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1 Earl C. Brownleb Sheldon F. Sackett Publishers dEtooal SlfM?tE Feasor es wps. The Nicaraguan Election IN OUR own election excitement we almost forgot that NiVnratnia has also selected a new nresident. American marines guarded the polls to voters had their fingers stained with a bright colored cnem Ical to prevent repeating. The fateful day passed without disorder and the alleged American coercion to maintain the conservative party was given tion of a liberal. The election Nicaraguan press has contained consideraoie praise 01 ine contribution of the Americans, which alone assured a '.fair It is now to be hoped.that - - from Nicaraguan police worK, wants and whichhas been as Kaon npMs9rv PSwinent breakdowns have produced a which has menaced the commercial interests 01 ine country, Interests involving large foreign investments. The contests waged have involved little of principle, being a struggle for control and exploitation upon the part of two groups of the (governing class. . Tha narfv in mntml i usuallv labeled "conservative by the party out of power which takes unto itself the name "lib- xrvonVnoaa wmild anvwut the term "inners" and "out ers" as more fitting. The use tion of the American press to make a bitter attack on what they term American imperialism. Our recent campaign put the distginuished free lance and critic, Senator Borah, on the Hafonso nf thp American nolicv in Nicaragua even while he confessed he had been attacking it for years. Despite our amusement at the campaign predicament of this constant critic, he made a good case when he made it plain that it was not a Coolidge policy or a republican policy but an American policy used by the administrations of Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge. It is a policy.which must remain as long as chronic lawlessness interferes rith international trade and will end only when the ways of trade and industry are given reasonable protection. This is a much f ranker-facing of facts than Mr. Borah and his school of critics are in the habit of taking. . . . The United States does not want Nicaragua, but it in sists that the orderly ways of trade and industry be given a reasonable protection. The peaceful election just held is a step in that direction. The yhite Trash ijjjn THERE is a series of 'articles running in the religious press concerning the outlook of the south that is open ing the eyes of thoughtful people And incidentally it may help to explain the breaking up of the "solid south" that made marked progress in the re cent election. The series is by President Frank E. Jenkins of Pied mont college, Demorest, Georgia, of which it has been said, "Wp haw no institution more needed and more promising." President Jenkins says: "The present, unparalelled special field of Piedmont college is the vast Anglo-Saxon population of the rural south, mountains, midlands and lowlands, where every last one is American born, but where educational op portunities are the fewest and-poorest in America." The rural south is a vast country, with millions of capa ble youth. Most of these are descendants of non slave hold ers of slavery days ; the people who lived alongside the great plantations with none of the economic or educational oppor tunities found on the plantations The "poor white trash" of those days. Four-fifths of the southern white people of slavery days had no slaves. No public school system opened before them until several years after the civil war, and then but poor jnes ; and no colleges at all were for them. Abraham Lincoln sprang from this source. His clear brain and his great heart united with his ambition to be of lervice in the world forced him upward to the vantage ground that rendered him the most useful man of his generation. These descendants of the "poor white trash" of the southland are still without wealth. The public school sys tem is of f ering Iheir children now opportunities of varying quality; high schools are coming, but so far there arejfew. The college of even average expense is still beyond the vast majority of them; though the more eager and ambitious take advantage of every opportunity in their reach; these work and sacrifice for an education, and some of them become conspicuous in high service for their country's and., the world's benefit. The foreign born in other states have vastly more and better facilities for training. Piedmont college draws its students from eighteen itates. The Anglo-Saxon stock of the rural south is destined to vastly change the conditions of life in that section; to be a powerful aid in speeding up it progress And to render the "solid south" as a political by-word a .,' thing of the past. ; Mr. Taft Loses His Vote "UR chief justice, the only J ed States, was not permitted to vote in the last election because his home is in the District of Columbia. He felt when he became chief justice that his actual home was in the capital city and so surrendered his legal residence in Con necticut. His position was that of many thousands of lesser known citizens who are disfranchised because their home is In Washington. This