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PAGE FOUR Tha OREGON STATESMAN, galea. Oregon, Hinrsday Morning, Angnsi 22. 1929 "Xo Faror Sicays Us; No Fear SiaK Ave." From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chables A. Sphacle, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publisher Chables A. Sprague ... Editor-Manager Sheldon7 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 Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Claea Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Busine$$ office tl5 S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Reprasentatives : Aithur W". Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives r ,.,.. Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. The Marion Lake Development THE proposed power enterprise in the Marion lake region has emerged from the promotion stage. The sponsor ship now is no longer a dummy corporation but the dominant public utility corporation in the Willamette Valley. There should be no surprise at this disclosure for it was evident from the start that there could be no market for the power to be generated except through the power companies now controlling the distribution systems in the cities and towns of the valley. The only other eligible companies would be the Northwestern Electric company and the Mountain States Power company. But the Northwestern is pushing its de velopment on Lewis river in Clark county, Washington, and the Mountain States is affiliated with the California-Oregon Power company with large plants in southern Oregon. The Portland Electric Power company therefore was the logical concern to move for the development when the imminent de mand for power would force it to expand its facilities. This removes the issue and mere promotion to one of live moment. A permit is not just a scrap of paper but a valuable franchise for the holder. In this case, if the permit is granted, nothing but high costs would prevent its utilization; because the Pep company's market for power is steadily growing. Of course the previous claims of Promoter Kelley that this would bring to Salem a big quantity of power at low rates will prove illusory because the power will simply go into the big reservoir of all the company's power production. Rates, therefore, would be affected but slightly. What should be Salem's attitude toward the application, now that, as some say, "Esau's hand" is disclosed? Salem has an interest in preserving rights for possible future use of the water for domestic purposee. True that is a long way in the future. But if the right agreement may be made with the power company the city's interests would be promoted rather than interfered with. The water storage would be provided at Marion Lake, and down for many miles to near Detroit, giving protection from contamination and saving the city large investment in stor age works and canals. So far as power is concerned Salem is not going to go into the power business for an indefinite period of years. If it should, under the terms of the water power act it could take over the project by paying the actual investment less amortization. At the end of fifty years the cost has been ex tinguished and the plant becomes subject to government ownership. The invasion of the wilderness area of Marion river and lake will be a real injury in the eyes of all those who love the great out-doors. But these damages may be held down. Even so. there are other vast areas ministering to the recreational needs of the people. The development, if it comes, will mean the expenditure of large sums of money in construction work, will add to the supply of power available for industry, will require the build ing of a road, much of which will be alonghe route of the North Santiam highway toward Santiam pass. The States man believes that the advantages outweight the disadvant ages, provided the city's interest In the use of the water for domestic purposes is properly preserved. Here is a New One IN" THE old days when farming at least afforded a living, many a man who failed at almost everything he tried, moved onto a small rented tract and worked his wife and ,. kids hard enough to extract the family living. In these new er times when going into farming is not so popular, ne'er-do-wells are hard put tt it to buy the canned salmon for the next meal. They are forced to live by their wits. Some times they think up something new and put their idea over. Generally they and their schemes quickly pass below the horizon. Now here is a new plan which gives all the evidence of having been hatched by some work-hating, flat-rooming city schemers. It is called the Metropolitan Funeral Plan, Inc. The organizers