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"Vo Favor Sway U; No Fear Shall Awe."
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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Hunting for the Ten Million
EVER since Superintendent A. A. Schramm reported that
Oregon banks held on deposit some ten million fewer
dollars than at the same time a year ago June 30th, there has
been a lot of herd-scratching and pencil sharpening to locate
the ten million'. A lot of things are under suspecion as
"causes" for the drop in deposits.. Seme say the money has
been withdrawn to gamble with in naughty Wall btreet;
others take it as proof that business is rotten. Ten million
dollars looks like.a lot of money and it is; but it is only a little
over 3 of the total deposits in the banks of the state, bo
' the proportion is so small that there is no reason to get
alarmed over the decrease.
When the loss is broken up by a study of the situation
over the state the causes stand out more clearly and people
feel a litte better when they know just where the difficuty
lies. First the failure of a big bank down in Astoria in June
caused a decrease of better than two million dollars. Port
land alone showed a loss of $5,288,102 and the Willamette
valley a loss of $2,869,867. There you have it; the decreases
are chiefly sectional in the Willamette valley and due to the
banfctfailurem "Astoria The Mahf ield ajiqthe Bend-Klnv
ath" Falls ecttons shoSv' nice gains in depdsitsl
We don't know what has affected Portland, but the only
trouble with the Willamette valley is just a menopause that
will soon pass. The valley was hard hit by the severe winter.
Industries and building were held back, there was consider
able unemployment. Retail trade slackened some during the
eary months of the year. Farm work was delayed. Farmers
had to pay out big sums for stock feed. It wasn't until well
' in the summer that fresh money came rolling 4n, and then
possibly not in normal volume because the crop of early fruit
was rather light.
Oregon building permits declined from $15,284,000
for the first half of 1928 to SI 1,120,000 for the first six
months of 1929. On the other hand registration of new cars
and trucks increased from 24,108 to 31,746 in the same per
iods. One of the best indexes of industrial activity is in the
receipts of the state industrial accident commission. These
figures covering receipts from workmen and employers in
creased from $1,243,700 for the first half of 1928 to $1-382,-100
for the first half of 1929. While this may indicate a
certain unevenness of activity, still the statistics show busi
ness was pretty well sustained during the first half of the
year.
What happened to the ten million? Not just one
thing, but several things. Below normal business in Portland
and the Willamette valley was as much to blame as anything.
What about wicked Wall Street, did itysiphon the money
from the Oregon innocents over the Rockies to be lost in evil
speculation? The Capital Journal makes a guess that that
i what happened to the ten millions. If that were the case
there would be heavy draw-down from time and savings de
posits. That is not the case, the loss in these deposits being
only $1,056,000 out of close to 125 millions. More money
by far went out of the state for Ford cars than for Wall
Street speculations The increase in new cars bought was
over 7000. At $75ftapiece the increased outlay for autos would
be $5,250,000. That is undoubtedly where a good chunk
went, and the shock came the first half of this year because
that was the first time Ford cars were ready in big num
bers.
No doubt some money went to Wall Street. But most
of those now buying stocks were formerly buying bonds, so
the total hasn't increased very much. There may have been
a few big corporations with sizable balances that sent money
east to loan on call, and the high interest rates, 8 to 12,
have been most tempting.
There is no sin in making purchases of stocks and bonds
on the New York stock exchange. The people who may have
one so showed a lot better judgment than the common gar
den variety of investor who scatters his surplus funds around
in miscellaneous loans to "friends" or buys promotion stock
in paper mills and other speculative and pop-gun enterprises.
It isn t any more risky to speculate m Wall btreet than any
where else; and there isn't any sounder investment market
anywhere than the much-defamed stock exchange.
No use blaming "conditions"; it is enough to find out
just what the facts are. All' Oregon needs is for Portland
and the Willamette valley m particular to snap out of it, get
busy, stimulate industry and business and make Oregon go
forward. Fortunately the prospects are good for the last
half of the year. Good crops at good prices ought to make
things hum this fall and winter.
The Kiwanis. Visitation I
WE HAVE with us f&iy-J ,
The District ConventioTBrawanis clubs.
A select group of businessvBa professional men from all
over the northwest, from the" states of Idaho, Oregon and
Washington and the province of British Columbia are gath
ering in Salem to hear reports, elect officers, and propose
plans for furthering the aims of Kiwanis.
