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PAGE FOUR pouumu im "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe." From First Statesman, March 28. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Sprague, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publisher) Charles A. Sprague ... Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - - Managing-Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication ol all news dispatches credited to it or not other wis credited in this paper. Entered at the Poetoffiee at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Butinea office 215 S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland. Security Bldg. 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 Are. Bugs or Food? "The quarantine laws have given the farm experts tyrannical power, which they have lost no time in utilizing. The ten million dollar corn borer fiasco in the middle west, and the thirty million dollar Florida fly embargo, have been national examples widely fol lowed In the various states. Flies, nematodes, weevils, earwig3, etc., are constantly being discovered as new sources for the expenditure of public funds to worry the harrassed farmer and confiscate his property for the enrichment of our busy bug bureaucracy. "One wonders how previous generations of farmers managed to grow good crops and remain prosperous without federal aid or expert interference, knowing so little of these "menaces." Perhaps one reason was because they had no professors to badger them. Capital Journal. Our esteemed evening contemporary may take the side of the bugs if it wants to. We take the side of the profes sors whose success in research and practical application of scientific knowledge have made possible the growth of food croduction on this planet and defeated the efforts of the four million insects who are the active competitors of men for the food which the earth will produce in a season. Where there is one farmer who will tions imposed on his production, there are dozens of farm ers who will make pleas born of desperation tor college pro fessors to save them from the ravages of some new bugs that are destroying their crops. Not always do the professors succeed. They have failed in stopping the chestnut blight in holding; down the menace of to stoD the spread of the corn Dremier watermelon areas in Coneville near Muscatine. That growing area. Recently some attacked the vines and almost growing there. The professors or cure yet. The Mediterranean fruit Hy is a real aa not imaginary pest. Discovered in Florida this year, it has al ready snread as far west as chardists and busted banks in only to actual damage done by knowledge of what this fruit lly has done in other lands. The department of agriculture and the college professors have scored some brilliant successes in combatting the en croachments of insects and plant diseases, in spite of their failures in the cases 'noted. The cottony scale at one time threatened the extinction of the orange and lemon industry in California. A government entomologist found a lady-bug in Australia, the natural foe to the scale; the lady bugs were brought over here and set to work and the citrus industry was saved. At one time the cane sugar industry in Hawaii was in danger from the cane-leaf hopper, like the cottony scale, a native of Australia. Scientists after patient effort found a parasite which laid low the cane-leaf hopper and another big industry was saved. The Hessian fly is a bad pest in the wheat belt; professors and scientists found the only known control method is to time the plowing and seeding so there will be no host plants available at the time in the fly's life history when it seeks the wheat plant for host. Agricultural college professors in the northwest developed the copper carbonate treatment as a preventative for smut in wheat, doing away with the expensive and unsatisfactory formalde hyde or blue vitriol treatment. College professors at Corvallis were appealed to wrhen the fruit growers were faced with ruin because eastern and foreign markets rejected their fruits with its arsenic residue from spraying, perfected a fruit washing machine, dedi cated the patent to the public, and averted disaster to many 'orchardists. What the professors can do usually is to discover how to keep nature in balance, to find the right parasite or enemy of the insect invader and set him to work. Many of these pestts are importations, like the chestnut blight. When they come they do not bring their neighbor enemies along so they have a free sweep until some scientist brings in their ancient foe. College professors go wrong to be sure. We aren't hearing any more about the b. w. d. agglutination test for chicks but this is because scientists have discovered a newer and better way to fight this disease. The intelligent farmer of today isn't squawking at the r professors for what they have done, so much as for what they haven't done. Rather than to let bugs and insect pests devour vegetation and starve the human race we prefer college professors. Portland is Astir THE whole state -is watching with interest the rally of Portland nennle in thA HirAfirm nf rirrr nrnnrroca TVio most encouraging item in the J 1 A a cmc Danquet, dui uie success, in some preliminary steps look ing toward locating some very large industries in Portland. Portland has raised the mint nf $25 OOfl fnr nvinl snrveva in this undertaking. The names of the concerns identified : i x - i.L. 11- , i ? wim mc uikcipxise are leassurmg io me puuuc even inougn full disclosures of what is projected have not been made. Day and Zimmerman are nationally known engineers, rank- inflr with Stone & Webster and similar pnonnpprino mncorn! The Continental Illinois company is the investment banking division of the Continental-Illinois Bank, the largest bank in the united btates outside of Newr York city. We may con clude therefore that big things are in the making which may influence profoundly the industrial and commercial develop