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. -PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN;- Salem, Oregon, Sanday Morning; October 20,1929 ATo Faror Sways Us; No Fear Shall Atce." From First Statesman, March. 23, 1S51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Sfrague, Sheldok F. Sackett, Publiskert Crakles A. S pracue ... Editor-Manager Sheldon 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. Psclfie Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc.. Portland, Security Bidg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bids. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave. Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. Entered at the Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Clare Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office 215 S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail Subscription Rates, in Advance. Within Oregon; Dally and Sunday, 1 Mo. 50 cents; 3 Mo. $1.25; 0 Mo. 2.25; 1 year 14.00. Elsewhere 50 cents per Mo. or $5.00 for 1 year ia advance. By City Carrier: 50 cents a month; $5.50 a year in advance. Something iojiook Forward to The Business of Auto Retailing WE wonder if there is any business where the promise of auick profits is more alluring and the realization more disappointing than in the automobile retailing business. ItJ . - . . . . i i i i is bad enough among manuiacturers 01 cars, Dut conmuons are worse among the retailers. Changes of models, trade-ins, dumping of cars by manufacturers, price-cuts, shifts in popu lar fancy all work against steady profits in motor car retail ing. The boys who are in the game say that is what makes it interesting, they never can tell from one day to the next what is going to happen. The set-up makes it hard for the automobile dealer. The manufacturers sign him up for a certain, quota of cars which he must take or lose his franchise ; nexjt year the sales man .ager comes out from the" factory, calls-a whoopee meeting of the dealers in Portland at a big hotel, shows pictures of the new knock-out model, and signs the boys up for a fifty per cent bigger quota. The dealer comes home and starts dig ging. The cars keep rolling in from the factory. If they dont roll out fast enough he gets caught. Then he starts bidding upon used hacks so as to move his new stuff. Quick ly he finds that instead of selling cars he has been buying them and has a warehouse full of spavined heaps yearning for the motor graveyard. - Or again the factory may decide to change its line of cars. The price is slashed on the care in stock on which the dealer takes his loss, then he is out of merchandise for months while the factory gets into production. In the case of Ford the dealers were almost out of business for two years. Car buying psychology is a fickle thing. One time it runs to Pontiacs, another time to Hupps or again to Chevro lets. The same way in the bigger cars Nash and Buick and Studebaker and Chrysler. There is the zest of -competition in the business to be sure; but the mortality rate is heavy among the dealers. The president of Willys-Overland has announced a new policy by that company. They are not going to step up their production this year, instead will continue at present levels. President Miller of that organization thinks the old program ,- of increasing manufacturing schedules each year threatens to overwhelm the whole industry with disaster. -The writer has seen retailer after retailer of automobiles retire from the automobile business and mighty few of them got out whole. Some of course didn't get started right in the first place; but in the majority of cases it was the fiercely competitive conditions of the business which prevented them from succeeding. For automobile retailing to become a real ly healthy and stable industry there will have to be changes of Dolicv on the part of many manufacturers, and change of policy respecting taking used cars in trade on the part of the dealers themselves. ' - Marion County Club Work IlHE club work which has been carried on in Marion county JL under the rural school supervisor in the county superm tendent's office faces suspension because of lack of funds. Faced with need for additional clerical hire in the office to care for the work, the county superintendent sought aid from Jthe state college extension service which iias funds for car rying on club work. The interview of Mrs. Fulkerson stat ing that the extension service would not come through with any money was correct, but it failed to state why money would not be appropriated to Marion county when it is being spent In other counties. . ! The reason for it is In the wording of the laws under which this money is appropriated. Under the state law where a county votes money to be expended cooperatively with the extension service of the college in agricultural or home economics demonstration work then the extension ser vice will appropriate from its funds derived jointly from.1 federal and state funds and carry on the work hi the county which cooperates. Marion, county has made BO such appro priation. Consequently this county has no county agent; it has.no dub leader; it has no home economics worker. The county superintendent's office has tried to fill the gap in sponsoring club work; but that does not comply with the terms of the law under which the money may be supplied -by the extension service. Marion county ought to have a county agent. Very few counties which have tried out such an office have abandoned , it. IThe county court would do well to include in its 1930 budget an ADDronriation for cooperation with the state col lege to cover work of a county agent and a county club leadP . . a a a . 