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From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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Roads to Romance
INE of the big oil companies has been running an adver
' tising campaign by radio and billboard and newspaper on
the theme "Roads to Romance." The idea is the romance
that attends the great highways of the west coast, and each
advertisement depicts a different portion of the romantic
roads which link the coast country. Very good, but what else
besides romance do "Jack and Ethyls find when they set out
on, our pavement ribbons? Let us hope .they find romance,
which has the faculty of turning up at the oddest moments
anjd in the most unlikely situations.
Alas, so much of beauty is gone from the roadsides that
we wonder what possibility there may be for the flowering
of tender fancy. You may think right away of the garish
billboard lining the highway and shutting off views of scenes
"of Tare beauty, a glimpse of a snow peak or the long stretch
of tree-dotted valley. But the billboards are things of beauty
compared with the shacks which fringe the roadside. We
can think of nothing except the backyards of factories more
offensive to the eye than many of the architectural herma
phrodites that flit by the autoist. Combination of shed or
cabin, of store and residence, of fruit stand and gas station
one's esthetic sense is badly mutilated by the time he has
made a half-day's journey.
Not that we would bar these essential services from the
roads. They have a place, an important place, if your tire
blows out between towns, or the gas tank suddenly registers
a low- What we wish is that these roadside stations might
be made, all of them as some are now, attractive in design
and in setting. One turns instinctively in at the station
, which is neat, not barricaded by garish signs, with perhaps
a patch of flowers to soothe the eye Too many of these
stands are like Topsy, they "just growed." Begun as a gas
station, a lean-to is built for tire repair; later on the opposite
side an annex for dispensing hot-dogs is added. The whole
is painted with loud-speaker paint and proclaimed far down
the highway with glaring signs.
"Beauty costs so little, why may we not have more of it?
We spend thousands of dollars to lure tourists this way to
spend their money. One of the best places for an advertis
ing dollar is in beautifying the stations along the tourist
roads. The way to accomplish this is not by laws with fines
and penalties. The proper way is through education-r-and
through patronage. Prosperity and adversity may be the
quickest eliminators of the unfit. If trade goes to the next
station, then the owner of the shack soon senses he must
"fix up" to hold his business. The associations of tourist
camp people may take a strong stand for improvement of the
wayside station which will go far. Clubs might find this a
'sensible "activity" if promoted with tact.
The United States is not alone in combatting this inva
sion of the countryside. We note the following in a British
weekly which shows that they are having the same struggle
in rural England to preserve its native charm. We feel con
fident that improvement will come and that in time the optic
pangs that attend a ride in the country will grow less acute.
Here is the comment from the English press:
"Except tor the active rambler, escape from the reek of petrol
and the din of engines is almost impossible even ia those- parts of
England whose quiet used to match their beauty. The offence to the
eye of rash, unsightly building which the Council, for the Preserva
tion of Rural England is doing Its desperate best to stem la accom
panied by assault on the ear and nerves that is equally intolerable.
The motor-coach grinds its way on bottom gear ever mountain passes
that a few years ago heard no sound but the cry of sheep and curlew.
The thoughtless picnic party strews its bottles and wrappings in
copse and glen. The speculative builder follows hard on the road
maker, screening the sight of the country from the wayfarer with
his ribbon-built bungaloid growths. The press is rite with com.
plaints, but the spoiling of England still overtakes the protests. Yet
these are based not on sentiment but on common sense. Amenity,
at its lowest, has a cash value. There wiU be little to attract even
the day tripper ki an England criss-crossed with shack-lined roads
that probe to its remotest and most secret places and bring to them
the noise and aspect of suburbia." .
Gurtoning the Tariff Track
IT begins to look" as though Mark Sullivan's .prediction of
no tariff legislation in this special session would prove
correct- The conference of the factional leaders on Monday
.produced no agreement. The western guerillas are out to
pot-shot, hamstring, hog-tie and eventually to draw and quar
ter the senate bilk The democrats are out to drag out the
law-making so the bill will carry over into the regular session
and face competition from appropriation and supply bills for
consideration. The longer the bill is postponed, the nearer
press the primaries and the elections. The democratic strat
orrv i frt mnVf trip hill seem as odious as nossible before its
enactment and then to time
elections that they can head
hpm intn nower at the
the Payne-Allrich bill of 1909 as a precedent which was fol
lowed by democratic capture of the house in 1910.
