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Tbm Naw OHECON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Friday lfaralfrt Mar 3. 1929
W$z (Oregon Statesman
"No Favor Sicays Vs; No Fear. Shall Awe"
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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Next, Mister!
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"I Can Explain Everything"
MUCKRAKING newspapers are diligently applying the
smudge to the International Paper company and to a
number of well-known newspapers in this country because
the paper company, in its effort to insure a stable outlet for
its newsprint has purchased stocks or bonds, in no case a
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majority interest, in tnose paper?, ine in tenia tiuuai rapei
company is amnatea witn tne international ttyaro-raecxnc
company, which is in the electric light and power business,
so the muckrakers are wearing their throats hoarse at the
claim the power trust is breaking into the control of the
' country's newspapers.
Anyone who is acquainted with many of the papers in
which the International Paper company has purchased an
Interest wouK! know that the company couldn't control the
editorial policies of the papers. One of the papers is the
Chicago Daily News, one of the trreatest independent news
papers in the country .with an able and reliable editor and
publisher, Walter Strong. We can easily see how from a
business standpoint the paper company would be willing to
make a small investment in the Daily News in order to be
favored with its newsprint.
Or take the Gannett papers, also mentioned as having
shared a portion of their ownership to the paper company.
Frank Gannett is one of the ablest newspaper executives in
the United States. He has been acquiring very rapidly a
number of the leading daily papers in the east; we can see
where he could use some financial assistance from the In-
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lernauonai raper company wunoui in any way lying up to
the power trust. (Frank Gannett is the principal owner of
these papers, yet even he does not interfere in their editor
ial policies. It is a settled policy with him to permit his
,eauors to nave a iree nana in snaping tneir editorial opin-
rni T- . t a . t? a i r t a
inno I nil a in k rr nocror rvn a rr Trxa i -annnTr nsnpra iw
strongly republican, the other democratic. If Gannett him
self doesn't interfere with his editors, what chance would
President Graustein of the j)aper company have to control.
As a matter of fact the chief power investments of the
International group have been in Canada. Only recently
they invested in,' a power company in New England. When
a purchase was made in the Boston Herald and Boston Tra
veler the announcement was promptly made public. Most
of the papers where the International holds stock are lo
cated far out of the range of their power company activities.
We think it a poor policy for the newspaper press to be
merely the end of the line for a Fourdrinier paper-making
machine. But the American newspaper is destined to no
such debased position. The newspapers of this country were
never more independent, more fearless and less under the
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iuuiiui vl auvci luers, uaimera ur puiiiiciaus.
Whose Ox Is Gored
SENATOR WHEELER of Montana, one of the noted in
quisitors of that body, is proposing a senatorial investi
gation of the conditions in the textile industry. The south
ern senators, all democratic, are rising in opposition to
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iTiicctci s liieu Mates ttre nuw iu me sirine ueu,
and they do not want any prying into their affairs.
Conditions in the southern textile mills need investigat
ing. For years northern mills have been forced to the wall
because of competition from the south where workers were
exploited, children ground in back-breaking toil, and oper
ating costs thus held down. Now the workers in the south
ern mills are learning how to strike, and it may be expected
that they , will not forget this initial lesson. The southern
mills have themselves to blame because of the strike out
breaks. Over a year ago a group of southern bishops pre
sented a report severely criticising mill conditions of labor.
The mill men immediately went up in arms to rebuke the
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uiruuuiig ptasuus, iuiu inein meir uudiness was to save souis
and not interfere in private business. Nothing was done;
now the workers are in revolt.
The whole textile industry in the east is in distress. Fa
vored by high tariffs it has not been able to keep its own
house In order. Fabulous prof its .during the war were taken
out in dividends. The plants were not maintained and now
many of them have obsolete looms and equipment. Style
.changes cut sharply into demand. Price cutting methods
brought only financial disaster. Marketing the products has
been, handled through factors and commission houses who
were interested only in volume of sales, not profits to the
mills. Wages have been cut from 26 to 41 per cent, and
hours of labor lengthened except in Alabama and Massa
chusetts. Production has been spaeded upv through the
"stretch-out" system by installing larger looms.
A long summer lies ahead of progress. The senate
might spend a part of its time disclosing actual conditions in
cotton mills, particularly in the southern states.
How the dear public does like to be bilked. Even when
is what happened m Portland when an advertised drawing
for an automobile -failed to take place, and the people who
had paid nothing for their numbers, became a riotous mob.
ro doubt they knew there was a catch in it, and went to the
scene of the drawing expecting to be let down. Figure it p,ut
fnr vnnrsplf. nne chanro in fnnr hnnAroA tfcnnanri tn n-in
the car; yet the public anxious-to-get-something-for-nothing
took a half day off to be in at the final ceremony which didn't
take place. A few months later and some one will come
.'inlfmfr with snmp other crand srhprn lilf thaf and ihn twv.
ple will fall for it. The sucker birth-rate has speeded up a
lot since Barnum's day.
