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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1929)
Eael C. Brownlee Sheldon F. Sackett Publishers . . . , . . Edifcoipaal r0mm Feaftmures Sunday February l)i -J For a Great Hospital IT has long been the dream of the trustees that there would , some day be a substantial group of modern buildings erected upon the beautiful site of the Salem General hospital, supplementing the present main unit, which forms the nu cleus of what they hope will become a substantial health center "And says H. S. Gile of the board, who has labored long and faithfully in endeavors to make the dream come true, "we are therefore encouraged every time we read of the good fortune of other cities which through gifts and endowments made by their citizens are able to realize their hopes. Thei latest to come to our attention is that of our good friend, Mr Samuel Jackson, president of Tacoma General hospital, who! is rejoicing over a magnificent bequest recently made by Mr. W. R. Rust." Mr. Gile quotes the following news item: "The Tacoma General hospital realized one of its fond est dreams when through the benefaction of Mr. W. R. Rust, the sum of $800,000 was left as a permanent endowment for the children's hospital. The definite place in the hospital i world which the Tacoma General hospital has made for itself attracted the attention of Mr. Rust, and he left in his will almost one million dollars in trust which was to accumulate until the sum was sufficient to erect and maintain a chil dren's hospital department of the Tacoma General hospital. Mr. Rust was for the past 10 years a trustee of the hospital, and a close associate of Mr. Samuel Jackson, president of the hospital board. Mr. C. J. Cummings, -superintendent, is de veloping plans to make the Tacoma General hospital one ot the greatest medical centers in the northwest. Mr; Jackson and Mr. Cummings are well known to the trustees of the Salem General hospital. They have been guests of the board here and have by their advice been mos . helpful to the Salem institution. Mr. Gile points out some- immediate needs of the Salem General hospital. First, persons, firms or societies to furnish one four bed ward and five private rooms, which will competely equip the building. Second, a gift or crifts sufficient to build and equip a hos pital laundry unit (boiler already installed in main unit.) The amount reauired would be about $12,000. This would save the hospital a cash outlay each month of $400 to $500. .1 Third, a gift sufficient to installa more modern X-ray machine and such other equipment ak'fhe medical staff may require, with a trained technician in charge. This would add to the efficiency and make a substantial increase in earnings Fourth, an endowment. This should be built up to $100, 000 or more and could be made up by any smaller gifts, the income only to become available to pay the hospital for free service rendered, and as this fund grew an increasing num ber of cast scould be brought in by the staff members and cooperating physicians and surgeons who are constantly find ing cases which are srreatlv in need ot special attention, per haps immediate attention, and for which they are unable to pay. Such an endowment has already been begun with the Ladd & Bush Trust company as trustees. This would not only be the rendering of a tremendous community service in giving immediately the best hospital attention to persons unable to pay for it, and returning them as quickly as possi ble' to their places of activity, but it would at the same time greatly increase the hospital revenue by increasing its pay patronage, ; Dollars and Sense :i Discipline fUHE taking of human life is not a pleasant thing to think JL about. But there are circumstances under which the rules of decent society demand it ! And that was a clear case when the guard killed the pri soner attempting to escape at the Oregon state penitentiary Friday evening. iT The guard had taken an oath to perform his duty. Ht wa$ in charge of the post overlooking the place where recal citifant prisoners are necessarily kept. He carried a ifti. One of his first duties was to use the gun to prevent escape; and protect the lives of prisoners and free men and innocent persons outside of the prison. He warned the prisoner at tempting to escape, three times. Then he used his gun. The guard should be praised and commended for doing his duty. f Too bad the prisoner had to be killed. But he forfeited the right to live by his own acts. Discipline is the first law of prison management. The highest class general prison in the world, at Stillwater Minn., maintains discipline as strict as that of a soldiers' camp. That prison has the highest of all such institutions ir its record of reformations. Most men in prison are orderly. They are entitled to have their lives protected. This cannot be done without strict