" 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
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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?
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Tfae Way of
the World
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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.
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double liRz is 1 rf
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twice av much W
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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.
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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
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