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' PAGE FOUR The New OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, May 8, 1929 W&t Oregon Statesman "No Favor Stcays Us; No Fear ShdU Awe." From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, SHELDON F. SackETT, Publisher Charles A. Sprague Sheldon F. Sackett Editor-Manager Managing Editor 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 Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office tl5 S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coa3t Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. Chain Farming rE Portland Journal editorializes on the subject of chain farming as a corporation enterprise, with its customary sentimental tear-shedding-. Such a condition would approxi mate peasantry as they know it in Europe, opines the Jour nal. To quote again: "It we are going to continue to trifle with agriculture until rich corooratlona take over the land and cultivate' it as "chain" farms, and If the Independent farmers are to become hired men, and every farm home shelter a tenant, then we shall be ready to say. with Oliver Goldsmith: '111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay.' " We do not mean to advocate corporate control of farm ing. - It would not be surprising to see such an undertaking begun; in fact a New York life insurance company is at tempting something of the sort with its middle western farms taken over through foreclosure. But we think the Journal writes without reasoning when it tries to apply the familiar Goldsmith quotation to chain farming. - One thing, chain farming would give the farmer a cash income Isn't that what the Journal has been whining for all these months? It has complained that the farmer got nothing and got nowhere. The farmer on a corporation farm would certainly not get just his keep; he would demand and receive wages, possibly even a salary. And the Journal could be depended on to help the chain-farmers' union in raising the scale and demanding shorter hours. Then corporations would certainly improve the farms. They would take over the properties with an idea -of a per manent investment, not as a place to make a killing with a few goods crops and then move to town and retire. Proper farm schedules of cropping would be adopted; buildings would be painted ; the whole farming scheme would be care fully planned out by the best College graduates. Complete bookkeeping systems would be adopted and the chain-farmer would make out his daily report before going to bed. We do not know whether the enterprise would pay or not; but if it didn't the corporate owners would receive no sympathy from the Journal. There would be no call of farm relief then. Such a condition- would not mean European peasantry, any more than the manager of a city chain store or of a company service station is in any way submerged. Instead if the corporation should manage to succeed, the men on the farms would be given the opportunity to buy stock and thus become partners in the enterprise. Or bonuses for un usual profits could be offered. One thing certain the many shiftless' fellows who now try feebly to make a living on the farms couldn't get a toe-hold on a corporation farm unless they reformed. That is one trouble with farming now: too many worthless farmers living on little or nothing, yet whose aggregate production causes the surplus that spells low prices. We do not think there is much danger of corporations getting into the farming game very rapidly nor much dan ger of any kind if they should. They can't compete with the independent farmers who charge so little for the labor of themselves and their families. But a successful farmer with a good income on a chain-owned farm would surely be better off than a lot of men struggling along under a title to a farm which gives them only a big burden of taxes and mortgage interest each year. Expelled for Urging Justice CIOMETLMES a university is the last nlace to find intelli- O gence. Here is the University of Pittsburgh abolishing its "Liberal Club" and expelling two students who were mem bers because the club held a meeting and protested against further imprisonment of Mooney and Billings in California. , The meeting was addressed by Prof. Harry Barnes of Smith college, and when the university authorities forbade the meeting on the campus, it was held off the campus, Dr Barnes speaking from the running board of an automobile. Evidently the university authorities at Pittsburgh do not believe in free thought, nor much of any kind of thought. There is a mounting tide of protest at the continued incar ceration of Tom Mooney, who was imprisoned for alleged participation in bombing a preparedness day parade in San Francisco. Statements in his favor have been signed by Judge Griffin, who presided at the trial, 10 of the jurors, be ing all