PACE FOUR
The New OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning, April 28, 1929
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"No Favor Sways Us; No Far Shall Awe."
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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Salem Should Adopt a Water Program
FOR many years Salem has permitted its water situation
to drift along without determining on any well defined
policy. Studies have been made by competent engineers,
m only to have the reports gather dust on the shelves. One
such report was made in 1923, which was followed up by a
letter in 1925 by Cupper and Simpson, engineers, urging
upon the city the urgent necessity of formulating a definite
program for meeting its water problem. Some effort has
Deen made sporaaicany to nave-me cuy iae over me prea
ent water system; but nothing has been done, no program
nas been adopted. The past winter the issue became sharp
when the city's water supply suddenly "went bad" so far as
its quality was concerned.
The question comes to the fore now because the state
public service commission has called for a hearing on the
Salem water situation, on April 29th; also because the city
has made certain filings on the. waters of Marion lake as a
possible future source of city water.
The Statesman wishes to discuss in this issue the ques
tion provoked by the public service commission hearing. That
" question is simply this: Does Salem want the water company
to put in a filter system at a cost estimated by the company
to reach $250,000, the water source continuing to be the Wil
lamette river?
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new filter it mean3 that the city is tied up to the Willamette
for an indefinite term of years. It means that this added
investment is made to the utility's capital account. It means
that if the city does take over the water company plant in
the future this added outlay must be assumed and paid for
by the city. It means that when the city does decide to go
to the mountains for water, the filter investment must be
charged off.
We are firm in the conviction that Salem's water prob
lem will not be solved until the utility is taken over by the
municipality. Every city should own its own water system.
Water is too important, too vital a Tactor in the very life of
the community to be left a matter of private enterprise. Mu
nicipality ownership of water plants has become well-nigh
universal, although there remain a goodly number of cities
still served by private companies. In order to get an abund
ance of pure water cities go to much farther lengths than the
private company would be justified in going. They assume
larger indbtedness. and under those circumstances the peo
ple will more cheerfully pay-higher rates. The city of Yak
ima a few years ago, after a long agitation, took over the
private water system, issued bonds and went into the moun
tains for a water supply. The city of Hoquiam, served by
the same company as Salem, is now preparing to take over
the water system.
An incomplete study shows that Salem is now paying
water rates much higher than those of other cities in the
Willamette valley. The Salem rates are higher than those
at Albany where Willamette river water is supplied by the
Mountain States Power company. The rates are higher than
at Corvallis where the municipality has gone 13i2 miles up
the side of Mary's Peak to obtain pure water. They are
higher than at McMmnviiie, a mumcipaiiy ownea piant wun
a source tip in the hills. Against the amount of taxes which
me uiiiiiY yayo, siiuuiu uc mioci tuc kaj 'ciuo ui mc
nicipal plants on bond debt which will mean ultimately that
the cities will own the plants free of debt.
We set this down simply as a fact, not as a sin charge
able against the utility company which is a private corpora
tion in the business for a legitimate profit. Experience has
. shown that the water business-is, one enterprise which the
"eity can run for itself both safely and profitably.
Our water problem is difficult principally because it is
a matter of choices. The pressing thing is for Salem to make
a positive choice in the matter and not just drift along, play
dog-in-the-manger on mountain power and water sites, and
then do nothing. The mayor and the city council are the
ones on whom the responsibility rests. It seeing to us the
part of wisdom for them to have the public service com
mission could lay out a program looking toward the final
solution of the city's water problem. Certainly it is more
vital than the question of the kind of roof Hicks should put
on his garage.
In a later issue we shall discuss the issue involved in
the disposition of the waters of Marion lake.
Two Reactions From the War
ris strange how the war affected different men differ
ently. Here is the commander of the American Legion
praising the cruiser bill and evidently placing no reliance on
treaties as "scraps of paper." A week ago an ex-service man
talked to the Christian Endeavor convention and attacked
the underpinnings of the war problem. His war experiences
had made him a pacifist. We have seen the same differences
in reactions among others. Some emerged from the war
confirmed jwtcif ists ; others militarists, skeptical of any per
manent peace.
