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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Blornlnsr, August 18, 1933
No Favor Sways Us; No Feat Shall Awe"
From First Statesman. March S8. 1161
Charles A. Spracue - - Editor and Publisher
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
Charles A. Spracue. Pre. - Sheldon W. Sackett. Secy. -llrmber
of the Associated Press "-..
The Associated Pre to xelatw!y entitled te Mm isiss tor J
Horn or all new dUpstehes crlltrj ta U or not sthsrwUs ersdUe
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Why Don't We Save? j
The saving of money is an individual problem, both as to
initiative, or incentive if you prefer, and as to method. But
in these days when social security is a phrase in general use
in connection with large public questions, the saving of mon
ey becomes a public question as a factor in that larger prob
lem. . : I ii' ' ' -:
- Fear hail been expressed that thrift and saving will be
rrmio Ip r1pirahle or necessary when thej social security
problem is solved to the extent of actually providing for old in the falls at Oregon City. It was
rX. 1 trsr. ha fnfiirp th tires-1 one of the great tragedies of the
ent sociai dVo?Se it Bat It U probab JSET&S
true that merely the hope of a pension of one type or anotner jVm now take np gomj gentence-
Bits for
Breakfast
Xkf R. J. HENDRICKS
More about Captain 8-1S-38
Tom McKay, one of oar
first permanent settlers:
tad a most colorful career:
: .
(Concluding, finally, from yes
terday:) One finds in 4Oregon."
the rare book of Gustavus Hines,
matter concerning; Captain Ti-m-
as McKay, and his mills, that be
longs in this series. The scope in
time of the book goes back .to I
1839. when Hines joined the Lee
mission and became a passenger
on the ship Lausanne. It was pub-
iisnea in 1857.
Cornelius Rogers was- a mem
ber of the Whitman mission:
came to the Willamette Taller and
joined the Lee mission. - Married
satlrtf Leslie, eldest daughter of
David Leslie, aged IS. He and she
and her little sister were" drowned
Don't Cheer Yet!
from the Hines book:
Having been appointed . . . to
secure and appraise ithe property
of the late Mr. Cornelias Rorere.
I started for that nlace fthe
i o;,-.o iifirroTif tn the. savincr of -money for a
rninv rlav.". -.'''"' . ' : .
rw,a it, i fiiaf if Mvintr is discourairefrit will not af-
.a V VJv w - - - r i
feet any great proportion of the American puouc; ana kh9w-
comfort to persons who
ICUC Ul uua ik uiJ f1"'" " . , -i . I - - - v lust. yuKB ime
fail to save but reproach themselves for that failure. rot only I Fails as Oregon City was known
misprv but imurovidence loves company. ; . '"A . on he?tn February
... vvsv A I I III 1 With W I tl.
Going back to the supposedly "norma - year ia .aw ,G " i Ve. wVth -VS:
tisticians have figured out that the people oi niemiw i whitman mission and had joined
States saved 15 billion dollars, wnicn averages up w ue ie mission.) j Trawled 10
oer familv but two-thirds of this amount was savea oy tneimuea ana. stopped at Dr. Bab
fS?5S5SI in of $10,000 a year. The roek-a, who w the Jadge of the
7n r:r:-;w ;r " 1 a VlRoO nent. in the aggregate, PI - 1 r J .tractions
r .. j m.. in ... .("wifViiiiviniM nnrlpr I . v . . r"'' snpreme
more man iney earneu.. xxie w yc ijuage wnn probate powers of the
S2000 saved 250 millions, Which averages less inan -x' per i proTlalonal goyerhment, then IIt-
uis in me nospitai or tne mission.
10 miles by water below Salem's
site.) . . . Proceeded on horse
back towards Champoeg.1
There they turned their horses
loose on the prairie, borrowed a
canoe, reached "The Palls Quo
ting tne nines book here:
"m
Monday, I4tb. Attended to the
familv.
( These figures for .an unusually prosperous year help to
explain why even before the depression, not more than half
of the persons who reached age 65 had made provision for re
tirement upon independent incomes. The figures may appear
depressing; but perhaps if tne non-saver reatizesne
much pomnanv. he will be encouraged xo oe uuicieui uy
storing up a portion of his income. , - , V V
No doubt many heads of families with moderate incomes duties in relation to Mr. Rogers'
in 1929 thought those incomes left no leeway, for saving ; they gjjte m conn?!on with w. h
i j j:ee ii iv. u.n that fn nwi l np rmnp i .. ' uuuu
icaiueu uixxerciitiy m j . tne estate to be worth tl500
' ti 1 ! 1 ..... m. ikA iniuntiva thAttffh I ....... .
principally lacking m aucu cases n mvtn.v, r
this probably was not true for lower income families. Life
insurance is a type of saving probably the most extensive
form of saving practiced in the united b tares. Ana wny ao
people practice this particular type of saving? Principally
because skillful salesmen convince them that they ought to do
. it Few people ever hunt up a life insurance agent and volun
tary buy a policy. Perhaps if savings .banks employed
equally skillful salesmen, direct savings would be promoted
to a comparable degree.
