PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Homing, Jane 23, 1929 i i u ,rNo Favor Stray Us; No Fear Shall Awe." '' i'-' From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN Ikles A. Spracce, Sheldon F. Sackctt, Publisher Charles A. Spracce - -Sheldon F. Sackett - Member of the Associated Press . Tb Associated Press is exclusively eo titled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper. ii - -' ' ' Entered at the Po$ toff ice at Salem, Oregon, as Seeond-CUu Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Butineu . office tl5 S. Commercial Street. Pacifi: Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. Liberty and the Machine Age CURRENT literature is replete with a discovery of the fact of the machine age and a study of its effect upon so ciety. "Mechanistic" is an adjective derived from the word machine; and a common thought among writers is to carry the sinister meaning of the adjective "mechanistic" into their picture of society in the machine age. Men are pic tured as robots, brainless, mere machines to do the bidding of some master mind. Spengler sees western civilization A.irirrr n 4rnm-fall ViT-on o-Vi tfio imnprislism nnH the mecHa- 111 1 T 1 U UW WAVM nistic philosophy generated society. Stuart Uhase, witn an trie racy etyie oi jtne moueru journalist, has written numerous magazine articles and a book all in the same vein: depicting the reaction of machine production upon individual and social physchology. As he has written in book and mazagine article: "From otir brains have sprung a billion horses now running wild and almost certain sooner or later to run amuck. Where are the riders with their whirling ropes; where the light-hearted youths to mount, be thrown and rise to mount again?" Chase makes no attempt to answer the question that he raises. sH summarizes the gloomy-view of men like Spen gler arid the optimistic view which aWe ghost-writing jour nalist has set down for Henry Ford. A foreigner, Matthew Josephson, biographer of Zola, the French realist, writing in a recent "Outlook" expressed himself thus: . "To the Dragon of mass industry must be brought the sacri fices of our personal freedom, of independence of thought and wIH; Individual -paenies must give way to moss needs and activities." Critics of the age, editors, journalists in great number agree that the machine age is robbing mankind of its liberty and of its strength of character, leaving the individual but an insignificant atom in the regimented army of marching morons. With this conclusion we most emphatically disagree. The machine has emancipated the human mind and body. Tireless kilowatts have lifted the load of labor from human backs, compressed necessary toil into six or eight hours, and given the individual not only leisure but physical and mental freshness to enjoy that leisure. Tending the machine calls for higher intelligence than the swinging of the common hand tools of .the former day. One needs but think back the space of one generation and compare the lot of the working men of that day with the lot of the same class today. Toil ing for ten and twelve hours a day in ill-lighted, ill-ventilated structures, engaging in exhausting toil with the power of human muscle, the very labor was robbing them of any in dividuality and of liberty of mind and body. The masses of laboring men of today work shorter hours, in factories and mines where health rules are enforced. Power carries the Ieavy burden. The human labor used must measure up in skill and speed, surely higher tests than the "strong-in-the-back and weak-in-the-head" standards of the past. True there is a standardization of production ; and mass advertising and organized propaganda have confined con sumption along standardized lines. But we doubt if ever, in human history there has been as much genuine liberty of thought since organized society began to function. Tabus have lost their grip; superstitions have been dissipated; in tolerance and bigotry have steadily lost ground. People can think and write and speak most anything they want to; and there is-always some vehicle for their expression. Our mental readjustment to the scientific and machine a&e is not complete. We still carry a provincial outlook over into this new, glorious age. The very jazz wearies us with its monotony. The instinct of revolt is easily aroused and we fain would fly away from the creations we have lately praised, from neon lights and great white ways, from chain stores and service stations, from talkies and radios and ar resting headlines, fly away to the past of course with its quiet, its shiftlessness, its slow motion. Our rustic: minds cannot step up to the urban tempo. So we write our indict ment of the machine age and blame the machine for our own psychological deficiencies. In their maturity perhaps .our children will experience similar reactions, for the stimuli are wholly relative. We