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PAGE FOUR 'Still Nmon "No Favor Sicajjs Us; No Fear Shall Awe." From First Statesman, March 28, 1861 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Sprague, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publishers Charle3 A. Sprague -Sheldon F. Sackett Member of the Associated Press - The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited in this paper. " j Entered at the Postofflcs at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office tl5 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-Sttchcr, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 3G0 N. Michigan Ave. The Tariff on Qarlic "mHE tariff on garlic is decreased." Thus read a line in A the newspaper report of changes in the tariff. In the midst of the monotonous succession of increases, this stood out like a sore thumb. We thought it must be a mistake till the official bill came alone to verify the item. It is indeed true, the new tariff lowers the duty on garlic. How does this occur? Are not the garlic growers to have the benefit of the protective system? Are they not languishing in the face of foreign competition? The cost of production abroad is far lower than it is here, and the tariff should be increased ki order to preserve the American stand ard of garlic-living. Surely this is a serious mistake. Marion county, parti cularly Aumsville (or is it Gerv.ais?) must be the garlic cen ter of the country. Our slogan editor will attest this fact. Nowhere else is garlic so good and so odorous raised. It must be the Ku Klux Klan has had a hand in lowering the garlic tariff. We thought this was to be a tariff of, by, and for the farmers. If so, why is garlic discriminated against? Split peas get an increase, and soya beans, and mushrooms, likewise turnips and radishes; also red, white and sweet clover, and alfalfa gets better protection. Garlic alone has to bear the gaff of revision downward. No, not alone, we do see that urea gets transferred to the free list. The only way we can figure it out is that the garlic eaters have formed "ah association with a paid secretary and a press, agent. It must be so. When the "Garlic Eaters Protective Association" opened headquarters in Washington, D. C., then congressmen began to sit up and take notice. It would not do to offend such a band of voters. Perhaps the secretary cracked the whip and had a shower of pro-garlic telegrams-tlescend on the ways and means committee. Per haps like a skillful lobbyist he took a few members of the sub-committee out and treated them to garlic and gave them a recipe books showing how 42 delicious dishes could be cooked out of garlic. Perhaps he showed how it could be' deodorized and made into a real Washington bridge luncheon J delicacy. At any rate, he "did his stuff." The garlic-eaters won a real victory. Though the garlic-growers are forced to abandon their homes and their patches, the garlic-eaters are made solid for the candidates of the grand old party. Riot at Des Moines DES MOINES, Iowa, is the scene for a real battle of the saints. The university there, a Baptist institution, is the battleground with students and faculty on one side arrayed against the entrenched trustees on the other side. The papers have it that it is a battle between the fundamentalists and the modernists. They are in error. It is a battle be tween the more fundamentalists and the most fundamental ists. The university long since was reorganized on a strict fundamentalist basis, Jonah and the whale included. Its present faculty was hand-picked by the fundamentalist board. The students are presumably likewise carefully se lected so that no taint of modernism might possibly be per mitted entrance. But the executives of the board didn't like a hymn that a dean read out of the college hymnaj. Evidently it was not an extract from the book of Leviticus set to music. The im ported spies from Canada cast suspicion on some of the other professors until a veritable reign of terror resulted. Des Moines university is under the control of the Bap tist Bible union, a fundamentalist organization ; and the uni versity is definitely endowed to propagate only "sound doc trine." There can be no question as to the orthodoxy of the faculty and students ; but the heresy-hunters on the board of trustees had to have victims, so they made it a regular St. Bartholomew's Day and fired the entire staff. The surpris ing thing is that the students, supposedly from pious homes, launched such a riot. The Baptist Bible union Baptist denomination. Dr. J. leader until