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PAG2 FOUR TfcaOIirGON STATmiAI ffeoOrr-sa, TlttZrr llzi2-, Jsar 13, 1923 "No Favor Sicays Us; No Fear Shall Awe." From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THrTSTATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chakles A. SfRAGLK, Skeldon F. SUcxett, Publisher Charles A. Spkague ... 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 news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper. -s - . Entered at the Potto ff ice at Salem, Oregon, a Second-Close 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-Stechcr, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. Welcoming Premier MacDonald rERE is real promise-for good iii the forthcoming visit of Premier MacDonald to the United States for a call Upon President Hoover. In recent years there has been a growing tension between the two greatest English-speaking nations. Questions such as naval power, freedom of the seas, settlement of debts, tariffs;, etc., nave Deen aisturDing lac tors to Anglo-American comity. The breakdown of the Ge neva conference on disarmament in 1927, American resent ment over the proposed Anglo-French agreement, British iaalnuaioa nvor A muriran Tvrnnrvpritv all these have Contri buted to the growth of some ill feeling between powers which ...... J a V 1 AL.f I- -A. ought to De united in enaeavor ior me maiung oi mis a uei ter world. We believe that a realization of this lack of accord "was sin important .factor in the recent British general election. The British are more world-minded than we are. Here, if Mn nthor rmintrv fppls n onirics acainst us. we take no note of it, unless it be to play the bully. We show scant consid eration for the feelings of other peoples whether Latin Americans, English or Japanese. But the British seek to otilfivoo oYwWill an1 fripnrilv rplatinna. Their nennle seem to be more sensitive to. possibilities of international friction. So It came aoout tnai xne conservative government unuer which the strictures between Great Britain and the United States arose, was defeated and the labor party put into Dower. Premier MacDonald should derive much good from meeting President Hoover and Secretary Stimson and other mm a 1 e- n V. . A 1 'A leaders m American puouc me. sureiy out oi sucn a visit some agreement should issue which would effect a cessation of the needless race in naval construction. We cannot con vince the world of our pacific intent if we launch programs of vast navies while paying lip service to the outlawry of war. British opinion is tending strongly also to seek other safeguards for her safety than might upon the seas ; so peril ous has that security become with the invention of sub marines and airplanes. Their surest defense may come to be in the principle of freedom of the seas which they long have opposed. Then the coming of the labor party leader ought to be educational to Americans as well, who may learn that Mac Donald is neither walking delegate nor bolshevik, but a pretty sensible and altogether loyal Britisher, a fine gentle man and an able politician. Relief for the Unemployed NEGRO life has long been recognized as the source of the inspiration of much of American music ; it is coming to be recognized as a field for cultivation by literary artists. Last year DuBose Heyward, a writer of the Carolinas, won first place in the Pulitzer awards for drama with his play "Porgy." This year Mrs. Julia Peterkin, also of South Caro lina, wins the Pulitzer- award for the best American novel with her story "Scarlet Sister Mary," also a study in negro character. Mrs. Peterkin did not take to writing until her son grew up and went away to school. Life was lonely for her on the big Carolina plantation. Time hung heavy on her hands. She took up music, but it did not appeal to her. A teacher in Columbia suggested that she turn to literature. She did so, and found her source-book in the materials of negro life in the coastal region of South Carolina. Her sketches she submitted to Carl Sandburg and to Henry Mencken. They voiced approval and she persisted in her work. Her first books, "Green Thursday" and "Black April" were sketches. In "Scarlet Sister Mary" she ventured the full-length novel now hailed as a prize-winner. Not many women released from domestic cares with the home-leaving of their children find release in literature. Many merely go on with bridge. Mrs. Peterkin sets a high mark for those who with time on their hands turn to the arts: painting, literature, or music for self-expression. Iow for a Crime Survey THE University of Oregon is to sponsor a "crime survey." This is such a new and untrodden field that it should prove an inviting field to our unemployed surveyors and re cent college graduates- What we foresee is a voluminous book loaded with graphs, statistics and footnotes that will make it forbidding to attempt to read. It is so easy in mak ing a "survey" to call on the reference-librarian and have her assemble all the book and pamphlet material on the subject which the student works over into a fresh mulligan devoid of interest and lacking in originality. There are many "crimes" that ought to make very in teresting reading if the college sleuths will really direct their studies toward their solution. Imagine the snappy reading the university ""crime survey" would be if it had chapter headings like these: university