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"The OltEGON STATESMAN, Salem, .Orescn, Sunday lloniiai, February 21, 1S3T PAGE SIX Emerson Held -7orId Leader Individual Is Stressed in His Message, Explained . --X in Oliver's Lecture j TUia nen4 iaetara ia a aariaa giraa hf BMbm at tta Willutatt . vanity faoalty waa- 4alivara4 by Br bart 8. OliTar, aaaiataat profeaaor af Katiiah, Uat Tnaada? night -ia Iaua- 1 mm hall lavitad gaeata besides tha faculty truateea war 8alem chap ter. FW Beta Kappa,. Salem Art league, Salea Woman'a elub, Town ad Gowv elnb. Praaideat Baxter pre sided Miaa Kathryn baaolUa aaag, ac companied by Mary Virginia Mooter. Prof. Oliver's aabjaet waa "A Caa- tarr o( the Iafloenee af Emerson." A r eaadanaatioB at bia addresa follows: C'A little over a hundred years at - Emerson,wrote in his journal, "- 'Henceforth 1 design not to utter ' any speech, poem or book, that is not entirely and peculiarly my ow n work.' lie had begun to culti vate the garden of his souL He had ust . settled in the little Tillage of Concord where he spent the remaining 48 years of his life, writing, speaking, but al ways thinking, thinking his own thoughts. 'There is no event,' he said, 'but sprang somewhere from the soul of man; and therefore there is none but the soul of man can interpret.' He delved deeply into his own soul, and thereby has become ' a priceless heritage not only to his countrymen;" but also to the world. ... " Trust Thyself ' . "In the summer of 1837 Emer- . eon was invited to deliver the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa lecture. ... Emerson went through the open countryside with the dust of the fields on his shoulders, to tel that group of Harvard dig nitaries. Trust thyself. That was his'message, the speech that many of hla hearers called 'Our Yankee version of a lecture . by Abelard, and that Holmes, then a college . student, called 'our intellectual " declaration - o f independence. Trust thyself. That is the message that made Matthew Arnold call Emerson's essays the greatest prose work written in ; English during the 19th century. ."Emerson had sought solitude and country life in order to work out his doctrine of living, and this was it. Trust thyself . .-.That is ; the message that gives man ; his rightful place in the world. If there be one lesson more than another, which should pierce hls ear. it is. The world is nothing, tin man is all. The Individual is the unit of -measurement of the . universe. In yourself is the law "of all nature ... Men In history, men in the world of today are bugs, are spawn, and are called - the mass and 'the herd.' We have made the individual of no account'. J(Ve have made him less than a man. Now we must restore him to his manhood. "That was the message of Em erson as he gave it to that Cam bridge society a century ago. He was at the time 34 years old, 'the quietest, plainest, unobstrusi vest man possible.' His tall, spare form 'was not one to attract attention, but he had an aura about him thjit was contagious. His thought was neble and his presence convincing, f Came Opportunely t ' , ' I "Emerson s lecture came at a time when all New England was waiting for some great message. The ground was prepared. It only needed someone to sow the seed. In Emerson converged the great thought of the world and he, with - his creative originality, built his tboueht. . . . t "What place, we might ask. does Emerson's doctrine of sell reliance have in the lives of a - nation of .wage earners? ... One hundred years ago the state en croached upon the individual but slightly and Infrequently. Now thw state asserts Its rights to regulate and control . . . The complexion of our whole economic and polit V lal life has changed in the past ' century. Does Emerson's doctrine - . i. . have any validity today? j "In the first place, before we can answer this question, we must x. prevent one possible misconcep tion. We must not confuse Emer son's dectnne of self-reliance with , the rugged individualism of which we hare hrard so much recently. . ; . Selt-eiiance in t!e Emerson ian sense doca-not irean ruggtd Individ iciism. Give Man D?cnity "With this ivrtrtetton in .ii'ud we can, I think, t.nwer our ques tion of the validity of Emerson's 'teaching by looking-into it once more. Emerson said,' In all my lectures I have "taught the doc- trine, namely the infinitude of the private man.' When a man looks deep within his own heart he stilt finds there the universal spirit. Hitch your wagon to a star, till means as it-did when Emer son first spoke those memorable words, that ; we should 'put our selves in contact with illimitable - powerthat we i should look to ourselves, within ourselves, ; for :, the divine principle . . . . 