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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1929)
' . 4 ijr 'I- Engineers Blame Crenothrix T7 knew all the time it was something like that. It must I If have a jawbreaker name because it has such a mouth twister taste. Salem people won't have to eat raisins to get their iron any more. Instead of saying: "Have you had your iron to day Y they can inquire: "Have you drunk your daily potion of crenotbrixr . The dictionary defines the word as "a genus of bac teria consisting of long, stiff, unbranched filaments. The only species occurs abundantly in ponds and often in reser voirs, imparting a bad taste to the water." The last part of the definition is agreed to at any rate. The algae were innocent after all, the dear little things. The algae family ought to hire a lawyer and bring suit against the city and newspapers, and water company, for libel. If every individual member of the family sued, they would take over the entire city. The Cupper and Simpson report which blames the "iron bacteria" agrees with other findings as to the remedy, which is the important thing after all. The chief improvement is a new filter plant, which the company has agreed to install. The company is also installing a liquid chlorinator, which the - engineers recommended. The report also concurs in the con clusions of other investigators that the Willamette should continue to be used as the source of supply. Wells would be a doubtful source and the water therefrom would be hard. Now that crenothrix have replaced algae as the vic tims of our wrath, let us hope that positive action in the re construction of the water intake system may not be long deferred. - Health Education Pays EDUCATION in i health is paying dividends in Marion county. For four years child health work has been con ducted by the Commonwealth fund of New York state through the aid of the county government and the munici palities and the public schools. Now results are telling the story. Take the matter of infant deaths. In 1924 the first year of the work here, 54 of every 1000 babies born in this county died in infancy. Each year has seen this ratio reduced. In 1928 only one baby in 27 died while in 1924 the rate was one child from 18. . Prenatal care for mothers, with adequate medical at tention at time of birth and .nursing help during the first 10 days after the baby's arrival has been equally effective in reducing the death rate of mothers. In 1927 the rate of death for mothers was 7.6 for each 1000 births; in 1928 this mar kdropped to 22 and the remarkable fact was evidenced that where the mother was under prenatal nursing-supervision, with medical care at and after birth, not a single death resulted. Only by reading the summarized report of four years of child health work in the county can an appreciation be made of the value of the service. The results axe not pro paganda or theories made to induce larger appropriations. The results are the scientifically determined gains made when education and care replaced ignorance and poor treat ment. Our county is fortunate in being one of the favored dis tricts jof the United States where this intensively practical program is being carried on with the expense" largely borne by the Commonwealth fund. Each citizen owes it to his own education to acquaint himself with the value of the work, that it may be carried on, in part at least, when the five years are past and the Commonwealth workers withdraw. Students Make Amends SALEM high school students have made the proper amends for the bad outbreak of last Friday night. Student dep utations have visited Dallas and Oregon City, making proper apologies to the city superintendents who were the objects of student anger. In addition the students have pledged themselves to attend the state tournament and loyally sup port the Ch'emawa Indian team which won the championship. The students deserve praise for this manly and straight forward action. It is easy in the heat of contest to let emo tions overcome reason. It is hard to make apology for mis deeds. In seeking to make the "amende honorable" the Sa lem students have taken the right course; and we trust the other schools will meet this action in the right spirit. It takes time to wipe out the bitterness engendered by a few brief moments of excited passion. Salem high school will find its conduct closely checked for many years to come. But the prompt and honorable conduct of the students in making the necessary apologies will make the way back to good favor among the schools of the district so much the easier. Covering the I T took between 500 and 600 auguration. Permits were still, movie and sound. Then tery of radio attendants and Graham McNamee who handled the radio hook-up. Modern mechanics of conveying the news has prog ressed rapidly from the days of the single wire and the Morse, code. , Automobiles,- airplanes, radio, telephoto all played their part. One movie concern sent 27 men to Wash ington to handle its interests in movies of the inauguration. ; With such a mob of t news-hounds and picture-takers, organization was necessary to enable them to function. Jim Preston, superintendent of the Senate news gallery, had charge of the news writers and a committee of White House news photographers managed the picture men. The job was certainly well done. Only the movies re-.