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Th C2EG0N CTATESIIAN, CaUn, Orejon, TuewJay Uor&las, March 21, 1933
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From first' Statesman, March St. ltll ;
Sheldon F. Sackett . - Editor and Manager.
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By R, J. BENDRICXS
f Westerner on Supreme Court
When Justice Felix Frankfurter was appointed recently
as successor to Justice Benjamin Cardozo, general approval
of the selection was tempered, in the west, by regret that this
portion of the United States remained without representation
on the supreme court. When the fourth vacancy on. the court
to be filled by President Roosevdt occiirred hrougKthe.' re
tirement of 'Justice Louis" D. Brandeis, hopes that the west
would receive recosmition were revived.
The president took this sectional issue into consideration
.! hairing tia nrnmntinn nf William O. DoUZlhS in mind,
made some inquiry as to whether the west would claim Mr.
krkniiis ;t. vom wmt roAnnnsn-he -received cannot be
known, but at any rate the decision was made and Mr. Doug
las will soon take his olace upon the supreme bench.
The Statesman, as one newspaper which has emphasized
the desirability of a western appointment, is constrained to
recognize the selection of Mr. Douglas as one which qualifies.
Although he attained his legal education at Columbia univer
.. mt Vflv on lofer wn a law nrofessor at Yale, he
was born in Minnesota and acquired most of his earlier edu
cation in Washington state, including collegiate training at
Whitman college, Walla Walla. He married a LaGrande, Ore
gon, girl. He taught in the high school at Yakima and after
attaining a law degree, returned there to practice.
It was obvious that whoever was chosen for this vacan
cy in the supreme court would be a new dealer. Justice Bran
deis was a liberal, so the general complexion of the court re
mains unchanged as it did when Frankfurter was appointed.
Douglas has been chairman of the securities and exchange
commission and has just recently been in the limelight due
to his staunch opposition to Wall Street's proposal to amend
the securities act of 1934. He said the proposed amendments
would "bring the pool operator back into the market, and re
Store objectionable conditions that prevailed in 1929. . .
Subject to the. general criticisms as to viewpoint that
may be raised against any "authentic" new dealer, Douglas
is obviously an able, well-grounded lawyer of great intellect
ual capacity, a man who has risen on his own merits. His ex
perienceon the SEC will prove valuable to him on the bench;
he will be one justice who knows the problems of business
from direct contact, even though his acts liave been viewed
in some instances as inimical to business and in more frequent
instances as impracticable.
It is not likely that the appointment will encounter even
the outside opposition that met the Frankfurther selection,
which did not -extend to the senate committee or the senate
itself. As for the "westerner" question, it is certain that Yak
ima, Walla Walla and Whitman college will claim him as their
own, and Oregon will take their word for it.
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Birth Rate Decline Permanent?
If it is true that the birth rate in the United States has
gone into a permanent decline, the fact merits the serious con
sideration that it has been accorded by the authors of several
recent mairazine articles. One of these, taking it for granted
that the decline which started some years before the depres
sion cannot be reversed, painted a word picture of the future
results mostly had. .
The birth rate within the area in this country where
births were registered representing less than half of the pop
ulation at that time was over za per iuuu 01 popuiauon in
1915, The registration of births has extended now to almost
the entire nation. Births dropped in the World war period
almost to 22 per 1000, then rose again to over 24 in 1921 as
a result of termination of the war; after 1921 they declined
steadily to 16 per 1000 of population in 1933, low point of
the depression. - .
But in 1934 there was an increase to 17.1: slight drops
in the next two years, a rise in 1937 to 17 and another indi
cated on incomplete data in 1938 to 17.8, the highest birth
rate since 1931.
The figures indicating a decline relate only to a period
of 24 years; and while the trend has been steady, that is too
brief a period for any definite conclusions. It has not been
demonstrated that there has been a permanent, irreversible
change in the physical and mental makeup of American young
people of reproductive age that will forever reduce their abil-
itv and desire tn brinor children into the world. v -
Birth rates in nearly all civilized countries dropped in the
same period, while in the less-civilized countries they re
mained constant or fluctuated for reasons difficult to trace,
though in some cases the corresponding fluctuations in death
- rates indicated that food supplies and general neaitn conai
tions in those countries were the principal influences.
