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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1928)
Earl C. Brownlee Sheidon F. Sackett Publishers Editorial 1&viBB0SSb r$mM Feaftuiires Salem, Oregon Snndajr December 30, 1928 Two Pictures fTTO 0 pictures are orawn by the western editor of the Co- JL gregaticnahst. Briefly, they are: First, thirty years ago Anita, young and beautiful, had just become the bride of WilUam. They lived in one of the show mansions on the south side of Chicago. They became estranged and Anita fled to Europe. Ai-ita divorced William and he gave her Z5U,uuo-anci 500,000 worth. of jewels. For twenty years Anita exceeded the speed limir in Europe. She attracted a great many men who gave her hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewels and furs. Such men as Kintr Ed ward VII, Grand Duke Cyril cf Russia, Prince Paul Ester hazy and many Americans of wealth followed in her train. Twenty years of "doing" Europe exhausted her fortune She met a prominent American at a dinner party and in quired about her former husband. She confessed, "I am be ginning to be lonely and realize now the worth of what I left behind me. I have learned, I think, what it meant to Billy when I left him so cruelly for a phantom. The American then told her, "Billy killed himself-six years ago. He left a message, saying 'Anita broke my heart and ruined my life, but I have never stopped loving her. I shall die loving her'." Anita then entered the mad whirl of gambling and all that wont wit'' it Qlio lnt rwr ipwpl -furs lappa hmisp: was "stricken with paralysis; became old and wrinkled before her time. She returned to America; is alone and friendless in Chicago: is now making her living scrubbing floors. "And a voice said, 'Cry.' And one said, "What shall I cry?' All flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof is as a flower of the field. The grass withereth. the flower fadeth. The other picture. Mary Page Wright was a mission ary. She was for many years in Turkey, serving at Harpoot, Marsovan and other stations. She came home and served as field worker and afterwards a secretary in the home office. She is 81 now. She lives at the old folks' home at Iowa City. She wrote to a friend recently: "Life seems to grow more -and more interesting. I am writing this so that you may cast aside the fear of growing old (if you ever had it)." We speak of certain folk being the "life of the party." Mary Page Wright is the life of the old iolks' home where she lives. She has a rich humor; a fund of good stories. She lest this creep out in her letter to her friend: "Good stories do count everywhere, don't they? I do not speak from per sonal experience, of course, though my Turkish passport did describe me as tall, fair complexioned, with yellow eyes, and very handsome (Sic)." Since Miss Wright was a missionary; she probably is not rich. But her life illustrates the abiding worth of the things of the spirit. Her past brings her joy; she delights in the present, and she can meet the shadowy future with out fear. The ancient writer had her in mind when he put on the scroll: "But the past of the righteous is the dawning light that shmeth more and more to the perfect day. Hoover's Wise Remark rpHERE is in a contemporary a statement that it was a A wise thing that Herbert Hoover told representatives of the Republic of Salvador on his recent visit to La Union. "Our international economic relations can have but one real foundation." he said. "They can grow only out of the prosperity of each of us. They cannot flourish in the pov erty or degradation of any of us. Our economic progress is mutual. It is not competitive." That remark represents American industrialism at its best. And, at its best that is, under wise leadership) American industrialism can prove a tremendous force for good in the world And it is encouraging to have Mr. Hoover express him self in that way. It is like the motto, "service above self," in the code of one of the international dinner clubs. But at its best it is only an ideal. It is like the Sermon on the Mount; like the golden rule; like hitching your wagon to a star. No one has yet followed the golden rule, or lived up to the Sermon on the Mount, or put Service above self But tvery one will admit that we would be nearer the millennium if we all could, or did. The great lobbies at Washington, for the vast range ot foreign interests, will not believe America is living up to the golden rule when they observe the work of lifting the protec tive rates in the preparation of the new tariff law.. The golden rule is a mark or a measure. It is the per fect mark and measure. But we can only .approach perfec tion in this world. We will never reach it this side of the fields of asphodel beyond the stars. 1 r-m . il It Won't Be Long Now 1 . - 1 I : 1 ' " ; I VT a r I w Ja1' r I I Who's Who and Timely Views Living Standards in City and Country Declared Incomparable By DR. C. J. OALPIX Prlnolpal U. S. Agricultural Economist (Charles Joslali Galpln was born at Hamilton. N 1'.. M:m-ti is. lSti4. tn is a jrraduate of f'oliratc uni iprsit v and has studied at Harvard and Clark universities and the University of Wis consin, from to 1S9I he wa urn. fessur of history at Kalamazoo col lege. The following 10 years he was principal of L'nion academy at Belle ville. N. r.. and then Bant 1st universitv rastor at the University of Wisconsin for six years. He was professor of ag ricultural economics there from 1S11 to 191 . Since June. 1919 he has been the economist in charge of the divi sion of farm population and rural life in the United States Department