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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1921 IIFMEUI IS HOT FINISHED Southern Pacific Official L'xamined in Salem Rat .Case Yesterday - After tediou3 hours devoted to examination of Southern Pacific officials who are connected with the operation of Salem etreet ra'I way Ilnca, the public service com missions hearing on the local company's demand , for an 8-cent fare In Salem adjourned at 5 p. in. yesterday afternoon. The hearing will be resumed at 10 10 o'clock thin morning. The late afternoon session was pent in taking testimony from T. 1. Rllllngsley. superintendent f the local line. Mr. HillinRdey was In the chair when the hear ing was adjourned yesterday. Ka licr In the day Robert Adams of Kan Francisco, auditor Tor the Southern Pacific comoanv testi fied that Salem street car lines had Incurred a loss of $179,620. .03 during the period January 1, 1917 to Jnnn 30. 1921 During the afternoon Superin-" lenaeni nimngBiey told members Ol I He DUbHc service commission that the local oneratlne- deficit 'would' have been greater by 7iuo u the Southern Pacific had not assumed a portion of the bur den of. paying local officials, and provldedlegal and other aid from the general system. Mr. Dillingsley, in answer to a question, asserted that local op eration had been cut by one-hair when the company had adopted the one-man car system-. "If the Southern Pacific com pany is maintaining its lines at such a loss, why has the company been anxious lo acquire and to maintain the Salem street car system," Mr. Billingsley was ask ed. . : "I am hot in a position to ex plain the company's policy," re plied Billingsley. The local superintendent of lines answered in the affirmat'v-; when Commissioner Williams ask ed if It was not true that the con nection with the main line wa3 maintained. "Why did Mr. Adams make the statement that the Salem street car line was not connected witti the Southern Pacific mainline," asked Mr. Williams. "Mr. Adams was evidently not Informed upon that point," re plied Mr. Billingsley. With reference to the increase to the 8-cent fare. Superintendent BillinKsley took exception to City Attorney Smith's assertion that Salem patrons would not ride at the increased rate. The local street railway official expressed confidence that opposition against the rate would disappear of it were put into force. In opening his remarks, outlin ing the city of Salem's opposition to the increase, City Attorney Hay L. Smith said: "At this hearing the street cai lines in Salem ought not to be considered as a unit, but should be examined in connection with the company's main line. "This matter is of vital Impor tance to Salem. The city believes that if the fare is raised form j to S cents, as the company appears to wish, there would be such a business decrease on the lin3i that the net revenues of the com pany would not be increased. "If the rise is granted, there will be a marked tendency on the part of citizens to use other means of conveyance. That is not a threat, but a statement of fact, for a change would be absolutely necessary. We ask that the com pany's case be probed thoroughly." KIMBALL PflBTY Harry Seaman Released After Paying His Fine Harry Sea in on was released by order of City Recorder Karl Race, last night after Seaman had pleaf'ed guilty to a charge of hav ing liquor in his possession and had been fined $50 by Mr. Race, police officers state. Seaman was arrested early Tuesday morning by Officer O. F. ViVctor and a milk bottle con taining a lurid-hue.l liquor of sup posedly hi'-rh alcoholic content was taken from Seaman's person by the officer, according to the police report. Seaman's bail had been set at $5D following his arrest and he was obliged to spend most of the day in the city jail upon failing to produce the necessary cash de posit. Another thing. America is not too proud to sit on the arms par ley conference. l ikk WJ Fancy Bath Towels Extra fancy Bath Towels with pink or blue borders on each end, also place, to embroidery initial. Specially priced at each --49c ; ; Unbreakable Dolls Novelty Dolls, the unbreakable kind; excellent gifts for the kiddies; many colors to choose from. . Specially priced at each ......... 49c For a Rflerry Christmas Useful Gifts Are Apprecsated Wool Nap Blankets asir i iMfeepTou Warn? Blankets of quality such as we are of fering are appreciative gifts in nearly every home. 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There is a sons that must have ben writ- ten of him all except the nation- j ality and his ultimate disposi- 1 tion: TURNER GRANGE I FIGHTING BOARD Depressed People of War-Torn Countries After traveling: in England Iielgium. France, .Switzerland and Italy for the past four months. S. P. Kimball is home and says lv wouldn't trade the whole conti nent for a square foot of the Wil lamette valley. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball, and Mr. and Mrs. Krl Kugel left Salem for their European travels on August 10. They spent severpl weeks in and about London, and even there Mr. Kimball says one may notice the effects of the war in the general depressed looks o: the people. After visiting war scenes in Helgium. Mr. Kimball and parly went to the famous Hindenburg line, visiting later at Ypres, wh'rh is a mott depressing ruin, and other famous cities. All along the trench system of the latter telephone him about dd jobs to be done. C. A. Kells, secretary of the Y. i M. C A., also offered the services I of his institution in the way of i supplying workers. especially i since he was having so many an- plications daily from those out o i i r ' ' i of work. baiary increase novisiop. Dr. southwonh w? of the opini inn that manv people couia una he would be glad to have people LEADER'S FIGURE ADORNS ' CAMPFIRE GIRLS MfcDAI Biin?s Appeal to Spec ial Legislature "He'd talk a blind fiddler out of ihs fiddle, He'd talk the milk out of a cow." lla.i Winninif ll'av Children would 1-n .,n tn mil i of Turner, has expressed it? ilisa!' Jrwin and ask him the time of i Demanding repeal of the 9t j legislative act empowering the ! board of control to rix salaries of i the executive head of state ini ! tutious, Surprise ('.range. No. -'" part of the war, things look very Will Irwin. aay. linud women would feel profoundly Kratelul when he of fered to pilot them across the crowded street and he'd do it, too, from sheer kindliness of spirit. Husky men bankers, gov ernors, prizefighters, tramps would call him "Hill" and feel that they had honored themselves in knowing him. And yet the sneak-thief, the robber of widows and orphans, would draw a Ions breath and dive down the alley rather than meet him if he knew. Any honest person would proval of salary increases grant- j ed by the board. 1 Ciovernor Olcott and Secretary! of State Kozer constitute a ma jority on the board. a Grange resolution assert-; in connection with the charge that official sti pends hav been bolstered. In taking" the stand that the salary increase provision is sus- cwld jobs about their homes and help the unemployment situation. But it was agreed by all speakers that there were a number of jobs at a'l times, and the big thing for those trying to help was to find where the jobs were. As the matter now- stands. those having work from time tojrscr time should telephone L. G. Hay- 1 1 ford or the Y. M. C. A. Uoy Shields, president, appointed K. L. Shrode, L. G. Hayford and DrT Southworth as a committee to handle the unemployment situation. mm -jr. 'rmr: . . ; v. .jar--- .is 9 :5 WlLIi PiaV AltlZOXA DANVILLE, Ky., Dec. 13 The much the same as in 191 s, ex cepting in portions of France where land is be.ng cultivated, he said. The abearance of the country is most desolate and dreary, hj said. And not onlythelandscape has a depressing effect, but the people everywhere show the ef- ferts of the war. After stopping at the principal cities in Switzerland, the party traveled by automobile, over one of the famous Roman roads. From Italy the party went to Vienna and it was in that, city that Mr. Kimball noticed the greatest suffering. The city was crowded with tourists, and Amer ican money had such a high ex change value that while in Vien na, his party of four was served fine dinner for 50 cents. Ot course, he paid 3,uuu Kronera. which were worth 20 cents each before the war. In fact. Ameri can money had such a high ex change value that Mr. Kimball found it quite inexpensive to live in Vienna. For the Italians, Mr. Kimball can say very little that Is Compli mentary. Those in the north ap peared all right and industrious but after he traveled south of Rome and especially in Naples. he found by little use for Ital ians. The party sailed for home from Naples, spending a few days in Ohio before returning to Oregon. Mr. Kimball says he is a fine sea travaler as he never missed i meal, but that he could not say the same for the other members of his party. TETERRIBLE PICTURE PAINTED BY IRWlfc fContinu-rt frnm page 1) His writings during and sinre the World war have attracted pro found attention. He has written much fiction. But he is a student of books as well as of men. He has taken the war and the war riors apart, to see what made the wheels go 'round, and no man his pointed out a straighter path to warlessness and peace. Six More Dates Mr. Irwin has been on the lec ture platform for some time. He had signed up the contract before the Washington disarmament con gress had developed beyond the nebulous stage. "Thank the Lord, I'm almost through," he sighed, as he toted down on his fingers the six places still on his schedule. " "Then I'll get a good sleep." He was with the Belgian, Brit ish, French, Italian and American armies in Europe, and with the Germans for a few days when they captured him the first week in Belgium. He was at Louvain vhien the great university town was destroyed. cpptible to abuse, it is reported ; Centre college football team will Then. a.century later, the army world woke up. The business as pect of war began to obsess the whole world. To kill women mu nition workers was the inescapa-, hie logic of warfare, for they helped to make the war effective. To kill the little children was also, logical. That would help to break the morale of the enemy. To bomb cities, to destroy a score or a mil lion of non-combatants, was so much damage to the enemy, and must decrease