Kiwanis is a service club with weekly luncheons and the
usual set-up of a secretariat, committees and an international
overhead with offices and a house organ. The motto of the
organization is "We Build," and its individual clubs have ex
pressed the motto in various ways. Some have built com
munity hotels- others playgrounds; others cabins for boy
scout camps. Some have built only air castles of the spires
and turrets put of gutteral adjectives.
These men who come to Salem are a picked group, as
good as Rotary, if not a little better. They will deploy them
selves in different ways.. Some afflicted with a delegate
conscience will attend the sessions, listen to addresses, note
'book in hand, preparing for the inevitable "report" to the
'home club. Others will register, jolly around in the lobbies,
strike out and visit their brothers in trade in Salem, talk
over bone-setting or shirt-selling, and report back in time
for the banquet Some will play golf and others chauffeur
for the Mrs.
If they could or would speak their minds openly, we ven
ture the prevailing question would be, "What is it all about V
That is the same question that most of the other service clubs
are asking. The super-imposed programs from "interna
tional" read too much like the suggestions for a c e. society.
Busy as they are these men have found the committee-system
the effective burial ground for many a "bright idea."'
When the individual service club member tells the truth, he
admits the comfort of his membership lies in the fellowship
f the weekly luncheons.
So we hope the visiting Eiwanians will not take them-
That After-Vacation Feeling
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selves and their organiation too seriously. Trust the Grang
ers to effect "The Kingdom come Grant "leave to
print" for the prepared addresses. Salem is a wonderful
city to visit. It is full of interesting spots and many inter
esting people. Twould be a pity to sweat for three days in
meetings with such delightful surroundings outside.
With or without a motto, these men and women who are
our guests are the real builders of today. Picked folk they
are, who bear full packs of responsibility on their backs, yet
have a smile and a song withal. We are glad to welcome
them, and to urge them to see Salem, its homes and gardens
and industries and institutions.
Getting Russia Into Line
In this country we seem to think that recognizing a govern
ment like the' soviet will contaminate us in soma way. The long
practice of American diplomacy has been to give prompt recognition
to an effective government regardless of its complexion or creed.
Salem Statesman.
The long practice of American diplomacy sometimes reverses
itself by refusing to giro recognition to governments that repudiate
their Just debts especially when America Is the suffering debtor.
It is not because Russia Is soviet that this country denies It recogni
tion, but because soviet Russia is a welcher. The Statesman should
make a note of this fact. Portland Spectator.
No, we haven't lost sight of the fact that Russia is a de
linquent debtor. Our point is that the United States ought
to be willing to negotiate with Russia over disputed points
regarding these debts, looking toward recognition if Russia
made suitable engagements respecting confiscated property
and defaulted bonds.
We let Italy and France slide out of big portions of their
obligations to us ; and so far Greece hasn't even made a set
tlement. No, America stands aloof from Russia because of their
wierd ideas. We are afraid of the contagion of sovietism;
though we are fully insulated by law and by distance.
Secretary Stimson came perilously near to practical rec
ognition of Russia in addressing them directly over the Man
churian situation. His hand would be strengthened if direct
diplomatic relations were maintained by the two countries.
Investigations are showing that 94 lines of industry are dom
inated by racketeers in Chicago. It costs the city 1136,000,000 as
tribute to the gunmen brigade. The extent of the graft is what is
amazing. It all goes back to the labor racket started years ago
where the walking delegate pulled many a hold-np on contractors
under threat of pulling men off the work; or where Inspectors on mu
nicipal Jobs stuck up contractors for graft money to get his work
approved. Even the "knock 'em off and "take 'em foiLa ride" fea
ture Is not altogether new. In a country that makes money its god,
it is not to be wondered at that many short-cut the law to make
their money quick. We all look on life as pretty much of a graft,
with everybody out to "get theirs."
Episcopalian preachers bave been going pretty straight since
Doc Hall soiled the surplice. Now one named Empringham gets the
wrong kind of publicity for his branch of the apostolic succession.
Empringham has been a hound for publicity. First he was an anti
saloon league worker; then he braved the wrath of "the church-in-action-against-the-saloon"
by having his "Church Temperance So
ciety" come out for light wines and beer. His latest and most ser
ious venture is in running a health annex about which come unseem
ly reports. Our observation Is that when preachers go into the
health-care business they quickly cease to adorn their profession.
