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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, October 1, 1929 "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe," From First Statesman, March 28. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chables A. S peague, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publisher Charles A. Sprague - - - Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - - Managing-Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exelnsiyely entitled to tbe use for publication ofall news dispatches credited to it or not other Wise credited in this paper. Entered at the Postoffiee at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Class Hatter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office 215 S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising; Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bids.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Ir.c, New York, 271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. Oregon Highway Building "The road program in Oregron will never be completed. The request for the issuance of 15,009,009 bonds to complete the system does not touch the spot, for when the present road map is finished there will be more roads needed, and this will con tinue for years and years, stretching far Into the future." . That was Governor Patterson's reply to the delegation from the coast country which besought the speeding up of road building by issuing more bonds. The governor has stated a simple-truth which The Statesman has been driving home for months, namely that there is ho such thing as ijpompleting the road program," that we may as well take the long view of the situation and adopt a rigid "pay as we go" system, not trying to compress in one generation what must continue for an indefinite period of time. Seldom has a group of "highwaymen" had their feathers plucked as neatly as the delegation from Astoria, Marshfield and way points Saturday when they came with "demands" that the Roosevelt highway be completed and with petitions for issuing bonds to finish the job. The governor showed them clearly that the Roosevelt highway is being pushed to completion, that it will be finished or under contract by the time the Rogue river bridge is done, that there is no need to issue bonds to pay for the work, and that the coast country has had more than "its share" of road money in the period from 1925 to 1929. Confronted with the governor's figures and satisfied with his assurances, the delegation bowed itself out gracious ly and returned home. Whether they were met with brass bands at Marshfield or Astoria we can't tell: but they were sent off with great sound and fury by the coast press and the c. of c organizations all along the route of the highway. With the coast counties contributing about 17of the road revenues, they have received about one-third of the . outlay for new construction in the period 1925-1929. In addition the connecting roads from the interior cities to the coast, without which the Roosevelt highway would be almost useless, have received millions of dollars. Thus what the 8uper-eninusiasLs nave uescnueu m wicguuo i rentnrv" turned out to be not even a misdemeanor. The Statesman supports the road policy outlined by the governor absolutely. We want to see road construction in nroorm movp forward, n the coast and in the interior. We do not want to see any one section swallow the lion's share, giving due consideration to traffic density. And we insist that the state should definitely stop the issuance of road bonds. We commend Governor Patterson for his refusal to i i j j i u kinViiiroirmDn" f vnm the rnnsf rniintrv. DC stampeueu uy mc uigunajmvu i Rewards for Performance THE eight young people who participated in an oratorical j :wj mtnrtiofimi!il" hut in rpnlitv enn- m corneal ucsiriucu xo imciuanvfui - - ducted and sponsored by a group of newspapers, have re turned from a "good-will" tour of South America. The junket was apparently a reward for having won the honor nf nnnparinc in the final contest: otherwise the trip has no virtue. It meant nothing to the South Americans, though fortunately the eight were probably young enough to behave themselves. There was no "good will' in it for the South Americans and there was no reason why they should be call ed on to entertain a group of juveniles out spending the surplus money of a group of American newspapers. Now we will probably see winners of Four H contests, winners of children's stock judging contests, etc., getting trips back to Kansas City or Chicago because of what they did in some contest out in Oregon. The trip will probably do them no more harm than the South American jaunt of :he youthful orators, but they are as well off at home. The point we want to drive home is this : we are exag gerating out of all proportion the successes of young people in various contests, giving them an "enlarged idea of their own importance. These overwrought rewards are cheapen ing the whole set-up of contests of skill and judgment. The railroads and packing houses and mail order houses outdo themselves in donations for a boy because he raised a prize calf or a girl who baked the best loaf of bread. The young people are taken up and feted and shipped all over the coun try, and when they come home the chambers of commerce slobber over them and declare a public holiday. When it is all over the boy goes back home with a head all swelled out of shape and the girl, all she can say is she "had a nice time.0 We are unduly subsidizing very ordinary virtues. Some day our educators, borne down by the mountain of schools, ymcas, boy scouts, Four H clubs, summer camps, juvenile contests with disproportionate prizes, may discover that all that young people lack is to be let alone. The parents are beginning to feel that way now. Mr. Guthrie Retires SALEM folk will feel a sharp pang of regret to have George Guthrie retire from the theatre game in this city. Mr. Guthrie has pioneered in the field, developing the amusement business here even faster than the growth of the' city. The El&inore, which he built, a thing of rare beauty, stands as an enduring monument to Mr. Guthrie. He spared no effort or cost to give Salem one of the unique theatres of the world, and he succeeded. With a warm appreciation of art, Mr. Guthrie embellished the interior of the Elsinore with paint ings, tapestries, beautiful decorations and furnishings which have made it an attraction in itself. In dealing with the public Mr. Guthrie has been generous-hearted, responding to civic calls and making his theatre serviceable to the public. The best wishes of a wide host of friends go with Mr. Guthrie, and the hope that he will con tinue his social, if not his business contacts with the people of Salem. The new organization which leases the Elsinore, the Fox West Coast Theatres, is one of the new and strong concerns operating in the amusement