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n N PAGE FOUR Xh 02EG0JI STATES11AN, Salem," Qregoiv Friday llornto Jirfyi 12. 1S29 ,4: c 4 5 A. i "No favor Sicays Us; No Fear Shall Awe." ' From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 ' . THE! STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. :i Charles A. Spkagce, Sihxdox F. SACirrr, PuUbkert Chakxes A. Spkacue - . : Sheloox F. Sacxett - Editor-Manager Managing Editor t ! Member of the Associated Press ; I The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to Use use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited la this paper. . 'Entered at the Poatoffice at Salem, Oregon, 0 Seeond-Claa Matter, Published every morning except Monday. Business of fica $15 S. Commercial Street. ti Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: - I x Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bdg San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Paci Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stcchcjr, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. ( Using the Half-Billion TT might be well if the people know just what! this $500,- X 000.000 fund which the trovernment is providing in its farm relief program is available for. The law says the fund may be loaned for the following purposes: ! (1)-The effective merchandising of agricultural com modities end food products thereof; (2) the construction or acquisition by purchase or lease of physical marketing facilities for preparing, handling, storing, processing, or merchandising agricultural commodi ties or their food products; (3) the formation1 of clearing house associations: (4) extending membership of the co-operative associa tion applying for the loan by educating the producers of the commodity handled by the association in the advantages of co-operative marketing of that commodity; and j - (51 i iil Wi" Hi 1 1 niiin uliw " II norntinn applying for loan to advance to its rnembersta greater share of the market price of the commodity deliyered to the association -fcfeaa-Jsnracticable under other credit faculties. . ; The f nnrtfa urovMuii sui 61 uueairiM the government a Ion wavs into the fieW of private bus! cal-step in the direction of interference with private inde pendence and initiative, in business. jThe phraseology of the provision commits' the government to a proposition which hitherto has been regarded as highly? debatable. It finances drives for membership in cooperatives, not shnply by the spreading of accurate information, feut "by educating the producers in the advantages of cooperative marketing." We have embarked on a journey! we know not where it will end. One member of the farm xard asserts that the enterprise is temporary, , that as , soon s economic parity is restored the board will be dissolved That we very much doubt. The great army of farmers my be depended upon to call for bigger and bigger doses all thfc while of government-i relief-stimulant The appetite grows, by what it feeds upon whether it is an industry: calling for fyeer higher protection or farm organizations Whose stock in trade is farm woe. Getting Off to a Rilht Start TI7HATEYER opinion we have seek expressed in edito: TY ial columns of state newspaperslhas been in harmori with the Toosition taken by this paperlm holding out for a executive secretary of the new state -board of higher educa tion who would be chiefly a clerical functionary, by no mearh an executive with authority over the beads of the several iff Btitutions. which'the new board is to govern. There will be, s time goes on; a large amount of detail york which this officer can perform, peeping records of the proceedings of the board, keepingstatistical materfal botrj Oregon and national, available for the instant demand of the board, carrying for ward such studies of method jpr procedure as the board may call for. This calls for an individual of capacity, yet distinctly for one who has sense enough to know the -limitations of his oil ice. xne xignt type oi man can perjprm great service to the board and to the institutions and to! the state; the wrong kind of man can keep a pretty kettle a-oiling. 4 X The Oregon Voter emphasizes the same ideas w&ch The . Statesman has entertained, in its comment in the Ifst issue: "As was brought out in discussions in the first meeting of J the board, the f unction of the secretary ought net to be that o a super president to whom and through whom, the! presidents of our five higher educational Institutions would reporsand from whoni they would take orders as to how they. sho.uM operate their., respective In stitutions. Sside from the fact that alPflve of the presidents prottably . would resign rather than become yes-men unler a dominating eecu ' tive whlfe would hrheld responsible tot their fcbedience, it is against sound administrative, practce to subject head of institutions to gov ernment 4y one man-. Their relations should no direct with a govern ing board, -which would hold each institutional head responsible! and , would not interfere in administrative details beyond requiring jcom- - pliance with general policies. The presidents Should remain theft heads In fact, the responsible executives. No intermediary epbuld come between any president and his governnV board, except as the secretary or anditpr through whom reports werjs made afid who jrould transmit the necessary records between the governing boards and the separate institutions. As a clearance for recorts, an examiner tjb ver ify reports and ascertain facts, a board secretary has his function, and It