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PAGE FOUR Tha 01EC0N STATESMAN, Sato, Oregon. Friday Morn? September 27. 1923 "Xo FarorrSways Us; No Fear Shall Ave. From Tirst Statesman, March ?8. ls&i THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Sprague, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publishers A. S Prague - Editor-Manager Charles Sheldon F. Sackett Managing-Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitle to tha use for publication of all news dispatches credited t It or mot other wise credited in this paper. Enttred at the Postoffiee at Salem. Oregon, a Second-Class Matter. Publuhed evevg morning accept Hornby. Buatneu office 215 S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Rapraseatatives: Arthur W. Slypes. Inc. Portland. Sacnrity Bid. San Francisco. Sharon Bide; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldr. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 2.1 Madison Ave., Chicago, 389 N. Michigan Ave. Every Pioneer Encounters Knockers Tockevinc for Position THE forthcoming gubernatorial primaries are stirring th nimhlp rtpns of Oreeon editors as well as the feet of the shifting or shiftless politicians. The Eugene Register checking over the editorial observations thus far, comments that the "organization" support seems to be lining up with Hnvprnnr Patterson, as is reflected by the editorial utterances of the Oregon Citv Enterprise, the Corvallis Gazette-Times, and "Smudee-Pot" Terry of the Medford Mail-Tribune, though why the last-named should be rated as an "organiza tion" vehicle is difficult to perceive. To the "old guard" Hall's name is gall and wormwood because of his bolting the ticket in 1922. Members of the "oriranization" represented by the party machine which embraces the old set-up of party committees commence to spe cross-eved whenever they see Hall's name in print in con nection with the governorship. The speed with which these writers have leaped upon Mr. Hall is itself a recognition that Mr. Hall is the most formidable opponent of the present in cumbent. The Resrister sees that Patterson has the strength of being in office with all the prestige which attends what even his foes would concede as a fairly successful administration. Here is the rather judicial summing up of the situation as made by the Register editor: "Of cour.-e the question as to how the governor and Mr. Hall will run against each other is something else. Any impartial view must be that the povernor thus far has the best of the situation. The political dictum that "one good term deserves another" always works to the advantage of an official standing for re-election if his record Is clear in the main. Then, too. as is made apparent by the news papers mentioned above, the governor is going to have organization support in the primary campaign. The fact that Mr. Hall went ren egade in 1922 will be effectively capitalized against him. Any can didate who runs Independently after having lost the party nomina tion in an open contest has something hard to explain when he runs again. There is a bete noir at his heels all the- way. "Nevertheless. Mr. Hall has certain elements of strength. He has a wide acquaintance and a charming and vigorous personality. He Is a successful business man. Attempts to belittle his record of personal achievement, as the Gazette-Times has done, will fool no body for the facts are known. The Corvallis newspaper says of bim that "he could not get to first base as a telephone owner so he sells his telephone business." The fact la, of course, that Mr. Hall bought a number of "grapevine" telephone systems in the coast country, consolidated them. Improved them, extended them and finally sold the merged concern at a handsome profit. Governor Patterson's Mends will get further by making an affirmative campaign for him than by trying thua to belittla his opponent. "By the way, what has become of the old theory that party or ganization organs should remain neutral in a primary fight? The Corvalli3. Oregon City and Medford papers all have been that kind of newspapers." Lady Godiva Rides Again TN Chicago a cripple shot up a theatre and wounded the door man. The always reliable A. P. in reporting the incident solemnly declared : "Twenty chorus girls ran from the theatre to the street in their costumes when the shooting began." If that is the reaction there are twenty men who will I invest the Elsinore with sawed-off shotguns the next night ! the Fanchon Marco show is on. j Cablegrams from Myron T. Herrlck. American ambassador In Paris in the critical days of late July, 1914, addressed to his Im mediate superior and intended of course for President Wilson, did not reach the president as Mr. Herrlck later learned. Had they reached him he might have been prompted to