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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1929)
Salem. Oreson Saturday January 28, 1029 , Casl C Brownlee Sheldon Fackett Publishers I diftoraal i i-.-t, ce do our best; if we do not minify trifling troubles; if ice look resolutely, I will not say at the bright tide of things, but at things as they really are; if we avail ourselves of Jhe manifold blessings which surround us, we can not but feel,hat life is indeed a glorious inheritance.- John Lubbock. Historic Wage Struggles AMERICA has always paid exorbitant wages to tradesmen and common laborers, according to people interested in keeping such wages at a low historic struggles in this field are interesting. Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts once complained that "scarcity of workers caused them to raise their wages to an excessive rate' Governor Dobbs of North Carolina at a much later per iod reaffirmed the complaint, saying that American wages were two to three times as high as in Europe, being any where from 2 to 5 shillings per day owing to extortion prac ticed by the laborers. A shilling is about the price of a gal lon of gasoline. ' The colonies being sure that they "could legislate pros perity and well being for every one, rich and poor," according to one historian, proceeded to regulate wages by law, and it was decreed that both payer and receiver should be pen alized if carpenters, thatchers and the like were paid more than 2 shillings' a day. That price being within the reach of all, the colony enacting the legislation should have pros pered All of which goes to show that there is an eternal strug gle between those who labor and the people for whom the work is performed And two hundred years have not obliterated the idea that the government can legislate prosperity, and the merry chase for that elusive state still continues And will likely go on till the break of day on the morn ing of the millennium. . Why Children Marry AN exchange reports that York wanted to find out got married and what became So they investigated and of them married because they men who were to become their husbands. More than half had known their husbands less than two months; some only ' a few days and others a few hours. Probably another stronK reason for the matches was that those girls either had no parents at all or parents that pnly a minority of the brides were of foreign birth, whictP prevents placing the blame for an undesirable situa tion where Americans are fond of placing the blame. Few of the marriages were "boy and were old enough to be the fathers of their brides, which again loads to embarrassment in fixing blame. If foreigners and young men can't be blamed for such a situation where can we look for a scapegoat? The period of marriage lasts about as long as the period of prior acquaintanceship anywhere from an hour or two to a few, weeks. One hundred years ago in the country as a whole, and 50 to 75 years ago in Ore gon, marriages of 16-year-old girls were more common pro portionately than now; the distinction being that they stayed married and settled down to the business of being housewives. That makes a lot of difference. Compulsory Insurance MANY eople have for two years been watching Massa chusetts, hoping that the great commonwealth would lead the way in solving the problem of automobile insurance for the protection of the public And those hopes are more or less shattered by the many evils that have befallen the state through the attempt to bring about compulsory insurance. From reports it would seem that the operation of the plan has destroyed the morale of the physicians, stultified the lawyers, corrupted the poli ticians and nearly put some insurance companies into bank ruptcy I In short, it is the same old story of thte government en tering the field of private business, requiring impossible con ditions of those engaged in a private matter, and meddling with regulations impossible to enforce. It was the sincere hope of many good people that the Massachusetts law would work; they now turn to the auto mobile associations to devise a better plan. Unemployment Dole J 141 VXliAkil lltVit kJi biiV ftXMtJ VVil puj kt Mil jdj employment dole, or pension, has a total of a million and a half out of work Contrasting sharply with been practically wiped out, and -laborers are busy, and where It is a matter of cause f rone to follow the lines of least resistance. When they find hey can live without work, the less ambitious of them are apt to remain idle. The dole in England tends to kill indus try and throttle initiative. That is dangerous to the future tate. Proposing Worse fTTHE Yakima Republic reports that