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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1929)
Roger Williams Still Banished THE decree of banishment which the Massachusetts Gen . eral Court ordered against Roger Williams in 1635 may 'be lifted by the same body, says a news item from Boston. We doubt if such actfon is taken as that was only 293 years i .ago and we may hardly expect Massachusetts, to show quite so much speed. - . We think of Roger Williams as one who fled across the snow, took refuge among the Narragansett Indians, and founded Providence, Rhode Island as an asylum of religious , freedom." In' reality Roger Williams was the bolshevik of his day. He was as Cotton Mather later described Mm: the " first rebel against the divine, church-order established in the . wilderness." " I r ; He was a rebel without mistake." He found Salem and Boston'' governed by an aristocracy of piety. The Puritans v had established a theocracy which was, a combination of rigid ; Calvinism and Old Testament Hebraism. Only church mem i'ibers could vote. Civil magistrates were to tarry out the or ijders of presbytery as strictly as the secular arm the verdict ' of the inquisition. Roger Williams, a brilliant graduate of Cambridge and student of the great -Coke, revolted against : ,such ecclesiastical tyranny; and so was banished. But Roger Williams was as much of a political rebel as. : ; he was theological. He began an Anglican, then-was suc cessively Separatist, Baptist and Seeker. A Seeker could be 'defined as a modern Unitarian or Christian -free-thinker. . In politics he became a Leveler. He was a pure democrat. His own theories of the social contract long preceded the ideas of vithe natural-rights school and the doctrines of Rousseau. vjCramping constitutions and closely-drawn frames of govern ment were not for Williams. He would let the people revamp their government whenever they chose. 7 A Leveler, he put all men on the same' plane without distinction of race, creed 'or wealth. .-: . Williams ranks as the innovator of genuine democracy. He caught the revolutionary implications of Christianity as applied to the existing social and political order. He set up no church-controlled state, no aristocracy either of wealth or of virtue. He said: "A Civil! Government is an ordinance' of God, to conserve . the Cmll peace of the people, so f aire as concerns their Bod ies and Goods." ' j ! i We doubt if there is much place for him even in modern ! Massachusetts. Seventeenth century intolerances have been supplanted by those of the twentieth century. Williams to day would certainly be on the blacklist of the "keymen of si America," and the D. A. R. would probably bar him from speaking in their meetings. He was nevertheless jthe pro , iphet of religious, political and social emancipation in Amer ica. A modern author has well said of him, that he was certainly the most generous, most open-minded, most lovable, of the Puritan emigrants the truest Christian amongst many who sincerely desired to be Christian., The National Pastime XTINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN, turned out to : be nbto healthy a year for Oregon as 1926. The death ! rate in the state rose from 1123 per 100,000 of population vl926 to 1146 in the following year. These are the figures given out by the department of commerce. Oregon contin ues to be one of the healthiest states in the union.. Deaths totaled 9857 in 1926 and 10,206 in 1927 in this state. r, The increases in rates of the various causes of mortality , were from diseases pf the heart and influenza, while decreas es were reported in rates from diarrhoea, enteritis, pneumon ia. whooDintr couch 'and diphtheria. Hie chief causes of Hpnth in 1927 wer hert ailments, whose rate was 218 ner : hundred thousand; cancer, 112;-accidents, 93; nephritis 3 longnt s aisease ) , szus ; ? tUDercutosis, o.o ; cereurai nem orrhage, 191; pneumonia, 68.1, " . i Heart disease has displaced tuberculosis as the chief cause of death. This 'may reflect the growing pressure of modern livinir. more arduous labor piled on the heart. Wei believe a truer explanation lies in the greater success in treating other type oi cases sucn as luoercuxwis. jneaicat science has accomplished so much in the war against disease, that people when they come to die don t have so much choice as formerly. Heart disease or cerebral hemorrhage haven't been conquered in the way tha other diseases, notably the Infectious diseases have. ? It is literally amazing what has been done toward curing lubercular cases as well as preventing the diseased Dr. Man Bisailloru medical director of. the Portland Open Air sanitor rum. showed slides at the Rotary club luncheon Wednesday r. illustrating how cures had been effected which the laymen would not dream of. For instance air is admitted into the cavity of the thorax which compresses the cavity in the lung i i - i i r i wmcn may nave resuiteu lrum luuercutusus. Agaw a suhh nerve is severed which causes one side of the diaphragm to rise, compressing the lung and filling in the cavity. After all the best cure is prevention. Health habits are the indispensable factors of keeping weDL Public sanitation is as important as individual hygiene in promoting health. Razzing the Legislature A LEGISLATOR told us the other day: -Never again." He was a new member; he admitted hewas through. And we do not wonder." What