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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morningr. December 27, 1931 , "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear ShaU Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851. THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spsagci, Siujdon F. Sackett, Publisher Charles A. Spragcb Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett Managmg Editor Mrmher at th Associated Press The Aeeociated PrM Is exclueively entitled to the uae for PuMlca MoVef aUnews dispatches credited to U or not otherwise credited tn this paper. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Strpea. iM, Portlina, Security Bid. Baa rnutclscs. Sharon BUS-: Lua Angeles, W. Pac. Bile. Eastern Advertising Representatives: rwd-Parsoos-Stecher. Inc, New Tork. etBld-' 11 W. 42nd St.: Chicago, 3S8 N. Michigan Ave. Entered at the Pottoffice at Salem, Oregon aa SecltS Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Bustneee office, SIS S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: UaU Surecrtptloo Rate In Advance. Wthla l OjP' Sunday, 1 Ma M eenU; S Ma U: . Mo-, I1-,' T hmwiir ! cents per Ma. or 15.00 for 1 year to advance. By City Carrier: it cents a month: ffcOO a year tn advance. Per Copy I cent. Oa trains and News Stands S cents Broadcasting an Economic Conference JlN example ofthe fine service which the state owned radio iVstation KOAC is rendering to the public is the broad cast of the Pacific Coast Economic conference which will be held at the state college December 29 and 30th. Some of the greatest authorities in the field of economics on this coast will be in attendance and the addresses will be put on the air so the public may hear what they have to say. Naturally Old Man Depression will come in for quite a diagnosis, and addresses on phases of this topic will be delivered by Dudley F. Pegrum of the University of California at Los Angeles, and bv Norman J. Silberling, an economist of Oakland. Other topics include a paper on "Service at cost through public owner-shin" bv Calvin Crumbaker of the University of Oregon ; one on "Protectionism" by T. H. Boggs of Stanford univer sity; another on "Socialistic trends of modern capitalism by,S. J. Koon of the University of Washington. The hours on which these various addresses or papers will be given will be published in the radio program for KOAC on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. KOAC is the only strictly educational, publicly owned station with full time in this part of the counrty. It is per forming a most meritorious-work. In the field of farm exten sion for example it is reaching more farmers than ever the "farmers' institutes" did. It is employing a modern agency of education which reaches primarily the adults, enabling them to do their jobs better, whether farming, homemaking, or business. There is plenty of pressure from private interests to acquire part of the time of KOAC, and the board of higher education has gone to great length to finance the station for Its twelve hours of daily operation to meet the requirement of the radio commission. This policy deserves the support of the public. The station should be saved in the public service, should not be debauched by advertising or commercialization, and should be adequately maintained for just the service that it is doing for the people of Oregon. As funds are available that service should be extended by making a connection at Eugene for broadcasting from the state university, making it a great, all-Oregon station, wholly devoted to the public in terest. Treatment, Not a Practice Clinic THE house and senate committees of congress are resum ing their habit of investigation. In fact the congress is becoming more of a body for investigation than for legisla tion. The topics now being investigated include the causes of depression, the delinquencies of banks and bankers, war debts, home debts, farm relief, closed banks, all and sundry of the items that have given pain in the present disordered condition of affairs. Sometimes as we read of these lengthy investigations we wonder if congress is not more disposed to engage in a prac tice clinic than to prescribe a course of treatment for the sick patient. It is as though a man mangled in an auto wreck were brought to the hospital and the staff surgeons devoted two or three days to decide just how it was his car went into the ditch, instead of to emergency measures to save his life. The congress has shown some speed in advancing the relief measures which President Hoover has proposed, and it is too early to expect it to formulate any definite program of its own. Yet we watch with interest to see if its energies will be absorbed in detective work or whether it will proceed to administer the necessary stimulants and perhaps resort to some quick surgery to keep the patient from dying while the doctors debate what and who struck him. Lay Sermon ABOVH the noiuaox of HISTORY Z.nk.rih the ton of If eshele- aUaa