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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1928)
Is Legislation Applesauce it A FTER working for a year as a secretary to a legisla-j XI. tor, I surely have lost my respect for Oregon's laws. Most of fnem are applesauce. - It was a Salem young woman speaking and perhaps hen judgment was as faulty as it was slangy. Yet she had sensed, in company with those less fortunate than the ring side spectators at the. 40 day legislative circus, that all was not well in the halls of democracy. , .; : . Perhaps the fair stenographer referred to night sessions and inside parties where votes, are traded for no good reason at all. . Perhaps she sensed the futility of sound, sensible leg islation in an atmosphere fraught with horse-trading and log-rolling and gross lack of facts on which legislation should , be based. ;-:4. j.y ,: :- ' But what could our critic do? Or what can we do, for that matter ? A legislature is convened for 40 days and that is too short a time for deliberate action. Two groups of men, where sound judgment would dictate but'one, can beexpect ed to do little of permanent value and may do considerable harm by their jumbled deliberations. I ? Were there but one house, if ft had fewer members and better trained ones, if the sessions were annual and for at least a two months' duration with much weighing of, state needs and the way the sUte could meet them, would there then be less applesauce in legislation? Other states, have tried such a plan successfully and perhaps we will when stenographers rule. Until then w& shall continue to muddle through not without some valuable work being done but without the efficiency which" should mark the state's legis-( lative assembly. -- . . t-- A Reflection for America THE Rev. Giulio Brisino, OF., 94, is one of the priestly guardians of the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem. ror do Years ne du never retuiuuuucu iui tiwu iua uvo at the sacred shrine. Sage and prophet is Father Brisino who declares his continued interest in life. . Father Brisino finds in the growth of America one of the wonders of his age. Yet he cautions, in his Christmas message which has been widely printed throughout the Unit ed States, against the growth of materialism in this nation. "We who have faith in America," he writes, "think of her rising influence in the world, and we look across the maze or world things and we look at the luminous figures of Lin icbln and Woodrow Wilson, spiritual giants, men who reck : oned no cost too great to help in making the world better and happier." Continuing to reflect on the influence of this mightiest of nations he writes: "If America sets her heart on peace, we shall have peace. That is outward peace. Inner peace can come only if on Christmas morning men and women al low the savior to be born again in their hearts. These reflections born from years of meditation are worthy of application. They are the quiet judgments of a man grown tender from a life of contact with a shrine where peace and good-will were born into the life of the greatest of prophets and teachers. Cause and Effect ' " - DOREEXE DE SILVA, romantically pretty, a mould into which all women are cast when they achieve notoriety, whipped a gun from the folds of her skirt and the lover who had jilted her fell dead at her feet. 1 Then there opened that operetta of tears from press, pul- S it and save the mark the police themselves, that must ave caused the coldest of hearts to thaw. .Her beauty, her travails and her justification were prated of and paraded.' JCiVen a roniana jury, wnicn couia ao nine eise man as iue law prescribed in finding her guilty of manslaughter, recom mended leniency. Lonzo Bryant, his curled pompadour properly greased in the manner of such unbalanced morons, plunged a bread knife Into the lung of a popular collegian for whose favor Bryant has been cast aside by a Corvallis girl. Although .1 - 1 1 A 11 1 , A A. 1 A. ...... mere is Sugni parallel in; me iwo pictures, mere av once anc such a storm of feeling against Bryant that authorities were forced to escape to Portland for the safe-keeping of their prisorier. A properly indignant district attorney shouted in the loudest type the press could grant, claiming the blood of a murderer as forfeit. "He shall pay with his life. I will demand the death pen alty" cried this Benton county