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(X A. Spragub , , Eael C Bsownlee Bhtldon F. Sacxett- Publishers , EditoirnaJi Salem, Oregoa ; Wednesday i February IS, 1929 (JEW Iff l " Service That Counts . fTlHOSE who witnessed the X Irish drama ''Autumn Fire" at the Elsinore last nigni will agree that in bringing this production to Salem the Ki wanls and Lions clubs lived up to their of ten abused desig nation of "service" dubs. With high railroad fares, high salaries of actors; high expenses of moving scenery, and ah road shows have dwindled in number sadly since the war and Ven those showing on Broadway have found it a long, hard winter. It remains for companies ! like the Moroni Olsen players to fill the'gap, bringing the best of legitimate drama to the cities of the northwest, and supplying the real demand that exists for the spoken play. The Olsen nlavera have won -their way into the affec tlons of playgoers here as elsewhere. Their organization is small and continuing, so "people have come to know Leora Thatcher, Byron Foulger, Janet Young and Olsen himself. With characters in new roles at each production the public rets fine opportunity for appraisal. Each auditor becomes a dramatic critic, and while opinions vary as to the merits of the different plays which the Olsen players present, and while there is sometimes argument as to the quality of the acting of the individual performers, the verdict is unanimous tn&t tne Uisen company is penornung service w ui der in exhibiting the best of the modern plays in ahighly creditable fashion. " ;.M " While movies and talkies the dramatic art to the public, the no-called leffitimate drama now by local dramatic leagues, by colleges and schools, by "home talent 11 you piease. long ago by the master playright "The play's the thing. ' Don t Sell Short v . nnHE New York stock market had another one of its period I ic nhalee-outs. and the wiseacres are telling "I told you so." The same know-it-alls said the same thing -after the big break in March, 1926, after the break in June, 1928, and again last December1. They proceed to warn the dear public about the vils of buying stocks and speculating on the stocjc exchange. The public will pay no attention because the pub lic knows better than the solemn grandpas who write plati tudes on speculation. The public, the vast investing ana speculating public, now includes a goodly number of the mil lions of active Americans and they are doing their investing ' and speculating on a far more intelligent basis than ever be fore.' After a market break like that of Thursday the ones . who really suffer will probably be the professional manipu lators and pool operators who were trying to unload on the peak. There has been a lot of foolish buying of some stocks, for instance at 35 times their-current earnings, but the buy ing even in these cases has been of the very strongest and most prosperous companies, companies that are bound to grow. The public hasn't been buying the Amalgamated Copper of 1907 or the Rock Island holding company of the void Reid-Moore combination. It has been buying substantial values, even if it has been paying dearly, too dearly we think, for them. . . , , Thousands of buyers have been waiting, some of them a long time, for breaks lixe these in oraer to ao tneir ouymn The bull days aren't over yet. Call for Mr. Qrmiston THE California legislative committee is paging Mr. Orm . . The committee's job was the "gift" of Mrs. Aimee McPherson .to Judge uarios Hardy. The judge got $2500 from the "legal and defense fund" of Angelus temple. Aimee says it was a "love offering, ' though she doesn't say whether Keyes or any others got any such "love offerings." . But what does Ormiston have to do with the Hardy rhtv? H had nothincr to do with the affairs at the temple after Carmel. Is the committee hur McPherson case which thrnnorfc ffrund furies and courts months and months ago? ' &rare1v anvone exceot those Aimee's kidnapping story; but mittee which had a very aenniie amy in me naxw u.n4 to turn itself into a smelling committee and probe around in old sewage with no chance to turn up aught but the old Ormiston, trombone player and radio announcer, limped his wav across the footlights months ago. Let him stay in the wingl--sans wings and harp. -( Malheur Should Stay Home OLD Oregon, now graced with 70 years of statehood, would be a recalcitrant mother of 36 counties if she per mifod mt nnA nf thpm. or anv Dart of one county, to be . taken from her and placed in any other home. Idaho has I suggested, informally, that part of Malheur county be an f tr trritnrv and now comes Nevada to suggest r that if Mother Oregon does not