all the care fully prepared and arranged pro cesses of nature should lead us in. to the practice of living thought ful lives. When we perceive that nature is ruled by a creative force and ruled in an orderly manner, what excuse can we have for living lives of chaotic disar. rangement and 'thoughtlessness. emment work," I commented. "Well. I've always been inter. ested in that sort of thing." he said. "I don't know yet what it Trill be but something." He was vague, for Hoover. Two summers later a shot from a crazy boy lit the fuse of the powder magazine of Europe. And then Fate resolved the vague "something": again Fate decided for Herbert Hoover the decisive. (To be continued.) Poems that Live in the United States. Today's Horoscope j Persons born under this jsign have a strong leaning towjarJs economy and fixedness of opinion which borders on obstinacy. but they never lack a plausible excuse when they make a mistake in Judgment. A Daily Thought ; "There is no praise in being up right, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you." Cicero. "Colorado Blizzard Traps Deer Hunters" says a headline. Better that than fall victims to the rifles of careless shooters. Marie Prevost says she has sep arated from Kenneth Harlan "once and for all." Which probab ly means for at least six months. Human bones have been fojnd In an old Indian graveyard in Salem. What sort or bones did anyone expect to find there except those of humans? IVT, -A FAREWELL" fairest child, I have no song to give yea ; No lark could pipe to skies so doll and gray: Yet; if yoo will, one quiet hint lU leave you For every day. IH tell you how te sing a clearer carol Than lark who hails the dawn, on breezy down; v To earn yourself a purer poet's laurel Thau Shakespeare's ertwn. Bo good, sweet maid, and let who ' .will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day leng; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever One grand sweet song. CAHr Kimgtley (lSlt-1175) Answers to, Foregoing Question 1. Atwater Kent; radio; Fran ces Alda and Mario Cham lee. 2. Eighty-one. 3. Sidney Corton's "A Tale of Two Cities," by Dickens. 4. "But only God can make a tree." "Tree," by Joyce Kilmer. 5. Isaiah, xxvi, 7. vehicle shook a reproving finger it the adventurer and said. "Nah then. Lord Burghley. ..." The Sod Itself A gentleman visiting some re a tires in Scotland was persuad ed to try a game of golf. At his Irst stroke be simed s terrific !ow at the, ball, scattering the urf to right snd left. . "What have I hit?" he asked. ooking around for the result. "Scotland, sir," answered the caddie. mission, trusted Herbert Hoover. When, after the war, the audltois closed up a sales-and-purchaso ac count of I92S.000.000. they added a voluntary statement that. Hoover had ntfver himself drawn a cent from these funds for, any purpose whatsoever. Hoover's record both es that he Is a man to be trusted in public and in private life, prov- with the grave responsibility of the Presidency of the United States. (To be continued) Os West graced Salem with his nresence whUe Senator Robinson was nere. " wm come along our cup of bliss would Just naturally have ovemowea. The so-called "solid South' seemingly to not so solid as. of yore. Everybody help the T. M. C. A. rampaign, thereby helping Salem. An Idea More powerful than the tread of marching armies, said Victor Hugo, is an idea whose hour has come. But the great Frenchmen would have admitted the futility and the weakness of an idea in the mind of a man or woman suf ferine from the commonest malady of modern times mental Indolence. Without energy ideas are beautiful pictures packedl away in the attic. Popularity People who are exceedingly j popular doubtless find it pleas- lant to be so. But one can pay too hlgn a price for popularity and when he has paid it he will find that he ha lost what he thought that he had bought. Many seek popularity by agreeing with ev- edybody about everything. They get a reputation for tolerance, and then It is discovered that they do not deserve a reputation for toler ance. They simply have no convic tions. Very likely they are Ignorant and do not know what tney are agreeing with. Better be unpopu lar and stand for something than to be an easy pushover la every debate. Tolerance doesn't mean? agree ing with the other fellow on ev erything. It means respecting his opinion without unjust condemna tion. It means giving him the as sumption of sincerity and trying to see things from his point of view as well as your own. Toler ance does not mean giving up 1 .1 II Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talk From Tuo States man Our Fathers Read Oct, 18, 1003 Real estate transfers show prevalence of sales of small tracts, Judge Septimus J. Hanna of Boston, a member of the board , lecturers sent out by the Chris tian Science board of, education. will speak here next month R. W. A. Cherry, night operator at the S. P. pasenger depot, has been promoted to the company's agent at Gerrals. O Four types of receiving tubes nrcd bT a firm, the Ray. theon Manufacturing Co., which heretofore manufactured only gas eous rectifiers for 'B-eUminatprs. It is planned "later to, have a com nite line of battery and AC tubes. The four include a 226, a 227, a your own thoughtful convictions ma ana a zaw. muj. Highwaymen way-laid Dan ser of North Salem as ha was crossing the Marion-Polk county Dnage ana roDDea nira of 7 S cents. m.ii um cnangu ne naa on rum. Sheriff J. M. Rader of Jackson county was here to bring two pa tients to mo state insane asylum The University of Washinrtn defeated O. A. C. at Corvallla, by m avur ui o to o. Tie One-Minute Pulpit Speak unto all the congregatiot of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Te shall be holy: f jr I the Lord your God am holyi Te shall fear every man his mo ther, and his father, and keep sly sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. Leviticus, xix. 2-3. piOEUoni is CALLED BY 0 EAT f. Mrs. Minervia J. Wilson die.f' Saturday morning at the home of her son, Otto J. Wilson, at; 133 G State street, and with her death ends the career of another; Mar lon county and Salem pioneer. Mrs. Wilson was 82 years and "J days old and had lived in thH county 64 years, all of wbichi s-' one year at Silverton, had! b-n spent close to and in Salem. St.- had been in III health for ai loiu time preceding her death. Funeral services were held :a the Rlgdon mortuary rhanel 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. with the Rev. Norman K. iTuiiy of the First Presbyterian chun n orriclatlng snd interment will i In the I. O. O. F. cemetery hpr Mrs. Wilson had -been a slnc-r member of the Presbvteri m church all her life. Minervia Melson Wilson w.n born in Shelby county. Missouri, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. s. D. Melson with whom she cros'! the plains in 18(4 to locate! on i iarm near Silverton. She wan married la lgf7 to J. H. Wilson, a pioneer of this county, who diel IB 199Z. Mrs. Wilson is survived by Otto J. Wilson , of Salem and Charles O. Wilson ot SpringfUu. her sons, and by two sisters. Mrs S. P. Garrlgues of Portland and Mrs. Ella McDowell of Sani Jose, Calif. Six grandchild-, 7 Ken- neta W. Wilson, Otto J. tVilsor junior and Margaret Wilson lof Sa lem, and Clifford. Ho bard1 " ' ' Donald Wilson of Sprlngfieiki one great grandchild. Clif foN Clalu Wilson, also of SrrlrigfieU uxtItu. ,