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y Saturday
January 10, 1029
Earl C. Brownleb
Sheldon FSackett r
Publishers
Editorial
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( Large Work on Little Money
MANY men and women in Salem, especially women, re
member, only a few years ago, when this city had no
public library 1 j
- When, through the initiative and the pioneering and
.fostering work of the Salem woman's club, the one that led
to the present institution was started. First; the women
collected through donations a few hundred books and started
, the library in the council chamber of the city halL Then
they saved and gathered enough money to buy the site of
, Lthe present building, after which they secured the money,
Y ;r $27,500, from the Carnegie foundation for the building. As
' - i was required as a condition precedent, the city assumed the'
support of the library, to the extent of 10 per cent a year of
the cost of the building.
Last year the city's appropriation was $11,670. The
total expenses amounted to $12,442J20. The amount over
the city's allowance was realized from fines, pay fiction and
out of town borrowers.
These earnings are now running around $100 a month.
The pay fiction books are duplicates of late' new ones, which
become free books when they have paid for themselves. Out
t : , of town borrowers deposit $1 a year. The fines are on books
: kept beyond the stated periods. I
Besides administering the Salem public library -itself,
( the management of that institution has general charge of
the Salem school libraries, the
year was 40,598. This was
I turn outside of the p&blic schools of 111,819 books.
There is a good sized expense each year in rebinding the
books used in the schools, and it is growing, so that the
money received from the school board, which has been a
fixed annual amount, has scarcely been enough to meet the
actual expenses, to say nothing of the administration, which
is free because the circulation is growing with the increase
' - -of school attendance. 1
It will thus be seen that the Salem public library has be
come an institution of magniture; it is doing a large work on
little money, and is performing as well as if there were much
m money.
. ; It lives within its means, and is under constant neces
j sity of making the small means count for big benefits in
i public service.
The Thirteen Girls v
A CASUAL Salem visitor found .the Monmouth Lions club
with a proposition before it of raising $40 to complete
i the fund of about $113 to make up the loss in clothing of 13
state normal school girls in
i fellow students lost their lives
i And the visitor said he
!-,. Lions would supply $10 of the
r They did. They made it
I " day. And the Salem Lions have thus started an overplus
fund, so that the girls who lost articles of clothing may not
only have them replaced, but that they may have something
besides in the. way of the wherewithal to make up for other
i losses
Including money" losses. Some of them in their hurry
to get out of the burning building lost their purses ; includ-
: ing what they contained one
The Salem Lions deserve
thing to have the fund Welled,
13 girls.
The students of the normal schools will become the
teachers and guides of our children in the public schools.
Theyjire a self sacrificing cross section of our people. Their
outlook is none too bright, in
ment after all their sacrifices in preparing for their life
work. A Los Angeles teacher said in a letter the other day
that there are two teachers for every position in California,
1 and this is becoming the status throughout most sections of
' the country. There is a large surplus of teachers in Oregon ;
though there was a shortage during and just after the world
war.
The trend will allow selections to get the best ; hard on
the second best and the ones in the discard through the mis
chances of judgment, etc.
So there is nothing too good for those 13 girls at Mon
mouth, or for the large body of their sisters and brothers in
the lines they have chosen. ,
i The Peace Pact
AFTER many words of criticism of some of its members,
calling it a mere gesture, or a white man's peace, or an
. instrument to protect the status quo of England and France
in respect to their colonies and spheres of influence, the
unanimous vote (excepting one) of the United States senate
ft ratifying the multilateral peace treaty was magnificent;
creditable , j , 1
Putting our country in line with over two score other
nations proposing to stabilize the peace Of the world
In line with all the outstanding "civilized" countries of
the world. This is especially gratifying, because the instru
ment was prepared and its adoption proposed by our, own sec
retary of state, Mr. Kellogg, and backed by President Coo
lidge. Its rejection, or even the attaching of all sorts of pro
posed exceptions and explanatory or interpretative clauses,
would have been unthinkable.