dignitary. - To our editorial utterance there is neither point nor moral unless it be that, in the crystal gem of legal consis tency we sometimes see the reflection of a funny world. How's Business? T TOWS business" ranks with the eternal weather as a I I - conversation lavonie. . - . r mi - il m I m. dome men wiu lnvanauiy answer guuu. iucsc pnetors are either eternally optimistic and equally unwilling, to know facts or else they are truly good merchants who take all conditions and make them occasions for profit-making. Salem has its quota of merchants, of course, who are eternally complaining. The town is in the doldrums; no one fa rihincr anvthincr in the wv of salea and the onlv thine for them is to bide then- time until good fortune but more prob ably, disaster, overtakes them. ' Probably the city has not enjoyed its best business year in 1928. Yet those merchants who have planned wisely a played the game according to their Jbest, information, have not lost ground this year. As Roger Babson points out, years of difficulty call for retrenchment and more expert manipulation but they bring increased ability to the retailer or the manufacturer. "How's business can usually be an swered in cheerful manner by the business which has the will to win. Not the Spirit of the Season :virri- i . , , ,. .... 1 '. - 1 . 1 cm. .k jfjAuX r ( vwjv 'M fii ' .. Whos JVlio and Timely Views OAUTIOX TS 8IGXIXCT MULTI- liATERAl. TREATY URGED BT JAMXM A. XEXD - aaator from Miuoui (Jareea A. Keed was bora at Man f tield. O.. Not. P, 1861. He waa educated ta iliktriet schools of Lni coantr. !, followed hj a special eovrao at Cos rolleffe. fis studied in law offices at Codar Bapids aad was adasitted to the bar In 1885. Two Tears later bo BBOTod to Kansas -itr. Ms., and has htmm am- tielr identified with local and state aad national lemorratc politics sines 1S8S. rrosa 1898 to 100 he was prosectttlaff. attoraey of Jackson coantr and for two tanas waa nayer of Kansas City. Ha was elected Ualted States seas tor in 1011 and is now eonelndiof , bis third term which expires la Keed was a candidate (or tbe , Democratic pre&idential aomlna- iion in inaa.j I 'WANT to be sore that the ; United States by signing the Kellogg multilateral treaty has aone nothing that will impair its right to protect the Monroe Doctrine, or to fully defend it rights without la ring Itself open to - the charge of hav ing violated the treaty. I want' to be sure that by adhering to this treaty we are not im pliedly obligat ing oarselres to ato to the aid of JAMZS A. REED a. nation which may b attacked, on the theory that the compact Is intended to preserve the peace of the worfd: that Its obligations are matnal be- cans tne treaty is mnltllateral. or tautnal. and that, therefore. If the treaty is broken, and the peace of the world disturbed, the obligation rest on all the nations Countess Flanagan COUNTESS DE TAURINE acquired her title as an added incumbrance to the gift of an ancient chateau in roman , tic southern France where a luscious glamor lends distinctive beauty to life. But she lost it. at least in effect, when a commonplace, e very-day American constable in the prosaic. unromantic town of Wichita. Kansas, confiscated just about everything she owned. The irony of it all seems to lie in the fact that the Countess De Taurine, elevated to the sables of royalty by right of possession will be reduced again to plain Pearl Flanagan and the ginghams of Wichita by right of dis possession. V ' " - - , VJjT'X Well, it's only 364 more days until Christmas ! Kellyg BT Tr 25. TfTr7i tS-i fkkd a ib (Ubaittild KELLY MANAGERS of Ug tadns trial plants are dlscoTcrlng that acrtdeats are coatagioos and, still snore important, that the spread bf Hdmta may be-clsecked by getting rid of the scarce of con tegiotu AccidemU do sot havpett to old nsea of faltering step ao macfa aa to yougnaeat who orcT waro of ttimwnliui oawt toko- liaae- i i .i i Ti i - TV. ii st 1mi4. fnH Sm m Imifa.M.I the pace for others. . ' . ' : V ; ; ... Factory managera, also find that those who hare accident are likely to keep on having them. In one factory the personnel director made a cmrefwl tabnlaUoa of the nimdetr of accidents corh employe rrrsvlied coTeriag his whole life. . Those who had awftered one or more aoddcmta were listed kt ooo grcmp, whUe those who had stever met with nay accident made p another gronp. A year later, records