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pagstotr T1i OBEGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Sunday Horning, November 17, 19gg "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Atce." From First Statesman, March 28, 18S1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spkague, Shixdon F. Sackett, Publishers Charles A. S Prague ... Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - - Managing-Editor Member of the Associated Press Tbe Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other wse credited in this paper. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.: Los Angeles, W. Pae. Bids. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Foni-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Are.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. Entered at the Postofficc at Salem, Oregon, as Seeond-Clarjt Hatter. Published every morning except Monday. Business ffiee 215 S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail Subscription Rates, in Advance. Within Oregon; Daily and Sunday, 1 Mo. SO cents; 3 Mo. 81.25; 6 MO. 2.25; 2 year $4.00. Elsewhere 60 cents per Mo. or $5.00 for 1 year In advance. By City Carrier: B0 cents a month; 85.50 a year in ad vance. Per Copy 2 cent. On trains, and News Stands 5 cent. Who Will be A NOTABLE farm meeting j.m. week. Representatives of the federal farm board were . present, and men who have been active in the formation of cooperative marketing associations. Among them was F. J. Wilmer, banker of Rosalia, Washington, who has been prom inent m organizing tne JNortn racmc Wheat Growers' asso ciation. ' He is quoted as saying to representatives of Oregon cooperatives: "Losses accruing from poor judgment on market condi tions would be borne by the federal government, and not by the cooperative." We can scarcely believe ing on.sBcp. a Jieaas youjwift .Jails I lose" proposition. If this is trufe ifr trnderstanfflirg of the marketing act is wrong, and the process jeopardizes the public funds. We had thought that the $500,000,000 was not a largess to agriculture but a loanable fund with a low interest rate. The loans were to be repaid to the government unless the borrowing concern actu ally became insolvent. If the government is to make good the losses of cooper atives who speculate on the markets why shouldn't it assume the losses of the late lamented speculators in Wall Street? The government is thus thrown into the board of trade with its hands tied and its pockets ready to be picked. Under the guise "of farm relief we are witnessing an internal revolution. The net effect of the farm board's ac tivity will be to ruin the private agencies which have func tioned in the handling of farm products from the producer to the consumer. Growers are almost to be dragooned into cooperative marketing associations, in spite of the fact as shown over a long term of years that the percentage of fail tire of these associations is large. We think kindly of cooperative marketing, and believe that it will and should grow; but we question the pressure methods of the farm board. The element of competition be tween independent buyers and cooperative agencies ought to be preserved, and the producer should select for himself how he prefers to handle his crop. If Mr. Wilmer is right and the government is going to underwrite the speculation of cooperatives, then our whole theory of government is being wrenched. So Men Still Travel THE Statesman reports the formation of a local branch of the Gideon organization of traveling men. So there are still traveling men, are there? Well, from the number we entertain daily, that is a foolish question. Only they aren't travehng men any more, nor drummers, they are salesmen. Where are the traveling men of yester-year, those who Tuui fasmon Plates for the small towns, who stopped at tbe Commercial Hotel," and could pay the great sum of 50c for a meal? They were the men whom the hotel porters peeted so volubly at the railway station, who rode in the hotel bus or a hansom cab, who smoked real ten-centers, and hired the best turnout at the livery stable. When they entered, a store business paused, the group around the cracker barrel gazed in awe, the proprietor stood at atten g pn and let his boy helper wait on the trade while he studied the wares offered by the drummer and heard his newest stories. We wonder if the town girls miss the traveling men. For it was something of a sensation (and sometimes a scandal) when a local girl caught the eye of Marshall Field's man, or the drummer who made, the "Q" towns for Ely, Walker's. Occasionally ve see one of the old-type traveling men again, who patronizes the trains, wears black shoes with a mirror like polish and clothes that bespeak the gentleman. But he seems lost. ; ; For the vendors of goods nowadays are salesmen. They lug their own bags, drive their own cars, dress like report ers, and talk about their families. There