The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, June 28, 1929, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR "No Favor Sxcaya Vs; No Fear SI mil Awe. From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 W THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Speacle, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publithert CHARLES A. Spragve ... Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett 9 - - Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper. Entered at the Posteffice at SaUm, Oregon, a Seeond-Cla$ Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Br-tinets office 215 S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives : Arthur W. Stypes, Ine, 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. The School at the Farm Home ONE of the last acts of the board of regents of the state normal school was to abolish the teacher training cours es hitherto offered by the Monmouth normal at the chil dren's farm home near Corvallis. We hope this ruling is not permitted to stand, and that the new board of higher edu cation may be able to compose the differences intimated to exist and provide this instruction at the farm home. The reported friction was between the superintendent of the farm home and the normal . school organization. It seems difficult to grant that these differences are serious enough to warrant the suspension of the service which the normal school has previously given at the farm home. Over a hundred boys and girls are being cared for at the farm home, under the government of a representative boad of trustees and an earnest and efficient superintendent, Mr. Heyman. The education of the children has been con ducted by the normal using the school as a training school for teachers. In this way the teachers received their re quired training and the farm home, which constitutes a school district in itself, had the children educated at small cost. It is hard to see how the school can be carried on with out the continued connection with the normal. The farm ' home's revenues are not sufficient to provide teaching staff for the school. We can see where a serious situation may develop. Many people living even- so close as Salem to the farm home do not realize the splendid work that is being done there in the training of orphaned boys and girls. Children principally from broken homes are housed and cared for there in a fine, intelligent, wholesome manner. With a farm to work on each child has definite duties along with his schooling; and the children produce from the farm a goodly portion of their needs with a surplus to sell. Carle Abrams, secretary of the board of control, told us the other day he had bought the state's, supply of canned tomatoes from the farm home. Pay a visit at the home, which is located on the Albany-Corvallis highway about mid-way between the two cities. You will be cordially received and - will come away proud of the work the farm home is doing, for the homeless boys and girls of Oregon. Dawes Makes a Good Start EX-GENERAL, EX-VICE PRESIDENT DAWES is getting off to a fine start as ambassador to Great Britain. He didn't start in to tell the British how to revise the rules of parliament, but he has lost no time getting on the job and discharging its duties with a refreshing candor and direct ness. He met the king, then he had an important confer ence with Prime Minister MacDonald which gives promise of being a long step toward reduction of naval armaments. Asked if he would serve liquor at the embassy, Mr. . Dawes promptly and frankly said "No". He made the sim ple explanation that he never served liquor in his own home in Evanston, and, didn't see why he should abroad. He goes to meet the queen in conventional evening clothes, that is American evening clothes. The Lord Chamberlain professed consternation over his failure to wear knee britches and silk hosiery but that old gent gets heart failure all the time over "breeches" of etiquette. The other day Mr. Dawes lunched at "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese". This famous old eating house in Fleet street, which is what we Americans call "newspaper row", has memories dating back to Dr. Samuel Johnson who f requent- ed the place. Dawes partook of meat pie and Cheshire cheese, though the report doesn't say whether the cheese was as "olde" as Dr. Johnson. The American visitor even took a few puffs from a great ever that is, but a few puffs satisfied him and he pulled out his faithful underslung cherry wood. The country, your own home country, is strong for you Mr. Dawes. It glories in your clear-headedness, your sensi ble division of sham and worthiness in conventions and cus toms, and your forthright effort to harmonize the interests of the twd great English-speaking nations. What a change years make. William Dawes, forbear of Charles, started out with Paul Revere on that famous ride to rouse