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PAGE FUUS The OREGON STATESMAN, Sales, Oregon, Saturday Morning. September 28, 1929 Ready for Company "Xo Favor Siccys Us; So Fear Shall Aire. From First Statesman. March 78. 15 51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. . Chazles A. Spsaclt, Sheldon F. Sacsxtt, Publisher CKAX1T3 A- SPiAGiE SHELDON F. SAf KETT . Editor-Manager Hartcging-Editvr Member of the Associated Press Tie Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the us for publication of a'l nev?s cpatches credited to it. or not other wise credited ia this paper. Entered at the Pcstoffice at Salem, Oregon, a Second-Clots Matter. Pub'v'hed every mornbg except Monday. Business office 215 S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Representative: Arthur W. Stype?. Inc. Portland. Security Bide. San Francisco. Sharon Elds.; Los Angeles. W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parrons-Stecher, Inc.. New York. 271 Madison Are.; Chicago. 3ft K. Michigan Are. A United Europe THE proposals of Premier Briand of France for the crea tion of a United States of Europe have brought forth widespread comment on both sides of the Atlantic. The premier's position and his ability to drive home his views through his oratorical powere have given immediate import ance to hi3 scheme. In this connection a recent article by Norman Anell, the stimulating British journalist, which appeared in the London Spectator, gives a new picture of America's strength in case it should be called on to face a ' . ,fr. A ti "ell's comDarison is worth reproduc ing for the benefit of the sdf -satisfied American if nothing . a considerable portion of the article: 'AUiie in Europe and America, we have slipped into the habit of assuming, not merely that America Is now 'the big noUe.' Indub itably tL most powerful single national unit in the world, havin; captured an economic predominance which yesterday was Britain's, but that this predominance is bound to be permanent because it U inherent in the nature of things in American superiority of na tural resources, in mora fortunate situation. In physical advantages denied to Europe. Now there is plainly a confusion here. That America actually is wealthier than any state known to history; more powerful than any European rtate all this 13 beyond question. But it is also beyond question that this is not due to natural physical advantage, but to something else. "Make even a cursory comparison. Nowhere U Europe cursed with the vast stretches of aridity which used to be marked upon the school maps of the last generation as 'the Great American Desert-" Nowhere on cur continent can one travel for whole days and nights In a train without seeing a blaSe of green grass, or any green thing that is not artificially sustained, as one can when one leaves Western Texas on the southern route to California. On the whole. -urope has a richer soil than America. Water and land are far better dis tributed in this continent for human purposes than they are on the other side of the Atlantic. The American Mediterranean is not open freely to two oceans a3 is ours; our Great Lakes, the Mediterranean. re not enclosed for six months in the year by ice as are America's. Our rtrer system is far better adapted for transportation and so one might go on. There is a greater density of population in Europe, it Is true, but density of population is often a distinct economic advant age, as the tendency of population to proup itself into small areas, hleh we se even in new countries like Australia and America it self, shows. "The undoubted superiority of America and its economic pre dominance today are not to be explained by superiority of natural resources, but by a political fact (which gives rise, be it noted, to an economic one). The States have political uaity: Europe has not If the course of historical development in Korth America had beea more like that of South America, so that Englisb-epeaking America had been as mueh divided as is Spanish-speaking America; if, in what ia now the United States, 'there existed, not one nation, bat a doxen rival nations as south of the Mexican: border there are more than a doxen different nations we should not now be talking about American power and its predominance in the world. North America would figure for very little more in such terms than does South America. "But the physical conditions would be precisely the same -the same soil and air and water and raw materials of wealth. They would, however, because- of a purely political tact, be exploited in an entirely different way. Large-scale industry, as we know it In America, would not exist. If Henry Ford had had to drive his car, not over indifferent country roads, but over a dozen hostile tariff barriers, into states, each one of which was determined to have its own patriotic one hundred per cent Henry Ford, and if Massachu setts had always been talking of the competition of it trade with that of Pennsylvania or Michigan well, of course, there would haTe been no Henry Fords. "If we are to get any idea of the relative potential strength of Europe as compared to America, we must Imagine Europe achieving at last some unity comparable t that which a happier history has al ready achieved for the States. In that event we should, leaving Rus sia out