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PAGE FOUR ThCnSG(gi EnCATCSMAH, Salens Ore-tat, Friday Karafefr Acyst lg 'Wo Fovor Stwiy I;, 2Vo For Shall Aire." From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 -ffi THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Cbaslcs A. Spracce, Sheldon F. Sickett, Publisher! Chjuoes A. S PRAGUE - - . Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - Managing Editor' 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 this paper. - Entered at the Postoffiee at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Claes Hatter. Published every vtorning except Hondo. Busbuea office US S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coa3t Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes. Inc., Portland Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W Pac, Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Paraons-Stevher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. A Cntusod Customer Dire Forebodings Come to Naught WAR correspondents vichout assignment is the best de scrintion of many of these journalists who are still traveling on their fame acquired in wartime and whose ma terial is still the fear oi renewed war. fcver since rne peace these prophets of woe have been picturing the world as right on the brink of another war whose outbreak would mark the pnrt alwavs tho end. oi western civilization. Humanity was left forever tottering on the brink. The readers were as ter rified as the spectators oi the movie thriller wiiere the vil lain and the hero wrestle at the canyon's edge.- Frank Simonds has been a gloomy writer since the war dava when his correspondence flowed in the columns of the Chicago Tribune. He-and others have been the ravens of journalism. Their articles have foretold woe and disaster. Long ago the public would have perished of chills and fevers from the repeated alarms of Simonds and Sir Phillip Gibba and Will Irwin, but like most calamities which are well ad vertised in advance, they never occurred. : Survey the literature written from and about Europe these past ten years. Writers for ten years predicted eco nomic chaos, the collapse of France and England, the renewal of war, the impending outbreak over the Danzig corridor, over "Albania's border, over Fiume, over oppressed minori ties. None of the disasters occurred. Instead Europe has been beating its way back, slowly but steadily to full vital ity. Now most of the ex-war correspondents have had to change their line of prophecy.. Their audience was deserting them. The bankers selling billions of European bonds to American investors reached the public with their optimistic predictions of Europe,' recovery, while the threatening rav ens of the typewriter guild found their forecasts one by one discredited. ; Frank Simonds still looks-at Europe through dark glasses. He cannot seem to give up. A scenario writer with only one thriller; that of war, he sets his stage in anticipa tion of the great der Tag", but nothing happens. Or rather everything happens just the other way. Writing in the August Review of Reviews Simonds finds t.2d - for conflict in the subjection of minority populations. True enough this is a trouble zone. But this situation is recognized, and a start was made for its adjustment in the late conference at Madrid. Simonds says "The situation in Europe today is no more nor less than a status quo main tained by the bayonets of the satisfied powers -end unchal lenged because of the exhaustion, temporary, and passing, of the dissatisfied peoples. . . Peace or war in Europe turns upon an adjustment of this problem of the minorities. . . The league of nations can do nothing about it. . . Nor is there the smallest chance of effective disarmament while, etc Economic exhaustion will prevent European war for a quarter century to come. When and if war should come it may be on the problem of oppressed minorities; or it may be on some issue not now visible at all. The progress of Eu rope and the world is not to be stopped by the continuous waving of danger signals by overwrought ex-war corres pondents., j . - "Speak the Speech, I Pray Thee' "II ft ANY of these Culver City stars are better lookers than IT A they are talkers. At least their appearance in mechan ically reproduced performances pleases the eye better than the ear. It is going to take a long time for many of them to learn how to talk. They will have to cultivate a new line" as it were, i Already we are discovering new shades of tone and new pronunciations through the talkies. The rad-dio of course gave the country its "foist" introduction to language as it is spoken in New York. The talkie is acquainting us with provincialism from au over the land. The British are rising in protest against talkies from the United States because of the, to them, shockingly wretch ed pronunciation of good old English words. They can scarcely understand American