his fighting ability. The theory was perhaps dormant In every breast, though perhaps none had expressed it as frankly as the German Bernhardi. Civilian Brains tailed To follow- this theory to its in evitable conclusion meant to call in the civilian brains that had thrown off the lethargy and red tape of militarism. Civilian chem ists made poison gases, a million times as effective as swords or guns; overalled mechanics made devilish submarines that killed and destroyed without risk more than a whole army could do in the olden days. Professor Lewis, of Northwest ern university, who near the close ot the war invented the terrible gas "Lewisite," was a feilow stu dtne with Irwin at Stanford uni versity, a meek man in a Chris tian tollege but the chemical monster that he prepared was more deadly than the Black Death or Alaric "The Scourge of God." "The bars are down," said the speaker. There is no longer a military code to moderate the hor ors of war. Fightiug by means of radio-controlled airplanes carry ing high explosives and terrible gases; long range guns; fighting with submarines, with tanks, with microbes an dpoisonous bacilli. will be the commonplaces of the next war. The development of killing rays through the study ot science is one of the certain things; they have already pro gresed so far that they offer pos sibilities eQual to gas or explo sives. None Will hi' Spared And there will be no one spared. There will be no non-combatants. Every man on the other side is a ppteutial or an active, deadly enemy. Kill them all will neces sarily be the creed, following the mental and moral explosion that disrupted the old warrior code. Mr. Irwin has roiib over much pf this in his recent book. "The Next War," which is a striking presentation and a terrible ar raignment of war as it will have to be practiced from now on. The development of terrors since the war closed, he says, has been far taster than even during the war when science had uot the time to study out its own possibilities. It a war were to set in today, the Lewisite and radio-controlled air plane and other things that have been perfected since the treaty ol ersailles would make the World war look like a pink tea. Itrotlirr Is I'unny Mr. Jrwin is famous partlv be cause of his funnw kid brother, Wallace. Wallie has written FUN lu two-foot letters, of both, poetry and piose. all ovcrfhe worli HI , "Love Sonnets of a" lldodluiii his Constable Walter Delong Is Very Busy Person Here is just one page from the calender of Walter DeLong, con stable for Salem justice district. Date: December 13, 1921. "Nothing unlucky in the 13," observes Constable DeLong. "The average day's routine yill check up' about the' same." This is a brief of DeLong's ac tivities, yesterday. Ten o'clock morning to 2 o'clock afternoon, rounded up a Jurv and acted as Justice court rbiiiffft in the case of state against S. Telund. ' Two o'clock afternoon, Forded to Waconda and arrested a i ris oner. With prisoner arrived in Salem at 4 o'clock, just in time to receive a summons to Ford out to Silverton and bring in another prisoner. Returned with Silverton prison er at 6:30 o'clock, afternoon. Re ceived long distance call from po lice at Ashland, with the informa tion that a prisoner was being held for the Salem constable. Rurried home, hurried through evening meal, hurried to South ern Pacific station for the even ing train south. Somewhere along the road, Constable DeLong will receive the following message from G. E. Un ruh, justice of the peace. "Have just received word that another prisoner wanted on Sa lem warrant has been arrested at Albany. Bring him in also." Judge I'nruh admitted last night that he might add a post script to the wire to DeLong some thing like this: "Don't work too hard and re turn as soon as possible. Friday and Saturday are full docket days." that the Turner grangers are joining in the fight that has been made against the board's appoint ment of Mr. and Mrs. W. L Ku ser of Iowa to the suoerintend ency of the boys' training" school at an increased salary over that received by the present incum bent. L. M. Gilbert. The resolution follows: "Whereas, there was enacted bv the legislative assembly or 1921, an amendment to section 2S13 Oregon laws reading In part as follows: 'The annual salaries of the several executive heads shall be fixed and determined by the board', (Oregon state board of control) and "Whereas, the said board of control or rather the governor and secretary of Ftate, constitut ing a majority thereof, have in numerous instances, raised salar ies under the authority conferred by this law, and "Whereas, the power conferred by this amendment is susceptible to abuse, unfair discrimination, and permits the injection of poli tics into the administration of state government and the selec tion of emnloves. and operates against economy and efficiency, now therefore, "Be it resolved, that this or ganization express its disapproV' al of said amendment and the ac tion of said board of control thereunder, and "Be it further resolved, that we recommend to the special ses sion of the legislature, the repeal of that part of said amendment empowering the board of control to fix salaries