'He hasl been a the same, time the most '! liberalizing : and - the -' most civilizing force in American thought.' His spirit and his teach ings have worked to tree man, the .'privateman, from the shackles of mere convention, mere custom, mere tradition. It is easy, he said, to see that a greater self-reliance must "work a revolution In all offices and relations of men; in " ' their religion; In their education; their modes of living; their asso- "eiation; in. their property; in their speculative views. When 'custom and- convention conspire with society to make us. robots, we must look to ourselves, and trust nrselyes. Emerson has giv en dignity and assurance to .the spirit of man." : . . , filoves'-to South Falls - SILVERTON HILLS. Feb. SO. C. J. Towe, who drive the "high school bos for this district, has moved to South Silver Talis, where he plans to lire during the remainder- of - the winter. Towe has had numerous difficulties in making his dally trips this - win ter because of weather conditions. Play in Contest ? FAIRFIELD, Tebr-lO. The rlay "The Neighbors" will ha I resented for the elimination contest at Wood burn Saturday . night when North Howell and Zutterllle will also compel - Survey Under WAWAL ICC Captain Edward Mustek Another extension of the. frontiers of the aviation world is under way with a survey for an sir tout linking' Hawaii with Australia. This newest pro ject in commercial, aviation is being: sponsored by Pan-American Airways as part of the far-flung-air communication system in. the Padflc Capt Edward Mustek, the man who charted the route from San Diego to China, was chosen to blase sv Sage of Salem Sp eculates By D. H. Street Crossing. Into the current for better or worse, ;. A sliding, a skip and a leap. A grinding of brakes, a truck driver s curse, .A motor's half frantic peep- peep. A look to the left, a look to -the right, ; A glance quickly shot to the ' rear. . i A stop and a start, an instant of fright, t , A scurrying into the clear. A gasping of breath, a trembling . r of knees. A thought-of a wind-propelled . leaf, A I A leap to the 'curb a matter of ; - , ease,; I ; ' A feeling of grateful relief And then, by jingo! believe it or not, We find we must cross back again, ! ' To get a small thing we'd bought -and forgot, Alas, for the weakness of men! Isn't it terrible? But we have. only ourselves to blame. I reckon there's nothing to do under Such circumstances . but snap at some sensitive person who won't snap back. And if no such person is available we can always kick the cat. .We- men : certainly have a tough Jofirat times to prevent our self-respect from backfiring. t Taste and Nature During the week I hare heard two men discussing, somewhat heatedly, ; the relative charm of mountains and prairie and sea to the human vision. Nothing was settled by the discussion. When It was over, each held the same op inion he had held before the dis cussion began. Possibly a- trifle more so.. . j 4 --,-'. . Personally, - i my sympathy is with the prairie lover. But I do not actually dislike the mountains or the sea. None of " us, I think, actually dislikes any of nature's landscapes or seascapes. We may say we do, but we usually say so after have, eaten something which disagrees with us. I prefer my landscape undulat ing, although there is great beauty in a flat prairie. I would have it gently rugged .in spots, the color scheme largely green, and -a river winding slowly through it. A wide scope for the drifting shadows of the clouds, ? - ; - But why discuss such matters heatedly? Goodness knows .there are plenty of mountains to soothe the aesthetic yearnings of the mountain lover, and there is a supply of prairie quite ample to meet tae requirements .ox the prai rie Iover7 and for those who like best the sea "the glorious mir ror, where the Almighty's form glasses Itself in tempests" well, there's enough of that to go round, too..-,.'.-. ;-'-t . .