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pacc rein: - - . a V. "A'a Forw Sways U: Frr SforU Atre. From Pint statesman, liana IS. If 1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Pauus A. SnAGrr, Skcldoh F. fUcairt, PkWfclert CkaKLES A. Snucct . Editor-Manager . Sheldon F. Sacxttt - Uammoiaa-Sditar , Member of the I The Associated rrm fa exeiusfreir witiN to the use far publication of ill news dispatches credited to It or not other wdse credited la this paper, ' ... Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Styles, Inc., Portland; Eecority Bids; San Francisco, Share Bids.: Lm Angeles. W. Pae. Bids. astcrn Advertising RepreaeaUtttev Ferd-Psrseas-Steeher, Inc., New Tort, X71 Madison Ave. Chicago, 800 K. Bfichfgaa iff. Entered at the Petty fie at Salem. Oregon, a BaotmlCtata Matter. Published every aaenttnf except Monday. Basinet of fie 21S S. Commercial Street. . " , C ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Mail Subscription Rates, la Advance. Within Ore cob; Daily and Sunday, Mo. 80 eesU; 1 Mo. IMS; C Mo. 1.26; 1 rear 14.00. Elsewhere 80 eeata per Mo. or S5.it lor 1 year la advance. By City Carrier: SO eents a month; 15,50 a year la ad Tance. Per Copy 2 cents. Oa train, and Neva Stands S eeata. The Case of i A COURT ruling at Denver Xx the World lodge may not. . higher rates which would have -the older! members of the order. The old schedule provided insurance at low cost It was adopted when the lodge was young, and when it Was thought. insurance could safely be provided at such low rates. Thousands were attracted by the low rates and joined the increased as the men grew older, then the younger element asserted that insurance could not be provided at the old rates; and by gaining control ion of a new schedule, much members to pay the new rates in order to keep their insur ance in force. This is what the Denver court has set aside, . a ruling which will be appealed, it is announced. . There is something very pathetic in the situation of the older lodge members. With loyalty to the order and to their sense of obligation to thQse dependent upon them, they have kept op their assessments and lodge dnes feeline- secure in the protection which they felt the insurance fund would pro vide for their loved ones. Then to find the rates raised to lev els prohibitive to-many of them at a time of life when they . could obtain no other insurance, and when their earning pow er was diminished, the 1Iow is indeed a crushing one. On the other hand, if the estimates have turned out all wrong, this would be the situation, the reserves would be ex hausted and those who failed to die soon enough would, fail to benefit. The younger generation could hardly be expected to pay rates fair for themselves and at the same time to pay more in' order to take taure of the shortage for the older gen eration. They simply would not join the order if the rate3 were high, but would turn to corporations writing old line or legal reserve insurance. '. Perhaps the trouble lies with the laws governing fra ternal insurance in the past, or in the administration of the laws. The power of lodges in politics has been strong in the past, and that may have -prevented insurance executives from requiring insurance premiums for fraternal orders tvhich would be adequate. The claims for fraternal insur ance have been that it was cheaper, furnished at cost, that its expenses for commissions, salaries and overhead were less. On the other hand, the almost uniform results have been that fraternal or assessment insurance has ended by jumping its rates until now there is no longer the great dis parity as compared with old-line rates. Perhaps under the new rates fraternal insurance may conjuiue; but it has undoubtedly suffered in public esteem because of the errors or mismanagement of the past. In the Woodmen case if the older members win, it would seem that some of them must lose,, or else the order itself wrecked for lack of new recruits to carry the burden. Insurance is a business governed b an. arithemtic that knows no senti ment. In the past fraternal insurance has carried too much of sentiment and too little of mathematics. ; Stream Shortages and Power Plants IT is easy to think that hydro-electric power is much cheap er than power generated by combustion. Sometimes it is, but in Seattle and Tacoma there is being illustrated one rea- ': son why hydro costs run higher than it would seem they should. The run-off is so low that plants cannot generate enough power. The cities have ship now in Puget sound turn vuyir norse power, to supplement the hydro- plants