is no leisure about them, and they tell no "traveling men" stories. They are driven by sales managers and harried by "sales quotas." And many of them don't know whether their job will last another month or not. Drummers, the most of them, passed out with local passenger trains, "Star" livery stables, and "lead ing merchants." . i The University Loses a Coach (JIOACH McEwan at the university seems to have planned A his resignation either to put President Hall in a hole and get the customary smoke house claque to force a renewal of hisj contract at an increased salary, or else to manipulate things so he can move into some other big job in some other school. His course pretty much indicates, the evils of profes sional coaching which have been frequently condemned. . i As a coach McEwan has done average work. When he had the men he won a fair proportion of his games; when he didn't have the men well the smoke house gang was ready to throw him to the lions two years ago. Regardless of his merits as a coach, he is reputed to have other deficien cies which rule him out for retention as football mentor. : It is the job of the president to run the university; and Dr. Hall was wise in refusing to be rushed into another con tract when the old one has a year to go, just because of a clean victory over the state college last Saturday. The loss of a Kitzmiller is more disastrous than that of a McEwan. . Folk who think It hard to get a spur track from tha Railroad company should have a HtUe patience. Look at the San Francisco bearing over a 200 mUe extension in California. ALL. the railroad commissions in the west half of the country, and most of the rail read men above the rank of section foreman are there for an iater- ' state commission hearing. The hotels mast be crowded as though it was a. republican convention. WHY NOT A PIPR LIXE? New York newspaper headline "California grape Industry to e plumbed by federal board." - "Plumbed" is the right word, all right. BASEBALL JJT ANTARCTICA ''Byrd gets back to base safely."- Oregonian headline. We're ready for a home run. A Seattle speaker told a Portland group of business men that this ideal climate is a direst challenge from the deity. A golfer's paradise, la other words. the Loser? was held in Portland the past that the government is embark BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS- Hon. C B. Moores Continuing his reminiscences; "Most of the survivors of the old school (Willamette nniversltv) are scattered - about in Hlstont fields, but (in 1924) Oliver Reers and Dick Carey and Abner Lewis and Ed Crolsan and Taylor Rig don and Enos O'Flyng are still sticking around. The girls dormi tory in Beers hall, and the bach elor quarters in the third story of tne Oregon institute, and the cab Ins of Stringtown and Hangtown, furnished in later Tears a e&laxv of men and women who made their mark in the history of the state, but a recital of their names and exololts would be a revelation of no special interest to this strange -community of more recent groww. S Mr. Moores con tinned his re marks in the relation of an esca pade of young John w. Minto. E. M. Crolsan, P. H. D'Arey and himself in raiding the melon patch of Elder Adair on the Garden road. According to the atorv. young Peter D'Arcy was caught red handed -which the other young culprits made their get-away. But young Peter claimed he was a highly esteemed young fellow named Billy Wicks, that he was a poor orphan, and that he had been misled by Pate and Ed Hatch, and Elder Adair could only ex claim, with uplifted hands: "Pay son and Edward Hatch, two sons of a Congregational deacon, steal ing melons on a Sunday after noon!- Ana, the story went. Elder Adair spent the next day in fruit less search for Billv Wicks and in rounding up the real culprits ior a prayer meeting at the home of Rev. O. Dickinson. V The alibi of the real culprits, the story went, was established by their attendance at the very time the melon patch was being raided in the First Methodist Sun day school the oldest Protest Sunday Echool west of the MUson- ri river that Is still in existence; organized at the old mission be low Salem in 1834, with the Church of Which It ia a nart estah. lished in 1841 and that likewise being the first Protest church in the western half of tbe United States. -Hannily." added Mr. Moores, the aUbi could be verified oy J. k. em, then (1924) in his 83rd year, "and still one of the most active, renutahla perous business men of Portland," wno was tne superintendent of that historic Sunday school at the time. It Concluding. Mr. Moores said: "The great majority of those who would enior a discussion of tho primeval days are sleeping on the niusiaes tne otner side of Fair monnt. That sleenin? eitv mai up, as It is, of our old time com munity and state builders, once constituted the nioneer rltv nf So. lem. Their surviving friends hold mem in precious and undying memory. They were