Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-08-11

am so glad to be permitted to
write my own appreciation Of Salem
to Salem folks! Sunday morning at
st. Paul's church and in the evening
at the First Christian church / handed
mt few bouquets to Salem-but
see the press has SO far failed to hand
them along to Salem's larger public
as reached blythe press
aOh! That's like Washington"
have exclaimed more often in Salem
than in any other city of our country
which is the largest bouquet l can
throw at Salem! The oregon state cap
jtol is miniature national capital in
its structure. Indeed, Thomas Jeffer-
sons touches can be traced all over
Jnis classic Pacific Gem Of Architec-
ture-and the beautiful court house
and the white spires and Of this City Of
Peace lis not that the meaning of Sa-
lem?l form gems against the dark blue
night
'eThe City Beautiful is my term for
our dear Washington City--and | was
delighted to find depicted reminder OF
one Of my favorite Washington ramb-
les the one up to the mountain of a
dome of the capitol past flashy foun-
tains through botanical gardens in the
walk from the postoffice up to the
capitol!
This morning l am writing this on a
sun-kissed hill under the signing giant
spruces whence all the lovely William
cite valley shows her morning face-a
am going to stay here and write until
Mount Hood unveils her torch and
beckons, then l am going to ChemaWa
to lecture and then walk alone over m
to the heart of the morning into the
Mount Hood country and play several
days until Portland calls for my Sab
bath work. tell you, dear folks, l am
glad for the fact of Red Mans Land
to offset your concrete cities the white
mans rush and search for mere things
and Improbable empty pleasures,
Mammon-worship automobile - smell
rush-and-eye-closing for the peace and
calm Of Gods out doors for the Wis
its to the Red Brothers and human sis
ters. l have found more respect, more
true nature-priests and priestesses,
more spiritually minded SO that they
walk and talk with the Great Spirit in
way that shames many christians,
than ever dreamed possible before l
took up my pilgrimage into the pale
faces of dire trails and of loving, slms-
lie, hospitable Indian hearts and OF our
quiet, thing g-despising nature worship
ping Indian kinfolks!
Three days in teeming city makes
me chafe and pull at my leashings-to
be gone and. glad to enter city, l
am still more joyful to leave!
This morning Mt. Hoods foothill
forests are revealed but luminous
pearly sun-studded veil covers her
lace as IL she We're a Greek goddess
walking disguised among men. So
may write more.
am glad the Chemawa children or
the deep wilderness, of the lonely lake
shores and of the mountain shrines,
and of the far Alaskan shores, have at.
least this consolation. OF course, Che,
mawa is wonderful, the Carlisle of the
west, but-well! college crowding is
hard at best even on white youth! And
those who have in the wonderful poise
VI wilderness-folks air, the keeness of
eye and ear surprising far that of
white folks are often herded into
schools at great peril to their physical,
moral and spiritual well-being. The
mental and the industrial are not su-
preme after ALL
This morning as / inquired my way
20 the willamette from Salem. sun
rise drilling firemen, / was headed
uue west, leaving the lovely capitol
anu the quadrangles behind. j
on! l shall now find a lovely park
ana a beautiful water-pavilion at the
nm foot of this street,
imagine my revulsion of feeling
"hen found-piles of lumber and of
soai' unsightly oil-barrels, cheap john
Yoaruing houses, burnt down houses
sau !. all that-and thenl at last-after
.ne railroad that always succeeds in
,aeeping mamman- clutch on river and
Ae Irohts-and will do so till Amer
va, pubic opinion rises in majesty
s,a puts mere plutocrats in the in
,or pace where they beiongl
~ last, could sigh again, as, 1 en-
n. ,n.eu the lovely bridge. 'sAhi again.
,;A Ae Washington-if there was a stone
or so at entrancei"
:, inquired. which of these groves
park?" Of two splendid young
-. So VINO with their morning faces and
s.S.s. u Wen-filled dinner pals were
,s..alng aa.g over to high-pay and a happy
sS-senial IS day in the city.
any of them-' they answered.
ne ne park IS away over yonder-'
,.ot even on the river2''
s;,.s .io- l suppose oil kegs and lumber
s mles and grain elevators and raiIroae.s
~. more this daily vision of river
sn,s-s. .-s 'han salenl's children, her
b,s.olo - fairthful. Christian men. and
ns,,.. ered' sweet-faeed. cultured wo-
a la1.ss Oung men appreciated this with
50 70 IT, to me "'u '"S' sA'u
with the sun mounting zenieth-