ahowed that three-fonrtha of all injnriee among employee befell those who had had accldenta before. The reason isnt hard to find. AVhile aome noiahape are entirely mnpre rentable, when yon average the thing mp moat Occidents are dae to eaxeleosneea. The same inborn carelea. sseae which leads to one lnjory tlkely to eanso others. J' v ; sim ortew aavz -lutven s mm nsv atrrtaeni in nnten years, hey! Then yon're probably dno for no.' flrn sacn a concnaioa is uiogicsu, w am uint oi tans, n nen n -man gore fifteen years withont a sesrlosts mishap he has prered his eXjllty to exercise care aal avoid accident. llllini" Ulv-i ill, Dinner Stories Or Maybe Crocheting The young man in the corner looked bored, and hi host was tonehed. Picking an an opened box of cigars, he walked acrass to hie gnest. THave a cigar he asked. No. thank. I don't smoke." The other waa rather surprised. bat he tried again. "Have a driakrv Never toneh it.- ' "Well, leU go In with the girls and dance" and the host linked hts arm in that of the young man. "Sorry." hesitated the youth, "bat I re all r . don't dance. yoa know." The other was dumfounded. "Look here," he concluded lamely, "my wife has a ball of wool and a couple of needles what about a spot of knitting?" to restore the peace by the use of whatsoever force is necessary. We do not want to make a dan gerous concession when; by sign ing this treaty, we assent to the assertion of Great Britain . that she reserves freedom of action in certain territories. These terri tories are not defined j yie char acter of her freedom, is jnot speci fied. We do not- know what Great Britain may claim J res ervation means. It is not only general and sweeping, but vague. She may hereafter interpret her reservation In a broader way than we wonld be willing !to have it interpreted. We ought to do nothing which would appear to bind us to any construction she may put upon her indefinite and sweeping state ment. I nave not thought this out In all its details and without finally committing myself, I am inclined to the vtew that we can, in a pro per senate resolution, so declare our. position a to avoid the de fects that I have suggested. It the treaty does not carry with it any of the obligations I have re ferred to that is, embrace them by indirection and implication then it is little more than a mere gesture, and goes no further than a general expression of peaceful intentions. ' That is particularly true when we consider that some tS nations, all of whom are presumed to sign this treaty ultimately, already have signed the League of Na uons compact wnicn clearly au thorises the league to call upon any or all of these nation to fur nish force to discipline or repress any nation offending against the mandates of the league, and the eorrespondence between Mr. Kel logg and jam other powers makes it clear that thf treaty is not to In any way weaken the obliga tions these nations have taken to she league. A scientist is a man who can study the layers of earth under which Bill Jones is buried and prove that Bill's skeleton is 250. 000 years old. When people say of gin, "It's the berries," they probably refer to the juniper berries that keep it from being- mere varnish re mover or something. T? One-Minute Pulpit The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord. . All the ways of a man are clean In hts owri "eye: but tbe Lord welgheth the spirits. Proverbs. XVI. 1-2. , , ;r r In these days of female dieting. nearly every household h a fam ily skeleton. Cincinnati Times- Star. Correct this sentence: "When 1 was your age young man," said dad. "I didn't think myself smart er than my parents." The Grab December 1 6, 1928 I . - ""X i vT i j f r ? t ' v x I i 'An i Who am I? With what college did I teter my connections lc 10J4T What is my present post tlon? Who is credited with havinr driven the snakes out of Ireland? What Is a jOnk? What is the motto of tbe Mar ine Corps? "A friend lovsth at all times and a brother is born for adver sity." Where is this passage found in the Bible? JIMMY JAMS Today in the Past On this day, in 1776, the Hes sians were surprised and defeated by the Americans at Trenton, N. J. Today's Horoscope Persons born on this day are good observers and kindly in their criticisms. They usually are op timistic and not without cause be cause things turn out pretty well for them. A Daily Thought "For the will and hot the gift makes the giver." Lessing. Bits Ifor Breakfast By R-J. Hendricks Answers to Foregoing Questions! O; Dr. Alexander -Melklejohn; Amherst: professor of philosophy at tbe University of Wisconsin. 