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PAGE FOUR "A'or Favor Sways Us; From First Statesman, March ?8. 18S1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chables Spkagie, Sheldon F. Sackett. Publisher Charles A. Spraguk ... Editor-Manager Shelpon F. Sackett - - - Managing-Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper. Entered at the Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Seeond-Claao Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Busineu office 215 5. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: .Arthur V. Stypes. Inc.. Portland. Security Bldg. Ban Francisco. Sharon Bids.; Los Angeles, W. Pae. Bid 5. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc.. New York, 271 Madison Are.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. "All Quiet on the Western Front' ATTORNEY John F. Logan was right when he described Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" as one of the greatest sermons for peace ever preach ed. This now world-famous story is appearing serially in The Statesman. It is bv all odds the best story we have printed for an indefinite period, pressing more readers. What Henry Barbusse did in "Under Fire" from the standpoint of the French soldier, Remarque has done as a German. Both have painted war in its natural colors, without .ravine it the glorification of writers of former days. War nowadays is merchanized slaughter on a colossal scale. All - v m -i il -.1- its glamor and glory have Deen taKen irom 11 inrougn idea tion of massacre machinery- "All Quiet" deserves to be read, hovever,not simply as a tract on pacitism, for that is scarcely its purpose; but as a gripping, realistic novel. The characters are sketched so clearly, the background of battlefield and camp and trench is pictured so artistically that the book rates as one of the greatest works of the decade. One sees in it the power which war has of working human transformation. ;Menare rot men. thev are changed beings. Here is ah extract : " Albert expresses it: 'The war has ruined us for everything.' "He :s rirl-.t. We are not youth any lonser. We don't want to We don't want to t ike the world by storm. We are fleeinp. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We w re IS and had begun to love lif and th- world: and wo had to V. first explosion. bur.t in our hearts. Wc are cut off from activity, fr m s'rivlpe. from progress. V.'e beliwf in such things no longer, 0 believe ir. li e war." Newspaper readers are busy folk ; but we hope all our subscribers are reading "All Quiet on the Western Front" as it !iov appeurs. It you haven't read the first chapters, come to the office and got back copies. Or you can start in without the fh: portion and pick up the thread of tUe nar rative, which is more descriptive than a story with a plot. The Hearing at Washington ARGUMENTS before the interstate commerce commis sion in the long-and-short haul rate case now before that ody from the Pacific slope were concluded Thursday. V. P. Ellis, representing the intermediate points from Salem to Ashland, protested against the proposed rate structure which would make the rates between these points and San Francisco and Los Angeles excessive as compared with the longer haul to Portland. Portland of course contended for the short rate for the long haul. That is. Portland fought the intermediate cities in her effort to get a low freight rate. But when Seattle came in and used the same argument to get the same rate to that city from San Francisco, Portland protested "in view of its greater distance from California points and the greater cost of the haul to Puget Sound." Which simply means that Portland is arguing on both sides of the proposition. She wants lower rates as compared with Ashland and Medford and Klamath Falls, which are little over half as far from San Francisco, but denies Seattle the same privilege when it is Portland's ox who might be gored. You cannot tell what the commission will decide; but in view of its decision in the famous Spokane rate cases, there is ground for hope that the new rate schedule of the railroads will be denied. Some day the railroads may wake up to the fact that if they would give the interior a fair break on rates and build it up, where they have no competi tion from water transport, then they would reap rich profit for themselves. mi Holding up Assessed Values I X Washington we have an example of how a state board of equalization may function when it has the power and when its membership is disposed to exercise its power. The Grays Harbor Pulp and Paper Mill at Hoquiam had been assessed by the county assessor at approximately $700,000. The county board of equalization cut this a quarter of a irillion dollars. Now the state board reverses the county board and restores the assessment as made by the county assessor. We do not know just what arguments were used by the paper company to get probably, about how much less taxes were in Salem, per haps, or some other point. The Grays Harbor mill perous to operate in the northwest It has been in operation only a little over a year and the earnings reported hare been excellent But of course county assessors should not read the financial sheets of the newspapers nor the circulars on bond issues which carry the company figures on valuations and earnings. The Oregon state tax board has power similar to that in Washington now, in that it insist on adequate assessments beginning now. It has a long ways to go before it digs up the $400,000,000 which was State Treasurer Kay's estimate of what w ould be added to the mission. A Successful WITH glorious weather and the largest crowds in history, the 68th state fair came to an end last night. It is one that will be remembered a marked success, ine new grandstand proved wholly inade quate 19 care for crowds on shqaptfiat the financing will Ella Wilson, secretary, and her serve much praise for their The only criticism we have ment ought to tighten up on shows that operate on the midway. We are not prudes about entertainment of the great American public, but the state fair ought to set a higher sandard for public diversion than near-obscene dances, etc A fair crowd expects to be bilked ; but without being puritanical a little stricter supervision ought to be exercised by the ' Nov someone Is publishing an expurgated edition of the Bible Going after the Boston trade probably. New Yorkers will continue Co wallow in the uneipurgated King James version. The Capital-Journal waxes indignant because am inspector rum maged through the baggage of n staff-member who was crossing- ths - California line. Sum it wasn't Canada? All our fears that the forthright quality bad gone from the editorial page of The Oregoniaa have passed. Thursday it had a cutting editorial-on table knives. No Fear Shall Aive. arousing more interest, im shoot it t pieces. The first bomb a tax cut. The usual ones has been one of the most pros can correct assessments and of property. Its work is just tax rolls through such a com State Fair long, long time because of its. the big days. The earnings be taken care of nicely. Mrs staff and the fair board de efforts, heard was that the manage the quality of some of the side fair management. Hie Au-BOOTV J v rr right J y u BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS "The Smoking Mountain:" m How many high school students who read The Statesman know this was the Indian name of Mount St. Helens, which they may see en any clear day from many vantage points of the Willamette valley? The Indians called It Low-wala- clougb, which in the language of the tribe that claimed that terri tory when the whites came meant "The Smoking Mountain." In 1880, W. G. Steel issued a little volume entitled, "The Moun tains of Oregon," In which he stated that at the time of the er uption of Mount St. Helen?, ashes fell at The Dalles to the depth of half an Inch. Exception wa3 taken to this; in fact It was flatly de nied. Thereupon a letter of inquiry was addressed to Rev. J. L. Par rish of Salem, whose answer fol lows and needs no explanation: Salem, Oregon. Jan. 13, 1892 -W. G. Steel, Esq., Dear Sir: Yours of 6th inst. before me, and in reply would say, that on the 22nd day of November. 1S42, I was In the old Mission House, 10 miles below Salem, with a num ber of the other old missionaries Dr. Babcock, Jason Lee, Alan son Beers and a number of others when I stepped outside and no ticed the eruption of Mount St. Helens, when I returned to the house and Informed those inside what I had seen, and they, of course, laughed the idea to scorn; but, upon looking for themselves, were soon ready to admit that my assertion was correct; for upon looking at the mountain we saw arising from its summit Immense and beautiful scrolls o f what seemed to be pure white steam, which" rose many degrees into the heavens. Then came a stratum Just below those fine huge scrolls of steam, which was an indefinite shade of green. Then down next to the mountain's top the sub stance emitted was black as ink. The next day after the eruption I was out on French prairie, where I had a good view of the moun tain, and I noticed that she had changed her snowy dress of pure white to a somber black mantle, which she wore until the snows of the ensuing winter fell upon her. "The ashes fell at The Dalles to the depth of half an inch, so I was informed by the missionaries stationed there. "The eruption was on the south side of the mountain, about two thirds of the distance from the bottom to the top. I had occasion to pass down the river about a year or two after the eruption, and could still see distinctly the fire burning upon the side of the mountain. "Hoping that this description of the only