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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1929)
Tna 03EG0H STATESMAN, Saiga, Oregon, Friday Elornlng, SepUmbr2Vl923 PAGE FOIflZ the gathering until information on it has just leaked tut L. H. lleMaham of Salem was nominated one of four electors for the party at the meeting here last week. GANGSTERS KJDICAPED CHICAGO. Sept 19 (AP) Police tonight wer confronted with a aew gang mystery in which two men, as ret unidentified, were kidnaped from their automobile en the south side, hustled Into an. other car and driven away, ap parently the victims of gang ven geance. Can This Be Progress? 1M SJ.fcaWJl 01Aii"Jwjg 1 . I : 1 "No Favor Strays Us; No Tear ShaU Atce." From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. S Prague, Sheuxt F. Sackett, Publitkert Charles A. Spkague - Editor-Manager Sheldon V. Sackett Managing -Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the urn for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not other wise credited In this paper. " Entered at the Potto ff ice mi Salem, Oregon, Seeond-Claea Blatter. Published every morning except Monday. Butineu effiee 215 S. Commercial Street. ' . Pacific Coast Advertising Re present at Ires: Arthur W. 8 types. Inc.. Portland, Security Bids. , . . San Francisco, Sharon Bids. Los Angeles, W. Pae. Bids;. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Steeber, Inc., New York. 271 Madison Are.; Chicago, SI 0 N. Michigan Ave. Notes on a California Trip THE editor was one of a group of Oregon newspaper men who visited San Francisco Monday, accompanied by a 'number of Washington publishers, "selling the Northwest' to the advertising agencies at that city. " Despite the heat which persists in interior California the trip was a delightful ne. Even San Francisco was warm, and the persistent fog shut off visibility. Saturday the ride down the Sacramento valley was like the path of a cookie in the making, traveling cn a conveyor through an oven. The train thermometer went to the top, 107, and stayed there for hours. The tem perature at Gerber had been 113 the day preceding and no cooler Saturday. The party left the tram at woodland, where the members of the Allied Sacramento Valley papers entertained them with a ride around the city and a dinner in the evening. One of the unique institutions in Woodland is the Woodland Clinic, a hospital which is bringing to the city the reputation which Mayos have brought to Rochester, Minn. From "small beginnings the institution has grown un til it has a staff of 12 doctors, and a 100-bed hospital. Its work has attracted coast-wide attention. ' San Francisco is busy with bridge proposals. The new est is to span the Golden Gate with a great bridge. High way traffic from the north now uses the bridge at Vallejo over Carquinez strait; and the Southern Pacific Is building a bridge farther up at Martinez. This will do away with the old train ferry which has long conveyed trains across from Port Costa to Bcnicia, at much delay and heavy expense. Bridges, tunnels must be the answer to San Francisco's problem, giving quicker ingress and egress for its workers and its visitors. The city itself is essentially a business city and seaport; not a "home" city like Oakland, Berkeley and smaller places along the peninsula to Palo Alto. Water is a major deficiency in California. The great Sacramento Valley looked quite completely burned up, though now in the fall of the year it makes little difference. The California-Hawaiian Sugar company is going away up in Napa county to get water to pipe down to its plant on Car quinez strait, because the diversion of water in the streams entering the bay has resulted in the backing up of salt water so the plant can't get fresh water out of the stream along which it is built. - The water level in the great fruit valleys has been go ing down. One informant said that in the Santa Clara val ley pumping from wells had lowered the level so they had to go down fifty feet and more farther than ten years ago. That adds to the expense and gives some concern about fu ture supplies. - The damage from frost to California fruit was no myth. Some orchards have nothing; others a mediocre crop. At that California has 300,000,000 pounds of prunes even in this "poor crop" year. There seem to be as many brokerage offices in S. F. as "bars," and they are far more conspicuous. Board rooms are crowded with speculators watching the tape. The phe nomenon of the Bank of Italy has made Californians intense ly and actively interested in stock speculation. We reached there just a few days after stop-go signals had gone into use. With all the streets angling off Market street, one almost has a brainstorm keeping track of the lights, finding the line for pedestrian travel, and getting across before the signals change. The. system was working fairly well, and that is about as hard a place as one could find to control traffic, owing to the chopped up angles on the north side of Market street. The San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce took our party on a tour of the city Sunday afternoon. W. H. Brewer, well known in Oregon where he was stationed for years as fruit-buyer, was the "spieler." He is now account .executive with M. E. Harlan advertising agency. - The Standard Oil company did the delegation the court esy of taking them by launch across to Richmond and on a trip through their great refinery, which proved of great ed ucational value. A similar tour was made through the plant of A. Schilling & Co. The Southern Pacific showed the party every courtesy, supplying them with a special car and sending along Traveling Passenger Agent uorxnley to see that the group was properly conducted to their destination. Guarding