field. The Fox inter ests are coming to divide with the Paramount Publix group the theatre business of the country as they have the film producing business. A third contender in this field is the Radio-Keith-Albee group, which lately absorbed the Orpheum and Pantages circuits. On the west coast the Fox group is . strongest. While William Fox is head of the Fox Film company and of the Fox West Coast Theatres, the two corporations are entirely separate. The one is the producing unit and the other the exhibiting unit, on the coast, of the Fox interests. Nor does a chain theatre run only its awn pictures. While ft may give preference to the films from its affiliated pro ducing company, it most make its playhouse succeed and in doing so does not hesitate to enter the market and buy what ever films it can from whatever company produces -those which it desires. A fV- i ' The Siren f AFRAID THAT ' . i SOMEBODY'S GOlf,' kflf A STEAL THAT. S Frultland district, on rout box 67, Salem, owns ths Noble French prune; he Has the rights pf its joint discoverer, with whom he had business relations when it was accidentally found. Mr. Andrews has boosted and exhibited and grafted and grown and exploited the Noble French prune for seven years, and he has only just now begun to make a real dent in pub lic favor. The reason is, that grow ers in six state, bat mostly in the Willamette valley, now h v e young Noble French trees, and they are enthusiastic, and this has become "catching" to their neigh bors. So Mr. Andrews Is beginning after a long struggle, to "sit pret ty." He wUl have perhaps 100. 000 Noble French trees to sell the coming planting season and the Indications are that all of them wiU be wanted, to the last tree. So he may be ere long "sit ting on the world," and by the same sign making a great contri bution to the prune industry of this section. S S There was another exhibit the past week that looked very good to the Bits man the one of the Willamette Fig Gardens, Inc., 355 Willamette boulevard, Portland, Oregon, of which concern B. R. Amend Is the president, and who was her with his fig products exhibit, as he has been at each fair for several years. Mr. Amend Is largely a Marion county product. For 11 years the Amend family lived four miles south of Turner. B. R. Amend and his brother Is aac F. Amend had a saw mill near Mehama for eight years. Then B. R. established a shingle mill t Centralia, Wash., and there lost an arm In the machinery. Then he was for 23 years In the credit de partment of the Kilham Station ery company, Portland. About 18 years ago, he took up the "hob by" of growing figs. That Is too long a story for this column. S The fig is one of the world's oldest fruits. There are In all about 600 varieties. Mr. Amend was helped in his experiments by the U. S. department of agricul ture; this branch of the federal government furnished him with BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS Echoes from the fair: S S m The Bits column told the other day of grandmother Harding of Gervais, who has attended the state fair every year it has been held. She is 91. She commenced attending the fairs when she was 24. There Is another who holds the same record, with the omission of two years, for which he has a good and sufficient alibi. He Is W. A. ("Billy") Taylor of Mac leay. He attended the first fair in 1862, when he was 10 years old, and he remembers it well. He did not mention It to the Bits man, but that makes him 77 now, does it not? S Billy Taylor began taking charge of the Marion county ex hibit at the state fair In 1906, and he has been doing this ever since, when he was not engaged with ex hibits from this county and state at international fairs. That year (1906), it was conceded by all the other county exhibitors that Marlon was first and the Judg ing was only a matter of which county should have second and the other prizes. After that year, Mr. Taylor suggested to the mem bers ot the county court that It was nothing more than right, and good sportsmanship and hospital ity, to say nothing of good bus iness, that thereafter Marlon county should exhibit each year at the fair, but should not enter the contest for prizes. This sug gestion was acted upon. So each year Marion county has had a splendid exhibit of her agricultur al, horticultural and other resour ces, but has not contested for a prize. Billy Taylor did not have charge of the Marion county exhibit in 1909 because he was at the Yukon-Pacific world fair In Seattle that year, and had charge of the Oregon exhibit, largely made up of Marion county products. The same was true of 1905, for he was at the Lewis and Clark world fair at Portland that year, and had charge of an exhibit, largely of articles from Marion connty and in that year there was no state fair in Oregon, oat of def erence to the Portland people. Mr. Taylor was also at the world fair in San Francisco, and had an Ore gon exhibit there. The alibi: BUly could not attend the state fair in 1905, because there was none, and he had to be absent from the 1909 fair, because he was at Se attle. m S The Bits man took a peculiarly friendly interest in the display of Noble French prunes and their products at the state fair this year, by Noble Andrews, because this represents what appears to be a way ont of the wilderness for Socolof sky & Son INSURANCE Office Phone 70 Res. 2319W First Nafl Bank Bldg. Salem, Oregon P. H. BELL Mortgage Loans and Insurance 219 U. S. Bank Bldg. Phones 607 and 3009-J Willamette Insurance Agency, Inc. Fire - Automobile - Plate Glass Life - Health - Accident INSURANCE FOR EVERY NEED Mala Office, 215 Masoiilc Temple Phone 082 WM. BLTVEN o. f. WADSWORTH A. E. LAFLAR G. W. LAFLAR 'If its Insurance We Write it" Laf lar & Laf lar Ladd & Bash Bank Bid. Phone 546 the Oregon prune industry; if it now needs a way (or that way) out, as it certainly did for several years. 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S By the slow process of elimin ation, and by careful and pains taking experiments, Mr. Amend has given, or Is about to give to the Willamette valley a new In dustry, 'and a profitable one-hat of fig growing. There are at least 100 growers in ana erouuu wau who have fig trees that hare been supplied to them by Mr. Amend's company. One of these is Mrs. M. N. Chapman, 722 North Church street. Any doubting Thomas might go and see these fig trees, on her curbing. 1i . Mr. Amende company now haa 10 to 15 acres of fig tree at the original home place, at the Port land address given abore. One tree with a spread of 24 feet, 16 feet high, ripens 200 figs each year. Two and a half acres in figs (Continued on Page a.) James H. Nicholson General Insurance First National Bank Bldg. Telephone 457 THE MOST IMPORTANT part of any business is to know what ought to be done" . . . Columella Every banker, lawyer or Insurance man knows what should be done to protect property. 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