This peace pact does not
But it is the most impressive gesture ever made towards
that end. It binds the foremost nations of the world .in an
agreement looking to peaceful
It looks to a time when there shall be no more war, nor
thought of war, any more than there is now thought among
'individuals of trials by battle or duels to settle private dis
putes. " ;
Strange Passports to Fame
OTRANGE are the kinds of
i3 men's names are remembered
Taking for a sample Harry
Baltimore, leaving a brand of
micht irain. In the gay nineties Lehr was called? tne -"P. T.
Barnum of society." He indulged in many odd pranks for
the delectation of the 400 in New York and at Newport. Once
he invited friends to a formal
other time he feted a white mule in similar fashion. Once he
waded in a lawn fountain, clad
A writer in an exchange
this rara avis, otherwise yclept in low-brow patter strange
bird, puts this vex Dai Douquei on nis casnei. jiven nau a
dozen decades out of all eternity .to do something notable and
-worthy, men ofterl get off on curious tacks. Surely, no man
. C" l ji a stranger uoiui u ibuic iiuxu ui i j o. xjcm. , .
1 That Is News
npHE city editor told the reporter, according to a print shop
A gag, that the biting or a man by a aog was not news
: but the biting of a dog by a man would be big news.
The Port Orford Tribune features a hews story of a
couple from eastern Oregon, who have 'arrived at the Curry
county town, declaring that both man and wife are at home
on, horseback but neither can drive an automobile.
' It lias come about that it is news that one can ride horse
back but cannot manage-a flivver. -The couple will settle
down in Curry county, where they have seen the ocean for
the first time, and like it
But it is predicted that they will get lonesome for the
wide spaces of Harny county and of the hoof -clatter of their
mounts, and longf or the wide open spaces
Or they will get a fliwer and enjoy themselves in the
. rain-patter of the Curry county environment,
total circulation of which'last
in addition to the total circula-
the fire in which three of their
would guarantee that the Salem
$40 hiatus.
$50, at their meeting yester
of them about $25.
credit. It would be a fine
to cover all the losses of the
the way of assured employ
abolish war
settlements of disputes
achievements by which some
S. Lehr, who recently died in
fame as peculiar as a man
dinner for a monkey. At an
in evening dress.
commenting on the passing of
MR, HOOVER IS RECEIVING THE.
fiECOMMENDATlONS OF POLffiCAt-CONSULTAM-re
NEWS NOT.
I DIDN'T ASK "FOR.
MUCH BUT"HE DIDN'T
' SAY A WOBD
THE WOB.LD 1 KNOWS .WE.
ELECTED HIM AND ITOLD
HIM WE WANTED WHAT"
WAS COMJN1 TO US
HE DIDN'T"
CHEEP
ALL 1 ASKED HIM S
SAY WAS - THAT HE
CALIFORNIA PQ."NES
FOR. BRtAHOi
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TH'VqTE!
HE OIDMT'
?EP
The Way of
the World
MAS MAKING HIMSELF
Nothing can really : be t&ught
Salesmanship can't be taught. You
can be told what are the tried and
trusted and experienced things to
ao, oat nobody can glre you a
personality, a mind, and a heart
with which to get results.
"There is a time." wrote Em
erson, "in erery man's education
when he arrlres at the conviction
that envy is ignorance; that 1ml
tatlon is suicide; that he must
take himself for better, for worse,
as his portion: that though the
wide universe is full of good, no
kernel of nourishing corn can
come to him but through bis toll
bestowed on that plot of ground
which i given to him to till A
man is relieved and gay .when he
has put his heart Into his work
and done his best; but what II
has said or done otherwise, shall
give him no peace." ;
STRENGTH
Like the ancient king who said
that he had no garrison stronger
than the affection of his people,
we in our various positions in life
are no stronger than the loyalty
of those who are associated with
us. If the men who work for you
do not really like you,! your organ
ization is -weak, no matter how
well it seems to function for a
time. If you do not have loyalty,
you do not deserve loyalty. You
lack something which attracts it
and you can not expect it.