Thorp is nntriinc tn that nolitical nrecedent. The pro
posed tariff bill tries to be
thprp isn't much chance for
even if it passes close to election time. At least, the country
has no faith that the democrats would write a better bill,
no matter what it passed.
TVio niihlic i not vit&llv
iff. It will have no pronounced effect on our national pros-
. . a a al-
perity. The important tning
business wiM not be kept on
TaHff-makin is the skilled
interest, of national and local
of jungle-greed:
"Let him get who has the power,
And let him keep who can'
Temperance Progress in Britain
SOME progress gratifying to friends of temperante is not
ed in the reports of licensing statistics for England, and
Wales. Since 1904 the number of "public houses' or licensed
liquor saloons has decreased ty "20,675r The" decline during
. -1928 was 527' The number of registered clubs where liquor
is sold has grown by 6,404 since 1904 and increased by 294
: in 1928. Perhaps -it shows that in England as in America
' liquor consumption has increasetLamong the elite club mem
bers and declined among the' frequenters of old-fashioned
aaloons end public houses. ' , . . v
' The convictions for drunkenness in England and Wales
that passage so close to the
a revolt against it wnicn wiu
1930 elections- They Doint to
generous with everybody and
an organized revolt aeainst it
interested in the nroDOsed tar
is to get it out oi tne way so
the end of the plank forever.
jueelinsr of public and private
interests. It is an exhibition
President Hoover Sees
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during 1928 were fewer than for any year since 1918. The
number was 55,642, which is 9,524 smaller than in 1927.
Sixty per cent of the arrests took place on week-ends.
BITS for BREAKFAST
-By R. J. HENDRICKS
JL historic suggestion:
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A friend of the Bits man ad
vances this idea: "Allow me to
suggest than an Item of historic
interest will be the finding of peo
ple now living who were born in
Champoolck county, Oregon; also
those living who were born, say
the first year of the life of Mar
ion county."
The friend adds: "On Septem
ber 3, 1849, the house and council
passed the act changing the name
of Champoolck county to that of
Marion. Living near Champoeg
park is Hugh Cosgrove, born in
January, 1849, in Champoolck
county, and he has lived his entire
life there. Whether his sister,
Mrs. D. H. Wagner the mother of
'Baz' Wagner, who lives in' Sa
lem, Is older, I know not."
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The friend adds: W. B. McKay
living on the old home place near
Champoeg, was born In December
1849, and may be the first per
son born in Marion county. Cham
poolck was made a county July
5, 1843. I am of the opinion that
F. M. Smith of Turner was born
in Champoolck county, and pos
sibly L. F. Smith ot Tangent. Yet
I guess that L. F. Smith was born
in Linn county."
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(The Bits man's friend who
makes the suggestion is slightly
Inaccurate when he says Cham
poolck was made a county July
6, 1843. It was made a district on
that date. There were then created
(under the provisional govern
ment) four districts. First, Twal
lty district, second Yamhill, third
Clackamas, and fourth Champoo
lck. and Champoolck district was
bounded as follows: "Qn the north
by a line supposed to be drawn
from the mouth of the Anchiyoke
river running due east to the
Rocky mountains, west by the
Willamette or Multnomah river
and. a supposed line running due
south from said river to the 42nd
parallel, south by the northern
boundary line of California, and
east by the summit of the Rocky
mountains." (Quite a good sized
county, containing most of the
territory that is now Oregon, Ida
ho and parts of Montana and Wy
oming.) The Anchiyoke river of
Western Bectrle
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that day was the Pudding river of
the present. Multnomah was the
early name of the Willamette
river.)
However, the suggestion of the
Bits man's friend la a good one.
Who are the other living persons
born la Champoolck district or
county, and the first ones .born in
Marion county 7 (There was also
a Champoolck county, for the law
making body of the provisional
government changed the designa
tion of the districts to that of
counties. The change of the name
from Champoolck county to Mar
lon county was by the territorial
legislature on September 3, 1849.
The designation of districts lasted
until the session of the provislon
ol government legislature of 1846.
