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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR - The 6gEON STATESMAN. Salera Oregon, Sunday Morning. April 23, 1933 Arbor Day 1933 BEATRICE BURTON By v MARY FAITH si -"No Favor Sway Fear ShaUlice" '. i From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. . Chjjuxs A. Smucus SUIXDON F. Sacxett -' Member of the Associated Preu The Associated Press U exclusively en a tied to the on for publica tion ot all sews dispatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited In this paper. ADVERTISING v Portland Representative Oordon B. Bell, Security Building, Portland. Ora. Eastern Ad yertising Representatives - -' " Bryant OrHfltn A Branson. Ina, Chicago, New Tor. Detroit. .. Beaton, Atlanta. - - Enttred at tht Poetoffiee at Salem, Oregon, em Seoond-CUue Hitter. ? Published every nwrfy except Monday. Business office, tlS S. Commercial Street. ' - V '. . : . : SUBSCRIPTION RATES : Atau Subecrlptloe Rates, to Advance. Within" Oregon : Dally and Suaday. 1 Mo. cents; I Mo. IU15; Mo. i year 14.00. Elsewhere 59 cents per Ho., or 15.00 fee I rear advance By City Carrier: 49 cents a month; $. a year In advance. Copy S cent On trains and News 3tands 6 cent. Wild Violets and Sweet Lavender IN his "Fisherman's Luck", the late Dr. Henry Van Dyke ' remarked of Izaak Walton's "Compkat Angler": "Walton's book Is as fresh as a handful of wild violets and sweet lavender." In a sense the comment applies to the works of Dr. Van Dyke, whose recent death has brought his literary output .once more to mind. Dr. VanDyke did not belong to the "lav bender and old lace" school of writers; he was not a senti mental romanticist. But he belongs to the jasmine blossom age of literature, which is meant as a compliment and not a slam. For the good books that he wrote have a certain far away sound in them. They belong to another era. Van Dyke himself outlived his literary generation. There was beauty and purity in what he wrote. The smoke of the campfires he loved so well and described so accurately, was the healthy smoke of native wood fires, not the smudge of Greenwich village realism. Neither seducer nor communist Van Dyke would be quite out of place in the post-bellum school of literature. More's the pity; for the world has need of his ideals of clean living and playing. Dr. Van Dyke lived a well-rounded life. Reared in a city, his pleasures were found in the country, particularly on fishing streams. He graduated from Princeton, took a pul pit, serving for 17 years as pastor of Brick Presbyterian church, New York. Then he became professor of English at Princeton, and his life thenceforth was dedicated to liter ature. His talents found many outlets. He lectured on religious-subjects, and his "Gospel for an Age of Doubt" braced the faith of many a doubter at the turn of the cen- tury. He wrote poems, good poems too. His short stories j have become classics: "The Other Wise Man"; "The Blue! Flower"; "The Lost Word". Numerous volumes of essays showed a wide knowledge of literature, urbanity of manner,) and beauty of expression. They were by no means placid, but rich-blooded, heavy with the scent of pine forests and dancing trout streams. President Wilson appointed him minister to Holland where he served during the war. Serving close to the war theatre Dr. Van Dyke's intensity of feeling found expression in "The Red Flower" a group of war poems. They alone speak of the partisan temper ; for example, this reference i to the submarine: "Flower of the German Culture. Boast ot the Kaiser's Marine, Choose for your emblem the vulture. Cowardly, cruel, obscene." But Dr. Van Dyke was not the only one who wrote in passion while the war was at its height. A long, full, and abundant life was that of Henry Van Dyke. He made substantial contributions to our thought and literature. That we do not appreciate him so much today is not his fault, but ours. He lived when men thought life was worth the living and the dole was a form of disgrace un thought of. How eagerly "would the multitude of cynics to day join in his "Angler's Reveille"? "Then come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your tears behind, ' And wander out to try your luck with cheerful. Quiet mind. For be your fortune great or small, you'll take what God may giro, - And through the day your heart shall say, 'Tls luck enough to lire!" Some day the world will be in mood to make a redis covery of the fine philosophy of Henry Van Dyke. His com panionship is still refreshing; and we delight at times to "walk a mile with him": "With such a comrade, such a friend, I fain would walk till journey's end, . Through summer's sunshine, winter's rain; And then, farewell, we meet again." Utilities and City Revenues