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PAGE FOUR ' ' " ' TcgOnCGON STATESIIAJf. Sslen. uregon. Tiinrsaay Mommy, January y, - u 1 "ATo Foror Siros Os; No Fear Shall Awe." T From First Statesman, March 28, It 61 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chakixs A. Spbacue, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publishers CHARLES A. SpSaGVE - - - Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - - Managing-Editor Member of the Associated Press . The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the "use fur P publication of ill news dispatches credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper. Pacifie Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland. Security Bid. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bids. Eastern AdrertUing Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Are.; Chicago, 3 60 N. Michigan Ave. Entered at the Potfofficc at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Clatt Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office 215 S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES . Mail Subscription Rates, in Advance. Within Oregon; Daily and Sunday, 1 Mo. 50 cents; 3 Mo. 51.25; 6 Mo. 2.25; 1 year M.00. Elsewhere 50 cents per Mo. or. $5.00 for 1 year in advance. Hy City Carrier: 50 cents a month; S5.50 a year In ad vance. Ter Copy 2 cents. On trains, and News Stands 5 cents. ? . Dairy Cows in Oregon '.'People' who know what they are talking about tell us that we are killing too many heifer calves for veal, -instead of raising them and sellinK them to dairy buyers from other states. 'We complain from time to time that buyers come up from California and buy all our good dairy cows, leaving us none with which to carry on our industry. "Instead of complaining, we ought to be raising dairy cows to SELL to these California buyers." The above is from Frank Jenkins column in his Eugene Register.. With Marshall Dana of the Portland Journal gone to New Zealand on a bull-throwing expedition, Jenkins makes a fine substitute as dairy editor of the Oregon press. All he wrote in his column about dairying is true too, par ticularly the above. F or some years now we have seen the depletion of Ore gon dairy herds through sale to California. Buyer from the southern state would come to Oregon and buy whole herds or select -the choicest animals in herds and ship them off to California. Oregon dairymen took this as an easy way to 'Slit) OUt Of th Hflirv hiicinoea cn tYia v,,mKn -C . - r- j ""-5 su "'t uuiiiuci ua uauy came m the state has been declining. As Jenkins says, what Oregon farmers should do is to seize this opportunity to raise dairy stock for the California market; in, other words to increase their herds instead of sell out and retire from the business. Here is a fine chance to develop a continuing industry, breeding dairy stock and rais ing the calves and selling them as heifers or young cows to California: It should make possible an expansion and not a contraction of the dairy industry of Oregon. Right now prices on butter fat are discouragineiy low but yearin and year out, the dairy business has been con- ? ?fIe- PortIand Telegram has recently 'ft 8 cause, condemning the cut in the price ofjmilk m the Portland area. The Telegram's over wrought! campaign, purely political and purely journalistic propaganda for "pure milk" could not but result adversely to the dairymen. It tended to create fear in the minds of the consumer, to make milk production unduly expensive for the dairymen and unduly expensive for the distributor. No won der the. milk producer in the Portland milk-shed prefers to quit business or to sell his cream to a creamery rather than lie constantly held up as a near criminal. ianJB fail"re0reon dairying to expand has been sub .ieced to much study. Numerous conferences have been held on the question, with the usual gero result of such confer ences One reason is that the farmers don't like the grind of dairying; another is that feed in the valley costs too much j f KdiiS l J00 ng a Prtion of year, and im ported alfalfa hay is too high in price. With more irrigation m the valley the number of cows should increase. Otherwise the dairying centers of the state are more apt to be in the coastal counties or in the irrigated districts of eastern Ore- The New Tax Pinches OIHAT the new tax on intangibles will meet with opposition X i in certain quarters is assured. The tax weighs most Wld7 on el?erJy 01 wh accumulated v ings are depended upon to keep them in comfort. One such man called at this office the other morning. He was past JSi1? WOrmg ?nd- earning i'ears were st. He had 5UJr ?V,n ln mterest certificates, depend- SkJSP Tt ?feme