1 u i er. Tne ciud wonc ougni not to oe aoanaonea, ana 11 ine court is progressive as in 29 other counties in the state, it will provide its share of funds to carry- the work forward. 1021 - . HUI Lay lrmniOBiS" SAYINGS AND BOOKS "And all the mrinf wer I4 sbeut throughout U tfce-kUl country t Jade." Lnk 1:65. Such is the rlfin of Bibles and great epic poems and literatures of primitive peoples. There is the "noising about" from month to month in hill country and on the plains. Job sits at the door of his tent and hears the gossip of dis tant Bedouin shleks through the travelers of the desert who come his way. A Greek professor in Alexandria hears from a neighbor ing Jew about some new and unique teacher In Jerusalem who ran foul of the priests and was executed on tne cross. Miriam's song of victory is snng in many villages and at many camps, car ried by vagrant troubadours. "When 'Omer smote 'is bltfom ia lyre, 'E'd -'eard men sing on land and sea. And what 'e thought 'e might require, B went and took the same as me." So Kipling described the plag iarism of Homer, who caught up the verses of Greek tradition and gave them permanence and his own name as author, the final setting down in lltera tury form of the sayings and the stories of the Hebrew people. For instance, nothing was written of the gospels until toward the end of the first century. Mark was the first gospel written, and it was in part derived from an ear lier work on the sayings of Jesus. The gospel of John, the last to be written, had the earlier gospels and the traditions as source ma terial. Folk have been slow in learn ing the truth about the composi tion of the Bible. To many It has been an object of worship, an idol almost, "very God of very God.;: Biligent inquiry has disclosed how the Bible is a growth, how it has been altered by zealous redactors and translators. There is of course no original manuscript of either the old or new testament. Our oldest copies of the old testa ment are in Greek and not He brew which was presumably the original language in which it was written. Protestants replaced the doc trine of an inerrant person with that of an inerrant book, and bib iolatory resulted. As they have learned that the Bible itself is not The Hebrew Bible represents something to be worshipped but to be studied as the setting down. Of the spiritual experiences of a profoundly religious people, they have foand new revelaUons of truth. They have seen the strug gles of a nation and of individual souls; they have seen the evolu tion of religious ideas from the crude pugnacity of the early i" realties to the fine philosophic idealism of Christ and his follow ers. The noising about of sayings how many, many of them were lost and never caught in the per manent form of the written or printed word. Trusted to the mem ory and the speech, the sayings died as soon as they were uttered save for the few that were pre served in psalm or proverb or pro phecy or history. Sometimes In reading the Bible one might let his mind drift to those far-off days when these things were real ly being said "throughout all the hill country of Judea," he might picture the characters in the dia logue, and reflect too on the words which perished. THUG VERY POLITE PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 19 (AP) E. W. Calkins, service sta tion operator, was knocked uncon scious and robbed here early to day by a "polite" thug who greet ed him with a cheery "good morn ing" then slugged him with a blackjack. Calkins told police he lost $109. - tt. Ktae ratlin S7ctc. be, CMI Brtttia rIMs BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS V Yakima Considers Manager Plan "7AKIMA is voting on a city manager plan of government. J. I Not that Yakima has had any political eruption or cor- .. rupjtion so far as the record discloses, but because some folk think the nineteenth century model ought to be replaced with a 1930 machine for running city affairs. The Yakima Re public makes this comment about the campaign over the change in the charter: t That really isn't very surprising. Comparatively few people are interested in government in .this country except on pecasions where their pet prejudices of religion or their private business interests are involved. We prate about pop ular government and then fail even to vote when the elec tions are held. It takes thundering from the. pulpits, col ' umns of newspaper appeals- and th.e muster of all thejelubs in the commnnifarlrom rotary to.boy icouts to get the.vote out! at an and make even a respectable showing, of oar -'good citizenship." ; .