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'PAGE TEN Hie New OREGON STATESMAN, Salem,' Oregon, Tuesday Morning. April. 9, 1929 i if. i, : Delegation Representing the American Federation of Labor Is Heard" WASHINGTON. April 8 ( AP) The Urift needs of the working man as Interpreted by the Amer ican federation of labor were laid before President Hoover today in the form of a. specific program sponsored by that organization." JLed by Matthew. Woll, Tice pres. fdent of the federation, a delega tion called upon the chief execu tive and outlined its Tiews in de tail, recommending the seating of a representative of organized la bor en the tarlif - commission, changes In the lawr to give labor a hearing in valuation cases ana consideration of the cost of for eign labor in the determining of duties on imports. Earlier, former Governor Ralph O. Brewster, of Maine, called at the White House to discuss anoth er subject close to the working man. that of unemployment. He urged particularly that the task of keeping unemployment statis tics be delegated to the Individual states. He considered the states letter equipped for gathering such data than the federal government. Mr. Hoover Pouad Very Sympathetic After talking with the presi dent. Mr. Woll said the delega tion had been received with sym pathy and understanding. Mr. Hoo ver, he declared, although not committing himself to any of the recommendations made, seemed deeply Interested and revealed a minute knowledge of the problems presented. The group urged adoption of the American valuation plan In ( determining the amount of. duty , to be levied against foreign made ( commodities, telling the president Tit met. the requirements of labor much more equitably than the me thods now used. At present, duties i are fixed upon a basis of cost of material abroad, Woll said, and do not take into consideration the low wage scale of the foreign laborer. The American plan, by t making the cost of foreign pro. suets in domestic markets the first basis of consideration, the delegation said, automatically would include the differential in labor costs abroad and in the United States. . Curb on Child Labor Sowght Enactment of legislation prohib iting the importation of articles made by foreign child labor also was advocated by the group as an extension of the principle, under which existing laws bar from this country the products of foreign prison labor. America, it was pointed out. has placed restric tions upon the employment of chil iren In industry, while the foreign ' manufacturer is free to use Juve nile employes and siereby effect a considerable saving as compared with his American competitor. The delegation. also urged changes In the trade mark regis tration laws to prohibit a fanu facturer from recording his mark In America, producing bis commo dities cheaply abroad and claiming the protection of American laws. Changes were asked, too, in the administrative provisions of the tariff law under whieh labor could have a representative on the tariff commission and representation in discussions of valuation cases. m SOCIETY IS it mm ZENA, April 8 (Special) The Zena Missionary society was en tertained Wednesday afternoon. April I at the home of Mrs. Charles McCarter. Mrs. V. L. Gib son was assistant hostess. As an opening number Mrs. S. H. Barker sang a vocal number. Mrs. Ik F. Matthews, president or the Zena Missionary lead the devotional. Mrs. V. I Gibson, treasurer, gave the yearly report. which showed the sclety to be in coed financial standing. Mrs. W. W. Henry read the minutes of the . March meeting and caned the roll. Mrs. 8. H. Barker, member of the society, kindly -donated the hymn books which are being used, this .year, to the society. Mention was made of the Presbyterial which will meet April 9 and 10 at Cor. vallls. Several of the members present stated that they would like to go. The May meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Wayne D. Henry. " -' "" . After- the business meeting . a game and contests were played. This proved to-be quite an Inter esting 'number. The hostesses served-dainty refreshments. - Members present were Mrs. Ralpa-H. Scott. Mrs. W. W. Hen ry, Mrs. R. C. Shepard. Mrs. Wayne D. Henry. Mrs. Walter Brag and daughter Dolores. Miss. Dorothy