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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1934 CapitalJtJournal Salem, Oregon Established March 1, 188B An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 130 S. Commercial Street. Telephone 4081. News 4882 GEORGE PUTNAM, "FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS SUIISCRIPTION RATES: By carrier 10 cents a week; 45 cents a month; $5 a year In advance. By mall In Marlon. Polk. Linn and Yamhill counties, one month 60 cents; 3 months $1.25; e months $2.25; 1 year $4.00. Elsewhere 50 cents a month; 0 months $2.15; $5.00 a year in advance. The Associated Press is exclusively of all news dispatches credited to it paper and also local news published "With or without offense to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly as it goes." Byron Negro Democrat in Congress Among the results of the recant democratic landslide was the election of the first negro to congress as a democrat, Arthur W. Mitchell to succeed Oscar DePriest, colored repub lican, from a Chicago district. DePriest endeavored to take his negro friends into the dining room of the house and was snubbed by the democrats in charge. This raises an interesting question of the social and po litical embarrassments resulting from injecting the race is sue anew among the southerners. They cannot very well snub a member of their own party, who seems better quali fied intellectually, than many of the whites, and the indica tions are that, except perhaps among a few hotheads, the negro congressman will be accepted as he should be which will go far to allay racial prejudice. The Chattanooga Times, one of the leading newspapers of the south, sanely discusses the issues raised and advises caualitv of treatment a new spirit of toleration in the south. It cites Mitchell's qualifications for the post, point ing out that he is thirty-seven years old, was born in Ala bama, and was schooled at Tuskegee (where he was for a while Booker T. Washington's office boy), Columbia and Harvard. Recently he has been in the real estate business in Washington, although he maintained a Chicago address. The editorial concludes: Let it bo said that the presence of a negro congressman on the dem ocratic side of the house of representatives cannot properly be taken as raising the question of social equality. It will bo most unfortunate If Representative Mitchell and other democratic congressmen and officials should permit the question to obtrude ltscll in tnelr tmnmng ano innu encc their conduct. Arthur '.V. Mitchell has been elected to the house to serve his con stituents and the nation in matters congressmen and officials generally in matters relating to government, every consideration customarily shown those of their own color. Social intercourse is very largely a matter of taste, congeniality and policy, In transaction of government business, There is not the slightest valid determining factor in the official industry and the professions, the negro should be dealt Willi, even in the south, on terms of business, industrial and professional equollty. Much more, if anything, is a representative of the race in congress entitled to be met and dealt with on terms of official equality. Any democratic congressman or other official who may fail to meet and deal with Mitchell on such terms, on the floor of the house, in com mittee rooms, in cloakrooms or in executive and administrative offices, will thereby be violating and denying the first principle of democratic govern ment. Much will depend upon the tact shown by Mitchell. Of the Booker Washington type, he will probably refrain from the offensive bumptiousness shown by DePriest, and so help allay unfortunate racial prejudice, in the country at largo. Efficiency Experts The Oregon Voter is authority for the statement that the transformation in the appearance and contents of the Portland Oregonian, which has deserted its traditional con servative make-up to jazz up along lines of the scrambled, ' speed make-up of evening newspapers seeking street sales, is due to a crew of "efficiency experts" imported to reduce ex penses and enhance profits. This explains it all an "efficiency expert" is one who has never made a success in business and is therefore quali fied to tell others how to win success. They are long on theory but short on practice. All they see is the nickel in saving, losing track of the dollars lost in reactions. They ignore the human element, for efficiency experts who brought on the textile and other strikes which cost far more than the economies resultant. The newspaper is more than n commercial institution. Its value rests upon intangibles of which the efficiency ex perts are ignorant it cannot be operated successfully from the business office alone, which accounts for the failures of bankers and big business men that attempt running newspa pers. The repeated failures of the Frank Munseys, of the Lamonts, of the railroads and the utilities to operate news papers, with the best business brains of the country, are proof enough. Age, tradition, and policy, which form the ' reading habit cannot be built in a day, nor can they be violated suc cessfully. Only a newspaperman can successfully run a news paper and they must be born newspapermen with the in stinct, as well as training. And a real newspaperman knows far more about his business than any efficiency expert and to call one in for experiments is an admission of failure. The Dollar Stabilized The