the countryside against the sortie of redcoats. Now Charles is warmly welcomed , St. James. Dress Well and Succeed! THE college prof who told Massachusetts Tech graduates to be snobs, included in the amplification of this exhor tation to wear good clothes. Now that was good advice. Men have lost the art of dressing well. The. decline traces hack to those horrid campus panying sweater. Cords and sweater with soft shirt and no necktie made a roughneck outfit that got by on the campus where youth is supposed to with its trick of tire-changing or car-trouble made men lapse into less immaculate dress- So now you seldom see a well dressed gentleman any more. The black derby was a feeble and frantic effort to restore sense of dress among men, but worn with gar sport coats in fall and winter the combina tion was ludicrous. Dishrag fort,' have contributed to the sartorial let-down. Here is hoping the clothing merchants can stage a suc cessful revival of the art and the habit of dressing well. That doesn't mean spats, a cane, and a monacle. It does mean the manners and the mode of a gentleman. Perhaps it is a College Yell mHE editor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times writes in highly , A entertaining style of his gon to help the governors dedicate the bridge over bmith river in California. He told all about how Smith river got its name from Jedediah Smith, nsmreare of Solomon and suggested it be called, the "Jed Smith" river to distinguish it from the several other members of the Smith family who live - in Oregon and California! - But he failed to give, the pedigree of "Hiouchi" which is the name given to the bridge. Is it Hawaiian, first cousin to the famous dance? Is it pronounced on the "ouch"? Or do you sneeze hard on the last syllable 7 Maybe it is Indian or Chinese. But we must know so we may keep up with the day's news. .-,.-- .. ; - , ... i Albany Is going to entertain There most be press conventions cians, physicians and politicians, flora, ; draw bridge tenders, and commercial club secretaries. The news-mongers of the state win enjoy the warmth of Albany's hespi- Btality Friday and Saturday and then at Newport Sunday. Church Warden pipe, what as Ambassador at the court of -cords, cords and the accom set the style The. automobile collars advertised for "com trip through southwestern Ore tbe editors of the state tkis week. along with convention! ot morti to say nothing of court hoose Jan get a real chill in Pacific waters Maybe 7m TmF " " " ' w 1 , i . zr BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS World's strawberry city ". That is what Salem is. and evi dently will persist in being, and in increasing her lead. b S S Back in the nineties, when this section was just emerging from the one crop era of mossbacklsm, and a man who afterwards be came governor of Oregon was writing for the public prints ad vice against growing anything for outside markets but wheat, for which there was always a certain cash market abroad, the boosters of that time ventured to call this the cherry city of the world. That was the first ambitious gasp towards the domain of the land of diversity, and we quarreled with The Dalles about the handle we took to our name. The name persists. We have the Cherry City bakery and the Cherry City other concerns. And we are a much greater cherry than we were then, and will be more and more so, of course. At that time the Hood River district was away ahead ot the Salem district on strawberries. Bat we have so far passed the Hood River district that the big cannery at The. Dalles for sever. al years sent Its fleets of tracks through Hood River to the Salem section to get strawberries to eke out its supplies, and that concern is now doing the same thing for their Portland plant. m S They grow a lot of strawberries near San Francisco, New York. Chicago, Detroit and the other big cities. But they eat them fresh from the vines. Any one of scores ot the Salem district strawberry patches could supply the total Salem market. We can and cold pack the great bulk of our strawberries, and in this re spect Salem is far and away the leading strawberry state of the union; and in this respect Salem is practically the whole of Ore gon; almost as much so as In the production of bops. S If the 'cold pack process keeps going like it looks it might, there is going to be a great and steady expansion of our strawberry lead. And besides, that process, bids fair to bring the loganberry in dustry back and keep it on the map in an expanding condition. But Oregon leads In, black rasp berries and gooeeberitis. and that also means the Salem -district. S And this Is the fiber flax and Unen center of the country, and the filbert center, and la going to be the the walnut and other edible nut center. And the pump kin canning center, and going to be the string bean eenter and we have only just got a fair start In diversity. This will