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The WregSWtesman - - - 1 " - i ! U. If Cued Dally Eeept Monday ky ' TES BTATtsXAX rUBLISHTKfO COW AST , tlS South Commercial St.. Salem. Oregon . It. J. Hendricks Fred J. Toot -i, - lti M. U-rrlman Leslie J. Smith . Aadred Bonea '' Menarer Managing-Editor - - s City Kditor -Telegraph. Kditor Society Editor AV. II. Henderson Circulation Manager Italph II. Kletting ;. . Advertising Ms;r '.Frank Jasltoski : - Manager Job Dept. K. A. Rhoten r- - ; teator r.dito W, C Conner , f. Poultry Ed itwt f , , - .- yuMBEB or the associated tress k.- :; y The Associated Press is eclaslTly entitled to tao r foe publication of all news dWpatrhea credited to it or not otherwise Credited in ,thU paper and also the local newt published herein, i j , -;rfSC' m1 v"'--BI?anrEs OVFICE8? ..' -j Albert Brra. ana Werrr'tter Bldg., rertlnnd. Ore. , ' , Thenus Cark Cn Sew.Tork,' 12-13J WV- Slur Rt.r O'ejuro. Mwetre . Itety A Payne, Sharon Bid.. San Francisco,: Calif.; HiggUs Bldg. Ios Angela,-Calif, BvaineM Olffieo tteeteiy Mitov.si .28 or SKt IOC Circulation )ificS8 ''ifeWrs t)'epartmen.t..23 or 1o4 .'Job -Jenaxtnientn.-w5U Entered at the Post Of fide in Sa -i -,v,- , - -r- it- - Oregon, as seconA-elnss matter. ' January 231020 A -PERFECT-GUIDE "And4 the 5 man bowed . down' his headwind .worshipped the Lord., -And The satd,-BIessed bp the Lord, Gqd ot ffllltfil' Ahnhim. who hulh ;ld mft tr the' hnnae-Ytf mv maifnr'a brctliren-aGn.?t;85. --F 1 led me to the' houae b( my master's .:: f THE BEST BOOKS ; : : - J "Where asks a reader, fc4ri I find a book that will give me the names of the hundred or five hundred best books of all timer ;!' ! ! ' ' ' ' There are many such books1, but before naming even one of them, a few observations andguotations,ought to be made. ; t it is foolish to suppose! that a hundred books can be named as those which-are best for each and every one ' ' For the simplest experience of the world proves that a work 6f great excellence may deeply move one personV while it leaves ahoier uii book which has influ-, enced one strongly in one's yoiith may lose such influence . ; pver ones later years. t . .' , ": , .i i liiere is virtually nothing that every; man, may read at every timel " c 1 ,r Georg Brandes, one of the World's greatest living critics he is a Dane observes that:! .''Most ; people read without jany particular attentiveness ; " perhaps, ; too, they select reading matter . which does not deserve any particular attention, i "But it is a matter of fact; that they forget what they read. , "V I I. . . , V "Many people, after all1 are not accustomed, to under? stand fully. , - ,j: , ! . ;r,nhh-- They are like young peoples reading in foreign languages who neglect to refer to the dictionary for words Jhey do not understand; they infer themi from the sense, -so they-say, that Is, they understand half aid are content with that." Thex fact is that the knowledge that can be acquired though reading usually is over estimated. It is a poor sub stitute for direct knowledge of the world and life. , - 'J As a rule books are only to be considered as presenting a theory ' Brandes 'points outi "As a doctor must" study his case and cannot obtain his 'knowledge by reading, thus we. " cannot learn anything from bdoks unless we. learn also from life. If Jwe have not knowledge rjMiidve-caiiiiot even en joy a novell f We are not in a! position to judge whether it gives! a true or false picture Of tlhings as they are." 1 . I And now, in reply to th reader's query, the writer, sug gests', but does not recommend Powys' "The Hnndrei Best The Arizona Sheriff Tales of hia ndreatarea. Bin eoaraga, kta hnnor, hi keen intelligcnco a eoUected hy Major Grorer F. Sexton, Tho Depaty from Yarapal County. " . i How with nimsie gun and motor caz ko brtnga amUV nad sax jasttce to erlldoeit. 