of account, have on this aide of the world, a unit of two hundred and fifty million people, of whom the British, German and Scandinavian at least have shown themselves to be every bit as in herently capable of military, political, social and economic organlxa tion as the Americans. If we can imagine such unification as having taaen place, mere wuum uc, iu uv m- - for the employment ol large-scale industrial organization correspond ing la some measure to the part played by the undeveloped West la the industrial development of America. "Given this one fact of European unity, the predominance of America in terms of potential power, whether military, political or economic, would have disappeared." i : I 0yP . f 0 CAN PLAY W o8L-4 game, bgtteru cn! i 'V L ' V, Y-A I CUGUT TO VAAWS A I i t.t ij ? i t i lilt - -- r. I r-v i a iiiu.. Professor RIngler in the opening recital and exhibition of the Ring ler school of physical culture and dramatic art. Editors Say: BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Johnnie Jones - "b All Salem and thousands of Orcgonians outside of this city know him. His real name is John Jones. Hi3 father was born in Ohio, and his ancestors came from old Kentucky. His mother was born in Tennessee. His father was a- cokk; worked in Portland, and was employed one year in an eat ing place on the state fair grounds. He died when his son Johnnie was a small boy. . S Johnnie Jones was born at Placerville, CaL, November 4. 1S57. So he will be 72 within a few weeks. He came to Salem when he was 20. in 1857, and has been a fixture here since. The di rectory gives his occupation as a Katerer. He has been that, and the best known eaterer in Salem for over half a hundred years. S The occasion that led to the gathering of this short biography as a dispute about the Aurora restaurant building, betsxeea two Salem old timers. One of them asserted that the present largest Power Control Shifts THE Portland Electric Power company has long been one of the bisr electric comrjanies whose control was held in few hands. Now the Clark interests of Philadelphia who have dominated the company for years have made a deal to sell or trade their stock to the Public Utility Holding Cor poration of America. This means that the Pep company now becomes a tail to the kite of a big holding company flo tation scheme. For the company itself this may prove a good thing. The Clarks. according to report, have left the company drift for a good many years, not arising to meet the situa tion with respect to the financial structure of the company which is described as unwieldy. The new owners mar be counted on to revamp the financial organization and get the common stock on some dividend basis if at all possible. The Clarks have enjoyed very competent executive manage ment of the Pep company, in the person of Franklin T. Grif fith whose resourcefulness has pulled the company through the post-war perio dwith street -car incubus and active com petition to hold down earnings. The apparently obvious place for the Pep company to go was to the American Power and Light company which controls its competitor, the Northwestern Electric, also the Pacific Power and Light and the Washington Water Power, all operating in the northwest. The defeat of the merger scheme two years ago probably thwarted such a deal. So far as the public is concerned the change will have no significance. The company was controlled in the east previously, so the shift means no change in that regard. In the financial skyrocketing of the present the public doesn't count for anything anyway except to pay the bills. Political Sapience from Oz West fZ West emerged from political twilight to sideswipe the Vf past leadership of the democratic party in Oreeon and to lay out formulas which will bring victory and spoils to the dems in the next election. Sez Oz: Nominate a full ticket from U. S. senator to constable. Well, that has been the bi ennial battle-cry since the campaign of 1898, only there haven't been enough registered democrats to fill the ticket. Then Oz says to get candidates from the live telephone di rectory and not the graveyard. But how else can they fill the ticket if the dead or fossilized Jacksonians are to be left off the roll of honor? But here is the West formula, which is enough of a puz zle to keep slate-makers busy for six months: Nominate for U. S. senator and governor one from western Oregon and one from eastern Oregon: one a woman and the other an ex- mjKL viwc uiau, win tu j . ui tvuxse uicjr uugut xiuu uie wuman. erty of the state lair whe& the colony had ceased to exist and no longer had need of It. The build ing reverted, according to the contract with the state fair board; the board of the Oregon Agricul tural society. S If the records of this society were available, they would be found to contain the contract with the Aurora colony under which the building was constructed and the colony restaurant conducted. There were mutual benefits the fair needed the service, and the business was profitable to the Aurora people, because they raised nearly aU their supplies, and their labor was in common, as well as their property. Hon. Wtn. ("Cap") Miley of Aurora, former county commissioner, remembers when the building was constructed when the materials were hauled by ox and horse teams from the