treasury has lifted the barriers it set tip against ex port of American capital to prevent a panicky flight of credit at the time the gold standard was abandoned. It is no longer necessary to obtain permission from the treasury to transfer credit or currency to foreign countries regardless of the pur poses of the transfer. The action is interpreted as indicating there will be no further inflation and a conservative mone tary policy will be pursued. The only currency or credit not allowed free export are gold certificates and gold metal. The latter can be shipped only to foreign central banks when the American dollar falls below a certain limit in foreign exchange. The barriers have been removed because no longer necessary, in that capital is now moving towards the United States instead of away, as when safeguards were set up. Our currency has been stabilized for some time. Pros pects of inflation would unsettle it again. The administra tion has not lost its ambition to advance the price level, and still believes that in the long run, prices may be controlled by currency manipulation. But business recovery is the first need, and further currency tampering would hinder, tempo rarily at least, tne normal processes of recovery. Stability is the pressing need, and tho dollar has been stabilized for all practical purposes. Congress may of course unsettle it again, but the president's opposition is the best insurance against it. Jefferson Mrs. C. E. Tatro of 8ck li planning on opening a res taurant In the old creamery build ing on the highway. Harry Jones, owner of the building Is now making necessary repairs and remodeling the Interior of the building. Mrs. Tatro has been operating the Bcio bote!. I Editor and Publisher entitled to the use for publication or not otherwise credited In this herein. of government, other democratic should accord the negro congressman, which race Is often a factor; m the race should never be a consideration. reason why Mitchells race shculd be a treatment accorded him. In business, the machine. It was the Sublimity Mr. and Mrs. John Frosscl of Banks, are visiting at the Ed Benedict and Nick Kremcr homes. Sublimity Mr. and Mrs. Mike Colby and family of Portland were Sunday visitors at the Joe Hob home. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Nov. 24 A sharp shake-up is coming in the new dcnl. It will be called a reorgan ization, for the sake of appear ances, but it will encompass an ex tensive realign ment of the bu reaucratic set-up. The bureau bos ses have had wind of it for some time and are scampering to save their skins or expand them. One UL MALLON of the fanciest in ner stniKples. which no one is sup posed to know anything about, is being waged between Messrs. icki-s, Moffett and Hopkins. They are tutming at the 56 (count them) widely scattered bureaus relating to housing. The result of that struggle may be that rising Frank Walker (the cx-coordinator) will come in and take them all over. Walker has been working on housing privately for several weeks, unbeknown to anyone except himself and Presi dent Roosevelt. If he does not take over the whole show, he will at least be the guiding genius in re organizing it. The relief set-up also will be materially revised, as will the PWA. The AAA will, get off lightly, but the NRA will have its horns pulled in. The redealing this time is going to be more deliberate. The idea behind it is to get things started on a permanent basis. Pay Reliefer Hopkins is the fast est stepper in the administration He can do a Virginia Reel so swiftly that you cannot detect, with the naked eye, that he has even moved. That was the technique employed in the recent change of FERA pol icy on the 30-cent minimum wage. Yhe order was issued November 19, i.ut it did not get into the news papers until three days later. Mr. Hopkins did not say so. but the cause of the order was his In vesication of relief conditions in the south. He found on his per sonal tour that there was an actual shortage of unskilled and domestic labor because that class of labor ers (largely negroes) could get more money for less work in the FERA, This condition was father serious in the cotton and tobacco areas of tlie south and also in the onion growing and beet sufjar districts elsewhere, and employed workers were howling became the $2.40 a day going to those on work relief was more than they received. It is not a new situation. Mr. Hopkins fought a telegraphic duel with Governor Talmadge of Georgia about it last year. Many words The Fireside Pulpit REV. E. S. HAMMOND O Give Thanks Unto The Lord; For He Is Good. Ps. 136:1. n ui mug ago i neara uie queS' tlon asked. "Is there anything to be thankful for In these depression times?" As I think of that Question I recall an elderly man who was a member of a church I served In an eastern state. His wife was deal, and he lived alone In a sort of a cellar basement in a house occupied by a not very congenial family. As might be inferred, he was quite poor: In fnct, I hardly know how ho sup ported nmiseir. He always came to church and prayer meeting and he had recently heard for the first time the hymn entitled, "Count Your Blessings." He always quoted Auxiliary at Donald Makes Holiday Plans Donald Venus auxiliary met at the home of Mrs. Q. B. Ackcrson. The president, Mrs. E. D. Carver, presided at the business session. Plans were made for a benefit card party In tlie hall on the evening of December 12. with Mrs. E. T. Cone, chairman of the committee. Re