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TBai JQ7XGQ3 STATTSMAK, Catea. Qwgca Tccr Stasias : Aegtst U, 1P9
Wo Faror Stcots CT; No Fear Shall Awe."
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 J.
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Smoot Withdraws Sugar Tariff
SENATOR Smoot announces he is abandoning his trom
bone tariff scheme on the sugar schedule. Too much op
position from the sugar Interests, he said. The Smoot pro
posal was designed as both a tariff measure and a price-fixing
measure. That way trying to carry too big a load. The
tariff principle has been to fix a rate equalizing the cost of
production at home andhroad; but the rate in the Hawley
bill and the proposed sliding scale of Smoot's paid no particu
lar attention to difference in cost of production. The tariff
on Cuban sugar now is 1.76c a pound; the Hawley bill boosts
it to 2.40c while the tariff commission a few years ago re
ported the difference in cost to be 1.23c a pound.
It is surprising to note the
cial circles regarding the tanff.
prising because big financiers
tes affecting the prosperity of
news letter from one of the large New York banks :
The fundamental change that has taken place In the'position of
the United States Internationally Is clearly illustrated by the present
tariff discussion, for at no period in our history has the overseas as
pect pf tariff legislation been so stressed, according to R, Whittlesey,
vice-president of the Central Hanover Bank and Trust company. It
is quite possible that our evolution during the pat fifteen years may
not only lead to modification of tlie Hawley tariff bill, but that our
traditional tarilf policy may be changed.
"As In other countries the people of the United States believe
that, home industries should be protected, but it has eome about
that a number of our major industries are dependent on foreign sales,
and In many lines export trade has become a factor of such Import
ance that the ability to compete depends on its development and
continued expansion," Mr. Whittlesey stated. ' This trad today
amounts to between $5,000,000,000 and $0,000,000,000 annually,
with nearly seventy per cent manufactured or semi-manufactured
products.
"The remaining thirty per cent of raw material- and foodstuffs
Is an important Item In our national economy. Formulation of tar
iff duties can no longer be exclusively centered about the protection
of domestic activities, but must also consider how far such duties may
hare an adverse effect on the foreign trade of the country.
"Before the days of mass production and surplus output, the
manufacturers of this country "were almost wholly concerned with
the home market and foreign outlets had comparatively little im
portance," the New York banker stated.
"But with the technical and industrial developments of the
past fifteen years, which have lead to a production volume far In
excess of our domestic needs and have also created a supply of com
modities that are popular abroad and have a wide market, our trad
ing position has become such that it is intimately related to foreign
demand and must, consequently, take cognizance of conditions that
formerly were not operative.
"This situation strikes home to all of our citizens, for it is quite
possible that an increase in unit costs, as a result of decreased foreign
trade would add more to the consumer's burden than any gain
to be derived from slightly increased profits or wage scales that
might result from import duties that restrict unduly the sale of for
eign goods in this country."
State Text Books
NOW we are having a commission investigate state printing
of text books. That is one investigation we do not oppose,
if it is in the hands of sensible men, because we do not see
how it could be otherwise than that an investigation would
expose the folly of state publication of school books. A text
book is not just so many ounces of paper and cover boards and
ink. A textbook is a living creature, the product of an active
brain designed to stimulate and instruct active minds.
State publication of text books means either paying big
. royalties to owners of copyright on successful texts, or put
ting up with inferior quality of texts. The easy thing to do
would be to sacrifice quality in order t8 make a showing of
economy.
In this state a heavy investment in additional plant would
be required in order to handle the business of producing
texts for the elementary schools; the actual printing costs
would be as high as any place, and the factor of saving in
publishers' profits would be too uncertain to justify the big
adventure.
Districts ought to be permitted to supply textbooks free
for student use, because that is sound business and works a
genuine economy. But the state is too small and the benefits
too illusory to justify state publication of textbooks.
Neuner to Washington?
MANY anxious hearts accompany George Neuner to Wash
ington, D. C, where he goes in response to a summons
from the department of justice which it is thought may be
for the purpose of offering him the position of assistant at
torney general in charge of prohibition enforcement division.
