Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1928)
"!dSSkW Salem, Oregon Eakl C. Brownles Sheliwn P. Sackett Publishers dnftoiria Thursday December 6, 1028 rTZTrz ... . . 3 C7TaairgmJ-,y-.ir-f-irim'iiii. i - j. , II 117 w- -m m m i rrrr 1 1 i re. r i m i i . : ; i r n : I i 3 Sri if I m ft? 1:8 'I til IN n If I f 4 vv tfocJi and every wan owflrfct to interest himself in pub lic affairs. There is no happiness in mere dollars. After they are acquired, one can use but a very moderate amount. It is given a man to eat so much, to wear so much, and to have so much shelter, and more he cannot use. When money has supplied these, its mission, so far as the individual is concerned, is fulfilled, and man must look still further and ugJterv-Marshall Field. The Consumer s Balance VT analyzing the elusive consumer's dollar, it has been found 1 that by the time the consumer gets it, it already I pledged to such an extent that its temporary owner has little : to say about its disposition , . For 40 per cent must go for food and 20 to 25 per cent ' for rent 4 And out of the remaining 35 or 40 per cent must come the clothing for the family, and only the small balance can be said to be at the disposal of the consumer And the installment pledges already made in many cases take it all, and leave a deficit to worry the life out of Mr. Average Consumer. . , , Babson, Boston business philosopher, says the problem is to enhance the value of the dollar to make it go farther; and he believes mass production has done much to assist the consumer of distribution the costs have mounted instead of coming down; and they show no signs of coming down And here come in some timely suggestions of an author ity on advertising, worth quoting and reading, as follows: "Intelligent advertising is the most important element in helping the consumer in the selections necessary to make the unmortgaged portion of his dollar bring the best results. To that end advertising must be informative, not merely laudatorv ; it must of course be fair to be permanently effec tive and" it must be so placed that the cost will be commen surate with the results. Those who look upon advertising as an additional sales expense have the wrong idea or have be come accustomed to the wrong kind of advertising. Adver tising when well placed cheapens the unit cost of distribution In the same way that mass production lessens cost of produc tion. By use of such advertising what is left of the consum er's dollar after absolute necessities are paid for can be made to bring the best returns because it is well placed. A Nation of Travelers THE department of labor has just issued a report showing that during the first eight months of this year 318,419 citizens of this country departed for other lands And the American Automobile association makes the startling estimate that 44,000,000 . tourists more than a third of the population of the United States have made long motor trips this year. In the first nine months of ber of passports issued to American citizens increased 21.4 over 1927 And it is estimated that foreign countries will reach nearly a billion dollars, wnicn ih a hundred millions more than for the last calendar year. The sum of the millions expended by travelers within the United States is beyond calculation or estimate For we have become a nation of travelers. This is hav ing a notable effect on American life. Americans are com- Intf to know their country better, and this is strengthening ithe basis of national unity and understanding. Sectional dif Sferences are being wiped out by this cosmopolitan. r There is no longer a solid south, an effete east, or a wild and wooly west. Youne Man, Study Spanish -npHE good will trip of Mr. Hoover is doing more perhaps X than any other one thing could in attracting attention to i the Latin American republics '' And perhaps it will accomplish more than any other one thing could in developing trade between North and I South 1 America and the rest of the country below the Rio Grande There is proposed a paved highway from our country 1.1 l. tt a ronfml nnd South America clear inrouxii iuca.u au , . ... , - a "J T :f v K.,nt mp dav: DerhaDs it will be far along during the eight years Herbert Hoover is in the white , house. He is an engineer big enough to both vision and vita 4 lize that movement with the dynamics of rapid accompllsn- ment. SuUivan is on the Maryland with Mr. Hoover, and '' he suggests that American