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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1929)
- C. A. Spraguz . CJULL C BSOWNLEZ CHSLDON F. SACXETT ' f PvbliKtn ' Vare to be Blackballed fTlHB senate committee, having sat on the jegg nearly three X years, has hatched the report which would deny William S. Vare his seat in the senate, - Vare was nominated and . elected from Pennsylvania back in 1926. Governor Pinchot, . . his opponent in the primaries, gave him a certificate say ing : "On the face of the return it appears V etc The next governor. Fisher, gave him a better certificate bat Vare didn't get by the gate. . - The complaint against Vare was that he spent too much money, for one thing, and it was charged there were election Irregularities at the general election. Vare spent abou 800,000 in the primaries in a three-cornered fight.1 Pinchot . and Senator Pepper who were in the race, together spent , $200,000. So Vare was the least stained with the sin o: 1 spending of any of the three. "No one doubts if the reformer rmchot had been nominated and elected on the face of the returns' he would have been seated.' likewise the cultured , and Episcopal Pepper would have been received with open arms, in spite of the' Mellon money. But Vare who was only a commoner and a Methodist and a practical politician who didn t have to work through a lot of committees, gets kicked out. . c r The sflk-stockined Pepper and the gold-spoon Pinchot each spent more money and each had his own machine the same as Vare. Vare was nominated because he had more votes. The masses stayed with the commoner. We don't like the low grade of "political ethics shown by Vare. We doubt however if a good many of those voting against him have any higher standards of political morality. Some congressmen will not hesitate to use the government's money in the way of pork and patronage to buy their way back into office. They raise their hands in holy horror when jtome one like Vare spends his own money in his own cam paign. a . In spite of being both a devout Methodist and a polit . leal boss, Vare has some real virtues-. He is a rugged, self made man whose hands show the marks of real toil. He built his machine by the cement of personal service to the people in his district : a load of coal to a poor family; a barrel of flour where a bread-winner was sick, or help to a job for , many a man. In South Philadelphia he erected the Abigail Stites Vare Memorial church and the Abigail Vare public school, named for his mother. Other public works there bear the names of his brothers. The Vares were big contractors handling' lots of city work and charges of collusion on this account have been many. But they are real contractors and then competitors admit their efficiency. Vare will get blackballed at the country's most exclusive club. Maybe he deserves it. But what a lonely and forbid ding place the senate will be if all the practical-minded Meth odists are barred and only the impeccable Norrises and Nyes admitted" iii me .ill im if jlz lmam hmpa i Barge Lines on the Columbia FllHE Portland Journal, on days when it is not agitating the A, building of a cog-wheel or funicular railroad to get from the lower Columbia over the mountains to Yakima, forget ting for the moment its time-honored stand for the virtues of water level transport, uses the same mouth harp to asri tate for a government barge line on the Columbia river. The theory of the barge line is that it would cut freight costs for farmers of the Interior. Oddly enough the farmers might question whether they would get the benefit of the cut or whether it would just be. pocketed by Portland exporters as many of the farmers claim is the case with Portland's pres ent differential of ten per cent over Puget Sound ports from points south of the Snake River. 1 , What about a barge line on the Columbia. It is a fine big river with plenty of water and plenty of freight to move. IWhy doesn't private capital go into the barge line business? 'Simply because private capital is assured the enterprise would not pay. We recall the effort made twenty years ago, led by J. N. Teal of Portland and the late Prof. W. D. Lyman of Walla Walla for the building of the Celilo canal. The government appropriated the money, finished the canal. Ef forts to establish boat lines as far as Pasco and Kennewick i failed and the canal is now never used. It is a monument I to a mistaken idea. , I Here are the difficulties for successful boat or barge lines above The Dalles. It is a hundred miles and more be I fore the river reaches available heavy tonnage at Umatilla ! and Wallula. Even there the freight is not produced along the river but in the foothills back from the river. The wheat would have to be hauled to the river by rail, entailing double He's Wanted Down Below BxpraMkma of OpialM from Statesman Reader are Welcomed for Use la this column. All Letters Moat Bear, Writer's Name, Tfaoagh Xfcls Need Nti be Printed. Who's Who & Timely Views Canadian Universities Declared More Conservative By STEP HEX LBACOCK Political Economist and Humorlat t tstanjirn Butler Lnarock u horn at Swtonoor, Hanta, Canada, De. 80, 1869. Ha waa adiicatcd at Upper Canada col lege, the UniTersitr of Toronto an the Unireraity of Chieafo. From 1891 to 1S09 he Tii a member of the etaff of the faralty of the rraduate school of the,"011 1 Crry thing as far 3 cost about tit; the students might aa well bur a coat and a pair of pants. 