The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, February 06, 1929, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text! C A. JSprague Earl C. Brownlee Sheldon F. Sackett Publish era ditorial Features Salem, Oregon - Wednesday : February 6, 1029 Horse Sense riTHERE.are two paragraphs going the rounds of the Amer JL ican press that should be synchronized, or rather cor- related-?- I One referring to statements concerning Abraham Lin coln in W. E. Woodward'a new book, "Meet General Grant, in which he says the great emancipator was merely a shrewd politician, and that he "cared, as little for -the constitution and its limitations a3 any communist of today ;" in which he ua ; w1tt witi, tVio tpmner of the American neople today for hardly anybody ,iously, despite all tne learnea nypoensy anu iiauwut tions about its sanctity." The fact is that Lincoln was big enough to use horse sense in everything; to employ short cuts when they would work to the general good like making a state out of a territory somewhat against the fixed rules of the game. Witness the case of Nevada. Roosevelt was a "communist" of the same type. He was 1 ... 4- vw VtA tiro XT fnr- tVio Panama canal "over the dead body," almost, of yelling and gesticulating Colombia gabfesters, and through tne setting up over ingm yi nation, Panama, against all the rules, of the international and national fundamental and other laws made and provided. History is full of such acts by such "communists with horse sense. ' ' The contrast of little minds lacking horse sense is given In the other paragraph. A Kansas City woman is going to visit England, accompanied by her three year old son. bne was born abroad, and though her husband is an American she is classified as a foreigner. She had to get all kinds of papers through circumlocution offices bound in red tape idiocy to enable her to, reenter the country. But her infant son, born on our soil, is an American citizen So when the two board the liner for England the boy must go on one gangplank and she was use another! Mr. Hoover In his campaign promised to straighten out the idiotic kinks of our immigration laws. There are many. And many others in our naturalization laws. No principles need revising; just the fool foibles and falderols need iron ing out little horse sense instead of inferiority complex in administrative underlings of small caliber would have saved this ridiculous episode in which are concerned the Kansas City woman and her boy. the FT1HE Eugene Register edmes legislature dv ueieiiumg mat - ing in a Portland newspaper charging that "our lawmaker? have strangled the state with debt," and that "no state has r. L.ii a t v,;rVi mimn nf th electorate but be- cause of the official spendthrift the need of honest public servants has not passea.. m.. t.-.., nmrcnanor lr $48,000,000 in taxes levied was for state purposes; ana not au vi mc represented by legislative appropriations by any means Showing that the tax dollar gives its largest slices to roads and education, and the people vote these things upon themselves, "and most of us . . . agree that they are worth what they cost." . . The Register might have included the long list of reg ular state institutions and departments and officials, ex ecutive, judicial and otherwise, that make up budgets that must be met. no matter how economical minded the member? of the legislature may be. The insane asylums, reform schools, tuberculosis hospitals, mute and blind schools, peni tentiary, etc., etc., must be maintained. - What is left that may be included among the items mak ing up the total sum with which "our lawmakers have strang led the state with debt" is a very small list, including per haps too high costs of the legislativesessions, etc. But that list makes up an extremely thin slice of the total tax dollar. , One of the Latest Inventions ONE new advance in science steps on the heels of another so fast that it is impossible to keep down to date For. like the 'old gag about the fool, one is born ever minute, and we ail have to sleep part 01 me tune. The latest is a device through which deaf mutes are literally enabled to hear or at least to "feel" the sound of their own voices. It was a few days ago tried in a school for deaf mutes in Canton, Ohio. Through the use of the prin ciple involved in radio broadcasting 20 people who had nevei heard anvthing listened to the sound