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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Wednesday Morning; January 15, 1930 "AT Favor Sways Vs; No Fear Shall Awe." From First Statesman, Mareb 28, It 51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Cma&xes A. Spkague, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publisher JChakles A. Sprague ... Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - - Managing-Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of ull news dispatches credited to it or not otber- wise credited in this paper. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland. Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Ave.: Chicago, 360N. Michigan Ave. Entered at the Postofficc at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Clot Matter. PubHshed every morning except Monday. Business office 215 S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mai) Subscription Rates, in Advance. Within Oregon; Daily and Sunday, 1 Mo. CO cents; 3 Mo. 11.25; 6 Mo. 2.25: 1 year 4.00. Elsewhere 50 cents per Mo. or $5.00 for year in advance. By City Carrier: 50 cents a month; $5.50 a year in ad vance. Ter Copy 2 cents. On trains, and News Stands 5 cents. Revival (of the Inquisition IT took Mrs. Gladys Jones, a mere woman, to tell the twen tieth century revival of Torquemada's inquisition what a goodly portion of the wintry thinks of them. She told them all right, to their faces. And how! Mrs. Jones is publicity representative for some sugar organization, and not asham ed of Iter .job. She does resent being pilloried as a public malefactor by being hauled before one of the numerous and sundry senate committees on inquiry, the particular one be ing the Carraway committee on lobying. Just as Mrs. Jones says these senate committees have become adepts at besmirching the good name of most any public citizen who comes to Washington. Here was Julius Barnes who rendered a great public service during the war as grain administrator, who was called to Washington by President Hoover to head the committee to muster big bus iness for progress in 1930. A leader in the .grain export trade Mr. Barnes talked with Chairman, Legge of the farm relief board regarding the board's plans with particular respect to the grain merchants of the country. Whereupon the Car raway committee hailed Mr. Barnes before it and subjected him to the customary grilling as though he were a mean culprit in police, court. The committee had no' business quizzing Mr. Barnes; it was nothing but high-handed usurpation of legislative func tions. Mr. Barnes was not lobbying, he was not appearing be fore congress nor concerned with any pending legislation. But the arch-inquisitors of the senate would not let these facts stop them. They are public "Paul Prys" and go at their job with the malice of religious bigots scotching heresy. Mrs. Jones didn't hesitate to bawl them out with vio lating the constitution by robbing private correspondence from her office files. But what is the constitution among senators who have ransacked so many private letter files in late years that a man in business life might as well dictate his letters to a microphone? Meantime public business must wait and the task of the senate to enact needed legislation may go by the boards becaifse as Mrs. Jones said: "You are wasting so much time and the taxpayers' mon ey asking me silly questions." ' In times past these committees have had difficulty get ting witnesses to talk, but not with Mrs. Jones. They could n't shut her up. For two hours she rode over them rough shod and made them like it. Even dour old Walsh of Montana iaughed as she jabbed at him and the committee. The Statesman recognizes the necessity of senatorial investigations of public matters ; but these inquiries have become inquisitions of persecution. They are conducted und er no rules of procedure such as prevail in court for the pro tection of witnesses or others under accusation. There is no restraint upon the acerbity of -any individual committeeman. The inquirers are open air grand juries with the accused given no right of self-defense and no protection which the law usually extends even to thieves and murderers when brought to the bar of justice. The "greatest deliberative body on earth" has become a group of self-appointed prosecuting attorneys with plenary powers like the inquisitors of old Spain. The country may get tired of it after awhile. f Silver Is Almost Free! SHADES of the great W. J. B.! Silver has fallen to the est price in years and years. Down to 45c an ounce. In the '90's at the time of the agitation for free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, silver bullion was selling at 95 cents an ounce. Now it is less than half that amount. v ' Yet we hear no universal lament as arose in the famous campaign of. 1896. For one reason the rich silver mines of : the west have been exhausted. Silver in this country is large ly a by-product in the production of other metals. The present decline is due'to the upset in.China, the fear that countries of the Far East, India and China, might adopt the gold standard. The' Orient has long been the sink of silver. Bullion goes there in heavy volume to be turned into coins and into trinkets and necklaces of which the oriental is very fond. . The major issues of yester-year become only fossils of political history so far as the present is concerned. The blaze from the Nebraska prairies which threatened to burn to the Atlantic in 1896 stopped at the Missouri. McKinley'and the gold standard, Mark Hanna and the full dinner pail triumph ed. The day of silver as a factor in coinage and as a factor in ? politics was done. Daring the 1.15 an ounce, and the price continued by the government , nnder the Pittman act for a short time following the war. Since then the decline in the price of silver has been steady. Welcome to f : QENATOR J. E. BENNETT O governorship, and the earliest to announce himself, was a Salem visitor Tuesday. Mr. .Bennett i begmlng his drive or v&es and claims as his start 35.000 votes in Multnomah county based on his vote-getting ability in his campaign for the senate. He is stressing his authorship of the bill calling ;' for reduced auto licenses, in state. 