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1 Balem, Oregon Tuesday April 18, 1020 . j ........ - , v... u - : . : - asMHBBBanirHBaBaBBra A Publither . 'y'''Myy'' , ... ' J t : ft I I? Once More the Prune WE are watching anxiously to see if the university can j-get back out of the prune orchards of Oregon without getting some bruised knuckles or skinned shins, possibly a discolored eye. The dfubt arises because the university school of business administration has just gotten out a bulle tin on "Overseas Markets for Oregon and Washington Prunes." We can understand perfectly well the university position, that when the prune becomes a product then it graduates from the agricultural college and becomes eligible for university attention. In other words when the prune gets its overalls off then the university specialists have a duty to fulfill in getting it admitted to the polite society of foreign trade. But we fear the jealous college profs, will want to see the prune through from the blossom to the stew kettle. Even if the prune gets by, there is sure to be trouble when the university's present study on selling butter and cheese in Hawaii gets into print. Then the state college will ask why the state should be called on to support two "cow" colleges. So there is going to be an immediate task for the consolidated board to decide just where the prune passes from college to university, likewise the dairy cow and the products of her bounty The study of the marketing of our prune crop overseas is quite thoroughly done by Prof. William A: Fowler of the school of business administration at the college. It is large ly a library study of all the available literature which has been carefully assembled, investigated, and prunes. A very comprehensive picture of the economy of the prune in inter national trade is revealed. The leading prune producing countries are Jugoslavia, France, United States and Cali fornia, the latter being the largest producer by far. Ger many, United Kingdom, Netherlands and France consume the greatest amount of dried prunes. Prof. Fowler finds that the outlook is for a rather steady increase in prune production for the next several years due lanrelv to increases in California. Jugo-Slavia's main.use for prunes is for "slivovitsa" or prune brandy, and so long as that country stays intemperate tneir exports win noi increase very fast. Despite increases in prune consumption the prices have been falling in late years, but Prof. Fowler thinks if the prune growers and exporters would pres3 their selling meth ods they would increase demand so there wouldn't .be the low prices. In only three of the principal prune-eating coun tries does the per capita consumption exceed that of the United States. So he concludes there i3 much room for mar ket expansion. As he says: "The vast potential overseas market for Oregon-Washington dries prunes will become an actual and profitable market only through the active stimulation of dealer and consumer demand. The market is there awaiting intelli gent and active sales promotion." Prof. Fowler does not mention it, but it is a fact that Milton J. NewhouSe, manager of the North Pacific prune co operative, is in Europe at present investigating overseas markets and opportunities. When he returns he will write a bulletin for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the department of agriculture. His trip should be profitable to the organization with which he is identified as well. It will be up to the prune growers and dealers and ex porters to apply the advice given by the university profes sor. The prune needs a better marketing program. Unfor tunately the strenuous efforts to get the industry organized have failed, so that there isjio unified effort at sales pro motion. Under such conditions it is hard to see how the problem can be solved. We do not know much about prunes except that their taste appeals to us and we fill up on them frequently of a morning. So we can pass no judgment on the prune poli cies; but we do know a good job of printing when we see it. The university press has produced in the bulletin a piece of work .which measures up well to the high standards it has set in previous publications. Let Us Have Peace THE editor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times and a physician of that-city have engaged in an intermittent debate on the question of cold-catching." The editor claims that wet feet and drafts are imaginary as causes of colds, while the doctor seems to adhere to the chills theory. It has been a spirited debate, dividing the city over the dispute as to cold bugs or humbugs. The Statesman is not a medical journal, but in umpiring the debate we judge the doctor needs a little more testimony to hold up his side of the argument. We find that there are plenty of authorities right up to 1929 who give a little credit to drafts and chills in getting your nose to running and back to acnm. The consensus of opmion is that scientists have not gona very far in determining just what a cold is nor al together what causes a cold. We wonder if the editor and the doctor are not shooting at somewhat different targets. What do they mean by the word "cause" ? A cold, is like a war there are different "causes", there are primary causes, f nd secondary causes, and exciting causes and predisposing causes. So with the best intentions in the world to pour oil on the troubled waters and compose the peace of imin4 of the L'ood Corvallis folk who have been so badly disturbed as to why thsy were visited with the sniffles, The Statesman of fer sits solution, namely: Germs cause most colds, though