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PAGE FOUR 1929 IIHK.IIIIV vrtTK.N'.l AN. I II SHUU- UIHlUBZi ttilV V f..r 5 I. fir H : i : -t "No Favor Stcaya Us; No Fear ShaU Awe." From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chakles A. Sfbacuz, Sheudon F. Sackxtt, Publisher Chasixs A. Sprague ... Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackctt . - 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. Entered at the Pottoffiee at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Clots Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Businete office US S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Slypes, 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. Announcing the Autogiro mUE article reads like the magazine section of a Sunday A metropolitan daily. Nowhere else would one-expect to find what he would set down as such wild fiction. It needs only the irarish pictures with cheap colored inks to make it a journeyman product of vivid imagination for low-brow con sumption. But appearing as it did in the staid old North American Review, one can't put it down as fiction nor the product of extravagant fancy. What we are talking about is "The Autogiro and a New Air Age" which appears in the June issue of the Review. Do you know what an autogiro is? The author, Donald F. Rose, calls it "The Windmill that Flies." Neither airplane nor heli copter, he says it is the greatest thing m aviation since the Wrights flew at Kitty Hawk. There are three weaknesses in the present airplane, ac cording to Mr. Rose. First, it requires too much space for starting and landing fields, making city landing difficult, and country landing hazardous for lack of sufficient room of smooth ground. Second, s plane must land traveling too fast. If anything goes wrong, there is a smash-up. Third, the airolane reauires the constant control of the pilot. The helicopter was designed to overcome some of these weakness es, but the helicopter encountered other problems, notably "torcrue" which have rendered futile experiments in that direction. The autogiro, which has flown successfully following a period of 10 years in experiment, is described by Mr. Rose thus: "It has a conventional fuselage, an ordinary aviation motor and propeller in the usual place, and tail surfaces and rudder like those of an ordinary plane. It has however no wings like those ve are accustomed to, except for brief fins which serve principally to carry the banking controls. From the center of the craft rises a steel mast, at the top of which is a 'rotor,' a four-bladed windmill-like arrangement, which at first sight suggests the helicopter propeller. It is not, however, a propeller, since it propels nothing but swings! freely on ball bearings. . . The most startling fact of the au- j togiro's flight is that it flies on this freely revolving rotor, which serves it exactly in the capacity of an airplane's wing." Experiments have shown that the autogiro requires less space for landing than the airplane, it settles to earth like a parachute ; and it lands at slow speed reducing the danger of a crash. Then "actually it lands itself, right side up and with care. An autogiro has been literally dropped for 1500 feet and suffered nothing but a broken undercarriage. The machine is the invention of Juan de la Cierva, a Spaniard. Harold Pitcairn of the Pitcairn aviation interests has flown the machine, and its patent rights are held by the Fitcairn-Cierva Autogiro company. Last week we noted that one of the big companies, the Curtiss company, had taken over Pitcairn Aviation, which deal may have included the autogiro patents. At any rate the prediction is made in the magazine article that flying will be revolutionized by this invention. Measuring the Results of Training Youth THEY were mere boys, the quartette who launched forth on a wild career of crime in the Clearwater country of Idaho last week, rousing the countryside till they were cap tured and lodged in jail. One, age 19, is from Alabama; an other from Metaline Falls, Wash., is 20; the third. 