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- PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salenu O A. i "Xo Favor Sways Us; So Fear Shall Awe." i From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 - THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spuacie, Sheldon F. Sackztt, Publisher Chaeles A. Spragce Sheldon F. Sackctt Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in ihi3 paper. j " Entered at the Postoffice at SttJLem, Oregon, as Second-Class Matter. Published tvery morning exerpt Monday. Business fjkt SIS S. ComrAereial Street. " " f PacTTic Coast Advertising Representatives: -' Arthur W. Stypss, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Steeher, Inc.j New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. Freedom of the Press ; A BITTER fight is being waged in Cleveland with the con a tutional right of freedom of thfi press at stake. Un der the cloak of process for contempt of court, Judge Freder ick Walther of Cleveland hailed before his court Louis B. Selzer, editor, and Carlton K. Matson, chief editorial writer, jof the Cleveland Press, one of the Scripps-Howard news papers, and sentenced them to serve 30 days in jail and pay a fine of $500. What the judge took umbrage at was an editorial comment On an order of his which would in effect restrain the sheriff of the county from enforcing the laws jof the state against betting at races. The editors of the pa per, fully conscious of the hazard they ran, sharply criticized ithe judge for his action, calling his order an "amazing ir-junction." The fight is not over, for wi.iici a ucti&iuu 10 me nave the sentence for contempt A feature of the case was j Baker, eminent Cleveland lawyer, former secretary of war, m aeience or the editors. In his plea Mr. Baker reviewed the history of the right to criticise; courts, the escape from judi cial oppression which was won in England. One paragraph jof his plea is a brilliant description of the judge of a court, ilt is as follows: - ' j - Who Is fit to be a Judge? A lessly the weary hours after midnight acquainting himself with the j great body of traditions and the learning of the law. a man who bears himself in the community without familiar friends, almost lonely, j Of voting himself exclusively to the most exacting mistress that man lever had, the law, as a profession in Its highest reaches, where he not jonly interprets the law but applifes it fearing neither friend nor foe, fearing only two things In the world,--ohe Is that in a moment of j attraction, or, due to human weakness he may, in fact. commit some error or weakness and fail to do Justice that is the Judge. I Mr. Baker concluded his plea as follows: What did Jeffreys do? Primm made some kind of a contemptu j ous remark about Judge Jeffreys . Jeffreys -dragged him into the ; courthouse and directed the Sheriff, or whatever they called the j executive officers'of the courts rn those days, to pare off his ears, and Jthe poor devil'went off with his ears all slijt and bleeding, and in his a?ony he uttered some sort of protest against what the Judge did, and ; the Judge ordered him back and directed a marshal of the court to i take another piece from his poor wounded ears. Three times that i happened. . And does anybody suppose that Jeffreys preserved the dignity of I the court or made anybody respect him by being cruel about a per sonal thing a personal feeling that ne had? Everybody execrates j the memory of t Jeff reys. Whenever lawyers bow th.e!r"Head in shame ! over the ignobiest mas their "profession has produced, they mention I with: detestation a man who venged his personal spleen upon a de fenseless person and thought that arbitrary, power could make up for the defects ot the Injustice exhibited on the bench. I frankly add humbly submit to your honor that any outcome of this case which finds these young men guilty for their righteous Indignation at the success of this conspiracy on the part of a group of people to violate the law and leaves them unwhipped of justice, wU cause grave and thoughtful people In this community to wonder what necessity could ever have prevailed upon your honor to find that to be 'the law in a free and enlightened country. Regardless of the outcome of the case in the higher courts, the verdict of public opinion seems to run strongly in favor of the editors and against the arbitrary action of the judge Who justly merited rebuke. j Curbing the "VTO MORE country-wide junketing trips for railroad pres Xlidents in private cars on foreign lines. The interstate commerce commission says no to the old practice. It is a ruling long overdue. Under the old courtesy rules of the railroads, a president or high official of one road could have his private: car hauled around without cost on other lines. Now tha commission says that when a private car goes off its own line it will have to pay regular rates. One of the evils of the practice was the privilege given presidents of small roads to tour the country with the heavy expense of their private car hauling borne Another evil in the practice car with friends and relatives who thus were privileged to travel about free of charge. While they are about it the interstate