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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Sakey Oregon. Scaday Morning. Jna 2, 1929 "No Favor Sways Us; NoFear Shall Awe. " - From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles a. Sfraci-e, Shelooic F. Sxcxrrr, Publishers Charles A. S PRAGUE ... Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - " - Managing Editor w ' ll li li aacaBaBnpa i i i i i i i i 11 mi 1 1 Ml 1 1 ia 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 Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Clot Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Busine office US S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising; Representatives: Aithur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bid. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac Bid. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. "Howdy Pal!" Prof its in Farming A IL the efforts of legislators and all the commotion of tY nenrps who name themselves the Moses to lead farmers out of the wilderness have been directed toward making - . .i it. A. farming profitable. They start witn tne assumption inw fanning is not profitable. The whole program is based upon two wrong assumptions. One is that farming is a single oc cupation whose ills may be cured by a single diagnosis and prescription. This is not true. There are dairymen, wheat growers, cotton growers, poultrymen, sheep men, hay grow ers, fruit growers, potato growers, truck growers, hop grow ers, hog raisers, cattle men. Each group has its own prob-. lems. The dairymen want cheap millfeed and cheap hay. The hog raisers want cheap corn and millfeed. The wheat growers want high wheat prices. Cotton growers want cheap bacon and corogrowers want cheap muslin. How ri diculous then is it to throw all the farmers in one big sack, shake them around ancl open just one hole for them to emerge. 1 i The second wrong assumption is that all farming is un profitable. That is not true because some lines of agricul ture have been quite profitable: dairying, poultry, raising, cotton grairiflg;jiEven in the j depressed Knesof corn and wheat many producers have made excellent profits. What is affecting general farming "on the whole is the economic revolution which is expressing itself in two ways. First is the natural but inevitable transition from an agri cultural to a manufacturing nation, which takes place in ev ery new nation. Review in your mind the change from prim itive America with its production limited to grain, cotton, tobacco and lumber, to America of today with its teeming cities and vast factories. In other words fanning is pro-j gressiyely of less relative importance in our national econ omy. All the laments of the Brookharts and all the jnvec-j tives of the Norrises will not change that condition. It is a simple fact that congress may not alter. The second expression of the economic revolution is within farming itself. Farming is being revolutionized! through the application of power machinery. Tractors, com bines, gang plows, multiple how cultivators, milking ma chines, corn huskers, flax pulling machines are transform ing agriculture. A recent study shows that the average output per worker in agriculture during the period 1924 1926 was 47 greater than for the period 1898-1900. It is this increased production per man which has permitted half a million people to leave the farms each year and be ab sorbed in the ranks of industry. This transformation has encouraged larger farming units. Above all it discourages the uneconomic farming unit. This we fear, is the unrealized object of farm legislation. Publicists grieve to see men leave the farm, to hear of those staying on who are going behind. Speaking in general terms, the farm which is running behind over a term of years must be an uneconomic unit either because it is too small,tlacking in fertility, or the farmer is a poor manager or unable to make the shift to power farming. Now the legis lation which seeks to make the naturally uneconomic farm unit a profitable investment cannot help but be as futile as legislation to make a poorly located or poorly managed gro cery or dry goods store profitable. Our long and intimate connection with the farming in dustry makes us zealous in its behalf; but we must face facts. It is nothing but tragic to hold up false hopes. Retail busi ness has been made over in recent years ; manufacturing has been profoundly altered; transportation methods .have been changed radically. Farming is undergoing the same- tran sition. Demand will be the final arbiter. The race will not starve to death. There is no substitute for food and cloth ing. Meat and bread and vegetables remain the staples of human consumption. Laws may improve methods of distri bution of foodstuffs and protect the farmer so he gets a larger share of the consumer's dollar. But laws cannot suc cessfully interfere with the working out of the fundamental : lx l principles oi agricultural economics. 1 Solving Tax Problems TTTTITH taxes threatened or held up by referendum, the Tf new tax commission may find itself on hand with swivel chairs and nothing much to do. Since Oregon is fail ing to find a way to raise its revenues by customary methods of legislation, it will have to resort to some new scheme. So we suggest an "every member canvass." The commission could appoint some figurehead banker for "general" import a professional round-up collector from some church board, then line up the armies with majors and captains and lieu tenants. Some bright Sunday the. privates could go out two by two and ring the door bells to. see how much the public which is so eager to vote highways and schools and bridges would really voluntarily contribute toward the support of the government. How much would be collected?