be the mint center ot tht world, and In fact the essentiol oil eenter, clear up to attar of rosea. It Is the world record Jersey cow cen ter. It will bo the aamt tor the Cuenueys and other breeds. It will be the goat center, too. An gora and milk. And that Is not halt the story; not nearly half It is Just a fair start. S The visitors at the Hunt ean nery In Salem at the open house session of Wednesday afternoon saw something the telling ' ot which win -surprise a lot ot them. They taw a larger packing ot strawberries than was ever be fore done In one day by a single plant In the world. This was re peated yesterday, and will per. slst a few days longer; and it will be exceeded each year here after, in mounting totals. w s In the words of the advertis ing slogan, "there is a reason. W. O. Allen, called "Bill" by his brothers of Rotary and other fa miliars, la the doyea of the can The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, He Didn't Like The ning business In Salem. That is a long story. But he was the pio neer In developing the proper strawberry varieties for this dis trict. Albert Etter, the apple and strawberry Burbank, of Eureka Cal., developed many varieties. He named one of them the Treb la, spelling his first name back wards. The Trebla looked like a comer. There were about 57 varieties of Etterburgs. Bill Al len tried out all of them here, and many others. -The Etterburg our people have settled upon is for its true name Etterburg 121. The great Salem strawberry dis trict has come down to just two varieties, or rather types the Etterburg type for the firm or canning berry, and the Marshall or Oregon -or New Oregon for the soft, early, cold pack berry. There is not much if any differ, ence between the cold pack types, excepting in name. It would take a book to trace our great strawberry industry through its history. But what is said In this paragraph will serve to show its extreme high lights. " J. Robertson Brooks was buri ed here on Wednesday. His church, his American Legion com rades and others paid their last sad tributes. He was a Salem boy, coming from splendid fami lies on both Bides. Men and wo men who pioneered in Oregon among the early state builders; leaving and perpetuating names and heritages of which any one might well be proud. Robert was a bright boy. He was endowed with fine attributes and talents. He worked on The Statesman with the Bits man and showed the marks of high emprise; the divine afflatus of genius and vi sion. He had traits ot character that were noble. He enlisted un der the Stars and Stripes for the World war, and In the loyal ser vice of his country contracted tu berculosis, resulting in a condi tion of mind that led him to dis tractions. Who will say he might not under similar circum stances be worried and harassed? Robertson may have made mis. takes. Who has not? Let us all hark back to the ancient Injunc tion, "de mortuis nil nisi bonum," (ot the dead let nothing but good be said), and thing of J. Robert son Brooks In a perspective of his fine qualities of head and heart. And let ns all assure his people left on this side, of the great di vide of our sincere sympathies and continuing nelghborllness and helpfulness as they draw the cur tain of memory over a life that, under different dispensations ot the fortunes none of us can en tirely control, might have made vastly more ot the natural talents with which ft was endowed. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talk from The States man Oar Fathers Read SS. 1004 Attendance at the Turner camp meeting reached tht peak Sunday, when Dr. Tufts of the Anti-Saloon league addressed the meet ing. A resolution was adopted to work with the league and other-churches to stamp out licensed saloons. A wagon road will be built this summer from the -Elkhorn post office into the Santiaa Mines, the county court said upon return from a trip to the mine. . Eugene Slater gave a pleasant party at his home last evening In honor ot his friend. Walter Foot, a well known local messen ger boy who leaves today for St. Louis, where he has accented a position. Oresron, Friday Morning; Jnne Noise They Say... Expressions of Opinion from Statesman Readers are Welcomed for Use la this column. All Letters Must" Bear Writer's Name, Though Tbid Need Nit be Printed. To the Editor: I have noticed in your columns several articles on the coming ro deos, all over Oregon. Not .once, either editorially or through press letters, have I seen any ob jection voiced. It seems to be an increasingly popular craze. Heav ily timbered tracts, swamp lands, every little old village has to have its rodeo! Have you no other more intelligent and more humane way to amuse your selves? Can you not levy and spend money on more progres sive, substantial ways? Does the rodeo with all its yelling, dust, crowding, vices of every sort; stapled or terror stricken animals fleeing for their