-: Each to his own taste. dear friends, and each to his own no tion of that which gives the great est satisfaction. In a single scene are many pictures. . . - A proper balance between temp erature and ventilation Is desir able, but not so easy to attain. It would , doubtless be easier to at tain were folks t one mind as to temperature. One person thrives and is comfortable in a room is cold as to cause another person to turn blue and burst into a vio lent rash of goose pimples. There is the ragged individual who en tertains the Celuslon that all fresh air in winter must be cold air. and there is the sensitive one who drapes, a handkerchief over the keyhole of the door to keep out the ehilL George Kennan, who investigated social and other con ditions In Russia 40 or so years ago and published the results thereof la the Century msga.a, Way tor Air Route to Australia ) n J- (UNITZD STATES) v t - Jfropoeed rwrte ta Anstraita TALMADGE touches upon this matter of heat and Tenfllatlon. The house of the average peasant had but one room. In the middle of this room was the stove, k flat affair builded from bricks. The entire family slept on the stove, having first brought in a. bucketful of outside air, which was considered sufficient for their modest requirements until another day should dawn. : Mr. Kennan spent a night In such a home. And, although his heart was with the peasants, he was unable to become inured to the smell.: Dwellings In this country today are Duiiaea ana equipped wun heating facilities and ventilating systems, i am toia Dy a wntie-nair-ed old gentleman, who came to this coast during a visitation of "unusual'- weather there was not a comfortably warm bedroom be tween Puget Sound and Los An- geies. l myseii, not .so many years ago. nave occupied a waii&lde bed in Washington. I say I oc cupied the bed. I was unable to sleen ln.lt. because of tha Wan. paper, which billowed crackling ly under the influence of an Icy wwv coming mrougn tne wall. Not .- only did that wallpaper crackle, out ever and anon, as thtf story books used to say, it billow ed out sufficiently to give me a oat on -ine ear as i lay on my aids half dreamlne of a winter nia-ht once spent in k sod house in Neb- rasKa, which was dusty but de lightfully warm. Mr host Inform. ed me next moring that it was nne to live in a country where the walls of the houses did not! re quire plaster. Doubtless he chang ed his view later. But. as I endeavored to atata the beginning of the foregoing p&ragrapn, an is .changed now. There is no more iimiiirit w tween the dwellings of the Oregon coast country, including the Wil lamette valley, today and those of au years ago. than there is be tween the comDleiinm nf ttm women and girls of today and those of then. However, there i Ing Influence that in sii nrnhahii. ity. will never cease to disturb a room is aiwavra ton warm rn some individuals and not warm enough for others. . . . - The . Crockett . famiiv known-to the world of rain n eners-in,; made, themselves right swa company ior a heap of folks at the Grand themtr WBnA... and Thursday. They are the same good-natured, modest and likeable uuuca iaat we round them to be two years aro. And thv rt . good show, enlovabl .van riv. who have been, for two or three weeks keyed up to Ttomeo and Juliet, Lloyds of London, Winter t and Dpdsworth. J-Tlle morning paper of Thurs day carried news of the death of Frank Davey. at the age of II. The news brought with it a gentle pang, not or grief, for one does not grieve when a friend passes at the age of SC. It is only that ona remembers long ago days in a new country, when smiling aveetings of a plainly . unselHah nature were tew and far between. Frank Davey is one of the pleas ant memorial. : . . ;..'-'-';"-': 8 '"" - " ' 1- I. f -' It Is' impossible to forbear men tion of s line or two In a recent bulletin frost the League of Na tions, -referring to the Spanish war as a threat to peace. Those legioners certainly do make the most astounding discoveries. Im pulsive, too. , Scientific Poem Fleas have lesser fleas to bite 'em. And the earns is true of germs; Other germs sail la and fight 'cm. ' Paclao Clipper shlp trail with one of the powerful "China CUppersf to the Antipodes by way of Palmyra. Kingman's Reef and Christmas Island. . One of the important bases in the route will be tiny Kingman's Reef which was claimed by the United States only 12 years ago. despite the fact that it was first discovered in 1850 by Captain Kingman, veteran Pacific mariner. The new line is scheduled to start operations in 193S. ICnight Memorial Concert Planned The