discipline. : The revolving fund law of the Oregon penitentiary was 'copied after that of the Minnesota penitentiary at Stillwater. The first requisite is discipline. The next is industry. There and here. In due course, the Oregon penitentiary wil be on a par with the one in Minnesota. It is headed in that direction. Penitentiary High Mark THE high mark in the history of the Oregon state peni tentiary was 718, on Friday. It was 716 at 5 o'clock last night. The reader knows what happened to one of the 718. Some others went out on parole and expiration of sentence. Some came In. This makes a crowded condition there. Some cots have been moved into the "chapel" back of the turnkey's-office the old chapel, that being the only space left where the men may be comfortable and under the eyes of the guards But even so, every inmate is at work. The penitentiary is an industrial institution now. It will be more so, if the present program is not Interfered with; and without more cost to the state On the contrary, with less cost, and finally absolute sell suDDort. That is what industry means and leads to. And it leads to reformation. There are a lot of things needed t ... J 11 A 1 1 1 il 1. njatier respect, anaseu support win oe me means oi wum ithpm nut. Thev cannot be worked out in anv other wav. -without wanton waste of the money of the taxpayers. Every prison ought to support itself. Every prisoner ought to support himself, with' enough over to pay him a small wage and provide all the overhead. The metric system means, in the United States, abstract problems in arithmetic for the small body, but if the metric association nas its way it wiu mean aauy use oy every wuy. The United States and Great Britain are about the only countries which have not adopted the new system, it a sys tenr nearly 130 years old can be called new. The two coun tries which have not fallen into line pride themselves on be ingprogressive and on leading the world in new methods, yet this system which Is admittedly superior to any other gets but little encouragement from these progressive coun tries. Well tomorrow is the last day for introducing bills into the Jegislature and everybody will heave a sigh of relief," says an up valley newspaper, adding: "No new schemes have been developed for supplanting the highway commission and letting the various legislators rob the highway fund at win, but as this is written on Thursday there is plenty of time yet."i . f J . ;;y ' : The state board of health has issued a statement to the effect that that the Salem water is free from germs. The statement was unnecessary. Salem water has such a vile taste that germs won't live in it. Corvallis Gazette-Times. I 1 KmmmmBmsmrm yfr The Grab February 3, 1029 Who am I? Who is my soa-in law? Of what company am 1 president? What is flat money? The Way of the World Passing the buck in a political way would just pass it to ihe future. Some day, we must pay. BILLION. DOLLAR AGE The Morgan Interests are said o be financing a gigantte merger jf power utilities which will bring ogether some two billion dollars n securities. There is apparent ly no limit to business comblna- ions, mergers, and chains in the present decode. In other days the government wj(j severe on big nergers. Today there is a jroader view. The test Is ser- Ice. Are th people served bet. ter, more cheaply, by huge con-. concerns and concentrated capi tal than by the old-time small in- iependents? In combinations somebody must suffer. So long as the greater number do better by the change, the few will have lo be sacrificed. COMMUNITY t RESTS One of the striking angles, of advantage in the co-operative ef forts of communities to raise at one time sufficient funds to fi nance their charities, is the ef fect on hundreds and thousands of citizens. They are not mere ly Bold into making a contribu- ioD in the simplest possible way. thereby saving themselves a lot of rouble and further expense, but they are sold anew the idea of hu man brotherhood and individual responsibility for human welfare. They are sold into bigger ideas. nto becoming bigger people. XPENSrVE MOMENTS Said the poet Byron: "A tboua- md years scarce serve to form a tate; an hour may lay it In the dust." In proportion it is the same with a life a reputation. A life time is scarcely time enough to form a character. A moment may undermine it. Montesquieu, wise Frenchman, said: "The deterioration of a gov ernment begins almost always by the decay of Its principles." So with the individual. When you hear someone say "it doesn't make any difference what a man believes, it all depends on what he does" when you hear a man say this, he had better take care else he has. started on the way Who's Who & Timely Views What is the name of the Flying Dutchman of legend? Senate Has Trouble , By CHARLES P. STEWART v-iiTirfrn norresDondent for Central Pmi and The Statesman WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 One of our leading- associations engagcu . . . . f . a v a . w a . n 1 1 ir m tne aisseniiu"" vi i-.