That year Champoolck county was
born, out of Champoolck district.)
The legislature of 1144 (provi
sional government) consisted of
the foUowing eight members:
Twallty: P. H. Burnett, M. M.
McCarver, David Hill and Matthew
Gllmore. Clackamas: A. L. Love
joy. Champoolck: Daniel Waldo,
T. D. Kaiser and Robert Newell.
Yamhill was entitled to one, but
was unrepresented. That year the
whole early system of laws was
enacted. In that session, on the
petition of Rev J. L. Parrish, Clat
sop district was added. That made
five districts. Originally, in mak
ing the provisional government
laws in 1843, there was an inten
tion to have five districts, one of
them to include all the territory
north of the Columbia, in what is
now Washington and on up to the
southern line of Alaska. But the
language was more or less vague,
and there were other reasons for
disregarding the Inclusion of the
fifth district the one above the
Columbia river. One of the reas
ons was the danger of giving of
fense to the Hudson's Bay com
pany people, which might lead to
war. This contention certainly
would have led to war with Great
Britain, had it not been for the
wise leadership of Jesse Apple
gate. The provisional government leg
islature of 184S was as follows:
Champoolck district: Robert New
ell,- J. M. Garrison. M.' O. Foisey
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and barton Lee. Clackamas: H.
A. G. Lee, William H. Gray and
Hiram Straight. Twality: M. M.
McCarver, Isaac W. Smith and Da
vid Hill. Yamhill: Jesse Applegate
and Abijah Hendricks. Clatsop:
John McClure.
Jesse Applegate was the lead
er in the 1845 provisional legis
lature, meeting, of course, at The
Falls (Oregon City), and there
were three separate sessions. That
year Vancouver district was cre
ated Including the whole of what
is now Washington and British
Columbia. There was an attempt
to make two counties for of the
country north of the Columbia,
and to call them Lewis and Clark.
But Jesse Applegate was in favor
of the name district Instead of
county, and he wanted only one
district, and so It stood, and so
also the change to the name coun
ty instead of district was deferred
till the 1846 session. Then the
provision was made for two coun
ties, Lewis and Clark, beyond the
Columbia river, and all the dis
tricts were designated as counties.
At the session of the provision
al legislature of 1845, a commit
tee for the revision of the organ
ic laws was appointed, composed
of Jesse Applegate, H. A. G. Lee,
Robert Newell, Isaac W. Smith
aad John McClure. Applegate in
his Spartan simplicity demanded
that few changes be made from
the original organie laws and the
1844 amendments. But he insisted
upon a new oath of office and an
amendment to the land laws, so
that any resident might hold 640
acres (or a mile square), and that
a partnership of two residents
might hold that much land, with
out residing on both halves of it,
and that no distinction should be
made as to color, sex, etc., thus
allowing a man and his wife to
each hold $20 acres. Also, a law
was Insisted upon that a man (or
woman) might bear arms in his
or her defence.
The oath administered to the
members of the provisional gov
ernment legislature was provided
to be as follows: "I do solemnly
swear that I will support the or
ganie laws of the provisional gov
ernment of Oregon, so far as they
are consistent with my duties as a
citizen of the United States or a
ubjeet of Great Britain, and
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faithfully demean myself in of
fice; so help me God.
There was objection by the hot
heads to the words, "or a sub
ject of Great Britain," in the oath.
But Jesse Applegate was wiser
than they were. He was commis
sioned to negotiate with Dr. Mc
Loughlln and other officials of
the Hudson's Bay company. The
result was that at a point In the
negotiations, to avoid being made
to support the Oregon provisional
government In toto, a proposition
was made by Dr. McLoughlln and
his associates that their company
should pay taxes only on the goods
sold to the white Inhabitants of
the country and so the minds of
the participants in the delicate
conference met and the great
company a overlords who had rul
ed this vast domain became, with
all the British residents, parties
to the political compact of Oregon.
This was while joint occupancy
still existed. Jesse Applegate, as
was said above, thus was the man
who averted war between the
United States and Great Britain.
There Is ample proof to support
this assertion.
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The territorial legislature con
sisted of nine members of the
council (senate) and 18 members
of the house of representatives,
and in the first session, that of
1849, the members for Cham.
poolck county were: Samuel Par
ker and Wesley Shannon in the
council and W. W. Chapman, W.