State Senator-Charles A W. Hall of Clark county proposes to change the primary law of Washington so that two candidates receiving the larg est vote would go on the final ballot regardless of their par ty affiliations And that newspaper interposes objections, as follows: "Such a measure wookl do away with the last vestige of party nam. The primary election would be- merely a preliminary skirmish sail might result la the minority party having no representation whatever on the general ballot. . "Party activities have been thoroughly devitalised under exist. lag primary laws bat It Is doubtful an away aitvogetner wiui uraw orKanuoauoais wnira save iuibu m w fsl place in American political lite. No minority party could long withstand the effects of not even having a look-in on the finals and soon there would ba neither minority or majority parties bat merely individuals responsible to no party organization, answerable to the people through no Intermediary. The Inevitable result would be blocs organized either to promote the fortunes of Individuals or to put over some scheme for the Interests of the members of that par ticular bloc. V The primary system Is bad enough now and has led to worse evils than those It was expected to cure. The same would be true T the new plan It would result In greater weakness in the election machinery, would lend itself more thoroughly to unscrupulous ma nipulator and would Jose what little is left of the advantages of the nartv system. We doff our hat to this. Pallet wife Is on trial charged with 'assault Mr. WILmh. with a revolver several lingered along between life and death for weeks. They had separat ed. She was arrested and expected to do tried tor muraer. ine es tranged husband finally recovered and she is now on trial as stated. The ex-husband was a reluctant witness for the state and. as we think, lied like a gentleman. He declared that he had picked up a paperweight with which to hit his ex-wlfe and she shot. - lie swore ho thinks it was aa accident. His testimony will probably save her. but, he did the proper thing. He would have been a cad not to have lied about it. Corvallia Gasstts-Tiaies. ..i...',;; 'TJdti'ns that President-elect Hoover, arriving in Florida, inquires into the future prospects of Lthe 'repubiicanparty cf the south, a writer in an exchange opines that "any rea sonably well informed citizen, .who is careful to keep his mind free from undue partisan prejudice, can answer his in cairy, explaining that if the republican party will treat the couth as an integral part of tha United States,., .forgetting wholly that there was once an"nnpleasantness between these trrt mrt sections its future will be bright. 4 But if it con tinues to ally itself, in its local southern organizations, with carpet-baggers and negro politicians, the gains it made in -thaouth last November will bo lost at the next election level. Some comparisons with the Wotnen's City club of New why girls under 16 years of age of them afterward apparently found that most did not know much about the were worse than none. girl" affairs : most of the men Germany, where idleness has France and Italy, where most there is no dole. and effect. Human beings are for Bad Enough whether the people are willing toU0 show real devotion, and to give D. Wilson of New York whose with attempt to kill. -She shot months ago1 in his office, lie Three Senators Hop to By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington Correspondent for Ontral Press and the Statesman WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Senators Nye and Frazler if North Dakota and Brookhart of Iowa hare been toads In so 3m all a paddle heretofore that they looked large. Henceforward they are to min le with all the other tdads In the new company? How big will they look In this lew com pan? So far as they themselves are ?le with all the other toads in the concerned, they may never realise any difference. Others may see it, however. The senate, aa the whole coun try knows, has consisted in recent rears of an extensive republican -ond. a em a lie r democratic pond and two paddles, of republican and lemocratic -progressive- ioaas. Henrik Shiostead. farmer-Labor senator, has also had a paddle all his own. bat that's immaterial for purposes of the present argument. We may likewise dismiss from our ninds any consideration or tne 'effersonian pond and puddle in. ofar as they relate to this case. . Only the O. O. P. pond and its ollateral puddle especially the The Way of the World MAKING GOOn Now and then an old friend -erhaps somebody you knew in chool many years ago drops in 'o the office. You haven't seen im for years. How quickly you 'an tell whether he has "made