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1 CnZCCri STATr:!A?7. Ca. hy ftrrfay fernL-WfMobtr 12. 1929 ' "' l ! i t mil ' .1 ! r r - - , : .., , ... .j " n , i-. . I -- - i'K : ' w.n.c . . ii ii n ' , v - -.,.- - ii r ik i - nil in in i i ii . 1 1 n n i in i i,n n i rnr MliaKL M, U: iflenanaivoir A lljiHffllMIIHHiMm I 1 T ICT1 . fo Favor JSways Us: 2fo Fear Shall Awe. : ? THE STATESMAN' PUBLISHING CO. - CBAStts A. &bacu Shqmn F Sacxett. PublUHen Crakucs ' Al Spkacox ' EditorM4r Sheldow F. Sacxett I - - BIaneirio-Editr ' Th AssoUted Presa Is exelnslrelr tatlUed fp the use for pnbllaUoB of all news dlspatcbts credited to it or not otter wise credited In thli paper. - ,-FnU2iZtJf Po'tyfk SaUm, Orrffon at framtUX Hf!Ur2iut,Zk'd tvtr" txtept tXtidsy. BbttM cfftc0 215 & Commercial Street. Pacifie Coaet Advertising Reprweatatives: Arthur W. Stjpea, Inc Portlaad, Seenrlt Kdr. r - Saa Francisco, Sharon Bids.; Loa Aaselea, W. Pae. Bids, Eastern Adrertlslnr Repretentttires: : : Ford-Parsoas-Stecher, Inc. New York. 171Jfad!soa Are.: Chicago. SCO N. Michigan Are. English, a World Language TjTRENCH succeeded Latin as the languajfe of the nations. X After Latin which had served as the language of the cluircn, passed easily into use as the language of the courts, Piculariy for the formal diplomatic exchanges. Then French came into common usage, the Latin with the Gallic to form the delightful "romance" language which came into ffneri.nsage " vehicle for international expression. " Now English is coming into world-wide usage. The "Neue ZuTcher Zeitung,w a German-Swiss paper comments on the fact that while a hundred years ago only 30.000,000 used English as the native tongue, now there are 160,000.000. An additional 60,000,000 understand the language. German ranks second, with 90,000,000 users, while French and Ital . iao are the native speech of 45,000,000 each. A writer in "Nostros." a literarv montMv nf .Aires, discussing the language of the future, says the race tir . WiU "sax uea oecween Provincial dialects must pass fwms ox communicauon ana transportation, and the "talk- i-",3 article as translated in The Living Age, contains . the following comment: 1 i ; . ' : Ererythlng polnU to the ultimate nredomtnanrA tit VntrMah - The motion picture, for Instance, " wb awe wu oeiier eqnippea to exploit it, the Amer icans have assumed a quasi monopolr of this powerful means for amusing ideas, rne result is that the screen has already had a tremendous Influence In familiarising the whole world with the products of Yankee civillxaUon. in so far as photography and panto- """ uua mi. Ana now tne Americans have invented talking motion pictures, a development which in at tremMidnn. im portance, since it enormously increases the possibilities of the the- ir pom as a means or entertainment and as a means of spreading ideas. This new device makes It possible to send the same films aU over the world merely by translating the caotlons. sonn ni- turea which are not merely musical must be produced In a single .ausuajc, wb mo languaga must oe understood by anyone who wishes to enjoy the pictures. It is In the English-language coun- ; tries that the best and most elaborate pictures can be made, and It uierp iaai me oiggest auaiences are found. Necessarily talking iiwuucsu in any omer language win be less good. Thus an Argentine, Peruvian, French, German or Spanish motion picture fan w wisnes 10 enjoy me oest mms must learn English. - Can a more powerful weapon for the spread of a language be A Imagined f Can any reasonable person see any force which can op . pose ItT And since, moreover, the various phases of culture are lnterUnked, the more people there are who know English, the more books and periodicals printed in English will be read, the more op portunity there will be for those who write la English, the more ad vertisementa will be written in English, the more products of the English-speaking peoples will be bought, and so oa. f One thing Is certain: the smaller languages and dialects will die off more and more-quickly. The time has passed when a ridge of mountains, a river, or a valley can separate two towns and permit thrr- Inhabitants to speak different dialects. It .was in that way that provincial Latin degenerated Into tha various Romance larig " cages. Today, however, steam navigation, printing, railroads, postal and telegraphic service are enough to accentuate or maintain uniform, lty of language within each nation and within Its colonies or within the colonies which it once held. This process