freshments closed the afternoon. The next meeting of the club will be on January 2 as the regu lar date fnlls during the holiday week. Election of new officers will take place then. Members present were Mesdames Hazel Ycrgen, Oeno Carver, Vernn Cone Mae St. Helen, Sarah Shaw. Nellie Bush, Prudence Ackerson, and Miss Eva Swan. Books Are Added Library Shelves Jefferson The library announces the following list of books purchased during the past week: Familiar Quo tations, by Bartlett; Children of the Covered Wagon, by Carr; Mary Pet ers, by Chase; Mr. Underhllls Pro gress, by corbett; Peter Swiss, by Crew; Red Caravan, by Crlss; Soul of America, by Dye; Black Spear man, by Fitzgerald; Jeanne Marie and the Golden Bird, by Phillips: Tales of Lovely Trails, by Orey; Rose In Bloom, by Alcott; With Taro and Hans In Japan, by Sugmloto; Story of Little Black Sambo, by Bannerman; Little Dutch Tulip Girl, by Brandies; Lamb In His Bosom, by Miller; So Red the Rose, by Young. PENSION CLUB PERMANENT Turner The second mass meeting of the Townsend old age pension club was held Iters this week with Dr. K. Davis of Salem as the prin cipal speaker. The club is now a per manent organisation with the fol lowing officers; president, Rev. N. Sherman Hawk vice-president. Rev. Jack Balles; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. A. B. Webb. Members of the advisory board appointed are W. H. Harris, E. P. Mills and Ray Myers. Another public meeting of the club is announced for Monday night, De cember 3 In the high school auditorium. were spilled but no blood. More recently, Mr. Hopkins met with a group of business men in Mississippi. He said to them: "All right, if we cut the government wage to $1 a day.will you give thsee people Jobs7' The business men said they were afraid they did not have the Jobs. "You admit, then," Hopkins replied, "that it Isn't our wage that Keeps you from hiring the men. Something happened to make Mr. Hopkins reel around a few days later. Pressure There can be no ques tion but that the about-face was directed by someone higher than Mr. Hopkins. In all previous sim ilar cases he has brought up such subjects at his regular staff meet ings. The wage subject was NOT brought up. The first his staff knew about the order was when it came from the mimeographing room. Liberals will howl because they have always insisted with Mr. Hop kins that the new deal was estab lishing a new standard of living by a high wage scale. It will now mean lower relief wages throughout the south, but it may mean an in crease in other sections, where the prevailing wage scales, now to be iouowed by the government, arc much higher. It is another indication of the elimination of unsatisfactory poli cies in the quietest possible manner. Uplift Tho two big things the administration is going to ballyhoo this winter are housing and factory obsolescence. Mr. Roosevelt's best economists have submitted to him privately some factory obsolescence figures which are quite significant. Their computations show that ap proximately four billion dollars year has been laid aside by fac tory and mine owners for deprecia tion. Little of It has been spent since 1929. The total now available for improvements and expansion in this stagnant pool of capital Is at least ten billion dollars, they con tend. You can easily see what the ex penditure of any considerable por tion of this sum would do to breathe life into the thoroughly deflated and gasping heavy industries. A study of the situation has just been completed by the social science research council, financed by the Rockefeller foundation. It has not yet been published, but is being used as a guide book for future govern ment policy on the subject. Housing The housing possibilities also are tremendous. The U. S. normally spent about three billions a year on home construction prior to 1929. Tills item now Is down to 300 millions a year (one-tenth of normal). Mr. Roosevelt s econom sts have figures indicating we could easily spend upward of two billion dollars next year on housing, just catching up with what they call normal requirements. Difficulty The trouble with all these enthusiastic plans is the same as the experience with all new deal help so far. Expectations always outstrip realizations'. As one wise old Journalist here said recently "These things always flow like lava.1 Don't expect too much. that hymn whenever he spoke, and then he would tell ol something which had come his way which was to him a great blessing God had sent him. It seemed to most of us mac nis "blessmcs" were mMnr but he was filled with thankfuliwaa as he told us of them. Whenever I near mac nymn. I think of that nirt man, and his grateful faith has oeen orten a rebuke to me. "When upon life's billows you are tempest-tossed; When you are discouraged, thinking nil is iunl, Count your many blessings, tell them one by one, And It will surprise you what the iora nas aone. "When you look at others with their lands and gold; Think that God has promised you his wealth untold; All your many mercies, money can not buy. Your reward In Heaven and your home on hah. "So amidst the conflict, whether Rrcat or small, Do not be discouraged, God is over all; Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly. And you will be praising as the days go by." Creamery Leased By Church Group Turner The Turner Petecostal assembly has leased tho former creamery building from the Port land Damascus company and are thoroughly cleaning the building this