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The New OHEGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning. May 10, 1929
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"No Favor Sicays Us; No Fear Shall Awe."
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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The Daily Huddle
The Longworth Intervention
THE rough seas of farm relief and the threatening skies of
tariff revision offer no such dangers to the bark of the
Hoover administration recently launched so auspiciously on
its four-year voyage, as do the social shoals of Washington.
While solons gravely argue over matters of state and plan
and contend over solemn legislative proposals, the vital de
cisions are often made over the bridge tables and the coffee
cups of capital city society. Many a well-timed invitation de
termines an important vote. Or a social blunder may wreclc
a Dromisincr career. Seldom do the leakmsies and the har-
poomngs get outside the realm of gossip and become sac-
religiously bruited about in the common prints of the day.
But the Mrs. Gann ca3e has gotten not only into the news
papers, it may get into history. Over such apparently slight
matters as to where a lady sits has caused the tottering of
thrones in other lands. One remembers the phrase of Car
lyle about Louis XV's wars "that thy harlot might take re
venge for an epigram."'
It is really going to force Mr. Hoover to do some expert
eggjwalking or some sharp reprimanding to compose Wash
ington Hhat the' mam business of government may go for
ward. The clash now intensified through the opposition of
Mrs. Alice Koosevelt Longworth to Mrs. Gann s pretensions,
will cause a perturbing split in Washington officialdom.
Mrs. Hoover is theoretically the first lady of the land. She
finds herself pretty well crowded out of the publicity and of
the conversation by the ambitious sister of the vice presi
dent. Whether some White House discipline will be em
ployed or whether Mrs. Hoover will accept the grey light of
the social shadows remains to be seen.
One is always rash to venture on the outcome of a so
cial battle. Mrs. Longworth has long reigned in Washing
ton as queen of society in her own right and as wife of the
speaker of the house. Her long residence there, her pre
vious position as a popular daughter of the White House,
and her own strength of character have made her. a domi
nating figure in social life. The line-up against her would
appear to be sufficient to overwhelm Mrs. Gann; only defer
ence to her half-brother and respect to the vice presidency
seems to be in her favor. One thing we would say, if it has
to be submitted to a referendum, we want to be counted on
the side with Alice Roosevelt. Our hero-worship for old
Teddy would win that for her, if nothing else.
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Senator Johnson Emerges
WE have Senator Johnson on the stage again. The once
redoubtable Hiram of California, who "struck twelve"
in 1920 and has been pretty much a. run-down alarm clock
eyer since, got wound up enough to make a speech in the sen
ate Wednesday. Hiram evidently is not going to let Tom
Heflin emit all the noisesome gases in that venerable cham
ber. His speech was in support of the export debenture plan
and he flailed the "mutt psychology in this moronic era of
the age of bunk." We cannot tell from the brief press re
port whether Hiram is starting out as a crusading "de
bunker" or not. Whatever his plan his speech would rate
nignas moronic Dunk.
The country is getting weary of the professional de
bunkers. Cynical critics that they are they would strip the
white off the lilly in order to expose any coarseness of fiber.
They see not the painting of the artist but the rough canvas
he may have used in his art. They set down every effort for
human welfare, for moral reform or social betterment as a
fraud. Vigilant sleuths of the insincere they are false to
the core themselves. "
The Mencken and the Sinclair Lewises have drawn so
ircaiuj wi Hie ovuica ui (JUUUl. JMtblCIlbC lllilL mere is re-
sentment at their universal epithets of "yokel" and "moron".
The sickening uniformity of this debunking criticism has
made the literature of the day wearisome and tasteless. The
condiment of literary cupboards may never become the meat
and drink of genuine intellectual nourishment.
Senator Johnson, relieved doubtless after this vocal hem
orrhage, may retire to the semi-obscurity which has marked
his years in the senate. A man who would swallow the
bunk" as he has on debenture plan farm relief wields a brok-
gn spear at popular fantasies and fallacies.