of the "plan" go to undertakers and sell them the license to use the "plan" for $1000 a year with renewal privileges at $10 a year. Then the organizers put on a sales campaign in the city where they have sold the undertaker and try to sell contracts to prospects which entitle the holder or members of his family to burial at cost, plus 10, by the undertaker franchise-holder. Quite a scheme. If this "plan" should get by the blue sky guardians, a fresh flock of salesmen would be descend ing on the public selling them bargain burials. That would be a temptation to a lot of tight-wads who put off dving simply because they hate so to pay funeral expenses. There would be a host who would open the old wallet if they thought they could get a first-class funeral cheap. . This sounds a whole lot like the gyp auto clubs that pur port to sell memberships entitling the buyer to everything for nothing, special discounts on auto supplies and insurance. Perhaps a man would have to die quick in order to realize his membership benefits under the "metropolitan plan." But what a strange thing it would be for an undertaker to push his business by soliciting "prospects." Choosing School Textbooks fT1HE other day an anonymous communication reached the X editorial desk which urged our support of some bill which would make congress the big boss in education and have the federal government furnish all the textbooks free to the children over the country. We were urged to support the bill because the pope was opposed to it. Well here is one time when we and the pope stand together. We oppose f ed- f!? books even they are free- What went into the textbooks we suppose would depend on whether the D. A. R. pr the Sons of the Confederacy or the Minute Men or the Tennessee fundamentalists or the power trust ran the gov ernment. Wouldn't our k. k. k. friend shudder if the pope did capture the government and had the privilege of writing the textbooks? No, we think selection of textbooks should be the priv ilege of the stete or the district which could then decide just what brand of "truth" it wanted in its history books, to say nothing of 'correct" theories about the flatness of the earth and man s descent from the monkey tribe. nThRfaI1-erM ROt Its heads mUed on lt ditorial OaXB. Better MS hlO Kllf fm-mrmw -no-t , . . . . Scrub Bull Er . "twi .irLSI'lF from the field of conjecture conduits would bring the water w ouUJv inaiuM- accurately. Summer Vacationists -m?st ABBK A BAG" WHAT J jgg UK THIS ENOUGH). A GCAtVto tX -w.-rr. 1 -.av. mi v is 1 n 17 wt wiiM ia J-c.Uk 5rir, 1C Kiftm BrtUM fcil -r.a - - - - - - - - ji.iwa? 4 ! ,- - - . - friy. . "'3 r - i BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS- John Ball was wrong. V He was mistaken when he 6ald his farm that in 1833 butted a half mile on the Willamette river extended to the Mexican (Califor nia) line. His farm was on the Willamette river, just north of the present Champoeg Park, but it did not extend to the Mexican line, because there were other farms south of him. The farm of Joseph Gervais was about 12 miles south, on a direct line. It was near that of Etienne Lucier, who began farming In 1S25, and Joseph Gervars must have begun about the same year. The historic house of Gervais was a couple ot miles below the old (Methodist) mission buildings, about 10 miles north of where Salem now is. The mission houses were about a mile south of the Marion county end of the present Wheatland ferry. John Ball was the first school teacher in the Oregon Country, instructing the half-breed Indian boys at old Fort Vancouver in the winter of 1832-3. And he was, in 1833, the first American farm er in the Oregon Country. But Dr. McLoughlin conceived the idea of having superannuated em ployees of the Hudson's Bay com pany go to the Willamette valley and take Indian wives and com. mence farming immediately after he came to the site of Fort Van couver in 1824-5 and began erect ing the buildings there. By 1834 when Jason Lee came and estab lished the old mission, the settle ment of these French-Canadian farmers who had been encouraged by Dr. McLoughlin extended from near the present site of Butteville to the Joseph Gervais place. "- . When Fathers F. N Blanchet and Modeste Demere came, in 1838, they did not erect their first buildings at the present St. Paul, but at the old St. Paul, west of that point and near the Wil lamette river near Horseshoe lake, part of which is on the land now belonging to Jim Smith, Mar ion county commissioner. The Bite of the present St. Paul was select ed later. The original log build ings on Horseshoe lake have long since disappeared. Joseph Gervais came to this section first with the Hunt (As