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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1929)
.-...', :.-(.-- : -i ' ; c" : . i f ' ' ''y. Earl C. Bsownlee Sheldon F.Sackett . ;' Publisher ' Salem. OrriOJj Satnrdsv Febrnary 2, 102O aftunires y n F i 4How Are The Mighty Fallen' TF a railroad earns ( per cent for its stockholders the gov ernment lets it alone; if it earns more it may have to dl " vide up with other roads which are not paying as much. If a public service corporation gets to earning a much higher rate the public demands reductions in its charges But little if any attention is paid to the risks of carry ' ing on the business or the possibility that some new inven tion or device may wipe out a part orvall of the invested capital. ; Street car bonds were gilt edged a few years ago; good enough for. the funds of widows and orphans. Then came the auto age, and no new car lines are being built ; many have I - been torn up, and those that are being operated have a hard i timeato pay expenses let alone dividends; The telegraph systems have been carefully built up and represent an enormous investment. The radio commission in a report shows that over a certain area wire communica tions require an investment of 13,000,000 and $300,000 an nual overhead charges, and that the same field can be cov -1 V 1 A 1 A A JtAMAAAA. MM erea Dy raoio wun a capital outlay oi sauu.uuu. ims is a warning of the perils of larsre investments in that field. No legislative protection can prevent the danger of loss when new inventions render any system obsolete. No amount of foresight or good management can guarantee investors against the dangers that lurk m the inquiring minds of thou sands of little known or unknowrrtinkerers with the powers or chemistry and electricity and what not ! And we live in a world of rapid changes. "How are the mighty fallen!" lamented David of old ; as his father heart was wrung with grief. The laws ol retribution and compensation and change rule now as thev did in the great days of Israel, and will to the end of the chapter. ; . j ; Shades of Noah Webster FTlHERE is a wail going up from the circles of the purists JL over the liberties being -taken with the English language , .that are chargeable to the "noble experiment" of prohibi tion The worst feature of the matter being the obviously true charge that some of the new vocabulary intrudes itself intc company in which it is not the least welcome, and in fact is decidedly de trop Referring to the word "bootleg" as an ubiquitous and Horrible example. If the word were confined to bootleg booze no philologist of the purist school would be perturbed, because everybody knows what that commodity Is. But not so. The word over flows into respectable society. A state treasurer in an of ficial report on the sales tax says "bootleg merchandise" is commonly sold where the tax is in effect. People who makt a practice of picking up weary pedestrians in their cars arc said to bootleg transportation. If a preacher is inclined tc borrow his ideas fully matured from thoughts of others, h is no longer plaigansm ; he is "bootlegging" his sermons. And the evil is not confined to our shores or even the sweep of English speaking nations. The dispatches from Paris on the new spring styles tell us that the leading dress makers of that gay capital "are hanging back on summer ' style shows in order to circumvent desiirn bootlep-jrers" ' Shades of Noah Webster! A current writer, evidently 1,112 memory of valor in sympathy with the purist brethren, thinks something I In a newpaper headline ought to be done about it. He wants the attention of the read" th4t tfie "memor7 of cp- society for the prevention of emasculated language called tc the situation. Another Big "Sugar Daddy" i m9mmmt i m ' V The Grab .Bag . -February 2, 10?9 1 """"" ,. ' N - Vc ''&&'?'& .