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- TfarCaSCOH SlATtgOAIfr $s!a Oirtca, Sca&ay llora!n. October 18; 1925 Death Stalks as Convicts Fight for Freedom Lay Seirinraoiras "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe." From First Statesman. March it. 1151 0 V r THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. S Prague, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publisher Chables A. Spkacue - - . Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - - Managing-Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ose for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper. -- ii - ' Entered at the Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office 215 S. Commercial Street. -' - ' - - Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bide San Francisco, Sharon Bids.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bids. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Are.; Chicago, 3 CO N. Michigan Are. Railroad NE easily remembers some J thine: it was for car shortages to occur and traffic tie-ups during the peak of the freight the year. In almost every year were periods of longer or shorter be stoppage of traffic at railway terminals. Tangles which took days to unsnarl would impede freight movement, caus ing serious loss to business. The last bad car shortage just emerged from the period of stock was in poor condition, and for maintenance, the road beds ernment control; or had failed to be improved to keep step with the march of traffic volume. It was difficult to get cars in many districts. Farmers with wheat in elevators saw the price slip from $3.00 a bushel to $1.00. They were unable to get the top price because they could not ship their wheat for lack of cars. Manufacturers were frantically wir ing railroad executives pleading for cars with which to move their outputs. -The effect of this congestion of traffic and shortaze of .," n1ti otz-vlr io olnravo carinng in production. Also it causes duplication of orders which give an artificial fever to business. In such times the mer chant may double his orders fearing that unless he does so he may get no goods; and expecting if one shipment does arrive to cancel the other order. This stimulus to business is artificial and unhealthful and i i? i ii 3 of. 1920. , One reason why prosperity has been so well sustained ' since 1922 has been the efficiency of railroads in moving 1 freight. Handling greater ousmess tnan ever Deiore tney t i i 'ii i. iL. ; - 1 a: rri ; nave aone so wunoui me previous jam anu ue-upa. mac have been car shortages of consequence for years. This sum- mer there was a congestion at terminals because of heavy a Knt tK ? a wo a Kapoii co ff f Vi a alinrt Q fro nf elevator storage space and not 1 it might be remarked that the ing up by many weeks the movement of gram from field to market, a factor which will have to be regarded by railroads and warehouse concerns. More and bigger locomotives, more ancLbigger freight cars have been put in service by the roads. Better than that, there has been a remarkable speed ing up of car movement per day. Increased efficiency has been one great factor in avoiding the gluts and constrictions of previous years. Another great agency promoting the same end has been the co-operative work between the railroads and the indus tries. Shippers' Advisory Boards were organized a number of years ago by regions, to work with the roads in planning traffic requirements. At the beginning of each quarter ses sfons are held in each of the 13 regions, attended by repre sentatives of all kinds of business calling for freight move ment. At these meetings each industry reports the pros pective need for cars during the quarter. Thus in the Pa cific Northwest lumbermen will report the expected car load- j ings of lumber. Fruit canneries will report on probable cars to be moved. The same with wheat, live stock, ore, vege tables, petroleum, cement, paper, etc, etc. It has been al inost uncanny the accuracy of these estimates in actual prac tice. Sometimes car loadings have run almost to the identi . cal number given in the advance estimates. The advantage of this to the railroads is apparent. They are not confronted with a sudden and wholly unexpected de mand for cars. Instead they can locate their equipment in the strategic spots where they will be needed. It is some thing of a triumph in organization when a man can order a car for any point on a great railway system and be sure it will be there at the time specified. Internal organization 'within the railways has done much- Loyal cooperation from the business interests they serve through these regional advisory councils has been vital as well. It may be of interest to note that the expectation for car-loadings for the fourth quarter of this year is for a number 2.3 greater than one year ago. The Pacific coast is one of two districts where a smaller movement of freight is expected. The loss will probably be due to falling off in 'umber shipments, in grain and other agricultural products. Cabinet Government and Roads CONSIDERABLE editorial Kj the editorial