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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Homing, Jane 23, 1929
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u ,rNo Favor Stray Us; No Fear Shall Awe."
'' i'-' From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
THE STATESMAN
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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-
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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
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in modern industrialization of
released. Mass consumption of
and commodities by no means
commoner. We have glorified
the rammer series of home-state
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BITS for BREAKFAST
-By R. J. HENDRICKS
Reverting to the sugar tariff
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It will be threshed as delivered.
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whole crop. Perhaps a good deal
more, for the crop 13 good.
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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
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the greatest piano de-
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1MIME
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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.
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