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C. A. Spbaguz I!
. Earl C. Brownleb : C
Cheldon F. Sackett J CI
" Publisher
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; r f i Business Ethics on Trial
OLONEL ROBERT W, STEWART is going to lose out in
: his fight to retain his position as chairman of the board
or the Standard Oil company
. Its odds on Rockefeller, Jr.,
out sentiment and usually without loss. Stewart has been
: an able executive; but his position is extremely weak largely
'because of his lack of frankness. First, he told Rockefeller
that he had done nothing wrong and that he would resign if
confidence in him was lost.' He told the senate investigating
committee he knew nothing
. nental Trading company deal; later admitted he knew a lot
f about them and only turned over his own share of three-
Suarters of a million to his company after disclosures of the
eal had been made.' He was tried for perjury but got off on
-a technicality. ;
1 What has seemed, strange to us in all" the literature on
'the Continental Trading company deal, has been the lack of
reference to the apoarent attempt at robbery of their own
companies by the four parties to the deal. Four men, Sin
clair, 0Neil, Blackmer and Stewart organized this corpora
tion, had it contract to buy oil from the Humphries interests
and then resell the same oil
' profit of 25c per barrel. Just
Trading company had with
. never been disclosed. Quite aside from any oiiense against
the government, this bogus corporation was piling up mil
' lions in profits for its four stockholders, the split being about
, three-quarters of a million
plainly at the expense of the
were the executives. Fine
isn't it 7
: . Later when the deal was
, ened to make restitution, partly in order to get the dirty
onds off their hands, partly because they knew the stolen
goods didn't belong to them. O'Neil and Blackmer sent their
bonds back from Europe to the Prairie Oil and Gas company
and the Midwest Refining Co.
company treasury, after he
pons for his private account.
to seduce Fall and part to pay off Will Jlay's party deficit.
' If we had any stock in Standard of Indiana we would
Vote against. Stewart because of his low grade commercial
. ethics, A company executive who will rob his own stock
holders is just a common thief. Unfortunately bribery or
misuse of funds is as common
Many a purchasing agent of
"commission" on his purchases.
;verts company business to concerns in which he has a private
Interest. It isn't often, though, that the heads of companies
make such a sell-out as Sinclair , Stewart, Blackmer and
O'Neil did.
: ; The public is weary of
weary, too, of the Portland Journal's partisan recitation of
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tue wnoie sorcuu . mess ttppareuiiy uu au evci yumcx-uajr
" order. But enough. has not been. said of the violation of
business ethics in. the Continental Trading . company deal
That alone, aside from his personal insincerities, should dis
qualify Stewart from a job with his own company.
Sun Worshipers
OLD Sol was one of the first objects of human worship.
Among the Aztecs and the Incas, the Persians and the
Chinese, temples for sun worship were erected, altars set up,
cults contrived and sacrifices offered.
For a good" jnany centuries now the sun has "been be
hind the clouds so far as human adoration goes. Other god?
have trapped the favor of fickle folk. But the sun is com
ing back to favor, only the cult is that of health and not of
religion. "
We propitiate the solar deity today not with veiled faces
and full-clad bodies like the priests of old. We strip to the
skin, wear curtailed bathing suits and disport ourselves, on
sandy beaches in the summer suns. " In the winter when the
Oregon clouds put the sun out of business for a season, we
catch bottled sunshine in our electric bulbs.
What we are after are the ultra-violet rays, which di
rected by skilled hands are performing real miracles in re
storing health.! These rays, invisible to the eye, falling a?
