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1 - " . " ' . - ' - , - - . - - 11 Salem, Oregon Wednesday January o, iu2u -i - fat'ovid compromise war. i would compromise everything at thai point where hate comes in, where misery comes in, where love ceases to be love; and life begins its descent into the valley of the shadow of death. But I would not compromise truth, I would not compromise the right. Henry! Watterson. Water Question. Asrain OF-course, it would make no difference where a deep well was bored in search of an artesian source Using the word artesian as generally employed in the United States, meaning any deep bored well. The word comes from Artois, France, where in 1750 the first deep well was bored that developed an "artesian" flow from pressure. - , .; An artesian source of water "here at Salem would likely - - mean one supplied from the mountains, or from a long dis- " tance v ti It would be like water filtered underneath the surface of the earth all the way from the eternal snows of Mount Jefferson; it would likely be as "pure" as the snow that falls on the summit of that mountain peak more "pure," except , i line for the minerals (fathered in its course deep in the earth. They-would not likely include i .a M - A . wuametie vauey water is boxw is uiuusi cu.ijr. a. from these chemical substances. The difference between an artesian flow of water se cured deeD in the earth in the city itself and the same water up near Mount Jefferson would be the cost of pumping ... . . 1 1 - J ! pumping into tne mams ana pernaps iuiea Dy pumping irum the subterranean source And the cost ,of getting a gravity flow by building a pipe line. That is a question for the engineers. In the long run, and over a series of years, it is likely that the gravity system would prove the cheaper. Why Because of the commercial value of the hydroelectric power TV that might be employed as the water camedown.from its ' mountain source. v A supply of measurably within less than 20 miles of Salem, that could be brought in pipes to a reservoir located on the hill, say, above the cottage farm of the state hospital, and v that would give it sufficient pumping it into the city mains, providing the needed pres sure for supplying the needs of the city, for domestic and r fire fighting and other requirements. There would be no s pumping needed in such a system But chlorination would be needed. So would it be need ed for water coming from mountain sources through a pipe line, -r It might or might not be tesian source. But that would may have been made heretofore of the surface site of the well or wells. The old city dump gag is just a joke, perhaps started by a practical joker who knows better. "Carrying Protection Too Far I11HE Oregonian, noting the X tonnage of sugar coming pines and the one to tax copra the above heading in disparagement of it Basing its reasons partly U mill in Portland that makes 1 Senator Beed Smoot of upon the case sugar admitted free from the Philippines, in ' rder to help save from extinction both the cane and beet sugar industries in the United , i But there are evidences, even in the Oregonian article, " that the "nigger in the woodpile," or at least the' blackest and .biggest Senegambian brother, is the Wall street sugar trust, owning the Cuban sugar cane plantations and mills and the refineries along the ' These gentlemen have been favored to the time of many millions of dollars a year by the differential on the raw sugar tariff they have enjoyed. They naturally are setting op a smoke screen and muddying the waters, hoping to get up a scare that will prevent ger, and leaving them still world. Congressman Hawley, chairman of the ways and means Committee, and his fellow members, framing a new tariff law, have a big job The biggest fight of the them was born yesterday, and they have all no doubt heard bout the famous case epitomized by the words handed down to us: "The voice. is Jacob's voice, of Esau. Of course, protection could be carried too far But the thing that is making the Wall street sugar bar ":-:cns walk the floor is the prospect that it is likely to be car ried far enough to give adequate protection to American capital and labor. Every consideration of fairness demands that it be carried that far. " ; The case of the Wall street sugar barons is on all fours with one that would put an American owned corporation making goods in Germany or ttide of demanding free trade ' ties on account of the fact that can money Absolutely that; and entirely a selfish and inimical to ' the best interests of the American people as a whole. 