1 .Bennett is in the meat ? the author of the "home rule" rortiana autnonty toiix its " While in the Statesman - Dert eae or uottage urove, who is out on a scouting trip for, Charles Hall. Bennett took Bede to dinner. and then Bede took Bennett in to Portland. Whether they divided all tn oil ices Detween tnem remains to -be seen. ;.. . Those fellows who think a V. get anywhere in business or politics might read these words ol Sen- : ator Smoot spoken on his 83th "I am drawing dividends on the life I have lived since my boy hood. .-. 'J--. " v.----,-. , . "I've never drunk liquor in my life. I've never , smoked. I've al ways eaten-good, plain food and loved work. I never was lazy and never saw a time when I didn't hare plenty to do. . "I've never wronged anybody. I was fortunate in marrying as perfect a young woman an ever lived. If y children have- had- marvel ous mother, a superb home-maker. Of, all the blessings received by war the price was "pegged" at Candidates of Portland, aspirant for the his appeal for votes over, the , business in Portland! He was bill which would have giyen own telephone rates. office Bennett met up with EI young, fellow must snort around to birthday: ' ' BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS' This is Interesting: U A man, evidently an engineer signing himself C. H. Sholes sends a communication to the'Los Angeles Times. He says: - H "The engineers' report "ton the proposed routes for bringing Col orado river water to southern California Is gravely disappoint ing. If their decision against a gravity system Is upheld It will result In bequeathing to the pres ent and future generations the great cost of pumping. While the bonds for this gigantic undertak ing can in time be retired and In terest stopped, either of the ten tatively approved routes involves a large irreducible overhead. No public enterpriso, which must in-' cur a timeless burden should be indorsed until every possible al ternative has been analyzed and found wanting. Long befoVe Col orado river can be tapped Los An geles will require much more wat er. Is there a better and cheaper source from which It can be ob tained to precede, safeguard and supplement the greater project? S Then Mr. Sholes proceeds to answer his own question with the following: "On the western elope of the Coast mountains In Oregon the annual rainfall Is reported at 70 to 138 Inches. Thousands of acre feet of the purest water are wasted into the sea. If permission were granted by Oregon to Los Angeles (and for a reasonable compensation why should it not?) to store and withdraw a portion of that wasted water (say enough to equal the Owens river supply) the project would be feasible. As suming the, source basins could be at no greater elevation than 1200 feet nature has provided a gravity route with the aid of less than 40 miles of tunnel right into the San Fernando reservoir. To prevent evaporation and contam ination a closed conduit would be necessary. Surface construction only would be required from the source to near the mouth of the Klamath river; also In following the course of the Klamath andx, irmuy rivers 10 me oarner ne- tween the latter and the canyon of the Sacramento which would be pierced by a short tunnel; thence along the Sacramento can yon until It merges into the San Joaquin valley. To negotiate the O GEMS TAKEN o- v .Irs. William Douglas Burden, eecialry prominent Eastener, whose home at Santa, Barbara, CaL. was reported to hare been robbed of jewels valned at ee-v rral ' hundred ' thousand ' " dollars. Th most valuable single piece of -ewelry stolen waa m pearl nenlr ace worth 1100.000,' , , : if ' ' -Hr A BAD TIME TO COVER mountains between the south end el the valley and the city involves simple engineering. Although the distance is great, 750 to 800 miles, the natural advantages indicated would permit cheap and rapid construction. And with this Oregon water comes no salt, no silt, no pumping." m Does the reader get the idea? It is no less than a proposition to take the amount of water that Los Angeles now gets with its 250 mile pipe line from the Sierras, that is enough to supply a dty of 2,000,000 population. To get this supply from some thing more than a 1200 foot ele vation In the Coast Range la Ore gon; to collect this supply in place for an Intake having an el evation of 1200 feet, and trans mit It In a pipe line aU the way to the southern metropolis, 750 to 800 miles u And to do this, because It would eliminate the cost of pump ing that the engineers say will be necessary if Los Angeles Is to have her share of the .supply to come from the Boulder'dam pro ject, which contemplates the stor ing of the water of the Colorado river. ' This may seem far fetched. It would certainly be the