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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Satnrday Morning. May 18, 1929 "No Favor Sicays Us; No Fear Shall Ave" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spragle, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publisher$ Charles A. Speague ... Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper. Entered at the Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Clasa Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office S15 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. George Bylander & Co. OREGON is supposed to be a self-governing commonwealth. We like to think-we have the bfessings of a republican form of government. We take pride in the exercise of the prerogatives of sovereignty. We have a consttution. We have a legislature. We havera whole set-up of administrative and judicial officials. We think we have a government. As a matter of fact Oregon is fast drifting to a political impasse. ' The functions of government are in process of hrpakini? down in a "Derfectly constitutional" manner. Au- thority is passing from the legislature representing the peo ple of the state to a private group, which may oe styiea un der the firm name of "George Bylander & Co." Bylander is merely the incident to be sure; but he is the apex of the wedge thrust at the heart of the political struc ture of the state. Bylander merely seta tip as a merchant i I..,, a nAnsilanfinn Via mailrici tVio TVlWPr ftf the Ulltia- iv slth referendum to control minority, no matter how small," nanced, may employ such an f ment of legislation, adopted by the legislature, at least, unui ' the ensuing election. : That would not be serious except as the machinery is used continuously to hamstring the financing of the state government. Under the binding effect of the six per cent limitation Oregon's deficit keeps mounting. Whenever the legislature meets it is solemnly charged with responsibility to correct the situation, and the legislature proceeds to the best of its ability to restore financial solvency to the state treasury. And as regularly, the forces of referendum are in- i voked or the voice of the people called upon with the result that the interested minority, succeeds in thwarting the pro gram of the legislature. The last legislature enacted a three-fold program to meet the tax situation : the excise tax, tax on intangibles, and in come tax. The last and the first are threatened under the j referendum. If held up it means, additional delay; if the measures are rejected, then the future for the state, would appear well-nigh hopeless. - j One of the first necessities of government is the levying of taxes to meet the costs of government. Failure to provide revenues means eventually the breakdown of government. Oregon of course will not come to that ; but we fear it will not get out of the woods until some one arises strong enough to bump a few heads together and impress the people with the priority of state welfare over private advantage. It is easy enough to find objections to any scheme of taxation proposed ; it will only be by decent compromise that an improved tax system will be secured. If this political impasse continues much longer desperate remedies may be resorted to, in the effort to break the handcuffs of the constitution. When Do We Drink-and What? THE city council is calling into its honorable presence the executives of the water company to find out what they are doing to remedy the situation with respect to Salem's water. That is well. But the major question is, what is the city council doing toward the permanent solution of the prob lem. These facts seem elemental: First, that the initial step lem should be municipal ownership. Second, extensive improvements to the present water plant should be deferred until the city does take steps to ac quire the present operating company.' Third, exentually the city will want to go to the moun- " tains for water. This should be at low cost. Objection may be raised that the city cannot afford to go into the water business here, calling as it would for a large bond Issue. The answer is simple: the present operators re- ceaciy bought the plant, issued bonds and stock thereon to finance the purchase. The Salem consumers are financing this purchase cost at the present time. We are paying inter est of the company bonds and dividends on the company stock. We do not object to operation. But the same sums could as well go to paying for the debt incurred directly by the municipality. We have large and vital interests at stake: the health and prosperity of the entire community. City after city has decided the same question in the same way, namely, through municipal control of its own water supply and distributing system. The Statesman repeats what it has said before: Salem should own its own water systenu- The city council should not evade this issue, but take in telligent steps toward bringing municipal ownership of the water system to pass. 1 When Death is Unleashed HOW swiftly the agencies for succour may .become the weapons of