vat p,rUr of the toberaeete f the eoagregatiom." I Chroa. X; 31. For centuries and centuries this Zeeharlah has defied oblivion. His name got embedded in- the Chron icle and bo It has been preserved. A mere porter at the tent tup. one of 212 who held similar Jobs. Zeeharlah has bad the distinction of having; his name intoned in He brew temples and synagogues and in Christian churches toe long centuries. An empty name, and a minor title; yet they have resisted the erosion of time and change. Regardless of the fate of those names that were graven on stone or written on parchments which failed to survive fire and water and frost, Zeeharlah lives in a va cant immortality. He is not alone among those whose names still linger above the horizon of history. . Many others, porters and princes, linger on: I mere names with no meaning to men and women of today. Pass along the corridors in the Hall of Fame, or make the rounds of Stat uary hall, and yon find niches filled with the busts of forgotten heroes. The ashes of many, la beled with names without signif icance to the present, repose In Westminster Abbey. Travel around Washington city and yon see the bronze generals astride horses frozen in the charge; but it requires reference to a guide book to learn why their fame once was given such a measure. Names chiseled in Egyptian stones, impressed in the fluid wax of Assyrian tablet, written in the parchment scroll of the Hebrews, printed in books in modern print shops, names, names, thousands of them, preserved like that of Zeeharlah, though one can think of no reason why their names are thus embalmed In history. A por ter at the door of the tabernacle, we may suppose Zeeharlah did his work well, that he admitted none who might profane the holy pre cincts. But did he for that deserve this permanent mention more than the foreman of the work on the building of the temple, or the engineer who designed the hang ing gardens of Babylon, or count less others who lived, did their tasks well, and sank into the anonymity of death? Zecharlahs, Meshelmiahs they they have littered up the books for young and old to stumble over. Their names might as well have perished with them. For as time stretches on and on the names to be preserved and remem bered .need to be not merely those which chanced to be set down in a fragment of a chronicle or on a tablet of stone; but those who have made great and permanent contribution In determining the channel in which history should flow. Immortality belongs to the immortals, not to the chance por ters at the entrance to the taber 1 44- HERE'S HOW By EPSON F B Roil GOT IM ,, wl p) " r" "NO. YOU CANT. SPOIL Mf GARDEN. sOiG OVER THERE. DAD JOINER. OL PROSPECTOR. DO AS MRSJ DAISY BRADFORD SAID. MOVING JUST FAR ENOUGH TO HT THE EDGE OF A BIG TEXAS OIL FIELD TRANS VKXM MAM Of A SUM'S HOKM MAS THs TONAL OUAUtr Of A HKJrUTBCH) VRXJN ROOST) EQUPPCO WITH AUTOMATIC PARA. CHUTES TO S4SUU SARn IMdA RETURNS Aft I THEM.' If VCNTICHOf HERR RO& GERMANY Tuesday Cop Who Beg for Their Pay Quite a fuss has been raised over a cadaver whose owners claim it Is the mummy of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin. It isn't; Decause Bootn was killed by federal soldiers shortly after he shot Lincoln and his body was fully identified. But the sucker crop has la do sattsiiea; so we nave extra mummies of Booth and various princess Anastasias, daughters of the last czar. Salem may get some bids on the proposed offer of $20,000 wat er Donas dui mere is no prospect of selling any large block of her oonoa si mis lime. jnicago Had a call for bids for bonds and got no offers. The city of New York whose credit has always ranked very aigu, uau io pay t To interest on an issue of short term notes run ning less than a year. a nypocrue is a man who carries a Ballyhoo home Inside a uaaies Home journal. uorvallis Gazette-Times. me aoove snows wnat a backnumber Editor Ingalls is. A hypo crite nowadays is a man who carries a Ladies Home Journal home inside a Baiiynoo. v uen Haney is Decerning a candidate for the U. S. senate and is using tne Josepn platform as his springboard. It will h rnnA nm. torlcal thunder; for he can point out how successful the platform has uvea m uregon in giving iree power and in Increasing the state's population. Yesterdays ... Of Old SaJem Town Talks from The Statee maa of Earlier Days December 27, 10O6 The prediction is made that within a few years the walnut market will attract as much at tention from Willamette valley farmers as the hop market does at present. The school district tax meetine. which wIU be held on December 29, will give the women of the district the only opportunity al lowed them under the statutes of having equal suffrage with men. LAKH LABISH Two young women, formerly a nurse and bookkeeper of Portland, have cre ated a sensation here bv donnins- masculine attire and performing manual labor. December 27, 1921 ttouerc uow, 14, sustained se vere but not serious injuries yea teraay afternoon when his sled struck a car on the Lincoln street hill. This is the second Christ mas season in many years that Salem has had snow. MAafii.