young men and women learn Cnoniah it- i an PAsv Ian mace to learn, especially if you . have studied Latin and French. tvatMir 4-Vio Pin flmnHp f' And the advice of Mr. Sullivan is good. It would be good, van if siifftrpsted onlv in the cultural sense. Thp F.no-lish lanmiacre is i versal language ; but for several generations Spanish will be most largely used by our cousins south ot our Doraers Enslaving the World THIS from a Spanish newspaper published in Madrid: "Nothing, nobody can curb the enslaver of the wwM. We are virtually faced with an open break (of Jmerica) with 1 Eurone. carrying with it a policy of separation to the very extreme and with most serious d..Jt sv XT,- Hnnvpr's The Madrid newpaper goes on to tell iU readers that the enormous wealth of the United States is capable of conquer ing the world ' Such is the picture of the they have chosen for their presiaent, as visionea oy jetuvua 'v lsafi'ltan av9 London is no longer the financial capital of the world; Britain is no longer the foremost creditor. ,' But the great and rapid development of the countries Mr. Hoover ia visiting will not enslave the world; it will not 4 even injure Europe; nor will Fnr it will do Eurooe as ftimUh & orreater outlet for j er market for European raw 1 . flroods Everything, in the domain of business, culture, morals and the higher things of life will be improved, for the bene- fit of the whole race, by a great and prosperous and cultured : South and Central America k Bv the time the Pacific idents and, wins a lot more iooiDaii games irom tne cracK teams of that section, the effete east will realize that we are part of this good old U. S. A. , - ) a iiist.has estimated that the world weighs six sex I tfllion 50. quintillion tons. This will no doubt be listed by 1 the aveit; e man as very important information that no- S body will know what to do with. KeMygirainms ,W44 m iuua wjuo i ie f basincfl to do things barkward, frtaeat has brm pleaUral aad prices censeomeaUjr. low, aaost farmers thlak wheat prices win be eqnalljr low Mxt year and doat plant anach wheat. ' The resmll ls a comparatlTO scarctty of wheat the next ear mad hiaher prices. Following; la nut all the land. he can la to Varies once asatn. Eren tf the ( Warnteff; that there f golmsi to be an oierprednctlom of wheat, the .verace farmer thinks: MI'Q let the others follow that warning, bat -Fa plant wheat Just the same. ETerybody else wfll follow the warn- wheat wOl be scarce, price in this year the increase in num expenditures of our tourists in It is the commercial tongue some day going to be the uni- consequences crnnn will triD. . , , American people and the man it lead to a policy oi separa much good as America. It will over populated Europe; a great materials and manufactured and Mexico. coast furnishes a few more prea- BT FRED C XEXJjT obmend Um tendency of wnemgtT Take farmers, for example. BUB .prices, um farmer U wheat and Uds brlnan aboat department of acricaltare sends ont hlh, and In have plenty of wheat y'li IV Who Who and Timely Views LIBERALS CALLED OX TO FIGHT BIGOTRY By REV. DII. WORTH Ll'PTON Pastor, First Unitarian Churcli. Cleve land (Dllworth Lupton 'was born at Cin cinnati. O., Sept. 15. IS S3. He is a graduate of Shady Sid academy, Hackley school. Vale university and Meadvllle Theological scliool. He was ordained In the Unitarian ministry in 1916 and was pastor of First Unitar ian Church at Louisville, Ky.. until 1919. He has been pastor of First Un itarian Church at Cleveland, O.. since 1919. In 191S he was a chaplain in the l.nlted states urniv. B IGOTRY. the arch enemy or untrammeled thought of the highest quality, can be offset only by the spirit of liberalism. a return to our fathers' faith in freedom rather than suppression. The anti-evo lution move ment bears ev- idence to a gTeat ware of mass religious bigotry. This move ment first ap peared In 1923, DiUrfOKTH lupiom ,da legislature passed a unanimous resolution that the teaching of the theory of evolution is contrary to publio welfare. Since then the anti-evolution supporters hf.ve urged campaigns in 4 0 states. They succeeded in Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States. Mn Onr Fathers Read Dec. 6. 1003 Six new books have been! added to the Masonic HbraTy. . 