-a v k-:" " ,-f lit Salem where there has been a merry war between mayor and council, .probably only ' thirty-two people outside "the officeholders and. the newspaper -reporter know, what It is all abotfTrif anything. The rest of the public. lets George ' do it or not, just as George feels' like. AH the public, wants is to Je let alcne antftheprofeI Uto that nicely. . j':?rv-":v-' The manager form of government fa being" boosted now :- just as the commission form of government was being boost- a4 fxsrpTifw tmm atro ' Tfc ha mnr.h in mmmenrl it. bnt in the hands of skilled grafters the" city canzger would have plenty A remarkable memory: w V The Bits man has been trying to piece together the events con nected with the visit of the fa mous Bishop Simpson in 1854,' when he attended the second an nual Oregon conference of the Methodist church, held, in the Belknap Settlement in Benton county. S U Valuable aid has been render ed In the gathering of photo graphs and materials by Hon. R. J. Nichols, born in that year in that settlement, and living there ever since. Of course, bis mem ory does not extend back to the events of the great bishop'a visit, 76 years ago, bnt bis recoUectlons of the talks he beard by those who were there and attended the meetings and heard the addressee are yet fresh. Mr. Nichols waa 11 when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, on April 14, 18 SB. Bishop Simpson delivered the iun eral oration at the tomb of Lin coln, at Springfield, Ilinois, fol lowing the procession of mourn ing from the nation's capital with the body of the martyred presi dent. The closing words of that funeral oration have been held in the memory of Mr. Nichols for all the more than C4 years since they were uttered and carried in the public prints of the day. In a letter of a few days ago to .the Bits man. written in long hand. Mr. Nichols quoted correctly most of the words all of the begin ning sentences, and the closing one. The last paragraph of the orajion was in fuu as follows: w "Chieftain, farewell! The na tion mourns thee. Mothers shall teach thy name to their lisping children. The youth of our land shall emulate thy virtues. States men shall study thy record, and from it learn lessons of wisdom Mute thoftxh thy lips be, yet they still spealc Rushed Is thy voice, but Its echoes lot liberty are ring ing throngh the world, and the sons of bondage listen with lor. thou didst fall not for thyself The assassin had no hate tor thee uur nearts were aimed at: our national life was sought. We crown thee as eur ntartyr. and Humanity enthrones (he as her triumphant son. Here, martyr, mend, farewell." . . Bishop Sampson was a great mend of Lincoln. The renowned church leader saw more clearly than most men of his day the im pending struggle, and drew back from It with greater horror and sanaaeriag tnan tne average American. He deplored war. hut . A - a . .... ne ieu me imposstDiutv or com promise on the issues that led to to the conflict. The unwisdom of proposals looking, to compromise he say clearly, too. "But after the war wis on. Bish op Simpson, waa the most power ful orator of the nation, and the most persistent and vigorous. In urging its prosecution to final victory that would bring lasting peace and a reunited union. In SO cities throughout the northern states he deUvered his great war speech, "The Future of Our Coun- Ty." In this address, that brought every member of great listening throngs to his or her feet, shout- isg or weeping, he held there were but four aossible iasuea ef the war: 1. The nation, might be destroyed and placed under the control of a foreign power. 2. The nation might be divided Into two or more confederacies. S. constitution, or through the con stitution. If it will preserve the Constitution, It Is constitutional." w s s "Then, Bishop, you believe hat emancipation, though unconstitu tional in peace time, could be Jus tified as a war measure?" asked Lincoln. "Precisely." replied Bishop Simpson, "justified and necessary." Concluded Lincoln: "I will do this thing at the ear liest pact lea ble moment." S Bishop Simpson was the great est religious orator of his day. nd one of the greatest preachers of all time. Not attractive in ap pearance, carelesa and nlain la hi dress, tall, ungainly and timid ia bis actions, when he warmed to his subject he seemed to' be come inspired, and his hearers lost all control of themselves and were as puppets moved by hie mighty, hand. He had the genius otf oratory that the world given to few; like that described y Shakespeare in Mark Antony. m m Is it any wonder that the peo ple of the Belknap Settlement, in tn backwoods of earl Oregon, were brought to their . feet and The south might win and south- f.? L5W J PrraUdtr thVVnles4 r thU riZ. Ir. ; ' I a11, arriving in tueir midst be- "' ""tBMtKl with mnA (rMn t 1- K. fit,.. ..... A I --.