A similar contrast we have observed in reactions to the
R. O. T. C. program in universities. Here is the editor of
the university Emerald deriding the "army" on the univer
sity campus, while the editor of the state college Barometer
is of the opposite opinion. The Emerald man tninks it sows
the seeds of war; the Barometer editor that it builds up
trained reserves against demands of wartime.
It is idle to try to reconcile .the diverse views. They are
radically in opposition. What we do resent is for one group
to set itself up as the sole custodians of patriotism and brand
as traitors those who have another opinion. The issue
. should be decided by appeals to intelligence and not to preju
dice and arousing of the mob emotions.
Glendale Celebrates
ALL Oregon will rejoice with the lively little city of Clen-
dale when May 1 the new lumber mill in that city will
be dedicated.
It was only last July that the press carried reports pf a
disastrous fire which had swept away the principal industry
of that locality. Now the mill has been rebuilt; better than
ever before, a tribute to the fact that Glendale can come
back. Roseburg and Grants Pass are sufficiently happy
over the event that they will participate in Glendale's j all-
. day celebration. Salem would do well to send its representa
tives there to show the appreciation of the capital city in the
recovery of one of the important communities of southern
. Oregon. Watch Glendale go ahead; it has the spirit which,
makes for progress. - - ' . . : ;
Most men are cross to their wives and friendly to the
rowd; Lindbergh seems cross
n indication of better temper
to the crowd and we hope its
for the bride-to-be.
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Bits for Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
At Champoeg next Saturday
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Oregon people will assemble to
celebrate the 86th anniversary of
the historic vote in favor of or
ganizing the provisional govern
ment, being the 29 th celebration
there of that event under the aus
pices of the Oregon Historical so
ciety. The date was May 2, 1843;
but the nearest Saturday to the
second day of the month is observ
ed each year, for convenience.
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The Salem chamber of com
merce, according to its custom
will celebrate Champoeg day at Its
noon luncheon tomorrow, by en
tertaining as its invited guests all
persons who have lived in Salem
70 years or more. There are 25
to 30 of them.
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These observances bring n p
many epochal historic incidents,
affecting not only the old Oregon
country but that of the whole na
tion and the entire world. Those
were great times in the Oregon
ocuntry. The country west of the
Rockies between the Russian
(Alaska) and Mexican (Califor
nia) line belonged to nobody.
Joint occupancy had been raranged
for 10 years, in 1818, between the
United States and Great Britain,
and extended in 1823 till such
time as either nation should give
12 months notice of terminating
it. In 1846, the pioneer residents
here being in a state of expectan
cy and excitement after the "54
40 or fight" campaign of 1844
that elected Polk president, and
both Great Britain and the Unit
ed States having their fleets of
war ships in the Pacific, of about
equal strength, expecting war over
the boundary question, celebrated
the Fourth of July for the first
time those isolated colonists had
so disported themselves with the
demonstration of their patriotic
emotions. On that fatal day of the
republic in 1846, the people of
Oregon City erected a tall liberty
pole from which they flung out
the Stars and Stripes, fired 31
guns and marched in procession
to the Methodist church to hear
the orations of Supreme Judge
Peter H. Burnett, who was after
wards the first governor of Cal
ifornia, which state, full-orbed
broke into the United States with
out going through the provisional
or territorial form government,
excepting for a few short days as
the "Bear Flag Republic." Then
there was at Oregon City a big
banquet and hot post prandial
speeches, with such toasts as "The
United . States of America, an ex
ample for the world, a bone of
Jealousy to tyrants, the home of
the free, the land of the brave,
and an asylum for the oppressed,"
with 13 cheers and five guns. An
other one, "May the time soon
come when the lion and the an
corn may cease to go about the
North American continent seeking
whom they may bite!" with more
cheers and guns.
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in the face of the British, for the
ship of war Modeste was at Fort
Vancouver with her fighting men,
and with William Peel, son of Sir
Robert Peel, in diplomatic con
trol; the British frigate Flsgard,
with 42 guns and 350 fighting
men were at Nisqually, on Puget
Sound, and a whole fleet of other
British fighters were within call
in Pacific waters.