eruption I have ever seen upon that venerable peak may prove satisfying. I am, very truly yours, J. I Parrish." "P. S. I shall be 86 years old tomorrow." S The above was copied from "Steel Points" for October, 1906, page 25, by Mr. Steel himself, for Mrs. Josephine Stewart, daughter of Rev. J. L. Parrish, while Mr. Steel, who has for some time been a resident of Eugene, was at Cra ter Lake, where Mrs. Stewart was employed during the summer in the capacity of hostess at the Cra ter Lake hotel. Long before there was any marked attention paid to Crater Lake as a great natural wonder, Mr. Steel was a nrota- gonist of a development project that would bring that strange relic of the geologic ages to national and world attention, and his per sistent work in that field had more than any other one thing to do with the present fame of that spot where an extinct crater Is filled with a body of water that is OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. The Football the wonder of all beholders, and the marvel of the world of science. There can be no doubt that Rev. J. L. Parrish and the other missionaries of the 30 s and 40's of the past century saw what was described in the letter to Mr. Steel. Mount St. Helens was not allowed to retain its Indian name. Captain Vancouver in 1792 gave the mountain the name of Saint Helens, in honor of the then Brit ish ambassador to Madrid, who was a countryman and evidently a friend of his. Other British ex plorers of the early days named some of the mountain peaks of the Cascade range, which have been retained to this day; Mount Hood, for instance. There was an effort to call that the President range, and to give all the high peaks the names of presidents of the United States; but only Mount Jefferson, in Salem's back yard, and Mount Adams over in Wash ington, have been allowed to stand as a memento of that effort at ap propriate nomenclature. V The Oregon geologic board, of which W. Q. Steel was a member, had a great fight, a number of years ago, in trying to get a mi nor peak of the Cascades over in the Klamath section named Mt. McLouKhlin instead of Mt. PitL The latter name meant nothing definite, or if it did the spelling was incorrect coming from the pits the Indians used for trapping game. McLouehlln was the Hud son's Bay company's governor of the old Oregon Country, U General Fremont reported Mount St. Helens active when he came on his exploring trip in 1S43. in the wake of the first wa gon train (the Applegate train) to get through. Winthrop report ed it active in 1863. and Swan in 52-,53-'54. with "clouds and ashes constantly rising." The Portland Oregonian had a news item October 5, 19 OS, of an ex plosion and earthquake on St. Helens September II of that year. Mount Baker, in northern Wash ington, is the only other peak of the Cascade range that has bad an authenticated eruption since white men came to the Pacific northwest; though there hare been unconfirmed reports from time to time of active Internal fires on Mt. Hood, with smoke is suing from them, etc. .".- No doubt all the hlrh Desks i were thrown up by volcanic ae- ticn in past eons. Frank Branch ! Riley, in his talk to the Salem 1 cliamb;r of commerce on Monday 1 noon last, in giving a beautiful , word picture of Crater lake, rep- refented that, uncounted thous ands or millions of years ago, a mountain 20.000 feet high stool there, and that in a terrific exnln. sion its top was blown off. leav ing the crater that is now filled with the marvelous sheet of wat er that is held high among the clouds, poetically called "the sea of sapphire." Prof. J. B. Horner gives the height of the ancient mountain, named Mount Mazama. the top of which was blown off down to 8000 feet above sea level, as 15,000 feet. But one guess i3 as good as another. "There are thousands of craters in this coun try, some of which eontaln small lakes; there is but one great cal dera in the world, and that con tains Crater lake." says Stephen T. Mather, director of the United States park service. Of coarse, ell Salem school children know the first (and big gest) Junior high school building erected here bears the name of Rev. J. L. Parrish and very ap propriately, for he was a friend of education, one of the founders of Willamette university, and one of the strongest of the early mis sionaries in his friendship for and Oregon, Bandar Morning, understanding of the Indians and their problems, called by them the "man of peace." Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read September 28, 1904 Seufert Brothers placed deeds in escrow for granting right of way for the Dallas-Celilo canal to the state and government, and with the exception of a small tract of three or four acres this closes the matter of the rights in lands through which the canal will be constructed. The Salem kindergarten will open next Monday morning. Di rectors are greatly pleased at the large number of pupils promised, and are enthusiastic over pros pects for the coming school year. MI33 Grace Palmer of Rockford, 111., will direct the kindergarten this year. Opening exhibition and recital of the Thalian school of oratory and physical culture will be held this evening. Prof. Ringler will be here from Portland to give some exhibition work. H. M. Buell. painter, is prepar ing to return to his old home In Hiawatha. Kansas. They Say... Expressions of Opinion from Statesman Readers are Welcomed for Use In this column. All Letters Mast Bear Writer's Name, Though Thle Heed 2T- be Printed. Dear Mr. Editor: As a taxpayer I would ask yon to Inquire of Salem's Board of Education "Who Owns the Public Schools" and "Who it is that has the supreme power to designate Just when all the school supplies shall be bought Does the school superintendant, the board, or the wholsesale book and paper companies own the schools or do the taxpayers own the schools. The pupils have been calling at the various stores and presenting their slips of paper that list their supplies and these slips of paper designate "The Commercial Book Store" and "The Atlas Book Store and the prices are given on each item. Who sold our schools to these two firms, and who gave the ex clusive right to the school offi cials to designate these two firms as the only stores offering sup plies td the school children? Do not the other merchants of Salem pay taxes to keep up our schools? And don't other mer chants depend upon the sale of school supplies to help them to pay their taxes? And besides, there are the par ents to consider. Look at those prices again and memorise them. By a mere oversight you might think that those prices were uni versal but ther are not, and when I say not I mean It When a fourth grade pupil re quires 87.50 to settle down la his seat at school, and a 5th grader settles down with a $10 bill for Dad to -pay, why la the name of just plain common cense can't those in anthrofty recommend all merchants handling school sup plies and giro the parents a fair square chance to enjoy the com petition that exists between these merchants. Here t sany store loaded up with two tons of school supplies and there are many other com plaining merchants with very lib eral stocks and prices that do not tally up with the printed lists. And who do you think are the losers? Not the school authori ties, nor the two firms that .got the free advertising but Its the parents who hare drudged in the September 23. 1929 berry patches, the orchards, the canneries, ana any p there was an honest dollar to be made by hard, long hours of toll Many were lead to believe that these two firm- were the only ones in ex is tan ce and their oppor tunity of saving a few dollars was thus taken away from them and it means for the family just that much less food, clothing and oth er comforts and necessities. Now what we would all like to know is Just what conversation took lace between the ones who gave the authority to pass out these printed lists, and the two firms. There is a great deal of suspi cion that "Everything is not just right" and some merchants have expressed the opinion that the ac tion would merely be classed as "bonehead." We all await the printed word from those who threw the school supply business t othe two'above mentioned firms. WTiile we are awaiting hteir re ply we will still keep this ques tion in mind "Have those re sponsible been fair to the taxpay ing citizens and merchants? Please accept the thank3 of the writer for the use of your column for I know your Statesman has al ways sponsored "Fair Play." and I trust tha ttae aboTe few words will put the same question in the minds of all taxpayers in Salem "Who Owns the Schools?" H. G. Kirkpatrick. Editors Say: A BIG ISSUE LOOMS At a time when capital Is look ing toward the mountain streams of eastern Linn county for elec tric enegry with which to drive the wheels of Industry, to illum inate city homes and farm build ings and thereby increase Ore gon's population and prosperity, the state game commission pre sents a determined opposition. Its representatives opposed the application of the Portland Elec tric Power company for a permit to develop the Marion Lake re gion at a hearing held early this week and its representatives now oppose the application of the O'Neill group for a permit to de velop the power resources of the North Santiam at Niagara, the hearing on which Is now being held In Salem. The game com mission bases its opposition in both cases on its claim that the Improvements will destroy fish life, although the Marion Lake project petitioners set out in their testimony that their devel opment will not harm the fishes. The position of the state pame commission in the two cases at hand Indicates that It has em barked on a policy of opposition to