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Daccnferr 23, 1S29 ; . o Favor Sways U; No Fear Sha& Awe," - From First Statesman, March 2S, 1161 - THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. . Chakles A. Spkagus, Shzxmh P. Sacioctt, PIiara ; ChjUOXS A. Sracue - Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackxtt - Managixg-Edi tor ' , Member of the Associated Press . - . The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to' the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other vise credited In this paper,- ' '- Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc. Portland, Security Bids. " San Francisco, Sharon Bids.; Los Angeles. W. Pae. Bids: Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc. New York, 271 Madison Are.; - - ; Chicago, 860 N. Michigan Are. - - Entered at the Potto ff ice at Salem, Oregon, a Second-Clate Matters Published every morning except Monday. Buxintt office 215 g. Commercial Street? . ' - SUBSCRIPTION RATES . . Mall Subscription Rates, in Advance. Within Oregon; Pally and Sunday, 1 Mo. 50 cents; 3 Mo. $1.25; 6 Mo. 2.25: 1 year 14.00. Elsewhere 50 cents per Mo. or $5.00 for.l year : la advance. By City Carrier: 50 cents n month; $5.50 a year in ad vance. Per Copy 2 cents. On trains, and News Stands 5 cents. The Railroad Plan ' fflHE interstate commerce commission after years of study . X has announced a plan for railroad consolidation which was contemplated in the transportation act of 1920. This plan is not compulsory and is not 'final. It represents the best thought of the commission after some years of study. The plan would create five great New England, and nine m the the two Canadian systems in : One major battle was over the four or five system plan for eastern trunk territory. L. F. Loree, president of the Deleware and Hudson, led this fight for the fifth system to compete with the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio and the Van Sweringen Nickel Plate and Chesapeake left, put of the fifth system and made an appendage to a New England system, the Boston and Maine. The Wabash is made the major trunk of the fifth system, to it is attached the Le high Valley and the Norfolk and Western and then it is given the Seaboard Air line which tip of Florida. This seems an clusion for the remainder of the contemplated Wabastrays tem is distinctly an east and west trunk system, while the beaboarp is a north and south line. The great controversy in the west hinged about the con solidation of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific with the merged roads continuing to hold the Burlington as a bridge from the Twin Cities to Chicago. The merger of the two roads is permitted but the them and made the core of a new west-southwest system. It is. very doubtful if the two northerns would merge on the basis of. surrender of the Burlington. They have found it invaluable in reaching traffic sources in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas city, umaha and Denver. . The Western Pacific, whose control is in hands friendly tc the two northern lines, is assigned along with the Denver and Kio Grande Western to the Missouri Pacific, which owns the D. & R. G. W. jointly with the Western Pacific now. This assignment has been severely criticised because it is claimed the roads should have gone to the Burlington which alone is strong enough to offer genuine competition to the Union an4 Southern Pacifies. Had the Western Pacific and the Denver and Rio Grande Western or at least a half interest in the latter gone to the Burlington, then as was intimated some weeks ago by Arthur Curtiss James, dominant-figure in this Hill grouping, the two northerns might have been willing to give up the Burlington. For it would be in friendly .hands and the northerns would join it at several points, in cluding the western connection near Klamath Falls, if per mitted. The country is not so "hot" for consolidation as it was some years ago. The railroads have gotten on their feet and consolidation is no longer urged as a means of financial sal vation. In fact as Commissioner Eastman pointed out, the virtues of consolidation, have been too greatly magnified. borne mergers have been disastrous, for instance the Mellen merger of New England roads under the New Haven; the Rock Island-Frisco combine under the Moores; the Gould sys tem, a loosely knit grouping from Baltimore to San Francis causing the Wabash, Missouri Pacific, D. & R. G. W., West ern Pacific and several other roads to make a transcontinen tal system. These consolidations failed, most of the .roads went into receiverships, and rail development was impeded for years. . ""V The plan as announced will have little effect in speeding up consolidations. Railroad executives will devote a great deal of study to the plan before they start trying to put it into effect. Undoubtedly there will be strenuous