1 Another difference between the two systems of schools. Is that we you i JJZ iL -V .k u.- , 7tn- Plo down here. McGill unirersity it new head of the political economy de-i partment at Me 0 ill nnireraity at Mon-lia not Completely CO-edUCational. IT!!.:. hM WTitten mT nonr The law school and medical school AMERICAN universities and Canadian universities in the main are very much alike. We give the same degrees, the same courses. But when we exam, lne them In detail we find quite a striking difference. Our universities cover less lati tude, have less direction of study than you have In America. In my own school, McGill university, ail f the lectures are compulsory. Even the fourth year students are nailed to the seats. But on the whole students like It. It has always been customary in the past to wear caps 'and gowns, but this tradition has re cently died out. Although an at- Reparations Show War's Cost A MERICAN people are too busy squaring their personal xa. budgets to give much concern to the international rep- , arations conference now In progress in Paris. Yet the deli i nite determination of Germany's exact reparation debts has i . been termed the greatest problem before the world. J Owen D. Young and J. Pierpont . Morgan represent the ' linited States at the meeting which has been termed by Mr , Young as an assembling of the second Dawes committee. I The first committee set the amount of an annual an- i nuity to be paid by Germany as reparations and prescribed the revenue sources irom wnicn this was to come. This pay , Tnent of $625,000,000 annually has been met by Germany. The present 'meeting is for the purpose of definitely answering the question how long Germany shall continue to ; ray ?. Some experts have proposed that the total fee be ' f 8.000,000,000. This would be utilized by the Allies to set- i tie their, international debts and to assist In reconstruction ; work. Germany will ask a much lower total indemnity while' h France and England will insist this figure Is too low. ' - At Versailles in 1919 the total indemnity was placed at . the preposterous figure of $ 200,000,000,000 but later in Lon- do nthe Allies fixed the German reparations at 185,000,000,- : vuv tt mm vmuuui juviuvij uvuni vrcus imfrJoaLVl3 wtui . ; the resulting occupation of the Ruhr valley and: the subse quent Dawes negotiations and temporary settlement. A : From the $200,000,000,000 total reparations payment first suggested to a total of $8,000,000,000 now being con , sidered seems a huge reduction but It is folly! to conceive f that Germany-can stagger under a much larger load. Bur dened with internal as weU as reparations debts, economic . ease for Germany lies far ahead. Her plight should be lea 1 son enough that war la futile and the cost too tremendous to ! permit any nation to countenance future struggles. , Eugene has ar group of wise gasoline dealers). Thirty ; five of them have joined in an agreement to place the price : at 19 cents. -If tiie wholesalers continue to cut and slash, ; these retailers need only to sit tight j they can increase their profits and let the war go merrily on. . ' wear ordinary clothes to classes In my 1 day a cap and gown cost about 1.25, but now that they tpmnt was made a few Tears aeo I honrllinor rnsta Hon vir mvoatmpnfs In rinrua ann terminfllS tn mIa ft tha btnifAnti nn ! ... . , . V 9 A . , I 1 . .1 wouia nave to De maae. juver improvements wouia nave to -.1 be made for tiemg up barges to the docks. Even now one great trouble at lhe Dalies, for instance, is the variation be tween high and low water, which makes it difficult to con struct docks usable all the year. The strong river current above the gorge makes the hauling of upstream cargoes slow and expensive. , Certainly we should like to see the great Columbia con verted into a highway of commerce. Some day it may come. It doesn't! look feasible to us now. We don't favor having the government go into the barge line business and pocket heavy losses like the Alaska railroad. The northwest needs development. The development must be sound and permanent, not based just on a set of chamber of commerce resolutions and editorial buncombe. are still kept for men only. But we have, like you, the per petual temptation to put in prac tical studies In our universities. We call a course 'Salesmanship' instead of 'Political Economy.' We were recently asked to Include course on hotel management and another on the selling of life In surance, but we haven't come to that yet. They are hard to keep out. though, for the students seem to like those catchy names. Editors Say: CROWD HEARS MUSICAL TURNER, Feb. 25. Turner high school presented Its musical comedy. A Gypsy Rover." to a picked . house, Thursday evening. Mrs. ( Jean Melnturf f Pearcy. di rector of the glee club and Mrs. C.