take aetion which would have cooled the hot choler of angry warlords and maintained peace in Europe. Bryan was secretary of state at that time. The cablegrams are now being published in the Herrlck biography. What happened to them is not known. Bryan may have been out on the Chautauqua circuit at the time, or perhaps he was at home writing a new lecture on "The Prince of Peace." Anyway the cablegrams never reached Mr. Wilson, the war came and Bryan wringing his hands at the horrors, yielded his post to the great relief of Walter Page, Herrick and other men in high station In the diplomatic service. j AP0RT yy J rlliKT TW POOPS AW IV 1 T MAY SAME TU P " "" -v. VUPE OF SOWsS J cf our tcnih ou TV retail" Aw op ou ?oop&t- J YJ 1S li j GET T-CAHU OF3 I Wlfiv FirJ ( Wtme J S1Y K furniture manufactured away from,1 Oregon. It would b difficult to surpass th varieties I have seen here in this pavilion, and if made into furniture, at home you save the freight both ways, besides cir culating your money at nome. ana stimulating other industries there by. I am going to take home with me a pair of Salem made blankets to show what Oregon can do in that line. There la no sense In sending Oregon wool to Boston and getting it back here in cloth ing with double freight rates at tached." A member of a pioneer Oregon family who has been enjoying the greater state fair is Mrs. Harding, who was Ullta Sweek, daughter f John Sweek. The pioneer family home fs at Tualatin, and Mrs. Harding resides there still. Her son la Lieutenant Command er Harry S. Harding of the United States navy. He married Lucy Wetherred of Hiilsboro, a niece of Mrs. Edyth Toiler-Wetherred. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read September 28, 1904 Lilienthal Bros., hop merchants, have brought suit against Mike Kepplnger of GervaLs, who they claim agreed to deliver plaintiffs 20,000 pounds of hops for 16 cents a pound. HOOKED RUGS SHOWN ATFAIR Salem Entries Place High in Competition Held Here This Year BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Interesting history: S S One could gather a lot of it at the state fair grounds this week. Grandmother Harding of Gervais enjoyed the greater Oregon fair as much as those who are younger in years. She Is 91. She has never missed a state fair, from the first one in the pioneer days. As a girl, she was Eleanor Purdy. Her fa ther was Aaron Purdy, who came with his family across the plains with the "big Immigration" of 1847, that doubled the population of the Oregon Country., making it about 10,000. That was the big gest immigration up to that time; the one of 1852 was much larger; the biggest of all. Portland Is to have the Freiberg Passion Play. This is sup posed to be a bigger and better Passton Play than the English Pas sion Play that came to Seattle last aummer. Reminds us of one time back In Iowa. We had left Washington, which is Senator Ftrookhart's old home town, and gone up to the northern part of the state. Talking to a depot loafer at a junction point, he said the Parker Amusement company was showing over in town. We replied that we had Just come from Washington where the "Greater Parker Amusement company" was exhibiting. Tea, said the phil osophlc baggage-truck leaner, there's the Greater Parker Amuse ment company and the Good God Greater Parker Amusement com pany. Now we suppose the Freiberg Passion Play is the G. G. Great er Passion Play. What gives as about the biggest laugh is the gullibility of "big" business men. The "bigger" they are, the easier they seem to bite on all manner of promotion propaganda venture. Wakeman, vice-president of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation, testifies In the Shearer investigation that he was "Jazzed off his feet by a super- salesman." He admitted it was a damn-fool decision, and the whole country now agrees to that. It is positively amazing what big cor porations qrill squander money on in the way of propaganda, "pub licity," anti-labor union or anti-bolshevik subsidies, and other kinds of buncome which "super-salesmen" are forever thinking up. A 252-year old Chinaman has been invited to come down to Pe king to tell the Chinese scholars a little history. What a recruit he would be for W. T. Rlgdon's octogenarian Club. Perhaps Mr. Bits could get him to clear up a number of disputed points about where the Indians came from. And surely, he could tell the straight, story about the flood, it not from experience, then perhaps from what his grandfather told him. - The defense attorney for C. D. Waggoner, small-town banker who slickered the big New York banks ent of hair a million dollars, announces he will make "insanity" his defense plea. No chance. That chap Waggoner who figured the deal out has an .1. Q. that would admit him to Staniora. A verv Drofitable