WUGU DO WE
SiAOT oh VOuft
Here and
There:
Terse comments on Events,
Local and Abroad, of the Past
Week.
BITS for BREAKFAST
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Why
8 or trie x s
r 'B editor of the Emerald at the University of Oregon is
one of the few college editors in the country who dares
to speak his mind and at the same time has a mind to speak
with. But in his comment on the reorganization of the uni
versity Y. M. C. A. at Eugene he makes no attempt to set
tle the problem of the college T in non-aectarian institu
tions. In denominational colleges the "Y. M." and the "Y.
W." are usually pretty well sustained, but in the state in
stitutions their position and influence have been on the wane.
Many of them carry on no religious, meetings, they engage
in some Side activities, provide offices for a lot of people
usually of the non-fraternity element, spend considerable
time drumming up attendance at summer Conferences, and
the rest of the time, meeting after meeting, figuring out how
to meet deficits. -
.; The traveling secretaries come around with blueprints of
organization and try to put in a lot of punch and ginger.
They are up-and-coming recent alumni or alumnae, these
traveling Y" secretaries, sometimes short on brains and
Ion; on pep, but never obtrusive with their piety. Even they
no longer seem able to get the machinery really to function
ing. Fred B. Smith, "Dad" Elliott, John R. Mott were real
student heroes in their day, but with their passing off the
stage the student "Y" movement has been losing its hold.
Students are genuinely interested in the problems of
religion ana pnuosopny. xney are trying to solve the X,
x, Z of life's equation, but doing it without t
YY Perhaps they are too "wise".
the aid of the
Of all the Mon again, off again, gone again" affairs we
have ever heard of, that Vale project marks the apex. It
has stopped and started and started and stopped more times
than a city traffic signal changes color in a day. The report
at the moment of writing is that the green light is still
burning. .. -
American golfers, Johnny Farrel and Walter Hagen
among them, were badly beaten in the recent British golf
competition.- Not a single ad for an American cigarette came
out of the tournament.
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The aviation age is at hand. A new concern offers reg
ular strips from Portland to Seattle in an hour and a half,
and from Portland to San Francisco in four hours and a half.
It is the dawning of a new revolution.
Speaking of sugar
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And it will be spoken of a great
deal pending the passage of the
Hawley tariff bill. In -which the
ways and means committee has
had the wisdom backed by the
nerve to step out and propose
partial justice to the beet and
cane growers of the United States
by setting the tariff rate on Cu
ban raw sugar up to $2.40 a hun
dred pounds, against the pref
erential rate of $1.76 which
that product has been charg
ed. Also by malting the world
rate on refined sugar $3.00 a
hundred pounds, against the $2.20
rate of the present law. The lat
ter is not so very important, but
the rate on Cuban raws is of par
amount concern.
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Of course the welkin will be
made to ring in loud protests
against this "outrage" against the
poor" Cubans, who are to be
obliged to pay $2.40 a hundred
pounds on their raws crushed in
the factories along the Atlantic
seaboard, while Hawaiian, Porto
Rican and Philippine sugar will
some in free; because it origin
ates In territory belonging to the
United States.
A lot of dust will be thrown in
to the eyes of the publle, but there
will be a diminution of the size of
the crocodile tears, to somewhat
below the proportions of hen's
eggs, if the fact can be put over
to the people of this country nen
erally that all the raw sugar
crushing mills in Cuba, -all the
sugar cane plantations there, and.
all the uncleared sugar lands
there, too, or nearly all of them,
belong to the same people who
own the refineries in this coun
try S
In other words, by the stock
holders of the Wall street sugar
trust
-anjl that the Cuban laborers on
th.Ir " plantations and in their
crashing mills turning out raw su
gar, are la a state of -peonage
about oa a par with slavery.
