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5 Si- t il- V i w c E k !. f- i t r Missouri University Has Rumpus i TflHREE college professors 'X soun nave been fired sending of a questionnaire to the university. The Questionnaire was an inquiry made in a study of sex questions by a Drovoked a great deal of comment both in and out of tne university. The students are university professors while presented petitions calling for Tolved. ' The board of curators decided the matter by taking dras tic action against three faculty members.. The president of the university jerked matters up with a sudden pull on the reins. We wonder however if the action of the university administration was not prompted in part at least by the fact the state legislature was in house appropriations committee was quoted as saying that if the university did not summarily discharge the faculty men and expel the students involved," l very much fear it ,will cost the university heavily We think the Questionnaire was a poor piece of invest ration. But it is just an index of the sort of- stuff that Is being peddled by college profs in classrooms. We do not be lieve in prudery in dealing with college students; but that does not justify launching adolescents into courses more in for medical school than colleges. . ;-- At the same time the nunishment meted out to the three professors seems altogether too severe and the threat of cutting off appropriations alone was enough to justify re taining the professors involved. The papers made fun of the m ? -1 i t - !i a. : j ;.intivM lennessee legislature uecause ii uicu w yi umun uuuuvuvu in evolution. Likewise a legislature is in poor business try ing to regulate other portions of the course of study. Those . . . J. . A 1 1 J i.1 Z matters snouia De leu to tne governing roara ana ine presi dent. " ' ' w:v Meantime it would be well for "other university presi dents to see just how far their professors, are going in their ' uufmaJ in enjtivlnnrw -anil 'TMVhnlrtOrV. - Continued fflHE latest statistics of, the farm population shows that Vjt the drift to the cities continues. The bureau6f agricul tural economics at Washington reports the farm population now to be the smallest in 20 persons working on farms was 32,000,000; in 1929 the esti mated number is 27,511,000. Last year 1,960,000 persons left farms for the cities while the reverse movement-amounted to 1,362,000. The excess of births over deaths reduced the figures for farm population net Joss of farm population in pared with 193,000 in 1927 and 649,000 in 1926. It is true that despite volume of agricultural production keeps increasing. This is due to the greater use of machinery, to better farming meth ods of all kinds. Fewer people are required to man the farms than in former years. The farm family can handle larger acreages than before. So the production keeps up or increases with fewer people to do the farm work. On the other hand manufacturing keeps growing. More men are needed to man the industries. Good wages' are of fered. Farm hands naturally drift to the cities for employ ment. '"The decline in farm population is slowing up. There is a real limit which may be nearly reached. Larger cities call for greater quantities of foodstuffs, and even with im proved farm machinery there still must be many hands on the farms to insure adequate production. ; -.The long view is assuredly favorable to agriculture. The laws of supply and demand have not been abrogated. Big ger cities,more consumers; fewer farmers, fewer producers. This nation is fast changing from an agricultural surplus nation to a nation with an agricultural deficiency and a man ufacturing surplus. As this change occurs we will find; the manufacturing centers calling for low tariffs on foodstuffs for their laboring classes. That is what the fanner' needs to be vigilant about. Tariffs for manufacturing are becoming less and less necessary. There is danger that manufactur ers may make an about face and .demand free importation of foodstuffs which would make the farmer suffer. . The Daily Procession PICTURES, press clippings, news stories, every device known to the ingenious press asrent. are rained oirthe ''J daily newspaper each mail. . f . .