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The OREGON CTATESSlANv Sato. Oregon, Friday Monday. June 21, 1923
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From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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Post-Commencement Thoughts
TUST as Thomas Gibbon characterized his Oxford days as
J "the most unprofitable of his career" and Henry Adams
regarded his four years at Harvard as empty, James Trus
low Adams, historian and essayist, writing "A Note on Amer
ican Education" in the June "Forum," reviewing his own
twelve or thirteen years of formal schooling, is "impressed
with the appalling waste of time and effort." He offers a
critique of American education which is a thought-quick-ener
both for educators and for those who are paying the
enormous bills of the school system. Here is the flaw which
Mr. Adams finds in American schools :
"la to far as tharr appear U ba an? definite trend la Amerieaa educational
aims, il would teem to ba toward President Eliot' a Meal of 'power and aarrica
on of the moit baneful phratet, fear, eTer let loos by aa educator wpoa aa nnada
cated people. The atrsis il laid wholly on the 'doing'. Wa haTe rollega cooraes in Coat
accounting, in real estate aellinr. in 'business English', household decoration, basket
ball coaching as a profession, poultry raising, personnel management all ranking
equally with philosophy or literature or science. I cannot see that, aa a general
rule, American univeraities or collegea leaTe the slightest cultural impress upon
u .k .ttmiA th.ia -. ml in iha world, the iaals and the interests of asost
of the uuirersity men are identical with those of any 'go-getter' who, ainee leering
birh fchool. has been learning his trade ot stock brokiag or real estate telling r
manufacturing in the world of experience.
He offers his solution :
"Why not face the problem frsnkly and diide education (and Segrees) Into
' the two sections that 1 hare snggested. the one to teach people how to make a liTing
and the other to gie them a liberal education, to teach them how to lire, how to de
Telop all those powers within themseWes that make for the beauty and worth af
life! .... Is it not time that wo stopped marking down all our spiritual goodt to
the price that the lowest in the cnlral scsle can pay!"
Mr. Adams, of course, knows that American schools
grew like Jonah's gourd due in part to a quest for knowledge
as a tool to procure bigger pay and very largely because the
amazing spread of prosperity ended child employment and
permitted parents to send their children to school a much
longer period. A big mass of these children didn't have
brains enough to learn much beyond the eighth grade so
courses of "debased coinage" were provided to keep them
from wasting ime on brain-taxing subjects. These "pipe"
courses were invaluable too in maintaining football teams.
The trouble too often is that emerging from these schools
students are neither able to do anything, which Mr. Adams
says is the big objective now, nor are they able to live appre
ciatively, which he holds as the proper aim of higher educa
tion. It is the old clash of the Marys and the Marthas, with
popular education trying to erase the inevitable differences
between them.' Since there are more Marthas than Marys
there is not much hope for Mr. Adams ideal in democrati
cally controlled school systems.
Wisconsin Proposes Public Ownership
WISCONSIN is about to launch on a career of state so
cialism if the legislation which has passed the lower
house in that state is finally enacted into law. The culmina
tion of the program which is being considered is a constitu
tional amendment to permit the state to go into the power
business. It passed the house 71 to 19. Another measure
which has not yet passed the house is one permitting adjoin
ing municipalities to form. a power district and get into the
utility business. Wisconsin has long been one of the erring
sisters among the states so nothing thathappens there in
the direction of socialism is surprising.
What irks the public and urges the people to get into the
power business is not so rmlth the matter of rates as the ne
farious practices of many utilities to run state politics. Up
to about 1906 state politics was frequently dominated by the
railroads whose attorneys and lobbyists manipulated the po
litical machine to the advantage of the corporations they
served. In late years the railroads have found they could
get along without the constant milking of political bureaus.
They fare just as well and have much better standing with
the public.
