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PAGE FOUR "iV Favor Sways XJt; lYa Fear phaU Awe." From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 - THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Cba&les A Snucuz, Sbeldom F. Sacxztt, fVoIisAsrt Chakies A. Sfbacub - - Xditor-Manager Sheldon F. 8ackttt - itamaging Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the tue for publication ef all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper , Entered at the Poet ff ice at Salem, Oregon. Secend-CUue Matter. Published every vtornwff except Monday, Business tee US S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Beprssentatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Ine Portland, Security Bid. San Francisco, Sharon Bids.; Los Angeles, w. Pac Bldg. Eastern Advertising Bepresentatives: ...' Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Int, New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Are. Russia's Economic Revival - "well, he esteemed Statesman sets out to be right. We do. Indeed, Af her weird Ideas on the subject Of course, for ourselves, we are not desperately afraid of the contagion- of the sovietlsm that repudiates its Just debts. At the same time, knowing that evil communication corrupts good manners, we ar not courting any diplomatic relations with the national outlaw. welcher and pariah." Portland Spectator. . Oh, we can continue to call Russia bad names and refuse to riave anything- to do with her. ratinz her as one of the bad, dirty children of a back alley; while we are well-clad and possess superior virtue. But time is exposing the folly of our policy of non-intercourse America's policy toward Russia was from the first predi- rated on the assumption tnat short-lived. That was the expectation of David R. Francis, American ambassador at the President Wilson acted on that (based on our1 hope) turned out refused to succumb. In fact it is most .firmly intrenched. It is ernment. In addition Russia is showing surprising economic re vival.! Under the "new economic policy" (NEP) the authori ties have prepared an ambitious trial development which challenges the attention or tne west era world. In this revival American industry and technicians I and engineers are participating to a limited degree. In tne face of this our government maintains an "incommunicado" policy which is fast becoming utterly foolish. The Statesman urges, not immediate recognition, but the opening of negotiations to see if suitable settlements may be made with Russia respecting (1) confiscated proper ty; (2) Russian war and pre-war debts to the United States and to our nationals; (3) abstention from propagandizing of communism by the Russian government. We could atleast put up to Russia our minimum demands. That would be pre ferable to the rude, brusk rejoinder of Secretary Hughes to Russian advances in 1923 and 1925. If Russia would not "come through" then we would have some justification for non-recognition. If Russia did make suitable engagements the way would be clear for a marked stimulus to our own commerce and to economic revival in Russia under its new and somewhat more sensible policy. Surely the United States is through jumping at shadows, suffering from chills and fevers whenever the word "bolshe vik" is mentioned. Our own social and economic system is surely strong enough to stand up behind a "cordon sanitaire" of three thousand miles of water, even if we could give f orm nl recognition to the soviet regime. Our present policy is based largely on our own fear; a fear, which like most fears, is groundless. If we genuinely desire to collect the Russian debts and recover the confiscated property, we most assured ly ought to be making some moves. If Russia recovers in spite of American hostility and aloofness our chance of col lecting on the old debts is gone. Time has the effect of eras ing national as well as private debts. If Uncle Sam Is merely diligent as a bill-collector he will at least present a bill at the debtor's door. So roughly did our state department under Hughes and Kellogg turn down Russian approaches, we may be certain that Russia will not invite such humiliation again. Given the right hint, however, diplomatic conversations. We are little aware of what is actually transpiring in Russia. If our people would read "A Business Man's View . of Russia" in September Harper's Monthly, they would get a more accurate picture ot real conditions as seen by . an American executive. The author, Charles M. Muchnic, a na tive of Russia, is a naturalized of the American Locomotive to Russia to sell locomotives, parlor pink journalist or a member of a Sherwood Eddy ex pedition. We quote some extracts from his letters: "When one compares conditions in Russia before the war with present conditions, there is no question that the masses are much better off. There is no wealthy and no middle class, but there is also less poTerty . . . The country is being run by a group of prac tical