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PAGE FOUR Th New OREGON STATESMAN, galea, Oregon, Wednesday Morafnsy April 24, 112f SRje Oregon Htfategman "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe." From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spragce, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publisher Charles A. Spracve Sheldon F. Sackett 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 Postofflce at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Class I Mutter Pnhliinil i'nrn lunrjiiin nrrent fnnrla 11 RintinPXX office ei5 S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stechcr, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 X. Michigan Ave. Business in Farming IF a chap wanted to set up in business some place he would try to make an estimate of what the gross volume of busi ness he .would do, cost of his stock and-his operating ex penses. The difference would be his profits and he would have to decide for himself whether the probable profits wofld be enough to keep him or sufficient to justify the venture. When a man buys a corner grocery or a gas station, he first asks, "What amount of business do you have?" That is a sensible question, but we never heard of its being applied to farming before. A fellow seems to start in farming with no particular idea of how much he is going to make, if anything, or of how much he ought to make to keep his family He just starts, trusting to his own willingness to work and the bounty of mother nature somehow that he may succeed. Many do; some do not. The first thing we have read which seems to put going into farming on the same reasonable basis as any other busi ness is the little bulletin "Dairy farm incomes required to maintain standard farm homes in Oregon", prepared by Ralph S. Besse and N. C. Jamison and put out by the exten sion service at the state college. The bulletin is sensible throughout. First it finds that to maintain a standard farm home in this state the cash income should be $1508, which is in addition to the living supplied by the farm which is val ued at $650. Now that is reasonable, nothing fancy to be sure, but substantial and fair. The next question is, how cash income of around $1500. takes an average of about twenty cows with a production of better than 300 lbs. of butterfat to yield that income. The capital investment in land, livestock and machinery is from $15,000 to $18,000. With formulas like these it ought to be possible to de termine why many dairy farmers do not succeed. Maybe it is lack of capital or trying to get along with too few cows or cows of poor production. Perhaps it is a poor farm so that too much feed must be bought. Perhaps the farmer himself is an indifferent worker or manager. This bulletin charts a new course in educational pub licity on agriculture. We have nical questions of agronomy, horticulture and livestock in cluding their diseases and pests. But we have never had such a plain and sensible treatment of one branch of farm ing as a business. Now even a chamber of commerce ought to know what is required of a successful dairy farmer. It is to be hoped that the bulletin really gets into the hands of prospective and active farmers; and that it is the forerun ner of similar publications dealing with other branches of agriculture. Safeguarding Salem's Water Supply THE county court protests against the action of the city attorney, upon the instruction of the council, filing ob jections to the granting of power permit to the Northwest Power company giving it the use of certain waters in the vi cinity of Marion lake for power purposes. The city's filing on the waters was for possible future municipal water supply for the city of Salem. The county court's interest in the power side of the controversy is the belief that the develop ment by the power company would speed the improvement of the north Santiam highway over the Cascades. The interests involved in this power application are complicated. The granting of power permits to private con cerns is presumably sufficiently safeguarded through fed eral and state laws. The nature lovers, the fish and game people are- inclined to be hostile to the development because they regard the area as one of the state's beauty spots, not to be desecrated and destroyed by axe and steam shovel and waterways. In addition there are the questions about high ways and water supplies. We think the highway matter is not of controlling im portance. If the Santiam highway has no more to endorse it than the power enterprise then it doesn't deserve the sup port the court seeks. If the other and more important in terests are properly conserved, highway construction is valuable, but that should by no means be made a basis for rushing through the granting of this power permit. The court is wrong in trying to get the council to recede from its stand. Salem needs to look to the hills for future water sup plies. The north Santiam is the logical source of this water. It may well be that the power development would not inter fere with the city's needs; place; for the use of water for human consumption is ev erywhere regarded as paramount. As this city grows its water needs will grow; it will not indefinitely be satisfied with deriving its supply from the cloaca maxima which now drains the valley. Pending the time when it must go to the great Santiam watershed for water, the city authorities do well to protect the rights of the people of Salem. Al Smith Among the Authors A L SMITH is going to join- xjL ducers. Not to be outdone by Cal, Al has contracted to tell the story of his life through the Saturday Evening Post. Al makes a mistake in should use the talkies, if not get the delicious tang of his accent, itself an autobiographi cal story of his origins, if not through his own spoken voice. This means, of course, that Al doesn't