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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1929)
- Lincoln;'The'Man-'-; SOME hundred; centuries hence, when archaeologists are dirrinir in the ruins of what was once the beautiful, . capital of a powerful country, located on a river now called) . roiomac, iney may una me remains 01 a jnv icuijjic-uAc structure of marble and granite and witnin it a statute 01 a . man in heroic size.' a man not comely in feature nor shapely V of frame, ret sculptured and placed as though he were the deity of his day. , . Tb a certain extent the excavators of that distant day ' wnnlri nnt rw far wroncfnr there has .been an aDOtheosis Of Abraham Lincoln, just as there was the creation of a false : Washington for popular consumption. 1 Lincoln, real human : being that he was, has been exalted even in his shortcomings, until he has been made almost a popular iaoi. , In our own humble opinion Lincoln was essentially weak as an executive. We laugh today at the criticisms of Lincoln . which appear in letters and diaries of the early sixties; yet ' those observations were many of theni not without founda tion. We say Lincoln was not distinguished as an executive leader. Had Andrew Jackson or Theodore Roosevelt been h president in 1861, we believe the Civil War might well have . 1 ben over in three or four months. ' .i . ';. We have wondered many times, the crown of martyrdom denied him, thrown into the bitterness of past war political strife, if Lincoln's fame might have suffered as. did Wilson s. Xjincoin was, ll you piease, a seer, a pmwsujjii, and only great leader of his day to see into the heart of the slavery question. Neither an abolitionist nor a die-hard, he .saw what others failed to see, that the burning question was the question of the extension of slavery into new domain.! Tf oW-i'n tha tjtp. it would eraduallv nass out;! permitted to spread into new territory slavery might soon become nation-wide tnrougn tne poimcai power oi me states. The issue became rwithi Lincoln a moral issue, drew . him back into politics, anB'led. him forth into the greatest moral battle of the. century., led 'him forth to the death. Seer that he was he had also matchless felicity of expres sion so that his addresses and letters have become models of English-prose. That same?' ability to speak and to write were after all what won his cause with the people. ! " L We y ield.to none in bur admiration for the great human 1 heart of . the lowly-born, lancoin, lor nis strange complexes of mirth and melancholy, of shiftlessness and of consuming energy. VVe do -well to honor his" memory this day, not as C Qr.mo tpmnorarilv incarnate in an ungainly figure, but a i-Pfll human beincr who rose to mreat heights of intelleC tual! achievement and made high contribution in the cause of human liberty and justice. Performance OREGON says to-the legislature which reassembles this week: "Now is the time for performance. You have spent - i -.,nA ; n-af f in r ,rornnirp1' in d- IOUr WeeKS w-uuiuiig aiuiuiu, in 6CkMu6 v,.e....- journing lor week-ends, in introducing bills, in riding pet hobbies for local constituents. To date in the way of major Derformance you have done nothing." . J : Tun .week remain for this session. The state is asking rith orowincr imrjatience: "What are you going to DO?" You legislators were sent to Salem for certain very def inite purpsoes. The major proDiems were: 1. The condition of the state's revenue impending defi cits in the state treasury. 2. The inequities in the state's taxing system. 3. Readjustment of auto licenses. The only one of these major problems which is in a fair way for solution is the last named. The bill reducing license charges seems fairly on the -road toward becoming a law. It will not altogether, satisfy .the people inthat it does not take into consideration the depreciation of old cars; but the relief ! provided will be most acceptable even so. But the legislature has not even organized itself toward effecting constructive work on the first two of the major problems listed. Just as it did two years ago it has come nearly to the end of the session with nothing done. There, is no higher duty of a legislative body than protecting the finan cial credit of a state. Oregon is in dire need of that protection. The legislature, this present legislature, dare not shirk that responsibility. - ' .. ";" ' .