mills at Aurora to belli 1L S S Now about Johnnis Jones. His first work in Salem was for the Chemeketa (bow Marion) hotel, which was then conducted by Tom Smith, who afterwards went to restaurant building on the state - The Dalles. He worked later for fair grounds, occupied now and for several years by Mrs. Olm sted. Is not the one which the Aurora colony people built. And the disputants referred the matter to the Bits man. with the sugges tion ha Johnnie Jones could tell aU about It. S Johnnie Jones remembers that he worked ia the Aurora restau rant building; bat of course that was after the dissolution of the colony, which followed the death of its founder. Dr. Wm. Keii. which occurred December 3d, IS 77. The notion that the build ing now standing was not ftuilt by ihe colony people comes large ly from the fact that it did not then stand where it does now. It was moved IS or 20 years ago. It was bnflt la the late sixties by the Aurora colony people, on the north side of the old pavilion that was torn down this year. There was a bakery In connection with it, and that was torn down be fore the main building was re moved. In the old days, there were zu public bakeries such as we see now In Salem, and it was necessary to do a great deal of baking for the crowds fed by the Aurora colony people for they had an they could do in the building they erected, which for those days was very large. They brought from Aurora about 200 workers each year, including the bands and orchestras, the mem- j bers of which helped with the i restaurant work. They had six : meat cutters, and 26 to 30 wait- I era. . t S There Is another reason for the j confusion about the old Aurora) restaurant. The first Aurora res taurant was conducted in a big tent and it was located south of the old pavilion, and some wood en buildings were shortly added by the Aurora people; and per haps a bakery. That is the Aurora restaurant remembered by the oldest of the old timers. There were tents, also, for the workers to live in. The same was true as to the men workers when the large building still standing was erected; but the women, or at least part of them, were provided with sleeping quarters oa an im provised second floor or balcony as one can see who now visits that building at the back end. S S When the settlement of the af fairs of the Aurora colony cane, there was a transcript of the hol4 Ings of the colony pat Into the court records. Including the dish es and equipment of the state fair restaurant, and these were sold long with the other property in making the division among the members of the cetony. Tbe build ing was not included in this list, because it had become the prop- A JUST VERDICT To those familiar with condi tions La Los Angeles the past dec ade, the conviction of Mrs. Pan tages on a manslaughter charge will come as a great surprise. " At the time of her arrest In Hollywood, there was no question in the public mind that the wife of the vaudeville magnate was In toxicated, and that the fatal acci dent was due to that intoxication. There were too many people on the rtreet who saw Mrs. Pantage? before and after the crash, to leave any reasonable doubt as far as the man In the street was con cerned. Nevertheless, when the trial opened. It was the same "man in the street" who was convinced that Mrs. Pan tapes would neTer be convicted. With millions of dol lars at her disposal, with the best lawyers in the country at her command, with the known ten dencies of juries to be swayed by appeals to emotion rather than reason: It was freely maintained that the worst the vaudeville mil lionairess could expect would be a hung jury. The Reverend "Bob" Shuler in fact, quick to sense the drift of popular opinion, broadcast this opinion over the radio a few days after the trial started. But for once the astute Bob Shuler was mistaken, and so was tbe "man in the street." They failed to realize that with the el ection of District Attorney Fitts and the conviction of Asa Keyes. nothing short of a moral revolu tion was enacted in the county of Los Angeles. From the unspeakable corrup tion to a militant regeneration, the scene was shifted almost over night. What would have been in evitable two years ago was Im possible In Los Angeles this week. Under such circumstances great wealth and the power and social prominence it brings, instead of hAinir holn to the defendant, be- hlm. at their home, 1714 Northr9mft . har.iileao. Mrs. Pantasres Fifth street. See Is a member of j was convicted, and true to type, the Salvation Armv, and a faith-! was carried screaming and kicking Wesley Graves, who long had that hoel. He worked for Pete Eraer- Eon. old time restaurant keeper of Salem, who had also in the late seventies a prominent eating place on the fair grounds. S He was a fixture In the famous restaurant ef Amos Strong, John nie Jones was even when a fam ous candidate for the C sited States senate took a champagne bath there. Billy Westacott had the Srong restaurant for a long time thereafer, and grew rich there, and Johnnie Jones worked for him. Johnnie Jones was with the Charley Hellenbraad restau rant for a long time where the Busick store Is now. Court and Commercial, a few doors to the south of which was the Strong restasrant Pete Emerson's res taurant was about where the Barr plumbing shop Is now. w Ia 12 