commerce com mission ought to make a real clean-up 4&he pass evil. As it is now a railroad employe can usually get a pass for most anyone connected to "him by ties of relationship. He can get his wife's aunt by her first marriage a pass back to New Uhn, Minn., or his step-mothers cousin a pass to Phoenix, Ari zona. It is nothing but a graft. Passes among bona fide employes are all too generously dispensed with ; they should be limited closely to actual employes. We recall riding one time on a-Missoun Pacific train Our own tickets seemed to be the only honest tickets on the pullman; everyone else seemed to hold some kind of pass taking them from the middle! west and south in summer to Colorado coolness. Not much wonder the passenger business is run at a loss when such a large percentage of those trav eling are going ' deadhead. It took a long time for the commission to rule against freehauling for foreign private cars, the mileage! of which 5in tlje years from 1923 to 1928 measured nearly ten million miles, and the cost amounted to two and a quarter million dollars. It would be interesting to know the pass mileage used in a year on the roads of the appalling. New Names THERE has been quite an outbreak of name-changing among cities. Peipmg is now the name for old Peking; and Peiping is said to' be a revival of its ancient .namev St Petersburg became Petrograd during the war and Leningrad after the war, which name it still wean though the 'glory of old St Petersburg has long since departed. Christina, capital of Norway, became Oslo. The newest revival of an ancient name is Nidaros, which is substituted for Trondhjem, a prom inent city of JNorwayi : Foreign cities seem to have no trouble in changing their names as easily as a popular divorcee. In America we are too conservative. Salem must remain Salem though there are a doen other Salems and no Chemeketa. New York is still New York, and neither New Jerusalem. Boston has sive waves of Irish, tions. And of course there is I ' ' - Someone has defined an expert 1 1 abesi lesa and less unui irnauy ne Editor-Manager Menacing Editor Selzer and Mason are appealing ingner courts in an eiiort xo set aside. the appearance of Newton t. man of learning who spends tire Pass Evil by the big roads. was the loading up of private i from Kansas City to Pueblo ! country The total would be j For Old Towns New Amsterdam, New Rome or held its name through, succes French-Canadian and Italian immigra only rare Los Angeles, aa one who learaa mere and more snowa everyum iwu ivuuot. Keeping One Eye On The Uil (SuKh .MsyaiyifcOjsiM 5 ' VVH- ' i l BITS for BREAKFAST -By K. J. HENDRICKS Salem's oldest resident S - , He is Joseph A. Baker, 1491 South Commercial street, and he celebrated his 90th birthday on Tuesday, the 23 d. He ia not the oldest man in Salem, nor is he himself old in infirmities or spir it, but Mr. Baker is the oldest Sa lem resident. He came before Salem was named. It was mere ly "The Institute" when he came, and his father settled here large ly on account of the educational advantages. U t He was born near Henry, Put nam county, Illinois, Juiy a. 1839. In 1847, the Baker fam ily joined the immigration ot that year, that doubled the population of Oregon, with its 4000 to 5000 people who got across. The Ba ker family started in late April or early May. but there were delays on the plains, and they did not arrive at Oregon City till the middle of December. The delays were largely on account of sick ness. -A little sister of Mr. Ba ker died on the plains, and all the members of the family were sick, excepting Joe, as he was called then and is called yet by his near friends. The best thing he could do towards a spell of illness was to get a nail in his bare foot. Many immigrants were barefooted, including men and women as well as boys and girls. m Joe did not see the Whitman mission, but his father went there, hoping to find a way to winter over It was; getting so late in the season; show coming on. It was fortunate for the Ba ker family that the mission waa too crowded, for the party of im migrants of 1841 who did re main at the mission were in the massacre a few days later, and were killed or suffered horrible things. The date of the massacre was Nov. 29. 1847. The Baker party saw a good deal of ice above The Dalles. Tliey took bateaux or big canoes there and got down the Columbia that way. Mr. Ba. ker's father took up a donation land claim near Molalla and built a cabin and made other im provements that winter; but In the spring a man named Tharp showed up and claimed the land; said he had been away to work and earn enough to make improve ments. Tharp gave Baker a horse and a yoke of oxen for the Im provements, and the elder Baker thai staked Joined the California gold' rush, and haying; made a small clean-up bought a Squatter's rirht to a tract of land. It turn ed out later that the squatter had no title; the place was In one of the old, Spanish land grants, and there waa all kinds ot trouble over it, then and later. So the elder Baker returned to Oregon and got a squatter's right to 400 acres of land near The Institute. It waa on the Garden road. Just east of the old John Baker brick house, next to what is now the Kay addition and the Kay park. Joe commenced attending the Oregon Institute in September. 