1AGK FOUR "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAlTPUBLISHING CO. Charles A. S Prague, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publiaher Charles A. Sphacue -Shelook F. Sackett - Member of the Associated Press The AsocHted Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatcher credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper. Pacifie Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypts, Int., Portland. SecurMy Bid. San Francisco. Sharon Bid.: Angeles, W. Pac Bid. Eastern Advertising Representatives: rord-Parsons-Stecher.lnc., New York, 21 Madison Ave,; Chicago. 160 X. Michigan Ave. Entered at the Potto ff ice at Salem, Oregon, at Second-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office, S15 S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Mall Subscription Rates, in Advance. Within Oregon : Dally ana Hunday. 1 Mo. 50 cents; 3 Mo. SJ.2 C Mo. I1.2i: 1 year 14.00. Else where 60 cents per Mo. or J5.0O for 1 year in advance. By City Carrier: 50 cents a month; $S.60 a year In advance. Per Copy S cents. On trains and News Stands S cents. The Cross-State Railroad OREGON is greatly interested in the suit which got un der way in federal court at Portland yesterday in which the Union Pacific railway seeks to enjoin the interstate commerce commission from enforcing its order requiring the railroad to construct a line of road over 100 miles in length from Crane to Crescent. This is known as the cross-state line, whose construction has been zealously pushed by the Oregon public service commission. At Crane the line would rnnntt with the VaJe-Ontario branch of the U. P.. giving, at Ontario,-connection with the main line eastward to Oma ha. At Crescent the line would connect with the Southern Pacific Cascade division of the main north and sooth lie. The cost of the Bne is estimated at $11,000,000. The Union Pacific objects to the construction .because of the cost and because it claims the benefits in traffic will not justify the expenditure. The line crosses the jack-rabbit country of central Oregon. Some timber is tributary to :t, some sheep and cattle would be shipped over the line, and some agriculture may be developed which would provide freight tonnage. So far as through tonnage is concerned, from the railroad standpoint this seems problematical. The freight originating in western Oregon on Southern Pacific lines would be hauled by that road over the Alturas cut-off to Ogden, rather than turned over to the Union Pacific at Crescent, because the originating line wants the long haul. Similarly the Union Pacific would be inclined to haul its eastern freight clear to Portland before delivery to the Southern Pacific for western Oregon points. Oregon's view as developed by the public service com mission, is that the state's progress has been held back through lack' of railroad development. Washington to the north is criss-crossed with transcontinental lines of railroad whose construction has been followed by the expansion of industry, agriculture and population in that state. Here the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific touching chiefly the edges' of the state, held up railway building for years, so that Oregon's progress has been retarded. i&ice the war the Southern Pacific and the Hill lines have done much con struction work in this state, chiefly in the Klamath Falls area. The court however must look at the matter not only from the practical side as to whether the interstate com merce commission was justified in its order, but also from the legal side, as to whether the interstate commerce com mission has power under the transportation act to require a road to make such an investment. The railroad -contends that the law should extend only to authority to require short connections, service tracks and sudi, rather than ma jor lines of road whose cost runs into the millions. With the case now joined in the courts, comment on the merits of the case may be improper. But the issue is of such vital concern not only to the state of Oregon ut to the en tire railroad world in settling an important legal question, that the decision of the courts will be awaited with much interest. It seems altogether probable that, regardless of the findings of the lower court, the case will go to the supreme court for final adjudication. Taxing the Utilities THE Oregon Journal, discovering that the utility compan ies pay a license fee of only two cents per horsepower vear. thinks this rate monstrously low compared with the Kas tax for instance, and regards this by some strange pro cess of reasoning as an argument why Phil Metschan should not be elected governor. Says the Journal : Power companies develop power from the streams of the state of Oregon. -They sell some of that power in the state. They sell a lot of It in other states. They sell it at a price ranging nfrom $25 to $100 per horsepower year. They pay the state for the privilege of developing the power from the streams of the state the miserable remuneration of about 2 cents per horse power year. We presume this is true, although the Journal ignores the fact that the power companies pay taxes on the lands they own; the power plants and the transmission lines. While it looks bad that Oregon power is shipped across to California for consumption, the Journal fails to bring out the point that the Northwestern Electric company, serving Portland, generates much of its power at its White Salmon plant in Washington, and is building another power plant on Lewis river in iiar& cuuniy. 