-Nuxuix Tne arms conference naval committee faces a perplexing situation in its ef- iorts to agree on limitation of submarines. SANTIAGO, Chile The Chi lean and Peruvian governments have agreed to designate plenipo tentiaries to meet at Washington. v. u., to attempt settlement of tne Tacna-Arlca dispute. Three cheers for Tusko. His Christmas dar antlre rHa t mind of many a copy-desk man over the holiday, because he supplied "Page one, head A" stuff on what had promised to be a blank news oay. Japan Justifies her drives toward Chlnchow on the ground that Chinese soldiers and bandits all look alike. Perhaps Japan can ex plain how her action in seising Manchuria is not militarized banditry. President Hoover has named our delegates to the Geneva dis armament conference. In the, present temper of Europe it would be well for thereto strap on their shooting Irons before they sail. Newspapers hope for an early moratorium on charity appeals. Not that they are unwilling to help; but because they believe the lob Is pretty well rounded up for a spell. The south sun-baked la 19 SO, Is now flood-drenched, people cling to their homes through flood and drouth. Yet the We must thank Mr. Weatherman for giving us a perfect day for Christmas If winds and rains did lash ns again on Saturday. - JA -1 .1 . - , . vuriaunaaaeer gauouage suiierea rrom tne depression too. It uh iuui uiuua buu less same loan usual. Now the Basic committee says the world Is about busted. Hard- J juav uie economto aeaaacao mat IS a escribed m splitting. "Soviets Plan Large Scale fish Canning says a 0J headline. .auinwaii uu preterm m eat iisa wita the scales off. ' M ....Somv toVu ttaakfal they dlda't gat killed kr an auts la -lilt: others appear sorry for tke same reasom. ' V Winter golf mustke wer pelolkeea dara,- The Va Safety Ive - - Letters from Statesman Readers Greta Garbo Is Real Actress; Loses Herself In Current Role By D. H. Talmadge. Sage of Salem "The Gav Bandit t Border1' , cnx Early in the week I saw and heard the Garbo Greta the much discussed at the Slsinore, Salem's theatre beautiful. And I was disappointed nappiiy. l have come In these days to be skeptical of the news from movie dom. The bright young men and women who write this news are not, I have found, entirely to be relied upon in what is set forth as their Judgment of the new stars. "Great" has not always meant' great. In some instances it has meant mediocre, in others not so much as that. "The great Garbo." We have heard and read this frequently of late. 'But is Garbo really great! Human curiosity sufficiently stim ulated results in crushes at the box office. Which, of course, Is the end that the publicity scrib blers are striving for. And there is nothing to do but Join with the crushers; it is the only means of relief. And sometimes we are gladdened and sometimes we are saddened. The picture brought to Salem in this Instance was the somewhat sombre "Susan Lenox," a fair test of an actress's power. Opinions, I presume, are at var iance in Salem as elsewhere. Per sonally, I consider this Swedish girl rather wonderful. Within tea minutes from the beginning of the drama I had ceased to see Garbo, who, simply as Garbo, is not re markably interesting, and was looking at "Susan Lenox" and lis tening to her broken English. I was aware of no effort, no strain. on the part of the actress to pro duce this effect. She has no "tricks" that were within my abil ity to discover. The character submerges Tier completely. It ts more a natural power, a gift, per haps, than an acquired one. But, natural or acquired, it is art. Small wonder that she is a puz zle to Hollywood. I should not be greatly surprised to learn that she is a puzzle to herself. L I am informed, correctively, that "Greeta" (the pronunciation I have given it) should be "Oret ta." O. K. "Gretta" It is. How ever. I am further informed and the authority seems excellent that the Swedish "e" in such esse has the sound of the English "o as In love. So help yourselves to the English "o" as In love, you whose hearts are torn by fear that Miss Garbo'a given name will not be sDoken as the lady herself might speak It. Rather likable. I think, are the folks who say slapbang, when the merit of an actor or a play or a book or 'anything comes up for discussion. "Aw, you're all wet" or "Maybe you're right, young feller, but I caa't see It that way. As a rule. I have found such folks to be more agreeable than those who "be to differ." I once saw a gentleman receive a lovely black eye. and he received It la less than five minute after entering into controversy with a gentleman who onened his side of the case by politely saying "I beg to dif far." Tea may be so sloppily weak that it loses Its noble character. or it may be so strong that it misses its benign purpose, and it is not alone tea of which this may be said. XIUBITE TO JUDGK STEPHEN CHAD WICK Judge Stephen Chadwlck who recently passed away in Seattle, was very dear to bis boyhood friends he grew ua with, alwava cheerful word and nleasanf. smile, and very fond of a keen tory, or a Jest. a friend visiting in his home not long ago noticed him reading kit Bible after breakfast and said to him, "Why Steeve I did not know you were so religious f And he replied: "Oh, I'm not so religious, but Proverbs beats Shakespeare to quote to a Jury." Would there were more like Steeve a pleasant memory. MRS. S. C. DYER. ATTEND CHRISTMAS PARTY LIBERTY, Dee. 21 Mr. and Mrs. p. Q. Judd, Harlan Jndd and Mrs. Frank Judd. after the family holiday festivities, attended a Christmas party at Monmouth at taa home of Mrs, P. Q. Jndd's sister.