World-wide experience indicates that nothing much can
be done about the birth rate directly; Germany has had some
success in forcing it upward, Italy encountered total failure
in similar attempts. But there is good reason to believe that a
restoration of confidence in the future, a reasonable expecta
tion that children brought into the world will find a place for
themselves in it, will result in restoration of a reasonable
birth rate. The cyincs who are fond of declaiming that "hu
; man nature doesn't change' are on the affirmative side in this
, particular argument. : r
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Salem's Champions L J
- . Laudation of the Salem high school Vikings who, some
what to their fellow-townsmen's surprise and possibly their
own, captured for their school and city their fifth state high
school basketball championship, is now in order.
- Praise of these boys' athletic prowess and the tactlca1
skill and leadership displayed by their youthful coach, this
column win leave to The Statesman's competent sports ed
itor. However, certain aspects of the Vikings' rise to preemin
ence are peculiarly appropriate for mention in this column.
"No Salem high basketball team ever had such team
work." was a remark frequently heard last week in the Wil
lamette gym. Teamwork is largely a matter of skill and per
sistent drill but in the final analysis, and in the supreme
test, it depends greatly upon mental attitude. No matter how
diligently a coach may strive to instill teamwork, he is often
helpless to achieve it if there is one player of such ability as
to be indispensable, whose , ambitions are personal rather
than for the team. s , -
There was no such player on the Salem high team 0:
193$ and. that is one important reason, paradoxically, why
two members of the team did achieve personal honor in selec
tion on the au-state quintet: ; . h : y 'J;
In the matter of sportsmanship, likewise, the Salem team
of 1939 left little to be desired. It now remains for the team's
' fellow-students and " fellow-townsmen f to demonstrate their
appreciation of the Viking basketeers' success. Suitable recog
nition will be forthcoming; a recognition the more gracious
because by their actions these boys have said, like a certain
Addison character, "But we'll do more, Sempronius ; : we u
deserve it" ' " v '
Whenever a big passenger airplane crashes, it seems,
some prominent persons are included in the casualty list The
wrecking of the stratohner ' near Tacoma comes as a new
shock to the air travel scientists who believed they were mak
ing great strides toward air safety. Once again, investigation
of the causes is hampered by the fact that all on board per
ished. But the tragedy may be pieced together with suf f icienl
thoroughness that its grim lessons may be utilized to future
advantage in the struggle for complett conquest of the air.
If or about members t-Sl-SI
of Daniel Boon elan .
who earn early to Oregon. , ,
and their klnamen elsewhere!
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The letter which follow, from
John . EUenbeckcr, Marrtrille,
Kanaaa, dated March 1C. to this
columnist la self explanatory:
"JL think X wrote to yon recently
relatlT to . kind words about my
book ("The Jayhawken of Death
Valley") and alio my gratefulness
for your request for information
relattre to the Boon descendants
who mored to the Pacific coast.
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"Recently . a lady - from Salem
sent me two clippings from a lie
Mlnnrllle paper, telling of such
descendants. One of these was
real good. This is it:
; M 'Mrs. W. J. Carter, 81, a grand
niece of Daniel Boone, the -pioneer
plainsman, died Feb. C,
13 1. at Vancourer, Washington.
Funeral services were held Thurs
day at Knapp's funeral parlors
and. burial was In the beautiful
Park Hill cemetery there.
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I " " 'She was born in Missouri In
1852, and resided in - Iowa, Ne
braska and Kansas before coming
to Washington in IS 19, where she
had resided since. She is survived
by nine children, IS grandchild
ren, 21 great grandchildren, and
two great - great grardchildren.
and one brother." "
The other Item refers to Mr.
and A. G. Boo-e of McMlnnrUle,
Oregon, who recently visited the
world's fair ': San F ancisco.
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Of course Mrs. Carter would
be a descendant of one of Da
Boone's brothers or sisters.
"I believe I wrote to you that
Daniel Boone's grandfather
(George Boone) came from Eng
land in 1717 and settled near
Philadelphia. He had 11 child
ren, nine sons and two daughters;
one of those sons Squire Boone
was 'Daniel Boone's father.
"Daniel Boone was born in
736, and he had five sons and
four daughters. Two sons were
killed in the Indian wars; so only
seven chudren grew up and had
offspring.
