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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1929)
C. A. Spracub Earl C. Brownlee . Sheldon F. Sackett Publisher, Editoifaal HBtsExsBBsesasessssUaBsasaaBBBBBsaBsaai Salem. Oreg-oa Friday April 5, 1020 i Placing the Vice President's Sister THE teapot tournament is surely going in Washington just now over the important question of where Mrs. Edward E. Gann, sister to Vic? Prudent Curtis shall sit. . Curtis lacks a wife, so he has made hi3 sister his official hostess, just,as she has been for many years. But a sister is not a wife. The hostesses of Washington thumbed the books on etiquette and debated pro and con. The women's congres sional organization usually headed by the wife of the vice president, named Mrs. Senator Moses, wife of the president pro tem. of the senate the head of their club, making Mrs. Gann an "honorary member". How highly honored she must feel! Now Mr. Curtis appeais to the new secretary of state for revocation of the Kellogg order that Mrs. Gann would trail along in the parade of officialdom somewhere behind the wives of the ministers from Zanzibar and Timbuctoo. This is a case where the Kellogg treaty for the outlawry of war doesn't apply. State questions like the Mexican rebel lion, the "I'm Alone" sinking, and freedom of the seas will have to wait till Secretary Stimson decides this question. The yeomanry will scoff at all this agitation. -They will rate it just as snobbery and social jealousy. We think not so. A diplomatic dinner is not a mass meeting. Years have brought their conventions that are not set aside lightly. There must be customs to control simply that snobbery and envy may not reign. May be a truce will be patched up ; or the secretary may comply with the Curtis request. But our guess is that the original ruling was the correct one accord ing to the conventions of the capital. The Wisconsin Referendum THE result of the popular referendum on the prohibition question in Wisconsin comes as a blow if not as a sur prise to the friends of that enactment. While Wisconsin was always known as a wet state because of its great German element which was noted for its fondness for beer, the vote shows that the cause of prohibition has failed in that state ' to gain in public favor. It will be a distinct misfortune to the temperance cause if the legislature follows the mandate of the people and repeals the state, law on, the subject; be cause Wnditions then would be worse tHi'.before. Wis consin would be the same as New York ; legally dry through national law ; locally wet through lack of state concurrent legislation and enforcement. Prohibition enters its critical phase. Abuses which have crept into its application have excited opposition which has been fanned by the unreconciled wets. The abuses are real; it does no good to shut the eyes and claim they do not exist. The friends of prohibition have been long-time .fighters. They will not surrender because one state has made the gesture of revolt. But the most vigorous effort ought to be put forth in the direction of education, and in enforcement that is both active and intelligent. The killing of the Aurora woman will do more to defeat the purpose of the prohibition law than the whole Wisconsin referendum. Admitting the present evils of the prohibitory system, we can see no better solution to the problem of dealing with the liquor traffic in this country. The road of moral reform is long and hard but the goal is not an impossible one; nor is the road too rugged. Oregon's Timber Resources OREGON has 396,000,000 feet of standing timber. This is 20 of the total for the United States. Oregon has 40 9t more standing timber than Washington and in excess of 40 more than California. At the present rate of cutting Oregon s timber supply will last over a hundred years. These are pertinent facts brought out in a pamphlet on ' Oregon's Commercial Forests", written by Dean George W. Peavy of O. S. C. and published by the state forestry board. Dean Peavy goes on to say that the rate of cutting will prob ably increase. "There is no reason to assume that the his tory of the lumber industry in Oregon will differ materially from that of the other forested regions of the nation. In all cases the beginning was gradual. A crest in the wave of production was inevitably reached and as inevitably, an ebb followed, accompanied by all the economic and social dis asters which trail a transitory industry." Dean Peavy's booklet contains interesting illustrated de scriptions of varieties of our commercial trees, a sketch of the methods of forest control and fire prevention, and a synopsis of the state's forest laws. He makes a strong plea for a changed attitude toward our timber resources. "We have treated our forests as we would a mine. We have skinned out the timber as a miner would take out ore. When the usable timber had been taken out we have abandoned the works. We have ignored the fact that a tree grows in the same sense that wheat grows. The forest is a renew able resource. In the interest of the nation and of the state, Oregon's forests should be renewed ; and by all means, there should be 3s little delay as possible in making a beginning." The Bigger Stick Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks frost The States, naaa Oar Fathers Read April 5, 1904 Bat one man was fined during the month of March for violation of stats fishing laws, according to the report of Master Fish Warden Van Dusen. Br reason of a flaw, or rather awkward jumble, in the city ordin ance which prohibits the sale or Intoxicating liquors, cases against two vocal men have been dis missed. So