conditions quite similar to colds such as hay fever, may be caused by dust or pollen irritating the mucous membrane of the nasal passages and pharynx. To cause colds the germs must be present in the passages and they must find a favor able soil there to work on. The mucous membrane or the respiratory passages may become inflamed or congested when through the special chilling of some portion of the skin, its work of elimination, of metabolistic waste is interfered with, throwing a heavier burden on the lungs, with resultant irritation. In other words while germs are the actual cause without whose active participation in the melee there would be no cold, such incidents as sudden chilling of a portion of the body are contributing causes, nparticeps cnminis" to slip from medicine to law. The Corvallis doctor didn't have at hand any authorities later than 1926 or 1927, while the editors were nght up to 1928 and 1929. So we will quote an ApriL 1929, authority. Probably we will get the usual treatment of the innocent by stander or suffer the fate of the Astoria. Chinaman who act ed as peacemaker and got bullets from both guns. But here 13 Dr. Morris Fishbem, editor of the Journal of the American Medical association, and of Hygeia, the health, magazine. writes on the subject of colds, as cupped from a newspaper a few days ago: "So far as modern science knows, the catching of a cold Is due to a state of lowered resistance of the body brought about by fatigue, exposure, bad nutrition, or any other factor that ts wearing rather than stimulating to the body. Associated with this there must be contact 'with the germs or Tiros that.bare the power to produce a cold by fixing themselTes on the m aeons membranes of the nose, and throat. The resistance of these membranes may be lowered by n usual dryness of the atmospheres by Inflammation or by other causes. "Obviously, the prevention of a cold depends oa keeping the body In the best possible physical state and In avoiding contact with people who bare colds. Under modern conditions of civilisation, respiratory diseases hare increased tremendously and the avoidance of contact with people who- have colds Is aboat as difficult a position as can be put up to anyone. The Germans are back at their old tricks ; not in bond ing armies bat in poshing scientific research in industry. At Essen a somber of industrialists are financing experiments for utilizing smoke as a fertilizer. Gases, minus sulphurous acid, are forced underground and the extra oxygen is ex pected to increase production 50. If the process is perfect ed there is no reason why a cigarette smoker can't raise her own head lettuce.-"- ' . 4 i . I J There are Times When He Asserts Himself ' KIDS STAY cOrAB MfrS. TUVS IS ONE; DAY J (ffPyQc VrA GONG TO kWl K -.- l-S-H:! M Y ' ' ' Y ailU VAMvTVW.wr - - -i- r 1 KM I mm M i HAUL Bifcs for Ereakfastt , By B. J. HENDRICKS Who's Who & Timely Viewo Magnitude of Task in Taking Cencus Outlined H' By WILLIAM Vf. STEUABT Director, rtdaral Cuuu (William Mott Steuirt vii bora at Corpus Chruti, Tex., Oct. 2, 1861. He attended the public (chools of Maryland and District of Columbia, and aolda de greea from Columbian (now George Wh inctoa) nnrrrrtity. Admitted to the bar in 1884, he practiced ia District of Co lumbia, Maryland and Michigan. He be came connected with the en ns of jnann fartnrers in 1880 and has been director of the federal eensoa since 1921.) ISTORY records no other In stance In which the popula tion has Increased so rapidly as in the United States. Some 3,000 years ago King Da rid set out to number the people of Israel and Judah. It took nine months and 20 days to make the count, and the returns showed 1.300,000 "valiant men that drew the sword." At the beginning of our na tional existence, w e took a census approximately equal in magnitude to that taken by King David. The United States marshals, to whom the task was assigned, were allowed 13 months for the enumeration, and returned a total population of a little less than 4,000,000. The census of population was established as a decenial event by the constitution of the United States and is the only current statistical Inquiry wich rests on such fundamental legal authority. Prior to 1790, the date of the first census of the United States, little has been done in any conn try toward establishing a regular periodic census of population. Since that date, the nations of the world have been developing methods and machinery that make possible a speedy counting of the people and the accumulation at the same time of a vast amount of data regarding educational, so cial and economic conditions. The development of modern statistical methods has probably gone far ther in the United States than in anyother country and the director of the census is required in one month to enumerate 120,000,000 people and to obtain rather ex tensive information for about 6, 250,000 farms. 