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From Fin Statesman, March j28, 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
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Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business
office 15 S. Commercial Street. t
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Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave.
Summer Vacationists
Auto Men Seek Lower Tariff
WHEN men like Alfred P. Sloan, head of General Motors,
Alvan Mr.cauley, president of the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, Walter White of the White motor
truck concern, and R .1. Roberge, sales manager for Ford,
ask the senate committee to reduce the protective tariff- on
automobiles from 25 to 10 they are not philanthropists.
Nor are they temporarily out of their head. They represent
the leaders of one of the foremost industries of the country.
In effect! they repudiate protection so far as the automobile
industry is concerned. f
Why do they take this stand ? Because they see a world
market opening Def ore them which they can retain only as
they keep costs on a w orld level. The little good that a high
protective tariff might do in barring importations of foreign
cars might be offset a thousand fold by foreign restrictions
on import of American cars or setting false standards of cost
in this country. i
We do not realize how fast our export trade in motor ve
hicles has grown. Cottan has long been hailed as king. Now
its supremacy is threatened. In a very few years it seems
certain that the value; of our motor car exports will exceed
the total of cotton. The foreign commerce department of
the Chamber of Commerce of the United States gives the
following report of thef figures for the first quarter of 1929:
i "Setting a new record, exports of automobiles, parts and ac
cessories "made a Rain of 59 per cent ra value, advancing to
5181,156,000 only 127,600,000 lower than the leader, cotton,
and 116.3 per cent above the 1924-1928 average. Shipments
abroad of passenger automobiles totaled 109.355 cars. 7.5 per
cent above the figure for the first quarter of 1928 and 72.8 great
er than the five-year average. During the same year we export
ed 57,716 motor trucjes andlusscs, a91.5 increase over 1928 and
223.6 per cent above the five-year average."
This makes it clear why leaders in the auto industry as
well as in many other industries favor reduced rather than
increased tariffs so that America may gradually work to a
. basis of competition for world markets and not be satisfied
with merely the home market. j ?
Much Adieu Abqut $88,000
MUCH adieu about the sacrifice? of business men now en
tering service under President Hoover has been waged
about the land but most of the crocodile tears are wasted.
Having an integral part in administering the affairs of gov
ernment is a chance for big business men and everyone, knows
there are plenty of places in federal administration where
good business judgment could be Exercised to the benefit of
the public. !
When Legge left a $100,000 personal post to take a $12,
000 public post he lost an annual infeome of $88,000 more than
he will receive but he is placed in fa responsibility to do real
service for his country, larger sejrvice than in the private
post he occupied where a vast organization can carry on with
out him. After all Legge can eat the same number of. meals
on $12,000 as on $100,000 and none; of the residue can be car
ried with him when harvester problems of farm relief night
mares are no more. J
President Hoover is to be commended in his drafting
for service of outstanding men wh4 see in conduct of govern
ment both a chance for personal adventure in new problem
solving and also an opportunity to fepay in part the debt suc
cessful men everywhere owe to their government.
Among the "new patriots" who are turning down lucra
tive positions for government work may be included Earl D.
Church, who left a $50,000 a year insurance job to Decome
commissioner of pensions at, $9,000; Joseph Potter Cotton,
who gave up a $100,000 a year job at Manhattan law prac
tice to be undersecretary of state at $10,000; Ernest Lee
Jahncke, who left a remunerative ship-building and dry-dock
business to serve as assistant secretary of the navy at $9000.
Prank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun writes trenchantly
of the whole trend when he says of Legge's professed "sacri
fice" i "Mr. Legge has too fine a mind to spend the rest of
his life in play. There obviously isn't anything for him in
making more money when one has enough. What Mr. Hoover
offers to Mr. Legge is a chance to be something else.- It is
the chance that counts and no red-blooded man would refuse
to take the chance."
J SOUS GfclP tOK MY ..lSgp
M.Slr yS TITO JlL
They Say...
Kxpreaskma of Opinlom from
Statesman Headers are
Welcomed or Use la this
column. AH Ietters Most
Bear Writer's itame,
Tboogh Tola Need if be
Printed.
BITS
for BREAKFAST
-By R. J. HENDRICKS -
It Is very pleasing
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To note the general interest In
and support of the campaign for
still water in the Willamette
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There 'was a time when some
doubting Thomases poked fun at
the Bits man for harping on this
subject; ; made puns about stUl
water and generally gave him the
horse laugh.
