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SALE1C OREGON Sunday -; VnreuAtf -4, 192S Shoiwn f;sacxett : V r- I i J I ". eU r lTublUhers 1L . t l ; . - M .;;' - : :i 1 .-- ! - i. . , J- tt i r ! ,-- - , v Jjivery one now believes that there is in a man an an imating, ruling, characteristic essence, or spirit, which in himself .This spirit, dull or bright; petty or; grand, pur or f&ul, locks out of the eyes, 'sounds in the voice, and ap pear$ n the' manners of each individual. It is what we call personality, Chas. W. Eliot. 5 r ; Some Campaign Last Words' mHE referendum on choosme the captain of our destinies X fer four years will take place on Tuesday-at the polling places throughout the nation. On the one hand we have Al fred 15. Smith, the candidate of the democratic party against a large section of that party's will; thrust upon them by the sinister forces of Tammany, with the hope of placing that organization in power in the white house through the as sumed support of the solid south combined with efficient wet republican help to turn the scale in favor of the candidate taking this chance. There was no other reason for the choice of Mr. Smith And the campaign has developed no other real reason. On the other hand w-sjiave the choice of the man as singularly fitted and trained for the place as if he had been - set apart from boyhood to the present day for preparation for the great duties that fall to the chief executive of the United States - Herbert Hoover. His whole theory of endeavor is that men must work to . gether. He has the supreme talent of organization, and of leadership through cooperation. He leads by moving the whole mass; be makes all his coworkers captains. In the Harrow sense, he is no politician, but in the higher sense he ' Is a great politician. He aims high, and he gets things done. He is an idealist, but he keeps his feet on the ground. He dares to project the abolition of poverty. .That has been the dream of idealists since the beginning of time; and it -sjjjs bred wars. It caused the French revolution But Hoover couples the mind of an idealist with the training of an engineer, and he would abolish poverty by giv ing a job .to every man with a will, to work, and by bringing about equality of opportunity Another idealistic dream. He is not afraid of big undertakings. He hitches his wagon to. a star. He dares to hope for universal health, uni versal education, universal happiness, universal peace . Not as abstract theories but s accomplished facts. He is not afraid to counsel twrfection : and as the world's i i . , l .4 - L ! M greatest engineer ana organizer ne nas tne pians ior h ana believes it can be worked out in concrete form. He is not afraid to promise 5400,000,000 for waterways, four times the cost of the Panama canal,- with the full as surance that these helps to progress can be worked out and will be a good investment And he is not afraid to trust a like amount in the hands of farmer-owned and managed organizations, as the initial start of funds to stabilize marketing of major crop sur With the idea that the farmers will build up their own fund and return the money. Such a vision in the mind of a visionary would scare the country stiff; in the mind of the great engineer they meet general assent. So the people of the United States will choose as their great captain and engineer and director for the next four years, and the next eight years, Herbert Hoover By the most sweeping victory ever recorded in such referendum in all the world's history. ' Armistice Day npEN years ago this autumn was one of the most stirring JL times in the history of man. The world war had been raging for fifty-two months. It was drawincr to a tragic cli max. The victories allies, spurred with the dash and spirit and aided by the powerful driving force of the American armies, were pressing the German legions to a bloody con clusion And on November 11th Germany signed an armistice equivalent to unconditional surrender. The facts of this week are written on the pages of his tory, but who can either forget or sustain the emotions of that time, the joy, the gratituae, the relief that came with the recognition that at last justice had prevailed over might? A minute before 11-1 1-1 1-'18, the long battle front shook with the deafening roar of the conflict a minute after that hour a stillness that was almost oppressive brooded over the Held of carnage The first Armistice day had begun. A writer in the current issue of The Rotarian visages a picture ot tne Unknown Soldier, briefed to small sDace. thus: The oldest member of the party