tor) party, overland in 1811. Af ter the Astor property passed in to the hands of the Hudson's Bay company, Gervais became connect ed with that great concern, and there is no doubt that it was with the encouragement of Dr. Mc Loughlin that he came and settl ed where he did, and became the nearest neighbor of the mission aries upon their arrival. W r. There is a great field in the Salem district for leaders in many lines of endeavor, and for the op erations of big business. Not the least of these Is the fruit juice business, headed perhaps by log anberry juice and followed close ly by grapejuice. As the Slogan pages of the Sunday Statesman related, the time was when the loganberry juice market was the principal outlet for this product here or anywhere else, for the growing of this wonder berry, king of the bush fruits, on a commer cial scale was begun in the Salem district; the first plants being brought to this city by Dr. J. A. Richardson and get in the back yard of his home at the corner of Chemeketa and Church Btreets, now the frat house of the Kappa Gamma Rho. The discovery of the berry was made by Judge J. H. Logan In his garden in Santa Cruz. CaL This was in 1881. Dr. Richardson brought some of the plants to Salem in the early nine ties. He furnished a start from his back yard to State Senator A. M. La Follette. who soon had five 1 acres of loganberries at his farm ' about eight miles below Salem, i aes. the nlant -ing. -oa t.- Q. So Salem Is the original home of the loganberry, outside of Its start at Santa Cruz, where it never had more than a start from Its accidental discov ery. w V Without the Juice industry, the plantings of loganberries would not have developed much in those days. The berry was not canned then. The only other market was that for the fresh berries, which was small, and for the dried pro. duct, which has never been large confined' mostly to the market in Canada. Lately, the British Isles have been taking about half of our canned loganberries. S Bnt there Is an almost limitless outlet for loganbarry juice or rather there may be bulk up an outlet extending to all parts of the world, because almost any thing that may be made in the culinary line from loganberries can bo concocted from the Juice; with a great many additions, in the hospital and home and kit chen, and In the trades connected with the dispensing of soft drinks. Loganberry Juice ii both a food and a drink. It Is not just a bev erage. S Grape juice is already made here, by the Fiala Vineyards, and has for two yars been enjoying an increasing trade. There Is a grape juice factory in southern California having quite an out put. But the industry cannot be built up to a great size there, be cause the right kind of grapes cannot be produced in that sec tion. There is just now an in creasing demand for loganberry juice, from the sections that have persisted in its use, mainly in the big cities of the country, and largely by the first-class hotels in those cities. This comes as a mere hangover from the past There has been no new advertis ing of consequence lately. The juice just advertises itself. 'The taste lingers." V ". Frequent inquiries come to Sal em from widely separated sources for other fruit juices. For cher ry cordial and blackberry cordial and all the rest. Here is a field for cooperative effort. Or for the operation of big business. Per haps some of the people behind our canning and packing interests will grab it off. It is worth tak ing on, in a big way. W ". It is a good time to develop the juice business. Synthetic drinks have about had their day. It has been a big, long day. But mod ern dietary ideas are against these. More ajid more, people are taking better care of their health in various waj, among them the eating of proper foods. This is the idea that is affecting the prune industry, for the good of our growers. The Geramans are eating more prunes, largely be cause' the doctors are telling them to eat more. The same with the people in most other countries. Pure fruit juices come In here. They come in to take the places of the more or less sloppy syn thetic stuff that has been going down the throats of so many mil lions. It would be a good thing to spend some of that state adver. tislng money that the experts have been quarrelling over, appro priated by the Oregon legisla ture at its last session, in adver tising for cooperative leaders and big business executives to come to the Willamette valley and or ganize the fruit Jnice business. BRADLEY SUICIDES PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21. (AP) Colonel Walter T. Bradley, wealthy coal magnate, committed suicide today by jumping from a window of his apartment on tho 13 th floor of the Warwick hotel. 