21, was from Red Mound, Wis., while the fourth who was from North Dakota, was just 21. The reputed leader was 47 and gave his Address as Seattle. What chain of circumstances led to the meeting of these youth from, such wide points of the compass? What prompted their adventure which resolved into a kidnaping, a shooting, an assault and a robbery? What sort of homes did they come from 7 What school opportum ties did they avail themselves of Youths just entering manhood, was their moral catas trophe the result of hereditary kinks; or were there great social blunders in their upbringing? What sort of pedigrees did they have: and what kind of homes? If this were an isolated case it might be passed over as some strange excess of love and adventure. But it is youth which is indulging so freely in crime nowadays. The rosters of penitentiaries are full of young men of 25 or under. Yet precisely these young men have shared the lavish generosity of this generation for the betterment of youth. For the good of our children has been the touchstone which opened the purses of the public for splendid schools, trained teachers, playgrounds, libraries, athletics. Youth has been freed from the compulsion of early toiL ' When we see cases like that of these boys in Idaho we wonder just how sensible we have been. We have freed youth from labor and from discipline as well. We have given him money to spend, and robbed him of self -depend- ww W 1 - . ence. wenave saiea mm wun pleasure; out aepnvea mm of the sense of values. Something is wrong. . Our statutes - do not deter, nor do our penal institutions reform the way ward, youth.. Schools and churches have too large a percent- age of failure. Our houses are the best in human history; our homes have vital deficiencies. In our boasted civilization humanity has not yet learned how to live and how to rear ita young. A British Retort AMERICANS are getting over the idea that the English are dense. As Russell Brooks told the Rotary club re cently the English have a real sense of wit. This is attested in the smart repartee of Stopford Brooke a liberal candidate in the recent election. He is a young fellow in his early twenties. An English paper reports some incidents in his campaign as follows: - M 'A Tory.lady at hl meeting at. the village of Elstead pat the question Dont 70a think' 70a are too 70ttng to go Into Parliament?' Mr.' Stopford Brooke replied: Well, madam, I would rather so Into Parliament In my first childhood than la my second. That ought to become a classic la this ace ot youth. Another ot his scores with hecklers was when a draakea man interrupted a meetiar and demand ed It this was not a public meeting. The candidate said. 'This is 'a nnhlle bmUic m friendnot a, nubile-house. ' Quite a contrast with the "you're too damn dumb" reply of Charlie Curtis. . - - - -tcfJ- ---- MHEDFIB SUBJECT TO SUIT Salt to determine whether the Intangibles tax law enacted at the lilt legislature Intended exemp tions of 5o or 1109. prooaDiy will ho tQed in the court within the next few creeks. This was announced by members of the state tax commission which ad ministers the mew law. The original engrossed bill, as enacted by the legislature, fixed the maximum exemptions at f 20. Through a clerical error the en rolled bill, as signed by Governor Patterson. proTided for exemp tions of $500. Officials said the courts orobably would hold that it was the intention or the legis lature that the exemption should mot exceed $200. In ease the courts hold that the exemption is $500, as proTided in the bill signed by the governor and filed with the secretary ot state, the receipts from the In tangibles tax law will be reduced materially. The legal proceeding probably will follow an arbitrary order of the tax commission that the exemption shall be $200, as provided in the engrossed bill. : i -. . - - - f . 1 ' I 1 BITS for BREAKFAST Now We are setting; the pioneer regulations aU fixed' ap. Ore gon sets th date for an Oregon pioneer as ISO, -and "Washington tor 1SI. while bnt at Aberdeen on Grays Harbor they hare fixed the 4ata tor XS88 on the 20th ot March, which was the day Aberdeen was Incorporated. Our hopes are blasted, for we did not com till the Immigrant train ot 1110 Ua Ion Eaclflc, Pullman ear 13, lower beith 7. Still onr great-grandchUdren will, probably declaim about the hardships of their forefathers who rode on railroad trains as they ian about In airmobile. a.i-.- -'.-i--, mmmtm' . -iim Oh yes; yes We have had 'our "usual June rains," with some showers to spare to boot But all of you who hare been here for some time will remember how we missed them, and even some folks prayed for them, in the seasons when they did not come; some of them within the memory of the tenderfeet among as. The Desert Song," at the Elsl- nore Thursday, with a company of 100 flesh and blood people, will give the Salem district a privilege it hag not had for many a day, and perhaps will not hare again for a long, long time. S V The copy of The Statesman ot February f, 1874, quoted from in this column on Saturday morning is a four page paper of fire col umns to the page rather small compared with the present Statesman. W There is an item in the old copy showing that Dr. L. S. Skiff (whose son. Dr. Mark Skiff, is the well known Salem dentist of the present day), had invented a new dental chair and bracket. He had been nslng the Morris engine, run