-mot. The Way of the World one tain Scott spurs Byrd crew on ward." The valorous Scott and an courageous companions per ished at or near the South Pole after one of the bravest and most over Why Not in Salem? FT1HE Oregonian of yesterday had, as its leading editorial, venturesome expeditions in all the JL comment on Urease of a furniture manufacturing palTSe 55 piani uwi waa awui io ue uuumnueu imen by the straight nath of duty. Wheira representative of the industries department of I Today his memory spars onward . the Portland chamber of commerce stepped in and made aanother brave adventurer. Rich- loan ol H0000 to another plant with which to buy the one " . 7 . ay a tBna ms COTn" haf roo A-, imir-A 5 I panJon$ give ; up home and com- w J""-1-" I fort to arM tn h hWmo.l. nesuu, a staDinzea Dusiness ana an increase in number und vnnwied nf m.invtna wi Kiuyiuyvxs xruixi b wuu ox xv lO ai leasi aou. Fortunate for us that a few do That is just a sample of what Portland is wisely doincr.lthe deeds that others dream The Salem chamber of commerce undertook this thing on ajabo,rt- Effort is not in Tain. Ef amaller scale a year or so ago; but the" movement lagged.) 'ort "Tps on.freTer. The soul of There was a chance, among other things, to get a chicken rh Bn" , 6 m,,lu,U canning factory by extending a reasonable loan. It did not! go through, xsow both McMmnville and Hillsboro have such I faiicre op perfor3Lxce '"-i'u"to ' - iwmiaumg UUOU1C33, auu meir yruu-i The failure that comes from UCtS On sale at balem Stores I doing a thing poorly Is thouebt And together they employ, a good sized force the year I to less blameworthy than the tnrougn and furnish markets for thousands of chickens r"ure inai come rrom noz eTen raised by surrounding farmers. SrtlK 1 i- aanJth,ag- , Jhere CaU .VmIJ H. : 1 I J . uK o-icu uu uoicm duuuiu VAJMS uu 1.1113 UUUlCf iXiXlU, U1IUCT ttUSUlCUS InrartiraWv lrn.ii i hlo fr a man'e iL.i :u a i 5 . , .. -. .I"--- J v. mat win pui ii over ana Keep it active, wot cnantv. Wot not doin anvthin nut if - subsidy. But timely help, with little or no risk. That is the I once makes the start, there can Idea. W orked out here, it would help very much in keeping be rew reasons for his not making Salpm vnirr and trrnwinir i3 Rood a Job of It as he Is able. O-- " I vnn. m o -m-t, . J . I. - hnnoa An4 wnn avam baW n 4AW ringers VrOSSed, 1 numbs LOWIl 19 really no more to be criticized mHERE a anm wnnU in n artiVU hv o nritar in v tnan a boy Who ruehes out and I U Vx.ll I"--,-::" rir" ZLT Promise, all sort uuuiAc kimb mc vw nyvirviri u.v reicmiig 10 me con- of gilt-edged performance, and gratuiauons sent ana delivered to Bill Hohenzollern felicitat then through his own feeble be ing that royal at Doom on the attainment of his 70th hirth- makes a poor task of it day I The time has long since past If I a am The writer calling these messages In rjerson and rteliv. " ZTJZVZ a..ra".c a ei 1 1 1 i , . . icujwuoio 07 jui. StlUBI Dy. cicu muintrwayg denatured gooa Wisnes. m the vear 1929 comnetltlon l ITT 11 1 . ... - - I ' ' wen put. ii mere existence constitutes achievement. I too keen 41 ..... . l me ieucitations were worth sending or deliverine But in any other respect most of them were aDnronrfate. seriols ime.tio ly given or indited with crossed finsers. If not thumbs down. News dispatches have been tei- xsews aispatcnea nave been tell- A mrregnnnHfinr mr;nrn li I21- years old. senior at Miami verely the makers of the United States constitution for not whom t ,A k nJll making the language of that document so clear that it could h watch. Yonn?; Harper ha? not be misunderstood. Had thev made their meanino- clear calmlv announced that in 1938 Ue endless disputes-would have been avoided. Then th comJ111 b a candidate for governor rnrnxirviTiHanr vrnti fr 14- i-x 1 01 unio. me work. There rf C;KVV 11 i l, iT v " u f 1 1 n ought to be doxens of William meant by the first one, all of which shows that making one's Harpers in schools and univer meaning ciear oy tne use of language is not so simDle after sities all over this nation, when all. I more young men regard the field of politics, public life, as one of Tho rQ.rliQ otV,T-;f;a OM ,o;r, 1 111081 useiui ana inaportan! W""VA" men 1 careers that Aturiu nffra uves curtailing ine xjouitnooors wno are on one 01 tneir per- shall have leas indifference tf iodical rampages. The officers were put to rout by a band I public affairs, better government of 100 who danced unclad in the snow. Nothing would coolbetter