by which many local dialects fuse Into a siagle language which for oae reason or another reaches a position of prominence and becomes the national language . , will tend to repeat itself in the broader field of world languages. ! or tne means of communication mentioned above are now aug mented by aviation, motion pictures and the wireless telephone, and not only do rivers and valleys otfer no obstacles to eoramunlca tloa, but even the highest mountain ranges and the broadest oceans nave been overcome. Back to Post Roads THE United States postoffice is realizing that it is coming back to the era of "post roads." The abandonment of pas senger trams on branch lines and some trains on main lines even has played hob with the postal service. It has been a , diffioult task to work out new methnrin Af nn ;N.fv W - 1 j a vaoysaiu Trucks and stages are being used in the effort to give prompt delivery of mail to towns where mail train service has been reauceo. j 1 That is like it was in the Stage coaches, the cony exnress. boats ver a enmlmrpri tn the mails. Individuals traveling into remote settlements pick ' ed up the mail at the last postoffice and took it in to the set- "9, w hi turn trusica vneir outgoing letters to tne chance travelers going back to civilization. Brigades of bateaux winding up the Columbia to Boat Encampment, across port ' ages to the Saskatchewan and thence by lakes and streams and more portages to the Great Lakes carried mails from Fort Vancouver to company headquarters at Montreal. The pony express sped across Nevada and the mountains to carry Cali fornia mails to Omaha. Hundreds of mail contracts were in effect after the United States mvernment extended its tfcway clear to the Pacific, and ciuireu tw yni xuim uus esseauai service. We can easily look ahead and see. where the government Js going to have to revamp Quite radically its system of mail transport. Air mail is coming fast ; additional lines are being added from time to time. It seems reasonable that the postal . department Jn a Talley like the wen organize its own complete trucking system for dispatch of mails. With railroad service" almost extinguished on the west side of the valley and to outlying branch points, there is a question whether the occasional stage with pouch dis- paicn is aaequate xor carrying mau. wny could not the gov ' ernment organize a trucking service independent of the stage lines, Which might carry one mail clerk to take care of inter town dispatch? As it is now mails may be made up only in terminals because stage dispatch is pouch dispatch entirely. On mail trucks a clerk could handle maiL . ' Wherever the railroads continue to run mail trains on the main Iines.they may be used but the postal authorities realize that they must revise quite drastically the mail f orwardimr system in order, to keep step with the changes in vehicles used in transportation. ' - V V - -.-3 v y -e , : - . ' ' ' School is Over ' jVTOMEN of Salem may wake up this morning and feel that 1 V t Jthey are "out of : school." ; Many of them will have something of the feeling of children on vacation when they realize that they will not need to hurry around to get down town for the cooking school today. For The Statesman cook ing school came to an end yesterday. It proved to be remark ably: successful in every, way. The attendance was excel lent, the spirit was fine; and the instruction superior. Mrs. Fern T. Hubbard, the economist, surprised and delighted the iadjes with her attractive personality, her gracious manner end her valuable instruction. The art of cookery, it is as old as the race. In later years it has grown to ba mora and more cf a science as well C3 an art. Cooking instruction now is almost a course in chemistry. -Women stm take delight in their skill as cooks. ri ars zealous to increase their knowledge of the art That why they leave their, homes tne isngush and the Spanish. with the coming of radio, new was Invented in France: but. be davx fofnr riimAa a wide variety of transport was Willamette for instance may for the backbone of the system : for fcur tnys w A week to - - - - ---- - .-.i- -.