which both cities have. The water power Plant to renerate the 45 most power must be built with run-off at its maximum flow. between the maximum and the try the maximum flow may not occur t. the season of great est demand. Now for instance demand is very heavy and all streams are low. A steam plant on the other hand is built to a certain capacity and can Steam plants are built in units and one or more units may be cut but when demand falls off. Plant investment for steam plants is far smaller per horsepower thanJor hydro-electric plants. ' The Puget Sound cities are notHhe only ones- suffering fforji the water shortage. In this territory the .power plants are lorced to run their steam auxiliaries to capacity. In the local plant the Pep Co. Is burning hog fuel and supplement ing i this with, fuel oil because the supply of hogfuel is not - sufficient. " . .:- , All of this illustrates this point: hydro-electric is by no means the cheap power which some people think it is. The : cost depends on the cost of plant installation, the length of the transmission lines to consuming centers, and the average cost of generating which depends on how constant the stream-flow is. In fact, if there is as marked an increase in efficiency in steam plants in the past, steam installations for-power projects even, in rich in potential power. From' sow on till December v ed Santas. All the lodges, service clubs, fire and ten cent stores, churches schools will dress hp some fellow In scarlet coat and be- whiskered mask to hand out cheap candy to boys and girls. By the time Christmas comes santa win nave worn out nis welcome, the . glad surprise Els visit ought to bring to wondering childhood will be ' missing, andthe day as meaningless aa merchandise to a truck-drirer. . .A political leader suffers the less he wins victories he is soon deposed as a leader. New Yorkers are grumbling under the leadership of Sam Koenig, president ot the republican committee, Because of the crushing party defeat of a week ago;" ; : - -!: " A Saa francisco traffic officer aays: "It-ta a little astonishing that it should be so much safer la the present day to kill a man with a motor car than with any other Instrument. . - Reading the statistics after - last month's expense account. it have been, Charlie Wilson Is always sure when'aa editor of tie Oregonian - ';ia Ontario newspaper aays:"The Ontario Limor Control Board encouraging Canadians to drink, dder-iastead e-riiauer." - Associated Press the Woodmen holds tiiat the Woodmen of put into effect a schedule of had the effect of penalizing order. When the mortality of the order, forced the adopt higher, and requiring the older asked the navy to let a war its big dynamos generating a capacity to utilize1 the water But there is a wide divergence minimum. Also in this coun be run. steadily at that capacity. the next quarter century as in may become active competitors regions abounding in streams 25th ire will hare a parade of stuff- aam-a fate as a football coach. Un a big football game Is like studying All yon ean see Is the what might ' -:-",' of a good crowd of office-holders Is hilled to speak.- , : r-s -1-4. t , i f -" i-vl r t: " : , '-7 -jj -- i c --V-" r""-1 x-"--J r -i H x :--v-"&: t. 1 11.1 1 'f - - - -1 14 1 if" ' " -vL -- -"J rsjfeasppiaB 1 I " ft'"" I - i sjwr t-M BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. I. TTENDRICKS Hon. C. B. Moores W Sereml years ago made aa ad dress before the Salem chamber of commerce, In which he gave a vR sloa of the capital city as It was SO years or. so before and the address was the latter part of April, 1.924. m . "How dear to my heart are the scenes 01 my cniia aooa, Mr. Moores prefaced his remarks, se eitlng 8ereral more Hoes of "The Old Oaken-Bucket;" the old oak en bucket, the Iron bound bucket, the moss core red bucket, that hung in the well." He said the lines reminded him of the teacher who handed the boy a piece of chalk and asked him to go to the blackboard and draw a visual rep resentation ot the Impression made uppa'him by the poem and when the task w a a compietea there appeared oa the board three alleged buckets, surrounded by a multitude ot dots. He explained: This is the eld oaken bucket, and this the iron bound bucket, and this the moss coTered bucket that hung in the well, and these dots represent 'all the loTed spots that nay infancy knew aa the poem states.! Mr. Moores then said he looked back from an eminence of 70 years, with only 30 minutes in which to cover them. He said Sa lem was well born; "she -sprang from a line of church and home and school- buildeTS, and