The' anxiety is among the prospective candidates for govern
or, for Neuner, at present federal district attorney at Port
land, has been prominent among those mentioned as possible
entrants in the gubernatorial contest in 1930. Neuner is
recognized as one who would be a formidable contender; and
his acceptance of a post in Washington would cause a sigh
of relief among others here who are letting the bee sting
them badly.
All Men Free and Equal?
WE notice in the Sunday Statesmen that several were ar
arrested on liquor charges last week. What was the
matter 7 Were they scabbing on the "union ?" One chap was
picked up with 10 gallons. The poor simp should have been
arrested to think he could meet the demand with that quan
tity. He should have brought in 750 gallons, rented a room in
a hotel and he wouldn't have been molested.
That is what gets us. The poor devil with a few quarts
gets stuck but the big boy with the heavy gallonage gets pro
tected. It's not fair, not fair. Nor do we see why civic hos
pitality needs to be stretched to let liquor flow freely when
crowds come to town. The law's the law, without respect to
the calendar or the company.
The Salem Statesman did Itself proud with a four section edition
In three colors on the occasion of the legion convention. It Is well
printed, well edited, well illustrated, full of advertising and alto
gether Is a credit both" to Salem and to the Statesman force. Cor
TallU Gazette-Times.
Oh, we have a few hot day
them, then the quick chance; a
vauey 11 coot again, ana rresn, and
few miles over the hllli and one
orating, great ionic lor poay ana mma. iri a great country.
Th Pantages family Is patronizing the criminal courts. The
Mrs. It charged with manslaughter committed la driving a car while
Intoxicated. The Mr. la accused of a statuatory offense against a
11-year-old dancer. More of the primrose path stuff, we suppose.
change of attitude in finan
Or rather it is not so sur
are very clear thinkers on mat
the country. Here is a recent
each summer. Two or three of
trash breese from the tea. and the
people steo nor briskly. Just a
reaches the great ocean, cool. Invig
The
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BITS for BREAKFAST
-By R. J. HENDRICKS
Reverting to modern penology:
In the first of her Beries of ar
ticles being printed in a syndi
cate of newspapers. Including the
Portland Oregonlan, Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, ex-assistant
United States attorney general,
who bad charge of law enforce
ment in the department of the
prohibition statutes, said:
"I had not been in charge of
prosecutions under the prohibition
law more than a few months be
fore I discovered what many per
sons have acknowledged: That
hundreds of prohibition agents
had been appointed through polit
ical pull and were as devoid of
honesty and integrity as the boot
legging fraternity. I found that
there were scores of prohibition
agents no more fit to be trusted
with a commission to enforce the
laws of the United States and to
carry a gun that the notorious
bandit Jesse James. It was my
opinion In 1921, and it still is.
that the government is commit
ting a crime against the public
generally when it pins the badge
of police authority on and hands
a gun to a man of uncertain char
acter, limited intelligence, or with
out giving systematic training for
the performance of duties that In
volve the rights and possibly the
lives of citizens."
S S
Mrs. Willebrandt concluded her
second article, in the Sunday
newspapers, with the following
words:
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"The first civil service weeding
resulted in retaining far more well
meaning but 'dumb men than
those who were actually corrupt.
The force has always needed, and
still needs, systematic and extend
ed training on such subjects as
how legally to gather sufficient
evidence, when papers can be seis
ed, when a defendant should be
put under arrest, what facta jus
tify the Issuance of a search war
rant, and under what circumstan
ces an agent is Justified in shoot
ing. There are, of course, many
other subjects on which Instruc
tions should be given before a
prohibition agent is allowed to
exercise authority. I worked hope
fully with the training-school
plan for months, but eventually it
died in the mire of lnterdepart-1
mental differences of opinion, di
vision of authority and responsi
bility, and political interference
with policies."
.
The words of Mrs. Willebrandt
serve to confirm the statements
made In the Bits column in two
late issues, concerning the neces
sity of having trained men (and
women) in every department of
law enforcement, from the police
man or constable to the judge
who sits .on the bench of the high
est tribunal.
