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iwr.:: tc TLa Cn2GC:i STATESMAN. Czlcr. Crr-cx IhnrrSxr Itcrr.! . A-rll 27, KZS BEATRICE BURTON Evictedt T t "MAR By Y FAITH . . - .. .- "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Slall Awe . . From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. ChAbXES A. Spracue . . . . , Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - - - - Managing Editor Member of tbe Associated Press The Associated Preas !s exclusively nUt1eJ to th on for publica tion At U news dispatches credited to It or Dot otherwise credited t this pa per. - . - - ADVERTISING - . i Portland Representative . ... Gordon B. Belt. Security Building, Portland, Or. Eastern Advertising Representatives Bryant, GriMih A Branson. Inc. ChU-aga. Ntw Tork.' Detroit, ' Boston. Atlanta. - Entered at th Potto ft ice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Claw Hatter. Published every morning except Monday. Buainee of firt, 215 S. Commercial Street. STTRSPPTPTinTJ RATES;' Mall Subscription Rotes. In Advance. Within Ore eon: Daily and Sunday. 1 Mo. SO cents; Mo. 1LJ5; Mo, $t,2;, 1 year 11.00. Eluwhers So eents per Mo., or B S.o for 1 year In advance. By City Carrier: 45 cents a month; 5.s a year la advance Par Copy t centa On trains and News Stands S eents. - Liquidation of German Culture TT la sad news that comes out of Germany these days; and JL ' the saddest of all is the suppression of freedom of thought, the liquidation of much of the German culture, the f anatocism and intolerance which prevail under the Hitler re gime. The immediate fury breaks upon Jews, thousands of .... i - Jr. jL-i. 1 .V H.. wnom are memDers or. iarnuies uave iesweu ju uw manv for centuries. They have contributed greatly to Ger man music and literature and art. Mention of the names of Heine and Mendelssohn, of Ludwig and Einstein ought to be sufficient to prove the quality of work which German Jews "have Derformed. Now they are harried from" their posi tions in universities, in government service, and socially degraded. Another crouD which suffers from the rage of the wearers of the swastika emblem are the communists. They are made subject to bitter persecution. So intense is the cam paign that libraries are to be ransacked and all "alien and Marxist' books are to be burned. This is to occur in a state which even under the kaiser tolerated such literature and i . - . a 1 it . .... . 1 A. ?A S,' . ! permitted complete ireeaom oi mougni in universities. i - Everv acrencv in Germany is to be chained to the chap lot of the nazi dictatorship. A minister of propaganda and elucidation has been appointed, who told the newspaper workers frankly that the press should be an organ upon which the government could play". This domination ol news DaDers has lonsr been characteristic of dictators and govern ;.ments. Even the United States in war time had its minister of propaganda. . But besides newspapers, radio, theatres, : moving pictures, and cabarets are to be made vehicles of Hit ler propaganda. The churches even are being reorganized in accordance with demands of the dictator. We in American can scarcely imagine what conditions must be like in a country where thought is suppressed, and where a critic of the government is subject to arrest. Even a Cartoonist wris called to account because his sketch of Herr Hitler was regarded as ridiculing this new "all-highest". Mark F. Ethridge, managing editor of the Macon, Ga. Tele graph and News, writing in the magazine Editor and Pub lisher, says: , ' - - - . . , . "There Is no longer any free press in Germany; It Is an or gan upon which the goTernment plays. It Is more than that; It Is a paid, kept claque, under compulsion, it Is true, but neverthe- , less devoid, of any claim to rank with free newspapers anywhere. . That part of the press which dared to criticize has been suspend ied 'until further notice', which means as long as the govern ment desires. ... All the newspapers are la government hands. Cor under government thumbs. The news agencies are in govern ment hands or under governmental control. Too moving picture concerns are visual propaganda agencies for the government. A ' censor reads all the cables of foreign correspondents and polite- -r but firmlr rejects a great many of them." That is what dictatorship means ; and the post-war drift has been decidedly in the direction of dictatorships, instead m muni -.. - ... ... k - - 1 Tl ' 1 ' vaLjjng.i4Wri'tf