t0.sPare him and Ms Withe adversities which beset those who are old and without funds. Sii"8 I Xn Jhi(? he ys a PrPerty tax. Now the intangibles tax hits him because virtually all his income is in the form of interest. He is allowed a $200 deductSTbut even so if his income is $1000 his intangibles tax is $40, which house 13 Proportion on top of the tax he pays on his There are widows too whose savings are best invested in securities, notes or mortgages which will give them a fixed but assured income. The five per cent tax will touch them because they will have only the $200 allowance. ; In these cases the tax probably works an injustice. The tax is proper and it is sound, but experience will have to show the proper rates and the proper deduction allowances. Cer tain y it should be supplemented with an income tax which i would reach those who are actually earning good money and iiicui escape w mie me widows and the aged are taxed heavily because their savings are all in interest-bearing secur ities. fe A Committee on Good Roads A T. E Present time thereIs no regular good roads organ X lotion in the city or county. The county court exercises general authority over the roads of the county, but there is no civic body which makes good roads in general its special responsibility. Many localities have special roads organiza tions, but it hardly seems advisable to create a new organiza tion for this special purpose. . The Statesman believes the need could best be filled by hSTtng a committee on roads as a standing committee of the chamber of commerce. This committee should be composed of men who are genuinely interested in road development end who will devote some time to a study of road needs for the Salem area. This committee could represent the com munity before the county court of Marion and of Polk coun ties, could appear before the state highway commission and before federal road officials. Representing the chamber it could speak with authority. " We submit this proposal to President Sam Chambers. Salem is vitally interested in road programs of the county, state and federal government; and a strong committee of the chamber would prove the best agency for promoting Salem's Interest in road matters .' The revival of Interest in the hunt for the slayer ot William Des mond Taylor In Los Angeles years go, looks pretty much Ilka cold turkey. It is' aU hearsay reports from people who hare utterly van ished. Only a few real facts stick out, one is that Taylor is dead; another is that Is a good thing. :'.; A California film and oil operator Is building a 225,000 home on this Rogue rlrer, and ground improvements will equal that sum. That's one" way of getting back to nature. TTT baa K Htm ttnn ttt1ifnt good to lumbermen. The future off. , tiAaitltnaa tttat fit. UPn tM tl- does look good but a heluva ways I 1 - .Til . ' I I I i I .' A RUNNING ARGUMENT o ; ' j ' o THAT &flWUrV, ! piKbi!ii MIGHT, BE, ABLEytp i . i BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS At the Mission play: V The Bits man arrived In Los Angeles Saturday morning, Jan uary 4, and as toon as he had connected with his headquarters at the Savoy hotel he got ln touch with John Steven McGroarty and at 2:15, by invitation of the creator of it, was at the Mission Play. S But perhaps, before telling more about all this, it would be well. In the case of many readers, to explain, and this is very well done by copying an article of Lee Shippey, printed ln the Los An geles Times on one of the last days in December, and the clip ping sent to the Bits man by W. T. Rlgdon, of Salem, now in Los An geles, and reaching Salem the day the Bits man left for his Cal ifornia visit largely made to study the Mission Play and its setting. So below is the Shippey article. "John Steven McGroarty fair ly might be called southern Cali fornia's best-loved son. Yet he is not a. native son. He was born in Pennsylvania, educated there and did not come to California till he was nearly 40 years old. In the 27 years he has been here, though he has rendered service to this state which Urn may prove to have been greater than any other man has rendered in that time. He has made all California proud er of its own history and mors eager to preserve the historic treasures it was neglecting. He has given the state the one out standing historical pageant of all America, the only one in ths world which has run continuous ly for years and which is endowed so that for many years to come it will continue to teach Califor nia's history and preserve for pos terity vivid and beautiful pictures of its most colorful and romantic epoch. "When McGroarty came here, the name of Junipero Serra was familiar only to those who delved into