Well meaning but "dumb" men
are as dangerous fo the rights of
private individuals In , any other
branch of the service of law en
forcement as they are In the one
that concerns the administration
of the dry laws. c
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Intelligence and Judgment that
come from correct training aa weU
as from natural endowments are
Important all along the line.
Therefore, as the Bits writer has
long contended, penology and
criminology should be taught as
regular courses In oar Institutions
of higher learning. In order that
lew enforcement may be raised Ce
the states and dignity of e pro
fession. Not that the rules which
govern these natters may not be
learned and understood throagh
other training than should be pro
Tided in the schools. But there la
not likely to he provided the great
body of officials needed through
other channels of training.
S V
. So. far ma we can. now see, there
First Actual Road
will necessarily k be laws against
crime for many generations, and
the necessity of their administra
tion. It is not creditable to the
supposedly most- advanced coun
try in the w-orldthat this charge
per capita is the greatest In the
United States. There is no other
subject that so much needs the
study and action of high states
manship. There is no phase of our
life that needs so sorely the ad
option and practice of laws and
rules that square with a first class
order of Intelligence.
'm
We are now Just muddling
through, chained to the festering
body of the dead past. Crime is
costing altogether too much in
money and the agonies and tears
of the innocent who suffer with
the guilty. And there is altogether
too little hope for the regenera
tion and reform of the guilty,
through methods that are dis
gracefully outworn.
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Let It be said, to the credit of
Salem, and that of the American
Legion, that the state convention
of that body in this city last week
was conducted in such a manner
as to cause no serious accident in
the handling of the great crowds,
the automobiles carrying which on
two or three evenings filled about
all the available spaces in the
buildings near which the splendid
procession passed, in the longest
display of the kind so far witness
ed in the capital city.
Also, be it said that the people
of Salem did wonderfully well in
accommodating and welcoming
the many thousands of guests that
crowded the city and suburbs.
Oh, yes, the Bits man heard the
many Idle stories about the impor
tation of great quantities of booxe
and the more idle ones about the
gutzllng by men and women of the
wares of the supposed army of
bootleggers.
S
There was some drinking. Per
haps even a little among the wom
en. But the amount of this was
insignificant, when compared with
the whole number of sober and or
derly people who came and went
throughout this city and its sur
rounding country during the con
vention. S
"It was the most orderly Amer
ican Legion convention yet held
in Oregon," said a member to the
Bits man; the said member hav
ing attended all the conventions
of that organisation In this state.
It is a fact decidedly on the
right side of the leadger that Sa
lem could so well take care of and
handle such a large convention,
attended by so many thousands of
the friends of the delegates.
Old Oregon's
Yesterdays
Town Talks from The 8tat
man Onr Fathers Read
Angest IS, 1004
The new No. I, four roller Cen
tury press for the Statesman of
fice has arrive and wUl be erect
ed within the next few days on
the cement foundation that has
been ready for sometime.
Steps are being taken toward
unionising the barbers of Salem.
A year ago local barbers were
thoroegaly unionized, bat trou
bles since that time hate com
pletely disrupted the organisa
tion. Talk of bringing Silver Creek
by direct conduit to supply water
to Salem Is gaining ground and
surveys will be made at once, says
Manager Welch -of the electric
Ught and water company. Welch
says that his company may pur
Test
chase the Salem Water company.
however, he does not believe the
latter, plant has a monopoly on
water service for the city.
GENEVA DEADLOCK
BLAMED Oil BRIU
12. (AP) The breakdown of
10. (AP) The breakdown of
the Geneva naval conference was
due to British cabinet orders to
England's conference representa
tires that Great Britain should
not retreat from her demand for
a total cruiser tonnage of 600,
000 tons. Rear Admiral C. L. Hus-
sey, TJ. S. N., retired, said today
at the Institute of Politics arma
ment limitation round table.
George Toung, labor member
of the British parliament, disput
ing the admiral's statement, said
the British had been willing to
limit cruisers of real fighting val
ue, but demanded 600,000 tons Of
small cruisers as a police force
necessary for the patrolling of the
seas.
