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Tbm New OSEGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Thnrsday Horning, May 2, 192
fje Oregon i&ategman
"No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe."
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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Human Nature
Editcro0ay:
More About Salem Water -fTtHE
army of kickers ajrainst Salem's water supply dwin
.La. died to a dbrDorafs euard at the hearing called by the
public service commission Monday. The city attorney cited
a few cases of complaints about policy in making extensions
. . . . . .
Dy tne water company. Two oi tne commissioners saia me
water still tasted "terrible".
Yet on the street one hears a chorus of complaint about
Salem's water situation. The thing that is lacking is a water
program for the city; and the program is lacking because
thus far the leadership is lacking. That responsibility prop
erly rests on the mayor and city council. They, may evade
the responsibility if they choose; and the water conditions
will drift along and drift along as they have for half a
century.
It is plain as almost universal experience has proven that
the city should own and operate its own water system. There
will be no satisfactory solution here until Salem does own
and operate its water system.. Supplying a commodity like
water is too vital in community life to be left to private en
terprise for private profit. If it is contended that it would
be assuming too big a load of debt for the city to take over
the water .company now operating, it may be answered that
the citv is doing lust that now paying interest, principal
on the company's bonded debt and profits on the stock be
sides. The issue of public ownership of the water system
is deeper than the dollars and cents involved. It goes to the
verv life of the community, its health, its security in present
nnnnlatinn and industrial develonment. and its promise of
future growth. Every years delay postpones tne solution
of the problem and adds to the capital value of the com-
pany's plant.
. The postponement of the hearing by the commission per-
. mits the mayor and council to tackle the water problem which
it has so far largely avoided. A representative commission
ought to be designated to make a study of the Salem situa
tion and report to the community what the wisest policy
ought to be. This should be done before an investment of a
quarter of a million dollars is made by the water company.
With the studies which have been made by the city's engi
neer's, Cupper and Simpson available, it should not be diffi
cult for a commission to prepare a report rather speedily.
, If we were to outline what we think a sound program
for Salem it would be first : to acquire on a reasonable basis
the present water company property; make use of the Wil
lamette as a source of supply only such a- time as would be
necessary until the city could go up the Santiam for moun
tain water. The rtrinrinal indebtedness would be water util
ity bonds which would be taken care of by the earnings of
the city water system. We are paying for the system now,
only the title is being acquired by new properties.
With reference to the Kelley filings for power develop
ment at Marion Lake we were first disposed to believe that
the city should insist on its rights to prior claim to those
waters for a water supply. A fuller study will convince any
one, we believe, that such a development would be a real
benefit in case the city should ever want to go that far for
-water. The dam would provide a vast storage supply. Trans
mission through milesof closed conduit would prevent con
tamination and that inan area which the Santiam Pas high
way will eventually penetrate.
" Whether or not Mr. Kelley is a "promoter" is beside the
question. If he is just a four-flusher, his permit dies in three
; years ; if the development should go forward it would add to
the taxable wealth of the state and add thousands of horse
power to the power reservoir of the Willamette valley. Such
a development would not interfere with this city's going into
a'1 1 : 1 C ' i. A- 1 X i4- nntiM Art
me power uusmess ji it ever wauteu iw ucvausc it tuum w
an at miirh lower post on the lower Santiam or bv steam een-
trating plants in Salem. ' I
The main question before the house is! our own water
program. The Salem public will listen attentively to the an
swer which the mayor and council give to this pressing ques
tion in their early sessions. Silence will mean evasion, and
evasion will give no final answer. It will mean a continuance
of the policy of drifting along.
Interested in Trade or Commerce
OENATOR NORRIS i3 seeking to have the senate declare
O Andrew Mellon ineligible to hold the office of secretary
of the treasury because of an old statute which bars one from
the position who is "interested in trade or commerce." It
is not enough that Mr. Mellon has made every effort to com
ply not only with the law but with the ethics of his position.
On assuming office he resigned all offices in corporations;
he does hold stock in many corporations but in none of them
a majority interest. If Mr. Mellon sold all his securities and
piled the money up in a concrete vault he still would be "in
terested in trade and commerce" in the broadest sense of the
term, because the values of his cash would fluctuate with the
ebb and flow of markets.
Who'is not "interested" in trade and commerce? The
bookkeeper in & factory.' the holder of a life insurance pol
icy, the -widow living on interest from savings, the fellow
looting for a job,' the mechanic, the artisan, the sculptor
seeking to sell his works, all are interested in "trade and
commerce," for it is by trade and commerce that all subsist.