- V. Clodfelter. director of the orchestra, had charge of the pres entation. Glendale Opens Grand Central Air Terminal With Extended Program GLENDALE, Cal.. Feb. 25. (AP) Thirty : thousand people sweltering In the heat of one of this winter's hottest days in southern California, formally ded icated the Grand Central Air ter minal here Friday. The airport, boasted as the "most modern" In the nation, re celved the plaudits of a score of notable personages tn aviation. W. B. Mayo, chief engineer of the Ford Motor company, Detroit; Colonel Arthur Goebel. - famous pilot: - Governor C. C. Toung of California; Jack Maddux of the Maddux Air lines, and other de-J livered radios from the Impro vised grand stands. - , -Over 100 Plaaea Sees More than a hundred airplanes. including a group of military craft flown by United States army pil ots, swept on to the 400 acre field for an hour and a half, parading before an enthusiastla crowd. Among the pilots were Miss Bob ble Trout, holder of the women's endurance flight record; Lieuten ant I. A. Wood ring, army , stunt pilot; Ruth Elder, woman filer. and Lieutenant D. W. Tomlinson. former nary stunt pilot: : j The gayety of the dedication was marred by a minor but spec tacular accident which happened a few minutes before the program opened i and directly - before the grandstand, -r. - H ;..y? '! :v : I Notables Present Ho Lieutenant Tomlinson. flying a trt-motored plane of the Maddux Air lines, had landed with Ruth Elder, Peggy Hamilton. - writer. Jack Maddux, Colonel .Arthur Goebel, Mayor George Cryer of Los Angeles rW. B. Mayo, Pr is cil ia Dean,' film star, and Miss Vir ginia Sullivan. Lieutenant Tom- Union's fiance, as passengers. . Ltout. Tomllson. ; believing his passengers had cleared the plane. gave the motors the gun" as the passengers posed beside the ship or photographers. The right rud- dsr struck runway. Miss Hamilton was ren dered unconscious and Miss Sulli van was dased, the other. passen gers being slightly shaken. The two women revived quickly after first aid treatment and remained at the field.. TEXAS DRY IHS I - EXECUTIONER SUICIDES "The man who walks alone" Is dead a suicide. John W. Hulbert, who between 1914 and 1926 earn ed 1S,000 for executing felons for the states of New York, New Jer sey and Massachusetts, went to his basement Friday and sent two bul lets Into his own body. Hulbert had earned 115,000 by turning the killing electric current Into the bodies of men, and It cost him his mind. While not insane he lived in constant terror, and rare ly left his home. He feared that friends of men he had executed would murder him, and he said "I've lost my nerve. I couldn'; perform another execution." Hulbert had no friends. Every where he was recognised he was avoided, pointed out, and discuss ed In hushed whispers. The money he was paid could not compensate for the lack of human companion ship and his memories of men he had watched die as his hand con trolled the switch that ended their Uvea. Police Lieutenant Charles Beck er was the first man Hulbert exe cuted. Becker was involved in the murder of a New York gambler Hulbert never considered him self an avenger, or an agent of so ciety. Neither was he of the type which delights in dealing death. It was merely business with him. "Someone has to do It," he once said, "and it might as well be me I need the money." But that mental attitude could not be maintained, and Hulbert ended his own life rather than live longer among his fears and horri ble memories. Medford News. There's no particular value as a business getter m tne Slogan "Patronise your home town mer chant" unless it's backed by qual ity and price equal to that obtain able elsewhere. Sentiment hasn't any more weight with the buying public than the contents of a flea's feather bed. Dalles merchants know this but does the pubUc know they know It T Dalles Op- Of WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.- (AP) A Texas dry Invited a Wiscon sin wet to eoms "down to my dis trict" and meet the bootleggers and X wOT see that you get aU you want to drink" today on the floor of the house. And there are plenty them," the Texan ended. The Invitation was extended to Representative Blanton. democrat of the Lone Star state, to Repre sentative .--Schaeferf republican, Wisconsin, at the conclusion of a fiery set-to between the two. Schaefer declined the invitation saying he did not drink. The debate ' that led to the In vitation brought the charge from schaefer that Governor Smith had "pussyfooted' on the. prohibition Issue daring the recent campaign. "That's why I suBDorted him. said Blanton. inquiring If Schaefer naa thought Hoover wet. No; I supported Hoover be cause of the broad economic Is sues Involved," replied Schaefer. . ' GAS CHEAIYAND HOW SAN DIEGO, Feb..2 (AP) Five cent gasoline, the lowset price in San Diego, and, as far as anyone here knew, the-lowest la the world, was sold here today One hundred thousand persons turned oat at Mexico to follow to the grave the body of Jose de Leon Toral. executed for the murder of President-Elect Obregop. Curios ity may t have . impelled some but one does not escape , the conclu sion