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PAGE FOUR - The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon. Saturday Mornlnr. December 28, 1929 - . I 4 4 i f L zzilCAHS COLLIDE . . n',zz s fttjFSK -si flfilD TURN OVER THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO, Cbubxts A. Sfrague, Shtcdon F. Sackett, Publisher Chasxes A. SntACCE ... Editor-Manager Sheldon P. Sackett - - - Managing-Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of uil news dispatches credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper. , Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bids.; Los Angeles. W. Pac. Bids. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Steeher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Are.; Chicago. 3 SO 1. Michigan Are. Ford-Parsons-Steeher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison Are.; Ill I I kvrl aJL r VV t VA- V. II Entered at the Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Seeond-Clatt Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Butmetm office 215 S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail Subscription Rates. In Advance. Within Oregon; Daily and Sunday, 1 Mo. 50 cents; 3 Mo. tl.25; Mo. 2.25; 1 year 14.00. Elsewhere 50 cents per Mo. or 15.00 for 1 year la advance. By City Carrier: 50 eents a month; 15.50 a year in ad vance. Per Copy 2 cents. On trains, and News Stands 5 cents. Christmas Cards THERE is more to Christmas cards than just a friendly greeting". It is well to hear from old friends, especially those who live in .distant places. Memories are revived, and cordial associations are brought to mind. But a Christmas card reveals character, like one's handwriting, or his old shoes, or his eyes. We like to get Christmas cards, because we are vain enough to be pleased that old friends still remember us and new friends have regard for us, and because we like to as sociate the greeting with the friend who sent it. The design of the card, the sentiment, the material all bear the imprint f the sender's choice, of his taste, and of his personal traits p of character. Here is one from an architect, black like a death - notice, with original design and sentiment that is all "in re verse" till the last line restores 'poetic justice." But then he in a "modern," a worker along unusual lines. We wouldn't like, to live in a house he designed, but then he does "stab our spirit broad awake." Then here is one from Tom Killilea who showed us all through the Ringling circus yard last summer, a glorious folder with the full pageantry of the circus portrayed in glowing colors. Then there are others, many, many others; some business greetings; others personal greetings. But we like them, and we like to look them over a few days after Christmas, when one has a little more time to study them, to see through ithe card the face of the sender, and hear his voice again. Perhaps if folk realized how a card takes the ftlace of a personal letter they would take more time in se eding: and in designing their personal Christmas cards. Instead of rushing into a stationer's store and calling "Gim me some Christmas cards," they might pause long enough to choose cards which they can really "stand back of," cards which would really carry the impression they prefer to con vey. So the shower of Christmas cards is more than just a rose-breath at mid-winter. Christmas cards, with a unique personal touch, help make Christmas really worth while. They are couriers of true friendliness. They are the open windows of the heart. What's Wrong with This Picture? Complaining that the roads In their district ate crossly neglect ed; that they get nothing In the way of implements nnless they rote special road taxes and little even when they burden themselves with such levies, F. A. Bell and Al Phillips ot the Sublimity section were in Salem Thursday feeling about for a solution ot the road maintenance problem. They were not planning to appear before the county court, ex plaining that they had been there often enough without securing anything more than a courteous hearing.' They were inquisitive about the manner In which the "Sieg inund" road, which has figured prominently la the discussion ot road matters recently was selected for extensive improvements whea It serves, they both allege, only six families, while the Fern Ridge and Coon Hollow roads which serve from 20 to 3s families each, have been allowed to fail into such a state of disrepair that they are hardly passable to automobiles