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. PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning. October 2, 1925 "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe." From First Statesman, March ?8. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. S Prague, Sheldon F. Sacicett, PublUhert CHAKLrg A. Spkacue ... Editor-Manager Sheldom F. Sackett - - - Managing-Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is 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 Saletn, Oregon, a Second-CUu Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Butintts office 215 S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur Stipes, Inc. Portland. Security Bide San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Are.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. i One Thing He9 s Discovered The Next Decade THIS is the last year of the third decade of the twentieth century. Or the next to the last if you figure the decade as beginning with the "1" instead of the w0 " Do you recall the great quarrel in 1900 whether the 20th century began with 1900 or 1901? The majority opinion finally came around to the "1" if we remember rightly. But the decade of the '30s is just three months away. We may well look ahead and see what may be in store in that period. The period of the 20 a will be written down in his tory as the "post-war period." The great world war which mussed things up so badly in the 'teen years of the century, left a world topsy turvy when the "2" moved up on the speed ometer of time in the tens place of thel900's. It has taken the past ten years to work out a readjustment, politically and economically. The readjustment is not over yet. There never will be a complete restoration of the pre-war epoch. We are getting away fast though from the immediate influence of the war. Children entering high school this year have very dim recollections of the war. Young chaps graduating from college were in grade school when the bat Ues were being fought. Those of us who were doing men's work in those strenuous day3 of 1917 and 1918 scarcely re alize that a generation is just coming into action which had no such experiences and knows of the war only from reading i i a : i auu listening iu emcia. Peace is re-establishing itself. The echoes of the war which persisted so long in disturbances in one quarter or another are fast fading. Only reparations and belated sur render of the occupied areas continue acute questions. Many of the deepest wounds have been healed though the scars may still be ruddy. Other times and other problems and oth er leaders press upon the scene. The 1920's have been years of looking backwards to the sputtering volcano of 1914-1918. The 1930s will be years of looking ahead. The reconstruction will be over. The race for national progress will be fully resumed. One may expect a time of ordered calm to continue into the '40's while nations muster resources for new struggles for supremacy and while statesmen seek to evolve formulas for peace that will hold in the strain of hot controversy. Wise men no longer prophesy as to the course of inven tion. The bag has held so many magic tricks that its supply seems inexhaustible; and no conquest of science when an-i- nounced now taxes our credulity. We might hope that there J may be a pause in the '30's in the lavish gifts of the genii of laboratory and factory, giving the people a decade to absorb into their culture the mechanical contrivances of the past few decades. The days are shortening as the year hurries to close its circle. As the year thus ends and terminates the "tremulous twenties" it is worth while to look back over the period ; and to look ahead as well into the coming '30's to see what the portent is, and what the promise. Settling Social Parity SECRETARY Stimson must have had a fearful month planning the preservation of prestige at the White House dinner to honor Premier MacDonald of Great Britain. Per haps that was why the premier put his trip off so long, wait ing till the secretary told him to come on, that the priority rights had been settled. First there was Ramsay MacDon alds daughter, Ishbel. What was her status and where should she sit at the president's table? Second, there was Dolly Gann, the vice-president's sister. Where should she sit, if at all? - Evidently the secretary did about the only thing pos sible, he got "waivers" from these two of doubtful social position. The premier says his daughter is not to stand on any "rights"; and the vice-president says that his sister will waive her "rights" in favor of Lady Isabella Howard, the premier's wife, though how she may be termed a "Lady" when her husband has not been knighted is past our know ledge of heraldry. - With all these important points settled Secretary Stim son can go aheacLwith the questions of naval parity, cruisers, submarines and such like, which the premier came over to discuss. If there had been no amicable settlement of the questions of social parity, what chance would there be of balancing navies? , -. The editor of the Corvallis G-T is nothing if not resourceful. When the Eugene Register taunts him with taking aides In pre- primary campaigns, he retorts that he supports Patterson because the latter was born in Benton county. That probably goea double for Hawley, likewise a "native son." Ingenious, we say, but hardly ingenuous. . One of the price-wianing pictures of the state fair was that hAvlnr . Vint nf lnuinii red t nwlwrries cmntled m . can of "The Oregon Statesman." Now that was a gracious compliment; and deserved, too,. for The Statesman labored for years in promoting the strawDerry lnuusiry ui iueiiicj. er, 4ir William Waterlow, has been elected lord mayor of the city of' London. Evidently he was "type high" and made a good "im pression. The anxious days for the mammas of the freshmen are about over. The pledging lists are comipg out; and the neighbors are scanning them to see if It is safe to call. O King Fntm, SjiaStt, locrCrert Brium rfculSa; J fVUjj "We take pride in the filbert In dustry of Oregon, for we helped to develop it. and any suggestions of value we may be able to give to any of our fellow growers will af ford u the greatest pleasure." Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read October 2, 1904 Employes of the Indian Train, lag school at Cheraawa gave a re ception for Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Potter, occasion being his retire ment from the supertnte-ndency. He was presented with a fine gold watch. Woolton Bang, one of the most famous dogs on the coast and owned by Frank J. Moore of Sa lem, wfll be shipped to Spokane shortly to attend the dog show there. He Is a pointer. The regular monthly report of the public library for the month of September shows a further growth of that institution, with 589 persons using the reading room in that period. C. W. Emmett, who has been in the employ of the Buren and Hamilton store for the past six years, has opened a fish and poul try market at 161 Court street. Editors Say: BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Those fish up the Rapidan have been punished about enough for one summer. When does the season close in Urginia "Firm Russian note sent to warn China." That's another evi dence there will be no war. We are going to admit the soviet airplane at any rate, will keep our Russian relations on a high plane all right. That Ex-president Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge got into an airplane and sat there but refused to tae a iugnt in me snip, tie is sui Cautious Cal." r.etthip a tariff on softwoods isn't proTing such a soft job foi northwestern senators. There is as much justification for a tariff on logs and lumber as on wheat. Teacher Sufiers Fro mPoisoning; Ate Ice Cream HUBBARD, Ore., Oct. 1 Spe clal) Miss Adeline Zurcher, Eng- Hubbard high school, had a nar row escape when she contracted ptomaine poisoning from eating Ice cream while spending the week end at the home of Dr. R. H. Fields of Eugene. Miss Zurcher. although weak from the effects of the poison took charge of her classes at school Monday. Another state fair exhibit S That of George A. and Ben F. Dorris, making a showing of the filbert industry attracted the In terest of the Bits man. The exhibit was presided over by J. J. Doer fler of Sllverton this time, though George himself or Ben has here tofore, for years, attended person ally to that detail. George A. Dorris is the doyen of the Oregon filbert industry. He Is the Nestor and pioneer of it; started the industry in a commer cial way. He is the Burbank of it, too. He is a graduate of the Uni versity of Oregon, in one of the early classes when the Institution was very young. When he began taking an especial interest in fil bert growing, over 30 years ago, he was considered as a faddist in that field; that he had a mild case of over enthusiasm taking him to the border land of insan ity; that is, he was a nut on filberts. W Charley McXary of Salem, now United States senator, was regard ed as in the same class, a little later, when he caught the fever, and wrote a scries of articles for The Statesman on filbert growing. These men merely had vision, and their disciples have increased to the size of an army in the Willam ette valley. Any man who has a ilbert orchard In bearing these days is considered in the class of lucky citizens. S Ben F. Dorris is a nephew of George A. Dorris. He came into the picture in a prominent way af ter he had fought with the forces in France in the World war, and got himself so badly shot up by the Germans that it took the best surgeons many months to make him presentable, to say nothing of keeping his slender thread of life from snapping during a long period. The Dorris filbert groves are at Springfield, and that is the address, though a letter mailed to them at Eugene, Oregon, would reach them for Springfield is a suburb of Eugene now; the towns have grown together. At their booth at the state fair this year there was distributed a neat booklet on "Filbert Nursery Stock Grown by the Tip System," with a concluding article headed, "Suggestions to Prospective Fil bert Growers," by George A. Dor ris. As Mr. Dorris, in the opinion of the Bits man, is the highest Oregon authority on filbert col ture, which means the best author ity in all the world, for in no other place has the growing of filberts reached the state of near perfec tion in which it now flourishes in the Willamette Talley, for the good of the Salem district growers present and prospective, that ar ticle is reproduced below in full, as being more than worthy of the large space It takes with the ad monition to every one at all in terested to clip it out and save it; for there can be found in so many words nothing in the English lan guage, or any other language, as good: v n "As competition in aU Unes of endeavor is so bitter that a full measure of success may be expect ed only where all conditions are favorable, the following facts and suggestions are respectfully sub- I mltted for the consideration