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Better Bomes
SEVENTY-SIXTH YEABi
SALEM. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1926
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Hose Grist MiH of News Draws Characters From All-Walks
of Life; Heroes and Heroines Divide Headlines
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"Turn to the press its teeming sheets survey,
" Big with the bonders "of each passing: day ;
Births, deaths and weddings, forgeries,! fires, wrecks,
Harangues and hailstones, brawls and broken necks!"
Somewhere we ran across the above jingle and we are
reminded of it every time we scan the daily paper, our favor
ite paper though: it be, and a fairly, conservative one at that.
: Columns of .catastrophe ; corners in crime. Here and there
and again a clear account of some event, a straight statement
of fact, ai statistical ' record these caljn andi dispassionate,
anua so piucn excitement, to give written: proof that the
wona nas not yet gone. maa.
And who are the characters in .the dramas of the hour ?
The Shades of our ancestors, could they, repeat Rip Van
without hesitation declare:
"Men-o course, andby. very virtue of their nature."
r But the Shades poor benighted things, would be jolly well
nuscaKeni . , .
i 1925 heroes divide- the headline honors with heroines.
Desperate Desmonds are-indeed all but outri vailed in both
crime and numbers, by. Daring Desdemonas.
- If yotrddubt it mark this evidence:
Widow of a; Financier Succeeds to His Seat in Congress
: New California Member. Reported to . Be - Good Wife and
Mother. """'
. Women Storm Albany to 'Aid Dry .Measure Envoys of
Clubs, Churches and Civic Groups Seek to Win Wet Republi-
'can Senators.
. Woman Lawyer Criticises Transit -Report Says It Deals
tii- ri jjfiv. ts a. - "m l i; 1 i a. m 1 m
Lightly on the Needs of the Day. '
; Girl Pianist," Just Sixteen, Devotes an Hour a Day to
Thought Declares It Helps Her the Better to Understand
Life and' to Develop Her ' Art.
So; far so good and to the credit of the fair sex. But
Rad'on!.1:.- -
Woman Bank Treasurer Goes to Jail in $110,000 Shortage
-Purchase of Stock with Funds of Farmers and Students
Closes Trust Comnanir 100 Years -Old. t.i .whja- , ;ev .
. Says Chum Slew in a Jealous Rage Former Girl Friend
Is" Witness Against Young Married woman on Trial for
'Murder.- ,;.::! ;
. Girl to Bare" Slaying Seventeen-year-old Dorothy, Ac
cused of Shooting Her Sweetheart, to Tell Her Story to the
and Jury.
Psychic Swindler in Toils Former Vice President of
Women's Foreign Missionary Society Alleged to Have Mis
represented Ownership of Property in an Attempt to Obtain
$5,000. 4
r; This on the debit side of the feminine account book. And
all these tales of feminine effort and achievement, good, bad
and indifferent, on the first two pages of one day's paper.
Whoever would have thought it! Certainly not stern Great
Grandfather, who so ardently advocated home as woman s
sphere. Nor little Great Grandmother, who agreed with
him. '
. This new freedom! What does it really mean? For how
much profit and how much loss must it make accounting to
Womanhood? x
V We hazard no opinion, make no prophecy. Only one thing
are we very sure of.
i Woman, headliner in the news, tells the world the truth
custom had so long forced her to conceal that she is not in
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Indian Medicine Men to
Chant f or Needed Rains
Members From Six Tribes to Appeal to "God of Thunder" at
Ceremony on Custer Field Day; Weird Dances
Scheduled for Battle Anniversary
SHERIDAN, Wyo., June 5 (By. Associated Press.)
Medicine men of six Indian tribes of Montana, South Dakota
and Wyoming will .weave their charms andsound their chants
trying to convince the "God of Thunder" to loose rain from
"U . .l J i A . X 1 X 1- T 1
m wouus in a ieaiure event oi me emi-cenienmai ceie ora
tion of Custer's Last Stand to be held in June at the battle
field site of the Little Big Horn river.
They will contest to see who can make the "best medi
cine," on the last day of the celebration.
The medicine men, each representing a tribe the Chey
enne, Crow, Blackfeet, Assinibone, Flathead and Sioux will
. be more than three score and ten years. The chief medicine
. man of an Indian tribe must be one of the oldest members of
. the tribe.