plan to run for office again. When a man sits his life, it puts him in the retrospective mood. He lets go his grip on the present and his hope for thefuture. So here we have Al and Cal, still in the vigor of mature manhood, re treating from the turbulent scenes of political struggle to write autobiographical articles for popular magazines. Cal resides in half a duplex house at Northampton; Al enjoys his hurdy-gurdy on an upper floor of the BUtmore. I There will be in Al's writings, we doubt not, a freshness ' and a vigor and a raciness which we do not find in the arti cles of the cautious Vermonter. His story is worth the tell ing, for any man who has climbed the ladder of fame so skillfully and so worthily as Al Smith, has a story of inter est and value. We wait for the first installment with rest ful anticipation. Before Browning, firearms expert, died, he invented a machine gun, 37 mm bore, that will shoot a 13 in. shell at the rate of 150 shots a minute. When they read that more mothers will sing, "I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier. Now that the April showers are past, the man of the house can have absolutely no excuse for holding back on that garden. Editor-Manager - Managing Editor can the dairy farmer get this There it is all figured out. It had many bulletins on tech then of course the aid to the but if it does, it should yield the ranks of the literary pro- his medium. By all means he the rad-dio. For how can we down to write the story of i 1 I i I 1 ill rrsi-s; t.r ;-7K2? i Editoro Say: IS LINDBERGH'S POPULARITY ON THE WANE? Everyone knows about the dls tinguished statesman of ancient times, who was kicked out because the people of Greece became tir ed of hearing him called the Just. That Strang trait of human na ture, exhibited then, exists today, which is one Reason why Repub lics are ungrateful. Reaction fol lows action, and, sooner or later, the people tear down the idol which they themselves created. There are some indications that this process is starting in the di rection of Colonel Lindbergh. An editor in Texas, another one in New York, and anewspaper man in Washington, 'they have all dared to shy a few rocks in the direction of the Lone Eagle. Listen to them: "Lindy has the big head, Llh dy splashed mud on spectators, slapped a man's face, and his air exploit stories, printed under his own name, were really the- work of a ghost writer." Any fair-minded person who in vestigates these charges will find none of them ring true as far as reflecting in any way upon Lindbergh in concerned. This ghost writer charge, for example, is tal of all. The ghost writer admits Lindbergh is not only entirely capable of writ ing what was written, but that the stories were in fact dictated by him. In other words, the news paper man was riot a ghost writer at arT but merely a stenographer. Sustain this sort of accusation, and as per cent of the modern novelist dictate their tales, they could as well be accused of faking. But, as the populace of Greece demonstrated, when the tide start ed to turn, logic does not figure. It is a matter of emotion. If a mob can't find anything wrong about their rejected idol, they will fight him because he is right. The tyrant is exiled because he is unjust, the statesman Aristides because he ISN'T. So there yo are, and there also is the most popular national hero of this generation. Colonel Lindbergh. Has the tide of pub lic worship started to turn against him? It is too early to say def initely. But there are these minor indications that it has. Medford Mail-Tribune. 5L1RRIED WOMEN AND JOBS Secretary of State Hal E. Hoss has served notice on the women employes of his office that those of them who contemplate matri mony will be expected to plan al so to give up their places when they marry, thus making room for others who are dependent upon their own work for a livelihood. It is fair, other conditions being equal, that self-dependent wo men should be given the prefer ence In employment and that those who have husbands capable of supporting them should make way. But Secretary Hoss closes his letter of notification thus: Please do not feel that I dis count the value of married wo men as workers, because I know that as a general rule they are exceptionally efficient. It it Is true that married women are "exceptionally efficient" then they ought to be allowed to keep their places, because efficiency of service in a public office is or should be the first consideration, placed above making places for persons however desirous of work. But it is altogether likely that the amiable secretary, lit his desire to soften the shock of what he was telling the girts, went a little fur ther than he really thought. Be cause all of us know out of our experiences that the single or, the married state is no criterion of excellency la work. Some mar ried women are more efficient than' some unmarried ones and rice versa. i Secretary Hoss Is right In his general idea that preference in state employment ought to be giv en to self-dependent women and his policy is one that is likely to i r A Hard Baby To Handle k& WV AWAV FOR THB M meet with general public approv al. Eugene Register. A REVERSION TO FORM The Portland baseball team al ready has gravitated to its nor mal position near the bottom of the second division, where it may confidently be expected to remain during the season.