1TI0UD0F BIS Harry Culver to be Enter tained Here by Salem Organization Harry Culver, of Culver City. which he founded, and Los An geles, president of the national as sociation of real estAtA hoarla will arrive in Salem Friday after noon, August 23, according to word received early this. week by J. F. L'lrich. president of the Sa lem Realty Board. The local board has arranged a banquet meeting to be held at the Marlon at 6:30 o'clock that evening, at which the national president will give an ad dress. Leo N. Childs has been placed In charge ot arrangement for the local meeting. In which the Albany board will also be asked to join. Culver will arrive in this city ai lour o clock Friday afternoon. landing in his private Stinson-De- troiter at the municipal field here. His visit is part of a year long speaking tour undertaken to bring the closest possible coopera tion between local and national bodies in the movement in the real estate business for mastery of ex onomic principle governing the business and establishment of sound standards of practice. He plans to visit the 624 association members in a series of five tours. In Oregon he will stop first at Portland, coming direct to Salem from a luncheon meeting there. He will go from here to Eugene, Medford, Klamath Falls and Bend. Lieutenant James B. Dickson, formerly an army aviator, will be Culver's pilot on the tours. The plane is a six passenger cabin mon-oplane. PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 21. (AP) Resumption of lumber ac tivity at the town of Gardiner on the Umpqua river, re-erection of a new pulp mill and acquisition ot the plant of the Gardiner Mill company, together with 800,000, 000 feej; of standing timber, re presenting an investment of abont 83,000,000. was announced here today by W. L. Nederhoed at the offices of the Gardner Mill and Lumber company and Umpqua Pulp and Paper company. The latter company, of which Nederhoed is vice president, will operate the pulp and paper plant as well as control the newly or ganized firm, the Four L Lumber News says. Holdings of the old Gardiner Mill company, headquarters ot which is at San Francisco, include the mill at Gardiner, which has been idle for several years, and the large stand ot timber. The new company is reported to be taking over the town site, includ ing about 25 residences, general merchandise store, postoffice, warehouse, hospital, telephone of fice, mess house and a number of other buildings. By Joining the mill with the palp plant, Nederhoed said. It will be possible to log the land clean. The fir will be prepared for ex port and the spruce and hemlock will be used for pulp. Claims totaling 81315.70 have been paid to Statesman readers by the North American Accident Insurance Co., in the past year. These claims were paid on the $1.00 policy issaed to Statesman subscribers. Statistics on Nebraska's $471, 000,000 crops cost $21,000 year LUMBER ACTIVITIES PUSHED ON BP ly to compile. SHOOK HEARS HIS SENTENCE Slayer of Co-Ed to be Exe cuted November 29 For Crime COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 11. (AP) Sentenced to die in the electrio chair on November 28 for the slaying of Theora Hix, Dr. James H. Snook, entered death row at Ohio penitentiary today. exactly two months from the day he confessed. Jndge Henry L. Scarlett denied a motion for a new trial and scarcely had the sentence been pronounced that the former Ohio state professor was manacled to Deputy Sheriff Ralph Paul and taken by automobile to the prison. He was taken at once to the death cell, and there he will wait while his counsel continue their battle for his life. It was indicated by E. O. Rlck etts. his chief counsel, that an ap peal would be taken, under the new Ohio criminal code, the bill of exceptions must be filed within 30 days. The basis for the petition for a new trial was that the jury had not been properly sequestered and consequently was biased when it brought in a verdict of first de gree murder after 28 minutes of deliberation. The Judge charac terized that basis as "vague rumors." Hearing on the notion for a new trial had been postponed from yesterday In the absence of de fense affidavits. When RIcketts' came before the judge today he said the affidavits had not yet been obtained and announced he did not desire to argue the mo tion. . It was Immediately overruled, the court declaring his belief that the verdict was in accordance with the evidence. "The court feels that the ver dict was justified, that self de fense was entirely unsupported and that the defendant was in no danger," the Judge said, adding that he did not believe Dr. Snook told the truth when he