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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1929)
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Stanton. 1 7 ' Salem Should Be In It PTtHERE was a dispatch from Rainier, Oregon, in yesterday X morning's Oregonian that ought to interest Salem ; Telling of the organization of a unit of the Future Farm ers of Oregon, made up of 17 students of agriculture in the union high school at Rainier, which unit is soon to receive Its charter as a member of the national organization. Future Farmers of America. 1 The reason Salem ought to be interested in this news is the fast that it refers to a movement that is nation wide, and also state wide, representing ideals for better farming methods and the solution of farm problems that have been pressing in the United States. There are now 29 high schools in Oregon in which there are classes in agriculture, the expenses being borne in part by federal funds under the Smith-Hughes law. In these 29 schools 1400 students studying agriculture are enrolled. . In the Woodburn high school there are 40 such students. New berg, McMinnville, Molalla and other valley schools maintain such classes. The aim is to turn out better farmers for the districts in which the schools are located And this is the important fact: In the high schools of . Oregon, 62 per cent of the students do not get beyond the grades taught there, i Oregon is primarily an agricultural state, and will always be. Agriculture is our big line. We need better farmers; improved farm methods and manage- ment. - As to Salem, this is the city above all others in this state . that is using and must use the greatest tonnage of raw prod , ucts for canneries and packing houses. Ours is the canning '.. and packing center, and it is the center of the nut growing industries, and most other industries on the land in western : Oregon. - j The farm of the future is to be a factory; a chemical - laboratory; a business concern. Big business and large co operative effort are entering into farming. These will need experts. It is up to Salem to turn out experts ; to give our high school students their start and their bent in this line; more especially the sons and daughters among them of our farm owners and managers. - That department need not be made top-heavy. But it should be established in our' high schools, without delay, along with the other departments now conducted under the. Smith-Hughes act. Where Snow is Appreciated QAYS a report from'; the Lehi, Utah, district: "During O these first few days of the new year we have had sev eral splendid snow storms." 1 1 To a resident of the Salem district, this statement needs an explanation, and it is furnished by what follows: "Not somuch snow has fallen in the valley but from all indica tions it has piled high in the mountains, and there is where we want it most for next season s water supply. The item is found in the "Sugar Cossette," published by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, cosette meaning a slice of a . beet in the process of manufacturing into sugar. The paper. is published for the purpose of keeping the growers and the other people connected with that far-flung organization in formed concerning the operations in which they are all mu tually and more or less cooperatively engaged. ! No beets, no sugar. No beets grown at a profit, little supply, for the factories. - No snow, no irrigation water. And in nearly all the sections in this country in which beet sugar is manufactured irrigation is the prime necessity for keeping the raw supply coming-in sufficient volume to allow all the operations to function and keep on going from year to year. So snow storms are splendid. Here in the Willamette Talley, where we are illy prepared for them, we do not view snow storms in the respect of blessings that we are willing to call splendid But we will come to this condition in due time especial ly for the fleecy substance "piled nigh in the mountains." . With all the jibes we have endured because of our myth ical web feet and the hypothetical moss on our backs, we are coming to the era of irrigation. And it will be our great era. .It will make for absolute crop insurance. It will give us beet sugar factories. It will double our strawberry and bush fruit production in most seasons. It will make this the great est' dairying country in the world. Then we will call snow piled high in the mountains blessed. v ; . 