choir of the Knight Mem orial church, 19 th and Ferry streets, will be heard in a musical worship service Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock. Donald J. Allison is organist. Scripture continuity Is by Cayrol Braden and words and music by, Jane Fisher and the or ganist., . . The musical numbers Include: Anthem "Appear Thou Light Divine" (Morrison) Incidental sol os, Beneltta Harland, H. I. Bra den. : : . Trio "A Benediction" (Hamb len), Harriett Adams, Cayrol Bra den, Beneltta Harland. Anthem "Seek Te The Lord (Roberts), obligato solo, Ailene Moored. Solo "O Lord Be Merciful- (Bartlett), Maynord McKinley. Trio "Hark. Hark My Soul" (Nevin), Beneltta Harland, Har riett Adams, Richard Smart. A Anthem "Come Unto Me" (Hey scr) 1 - Duet "Crucifix" (Faure), Ai lene Moored, Ray Drakely. Anthem "When Winds Are Rag. ing" (Nevin). Mail Pictures to Be Shown m Gty No Salem man or woman should miss the opportunity next week of seeing the motion picture. "Here Comes the Mail," which. will be shown free-of charge at the chamber of commerce at S p. nu. Tuesday and In the senior high school auditorium at 8 p. m., Fri day, Dr. E. T. Hedlund, Portland- postmaster, declared . yesterday while visiting in the capital city. "It is one of the best films I have ever seen," Dr. Hedlund said. "I hope every school child in Salem will se this film. Every adult whojsees it will realize the magnitude and the preclseness of the postoffice department." In addition to the two night showings, the official postoffice department movie will be exhib ited in the city's schools during the week. The showings here are sponsored and financed by tire Sa lem chapter, of the national postal clerks' association with the coop eration of Postmaster H. R. Craw ford. , Daughter Born SILVERTON. Feb.- 20. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Koy. L. Harris Friday eve ning at the. Silverton hosnital. The baby weighed eight pounds i 10 ounces. On the Record A By DOROTHY THOMPSON i (Continued Jtrom page 4) -intended : to mean, restriction to matters of procedure and fair trial. And, finally, a very neces sary amendment to extend to the states .the, prohibition of restric tions on freedom of speech and religion the provisions of the first amendment which our more careless liberals constantly for get have beea enforced on the states by the supreme court un der this same Due Process clause which they so despise. . As to the theorr that It' win take years and rears to ret through - any amendment with the child labor amendment reneat. edly cited as proof that will de pend on the - awareness of the people of neesaity. and the wlU inmess'ot all natrlota to forra party alignments. evidences of which are already gratifyingly snowing: themselves. : The child labor amendment is not analagous to this situation. ' But that is another column. - While the patient victim ! ;:- squirms. -. - t . :.:;, ; fy But thus far the flu germs smite Knock 'em for a loop of aches: They would make a swell news . item Germs nocsessiag what It takes. Northwest ,Boo!aS library Historical Volumes Here; Lost Continent of Ma j Is Also Treated lr. Early Pacific northwest history and travel is included in t h 1 s week's list of ' books announced by James T. Rubey, librarian. Sa lem, publie library. Charchard's two books on the lost continent of Ma have been added In response to numerous requests, as ha v e Marks Three Grown Straight." and Cathers -Not Under Forty.' A partial Hat follows: .-' ' ' -laCtlOSi- .' " '"'i " Blake, "David and Joanna; " Cather. ot Under Forty;" Dit sen, "An Old Heart Goes A-Journ-eyingt Hutchinson. "Shining Scabbard; Lutes, The Country Kitchen;" Marks, A Tree Grown Straight. " ; : ; Itooaav. " Bagley, Directions for the ComT pilatlon of BibUographlea. - Psychology, BeUgfcna f RItchey, "Little Talks on Fam ily Finance:- Credit; Perkins, "Report on Activities of the Y M. C. A., with the A. E. F.;" O'Hara, "Pioneer Catholic History of Ore gon." v4 i ; 5 .t ' hfanners and Customs Churchward,; "Lost : Continent of Mu; Churchward. ' "Sacred Symbols of Mu, Hammerton, "Manners and Customs of Man-, kind." . .. ' -' -' . ' " Social' Welfare w r-- Field.' "Child : and Mother; " Oregon state planning board, "Ad ministering. Public Welfare ;-U.' 8. national resources -board, "In dian .Land Tenure.