the friends of me wooiesome days of simpler tastes - and nabii when th in timacies of personal relationships Kuuiea mem logemer la closer bonds than da tim wfr?in-it m. lationships of modern days. It has been well said that 'human fellow ship is more precious than all the pomp and circumstance of power.' As time goes on generation will follow reneratlon. and each in turn Will be called nnnn in mi tribute to its predecessors. There will ne a continuous succession of pioneer groups, but none of them can more sincerely utter their tri bute of love and praise than we who are immediate successors' of the pioneer builders of nnnn While keeping our eyes constant ly to the front, let caslonal backward glance, and continually nourish the influences that will perpetuate the past and more closely knit the bonds of our pioneer friendships. ; W c. The living city that har -Slit- The Effects of a Storm erated the old landmarks, and grown up on the foundations ef tae s&lem of 70 years ago, has fallen heir to a anlendld heritor. When the Almighty laid out the landscape of the Willamette val ley, He laid oat, one of the love liest of all His creations, and the prescience and the taste of 8a- lem s earlier Builders who laid here her wide streets and civic center, added to her scenic vant age points. hav mad her the crowning diadem or the WUlam etta valley and tha most beautiful of all the beautiful cities of the whole Pacific slope. Surely, we who are the Inheritors of her ro mantic hlBtory and who bask in the light of her varied beauties are so blessed as to warrant as in the most extravagant expressions of our satisfaction-" - (The Bits man expects to revert to the reminiscences of Mr. Moores at a later time, for he is one of the best and most reliahla nf th observers, recorders and collectors of uregon historical facts.) "W An Interesting visitor entertain ed in Salem the past week was J. C. Oliver of Hangchow, China. He was born in Chicago. He was a Methodist. He is now a member of the Church of Christ in China. What is that? It is a combination of 16 cbnrch organizations in that country. In a movement the or ganization of which was finished only four months ago, sixteen of the churches of various denomina tions In foreign countries having property and doing missionary work in China have turned over all their holdings of every kind in that country to the "Church of Christ In China." Over all these properties there now appears In Chinese characters a sign that means Just that when translated into English. Mr. Oliver belongs to the Hangchow branch of the Church of Christ in China, that being the Chicago of the Orient, a big commercial metropolis located a short way up "the Yangtze river, about midway between Canton in the south and Pekln in the north W Mr. Oliver went to China 14 years ago, and has had his head quarters in that city all the time. He has witnessed and been a part of great changes. His employ er is the T. M. C. A. He is an in ternational secretary. This organ isation led the way in the move ment just consummated by the 16 great churches. The Chinese them selves have long owned all the property of the Y. 51. C. A. la their country. .They carry their own budgets. There are 14 local Y's In that many big rlrategic cities of China. The new mover nient ij China, afttr many revolu tions rnd much bloodshed, is fui)ct:oawi,i in the Nationalist gov ernment vita 11 cabinet Ministers of ivhim a!l but oao are western rot urn ttudtats and among them are eerea Christiana, most of them Tho wife of the president. John graduates from Americas schools Chiang Kai Sehsck, is a craduate of Wellttely nalvsrilly. -,vhat a change from the old to the new order! Among the 16 churches that have followed the lead of the Y and merged In China are the Con gregational, both American bran gregatlonaL both American branches of the Presbyterian, the Canadian combined churches, the big missionary churches of Scot land, Ireland. Australia, New Zea land, and others throughout tha world. The Orientals are giving a new interpretation to the teach ings of Christianity. They are tak ing the precepts of the Sermon on the Mount more literally, and fol lowing them' much' more closely, ia many eases, than are their brothers of western lands. Wit ness the leaders in China who have gone and are rolna- throueh tha tires of martyrdom. Witness the wore oi nagawa in Japan, who is j able to command great forces and vast resources, and refases to lire above the station of the majority of his immense' following among the common people of his country. SSI. Witness Gandhi in India, giving up a 130,000 a year law practice to lead tbe millions of his people, and with his wife sleeping on the ground and living on SO cents a day. because that is the average for his followers. And witness Feng. Chinese Christian general, refusing to draw more than f 30 a month, the average pay of the officers in his army; one of the best organized