far as the city officers are concerned saloons may be open Sundays. Commander' Booth Tucker and staff of the Salvation Army will appear at the Grand Opera house Friday. The city council passed an or dinance for the opening of Court street. CEHK BLAMED FOR WAR EXPLOSION WASHINGTON, April 4. (AP) New evidence Intended to fix on the German government re sponsibility for the wartime mu nitions explosions and fires at the Black Tom terminal and at Kings- land, New Jersey for which the United States claims $24,000,000 damages was received Wednes day by the German American claims commission. ' ' American Agent Robert W. Bonynge, representing the United States, dealt with an alleged sa botage program planned by Ger man agents in the United States before war existed between the two countries. The commission's hearing of arguments was the first official inquiry into wartime explosions, with the exception of the senate investigation of the same cases In 1921. Bonynge demanded that the commission officially call upon Germany to produce notebooks. instructions and other records of its secret agents which, he assert ed, would weld together any loose UkS in the chain of evidence which has already been obtained. A move on the part of Dr. Karl von Lewlnski. German agent, to introduce evidence to combat a portion of Bonynge's cases was met by the announcement that the state department would be askd to investigate German contentions which, it was said, amounted to an indirect charge against Amer ican Vice-Consul Higginsat Mex ico City, Read the Classified Ads. JSI1 Qrows beautiful lawns and flowers! Success for all with Vigoro f Users find that this ideal plantfood gives a quick vig orous start more velvety green grass, better flowers, crisp succulent vegetables. Vigoro is odorless! So clean you sow by hand like grass seed! Plants get a bal anced ration throughout the season. Enough concentrated nourishment in a 100 lb. sack for lawn or garden 50 x 50 to 50 z 100 feet. Only 2 to 4 lbs. per 100 square feet, and not at all costly! Full directions for apply ing Vigoro in every bag. In paper-lined bags of 100, 50, 25 lbs., and 5 lb. packages. Order Vigoro today for all the things you grow. A Swift fc Company Product Endorsed by L eading Landscape Gardeners St Nurserymen WIG0R0 J Makes better lawn, V gardens, flower, trees and shrub jlyxm?! D A White & Sons 251 State St. Phone 160 Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Babbits Are Abroad SALEM is to have a fee course in salesmanship, wasn't a typographical error. It is a fee com No that course, not a free course. By the entre of luncheon club addresses a Los Angeles salesman of himself is getting a school organized that he can instruct in salesmanship. The Rotarians got a sample the other day. All the problems-that "pertain to we people as businessmen" were shown, wrapped up and deliv ered in neat packages. The radiant Los Angeles countenance finely advertised the Personality the business institute cor respondence courses tell us we must acquire. Applied psy chology is waiting just around the corner for the clerks and taxi drivers and bond boys who take up the course which is to be offered with all the trimmings of "Babson says," Scotch stories, and Los Angeles smiles. The consuming public needs to be warned. By the time the washing machine salesman, insurance agents, and bank tellers get through this new-fashioned revival service there will be no chance of escape. Valuables should be hidden be fore this army, fired into the holy war of breaking down sales resistance is turned loose with poison gas of perfumed language and more clever ways of" getting inside the front door. The danger will be over soon. When the present en tourage moves on to Eugene or Cnehalis or the next likely spot the selling ardor will fade and clerks will once more ''wait on customers." The Statesman gets quite a wide range of mail. Most of it is legible, and most of it has pretty good spelling. Some days ago we receivedfa letter from a boy who is attending a high school in Marion county. He is a senior and expects to graduate this year. Here are some of the words he mis spelled: imposable; enterfer (interfere) ; earring (carrying) ; eny (any). He must have been a wonderful basketball player The recent visit of Portland business men to Longview accompanied by the ostentatious burying of the hatchet so useful in the hacking during the strife over the Longview bridge, prompts cynical sneers from one Astoria press. Both Astoria papers ask why Portland continues to oppose the construction of a bridge at Astoria which would have higher clearance than the Longview bridge and no piers in the channel. Evidently Portland needs to make another good will tour and clip off a fresh olive branch." A Chinese peacemaker in a tong fight in A3toria suf fered the ftte of most peacemakers. He decoratss the cold slab of the mortuary while the two fighters walk about un wounded. Chin Bins was the name of the dead Chinaman who tried to stop the shooting. It was just bing-bing for Speaking of birthdays The Statesman had one the oth er day. This paper was born March 28. 