The editors are all moralizing over this man Huble at Newport
whose can of currency perished in a fire in his house. We don't al
together agree. His Judgment was far better than those suckers
who loaned this new Ponzl in Wisconsin their money on a promise
to pay them 26 a year. The fire risk for Huble was far less than
the chance of these gullibles getting their money back. They may
get 26; but the borrower will keep the 74.
The campaign for raising $50,000 to match the state's appropri
ation for a hospital at the state nniversly has gotten down tff the
level of door bell ringing to sell a"brick" at a doUar. We thought
from the sobby stuff of last winter that the people of the state could
hardy be held back from pawning their jewelry to get that hospital
built. It's getting to be as long drawn out now as near east relief.
Being penalized for trying to smuggle tn European purchases
seems to be the reg'lar thing for those whose names are on the social
register in New York. Perhaps they think this Is on way of ad
vertising now much they spent in Paris. They don't seem to feel
any shame except at getting caught.
The bull marathon in New York shows no signs of exhaustion.
Alter the shake-out of two weeks ago quotations are back again at
peak levels. This shows that more people read Brisbane than Babson.
Brisbane has been so busy boosting the game of the editors he
services, be hasn't had time to write buU on the market. He passed
up Bob Ruhl at Medford though and went through Klamath Falls
Instead. Why the Mall-Tribune squanders money for Brisbane when
it nas sucn gifted writers as Ruhl and Arthur Perry It beyond us.
Our Interest in the Sino-Russian scrap In Manchuria Is waning
while we watch the pretty little battle between Grants Pass and
Medford over Medford's proposed new road to the Oregon Caves.
What has become of the imported Tacoma c. of e. secretary who was
to bring harmonious development in that country?
"Fast colors are In great demand" says the story about the
pajama party on the Sllverton golf links Sunday. Fast is right. Why
didn't Srcel Kay or Foster Cone think of this oe first for Salem f
They Say...
Expressions of Opinion from
Brttwnm Reedera are
Welcomed for Use in this
rolnmn. All Letters Must
Bear Writer's Name,
Though ThJa Need If -X ba
Printed.
Editor Statesman:
Some time ago I contributed
some comments on our municipal
camp ground and quoted the
campers as saying that while they
had visited better camp grounds
yet they , had never been treated
nicer than they had been here.
While passing through the
grounds today I met a tourist
from Vancouver B. C, and one
from Tennessee and both were
very strong In their praise of our
entire camp grounds equipment.
They said they had visited a few
as good but none better. This is
what we want to hear from our
tourists. There is but one way to
get this favorable comment. We
are- evidently on the right track.
Let's keep going straight ahead.
Our Vancouver visitor said
there should be a conspicuous
sign at the main entrances to the
city calling attention to the fact
that there was a muncipally oper
ated camp ground in the city. He
said he stooped to make inquiry
regarding a camp ground. The
Tennessee man, a preacher, asked
where the nearest mail box was
located. While a mail box is not
far off yet he said it would be
very handy to have a box at the
camp ground office, during the
summer. While we cannot give
the tourists everything he wants
yet many of their suggestions are
most practical. What we need is
to pee through the tourist's eyes.
It is only as we do this that we
are able to cater to him. Let's
keep on keeping on."
EUGENE T. PRESCOTT.
1064 Oak Street.
Editors Say:
,THE PACE THAT KILLS
Possibly Salem is making an
error In opposing the Portland-
Oregon City super-highway and
demanding an Improved Portland-
Salem highway via Wllsonville.
The latter would make a 'shorter
route from Salem to Portland and
result in more trade going to the
metropolis. It Is unthinkable
that Portland people would trade
in Salem, yet more would be in
clined to travel to the capital city
on Sundays. And It would be so
convenient to get some of those
Portlanders to the penitentiary in
quicker time. Business on the
Pacific highway is to be a sec
ondary consideration. Some of
the stores, stands and camps may
have to go. Salem and the short
route to Portland is of a higher
importance, regardless of expense,
Woodburn, Hubbard, Aurora, Can-
by and Oregon City are to be left
out In the cold so that Salem may
obtain a shorter distance to Port
land, where many of the Salem
Ites would trade. When the
Woodburn Chamber of Commerce
meets in September it should be
wide awake to what Is in pro
gress. Woodburn Independent.
TOM KAY HAS EARNED A
REST
Tom Kay is one Of Oregon's
most useful citizens. Successful
In his own business, he has as
State Treasurer, Legislator and
public spirited citizen worked un
tiringly for the betterment and
development of his community
and his state.