- main to be seen in this far distant place; and they will be shown in a very few. days. Speed though doesn't give us the best pictures. Telephoto is ; suits are too much of a blur. come the news value is reduced so the papers won't run them. We shall have to wait for the illustrated magazines for the best views of the inauguration. i - . More Regulation Proposed TN the Ohio general assembly a bill has been introduced X calling for more regulation, field. It doesn t seem to satisfy one assemblyman at least to have laws against fraud in ness bureaus to enforce standards in advertising. This bill would impose a fine of from $10 to $100 on any concern that advertised and sold goods for a good reason for doing so. market prices on the goods - depreciated through style change, etc ; - Now there's more governmental regulation for you. If a merchant wants to give his goods away, why not let him . do it.' Hell soon get tired of 1 reason be in the minds of an bill might have one good effect; it might encourage mer cnants to una out jus wnac weir gwus ao cost. - What Olio needs is a few good ad clubs like the Salem ad dab. Maybe they have them. If they do, we are tore it ;. . viJ-. v:n ;n Aim. ..iA. , j - - Salem feels more intimately acquainted In the high cir cles of Wasnin'on than ever before. The president worked here as a boy, Senator Charles farm relief program is a Salem citizen and ' Congressman - Hawley, chairman of the ways and means committee in the house, is likewise a resident of this city. A rather distin guished group of Salemites; war opine, all of which proves the quality of this state. . , . ' . , Inauguration reporters to "cover" the in issued to 800 camera men there should be added the bat a great invention, but its re- And when the good pictures this time in the advertising advertising, and better busi less than cost without giving It would allow exceptions where have fallen or where goods are it. Just what would a "good' Ohio justice of the peace? The McNary, who is heading the They Say... Exprcntous of Opinion from Statesnuin Readers are Welcomed for Use in this column. All Letters Mast Bear Writer's Name, Though This Need Nit be Printed. Editor Statesman: The replies to the questionnaire sent oat by the chamber of com merce on the needs of Salem, prompts me to add to the needs mentioned the lack of an Illum inated sign on the north end of the Southern Pacific depot. Trar- el from the south does not need this sign hut it is much needed bjr the stranger approaching from the north at night. Let's tell the company about it. They might surprise. us like the company did me when I told them they ought to hare a man's sized door at the receiring platform for their bag gage room. The door was low and when I straightened up in it I bumped my head. Being bald- headed it hurt just enough to raise my Indignation to the ex tent that I sat down and wrote the company a letter telling them about it. The next time I went out to dellTer a trunk I found a man-sixed door. "You can't al ways sometimes tell." We might be surprised like the Statesman bill collector was some years ago. I had a barber shop out on 17th and Center streets and on one of the hottest days during the summer, Carl Williams, collecting tor the Statesman, came Into the shop wiping the perspir ation from his intellectual brow, and threw himself Into a chair. After he cooled off he said he had a bill from the Statesman. X for got whether X paid it or not the chances are X stood him off for a while, but X do remember that I told him that he ought to hare an automobile to chase around in. He laughed. X said "Just mention It to them, they might get one for you." He laughed again. The next time he cameout to collect he came with a Statesman auto mobile. "Ton can't always some times tell!" EUGENE T. PRESCOTT. 10(4 Oak street. Old Oregon1!! Yesterdays Talk Irons The State. Omr Sathen Xiead ,y.r -?-' March 12, 1904 - The Portland Flouring MQls company will rebuild the core ring orer the water ditch on. North Front street. Repairs hare been sorely needed for some time, but were held op because of cost. Urs. Mark H. garage gare an electlonary entertainment la -the Masonie temple at Jefferson. The first open meeting of the Salem Toung Men' Republican dab, held la the council chambers, waa a howling success, with a large mixed audience present. A Baker City A telephone mes sage reeelred here tells of a fatal snow slide which occurred at Cor nucopia mountain early last night Two men were killed and six In jured. BARTENDERS FIGHT ' " KL PASO. Mar.