by steam, as most practitioners of his day did. The Morris engine had made a great advance. The Inventor had said of it: "It abol ishes the tiresome working of the treadle with the foot, and enables the operator to give his whole at tention to his work, making it much easier for both operator and patient; the machine can bo set entirely out of the way, on the other side of the chair; and lastly the engine. Including boiler, occu pies a space' only four feet long by two feet in width." But Dr. Skiffs Invention, run ning his dental apparatus by water power, occupied only 12 by IS inches, and, the item Tends, ' the operator can turn on the water SO times while he would be geeeting up the steam once, and this without stirring out of his tracks; and, after the water is on, there Is not the liability of a blow np that we are always nncomfort ably reminded of by the hiss fren the steam cock." W S It was predicted that the Shift machine would come into general nse by tfeatists using the Morris engine, and by others among the U.tlO dentists-then in the United States. ' V But that was before the age of hydroelectric power and the in candescent light, which nave re volutionised so many ot the in dustries and professions. "b. Among the advertisers In The Statesman ot that date, not one is ffow in business here. Weatherford A Co., druggists had an advertisement and Dan J. Fry commenced his career la this city as clerk in that store, which was onthe west side ot Commercial street, near Ferry; that was long before buildings were numbered in Salem. Mr. Fry Is the same yonng felow who still sticks around here as a crude drug buy er, president of the First National bank, and doing other odd jobs. There were practical Jokers in Salem In that day. An item In the old paper told of "a citizen of Mar ion county, the first ' letters ot whose name are George Smith, and who is a law abiding and Sab. bath observing gentleman." -The Item recorded the fact that George Smith put on his Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes oa a Monday and started to go to Turner to hear A. J. Hunaaker preach. Chi hia way he called at the residence ot his neighbor, OK. Read, and found Mrs. Read spinning, and gave her a lecture about, working on the Sabbath. He also found Mr. Read By R. J. HENDRICKS I at work. Neither Smith nor' Read was satisfied about the day of the week, so both ot them proceeded on to Turner to attend church. They found E. E. McKinney wait ing on his customers in his store. Without doing or saying any thing to arouse susplcton, they returned home wiser if not better men." But the Joke was too good to be lost, and the women folks Mowed on them." It There was another item to the effect that "the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Breyman poured in upon them last evening and used up what there was left of Thurs day in impromptu exercises of In terest, Including charades, tab leaux and supper." It seems all the members of the supreme court were present, and "the ladies gare mem a taste of the future in a. tableaux which represented the supreme court In full progress, made up entirely Judge and ad vocates of characters wearinr ea rings and full drapery." S The greatest surprise of all. however, was the fact that the hostess was fully prepared for her seir-inrlted guests in the refect ory, with a sumptuous assortment of viands more commonly called eats In these degenerate days. W S "We venture the assertion that saiem can hold Its own in a soci able way with any place of its siie in the known world, this side of Ashantee," were the concluding woras oi me item about the sur prise at ho Breyman home. Jane 18, 1004 Some 400 persons witnessed the exhibition given In the W. U. gym nasium last night by the young la dies' department of physical cul ture. This is a new feature of the commencement week exreises. A. Welch, M. Hoff, Carl Deils- cheimer and L. Sommer of Baker City and L. Lowengart of Port land have purchased the Citizens' light and traction company for a consideration of $100,000. It is understood the present deal means interurban lines out of Sa lem, leading to the small towns and cities. PERFECT GARAGE COSTLY Flans for what is believed uiu do me perrect public gar age won the prise in the recent competition of the Royal Institute ot British Architects for a garage in London's theatre district Thomas Spencer, of London, was awarded the prise of $1,750. The garage planned by him would cost $2,950,000, and would house 750 ears, all of which could get in and oiit at a moment's notice. The en. trances and exits are on two streets to avoid traffic blockades. A central room, in touch with all the floors by telephone, controls the exits. All of the six floors are reached