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o Foror Stcays Us; No Fear Shall Av" From First Statesmaa, March 28, 151 1HE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Cfijuoxs A. S Prague. Sheldon F. Sackett, Publisher Chaxxes A. Spsagve - - - - - Editor-Manager Sbzxook F. Sackett ' - '- Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the vn tor patiHca tion ot all news dispatches credited to K or sot otherwise ereeited la this paper. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Hyjia, lm, I ty Bldg. Sea TSJciart. Huron B'1. : W. p-ic. Bid. Eastern Advertising Jlepresentatives: Ferdt-Fsraona-Stecher.Inc New V k, .41 'a lieon Are.; Chicago, 2(0 -N. II r-hfgmn At . Entered at (k Poetoffico at Salem, Oregon, at Second-Close Matter. PubUthed every morning except Mendag. Bueiueee office, Z1S S, Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Mail Subscription Rates, ia Advance. Wltnhi Oregon: Dally and Sunday, I Mo. SO cents; t Mo. $1.23 Mo. $2.25 : 1 year $1.00. Else where 5t cents per Mo. or SS.te (or 1 year ia advance By City Carrier: SO cents a month; tS.Bt a year in advance. Per Copy 2 cents, On trains and News Stands 6 cents. "Political Racketeering" PHIL Metschan gave an accurate description of the inde pendent movement in Oregon politics when he described it as "political racketeering." A disgruntled group of party , 1 lA J At 1 1 A. L1 A J A . nn tbtb nrtra ri I no innansnnnnr duuu m riiu n TTiim 111 ! I Fir the office of governor a man with inherited wealth and powerful mercantile position, but a man ignorant of poli tics, and whose jbackground is wholly at variance with the platform on which he is trying to ride into office. The "power issue." What has Meier ever done about power before except to demand and get, prior, to the stand ardizing of rates by the utility commission, secret conces sions and cut rates for his own store? What does this man whose life has been devoted to building up the family for tune know about power ? All he says is what is warmed over for him from the Josenh sneeches br Henrr Hantzen. Sometimes it fits and sometimes it doesn't. Just what is the Meier program for power? Like Jos eph, he has given no specifications, no outline of particu lars. It is a more stalking horse for the nimble politicians who seek to slide into Political Power by fooling the people. Does he propose that the state as a state shall go into the business of generating and distributing electric energy? If he does, where will the money come from to make the capital investment? Does Meier propose bonding the state for forty or fifty million dollars to build power plants? If not state-guaranteed bonds, then will it be by util ity certificates, "without cost to the taxpayers ?" If the lat ter, then who would buy the certificaes? Meier mimics the Joseph platform in demanding the abolishment of the public service commission. Very well, how will rates and practices be controlled? By common councils, which throws rate-making into the lap of local politics, with all its past record of corruption and dissatis faction? Or by private contract with the power companies in the old Meier and Frank way with the big consumers forcing low rates for themselves to be made up by excessive charges on the small consturlers? Does Meier favor Portland's gping into the power bus iness by taking over the companies now operating there, or by forming new companies? How does Meier if elected governor propose to put his so far utterly nebulous program into effect? He cannot do it by official decree, it must be by vote of the people. Does Meier favor the eransre power bill now initiated? It is politics, not power, which is the issue. The politi cal racketeers, the Big Bill Thompsons, the Fred Giffords, the Fred Bradys, the Jay Bowermans profess baptism, in the blood of the new covenant. But does anybody believe the sincerity of their professions of faith? When did Bruce Dennis figft the power companies, or Fred Gifford? Along with these crafty and chiefly selfish politicians are some more sincere folk, Sam Brown, Rufus Holman and others who are for Meier because they think this Merchant Prince is now a man of the pee-pul, and because they are chronic IciclCGTS With Meier ignorant of politics the best minds who will run the state and divide the offices and the spoils