who survive, and by Police Captain Matheson.who headed. the police investigating detail. Governor Young of California has promised to take the documents with him and study them during his summer vacation. A person doesn't have to be a bolshevik to insist on jus-: tice even for a radical like Mooney. But at Pittsburgh the students who took the stand for justice were expelled. Power and authority some way have the faculty of making sup posedly intelligent men bone-headed. What good does it do to have a perfect I. Q. and lack common sense and a human heart? The university heads at Pittsburgh should un school themselves that they might learn in the laboratory of life. Oregon Well Protected GRICULTURAL products, of . Oregon will receive in creased protection under the terms of the new tariff bill, as reported by Congressman W. C. Hawley. Distinct in creases have been made on many items of vital importance toOregon producers. The infant flax industry wins a signal victory in having the duties on flax straw and the flax fibre increased. 4 Growers or filberts and walnuts, are given in creased protection. The cherry men will be made happy by the added duty imposed on foreign imports, and the poultry Producers are likewise taken care of. While the bill is not yet enacted into law, with the imptus there 'is for doing justice to agriculture it is not at all prob able that anv of the schedules of the reported bill will be disturbed. With Congressman Hawley in the house and Senator McNary in the, senate Oregon growers may be sure their interests will be looked after with diligence. -Folk have scolded about the rains, but they have made town and countryside the most beautiful in history. The luxuriant crass srives a universal carpet of green. Orchards have been white like huge snowballs. Flowers have bloomed in wonderful profusion with showy colorings that capture the eye. Sometimes the May is dry, the grass shows scant life, the flowers fade and wither. While we grumble to keep up fires and grouch over "the weather", have we ndt an abundance to rejoice over in the beauty of lawn and garden which the rains and cool weatner pringi This is National Music Week. Yes, and it is National Safety Week. . Likewise it is National Hospital Week. And it is National Eg Week as welt Leading up to Mother's Day Sunday, also. "Let The Chips Fall Where They liay Cutting 1 Wm somebody yjiJlW, V -jJ C BA Ei htlvn Syafeatr. toe, fcrm Mate rigfct rtwrnt. BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS.- Three cheers and a tiger I 1i S V And six more cheers and two ti gers and 21 guns!' The Sale,m district gets Increased protectire tariff rates on flax and Its primary manufactures, on cherries and walnuts and filberts, and poultry products S S And on a number of other ar ticles in the farm schedule, all of which will tend to enhance prices and speed up our industries on the land and In the cities and towns of this valley and the whele state. S On some items, we did not get as much protection in the report ed bill as we asked for; but every little bit more added to every lit tle bit we have helps a little bit more. "We are going to have a boom la our filbert industry, which we need, and another In our walnut industry, that will aid in making Salem the edible nut in dustry of the world, which It Is destined to become. m S The added rate on cherries will help a lot. It will stiffen up prices, and In the long run It will transfer a larger share of the mar aschino industry to this section. We .will have maraschino factories in Salem. R. P. Boise tells the Bits man that he notes some errors in the article written by Ed C. Dunn for the Dallas Itemizer,-on Ellen dale history part of which we re printed in this column. V Among other statements is one that the otd boarding house was used by Nesmith'and O'NeiL This should read Neftnlth and Owens, who had purchased the grist mill from O'Neil; the latter having built it in 1884. V Col. Nathaniel Ford never re sided at Ellendale, his home be ing on hla donation land claim at Rickreall. The statement that California residents took wheat to the mill for grinding is undoubtedly a mix tip With We-faCr bfiefl atileflliat much flour was taken by pack train from the mill to California. This flour, nowever, was from wheat grown In Oregon. S The historian, Geo. H. Himes, has placed a placard on the first mill stones used by O'Neil, these stones now being In the room- of the State Historical society In Portland. Among other state ments relating to the mill In this placard is the following: "It was the nearest flouring mill to the California gold mates for a num ber of years, after their discovery on January 24, 1848, and pack trains took tens of thousands of pounds of flour to these mines from this mill." S There as also a historic flour ing mill at Aurora. The burrs of that mill, used in