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So there can he very many
Boones in the United States, even
descendants of the great hunter.
squire noone naa seven sons
and four daughters. Daniel Boone
was one of those, seven sons. ,
Hecenuy 1 naa a letter irom a
very fine gentleman, 94 years old.
living in Beatrice, NebraskaThe
parents and grandparents of this
gentleman A. L. Green lied in
Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ken
tucky, where the Poones lived.
Mr. Green has an old marri
age certificate (Quaker style) per
taining to a couple married in
7S. Thirty ' '- w! esses sign
ed this certificate; among those
names are the names of George
Boone (the grandfather). Squire
Boone (the father) of Daniel
Boone, and all of Daniel Boone's
uncles and aunts and many of the
neighbors of the Boone family.
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'These people were aU Quakers,
were all of Abraham Lincoln's
people, who lived in the territory
of and among the Boones.
'It is claimed that Daniel
Boone's lomahawk (steel) is in
the Kansas lauseum at Topeka.
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'I have wirtten to the Carters
and Boones mentioned in those
two cUppings."
So ends the EUenbecker letter.
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Two more Boones of the Da: iel
Boone clan are known to be In
Oregon known to this writer.
A further report on them will
be made In this column at a later
date.
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A hurry-up ell!
Salem will be 100 years old next
year.
She wIU not have another
chance to celebrate such an event.
It is high time preparations
were being made.
Here, and near here, Protestant
Christianity and modern civiliza
tion were started west of the
Rockies.
This is the highest point of his
tory fronting Balboa's ocean in all
the Americas, with respect to a
government of, by, for the people.
and as related to Protestant Chris
tianity.
Who or what organization is to
move? .
Willamette university should
have a great part, for it is older
than the city, older than the
state, or the territorial govern
ment, almost as old as even the
provisional form, which and the
institution had a common origin,
tne Jason Lee mission.
Surely, no one in Salem wants
to wait another 100 years.
The year 1840 was the year of
Beginnings. Let's have action!
t'SpiingBieMXp!"
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v Crime Laboratory
A crime detection laboratory, designed for the use i
Oregon state and city police and for county sheriffs, is the
latest addition to the state's setup in apprehending and con-
nA4-S.M - mi t r a . A. V A A .
vtiuj5 cx-uuiuus. a ne legislature approved $i,ovu xor ine
biennium and the money will be spent at the state medical
school where Dr. Frank Menne has developed a coastwide
reputation as a scientific investigator of the dues surround
ing a crime.
A crime laboratory makes blood analyses to determine
whether stains found are from human or animal blood. It
performs ballistics studies on bullets recovered from a mur
dered man to ascertain if the bullets were fired from a gun
owned by the alleged murderer. Analysis of the contents of
human stomachs for poison traces frequently lead to a mur
der as in the recent St, Helens mystery which, also led to
two. other murders.: ' -- t -v- :4-v?- j:
'' The work of such men as Luke May at Seattle, August
VoUmer at Berkeley and Dr. Menne all center on removing
the element of reasonable doubt" from a jury's minds In
criminal cases. The laboratory, if efficiently and not extrava
gantly run, can save the state heavy costs in trying persons
without proof sufficient for conviction. Contrawise it will
be invaluable in establishing guilt in -hairline cases.' ' -
When The Statesman, several months ago, discussed the
possibility that government ownership of the railroads might
not be far distant, it may have seemed a radically new idea.
But events move rapidly in these times; now leading railroad
executives are reported to be studying a proposal for rather
drastic legislation "as a last resort to stave off nationaliza
tion in some form." I
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With tta school committed which fflitntsstd liar on tTormds of being
too Bwdata voted out of office, pretty Isabella BaOtn. Sanctis. Itasiu
acisool maim, looks happy. Best of an, for Isabella her mother.
XCrt. AnnU la Hallln f?ot most votes of an the members of the new
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By DOROTHY THOMPSON
la haadlDf tha accounts of
the tiiamphal tatry. of tho Oer
maa army Into Prague, 1 1 notic
ed that one cor
respondent , ro
cordtd that
when the Ger
man tanks : were
met by snow
balls hurled It
Click citizens
"the soldiers
reddened.? He
added that they
preserved their
Dexetay thempaoa discipline, how
over,: In an exemplary manner.