THE city of Portland is suing to collect 5 of the revenues of the telephone company because the company oper ates without a franchise. More Bennettism. Whatever the city gets by way of tax increases the company's cost of do ing business and so helps to prevent rate reductions. Just how much money, aside from property taxes, should cities collect from utilities operating within their lim its? A1 few years ago Salem got busy and imposed franchise taxes amounting to $7000 from the various public utilities here, dividing the sum roughly in proportion to the business each does. Recently Klamath Falls-passed one of these five per cent ordinances and compromised with settlements under which Copco, which operates both electric and water sys tems will pay some S20,000 to the city per year. By comparison- the city of Salem is a piker". Such wide discrepancies ought not to be. A company should not be soaked more in one city than another on the same relative earnings and investment. If Klamath can get $20,000 why shouldn't Salem get $50,000? Here is a field which calls for some common standards and practice. If we do not have such standards then it becomes a race be tween cities to see which can gouge the most; and a race also to see how weak-kneed council members may be in mak ing agreements. It is proper for utilities to pay fair franchise taxes; but confiscation cannot be justified. Overtaxing the utility is just an indirect means of overtaxing the consumers of the service. Some Texan congressman named Dies introduced a resolution asking for congressional Investigation ot the "lobbying ot Ogdeh Mills (former secretary ot the treasury) and other lobbyists seek ing to defeat the program ot President Roosevelt." Ogden Mills Is uppiywg aooui me last vestige of intelligence left In Washington; and Tallying the remnant of republicans against the greatest crime this government ever proposed te commit: debauching the cur rency. , .., 1 Tr6 ' Bewe" wrinkle in "new dear meddling Is In the proposi tion ot Secretary Wallace ot the department ot agriculture to re- Antra Iha tnlvtae) . A w -4.1 u - ... : 2r" """ 4Vo wvaji aiconoi wun gasoline for motor fuel. The purpose is to give a new market tor corn. The blending would of coarse reduce the consnmntlnn of nil. ni t? Item nVAiYnAf Anll . mere. It the scheme were really uii vut iu yracuce Mog : umiuu laws, ' 1 ' j " "Bring your lunches' will . c u 1 'iugens waen ino uants murder trials start. The Judge gays he will clear the, MiirtriMm ft ..- the all-day parkers will have to put on their nose-bags out on the lawn. The Jackson county hill-bUllea will learn a few more things suvhv ww u lacy Djt wwnue in -. Editor -Manager - - Managing Editor Per economical it would have been de ago., u is just political interference .-, ir.v-.. . v not bo eigne on the wail la Judge, snpworta's court. - - -. 'j j ij lift yr Qjm Cej fy horn, tm. km Sri nw BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Gray's widow, nothing, tor Walsh's few days wife, SSOOft: S S It (Continuing from yesterday:) "The Mr. 'Winthrow' is evidently a misprint, as the congressman rrom Boston from lsio to HOP was Robert Charles Wlnthrop, a descendant of the famous Gover nor John Wlnthrop. Efforts are now being made to learn whether they widow's appeal was favorably considered or not. "In 1114 and 9 IS Mr. James A. Wehn, Seattle sculptor, using all obtainable data, modeled a medallion of Captain Robert Gray1 He was fortunate enough to find the addresses of descendants in Boston, especially Mrs. Frank B. Peabody and Edward L. Twom bly of Boston, great grandchildren of Captain Robert and Mrs. Mar tha Atkins Gray. They were pleas ed with the western artist's work and seemed proud of the fact that tnetrnncestor was highly esteem ed in the far west." CuriOUl to know If the, natitfnn of Captain Robert Gray's widow was favorably considered by con gress, the Bits man addressed a letter to Charles W. Smith, bus iness manager of the Washington Historical Quarterly, published at the University of Washington, Bride Adorned for Her Husband; That's Salem in Blossom Time By D. H. Talmadge. Sage of Salem A comfort: Chronic hummers usually hum hymns. If they crooned music it would be terri ble. J The apostle John spoke of a certain city as having a beauty like unto that of a bride adorned for her husband. Salem in the sunshine ot a spring morning Is somehow remindful of the com-' parlson. Are all brides beautiful? Ot course. Why blemish a sweet phrase with skepticism? Two Salem faces ' and figures shown at local theatres during the past week Dorothy Tweo dale and Victor Jory. Old home boy and girl make good. Sounds okay, doesnt It? Ye gods! Just this minute I have happened to remember that I neglected to note when the moon