armies in the world. Mr. Oliver feels at home with his wife and children at Clare mont. Cat. (near Los Angeles) tbe aeat of Pomona college, where ha has his headquarters now for perhaps, a two year period; for h finds there a model great com munity church, an exhibit of what may be coming in this country; tagging behind the procession that has been started la so-called "heathen" lands. They Say... Expressions of Opinion from Stat man Reedem are Welcomed for TJse in this oolnmn. All Letters Most Bear Writer's Name, Though This Need HK to Printed. MISTAKE OF LOCKLEY Editor Statesman: I am considerably amused sometimes when I pick up the Portland Journal and read Fred Lockley's articles headed "Im pressions and Observations of the Journal Man." I presume Mr. Lockley is not to blame for the many egregious blunders contained in aald arti cles, as I suppose he accepts as gospel truth the statements which are given him concerning the lives and times of the old pio neers. In the Journal Issue of the 21st. I notice he interviews V. P. Fiske of Dallas. The nar rative contains many errors. It YOU You have a tigjil fo ex pect Hie beshnServic and Equipment ifc ate in a position b cltr these wilfKwtaddifonal unnecessatiiapense la stated tfeht Halacr Crnhbn at ont time nas county clerk of Mar lon county. Mr. Grmbbe never tUied that position. Although he was deputy sheriff at one time. It wfil surprise many of the old resi dents of Salem to learn that a hospital once stood on the corner of Court and Liberty streets- No J pes pi til was ever erected there. nor in that vicinity. No man by the name of Ford was ever sheriff of this county. The surprising statement about Dr. August Kinney missing the U. S. senatorahlp by one vote must be quite amusing to the old poli ticians of Marlon county. It has no foundation in fact, whatever. The tale . la entitled to about as much credence as the exploded myth about Sola missing by a rote or two being chosen as the capital of Oregon. I do not think Dr. August Kinney was ever a candidate for any political office. His brother. Dr. Alfred Kinney, when a resident of Salem was a candidate for state senator on the Democratic ticket but was defeat ed by Jacob Vorhees, the Repub lican nominee. Judge Piper never aspired to be a circuit Judge In this district. He was elected district attorney and held the office tor two years but was defeated for re-election , by W. H. Holmes. George Belt never held the of fice of judge in the Willamette valley. He was elected district attorney in 1818 defeating Charlie Johns, the republican candidate, : A few year after Mr. Belt re moved to Spokane, he served one term as superior Judge of Spo kane county. But why call atten tion to any more inaccuracies? I would like, however, to have Whit ney Boise vouch for the story con cerning Prof. J. L. Powell. Prob ably another mythical yarn. Mr. Lockley should verify, be fore publication, the statements made by many of his old pioneer friends. Many of them have very treacherous and imaginative memories. . , , jMarion County Pioneer. Salem, Oregon, Nov., 22, 1929. i OTHER EDITORS DR. FRANKLIN SCORES Dr. F. Q. Franklin of Willam ette university points out, while discu8lng tha furore of protest that met Senator Burkhart's be trayal of a liquor-serving host's confidence, that the guest has rights that demand respect as well as the host. He points out that a host who hopes to cloak his infractions of law by relying on the friendship of hia guest is taking an undue ad vantage. One can imarine the nhnv- which a sincere law observer must feel when, on accepting an invita tion to dinner, he finds that he la among law breakers and Is ex pected to be one himself. One would say that a host who sub jects his guests to auch a shock is trampling under foot the first law of hospitality, which is nothing else than being considerate of one's guest. 0 We think that Dr. Franklin has made a point. The American peo ple don't like talebearers, it is true,' and they frown on persons who violate confidences. But sure ely a law-observing man should not be required to throw aside bis convictions in order to protect a discourteous host In wrong doing. Albany Democrat-Herald. STATE INSPECTION Every year every factory, gar age, machine shop, or other place in the state which ha any ma chinery. Is Tisited by a rfnrn. tativa from the effice of the state labor commissioner, in mtrift ac cordance with tha law which pro vides for an annual in?noHnn These visits are mostly of a very penunciory nature. Some of them may be warranted as in the case where mills or factories have large numbers of machines an where dangers lurk for the work men unless safeguarded by the State' inxnmtinn anri However, this annual visitation is an actual imposition in the case of many smaller required to pay an annual fee of ss.oo for the inspection which does not mean anythina. Many of these places have only one or two machines. Then a