- 1 Foreign Relations 'Armstrong, "We or They; Goldsmith, n "Next Step in Inter American Relations." - . - r Federal Goremment ' TJ. S. information service, "Di gest of the purposes' of current federal agencies; Libraries of the United -States government In Washington, D. C; Office of in formation and publications." Aeronautics U. S. Buearu of Air Commerce, "Air commerce regulations;, Air worthiness requirements; : Aero nautic publications; Air commerce regulations; Proceedings of the national conference: 'Report of committee on airport zoning." , - Trade and Commerce Atkinson, "Objections to t n e Postal System' Trade-marks." Oregon Planning Board, -"Price Trends of Oregon Products.". National, State Planning Oregon State Planning Board, "A report from consultant and staff; state building needs in Sa lem." - U. 8. National Planning Board, . "Final report ; regional planning; progress report; recent references on national and state planning;, public works planning; state planning." ' Science, Useful Arts Trimble, "Mines and Mineral Resources;" American Concrete Inst., "Pavements;" B r o g a n. "Trees m crook County;" Gen eral .Fire-proofing, "Building;" Jones, "Stock Raising in Califor nia" "Light Through the Ages; Oregon State Planning Board, "Oregon's foremost problems shipment of fruit; mining and geology; Bonneville power; el ectricity inr Oregon; stream poll a tion; Oregon's wild life resour ces." Page and Hill. "Cabins of Real Logs;" Pennington. "Where to place food in the refrigerator: save the wild flowers of our state." Qulett, "Pay Dirt; Sheldon-Rlp- ley, 1 -Oregon flowers; spring beauties.' Sherrard. ."Earliest of wild flowers;" U. S. national re search council, "Exhibit prepared oy national research council; drainage policy and project." . -. Biography and Travel - Frost, "Voyage and Travel ; Wilkes, "Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition:' Wilson, "Three-wheeling- Through Africa;" Ellet, "The Pioneer Wo men- of the West; Maury, "The Statesmen of America;" Genthe. "As I RememoerT Early Northwest History Nunn, "Origin of the Strait of Anlan;" Caldwell, "Rainbow Stor ies and Indian Myths; Olden, "Shoshone Folk Lore; Thatcher, "Indian Biography;" J u ds on. "Myths and Legends of the Pa. dflc Northwest;" Laut, ."Path-? nnaers or tne west;" Nordoff, "Northern California; "Oregon ian's Handbook;" Piatt, "The Frontier;" Drake, "California Names and Meaning;" McGroartr. . m . w . J W1U XW mance;" Hines, "Wild Life, In Oregon;" Hlnes. "A V o y a g e uouna - tne world:" Kelly. "Unpublished Letters on Ore gon;" "Diamond. Jubilee of Methodism; Nash, "Oregon. "There and Back;" Nash, "Two Years in Oregon;" Odell. "A Semi centennial Offering; Roger, ."Re bounding Vengeance;" Stratton. "Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Warren, "Memoirs of the West;" Young, "The Correspondence and Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth; McConnen, "Early Hie, tory of Idaho; Judson, "Myths and Legends of Alaska." ' Silverton Chief Starts Rigid Law Enforcement " 7 For Traffic Violators SILVERTON. Feb, 19. C. E. Hartford, chief of police, has be gun his traffic enforcement which will be carried strictly through. he insists. First to fall victims were Mrs. Edaa D, Darn can, Ralph Larson and R. Dale Dennlson who paid t fines for parking on the wrong side ot tha. street, Mr. Hartford Insists that ha Is solna to ' pick my aU offenders possible In the safety campaign. To Observe Golden Year SILVERTON. Fob. 2. Ur. and Mrs. William D. Storts wilr observe their golden wedding an niversary 'February it at their home at 400 Jersey street. . The Storts moved to Silverton from Hawarden. Iowa, ' 29 years ago. ' Statesmen Book tt3b!c ' Reviews of Tew Books and Literary : NewsJNotes , : By CAROLINE a JERGEN Mortage Your neari. By Sophns . Keith Wmther, Macmillan. ; . ISST. S3JW. . -,- : I The. reader : closes- ."Mortgage Your Heart" with the decided feel ing that-this, story of Peter Grim sen and his family is not yet fin ished, that there Is more to come. The characters themselves breathe a promise of more to come. There is, for instance,, David who, we are told. ..kept .the knowledge ot his unhappy itarriage within, himself for twenty years. The twenty years are not ended in this story. Undoubtedly Mr. Winther intends to : write a triology, for "Mort gage Your Heart" is a continua tion" of "Take A11 To . Nebraaka." that very interesting and colorful novel of" immigrant iife which came out a year ago.'"' . It has been said, that Wtuther's novels