1S49, after It had been open four yean. He attenaeaAii ana on from that time till IS 11. He -in tended to study medicine, but fin ancial troubles of his father over the California title matter, etc. prevented. Joe sawed and piled oak wood at f 1 a cord to pay bis tuition at the Oregon Institute. He saved the wood for Mr. Henaehel, a well known pioneer barber, whose shop .was a Utile back ot the present Murphy block, Com mercial and State' streets, oppos ite the Ladd Bush bank and the United States National bank cor ner. Joe worked at the harness trade, for a man named O'Conner at first, and then for Dick Dear born. He worked for Dearborn three and a half years. Then he was a policeman and then chief of poUce ot Salem. A chapter .could . 1 be written of his experiences in those rough old days. Then he served two terms as sheriff of Marlon county. Dick (R. H.) Dear born went on his bond as sheriff both times. He went back and worked in the Dearborn harness shop, on Commercial near State street,, for a year and a half, and when Mr. Dearborn waa appointed postmaster of Salem Joe went on Dick's bond. Mr. Dearborn died in office, and the bondsmen, as was then the rule, selected his suc cessor to fUl out his term. They selected Mrs. Dearborn. Scott Bo zorth, son-in-law, worked in the office as chief clerk before and after the death ot Mr, Dearborn, and through other terms, includ ing that of Gen W. H. Odell in the late eighties 'or early nineties. Among the school mates ot Joe at the Oregon Institute were John W. Minto, Eon of the early pioneer, John Minto, John and Lafayette Lane, irons ot General Joe Lane, Judge Catlin, of Portland, the Rector boys whose father made the "beaver" money when there was no coinage in Oregon, under the provisional government, Joe Carter, still living, who was born at the old Methodist mission 10 miles below Salem; and others. (Mr. Baker promises to make a list ot them, to be used in this column'later). Mr. Baker was a partner with It. M. Wade St Co., pioneer hardware and machinery . dealers, later, working in the store. He was a director of the Williams ft Eng land bank still later. For the past 20 years or more he has not been active in employments or business, but he has not been alow in taking a lively Interest in the affairs of his city, county state and nation. The Bakers for . long time lived in their home that was on the corner where Smith Watklns have their service station. In late years Mr. Baker was tor a time in the grocery business, with Ray Gilbert. K 1i Mrs. Baker was Emma Lamb, She came with her people to Cali fornia in 1853, by the Panama route, when the Panama railroad across the isthmus had just been finished. She went back home to London, Ontario, with her mother, by the same route, after two or three years. Her mother having died, she came again, once more over that route, to be with her father in Tuolumne county. In 1862, her father sent her to Ore gon, to regain her failing health, with the famUy ot Mr. Strong, who was building the first tele graph line into Oregon, he being the contractor. Emma found Joe in Salem, and before long formed a union that has lasted 64 years, and Is still strong. They were mar ried March 2, 1865, at the north west eorner of Commercial and Court street the present Ander son building. They went to live in the house on Front and Cheme keta now ownel by Clarence Ham ilton, then owned by Elijah Wil liams, father ot Emmett, George, Richard and Helen WiUiams. Richard ("Dick") was afterwards in congress. Elijah Williams had gone east on a business- trip., and the bride and groom teek charge of the household white he was away. Then they lived for a Seng time at Commercial , and Bell erne streets, and had bargained to buy the property; but "Stt" Waldo, (mother ot George C Brown), who became the wlfs 4f Jim Brown bought the block while the Bakers were away im California footing after the old - Spanish grant land title of tha father of Mr. Baker. i y -.u.. The Bakers Post al boy, Frank, aged ?;te 987K.vEd. Baker, their son Is bookkeeper; tor the Miller Rascal. store, and Clair, their other son, is employed strthe state prison. m In the early days In Salem, Mrs. Baker was an expert horsewoman; a good rider. She was once ar rested by the chief ot police, Bar ker, for riding on a sidewalk, un der a recently enacted ordinance, passed when the city dads wanted to put on metropolitan airs. She told the chief ot police that it he could show her the sidewalk she would gladly- submit to arrest. The joke 1 was on him, and he smilingly let her go. There were not many sidewalks, even wooden ones. In Salem in those days and i ot course no other kinds. (This Is too long now for a birthday notice. There is much to teU, which wlU be done in a later issue) . Editors Say: COOS COUNTY DAIRYING Continued increase in butter fat production in Coos county dairy eows is shown in the annual re port of the Coquille Valley Cow Testing association. The increase for the year totals an average' of 23 pounds of fat per cow. But two per cent of the cattle in Oregon are shown to have tu