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-PAGE FOUR The New OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning. April 21, 1929 fje Oregon "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe." From: First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spragle, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publishers CHARLES A- SPRAGl'E - - - Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - 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 Postcffieeat Salem, Oregon, an Second-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office SIS . Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Aithur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security B!dg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. BJdg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Are.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. Who Started the War? THE world war was no longer safely over than the college professors commenced to "debunk" the popular notions as to its origin. Allied propaganda was charged with having foisted on the open-throated Americans the blood-guiltiness of Germany and the lily-white innocence of France, the help lessness of Belgium and the chivalry of England. The re visionists set about to show that Germany was the babe in the woods, Russia the deep-dyed villain and France the close accomplice, while Belgium was a scheming confederate and England a ruthless bargainer for empire. Judge Ewart of Canada and Prof. Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith college have "Seen the leaders in this ''revisionist" school. The bias of the latter is so palpable that his lindings are quicjuy Drougni in question. Sidney B. Fay, also of Smith college, has recently made his contribution to the literature of war origins in a two volume work. His study is quite exhaustive, his approach more open-minded and his treatment more of an assembly of the facts than a lawyer's brief in an argument. He doesn't pile all the blame on any, one country, nor yet does he give all an absolution by shouldering, the responsibility on the mniiaristidJaysteni.wflibn dominated pre-war Europe. But his Classification would fall with the "revisionists" who in sist that the treaty of Versailles was wrong in putting the moral guilt on Germany and piling on the reparations as the works of penance for that guilt. While the work of Mr. Fay is quite complete with the material at hand, which includes the state archives of Rus sia, Austria and Germany, it must be recalled that France and England have not yet published the full file of their war documents, so that the literature is by no means complete. Then from time to time there have been carefully written articles in such magazines as "Foreign Affairs" and "Cur rent History" replying to certain phases of the work of Hie revisionist school. Barnes, et al, seem to start from the theory that the assassination of Sarajevo was inspired by the Serbian government; that it was timed at the instance of Russia whose minister Isvolsky, had leagued with Poin care of France to precipitate a general European war. All of which sounds too much like the celebrated Pots dam conference where Emperor William was said to have adopted the same policy on behalf of the Central Powers. In April "Foreign Affairs" an article on "How the war came" points out notable omissions in Prof. Fay's work which would give quite a different cast to the involved diplomatic rela tions of the pre-war years. To settle the problem of the exact origin of the war the student must see its factors largely and see them whole. Looking through selective spec tacles will not give a fair view of the situation, and that we have observed is the usual method of the revisionist school. The question gets point when the committees are at work in Paris now revising the sum of German reparations. Pro-Germans of today claim either that the sum should be remitted or cancelled because Germany was either innocent or no more guilty than the allies. They are being punished not for starting the war but because they lost the victory. Suppose we reverse the situation. Had Germany won what about reparations? There is no doubt that tolls as lieavy as could be laid would have been exacted from the defeated powers. Might, not satisfaction of justice would have pre vailed. From the practical standpoint however scaling down the reparations should do good both to the late allies and to Germany. The restoration of wholesome conditions in cen tral Furope will do much toward restoring healthier condi tions in the rest of the world. Who started the war? Austria and Germany, we still -.believe. The evidence of the preceding barajevo is too strained, too tenuous. diate cause of the war was o uia uatncu up a n, was uy vjrcruuiny wiin iuu Knowledge of the probable consequence of precipitating a general war because of Russia s coming to sia's mobilization order undoubtedly helped defeat moves for peaceful resolution of the difficulty, but the major responsi bility still lay with the central powers. I Running the Gauntlet T71RIENDS of a sincle board -T state's higher institutions the news of the filing of a suit the act of the recent legislature looking to the formation of a unified board. It is of course the privilege of any citizen to go into court in defense of his times the resort to such a privilege bears the earmarks of be ing a public nuisance. Smith, the Portland attorney in the case, is but the hire ling. m Other interests are back' of- the