crying abuse grew out of the foundationless fear that people living in the federal district might bring undue pressure upon the government if they were permitted to vote. This idea is absurd in the light of present day condi tions and a serious effort should be made to give American citizens living in the District of Columbia the right of voting in national elections. Such action Would raise other ques tions concerning our electoral system which ought to be faced. Except in the election of Washington the system has never worked as intended by the constitutional fathers be cause it does not fit conditions createdjby our organized po litical parties and wide spread franchise. It was created to prevent a direct selection of the chief executive by the peo ple..1 The custom of making electors merely recorders of the popular vote instead of free will agents following their own judgment has defeated the intention of the constitution. The machinery should now be adjusted to harmonize with the fact of popular election of the president. Salem is the nut and flax and mint and celery and cher ry and loganberry center to mention only part of the list ; and with additions being constantly made. Add the vinegar center. We send 100 car loads a year to market, from one factory. Enough to make up a train a mile long. Seems like, a lot of vinegar, when you consider the small amount each person needs or uses. Our farmers will not begrudge the truck gardeners of Flnrida Virorinia and Tennessee the increased protective tariff rates they will get in the But the Louisiana, Mississippi, bouth - uarouna and other southern truck gardeners will get the same benefits, and some of them will not deserve these advantages. What help would they have received from Al Smith, with his half-baked ideas regarding the tarift 7 . Salem will follow Wall street in bulf sentiment. Watch alem grow. , Kellygrams l ime was when 1 thought aa badly in seed of repainting. Indicated a lack of thrift on the part of the owner.' The train7 1 that tneae - nereasarily by the unthrifty bat by philosophers. A fresbiy paintea .utymobile i a kill-Joy. Yon axe constantly apprehensive lest the brand-new. coat of enameL.! to receive iU VfSXaH SCRATCH. make possible a. free vote. The the lie by the unhindered elec- was so rainy conducted mat tne the marines may be recalled . 1 A a tnanxiess 300 tnai no one deeply resented mere as it nas revolutions and firovernmental condition of chronic disorder . . , m 1 . a of these terms has led a sec living ex-president of the Unit- new bill, soon to be prepared. BY FRED C. KELLY old weat t her-beaten antoniobil iacar-iuster cars are owmea w Home Again, Home Again, Jog, Who's Who and Timely Views i ; ; -i., ; , ; i Bv OWEN D. YOUNG Chairman of the Bard of th General Electric Company Owen D. Touiue was born at Van Hornesvlle. N. Y, In 1874. lie was graduated from the New York univer sity in 1894, and later studied law and science at several other univer sities In the United States. Young began to - practice law at Boston In 186.' He moved to New York City as counsel for the General Electric company in 1913. which organization he served as vice president until 1922. lie has been chairman of the board of the com Dan v since 1922.1 R' ESEARCH reflects tne lntei lectual bent of our time. Our age la a combination of imagination and knowledge. Hu man intellect functions best when htcbed more or less closely to service. Human pro gress may be compared to aa ascending spt- I ral, and the VtfUIBV Ul UVJU- zatlon mar be divided into successive per iods. of activ ity and rest. each of which is destined to make Its spe cial contribu tion to the to- Ltal sum. Now it is to art, now to religion, now to tne science or government, now to literature, now to philosophy, now to physi cal science, now to Industry that we Joint in evaluating these epochs,, for these are the things of the spirit and the intellect that do not perish, though heaven and earth pass away. From continued experiments on electrical discharges n rarefied gases, and especially from a close study of the so-called cathode rays, scientists were led to rec ognise the existence of the elec trons. There are about 2,000,000,000 inhabitants on the globe. If ev ery man, woman and child had 9500.000.000,000 and each dol lar represented an atom, their to tal Wealth would still fall short of the number of atoms found in a drop of water. It contains so many that if the entire earth, both land and sea, were covered with a velvet lawn, and each blade of grass represented 10, 000 atoms, the little elf of sci ence could collect them all in a basket the size of a raindrop. Is this imagination? To the physical scientist, not at all. These things have been weighed and counted. Radium, X-rays and radio bear witness to their reality. But what is this atom? What are these electrons, parts of itself that It shoots forth at the speed of light? The electrons are in concentric spheres about a central proton, they stand still, they move at the rate of 100.00j0 miles a second, they travel in orbits, they are like Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The State. Onr Fathers Rah Not. 11, 1903 The take of salmon eggs is greater this year than ever be fore, reported Master Fish Warden Van Dusen at the monthly board meeting of fish commissioners to day. Walter L. Toose of Wood burn was a business visitor. Squire Farrar was a visitor to the metropolis. Alfred R. Hathaway., agents' supervisor for the Mutual Life Insurance company, is in Medford on business. George Fry.'HubbanJ ion rrow- er, is a business visitor, Attorney H, J. Bigger Is visit- Ing his family ia Portland.