. heirs in Utl-
Psy
cnoiogy
of Traffic
Here comes a pedestrian, crossing the
liabilities $700;
ca. New York.
"Tuesday." 15th. . . We left Th
Falls . . . and returned to our ca
noe, whei'e we encamped for the!
night." They found the river very
nign; leit tne canoe above the
mouth of Pudding river; struck
the trail (on foot), at Sark" ar
rived at the house of a French
man near the Butte (Butteviile),
about three miles below Cham- i
poeg.-. . Next morning proceeded
to Champoeg," and found their
horses. Quoting the book;
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The water had rised to an
amazing height; farms were
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Thomas McKay had recently
pum a large grist mill, and an old
gentleman by the name of Can
ning was tending the mill. In the
canning must be in a perilous
condition, procured a canoe, and.
sailing high over fields, fences.
etc., soon arrived at the mill.
and, running their canoe inte the
street with the
green light and here comes an auto making a right turn. The J swept of their fences, and farm-
Dedestrian has the risrht-of-way; but it s an even guess wau er. sunerea jieavy tosses m grain
k takes it. Perhaps the pedestrian, combining self-effacement
with caution, will give way to the driver, who may pr may not
eve the imoression that he would otherwise stop.'; Perhaps
' both will stop and an Alphonse-Gaston incident will ensue. morning when he awoke, as be
T.. It i 1 111 1 .V.J nn1 it-0 11T rt I Blent In f Vi A mill t 11.. . JI
cm occasionally me g river win uaxc aumu aim v m iu kcuuu
tha nP-strinTi f a linn sVin nr'iunm out of the road. It may be ory. the mill was standing in
that the r.edestrian will be held ud bv a stream of 'round-the- 5 rake- So.me
x.i j-u. i:i.4. "i nnA Vian V,0'o In l aiBiance, supposing
curuer motor irnnic uuuu wic uguv uiau6tJ "
a nice Dickie.
There seem to be two sorts of people traveling our
strata flnd hio-hwava; those who take it lor jrrantea in an
-.. .r t . - - - . : i window or thr nas.. . t,
those who assume in all such cases that the other leiiow nas tnnn rgtn r
, I siavuda uuuu m
it Just what that denotes about the character of tnearanous high box, in one corner of t the
mill. . . No essential damage was
done the mill, but several hund
red bushels of wheat were lost
. . Recovering our horses, we
left Champoeg in the afternoon
and-arrived at our homes the fol
t . U I r -
lowing evening." (Where were
their homes? Hines' at "the par
sonage," ; still : standing, now at
1325 Fen-y; Gray's at "The Insti
tute," where the Saucy house is,
on the Bush place, next to Paint
er s woods.)
ine nines dook, m the very
next' chapter, contains matter that
brings to notice the activities of
Captain Thomas McKay. Qnot
lag:
April 14 (1843.) This settle
ment (around what became Sa
lem) has been thrown into a pan
le-by intelligence which has -just
been received from ;the upper
country, concerning the hostile in
tentions of the Cayuse, Nei Perce
and Walla Walla Indians. It ap
pears that they have again threat
ened the destructi of the whites
Report said these tribes were
coming down to kill off the Bos
ton people, meaning those of the
United States. . '.Thomas McKay
had contributed tnuch to allay the
exlctement among them, and in
connexion with" the sub-agent in
duced the Nez Perces to adopt a
code of laws. . The peace and se
curity of the whites demanded
that some persons qualified to ne-
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, individuals can only be guessed. The first-mentioned group
may get ahead faster in the world or that may depend upon
whether they achieve positions in which the go-ahead-regardless
attitude ravs dividends. '
Sticking to the problem strictly as a traffic problem,
-however, it is a logical guess that when two such persons meet
there is either some lively stepping, a screeching of brakes, 6r
disaster. ' - '.'' : ' ,., ;
Traffic lights have reduced the incidence of accidents
on Salem's downtown streets, but there are still a tew mis
haps and many close shaves. More courtesy on the part of mo
torists would help; some further checking on the part of the
police is likewise indicated. H
Some motorists still have failed to notice that Liberty
street is a "through" street at the Ferry and Trade intersec
tions. The police ought to post a sign, temporarily, so prom
inently that.it couldn't be overlooked, as they did on North
Commercial some months ago. ' J I
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Wheat Mathematics
World wheat production this year Is ! rorecast at 4200
million bushels, about 375 million bushels above that of 1937;
with the carryover of 650 million bushels the world supply
will be 4850 million bushels 475 million above that of last
year. Europe will produce 50 million bushels more than last
year, so international shipments will not be as large as they
have been on the 1937 crop, unless war or other political con
siderations change the picture, v !