But the light and power utilities are making the same
mistake the railroads did by efforts at organized political
control, lney do it either directly or indirectly through in
nocent titles as Northwest Electric Light Association." At
tempts to control election of members f the legislature, poi
son propaganda to newspapers, financial pap to educators
have made the public resentful and angry. Add to this the
orgy of public utility financing through mergers, holding
companies, interlocking ownerships small wonder that the
public is suspicious of utility organization and practice. We
heard of one deal recently where two big utility groups had
bought heavily into a third concern. One had control and the
other started suit to force an accounting with the books of
the controlled utility to be brought into court. Whereupon
the controlling company paid the other a bonus of seven mil
lion dollars to surrender its interest and "hush up
If the utility concerns would only get out of Dolitics and
stay out and let the blackmailing politicians go hang they
wouia tare equally wen, save a lot of money, and stop a lot
oi me agnation against tnemseives.
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' i Fixing the Cherry Price
AFTER the I cherry crop is practically all contracted a buy
er from Libbv. McNeil and Libbv breezes in. lineles his
sleigh bells and announces his company will pay 10 cents for
cherries. Perhaps he meant it, realizing that with the crop
all sold he wouldn't pick up but a few tons at this price.
Perhaps his purpose was merely to megaphone a big price
and so get the growers whose contracts entitle them to the
"market price" to think that 10c is the market price and thus
embarrass the local canners. The fact remains that the buy
er seems to have done the fade-out without getting in touch
with cherry-growers or trying to buy any real fruit.
As is indicated by a communication in another column
from a prominent cherry grower, the gowers are not ex
cited over the newspaper offer made by the Portland buyer.
Loganberry growers remember -too vividly their experiences
with the same organization which a few years ago breezed
in and woo over a lot of loganberry contracts. Now they are
making no pretense to take care of their loganberry growers.
The price of cherries, which the local growers will get
from the local canneries, will be determined not by the spec
tacular bidding of an out-of-town buyer whose motive is
'questionable; but by the going price which the business as a
whole develops at the time of the canning season. The perti
nent question before Libby, McNeil and Libby is not their
cherry bid but their loganberry bid.
There:
Terse comments on Events,
Local and Abroad, in the Cur
rent News.
TT7"HO came out anead in me ,
reparations conference,"
porter retorts: "Who came out
ahead in the San Francisco earthquake?"
Ostensibly the AlUes are ahead
because Germany is to pay over
$40d,00,00 annually fornearly
f 0 yean. Bat two-thirds of this
amount will be turned over to the
United States la payment lor Al
lied war debt to as; all of the
untitles after 17 years will come
to as. To the casual observer this
seems entirely a train to the re
eeivlntr nations. Bat Is It? With
increasing rapidity we are becom
ing a ereditor nation; Germany
pays France; France pays us.
What will we do with the money?
A huso amount has been
ploughed back Into industries of
Europe, in many instances indus
tries which our own manufactur
ers seek to hamper by a protective
tariff. The economics of repara
tions raises the very pointed ques
tion of what can be paid and also
how much can safely be received.
confess rather than bear the tor
mant of continued grilling. Back
of the confession Is not alone hard-
boiled work on the part or, ae
tec tires but a guilty conscience.
Murder will out; a man's know
ledge of his own crime will not
down.
gilem business men Tty in
their attitude toward the daily
"how's business" in about the
same ratio that farmers differ on
the matter vf relief. One business
man declares conditions are good;
another finds them tolerable; an
other thinks things gone to pot.
Much is in the viewpoint for trade
statistics show bank clearings here
in healthy conditions; crops gen
erallv good; credit in a healthy
situation.
Don't forget it; the WUlamette
valley is in sound business health.
Its abundant diversity maaes ousi
ness good and those who whine no
little of the depression wnicu is
arttial not imaginary, in other
less favored sections.
Snook, the Ohio State university
professor, is reported to have con
fessed to the murder ot Theora
Hix, college co-ed and love-mate
of the professors. Hours and days
of grilling broke down the profes
sor's studied denial and left him
weakened and unstrung, willing to
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-By R. J. HENDRICKS
What Is a live, good-for-nothing Bourbon prince worth in the
marriage markets? Mr 3. Mabelle Gllman Corey, divorced wife of a
Pittsburgh steel magnate, bid 1200,000. but Prince Louis de Bour
bon who figured it out that that gave him only a thousand a month
for spending money, refused to sell oat at. that figure. The prince's
mother Infanta Eulalie, who is aunt to the king of Spain, declares
the engagement broken. Nowshe can call for sealed bids front other
American . grass widows or wealthy mammas with marriageable
daughters We agree with Mrs. Corey, a thousand a month is pin-
T ior brnea-oat Bonrbon title.