2. St. Patrick. 3. A Chinese sailing 'vessel. 4. Semper Fidelis. 6. Proverbs xvil, 17. An Error "Do you mean to tell me you couldn't see me coming on a straight piece of road like this?" said tbe owner of the very small car after the collision. "Sorry, guv'nor," said the lorry 1 river; "I thought It were a fly on me -windscreen." Here's hoping . V : S ' ... . Hoping that the dark, brown taste In' your mouth is not too brown.- ". . 1 . W ' The Christmas present to Sa lem of a stabilized, going and pay ing flax and linen Industry is one of the biggest things that was found in the capital city's stock ing..- ; . But it is small compared with the size to which It will steadily md perhaps rapidly grow. . : "Somehow not only at Christ mas time - But all the long year through The love . that youA give to others r Is the love that comes back to rou." :jq V s " Tou may clip that out and save It for next Christmas, if you like it. By the way, is it too early to think about buying em early, for aext:yarT ;0vr 1 - v--,. V ,--.: By doing the square thing and making It $606 Instead. -of .Jhe proffered $1890, Marlon county -lll get $50,060 for 1929 from .he Commonwealth fund for lealth work, to be expended in his country. V That's one thing. It is .Im portant. But another thing,- and .till more important, Marlon :6unty will be saved the unsavory eputatlon .of being a welcher if not living np to her promises. That reputation is one that the people of this county could -not afford to gain, if there were no benefits at all to come from doing the square and honorable thing. There are 4000 school children in .Marion county getting ready to participate in the health parade next year. That parade will not be held unless Marion county lives up to her promises. S When the Marion county health demonstration began work there were many deaths each year in this county from diphtheria. Are the lives that are thus saved, of our children, not worth ' some thing? Are they not at least worth enough to make us pause before thinking of putting a blot on our county's name for unfair dealing? Do you remember? When the interstate bridge was built across the Columbia at Vancouver, and the state of Oregon went behind the pledge to pay her part of the Interest , and principal to make ths' bonds salable, to raise the money to build It, many good Oregon people, some of them sound In financial acumen and principles, honestly opposed It. They said our, state would be sure to be "stuck.? and that it wonld entail a great burden on our tax payers. . - -S Well, we made the pledge as a state. we put our splendid commonwealth credit behind the bonds. And It did not cost a cent. The bridge tolls paid the Interest and retired the bonds. Now the bridge is to be free to the travel ing public, a soon as legal en tanglements . are unwound. The cost of the upkeep will come from the transportation lines using the bridge, S . It -'would be the same with mountain water for Salem. This would cost a lot more than it would have cost had not the then mayor of Salem Interposed hi.s veto when the council was ready to act upon the favorable vote of the people. The people would vote tor mountain water now. and pay the greatly increased cost. But the history of the Van couver bridge would be repeated. The mountain water system would pay for itself, besides doing enough good to Salem to justify the spending of the money though this could not be expected fully till this city grew to twice to three times its present size, or more. A Montesano, Wash., 'farnu-r befriended a poor young man wh needed a Job. The young man eloped with the daughter, stol the car and cashed forged checks. The record does not so state, but it is believed that he left the mortgage still on the farm. Whatever the size of the bond Issue, that's what Salem has got to do get mountain water, piped down from the Cascades, and the hydro-electric power of It used all the way down, to help pay in terest on and retire the bonds sold, to get the money- to pa"y the cost. FOR LOLDS If" vaV" y sv v. J v: : )t t ' v fSH"VO N 1 V v Vie " - - U U -U U VI To break a cold harmlessly end in a hum trv a Ibm Aeririt tablet. 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