- planets moving about a central sun, they are but a vibrating mas of ether. The space rela tive to their size for their ac commodation within the atom. It self inflnitesimalEy small, is no less ample than the solar system itself. The Way of the World By GROVE PATTERSON SHORT WORDS The Canadian tourist sees thousands of signs, "Accommoda tions for Tourist9." On the American side the sign reads "Tourist Rooms."' It would be interesting to know the psychol ogy behind these signs. Do Canadians use the longer word as expressing something better than just a room or do they use it because that's the word originally used by the road side host? Brevity commends the shorter term. CHRISTMAS AHEAD As you catch a, glimpse of Christmas In the future do you prepare a list of friends? A few minute's consideration now on the Christmas list will save hours of grief later. e. CAPABLE Add to the list of interesting people the name of the Holly wood surgeon who removed his own appendix. The doctor thus establishes possession of three things: skill, courage and a senate of publicity. FASHIONS Paris sets women's styles, Lon don has a reputation for men's vogue, and the United States is dominant In automotive trends. Nevertheless the English car with the roof that can be cranked oat of sight is something different. Small automobiles are numer ous among the new English mod els because of the heavy taxes on large engines. CURIOUS The stranger in our land sees about as many strange things as the American traveler sees in his. Here's a Filipino amased by the long trips taken by Ameri can girls without escorts. In the Philippines a girl rarely goes anywhere alone. She is escorted to church.Mo the dance, and on shopping tours. CLOP-CLOP The horse Isn't down and oat vat r r 1 1 -j i ... iu.ua. ueaiers meeting in a national convention recentlv heard figures to prove that the norse furnishes the most econom ical metnod or delivery for or dinary short hauls. Old rvihhtn vins out over the truck, and he neips the driver by learning the route. And so the rlon-clnn n the pavement at 3 a. m. Is not a uoia-over rrom the gay nineties. It is a part of modern efficiency. Christians Plan For Father-Son Preparations are Jbein? made at the First Christian church, ef which the Rev. D. J. Howe is Das. tor, for the- annual "Father and Son" banquet which will be held Friday night. November 17 be ginning at C: 30 o'clock. ' The church congregation will observe "church night" this Wed nesday! night, beginning with a covered dish luncheon at 6 : 3 0 I,.-. Jog, Jogl THEY SAY PESSI3IIST WINS RELIEF SUGGESTIONS To the editor of the States man: APPLESAUCE and HOOEY. In this week's issue of the Salem Hollywood Press, the erstwhile editor thereof puts himself on the front page of his Interesting little paper, and him self on record as the Star Old- Maid pessimist of his generation With sun bonnet and mother hubbard mental equipment, ap parently, he bursts into large sal ty tears over the results of the election Just closed and indulges his dyspeptic and bilious Imagin ation, in a perfect orgy of hor rible, horrendous and horrific prognostications anent the iiext four years under Herbert Hoover. To my way of thinking he ought to see a good doctor, for if one Is to judge by the outburst above referred to, the man Is in a bad way. This editor says he is hoping for the best, but to Judge! by his article, he would give hie best Sunday shirt if at the end of this four years he could point with pride, as he now views ' with alarm, and say, "I told yon so." He speaks of added thousands of farmers who are going to lose their farms, now that Hoover is elected. Of the rich getting rich er while the poor get poorer, now that Hoover is elected. He speaks of the corrupt forces which used mob psychology to elect Hoover; and prattles about Hoover's life and training being all In line with "Big Business" and altogether against the Individual and those who compose the great masses of the people. Well, great, masses of the people voted for Herbert Hoover, because by birth and breeding' and training and educa tion and a life record for every man to read, he was accounted rtt and BIO ENOUGH to head and lead a nation as big and as pro gressive as these United States. Hoover was elected President be cause he was fit to be so elected, and It is a gratituous Insult to every man and woman in the country who voted for Hoover to wall and weep as does onr brother of the Hollywood! Press over "mob prychology." This brother says he hopes he Is mistaken in his dire forebod ings, and that it will turn out that he only has some "political mulligrubs." Yea, verily, broth er