1851. On that date of 1929.it entered its 79th year. V It is the oldest living newspa per In all the Oregon Country; the Pacific northwest, excepting the Portland Oregonian. It would be the oldest, excepting for the fact that mistake was made in the shipping. of the outfit from New York, and the people who were starting the Oregonian were able to get out their first Issue about 11 weeks earlier. "b . Both papers were printed on hand presses, such as are now used for proof purposes; Wash ington or Ram age presses. Both were of course weeklies. The Statesman commenced its daUy issue in 1861. It installed a power press, a Potter, in 1859. The power was Hi Gorman, a ne gro of large avoirdupois, who slept on the feeding board, and who could count only up to "10. By making piles of ten tens, he had a hundred, and so did rery well in dealing out the papers to the carriers, who walked or rode ponies. S V Hi, drunk or sober, 'was the power till the latter part of 1884, when a steam engine was In stalled. Followed not long after a better press, a Cottrell. Then a Duplex flat-bed press, till the pre sent Scott press was installed, capable of printing 35.000 an hour, part of the pages in colors, and of taking 24 pages at one time. The Scott press is capable of being increased to 32 pages by the addition of a "deck." which will no aouDt be tne next step up. From 1851 to 1929 a good deal of water has run under the big bridge; but Salem will grow more in the next 10 to 18 years than it has grown In the 80 years up to the present time. An Irishman working in Street Commissioner Walt Lowe's paring gang last summer hung his coat on a fence post. A member of the gang painted-the head of a mule on it When qnltting time came. the Irishman looked at the coat a minute and asked: "Wich one of yon boys wiped your face on me coat?" Perry B. Arnold, salesmanship expert, told the Salem Rotarians on Wednesday that he found the capital city on the up grade, and thinking in terms of progress, growth and expansion; with a su periority complex; optimistic. He defined a pessimist as a man who feels bad when' he feels good for fear he will feel worse when he feels better. V Mr. Perry might hare cited the people of Salem, with their land of diversity and country of oppor tunity to the motto Henry Ford hangs in his factories, "You can do anything you think you can do." Or to that of Jacob Kindle berger of Kalamazoo, the great pa per manufacturer, "Don't worry when yon stumble; the worm Is the only thing that cannot fall down." U " It may take a little time, but eventually the preferred highway over the Cascades will be the one through the Mlnto pass. Joining the great Willamette valley with the central Oregon empire. Why? Because It is the shortest route and the only one that will admit open thevhole year through, be cause it is the lowest and there fore not subject to such excessive I snowfall as may not be cleared off with reasonable expense and ef fort. These facts are now very well known and acknowledged by the experts. There will be several highways over the Cascades, all of them scenic and useful, and avail able for travel part of the year But the one through the Minto pass will be the preferred route for heavy traffic all the time, and the only one always open. The construction of no other highway will benefit Salem as much as this one, and the reader, if any way interested in this city, will be en couraged in knowing that its con struction, fT not just around the corner, is a certainty at no distant date. Editors Say: YAKIMA HOLDS RECORD We of Rogue River valley who are so proud of our standing as a fruit-producing section are far from leading the world. When our volume of shipments is compared with those of other Northwest sec tions It Is evident that this valley is far from being ahead of all oth ers. Yakima valley, for instance. shipped 4,294 cars of pears in 1928 to 3.658 for this section While we were Bhipping 730 cars of apples. 17,684 cars were leav ing Yakima valley for the markets of the world. We shipped a total of 4,553 cars of fruit while the Yakima valley was rolling out 26,849 cars for a total value of $20,256,582. The Wenatchee district of Washington shipped 13,200 cars to our three thousand-odd. Hood River valley was in our class with about 4,000 cars of apples and pears shipped out or held In storage for higher market prices. Rogue valley growers are well up in the industry in quality of fruit and pack, in prices received in the markets and in solving problems of the Industry, yet for some reason fruit growing here does not seem to be attractive en ough to boost the volume to that of other Northwest districts. Medford News. SPEED THE AIRPORT WORK The airport bonds are sold and Roseburg will very soon be a safe harbor for air travelers. Speed the work. In return for furnishing a safe harbor, Roseburg will receive ample reward. Airmail will be re ceived and sent. Airplane passen gers from San Francisco can soon buy their tickets direct to Rose burg instead of flying to the near est airport and continuing the Journey to Roseburg by stage, as they now must do. True, there isn't a huge volume of this bus iness but it is modern and that is the answer. When the landing field is completed Roseburg will be a thoroughly modern city. There is another reason, too, why many people will breathe a sigh of relief when the Roseburg airport is completed. ""Winter fly ing along the western slope of the Cascades is worried by frequent fog. Who hasn't seen the big three motored plane from San Francisco go over Roseburg during the fore noon and then after having disap peared to -the north, return in about ten minutes and head for the nearest landing field, to await the lifting of the dense fog? There is nearly always a "holt' in the fog here and a safe landing could be made but the landing field is not at present adeauate. Speed the work on the new field and let our airport be known as a sr3 harbor for thtse travcl?rs. Rose- of a highway that can be kept ,birg Xews-Rerlew : w u OflpEH (MDbdiPDllIES5DDfcl I THE greatest strides in automo bile motor development have come through high compres sion. 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