he killed a man in energies to securing an acquittal. It lost the battle for con trol of the Northern Baptist convention when Dr. J. Whit comb Brougher , deserted the witch-burners and made a plea for tolerance. The Baptists come of an ancestry which should appreciate liberty of thought and of worship. Roger Williams fled to Rhode Island and made a haven for the per secuted Baptists of early colonial times. But the spirit of Roger Williams does not temper the jealous "thus-saith-the-Lords" of the Baptist Union heads. Seeding Catfish in the Willamette IT is good news to transplanted mid-westerners that catfish are to be planted in the Willamette. Probably some of them will be stuck in the old "Long Tom which would be appropriate. Oregon could then advertise "Long Tomcat Fish," which could be made into a good slogan. There is more pleasure in fishing for catfish to the im migrant from Kansas than in any of your dry-fly, wet-fly, spoon, trolling or such sort of fishing that your native Ore gonian takes to. The way to catfish is to get a throwline about 50 feet long with hooks weight at the end to anchor fastened to a peg in the mud, fisherman can .lie on the grassy bank and sleep for half-an hour, or watch the clouds float lazily overhead. He can spit his beefsteak and boil his coffee in an old tomato can with out any mental disturbance. Occasionally he can saunter down and pull in his line, rebait his hooks and toss them out again. He may catch a carp or a redhorse, sometimes a real sucker; but the Jbig hope is to land a channel catfish. If he takes his fishing a little more strenuously he can sit on the bank and fish with a bamboo pole and a bobber on the line to give the signal when to heave. There is more meditation per diem in catfish fishing than in a week of crout fishing. We shall expect the Kansas picnic this sum mer to pass resolutions of appreciation commending the game commission for seeding some channel cats in the Willamette. It looked for a few moments like the chamber of com merce Monday open forum might turn into an old-fashioned tariff debate. Perhaps everyone would be satisfied to have i he chamber forward a blanket resolution calling for high tariff on everything we produce and a duty-free provision on everything we consume. That would be just as consistent as our stand on taxation; a hog for benefits, a shrimp for contributions. Judge Sawyer of Bend told the editors last winter the trouble with Orecron was the "inferioritv eomnlex" That in only half the trouble. The other half is the "superiority com 'V,px", of which pionejgtrship is a majorsxinpQm. t tAM . Editor-Manager Managing Editor is the belligerent arm of the Frank Norris was its active his study and had to devote his attached near the end and a the line. With the shore end your true Kansas or Missouri The New i tin, Xm TmtmtM IrWu. Ut, Cruiriu rift ftwrw Ht BITS for BREAKFAST By K. J. HENDRICKS. A little more history: S m Referring again to the funeral oration of Col. Nesmith at the grave side of General Lane at Roseburg, April 22, 1881, the for mer last friend and whilom po litical enemy said: "In his asso ciation with the world, he (Gen eral Lane) was always the gal lant, chivalrous, polite and mod est gentleman. Those were Inher ent qualities which the rough garb of the farmer, miner, hunt er, frontier Indian fighter, gold- beditened epaulets and uniform of the general, or the habiliments of the governor, or the senator, could never change or obscure. He always treated ladles with the greatest deference, while children rarely escaped his caresses. S S "In old times we used to joke him about his fondling with child ren as a means of obtaining pop ularity, but those of us who knew him longest and best came to re gard it as an evidence of the gentle kindness of his heart." To the pioneers gathered at the tomb of General Lane, the above words had a singular signifi cance the meaning of which must be explained to later comers. Ab raham Lincoln in giving advice to public speakers admonished them to make their remarks nei ther too long nor too broad. The violation of the precept against broadness of speech was not strictly regarded by some of the early settlers of Oregon, who had been through the drab and rough experiences of the covered wagon plains journeys and had endured the hardship of the log cabin days when they were obliged to make shifts to find room and secure the bare necessities of life, and even the clothing to cover their nakedness. So they were led to call a spade a spade, with all this expression, implies. Hia early political campaigns