they do, above the violet of the spectrunn are puttings coc
liver oii out of business in treating rickets and such diseases
These rays seem to get into the body or re-create in the body
the yitamine which this nasty oil has supplied. v 1 ;
x ' Like every new thing people have gone to extremes over
it quacks have exploited it, some people have been injured
by the treatment. In skilled hands ultra-violet rays are now
of proven worth for many cases. The sun, or its electric sub
stitute, is really giving people the health which superstitious
worshipers in. the childhood of the race, besought from the
heavenly orb with prayer and
Tourists
il LL Oregon cities are eager for:-tourists. The tourist
xl Crop- brings as genuine a
dustry as wheat or nuts do to
siatentlyUcoached how to glad-hand the tourist, make him
comfortable, make him stay with you and spend his money
liberally. 'VP,-: ' :
;But h'ow about the tourist who turns out to be a settler,
, how about. the fellow who moves out to make a home in this
charmed land? -What effort, if any, is made to smooth the
path for him?- - -
' r. A merchant here told us
three families who had left Salem to move back to the. old
home town" in the middle west because they had found no
hospitahty in ;Salem. - It; isn
" isn't enough to enjoy fine scenery, human folk are human
folk and they crave human fellowship When a woman has
to sit day in and day out in her house with never a neighbor
or a friend 'to pay her a visit, naturally her thoughts turn
back to the old friends and neighbors in Council Grove, Kan
sas, or Sedalia," Missouri, or Beaverdam, Wisconsin. She
may. conclude to endure blizzards and cyclones if she can be
with real friends; and the family moves.
s Here's a : goodwill job for
church guilds,, and lodges. If
good thing, a little, more cordiality to the newcomer is even
: better. . ); t ; - ; i'jvxa
1 -fhoMnts Only One Capitol?
JUST when President Cal was establishing a nice custom
in moving the summer White House from state to state
he gives the happy precedent a blow with the proposal that
, Mt. Weather, Virginia, be the site of a permanent executive
mansion for the summer..capitol. f zi:&xr
The news is grevious. Pray tell, how is" fishing at Mt
Weather? And can a president obtain a buckaroo hat or be
made an Indian chief in elite Virginia?
Hang it all, Oregon had ambitions." , Wasn't it on the
Rogue that Hoover essayed to fish? Wasn't it there that we
planned to build a fence to ward off reporters when. Herb
, wanted once more to, be an .Oregon angler? - A summer in
Oregon, his old home state, was on our program for Herbert
and probably 47 other states would have been as pleased to
provide accommodations. . -U ;
. . Now practical, efficient Cal would quash our budding
Idea and make the summer capitol stay put We say nay.
Was fishing ever-good year after year in just one stream?
Chicago's new electric chair was "thoroughly tested" be
fore being officially used. That's our idea of a hard job;
trying out electric chairs. " .
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rny-xne gonaouers oi Venice i ine coiaesi weawer ui
140 years has frozen fast the canals of the town. , I
of Indiana. Wall Street puts
and Wall Street gambles with
about the profits in the Conti
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to their own companies at a
what hook-up the Continenta
Sinclair's Teapot dome steal has
apiece, and these profits were
companies of which these men
example, of business morality,
revealed the principals hast-
Stewart turned his into the
had cashed a big bunch of cou-
Sinclair used part of his bonds
in business as it is in politics
a corporation holds out for
Many a. company buyer di
the oil scandals; and we are
fasting.
or Settlers
harvest to certain lines of in
the agriculturist. We are per
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the other day that he knew of
t . enough to make money.it
our . zealous service clubs.
gladhanding the tourist is a
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I : Dynamite! . - I ffems Who's Who & Timely Views
65 talEst Live Integrity in American Public Affairs Stressed
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The Way of
the World
IVA81IIXOTON
Sooa we shall be otflciilly-ob
serving the' birthday annlrersary
of George Washington. The lesson
of Washington, outstanding abore
all others.- Is the story of a man
who had everything to lose and
little to gain and yet courageously
walked, to the sacrifice. Wash In g-
on was perhaps the richest man
In the colonies. He had wealth and
comfort, position, honor. Many of
hit most influential friends had
little sympathy or patience with
the patriot cause. The' patriots
were the "reds" of those days.