session of the house of representatives was held Monday. A prayer and reading the minutes constituted the business, nlus adjournment till Thursday. That is, the adjournment was profitable. We had a friend visit us Saturday night from Washington. She drove up from Portland and told us on arriving that she came by way of "Newport and St. Peter to avoid we ueiour ai vregon cuy. How many can tell how gne earner The soviet plane landed on Attu Island. In case you don't know your geography, that's the button on the rattler tail of the Aleutian Islands. . . Red Rock has merged with Kraft-Phenlx cheese companies. Marrying smearcase and llmberger. we suppose, i Portland is doing a lot of crying over split milk, Eleanor was nine then. Her fa ther was engaged to run the Mis sion mills near what Is now Broad way where North Liberty street leaves off at North Mill creek. There was no Salem then; it was the Mills, and was beginning to be called officially The Institute. The first house built in Salem ! still stands there, at what is now 960 Broadway. It was first the residence of Jason Lee. There wa3 both a saw mill and a grist mill, built by the Methodist Mission people in 1840, after the arrival of the steamship Lausanne with the machinery and Mr. Purdy had charge of both mills. I. H. Jud- son, one of the men who came on the Lausanne with the "great re inforcement," had charge of the construction of the Mission mills. as millwright. His descendants are many and prominent here abouts. When the mills were dis posed of, Mr. Purdy had his home on a tract of land next to the pres ent holdings of the Oregon state fair, and so Eleanor Purdy grew up a close neighbor to the fair. .Her father joined Mr. Wait, who was building a mill at what be came Waitsburg, Wash., but Mr. Purdy died after a year, and Mr.i Wait made a liberal settlement with the widow, Eleanor's mother, who came back to the home near the fair grounds. Eleanor was married to Jenkins H a r d 1 ng ("Jenks Harding"), known to all old pioneers, who was a brother of Benjamin Harding. United States senator from Oregon from 1862 to 1865; a member of the Oregon legislature In 1852. and from '59 to '62, and secretary of the Oregon territory from 1854 to 1859. The Hardings came with the Immigration of 1849. The family originated In Pennsylvania, w Jenkins Harding became a large land holder in the section of Mar Ion county several miles north of Salem, and the family holds 1600 acres of land in that district yet. Grandmother Harding carries ber 91 years like a young woman. She does her housework. Miss Amy Harding, her daughter, lives with her, and is now an automobile fan, and she takes her mother on many long and short trips. Their automobile was one of the finest on the stato fair grounds this week. Grandmother Harding hopes to attend many more state fairs, and expects to see them continue to get Mgger and bet ter. The Bits man promises more Harding history in some future is sues. S Hon. W. H. Hobson of Staytoa was with the big Salem day crowd on Wednesday. He is in the 80's now; but is alert and active, after many commercial struggles and political battles. . His last office was that of state senator from Marlon county. He reads the historical matter In the Bits col umn with interest every day. He remembers TO Glaze very well the Til Glaze who was Hth Col. William Thompson in the days of the vigilantes In what !s now Crook county. Glaxo lived in Stay ton In the pioneer times, and among other things was a music teacher there. ; Among the prominent state fair visitors on Monday were Mr. and Mrs. John Cullen. They live at Glen Cullen, in the Portland sub urbs, postoffiee Fairdale. Their holdings are in Multnomah coun ty, near the Washington county line. Mr. Cullen came to -Oregon in the immigration of 1858. He is 94. Mrs. Cullen is 90. 8he is the last survivor of the first (Apple gate) wagon train that came clear across the plains to the Ore gon Country, In 1843. She was a child of 4 years then. Her father was Capt. A. J. Hembree, He rep resented Tamhill county in the provisional government legisla ture of 1846. Champoeg (now Marion) was represented in that body by Angus McDonald, Jesse Looney, A. Chamberlain and Robert Newell. Capt. Hembree was elected to the 1848 legisla ture, too, but the California gold discovery denuded the Oregon set tlements of their male population, and there had to be a special elec tion, and that legislature did not meet till February I, 1849. at Oregon City. That was tha last session of the provisional govern' ment legislature. Oregon was pass ing to the territorial form. The first territorial . legislature con vened July IS, 1849, at Oregon City, with an upper house of nine councilmen and a lower house of 18 members; and Capt. Hembree was one of the 18., In 