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The newt column of The States
man of this morning carry the
Information that the Pabst com
pany, under the direction of the
Oregon State Agricultural college,
has contracted for the growing bj
sice farmers or the eentraX Wil
lamette valley this year of. Si
aeres of Jerusalem - mrtiehokes,
with fire acres at Hermlston, look
ing to the establishment of 1 to
lose sugar factories in Oregon.
There are three kinds of sugar.
First, beet or cane sugar (su
erose). with sweetening power at
100; artichoke sugar (leTulose).
with sweetening power of 171.1,
and corn sugar (dextrose), at 74.
3 sweetening power. Under late
discoveries, lerulose is being gran
ulated, and so Is dextrose. Pretty
toon, all three sugars will be sold
in grocery etores generally all
will look alike, and the only dif
ference will be their sweetening
power; together with the fact
that lerulose, or Invert sugar,
made from artichokes, win be
good for diabetics. It will be as
good as the others for other peo
ple, too; tor people not having di
abetes, S Is
With levulose sugar factories in
the Willamette valley, under the
new tariff law, we will get beet
factories, too. The United States
uses about 7000,000 tons of su
gar a year. It gets about 4,000,
000 tons from Cuba, makes about'
a million tons from beets, and
150,000 to 200,000 tons from su
gar cane, and gets the rest of the
supply from Hawaii, the Philip
pines and Porto Rico, excepting
for a small amount from other in
sular possessions of the United
States, and from foreign countries
other than Cuba.
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If the bill goes through as re
ported by the ways and means
committee, and stays put, the
United States will soon be mak
ing a great deal larger propor
tion or us own sugar. The cane
supply from the south can be
boosted to several million tons,
and so can the beet supply from
the inter mountain, upper Missis
sippi valley and Pacific coast
states, including the Willamette
valley.
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However hard sledding this may
make for the Wall street sugar
trustr the rest of the country will
be able to stand it. In fact, will
prosper rastly from the result.
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An outstanding authority writ
ing in the current issue of "Facts
About Sugar," New York, the
leading magazine of the world
for that trade, points out that a
great possible market is opening
up in China for sugar, the brown
or soft kind used by the Chinese
people with their chopsticks, and
the whole Cuban supply might
conceivably be diverted to that
country, at lower prices than the
Wall street trust has been get
ting for refined sugar in the
United States, but at rates that
would keep the wolf from the
door of that trust. So, not "hence
these tears," but hence this lack
of a lachrymose effusion for the
plight of the Wall street sugar
barons who have been propogan
dlzing in this country with a pack
of lies " mountain high for years.
They Say...
Expressions of Opiate from
Statesman Readers are
Welcomed for Use la this
eotomn. Att Letters Ma
Bear Writer's Nasne,
Thoagb Thin Need X- be
Printed.
PROHIBITION IN THE RURAL
DISTRICTS
A large gathering was held one
evening at a fine country home.
People from all parts of the town
ship were there. An hour or so
after- all the visitors had said
goodbye -and gone to their homes
tire was discovered in one of the
farm buildings. It spread ranidlv.
Soon tae tseee ara and. the
dairy hense. oth . with expensive
equipment were reduced to ash
es. Many head of valuable stock
perished. The farmer's' loss was
estimated at Sze.tOt.
The eause for the fire suggest
ed in a local paper next dar was
that some guest had thrown away
ugntea match, cigarette or el-
gar. The farmer declared that
such could not hare, been the case
ror he was certain that no per
son there that night smoked.
Would It not be great to lire in
such a community? He who does
not smoke Is not likely to drink.
If aU of our rural communities
could be as clean and reliable as
that one the country would soon
be bone dry.
Another community known to
the writer Is made up of folks
BETTER HEALTH
LONGER LIFE
Her life clouded with rheuma
tic pains, lumbago and stiff, ach
ing Joints, Mrs. J. E. Stevenson.
