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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, August 17, 1933
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"A'o Faror Sways Vs; No Fear Shall Aw"
From First Statesman, March tS. 1181.
Charles A.Spracub . Editor and Publisher.,
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Crossing Party Lines
New dealers in Idaho are complaining that the defeat of
Senator James P. Pope was accomplished - by .republican
voters tasting their ballots in the democratic pnry. Some
of them have been broadTminded enough to admit that uie
democrats "dug. their own grave" in this matter,-for that par
ty was responsible for Idaho's primary law. , i n - -1
Undethis law, the republican and democratic Jickets
are both on the.same ballot, which is handed to all voters in
the primary. Then, after entering the voting booth, the voter
may decide whether he is going to be a republican or a dem
ocrat at this election; but he cannot, as in Washington state,
be both. If he marks one V on the democratic aide, he for
bidden to make any marks on the republican side. , s
Now this may appear radical to Oregon citizens, but
upon analysis its principal difference from Oregon s primary
law is this : That an Oregon citizen must decide SO days m ad
vance of the primary which party .he plans to espouse in
other words, before the registration books close. True,; he
must swear that he is a bona fide member r the party m
which he registers, but that seems only a mild deterrent to
-switching." The Idaho method allows a voter to decide on
the basis of last minute developments. . v .
Ther is one other important difference. In Oregon the
registration lists are public records. Presumably they are
also in Idaho. But in order to vote democratic in the primary,
an Oregon voter must register as a democrat and that fact is
permanently on record. Many members of both parties will
refuse to "switch" when it means publicly marring their rec
ords of party affiliation. There is no such barrier-to scratch
ing" the party ticket in the general election, j
The new dealers are indignant. The ethics of the repub
lican "switch" require separate consideration ; but after all,
party government in any state is precisely whatever the pri
mary laws of that state make it The Idaho system undeni
ably weakens party unity, and if we are convinced that re
sponsible government through parties is desirable, the sys
tem is weak in that respect. But students of politics who are
less concerned about party considerations will find merit in
the Idaho system along these lines i: i
It was generally believed that Senator Pope would have
been nominated if only "legitimate" t democrats whatever
the definition had voted in the democratic primary. It was
also believed that if Pope had been nominated,! his prestige as
compared to the comparative obscurity of the republican
nominee, plus the support of traditional democrats and new
dealers,' would have elected him. Yet the results of the pri
mary showed that there is not a new deal majority in Idaho.
Pope received about 39,500 votes, and that apparently repre
sents the sum total of new deal sentiment. His victorious op
ponent, Congressman D. Worth Clark, polled about 42,500,
and the three republican candidates 33,500. So the anti-new
deal vote amounted to 76,000--nearly double Pope's total.
The result therefore more truly reflects actual sentiment
in Idaho than it might have if Idaho had followed Oregon's
primary law. But let's not jump at conclusions. The republi
cans who helped to nominate Clark, thereby weakened the
chances of their own party for success in November, and if
Clark is elected, they will have been largely responsible.
Clark is an "independent" but still a democrat who will side
with the new deal on most measures, except 1 where a vital
principle is involved. The republicans who help put him in
the senate will not be satisfied but they will have nothing to
say about it, and nobody to blame.
So this Idaho incident may be set down as an unusual
one, reflecting no true picture of the working of party gov
ernment. Why was Pope defeated? Because the administra
tion at Washington intervened in his behalf. That was the
thing that aroused republican voters to step across party lines
and chastise him. 1 ,-,
. Government by Decree j -If,
as is reported, the experts In the department of agri
culture had'tp figure the corn crops several times in order to
avoid "a corngrowers election this fall, then j we have prac
tically arrived at. government by decree. Thej agricultural act
was largely written by Secretary Wallace's assistants. If now
his men have to scuttle the plain intent of the act in order to
make it fit the political exigencies of the administration, then
.congress is even farther reduced into a rubber stamp role. -.
The point of the affair is this: there is revolt brewing in
the corn belt. Wallace fears if an election were held in Sep-"
Umber, which is the time required under the law, the corn
growers would reject his control plan. That would be a
grievous blow just before the political elections in November
when the national administration hopes for victory. Hence
political necessities dictate avoidance of the corn election;
and the experts in the department of agriculture have had to
erase their figures several times in order to do sums which
make the. election legally unnecessary. i
So this is where the country is iast finding itself : the
national administration. President Roosevelt. Secretaries
Ickes and Wallace and WPA chief Harry Hopkins, are con
vinced of the superior virtue of their own plans. Hence they
contrive party purges to stack congress with yes-men j they
scheme to pack the courts with judges subservient to their
will ; they gather power into executive hands, and Secretary
WallarA in the eas of corn control' warns the facts to evade
the obligations of his own law. The situation is indeed dan- j
gerous. Will popular liberty and constitutional government
survive? They are in danger now not from foes of the people J
but from friends who by their own excess of zeal are sacrific-
ing political methods and principles we have been taught, to
regard as sacred to any system of democratic government.'