at places during certain times of the year. Year after year, both Mr. Bell and Mrs. Phillips assert, the Coon Hollow and Fetn Ridge districts have voted special road taxes, and they are at a loss to see, whea viewing the condition ot the roads there, where the money has been spent. Salem Capital Journal. Only a fortnight ago The Statesman was "reverently" warned not to tread on the sacred ground of criticising the county court. It was something high and holy, its acts to be accepted as heavenly dispensations. The Siegmund road, which cost around $20,000 to benefit just a few families and is not being used this winter, had been planned by a road official now deceased, so it must be All Right; particularly since the county judge was born in Marion county. But some of the farmers who have to use roads and have to Pay Taxes for roads are putting big Question Marks about such expend itures as the Siegmund road. They are surely guilty of heresy if not Low Treason. Scientists Meet Again THE American Association for the Advancement of Science has opened its annual session in Des Moines. Coming as it does alwaS's-, just between Christmas and New Years when news is scant and editors have to play up anything they can get to back a headline, the proceedings of this convention always receive unusual publicity. One can nearly always count on some thrust at religion by some bespectacled prof, and it always gets first-page prominence. The preachers may prepare themselves to hear the an nual abolition of God, the annual exposure of false thelog ical notions about the earth, and the annual assault on Day tonism. The preachers themselves, those who have open minds, do not worry about what the science convention may expound. Long ago they got away from biblical Kteralism to the essence of religion; so the annual gesticulations of the publicity-seekers among the scientists interest them but lit tle. Of course there are still preachers who are like Jonah's whale, they swallow anything and try to prove it to be God's command. There isn't any hope for them because they won't or can't apply reason to their theology. GOOD XEWS FROM ROME Thursday's Statesman had a head: "Salem girl received by Pope Pious." The proof-reader thought that was the way it ought to be spelled anyway. The real worry the state office holders occupying positions by executive appointment la not whether they will get to hold, their jobs another year or not. but Just deck is tramps for the next four tms worry is apt to oe ratner acnte. . The city manager plan at Oregon City ought to Bare a good test now that the manager has fired three out of four paid members of the fire department. Either the towav boas knows he has the stuff on the men or else be la a bold, bold With all the countries agreed that an they want is a navy adequate for- purposes ot self-defense, prospects are bright tor bigger bud gets for bigger vessels. JVhat nation ever admitted It bad sufficient ships for self-defense? Jimmy Walker recently re-elected mayor of New York City, b 4 to get f4t,O0 a year. And he probably won't be docked for being late to work, either. . . m : The various robots that served the dark storeroom for a year. which eard in the gubernatorial years. Along about March and April sua. as Santa Clans ay now go Into V4WWxi$ 'ctf nlsW Head on Crash Throws f3 xW JUW; 1 Autos .nto-Ditch; Pas- III I 5 I '.Z I I Mn.)i tS. Ciirr oar niinHnrlnr I i'i.I" BITS for BREAKFAST -By It. 1. HENDRICKS' The Reuben Lewis story: S . Continuing: Mr. Lewis was married at The FaUs, (Oregon Clty, his bride being Polly Fra iler, who came to the Oregon country with her mother and stepfather, John McHaley, In the Applegate wagon train ot 1841. The marriage certificate is an in teresting document. It deserves a place in the great museum that will ere long arise in Salem, perhaps on the campus of Wil lamette university, and likely at the corner ot State and Twelfth streets, a tew hundred feet west of where It Is now, pasted la the old family Bible at the home of Abner Lewis. b W The certificate waa written on a sheet of writ In ninur at thm pioneer times, bordered with the pen tnac was used in making the body of It. It Is In the band of "ramer- waner, tne stetnoaisi Misslonarr who hA chirr of the station at Oregon CItv. and under whose guidance was erect ed there the first Protestant church bunding- ' west of the Rocky mountains; built that year. The marriage certificate reads as follows: "To Whom it mar cancers; This certifies that Mr. Reuben Lewis and Miss Polly Frailer. both of Willamette Falls, Oregon Territory, were duly married by me on the Sth day ot February, 1844. A. F. Waller, minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. In the presence of John P. Brooks, A. Lawrence Lovejoy, Amon Butler. Willamette Falls, Feb. 12, 1884." That was a legal marriage, though there was no license as at present provided. And there was no Oregon territory. Nor did any one have title to anything In the way of land. There was Joint oc cupancy only, by subjects of the American and the British gov ernments, There was no Oregon territory till it was proclaimed March 3. 