have much the same qual ity as do those of Rolvaag. There may be a similarity. Perhaps -Rol-vaag's are a little stronger, but I find. Mr. Winther with more un derstanding, more sympathy than I did Mr. Rolvaag. In "Giants ot the Earth," in "Peder Victorious" and even in "Their Father's God.? the characters are harder, more stern than those of either "Take 'All to Nebraska" ot "Mortgage Your Heart," There are readers, I feel sure, who .win dispute this statement. They will feel that Win ther'a -peter Crimson is as hard as any Rolraa character. But Mr. Winther keep? his readers' contin uously conscious that Grimsen's hardness is rather a lack of un derstanding than an ' actual lack ot kindliness. " .: We all realize that many of the "hurts", of life are not intended. Mr. Winther has an unusual abil ity to show these common human misunderstandings and their causes. As I said ot "Take All to Nebraska," I say again of "Mort gage. Your Heart:' it leaves one with a certain nostalgia-: for the things that might hare been and for the past that has slipped through the fingers before the full flavor conld.be enjoyed. The story of the -Peter Grimsea family cannot be other than tbe storyof the author's own family at least in part. Perhaps that is why he is able to put so. much sympathy "into the noveL "Take AU. to Nebraska" was hi tlrt novel. This Is his second. I am eager to know, after he has com pleted the stery of the Grlmsens, If he is capable ot writing other stories, different but equally good and well done. . The Grlmsens are Danes. Mr. Winther Is of Danish descent. During his childhood he lived on a farm. la eastern Nebraska. His undergraduate work was done at the University of Oregon, and he took his Ph.D. at the University ot Washington in 19 Z7. Since then ho has been -teaching English lit erature in that university. "Mortgage Your Heart" is more pleasant reading than was "Take All .to Nebraska." Those of you who read the earlier of the two novels, will recall how Peter and his wife. Meta, struggled against the "landlords," the '.'bankers" and the strange customs ot strange land. You will recall the humiliations the children suffer ed because they were not acquaint ed with the ways of the people of tne land of their adoption. To make matters - worse, there was the continuous battle against pov erty. In "Mortgage You r Heart,? times for the Grimgen family have oecome better. There have been good crops on the Nebraska farm, and prices have made the crops worthwhile. Peter and Meta are ao . able, as rent - farmers, to wring a lirellhoood for themselves and their six sons from the rich loam or Nebraska fields. But the real tragedy of the life of the Peter Grlmsens is still pres ent, n nes with the parents who feel that with all their ton and patient fortitude they cannot win ior tnemserres a true place in this country so different from that of their birth. Even by their lane uage. the parents are cut off from the lives of their sons whom they watch grow from children into men. from Danish immigrants in to American citizens,- American citizens, passionately claiming as their own the traditions and Ideals or American youth and at. the same time retaining the soundness and lndustiiousness ot their par cat's country. . This character-mixing of the old and the new. is illustrated very cieariy in : wmtner's story of Fourth ot July celebration. To the sons. Fourth of July, meant going "around with other boys, to hare friends." Hans and David, after completing the work their father required, went to the celebration where they mingled with the side show goers and amusement seek ers but failed to become one with me crowns. The-celebration fell iiat, out "both were too loyal to their faith la a Fourth of.Julr celebration to admit that their part In It had been a failure," and "much as the boys had hated their father for insisting on completing the wheat cutting on the dawn ot this eventful day. now as Hans and Darid sat resting in the soft moonlight they too were proud of the perfect rows of shocked wheat and a lob wen done. This story stays most closelv to the life of Haas, giving vivid pic tures of his first humiliating days of adjustment at the nrenaratorT school, -his idealistic love of Fayae. and his later life at the uni versity.. - Too many readers may think ot "Mortgage Tour Heart" as S story of immigrant life alone. In so do- lag they may miss the thread of profound