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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salewtv Oregon, San day Morning Jnty 7 1929
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No Favor Sicays Us; No Fear Shall Awel
, - From Firrt, Statesman March 28, . 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COi
A. STEACLt, SliEU)0 FJ SACXETT, PubOshfrt
Charles A. Sprague - : Editor-Manager
t '; Managing Editor
Sheldon F. Sackett
llember of the Associated Press . .
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publication ef all sews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise
credited tn this paper.
bse fdr
. Entered at the Pot to f fie at Salem, Oregon. a-SecoAd-Claa
Matter, x Published every iaorning except Monday. Rwrinet
office tlS S. Commercial Street. j j ,,
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Another Hip Pocket Seizure.
smell a revolution in China;
sates of Princes! and Poten-
tlme getting inside the gates f
J rray er r or Newspapermen
FT1HE Mississippi Press association held its annual conven-
11 tion in Columbus, Miss., a few days ago. Even; the news
v paper men are pious down south, so they called on Dr. T. D.
Bateman, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of that
city, to deliver the prayer at the opening of the convention. !
The reverend doctor must have ad rather intimate con- J
tacts with newspaper men, for he predicts they will have a
hard time getting inside the gates Of Paradise. i
; Here is his prayer, which assuredly must have been ad
dressed not ko much to the Almighty as to his audience
' lj "Eternal God, our- Heavenly Father, -we ask Thy blessings upon
these newspaper people, who are wont to communicate with the ends
of the earth. They are people who can
people who have license to enter the
tales, but who will have a mighty hard
of Ps ran tap '
"Hare mercy on these people who are tempted by j every devil
from printer's devils!- to the devils of newspaper headlines.' And
these same people who are so buy listening to the songs 'of the wires
and the tongs of the jwomen, that ofttlmes the voice of God finds bo
listener among them and no place in their hearts.
"Have mercy, O Lord, upon these J people who have to carry all
kinds of things in, khe, cause jot their newspapers. . H4e mercy, O
LordV on these people' who are invited fto 80 nmny. lihoas and
- banquets that they must sacrifice their j digestion on the attar of free
advertising. f- ' r -,
, ;- "Have mercy, Lord, on these people who are chased by the Co
lonial Dames, W. C. T. U., Kiwanis, Rotary and Chamber of Com
merce. Have mercy on these people who, have to hobnob alike with
Jew and Gentile, white and black, democrat and republican, Baptist.
Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopalian, those who came over on
the Mayflower and those who came over in the cauliflower. j
j "Have, mercy, O Lord, on these people and help them in their
dash from ballroom to church social and back to rum-runners, and
who have to associate with anybody from Andy Mellon to Andy
Gump. Any of them would .walk two ntiles for a good story.
' ! "Make this a good convention in Columbus. It is an easy mat
ter to break into print but how will some of them break into the
Pearly Gates? We pray-Thy blessings upon them and when they
have done with newspapers , and stories 'and their careers are fin
ished here, may they; have a finer story from St. Peter than they
ever had in newspapers here. And though it is so hard for news
papermen to get into the Kingdom may they receive a warmer wel
come in the new Jerusalem than they do -in Columbus today. Amen."
I 1. We would Suggest that a newspaper man be asked to give
the invocation at the opening of tjhe Presbyteriaik Synod for
Mississippi. . In that way the score might be evened up.
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Decline of Baseball :
BASEBALL'S rating as the "national pastime is threat
ened. Golf for instance undoubtedly interests far more
people as players than does baseball. There are about ten
million people playing golf this summer. 'There are nearly
2000 golf courses, and the numbejr is increasing-rapidly until
itwill not.be long before every village will have a golf course.
Some farmers are findings it more profitable Ho turn their
land into conventional nines or eighteen than to raise hay
and grain. j L I1
Then there. is tennis with about five million players. Its
popularity too is growing rapidly and interest in such match
es as that at Wimbledon now won if or the third time by Helen
rWXUs adds to the favor of tennis With the public. :
j ' Women are going into sports, and of course find base
ball entirely too masculine even for the he-women of the sex.
.Tennis, golf, boating, swimming, horseback riding appeal to
women." And wherever thev cro the "weaker sex" is sure to
trail after. That takes a good many thousands! away from
baseball. k
j j Baseball's decline in interest from the standpoint of the
general public dates back to the' "throwing" of games and
Ithe scandals attendant upon those disclosures. "Young
4 America" for instance lost faith in its idols. Not is the ris
ing generation playing baseball with the fervor of a gen-
; eration ago. Too many competing sports, and too few open
spaces for ball diamonds have helped kill off the: gangr ball
I teams from which the, big leaguers come. Boys can caddy,
i they can swim, they tan go fishing and camping. So base
st ball continues to decline.