is an exceedingly Important one". . f. J Lawn Irrigation! NOT satisf fed with growing stubble onj the faces 6f ill the males past the hobbledehoy age, thfe city of Eugene is , starting a drive to grow grass on the lawns throughout the summer. They are bent on making the Sunset TrailT wind through green pastures instead of along streets bordered by burned oat grass. They have even gotte reduce the pnee of water so. there will nousenoiaer negieciingTiis lawn. .Why should there be any drive need "of these valleyjeitieslceep up their la mer season? Even here' in Salem which J takes s in the appearance of its homes, there are dawns now brown from, Jack of water. Half of if isllaziness, t half false economy. i u - rrnen ine waiter iirsi mpvea to tna raamfttisraliev - from the semi-desert cotmtryjrfl easHngt it was amazing toohote the nczlfAiot UtitvaaiT time. .Summers here are ntdlorraljtj people regularly failed to keen.lawns faThe dry season, de- ijummer-is owc Jtf jieason. What tattera it if "w. "77 x wjur no visitor ner to enjoy it i low-water ratas with a rate of be ST over lOOOPci. ft. But the cost rv f&-S i e l, tlo of timber, mlmoraJi tnA oil, pay Cari of tha earning ehargT And why should not the federal gevermaeat cooperate fully with the eommeawealth and its politic al subdivisions i the development worav bat patting np 1U money In just proportion? W do not agree with Secretary Wilbur that transfer ot tha na tional forest to the state might e wise. Wo donbt It Wo feel that tho federal government can dis charge the respoiasiblUty far bet ter. Bat we believe that this transfer will result some day whjen the commonwealths of the SHt and mMrilft WAat md annf Vi wremliio the hardships which with drawals of vast areas to the na tional government are working on the far western states, unless the present injustices aro removed. Albany Democrat Herald. inrin BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Saturday, August 12, 1848 S That was a day fateful in the history of Oregon and ot the United States, and world civili sation in general. On that day the United States had before it the matter of agreement to the house amendments to the bill to estab lish the Oregon territory. J. Qulnn Thornton, unofficial representa tive of the Oregon provisional gov ernment, was present and a wit ness to the proceedings. There was set up a sort of fil ibuster to prevent the final pas sage of the Oregon bill; for 12 o'clock noon of Monday, the 14 th, "The intensity with which Mr. Benton hated Mr. Calhoun," wrote Thornton, "will be seen In the spirit of a remark he made to me very soon after the adjournment of the senate after coming to a vote on the bill for organizing a territorial government in Oregon. My way to my boarding house ha ing the same that led to Mr. Ben ton's residence, we naturally fell in together as we left the senate chamber; and as naturally our con versation was on the subject of the scenes during the recent pro tracted session. In allusion to the passage at arms between himself and Judge Butler, he said: 'I did not blame Judge Butler so much had been fixed as the day time of as I did that scoundrel Calhoun, J be w aa wns the water no excuse to hai through tl h l samvtzFr-. cuuic ieet jot j T ill ' 'Tli in I iiiii i i il III I ii ) ii lili ii il aa' the pernianent hpn and the present residence- of twowhose nameaare attalhetd to the most xm rportaat uasarei eonjlag' neforo the present-seiston ot pnfress. ben- ktor ucfiarx, lacnerea tne larm reuci bui na i piloted the tariff bill through the lower house atrennomj labor they hare tomt home to rest. AaSthey lgrestaan Hawley Aft erf' a season of .pave selected is located in m -choice spdt. Voth because It is home, and because It a r charmed land. Their, many friends rejolcetat their return and hope forhem a season of rest and refreshment. as a ground tor might talking Clara Bow's mother wants a divorce aad o eoBslaiaL the charge that Pa Bow keep her awake -at I to himself. That 'Is palatal ledeed. Ma Bow dan't go to sleep he cattse ah thinks she might helr-aojjicthlng. Tie. worit ot It ii she 'can't talk back. , They never leara Here Is Secretary HydeiadTU kaU thir wheat. Ther win et more for it later." hie fag farmers to (predicts. That was what -Secretary Jardine aaid last tail, and tie .farmers who held pM dearly for the advice,; adjournment sine die." Butler ot South Carolina, colleague of Cal houn, made a motion to go Into executive session for the purpose ot inquiring Into the conduct of Senator Benton of Missouri, who he alleged had communicated to Dr. Wallace, reporter of the New York Herald, some things that had been. done In secret session. There was a passage between Senators Butler and Benton, both of them with hair as white as wool, in which the lie was bandied back and forth and the old warriors of forensic battle were kept from vi olence by General Dlx of New York, Senator Mason of Virginia, and others and there was a chal lenge to mortal combat by Senat or Butler, accepted in hot rage by Benton. Order being restored, the motion was lost. j - ; j S Senator Foote, colleague ot Jet-, ferson, Davis, then began a speech against the motion to accept the house amendments of the Oregon bill. The Mississippi! senator said little about the Oregon bUl; "but he repeated the story of the cos mogony of the world, the creation, of man, the taking ot the rib from Adam's side from which Eve was made, her conversation with the "snake," the fall of man, etc, etc. The galleries were soon deserted. At intervals of about an hour, the president would