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That i3 the biggest thing that is
happening in favor of the future
prosperity of the Willamette val
ley; all of it not only up to Salem,
but as far as Albany and Corval
lis and Eugene. Still water In the
Willamette, major irrigation pro
jects all over this valley, and the
full development of our flax and
linen and edible nut industries,
will usher in the time when the
put added net value into every for
est tree in the Cascades and Coast
range with a down hill haul to the
Willamette river.
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There is not a thine of potential
commercial worth in this wfrale
territory that will not be touched
with the magic Midas influence of
this prospect. The wonder of the
future generations will be that our
opportunities have lain dormant so
long1. Salem lis a small village now
compared with the size to which
it is bound to grow as its trade
territory covering the central val
ley is developed into the empire in
production for which the decrees
of nature prepared It in the eons
of the past giving a combination
of sunshine and showers and soil
fitting it for one of the bread bas
kets of the world with all the de
licious spreads that go onto the
here today, effective at midnight
tonight, by C. Andres, district
manager of the American Kail
way association car service divi
sion. Accumulation of unsold
grain In cars and elevators here
caused congestion which resulted
in the embargo, traffic men ex.
plained, as sufficient vessels are
booked to handle the movement.
To the Editor: July 17,19 29.
Details have been received re
garding the accidental shooting
of Charles; J." Lisle, second parole
officer of the Oregon State Boys'
school. '
.Mr.lLisle had gone to Seattle to
bring (back to Woodburn a Seattle
boy who had taken "French
leave," of the institution, but had
tamed himself in to the Seattle
police. Mr. Lisle was armed, as an
officer is in such cases. For a boy
at the irresponsible! age of 17 is
always dangerous', because he
has so little regard for consequen
ces even to himself. Recently an
Oregon boy, captured with a stolen
car. attemDted to drive the car
carrying the deputy and himself
over a 500-foot precipice. It is a
part ot law's obligation to antici
pate. '
After talking with the boy and
starting home, Mr; Lisle wanted
to do nothing to destroy the boy's
confidence and when they drove
out of their way to see the boy's
friends, Mr. Lisle Started to con
ceal the revolver, a Colt 44 fron
tier, which the boy had not seen,
and which he was carrying only
because he had loaned out three
smaller arms which he wo ild iave
preferred to carry. In removing
the weapon from his hip pocket.
it was discharged, setting fire to
his clothes and shooting jhim
through the left arm above" thje el
bow, shattering the bone land
leaving the arm dangling helpless
ly. ' . j
A fireman, whom the boy was
visiting, brought Mr. Lisle to the
Emergency hospital and the to
the Swedish hospital where heinow
is. I
The case Is under the care of Dr.
Murray, a celebrated specialist,
who served with the Canadian
forces during the world warj He
believes that a speedy and Com
plete recovery will follow j a
speed without precedent, consid
ering the nature of the case.
E. L. Ferguson, senior piirole
officer, is manfully taking unthe
duties of two. Their David-Md-Jonathan
friendship and coopera
tion has helped to make the work
of the Oregon fnstitution outstand
ing. The splendid enthusiasm of
Supt. Balllie, in the friendly. rath
er than forcible regeneration of
the boys, has made big results pos
sible. I .
It might be interesting to add
that the boy who-was the unwit
ting cause of the accident is be
ing paroled back ta help his
mother. He now has a definite
conception ef manhood as exem
plified by the school officers. He
has found tolerance and under
standing, the lack of which is the
active cause of most boyish delin
quency. The Oregon school has gone
beyond almost any similar school
in capitalising hero-worship.: and
confidence in the boys nnder its
care.
CONTRIBUTED.
went about Uw task of checking
accounts o! the various defunct
institutions, whose aggregate de
posits totalled approximate'
122,500,000, with the hope of
bringing about a liquidation aj
quickly a sponsible.
Considerable encouragement -r 3
Floridians in general was ..;
tained,. banking officials said, i3
the announcement from Washing
ton that Dr. C. L. Marlatt, c3 .
of the department of agriculture s
plant quaanw"e . ana control!
board, had hope for a modiii .
tion of theFlorida Mfediterran .ia
fruit fly quarantine W the Ova
ber shipping season.
C DUPLES NEARLY
WM IN HARBOR
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TACOMA. Wash.. July 19
CAP') Straddling a log for more
than seven hours ajfter their speed
boat had been snUk between Va
fhon Island and Brown Point, late
Thursday, two coijples were res
cued from Puget found as they
were near exhaustion from expos
ure at 6 o'clock this morning.
Those who were rescued are:
Thomas Carstens, Jr., 18 year old
6n of the head of the Carsten3
tacking company. '
Ted Healy, 20, owner of the
speedboat.
M!ss Catherine Sautry, 19.
dkughterof Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Sautry.