Idealists who are trying earnestly to lift the masses to a higher level of living aud culture ... Their system probably would not work, In any other country, but apparently it Is succeeding here, pos sibly a reaction to the tyranny of the past ' "This la the tenth anniversary ot the Third International . This organization Is the bugaboo of the conservative press at home and In Western Europe. If one should take seriously and literally what they write. It might be disquieting; but after all It Is only a repetition of what has taken place before, and the present Third In ternational will lose Its sting Just Improved. It could not make workman aro so well off." , "The Russians publish a mass ot statistics to prove that there Is an increasing measure. of progress from year to year. .Whether their figures are correct or not, the evidence that I have myself seen on my five-thousand mile trip: large new plants just' built or build ing, the enormous development ot la Baku, the Increased output of coal, manganese and iron ore, the rehabilitation and expansion ot the railway, inhere before had been waste and inactivity, bespeak progress more eloquently than could any statistics, and they seem to justify a belief that Russia will suc ceed In carrying out her program by sheer force of her faith in her self. . "During the past few years ican has entered the U. S. S. R. tor home with Ideas diametrically opposed to those with which he enter ed that land of mystery. But the professional writers and propa gandists hastened to assure our public that the stories those travel ers brought back did not accurately portray the actual conditions of the country, that the sly Soviet officials had taken them on a dress parade and had shown then only the things they wanted them to see pccuuy arranged . . , During jay - namperea irom seeing anything i wan tea to see, hart circulated as r freely as any native citizen, and have felt as free from molestation of every kind as In any of our own cities or, In any ot the capitals of enrvpe. "However different Russia's political doctrines may be from - our own, and however' little we may acquiesce ta the confiscation ot ; American property or the repudiation of debts to American citizens. me mcommunicaao atutuae that u. 9. v. . aunng tne past decade ' Bucking the fUHS is a free country and -. X suit himself; but we think the. Salem business men's league has the right Idea on u&incr tradimr atamna in mer chandising. It is reasonable cuss priced rigbt ana properly aisplayea and advertised will sot need the bait of green trading stamps. The public, ought ; . to lrfinw that In tru Inner vtm If jmvm tnv if Km -4 v the merchant knows or should know that he can't "give . away" goods and thrive. There is all too much of this "rive awav" idea in safe promotion, rif ' merchant's ami Is right; bnt not In the way It stand aloof from Russia because of national honesty and honor. with Russia. me soviet regime woiuu ue time of the revolution; and presumption. But our guess wrong. The soviet regime has grown in strength till it at any rate a "de facto" gov five-year program for indus Russia would again request American and vice-president Sales corporation. He was sent so he is not to be set down as a as soon as the workman's lot has serious Inroads In America, where the oil fields, the feverish activity occasionally a venturesome Amer a brief sojourn, and has returned tea weeks her I hart not been we have maintained toward the seems hardly Justified." Trading Stamp a man can run his business to to believe that good merchan- rfitWrgin is ca widj ta sa The Bey? S tMfc afford to give away goodsin lines which other stores are try ing to sell and make a living on, then the sounder practice would be to reduce selling prices on his own lines of goods or allow reasonable discounts. Retailing nowadays is sharply competitive. There is no chance for a gang-up to rob the public The trading stamp is just a sales promotion device at variance with the sound est principles of merchandising practice. We hope most of the Salem merchants will continue on the no-trading-stamp policy; not because it makes any difference to tjs; but be cause that impresses us as far Victory for AN important decision of the interstate commerce com mission affecting the handling of depreciation accounts was recently announced. The city of Chicago sought to have he Illinois Bell Telephone company reduce its reported val uation of $145,000,000 by $45,000,000 which was the amount of its depreciation fund. The commission's ruling favors the city. The effect, if the decision withstands court assaults, will be a substantial victory for the telephone users as it will force the telephone company to charge off its depreciation rom its valuation figure for rate-making purposes. The as sistant corporation counsel for will save telephone users about . Wrong Guess. Try King Arthur Bo the dictionary makers are using The Statesman and -The Oregonlan. After studying them