of their own voices. At first the sounds were unintelligible, but. presently those sounds became "organized" and simple words were spoken. Thomas Edison is reconciled to his own partial deafness " because it saves him from hearing many useless things, but not every rain is an Edison with his sen sumciency. Anu Mi- Fisnn onpp had his full sense of hearing, something VW m-- v - wViirh has not been riven to known the isolation of complete deafness; to one who ha the value of such a device? cannot be measured. Eaualitv of Opportunity yv'.IiU .oTvmoltm snwehes I J. t iuw f o - , : j i ",,v;r nnnnrfiinifT " Platft 400 vears be fore the birth of Christ, dreamed of equality of opportunity in education. - -. ' - ...Absolute equality of opportunity in, the sense meant either by Hoover or Plato is an icanan aream But in the United States we are approaching its reabza tinti in iho. sonA nf tu dream of the Athenian ohilosopher for hab! the population of high -" - : 30 years ago the proportion rollments have doubled since in tht United ishing point; a status that is nation of sell governing people. A New Industry tha Drptrnn Auto CamD association to demon j strate to the public how valuable an asset is the tourist who annnnllv invades the west and leaves behind a thick linn vf rrf1A ; Representatives of this association; guests of the Salem chamber of commerce Monday, tokt the .business men that i . rx ; 1 X i -...In. 4-Vt m x It,. roViniT ndlltttrv tne tourist inuusir; is Ktcdici Liiaxx mo ..v.-w-rf , itioo mtn InoV tn this trade as a. source of m- lliai tyiiuiiuwivc - come in the same way that any ing industry is considered a community asset. m Great news, say we! The auto camp men are pioneers in educating us to the value of this trade! . As autos go hither and yon, new customers will'come to each city in the west and everyone will benefit Tourist trade is a veritable ace of diamonds, which lies t hand heeding only the organ ization of auto camp owners' to call it to our attention! . Jermane s Guess rpHE associate editor of the Seattle Times In Washington, JL D. C W. W. Jermane, guesses that Calvin Coolidge will occupy his mind and his time after, retirement by writing books and magazine articles f . tThat he will not enter a law firm or run for senator or accept any office : - - Also, that he will apply for and receive the Carnegie fund pension of $10,000 a year available for all former presi dents."" j - :? -i -V Kn:x 1 '" .;:" : v--: :- v That is as good a guess as any; but the Seattle Times editor is perhaps no better guesser than the average reader otthis article, and he or she may have his or her own guess has taken the constitution ser- Legislature to the support of the Oregon . . i-onliM thAt of the aDDroximate in 1927 less than $7,500,000 those born deaf. He has never Herbert Hoover snoke of the school age in this country is . 1 v, was one in seven ana tne en 1920. States is anDroachimr the van proverbially the ideal one in a - - , agricultural or manufactur Something To Fall Back On The Grab 7 - 5 1 Bag j ypT I, . February &, 1029 , . I : r-r 1 The Way of the World rilK PEOPLE ARE JUST Although it is said that the level of human intelligence is no higher than It is, and although jeople In tee mass, as well as indi viduals, are constantly making previous mistakes, the fact re gains that the majority of people nean to be Just. When a question s clearly and fairly presented to he people, and if the proposition 's a sound and proper one, the fiajorlty of the citizens of this country or any other civilized country can be counted on the side 3f Justice. Thousands of citizens vho do not lack Intelligence, lack nformation. Given accurate infor mation, they know how to act. . GOOD AND BAD LEADERS There is a kind of man with whom we are all familiar who lives one yie impression of befnf leader because he is always full if new notions. He Is forever sug gesting that something be done bout something. He hta a rather rague Idea about what ought to Se done but he wants to do it. Or he desires intensely to get hie friends Interested in doing tome- 'hlng about it. Sometimes he pass es for a leader In the community. Frequently he- mistakes mere "hange for progress. He gets a fhrill out of seeing things chang ed. The fact that they are often -hanged for the worse doesn't Tiuch concern him. - PERHAPS A BETTER TOMORROW It costs between $5000 and $6. 