-. Let's see; we have with us a communication from the cigarette interests showing that the habit is growing in " China while in America countless women are becoming slim 0 "because they have learned to smoke. . I industry whose strong wall ; ers. raced by the attack, these devotees of sweetness fill their stories and consequently the waste basket, with facts about per capita consumption of sugar and its benefit to hu manity , I On goes the procession. Did we know that big business , immunized workers against contagious diseases ? Were we aware that pineapple from Hawaii makes fine fritters? And how about the tariff on shingles? Isn't that a fright? Even railroads who long since have passed from the editorial jaunts of last year, send long stories protecting or assailing threatened rival competition. ? Newspapers are little less than chumps when this mass of free propaganda is used. ' Legitimate advertising, proper- iv nlaced and naid for. ia a newsnaner's stock in trade smd it - is poorly respected when this' mass of waste basket material enters the columns.; .Yet because some newspapers are will- ing to be duped the publicity writer keeps his job ; he throws his line a hundred times in a hundred letters if only one bite F be secured. Then his stamps and stationery expenditure, will I '. have been adequately repaid. -' , ! : - The NewerCompetiti ' rriHE competition of merchants today remains keen and vjv hard-fought but into the field of business has come a jnewer competition which" threatens to exceed in scope and "directness the store-to-store fights of former days. This is , the organized warfare of industry against industry and trade against trade. ' . ; - . - . The radiodealer becomes increasingly the competitor of the auto dealer rather than the other radio distributor. The florist seeks on a national scale to vie with the photographer, alsd organized throughout the United States.' One sees na tional advertising campaigns for laundries, lumber firms, photographers, evidenced the cohesion in the trades. This is sound economy and with the increasing cooperation within the trade comes a move away from price-cutting and puarat ing which have prevaflebTamong competitors with the same product. :',-"; ; "7"."r :f. .v-' ,'' u:-; r vx -v. K: Consequently the photographer fears less his, fellow photographer and more the.florist; the auto dealer sees the airplane aS! his future competitor rather than the dealer round the corner. , -v- - - : , ! With this inter-trade competition has come a bette run ders tan ding of the dealer within one's own business. Trade Information is readily exchanged; merchants talk freely of overhead, turnover and profits. ' Evolution in business prac tices is just as marked as the mechanical improvements of the marvelous age in which we are living. i It will be a real debate meet. It would be difficult the last word. s" Signs of spring include trinissu and millinery bills.' back at the University of Mis- because they, countenanced tne men and women students of group in sociology. The inquiry rallying to the defense of the the townsfolk of Columbia have the discharge ox the men in session. The chairman of the in necessary appropriations." Drift o Cities years. In 1909 the number of decrease considerably, so the 1928 was only 188,000 com the loss of farm population the has been assailed by the smok- if Borah and Mrs. Willebrandt for once for a woman to- have . - . .-- Lay S No. 7: "To Bury "And tha chief priests took . the Eiecea ot silver, and said. "It is not iwful to out them Into the treasury. since it Is the price of blood. And the? took counsel, and bought with them tb potter's field, to burr stran. rers in. Wherefore that field was call ed, the field of blood, nnta this Lit" Matthew 17 :-. . ,'.TT Strangers, dead strangers, were all who profited from the betray al of Jesus by Judas. The talat oa the thirty pieces of silver rpr malned even when It was eon- verted into a potter's field: bat dead stranger would never know the opprobrious title, of ."The field of blood" which was applied to the field where thsy slept the ions sleep. ' Tainted money was an Import ant Issue in religious circles twenty-five years ago. Washing ton Gladden, eminent Congrega tionalism led the fight against accepting the benefices of the malefactors of great wealth for reUgious causes. He lost his fight, but won a larger battle than he dreamed of. He started people to looking to the ills of wrongful accumulation of wealth. He helped remove the taint by purifying the sources of wealth. The chief, priests were typical Bits for Breakfast 'By R. J. Short but great U m Progress of highway imDrove- ment in Oregon v r As shown in the Slogan columns of The Statesman of this morning. I 1i Tl . With her more than 100 blocks of new paved streets a year, Salem is leading cities of her size' in the whole country V -: And Marlon is ahead of nearly aU counties in the-Uaited States, if not aU ot them, in paved market roads: two -100 mile programs haying been completed in shorter time than was marked out for them, and a new 200 jnUet stunt in preparation, and; partly completed and announced.-- .