Emporia. Kansas, finally rid her
self of torment, by taking Foley
Pills diuretic. "Nearly every day
eonreone asks me what I took that
helped me when I was bo badly
crippled up.' r tell Jftem gladly
of Foley Pills diuretl, how they
eased my pains and lifted the
clouds from my life." A reliable
valuable medicine, constantly in
nse over 25 years. SatisZactior.
guaranteed. Try them. Capital
Drug Storo. v
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who think that they have a moral
right to make, use and sell beer
and whiskey so long as they do
not get caught. They resent the
attempt of officers of the law to
enforce honesty, sobriety and re
spect for the law. But when re
cently some robberies were com
mitted in their neighborhhod
those same whiskey lovers wel
comed the officers and their ef
forts to apprehend and punish the
lawbreakers.
The flay Before the fishing sea
son opened, several men took a
day's journey to a favorite resort
to be on hand for the first day
of the open season. They respect
ed the law about fishing and
would not begin too soon, but
they did not hesitate to gamble
and drink during that night. One
of them was too drunk to fish
when daylight came and the next
night sent a message to his wife
that he was too tired to come
home. What travesties of con
science and of honor!
In the logging and lumber mill
communities there is a great need
for the enforcement of the prohi
bition law. Recently a man who
was working in the big timber
was injured by a log rolling over
him. It tqpk about two hours to
get him into the doctor's office.
When they finally arrived the doc
tor was 90 drunk that he could
not care for the man. With bruis
ed flesh and broken bones, weak
ened by the loss of blood and
chilled from exposure In a cold
rain this injured man had to suf
fer for hours while the doctor
slept off his drunken stupor.
Clearly it is to the advantage of
every community and every per
son to respect the right and com
fort of others by obedience to the
laws which are made for the gen
eral welfare. Few national laws
have greater possibilities of good
for people in the rural commun
ities than the loth amendment.
J. D. MCCORMICK.
LEAVE it to Alice Longworth
to set Washington society to
rights. Just when Mrs. Gann
had stepped to the head of
the table, Alice comes forthwith
statement that she will not sit be
low any sister of a vice-president.
And the Washington battle of the
tea-table is on again. Tears ago
her father precipitated a- Wash
ington social crisis when he box
ed with a professional at the
White House. Now the younger
generation Is more of a stickler
for form.
WHEN Sinclair went to Jail
the aristocracy of millions
was subjected to a worthy
chastening. It's a crying Indict
ment of American justice if "we
could send $100,000,000 to pris
on.'' The point is not the number
of days Sinclair remains behind
the bars; the crux of the matter
is the fact that justice can and
does make its demands of rich
and poor alike. His employees in
New York City are said to have
transformed the Sinclair skyscrap
er into a "tower of sorrow." Let
them weep. The nation of people
are glad that a man who defies
the rights of the government is
set down.
UNDERWRITING the Ameri
can legion convention for
Salem is largely a gesture;
It would be fine if the business
men of the community would
support the gathering for $50,000
and make , a fitting demonstra
tion of Salem's support of her
pledge to back the legion boys in
bringing the state meeting here.
The careful budget Income ar
ranged for bv the convention com
mission means slight" Vtfcelihoodl
of loss but if there should be a
deficit, the larger the amount of
backing secured, the smaller pro
portionate payment.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to
change mother's day to fa
ther's day. We object to It.
Of all the days in the year
that have been designated for pub
lic observance, mother's day
touches the finest cord. Of course
the realist can say dad had as
much to do with the upbringing
of Matty and Bill as mother did
but we must disagree. Mother
furnished the exquisite love and
car and tenderness which forever
makes her name as sacred as any
human's name can be. She dp-
serves one day set apart and the
nnest qualities of that day will be
subtly robbed if we would desig
nate It "Parent's day." We vote
no.