4 Salem Has a Duty : CJAIrEM has a duty to the Y. W. C. A., which should be O performed with a will, as a matter of course : Because that is the only agency in the city which does or can function in its many ways of saving of and helpf ukfess to girls and. women here. It is already doing a large work, and one the lack or lagging of which would be a blot on the venr name of the capital city. ' .It will not be lonir till the institution will presumably have to look for new quarters, the building the second story of which it now occupies having been sold, with possession to - be given at a future date And any way a larger service ought to be rendered than can be accommodated in the present cramped space. So the people of Salem must take Into consideration a permanent Y. W. C. A. building, and this should not be delayed ) It should have preference right now. A building fund should be started,, looking to the acquiring of a suitable site, and the erection thereon of a commodious structure especial ly designed for the class of work performed and that ought to be carried on In a larger way. Why not now during the campaign The campaign for the $7500 budget that Is to be made next week, beginning on Monday 7 r -t A Worthy "Industry CJALEM in Its worthy desire for new industries must not Ll overlook those within its doors. Willamette university,, whije an institution of higher learning, is as much an industrial advantage as any mm or factory Each year it brings to Salem or retains within the city, " more than 500 alert young men and women whose aggregate expenditures run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. t Kuril vear the university itself expends a budget of more than $175,000 which goes largely for salaries and other ex- penses aisinouiea m otueui. - - . At present Willamette is asking for $300,000 for with this sum art additional $147,000 may be secured, from the General Education board. . - - Industrially minded Salem citizens as well as those whose interests are in things academic and cultural, will concur in the value of this request. Viewed from any stand point, Willamette is one of Salem's- great assets and should and will receive hearty support locally. ; , r Dr. Thomas Jenkins of McMinnville, whose life has been spent in the Episcopal church "ministry, has been elevated to the bishopry of his church. Elaborate ceremonies marked his consecration in Trinity church, Portland. People- who know Dr. Jenkins are impressed by his devotion to his work and are sincerely happy in this marked advancement. - 1 . , . : It is to be hoped that the Oregon. legislature may not get into a state of "passing the buck, '' and thus leave the tate budget hopelessly in the red for a lonj time, Borah-Hoover Clash? Who am I? What position did my father hold dorlng the early days of the World warTJn what field hare I made a place, for my self? Who were the Parcae? Of what itate is Salem the capital? .. What popular song did George M. Cohen write that enjoyed a tre mendous rogue during the World war "Do all things without murmur. ings and dtaputings." Where is this passage found in the Bible? Today In the Vast James Q. Blaine, American statesman was born on this day, In 1830. Today's Horoscope Persons born on this day are likely to demand cold facts before they will beliere anything. They are prone to be skeptical and opinionated. A Dally Thought "A cheerful look makes a dish a feast." Herbert. FLYING AOCIDEN18 Let us not get the idea because we read of airplane accidents that amazing progress is not made In safe flying. As a matter of fact. flying Is becoming; increasingly safe. The reason, of course, that our attention Is caned to a nam ber of accidents la that .the use of the airplane: Is Increasing at a tremendous rata. ; Thousands of people are now flying, aa a mat ter of course when but a few years ago the flyers could hardly be numbered In i hundreds, i -In proportion to the number of ma chines in the air, the mishaps are far less frequent ittian rormerly. The trareler ; by plane U probably as safe today as In almost any oth er common form of travel. OPENIXQ OUR EYES A Polish Inventor by the name of Matska was consuming a bowl of souro tomato soup. He no ticed that every time he touched his teeth with his spoon he got an electric shock. Ho walked back to bis laboratory, and reflected. Few people reflect, j Matska did He experimented :wlth types ! of foods. He found ' what kind ! of food, containing 'veld, in contact with a silver spoon and his gold filled teeth, set up electric shocks. Now comes a discovery that does for sweet grape Juice what pas teurlzatlon did for French wfne long ago and for the; world's milk supply. The pasteurization meth od kills bacteria by. alternate heat ing and cooling. The new Inven tion by Matska, kills by electricity. Most of. us receiving new Im pressions, forget them. We turn over and go to sleep. Now and then a man, receiving a new im pression, walks around the block and, reflects.; These do the crea live work of the world. THE MEDIEVAL MIND Occasionally the spotlight rests for a moment on a man who has never pulled both feet out of sav agery He suffers from perpetual (mmaturity. ! Much j worse .than that, it is the immaturity of the middle ages. : Comes bow a man who has actually been elected to the legislature of the good state cf Nebraska. He proposes a law to destroy the freedom of the press. He is seised, with the amaz ing idea that he knows better what is good for a republic than lid George Washington, Benjamin Franklin. John Adams, and Alex ander Hamilton, to say nothing if Lincoln and Roosevelt. These. men knew the immeasurable vai- It OOSBV 1 MTLXJT UndrerUry mt ts XT. 8. Traumry (Ofdso Llvingitea Mill vat bora at