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-v a ii a h - a PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, uctoper "Xo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spkagve, Sheu)ON F. Sackett, Publisher Charles A. Spbagle Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett ----- Managing Editor Member of the Associated Paess The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the -use for publics tloo of all news dispatches credited u H or not otherwise credited in tbis paper. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc.. Portland. Security Bid. San' Francisco. Slaron Bid-. ; Los Angeles. W. Paa BMg. Eastern Advertising Representative: Ford-Parsons-StKolitr.Ino.. New York, 271 Madison Ave. ; . Chicago. 360 N. Michigan Are. Entered at the Poetoffice at Salem, Oregon, tu Second-Clau Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Buie$$ office, 215 S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: MaD Subscription Rates, in Advance. WltW Oregon : Dally and Sunday. 1 Mo. 50 cents; J Mo tl.L'i C Mo. 12.23: 1 year $4.00. Else where 5 cents per Mo. or $S.e tor 1 year In advance, By City Carrier: 50 cent a month', a year in advance. Per Copy 2 cents. On trains and News Stands 6 cent. Victim of Hallucinations JULIUS Meier seems to be afflicted with aboat the same hallucinations as L. A. Banks "of Bedford, another "in dependent" candidate. Banks screams his Jeremiads in Gou dy bold daily in his Medford News, the house organ of his self-started' campaign for the senate. Between the "venal press" and the sinister forces of political turpitude. Banks asserts he is well nigh overcome; when the fact is he is m the victim merely of his own hallucinations. Meier impresses us as in much the same category. He says he has to hire a watchman to guard his house; he never goes on the street unaccompanied; lie inspects his car before he gets into it for a ride. He declares he has been "villified." and .tells the people about him. Meier is suffering from him. There may be a few cranks abroad as always, but most of them are in Julius' stable eating at his crib. And the chief of Julius' delusions is that he is now the Sir Galahad of the "people." He says: "Personally I am the candidate of the people '. The same old formula for roller skating into public office : "I am for the people". Julftis may think he is for the people, but the group of very practical politicians surrounding him have very definite -ideas on the subject, too ; and they suffer no illusions about being for "the peo ple". They are very clearly and definitely for themselves. Meier is a victim of self-induced imaginings. He suffers from hallucinations, first as to his semi-divii." call, second as to his great sacrifice, third as to his own importance in the political life of Oregon, and fourth as to fears of dang ers which invest him, and. fifth as to being "maligned, villi fied, censured and dragged through the mire by the power companies and the subsidized press. Correcting an Error IN reading our own editorial of yesterday morning respect ing up-river development, not having gotten to read the proof because of absence from town, we note a glaring error in transcribing our computations in which we appear to say that spreading the total lumber haul of 2,400,000 cars over 40 years would be 15,000 cars per annum. What we meant to say, but failed to do so, because of our, error in writing up our computations, was that the per - annum total would be 60,000 cars, only 25 of which or 15,000 cars, would be accessible to Willamette transporta tion, and of this amount only 10 (or 2M of the total) would actually move by water. The result in freight Savings is the same. $50,000 on lumber or $150,00 on the total im provement, all of which was, guess. Now this 2y2 looks very small; but here at Salem, where we have transportation a large portion of the year, oractically no lumber moves by water. The movement is by rail to California and to the Portland for cargo shipment. Barges of course would make water movement more feasible; but the 24 of the total for Lane county is probably all Willamette. Success Without Size fTiHE big Transamerica corporation has purchased the Hi JL bernia bank in Portland, its first deal after-buying the First National of Portland group of banks. It will not be surprising If this aggressive financial organization attempts to expand its operations into cities of the state outside of Portland. The next ten years may see the banking lineup of the state changed sharply from independent or