The United States crop will be 967 million bushels ac-
cording to the July 1 estimate ; the second largest crop in this
nation's historv. exceeded onlv by 1915 production. World
ii i. i , . ,r on . -M i. VnS " muuiv persons quaiuiea to ne-
prices will be low and prices in the United States will be be-; gotiate with the Indians should
low world prices; but both domestic and world prices have1 now proceed immediately to the
already pretty well adjusted themselves on; the basis of these, scene of disaffection and if possi-
estimates.
The figures above
are borrowed from the Pendleton
tie remove the cause of the ex
citement. -'.!. I
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r r. . l m it f areurumgij, ur. wnue U. S.
r.asi vregonian, a newspaper wnicn nas rrwiucxiujr uacuucu , injan agent) ent lged 12 t men
the original AAA law and deplored invalidation of pertinent j besides myself, mostly French
sections of it by the United States supreme court. On the. con-j Canadians, . , . to go with him
trary the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, published just a few v . When the day arrived for
miles away, contends that the AAA by artificually raising X?? bn:
domestic prices, shut of f United States wheat from the world ' Zm itw?tl
market. 1, . , i Breton. ... one Indian boy. and
It is certainly true that United States exports of wheat one Kanaka, with the two latter
have dwindled almost to the vanishing point since 1931, with , "f . aoctor and myseir left ths
the big drop in 1933, since when this nation has imported ' J"11"" on April
x -i. j j i, , . I 25. 1843. and proceeded on horse-
more wheat than lit -exported. ; - . , , . back to the Butte (Butteviile).
WTieat exports from this country from the end of the where we found Le Breton in
World war until 1931 exceeded 80 million bushels annually, waiung for us. He had provided a
In 1935 they had dropped to 233,000 bushels. Production, canoe. . . on the 28 th we. left The
whirh exrPAdprf hniion huahela onlv In 1915 in this countrv. At o'clock arrived, at
dropped to little morethan hf that from 1933 to 1936, but iS'jSZ
is expeccea to crowa me oinion uusuei rars again mis jrear
without much foreign outlet. j
mained at the fort overnight . . '.
Saturday, the 29th, left, and con
tinued our voyage np the Colum
bia. . . After a comfortable night'
rest. ... prepared to spend the
sacred day as profitably as we
(A boat load of friendly
The Oregon City Enterprise nominated Claudette Col
bert for the role of "Scarlett; The Statesman put up Sylvia could.
Sidney; the Coos Bay Times filed the name of Bette Davis Wasco Indians had Joined and ac
but admitted she "robbed the role in "Jezebel. Claude In-1 companied them np the Coium
galls of the Corvallis Gazette-Times says we're all wrong, the j bU ' . , .
-rolz must go to Madame Perkin3. "If she tm't scarlet, she at I "Monday, May l. At sunrise
least acts like it.' ; ; ; proceeded on our voyage .... A
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few miles above Cape Horn we
came to a huge rock, ... consid
ered a great curiosity ... Passing
this stupendous monument reared
by nature's hands in mockery of
the works of art. we arrived at
the cascades at sundown, ' and
camped for the night." Quoting
further along: ,
' "May 2, 1843 . . . . "We were
obliged to lie quiet in our camp.
(A fearful wind made progress
Impossible.) "At 3 p.m., the wind
i"Br.iRKai mile81 Faces Extradition
That was the day of the Cham
noer meeting, where, the monu
ment :. there records, Hines ; was
present, and voted for the ob
jects of that meeting. The -party
made slight progress on the 3d.
On the 4 th they arrived at the
Wascopam (The Dalles) . mission.