you've got 'em and got 'em bad. Don't sit under the weep ing willow trees any more but get np and get in the BIO Parade wun Hoover; what you need is ""'two. ii win curs your po litical aispepsia. J. R. Benton. Week's Events At Tabernacle Week day services scheduled by the Evangelistic Full gospel tab ernacle of wheih Earle V.j Jennl son la pastor, include a! gospel address. "Jesus the Healer"" Tuesday night, aa well ai pray er for the sick and afflicted; Bible study in "Romans" Thursday night; and Saturday night a meeting conducted by the! young people. All night metlngs begin at 7:45 o clock. I . Friends9 Meet Thursday Night Prayer meeting will i occur Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock at the Highland Friends' i church. Highland avenue, announces the Rer. Edgar P. Sims, pastor. A study of Paul's epistle to the PhU. Ippiane. will; occupy the hoar. The Grab Bag i.v-.y-.'-x-'o'-j-.X. . is : t :: :;:. - Vm r.-.-.'.'.v.:- November 12, 1928 Who am I? i What is my pro fession? What la the profession of my daughter, Constance? What constitutes the Bill of Rights? What is the capital of Par aguay? Who is president-elect of Mex ico? "Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men." Where is this passage found In the Bible? JIMMY JAMS. SHOCKS WtSK POP'S EVECLAvSSES WOOWD MAKE fSV SCHOOL. MARKS LOO I r Today in the Past On this day. in 1775. the American under Montgomery en tered Montreal, Canada. Today's Horoscope Persons born under the sign of Scorpio are Busceptible to flat tery. They are magnetic and full of fun. A Daily Thought "A bad ending follows a beginning." Euripides. bad Answers to Foregoing Questions 1. Richard Bennett: acting:; acting. 2. The first 10 amendments to the United States constitution 3. Asuncion.! 4. Emfllo Portes Gil. 5. Romans, xii. 17. Leslie Church Nights To End Thursday closes the six weeks' series of "church nights" at the Leslie Memorial Methodist EdIsco- pal church. A pot luck dinner will be served at 6:30 o'clock, follow ed by class periods in stewardship and evangeisnl. Members and friends are urged to attend to help make the last meting the biggest and best of the aeries. The Leslie choir will meet for practice Thursday night at 8:30 o'clock, J. William Belcher, di recting. 1 The monthly meeting of th of ficial board of the church is sched uled for Wednesday night at 7:39 r t i t w ii i. . . u ciuck in juesu nail. Dorcas Society Plans Meeting The Dorcas society will meet in the parlors of the Christ Luth eran church, State and 18th streets. Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. H. Abry, Mrs. Clarke Lee and Mrs. O. Nets will be hostesses for the meeting. HWfory of n ' r' is AEP- I - In, T THE claims of Great Britain were almost identical with those of the United States, and both powers claimed the same territory. The British authorities based their claims on the fact that in 1778 the British Captain Cook vialtod And explored the north west of America from latitude 44 northward and upon subs, quent explorations by Captain Vancouver, which we shall de scribe tn our By R. J. Another sweet morsel - w V Salem is the vinegar center S - Though it may sound sour. We cannot get too many centers; f iwQustnes that , bring in outside money in exchange for the things that are annually born nf nm .u and sunshine and showers. . S The unidentified gave Harvard 13,000,000 might as well own up. He hasn't done anything to be ashamed of. If some one will aive Wlliamott university a third that much, m nulldlng will be named for the donor, or a monument built. ' Congressman Hawley is to oc cupy tn speakjng time of the ev ening service at 7:30 tonieht at! the First Methodist church of! Salem. He will talk of St. PaTulj the first Chrlstion missionary, who! changed the map of two contin ents and eventually that of the! others. m Prof. W. I. Staley of the Cao- ital Business college is a modest! man. The Bits man learns in ai round about way that Prof. Stulev rwired the first, message of con gratulations to Mr. Hoover, on thei night of the election. While Her bert Hoover was rettine readv toi go to Stanford university from Salem, he attended evening classes at the Capital Business college, for the purpose of brushlnr nn on his mathematics. Prof. Staley was pleased at the time to be able to lend this aid to the ambitious, boy; but neither of them realized at that time how far this help might! carry "Bert" on his way to the! highest place of service and honor) in the world. v A Salem man nut it this war "That fellow don't know as much about running a peanut stand aa Dietand By Lulu HUivt Peters MIX flutfior of "Dietand Healkh"and Diet or Childrers." Too-Too Thin? (Part 8) Life's Minor Collisions f IFE'S minor collisions what I .