11 an ejipurv va& uu Is justified for Oregon, so it should be for Washington. Really the power-baiting newspapers of Portland should get together on this utility tax business. Here is the Journal tearing its hair because the power companies pay only two cents per horsepower year, but here is the Telegram say ing that all this talk about the high taxes the utilities pay la hooey, because they merely collect it from the people. Says the Telegram: "We collect taxes from whom? From the utility company. Where does the utility company get tbe money? From fares, rates and other charges paid by its patrons. Who are these patrons? We are. Whose money, then, pays the taxes? Our money." And that is also true; no different from the taxes paid by the Telegram and the Journal, which are derived from their customers. The simple truth is that taxes, no matter how much they amount to, are reflected in rates. The laws of arithme tic are real even if seldom recognized by political dema gogues. What so many of the demagogues want to do is to gouge the utilities with high taxes and starve them with low rates. Under public ownership the utility pays no taxes; so its rates ought to be lower than under private owner ship. And any comparison of rates must take into account taxes which the private utility is required to pay. Raising Letter Postage T)OSTMASTER General Brown will not win any friends JtT by moving the rate on first-class mail from two cents to two and a half cents an ounce. The three-cent rate was fa effect during the war, and there was a chorus of acclaim front? the people when the rate was set back to the old two cent rate. The people have always felt that the elimination the franking privilege or its' rigid curtailment would go a long ways toward wiping out the reported deficits in pos tal operations. I A boost of a half cent in the letter postage rate would ferre as an irritant, and we doubt If congress wouli peas each a law because the members would fear the r&Zt ff . . . Editor-Manager - ' Managing Editor HEALTH Today's Talk By R. 8. Copcland, M. D. We never think about exercise of the jaws as important; yet ex ercise used la feeding la abont the most fun damental and essential form of exercise there Is. Vigor ous chewing da both sides !of the mouth de velops the Jaws and teeth prop erly, and tends to prevent tooth decay and over crowding. : Indeed, in this connection, there are even more far-reach ing effects that made for good health. When the Jaws are do ing natural, honest, hard work, the whole, digestive tract feels it. There is increased Activity in the formation of -gastric Juices. The heart pumps faster and stronger, the pressure of the blood in the arteries rises, the circulation tot the blood is stimulated, to quick er flow. Digestion begins In the mouth. As soon as you begin rigorous chewing, the secretions of the mouth begin to flow: The secre tions of the stomach and bowels axe stimulated to action throai'a the action of the nerve centers which send their message from the mouth to the brain and back to the stomach. It Is most important to teach every young child to chew his food thoroughly, and to chew on both sides of the month. It he doesn't one side of his face may be mere developed than the other. And most children, being, reasonable beings, would best be told the rea sons why they should chew prop erly. It is not easy to bring up a child in tbe way he should go. Watch your child carefully and see what his habits are in this re spect. Appeal to his intelligence and tell him why he should mend bis ways. Don't allow a child to bolt his food. It is a habit difficult to break. He is certain to have bad digestion, if he persists, and this may lead to much worse things. Chewing hard and tough foods strengthens the teeth and jaws, and helps to keep them strong. Eating raw, ripe apples, and all the firm, fibrons fruits and vege tables Is invaluable for cleansing the teeth and promoting diges tion. Soft foods cling to the teeth and permit tartar to form. That is one reason why eating cake, candy, chocolate and like things at bedtime is bad for you to - say nothing of causing indigestion.: Adults, as well as children, should take heed of this matter of chewing thoroughly and on both sides of the mouth. Long life and a happy one depends upon good teeth. Keep them in perfect con dition, and teach the children to begin early. Proper habits form ed in early life, will prevent much misery in later life. Yesterdays ... Of Old Oregon Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Bead September 30, 1005 Disruption in jthe high school system is eminent, with the high school principal, Marlatte, and three of his teachers facing pos sible court action over refusal to take the examinations of the dis trict