-' 'A ' ; The way is well marked for mitigating some oi tne injustices of Oregon's taxing laws. The Carkin commission , iiaa rfnrmed on the whole a very creditable work. Its three most important recommendations ought to be formu- Iated into law. rnese are : giving a tax cumausawu to review local assessments, which ought to bring thousands upon thousands of dollars upon the tax rolls. The excise tax -JWlLwill provide part oi tne revenue iosi inrougn cuun ucw Kiona knockiWouf taxation of national banks. Ajid lastly ' the income tax. These three poposals should be adopted. a a in thA income tax. while we think the objections t Thofonertv of f set feature are unsound, the Norton-Hall bii offers a good substitute so far as exemptions and rates an The Statesman this morning speaks pointedly to the .onotnra ari rpnresentatrves to lay aside .individual ambi tions, private legislation, and, trivial-asides and center their efforts in the remaining nays on a reauy constructive pru- gram ior uregon. . - .- - - -.. - vrjj r ai Q.ZUl THE mutual savings and loan associations are finding out that words do have fine distinction to meaning. . The strictly mutual companies have been lobbying at tne legis frvinir to show the legislators that their distributior to stockholders should all be considered as ''interest? and that they should not pay an excise tax on that portion of their earnings. U. C. Boggs or Mediora, wno nas Deen active uj presenting the case, has been head of . the Jackson county building and loan association for many years, r. w ' In this state there are really two classes of building and loan associations, those strictly mutual and the reserve fund companies. The latter pay a fixed or guaranteed rate to their particpating certificate holders ; ; the former "pay as their earnings justify. Under, the present excise tax bill the re serve fund companies get to claim as exemption all olwnat they pay out to certmcatrnoiaorsrwHie xne sincxiy muiuai companies would get to claim for exemption only up to a certain per cent. Presumably the occasion for, the distinction Is that to the' reserve fund companies the fixed changes are really "interest," while in, the "case of strictly mutual com, panies the same" earnings distributed, because not fixed charges are rated, at least partially as 'profits' and so would be made subject to, taxation. ,i . ' ". '- , ' J - The poinys, we admit, quite a technical one j but on its face it would seem that theatrictly mutual companies should be accorded at least as favorable treatment -as the reserve fund companies. The federal government even goes so far as to exempt from income tax earnings of individuals from building and loan associations up. to sum of $300. There should be some way to fix the law while m the making to avoid injustice between the classes of companies. There's a new disease "planter warts, a growth oh the ball of the foot.' Thought to be an infection a parasitic jrrowth of some kind. Frequent among young folk about gym nasiums and swimming poob. The remedy is xadium treat ment, eating the growth out by acid either preferable to the surgeon's knife.: Gymnasts must now watch their step and not tramp on a wart bug. r People seeking divorces aren't convinced that, marriage is a failure. Seven times out of eleven they're, headed from divorce court to the license bureau. -Altmity," not incom patibility, would be the truer reading of the divorce, complaint.- . : "If Winter Only Goetf , . - - i 'i "' " ' ii ' i. . II i-n . . i. y . . ,. i- . - They Say... 4- " ,S " Em ! Optntoa trvm TTHUfV Name, h Tkla Nwd Hot b The Way, of the World 3UI0.8 January carried tne birthday oi clobert Burns, whom Carlyle call 3d, "the greatest Scotchman whe iver llTed." It was Burns who U ;um lotted Hfe" commonplace icenes and experiences with thi eauty of words and imagination uid lore. Burns was great In hu nanlty. He was great In his un- erstandlng of the common peo ple and most of us are common eople. Me was great in his know- edge of the heart of man. Read n Burns: "Tis thus the royal mandate ran. .Vhen first the human race began t'he social, friendly, honest man What 'ere he be Tia he fulfill great Nature's plan ana none but he." ' rHK END OP WAR A Japanese Rotarlan by the ame oi Mlyaoka says: "Ther re no boundaries or sovereign iea in our brotherhood. If the ame feeling which characterize is characterized the actions oi government, there would be nc nternational questions." Wac is aaae ny the spirit of national .eaders. Rarely do the neonle force na. ions Into war. Leaders may wisL to nave that they are in the hand thQCftQJftiAi al too often that i by no means the case. They -iayk.be far ahead or far 1ahind e peonle. The overwhelming yower ror international peace- lies a icaaersnip, , HIE LOWER 8HELP Preachers are sometime t-nt iclzed for being too popular' to .neir approach and appeal. Others ire crttlctzed