to keep In touch with the purest king's English, they even wrap their dictionaries in them to see that the books reach the buyers with words undeflled. Salem Statesman. But you leave us curiously up this purest king? Off hand we can think only of Henry Vm who founded the Episcopal church, but of course. It might be somebody else. CorvaUls Gazette-Times. BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS- Colonel William Thompson 's Urged by his father to continue io school, instead applied for and obtained the position ot 'devil In the office of the Eugene Herald, started by Joaquin Miller and Tony Noltner. He saya Mr. Nolt aer was ot the opinion that the name was very appropriate In his case. But Thompson remained in that work three years and in all that time did not lose three days excepting the several occasions when, for a week or two, the Her ald was 'excluded from the United States malls for disloyalty utter ances. The war of the states was on, and the Eugene paper was not the only one In the Oregon of that day that was denied the use of the mails tor utterances friendly to the southern cause. A large num ber of the early settlers wanted to malt Oregon a slave state. South ern - sympathisers i were active members of the constitutional convention. General Joseph Lane, first governor of the territory and the only delegate In congress ex cepting the first one up to the time he was chosen one of, the first two U. S. senators by the state legislature, was a secession ist and In favor ot slavery. John P.) Gains, second appointed terri torial governor, brought his slaves to Oregon. - , Thompson says publication of the Herald would, be suspended for a tew weeks, then come out under a new name, and the col umns would be filled with 'strict ly literary matter for a short time. Then Joaquin Miller would launch out and giro his opinions oa things la general and certain publlo me in particular; and after a few weeks somethlg he said would Incur the displeasure of the postmaster and beginning would have to be made under still another name. The little vaca tions were enjoyed by Thompson he eould go hunting. There was talk at different times of sending JoaTola Miller to j on aiauw, vo ooara at tne expense, of the U. S. government, la 1114, Miller sold out to his partner, Noltner and " Thompson Quit being the devU. Major Bine heart, who commanded the troops at that time at Eugene, had ar rested Henry Mulkey for a polit ical "oflense. Mulkey .was a friend for ytmni Thompson, and the iat- OREGON STATESMAN, Sato, Oregon, Vorit Rock the Boat" Bias toon T better selling policy. Phone Users the city asserts the decision $2,000,000 a year. in the air. Who ta the world is ter 'lied like a tombstone in get ting a pass to see him, and plotted with him for an escape. The ar rangement miscarried, M n 1 k e y was recaptured and the arrest ot Thompson ordered. Toung Thomp son got a tip, and mounted a swift horse and escaped. The animal was not his, but he returned it through the good offices of a boy friend who became a Baptist min ister, and above the crime ot re turning a 'lifted' horse. Thompson crossed the Cascades by way of the McKensle pass. He arrived la the vicinity of where Bridge creek enters the Deschutes tn time to join a party ot six hunting a band of Snake Indians committing dep redations in that section. He wit nessed the treacherous murder of Queapama, chief ot the Warm Springs Indians, at the behest of Paullaa, chief ot the Snakes, un der cover of a peace conference Paulina had arranged for the eon eealed assassin; the chiefs holding the peace talk being unarmed. V v The little party of six filled their "cantenas" with dried ven- ispn furnished by their allies, the Warm Springs Indians, and took the trail of the band: of Snakes under Pa-aHal." The Warm Springs Urar33 feared and dreaded Paul ina. They thought he was charm ed; bullet proof, and had all sorts ot 'traditions In .regard to this. The little party including besides Thompson, Jim Clark, Perry and Howard Maupla, John Atterbury and another man, surprised the Snake band in camp, and killed four of them, among them the one making the second notch on Thompson's rifle butt, and the rest scattered and got away though the whites pursuing them were far outnumbered. Paulina was called Paaina by Bancroft. In another surprise at- lacx tor was u this oner), ac cording to Bancroft. Panina'a wife and children were captured and sent to Fort Vancouver as hos tages, hoping la this war to bring the wflr chief to terms. This suc ceeded, and peace was patched up. Bat ft was sot xept by Paa ina and tils braves, a later Incl- aents snowed. After many mur ders and depredations - by the Saakes under his charge Paaina was tlnaDr killed 1st -Jane. -IS IT. by J Jr. Clark, mecordlng to Ban croft, bui Tnompso says it was a bullet from the neary rifle et Howard Maupla that finished the career of that scourge of the white settlements, and ended the Snake or Shoshone war. Joaquin Miller, then