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At Salem, the celebration was
under the management of the
newly organised military company,-
the Oregon Rangers, under
the provisional government, ex
pecting war. The company was
presented with a flag made by
Mrs. Horace Holden and Miss
Looney; the oration was delivered
by W. O. T. Vault, postmaster gen
eral of the provisional govern
ment, and editor, explorer, Indian
fighter, lawyer and prominent in
other directions in the early days.
Then there was a barbecue and
big public dinner, all these pro
ceedings being held on the hill
south of Chemeketa plains (Sa
lem), where the Bush house now
stands in the Bash pasture.
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At Oregon City, the festivities
wound up with a grand ball at
night. But nothing of the kind
happened here, for this was a
missionary settlement, and there
was instead a patriotic, sermon In
the evening, delivered by Harvey
Clark.
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The reader noted the toasts at
Oregon City. But they were drunk
with Adam's ale. Early Oregon
was bone dry, up to 184 8. It was
against the laws of the provision
al government to give away as
well as to sell ardent spirits, with
a 50 fine for each violation. And
the outfits of moonshiners were
confiscated and destroyed, with a
fine of 100, half to go to the in
former and the other, part to the
arresting officer.
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But if there was any such fine,
it was not paid in money. There
Doctor Found Women
and Children Sick
More Often than Men
As n family doctor at Monti
cello, Illinois, the whole human
body, not any small part of it,
was Dr. Caldwell's practice. More
than halt his "calls" were on
women, children and babies. They
are the ones most often sick. But
their illnesses were usually of a
minor nature colds, fevers, head
aches, biliousness and all ot
them required first a thorough
evacuation. They were constipat
ed In the course ot Dr. Caldwell's
47 years' practice (he was grad
uated from Rush Medical College
back in 1875), he found a good
deal ot success in such cases with
a prescription ot his own con
taining simple laxative herbs with
pepsin. In 1892 he decided to
use this formula in the manufac
ture of a medicine to be known as
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, and
in that year his prescription was
first placed on the market.
The preparation . immediately
had as great a success in the drug
stores as it previously had in Dr.
Caldwell's private practice. Now,
the third generation is using it.
Mothers are giving it to their
children who were given it by their
mothers. Every second of the
working day someone somewhere
is going into a drug store to buy
it MiUions ot bottles of Dr. Cald
well's Syrup Pepsin are being used
a year.
Its great success is based on
merit, on repeated baying, on one
satisfied user telling another.
There are thousands of homes in
this country that are never wlth-
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I was no money of any consequence
among the settlers. They paid
their bills and even their taxes
in wheat. "As good as wheat"
meant something in early Oregon
days, it the expression did not or
iginate here.
They Say...
Expressions of Opinion frosn
Statesman Readers) aro
Welcomed for Use In this
column. AU Letters Mast
Bear Writer's Name,
Though Thin Need N7t bo
Printed,
Editor of The Oregon Statesman:
Your editorial entitled. "Sur
plus of Useless Women," is fine
so far as it ?ofs Pardon th cor
rection. The correct title is "Sur
nlu8 of Useless Men and Women."
Men and women walk the same
path of life, that which is wrong
ior women to do Is equally wrong
lor man, regardless what it be.
God never made anv distinction
When we face our Creator we will
bo judged by the way our time
has been spent here, Our laws
come from the Book Our Guide
and Inspiration.
Man do not think. Just for the
fact that VOU are a man. that vnn
can get away with anything that
your sisters can t get away with.
And since God made man the
stronger, and woman's nroteetor.
Please kind men carry your
iasK nonorabiy and do not place
siuuioung oiocks in our pathway.
For the best of us are nnW woair
flesh and blood, and not perfect
as you would have us, no, not any
more perrect than our brothers,
and we all expect to make many
misiaKes Deiore we pass on.
This iS all We ask of tha man
treat us as you would treat your
own mother or sister, and men
and women together will carry on,
to raise the standard of life to a
higher level.
AN INDIVIDUAL
New features now in The Ore
gon Statesman daily, "Polly and
Her Pals," "TUlie, the Toiler,"
"Little Annie Rooney," and
"Toots and Casper."
