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Salem, Oregon
Wednesday
January o, iu2u
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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
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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-
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into marascnino products is done witn American labor.
'And the maraschino bunch got that over once.
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'- 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
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any other country in the atti
or a preferential in tariff du-
it was operated with Ameri
will be the shortest, cheapest
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name; and no one makes his
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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. "
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ship during President u
vsr's regime at all ever-.
Mr. Hoover's O. K.
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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
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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.
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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