unit banks to group banks. Incidentally the Hibernia bank is a fine example of banking success not based on size. Under very able man agement with a board of directors not made up merely of big names for windo wdressing, the bank has grown and prospered. It never suffered because it wasn't one of the big . banks. Instead it let the big banks take the big accounts with the big risks. So the Hibernia became known as one of the best profit-earners in the city and rendered a fine service to its patrons; and its owners have probably gotten a good price for their shares. Americans are so befuddled about mere size of their banks, newspapers, colleges, stores, industries, that it is good to see an institution of moderate size like the Hibernia bank, display such marked success in its field. Hoodlumism Discredits Legion -"OOSTON reports an outbreak of hoodlumism at the time XX of the American Legion port is careful to state that the legionnaires themselves ' were orderly, the resort to whoopee was an undoubted ac companiment of the convention. Many of these conventions have been a disgrace to the legion organization and to American citizenship. Some legionnaires and others tres pass, upon the hospitality of the host city and make the season of the convention an orgy of debauch. The responsibility rests on the legion to clean up its conventions. If it does not an aroused public sentiment will condemn the whole organization. Decent members of the legion will remain away and the hoodlum element will come to dominate. Young life wants its fling, and we are not proposing puritanical requirements for legion conventions; but there is a vast difference between decency and indecency, which was recognized even in pre-Volstead days. It's up to the legion to ban indecency and hoodlumism from its conven tions. - Good New From Q PAULDING'S mill has resumed on better time than pre jDvious to its brief shut-down. The Oregon linen mill which was shut down awhile is running steadily with a payroll of 40 -employes and has many inquiries coming in . for its product. The Miles null a day.- Canning plants are still working on pears and swing-? - r v 7 j injr into pumpkins. The Reid, Murdoch plant is canning here V. 'Vfruit salad ijftsing local fruits as well as apricots from Yak VV - -uma nd pineapple from Hawaii. The paper mill is complet- d.hrt tnytrsoiier. plant installation luU tueVTheC Western Converting company is running full Jr-'"time. at;.$opd-profits tinder changed management. - v These are industrial briefs that mean more to Salem -. . than: the sleeping, sickness - -""i market tainting spells. to believe nothing they hear delusions. "No one is villifying as we frankly stated, a mere middle west, and by rail to that ever would move by the convention. Whlie the AP re ' Our Own Industries continues to run three shifts and running its departments of eastern industry or stock HEALTH Today's Talk By R.S. Copeiand, M. D. What to do tor tbe minor acci dents of life la something every body should know. The baby gets an object up his nose or ear. one of the family geta something in his eye, or some other painful accident may happen any one of these a x p r iences calls for Judg ment and skill at a moment's notice. It is not un :ommon to get a foreign body In the ear. It creates a disagreeable sensation. Probably nothing . is more dis tressing than getting an insect in the ear, and yet boar easily that accident can happen. No matter how small the insect is, it can make a lot of trouble. Nature's Safeguard - Nature has provided a safe guard in the farm of the stocky odorous ear wax. When an insect! gains entrance to the, ear the feet and wings Just naturally get en tangled in this substance. This usually prevents the Insect from reaching the eardrum. If an in sect ever does crawl far enough to reach the drum membrane the effect is maddening. The loud noises made are overpowering. There is such pain, with head ache and vomiting, tha t convul sions are sometimes caused. The thing to do at once is to pour sweet oil or olive oil or sew ing machine oil into the ear and let it remain for a few minutes. Insects are quickly killed by this means. Then the ear should be gently irrigated with a stream of warm water from a fountain sy ringe. Never hang the fountain syringe higher than the head. Removing Sizeable Objects When an object like a bean or pea or any wooden object is found in the nose or ear do not use water in attempts to remove it. This would cause the object to swell. - The thing to do is to take a camel's hair brush