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PAGE FOUR The New OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning, May 12, 1929 tBe Oregon tateman "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Atce." From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spragle, Sheldon F. Sackctt, Publishers Chables A. Sprague ... Editor-Manager Sheldon F. S'ackett - - 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 Postoffict at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office 215 S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast 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. The Perpetual Target 2fiy R. J. HENDRICKS. On Mother's Day " IT is Mothers' Day for us ; plural if you please. We can wear a bouquet, of pink and of white, for a mother of blessed memory, a kindly step-mother, and a gra cious mother-in-law. Usually we are too averse to moboc racy to wear any flower at the lapel on Mother's Day. Our mothers' after all are the only ones we need not worry about. They each and all are of chiseled perfection. Some may be uncertain of the love of wife or husband ; some may be deeply troubled over the ways of their children. But motherhood is secure. When we think of mother, the simple virtues stand out. It is home again, the familiar room and chair, the familiar step and voice. We think of her loving and tireless serv ice, her back bent with household labor, her face wrinkled with care, her hands gnarled with toil imposed by want. She eools the childish brow hot with fever. She mends the gar ments torn in play. She sooths the wounded spirit and fires to worthy achievement. Alwavs with the mother the test was the test of char acter. "Have you been a good boy today a good girl?" Truth-telling, respect for others' property, deference to elders, these primary rules of ethics were the constant les sons of our mothers. 4 Styles are changing, in mothers as in fashions. We think the mothers of today merit pretty much the same adoration as the adult generation pays its mothers. To day's mother with manicured hands and marcelled hair is in some respects a better mother than the grandmothers she knows more about the proper care of children, spends 'more time caring for her children because they are fewer iq num ber and modern home economy is less burdensome. And "she respects likewise those homely virtues of cleanlinessytruth, honesty and seeks no higher aim than to have them learned and observed by her own children. H A tremendous lot of sob sentimentality will beviis charged today. The rather foolish words said to be Lin coln's "all that I am and so forth," will be quoted. This "saint-worship" of motherhood is untrue and unwholesome. Motherhood is as natural as death. It is the mandate of biology not of theology. On this Mothers' Day men and women of the middle years, or even younger may well afford to pause, not simply to show respect' to "mother", but to cast up accounts, in the privacy of one's consciousness, and compare our deeds and our thoughts with the standards of the wholesome virtues learned in childhood. What can we say, should mother ask again, at 40 as at 4 : "Have you been a good boy today a good girl?" 7 The Secret is Out AT last the secret is o5t. Nine out of ten divorces are caused by selfishness ! Three members of the Shiwassee county ministerial association in Michigan are authority for the statement made after an extended national investigation. Restaurant waiters are increasing three times as fast as families and restaurant owners are going up four times as fast as families. And mi-lady is more interested in brdge and teas and being on the go than ever before. The result is that divorces have gone up 300 per cent since 1887. The older idea was that marriage was a contract with both parties giving and receiving and the legal view of the contract is still held. . But in actuality, far too many mar riages of today are those where .both parties expect to get and not to give. Husbands want the comforts of home with out the requisite expense; wives want the happiness of the home-maker without the cost of work, and the reduction of Lsnouid Join in this request, by some of the carefree activities of their girlhood. How to stop the rush to the divorce courts the ministers do not fully reveal but the "revival of old-fashioned religion and the abolition of ideas of companionate marriage" are two possible remedies suggested, by the committee. No one can secure a panacea or cure-all for the problem of divorce, not until someone can suggest a cure-all for self ishness. When mankind is better in spirit and action then the day of divorce will be waning. Two practical remedies for a number of divorces would be more time between the issuance of licenses and the mar riage vows.. Flappers who rush post haste to the county clerk's office would change. their minds many times if a fortnight of watchful waiting were required. Uniform mar riage and divorce laws between states would also help. Great discrepancies occasioned by the present difference in di vorce laws are to be noted in the divorce ratios of states. New York has only one divorce to 21 marriages while Georgia has one to 13 and Michigan one to 3.4. HALL-, I1 Opinions of Marion County Editors Get Ready for the Census FT1HEY will be calling the roll in Salem in 1930. X How many will answer "Present"? Salem wtfnts every man, woman and child to be counted when the federal census is taken. We do not want to read names off the tombstones or count folk who moved away the year of the big freeze. But every bona fide resident should be counted. During this year effort should be made to extend the city boundaries. Many communities on the fringe are re ported ready for annexation to Salem. The chamber of com merce is ready to put on the campaign for getting these dis tricts annexed. But when it was found out that no funds were provided for a city election this year, the matter was permitted to drop. That ought not to stop the activities of the chamber. Under its sponsorship