speaking: "I was with Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 B. C. I was one of the three hundred annihilated in defending the Pass. Was not my , ."ain ior naugnti ' Then another gaunt figure: "I gave my life at Tours in -'tax A. u. l stood with Charles Martel. I. kept Europe a Christian continent. Where is the good will I died to create 7 r The third phantom: "I was with-Wellinurtan at Water. loo. .They told me my death meant a world freed from tyran ny ana wrong; tne re would be no more wars. Will people aiways oreax iaitn witn us wno cut 77 The Unknown Soldier speaks: "Only 10 short years ago I gave my hie in the world war. They told us, when we wereJ marching away witii flying banners that we were fighting a war toena an wars, mat peace would forever reign. Win they keep their faith V Thus, in skeleton form, is the appeal The conclusion: For the thousands who came off the battlefield maimed and crippled in mind and body; the wr is not over, and will never be over so long as they snail ilve. The nation must not for get them. As for the peace for .which ther fought, that will come only when a world fellowship and brotherhood shall have . been established by relationships of justice and universal ad- tiprpnpft tv "f Vw C2nlrin Rnl - w- - U !..! ! - THIS RADIO CAMPAIGN linODAU toe- a I Inst r All -ak . A 1 - II EZfs.jnijJL l "THE. ROAR. OFTHE CaOWO AT NEWAO : AT OMAHA AT ELIXABETHTOM i ' -ATCHlCAg I if U J AT NEW V0Q.K. AT BOTTOM Poems inatJL ive 'LOVXAIfOUrE - AH, as? pat Ufa b mln no Th flybtg boun urn fn LOxa tmasittrf dmai i1tb o'er, WKom taafts art kpt la ftore. By memory alone Th tli9 that !f te coma If fiotf How eaa It tata U niao? Tao prtwnt imomonf all mj lot And that, u fattM It U ffotr PWHIi, la only thin. Thta talk not of Inconstancy, ralM heart, and broken vowi; If I by miracle can be Thie lhre-lonf mlnnto true to thee Tie all that Heaven allows. -Vo Wttmot (l4TwlfSe The Grab Bag Who Who and Timely Vieys Spring Gardens in Autumn NEXT spring there will be a riot of beauty sweep over well planted gardens with their tulips, narcissi, and other 1 " rm i i i ... ... jvj vus nwwers ox spring, iney wiu oe iouowea tnrougn we seasons with the carefully marshalled hosts of nerennials which gives to each summer and autumn month its charac teristic wave of color and beauty. Into such gardens will come delighted and envious people who want the flowers and the beauty for their own homes and gardens. If they could make such a garden just then and fill it with a riot of flowers they would do any amount of work and spend their month's pay check but the spring and summer flowers must be pre pared ior .now when autumn is laying her arresting hand on garden growth. Now is the time to tuck in the bulbs which will bring beauty in springtime. Now is the time to divide and reset and work the perennials in their borders. Now is the acceptable time to add that shrub or tree we always plan to add wher. we see one like ft in full bloom in our neighbors garden. The beauty of the spring garden must be created now while the leaves are falling. -.'. " . - . Hoover has a vision without being a visionary; a rare attribute, found so far in the world's history in few. outstand ing men of rare ability and genius. The drafting of this man for the highest duties in the world of his day will be like a divinely directed service of perhaps 20,000,000 men and worn. en in their voUng booth3 througnout the nAUon on Tuesday Salem is the tout city. It is set apart for the nut center of the wordy by: the decreea of nature. Irrigated Lands Discussedt By ELWOOD MEAD V. Commliiloner of Keclftmatloa Elwood Mead wmi born at Patriot, Ind., Jan. 16. 1853. He ia a rradnaU of Pardue nniversitj, wher he earned three decreet in engineeriaf. For lev eral jreara he aerved a a profesaor at Cbkrao Arirahural dollere nd Tti territorial and atate enrineer of Wroa- iafor a tear in 1888. Ue entered the United States department of arricvlture in 1897 and at tne aarae time vas member of the faculty of the Unireraitx of California until 1907. The following eight years he was chairman of the ctate rirers end water supply commission in Victoria. Anstralia. and then returned to the University of California until 1924, when s was appointed federal reeamis sioner of reclemstion by Preside. Cool idge. He is the author of several ar ticles and books on irrigation and his heme is in Washington, D. C HE Influence of federal recla mation Ifaa varied widely ' In different states. It has been least in California and greatest In Id aho and Arizona. Outside o f California, Im portant irriga tion works