are indeed remaking society through the harnessing f'f the horses of power, and through fresh penetration into the secrets of nature. WThat is speeding up this transforma tion is the very liberty of thought and action which the ma chine and scientific age have mass produced foods, wares marks a standardization or regimentatioiuof thinking either in the intellectual or in the the economic processes commerce and manufacturing, but this emphasis does not involve suppression of thought in the larger sense. To keep the great industrial machine operat ing giving employment and yielding production is a prob lem. It must be kept functioning for human welfare. The real intellectual problem is the readjustment of our. mental processes and responses to the spirit, and tempo of this ma chine age. That calls for a mind-stretch which perhaps the more mature of this generation cannot make. v Salvaging the best from past experience, with the leaven cf the manifold stimuli of this day of renaissance, we may safely look forward not to gloomy night but to a more glor ious morrow. With the highway commission voting for a $650,000 bridge across the Rogue river on the Roosevelt Highway, Oregon's 'crime of a century" shrinks to a misdemeanor. With the Irish question settled, and the Italian-Vatican ques tion settled,and the Mexican religious controversy ended, all the "in ternational Journalists" have left to work on Is Russia. The sultan of Morocco went to Monte Carlo accompanied by none of his harem. Just like an American husband he wanted a real vacaUon this time. - Mr. Gann "had. a good place and was very happy," says the re port of Sir Esme Howard's party. That will please the country. u.u uu uwu tremenaousiy concerned aoont Mr. Gann's happiness. A Milwaukee dancer turned blue In thetace. being poisoned by the dye la his shoes. Perhaps he bad on some of those new blue shoes and was developing a color harmony. - With the weather clearing picnics twill begin: If Eugene runs short of full beards for their pioneer day Sa lem has a few that pre-date the 1HI flood. ' - l CM may moke cigars: les hat to far they haven't tried to ape their brothers with that hits school mustache. I"- Premier MacDoaald, r eurs wilfhe furnished with an armed guard wliea b Thtti ChltRf cv PUBLISHING CO. Editor-Manager Managing Editor f in modern industrialization of released. Mass consumption of and commodities by no means commoner. We have glorified the rammer series of home-state 6 !, Bias Mu Sjrn&a),. Im, Gmm RnUla ntM BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS Reverting to the sugar tariff S The preralence of criticism of the bare living rate proposed in the Hawley bill needs explana tion. It is very largely honest criti cism; but it i3 based on dishonest propaganda. Now, the stock and bond holders of the Wall street su gar trust are generally honest men and women. The widows and or phans of the estates holding su gar stocks and bonds would not like to have lies told to the Amer ican people by the men who con trol the sugar trust combines. The men themselves in control of the combines would generally gag at the telling of baldfaced lies. " But the lobbyists hired by these men in control of the Wall street trust owning the Cuban sugar plantations and lands and grinding mills, and at Atlantic coast refin eries these lobbyists must have propaganda ammunition to make their work effective. They must have a smoke screen to confuse the public mind. One of their smoke screens recently employed was put out for the purpose of giving the American people the idea that the "wicked" sugar trust in this country is the one owning the beet sugar factories. They did no' mention the fact that about 500,000 farmers and renters of farms in this country are on a 50 50 basis in the production of beet sugar; and working like the dick ens to make both ends meet; to make a bare living and a meager surplus, if possible, on their hard labor against the virtual slave labor of the dark skinned Berfs of Cuba, employed at what would be starvation pay in this country, for the sugar barons of Wall street. S The other day, in the lower house of congress, a democratic member spoke of the great injury against Cuba proposed in the Haw ley bill; and then he spoke in drop ping words of woe wet with croc odile tears of the "last straw" this thing would pile onto the backs of the American consumers. S V He did not go deep enough to fathom what would be plain to a sixth grade school boy that if the poor Cubans were injured so much by having to absorb the extra 61 cent's a hundred pound3 duty, the American consumers would cer tainly not have to pay it. Or if the poor Cubans passed the 64 cents along to the American consumers, they would not be injured at all. U "W He did not explain that the con sumption of sugar in the United States (sucrose, or cane and beet sugar), is a little above 100 pounds per capita a