-ll (AP) Mexican bartenders and waiters enlisted with federal troops In a body daxjng the battle of Juares this morning. It was learned tonight Another First "Touch? of Bits for Breakfast By R. J. The time will come m When the old reform school site will be used for an intermediate reformatory, for young men and first ofrensers, and perhaps wom en prlsacera. S In the older states, the Institu tions like our state training school for boy are called juvenile reform schools, and the interme diate institutions, like the one it Elmira, New York, are called just reformatories. ' Si At the Elmira reformatory. there are three grades. Inmates go at first into, the second grade, and are adranced to the first or lowered to the third according to their conduct. They are siren credits a word ing to their labor and their con duct. Through the credits, they are seir supporting. That Is, the inmate In the first grade may hare' better food as well as better treatment, because of his better conduct -and more faithful work, and may go out upon parole with a little earing from his fund cre ated by his credits, it he be thrif ty; or he may help to support h'a dependents on the outside. At the nenltentiarr f Ulnnp. sota at Stillwater, there Is much the earn system. The difference there Is that young men and first Offenders are reeelred at the same institution with the econd lime or third or fourth time los ers, as ther call the men servincr beyond their first terms. i And at Stillwater. hra In. stltntion Is self nnnnrlln? through, Its industries, all work ers are paid wages. These run partly according to class and qual ity of work and partly according 10 ine needs ot the dependents on the outside. For Instance, at Stillwater, a prisoner with a large family on the outside may be paid as high as 11.50) a day for his vork, while the man laboring in the same department by his side may get only 2i cents a day, ow ing to his lack of skill, but most ly by reason of the fact that he is a single man without depen dents on the outside. - This makes the Stillwater pri son Jrirtuallr a i reformstnrr. though it Is not called by that name. The. result i that th Minnesota penitentiary, has the nigaest rate or reformations for a prison of-like character In the whole world. It runs to around 15 per cent The discipline at the Stillwater prison Is strict; np to the standards of the nait rtrii military rules. There Is no cod- oung; nut there to kindness and Party Planned At Castle U. B. ; For Hustlers A special occasion will be held at the Castle United - Brethern church parlors Wednesday ereA nlng. when the Senior Christian Endearor society meets in a so cial hour as a climax to the con test for attendance and member ship which has been running for a number of weeks., A.,:;-Wv---- The Hustlers, under the cap taincy of Miss Myrtle Bailey, se cured the most points In the con test'and will be banqueted by the losers, the J BesUers, of which group Mri. Woodford Cross is captain. Another : - contest ' will probably be started la the near future. Spring Hendricks justice with work for ail and pay for all, and educational facil ities, too. t That is the model for the Ore gon prison. The Oregon rerolr- ing fund law was copied from tLe Minnesota law, in so far as the Ort gon constitutional prorisions and other conditions here would permit So the Oregon penitentiary Is growing Into a reformatory; on the lines of the ono at Stillwater. The Oregon prison will become self supporting in the next ten years; perhaps much sooner. through the operations ot the in dustries there: and with no fur ther appropriations lor the Indus tries from the money of the tax payers ot this state. It But, eren so, there will be a place for a reformatory in Ore gon, for young men and boys above the jurenile reform school age, say from 16 to. IS years ana up, and for first offenders, or such of these as are committed with recommendations by the trial judges, and perhaps for women. And such a reformatory may be made self supporting, along with the prison itself And through a series of years it would be better to hare the re formatory under the same super intendent as the prison itself; though few if any states hare their similar institutions so man aged. But that is no reason why the system suggested will not be better under the conditions In Oregon. n. -In the mean time, the lands (about 00 acres) will be under the charge of the penitentiary management, and the buildings that were not destroyed by the re cent fire will no doubt be- pre served and kept in good order tor any wse that may be made of them. ti W Another thing: At the Still water prison, a man who has killed the head of a family, and who himself has no family, may be obliged to contribute his wages towards the support ot the family he thus deprired of its bread win ner. IN SORROW ENTLY, Lord, oh, gently lead Pilgrim In this rale of tears; Through the trials yet decreed us, Till our last great change ap '", pears. . When . temptation's darts assad us, ..