lives, blinded eyes, broken necks, crushed ribs, wretched little calves chased all over the place; children, getting their first lessons of shameful cruelty; men and women Unthink ing, nncarlng, acting like hood lums or with a fierce barbarity that would disgrace the Dark Ages; are all these things repre sentative of your people? Do they truly typify your pioneer past? Do they express exactly your present ambition, your Industry, your intelligence, your idealism, the substantial progress you hope for your state? Can you invite tbe world to see what only disgraces, demoralizes them and you? Have you nothing- to appeal to -their love of beauty, mentality, sports manshipno way to entertain them but to crowd them into grandstands to watch a blood stained, agonised little blinded calf stumble about; or wild things from distant ranges flee for their Uves In aU the pain and shock, an uproar they cannot comprehend or escape; or steers buldogged, excruciating pain at which everybody is expected to cheer; or bulls brought from far away India, with bull fighter technique from debased Mexico? From Arizona, Wyoming, Okla. homa, everywhere you bring in performers, long trained in cru elties. Neither now nor in the past does I truly represent pio. neer life, or frontier habits or ne cessities, nothing native to a state you should be proud of. Ton hare Incorporated, organis ed, spent S35.000 for grounds here, $15,000 for stands there, raised $10,000 for purses, adver tised, laid tracks, spent money like water. In a state that needs schools, roads, bridges, one of the most undeveloped, backward states In- the Union. Yet you think rodeos really, permanently advance you in a respected, self respecting, and financial way! So short-sighted that you debase yourself, cripple your advance, and bring unnecessary ' misery up on the hundreds ot animals tor. tared every year to make a sense lets holiday! Have yon no pity for them? Have you no regard for the growing children Invited to watch their abuse? Have you ever thought that eommerciallx. in any sport la had and that commercial Ul ng cruelty Is the worst of all? L. M. Clarke. - Astoria, Ore. TOURIST SEASOX ON The: variety of automobUe li cense plates to ho seen on the streets gives evidence ; that the tourist season Is getting into its stride. Roseburg Kews-Reriew. Vacation time Is here, have The Oregon Statesman mailed to you while you are gone. Fifty cents per mouth anywhere. Phone 600, we will do th rest. . 28. 1929 Editors Say: ELECTIONS Df ROME AND O OREGON Oregon's primary election law permits the candidates to employ slogans as a means of attracting the interest and support of the voters. Eaeh person who runs for office may attach to his name a slogan that states his political principles or his platform or his views on certain Issues. Candidates use the slogan, too. They spend days of thought on it, for they ap preciate that it is a lure for votes. But Oregon's use of the slogan is nothing- new to politics. In the days ot the Roman republic, the Roman candidates used slogans. On the walls of ancient Pompeii. Mussolini's excavators uncovered a few days ago the record ot a by gone Roman election. Several can didates had placarded the wall be fore the lava flow from Vesuvius covered the city. One of these candidates was Mansa Sablnus. History does not record his name, so he never could have amounted to very much. He was brjbably a candidate for the legislature so he never became famous. But his slogan was as fol lows: "Mansa Sablnus never gets drunk." Mansa wasn't much of a politi cian, because .the Romans liked their liquor and a man who ran on a dry ticket those days was throwing away votes. No wonder he didn't get elected, or grow famous! But there was a candidate who was a politician .This fellow's slo gan was: "If you care for good bread and better games, vote for Cleonus Prisus." Here Indeed was a worthy can didate, able t care for himself in any political compaign. He ap pealed to two human weaknesses prosperity and enjoyment. Cleo nus was the forerunner of the po liticians who originated the "full dinner pail" platform. Likewise he capitalized the Roman's love for the thrilling'and the spectacular. There was a third candidate who wasn't so Blow. His slogan was: "Vote for Julius Politus, a man as handsome as Apollo." Julius was appealing to the woman's vote. Of course, the wom en did not cast ballots in those days, put their husbands did, and A! You Need Vacation or or Travel Accident Insurance Policy If you take The Oregon Statesman at your home then you and every member of your family between the ages of 15 and 70 may purchase these valuable policies at These policies protect you against every kind of travel accidents paying $10 and $20 per week for disability as specified in the policy, $7.50 per week hospital benefits, up to $ 1 00 emergency benefits and from $1,000 to $10,000 for death, as specified in