death. At Cleveland the materials which had been used in a hospital's ceaseless campaign against illness ' and pain became, the instruments of death to others. Deadly chemicals fixed in solution or in precipitate were the servants of doctors and chemists; released in gases they terrorized t and killed. We so often glow with self -pride and recount our achieve ments in the mastery over the materials and forces of na . ture. A slight slip here or there, and our knowledge and strength are impotent to save ourselves from disaster. In vestigations will follow at Cleveland, of course. Immediate causes may be definitely ascertained and perhaps responsi bility placed. But the great fact is that the powers of man are yet limited; that ceaseless vigilance is required for him to preserve himself on this planet. Daily papers will angle killings. They quency. Cuba cannot be blxmed for looking tariff as a sort of step-fatherly act. Civil War Vet Pratum Visitor PRATUM, Mar 17. Carry Smith, an untie of U. Jf. Lambert and a civil war veteran who lives near Seattle, is visiting with rel atives here. ' Dave Lambert, father of Mrs. Valentine Gerig is a visitor her legislation in Oregon. Any provided it is adequately fi- agency to suspend tne enacv toward solving the water prob done when it can be financed that so long as it is a private soon have to establish a department of tri are rivalling Sunday auto accidents in fre- on the increase in sugar from Texas. He came by way of Nebraska several weeks ago where It was very cold at that time. He spent most Of the time since he came to Oregon at the Bell home In Kings Valley. He has two more daughters living at Frultland and a son In Salem. It is expected that he will make quite an extended visit. Read the Classified Ads. ; : : V,J f NOSE ' 5 I Ljrn J BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS About Salem's name mm am There were controversies in the old days, and even yet we hear oc casional regrets voiced that !t was not allowed to stand as the local ity was known to the Indians, Chemeketa. S The Oregon territorial legisla ture in the session of 1853-4, en gaged somewhat in the business of changing the names of places and streams. For instance. Albany war fthancpd to Tnlrpnah Marvn. ville o Corvallis, and Salem came I within one vote or being changed to Chemeketa. Cut more about this later. ."V Referring again fo the peace parley of Table Rock. Judge Mat thew P. Deady left his Umpqua valley farm September 1, 1853, by horseback for Jacksonville, to hold the United States district court there in its first session the first court that was ever held in Oregon south .of the Umpqua. He afterwards, up to 1859, when Oregon became a state, passed that way from four to six times a year, on. the same errand. m At the Umpqua canyon the young Judge overtook Lieutenant, afterwards governor and United States senator Grover, with the advance of Col. Xesniith's com pany from Salem. Grover shared his blankets with DeaJy that night on the bank of the South Umpqua. Deady arrived at General Lane's camp, about 12 miles north of Jacksonville, in time to be pres ent at the powwow wh?re the terms of the treaty were settled, on September 10th. ". Said Judge Deady In writing of scene, among otner things, some 30 years later: "The scene of the famous peace talk between Joseph Lane and Indian Joseph two men who had so lately met in mortal combat was worthy of the pen of Sir Walter Scott and the pen-" of Salvator Rosa. It was on a nar row bench of a long, genily slop ing hill, lying over against the noted bluff called Table Rock Lane was in fatigue dress, the arm which was wounded at Buena Vista in a sling from a fresh bal let wound. Indian Jospeh, tall, grave and self possessed, wore a long black robe over his ordinary dress. By "his side sat Mary,, his favorite child and faithful com panion, then a comparatively handsome young woman, un stained with i the vices of civiliza- tion. Around these, sat on the grass (here Deady mentions the names of the other white members of the peace parley most of them afterwards prominent in the na tion's affairs). A short distance above us on the hlllsldo were some hundreds (Col. Nesmlth said 700) of dusky warriors in fighting gear, reclining quietly on the ground. "U "The day was beautiful. To the east of us rose abruptly Table Rock, and at its base stood Smith's dragoons, waiting anx iously with hand on horse the is sue of this attemp to make peace without their aid. "W 1. "After a proposition was dis cussed and settled between the two chiefs, the Indian (interpret er) would rise up and communi cate the matter o a huge warrior who reclined at the foot of a tree quite near us. Then the latter rose up and communicated the matter to the host above- him, and they labored it back and forth with many voices. Then the war rior communicated the thought of the multiude on the subject back to the chief; and so the discussion wen on until an jnderstanding was finally reached. Then we sep arated the Indians going back to their moan tain retreat, and the I whites to their camp. That Feeling Of Captivity "That evening I rode up to Jacksonville through what I thought was the most picturesque valley I ever saw. The next morn ing i opened in due form the United States district court for the couny of Jackson and the word of the law superseded the edge of the sword." 