of small size, dip it in collodium or glue and apply It to the object. Let it dry for a moment and then you can remove the object by pulling on it very gently. Sometimes adhes ive plaster will serve Just as well when used in a similar manner. There is no cause for alarm. even if the object remains in place for several hours or a day or two. In the case of a child he should be soothed into thinking no harm will come from It. -Jt may be disagreeable, but it Is nothing to be frightened over. If there is any difficulty In getting an object out a doctor should be called. Editorial Comment From Other Papers ANOTHER "HOLIER THAN THOU. The Medford Daily News, the publisher of which, Llewellyn A. Banks, Is an Independent candi date for United States senator, finds much at fault with the oth er newspapers of the state and gives them a severe lecture upon their duties to the public and upon the evil of Indulging In "low brow' journalism. We find In his indictment of what he Is pleased to call the "venal press" a charge that It addicted to tbe reprehensible practice of "mud slinging' char acter assassination, "sarcastic, vindictive and petty talk," "ex ecrable attacks" and Intemperate and violent diatribes Instead of sober, sane and rational discus sion of candidates and public Is sues. Rather a harsh charge, and perhaps it Is not without basis, but we would remind Mr. Banks, wno has only recently become newspaper publisher, of the old adage about the pot calling the kettlex black. In no newspaper of the state during the current campaign have we noted more violent and intemperate language than In the editorial columps of tne Medford News. We have before us one of its characteristic editorials under the heading, "Organised Liars' in which it makes the charge that "an organized gang of polit ical cutthroats" is denying the people honest officials here in Oregon. Mr. Banks In a signed article refers to the other news papers as the "venal press." de nounces the "political gangsters" who are dominating the state and vents his wrath in a tirade of abuse and villificatlon of those who cannot find sympathy with his candidacy. Again we read as the closing paragraph of one of the editorials In his pa per, "Llewellyn A. Banks be lieves In playing the game open ly ana squarely: That, u more than the lying, cowardly syco phants who resort to underhand tactics can say." To all of which, with all of the mildness we can command we say, 'Tut, tut. Llewellyn, and fie upon yout Cannot fmu or a newspaper refuse to be lm pressed with your own claims about your ability to save the state and nation without being called naughty names? Oh mercy me and likewise fudge and fid dlestlcks! God save us, from professional saviours who bow down in reverential admiration before their own picture." Somehow or other, perusal o the Medford Dally News brings back - memories of Lent Denver. erstwhile editor of the Western American who could so' well work himself Into a verbal lather over practices of whlcn he was the great exemplar. The Astor ia Budget. Citizens of the town of Goose Creek, Tex., plan to change the name to Southport, believing the Utter more dignified. i - 1 CERTAlrALV V rfffiP ' I HOPE THAT I WM i Gettw Bfcntfc ! Wh r ID I T viiili uiru ir-viiy SYNOPSIS Ardeth works In ahoD and la being wooed by Neil Burke. Her horn lit ia far from pleasant. She lives with an aunt and a snooping-. girl cousin. Nell ia all right until aha aples a swell riding: a horse. Nell eludes Ardeth Jealously. The nest day Ar deth sees a picture of Ken Oleason. the man on the horse, ia tha rotogra vure section and her heart thumps. But Ardeth comes to earth with tne usual bickering with Bet about stock ings. Jeanette Parker calls at the store where Ardeth works and offers the latter a job In the swell shop she la starting'. Ardeth accepts. Nell ob jects to Ardeth' s plans and they have a row. Araetn meets &n when ne vistti the shop. Shortly after, knowing that Jeanette has left for the day, Ken calls at the shop, feigning that he had planned to drive Jeanette home. He amies Ardeth to go Instead. Next day. Ken plans a foursome or Ardeth, Jeanette, his friend, Tom Cor bett, and himself. Jeanette and Tom are unable to go, so Ken is alone with Ardeth. They picnic together, their hearts raciiur with each other's near ness. Unable to resist. Ken kisses Ar deth. When she mentions CecUe, hla race darken Ufa to pretty Ardeth Carroll meant working In a shop, an unhappy home with her aunt, and the courtship of Nell. When days go by with no word from Ken. Ardeth