of Agriculture. He has studied rural problems abroad where he has rpniv.'d distinguished awards, and lias written several books- on rural life. His home is In Falls Church. Va.) Even at Eugene THE good woman argued with the gambler's wife that the business of her husband was a low one, and she ought to have him give it up. "But." replied the gambler's wife, "my husband always wins." , Even up at Eugene, the town of "the old fight," there are three cheers over the fact that the Corvallis football bunch brought home the bacon, to the extent of $27,200 as Its share of the football game in which the C. B. walloped the everlasting daylights out of the crack eastern teams. Listen to this from the Eugene Register: "Besides achieving a notable victory in defeating the outstanding football team of the east and besides bringing home $27,200 for the athletic fund, the State College foot ball team has given the college and the state of Oregon ad vertising throughout the country which could not have been obtained in any olher way, no matter at what price. So be fore the anvil chorus concerning athletic extravagance starts let the hammer wielders scan the facts." More Millionaires THERE are now between 30,000 and 40,000 millionaires in the country, according to a financial sharp, and he gives as one of the reasons for the great increase the debasement of our money. A million dollars, which used to be a pluto cratic accumulation, is now a mere bagatelle. The gigantic fortune of Henry Ford is not such a colossal pile as it would have been if measured by the old standards. Notwithstand ing that there are numerous fortunes of great size, even for these days, wealth probably is more generally diffused than it used to be. But this theorizing is not going to curb the spirit of any one climbing to the extent of ftis ability to the dizzy heights of the millionaire club Every one will stand the debasement. T!e One-Minute Pulpit And straightaway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: And there came a voice from heaven, saying. Thou art my be loved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. St. Mark. i. 10-12. S1 TANDARDS of living in th country and in the city will never be the same and are incomparable. In all controversies over the farm and city, it is well to get the underlying facts JL o understand the issues in volved. Modern C J. residence communities for all city workers would make city life and labor not only tolerable, but in large measure save it from its own despair. There is a distinction between the population of cities and of farms by a comparison of the cen sus figures of 1920 showing divi sions by age groups. Persons be tween 20 and 5 4 years of age con stitute 53.4 per cent of the popula tion of cities, 46.1 per cent of vil lages, and 40.9 per cent on farms. The aged are in about the same proportion in cities and villages ana somewhat fewer on farms Galpin Children up to -19 years of aee socialization o f constitute 35.8 per cent of the pop- the f a r m i n g ulation in cities. 41.4 percent in communit y villages, ana on iarms 4S. per would places cent- It is plain from this count, that the outstanding character of the city population is the predomin ance of the young adults from 2 5 to 34 years of age, and of the strong middle-aged adults from 35 to 44 years of age. The child i3 relatively lacking in cities and his place is occupied by young adults. farm life in a position of high advantage for all persons who love nature, out door life, and children. It a tionally organ ized suburban If the cherry tariff rate goes up to six cents, we will get maraschino factories on this coast some of them in Salem, where they belong. Tomorrow, goodbye old 1928 ! Kellyg rams BY FRED c. KELLY IWOX way. lOXDER how many business men are as efficient. In a sensible Mp- Z'! Hart Ieniine, only woman member of th An. riatea iTe8, owner and manager of the prosperous Warren Tri buue, at Warren, Ohio. Mrs. Iteming learned years agohat it isn't -work which takes np time so much as Interruptions. She therefore tries to avoid interfering with anyone in her plant who may be bosj If he has an order for the foreman of the composing room, only a rod or two from her own office-, she does not call him from his Job bmt rends a brief note which he may read daring a lull. When she dictates this note she does not even interrupt her ste ographer but tells it to a dictaphone. The stenographer can tran scribe it when she last in the midst of something else. I imagine that half of all business conferences might be eliminated if men would nsrely jot down their Ideas on paper to be read when there is nothing! more important to do. Incidentally, Mrs. Deming applies her expcri-i pce as a rateful housekeeper to her newspaper plant, which is so free from scraps of waste paper and other Utter commonly found in newspaper offices that business managers of other papers hare actual lr? traveled hundreds of miles to see 1C Oouqh-Hufltfon Cate History of goicm and fbe Sfafe of Oregon THERE is one historical event each year that is important in every spot on the globe. And that is the coming of the new year. The new year givies every man and every woman a new start; it erases the mistakes, removes the handicaps of the old year, and puts us all on an equal foot ing again. Hail, 1929 ! May you be a year in which many ambi tions are realized! A Sincere Wish A New Year! May it be, for all our friends, and all they hold dear, a prosperous and a happy year; a year to make 1929 a significant and affeo tionately regarded date in the memory, during the years to come. CLOUGH- HUSTON C? Successor to