county judge ot Grant coun ty, had led a company of 100 min ers against the Snakes In the Har ney vaUey. Jim Clark and John Atterbury were with Maupla in the final attack that put a quiet us on chief Paulina or Paniaa, and finished the war. Maupln's Henry rifle was a present to him from General George Crook, for bravery and high service. S From the Bridge creek Des chutes country, Thompson went to the Canyon City district. Joining a pack train at The Dalles, and going through dangerous Indian eouatry. At that time Canyon City was a typical mining camp ot that day, with the population made up of an assortment of the best to the lowest offscourings of humanity. He returned after a time from Canyon City to the val ley and followed the hum-drum life of a printer f ora year or more and, in the spring of 1811, laid aside all else and cared for an InvaUd brother. Judge J. M. Thompson of Lane county. He was dying of ehronie dyspepsia. The doctors had given him up. With the invalid and a younger brother, the party of three went Inte the mountains up the McKen sle tork ot the Willamette. They took only unbolted flour and salt. Game and bread baked from the flour made up their whole biU ot fare. Bear meat was Included. In a short time, the sick brother eould walk 100 yards. The party remained la the mountains all summer, till the early falL The brother weighed 84 pounds when he left Engene. His weight was 115 pounds when he returned. Col. Thompson had gained SO pounds In weight. They had lived elose to nature. They found in the forests all they ate, excepting their salt and unbolted flour. They walked much in the woods. They ascended one of the Three Sisters, and to the north of one of these mountains, and, Thompson says, "in a valley formed by the angle of the three mountains, they "ex plored the largest glacier to be found in the United States. N Their long tramps often lasted a week to ten days, and If they ran out of flour and bread they simply did without bread till (hey got back to camp. In his book. Col. Thompson recommends the course pursued by himself and brother in regaining the iatter'a health when there appeared no otuer way. He tells that story, as na says "that others seeking that most precious of all blessings, perfect health, may know how and where to find It by simply go ing back to nature." There is some more to tell ot the exploits and experiences of Col. Thompson, including his connection with the Modoc' war, in which he partici pated. Editors Say: The Hawley tariff may not get through the senate. In its present form tt la almost certain to be re jected. The Democrats will east an almost solid ballot against it Bo will the insurgent group, indad Ink Borah. Now McNary and Stel wer ot Oregon have served notice' that unless tbe bill! changed to give some protection to Oregon in dustries, they, too, . will vote against it. So tha bill will cither be changed or It win not become a law. What was supposed to bo a bill for the relief ot agriculture has been distorted Into a bin to enrich immensely , prosperous - manufac turing industries ta the east. Farm relief has been largely lost sight Ot The tunny thing about it all Is that the bUi carries the name of Representative Hawley of Oregon, yet tt carries to little protection tor Oregon industries that the state's senators find It necessarily td proteet publldr against the dis crimination. w , - r . " : There is -a general feeling that aaleas the fcflt ta nviit it anrfct to falL The tariff tiakerers would - - t - - Morning. September 1929 have done' better to have slack to President Hoover's original plan and to hare, eonf lned the saw hill to a revision of agricultural scnear ales. But there were too many selfish interests grabbing for fa vors and as a result we hare a bill that most ot the eeuntry op poses. Baker Democrat-Herald. HOPS FOB GEORGO Bat a man who deserves and enjoys the) reputation of being one ot the jnost able ioarnallsts in the Northwest, as does the editor of the Capital JrnaS, is mot without a eOaL When he took a fling at Oregon's state song It was for the want of a better subject for edi torial comment, or perhaps a de sire to knock a chip from some body's shoulder. The Dalles Chroniele. L! By MARTHA DALRYMPLB (Associated Frees Staff Writer) LONDON (AP) Seventeen years' work ot renovating and strengthening St Paul's cathedral Is gradually nearlng an end. The reinstatement of the huge electric organ, a four month's task, has been started, while the final finishing touches probably will be complete in a year. The temporary harriers that hare ahut off nearly half the historic church from the puhUe will be removed next June and plans are already being made for a Thanksgiving service to be held at the end of the month. After the installation of the or gan, which has been electrified and modernized in every respect, the principal work to be complet ed Is the refaclng of the strength ened columns supporting the dome and their recurving. The