. Their bodies covered with white clay, and faces and limbs
painted with red orange and yellow hues" in weird designs,
each Indian will carry a staff, tipped with brilliantly-colored
feathers. With a whistle in his mouth he will ride through
the -Indian camp on the battlefield, blowing the whistle and
chanting weird phrases. All the while his arms will be out
stretched to the Great Spirit. Each medicine man will be
. alloted 30 minutes to "mix the medicine" that will precipitate
rain.. .J. - ..c j.-,. ... ;
V. In Bear Tail, oldest medicine man of their tribe, the Mon
ytana Crows of the Pryorreservation have a participaht who
l m expected to "mix heao bis medicine." ; Five years ago,
Ss&T Tail warned the tribe that it would rain oil a certain
day when a rodeo was to be held. He was jeered by the
younger members. But when rodeo day approached, he
j. fmixed medicine" and had his squaw make the tepee , fast
-warning her a big storm was coming- ', j ,
' Not' a'.cloud obscured the sky; so.theTPUth? prepare fpr
. thB-rodeo; J.ust as it started a drenching:rain occuTr;siip
1 , plemented by a strong gale, which" blew away all the tepees
Love on Battlefields Is
Used as Theme of Story
BiH Ransom Proved His Love to His Sweetheart by Demon
strating Real Love Towards FeUowman; "Whole
some Story Written by Rev. E. H. Shanks
Ernest H. Shanks
"Pilliwink! Pilliwink! Rub-a-dub-dub-dub-dub !"
Fifes screaming; drums beating; flags flying! Men en
listing; women crying; boys running! Excitement every-
wnere i war, terrible war has been declared ! What a time of
trial, hasty preparaton, and the separation of families! Hus
bands and brothers off to the front ! Wives, sweethearts and
children left behind to pray and weep and pray again.
Among those enlisting Bill Ransom was one of the first.!
uui, a great big, good-natured chap hardly 21, entered as a
private soldier and Was soon raised to an nffirer in tho ranks
Bill was the only son of the1 Ransoms, and it was a heavy!
oiow to nis. parents to have him go. But when the country
called they could not say no.
There yas phecither who felt the separation even more.
Effie Wilson was Bill's sweetheart. It was well known in the
community that they were to be married before long, though
the day had not been set. Now Bill's going away to war
spoiled all their plans. Effie would have married him before
he left, but he said, "No, Effie, it will be better to wait. May.
be IH not get back. Who knows? Or maybe I'll be injured
or broken down and it would nothe fair to you." So the
wedding was postponed. Perhaps that made Bill only more
dteermined and eager to make a great record, which he did.
It was a long, fierce struggle, running into months and
then years. The fortunes of war are very uncertain. Bill
Ransom was raised from .one rank to another until by the
end of the war he was a colonel in command of a regiment.
All this did not come easy. Several times he was wounded:
once very seriously and her spent weeks in a hospital. There
never was a hard place but Bill was ready to fill. There was
never a position of danger that he would not ask his men to
go unless he was willing to lead them himself. His men loved
him and trusted him. The other officers knew thev could
count no him. His wisdom was sought in consultation. All
the time there was one thing that held him true to the best
and highest ideals even in time of battle. It was the thought
of his loved ones at home. He could never forget the prayers
of his mother and father, the tears and embraces of his loved
ones. Most oi an -mere was one face forever before him. H
Olden Days Recalled As
Golden City Celebrates
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Twentieth Birthday Finds San Francisco a City With. Little
of Its Pre-Frre Flavor; Old Joints and Dives Are
Ifow Things of the Past
SAN FRANCISCO, June 5. (By Associated Press.)
1 he new San Francisco is approaching its majority. It is 20
years old
Before April 18, 1906, it was a collection of international
settlements. There was almost as muth of China, Italy and
Ireland about it as there was of America. Square riggers,
loaded to the Plimsell mark with copra from the South Seas,
lumber from the Great Northwest or nitrates -from Chile
came into the harbor with ballooning sails binding the town
to the earlier period when the "lime-juicers" went down the
Japanese current on the blustering . trade winds and every
incoming cratt brought it happy, eager company of treasure
seekers
The Barbary coast blared from twilight until dawn, and
the sailormen from every land danced with the blowsy beau
ties there. Corks popped from the champaigne, little of it
real, that was served at Bottle Koenigs and Bottle Meyers,
and which oiled the joints of the dancers at the Montana and
other old time Coast resorts
The trapdoor saloone on the Embarcadero called to other
adventures, although it had been more than a generation since
the shanghai crews used these trapdoors to impress the bibu
lous way-farer into sea duty.