for being so high brow that manyjn the congrega- lon ao not know what the coin iter Is talking about. It seems to he writer that the best preacher .3 one wno has exceedingly good opaies, nut puts them on the wer shelf. : - v Is It not possible to keep the Jea up and the language down: ae finest principles. . the tnosi ofty Idealism simply expressed, j that all can unUi-tau. w measurably more Who's Who & Timely Views Use of Pneumatic Tubes Between Airports Predicted By W. IBVTirQ OLOVXB Bscond Auiitul rostaaatar 0nrU ( VVrrrn Imnr liloT.r W t Brooklyn, Oct. 2, 1879. He ra uCvctt -a the publia acbooU and bga aa hot in the emptor of a commlsaToa merchant in new xork City, eontinninc aa a dis tributor in tha woolen trade until 1006. In that year he organised the Aften Holding corporation, a real estate con th. He i erred as a member of the New Jersey eeembly from 101S to 181 snd as speaker in 1920. Daring the next cow years fee wee third assistant post master ceneraJ and ha been second aa- listant since 1925. Hi home is in Enrle srood, N. J.) THE post office department," at all times, has in mind the quickest and speediest deliv ;ry of air mall, and I bellere that. In the near future, the volume of itr mail will :SSL ncrease and become so lm- ortant that all the principal tir mall fields' if the country Kill be connect ed with the oost offices b y pneumatic tubes which will Insure a lellrery of air nail at the of- rice within five minutes after "W. I. GLOVER. Janding on the field. In many eases, this will mean a saving of half an hour and, in some cases, tn rarious cities of the system: a greater saying in time. ' The expense will not be so great as one might imagine and am sure there are comDanles which would be glad to begin the installation -: of tube service be- tween post offices and . air mail lio fields. Can you picture the sar ,lng in time that it would mean tor the air mall of New York City which will shortly be landing in Newark, N. J., if some could be transported by tube to the Hud son terminal and there be dis trlbuted by our present Installed city tirbe service to other post of rice stations of the city? Just at the moment there are several great national passenger carrying companies ready to an nounce the inauguration of pas senger-carrying lines from New York to Los Angeles and other distant points. How long, after a passenger-carrying line is in successful operation, say from New York to Los Angeles, is the business man (where speed Is the very essence of the movement) going, to be content to allow his business mail to be carried by train with a journey of five days when -there is a line of passenger carrying planes in operation over the route covering the same dis tance in-30 hours? The answer Is simply this, that the post office department, under the legislation which it now has to contract for the carrying of first class ' two- cent mall in the air at a rate of 60 cents a pound, will Just be compelled by . the demands made upon it by the business people, o LI the country to carry this class of mail, whenever possible, in the air. And my belief Is that; within the next year, there will be many such lines put into, operation. where the carrying of first class mall In the air mail will prove a great benefit to the mailing pub- and over. And remember when you pick- up a book tb put this ques tion to yourself: "Have I time for this? If I read THIS I can't read THAT." , , he same principles and idealism DstraeUy and opaquely expressed. jKIMMERS Those who skim through cood books get less for their time than aoe who read fewer books aoughtfully. The acquisition 6T anguage, of the power of expres sion, Is of great and Increasing mportance. - Language : Is learned rom the best writers. : Read the est writers carefully; slowly over THE HIGHEST PRICE , The worst fate that can befall man is to be the kind of person who concerns himself with the effective tbandtrt of the world. He ia. full of Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The State man Our Father Read low thoughts. He aims at low and miserable purposes.. In his think ing he is a sneak and a thief. He stays . within the law , only by a snake-like :; cunning. ' More - than one supposedly respectable man in the community has .this type of mind and soul. Apparently he may-suffer no penalty. Actaally he knows, within himself, that he Is a failure and that he is a slave to evil Impulses. It Is a high price tn nsT. N - mr - February 12, 1004 Dispatches received at the state executive department say hun dreds; of cattle quarantined in northern California because of In fection are starving by reason of the drought in