-, r . ' And the state of Oregon ha out classed the world, tn time of her accomplishments in highway Im provement, compared with her re sources and her extent of territory and difficulties of construction. , - S T. A. Raffety was the first man to be sworn in, on the force of three men put to work as state highway patrolmen in 1920. That was nine years agqT; or wUl be nine years on July 1st, when ttfe force, ot three went to work. On January 1, ; 1521, Mr. Raffety was made the directing' officer In the force of three. The bis thing then was to see. that, drivers on the state highways had licenses. r The legislature of 1921 gave the highway- commission concurrent Jurisdiction with the highway pa trol force under the secretary of state, and provided seven men tor each class ot work; 14 uniformed men in all; and they were so as signed as to make their work co operative. ' f- .-..v- . A law ot the 192? session au thorized the secretary of state to appoint a chief of the highway pa trol forces, and. two captains apd three lieutenants, la order to se cure discipline and rrder. Mr. Raffety was made the chief. ' - -' He Is still the chief, and there are SO to 32 men; still equally di vided under the pay of the high way commission and the secretary ot state. The recent legislature, Page the Speed Champion! einnmoims Strangers In1 of many of the moneygrubbets in charitable enterprise today. The thirty pieces they used to bribe Judas were stained with innocent blood. They knew that.' They dared not put the money into the sacred treasury. But they found some other 'worthy cause"; they would not let the money pass out of their hands. They would not spurn it. They found a place for it, even if it were only for the purchase of ' blood-christened field to bury strangers In. If the wealthy Joseph ot Ari xnathea had not come forward to offer his tomb, Jesus himself, stranger, poor, might have been burled in this potter's field. The chief priests were right in making use ot the money for a charity, for the silver itself had its intrinsic value under Its car mine stain. So today it is well to use for worthy ends money I that we may call tainted. The great lass: w ua age is to pro mote that social justice which prevents the taint -on wealth. The application of the principles of the-religlon Jesus taught is tho true cure for tainted money, be cause they set the right stand ards for social ethics. Hendricks' with the excuse for the need' of better protection against live stock thieves, made this force practical ly what the mounted police is In several of our states. , . w v V . ; . Mr. Raffety was sent to repre sent Oregon in the meeting at Washington of the National Safe ty Council. He har now been placed on a committee of statUr tics to study the causes of motor accidents and suggest ways to make them less. He is the only member ot that committee west ot the Missouri river, excepting Mr. La Place of California. w ua n v;- v - z i. u m The American Legion In Oregon has pot on. a safety campaign for Glouqb'-Httf ton (& Hietfory ojSafem andtye State o Oregon LEAVING the "64-40 or Fight" matter up tolhe Sen ate cleverly rescued the adminis tratior from an einbarrassing ' situation, for if the Whirrs had insited upqn the' line of 54-40, they put themselves squarely upon Democratic ground. ' . -: , v - : If they wertf to compromise on 40 degrees for the sake of peace, they placed themselves in ' an" awkard position.' Leaving the matter up to the Senate was a master-stroke, . 1 MA - the first six months ot this year, and Mr. Raffety(and his forces are cooperating. ' The Oregon fa talities In 1928 were 203, out of 29,787 motor accidents ot all kinds in this state, with 5021 peo ple injured. This year, there were 25 in January, and only tour in February. Mr.- Raff ety spends all his spare working- time trying to keep down the accident record on the highways, and dreams about it at night. The 203 new graves and the like number of vacant chairs - in Oregon for last year haunt hint. .... u w He has recently established night patrol on the highways from Portland to MeMinnvUlle and Portland to Salem, and this Is helping to keep down the number of accidents. There is no man in Oregon who takes more seriously his responsibilities than Chief Tom Raffety; and this is putting premature gray hairs in his head. V . Donald A. Laird, eminent, psy chologist, as related In The States man of Saturday, in an article in the Scientific American, jays: "The average Intelligence ot men Is greatest in Oregon, and least In Mississippi; the difference is about two and half mental age. years. Mr. Laird has evidently not applied his comparative tests to Oregon women, but the guess is that this would make as good a showing, if not better. Oregon against the world 1 Old Oregon's Yesterdays TWn Talks from The State. Ostr Fathers Read March 24, 1004 Superintendent Potter of the Indian school received good news from Senator - John H., MitcheU with word that the4 Indian appro priation bill has passed; th senate and with an amendment that the Alaskan Indians be admitted. Temporary organisation of Good Roads club was perfected at SI1 