citizens, a finer democracy. the ardor of those people so much as to let them keep right on dancing unclad in the snow. Ihe police opposition is probably the only tning mat Keeps tnem warm. . Who's Who & Timely Views wno am 1? Who is my witer With what theatrical organization am I identified What do we call the marmot of which people are talking today? What substance in the blood en ables it to readily take oxygen from the air and Just as readily give it up to the tissues? What was the former name of the House of Windsor, reigning house of Great Britain!? "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever bellev'eth on me hsould not abide in dark ness." Where is this passage found in the Bible? Today in the Past In 1.848, on this day. the treaty of peace between the United States and Mexico, ending the. Mexican war. was signed at Guad eloupe Hildalgo. Today's Horoscope Persons born on this day are very critical and showy; however, they have much ability to back up their pretensions. Europe Interested in Calendar Revision y Former President International Cham ber of Commerce (Willis H. Booth w born at Wln nemucca, Nev Feb. 15. 1874. He at tended the. Lnlverslty of California for four years. He was formerly treas urer of L. Booth A Sons, machinery manufacturers, and vlce-pr-siUnt of an electric heating company in Loa Ansrelea. He is now chairman of th board of the Edison electric Appli ance company and vice-nresident o: the Security Trust ft Savings bank LM Anseles. and the Guaranty Trust company of New York. An e-pres-ident of the Los Anseles Chamber of Commerce and Associated Chambers of Commerce of thexfaciflc coast, he was vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and president of the International Cham ber of Commerce. His office Is In New York City.) N international conference to consider calendar reform would awaken all the world to tne need for a sensible system "o f reckoning 1 lima on1 n-ilirht J "?ive rise to the IW 1 ' formulation of T better calen- ItL Ml lid.ar ytem than has yet been proposed. The Interna tional Chamber 3 f Commerce las requested the League of Nations to take action contem- plating calen- W.ILDOOTH dar reform and I happen to be a member of the League special committee of In- qulry on the reform of the calen dar. The present calendar is a make shift that was designed before commercial statistics were of im portance. All business now bases future activity on Its past history. In , England, France. Poland. Sweden, and Italy, Is manifested intense Interest in favor of an in ternational conference on calen dar simplification. I am assured of this in correspondence that I have carried on . with people In those countries. The calendar cannot be reform ed by bringing pressure to bear, but only through education. An international conference would bring- the necessity for a simpli fied calendar to the attention of the whole world. A better plan might be devised by having a conference. If you go to an international conference with a fixed plan, you engender an automatic opposition. Horoscope for Sunday Persons born on this day are generous and fond of animals. They make good sales persons. Mutiny Threatens G. 0. P. By CHAKLES STEWART Washington Correspondent for Central Prees and BUtesman "CTTASHINQTOrf. Feb. l.y-Mut WW te rings of mutiny emanate T from the fo'c'sT of the good ship 0. O. P. it looks muchlv at If Skipper elect Hoover will have a chance to trv his hand at duelling a bad outb r e a k mighty , soon after retlrlng Cap'n Coolldge goes overside, down the 'lad der, and j his successor takes the quarter deck to assume command, j Rumor nath it that the "old man-to-be"; has shipped a lot of aew hands and intends to give them all the choice berths, from first mate on down. Cap'n Herb will need to be a real bucko, to get away with It, If this proves true. 1 1 Sail Cap'n Coolldge himself was not very popular with his crew when he took the helm, In the emer gency of 1923. A good many of the most exper ienced - seadogs on board hoped the owners would retire him the next year, at their meeting in Cleveland, but the owners disap pointed them, kept Cap'n Cal on the job. and In the