1 1 The first local teachers' Insti tute will be held next week, when Professor H. A. Adrian of Wiscon sin will give the main address. A. N. Bush left for Idaho, from where he will go to New York to attend to business matters. J. A. Shafer and son. F. E. Sha fer. left for an extended business and pleasure trip through Cali fornia. Orayce Van Wagner was elect ed chief ot honor of the Degree of Honor. The closest political contest staged In Salem for many years will be decided at the polls tomor row. High Pressure Pete IT dtttC PT Tr Xf)A -TW eT OW-FAU- HOkJ lftwtcn to FbffTr cc e,WOT IF I Law rw hands OK voo " A -S il 4:iyo mMi S9S: J Another Gift Problem rT 75 - 5 Tennessee, as all the world knows. Their latest success came during the last election In Arkan sas. What can the liberal do to com bat the spirit of bigotry? i He can work through, existing institutions. He can encourage newspapers to present fairly all sides af moot questions. He can insist that a dominant political party resist the temptation to tyr annize over minorities. He can Insist upon the right of teachers and profeseors to state freely to their students what they believe to be the truth. The first task of the liberal, however, is to develop free spirit wltin him. He must learn to-understand sympathetically those whose ideas differ from his own. He must read all sides of debat able questions. He must refuse to be an intellectual yes man to any party or sect. Furthermore, a man who seeks a free mind for himself must have courage. There are times when it is necessary for him to oppose the crowd, eevn In the face of rid icule and intimidation, and to cry with Luther, "Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. So heln me. "God!" The Way of the World By GROVE PATTERSON GROWTH Not so many years ago a young man rowed across the Rhine river near the city of Lyons. France. His brother stood on the bank and took his picture with the first cam era of its kind that had ever been made. When the picture was shown later In a dark cellar the friends of these two young men were astonished. If they could have looked ahead through the years they would have been more astonished. They had seen the first motion picture film. Louis Lumlere, , father of the movies, still tinkers In his labor atory In Paris. He made little out of the movies. He doesn't know one star performer from another. He rarely goes to the pictures. He has made money from other In ventions. But how he must mar vel when he observes the astound ing Industry that grew out of his head! Oa&D GROWTH AGAIX Writing about a particular growth, one is moved to make ob servations about all growth. Growth may be a very terrible thing as well as a rich and desir able thing. Cancer is a wild and uncontrolled growth of cells in the body. Cancer, growing, de stroys the body. Both mind and body can be destroyed by growth the continuance and enlarge ment of a bad habit for example. Uncontrolled growth is danger ous, as fire is dangerous. CAMERAS This column seems destined to day to contain much about cam eras. The American Optical Soci ety, meeting In Washington, ia shown a "solid" photograph. The picture is made to appear solid to the eyes. It shows different sides of the object, depending on which way one looks at the picture. For tunately for most of us we can't be seen that way. If we could be seen as a "solid" we might show up empty. If we could be looked at through and through and on all sides, what about the blemish es mental, physical, moral? A GREAT TEACHER The magazine. Pictorial Review, gives every year $5,000 to the American woman who. In the Judgment of a highly competent Jury,, has made the most distinct ive contribution of the year to the world of letters, arts, science, or the social sciences. This year it Is awarded to Miss Martha Berry. This woman has built up remark able schools In Georgia for the poor but ambitious boys and girls of the southern mountains. Her schools now house 1,000 pupils and have a waiting list of 3,000. She has to find $200,000 to carry on her work of teaching and training for life and for success. Dinner Stories KJfEW HIS STUFF A Defending Counsel: You say that the fence Is eight feet high and that you were standing on the ground not mounted on a ladder or anything? Witness: I do. Counsel (triumphantly): Then perhaps you will explain how you. a man little over five feet, could see over a fence eight feet high and watch the prisoner's actions! Witness (calmly); There's a iole in the fence. Elite for Breakfast Br R. J. opeaKinff or pnonea again H This column had a little Salem phone history the other day And tt