resistance to many of the combinations proposed. ; ; Industrializing the Farm 0L. Hanford MacNiderf former commander of the Amer- J ican Legion and former assistant secretary of war, has ' turned farmer. MacNider has succeeded to the positions his father once held as president of-the largest bank at Mason City and president of a big cement factory there. Along with these jactivities MacNider is launching a unique farm enter prise, that is, unique for the type of agriculture which Iowa has always featured- the small, diversified farm. Under the name of the Indian Head Farms comDanv. , MacNider will operate twenty res wcatea arouira xuason vaty ana an situated along paved or graveled roads. The entire farming operation will be in dustrializedHired labor will 1 M r in ii . uue. oo wm me power xnacnuiery ue raoDiie, tnat is, oe mov ed from farm to farm for service. The'farm program will be , Scientific use of fertilizers, rotation of crops and of the land will be adhered to. All the grain is to be marketed "on the hoof." It is no philanthropic enterprise, because the Mac Nider interests own or control experiment succeeds it will be age; And MacNider says he return, saying "We should be than that , ' - Here are some of the features of the plan: ."Married men will be hired these farms will be stocked with livestock. Four horses and tire or six cows will be on the average farm. The employe on the farm will milk the cows and nse what mUk Is needed for his own family. The re mainder will be collected by tracks belonging to the company 'and will be sold br.lt. ;;'iMi;:.;,i.,"---vr . ' "A tractir crew with expert owned by the company will do as a. - . essary 10 supplement me none power on eaca lann. a. iouu 01 awv acres were plowed this last tall at unbelievably low cost. "A hammer and saw crew will Jag and repairing ot farm buildings and fences. In the personnel will be an expert -blacksmith and horseshoer. Members of this group will - also be available for emergency duty at haying and harvest time and men employed regularly on the farms may be shifted as occarlon de mands to help on one or the other turns." - -, t ., Corporation farminsr is comincr. That doesn't ineaii that all farms will co into corporate ownership, nor that all cor porations owning . farms win forcing lower production costs require lower labor costs which may be secured not by. cut- .nog una wai"-3, bui y jujepujj ub uujr vmpwycu u time of those working on farms. A corporatipn can "increase the load" of the farm worker just as it has done to the in dustrial worker. , systems in the west, two in west, besides the branches of the Umted States. group composed of the Erie, and Ohio. But Ixwee's road, is reaches from Richmond to .the unnatural and impracticable in Burlington is divorced from farms covering some 4000 ac- be employed, which will be mo- ' i it ji i . laid out for a term of years. some 8000 acres, and if this extended to the - whole acre will not be satisfied with a 6 able to show a bigger return to. live on each of the farms and operators for the three tractors now mnch of the heavr work as is nec- . M at a at a what Howard OXeary terms ai attend to all the ballding, paint prosper. But competition is for firm products. That will ma a "Chain farms" with the resident on the farm sharing the profits, perhaps owning stock in the corporation may re sult in bigger farming profits and in better living conditions for the families on the farm. It would be a radical overturn of the old idea of small, independent farms, bat no more rad ical than chain ownership of retail stores, banks and utilities. BITS for BREAKFAST w iawti ytwy rw a By R. J. HENDRICKS Karly Oregon laws: W Reference was made la this col umn yesterday ot the marriage law nnder the constitution of the prorisional government. It pro vided that a man If yean old or a woman of 14 might marry but it prorided also that If either of the contracting parties was under 11 the consent of parents 'or guardian mast be had. W The first legislature session. In 1844, changed this, making males of IS and females of 12 eligible for marriage, but requiring the consent ot the parents till the man was 21 and the woman IS. The person marrying a minor without the consent of parent er guard laa was made liable to a fine of 2100, to 'be paid to: parents or guardian; but the marriage was not inTalidated for want of their consent. v W Peter H. Burnett, a member of the legislative committee of nine (as the first legislature was call ed), said the new law was enact ed "only to obviate the evils sure to grow out of the former one. Early .marriages are the rule of all new communities . for obvious reasons. - - la Oregon, especially, where women were few. a girl was sure to-heve suitors before the had fairly reached maturity.. But making children of 12 and is years of age competent to marry led to abuses in colonial (provi sional