that Mexicans are a long way from being unanimous in support of the existing order and the ex lsting government In that country. Morning Register, Eugene. by one enterprising retail dealer. the group - broadside, He confessed that he wanted to do knocking , them to the concrete It for ; advertising. Old Oregon's Yesterdays , Town Talks frosa Tike States. Owr Fatber Read February Sd, -1904, The 1 first government I Inspec tion of the Oregon National Guard to be made since the militia be came a part of the standing army of the United States was begun last night when v Company : I of Woodbura was visited by Colonel Taylor of the If th U. & Infantry. Colonel Taylor will be In Salem tonight . , , ' - - The First" Congregatlonallsts have decided to build a new church at a cost of about $8,000. half of which sum is now In sight. The finance committee consists of George O. Brown, J.Al Morrison. Mrs. J. J. f Murphy. Mrs. W.- C. Kantner and Mrs. D. J. Fry. On the bnUdtng ' committee are Daa J. Fry, R. B. Fleming, Charles BL Fuller, Joel Hewitt and R. - B. Duncanr . " - - To the Editor: It is rarely that any commun ity is faced with such an. oppor tunity as that which now con fronts the city of Salem. We are offered a gift of $150,000 by the Rockefeller foundation if we will match it by a subscription or 2300,000 making a sum total of nearly $500,000. Can we afford to accept the challenge? To sug gest that we will not accept U is to suggest that we are lacking In enterprise, 6r business, judgment. Has this community ever consider ed what the effect upon it would be If the university were to with draw and leave no substitute be hind It? It Is no light education educa tional institution with not com pulsion on the taxpaying public to support it. It is no light burden that is imposed on the supporter of the independent college. The friends of Willamette have been compelled to wage a constant bat tle for Its existence but we accept the guage of battle because public sentiment requires it, and because our disadvantage hardens us ror the subsequent contests of after life. Willamette like Lincoln, and Garfield, began at the bottom. Our dormitories were the third story of the "Oregon Institute" and the rustic cabins of student construc tion. They were all conducted on the European plan where (every student was his own chef. ' cook, dishwasher. It was a famous pi oneer hostelry. Our first endow ment of $450 was contributed by the passengers on the Lausanne. This waa supplemented by contri butions of $600 each from Leslie. Lee and Judson, of $300 from Wines and Beers, and of $200 each from Parrlsh, Waller, Brewer and Raymond. These contributions represented from one fourth to one third of the total assets of the donors. They were payable in cash, in orders on the mission and In labor, in lumber and in wheat. The teaching staff was paid In starvation salaries. Wealth and even life, were sacrificed in ser vice. The earlier years were years of ' continuous discouragement. And even later years were little better. Even as late as the 80's when Prof. Hawley served for ten years as president we were not! able to give him a salary that would keep a canary bird in good physical condition. At times it was necessary to sacrifice valuable assets to stem the tide of adverse conditions. As a representative of the insti tution the writer was instructed to sell for $2000. the full block on the northeast corner of the cam pus, having a frontage of over 200 feet on State street, but he could get no bidder. He later did sell. at that figure, nearly the whole of Yew Park addition. Happily safe guards have been adopted that will make Impossible sacrifices of that character in the future. The university is now paying her own way. She has no debts. The money given her is used as one of the city's best and most profitable in vestments. It Is not an Idle fund hidden away as a speculation, awaiting an advance in value as the city ad vances In population. For 80 years she has been a contributor to the support and prosperity of Salem, while non-residents have given hundreds of thousands of dollars because they realise that she has been a prominent factor not only In building up the " city but the state as welL But unfortunately she has no recourse to the tax roll. She Is in no sense a beggar. She pays as she goes, but she needs more money to measure up to the pressing demands of the future. Her investors have been men of enterprise. Of non-residents .their contributions have been as - fol lows: Robert A. Booth, $200.00, C. A. Collins $100,000, Erie V. Hauser, $100,000. Peter W. Sever- son $100,000, James J. Hill $6.- 000, B. A. Eaton $60,000. 