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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
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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
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BITS for BREAKFAST
By R. J. HENDRICKS.-
Three cheers and a tiger I
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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or Residence at night 1898
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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? Why worry about
them as long as you can raise sun
flowers? Plant the sunflower
seeds thickly as the beans will
climb a small pole more readily
than a thick one. Sunflower seed
may be fed to your chickens, or if
you have none, to your neigh
bor's. When the beans are picked
the bean poles may be torn down
and burned with the rest of the
rubbish.
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