year. And that over half of it is used in canning, candy making, baking in the great plants. Ice cream, chewing gum, beverages, etc., etc. Leaving about 50 pounds per capita for private consumers. And that thus the pri vate consumer would be set back about 32 cents a year, or about a half a cent a week, if the whole of the extra duty were passed on to htm! Which it would not. Could not, as long as there is the present American competition, from our cane and beet growers which would without doubt be doubled by the new rate in the Hawley bill; and perhaps our country made self sufficient in sugar; with beet and artichoke sugar factories in the Salem district, and all over the Willamette valley. Is there a read er of this paragraph who would ao rfsk aa-extra charge of a lit tle over half a cent a week on the sagar he consumes la order to acr compllah this? And, the writer as tares him, the risk of the halt a cent a week would be a "million to on shot against the possibil ity of going- against him. Why? Because, la the very nature of things, the "poor" Cubani would Tarry ..... . . . pay It. Not the "poor" Cubans, either, but the Wall street trust exploiting the poor Cubans, -who will get their bare living in condi tions of slavery and serfdom, whether the Wall street trust is ahl( to Tar 1aa than K rpnli n pound as they did when they had ! f nd here w,n be money on hand the chance, during the World war.!1? the revolving fund to pay for and would do again, "many's the I time," if they had another chance. or many of them, which they might have, but for the American competition of our beet and cane growers. The member of congress who peddled the piffle about the "last straw" was Mr. Frear of Wiscon sin. He Is likely personally hon est; we have a right to assume that most members of congress are. But he is politically a piffler. He got his cue from the lying smoke screen of the sugar trust's lobbyists, and did not take the pains to make an analysis of the sooty smoke of sophistry. S Will Rogers, super quipster, slammed Senator Smoot the oth er evening, saying he was plan ning to make all Americans eat sugar made from Utah beets. Rog ers knows better than most people the ingenuousness of the slam. But this shows the trailing along of even a high minded man after the slush track of the sugar trust, marked out for the morons who are susceptible to any kind of rot that is put before them, so long as it leads them to imagine they are being injured or planned against. If Mr. Smoot, in charge of the Hawley bill in the senate, keeps the sugar schedule as it stands, he will be doing a big thing for the American people. If he gets a higher duty on sugar, he will do still better and he would have to boost it three or four times 64 cents a hundred pounds to strike the average increases in the other countries of the world having su gar industries; and about seven times 64 cents to hit the pace of the British boost. S S V Th first two flax pullers went to the fields on Friday. Two a day are going or will go out till the whole 45 are in the hands of the growers, ready for the harvest of ; merits and demerits has been in the 4500 acres under contract to stituted by the civil service com the state. j mission. Millions of Families Depend onDr.Caldwell's Prescription When Dr. Caldwell started to practice medicine, back in 1S75, the needs for a laxative were not as great as they are today. People lived normal, quiet lives, ate plain, wholesome food, and got plenty of fresh air, and sunshine. But even that early there were drastic physics and purges for the relief of constipation which Dr. Cald well did not believe were good for human beings to put Into their systems. So he wrote a prescrip tion tor a laxative to be ased by his patients. The prescription for constipa tion that he used early in his prac tice, and which he pat la drag stores in 1892 under the name of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, u a liquid vegetable remedy. Intended for women, ehildroa and elderly people, and they need Just such a mild, safe, gentle bowel atlmntaat as Syrup Pepsin. Under successful management this prescription hat proves its worth and is now the largest sell ing liquid laxative la the world. The tact that millions of bottles are nsed a year proves that It has woa the confidence of people who needed It to get relief frost head aches, biliousness, flatuleace. In digestion, loss of appetite aad sleep, "bad breath, dyspepsia, colds aad fevers. Millions of families are now ncrer without Dr. Caldwell'a Syr- If the Aurora district, and some others, flax pulling will be com menced, in early maturing fields right after July 4th. Harvesting I and delivering will then proceed with an upward trend in volume, till perhaps the latter part of Aug ust for pulling the last of it, and around October first for the final deliveries. S It will be threshed as delivered. J"" a ao " . . whole crop. Perhaps a good deal more, for the crop 13 good. V And that is just a fair beginning of what is in prospect, for an in dustry the boosting of which by the Bits man and others, only a few years ago, caused them to be considered in the classification of "nuts." Well, "who's looney now?" Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read June S3, 1004 Alumni association of Willam ette University held its annual meeting yesterday afternoon and last night. Speakers for the eve ning banquet included: Miss So phia Townsend, '03; Prof. T. J. Matthews, '99. sang a solo. The attendance was not large. Willamette University board of trustees elected officers as fol lows: General W. H. Odell, Port land, honorary president; A. Smith. Portland, president; C. Bishop, vice-president; A. Moores, treasurer; trustees three years A. M. Smith, J. Albert and C. P. Bishop. M. P. N. for H. Sheriff Thomas Linvllle of As toria brought a delegation of three convicts to the state prison. Fifty head of Clyde and Ham bletonia bred horses will be offer ed a public auction at the C. A. A. C. baseball grounds next Saturday. SCHOOL DAYS FOREVER HOUSTON'. Tex. (AP) Em ployees of this city-get a weekly reminder of their school days. A system of report cards showing AT AOC as np Pepsin, and It yon will one start using it yon will also always hav a bottle 'handy for emer gencies. It la particularly pleasing to know that most of It is bought by mothers for themselves and the children, though Syrup Pepsin is Just as valuable for elderly people. All drag stores, hare the generous battles. A trial fs nn to convince aay household of the merits of this famous prescription. c yr raj Lay Seirmoais Power Lost And Power Betalaed chirr tm tk r. Hr- w,c" shaa MMClrf Ual th utecrdaUl fe can ae longer iapote r impre" s"T hat tk lettered, or tfca ifttelleetnny iklat." w Kqxrt. This Is rather a blistering in dictment ot the church by one who is called to head tho commission on the study of crime in this coun try. It is true that the grip of the church upon the people has been slipping. Protestants substitated an inerrant hook, for an inerrant person. But textual criticism came along and exposed errors In the book. That left Protestants with out the customary chart and rud der. As a result many of the old tabus have been annulled. They no longer operate" as social' or per sonal controls. In "Middletown a recent study of a real city with that fictitious name, the authors note the pass ing of many of the older religious ideas. The hell of fire and brim stone no longer terrorises the mul titude as once it did; and the promise of a beatific heaven as a reward for terresttrial faithful ness does not have the appeal it once had to the residents ot "Mid dletown" which Is pictured as a croS-section of American life. With the rank and file so un settled in their religious beliefs it may not be surprising to find that clergymen are in such wide disagreement as to the doctrinal essentials. Prof. George H. Betts. of Northwestern university, form erly of Cornell college, Mt. Vern on, Iowa, has just written a book Children Revel in Nature; Farm Life Brings Them to Helpful Situation, View EDITOR'S NOTE One of the most faithful correspondents for The Statesman is Mrs. W. II. Crawford, who in the follow ing story relates an interest ing situation which occurred on her farm home at Zena this week. Mrs. Crawford finds farm life intensely in teresting. ZENA, June 22. In my hum durm, workaday life, there are many compensations and one or these is every-varying "Mother Nature" and my children's delight in solving her mysteries. My youngest daughter, Wilma, aged eght, came tiptoeing into the house the other day, bursting with news. I was especially bu3y, but took time to listen to something that was of more importance than house work. We were alone In the room, hut Wilma pulled me down so she could whisper in my ear, "Moth er, do you know what I have found?" After several futile guesses, such as 'A new baby calf," "baby chickens" or maybe the Canter bury bell has blomed, she whisp ered: "I've found a little nest fuil of dirty colored eggs with brown by KAlWi urn madt dmazina I t I Gfund value ever GULBRANSEN, A TYPE AND STYli . PR B VERY HO M B oa "Tho Beliefs of 70 Ministers. Tho only proposition on which the 500 aetlTo ministers and the Z9Q theological students agreed on was that God exists. Nor was there mucb. agreement within the de nominations, except the Imtheran. In the Methodist group Jor In stance per cent ot the 111 In terviewed agreed only 11 oot ot the 51 Items ot belief. Of tho min isterial group per cent pro fessed what might be termed con servative views; of the student group only 22 per cenL. While it Is true that fears ot hell and hopes of heaven have lost their potency, that does not mean that the priestly office Is without power and influence. Prophetic voices still may ring clear as