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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY. MORNING, FEBRUARY 14,: 1 023 m 0tJ Statesman Issued Dally Except Monday by - THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 215 S. Commercial St.. Salem. Oregon (Portland Office, 627 Board of Trade Building. Phone Beacon 1193 MEMBER OF THK ASSOCIATED PRESS , The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of. all newa dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. R." J.: Hendricks .... .Manager Stephen A. Stone ....................Managing Editor Ralph Glover Cashier frank Jaskoskt ..............................Manager Job Dept. TJBXJCPHOirES: ' -I i. ' Basin esa Office. 23 Circulation Department, SSS Job Department. 68 S i Society Editor, r10 Entered at the Post-office In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter P J)IVISiON OF OREGON MIGHT RESULT FROM THE DEFEAT OF SENATE BILL, 39 . : 'Both railroads and auto trucks have failed to serve and develop central Oregon - . ..1 wThe smalt land owner is, crippling the big cattle rancher, and the lack of cheap transportation is making it difficult for both Masses to succeed under changed conditions The high construction, and operating costs of railroads makes it impossible for them to keep their promises for con struction in this territory of present low traffic production Renewed activity in central Oregon, coming with .the auto truck, has been checked and blighted by the fact that the dirt road3 of that section will not hold up under heavy truck haul ; i ' The former high class light tralfic dirt roads are now either dust and ruts, or mud and impassable at certain sea sons, and all hope of hard surfaced roads so magnanimously promised these people a few years ago, when voting for rdad bonds, is now gone when the present state debt is consid ered. . v ..- .!,.. against! the hill to allow outlying districts to help thems"elves ; in securing transportation of their products to market. ' f. ! The legislators are working long hoiVrs and faithfully ifor economy and efficiency, and for constructive measures. The ver dict wilt be, well-done, good and faithful servants. It will be truthfully said, when there is time for conclusions, that the present session of the legisla ture might have done better but it will be as truthfully record ed that it did well; better in nu merous ways than any of Its predecessors. EDITORIAL PROVES SENATE ' ' BILL 39 NECESSARY 5 The Oregonlan editorial of Feb ruary 12th, entitled "New Rail roads for Oregon Are Next," con tains the strongest possible ar guments for the enactment of sen ate 1)111 39. It states: "Oregon can best hasten these extensions by working for settle ment and development of its va cant spaces. The strongest at" traction to railroad building is people producing from the land, for that means traffic, and traffic is the magnet that attracts capi tal to railroad Investments. , Un less traffic is in sight or in very early prospect,, resolutions and memorials and petitions to com missions are of no effect, for com missions may order corporations to build roads but they Cannot compel people to buy railroad t ; WliiU . trff?ww fmrlof tiMtnr tflYj fn-r riar'rl surfaced I bonds Without that, an 1 order roads in the populous districts of Oregon; is the legislature npw to deny them the opportunity of constructing the cheap inexpensive kind of roads which fits their own; peculiar con ditions and needs, and at their own costand risk by refus ing to pa$a senate bill 39 ? , . 4 s If the gasoline motor driven train on wood rails cut in "adjoining forests can be built for about $3500 per mile, or about one-half the cost of graveling an ' extensive highway, according to J. P. Newell, why should not the community be allowed to cooperate for its construction and operation? This l ia but . cooperative , marketing of farm produce. Each man. will thus not have' to go to town with his small -load, -v'- ,i-'r, - - v-5 - ;i- ' , ' " -v . If the populous Histrlcfs of Oregon will neither come to the financial assistance of this great section of the state, or enact senate bill 39 whereby local communities 'may cooper ate in securing transportation, at their own cost and risk, then we should not complain if this section seeks an outlet through Sin Francisco. -H ' s A vote against- senate bill 39 will Strengthen sentiment for the division of Oregon on the ground of taxation without compensating benefits., .. .. : : 5 1 . ' The. coast