in the Twin Oregon about a possible disturbance to its road program if the . cabinet f orn of government should be introduced as proposed in a constitutional amendment. The Idaho paper thinks that there is some advantage in the non-political road commission such as Oregon has "in Idaho the department ot public works which is in charge of highway rooting, constrnction and maintenance, is headed by a single Individual. The Inescapable chief penalty Imposed by the system Is that Idaho's whole highway program is subject to politics. The highway program is the political 'football that is kicked this way and that or tucked, Indian fashion, nnder someone's swater during periods of storms -and stress. "When a district in Idaho wants something done about rout ing a highway or building a highway or repairing a highway, the one obvious method of securing fulfillment of the desire Is to begin marshaling political clubs. - These clubs are among the chief instruments used previous to a state election." . Oregon recently had an of malcontents threatened political reprisals if the Roose velt highway were not finished pronto. Besides Idaho, Washington has the one-man control of highway building. There the legislature lays out the pro gram each session, a period of turmoil and log-rolling. The administration of the road work is exclusively in the hands of the governor through his : The simplified structure y ment operating under the single executive has an alluring abDeaL But there is much to anced judgment of boards and ernmental structure is as close to the people as it is in Oregon. .- 'Ware the Sports Column THE Statesman boasts of being the only daily in the state outside of Portland with a home-written "Sports Col umn." It is a winning feature, too ; for folk tell us they read "Curt Comments" before they do the editorials, that is, some do. Others probably don't read the editorials at all. But before our envious brethren of the craft jump in to start a "sports column" all their own, they should learn of its wear and tear on the machinery They may communicate with cv, the manager of this paper, who found this. on his desk one Efficiency years ago how common a moving season in the fall of of business prosperity there duration, when there would was in 1920. The roads had government control. Rolling despite enormous sums spent had deteriorated during gov-. rrt Knainoa6 ' Tf iiisaa lrtcaoc is often a contributing cause i i j ii i lack of cars. In parenthesis combined harvester is speed comment has been evoked by Falls, Idaho, Times cautioning at the present time. It says: example of this when a muster department of public works. of the cabinet form of govern be said in behalf of the bal commissions where the gov .... . - S.-TT-ifif .7' - M rsi soil's, n- V J 1 4 Actual photographs of the riot at life. Upper left shows Danny Daniels, killer and convict leader, wh o was he who shot down most of rignt is an airplane view or the walls give evidence of the intensity who braved a rain of bullets to place a dynamite charge nnder the wall in order that the forces of prison , and right Marlon Keating, Colorado guardsman who dlstin gnished himself throughout the entire morning: "My typewriter, the Remington, is out of order. A set screw is out of the ribbon winder on the left; the winder slips off the spindle and sometimes the ribbon wraps around it. Also there is something wrong with the gears operating the ribbon, and it will go only one way. Curtis." BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS The Salem T campaign: S It commenced last Thursday and will last over Thursday of this week; seven days. It is the an nual membership drive, geared to get 200 new men members, and with the renewals make up $23, 009 in money for the year, Oc tober to October. The total bud get is $40,000, and the $17,600 comes from various other sour ces; from boy and girl and wom en memberships, towel fees, dor mitory charges, and numerous other Incidental Items. S The budget and the staff of the Salem Y are about a third of the force and the money available to several Y organiztions in the Pa cific northwest that do not per form as large a work as the one in Salem. How can this be? There are three reasons. The Sa lem force works harder and long er hours. It is organized better. It has better cooperation from the membership workers draw ing no salaries. Also, the meth ods here are more economical, and the salaries lower. So Salem gets more for each of its Y dollars than the average In this section; much more. The Bits man thinks it gets the high est value of any city of similar size in the United States. It has a total enrolled membershippf 3600 now; men, women, boys and girls. It, directly accommodates twice as many mote, in visitors, transients, information, and var ious classes of service S H S And It contacts with many thousands in various other forms of service; through the indus tries and the schools, the play grounds, the churches, the work in all the towns and cities of Marion and Polk counties. Through the free employment of fice, accommodating the whole central