1 . ivvnereconcet -V ' ' , OUIET, tb9 and.tfae ;. bprsi'tfiief Kjid tradoup "aad dQw'n,vihc ? Ari cattlet rustler their izona- Mfixlcan' 5'bofder. Jttnd. the same hempen ropev oae day brought out stolen altcs' to be branded with another owner's mark, and served tojb&ng the thief on the nxt, all iSyf nowv ay the border sheriffs, quiet and serehe. Gone are the horse-riding, chaps-wearinf?. heavy moustached flgure-of other days. The Stude baker, Is their modern mount. j "Justj like a Sunday ; school now.t say the sheriffs. But their tanned faces are set off with clear, bne eyes-J-alwaysblue--and the j?nns their, belts are the same o!d, loj)T?bMnreled forty-Qves of old,; wit an ejeetor underneath like .ar?1! spring ;of a field pieceV . "Quet ts a Sunday school," says Percy, Bowden of Douglas, young est and best known deputy sheriff Cochise county. had in years. j For instance, there was that gentle soul, Ed Meade, wanted in fiye states for bank safe blowing, ... I I "Maybe you t,hink "that n "Bfub''" didn't! make la" t point. i" Bowden' went'; m.bar-1 handed and talked tor h'lmf which. Meade commented on: " ' " i ii 1 "Well, stranger," said Bowden; "you aren't, much bigger'nI am, and If, you need an Operation of any kind, I can save" kou. he cost of chloroformL'' - p nI Not a cent of ibe reward came to Douglas, tit wiis ctainicd by those Who setti cut the notice, for hadn't -they given -'the 'informal tion leading to the) arrdsf of Meade? - Ji ' - Kub No tenderfoot busicza for"Bub Tarks, just in from Baltimore, be lieve you me. lie was" going 'to be : X real. two-fisted'1itdttgTi West-erneT-T riditt' horses j'-' tdtin'sixi sbooters,' 'shoot on 'sight and all that.'K ickname hit with hfm. down Here he was in the bottom of the 3,000- fn Clifton, River canyon Arizona, al a nickname. hard-fisted foot San Francisco in Oreenlee "county, ready fitted out with like the rest of the lads thereabouts. t Bub was working in the offices of 4. be eld Arisena Copper Com pany, now .Phelps-rDodK. n'oper- tles.. .CJrkinK.w8r$aU3f not such a daredevil Jpb for ,4. red-blooded btfCian r like ; Bub ; wanted ; to be, but .one must eat, even out in this rich stated 1 One day a bright! Idea struck him, after he had read of an at tempted train robbery down Iri Cochise county. Th rob.bers had set sacks of Mexican dollars, or ."dobies," as they are called, scorn fully against a. safe, and when the dynamite went off, had scattered dobies all over eastern Cochise county. - .! ' Every real hombre around1 Clif ton had. or was reputed to "have had. a past That' was it: be would get himself a past. Now, there was Q,uiet,' easy-go- pnegwzrt Better Pie Two forBeer "tSr aitd in Detroit for murdering two, f.ngi hard-working j old "Walter Books i the pc , "It HORACE GREELEY'S CHALLENGE r Horace Greeley used to challenge free traders to name a single industry in the Unitejl States enjoying protection for a number of years, where products were not selling at lower prices than similar products coiild. have' been purchased be fpre the American manufactured product,: was brought under the wing of a protective policjf. It is not on record that Greeley '8 challenge was successfully disputed. r" Irf Greeley's day it appears-to have been admitted that protection was a method of stimulating home industry; but the free traders declared it was a hot house method. In . answer to this, Greeley pointed Tto Ireland, a country which 'for the want of. industrial development was then sending. a great jproportidn of itsjsoijs aijd daughters to the United States, a much 'greater proportion than today when the Parish Free State, master of its own fiscal policies, is adopting virious features of the protective policy. ; ' : 4 Bits For Breakfast "Icy Blasts Grip Midwest - 3 , J So read aTnewspaper headline of yesterday , ' ' ''While the Salem district has balmy spring weather. Pieplant Is coming up in the .gardens, the snowdrops are ! in bloom, and Ella McMnnn says ber brown hen has. gone Jo sltUng, and this is sad. because they can't set her. Why? " Because nearly 'all the early chicks are roo.sters and would have to be "killed: and Mlsa McMunn would make fuss about Ibis as usual. She says it ia odd that so many of the'"early . chicks are roosters. but she supposes the Lord thinks that the 'boy" chickens can bat tle with the rough storms of early spring. better than the girls,! t Many people areeaying thlf is the balmiest January in their- fvr ollectloa;. but. the oldest of jt he old timers remember that it is like ' the Januarys of the early: fifties. when , so .many , Immigrants; came to Oregon, by ox team. They had open winters ' nice mis tor . sev eral years r-and after their exper icnecs