Against Fire Losses FIRES Ihis year in the forests have been very disastrous. The pall of smoke covers the coast from Canada down into California. Heavy damage .has been done in northeast ern Washington, and on both sides of the Columbia river in its lower stretches, and in southwestern Oregon. Foresters and forest, communities are worn out with watching and fighting. The increased humidity has come as a great aid in stonmmr the snread of fires. While the damage has been large and serious, still in amount it probably will not measure up in any degree to the fire losses caused in cities, losses far more easily prevented than in the scattered forest areas. The loss at Stevenson will amount to a Quarter of a million dollars. Yet a fire like that occurs frequently in cities, receiving no such amount of Dubucitf. t I i Forest; protection has grown to be the settled program and nolicv of private owners and of the state and federal governments. It is a wise policy and has been productive of much good, f Similar education of the public toward protec tion of property in cities from fires would be equally effec tive. As it is we hire a fire department ana let tt go at tnat. What if welhad regular and thorough inspection of busi ness houses and homes not only in cities but in towns? Some m-ght object to more "inspection," but an intelligent person welcomes a fire inspector who can give wise suggestions as to 'how to avoid fires. In default of such inspection every householder ought at frequent intervals to give his prem ises a careful inspection just to see where fire hazards may be, and how they may be removed. New School to Open Sept. 23 : DALLAS, Sept. It The new school at the camp of the Willam ette Valley Lumber company, will pen on Monday, September Zi. While this school will he' a part of the Dallas school system, it will open two weeks la advance of the Dallas city schools. I Miss Eugenia Somers of Mon mouth, a graduate, of Oregon State CoUege and of the Mon mouth normal, wlU have charge of this sckolo at the camp. -v. CEALLV MCM3. HA SUH2Thr O AAV F EDUCATION- "7 TVAS2E 'VA&. A "TIME. MX& A &TOOO Pofc. IP t DONTGO W OU MAN VVW INSIST ON AAV N. :Vc ----- : - t iii mri m- iefl fci r BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS How fortunate m Is Oregon with her project looking to the self support of her penitentiary. This is indicated in part by a news item in The States man of Tuesday, telling of the vis it here on Sunday of Governor Balderson of Idaho, together with Warden Joe Wheeler of the Idaho penitentiary at Boise. They in spected the Oregon penitentiary and made inquiries especially concerning the Industries carried on at our prison. S "Oregon's state prison at Salem has come nearer to a happy solu tion of the employment problem with which aU penal institutions are forced than has any other such institution which he has ever vis ited, according to Governor Bald ridge of Idaho," reads in part the news item concerning the visit. W S Governor Baldridge has prob ably not visited the Minnesota penitentiary at StiUwater. Or if he has, his conclusions concerning the Oregon prison are colored by prophetic forecast that is, they take into consideration all the conditions towards which the in dustries of the Oregon peniten tiary are surely working and tend ing. m The StiUwater prison's employ ment problem is largely a finished product. That institution has been self supporting since 1905. This condition was brought about quickly, through a large appro priation for machinery and equip ment, and (which was permiss ible under the constitution of that state) unlimited credit for the purchase of raw materials. The raw materials used there are sis al, grown in Yucatan, Mexico, with which binder twine is made; maiina hemp grown In the Philip Pines, from which rope la made, and the steel, wood, etc, for the making of binders, mowers, reap er, rakes, etc, for the use) of the farmers of Minnesota. The revolv ing fund of the StiUwater prison seen grew to large proportieas, however; has stood at 9 4,000.090 or more for several years, so that the credit u mot sow seeded. But most of the money for raw materials must be sent out of the state and paid tor foreign grown suppues, and ocean and other freights, by tbe Stillwater institu tion. Qn.the contrary, the bulk of the money tor raw materials used by the Oregon prison industries will always go to the people of out state to our farmers growing flax, to the men who furnish ag ricultural lime, etc This is in deed a "happy solution." The re volving fund law of tbe Oregon penitentiary was copied largely from the Minnesota law. The ntalu difference is that our constitution permits of a loan or credit of only 50,000 for the purchase of raw materials. But, as things are go ing, even that is not needed, nor will ever be needed. It will just take longer to. reach the desired consummation of self-support than it did in Minnesota, because the Oregon prison is being and will be required to provide Us own revolving fund surplus for the purchase of raw materials, which must become larger as the opera tions grow as a larger acreage of flax is required, etc k Our conditions wUl be better and more nearly Ideal than those of the Minnesota prison, or any other, when we pUe up the revolv ing fund to the proper size. The proper size for what? For more machineryand equipment, and for buying seeded raw, materials. (The raw materials must be paid for as delivered, and the finished articles made from them are from a month to a year or more la be ing produced and sold and the money returns for them realized.) What else T For paying a wage to every worker, besides providing the money for the entire support of the institution. - The Minnesota butttutloa does