berculosis infection while 27 per cent is the California figure. Ore gon has virtually completed wip-J ug out tnis aisease-ana nave started - on abortion-free cam paigns, while California has Just started on the . tuberculosis drive and has nj9t yet attempted the other . Abortion-tree campaigns hav been launched in Cooi eonntj daring' the past week, and dairy? men are organising to carry on thia campaign. These three facts, published last week, show the Importance. of the dairy Industry to Coos county and to the state, showing at the same time the progress made within the Industry. Dairy ing in Coos county is fast taking its rightful place among the lead ing industries in this election, -and the activities .in dairying In one week clearly demonstrates the prominence of the industry hree.. Coos county last week was vis ited by Southern California dairy men, with the expressed purpose of acquainting themselves with conditions here, and to learn ot methods used in the Industry In this section. The quality, ot pro ducts from this county .has at tracted attention to Coos, county, and the visit of these creamery leaders will result In more good publicity for Coos county. Too much emphasis on - the 4 import ance of dairying to this county can not be given. It ia one of the most vital activities here and the future of the county win de pend upon the progress made in dairying. The efforts during the past few years are bearing fruit. Coos Bay Times. In an effort to satiate the local demand for American i movies, Australia has appointed a com mission to see what can be done to establish the film lndustary there. ! Claims otaltar U11M! ve been paid to Statesman .Testers Insurance Co. ia less than one year. These claims wars paid on the $1.00 policy issued to State- man readers. !" f I few ba colds, Gsxrre. flu. dengue, isuorja TOTES -and IMf.anTJa! - nil thia its . Wks g 3fV MM I MBBB1II STlmmSUmmd 666 Cut Scheduled in Expendi tures Under Presi dents Plans i WASHINGTON. July 254-(AP) The survey of the army's activ ities by a commission of leading general staff officers With 1 a view of reducing expenditures, will be launched soon and completed in time for the transmittal of its findings to the regular session of congress in December. Secretary Good declared today it was planned to make the re sults applicable to the war depart ment appropriations for the next fiscal year. He did not disclose whether he had determined tho personnel of the commission, which will be announced shortly. The survey will be comprehens ive, the secretary declared, and will embrace every branch of the army. Its chief objective I will be ascertainment of whether; certain activities of the army were obso lete or had diminished In Import ance because of modern "Warfare methods evolved as a result of the world war. Mr. Good defended the making of the survey by a commission solely composed of army i officers on the ground that they rere bet ter acquainted than civilians with the complicated army organiza tion. During the past decade, the secretary said, the army has passed through a stage of consid erable evolution as a result of the new military tactics utilized in the world war. This haa produced the question, he added, whether cer tain new activities In the army, such as national guard, reserve of ficers training corps, citizens of army mobilize units, have: not dis placed in usefulness and; import ance other existing branhces of the service. The secretary declared .the plan of reducing army expenditures had been under consideration for -some time. He said it had not been de termined whether the! survey would mean drastic reduction of certain branches of the army or would effect general paring down of all funds allotted to all arms. He said the commission report would be made to him and he would incorporate its findings in the war department appropriation estimates to be transmitted to the budget bureau for the next regular session of congress. THIEF GETS PORTLAND, Ore., July 25 (AP) A thief ate. a $1.85 meal in a restaurant here early today and in payment displayed a bottle filled with what he claimed was a high-powered explosive and note which ended ''use your own Judgment." vWheji Edith Wistrand. cashier, read the note and saw the bottle she marked the check paid and handed the thief $300. He es caped. The remainder of the note read "Ask-me no questions.! I have enough nitroglycerine to blow up this place. Life don't mean noth- MY Will FREEK are two mighty big words in merchandising. Our policy has al ways been biiilt around these words, j You know things don't just happen, ive have built up a business by selling you "Quality Merchandise for less'. Look over these real values for Friday ,and Saturday and Monday selling:- LOT No. 1 Canning Specials for Canning Time-Note the sizes 8 and 10 qU Covered Convex Kettles, 8 and 10 ptT Berlin pots, 14 pt. Dish Pans, 12 pt. heavy Water Pails j - All that HEAVY, well finished PRIS CILLiA Aluminum ware We have sold carloads of it 'Ail extra large pieces ' take your choice. Only LOT No. O'Cedar Mops Polish This is 75 cent mop and cent Liquid Veneer polish. We offer you both for week end selling It will always pay cSse specials. We cccds. Hardware, Paints, Plumbing, Machinery ! ! j ? . ? ' i- ')-".