SELLING THE IDEA
Salesmen spend too much time
emphasizing price. Never mind
the price. It Is not so important.
The thing to sell is the idea. Tra4?
orders' from South America came
fast after the visit of Mr. Hoover.
And there is no doubt the Prince
of Wales has greatly Influenced
trade with England by his trips
abroad. Sell the idea. Once the
customer is really sold the idea he
will demand the goods, price or no
price. Making people like you and
the thing you have to sell is more
important than low prices.
Salesmanship is a triumph of
personality, Personality Is built by
discipline of minds and body. It
does not come easy but it may pay
great dividends. It has been said
that personality is a gift. It is true
that some people have a better
start in that respect than others.
But it Is within the reach of all
who are willing to pay the price
of good habits and hard work.
SAFE HUNTING
This country Is far from a wild
erness and the hunting is not so
good as It was in the days of Dan
iel Boone, but there is still enough
of It to make the safety of sports-
High Pressure Pete
2s m,
ir Tina. tb. voo povs lb 60 To
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WHO
W1LU
ji The Mysterious Stranger - -
ll&LD HIM I DEMANDED
THE APPOINTMENT" BUT
he.pi dn't s Ay
I ,YES,OR. NO
- ASKED HIM TO Ei
UP TH BOVS AM l
DIDNW WANT"ANVTHlNq
fOR MYSELp
HE didn't"
OPEN UP
I PICKED A
.CABINET" TZ SAva
)WM THE -TROUBLE-AND
HE OUST" SAT
AND LISTENED
Who's Who &
ADVANCEMENT OF FOREIGN
AIR MAIL CONNECTIONS
PREDICTED
WHO'S HO and why not Edit p
Br HAXXT S. JTEW,
riNMitu Gtoaanl
(Harry Stewart New wn born at In
dianapolia, lad.. Dae. 81, 1858. Ha wit
educated ia tfca public cchools of that
ritjr aad Batler vnlrertitj. He was on
the editorial .staff of the Indianapolis
Journal for 25 rears, finally becoming
publisher in 1903. Later ha became presi
dent of the Bedford Stone aad Construc
tion company. From 189S to 1900 he
tarred a a member of the Indiana State
senate. For 12 yean he wa a member of
the Republican national committee, actiof
at chairman ia 1907 aa 1908. He s erred
ona term aa United States senator and
was named postmaster general in 1933.
Ho ia a veteran of the Spanish-American
war and his home is in Indianapolis.)
Great progress should be made
this year in connecting the air
mail service of the United States
with foreign countries, particu
larly the na.
tions of Central
and South Am
erica. As the year
' -wW j 1928 was :on.
i?t picuous. go far
as the post of
fice department
is concerned, in
the widespread
development of
the air mail
service in the
United States,
so will 19 2 9
'Harry & Mew stand out. in
my opinion, as a year marked by
great strides in connecting our
men a matter of concern. Seta
Gordon, conservation director of
the Isaak Walton league, has com
piled some suggestions for hunt
ers that both beginners and veter
ans will note with Interest:
a unman me is worth more
than all the game In s America
see clearly before shooting. v
Carelessness with firearms is
criminal play safe and' arold ac
cidents.
Helpful recreation and the thrill
of the chase are a true sports
man's prime objectives always.
Observation of the law and
eradication of the game hog are
resopnsibilities no sportsman can
evade.
A few fools with matches ; kill
more game than many shotguns
prevent fires. ,
Only vandals destroy farmers'
fences, injure their stock or dis
regard their wishes.
Real sportsmen never try their
skill about farmyards, pastures
and on trespass signs. -
Saving ample seed stock, and
feeding it during the wintertime
will perpetuate the sport.
A clear conscience at the end of
the trip and an invitation to come
again beats a full bag.
Niamey
MwnO
faaxota
nooN
WELL
MAVBE. HE.