showed an astounding growth. But the growth Is still go ing on. and It will go on Indefin itely, because this is a growing city surrounded by a growing country. V As of October 31. the Salem of. flee was serving 6506 customers and 6419 of them had city line phones and 1037 of them were on farm lines And that was a gain for the first 10 months of this year of 316 phones. The gain is going on and will go on to the end of the year, and it will be larger next year, and there will be an Increased gain every year during the pres ent generation. S No wonder the telephone com pany Is planning to put on a new $300,000 building and plant here. It had already purchased a site for a material and mechanical building, down on High street. near North Mill creek. That is some project of L. O. Herrold. reclaiming 185 acres of beaver dam land that has been In the wild state..down below the In dian scheol. It will be used in growing mint, celery, onions and other things. Some of the other things will be other essential oil plants, with which Mr. Herrold Is experimenting, and has been, for some time. In this he is doing a wonderful piece of work, destined to lead to an industry that will be worth many millions to this dis trict. v Final returns show that Al Smith won out over Herb Hoover after all. The former caught five big sea trout from a bayou In the Mississippi river against one dol phin and a Spanish mackeral caught by the latter with the whole Pacific ocean to choose from. A contemporary editor, reprint ing an article of ours, and inci dentally calling attention to its brevity, reminds us of the color ed man's comment on a quantity of contraband stuff which the boss had given him: If it had been shorter he wouldn't have gotten It. and if it had been longer.hr wouldn't have wanted it Yak ima Republic. T. e One-Minute Pulpit The soul that sinneth it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither Uiall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. But .if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hatb committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Ezeklel. xviil. 20-21. TO GIVE CONCERT; The Salem high school boys' band under direction of O. P. Thayer will present Its first pub lic concert at the high school au ditorium jFrlday night. December 1. Wesley Helse. manager, an nounced Wednesday. This U the first of a setise the band intends to give this year. The band has 35 players, all high school students. The group is, practicing dally for this two hour concert which will feature a vtilln solo by Cleo .Seeiey and vo cal solos by Victor Wolfe. The band members will offer a skit before the student assembly next Wednesday as a "teaser" for the first appearance to towns peo ple. The entire auditorium will be thrown open to general admission. NOTICE Proposals Invited on 1000 sacks of potatoes. Burbank or Netted Gem combination grade for de livery to Oregon State Institute for Feeble Minded. Samples to be submitted to State Board of Con trol. Capitol Bldg. HIGH SCHOOL BID Hendricks The Statesman Is the contem porary referred to. A Salem ser vice club speaker told It a little differently, having the colored man say: "Boss, If It had been any better, yon would have drunk It, and If it been any wurser eren I couldn't have drunk It." S S We are in favor of the plan of the Oregon man for abolishing the roadside billboard. It mars the scenery, and besides that if It were ordered off the premises there would be more advertising for the newspapers. Yakima Republic. . CLEVO STORY TOLD IN SUPOH'S PLAY The story of a girl who couldn't tell the truth all because she tried to "patch" difficulties between, her girl friend, Eve Lindon, and Eve's husband, Fred, forms the theme for the four-act comedy, "The Truth" which the Snikpoh society of the Salem high school will present tomorrow night in the high school auditorium. Miss Leila Johnson, Snikpoh advisor, is :oach. . "The Truth," while a compara tively old ply. is Clyde Fitch's .nasterpiece and has been on the !egltimate stage for years. It has lot been staged here before. Kath arine Goulet as Becky Warder, who finds it so hard to jtell the truth, is declared to act this part made famous by Marie Tempest with unusual ability for an ama eur. Despite the fact that sickness las Interfered with rehearsals, he students have made excellent vork of the comedy, which, inci lentally, is heavier than the usual omedy produced by. high school