the will add her to her fold. The proposal is useless. Oregon neither seeks nor will twu-mit diminution nf her territory. Some of it may be bar ren and construction of roadr therein impractical, but pride " end the unity of 70 years existence does not warrant any dis integration of the state. When roads through Malheur coun- ty are imperative jviotner vreson can auu wm ouyyij until that day, this child had best remain as is. It is a characteristic of children to contemplate running away from home but such action always brings regret. All Take a Ride SECRETARIES of chambers of commerce would get free rides on the red plush seats of railroad cars along with disabled soldiers and G. A. R. veterans if the bill of Senator Upton becomes a law. wnetner tne secretaries are meiuucu nr h0 thenrv that thev "iro about doinz good" or not we ' can't say. If so, we suggest work is. .None of them rides on his own expense anyway, otherwise what are chamber budgets for? Just what right does the legislature have to say to the railroads they must haul anybody for nothing! wny leave out the stage lines? It wpuld seem just as logical for the - legislature to compel light and power and teiepnone compan ies to furnish their services free to veterans. If Upton's bill goes through, let's wait for the legisla ture and well all take a ride. . Get Under the Load, Smith. rf TEIGHTY honors conferred" headlines an Oregonian VV' news item from Eugene reporting the election of Les lie Smith, A. P. correspondent at Portland andBen TitusU. P manager at Portland, to membership in Sigma'Delta Chi, national Journalistic frat. Win they have to wear f rat pinj? Anybody Else Want Hanging? - RADFORD wniTfT" "llh- sprung the trap that hanged him at his own reqUestpitalournaL ' Our evening contemporary, says the "condition of the poor in Marion county has reached a high-water mark. Using Fahrenheit or Centigrade Our idea of a pleasant alarm clock would be the sound cf a warm Oregon rain to awaken us.! Thermometers bebw the freezing point were not intended ior use in uregon. - Sandino has left Nlcaragua'and peace has. been restored reports the Nicaragua legation. How disappointing to the dsmocrats who took Sandino for an issue.w r presentation of T. a Murray's! have brought new vehicles of it is singular inai interest in irrows apace. It is fostered n remains true as was wnn.cn . i a v i : to find out the exact nature of going to re-open the disgust- dragged Its nauseating way of the faith believes a word of that does not justify this com- want to bring up this child, they stay at home where their scale 7, - I , - . , . ...... .- . . . A Long TrailA-Windinri , it A.TTyifiiffifih' p; "v x ii ii i i . m w v . -. va : m . .in ii w m Mm m m m jm i rrin r iVTin ri i " i i ' i i I The Way of I I Who's Who & Timely Views I the World WllAT CITIES DO New York has a larger popula tion than all the great states. of Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Colo rado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Its population is as large as that of Chicago, De troit and Philadelphia - together. What does this mean to the hu man race In America? What does it do to people to live In huge cities? A human being living In Xew York City can not be like a human being living in a thinly populated diatrlct. The lnter-de-pendence and relationships of city life are producing a different sort of Individual. It is too early to day whether he will be a human being superior to the one who grew up in the open. GOATS FEATHERS Some time ago Ellis Parker Butler wrote an article In the American Magazine aboutather Ing goat's feathers. He made the point that many men and women give most of their waking mo ments to running hither and thith er trying to keep up. with a multi tude of engagements, most of which ' are comparatively unim. portant but which eat up all the time there is". There are so many who thus suffer for the fault of affability. They haven't the plain courage to say no. They agree to go here, there, and the other place; they agree to serve on ev. ery committee that Is organized They even undertake to be In two places at the. same time. They are lata at appointments because they hare taken on so much more than they can do. They take com fort In the fact that they are good, hard working citizens. As a mat. ter of fact, they have no oppor tunity to do anything well, and thus are not especially good citi zens. ; They spread themselves out thin over many places and cover nothing. Big succesfvcomes from concen tration. State Hospital Has Small Fire - a email nre caused by spon taneous combustion broke out la the laundry at the state hospital Monday night. It was extinguish ed with chemicals applied by the hospital fire department, damage being confined to the burning of two baskets of clothing. High Pressure Pete i wxoa-pare.