--rr- 'iT.i -r.L riff I attend a cooking school. The Statesman is grateful to those who contributed much to the success of the school to the Salem Women's Club who sponsored the school and the baking contest, to the business houses who contributed with prizes, etc., to the advertisers wnose support made the school possible. We nave presented this school as a means of service to the wom en of Salem. Their fine response shows that the service has been appreciated. BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS J. O. Merchen S A friend of the Bits man, was in the other day telling about a patent he has; on a contrivance for applying irrigation water through a system of pipes. He has tried it out in the Woodburn dis trict, and it works wonders. It puts the water near the roots of fruit trees and vegetables at the times they most need it, and la a way most beneficial. b The Bits man cannot explain It He has anything but a mechan leal genius or bent. But Mr. Mer chen is a wizard in the realm of invention. He has several suc cesses to his credit. And his word is good. He proposes to give the Salem district the beneUts of bis patented idea of applying irriga tion, freely and without cost with the hope, it is to be suppos- ea, mat in the end other com munities throughout the world taking it up win reward him highly. S 1, There are some farmers in the district between Salem and Wood burn, and over in the river bottom secUon extending to the Willam ette, who are sold oa the idea, and are wUltag to assist la adapting it to the conditions their situation gives inem the opportunity to do. This brings ap the eld eonten- uoa os tne Bits man that the 6a- Jent eity incinerator should have Veen located at a' point some dis tance to the aortfcef Salem, where k wonia nave been, a cart of the sewage disposal system that Sa lem must some day install and which should be undertaken soon. -. U tmaer the administration of Mayor Glesy, a fund was started aownaea to nuke a beginning'-of tun u pay i or us costs of a lewagt disposal system. Th fond was about f 19,000 at oae time. It may be more bow.- It was realised that the time was coming when the federal and state governments wonld no longer allow the (tr ef 8alem to pollute the Willamette river with its sewage smelling to heaven and killing the fish la the Stream, and menacing the health ef all our people. rortoaately, we are living In a time whea this may be done In such a way as to make the con verted stench a vast asset Instead of , a great nuisance -when the products of the system may be made to pay the costs of their conversion into commercial ar ticles. , - That Is the way, the great eity of Berlin, Germany, almost as large and modern as Chicago, han dles the matter. The converted sewage of the German capital is used to fertilize extensive garden tracts on which are grown fruits and vegetables to help feed the city's population.' The same thing Is being done at Pasadena, Cali fornia, and the system is being ex tended to several other suburbs ef the southern California metrop olis. The system hag been of is being or Is proposed to be applied by' numerous o t heT American cities. , i The water that comes from city swage may be rendered mors aegriy pure than that which flows through the eity mains of Salem or; any other city; more nearly port than Bull Run water. It may be zoadt ICt per cent pure, gad no r ja isows-tovV. water that has been exposed to the air or the contamination of the soil through which it flows Is 100 per cent pure. There is only one piaee in saiem, to the knowledge of the Bits man. that the water is .100 per cent pure. That Is the water used by the Gideon Stolz people in making Pale Moon cin ger ale and other soft drinks. It is treated, from the source of the steam that comes from the boiling oe eaiem water, and it Is confined, to be beyond the reach of even the air's contamination. There are always particles that may be con taminated floating in the air: from the dust et the streets and roads from a thousand sources. W S A federal employee told the Ka lem Rotary club some weeks ago mat n naa in caarge the project of sewage disposal in a national park in Colorado. The- sewaga water max comes irom this system is 100 per cent pure. It is more purs man the mountain water named by rail SO miles for the resort's supply. Still, the water has to be hauled, for the original source, and the sewage water can not be used for domestic purposes, by reason of prejudice. W Now, Salem might issue low in terest bearing bonds tor the cost of a sewage disposal svstem. at a point below the eity. giving; a gra- w 9i we sewage, and ta this system the sewage eouid be treated and the products, sold for enough money each, year to pay the interest on the bonds, and to provide a slaking fund and re tire the beads. W More than this, the sowar might products might be used to aeveiop a truck and trait rmwin district aorta ef Saleat, extending dowa to old