tudents. The story, in brief, follows: Sve's husband believes Becky in ove with him, when she is merely rying to reconciliate him with his )wn wife and the first thing she tnows she has Eve accusing her jf meddling-. Lies to get out of this situation lead to more lies, even n her successful trick to extract $50 from her husband for her fa "er a "respectable" gambler. Mecky Is caught in the lies as Eve ias a detective watch her husband. :ve passes the news to BecEy's lusband. Becky flees to her fa her, who eventually fakes a sul fide telegram to get Becky's hus band on the scene. Of course all Is explained in the end. Pure comedy ole is that of Becky's father's lousekeeper, Mrs. Crespigny. The managing staff includes: Mis Ada Ross, faculty manager; Leo Coe, student manager; Thom is Peterson, state manager; Ed Heynoids, electrician; Garold Simpi-jn, wardrobe master; Max .ne Myers, wardrobe mistress; Da id Eyre, property; Stanley Price, advertising. NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT FOR THE COST OF IMPROVING NORWAY STREET FROM THE EAST LINE OF BROADWAY STREET TO THE WEST LINE OF FD7TH STREET Notice is hereby eiven that thn Common Council of the Citv of Salem, Oregon, will at, or about 3 0 p. m., on the 17th day of De cember, 1928, or at any subse quent meeting of the said Council thereafter, in the Council Cham ber of the city hall of Salem. Ore gon, proceed to assess upon and against each lot or part thereof or varcel of land liable therefor in its oportionate share of the cost of improving NORWAY ' STREET FROM THE EAST LINE OF BROADWAY STREET TO THE WEST LINE OF FIFTH STREET, in the City of Salem. Marion County, Oregon. All persons Interested in the said assessment are hereby noti fied to appear before the said Council at said time and place and present their objections, if any they have, to said assessment, and apply to said Council to equalize their proportionate share of same. By order of the Common Coun cil this 3rd day of December, 192S. MARK POULSEN, City Recorder. Date of first publication, cember 6, 19 28. Dae of final publication, cember 8, 1928. De- De- Beezum I say, old fellow, lend me an X. Bosom I would if I could but there's an algebraic difficulty In the way. Beesum What Is that? Bosum Ah X with me is an unknown quantity. The Pathfinder. The urab Bag December f, lttt 1 i s. Who am I? Where is my home? On what venture did I recently set out? Where is the Taj Mahal? What is the capital of Alaska? How many man have? pairs of ribs does "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." Where Is this passage found in the Bible; JIMMY JAMS 0-4 HERE toMC 6oiaV Butch t-UCKV I FOUfHD TMIt ; n . . . Today in the Past On this date, In 1917, part of Halifax was destroyed by a muni tion ship explosion. Today's Horoscope Persons hprn on this day are fond of good living. They are exacting mthers and are apt to demand too much from their children. A Dally Thought "Light Is the task when many share the toil." Homer. Answers to Foregoing Questions 1. Lieutenant Benjamin MenT dez; Colombia; flight from New York to Colombia. 2. Agra. India. 3. Juneau.' . 4. Twelve. 5. St. Matthew, xxlr, IS. NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT FOR THE COST OF IMPROVING THIRTEENTH STREET FROM NORTH LINE OF NEBRASKA STREET TO THE SOUTH LINK OF FRICKEY STREET. Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the city of 3alem. Oregon, will, at or about 7.30-p. m.. on the 17th day of December, 1928. or at any sub lequent meeting of the said Council thereafter, in the council chamber of the city hall of Salem. Oregon, proceed to assess upon and against each lot or part there of or parcel of land liable there for In its proportionate share of the cost of improving THIR TEENTH STREET FROM THE NORTH LINE OF NEBRASKA STREET TO THE SOUTH LINM OF FRICKEY STREET, in tha City of Salem, Marlon County, Oregon. All persons interested in the said assessment are hereby noti fied, to appear before the said Council at said time and place and present thetr objections. If any they nave, to said assessment, and apply to said Council te equalize their proportionate share ot same. By order of the Common Coun cil this 3rd day of December, 192S. MARK POULSEN. Date of first publication hereof December 6. 1928. Date of final publication, De cember 8. 1928. By Swau -VgP- other 'fry Ujttn." He forget wCL reason Ins as be I ' . . - I! . - 0 -s 1 ? - , - , o s o ' , . . 1 J i t " r O- . w t 9 ....