Miss Marjorie Winder of Port
land, Ore., who is visitl g at the
home of J. Frank Ilickey.
PHOTOGRAPH
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210 MILES
SPOKANE, Wsh., July 19
(AP) Old Mount Rainier, with
his snowy poll glistening in the
sun, is "holding! that pose" 210
miles away, while! a couple of avia-tor-DhotograDhers
here in Sdo-
jjfane are trying iiligentl" to take
nis picture, as tney circle three
miles above the earth.
Major C. V. Haynes, command
ed of the 41st division air i rvice
unit, Washington National guard
and Lieutenant H. R. Wallace,
head of the 116th photographic
section, are attempting to break
the regular armjr aviation corps
long range photographic record
of 175 miles. I
FLORIDA, PEOPLE
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F.MTH
TAMPA. Fla., July 19 (AP)
Traces of anxiety in the minds
of Floridans following upon the
closing of fifteen banks in the
state yesterday, apparently had
one other small bank closed its
doors today, public sentiment ap
parently had been bolstered up by
statements froni state and gov
ernment bank officials that plenty
of money was on hand and that
the depositors need have no fur
ther fear for the safety of their
accounts.
A large force of bank examiners
Florida Citrus
Crop Presents
Real Problem
WASHINGTON July 19 (AP)
Secretary Hyde believes there is
a possibility that the Florida cir
rus crop this year can be moved
without exposing areas in addi
tion to those now quarantined to
the risk of infestation.
H said tonight that research
work which has been intensively
prosecuted in Florida on methods
of destruction of the MHiterran
ean fruit fly In fruit indicates the
possibility that, by modification
of existing practices In pre-colling
and coloring, fruit ; may i be made
safe for shipment. ! '
Vacation time is here, have The
Oregon Statesman mailed to you
while you are gone. Fifty cents
per month anywhere. Phone 500,
we will do the rest.
territory between the Coast andi bread, and the courses that Come
Magruder Comes Back ,
REAR Admiral MagrUder is ordered back to a post of duty
and the harsh treatment he received two years ago can
partially be forgiven if not forgotten. Magruder was one of
those rare souls wh ohad sufficient stamina to say what he
knew was the truth about the operations of the navy depart
ment. Magruder did not write sarcastically in the series of
magazine articles he produced, but he did talk straight from
the shoulder, and he wasn't afraid of a fact when he bumped
into one. The navy department headed by Mr. Wilbur didn't
like the sound of the articles and Magruder was relieved of
the post he held. Two years saw a new administration in
charge and, improved respect for men in any department who
had courage sufficient to say what they thought. Now Ma
grauder comes back into his own. Borah had it right at the
time of Magruder's difficulty when he said he wished that
e very v department had a Magruder. 'i
Taboo on Fakirs
XTOW the city of Marshfield is adding its name to the in-
XtI creasing list of Oregon cities to put the taboo on car-
nivais ana meaicine iasurs ana omer itinerant, cuter taumieuta
whjch extract tribute frofn the citizenry of a community and
; leave no good behind them.
Corvallis did the same thing some time ago by imposing
a tax sufficiently high to keep the usual cheap outfit frond
the city. i
If the public must be amused there are more satisfact-
. ory ways of obtaining such amusement than a traveling show ;
if it needs to be cured, a medicine fakir who packs nostrums
of no value is not the man to consult.
Unfortunately for humankind, a large number of us
- see mto enjoy being fooled and a howl is sure to arise if we
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try to joe sensiDie ana pux tne pan on quaere.
A chief of police In an Illinois town threatens to pat in Jail
girls who appear stocklngleas on downtown streets. The poor dnb.
How bis is his Jail? It girls think their legs are prettier than their
faces, let them go without stockings' to" divert attenloa from their
faces. Out here no on makes a kick it the girls want to expose their
spavins and ringbones and skinny shins. It that Illinois chief thinks
barelegs are a menace to morals he ought not to visit wye ueacn.
W are told the eventually popular flying machine will rise
straight from the gronnd. W are more concerned to know that it
' doesn't go down that war: that's been the trouble in too many eases.
Cascade ranges, from the Colum
bia river to the Calapooias divid
ing the Willamette and Umpqua
watersheds will be well on its way
towards becoming the richest sec
tion of like siie on the face of the
globe.
These things will bring In their
trains indirect developments that
will fill the Willamette valley wth
a population as dense as that of
Belgium, and. one far more pros
perous on the average, for then
every foot of both banks of the
river Sam L. Simpson sung in im
perishable verse as the beautiful,
ail the way from old Champoeg
to its silvery stretches in Lane's
shire! city, will be the possible site
of a wharf connecting by water
borne craft with deep sea ports of
the world, with only a small trans
fer charge in Portland harbor with
ocean going vessels ploughing all
the seven seas. That will add
something of value to every pound
and bale and barrel and case and
package of products or manufac
tures turned out on the land of
this great valley, or made into
merchantable form in our shops
and manufacturing plants.