Washington belonged to the' land
ed aristocracy. But Washington
had-what some of his neighbors
did not have he had a complete
he was a man unafraid,
ly developed sense of justice. And
WilHam DeWItt .Hyde, once
president of : Bowden college,
wrote? a book much , worth read
ing. 1 It Is called r O'he Five
Philosophies of Life." In it are
these lines; "Bo you wish to
know precisely where you stand
in the scale of personality? Here
is the 'test. How large a section
of this world do ypu care for, in
such a vital, responsible way that
you are thinking of "its welfare,
forming schemes for Its improve
ment, : bending your energies to-
Most of us. If we are very hon
est with ; ourselves, must : admit
that the larger: part of our inter
ests are local. I personal, of little
importance save to ourselves--and
of even . less - Importance to
ourselves than we think. Nobody
can ever BE BIO who doesn't
THINK BIO. !r ; .
TO GROW
r To grow we must break down
horizons, face Immeasurable dis
tances, think of the universe, as
nearly as we can; at full length.-,
KKLPISU PEOPLB WATTINO
Don't let It worry you or hurt-f
your conscience to keep " people
waiting. If you are sure you are
doing something more Important
than you would be If you were lis
tening or talking to them. When
we come to regard onr time and
our duties as having Tea! value.
we will be less wasteful of ten
minutes - here and ten minutes
there. One can be pretty sure that
halt the people who knock at his
of nee door are neither going to
bring In nor take away anything
of great value. And that's a highly
conservaUve estimate.
High Pressure Pete : .' -A I : MijUl " . BySwau
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Bilks for Breakfast
: By R. J. Hendricks
This Is "spud" slogan issue
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And the lowly tuber is well
down towards the . foot of the
class - in agricultural - products,
now, owing to prices climbing in
to the cellar
. '
But potatoes we will always
have with us,, and they win form
the biggest item on the bill of
fare indefinitely. We have a
great potato district here, with
the stabilization -of the industry
depending only on .following the
rules of the , "Murphy" , game,
which a few outstanding growers
are doing., all must With apol
ogies to the Marquis of Queens
bury.) s s w
The proof reader makes a
neighbor call Mussolini a licta
tor. Not so bad, either, with the
ta left out. Mussolini takes as
much pomp as any old .Roman
did, with the lictor going ahead
to enforce obsequious signs of
reverence. And the fascist sign
of tKb bundle of rods and the axe
by the authority of which Musso
lini takes to himself all the at
tributes of sovereignty, la the one
that made the lictor of the an
cient days a functionary to be
feared.
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' But Mussolini has done for
Italy what no other man of his
Old Oregon's
Yesterdays ,
Talka froaa The State.
Out Fatbera Read
. Feb. 17, 1004 fj
The committee on street light!
Ing has made a thorough Investi
gation and finds provision of the
contract that arc lights should be
suspended 35 feet above the stret
grade and furnished with 1200
sandle power has not been com;
plied with. - j
City Marshall Gibson has Inned
an edict that he will not enforce
the new bicycle ordinance unless
the council takes united action
and goes on record to back bin
up in case of legal action resulting
from arrests for violations. - i
' The Knights of Maccabees of
several counties will meet in Sa
lem March 21. ... .
Twenty-three yonnr Salem re
publicans have made application
for membership in . the Young
Men's Republican club. ":. i
time or any other day could have
accomplished. The danger to
Italy is the deluge after' Musso
lini. Even this modern Achilles
has a vulnerable heel: he is hu
man and cannot live forever. .
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The Salem "Y" free employ
ment ornce bad last week 71 men
and 21 women applying for work,
and found jobs for only 31 of the
men and eight of the women. But
wjth spring work about to open
unemployed.
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Charles F. Simon, the tnrkey
man down on Route 8, says an
nual turkey day this year is next
Friday, 22nd. instead of the 28th
as the Chicago paper, wrongly
announced.
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, All right. Let's all have turk
ey on Washington's birthday,
then eelebrate everybody's birth
day with turkey, as the Turkey
World editor tells us to do; This
will give us turkey .meat every
day in the year.