counties strangled for years by the O. & C. land grant, will be equally benefited by this bill. - 'Oh well, the unusual I usually happens in the weather. . , One thing has been demonstrat ed by the occupation of the Ruhr district byfaflcf and that Is that Herr dinner Is not the whole works. ,ik::-?f : " ' There should be no single vote The foregoing editorial states, in substance, that without traffic railroads will not build into the present, low producing areas of central Oregon, and though the railroads are ordered by the de cree ef the interstate ' commerce commission to build such1 lines, they cannot build-without money and the interstate commerce com mission cannot compel people to buy railroad bonds.. The situation is thus hopeles", unless we enact senate bill 39, for how can we get settlers and traf fic in central Oregon without first getting transportation? This bill provides for the building of low COMING EVENTS club "con- Fob. 14, Apollo cert, at armory. March 1, 2, and 3, Fly ing Squadron, in interest of Prohibition" ; enforcement. Afternoon and 'evening meet ings in Presbyterian church.- cost roads by the people benefited, and to be" . operated s by them for their own benefit and not for the benefit of Wall -street.'' " ? Money to build with, is the key to the situation, according to the above editorial. This can be had without fail under senate bill Z9. The municipal improvement dis tricts can be large, as lands will be benefited many miles from the proposed roads. The per acre bonded debt will be very small, compared with the average value per acre back of such bands. Mu nicipal district bonds of this char acter will rell. without question, While standard railroad securities are at this, time In bad repute. The Oregonlan admits that the expensive type of standard rail roads cannot be built under the present low tonnage producing conditions of central Oregon.' The railroads know this, also. They have just been "kidding us along in the past with shallow promises. If they cannot finance the Natron cut-off and the cross-state roads now, when can they? Irrigation projects in central Oregon have been settled and abandoned be cause the small farmers cannot live without cheap transportation. The : great Fort Rock country, Catlo valley, Silver s Creek and Harney valley have been settled, fenced, cultivated to a consider able extent and then abandoned for lack of transportation. Waiting longer will not solve the problem. Low cost roads of wood rails and auto trains will pay under existing conditions, and they , are the type to build. If built by the people benefited, they will noj build an expensive to build is but a barren decree't -Uard surfaced road adjoining, as soon as the country becomes pros-; perous, and '' permit dlstrnctiv auto truck competition, but will confine heavy freight to the rail road and build less- expensive light traffic roads adjoining to carry light passenger traffic,; This Is one of the unregulated problems wrecking interurban and short feeder railroads which is automatically solved by senate bill 39. It is one of the causes destroy ing paved highways and compellr ing .the construction of much thicker and more expensive type than" any of us anticipated when the highway program was launch ed. Lack of a proper, solution of this problem will eventually bank rupt both the railroads and the people. We need expect but lim ited railway construction in Ore gon until this problem Is solved. If branch lines do not pay now, when wilt they pay? They vrill pay le5S In the future as the fight between the settler and the great cattle companies in central Ore- SCTJTOOti emnrt SPOBTI Ik pjmwifSrir ' V i" HTJKOa PLAT WORK Fopyrlght, 1023, Associated Edit on The 'Biggest little Paper in the "World Edited by John H. Millar For Boys and Girls V . . ".- .. if X m r l 1 I I CU(- . 1 (r.yVG- TVtv- NEW KITES FOR WINDY DAYS How to Make TaUIess Kite - Flying i kites Is. so much fun that no hoy should allow the Spring months to pass without making' eight: or ten of various shapes and sizes. .There are hun dreds of different! styles one can construct; and with just a little care in the building every one will fly. Think of the pleasure of flying a kite twice , tbe. size of yourself! Or of flying a kite roBembJing the life-sited 'figure of some character of the comic page. -It can easily be done, and ' yon can" do .every bit of the work yourself, i with hardly , any ex ,pense. i ., Be the first boy in your, neigh borhood to have a collection.