vertoa. Judge John H. Scott ad dressed the group, i The Citlsen's Light and Trac tion company has Just installed a new style street are light through out the city. They require less at tention and trimming than the old HD v ii w v i w 1 1 ii ii an ii. . By ROE FULKERSON; CHAPTER LVH BETTY had been so happy all evening: with Andy, dancing, meeting his parents, having him make love to her. Not, until he had proposed marriage did she waken to the fact. that she could not marry him as Ions as George Harris wanted her. "Oh. Andy! I shouldn't hare al lowed you to say that, dear! I wanted to hear you say It, too! ,1 would never hay been happy If you hadn't said it. But can I ever be happy now that you have?" "Why. what do you mean, sweet heart?" demanded Andy "I mean I can never marry you, "Why not? You love me, don't you?" . "More than anyone else!" "Ton aren't already married?' "Oh. no. not that!" sobbed Bet ty. "But 1 am pledged to marry George, Harris, If he wants me!" -Why, thats all foolishness. honey! That bird can't have an option on you to exercise when ever he feels like It, or leave you alone If he doesn't care to marry you! That's the craziest arrange ment I ever heard ot! I'll take you away and marry yo tomorrow. He can go hang!" "Oh, It isn't anything like that. Andy. It's hard to make you un derstand. George hasn't proposed to me, but I know he wants me. I would be ashamed to look myself in the face in the. mirror if I mar ried anyone else after all he has done for me. ' . ! . . . "In the old high scfiooT days George lived next door o me. We always went to school together. He took me to the alumni dance at the country club, where I got the silly idea I wanted the rest of you boys to admire me. No one but George had ever noticed that was on earth. "I took dancing lessons to make myself more attractive. He disap proved, and he was right, Andy, for it was a mistake. When' my father died, George took charge ot everything. When my mother died, George did everything for me. Knowing nothing but dancing. Lj decided to dance for a living. Whea l, began, George dropped out of my life entirely. X didn't see him again until we had that automobile accident. "He came to the hospital and moved me from a public ward to a private room. He moved my things to Mrs. Hogan's and got me a room on the first floor so I wouldn't have to walk upstairs on my lame leg. "Out of the hospital, he gave me a position as cashier in his res taurant. He let me pay him back little at, a time until I had paid him up. He has always stepped in in every crisis in my life and been everything to me. ' When I graduated from bus iness, school he gave me a little typewriter as a graduation pres ent. I wrote him a silly little note, the first ever written on it.-1 don't remember exactly what I said, but it as good as told him that I would marry him when he wanted me to. I.didnt mean it that way when I wrote it, but that's the way .he took It. He gave me his pen and asked me to sign It, and I did. "He has never let me so out ot touch with him. I know, Andy, he Is Just waiting until he gets Iris business paid tor, so he can exer cise his option, as you call it. It is frightful, but I Just have to marry him. I love you and no one else on earth but you! But. oh. sweet heart, don't you see how.I am sit uated?" , "No, I don't see anything of tha kind!" cried Andy, stubbornly. "I don't see any reason why you should sacrifice your happiness and mine to this cold-blooded gee zer!" "Andy, you must not think: ot George like that! I don't love him, but I do admire him. He didn't in veigle me into this situation. I did It all myself out of gratitude for what he has done tor me. It it hadn't been for George, what would have happened to me?" xes, iook wnacnas nappenea ones. There are 40 or the new ones, with a -1200 candle power each. '--:-.'. AI Godfrey, while boat riding on the-Willamette river, found bottle containing this note: . "Re turn this 'slip to Albany and re ceive ten cents. - . Age Counts! ; The years that a firrrr has been in business , are import .ant.. Experience is a big fac tor. v . . ' ; This is doubly true in our profession. . . ' CLOUGH-HUSTON C? it wtis-si r)isHndiVeuneral Serrice. 1 . ; . L7" . THE STORYOF A GIRL WHO MADE MEN 'LIKE HER t)i929 .