week and getting it in readiness, preparatory to moving in for future church services. For the past year the religious group have rented the building on Main street used for many years as the hardware store belonging to Oeorgc Crume. Mrs. Ethel Gutegunst of Salem Is the pastor. The new location Is directly across the street from the postof fice and has been vacant since the creamery closed down several years ago. Revivals Continue Mill City The Mill City Church at Christ Is still holding revival meelings to which the public Is cor dially Invited. Elery Parrlsh Is the evangelist and Miss Beryl Mont gomery Is director of children's meetings and Is violinist. Services are held every night except Satur day, at 7:45 o'clock. Marlon Miss Elma Barber has re turned from a months visit In and near Portland. She was accompan ied home by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Stafford and Douglas who remained for a short visit. Donald Mrs. H. Hawtln of Al bany Is spending the week here with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. H. C. Roberts. SHE PROVES I V3 i&& Sl- Jet0? L A , I A powerful emotional drams Is love magnet, in "Of Human Bondage," the famous W. Somerset Maugham novel now on the screen. Frances Dee and Kay Johnson are other factors in the impressive romance of plicable passion. The picture starts Sunday at the State theater. "WOMAN IN Fay Wray and Ralph Bellamy have the title roles in "Woman In the Dark", in a double feature bill at the Capitol theater Sunday and Mon day. Tim McCoy is seen in "The End of the Trail". Coming the following two days are Clark Gable In "Manhattan Melodrama" and Edward G. Robinson In "Tiger Shark." GRAVE OF BEAU IS SEEN AT CAEN Caen, Normandy, (IP) George Brvan "Beau" Brummell was bur led here In 1840, and a simple tombstone marks his final resting place after a gay and spectacular life. So far this year more than 3,000 British and American tourists have visited his grave in this Protestant cemetery. Brummell was born in London on June 7. 1778156 years ago last June. His father was Lord North's private secretary. He attended Eton and Oxford, where he was distin guished for his studiousness as well as for his meticuiousncss in areas. After four years in the army, he came Into an Immense fortune and thereafter devoted himself to the profession of fashion arbiter. In 1813 he quarreled with the Prince Regent and he had to flee for his life to Calais. Here, lor u years, he struggled along in his reckless, carefree way and from 1830 to 1832 held a sinecure consulate at Caen. He gradually lost his mind and he died an Idiot in an asylum In 1840 at 82. Wliile in nrlson at Caen for debts. Brummell wrote many be?ging let ters to friends who had been will lnir enough to spend his money in other days. They turned a deaf ear however. He read a great oeai oi wnshlncton Irvlns and Lord Byron: received the visit of Tom Moore, and praved that he might not "die. like William the Conqueror, in Norman dy." Even God. his friends said, turn ed a deaf ear to this entreaty, as If In punishment for his riotous liv ing. He wanted to be buried on Bri tish soil, but those who had aban doned him in life also forsook him In death, and his once proud bones long since have mouldered to dust in the Caen cemetery. Chemawa An evening of cards was enjoyed by grangers and their friends Thursday. Nine tables of "600" were in play with high score prises going to Mrs. D. B. Kleihege and Albert Mlnturn. Mrs. Olson was presented a door prize. We use ne drags or operations. 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If caught, his penalty Is buying and paying for the object which he has tried unsuccessfully to steal. In olden days this fair was a ser ious contest of dexterity and wit between merchants who seldom trusted each other. Today, however, It usually is done In a spirit of lun rather than skill, and often with the connivance of the "victim." They agree on exchanges and promise not to "see" the other one while the "theft" is being made. At the "Flea Market." on the out skirts of Paris, where stolen goods are said to be the rule rather than the exception in most of the booths, if an object can be proved as being the property of any one person, he or she can claim it legally, and the owner, regardless of how H may have come into his hands, must forfeit It. It is rare, however, that claims are made in this manner. St. Paul Wednesday the Knights of Columbus are giving a hard-time dance, prizes will be given for the best costumes. Stayton Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Albus were Mrs. John Mertz, Jerry and Billy of Anaheim, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hlghberger and Miss Bernice Hlgh berger of Aumsvllle. Shanghai Cafe Chinese and American Dishes Open 11 to I a- m. 1834 N. Commercial. Ph. 5747 D. Physffiaa In Business 1 1 u i r am Free of Charge rr. omdlf Ch.a Davis aa his strangely irresistible sensitive soul tortured by an tnex PERKS BUSINESS Washington, Nov. 24 (A, As the nation headed today into its period of holiday trade, th.e chamber of commerce of the United States pro duced statistics to show "improving business sentiment. This and other pronounce rm-nts. leading many business men to hope that the Christmas trade might be the best since 1929, were keyed to a note of quiet optimism. Tlie chamber said the improving sentiment, seen in October, contin ued in November. It cited "a six per cent rise in the volume of check payments, steady retail