rood" in the world. You don't discover It so much by anything" he tells you as by the man hlm--elf. In fact some who have come long way from making good talk the most. Perhaps they fool them selves. They don't fool others. If voang men Just coming out of school or just entering business for themselves could really see and understand what a poor fig ure a man who has not "made ?ood" cuts In the world, and how tine a figure a really useful, suc cessful, upstanding, outstanding, citizen presents to his friends and to his townsmen, they would be willing to make a great sacrifice. Inconvenient service in the effort to get somewhere and be some body. N'ODODT IS LOST It Is hard to be lost In the worla now. Go to the South Pole but the power of radio follows you. Com mandea Byrd speaks from far Ant arctic to hundreds of thousands High Pressure Pete S MmmtiTo ao traae. thc ire- WHeX USOV VXK.K CaV4 T5T Ht Ha& uT rcte&er rTTt i ww TerUt eiornje.- or- cuoe. - T- Also Qualifying 4s-a Hog ' m "T? aMawasaaaaaaaassssi assa mmmmmmmmmmmmmmfmmmmmmmmmma puddle are germane to the ques tion in hand. The paddle for the better part of the last four years, has been the recognized habitate of six sen atorial toads "Uncle George" Norris of Nebraska, "young Bob" LaFollette and John J. Blaine of Wisconsin and the trio mentioned Brookhart. Frailer and Nye. Other toads often squatted on he puddle's edge and occasionally hopped in nd out again. The sextet named really called that mudhole home. The o there? no. Uncle George Norris is a whale of a toad in any society. Young Bob and John J. Blaine are for midable toads, too no toads in the senate they cannot croak in competition with, and creditably. As for the remaining three there was room for differences of opin ion, i L True, they looked small along. side Uncle George. Young Bob and John J., bat that was recognized as hardly a fair comparison, the old Nebraskan and the two Wis. consinians being such unusually husky toads. The problem was: How would Nye, Frailer and through the newspapers. When Peary struggled toward the North Powj tne country waned ror a year or two years wondering what had become of him. Nobody waits long in this day to hear any thing or about anybody. It Is a watchful world. Competition is keen, and there are no rewards for the sleepers. ALIBIS There is no place in the young man's world for alibis. If you start and don't finish, don't ba afraid to start agaia. But don't waste your time or the time of anybody else in building up and delivering an elaborate explana tion of why you didn't finish. No body cares. The only Important fact is the fact that you failed. No matter how beautiful the alibi, it always leaves a bad Impression. FORGIVING ! It was Robert- Louis Stevenson who said that a man was a green hand at life who could not forgive any mortal thing. Perhaps some of us think it a weak and yielding to forgive. It is rather a sign of bigness and strength to forgive Most things do not matter any how. The unhappiest one of us alive is the one whose heart is toot hard to forgtve. Souls are shrivelled by hatred and the love of revenge and the spirit of getting even. The quality of f orgivenenss , lifts us above the beasts of the field. - ceo the. wihiw 5KC1K "BC UP VlX -fclCXCLE- ONUf K TO GO Jilt but fere, wont &oe. op t- vs is euue. f vjhich u t Caller Big Pond Brookhart stack ud against the main pond's average? Nobody ever could have an swered that question while the three remained In their original puddle; but in the last presiden tial campaign out they hopped and "regularized" themselves by supporting their party's regular nominee. This means they are eligible to the big pond. More, even if they want to re turn to the old puddle again later, it Is doubtful if Uncle George Young Bob and John J. will let them in. These three faithful toads are pretty gore. . As yet 'it is a trifle over-early to estimate Nye's, Frazier's and Brookhart's actual size. The regular toads in the big pond are welcoming them Just now, and they are jumping around mighty lively, considerably swell ed up and perhaps appearing larger than they really are. Pres ently they must begin to deflate, and then we can draw some more dependable conclusions. They took risks jumping into the big pond, anyway. Poems that Liv TREES J THINK I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.' A tree whose hungry mouth Is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me. Put only God can make a tree. Joyce KOtner (l$8t-191t) SV fwUMab VKTSLtt t v The Grab January 20, 1029 Who am I? To what position was I appointed during the latter part of 1917? When was I eligible for. retirement? What sculptor executed "The Thinker?" What is Rotten Row? What islands in the North Sea are famous for their ponies? "Wisdom is better than weap ons of war; but one sinner is de stroyeth much good." Where Is this passage found in the Bible? Today in the Past Michigan was admitted to Union in 1837. the Horoscope for Sunday Persons born on this day wor ry too much over trifles. They allow little things to make them miserable. The cares of others make them unhappy. It is good to be sympathetic, but they are prone to go to extremes in their sympathy. A Daily Thought "It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know." Syrus. Answers to Foregoing Questions 1. Brevet General Tasker H Bliss; chief of staff; in 1917. 