m m mi i i i i ii J iiOjm Kit mCVmtitmSki Yesterdays ... Of Old Salem Town Talks from Tbe States man of Earlier Days April 27, 1008 A new world record for the pole vault was set at Philadel phia, Pa., yesterday wheiw V7. R. Dray of Tale university cleared the bar at 13 feet, 6H Inches. The new town of Donald on the Oregon Electric half way be tween Salem and Portland Is the site of a real estate promotion. May 12 the Donald Town Lot A Land company will stage an ex cursion, from Salem and Portland with band music and a program to attract a crowd for their land auction. A boys' club with one of fts activities baseball has been or ganized at the T. M. C. A, Offi cers are Walter Kirk, president; Clifford Farmer. Tice-president: of preserving the world for democratic forms of government Eidon King, secretary, and ciar ... i . 1.1 j T i iv.i j.a. ahm Shaw, trftnim i-at tne war nas caused sucn aistuxuance ana ujjueavai tuai. uiv - t&tors step into power and peoples are forced to goose-step to dictator music What a collanse is occurine in culture ! When we see what has transpired in Germany in late weeks we .wonder if April 27, 1023 SILVERTON B. S. McCor mlck, superintendent of the Aamsvllle school, has been elect ed to succeed B. T. Youel who we are entering into the second period to' be denominated nag beea gnperhitendent of the Dark Ages . hverton schools for six years. sir Roosevelt's Seven Points W. H, Balllie, rural school su pervisor, win leave for an ex tended trip throughout the eoun- ...tinnn 1 . I ; dliavai uiao 'vm riixiiu!i nave oeen so many comerences aiuuug represeu- countr scboots . Bella Passi. A tatives of great powers ill the post-war years, that; one Broadacres, White and Four Cor- must be conservative in readmg the comments of those now participating in discussions in Washington. Naturally these I AtrtmL men who come from Europe are our guests, and are too dip- west lumber workers strike call ed by the X. W, W.'s has kit la BITS for BREAKFAST Br R. J. RGNDRICKS- Pioneer licking leading to tragedy: - lomatic to do other than profess enthusiasm over their re ception at the hands of Pres. Roosevelt and to report prog ress in effecting adjustment of world problems. It is recalled however. that there have been many such sessions in late years; and. while the premiers might come to tentative agreement there were always the offices back home to tear to shreds any formula that might be worked out over the luncheon tables. Thus far the country does not nave any idea of the form ulas which have been proposed in the discussions at Wash ington. Yesterday the following statement was given out at the White House as expressive of the objectives of the con .ferences: " . - 1 " - An increase in the general level of commodity prices. Re-orientation of commercial policies. Reduction of tariffs, quotas and exchange restrictions. World expansion of credit. ' . -. " Capital expenditures by governments to stimulate business. Reestablishment of an International monetary standard. I Improvement of the status of silver, . That is merp.lv restatiri or the obvious. We are still in the dark as to how prices are to be hoisted ; or how tariffs are to be reduced: or just how we shall. fret a money standard to working again. The world knows what it needs; but has long txjen Damed In satisfyinir its needs. as was recognized by Mr. Hoover, a great share of our troubles lies in the tanirles of foreicm business and rjolitical relationships: war debts, restrictions on trade, etc Aban- aonmeni 01 tne gold standard by many countries was a con sequence ratner tnan a cause of the troubles. While it is im portant to restore ouicklv a standard of eTphanm that utan- 11 . .. - 0 - . I - a Bk ja - vi uaru will rmr. rw STnhla nnloea ntha M)t ni m uiiia owuin tne luuiTiauiu. At t1 hoUriMui . I lieved by most student of the sub- The sessions between Roosevelt and fnrp'o i mrAAn. tatives should be fruitfuL Thev will V " j 0 w wv sm wviyitu w nearer unaersxanomg ot tne fresh viewpoint which Mr. Roosevelt Is bringing to his own tasks. Beyond laying the eiumiuwwviur me ixnaon conierence in June litua could be accomnlished at the WajthirfonTi wm.h r o. - , ---- ' o t,uun luiuuua xur uie exDerxs oi tne vannns fnri ntf in n ..i, w " " r7w' , r WUbl convln ing to De easy.: We recall that another famous democratic I maB ot us ar careless about sue president submitted a 14-tioint nrno-am tA -Pnwn. - matters. Ia any oTtnt, tlia tnatruai