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" C. A. Sprague Earl C. Brownlee Sheldon F. Sackett Publishers Editorial SaJcm, Oregon The longer I live, the more deeply I am convinced that that which make the difference between one man and another between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant is energy invincible deter mination, a purpose once formed and then death or vic tory. Powell Buxton. The Grab Bag February 5, 1029 Southern Pine and Cornstalk Paper mHERE was another debate in the United States senate a! A few days ago on the bill of Thomas D. Schall, the blind Minnesota member of tht upper house on turning farm waste into farm profits," known as the cornstalk paper bill And in the discussion the fact was brought out by Sen ator Harris from Georgia that "the department of agricul ture has had appropriated to it ssmething like $1,625,000 a year for the next 10 years to enable it to find out how to make paper out of some wood other than spruce" That this money is being expended on the government forest products laboratory at Madison, Wis., and that "they have manufactured a paper from Georgia southern pine that has been a great success, but that they are still improving it" And that the "turpentine and resin that must be ex tracted . . . can be sold and will help to pay the expense ne cessary in carrying the trees until ready to make pulp tc manufacture paper" And that, according to Senator Harris, "the south is the place to manufacture paper in the future the trees grow faster and they can work every day in the year." The paper mill at Salem has a process for making sul phite and other papers from fir. And what is true of tht south is true of western Oregon; mills can work here "every day in the year." Between the newly discovered processes for utilizing . . southern pine and western fir, and cornstalks, grain and rice straw and sugar cane waste in making paper, and other pulp products, it is to be hoped that the United States may be come self contained in all these things, for we use in this country 60 per cent of the wood pulp of the world. But the making of paper and other pulp products in the Pacific northwest will not necessarily be hampered by any of the new processes And with the right tariff and other federal adjustments it is conceivable that our pulp and paper industries here may be given a greater period of growth that has been predicted or looked for. This section is the natural pulp and paper center of tht country, and, with the, harvesting of the growths in our for est reserves and by the large private owners will extend the life of the supply of the raw products throughout all the gen War Archaic as Slavery JOSEPHUS Daniels says: "I dare to believe that in our generation war will become as archaic as human slavery." A newspaper writer comments: "The trouble is that the gentleman infers that slavery is archaic, but that is hard ly the case. It exists in certain parts of the world today anc flares up occasionally among nations with a high degree oi civilization. In that respect slavery and war are alike, sc perhaps the condition of which he dared to hope has arrived.' Let us all hope so But there is slavery even in the United States. The 3t or more Chinese tongs in the United States are organization- to perpetuate slavery; to stabilize the ownership of slavt " iff .US' A Old Reliable . Who am I? Who was I before S- ' vv 5tg, aay marriage? With what Stan. jsj-'W..' r ' " tard 0i offIc,al 18 mv husband S v3 - waging a battle at present? i 1 , t Tfae Way of the World -ris- Prohibition Issue Which one of the United States is least densely populated? Where are the highest tides in the world registered? From where did the "Pennsyl. vania Dutch" migrate? "For this Is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous." Where is this passage found in the Bible? Today In the Past On this date, in 1777, Georgia adopted a state constitution. Today's Horoscope Persons born on this day are not always practical in their emo tions but they are careful of their money. Who's Who & Timely Views n a gamble, and they would doubtless make a greater appeal. "or instance at a certain age one an buy a $25,000 policy under 'ie terms of which $5,000 a yeas v ill be paid for life, beginning at he age of 65. But this is not nuch of a gamble. The reason It is not, is because the company of fers so much definite value. The policy says that even if you do lot live a year after the age of 65 che company will make 10 pay ments to your estate of $5000 sach. It says that If you are to tally disabled It will pay your pre miums. If you die. your estate WOO GAMULIXU The gambling instinct that .eems to be pretty well distrib ited among human beings in not ill bad. Gambling may not be u ine word, but there is such: a -Uine a3 eroori eamhlln? Tnqnr- gjrls smuggled from China and "owned" by their Chinese nce is an excellent gamble. Cer- masrpr.q who havp nairi the expenses of crettinfiT them into tnc I -ir policies mignt be made mor United States. That is the principal cause of tong wars which break out periodically in our country. Only last yeai five such girls were brought from China at an expense oi about $30,000. There was an attempt among Chinese to res cue one of these girls, or to invalidate the title to the "own ership" of the girl, and some 30 tong murders resulted in this one case. It is the duty of the United States government to pre vent by appropriate legislation, and the strict enforcement of it, this kind of slavery, but nothing has been done s far. The tongs are a law unto themselves. There is a movement now for securing the needed legislation, and it should suc ceed. vill receive the i 2 F o ft o tm la 1 hus Simnlv Stated n "Pensive policy but it is not A WRITER in the Yakima Republic says: "The tarifi of a gamb,e' u is a sure schedules are about to be changed. The farmer want: A good gamble one that low tariff on manufactured products and high rates on fanr a-ouid appeal to many would he products, and he deserves them. The manufacturer want? i policy which could be bought kicrVi Hntioa faptnrv rroHnrt nnrl lnw rfltp nn food nrod-l or a ery low Prc a mere J U V, V,v, rPV. n 1Uinion k r,lOQCr ra.Ctin f What t,le JU3t des ULIS. dllU IIC IllUt IIOYC UlCiU, X lie uuilliviail -'-r Jivuuv I -rltAn rnsta TVlfa nrK.v ,.-,.1 1 A both. The problem being thus simply stated the committee ?ay $5000 a year for life at age may get DUSy. I JO out mai wouia oe an. There CS, oil ti, ti,- T,lfp fno u'isHnm nf tVi -vould be no 125,000 for the es ov, nil owviwiio av n uiuvvu uti v if v. I tate at death so disabilitv principle of the protective tariff, for both manufactured and! ;iaUw. No payments guaranteed agricultural products , j o anybody except the man actual- And the leaders of even the former opposition party arc y insured. Just a straight gam ostensibly (and most of them sincerely) lined up in support of this principle, the work of the ways and means committee framing the new tariff law is smoother than a like task has been since the original Drotective tariff law was enacted The first law enacted by congress, signed by George mn Ior new insurance policy n'oohinAn oo V,, ;n;t,'oi vQont;,- ,,f,r ,,' ,QOmv.t ruilu woum rest on me Dasis or I ooiiliiivu no lo liiiiiai EAVbuuic uubjr ill xborv.v. I KOtOM with nn Mirtlinlir rt or1lo Itlon of any kind. Passage of Reapportionment Bill Urged le on the part of the company hat the Insured wouldn't live un- 11 he was 65 or long after. Sitting n a group of men the other day the writer heard a general de- s Good Arcrument For It A in 4-Uo. ArBffnm'ot. iraotanloir- "Flnvnn otatao orrv I MUBWtHUia " o " ' I A faw niri .M d 4 ,l.lv. iuc uuiucji ui jcvuoci vauuii iui o amtco, auu uic ucaviu would SDend a Quarter nf a mM- forested counties of those 11 states bear the burden ior ail Hon dollars to rid itself of moa the other counties. The weight of this burden may be meas- luitoeg would have been thought ured by the fact that 60 per cent of the area of Jackson J "f,Taf " mJht ,hf v, county and 84 per cent of that of Klamath County are under But todaf a city Snweu aHord federal, control." to spend much more than a quar- That is a good argument for the setting aside of a mil- ter of a minion in draining marsh lion acres of land in the forest reserves of Oregon for the 3f an? swampg and cleaning up construction of a capitol group of buildings. Xl"?'? Or the stumpage sales of the million acres, which WOUldl Mosquitoes, despite tradition, are serve the same purpose, leaving the title in the federal gov- no joke. Disease, no man knows ernment, and the ultimate profits to unborn generations. how uch, is carried by mosqui- iuea. i n jieaun oi a wnoie com- t i ,11 i .i , j ;i , iiuuhj ia Museif reiaieu 10 me nuyuvuy wnu cuiiiiva mai iov;au3 iKtcMauif nan.c uiK prevalence of mosquitoes. If mu- moriey can have a try at the game without expense. A roadjaicipai administrations are to go in Colorado, 185 miles long, costing $3,000,000 can be had for ahead as fast as they should.! the asking. The Interstate Commerce commission demands ZJl zr that it keep operating and the owners say it can't be donje. High irTGSSUTe lrQi,Q They are willing to give it away 11 someone will accept, the gift. ' By ABTHTB VANDENBEEO Senator From Michigan (Arthur Hendriclc Vandeoberg wii !orn t Grand Rapid, Mich., March 22, 14. He studied law at the University of Michigan. Formerly with Collier' Weekly, he bjaa been with the Grand Kajid Herald aince 1900 and is at present editor. He was appointed to the I nited State? senate from Michigan to fill a vacancy in March, 1928. He ia tha uthor of several biographies and ia widely known as a popular and political rator) THE reappointment bill, which has already passed the house, is an insurance policy for the constitutional rights of the Amer ican people. The obligation to count the peo ple by a census every 10 years and to reap portion the house of repre sentatives in response there to is the first mandate in the first article of the constitu tion. Congress faithfully re- sponded to this v ajndenbeuq to 1910 Then came the nullifying Interlude. There has been no apportionment since 1911. The country has grown from 91.000,000 people to an estimated 122.000.000 in 1930. But the WORDS OP THE WISE same old distribution of seats in congress persists. Not only has it been an ugly defiance of