He has been a loyal friend to
Medford and Jackson county, as
he has to other districts of the
commonwealth. No matter where
some constructive movement was
initiated. If Tom Kay believed In
it. he could always be counted
upon to give all he had toward
Its successful fulfillment
It was this disposition la the
BITS for BREAKFAST
-By R. I. HENDRICKS
Continuing about John Ball
The first school teacher in the
Ore gen Country, and also the first
Amarleaa farmer. He was born
November 11, 1794, only It years
from the Declaration of Indepen
dence and but five after the first
inauguration of our government,
the commencement of Washing
ton's seeond term as president.
Franklin was dead, hut most of
the actors la the Revolution were
still living and acting their parts
in the government they had
achieved and put into operation.
The United States numbered IS,
Vermont and Kentucky having
been added te the original IS
states. The vast country north
west of the Ohio river was not
even organised into a territory,
for in that same year General
Wayne fought his last battle with
the Indians in what is now Ohio
and Indiana.
John Ball was probably a rela
tive of George Washington, whose
mother was Mary Bell, and mem
bers of the Ball famUy in Virginia
claimed he looked like the 'na
tion's first president. John Ball's
wife was a Webster, and when her
ancestors moved west to 100
miles from Boston they went 30
miles beyond . the last house,
which was that of Daniel Web
ster's father. The Balls were
ordered out to fight in the Revo
lution, and then ordered back to
protect the settlements against
the Indian attacks.
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For want of space, many things
were left out of the article in this
column of yesterday regarding the
journey westward with the first
party of Captain Wyeth, in 1832.
Mr. Ball Jon March' ! 28th, 1833,
psrotef 'W 1 hi f rWad in " New
Hampshire and 1 NW? York; and
the letters were that day started
on the Hudson's Bay company's
express that left Fort Vancouver,
went up the Columbia by boat,
thence by pack horses and men
on snow shoes over the Rockies;
then in bark canoes on the La
Basche that flows into the Arctic
ocean; then by portage at Fort
Edmonton and down the Saskat
chewan to Lake Winnipeg, by its
outlet, the Nelson, to Hudson bay;
thence to Montreal, and on to the
points to which the letters were
directed, his friends receiving
them in September.
Believing that other Americans
would soon come to the Oregon
Country to settle, John Ball felt
that he would be performing a
greater service to his nation by
experimenting In farming than by
teaching school at Fort Vancou
ver, and learning that some of the
French Canadians who were em
ployed by the Hudson's Bay com
pany had turned farmers and
gone up and settled on the Wil
lamette river, he says he "went
to see the country and found it
very Inviting. " And when Dr.
McLoughlin found that he was
bent on going to farming, he
kindly told him he would lend
him farming utensils, seeds for
sowing and as many horses as he
chose to break in, for a team.
Says he:
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"So I took seed and Implements
by boat, getting help up the Wil
lamette to the falls where the
city of Oregon (Oregon City) now
is, passing the site where Port
land stands, carried by the fall,
boat and all. First stopped with
upbuilding of his state, to spare
everyone and everything but him
self, that undoubtedly led to his
recent physical breakdown. Tak
en seriously 111 in Europe, he has.
teaed home hut now we are glad
to say, is reported as out of the
woods' and steadily improving.
With Improved health and re
turning strength, we know how
hard It will be to keep Tom Kay
from getting into the harness
again and reassuming the mani
fold responsibilities he has been
forced temporarily to relinquish.
But a long and complete rest Is
what he needs, and such a rest
no public official in this state has
more certainly earned.
After all, health Is the most
important thing In life. It Is not
only the most important thing to
day to Mr. Kay and his friends,
but to the state at large.
This little screed is written for
the sole purpose of convincing
our State Treasurer that taking
care of himself Is now not only
his private and persona, but his
public duty. Medford Mall Tri
one of the settlers, a half-breed
with two wives, hi name, J.B.