- a series of pictures these words bring up! There are none who escape. Happily, the most of us give them only the at tention they merit and soon for get them. Today I am going to apply my text to- you who are ua-der-weight and have appealed to me to help you to gain. It has ben my observation that you re act too profoundly to these minor collisions, and in so doing use up very much of your energy which should be kept for more worthwhile purposes. Mental emotions of a painful nature, even though from minor causes are not conducive to good circulation, good respiration or good digestion. Good asslmila tion waits on good digestion, and the galng of weight waits on both. This is not a contradiction of what I said before when I told you to eat whether you wanted to or not; there is no doubt diges tion is aided if you enjoy your food, but it will digest anyway, the larger part of it. And if you wait for a good appetite you will continue to be thin, for it will never come unless you go after it. Now, back to the collisions. I shall switch now and call them "Trivial Annoyances," for I want to use Elbert Hubbard's quota tion about them. I love it. For years I had it pinned on my mir ror where I could see it fre quently until It became yellow with age- and frequent dustings, and when it was lost I felt as though I had lost a personal friend. It Is this: "You had better learn to ac cept the trivial annoyances and small misfits of life as a matter of course. To give them atten tion beyond their deserts Is to wear the web of your life to the warp." f c Notice that Hubbard did not say you should not give the trivial annoyances any attention. To give them attention beyond their deserts is the offense. ' We can be helped if we will remember that perhaps every day something may happen that we do not like; and that everyone has the same experiences. Let us start out each morning with this: DAILY RESOLVE a(em and tye 1 next sketch. Breakfast Hendricks Raskob knows about running pouucai campaign." Another one: 'Did you h.ar about the capturing of th ORB thr men?" "No: what men?" three who voted for Al Smith?'' t' ' Tl Maybe there ia hone for rh,-,., go. Biir Bill Thompson and m whole machine of gangsters and DOlltical rrafters was smithereens on election day. Armistice dar will not be noisy as the first one. Were you in Salem? Do you remember It- Tn the middle of the night, after the ie ri w e :4 tiasn came br wire nt tha was phoned to the man who blew tne nre whistle, all the bells were ringing and the streets were filled; with a nolsv thronr. and th din lasted all day and Into the next night. Not as noisy now; but the feel, ings of gratitude for the peace which the country enjoys are as deep as they were then, and the ceremonials of the day will mean no less to our people. Slowing np. Salem T employ ment office had 90 men and 23 women aDolvinr for work last week, and found Jobs for 42 of the men and nine of the wompn. The rest were Just out of luck. Time to be thinking o f taking care of these people, all of whom will be needed In the busy season. m The governor might out in his Thanksgiving . proclamation a short sentence about the gratitude we should feel for the defeat of the measures, all of which would have put monkey wrenches in the wheels of progress in Oregon. With Demtlsev on the stare and Tunney lecturing on Shakespeare, there's not much left for Mr. bnarKey except water colors. MealtK T shall not give those thinm which may annoy me today any more attention than they de serve. I shall cease thinking about them when I have Team ed the lesson they teacb. "If they bob up again in my mind, I shall say: 'Here, you annoyances! What are you doing? I have given you all the attention you deservo. A vaunt! Depart! Get out!' " Summary on How to Gain Weight . t a i. nave an examination Dy a competent physician to be sure you have no organic trouble. 2. Cairn yourself. "Learn to accept the trivial annoyances and the small misfits of life as a mat ter of course." j 3. Exercise and Air. Take at least ten minutes of setting-up exercises every day. Begin a small number of movements and increase gradually. Be in the jo- en air and sunlight as much as possible. Sleep. Resistance is markedly sleep. (Have eight or nine hours of it.) Have a restlneriod during the day if possible.! 6. Avoid unnecessary exertion. Don't talk too much. Delete the details. Never talk about vour ailments except to your physician. you pay him to listen (or should . 6. Avoid tea, coffee, nicotine and other stimulants. 7. Masticate your food thor oughly but don't eat too slowly! And leave your troubles behind when you go to. the table. 8. EAT. Count your calories. Gradually work up 500 to 1000 C. more than your maintenance. stretch your stomach and train it to take care of more food. 9. EAT. Eat whether you en- Joy It or not. You will enjoy it later. Don't heed the advice that you should not eat as a matter oC duty. You should. - j 10. EAT. I will not desert you. Not every one that saith unto me. Lord, Lord, shall enter in to the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will ef my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day. Lord. Lord, have we not proph esied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? land iu thy name done many wonders? St. Matthew, vll, 22-23. Always OUR personal and most con , siderate attention is giv en lall who call upon us, We feel that personal ser vice is an important thin when a funeral director serves CLOUCH-HtlgTON C9 - ! wUnaaiuaiai )ist(nctfyinrt Service pwmrw j & j 1 ' ' I