changed early in tne month whether ft was wet or dry. I have ever reposed consid erable confidence In the theory that a new moon which appears as It a powder horn might safe ly be suspended from It Indicates dry weather. It doesn't always; It Is Just one of those things which we indulge our supersti tion on. and It is perfectly harm less, like cough syrup on the hair. Speaking of the moon I once took a girl for a bnsgy ride, years and years ago. We started immediately after supper, be cause we were required to get homo before dark, and we had n't been going more than tea minutes when the girl saw the new moon over her left should er and Insisted on going straight home before some bad lock took place. Frankly, 1 didn't feel quite conffortable myself. Geese! A bit of silver lining: A man with a sore throat cannot dis play his ignorance of ways and means for relieving the economic situation. , Knergy . In the making of a newspaper Is much, but is it not everything. A" youug - man once University Station. Seattle, and reeelvftd this reply, under date of April 14: u "We can find no date to Indi cate that Captain Robert Gray's widow ever got a pension. Mr. Todd, who has charge of our Northwest history collection, has run down tht early committee re ports In C. 3. government docu ments, and- finds that the reports were unfavorable to such a grant. "In addition he called Profes sor Meany and fonnd that the Ut ter hae no Information in the af firmative." The careful newspaper reader perhaps noted la the Associated Press dispatches published last Snnday the following. In prefer red position as to page and col umn : "WASHINGTON. D. O, AprlllS (AP) Payment by the senate of 19000 to 8enora Nieves Peres Chanmont Walsh, widow of the Montana senator, was asked today in a bill by Senator Pitt man, democrat, Nevada. "Walsh was married la Cuba about a week before his death. S The said e. n.-r., taking into consideration the comparisons he might make between the bm of D. H. TALMADG1 went into a county seat towa ot the middle west and established a third newspaper, which, the town stood In no greater need ot than a dog stands la need of three ears. But this young man was at once recognised as a "hustler. and folks liked It He scattered news Items all over the paper and got a lot ot sub scribers, which ot course result ed la advertising patronage, and ha looked Ilka a winner. How ever, his paper has been dead these many years, and the other papers still lira. Something. which may, tor want of a better and mora comprehensrtr word. be termed heart was lacking. Gradually the tUa turned. I reckon a newspaper which lacks human quality a something which does not always show en the surface win find perman enea only in a field ot many aad constantly changing strangers. Despite golf and theatre and fishing and motoring, there are still a good many people who ob serve . Sunday , as a day of rest. Most of ; themirto auch. Plttmaa, the Nevada eenator, which will ot course pass, if It has not already been made Law And the request ot tt needy widow et Captain Gray and t&etr daughters, will be justified la re flecting upon the difference be tween the penurlousness ot mem bers of congress In the middle of the last century and the profli gacy of the upper house of con gress in the approaching similar period ot the present century. n That is, perurlonsneas with the people's money, and the contrary profligacy with like funds. Is The Cuban eenora who became the wife of Senator Walsh a few short days before his death 1 not to be blamed for wishing the , 000, the amount that as a rule Is voted to each, woman brought Into the state ot widowhood through (Turn to Page T) Yest erdays Of Old Salem Towa Talks freen Tbe States of Earlier Days April 2S, IMS President Theodore Roosevelt will veto the appropriation hill, should the senate, as did the house, tan to make the appropria tion tor the two battleships which are authorised la the measure. Prompt announcement of this fact yesterday was regarded as respon sible tor an announcement that Hale would propose a T,MO,00 appropriation amendment (or building the ships the president wants. A modernized version, or bur lesque, ot the "Merchant of Ven ice" wiU be presented by the sen iors of Salem high school Tues day. The cast Includes: Delpha Moore, Winona Savage. Frances Smith, Jennie Fry, Hortense Ep pley, Albert Mlnton, Lloyd Farm er, Lawrence Hoter, Carl Gabriel son, Wendell Miller, George Wat son, Leo Walton. Walter St. Pierre. Fiord rtter. Roral NIla and a group ot senior boys in the play's "football" team. E. A. Eaton, donor of thn nw $50,000 buUding for Willamette university, was In the city yester day loo kiBV ovar the a-ronnd an1 selecting the site for the proposed a it m - ouuaing. Tne new