'm mm Judge Deady, on that first trip on his official errand, saw some evidences of white as well as In dian treachery and cruelty. The commission of outrages by the un tutored savages was bound to arouse in the breasts of the whites thoughts of vengeance against them. The men and women who suffered from Indian outrages had basis for the common conclusion then prevailing, terrible as were some of its results in cases where innocent victims were involved, that the only "good" Indian was a dead one. The wonder is that any Indians at all survived, as enough did to make the present day Indian pop ulation of this whole country per haps as large as It ever was; and in the past several decades slowly increasing. ZENA, May 17 The county road grader is being employed this month to help widen the hill road from Zena to Salem. Heavy blasting also is being done at b ov er a l narrow points on the road. The Zena school Is planning an all day picnic to be held at "Scots Grove" to celebrate the last day of school. May 24. The fifth and seventh grades were dismissed for the day Friday when the sixth and eighth grades were taking ex aminations. Harold "French and Robert Crawford, sophomores at the Am ity high school, joined a merry group composed of their class when they had a welner "roast" at Amity Wednesday night. J. F. McKinley of the Salem postoffice force is taking a short vacation and has been at McKin ley Orchards at Zena several days this week, motoring out from Sa lem each day. Mr. McKinley and family, resided here before mov- c,,om " v XOTICK OP HEARING OF FINAL ACCOUNT In the County Court of the State of Oregon, for Marlon County. In the Matter of the Estate of T. K. Ford, Deceased. Notico is hereby given that the undersigned, as Executrix of the estate of T. K. Ford, Deceased, has filed her final account in the County Court for the State of Oregon for Marion Courity; and that Monday, the 17th day of June. 1929, at the hour ct 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day and the court room of said court has been fixed by said court as the time and place for the hear ing of objections thereto and the settlement thereof, at which time any person Interested In such es tate may appear and file objec tions thereto in writing and con test the same. Dated this 18 th day of May, 1929. LORETTA M. FORD, Executrix of the Estate of T. K. Ford, Deceased. Date of first publication. May IS, 1929. Date of last publication, June 15, 1929. BERT T. FORD. Attorney- for Executrix. M-18-25J1-S-15 HIM EH 1U H ZEN! They Say... Expreaaloiis of Opinion from Statesman Readers are Welcomed for Use la this column. All lettera Must Bear Writer's Name, Though. Thi Need Nit be Printed. "CINDERS" Cinders to the left of us. Cinders to the right; Cinders all over us, 'Till we simply look a fright; Cinders on our coats. Cinders on our hats. Cinders in both our eyes, 'Till we're blind as any bat; Cinders up above us. Cinders under feet; Cinders flying through the air, Landing nice and seat; Cinders fine and dainty. Cinders coarse and rough; Cinders hitting in the face, 'Till we're all fussed up. But please don't blame this Salem town. Nor the City Council, either; T'would be a shame to place the blames -On aught but the sooty cinder. . Mrs. George H. Lea veil. Editor Statesman: It was suggested sometime ago by the board of health that we drink six glasses of water daily. Why not an official Salem cock tail? Have it okayed by the Com mercial club. Have Mr. Hendricks devote a slogan page to it; the re sult would be a wonderful piece of advertising for Salem. Here is my recipe: One glass of Salem water, one teaspoonful of algae and a dash of chlorine. In case you should decide to offer a prize for the best recipe this will be my entry. Yours truy, II. G.Damon. Old Oregon's Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read May 18", 10O4 Somewhat of a seneation was created at the council meeting last night when Alderman Bayne entered a vigorous protest against certain methods being pursued by some members in transaction of the city business. He asserted the committee on strees failed to re port sale of a road grader and cart horse and that properly was dis posed of without authariy. Claude Gatch of Salem was elected high priest at the grand encampment of Odd Fellows of Oregon in session in Astoria. Professor William Albert Man ning, Willamette university grad uate, has b3en visiting his parents, Rev. and Mrs. William Manning, and left yesterday for Paris. He recently took his M. A. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford. Parrish Wins Junior Crown From Leslie The Parrish junior high school baseball team won the local jun ior high championship Thursday afternoon by defeating Leslie jun ior high 9 to 5. Parrish scored two runs in the second inning, three in the fourth, two in the fifth and two In the sixth. Atkins of Leslie matte an exceptional show ing la the field. Lineups: . Leslie Atkins, as; Cross 2b; Anderson, c; Grimes, p; Otjen, rf; Johnson, lb; Coon, 3b; Bar net t. cf; Groves, p; Burris, rf. Parrish Tarnell. 