timet and the F.nrn -umWS JZT-Z: .riS" -TJ ?rL chooH. vitatty essential. if u-7.iik d. T"""" ovicu il uA uiosi OI i Children should U taught at aa its harrow teeth. Roosevelt has only half as many points early as the use of th handker but their substance is as controversial as many of thosa in cMt Th'T ba instructed how the Wilson csialno rf fnnroon VJa . to protect the nose and mouth when them at Inta"." - " " """" KS S.rSf, dotns; It may. spread disease. Wash Heads Froqaoatly - Every chad should be warned against te commoa habit et plactns; wgwm iia pencils m ut mouta. Every chad should be carefully In (Continuing from yesterday:) In a speech at th 187 1 annual meeting of the Oregon Pioneer as sociation, on the state fair grounds, former U. S. Senator J. W. Nesmith said, referring to his arrival la th fall of 1841 with th Applegat covered wagon train: . ".a V "Oregon City was then the prin cipal town i west of the Rocky mountains. ... Salem contained three houses. . ; . The present site of -Portland was . a. solitude sur rounded with a dense forest of fir trees." . S'ls " ' The three houses rTesmlth saw in the embryo town that became the city of Salem were the Lee mission home, now ICO Broad way, "the parsonage," now 1115 Ferry . (then where the woolen mill water tower now Is), and the L. IL Judson home, in the middle ot the block surrounded now by Commercial, Court, Liberty, and Chemeketa street. Nesmith did not count the log- house next to North Mill creek aad south ot the Lee house; nor the log shacks near where Center street now crosses that stream, built to ae this vicinity only at the Silver where 70 men walked out yester day, it was believed, however. that the walkout there was due to Intimidation. No workers have yet gone on strike la the C. K. Spanldlna and Dallas camps. ; Dafly Health Talks By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. sty ROYAL S, COPELAftU, M. iX United States senator from New Tork Former Commlttioner f EeaUK ; Wei Tor City CHILDREN SUFFER from many ailments, i Host ot these are prevent, abt. Merely to say this should pot every parent on the alert to guard against unneces sary dangers. ' The contagious diseases of child hood ar readily transmuted from one child-to an other." Some of these can -be avoided by prop er care and In eonstqasnc much unneces sary suffering prevented. Simple hygienic rules taught dur ing childhood have much to do 1 J V i I S ' . ii i Dr. OopetanS with th future Is be- ject that the ideal place tor such in struction I ia th school. . Th Spread of Disease X believ this aa excellent plan, but certainly tuck teaching should not end there. It should be practiced. emphasized and repeated at home. Horn teaching ia sometimes more convincing- than th Instruction re- nua weamer nice we have had for a week this country can . Some of the ladies are having a t-ahapen pancakes they call hats. hard time with these mls- structea m ta necewaty et waauaj th hands with soap and water. This habit should be acquired as sooa a ' possible. Ererybody, yeung aad Id, should remember the necessity ,t having cleaa bands before, eating. Brushing th teeth Itpoa arlsin and retiring, should be mad a part of th daSy routine of every child. This responsibility should begta at a early aa age as possible. To insure health among ur young. It is advisable that they be examined periodically. ' Strict attention must be gives t posture. Ear, eye, nose, throat, dental and other possible de fects, should be discovered as as possible. . When these are rected la early Ufa, mack undue and unnecessary suffering Is escaped ta later life, . t :V,, ,v.v These are mare hints. But X de want you to know that the welfare of th child and th state ef adust health ar founded en' th health practices of youth. Aaawer t Health Queries a n. C Q. What Is the ot poor circulation T is there any cur tor this condition T A-Poor circulation may be da t number et causesv la most improvement ta the general health brings about Improvement ta th i culatlon. For further particulars send a eelf-addrsssed, stamped e velop aad repeat year ejieettoa. Mrs. W. 1 Q. What can be don ' t eradicate blackheads a th chtaT A For fun particulars send a salf addressed, stamped eavelop and re peat your question, . ., , 0L J. ' Q. What de yea advise tor a clogged feeling la the head noser X seem t have a cold fa th head, ;-!fi:-:?:3j-Z Av-Thls Is probably do to catarrh. Keep the nose and threat as dear aa possible,' For