government) and territor ial times resulting too often In divorce, and sometimes In death e m The members of the first exec utiva committee (standing in the place of a governor) were Alan on Beers, David Hill and Joseph Gale. The second one, chosen . at the election the second Tuesday of May, 1844, were W. J. BaUey, Os borne Russell and P. G. Stewart. Jhey made up the executive branch of the government. The member ot the legislative commit tee were: P. H. Burnett, M. M. McCaxver, David Hill and Mat thew Gilmore from the Tualatin district; A. I. Love Joy from the Clackamas district; Daniel Waldo, T..D, Kaiser. and Robert Newell from the Champoeg (Marlon) dis trict. Yamhill district was not rep resented. So the Oregon : provi sional government legislature of 1844 had eight while It was en titled to nine members. V The . legislature met at The Falls (Oregon City) June 18,in the residence of Felix Hathaway, McCarver was chosen speaker ani Burnett acted as secretary in th absence of Dr. J. E. Lonr. who had been appointed to succeed George W. LeBreton, the first secretary, who was wonnded by Cockstock the Indian at The Falls March 4. 1244, and died from the wound. And Dr. Long who had been elect ed: by the people In May, was drowned in the Clackamas river June 21. Frederick Prigg, who was appointed secretary to suc ceed Dr. Long, was also drowned in the Clackamas river, and Sam- net Holderness was appointed to sueeeed Pxlggv He served to the end. of the provisional rovern- ment, March 2, 1842. - - The . "governor's message of 1144 to the legislature ot eirM saembera, (the legislative -eoBuaUV tee) was an interesting' docu ment. It was signed by the exec utive committee, Stewart, Russell and Bailey. One of these days. when copy la ahert (It the time ever jeomes xt will be nubushed. pi this column. ' Peter H. . Burnett, serving in that early day legislature, who had THE SOWER rwiw jtii im. at utot. tm been a prosecuting attorney in Iewa and was aa able lawyer,-and who had eome with tne Jtpplegste train the year before; was at a loss to know what was the consti tution of Oregon of that" time that it where the fundamental laws left off and the statutory laws began. So the legislative committe decided, under his ad vice, te treat all the laws of the provisional government as statu tory, in order that they might be amended if needing amendment. A, constitutional or fundamental law cannot be amended excepting by vote of the people, because It is supposed to be a law of the peo ple in the first place. This Question settled, the legislative committee (legislature) of the provisional government ef Oregon got aloaf an right, without any constitu tion at all. - The first thing this pioneer Ore gon legislature did was to do away with the "trlumvlratef the executive committee ot three members, and provide for the cnoosmg oi a single governor in stead at the next election. The governor was to have a salary ot 9300 a year. But George Aberne- thy, the first and last and only provisional government governor, never drew any salary. The name of the legislative committee was changed to the house 'of represen tatires, with 12 members instead of nine. The primitive legislature went ahead making laws providing for circuit Judges and Justices of the peace, clerks, sheriffs, recorders. etc The first organizers of the provisional government were against taxes, so they made no laws lor any. But this 1844 legis lature provided for taxation, and made a law to the effect that any person who refused to pay taxes bad no protection from the laws. A. Mr Hough CLOUGH COMPANY Funeral Lady 205 S. ChurcK Telephone -1 20. i n i i nor could he vote. Thus outlawed if they refused to pay taxes, few refused, nor any for long. The first tax law provided a tax of an eighth of one per cent upon the fair valuation of any merchan dlse brought into the country for sale; on all improvements on town lots, on mills, pleasure carriages, clocks, watches, borses, mules, cat tle and hogs; and every white voter must pay a toll tax of 60 cents. The sheriff was made col lector, of the revenue,, for which he received 12 per cent for all moneys received. (Note there was no tax on land.) t The land law was amended by the 1844 legislature. Free men over 18 years old who would be entitled to vote if of age, and wi dows, could legally claim 240 acres. But a boy under 18, if mar tied, could hold land, and all claimants might earn town lots in addition to their acres. Or one might hold COO acres on. the prair ie and 40 acres of timber land not contiguous. m W The seat of government was es tablished by law at Willamette FaUs (Oregon City. I The annual meeting of 'the legislature was fix ed tor the fourth Tuesday in June. A new district (county) called Clatsop was established, oa petition of J. u. Parrtsh. (Another , chaster will be nec essary to give a -summary of what was done by this early day (1844) Oregon legislature.) Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read Dec feft, 1904 A prominent Salem man has issued a statement saying that if the law concerning" entries is to be construed to the letter, many young men will be deprived of the right to take up a piece of govern ment land and that he does not be- Ueve the law should be so strictly construed. Portland The aged and white haired senator from Oregon, John H. Mitchell, today went into J. Dale Taylor -TAYLOR Biiectors Assisant eV. 1 NEl'J FORDS . ' AUUUCED Numerous Improvements Described for Line to Be . Shown Tuesday DETROIT, Dec. 28 New Ford bodies, with added beauty ot lino, roomier interiors and a variety of new colors and color combina tions, will be Introduced through out the United States by the.Ford Motor company next Tuesday morning. (December 21J EdSel B. Ford, president of the Ford eomnaar.- announced today. This is the first statement ny the Ford company of the specific reason for the recent temporary shut-downs of branch plants for the purpose of making changes in machinery and plant equipment. Introduction of the new bodies comes on the heels of two recent significant announcements by the Ford company a general reduc tion In prices of all types In the Model A line, and a wage in crease throughout the Ford plants in the United States, which steps up the minimum wage from six to seven dollars per day. "Since the M"odel A was first introduced, it has constantly been made a better car." said Mr. Ford. in announcing the new line of bodies. "As soon as improve ments have been developed and tested, they have been built into cars in production and immedi ately passed on to the public. That process goes steadily on In the Ford plants. This policy of constant improvement is now giv en still further expression in the new bodies to be presented - by dealers throughout the United States, beginning next Tuesday morning." It is stated that the new bo dies are to have a, number of conspicuous features, not the least of which will be gracefully sweeping lines and proportions usually associated only with cus tom coachwork, rather than mass production. Polished rustless steel will make its appearance in lamps, radiator, shell, hub caps and cowl finish strip. Colors that have not been seen before in the Ford line will accentuate these new developments of the body builder's art. Fenders more generous in proportion, and with an added sweep will make their contribution to the trimness and smartness ot the car, and a lower and fleeter appearance will be Immediately apparent. Complete details of the changes made in Model A bodies were not given by the Ford Company to day. It was stated .however, that no change will be made in the prices of the various types. the government's inquisitorial chambers to tell what he knew of the frauds which the government believes to have been perpetrated upon it in the acquisition of pub lic lands. When the senator left the court room he was apparently nervous, bnt the investigation is ended so far as he Is concerned. PARENTS Make it your business to see that your boy enters some article of his handiwork or eofleotton. Any boy can enter without cost and every boy should enter. EJ5fS OFFICIAL SEAL DESIGNED BT BRUCK OOOLRT, SAUQl " OPEN TO ALL SALEM BOYS by Kiwanis, Rotary. Lions club. Fablie KehaaL t. m. n a , . - and Bey Seoeia, for all , ?: Entries Received UnW AN Kg Hi KIT OF THINGS AND HOBBIES HADE AND COLLECTED BT SALEM. BOYS . 11 THREE DAYS EXHIBITION v MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 30, 31-JANUARY 1st 1 SALEM Y. M. C. A. - rMhfflosi irledes anything HOOD C3AIT NATURAL lOSTOBT COINS. STAJ&TS lSSCBTl.ftSOUS CCLIXCIIC3 -centos, KXLXCS HANDCSATr - ESPECIALLT THE PARCH MENTS' 'Tk cloak that X left at Troas with Oim brUg wfcea tto ot, 'tlit books, oipoelaily the psrehments." II Timothy 4:18. ' Paul U writing; to Timothy from Rome. He has nearly reach ed the end ot his life Journey: "The time of my departure is come. I have fought a good fight." Luke alone was with him. He writes in expection that Tim othy, his beloved follower, wiU soon join him, and asks' him to bring along Mark with whom he evidently had become reconcUed, for he writes: "He is useful to me for ministering." But this Jittle Terse from Paul s letter gives a sideUght on the man. When he left Troas (the country of ancient Troy in Asia Minor) he left some things be hind with Carpus. Perhaps he for got them. Perhaps he could , not carry them with him. Perhaps he though they might be useful to carnua for the time. At any rate Paul left them and now in Rome . iLiL.i Aa9 tYiAm llilUaS V i. uveus and does -the very natural thing, he asks Timothy to bring them with him when he comes to Kome. Of his cloak we know nothing; Its cut. Its fabric, its tailoring -nothing is known of it. Nor do we know more of the books, what thev were, who wrote them. Of the parchments