KMOWS
WHAT
he's
DOlNi
Timely Views
own efficient air service with for.
elgn countriesprincipally in South
and Central America.
Already we have in daily oper
ation, a line connecting New York
with our northern neighbor, Can
ada, at Montreal, and the pros
pects are favorable for a material
extension of the Canadian service
to a number of important cities in
that country.
Three foreign routes were sche
duled to begin within the first two
weeks of the new year, two of
which mark the beginning of
what will ultimately become
web of the air, tying up in a close
skein of communication the two
continents of the western hemis
phere.
Emanating from Miami, Fla.,
where direct connection is made
with the domestic air mail system.
the three routes go, one to Nas
sau, in the Bahamas, one to Por.
to Rico, and the third to the Pan.
ama Canal zone.
Of perhaps equal importance In
the prospective development of
American foreign trade, not only
with South and Central America,
but with other foreign countries,
has been the awarding of ocean
mail contracts under the Jones
White act for the development of
the American merchant marine
As a result of contracts already
awarded, 26 new vessels are to be
constructed within a three-year
period. ,
Old Oregon's
Yesterdays
Town Talks from The States,
man Our Fathers Read
Jan, 19. 1004
Mr. and Mft. M. P. Baldwin
went to Independence by steamer
last evening for a short visit with
relatives.
The college T. M. C. A. is con
sidering erection of a 110,000
building on the campus at Cor
vallis. Of the 42 cases on the docket
for the January term of the cir
cuit court, 19 are divorce actions.
Five car loads of Oregon prunes
will be sent to the St. Louis expo
sition, it was announced in Sa
lem. '
State Organizer George K. Rod
gers will be present at an open
meeting of the Woodmen of the
World-in their hall in the Holman
block next Friday night. Gover
nor Chamberlain and Supreme
Justice Bean will also be present.
wearier crH 1 -
WHO TH HCO,
W5 IT?-
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; 1 a 7 ? ? ' 7 7 ?
The Grab
! Bag
t
January It. 1921
if
Who am I? What federal post
lo I hold? Which state did I rep
resent inCongress before accept
ing my present position?
What Italian educator enjoyed
considerable popularity in the
United States some years ago
through her work with small chil
dren, both normal and defective?
What is the home, of Thomas
Jefferson, In Virginia called?
What very large diamond weigh
ing over 100 carats is part of the
British crown Jewels?
"Where there is no vision the
people perish." Where is this pas
sage found In the Bible?
Today In the Past f
On this day, in 1807, Robert E.
Lee was born.
Today's Horoscope
Persons born on this day are
poetic and artistic. Unbeknown to
themselves, they do a great deal
of good to others.
A Daily Thought
"Things perfected by nature are
better than those finished by art."
Cicero.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Ogden L. Mills; under secre
tary of the treasury; New York.
2. Maria Montessori.
3. Monticello.
4. The Kohinoor.
5. Proverbs, xxix, 18.
DINNER
STORIES
WILLIE, UK GOOD!
A peaceful family once took a
trip abroad. They found eating
very difficult after the third day
at sea all except little Willie,
who delighted in tormenting his
seasick mother. Finally his moth
er spoke up: "Father, I wi-wi-ish
you'd speak to Willie."
Father stirred feebly, gulped a
:ouple of times, hung his head,
ind said. "Howdy, Willie."
WORDS OP
THE WISE
oo&ervrf, tne best of novelties
palls when it becomes town talk."
Schiller.
e :
"Nothing is stronger than hab
it." Ovid.
"A sound mind in a sound body
Is a thing to be prayed for."
Juvenal. Poems
tlliat Live
WHY f LOVE HER
fTlS not her birth, hei friends,
X not yet her treasure,
Nor do I covet her for sensuaP
pleasure,
Not for that 'old morality
Do I love her. 'cause she loves me.
Sure he that loves his lady cause
she's fair,
Delights his eye, so loves himself,
not ner.