the policy. . Here You Are Just Sign the Coupon and You Will Be Protected Julius knew that tho womon eonld wind their husband around meir little fingers. Mr. PVUtius mnst have been a good politician too, if ho opposed Mr. Prisns, tho race must have been a pretty good one. There is something humorous, lnded naive, about these old Rom an, political slogans. One man proudly asserts that he is a model of sobriety. Another frankly tells his constituents that he will bring home the bacon for them. A third advertises his good looks. But all three ot them were hunting -for votes, just as our modern slogan eers huhJkfor them. Huma'sf nature has not changed much during the centuries. We are not so much interested in the .wording of the slogans -of these Roman politicians, however, as we are In pointing out taat Ore gon's primary election law is not so original,- after all. But there is a lesson to be learned from the Roman slogans, too. The old Rom ans stated their slogans very crudely becanse they were appeal ing to a constituency that was predominantly ignorant. They could not reach the rank and file of the voters by resorting to argu ment. They must state their posi tion in simple terms. In Oregon, candidates are depending on slo gans to carry them on to victory and are not going to the trouble of arguing the issues through. More able discussions and fewer slogans might help Oregon greatly. Al bany Democrat-Herald. SAD DAYS FOB THE SHAVEN It is almost as unsafe for a man clean-shaven to .walk the streets ot Eugene these days as it is for an ordinary citizen7 to drive near the Canadian border. It is a different kind of danger, however. Here nobody has been shot in the back. The whisker enforcement officers are consid erate in other ways, too. For in stance, it is usual when you are arrested out of town to le faced with a wholly uncourteous de mand to show your driver's li cense. Nothing like that is being done here, so far as the testimony of victims discloses. It is a great relief, too, for everybody knows how easy it is to forget and leave ' your driver's license In your other coat. A very grave question in whisker-jurisprudence ha3 been rais ed by an esteemed reader In con. TTh lime rrotecHOffi the Protection .00 a Year POUNDED 1631 INSURANCE APPLICATION AND SUBSCRIPTION BL ANK THE NEW OREGON STATESMAN .lat mm, megim. Gentlemen: 1" ff hwby anthortld my fmbecrfptloa to Th Kew Oregon Statesman for one yew from Ite. It U un Til New Ore. Statesnuu, U to be delivered to my ddress regularly each da j by your authorized carrier and If far esUblUhM te I. mm not now a .ubecribor to The New Ore Statesman f . I a. m a .ubecribcr to The New OreoTSaT ) Addreaa ' City Occupation IVsncflctary'u I am rcIm)m . i -1 srfl5SS555S2!S Hal Sebtaiptieas taul nectioa with tho activities of the . - a 11. - - - kangaroo conn ana us wmcxing crew. He wants to knew wheth er, after one un-whiskered has been arrested and fined once, he can bo arrested agala the next day on a repeat charge and whe ther If so re-arrested he can plead prior Jeopardy. There is no time to make a test case and carry the question to the kan garoo supreme court, to the best advice that can bo given the es teemed reader is to step shaving after the first conviction. Our whisker court is in a position to be autocratic if It wants to. For this same reason It is best for the un-whlskered to pay quickly and cheerfully when sen. tence is pronounced. A highly useful and prominent citizen was hsled before his kangaroo court only yesterday. "Where are your whiskers?" asked the court. "Right here; take a good look." urged the prisoner. Hm,"- mus ed the court. A clear attempt to defeat fustlce. The fine will be a dollar." "A what?" queried the prisoner, pressing closer as though he could not believe his ears. "I said, intoned the court, "that it will cost you a dollar and a half." -Oh," said the prisoner, moving back to his former posi tion, "in that case I'll get back where I was." "Just the same." remarked his honor, "the fine is two dollars." It was. Eugrne Register. . CONCESSION TO ART The Oregonlan states that Oen. George White permitted the En gene Guardsmen at Camp Clatsop to grow beards in order to be in trim for the Eugene Sunset Trail pagenat., "which" says the Ore gonlan, "Is an unusual concession to art." "Art!" It Is evident that the Oregonlan paragrapht-r has not been in Eugene lately. Art? If the stubble adorned faces of Eugene's so-called sterner sex is "art," then a chimpanzee is more beautiful than Apollo Corrallis Gazette-Times. FIX TRAFFIC LAWS The legislature did a fairly effi cient job in tinkering up the traffic laws, but It would have helped some when It provided for for feiture of driving permits as a pen alty It it had confined issuance of the permits to only those fit to use them. Hlllsboro Independent. s 0 Offered by -. .Age. -State -ltelatiebip .m. i. . .be pad ht Aivdee Protection!