Aiici icauiug ui mc aauiiis ujr lucac wuue cuuor, yos
ty-iaced, spats-snamcea gunmen wno run tne .racket:' and
congest the news columns, it is a real relief to read of an old
facViiAncwl IriTlinrr Arvam in a' TTpnfnMrv trills era Turn nrnmon
got into a quarrel over a bottle ox vanilla and used their
fists. A fist fight never settles an issue in Kentucky, so
the next day when they met at the town pump one woman
fired five shots into the other woman's hndv. The dead
woman leaves three children. - Sad, isn't it; but somehow it
seems a cleaner shooting than the hired killings and ma
chine gun massacres that have become common in the big
y towns. '
Salem is arriving. We may let a street carnfVal operate
' on a main street hnt we have a. anankinff' new Hunt rluh. This
new organization will help give the town It". As Doc Riley
Unkk.l 1 J XV ! Sl.l
iiuuwuu wuuia say, we nau uu new orsaiuzauon witn
. cvfcau wuatcver uui is. joaype alter., a wnue tne oanxs
vmfl to- O. i.. i ri 1 i ii
knuj wuae uu oaturuay aiiernoons ana we can reaiiy recoru
that Salem has arrived.
BITS for BREAKFAST
By R. J. HENDRICKS
"Tide of Empire" .
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llany Salem people saw and en
joyed that picture the showing of
which closed last night at the El
sinore theater; and it should have
had wider notice
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But It is mentioned here to
point to the "California spirit"
that ought to be emulated in Ore
gon. "Tide of Empire" is a rep
resentation of the early historic
events of California, about which
great enterprises have been devel
oped In that state, attracting
world wide attention and bringing
swelling streams of money from
the far corners of the earth.
But the old Oregon country wa3
the mother of the state of Cali
fornia. Marshall, who discovered
gold in California, went from Ore
gon. He was here two years be
fore he went there. Sutter, build
er of Sutter'iT Fort, near where
gold was discovered, went from
Oregon to California. Californi
ans long ago built a monument to
Marshall, and they have at large
expense rebuilt Sutter's Fort.
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Burnett, an Oregon immigrant,
was the first governor of Califor
nia, and without the Oregon settle
ment of the early days California
might never have belonged to the
United States; nor any of the Ore
gon Country, either. Or it might
have taken a war with Great Brit
ain to extend the limits of the
United SUtes to the Pacific, if
they had been so extended at alL
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Oregon was the mother of early
California; but she has been much
slower than her daughter in get
ting the spirit that builds empires.
But it is coming, however belated.
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The comprehensive leading edi
torial in the Oregonian of yester
day concludes with these words:
"There is a modern movement to
obtain larger official recognition
for the importance of Champoeg
as an Oregon historical shrine.
It deserves to succeed because of
many aspects rather than because
of a few, and because it stands
out above all other local civic ex
periments in American annals. It
merits due place among the forces
through which the Oregon Coun
try south of the 49 th parallel lat
er became American territory
without the payment of a dollar
or the firing of a shot."
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This "modern movement" will
loom large with the events that
wil lead up to the centenary cele
bration. These events will tlx In
the minds of the people of the
United States, and of the world,
the importance of what wasdone
at Champoeg 86 years ago yester
day and the acts that led up to
that epocnal meeting, and the re
sults, changing he course of his
tory, that followed it; flowed from
It
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The initial causes that led to
that historic gathering of a few
early settlers trace their way back
through all written history and
beyond and the results widen
with the progress of the world,
and will go on indefinitely
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But the center of those epochal
events was here, in the Colombia
and Willamette valley a; at Salem;
at Champoeg. Taken in the nar
row commercial sense, there Is
value in this historic setting far
above the dreams of either the
actors, or of the present day aver
age citixea here. --. -
175 Dresses
at $1.00
See A d on Page 7
Today
There Is vast undeveloped
wealth in the soil and the forests
and streams and minerals of this
section; large beyond estimate.
But there is more than a rich gold
mine, or a score of them, in the
historic values of this valley, cen
tering around Salem and old
Champoeg, the unfolding of which
is now only la the beginning
stages.
Marion county's limits at first
ran to the California line and to
the summit of the Rockies. They
still run to the summit of the Cas
cades, and the time is coming
when her eastermost sections will
pour vast permanent wealth into
her lap, in forest, mineral, water
power and other wealth.
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"Anyway, we are not lacking in
civility," said a Scotch resident of
Salem to an old timer here.
"That's true, but you must admit
that civility costs nothing," was
the retort.
N SOUTH
CALIFORNIA
RASES
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., May
2 (AP) Southern California's
first forest fire of -the season,
which this afternoon was reported
out after sweeping nearly four
hundred acres of brush in day
canyon, tonight still was being bat
tled by a force of 125 men.
A hot dry wind, which had car
ried the blaze rapidly up both
walls on the Saa Gabriel moun
tains canyon, rose again late In
the afternoon, demanding fresh
efforts by fire fighters to confine
the flames to the burned area.