THIRD degree methods prac
ticed by large cities in ob
taining confessions from
criminals have come in recently for
increasing discussion in maga
zines following investigations of
methods used by various police
offices. Extensive use of the rub
ber hose, of the black Jack, of in
sufficient food and lack of sleep
. ,aU these have produced con
fessions from criminals in meth
ods deemed unfair, unjust and il
legal. Every prisoner, officersi claim,
can be made to confess if proper
third degree methods are used.
Desperate from fear, despair and
these brought about by torture,
the man will tell. . Public senti
ment resents absolutely mal-treat-ment
of criminals. Third degree
methods must be human. Loss of
sleep and Insufficient food do not
Improperly Injure a man but bru
tal floggings are beyond the pale
of modern society.
SALEM'S municipal problems
right now are three: How to
handle the water situation,
how to stop the cinder nuisance,
how to provide a satisfactory
franchise for the .street motor bus
ses. It is our contention that the
water situation must eventually
mean a mountain supply: western
citizens, with great sources of sup
ply awaiting them In the lakes
and rivers of ths Cascades, are
not going to tolerate a river sup
ply if for no other reason that the
mind revolts at river water when
there is a pleasant stream away
in the hills where people do not
live and where the supply has the
apparent freshness of the eternal
hilli.
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-A LL Mothers' Day
CrsVeTifts purchased at
Shipley's will be packed in
embossed "Mother's Day"
boxes without any extra
charge.
Purses
Gloves
. Beads
'Kerchiefs
Collars and
Cuffs .
Flowers
Hosiery
Gowns
Slips
Jewelry
Combinations
Bloomers
SMpfley
Old Oregon's
Yesterdays
Town Talks from The States
. man Onr Fathers Read
May'fO. 1904
' Sam L. Simpson's poem has been
set to music by Father Dominie,
O. S. Brf Mt. Angel. Father Don
lnlc is said to have portrayed the
poem perfectly.
The covering of the ditch, oa
North Front. Commercial 'and
Liberty streets' was completed by
the contractor. C. T. Xteral .and
Bon.
Oote 8. HIU. secretary of the
Congressional committee, spent
the day In Salem, after attending
the rally la Woodburn.
GRAY BELLE
SPECIAL
MOTHER'S DAT
BOXES OF CAXDT
See Window Displays
SHRUB SALE
Closing our salesyard for
the season
Every tree & shrub
in the salesyard
reduced
Pearcy Bros.
Nursery
240 X. Liberty
bet. Court and Cbemcketa
New Linqerte
Lhoseno
w K rn v furra
Bloomers
Fine, lustrous, run-proof 1 I f jl JV,
Rayon fashions these full-cut III II a OlOLv
bloomers. In flesh, peach, and 1 I nrjlri
nlle green. Vest to match fl.ee. J J T
Rayon Chemises
69c to $1.49 U f
Slimly tailored uaderthlags that ftvo the fig-
are smooth lines. Decorated with contrasting C
pipings and appUne. , V
Crepe de Chine Teddies
$1.39 $2.10
Silk teddies are frivolous with laee and ribbons, -Jx
r demurely tailored. In Lido bine. tleehV
Bandeau Sets QLi
Dance sets of pastel rayon Jv 1 1
or crepe-de-chine are St c
charmingly trimmed, II lr "Sj
Step-ins have the nev ALJul T Ly
r Styleuxd Service
NOW is the time to pre
pare for Spring and
Summer in the matter of
lingerie! Ward's offers, a
large selection of dainty un
derthings at low prices.
U 98c
Pair
Silk Hose
Service-weight hose smart,
practical, pure silk to the top.
Ful-fashloaad, l generous
Ungth. la a wide variety ef
new shades. '
ChHiqnHose
s $139 pr.
There are exquisite new shades
la these special Chiffon Hose
sheer and misty with their
French picot tope.
Sanitary Needs
25c . $1.00
Fashioned for comfort and
lainty protection, are flesh col'
"red. gum rubber aprons and
iklats form-fitting, elastic,
sanitary belts.
275 N. Liberty St.
Phone 1435
Salem, Oregon
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