Came to the John Day river May
6th, and-the next day (Sunday,
the ?th camped about half way
to Fort Walla Walla from Was
copam. Reached the Umatilla riv
er the next day, and the 9th
passed Fort Walla Walla at noon
and reached the Whitman mis
sion, Waiilatpu, at 5. Reached
the Lapwai (Spalding) mission
Friday, the 12 th. Had a great
powwow on the 17th, Chiefs Jo
seph, Ellis, Lawyer and others
of the Nes Perce tribes being
present.:
- A thousand savage N warriors
were there, in fantastic, battle ar
ray. Tuesday, the 23d, all the
tribes were present, and made a
greater, demonstration, at the
Whitman mission. Cayuse Chief
Tliokalkt, - to afterward assassi
nate Dr. Whitman, was present,
ao " was Peopeomoxmox, to be
finally killed by a Salem company
of volunteers. And Chiefs Five
Crows and Taultaa and Cray
Eagle and the rest.
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Hines was homo at the par
sonage." la what became Salem,
oa Tuesday " evening, June ,
1843. He wrote: 'Monday, 5th.
Procured a passage In one of the
company's barges (Hudson's Bay
company , at Fort Vancouver) to
Willamette Falls; . . . a ride on
horseback of 50 miles the follow
ing day brought mo back to my
own dwelling, having performed
a journey of 1000 mUea." v ,
One can imagine- a good many
tarns la the trail to make the dis
tance from present Oregon City to
present Salem SO miles. The cur
rent highway map makes It 35.
Tomorrow, this column will have
some more matter about CapL.
Tom McKay's wives.
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Paal Johnson. 10, . whs
ceatly arreated ta Lost Aageles
a a fogitive front a Georgia
chain gang. Badly scarred
from shackles and chains,
Johnson said he had made sev
en attempts to escape bat was
always tracked by bloodhounds.
He said he was 10 when pat oa
the chain gang.
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Wal-
Tcn years Ago
- 1 August 18, 1028 .
Willamette vallev Pnm,
elation, under direction of
ver 4. wenas and H. S. Gile, is
fitting up walnut dmnr. rrA.
lng and bleaching plant at head
quarters building of association.
Salem men rained ann.
business enterprise when North
western Mutual and Firs aasoet.
ation which has its headquarters
in Portland opened a branch of
ficer here with C. C.iscCnrdv in
aa manager.
Rev. W. Earl Cochran wla 1.
to be pastor of Calvary Bantlst!
chrrch now under process of or.
causing has arrived from his
home in Tacoma to take no his
tew auties. -
; Goc to 'Vv'yoming '
SlXiVERTON Joe Edsan of
Mlverton has rone to Wromlnr
where he will join his brother.
Dr. Lon Edson, who is being
ireatea mere.
Interpreting the News
By MARK SULLIVAN
AVONDALE, Chester County,
Pa., Aug. 17 Here on the farm
the Japanese beetles have de
stroyed about 10 per cent of our
corn. Last year - they destroyed
much more. That was our first
experience with them, so this
year we tried to out-fox them.
We observed that the beetles
arrive about July 10 and leave
about August 13. Those are the
weeks during which the corn la
in silk, and it lsby the aUk that
the grains of corn are pollenlsed
and come into being. The Japa
nese beetles eat the silk. But this
year we planted the corn late, so
that it would not. come to silk
until after the beetles left. To a
considerable extent our strategy
succeeded. During the early weeks
of the bottles' visit they went
Into the cornfield, flew and
crawled about in search of silk
tassels, found none, and left the
field with a manner of indignant
disappointment. But during the
last few days of their stay, much
of the corn was coming into silk.
and they destroyed some of It.
Same as Wallace
We are a little sad about It.
We realize we will hare to buy
some feed for the cattle during
the winter. Nevertheless I sup
pose we ought not to speak of it
as a calamity, I suppose we ought
to see it as a benevolent act of
nature. It' must be benevolent be
cause it amounts to the same
thing Secretary Wallace does. He
requires farmers to reduce their
acreage of corn by about 10 per
cent. It reduction by government
flat la beneficient. then reduc.
tlon byJapanese beetles must be
beneficient too. If . Mr. Wallace
says reduction is good, then we
can't say our particular reduc
tion is bad, can we? That would
hardly be proper respect for a
government official.
True, Mr. Wallace's reduction
and the bettles. reduction are not
the same. Mr. Wallace accom
plishes his reduction, this year,
by preventing us from planting
we are saved the labor of plowing
and harrowing and hoeing and
weeding. But the beetles' reduc
tion is exactly comparable to some
of the seductions Mr. Wallace
accomplished a few years'ago
plowing under cotton and kill
ing little pigs and pregnant sows.