7 Make It Minto Pass - TT is proved that the proposed highway over the Cascades JL by way of the Santiam pass and quickest route between the inland empire of central Oregon and the great Willamette valley -The quickest, shortest and cheapest .to travel And the lowest in cost of construction 7 And that it will be the only one that can be kept open - the whole, year-through. These things guarantee' the com--" pletion of the highway, And they argue loudly for the earliest practicable consummation of Now. for the name. , It should be the Minto pass. John " llinto found that pass long before Mr. Hogg came onto the ; scene. The name Minto sounds better than the name Hogg. Hot that Hogg is not a good own name to begin with. : During the year 1928, a hicles were registered in the United States according to a re liable informant's review. Of this total, 21,630,000 were passenger automobiles and 3,120,000 were motor trucks. The .present population of continental United States is about 100,000,000, using a convenient round number. It is thus . apparent that there is one automobile far each five persons. ' Host of these cars are capable of carrying five persons. So ; it is apparent that we' could put all the people of the United States into automobiles at one place to another. In the entire world, at the present time, there are some 31,725.000 automobiles. It is siirnif icant that a little better than three-fourths or these motor vehicles are owned In the United States. - K it is okeh for the Wall street sugar barons to have pre- - xerenuai cuues on weir raw VAioan sugars, it is all right for tne maraschino manufacturers to have a low tariff on Span ish, Italian and French sweet cherries, because the process- M J A. : 1 - I a 9 . a m into marascnino products is done witn American labor. 'And the maraschino bunch got that over once. - .'- . : yz - . ' ' V '- 1 The 'Rev. Dr. Malcolm James MacLeod criticizes Mr. Iloover for making his trip on a warship and says that a Quaker on a dreadnaught is like a cannon in a parlor. Won der if the good doctor -ever heard of that peaceful Quaker, Had 'Anthony, Wayne! . , I would compromise glory. alkali or lime, for nearly alh flit 1,L. t ! Mil maI 'W-; ' pure water could be secured be fed from there Into pipes force to obviate the cost of needed for water from an ar not depend upon any use that movement to limit the annual free of duty from the Philip from the Orient, writes under on the danger to the cocoanut nut butter from the oil. Utah says a limit must be put States Atlantic seaboard. any action dislodging the nig sitting pretty on top of the kind in history. But none of but the hands are the hands . . any other country in the atti or a preferential in tariff du- it was operated with Ameri will be the shortest, cheapest this event. ' -j - name; and no one makes his ! total of 24,740,000 motor ve time and move them from one 78 per cent, to be exact Who's Who and Timely Views Br DK. KLWOOD KAS CoMWIiilonT. Federal Bueao f MacluutlM (EIod Mead waa hrm at Patriot. r.J T fjm I.e. TT. I. - X - of rnNM oiTru(7. tie waa a pro (wur in tha CeUtrad Arrienltaral eel- toff for iMtril yaara, kocomiaff aifiliat4 with tha Usitrd Stataa desartmeBt of afTiealtara in 1897. At the aama Ume bo wu BMbtr ox tka faeaitr of th Univaraitr ( California for ino yoara. Front 1907 to 1915 ha waa f batman of the atato riTora and water inpplr com miaaloa at Victoria, Aoatralia, latar re tarmtnff to the. University of California. Sine 1924 ho has boen federal coombU tioner of reclamation. He hat written lev-oral hooka and articles on irrigation). coofreas wui oe requestea lm. mediately to Include in the sec ond deficiency appropriation bill an item of at least 1100.000 for certain surreys and the prepara tion of plana ni connection with the construc tion of flood control, water storage, irriga tion and power J ieTelopments in i the Colorado 3 rlTer as nro- 1 T-: Tided for in the so-called Bould er Dam bill, ap- J pro p r 1 a 1 1 n g vvv,vvv, has been approved b y Elwood Mead President Cool . idge. Construction of the project can not begin until the so-called Col- ' I which Bits for Breakfast By R. J. Hendricks Make It the Minto pass m W And get the highway over the uascaaes through that pass. The Slogan man has to nrove. in his pages of Sunday next, that salem ought to continue to be the gooseberry center of the Unit ed States. It Is stm that, and It will be much easier to keep Its place when we get jam and 'Jelly fac tories. That should be one of the major, activities of the chamber of commerce, " it can be done, by everlastingly sticking at It. -Tber-is no other country that can grow -as good a canning goose berry, and by the same sign as good a berry for Jams and Jellies, or as grear a tonnage to the acre. The per acre production is so largo that ft has led to pverpro ductlon. The gooseberry crop is the only major one we overpro duce, unless one includes ever green blackberries which produce themselves from the wild vines. High Pressure Pete Baraga TTrzrr-.- r- ' IllillilP Wjx im :r Vv - : f k CfplfeMP sll Rolling : Dawn to Rio orado compact has been .ratified by at least six of the interested states and until consideration is given to contracts for revenues This will require probably 12 to 18 months. Conferences with the Interested parties looking to preparation of plans for the complete develop ment of the Colorado river have been held. It is intended to call a conference of the engineers with representatives of the seven in terested states to consider these mattrs. Our conference probably will be called at Denver, Colo. The bureau of reclamation Is to have a meeting of the superintendents of the irrigation project engineers with administration officials at Denver about March 13 to IS. The conference with the engineers will be held Immediately thereafter. Meantime, the chief engineer of the bureau of reclamation at Den ver, R. F. Walter, has been asked to submit an estimate of the amount of money that will be re quired during the next 12 months for Investigations and surveys in connection with the project. This probably will require more than 9100,000. It Is desirable, therefore, that this department be given money and authority to prepare plans and estimates during the time that the act is being ratified. An appro priation, of $50,000 to permit of the preliminary study and prep- What has water from several hundred feet under ground, per colated through SO to 70 miles of subterranean filtering got to do with a city dump of unsavory memory? There used to be a nhalic tem ple out in what is new the Lib erty district. -- It would be as un reasonable to refuse to drink the loganberry Juice pressed from the berries grown out there, on ac count of the practices that were carried on in that temple by a vanished race. Last Sunday's Oregonian had a long article to show that the flax and linen Industries here now nave anoot S2.000.000I Invested in them, and that these industriee are to become the major ones In this valley and atate. That ts fine. But a lot of people, have oeen a long time in waking up. - The flax and linen industries of the Willamette valley will be big ger than even the pioneers like Mrs. Lord dreamed of. They could not forsee the era of modern nu ' trition of plans should be includ ed in the school deficiency bill, if such appropriation can be made under the bill, before ratification If not, it should be made indepen dent. chinery and pedigreed seed, de stined to place linen in the posi tion of becoming cheaper than cotton. S Students at Cambridge univer sity in England decided by a vote of 217 to 84 that the United States is not a menace to the beet interests of the world. Thanks for the buggy ride Exchange. - Reports from Washington are to the effect that the new paper currency will be stronger than the present paper money. What we want to know is whether it will buy more. V . S A lot of rare Christmas liquor was seized in New York: naroor the other day on an incoming French liner. The safest way to get your Christmas liquor is to have Santa Claus deliver It. Who remembers the good old days when they used to ptcture Santa Claus with a red nose? Senator Dill has prepared a bill to limit radio broadcasting sta tions to a power of 10,000 watts. What we want is a law that will limit the static B Man can do little to modify the climate, says a Harvard professor. No, but he can do a lot of cuss ing about it. S What did the bandits do before we had any filling stations to rob? True Pleasure A negro was seen driving a flivver round and round a tree out In the woods recently. Asked what he was doing, he replied: "I'se makin' as many lef'-hand turns as I pleases wldout gettln' called down by a cop." . Kot-to His. Taste A certain high-tempered and none-too-cultured man had a fight with a, neighbor and ,'wis placed in an Indiana county Jail. Lacking money, he sent the following note, after several days, to his son-in- law: - "I want you' to see Henry and some of my other friends around there and try to arrange a bond to get me out of Jail. I am not a bit satisfied here." DINNER STORIES The Way of the World By GROVB PATTERSON THEN ASD NOW Visiting Cambridge one is taken back in fancy, to the 17th eentury when Harvard university was founded. Even now there are old. v Ins-covered buildings reminis cent of an ancient day. In Wil liams burgh, Va. one recalls the day in 1693 that saw the found ing of William and Mary college, the second oldest college in North America. And now we read In the daily paper that ISO students of Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, rented nine motor buses to take them to the New Year's day football game in Pasadena, Cal. If the serious minded young men, practically all being trained for the. ministry, who attended Harvard in that early day, could I look upon us now what would they have to say about it? It's a long road from then to now and where do we go front here? o o WORSE THAN WASTE Appalling figures representing something much worse than waste, confront us when we are shown the cost of crime in the "United States. The statement is made by a United States district attorney, speaking to some of thebiggest merchants in the country, that we could build three ten million-dollar universities every day for a hundred days with the money that crime is costing in this country. And the financial aspects of crime are the least serious. There is cause for some bard thinking on the part of the leaders of the republic when we face the fact that there are a number of tendencies in this civilized coun try that threaten the welfare, if they do not forecast the destruc tion, of mankind. o o o POWER P. W. Bridgman. Harvard pro fessor of physics, has made a ma chine capable of producing a pres sure of 600,000 pounds to the square inch. This is the greatest pressure ever attained by any man made device. Do you wonder what can be done with such astounding power? Hot water subjected to this pressure becomes a block of ice. An egg In Ice cold water, sub jected to this power, is hard boiled. One's imagination grows lame in an attempt to forecast a future wherein power as is only hinted at now becomes a workable reality. HURRY When we hurry we all too tre-J quenuy nurry into mistakes. And we lose all the time we gained in explaining our mistakes. 9 7 HARDNESS A Cleveland woman,- less than w years old, tried to kill her three children and commit suicide not long ago, after giving up the struggle to support herself and them. Poverty was too much for ner. l went everywhere for hln and the grave seemed the only piace ior me to go with my child ren if I wanted to be happy with mem, see said. Part of her misery mav hav been her own fault and part of it may nave come from her lienor ance of places where she might nave turned ror Help. But there ts more to be said. She must have round a certain hardness In the world that thousands never come up against and can little under stand. There is too much rrivt for us ever to forget to be com passionate. There are natural handicaps enough in this world without having them added to by me aaraoess or numan beings. o o THE HANGMAN OIUCB IflOS Ktri fl flirt ATAiiii. CI... 1 as a. w- . . . tor or Hungary, had hanged 13 0 -wi waw, v v aat men. Me died a few dava rn wnat strange and interesting imuosopny or lire had this man Dunt up within him? His busi ness was to give the death blow to failures. Did he still believe in the capacity of the averara numan to win in the same of life? nut jutri Gold's work was not so important. The death blow to the wretched creatures he execute had been struck, nrobablv h themselves, long before. FARMS AND FARMERS We may worry some about far mers but we need not worry about what-can be done on farms. In 1917 there were 35,000 wheat farmers In Montana. In 18 there are only 14.000. So great has been the increase in the use of tractors and other large scale machinery that the 14.000 far mers are tilling more acres and doing It better than did the 35 -000. There are still comfortable prospects that we shall have food for some time. Watson May Be Leader By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington Correspondent for Central Press and The Statesman Washington. Jan. 8. Jim Wat son, of Indiana is tne jtiepuou can Vregulars" choice for the O. O. P. senate leadership when Char lev Curtis s'eiva out of It next March, or soon er, preliminary to stepping into the ' vice-presidency. . Only one thing may keep the re g u 1 a r s from ratifying this, their choice. They may not ratify it if Mr. Hoover kicks too hard. Or they may ratify it, no SEN. WATSON matter how hard Mr. Hoover kicks. But prob ably not. The members of the majority on Capitol Hill are cagey crew. They will hardly fancy antagonizing the new wnite House tenant at the very begin ning of his term. Later if he rubs It in who knows? o Some people think it derogatroy to speak of a poltlcal personage as an integral part of "the machine." Yet there be politicians who glory In it. Senator James E. Watson, for instance, prides himself on being an "organization man." During the pre-ebnvention cam paign, when he was fighting for the O. O. P. presidential nomina tion on his own account, Jim dwelt much on the fact that there could be no doubt concerning the genuineness of his Republicanism The way he said it more than im. plied that there was considerable doubt concerning the genuineness of Mr. Hoover's. o o o The Hoover-ites violently resen ted this sort of talk, by Jim and his friends, denouncing it as gross ly unfair. They really were angry, and whether It has worn off yet. or not, remains to be seen. Perhaps Mr. Hoover will elect to be forgiving. Perhaps he holds a grudge. This personal equation must be taken into account in calculating the prospect of Jim's graduation into the O. O. P. senate leader- The Grab Bag January 9. 