2. AugUjste Rodin. 3. A fashionable bridle path in London. 5. Ecclesiastics ix, 18. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States. in Our Father Read Following an inspection made by engineers from Portland, there is possibility a modern electric light plant may be Installed in the old brick mill building near Mill street. Painters local Union elected the following officers for the new year: Frank Wlllman, reelected president; C. F. W. Brown, vice president; J. M. Rlngo, financial secretary; E. V. Rider, treasurer. President Wlllman, William Wlcke and Secretary Brown were chosen delegates to the central council. Fifty years ago Breexe Gibson and his brother George embedded a stone In an oak sapling on a farm in the Eola hills, agreeing to return 50 years later to see vrhai happened to the stone. They have just made the 50-year in spection, finding the tree a foot over the stone, and the mud around the stone turned to stone, too. WORDS OP THE WISE treryimng unknown is mag nified." Tacitus. "Light is the task when many share the toll." Horace. a What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the Kander. Gellius. Fortune truly helps those who are or good judgment." Eu ripides. To the man who himself v.v. . ...v.v.,.,.v.,.-.v.-m-.vW.'f.'.,.'.,.w, V. (I , -,- " '! r - - - - s- v" 5 strives earnestly, God also lendsJrbbery In the United States since a helping hand." Aeschylus. THE ONE MINUTE PULPIT Do good. O Lord, unto thos-s that be good.. and to them that are- upright in their hearts. As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers Ii IUI4UH, uai peace snail oe Up n Israel. Psalms, exxv, 4, 5. "" wr I X Who'o Who By ETHBX.BEXT iTSWAXX Fdrtl Statistician (EiBlbert Stwrt w bora at Cbi- Ill Anril 12. 18ST. H fll W emtmd iii the nnbllc and kich tchMla of IlliaU. H became affiliated with til Failed Statu htircatt of labor in 188T after ha Tim bn aditor f aavaral nawa- papcra. Ha Baa beaa (.auaa ciaiei . ... .1 .AAA V mutioner at u oot arauauca ainca mv.j I have urged the necessity xor a cenaus of the employed and un employed as a fundamental basis from which to begin the solution ui me yruvicaig iu m yy herehv nreaent. I , f". " ed. With a census o f unemploy ment, the bu reau could ap. ply the index of the; volume of unemployine n t and ascertain the' number of unemployed at any given time. With the in formation now ETHELBERT STKWART at hand, all the bureau of labor statistics can do is estimate shrinkages in employ ment in established industries. On January 1. 1929, 79,000 more people were employed in those established industries than on January 1, 1928, a reduction shrinkage of 4.2 per cent. An unemployed person, usually employed, at present out-of work and seeking a job. This definition, Mi Bits for Breakfast By R. J. More terrible tolls S From automobile accidents S And there would not be any if every one observed all the rules of the road and the caution of the careful driver. J. B. T. Tuthill. dead In Cal ifornia, was once one of the most prominent citizens of Salem. Old timers will note his passing with regret. V Among the distances shortened by the automobile is the one be tween the introduction and the altar. Galahad had his good points, but only our higher civilization could produce a drug clerk who says "Thank you" after selling a postage stamp. So lire that you won't care a rap if there isn't any aspirin in the house. . . Americanism: Trading in, at half price, a car as good as new. to get a shiny new one that will be a half-price used car next week. S As an emblem of prohibition. the camel is an unfortunate choice. He drinks great quantities be cause drinks are far apart. " S Brisbane says great elevation would cause us to swell perhaps to burst. You've noticed how a lit tle elevation can effect the head. - You can travel abroad without knowing other languages. Just learn the French, Italian and so on for the words: "How much in real money?" t And some people keep right on Police Use Clever Ruse To Nab "Ace" Pendleton EL PASO. Jan. 25. ( AP) A