will be the political straphangers like Fred Gifford and Fred Brady and Bill Thompson and Henry Hantzen. No self-respecting citizen can vote for Meier and this crowd. No conscientious liberal can find any hope for civic reform with this gang of carrion-seekers. Power, Political Power is the racket. Far better to stay , with the organized parties whose candidates are legitimately chosen by responsible and con tinuing organizations than to fall for the buncome of these political recketeers. . RecognizingRussia SENATOR Wheeler of Montanaist returned from Rus sia, says his observations confirmed his conviction that this country should recognize Russia. We are a 'bunch of suckers" if we fail to do so, was ins statement, ne remark ed further: J "Should we recognize Russia and enter Into commercial treat ies that does not mean we put the stamp ot approval on their form of goTerument" : Our continued refusal to tiate for a possible recognition of that country is a grave blunder. Our national policy for over a century until Wilson tried to change it with respect to- Mexico and got into trou ble there, was to give de facto recognition to the actual r mf oMinfrv W yornemiwA trip rV.nr'a imv. KUYwmuCU .Tv , ZZ Jt Yr. ft7V,Hicommerce room next Monday eve- ernment though Jewish- pogroms; prevailed in the ghettos j nlng s 9fCioeAt ' of her cities and tnougn tnousanas were sent to oioenan solitudes for political offenses. recognize Mussolini, who is more of a dictator than Stalin. Lack of recognition doesn't keep communism out. Com mon sense and decent, fair government and industry will keep communism out of America. Time was when a move on our part might have secured a portion of American claims on account of Russian debts and, confiscations of property; but as time passes our chances ot recovery grow more re mote.' Our theory seems to have been to starve Russia back to the capitalistic economy. But our theory isn't working. Each year our position grows more untenable. President Hoover ought way towards our recognition Why Not a Community Chest? CJOON the various charitable tQ tions of Salem will begin their drive for funds for sup port during the year. Each one will start and have busy men leave their tasks for days at a time to solicit funds for continued operation. When ona tsency .gets ftrougn, anoth er will start in. From now till Umstmas merchants will be busy either serving ra committees or waiting on commit tees. : '-i ! Why not a Community Chest to do the job up once for all? Most cities have come to this form of raising money to suDDort such causes. The organizations axe good, they do good work. There is far more ping. But the task ox financing them grows harder because there are so many of them. Each Agency is fearful that its cause would not receive adequate treatment in a joint cam paign. We doubt that A carefully organized and systematic effort ought to enlist more givers and ensure even more stable support than individual campaigns where donations are scaled down as the calls recur. We understand a meeting of heads of service ebbs Is .going to be held next week. That would be a good time to - Managing Editor recognize itussia or to nego to take the lead in paving the of Kussau and philanthropic organiza- under-lappinj than over-lap HEALTH TodasTalk By R.S. Copeland, M. P. If "clesallaees is next to godl L noes," as the Biblical sarins' goes then certainly ft should be applied in the casw of an injured member at the anatomy. Ev eryone should know what to do In ease of a ent or wound In toe flesh. When we speak of clean liness la this sense, we mean surgical clean liness. A sur geon w!U use bichloride of merearr or some other antiseptic hi treating a wound, but in first aid rendered by a layman, water which has been boiled and cooled ia one of the best things ifith which to wash out a wound. It matters not whether the wound is a cut with a knife or there is" a tear In the flesh by a piece of tin or rusty nail. In any case absolute cleanliness is the secret of right healing. Avoid Infection Before touching the victim's wound a person should wash his hands very thoroughly with soap and water. Then clean the finger nails carefully after which wash the hands again. Apply the sterilised water eith er pouring It copiously over the wound or applying It with piece ot ' sterilized gauze or cotton. Wash out every particlo of dirt splinters, bits of rust or any oth er foreign substance. Clean the wound thoroughly with the wat er. After cleaning; the wound should be dried with a piece of the gauze. Then the edges of the wound be brought together with strips of adhesive tape, using the strips crosswise of the wound. The wound should not be entire ly covered, but enough left expos ed so that there will be drainage. Then cover the whole with several layers of gauze and hand age it well. Of course, later a sur geon can use sutures and giro treatment If necessary.' If the patient Is in a place where sterilized water cannot be had in an emergency the cleanest water possible should be used. The bandaging can be done with a clean piece of cloth or a clean handkerchief. However the wound should be aeen by a doctor as soon as possible and the proper treatment given. Every household should have its first aid kit It can be had very reasonably. Have at least a solution of iodine (a seven per cent solution is all right) and ap ply it to cuts and other injuries. It should be painted on and around the wound before wash ing with sterilised water. Yesterdays ... Of Old Oregon Tows Talks from The States- man Our Fathers Bead September 5, 1005 John Gray, the well known contractor, is home from a bus iness visit to Portland. Increase in traffic has resulted in announcement from the O. C. T. company that steamers will make trips to this city everyday. Four guests from the hotel de Cornelius will answer roll caU in the police court this moraine. which means Judge Moores wiU be the busiest he has been in some days. Dr. and Mrs. Taskar of Los Angeles are visiting Judge and Mrs. J. H. Scott. Mrs. Taskar re sided here about 15 years ago when her father was pastor of tne First Presbyterian church. At that lime she was Miss Cora New ell. CIVIC CLUB HEADS A call for presidents of civic and certain lodge organizations to form a presidents' council has been made by Douglas McKav with the meeting set for the chamber of Presidents of the service elnbs. the Elks club, the Cherrians, the cnamoer of commerce and the American Legion are among those invited to the meeting. Regular monthly meetings of these leaders to discuss civic problems and to secure uniformity of action among the various groups, Is proposed. Tne matter of a community cheat, it ia understood, may come before the meeting. Thus far in Salem's civic history, all charity runas nave been raised by individ ual efforts of the group. It has been suggested about town that a community chest may be more ef ficient than drives by a large num ber of Individual organizations. Baldock Named To Higher Post B. H. Baldock, for sevenl years employed as maintenance engineer by the state sdghway commission, has been promoted to the office ot assistant state highway engineer. Announce ment of the promotion was made by Roy K. Klein, state highway engineer witn headquarters la Salem. Mr, Baldock already hag as sumed his new duties. A feature of the Chicago ttaitoa field day was a hold-up. The rob- oers were caught. Ml Ml COUNCIL take up this proposition. Salem is ready for a joint effort to finance its pubuc acrencfoa wThfrh iforumi. trrYm VfNttwvf support. "I TOE A CMAMCC I 1 Jl I1 V :1 OW ton A MOW AW j V) V) fk 1 IS" ivx) cAr "11 VsjS GAME 7 - - 1 1 ii 1 'ii' 1 I i i i : s2Sw iii ii i i iii A Wj&'M StMM fm Qm Sifco SjSa. "'jLr!Br,T"":'!! " j .r-s-,f.Jt - - - yylMai.1-': The OTHER BULLET By Nancy Barr Mavity CHAPTER 29 Peter stood with rare hesita tion la the doorway ot the local room. He took a few steps tor ward, paused, veered toward the city desk, and again came to an uncertain halt "Hey, Peter, you'd better hold a caucus with yourself," the wa ter front man called out "For Pete's sake, either stand up, or sit down, and get out ot my light You make me nervous, shllly- shaUing around like that" "Sorry," Peter murmured ab sently. The water front man looked up, surprised at the absence of the expected retort "What's the matter are you sick or something? Can't yen even tell your friends .to go to hell any more?" 0 "Oh. all right. Mr. Peter Piper presents his compliments to Mr. Frank Dwyor and poUtely re quests him to go to hell. Now lay off me, Frank. I'm busy." "Ton look it," Dwyer said sar castically, but Peter did