Talking ot farm relief
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We now have the law to provide
It, and every true American must
wish it well, and hope for the best
results.
But here i3 a prediction, that
each member of the board now be
ing picked to administer the law
will wish, many a time, that he
had a different job paying as
large a salary, or any J'jb or no
Job at all.
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Five hundred millions of 'dol
lars is a lot of money. The board
will be provided with that much to
administer the law. But it will not
be enough to do the things that
the people looking for farm relief
expect. They may have to come
back for more. And more and
more. ,
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They are expected, with that
sum, to stabilise the prices ot the
major crops with exportable sur
pluses wheat, corn, cotton, to
bacco, beans, rice, perhaps, and
may be prunes and bops and a lot
of others.
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Take wheat, to start with. We
grow, say 800,000.000 bushels of
wheat a year. We consume say
200,000.000 bushels. To allow a
living wage to be realized for the
rest of the crop, it would be
necessary to get the surplus off
ot the market. This would not be
a hard job, with a (500,000.000
capital to operate with, if the plan
were to bay cheap and sell as high
as possible. But the board will not
be expected to buy cheap. It will
be expected to pay top prices. But,
in some way or another, the sur
plus wheat must be gotten rid of.
It must be put into the channels- of
consumption. Say the board would
buy the surplus and hold it; be
obliged to hold it for a year, and
the next crop was 900,000,000
bushels, with a rery small gain on
consumption. Then what? The
purchase price ot the wheat for
two years might use op all the
1500,000,000. And the buying cost
and the storing ot one crop might
take it all, in fact. Where could it
be kept, without deteriorating?
There is now no available extra
warehouse room for it. That would
have to be provided. New ware
houses would have to be built,
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In that case there would be no
money out of the first f 500,000,
00 -for handling and stabilising
the other crops.
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Oh, it is not as simple aa all
this, but that is an idea of what
will be before the new board. Un
der the much discused and cussed
debenture plan, $500,000,000. ap
propriation of federal funds would
have been needed. In the case of
wheat, the grower selling his crop
would have been assessed so much
tor every bushel sold, say five
cents a bushel for the first year,
and this would have gone into the
equalization fund, to make np the
possible losses on the sales of the
surplus wheat; that sent abroad.
The more the surplus, the higher
the equalization fee. But the grow
ers themselves would have made
up the losses on the sales of the
surplus each year. True, the high
er prices ot wheat in . America
would have come out of the con
sumers. It would have been paid
by the people who eat bread or
pies or cakes. By the poultrymen
who buy chicken feed. By all the
rest.
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The debenture plan would re
plenish the fund, too. In a mora
round about way. This is no argu
ment for either the equalization
fee or the debenture plan. It is
Just a statement of what the
board administering the new law
will ba np against. They arc like
ly to be obliged to ask for more
and mora money. If they accom
plish what is expectedof them, that
I is, higher prices and a batter stab
ilization of the farm crops with
exportable surpluses.
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It is the old, old story of Joseph
in Egypt interpreting the dream of
the pharaoh, warning him by the
parable of the coming of the seven
fat years and the seven lean years.
Only Joseph had to build larger
warehouses and more of them and
store up grain in the fat years to
provide against the starvation of
the people in the lean years,
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The Joseph problem in the
United States i3 the other way
around. Ours are all fat years,
with an exportable surplus of sev
eral major crop3 every year. And
that does not take any dream to
warn us of the danger. We do not
have to depend on the natural
spring freshets ot the river Nile
alone, to guarantee fat years.
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It is the age old problem of sup
ply and demand. When the supply
is larger than the demand is with
us, like the ghost of Banquo at
the feast, as pictured by the great
bard.
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And the question of solving the
problem of the disposition of the
major crops will persist in the
United States until the time ar
rives when we will have no such
surplus crops, but will be import
ing instead of exporting wheat and
some of the other foodstuffs re
quiring cheap land for their pro
fitable production, to make up our
deficiencies.