ensuing race with the Aunty Democracy (Cap'n Davis) he navigated the G. O. P. to glorious victory. Even then there was consider able discontent, marked by one tragedy, when Cap'n Cal tried to rorce a oos n of his own choosing -Bill Butler, an old Cape Cod shipmate of his on the senate watch. Somebody slipped a po litical knife between poor Bill's ribs and that was the end of Sen ator Butler. Howevef, Cap'n Coolidge grew in his men's favor as time passed, and toward the finish of the 1924-28 cruise a delegation of thedeck most influential among, them wept aft to urge him to sign on for another voyage. . The Cap'n thanked them bat said he didn't choose to. It woulcl bftve teen well for these faithful sailormen If they had flopped right then to Cap's expectant Hoover, who already was an applicant for Cap'n Cal's place, but they made the mistake of trying to get the owners, at Kansas City, to shanghai Cap'n Calvin. , As we all know. Cap'n-elect Hoover got the billet. Doubtless the ancient marines who had toiled so hard for Cap'n Cal were downcast, but they took it for granted Skipper-elect Hoo ver would bear no malice, , and tnrned loyally to the task of ket- , ting the O. O. P. shipshape for another speed test with the Aunty Democracy (Cap'n Al Smith). In their new commander-elect's in terest. That the O. O. P. won handily is a matter of history. Now the fo'c'sT veterans begin to suspect that Cap'n-elect Hoover plans to ladle out all the plum, duff and other maritime luxuries to the new hands, who not only helped him to beat the Aunty Democracy, but also plugged for him at Kansas City and earlier leaving nothing but salt horse and weevily biscuit for ; the old- timers. - Hence, Incipient mutiny. Both watches the senate and the house of representatives are in a turmoil. A strong hand and a stiff mar- lln-spike are needed in such situations. Mutineers never yet succeeded in making a rpesidential cap'n walk the plank, but they have played smash with some original ly prosperous-looking voyages. The historic example is that of the 1892-96 voyage of the Aunty Democracy, when hhis mutinous crew forced Cap'n Cleveland to barricade himself in his cabin and ran the good ship on the rocks In his absence from the quarter- Bits for BreaWast) By R. J. Hendricka ' U! A Daily Thought "The burnt child dreads the fire." Ben Jonson. Answers to Foregoing Questions 1. Alfred Lunt; Lynn Fon tanne; the Theater Guild. 2. Ground hog. 3. Haemogoblin. 4. House of Hanover. 5. St. John ill, 46. The only sane objection to the inferiority complex is that it does not affect the right people. There's another fine thing about science. You can put its deas over without eloquence. Hurrah for Willamette S V The $100,000 gift of the Eric Hau6er estate should help 1 n speeding up the finishing of the forward movement million dollar campaign. : s : While none of the Hauser mon ey can be used In that campaign it points the way to still greater things at old Willamette, and no thought ought to be entertained of losing the rest of the Rockefel ler money by failing to match it. -W "Him as has gets." New es tate pledges are being given to Willamette at an increasing rate. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The State. : man Our Fathers Read WORDS OF THE WISE "Fat j will find a way." Vir gil. "Few things are Impossible to diligence and skill." Samuel Johnson. "There is a sweet Joy which comes to us through sorrow ' Spurgeou. THE ONE MINUTE PULPIT Feb. 2, 1004 Sixty-eight applicants for mem bership were voted in at the meeting of the executive commit tee of the Salem Young Men's Re publican club. Willamette university day was observed at the First Methodist church. The Salem district as sumed $1200 a year for the uni versity. First church to raise $200. Thomas Roberts has arrived from Philadelphia to "be new in structor at the state school for the blind. Just Among Us Girls DINNER STORIES And he said unto me. Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. And the spirit entered into m when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard Mm that spake unto me. Ezekiel. ii. 1. 