14,000 mines and quarries and more than 100,000 irrigation and drainage projects. The population of continental United States is now increasing at tne rate or sdoui i,uu,uuv per sons per year, or approximately one person every 23 seconds. APPOINTMENT PEXDS Congressman Hawley has rec ommended the appointment of J W. Moore for postmaster at Har risburg. The appointment has been pending for nearly a year. Editors Say: A SECTIONAL CELEBRATION That sawmill celebration at Glendale on May 1 is going to be more than Glendale's celebration from present indications. It's go ing to be an event in which Doug las and Josephine counties unite In' dedicating the new Glendale Lumber company's new plant, one of the largest in southern Oregon. Roseburg has sent word that that city will be present with a band and, hundreds of visitors. Not to be outdone by Glendale's near est neighbor to the" north. Grants Pass Is making 'plans to send the municipal band, the Cavemen and large delegations of business men to the celebration. The event of fers opportunity tor Roseburg, Glendale and Grants Pass to meet in the common purpose of cele brating establishment of an in dustry which means much to the entire section. It Isn't alone Glendale's celebra tion on Hay 1. While the big saw mill Is located In that city, the Increased businuess which such an Industry brings must surely be felt over a much greater ter ritory. We feel that this is an occasion in which Grant Pass should share to as great an ex tent as possible. We hope that this city's delegation at .the Glen dale Lumber Jubilee will be rep resentative of Grants Pass' inter est la Glendale's growth and pros perity. Medford Dally Aews. "Ill THE CONSTITUTION ' The senate of Louisiana has im peached the governor of the state. Huev P. Long, on a long and ra ther stunning catalogue of charges. Those who initiated the movement, for impeachment were net disinterested. They are rep resentatives of the oil Industry, enraged because the governor had forced through an occupation tax en the refining of oil. But the governor had laid himself wide open. There was plenty of mate rial to wtrk on. A recent characteristic Incident gives a fair riew of Governor Long's outlook on his official po sition. A state senator at a com mittee meeting . became enraged at the governor's Interference with legislation and threw a copy of the constitution at the executive's head. "Maybe you've heard of this book" he yelled. The governor looked at the title and threw the book aside, saving: "I'm the con stitution Just now." Caesar could have said no more, nor Kaiser Wilhelm in the days of his glory nor Mussolini. But it sems to have been typical of Long. Nineteen charges have ' been brought against the governor as the basis for the Impeachment, Among them are "crimes, misde meanors, incompetency, corrup tion, favoritism, oppression in of fice and gross misconduct." ' Per haps the most serious specification fs one that the governor sought to bribe a plug-ugly to murder a state representative who opposed his course, promising money and s . . immunity irom punuamcou Whatever mav be the truth eon cernlng the enlarges of criminality against the governor the records show that he has been carrying a political dictatorship with a high hand. In eight months of office he completely subjugated the highway commission, the Board of Health, the Orleans Parish Levee hoard, the Board of Liquidation, the Board of Education and the administration of the two great charity hospitals of the state. From each and every one of these boards he has ruthlessly turned out all who opposed his will in anything.'The'record shows a long list of incidents Illustrative of his interference with Independence of action by any of them. He seems to hare a more completely puppet government than Italy has. One night last February Gover nor Long in direct violation of constitutions! inhibition, ordered ont state militiamen to raid res taurants where he thought there was gambling. No gamblinb was foand bat a large number of men and women who were dining and dancing were arrested In the plac es. Then the governor ordered that all those arrested be stripped and searched. The order wis carried out. In a few eases forc ibly.. When newspapers denounc ed him for this flagrant exhibition of autocracy the governor's an swer was 'Well do worse." - "L etat'e'est moi," said Louis XIV. Tn the constitution," said the governor of Louisiana. Louis' i Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States. Owr Fathers Read April 16, 1004 Fred Lamaraux of MilL City was doped and robbed over more than $200 In cash in this city. The county park board is facing a problem to make the $500 allot ted for both Marion square and Willson park do the beautifica tion work that should be done this season. Members of the board are Charles A. Gray, Mrs. D. J. Fry and William Manning. The Willamette University glee club will return tomorrow night from a tour of the northwest. Dr. H. B. Kelty, dentist, has decided to locate permanently in Salem and is opening an office overthe White House restaurant. assumption that he was the state, followed to its logical conclusion by those who came after him, car ried Louis XVI to the guillotine. Governor Long's similar delusion of grandeur seems to be bringing retribution less tardy and not so vicarious. Eugene Register. Prince Drives Big Locomotive For First Time Speaking of relics S b Suggested by the piece of the Appomattox apple tree ia the Hartmah jewelry store window In Salem S S The time is approaching when there will be a grand hunt for pioneer mementos In this section. This will be accentnated In the 1934 centenary celebration of the coming of the first missionaries. Rev. J. L. Parrish, when he was alive and a well known Salem resi dent, had two axes. One was the Implement that was used by Jason Lee and his little company in shaping the logs for the first dwelling on Mission bottom, in the fall of 1834. The other was the ax that he himself brought on the ship Lausanne with the "great reenforcement leaving xsew York In 1839 and arriving at Fort Van couver in the Oregon Country In 1840. Mr. Parrish used the latter ax himself driving the nrst spike or the first Btreet railway track built in Salem, near the cor ner where the United States Na tional bank now stands, and ' in front of the old Tiger engine house on