- y Csttral rVtsa'AswrfatMa re' to you! Ton are about to marry a man you don't lore and leave one you do love, flat!" . "But, Andy, can't you see that every time X have gone contrary to George's wishes I have made a mistake? He tried to keep me from dancing. He would have none ot me while I did It. The moment I got into trouble as a result of my stubborness, he came instantly, unselfishly, to my rescue. Please, Andy, don't feel unkindly toward him! It isn't his fault." "Whose fault Is It, then?" "It Is mine entirely! No! It Isn't my fault either, Andy. It is Just Fate! I am Just caught in the mesh of circumstances. There Is no way out." "Well, now that you have thought carefully about yourself and your paragon boy friend, what about me? Haven't I any rights? This love you say you have' fpr me has it no rights?" "Andy, I have- never loved any other man in the world but you. George -Harris never even kissed me. I will always love you, dear!" "A lot of good that wiU do me! Don't be silly;' That's story book stuff, marrying a man you don't love, out ot gratitude. That's a lot of hooey! Tou got a complex. You paid bim all you owed him, didn't you? Tomorrow I'm going to put you in this car and drive you to. a preacher and marry you. That's all there is to It." "Oh, Andy, I can't. - Don't you see I can't?" Betty burst Into tears. "There! There! Don't cry about It!" said Andy, kltfdly. He put his arms around her and held her close. He .patted her oa the back and, placing his hand under her chin, raised her face apd kissed her gently on the mouth. "Oh, Andy, X can't give you up!" "That's the talk! You bet you can't give me up! You're not go ing to give me up!" "Oh. but X must! I can't face George Harris if I did him such a dirty trick after all he has done for me." "It's aU right to do me a dirty trick!" cried Andy, pulling awT, angrily. "It was all right to come to my office after I thought you were out ot my life forever, and let me fall in Jove with you all over again! It was all right for you to let me kiss you and make love to you and then tell me this!" "Andy,, please .don't be angry. I know -4 1 is all wrong. But X have l i , - ir.--.-i ' - . "i 11 ii .i i i rr i After you have, taken your contest pictures, your part is done. Be surt to send your films here where you can depend on skillful and careful developing and print ing. Entry blanks and all details Capital Drug Storg 405 Stale HEAD J iPlilBipi ' "A t??? f?wtt Amgi may cause a headache, tr'i ist one thin? you heed ever do to get -"By Aspirin is an absolutejmtidote for such pain Keen it at the offierv Hav t. ferf?bjccVt0.fWcn.tr $udden headaches should xTtr r1? in u2e, Pocket-tin. Until you have hA p ead. cpWVneuralgia; etc, you've no idea how Baver . Atmnn 1 J . - , i J ' had so little happiness I Just could not help it. I love you so much! Then why can't you marry me and make the pretty speech to the other fellow?" Instead of answering, Betty again burst into tears. Andy sat in the remote corner of the car seat, silent for ten minutes, which seemed to Betty like 10 years. "Day after tomorrow is the first of the month, he announced, fin ally. "I arranged to go away for a month's vacation. I had intend ed to go tip on the v lake to the summer cottage of a' friend who had given me an invitation for you also. I wanted your to take your vacation at the same- time, so 'I could Introduce you to all my .friends as my fiancee. I'm going anyway. I might as well be there as anywhere else. Don't do anything about this until I get back. Think It all pver. Maybe you will change your mind. Will you wait till then?" "Oh, Andy, there's no use! X couldn't do otherwise than I am doing. I would hate myself all my life if I did. If you want me to wait I will, of course. You will want someone at the office to at tend to your mail and all' that until you get back. I'll do that. I suppose X will have to leave the office. You, won't want me around fter this." . "That can wait, until I come back," replied Andy, sadly. "Noth. Ing much matters after this. I have been living In a fool's para dise for six months. I have hard ly got my bearings yet. We will see about it all when I get back.'.' He moved as though to start the ear. "Oh, Andy, wont you please kiss me?" Silently he reached over and put his arms around her and hissed her fiercely again and again. "He shan't have you,' damn him! You are mine. OTpu, can't get away from me!- s Betty put her arms around his neck and kissed his lips, his face and his throat. She pushed his head baef and caressed his face with her hands. Holding It be tween her palms she kissed him again on the lips. s "We better go now, Andy." He stepped on the starter and drove home silently. In front of her - house he stepped out and opened the door for her, without offering to. kiss her again. As she stepped down on the sidewalk he said: "Good night, Betty." "Good-bye, Andy," she replied. feeling that she was not likely to see him again. In the house she sat for hours by her window, star ing out into a night which seemed to her no blacker than her future. (TO BE CONTINUED) WinaPrize with your own Kodak and our photo finishing: of IKe $30,000 contest here. OnlytheBestH. Telephone 119 'Agents Owl Drug Co. 7- X- - - - if V - r cip. xx. means ouick, wMiicit icuw va mimons, oi men ana .womea who use it every year. And it does not depress the heart, t i Aspltto to tttaUU atk r Bam lf.a4f.etws mm