world's longest pipe line. The Los Angel es pipe line, 250 miles long is said to be the longest In the world for a domestic supply. Is there that much water run ning to waste from any large sec tion of the Coast Range in Ore gon over-1200 feet above sea lev el, that it would be feasible to collect in storage reservoirs? And if there is that much, woud the state of Oregon be willing to hare it taken to Los Angeles? Or could the consent of the property owners affected be secured, if the consent of the Oregon .state government could be had? 1i S Any way, this is interesting. It gives an idea of the urge in Cal ifornia for the securing of. a greater water supply than is now available, especially to the south ern portion-, of that state, from any available water, shed. m Certainly the cities -and dis tricts of northern -California would resist any attempt of southern Calif ornians to take any weter from the water sheds that are available to them; They need all and more than nature has -pro- Tided for them by gravitation. including every gallon of the wat er they can conserve by storing the tnpplies that come from the snow and the rain of the winter months. , . ' If the people of Los Angeles can speculate upon the possibil ity of getting her water supply,.. or half of it, as Mr. Sholes sug gests from Oregon, through a pipe line 750 to 800 miles long. that would reanire "less then 40 miles' of tunneling. It is not out ot the question for the people of Salem to look forward to- getting a mountain supply of water. which nay be had through much less than .100 miles ot pipe line, with a fail sufficient to provide great deal of hydro-electric power. (But this is a big subject, and for sereraLdays this column will be aevotea to southern Califor nia's water and power problems, from a study on the ground, from first hands a matter that is of vast and vital Importance to Ore gon as well as California.) r The Bits . man la glad' to hear that Mayor Llvesley is in favor ot puoiie oocks as weu as a manr ager-couBeil form of city govern ment. Tiese should be made lire UP I -O issues, till settled, and settled la the right way. Editorial Comment" From Other Papers LUMBER AND THE TARIFF Senator Steiwer thinks, accord ing to a Washington dispatch, that a fight looms tor higher lum ber rates in the tariff bill. It is to be hoped his pre-vision is sound. Thus far it has seemed to some of us out here in Oregon that not enough "of a fight has been made for those rates. Sen ator Steiwer was quoted early in the special session prior to the present congress as saying that unless the lumber Industry was given recognition,' there might be no new tariff bill, or words to that effect. It is to be hoped he still reels that way abvut it. Doubtless he does. He has fought well and almost singly thus far against the determination ot east ern senators to leave lumber on - . - " " - ; . v.r..:,- , . . - "-' - "'ssnWBnnnnnnWBWBsn the free- list. The noose bill, save lumber protection. The senate committee cut It off. The primary purpose of tariff legislation at this time, at laid down by President Hoover, was to aire needed help, to agricul ture. The secondary purpose by' that same authority was to enact limited rertsion fa faTor of needy industries. Lumbering is a needy industry. It is and has been for some time past in a condition the opposite of prosperous. Why then should consideration for the needy lumber industry be with held when more than ample con sideration has been given to oth er industries some of which are far from needy? The majority in the senate finance committee seems disposed to substitute the word "eastern" for "needy in the designation of industries to be aided. It is against this dispo sition that Senator Steiwer is wag ing his fight. Eugene Register. IN THE PADDOCK It looks like the battle for the governorship this spring and fall will be a real "hoss race.'' There are a number of entries listed at present and more inclined to get Into the going. So far candidates have confined thmselves to an nouncements of their Intention to seek rotes, but it will not be long before the platforms begin to ap pear in the press. All aspirants are hanging back waiting to see If the other fellow won't fire a few broadsides', so that they can go him one or two better. At pres ent writing it would appear as If Governor Norblad's jiost danger ous opponent will be Henry L. Corbett, Portland. Corbett is cer tain to show considerable strength In Multnomah county and it is reported that he will draw rotes In eastern Oregon. Bennett will get a certain amount of votes around Portland. Hll will wage a hard fight but it loks sow as if he will have hard- "sledding. Morning Astorian. BOOTLEGGING IS CANADA Under the- government dispens ary the dominion has its bother some bootlegger evil. In an ad dress at Toronto Wednesday, Pro fessor L. J. Rogers of the Univer sity of Toronto said that for ev ery bottle of liquor shipped from Canada over the United States border, a corresponding bottle of rubbing alcohol was shipped in return, diluted and sold on the Conadian side as bootleg whiskey. There are two ways of dealing with the bootlegging evil vigor ous enforcement of the law, and stop patronizing the bootleggers. Certainly Canadian experience proves that bootlegging thrires alongside the government dispen sary. Spokane Spokesman-Review. The Safety Valve - - ) Letters from Statesman Readers Jan. 14 Editor Statesman: On behalf of the Salvation Army, I wish to extend to you our slncerest