we know only one thing: he prized them higniy. via. he not mention "esDeciallv the parchments." His cloak he might not reauire. nerhaos his boo as could be duplicated in Rome but the parenments. an, tne parchments, do not, friend Tim othy, forget to bring them when thou comest hither. Paul's parchments; would that they might have been preserved.! For we can fancy those parch-1 ments must have had material ot vast importance to Panl and to the Christian church. Perchance those parchments were originals of some of the writings of the disciples, perhaps they were narr ratives of the first years of the church, perhaps they were some of those brief biographies of Christ, or copies of the sayings of Christ which Mark and the other gospel writers drew on for the material ot their gospels. We may only conjecture what those precious parchments contained; conjecture, and regret their de struction. For they have perished, perished with Paul's cloak and with his books. Perhaps Timothy did not fetch them, perhaps Car pus had thrown them In the tire. At any rate they perished, and only the allusion to them in the immortal epistle to Timothy proves that they ever existed. The original narchments. If only they were available! For the earliest texts we now have are bnt copies of copies. Of the gosp els there are many hundred early manuscripts in . existence . and no two of them are absolutely alike. Nearly all of them were copied some time in the period from the fourth to the tenth centuries. The nrlrfnftla in fill itAatrnvaA 1IV the parchments which Panl long ed for. The story of the manu scripts is a story in itself. There was TIschendorf, a German scholar, who sought through the eld monasteries of Asia to dis cover gome old, old text. At last. boys who live la Salesa Neoa, December SOtfc a bey or eellects, tacladhig: AST TTO2X OF ALL KINDS MECHANICAL, RADIO. ' njJBCTRICAli AFPARATTJS C ASTRA CRAFT ' coosrxQ i ' AKROIXANES X LEAXnrSCRAFT xbIUttt V ft. In an ancient monastery near SU nai, he found some sheets of mouldering parchment in a bas ket ready to throw on the fire They were a portion of the New Testament la Greek uncials (cap. ital letters). The monks forbade him to search further and not un til many years later, under the authority ot the Czar himself did he gain readmlsslon to the mon astery and privilege to resume the search. At last after days of fruitless hunting, as he was about to depart, a Greek priest took him to his own cell and showed him an old Bible he had been studying. It proved to be the re mainder of a complete New Test ament, now knows as the Codex Sinalticus. "Especially the parchments." Paul was a student; he had stud ied under Gamaliel in Jerusalem; his addresses show familiarity with Roman law and Greek phil osophy. These parchments may have been studies from the pagan writers, but that is hardly prob able so completely was Paul ab sorbed in the Christian tradition. Most surely they were parch ments of the sayings of Jesus; that is why Paul cherished them. Like a true scholar he was satis fied onlr with the oririnaia m. ing the originals, the church has floundered in darkness and bit terness and dissension. Order the Oregon . Statesman for one year and secure one of the North American Travel Accident Insurance policies for. $1.00. rrrr EYE TACTS It is a fact that many p e r s o n 8 continue to wear old' lenses long after they should be changed.. And. that many a person is right now suf Ferine the pen alty for neglected eye strain that a thorough examination of the eyes would reveal. Every investigation of this subject that has been made has indicat ed that a large percent age of those who would be wonderfully more comfortable and better off in every way if their ocular defects were corrected, do hot even, suspect .that the lack" of proper classes is the reason for their discomfort. The conscientious reputable Optometrist advises people daily that they do not need glasses. This advice of course is given after the eyes have been exam ined, meaning that there are a great num ber of people who con sult Optometrists to find out that their eyes are all right Statistics, however, prove that there are a great host of Americans who are neglecting-their eyes. Out of this vast number we find that at one time their eye trou bles could have been corrected very easily. But," havinsr deferred having their eyes ex amined, they; are in uch shape that the cor rection of their defect is much more 'difficult and tedious than would ave been had the case sought proper advice at an earlier date, so the old adage holds true abput ihe ounce of pre- venuon Demg worth a pound of cure.' C (Rights Reserved) , Cut Out Sig SUn Today Enclose stamped and .ddreesed Envelop The Ere file cuM reaa of Salem, care of The Ore- tese send me, triUwut cost obligation on tny part, copy Sight Coaacrvatloa, Kasae ty . . . . . ; . . ; . - Address" . v i ,-