Something there is moves me to
love, and I
Do know I love, but know not
how, nor why.
Alexander Ejrome (lC20-ie4)
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II B9WSMBV Mtltl NV1 If W KC Sf M B
Not of Same Mind
By CHARLES T. STEWART
Washington Correspondent for,
central Press and The Statesman
wwrASHlNflTON. Jan. 18.
f Among other things which
ntIoned aa having brought
TTrhrt Hoover home In a hurry
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IS a uenire uu
the president
elect's part to
consult his pre.
decessor - to-be
concerning the
overlapping pol
icies of their
two admlnlstra.
ticms.
It sounds Tery
friendly to
hear the politi
cal press agents
tell it. i
It would sound
more conTinc
the indications
HERBERT
HOOVER
tne. however. If
were not so strong' that Mr. Hoo
ver's policies are going to be en
tirely different from, Mr. Cool-
idge's policies.
e e
If Mr. Hoover intends to start
right in, beginning directly aner
h!a inauguration, with a bran-new
aet of nolicles. what does he care
about Mr. Coolidge's old ones?
For that matter, who Knows
that Mr. Coolidge would unbosom
himself to Mr. Hoover, anyway?
Mayhap Mr. Coolidge has
thoughts in the back of his head
which he would Just as soon Mr.
Hoover did not discover. If ao,
U nnhodv better qualified
to keep his thoughts to himself
than CalTln Coolidge.
nnrl he asked for it. the late
Colonel Roosevelt unquestionably
could have had a renominatlon at
the end of his only full term as
president. So could uaivin caoi-
ldge at the ena oi n owj iu
term. .
They both declined the nonor;
rnlonfti Roosevelt declined: Im
mediately following his election In
1904 declined, perhaps, a little
to impetuously and subsequently
wished he hadn'U but couldn't get
out of it. Mr. Coolidge aecuneo in
' s
Bits for Breakfast
'By R. J.
Talking of corn
The Slogan pages tomorrow.
There are some brand new Ideas.
Hav.e you any? If so, speak up to
day. m S
A friend agrees with ths Port
land preacher who said in his ser
mon last Sunday that the worst
thing that could happen to any
man was to begin to pity himself.
He says this is a great world if
you take it standing up; but wnen
taken in a recumbent position it
has nothing to recommend it; that
if the Almighty had wanted a
world in which everything was
pleasant, where there were no
hardships to overcome and no
temptations to resist, he would
have made that kind of a world.
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But the fact that things turn
out Just the opposite, and a fellow
has to fight all kinds of cussed
ness and disappointment and has
to work like the now extirfct dray
horse to keep in the swim at all,
proves that the Almighty intended
things to be that way.
A man named Job wrote the
first book In ' the world, and he
THE
ONE MINUTE
PULPIT
And when the people complain
ed, it displeased the Lord: and!
the Lord heard it; and his anger
was kindled; and the fire of the
Lord burnt among them, and con
sumed them that were in the ut
termost parts of the camp. Num
bers, xl, 1.
Guests Many at
Aspinwpll Home
BROOKS; Ore., Jan. 18. (Spe
cial) Mr. and Mrs. Rex Jones
and daughter, Lois Jean of Prin
gle were recent guests at the home
of Mrs. Jones' parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Clark Aspinwail. Guests at
the Aspinwail home Tuesday eve
ning were Mr. and Mrs. John Dun
lavy and daughter Mario Dunlavy,
ana son jonn Duniavr. Jr.. Mr.
and 'Mrs. Donald - Hammock and
son Robert Hammock ! of Sonth
Bottom. The Misses Beulah and
Lela Aspinwail accompanied their
sister, Mrs. Hammock, I home for
a few days visit.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dunlaw and
Mrs. Dunlavy's mother. Mra. c. n
Nayior, were guests on Wednes
day at the home of Mrs. Naylor's
niece, Mr. ana Mrs. Elmer . Keene
of Gervais. f r
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xwft Guy
cold blood, but maybe figured on
being drafted and they didn't
draft him.