Shepard. Mrs. C. M. Purvine, Mrs. McDonald. Mrs. H. Klnton, Mrs. S. H. Barker, Marjorle Matthews, Ar al oa Shepard and the hostesses. " Prominent Men Will Leave For Fishing Jaunt Governor Patterson, Brigadier - General - White. "Ttgel Reynolds, cartoonist for The Oregbnian, and Marshal , Dana, of the 5 Oregon Journal, will leave here Sunday, March 14. for the Florence dis trict, where they will spend a few days fishing. Camp equipment and s ehef will precede the party, and an will be ready when the fishermen arrive at, the scene of operations. - Brlgadier-G e n e r a 1 Whits will act as host. BIDS OPENED Bids on three highway improve ment and one bridge project will be opened by the state highway omiais8ion at its meeing in Port lard April it. .... ., umntyiN ewspapers Developed . T m - : x" m i urn imp History of Publications' in Marion County Carefully Retold; Progress of . Smaller Towns Continues - 4 EDITOR'S NOTE This careful summary of news paper conditions in Marionconaty apart from the situation pt the Salem newspapers, was carefully prepared by a contributor to the Salem Statesman which publishes the review with. alacrity, knowing the Interest It contains for many readers. V ' A great ..change has come oyer the country -newspapers published in, the small cities and market towns of the Willamette .Valley on lines of industries and payrolls and building up these' m a r k e't towns and community centers. Saw mills and canneries, creameries. pickle factories, with fruit ware houses for processing, shipping and packing green and " dried fruits. The publishers of the' country newspapers, by - helping develop commercial clubs and chambers of commerce, have also , built up their own properties and extend ed their, circulation. : The following briefly described twelve country weekly newspapers are scattered oTer the prairies and forests comprising the area that makes Marion county a rich and prosperous region In the de velopment of which the rural community newspaper plays an Important part: Appeal Has History., The , first community paper In Silverton was established la 1878 by H. G,. Guild, now of Bins Riv er, who named it The Appeal, conducted it about ten years, and sold it to Lou J. Adams. The next owners were Warnoek and Cal ender. Later Fred' Warnoek went to Heppner. The Appeal was then owned by J. E. Hosmer, Henry B. Brown, H. E. Hodges, and four teen years ago, John Hobllt, the present editor of The Appeal, be came the owner. He is head of a family of printers, two sons, join ing him In the ownership. Editor Guild took charge of The Sheridan Sun, and entered the legislature. For a period of years J. E. Hosmer was In the newspaper field at Sil verton, conducting The Journal, The Semaphore and The Torch of Reason. He served a term in jail for one of his publications, and after discharge showed his nerve by repeating the same publication in defiance of the courts, and won out after a second trial. The ML Angel News, now nub- llshed by Norman A. Farquahar son, formerly of Walla Walla, was established by J. M. Eisen in 1921, and was leased to the present pub lisher In April, 1828. It has re cently ben enlarged, and is devot ed to community news, general farming and cannery and cream ery interests. Kotek Has Fine Plant Another country weekly paper at Silverton that is strongly de voted to Industries and commun ity matters is edited and nub- llshed by the two Edward Kot teks, father and son. They have a wonderful printing plant In the form of modern machinery, the father being a native of Poland. Woodburn has been built up as a manufacturing center and strong cooperative fruit Industry town, of the type of Eugene, through the devoted labors of the Woodburn Weekly Independent, which was established In 1888 by Leonard H. McMahan, now Junior. Circuit Judge of the Third Judi cial District of Oregon. He later sold The Independent to Rev. Day. minister of the First Presbyterian church, who was Joined by A. S. Auterson. In 1893 Herbert Gill, present editor, succeeded Day. and In 1903 bought out Auterson. He was joined in 1921 by his son, Wayne Gill, and the Gills are the present publishers. For many years Woodburn and. Silverton were -the storm centers of county politics In Marion county, and both have become prosperous market towns, with paved streets and highways. The Stayton Mail was started in 1893 by Elmer F. Bennett, a son of Rev, Bennett, who traded it to H. E. Browne. E. D. Alexander, who came from Upper Iowa uni versity in -.19Q1. succeeded Browne, and Is present nublish. In the Interim one Horace Mann We are going to MMm 1925 Standard STUDEBAKER Coach 1927 DODGE Sedan 5 Bearing Motor 1926 NASH Special Sedan .... . 