bootlegging; Chinese gam bling in Portland; the.Wemme case; subsidizing college ath letes; what's under the Portland Telegram's war paint; the legislature; stock rustling via motor truck in Klamath; the Roosevelt highway which a "straight-thinking executive from North Bend calls the crime of the century;" und so weiter. , High Interest Rates FVE and one-eighths per cent interest on U. S. govern ment treasury certificates. Higher, much higher, than war-time financing costs." Probably not since Civil war days, or possibly in the Cleveland administrationJias the govern ment had to pay so much for money. What makes the rate so high ? Just a credit stringency. So many people borrow " ing money to buy stocks and bonds with that the demand for i credit exceeds the supply. j Atemporary stringency we believe; which probably will be eased through stock market liquidation. Declines in com " modity prices will release a great deal of credit; and high ! rates naturally put a brake on credit demands. Eugene taxpayer! turned down the school bade et which would hare exceeded the six per eent limitation.- The Eagene district has r bees carrying a load of nearly 1100,000 in wanrant debt, pins a bond ed debt of orer 1400,000. The budget would have devoted, f 10,000 - toward reducing the warrant debt Rotten financing, to go on plung ing Into debt. The only gonad basis for gOTernment financing is the cash basis. Bonds are all riht for long-time capital investments otherwise it should be payas yoa go. The Olympla paper mill venture faljed to lire up to the pros pectus, as some Salem stockholders, hare learned. Now it passes Into "strong hands- but that doesn't meaa early dividends by any means. . . "Where Therms Smoke-! :Vi,V -fir. v." zzx g ,9-,, Kmc rmXM Synjet. Tr, CrrM Sriui, righu iwvrwl. S-ri-:VSSj'?,r t BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS "t An old time commencement: S It was at Philomath college, Philomath, Oregon, la June, 1877 Prof. H. B. Horner, being one of the class of six la a student body of 200. Prof. Horner also gradu ated from Willamette with the class of 1885, while holding, the position of reporter on The States man. He is one of the oldest of the faculty of the Oregon Agricultural college In point of service, and an outstanding writer of Oregon his tory. s s Philomath college was estab lished by the United Presbyterian church in 1867; just 10 years af ter Rev. Milton Wright, later bish op of that denomination and fa ther of Orrille and Wilbur Wright the pioneers of air navigation, opened the "Institute" at Sublim ity, Marion county. The Sublim ity and Philomath schools were In those days the only institutions of higher learning sponsored by that church on the Pacific coast. The Sublimity school long since ceased to function, and Philomath col lege is more or less moribund. Willamette and Philomath were the great schools of the Pacific northwest (and the coast) in 1877. S m "m The famous Aurora orchestra, under the music master, Henry Conrad Finck, was engaged for the commencement exercises of Philomath la 1877. Though Philo math had no railroad then, the great preparations for commence ment brought visitors from Wash ington, Idaho, Montana, Califor nia and various parts of Oregon. So great was the gathering that there was no buUding large enough to accommodate the audi ence on that occasion. But Samuel McLaln, a man unlearned in books though a college builder, donated a beautiful grove to serve as an academy after the tashion of the original academy of Plato with Its classic shades at ancient Athens for this and subsequent commence ment exercises. S W S The sight of the Aurora musi cians arriving with their instru ments on one of Ben Holladay's stage coaches gave great interest and rejoicing. The eighteen mem bers, each a bearded man with modest mien, were every one an artist In his favorite part who liv ed close to nature and drew mu sic from the skies but each one was likewise an earnest student of the great composers, and train ed by one of the masters of his time. Prof. Finch, father of Henry T. Finck, who was to become the world's greatest musical critic and companion of the brilliant stars in the galaxy of the golden age of music. That was the first year of Pres ident Walker's outstanding ad ministration at Philomath. At the appointed hour the academic grove was dedicated with noble music by the Aurora orchestra and pray er by Bishop Castle. United States Senator John H. Mitchell, who made a special journey from Washington. D. C, to be present, delivered the address to the grad uates, and the scholarly charge was given by President Walker. S Then followed the final selec tions by the orchestra, "to which" remembers Prof. Horner, "a chor us of birds above in the trees re sponded; and the grove, the pro gram and the orchestra were as classic as it the grove of Acade mus had been really transferred from Athens to Oregon," - - , !' S Chief Little Bison, the Sioux spokesman for the rights of the Indian race, la the course of his address to the Salem Rotary club yesterday, paid a high eompU ment to Superintendent Lipps of the Salem Indian school, in which he said Mr. Lipps has the highest! conceptions of the proper training of the .Indian youth of any man he has met in his travels and he has been all over the United States and in other countries, studying the problems of the primitive races. m "U S It is fortunate that the Salem Indian school has at Its head at this time a man with the fine abil ity and broad vision of Mr. Lipps; at a time when a study is being made along new lines of Indian training, as related to what ways are best to help the remnants of the tribes who originally possess ed this country, by the agencies having the direction of the federal activities in this field. There is a great future for the Salem Indian school, under such direction. w s A Salem son of Scotia says mir rors were invented by a Scotch man to give Englishmen and oth ers something to laugh at. "Don't send the nickel's worth of liver today," phoned a Salem Scotch lady to the market man. "The cat has caught a mouse." Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read June 13, 1904 School election for this district will be held Monday, June 20, when one director will be elected and a vote taken to determine whether a grade of study above the ninth shall be established. Never before were strawberries so plentiful in the Willamette val ley. Several of the local grocery stores are making shipments to outside points. The First Congregational church will observe its last Sunday in the old church buUding today. Ronald C. Glover, who has been attending Willamette the past year, returned to his home near Albany. SllEM HEIGHTS TO PUT 1 PROGRAM The Salem Heights community club gets under way Friday night with a series of entertainments to be staged each week-end during the summer months. The first pro gram for Friday and Saturday eve nings will be a movie, showing Reginald Denny in "The Night Bird." In addition home talent vaudeville acts are being develop ed and these will add spice to the program. In addition to Denny's act a comedy and a weekly news are to be shown as well as a two-reel western feature. The shows will be given in the new community house recently completed in Salem Heights. to Henry F. Johns, who died here. In-1925. She moved to Salem in 1911. Mrs. Johns is survived by the following children, all of whom were present at her bedside when death came: Jesse Johns, Mrs. Bessie Schulz and Mrs Isabelle Rutherford of Salem; Wengren and Eugene Johns of Oakland, Calif.; and Mrs. Maq Wilson of Portland. Two brothers, a sister and 12 grandchildren also survive. Mrs. Johns was a lifelong mem. ber of the St. Joseph's Catholic church. The Rosary will be read this evening at 7 o'clock at the family home on Fir street, and funeral services will be held Fri day morning at 10 o'clock at St. Joseph's Catholic church. Inter ment will be in St. Barbara's cemetery. Editors Say; BTJILD TJP OREGOX The Statesman takes a broad view and proves Itself worthy of ita name. It believes that Salem's best interests require the construc tion et the South Santiam high way. But the Statesman could have gone farther in Its position by showing that the construction of the North Santiam route might result In the trans-mountain traf fic missing Salem altogether. Sa lem's argument, thus tar, in fa vor of the North Santiam route has been the directness of it be tween Bend and Portland. This contention, however, may rise up to vex the city later on. it the North Santiam should be built be fore the South Santiam route, for the new Cascade highway route crosses the North Santiam east of Salem. What would hinder, then, a highway commission from im proving the Cascade route so that through traffic from Bend to Port land might travel the shortest route by going through Silverton, Mt. Angel and Wood burn, if the shortest air line route argument is of any virtue? As we have pointed out time and time again, the argument is fallacious for the reason that population served is a more potent faetor in determin ing highway locations than air line distances. But if Salem continues to employ the direct route argu ment for her North Santiam pro ject, she may live to see it turn ed against her. The Statesman has done much to relieve the tense feeling that has been fermenting in Albany against Salem. It proves that all of Salem is not engaged in the project of opposing the South San tiam route by favoring the North Santiam substitute. It really points the way for Salem to follow in pursuing her best Interests. Salem will be sure of all north bound traffic from eastern and central Oregon, if the South San tiam route is built by way et Al bany. She will be sure of it with out cost of expenditure. Albany Democrat-Herald. VARIOUS "CRIMES OF THE CENTURY" The Coos Bay Times quotes with full indorsement the state ment of a prominent North Bend citizen that "Oregon's crime of the century" is the failure of the ruling forces in this state to pro mote properly the Roosevelt high way. Well, the Roosevelt high way is worth of being promoted all right, but do not the Times and the North Bend citizen take in a good deal of territory in their characterization ? The selection of the greatest in justice current depends a good deal upon where you are sitting. To coast counties it may well ap pear the tardiness in completing the Roosevelt highway. Albany might say it was the effort to di vert the Santiam highway from the southern route. In Bend pro bably it would appear to be the Public Service commission's rout- of the proposed cross-state CALLED BY DEATH Mrs. Ada Johns, a resident of Salem and Marion county the past 72 years, died at 8:15 o'clock Tuesday night at her home at 1925 Fir street after an Illness of several months. She was 73 years Old.- f i- f The deceased was bom at St Louie, Marlon county. In Decem ber, 1855, the daughter of Jo seph and Harriet Matt. N pioneer family. la 188 she was married Here and There: Terse comments on Events, Local and Abroad,-in the Cur rent News. YOITIX be surprised to know the crop which produces the greatest return to Oregon farmers. It isn't wheat but rather hay whose total value amounts to $28,445,000 according to figures for 19 28 production. Of course, hay prices were far superior to wheat prices and that accounts tor much of the variance. The total return from. wheat ran slightly more than 824,000,000 In 1928. Oregon's apple crop in 1928 was railroad too far south. In Mal heur county doubtless folks would say it is that same body's opposi tion to the Nyssa-Wlnnemucca railroad. Several eastern Oregon communities might award the doubtful distinction to the slow ness in government irrigation de velopment. Portland thought un til recently that it was the failure of the transcontinental railroads to give it fast trains to the east. The Dalles thinks it was aboli tion of fish wheels. Astoria might consider in the governmental gold brick handed that hustling city in the submarine base matter. We forget Just now what our chief grievance here in Eugene Is. By tomorrow it will probably be down upon us again like a ton of brick. The point is that every sec tion and city has its own cause for thinking it is not getting the con sideration it ought to have. But seriousness of local grievances is merely a matter of viewpoint. None is "Oregon's crime of the centuryC' Eugene Register. SURPRISE PARTY AT NERGER HOME ZENA, June 11. Saturday eve ning Mrs. J. H. Neiger was hos tess at a birthday surprise party given in honor of H. J. Neiger at their home at Lincoln. Mr. Neiger was genuinely surprised as he and his family were just ready, as he thought, to attend a show at Sa lem when the first guest arrived. Roses artistically arranged in bas kets were used in the living rooms. Two tables of bridge vere in play during the evening. Assist ing Mrs. Neiger in serving were, Mrs. Clarence Merrick, Mrs. Al vin Madsen, Mrs. Antone Senn and Mrs. Jesse Walling. Included in the guest group were the guest of honor H. J. Neiger, Mr. and Mrs. Antone Senn of Portland, brother-in-law and sister of Mr. Neiger, Ben Neiger of Portland, an uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Purvine, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Merrick and son Chester, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Walling, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Madsen and two sons. Rich ard and Robert, Kasper Neiger, Mrs. Anna Neiger, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Fraser and sons, Arnold and Billy, Helen Neiger and the hos tess, Mrs. H. J. Neiger. Read the Classified Ads. worth more than 88,000.000 and her strawberry crop nearly 82, 000,000 which shows how fast this type of berry is increasing In pro duction. Loganberries sold for a total of $875,000 tor the 192s yield. Complete figures for Oregon's 1928 crop production are now ob tainable from the extension de partment of the state college. In cidentally the figures were com piled by F. L. Kent, statistician, who died suddenly Tuesday. THE house and the senate are having a tilt adding to the warm weather which will soon be upon Washington. D. C. The house prepared Its tariff bill in commit tee, subjected it to some minor revisions and then using a "gag rule" shot the bill through the bouse without the formality of much debate. Party lines were quite rigorously adhered to. The senate will have a different pro cedure. The bill will come from committee and be torn to pieces on the floor. The work of the house is done in committee; the work of the senate is done on the floor. The result is that the house is through with its consideration of the tariff bill and has voted upon it but the senate wants plenty ot time for everyone to talk. Leave it to Borah and Brookhart and Heft lin to do the talking. Picking a youthful president for a university is quite the style. Chicago won the honors with her 30-year old leader but California probably will rank second for the time being with her 38-year old leader. Age means little in this modern world; ability to "deliv er," to "have the goods" as the athletic coaches say, means every thing. RAMSAY MacDonald had the unusual experience of having his auto towed from the rail road station to his home by a group of women who attached ropes to the premier's car and hauled it home. Newspaper ac counts say the women who did this act performed it as a means of do ing honor to the premier but we mistrust that there was some Scotch thrift in it. Think of the gas the premier saved. "Ten tornadoes in the middle west" runs the headline and we of the west, who are never bother ed with such events, read hastily and pass on with a sigh of relief. Take an inventory. When do you recall a lightning storm here which did any damage? Did you over hear of anyone in Oregon being in jured by a tornado? How much damages did cyclones do in Oregon in 1928? There's ample room, aft er this Inventory, to be glad you reside in Oregon. Why subject your heirs to the risk of individual executorship? , IJ? HERE will your Executor be the day that ff he is called upon to serve? 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