Wtinwrnmnuii J&isUncfiVeGfuncral Strvicz.0 phone llO High Pressure Pete Bits if or Breakfast Sure it will U - S The Cherry city of the world will be the cheery city -of the world . . S If that six cent tariff duty is slapped on. Then the maraschino makers will hare to dance to the fiddling of oar growers and our Royal Ann people will be sitting on the world, like a player with a royal flush and high stakes up with the sky limit. (Maybe the simile is detrop. How about it, you card sharps?) Any way, the idea is all right, and it is time our growers had a chance to call the turn. S If we get the new idea of the astronomers, limitless space is somewhat limited. But we still have nough for comfortable el bow room. The algae are a kind of moss. But no moss will be found on the backs of the voters of Salem if they are given a chance to vote on the question of city ownership of the water works, under a plan that will hold water.v Yes, with out any algae in it. S Cherries are one of our franch ise crops. It's the soil, sunshine and showers. And the honey bees and the know how. If the tariff makers will do the handsome and proper thing, our growers will cash in on our franchise. It's their turn. This is their .year. It was the other year that was the one when the maraschino hombres had the whip hand. S New hello girl in the Salem phone office, was told by the veteran "thank you" lassie on the next chair: "That young fellow oyfer there Is a wiry little chap," fdijcjtlng a youthful person of the male gen- The aged are indoors, quiet on doorsteps In summer. Children are a reduced quantity in the streets, houses, yards and parks. Adults fill the picture in the work ing day time and in the rush hours when work is over or changes: and in the leisure evening in streets, and in show houses. The farm is not the place of ad ults, but it 13 the place of children. The place of aduUs on farms is taken by childre-Cln cities the place of children is-taTiqhy ad ults. In 1920 there were on the farms of the United States 4,000, 000 more children than in any equivalent city population, an ex cess large enough to make a small nation like Switzerland, or Norway and Denmark. By R. J. Hendricks der at the back of the room. "He doesn't look it. what does he do?" from the new hello hand. "Con nects telephones," gurgled the other girl. That's a mild way the fresh (men) girls are hazed over there. Let's not quarrel over the ultl. mate source of supply of the Salem water system. Take over the present system, then leave the matter of the best and cheapest supply to the engineers, and fu ture votes of the people. H S Salem Y employment office bad 65 men and 21 women applying for work last week, and secured Jobs for on!y IS of the men and five of the women. Low tide. Probably the lowest of the year. S It was of course a mean Salem man who, asked if he was in favor of women taking part in public affairs', answered, "It's all right If you really want the af fairs public." "m 'm V A fresh frosh up at Willamette gives as an example of wasted energy; tellin-g a hair-raising story to a bald-headed man. V Man up on Piety hill asked what makes his daughter so talk ative cynically wheezed: "I think she and her mother were both vaccinated with a phonograph needle." The brute! U S Teacher out at Engelwood school 'asked her pupils to give a sentence containing the word fundamental. Ikey answered: "My sister went out horseback ridin' and when she comes home to lunch she has to take her eats fundamental s s New maid from down Hubbard way answered the phone up in a home on Fairmount. "What number is this?" came over the line. "You ought to know; you called It," answered the new maid. Two drummers over at the Marion hotel were sizing up the The Grab Bag Dec. SO, 1928 What is the capital of Venezu ela? . Where was the U. S. secretary of labor, James J. Davis, born? How old must a person be be fore he can attain a seat In the house of representatives? "So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen." Where is this passage found in the Bible? Today in the Past In 1775. on this day, the Amer icans, under Montgomery and Ar nold, failed to capture Quebec. Today's Horoscope Persons born on this day ar apt to be close In money matters They lave many friends and ar sought after. They are thought ful of others and thoroughly honest. A Daily Thought "The Worst kind of shame u being ashamed of frugality or poverty." Livy. Answers to Foregoing Question director of the bureau of investi gation of the department of jus. tice. 2. Caracas. 3. "Wales. 4. Twenty-five 5. St. Matthew, xx. 16. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The State, man Oar Fathers Read Dec.' 80, 1003 A fierce chimney fire thread ed to destroy the house owned l.y Mrs. Peter Willard at 17th aul Asylum streets, and would have done bo but for the quick run of the fire department. W. W. Johns, proprietor of the Harness shop at 96 State street, is business of their firms. "My firm confined to his home with illness has just engaged 10 men to do nothing but pump water to damp en stamps, our business is " so large," said one. "That'3 nothing. Our business is so huge that the headbookkeeper has to go by car from debit to credit in his cash book," said the other drummer. Is clam-digging fishing or agri culture? Is a person who attneds a talkie an auditor or a spectator? New York World. The new Edison theatre will op en Monday afternoon. One of the rural free delivery carts collided with a truck in front of the Marion hotel yester day. The horse ran to the post of fice. No one was hurt. 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