funds surely could be raised to pay the small cost of the necessary election. If the chamber cannot do it, perhaps the various service clubs, restless for feck of anything to do, could pool their energies and supply judges without cost to the city. REAKFAST .This la Mother's Day r And that means everybody's day. We all had mothers, and some of us are fortunate enough to have them with us yet. N And there Is no Jewel of earth to compare with a good mother; So we like a mother's love, no patience to equal that of a true mother. So we can all celebrate this day, and most of us can do this joyously and reverently. ' U The Salem cnamber of com merce on Friday wired to Con gressman Hawley and the other members of the Oregon delegation in his care, these words: "We urged amendment to flax schedule on two items, making rate gn tow one and a half cents a pound, and rate on long rough flax fiber three, cents a pound." S S K The purchase Is to encourage establishing scutching mills at various points In the Willamette valley, to run with free labor. Other valley points are more in terested than Salem. This city will be interested only when the point of 10,000 acres of flax is reached for the prison plant it is 4500 acres this year S And every commercial body and interested individual in Oregon wire to the delegation in congress and everyone in this state is an interested individual; con cernde in the development of the flax Industry here; the coming greatest permanent Oregon Indus, try, or at least among the great est. S The jump from flax straw and tow to hackled long flax fiber, reported in the pending bill, will do no good to the primary scutch ing plants that are needed here. The hackling is done in the spin ning (and weaving) mills. What the industry in Oregon needs right now is protection for the spinning tow and the long rough flax fiber, to be turned out by the indepen dent scutching plants, that will b built all over th valley in time, and at a much earlier date. if this protection can be afforded them. Every farmer it also inter ested, for this will give him the assurance of another' profitable field crop.-Wlthout tha independ ent scutching plants, there will be a halt In the expansion of the in dustry, when the prison plant gets to the point of using the flax product of 10,000 acres. "W The Bits column has had sev. eral references lately to the car eer of Col. Nesmlth, one of the great men of Oregon's pioneer days. who was in the United States senate from this state dur ing the war ofthe rebellion. Col. Nesmith and General Jos eph Lane had been great friends in the early days, from the time when Lane was Oregon's first and third governor of the territory, delegate in congress representing the territory from 1851 to 1859, and one of the two first United States senators, beginning in 1859 and ending in 1861. Nesmlth and Lane were both democrats. They fought side by side In the early days. m But in 1861, the Oregon state legislature had a -deadlock, end ing in a compromise which re sulted la the choosing of a demo crat, Nesmith, and a republican. Col. E. D. Baker, to represent Ore gon in the United States senate. In politics. Lane and Nesmith came then to the parting of the ways. Nesmith was for the union. Lane was in sympathy with the south and slavery. Lan't political sun set then. He went Into retire, ment. at his southern Oregon home. But he went finally to his people at Roseburg, where he died and the funeral oration over his erave was delivered bv his former friend and laer political enemy. Nesmith, at Roseburg, April 22. 1881. General Lane had written Nes mith: "When it shall come my time to cross over, I shall expect you to be present at the laying away of all that remains of your old friend." Space forbids further reference to this final tribute of the for mer bosom friend and later polit ical enemy to the hero of Buena Vista, and the Bits man will re sume this interesting subject in a later issue. Instructors For Playground To Be Chosen Soon Life guard for the Fourteenth street playground and Instructor ior tne saiem playground will be chosen Mondav ni?ht nf of th playground board at the i. bi. u. a. Members of the staff chosen are Louis Anderson direcor; and Gladys Mills and Ethel Balderee. instructors. The opening date will be set ana me Tentative program devel oped more. Comnletion of tha budget is also planned for Monday nig a l. MOTHER'S DAY "Whether mother is far or near, do not forget her on this Impor tant occasion. A few kind, words, a little, inexpensive gift, mean more to mother than the grandest eloquence and the most elaborate entertainments can to anyone else. Many a mother, separated by distance from her children, pin ing for them, is made glad on this day by affectionate messages and thoughtful gifts. Others, fortunate enough to have their' children iluutt thsm Ko.m with AeHeht At BlVU, fcUWM., tMU. " . " tnetr manuestauons oi iove on this day. Of course every day should be Mother's Day never for a mo ment should her kindness and self sacrifice be forgotten. Too often, however, mothers are taken for granted, though experience has shown to mankind that the love of a mother is the only really un selfish love that one is liable to meet in a lifetime. Thoae whose mothers hare gone realize what a precious boon has passed from their Uves. They, too, may observe Mother s Day. If your mother has passed on, put a flower at her resting place . .surely she will know. Bilverton Appeal. your up-to-the-minute editorial column. Not only it Is readable but Instructive and progressive. The writer shows a knowledge of affairs and has a mind of his own. The Statesman is getting "better and better every day in an editori al way." Eclat, class, style; say you are putting worlds of It into the old paper. And here's hoping the banks close on Saturday af ternoons so all the employees may join tae Hunt club and come back to work Monday morning ful of "eclat." Hubbard F.nter. prise, GOING INTO BUSINESS STAYTON, May 11 -Y. F Klecker who conducted a general