- Mighty little. Nobody would answer a doorbell. On the other hand some people might De eager for publicity as to their generosity and con tribute very generously. Perhaps if the lists were all pub lished quite a contnbution would be assembled. If the state keeps on tying itself around with constitu tional inhibitions, referendum chains and iron-clad clauses, ' about the only way out will be a "community chest" or to hire Billy Sunday's financial agent. The newspapers are all taking Mallon's side because a newspaper reporter is a privileged individual one who can ignore courts, legislatures and august senates. Newspapers uuuuiuu ucuituiu uicur cvuauiuuunai ngnts oi ireeaom to print the news even if the news is filched, stolen; or wrong. The senate won't do anything with Mallon. It is afraid of ' the press. Brave Senator Reed who spoke testily of the "so called ethics of the so-called profession", quickly repented uu viueu me newspaper poys in i or a utile party. The newspapers roared when the supreme court held that evidence obtained by wire-tanmnir was admissihl Rut when a so-called "enterprising reporter" bribes a senator or fTpfcjl flim (Irillllr tv limnlv nnmnn Vim J. I J ' - v jiuuiya uiu aim g cis usiaa in formation, why lie is the envy of the craft and m line for Bomenuitter award or other. - ; For doing what Harry Sinclair trot sent tn in fr. pl ucwopaper reporxer, gets nothing. . He thumbed his , , uw ie senate committee the same way that Sinclair did .'""""way. now Mallon is a hero, while Sin a-ww a jauoircu yueer world isn't it? - jjjr ii Lay SeirmoiGis Priest Versos King And Awi&h tb prieM went In af ter hUn. and with aim t ooracor prtosts mt the Lor that were vaUant sna: And they withstood TJsalah the kmg. and said onto Mm, It appertain th not unto thee, Uxxlah. to burn Incense tin to tb Lord, but t tb pritt i of ti son of Aarea." II Cbronlcl l:17-ls. What is this bat an early day squabble between priest aad kins? This tlms the king was wanting to run the priests' business. This BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS The busy season opens S Gooseberry canning and straw berry packing and canning will begin here this week; in one can nery gooseberries will begin to go through tomorrow. However, that operation does not take much help. But strawberries take a lot of help. Beginning tomorrow, the can ning and packing season wiU go on till Christmas time, ending with apples. But with nuts and prunes and some of the vege tables .and later with jam and Jelly and , other plants here, onr canning and packing season will last all the year through. "W S m Some people, looking to pleas ure trips, etc., complain of con. tinued showers. But the flax grow ers, dairymen and nearly all others engaged in the industries on the land have no complaints. There are gold dollars in the rain drops for them. Tom Hubbard, a successful pioneer farmer who owned what is now the Kurtz land on the river road, and whose widow erected what Is now the Oregon' build ing "at High and State streets, used to say the best season for the farmers of this vaUey wath one in which it rained most of the time, stopping only Ions enough lor harvest. Perhaps he had a webfooted complex. But he was quite a philosopher and never had a crop failure. m This is an addenda to what was said In the Saturday Bits column about the pioneer address of Han. r'.O. McCown, whose people came to tne Oregon Country with the big immigration of 1852, for their health. When the covered wagon trains arriving late that year ar rived at Barlow's gate on the Bar low road snow was found. (The father of the Bits man was one of them). The McCown train ar rived there, at the eastern end of the Barlow toll road. October 1 Their provisions were exhausted Snow came on, aad seven ot their oxen perished with cold and han ger. Dead cattle impeded travel: the worn oat living oxen were too weK to remove tne dead ones. The McCown family ate the last of their parched corn and dried peaches, brought across the plains. nut the Wllamette valley settlers sent reuef parties, with food. wiinout money and without price. -m V V Most of the immigrants finally got through to "roster's," on aagle creek, near the present Es tacada. Philip Foster had arrived oy vessel from Maine in 1843. He was a merchant at Oregon City for four years. His wife was a sister of F. W. Pettygrove, one of the rounders of Portland. The Foster farm on Eagle ereek was the first one on the Oregon trail in the WiUamette valley. It was the best known farm ia the country during all the pioneer years. It was the depot of supplies for the new settlers who arrived there caca year, many of them in a des titute condition. The McCown family arrived with 25 in coin, a few poor oxen, one cow, two horses a party of eight in aU, of whom six were children, F. O., aged 13, being the eldest. They drove into the brush under a large fir tree, unloaded their household effects and began to bnUd a home in Clackamas county. They named the place Needy, aad the locality Hardscrab ble, and they bear those names to this day though they might ap ply appropriately to hundreds of other spots and districts where homes were made, throughout the Oregon or thatitey, by the lm mlgraftta ot that aad other years. The first home vat almost lu- large fireplace of clay and sticks; the illumination by torches of pitch wood; its- furniture of fir timber cut from the green tree; its'feather" beds of fir boughs or fern. m But the string of the door latch never pulled in. Any poor way farer was welcome to the warm fire and the humble board, with