feels she was Just another flirtation. Ce-, cite caUS at the shop' and when Ar aetn vernears her talking or Ken, tier heart drops. That night, ahe is over joyed to rina Ken waiting for her. Af ter a very happy evening to gather, Ken tells her he couldn't stay away any longer. He comes to the shop with Tom Corbett and joins Cecils In the tea-room. Ardeth la consumed with jealousy. Looking up from her work. sne is surprised to rind Tom leaning across the case, gasing at her. One morning, scanning through, society's scandal sheet. "The Spy.". Ardeth sees a reference to Ken's engagement to uecue. CHAPTER IT When Ah Ling came into the shop in the middle of the morn ing she heard her- name called from the back room. She went in, to find Ardeth sitting on the couch with her wraps on. "Phone Miss Parker," ehe di rected the soUcitous little Chi nese girl. "TeU her she'll have to come down and take charge. I'm going home. I I'm not well . ." And indeed she looked Ul: her face milk-white save for two hec tic spots of burning om her cheekbones. But Instead of turning toward home, she caught a street car go ing toward the beach. She found a seat on the deserted front end where the wind cooled her hot face, sitting with eyes closed and hands tightly Interlaced In her lap. At the end of the carline ahe struck off across the eand until she reached a large dune on the less frequented part of the beach. She sat down on its seaward side, puUing off her hat so the wind could lift her hair and fan her hot forehead. Up to now she had held her feelings rigidly under control. But here there were no prying eyes. But for tbe moment tears would not come. Shi was too completely crushed, as yet, to feel anger or outraged pride. "It's that story in the 'Spy AN ENTHUSIASTIC WELL WISHER I Vli fuftim Syirfki Int.. :Sn SAnHiii .- TM A LTD A in" By GLADYS "Phone Miss Parker I'm going home," Ardeth told the Chi nese girl. ' Never once did it occur to her to doubt the article she had read la The Spy. Her own memory backed it up. Now she knew the reason for that shadow on Ken's face the Sunday in the duck shack that ominous something which had crept between them at the men tion of Cecile. Knew the reason for that vague fear which had always underlain their gay words. Afraid . . . yes, she had been. Something In her had recognized the larking danger even when she had tried to hold her thought at arm's length. And those nights, when she was not with him jealous fear in her heart, picturing him with Cecile his handsome, laughing face bent close to the other girl. Then the storm broke. Rage shaking through her, hot dev astating. Choking her sd that she mads stifled animal sounds, pounding her clenched' hands on the sand as though she pounded them on Ceeile's beautiful mock ing face. Sheer exhaustion "brought her to herself, ashamed and a little sick. Sand gritting on her teeth, griming her tear-stained face. She sat-, up. catching her breath in convulsive gasps like a child which has cried too long, and scrubbed her cheeks with her wet ball of handkerchief. She smoothed her hair, pulled on htr hat. ' at tor more than isn't it?" His voice was tight. O idhnston an hour with arms clasping her legs while she stared on the beach, below. Hard, bitter thoughts went over her mind as cloud shadows were passing over the water. The old story! Her heart mocked her. The wsalthy young man caught by a pretty face . . . Of course Ken wasn't wealthy but he was a part of that world of wealth which held Cecile Jeanette all those easy man nered, comfortable people who came la Jeanette's shop. Well she'd asked tor this pain, hadn't she? said the scorn ful inner voice in her mind. A fool about him . . . She had shown it in every look every time her had touched him. She had offered her heart on her lips -yhow could she blame him for taking It? "A cheap food!" she said It aloud, and her voice sounded oddly thin against the roar of the eea. Nell was right . . . "They get an they can and then trow you to one side . . " Oh, what a fool she had been ... To lose her heart to Ken Ken, who was going to marry another . . . Marry Cecile ... Oh! She caught her lip between her teeth and her face went white and cold. Ken holding Cecile in his arms kissing her . . . She was crying, soft helpless -tears which drained her heart of bitterness and left her limp on the sand, staring up Into the empty sky with wet swollen eyes. Hours passing unheeded a lonely eternity of time. She might have been a desert Island, she thought dully. The hollow roar of the ocean beating into