2b; McCar thy, ss; Bowden, e; Sugal, p; Cof fey, lb; Bowden. cf; Fagg, 3b; DeJardin, If; Backe, rf. Editors Say: THE SANTIAM PASS HIGHWAY The Albany Democrat-Herald. aroused by failure of the federal government to co-operate in the building of the Santiam highway. advocates extension of the Stan- field act to apply to all federal re serves, thus requiring the federal government to pay to counties in which reserve lands lie the equiv alent of the taxes they are losing through the withholding of the lands from private ownership. According to the Democrat-Her ald the federal bureau of roads has refused to participate in the Santiam forest reserve link of the road project. This being the case there is cause for the people In terested in seeing the project com pleted to feel aggrieved. The at titude of the federal bureau is un just and wrong. There is definite demand and need for the Santiam highway, not only by the counties on both sides of the Cascades which it would benefit but also for the state's general develop ment and for tourist traffic. The Santiam pass is comparatively low and it is forested, thus offering an impediment to the drifting of snows in winter. or tnese rea sons its advocates contend that the proposed highway over that route could be kept open through out the year. This latter conten tion alone, if substantiated, is suf ficient reason why the Santiam highway should be built promptly. The Democrat-Herald argues that if the Santiam forest were in private ownership the taxes on its lands would long ago have sup plied funds sufficient to have built the Santiam highway, which is true enough although it does not fellow that funds so .raised would have been so applied. It is more likely that If those lands had been privately owned they would have been cut over, made value less and allowed to revert to the state for unpaid taxes ere now, as has been the case with large areas of other similar highly located logged lands. The Democrat-Herald also permits Itself to say that the extent of the federal contribu tion to the development of Oregon is 25 per cent of timber sales rev enue and sometimes a participa tion in road building costs within the federal reserves. But the 25 per cent amounts to about 9180, 000 a year to Oregon and in addi tion the government is spending an average of 91,340,000 a year on Oregon roads, besides giving watershed and forest protection that are vastly valuable to the state. What the government puts back into Oregon forests each year in the items named and various lesser ones, plus the cost of the forest protection gives an aggre gate sum that is largely In excess of the total receipts to the govern ment from the reserve lands from all sources. And of course it Is worth a "great deal " to '-Oregon to have its forests protected and har vested on a replacement basis. That latter we seldom have except under federal administration. It seems to this newspaper that members of the Oregon delegation in congress, and more particular ly Representative Hawley. might well be appealed to for help to wards getting the federal bureau of roads to give the needed co-operation in the Santiam highway project. It is equally obvious that the State Highway commission will be making no mistake if it will give early attention and ac tion to that project. The Santiam highway ought to be built. Eu gene Register. WRINGING SENTIMENT The willingness of Calvin Coo lldge to accept a place on the di rectorate of one of the country's greatest life insurance companies is evidence of the respectability of the insurance business, Grover Cleveland, after his retirement from the presidency, was a mem ber of the board of directors of an Insurance concern. Not a few of the companies transacting a nation-wide business have assets running into the hundreds of mil lions. Their affairs have been placed on a solid footing under state regulation, and by recogni tion of an important trusteeship. Mutual companies Are handling other people's money, being re sponsible for investments and for factors of safety. The life insur ance business is growing year by year and forms an outlet for sav ings of the people, coupled with a sound plan for the protection of the wives and children of citizens of the republic. Oregon City En terprise. THE URGE OP POLITICS After a man has, served as gov ernor of the state does he ever go back to his original pursuits and follow them in an even way? This question comes to us when we see that Governor P. C. Moore of Idaho has applied at Washing ton to be land commissioner. We remember when Moore left the farm to enter the campaign for governor in Idaho. How prac tically he did talk. He told all the cow-men for In those days beef was not worth much, to trade off their chaps for a milk bucket and to start milking rows and the -old day of the beet pro ducer was over. Governor Moore said many things