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' ' " ' TcgOnCGON STATESIIAJf. Sslen. uregon. Tiinrsaay Mommy, January y, - u
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"ATo Foror Siros Os; No Fear Shall Awe." T
From First Statesman, March 28, It 61
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? . 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
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I .' A RUNNING ARGUMENT
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THAT &flWUrV, ! piKbi!ii
MIGHT, BE, ABLEytp
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BITS for BREAKFAST
By R. J. HENDRICKS
At the Mission play:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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