The seas must be policed, he
declared, not only for the benefit
of English interests, but for inter
national interests and England
would be "delighted to share the
Job with America" If she wished
to accept half of ft.
Rear Admiral W. L. Rogers, TJ.
S. N., attacked Mr. Young's state
ment that a large number of
cruisers must be maintained as an
international police force.
Pirates and raiders of interna
tional trade are a thing of the
past, he said, and such a force for
patrolling the seas Is not longer
a necessity.
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Editors Say;
BARBABY OOA8T AN SWILL
TOWX
RMBtlv soma writer made the
diacererr tnnt San Francisao'a old
Barbary Coast tiad lost all of the
character which made It famous
or infamous the world over taat
U Is now quite a drab and prosaic
place where garages, juaenrooms
and warehouses form the jrows
which once were made no ef gar
ish dens of iniquity, gilded pal
aces of pleasure, au-mgnt aance
halls, saloons, sailor boarding
houses, brothers and honky-tonks.
He could have eome to Astoria
and miila nomewhat of a similar
diacaTerr. for Barbarr Coast w
hat m. hlfarar edition of the Swil
Town of Astor street which a for.
mer generation knew. Barbary
Coast was known as the wickedest
place on earth. Sailors were rob
bed, beaten and shanghaied, and
every form of rlee and crime was
rampant. As a hell-hole. Swill
Town was a close rival.
We hear great tales of the old
San Francisco and the old Astoria
which developed these breeding
beds of carnallsm, and the telling
is sometimes accompanied with a
sigh of regret that such colorful
places have vanished. Time has a
way of gilding bygone things with
romance and glamour, but Bar
bary Coast and Swill Town were
not romantic to those who knew
them. They were horrible, and
those who are disposed to think
that there are signs of moral de
cadence In the present age should
reflect upon the days when such
villages of vice were allowed to
flourish unchecked in the midst
of cities. Astoria Budget.
NORTH SISTER
Many a person sitting in a com
fortable easy chair at home and
reading of the feat of the Eugene
Obsidians In putting twenty peo
ple on top of the grim old North
Sister will wonder how folks get
that way. There's no explaining it
any more than there Is the fact
that many a person will risk
pneumonia wading In an Icy
stream to catch a fish or shoot a
duck, or go stunting with any av
iator that will take him up. or
play bridge till card combinations
haunt him in his Bleep. No mil
lionaire stops with his first mil
lion and no mountain climber
stops with his first peak. Everyone
measures his strength and skill
and courage against some obstacle
or hazard, mental or physical.
People are just like that. In a
country as beautifully mountain
ous as ours, it would be a shame
If there were not many to respond
to the lure of the hills and the
challenge of the peaks.
But a word of caution should be
spoken about the North Sister,
particularly. The fact that twenty
people were taken to the summit
in a group does not mean that
anybody with strong legs and a
good heart can do it. The North
Sister is a veritable ugly witch
when it comes to climbing. She is
thoroughly bad and treacherous.
Many experienced mountain men,
after making the summit, have
ventured the sober opinion that
the peak ought to be fenced off.
Of course, thai couldn't be done,
and if It could. It would only be
an added challenge to the adven.
turous. The thing to remember
about the North Sister is that any
body proposing to climb the peak
should ponder well before he
starts. He should not attempt it
unless he has the company and
help of experienced guides. He
should not attempt It unless he Is
assured that his party Is well
equipped for any emergency that
may arise. He should not think of
it unless nerves as well as mus
cles are fit.
For that matter, the same warn
ings apply to considerable degree
to all the other mountain peaks.
The chief value of the Obsidian
organization Is that since people
will do these things, it is develop
ing and providing a competent
la e Precerlption for
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leadership. They art teaching
people not enly te lore the hills
but to approach them with respect.
If ytur boy tor your girl) shows
symptoms of "mountain madness'
don't try te hold him back. If he
Is small, let him learn the rudi
ments' in one ef the Scout or T.
M. O. A. camps. If he Is older, let
him become an Obsidian. There's
no cure for "mountain madness,"
bat it can be restrained till it is
only a milder form of Insanity.