000 a day to operate one United States battleship. One can hardly iear those figures without think ing of coma of the things that might be done for $S000 or $6000 day. That amount of money In a vear would send two thousand boys and girls to college, giving each a thousand dollars. ' We haven't come to that fair day In the history of the world wlien battleships can be. abandon. Damage which will run to sever 3d, but it will come. FARM EFFICIENCY A humorous speaker In an ad. dress the other day said that life on the farm is vastly different from what It used to-be. The farm, he said. Is coming to be organized tfter the fashion of city business. Instead of the hired man who does .he milking, we find a "vice pres 'dent In charge of cows." He was making a funny speech and thoi ludienre laughed. But he was -eally coming clos to truth and riving expression in humorous fa shion, to a real and reputable Idea. The farmer who Is going to suc ed In this increasingly competi. Ire world Is going to organise his uslness aa It was never organised High Pressure Pete wens. Torn' 6f?trVr; hank - W6 601V EOfcRV fN6lE- BANfSNft VesTfcRDfW- AND IVC BO06KT ft oOMCH or peKurs to -TOOftW ( " 1 (- Who's Who & Construction ofNicaraguan Canal Advocated By XVALTBR EDGH Senator From .Veto Jersey (Waiter Evans Edge was born at Philadelphia. Pa.. Nov. 80. 1784.- Edu cated tn the public nchoola he began as a "printer's devil" In fciio employ ment of a magazine published In At lantic City, N. J. He became proprie tor of the Atlantic City Dally Press and was also identified with banking and other lines of business, fie server! as delegate-at-large to the Republloar national convention in iszw and 19:t. In 1910 he was a member of the Km- Jersey assembly and later of the son ate, of which he was president in 1915. Elected governor of that state in 1917 he resigned In 1920 to accept a seat In the United States senate to which he . was re-elected In 1925. lie served In the Spanish-American war and his iome Is in Ventnor, N. J. ) WHEN tha Panama canal was completed and opened to traffic August 15. 1914. ittle did the best Informed auth--iHe realize that It would reach i 1 1 maximum capacity in less than 40 yers. However, this is the case. The business of the canal has more than doubled each five years and if this lncreaso continue; even in reduced proportion, the limit will be leached almnat SENATOR EDO IS ;efore the time acwa.aiy to complete a second waterway. When the United States took over the construction of the Pan ama canal from the French, it was rarely suggested that It woufd ever become a paying Investment. The motive that induced the United States government to complete this monumental constructive work was a willingness to contrib ute to the facilities of water trans portation with the natural hops that producers throughout the United States would thus have prospective markets opened up and enlarged. Neither did we dls- THE ONE MINUTE PULPIT Ye shall do my Judgments, and kOCD mine nrrllnanecx tn wiv therein: I am the Lord your God. Ye shall therefore keep my stat utes, and my Judgments; which if a man do. he shall live In them; I am the Lord- Leviticus, xvili. 4. before. He la going to study coats ana tne ways and wherefores of expense as never before And he uou m tir: t uoiore Ana He 1 fa going to give analytical study -u uiuusra xue-iuous 01 production, J TtfpM &Ker- dome 50 V08L oot ; WITH tilV GrCOD.TrlAT CH WTNrA cwuv on .if f I Timely Views criminate against ships flying oth- 3T flags, as the tolls for using the canal are the same to all the na tions of the world. Present agitation surrounds the proposal to complete the nec esssary negotiations with Nlcara- Tua and other Central American -epublics having rights in the natter, together with the neces sity for a complete engineering survey to ascertain the practica bility and advisability of con structing a Xicar&guan canal. It is likewise contended that the capacity of the Panama canal may be considerably increased if a third set of locks could be in stalled. While the proposed Nicaraguan canal would be over three times the length of the Panama canal, nevertheless because much of it follows the course of existing wat erways, its actual expense is not considered prohibitive. As balan cing the expense, too, would come the shortening in distance between the east and west coasts of the United States by from bne to two days steamship travel, depending on the speed of the vessel. When at one and the same time we can make a profitable invest ment and develop clearer under standings with negihboring repub lics, the wisdom of the consum mation of the project cannot be successfully disputed. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States, man Our Fathers Read i Feb. 6, 1904 Mrs. Alexander Clark of the Leonard boarding house organised a posse of women when a burglar was surprised in the house and succeeded In holding him at bay until other help could be summon ed. The largest number of postal deliveries during the month of January was made on route four, according to the report of Post master Hirsch. Just 10,298 pieces of mail and packages were col lected in the city and on the routes In the month, and 61,146 pieces were delivered. N The Baker Stock company will present "Charley's Aunt" at the Orand Opera house this afternoon. -George Curtis Lee Snyder, bar itone who has been in Salem for some time, has accepted a posi- sum? nwv,. ua " tion to star with a minstrel troupt in uoa Angelas. ?BrrAuT5 it S" ft BCj J - Who am I? What region am I about to explore? What means of transportation am I going to use? What is my nationality? What insect is sometimes used to make red dye? What is the remarkably rich rein in which both gold and silver were found. In Nevada, in the nineteenth century, called? What English novelist who wrote about tha sea was the son of a Polish revolutionist? 'Now- the Just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him." Where is this passage found in the Bible? Today In the Past On this day, in 17 8 3. Massa chusetts ratified the constitution of the United States. Today's Hoi-oscoda Persons born on this day are api to rusn into things impulsive ly. They are proud and fond oi dress. A Daily Thoueht "The fool is happy that he Knows no more." Pope. Answers to Forecrolnir OiiMtlnn. 1. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen; the Arctic; the Graf Zeppelin; Nor wegian. 2. Cochineal. 8. Comstock Lode 4. Joseph Conrad. 6. Hebrews x, 38. DINNER STORIES She Oujcht to Know "Mother" said the eight-year. old "Yes, dear." "Mothpr mat. T nclr . Important question?" iirrn a wny. yes, dear. What is It?" . "Mother ll' mntiiin t never asked you before." 'TrhOTl .At.n... . . 1 M .... consult your father about such m a flora than he does; you're been married Lai CU Li LUCES. "Well-er Jimmy, what is it" and I have separated." Not Qualified Mike, the' thug, was cnnxlrta of robbing an anartmenr. The Judge, ready to sentence him. said "Mike, is there &nvthlnr von wish to say for yourself?" Yes, there is." answered MfV in deep thought. "I . object to being recognized br a man vhn kept his head under the covers an the time I was in his room." WORDS OF THE WISE "A man prepared has hall fought the battle." Cervantes. "It Is not good a sleeping hound to wake." Chaucer. "Solitude Is the best nurse of wisdom." Sterne. "A honest man's word Is af good as his bond." Cervantes. "Injustice In the end produce? independence." Voltaire. "Virtue la not left to stand alone. He who practices It wil have neighbors." Confucius. tWWOKiT rVOOV ON Tri 51KWH 0 IN rKOHT or OMB. FadKV OU1LOIHV AND eU-- THEN www tn cone rofHiHCy- osma oov VBAHOT9 Taxpayers Careless By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington Correspondent for Central Press and The Statesman WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Bil lionaire Income taxpayers certainly are careless with their money. We small fry, who sweeten the United States treasury only a few dollars apiece annually, may make oar mistakes, too, but It la not sheer recklessness on our part. Few except specialists can make any sense out of tin income tax blank. We can't afford to hire specialists. Consequently most of us give the govrenment the bene fit of every doubt when we make oct our statements, in order to keep out of Jail if possible. ; It does seem as if a concern which counts its assets up into 10 figures and employs a big staff I of expert accountants and "high- priced counsel, to save it from letting go of a cent more than it has to, ought to be proof against i very many enormous accidental over-payments. Yet two billions. 