We preserve the forms of a popular legislative body and a re
viewing judiciary. In fact we are very near the authoritarian
type of government by executive decree. . J : J
Prof. David Snedden, former commissioner of education
in Massachusetts, kept each of his five children out of school
until age 9; they all galloped through the grades and high
school and entered Stanford University at age 18. He claims
children enter school too early. It is true that older students'
assimilate elementary school work muchT more rapidly; in
the CCC, it is not uncommon for a young man to master a,
rrrnAm in a month and he nrfimotpd to the next grade. But aft-'
er all, what are parents going to
they don't send them to school?
A German poet proposes a campaign to provide food for
the Spanish civilians on both sides of the fighting lines. We
like to be good neighbors, but if the Spaniards would stop
fighting and go to plowing they could feed themselves. Feed
ir tl 2 civilians will serve just to continue the carnage. Star
vat.:;::! is the final arbiter, of warfare, so why postpone its de
cision? . ' ' " ' t ' . ;
Forest Grove occupied a new city hall last week erected
at a cost of $20,000. , Believe It or not, the building was con
structed without federal aid. . Call for Mr. Ripley, a
An Omaha boy wen the soap box derby at Akron Sunday.
The llz soap box derby, alias
be settled until November.
The Duke of Windsor is going out of the cattle business.
Doubtless he finds the dual income cannot support both a
rife and a cattle ranch.
gitatemtiau
do with their six-year-olds if
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the political campaign, will not!
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Bits for
Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
More about Captain . 7-17-3 8
Tom McKay, one of our .
first permanent settlers;'
had a most colorful career: ;
'(Concluding- from yesterday:)
Her book, Ruth Rover, shows that
Dr. and Mrs. Bailey started east
together, by water, around Cape
Horn, in 1842. Fart way on the
first leg of that more than 28,000
mile round . trip. Dr. Bailey
stopped, intending to return
home, and Mrs. Bailey went on
her way alone.
' Later, he changed his mind.
and, soon after her arrival at her
old home, Saugus,- Mass., near
Salem and Lynn, and Boston, he
joined her. They returned to Ore
gon together, arrlTing in the fall
of 1843. , - ' " . . : . ,
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The monument,, at Champoeg
state park upon ' which are en
grayed the names of the men sup
posed to hare to ted in the af
f lrmatlTe on the proposition up
for discussion May 2, 1843, con
tains that of Dr. W. J. Bailey.
The reader, if new In Oregon, will
wonder how he could be- present
in two places on that day, the
places over 13,000 miles apart, by
the common mode of travel - be
tween them in the period.
The answer is that he was not
there, nor was Gustavus Hlnes,
who wrote in his' book, "Oregon,
that he was on the south bank of
the Columbia river at a point near
where great Bonneville dam Is
now though the monument has
Hlnes' name. Nor was Wm. John
son, who was at his home on the
site' of Portland, though his name
is on the monument. . And the
names of five to seven men, who
were present and voted for the
proposition that was up, do not
appear on the monument. These
are only a few evidences of the
bogus character of the "Cham
poeg myth."
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(By the. way, a look at the
pages of the Hines book describ
ing his activities in the period un
der discussion makes an urgent
call for another Installment of
this series, so it will be conclud
ed tomorrow, and not today, as
announced and arranged for.) J
The author of "Ruth Rover,
wife of Governor Bailey, the for
mer mission teacher, first white
woman to settle in lower Marion
county lived under primitive con
ditions, and made the best of It.
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' It was hard to get paper of any
kind, even for her doctor hus
band's use in putting up medi
cines, or for her letters home. At
one time she had neither shoes
nor writing paper. She made moc
casins serve for shoes. She was
delighted to tell her mother in
that period, in a letter, that her
packages had arrived and they
contained shoes and an ample
supply of writing paper all the
way, 13,000 ocean miles, from
Massachusetts.'