-After, the other, fellows have copied you, and have d'fferent styles of their own. stage ; a kite tourna ment, and chargo admission. . 9Iake Simpler KHe First . j It is best to start with the S'mple tailless kite. If you Wish, you1 can change the size 'given, making the kite larger or small er. In making this kite use a soft wood, such as spruce, yel low pine,, or white cedar. Those woods art tough, and bend eas'ly. Be sure. I however, that . the ma terial Is well seasoned, and has no Unots.", . : i ' The , two .m pieces which i make the' framework . of the Eddy kiti nhould be J-16'of an Inch thlcfc, and about 1-2 Inch wide. They aie-fastened together": by ' small brads, the distance from the top Is not necessary to make it fly, but' will only make the paper a little stronger. - (Next week: "How to Make a Three-Plane ,iKte.") J THE SHORT STORY, JR. ; Another Cat Knied by Curiosity to the joint always being 1-3 of the length of the main brace, or, as it Is sometimes called, the spfne. From this you can gauge your ' own distance, no matter what s'xei kite you are making. E Use Hand-Twisted Cord , t Use a small hand-twisted cbt ton cord for stringing about the edges of the ' framework. v It is a good policy, also, to notch the end- of each stick, sol that the string can be stretched t'gbtly.. RfememDer, however, mat mis a,' tailless kite, and when you cfcver it with tissue paper, be sjure you lay It on the floor, and cwt the paper 1 t-2 Inches larger than the frame.; This is neces sary, for i when :ryou ' paste the edges about the string - frame. there must be plenty of looseness. or slack,; In the paper. rext stretch your wire across the back or middle brace, drawing it so Ught that it bows the kite, and flake up the slack in the tissue paper cover. " Now fasten on two small pieces of' cord, one from the center .and tllie other: from the lower corner. 'ilci these together, and fasten yiour flying-cord to the knot. II rflie kite is balanced it will fly. P!y balance ! is meant that each 4;de Is the same weight. , The eilddle brace- or sbine divides the tte into two equal parti and U I a each one of these parts that (.hould ' be exactly . the ' a a m e .weight and size to Insure Dying. If you i care to, - you can paint or varnish the finished kite." This This is the tale of a cat i Supposed to be death on the rat. D'd the rats shake with fear Whene'er Darkey was near? The story below" answers that. You have all heard that, curios ity once killed a cat. ; I guess that time-honored cat , is well known to all. But I am going to tell you about another cat that met her death in the same way. ; Her name was Darkey. The barn, house, yard, and even the trees around our place were just Infested with rats,k so a neighbor took pity on us and gave us Darkey. At ; first) we were delighted with our n$w cat. We hadn't had her an hour, be fore she caught her first! rat. Then she started on a tour of the house and Darn snooping around behind . everything and ; under everything. Of course we thought she was looking for: more rats. Fred and I got a pencil and pa per and calculated that if Darkey averaged a rat an hour working eight-hour days, we would be tree of all rats in a 'little over a week and a day. But Darkey never ' caught an other rat We did not d'scover until, later that her curiosity be ing now satisfied she had lost all interest. 'fn rats. That was the way : with Darkey. Anything left in plain sight she would stalk right past, pay ing not the sl'ghtoet attention to it, but Just let me doubt . her honesty and hide something away from her, and Darkey would leave nothing untnrned until she had discovered the hidden goody. Rats were ; too common to s rouse the .slightest s interest. They ran around by the dozens, but Darkey! knew what they were and she didn't fancy, them. How ever, we did not give1 up all hope cnt'l one day Fred came in and discovered Darkey ; and ' a rat sit ting side by sde having a friend ly chat, he dlared. Well' groaned Fred, "I'll - say, this is too - much for me! It was bad , enough when she just ignored them, but now that she's strik ing up an acquaintance with them something's got to be done." . "" That night Fred came home with a trap, onej of those made like an enormous mouse trap. Of course you've guessed the end. I immediately thought of Darkey and insisted that the trap be placed where she couldn't get at it. We set it in the wood shed and locked the door. It would l.ave been all right . if we had