speech. Like the Britisher who 'was provoked at the America ?mis-pronunciation of "ham.' He blurted out: "When you say 'am, why don't you say 'am V The chief question is whether the English language used colloquially will be elevated to high standards of usage, or whether it will be degraded to low level. The talkie may simply acquaint folk with the differing shades of usage of English ; or it may really bring speech to common forms pret ty much over the world. We doubt very much however the power of the talkie to teach real English to the British, or pure speech to the southerners or the dwellers in Boston. Habits acquired in the home and the neighborhood are more durable than the stage-lingo of a talkie. While on the subject of language we submit for transla tion into understandable English this advertisement clipped ' from an American publication. We can make most of it out. but the ham lay out" and "goof us ' are not m our vocab ulary. If this form of expression gets into the talkies we d6 not blame the British for putting an embargo on American imports from the speaking-film laboratories. At liberty, trombonist; hot and sweet, plenty pep, read and take, can sing, play In tune, gold outfit, tuxedo, double at drums, dirt and flash, hot sock cymbal, ham lay off, young and good looking; some violin when needed; doable stop and goofs. ; Seconding a Nomination qiHE OREGONIAN commends. Bobby Jones, champion A. golfer of Atlanta, for his decision not to run for congress, Pressed by his friends to make ,the race Jones, whose profes sion is that of attorney and whose principal practice is golf- uig, ucvuucu iu ui until a unve on ine political iairwayn. Clever golfer, unknown risk as a politician is The Oregonian's - conclusion. - Is not the Portland daily strangely old-fashioned? Does it not know that legislation of today is determined on the golfing green rather than the stuffy house chamber? Years ago hotel barrooms were credited with being the real seat of legislation. Some such places became famous. The old Marion hotel bar was one. Doane's Oyster House in Olrmnia serving its famous pan roast, was another resort of legisla tors in former days, as well as the barroom of the Hote Mitchell. Then the ablest legislator was one who could keen . m : a w m. one root longest on we crass ran ' - ; Times have changed however. While alcohol continues a powerful stimulant in legislative seasons, the golf course has replaced the barroom as a meeting place of senators and representatives. Surely in the caucus on the green Bobby , Jones would quickly fit in. Chevy Chase would admit him. . Perhaps he would accomplish more as a congressman if he were just a dub golfer along with the rest of them. It mlirht be urged that he knows nothing about pabSc affairs; but that doesn't seem to be an important qualification. He is at east apt in learning his stance and his grip, which is more than many do in spite of years of service. . By all means send Bobby Jones to congress. If not a egislator, he would surely be an ambassador at large from the state of Georgia. And there is ho record of his making speech. , A radium tipped fish-hook hat proven successful la attracting fish in deep waters. This Is not the discovery of the redoubtable and very dubious Andy Gump, but of William Beebe. famous and de pendable naturalist. . Beebe, who has cruised in. many waters-and studied marine Ufa at close range, tried out his luminous hook la Bermuda waters, dropping them to depths beyond the daylight glow. He caught fish too; and his discovery may open op new knowledge of marine life In deep waters. . h psr had ' JL : - - -r .- .- i-f - , . - i A 4 f j IM VI-. " - . -.I...- mt mwUm . -Z. ' , - - n V- . r 1 t : , ,-, 4 ' . - . A nice church fuss Is brewing down at Portland about its former minister. He was paster ef the church and head of a theological seminary but -the church board now plasters a sign on the front gate that he la barred "for conduct unbecoming a minister. The ladles' aid meetings are sure to be well attended in spite of the hot weather. The strike of grave diggers ought to be good news' to sick New Yorkers. They will just have to live a while longer to make sure of a Christian burial. We dont know Just why the grave diggers are striking but suppose they demand shallower graves and shorter bodies. BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS The historic hanging again That has been mentioned In this column recently has brought out a lot of new (old) Information, and created wide interest, Beale and Baker were hanged at an open space that is now in down town Salem May 17, 1IS5, when executions were publle, and this one was attended by practically all the male inhabitants then in Oregon, besides a good many wom en and children. - w K. Ifoores was a-small boy then, and his mother told him he would get a good licking If he at tended the hanging. Be did not exactly attend it, but he