the days of the colony there, have been preserved and are now the property of the city of Aurora. s s Diana Snyder, postmistress at Aurora, has donated for public use a couple of lots on a promt ent corner at Aurora, and it .is hoped that a building will be erected there, with room for part of the historic relics of that his toric community. And there are many. It Is ft treat pity that the old Aurora church, one of the finest of the kind In the state whea It was erected, could not hare been preserved. K And more of a pity that the Aurora park could not have been kept up after the dissolution of the colony. It was .the finest nark In Oregon; uniqae in its ap portionment and facilities tor en tertaining large crowds; beauti ful beyond nay spot of like kind U the northwest when It was ta Us prime. Some day, perhaps, both church and park may be restored, when Oregon fully wakes up to such historic values, as California has been awake for some years. The grave 6f3wing Young, In the Cnehalem valley, about six miles from Newberg, is unmarked, excepting for an oak tree that shelters It. It la on a part ot the donation land claim of Sidney Smith, prominent In early Oregon history. But the Daughters of the American Revolution of Ore gon have a project for marking this historic grave, of "the man whose death intestate made the necessity for the beginning of or ganized American government in the Oregon Country leading up to the Champoeg decision of May 2, 1S43, upon the question of the establishment ot the provisional government. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read May 8, 1904 The ladies of the Marlon Square Improvement League have just installed 24 neatly designed Iron benches in the park and have al so thoroughly cleaned the park grounds. Republicans are holding high carnival at Woodburn, where the opening gun for the county, dis trict, state and national campaign for 1904 Is being fired today. Thousands are in attendance. Bids are being advertised for construction of the new 30x60 First Congregational church, cor ner Liberty and Center streets. Pugh and Carey are the architects. The Sixth B class of Miss Har wood's room are the East school gave a picnic to which the sev enth B'was invited. The seventh grade won a baseball game la the afternoon. Editors Say: CRIME AS A BUSINESS Some of the seriousness of the crime conditions in the large cit ies of this country can be gained from a perusal of the Koney gang confession in today's press re nortfi. This feang adopted crime aa a business and carried It on in very efficient fashion. Crime pros pects were developed precisely as business prospects are developed Nothing was left to chance. Every detail was tended to carefully. Payroll methods of large cor porations were as carefully stud ied a.s stock exchange reports Murder was not regarded aa measure of last resort, but as necessary element of successful administration. Killing first and robbing after ward was the accepted procedure. When a member of the gang "knew too much, he was filled with buckshot and buried in the rear of the headquarters, with no more scruples than a business head would tell a subordinate that he Is no longer wanted. Profits were enormous, and members of Hhe gand periodically enjoyed themselves in Broadway night clubs, and at least one of them enjoyed a few months in Eu rope. Most people who read this con fesion will, we believe, agree with President Hoover that the great est single menace confronting this country Is the appalling growth of organized lawlessness and crime At the present rate It will not be long before every citizen will have to decide whether or not he wishes this country to be a land of law and order or a land of law lessness and crime. Medford News-Tribune. TV a jllbui Tta irtiP Star V TrSrtoiou aa&fium rrxirwans Read the Classified Ads. We have moved our office from its down town location at 143 S. Liberty street to CQ9 N; Liberty St. Our office and warehouse are now in the Same Building We hare the same phone numbers 1252 930 or Residence at night 1898 (SALE. HfQ?E21GI? ITffOEaoCGl? No Job Too Bis or Small for Us to Handle Local and Lonar Distance Hauling, Storage Wood, Coal, Fuel Oil 3Xl.cl TerM comments on Events, - g Local and Abroad, of the Past There: npiHE public, engrossed with its I own weighty matters of mak ing a budget pay for rent, heat and the new spring hat for mother, is little bothered by the troubles of the reparations con ference. A few billions more or Jess for Germany to pay over a 40-year period Is of little concern. But settlement of reparations is of really great interest, indirectly. to every American citizen. First, there arises the moral question, should the loser be made to pay for the losses of a war? France contended originally that Ger many should pay the cost plus in terest of all the destruction done in