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This time is near at hand or far
away, depending for its nearness
partly upon an early distribution
of the acreage in this country now
devoted to other uses to the grow
ing of crops we can produce but
now import. There is a possibility
that President Hoover has a cam
paign of this kind in his plans, to
be directed by the board the mem
bers of which he is about to se
lect. It Is within 'the range of
possibilities that the major effort
may be turned to that direction.
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That would be the greatest un
dertaking of the kind in history,
and it might turn out to be the
most successful one ever made.
Editors Say:
Used to live in Middle West,
didn't you? 'Spose you get used
to it. Got to stop in Seattle and
then hurry back to 'N Yawk. Got
a faster train now, haven't '.hey?
Good news. Going to take a run
over to the English lakes for a
rest when get back. Take care of
yourself and all that!
At last we know why the new
northern transcontinental sched
ules are even a bit faster going
east than west. We can say amen
to that! If in the beginnings of
the depot conversation wc had any
arguments formulating they died
a-borning? The Jepson concentra
tion even in the old days was fa
mous. But we didn't know they
allowed chaps like him to exist,
even in New York. The "out
standing success!'' Education,
wealth and all that! The fellow
who never wasted an hour! There
was another member of the
"Class" who came through last
fall in a battered flivver with a
wife and two kids. It was his
boast that he had set out to "see
America first" in two months and
had already taken two years at
the job frankly admitted, that it
still wasn't half finished and pro
posed, if necessary, to devote the
rest of his life to it Said he was
overwhelmed with the universal
generosity and kindness of people
in all parts of the country. On
hearing of the Roosevelt highway,
borrowed five dollars for gas,
which marks him as an "out
standing success," so as not to
miss it. Ho hum! Most of us are
bom just to dub along. We offer
for your amusement two out
standing types of success. Take
your pick. Eugene Guard.
To The Editor:
Recently a buyer for Libby, Mc
Neil and Libby strutted Into Sa
lem with a "magnificent gesture"
10c per pound for all the cher
ries he could by! This resolves it
self into nothing more than an old
time questionable cut-throat bus
iness method. All our local can
ners who buy hundreds of tons of
cherries have already contracted
practically the entire cherry crop
at 8e plus any market increase.
Most growers realize that this is
a fair contract. Also they realize
that the market price is practical
ly certain to go to 9c and may
even reach 10c per pound.
However, any price over 8c will
not be due to any out-of-town
buyer who takes a few pounds
of cherries at 10c and ships them
out of town to pack. Let's give
credit where credit is due.
I believe the cherry growers of
this district agree with me when
I say that we prefer the depend
able contracts of our local can
ners to the four-flusher type of
buying put on here by Libby, Mc
Neil and Libby.
The purchase of a few pounds
of cherries even at 20c per pound
does not establish the kind of
market that we growers want.
The great bulk ot our cherries
are sold to our old-time canneries
and we look to them for the ulti
mate price that the market will
warrant.
if our growers stick by our
canners in the Salem district it
is to our mutual advantage. Let
us do this and the price of cher
ries will be to our mutual advan
tage also.
HENRY C. GILBERT.
Route No. 3.
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N THE old days when saie or
3.000,000 v shares on the New
York exchange was a recora
day, a ticker which recorded 300
characters a minute was satisfact
ory. Bnt in modern days, when
3.000.000 people in the nation are
stock purchasers, the old tickers
are sadlr out of date. The new
ticker being installed by members
of the exchange will print sow
characters a minute and help oui
tired clerks on days like that last
March when 8.700.000 shares
changed hands.
Bishop Cannon put $2500 into
his fcroker were closed the secret
came out. Now tne bishop de
clares he was baying bonds on
time, as he understood it, instead
of buying stocks on a margin.
Bishops probably should have the
benefit of the doubt bat the bishop
should have known what he was
doing.
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SETUP IN POUD
PORTLAND. June 20. (AP)
Trading in grain futures start
ed here today under government
aunerrlsion. For many years
dealers of the city had talked of
the advantages of a future mar
ket, but not until one year and
a half ago did the necessity of
such an institution, as aa adjunct
to the port become apparent.
Then a campaign was started
which today bore fruit.
The market opened at 8 a.m.,
and closed at 11 a.m., during this
regular three-hoar session tran
sactions reached a volume of one
hundred thousand bushels.