1854, too, Capt. Hembree was elected to the lower house of the territorial leg islature. He was a trustee of the Oregon Academy at Lafayette, in corporated by the legislature. The other trustees were Ahlo S. Watt, R. P. Boise, James McBride, Mat thew P. Deady, R. C. Kinney and General Joel Palmer. S Mr. and Mrs. Cullen came-with the delegation to the state fair to help boost for the Tualatin tun nel, proposed to connect Portland with her back country on the south. Their holdings are Just where the proposed tunnel would come out. They are as enthusias tic and "peppy" about the project as it they were expecting to live many more years to reap its bene fits when consummated, which they expect It to be. The Cullens had not visited the state fair be fore for 60 years, though they were regular attendants In pioneer times but she explained that the main reason .was that they have been much away from home; in California, and they have kept up their Interest all this time. In visiting around the fair grounds. some one in the manufacturing exhibit department gave Mrs Cullen a thimble. She said: "I hare mended this good man's clothes for 70 years and never before did any one give me a thimble, Mr. Cullen was mustered into the Civil war on the state fair grounds; though the company did not go, as there was no call for troops from Oregon. A number of companies were organized and drilled in Oregon; but none went excepting as individuals. Ben Riealand and wife brought the Cullens to the fair in their auto. and took them home in the eve ning. Mr. Rlesland, prominent Portland attorney, made the speech for the tunnel boosters. They often take the Cullens out in their auto. Mrs. Edyth Tozler Wetherred piloted the Cullens about the ground, and had them meet Governor Patterson, mem bers of the fair board, and Mrs, Ella Wilson, secretary, and they I enjoyed the day like youngsters. Mrs. Cullen was queen mother at Champoeg on -the last founders' day there. .She keeps house in the Cullen home with the same effi ciency as she has done for 70 years. The Cullens have had nine children, all living, but they have long all left the home roof. The years roll off fast How many visitors of today remember the big event of the state fair 84 years ago? In 1896 the fair open ed en Wednesday, September 25, and closed on Friday, October 4 On Thursday. September 21. Wll Ham Jennings Bryan apok on manufacturers' day. In his re marks on that day. of which yes terday was the anniversary, he said: "I am not a manufacturer, but it is proper to patronize home industries. With your magnificent timber there is no sense in buying State Land Agent Oswald West is busy making preparations to re fund about 8150,000 which Ore gon persons paid for land in this state. The government refused to recognize right of the state to se lected claim land which the state sold, so West is preparing to re turn money received. J. M. Slonaker, representative of. JdcLaughlin Bros., of Kansas tjijy, , -wnpoxters of Pereheron, French Coach and Belgian draft horses, will bring a few hors?s here by express to show what the animals are like. If conditions seem favorable, the importers may establish a center in Salem. MOT C HO CULT ROTS The present popularity of book ed rugs showed itself la the ex hibits at the state fair, as this eorner of the textile department boasted an unusually large and brilliant display. Mrs. F. C. Delong. Salem, plac ed first and second on her undip ped hooked rugs, both entries be ing exceptionally fine. Mrs. Hat tie Sawyer, also of Salem, received first award on crocheted rugs, while Mrs. Ruby Seitz captured first on rag crocreted rogi. Other blue ribbons went to Mrs. G. Ben nett, Forest Grove, on braided rugs, Mrs. Mabel Osborn. Port land on hooked rugs, and Mrs. Hi ram Sails, Hubbard, for her rag sewed rugs. An interesting section of the sewing exhibit was that for wo men over eighty. Mrs. C. Blan ton, of Brooks, received five blae ribbons on fancy work including lunch cloth and lunch set. two kinds of pillow slips and a display. Mr W. C Clare. Salem, re ceived first In this division, for her log cabin quilt, and first on a cotton patchwork quilt. Mrs. M. E. Ferguson, Dayton, was ward ed two first prizes, on tatting and knitted lace. Scoring high in the sewing awards were Mrs. W. A. Winters, Gresham, and Mrs. A. Guiley. Sil verton. A section of the textile depart ment which shows a large increase this year is that with the woven materials. Sport scarfs, shawls, wool material, of every color and design are displayed. Florence Pierce. McMinnville, was awarded two blue ribbons for her flax and for her woven work, while Mrs. C. W. HInkey, Dallas, was award ed first on tapestry. Some fine work is Bhown In the division for children under 14. Marie Graber, Salem scored two firsts, and