Chinatown was a transplanted Canton, and blossomed as
luxuriantly. Gambling flourished in garish dens, with the
I sound of the clicking chips, kept from the ears of the police
by a banging, bleating, hardworking orchestra. Highbinders,
their pigtails wound under their caps, followed their slinking
game of death in old St. Louis Alley and in Sullivan Alley
hardby. The theatres, filled from pit to dome, put on their
sing-song drama, an act a night, with the white guests sit
ting on the stage
Little Ireland built up the district "south of the slot,"
while the Italians occupied Telegraph Hill, overlooking the
bay, and spread out fanlike toward North Beach and China
town. Russia planted a silent, somber little colony on and
around Russian Hill. The American colony down from the
heights of Nob Hill, and, in the earlier periods,, Ricond Hill.
For many years a little steam tram ran around Land's
carried ner picture in nis pocket over his heart and hp smTl,! u. nut jxc. nn.fin i; u
vwuv mo ejeo. XI, llliXV UK
' uninaa on pas z)
ocean shore, and Sutro Heights, close. by.TCable cars were
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I Rufe's
Ravings,
Monmouth High School Graduates
NOW IS THE TIME.
FOR THE TIME-WORN query
"ts IT HOT enough for your'
WELL, is' it?
PITT, THE pot: " back-ens t
ers" who don't know what it is"
to live in a country where the
summer climate isr never too hot
and never too cool and an hour's
drive takes you where the
mountain breezes blow. Gosh!
It's great to live in Oregon.
WHO REMEMBERS when the
men wore shirts that buttoned in
the back?
TROUBLE WITH WIVUS
A northern editor says that
a man down south got himself
into trouble by marrying two
wives. .. .
A southern editor replied as
suriing his contemporary that a
good many in that section had
done the same thing by marry
ing one.
Ar eastern editor reports that
quite a number of his acquaint
an res found trouble by 'merely
promising, to marry, without go
ing any further. .
Inasmuch as the West has not
been heard from I rise to re
mark that a friend of mine was
bothered enough by simply be
ing found in company with
another man's wife. jp
NOW THAT the tourist season is
In full swing and the sign covered
flivver" is abroad 'in the land it
may not be put of. place to offer
a few suggestion for suitable "epi
taphs" to -be Inscribed on the backs
of the much maligned flivver. The
following list was compiled from
personnal observation and may be
of assistance to those contemplat
ing a tour via the fliwer route:
Kick Cylinders. , -l
Four' Wheels, AH . Tired-
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Fierce- Arrow, With a Qulvev
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Sheldom Cody entered Mon
mouth high school as a freshman.
lie was on the football team of '25
and 26, and on the baseball team
of 25 and 26. He was in; the
student bodx play-both the years
Neva Gillam entered Monmouth
high tbpfil ag a ftee.hjafin.1i ghe
was on the girls'. basketball team
of '25., . .
- Alma -Tittle entered as a senior.
Olive Calif , entered-as" a-fresh-man'v
-She was; secretary s of the
ctodent body of "26, and she was
in the student bod j play, of .'25
v Edgar. Smith entered as a fresh
man, Re w& pa the football ezm
of 25 and '26 and on the. base
ball team the same years. He was
ob the afflrmatite side of the de
bating. team, of '. '2 6k . He .parUci
pated in lhe.atudent.body play of
'25 and;'26;also-vies president of
the student' body '' of 2s. '. '
Electric Typewriter! Is,
Used onNewspaper Wire
Associated Press Installs Automatic Prlntw? on-ManyCirv
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viuis i nrougnout umniry; uiomieaJLypewnicr'.
Averages Sixty-Words Per minute:
NEW YORK, June,6. One of the gfeatest factors in th.e
development of. newT avenues of communication throughout
the earth is the Associated Press of lAmericar the largest
news-gathering and distributing organisation in the world; '
The latest invention for rapid commimication is the, auto-,
matic printing telegraph, machine, a device, which, was .first
used by the Associated Press for the transmission of news.
It has a carrying capacity of sixty I words a minute and
with its corollary Morse, wire, manned by operators, will de
liver to member newspapers the greatest volume, of, state,
countrj" and world news that can be carried over a single cir
cuit. The automatic printer used by; he Associated -Press
is one of the most noteworthy developments in the field of
telegraphic transmission in many, years. .