structure will be an administration bnndtnv far the college of liberal arts. April 23, 1B2S P. J. Knntz. Salam mttnrmm-r has been cho'san 1aslle nr peace to succeed the late Judge u. sl unrun, too county court an nounced last night. The appoint ment was made foUowinr u all- day ' conference behind closed doors at which the names ot 11 applicants were considered. Salem is going out after the 12,100 loganberry pickers that are estimated to be needed in the fields la this vicinity this year. The free employment aureaa held Its first meeting yesterday to dis cuss this problem. Although today Is a sort of un official Blossom day only, it is es timated that no less than 10.000 persons from outside Salem will come here to view the panorama ot blooming fruit trees la this vicinity. Watch for Special Announcements ta (mm II VNext Tne. A TTed.yT iiii' inr- - i z-, SYNOPSIS , - Mary Faita, cesasly young orphan, gives u her posotlaa as secretary te the wealthy- Hark Neattt to marry FJmberley FarreS. Kha, a young shiftless lawyer, lives with his mother, Whsa the latter objects to the marriage, Kim brusquely startles Mary Faith by tweaking the engage ment. Later, when he sees her with Made Nesbit in a jewelry store, se lecting a ring, bia Jealousy is aroused. The next snoraing he appears at Mary Faith's boarding house and overwhelms her with bis protesta tion of love. Eh again leaves her poaidoa and, after a hasty marriage, they spend aa ecstatic two weeks honeymoon hi the hoaas of Kim's anat ia the cooatry. Keturnixsg home, Mary Faith mores ta the FarreH apertmestt. JOsn'e fdeoda. Oak and Jack Maldoa. find Mary Faith a daB eotTtpeninei for (heir jassy parties. Mary Fahh realises Kim is Irritated by her iauara ft driah and srssnhl. During the wiater Kiss at tends the parties aloaa. Mary Faith takes cars of the house but knows nothing of Kiss's sTusenaoes. lVhea . - . - - -. . . ..... . -. , mm . ne uuiis ax weiiia psocoea tor bukibm Mary Fahh accedes te Us request lor 960L later, he admits taking that sum freen the firm's collections for bis own use. The next night, at dinner, he tells Mary Fahh he has lost his position. He then persuades her to let him have a thotniand dol lars to open bis owa office. Mary Faith, learning that she is to become a mother, joyously visits Khn's of' fice to tefl him the good news. She fiads Urn flirting with a girl Kim is furious. Mary Faith decides not to tcS him of the approaching event Back la the apartment, Kim tells Mary Faith aad his mother that be is getting out that his marriage is s faflnre. CHAPTER XXIII There wasat a shadow in hh eyes or a line of worry in his face. He stood there, calmly breaking their lives to pieces as tt" he were a willful child knocking over a tower of banding blocks. ne most unlucky thing that ever happened to us was seeing each other in Armbruster's store last Christmas." He was turning bow te go out of the kitchen. "If that hadn't happened everything probably would have tamed out all right. You'd have married Nesbit, aad I'd have stuck to Janet," r- "Janet" Mary Fekh had formed the word with dry lips that nude no sound. Janet . . . The "loyal little kid" who had left the offices of Mo Intra aad Westover when they had let Kins oat who had followed him to his wa tiny office m the Towers Bedding. "You're leaving me for that girt, Kim. You think you should have married her instead of me, don't your" "I shouldn't have married any body, he said violently. "And don' try to hang all the blame on her, Our married life has beea a flop all along and you know it as well as do. . . . What do I get out of k. Td like to know? I sit sfl day in a two-by-four office, waiting for a lot of clients who never come. I sol all evening in this flat, staring at the four waus. Ifs a great life for man. isat itr He swung round and started down the narrow haB that led to the sleep ing rooms at the back of the apart ment Mary Faith followed him. "Kim, you're just docouraged tonight" "I'm just through 1" he corrected her "I'm sfl through. And I'm getting out how while the gettings good. Seer He pulled his Gladstone hag down from the shelf of his closet and opened h oa the bed. Then he be gan to take his clothes out of the drawers of hie dresser shirts, un derwear, socks, handkerchiefs. He went into the bathroom and came back with his tooth brush and his shaving tackle in his hands. "Kim, you're aot going out to night r You're not going now?" "I sore am, ran going to get it all over and done with before I weaken, ... I know it's the thing to do and Fm going to do ft Besides, ifs the twenty-eighth of the month, sou ana my mother win have to step hvely if you're going to be out of this place by the first Ifa only tnree oays on. He laid a bill oa the top ot the Bringing Big Bank