any and every project that pro poses to us"e the water resources of the Cascades. Such position is unfortunate for it places the com mission in the light of blocking progress, of fighting development to which the Wilamette valley has been looking with expectation for decades. This attitude of the state game commission denotes a policy of continued opposition, because it can be directed against every proposed water develop ment project in the Cascade mountains. Thus there is being formed a great issue between the men who would develop Oregon and the men who would hold it to Its present status. This issue is looming large on the horizon as capitalists, marking the trend to ward growth In Oregon, are reaching out to provide the mean of supporting the larger population which this trend pre sages. We think that there are few. If any advocates of an Oregon de velopment program who would uphold the exploitation of our forests or the ruthless destruction of our scenic beauties and our game life. We realize that the forests and their denizens are tremendus Oregon assets. But we hold that a reasonable develop ment of their power resources will not harm them materially; that there is room In the vast reaches of the Cascade mountains for the developers and the sports men alike; that to Indianize Ore gon for the mere sake of saving a few fishes and maintaining a scenic attraction that are seen by not more than a dosen or two people annually is to stand In the light of progress. Los Angeles and San Francis co go into the scenic mountain regions of California for their power; yet there Is plenty of scenery and plenty of fish left la California. Fanatic, indeed. In Its desire to maintain its primiUveness will Oregon be if it hearkens to the voice of the state game commis sion la its campaign against Oregon development. Albany Pegu oc rat-Herald. sovran MOSCOW. (AP) Literally thousands of scientists and their helpers are this summer explor ing all section of the soviet union looking for evidences of bidden sources of national wealth below ground. No less than 39 geologi cal expeditions have been sent out Oil and coal are the chief mag nets for this activity. Sixty par ties are looking for oil in the Urals, the Caucasus, the Kazak stan district and on the island of Sakhalin, off the coast of Siberia, and 47 parties are seeking new coal beds. Preliminary surveys in many Instances have shown that coal and oil exist la some of these places, the question of the survey being only as to whether its pro duction is commercially feasible The Island of Sakhalin is be liered to be one of those. Several years ago agents of Harry Sin clair, American oil magnate, ob tained an exploratory concession from Russia to look for petroleum there. But the Island's possession was In dispute between Japan and the soviet union and when the American geologists arrived they wen royally entertained by the Japanese military but some how could not get started Into smmfms Lay Serpnoims "Of Caesar Household" "All the saints saluta you. rtleW they that are of Caesar s household. Philliplans 4:82. Ever since the Bible has been printed In the vulgar tongue, be lievers hare read the Terse quot ed, probably with no appreciation of Its significance. Jllbly it has been read off from pastoral desk, or sonorously it has been recited in congregational reading. But how many of the millions who have read it, have had any idea of the true meaning of the verse, especially of the phrase "Of Cae sar's household." Paul la the author of the epis tle. He is writing when a prisoner In Rome. The time was in th; reign of Nero, probably shortly be fore Paul's saartyrdonx. Paul was intimately acquainted with the Christians of the imperial city. He knew them, knew their church his imprisonment was in some ways Just nominal, so that he must bare bad many contacts with those in Rome. who had es poused the oew faith from Galilee. Paul's statement means that the "saints," the devout followers of Christ as preached by the fiery apostles were in large number people attached to the court of Nero. The spread of Christianity in Rome and throughout the empire has long been the subject of re search. Its growth was phenom enally rapid. As Lewis Browne writes In "This Believing "World:" Of a sudden that little Nazarene sect, so long but an eddy unfelt even in tiny Judea, became a high sea that broke and rolled across the whole Roman Empire." But the spread of the new faith was at first not among the rich, the intellectual, and the nobility. As Walker says in his "History of the Christian church," "The con verts were mostly from the lower social classes." That is how It came that while Nero was anti Christian and a persecutor of the faithful, "they that are of Cae sar's household" were actually the interior. Finally they went back to the United States and representations were made at