- " .wu .ir-r;r-' r.r fr . horseback i u a - wwivt I Btr&nlra tTiat th Toariln' wnman of the. settlement should say his words were ringing in her ears and singing in her heart 10 years H There was no speech of the! period that compared with it; no soul si: is. st w-i: ; SKr-rasa thing like his hold upon his hear ers. He often ecbstltpted for Lin coln in public addresses. He was everywhere in the work of the S This man walked Into Salem. his tired horse given out, on Sat urday, April 25, on his way from Trl.h ? th. jog supporting the arms of the north; in caring for the sick and wound' ed soldiers, in building hospitals. in raising such sums of money for an tnese purposes as the world up to tnat time bad never seen contributed for such needs. S S school house in the Belknap Set tlement. His mala sermon In the log school house of tne Belknap Set tlement was the same one he af terwards preached to the largest Bishop Simpson was much wlthlT.!. TL. MM"I President Lincoln and members . ' " t i-h hi v-uitn m.v of his war cabinet. He was wltk SS,WS? J 25 the president at the time of deci sion concerning his emancipation proclamation. Lincoln said: "Bishop, I have always stood agalsst . the extension of slavery Sato new territory, but have main tained that the constitution pro tects the institution where it now exists. Any interference with the right of property In slaves would be unconstitutional." Bishop Simpson replied: "We are doing many things now that! In peace time wonld be unconsO- ers of Europe were present. What waa good enough for the pioneers in their homespun la the begin ning days of civilisation In Ore gon. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read October SO, 1904 An exhibition -of fine amateur tatlonaL For Instance, we are I phbtogritphr has been arranged shooting down American citizens. I at the residence of Mrs. Claud The constitution gives them life,! Oaten. The pictures are sent out liberty, and the pursuit of happi-lin what In known as the 'Salon ness. When the constitntlon Is 1 nortfolfoa" trader a Mftam arir- Imperlled and a rebellion Is on, I mated br Curtlss Bell of the Met- the first right the constitution hasiropoUtau camera club of New Is self-preservation; and if grant- tork. Invited contributors partt- ins freedom to the slaves would I efoatinr In Oregon inelnda only help to preserve the constitution. I care not whether the act goes over the constitution, or around the constitution, or under the Portland persoaS and Mrs; Catch of this city. A Cinder travesty We see by our morning paper That our cinders will soon be gone; What shall we do without them, These "Friends who've been with us so long? No more shall our eyes be smarting And our mouths be filled with grit ; . Our clothes plastered with sooty spots, Until we nearly fall in & fit. No more can we look to the sky above And see come wafting down ., Those tiny, sooty, clinging specks, That light without a soond. - , No more can the many, tourists Who've admired "tar parks and flowers, Leave to tell of the sight they saw During a Salem "cinder shower. All these pleasures will be denied us, " Brft be of courage my friefid; Perhaps this is only another promise Upon which we should not depend. ; : "Mrs. Geo. HrLaVelle. Salem, Oregon. The republicans have finally de cided upon November 1 as the day for their grand whoop-np in honor of Roosevelt and Fairbanks. A street parade with ? bands. flambeaux and ether infernal ma chines to make noise will be In the line of the night spectacle. Governor Z, V. Moody la mak ing some repairs to the front of hjs handsome residence oa the corner of Winter and Court streets. A new aad enlarged por tico is to add to the beauty of the court street side. O : OTHER EDITORS ONIOX OMELET WAS GOOD A cooking school teacher said down at Salem the ether day that women pay out It per cent of the i family Income, and that la too big a part of It for her to handle. : We take be stock la this part of the lady's lecture, out we are bound to say that the onion, ome let about which she told next sounds good to us. Yakima Re public. ii i iii 'More than. MOO.000 fruit trees mow are growing in tne. Kto he Charm of & Coat or Dress -the making of which you su- $3.75 IN DRESS materials too, there's a wide selection. Poiret Twills, the finest weave that we have ever shown. The colors are blue, green, red and mocha, yd. Wool ChaUies, all the patterns are dark this year instead AO of light, yd. UOC 30 Inch flannels for dresses, in plain colors, yard. , -, mm. J 40 inch wool georgette . 54 inch silk and wool stripes and plaids of tweed mixtures, yd. children's 98c $1.98 I novelty $2.98 pervised is enhanced by -materials from KAFOURY BROS. One of the prides of this famous store for women Is Its department of ready-to-make yard goods. Here are described only a few of the numbers now being shown. FOR COATS there's no limit to the materials 54 inch Astrachan, for children's coats, or for trimming, o qq yard $O,u0 54 inch Downy wool, unusually di QC? fine in texture, yard plD 54 inch Flannel Coating, light- nr weight and pretty, yd. $D 54 inch Vekur, in a number of d0 QO Bmartly popular colors, yd. )0 Mixed Tweed Coatings, these are the new est materials out, rr yard spOefD Broadcloth, in the celebrated Kitten's Ear finish, brown and black are the r A colors, yd. $4.95 and spUeD" Tur trim In Fitch, black and brown, widths from one to si Inches, and also made up In collar and euff sets. QUARTERLIES ARE ON HAND FOR YOUR SELECTION OF PATTERNS THREE STORES TO SHRVB TOTJ PORTLAND SALEM EUGENB 255 No. Liberty oNNOUNCEMENT Mt. P. J. 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