Cathedral, the third St Paul's built on the site, was start ed In 168 by Sir Christopher Wren. In 19zS city authorities condemned the structure as un safe and Dean Inge waa informed that the hollow pillars supporting the dome were badly cracked and In serious danger ot crumbling. Constant traffic and excava tions tor subways and new build ings In the financial neighborhood about St. Paul's had caused the weakening of the piUars. Steps were taken Immediately to strengthen them and the lobby under the dome was shut oft Holes were cut in the columns and liquid cement was poured In them. The first work ot renovation was begun in 1813 and the first public appeal for funds was issu ed shortly afterward. A total or $2,000,000 has been raised by public subscription, with a result that there will probably be a small surplus after the work is finished. s C1IK NAMES BERLIN (AP) Some 4,000 persons in Germany each year re quest official permission to change their names and 98 per cent ob tain It Almost automatic permission Is given when a naturalized foreign er wishes to "Germanize" his name. Hundreds of these cases oo- cur among the coal miners ot the Ruhr district many ot whom are Polish Immigrants. Sometimes the uthor!tles dis cover that the real reason for wishing to change a name is the tact that a man's commercial cre dit has been exhausted under the old name. Especially frequent are cases of men who wish to be named after some ancestor who belonged to the nobility. The re publican judges turn these re quests down cold. The Oregon Statesman aad The Portland Telegram, two great dailies for CO cents per month. To order phone 600. It a PrwrtpMoa ttm COLDS, GRIPPE, FLU, DENGUE, BILIOUS FEVER and MALARIA H 1 tfca BMt spedr nma&y knows. HI H UPON IS ISIS 666 BIAftnSS THAT ARE fa tfadfc St'il General Xssasv Ftoera f ceistai etc. T&ess private oa note books fraici nrrzz akd K3 turn cx The Statesman Pnblfnlfc Co. imn. rums tszAXizaJ&3'--J Macedonian Revolt Tound Successful Establishing Under Cover Government Br JAMES A. MILLS (Associated Press Correspondent) PETRITCH, Bulgaria. (AP) This little town, about 160 miles south of Sofia near the Bul- carlan-Greek-Juro-Slavtan border. is the capital of a stats) which the reader win aot find oa any map. That state is Macedonia, do main of Ivan Mlkhalloft dauntless revolutionary leader aad bane of Balkan governments, who boasts of having exterminated thousands ot his adversaries in order to win autonomy tor his beloved Mace donia. Officially Macedonia is a "coun ty" in Bulgaria, which is a Balkan kingdom about the size of Ohio. But aetuawy Macedonia Is a pow erful entity of its own, which brooks bo interference from any authority in the world. It has a government- -ot its own in the Mac edonian Revolutionary organiza tion which Is absolute master in this little land. It has its own ad ministrative machine. Its courts, its financial system. Its local pa per, "Liberty or Death," its army and its police. It exerolses a censorship that is absolute. No paper on its black list comes into Macedonia. No meeting ot which it disapproves can be held. It controls pubUc morals and enforces the Ten Com mandments with the sternness of a Moses, although it amends one to read "Thou shalt not kill, except in the name of the Organization.1 As a result, excellent order pre vails In Macedonia. There Is no brigandage in the mountains and very little lust. Whatever you lose 'Is returned. Wherever you seek shelter or hospitality you re ceive It. When a promise Is made it Is fulfilled. Stern justice reigns because evil doers are delivered to the Organization, which works as silently as a winged arrow. The head of the Organization Is a young man of quiet manners who has a university education and Is well Informed about Euro pean affairs. He Is as attached to books as to the revolvers which he always carries. This Macedonian dictator, Iran Mikhailoff, is surrounded by bold young men of his own qualities. But along with the intellectuals there are also ordinary gunmen. Each revolutionist has his duties, his area and his chiefs. The Or ganization has emissaries in Vien na, Geneva, Paris and America. It sends observers to the league of nations and all international peace conferences. It has organized the Macedon ian refugees In Bulgaria and other places into brotherhoods, women's societies and youth's associations. it has cooperative societies and a Macedonian National bank. It has sent 11 national represents tives to the Bulgarian Parliament la Sofia, and when they were elected, there was of course, no opposition. The Macedonians divide their activities into two categories: the legitimate and revolutionary. It is only the "legal' organisations that appear la the open, and their Children will fret often for na apparent reason. But there's al ways one sure wsy to comfort a restless, fretful child. Castorial Harmless as the recipe on tho wrapper; mild and bland as if tastes. 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