said Miss Hix attacked him as they Bat in the parked automobile at a rifle range where the slaying occurred.) Dr. Snook, arising from his seat, had scarcely taken a step forward when the Judge swung around in his chair and asked him if he had anything to say. The reply wai in the negative. j In a voice barely perceptable at the rear of the room the Judge pronounced the sentence. Dr. Snook took it without tremor. i OJd Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks fmm tj, a.. ) - wiaias- . nun Our Fathers Read j August 22, 1004 For the third time recently, two local saloon keepers have been ar rested for keeping their places of business open Sundays. Engineer Ogden says nothing can be done in the matter of con structing revetment on the other side of the river to protect Salem wharfage until congress is pre vailed upon to make a special ap propriation. The 4 4th annual state fair will open in Salem Ke continue six days. The fair prom ises iu do me oiggest in the his tory. Governor Chamberlain has de tailed Adjutant General ITIn-ra r the O. N. G. to be present at the annual maneuvers of government troops to be held at Manassas, HURTS HIS FOOT BROOKS. A IIP, l0t 41 TTTV.,- , ai. u x. rvmie working with itn. i- u , belonging to Carl Aspinwall. Ward Ogden ran a pitch-fork through his foot. He was taken immediate ly to a physician and the wound treated. GETS TEACHING JOB SILVERTnv A a, tk t a"" "l- MlS Ruby Peterson, who is now at the home of her mother, Mrs. Carrie Peterson, has been notified that she has ner teacher in Parkrose school at PvrtLa,?d' MIss PetPon taught In the Sllverton schools during the past term. This summer she has been attending school at San Jese. California. The Oregon Statesman Circus Subscription Blank The'cSTfir mTnled by OB Three-Month snbscripUo. to or earX tosubscrlbe fop'th STATESMAN by mall stopped. .1 will pth1.0 ru?;uJ Jlr U SIened Address T0WD Phone No Ton may also send the Portland Telegram. I will pay the carrier 50 i cents per month for rt m m Decurea Ticket Bring or mail Mail-order, All order, They Say... Erpreeilona of Optaloa from Statesman Recderf are Welcomed for Use ta thia rolBmn. All Letters Mast Bear Writer's Name, Though Thin Need N?t be Printed. To the Editor: Twenty years ago the writer be gan traveling over the Willamette valley selling nursery stock for different nurserymen. At that time there were very few grafted walnut trees being sold though the small number that were being planted began to bear walnuts at an early age, two to four years after planted. But thousands of English seedlings better known as second generation walnut trtes were being planted. Later on nur serymen began to see that is was a mistaken idea to plant that kind of walnut trees from the fact that it takes that variety of trees eight to lz years after Dlanted to co into hearing then after waiti all this time, comes the sad disan pointment. Only about 30 per cent of this variety of trees brings out com mercial nuts. About 50 per cent brings out a mixed lot of nuts most of them too small for com mercial trade. Some of them that bear are not worth the land on which they stand and about 20 per eent little sleepy trees that don't but out until the last of June. These are entirely worthless in their present condition. This variety of walnut trees alone has created a strong influ ence that has caused a great many planters to lose interest in one of the coming agriculture in dustries of the Willamette val ley. However in the meantime our walnut grafters have found that seedling wood in a thrifty condi tion is good wood for . grafting franquetti into. And our -new nur serymen are now turning out a fine lot of franquette grafted trees on black walnut roots, and in connection with the grafted tress are many black walnut trees from two to four years old being planted to be top grafted Iter Walnut blight checked by spray applications of bordeaux mixture for control of walnut blight have proved generally satisfactory this year. The spray applied as the cat kins were shedding pollen. The writer Is inclined to think a bet ter performance would be to re move the cause. This can be done much cheaper and would be more profitable. The most walnut blight in the Willamette valley is found in the seedling orchards and in towns which can be overcome by top grafting the seedling trees with grafted franquette wood the same as the large black walnut trees are grafted. One theory of mine Is that the hull Is thicker on the grafted franquette nuts than it is on the seedling nuts which gives the thicker hulled nut more protec tion from the hot sun and also from insects that might sting the nut. This would be a good time for making