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Oat a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syr-
Ep Pepsin, and we have gotten
iany hundreds ot letters from
grateful people telling us that it
helped them when everything else
tailed.
While women, children and eld
erly people are especially bene
fited by Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep
ion, it Is promptly effective on
the most robust constitution and
In tho most obstinate cases. It lr
mild and gentle In its action an
does not cause griping and strain
Con taialnjr neither opiates not
narcotics, it Is safe for the tinles
baby. Children like It and Uk
tt willingly. Every drag store sells
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin,
Editorgay:
FROST liAMAGK NOT NECES
SARILY MONEY LOSS
Speaking of frost damage, we
not that tha California state de
partment ol horticulture main
tains the total losses in the April
freeze approximate $100,000.
.Such an estimate is obviously
incorrect, for the losses in dollars
and cents simply can't be comput
ed at the present time;
That thousands of car loads of
fruit were destroyed by the recent
frosts, no one denies. But -it is
also undeniable that the fruit
grower loses 30 per cent of his
crop, but secures a 100 per cent
increase in the net income from
the fruit remaining. Instead of los
ing money, makes it.
In other word, until this year's
fruit crop has been sold, the mon
etary loss to California horticul
ture simply cannot be estimated,
much less computed.
So we would suggest to the Cal
ifornia state department of hor
ticulture, and all other depart
ments of a similar nature, that
they abandon estimating frost
losses in dollars and cents. Put
the losses In tonnage, and there
will be no cause for complaint.
Whether this destruction in
tonnage represents a profit or loss
to the individual grower, can on
ly be determined after the books
for-the season have been closed
Medford Mail-Tribunr.
Opinions of
Marion County
Editors
We heartily commend Secretary
of State Hal Hoss, on his stand in
regard to employment of married
women. We have long advocated
this same question of married wo.
men filling positions that should
be occupied by men who have fam
ilies ,to support. There are many
Instances where both husband and
wife are employed at good salaries
when heads of famiies are begging
for work. It Is a bad condition and
leads to divorce, crime, suicide,
etc. Married women may be ex
ceptionally efficient at office work
hut their home life is exceptionally
inefficient. Jefferson Review.
Too many Woodburn boys are
going to jail or being paroled.
Does it not seem to the home lead
er and the authorities that there
is more than one way in which to
clean up Woodbum? Some of our
young men are drinking, others
are performing other criminal acts
while there are too many boot
leggers and places of supply. Why
is there not a greater effort made
to clean up the community by re
forming it? Pretty homes and
lawns aid in beautifying the city,
and should be encouraged, but no
thing seems to be done much in
saving the youth. People coming
here to locate are as much Inter,
ested in that subject as any other.
Woodbeu-n Independent.
ROOM AT THE TOP
In a few short weeks hundreds
of thousands of boys and girls will
graduate from high schools and
colleges and face a world in which
opportunities are almost endless.
For it is one of the paradoxes of
civilization that the more oppor
tunities are utilized, the more new
ones are thereby created.
The automobile, for example,
has created a new field for the ex
ercise of human ingenuity, while
the by-products of this invention
are amazing in their reach and
scope. It might seem to the young
graduate that everything worth
while has been Invented, discov
ered or utilised. Yet there is not
a thing that contributes to human
welfare and comfort, not a stick
of furniture, not a household ne
cessity, but Is capable of improve
ment. There Is still a big field for
human enterprise In the trifles
which others pass by. Men have
made fortunes out of the common
est and meanest things: scraps of
leather, slag, junk, grit and the
by-prodncts of mine and mill.
Opportunities? They are all a
round us. There is power lying la
tent exerywhere waiting for the
observant eye and ingenious mind.
Find out what the world needs and
then supply that want. The patent
office at Washington is filled with
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THE GIFT OF TONGUES
"Howbelt in the church 1 had
rather ewak fiv words with mr un
derstanding, that I rmght Instruct
others also, than ten thousand words
in a tongnie." I Corinthians 14:19.
There has been a singular re
vival of "speaking in tongues."