board. A. W. Prescott left for Eu gene to report the proceedings of the Willamette valley develop ment league convention for the Oregonian. M. Burnham of Watscka, 111. was a visitor in the city yester day, this being the first time he has been here since 1851. His first trip here was from Chicago on a mule. Scissored Squibs Edit Page- Salem was to have some free electricity too and now. Itl to be rree in the usual way thru a $5,000,000 bond issue if the people are foolish enough to vote it. The council fortunately Stop- pea it. OorvaUls Gazette-Times. At six he loses faith in Santa Clans; at IS he decides women are faithless; at 20 he becomes a Socialist; at 40 he thinks It a pretty good world except for the Income tax. Medford Mall-Trib une. A positive belief that all things are good, no matter how wrong. mey way appear at times. Is a much greater force for progress than mere hope, which at best is but a temporary support, ; even though it springs eternal la the human breast So $ick yourself a conviction that all things work together for the ultimate food, and hang on. It a small group of men succeed la controlling all the money In the world the rest of the world will abolish money and give them the laugh. The Dalles Chronicle. The Safety Valve - 4 i Letters from Statesman Readers! SILVERTON, Sept 27 Editor of The Statesman: I noticed an interview la your paper of recent date with. Judge Siegmund la which he states there was nothing being done In regard to eounty agent Since W. the people. Brown state! that the two cent of 1885 is the equivalent of seven cents today. But this does not allow for the greater volume of business and the greater ecoaomyj in nannnng tne ousiness over 1885, so tnat t no per piece cost today is Drobablv littl higher than in 1885. Postal deficits are not new and the tcrougn in spite jof them. I O- EOT VM TYIEA OWE. VHO HAS 1 IF yoo MttST TD JJVE HESE I see:' IT U10NT ZLT A5) mXT TOMORROW Ofc J v 4 "W5 House as r ' V S Pk steu. as the r lJ - " e 'of Sjilinir. Omi ftrtuui ngfcu mdwt trAi-I . n u a raN?" '- .-y - SYNOPSIS Ardeth works in a shop and is being wooed by Neil Burke. Her home life Is far from pleasant. She lives with an aunt and a snooping girl cousin. Nell is all right until she spies a "swell" rid ing a horse. NeU chides Ardeth jealously. The next day Ardeth sees a picture of Ken Glaason, tbe man on the horse, in the roto gravure section and her heart thumps. But Ardeth comes to.: earth with the usual bickering with Bet about stockings. Jean ette Parker calls at the store where' Ardeth works and offers' the latter a job in the "swell"' shop she is ' starting. Ardeth ac cepts. Neil objects to Ardeth's plans and they have a row. Ar deth meets Ken when he visits the shop. Shortly after, knowing that Jeanette has Iert lor the day. Ken calls at the shop, feigning that he had planned to drive Jeanette home. He asks Ardeth to go instead. CHAPTER 9. Inside the dark hallway Ar deth stood tense, straining to the sound of Ken's car starting up the street. There he was at the corner . ... he was turning the corner . . . he was gone. Hot despair raged In the girl's heart. Gone back, to that bright, comfortable world where he be longed. That world which held girls like Cecil Parker who could give Jolly little dances dinners supper parties. If she, Ardeth, had such a background . . . If she could have asked Ken to come up stairs, assured of an easy welcome . . . She Interrupted her own thoughts with an angry little laugb. Only too vividly she was remembering a painful night three years before. A shy young fellow she had known at school had called on her. TVat eveningl Keven now she could go red at the humiliating nfemory. Teutsch appeared before him some time ago. I wish to assure the Judge he is In error. Silverton grange with a membership of 54 unanimously voted to hire two agents. Last Friday I visited Sli vertoa HUls grange. They also voted ' unanimously for two agents. There is agitation all over the eounty In and out of the grange on the subject. Two reasons why we Indorsed county agents, are first, this law was sponsored by the National Grange for the reason the county agent would fill the gap between the U. S. department of agrlcul tur, and the farmer secretary. There are 29 counties out of St ia Oregon how employing aa agent Third. We have fouad where counties are employing county agents, they are well pleased with results, we say this, because we have met and talked with many from other counties. Fourth. We. understand . the government has withdrawn their support of the boys aad girls club work ia Marioa county ex cept f see. Where should we have aa agent their support would be 95100. I think this sufficient grounds for us all to boost for a county agent i ' Tours truly, J. L. STALKER. .Master, Sllvertoa Orange, 74t. country will probably waddle APARTMENT HUNTING ..... -2 vj.. fjll.ri s' ar- -w Mill TA X I lllfna! I l ififl Mil 1 1 s m , i i if aV 'M 1 . I I uuiuinuai sr m ezv JBT t mm KM. IMt IBH -' "1 1 1 11.1111111 It viSkmsrs Inside thv dark hallway, Ardeth stood tense straining to the sound of Ken's car starting up the street. The shabby living room under the