Service to Salem Oiir affiliation with the United State National Bank of Portland enables us to say that there is hardly any problem in this field too big for us to aid in solving. At the same time our local 'interest in affairs makes us want to look after the little problems, too. United States v ' ': SAXEM.OREOON ' "Trig Bank fJuz Service Btrflr" " Mti OB Ten just through." he corrected hex. Tm all through and rm getting out now while the g citing's good seef" dresser. "There's fifty dollars," be said. "Make it go as far as you can, win you? When you need more you know my phone number downtown . . . and tomorrow wul you pack up the rest of my clothes aad send them ever to tht Maldons? They're going to let me sleep oa their davenport for a few nights until I find s room. I talked to them about it tonight" He was picking out some ties from the dozens and dozens thai hang oa the inside of bis closet door. Mary Faith watched him from the doorway. She wondered if he re membered that be had worn that plain dark greea satia one oa their wedding day? "Kim, doat you remember the day we were married?" she asked him suddenly. "Don't yoa remem ber the first supper we cooked dowa in Aunt Ella's kitchen? And remember how we woke up oa New Year's Eve and Bstened to the bells? You cant say that our married life was a top then, Kim. We awfully happy, weren't we?" His shoulders lifted and fell hi s careless shrug. "That wasn't married Efe that was our honey moon," he said. "Aad Estea to me, Mary Faith, why drag up the past? Why be sentimental? Why be sen timental about something that's al over? We made s mistake. Let's admit k and forget it Let's wipe it off the slate." After that she did not argue with him. She slipped out of the house and sat dowa oa the top step of the back porch. The stars were out, thick as water-lilies oa the vast black pool of the sight sky. The air around her was cool and sweet and somewhere dose at hand a bird twittered sleep- fly. She found herself wondering how the world could be a beautiful aad so peacef a 1 when life could be bitterly crueL . . . Tn going, Mary Faith.- Kim's voice came to her through the door way behind her. Turning her head she could see him standing in the middle of the kitchen with his Glad stone bag in his hand aad his new light overcoat over his arm. He was peering out into the darkness. "Aren't you coming to say good- oyer- be asked. "No rm not I'm aot leavinc you, Kim. You're going away from me. ana 1 can't say good-bye I'm She watched him as he turned an walked out of the bright little room without another word. Presently sue near a tne sound ot his car as MEMBER. United States National 3roup mi VI started. When the murmur ot us engine had died away in the distance she got up and went back into in kitchen. "Mrs. Farrell was sitting at tbe table ia the dining room, She had beea crying and, her eyes were red aad swollen. She gave Mary Faith a wild dazed look as she came into the room and sat dowa across the table from her. "WelL what are we going to don she asked, "I guess there isn't any thing to da but what Knnberley told us to do. is there? It kills me to think of giving up my bom aad go ing dowa to Garret tsville " She put her face dowa into her hands and her broad shoulders began to shake with her sobbing. "You aren't going to give up your home," Mary Faith said very quiet tj; but Mrs. Farrefl heard her. She raised her face from her hands and stared at her. "You're going to stay right here. and I'm going to stay with you," Mary Faith went oa. "IU get some kind of work to do this summer and I have seven hundred dollars that we can live on after I have to stop working. That ought to tide us Mary Faith drew- s deep breath and went em: "Yoa see. tr like tKia rm going to have my baby ia January. And I think he ought to be born right here, where you and l can take care ei him, don t you There was a dead suence as the room for a minute or two after ah stopped talking. Mrs, FarrelTs eyes grew round and large with her aston ishment and her mouth fell laxly open. A baby?" aha reseated. "A baby?" She shook her bead as if she coulda't believe it "Does Kimberley know this?" she asked sharply. Net I was rain a ta break b news to him today end then all this trouble came up. So I kept stiu, Mary Faith explained simply. "But you shouldn't have kept still! You should have told him I If he'd known about h he never would ban left you the way he did jnst now. never m this world r Mary Faith nodded. "I know k. . . . That's why I didn't tell him. I didn't want to keep him that way. I didn't want to keep him at all S be didn't want to stay and you must promise me that you won't tell him. (Te B Coatinoetf) Ceer rtskt. 1M1. hr Btrir Bertae DlafcrikataS a Ciac ruluw Sra41cea. 1m.