- Those hardy souls who raised paeans of praise and predictions of a championship when the team won a few games In the opening weeks will be disappointed, but they ought to have known better. It is now, as always, Impossible to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The Portland team has no ma teral worth mentioning and the reason It has no material Is that it is the settled policy of the man agement not to have any. If by chance it develops a promising player, he is sold at the first op portunity. That has been the practice for years past. Just why Portland people continue to pa tronize baseball under such con ditions Is one of the mysteries. As long as they continue to do so, there will, of course, be no im provement. Their club is a farm and their team a farce and so they, win remain, world without end, unless revolt is made manifest at the box office over a long period. Bill Rodgers, manager of the Portland team, played baseball for Portland back in the days when Portland was a contender and Bill wa3 as good as any of them. He must have to thrust his tongue in his cheek when he trots his present aggregation of misfits out for their daily beating. Rose burg News-Review. GOODBYE, INDIAN AGENCIES Ray Lyman Wilbur made a good start in his work of handling the interior department when he an nounced that he hoped soon to do away with the office of Indian agent; not that there Is anything wrong with the agents as. individ uals but the system has long since lost its usefulness. Years ago when the Indians were first being assigned to the various reserva tions, the agencies filled a need and were a reasonably efficient means of supervising the activities of the Indians. New generations have arisen, the reservations have been thrown open to white settle ment, the white man's schools which predominate can be used by both races and there is no longer any need for the close supervision of the past. Most Indians are perfectly able to look after themselves; those who are not are in the same class with white people who are incap able pf the highest type of citizen ship. Government paternalism will never improve the latter class. Those who are capable of better things will only reach the goal by being put on their own Initiative, the rule for Indians being the same as for whites. Some of the busiest and most important men in the far west were at one time found in the In dian agencies and the United States land offices. Now the latter are few and far between, with Al most no business. If the remaining duties of the agencies are distrib uted among other bureaus, as Sec retary Wilbur proposes, the great west will have indeed passed an other milestone. Yakima Rrpnb lie. IT'S A GREAT LIFE "Tex" Guinan, notorious but sparkling with diamonds and "it" has been freed in New York city of the charge of perpetrating a public nuisance in the form of her night club, the Salon Royale. "Tex" follows up her acquittal by throwing a ''coming out" party at which, we are. told, the erstwhile prosecuting attorneys were among the guests of honor. Three cheers! Three rousing cheers, as "Rug gles of Red Gap" was wont to say on such occasions. Of course, one might make pointed remarks about the condi tion of law enforcement in New York city, for while the wide-eyed "Tex" declared to the wide world that she had never sold, and even that she had never touched vile liquor, she admitted that she had seen it entering her night club in They Say... Expre Irms of Opinio from Statesman Readers are Welcomed for Use la this column. All Letters Must Bear Writer's Name, Though Thld Meed Zfit be Printed. Robert A. Witzel, the subject of this sketch, was born in Gordon county, Georgia near the city of Calhoun. Crossed the plains with his parents In 1852 to Oregon an settled in Marion county. During the whole of his life from 1852 to 1910, when he moved to Salem, Kobert witzel lived on the farm His father before him was a farm er and Robert also chose the occu pation of his father. This occupa tion he followed until his retire ment In 1910, when he moved to our city where he has lived a very qutet lire, enjoying the comforts of the city with his wife and chil dren. A few days ago Robert acci dently broke his hip. Owing to his advanced age, recovery was hardly to be expected. After 12 days of enduring excruciating pain the spirit left the body, on April 20, 1929. The writer has known Robert A. Witzel quite intimately for 56 years and feels that he Is in a po sition to portray the character of Robert Witzel, who has, during his active life, been one of Mar ion county's most substancial pro ducers. Honest, industrious, fru gal, and reliable. Such men as Robert A. Witzel are responsible for the sobriquet of "Honest Far mer." which was so generously ap plied to our early Oregon farmers. During all of our long acquaint ance not one word have we ever heard against the honesty of Rob ert Witzel or even his reliability. As a farmer he was active, alert, industrious, and painstaking. As a neighbor he was generous, oblig ing, courteous and affable. As a father he was Ideal, his very soul being wrapped up in the interest and care of his children and their well-being. As a husband he was loving, kind and affectionate. The whole list of human virtues might be carefully scanned without find ing one that did not coincide with the character of Robert A. Witzel. Honesty, ceretuness and simplicity attended all his thoughts and ac tions. He did not like the tinseled gaudy show of gayety. The plain common everyday sense and action was more to his liking. Robert Witzel never applied to any social organization for mem bership, although he was extreme ly social In his nature. He belong ed to no religious organization, but was of a religious turn of mind, extremely moral and en Joyed the preaching of the gospel. While Mr. Witzel had fixed and determined convictions yet he was decidedly tolerent, pleasant and agreeable with those from whom he differed in politics or religion. While he was not especially a tem perance worker still he was tem perate in all things and always found on the right side of every moral question. Trustful, truthful, and zealous for the right. Sincere and Just. May his ashes rest in peace and his life be a lasting benediction to his memory. W. T. RIG DON suitcases. How peculiar. So, of course, if disturbances