Newport, R. I., Aug. It, 1884. Ha vat (Taduataxt from Harvard a4 admUtad. to tha bar la 1908 and atnoa than kaa prac ticed la Hrw York Crty. Ha wi da feat e. for election te eaagreea ia 1911 aad aerved aa a member ot tha ttate tanata frost 1914 to 1918. ServUif with tha American Expeditionary Faroes In Franca during tha war, ha waa eommia ioned a captain ia tha army. Ha vai elected "la 1931, aerved alx years, aad then realgned' to aeoept tha office of andarseeretarr of tha treaaary. His borne i in New York City.) THE department of the treas ury is hopeful that the re cent discussion of the gen eral question of tax refunds may result in a definite statement of poller on the ,5 rWV A I larger Hon. of wheth tax shall con tinue to be handled by the executl v e branch o f the government or shall be placed sompletely un der the con trol of the Judiciary. It is neither m 7 purpose nor desire to promote or encourage' the more active interest of lawyers as class in income tax matters. Quite the contrary, rom my stand point, lawyers who like litiga tion those representing the gov ernment as well as those repre senting taxpayers have had al together too much to do with the Income tax, from the very outset. wnat was fundamentally an ad mlnlstratlve problem developed almost at once into an unlimited and Interminable series of legal battles. The substitution of ad ministration for litigation is the essence of our present Income tax problem. If litigation is to be avoided, if tax cases are to be settled with promptness and certainty, the ul iimate responsibility must de finitely rest on the Bureau of In ternej Revenue. . Its employes must recognize that responsibility and be willing to assume it, and they must receive the whole hearted support and encourage ment of those at the top. There need be no fear of laxity careless ness or failure to protect the in terests of the government. We are proceeding .cautiously, slow ly, and with adequate checks and review in all cases. The bureau is at least as well equipped as the courts to reach sound deter minations. - I do not want to convey the impression that what we are un dertaking is something revolu- tlrtTMrw Wfl i nstt enmnrn. cues- imosing determined or admitted taxpayers. Answers to Foregoing Questions 1. Margot. Countess of Oxford and Asqulth. t. The Fates. Oregon. "Over There." PhiUpplan ii. 14. S. 4. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States, man Oar Fathers Read They saw to it the earlier ones that freedom of athe press was guaranteed in the constitution. No thinking man has tried to take out. as to what, the unthink ing do or try to do -one never can tell. The idea, of censorship of the press on the part of state or fed eral government is ono of the things we mean whe we talk about a "throwback to barbar- ue of a free and uncensored press, ism," Jan. 81. 1004 The Willamette University girls were forced to throw up the bas ketball game with Monmouth on account of roughness. Score waa 17 to 3. The first leap event to take place in Salem so far this year occurred at Willamette when the Philodorlans entertained In honor of the Phllodoslans. The Oratdrlo society is prepar. ing the dramatic composition, "Miriam's Song of Triumph," J. C. Atwood an dD. W. Fisher have purchased the grocery from Branson and Ragan and will take charge immediately. The city of Salem should con struct a new armory for Company M, believes Adjutant General W. E. Finzer, who was an official vis itor to the capitol and city. THE ONE MINUTE PULPIT The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. The wicked walk on every saie. when the vilest men are exalted. Psalm xii, 8-8. , 0 i DINNER STORIES Too Familiar "Hey. mister, who discovered America?" "Ohio, sir." "Ohio, you're crasy. It was Co lumbus." "Yes, sir, I know. But I didn't think it necessary to mention the gentleman's first nam." By CIUUU3S P. STEWART -Washington Correspondent for Oentral Press and The States-nan ASHlNGTON, Jan. William E. Borah appears to be a senator who created an imaginary president la his own Herbert Hoover to the Job of coming up to every last one of his own vi sionary speci fications, I rand means to raise the dickens with him I if he Fall- ahnrt fit them In j the I ieast partlcu lax. - V. . I Politicians I -W-j ire inclined to wonder if Mr. Hoover can do it. They even wonder If he will wish to. Washington's impression la that Mri Hoover has a few pres idential Ideas of his own, which may differ considerably from Sen ator Borah's. How long will it be before the president-to-be and the Idaho sen ator go to the mat over some of tnese divergences or opinion r It would not be hard to get bets on tnis ; question, irom sporty members of congress.' ! Senator Borah assumed the functions of congressional leader for the Hoover administration without waiting for the Hoover administration to come into exist ence. In fact, he did not even wait for Mr. Hoovef to be elected. He was already making Hoover pledges while the campaign was still pending. Some of them, it has since appeared, were perhaps rather embarrassing to Mr. Hoover. They