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PAGE FOUR The New OREGON STATESMAN, Sakm. Oregon. Friday Morning, April 19, 1929 tltfje Oregon Statesman "Xo Favor Sicays Us; No Fear Shall Atce" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 i THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spracue, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publishers Charles A. Sprague Sheldon F. Sackett Editor-Manager Managing Editor Member of the 'Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper. Entered at the Poatcffiee at Salem, Oregon, as Second-CUu -Matter. Publithed every morning except' Monday. Business office 215 S. Commercial Street. I III Mil Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives : Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan .Ave. Parties BEING invited to a "party" nowadays proves somewhat embarrassing unless one knows the hosts. He may have to do some snooping around to find out what kind of "party" it is. The old-fashioned get-together with a few hands of whist followed by ice cream, cake and coffee have gone the way of the boot-jack and the corset, whatever way that has been. The modern party has to be "hot" whether it is at tended by young or old. "While returning home in the early morning from a party" is. the frequent clause in newspaper stories about auto accidents, which gives an accurate picture of the kind of party it was. George Lux in Chicago is dead. He had been out with young friends making the round of amusement resorts; the car turned over; he was suffocated. At the coroner's jury Virginia Graf, 18, testified: "Believe me, if a girl doesn't drink, she's not wanted at a party these days. They never invite her to a second party." Replying to the question, "Can't you entertain in your own homes?" Virginia said: "Oh, yes, but if he can't bring a bottle with him he won't call the second time." But before the hearing, was over the girl's bold front was shattered and she collapsed on, the foor in a faint. i -4 - That was Chioago. We read how at Oregon City the county court denied renewal of dance hall license at Carver because of the wild goings-on at the dances. It is true that it is the wild parties we read about, and not all of them. The ones that wind up in the ditch, the di vorce court or the criminal court are the ones that get re ported on the front page; so we get no report save in the conventional society columns of the decent parties which are enjoyed. The uncritical may place the blame on prohibition. Pro hibition has of course encouraged the bottle business; but that is not the real cause of the depravity of the day. It is hedonism, the worship of pleasure. Pleasure has long been the lure of humankind and the object of pulpit wrath. But today this quest for pleasure is heightened by popular pros perity, which gives added leisure and added money for enjoy ing that leisure period; and stimulated into wrong channels by the decay of old religious, formulas, such as the doctrines of rewards and punishments, which for years kept folk pious through fear. It is a matter of standards. People young and old have had to choose what standards they wanted to live by, wheth er the cheap and the false or the more wholesome and ele vating. They will continue td face that choice. A certain number will sell out cheap for the gaudy tinsel of a passing party ; others will hold to higher ideals and adhere to stricter codes of moral conduct. The burden resting on social agen cies is to expose the emptiness of the former and to build up the appeal of the latter. It is as hard a problem as "farm relief." To the Man in the Street Awaiting the Court Decision STOCKHOLDERS in railroads are awaiting with consider able anxiety the decision of the supreme court in the St. Louis and O'Fallon case. Involved in this case are the questions of how the railroads of the country shall be val ued for rate-making purposes, also the recovery of one-half the road's earnings over 6 on its investment. The inter state commerce commission's preliminary estimate is a rail road valuation of around twenty billion dollars, while the roads claim they should be valued at ten billion dollars in excess of this amount. They claim they should get the mark-up due to the rise in prices during the war, while the government valuation has been on the basis of 1914 prices. The, direct effect of a decision favorable to the roads would not be so much in the increase of rates in order to per mit the authorized (but not guaranteed) earnings of 5, as it would reduce the amount which the prosperous roads would have to share with the government, which is to be one-half of all over 6. The decision is expected to settle the long-disputed matter of how railroads shall be valued for rate-making purposes, an issue never yet settled. The court may, it is true, avoid the issue on jurisdictional grounds; but it is expected that the final