set it out in plain sight, but Darkey never could stand any secrecy. She climbed . up and entered the wood shed through the window. f . The rats all attended Darkey's funeral, and Fred 'declares he saw some of them weeping at the loss of their new friend. gon grows. Each class 13 crowd ing the other to the wall, and both our population and taxable wealth are more , likely to de crease than to increase, unless we enact some legislation Jo fit our peculiar needs. No other state has such a problem to o1ve. We should . not look to other states for a solution. Why delay? Are we afraid of offending the rail roads? j They cannot escape and leave us in the lurch. They wlll still continue to "joperate whether they like our solution or not! Something must be done. Has any one a more feasible and prac tical solution? If so, no one has brought it out. Mr. Spencer, general attorney for ,the Union Pacific system, ad mitted before the senate commit tee bat senate bill 29 would prob ably ; benefit his company. The leading Implement dealers sS Portland know it will help their business because it will help the settlers,, and they have approved the bill. The G. W., Gates com pany, who purchased and fold forty millions of feet of lumber last year, says their business next year could be doubled If senate bill 39 was in operation. The, $6 per. thousand feet they now' pay for trucking lumber from the La Pine mills, 33 miles to Bend, would, in a large measure, go to increase profits to the mills and timber owners, if senate sbill 39 was in operation. ' Mr. Bradford stated to the sen ate committee that he has plenty of capital in sight ready to fin ance a large irrigation project in Warner valley if senate-bill 39 Is enacted. Summer power from this, he states, would be avail able for pumping from under ground water j for' some 100,000 acres in the Fort Rock district. Many other projects, bringing in millions of dollars of outside capital, could be Btarted If this bill is passed. It will mean new people to help us pay off the great bonded debt under which we are now struggling. When no state appropriation is required and no direct or indirect obligation is imposed on the state in any way, why not go forward? The Oregonlan editorial admits there Is no hope for Improve ment under the present plan. Let the people help themselves. All we have to do is to permit them to go, and senate bill 39 provides them with this necessary machin ery for cooperation. It conforms closely to the market road plan so long advocated -by the' State Grange. Enact Benate, bill No. 39, and develop Oregon! of his act, by remarrying him. The case is more complicated than that of .King Solomon, for the baby- was Innocentr But the hus band, .by declaring that he had a heart big enough '. for both, proved that his heart "was in real ity too small for either. A prop osition, therefore, to cut i In two would Ie like taking two bites at aich?rry. Los Angeles Times. B1TS FOR BREAKFAST : 1 - Here is a prediction: u w : The legislature that will con vene two years hence will find the penitentiary self supporting 'Or. a! long way on the road to ward paying all of Its expenses, from Its industries. And the ap propriation for maintenance win not have to .be large. ; ' 1 If, the 1925 session does not find the Institution entirely self supporting, the 19.27 session will and there will never have to be any more tax money appropriated for this Institution. V ; It will not only support itself; It will make the money to buy ad ditnola machinery; to erect addi tional buildings; to provide every thing it may need, of whatever kind. , . "W S V ' ; And It will become a model prison, '. with . every man who works receiving a small dally wagef a better wage where his family on the outside is Irge or especially needy:. And the credit will be due largely to the ways and means committee of the present session, and to the . whole membership thereof. ' Careful management, with the fewest possible mistakes, will ac complish all of the above. The present sesion is laying the sure foundations, with gooc business foresight, and with, humanitarian ideals that are worthy of any such body of men. '. ' ' ' V V "If winter comes, spring cannot be far behind." "IF YOU WERE IN HIS SHOES' 5 tr0!xmft- j PICTURE PUZZLE . MARV 13 STUDYING- F BUT JANE IS STUDYING- Of Lincoln stories, as pf the making of books, there is no end. And of these Lincoln stories it may be truly said that some are good and others are Indifferent depending