her chil dren grew up In an environment that developed the higher Ideals of a healthy moral atmosphere, with a tinge ot Puritanism: Just sufficient to keep them straight without making them eternally unhappy. To trace and anlyse the conditions whose ultimate devel opment has been consummated In the beautiful capital city that we know today Is to trace the 'pro gressive growth of a wonderfully romantic Story. Ir. S H "Salem began 90 years agd (It is 95 now) when Jason Lee and his companions In 1834 started across an almost trackless conti nent for the mission fields ot Ore gon. It was a time when the aaoet thrilling Incidents were. pregnant with great potentialities. Lea first set his stakes in the "mission bot tom 10 miles north of Salem.' For sanitary reasons the 'Indian mUv- aion manual labor scnoor was transferred to Salem in 1842;-and housed In the three story- build ing, afterwards known as the 'Ore gen Institute., On- January 17, 1842, a meeting was held at the home of Jason Lee (the first dwelling house built In what Is now Salem, still standing at 9 CO Broadway), to consult on the sub ject of English education In Ore gon, and the establishmenti.ot 1 literary institution. It was origin ally decided to, locate .this .pro posed institution on French prair ie, but shortly afterward the lo cation was changed to "Wallace prairie. two miles north of 6a- rlera (on what la now the southern nart of the Bush land, next north of the land of the state school for the deaf and eaat ot the. former pest house and. county grarel pit.) In the mean time the Indian man ual labor school, was abandoned, and its building on what la new the university campus was pur chased and occupied by the in stltution later chartered as Wil lamette university, which then abandoned the "Wallace prairie' location. j " ' ' Is - 'This was 'a step which. had a most important bearing on thefu- ture of Salenu As a prospective ed ucatlonal center, it gradually at traded a considerable population and soon began to develop poUt lcal importance. - - -v--;.:- b s .! Dnrto-rtttdAyt-of the; pro visional government -Oregon City was the capital of Oregon., Ore gon was admitted as a territory j AUgUBt IS, 1848, (should be Aug ust 14; th bUl passed Its final vote on Sunday morning, August 13, after an all night session of the senate, but was' not signed by the president so aa to become a aw till Monday, August 14, 1848) and as a state February 14, 1869. Salem was named aa its capital la 1849, but as to the legality ot this act the territorial Judges dis agreed. Congress finally Inter vened, and on May 14, 1862, con firmed the location at Salem. In the interim a final session of an alleged legislator convened at Oregon City en December 2, 18S0, and adjourned February:; 1, 1851, thus ending a bitter and "protract ed' controversy. At the- first ses sions, convened in Salem in 1851, a legislative committee, appointed to secure a place ot meeting, re ported that they had secured the basement story of the Oregon In stitute, pn the right-hand aide as you enter the front door. Includ ing stoves and seats, Oa January 13. 1856. the legislature under took to transfer the capital to Cor vallis, but this action was declared invalid by the first comptroller of the treasury. As a result, oa De cember 8. 1855. the legislature, meeting la Corrallls, officially re located the capital in Salem, where It resumed its sessions on December 18th, 1855. Late on the night of the 29th of that mouth the uncompleted capitol was fired by an Incendiary after $9874 ot a government appropriation of $20- eee had been expended on it. One of my earnest recollections as a youngster Is of looking on the ruins of' the building next morn ing. ' "My grandfather was a mem ber of the legislative assembly at the time, as he was also a mem ber two years later ot the Ore gon .constitutional convention, which met In the old Marion coun ty state house at the western ead of Wlllson avenue. It is a matter ot personal Interest to me that. as my grandfather was driven out of Oregon's first capitol by an in clndiary fire in December, 1855, my father in 1872 17 years later--as a senator from Marlon county, had charge, in the sen ate, of the bill which appropriated the first 2100.000 -spent in the erection of the present capItoL This hill, by the. way, was intro duced la the house by Hob. T. Met Fm ration, iatner or fjooae ration and ex-Senator Hal D. Patton. The father of 8am-H. Brown, Marion eountys present senator, was also at the time a senator from this county. The new capitol was oc cur led for the first time in 1870. , It Is an