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"ON OTHER THINGS
And the rest some' on planks, and
some on ether things (rem the sbipj
And ao It cam to pa that tbr tt
Paul's ship had suffered ship-
wreck, The prow had run hard;
aground, "but the; stern began ta
break: 9 irlth the violence of the
waTea. Yonder was the shore aid
aafetyj here death was certain
xnere were no- uie-eavutg erews tq
attempt, the rescue. It was every
man for himself. Many swam to
shore; others caught a floating
plank from the breaking up ef the
vessel; mad some made way to
land "oa other things," What
were these "other things" we
wonder. Perhaps a bale of cargo;
a broken mast or spar.- Luke, the
narrator, does not tell us. We re
main forever ignorant of those
other things" which brought -.at
vation to the remainder of those
on shipboard. i
It la so easy to he critical; of
other things" which are used as
vehicles for progress. In the so
cial realm folk look askance at
those who challenge social height!
with neither blood nor monevL
Other things," for instance a fine
bran and even a pretty face, may
not suffice to storm the citadel of
entrenched "society." The banker-merchant-manufacturer
triumvi
rate has rather looked down 6a
the rich who piled up sudden fop-
tunes through motion pictures.
chain stores or oil wells. The?e
other avenues to success seemed
BfTS for BREAKFAST
j ? "Air Rights"
I YITHO owns the air? i
1 f t That is coming to be a live legal question. There is the
question of "freedom of the airj as of freedom of the seas,
f The old doctrine was that the owner of a tract on the surface
.of the earth, owned down.to earth's center and tip to the limit
uof the gaseous envelope that surjrounds the earth. Seeking to
j exercise this right, some propeyowners have denied air
, ships the right to fly over their lands. It is a futile injunc
; tion because the airships keep on flying. Courts have ruled
U giving rights for travel through the air without, regard to
.ithe tenancy of the land beneathi The Federal Commerce Act
,makes free for travel the stretches t)f the air above a certain
safety minimum. -J' ; t- i ' i
! f But we shall have new air laws. The growth of aviation
is so rapid that it will have to be accompanied by protective
arid cantrolling legislation. I v ,
Which illustrates anew Ihe folly of those who are for
ever, deriding the, making of new laws, saying we have too
' many already and that half of those on the books should be
c wiped out. We need new laws because times change. Old laws
f of horse and buggy days become obsolete. Sometimes they
vare repealed, oftentimes they simply fall into disuse because
j human activity moves onto another plane. The automobile
( made-necessary a new crop of laws; and aviation will in its
! time bring in new measures to serve as' rules of the air.
Omnipresent and Omniscient
SENATOR Gould of Maine,' who seems to have trouble with
hfs crane iuice and his recioes. until he "horsed it ud with
y'i gooseneck tube," and got fine results, ought to switch to
f tmlnue- the natoinal drink of Mexico. This is the liauor which
U the government of Mexico is trying to combat. The difficulty
. t . it Sm. !- ? 1 T7I "..! J ....1 J li -ULni
! 13 inai li is universal. ' xuven uuuiu cuuiu picpuc u wiwiwuv
bothering about getting the bung open. Pulque is described
1 in a recent A. P. dispatch as. a sticky, milky-like liquid, which
t . - a Iw . la.
I comes rrom tne maguey piani wnicn grows wua or is cuui-
vated. Getting the liquor, requires no machinery. All you do
i . 4a tti. t1t rVi?yi ?oiW O'mAoa nivf ni mt et !
Ksticky juice. Then just let it set for fermentation. Its intoxi-
1 , eating exiect is suca tnat it buuicuuics uiucs ita auuiwa vi
V cious and bloodthirsty. ;l z-- '1 X-r"; ."' . i .
J : - The maguey plant would undoubtedly come under Sen
1 ator Gould's mantle of divine approvaL when he said, defend-
h iruj his horsing up the wine kegs: "God Almighty put those
v flowers and. Tines on tne cartnj tna lie lnienaea men to ce
f nsed. Logical of course ; so we should play i with rattie
' snakes and dmtfba toadstools; because God Almighty put
t. them on. the earth end intended; them to oe usea.
Great boosters
"m S
Were the missionary leaders
who Started the forces of civilisa
tion in the Oregon Country.
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Their descriptions would do
credit to a present day real estate
boomer and they were merely
trying to prove that the country
was worth taking under the pro
tection of the stars and stripes.
A strawberry grower near West
Woodburn figures that he will net
$100. an acre on his Etterburg
crop; canning berries. There is
nothing particularly unusual
about this, excepting the fact that
his herries have been grown on
land that has been farmed for
about 100 years. The land is in
the area that was settled by the
superannuated French employees
ot the Hudson's Bay company in
the late twenties and early thir
ties of the last century; being en
couraged, by the company to grow
wheat for export to the Russians
at their trading posts in Alaska,
and to Hawaii. Also, encouraged
to take Indian women for their
wives, in order that the Hudson's
Bay company heads might have a
contact with the tribesmen, rela
tives of the Indian women, for
ends looking to peace and under
standing, and perpetuation and ex
tension of the trade la furs and
pelts. ,
If land: in that section that has
been farmed for 100 years, with
out special attention in the way of
fertilization, and without irriga
tion, will net f 100 an acre in
strawberries, what will It do under
irrigation and with proper renew-
1 by fertilization and rotation and
Intensive cultivation?
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The reader will agree that the
land must have been rich in the
first place. It was. It had been
covered with native grass as high
as a pony's back for many hun
dreds of years before the French
settlers and the American immi
grants came. The pioneers of no
land around the whole world
found a richer heritage than was
open to the pioneers of the Oregon
Country in the Willamette valley.
The daedalian maze or Chinese
puzzle made up of railroad rates
to Interior points will nofHrouble
the people of the Willamette val
ley as much as now when the pres
ent, program for river improve-J
raent shaU have been; carried to
the point of providing still water
the year through In the Willam
ette; or; even a channel depth suf
ficient: tor floating barges and
light raft boats all the year.
There must bono slacking on
this program. It Is the most Impor
tant, project before the people pt
this valley, uroagnc to its consu
mation, both banks ot the Willam
tte all the way up to Eugene wUl
be available for wharves and ware
houses with connection by water
with the deep sea porta of. -the
world, land almost as favorably
situated as u actually on a bay
front leading to the ocean. As fa
vorably situated, excepting for a
low barge cost and a small charge
for transfer In the Portland har
bor to ocean going Teasels.
A lew- days ago, the Bits man
spoke pt the great come-back of
the cahe sugar industry .. in the
south, ainee the introduction of
the P. O. J. rust resisting canes.
It was stated that I toanage.-u?f
cans sugar . has mounted from
nealj the vanishing point in a few
yean to ISe.eee tons) a year, then
iso.eoe, gad that it ts expected to
reach X59,0 tons next year. Now
own rvpurt ; m us leaning; su
gar ssagaslne, -Facts About Su
gar," trod New Orleans, saying
the tonnage will be this
year and probably snore.
I It win gt to a mtUloa tool very
p9-.-- l.. -.-
uy k. j. mnuKHia
I soon, with proper tariff protee
ition, and thus be neck-to-neck
with beet sugar production in this
country. Even then, we will be im
porting about five million tons of
sugar.
The people in this country who
pretend to gag at an increase in
protective rates on sugar should
keep track of what is being done
In other countries. Practically all
of them have jacked up rates sev
eral times lately. Germany is
acking them, up again. The new
labor government in England is
proposing to make them higher
they are already about twice as
high as proposed in this country;
counting the subsidies over there.
Sweden has raised her rates. Hol
land has increased, her subsidy to
as high as 3.1 Q cents a pound.
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Every European country is try
ing to maintain or increase her
sugar tonnage; especially the beet
sugar countries. There are many
reasons. Self sufficiency Is one.
The maintenance of a proper
rade balance anotter. But the
great consideration is the funda
mental importance that sugar beet
cultivation has come to occupy In
agricultural practice; their use as
rotation crop : increases the
yields of other crops. The indirect
benefits equal or exceed the direct
benefits.
Old Oregon's
Yesterdays
Town Talks from The States
man Our -Fathers Read
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Vto the l old guard ot wealth, less
worth ' The veteran politician
torn tap his nose at some up
start Who astride some freak issue
rides iito power; i r
Is Isfnot so in religion? Are not
those donventtonatiy religious folk
skeptical of the virtue of "other
thlngsT which some people aelxe
as religious supports? Prayer, Bible-reading,
church membership
and attendance, these are the cus
tomary agencies ; for ' salvation.
.Othe things" are apt to be re
garded as of little virtue. So with
labels. We have our conventional
caurcn labels of denominations
and of doctrines by which salva
tion Lai to be attained. If mie uses
other things ah! he does so at
his own peril. ! v
Paul and Luke did not scorn
the, "Other things" It was an em
ergency; better be saved on a bale
of pagan cargo than drown tor
lack of. an orthodox boat. Gain
ing the shore i s the Important
thing. The problem is one's indi
Viduai salvation. On the ocean ot
life there are storms and
Ing his bicycle along the dock
Where the Barker is berthed,
when his wheel hit an obstruc
tion and toppled into the water.
Goebel, who was about to leave
the ship, went ever the side and
caught young Smith before he
was dragged under the docks by
the current. Other sailors on
the Barker rigged up a grapling
device and hauled up the lad's
bicycle which had followed him
into the water. !
3B ASE INJURED IN
July 7, 1904
District Elder W. Pearce will
conduct quarterly services in the
Free Methodist church in North
Salem.
Miss Gertrude Gray and Miss
Margaret Gray, ' daughter o f
George B. Gray of Seattle but for
merly of this city, are visiting at
the home of Hon. J. H. McNary,
on Summer and Center streets.
Mrs. Eugene Breyman is home
from an extended visit in Birming
ham. Ala., With her daughter
airs. ur. sneaecor, xormeriy miss
Lena Breyman. i j
The Eugene baseball club hasf
just withdrawn from the Oregon
gon State league, and it now looks
as if the: league ; would be dlsj
banded. - i
Editors Say:
OX WIDENING THE HIGHWA
! Washington has been . slowe:
than Oregon in developing the C
lumbia gorge as a tourist attrac
tion. but our northern neighbo
now Is going ahead wtlh construc
tion on the Evergreen highway at
a fast pace.'
The Evergreen highway still Is
inferior to'the road on the Ore
gon side. The pavement extends
no farther east than Camas, and
from there the road becomes nar
row and full of curves and wind
Inland for many miles, coming
back to the river a short distance
from Stevenson. ; From there on,
however; the new road is double
the width ot the Oregon highway.
i Aa entirely new roadbed is be
ing constructed along the river
from Camas east, that eventually
will eliminate the inland climb
oyer the mountains. When this 'is
finished the Evergreen highway
wtu have been completed to Lrle.
I Present plans call ton construc
tion ot the WIshram-Granddalles,
section 'of the highway next. witr
mc neavy i construction . wore Be
tween Lyle and this connection to
come later, it is reported.
The his advantage the Wash
ington road win hold . over the
Columbia highway mill . be the
greater width and the freedom
from the thousands ot curves en
gineers thought necessary, when
they constructed a highway on the
Oregon side of the river. The dls
advantage,, at least for some years
to come, will be the macadam sur
facing given the Washington road
as compared to pavement on the
Oregon side. The macadam has
hot been oiled and, while smooth,
is exceedingly dusty when travel
is heavy.
It wfll be possible to make far
tetter time over the Evergreen
highway, when the Camas- Stev
enson gap is closed than over the
Columbia Tiver highway in Ore
gon. AH dangerous curves are be
ing eliminated in the new Wash"
Ington road and this fact, coupled
with its greater width, makes it
possible to drive on, a faster
schedule.
Unless the Oregon highway
commission takes steps in the
near future to rebuild the road be
tween Portland and The Dalles, a
large share, of the tourist travel
that now goes up this side of the
river may be gained by Washing
ton. The Oregon road was never
Intended to hold the enormous
traffic" that It now handles. It is
far too narrow for safety, and
with few exceptions it is just one
curve after another between The
Dalles and the Sandy river.
The Columbia highway was designed-
as a scenic road, and; en
gineers never expected that iti
would be utilised by huge trucks
and buses, as well as a great vol
ume of trans-continental traffic
Such has proved the case, how
ever, with the .result that travel
down the Oregon side of the river
has become so congested as to be
actually unsafe.
The Columbia highway between
here and Portland has the repu
tation among -traffic officers of
being the most dangerous stretch
of road la the state. While; we
have not the revised figures to
date, more than 70 persons have,
been killed on this highway in ac
cidents of various kinds, during1
the comparatively short period of
years since its completion. And so
long as the road remains too nar
row and winding for safety, this
toll will continue. o
The Oregon highway commis
sion has spent considerable money
widening and straightening the
lower Columbia highway, and is
now engaged in ,a similar task on
the Pacific highway. Such con
struction is desirable, and un
doubtedly is badly needed, but it
seems to this ' newspaper that
some attention should be1 paid to
a road bearing comparatively as
heavy travel as either of. the .oth
ers, and xhe that is far more dan
gerous to life and limb.