on the. plains they thonght thry had struck next door1 to heaven. ; In fact they had. i f Bat if this warm, weather keeps up. there Is going to be a. bigger fight than usual to' keep 'down the district. They .want to -advance the funds to produce the celery They should be able to make such a connection. Salem district cel ery has a reputation that is worth something to any one : growing that vegetable here. men ( He bid out in Agua Prfeta.'just across the Mexican line. Every two days be came across to Doug las for mail, watchful, wary. udt per buttons on his coat unfasten ed. Inside, as easy to reach as his wjateh pockets, rested two big" pistols. j Bowden "r watched him, for. he knew he' must be wanted some From Detroit, in routine chan nels, came the "lookout" notice fdr Meade, with a $5,000 reward offered for information leading to his arrest. . Bowden thinks guns are noisy, destructive things. His two fists make little noise and, while many Doroer .character wil testify that they reLdestructve, .the destruc tion is temporary. Bad man sought for murder desperate, mean and, 'watchful. Meade came ' across ' for . his mail. Bowden met him coming out of postoffice. " ' ! ust so happens,; stranger," he said to Meade in a quiet voice. that. I'm" an officer of" the law here, and I'll have to Sort of take jou in for a day or so, I guess; been asked by police up north to get you. ' ,. . By the way," he added quick ly and a sting in the tone with which he said it stopped Meade's hand just as it was. entering "his coat "don't reach Into your coat. pardner, or 111 throw a handful of fingers plumb through you be-' fore you can touch your shirt. Kinda bad habit. I've got. that way, stranger, and I don't like the fellow that's rnnnin our hospital now, nohow. I don't want Ao give him any more business than I can help.', :' - .. ii ."bo,. ll you'll just raise 'your hands up a little, like; we'll be going.! Meade, tee killer, looked .the young officer, over' for just a tao"- Inent and up went his hands and awax went his liberty..with Mexico just half a mile away Bowden unstrapped the two big pistols, hung them over his shoul der and with no weapons of his pwn, marched Meade to jail. Jail ers, learning the prifioner's repu tation, felhim in his cell at gun-4 dOrkin waits in cell GOfM-tX' LOSES SOJIK OP HIS I SWAGGER' IX JAIL 4", ' r- - i' blUCAGO, Jan. 22. (By Asso ciaiteff Prs.) Martin Ja Durkin. 24iyear gunman, automobile, thelf, police slayer and perhaps bigamist. wars in a ' cell att the. county jai oriight, with a week's grace before heiis required-to enter a pleat to the two murder Indictments that fate him. , . t ; (Aside from the week's postpone mcnt f arraTgnment granted by Judge Harry B. Miller this morn ing, following aa agreement be tweenUho state's I attorney's office and atorneya representing Durkin the day s developments were not ofan encouraging naturo to the yofung killer." He had lost "some of hi swagger and defiant air whn bt was locked up! for the night. way or, another,, wq u go Durkin to the gallow's" State's Attorney RobertrB.;Crow said to night. , He- Indicated that state planned to bring' Durkin to- trlal first rn tb : indictment i cliarcine bim wiih tk piurdpr of Federal Agrat Kdward C.'Shanahan ami if oh- him ScrgeajU. trap kilier rc- taya his icorlo are looking for aiiea ,n in Biayjng w iwo men eonncction that will rive, them! 40 in 'a gunfight and, the wounding :to SO acrc-3 cf celery ia the EaJemof.Dutkla .hlra?Ifc; ; . Foote, the company 'paymaster In the next room. " What a snap it would be to stick Waiter up,1- get away with, a big payroll, have fling and then'1 come back- an other doer of dark deeds to-add to the community, i v t-s Of course, Bub still had niuch to learn, so his preparations were somewhat incomplete. He did get himself a good horse. with an ornate saddle; a regula tion six shooter of j approved 45 calibre, and a strap with which to tie his clothes to the back of the saddle. -.; One noon, when he knew Foote would work through while ' the others were at lunch!. Bub tied Wis horse right out in the front yard of "the company offices, gdr" h'is six gun and unmasked,' went Tight In on foot and demanded the com pany payroll. ' 'vt" .