A single printer circuit will carry into a newspaper office
more than 30,000 words of news- in eigfrt hours. Perfection
of the automatic circuit has grown frohv experiments which
the Associated, Press began many years lago. - From the rath
er crude mechanism that was used at that time has been de
veloped a machine that resembles an ordinary typewriter. It
is controlled by electrical impulses which are set in motion by
an operator at the distant filing pointi The. impulses form
letters which become pages and then reams of news dispatch
es from which the newspaper - selects! many, thousands of
words to publish for its readers..- The installation of the
automatic printer machines in the offices of member news
papers is in charge of specially trained employes of The As
sociated Press, ' j
Five hundred of these machines are now in operation to
the large member newspapers in. New. Iprk, City, New York
state, New Jersey, New England, , Pennsylvania, the north
western states, the southwestern- states," the southern states,
Michigan, the Pacific coast, Ohio, andf torn Kansas City to
San Francisco! j. - ' . ..
Today the Associated Press is the largest user of automat
ic printers for the transmission of rievs: .Notwithstanding
this, it is. now employing, more Morse loperators . than in the
history of the organization. This is because printers are
used only on double and triple circuits where a flexible Morse
circuit is at hdlMr,theychageH6fiegion 5Ds.Vjj ?:
In 1914 The Associated Press estabjished'ihe first success-
ful printer circuit. This; was : in the; metropolitan area of
New York. Two years later it put into operation rthe first
long-distance circuit to function eff ir itly between New
York and Boston. The early equip? i , was rather crude
and complicated, but. was rapidly improved until-today, it is
a compact, and relatively small mechaiiism.
In effect the machine is a standard, typewriter slightly
modified to meet the. requirements of automatic operation,
and mounted n a pair, with both transmitting and copying
machines on a steel table twenty-nine' ljy forty-five inches, - v.
Since its practicability, was proyer, the use of automatic
printers by The Associated Eress has jexpanded rapidly. At
present the trunk circuits in all parta -of the country are so
equipped. A' circuit connecting New (York and Kansas City
with the larger cities in Ohio was recently opened. '
Earlier in the year, operation was fbegun on circuits from
Kansas City to the coast, from Kansas City.to the southwest,
from Louisville to the south, from Sanj Diego to Spokane, and
in the states of Florida and, Pennsylvania. In addition to
circuits in operation from Chicago tjo the northwest, New
York to Buffalo, New York to Portland, Maine, and in the
states of Connecticut, Michigan, and Jew Jersey. . -
The printer circuit has at capacity ot 70.00Q words in
twentv-four hours, because it operate; steadily at a uniform
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Mfirtvr to X-Ray Fiffhts
War for Modern Surgery
Dr. Frederick jBaetjer Has Lost Ejgh( Fingers in Attempting
to Conquer Demon That Has Slain Many f;Hia-Co-Workers
in Field of Roentgen Rays
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BALTIMORE, June 5 (ByV Associated. Press.) Dr
Frederick Herirv Baetjer, professor! of Roentgenology at
Johns Hopkins Medical school, is back athis big game of tag,
with the vengeful slave, he is taming:,-
"The "Last of the . Old , Guard"-f with the scars of ; tha
latest of more than three score and ten amputations and skin
grafting operations scarcely healed-4-is rounding out a.quar
ter century of duelling with the dragon that lurks , in Roent
gen's ray. He plans to stay in the fight until the.rayfs sear-,
ing thrusts finally break down the defense . of : modern, sur
gery. - i . .- . . r- I " ;
TneiHinns Y.rov Vtttrrta slnwlv srri palincr hi hodv. awaV.
iUAtUiwtftf a , aw aM - - - w
They have taken seven of his fingers andone of his thumbs
and the glands virom ms rignt arm ana snouiaer. oeveniy
two times hei has. been burned and ias many times has Dr.
Kaetier's medicatcolleafirues succeeded in staying the attack.
But each burn has left its matk. .
nr. Baetier, in darinst a demon that has- slain many of his
early co-workers in Roentgenology. One of the last to die was
Prof. J, Bergonie, an outstanding authority whose work had
been contemporary with Dr. Baet jeif's. t Surgeons see a like
fate awaiting , the Johns uopKins projessor, out ne goes on,
displaying his contempt for the X-ras death threat in writh
ing whimsica rhymes andTjihgles. r, '
In common with, his associates, pr. Baetjer- engaged in .
Roentgenological research whea knowledge of the ray and' its
nAfBMvm in it infnnrv.N It xvast iomo time after the dis
covery of the X-ray that ita-'effecton the human body began
to DC UnaeTBUXX, snu w uwae piuuccr xiayjo jch,ixcit; tiie
screens which today protect X-ray Operators,1 nor the need
WViilfl w nktfpnt.riirr1rtrmrir T-rnv
treatment would be exposed to the rayi for only a fraction o f
a second, the early day operators were subjected to the rs.y's
full TX)Wer lOr lOUS iwnoua ucj eunaw orwenr ur yam
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