with the incessant lobbying, the barrage of advice from newspapers and private citizens, 7 the pressure from this angle and that as well as the laborious work involved of trying to keep up with the perplexing ques tions coming up for decision, it is not surprising the legis- lator --throws up his hands and shouts Enough." .. . The worst trial of all we feel is the razzing which editors of papers large and small give to the legislature. It has be - come., the favorite indoor sport of news-mongers to take cracks at the legislature. The" body is held up in derision and it's IQ, set down at the minimum mark. . It is true that a lot of freak legislation is proposed, a lot of foolish bills are introduced. When it is all over however the amount of absurd legislation relatively smalL The laws passed are frequently imperfect, which is not surprising considering the pressure tinder whkh they are driven through. : .' -. -- "A: ; We submit this proposition however tljat the legislature, iA so far as it is a unit, is intelligent, conscientious and hard- worKing. n aeserves mure ox pmse wu gircemun, uujik of acclaim and less of popular acorn. L - - - ,-' ' i. - . ; ' . " . , . . V- . t - Editors Say: THE SINGLE BOARD Passage by the house yesterday of the bill creating a single board of higher education to replace the separate board of regents and also the board of higher curricula puts the matter up to Governor Patter son for . approval or disapproval, the senate having previously voted for the bill. It Is not im probable that the governor will pass favorably upon the measure. Sponsors of the bill see in It an Instrument which will save con siderable money, eliminate un necessary duplication of courses at the schools of higher, education and Insure a greater efficiency In our educational plants besides re ducing the friction between the schools. " The measure, while It will be more or less of an experiment in this state, seems to offer results well worth striving for. Other states hare adopted the Idea with satisfaetor results. The bill ' seems particularly timely in view, of the nnendins controversies between the univer sity and the college. Both Institu tions are In need of more funds for buildings and equipment and present their cases to the legisla ture and to the people. There is dispute over - the division of the millage funds. There is this charge and that counter-charge. Each in stitution has strong friends and partisan who are ready to do valiant battle. The result Is con fusion, bitterness, strife and the issues remain undecided. With a single board supervising the affairs of the different schools, regulating their courses of : study, determining their rela tive needs and distributing the ed ucational funds. It would seem that the aggravating situation would to a considerable degree be alle viated and that, too, without any one of the schools sacrificing Its individuality. The experiment Is at least worth a trial. AstorUn Budget. Bits for Breakfast 'By R. J. Hendricks tonliS Oddfellows From Many Cities at Monmouth on Mon- , day Evening MONMOUTH. . Feb. 28. The visiting asociatlon of Polk county Odd Follows met at Monmouth Monday, night with an attendance numbering about 350. Represen tatives, were present from Inde pendence, Falls. City, Dallas, Ball ston. McCoy. Salem; and Oregon Normal student members from va rious lodges over the state. Mr. Lee of Falls Citv. president of the visiting associationpresided. After the business meeting the following program was enjoyed: Song. America, in which all Joined; reading by . Miss Alice Butler; song by Miss Florence Bierce, accompanied on piano by DeVero Penhollow; reading by Eunice Grlmsgard; plano-accprd- ion number by Irene Blackerby. The meeting was then turned over to -Claude Boothby, chairman of the: social committee. Cards and Dance Enjoyed Following the banquet a social hour of cards and dancing was en joyed with music, furnished by Whiteaker's orchestra. Mr. and Mrs. Clay Taylor and daughter Nan, and Mr. Pettit. father of Mrs. Taylor, drove here from Vancouver; Wash., Monday evening for the Odd Fellows meet, ihg, returning home after mid night. Mr. Taylor" was formerly city marshal of Monmouth and they retain membership t lk the local lodge. Monmouth's Lions club enter tained the first and second basket ball teams of Oregon Normal school and Coach Wolfe at lunch eon Tuesday. A number of visit ors from" the Independence Den also were present. . Miss Margaret Scruggs, a normal school student sang, accompanied by- Miss Alice Varks. The Lions are arranging for a Ladles' night March 15. Virgil Loomis spent the week j end with his family. Mr. Loomis is workia near TlUamook this; winter; Visits EolA Friends Wayne Harding spent the weekJ end visiting friends at Sola. Mrj Harding Is principal of the -Brooks pubue school. Robert - Irwin and Wiley Sulli van, pupus or tne urooKs puoac sehool, moved with their parents to Lablsh Center this week. Mrs. A. Baynard, of .waeonda. spent the past week as guest of her cousin Mrs.' Crls Otto, here. Olen Coffindaffer. youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coffin daffer is ill with influenza, ' Mr. snd Mrs. George Bolter of Roseburr and his brother Ernest and wife, of Portland were Sunday guests of their aunt, Mrs. Mary Moiean. Miss Brennen, county health nurse, visited tne urooKs scnooi Monday. She found several chil dren with very