At all events, on his retirement
in 1909, Colonel Roosevelt cer.
tainly was counting on the O. O.
P. nomination in 1912.
Is Mr. Coolidge counting on the
O. 0. P. nomination in 1932?
The Roosevelt-Coolidge parallel
is rbo striking not to suggest this
question.
It is a question Mr. Hoover
might hare asked himself. If he
Is human.
If Mr. Coolidge really cherish
es any 1932 ambitions, he is not
at all likely to confide In Mr.
Hoover. Mr. Hoover, assuredly
suspecting that Mr. Coolidge does
cherish them. Is equally unlikely
tn ..nait lha lattAP tn confide in
vv w - -
him.
Congress Is under no impres
sion that Mr. Hoover Is due to be
Rubatantiallv the same kind of
president as Mr. Coolidge.
Plenty of legislative business la
being held up, for the simple rea
son that the lawmakers who faror
certain things which they believe
Mr. Coolidge would veto are de
pending on Mr. Hoover to approve
them.
Waterways! for Instance.
Everybody knows that Mr. Cool
idge, the economical, frowns on
any large-scale program. The
scheme awaits Mr. Hoover, the
engineer, who Is supposed to be
lieve that the money even a lot
of It would be well Invested.
H. L. Menckeq gives It as his
opinion that Mr. Hoover is only
"a fat Mr. Coolidge."
. Not so the, politicians.
They think they discern a mul
titude of differences between Pres
ident Coolidge and President-elect
Hoover pesiaes aroiroupuu.
tTrae it was widely proclaimed
a few weeks ago that Mr. Hoover's
chief aim would be to carry on
Mr. Coolidge's policies as faith
fully as possible. That was merely
one of those euphonious things
we always hear during campaign
time.
Hendricks
worked up a reputation by show
ing that man was born to trouble,
as the sparks fly upward, and he
didn't exaggerate in the least.
Everybody, gets It at least as
much if not a little more than any
boy else, and there is no time for
self pity. If we ara having a dick
ens of a time we are getting Just
what is coming to us.
The annual Burns meeting for
Salem will be held next Friday
evening at 6:30, at the Elks club.
There will be a banquet and a
program, and it goes without say
ing that it will be sumptuous and
brilliant. In full accord with those
gatherings of past years, when Sa
lem district Scotch minded people
have honored their beloved bard.
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It is supposed that it will be a
Dutch,-treat, according to Scotch
style. i ,
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William McGilchrist, Sr., who
has"just returned from his native
heath in Scotland, says the people
of the old country have becoma
bone dry, because the price of
whisky has gone up several hun
dred per cent. They make the
stuff yet, in large quantities, but
they sell It to less thrifty outsid
ers. It would be a good idea for
all patrons of bootleggers in th'i
country to join a Scotch clan.
Then there would be no need of a
fund for prohibition enforcement.
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Anita Loos, novelist, now happi
ly married, says she is tired t
death of writing and will do no
more of it. "Ive put my pen asidti
j Brmanentlyj" declared A n it a .
vVell, if she has been doing her
writing with a pen, nobody can
blame her. Exchange.
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About once in a quarter-century
a town gets its name on the front
page of the newspaper. Mukden..
Manchuria, is the scene of recent
conflicts that may embarrass the
new government. A trifle over 25
years ag othe town was the bat
tle ground for one of the decisive
engagements between the Russian
and Japanese forces, the latter
taking possession of the territory.
An Irishman was seated in a
train beside a pompous individual
who was accompanied by a dog.
Irishman. "What kind is it?"
"A cross between an Irishman
and an ape." was the answer.
"Sure, an' It's related to both
of us," the Irishman rejoined. "
mm
Americanism: Reading the list
of casualties; feeling disappointed
because none of them are acquain
tances. Jt'a a sad life and a hard one.
and by the time a man gets into
pretty good shape he's lost "
shape.
By Swan