- vBor "would -they talk about the nerve of Bub, when; he was', awaj spending hi Ill-gotten- gains! Weliy they sure talked long' and laughingly of Bub. But that's ahead of the story, t " Gwan-away with that thing," Foote snorted at Bubs "youH drop It on 'your foot and squsha toe off. .They oughtn't -let kids-play with them things till they, are able to grow a moustache. "" . "Honest, Frank,"! Bub insisted, "I'm an outlaw and I'm-holding this place up. Stick 'em up, like a good fellow now, before I get rough, 'cause when -I get rough I'm a howlin' timber wolf." ?' , Foote apparently didn't knew how' bad a howlin' timber .wolf could be, for he i got. .upnand slapped ' Bub in',' the -.face' and started to take his gun away, from him. In the melee the-gun went off, shooting ' Foote through- the leg.- - ' ' 4 Well, the holdup wasn't a total success; but, i still, i Bub had-shot his man and was entitled to make a scratch, not a full notch, on his gun. - ' That was something;, and he might as well throw a leg oyer his hoss and let 'em start talking about his daredeviltry. So, "adios" called Bnb. and away be clattered down the canyon. ! ; - ,- Unfortunately, before anyone .in, i ii 1 1 i" , i I. i i W -.;(';-. ix ' , ' o,'i ' r v-v T I' x - - r h ml !-" -xr - n ri V .... ..r.- J. ' J , , r j r' 'tK ?!7 j jf.-K-M---::.--' 2- J V ti in n n ,Ji t i v ''".leaattr - ... i I ii . .1 ..... I r, ., i.,,.., , ' , : . .jr II ' 'j.i ililL. r" T rr TiKc- i" 'f :t V-:!. While Mrs. John Jacob Rogers, Massachusetts congresswbman, is crusading for better pie in the con gressional restaurant, the' two other women representatives, Mrs. Mary Norton, N. J., and Mrs. Julia Kahn, Cailroriir af 6 ar.:ve;ry aid ing RepresentatlvtrJo?irr'PhlIrrJ Hill,'- Maryland, in his effort to" ob tain vine and biser modiffcations of the Volstead act. Tpi Repre sentative Hill conferring with Mrs. - i , George" Ely Crosby, the cbam pioblfly caster, sa id at banauet; "I'Uiconclade my remarks,gen tlemen; without any mention, of the fall of the franc or other ques tions of international financ'for I don't know any more about in ternational finance than my new housekeeper knows about fishing. -"I j was gretting . ready for a week'sj trout fishing last 'June when my hbusekeeper bustled Into myJ bedroom with a big bundle of aticky; black-speckled 'trash that she began to" shore Into myggrip. - fllold on. I said. 'What Are you J doing with those flypapers V ; rIVe beep jsavlng. them fop- you ever since the hpt spell, sali-the Ignorant old dame. 'You know you told me.'Mr Crosby, that yp always had to buy flies whe4 yon went fishing. " : ; I . Kdhn Cleft) and Mrs. Rogers. Be-j Tow, frs.1tbgers feeding pie from the hoase restaurant to Represen-j tative S. J. 'Montgomery. Oklaho ma, "baby of congress" 'and other colleagties. can get away from Clifton, they 1 have to climb over half a mile up the canyon sides to the mesa or plateau above. Bub " had forgot ten to learn the way out, except over the main road. So when "Skeets" Witt, he prospector-miner- banker - sheriff, was told of the ruckus, he just drove up on the mesa .in his Studebaker and sat on the rrm of the canyon and smoked, waiting for Bub to put his head above the big gully. It was the easiest man hunt the car ever had no cactus to run over at all. - It took five days to starve Bub out and force him onto the road for water- . j Skeets saw him come up. He knocked the ashes out of his pipe, touched the self-starter and drove -casually up to the crestfallen, hun gry and now tearful outlaw, the erstwhile terror of the mountains. "Tie your horse on behind, Bub and get in and I'll give you a life back to town," he told" the scared lad. who saw the muzzle hi a 80-50 high-power rifle leaning Over4 the side of the car. Bub got a year In the state prison, but he had some vengeful asttsf action. ' ' - " The meal he ate when Sheriff Witt sat him down in the Clifton Hotel dining room rupted the eounty! BUSINESS ACTIVIH IS M G1S Ah Englishman was recently; in vited by a New York man to ' ac company him on a hunting trip on Long Island. - i "Large or' small. game?" lacon ically asked the Britisher, who had bunted in every other quartWof the globe. , j. .-.,- . , . ; - .-5i "You don't expect to find lions and tigers on f Long ' Island,'., do , yon?:' 'queried therNew Yorker. "Hardly," responded the-Bolton, "but ; I. like a sjpice of " danger In my Jiunting.". .j,,,. .