saw-It from a safe distance. He doesaot say whether he got the licking. but he will probably admit that he deserved it. with others that he escaped.. Most of as escaped more than we got. There are probably now only two living members of the Mar Ion Rifles, the local militia, com pany that was on duty in convey ing the condemned men from the county, jail to the place of the ex ecution, and . guarded the opera tions . of the hanging and . kept back the crowd. One of these Is O.'Ateheson Waller of Turner, fa miliarly known at Atch Waller, and he is also the oldest living white man who was born in the old Oregon country, which was all of the territory west of the crest of the Rocky mountains,- between the Alaskan and the Spanish (now CaUfornia) line. Atch Waller was born at the falls (Oregon City) August 9. So he will cele brate his '86th birthday today. But his activities would Qualify him for a much younger class. Ha has a wonderful garden at Tur ner, including sweet corn about 10 feet high, and each stalk with two big ears of more, and the gar den is the result of his own la bor. He lives at the home of Har vey ST Bond, who is the Southern Pacific American Express and Western Union agent at Turner. Mrs. Bond is his daughter. Kho was Elepha -Waller, well km to many prominent Salem people who attended Willamette unlvoc- alty when she did. Rev. A. r. Waller and wife and two children arrived on the sanne June 1, 1840. Ho helped in the erection of the mills (saw nouring) and the Jason Lee tn Salem the first three twOd tngs constructed In this city. Tin waa assigned to the rails, and in 1S42 bunt the first ' residence there (of logs), and at the close of that year commenced the work of building the first Christian church on the Pacific const, which was finished la 1844. Ateh Waller, his son, was born there. Rev. Wal ler became responsible for the construction of Waller hall of Wil lamette university. He was in the later years of his labors known as Father Waller." V V Atch Waller remembers very well the hanging. He was the first man on the right In the formation. of the company at the execution. He was first sergeant of the com pany. Sam May, grandfather of United States Senator Frederick Stelwer, was the captain. ,L. S. Dyer (father of Conneli Dyer of Salem) was first lieutenant, but was. -absent that day.- Charley Parrish. son of Rev. J. I Parrish, was second lieutenant, and on duty. There were about Cv mem bers of the Marlon Rifles. They made up a showy and efficient body of fighting men. Atch Waller remembers that there was a great crush at the jail. When the wagon was ready to take the condemned men. Cap tain May gave the order to prime their guns, which the men did with as much display as possible. They were muzzle loaders. The crowd then obeyed the order to make, room some of the curious who had crowded up close fell over one another In getting out of the way after the priming or der was given. There was another crash at the place where the scaf fold had been erected: but a rush at soma of the most offensive of the milling crowd cansed another stampede, to get out of the way oi tho soldiers. Atch Waller re members the names o t several prominent men who stumbled over onemother in that stampede. The Marion Rifles members on duty had to make the crowd give room tor the wagon with the condemned Wen, Smith of Turner knew all tho parties to tho tragedy. He was present at tho. hanging. He heard tho speech from the scaffold of George Beale, who said they ought not to hanf Baker, because he (Beale) alono was responsible for tho murder and the plans that pre ceded it. A Tarn hill county man get tho BIUo that Beale threw to the) crowd. Mr. Smith has forgot tsm his nam. At the end of Beale's remark y ho mad from his Bible the S7U Psalm. The reader of those lines earn find some one with nv BXhlo and sen what is in it; if he er she) ts boC the owner of a opr. What esenf ort Beale got out ef thft STth Psalm the Bits man cannot concctre. Xt seesas to have been the song at righteous Israel ite or company of those, or at least some one who considered himself a righteous person. : r Tbe other surviving member of the Marion Bidet who was pre- Editors Say: , gaa wioapxes rhm mn of randr nertodlsala whieh delngee tho magaaino standi has driven one of the 'oldest inhsh iUnto to higher ground. -We refer to tho Century Magaaine, wnica has, abandoned 1U monthly issues and will become h quarterly. Long ago the mouthy magaslne yielded leadership in the twin fields of circulation and advertising to their more freauent contemporaries. Recently the flood hs risen high er with tarbnlentlresheu of wood pulp literature, cheaply nrtnted and cheaply sold, in which it seems the work of any writer, literate or Illiterate, finds a place if is has a fast and racy tempo. Then' there are the confession magazines, . where hack writers bare their puppets' fluttering hearts in the first person the