1924 DODGE Sedan .....L... 1925 STUDEBAKER 1924 STUDEBAKER 1926 FORD .Roadster 1927 FORD Roadster 1925 STUDEBAKER Communities; roved Own Lot established The Stay ton News, but moved the paper to California after about ten years. Stayton. Is a strong Uftle industrial city, and recently entertained .the men's community clubs. -' ? Woman Runs Logne ; The Mill City . Logue Is edited by Mrs. B. F. Cober, now In vol ume 3. number SO, a 10-page sawmifl-town newspaper, with Miss Maxine Dunlgaa reporter, an all-round rustling linotyper, prlnt-i er and, as a colored man would say, and. ''everything. Xavl the county community club' "Contest, Mill .City took the prize-for put ting on best play of any dramatie club In Marlon county. Mrs. Cober maintains, a Salem department. The Aurora Observer, -.which has been edited by George E. Knapp, since 1931, has been pub lished under, that name' .since 1911. It was established as The Three Sisters, serving- Aurora, Boreajls, and edited, by K C. Westcott. Aurora was originally a communistic colony, and the Wells Fargo stage station before the railroad. It had a famous Inn, .where stages both ways stop ped for meals. Aurora is now a prosperous Industrial center,, and maintains a successful community dub with about fortjr working members-r-a fact of whieh Editor Knapp is very proud. The Gervals Star w)ia estab lished by a printer from Roeeburg who sold to W. A. Clark, and it became a very prosperous coun. try paper, and the owner became a-. candidate for - State printer against Willis Dunlway. He was succeeded by Pearl P. Hassler, who conducted The Star for about ten years, and Is now located at Crescent City. J V. McAdoo has been editor hero since 1928., He also, published at one time The Sclo News and Tribune, papers founded .by T. L. Dugger, a pion eer printer. Mr. McAdoo differs from his namesake, not ambitions to manage the. railroads er siaf or- national affairs. He runs a strong eommunty -caper devoted to the local affairs of the town. Riley Community Leader - The Hubbard Enterprise Is cele brating Its sixteenth anniversary. It was founded by G. E. Brook ings, a Willamette university stu dent, who Is now conducting newspapers at Big Bear Lake and Cucamonga. California. As an. in ducement to establish a local newspaper, the people presented him with an old hand-press, said to have been brought Into the country , by a missionary, which may interest George Hlmes, state historian. ' He was succeeded by LL. M. McShane, now a job printer at -Salem. W. C. Culbertson, who at one time had the Canby Herald, took over' The Enterprise. It was printed on his Canby press and sent up to Hnbbard. which was not popular wtih the inde pendent spirit of Hubbard people. The present editor, Philip Owen Riley, has become a community leader In Hubbard, which has a club of nearly two hundred mem bers, anda commercial club be sides. The young people have been organized Into an orchestra of sixty members, and .won the county prize out of forty-nine community clubs la the county. The Hubbard band and Industrial club appeared at the state fair, led by Riley who Is a lire wire in local affairs. The ' Jefferson - Review, estab lished in 1898 by Edwin Rhodes, editor, and J. F. Blanchard", man ager, next went under the man agement of Tip Humphrey, who. with his wife and son, conducted it until 1920. when It was bought by H. D. Mars. For many years The Review was a bed-rock demo cratic weekly. Like the other country papers in Marlon county. It chronicles the local news of Jefferson and other neighboring communities. Turner Tribune. F. P. Rowley, editor and publisher, - has - devel oped Into a strong community paper tor Turner and surrounding country. Rowley got his training on the Willamlna Times. He-has been instrumental in getting a Phone 362 We Never Close Ollii sell at Northwest Used Car Manual Prices i Phaeton " Roadster - " ; ' ' ' - Phaeton, Glass Enclosure. illiBil