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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
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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
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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
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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
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And nature is making elabor
ate preparations to show off at
her gorgeous best.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ?