! k ft PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, June 27. 1929 . . . 1 " 1 " 1 i I - ii II A Ptri1niie Pnsifrnn II , , . 1 . ... ssrc i i Sk - r VvVMnri t r hut "No Favor Sways Um; Afo Fear Shall Awe" . From First Statesman, March 28, 1251 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A; SnwcrE, Sheldon F. Sackttt, Publisher Charles A. Snucce - - - Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - llanaffrng Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the nse for I publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this, paper. Entered, at the Pos toff ice at Salem, Oregon. as Second-Claee Matter.' Published ever morning except Monday. Business office S15 S,' Commercial. Street.' . - Pacific Coaat-JidTertising-RepresenUtiTes: Arthur ''W. Stypes, lnu, Portland, Security Bldg. . San Francisco, Sharon Bldg. Los Angeles, W. Pac Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives:; Ford-Parsons-Stecfacr, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 350 N. Michigan Ave.- Why Not Boil Them in Oil " A FTER 24 hours of almost continuous questioning, Pros XX ecutor John J. Chester, Jr., announced this afternoon that he had ceased interrogating Dr. James H. Snook." So read the A. P. dispatch just preceding the release of the news that Snook had confessed the murder of an Ohio co-ed, his love-mate. That means of course that the officers of the law resorted to the conventional third degree methods, though possibly not in so barbaric a manner as in the case of the ordinary rough-neck suspect. Theoretically a man is supposed to be innocent until he is proven guilty. Actually if the police lay hands on a man titer the commission of a major crime, and if there is any indication of his connection with the crime, he is put through a terrific milling or even worse to break down his resistance and extort a confession from him. Aaa Tteyes and his reti nue, followed similar tactics with Gordon Northcott. Now Snook is put through 24 hours of "almost continuous ques tioning. Standing on his strictly legal rights bnook could have refused to answer any questions. If he had done that he .might have had the host treatment or some other physi- cat Druiaiuy visiiea on nun iu nume nun lata.. s t 4 Snook is no doubt 'guilty, In spite of the confusion the zealous prosecutor has extracted from him. But what about the continuance of third degree methods by enforcing ofn cials? We are not at all squeamish about the matter, but there ought to be some limit this side of police barbarism which officers df the law may go to in trying to make a man talk the way they want him to talk. Statements and con fessions signed at the end of a day or longer of being on the rack may have a3 little value as the recanting of a heretic after a similar experience. At least if we are going to per mit police officers to break a man's body and mind in such fashion, it ought to be done under some color of law and not with such an invasion of human rights which even the ac cused of crime is supposed to possess. Utility Racketeers WE hope the federal trade commission gets around some time before long to pull the curtain on the financing of these public utility holding companies. Changing the fig ure of speech, it will be like lifting a plank that has been lying on dank earth. .What a lot of wriggling there will be to locate protective shade. It is easy enough to understand pyramiding of holding companies, where Company A holds the voting stock of com pany B and company B holds the voting stock of company C and so on down to company Z which is the real operating company. But the latest moves of the financial wizards is to scramble the eggs until, it will take some one like Lawyer C. E. Hughes in the old insurance investigation days to get the eggs traced to their proper ancestry. Holding compan ies are now formed to hold stocks in numerous "already holding' companies. Thus Universal Super Power corpora tion is a big holding company with a chain of subsidiaries. Along comes some stock holding concern of some other fi nancial house and buys a big block of Universal Super Power stock, and vice versa, and in and out and all about. Perhaps everything is wholesome and in the public in terest. Our guess is that the revelation of the financial high jacking which has been going on will make the utility racket as malodorous as the insurance scandals of a generation ago. Here is one lead that might prove interesting if followed up aggressively. It is a news item from one of the Pulitzer . papers: "Morgan and Associated Gas interests had a skirmish over As sociated's taking over operating subidiaries of General Gas & Elec- trie corporation, in which United Gas Improvement Co. had a large stock interest. The case was settled out of court by Associated paying United Gas $46,725,525 for its General Gas stock. United Gas Improvement is controlled by Untted Corporation." L Who are the Country's Foes? "fTlHE real enemies of the country are not other nations, X but the regiments and brigades in the mighty army of illiterates in all nations, our own included." That is the opinion of the editor of the Oregon Journal. So we all used to think. Banish ignorance and the world would be ushered into an enlightened age with wrong and crime and distress