614 millions and 896 thousands of dollars Is a considerable sum. Treasury records show that that amount was tossed" casually into Uincle Sam's hopper, between 1922 Bits for Bireakff ast By R. J. Have you been seen I Meaning, have you given your . W. C. A. pledge and made it UDerai: The YW canvassers have a hard ask, and it Is as much yours as :t is theirs; meaning every Salem ilstrict resident. ; Salem Y free employment office iad 81 men and 19 women apply ing for work last week, and se cured Jobs for 58 of the men and mly six of the women. Not as bad us it might be; and spring is in the offing. Benton county reoublican man agers are feeling good over the act that they had the highest iercentage of Hoover votes in the election of last November. It was 19.2 per cent of the total regls- -ration; Jackson county being sec ind with 57.8 and Deschutes :ounty third with 54.9 par cent. " 'm Storms in Europe, worst in 50 'ears, shout the newsDaner head lines. Let us be reconciled to the attle brief lingering of winter in he lap of spring here. "There is no reason why the Co umbia river (the 'mighty Oregon' f the Longfellow poem) should ot be one of the nation's great est commercial arteries," said the storia Astorian a few days ago. s s s Whereupon the unkindly ed tor of the Eugene Register hv- iothetically takes the offending vstona writer over his knee an-1 id ministers ther following (you name it) : 'Have you read Longfellow's Mighty Oregon?' If not get the Astorian to lend you its copy. It ught to be good. Probably Long fellow wrote it at a football tame. That was In the. year of the big 9v-ind. one advantage about it is lihat vnll ran ofr (t It wV nma a XXTtl liam Cullen Brvant In hl "Than. itopsis' contents himself with son ll Gcod as the Coal You Buy Even though you have the finest furnace that money can buy, you can hardly expect it to give the best re sults unless you feed it quality coal. JUGT CALL 2005 ' SaSe&an's -IHTeatt rJercEnoGailG 1405 Broadway 2 wovovH cane, cot Vet- &iiws V'S and 1928, Inclusive, in excess of the inebme tax law's require ments. Uncle Samuel honestly return ed it, In oneway and another. It was not all repaid In cash. Some of it went into the ledger in the form of credits or deductions on subsequent taxes. A mere trifle of 900 and a few odd millions was refunded In actual dough. However, Senator Kenneth Mc Kellar of Tennessee, who was complaining about these refunds, spoke of even 900 millions as a good deal of cash to be forked back, out of the treasury, with such a dearth of explanations. McKellar did not know, at that time, about the credits and deduc tions. He knew About the 900 mil lions, because the treasury has to come to congress and ask for the money when it literally makes a refund. Smash Caunos Hurts GOLD BEACH. Ore., Feb. 5. (AP) Mrs. Leslie Bauer of Cres cent City, and Miss Leatha Millar of Gold Beach, suffered cuts and bruises in an automobile smashup near here Sunday night. Hendricks orously declaiming: "The continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and heara no sound Save his own dashlngs.' "It was the Astorian, you recall that denounced the other day the uselessness and wastefulness of research. And the Astorian was Jolly well right. Because research would completely do away with all such gems as the one from the Astorian's editorial column quo ted. And where then should we' look for our diversion?" V w Americanism: A comDlaint that laws are not enforced; a sublime ralth that another law or two will make everything all right - Mussolini must shudder ach morning when he faces the menial task of shaving most of the cab inet members. ". It plants are sensitive and can feel, as that scientist savs. soma close friend should tell the onion about listerine. thinks a writer in an exchange. Wonder what Mr. Coolidee thinks of the dry's jubilant asser tion that righteousness will pre vail after March 4. Exchange. H Two armv officers attained such elevation the cold contracted their controls and they couldn't come down. A man at the writer's elbow says he has known elevation to expand a second lieutenant with tne same result. If vou want to know this time of day, you have only to ring up central. This Holds now lor the whole coast. But thev har not vet adopted a rule ihat will allow you to ring up and find out where the tire is when the whistle blows. That is beyond the power of any teiepnone equipment ror every body would want to talk at once. A furnace is OnLy as HU.LMAN'S copy Phone 1855 BySwau XXL. iA. WHWT IT ftVJ OEftF Aho - J