Interesting diversion to trace the genesis of Salem, and of her pioneer institution, Willam ette university. The founding of this old school antedates the founding of any other institu tions of college grade west of the Missouri- river, and but three oth- 1, . . . . ..1 . er coueges wesi ot ine Missis sippi were In existence when she opened her -doors. On the date ot her birth the whole American pop ulation of the Pacific coast could hare been gathered withia these rooms (the Salem commercial club rooms), and there was not a single Protestant church on the coast from Cape Horn to Bear ing's sea, or a church ot any. de nomination north of Sacramento. It was five years after the open ing of her bans that William Rob erts, the presiding officer ox the M. E. conference- ot Oregon and California, dispatched the mater ial for the building of ihe first church In the city of San Francis co. This whole northwest terri tory was the 'no man's land' : of America,,.' ,- . : . The first patent for a dona tion land claim ever Issued was for land In Marion county In the Waldo- UlI.V12 or IS miles oast of Salem. It was issued to King H lb bard on January 18. 1859. Prior to that date bo individual, since the dawn ot creation, had ever owned a toot Of sou of ore son." "m m -u (What Mr. Moores meant by the last sentence was that no one had held actual title to a single foot ot Oregon County Country soil up to that time. No one owned the Ore gon country up to 1840. Spain perhaps had the best original col or ot title and France had vague claims. In the Nootka convention of . 1790, Great Britain horned in on Spain, under show ot force, The British improved their toe hold when, in 1818, she got her Joint occupancy treaty with the United States, and this lasted till June 15. 1846. when the Use tor thS British was fixed at the pres ent international bodndary be tween Canada and the United States, and this lasted till June IS, 1846, when the line for the British was fixed at the present International boundary between Canada and the United States, the United States retaining aU below that lino north ot the Mexico (California) line from the summit Of the Rockies to the Pacific ocean. But all this is a long story. which will be told later. In the mean time the C. B. Moores story ot Salem's early days wfll take two or throe mors issues to fin Jan. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talka from The States man Our Fathers Read Xorember SO, 1904 Evangelistic errlces at the First Christian church are attracting a good deal of attention. Rev. D. Brrett is preaching and and Dr. H. C. Epley is leading the singing. H. M. Branson, who has been for years engaged with H. H. Re gan in a grocery business here, will leave today with his family for Marchtleld. where he will hare a wholesale flour and feed store and a general commission busi ness. Rev. P. S. Knight went to Oregon City to preach a sermon at the 80th annual conference of the Congregational church at that place. This is where Mr. Knight was ordained and preached tn 1855 and 1858. Washington A bronio monu ment of Frederick the Great, pre sented to the American people by Emperor William, was unveiled this afternoon by the wife ot the ambassador to America. The cere mony was marked by great mili tary and official display. TO PRESET PlIY WOODBTJRN, November It. The seniors of Woodbnrn high school will. present their annual play some time In the early part of January, -t The committee has been chosen to select the play as- follows: Charles Byers. chairman; Clair Nlbler. Naomi Tan Cleave, Waivo Lenon, Berneta . Thompson and Miss Virginia. Mason faculty advi sor. Last year the class of '29 put on. ewiin -i- eompantive success. Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and some few of the fac ulty and lovers of the fine arts are secretly hoping for the class of '20 to attempt such a project. Many of the students, however, are in favor ot the light' drama o comedy drama and no doubt Quite a battle will ie waged before the 'class, the committee and the fac ulty are satisfied with a selection. We print letter heads, business cards, posters, signs, booklets, al onions most anything In our job shop Call 00 for prices. ICO 'They Items 'And bow kmhtlfy marvelous ducovcry Mead These' Vmues ' wearables are always Irreistlblr knri Nation-Wide SaysService In Brerjr Spkn&d Sheet end Yard of Shryr?r?3 N 1 X It 1 V 111 II II I BTv 53 m st m z. si ersi II A VKM Z X SILVERWARE in tHe Grace Pattern Set Consists of; i Test Spooos $ Tails Cpoocj (itrisItattedtWtsV'lp 14. 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