1929 Who am IT Of what expedition am I a mem Deri from wni branch of the service was I bor rowed? For what do the initials C. P. A stand? What was Carrie Nation some times called? What is the government of Hun gary? "But be ye doers of the word. and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." Where is this passage found in the Bible? Today ia the Past On this day. in 1788, Connecti cut ratified the U. S. constitution. Today's Horoscope Living for others ought to be the aim of persons born on this day. since they are apt to become self-centered if they are not care ful. ' - A Daily Thought "Men have less lively percep tion of good than evil." Where is this -passage found In the Bible? Answers to Forezoinr Questions I. Harold June; Commander Rickard Ev Byrd's Antarctic ex pedition: the U. S. navy. Z. Certified public accountant. 8. The Lady With the Hatchet. 4. A kingdom without a king. 5. James. II. 22. " -- x w.vA:- s- f 5 ' , ' ship during President u vsr's regime at all ever-. Mr. Hoover's O. K. .. As previously remark. , Watson is a strict orgai. man. .This presents another lem. The "organisation" I TM cervative. pot to say darue tionary. Jim, being an on: tion man. naturally thinks t Sanitation's thoughts, and ultra-conservative, too. In other words, no hm . goodness "liberal" can p. consider Senator Watson , ership satisfactory at all o o The question arises How liberal is Mr. II Answers to this que . widely. Nobody exactly Possibly he will turn out pretty good liberal. A lib erals voted for him last ber. They evidently ex p. to. If so. on that political k arsuredly he cannot appi Jim as his party's leader Benate. o o o Jim Watson, as O. O. P. leader, would be a creditable in his way. He looks the part. He is a v h of a big man physically mi!, impressive. The style in wlii, h : wears his hair is rather sukl-. tive of a giant cockatoo, but puts on none of a cockatoo- ai: - is as affable a senator as th. i is in Washington. He has ability out of the onlin. ary, also and courage and un derstands politics Inside out. Even the progressives who com plain of him as a machine politi cian, complain of it largely lie. cause, as they express il. h- in "dangerous" a compliment . of a certain sort. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talk from The State. Our Fathers Read Jan. 9, 1004 Miss Georgia Giltner of I'ot"- land Is visiting friends in the city. She is a sister of E. C. Giltner. secretary of the state Lewis and Clark fair commission. J. N. Robertson of the Turner eighborhood was a Salem busi ess visitor. Grant Co: by. mayor of Wood- burn, is here on a brief business trip. The Edison theatre located in the Klinger block and under the management of F. A. Wilson has been drawing good crowd throughout its opening week. Willamette basketeers meet the O. N. five on the court here tonight. THE ONE MINUTE PULPIT Behold, this is the Joy of hU way. and out of the earth shall others grow. Behold, God will not cast away a perrect man, neitner win be help the evil doers. Job. viii. 19, 20. OTTAWA. Ont., Jan. 8. (AIM Possible international confer ences regarding the fishing treaty between Canada and the United States may result from the allega tion made by Oregon and Wash ington fishermen of treaty viola tions on the part of the dominion on the Pacifls coast. The department of marine fish eries issued tbsj following state ment today: "There is no desire on the part of Canadian authorities to restrict in any way the privileges to which United States salmon trolling boat are - entitled on Canadian ports, but when these boats arw carrying on their fishing just out side Canadian waters or along the Canadian coast they are not beiur allowed to. use such ports for pur poses of comfort and convenient and so make them In a large meas ure, for practical purposes, bases from which to operate. "Seizures were made only when such action appeared necessary impress the, above fact and s-i zures were not made until aft-: the boats seized had received no tification that Canadian porn might be need only for 'bonafide shelter or other treaty purposes. By Swau rails RESENT EE FISHERMEN