2. THK MODERN' IDEA "I wonder." said the old ladr at the dance, "what has becomr of-the old-fashioned girl who used to drop her eyes, raise her face and say: 'You must ask papa.' " "She has, a daughter," answer ed the girl, "who says, 'Shove her Into high, kid! The old man's gaining on us" 1'lt Is always a poor way ofl reading the hearts of others to try' ( to conceal our own. -Rousseau- Vmon vz, hteb mdb now you lassed my herd J ' These do not help the school for the present, but they point the way to great things.' And all such news should spur the friends of the institution now to supreme efforts. There is being organised a wom an's auxiliary of the Salem Gen eral hospital. This is not to be a part of the Salem women's club. It is intenrlpH t Include every woman In Salem, In order t may have a pi i m developing here a great Institution devoted to the benefit of the afflicted. S A little later, the women should and no doubt will admit a men's branch of their auxiliary. This is everybody's hospital. Ev erybody is a stockholder. It be longs to the whole community jThe nimble dime or Jingling dol lar snouid be as- welcome as the hundred dollar bill or the ten thousand dollar pledge, and it will be- The kick-off of the Y. W. C. A. $7500 budget campaign is Mon day; to last the week. It should have the right of way and be mado snappy. By the time the proposed new building of the telephone com pany on State street in Salem Is fully occupied and equipped it will represent an investment of around a million dollars. That will mean the making of a telephone center here it win mean constant additions tn tha force of employees. There will be some surprises alonar thl lino later that will make Salomon feel good. The new building will be ready for occupancy this fall; out au tne new Installations and improvements will not be finished till the latter part qf next year. There is a vast amount of work to oe aone in making everything ready. W The U. S. department of aerleul- ture tells the farmers to ro dnw on increasing production for the coming year. Raise a few but not many more chickens and n Increase beef production slightly uui reauce spring wheat. The de partment says that Karl Stelwer can raise a few more Iambs with out Hooding the market but that Ray K. Fukuda better not plant so many spuds. The country will nave all the fruit and hogs it can absorb so that specialists In those lines can ease up a bit without being accused of shirking their duty. Now that the farmers know Just what Is needed they can trim i their 'sails accordingly which 1 mighty few of Ihcm will do. High Pressure Pete The chronic kickers of the United States senate are slip-1 Diner. They inarched right up to the KeLlocrz pact vote and then wilted, only one lone vote holding out agiUnst ratif ica-( .tion. Then they vowed that they would take revenge on the! s y ifmSnlitvatinn l-lllJOf Mil Km raid Vioxr vo 1ialnw imil IWtt. .administration cruiser bill but now they are losinir ground and. will probably fall in line with the majority. Insurging is not what it once was. Exchange. rr is ! Sixty Illinois legislators face grand jury charged with being in pay of a Chicago sanitary district which is in the hole soma 1C0,0CCLC00. An exchange suggests, that "the thing to do b to hat? them tried before their own body, for the other tzarte-iocrua erthe regisiatcre which was not on the payroll will surely five the paid fourth all that's coming. 9m. mt i -m . - - , at was m ramc caacrrrnTTisxTsn. Consider'' the demands bahur made bv sfarmera at the tariff bearinin bef-vondncted bvMr. Hawler. it is hot hand to understand wlrr ir were co overwhelminr for the re! $n their business Utter than do the politicians-who try tc inen-rracii Gazette Times. . . Tv . Mwe.Kr AmtWrrmTV MtWft wcu. "PeTte. Mi. voeuew dot GET ft MCIAL OrA -THrVr By Swau HCV. OLE.1 OftVi M SOO rjAS Vpomm Ff.V.Ve HftS BMl H Tt5 COJKTf?Y 5cX MOKWS mmmm A r 1 -mW 7 Oaif I r. 1 1 rM m lain r w rvl rw mm -- w I r a HI AWmAm9T V I I II m, . Ik ammm. II Am M EBH. i m m ay i w s w vwa r.. a r a. - i m m m . i i II k I X. vt. I CTJ- II I' 11 f 1 f W. fA ill 1 uaA "fc- W m W -mmm I I I 11. m r m M U mW - m M ATm. -FV B ill " S I m. 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