bad colds. Twenty pupils are absent from school be cause of bad colds. STAU WILL BE ERECTED . MILL CITY. Feb. 23 (Special) The building formerly occupied by the Mill City garage Is being moved to the back of the lot on which It stands, and will be used for a storage garage, the front of the lot. to be occupied by a modern service station. The property be longs to Bulger 11111. The service station will be leased, the names of the proprietors not yet being made known. pKegted Seniors at Silverton Choose Comedy; Miss Hadley Will Direct SILVERTON,. Feb. J8. Miss Dorothy Hadley; assistant drama- tie coach of the senior high school has Just completed the try-outs for the senior play whieh Is sched uled : on the school calendar, for early May. The play selected is "An: Early Birdaad-' the cast Will inciuue; xxareia ruinnui, Wilbur Nfcenberg. Harold Merri- mani Elmo Llndholm. Joe Lytle, Elisabeth Keene. Beatrice Booth, Reta' Rahn, Berglolt Johnson, Marguerite Bather. Irene Ooyette, Edgar Irish and Robert Riches. Rehearsals for the play will commence this weeic. Miss Elna Sandtne, spent the vacation from Oregon State Nor mal School, in Silverton visiting atgtbe home of Miss Helen Dicker- son. Miss xauriei uenison ana miss Florence Neshelm. Miss Dicker- son, was also at home for the ex tended week end. Arthur Neshelm of Toledo, and tafiss Naomi Huggens of Siletz. spent sunaay at tne nome oi mr. Neshelm s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Neshelm on Kent street. Other dinner guests for the day included Ed Reede and Laurence Cook. THE Meet MISS Oregon VNE of our pet peeves is "Old Man Oregon." 4 vJl You all know hinv the old man with loner-tailed black coat, broad brimmed black hat, billowy umbrella and the in evitable set of whiskers. Oad 2Xaa Oregon is supposed to characterize Oregon the same as John Bull does England and ' Uncle Sam , the VAJ ' -yr-' i ' Maybe he does; maybe Oregon belongs iir the old man fins with atvles of seventy-five years ago. : ' - . f ye think not. We are tired of having this-live, active western state pictured as a seedy old-timer. We recommend that cartoonists draw a newxharacter for Oregon and here ttMth nominate MISS Oreffon. Make her modern. Dress her (or undress her) in the latest style. Touch her cheeks with rnnirp Yh ner hair: or should it be growing out again! Pen cil her eyebrows. We will not shock anyone by prescribing a cigarette. Put youth, vivacity; personality into the make ups. Anything: to get away irom ims oia-m&n complex wmuu holds the state back. 'Ut i. ' ; Ladies- and gentlemen, we introduce -MISS Oregon tc vou. Let her be queen of ther party for a time. - WSf MAT YET GO INTO WORLD COURT When la January of 192S the United States senate conditionally agreed to the entry Of this nation to tho world court of Internation al justice tour of Its proposed res ervations were accepted ty the other nations interested. The fifth oaetwas not rejected but the na tions invited farther discussions. There our government dropped the matter for the time being. And we are still outside. Our state department has just now taken the initiative towards resumption of the negotiations by proposiag to the member nations an exchange of views regarding the fifth reservation, which pro vides that the United States shall not be bound by advisory opinions of the court rendered wtthout our consent. As the court members did not at any time reject this reser vation but merely asked for an exchange of ideas which might clarify the position on both sides and lead to agreement the pros- teoas at least fair that' agreement ' may - come about. Secretary of State Kellogg says that "thers seems to be but Uttto difference regarding the substance of the eontenUon from cither side. Just waking up - S V There Is a lot of attention to a recent article In the Statesman about the outstanding advantages of walnut growing In the Willa mette valley over that industry In California . b 1- And the evidences of this should have been more general and more prompt. In brief, -the spread'1 of the walnut Industry in California is 1 doomed; in fact, the present bearing acreage, Is decUnlng, and bound to keep on in the same dt. rectlon, to the vanishing point S S The reasons. There is not enough water either in the Call. fornia rivers or underground from wells to supply the irrigation that is necessary for all crops there. Including the walnut crops. The level of water In the Irrigation wells has gone down 10 feet on the average, and It la steadily going downward. Then the walnut codling moth is destroying the walnut trees. And the quality of the product cannot.be maintained on a par with Oregon walnuts, be cause of the weather in harvest time, melting the oil and making the walnut meat rancid, and dis coloring the kernels; making them black. Those are some few reas ons. There are others. Including the high prices of walnut-land in California;' its high sale value mSking the overhead too much, as compared with Oregon condi tions. i As sure as water runs and grass grows, the Willamette valley Is headed to the chief place in all the world in edible nut growing. Na ture decreed that, in the eons past. The keeping of federal prison ers at the Oregon state peniten tiary Is about at the vanishing point. There is only one on hand now, a woman. There are regu larly about a dozen women pris oners there now, a Jnigh mark compared with any former time. For a number of years, the Ore gon prison had regularly a lot of reaerai prisoners; . mostly men That practice existed up to No vember 12. 