S. Matlock and John W. Grim in
the house of representatives. It
was this session, meeting in July,
that changed the name of Cham
poolck county to Marion on Sep
tember 8, 1849.,
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Now for the suggestion of the
Bits man's friend: Let's have the
names of those who were born in
Champoolck district, aad i a
Champoolck county, and in Mar
ion county the first year (or sev
eral years) of its existence. What
a lot of historic events might be
embraced in such a collection of
biographical facts I
(Probably no one can say or
find just how and when and where
the spelling of Champoolck was
changed to Champoeg. It was
likely not done by any one act, but
came about gradually, which has
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Unofficial Acceptance Re
ceived at London Late
Yesterday
TOKYO, Oct. If (AP) For
mer Premier Reljiro Wakatsuki
and his associate members of the
Japanese delegation to the five
power naval conference to be held
in London In January will go by
way of America, it was learned
tonight. They- will sail on the
Shlnyo Mara from Yokohama on
December . and will be due to
arrive in San Francisco on De
cember 20.
LONDON, Oct. 1 (AP)Un
offlclal acceptance by all coun
tries of the invitation issued hj
Great Britain for a conference
looking toward naval limitation
to be held in London in January
had been received tonight. The
fact that the initial difficulty in
arranging for the conference had
been thus Quickly surmoanted
gave general satisfaction here and
great hopes were expessed that
some of the inevitable difficul
ties ia reaching eventual agree
ment may be smoothed away be
fore the conference actually as
sembles. The reply-of .Italy, announced
as an acceptance, was handed to
the foreign office today. The
text was not made public but it
was understood to contain some
reservations. The United States
already had made public actual
delivery of its acceptance.
From both Tokyo and Paris to
day earns word that the cabinets
had approved of acceptance, the
Japanese reply only awaits the
sanctioa of the emperor but that
of France has yet to be elaborat
ed. It will cause no surprise if
the French reply contains some
reservations which In certain re
spects may be similar to those un
derstood to have been made by
Italy.
In sending out the invitations
the British government had said
that it was prepared to elucidate
any point in the anglo-American
discussions desired and invited a
free exchange of opinions by the
governments previous to the con
ference. With the prolonged con
versations with America already
bearing fruit. It was felt here
that such preliminary discussions
might smooth away many of the
international difficulties remain
ing. London also was Interested In
the report that Japanese states
men on their way to the confer
ence might visit Washington for
an exchange of views.
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Town. Talks from The States
man Oar Fathers. Read
October 17, 1004
Cast of characters for the play,
"The Haskin' Bee, te be givea
by Weal anatear players next
week at the opera house, follows:
Upland Hay, Paul Sroat; Mrs. Up
land Hay, Bertha Kay; Sunflow
er Hay, Jotty Watson; Flaxey
Hay, Joe Wanderll; Timothy Hay
Roy Bishop; Red Top Hay, Ed
ward Hogue; Farmer Cornhopper,
Edgar Averfll; Mrs. Cornhopper,
Emma Miller; Shaeks Cornhop,
per, Ethel Raymond ; aad Tassel
Cornhopper, Clara Foster.
The fallowing roun neonle
from Marion county are students
at the Oregon Agricultural col
lege: Harry Benjamin Anld and
Belle Rebecca Bonner, Wood
burn; Leon Terry Bowser, Silver-
ton; William cuuen Bryant,
Hubbard: Oliver Kenneth Cole.
Turner: Harrr Clav Darby. S li
ve rt on; Gustace Frederick Ellen,
Aurora: Ronald Erie essou, uer
vals; Mark pee MeCalllster, Pra
tum; George Andrew Cathey and
ColUe ytlnt Cathey, Woodburn ;
Mabette Bee Keadys, Salem; Mer
rill Bruce Moeres, Salem; Albert
Mount and Ethel Louise 8mlth.
Silverton; Charles Raylor Parker,
Mabel Blanche Parker, Lloyd
Loyal Rebinson, Ralph Edward
Smith and Edwin Fred Wann.
Salem: Karl Stelwer. Jefferson I
and David Alvis Wright, Wood.
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