resulted why should anybody blame the genial and witty hostess. Give the little girl a hand! She has tech nique, has "Tex." The whole proceeding was .a farce from start to finish. Con victing anybody o f running a night club in lil' old Noo Yawk is Just about as easy as convicting anybody of either running, or rob bings a bank. It's being done don't you know, and all that sort of rot. So thafsjhat, And if that suits New YorK, why it'll prob ably have to be all right with us. But we are moved to Inquire If it isn't getting Just a bit thick to ure the courts for such a pub licity stunt? Eugene Guard. Ms foir Breakfast - By R. J. Blossom day next Sunday S And nature is making elabor ate preparations to show off at her gorgeous best. "k S The poet expressed the Idea something like this: "The flow ers are the alphabet of the angels wherewith they write on field and forest eternal truths." They are writing them high, wide and handsome here now. - S m Charley Taft, when he was In Salem with Fred Hansen, defined an expert as "any d fool 100 miles from home." Mr. Hansen, in talking to a Y. M. C. A. group, be ing again in Salem yesterday, had a new definition for an expert. He is a man or woman who "knows more and more about less and less." "W Mr. Hansen is regional secre tary of the whole Pacific coast for the Y. M. C. A., and he was here principally to sell the idea of a Y. M. C. A. endowment fund to the people of Salem. He succeed ed, with the group he addressed. S Dr. M. F. Lewis terribly tempt ed the Bits man from the path of duty and the delights of blos som day next Sunday, by telling about a special train that is going to start at 4 a. m. on that day at Independence and run to Valsetz, at $2.15 for the round trip, car rying a crowd of fishermen to streams where speckled and rain bow beauties 15 inches long (in fishermen's measurement) are waiting in schools to be caught. Dr. Lewis added that one is to register at Anderson's sporting goods store for the trip. Such a temptation is in the line of cruel and Inhuman treatment. mm 'm Oh. yes, talking of cruel and In human treatment. Hon. A. Bush, the then political leader of old Oregon, was superintendent of the penitentiary, for which he re- eelved a salary of $1000 a year, Suddenly Gertz clasped her arms and drew her to him. I 1 HENDRICKS and gave the money to found the prison library. During that time a young fellow of Salem was con victed and sent to the peniten tiary. There was a well known woman with a tender heart and good impulses, living in Salem then, who took an interest in the prisoners and visited them; ac cording to the Biblical injunction; carried them flowers and reading matter, etc. In the case of this young fellow, who had especially enlisted the sympathies of this good woman, he being only a cal low youth and she being an elder ly lady, it was reported to Mr. Bush that she had kissed the prisoner. "Oh, that cannot be al lowed," said Jr. Bush, "for cruel and inhuman punishment is not allowed in Oregon under our con stitution." The oldest of our old timers who have the . longest memories, remembering the incident, smile to this day for none of them would agree that the good lady was endowed with the blessings of great beatfy of person, though all would say that she had beauty of character to make up for what ever was her lack in pulchritude. ". ". m The Bits man is wondering if the people of Salem, or rather most of them, ara fully alive to what is bound to happen when there is still water in the Willam ette with a constant line of boats and barges carrying freight up and down that stream, coming frdm and bound for the deep sea ports of the world. Unless some thing shall happen entirely out side the ken of present day think ers, water freight rates will al ways be the cheapest. It costs less now to bring goods from Europe by vessel than from Spokane by rail. S Taking a far look, and perhaps not a very far one, either, the heavy commercial and manufac- turing business of Salem is not go- ing to get very far away from the W1 How far snould herself to win the Dy HAZEL LIVINGSTON Amthir ff "TIM Sert StudUF In this intensely interesting serial the author has vividly described the love of two girls step-sisters for the Jamcjnan. The gripping drama of their struggle, and the vivid descrip tion of the utterly different ways by which these girls tried to win him, make this the most thrilling romance you have read this year. blocks and streets that are hnd, to the river. Do you get that Z the matter of high property Tv ues? OSd Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The Slav, man Our fathers k-aY April 2t 1!U4 vOakland, Calif. Jam,- j j . fries, the champion uni;:;;. v married l.c:o tonight ti v , Fred Meyer of New Yoik ( The bride, who lias bom ac r, ed with Jeffries for several . has not been known to ;.;b::, in any way The firm of Jennings an. I v tin. Eugene, drew the l'jekv r ber for the f 90 Rambler a:t.. bile given away in Salem by (; "'. Graves, comm. rcial travel, Graves sec-ural about fia chase price of the machine for the ucKeis ne sold, but it re,-;'... six months to sell th.-m. hV ! . just purchased a new sir.-.?., ing car valued at $2.l). Advertisement: 1 1 r i v ir.tr .,r... buggy and harness conii.l. -e, v... once. The whole outfit for fir V Big Get-Together At Chemawa This Thursday Evening CHEMAWA, April 23. The M W. A. and R. N. A., in Joint s-s. sion at Chemawa Community ball are sponsoring the biggest ami livliest get-together meeting -of thn season on Thursday evening:, April 25. At this time a "500" party will be the magnet which will draw Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors and their friends from the four quarters of Marion coun ty. A supper, prepared br the Royal Neighbors, some dancing by th juniors, much visiting, are among thedrawing features. a girl sacrifice love of a man ?