-o on news takes great credit to u if fnr aurorerina- how the sen ate voted recently, in secret ses firmation of Presl dent Coolidg-e's appointment of Roy O. west to nis caDin-i, o c. otarv nt the Interior. Tush! Every newspaper man in he capital knwos. to the last de- ail, what happens at an me sea ita'i tAirct apflniona. H known rather more about the secret sessions than he does ibout the open ones, because ne makes it especially his business o.flnd out. occasionally a cor espondent is accidentally absent 'rom the press gallery daring an pen session and misses some hinir interAsttne. but he never leglects to investigate thoroughly vhen the door is kepi snut in nis ace. What preacher and reformer who attempted to combat corrup tion in Italy in the 15th centur was hanged by his enemies? "Whoso keepeth hi3 mouth anti his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles." Where is this pas passage found in tha Bible? Today in the Past The Philippine-American war began on this day m 1889. Today's Horoscope Persons born on this day are easy going and friendly. The. should not allow their friends tt impose upon them. A Daily Thought 'Human nature is fond of nov elty." Pliny the Elder. rurther Reclamation of Arid Lands Opposed Iiy LOUIS T. MrFAODKX Congressman From l'ennsylvuniti (Louis T. Mi'Kadden was' Imru lit iroy, fa.. July 187C. lit was .Mu bank at Canton. 1'a.. at the age of 16, gradually rose to the office of pres- lucnt, in 11B. lie was elected to con gress In ID 15 and has been re-elocted very term since, from the 15th dis trict. He is a Republican and his home is In Canton.) "iONGRESS, as matter of policy at an extra session, should de cline to authorize additional pro jects for the reclamation of arid - lands. There now . kJtU from sale of public lands and roy alties from government oil lands and other conrrps In a sum r--s -itul i. tV... II.. l - . ind ia'oS e.. 'Innlnle. $10.000,UOO per year, as an oific boy in the Kirst National which is all available for new construction. There are bills pending in, con gress involving expenditure of a sum greater than the cost of the Panama Canal to reclaim adition al millions of acres. While the In connection with any farm! policy of the department of agri- relief legislation considered ; culture Is to curtail production. the policy of the department of interior is to reclaim these new lands and increase production. The government has been unable to find settlers for not a few of are under the jits projects already constructed, direction of the and so costly has been the recla Bureau of Re-mation of these lands that settler. clamation, de- ceed cannot be had. 1 partment of in-1 Notwithstanding the govern terior, nearly j ment abandoning all interest 3,500,000 acresj charges and lengthening payment already p r o-. periods, there Is little hope that any of the projects will ever pay back to the government the mc. ey expended in constructing the reclamation works. Under ex isting conditions, the government should not contemplate expendi tures to reclaim the available areas under projects like Boulder Dam and Columbia River Basin, but should hold In reserve such vast resources for development in the future when actually needed duclng which last year were v a lu e d at $ 1 35,000,000. t o compete with the sur plus raised by by the Loas r. farmers not subsidized government. The revolving fund of the reclamation bureau now ex ceeds $160,000,000 and 13 beins constantly augmented by funds Answers to Foregoing Questions 1. Clarence Mackay; Irving Berlin; Postal Telegraph com pany. 2 Money which carries on its face no promise to pay. 3. Van Straaten. 4. Savonarola. 5. Proverbs xxi, 23. Sits for Breakfast By R. J. Hendricks J Without his knowledge S And not asking his consent S The following, under the head ing, "Charles A. Sprague." is what Claude Ingalls editor of the Corvallis Cazette-Times, has to say of one of his partners, who is now in Salem and will be on ac tive duty within the next few days: "Charles A. Sprague, one of the partners of the Gazette-Times trio and business manager of the pa per. Is going to Salem where he has bought an interest in the Sa lem Statesman, one of the oldest papers in the state of Oregon and out. When we begin to doubt the f located in one of the best fields. value of principles, the force of convictions, the power of belief and of faith rand motivate our acting on the Impulse of the mo ment we are adopting a weak policy. And a weak policy event uates either into action or bad action. S . 