did those of Amos and Hosea of old whose brilliant messages have in spired to more noble living through the centuries. To threaten or command or frighten may no longer avail the preacher in the handling of his Hock; but the burning message of eternal truth which he may speak still appeals and still should impose self-restraint and the building of char acter upon youth and age. Christianity has been noted thiougb the centuries for what Gibbon called its "pure and aus tere morals.' Its high ethical code does not pass out with the aban donment of certain conceptions of theology. Preaching the ten com mandments and the golden rule and the Ideal of Christian living still carries force to the informed as well as the unlettered mind. spech on them. Do yon suppose their are qualis eggs? Come and see it, mother," and she com menced pulling my arm .trying to get me to go. Obeys Urging There have been few times that I haven't obeyed the kiddies urg ent summons to see something of great interest to them and I always feel guilty, so I left my unfinished work and trudged up the road to find out if possible, what kind of a nest Wilma had found. "The nest is right by the wild pea vines on the pasture fence, and we must be careful or we'll step on the eggs." I incautiously stepped up the bank by the side of the road and from under my feet there was a mad whirring and fluttering and the mother quail flew off the nest giving a splen did example of a wounded wild bird In order to draw us away from her precious nest. Feat Puzzling One I had always heard that mother quail will try this feat but her actions were so realistic that tor a minute I was puzzled. Upon ex amining the ground at my feet I finally discovered the nest which was well hidden under a layer ot vines and grass. It had been hol lowed out in the grass and seem ed almost too small to hold the From the world's largest could achieve the seem piano factory comes this ingly impossible. You'll miracle of piano value. Made hardlv helipw iw n ; the greatest piano de- 0 " -W 4 signers... produced in jk enormous quantities. Only Gulbransen Your old piano as part payment 1MIME IS SCENE FOR VISIT SPRING VALLEY, June 22 Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Matthews daring the past week were Mr. and Mrs, Walter Brog and their small daughter Delores of Clatskanie. Ore., and Mr.- and Mrs. E. G. Kirkwood and family of . The Dalles, Ore. Doris Windsor spent Wednes day as the guest of her school mates, Olive and Ha Ann Strat ton. William Holman, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Holman, of Sa lem, is spending the summer va cation on the farm with his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Damm. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Alderman enteretained as their guests one evening last week, Mrs. Alder man's parents, Mr. and Mrs. An gus tSevenson, Misses Ruth and Shirley Mae Stevenson, of Salem Heights, and their house guest, Mrs. Gilbert Marshall of Grand Froks, North Dakota. D. D. Walace and Wayne Wil kinson, of West Salem, are cut ting white fir wood for F. G. McLench. Mrs. H. S. Eberly was called to Portland Wednesday by the ni nes of' her son. Eld on, who has been confined to a Portland hos pital several weeks with crushed hands, which he injured while working at a logging camp at Carson, Wash. An operation was to be performed 1 nan effort to save amputation ot the injured hand. "Mr; .and -Mrs. Frank B. Wind sor, Miss Irene Windsor, Vernon Windsor, Mr. and Mrs. John Ch.I ders. Miss Grace Chllders. Mrs. Mary E. Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Wilson and daughter Dorothy ,i Mrs. X4 F. Matthews and daughter Marjorle, Miss Dorothy Kirkwood and Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Alderman attended the funer al services tor J. F. Allison ot Salem, who was burled at the Hopewell cemetery Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Allison was an uncle of Mrs. Childers and Mr. Windsor. The recent rains have helped the grain crops, but were not so helpful to the hay, which is be ing harvested now. Much oat and vetch hay and wheat was laid down by the storm. Ida and Pearl McKinney are suffering with an attack of rod measles. A number of the farmers are ha vng. their silos filled with al falfa, rye and other types of green feed. 14 eggs reposing there. We did not disturb the wild mother's nest but Wilma and I will watch closely and be fortun ate enough to see the tiny young sters when they are first hatched, as they will leave the nest soon after getting out of the shell end find their living with their moth er in the fields and woods. This little incident is only cne of the many which happen daily in our family and my housework suffers In consequence, but as long as our children are healthy in mind and body why should we care? " value could be packed into a grand at $495, but here it is. Come in and let us show you. i