movie, magazines, which faithfully' retail the Inspired work or Hour wood press agents; the pseudo scientific journals, with drawings of rockets bound for Mars; the adventure magazines, meal-ticket of the armchair traveler. The more solid weekly publica tions now are fiction and news magazines, leaving the field of thoughtful literature to the dwindling group of monthlies, Only a minority of readers re main to support the pubUeations In which many American classics were introduced to the public. Perhaps the quarterly will redeem this field of literature, removing it distinctly apart from the com petition of its rivals. There may even be a revival or tne golden age of the great reviews, such as the Edinburgh Review and the London Review, In which the crit ics and commentators of a past generation wrote unhurriedly and' molded literary tastes. But we'll nave to get our ncuon eisewnere Who could remember the last in stallment Of a continued story for thi-ee months? St. Louis Post Dispatch. ent at the hanging waa Richard W. Carey Dick Carey as he is fa miliarly known. His home Is at 149 South Fourteenth street, Sa lem. He will attain his 18th birth day next March; was born In Mis souri la It 44. Dick was a student at Willamette university then liv ing with others attending the in stitution In the third story of the building. He was a private la the Marion rifles. When Baker swung orr, ho was directly in front of Mr. Carey. He remembers that it was said John W. Mlnto, member of the Rifles and a very young man then, fainted. Mr. Mlnto, as policeman, sheriff, superintendent of the penitentiary, chief of po lice of Salem and Portland, and other such positions, afterwards saw a good deal of the seamy side of life, and probably did not faint. Mr. Carey says the Marion Ri fles made up a crack militia com pany. They took the prize in a great drilling contest at the state fair of 1864. He says Captain Sam May was a wonderful drUl mas ter; that with him an order was an order. He was mounted on n fine horse on the day of the ex ecution. y The Carey family came with the immigration of 1846. Abijah Car ey was head of the family, Dick's father. Horace Bolden had taken his donation claim of 640 acres where tbe state institution for the feeble minded now stands. The Careys took over the improve ments in a trade, and, the Holdens moved to a claim on the river road, next to Painter's woods, just below Salem. The Holdens had a Kanaka man from the Sandwich Islands. Mr.,Hoiden had been ship wrecked and captured by South Sea Islanders and tattooed from head to foot. But that is another hnd an interesting and long story. After improving the place that is tho site of the school for the feeble minded, the Careys traded it tor a full section of land in the Waldo hills, west of the one tak en up by Dan Waldo. They traded with Rev. William Roberts, be cause they thought the hill coun try was better adapted to sheep breeding, in which line they had been engaged, and which they fol lowed at thetr new place. They did not then appreciate the com lag value of land situated around tho present site of Salem, else they would not hare traded. They could have had plenty of land that Is now covered by Salem stores and factories and fine homes. S If there- is another survivor of the Marion Rifles living, the Bits man would be pleased to know who he is. JUSTICE tS ENGLAND Yes, they do things differently In England. We had occasion yes terday to contrast tho British in quiry into the Vestris sinking, whlchvfixed responsibility for the tragedy, with the vague, incon elusive report filed by the Amer ican investigating commission. Another ease in point may be cit ed 4hat of Richard Joshua Reyn olds, rich young American. WhUe driving an automobile in London Reynolds ran down a mo torcyclist and killed him. This oc curred in May. Reynolds was tried for manslaughter, the prosecution charging him with being drunk at tbe time of the accident. The jury found him guilty and sentenced him to five months in Brixton Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Osr Fathers Read A. Welch, manager of the elec- trie company here, says he does not consider oxhorbitant the 878 per year which the company asks for are lights, and that Salem is getting Its lights cheaper than any other town, except Portland. There are SO lights in Salem. W. D. Pugh, the firs chief. Clyde Johnson, Claude Belle, Sam uel Ad oh and George F. Man deville left for a hunting and fish. lng trip to Marlon lake. Mande- viile will act as chief chef for the pnrty. - The Rock Point grain associa tion will meet at Rock Point school house Friday to receive sealed bids on 80.000 to 46.000 bushels of gray oats to be deliver ed in Shaw and Annxsviile. jattTThat ended tat nngauon.. Reynolds climbed into o fan and' was drtf en to the prison, whore "has already Hg erT lng his term. Had this aceldent occurred in the United States does anyone Imagine that young .Reynolds would now be in pweu gwo Oats not everyone know that. If Reynolds had been convicted In lower court, the legal battle would have only started? If n motion tor a new trial were denied the case would be appealed. Through one pretext or another trial wou.a fcavtfla Aelajei txssnUon of sentence postponed with tho al most certain result that the de fendant eventually would have es caped punishment. Our dissertations on crime in the United States, if put Into books, wotld constitute a forbid ding bibliography. Our best minds drench us with lamenta tions on disrespect for law and the disaster which must Inevit ably ensue. Through the dis tinguished Wickersham Commis sion Mr. Hoover is seeking the causes for this deplorable condi tion and, hopefully, the cure. The essential cause, we boliere, was fixed long ago by the often quoted indictment returned by William Howard Taft that Ihe administra tion of criminal justice in the United States is a discr&oe. The remedy proposed by emin ent lawyers and advocated by or ganizations of high character like the Missouri Association for Crim inal Justice, namely, the simplifi cation of legal practice so that the courts, liberated from the shack les of technicality, may perform their functions, Is, we believe, the cure. The conviction of young Reyn olds In the "Old Bailey" and his "Black Maria" ride to Brixton typify English justice, proclaim the efficiency of English courts, explain the English people's re spect for law. They are scrupulously careful about the laws they make In Eng land. They make few of them. Once enacted1, the law is enforced. Here we turn out laws In quan tity production, flout them openly - of covertly or by strategy and. a result, have achieved the wretched paradox a paradise of iawt and a Gehenna of lawless 833, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 2 Real Estate Deals put Over Here This Week H. B. Koehler, salesman with the Louis Bechtel realty office, re ports closing two deals this wc.t involTlog properties worth 111. 500. A $5000 home on Oak street! was sold to Charles Hudkinsj through that office, and a 5,5ooi home in Portland to Harty "E. White. White, who is a special representative of the Sherman Williams company, expects to move Mrs. White and their four children to Portlanrthis week. WOMAN TRIES MURDER LOS ANGELS 3. Aug. . (AP) A J& year old woman. Miss Irene Johnson was convicted by superior court today of attempt ing to murder her 80 year old grandmother, Mrs. Sarah McDon ald, by piping gas leneath her bed pillow as she slept. Read the Classified Ads. 666 to a Prescription for COLDS, GRIPPE, FLU, DENGUE, BILIOUS FEVER and MALARH Xt is the most tpedy rased? known. To Identify Genuine Aspirin THE increasing use of Bayer Aspirin every year is proof that it has no ill effects. It is the accepted antidote for pain. It always helps ; it never harms. Quick relief when you've a headache, cr cold; or are suffering from neu ralgia or neuritis. Rheumatic paina yield, too, if yon'U only give thesa tablets a chance. Bat you want genuine Aspirin, so look for the Bayer Cross on every tablet Tht box always bears the name Bayer and the word genuine printed in red 1 1 JfiWf T raoi ai .cbksTT&b bh a voire .SM,Rct(hi. Bar Hw I r naoccttts ttmaassn aspiria b tie td aa of Bajw aTaiifctun Mutual Savings ft Loan Association of Salem, Oregon Twentieth Annual Financial Statement at Close of Business June 30, 1 929. ASSETS Cash on Hand and in Bank 5,579.99 First Mortgage Loans - -- -- -- -- -- -- 495,200.00 Stock Loans 47,700.00 Furniture and Fixtures - 931.26 Insurance Paid for Borrowers - 25.65 -r LIABILITIES Deposits on Stock - Matured Certificates ----....... Agents Commission Payable - -- -- -- -- -- Incomplete Loans - -- -- -- -- -- -- - Notes Payable at Bank - -- -- -- -- -- - Contingent Reserve Fund - -- -- -- -- -- - Undivided Profits - -- -- -- -- -... $549,436.90 $459,476.70 2,600.00 363.15 4,914.79 14000.00 3,389.79 63,692.47 $549,436.90 T. M. HICKS, President A. A. LEE, Secretary Office: Steeves Bldg., 142 S. Liberty St., Salem, Oregon. ' Hop picking Is ander way at the A. Jerman yards In Howell Prairie. This yard usually begins the pick first, but It will he hut a short time until all yards around Salem are humming with' harvest activity. That Pleases FTIHE SUtesman Publishing Company operates the largest printing estab X lishment in the state outaide of Portland. Presses' large and small and workmen skilled in the trades daily produce commercial printing of high quality. Whether tt fa a It for you. And if you want ordinary commercial forms: letterheads, en elopes, office blank, you may depend upon getting work of quaUty it rea sonable price at the Statesman office. SINCE 1851 The SUtesman has led the Salem field in the line of commercial printing. Never has it been better able to serve ha at the present time. Estimates cheerfouy furnished. Work delivered when promised. ." 1 Viicao ceo - 1