attempt to thwart the will of the legislature. It would not be surprising if some flaws were found in the enactmerit'which might fail to square with the state's constitution, flaws which might prove fatal in the eyes 01 the highest court. The principle is sound and worthy of putting into prac tice. We suspect that the animus back of the bill is not so much against the measure as to defer action till some more appropriate season, when political control might be more pos itive. In the meantime the institutions will "struggje along", and the knife-whetting may be expected to resume. We feel like scolding Marion Talley for not sticking with her singing. She certainly isn't needed "down on the farm", while her marvelous voice can bring delight to thousands who attend grand opera. Maybe she is just a bit homesick for the old Missouri corn belt. 14 'Earn while you lean the barber trade' says classi fied ad in Everett paper. We know a lot of fellows who would answer that ad if they didn't think there was a catch in" it somewhere. "Milwaukie man, 67, missing; last seen riding in old Ford," says a Portland paper. Bat the story says he's been missing only since Tuesday, and there's little cause for alarm. He couldn't have found a place to park In that time. - ' . ..a a I Just when the Chinese nationalists are putting down re Volt and the Mexican rebellion is collapsing, the Indians have to drop a bomb in Delhi to start trouble in a new place. Mexican revolutions need not interfere with travel now. Airplanes fly right over the battle lines. Urtategman Serbian-Russian-French plot TVia immo Austria's harsh ultimatum toJ the support of Serbia. Rus for the covprnment. of trtP of learning will be disturbed by to test the constitutionality of constitutional rights ; but some life They Say . . . Expressions of Opinion from Statesman Readers are Welcomed for Use In this column. All Letters Most Bear Writer's Name, Though Thl Need If -t bo Printed. Editor Statesman: There Is an old Greek proverb, I think It Is, which is as follows: "When the gods wonld destroy, they first make mad." And this reminds me of the "ravings" found on the front page last Sat urday of an evening paper pub lished not more than a dozen miles from the dome of the state capitol. They were sad indeed; almost despairing. Perhaps the author felt his political power and authority slipping. The object of his Particular "pet peeve" is the rebellious atti tude of a majority of the members of the Salem city council. He ac tually called them "insurgents" and "rebels. To the writer of the article in said evening paper, it Is unthinkable that the said councilmen should presume to think and act for themselves. In stead of alowlng the writer In said evening paper to dictate their actions. No doubt his Ideas of a good councilman would be a mere puppet who accepted his dictation. It la no secret among those who are moderately well Informed concerning the inner workings of Salem's municipal government, that the so-called "Progressive pol icies' about which so much ap pears In the said evening paper. ZSj.Sfit the mayor of said city Is merely the "loud speaker" through which the said evening paper officially "broadcasts" Its policies and prin cipals. In the interest of harmony and the -city's welfare, the "rebels" should face a firing squad at sun rise, a la Mexico. J. C. ADAMS. 748, N. 20lh St. Opinions of Marion County - Editors COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Our attention was called, re cently to an arUele In the Oregon Statesman regarding the develop ment of rural communities and the part taken by the local news papers la this development. . It is very Interesting to read and con tains much food for reflection. This article will be found on page 10 of the Issue of April 9. It re lates the effort made by these papers for community develop ment. We do not know who the author of this article Is but It is certainly worth reading. Regard ing the Tribune, the writer says, "He (meaning the editor) has been Instrumental In getting a macadamised road built from Turner west to the Pacific high way sooth of Salem, which Is par ed through Mlnto pass to Eastern. Oregon. The above Is slightly overdrawn. We do not claim the honor, entirely, of getting the Cloverdale road designated as a market road. At the time the question of a market road con necting the Salem-Mlll City road with the main highway was before the people the Salem Chamber of Commerce were set on the Battle Creek route. They began by plac ing the signs, directing people to the highway, at the Intersection of Battle Creek road at the north limits of the City of Turner. This, then, was the beginning, of - the agitation for a market road for this se.ctlon. The Salem chamber ot commerce still held for the Battle Creek route. We contend ed that according to the market road law the road should go where It wonld benefit the great est "number of farmers." The Bat tle Creek road had practically no feeders leading tnlo it compared A Single Club Player Lay Seirmoims A GOOD WORD FOR TOUTH "When our aona shall be as plant grown up In thalr youth. And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palaca." Psalm 144:12. The ' season of baccalaureates will toon be with us again. Ser mons and addresses will seek to clinch the lessons of self-control and worthy purpose which the schoolrooms have reiterated. The idealism of youth will be shown In stirring class mottos. In stu dent orations, and In youth's chal lenge to the problems of the day. In the