State street, that had been secured by the Satem Street Railway company as a barn for its horses and mules; especially mules, to draw the cars back and forth between the State and Com mercial street corner and the Southern Pacific depot. The other engine house of the old volunteer fire department was that of the Capital engine company, at Lib erty and State streets, afterwards the Thomas Holman building, and later and now the Salem Bank of Commerce building. It was twice rebuilt. S S What the Bits man was going to say, wonder what has become of those two axes? . And what has become of the furniture in the Jason Lee house on North Broadway, the first dwelling built in Chemeketa (now Salem), and. still standing? Be sides being the first dwelling built in what now is Salem, it served also as the first state house of the provisional government, the postoffice, hospital, general store, etc., etc. In that house was born the third or fourth white child west of the Rocky mountains; there died the second wife of Ja son Lee and the high historic incidents came thick and fast in those halcyon days. V it is time a great nunt were begun for the relics of the pre pioneer mission and fur trading days and the pioneer times of Oregon. Christian Science Monitor re. marks that "Bermuda and Span ish onions from Texas are about due to join Swiss cheese from Wisconsin and Smyrna figs from California." Our growers have tried out Bermuda and Spanish onions in the Lake Labish district with some success and with hope ful experiments still going on. We make some good Swiss cheese at several points in Oregon; were making quite a jag of it annually a while back up Stayton " way. And we should be making a great deal more of it, and will when we develop this great dairying dis trict sufficiently, with legumes and other products that will come on in vast tonnages with major PHILADELPHIA. April 15. A slender young man in whose veins flows the blood of six royal European houses sat at the throt tle of a new Baldwin locomotive today and drove it on a trial run at the company's Eddystone plant. Samuel M. Vauclain, chairman of the Baldwin board who knows lo motives, said he handled the new giant like a veteran engineer. The young driver was Prince Cyril of Bulgaria, only brother of King Boris and heir apparent to the throne. He Is on his first vis it to America. (Concrete v Pipe is best for your city, because- It lasts indefinitely without mainte nance. Concrete pipe laid 50 years ago is still giving perfect service. It is uniform in quality being made to meet the exacting specifications of the American Society for Testing Ma terials. - ' It has remarkable strength and den. airy and actually becomes stronger with age. Its internal diameters do not vary more than 1, providing maximum hydrau lic capacity. A concrete sewer system is an excellent dividend-paying investment for any community. Illustrated Boot UTConcrtte Pip Snrm"ent upon request PORTLAND CLIENT ASSOCIATION 146 Fifth Street PORTLAND, ORE. A National Organization to Impnre and Extend the Uses of Concrete Offices 32 Ci:Ies " , ' I irrigation products, so that there will be enough milk and cream to go around and supply all de mands. Smyrna figs are grown in California, but our neighbors over the line say they have a bet ter variety in the Kadota variety, for which graders are' being made by the factory f C. J. Pugh & Co., of Salem, and a promising fg In dustry is growing np in Oregon, with a number of the hardy varie ties. A large scattering of people in the Salem district are growing figs, and stranger things hare happened than the building up of a large fig growing and packing industry In the Willamette valley, of suggestion or temptation competing with the wide world. This is the true land of diversity and 'as a speaker at the Salem chamber of commerce meeting said yesterday, the "Garden of Eden." Where the original Gar den of Eden was, in Mesopotamia meaning the country between th rivers (the Tigris and Euphrates) there Is one of the largest, If not the largest fig growing country of the modern world. A man at the Bits man's elbow complains: "Another indictment against the movies is that they usually send a large portion of the male members of the audience home thirsty. Here Is work for the educational squad of the pro hibition enforcement agencies." The man may but does not neces sarily leave the Inference In the reader's mind that he himself needs protection from the wIIm r-m rmm VIsTT 191 vTJTl Twenty Years Ago This Month Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. N., Discovered the North Pole COMMODORE PEARY had courage, was an organizer, and had the foresight to recog nize that if careful enough plans were laid his great objective could be achieved. As history points out, the journey was a mo3t hazardous one, with trouble looming on the horizon at ev ery turn. But he went" through these storms and weathered them all. A Lindbergh of his day. The North Pole was discovered April 6, 1909. Banks, too, must make careful plans to safely weather approaching storms. To advise on fi nancial matters with patrons so that they may always find themselves properly organized and financed to reach their goal. This is. the type of unique service that has made friends of customers, and that has been responsible in great measure for the leading po sition which this bank, now one of the largest in this area, has attained. We invite you to come in and discuss your financial problems with an officer of this bank. United States National Bank Continued THIS WEEK Sail . I t I i i f . - i' 7 .ri .. x 3 - aaaaMasBaBBBieasSsBaWalgiaMPe . - J . . '