found General Lane up against the coarse jibes of some of his They Say... a a at Expressions of Opinion from Statesman Reader are Welcomed for fTse ia this column. All Letters Most Bear Writer's Name, Though Thi; Need tint be Printed. Turner, Oregon, May 13, 1929. Editor of the Statesman. Dear Sir: The writer observed one of Sa lem's traffic cops marking cars on the streets of Salem Saturday af ternoon on the left rear wheel, well up under the fender where it was hard to see. One wonders if the penalty im posed on overtime parking was imposed for the pnrpose of caus ing motorists to obey the law. Most motorists would move their cars when they are marked, bnt it seems Salem needs the money. What a good opinion an out-of-town customer to some Salem store would have to find his car tagged in an underhand way such ag was used Saturday. The.wTiter believed it would be cheaper to leave his car in the garage where it is safe from clan destine marks on the rear wheels or on the body somewhere and let the mail carrier deliver his purchases from some mall order house. OXE WHO WASVT CACGHT. SPECIAL ELECTION CALLED A special election will be held in Condon May 21 to decide on a 924.000 bond issue for street and water depaUment-ippfavjjnent. OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday iteming. May 15, 1929 A Good Starting Point . opponents. In the course of one of his campaign speeches. Gen eral Lane was asked from the au dience about the rumors that had been bandied about concerning his doings in Washington; espe cially concerning his relationship with women; asked in words more plain than elegant. General Lane's reply was something like this: "I was married to my wife at 19, and since that time I have never met a woman on any foot ing but that of a lady." H General Lane's ready repartee in debate on the stump and his spirit of helpfulness and sympa thy, made him a popular idol and invincible in the political cam paigns of the fifties which would have no doubt continued had the division in the democratic party not come, over the issues of sla very and secession, when Oregon's popular senator acted with the south. This turned the Douglas wing of his party against him, and Lane paid the penalty of his southern leanings In practical banishment, and he was in effect for a term of years a man with out a country, on his southern Oregon farm; a recluse who would have been even more bit terly hated by many who had made him almost their idol in the days of bis popularity, had not Jesse Applegate, however much he differed with Lane in his south ern sympathies, shielded him by discovering through an accident his folly in bringing to Oregon arms to be used in furthering the dream of a "Pacific republic." conceived with the idea of mak ing this coast independent of the rest of the country. It was a wild dream, and it was short lived. The fact that General Lane, on his way home from Washington at the end of his services as United States senator from this state, was in possession of the guns, etc. came out through an accident to the conveyance that was bearing General Lane home to Douglas county the accident happening near the Yoncalla farm of Mr. Ap plegate, revealing the nature of the heavy baggage being convey ed by Lane. This was only one of many acts of the "sage of Yon calla" (Applegate) In smoothing out rough places in the road of early Oregon progress. S It was Jesse Applegate who in duced Dr. McLoughlin and his following to accept the laws and rules of the provisional govern ment, at a time when the other course, would- in all probability have led to armed conflict be tween the -early settlers here and the forces of the Hudson's Bay company that might and likely would have led to war between the United States and Great Britain. Oregon owes more to the "sage of Yoncalla" than she has ever ack nowledged or can ever pay. H He came as one of the leaders of the "Applegate train" of 1843. the first wagon train to come IVe WekomiVou toPoftbad.200 eomfoftabk rooan. Vht HOTEL CONGRESS PORTLAND, OREGON loun E. Boost, Koidcnt Mauwtr clear through to the Willamette alley with its wagons, with 1, 008 people, nearly all of them prejudiced against the Hudson's Bay company. Including Apple gate himself. The treatment by Dr. McLoughlin of these people, arriving in a state of destitution, softened the feelings of bitterness in the breasts of such men as the Applegates, and this kind of lead ership brought the settlement of the boundary question June 15, 184f, and the termination of joint occupancy m S Brought the whole Oregon country, excepting