thanks for the generous contribution of raluable "white apace" given to us during our Christmas Good Will Fund cam paign. It is very largely owing to your splendid publicity that we .were Paris sets the styles in women's dress for the world. London is the arbiter in matters of dress for men. But, New York and Chicago, Boston and San Francisco and hundreds of smaller cities and towns throughout the United States may know what are the latest styles even before tlfey are shown in Paris. A seeming paradox, but true. Merchants maintain representatives in Paris, London, Vienna and other European style centers who cable the lat est news of the modes, and ship samples long before they are sold abroad. In America, the news is translated into advertisements and printed by lo cal newspapers throughout the United States. And so, American women are able to dress in the latest styles in dress more accurately than the . women of any other, country on the face of the globe. Advertising keeps yon abreast of the times in other ways. It telb you of the newest and best in every line of merchandise. It keeps you posted on -what other people are doing and wearing and using. Read the advertise ments. They are truthful and helpful. Ton can depend on their accuracy, for the reputations of the merchants sponsoring them guarantee their in-tegrity. ,Read the advertisements to know what is going cn in the world of merchandise. DRY CHIEF . 1 :-:-.: ni'a"r3ttSbtw Assistant Secretary of the Treas ury Seymour Lowraan described the killing of the three men on the rum runner BlackT'Duck as "un fortunate, but unavoidable." Lowman said, "They defied the Government, and they have no one to blame but themselves." enabled to raise a grafd total of $1569.82, which was a greater amount than was raised the year previous. Praying God to bless you, I am, Loyally yours, EARL M. WILLIAMS. Captain. Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read : IS January 15,1903 Mrs. R. E. Wands ot this city has received word from the offi cials of the St. Louis Exposition that she was awarded first pre mium on her exhibit of canned goods, including fruits, meats and vegetables. She has already re ceived a handsome ribbon, and will receive a gold medal later. President W. H. Downing of the state agriculture board re turned from Portland lat. even ing where he attended a meeting of the North Pacific Fair board to arrange dates for the coming state fair. He says Salem may have to help replace exhibits that will be difficult to get this year on account of the Lewis and Clark fair. 1 The Salem Woman's club has completed arrangements to bring to Salem the best reader in Am erica, Mrs. Bertha Kuns Baker, who will present Parsifal at the Grand Opera House. SHARKS KILL FIVE CAPETOWN, Union of South Africa, Jan. 14. (AP) A mes sage from Port Louis, in the Isl and of Mauritius, reported today that five persons had been killed by sharks in the Bay ot Tamorlno after their motorboat capsised In a BquaiL. Promotion ot District dForester C. M. Granger of t he. Pacific Northwest District, to the posi tion of Head Forest Economist In charge of the nation-wide For est Survey now being1 launched by the Forest Service. United States Department of Agriculture, was announced Monday by the Forest Service, United States De partment of Agriculture, was an nounced Monday by the Portland office of the Forest Service. Mr. Granger left Portland on ; January for Washington, D. C, where he was called to confer with Chief Forester R. Y. Stuart as to plans for his new work. Mr. Granger will return about the middle of February to Portland, where his temporary headquar ters will be. His successor as District Fores ter of the North Pacific District has not yet been decided upon. The forest surrey, authorized by the McSweeney-McNary Act of 1923, is one ot the biggest under takings la the development of for estry yet initiated. It will be a comprehensive appraisal of exist ing forest supplies and conditions, growth and requirements, and ot present and future trends, all of which properly coordinated will constitute a "fundamental and ec onomically sound basis for deter mining Federal, State, and indus trial forest policies and programs. Congress has authorized a Feder al contribution of $3,080,000- to the project. A small initial ap propriation of $40,000 is avail able this year. After the mid-year, hygiene classes in the junior high school will be conducted as a part of the physical education work and will be taught by the physical educa tion teachers. This decision was approved at a conference of health workers held yesterday morning and at tended by R. W. Tavenner, secon dary school supervisor; George W. Hug, school superintendent; Mrs. Grace S. Wolgamott, head of physical education in the junior highs and grade school; Edward Lee Russell, school physician; and H. F. Durham, principal of Par rish junior high. The gym teachers will work in cooperation with Mrs. Wolgamott in arranging the combined ihy giene and physical education pro gram, which will be approved, be fore put into effect, by Russell and Hug. AVIATOR LOST SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 14. (AP) The snowy wastes of southwestern Utah and southeast ern Nevada continued tonight to hold the secret of the where abouts of Maurice Graham, West ern Air express pilot, missing since he left Las Vegas, Nevada, last Friday night en route to this city. HIGH CUSSES PlltONHBISIS ' n shevras The greatest. , - , ' ', " '" '. :; " ' - . .