Sects have sprung up, offshoots
of older and now more conserva
tive communions which seek to
revive primitive gospels. These
give a literal interpretation to
new testament references to the
"gift of tongues". Late one night
we observed in the meeting place
of one of these sects a small
group of men clustered in the dim
light of a few small electric bulbs
about one man. All of them were
swaying and groaning, with the
man n the center giving an occa
sional ejeculatlon, "Praise tho
Lord". A few on the outskirts of
the group were seated either ex
hausted or continuing their im
precations. The men were call-,
ing on the Lord, so we were in
formed, for the "gift of tongues".
Religion has great power to
useless inventions and discoveries
that have wasted human time and
energy without adding a single
dollar of wealth to the world. Do
not add your bit to this mountain
of wasted effort.
The greatest hindrance to ad.
vancement in life is the lack of
observation and the lack of Inclin
ation to take pains. The great
things of the world have not been
done by men of large means but
of a large vision. They have us
ually started where they stood as
Edison began his experiments in
a baggage car when a newspaper
boy.
There's plenty of room at the
top. The history of America se.ems
like the last effort of Providence
in behalf of the human race. Never
before were such fine openings,
chances and opportunities. This is
especially true for girls and young
women. Emerson said: "The world
is no longer clay, but rather iron
in the hands of its workers, and
men have got to hammer out a
place for themselves by steady and
rugged blows. Sllverton Tribune.
Old Oregon's
Yesterdays
Town Talks from The States
man Our Fathers Read
April 28, 1004
E. H. Waggener of Kansas
City, national superintendent of
Christian Endeavor, will speak at
the First Christian church this
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Albert
departed on last evening's train
for San Francisco, where they will
spend a two week's honeymoon
before returning to be at home to
friends at the home at Oak and
Liberty streets.
County Judge Scott addressed
Pomona Grange on good roads at
the meeting held at Turner.
Rex Davis, the progressive
young merchant of Shedd, is In
the city on business.
RILEY SPEAKS TO TEACHERS
WOODBURN. April 26. The
J. U. G. rural teachers' organiza
tion, entertained the members of
the Woodburn Teachers' associa
tion In the new St. Luke's parish
hall Wednesday evening. Dr. P. O.
Riley, editor of the Hubbard En
terprise, addressed the teachers,
and a splendid program was pre
sented by the rural teachers. Re
freshments were served to the
guests after the program.
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rmraoims
touch the emotions of men. It is
a power which may be play, j
upon until emotions are so det ; N
stirred that reason itself may ! ..
unsettled. From the standpo.:.:
of psycholosy much of the I
called revivalism results in ,,n
emotional Intoxication. The re
sults are somewhat the same n
a spree: mind and body are .
hausted and unstrung, it j a
very easy matter for relit;!.,
feeling to pass into fanaticisni
where the whole being is so al
sorbed in the religious passu.-.
Those who can carry ttiib f.,n lu
teal devotion to success become
oftentime sthe leaders of lar-n
sects: and their teaching, whvn
properly filtered may give in; ir
ation to the followers. But amo:,c
many an excess of religion is but
the avenue to insanity.
Science gives scant credent )
unintelligible babblings of
emotionally drunk. Jazz rl;-.
ions that send some to asylums
and leave others mentally warped
are not set down as portions ot
the "true faith". Feelings may
be aroused to move the will, but
reason must remain the final ru
ler of the human mind, and the
appeal of faith must be to the
reason as well as to the feelings
of man.
So Paul must have thought
when he said he would prefer to
speak five words with his under
standing than ten thousand words
"In a tongue". Surely his audit
ors would prefer to hear five
words ot wisdom than ten thous
and of Incoherent mumbling.
We would not scoff at those souls
who seek to become private ve
hicles for divine grace; we would
warn them that the nervous sys
tem will not stand continuous up
heaval; there is danger ot the
madhouse before the gates of par
adise swing ajar. Speaking with
the understanding is for the com
mon mortal safer than the"glft of
tongues".
When your
Children Ciy
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All your care cannot prevent them.
But you can be prepared. Then
you can do what any experienced
nurse would do what most phy
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give a few drops of plain Castoria.
No sooner done than Baby Is
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moments. Yet you have eased your
child without use ot a single
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as an infant has any little rain
you cannot pat away. And it's al
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ot colic, or constipation, or diar
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