and guidance of those contemplating planting filbert groves. "No known spot on earth is more ideal for the production of the filbert than that part of the northwest lying west of the Cas cade mountains. This broad state ment is made after 30 years of personal experience and after weighing all information from ev ery available source as to results obtained elsewhere. The correct ness of that conclusion was fur ther confirmed by the statements of Mr. R. E. Colisimo, the foreign purchasing agent of the largest importers of filberts in the United States, when he recently visited our groves. Mr. Colismo has spent 12 years abroad in that service and claims to hare a personal ac quaintance with all the best groves in all the filbert producing sections of the old world. He ex pressed amazement at what he saw on this visit and said that in all his travels he had never seen filbert trees to exceed in size or vigor our 25-year-old French strain Barcelonas. "And when we can record of our trees of all ages that they gen erally produce a paying crop at 5 years and that after that age they have produced successive annual crops most of them heavy there need be little doubt of the regu larity of yields. "And when from a 25-year-old Barcelona having a spread of near ly 40 feet, we have harvested over 100 pounds of nuts of an excep tionally high grade, and when 16-year-old trees having a spread of 25 feet have yielded over 60 pounds, and orchard run samples of such nuts have been submitted to the leading nut importers of the nation and to many nut con nolseurs, and, without exception, by them pronounced the finest of the kind they had ever seen, what more is required- to convince us that in the production of the fil bert nature has placed this section under no handicap? "But the planter can easily handicap himself. He can overlook or Ignore that fact that in the northwest there are many strains of so-called Barcelonas ranging from our magnificent strain which for size of both nut and tree Is nowhere excelled, to strains of small size trees or small size nuts which in some- Instances are bare ly worth the gathering. "Though such inferior strains, when pollination Is sufficient, are generally prolific bearers, a fur ther proof of oar favorable condi tions, as dividend payers they fall short. "Plant no filbert tree without knowing its parentage, remember ing that like produces like. "For the commercial grove. plant the best strain Barcelona and you will make no mistake. It has amply demonstrated its right to be designated the filbert par ex cellence for the Willamette Tal ley. "The Du Chilley ranks second, though with us the Barcelona Is approximately three times as pro ductive and we know of no Du Chilley in Oregon any better than ours. "Of all the many other named and thoroughly tested varieties the best of thousands of seedlings that have struggled for recogni tion owing to some defect, not one has yet appeared as a ser ious contender against the Bar celona for first place as a money maker. "Not to exceed a half dozen of them, even in the countries of their origin, have proven their commercial value, and first among these is the so-called Barcelona, and next ia the Cob nut of which the Du Chilley Is but one strain, Therefore, if you are disposed to plant any such trees, either tested or new and untested varieties, in preference to the Barcelona, real ize that yon are backing an uncer tainty against a certainty. "As the strain Is of first impor tance, the type of tree you plant Is also important. "Sucker trees and layered trees will produce true but the tipped tree is by all odds the best in sev eral particulars, one of which is very important. The perfect tipped tree like the perfect sucker tree forms a perfect rounded head nat urally, with little -or no assistance which is not the ease with the lay ered tree. It often takes much pruning, and sometimes for sever al years to get them out of their unsatisfactory fan shape. And in the sucker tree it happens, all too often, that in order to get the de sired shoot, much cutting of either upper or lower shoots Is done. thus permittrhg the entrance of the greatest enemy to the long life of the filbert tree heart rot. Any nursery filbert tree, of any type, having a large cut any place along its trunk between the roots and the head, is a defective tree. The great superiority of the tipped tree over all others is in its root system. Suckering Is the dread of all filbert growers who have planted either sucker or lay er trees. This is due to the exces slve amount of sucker bearing wood to which necessary roots are attached, a s suckers springing from below these roots makes their removal sometimes next to Impossible. In the tipped tree the sucker bearing wood to which the roots are attached is reduced to the minimum. When so reduced plant the tree with the topmost roots from one to three inches be low the level of the ground with the roots extending diagonally downward to a depth of 6 or 8 in ches. Then about 3 or if necessary times each year remove the earth 1 to 3 Inches down to the scaffold roots and rub off the suckers, or sucker buds. After the tree is 4 or 5 years old, the earth need not be filled in till the last suckering in the fall. A tipped tree properly root-pruned and planted in this manner, in loose soil like ours can' be easily suckered in one minute for each suckering or 3 or minutes for the season. Of course. If the soil is allowed to bake it will take as much longer as it takes to remove the earth to the lateral rootst