After enduring many periods of
neglect and abuse from her hus
band, the lonely woman sought a
divorce, and got one; else she
died before 1863. How do We
know that? Because the will of
Dr. Bailey, made Jan. 6, 1863, ev
idently in his own hand writing,
was properly witnessed by Hugh
Cosgrove and Joseph A. Osborne,
well known pioneers, and it con
tained specific language bequeath
ing, after the death of the signer,
"all the real, or personal property
of whatever- kind or nature to
his "beloved wife, Julia Madeline
Bailey. In the will nothing was
said of any other heirs, so, man
ifestly, none existed.
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Dr. Bailey died Feb. 5, 1876, as
the probate papers show. He was
buried In the Catholic cemetery
at St. Paul; the present one. The
appraisers of the property listed
a house at 3250, a .stable at 325,
surgery and furnishings 320, bug
gy and harness 375, saddle 7.50
(rather low for a saddle of that
date), medicines and sponges
3300, medical and surgical books
75, two safes $40. .
The appraiser found 31500 In
gold, 3110 in notes, and $350 in
book accounts. The whole estate
was appraised at ; $3951. The
"sod" widow gave him a $480
funeral, and spent $150, for a
"mourning outfit. She paid $4
for notice of appointment and 35
for that of final settlement, to
The Statesman; Joseph. Thomp
son swearing as foreman and J.
M. Waters as manager.
John M. Waters and his two
brothers, W. H. H. and Abner W.,
then owned and conducted The
Statesman. W. H. H. Waters, fa
ther of our Geo. E., Frank W. and
Wayne H. Waters, was the editor.
He was afterward a pioneer ab
stract man here. John ' M., who
was the manager, later ' was ' one
of the owners of the Brownsville,
Oregon, woolen mill, and finally
went to the state of Washington.
Abner W. went from Salem to
Idaho. Does any one here remem
ber Joseph Thompson, foreman of
The Statesman at that time?
An Idea of the primitive condi
tions under which Mrs. Bailey,
cultured college bred lady, lived,
in lower Marlon county, is gath
ered from what she told of a
neighboring, white settler, who
boasted that he did no work him
self, nor did he intend to do any,
so long as he had plenty, of In
dian wives to do it.
, She evidently gave up all hope,
after many - disappointments, of
her recreant and dissipated hus
band mending his ways and be
coming 1 o y a 1 to his marriage
vows.. She wrote in ; her :Ruth
Rover"book these words:' ,
"I can think of him only as a
grave with a poison dag growing
above it and contaminating the
air with Its poisonous breath.
Another writer of the time re
corded the belief, that she had
reference in the quoted words to
her hopelessly recreant husband,
from whom she was seeking dlr
Torce . '. .
There seems no historic record
concerning the after career of the
abused wife, or when and where
she died. . But this does not de
clare the search hopeless. It Is
surprising how inch matters torn
Chinese Soldier Has Proven Worth Under Fire
t.-V , Old type soldier , $.- "1
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M Modern tgtUng man P . ' c X s C
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One result of the JaDanese invasinn n rjn !
been to develop an efficient and modernized army,
something- which China. lacked before' the regime
of Chiang Kai-Shek. The Chinese fighting- man of
the past was a sort of comic opera person who
was as much a bandit as a soldier. Today, how
ever, China has an imposing standing army of
KSLM WEDNESDAY 1370 Kc.
7:30 News.
7:45 Time O Day.
8:00 Balladeer. i.
8:15 The Ifrtanhatters.
8:30 Hits and Encores.
8:45 News.
9:00 The Pastor'c CalL
9:15 The Friendly Circle.
9:45 The Buckeye Four.
10:00 Women In the News. -10:15
Hawaiian Paradise.
10:30 Morning Magazine.
10:45 Bob Young. ;
11:00 Newt.
11:15 Organallties.
11:30 Harold Stokes Orchestra.
11:45 Bill Lewis and Organ.
12:00 Value Parade.
12:15 News.
12:15 News.
12:30 Hillbilly Serenade.
12:36 Voice of the Farm.
12:50 HUlbiUy Serenade.
1:00 The Third Alarm.
1:1 5 Tommy Tucker's Orch.
1:30 Musical Salute.
1:45 The Johnson Family.
2:00 Varieties.
2:15 Frank Ferneau's Orch.
2:30 Sands of Time.
2:45 Joseph O'Connor.
3:00 Feminine Fancies.
3:30 Vocal Varieties.
4 : 0 0 -M usical Steeplechase.