sales, stable wholesale prices, favorable car load ing reports and increasing steel pro duction." Although the chamber's position is that the government should take no steps to diminish business con fidence and create uncertainty, it indicated a belief that "less in the way of reassurance" Is required now than at any time in the past sev eral months. , "In responsible modern enter prise," the statement said, "there is such a long interval between or ganization of additional undertak ings and the accomplishment, with such large outlays lor labor and ma terials and so small a margin for profit or loss, that a feeling of freedom from the danger of unpre- aictaoie outside influences is neces sary to released initiative. "To give this feeline in manv directions It will now require less in tne way or reassurance than at any time since last spring." Clues Yet Lacking In Case Mystery Mill City- No clues have been dis covered as to the owner of the suit case which was found this week by A. L. McCoy of Mill City. McCoy unearthed the suitcase on the bank of Rock creek in Linn county, south east of Mill City. The contents of tne suitcase was a revolver, shells, 2l-jeweled gold watch, shaving out fit, pair of rubber boots, pair of shoes and two pairs of socks. McCoy turned over nis findings to Sheriff sneiton of Linn county. Wellesley, Mass. IP Dogs now attend Wellesley college. A Boston man has been engaged as instructor of blueblooded dogs sent to the col lege. Already 20 dogs have matricu lated, and the number is expected to grow. The "pupils" are taught all the fine points of dogdom. Sublimity Miss Lucille Ruettgers of Portland spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Ruettgers and family. HERE YOU'LL Commercial A. A. GUEFFROY 163 North Commercial St. PROBE MYSTERY ON UNRECORDED MURDER CASE Olympia, Wash., Nov. 24 (LP) With a dozen patrolmen and plain clothes men on the Job. the state patrol's investigation of the Brem erton mass murders toaay spreaa into several southwest Washington counties. Clieif William Cole revealed he had ordered death records checked in Lewis and Grays Harbor coun ties to see if the death of Herbert Blankenship was recorded and in vestigated. Blankenship, a younger brother of Sheriff -Elect Rush Blan kenship of Kitsap county, was said to have been found dead near Elma several years ago, with his head brutally beaten. Investigation of Grays Harbor county books showed no record of the fact. Cole said the only men tion found was iyt justice court books at Elma, which described an un named man will bullet-holes In the head. He said the patrol would inves tigate why more complete record of the mysterious death was not kept In that county. He also said Lewis county records were being looked over to see if by chance the body might have been found inside that county's lino. Asked if he believed the Elands Point murders near solution, Chief Cole declared his men were "mak ing good progress." One theory being worked on by Joe McCauley and Charles Wood ward, ace state patrol detectives now working in Kitsap county, was that there were others murdered be sides the six found in the death cottage. "It Is possible the six weren't all murdered at the house," Cole said, "the car found in the garage with its battery run down had enough blood in the back scat for several persons. We're investigating the theory some of the six might have been killed elsewhere and brought to the house in that car." Cole said other bodies might have been weighted and dumped into Puget Sound. No search will be made of the waters, he declared, be cause of the probability that the bodies would! have been eaten by marine life by now or scattered over a wide area. RSEST URGE WHIPPING POST Omaha, Neb., (LP The whipping post is the only punishment fit for fathers habitually guilty of delin quency in tlie case of their chil dren, according to Father E. J. Flanagan, head of Father Flana gan's Boys' Home here. While the director of the non sectarian Institution does not pro pose to take the law into his own hands and administer the flog gings, he nevertheless recommends welfare agencies consider it a a means of eliminating one of their most pressing problems. With many small boys under his care, Father Flanagan has often pointed out a father's first duty is the care of his children. Juvenile court records show, he said, that a large proportion of juvenile delin quency Is due to lack of paternal interest in the youngsters. "Since our legislative bodies, are now so solicitous in passing laws to protect society agatnst kidnapers and other extreme criminals, why shouldn't they go a little farther and pass some laws which might In some measure punish bad fathers who are contributing toward juve nile delinquency?" Father Flanagan declared. Harrisburg, Pa. (LP) Late surveys place the value of Pennsylvania's 12,000 school buildings over one half of the one-room, one-teacher type equipment and grounds at $572,055,707. Many girls and boys going lo dancing make very good ap 5 petite by mtdnite. These peo- pie liking Sukiyakl Dish. We 5 terring American dishes also, y too. Sukiyaki Dinner Also American Dlshea flow get there? Ton walking J down Commercial street U S Fits fishing market then yon J stepping upstairs. There w 11 A. M. to 2 A. M. BUY YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS NOW! And buy cards that are best suited both to yourself and the persons to whom you send them. 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