next few weeks the sen iors of high school and college will bask In a sudden importance. Proud parents will beam; young er brothers and sisters will envy their achievement. Lower class men will give them right-of-way and even the faculty will relax their religious discipline. Graduation exercises may not mean quite so much now as they formerly did, because now the schools are engaged in quantity production. Not even the teachers know all the graduates in the lar ger schools and colleges. But the appearance of these hundreds and thousands of young people gives a real picture of youth which ought not to be Ignored. "Flaming youth" has been ablaze. The public eye has been dazzled by the extravagances, the excesses, even the crimes of mod ern youth. Folk have come to think of young people of today as un disciplined, self-willed, reckless in self-indulgence or in actual dis sipation. Newspaper stories of parties, auto rides, and such would seem to Indicate a general with the Cloverdale route, which and horticultural district. An other large Item was the cost of construction. The Battle Creek road is a succession of hills, while on the route selected there was only one hill and that was not steep. We went to the bat with Mr. Brady, then editor of the Statesman. He Informed us that they, meaning the member of the Salem chamber of commerce, had gone over both roads and had decided that the Battle Creek road was the best adapted to the pur poses ot a market road. It our memory serves as right, we In formed Mr. Brady that If they made that decision they must have gone over the road blind folded. We took the matter be fore the public edltorlly and otherwise. 'Finally the road was built and Is now designated as a market road. As far as to whom the honor Is due we are not wor rying about that. We were all working together and the road Is built and established as a market road. As far as the road through the Minto pass to Eastern Oregon Is concerned that Is only open to Detroit and paved only' to Me hama. While this road Is not yet built, we understand It has the approval of the government en gineers and the U. S. Forest Ser vice and the solid backing of Mar lon county and a large part of the state as far noth as Portland. We have strong faith that this road will be built and not many years hence. Turner Tribune. PRAISES STATESMAN ARTICLE In the Oregon Statesman of April la appeared a writeup of the several community papers published, In Marlon county, and among them was a fine article about The Gervals 8tar. The story was made a feature article and no doubt contained mack of news to the Statesman readers. From this article a great amonnt of good no doubt will result to the papers mentioned. However la the para graph devoted to The Star some errors were made that In the main did not damage to the paper, but did leave out many salient facts that necessarily need telling here. M. M. McCollam started publica tion of The Star some 3 S years ago, later selling It to W. J. moral let-down among young peo ple. True, those who follow the primrose path get Into the lime light, until the real character of youth Is apt to be distorted by such extremes of morals or of good taste. Despite the faults of boys and girls of today who are enjoying a freedom never before experienced, high standards still have their appeal and their claim. A Chris tian Endeavor convention such as Salem has Just entertained gives testimony to youth's devotion to lofty aims. The thousands who In the next few weeks receive their school diplomas offer another proof that modern- youth is cap able of serious effort and honest achievement. Never were school standards higher, never were di plomas harder to secure save through long and arduous study. The gospel of work has not been superseded even In this age of jazz and jangle. Perhaps the picture of Ideal sons and daughters given by Hhe Psalmist seems somewhat anti quated, somewhat Victorian if you please. Yet borrowing the fig urative language of the Psalmist parents still prefer to see their sons strong in the sinewy strength of the youthful tree; and their daughters as beautiful yet as pure as the marble cut for the corner stone of a palace. Parents of to day were yesterday's children. The youth of today will be the fa thers and mothers of tomorrow. We have faith In them that they will measure up In mental and moral tests to the standards of this or any previous age. Cark, who published It continu ously until about June, 1911, when he sold the plant to H. D. Mars, who about 10 years ago purchased the Jefferson Review and moved the Star there. At this time the business men of Gervals formed a stock company and purchased the present, plant, which was leased by A. M. Byrd, who published the paper about four years. Mr. Byrd sold his lease to G. L. Swartz. who ran It for some time. He then sold the lease to P. P. Hassler. he to Miss Verna McNeal and then Hassler buying back the lease, continuing It until the first of June, 1928, when I. V. McAdoo bought In and has published It ever since. The Star has had a remarkable career, being In a rich section of Marion county,-where good people are friendly and prosperous,- and where the folks are loyal to the home town paper. We are grateful to the Oregon Statesman for the writeup and be lieve It has performed a real ser vice to the community papers ot Marion county. Gervals Star. CALLS FOR EFFICIEXCT We believe the time is at hand when more efficient and more modern methods of farming are upon us. The best and the sound est farm relief that can come Is the introduction ot more efficient and more modern methods, and the man who ignores them and shuts his eyes to them and refus es to. accept and adopt modern. efficient methods is going to lose out. In spite of all he and the United States government can do. Mill City Logue. ' Newspaper publishers la the valley who dedicate themselves in telligently to the common purpose of SERVING THEIR CIMMUNI- TIES. ADVANCING Its views. HERALDING new growths, and WELDINO civic spirit closer. CONSTITUTE FORCES OF GOOD THAT A COMMUNITY MAT HAVE. Silverton. A writer In the Salem States man recently observed that a great change had come over the country newspapers published in the small cities and market towns of the Willamette VaUey." ' That is true in many respects. RADIO BECOMES UNIVERSAL The radio, only a few years ago an unknown feature ot home en tertainment, has assumed univer sal proportions with 20.000,000 sets in operation throughout the world. Nearly half ot these are in use In the United States with the other half distributed well over the world. Use of radio is still growing, with exports from the United States setting a new high mark in 1928. Great Britain and Germany have about 2.500,000 sets each. France 1,250.000, Japan 550,000 Argentina 830.000. Radios are found in practically every coun try and their uses appear unlim ited. Byrd, getting ready to spend the long winter near the south pole will listen In to programs from all parts of the world. There is however, a great dif ference In the operation of the broadcasting stations in the var ious countries. In the United States, the radio broadcasting is a strictly commercial proposition with advertising the basis of the operating revenue. In the large European countries. Including the United Kingdom and Ger many, broadcast stations are gov ernment operated. Sweden grants as concession to one company to operate the main stations and ra dio clubs care for the smaller ones. Australia Is now preparing to take over the high powered stations. Outside of this country, it is the general rule for owners of radio sets to pay a license to the government. The tax ranges from five cents in France to IL8 in Salvador. The British tax is 82. 45, German 85.70, Australian 85. 85; Japanese 89. Here, then, we have two types of operation. One is by the gov ernment, with the possibility of competition in production of high class programs removed. The other is by the private sta tions as in the United States, with the injection, many times, of ad vertising which is displeasing to the listeners. In this country, however, we do have high class programs made possible by the outlay of large concerns for ad vertising by this method. Too much advertising during the programs is highly objection able. It ruins the effect that the advertiser desires because the owner of the set will usually turn to some other station, where the advertising Is minimized. Radio has surely become uni versal and each country Is striv ing to find a solution of the broadcast problem. We believe that the privately owned stations will give the best programs, pro vided some means can be found to limit the advertising to a cer tain amount of time each hour. Grants Pass Observer. TRAINING IN SPEECH While it Is a debatable question as to whetheror not the influence of the spoken' word has ever dim inished we have assurance that with the growth in popularity of the talkie and the radio that speech is coming to occupy a lar ger position among those agencies which amuse, entertain, and edu cate people. The Friday afternoon program of the district school is the agency credited with having trained a large number ot the masters of the English language of an earlier day. Tomorrow the pick of the Washington county elementary schools meet in a declamation contest which has for its object training in public speaking. In this day ot Up lazy Americans the emphasis on better speech Is not misplaced. The exhortation of Hamlet to the players Is not out of order: "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trip pingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines." Forest Grove News-Times. LINDBERGH'S POPULARITY The Baker Democrat-Herald, discussing Lindbergh's reported discourtesy to admiring specta tors at the Washington landing field, believes that the day when he will be bothered with admirers seems to be drawing to a close. And if It means the end of the silly, hero-worshiping variety that has dogged his footsteps for the last year, both LIndy and the rest of the country will be well pleas ed. There Is no danger of any gen eral hospitality on the part of the public toward Lindbergh just because he can't be the gracious, friendly fellow that strangers would have him be when they thrust their unwelcome persons upon him. American people, In the majority, will appreciate his reactions under such circumstan ces. They will continue to admire and respect him as a young man of ability and courage who wrote a glorious page of aviation his tory and refused to commercial ise his resultant tame. Lav- Grande Observer. GO TO CANBY! Canby has achieved fame as a bulb center and wisel capitalizes a growing Industry, which has spread over acres of rich soil in that vicinity. If yon have never WHY SUFFER? when CASET'S Guaran teed Rheumatic and Neuri tis Remedy assures relief or your money back! Purities the blood, reduces pain and swelling, relieves high blood pressure. $1.50 per bottle. For Sale by Leading Drwggists ITCHING ECZEMA HEALED