yield the floor to a motion for adjournment. This would bring the members from the retiring room to their places in side the bar, called by a sentinel, and they . would vote NO with thundering emphasis. Other speak ers relieved General Foote; so that Calhoun and. his southern cohorts had things ? their own way until mornjng at about S o'clock was a conference of onents of the bill, and Sen- Butler announced that there would be no further opposition to taking a vote. The roll was called, and the senate -agreed to the hodse amendments. The bill was a law. lacking' only the signature of the president, which was affixed the next day, Monday, August 14, 1S4S. Oregon was made a terri tory. ' - Senator' Benton was the out standing friend ot Oregon in the United States senate at that time. His colleague. Senator Linn . of Missouri, had been as Intense In his interest, and was the author of former bills to make the Oregon ConntrX a territory, with or with out the consent ot the British gov eramfatHts idea ot giving each family settling la this region (49 acres was embodied in the dona tion land law that was finally pass ed by congress in I860. But he dtd'not live to see Oregon made a territory. He was alive, however. to witness the starting ot the Ap- plegat covered wagon train i In the spring ot 1145, which turned the course ot history and decided the extension ot American terrl tory to the Pacific ocean.. He died October 3, 1843. . The importance ot Senator Ben ton's place in American hlsterr is measured partly by the IS vol umes h took to embrace his con- who, while egging on Butler, sat there looking as demure as whore at a christening." While the Oregon bill was be fore the senate as a whole after its introduction, containing as it did the clause against slavery, Corwln of Ohio had secured the floor in the debate on the meas ure, when the body adjourned. In this manner it became known at once throughout the city that Cotv win would on the next day, after the preliminary business ot the morning hour had been disposed of, address the senate on that bill the provision In it taken from the ordinance of 1787, prohibiting slavery, being the point of his de parture, and human rights the subject of his address. s At an early hour- the gallery was literally, packed full ot the elite and beauty of the capital. Diplo matic representatives from every court in Europe were present, Cor wln was the greatest orator ot his day. In his speech! he alternately melted the heart into pity or kindl ed it into resentment, while with inimitable skill and unequaled power he portrayed "the sum of all villianies," meaning the insti tution of human slavery. "A few speeches such as that would 'sever the bonds of the un ion," exclaimed Father Richie, the most venerable journalist of the United States, a life long advocate of slavery, and at that time editor of the government; organ, accord ing to Thornton. Thus the creation of Oregon as a tree territory was one oi me causes that led to the conflict that became4he;greatest war in history up to tharpme. Not overlooking bitter strifes and disputes in early Oregon, the Bits man believes the labors of J Qulnn Thornton deserve a memor ial commemorating his many ben efictfll deeds, the most outstanding of wtich, in his j estimation, was the -securing of two sections of each, township in) this state to be devoted to school purposes. His grave, and that of his wife, in Lee Mission cemetery j herer-ls marked by a small rotten wooden slab, the lettering of which has been obliterated by the sun and show ers of the summers and winters since February s 1888; the death or jnr. -inornton navwg tanen place at his home In Salem Feb. fi S fW There was a movement to have the school children ot Oregon con tribute 19 cents each towards the cost of a suitable memorial. This should be revived, -and consum mated. Baseball Battle Editors Say: plans to sail Haruna Maru the 2Qth of tloast subjects with other students ox International Ufa. ,1 Mrs. Wilson, who for Tokyo on the from Marseilles oa this month, will be accompanied by her cousin, Di Bndolph Boi ling Teusler of St. Luke's interna tional hospital, TokyO, and by Mrs, Teusler. ; Although Mrs. Wilson desires to travel unostentatiously, she will, undoubtedly i be received with high honors in Japan. IBUXIS ' BELIEVED POSSIBLE IS FIB US EI J III PARIS, -July 11 (AP) Mrs. Woodrow WilsOn, who arrived in Paris today, has decided to make a tour of the far East in order to continue her study of internation al economics and political prob lems, j This will enable her to extend to Japan and China the work she has been doing quietly in Geneva in recent years, studying the oper ations of the League of Nations and attending lectures on interna- .1 . - I - Mexicans Won't Accept American Sm$ll Currency LAREDO. Tex.. Jly 11 (AP) Thirsty Americans who sought the bars of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico across the line from here today with the new suxall size American currency returned home, just as thirsty as they went. Barkeepers refused the money in payment of drinks, believing it was counterfeit. Many cafes also turned down the new paper. Later In the day the bartenders and restaurant men were much chagrined upon. learning they had ruined one ot the best; day's bnsl ness of the year when the Yan kees were willkia: to ; spend by "showing off their, new money. EYANSVILLEt Ind., Juiy 11 (AP Officials today sought Al len C. Yeager, 33, prominent bus iness man and boy's worker here, supposed to have drowned in, the Ohio river . Saturday night, on the theory that the f drowning" was a hoax in an attempt to collect in surance. I j'- ':. Carl Cowles, IT, "friend of Yjsa- ger; yesterday said that ! he had aided Yeager in carrying out the plot. He told of driving Teager's automobile to the riyep to the scene of the discovery Sunday of a capsized motor boat in which Yea ger and Russell Morris, i 13, an. other boy friend, went riding oji saiuraay mgm. , in iwo were presumed to have drowned. Pennington " said Yeager had worried recently over some $3,000 he owed and that -insurance ha carried was sufficient to corer these obligations. TICK BITE FATAL T LANDER, Wyo, .July 11 (AP) The fourth fatality from tick bite infection in Fremont I county this year and the seventh In Wyoming was reported today. LEES HAVE BABY Mr.