Washington. The American government, however, was powerless since the concession had been granted by Russia.with which it had no dip lomatic relations, and was not recognized by Japan, with which the United States was on friend liest term3. So that concession lapsed. Now the northern half of the island is definitely Russia's. Asbestos, mica, emeralds, gra phite, sulphur and porcelain clays are the objects of 29 expeditions. These parties will prospect in Karelina. In central Russia; the Caucasus, the Urals, the Fergh ana mountains, near the Afghan border; Russian Turkestan and the Trans-Baikal region. Ten other parties have gone to the Irtysh river and Akmollnsk dis tricts of Siberia and to the Azov sea littoral in search of salt and phosphor. Precious metals will also be the objects of numerous parties. Thir ty groups are to look for gold and three for platinum in the Urals, Siberia and the Far East NANKING. (AP) A decree aravi nn hr tii . r f-i w vcuii eal Aitrvu- tive committee of the Nationalist government makes every able-bod- IsbiV WVk la V A A - j . rea lao Js Of 15 and 50 Mania tn Armtt f. , on the good roads program which he V a . m . . wrca iprmuiaiea ror China. Indifference of a large section of the population to the scheme for national highways caused the Issuance of the decree. Motor r rai W S) . j impossnne in almost ev- wish TO WORK OiH ROADS 1 If Your Home e IS Built Right You Will Not Fear Winter's Blow ome ?Km hihf thing2Jwhid' r be don. to Let us help you wlsStio11 "" lnd n.k Sid to offer Everything in Buflding Material Hansen & 582 Mill Sl saints of the early Roman church. It was through tb maids ia waiting, or these servitors or chamberlains of tbo Imperial household that the message of Christianity wai brought to those in hirb station. Stories of miracles to those In sickness, reports of strange powers of the new cult at tracted ths Interest and finally compelled the belief of the mas ters and mistresses of the house hold. Many wives of nobles were converted. Helene, Constantine s mother, became a Christian. Fla vin Domltllla, wife of a eensul ac cepted tbo faith, and established one of the early catacombs as a refuge for the Roman Christians. In the first and second centur ies the competition of the newly imported creeds and eults from Asia Minor was exceedingly keen. Mithraism for Instance, appealed to the army, and in outlying gar risons this cult held sway long af ter t h formal recognition of Christianity. But through the saints that were of Caesar's house hold approach was made to th seat of power, and Christianity won the competitive race orer de cadent pacanisnx. H. G. Wells has speculated in his "Outline of History" of the type of Christianity which would have developed had the faith been spread to the east instead of ths west. Certain it is that coming in contact with the philosophy of In dia and of China It would have been altered probably in the direc tion of mysticism. Instead its movement was westward and It became a European interpretation of Christ rather than an Asian. Just a little verse, a few words read over so quickly and with so little understanding of their meaning. Yet what a picture t hoy give of the state of things :n Rome when Paul was-writing hi? letter to the Philfppian3. The church of today probably owes a debt far greate-r than it realizes to those saints of Rome who were "of Caesar's household." fry district and few people have either seen an automobile or cara to look at one. Ownership of a car is not eTen dreamed about. Under these conditions the gov ernment scheme for a et work rf highways, connecting all the prin cipal centers of the country, was dying of lassitude. Ec'urcemeat of the decree is expected to put life into the project. Under the orders, all labor-era drafted for service will receive their board and thei families will be given maintenance doles. Those unwilling to work will be exempted on payment of a fee. but the size of this fee has not b-tra determined. AUCKLAND, N. Z. (AP) A deep-sea devil was one of the strange catches made at a depth of nearly 8.000 feet off the New Zealand coast by Danish scientists recently, according to R. A. Falla. who accompanied the expedition. The deep-sea devil Is a creature with an enormous mouth and con structed like a skeleton, with practically no Internal organs, so that there Is water tnsida it ar.d out. It thus Is able to withstand the great pressure in the dephs In which It lives. A strange thing about the crea ture Is a long feeler above its head holding a lamp. By generating its own light for this it attracts fish from higher levels which be come easy prey to the great Jaws. Another species of -deep sea devil has a long feeler with a hook on the end and -a light at a joint and It not only attracts its prey, oat hooks it as well. Lujequist Telephone 344 1100 FISO F01D Fill DOWN III OCFJ