- V, - :-. 1 ., -.. :. I I i i ' . -- !- .!--;','.".. y . -4 . I lag to ma. Use your own Judg ment," I The casnier gave police a good description and tonight tfcefc were looking for a 36 year old well at tired, man. CRIME MED Bit -CHURCH SPEAKER ALBANY, Ore., July 25-(AP) Criminals are the by-products of present-day civilization and crime is caused by the continual conflict between the desire for personal freedom and law and or der. Dr. Cleland B. McAfee. Chi cago, moderator of the general assembly of : the i Presbyterian Church of America, said here last night. His sermon waslhe closing event of the 39th annual session of,lhe Oregon synod. "The remedy the chunjh can rive to this cause is that Of con stantly holding forth the funda mentals of the Christian religion," he said; prophesying at the same time that the process of extermin ation would be slow. Courthouse Staff Arranges. Picnic All members of the Marion county courthouse staff and their families will go to Woodland park tonight for the annual : picnic staged by the courthouse i group. Promptly at 6 o'clock the fun at the picnic grounds will begin and while no stated program has been arranged, sports of horse shoe pitching, 'swimming and us ual picnic games will be enjoyed by the crowd. A caterer baa been provided to furnish "eats" ior the entire as sembly. HAVE BABY BO IT; LINCOLN. July 25. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vance are the pround parents of a $ 3-4 pound boy. born July 20. The young man has been named Allan Walter. To Identify Qefiuine Asplnn HP HE increasing use of Bayer A Aspirin every year is jroof4 that it has no ill effects. It is the accepted antidote for pain. It always helps ; iv neyer harms. Quick relief when you've a headache, or cold; or are suffering from neu ralgia or neuritis. Rheumatic pains yield, too, if you'll only-ftvo these tablets a chance. But yon want genuine Aspirin, so look for the Bayer Cross on every tablet. The box always bears the name Bayer and the word genuine printed in red. Aviria Is Um tnd auk ot Bayw If aaaf actKt ot Mitncrciciasrtcr of flilicrliirsrirt 3 ! . and Floor the regular the! 60 for L($) J .... you to shop our windows for new merchan- will save you money nan!?, i H mil rnOi'li! FOUND BfiDLY ILL HEIDELBERG. Germany,. Jr.:-.-25.-AP) Although an offn.il bulletin, tonight stated the cor.J: tion of Chancellor Hermann Muel ler, who recently underwent aa operation for gall bladder trauV.!,.. was satisfactory, the Associated Press learned from atkaches of th hospital that the doctors wore much worried about the. condition of the German cabinet leader. It was stated that the pus ai not draining from the peritoneal cavity aa rapidly as it should and that the accumulation was .there fore increasing. Mayo Brothers Are Honored by British School 'MANCHESTER. England, July 25 (APT Honorary degrees of doctors of lays were conferred upon Dr. Charles H. Mayo and his brother, Dr.'-William Mayo, fa mous surgeons of Rochester, Min nesota, at the Lnlverslty ot Man chester this evening.! Lord Dawson of Penn, physi cian to King George during the latter's recent illness,- also re-" ceived an honorary degree. , Lord ' Dawson described the two brothers as "the heavenly twins." Rupture Sheild Expert Coming to Salem on Wed. A Thurs., Aug. 7 St 8 at Marlon Hotel from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Evenings by telephone appointment onlythe first day, , TWO DAYS ONLY j Charge for Consultation i Mr. C. F. Redllch, the success ful expert -says: -The vp.erfeot Retention Shields" hold the rupture per fectly, no matter what position the body assumes or how havy a weight you lift. They give instant-relief, contract the opening in a remarkably shorttime and strengthen the weak tissues (the real cause of rapture) so that they frequently recover their pre vious natural retaining power, needing no further outside sup port. Stomach trouble, backache and constipation often caused by Rupture promptly disappear. Trulv remarkable and Dromnt ! rpsnlta' havp be?n obtained not only with recent and not fully de veloped ruptures but also with old, long neglected ones. Ingenious, recently perfected devices are now holding raptures firmly which heretofore never had been-retained. No elastic belts nor filthy leg-; straps are used. I guarantee the durability of my absolutely sweat and moisture proof, sanitary appliances -75 per cent of ruptured chil dren" recover completely throueh expert mechanical treatment ac cording to statistics. Do not waste your money otf widely advertised mail-order eon-j traptions. You cannot fit your self, r C. F. REDLICH Rupture ApJ pllanre Expert, Home office, 53.V Boston Block, Minneapolis, Minn Inesota. , 1 : LOT No. 2 Heavy a weight Reed Galv. Wash TubsThese have wood handles and wringer clamp brackets and weigh 8 lbs. each. Extra heavy coatings and finish the best at very special price of LOT No. 4 Stanley 4 Square Bitts and Chisels They come ia the most ' used sizes. Thia is high quality mer chandise as you know and we of-" fer this lot for week-end selling for, Each article carries Stanley's re sale price tag. on your household L V.