abolished. Education, education was the program to work the salvation of the world. So we -thought, and we poured our money like water building schoolhouses and more schoolhouses and finer schoolhouses and more expensive programs and higher- sal aried teachers. We have pretty well banished illiteracy in this country at any rate. For a generation and longer we have had compulsory school laws. Yet we have an outbreak of crime that we are official ly warned by no less a personage than our president, that threatens the very foundations of our state. This crime is not the handiwork of the illiterate. It is the work of chaps of from 17 to 25 who have had the advantage of our super ior educational opportunities. The crimes of today are -not the crimes of hot passion in brains dulled by ignorance. They are crimes of stealth and cunning, utterly cold-blooded. Murder is now a matter of merchandise. Leopold and Loeb, Hickman, and now Df. Snook were not illiterate. On the contrary they were well educated. We may grant that the criminals of today are not of superior minds; but are in fact dullards and those low in mental scale. Still the fact remains that education in and of . itself is not enough. There must be moral training: to ac . company book-teaching. There must be discipline to culti vate character. There is a vital need for a religious ideal ism which can grip and hold those whose moral fiber is less sturdy. Education without moral training makes for . skilled thievery and shrewd criminality. The criminal with an edu cation is more dangerous than the illiterate and the ignorant Changing Traffic Signals in Detroit BILLY SUNDAY, veteran of many an evangelistic cam paign, and Aimee McPherson are announced to join in a 15-day drive against the devil and his works in Detroit. This duet of soul-savers ought to succeed in changing the traffic directions in that sinful city, where the green signal on the hell-road has been stuck fast for a good many months. If -they can only begin on rum. row and stop the importations, of booze from across the river they will save the government a lot of money and the officers a lot of target practice.- The only change of disagreement from this team might come tfnen they go to divide the proceeds. Is it 50-50, or a 60-40 split? -We wonder too how Sunday's gospel will har monize with Almee'a divine healing attachments. the pUlas by ox team In the Im migration oi mat year, lot uwu inn .nil Goers brought their nur series and fruit seed that started the early orchards of Oregon. Many brought neras ox gooa mtnrV nnrwn. cattle sheen, hogs. te. Th Immigration of that year. some 5000 soirie, douDiea tne population of Oregon, and started the schools and many improved lines of Industry and agriculture. That immigration brought Sam uel R. Thurston, Oregon's first official delegate in congress, who gave the pioneers their titles through the passage of the dona tion land laws. Is S Bancroft says: "The Immigra tion of 1847 from Its numbers and general competency material ly assisted in the development .or the country; and by greatly in creasing the oonulation rendered possible the introduction of coun try schools, though they were sua supported by private means. To this addition more than to any previous one the colony was in debted for improvements la stoca and farm products, and partcul- arly in fruit raising. The men of 1847 wtre not like those of 143 and IS 4 4 animated by a romantic idea of founding a Pacific state. They realized that this had al ready been done, and came to grather whatever advantage was to flow from It to their genera tion." - S Bancroft also said: "They com menced arriving at The Dalles as early as the end of August, and continued to arrive until Novem ber, when 200 wagons were still on the eastern side of the moun tains. Every expedition by wagon had been attended by suffering and loss; nor was this one an ex ception. Its number was the prin cipal cause of its misfortunes; the foremost companies exhausted the grass, compelling the rear to de lay In order to recruit their cattle, which brought them in late, with great loss and in a starving condi tion. For the same cause, sickness, attacked the trains and an (eplT demic called the black measles prevailed, from which many died on the latter part of the Journey or after arrival." Bancroft says the Indians, from the Bine moun tains to the Dalles -attacked sev eral small companies, robbing the wagons apd in some instance tAmriwtm tha ointhinr from the per- sons of the women, leaving them naked In the wilderness, ana committing other outrages." That was the year of the Whit man massacre, Not. 2t, and number of immigrants who ar rived late and remained at Waii latpu were included In the hor rible hatchery and nameless out rages of the treacherous Cayuse savages. n . The Bend people plan well In proposing the monument to the unknown pioneer. If their exam ple were generally followed such monuments would be ffo numerous across 2,000 miles of territory that one retracing the steps of the covered wagon trek would not be out of sight of such a marker all the long way. Justify their continued Incarcera tion. If their conviction was se cured on perjured testimony, if the gUllt OI iwu uvu waa uui established beyond a reasonable doubt then, regardless