seedling trees by those who are thinking of grafting later. W. H, FAULKNER, 1870 State Street. Salem. PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 21. (AP) Their "campus" the whole southeastern coast of Alaska from Seattle to Skagway, members of the University of Oregon summer session aboard the steamer Queen pronounced the "semester" a huge success when the vessel passed through here tonight. The Queen, chartered by the university from the Admiral Line, carried 170 students and a facul ty of 16 on a twnj weeks' trip to Alaska. Students on the cruise, said to be the first ot its kind ever sponsored by an American university, will receive full credit for all courses taken. Subject that were enhanced by the cruise were offered and In anthropology, geology and geo cluded art of Alaskan Indians, graphy of Alaska, literature of the Pacific northwest, feature writing, camera reporting and others. Two weeks of study on the cam pus at Eugene will complete the session. Italian exports for the first five months of 1929 gained $25 -000,000 over a similar period last year. both papers.. Signed Address good only for child under 16 year, "all new subscription to THE OREGON STUDENTS END BOAT KE - . xuuierciai, vireniauon Dept. must be paid In advance-Rat.: 60e per mo. win be verified before Tickets are give. oat. STOCK HON RAMPAGE AGAIN Prices Soar During Day but Irregularity' Marks Closing NEW YORK, Aug. 21. (AP) The stock market leaped for ward with snch violence today with price trends confusingly lr that it lost its balance and closed regular. The pace of trading waa sharply accelerated, more than 4, 600,000 shares changing hands. The buoyance of the so-called "blue chip" issues, or those sell ing above 200, was se startling that Wall Street generally could account for it by no other theory than that investment trust aecum--ulation of these issues had mark edly curtailed the floating supply. The rapidity ct the advance in these Issues prompted many trad ers to take profits In fear of a corrective reaction, and many gains were lost before the close. As indicate of the profit taking which came into leading Issues, General Electrie rose about I points to a record level at 403, and fell back to 892 H at the close; U. S. Steel rose to a new top at 2514, but closed at 247 3-4; Allied Chemical surged np nearly 18 points, then lost more than half its gain. Allis Chalmers was a high filer, shooting up 43 points to a record level at 330, and closing at 325, in response to reports of excep tionally good earnings and uncon firmed rumors of plans to acquire another company. International Telephone made a spurt of about 12 points tOs a new record price above 135, and closed near the top. Continental Can, which has been regarded as selling out of line with American Can, rose more than 6 points to a new top just under 88. Other stocks to sell at unpre cedented levels included Com mercial Investment Trust, Com mercial Solvents. Ingersoll Rand, New York Central, Union Pacific, Pennsylvania, Norfolk and West ern, Pacific Gas and Electric, Tub lie Service of New Jersey, Sim mons, Westinghouse Electric, Eastman, Kodak, Montgomery Ward, and North American Co. were other strong spots. Radio rose more than 4 points to a new high for tha movement above 9 0. The oils steadied, with standard of New Jersey rallying a couple of points. Hymen's Rands of Milk GODALMING. England (AP) When Benjamin Saint, the vll lage milkman, and Miss Edith Carver were married here, the bridal procession passed under a festive arch of milk bottles. WHEN A CHILD IS FEVERISH, CR0SS.UPSET Colic, gas, sour belching, fre quent vomiting, feverishness, In babies and chil dren, generally show food Is souring in the little digestive tract. When these symptoms appear, give Baby a teasDoonful of Phil lips Milk of Magnesia. Add It to the first bottle of food in the morning. Older children should be given a tablespoonful In a elasa of water. This will comfort the child make his stomach and bowels easy. In five minntea ha lm comfortable. haDDT. It will swecn the bowels free of all sour, indi gestible food. It opens the bowels in constipation, colds, children's ailments. Children take it readily because It is palatable. Dleasant- tasting. Learn Its manv uses for mnthor and child. Write for the Interest ing book. "Useful Information." Address The Phllllns Co.. 117 Hudson St., New York, N. Y. It will be Bent FREE. In buying, be sure to ret tnn. ine PhilllDS Milk of Mami. Doctors have prescribed it for over ao years. "Milk of Marnesia" ha heoa the U. S. Registered Trade Mark or The Chas. H. Phillips Chemical Co., and its predecessor, Chas. H. Phillips, since 1875. adv. of ago. STATESMAN. . " Z vi-r -