We honestly believe CRANOLENE tha cranberry cream, will heal any case of ecxema or other skin trouble. Come la and let as tell yon about It. Use one Jar. and If you are dissatisfied, your money will be refunded. Price II. PERRY'S DRUG STORE 118 8. Commercial Bits f os Breakfast By B. J. About two weeks late But home grown asparagus will be In plentiful supply in the Salem markets by the middle of the week And It was worth waiting for. because the best of it is as good as the wide world can grow. Some day, we are going to have aspara gus canning In Salem, on a large scale. This will be a strong link In the chain of all the year around canning, which is coming soon. The asparagus crop wil begin be fore the other spring crops come on, and last through till straw berry canning. It you think that is visionary. Just keep your eyes aud ears open and be patient, and the wait may not be very long. A. T. Yeaton, veteran Salem resident, who was one of the first furniture dealers of this city, writes under date of April 16 to the Bits man: "In this morning's issue of Statesman mentioning the ax of Rev. J. L. Parrish, which he brought with him around the horn, etc., would say that I have a rocker frame that he brought on the Lausanne, so his wife num ber two informed me when I took the frame as part pay for furni ture she bought from me. I up holstered it nearly 40 years ago, but have never used It." s No doubt Mr. Yeaton wil make this historic rocker a part of one of the permanent collections, in Salem or at Champoeg, or possibly at one of the mfsslon sites, either on Mission bottom or "the Che meketa plain," that became Sa lem. The Bits man has some thing about the Parrish axes, etc., that will have. to go over to an other Issue. h W. G. Allen, dean ot the can nery managers of Salem, wa con nected up by the Bits man, some time ago. with the Shawnee mis sion station In Kansas, near what is now Kansas City, where the courier overtook Jason Lee with Information telling him of the death ot his wife the father of Mr. Allen having farmed the land and used the buildings of that mission station when W. G. was a small boy. S Now, Mr. Allen comes Into the pioneer story again. He lived as a youngster at Newberg, and he was a student of geology and make Oregon's geological history the theme of his graduating address at Pacific college, Newberg. Nu merous specimens were found in what Is now the town ot Newberg and Mr. Allen helped dig up some of them and place them in the college museum, lncuding petri fied jaw bones of mastadons, mammoth sloths, etc., showing that prehistoric animals of stupen dous size roamed that region hun dreds of thousands If not mil lions of years ago. Ewlng Young, referred to by the Bits man in the past two Is sues, lived at the present site of Newberg. and he died there early seen these wide fields In bloom, mark a cross on your calendar for May 6, which will be celebrat ed as Blossom Day. Go to Canby and witness a,, beautiful picture which will remain in your mem ory for some time. Gorgeous tulips all over the landscape. Motor to Canby ear ly and avoid the rush. Don't for get your pocketbookk, either, be cause you will be tempted. 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HENDRICKS In 1841, after the flood of that time wrecked the saw mill he had built on Chehalem creek. W S Right near the site of tha Young saw, mill, opposite the race he built to get the power of Che halem creek, Mr. Allen found in the remains of a lava drift some fine specimens of the., famous three-toed horse that wa3 the pro genitor of the cayuse horses of the times, some hundreds of thou sands of years later, when the pioneers came to the Oregon coun try. The specimens found at New berg were of a period later than -that of some of the specimens found In other sections of Oregon, for the Newberg specimens show a development further along to wards the cloven hoof of the pres ent horse. t The present race of horses has gone far from the three-toed ani mal from which they sprang, for the remote ancestor with three toes was only about 15 Inches tall. When he at length grew hoofs h went to Asia and from there to Europe and Africa, and did not get back to this part ot the earth again, as the cayuse pony, till Cor tex brought him, in 1519. and his tribe ranged north to th Rocky mountains. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read April 21, 1904 Rev. Hiram Gould of Newberg was the last to file acceptance and certificate of nomination as pro hibition candidate for the first district. ' Carl Gabrielsofl's Rocket Was awarded first In the limits in the bench show in pointer dogs at Portland. Woolton Bang, owned by Frank J. Moore of Salem, took first in open dogs. Marion county has changed its combination road roller for a standard one. Dr. G. C. Eshelman has been elected to the office of suprpnif instructor in the order of United Artisans and will assume his of tice May 1, at which time he will cease practice as a physician. The Salem Raglan baseball team ha3 been boiled down to 11 men, the first practice game of the season to be played with the Mt. Angel team tomorrow. Your health depends on what you eat. FISHER'S FAST COOK: ING TOASTED WHEAT every morning: will keep you well. WHY? Because It retains 100 of the wheat, precooked wonder ful flavor easy to prepare. Cooks in three to five min utes. Costs less than lc per dish. FISCHER FLOUR ING MILLS Silverton, Ore. All Grocers 247 Cnion Ave. Portland. Ore. Phone E.0033 0 offer for the next two weeks. II Phone 2194