of the future will be built by the g o t er n m e nt. Costa are too great, and in come too long delayed to make s fl c h derelop to prlrate enter- f1 settlers to do the difficult and unremuneratlre work of clearing and leveling land. State aid has been sought, and legislation to require this has been considered In congressional committees. But Investigation showed that some states lack the means to extend this aid. some are pre. vented from doing so by constitu tional prohibition, and in every state public opinion was opposed to this action. The importance -of these objec tion is realized, and I wish that further action could be avoided and that we could find settlers with money enough to make their own Improvements and buy their own equipment. ; I . do not, how ever, see any hope of this on some of the older projects or on some of those now building, and it is my conviction that we should do one of two things; either pro vide for carrying out the I second stage of reclamation, or quit building canals to irrigate unim proved land. Bits for Breakfast By R. J. Hendricks They Say . . . Expressions of Opinion from Statesman Readers are Welcomed for Use in this column. AU Letters Must Bear Writer's Name, Though This Need Not be Printed, i Hwood Meaa ment attractive prie. The reclamation bureau has in ine past been active in two snrterent fields. It has built works to irrigate aaimpreved and svn peopled land. It has built works to rescire communities and districts where works had seen bulUt by prlrate enterprise, but wnere rail u re was certain either by injury to those works er short age of water, which could be supv pnea only by the construction of costly storage works. In each of these fields er ac tivity the growth of the west la wesJth aad OOBulatioa. the nrae- UcBt disappearance of public land and the treat increase, la cost ot building InigmtisMi werks hare created new aad serious economic problems. -It has emphasized the fact that building canals dees net alone reclaim land. There is a gap between the unleveied, un peopled land under irrigation works and the same works with bouses and. crops growing on cul tivated fields, to bridge which re quires time, labor and money. The cost of this second stage of reclamation is now far more than it was IS years ago. and it has al ways been more than was. gener ally realized. There are other obstacles to be overcome which are far more ser ious than they were before the great war. The pioneering spir it is gone. It is hard to enlist Are you a nnt? V Yon are In the coming nnt cap ital of the world, if von lira in saiem. This Is bound to come. Natnre decreed it. We grow the best wal nuts and filberts produced any where. We can grow them at low er cost than any other section of the world. That settles It. Indus tries will follow the lines of least resistance, like water seeking its level. ! Now we are to have a nut farm here, fer aiding our nut indus tries conducted by the United States government. We will add black walnut forests to our refor estation program. These trees will bear; nuts and make them selves worth! great annual for tunes. They will give their wood to the manufacturing- of furniture, when they are too old or too large for the former service if they ever become so. Or when they are worth more for wood than for nuts. We wtQ add chestnut growing. That is certainly coming. And we will search the wide world over for other commercial nut trees. 1 One day. the nut crops of the i Willamette valley, and all the war hUP her monatala slse, will be! worth vastly more than the total of all our annual crops now. ; I S "e V . Lady phoned in te the Bits man yesterday, saying her eg woman, a small farmer's wife, would not vote for Hoover, be cause he is a rich mas. Bow does she know? He is not so reputed. He was surely a poor hoy. Every body .larSalem who lived here in the eighties knows this. They know that, as a Stanford student h waited on tables of a sorority one of the members of which Is now Mrs. Hoover. i" W Mr. Hoover received a fair sal ary from the first as a mining engineer. He rose in the profes sion, because he was efficient. He then received large salaries, and earned, them, else he would not have been paid them. He received $33,400 a year as geologist of the Chinese government. m Then he was paid a million dol lars, by that government for eet- ting a foreign loan to pay off pressing and humiliating Obliga tions. He earned the million dol lars, many times over, for that government Any one else would have charged several millions. If they had been able to perform the service at all. Is