-Mrr Dora Tittle. I wonder If anybody around these dlggln's read Mr. Dickens's "Christmas Carol" during the re cent few days er will read It dur ing the holiday week to comeT Such reading was an essential fea tare of the Christmas season in the homes of long ago. Bat the movies have come, and it isn't fair, perhaps, to censure the youngsters nor the oldsters eith er, for that matter. IX the oia story no longer ranks as goo4en- tertainment. Hooray! One since Christmas I shopping day This depression thing that has beea spreading gloom around here durtajr tha past year or two seemed to be suffering from some what of a desresalOB last week. It's a good sign, as tha nan said when the sick horse kicked aim. r At W St1 t I D. H. TALMADGE feeling after the Christmas and the Christmas dinner. rusk Vanity, vanity well, you know what the preacher said. If you have read Ecclesiastas, which of course you have. An immense sale of diamonds and other nre- clous stones is reported tor the week by the local five-and-tea- cent stores. I see no reason to criticize those who are made hap py ny aiamonoa and other pre cious stones from the five-and- tens. I am much more inclined to extend congratulations. There is a certain sportiar chance taken by the him or her who Joins in the last mad rush of the Christmas buyers. There is possibility, that one may be elbow-J punctured at any moment. There is an amazing number of sharp elbows in the worLd They be come snarp, i suppose, from re peated contact with the tops of dining tables. Just the same, we are all right, we ioiks most or us. I saw a meek little old woman with two little girls granddaughters, I reckon clinging to her skirts, pass through the very heart of a milling mob of Christmas shop pers Wednesday, and it was a grand sight, nothing less. No el bows were involved In that inci dent Plain goodness of heart. (thoughtful consideration. Innate courtesy, giving the right of way. The biter is bittea, the slugger is slugged, the el bower is elbow ed, but the non-resistant is not re sisted. There is something to the Gandhian philosophy, I think. But there is no good reason I can think of why a man shouldn wear a shirt. Individuals among us have beautifully poetio thoughts, yet are unable to give tnem expres sion, and other individuals among us have no poetie thoughts, yet express them beautifully. And there is no use la growling about It, either, because there is no help for it. It is net a very serious matter. Few of ns are nnable to make our meaning clear to the understanding of others, and that. I take it. Is the prime purpose of language. The effect is largely the same whether one says, "Chee, guy, I had a swell Idea in me nut," or whether one says with Mr. Browning, "A thought lay like a flower upon my heart." A bath la hot water, followed by an application of alcohol te the suffering parts, is said to be good for aching legs. And a Happy New Year to you! New Views How did yon enjoy Christmas T was the question asked by States man reporters Saturday. llarsatret Bteieausa. First M. chwrcfct "I had a One time with resting and a little vacation." Mrs, B. X. Otjcn. homc-atakeri "Ok, Jan fins." Do yon know, st times t have a feeling that we have 0Tr-Saata-rianaed this Christmas business. But nrobablr w hsvent. Any-i Bare Bean, WtrJaasett bd UTlaMe-ta ikta tim'if'tui aari fwrttmfrdtaasr SYNOPSI8 Yoong and fur"""" Ted Rad clifte arrives a Verdi, a Mexican border town, as the search for "El Coyote,- the notorious masked ban dit. Is at its height. "El Coyote" avenges the outrages perpetrated by tke wealthy and powerful Paoo Mo rale arainat the neons. Ted learns (rma Rah Harfczteaa. bis late father's friend, that Morales was res far Radeliffe Senior's failure, but Bob urges him not to make aa ea-4 amy of Morales as be nas ococr plana. Ted Is attracted to Morales' beautiful niece, Adela, "El Coyote" sends his lieutenant to urge the ranchers to join him in overthrowing Morales. Jito, Morales' ward, warns him he will lose power unless "El Coyote" is killed. At Morales' fiesta, Ted draws his host into conversa tion about his father. CHAPTER XV Ted lighted a cigarette. "What do you thick was the cause of my father's failure?" "It was simply that h had bor rowed and expanded too moch at the wrong time, tenor. If it had not