ment of Portland and the northwest. For what benefits one section will benefit the other. New factories in Portland will afford new market fnr nm. ducts of other sections of the rolls ana purcnases of materials may start as a large stream but it trickles into small streams that reach far out from the mam spring. Portland is the metropolis state iooks to x'ortland to supply the financial and industrial leadership and support for many signs that Portland appreciates this responsibility and is generating some new energy to push itself forward in an aggressive manner. C. A, Robertson of West Salem, who his been la the diplomatic service, acquaints ua with the rank of Lady Isabella Howard. Be sides being the wife of Sir Esme Howard, the British ambassador, whose knighthood we knew but overlooked for the moment in con fusing Isabella and Ishbel, the daughter of the premier. Lady Isa bella is a "Lady" in her own birthright, being of the Italian nobility and really of higher rank than her husband. Mr. Robertson ha3 been entertained in the home of the Howards .and regards Sir Esme and Lady Isabella most highly, which estimate is in accord with that of the mass of Americans who know of the couple only through the press. grumble because of the inspec They have succeeded only boll weevil, lriey nave iaiiea borer. We know one of the southeastern Iowa, around is, it used to be the premier insect or aphis has come in, put an end to watermelon haven't found the prevention Dallas. Texas. The ruined or- Florida are testimonies not this fly, but to fear born of news is not the holding of a , mm . . state. Money from new pay of Oregon and the rest of the many enterprises. There are Hie A New Unemployment Possibility "i 'v-JlL W nl - - w which i BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS Who were the first farmers m In the Willamette valley? There has come to the notice of the Bits man a record that seems to show that the French dependents of the Hudson's Bay company were prob ably not the original Abels of this fruitful valley, though they were the first white men to plant and reap crops, being encouraged by Dr. John McLoughlin, who then ruled the Oregon Country, to come and take Indian wives and grow grain, to be handled by his com pany in supplying the Russians in Alaska with ftour. Also, to form such alliances as would cement the friendship of the Indian tribes, upon whom the Hudson's Bay company depended in its traffic for furs and pelts. i A friend, noting that Salem has its Bits for Breakfast and its Sips for Supper, suggests that there may be room for "Leaven for Lunch," and offers some, includ- ng the following: "It has been my fortune to locate a book entitled, 'Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians,' published at London, England, in 1823, by one John Dunn Hunter. S m ''This work promises such proof of early Indian agriculture in the Willamette valley that it demands investigation. The author claims to have been taken captive by the Indians in childhood and held for several years, covering a period from about 1805 to 1816. In that portion of the work relating to the valley of the Willamette, he makes the following statement: 'They raised considerable quanti ties of a peculiar kind of corn, the ears of which were short, small, and set on stalks near the ground. The grains were also small and of a very deep blue color. They also raised beans and squashes.' "Multnomat Instead of Mulno mah was the name of the stream, and his version of the origin of this name was 'river of much game.' The small inlet to the south of the 'Chick a la Urn' (Co lumbia), their wonder at viewing the ocean, and a lake near the headwaters of the Willamette where a tribe known as the Lees- to-tosh Indians lived, the climatic conditions, and customs of the nr tlves both on coast and valley streams, gives a closer view of In dian life than has ever been my good fortune to attain. Although the author frankly states that he wrote from memory of events which were separated many years from the date of publication, and that his information was acquir ed when no intention or desire of making these facts public were entertained, his ability to handle the subject draws and holds the interest of the reader. But one copy of this work is known to be on this coast, and while this may not be secured by loan, it may be perused and excerpts therefrom copied. s "I am endeavoring to obtain a copy of a manuscript by a Mr. La Salle that is a part of the govern ment records at Washington, 'D. C. The author was wrecked on the Oregon coast at False cape south of the Columbia on the Sea Otter in 1809, and with three men made his way to the headwaters -of the Red river. He speaks of the On alaska river in Oregon, and the Onalas who lived on that stream. H. R. Schoolcraft was of the opin ion that he referred to the Mo lallas. (See Statesman, January 1, 185S)." S There is some more of the "Leaven tor Lunch " which will hare attention in this column at later dates. S A mistaken note was Injected into the meeting of the Salem chamber of commerce at the noon luncheon of Monday, when W. G. Ide, manager of the state chamber of commerce, spoke among other OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, OregoryThnrsday Morning. things of the importance of the dairying industry to the Willam ette valley m The mistaken and jarring note being about the competition of the other industries on the land with dairying referring especially to flax and fruits. That is a provin cial note. "W Flax Is a rotation crop: must have a four to five year rotation, and will be still safer with seven years, as in the Belfast district in Ireland. Besides, there is a stock food by-product of the flax in dustry. The more flax, the more and prosperity of the dairying in dustry. Tht more flax, the more cows, and better ones. We have vast areas of idle and slacker acres in the Willamette valley, and it will require only 60,000 to 100, 000 acres of the J. W. S. pedigreed flax to produce the raw materials