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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, June 27. 1929
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From First Statesman, March 28, 1251
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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
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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. Salem retains the lea
gue lead, with Eugene second.
Vacation time is here, have The
Oregon Statesman mailed to you
while you are gone. Fifty cents
per month anywhere. Phone 500,
we will do the rest.
To maintain a slender
figure, no one can deny
the truth of the advice:
"REACH FOR A LUCKY
INSTEAD OF A SWEET."
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