history. Now It is well known to ejery schoolboy. Then the old missions were mostly pillaged ruins, rapidly passing from ex istence. Now they are being re constructed and will form a chain of historic monuments such as no other state can boast. Aroused public Interest has resulted in hundreds of efforts to preserve relics of our past and made it pos sible for those efforts to secure public support. And we believe that McGroarty, more than any one else, has brought that change about. MccGroarty's is that rare com bination, a character both lovable and forceful. He does not seem to be a forceful man, when you meet him. He seems too mild and gentle and broad-minded. Some of us, you know, somehow get the idea that only one-sided and prejudiced people axe force ful bull-headed people so set on their own ideas that they can not tolerate anyone else's. John doesn't try to force any of his ideas on anybody. But to those things in which he believes he holds with such affection, sincer ity and steadfastness that no one can fail to give heed to Ideas he proposes. And believes in Califor-J nia, its past, its present and its future, with all his heart. S W John grew up in Pennsylvania, near Wilkesbarre. He was such a bright and enterprising lad that when only 10 years old he was granted a state certificate to teach, a special ruling being made because of his youth, and during two years as a teacher earned his way to higher educa tion. Then he attended Hillman academy,. Tllkesbarre, and then went to work on the Wilkesbarre Evening Leader. Newspaper work interested him in politics, and he was elected Justice of the peace when only 21, the youngest jus tice in Pennsylvania's history. The district was strongly repub lican, and John had grown up a democrat, but so great was his popularity that when, at the age of 24, he ran for the state legis lature ha was beaten by only one vote. When he was 25 his county, Luzerne, elected him county treasurer, again giving him a rec ord as the youngest officer of that kind ln the state's history. While holding that position, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1800. And such a bril liant young attorney was he that Marcus Daly, the copper king, sought him for his legal etaff and took him to Butte, Mont. "After Daly's death, J&in went to Mexico, being interested ln the mining game there. But he was too sympathetic to be a great Mwyer and too much a dreamer to corner the world as a business man. He decided to come to Cali fornia and re-enter the newspaper business. Intending to go to San Francisco. Twenty-seven years ago he and Mrs. McGroarty ar rived in Los Angeles and stopped over at a very modest hotel. That day Krupp, the gunmaker died, ana jonn was inspired to write a poem, which he sent to The Times. Next day the poem was published and an editorial com menting on it appeared on the same page. Surprised by that compliment John called on the ed itor, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, and ever since then he has been con nected with The Times. m S The history of California fas cinated McGroarty, and he was shocked to see how it was being neglected. People were so busy building new things that they were thoughtlessly tearing down the old. Old missions were being used to store grain , or even sta ble horses. Tiles from the most historic buildings ln California were appropriated by near-by farmers who wanted to build roofs for pigsties. Landmarks were disappearing rapidly and people who had lived through stirring scenes were dying and leaving no record. So McGroarty wrote a history. It was that his tory which suggested to Frank Miller, the genius of the Mission Inn, that McGroarty might write a play to be presented at the inn a mission play. He invited John to take a leave of absence and establish himself at the inn, where Miller already had the be ginnings of the amazing collec tions which now give that place it? atmorphere. John did so, but r.-hen the play was completed it war too big a production for the inn, so it was decided to present L at San Gabriel. S "The Mission Play breaks dra matic rules, 4or McGroarty, was more interested in presenting true history and true pictures than in creating dramatic art. Yet no other play in . modern times has met with such an as tounding reception. January 1 it begins its nineteenth successive year and on February 1, next, its 3l)0th performance will be giv en. No other play has such a rec ord. Two million people have paid admission to those performances, yet McGroarty has made no for tune from the play. That wasn't what he wanted. The first year, when the play was an experiment; costumes were rented. After that, Mrs. McGroarty made many of the costumes and many appur tenances. When the play had proved its lasting worth, how ever, Mr. ' and Mrs. , McGroarty were glad to deed tt to the Mis sion Play association, which has built the beautiful Mission Play house -and will carry on the play through the years to come. It ii a non-profit organization which will devote its profits to the res toration of historic landmarks. While the play Is ln progress, Mc Groarty receives a modest sal ary from the Mission Flay asso ciation. And he asks no more. He is happy to have given Califor nia something so well worthy of perpetuation." Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Head January O, 1905 The wind-up of one of ths most closely contested political fights seen for some time n Oregon, with A. A. Bailey of Multnomah county and W. L. VawUr of Jack son contesting Tom Kay's claims to the speakership of the house. Upset came when the caucus yes terday named A. L. Mills speaker by a two-point lead over Kay. The house organization was com pleted, but the senate Is ln the throes of a deadlock. The Salem postoffice receipts for the quarter ending December . . . r 4 e e Editorial Comment From Other Papers WOODEN BRIDGES E. H. McAlister, professor of mechanics at the University of Oregon, has just completed some very Interesting tests of the strength of old fir timbers. The timbers selected for the test were la&en irom the old Htyden bridge, built in 1S74 and disman tied ln 1927 after 53 years of continuous service. The tests showed that the old timbers had . tunes tne sxrengtn of new timbers. They were actually stronger when they came out than when they went In. The tests add to the weight of recent scientific demonstrations of the superiority of wood as building material. Nationwide tests have revealed that for many purposes, well selected timbers have actually greater carryin strength and resisting strength than steel. It is to be hoped that rurther studies will be made and that much publicity will be given the results, because one thing the lumbering Industry needs is an offset for the persistent nrooa ganda against wood as a building material. Newspapers In the northwest have recently been much stirred by recent sweeping statements by uinora nnchot on the damage done by forest fires. Mr. Pinchot has a great reputation as a forest conservationist, but when he en aeavors to make it appear that 84,000,000 acres of possible tim ber have been devastated in one year (without making the proper reservations and qualifications) the people of the country's great est timber region become Just a Dit indignant. The chief harm of such loose statements is that they promote me general feeling m the east and middle west that it Is some thing of a patriotic duty not to use wood. The wood substitute industries capitalize heavliv nn this impression, as they do also on tne impression that wooden structures cannot be made safe and sound. Wt need to re-sell the idea of wood construction. We neea also to Inform the world that the systematic, reasonable Harvesting of forests, aeeomnan. led as it is by tire control and re forestation, is a sound program, and one necessary to the coun try's welfare. Eugene Guard. PLUCKING A BOUQUET Several Oregon newspapers pub lished attractive New Year edi tions, notable among which are the Morning Oregonian, the Sa lem Statesman and the Eugene Guard. Of the three, the Salem Statesman Is the most pretentious showing the achievements of the 31 were $7,040.03. while those for the same months last year were slightly higher. Business for 1904 was 32,517.67 in excess of that in 1903. A meeting of the legislative committee of the Oregon Press association was held at the Statesman office for the purpose of considering matters of public policy that may come before the present legislature. Andrew ASKfiD to explain his phenomenal tributed it to his ability to get men he did. And that's a formula for" success. Nobody whojs really successful does all the work himself. He employs other people's minds and efforts. Do you do the same in the intricate business of running your home and taking care of your family? You can, quite easily. You can employ specialists in diet; you can serve the master dishes of famous chefs; you can have the advice of style authorities in selectin your clothes, of whole electrical laboratories in buying household appli ances, by reading the advertisements. All the newest knowledge-knowledgt milUons of dollars and years of effort have won is contained in the advertisements. If you will use the advertisements in this newspaper as Andrew Car negie used men who knew more than he did, every dollar you spend wffl be spent wisely, economically, and wffl return full measure of satisfaction. That's