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Mr. Simon has 400 bronze
beauties, and he Relieves this is
the greatest turkey - district In
the world. He is boosting for
more and more turkeys here, with
canneries to take care of the sur
plus. He believes we can make
Salem the turkey Industry center
of the universe. ' Who Bays he ii
not a prophet? . . m
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On the El Monte highway near
Los - Angeles.- a rhubarb grower
hag set op his retail stand to sell
rhnbarb juice. He sweeten H
with honey and sells it by the
glass, or the gallon, and is. caus
ing a. stampede out his way, with
the -.wild . jcherry y; and phosphate
flavor, especially 'as, while the
drink is free from any kick when
fresh and kept, on ice, it has a
penchant for getting "hard"
when kept over, a few days in
warmer temperature. Maybe this
is a hunch for some of our farm
ers with roadside stands. We can
grow rhubarb "till the cows come
home" here, .and ours. will crush
more Juice to the ton than the
product of any other section.-
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!: Though far be it from the Bits
man advising the making of
moonshine from the innocent pie
plant' of our grandmothers.
I SN'OW BTJRIK3 TOWNS
! ZA8REB, Jugo-Slavia, Feb. It
i(AP) Thirty villages near
here have been burled by an enor
mous snow fall, i
OW sweet is the Shepherd's
sweet lot t
From the mora to the evening he
strays;
Be shall follow his sheep all the
day.
And his tongue shall be filled with
praise.
For he hears the lamb's innocent
call,
And he hears the ewe's tender
reply;
He is watchful, while they are in
peace.
For they know when their Shep
herd Is nigh.
WOliam Bloke (1757-187)
Editors Say:
Control of the Salvation Army
finally passes from the family of
William Booth, the founder years
ago of that great agency which has
done so much in keeping men and
women who are "down" from
being-"out." A wonderful work
for the material and spiritual good
of mankind has been done in the
last decade or two by the Salva
tion Army. May It accomplish still
more under its new leader Morn
ing AiitorijuL.
WOnlAN ATTEMPTS
CHICAGO. Feb. 16. (AP)
MiSa Helen Ferderlchs. 22. who
told et being "deeply impressed'
by the self immolation of Miss Ei-
frleda Knaak. attempted to com
mit suicide Friday by crawling in
to the furnace at her home in
Evansville. Although badly burn
ed. It is thought she will recover.
She was taken to .a hospital.
Police investigating the case
tonight were attempting to deter
mine if Miss Frederlchs was a dis
ciple of the weird philosophy pro
fessed bv Miss Knaak who was
fatally burned in the furnace In
the basement of the village ball
and police station In Lake Bluff.
Just a 'few miles to the north of
Eranston:
Before her death. Miss Knaak
frequently moaned that she had
gought purification by fire tor her
sins and that she had sought to
prove her love for a man by fire.
After thrusting her head and
shoulders through the furnace
door, the pain was so intense that
Miss Frederlchs staggered to the
upper floor of the house and
sobbed she could not go through
with it. Her hair, scalp, and
shoulders were seared.
Three Men Killed
In Terrific Blast
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 15 (AP)
Three men were killed and five
Injured in an explosion late today
at the army ordnance, depot at
Pig Point, near Porstmouth. The
dead . were Clyde Curling, John
Duncan, : and Sam Freeman, all
civilian employes.
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By AmTRTra KUntST mokoav ;
rrMidrat, Aatloek Collef
(Arthur Ernait Uomn bora mt
Cincinnati. O, Jn 20, 1878. H oV
tenad tlgh school education and began
a prirata Dractica in risMrir at fit.
Cload. Uina. Ha vaa amp'.oysd by tba
tTrtmtBf a a aaperrUinj engiaaar for
rtara aa than bacame pretidant-of
tha llarraa Enginaarinx company. Sineo
J15 ha haa bean praaidaat of tha Daytoa
Uerran Enrinearinc coaum. His mmr-
iea, haa bean engafad Boanarom tin
by the gOTarnment and ha haa canstrset
ad 75 water control project. 8nca 132
he hat been preaident of Antioch callage.
He haa written eereral boohf oa en
gtaaaring anhjartf His home is in Tel
tow Springs, O.)
THE standards of Americas
boys and girls do not orig-j
lume mysteriously or Dy ac
cident, and are not created by
original thinking. Experience and
observation teach young neonle
wnai are tne
actual stand,
ards of their
elders, and
they imitate
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men and wom
en they most
admire. If they ft'
ee cynicism ac-
:eDted bv lead
era in public h
and private life,
ao preaching
will convince
them that hon
istv is the best
policy. Our A-E MORA4 ,
youth Is a mirror in which the
older generation sees . itself truly
reflected.