of their re spective reputations, they should be reieasea. xais wuum scow me least society eould do to correct a great wrong. . Absolutely sound In theory but where politics are injected things, unfortunately, do not wxrk out this way. For Governor Young to pardon w nntlnn would tak JHUUUVJ c5 courage and involve the risk of losing votes. Perhaps he is big en ough and strong enough to place abstract Justice nhove his person al politics fortunes. We hope so. But there seem to ; " of this sump in the public life of America today. Medford Mail Tribune. BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS To the unknown pioneer There is to be a monument built through the efforts of the Bend Kiwanis duo. In the desert near that city stands a gnarled and twisted juni per tree that marks the grave of a woman. There is roughly carved on the tree's wood words that tell of the burial there of a pioneer who breathed her last at that lonely spot, almost within sight of the promised land, after enduring the dangers and hardships of prairie, plain and mountain for nearly or quite two thousand miles of slow and weary travel. But the growth of the tree has obliterated the name, and there remains in all the central Oregon country no one who recalls, either by memory or by hearsay, the event of her death. Frank Jenkins, editor, writing in the Eugene Register, fells of the late J. C. Bushnell, of that city, whose memory of the events of the great migration to the Ore gon country remained unusually clear and sharp almost to the day of his death, relating to him once a pitiful little story that may throw some light upon this grave in the desert. Ti S Mr. Jenkins says the unknown pioneer woman was laid to her last long rest "some 82 years ago." This would indicate that she was of th immigration of 1847. Mr. Bushnell told Mr. Jen kins, as he remembers, of a young mother in the wagon train with which he came across the plains whose strength was Insufficient for the hardships of the journey; "day by day she failed, and for weeks it seemed that she must pass on beyond the great divide; but so earnest was her longing to see the promised land on the shores of the far western sea, where a home was to be found for her and hers, that she seemed able, because of her great longing, to push back the clutching hand of death." "The end came, as Mr. Bush nell remembered it, somewhere near the great bend of the Des chutes river, the Farewell Bend of the ox team pioneers who there left the level and open stretches of the desert and ventured the passage of the rugged Cascades." At the annual reunion of the Oregon Pioneer association, at the state fair grounds Tuesday, June 17. 1879, Ralph C. Geer told much in the "occasional address" of that year of the 1847 immigra tion, in which were the Geers, the Dimicks, the later Burnetts, and many more whose names adorn the history of Oregon. Thomas Cox and his son, William, who opened the first store in Salem, brought their goods with which they opened up business across I .emti knock... 'i minien 1 The EIEWAOP that CAME to thisWEW and BETTGQ ALMOST like a grass fire the ZJk news spread? lait Octbtxer, JL JL that a new and better motor fad named T1Q1ET KAT wl mmSik Gasoline, had come on the market. 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In a few short nnrtrhs.lt has become the preferred gasoline among all wkb demarii nsMC performance, fuel economy ad maintenance economy in theto motor cars. LOOK FOR THE VIOLET COLOR Try jnat one tankful and the fan proved performmre of your motoi wO tell you that Violet Ray is the finest motor fuel that refining science can produce today. Prodttct of Qemerei TttnUmt Corporation of California IT IS TOUR PROTECTION Editors Say: SHOULD TOM MOOXEY BE PARDOXKD ? As far as Mooney and Billings are concerned, those w"ho know most about their case believe most strongly in their innocence. It Is generally agreed they were convicted on neriured testimony. Tha iuden in the case, the prose cuting attorney, ana.memners 01 the iurv have all signed the pe tition asking for their pardon. Were it not tor the poiiucai risk such action would involve It is a moral certainty Governor Toanr would have nardoned the two men long ago and Governor Richardson would probably have taken such action before him. But the feeling against Mooney and Billings still runs strong in California. This is not due to any steadfast conviction concerning their guilt, but to the general be lief. pretty well sustained by thA farts that Mooneviand Bil lings, particularly the iformer, are undesirable, if not positively a an eernna characters. This feeling, of course, does not Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read Jane 27, 1M4. The annual commencement of the Chemawa Indian school will begin today and continue four days. Rev. Dr. Heppe will deliver the baccalaureate sermon. Claud Gateh is carrying around a bandaged and painful eye, the result of rubbing his eye after he had been handling paper money. Frank Griersoa, who lives four miles below Salem, has a game chicken with three legs, each per fectly developed. Mrs. A. B. Giesy has gone to Aurora for a visit with friends. Salem won from Eugene 11 to 7 In yesterday's ball game played at Eugene. 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