ant run year after year without any change whatever. rh in comes once a year; pays his re spects to tne proprietor, takes a Lay S SHIFTS IN RELIGIOUS TRAINING "The children . gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough." Jere miah VII :1S. " So it was in ancient times when Jerusalem flourished; so It has keen in our day. The tasks of the household were divided the children were set to fetch and carry the wood; father always built the fire; mother prepared the meal. Neighbors scorn the man who lets his wife start tbe fire. Building the fires seems the modern inheritance of an an cient rite. The father, as head of the house, ought to kindle the fire which is the token of warmth and love and the center of at traction 'within tbe home. Oh, but times have changed. Son may not carry wood at all, for the fuel may be oil which re quires only the turning of a valve once a year, or the snapping of a switch. And father may not build the fire of mornings, but merely turn, the knob on the e lectric range. Mother may not knead bread dough, for the bak- turn around the place and passes on and tha nronrietor later re ceives a bill for $5.00 for inspec tion. There was nothing to in. spect in the first place and the in spector really did not make an In spection anyhow, but the propriet or must pay. In our mind this system is all wrong. It Is very evident that there ahould be some form of in spectipa but this system of handl ing it on, a fee basis Is both uniust and falls to solve the problem. Tne inspection of machinery is saving tha State Industrial Acci dent commission money by reduc ing hazards and thus eliminating accidents and the necessity of paying for them. Why not put this, inspection under the State Industrial Accident Commission and let the salaries of these In. spectors be paid out of the funds of that commission? It is a well known fact that the State Indus trial commission Is piling up mon ey in the vaults and the plan we propose would only place the cost of this service where it belongs and eliminate this annual drain on small concerns who can ill af ford to pay this extortion from the state. Newberg Graphic. Read the Classified Ads. Do Your 'ft IS AN OLD STORY But Never More TRUE Than in Selecting Your CHRISTMAS CARDS 465 t iii 1 1 iMfiyffiVAni rm One Hundred Years from Now... in place of the weeds, broken down fences and general ne glect which characterize most old cemeteries - Bekrest will stand out as an enduring Memorial to those who en dowed it with perpetual care. See Belcrest for yourself! . --Becrest MEMORIAL PARK IK MUe South oa Browning Arena CUP THIS loreat Memorial park risaumdanToiinioii How.-" - " Name Address, ifinnions ery supplies a loaf consistently good. This makes folk pause sometimes and wonder if this lightening of household tasks is a good thing. Town youth no longer have chores to do; no cows to herd or to milk; no horses to water; no chickens to attend to; no lamp chimneys to clean; no buckets of water to carry. A lit tie wood perhaps, and an occa sional errand to the corner gro cery for a forgotten package. And folk say, what will this generation come to, where ,conveniences, have robbed youth of character building employment? Perhaps there is a parallel la the religious world. The older generation grew up on the strong fare of strict religious practice. Faithful attendance on divine worship four or five hoursor a Sabbath; weekly prayer meetings; a season of mid-winter revival meetings; sober Sabbath observ ance; reading of th Bible and committing of passages of the scripture. Much of this has gone and belongs to an elder day, Just as the "chores' which so many like to think really molded their characters. And folk Inquire how are the youth of today to get re ligious training? We have no ready-cut answer to either question. Certain it in, that not having the same exper iences adults of today had In their youth, our young people will not be replicas of their parents either in habits or in religion. But we must not confuse difference with lack. Young people today have other occupations, most of them are far "busier" than young folk of two generations ago. Though their tasks are different, they do not really lack employment of their time. Likewise though they may not undergo the strict relig ious discipline of other days, that does not prove that the religious spirit will not develop within them, nor that their religious life will be less vigorous or whole some than that of their parents. It will be different; indeed it is dif ferent. The human race is old, very old. For ages children have gath ered wood, fathers have built morning fires, and women, have worked the dough. Though labor with wood and fires and dough may pass, there , still will be tha tasks of the household to be di vided to each to fit his strength. The race does not die and It does not turn back. i Shopping BOOK OS STORE State COUPON ...... uuuen "Ona Hundred Tea: