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PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1931 CapitaliJournal Salem, Oregon Established March 1, 1883 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 138 8. Commercial Street. Telephone 4881. News 488 OEOROE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION BATES By carrier 10 cents a week; 45 cents a month; 85.00 a year In advance. By mall In Marlon, Polk, Linn and Yamhill counties, one month 60 cents; 3 months $1 25; 8 months $225; 1 year $4.00, Elsewhere 50 cents a month; 6 months $2.75; $5.00 a year in advance. IT'LL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS The Associated press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper ana also local news published herein. "With or without offense to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly as it goes." Byron A Flop As A Prophet However great an engineer President Hoover may be, there is no question at all but that he is the biggest Jonah, when it comes to prophesy, this generation has produced. In his 1928 campaign he predicted that his election would mean a continuation of prosperity and even the abolition of poverty as a remilt of benign Republican policies. In his Decoration day speech at Valley Forge last Satur day he summarized the fulfillment of his prophecy of pros perity as follows : The American people are going through another Valley Forge at this time. To each and every one ol us It Is an hour of unusual stress and trial. You have each one your special cause of anxiety. So, too, have I. The whole nation la beset with difficulties incident to a world wide de pression. Many have lost the savings of a life time, many are unem ployed, all know the misgivings of doubt and grave concern for the future. It is however as a prophet of business conditions that the president shines. When the crash resultant from the era of inflation and speculation broke, the bewildered Mr. Hoov er minimized the catastrophe and issued repeated optimistic statements. On March 7, 1930, the President said : AU the evidences Indicate that the worst effects of the crash upon unemployment will have been passed during the next sixty days, with the melioration of seasonal unemployment, the gaining strength of other forces, and the continued cooperation of tlie many agencies actively co operating with the government to restore business and to relieve distress. The announcement was greeted with another slump in the stock market and similar predictions issued frequently that prosperity was just around the corner, had the same depressant effect. Then after last autumn's crash, which followed the passage of the Hawlcy tariff bill and the gyra tions of the farm board, Mr. Hoover ceased prophesying, to resume it on May 26, when following a cabinet meeting he issued the following: The president and his advisors have been going over the economic situation and have found many factors that are favorable. No sooner was this statement issued, than steel fell to a new low record for recent years, closing at 93. Still not deterred, on June 1, an administration prediction was issued reading: The first quarter of 1931. lias marked the turning point in the pro longed decline in business which commenced nearly two years ago. Upon receipt o this cheering message the stock market railroad average broke to the lowest levels since June, 1921 and the industrial average to a new low since May, 1925 steel dropping to 85. The federal treasury deficit increased to 11,000,729,430, the largest since the war and the first deficit since 1921 and imports and exports shrank to new lows. All of which should convince Mr. Hoover that prophesy ing is not his fort. And All for Father With their customary enterprise and their usual fond Solicitation for humanity, the telegraph companies have tak en time by the forelock and come to the rescue of neglected dad. They are doing their bit to make "Father's day" a suc cess, along approved standardized, commercialized and mass observance lines. They have provided a "surprise" for dad in the form of "the perfect gift" consisting of a gift order delivered with a loving message in stereotyped form, some 57 varieties from which the neglectful or lazy son or daughter, can select a choice. These tender sentiments vie in ingeniousness with simi lar expressions devised for dear old mother on her day. It is remarkable how these great corporations can help you play upon the heart strings, or at least attempt to if you have the price. They overlook no appeal. The following are sam ples which dutiful children can select from to send distant fathers: To the best dad ever. There's still no place like home and no man like my good old dad. For the finest father in all the world, whose example has been an Inspiration and whose love is one of the richest treasures of my lite. Across the wide miles of space between us I waft you many a hug and kiss today, daddy, together with this more practical remembrance. Love and best wishes. Isn't it touching? Who said these great corporations are soulless and hard hearted? Freedom of the Press By one of its five to four decisions, the United States supreme court has held the Minnesota "gag law" which pro vided for the suppression of a newspaper held to be "mali cious, scandalous or defamatory" to be unconstitutional. Chief Justice Hughes joined the dissenters Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Stone, who usually take a liberal view in the construction of the constitution, as did Justice Roberts in upholding the traditional freedom of the press. The re actionaries, Justices Butler, McReynolds, Van DeVnnter and Southerland, dissented. The case was that of the Saturday Press of Minneapolis which was suppressed in 1927 for publishing a series of arti cles on vice conditions, in which it assailed public officials. It was permanently enjoined from publication by the state courts. The case interested newspapers generally, which provided a fund for testing the law through federnl courts. Chief Justice Hughes took the view the law was an in fringement of the liberty of the press, guaranteed by the 14th amendment. Ho said it was in effect a censorship and that redress from untrue stories and restraint was found in the libel laws. The decision is evidence that the supreme court is be ginning to recognize the spirit of the Bill of Rights, which it has been busy nullifying since the adoption of the 18th amendment. So perhaps future decisions will not be devoted to finding devious ways to circumvent it. PLOWS UP LOST WATCH Oakdale, Calif. (Ut-In 1888. 43 years ago, Berchard H, von Oiahn lost his watch while plowing on the A. C. Paulaell ranch near here. This spring Hartwell Summers, while plowing the same field, found the time-piece. He didn't know von Oiahn, but met his son, a scout eutlve, during a scout meeting here ana asked If he knew B. H. ' Oiahn and the return of the watch was made. A hen at Katfleld. England, re cently laid an egg weighing eight ounce and measuring 12 Inches to circumierence. KING GEORGE CELEBRATING 66TH BIRTHDAY London (IP) King Oeorite V cele- brated his 68th birthday Wednesday. recovered In health and vigorous enougn to resume horseback riding. ne planned a more strenuous birthday than usual, including a vis it to Epsom Downs to witness the annual running of the derbr. A family party at Buckingham palace was arranged I or Wednesday eve ning. A surprise was caused by the king's birthday honor list, which laueo. to create new labor party peers to bolster Premier James Ramsay MacDonald's government in the House of Lords. The list cre ated no new peers and only four new baronets and 25 knights. Tne new baronets Included Philip Devitt, chairman of Devltt and Moore, ship operators and founder of the nautical school at Pang bourne; Sir Edward Elgar, master of the king's muslck since 1924; Sir Herbert Gibson, for his services in connection with the British Em pire Trade exhibition In Buenos Aires; and Sir Thomas Jeffrey, cnairman or the Aberdeen Art gal lery committee. The Earl of Athlone, former gov ernor general of South Africa, and Attorney General William Jowitt were appointed privy councillors. Knighthoods were conferred chlaf ly for education, Judicial and char, itable accomplishments. Ben Tur ner was the only member of par liament knighted. Turner, who started as a laborer, has been active lor many years as a leader of min ers and textile workers. Women received minor honors, cnieny ror hospital work. Miss Sybil Thorndike. the actress, was made a dame commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to dramatic art. Y. M. AND Y.W, PLAN PICNIC JUNE 19 A Joint committee consisting of officers from the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. will meet Wednesday night in the rooms of the latter as sociation to discuss plans for the second annual picnic of the com bined memberships of the two or ganizations. The date for the affair has been fixed as Tuesday, June 19. Hagers Grove wlU again be the scene of the big celebration. Initial plans call for a program of sports and games with children and grownups participating. This part of the entertainment will be held late in the afternoon to be followed by a big picnic dinner around 6:30 o'clock. A camp fire In the evening will close the day's festivities. Last year more than 400 persons participated In tile event. Philadelphia, (IP) The Quaker city has Just about 23,000 horses left to represent the army of four footed animals which once provided the sole means of transportation In Penn s "grecne countrle towne". Democrats and Tariffs By W. A. DELZELL Because a democratic representa tive from Massachusetts is asking the tariff commission to raise the rates on shoes fifty per cent, our astute editor of the Statesman, who so ably supported his party's high tariff candidate in the last cam paign, Is now throwing spasms over such democratic Inconsistency. His disturbed condition is aggravated by worry over 'Bill DeUelT going about telling how much more tariff the lumber- industry should have and yet as a democrat opposing high tar iffs. He finally winds up by admit ting that "the truth of economics points to the need of lowered tar iffs." Shades of Dlngley, Payne and Grundy I A dyed-ln-the-dlaper re- WOMAN ADMITS CONCOCTING MURDER YARN Eugene, Ore. Pi The "mysterious Eureka murders" have been solved. Last week Jackson county offi cers were thrown Into confusion when a woman who said she was Mrs. William Staples, related tear fully that her husband, Wenat chee, Wash., man, and his friend, Jeff Rice, had been killed by high- waymen near Eureka, Oal. The bodies were on the way to Medford, she said. She needed help. Ar rangements were made to purchase caskets. But. when Investigation disclosed that Staples was living happily with his wife on their Wenatchee farm, and about the time the coroner an nounced the woman's story was a "fantastic fabrication," she disap peared, leaving a board bill and several bad checks behind. Tuesday a woman who calls her self Mrs. William Morford, 80, ad mitted to Eugene police that it was she who promoted the "murder story. "Yes," she was quoted. I am the woman. And I did it to shield my husband as I have done ever since I married him." Morford was being held with the woman for in vestigation. The two are wanted by Albany police on check charges. Mrs. Morford said that while In Klamath Falls recently she obtained s:!0 on a worthless check. Later a warrant was sworn out for her hus band and he was arrested at Eu reka. She said she gave out the murder story thinking Klamath Falls police would read it and stop their search for him. Subsequently he was released from Jail at Eureka, and from that time until their ap pearance in Eugene, nothing was heard of them. Prizes are being offered by" the Incorporated Association of Archi tects and Surveyors of Britain for designs of a model gasoline service station. publican editor, who so efftclentlrC?) supported In the recent campaign the author himself of the prosperity producing Hawley-Smoot bill; sup ported with equal fervor the human ized Hoover who endorsed the bill; and is now praying for renewed baptism of the party spirit that he may have nerve to support again the party which Is 'pointing- with pride' to Its unsurpassed record of industrial depression, fatuous farm relief, and economic suffering so acute tnat even the President him self In his Memorial Day address linens it unto tne historic sufferings of Valley Forge to think that Aaron should thus desert his Moses! What rank heresy! Like Agrippa of olden time after hearing Paul's argument ne Is first led to accuse his demo cratic teacher with "much learning doth make thee mad," and then with tears of repentance trickling down his burning cheeks he con fesses, "Almost thou persuadest me to be a democrat." What a pity that our campaign chest hasn't a fat check to complete the conversion and start the repentant sinner down the sawdust trail while the choir sings, "When the roll Is called In November, 1 11 be there." SUMPTER LINE MUST REMAIN - IN OPERATION Portland (LP) Refusal of the in terstate commerce commission to allow the Sumpter Valley Railway company to abandon the portion of its line extending from Bates into Prairie City establishes a precedent according to Arthur M. Geary of Portland who represented Grant (jcounty and protesting shippers In tne case, up to tnis time petitions for abandonment In this section have been granted. The case was heard one year age before the Oregon public service commission sitting as represent tives of the interstate commerce commission. The Oregon commission 1 reported against abandonment. Ex aminer Weed of the interstate com-' merce commission revised the report of the Oregon commission and rec ommended that the petition to aban don the line be granted. Pinal argu ment was held before Interstate Commerce Commissioners McMan amy and McHaffee, both former residents of Oregon who hare de cided as announced above. The protectants contended that the potential tonnage in timber alone insured the future of the rail road and that diversions recently procured from the Union Pacific would bring a 25 percent increase in revenue from hauling lumber. It was also contended by protectants that rates on livestock and ore and