full par tlculars send a eU-4dised, stamped envelop and repeat you question, . (Cotvrlaht. ZSS3. X, F. tlneJ commodate employees of the man ual labor school. Dr. W. H. Will- son had a house where the mam building of the paper mill Is now. Rev. J. L. Parrish had one near where the junior high . school named for him stands. The others were much scattered. Salem was not platted, and not named, until three years later. The first church building, that ot the First Meth odists, whleh stood where the tra gedy occurred (where the present one stands), was not dedicated until Jan. St, '51. The site of Salem was mainly forest and plain In 1X7. The first store naa not been opened or built. There was no-, postoffice. The first boom times came after the discovery of gold and the re turn of the first gold rushers. who went from the WiUamette valley. S The Dr. Willsoa house named above was built in the fall ot 18 4. It was some years later moved to the rear of the black smith' shop that stood oa the cor ner where the Marlon hotel is now, and the former . WUlaon nome was occupies: as a waron shop. Oa the corner 'opposite, the nonneast corner of Ferry - and commercial, was built ia 1847 184 1 the first store building, that oi. -nomas cox. two stories. A former shop was later moved to the rear, aad that became the fa mous Union House, afterward de stroyed by fire. . t The blacksmith shop across the street became the. saloon of George Bealey whe in 1845 was nanged for murder. The site ot the saloon and the wagon shop Is in grouna on . wnick stands th Manon Hotel. 1 As was said above, the lata Jo se pa a. Baker, who mad a sort oi census of houses . ia 1848, found Iff only In Sentamber of that year. He did not mention the log: house on the "creek south of the Lee house, 'nor the shacks near Center street where that thoroughfare crosses that stream. They had probably been torn down or l Bit. He numerated the oth ere listed thus far la this series. ana in aaaiuoa these:- SmalK building or shed on west side of Liberty street oa the south bank of North Mill creek, then unoccupied. " - .--?' . The James Turner Crams home. standing a little southeast of the southeast corner of the present Ladd Bush bank bulldlnr. Two story home on present site oi ue wm. Brown residence. Church and State . streets, occu pied by David Carter, former mis sion teacher, and his family. email house oa northwest eor- SYNOPSIS ; Mary Fal ecaMly young; orphan, b secretary to 2ark Nesbit, wealthy business man. Sb gives up her posi tion ta marry Kmxbexlcy FarreH, thtftfru younf lawyer.; llary Faith believes that lovis a maa hard enough will mak everything com out a2 rigbt la th end. It was this confidence that enabled her to marry Kim after he had once broVea their engagement. Eh realises be has aa eye for every girl, but aopes that married Lis will sober him and make him successful ia bis profession. In stead. Kim Is annoyed at Mary Faith's "Puritanism," and bis Jaxxy friends. Claire and Jack MaMon, find her a dull companion. Learning that ah is to become a mother, Mary Faith, for th first time, visits Kim's efSca, Kim is furious when Mary Faith find him Cirting with bis blond secretary. That night, be in forms his mother aad Mary Faith that he is lcatdng. Mary Faith, heart broken at this tarn ot affairs, de cides not to tell Kim of her coming fnotherhood. Sb and Mrs. FarreU decide ta struggle to keep the home for the coming baby. Mary Faith obtains a position as typist. Du to Uary Faith making; good Kim's debt to his Jormer employers, Kim Is re instated. . "CHAPTER XXVI And are von coins to stay here now, Kimberleyr his mother asked aim. ' 5 " No." His Bps came together with a snan.' "No Fm more sure than ever that it was a mistake for Mary Faith and me to be married. X came here tonight because I wanted to talk to her about divorcing tne. If s not richt for us to be tied up to each other when we've stopped caring for each other. You feel that way about it yourself, don't you, Mary Faith?" Mary Faith sat ia rigid agony oa the very edge of her chair, her bands clasped tightly ia her lap. . Her dark blue eyes were very big la her white face and there were faint shadows under them. Her lips scarcely moved as she spoke, ' ,"I don't know, Kim. You don't know?" He was exas perated. What do yon mean, yon dont know?" ' WelL 1 doat believe in divorce. Kim. And don't you remember what we promised each other the day we were married? To live together all our