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Tbe OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon. Sunday Morning. Jane 30, 1929
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From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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Back from the Editorial Meet
ALBANY entertained the editors of the state'Friday and
Saturday, then turned them over to Newport for a
frolic on the sands of the seashore. Messrs. Jackson and
Cronise of the Democrat Herald aided by the chamber of
commerce of Albany, left no stone unturned to show hospi
tality to their guests from all over the state. A banquet,
golf tournament, dance, bridge helped fill in the moments
between weighty discussions of news-getting, advertising,
circulation building and the general job of being community
pack-horse. Albany was in most gracious mood; the ladies
permitted a woman from Corvallis to win first prize at
bridge.
The banquet was unusually pleasant, largely because it
was not "all-talkie," rather "much movie." Senator Willard
Marks scored as interlocutor. The snappiest number was
the appearance of the Lebanon "Snapping Turtles," a quar
tette of lively girls whose musical skits would insure them
first prize in any of Doc Riley's talent contests. And the
strawberries, served on great platters, big as pullet eggs (the
strawberries we mean) . They were from Lacomb which in a
few years Has grown to be one of the great berry towns of
the Willamette valley. The main address at the banquet was
John J. Cuddy, director of "Californians, Inc.," the promo
tional organization of central and northern California. Un
der Mr. Cuddy this group has met with such singular suc
cess that now they do not have to send out solicitors to raise
their budget just mail out personal letters and checks
amounting to over $300,000 roll baclu
. t;ddy gave the Oregon editors the benefit of his ex
perience in community advertiring. Large appropriations
intelligently spent are what are required to sell Oregon to
th world. Shoot the advertising in the east and middle west
vhere the great bodies of people are; select the population
groups you want to attract to this country. You have ev
erything to offer that California has, make it known to the
world: that was the gist of Mr. Cuddy's counsel.
Saturday morning William T. Foster, former president
of Reed college, gave the editors big chunks of his new eco
nomic gospel. Foster, who used to preach simplified spelling
when missionary to the far west years ago, has a new pro
gram which has a lot more sense in it than the other. It is
for the government and big corporations to increase their
purchases and carry forward their impovements in times of
industial lull rather than in times of prosperity, in order to
tus tain employment. Part of what he said was new, most
of it sounded just as plausible as simplified spelling.
Introducing ''gentlemen of the press" Dean Eric Al
len was on hand sporting a three weeks old Vandyke. Frank
Jenkins of Eugene with a sickly mustache in the background.
They are in training for the "Sunset Trail." L. E. Bladine of
Iowa and McMinnville was warmly welcomed to Oregon news
paperdom. He is enjoying a vacation with his son Jack Bla
dine who manages "Bladine & Son" publishers of the Mc
Minnville Telephone Register. Of course Elbert Bede of Cot
tage Grove was there, Friday with three legs and Saturday
v;ith four. Recently Elbert made his car straddle a Eugene
hydrant and nearly drained the town reservoir before they
could shut the water off. This time his alibi was that he was
wrestling with a husky son. Suppose now the Gazette-Times
of Corvallis and Portland Spectator will have a lot more to
say about Bede's legs. George Aiken of Ontario was elected
president. In inviting the association to meet in Ontario in
1932 he said they would get to see there the biggest dam in
the world, the Owyhee. Albert Tozier of Champoeg told a
lot of the history of the state and national press associations
and introduced Frank Davey one of the founders of the old
Oregon Press association. President R. W. Sawyer of the
Bend Bulletin presided with all the grace and dignity of an
Episcopal bishop.
Astoria's-invitation for the 1930 meeting was accepted
and Salem is, in line for 1931.
Feeding Fires of Hate
ALFRED W. SWAN has Written in the "Christian Cen
tury" a study of the manufacture of propaganda, atroc
ity tales, and similar material put out in the stress of war
times. He refers to the famous letter attributed to Benjamin
Franklin which purported to be the tale of Indian horrors
perpetrated upon the patriots. In the Civil war newspapers
both north and south charged the armies of the other side
with the atrocities of "Huns." He cites an interesting ex-f-mple
of how a simple news item may be altered and magni
fied into a fearsome chronicle. Here it is, with his title "How
curfew rang that night."
"In August of 1914 the Cologne Zeitung carried this line: 'When
the fall of Antwerp got known, the church bells were rung.' (Mean
ing the church bells in Cologne.)
"The Paris Matin then carried this item: 'According to the Co
logne Zeitung, the clergy of Antwerp were compelled to ring the
church bells when the fortress was taken.'