not hear him. Lammle, a telephone headpiece over hla ears, was taking a first run story, rapidly jotting Inde cipherable notes on the copy pa per before him. Any one, who knew Lammle could tell that it was not much of a story, by the slow rate at which his Adam's apple moved up and down to the rhythm of his gum-chewing Jaws. Peter stood watching him for a moment Lammie's eyes looked tired and blood-shot and his face showed an unhealthy pallor. But he might look like that It he'd merely sat' up all sight playing poker. Was there a hint of deep er anxiety under his physical fa tigue? Unconscious of Peter's scrutiny, he flung his copy pen cil down with a gesture of bore dom, unhooked the headpieee from his ears, and turned te the typewriter. Hell's bells, you couldn't walk up to a man and say, "Excuse me, but haven't you committed a murder lately?" Pete came to a sudden decision and crossed the floor to Jimmy's desk. "Come out to the conference room, will you?" he asked In a low voice. "I want a word in your private ear. "What the" But at the look in Peter's eyes. Jimmy's Irate protest was left unfinished. "Here. Russ. take the desk, wUl you? Let me know if anything more comes in on the plane crash." When the two men were alone. Peter filled his pipe with silent concentration. Jimmy waited-a moment la rapidly growing Im patience. "Did you haul me out here tor an hour of silent meditation? he barked. "Because if so, I've an edition to get out If you've anything to say, make It snappy." Peter, unmoved by this out burst, continued to puff steadily, staring at the opposite waQ. "Jimmy.1 he said at last "what de you know about Lammle?" "He's a good man." Ton meat, a rood tawiDaser manT "Of course." Jimmy was ob viously surprised at the sugges tion that there could be any oth er definition et virtue. "Jimmy, rve got te ask yea a question or two." Peter's voice was oddly appealing. "Dont waste time by saying It's aoat of my business. Ton know I'm mot a village gossip. But I've got to know did Lammle take amy time eft about a month ago?" : "Look here, Peter. Jimmi said stiffly, "I don't make it at THE TREND TOWARD CONSERVATISE1 habit to discuss the affairs of members of my staff with other members. Ton know that If you want to know anything about Lammle, why don't you ask him?" "I'm not asking you to make it a habit It comes down to this: Have you any confidence in me or haven't you? If you have, you'll answer my question. If you haven't " Peter shrugged. "Don't be an ass," Jimmy Bald shortly, and Peter knew that the words were not aa insult but a tribute. "Yes, Lammle was off for four days the first of the month." "Did he give any reason, or Just ask for the time?" "This doesn't go any further that's understood." Peter did not even trouble to nod his acquiescence. "Lammle was off on a monu mental jag. As a matter of fact he oughtn't to touch booze. Once he's started, he doesn't know when to stop, and he hasn't the constitution to stand it Luckily, he isn't a steady drinker. It Just hits him once in so often. He knows he ought to lay off the stuff. It's a crime I had to take him oft the police beat He had enough excitement there to keep him straight But he gets so fed up with sitting In the office that he can stand it only so long. Then he explodes from the pressure ot being bored. It's too bad, but I don't see what I can do about It." "This time a month ago did you actually see him yourself when he was soused?" "I didn't have to see him. He came back, looking as if he'd been pulled through a knot hole, and told me some silly story about being called away to a dy ing aunt I had to accept his yarn because I'd tried to put the fear of God into him. Told him the next time it happen, he'd get his notice. I didn't want to fire him, so I swallowed the aunt to save my face. Now suppose you cut loose and tell me what It's all about You're supposed to be scratching around for a murder story, not playing private detect ive to the Herald staff." "Yeah," Peter assented meek ly, "I know. But the devU of it is, the chicken's coming to roost on the home doorstep. WhUe Lammle was engaged in his four days vanishing acts, a man was killed in mysterious circum stances a mam who had made every effort to conceal his past lite. But that past included a pe culiar and valuable ring, which he'd kept