British Colum bia, tinder the Stars and Stripes without the payment of a dollar or the firing of a shot; a histor ic incident unique in American history. Many pleasant things could be said of the last few years of the life of General Lane, when he was a familiar figure on the streets of Roseburg and around the general merchandise store of J. C. Flood it Co., the wife of the elder Flood being a daughter of the general. Yonnir dniminieirs crolk itHnenimsellves finn si WesitfiimgIn.iiiie IFlavojir 5Zmi tfDvem I ifKiSpPil'Pl TV I U U Li L I I I J I Here's the lowest prieacrfitll aotomati range made tao'Weat- iagnooae Juior Co old Ten may nave it right in your kitchen for $1 down, and then $6.50 ILet your Westinghouse get the dinner! Youll wonder how you ever got along with your Id range once you're used a Westinghouse. For in stance . . . you decide to play hookey for the day! Put your dinner, meat, vegetables and dessert into the cold oven. Adjust the thermostat! Set the clock. The West, inghouse does the rest! Then your dinner hour rolls round, your dinner is readyevery dish perfectly cook ed and piping hot! Begin enjoying this freedom at once! Choose yoar Westinghouse today. $1 delivers it to your kitchen. Portland Hill&boro Here and There: M" ULTNOMAH countys law yer! are going to fight back at W. F. Woodward who is opposing the ratification of the bill for two additional jud ges. Lawyers have consistently fa vored more and better paid cir cuit Judges. It is a nice plum for a lawyer to seek; a seat on the bench. The reward are not as iiisU. a go to the- most successful of the practitioners but the fees are more certain and there is less struggle. It is to be doubted if Multno mah county does find it impera tive to have two judges. The old system of calling in circuit judges from about the state was not alto gether bad. Judicial work in sev eral districts is light and the cir cuit judges in such districts might just as well be in Portland as at home pretending to be busy. A1 LL of a judge's time is not spent In actual court. He is d upon for decisions which take days and weeks of hard study. But circuit judges as a class are not overworked; neith er are supreme court Judges. In 1922 the state supreme court was laden with cases, months and years behind: now the court is virtually caught up. Work and efficient work did it. One class of judges In the state which do need legislative assist ance are the county judges. A county judge handles all the pro bate work in the county. He is charged with the care of the in digent, the insane, the delin quent. He is head of the county commissions which decide upon all county expenditures. A coun ty judge needs to be a combina tion business executive legally minded administrator and a so cial worker. His responsibilities are heavy; his routine duties nu merous. Yet the pay is a fraction that which goes to circuit judges. In many counties in the state the county judge gets only the amount of wages first set by the legislature when the office was filled. The result is that either old men, inexperienced men or youths seeking experience, seek the Job. ounty judges should not be paid like janitors; (theirs is a service equal to that of the cir cuit judges and salaries should be in line. gp in Portland or down in Portland, depending whether you take your directions from the di rections or from the river, some meanest-man-rn-the-world, cut the tongue from a dog. The poor dog was finally put out of his misery by the humane society, which un fortunately did not discover the whelp's plight for nearly a week. What could be the punishment for such cruelty? We are not sen timental sob-sisters about ani mals; we know they are not hu man but such barbaric cruelty makes one's blood boil. Whipping is none too drastic for such a mean man. One of the great powers of. the press is to make people apparent month. Or $127.50 ElectncStorsIectricVJdi. Salem Oregon City ' i Gresham St. Helens Terse comments on Events, Local and Abroad, of the Past Week. ly great through constant repeti tion of their names. A year ago, who was Mrs. Gann? Now she will take a place in political history along with the Mrs. Eaton of Jackson's day. How much better for Mrs. Gann if her place was es tablished by worth. Future com mentators will agree with the ma jority of citizens today Who think of her as a self-seeking woman. True worth, in Washington as elsewhere, must be achieved on personal ability, not on social dic tum. When women and men learn this there will be more striving for self-improvement instead of .self- advancement; the