the way to be a success in the greatest business in the world-mak-ing a home. It pays to read the iWorry a : -1 Ill-Health Mental Discord Has a Devastating Effect on the System, Warns Dr. Copeland, Urging Cultivation of the Happy Thought Habit, By ROYAC S. COPELAND, SI. D. . United States Senator from New York. Former Commissioner of Health, We Yorkr City. MENTAL poise is the normal condition of the mind. It follows that mental discord is an abnormal condition of the mind. If you would have mental harmony, or mental poise, you must exclude all wrong thoughts. Each of us must make a determined They have a x -- it as physical overexertion does. It I "Jr real disturbance of the digestion, XL " portant glands of secretion. Th ( k bound to be felt in every cell of the body. . TV The functioning of th hw?v ! denenifont nmn i the degree of nerve energy we possess. Thesv 'PWaaa emotion! of oon not nnlw n nn nnna .noioinr -DRf COPELANa bat they create conditions which may permit the , . . iV development of. poisonous substances in the body, ine effect of these may be to produce disease. When you permit yourself to enjoy fully the right food under Out right conditions,- you enable the stomach and the glands whkh iupply the digestive fluids to function properly. You have the nerve 5 K'M,i" sumiMcie tugesuon. u yon are in the wrong frame of mind at mealtime, your body la in a wrongf- w cuimiuon 10 luncuon properly. Ifren though the meal is a simple one, anouia oe eaten In an atmos phere of harmony and peace. There can do no doubt or this. For the sake of your happiness and good health it Is well to have a real purpose ln your everyday life. There uoum o a aerinne, constructive purpoee for each day. Thia will pre vent aimleas thoughts and give you a better outlook on life. Vigorous mental habits tending to wholesome thought, do much to maintain rood health. We know the rawer of th mtnA depress th snirlta heart. Bad news makes "the heart good news, happiness, contentment and enthusiasm stimulate the heart, rhe thought has a remarkable effect n the body. We are well off only fcen the mind la workin nnmtw " 1 " M I .. AUV UUUUB1M lfl and happily. . When you eetahBSh faith In some thing er somebody you are setting op a right train of thought. Faith remove fear. It removes worry and naaf other mantel dtaiwuvfa i. ft ,u has te develop habits of men tal Poise. Wa must hin mf.i harmony if we are to mala tain good msuui. Salem conftn unity In an able and complete manner. The Guard's New Year supplement was more of a general news value, but It was an Interesting . compendium of business conditions and out looks. , Special editions are efficient publicity agents. Held within proper bounds they are a great benefit to their community and are mistaken energy only when resorted to too frequently. Al bany Democrat-Herald. Radio programs for Portland stations will be found on the classified advertising page of The statesman, . . . from Carnegie success, Andrew Carnegie blandly at- to work for him who knew more advertisements Cause of effort to overcome aU bad mental habits. There is not a shadow of a doubt that worry is one of the chief causes of ill health. There is no end to the disturbances in the human system that are caused by worrying over this thing and that Also, jealousy, fear, hatred, despondency, grief devastating effect on the system. fv Mental discord wastes nerve enere-v. . It vastea may result in or of the im- Tha effects are Answers to Health Queries ( 8. J. Q. What causes my Jaw to crack while talking? 3 What is a murmur of the heart? S Is a nervoua heart the same a a heart murmur? A. This Is probably due te lack of synovial Cold, faultily constructed bridges, crown or CUings, waicb cause the jaw to be thrown forward too far! Consult your dentist for correction. 2 Mitral heart murmur is a con dition where the closure of the valve of the heart Is not complete and there Is a consequent leakage of blood passing back through it. I No. M. L. W. Q. What should a girt weigh who is 17 rears eM and S feet SM inches tail? 2 What is the cause of canker or cold sores? A. For her age and height she should weigh about US pound. S Canker or cold sores usually in dicate an acid m the system. The diet should be corrected and consti pation avoided. R. F. Rufier Dies At Silverton SILVER TON, Jan. S R, F. Ruffer died at his home Monday morning after an Illness of sever al months. Funeral arrange ments have not yet been made as Mrs. Ruffer has been waiting foi her brother, E. Reade of Burns, te arrive. Mr. Ruffer was mechanic at the roundhouse of the Silver Falli Timber clmpany mill before he be came ill. He was a member oi Trinity church. He Is survived only by his widow. than