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"ATo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Am. : s From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 , ,THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. ; . Cba&les A. Sfbagcz, Sheldon F. Sackett, Pubhehert . i Chabixs A. Spracue - Editor-Manager Shelpok F. Saocett .- - Managing Editor I Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publicatioa of all news dispatches credited to It or sot otherwise credited in this paper. ,. Entered at the Post office at Salem, Oregml a Seeond-Ctasi Matter. . Published every morning except Monday. Bueineta f fie tlS S. Commercial Strett. : . Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: ' Arthur W. Stypes, Ihe Portland, Security Bldg. San Frandsco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: . roro-Farsons-Stecner, Inc., new lorfc, 271 Madison Aye.; 7 1 t AXJCLUla 1V1CCI lit UILiailU i THE American Medical Association is meeting in Portland. This body is the national organizationoj" the members of the medical profession. Its powers of excommunication and anathema are paralleled only in ecclesia. When the A. M. A. speaks, doctors snap to attention and legislatures likewise. The association is sincerely devoted to the. scientific conquest of disease and amelioration of pain. It has proven a courage ous foof quackery, of fake nostrums, of lying medics, and of foolish contraptjons like health belts and boxes. ; Because of its membership and its leadership the gen eral public is interested in its deliberations. Unfortunately the public cannot follow intelligenty the ports of the pro ceedings, especially those dealing with special diseases and their treatments. Doctors speak in scientific terminology, just like they write their prescriptions in Latin, so the public can be kept ignorant. It is important not to spread misinfor mation, especially that which would fan the hopes of victims of diseases still regarded as incurable. However, the better course might be to make the news reports complete and clear so correct information might be disseminated. - The public is interested in a number! of things which perhaps the medical association will not touch upon. Here are somethings which are pertinent: How may the costs of obstetrical cases and of operations, and of hospitalization be kept within the; reach of self-respecting; families of moderate means ? , " j What real values are there to manipulative therapy and why do not regular schools of medicine embrace the valuable portions of such practice in their courses of study? " j How may the excessive, use of drugsf in treatment be done away with and the public weaned away from depend ence on "medicine"? - j j How may ancient inhibitions be modified to meet mod ern conditions, specifically, giving scientific information on Uffi ui tuuuyi, uiiciugcufc ouu uvmuiauie cxupiujruicub ui outw tising, for he good of the public as well as doctors? j 1 Some of these may be touched upon. I If they are, they will probably be handled in a strictly "professional" manner. It would be a good thing for the doctors j if some of them could be taken up in a rough and tumble! open forum with non-medics contributing to the dicussion. ' 1 : 1 . 1 . .. I I .. ' r- r u A-j r2 r wim-2m a d- " - I till i xiuu uiiKiczs i jl truukz gxcccaa - ii 11 ill.. f 1 i A ' . J R J ri ll fftT J 1 urn-e wfi; &s r J Vi-I ; III 1 l 1 A I . I r 1 1 vi V L S 1 I I l 1 rT 1.1 ".I .III l F I J I J 0? lvl I I I I llk'-il KS 1 3--J T I 1 -tl.. -V. jTl.l I I ; 1 ' j 1 . , i - accompllh mora by keeping : off the subject. Mrs. HeoTer did ne mora ana no less than her' reasonable dnty U the matter. Aa the ife ot the president she ha duties that are morallyaa bindins toncb. they vcre specified in the eonstitatioa. On of those is to hold receptions for the vires of coagTbsainea. ait cbturreaamea. not luai, pan 1 them. She receives taem m cronos. not all at one time. She invited Mrs. De Priest when she is assured that others who woald attend em that occasion would not object. It iris the tact ful thins to 'do and jshe did it KraeetaUV. Those .irhd. were not Urited to that reception should not be heard on the supject; those who "were. Invited haVe no com plaint to make. TaUma Repub lic. day 'Auburn waa almost Isolated. AU bridge were Washed away. by the rushing Nemana, except one ea the west eide et the town- Railroad - track -of the Buriing toa and Missouri ; Pacific were washed out ; anU train i servtee caUed" off. Three Inches of rain, which tell yesterday morning, had already 'caused damage,: to crops and some houses. ; i , Japan Changes Governments THE Japanese cabinet, headed by Baron Tanaka, has been overthrown, and a new cabinet inducted into office The new premier is a commoner, Yuko Hamagucbi, the third un titled prime minister iu Japan's history. Japan's internal pol itics has been troubled for some little timej The principal dif ficulty has been between the old military party and the new er, more liberal party; The old Japan leaders favored a firm hand" in China and Manchuria. It nearly meant war after the Tien-tsin incident when Chinese nationalists fired on Japanese soldiers. The Tanaka government backed up Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian war-lord, and wanted a strong policy in Manchurian politics. The opposing group wanted 1 reconciliation with China and a less militaristic attitude in :t0A111 o -ft a WCJ . tv j ( The latest crisis came over the adoption of the Kellogg I treaty to renounce war. The treaty was-worded "in the name of the respective peoples. That didn t sound well in japan where the Mikado is still on the job and rules as an absolute monarch. ! There is no such thing as the Jepenese people i speaking In terms of politics. The treaty Vas ratified .with : out reservations by a narrow squeak, so now every one of . the signatory powers has completed ratification. This Yuko Hamaguchi is a regular Borah or Brookhart. 1 He is described as one who lives frugally and is comparatively i poor.! He is popularly known as "The Lion" because of his . shaggy hair, eyebrows and mustache and his stentorian plat ! form, voice, while he also bears a reputation for the highest ! integrity. Mast be quite an unusual character in the land of cherry blossoms and geisha girls. "Mother of Two I " TIM'OTHER of two," says the newspaper account. I JLTX Also the wife of a man other than the one she was i captured with on a hold-up deal. Such is the tawdry chron- 1 icle of a late Portland crime. 1 So the young wife and mother sat in. the police station for hours twisting her handkerchief, refusing to reveal her . identity. ! "Mother of two," but what kind of mother? X Shall the old hymn be rewritten: Where is my wandering mother tomght? ' - v The old story, now so familiar: stepping ont, a few dates -with another man, further indiscretions- The end: in the ' police station like a common criminal. And -the two what i about the two children? Promise here for another broken l homev with children losing a real mother's care. i : In this sophisticated age. so cynical, so "free" are we not losing our moral standards? When mothers? join in cheap hold-ups, whavsociai atate are we coming tqlB Women have i fousiht lonir for liberty and freedom. Now that the v have it I dq they know what to do With it? It is so easr to gloss over j much of the "self -expression" of the people of today; but j , there can be no abrogation of those moral laws, embodied in the ten commandments, on which the social structure rests. '1 f'Mother of two" the phrase has a sermon as pointed j.. as any that may be preached from a pulpit. , ! No one race can claim all the honors In thef prize ring, though the Irish with John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, et L probably , have the longest list to testify to the belligerent anilities of the ficht 'ling Irish. But there have been Fltssimmons. Australian:: Carpentier, t' Frenchman; Firpo, Argentinian: and Coecoske, Lithuanian. The last p named travels under the monicker of ? Jack- Shirkey." Now Mas Schmeiing leaps into tame, real German. as his aime testifies. .It is , getting so a man can't place his bets by the racial fighting blood in i ' i the combatants. : ,:--nW.v ss' v . ; : Now the Elks are going to start a "cradle! roil. to-be called Th Antlers." This wUl paraUel th DeMolay Sand Rainbows and Children's D. A. R. We are still waiting for the formation of Babes oC Rotary and Kids ot KIwanis. A babe ctn hardly fet bis tooth cat before he is elected to an office nowadays. After viewing the wonderfully fine antnal pictures In 'Simba,' one might easily conclude that the Babboon are the politicians o the animal kngdomOThe wear" where they ait dowa shows they hold the swivel chair jobs. . t r t I If that Chicago Borneo has to pay the $S.m to his ex-fiancee. our opinion Is he gets of t ebeap to be rid ot ner. seme one ougnt to start a matrimonial school for wealthy widowers, they seem to.be I But the gold-diggers abroad are notao Innocent. BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Why not Oregon walnuts? W A friend phoned-the Bits man calling attention to an advertise ment of the Western. Dairy Pro ducts company In the newspapers. n which last week's special was Victoria Nut Ice cream; "fresh California walnuts and toasted al monds," combined with "vanilla Sunfreeze' and flavored with - a touch of delicious chocolate." S That sounded good but why California walnuts? the.fr lend who telephoned wanted to know. Why California walnuts, when Oregon walnut are better and our high quality product, like the grafted Franquetes from the Skyline or chard, sell 5 cents a pound higher in the New York market than the budded California nuts, the best grown in California? The why pf it Is that likely the man who wrote the copy for the advertisement was unaware of the superiority . ot the Oregon wal nuts; and besides he was writing copy for a wide territory all over the coast and besides again persistent boosting inspired by the California spirit" has built into the mind of the people ot this country, and of other lands, gen erally. that California- products are superior to those of other sec tions. It Is not the ; quality particul arly. It Is the advertising; the Superiority complex of Californi ans that by their peristency they have put over onto the rest of the world, when thinking of the gold en state and. its product. a formation looking like a cathe dral or a capitol, at the highest point of the hills south of Salem; overlooking the whole valley, on bQth aides ot the river. That is Skyline. It is Skyline because it is the skyline oat there: about six miles south of Salem. If you read this, you will 'often turn your eyes that way and see SkyUne orchards. The clump of fir trees was left standing, in the center of the orchard, and at about the highest point. a S It is about 1,200 feet above sea level there; about 1,000 feet aoove-aiem. uut tne coring or the student showed that the Sky Une land was once v under -the ocean. There" is sandstone up there, and ancient seashells, and all the other signs of marine life some hundreds of thousand or mil lion years ago. How the land got up 1,009 to 1,2 00 feet above pres ent -sea level is another story; a long One. ' S S The Mr. Noble employed Knirht Pearcy and his brothers to have the land cleared and set out - to grafted Franquette walnuts, with. Oregon or Italian prunes as fiU- ers. Mr. Noble has kept books in Skyline from the day ot his start. He knows exactly how it stands him wow; how much money he has put in; how much he has tak en ont. In the sales of prunes and walnuts. He is an engineer. He does not fool himself. Mr; and Mrs. Noble are spending the sum mer vacation season here; taking a rest after traveling twice around the world in the past five years, A needed rest. But he is. not rest ing much. He is tarrying on ex- ing here yet. He was and is a, pio neer. There are things yet to wor ry about" But he is tackling the problems as he meets them or as they come up. j He Is satisfied with Skyline; with the soU, the air drainage, the elevation, etc., etc Ho would do the same thing over 'again. Though he does ttot deny the ad vantages ot other locations. -Some rwi.- n.t ,v - mierlments on Skyline. Hw worked umseu, wim bumm Auauu, nis present superintendent, tor hard days on end, during blooming time, in pollination experiments, He is becoming a walnut expert. He is having a lot ot fun: out of all this; and he Is doing a great work for Oregon and the WUlam ette valleyand the Salem district, and Salem, Oregon. it s j What - has he found? Many things. He -believes the bulk of the walnut acreage of the United States will be in the Willamette valley. Why? The Statesman pub lished and republished an inter view with mm, weeks ago, when he first arrived here on his vaca tlon trip. The main reason is that walnut trees In California must have irrigation. And there is not enough irrigation water. The wa ter level In the artesian wells ot California has. gone down 10 feet 1 and it Is still going down. !. . V t Walnut trees In the Willam ette vaUey do not require irriga tion. They send their-deep roots down after the water. The surface moisture can be conserved by con stant cultivation. That is what Is done on Skyline. Mr. Noble does not kow all about walnut grow- from ' California s book and go out and get a reputation, in the the language of the challenged prize ring' champion. There is an increasing number of products the Salem district puts on the mar ket that can truthfully , be ex plotted on quality, besides wal nuts, as tor Instance filberts, strawberries, especially our 'froz en berries" In cold sack, celery. onions, head , lettuee, : pickles, va rious seeds and bulbs, flax man ufactures, peppermint, and a. long list of' others. -All eesentlit oils will follow In the train jofour peppermint oiL' When we set the superiority complex , and 1 adver tise oar products that are reslljr of high quality,: it will not be' pos sible lor a writer ot advertising to slight them, either knowingly or unintentionally. Many readers will be Interest ed In knowing how the Skyline orchard I happened to be the Sky line orchard, or any orchard at alL Clarence W. Noble, some If or 17 years axo. cot the idea that this country should grow walnuts of a superior j quality for ; home consumption and the world trade. He is a globe-trotter; in charge of the ; foreign business ot i Toongstown, Ohio, concern that does business all over the world. He is also an engineer. When he got the walnut Idea he made in quiries. He found that only Calif ornia and the western sections of Oregon and Washington could grow walnut on a commercial scale. He 'came: and consulted with the professors of the Ore gon Asrieultural college. He then employed a bright student to spend hi vacation season looking over the Willamette valley, armed with a soil anger, ' making bor lags. This stndent visited perhaps II or more, farms, that might be purchased. The upshot of it an was that Mr. Noble bought the land that Is mow Skyline .orchard. It was the Id Coffer place; after wards the Tilmoa Ford land, ou can raee it from many points ia the ; central Willamette valley, have observed, many times, ; the clump of tall fir trees that makes THK BREACH OF PROMISE - FARCE Everyone agrees there are too many laws. Then why not elia inate some of them? And In the process of ' elimination why net start with th laws that justify these unsavory heart balm suits? Much to tne entertainment 01 idle hands and vulgar minds, Frank S. Hardinge, venerable and wealthy oil heater manufac turer, is being sued Ur $250,00 by sprightly Anne Livingston, grass widow, from Tulsa, Okla homa. There is standing room only in the .Chicago fcourt room. According to one feature writer. the trial is better thin a vaude ville show. Old Man kardlnge Is a -scream, and the sprightly grass widow "as full ot pjepper as Mexican tortilla." No doubt. But regardless of the outcome how can the ends of jus tice or moral betterment be serv ed? This case, like every other brought under the statute, is plain case of sordid blackmail. : No girl with a heart that can be broken ever seeks redress ; in the courts. No self-respecting per son, male or female, ever, brings action for cardiac damages, for Where one party is opposed to carrying out an engagement for marriage, the other party is lucky to escspe. While in the middle ages When women were property there may have been theoretically some oas is tor breach of promise suits there is none today. As a practical matter, the law helps po one who deserves it, and serves solely as an encouragement to the unprin' cipled and unscrupulous, graft- ters, shysters, blackmailers their Uk. Far better for everyone. for Society In general. heart balm law in existence were erased from the sta Where the desire for statically disappears, Mall-Tribune. Medford of the best walnut men in Oreroh (not mutual its Justification auto- prefer other locations; lower ele vations; different soils, etc. The prune tree fillers on Sky line are being removed. They will : all be out after the coming har vest, ' leaving only the walnut trees;. 