glare of the chandelier. Tom, stretched on the couch, coat and shoes off, grunting a surly greet ing behind his newspaper. Bet flouncing through the room on flimsy pretexts. The smothered snickers and painfully audible comments of Fan and Paul in the adjoining room. The agonized embarrassment which had kept the unfortunate young man from making a break for liberty. Paul slept on the couch at night it was not untu Aunt Stel's muttered undertones at nine-thirty broke the spell that the victim had mustered up the courage to escape. Ask Ken Gleason to face such an ordeal? Ardeth's heart was heavy as she went up the stairs. Oh well rlt was all over now. Embarrassment had made her awkward when she said good night. He was probably laughing at her now in hia mind. Her depression lasted until the following noon when Ken walk ed into the store. At the sight of the tall figure in the grey suit her hart started racing. She had to struggle to keep the joyous note from her voice as she tried to sell a rhine 1 stone butterfly to a vacillating lady. Under tbe covert gaze of Ken, the sale went badly. The vacll-1 lattng lady would not make up her mind; she would think about It and come in later. She vacil lated herself clear out to the pavement, leaving the ..shop to two radiant young people who had forgotten her very existence before she had Quite passed from their view. "X was passing.' I couldn't re sist coming la to say hello, Kea Mnst bare a heavy a v i . If 3 y o J I , .T ea-.V- explained. Ardeth struggled to hide her delight. "You made he lose that sate!" she smiled with mock se verity. "I should make you buy this animal!" She shook the rhinestone butterfly at him be fore returning it to the case. He leaned over the case until his laughing face was close to her own. "Thanks for nothing! I only collect moths!" On the echo of their laughter Jeanette entered. Her quick black eyes drank In the scene . . . vivid color in Ardeth's face. Something almost lover-like In Ken's atti tude. A strange little malice-tinged smile curled Jeanette's lips. The expression was gone, how ever as she hurried forward with an air of cordiality. "Surprised to see you, Kea. I didn't expect to be so long." "I had a bright idea this morn ing, Jennie," he returned easily. "Tom Corbett and I were over at the duck shack you know, our houseboat In. the salt marshes getting it into shape, and it struck me what a jolly place It would be for a foursome some Sunday. We could cook dinner and all that sort of thing, you know. Can't I persuade you and this young lady here to have a primitive dinner with us maybe this Sunday? Ah, Jennie be a good egg!" A breathless moment, when Jeanette did not know whether or not to be insulted. Tom Oorbett and Ken Gleason she would have beea delighted to accept such aa Invitation from either one.- But to have this girl who worked for her Included la the party! However, there was more than one -excellent reason why Jean ette did mt choose to take of fense. She had never beea pop- date; said Bet sourly. I mmm sr Milium ni ir. . i j u BITS for BREAKFAST pT b. J. HEHumxu5 The "mo" Immigration again: A friead has mailed to the Bits and pioneer pictures, etc.. with bargain rates for aperlod. Among the offers is a picture of the 04 Oregon TraU, by Am kk. representing gy drawn by oxen across PlJ which is very good. But a j feat are of the circular is the follow ing paragraph: of President Hoover the period of Apm 10 to December If. It JO. has been set aside fer celebrating the centen nial of this great .trail. The first pioneers left 8t luU April 10 and arrived at their destination December 29. 1830." That is more definite thaa any claims the Bits man has seen be fore; that is. the date of the com pletion of the Journey, ris: "Ar rived at their destination Decem ber 29. 1830." Is S The 10 wagons, two Dearborn buggies, four head of cattle and a milk cow that William SuWette, of Smith, Jackson Sublette, Rocky mountain trapping con cern, set out with from St. Louis April 10, 1830. are identified by the date of the circular. That was the party of "first pioneers," undoubtedly, about which the president's proclamation was made "for celebrating the cen tennial of this great trail." U But the inference is that these "first pioneers" reached some point in the Oregon country De- ular with men. And here was an invitation from two of the best. Moreover, If Ken became inter ested in Ardeth, what a joke on Ceclle Cecile who had always been crazy about Ken! Ceclle, whose complacency had always grated on her older sister. Pleas- Lant to see Cecile's vanity hurt. Sunday, sang Ardeth's heart. Four eternities to Sunday! She delighted in the small pre parations of the day washing out her best pair of stockings. Pressing the blouse of her sports suit. Polishing her new tan pumps and buying gloves in her noon hour. Bet viewed these preparations with suspicion. "Must have a heavy date!" she said, sourly, on Saturday night, her pale green eyes going across the room to the other girl. Wrapped in a cotton crepe ki rn oaa faded to shell pink by nu merous tubbings, Ardeth &at fil ing her nails. She had just sham pooed her hair; not quite dry, it