valley, finding jobs td the extent of 1000 or more a month in busy seasons, thus helping the growers of various products and all others needing help, without expense to either the employed or the employees. And this is men tion ot only the high light points of community service. "W The Salem Y was started in 182. It has had five locations. three in . the first eight years. First over Pattons book store, then in the Hughes building, then over the Salem Hardware com pany's store. Then In 1900 it se cured Its own building. Commer cial and Chemeketa streets. And It moved into its present fine hew building In 1926. It seemed commodious. It Is. But It la not big enough for its field. The schedules have to be made care fully to accommodate all needs, and many times every foot of space Is occupied and even then there Is not enough room. There are many activities 12 to IS Bi ble classes, open forum, athletic activities of many forms, swim ming pool, games, and what not. m The $22,000 needed to be pledged In the present campaign is about halt accomplished now; but the balance Is the hardest. That is, about 100 new men mem berships are already pledged. That many more are needed. The last 100 will of course come the hardest. There is faithful work necessary for the remaining days. The bndget was balanced for the year ending October 1; the first time since the new budding u the Colorado State Penitentiary, a t the guards In cold blood when the burning prison while the actual II of the fire. Lower right are two was occupied. More than this, $2600 In interest was paid, $2000 that had been borrowed from the building fund for cur rent expenses was repaid, and a hiatus of a month's expenses was taken up. That is, bills had been paid a month late, and this was brought up to date. The system is as good as a bank's. Besides, the installments of the principal borrowed from the Willamette university endowment funds to complete the new building were kept up and are up to date. The budget was balanced to the last fraction ot a dollar. V This should be continued, and a larger work performed. At the meeting of the workers at the noon hour yesterday some high light words were asked for ex pressing the need and the useful ness of the Y. M. TJ. A. in Salem. Some of them follow: S "It does an outstanding work in the building of outstand ing men, often taking ordinary material, or such as would lead to low grade men without this splendid service." . S 'm "It is the great twilight uni versity. It provides educational classes that are not available in any other way. There are many of these, covering wide range." "It builds true Christian friend ships that may be had in no other way, providing contacts that last in many forms of helpfulness throughout life. This is thf nignest service or tne organlza tlon. and its largest contribution to the high class citizenship ot the future, needed tor a stable society and government,' "It aids in the enllghtment and efficiency of every man whom U contacts and influences." An other: "It is the greatest cosmo politan institution for the building of character." Another: "It ren ders Christian service according to the highest Ideals et that designation." "Since the Y. M. C. A. took up naturalization classes, there has becu 100 per cent efficiency. Claszes have gone through with out one fsilure. That is one of the highest tributes to its effi ciency." e e No man er women, or boy or girl, can take on the work pro vided in the various physical, ed ucational and moral lines of its service to the community without gaining in health, in strength, in efficiency, and In the attributes of true manhood and womanhood. and la the essentials that make Bp good and useful boys and girls." ' "The world's peace Is promoted throughout the world to a great er degree by the Y. M. C. A. than by any other one organisation, by giving to the peoples of all na tions opportunities of mutual un derstanding and helpfulness along rational and practical lines. It is the most powerful aid In the wont that Ramsay MasDonld Great Britain's prime minister. declares is essential to permanent world peace." e e If yon hare read the above ana nve. in saiem. or bare any remote interest In Salem's wel fare, and are able to respond to the call of the present drive, can yon refuse to so respond, in a X Canon City, where death stalked Is reputed to have been the most warden refused to capitulate to gating was in progress. (Lower left) outstanding heroes of the riot. large or small way, according to your ability? Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read October 18, 10O4 Hon. T. B. Kay, Dr. C. H. Ro bertson and Ed C. Cross are on the west fork of Cow Creek, near Nichols, hunting and fishing and have sent a pair ot four point ant lers to the Kay Woolen Mills to be cured. Some miscreant In Yew Park has recently been poisoning dogs in that neighborhood. Mr. Clark has lest two good watch dogs, and Prof. Seley and Mr. Lockhart are also reporting deaths of fine dogs for the same reason. Rev. P. A. Fisher of Mill City is the new moderator of the Pres bytery of the Willamette, which has been in session at Woodburn this week. A half dozen names are already being mentioned for the city mar shalshlp for the election coming in December, among them being: A. Gesner, chairman of the coun cil committee on streets; Louts Folsom, night watchman at the court house; A. A. Disque, cab man who was defeated two years ago for the post of marshal; and T. Cornelius, night policeman at present. Editors Say: SNOBS According ko an Eastern eon- temporary, a certain feminine member ot the Washington Smart Set didn't care for an invitation to tne Hacxtonald dinner. " be cause he was only an ex-coal min er, anyhow." In the same roaainv article, we note that Mrs. Gann would never have abandoned her precedence If the guest of honor had been the "Prta nt in stead et a labor-leader and So cialist," Yon don't ear ae I VJm wnnM like te brand sncli ti1iteAaah utterly untrue, a yellow Sunday- Buppiement yarn, made out of wnoie ciotn. But frankly we are not an nr Utter several years ot. long, dis tance observation, we hare come co tne reiacxant conclusion that, when It comes to nrLrar ostenta tion and downrlsrht lowbrow snobbery, nothing In the world can equal the socially ambitious Yon Closed all I' (Sainton cfeaEx (So. H. Steinbock, Prop. 14. f -il-J y as convicts and guards battled for bloodthirsty figure in the riot. It the terms Daniels offered. Upper The gaunt ruins of the prison (Left) Father Patrick O'Xeu, law and order could enter the riot. woman, in the capital of this great liberty-loving Democracy. e e It Thackeray were alive today, he would either throw his Book ot Snobs in the waste basket, or rewrite it entirely. For Thack eray who was something of a snob himself confined himself almost entirely to the snobs of the masculine gender. We may be mistaken, but It Is our well considered judgment that, relatively speaking, there are no real male snobs in this country. If there are any, they are so surpassed in both numbers and emotional intensity by their "sisters, cousins and aunts" that snobbery in this land of the free and home of the brave is almost exclusively a feminine problem. -Medford Mail Tribune. MIGHT TRY A SPOON The Wall Street Journal and Southern Pacific have nothing on us. We have been cutting our lettuce with a knife ever since let tuce was regarded as an artiele of food. In fact, we understand that the home economics auth orities at the college have boldly stated that It Is all right to cut the lettuce with a knife and while we do not speak ex cathedra in the matter so far as the college Is concerned, still, it they haven't advised that lettuce may be cut with a knife, they ought to, pro viding it is put on the table in its native state. We have always been of the opinion that it should never be served that way, but should. Instead, be run through a hay shredder or a compost mix er, after which most of the salad dressing prepared for It should be thrown out of the window. Corvallls Gazette Times. I iS KIES BRIDE SILVERTON. Oct. 18 Miss Maurine Moores, the youngest daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. William Moores, was Quietly married on October 1 at 1:30 p. m. to Frank B. Wearer, at the study of Dr. Griffeth, minister ot the First Christian church of Los Angeles, Calif, Only a few friends attend ed the wedding services, following which a wedding dinner was given At the Mayflower hotel. The wedding trip was taken over the Continental Air express to San Francisco, the trip being a gift from C. W. Porter, general manager of the company for Kipper day Monday 1 E WIS IS rat mot that Uct vMc ru la - . ... am malnta th print B9 ra tfct T "7 VUm. I Carta Uua i:a. Paid was athletic, not ascetic. h thfnk in terms of the race course, the wrestling match, the athletic fielt. His iwstriis aiiaie with zest ot competition. At ne writes: "I press toward the mark"; "thanks be to God. wno gtvetn ui the victory"; "In all thsa thinn we are conQuerors." Paul boldly declares his stand "I am not ashamed ot tne gospei. Intensely virile; combative some what he did not hesitate to op pose openly the Jerusalem Jews headed by James and Peter; he Aid not fear to eo us to Jerusa- selm and face the Roman gover nor, or even to appeal to tne Ceasar at Rome. ThAra was nothlnr of the auiet- M ahnnt Paul: little indeed of Jthe mystic. He was a Roman Jew. l-U rre an at Tarsus, a consid erable city in Rome's Asian domin ion. He had contacts with Heilen-r ic culture, with Roman political anthnrttifta and nractlces. and with the learned Hebrew scholars. So Paul was a blend, and he sought to blend Jewish Christology with Hellenic culture and logic. Some folk have the religion of despair. To them the world is wholly sinful: their prayer is for release from Its sins that they may escape to "Beulahland." Con tact with the 'World" savors ot evfl. The extreme of this view is exemplified In the hermits who through privation and flagella tion seek to scourge evil from their Ures that they may be sanc tified for a glorious ressurrection. Others withdraw within them selves, become "auletists." insul ating themselves mentally and spiritually