of the executive head3 of state institutions." play the University of Arizona eleven at San Diego December 26, it was announced by the Athletic officials today. Low Fire Record is Made . In Portland Last Month PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 13. Fire losses last month were less than any month of the year. Fire Marshal Grenfell stated today in filing his November report. Figures which will be compiled shortly will show $250,000 less damage from fires in Portland during 1921'thau in 1920, Gren fell estimates. Damage from 27 fires of 91 alarms answered by the fire de partment last month totalled but $7,979.37. The state loss reached approximately $195,000. Clare Sheridan, the Anglo-American sculptor, was describing at a New York reception her recent visit to Bolshevik Russia when an I eminent illustrator interrupted her to ask: "Is.it true that your cousin, Winston Churchill, paints?" "Yes. it is true," Mrs. Sheridan answered. "Is he any good?" The lady shrugged her supple shoulders. "Well," she roturned. "people j say he's not as bad as he has painted." Detroit Free Press. Crpyrtsli ' LntTwood tnrtnrw1. Mrs. Oliver Harrtman In th ftarb she wore while Mrs. Harry Duryea. sculptress, designed the medal for the organization ot which Mrs. J'arrlman la national president sacs IS, P9 KHil! B OA n nil.- M . SOU) IX DRUGGISTS nTOSDX SOLVE THIS PUZZLE WIN A BIG CASH PRIZE Curiey Again Elected To Boston Mayoralty BOSTON, Dec. 13. Former Mayor J. M. Curiey was elected mayor of Boston today by a plur ality of 2.315 votes over J. R. Murphy, former fire commission er, in a close mayoralty contest. The vote was: Curiey "3.S69; Murphy 71.554; C. S. Baxter, 4, 243; C. S. O'Connor 10,812. MARSHAL F io si i World Renowned Soldier ' Again Greeted by Tens of Thousands in Gotham OFFERS PRIZE FOR NON-SKIE HORSESHCE. Fire Started With Oil, Eight Persons Are Dead DKTROIT, Dec. 13 Final check of the victims of a fire that today destroyed the farm home of Joseph Waken, two miles north of Detroit, showed eight persons, seven of them children, to be dead and three perhrfps fatally burned. The fire started when Mrs. Waken attempted to kindle a fire with kerosene. Wakeu, his four children, aged from 2 to S years and the small son and twin daughters pf Mrs. Elizabeth Kurorsak. who were visiting at the home, were burned to death in their beds. Mrs. Wakeu and Joseph Weis woki and Kelenty Obsenuk, boarders at the home, were to badly burned they may die. NEW YORK, Doc. U. (My The Associated Press) Marshal Foch tomorrow will sail hack to France bearing the Rifts of a grateful ally in a world war. Acclaimed here by tens of thou sands when he first set foot in America, October ZS. he was ac claimed again after he had com pleted a tour of the United State and Canada as the guest of the American legioh. Not a second of rest was al lowed the marshal from the mo ment he arrived here this after noon on his return from Montreal until he went to bed after a ser ies of concluding fetes. The marshal will sail tomor row on the steamer Paris. The American legion's farewell message to Marshal Foch. issued tonight by HanTord MacNidor, na tional commander,, said that the value of the distinguished French man's visit "would grow all through the coming years through our sons and their sons." "You have seen and heard our grateful nation's welcome," it continued. "Our people hardly know how to express their fee. ings. Your presence would have been a lasting inspiration to Am erica. Your high, fine integrity, your personality and what you have said, have cndeaied you to every American. "We salute you and through you. France. You need no fur ther pledge from us we love you both." ! Y" -Mi ' 'XW III 103 456 M rtM loiaUtvt 300.C fx . Dr. William O. Stillman. presi dent of the American Humane Association, has Just announced that a prize of $l.ooo will be given for the l?st non-skid horsehoe to kep horses on their feet next winter. His head quarters are In Albany. N. Y. 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Organized charity for Salem and the nccl of some central means or sc-curiiiji employment for residents of the city wiio are out of work, was again brought to the attention of the Wiwanis club at the luncheon yesterilay noon. D. L. Shrode snid there should be some central office down town to which thoe bavins: a day or more work, could make the fact known. He taid that i-any peo ple have odd jobs, but "that ju.st when the job was not ready they did not know where to find work ers. He suggested an employ ment bureau. Dr. H. E. Morris said that L. G. Hayford had agreed to use bis re? 1 estate office a bureau fOT those ho' needed work. . Mr. lfayford confirmed this, and bald What's the Use What's the use extolling on the superiority of a product the public is fully aware of? For instance: when you want a particular job of printing done right and promptly something you will not trust to the ordi nary workman you bring it here. You bring it here for the reason you are assured of superior service; you are as sured your work can be handled as you want it handled; you arc assured Oh! what's the use? 583 Either One 23 The Statesman Publishing Company- i i