Aline Everett saw it by accident and Mortison which by the way. Is almost certainly not his real name as good as told her that he might get bump ed off for the ring some day." Though Peter's words were studiously flippant, his face was serious. Hie pipe had gone out. tat ha continued to suck at it automatically. "Wen, he did get bumped off. And the ring was gone from the place where he'd kept it hidden. ' That ring is the one thing I've got as a lead to the Identity of; Mortison and of his murderer. I And the man who had that ring, j uatn me pawned It a few days age, is Lammle." ; Jimmy sat very still. His face, drained of its usual nervous vi tality, looked pinched with eoldV His hand was shaking as he reached out tor the buzzer on the wan. .-'. Til eaU Lammle in. Hell have to explain." he said in a dull, life less voice. , . . "Just a minute." Peter seized Jimmy's fingers before they reached the buzzer. "Suppose he can't explain satisfactorily. Then what?- .. Jlmaiys . eyes brooded re membering. Remembering Lam mie's devotion, his loyalty. Re membering how he had been re called to the office, away from the work he loved, to work he hated, rather than kill the story that broke Morton. Remembering that he would carry a limp through life because he had pull ed himself out of a train wreck to bring his story to the Herald. If he had gone to the hospital at once, the infection would never have lamed him. Remembering the mine disaster when Lammle had gone down with the rescue party before the gas had cleared, slipping through the guards, dis guised as a miner. Jimmy had cursed him as a fool for that. "Didn't you have enough sense to know they expected the gas to explode again any minute?" "Sure, I knew," Lammie had answered mldly, "but we got the Btory, didn't we?" "I won't have you get Lammle into trouble," Jimmy told Peter harshly. "He's a good man." "I'Ve got to work it out," Peter said sadly. "Mrs. Everett knows too much to let It drop now. And Inspector Larrinan knows that Lammle had the ring. If Lam mie's really mixed up In it, you can't cover him. It's too big. I Salem Oregon's With' but one exception the Oregon State Fair is the most important event of its kind held annually in the common wealth. Attendance each year has steadily mcreased evidencing a growing interest in and ap preciation of the Fair as a constmctlvt factor in the SWi tovelopment, and b Unifed MEMBER BITS for BREAKFAST -3y R. J. HjSNDRICKS- The Dorion woman: The little, column of smoke was still far below. The woman stag gered in weakness as sle walked; occasionally she felL All day she toiled along, snatching mow and then at a frozen twig or the seed pod of m wild rose; slept cold and restless at sight; was on her way again at break of the gray dawn over the summit behind her. She feU more frequently. V Ii It was noon when a Walla Wat la squaw, looking np the trail, saw a sister squaw crawling slow ly dowa toward camp. The Wal la Wallas remembered her from two years before and, welcomed her; sent men with horses racing np the slope tor the boys, brought them In. fed and comforted them all. says Defenbach: J "The woman had come down from her Golgotha. Consider this Dorion woman, and name, if you can, any female character In his tory whose story outshines in pluck, grim determination, fierce resolution, and motherly self sa crifice, the record this red hero ine wrote in letters of blood. No monuments rise to her memory; no tablets of Jronze are inscribed ta her honor; no high mountains or noble streams bear her name. It is to the discredit of the great northwest that they do not" V The Bits man moves for three markers or monuments one in or near Salem, where the Dorion woman spent her last years, died and was buried. One at Boise, where the members of the ex pedition of which she was a part were the first white men to see that section, and where she had some of her tragic experiences and the. other near where her ba by was buried and her winter days were spent Is 1814. There are a number of monuments to Sacajawea. The Dorion woman was in gome ways a more striking character than the bird woman, and had a more heroic part to play. e S Nearly two weeks had elapsed since her arrival among the Wal la Wallas; she had been practi cally adopted into the tribe. On the morning of April 17. 