that section. Appeal-Is made to this state that some of the cattle be brought to Oregon. The Albany college girls' bas ketball team defeated the Willam ette university girls at -Albany by a score of 8 to 6. . Editor, The Qregon Statesman: ' As one who has participated in, coached, . officiated and has been a supporter, of amateur athletics for more than SO years, and in be half of supporters of amateur ath letic of the city of McMlnnville. f am writing you this letter. At the beginning of the basket ball : season the 'managements of the - McMlnnville and Salem high schools entered into a home and home game contract for two games for the 1928-29 season. The first of these games was played in Sa lem and was won . by Sa lem by rather an overwhelming j score. The contract provided for. the playing of the second; game In McMlnnville. on "February 8. . This schedule game : created .-onsiderable enthusiasm locally, i.mong the business men and sup porters of local athletic contests, who attended at the contest in con siderable .numbers, in antlcipa- ion of seeing the Salem basket ball team perform. To the con sternation and great disappoint- meiftr of those present the Salem high school failed to send its first. earn to McMlnnville for the con test, but, instead, sent a second or third team to play the proposed game. j Be It said, that the young men who represented Salem In that contest-were a fine, clean, repre sentative type of young men, such is any school might'well be proud of, but as basketball players they ,ave an excellent exhibition of a combination of football and vol- cyball. The contest was some what of a debacle, resulting in the score of 38 to 11 for the McMlnn ville team. The point of contention of the local supporters is: In every school the financial success of the ath letic season is dependent largely upon the outside support, that is, )f the business and professional men .and townspeople generally, and in order to secure this support ..hey schedule and advertise con tests which appeal to these sour,- :es from which they expect to re vive their support. In the instance under discussion, the local high ichool advertised a game with ho Salem hiirh school which they were justified In doing under .neir contract jiuove uienuonod m this basis a large attendance as secured, as above Indicated The Salem school, if not actually violating the wording of their con .ract, certainly violated. th spirit ibereor, and added insult to In jury in indirect inference that the McMlnnville high school was not worthy of competing with Salem' best If that is their attitude, it is unsportsmanlike for them, in the beginning, to sign a contract with this, or any other high school, un ier those circumstances, and we consider it highly unaportsman like and unethical for them, or any othef institution, to send out i team on a regularly scheduled same which la not truly represen :ative of the school, nor yet can- V1 - . - . " ... u.ujo vi . displaying a caiioer oi game worthy of the institution which, they represent. " We understand that, after the scheduling of these games, the Salem high school had an oppor tunity to schedule a game with Medford, and asked the McMlnn vine nign school to rearrange e-ir schedule by postponing the Salem game here, which was lm .Maoic, by reason of other garnet previously scheduled; that the Sa eb high school wen ahead, sched uled a second game outside of heir own district for the same date, and sent its team to- Med ord. This is not only a violation of the spirit of the contract with McMlnnville, but in the estima tion of the writer, unaportsman' like and unethical. A copy of this letter Is being sent to Mr. Hug, superintendent of the Salem schools, and to Mr Cannon, principal of the Gresham aigh school, and secretary of the state association. Respectfully, HOWARD C. OILDEA. 1? or Brealdraotl By R. J. Hendricks signed to ' train the r Willamette university track team this year, Manager Whiteman announced. Moulton has been trainer at Stan ford the last two yeare. : A. P. Blackerby. Silverton din. tlst, was a business visitor to the city. . ; , - ; W. Moulton. better knowr Dad' Moulton, has beer Calf Is Well Tailed WHITEBIRD. Idaho (API A hree-tailed calf was born on theH ueorge wyckoff ranch near here. Two tails are on the right shoul ler and the other where a tall heuld be. Otherwise the animal "s normal. All right so Is . No damage to our fruit trees And this Item la prompted, by a rumor going around that our lo ganberry vines' and a lot of our tree fruit growths have been: kill ed or badly Injured by the recent unusually . long and severe cold speiL ' - ; -S. H. Van