112 acres of them; the largest single Individual planting or grafted Franquette in Ore gon. and It and every tute books marriage is Editors Say: 1 KAISER OX SUCKER LIST One Is born every minute and they never die. The latest sucker is none other than the late Kaiser Wllhelm. He rave $150,000 to an Aimee McPherson of the male set from Austria, thot! 3 gentleman's I unhappy place to sel CARMEL, N. T., July 8. (AP) Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr.. of the 26th New York district ia an address before ithe Putnam county republican committee 1 to day attacked the Independence day address ot Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt at Tammany hall in New York City. It certainly was a curious and t for advo- reai name was Schwappeller. Herri eating such a cause," he said, re- Schwappeller informed the late rf erring to the governor's plea tor war lord that he was on the verge I separation of government ana of discoveries' the secret of the I business, "for it there is one or- energy of the atom and would use j gaaization in the country that has It to restore the throne to WiHbeen inextricably mixed up with helm and make Germany the hap-1 all kinds of business, big and llt- nieat and most nowerful nation in I tie, from building sewers to " I m. L . a a . n the world.' - Herr Schwappeller must have been pretty good as he else got the monarchistic Wlttels- bashs of Bavaria Interested in his th. lentur pTayeV IT wE 2ffi cesses for sush-cart beddlers. ia Tammany hall. f i ' ''The recent report .of Tarn manr's own investigator. Com missioner of Accounts James. A. cnciiiins of mi you - j CHICAGO..Julr g (AP) The Herr. Gerald Fltsgibbotts, director of the Catholic Women's sodalities. told the convention of that organ isation todaT that question f length of dresses and smoking or drinking by women jrere problems young women were best able .to solve.. " ,f r The remarks were made In con nection with the discussion Of those problems. ! The principles ajrreed noon at the discussions will be embodied in , resolutions tor the convention to act on to morrow. "The Catholic church does not frown upon short dresses or even an occasional drink on the part of women." Father Fitzcibbons said. We dO not believe however in ex cess in any' form whether in ap parel or Publie drinking. 1 "With proper education en tae subject of dress we fell the .young women can guide their town des tinies and still be in style. Drink has been a pltfatL for many a poor misguided girl. ' Flask carrying. public drinking roadhouse parties and speakeasies we definitely frown upon and discussions among girls' groups support us in this stand. - "The church and7the sodalities believe- smoking cigarettes by women-breaks down the feminine reserve so vital to women. We feel cigarette smoking by women is but a fad which will pass," he said. Charges Pushed Against "Poison Peri' Seattleite tist, will face charges of threat ening the life of. President Hoor er on July 12, In a hearing be fore u. S. Commissioner - A. f Bowman.. TJchlyama was being held tod 9, under 110.000 baiL A search by federal operative lasting more than seven Tears threat to the past three pre-i. dents of the United States nn high Japanese; officials was be lieved ended with TJchlyama's arrest. SU FID IS UIDT0F061H CHICAGO. July 8. (Ap Blame for an alleged $60,009 land fraud has- been placed on Edward J. Fogarty, nationally known prison authority who shot himself to death a month ago While warden of the Cook county jail here. I A 85 year old widow. Mrs. Lv dla Norman of Chicago, filed suit In the federal court at Waycross, Ga., a week age demanding an ac counting of the warden's, execu tors aad his associates, the action being I made public here : today with serving of notices on defense attorneys. - ; It was Mrs. Norman's threat to expose her dealings with- Foparty, for years Warden of the Indiana State prison at Michigan City, de clares the widow In her bill, that led to his suicide at the home of a relative in South Bend, Ind. r Seventeen hundred acres of fer tile GeorglaIand. valued at ap proximately 880,000 was the property j Involved. Mrs. Norman said she met Fogarty at the Indi ana prison while she was doing charity work. She said he told her of his political power in northern Indiana and of his abil ity to get a good price for the land, should she permit him to handle it for her. SEATTLE, July 8.