Champoeg or further, that would; he more - productive wan tne vauey-ot the- Nile. Thus the-present loud and long smeiw lug nuisaace down, by the Willam ette river's water front in Salem may be so transformed as to add vast wealth to Salem, and an aa auauy greatly added business and interne to this city add section. It can be made to multiply our can nery and packing plant income by twenty. And It can be dona witnont lag the taxpayers a cent AU it needs is their backing. The svs tem will itself pay Its own expend see, and in time pay for its own construction eost Why wait? Why quibble? Ask any competent en gineer. There are plenty ef them now on the state's payrolls. There are plenty of them la private Ufa. The plans and specifications may be had front 40 American cities that have already been thronrh the preliminaries or have the go ing plants. ; . : Here Is where friend Merehan and his farmers north of Salem come In By helping themselves they may help all Salem and all the - surrounding . country a a d more especially the country dis tricts along the river oa the north. when the city builds its sew age disposal system. It win pay to move ue laeinerater and seU the sue for factory, for if will be needed. . - ' --The.Oreaoa Statesman and Tha Portland . Telegram. - two ereat dames for 1 0 cents per month. To order, phone 600. j Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Bead October 12, 1804 The Commercial club, at Its meeting last night, passed resolu tions asking that a delegation call attention of the federal engineer department to the revetment work necessary to protect the banks of the river here. "The Aumsvllle Buzz Saw As sociation" has been formed at that town, primarily to protect farm ers of that district from trespass ing of hunters. The 104 assessment rolls for Marion county indicate a prosper ous condition, with gross valua tion of taxable property 1126,225 more than last year, and net val uation almost a million more. Walter Walling for some time with the Joseph Meyers and Sons' store, has gone to Portland to re side. 9 A . ; '"" M M mJ b '"-.. " . . ..: ," - -.. ......... ....... iseiccsiiEi WASH1NGTOIIL Oct 11. t AP) Subpoenal were prepared today for the first of the witness es to be called by the senate lob by committee when it opens hear ings of those interested la the pending- tariff measure next Tues day. The decision to begin the In quiry en that day and to an tariff witnesses first was reached today as the committee of five headed by Senator Caraway, democrat, Arkansas.1 organised. Jut who the first witness wilt be has not been determined and will be announced only after the ubpoenaes haTe been served. It It known, howver, that Senator Caraway intends to call early in the bearings Joseph R, Grundy, representative of the American tariff league, and William Bur gess, et Trenton, K. J., a former republican member of the tariff commission. Burgess has been in Washing ton while the tariff bin has been before the senate. Grundy has been hero almost constantly sines the bin was started through the house last winter. Chairman Caraway also an nounced today that Charles I Eyas son, an employee of the Con necticut Manufacturers' associa tion, who waa employed by Sen ator Bingham, republican, Connee. tieut, to assist him in his work oa the finance committee in framing the tariff measure would be called. "Mr. Eyanson will be given am ple opportunity to explain his Aon ble salary," the senator said. L IS GOING H6 LAKE LABISH, October 11. A beautiful flag adorns Perkins-Ma-plewood school. The interior of the building has been painted and the floors oiled. The attendance Is increasing and school work for the year Is going steadily forward. The school Is In charge of Miss Thelma Barnett or the Oregon Normal school. Willard Matthes Is chairman of the school board. Henry Glrod and George Campbell are board members with W. A. Mumper, clerk. ' s WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. (AP) Censorship of books by cus toms inspectors provoked a live ly literary discussion in the sen ate today as Senator Cutting, re publican. New Mexico. Opened an attack on a section of the tariff bill restricting Importation of lit erature. The debate ranred all the way from the classical "Arabian mm SHP They Speak Your Language mHERE was a time when you had to take an interpreter into the stora -with you when yon went sfcoppino;, a.few handrerl miles from homt. Tho things they had for gala wen hard to recognize. Even familiar pro dacta were sold in strange forms, and under