I keep wondering why tne Ger
man soldiers flushed., Was it re
pressed anger at the fail are of
the "protected" to fall upon
their knees in gratitude to the
"protectors?' Was it. perhaps.
annoyance that the spick-and-span
tanks of a conquering ar
my that has never encountered
a shot should be smeared by the
snowballs cf the infidels? Or
was it. perhaps, something else
that caused a blush to mount to
the cheeks of the inraders? Did
the soldiers o the German ar
my remember, perhaps, another
army that "tood at Ypes? Did
they recall the troops flat stood
in the swamps at Tannenburg?
Did they remember the fame of
an army whose dead lie in rows
on rows, mute reminders of a
struggle In which Germany once,
tor four years, kept half the
world at bay?
The United States stood opo-
site Germany in that war. But
when It was over no hoaest per
son could fail to pay tribute to
the heriosm of German soldiers.
But this New Heroism? What
ia this new sort of warrior who
attacks only when he has first
undermined his oppoaent by
treachery, confused him by pro
paganda, seduced him by lies
and false promises, disintegrated
him from within, and disarmed
him?
What manner of a man ia the
New Hero who enters with a
great apparel of banners, armed
aad helmeted, accompanied by
bombing planes, tanks, machine
guns, only when It is certain
that he is perfectly safe and
likely to encounter only weep
ing women, terrified Jews and
disarmed men from between
whose clenched teeth come the
strains of a national anthem
sung into the air to be drowned
in bugles and drums?
Who is this new superman
who burns asylums over the
heads -of orphaned babies, lays
brands to churches and syna
gogues, and drives the homeless
and destitute before his bayon
ets?
Let It bo written down to the
credit of the German Army a
German soldier blushed.
The Csechs, the reporters said,
covered their faces with their
hands as the German troops
passed by. Was it to hide the
sight of their "conquerors?" Or
was it something else that Im
pelled the gesture-? Was it the
counterpart of the German sol
dier's" blush? The face of demo
cracy is hidden in Its hands lest
the world see upon it the stri
cken look of cowardice, the bit
ter look of self- disdain.
What way out of this self
disdain? Obriously, the New
Heroism. For there are, amongest
the Csechs, those weaker and
more than helpless even than
they! The racial and political
minorities! Therefore, turn upon
them and demonstrate in the face
of the German soldiers that the
manly instinct is not yet dead
even in the democratic heart
Thus, they hurl over the the
frontiers not, of course, the in
vading hosts but the most de
fenseless of their own citizenry,
flinging them out of the ca
reening sleigh' to appease the
yodelling wolves.
None escapes the New Hero
ism! Did not Mr. Chamberlain
send Lord Runciman to scold
the CsechosloTak war monger?
The British Empire demonstrated
that it could use all its vast
power to assist in the subjuga
tion of that dangerous republic
of fifteen million souls. After
ward the conquering hero, re
turning from his dangerous plane
ride, had flowers strewn in his
path. Thus, today, are heroes
made.
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Mother, you didn't raise your
boy to be a soldier? That was
your great mistake. You want to
preserve his life? You want him
to bo safe, do you not? Then, by
all means, bring him up to be his
country's warrior, so that he may
safely Invade against snowballs.
Do not encourage hliu to re
main a civilian Above all. An nnt
encourage him to be In any sense
a non-conformist. Asleeo in his
bed. he mav be bomber! fmm tti
air! Brave In his opinions, he
may bo sent- wandering through
out the world! Encumbered with
ft religion or the wrong grand
mother, he may rot In a concen
tration camp.
But in a uniform, helmeted
and armed, accompanied by a
tank, or aloft in a .ri motored
bombing plane, he is safe to
massacre babies wo do not for
get Guernica or to ttke a city
where his only annoyance may
be the song in the snowy streets
of a soon-to-be-forgotten air.
Train him. If he Is a believer
In democracy, to retreat in close
formation crowned with laurel
leaves under umbrellas.
5 And if he chooses the more
heroic role, : to march forward
over bodies prostrated before he
moves. . -:
Teach him that this . is the
new peace and the. new chivalry
of heroes of the great white gen
tile 'race. ' -
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J BusHy, busily, our. own new
conquerors . are being trained.