victim of a ruse played by two po lice officials, posing as prohibition agents. Asa O. (Ace) Pendleton, accused ringleader of a notorious band of bank ro"bbers. tonight fac ed the end of a long trail of al leged lawlessness. - More than 20 bank robberies and eight killings are attributed by police to the "Ace" and hio hand. Admitting his identity but denying he had ever robbed a bank, Pendleton tonight complac ently viewed his capture by the of fleers who took him into custory under the pretense of investigation as to whether he had violated the prohibition law and operated a "bunco" gatee. Innocence Protested "I've been accused of every bank I got out of jaiflast October. They can't hang that Lamar. Colo., Job on me because I was In Jail at Okeham, Okla., when it happened. I never pulled a bank job in my life, but I've been . accused of a dozen." x Hardly had Pendleton, a man of 31, made this statement when headquarters received a telegram saying he was wanted for murder and bank robbery at Purcell. Okla. Shortly after came another with the same charge from Pampa, Tex as. , v Police Recognize Suspect Pendleton's arrest was broaght WV&,. irnCONITCr- VEB. HltVrt-t 0 ' - 1 " cuts out the unemployable who present a sociological problem and and for whom Industry is not im mediately responsible at that time. That the question is local or for the states does not appeal to me. Unemployment Is a world problem. Avenue A iu New York City, one-half mile from Fifth avenue, is the most densely populated dis trict in the world. Including India and China, with 500.000 persons to the square mile. While the condition may pre. sent a problem for New York alone at least It is for the federal gov. ernment to provide the basic in formation from which to make a start. Consider the analogy be. tween the situation In New York City and a cancer on the Hp of a man if he leaves It for 'the Hp to take care of. While the cause for unemploy ment 'might be local, the absorp tion of that unemployment was na tional. Take the case of a copper company which increased produc tion of copper per man from 610 pounds to 2,005 pounds, hence re. ducing employment from over 800 to less than 200. At the same time the output was Increased from 9. 000,000 to 18,318,000 pounds per month. Who absorbed the men? Only a cenaus can aid us in de termining what has become of them. Hendricks' spending money for beef roasts when they haven't had a new dance record In six months. If he talks too much about the duty of the state.'you can't help wondering which of his relatives Is in the poorhouse. H S One reason why peace treaties aren't effective Is because crutch es don't last as long as monu ments. u s s A great man never seems so mortal as when he demands cor rection of an Interview that didn't say anything worth two whoops in the first place. It probably doesn't pleaso Mr. Hoover to hear that he was elect ed merely as a reproof of tin wicked. Correct this sentence: "My elec tric bill I3-C8 cents higher," said he. "And I know we didn't use any more Juice than usual." DINNER STORIES WELL. ISN'T IT? A new 5 and 10-cent store had been opened by a man naruei Cohen. A woman came in one day and selected a toy for which she handed the proprietor a dime. "Excuse, lady." said Cohen, "but these toys are 15 cents." "But I thought this was a 5 and 10-cent store," protested tba customer. "Well, I leave It to you." came the reply. "How much is it 5 and 10 cents?" about by Chief of Tollce L. T. Ti n. bey and Detective Sergeant J. W Fitzgerald who saw the resem blance to a photograph of IViiJK1 ton sent out in a police circular from Butte. Mont., where he ! wanted for a $1500 bank robbery. Pendleton. another man a:i l two women, were accosted t!i officers as they emerged from an alleged "speak-easy" laot r.!ght. Officers searched the party for H quor and then informed the four that they would have to go to po lice headquarters for further In vestigation. The women wer- released, but Pendleton and t he other man were held. Frank Powers, head of the iden tification bureau, announced thi afternoon that the fingerprints of Pendleton definitely established his Identity. Man Denies Everything I have never been In Montana In my life and I know nothing about the Purcell robbery." a11 Pendleton when questioned con cerning the charges against him from those places. Pendleton has twice before been arrested In Texas and once was released after being cleared of a charge of murder when no stat laid claim to him for any crime. About three weeks ago he was ar rested t Wink, near El Paso. an. 1 taken to El Dorado. Ark., to stan trial for the robbery of a Junctioi City. Ark. bank. By Swan INTh TJC OvtO. - v B V I v .1 - X