Eves. . ; ; ,. "Look here, Mary Faith, I'm aot going to sit here and argue the fiae points of the marriage service with you," said Kim, dismissing bis mar- nag vows with a wave ot bis hand. I came here to ask you to divorce me. I don't care about you the way I did, and you seem to be getting along fairly well without me. You have my mother oa your side . You talk as if I were your enemy. and I'm not." Mary Faith interrupted him quietly. "I love you, Kim, aad I m not going to give you up to that Janet-woman without a struggl Last year when you came to me and told me you couldn't live without her 1' gave. you upand three months later you married me. Now you want to grve me up, and marry her; I sup pose. . . . But I think you ought to wait a while and find out bow you really feel about her and about me. Time can settle a lot of things that nothing else oa earth can settle. Kim." He lost his temper then. "You talk Eke a fool," he said, furious with anger. "You talk to me as if I were a child that didn't know its own mind. Now see here, Fm . going through with this thing "All right," Alary ratta broke in upoa him one more. YeeH have to do it, Kim. I care for you too much to give you op, and besides. know youH not be happy with that giri. You don't love her. ... You Just think that you do because she follows yon around and it natters you t have her do it. If you really loved her the way you tbnk you do 1 jit A) V . Ml, I I . .... I .J . .MMWMM. f , .'.III llil , il 1J iii i 4. v, i. .i ti mi l ii wWj-i - Al if' .Twi V.' "If you feel like this about her la six months. 10 listen to you. Kim" - so saio. . ; you would have married her way last fall when you were as free as air, Kim Farrtlir She got up and started out of the room, aad he looked after her, won dering bow a creature so yielding and gentle by nature., could be so stubborn and determined all at once. At the door she turned and faced him once more. . . If you feel like this about her la six moeths 10 fistea to you, Kim," she said. Ire July now. You come to me agaia ia February." : ' Ia February th baby would be a month old. ' Th months of the summer dragged by. Heat shimmered above th pave ments of Spring Street every day in parched August The long days were all alike to Mary Faith except that one day ah might have lettuce and rye bread sandwiches ia her lunch and th next day there might be deviled egg and white bread. One week she might be reading The Great Gatsby" and the next one she might have "Joanna Couden" open on her typewriter while she ate her lunch. . . v ..'.... Oa the first Monday in September Labor Day it rained as it always does oa holidays, and Mrs. FarreU went dowa to GarrettsriQ oa the bus to speed a week with Aunt Ella. She came beck to town cw the following Monday with yards and yard of white doth of different kinds fianelette for the baby's night gowns, sheer muslin for the tiny dresses, aad soft cotton for th ua- derthings. I bought it dowa there for half what we'd have to pay for it up here ia town," she said as she showed it to Mary Faith. "Well make it all up by hand, what do you say? I do like to see dainty little stitches ia baby clothes," " . Oa th first of October Mary Faith gave up her position with Floe ri Bond. Sb and Mrs. FarreU spent the rest of that blue-and-n isset month cleaning house and painting a small white bed that they found in a second-hand store oa River Street. Ia November they settled dowa to mak th clothes for th baby. They at their meals ia the kitchen, and the dining room became a temporary sewing room filled with white gar ments that made Mary Faith fairly ache with their .heart-rending little- - ness. Little bibs, little Jack eta. tttu bibs, little gowns. Aunt ECa seat a pair of crib blaa- kets up from GarrettsvQle at Christ. . mas pal blue with white Peter , Rabbits running aS over them. Jeaa - brought a pair of baby-pins and , showed Mary Faith a dozen snap-, shots that her ranchman had sent to her from Arizona pictures of pep-, per trees, on a wide street la Phoenix, of the camel-back mountains and several views of a big ranch bouse with wide shady porches. That's where little Jeanie is go ing to five one of these days," she said as she took them back from Mary Faith. "I'm m love for the first time ia my life, and isn't tt Just my lock to fall for a farmer? That's what a rancher really is, Mary Faith,' Can you imagine me Bring out there ia the middle of a thousand acres with nothing to do all