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Vision this: With still water
the year through in the Willam
ette, deep enough to float barges
and boats, the future cannery or
packing plant located vn or near
the -banks of the river will shunt
its cases and packages directly on
to barges moored in the river
and they wiU be bound for the
world's markets, with freight
charges so low that ft will be an
advantage to have the plants lo
cated in the upper valley rather
than in the metropolis, on account
of the more economical living con
ditions away from the high press
ure charges incident to a dense
population.
Sugar can be made In the Wil
lamette valley and delivered by
water borne transportation in Chi
cago at a lower cost than the
freight charges from the Atlantic
seaboard by rail to that city, by
as much as 10 cents a hundred
pounds.
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All the Orient, with its teeming
millions, with two-thirds ot the
world's population, will be in di
rect water connection with Salem
and Eugene -and Albany and Cor
vallis, and all the way up and
down the. river, with still water
in the Willamette.
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. With the urging of congress,
we now have the assurance from
the United States government's
officials in charge of river and
harbor Improvements that the se
curing of a boating stage the year
through In the Willamette river
rhas been. taken as as a continuing
project that is work, will be pro
secuted till the thing Unfinished.
That will pat additional potential
value Into everytront toot of city
property in Salem "mud the other
valley towns.- It will ndapoten
tial worth to every aero of Gllahle
land in the whole valley. It
between in the well balanced
meal according to ; the dietary
standards, from soup to nuts
With the requisites for making
the 'clothing for the body and the
housing for the family. "Aliis
volat proprlis," pronounced the
early builders of Oregon, for the
state motto "she files with her
own wings" and these architects
of the commonwealth saw clearly
and made the plans and specifica
tions to conform with their sure
visions. They vlsloned an empire
in the rough. They marked trails
that- those who came after them
have been all too slow following,
allowing their neighbors in Wash
ington on the north and Califor
nia on the south, with blunter
tools with which to work, to
forge ahead of them, because they
had more initiative and courage
and a greater baptism of the spirit
of the superiority complex.
Still water in the Willamette
presupposes the final necessity of
building locks and dams in the
Willamette from old Champoeg to
Eugene, according to the ideas of
some of; the pioneers who ran
boats all the way up. If that shall
be the ultimate requirement, the
cost wiU be fully Justified. If the
engineers can provide a channel
for a twelve month boating and
barging stage of a channel with
out any dams. and locks at all, so
much the better and cheaper.
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The ultimate, however, must
be achieved, and this should be the
insistent demand of every forward
looking person In the valley, made
and persisted in till the full con
summation. Our people must be
water minded as well as air mind
ed, and road minded, and endowed
with the full vision to render Ore
gon true to the-motto of our fath
ers who with their failing hands
threw the torch of progress to
those who should Come after them
into this' goodly land.
International
laugh maker for
fifteen years I
50,000 Persons
In Mexico Have
Stomach Aches
MEXICO CITY, July 19 CAP)
Fifty thousand persons in the
federal district of Mexico have
stomach aches, according to an
announcement by the health de
partment -tonight. The ache was
symptom of a strange malady ot
the digestive organs believed to
have been contracted by drinking
water contaminated by the rece-.t
heavy rains.
The malady is not regarded a
grave for no deaths have been
reported.
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Texas Declares
Emhar goon Grain
GALVESTON, TeatTWy 19
(AP) An embargo, on. export
grain for Galveaton was declared
Maybe OiS believes in Laugh and the World
Laughs With You, Certainly he is a peHoaal
apostle of laughter. And Polly and Her Pals
have been the great laughing hit for 15 years.
They started out as regular Americans. But
they are insatiable globe trotters now. Even
Spanish, Danish, Portuguese and Japanese
"are included in their Ungual itinerary a reg
ular laughing league taf nations!
Qifi came originally from Fergus Falls,
Minn., but long enough ago to get over it.
(What a laugh that line gave him.)
The real secret of his success,iie claims, is due
to the fact that his wife corrects his spelling.
They both love music and once their neigh
bors did.
Hershf ield and Ring Lardner went to call'
one afternoon- OiS proudly displayed some
sixty-three different musical instruments.
Then the family orchestra tuned up. Those
particular guests haven't been back since.
Still, the few groans that Qiff Sterrett, the
musiciaTD, evokes, are nothing compared with
the symphony of laughter he creates daily!
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