The price trend here followed
closely that of Seattle and Chica
go. The first bid submitted on
July wheat before the echoes of
the opening gong had died away
was 11.08. The high for the
day was $1.09, and the close
$1.09 1-8.
I. O. O. P. PICNIC
SILVERTON, June 20. The
Marion county I. O. O. F. visita
tion association will hold a picnic
in the Coolidge-McClaine park in
Silvertoa on Sunday, June 23.
All Odd Fellows and their fam
ilies are invited to come and bring
their own basket lunch. Coffee
will be served by the association.
It Is anticipated that there will
be at least 300 members present.
Wall street purchases and when It is an all day picnic.
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THEY SHOT LINCOLN!
The Cascade Limited came eas
ing into- the depot, scarcely pant
ing after its long run over the
mountains. (When we get too old
to get a wallop out of just see
ing a fine train such as the Cas
cade, we hope they take us, on
the North Sister and push as off.)
A nervous, billons looking little
fat man dropped down from a
Pullman and began to pace the
platform. Something about him
made us look twice. Sure enough,
it must be Jepson, "the outstand
ing success of the class," Jepson
who had been a notorious grind
in college, tried teaching, then got
into some kind of exporting busi
ness at the beginning of the War
and got outrageously rich. Used
to call him "Pinky" because he
was anything but.
"Hey, Pinky 1" Jepson paused
and looked up, somewhat annoy
ed. He remembered, faintly, yes.
Oh, sure, yes, ye3. Better step
along while he took a bit ot air
and exercise. Been making the
rounds ot the western offices to
pep 'em np (what a treat that
mast, have been!) Beastly these
long western trips! Whatfa the
name of this place? What! Live
In It! Well, V off en stepping
stone, to success. See the moun
tains? Nope, tried to get in a little
extra sleep. 'S' trouble with these
long western trips. Mountains,
mountains, mountains! All alike.
Bore a fellow to death. Jf est be
twentieth trip to Coast. Coast
deadly, bat Middle West .worse.
WHERE DO THE DEMOCRATIC
XflWSPAPERS STAND
Are the Democrats in favor of
a protective tariff or opposed?
During the recent campaign the
Democratc party, for the first
time in history, formally accepted
the protective tariff in principle.
Governor Smith expressly stated
that if elected he would be in fa
vor of maintaining a tariff to
cover the difference between the
cost of production in this country
and abroad.
This assurance was in direct an
swer to a prominent labor leader
who, said some elements in organ
ized' labor feared that if theu De
mocratic candidate were elected
the tariff would be cut down and
American wage3 would fall.
But now, judging from the
statements of the . Democratic
press both in this state and with
out, the party is opposed to any
tariff whatever, except the" time
honored one "for revenue onely."
All the old moth-eaten weapons
used in the post-bellum tariff. war
are being brought out and limb
ered up for action. .
Opposition to the protective
tariff on the, ground that it raises
prices to the' consumer is perfect
ly understandable. Support of
such a tariff on the ground that
while it raises prices to the con
sumer it also raises his wages, and
makes possible a standard of liv
ing higher than in any other
country in the world this is also
understandable.
But supporting the first after a
campaign, and the second during
it. Is not understandable. The
Democrats can't have their cake
and eat it. They ought to decide
one way or the other, whether
they favor a protective tariff or
don't favor it
If they do favor It. then they
might at least wait until after
the Hawley tariff has been passed
before they shed tears over the
poor farmers, and maintain that
in this iniquitous Republican
measure the protective principle
has been violated.
i If they don't favor It why
then, ot course, the matter can be
fought out again in the next presi
dential campaign. Medford Mall
Tribune. .
OSd Oregon's
Yesterdays
Town Talks from The States
man Our Fathers Read
Jane 21, 1004
Senator R. A. Booth of Eugene
made a strong plea for education
in the annual address before the
Willamette University graduating
class.
The annual school vote was de
cisive for election of A. A. Lee as
director and addition of grades
beyond the ninth. Which means
the way is open for establishment
of a high school course here.
The Salem Abstract and Land
company has purchased the 650
acre Ewald farm and will divide it
into a hundred or so small farms
to sell on terms that will attract
newcomers. Surveyors will begin
the division shortly.
Two divorce proceedings were
instituted in circuit court.
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