exeer names. It waa one of the disadvantages of travel that had to be taken alon with the pleasures. , Nowadaya the millions of Americans who go visiting their neighbor! North, Srath, East Wtd West; encounter no roch difficulty, Tha pictur esque beauty, the quaint eustoms that make other sections of the country, different and delightful have all their old appeal. You can stm hear mel low mission bells in California. Yon can eat terrapin in Baltimore, or sleep in 4 Vermont farm-house under an Ethan Allen quflt But in any. - of these localities you can buy your favorite toilet soap, or breakfast cer eal, or automobile tires as readily as in your own town. . t The trad-riutfks and the packages speak your language. National advertising has made good brands of merchandise uniformly known front coast to coast. If yon read the advertisements and use advertised goods, yen are at hozae la any store la America . Named ! 4 Sir William Wiseman, associated with the banking firm of Kaha Loeb and Company In New York, was aamed as the aathor ef the mysterious document introduced la the fievaio iavestlgaUoa ef the lobby eetavltiee of William B. Bbeerer. Sir William, Immediate ly Issued a denial of the author. ship of the doenmest aad de clared It forgery. Nights' to tie more recent publi cation of "All Quiet on the Wes tern Front." When the senate Quit work for the day. Cutting stni had the floor, and the opin ions of a dozen senators were in the record. No vote was taken on his amendment to eliminate the censorship section. From the time that Cutting produced a "blacklist" of 71 books barred from entry into this country, the question excited un usual Interest, all the senators present more than half of the membership taking chairs around him and giving close at tention to what he had to say. He did not read the list. The "blacklist," Cutting said, showed the "depth of absurd-lty" to which officials went In forbid ding entry to books. On the list were the names of Boccaclo, Artl sophanes and Voltaire, and In cluding In It were books in Span ish, French, Italian and English. PHTSICIAW ACQUITTED MED FORD, Ore., Oct. 11. (AP) Dr. A. A. Soule. Klamath Falls physician, charged with vio lation of the Harrison narcotic act by selling drugs to an admitted addict, was found not guilty today by a jury which heard the case in federal court here. PRISON CHIEF FIXED PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 11. (AP) Lerenso Wright, superin tendent of the Arizona state pri son, was adjudged In contempt of court here today, and ordered to pay a fine of $1,000 for allow ing a prisoner to live outside the penitentiary. BRUSH COLLEGE' CUE MEETS Memorial Service and Pro- gram Follow Dinner for Members BRUSH COLLEGE. October 1U The Brush College Grange held Its regular monthly meeting at the school house Friday. October 4. Mrs. Oliver Whitney and Mrs. Charles MeCarter had charge of the bountiful 4:10 o'clock dinner which was served In the kitchen ette in the basement. FoHowIng the dinner npmortet services for Miss Nellie Taylor were held. Mrs. Marie Fllat Mo-Call,-lecturer and Ralph Scott, chaplain draped the altar and Glenn Adams, grange master gave an impressive talk on the life of Miss Taylor. Mrs. W. D. Henry recited a touching verse as she placed a beautlfe-bouquet of roses on the altar and Mrs. R. B. Uttley pro vided a very nttlng finale to the ceremony when she sang "The City Foursquare." Mrs. Uttley waa accompanied oa the piano br Mrs. Corydoa Blodgett. The memorial services preceded the program which follows: read ing: "Beautiful Willamette," by iJonaia Ewfng. readlnn. "The Quest," by Ruth Whitney, readiar "Could I Forget.- by Mrs. Van Trump of Salem and Mrs. Via Trump gave a splendid talk oa horticulture. CLASS OFFICERS RICKREALL. October 11. The different classes of Rlckreall high school elected their officers for the first semester of this yesr. The senior officers are oresi- dent, Eva Mae Hamilton, vice pres- laent, Edna Middleton, secretary and treasurer, Robert Hamilton, advisor, F. M. Mitchell. The officers- of the Junior class are Henry Morrow, president, vica president, Katherlae Price, secre tary and treasurer Lois Vernon. and advisor, S. H. Huth. The sophomore class. Drasldent. Dorothy Middleton, vice president, Delma Brown, secretary, Ralph Dempsey, treasurer. Dean Allen, and advisor, s. H. Huth. The freshman class officers. president, John Oliver, secratarr. Edna McCrow, treasurer, Gordon Bihl. and advisor. Miss Phenicie. Coming Monday Fox Elsinore TKI1XO BLACK CROIYS MIES M$r