4:30 Mitchell Ayer's Orchestra
5:00 Bob Crosby's Orchestra.
6:15 Novelty Choir.
5:30 Howie Wing.
5:45 Fulton Lewis, Jr.
6:00 Chtco and His Orchestra.
6:15 Phantom Pilot.
6:30- Sports Bullseyes.
6 : 4 5 Tonight's Headlines.
7:00 Musical Interlude.
7:30 The Lone Ranger.
8:00 News.
8:15 Singing Strings.
8:30 Vocal Varieties.
8:40 Grift Williams Orchestra.
9:00 Newspaper of the Air. .
9:15 Swingtime. .
9:30 Crystal Gardens Orch.
10:00 The, Playboys.
10:15 Frank Brandt's Orch.
10:30 Sterling Young's Orch.
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KGW WEDNESDAY 620 Kc.
7:15 Trail Blazers.
7:45 News.
8; 00 Vaughn De Leath.
8:30 Time for Thought.
8:45 Dorothy CrandalL
9:00 Ray Towers.
up and unwind themselves.
: (Concluded (a second time) to
morrow.)
Barkley Swells
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" . ., Senator Barkley voting
r Senator Alben W. Barkley. shown easting- his 'vote, fa. virtually as
l aured of returning to the senate as a result of his victory over Gov.
A. B. (Happy) Chandler In the primary, since the Democratic nomi
' nation Is tantamount to election although Barkley must face John
P. Haswell, Republican nomlsee, in the election.
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Radio Programs
9:15 Tour Radio Review.
9:30 Words and Music.
1:45 Gallicchio's Orchestra.
2:30 Woman's Magazine.
:3:30 News. '
3:45 Ruth Bryan Owen.
4:30 Jingletown Gazette.
4:45 ArgentlneTrio. ,
5:30 RIcardo.
6:00 Kay Kyser's Musical
Class.
7:00 Amos 'n Andy.
7 : 3 0 Orchestra.
8:00 Town Hall Big Gam
Hunt. '
8 : 3 0 Orchestra.
10:00 News Flashes.
10:1 5 Gentlemen Preferred.
10:30 Orchestra.
11:30 Armand Girard.
KOXX- WEDNESDAY 440 Kc.
6:30 Market Reports.
6:35 KOIN Klock. .
8:00 News.
10:45 This and That
11:15- Syncopation Piece.
11:45 News.
1:00 CastiUians.
1:30 March of Games.
1:45 Exploring Space. -
2:05 Lew White, Organ,
2:15 Doris Rhodes, Songs.
2 : 3 0 Pasadena Talent Hunt.
3:15 Newspaper of the. Air.
4:00 Backgrounding the News,
4:30 Maurice Orchestra.
4:45 Boake Carter. . .
5:00 Meet the Champ.
5:45 Headlines on Parade.
6:00 Rainbow's End.
6:30 Lois Elllman.
8 : 0 0 Gangbusters.
8:30 Leon F. Drews.
8:45 Orchestra.
9:30 Oregon on Parade.
10:00 Five Star Final.
10:15 On the Air.
10:45 Orchestra. -
KEX WEDNESDAY 1180 Kc
6:45 Family Altar Hour.
7 : 3 0 Financial Service.
7:4 5 Viennese Ensemble. .
7:58 Market Quotations.
8:30 National Farm and Home.
10:02 Vivian Delia Chiesa.
10:15 Let's Talk It Over.
10:30 News. ;
10:45 Home Institute.
11:45 Spitalny Orch.
12:00 US Dept. Agriculture
12:30 :News.
12:45 Market Reports.
1:15 Silhouettes of the West.
1:30 Financial and Grain.
1 : 4 5 Orchestra.
2:25 News.
Victory Total
crack troops, trained by German militarists and
supplemented' by a Urge force of reserves. There
are more than 2,000,000 men in the field and the
manner In which they have stubbornly contested
the Japanese advance indicates that their baptism
of fir is forging them into a powerful fighting
. machine. .
2:30 Alma Kltchell. -
2:35 Your Nary.
3:00 Orchestra.
3:15 Tar Heel Tattler.
3:30 Ralph Blaine, Tenor.
3:45 Science on the March.
5 : 00 It May Have Happened. :
5:30 Natural Music Camp. ;
6:30 Minstrel Show,
6:45 Sport Column.
7:00 Sons of the Lone Star.
7:15 Orchestra.
7:30 Chicago Round Table.
8:00 News.
8:15 Orchestra.
8:30 Baseball.