- .-; . When in devious paths we stray. Let Thy goodness never fail us, Lead us in Thy perfect way. In the hour of pain and anguish, In the hour when death draws .near, .r-s ;'. ;,; ' - Suffer not our hearts to languish, Suffer not our souls to fear; And, when mortal life Is ended, RduinThfatarmstorest, T0I, hy angel bands attended, : We wake among the West, ' ' r&estee Uatttngi (Htt-ltT2 . A PRE&ICKNT'fl DUTIES "Herbert Hoorer begins his first day aa presidjejit QLthe Unit ed States by shaking hands with XSIt people. If you want to know what that means, stand on your feet on some convenient street eorner and shake the hands ot the first 2600 passersby," suggests the Eugene Register. Tes, try It and -see what hap pens. Before the first thousand had passed in review it is more than likely that an officer of the law would have you in tow," and that presently you would be pass ing or falling to pass an ex amination for sanity. That's one of the differences between a president and ordinary, people. Things that he is virtu, ally forced p do would be con sidered strange indeed if done voluntarily by almost anyone else. And such things make the pres ident's job a lot more difficult tli an it need be Bend Bulletin. THE PRICE OF THE PRESIDENCY Ex-President Coolidge's first installment in the April Cosmo politan tells "The price of heart aches of being president." A more touching and altogether pathetic document could scarcely be imag ined. It reveals our retiring pres ident in an entirely new light a man of intense feeling, but al ways repressed, suffering the greatest sorrow a parent can suf fer, but giving no hint of his inner feelings, as long as he occupied the White House. , The first installment might be entitled, "Now it can be told," re garding the sudden and tragic death of his son Calvin, Jr., he simply writes, "When he went, the pride and glory ot the presi dency went with him. I do not know why such a price was exact ed for occupying the White House. In his suffering he was asking me to make him well. I could not. . . We do not know what might have happened to him under other circumstances, but if I had not been president he would not have raised a blister on his toe which resulted in blood poisoning, play ing lawn tennis in the South grounds." They called him ,Silent Cal," the dour Vermonter, in whose veins ran ice water Instead of blood. These articles simply dem onstrate once more, how little any of us know, about the real indi vidual what folly It is to judge the "inside" of any person, by the mask that he chooses, for one reason or another, to show toe world. Only a few days ago we wrote something about "Lucky Cal." From the standpoint of the outside observer ot the political pageant, there "was some justifi cation of that comment. But after reading this first installment we realize how superficial and cheap ly flippant such a judgment was. In the things that really count in determining happiness or unhap piness In life the term "Lucky Cal" has no place. Medford Mail. Tribune. .MERGING RAILROADS Apparently the great railway consolidation issue is about to come to a definite climax, in which . some tangible, concrete steps will be taken. . For years the interstate commerce commis sion has been hoping that the great eastern trunk lines would get together and map out an amicable rearrangement between themselves. To date, however, they hare been unable to do so; and now two of them have taken things into their own hands and submitted their own plans to the cimission. The B. ft O. acted first, listing the roads that it felt should be grouped about its existing system. A day later the Tan Sweringen C. ft O. followed suit with its list of roads it wanted. Whether these two plans will ever be adopted in anything like their present form is, of course, problematical. But at least a start is being made. The next step is up to the two remaining trunk lines the Pennsylvania and the New York Central. Doubtless they will be heard from shortly. Kla math Falls Herald. A GREAT NEWSPAPER There lies on the table a copy of last Thursday's issue of a great newspaper. The Springfield (Mass) Republican, for more thai a hundred years one of this coun try's really influential newspapers despite the fact that It is publish ed in a city not half the size of Seattle or Portland. .On the right side of the front page Is a" three-column-three-llne heading In large "Cheltenham" a nnounclng "JACK SHARKEY WINNER OVER YOUNG STRIB LING, etc. On- the left hand sido is a similar heading telling about "LINDY IN CRASH IN MEXICO,'' etc. Then on one side is a two col umn picture of a pretty Spring field girl, a witness in some trial or other, which is balanced by pic tures ot Mr. Hooter's cabinet ap pointees. - Then the eye travels down a long list of "modern" headings on news stories from all parte