decision will be comprehensive and conclusive. Some days ago the court's decision was adverse to the Interborough Rapid Transit corporation in New York City, which sought to raise its fares from 5c to 7c in spite of its contract with the city. The court turned the question back to the state courts, which came as a jolt to the traction in terests. This decision of course has no connection with the railroad case, but it does show an independence of thinking on the part of the court in contrast with the claims of soap box orators. We guess that the court will pretty much sus tain the findings of the interstate commerce commission as to railroad values; but that will not be injurious to railroads as a whole. The continued cool weather is serving to hold back bios- som time. It may prove to be a good thing for the orchard- ists. Frost damage in this vicinity has so far been light. and there is hope now that the major fruit crops will escape injury, li they do, then the promise is excellent for a splen did year in the mid-Willamette region. THE Cosmopolitan Store ; Will Oose Satin-day Night 2 Rui?e IDasrG 0 Uqc& offcota Gttcclt ieffft wiBll bo trovcd to Disrccttc? Doptt. Gtovo IfnEHAD eye i -rf ''7r-'&GBgm&5b ' Bats for EirealldFast By R. J. HENDRICKS Said Hubert Howe Bancroft: "There is nothing in tha wide world worth mourning for." Do you agree with that statement T Listen. W S The great historian In his first rolome on Oregon in his stupend ous work covering the Pacific coast .had finished the record of Ewing Young. As most readers know, Ewing Young was the lead ing spirit (or one of the leading spirits, If you will have It that way), of the Willamette Cattle company, bringing the first large band of cattle from California, then Mexico. Young and his party got through with 630, having lost 200 on the way. W S This was In 1837. In 1834, Ewing Young and a party of men who got together in California had brought (or started with) about hundred horses and mules, ar- riving at the place on Mission bottom where Jason and Daniel Lee and their companions were beginning the construction of their first log house. In October. One of Young's men remained there and helped the Lees with their work. But on arriving In the Multnomah (Willamette) val ley, Young found that Dr. Mc Loughlin had posted his party as horse thieves, relying on a note sent by sea by Figueroa, Spanish governor of California through the mistaken notion that some real horse thieves following the Young party part of the way to Oregon came all the way with their equine booty. This note from the Spanish governor caused Dr. McLoughlin, In charge of the Hudson Bay company post at Fort Vancouver, to refuse to sell Young and his party supplies. Oh, there is a great deal to the story. But, briefly, Young was furious. He was a southerner, and a fire eater. IPesnaosrHyaiffl5a See the New Perm Ace 5 ply Balloons be fore you buy a tire. These Tires are hea vier, stronger and better looking than any Pennsylvania product you have ever seen and the price is no higher than you are pay;' ing for second grade tires. 29x4.40 Balloon 5 ply $ 6.95 30x4.50 " " " 7.75 29x5.00 " " " ...... 9.50 30x5.00 " 99 99 9.75 32x6.00 99 99 99 13.75 Guaranteed for 16,000 miles we adjust any claims here Also in the price class we offer 29x4.40 Sylvan Balloon.... 4.95 30x3 Extra size 3.95 Spring Special on Rugby Bikes The boys all know the sturdy Rugby. No better Bike was ever built. A Bike that sells for $48.50 at ft special price for the next Two weeks only You can't" go wronj on the Rugby We have just unloaded a CARLOAD of Certainteed Roofing Roll Roofings as low as $1.30 per square FuU weight shingles as low as $4.25 per sq. We deliver them to yon The matter was patched up, but not till after Young and a man named Carmichael undertook to establish a distillery at their place in the Chehalera ralley, now Yamhill county. This would hare ruined the beginnings of ciTilixa tion in the settlements. Dr. Mc Loughlin and Jason Lee, Tirtual governors then of the empire that has become the Pacific northwest, were bone-dry prohis. They had to be. They had to keep the country bone-dry or suffer extinc tion from the, drunken Indian population. So the Oregon Coun try started dry; also free soil. But Ewing Young was dissuaded from starting his distillery, by ar guments and inducements offered by Jason Lee and Dr. McLough lin. But Ewing Young was a mis anthrope, imagining and nursing many wrongs and slights; and he fretted himself Into his grare. After telling Young's history, in a matter of fact way, Bancroft, the great historian, in a manner not usual to him in his writings. made these conclusions: TTOMEX DENIED VOTE BUDAPEST. Hungary, April 18. (AP) The Hungarian parlia ment today by unanimous rote discarded a bill that would have giren'women the right to vote in municipal elections. 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