hung about her head in a shock of dark gold. She looked up at Bet's acri monious remark and burst into a peal of joyous laughter which completely baffled her cousin. "I'm going out with King George, Bet," she teased, "but we don't want It known!" Oh, it was easy to laugh these days! Ken's laughing, blue eyes his white smile always in her mind. She awoke to a sense of joyous expectancy. Sunday morning! The far sound of church bells ringing over the cityt A glorious day! A day made to order! The faded wooden houses of Fell street were bathed in early sunshine when she walked up the street to meet Ken. She would not let him come to the house. There was always the chance of a jealous scene with Neil. ' He was waiting at the corner, slouched down in the front seat of the blue car wwhich was al-1 ready so thrilliugly familiar. She saw his face light up at the sight of her. They were on their way, plunging down the hill through the sunshine. And the girl found herself lis tening with painful intensity, her heart turning to lead. Ken was saying: "I couldn't bring myself to tell you before Jeanette phoned last night ... a house party at Burlingame she'd forgotten. Oa top of Tom- being called out of town. It looked aa though jinks were working for us. But I thought I hoped " he tore his eyes from the street to fix them leadingly on her face: "Look here, why can't we go oa through with the thing by our selves. Ah, please Moth!" 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J'? sema end latere will mm 4wr a hand at "awiew. TKT1 cember 29, 1820. And the fact is that they went oniy. to me ren dezvous of that trapping concern, la the Wind river section of the Yellowstone, in the country of the Blackfeet and that is where they started to go. And there were no "first pioneers" along at all. Not one. And no pioneer settlers in the Oregon country came until 12 years later, with the Dr. Elijah White party, and only a few over 100 that year, and not any of them with wagons, beyond Fort Hall. It was 13 years later when the Applegate covered wagon train of 1843. bringing their wa gons clear through, with about 1009 pioneer settlers. . S The 10 wsgons that went from St. Louis to the rendezvous in the Yellowstone country turned around and went back after the rendetvous was over, around Aug ust 6th, with their loads of furs, as wss intended, and it may hare taken them till Dec. 29 to get back to St. Louis. Probably not so long, for they had made the outward trip in 90 days. m Some readers would no doubt like to know how many "first pi oneers" did come to Oregon in 1830. Not any at all, as such. The hooey artists who faked the 1930 centennial celebration of the Old Oregon Trail hit ' on a bad year. That is, if they were look ing for fact Instead of fiction. But two people did start for the Oregon country la 1830. Two only. Not one arrived that year. It was sbout the only blank year of -that particular period, when ao white person was added to the population of the Oregon country. No such another year followed; though there had been several blank ones after the Lewis and Clark party of 1805 and the Astor sea and land parties of 1811 and 1812. 1. "a The two who started ia 1830 were John Dunn and George B. Roberts, young mea apprenttocd to the naval service of the Hud son's Bay company, who sailed from London Nov. 11. 1830. on the bark Canymede. They arriv ed in the Columbia after calling at the Sandwich Islands, about August 1, 1831. They were transferred to the Cadboro, be longing to the Hudson's Bay com pany, in Baker's bay. They were both likely young fellows; but they did not come to the Oregon country as settlers. Dunn wrote a book on Oregon from his observations and what he got from others. He was for a time in charge of Fort Mc Loaghlin, on MMbank sound, but later he was at Fort George (As toria), where he remained until about 18 40. S Roberts went to Fort Vancou ver, where he worked for many years as clerk for the Hudsotv's Bay company, and became ac quainted and had dealingg with nearly all the early Oregon pi oneers. He arrived th n mu ruary, 1832, and assisted James (afterwards Sir James) Douglas who was then a clerk at 100 pounds a year. He taught the school at Fort Vancouver in 1835 after Solomon Smith ran off with the old baker's Clatsop Indian , wife and went to the house of Jo seph Gervais, it miles below where Salem Is bow. Roberts was overeer of the men, some times 200 of them, employed la the industries of old Fert Van- S ? Jlmes at the Cowlitz (Washington) farm of the H B Co., and the operations of that company at Oregon City, Cham poeg and various other points " . England fa one of th9 compan . Ztfil1' lalSii- He thought he w? i ea0Xieh ot the wilderness. What he wrote about that is in- frefih H,fid: "l ed?me in London), where vvsuuuuuea on page 7) OLDER PEOPLE Must watch bowels Constantly! A trow older tbe bowels be- wu.. more e ugglsh. They don't 5!Lri.l U ta waste. Some fi y do not move at all So older people need to watch thelf r0Wt, con8tnr. Only by do ing this can they hope to avoid tne many forma of sickness caused by constipatioa. 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