Predictions were ma'de that it
would be entirely out by morning,
the wind having died out this eve
ning. The strong wind also was
blamed fcr the start of the fire,
fanning into vicious blazes smoul
dering embers where a fire break
had been newly burned over as a
protective measure.
For a time it threatened to shoot
westward into timberlands of ths
The Marie of
Genuine
Aspirin
T ATES As"ranr an old
- friend, tried and tra Urn
ean unr bo a MUifartory tvbsti
tste for eitaer on. Saytr Aspirin
Is gensina. H is tat accoptsd aati
ftote f or pais. Its relief may always
to reliad on, whether used for the
occasional toirtsche, to head-off t
cold, or for the store serious acher
and pains from neuralgia, neuritis
rneunutisn or other ailments. It'i
easy to identify Bayer Ainiria b:
tto Bayer Cross oaerery tablet, Ir.
the name Bayer oa the box sad tht
word fenaof printed ia r$4.
el MwiiMtiiiirlilf t liltqsow!
Saa Bernardino national forest,
but reports were made tonight
that only brush lands had been
swept.
SOLON DEFENDS PASTORS
BOSTON, May 2. (AP) For
mer Representative William D.
Upshaw, of Georgia, upheld the
right of "ecclesiastical interfer
ence with moral legislation in
Washington," in a letter to Sena
tor Royal S. Copeland. of New
York today.
THE TOLL OP REVOLUTION
Mexico's civil wars and revolts
have always seemed to possess
comlo opera features, but a com
pilation of totals shows nothing
humorous in the situation.
Mexican history since 1910
shows:
Nineteen revolutions in 19
years.
Two hundred thousand lives
lost
Hundreds of millions of dollars
damage to property.
In 1110, rrancisco L Madero
headed a revolution against Pori-
firio Diaz. Madero won.
In September of 1911 the Lib
eral party revolted in Baja Cali
fornia, Coahuila, Vera Crus and.
Chihuahua. The Liberals lost.
In the same year Andres Moli
na Enriques led a "social agrari
an" revolt which last 15 days.
In 19 IS Pascual Orozco revolt
ed and was defeated.
The same year Bernado Reyes
revolted and was captured, and a
little later General Felix Diaz cap
tured Vera Cruz only to be de
feated again.
General Emiliano Zapata com
menced revolt in 1912 which
lasted until 1920.
President Madero. who had
seized the government from Pori
flrio Diaz, lost his life In 1912
when Felix Diaz, Bernardo Reyes
and Manuel Mondragon led a suc
cessful revolt and Victoriana Hu
erta was made president.
In the following year Venustl
ano Carranza revolted, conquered
the country and became president
Francisco Villa started a re
volt which claimed 100,000 lives
until Alvaro Obregon defeated
him.
Felix Diaz revolted against the
Carranza government but fled in
tow weeks.
Obregon and Plutarco Ellas
Callea then revolted and seized
the government from Carranza In
two weeks' time. Carranza was
killed.
In 1920 Pablo Gonzales re
volted against Obregon and Calles.
and was thrown out of the coun
try. In 1921 Francisco Murgula re
volted, was captured and shot.
General Manuel Pelaes revolted
but was forced to quit.
In 1923 Adolfo de la Huerta
revolted but was crushed.
In July, 1926, with closing of
the Catholic churches, six states
became the scenes of fighting
which still continues intermittent
ly. In 1927 the Calles government
destroyed the Gomez-Serrano re
bellion in four weeks and the
leaders we're executed.
On March 3 of this year, the
19 th revolt was started by Jose
Escobar. It is still dragging on
in one state. Medford Daily
News.
ST. LOUIS MAN PICKED
WASHINGTON, May (AP)
Horace Paul Besor, of St Louis,
was nominated today by President
Hoover to be a member of the fed
eral farm loan board, filling op
the unexpired term of Commis
sioner Eugene Meyer, who was resigned.
Saturday Sunday
May 4th and 5th
I would like to make your acquaintance at
THE GRAY BELLE
CONFECTIONERY & RESTAURANT
Have already made a few additions and believe you will
enjoy a Hot Milk Chocolate Hot Malted Milk or Hot
Ovaltine made in one of our NEW HOT CUPS.
I. E. M. DOUBLE SEAL TOASTED SANDWICHES
ARE TRULY DELICIOUS MADE
RIGHT BEFORE YOU
Besides our own Home Made Candies we have secured
the Agency for the justly famous
Golden Pheasant
Candies
And with each purchase of
$L00 -or over
AT FOUNTAIN CANDY DEPT. or RESTAURANT
ON MAY 4TH AND 5TH
WE WILL PRESENT YOU
A $1.00 box of Golden
Pheasant Chocolates
FREE
Sincerely,
JOHN BLAKELY.
P. S. We invite jour inspection of oar line of special boxes
of Candy for MOTHER'S DAY, MAY 12th reservations
gladly made. J. B.
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