from the world around which Mrs. Weaver has-been em ployed. Mrs. Weaver Is a graduate of the Silverton high school. Later she attended Bebnke Walker busi ness college at Portland. For a time she was public accountant and auditor, also bookkeeper and stenographer in the offices of George Adams, East Bide Chrysler dealer at Portland. She went to Los Angeles a year and a half ago. Mr. and Mrs. Beaver will make their home In Los Angeles where Mr. Beaver is in busines. '5 LEAGUE ELECTS MONMOUTH. Oct. 12 Officers were elected for the Woman's League Council of the Normal Thursday evening as follows: Margaret Leltch, president; Es ther Wilcox, vice president; Helen Carter, secretary. Mrs. Addie Ro- bards. acting dean, presided, and various problems appertaining to the work ot the year were talked over. Fast Work Saves . M. Isling Prune iDryer From Fire FAIR VIEW, Oct. 12 Wed nesday, Oct, 9, the prune drier belonging to Mr. Slade and op erated by J. M. Isling caught on fire. The"- cool head and timely action of-Mr. Isling saved the dri er from flames. Mrs. Isling. who was sorting prunes noticed the smoke first as it Issued from the stacks. She immediately called Mr. Isling who extinguished the upper portion of the blase with a small water hose. Then on going down to the furnace he found the door frame burning. This was easily check ed, saving his prune drier from the already long list of burned driers ot this vicinity. The fire ts thought to have started from a spark from the furnace which lodged In the door frame. The Inner door which was lined with asbestos being gone It made it very dangerous and easily ignited by burning splinters. - The Oregon Statesman and The Portland Telegram, two great dallies for cents per month. To order, phone 600. HI WOMAN SERVICE MlASUftXD NOT St. coin BUT I ITS GOLDEN Homelike Our chapel is a . , beautifully dec- AimOSpnere orated and fur- .... nlshed. It is com fortable, attractive, convenient; in every way suitable for the occasion. Everyone who makes use of our funeral homo appreciates its home like atmosphere. The funeral home and Its chapel are integral parts of our service. They are freely off ered. . ' f UNERAlL home XOS SOUTH CHURCHJt y. I! ST them. Not bo Paul. Life to him was a race Christianity to him wag challenge to missionary activity He was not content either to withl draw from the world to live bland ly. He struck out boldly to prop, agandise for his revolutionary faith. So Panl says "run all." Sometimes we see horse races where the laggard at the start makes no effort to capture the lead and soon draws to the side of the track. Others overcome the handicap ot a late start and coma in among the leaders. But the real race is where they "run all." How much of modern conven tional Christianity carries any ath letic spirit? What stimulus U there to the competitive flow of energy that Paul found in his faith? H'ow virUe and vigorous is its creed? We ask. not are they all running, but rather are any of them running? The answer may not be phrased in the amount of many spent for new churches and for mission sta tions, nor yet In the figures of annual growth in membership. The answer must be put in terms of consuming religious teal. In the temperature of the all-consuming passion. Those whose na tures are calmer, who are given more to introspection will turn more to Christ: "Come unto me all yet that laror. The mascu line souls will find Paul's words more inspiring. They like the ath letic reaction and respond to the great PauUne battlecry: "For I am persuaded that eith er death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, ffor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the life of God, which is in Christ Jesus." IK T SEE ID SLEDDING WASHINGTON. Oct. 11-(AD-President Hoover was told today by Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, that prospects for passage of the tariff bill by the senate before the regular session opens in December appeared un likely. At a White House conference the Republican leader called at tention that in the remaining six weeks the senate has yet to act upon all of the numerous rate schedules. There was no indica tion of the attitude of the presi dent toward going ahead with the tariff measure in the regular ses sion, should it still be pending at that time. Meanwhile, the debate in 4he senate took on renewed intensity as late In the day Senator Robin son of Arkansas, the Democratlo leader, had expunged from the record a telegram from the execu tive committee of the American Wage Earners Protective confer ence which had been presented for reading by Senator Watson. NOTED VISITOR MONMOUTH, Oct. 12 Dr. Clyde Moore, of the department of education of Cornell University, and whose special field Is Rural work, was a distinguished visitor at the Normal this week. He ad dressed the students at 7:30 Tuesday evening in the audito rium, and at convocation Wed nesday. Mrs. Ines Miller, of the Rural department of the Normal, enter tained at dinner Tuesday evening in Dr. Moore's honor. Coming Monday Fox Elsinore THE TOO BLACK CROWS I mwJiiT CTua i fY if toe r mum is