miscellaneous freight were so high Uiat development of tonnage was retarded. BOOZE CONTROL BY STATES PLEA OF GOV. RITCHIE French Lick, Ind. (F Critlcltlng the annual governor's conference for Its policy of avoiding controver sial subjects, Governor Albert O. Ritchie of Maryland, took control of the closing session here late Tues day to advocate return of liquor control to the states as a solution of taxation problems. The Maryland executive, presid ing at the final discussion meeting, said were ethsl done, the system 01 excise taxes which may again be built up might do away altogether with federal Income taxes and "at one stroke relieve capital, labor and agriculture from the tax problems which rest so heavily upon them.' Of economic conditions, Governor Ritchie said, "you cannot hav from five to eight million people wanting work and unable to get It without knowing that this consti tutes a challenge to our social order and that it Is the strongest argu ment for communism unless It Is solved." His departure from the confer ence agenda followed that of: Gov ernor Gilford Ptnchot of Pennsyl vania, who refused the assigned subject of reforestation, charging that electric power interests are "milking the public'' of an estimat ed half billion dollars a year through overcharges. Governor Plnchot left French Lick Tuesday night before receipt of a telegram in which Samuel M. Vauclain, chairman of the Baldwin Locomotive works board, accused him of misrepresenting conditions in Pennsylvania. Commenting on the conference Wednesday, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York said, "once again the governors' conference has proved Its value. This conference, 23 years old, still finds its chief function, not as a new branch of government, not as a forum for ob taining political publicity, but as a round table for the interchange of views between chief executives who have common or similar problems." Governor Ritchie, complaining that the conference refrain! "from debating those questions which are realities of our national me, tola the governors that "if any one thing la clear, It Is that our peo ple are becoming tired of the old conjure words in American politics, and are concerned instead about getting or keeping their Jobs." "The dollars which are tne pro fits of industry, which build up Its reserves and Its surplus and its un divided profits," he declared, "are not made alone by the brains and enterprise of those who own or di rect American business. They are no less due to the toil and sweat of the working man. "It industry enjoys these profits and creates these accumulations when times are good In order to have them to fall back OQ for in terest and dividends and upkeep when times are hard, should it not make some provision also for its labor Instead of turning labor aariit when adversity comes and bidding it look to citizen's relief commit tees for the necessities of life? "This la the fundamental eco nomic question in America. It means far more to the people than any subject, or than all the sub jects we could possibly discuss. Yet it has no place on our program. "The effort to change American law from its age-old purpose of protecting life, liberty and proper ty into a scheme of control to regulate the personal conduct of us all, and the fast vanishing right of the sovereign states to be supreme In their local affairs are other mod ern tendencies of government which FAN TRACKS COPS BY RADIO REPORTS UniluBnnH r?l ttPt The rariln fan vha formerly chased after fire wagons now la following police Ml- tomooues. Police here were puzzled by an increasing number of sightseers when they answered hurry up calls. Maxing inquiry, uicy uwvrncu a radio fan at the scene of a no- Una Mil nhn arimlfirl hi, hftH heard a broadcast from the police de partments tfiuumukcr. ti iwdmI a Ahnrt wave set and tuned In on police reports to learn what was going on. A "baby" auto which will make SO miles on a gallon of gasoline has appeared in England. virtually affect everybody." The conference re-elected Its executive committee to serve an other year. The members are: Gov ernor Norjnan S. Case, Rhode Is land, chairman; Governor Roose velt, and Governors George H, Dern, Utah; John G. Pollard, Vir ginia; Henry S. Caulfield, Missouri; Harry G. Leslie, Indiana, treasurer, and former Governor Cary A. Har dee. Florida, secretary. The executive committee will choose the next meeting place. In vitations were received from Vir ginia and Arkansas. (ESTATELOANS Talk Over Your MORTGAGE With Us Straight or Monthly Payment Oar Service b at Your iOispsMl LOANS INVESTMENTS INSURANCE HAWKINS and ROBERTS, Inc. 205 OREGON BUILDING PHONE 4109 our dealership for NOftGE JELtCTftIC MfRIGtBATOR- G. W. 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