10:30 Orchestra.
11:00 News. ,
11:15 Charles Runyan.
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KOACS WEDNESDAY S50 Kc.
8:00 As You Like It.
9:0 0 The Home makers Hour.
9:40 School for Brides.
10:01 Symphonic Hour.
1 1 jOvVTonr-Health. ' -''
11:15 Music of the Masters.
12:00 News.
12:15 Farm Hour.
12:15 Safety Talk, State
Department.
12:3 0 Market, Crop Re
ports
1:15 Stories for Boys and Girls
1:45 Monitor View the News.
2:00 Homemakers Half Hoar;
6:30 Farm Hour.
6:45 Market, Crop Re
ports.
1--7M5 Everett H. Davlea.
7:454 News, v
Rickreall People
Visit Palls Gamp
Shown How CCC Operates;
7 Guest' of Nesmitli
There Sunday
RICKREALL Sunday dinner
guests of Lynn W. Nesmlth at
the CCC camp at Silver Creek
falls were his aunt, Mrs. Sarah
Burch, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Dempsey of Rickreall. Nesmlth
is office assistant at this camp.
It was of great interest to
the visitors to meet the men In
charge, who graciously gave their
time to explain the work of the
camp, to view .the Inside of the
buildings,, to note the details of
all affairs handled by Mr. Nes
mlth at the office, and to be
numbered with the guests at an
expertly cooked and served chick
en dinner.
; Tidiness " and cleanliness of
grounds and buildings 1 and sys
tematic order of business . are
outstanding features.: -. j ' -
Silver Creek park where 3000
people had picnicked during the
day was visited in the afternoon.
Infants Are Born
To Three Couples
S I L V ERTON Mr. and Mrs.
William Francis are announcing
the birth of a 7 hi pound son
August 13. ; y ,
Mr. and Mrs. L. Sowa are
announi:ng the ' birth of a 7
pound 9 ounce son born August
12,
Mr. and Mrs. Don Kuemi are
announcing the birth of an eight
pound 10 ounce son, born August
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t All three were born at the SI1-
verton hospital. '
New Sons Arrive
In two - Families
k SCOTTS MILLS- Mr. and
Mrs. Errln Pownall arc rejoicing
over the arrival of a son born, at
the SUverton hospital Thursday.
This is their first child.
Mrs. Almond Mch was brought
home from the Silverton hos
pital this week. Mrs. Rich spent
two weeks In the hospital fol
lowing a n ajor operation. :
Mr. and Mrs. Orrille Talker
have gone to Kansas, to attend
the wedding, of Mrs. Talker's
brother. ,
Sage of Salem
Speculates
By D. H.
- ' ALONG THE TRAIL
There is humble plant life along
the trail.
There Is pridef ul plant life, too,
And - upon- them both in the
. morning- sun
Sparkles the selfsame dew.
And one wilts down in the noon
day glare,
- As' fragile natures- do.
And the other bravely rears its
- .-head ,
And somehow carries through.
And the one Is you and the other
Is I,
Or. reverselv. I and you.
It matters little what we are.
What counts is wnat .we do.
More New York
An afternoon In the old Colum
bia theatre, New York, now giv
en over to radio. Dark down in
front. A small and attentive au
dience : there in the gloom. No
dress suits. Costumes rather on
the free and easy order, suitable
for the heat, which now and
again drafts in from the streets.
A Philip Morris program in pro
cess of rehearsal. Lights and
life. Russ Morgan and . his ex
cellent band, "Johnny" in - his
uniform, so familiar a figure on
the billboards and the show win
dows, the- cast presenting t h e
current dramatization. Jack John
stone, who Is a swell guy in the
best sense of the term, and Mrs.
Nauptman, office manager for
BIOW, the - broadcasting com
pany, office at No. 9 Rockefeller
Plata which try and , find. But
one can find it, given time. I
did. Rockefeller Center Is an
amazing, and bewildering place,
tremendous and beautiful.
An ordinary guy like me, who
has ' devoted much of his life
to chasing jack rabbits and not
very good plots for not very good
fiction, . including some news
stories not fiction. In a period
of our national growth when the
hotels which were of more than
three stories were almost as rare
as dodo birds, must mind his
step ' and revise himself some
what if he Is to get much of
anywhere at Rockefeller Center,
of which the Plaza Is a detail.
The number nines 1 1 have known
were usually on the second floor
and consisted of a single room
and a cracked water pitcher.