mostly, thinks a writer in an exchange, upon .the story-telling ability of the fret porter or biographer-, who first brought them into ' the light of print -out of the. deep recesses of the goodness of his heart and the ingenuity of his imagination, per haps! ; There is one Lincoln Btory which deserves the largest corner in the heart . of every man who has other men working under and for him; also, it should have a prominent place on his desk where he can see it and conipre-j nena : in a glance xor, inougn the spirit is often willing,' the memory, alas, is sometimes weak. Here is the story revealing as more than a score of volumes could not do, the cpnsiderateness, the common sense and the blg- souledness of the man. It seems that an officer had disobeyed! or failed to execute an order. 1 "I believe I'll sit down,'' said Secretary Stanton angrilyr "and give that man a piece of my mind." : "Do so," urged Lincoln; "write him now while you have it on your mind. Make it sharp. Cut him all up." Stanton did not need a second invitation. It was a "bone crush er" that he read to the president. "That's right," said Lincoln. that's a good one." , "Whom can I send it v by?" mused the secretary of war. "Send it!" replied Lincoln! "send it! Why don't send it at all.' Tear it up. You have freed your mind on the subject and that is all that is necessary. Tear it up.j You never want to ssnd sach letters. I never do, though I occasionally write them. Now, pen the kind of 4 note you would have liked to receive If you were in that - man's shoes and send that." . ! " ' BOND ISSUE DISCUSSED IN SCHOOL MEET (Continued from page.l) through local jealousies." ' Director Paul Wallace thanked all the visitors, especially the op position for turning out to give the board the .benefit of their views, and opening the way to an ultimate agreement. Following the general discus sion, the board passed on - several routine matters of. business, and then ' adjourned. - Swift Construction A recently arrived Irishman and his friend j were watching a build ing going up. "Well, Mike," said the latter, "are you able to build houses as quick as this In Dublin? We start a house in the morning and the tenant Is living in it in the eventing." M , h "Begorro, that's - nothing!" re plied Mike. "In Dublin we start a house in the morning and in the evening the landlord is evicting the tenant' for 'nonpayment of rent." Boston Transcript. X , Goming Saturday MARY PICKFORD In Her New "Te of the Storm Country" Watch For Further Interesting Announce . jnents OREGON Answer to' yesterUy'i: 'Th Court ship ( HUM BUadUfc." A COM3ITNITY SPOUSE Here is another case that calls for the ingenuity of a Solomon. Two wiVea obtain, their freedom from ! a bigamous husband and both appear in court anxious- to rave him from the consequences HEAD STUFFED BY CATARRH? A HEALING If your nostrils are clogged, your, throat distressed, or your head Is stuffed by nasty catarrh or a cold, apply a little pure, an tiseptic, germ' destroying cream into your nostrils. It penetrates through every air .passage, sooth ing inflamed, swoolen membranes and you get Instant relief. How good it feels. Your nos trils are open."; Your head is clear. - No more hawking, snuf fl'iyg, dryness: or struggling for breath. . . Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm 'from any drug druggist. Colds and catarrh yield like magic. Don't stay stuffed up. Relief is sure. -Adv. T" Smith Amendments are . ; Killed' by. State Senate Senator Smith's two proposed constitutional " amendments one providing, for the repeal of ) the 6 per cent . tax limitation amend ment, of the constitution,, and the other proposing to refer to the people the proposal of. repealing the educational mlllage taxes, were both '-Indefinitely postponed In the senate yesterday by ad- -tion of adverse " reports of t: committee on resolutions. The are senate Jpint' resolutions Nos 11 and 12. Senator Strayer's joint reflolu tjon propdsing a constitution-.: amendment to repeal the obsolet tion covering the salaries of ttn governor, the secretary of etalf, the stafe treasurer and members of the supreme , court, wa- aaopieii. - FOR LIFE if your mouth is un healthy. If your teeth are decayed- You can Sentence Yourself for Life to dis ease and pain by continued neglect. You can save Money, Time, and En- ' crgy by having your teeth examined and treated in time. Examinations at a Parker office are . free.- ' - t. 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