for a $100,000,000 industry here, maintaining directly and indirect ly at least 1,000,000 extra popu lation. m That is, the equivalent of only 50 to 100 of our larger farms, as farming is now tarried on in nu merous sections of the valley. The development of the flax and linen industries up to the $100,000,000 a year basis will call for vastly increasing our dairying industry. The same will be true of nearly every other Intensely cultivated crop in this land of diversity, with the exception of tree fruits and nuts, and dairying makes up a part of the scheme of successful fruit and nut crops, too. And every other line of intensified agricul ture will help dairying, and be helped by dairying, in Keeping up the necessary fertility of the soil. Dairying calls for rotation of crops, and aids them. S We will eventually have irriga tion all over the Willamttte val ley, with many major irrigation projects, and this will bring sugar lactories. But the raw products for these will also take clean cul tivated and rotation crops, and these, with their by-products, will develop dairying as nothing else can. 'm S We must get over the idea of a little WUlamette valley. This val ley is a potential tmpire. There is room for dairying on such a scale as it is found so far in no other like extent of territory, and along with aU the intensified agri culture of which this land of di versity is capable, and to which it is especially adapted. Portland is to have a survey to set apart among other things man ufacmiiuj; sections. Salem does nut need much of a survey of this kiud. There aro natural manufac turing districts, like the one in southeast Salem. But more intens ified work in securing additional manufacturing plants for this city. and the enlargement of the plants already here, Is one of the biggest duties before the capital city and its service organizations, and all its people. Salem is going faster than any other northwest city in its class in industrial growth; but it is not making anything like the advances hat are possible, and ought to be made. Read the Classified Ads. "Alibr thrfflad me te death. Z think It Is a masterpiece and one of the finest Imaginable. A classic ta aU talking pro ductions Douglas Fairbanks. It's coming Sunday to BUffe's Capitol Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read October 3, 1904 W. H. Selleck was appointed to the First Church, and W. S. Gor don to the Leslie church here when names of ministers for va rious churches in the state were read at the annual Methodist con ference which met in Eugene. State Superintendent Ackerman is preparing his annual report for submission to the legislature. What might have been a very serious accident occurred when Dr. Scofield lost control of his motor tricycle and collided with a carriage which there were four people. The team was badly frightened, but no one was hurt. Two of the three Indian girls who escaped from the Chemawa training school were found on the streets of Salem by George Wel- feldt, former pupil of the echooL R Subset For a Full Year THIS BARGAIN DAY RATE GOOD ONLY UNTIL OCTOBER 15, 1929 If you are paid in advance and remit us $3.00 your subscription will be extended one year from your present date of expiration. For your convenience you may use coupon below This Rate Does Not Apply Unless Paid To Date Now THE OREGON STATESMAN ' SALEM OREGON Please in payment for which I enclose $3.00 in check, money order or curren- 1 cy. This special offer is for the Bargain Day Period only. I New Subscriber Renewal October 3, 1929 Assistant Director of Indian Education Pays Visit to Chemawa Plant 17 .w By OLIVE M. DOAK Ah, you are Miss ? Yes, I am Miss Stewart, and this is Mr " A few words and Mr. So and So had departed and with a squick swish Miss Stewart had her hat and loat on and we were out in the delicious late faU sunshine, pacing slowly along the graveled walks of the Chemawa Indian school where Ml&s Mary Stewart, assistant director of In dian Education, Department of Interior, la stopping on one of the official visits which she is paying to each Indian school and reser vation of the United States. We were walking slowly and talking about circuses. I came to talk about the official business upon which she is traveling but we were talking about circuses. "Most people think it is neces sary to have an excuse to go to a circus," said Miss Stewart, "but I do not. Circuses are delightful things. There one finds all the elements of play and entertain ment without psychological' prob lems such as one meets in the theatre. And there are skillful stars, too, do you know ." And here I can quote no more for Miss Stewart was mentioning names of which I bad never heard. Did she know these peo ple? No, unfortunately she had never had a chance to meet them, but circuses have programs and did I nver read programs? One could learn who they were as well as one could learn about movie actresses. Miss Stewart concluded our cir cus talk with a delightful state ment "I am never more pleas ed with myself than when I can play for the sheer joy of playing. Would that I had learned the art earlier in life, for play like beauty is Its own excuse for being en joyed." And that was as near as I came to hearing about "official busi ness," for said Miss Stewart, "I am new in the work, having re ceived my appointment July 1 from Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, and I really do not have anything to say for the press." One gathered that Miss Stewart's attitude would al ways be one that did not discuss her "master's business," al though it was easy to read the en thusiasm with which she is at tacking her Job. This enthusiasm and a remark able mind and personality has carried Miss Stewart from one in teresting accomplishment to an other, until now, as assistant di rector of Indian Education, she holds one of the most outstanding positions of any woman in the United States. Her first pubUe position was a pioneering one she was one of the first deans of women begin ning her work at the