understanding of human eings, an- understand! nr manr authors seemingly fan to hare, or saving n, ran to make their read ers feel it, If "ilortnri Tmr Heart" is read as a study of the birth of an American eftiawn rather than merely a story of lm- lgrant adjustment, tha reader wiU be left with a much deeoer satisfaction. After alL all Ameri cas citizens are the children ot im migrants. It .14 out ot this immi grant dissatisfaction with confines of an old world and tha immigrant necessity to struggle against aU odds that the strength ot Amer ica has grown. -; ;; - "Somehow or other the idea of defeat was almost unknown to them"-Winder put It. "They had taken. part In so. many struggles fought out on the edge ot despair, that to endure was often the only sign ot victory known in the Grim sen home. Endurance in itself may be supine or merely a moment of rest before beginning the -battle pace more, and in the Grim sen family It was never supine." ' -Winther makes one feel - that this ideal, never to admit failure, is the Ideal that has won for Am erica her place In the world. It will only be when she has so far outgrown ' the Immigrant spirit that she becomes ' over-confident and refuses to struggle on "the edge of despair" that she. will fall as a nation. - . t : As In "f ake .AU to Nebraska" there are times that- the. reader may wish Mr. Winther would not insist., upon being quite . so outspoken.- The story, could not have lost any of its strength even had the author omitted a little ot his frank phraseology.. However, the otfenstveness is much less In this book than in the first, and lowafd the last of the story, there is none at all. . - v' ;- - The title comes from a state ment of Meta's, when Peter tells her they are no loner rent-farmers but land owners. They agree that they wish to continue to live in Nebraska, that they love the I state and that they have no desire to return to tneir oia country as other than visitors. , " 'Mortgage your heart, that's what you do in Nebraska.' said Meta as if speaking to 'the low; rolling hills." In "A Woman of Washington" Cornelius Vanderbllt, Jr., (Dutton, 1927. $2.00) writes rather melo dramatic of skulduggery behind the scenes in the capital. Through one of the smooth hostesses, tbe villain ot Wall 8treet nearly tor pedoes honest old' senator's pub lic utilities bin. V A new autobiographical study from the life of a wandering re porter Is "Tramp Reporter" by Hampton Sidney Smith, jr. Ethel Hueston has a new love story, "A Roof Over Their Heads," which will be -welcomed -by those 15 LONG YEARS OF LIVER, stomach, mm PAINS RELIEVED BY VAN-TAGE! Mrs. Cooper Had Tried Everything to Ease Her : Awful Gas -Pains, Tor pid Liver and Constipa tionHad No Strength or Energy 7 Now Savsi "Van Tage Has Done More Good Than Every- ; t h i n g Else Put To gether!" . Another Widely-Known Ore gon resident, Mrs. Mary Cooper, 1511 ft. W. 20th St., Portland, Ore., Is now adding her name to the long list ot people who are publicly praising and endorsing VAN-TAGE. This Is the "Amas- ing Mixture of Nature's Roots and Herbs and Other Splendid Med iclnal Agents" now being intro duced and explained to crowds daily in this city by a Special Van- Tage Representative, known as The VAN-TAGE Man, at 170 No. Liberty Street. Mrs. Cooper has lived in Oregon for 10 years where she is known to a wide circle ot friends and acquaintances. She is also an Outstanding Member of tne -' rresoytenan cnurcn. Mrs. Cooper says: "I bars come here today ot ray own accord to see the VAN-TAGE Man and to give him my Truthful Statement about this Great Medicine, for I don't believe there IS anything like It ANTWHERE!" Read her sincere testimonial. ' . Almost Afraid to Eat Due to Gas and Bloat "For IS years. says ' Mrs. Cooper, "I had been a. victim of terrible stomach. Uver and bowel sluggishness. My stomach was in such a poor condition that all my meals -, would disagree with- me and I was fuU ot sour gas and horrible bloating.. My stdmach flnallygot so bad that everything ate would turn into this agons- ing gas and bloat and I was in such misery that I never knew what it was to sit down and eat a hearty' meal like a normal per son does because of the : intense suffering . afterward, f . WAS AL- M O S T AFRAID TO TRY TO EAT! My liver was la a distress ing condition sad I felt soVslug- rish and tired ail the time that. I Just didn't have any strength or energy left