that country during the four years of fighting. When this bill waa computed the amount was so staggering that France herself Says It was Impossible of fulfill ment. So the winner, too, must help pay for a war. That's point one. The second question was how much should Germany pay a year and for how long a time? Gen eral Dawes and Owen D.Toung got the affair rightly stated when they saidhow much Germany should pay was surely no more than Germany coold pay. Hence there was a careful survey of Germany's capacity to pay which ended in the famous Dawes plan wherein the credit of the country was jjstoredla part by foreign loans. Secured by long-time bond Issues on the large utilities of Germany. Germany then began a systematic repayment ot her war-time reparations. The mat ter of how long the payments would continue was not settled Now the committee is trying to aet the final limits on Germany's payments. For weeks it has looked as though the nations could not agree. Now Owen D Toung has suggested a solution which bids fair to be accepted. It means considerable less repara tions than France had hoped for although she will share in the pay ment in the ratio fixed just after the war, 1. e., France will get 53 of every mark paid by Ger many. Germany has profited by the change of feeling towards her in the last 10 years. As war-time hatred died there has grown a be lief throughout the world that all nations are partly to blame for war and that all must suffer in its consequences. The length of time consumed in settling on rep aratlons payment has thus worked to Germany's advantage. PIINCLAIR in jail brings sorrow to his family and his em- ployees, perchance, but the great rank and file of people are saying that it's a mighty good thing that one rich man, at least, has "to do time." Physically Sinclair will be bet ter for his days in prison. He will rise and go to bed more regular ly; his food will be more carefully eaten; his work, his routine, will not be as strenuous as the nerv ous-tension work of a great ex ecutive. What will he suffer and wherein the penalty? Largely mental Each day he suffers the remorse of being in prison, a com mon offender of the law, a com panion of cut-throats and thuga. Then there Is that ever present punishment of what-people-will say. It shouldn't ruin a man's life to go to prison but we sur mise it will always go hard within to know that he has the stigma ot a "jail bird.' " But Sinclair should not escape. He undoubtedly was a knowing participant in one of the greatest grafts in federal history yet he nearly avoided punishment. Only his failure to answer four ques tions put to him by the Benate in vestigating committee brought about the sentence on the basis of contempt of court." GASOLINE is back to 23c and the dealers feel more com fortable. In one way, the public is pleased in the fact that no one wants to see the gasoline dealers go to the wall. But peo ple think 18c gas in high enough. It bjlieves, first, that the margin of rne wholesale oil companies is too large, and second, that it is high time that there be weeding out process in the gasoline serv ice business. Too many dealers mean too big profits, for If every pump owner must have a living wage, the gasoline profit must be high. Fewer dealers and lower whole sale prices will bring the 23 level down. CHANGES in such Important services as water supply - .1.-1. Tlis public cannot think or act quick ly. It's brain is too complicated. For months" and years Salea has known that Its water supply was faulty. What-was to be done was a more difficult question. Buy the system? Improve the filter? Go to the mountains? The questions have been mulled over in parlor and street corner but no definite action has been taken. The city council is calling for a show down. It wants to know of the water company Just what that corporation proposes to do. We suggest that the cost of a mountain system be determined, that this cost be Incorporated into a new set of rates so that citi zens may know Just what it will mean If an additional expense comes and also that there be pre pared a statement of earnings of the present company to determine whether or not the city can af ford to go into the water business. There are weil-infymed men In Salem who say that the city can operate the water system more cheaply than it Is now being run. If so, Salem should do it and whether It can do it more cheaply or not, public ownership of water supply is fundamenally sound. By all means let's have FACTS about water, not theories and guesses. The council could well afford to expend considerable money to have a thorough going investiga tion made. That's the method of Hoover get the facts, then act. It applies to Salem's water system. RAISE OWX BEAN POLES Did you ever try to raise your own bean poles? 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