a con stitutional mandate. It also has specifically victimized great states and great constituencies which have been robbed of their Just voice in government. It is grossly un-American. It s a travesty upon representative Institutions. One congressman represents 1,500,000 people in California, as a result, whereas whole states with no more people have as many as seven congress men. In 1930 Michigan will count 2.500,000 people In but three of her congressional districts an average of more than 800,000 to a district in other sections of the country counts but 160,000 peo ple. Such discrimination is fatal poison to the genius of American institutions. Worse it is fatefu Jeopardy for the spirit of the con stitution. The house validated the 1920 census in 1921. But when i reached the senate it was pigeon holed. It. was not embraced; i was emhilmed. This tmts added impulse behind the contemporary challenge that the senate shall not again cut the constitution's throat. A Daily Thought "Jesting, often, only proves a watt of intellect." LaBruyere. Answers to Forgirm Questions 1. Mrs. John I). Rockefeller. Jr; Abby Greene; Col. Robert Stewart. 2. Nevada. 3. Bay of Fundy. 4. Germany. 5. 1 John v, 3. 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, xi., 1. f 17ASHINOTON. Feb. 4. To leave prohibition out of any chronicle of the Washing ton of today Is about as easy as it would have been to write the history of 1918. at the time, without referring to the war. Gosh! how I hate the subject. Don't I know it's as hackneyed as the weather? Don't I know that It's as dan gerous as dynamite even to suspected of the least tinge of wetness? Don't I know that Its' all a man's life's worth to betray the slightest dry proclivity? Don't I know that both sides Jump on you with hobnaita if you try to straddle? If I could dry this country up until it parched and cracked open or If I could flood It a foot deep in pure alcohol believe me. I'd .lo whichever one promised to end the controversy quickest! At a conservative estimate, pro hibition is fully 50 per cent of the sura total of all the present-day news in the capital as much us everything else put together Coolidge, Hoover, the new cabinet peace treaties, the cruiser pro gram, farm relief, the tariff, riv er control, foreign debt .settle ment, taxation, the power quer? Mon the whole kit and kaboodle. Again I ask how Ignore It? On the other hand how touch it, with a 10-foot pole and keep your scalp on? ought to have been tranquil:i. temporarily If not pernianpnti, The 1928 scrap may not ha been a clean-cut referendum, b r It was more or less a referendum Innofar as It was one at all. n .. body can say the outcome wa- anything but dryish. Mr. Hovtr certainly was a dryer candidal than Mr. Smith. The seventy-fir' rnnerpM will h drvor fhan ti- be seventieth is, and that's abotit : . per cent dry. The heck of It is nothing seems to take a particle of the curse off. On the contrary, the infernal thing simply gets more ramunc tious. with every application of fresh sedative that appears calcu lated to quiet it for awhile, any way. Surely the last election result Why shouldn't that mean a II tie peace until the next congrp sional fight, at the earliest? But no. There's a riot on now over enforcement funds. And as soon as Mr. Hoover's Inaugurated, he's pledged to ap point an Impartial, non-partisan commission to investigate the en tire prohibition situation. I think this Inquiry's posslhili ties have been underestimated. The general supposition is that the Investigators will be some eight or nine academic old chaps who will hold a series of inconclu sive hearings and make a report, leaving the problem no nearer an answer than it Is at the present writing. But the other day I heard sug gested on pretty good authority, too a commission, not of eight or nine, but of three members, &a follows: Al Smith, Henry Ford and Evans Hughes. (Al and Henry to make It a non partisan body! Charley to make It impartial! rls there anybody to aver that THAT trio wouldn't stir up the animals? So far as I can see, prohibition's past isn't a circumstance compared with what looms in the ofrinjr for the next four years. Bifcs f o Breakfast By R. J. Hendricks Help the Y. W. C. A. drive Make it 6nappy and put over the $7500 budget tliia wpek with a start on a building fund for a new home. S In the passing of Dr. W. H. Byrd. Salem and this district lose the doyen of her medical frater nity; a man who had by a long life of usefulness and sympathe tic endeavor endeared himself to three generations here. Dr. Byrd was a native of Marlon coun ty, coming of a family of pio neers, and represented the., best traditions of the men and women who laid the foundations of this state and this city, and of the med ical profession in which he ha; been prominent since early man hood. There will be a vacant nlac. in the community that will bt. ten Dy tnousands. L Pacific university at Forest Grove gets an addition nf Sino - 000 to its endowment fund, from an eastern family wishing to per petuate and add to the efficiency md scope of the institution, nominatlonal Fchools, a like amount gorng to Willamette and the McMinnville and Albany col leges