in my body and I would drag around day. after day feeling half-sick and drowsy. My bowels seemed dead and paralysed and X had to take a strong physic every night as they , wouldn't act without it- This constipation Oiled my system with old wastes that gave me torturing headaches constantly! ' , Now She Feels Like a New-Born Person! I TRIED EVERYTHING TJN-' DER THE SUN, but nothing helped me and I was surely die- who enjoy a light and wholesome story, wholly American. "The Trailer Home'Lby Clack burn Elms gives practical advice -oa trailer life and travel. . ' .The End. r aaaaaaaajBBaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaa-- I a. Additional Thefts Admitted by Trio The three young men sentenced to Jail here Thursday oa various chicken, automobile parts, radio , and pile driver hammer theft charges have also confessed to having stolen a large quantity of food from the Jason Lee Metho dist church building about 10 days ago,, to numerous gasoline thefts and to wholeral "lifting" ot milk from the city's front porches, state police reported yesterday. The trio, Jesse "Pete" Holland. Bennett Wheeler and Ralph Har ris were apprehended by city and state police as the climax ot sever al days ot Investigations. The loot from the church ln cluded a sack-ot Hour, two sacks of: salt, and a quantity ot fruit juices and canned fruit, from a stock- kept by the church tor dis tribution to needy families. Entry was. gained, by forcing a window, state officers said. Tbe trio was declared to hare admitted being' responsible for widespread stealing - of mHk throughout the city and having sold the empty bottles, many of them at Woodburn. The three also said they had removed many bulbs from, automobile lamps and sold them about town, the officers said. Holland, 29; held to be the ringleader, was taken to the peni tentiary on a revocation of parole while Wheeler and Harris were sent ' , the. county jail. Orchestra Organized . At Middle GrWc Will " Play at Club Meeting MIDDLE GROVE, Feb. 20. An orchestra composed of piano, violins, harmonicas and trumpet, has been organized among the school pupils and will make its Initial appearance at the next Community club meeting, Feb ruary 20. The following persons are In the group: Arlene Hicks, Caryl Snyder, Beverley Jean Pattlson, Donna' Starr, Thelma Polzell, Mannle Jewett. - Sylvia' Elsenbach, Edward Dimbart, Don ald Page and Keith La Due. Edward Bartruff, accompanied by his wife and children, left Wed nesday morning for Everett, Wash., with a truck load of house hold goods belonging to his moth- ' er, Mrs. Mary Bartruff and oldest brother and wife who are moving there. - - MRS. MARY COOPER, Popu lar Oregon Lady, Says: "VAN TAGE Has Made Me I-Vel Like a New-Bora Person and I Want to Publicly Endorse It!" couraged. Recently I got Van Tage and 1 will say THIS GREAT MEDICINE HAS DONE ME MORE GOOD than everything else put together! It had a won derful' action on my stomach organs and cleared out the ter rible gas and bloat. It has put a COMPLETE stop to all the awful old gas misery I used to have and. I am not afraid to eat any more because my food is digesting as good as when I was a child! It ' had a Great Effect on my liver and aU ot my former sluggishness is gone. In tact 1 have more ener gy now than I had in years and I- never get drowsy like I used to. It Certainly had a wonderful action on my bowels and they ars regular now For The First Time In Years! Van-Tage Has Made Me Feel Like A New-Born Person! It simply Improved my whole being -and I want to publicly endorse it to- all poor, suffering people, for it is Wonderful!" Acts on Bowels Stomach; Helps. You in General VAN-TAGE Is like several medicines In one. That is, It con tains over S0 Ingredients. Includ ing 21 Natural Herbs. 80 It helps you la several ways, ALL AT ONCE. It ' cleanses the bowels and clears gas sad bloat from stomach. It enlivens the Uver, cleans sickening bile from sys tem and relieves awful bilious ness, sick headaches and worn out feelings. .It invigorates the kidney action, thus relieving night rising aud backache. Weak, miseratie people daily write os they soon feel like different men aad women. A 8 pedal Van - Tage Repre sentative. Known as The VAN TAGE Man. is now at 170 N. Lib erty Stl Salem., daily meeUns crowds of people aad introducing and explaining this Remarkable Compound. ' pn Sale at Fred tlejer Toiletry Shop 170 W. Uhtrtj EC - ft V ,