But No. 9 Rockefeller Plaza Is a
suite, with rosewood furniture,
and there is really no use look
ing for It on the first or second
floor, - because it is 25 stories
higher, which. -after all, isn't so
high, as things go in New York.
Rockefeller Center, was the only
thing which got the better of
me In New York but not for
long, mind you,, old and feeble
as Lam. : ., 4.,--
Just by way of doing north
Pacific coast folks a favor, I
want to introduce them to this
Mrs. Hauptman, heretofore men
tioned. An interesting forceful
person is, ever more worthy of
attention than a building or a
bridge or any , other - of those
things commonly referred to with
pride as "sights." Jack' Johnstone
of BIOW, Is a great director and
Russ Morgan Is a great orchestra
leader, but to a newcomer into
the circle It seems they would
both be working at - a disadvan
tage were it not for Mrs. Haupt
man. Mrs. ' Hauptman, a young
woman from Ohio, is a never
falling help in time of confusion.
Furthermore, she is a delightful
person, .unassuming, always in
balance i-
The final broadcast of the pro-'
Some odd Facts
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Eiffel tower, cost 1,000,CC0
' C4
Icebergs, sometimes
T?0 U. RS,'than fiction; Is evident when one glances
through the almanac or encyclopedia, rlt la estimated that the Wash
tngton monument has 23.000 stones In It; icebergs sometimes take
,t2r32. 7Vi i"1 "th towr ra P1 re
than 41,000,000. 2W,000 of which was contributed by the French
.fpvenunent and the balance collected by admission fees; Brazil
furnishes two-thirds of the world's supply of coffee; color blindness
ts much mors prevalent among men than women; watermelons have
een frown weighing nearly 300 pounds; there is about Art per
cent nicotine content in tobacco-'
TALMADGB
gram In which I was especially
Interested was made at , 11:30
p.m.. E.S.T. After that, a rush
of autograph hunters and a
chorus of good nights and good
byes. Among other mementoes of
the occasion is the manuscript
of the story dramatization sent
out that day, on the first page
of which is written, "Give my
regards to r Oregon. Jack John
stone." Again, thank you; Mr;
Johnstone. Oregon will, I am
sure, be listening for your pro
gram. I reckon I hare - passed fully
a million boys In the streets dur
ing the past ten days, and not
an 'hello in them all. It seemed
pretty good, back in Salem, to
look into faces that I know, boys
aud i girls and men and women.
A boy that Is too busy to ex
change talk with a friend is a
disappointment. Thus, for ex
ample, I. met a certain boy on
Court street Monday. He has,
I am Quite sure, a future, this
boy. Perhaps he will be an acro
bat or perhaps he will become a
member of the state legislature
and electrjfy his fellow members
with his eloquence, .or perhaps
but there is no end to the possi
bilities. However, I fear he will
become something else. I'll tell
you why. "Hello," says I to him
Monday, "did you see the boat
races yesterday?" "No," says he
to me, "but I heard 'em." That's"
what my uncle Zip said when a
man asked him if the cattle was
his No," says my uncle, "but
I herd 'em." It may be a good
sign or a bad one, but it evi
dences an entertaining spirit.
And what does the age of a joke
matter between congenial asso
ciates? I learned by chance last week
that an efficient stewardess on
one of the United Airlines main
liners is a daughter of the Lu
theran minister at Monitor, over
on Battle Creek In Marion coun
ty, , Oregon. She told me her
name, but in the rush and bustle
of disembarking at New York
(she chme on duty, I think at
Cleveland) permitted It to pass In
at one ear and out at the other.
However, this to her reverend
father his daughter Is a gra
cious girl and gives every ap
pearance of - being In tip-top
health.
Ten Years Ago.
' August 17, 1&28
Earl Douglas, physical director
and athletic coach at Leslie jun
ior - high . school, will return to
Salem September 1 after spend
ing summer at: University of Ore
gon summer school and is now
taking a coaching course at Po
mona college.
Misa Alta Kershner will leave
in September for New York to en
ter the graduate school of library
service at Columbia university.
Work will be completed today on
the auto mechanic shop at the Sa
lem high school. Plans for shop
were , drawn by Lyle Bartholo
mew, school architect.
Charles Adams Visits
. RICKREALL- Charles W. Ad
ams was home from Yancouver,
Wash., barracks Saturday night
and Sunday. He haa Joined the
artillery and expects to leave some
time soon for Fort Stevens.
About Universe
Washington monument,
23,000 -stones
last 2C3 years