. "Thereupon the London Times continues the fiction with this:
'According to what the Matin has heard from Cologne, the Belgian
priests who refused .to ring the church bells, when Antwerp was
taken, have been driven away from their places.'
"The Milan Corriere continued the fabrication with: -'Accord-log
to what the Times has heard from Cologne via Paris, the unfortu
nate Belgian priests who refused to ring the church bells, when Ant
werp was taken, have been sentenced to hard labor.'
"And finally the Paris Matin took up the epic again with: 'Ac
cording to Information to the Corriere from Cologne via London, it
Is confirmed that the barbaric conquerors of Antwerp punished the
unfortunate Belgian priests for their heroic refusal to ring the
church bells by hanging them as living clappers to the bells with
their heads down.' "
It is of such stuff that wars are made of.
Whenever A Rain Is Needed
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BITS for BREAKFAST
-By R. J. HENDRICKS
In 19 IS the government paid the Federal Telegraph company
$1,600,000 for certain radio patents in order to make sure they
might not pass Into enemy hands. In 1921, about two weeks after
he took office Secretary Denby gave the patents back to the Federal
Telegraph company without receiving (a cejxt in return, retaining
only the right to use the patents. Denby was certainly the. prize
dumb-bell of the Harding cabinet: at least that is the most charita
ble verdict one may pass upon him. This radio deal was not dis
closed until a recent hearing before a senate committee, on inter
state commerce. It is not the only instance in which the govern
ment has permitted the radio business to become concentrated in the
hsndsfbf one corporation which absolutely rules the industry with
an iron hand.
The Bishop Cannon episode provokes the old Question about
when Investment shades off into speculation. -The difference is sim
ple: if yon win yon are pointed out as a shrewd "investor. It you
lose people call yon a foolish speculator. A sounder distinction may
be given thns: to invest is to bay after a careful appraisal of values
present and prospective. Togamble in. stocks is to buy quotations,
regardless ot values, in hopes of a Quick" profit-turn. The bishop of
course was gambling in stocks though he probably didn't know It, ap
parently being the dupe of some skilled market tipster operating a
backet shop. , - - .
The "little tragedies"
Like the one Mrs. Callin wrote
about in Saturday's Statesman, are
numerous in this section. This one
concerned two car loads of famil
ies arriving from Arizona (pre
sumably Fords, though that is
aside from the problem), coming
to the North Howell district to
pick strawberries; arriving two
weeks before strawberry harvest
was ready, and with a total cap
ital of 55 cents.
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That is as much as the average
pioneer family had on arriving in
the original Oregon Country by the
covered wagon route. James W.
Nesmith, afterwards TJ. S. mar
shal, leader of troops fighting In
dians, senator, judge, legislator,
United States senator and con
gressman, handled only three dol
lars in actual money the first sev
en or eight years after his arrival,
and he carried a $5 provisional
government warrant or order,
part of his pay as a legislator, till
it-was almost worn out, and then
gave it away.
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There will be room, here for all
the strawberry and other fruit
pickers. The problem will be with
us "If winter comes," which it
surely will, in the shape of a
rainy season. There will be an
acute period o f unemployment
here, made worse by the arrival
each year of stranded people look
ing for work (and .finding it) in
our harvest season.
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The all the year operation of
the Reid, Murdoch & Co. concern
will help some. But wo need more
winter employment. We must get
a balanced program between the
industries on the land and those
in our cities and towns. The op
portunities are here. That is the
biggest problem we hav This
valley can maintain in comfort 10,
'000,000 people, and will some day.
Perhaps some of the Henry Fords
and Westinghouses and Jim Hills
and other leaders who will aid In
bringing this aboat are among the
children of the families of our ber
ry pickers arriving each year in a
stranded condition.
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The Salem Y free employment
office had 182 men and 32 wom
en applying for work the past
week, and found jobs, for 118 of
the men and 18 of the women.
Still more workers than work.
The Bits man has been predict
ing that the Salem district will be
come the center of the greatest ed
ible nut industry in the world,
when walnut, filbert and chestnut
trees will cover great areas all
over the Willamette valley, and
will fleck the foothills and reach
to the very summits of the Cas
cade and Coast ranges; and per
haps other edible nut trees will be
found that will flourish here. Figs
will, certainly.
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"United Purity News" is the
name of a creditable weekly paper
published in the interests of the
138 grocery stores that in one way
and another are linked up and co
operate with the Willamette Gro
cery company, Salem's big whole
sale house, under the direction of
Theodore Roth and his associates.