There are nrobably plenty of men lacking both in prop
erty and in brains who would attempt to qualify under the
Norris interpretation, but the results would be disastrous to
the country As usual Mr. Mellon seems not to be disturbed
by the lashings- of the Norris group.
- We are glad to see the Union Pacific step right, out in
front and take the lead in railroad affairs in Oregon.- The
jU. P. for some years past has been content to operate in a
conservative manner and to indulge in no pioneering in Ore
gon. It has resisted pressure to extend its lines in Centra
Oregon. - It protested against any reduction in passenger
train schedules between, Portland and Chicago despite the
fact that itTiad the most direct route, with the easiest
grades, the finest roadbed and equipment. The Great North-
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em ana oo itinera ra.cu.ui nave own stepping wuv m
We are pleased that the Union Eacific showed real signs
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ox me m xnajung a reu iignt,out oi me umc-tuuiuj uuai
ness and placing the Portland limited on a schedule of 61 Vi
hours from Portland to Chicago. Now what about an -extension
from Crane to Crescent?
We note the report that some of the members of the
school board are a little fearful that a candidate for the posi
tion of high school principal age 83, is Vtoo young" to run
,the Salem high schook-The trustees of the University, of
Chicago seem to hare more faith in youthv They have elect
ed DrRobert Maynard Hutchins, 30, dean of Yale university
law school, to the post of president of the University of Chi
cago. .Too young at 33? At that age Alexander the great
was dead.
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Expreaaloii of Opinion from
StAteaman Readers arc
Welcomed for Um in this
column. All Letters Most
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Printed.
Editor Statesman:
Some time ago I contributed an
item to your columns In which I
expressed myself as favoring the
policy persued by Polk county in
collecting taxes to that followed
by Marlon county. Polk county
sends all taxpayers a notice giving
the amount of their taxes while
Marion county waits for the tax
payer to write for this Informa
tion.
At one time Polk county per
sued this same policy, but wishing
to improve on the service to the
people and eliminate work for the
office their present policy was
tried out and after many years of
use has proved most satisfactory.
Believing our policy to be wrong
I took the time to write Sheriff
Hooker of Polk county, asking for
information on the subject and am
just in receipt of his reply -which
I am offering you for publication,
believing that many will be glad
to learn how well pleased the sher.
iff of Polk county Is with the pol
icy.
EUGENE PRESCOTT
1064 Oak St.
BITS for BREAKFAST
BOYOOTTDfa THE PRESS
Attention of advertisers every
where should be called to the ac
tion of the merchants of Amaril-
lo, Texas, where a boycott was
started on the paper of Gene
How because he had the nerve
to speak his mind about the per
formance of Mary Garden. That
was not the real cause. That was
the excuse. Gene Howe, like his
illustrious father, speaks his mind
about everything that comes along
in the dally news. Because he
has pronounced opinions and re
gards a lot of the generally ac
cepted amenities as bunk and says
so. certain' of the PoUyannas and
professionally good people do not
like It So. they started to sup
press free speech In Amarillo by
boycotting Howe. The leading
merchants however ceem to be
real Americans and whether or
not they agree with Howe they fa
vor liberty of the press. So, they
waited on him, told him If he was
having any financial difficulty
with his paper that they would
voluntarily raise their advertising
rates. We don't know anything
personally about Amarillo, but as
a town is usually just about as
progressive as its merchants, we
should say that Amarillo must be
a darn tine town. CorvaUls Ga
zette Times.
meeting of the Society of Auto
motive Engineers, in New York,
pointed out that this would make
a lake five miles in diameter and
nearly four feet deep.
Putting it in terms like that
helps one -to realise the tremen
dous importance that oil has in
modern American society. It also
emphasises the difficulties that
would lie In the way of adopting
gasoline substitutes. Benzol, for
instance, can be made from coal;
yet It aU the soft coal mined in
the country last year were made
into benzol it would only make a
lake a tenth .as big as this one.
We have a gasoline civilization,
obviously; and one of our great
est problems is to- insure a steady,
cheap supply of the all-important
fluid. Klamath Falls Herald.
OREGON IX COMPARISON
An unbroken panorama of
green fields, flower covered hills.
sad blossom-laden trees greet the
eyes of those who are traveling
the expanse of Oregon from the
state line on the south to that on
the north. From Ashland on the
south, through Medford, Grants
Pass, Roseburg, Cottage Grove.
Eugene, Corvallis and Salem
through to Portland on the north,
there is an endless scene of
spring-time verdure and unrival
led beauty unsurpassed by any
state of the nation.
The traveler is not only enrap
tured with the enchanting beauty
that stretches .out as far as the
eyes can see on either side of the
railroad or highway, but he is im
pressed with the fact that here is
a land not only of beauty, but of
peace and of plenty, where de
structive tornadoes, ravaging
floods and severe elemental dis
turbances are unknown a land
where there is a maximum of se
curity in' life. Medford News.