'Mr. Sprague's departure is a distinct loss to this community and a distinct gain for Salem. As cne who has been associated with him quite intimately for the past three of four years, we can as sure the people of Salem, that tneir town nas never acquired a finer human asset than Mr Sprague. He is absolutely square and reliable, leaning over back ward to give the other fellow the better ot it rather than take an unfair advantage. He is a good business man, knows the news paper game thoroughly, is com pletely honest, broad visioned. and conservative both in business and politics, - "Mr. Sprague Is a student of economics and government and brings to his study a fine intelli gence and an industrious applica tion. He will not go off at a tangent on any isms that may be floating around, nor is he hide bound by precedent or prejudice. He is sanely progressive and Sa lem folks will find him backing in his own way all their community enterprises. S - "If he has any bad habits, we have never discovered them. He doesn't even have one good on that he ought to have that is' a passion for playing golf. If Erce; Kay can get him out, however where he can get one good swal at the ball well, he is smart enough to know a good thing when he sees it and he would probably join the Salem country club. S "He is a Presbyterian, but not a fundamentalist; a Kiwanian, but not an upiifter; a member of the school board, but not imbued with the idea that every thing ever thought of should be in tht school curriculum; a republican, Dut willing to admit that Alben Fall is not an angel yet. "Not only do we congratulate Salem on the acquisition of Mr. Sprague and his unusually fine ramiiy, but we congratulate Shel don Sackett and Earl Brownlee on securing a partner in whom they can have the completest confj dence and one who will never let them pull on the traces any hard er than he does." However, ordinarily it is not onsldered etiquette for our cor espondent to broadcast these se ret votes. A little make-believe :uessing. as to a few senators. Is permissible but not the revela- lon of every darned senator's vote, showing that really there is io more secrecy about an execu- ive session of the senate than here is about a radio announce ment. The reason for this bluffing Is )bvious enough. All present at one of these se ret sessions are sworn to keep he whole thing mum. Publica on of virtually a stenographic report quite strongly suggests that omebody must have fractured a :iore or less solemn oath. There undoubtedly were sen tors, too, who would have liked o avoid advertising their votes o:i he Roy O. West proposition any more widely than was : -lecessary. Anyway, there was ,t iorlty against making t! . ings officially public. A senator may not the correspondents ihnk vote yet prefer not to liome folk told. Corn are comparatively few they can be kept mm?. less. Home folk can nntk la addition to bein ful form for a corro reveal all he hears con senators' star chamber tions, there is some -is not slightly risky People have been sar:.- Jail for "contempt ol-'t;-; This news assoclatii ). chance on it, neverthel. - It was not much t: ,: at that. Several senators ty sore and would like to culprit a taste of th- i thumbscrews if they ,1 they realize that they be making a bad mattci they raised a row. The fact Is that t.. such ostentatious pecrc. y tol Hill is past. No doubt, secret si ; pulled off, but with a Jo; fare of "clearing tin- . and proclaiming prartl.-a:k a brass band, "Now wv':. to do something on the i Executive sessions of are a picturesque but hi.. istlc survival from the n;. when Alexander Hamilton (Jeorge Washington a- aristocrats believed that common people knew u) . government's insidt s, tl . for all concerned. Not that there are not ; statesmen who think t: hiug yet, but today it nipossible to plug up t.',. aid then perhaps it could Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States, man Our Fathers Read Feb. 3, 1904 W. C. Tillson, of the Tillson ind company prune packing plant here, returned from a month's trip to eastern states, investigat ing the prune market and dispos ing of his stock. He sold all hi; holdings at fair prices, but be lieves many coast prunes will be carried over if held for high rices as stocks on hand in the vist are large. Sallys Sallies The LaFrance fire engine wa taken out and given a thorough test by Chief D. Wr. Pugh, who was quite pleased with its action. He states it, will hs invaluable in case of emergency. . . Information from Washington that County Judge John H. Scott of Marlon county, who has been in the national capital in the in terests of the Brownlow good practice law before tho court of the 1'nited Sta: THE ONEMUNLT PULFET Then said he unto n, esy unto the wind, prop of man, .-fnd say to tl Thus sa.it h the Lord c rrom tne four wim and breathe upon th that they may live. So I prophesied as mandel me. and the h:. into them.' and they ! sUM.d upon their feet, ceed in g great army, xxxvii. r, io. ( i ! he WORDSOF THE WISE " The greatest general who makes the fewest mi- Attributed to Napoleon. 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