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
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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
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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
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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. . .
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BITS for BREAKFAST
By R. J. HENDRICKS
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An old time commencement:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,"
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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.
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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.
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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? An individual
executor may be ill, absent from the rifv of
such advanced age, or so occupied with his per
sonal affairs, that the task will be an unwelcome
one for him.
This bant is always on hand, does not lose
efficiency because of age; and from the stand
point of economy, reliability and experience is a
better choice.
Ask your lawyer his opinion regarding exe
cutorship by an experienced bank, as contrasted
that of an individual . . . then talk with our
officers concerning your particular requirements
- in providing for the future welfare of your depen
Too Much Advice
some good, some bad, is likely
to be offered to a widow or
young person who inherits an
estate.
By a carefully planned
Trust, either of securities, life
insurance, or money, created
now or under your Will, you
can provide financial advice,
management, and protection
for your heirs and dependents.
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United States National Bank