Deeportea. Yes, two wives, seven
children, and eats and dogs num
berless." He goes on:
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"Caught from the prairie a
span of horses only used to the
saddle, made for them a harness
and put them to work. Stuffed
some deer skins sewed in due
form for collars, fitted to them
for harness crooked oak limbs,
tied top and bottom with elk skin
strings, then to these, straps of
hide for tugs, which tied to the
end et a stick for a whiffletree,
and the. center of this I tied to
the drag, made from the crotch
of a tree. And on this I drew out
log for a cabin, which when I
had laid up and put up rafters to
make the roof. I covered with
bark peeled from cedar trees. And
this bark covering was secured by
poles across and tied with wood
strings, withes, at the end of the
timbers below. And out of some
split plank for no sawed boards,
I made bedstead and table. And
so I dwelt in a house of fir and
cedar.- And with the aid of my
neighbors and their teams I broke
tip quite a large field of rich prai
rie lands. Drew out fencing stuff
with my own, to enclose the same,
and sowed and planted my farm,
a farm that butted half a mile on
the river and extended back to
California! My family considered
part of the time of a Mr. Sin
clair, one of my mountain com
panions, a young wild native to
catch my horses, and some of the
time entirely alone. Got meal from
the fort to make my bread, my
meat some venison and some sal
mon from the falls, for being 60
feet high they could not Jump
them.
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A athr primitive kyaelylife'
I found H and 'Sot seeing when It
was likely to be less so, and hav
ing seen something of the coun
try, and no immigrants arriving,
I began to think I might as well
leave could I have the opportun
ity. Yes, this primitive life of the
plains, mountains, and keeping
house with only Indian neighbors,
had lost its novelty and I wanted
a change. To be sure the Willam
ette valley is a fine country, being
a vaUey watered by a stream of
the same name, 50 miles wide
and say 150 miles long with a
coast range on the west and tow
ering Cascade range on the east,
crowned by Mount Hood, in the
bright summer days ever in sight.
And I was near the river, handy
for a summer bath, and out of its
bank a short distance from my
house was the fine cool spring
from which I got -my water."
'm
Mr. Ball went on to tell of the
customs of his neighbors, the In
dians, who were kind to him, in
an interesting way, that must be
saved for another Issue. He adds:
"Ne immigrants arriving from ths
states, as t expected, and the Hud.
son's Bay company having con.
trol of the country, so I could io
nothing but subsist In the way I
was pursuing. And tiring of the
life I was leading, I saw no object
c staying longer in the country,
than for .an opportunity to get
au-ay by sea; for once crossing th
mountains and plains. I thought
enough I had passed nearly a
year there, and experienced its cli
mate and seen its land and wat
ers, and became acquainted with
Its natives and traders. And the
company being about to send a
vessel to the bay of San Francis
co and the Sandwich Islands, X
exchanged my crop., now mostly
harvested, for a passage la the
same."
About the 20th of September.
1833. he left his farm, and soon
saUed on the ship Dryad; leaving
the Columbia's mouth October 18.
and entering the Golden Gate IS
years before It had that name, No
vember 4. He saw what there was
to see. there, which was little, but
visioned much, and was la Hon
olulu December 22. Much mora
he told, Took a passage on a whal
ing vessel, experienced the excite
ments of whale fishing, rounded
Cape Horn, and was back home
after two "and a half years. He be
came .a Michigan pioneer; con
tributing much in building up that
state, from 1836 on; was a leading
resident of Grand Rapids for 48
years, was instrumental In devel
oping the school system of that
city, evidently accumulated a com
petency, and became a world trav
eler, spending several years with
his family in Europe, and seeing
much there and in his own coun
try as it fought and grew and de
veloped. The John Ball farm must have
been in the vicinity of Buttevills
or Champoeg. It was evidently
then the. farthest cultivated land
on jthK south ef the se t tie men tr
ior i it extended to California, as
he said. Joseph Gervais must have
come about the same year, how
evert for 'he had his historic house
built because In the fall of 1834,
about 10 miles below where Salem
now is, Jason Lee preached in
the latter part of October of early
November of that year.
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John Ball's title to his farm
running to the California (Mexi
can) line was only by occupation,
for no nation then owned the Ore
gon Country, though two claimed
it, aud three had claimed it and
others coveted it, aud there
could not be definite individual
titles other than by possession.
"m
It seems a long time ago in oae
sense; in another very short. John
Ball's children still live. That
makes ouly two seuerations back
to the beginning of the United
States government. Aud. by the
same sign, your great, great, great
grandfather, back to only about
the 25th in Hue, niisht have seen
the Christ hanging on the tree ot
Golgotha overlooking Jerusalem.
SERVICE
MEASURED
NOT BY
COLD
BUT BY
THE .
GOLDEN
RULE"
i
Personal When one makes
rVinfrT arrangements with
vuilcH-L us, it takes the
form of a personal visit. Every de
tail is explained in a cordial, friendly
way so that everything will be thor
oughly understood.
A member of the firni personally
supervises every detail. "
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