- I'll. ss. mc fSMO ! WvtHfV :ffia&s. A " W Vli ,vh.:vAi t Orik f n lJ . f If I tt.vrMM Yi 'SAIL Importance of Trade with France Emphasized Br 1LFIEI1 r. snrta Vies Chslraan of ta Tariff Commission (Alfred Poire DsnnU vu bora in Worcester county, Md., Jsnatrr 10. 18 He wm graduated from Prineeton uni 1 eraitr where ke wm instructor of his orj for a year. Professor of history at nnwin in loiiowins; year, n serrea n thet capacity at Smith eoUece th fol lowing nine years. In 1907 h resigned ?o account of poor health aad engaged a business. From ISIS to 1931 be was commercial attache at (h American em bassy la Borne, asx) later in London. He wa appointed assistant to. Secretary of Commere HooTer In 103 and th fol 'owlac year was named lie chairman of in u. 8. tariff commission. He Is th author of several historical, economies 1 an& political articles.) Business In the United States is .based upon the principle of ab- oreviation. Up against 'the awful brevity of human life we must be at pains not only to get a Job done well but done quickly. The an swer to the. problem is the belt conveyor and our amaslng tech nique In mass production. We -are pioneers; ff we can't succeed in the old way we are ready to try something new. American busi ness develops as a crustasean grows by bursting its shell and casting it off. Liberation from the hard, shell of custom and tra dition ceaseless adaptation to new conditions the prlnclole of elasticity and haste in American business all contrast with the fix ity and leisurellness which pre vail among older peoples of the world. The French, with quite a thou sand years more of national his tory behind them, have developed a genius for the exauisite. It Old Oregon's Yesterdays ; Town Talks from The States. Owe Fathers, Read February 18, 1904 Dr. M. M. Staples will address the Salem Woman's club meeting at tne Fine Presbyterian church on "Bacteriology' A total of 41 receipts were Is sued at the sheriffs office for the day. marking a new high record with receipts amounting to $7,- Street Commissioner H. C. Taro- ley is devoting his attention these day to the gutters along the var ious streets in and near the bus- ness section. ; James W.'Mott. eon of Dr. W. 3. Mott of Salem, has been award- id first place In : the oratorical contest at the state university In v;6Cr THtrae, vOrWTfeft.- HOW'O Vo TCrXvP IT f takes time to produce such ex quislte things as perfect manners and perfect taste. As men come up rrom tne depths or .savagery and rise above the crude' struggle for an animal existence two fac ulties begin to emerge and de velop. first intellectual curiosity. which Is the beginning of all knowledge, and second, the esthe tic Instinct, which Is the begin nlng of all art. The highly developed esthetic Instinct of the French finds its expression In the commercial genius of the country. Roughly speaking, we supply the French with necessities while they supply us with luxuries. As our country grows In wealth and population so, too. will our de mand for the rare and exquisite things of life expand, and with it our need for exquisite fine French stuffs. When it comes to swap ping commodities the trade bal ance appears to lie with us, but our advantage is apparent rather than real. Trade relations between the two countries can expand mightily without crowding anyone off the bases. I doubt if we are com petitors with the French in world markets to the amount of five per cent of their trade. As Interna tional traders we have more to gain from France prosperous than from France depressed. We have a huge commercial stake in the complete restoration of French prosperity) We shall prosper by trading- with the French, not against them. Eugene, his subject being "Bene dict Arnold. He will represent the university In the lnter-state oratorical contest. Pretty Feminine Bootician Jailed At Judge's Order PORTLAND. Feb. 11. (AP) Pretty Dorothy Smith of Chilo- quln caused a great craning of male necks fn federal court here today; but she failed .to Impress Federal Judge McNary. Pleading guilty to a charge of selling liquor and conducting a nuisance, the girl threw herself upon the mercy of the court. Fol-, lowing a sentimental plea for len iency by defease counsel, the court declared: v "It will be the judgement of this court that the defendant be imprisoned In the county jail for three months." SSOJP ; , -"-vy BySwau "MM 5 1 T m m i r i a nri rr. t .i. . ii . . a ii i w m i . i inn nu i a. iiri i u mi - Jtiiiiiit ir.i T ii jj : 1 1 mi i mi 1 1 ' h