-(AP-rM. TJchlyama, elderly Japanese chem ist and alleged "poison pen" ar- order phone 500 i ATTEND WEDDING SCOTTS MILLS. July 8. Mr. and iMrs. W. T. Hogg attended the Weeding f W. Earl Shafer and Miss Eugenia Zieber in Sa lem Saturday evening. Mr. 'jSha- fer Is Hogs; k nephew of Mr. and 'Mrs. The Oregon Statesman and The Portland Telegram, two great dailies for 60 cents per month. To. helm's well known religions weak ness aad cited gosae prophesy or other that turned the trick. If there 1 no other way to work a sucker, make him believe there is scripture for your scheme and his superstitions get complete mas tery of every bit of sense he might! democrats." otherwise have. Cor-allis Ga zetterTime. V . - ; cla of graft, corruption and padded payrolls in the street Cleaning- de partment, which extended into most of the other departments of the city government. iThe slogan et Tammany is "nrorel politics in business and more businesa for Tammany haU - and deserving I THE DE PRIEST INCIDENT It was to be expected of the southern states that they would be offended, at the incident of the re ception at the White House to which the wife of Congressman De Priest Waa invited. It doesn't take Terrific Rain 1 Damages' Crop Nebraskk Area ej men lort. an- more e- and to- AUBURN. Neb JuW 8. (AP) much to offend a southern aentle- Six and four tenths Inches of man and when many ot them ''get! rain, the heaviest fall in the his- tcrether in a nolitieal body like a I wry ot the country, Caused se- legisUture and when they f can Ter Am8 to wheat Sand other make political capital ot; of nyaw i sm- Incident It would be expecting too I "' much to msk them to forego shchl"ww. -w "ooa 8itu4-1 an opportunity. On the other! band some of the northern states seem eager to take a hand in the fuss and .they are passing - resolutions . . commending Mrs. Hoover for her brave, and patriotic stand ia the matter. The northerners should ' know better than to add any fuel to the flames started by their southern breth ren. A foolish issue Is. not made tties over the question. Southern J j oooies snouia quit xneir (ussing and . northern organizations will Seven GoodlReasons why you should have a checking account: " It is unsafe to carry a large amount of 1st money About with you. i 2nd- It is much safer to pay all bills by check, thus having the receipt of the payee, for he must endorse the check. 3rd It is the cheapest and safest way to send money by mail. 5 ! . - 4th It enables yon to keep a simple and ac- curate record of your receipts and expenditures. 5th It gives you a dignified standing in your business community. . '. :),.' - " ' ' ' ' 6th 1 ia well to be know nas "Haying money In the bank.? 1 : . . r-f r : n Jth A healthy tank account entitles you to ask and obtain, without xharge, expert advice, in formation and 'counsel on business matters from the officers of your: bank. , Open on account today. ' --' ' ' ' - ' S ? "' i "' ' - 1 1 I I II I UnfteS States National Bank :. .... ; . - i . , I , v. Trays 2 to & tons - . Prunes per , hoar . 5 " , . t .- Best Power Prnne Trayer on the market takes lest roora and, dips more pTuaes.' Made la two style, the three dip hot water, and the one - dip cold water. Order Bight Now. Prices reasonable. H4S Broadway SL Salera, Ore. 1 4 1 '1 ; " ' " - . v i! . - . i . i ... BLANH S THAT iyE LEGAL ia Btoek wrer 115 Xeral Ussks veiled U rtcst sV VYe) 8fttw bar hast ihm fva wm sir tao&lB f m hi s'wjh vsspaxca m rrrrt to ercor icrca. thmi itasiCmtTMtttSMStitaAJJMe-m. 5 ?JtZtt2Za': 1 Deeds, Abstract form, 1 f Ildh Ccsacl Gesislsfg Firmer Attoracry. Vnam Booica and Pstda, Scale Be-' cej?tav etc Tta fonas era carefcy prepare4 Xcr thsj crrarta aad pilTAttat Fitcaa wsi n4e batias trasa 2S to CO ceata. ! . rsxirnzi aiid rca sals ct TO Statesman Fdblioliinr? Co. I.