E. Russ of Halsey, Oregon, con
tributes an illuminating article o
chestnut growing to last week's
issue of that paper. Mr. Russ says
that when the Roman armies
marched into Asia Minor they
cam to a town called Kastanea
where the found a nut which
they named the Kastanea nut.
Hence the name; Kastanea cor
rupted or shortened to chestnut.
They, sent great quantities of these
nuts to their families at home and
scattered them about until a large
part of the woods of southern Eu
rope are weir stocked with chest
nut trees. In Corsica a third of the
wooded area consists of these
trees. (That island was the birth
place of Napoleon; the man who
made monkeys and cannon fodder
of millions in pulUng his ambi
tious, political' chestnuts out of
the fires of war; changing the
course of history; remaking the
map of Europe.)
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Like the walnut and filbert, the
chestnut tree lives to a great age;
one at Tatworth, England, was a
boundary nark 700 or 809 years
ago; one in France la 100b years
old, and one on the south slope
of Mt. Aetna, Sicily, Italy, U about
200 feet around the trunk; one
of the gigantic trees of the world.
A peasant in southern Europe is
said to be sure of enough to eat if
he has three or four full bearing
chestnut trees. They grind the
nuts for hog and cattle feed; and
the hogs eat them under the trees,
like mast, or acorns. Also, the
chestnut is a good table food,
making a nice soup and a good
mush when ground coarse and
white flour when ground fine.
Qhestnut dressing for roasts meats
is a delicacy.
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The largest chestnut tree on the
American continent is perhaps In
Connecticut; 55 feet around the
base. The Willamette valley grows
fine chestnuts. Dexter Field, pi
oneer here, named his farm out
beyond the end of Center street,
Salem, Chestnut farm, and he set
out a number of the trees, which
may be seen by any Salemite in a
drive of a few minutes. Gecond
and third generation members of
the Field family are leading grow
ers of vegetables under glass, like
cucumbers, tomatoes, etc.
Mr. Russ writes that he has at
Harrisburg three chestnut trees
that have endured the winters for
20 years, and they have- borne a
full crop annually for 12 years,
with no off years; 'the only thins
I raise from the ground of which
I can say as much," he says. They
came into bloom this year June
10; no danger of frost. He pro
poses to test many varieties, for
pollination purposes, and to cross
pollinize and develop the best. He
thinks boiled, roasted or steamed
chestnuts make the finest of hu
man food in the edible Tiut line.
It will grow where oaks will, but
will not stand much water; needs
drained land. "Ten years after set
ting out the trees," says Mr. Russ,
"chestnuts can be raised for a
le3S outlay than wheat, and the
nuts are not likely to sell for less
than 15 to 20 cents a pound for
the next 50 years."
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While he lived. Dexter FleTd
used to predict a great future for
chestnut growing in western Ore
gon and he was a very success
ful farmer and gardener, and a
student and an able writer on agri
cultural subjects. Knight Pearcy,
Salem walnut and filbert expert
and nurseryman, has predicted
that chestnut growing will become
general in this valley, and that
these nuts will be the great stand
by in the fattening of swine, as
they are in the countries of south
ern Europe.
Old Oregon's
Yesterdays
Town Talks from The States
man Our Fathers Read
June 30, 1004
Captain Murphy is determined
that all members of Company M,
Saiem, shall attend the annual na
tional, guard encampment at
American Lake. General orders for
movement of troops have been is
sued by Adjutant General W. E.
Finzer, the movement to include
Third Infantry, separate battalion
from southern Oregon, Battery A,
of Portland and Troop A of the
Cavalry from Lebanon.
A hundred rods of the Halls
Ferry road has been graveled re
cently, at a cost of f 400.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Cross have
returned from an extended tour of
the east, where they visited all the
principal cities and spent some
time at the St. Louis exposition.
Read the Classified Ads.
Fb4is True Vatoea
'Surety there Is ne enchaatment
acalnat Jacob, nithr la tber aay U
vtn&tloa aaainat larart : accordlmr t
this time It ahaJl b said of Jacob mo
f Israel. What hath God wrought i
Numbers 24 :Z3.
For a generation and longer or
ranixed religion as embodied In
th church has been on the defen
sive. It has keen forced to con
tend with sealous scientists, with
critical nhllosonhers. and with
self-satisfied pleasure - seekers.