In loose soil, root-pruned and planted as above indicated, from the time the tree Is planted till it is 20 years old or older from 4 to 5 minutes a year will be ample time for the remo val of every sucker. "We no longer dread suckers. Their removal Is a mere trifle, as many who have followed our in structions will testify. The same results may occasionally be ob- tained with the sucker or layer tree but not often. "We propagated the tipped tree from shoots obtained from our best trees for our own use; and that Is the reason no one who has seen our trees, young or old. claims to have ever seen larger trees for their age, or trees as eas Uy suckered, or more vigorous or symmetrical o r heavy bearing trees, or larger Barcelona nuts. "And It Is such stock, having satisfied our own requirements, that we now offer to the public, with the confidence that nowhere is there any better either as to strain or the manner in which it has been raised. "Mr. E. A. Bunyard of London Is one of the leading, If not the leading European authority on fil berts. Recently our Mr. Ben F. Dorris In company with Mr. Bun yard inspected his nursery where the finest filbert nursery stock is raised by the identical system we use the tip system. "Tipped trees cannot be raised in quantities like the other types and are therefore only raised at all because, from every point of view they are the best. "The grafted tree is not used abroad except for the purpose of quickly trying out some seedling of supposed merit. "Having touched briefly on the essential points of variety, strain, type of tree and how to plant, In this little folder, we must forego discussion of other practices where costly mistakes may be easily made. But those interested, whether they have planted or contemplate planting are welcome to call on us at any time and we will cheerful ly give them the benefit of all we have learned in our 30 years ex perience. We do not know it all but -we can point out the mistakes we have made, and the mistakes that many are still blindly making. The Chicago Tribune is a great newspaper. One of the greatest of Its many services in recent years is a series of ten articles by James O'Donnell Bennett, able reporter. which blasts off the false front of romance and asinine sentiment that has partially concealed the true nature of "Gangland" In Chi cago and other cities. You know the sort of thing the mushy mov ie that makes the gunman a sort of Robin Hood, the mawkish nov el or magazine story that heroizes the cutthroat and assassin, the brand of newspaper reporting which Imputes to the gaudy fu nerals, banquets and enterprises of the racketeers a standing other than that of plain criminal. There's nothing splendid about the Capones, the Torrios, the Bugs Morans, the Heimie Weisses, the Espositos, the Lombardos, the Gennas, the Tancis, the O'Banions, when Mr. Bennett got through with them. In ten brief chapters he shows them for what they are (or were, for most of them have been slain by now "crim inals in business and business men in crime, pickpockets, bawdy house keepers and safecrackers turned bootleggers, not Just cheery racketeers whom supposed ly reputable officers are not ashamed to palter with and dine with and traffic for votes with." When the Pulitzer journalistic prizes are awarded this year, Mr. Bennett's articles "de-bunking gangland" deserve consideration as one of the finest and truest pieces of reporting in 1929. You've heard of Cicero, Forest view and other prairie towns around Chicago which have be come infamous as "Booze Capi tals" for various gangs. Mr. Ben nett lays bare the shameful pro cesses by which decent communi ties have been ruined first the bribing of weak officials for per mission to start seemingly in nocent roadhQU6 then the gradu al dominates of the politics of the town, uite subtle are the arch criminals. Mr. A's mortgage is paid off and his tongue tied for ever; Mr. B's rattletrap ear Is re placed; Mr. C gets a new side walk from the enterprising now "boosters" who want to enhance the values of the town. By and by the few citizens too proud and too decent to be corrupted are silenced by bombs or compelled to move to another town. Vice and crime in every form reign su preme. Then from these "Booze Capi tals" proceeds the traffie in boose for the second city in the world. How can it go on? Get the pic ture of Assistant District Attorney McSwiggin slain, "not by gangst ers, but with gangsters." He hap pened to be hobnobbing with the wrong men when the killers came along. Get the picture of judges, high police officials and even a United States senator feasting with "Diamond Joe" Esposito up to forty-eight hours before he was put "on the spot" and slain. Un believable is the tale of "the day of the sixty shots" when Police men Olson and Walsh were shot down while trying to stop the no torious Genna gang. Two men. were arrested for the murders of these two policemen, John Scalisi and Albert Anselmi, both wanted in Italy as well as ia the States. Both were freed after three trials on the grounds of "defending themselves against unwarranted police-aggression." Small wonder that Bennett flays along with the gangsters the sob-sisters and-sob-brothers who stupidly make he roes of the vilest desperadoes in the history of crime. Only cow ards slaughter as did the gang sters who machine-gunned seven in the historic Valentine's Day crime about which police have dis covered only that "it looks like the work of a Capone gang." 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