through a provision in u,(, will of the late Eric Hauser of Portland. In considering the matt r of couraging reforestation, tin lature is in a field of effo:: t.. . ,i ing attention in this stat. . i un people can afford to a 1 iu way in t-eruring the perpet u.,' ion of our forest resources, outsit,. ,,f the federal timber reserves, which are ulready being maintained un der rules promising perinanea' conservation. It has been the fate of eveiv osrion of the Oregon legislature .nee the mind of man runneth lot to the contrary to be abuse. i or acts of omission and commis Just Among Us Girls "A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism; but aeptn in philosophy brinzeth men's minds about to religion." tsacon. Man Is by nature a civic an imal." Aristotle. "Praise undeserved Is satlra in disguise." Broadhurst. "God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays." Masefleld. "Too rigid scruples cealed pride." Goethe. are con- more money must be soent for sci entific and health purposes. ARJl'STMKXT Adjustment may be hard. But tragedies do not grow out of ad justment. They grow out of the lack of it. And one chooses "the way his soul shall go." i Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The State, man Our Fathers Read Feb. 5, 1004 The Rev. W. C. Kantner, pas tor of the First Congregational church of Salem has received a call to the Highland Congrega tional church of Portland, accord ing to news dispatches. Initiative upon direct nomlna tlon is assured, with filing of petl tlons carrying 8.538 signatures in the office of the secretary of state. Fifteen of the 25 eighth grade pupils of Marion county who took the mid-year examinations will be awarded state diplomas. Dr. D. D. Keeler, county veter inary surgeon, says that with the exception of a small band of hor ses near Sublimity, the health of Marion county stock is excellent this year. L A A i I 1MV -the cnzat-trxxiblc double liRz is 1 rf -that fc casts CjR twice av much W I I fiS g m 1 1 tolira M TC "M IWI I I aai r :ion V It has become the style. "They'll b3 damned if they do and they'll be damned if they don't." The wonder is that man (and woman i of the average caliber of the mini bers of the present session will allow themselves to ba elected in hat body. How would it do to urn the tables and praise th&u? The other treatment certanly .annot do any good. That is the body that makes our laws under hich we must live, and, come to think about it, do you not sup pose that, after all, the average. member does about as well as you would or could do in his or her position? Miss Dorothy Mae Jackson, a dancer in a musical show, says she fell In love with George Grace, another dance in the samj company, when he stepped on her toe. "That," she says, "caused me to notice him and then to lovo him." The love that surpasseth understanding. Exchange. Illimitable space is as dizzvln? to the mere mortal mind as thu mystery of eternity. Here is a par agraph going the rounds of the press: "Figures recentlv 2iven hv as tronomers reardine th siza nt the universe make good exercise for the imagination. According to Dr. ShaDlev of Harvard, our ral- axy,' the particular group of solar systems belong to, contains 40.000.000.000 suns the nearest of which is 25.000,000,000 miles distant. These suns or stars gra spoked automobile wheel. 200.000 spread out something like a wire-light-years in diameter. A light year is about 6,000.000,000 miles one-fourth the distance of tho nearest star. The center of rota tion of this great galaxy, the hub of our celestial wheel. Is compar atively close to us; it only takes liRht 60,000 years, to reach us from that point. The bier win.: is rotating once every 300,00u.ne years. All this is merely 1 m news, so to sneak. In the our depths of space are other talax ies, packed with billions of u: land whirling majestically ours. By Swai The national banks went into court and asked for relief because they were taxed unfairly as compared with other concerns in their own line of business. A writer in an ex change avers that if federal income taxpayers could fall back on the proposition that taxes must be levied equitably the government wouldn t have any revenue at all. The Oregonian is getting "het up" about balancing the budget of the general fund of the state. But it does not tell the legislature how. If some one does not arise to the occa: sion, or that body itself does not hit on the right method, that matter is likely to go over in the mad rush of unfinished business, and the general fund remain in the red, and grow ing more so. i- MM V Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, the peppery tennis star of J France, is on her way home after spending two months In the United States. Her hosts naturally have not said so, but there is a well founded suspicion abroad that they are now planning to enjoy a real rest French temperament being 9. flNDIHts- Pelt. txJVS ToO. rV um 1 1 USSev, HANK UUEKevER W 5E I feHfe QHN O , . J l NICE. CAUitofUUfN -BrNftNfS, ToOfW, J If ncsxe- TH' 7 : TLr-TuTl! V ilttUW O N RAUANA frn 1 1 T- TX . ' t- I I L VAOKIrH S - J." M' I Hoove. fPj '1 I I 'ffls t'7 'Vi niS yL-3L U7V )rv lpvOW ' w what it is. . t