1849. over five years later. But there was a provision al government, and under its laws a man 16 Years old or a woman 14 years old might mar- ry, ana any minister or any de nomination tor any civil magis trate) might marry them, being allowed a fee of 11. with fift for recording the fact of their mar riage, in any case wnere tne short code of provisional govern ment laws did not apply, the laws of Iowa applied, or -the com mon laws when the Iowa laws were deficient V S Tvireiav. on a nf iha vttnMui was an immigrant of both fS42 ana 1S43. He came as far as the Whitman mission in 1842. and went back with Dr. Marrua WhU- man, and returned and came clear through with the Applegate train In 1843. John P. Brooks and Amon Butler both came In the Annlerate covered waenn train. Up -to that time, every per son In the Oregon country knew about everrbodr and fhrA is some historical record of prac- ticauy every inhabitant of that ume, u one is aiugent and pa tient enough to find it. Reuben Lewis and bis wife came ta what fa now Ifartui county Immediately after their mamas ana toox: up tneir dona tion land claim about three miles from the nan XPulAit ettm t the Waldo hUls. While building tneir own lo cabin, they lived fa the cabin of Billy Barrows who Uved on an adjoining claim. Tne Burrow place is now Known as . the Jndd farm.) The ennui Air. jewu Duut.was after ward reolaeed kv a mam - m. fortable borne. In the first years or in Mr settlement, the Lewis people had to make buckskin elothtng serve almost . exclusive ly for women as wen as men. As thev went wsti stt i.i. nelahbor. titer vm-hii tent. Abner Lewis can remember Wr, SCV: Vi! sengersunnua la the days ot his 'boyhood, the buckskin clothing that was all but general among the early pioneers. - Reuben Levis was engaged. with the other early settlers, la the Indian troubles ot those days. He was in the skirmish called the battle of Battle ereek, and also bo was la the "battle of the Ablqua," In which some II Indians were killed, with no loss ot life to the whites. S For many years the Calapooia tribe ot Indians made their win ter quarters near the home of Mr. Lewis, and in the main were friendly to the whites. Mrs. Lewis was often heard to relate that the only weapon; she had on hand in those days that she knew how to use to protect her self from the Indian marauders was her teakettle full of boiling water, that she always bad hang ing on the crane in the fireplace. S Mr. Lewis joined la the gold rusk to the California mines la 1848. He mined on the Feather river, where the yellow metal was in such plentiful supply that in one afternoon, with his poekeC knife, ho took out 1104 worth of It in one afternoon from one crevice. He started homo by sea, expecting to return to California with bis family, bnt the sail boat he took passage on was the Brother Jonathan, which was 18 days reaching the mbuth of the Columbia, and he was so dread fully sick that he decided to re main in Oregon. He made a sea voyage after this, in 1858, going by way of the isthmus of Pana ma and on to New Tork and back to Wisconsin, to get hit mother, whom he had left behind in 1842. He returned by the same route with his mother. It was only a few years aftac this that the young wife, the bride of Wil lamette Falls of 1844. died, and the grandmother proved a won derful help in the family left motherless. W Mr. Lewis was a very liberal man, always willing to share with those of lesser means. Near his donation land claim was a place where many Immigrants would camp while looking about for a location. Whenever a fam ily arrived in that camp Mr. Lewis would kill a beef and di vide it up among the new ar rivals. Such generosity was gen eral in the pioneer days. If there had been any man uowilling to help the needy new comers, be would have been ostracised as a par'ah: a citizen outside the pale of decency