I ought to say, too, that here
In Pennsylvania Mr. Wallace did
not Impose any corn quotas on
us. The corn quotas were imposed
only in the 12 states of the cen
tral west corn belt. But wheat
limitation, Mr. Wallace is going
to impose on all of us, in every
state. He has done It without any
referendum there hasn't been
any referendum around here. But
from an announcement made
July 21, we learn that Pennsyl
vania must reduce Its acreage of
wheat from 1,093,000 this year
to 7Z,s&i next year. The quotas
for .individual . farms will come
along in a little while. Some day
within a few weeks, I assume,
somebody acting with authority
delegated by Mr. Wallace will
come up our lane and hand us
an official card telling us how
much wheat we will be allowed
to plant in October. The wheat
off. In numbers they are enor
mous. The other morning early,
while the beetles were still a lit
tle chilly and damp and Inert. I
shook a small cherry tree. The'
beetles thst dropped off covered
the ground.
Trees Are Stripped
When the beetles arrive In
early July, they go first to the
sassafras trees, settle on the
leaves, and eat every bit of green
In the leaf, leaving only the
woody ribs and veins, which now
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grotesque skeletons. But the sas
safras trees are few. The beetles
proceed next to the willow trees
along the atreams. After the wil
low trees they go to the corn field
and to some of the orchard trees,
though not sll. ; .
The apple trees back of our
house are no longer any shade
at all. Stripped of green they
look like arboreal scarecrows.
The pear and quince trees the
beetles do not touch. Nor dj they
ioucn me oaas or poplars or
beeches or other trees in tbe
woods. To some flowers they are
deadly, others they leave alone.
One. of their tastes Is a real serv
ice. .We have a particularly of
fensive weed called smart-weed.
it Is one of the first plants the
Japanese beetles eat. But that Is
about their only kindness.
(New York Herald-Tribune News
Syndicate.)
The Safety
Valve
Letters from
Statesman Readers'
being a one-man government.
reduction is severe, about a thirl I As leader of the republican ml-
in me country as a whole, fronkJ noYIty In the United States sen
81.000,000 acres in 1938 to 55,-Tte, Senator McNary fought thi
vvv.uvv acres next year. Mr. Wal
lace is going to be, almost liter
ally, the man who, made two
grains of wheat grow where three
grew before.
Beetles Preferred
As between the visit we expect
from Mr. Wallace's agent and the
visit we have had from the Japa
nese beetles, we prefer, on the
whole, the beetles. After all, we
are free to fight the bettles, get
ride of them any way wo can.
And we have confidence that one
way or another we will beat them.
Mr. Wallace's department of
agriculture, in one of the many
extremely useful scientific activi
ties it carries on, is trying to find
a parasite that will kill the Japa
nese beetles. They say there is a
parasite, a bug, that lights on the
beetle's back, goes to the Joint be
tween his body and head, sinks a
borer into the beetle's inwards,
and there lays an egg which pro
ceeds to hatch and eat the in
aldes of the beetle. We wish that
gruesome parasite well, and we
hope Mr. Wallace's department
of agriculture will find still other
bugs that kill beetles. Mr! Wal
lace is good about bugs.
It will take a good many bugs
and parasites to kill the beetles
PRESIDENT IS 1040
CHARLES L. McXARY
To The Editor:
The man for president of the
United States in 1940 is Senator
Charles L. McNary of Oregon. By
his long and distinguished serv
ice in the - United States senate.
Senator McNary is qualified In
every way to be president of tbe
United States.
Senator McNary knows all
parts of our country and under
stands the needs of every section
of this country. Senator Charles
L. McNary has the national view
point on all questions. He knows
what our country needs in order
that she may take her proper
place among the nations of tbe
world. Senator McNary would be
president for our whole country
and not for one section alone.
Senator McNary Is a progressive
republican. He is thoroughly
grounded In the basic principles
of our government. He knows
that our government consists of
three equal and coordinate
branches, to-wit: congress or the
legislative branch, the president
or the executive branch, and the
supreme court or the Judiciary
branch. Senator McNary is abso
lutely opposed to our government
efforts of, President Roosevelt to
pack the supreme court of the
United States. More than any
other one. senator Senator Mc
Nary was responsible for the fail
ure of President Roosevelt to ap
point six (C) new additional su
preme court judges. To Senstor
McNary more than to any other
one man belongs the credit of
having prevented the packing of
the United States supreme court
by President Roosevelt. Our coun
try can thank Cod for having
such a man In the United States
senate as Senator Charles L. Mc
Nary at such a time of crisis In
our national affairs.
The man for president of the
United States la 1940 Is Senator
Charier L. McNary of Oregon.
FRED W. MEARS.
. ' Salem, Ore. ,
August 1 1938. .
. To Present Trophies
SILVERTON At the Thursday
night meeting of tbe Sons of Le
gion trophies won In the recent
airplane contest will be present
ed. Membership buttons In tbe
junior rifle division will also be
handed out that night.
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