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Mr. Eugene Prescott,
Salem, Oregon,
Dear Sir: In reply to your let
ter of recent date wherein you
make Inquiry as to our policy in
sending out statements of taxes to
all known tax payers of this coun.
ty, will answer by saying this of
fice has for a good many years
mailed out to each known tax
payer a postal card containing a
brief summary of the Oregon tax
laws, also giving the amount of
the current tax, we also try as
near as possible to keep up with
the transfers of real property in
this county and mall the new own
er a statement, we find this means
a very good tax collector, and are
well satisfied with the method. We
mall these tax cards about six
weeks before May 5 th, and Nov.
5th, each year and as soon as the
tax payer receives these notices
they begin to mail in their checks
for taxes and In this way we are
kept busy writing the regular tax
receipts and the final rush is not
near so great as It would be other
wise. I do not use any extra help dur
ing the tax Tush, as that Is elim
inated by our method.
'I am sincerely.
T. B. HOOKER,
Sheriff and Tax Collector.
U THIS
A needed movement
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One to Identify and mark the
historic spots of Oregon, and to
protect and preserve the proper
nomenclature of this section,
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And there Is going to be for
mulated such a movement. Cali
fornia has long had a monument
to. J. W. Marshall, the gold dis
coverer, who first came to Oregon
with the 1844 immigration, and
went to work for Sutter In 1846;
and that state has restored Sut
ter's fort. Washington has a Mar
cus Whitman monument.
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Oregon has so far done little
along this line, but there is much
to do, and the events preceding
the 1934 centenary celebration of
that coming of the missionaries,
and perhaps in some cases fol
lowing that forthcoming great
event, will bring the movement
now starting to such prominence
that the people of Oregon will
be led to do their duty, or at
least to make a good beginning
in the doing of it.
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It has taken a long time to es
tablish the fact that the best route
for a highway through the Cas
cades connecting the central Wil
lamette valley with the empire of
central Oregon is by way of the
Mlnto pass; that when the pro
posed highway shall have been
constructed by. that route it will
be kept open the year through,
because it is the lowest and be
sides is singularly protected
against the drifting of snow.
The Indians, long before white
people came, had a trail over that
route. One of the first exploring
projects of the early pioneers, af
ter the initial large Immigration
of 1843, was over this route, at
tempting to find a better way
from eastern Oregon to the Wil
lamette valley, because this part
of the 2000 mile trek "the plains
across" with px teams was the
most trying of all, to the exhaust
ed people and their teams, and
thousands lost their lives almost
in sight of their "promised land."
Other ways were found, by im
proved portages around the Cas
cades of the Columbia, the Barlow
route, and by the "southern" route
into the Rogue and Umpg.ua Val
leys, about which there were such
bitter - controversies beginning
with 1846, when there was great
suffering, and much. loss of life,
by the sections that left the main
wagon trains at Fort Hall and
went that way, though in 1847
those who took the "southern
route" came through In good
shape.
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The outstanding man among
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WASHINGTON, May 1.
(AP) Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh's impressions on the devel
opment of aviation In this coun
try were laid today before a joint
congressional committee which is
studying the airport needs of
Washington.
Lindbergh observed that while
there is more private flying In
this country than abroad, not one
American city has airport to com
pare with those of Europe and
none of the existing American
fields may be used as models for
the future.
He discussed radio apparatus
for flying through fog, transport
service to South America and oth
er, matters.
The colonel was taken Into the
senate by Senator Bingham of
Connecticut during a recess for an
impromptu reception. After the
senators had shaken hands with
him, the senate pages surrounded
him while the galleries applauded.
the early pioneers who explored
the Minto pass for a road was
John Minto, who came with the
second large Immigration (or em
igration, as they termed it), in
1844. With the benefit of the in
formation he gathered. It is
strange that the project baa re
mained undeveloped for so long.
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Frank Davey, writing to The
Statesman from Portland some
weeks ago (his letter having
been misplaced and overlooked),
had the following to say: "I note
your editorial suggestion that the
route of the proposed highway
over the Cascade mountins up the
North Santiam river and south
eastward from Detroit should be
called "Minto pass," and I am
wondering when and by whom it
was called anything else. Forty
years' ago, when we wrote about
that route, it was Invariably call
ed Minto pass, in honor of the pi
oneer, John Minto. who had tra
versed it several times and who
always maintained that It was the
most feasible, the shortest, most
easily constructed and best route
for a permanent highway between
the Willamette valley and cen
tral Oregon. Steps should be taken
at once to make the name official
and permanent for the pass and
for the highway that should soon
be built over it."