i . :a r aw i i n r u Wii Mill HUM I! Ill) if - I 7,1 Editoro Say: CITT WANTS HOME BULB Determination of the city coun cil to admlnlater Its own aftaln was eeen when that body took ex ception' to house bill 340, which would place the fixing- of mini mum standards of construction In the hands of the state. As It now stands, each city has. a building code which suffices for that city. The councu s opposition to the bUl Is based on the grounds that the city Is more able to judge what type of buUding la better for It than some state commis sion or board, j It sees in the bill an effort to take away a little more of the power of the muni, cipallty, placing it in the hand of board. We see no reason for the pass age of such a bill, which would create another ; board at the ex pense of construction in the state. Creation of additional boards and bureaus, with their paid retainers. should be discouraged to as great extent as possible. The cities are perfectly able to care for their own building standards. Grant 1'ass Courier. THE MERGER BILL, Senator John Bell is to be com mended for his courage In sub mitting to the . Oregon legislature the bill which brings into the open the question of merging Oregon University and Oregon State College under one manage ment."" Whether Senator Bell's plan for doing this is a good plan will require careful study, to de termine. The thing is right in principle, not only because It would save money, but because It would bring sounder results in higher education. If the measure is grasped by the friends of either institution as an instrument for hurting the other, it will fall absolutely. It will be difficult to keep either or both of them from crippling any merger plan with restrictions. Our feeling is that It would be a mis take to go into any merger plan without careful preliminary study by people who understand such problems. A sensible substitute for the Bell bill would be a mea sure providing a special commis sion to work out a plan and sub mit it to the 1931 legislature. The thing should come and it is a good thing discussion has been opened. Eugene Guard. Ministers and undertakers of Eugene, are asking that so far as possible funerals be held on other days than Sunday. Of course when a death occurs, it is hard to remember such a request, and there are sometimes clrcumstan ees which make it Inconvenient or impossible to postpone a funeral for even one day. But on the whole, the request Is entirely rea sonable and as much for the bene fit of the public as for the min isters ana undertakers who are asking relief. Eugene Guard. Recently Senator Jay Upton ere ated quite a little stir in political circles by making a speech before a Salem service club in which he argued a change in governors and advocated, by strong Inference at least, the election of State Tress urer Thomas Kay. This was ac cepted as a renunciation by Up ton of his own candidacy for th. gubernatorial seat. It will be re membered that he was an oppon ent of Governor Patterson for the republican nomination and. when defeated, announced that he would seek the nomination again 'at the next election. The Bend Bulletin now offers some Interesting Infor mation which may explain Sen ator Upton's change of attitude. IX seems, according to this paper, that during the late presidential campaign the senator made an other speech before another, ser vice club and was so Indiscreet as to Indicate his preference for the candidate of the democratic party over the nominee of his own party. With such an Indiscretion against him. he would find him self rather embarassed in going before the republican electorate of the' state and asking to be Its standard bearer. Astoria Budget. A scientist has set himself seri ously to try to discover whymen ously to try to discover why men have an almost Irresistible urge to sing at their morning baths. Well, a man goes to his bath Just after getting out of bed. The day's annoyances have not yet be gun to manifest themeslves. And if the , temperature of the witter Is right and there are fresh towels on the rack and If nobody yells at one to hurry because the coffee Is getting cold, why. we ask you, should not a man sing? Condi tions certainly will not be as fa vorable for it at any subsequent point m tne nay's activities. ungene Register. COOfLA HOT PoT " 'J-t III C7K vitenv-i wi IjLviiuiiiiuiiiiiiiE mmumiii ' Bits r-By R. J. Second the motion" The one made by the man who wants the date of the state fair changed to February, to Insure fair weather And. anyway, what does the weather man mean when he keeps on predicting fair weather? S S Doesn't he know that fair wea ther In the rainy aeason In this webfoot