Uniterf States President' on Brief Vacation During - Hot'Capital Day WASHINGTON, April t. (AP) President Hoover returned . to th White House Saturdav at 8:40 after a visit to his fishing pre serve1 on the upper Rapidan river In Virginia. The president did no fishing, contenting himself with an inspection of the grounds. MADISON, ta., April S. (AP) While Washington sweltered In the hottest day of the year during which the thermometer registered 90 degrees, President Hoover Sat urday relaxed In the cool of the Virginia mountains where a fieh ing preserve has been set aside for his use. : Accompanied .only by- Mrs. Hoover and' a few friends, the president spent a largo part of the day exploring the fishing pre serve on the Rapidan river and looking over prospective camp sites for future weekend trips. It was not known whether ho in dulged in his favorite sport of fly fishing for newspaper correspond. ents were not allowed to . accom pany the party after it turned aside from the main highway here and headed into the hiUs of the Shenandoah National park. Company of Friends Taken With President ' Besides Mrs. Hoover, the presi dent was accompanied by Secre tary Wilbur, Lawrence RIchey, his secretary, Charles Y. Kitten of New York, Captain Wilson Brown, naval aide, and Major E. C. Long of the marine corps. " The party arrived here well be fore noon after the 90, mile motor trip from Washington and turned into the adjoining hills; The White House limousines were lef t at CrigleiTville, a few miles fur ther; ion, and, smaller machines were' used to negotiate the rough mountain road, and finally even these were abandoned as the pres ident and his companions resorted to saddle horses for the last lap of the trip to the Rapidan. Bas kets of food were taken along to provide a picnic dinner. The day provided the only op portunity Mr. Hoover has had since he entered the White House to lay aside the press of business that confronted the new admin istration, and he planned to make the most of it and not return to Washington until late in the day. INDEPENDENCE, April . Isaac W. Compton. because of 111 health and inability to do farm work any longer had traded his 879 acre farm to J. C Brody of Warrenton. Ore., for a store of general merchandise. Mr. Comp- macadamised road built from Turner west to the Pacific high way south of Salem, which is paved through the Mlnto pass to Eastern uregon. Turner is com ing to be an industrial center of dairying, flax-grbwinga'nd can ning supplies. Anmsville Community Center; Aumsvllle Star Is published and edited as a community paper by Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Clark, a brother of Sam Clark, who has made Bismarck, North Dakota, famous as the home of Jim-Jam-Jems. The Aumsvllle Star, strong in community service, was started by Charles Helm, a merchant in the boom days; when the hotel where it is now printed, often fed forty people at a meaL The lat est issue .is volume seventeen. No. 48. For a long time . the flouring mills fed so many, and the people refused to rote them off the streets, it got to be called Hogham. The flouring mills are still running and sometimes car ry as much as 820,000 in grain. This is a shipping point and com munity center for flax, beans and lumber. West Stayton, Shaw, Sublimity, North Santiam and Maeleay market products here, tml thm commnnltv elub some times feeds as many as two bun dred at a meal. $500.00 $575.00 $650.00 $250.09 ; . . $475.00 $250.00 - $160.00 $210.00 - . $425.00 MPITTUS lfIPELWCEFffi.1 ton and his sister Mrs.' Stlndard inherited the ranch front their fa ther and have had Joint ownership of It since his death. Mrs. Stan dard and her husband have been living on the ranch .while. Mr. Compton" has lived on a place own ed by Mr. Ketchum. Mr. ''Compton left Thursday for .Warrenton where he will take over his new business. ' I K. Adams, assisted by, Iran Loughary, northwest field repre sentative of the American Cattle club purchased a ear load of thor oughbred Jersey cows from F. E. Lynn of Perrydale. The load was shipped from Independence and consisted of 18 head. Turner Woman Bitten By Dog TURNER. April 8. The large dog belonging to F. P. Rowley, hit the hand of Mrs. Rowley's mother Quito badly Friday,. 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