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"No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe."
From First Statesman, March 28. 1851
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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
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state. Money from new pay
of Oregon and the rest of the
many enterprises. There are
Hie
A New Unemployment Possibility
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BITS for BREAKFAST
-By R. J. HENDRICKS
Who were the first farmers
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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.
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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.
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''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)."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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