land means rain? me tsiis man nas oeiore him a1 Jeremiad from a good Jeremiah who has been led to believe ev erything is going to the demni- tlon bowwows In this country. He says he has' before him a folder issued by the Bible Institute Col portage association of the Moody Bible Institute, 843 North Wells Ureet. Chicago statins' that: "An Mlfnois penitentiary completed three years ago to hold 2500 in mates now holds 3000 prisoners" s s s That Michigan's prison popula tion increased 18 per cent In 1927. that New York has 1200 more convicts than it has cells to hold iliepi in; that the 11 penitentiar ies of that state for long term prisoners are jammed with 10,000 jeeupants, and that a prison the :ze of Sing Sing, which has a ca acity of 1664, will be needed ev ery 12 months to care for the ln- ?t ease And continuing the doleful re ntal, the weeping good Jeremiah ays: "More young men are in tjrfe prisons of America than are in the college and universities, ac- ording to a recent report which tates that there are 250,000 stu- lents in the universities of higher learning, and 286,900 prison ers" S And our W. J. concludes, on his own hook: "I simply cannot be lieve that these educated people who are stuffing the people with the falsehood of world improve ment believe a word to that ef fect." They Say... Expreseloias of Opinion front Btetesnutn Readers are Welcomed for Use in this column All Letters 51 ust Bear Writer's Name, Though This Need Not be Printed. To the Editor: This poem was printed in Cof .feyville, Kansas, in the winter of 1816-17. I thmk It is quite appro priate for Oregon Just now It has been in my scrap book all these ears. A SUBSCRIBER. "Backward, turn backward, O time fn your .flight, give me July again. Just for tonight. Soften the ground where the frost king has lain. O let me hear just one mo squito again. I am so weary of snow drifts and ice, weary of pay ing the gas company's price, weary so weary of frost bitten pie, give me a. piece of the 4th of July. Backward, swing backward, O sea son of snow, mercury fifteen to Lwen' below, turn on the heat of the tropical zone, roast me until I am cooked to the bone. I am so tired of freezing my nose, weary of chilblains and frost on my toes. what frfffvii Our coal offers not only maximum heat, but also the absolute minimum of waste and soot. It's more considerate of your own pocketbook and your neighbors. - Good WOOD and COAL PROMPT SERVICE Salem's Heat Merchants IHIBllll&maou Fuiiell S. 1403 Broadway 1 ! Phone 1855 WOO VJfHT LV40T T? CeansjtaimsTCealieJfseeiAi Mis,lse. 5alv4V9 I- - - T Hendricka Some one has Imposed on this good Jeremiah. The World Al manac reported 3,828 prisoners in 68 state penitentiaries and 31 reformatories In January 1, 1927; exclusive of ; New York, and in New, York state in May of that year there were 7200 inmates of prisons and reformatories. That makes a total of 71.028. There has been some growth: a little above the rate of increase of dod- ulation in the country, and a con siderable growth In short term commitments, owing to convic tions in violation of the? dry laws. That is bad enough. Our crime cost is one of the greatest and most distressing and far reachine of all our expenses. The lowering of it is one of the greatest ques tions before the country. But the statement that we have "more young men in the prisons of Amer ica than are in the colleges and universities" is ridiculous: : f afT from the truth. S , We have more than 767,141 students in our colleges and uni versities, and more than 188,363 in our commercial and business schools; and more than 270,206 in our normal schools. We had in 1925-6 in our high schools 4,131. 125. and have e great many more now. S And our high schools teach most of the branches that were taught a generation ago in our univer sities and colleges, which pro duced the leading scholars of to-" day. S S The good Jeremiah writing the tetter being referred to is of a class of people easily imposed up on. Had he thought before writ ing he would have concluded that the "statistics" quoted from must be wrong. S S In Oregon we have (had a day or so ago) 721 prisoners in our penitentiary. We must have over 16,000 in our universities and colleges, not including our high schools. weary of trying to sleep with cold feet. Turn on the neat. Mister, turn on the heat. 1 Po that Live SWJT SUFFOLK OWL SWEET Suffolk owl, so trimly dight ' -With feathers, like a lady bright; Thou sing'st alone, sitting by night, ; Te whK.1 T whoor Thy note that forth so freely-rolls With shrill command the mouse controls) And sings a dirge for dying souls. Te whit! Te whoor Thomns Vaster (A. lll iFCall SAA: 5JMC vicr TrWT 'I V