105, when all the male federal prisoners were trans iered to government institutions mostly.to the penitentiary on Mc Nell's island, at Steilacoom. near Tacoma. m i H The government pays the state a flat 4r a month for the keeping of women prisoners. There is only one federal prison In the country for women; in Virginia. In other parts of the country, the women convicted of the violation of fed. eral laws are kept In the state prisons. W W A lot has been said about the case of a Michigan woman boot legger .being liable to go to the penitentiary for life, on her fourth conviction. She is caught in the toils of the Baumes law, which In Oregon is the Lewis law. This ap plies only to third or. fourth con victions for felony owing to the different forms of the law In the different states. In Ohio, it fa on third convictions, dating back be fore the passage of the Baumes law in New York. s s s The trouble is that the whole idea of term convictions follows wrong principles. No one should be sent to prison for any term Every sentence should be inde terminate absolutely. And every prisoner should be eligible to pa role as soon as there is reforma tion, there should be no releases. Oh mves, the writer knows the gen eral public will not agree to this now. But it will come, because It Is the right way. The right al ways prevails, In time. Every mod ern penologist and crimonologist In the world; however, will agree to this now. COHS KEEP PUPILS y shall not be amended without our consent. Morning . Register, Eugene. LINDBERGH IX THE CABINET? The suggestion has been made that Lindbergh should have a place in the cabinet and it Is cer tain to awaken considerable re sponse in that element of the pub lic which Is moved by sentimental rather than practical considera tions. For why should Linabergn be In the cabinet? He does not need the salary; he already .has more fame and popularity than he knows what to do with and in deed he might lose both If he ac cepted a political office. 'Any cab inet position is one of executive authority over thousands of peo ple, such as no young man in his twenties is fitted by experience to flu. . . Lindbergh 1s a great aviator, one of the greatest in the world. His flight to Pari revealed that. and his. subsequent aerial exploits have shown the first to have been no accident. It does not follow Old Oregon's Yesterdays Stem Talks from The State. mum Owe Fathers Read March 1, 1004 The C. A. A. C. has closed a con tract with Harry Edmondson, re cently of Santa Barbara, Calif., to. manage the Salem baseball team this season. Architect W. C. Knighton has opened an office in the First Na tional bank building. Harry De Wlndt, Russian trav eler, will lecture at the Metho dist church Saturday next. that a great aviator would bo eaually successful as a large scale The -difference administrator. It Is almost certain sp9remtly as difference largely that he would not until he had as of terminology. -rt .much experience In this work .a The United States-"reservations he had had in his ehosen calling already accepted by the member nations ; are that by supporting and adhering to the world court ws do not assume any obligations under the league of nations, that prior to the achievement that Won him fame and fortune. A man' is usually to stick to the thing he can do best. Indeed the position Lindbergh accepted in the avla- we may participate on aa equality 'tlon work of the government a few with other nations In the selection days ago Indicates his intention of judges, that congress shall de,to "carry onT in this line, even if termlna what . nronortion of the he does' have to stay on tne ground court expense we shall beat and most of the time. Baker Dno that the statute creating the courtier at Herald. Students of the Oregon state mute school have completed an exhibit to be sent to the World's Fair at St. Louis. It is now on dis play in the Buren and Hamilton furniture store. Misses Halite Watson and Mae Chapler were visitors in Wood burn. 1 Dr Riley Booked For Three Talks HUBBARD. Feb. 28. Dr. P. O. Riley of Hubbard is scheduled to address the toUowlng meetings: the Community club r of Salem Heights. Wednesday night; the State -Training - school, Monday, March 4 at 8 o'clock, the subject being MRome;" and the Kiwania club la Portland at its noon lunch eon Wednesday, March f. ' W FROM SCHOOL BROOKS, Feb. 28. (Special) The Brooks Community club will meet Thursday afternoon at, the home of Mrs. Frank Ramp. AH ladies ' are cordially Invited to come. Mrs. Wfflard Ramp and Mrs. Sylvester 1 Harris will assist Mrs. Ramp at the tea hour. Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Harris were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Craw. ford and children, Barbara Jean and Kenneth Robert Crawford of Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Sil Wanez of Mission Bottom, Mr. and Mrs. Syl vester Harris and Miss La von Har ris and Albert Harris. ( i 1 Will Produce More Heat be glad to help ( pif ct the fuel that VI We will you select the fuel that ! will give you the most -for the cost. x i -. Bring your heat prob lems to SalencHeat Merchants GOOD WOOD ORCOAL ' SQOIlIlimaaim LTtioeIi-(SD. - PROMPT SERVICE 1405 Broadway ' i. 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