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For Mr. Davey's information, it
is proper to say that there has
lately been a disposition to call
the Minto route the Hogg pass,
and some other nomenclature has
been advanced. But It is reason
able to presume that, when the
permanent highway shall have
been established it will be des
ignated as the Minto route. And
at some future day there will be
a Minto monument at its summit.
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Mrs. Gordon, a thrifty Scotch
mother, gave her son Tommie a
toy balloon for his .birthday. This
year, she'll let him blow it up
for his birthday present.
ANOTHER CHICAGO SCANDAL,
The latest revelation of Chica
go graft la quite as shocking as
anything that has come to light
in recent years.
Trustees of the Chicago sani
tary district are under the guns
of the prosecuting officers for al
leged misappropriation of many
thousands of dollars of the dis
trict funds. They are accused
among other things of chartering
a special train to go to Wash
ington to work for flood relief, of
loading the train with champagne
and beer and diverting it to New
Yarfc where they staged a wild
"whoiopee" party, paying thereaf
ter a 86900 bill for broken hotel
furniture, and all at the expense
of the district they served. An
other little thing they are being
called upon to explain Is the
$120,000 bill for printing a pres
idential message.
While appealing to the govern
ment for funds with which to
check flooding streams, they were
squandering huge sums in riotous
living. A fit punishments lor
them would be to sentence them
to work out the amount of the
misappropriated funds building
dikes along the bank of the riv
ers. Let them provide the flood
relief with their own hands. As
toria Budget.
A LAKE OF GASOLINE
During 1928 the citizens of the
United States burned upwards of
14,000,000,000 gallons af gas
oline. A speaker at the recent
GRAY BELLE
CONFECTIONERY
AND
RESTAURANT
Now Under
Management of
JOHN BLAKELY
See Tomorrow's Paper
For Further Announcements
Turfmen Strike
Halting Racing
Season Opening
AURORA. 111.. May 1
(AP) The opening day's pro
gram of the Illinois racing sea
son scheduled t o open today
at the Aurora track, was definite
ly called off late today because of
a strike of turfmen.
Clifford L. Trimble, general
manager of the track announced
the postponement. He said, how
ever, that he expected differences
would be settled in time for an
opening program Thursday.
Free Instruction in Dennison Crafts
to be given ,
May 6th to 11th
by
Sarah Hodnett
Representing Dennison Mfg. Co.
Lessons in making lamp shades, crystal
trees, glorified glass, large dolls and paper
flowers every day next week.
ATLAS BOOK STORE
456 State Street
You are cordially inYited to visit, next week, and if
interested learn to make your own fators
MOTHERS now
learn value
of MAGNESIA.
Because It is so
helpful in keep,
ing babies and
children healthy
and happy, every
mother should
know about Phil
lips Milk of Mag
nesia. This harmless, al-
m o s t tasteless
preparation is most effective in re
lieving those symptoms of babies
and children generally caused by
souring food in the little digestive
tract, such as sour-belching, fre
quent vomiting, feverishness, col
ic. As a mild laxative, it acts gent,
ly, but certainly, to open the little
bowels in constipation, colds, chil
dren's diseases.
A teaspoonful of Phillips Milk
of Magnesia does the work of half
a pint of lime water In neutraliz
ing cow's milk for Infant feeding,
and preventing hard curds. Its
many uses for mother and child
are fully explained in the interest,
ing book "Useful Information." It
will be sent you, FREE. Write The
Phillips Co., 117 Hudson St., New
York, N. T.
In buying, be sure to get gen
uine! Phillips Milk of Magnesia.
Doctors have prescribed It for over
50 years.
'Milk of Magnesia," has been
the U. S. Registered Trade Mark
of The Chas. H. Phillips Chemical
Co., and Its predecessor, Chas. H.
Phillips, since 1875. adv.
Executors Say
"NEVER AGAIN"
IF you have ever served a an executor un
der some friend's will, you never ask any
close friend of yours to act in that capacity
for you. Nor will you name your wife as
your executor, because of the labor involved
in carrying out all the necessary and exact
ing details required under the law.
More and more, thinking men and women
are naming a corporate executor like this
bank, for the same reason that they go to
their doctor for medicine and to their sur
geon for an operation.
When you name a friend, he may be away on
the day your family needs him most ; or he
may fall sick, or even die, and then the court
will be obliged to appoint an administrator,
and perhaps a total stranger wil be, brought
into your affairs.
Our Trust Officer will be glad'to answer all
your questions, at your office, or his own.
Phone now and set a time, while the matter
is fresh in your mind.
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