merchandise store here a nsm.r of years ago Is going into biiM ness again. He has leased a room in the Deidrich building and will open up a store there about Jm -1. Read the Classified Ads. This Makes Us Blush Salem is arriving. We may let a street carnival operate on a main street but we have a spank ing new Hunt club. This new or ganization will help give the town "It". As Doc Riley of Hubbard would say, we hall the new or ganization with "eclat" whatever that is. Maybe after a while the banks will close on Saturday after noons and we cas). really record that Salem has arrived. Salem New Statesman. Now, now, Charlie, we bet you had in mind a chocolate "eclair". But we're off that eclair stuff for life ever since one of the gol darn things squirted all over our dollar shirt front at a community meet ing in Salem. However, we just want to throw a few bouquets at Your health depends on what you eat FISHER'S FAST COOK ING TOASTED WHEAT every 'morning will keep you well. WHY? Because it retains 100 of the wheat, precooked wonder ful flavor easy to prepare. Cooks in three to five min utes. Costs less than lc per dish. FISCHER FLOUR ING MILLS SBvertoa, Ore. All Grocers 247 Union Ave. Portland, Ore. Phone E.6033 Here is a real "service" task. Let's get the thing over. A Community Asset SALEM hasja distinct community asset in its general hos pital Built by private donation, maintained entirely on a mutual basis without a cent of profit accruing to anyone, this institution is strictly home owned and home managed property for the 'protection of the health interests of Salem. t Visitors who take advantage of today's open house and visit the general hospital will find a plant well equipped, well arranged and exceptionally well staffed. They will ob serve an institution doing commendable public service yet an institution dependent of others for its maintenance ex pense., It will do every citizen good to know now about his city hospital and the good it offers the community. Millions of Families Depend onDr.Caldwell's Prescription When Dr. Caldwell started to practice medicine, back in 1S7S. the needs for a laxative were not as great as they are today. People lived normal, quiet lives, ate plain, wholesome food, and got plenty at fresh air and sunshine. Bat even tha'tearly there were drastic physics and purges for the relief of constipation which, Dr. Cald well did not believe wen good lor human beings to put into their systems. So he wrote a prescrip tion for a laxative to be used by his patients. The prescription for constipa tion that he used early in his prac tice, and which he put in drug stores in 1892 under the name of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, Is a liquid, vegetable remedy. Intended for women, children and elderly people, and they need just such a mild. sate, gentle bowel stimulant as Syrup Pepsin. Under successful management this prescription has proven its worth and is now the largest sell ing liquid laxative in the world. The fact that millions of bottles ero used a year proves that It has won the confidence of people who needed it to get relief from head aches, biliousness, flatulence, in digestion, loss of appetite and tfeep, bad breath, dyspepsia, colds nd fevers. MiUions of families arc now never without Dr. Caldwell's Syr- ' I - I AT aoi as up Pepsin, and if you will once start using it you wUl also always have a bottle handy for emer gencies. It Is particularly pleasing to know that most of it is bought by mothers for themselves and the children, though Syrup Pepsin is just as valuable for elderly people. AH drug stores hare the generous bottles. A trial is sure .to convince any household of the merits of this famous prescription. Mutual Savings and Loan Association A Salon. Institution Organised in 1910 Place your savings with us Let us finance your home on weekly or monthly payments 142 South Liberty Street Refrigerators Trying, to get along without a refrigerator or with an inade quate, inefficient or old fashioned ice box is dangerous as well fts uneconomical. Good refrigeration means more than econ omy. A good ice box not only pay for itself quickly In preventing spoilage and waste of costly foods, but it saves the nutritious Juices and appetizing flavors of food which make eating ft healthful pleasure. We hare a large stock of high grade Ice boxes that we are offering at greatly reduced prices. A small payment will place one in your home. 340 COURT ST. AT THE Gray Belle NOW UNDER MANAGEMENT OF John Blakely $1.00 Dinner De Luxe SOUP Chicken Consomme Douglas Radishes, Green Onions Fruit or Crab Cocktail Hearts of Lettuce Mayonnaise or Pineapfrle with Cottage Cheese Choice of Prime Ribs of Beef Au Jus Yz Fried Spring Chicken on Toast Stuffed Baked Yl Spring Chicken Small New York Sirloin Sauce Italian Baked Macaroni and Cheese or Buttered Peas Cream Whipped Potatoes DESSERTS Strawberry Sundae Pie Fruit Jello Cake Ice Cream Sherbet $1.25 T-Bone Steak Dinner Above dinner with Special T Bone Steak as meat order V 75c Plate Dinner Meat order in $1.00 Dinner Potatoes, Vegetables, Dessert, and Beverage Malte it a day of rest Have Your Car Washed While You Sleep We call for your car at night . . . . . .Deliver it in the morning ....Washed $1.50 OIL CHANGED COMPLETELY Greased $1.25 .... GAS SERVICED The Harbison Station OPEN ALL NIGHT S. Com'l. St. at Owens Phone 1247 5 IPILYI WEI" A COMIC OPERA IN THREE ACTS Libvetto by Seymour S. Tibbals Music by Harry C. Eldridge Presented by a cast of fifty studentt of tht U. S. Indian School at Chemawa, Oregon Monday Eve, May 13, 1929 in the Chemawa Auditorium Themusc is tunef uL Story has a histori cal background, Indian war dances, etc. in troduced to give color to the story are the real article, choruses are well trained and often Ring in four-part harmony. Orchestral accompaniment to all musical numbers. This operetta will be up to the high stan dard maintained by Chemawa in all such productions in the past. Phone Reservations to 128-J1 or purchase them at Chemawa on the Thirteenth