Trump, county fruU inspector said late yesterday Af ternoon that he had just - been making examinations, and he can find no indications of damage to any of our fruit trees or the lo ganberry vlnee, either. ; So we may grit our teeth and be prepared to stand the cold weather a tew days longer, and re plenish our wood piles and look out for the live stick- V And in a few days it will be all over and everything will be fine and dandy. We will have a good crop year, and If all the cannery and packing house managers and other marketing agents will do their best to take care of all the tonnage coming from the indus tries on the land, we will have the best business year In the history of the district, and the goose will hang high. V". - A; And talking of the goose, let's hear from the turkey Industry, too. Here comes Chas. H. Simon: Route 8, Box 140jSalem saying the newly adopted annual, turkey day is February 28 th. Also, that every day hereafter is to be tur key day. It Is this way: The Turkey World of Chicago", a leading or gan of the industry, is boosting the idea that every one eat turkey on nis Dirtnaay. As "a fool Is bom every minute," with no doubt a good many in between who are not fools, every 24 hours there will be a lot of birthdays to cel ebrate. That Xpunds good. Eat turkey on your birthday, and ask all your friends to Invite you to their birthday celebrations. Then the turkey industry will boom. and we will soon all be so full of turkey meat that we will gobble in our areama. S Oh yes. Mr. LJtchner, publisher oi me rouitry world. Is the man who Invented the idea, at the In ternational tirrkey show. Chicago WORDS OP THE WISE "it you would be loved, love and be. lovable. Benjamin rranjuin. - "It is folly to put the plough in irom or the oxen." Rabelais. "He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ougnt." Seneca. Blany Seek Compensation WASHINGTON (API Tha applications made to the govern ment for World war compensation total 3,291.834. r v where they sold , ' their grand champion winners at 1000 each; the White Holland Walker farm strain: the. Walker farm being ia Missouri. More light for Litchner! Hurray for turkey birthdays! ;;,x v;::;;v v -Reverting to-fruit again, recent ly published official statistics giva Washington 7500 acres of straw berries; a decrease of 400 acres from last year. California 3760 acres, the same as last year And Oregon 10,000 acres, the same as last year. As the Bits man knows of a few. hundred of new acres of 'strawberries in the Salem district; including the How ell, North Howell and j Central Howell sections, and. some farms near by, It is evident that our dis trict is increasing Its primacy in the ' strawberry Industry of the United States, if the U. S. agricul tural department statistics are'eor rect. Salem Is the center of th greatest strawberry canning an cold pack shipping district in thr entire world. And growing morr so. r ;'- '"' V ' ; - ';;; High water mark at the Oregon penitentiary again. The popula tion reached 721 last Thursday, dropped to 720 Saturday, and went back to 721 by 5 o'clock yes terday afternoon, when these lines were written. Going to; hit anoth er high mark In next day or two. and several more before steady spring weather comes. This is the annual season for high records there. ' ... ; ; ' If the event proves the success of Col. W. B. Bartram's mission to Washington to ask the ' ways and means committee for better protection on tow and rough ancl dressed line flax fiber, he will have conferred upon the William ette valley a benefit running intc millions of dollars annually. That. would bring threshing; retting and scutching plants very soon.-' all over the valley. And morel linen mills would follow, with , specialty mills coming after them."? hi Poeinnis ' that Lave j ,- MORNING THE lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the wing, The ant her labor has begun. The woods with music ring. Shall birds -and bees and ants be wiie,; ' . s While I my moments waste? Oh, let me with the morning rise, And to my duties haste. Why should I sleep till beams of morn - ' . . Their light and glory shed? Immortal beings were not born To waste their time In bed. 7an Tavist U7SS-1824) The General Store at the Crossroads TN THE; OLD DAYS the general sfrc W the meeting place for the entire, cowmimlty. If : Mr. Jcnes had a cow to sell and Mr. Smith wanted ; to buy one he was sure to hear of it. Civilization has outstripped this primitive method of barter and trade, and today the Classified Ads supplant "the general store gossip.". Try one today. v . ; . - '. Hiph Prccure Pete ; -, , l ? - 'BySwa u m mmM& Itifc: 'Mi-i-. yrri