sympathy warmed by memories of the same treatment received in time of hanger and need. The members of the Scott fam ily, of whom Harvey Scott was one, were out of provisions upon arrival at a point near Foster's, and had little to eat for several days, but salal berries gathered along the way. W S After arrival in the valley, most all the immigrants lacked for many things in food and clothing that would be considered necessit ies now. Parched grain served very well ror coffee, and boiled wheat was the piece de resistance of many a fine feast 'Rut all lacked alike, and there was little com plaint. And all aUke shared what they had with more needy neigh bors, and a spirit of comradeship prevailed that was beautiful, and was transmitted to children and children's children; so that in these and other respects those were the Hgood old days" that can never come back, for want of like conditions to bring them. They Say... Expressions of Opinion from State a Readers aiw Welcomed for Use la this column. AU Letters Must Bear Writer's Name, thmmtfix Thia Need N be Printed. WE'RE MOVTXO FAST The convention of the funda mentalists now being held at Minneapolis is very significant. The split la the ranks ot the sro- testant churches into the liberal and fundamental canins wa a wonderful and timely movement, and now on the heels of it comes the breaking up of all the protest ant, denominations into these two distinct parties. Soon wa will have three contenders tor supremacy in the Important field ot Christian Endeavor the Roman Catholics, the Fundamentalists and the Modernists. The leaders of the Fundament alist Association recently declared at their convention that "Relig ious denomnations have been split down the center by liberalism." This ia the Inevitable result of the evolutionary process going on in the religious life of onr peo ple. Nothing stands still; and we are moving forward very fast in this the twentieth century. The liberals contend with con siderable of historical and scien title reasoning that sometime in the near future the fundament alists and liberals will be forced to get together on the common ground of righteousness, letting each individual member have hia own ideas on the subject of the supernatural phases of religion. Then the Battle of Arnieeed don, the real battle of the ares. will take place between the Ro mans and the protesting church es united. Meanwhile many o? the ultra Fundamentalists will fall In line with the Romans, and the more liberal will he wUling to unite with all ethical factors to destroy what many think is the greatest menace to democracy and to "the true religion and unde nted before God and man." It is very evident that the strug gle between the idea of monarchy and government by the people is at stake, both in church and in tne government. At present the Romans hare a very great ad vantage. Their protestant friends, the enemy. Is split up into little weak camps, contending . against each other, with no highly con ceatratea government and most ly without funds and with no def inite, united, practical plan of campaign; while the Romans hay money and the appeal to the great wealthy men and institu tions who are fanatically opposed to any icina oi a revolution or change that menaces their present methods of exploitations. However, the protestant "have one very great advantage and wiU have a greater when united and that Is their T harmony with progress: must progress or retrograde,. There' "no standing still. Monarchies aTe out of date. If civilization continues we must have better and better cooperation of the people and when the lead ers of thought, in the protestant churchs, and out of the churches, can completely destroy the mon arcblstic idea in their organlza KISSING Opinions of kissing differ. First the health experts warned bus all against It as a promulga tor or colas ana more Benous ut-ness. Now science tells us that kissing is an exercise that makes lor health by speeding up sluggish hearts and Increasing the circula tion of the blood, and recently a group of chorus girls took part in scientific kissing test which showed that the stimulus ot kiss ing created a real good response from a health standpoint. We are waiting for the doctors to begin prescribing kisses, and for men and women to walk about with special doctor's certificates entitling them to spoon in public for the sake of health. Men who haven't done so for years will begin kissing their wives with great ardor what a difference that will make in mat rimony and the entire field of do mestic relations! And then perhaps kissing will be made compulsory in the inter ests of science and health. What we are afraid of is that when this happens people will begin to lose interest in the time-honored game of osculation. SUverton Appeal, tiona and let the members freely think for themselves along super natural lines, the only test for mmbership being good eitixenship and the desire to do exactly right for the benefit of their fellow men, then the Romans, with all their wealth and dominating pow er over their subjects, will lose their hold even over the most ig norant and superstitions, for all men at heart love progress and truth. Mussolini, and the pope and the fascist! can rattle the sword, propagate their kind as fast as possible, rule Out the free masons, destroy the free press, ensalve their subjects, gather in great wealth from every corner of the earth, control education and dom inate everything with temporal and spiritual power; but they will meet their Waterloo, when the protesting wortd unite their tribes under the one banner of righteousness. So, "on with tne dance!" J. E. HOSMER. Opinions of Marion County Editors