Mr.. Hoover invested in mining property. He owns a 1313 acre farm in California, growing 27 different crops, and has an annaal wage roll of about 3100,000 Many of these workers are college people. They are all Americans; excepting a few .Mexicans fer. sea sonal work. Mr. Hoover is considered In Washington, says Mrs. Hawley, wife ef our congressman, as a man of small wealth; and he lives like a man of ordinary circumstances; like you would live on a salary of IIS. 000 a year, which he has re eelred as secretary of the depart ment ef commerce. Though he was offered f 10D.600 a year as aj min ing engineer before he came home to direct the food! conservation program for our fighting men la the World war. V"e"e? Col. and Mrs. E. i; Holer and grandson Robert are home from a two-montns gignt-seeiug tour in China. -.Japan and the Hawaiian Islands, and are very happy to be in good and beautiful Oregon, to say nothing ef our glorious U. S. T 'When the Devil jWss. Sick" : Lady-! I want a nice book for an invalid. j Librarian Yes, madam. Some thing religious? j Lady -Er ne not now. He's convalescent. RADIO REVEALS HIGH CALIBRE OF HOOVER Salem, Nov. 3, 1928. To the editor: of the Statesman: Being on a visit to Oregon, and having more time on my hands than ordinarily. I have a great in terest in this presidential cam paign. It strikes me that the radio has done more to inform the average voter than any other medium of our times. I have listened in on all the important speeches, and I find that the man who can give the unvarnished facts, and talks straight to the people, is the one who reaches the heart and the understanding. All the gestures and wise cracks; made to draw ap plause, are lost pn the radio audi ence. This has never been brougnt out to me so plainly as in the speeches on last evening. Smith from Brooklyn, ; where we. had listened the preceeding evening, to the masterly speech of Charles Evans Hughes, and then the speech of Herbert Hoover at St. Louis. The one sounded like the speech of the successful candidate to the White House. The other more like the last wall of the defeated one for the office of coroner. I have faith to believe that my grand children will be reading the history of Herbert Hoover's achievements for his country, when Al Smith's name will be for gotten, outside ef his own state. I voted my first ticket for presi dent in the centennial year, and my last ballot was sent from here last Tuesday to be opened and voted at my home precinct en election morning. O. L. ELLSWORTH. November 5, 1928 Who am I? With what well knowni trio am I identified? Arc my two companions living? What Is Stamboul? What is the nautical name for the box in which a ship's compass is suspended? Who Widow? composed the "Merry "Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, aad my heart is faint." Where is this passage found in the Bible? JIMMY JAMS The Way f of the World By GROVE PATTERSON' Today in the Past 'On this date. In 17i&3. the Amor lean Revolutionary troops disbanded. Today's Horoscope Persons born on this day arc not as hopeful and as enthusias tic about life in' general as they might be. Kindness excites their gratitude, but they get litle of il as a rule from others. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talk From Tue States man Oar Fathers Rend Nov. 4, 1903 Oscar L. Norton, the Indian tenor, has gone to San Francisco for a visit following which he will go to St. Louis to sing with an opera company during the Louis iana Purchase exposition. soon A Daily Thought .'Young men soon give and forget affronts; Old age is slow in both." Addi son. Answers to Foregoing Questions 1. Lieutenant Irwin A. Wood ring, army aviator; "The Three Musketeers;" no, both were killed in airplane crashes recently. 2. The name given to the great er part of Constantinople, Includ ing Pera and Galata, 3. Binnacle. Frans Lehar. Jeremiah, I, 22. 4. 5. Dinner Stories The four rural mail routes from Salem dellevered and col lected ower 16,109 pieces of mall in October. The Capital Lumber company has shut down its mill on account of the scarcity of logs. Trains at the I freight yards were held up until late in the af ternoon when two cars Jumped the track. N. Y. U. fires a cannon after winning football games. A lot of schools fire their coach after los ing; 'em. High Pressure Pete O4SC.0. M MOOSilfA . tar. N A HoTc -r 5Leer .wtv tmosc &o etvM fOne.fl ."TU TioC. of TK NKHT I'LU fbOMO OM Hi' J. N. Skaffe and ethers are pe titioning the council to establish electric lamps at the intersection of Chemeketa and; 21st streets, and O. F. Mason and others are seeking