In the recent political campaign
there were many conflicting is
sues. But the American' public
had one dominant concern in
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No. 2: "THE FORTIETH STRIPE"
"Five times received I forty
stripes save one." II Corinthian.
13:24.
Paul is writing, telling of th
excess of his ministry: "in labors
more abundantly. In stripes above
measure, in deaths oft."
We are Interested in those
whippings he got for his preach-
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Feb.
11.. (AP) After soaring earl
this month to the highest point ir
more than two years, the Klamatb
Indian reservation pine stumpagt
prices Friday d roped materially
with the sale of the Rock Creek
fnnit of 24.000,000 board feet Ic
Gilbert McClennan, Klamath Fall;
lumberman. ...
His bid, the highest received ai
the Klamath Indian agency, wat
$5.77 a thousand for the pine
$2.25 a thousand for' cedar ant1
fir and 91a thousand for othei
species. The total bid on pint
aggregates $148,480.
GUARD STATION PLANNED
MARSHFIELD, Ore.. Feb. 1 6
(AP) Establishment of i
coast guard station at Port Orforc
it seen in the visit of District Com
mander John Kelley.
TIMBER PRICES 60
DOWN. INDICATION
.MORE
More Heat Per Dollar
That's the Characteristic of Our
Good WOOD and COAL
Bring Your Heating Problems to
r Salem's Heat Merchants -
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tegrity in public affairs. Each
party was compelled to -nominate
Us best man. The strength, of
each candidate was public confi
dence in his , integrity, and the
weakness of each was his prox
imity to sinister influence.
The people sought a leader who
could be implicitly trusted. Poli
tical organizations fought for
votes, but seem to have changed
very few. To an unusual degree,
votes for both candidates were
votes of confidence in personal
qualities and abilities, i
Now that' the campaign is over,
many professional politicians are
tee king rewards for their party
services. Many of these men
never have been and are now per
sonal admirers, of the successful
candidate. They took him on
compulsion and worked for him
In order to maintain their political
positions.
The friends of Herbert Hoover
are not those politicians who op
posed him. as long as they dared,
and then rode with him to vic
tory. His friends are the Ameri
can people who craved dependable
leadership, and who compelled his
acceptance by the party organiza
tion. One large fact stands ont clear
ly. The nomination and election
of Herbert Hoover were due, not
chiefly to the astuteness of pro
fessional politicians in winning
him votes, but to the confidence
of the American public in his in
tegrity and capacity. Mr. Hoover
owes his loyalty to the American
people and not to political organizations.
eirmioims
ing of a new gospel. Five times
he was condemned to floggings.
Each tlm'e the last fell on. his
bared back, once, twice, three
times, iour, ten, eignieen, twenty
four could he stand it longer
thirty-bne should he recant and
yield thirty-four, thirty-eight,
thirty-nine but no fortieth stripe
fell.
Doubtless just when flesh was
about to force the collapse of the
spirit, the f logger .ceased his task
and the victim was spared the
fortieth stripe. He could stand
the 39; Paul did so five time?.
But the fortieth that he was'
spared.
So it is in life, blows fall, bur
dens grow heavy, the spirit bends
the load, there is sweating and
groaning as the toll of stripes
mounts. Many give UP early in
the count; others succumb as new
adversities arise. - Only to him
that had fortitude and courage
came eventual escape and releaso.
The lesson ofc "the fortieth
ttripe" is the lesson'of faith. We
fret and worry over our crosses
and our woes; but after all the
"fortieth stripe" seldom falls, it
has been well said "the greatest
worries of life are . about the
things which never happen." Our
fears, our troubles, our anxieties,
our perplexities, these make up
the count of the 39 stripes we
must bear in this life. It we only
earn to take the lashings of fate
with endurance and with hope,
:hen, like Paul we shall find that
no spirit-crushing "fortieth
itrlpe" will ever falL
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