been for those disastrous days when money was impossible to get, and when everr security was toppling. your father might have doubled his Bullions. But things went badly. Your father had been indiscreet" "Did my father ask yon for help before the end came "He asked me to keep the Mexi can government from coo celling its concessions. I could not do that for 'him. I myself was fighting against failure. "Sen or Morales, if you will pardon a blunt question in your own house, did it help yon in your own diffi culties to have my father failr Morales looked at Raddiffe. He may have been deciding on an an swer, but the deeply lined face be trayed nothing. "As a matter of truth, it would not Had it come earlier perhaps, yes. Bat let me say this. It is something I hope you will believe. I would not have had your father fail for my own benefit He was, in a sense, my friend.' Ted thought of Don Bob's words and was silent His steady gaze held the black eyes of Morales for t moment and it may have been that the Spaniard's quivered for an in- itant "All this it will profoundly change your future, Senor RadcliSe, Might one ask your plans?" "I have no real plans as yet Don Bob has offered that I work with aim. I'm going to try it If I find that I am only a charity burden. 111 go back East and yet He looked out the broad window toward the blazing desert "Everything here has made me want to stay. Perhaps (or always. The East holds very tittle for me now." "Let us hope you will stay al ways." Morales rose and looked at his watch. "la the half-hour will be ur horse race. Until then I shall leave you with Adela while I ask Don Bob to come to my office. As the footsteps of their going died away, the girl looked up from her deep chair. She reached out and took hi hand. "It is a very brave thing you are doing, Ted Radcltffe, to hold your head up beneath this sudden blow. But do you mind if I add one word a word of caution? "Say anything in the world to rae you want "Then I want to say this. Some thing in your manner tells me you believe uncle may have had some thing to do with your fathers loss. Whether he did or not I can t say. I know nothing of his enterprises. But until you are sure, or until you can see some end to be served, be careful, my friend. I would not have conflict between you." "Why?" "Because." she answered eimnlv "Say anything in the world to me you want," said Ted. "I am food of Don Bob and I like yon. My uncle Is very powerful and he holds to the Spanish ideas of a blow for a blow. Yo won't think me meddling for saying this, will you?" "I think you're quite, quite per fect and I'll talk no more today about what has passed. Out here, in this place of beauty and yester day, it is hard to think that any other world exists, isn't it? At least a world where bonds and stocks and failures have any place." "I often wonder if they have," she questioned slowly. "I was East for two years at school you know, and at times people would take me down into what you call the business sec tion of those great cities of yours. I always felt I was stifled. I felt so sad. Always I wanted to take those pretty little girls who were sitting there bending over typewrit ers or great red-lined ledgers and say to each of them: 'Child, child, let all that alone. Leave it to old people who have nothing else to think of. For you the sun is shining and outside there is someone waiting to fall in love with you." He stood watching her. Watching the changing colors of her long oval face, the shadows that came and went before her eyes, and the piled up glory of her hair. And as he watched, Ted wondered if for her, too, life waa waiting outside and somewhere a lover and the old eter nal passion of love's madness. "1 have a theory," be answered gravely, "that all those girlish heads, knew a great deal more about what was waiting for them outside thaa you suspected. And if you had been there at the dosing hour, yon would have seen them dusting powder oa their aeses, and not wasting time oa any theories. But I'd like " Ted stopped. A tall, powerful fig ure stood outlined against the patio entrance. A Mexican cowboy in all the gorgeous attire of fiesta. Silver conchas gleamed against the milk white leather chaps. A silk shirt of deep blue and above that a blue handkerchief knotted. A tremendous man. He might have been twenty five or a little more. Thick, coarse black hair lay about his temples. A long scar seared his forehead. "Adela mia," he began in Spanish. That calchine iarb of Ted. be added quickly: "Dispense. Senorita, your uncle asks if yon care to come and see the races. I tell him if yoa will not come I myself will carry yon. For must you not be there te say, 'Esplendido, Jitol when I win?" His white teeth showed beneath the smile, and his black eyes searches her face. Rather obviously he wai much in love with life and with him self, this great powerful Mexican Adela nodded up at him. "All my life I spend admiring you, Jito. What will you do when I fal in love with someone else