by one-way ramps. Writ tag rooms, lounges, bathrooms, waiting rooms, and repair shops ana cleaning room would be tea tures- MOVIES MAR FRESH-AIR DUST TRAVELS 3,000 MILES' One of the most unusual dust Journeys on record was that made by many tons of Australian soil, which traveled more than 2.000 miles through the air to New Zealand, according, to recent re ports. The greater part of the Journey was oyer water. In many parts of Utw Zealand during. the first falls, when the dust was brought down by rain, the mix ture was referred to as mud rain. Some of it fell on sweaters of players during a football match. and so discolored them that It w difficult to pick out the garments of the dfferent teams. Although not the first dust storm to travel from Austrila to New Zealand, the deposit was remarkable both for quantity and the area over which it was recorded. DOFF TROUSERS. ENJOY SHOW Amanullah's reforms had a Set back recently- when a European theatrical company Tisited Kabul. All Kabul society appeared in western clothes .but the perform ance evidently bored the men, who refused to ait H out in the no fa miliar trousers. These they re moved and placed neatly on the backs ot the seats. After that the audience, la true Oriental fash loa, endeavored to enjoy the rest ot the show sitting on their haun ches. Old Oregon's Yesterday? Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read Wins Title AD CLUB LEAVES JFQR COAST MEET Salem's delegation to the annual meeting ot the Pacific coast asso ciation of Ad clubs is on its way to Oakland today, by railroad and by auto, last minute changes in plans necessitating that the idea of fly ing to the convention in Lee Eyer lev's plane be abandoned. William Paulus, president of the club, and Stanley Keith, a form er president, head the delegation as official representatives of the local club while other men going from here include Leo Katoury, Edward Suing and Edwin Thomas. Mrs. Thomas accompanies the lat ter. The convention opens Sunday night at Oakland and lasts for four days. Portland's delegation which made the trip by airplane, passed over Salem on Saturday on its way south. I -w I V 1 1 1 U x I fcTai" isVii' '" f M 1 MORROW CONFERS WITH PORTES GIL MEXICO CITY, June 17. (AP) United States Ambassador Dwight w. Morrow today neio a conference for an hour with Pres. Ident 'Emilio Portes Oil concern ing the negotiations now going on for settlement of the contro versy Uh the Catholic ehurct. While the ambassador declined to. make any statement after the j interriew, the fsct that, after , keeping out of the negotiations for a week, he has now taken a hand in the matter led those in close touch with hto situation to beliere that negotiations have perhaps entered a critical stage. It was known that Mr. Morrow had much to do with bringing about opening of the negotiations for settlement of the dispute which caused a critical state of affairs in Mexico for the past three years. HoweTer, he has ob served a hands off policiy since the arrival of Archbishop Leopol do Rnis and Bishop Pascual Dias a week ago. They hare talked with the president twice. PRIEST BY HIS L SHOT DOWN I LORD Prof. W. I. Staley, principal of the Capital Business college, and Mrs. Staley. will leave this morn ing for Cedar Rapids and Daven port, Iowa. While in the east they will visit the exposition at St. Louis. AXCIEXT MIXES YIELD RICH Modern mining science is mak ing possible the working at a profit of ancient mines in Mexico that were deserted as exhausted generations ago, according to a report of the Mexican chamber of mines. Among them are those once worked by slaves to fill the tribute lists ot Mentesuma before the discovery of America. These are considered more important than any recent discoveries of metal deposits. The early miners tapped only the richest veins. Ventilation ot shafts was un known, illumination was accom plished by oil lights or tallow candles, and the ore was carried out on , the human back. When mining by these expensive meth ods became unprofitable the mines were deserted, and new ones opened. Woodburn Group Observes Flower Mission Day WOODBURN, June 1 The W. C. T. U. met at the home of Mrs. Carrie Young, Friday, to ob serve flower mission day. The program which was In charge ot Mrs. Young, opened with the song, "America." Miss Ina Bonney read a paper on the origin 'of flower mission day and Mrs. A. H. Dean discussed the flower mission and relief work in action. Mrs. Jenny Austin and Mis Sarah Jenny both gave talks en the subject and the ladles sang a lymn. This was followed by a paper by Mrs. Martha Gore, "Flowers That Tell Time.