. Even If only ithe more danger
ous curves can; be rebuilt now.
and the highway widened at these
Points, it would help greatly in
reducing the traffic hazard.! To
fully appreciate how. fine a road
is would be possible to construct
down the Columbia river, it is on
ly necessary to travel over the
completed portions of the Ever
green highway,! with Its fine wide
roadbed and its gradual, careful
ly banked curves.
Oregon could build a similar
road on thla side of tha rlvr a
little at a time as the commis
sion's finances permit. No further
widening or reconstruction should
be scheduled elsewhere ' la the
state; however, nntil some steps
are taken to remove the more
dangerous places along the pres
ent upper Columbia river road.
The Danes Chronicle. ; l
raw con
ST. LOUIS, July 5. (AP)
The list of Injured in a collision
of a Burlington flyer from Kans
as City and a Frisco suburban
train at the Union station here to
day, mounted to 36 tonight. :
All of those Injured were men
who occupied a smoking: car en
the rear of the Frisco train. All
are St. Louis county residents
Eight remained in hospitals to
night and seven of them were
believed seriously hurt. !
The collision occured early to
day just outside the trainshed as
the suburban train, hauling i a
large number of commuters to St.
Louis to work, and the Burling
ton train backed into the station.
The steel observation ear of
the Burlington train stick the side
ot the smoker coach, turning ; it
over on its side, the next coach I en
the Frisco train was derailed but
none on it was hurt.
wrecka, there fit stress and strain.
Som taay find passages in life
boats; (others nay catch planks
that may bear them to safety. For .
many all that may be left them.
are -other: things,- wnat they are
we know not. The important thing
Is that 4bese titer thlnp may
have buoyancy enough to earry
then through deep waters to sure
footing on dry land.
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Cruisers Not to
Be Named Until
Later This Year
WASHINGTON. July f-i(AP)
The I five cruisers : for which
eon tracU have "Just been pet by
the navq will remain nameless
for several months to Come, al-'
though! Secretary Adams has re
ceived ! requests , from practically
every city, and many towns, for
the privilege of having a' ship
named after tlrem.
In about five or six months,
the secretary said, .the selection
of names will be made. At pres-"
ent the ships are designed by
numbers, the five being numbers
ship- 32 to 36 inclusive.,
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6ld Folks Say Doctor
Caldwell wa$
RiVht
Read the Classified AdsJ
Tlie basis of treating sickness
has not changed since Dr. Cald
well left Medical College in 1875.
nor since he placed on the market
the laxative prescription he had
used in his practice, , known to
drui:gists and the public since
189!:, as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin. ' i "
Then, the treatment of consti
patin, biliousness,'1- headaches,
mental depression. Indigestion,
soui stomach and other indisposi
tion i that result from constipation
was entirely by means ot simple
veg stable laxatives, herbs and
roots. These are still the basis
of tor. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin,
which. is a combination of senna!
and other mild laxative herbs,
with pepsin.
Tne simpler the jemedy for con
stiD&tion. the safer for the child
won a i 4 tV halt., fnr '
the general health of all. And
as you can get results in a mild
and safe way by using Dr. Cald
well's Syrup Pepsin, Why take
chabcas with strong drugs?
A bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syr
up Pepsin will last a family sev
eral months, and, all can use it.
It is good tor the baby because
pleasant to the taste, gentle in
action, aad free frm aareotics.
In the proper dose, given in the
directions. It Is equally effective
at ail ages
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fitd it especially id- c . All drug
stores have the genei ous bottles.
We would Ue.giad to have you
prove at our expense how much ;
Dr. c aid well's : Syrup Pepsin, can ;
mean to yo i : and yours. Just ;
write your name and; aldress in j
the special coupon yon see at the;
end of this announcement, and
lend for a bottle to try. This com
plimentary bottle asl forwarded.
I Drenald without charre mV nv
Elderly people will ; kind. ' ; ' ;
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Astoria Lad is
Rescued From
Grave . in JRiver
ASTORIA. Ore.. Jaly. lUf AP)
Smith. 11. - of this ; city.
was rescued from drowning in
the Columbia river i tonight by
by Harry Goebel. boatswain's
mate on the U. S. 8. Barker. The
boy, who cannot swim, was yid-
Maiim unaillfltty cdU ai
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TTp.lB(-ARp that old piano! The day
, I 1 J of modernization is here, an the
piano business, as in many others, you !
get. finer quality, mew design, more util
ity than dollars hare ever bought before.;
The outstanding example in our store
is tie GuibraenHoxne Study model
Upright, nationally priced at $275.
Petite, daintjf , eharxning in appearance
. Delightful tone quality. Genuine
da Pont , Da x : Hnisbe Fall keyboard.
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