University of Montana at a very youthful age. Here she also taught Latin and English. From her work In Latin, I found out from another source than herself, she made what is re puted to be one of the finest translations of portions of the work of Catullus, a Latin lyric poet. This translation is not the enew iption POUNDED Anywhere have the Oregon Statesman sent to me bv mail only writing she had done, Bhe is author of many magazine ar ticles, poems, served as feature writer on a large eastern city pa per, and she has become interna tionally known as the author of the club women's collect which is used daily to open meetings in many clubs such as the Business and Professional Women's club, of which let it be said Miss Stew- kart is one of the original organi zers who met in St. Louis in 1919 to found the organization as it is known today, of the General Fed eration of Women's clubs and many other groups in both city and farm connections. The col lect reads: "Keep us. O God, from petti ness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with fault find ing, and leave off self-seeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face to face without prejudice. May we never be hasty in Judg ment and always generous. ' Teach us to put into action our better impulses straight-forward and unafraid. Let us take time for all things; make us to grow calm, serene, gentle. Grant that we may realize it is the little things that create the differences; that in the big things of life we are one. And may we strive to touch and to know the great common wo man's heart of us all and, O Lord God, let us not forget to be kind." In addition to these things Miss Stewart has been interested in the suffrage movement since its early history in the United States, be ginning her active connection with it when she Was only a girl and winning a reputation for her self as one of the best public speakers among the women of the United States. She handled the women's campaign in Maine for Harding and again took active part in the Hoover campaign. She did not tell me these things but I learned them about her and ac cused her. Her laughing acknowledgement of the facts and her witty remarks about her accomplishments made it easy to see how she has been able to undertake difficult things and carry them through. Not the least of the things which Miss Stewart has to her credit is a piece of work which she told me about upon question ing her. Just before her appoint ment to the Indian service she was assistant director general of the United States employment service la the department of La bor. Her work had to do with junior working boys and girls Just under the age of 21. This work had to do with vocational guid ance and its problems. During this work Miss Stewart represent ing the Employment service, and a representative of the Children's bureau put out a bulletin with the assistance of several who aided in the scientific research which the bulletin represented, which was called a study on vocational guidance and placement. During the time Miss Stewart was connected with the United Your 1631 By In Oregon Name Address States Employment service she was associated with Mrs. Virginia Bacon, who is now Oregon's state librarian, and of whom Miss Stew. art says "one of the most brilliant and efficient women that I hare ever been associated not barring such women as Mabel Willi brant." Miss Stewart plans to be at Chemawa until Thursday when she expects to continue her tour of inspection which she estimates will take her about two months. She left Washington, D. C, Sep tember 12. She will be a dinner guest of the Business and Professional Women tonight. Editors Say: AUTUMN" -i-The first suggestions of aut umn are not so much seen as felt. They are vague and indistinct, yet real. The fading of summer into fall resembles the subtle changes that overtake one at middle life, in that it is slight, gentle and unob trusive. There Is little lessen ing of vision, and the eyes are weary after extended reading. So comes the resort to spectacles, not of course that they are really needed, but as "an aid to read ing, a preventive only." There is a slight slowing up of physical ac tivities, a resolution not to over do; a feeling that one has earned the right to slacken the pace and relax a little oftener. Yet there is still zest in living, and charm and color and melody continue to al lure. Thus slowly, almost imper ceptibly, but surely, comes the knowledge that one has reached high noon and the shadows must of necessity lengthen toward the East. It is In the month of Septem ber that summer fades into au tumn. The tokens at first are-not numerous, but they are there. Something in the air is alien to August, a certain crispness that is tonic There is a slight haze on the horizon. The greenness of the earth and trees is subdued, and there are faint tints of brown ap pearing here and there. There Is a shimmering and a shriveling in the fields, and the process of rip ening is slackened. A few of the birds have already answered the call of the Southland, but many linger to gladden the eyes of the wayfarer and cheer hi3 heart. Winter still seems a long way off. and it is good to know that be tween September days and flurry of snow and ice are the flarains splendors of October. September is a month that has much to offer to those who are in lovo with life under the open sky. The days are cool, but not too cool for comfort. The rays or the sun are genial, but not un pleasantly warm. The early mornings are bracing, and the early evenings have In them a quality of dreamy ardor. The leaves are falling, but not Is pro fusion. Summer fades slowly, al most as imperceptibly as the charm of a beautiful woman in her early forties whose eyes are still eloquent, and with healthful ferror undiminished. Such is September, standing midway be tween the purple maturity of mid summer and the old gold and crimson of the crowning days of autumn. Medford Mall-Tribune. Now! 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