Critics have threatened to break
the authority of the Bible, to rid
dle, the creeds and to weaken the
moral codes. The church has
many times seemed to yield
ground, sometimes wisely, gener
ally grudgingly. The attacks
have come from historical re
search and from scientific inves
tigation. At times it seems there
Is little left of the Bible, of the
church organization, and of relig
ion Itself.
In this atmosphere of criticism
and of doubt people quickly lose
sight of the great contributions
which the Hebrews through their
religion and the . Christians
through their faith hare made to
the welfare of humanity. It is
charged that the Hebrew and
Christian faiths contain large ele
ments carried, over from pagan
ism. Suppose that is true. It is
also true that these faiths marked
a great stride in advance of the
crude paganlstic religions with
which they were surrounded. The
Jews were monothelsts and their
God a God of the spirit, while all
about them the crudest idol wor
ship prevailed with hideous prac
tices all in the name of religion.
On the foundation of a purified
monotheism Christianity built a
religion of love, of ministry, of
service. It was not a religion of
sorcery, of enchantments and div
ination; but in its finest revela
tion i .religion ol spiritual uplift.
True isome pagaa practices crept
into the Christian ritual of wor
ship, hut they were alien to the
true genius of the gospel of Christ.
That is why Christianity has sur
vived competition with other
faiths, persecutions, invidious
philosophies.
It is easy to nourish our doubts,
to feed our skepticism and to
magnify our disbeliefs until we
shut out the great affirmatives of
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IT is only
sensible . . .
OF course it is es
sential to dose
the tiny pores of your
face and throat after
using a cleansing or
an emollient cream,
or else you leave them
open to the coarsen
ing attacks of dust
andexposure. Dorothy
Gray's Orsngi Fltwer
Skin Ttk is a mild
astringent which
should always be patted on freely,
in place of water, as the last step in
your morning facial treatment, just
before you apply your finishing
preparations and powder.
Ow FUwtr Skim Tntk gently
closes Che pores and stimulates the
skin, leaving it protected, refreshed
sod cleanly cool.
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Htetory of Salem andtye
State o Oregon
OW that we have traced
the development of our
state down to comparatively
modern times, and thus laid a
comprehensive background of
facts, we shall turn to a consid
eration 5f local events, and fit
in Salem'g own history with
that of the State.
Permanent
This first article on Salem's
history will appear here one
week from today, and we trust
It and thosa which follow will
prove fully as interesting as
those which have gone before.
HILE pur little his
tory of Oregon is ended, the
Clough-Houston organization
goes serenely on. We have
our ideals of service to main
tain and our plan for the fu
ture must be carried out. The
Clough-Houston Company is
one of Salem's permanent institutions.
CLOUGH-HUSTON C?
SMCttstMe9trM temt .
)UHncttVeJuneral Sem'ce
jmoNE l2o
Christian teachings. Particularly
is this tru at the present period
of philosophic unsettlement
Hunting for dross we " miss the
tine gold. Seeking for shells we
ignore the pearl 01 great pnw.
After we purge historical Chris
tianity or Its paganlstic accretions,
it still remains supreme In its eth
ical teachings and In Its spiritual
implications. Christ is still the
unapproacbed Master 6t the race,
so we may say with the poet:
"If Jesus Christ Is a man,
And only a man, I say.
That of all mankind I. cleave to
Him.
And to Him will I cleave alwaj.
"If Jesus Christ is a God,
And the only God. I swear
I will follow Him through heaven
and hell.
Through sea and the depths of
air."
MEN BOLDER
A Boston man slapped his wife
as she slept, according to a di
vorce petition. The men are get
ting a little bolder all the time.
Ashland Tidings.
Hurt by Horses
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, MIL CITT, June 29. J. J. Fel
ten. who recently moved onto the
Frank Wflde place suffered a
painful accident Tuesday.
Mr. Felten was moving some
mahcinery from a shed with his
team when the horses became
frightened and ran against the
aide of the shed, pinning him be
tween the wall and the binder.
One leg.was broken and mangled.
He was taken to the Silvertoa
hospital for first aid and treat
ment and later moved to a Salem
hospital where they eauld X-ray
the injured member.
PICXIC AT MCKREALL
RICKREALL, June 29. A
Sunday school picnic was held in
the RickreaU grove last Wednes
day. At noon a lunch was served
and In the afternoon the chil
dren went in swimming in the
creek. Baseball and several oth
er games were played later.
WHISKERS GROW LONG
A careful canvass among Eu
gene males yesterday disclosed
tha soma whiskers are now lonp
enough for the wrnd to blow
through. Eugene Register.
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