latter is bound to accompany the former. The Indictment general made against Salem is that of self-complacency. Nature has been too la vish. Good fortune has endowed the city with wonderful climate, adequate resources, fine citiiens. strong social institutions. In such a setting of beauty and of econom ic solidarity, a citizenry is all too apt to be self satisfied. We believe in Salem, It's beau ty, its diversity, its strength. But shall we rest content? Not in a day when the .accomplishments of even five years ago fade into the dimness of things out of date. Sa lem needs citizens who believe in the city yet are conscious of its smugness, Its security, Its self-satisfaction. Less worship of the pi oneers who themselves, if alive to day, would be cultivating the new fields now open, and more atten tion to the future will make Sa lem that great city which she surely should be. Citizens have much to pioneer in today. There is the problem of a new water system, of improved school buildings, of enhanced in dustrial and agricultural develop ment. Salem has not learned the are of making the newcomer feel at home. An airplane factory and school which made their way in Salem have been nearly Ignored by Salem business men. The day of the better Salem will depend on how well its cit izens support the community. That support must not be lip ser vice and lip praise. It means that the bad hostess of inertia, un friendliness, s e 1 f-complacency must be abandoned. It is time for Salem, like Oregon, to 6how a ra diant spirit to every worthy new comer and every worthy enter prise. Olmstead and Wheeler, law's delays at an end, are off to fed eral prison. If the men didn't know what they were doing; if they had no intention of theft, they should not In their position of trust have wrecked the large bank with which they were con nected. Wheeler's family was a sturdy, religious one. It will hurt SSJIllS I Filiate Ka4 mmm ttaM ti ii. mill arttk HmY 'SOUS SSSMStt J LW delivers Fall Automatic Electric MANGE Today, we make it possible for you to enjoy the freedom, cleanliness and conrenience which comes with the use of a Westinghouse range! For a limited time only, just 1 down puts this rang in your home! And yon hare 24 months to pay the balance! That makes the monthly payments wonderfully low! Come in today and choose yours! itoic Power Sl Johns VancoareT, Washington; and Molalla Electric Co, Aurora to know that J. E. is to be behind prison walls. Olmstead, high-up banker in Portland just a few years ago, will be a very different spectacle when he does the daily thirteen of prison life. Sinclair ia jail. Olmstead and Wheeler "ton the road! Occasionally rich men can't steal and defraud and go free. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read May 15, 1904 Salem stands at the head of the state baseball league, with 7 wins and two loses. The local Raglans won 9 to 8 from the Vancouver In fants here yesterday. Eugene is in second place. School teachers in 15 Oregon counties receive an average monthly salary of $51.15, which minus expenses leaves a net gain of $4.60, according to a teachers' financial survey just mad by C. H. Jones of the Oregon Teachers' Monthly, E. T. Moores, county su perintendent, and L. R. Traver, city superintendent of Salem. The annual meeting of the Sa lem Woman's club was held, with the following officers elected: Miss Calista Moore, president; Mrs. R. J. Hendricks, vice presi dent; Mrs. A. A. Lee, secretary; Mrs. A. W Prescott. assistant se cretary; Mrs. L. S. Lyon, treasur er; Mrs. .R. B. Houston, Mrs. C. E. Wolrerton and Miss Lillian Ap plegate, board of directors. SALEM BONDS Salem airport bonds vert bought by Ladd & Bush bank in Salem. A bank is the only concern that can afford to buy bonds un der the new intangibles tax law. The banks will get a 90 per cent offset on its earnings tax, bat the unfortunate individual gets an ex emption of only $200. The law is unfair, and if referred ought to be wiped out. The income from intangibles should be included in an income tax with proper proper ty offsets and exemptions. If w fair income tax is ever offered the peo ple of Oregon, it will not be re pealed. CorvsJIls Gazette-Times. Patton'm The cost of painting is not the cost per gallon of paint. It is the cost per square yard per year on the house. It's amazing to know that at $1.21 lower cost per gallon cheap paint saves only $3.87 on the average house and gives not half the service life. See the cost chart at the store that sells Sun Proof Paint. WEIXER HARDWARE AXD FAINT STORE 428 Court St. Telephone 530 mm. Ca v