Uxxlah was a strong man. He had hie army well organised. He buut towers ia the desert and he pro Tided the most "modern" war equipment. Besides spears and shlds aad clings, "he made in Jerusalem engines, invented b y cunning men, to be on the tow ers and oa the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." These must have been crude cat apults which the Romans used centuries later. So Uxxlah got a widespread reputation of being a "strong man." He heard about It himself, and evidently believed the report, because he undertook to burn incense, at the Lord's altar himself, without the aid of the priests. Ot course the priests objected. It was a job consecrated to the sons of Aaron. They ordered him out. but Uxsiah got mad, for he had the center right in his hand. Just then, as the chronicler, who was himself a priest, relates, "the leprosy rose up in his forehead before the priests." Of course the king's catapults and habergeons could not win against priests with powers of sorcery, magic or com mand of pestilence. So the priests won the round. Priests and kings have had a hard time of it all through his tory. In the middle ages the kings wanted to appoint bishops and run the church and the priestly group wantea to name Kings ana run the state. The clash carried over to America though the kill ings of the great religious wars had taught something of the les sons of tolerance if the race were to survive, in the colonies some of them, church and government were all mixed up. Theoretically we have divorced church and state, but how can the man be loyal to both if their commands are opposlag? In Italy It was thought the long eontrorersy betweea the ehurch aad ! government had been healed, but despite the signing ot the treaty the understanding does qot seem to be clear. Mussolini gave a three hoar speech recently in which he reasserted the claims ot Fascism to control of the youth. As to sovereignty the dictator said: "The church In its institu tions and its men. comes under the general laws ot the state. The state, supreme In the kingdom of Italy; the Catholic church with certain pre-eminence loyally and voluntarily recognised. We have not resuscitated the temporal pow er of the popes; we hare burled it." Which of course was a far dif ferent thing from what the world had been given to understand. Bishop Freeman, Episcopal, ad dressing a diocesan convention re cently urges the church to keep out or politics: "If it lowers its standards to become an autocra tic dictator in the concerns of leg islative or political action, it loses tne respect ana conuaeora ui usm thinking men." He would have the church let politics alone. The mil itant Protestants o n the other hand want the church to keep in action against its foes: the saloon, war, social Injustice; which means getting into politics. Nowadays there are no political Uzziahs seizing the censers and usurping the priestly function of offering incense at holy altars. And the world is suspicious of priestly effort to control the seats of government But as religion changes from institutional to the ethical, so must the influence of the church's teaching be more po tent in the political world. The problem of the church ot today is to submerge its ambition for .in stitutional growth and domina tion and to exalt the high princi ples of righteousness and justice which it must always fight for in the world of affairs. In that dis tinction lies security both for church and state. RECALLING LEX ROOT The considerable talk which centers around the name of Irvine L.' Lenroot recalls the fact that the writer once sat on a drygoods box with him and discussed vari ous things, especially political. At that time Lenroot was the right hand man of R. M. LaFollette. He had been speaker of the Wiscon sin legislature and was seeking to be nominated as governor. That he did not succeed was due to I peculiarity of the early Austrail Ian baUot laws which placed can didates on the ballot according to the alphabet. He was beaten by "Tim" Davidson, who was for tunate "because his name started with D Instead of I The Scandi navians of the Superior district sent Lenroot to congress, from which he graduated to the sen ate. He was too successful to please LaFollette who wanted no other gods on the same ticket with him. It was the old story of intolerance of the male warlord of the band ot mustangs or the domineering tactics of the male head of the hen yard. LaFollette could brook no rival. His best aides were millionaire lumbermen who could liquidate expenses with fat checks and then could be kick ed out when no longer needed. But Lenroot was not so readily over awed. He developed a few friends of his own. But whatever progress he made has been in face of the energetic opposition of LaFollette and his friends. If may be added: they are still at it. Monmouth Herald. WALLA WALLA, Wash., June 1 (AP) The Rev. R. J. Plumb of Portland, today was elected superintendent of the Northwest District of the Church ot the Naza rene at its annual assembly here. Clouah-Hurfon Chto History o Salem and (fa 1 Sstate of Oregon 3?J,A New 4 ANOTHER early settler that must be mentioned in any complete record of this commun ity, is Reuben Lewis. Reuben Lewis was born in York State on March 20th, 1814, but he may well be called one of the Oregon pathfinders, for he was among the first to brave the dangers of the Oregon frontier, coming here in 1842. We Prize our lady assistant's services because they are prized by those we serve. Her work is a much appreciated phase of our service; worthy of fre quent mention. CLOUGH-HUSTON C9 ffiifrawors to , )isHncii7)e3umral Sendee. 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