and ge away?" Confidently the man smiled dows at her. "Why, that is so easy I I shall break him in two so." And his great hands dosed together i a, twisting gesture. The girl laughed outright "Sweet and simple solution." She turned toward Radcliffe. "This wildcat of the desert is Jito, my unde's ward, Jtid, according to his own admis sions, he is a very devil of a fdlow. Jito, yoa have heard of Mr. Rad cliffe, who comes all the way from the Atlantic coast to show you you're not the only giant in the world." The Mexican stretched forth a great hand, and, to his surprise, Ted found, as they stood face to face, that he had to look up into the other's eyes. Jito's own eyes traced the outline of the American's form. "Su.1 have heard of the Senor Radchffe. Already my men teH me of yon, and I remember once read ing about yoa how ia three min utes, or four, maybe, you throw tht best wrestlers of the colleges. I, too, can wrestle." He laughed and nod ded, filled with energy and delight ta living. "Yes, you are a powerfal man, Senor Radcliffe. It would be good to lock us both in a room te see who should come out eh?" Again he laughed ia high delight at the thought "It would be decidedly bad for the room aa altogether untidy idea," the girl answered. "So run along, big one, and tell my uncle we are coming to see some unknown peon beat yoa in the race." "Not while I live. littlest" he answered, and. leaning down he snatched a rose from her waist "I take this to win," he called back, and was gone. fTe a Cot tinned) BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Salem theatre history: S S It Is a far cry from Bosco the wizard of pioneer days to the at tractions now offered Salem au diences by Warner Bros, at their Elsinore and Capitol theatres. e S The writer proposes to sketch an outline of Salem theatre his tory, In the next, and perhaps a succeeding Issue. But there is In teresting history connected with the Warner brothers themselves. There were four of them. Major Albert Warner, and Harry, Jack and Sam. The three first named are the Warner Bros. now. Sam died several years ago. Their father, Benjamin Warner, was with them at first, and they still go te hint tor advice. His home is at Los Angeles. The Warners started at Chica go as Independent distributors of moving picture films. Producing end selling were separate enter prises then. They secured state and other rights and prospered exceedingly for that period, around 105 to 1910. They also started a couple of theatres. Thea they went to Hollywood and became producers, and were highly successful. About 1920. Wall street money went Into pic tures at Hollywood and else where; was poured in like water. The Warners were almost put out of the running by this fierce com petition. They weathered the storm, however, but in 1927, Just before tke talkies came into the limelight, they agaia bad very hard sledding. They almost went broke. S H But they had the nerve, and the vision; then, almost as a desper ate last chance, to get .into the talkies, and ta push What was thea called "sound pictures" with some good friends of mine, and all." Mrs. William Rash, bow mak ers "It waa a woadertal Chriat- stronglyand they were about two years ahead of their competi tors in this field. They led, and made wonderful financial gains. The doubting Thomases, the other producers, who could not see any thing In the talkies, had to tag on behind; and none of them has fully caught up. Does the reader know that Edison invented talk ies about 1900, and would no doubt have perfected the process then but the doubting Thomases, who regarded the Ides as a fad, were cold, and Edlsoa lagged ia his researches, or dropped tha matter? S S The Initial big successes la talkies. "The Jaw Singer", Al JoU soa's first plctnra of that type, and then his "Sonny Boy, made by the Warners, electrified the theatre world, and pat talking plo tares on the map almost ta the extent of crowding everything else to the rear. The Warners took over another Hollywood studio, the First National, In 1929. They are now producing la their two studios there 78 or more pictures a year; major pictures, not count ing many fillers. And they have theatres in prac tically every representative city in the United States. They re cently completed one of the fin est theatres in the country, the Wilshlre Western, at Los Ange les. They have a vast far-flung organization and business. But as to Salem?' They have long leases now about a year old, oa tke Elsinore and Capitol thea tres. They do not own the build ings. They pay monthly rent ta George B. Guthrie for the Elsi nore. aad Frank D. Bllgh for Ua Capitol. But they own all the fix tures, furnishings and apparatus everything bat tha buildings. And they have the best and latest talking picture machines made; of Western Electric manufacture. (Continued on page 19) Oregon Pulp and Paper Company Manufacturers of BOND LEDGER GLASSINE GREASEPROOF. TISSUE Sapport Oregon Product Spedff. rSato Madf Piper for Your Offleo SUtlonerj.