and respect. V It The children of Reuben Lewis and hU wife Polly were: Wil liam, who married three times, first Elizabeth Wyatt, second Maria Dibble, and the third a lady kg married In the east, where he died. Abner, mentioned heretofore. Newton, who married Anna Smith. John, who married Cynthia Tucker; his second wife being Sarah Lewis. Melinda. married first to William Porter, second to Mr. Jennie, third to James Chambers. Mary, who married" Charles Bowie of Salem. Frank, who married Mary Jer man who became a very large woman, weighing at on Urn 500 pounds; traveling with a show of ber own for many years. Sarah died fn early life. Kelson Idled in infancy. Ti Such men as the Lewis fam- nies laid the foundation ot the Oregon commonwealth. TLh e y made possible the settlement ot the boundary question. They caused the United States govern ment to make the Oregon coun try a territory. They conquered the wilderness and raised it to the stature of a ' state. Without the pioneer settlers of the Ore gon, country , the British ' flaa would probably- now he floating over an the Pacific coast. And be hind them were the early mis sionaries under Jason Lee, who started this march of empire westward and over the supposed ly impassable barrier ot the Rocky mountains. V The marriage of Reuben Lewis and Polly Frazler was probably the second one celebrated by a white man and woman in the Oregon country, ' outside of the missionary circles, and that of Allen Davey and Cynthia Brown, the "belle ot Oregon," probably the first Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read Dee. 28, ISO The state portage board awarded contract for construc tion ot the Celilo portage road to Nelson and White of Portland at a figure of 8115,528. The Chemawa Indians lost 18 to 8 against the Commercial club at Astoria in one of their first basketball games. There was lots of fast and severe playing. Colonel Colvin U. GantenbelC commanding the Third regi ment, Oregon National Guard, arrived here from Albany last evening, where he Inspected Company O. The secretary of state is ot the opinion the legislature should make some enactment reforming the manner tn which the census enumeration is made, and also suggests that the commissioner of labor be made the director of census and the county clerk supervisors. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. (AP) United States Senator Royal S. Copeland today sent a telegram to Rear Admiral Frederick C. Bil lard, coast guard commandant, urging that coast guardsmen in volred in the fatal shootlnr of Rn. gene F. Downey, Jr., of Buffalo, rn. Y., yesterday be turned over to civil authorities. The New Tork senator's (aIa- gram which was sent to Admiral Billard at Washington said: "Yon and I have discussed these coast guard outrages and you have expressed the hope they were ended. What can be said now when another apparently needless death Is on the shoulders of your Buffalo men. "My urgent advice in the Han son case waa to submit the offi cials charged with the crime to civ il authorities. The government cannot afford to take any other action in the Downey matter. "The people of the sovereign states of New York are entitled to know whj such evil things can happen and point the way to their prevention, a thing the fed eral authorities hare tailed to do. Rushlight Taken To Hospital, Said PORTLAND. Ore.. Dee. 27 (AP) A. o. Rushlight, former major oi uua eiiy, was removed from bis homo to a local fcomfiAl today. Rashllght suffered a to rero heart attack while enronts from Portland to Salem Monday 10 axieaa tne rnnrai of Governor L L. Patterson. Bis condition fa the past three days has been erl- ucai. attendiag physicians said. S. P. EXPENSES CUT SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 27. (AP) -Southern Pacific com pany's Bet BSeratin tmAia creased daring November, com- COFELfD in AT On P SODE parea w pov., 11Z8. SILVERTON, Dec. 27 What came very nearly being a serious head-on collision was sufficiently avoided Wednesday night to pre vent injury to anyone. However two sedans were thrown into the diteh. each on their left side of the road. The one, driven by Walter Starr of Eastern Oregon was com ing toward Silverton on this side of Mount Angel. One car passed going north. A second car fol lowing close upon the second caught the Starr car, puncturing a tire oa the left front wheel and sending the car across the pave ment Into the ditch at the left side ot the road. The other car was thrown across the pavement to the opposite side. Both auto mobiles were considerably dam aged but none of the occupants injured in the slightest. Mr. Starr is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Starr of Silverton. He was at Silverton to spend Christ mas with his parents. He. to gether with his parents. Harold Williams and two of the John Ritchie children were returning from a day at Portland when the accident occured. The time of the accident was about eleven o'clock in the evening. The names of the occupants of the other automobile were not learned here bnt it was under stood that they were from Port land. PONTIAC, Mich., Dec. 27.