- Mrs. Jeanette Zimmerle talked to the group advising flower study. Mrs. Winning beauty contests is a mat ter of course with 17-year-old Kthel Mae Stoddard, of Anbnrn, Me.. She has already won four of them aad is now selected as "Miss Maine" to represent ber state at the International Beaaty Pageant at Galveston. Texas. Francis Woodfin read Joyce Kil mer s "Trees; devotions were iea by Mrs. Maude Mochel. Mrs., Eva Landon gave a reading called "Doubt", and Mrs. Young read "A Package of Seeds;" Mrs. Woodfin read "The Little Gardener." Mrs. Lottie Livesay gave a sketch of the playette, "We Can Tell You." At the conclusion of the pro gram, a business meeting was held and after the meeting the bouquets that decorated the house were distributed to the shut-Ins around town. Unique refreshments were serv ed by the hostesses, Mrs. Young and Mrs. Bon fey. PARIS BREAKS SHOW RECORD Paris, long recognized as tha city of amusement seekers, broke all records. in that direction last year, according to figures recently released. The public paid more than $23,000,000 into the box of fices of theatres, motion picture houses, music halls, concerts, cir cuses, skating rinks, museums and boxing events. This was an in crease of $2,000,000 over the amount spent In 1927. With a to tal of $8,000,000, motion pictures led over all other forms of amuse ment in the point of gross receipts for the year. The city now has 17S movie theatres, and more are being erected. Circuses and skat ing rinks, however, made the greatest gain. WINONA, Minn., Juno IT. (AP) Jealousy was the motive gives By police tonignc tor ma slaying of Father Nicholas Brora, menschenkel, $5, a Roman Cath olic priest, by John Gira, also (5, at whose home the priest roomed. Gira was wounded in tne thigh with his own pistol. Father Brommenscnenxei, on leave of absence irom tne Crosse diocese for tne pasi ten years, was snoi w ubiu, said, in n encounter with Gira, after the latter had ciuoDea nis wife over the head with a base ball bat. Mrs. Gira, 48, said the priest was killed when he re sponded to her -screams for aid. Gira charged that his wife shot him. but Mrs. Gira maintained he was wounded when his pistol was accidentally discharged as she grappled with him for posses sion of the weapon. Both Gira and his wife are held without charge. Helen Curry Is Chosen Head oi Church Session Helen Curry was elected presi dent of the Leslie league of the Leslie Memorial church at the business session Thursday evening. Other Officers named for the year include: Ranald Hulbert. first vice-president; Glen Huston, sec ond vice-president; Ellen Jean Moody, third vice-president; Nao mi fleet, fourth vice-president; gUce Linfoot, secretary; Alfred French, treasurer; and Gladys E. Miller, organist. The new corps of officers will be installed Sunday evening. -June 23. Ellen Jean Moody is retiring president. Read the Classified Ads. SCOTCH CLAIM FIRST JAZZ That Jass really originated in Scotland Instead of America is be ing claimed by Scotch critics. They say that the kind of music in which "the emphasis is shifted from the strong to the weak part of a time unit by making the first note or two, into which the beat is divided, take only a fraction of time of a second," is nothing more or less than the old Scots snap or eateh. They declare that it has been used in old reels, and was copied In the Italian airs ' of the eighteenth century. RIDES OX RUXX1XG BOARD Three-year-old Bernard , Bid well recently enjoyed a three-mile ride oa the running board of his father's automobile. The boy crawled onto to the vehicle un noticed when his father started from their home at Wisbech. Eng land. While the father was bowl ing along at 30 miles an hour a passing motorist called his atten tion to the child. "Mummie, dad dy does derive fast. It was lovely," was Bernard's comment. The community daily vacation Bible school which the Ford Me morial chnrch in West Salem is sponsoring, began in the new school building Monday morning, June 17, and will continue through June 28, reports the pas tor. Rev. Meredith Groves. Classes will be offered beginning with the kindergarten and through the sixth grade and will be held from t fb ,11:50 o'clock five days a week. ' ' . Mrs. A. P. Goffrier will be su perintendent ot the beginners' department and Mrs. 3. R. Ben ton will direct Junior department work. Other teachers and leaders will be on hand for the first day. A picnic aad field day for the children, in which ' parents aad teachers Will also participate. Is being planned for the dosing- day of the school. A program will be ' held the evening- of that day. Plan Your Vacation TO seed t&e utmost fceoefit &osd " yam vacarioti plan it skvw, and eajof " l kwtttlSw tawcosnes. yaa caa csyssAfV sfl jam vacation T' Ada, tsrt tow or casnp .: - 5e!r5a ; 'J'siif' CtCy V a lie vsrtuu f Statesman -. - - -"""1- II M I