along the same lines. When he went out to speak he went in DON'T Waste Your JUNK We will be glad to go to your place and pay the foil value. We want SACKS Bafs, Paper, Metal, Etc. Salem Junk Co. S90 if. Commercial Si. Phone 403 8affroa ft Kline Here and There: IF statistics bother you, ignore this column today for we are forced to use a number of fig ures to illustrate the enormous im portance of the automobile busi ness to the commercial life of America. The facts are almost as amazing as Ripley's "Do you know" column. Believe it or not but the United States has 77 of the motor ve hicles in the world. And we man ufacture 83 ofthe automobiles used in the world! Think of it; America has regis trations in 1928 of 24.493,124 motor vehicles while the United Kingdom, not England alone but England and her provinces, has a total registration of 1.318,169, aj small percentage of those used in j the United States. Germany, with a population active and alert, hasj culy 531,000 motor vehicles, less than the registration of many states in our country. WE have a motor vehicle fojt every 4.9 persons in oui country, China one for ev-j ery 17,000. In France the ratio is one motor vehicle for every 37 people. Complain about America, if you wish; say Oregon is a backwards state and then face the facts. We are marvelously prosperous; ex ceptionally favored; rich man, poor man, beggar man, has oppor tunity to get in the " Id bus" and go where he will on paved high ways through sc&nlc beauties un surpassed by Switzerland and her famous Alps. One reason for the widespread use of cars in America is good roads. We have more than 3. 000,000 miles of roads. Franca comes next with 4 40.000 miles: the United Kingdom, vs6t country, has only 178,000 miles of roads. Small wonder that America uses automobiles and wajiis more of them! Another reason is the availabil ity of credit. Of all new cars sold the commonest kind of clothes. He mixed well with the farmers and was one of them. It was be lieved by many of his supporters that when he had finished his term in politics that he would go back to the farm and be a farm er, but it seems that such is the impossible. The governor got a taste of the city life, got a taste of the political whirlpool; now In stead of staying with the farm, as his adherents fully expected he would, he is knocking at the door of the White House asking for a federal appointment. Surely poli tics ruins most of them no matter how sound they think or how well balanced they are when they enter the game Klamath Falls Herald. JAIL BREAK FATAL WICHITA FALLS. Tex., May 17 (AP) One prisoner was shot to death and two others wounded when four men in the Wichita county jail rushed their Jailer to day In an attempt to escape. NOW! i 1 '1 II CHOICE OP WAFFLE IRON, THIRTY-TWO PIECE DINNER SET or ELECTRIC PERCOLATOR. (Values $10.00 each) ( 17. ai rt$ immeraai si. saiem, ureson , -RITE DOWN TOWN v v Terse comments on Events, Local and Abroad, of the Past , Week.' in 192S, 58 wsre sold on tlmj payments; yet this m.thod is de creasing in popularity; in 1925 C$ of the cars went out in re turn for promises to ray. There are many more facts which intrigue one who is Inter ested In seeing the rapidity with which we hare become a nation on wheels. Thirteen years ago less than 30. 000 cars entered our national park during the season. Last year al most 600,000 cars were checked into the national parks. - Some idea of the size of the in dustry is also gained from a state ment of the number of people employed. In 192S, more than four millions of people depended on the automobile industry for their bread and butter. Wage? in automobile factories reached the stupendous total of $712,000,000. Capital invested in automobile manufacturing reached nearly to the two billion dollar mark. Here the mind refuses to follow the pic ture. The size is too stupendous. Moreover, the United States la flooding the world with our cars. Eight years ago we shipped 41,000 cars from our shores. Last year our exports of cars reached the mark of 515.762. There seems to be no saturation point at home for cars; with the scarcity of cars used in other countries who can predict where car shipments will cease? Eighteen per cent of our production was exported in 1928. There are other interesting tid bits in this national report on the automobile interest. If your car is stolen, you have 93 chances out of 100 to have ft returned: this is the law of average worked out for the 25 leading cities of the country. If you buy a new car. its aver age lifetime may be estimated at 6 3-4 years. This is the average proved by the experience of car owners throughout the country. And if you buy an automobile there is a 66 chance it will be a closed car. Only six cars in 100 are touring cars. Days of goggles and scarfs and dust are gone for ever. Turn Your JUNK 1NTOCASH We will call for any amount of Junk you. have and pay full Cash Value on sacks, rags, paper, metal, etc. CAPITOL JUNK CO. . H. STEINBOCK, Prop. . Telephone 398 143 Center St. By the bridge With every JANGE RANGE sold daring demonstration Gfoy Cs Sobq fill