day but watch alfalfa grow?" - "You caa look at th palm trees and the camel-back mountains." said Mary Faith . gravely. "Aad youll have your husband that is, if you really intend to marry this maa. I'd lhr oa a ranch with Kim for the next twenty years, without seeing anybody else, if I had to, and enjoy itT - . - . Jeaa gazed at her, and both puz zlement and awe were ia her face. "You are stUl crazy about that wet smack you r married to. arent you?" she asked. "Why you ever picked htm ia the first place is miles beyond me. You could have had 'most anybody. Whatever it takes to catch a husband, you're got H. Mary Faith, Looks aad brains and a grand disposition and if you doat divorce Kim FarreU after this baby arrives I'm going to stop seeing you. I'm disgusted with you. as it is." And with that she kissed Mary Faith with great affection and went on her way to deCver the rest of her Christmas packages. . - CTe Caatf 43 CevrrUkt. tin. ty mi mm IMatel ? Klae rMM ayaaUeaSe, laa New Views - ii you were reasonably sure prices were going up. would you ! at once increase your - personal sxpenanur!. or ar your ex penditure largely determined on inoome, ; Irrespective of price? i Tw persona answered - these questions yesterday as follows: Hoy C Ferruson. accountant: "I'd save as much as I could; but X havn't any to spend. That's the Mtch. It seems t me tksy are getting th cart before the horse oa this thing and that they should raise wages before they raise price. But maybe It ; wUl work around that way.?- AV XL McAlmln. saleemaa: "Sure X would that is. It I Could find money to use for that purpose. These days, whose ex penditures aren't governed by. la- come?" - ,. . , . . . ner of Church and Ferry streets (where the E. M. Crolsan home Is now), occupied by WUey Chap man and family. Mr. Chapman cam la 1847. The first Marlon county court house was bunt by hlnu -; - Rev. A-. T. Waller reaidenc, north aid of East State atreet. about opposite lfth street. The Cox store. The David Leslie home, about where the Sallle Busk house now stands. , ' .v .-. ; . And a ."small house just west ot where the Masonla trending now stands, occupied by Mrs. Brown and family; 'she was a daughter ' of Thomas Cox and mother of J. Henry Brown, the historian. The husband and fath er had died oa the plains." At least three of the houses enumerated by Mr. "Baker were built after 1847 the Cox store and residence, the Chapman house and that of Mr.' Crump, tor. the owners came in the 1847 Immi gration, and arrived too late to get their dwellings finished that year. No doubt others of the 18 Mr. Baker saw ta late 1848 were built In late 1847, and la 1848 and early 1841. Including the Holmaa house under construction whea the boy-whipping - tragedy was, enacted. 8o there could not have been more than 11 houses, counting all kinds, la th embryo town at that date. , Probably not more . than eight or nine. The Parrish house still stands wax partly destroyed by fire aad rebuilt: ia oa North Capitol nearly opposite the Par- risk Junior high school building. The third House was torn dowa only two or three years ago, to mace "room xor xne bteeves diick oa Court street, occupied by th Eoff electric plant-.- The original house - had beea moved up to Court street, oa the alley, and had various . plonear occupants. In cluding th ancient and promi nent North star saloon. '.. i-. i -' .." Wher was the unruly Popham boy attending school ia 1847 f In tne-urcron institute, or course. t That was the oaly school; besides the only church, court building and la 'Sl-2 and 'S2-S the place where the territorial legislature was held. I -:.-.:-'::v"..v.. It Is. likely that the Bennett home, wher the chickens were stoned. , was the one occupied by Mrs. Brown and family later; that. Is la late 1811. whea Mr. Baker first saw It As before said, no part ot the towa was platted la 18 4T. though some surveys had beea made aad lots sold evident ly by metes aad .bounds; and the (Tura to Page t) 36 Years Ago GRANT'S TOMB DEDICATED From the Nation's News File, New York. April 27, 189T Officials ef the nation aad city and repreeeataUve ef f orelga eountrle attended the ceremonies dedicating Grant's Tomb, overlooking the Hadsoa Biver. . t . A IUgdoa Service, prof eeslonally directed. Is always pro per la every respect. Select a service to fit your taeaas, whatever they aaay be aad be assured that yea wd feel apologetic because et the suaaaer ta which tt conducted, .r- , 4 V r 4 t