this. The Oregon prison so far pays a wage only to workers in the state flax plant. The rest will come. Looking only a few years ahead, the statement of Governor Baldridge of Idaho will be entire ly true. The "happy solution" here will be the best in any pris on in the country. The problem that bothers the governor of Idaho and the warden of Idaho's state penitentiary is worrying every far seeing and up standing official of that kind in this country, outside of Minneso ta and Oregon. The prisoners in the Idaho penitentiary are work ing on shirts, mostly. All sorts of federal and state laws exist or are being passed that hamper the sale of such prison made products. The interests of free labor run coun ter to such manufactures. The leaders and the rank and file of labor organizations fight against the sale of such prison made goods. The Missouri state peniten tiary is self supporting, but its products are mostly like those of the Idaho prison, and there is a fight to maintain its status of self support and it is not likely to grow less strenuous or less bit ter. The tight runs throughout the country. S What is Idaho to doT She can not grow fiber flax. What is Mis souri to do? What are the other states to do? Prison reform must stand on prison industries. There is no other plaee for It to stand. Here is one of the biggest prob lems before the country. It is easy in Oregon. It is easy in Minne sota, but less so, on account of the raw materials problem. It is aot easy in any other state. S The then governor of Califor nia, Mr. Friend, told the thea governor ef Oregon, Walter Pierce, five or six years ago, that he envied the position of Oregon with: respect to the possible work ing out on the. right basis of her prison problems, because in Cali fornia they could do Uttle in the way of carrying on- Industries la the prisons and reformatories of that state, for the labor unions were up In arms against anything in that line that had been propos ed or could be thought of. At the San Quentln peniten tiary of California a model educa tional system -has been establish ed but about all the work that has been carried on by the pris oners there or at the Folsom pen itentiary has been labor on the public roads and that is among the worst kinds of employment that can' be thought of for pris oners: either from the standpoint of appropriateness or economy. Working: cn the roads Is good neither for the prisoners nor for the people of the communities through which the roads are con structed. "W The Bits man is very proud to have it known that Oregon is tak ing such high ground in prison management that this state wUl in the future be the magnet of students of penology all over, the world from now on. In this we are especially fortunate with respect to our own people In the matter of efficiency anl economy we are still more fortunate In that we will be able to confer benefits on all the rest of the world in the working out of the problems that confront all progressive peoples In this domain of governmental practice. Is there any other prob lem of statesmanship that is more important? t Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The State man Our Fathers Read Sept. 20, 1904 A 14-year old girl became sep arated from her parents at the state fair grounds yesterday and has not been heard from since. Two young, men who are mak lag a trip -around the United States on their bicycles are in Sa lem for a short time. They have completed a third of their Journey and must make the circuit in an alotted time or forfeit a wager of 15,006. They have wagered that they will travel around the coun try la It months. Good prospects tor old Wiliam ette for the ensuing year are fore cast by President Coleman. Representatives of the People's party held a meet in Salem last week, no publicity being given to KOTEX BOX Limit! Always SeHsTfor Less - J Children's Hose 7-8 length1 sor, Ion? hose, values &cllC Manufacturer needed cash'. We purchased entire stock of all wool coats. Fall styles at small fraction of their value. We .pass this saving on to our Friday and Saturday customers. Maroons! Greens! Blacks! Bines! Fur (Trimmed! 50 Coats Only! Come early for best selec' tion. All Wool Fully Lined $ .95 Values $24.95 to $49.50 BALCONY YE OLD TYME" SHOE8 IN. NEW TIME STYLES 'Am $6J0 value All sizes Blade Kid! Tan Kid! Patents! BASEMENT MEN'S FAST COLOR Broadcloth Shirts $1.50 value and choice of any 50c tie in the store both for $1.00 New Designs! V iUU Tans! Grays! Sizes 14 to 17 Tie to match gratis MAIN FLOOR SCHOOL DRESSES Fast color prints. Sizes 7 to 14 59 Basement SCHOOL SWEATERS Slipover and coat Models $11.63 Sizes 24 to 84 Basement DAMAGED PURSES Underarm styles Basement MEN'S SPORT HATS Tweed Mixtures All sizes Basement Lucky Strike, Camel, Chesterfields, Old Golds 11c Pkff. FIGHT ENDS IX DRAW SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. It (AP) Wesley Ketchell, Portland middleweight, and Chick rierUn San Francisco, fought a hectic ten rouna araw battle here tonight A knockdown by Ketchell in the last round rave him what rinr. aiders declared a perfect draw as Devlin had a slight edge until uii urns. . . - - --. 3 Bute 1 J 7 if it LOAN 0 3SK s.atm A.vO SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Visitors ITou may secure reservations for the Horse Show and th'a ? Grand Stand starting Friday at 1:30 O'Clock at LER'S DEPT. STORE and PATTON'S BOOK STORE Wake reservations for one day or for all week just as you like bat there U -r a certairj satisfaction In having; 70ur same seats all week. At one visit to the above stores you may secure RESERVED GRANDSTAND SEATS OR BOXES FOR THE RACES AND . RESERVED STADIUM SEATS OR BOXES FOR THE HORSE SHOW Ela Schultz Wilson, Sec - Salem, Or SoipGGnmifcQi?: fi so