of the world. Nothing sen sational, mind you. but in "make up" The Republican Is a modern newspaper. Yon may wonder why this Is worthy of note. Well, the mind runs back to a hot August night IS years ago when the telegraph wires were vibrating with the news that the Kaiser's army had Invaded Belgium. For a conserva tive paper that had stuck to one column headings through other wars and through the assassina tions of presidents and through the sinking of the Titanic and similar stupendous events , this raised a momentous question. Did such a war warrant more than a single column bead? And ' then came the terrific news that Britain was going In. - After conferences and : consultations. The Republi can broke out, with a two-column head. . ' .' . ' : .. The world mores and the science of journalism' -mores with it' It was the "yellow journals" that Herbert Hoover's Sy SASBX A. V- atLYKB . Of TaaaU, OlmUad, O. (Abb UUlat BilTar w bra t Kate tadt, Behirwtofit. Litbaaala. Jasaary 3S, 189. Ha U a graM at tha Uaivaraitr of Ciaeinaati a4 Hebrew Unioa .eollaca. Froa 1015 ta 11T ha was rabbi of Coa Kregatioa L'8haa Shamayim at Whaalinf. W. Vs. Sine tkat tima b baa baa, rabbi of Tha Tampla at Claralaad. Ha waa la franca during- tba World war at tba ra qnest of tba United States sad franc jroTarnmaata.) THE American people hope to find in the incoming presi dential administration those qualities of rislon, leadership and sympathetic understanding ot the needs of our country's great masses which were lacking in the previous administration. Herbert Hoo ver will bring to his adminis tration his ex pert knowledge as an engineer, which will un doubtedly help him In many ot , his problems. The presidency of the United States, however, is more than an engineering job. It is a job of statesmanship and leadership. - We are entering upon an era of decreasing economic opportuni ties for the rank and file. The first Introduced big type and screamer heads and among sober, constructive journalists such as those who hare always handled The Republican there was at first a natural reaction against such practices. But there came, by and by, the realization that a paper could be made more readable and interesting without adopting sen sational extremes. Pictures bright en the news and explain it Head ings make the news easy to. find and read. The Interesting thing Is that though its dress is modern, The Republican has lost nothing in prestige. The Samuel Bowles who founded the paper back In 1824 was a man of character and cour age. The second; Samuel Bowles, with Solomon Griffin at his right hand, guarded jealously the pa per's record of truthfulness and honesty. In later years the ban ner has been held high by Sher man Bowles, Richard Hooker, Waldo Cook. Howard Regal, and the concessions that have been made to modernity have been made without sacrifice of precious character heritage. 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We are facing the prospect of be coming a nation of employes, wherein a very small group will definitely control our industrial lite as well. How far shall this concentration of power go on? How shall the people be safe guarded against a possible abuse ot such power? The American people hope tor some guidance from the new ad ministration In this rast perplex ity. They hope that Main street will hare at least as easy access to the White House as Wall street and that the tollers of the earth, the miners and farmers and mill workers will find In the new pres ident at least as understanding a friend and guide as organized capital. Mr. Hoorer is Internationally minded. He knows that no na tion can go it alone. Building 15 or 10 cruisers will not make us secure from attack or from de feat We .cannot arm against the world. -Nor can any other nation. The ; American people hope that Mr Hoorer will bring back into our life a bit of the International idealism of Wilson's day. The American people are not tired ot idealism. hysteria ot the Sacco-Vanzetti tri als, it was The Republican alone of New England newspapers which declined to join the stampede and insisted upon the orderly discus sion of the case. One could cite Innumerable similar instances. No paper is Quoted ' more widely for the strength and intelligence of Its views. Somehow the picture - of this venerable and respected newspa per in the hands of the "younger generation" Is rather significant. Not only In the newspaper world but In all walks of life the modes of dress and style of expression have changed. It is supposed to be a frivolous and even a perilous age. But despite new dress, new customs, there Is an underlying loyalty to fundamental traditions and Ideals. The lrreverance of the times is more seeming than real. Men still build on' honesty and de cency and courage. A great news paper has come through the dan gers of the period unscathed. There Is hop3 for the world. 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