were not very easy to re- may be different now, with the rumpus over and everything set tled. V . The truth Is that Senator Borah as a political friend, is a nui sance. . Hts Judgment is mighty good 'insofar as concerns his own (Sen ator; Borah's) Interests. What's good for him, however, is not al ways, so good for others. If. the Idaho solon has a fault, as a political standby, it lies in the fact that he doesn't care a hoot for the welfare of anybody but William E. Borah. f The Hoover administration will be a tremendous success, rom Bill's standpoint, If it's run for the benefit of Bill Borah. If not, as he sees it. It will be a terrible fizzle. Can President (to be) Hoover be blamed If he has a fancy for running his administration as seems best to him, rather than as seems best to Senator Borah? If-he runs it to suit Bill, BUI will take all the credit for it any-; way. It he runs it otherwise. Bill will yowl, but who cares? If the re sults are satisfactory not to Bill, of course but to the rest of the country. I Senator Borah's strategy has been pretty slick heretofore. He has been half conservative. half liberal. The conservatives have all the time been trying to win him. Like wise the progressives. Now he's out and out a con servative. Instead of being glad of It, conservatives who have been conservative all the while are jealous of him. On the other side, the progressives have given up all hope ot him. Bill would like to be a group unto himself. Yet he has only one vote. The balance of him is purely conver sational, xne senate produces a pudlate while the fight was on, I and votes hung in the balance. It I surplus of conversation already, 11 ; . Bits, ff on Breakfast By R. J. Hendricks ' Yes, hut's Marion county, the largest con tributor to state highway funds. outsiae of .Multnomah county ranks 27th on the list of highway tuna beneficiaries in the way fo paved roads built within her bor ders with state highway money And it may be said also, that Marlon county has done more than all the other counties ot the state combined, outside of Multnomah. in providing tor herself paved market roads. S But few people in Marlon coun ty -regret this. Most of us are proud ot It.. What helps any part of Oregon helps Salem, directly or indirectly. Salem is the capital or the state. But there is one piece of state Just Among Us Girls : 111 M VkAV 1 .VII lm sorry miss. you'rt a Strang' xp nnd and 1 , canb cash ths ChCr That allnohb. my jjirt Pnnd ttroducL us and federal-state highway that the people of Marion county have a right to ask to have considered soon. That Is the proposed high, way over the Cascades through the Minto pass, that will connect the great central Oregon empire with the central Willamette valley by a road that will be open the year through; one that will be relative ly cheap to build and maintain, and that will be a great time sav er. But all of central Oregon is as much interested as Is Marion coun ty In this proposed new artery of commerce and travel, If there s no other way to pro vide the 120,000 needed for ade quate fire protection for the raw supplies of the state flax plant, why not take advantage of the state office building precedent? The loan could be protected, for it could in two years be paid from savings, in the lowered rates of Insurance; or at the most three years, with Interest on the amount used. ! That would surely be good busi ness. It would make much safer the raw supplies for our linen mills, which is a consideration for the whole state, for the flax and linen industries are an asset vai. able to all the people of Oregon. The Salem Ad clnb Is entering upon a career of greater activities. Among other things, It Is publish ing the "Salem Ad Club Weekly Gadgett." a paper devoted to the development of a better advertis ing spirit, and intended to direct advertising expenditures Into re liable and revenue producing channels. and to offer protection against fakes and boycotting pro positions. Salem needs more leg itimate advertising. The mer. chants here need more of this kind. Salem is entitled to the name of a good advertising town.- instead of a -poor one. hTe surest way to the attainment of such a reputation Is through more adver tising that will pay the men who spend their money for it. The Ad club can help in this, and thus be of real service to the whole city. The age of discretion. Alas! doesn't arrive until you have lost the taste, or capacity for indiscre tion. One law for the rich and one for the poor and none at all for the criminal class. S V Don't be too good to the kids. It's a shame to deny any child the occasional Joy of martyrdom. m "m None of the big Jobs are held by men who had rather lie and shiver than get up for an extra blanket. US This age isn't more wicked than1 age of our fathers. It just fails to pull down the shades. IV si Hi F High Pressure Pete SOH : . Kb aee of our fathers. It Just fails' I f mm I 1 , I I BySwau v v ar ' ' " - -r - -i-i, f" ! ..-..5 ::v .. ' , . -. ' i ; r - -v- - ,k.m'- ' --t' : - i u ' --- . II ;: - ,. -fv-v-".-- vv','"-f- -r,rs . r , -,.-.',' - - -, . I