Evelyn Levi, Portland won four bine ribbons. First place for dressed dolls went to Blanche Osborn. Eugene, while Marian Chase,kalem, received second place. Lois Manning, Salem, was awarded first on embroidered CHICAGO, Sept. 26 (AP) The spark of factional dissension In a mystic negro cult flared Into a furious gunfight in Chicago's negro quarter today and for a mo ment the city feared an outburst of racial strife. A detective and a negro were slain, two policemen were wounded probably mortally and three negro cultists were less seriously wounded. Squads of detectives patrolled the populous negro section throughout the afternoon and 350 uniformed police were dispatched to keep order. Beyond the appar ent suppressed excitement, howev- ed, no violence was reported. The fight started shortly before noon when a squad of police marched into a large apartment house on South Parkway near 42nd street in quest of the kid napers of Charles Kirkman. who styles himself Otand Vizer Bey of the Moorish National Science temple of America. Kirkman, perhaps because he aspired to the throne made vacant in June by the chief in the "chief protector of Islam," was torn from his break fast table this morning by four cultists and carried away. The detectives battered at the door and a burst of gunfire an swered. Detective Jesse Hultz and Stewart McCutcheon slumped to the floor, both with bullets In the abdomen. towels. Lillian Berg, also of Sa. lem, first on sofa pillows, aui Dorothy Olbson, Salem, second ou sofa pillows. PH'i'SICAL EXAM IS BENEFIT TO PUPILS Rmins nearly 75 per cent of young school children have some kind of defects that can be amel iorated if not cured, the benefit of medical physical examinations of school children is so great that It can hardly be measured in fig ures, says the weekly bulletin of the Oregon State Board of health. Th most frequent defect of young children, perhaps 50 per cent. Is some type oi Dnurmai teeth. Some teeth should be ex tracted, some filled; some inter fere with the eruption of second and permanent set of teeth and some children have deformed mouths," tha bulletin Bays, it continues: The next most frequent abnor malities are diseased tonsils and adenoids; next is abnormal vis Ion; next abnormal ears; and next, perhaps are heart defects Very many have some signs of tuberculosis, whether it Is the bones, the glands, or more rareiy In children the lungs that are af fected, but at present this dis ease ! generally discovered be fore the child reaches school. A, very large number have spinal curvatures. Not as many as formerly, hut still a large number are found to be underfed - or wrongly fed. There Is too much routine in feeding children In school. TU well fed and the overweight should not be encouraged to have milk during the school session. These children should be given fruit. Callsthenlc exercises and teaching of correct breathing, correct standing and correct walking and especially correct: sitting at desk are essential in the supervision of children at school. Each pupil should have fifteen, square feet of floor space and 200 cubic feet of air space. Each school room should be about 30 feet long, 25 feet wide and 13 feet high and should ac commodate not more than 50 children. The temperature shouM be 66 degrees and not more than 70 degrees F., and the humidity should be between 30 and 60.- A thermometer should hang in the room where If will tell the truth. 666 Is rrescrlptlon for COLDS, GRIPPE, FLTJ. DEXGUE, BILIOUS FEVER and MALARIA Ik Is ta mast spdy remedy knows. - -- - - y . w naManti Tm Are Invite. s TATE Fair Visitors as well as the people of Salem are invited to visit out store. Our Annual Fall Sale is in full swing and real savings can be made by buying now. The Sale is throughout the store and only contract goods are exempted. iWe also call your attention to our display at the Fair grounds, featuring Electro-Kold refrigeration, Atwater Kent Radio, Monarch Wood, Gas, and Electric Ranges, and a new toy that will appeal to the children. Salem 340 Court St. DON'T MISS THE Lang Range Display Stat Fairgrounds New Grandstand SPECIAL: On - Any - Stove Bought or Ordered Daring the Fair OVER 800,000 LANG'S IX rSB THE WEST'S BEST STOVE Sold Also On Easy Terms- H.F.Woodry&Son, Auctioneers Rite Down Town Agents Phone 75 See the Fastest Motor on Land, on Water, in Air, the V Type Engine The world s fastest motor car "Golden Arrow, 12 cylinder double V type racer, was driven by Major Segrave at a speed of 231 miles per hour. The world's fastest boat "Miami" owned by Major Segrave, is equipped with a double V Type en gine. rf iSS? owned'by G Wood has type l-T cy Under engines. Kr&Tl If e6f i4 819 1111163 V hour in the English 9 double V type Motor pUne. 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