electric arc lamps at the intersection ef Commercial and Bash and Commercial and La Salle streets In South Salem. Governor Chamberlian returned from Washington. D. C, where he went to consult with Secretary Hitchcock regarding public land matters La Oregon. : Her Very Best A lady motorist, whose car had swerved across a suburban street and crashed through a plate glass window, was being questioned by the local police sergeant after the accttent. -surely pn such a wide street as this." said the Interrogator, you could have done something to prevent this accident." "I did," the delinquent assur ed hint, quite earnestly; I screamed as loud as I could!" IT TAKES NERVE Captain Street and Captain Stevens, two flying men, have been climbing almost eight mil into the. skies.' Up there, at the highest. It was 7 degrees below cerow' The throttle on the plane froze. Finally they got it to working. Then they ran out of gas and were forced to land in a field. ' While at great heights they took pictures, the first ever tak n from such an altitude. They car ried 40: pounds Of liquified air, otherwise they could not have lived very long. Not many of us would care to do that sort of thing even it we knew how. It takes physical courage! of a high order. Initia tive and adventure, worked out in various lines, represent leader. ship. It would be a pretty sad and weary procession that would le stumbling along the road if it were not for those who take a chance, who learn, who transmit what they learn and who lead. -see RADIO'S RISE The rise of radio from an in teresting experiment to a giant industry in eight years is largely a triumph of newspaper publicity. G. Clayton Irwin, general manager of the Chicago Radio Show, tells his hearers that "while the radio Industry was in the process of for mation, growth and transition the radio men learned to depend upon advertising as their chief ally in making America radio con. sclous. Those who did not do so are among the skeletons which lie unnamed along the highway of radio progress. '.'It Is not too much to say that in this fast-stepping Industry :i manufacturer must advertise to live, let alone make progress. I think that newspaper advertising is the backbone of radio advertis ing. By that I mean specifically that if an executive had to choo, but a single medium to help his sales that medium should be the newspaper." FLYING ALONG Three or four years ago fiva million dollars would have bought the entire commercial aviation in dustry of the United States. To day it would take a hundred mil lion dollars to do that. Two year and a half ago mail planes car ried 19.000 pounds of mall a month. This last August they carried 419.000. In 1925 seven hundred and eleven planes were built in the United States. This year the number will be between 6,000 and S.000. There are now in the neighborhood of 9,000 planes owned by civilians and commercial companies in thin country. !. . What we shall have to b ethink. lag of is Improving gEound trans portatlon to such a degree that the time 'gained by air travel won't all, be lost on arrival. The other day McCracken, assistaat secretary of commerce for aero nautics, flew from Cleveland lo Chicago In 175 minutes but it took him T5 minutes to eet from the Chicago airport to his hotel. Hoover's Alphabet By ISABEL F. MARTIN Tfe One-Minute Pulpit For none of us Hyeth to him self, and no man dleth to himself. For whether we live, we lire unto the Lord; and whether-we die, we die unto the Lord: wheth er we live therefore, or die, we are tne Lord's. Romans, xiv, 7-g. pLACINQ an X on the ballot was i the eld time symbol of hearty approval of a -candidate and his party. Fifty-eight millions of men and women will be eligible to vote this year tor the various candi dates In the fiefd. There will be many local problems to be fought oat but above them all stands the one issue- -Herbert Hoover. .The voter who keeps his eye on thin' great Outstanding figure and pre serves Hoover ideals Jn selecting all other caodidates on the ballot. will have done a worthy service U - the nation. Never has there been such an opportunity for the voter to ! piCK a worthy nubile servant. Never was there a time when the country could look forward with such assurance of an able admin- atratfon. There is no Question about Hoover. (To be continued) BySwau 5 I I t I I i i 1 . . ! -TP.i- HK ) 'SL tJ- 1 s h ' Glfer O&t- - r v-ttSL i RL?- jT,- i Til ' T; 4ST. J Vri2 Ci I -j.! Rs.f Mf - -.! - 11 - ' I' Trrf? ffl a I IL " I , , l I I J 1 III .'rr- liM 7 iD m&m 3mm i . -. ,tV. ' " i - i . The SQXBT&zti pedple win :fH Tueylthaty prefer 'jt