2. E. Unmeler a large sum, Philip Bu chner $8,000. A. N. Bush Is conspicuous as Sa lem's leading contributor, but hundreds of others have shown kind and liberal spirit. How can we show to these people our ap preciation. Only those who have lived in .Salem tor a generation know what has been . Willamette's contribution to her prosperity. She has been one of the chief at tractions of the town. For a period of 80 years she has been an edu cational magnet that has ! drawn about her j thousands of students and residents of a high character. Her location as a home town Is ideal. Taste and skill have mark ed her development Original and acquired beauty have been factors in her growth; They sided In her tight for' the for the state capital and In the future will be factors In making her a beautiful, attractive and prosperous city. Appreciation of her own advantage and a reas onable display of public spirit will make her attractions Irresistible. That Salem will hamper In any way the acceptance of the proposi tion made by - the Rockefeller foundation la unthinkable. Back of our appeal for its acceptance stands a record of If years of sac rifice and devotion.. .. . , Webster, battling for Dartmouth. admitted she was as a small col lege but declared "she had troops of friends." Let us demonstrate that, although Willamette Is ad mittedly a small college the too has "troops of . friends" and Is fired la her unconquerable deter mination to "go over the top. CHA8. B. MOORES. ? ;. ,; By It J. Hendricks Sedrwicki Post of the G. A. R. and tne Relief Corps have" untfe: cemetery. way plans to put up a monument for their comrades la thcCityvlew They were all there V The cannerymen. at the cham ber of commerce luncheon meet ing yesterday . To hear what W. O. Allen, dean of the industry here, had to say. He said a lot about the great growth and progress of the Indus tries concerned with the preserva tion of food supplies, which date back In time before history, and without which the human race would have hard sledding In keep ing from starving to death. f V "U But the important part of the remarks of Mr. Allen had refer ence to the cold storage processes, the oldest of all In time of their beginnings, and the newest in their modern applications, with which new outlets for our straw berry, loganberry and raspberry tonnages are largely tied up. . S Take our strawberries. About half of them are now going to market In cold pack form, from barrels to cartons. I Last year, figured in 450 pound or 50 gallon barrels, about half the strawberries of Oregon and Washington went to market by the cold pack route. s s s That is. we sent an eqlvalent of about f 0,000 barrels of straw berries in cold pack three times the number sent in 1926, and an increase last year over 1927 of about-35,000 barrels. The 450 pound barrel contains 800 pounds of berries and 150 pounds of su gar, and the proportion applies to smaller containers, down to the one pound cartons. Multiplying the 90.000 barrels by the S00 pounds, you have 27.- 000.000 pounds of straberrles. Mnltlply that by two for the can ned pack, and you have about 54,- 000,000 pounds strawberries sent to market last year from' Oregon and Washington, other than the tonnages of fresh berries sold. m m m Of the total strawberry tonnage marketed, the Salem district sup plied about 12,000 pounds, for the Salem canneries alone. This district also sent hundreds of tons of strawberries to Portland and other outside canners and pack ers. That Is enough to indicate the great Importance of Salem as a strawberry center; and a growing one. In long distance shipments in these two ways of marketing, Sa lem is the biggest strawberry cen ter of the world. ' - - i V s But this la also the greatest of all loganberry centers, and the eold pack processes . are needed more with this crop than with strawberries. Fortunat ely, as shown by Mr. Allen, the loganber ry lends Itself with especial ad. vantage to the eold peck process. It - retains the color, aroma and flavor better than any other fruit. That Is, the cold, pack process pre serves the essential oils of the loganberry more nearly in - their natural state of the berries fresh . from the vines than this can be done in the case of any other fruit. S , This fact furnishes the basis of hopes for big things In 4he logan berry industry. It is singularly ap propriate that these facts should have been brought out at Salem, the birthplace of the loganberry grown on a commercial scale, the time of which seems short It was In the nineties of the last century; only a little more than a quarter of a century ago. V The fact was brought out yes terday that Salem consumers take practically no canned loganberries while they have responded very freely to the lure of the cold pack output, especially for pies. , m This is an earnest of what may be expected elsewhere, for If any people know good loganberries the people here should, with their taste running back to the birth of this king of the bush fruits. THE TOUCH-STONE A FOOL and knave with dif ferent views For Julia's hand apply; The knave to mend his fortune sues. The fool to please his eye. Ask you how Julia will behave, Depend on't for a rule, If she's a fool shell wed the knave If she's a knave, the fooL Samuel Blnhop (17il-n OFFERS WORTH OF TRAVEL ACCIDENT INSURANCE FOR ONE DOLLAR AND $1000 Worth of Auto Accident and Pedestrian Insurance Every time ycAi step out of your home or office you are subjected to the haz ards of the street traffic, skidding au tomobile8, or a possible crash of your j car which may disable you. 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