Trained by a million nasty little
leaflets about the new . menace
In our. midst.
i The menace in not unemploy
ment, skulduggery, political buf
foonery, racketeering ; in high
places and low, windy platitudes
to meet . solid . problems, . greedy
hands, in the public purse, pres
sure groups of the . right and
pressure group, of the middle
aad pressure groups of the left
all nicely manipulated by public-
relations counsels to seek theli
own ends at the cost of every
body else;
Th menace la not r ur Irnn.
ance and fear, and disunity. Not
at all.-
The menace is not agents of
the new barbarism, craftily using
the Instruments of the. legal state
and the privileges of civil liber
ties to prepare the way tor a
reign of permanent violence. Not
at all.
The menace is some five mil
lion of our citizens who happen
to have the wrong ancestor!. Let
us turn upon them, make life
miserable for tLem, create a vast
miasm lc anorehenslon about
them, ruin their economic ex
lsiences, reaa tnem - out 01 the
professions in order that the rest
of ua 120-odd millions mav
live the life of heroes in order
and security. 'They" are to
blame. Not, by any calculation,
we, too. Just "they."
It was for this, mother, thai
you told your little boy stories
of the Father of His Country wh,.
could not tell a lie. It was fo
this that you taught him about
Valley Forge and Appomattox.
It was tor this that you re
counted to him the story of St.
George and the Dragon, of Don
John of Austria arainst thu
Turks, of Wllhelm Tell, of the
miner and Frederick the Great,
of King Arthur and his Round'
Table. It was for this that vnu
read him the words of John of
Gaunt in "Richard IT" and the
word of Brutus in ".iniii,
Caesar.- It was for this that we
wrote the heroic words on the
Plymouth iiock monuments; It
was for this that we battled with
the wilderness
That vour child miaht all n nut
in the dark and stick a nasty
poster on the clothine shoo of
some American villager whose
father came from Poland and
who has done no man harm. That
with a keen. anDralsink- eve. he
may heroically observe which
boy in his class is the most ner
vous and frightened and then at
tack him with manly vigor.
on, happy and heroic breed of
men! The twentieth century sa
lutes you. For this the world
has been struggling up out of
the mire for thousands of years!
For this, man got up from all
fours to walk, most acrobatically
upright, that his head might be
higher than his feet.
S o m e 1 1 mes. of course, in
curious atavism, a rapidly dis
appearing physiological phenom
enon, a vestige of a previous
plodding race, manifests itself.
The soldier blushes. But do not
be alarmed. Todav blush win
pass in tomorrow's plunder. To
day s qualm In tomorrow's po
grom, up and at them, heroes!
Women and children first!
IO Years Ago
March SI, 192ft
L. L. Jensen, local contractor.
was appointed temporary building
inspector Wednesday by building
code committee following resigna
tion 01 William Lalng.
One of first American Lerlon
members to make reservations for
the state department convention
here in August was Arthur A.
Murphy, former commander of
Oregon department.
Architects hare been instructed
to prepare plans and advertise for
bids for proposed new state office
building to be erected ia Salem
this year.
20 Years Ago
Starch 21, 1019.
After he had been over a year
in France with the 162nd infantry
Lt. H. Comptoa was 11 ght re
appointed to his position as gen
eral secretary of Salem YMCA.
As first step to obtaining recog
nition by U. S., the Russian soviet
government is prepared to deposit
f200.000.000 in gold with Amer
ican and European banks for pur
chase of supplies needed In reconstruction.
Sergeants "Vic" Taylor and Paul
Hendricks of Salem, members of
old company M, now at Nevers,
France, are now with marines in
a football squad made up of Uni
versity men from all over the VS.
A. C. BARBERS MOVE
SILVERTON Mr. and Mrs. A.
C. Barber have moved from their
country home on the Mt. Angel
road to their home on West Main
street. Dr. and Mrs. A. F. E.
Schierbaum of Mt. Angel are mov
ing into the Barber home in the
country.
RESUME LOGGING
UNION HILL Mr. and Mrs.
Harley Scott and daughter re
turned to Sweet Home Friday to
resume logging operations. The
logging was stopped on account
of the enow being too deep.
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