yean, few niga society banquets hare been held in Sa lem without Johnnie Jones pre siding in the refectory. The fto tarians or Kiwanians or Lions or other such organization cannot have a successful picnic bow with out the presence of Johnnie Jones. And so ft goes. He is not an in dividual; Johnnie Jones Is an In stitution In Salem. Johnnie's mother died In 11. His sister. Mrs. Anna E. Smith, lives with ful worker in its ranks. ". They are noi Hawaiian, as many Salem people suppose. They are pure American African, com ing down from the slavery days of their ancestors. Notwithstanding the color of Johnnie Jones, he has lad in Salem a useful life. He looks good for 60 years more many readers will be surprised at his years but when he finally comes to the point where he can no longer respond to the caU of the prominent women of Salem to help them out with banquets and other functions. Johnnie Jones win be sadly missed: His going from active service will leave a real vacancy, for be la more than a caterer. He is a super caterer. He !s a first class cook, as any eader who has been in Sa lem long will gladly testify. S S Tor he does not know how many years, Johnnie Jones has conducted a restaurant on Ch state fair grounds. He has one there now, on the trafl. or "happy canyon, or whatever they call the street on which the crav ings of the inner man and woman is most frequently and complete ly satisfied. S w Since the colony days, the Au rora restaurant building has been occupied by many renters or con cessionaries.' Bob Thompson, whose wife was a daughter of Rev. L D. Driver, famotii pioneer preacher, had the restaurant In that building at the fairs through out the late eighties. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read from the room. Few people will find anything to exult over in such a sordid and depressing spectacle. At the same time any particular sympathy for the defendant would be misplaced. If any one thing must be elim inated from the American scene. It is the drunken automobile driv er, woman or man. In the hands of an intoxicated person, the mo tor car ceases to be a conveyance, and becomes a deadly weapon. The sooner everyone realUes this, that regardless of money, prominence or other consideration, the place for any Individual who mixes gasoline with liquor. Is be hind the bars, the better for all concerned. Medford Mail Tribune. September 27, 104 Mayor Frank W. Waters has the ordinance for regulation et the health board In hand, and will be prepared to report It to the coun cil next week. Unusual activity in the county matrimonial market was eviden ced, with five couples applying for permits to wed. The training department of Wil lamette university will accept a limited number of pupils of public school grades before October Z. Mrs. Mary E. Reynolds Is princi pal oj the department. Miss Ruby Phelps returned from Portland, where she assisted XO PARDON FOR MOOXET Governor Young, of California, has recently announced that he will not reach a decision on the application for pardon of Thomas Mooney for some time." The ap plication has been before the gov ernor for nearly three years, with full proof of Mooney's innocence under the charge on which he was convicted of having caused the Preparedness day bomb. explosion in San Francisco more than 13 years ago. Two preceding Califor nia governors have had the appli cation and the proofs before them also. All have "stalled," equivo cated and put off. The pressure of the same powerful interests In San Francisco that caused Mooney and Billings to be "railroaded" Is still strong. Quite plainly the public la Cal ifornia either has not taken the trouble to inform Itself of the facts or it Is guilty of an amaz ing indifference to Injustice. Three governors could not hare allowed Mooney to stay in prison despite proofs of his Innocence If public pressure had been pat upon them to act. It Is not te be supposed that the general publie in Califor nia Is aligned with the Interests which seat Mooney to prison and are keeping him there. The gen era! public simply is not Interest ed. Unless it becomes Interested. Mooney is likely to stay ia San Quentin. There Is little In the Mooney personality or the Mooney reccrd to appeal for sympathy. He Vaj a trouble-making labor agi tator. But he Is being punished for a crime he did not commit. All over the world in circles where the knowledge will do the most barm tbe facts of his false convic tion and imprisonment are being used by agitators. California can not afford to let the thing go on but apparently California does not care. Eugene Guard. Portland Bible Students To FiU Friends' Ptdpit Students from the Portland Bibje school will fill the pulpit of the Highland Friends church Snn dav while the pastor, BeT. Edgar p "sims. is in Tacoma. Wash., in the Interests of the erangelisUa board of the Oregon yearly meet ing. Mr. Sims Is president of the board. DON'T MISS THE Lang Range Display State Fairgrounds New Grandstand SPECIAL: MCSOTiSSatl: On - Any Store - Bought or Ordered During the Fair OVER 300,000 LANCTS DT USB THE WESTS BEST STOVE Sold Also Oa Easy Terms H. F. Woodry & Son, Auctioneers Rite Down Tsa Agents Pbcse 75 OUR FEE for acting as Executor is set by stat ute and is no more than an individual receives. 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