1814, an Indian came rushing :nto camp from down the river. "White men coming up!" he, yelled. "Boats on the water! men riding horses along banks! Come!Eee them go by." , Down they all chased to the wa ter's edge, only to see the white men's caravan already past. Three canoes were launched, the Dorion woman in the lead; with switt strokes they pursued the fleet started out on this story, and I've got to get it." The two men's eyes locked. Neither moved, but both were panting a little, as if their clash ing glances had been physical combat "If you get Lammie In a jam he can't get out of, you're fired, so help me!" Jimmy exploded. "That's up to you," Peter said in level tones. "It's up to me to get it Vou're the city editor. When I bring it in you can print it or not as you like. It'll be time enough to talk about firing me then. I can't get Lammie Into trouble if he isn't in it already. But I've got to find out what he knows. Call him In sow, and we'll see what he has to say." (To be continued) Home of State Fair the encouragement of' farm ing enterprises. The 69th Oregon State Fait, win be held here at alem, September 22-28. More than 100,000 persons are expected to attend. We here at the United States National be speak for this year's Fajr your hearty support and o oparatioa. TKe: States Nation Salem, Oregon UNITED STATES NATIONAL "Call to them," said the woman. "They sre our f risnds." "Arrestes doncl arrestes dead" yelled the boys. The fleet stopped, drew la to shore. It was the remains ot the Astorians some going to Montreal, some to St Ljmls, bear, ing reports to their respective headquarters. "Where M'sieu Hunt?" asked the woman. She was told he had .gone in a boat on the big salt water to St Louis. She would never see him again. She was sorry about that ; "M'sieu Hunt good man." Keith, one ef the leaders, in terrupted: "I am on my way with several of these men," fad said "to St Louis. We are going to pick up Reed and the ethers. Where is Reed? and .Dorion? When d.d yo leave them, and why?" Then she told the story. The mea-gaihered around, in rapt attention; watch ed the gestures of the sign lan guage with which she sup plemented with her inadequate, broken French. Says Defenbach j "Gabriel Franchere heard it, took it to Montreal and published it five years later. Alexander Ross listened, and had it printed in London in 1S49. Others took the story, to St Louis, and car ried it to Hunt; he reported it to Astor, in whose files Washington Irving found it. U "Hunt told it to his friend. William Clark, as they sat over their win and pipes in later years. 'Curious, ts U not' said Clark 'that each ot as had a wo man is his party.' " The fleet went on (Barry thinks she went with them as far as Okanogan); she never again saw any great group of the As torlans. though she often saw in dividual members in the years that followed. It was is 1818 that she made an alliance with a man named Venier. in 1820 her first daughter was born. Marguer ite Venier. No one knows what became of her or her father. That same year news came down from the mouth of the Boise in which the Dorion woman was interested. Donald McKenzle had erected a post the preceding season on the ruins of Reed's first headquar ters, with the same fate the Dog Ribs burned It and killed two of his men. In 1821 the Hudson's Bay company absorbed the North west company; it was in this year that Sacajawea is supposed to have joined the Comache tribe. In 1824 the Dorion woman made her third and last matri monial alliance, this time with John Tourpin. To this union came two children, the boy Fran cis in 1825, the girl Marie Ann in 1827. Likely the Dorion wo man met Captain Bonneville, ia 1834. He changed the name ot the Reed river to the Boise. In 183& Samuel Parker, the mis sionary who was looking for the Whitman mission site, employed John Tourpin as an interpreter. No doubt the Dorion woman, in 1836 and frequently thereafter, saw Marcus and Narclssa Whit man, and the Spauldings. It was in 1838 that the Dorion woman became an intimate of Mrs. Pam brun, Indian wife ot Pierre - C. Pambrun, factor ot the Hudson's Bay company at Fort Walla Wal la. Jason Lee met her there, as has been related in this column. W She of course became well ac quainted with Fathers Blanchet and Demers, after they came In (Turn te Page 12) Bank GROTJH