The Obsidians cannot guarantee
safety to those who join their
sports. The time will probably
come when, like the Mazamas and
other famous mountaineering or
ganisations, they will have to con.
front and surmount disaster.
Mountaineering can never be any
thing but a risky sport. But with
uch an organization as the Ob
sidians many a tragedy such as
the Ferry and Cramer mystery
will be prevented. Play safe!
Eugene Guard.
CHARIVARIS
It seems as tho Medford is look,
ing for a fight with Salem. Med
ford has a chip on Us shoulder
by claiming to be the center of
some industry whereas those who
have been reading the Salem
Statesman for many years know
that Salem is the center of all in.
dustries. But Medford Is now
laying claim to being the center of
the charivari industry, the most
asinnine of our American traits,
the indulgence of in which ought
to be sufficient evidence that the
culprits are fit for the insane
asylum instead of the penitenti
ary. To be sure, the Tribune,
which boasts of the matter, spells
it "shivaree," which is perhaps
the only way it could make the
asses who participate in them
know what it. was' talking about.
Here is Us boast:
Medford Is the shivaree center
of the northwest, and Is the only
city of 15,000 souls in all the land
that submits to this form of hick
ishness without a struggle. Every
time two souls are made one with
in a 50-mile radius of the Jackson
County Bank, Fords and galoots
and tin-cans are assembled and
proceed to ram np and down the
Main Stem, nntll their lungs and
gasoline give out. As the grooms
are too meek to put a stop to this
form of social devilment, it looks
like the Humdingers, Inc., would.
The newlyweds are lashed to the
prow of a red hot auto, and while
parboiling serves the groom right
who lacks enough gumption to re
sist, the bride has done nothing
to merit torture. The driver of
tbe nuptial car is always equipped
with a cowboy yell, which he un.
leashes with gusto. The shivaree
entourage has the right-of-way
over funerals, fire engines, and
the common variety of traffic,
and If they ever have a wreck. It
will be a dandy, as they always
go like 60. It Is time to call a
halt, if somebody in authority can
say "Whoa!" Shlvarees come und
er the head of disorderly conduct
and unnecessary nuisances. Cor
vallis Gazette-Times.
THREE GIF! IS PUN
NEW YORK, Aug. It. (AP)
Arrayed in khahl colored
breeches, leather puttees and caps
with badges on them, but also
wearing Hp rouge so they won't
be mistaken for motorcycle cops,
three young women have set out
from New York in a light motor
truck to "go places and see
things." In remote corners of the
earth.
They headed for Alaska, with
n me
Evergreen
Paulus Bros. Packing Co.
Corner Trade & High Streets
Let the New
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340 COURT ST.
Harriaburg. Pa., the first sotp.
The party consists of one Ger
man baroness, counsin of Count
Brandenstein-Zeppelin, whe is a
director of the Zeppelin company
and son-in-law of the late Count
Zeppelin, one motion picture act
ress, and one girl reporter.
The baroness is Chrlsta von,'
Brandenstein, the movie actress.
Miss Nada de Namur and the girl
reporter. Miss Margaret D'Angelo
of Ottawa, daughter of a former
officer of the Northwest Royal
mounted police.
They plan to pay as they go
partly by selling souvenir buttons
and partly by writing stories for
newspapers and magazines. And
they are going to take a seven reel
motion picture.
FORTY ESCAPE US
ELDRIDGE, Calif.. Aug. It.
(AP) While a 1300,000 fire des
troyed the north wing of the muin
adminitfation building at Sonoma
State Home for the feeble minded,
about 40 youths, between the
age3 of 16 and 20 years, escaped,
officials reported after the firs
had been conotrolled.
Six additional escapes, with
their clothing turned inside out t.
avoid detection, were taken In cus
tody by deputy sheriffs, shortly
after the outbreak of the fire.
Possible shortage of war
faced the institution. Dr. F. o.
Butler, superintendent, said, due
to depletion of the reservoir's re
sources in fighting the blaze.
Charles Attleson. district fir
warden for state institutions, ha l
visited the Institution yesterJ.;.
and recommended additional fr s
protection for the heme. T,
equipment had been requisition I
by Dr. Butler this morning.
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