-- "U that's the case.',ajisered the j other with a grin. "Imyur man. all rigni. - i ne. iasi nB x went out I shot my brdthey-lMarw in the. leg." t" ' 4-' I f main there has been an absence of unsettlement in prices for both L raw materials ana manufactured. product." Weekly bank clearings' 510, 150,031,000. , ' ! Continued Increase in Bank Clearings Indicates Lull " Is Now Past almost bank- Buy a Want Ad it Pays Big NEW YORK, Jan. 22. (By 'As sociated Press. ) Dun's tomorrow will say: ' "Xot only is the stability of general business maintained, but there-, are .accumulating ( signs of renewed activity in different di rections. . The post holiday lull, though still visible in some quar ters, has been less marked and of shorter duration than usual, and 'there are many reports of dealings in excess of those of a year afro. This phase is reflected in most of the statistical barome ters and the continued gain in bank clearings is the more sfgnifi cant 'becausff prices' for various commodities are below the levels prevailing af this time in 1925. The current t week developed easing in a number of markets and Dun's list ; shows a consider able excess of declines, but in the TIRE MANUFACTURER DIES AKRpN, Ohio, Jan: ZZ.-C Straddieman, president of M Ithd Goodyear Tire & Rubber company dropped-dead at his home here at 8 o'clock tonight. - 4 r A ihigh building .was UWng; er ected when a ork'man"io8t" his footing and fell from the robf. In his fall he managed to grasp a telejcrabh wire.- which still -left him '! at- a ' perilous .height ifrom j,' , the ground. . ' . . ' I y , "Hang on,' for your .life," shout- T ed his feiow workmen, andisoraev of ,them ran ' to i procure a mat treisr.on .which: he could dop. He was picked , up senseless and taken to a hospital On bN re- , covery he was asked why lie ,( not hang on longer.. "Shure." he said, "I was afraid the wire would break." I More people overeat on Sunday than overpay.. , ... : 1 ' nnnpnBnnnl"l Your. Consideration Is Invited to inveatigata tli vnlqsn plan ji4 taa laatinf advantaci that xair b created for TOUB CHTT.I UureagU ont Jnvenila EducaUoaai Trust TaoA.'; J--. v-.i- '-.. ' .H ' Our aim fs to guaranty $1,000 or mart at aim of 18 r aoaner. In event of your prior death We will Immediately poy fl.ooo or mora without furthi-r deposits from your iUt and $1,000 at age of IS. i I .' ! I. . . . It rteh is eanaeit in conseninee of an accident, we will p $2,ooo or more, ASH. we require no further deposits from TOl.'R FAMILY, but we will still pay your child another full f 1,000 at as IS. ' -'-! i - ii j-' i i- -..:'-.-' ---- - ' - ' If VOU brroiDe dieMed o)that YOtT cannot wor any more, p WK. the company, will makokal! fwtnre tepitv o that your child stilt gets-The fall SI. 000 or more at aire 18. betides, we will t pay you a monthly income! while yon! are. so disabled. . ' In the d rrent of -your cfcild s tlesth any time prior to see Si IS, we will pay tae full $1,000. or more immediately to yon re- I gsrdieks of former benefits waich maty, already bare- been puid. THE. KATIONAI UTE XSSX7KANCS COKPAKT 1 offers thlj unique and tndiTidnal aeTvlca tn yon for a small j mpmiis scevnusf to ages. -? We have oer $400,000,000 of protection- in fores; now. ' -'.' ' 5 . . VICTOR 8CBKEXOEB, Special Aent llione 677 447 K.l Commercial St,' Salem : '!- An3-H.it!.iiiiPtHiimi:ilinvuii i -t T'aiHaiiaaJiliiiiaHBiiiinMiismniiiiiitiiinii . a tmmm iw " utmmt i .an in Where Ex-Kaiser Stored His Wines and Hid Imperial Gems and Plate cut worms anoyaer Py!Qzr&Uito4.tnL, to try ' .. ; 1 y y?:is:z urrraiy9 .when . ; r r..,- 't Ll,.tJ w-ct fur ': uung r jt in w i .)iihwi.iimimh(ih M n yr JT.r ft.f?!??' m""' m: I - ' ,. t I M- -:'y.&'Z-'-y-y'--'-'-- 'i:?t ykfi r !1 Famous-wine cellars in Berlin or the Cromer katecrar belnfc jen by tho public for the first , time as a commercial firmtikes them vcr as storage space. . This photo shows ; the corner of th etllar.s hero the Imperial gold-plate --and -gems, wcro iiiJdca .during . th volutiori of 'U18. -. 5- -;t: '.-i;- a!nsl! lialiJaiiawiiitt 11111,1 T0D1I and every day 4 next week ! ?3 1 -V N-1 -i Si MILLER'S JANUARY CLEAR ANCE SALES 'I. pttH')fwmtfti,'i i'!jwimr-)tm!nr't1T'