-( AP) A statement that Henry Ford made an oral promise to pay stockholders ot the old Lincoln Motor company which he bought at a receivers' sale eight years ago, was made in a deposition filed here today In the 18,000,000 suit of the old stockholders against Ford. The deposition was given by John H. Bourne, former secretary to Henry M. Leland, who was head ot the old Lincoln company. Bourne, who gave his testimony at his home In Detroit on account of illness, said that Ford made the promise to Leland in the spring of 1922, shortly after the purchase. However, Bourne said, letters to stockholders who made in quiries as to their status after the receivers sold told them that their stock had no value. Bourne him self wrote these letters, he said, but signed the names of Henry and W. C. Leland to them, with out the Lelands' consent or knowledge. The letters, he said, were writ ten under instructions from Har old H. Emmons, attorney for the Lincoln Motor company. Emmons' idea, be said, "seemed to be that nothing should be said about" any plan to pay the stockholders "un til Mr. Ford got ready to make the announcement himself; that it was going to be an occasion for Mf. Ford to display a lot t so called generosity, which was all bunk because he was getting a hundred cents worth on ths dol lar for what be paid. Harold rather ridiculed it and called it 'a la Ford' referring to Ford's methods of getting such publicity for his alleged generosity." Ford. Bourne said, twice prom ised Leland hat the stockholders of the defunct company would be paid in full. Macleay Grange Has Program MACLEAY, Dec. 27 Macleay Grange gave their annual Christ mas supper which was served at 6:30 Friday evening. One long table was soread with evervlhlns- good to eat. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jones furnished a large turkey which served the entiregrange. A short program was riven while the guests were still sitting around the table. Mr. Frank Bow ers was toast master. He kept a rinnle of lauehter roinsr frnm t)i. time he started until the finish. Paul Sllke led the members in single? some Christmas mrnis Then the Christmas presents were given to each one present. Mr. and Mrs. Jkhn Tekenberg brought a special treat for every body which was a large one-half bushel basket of delicious grapes. Games and music was then a part ot the program and every one had a Jolly time. Next grange meeting will be the first Friday of January, 1130. QUICK RELIEF FOR COUGHING SPELLS Famous Prescription Stops , Them Almost Instantly The phenomenal sneees of a w a xamous prescription can ed Thoxlne la due to its doable so uon. It Immediate soothes the Irritation and goes direct to the internal cans net reached by pat ent medicines and cough syrups. Tba Tery first swallow . uoaliy stops even the most obitlaato - Tboxiae contains no harmful t2k UiieVV tU safe for the whole family. Sold On a money back guarantee to give bet- suu vtuuer reuei xor coughs or sort throat than anything yon bare ever tried. Ask for Tboxine. Put no read fn n, t r a. ORAL PROMISE BY HENRY FORD TOLD THAT MODISH FIGURE IS RESULT ... -mm - J tfut It ion Musi neuuee u Less 0f the Wrong Foods and More of the Proper Ones, Advises Authority. By ROYAL S. COPELAND M. D. United States Senator from New York. renter CowxmUtioner at BeaUh, Vew Tork City. IT is a surprising: fact that the fashions to a Urge extent determine the healtb f th women of today. Yet this Is true. A few years back the great modistes of the world decided that the fashionable figure most bo the slender one. No woman of curves ER OOPtLANIX But pleas remember, It is only good whea practiced ia moderation. If you are going to reduce, do tt by th natural method of eating less of the wrong foods and more of the proper ones. Exercise more than has been your habit. Ten must learn to make wise Section of foods. It Is not necee- to starve