- and Mrs, Clare A. Leo were receiving th congralula tions jf friend3 late Wednesday afternoon on the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Lee at the Sa lem General hospital. : $ AMBASSADOR SAILS LIMA. Peru, July 11 (AP) Alexander P. Moore, American am bassador, sailed for New York to day on the steamship Santa Maria. THE DOCTOR AND HIS CODE The code of ethics of the medi cal profession has come in for no little attention at the convention of the American Medical associa tion in Portland. A considerable part of tqe address ot the presi dent of that association was de voted to what one newspaper calls defense of that code, though strictly speaking a code of ethics should require no defense, since its tenets of moral and profession al conduct should be so funda mentally right that they admit of no dispute. One of the principal provisions of the medical code proscribes ad vertising as. a means of securing a practice by a reputable doctor, and, even though the institution of advertising Is recognized in al most every field of human en deavor, we have no quarrel with the physicians for denying it .to themselves, since their service are personal and have to do with health and life. It would be dif ficult. Indeed, for a doctor to put forth claims for his own knowl edge and skill in the treatment of disease without violating the ethics of advertising as well as of his own profession. Yet. it seems to. ms. that the medical profession 1$ leaning ov er backward when it ousts sueh an eminent physician as Dr. Louis E. Schmidt of Chicago from its societies because he is employed by the Public Health Institute of his home city, which aoes soma advertising. Such adver tising as it employs does not sa vor of the quacsery wnicn is bo obnoxious to reputable medical men, and, since Dr. Schmidt s paid only to treat charity pa tients, it is a little difficult to see wherein he Is offending the spirit ot the anti-advertising rule. One wonders whether the medical societies are not actuated oy op position to such institutions as thla tmblie health institute which. supported by phiiantnropy. De come competitors of the individu al nWstrian and surzeon. iei if nrii institutions are founded and maintained principally to pm competent medical services in the reach of those with limuea iunas n ethical code wnien reeog DIM th nubile welfare cannot well frown upon them4 Stage&byYouths Fourteenth Street and Yew Park playground boys will tangle on the two diamonds Friday aft ernoon. The small boys will play at Fourteenth street and the big ger fellows at Tew Park. I The gressional debates, and two large Lincoln hi bojys, and the Fonr ones to hold his Thirty Years In I teentn street smau ooya lean tne th TTnfrmf Stat Rpnara. " atavrronnd learn. , - -f A NEW PUBLIC LANDS POLICY Sporetarr of the interior w- bnr nroDosed a radical rignt- abont-face national lands policy for the government when he ad vocated before the conference of western states governors at jjoise the transferring to states willing to accept the responsibility - the control of surface rights to all public lands not included in na tional Darks, monuments and for ests and suggested that eventually wisdom mav dictate that the states control the present nation al forests. : The secretary was talking to the chief executives of the states that bold within their borders the greater share of government Owned lands. There was, for in stance, the governor of Oregon, one-half of whose area is owned by the federal government. Colo rado. Utah. Montana, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming,, Arizona and New Mexico are other states that realize the handicap resulting from the withdrawal ot vast areas from the state and county, tax rolls. ' We assert that the suggestion of Mr. Wilbur as to national for ests will come true j some day. If th government does not adopt a more liberal policy' of recompens ing the public Una States tor the cost, ot conserving the natural resources for the pablio welfare. At present ther Is t grave- In Jus tice In a system that requires the public land stares to surrender large areas to the government, de prive themselves of tax revenues and hold them for the good of al the" nation. Why should the states that have no public lands ' but which benefit from the conserve- Friday & Saturday 250 Pairs Women's Pumps and Ox fords for Dress and Street Wear. See these Bargains. Values to $7.85 B0B 1 : pill f - i "u- . r s lib v m ! I I 1 . 1 : flUSl GUI j 00 in m Where Are You Spend ing Your Vacation? ; - " ' ' ... I For that month, week- end or Sunday trip SEE the RESORT ADS Each week in Saturday Morning's Statesman Patronize these Advertisers They will entertain you well NOTE U you go away for any time be sure to bart the Statesman follow you. and well do the rest . . i- . . ,