yourself, or to stow weak from the need of food. When you study food values tt does not take long to Bad out what sub stance must be takes sparlncty be cause of their richness ia fats and carbohydrates. At the same time, you will learn what food may be taken in unlimited quantities. Well chosen, systematically em ployed physical exercises axe of great value. But they are of no use unless osed every single day with energy sufficient to produce what I always refer to as "honest sweat" Simply to perspire is not enough one can do that in a hot room. Ton must produce perspiration by the muscular of rort you make. Perspira tion ot this sort seems actually to dissolve the fat. Drink plenty of water. All the water the system craves may be taken In safety. Do not drink n.uch with meals. When taken then it serves merely to wash down a tur plus of food. But whea taken be tween meals tt helps to dissolve th wastes and to put into solution those materials which should be taken from the body, ) am more snd more concerned over th tact that so many women dose themselves with powerful drugs which have a reputed value la tak ing off flesh. It Is not safe to as these drugs. Ton cannot afford to trifle with your good health by any such violent efforts at reduction. Us eommon sens In this matter of reducing. Then yon win be fan proving your health as wsO as your figure. Answers to ileal th Queries C B. 0 What should a girl of II, I feet t Inches tail, weigh? t What do you advise for black heads? What do yon advise for thin tegs? A-She should weigh about 111 pounds. 1 Correct the diet by cutting down on sugar, starches sad coffee. Eat simple food. For further par ticulars send seU-sddressed, stamped envelope and repeat your question. Itf PARXNTS Make it your business to see that your boy enters some article of his handiwork or collection. Any boy can enter without cost and every boy should enter. . OFFICIAL SZAL DESIGNED br Khranla, Betarr. Liana ehL mji s4mi w r a mm saw omi sor au.Bvys WB KV SB BsJeSB Entries fieceived Until Nona, December SHk AN MMumJT OF TmXGS AXP BOHurii mranw AWT COLLECTED BY BALES! BOTS THREE DAYS EXHIBITION MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY DECOffiimO. 31ANUAlVr 1st SALEM Y. M. CA. This exUblUect tadades anything WOOD CRAFT KAXC2AL XXjSTOKY cczrs. gTAxrs lIXSCcrxajrjEOTxg ,. v COIXCCTJOIt :?.., CUX20S EZXICl :' M;'u . iiAXDc&Arr - BOYIs Byea SJBbd For detailed information, ca3 vaooresi OF DIETING D S Ct. nA T lw B7atn could wear the clothes they designed. And so to be stylish, dieting becam the rage. Classes ia dieting, schools of diet sprang ap over night. Everyone, gaaa, woman and child became intensely Interested la losing weight, Persons who never gam thought pre viously to whether they weighed one hundred or two hundred, found their weight to bo a matter ox vital importance. " - la many Instances this was an excellent thfitg. But it was overdone. It was forgotten that ia all things moderation should b our watchword. Your overweight fa not important merely as a matter of looks, It is important because it may shorten yoar Ufa. Then it becomes something ot real concern, something far more important than merely being fashionable. Dieting is a matter reauirina real effort. S Ton should try to gain weight In reneraL Exercise, such as walk ing, dancins and ninnlns ars also helpful WALTER M. C O Do you viae treatment for psoriasis T ad. A. res. For particulars send a self-addressed, stamped envelope and repeat your question. s MRS. L. K. Q. What do you ad vise for correcting constipation? A Tou should eat si regular hours, and only simple and well cooked foods. Avoid foods rich m fats and starches. e e 3. T. B. Q. What should a boy weigh who Is 11 years old and i fet 11 inches tall? I How can I gala weight? A. For his age and height he should weigh about IS? pounds. S Proper dieting and deep breath teg are the secret You should eat nourishing foods and have plenty of sleep sad rest see MISS H. L. Q. What should s rrl weigh who is 17 years old end feet t inches tall? -s How corn I gain weight? A. For her age snd height she should weigh about It? pounds. t Proper dieting snd deep breath ing are the secret Ton should eat nourishing foods and have plenty of sleep and rest e M. A, C What should a girt of 14. I feet 1 4 inches tali, weigh? A. She should weigh about 111 pounds. MISS M. aHow caa I rata weight? I What should a e-trl welsh who is It rears old and feet 1 inch taB? 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