her ears a sound somehow mournful. Watching the faint grey shadows of gulls sailing over the dunes. Bunch grass blowing in the wlnJ, now and then a gleam of silver as the light caught a broad blade. Changing light warned her that k was getting late. She rose wearily and shook the sand from her clothes. She didn't want to get home so late that she would have to explain to Aunt Stel . . . Her heart was too sore tonight tor explanations. The- city closing about her again avshe rattled homeward on the empty street car. Swallowing er up i its greyaess. Holdinf asr cast. Her own block, shabby nd tjsw-uc ui me iwiugui. one tusmountea. started un tha at uaugat her breath, painfully. A ear. at the cornar where. Km always narked. Ken getting oat coming toward her, white to tne lips. Kyes, stormy blue leaninr at her through the thick light. Her BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS - A dollar for a drink: v In the "Book of Remembrance of Marion county. Oregon, Pio neers." of Sar- ah Hunt Steeves, there is a sketch of Isaae Baker. Oregon p i o neer, father of Joseph A. Ba ker, the oldest living resident of Salem? who .came here be fore the town had its pres- ent name, but jm& was known as r. J. Hendriekl "The Insti tue," as it had been known as "The Mills," and originally Chemeketa. "The (Ore gon) Institute" was named Wil lamette university when it was chartered by the territorial leg islature in 1853. S S Isaac Baker was born in Vir ginia in 1817; lived for a time in Illinois, where he was married to Eliza T. Ash, then in Iowa, and ia 1847 came with "the big im migration" of that year to Ore gon. The biggest -up to that time, 5000, doubling the population. S S f Wiley Chapman was captain of the train, of 40 families; he became a prominent man in Sa lem. "With the usual amount of provisions for the trip, and a gal lon Jug of whiskey, 'the cure-all on the plains, the started out, the sketch roads, continuing: S ."There was much sickness in this party. Mrs. Chapman, wife of the captain, died of camp fe ver in the Grand Ronde valley in Oregon and left four children, who were mothered the rest of the way and after their arrival in the Willamette valley by Mrs. Baker. The little daughter of the Bakers, Elizabeth, aged 4 years, also died of the disease, and was buried at Fort Bridger. Many of the train' were ill but recovered, "a "Indians were very trouble some all along the way but most ly because of their thieving pro pensities. An old lady in the train had a very fine mare that she considered too good to run with the common herd at night when all were corralled with the wagons, so she would sleep with the halter strap in her hand, so that if the mare should jerk away she would know it. One morning, when she looked out, she "was just holding an empty strap, while her precious mare was in the possession of the In dians. A simple matter to slip up and cut the halter strap. This caused considerable delay, but the horse was never recovered . . -W "At Soda Springs, two plains men, Jim Bridger and 'Pegleg' Smith, came to their camp and asked for a drink of whiskey. The jug of 'cure-all' was about empty, but Mr. Baker gave them all that was left, about a cup full, and each took a big kuId. They asked what they owed for this, but Mr. aker did not charge them anything. However, as imager rode by he laid a sil ver dollar on their wagon tire. This was the last they saw of these men. The Canfield-family stonned at the Whitman mission, as Dr. vt nit man needed a blacksmith. and were there at the time of tne massacre. . . Mr. Canfield was shot while skinning a baef and as he fell the redskins iuuu&uk mm aeaa. Another -snan-L. was helnlnr him. Ha ran Hn v.A inaians caught him and killed him with their tomahawks. Two young men were 111 of the meas-v les and wera overlooked. Mrs. Canfield took them food and the heart leaped at the pain ob hla young face. Ardeth where h ava Tnn been all day!" She answered dully. "Doe ft matter?" "You know It does!" hotly. Jeanette said you-were ill But at home they knew nothing when I phoned." "You phoned!" His eyes were piercing now. Of course. And then I drove up here. i was going to wait until you came if it took all night.' He graspea ner elbow. "We can't talk here get in the car." She wrenched har arm away. "Ne!" "It's that story Isn't it? That thing In the Spy?' His voice was tight. Well yes." He gave a short little laugh, which held no mirth. "I knew It. Hell! Get in the ear we have, to talk " "No." "Yes, I said!" the words came between his clenched teeth. Then his eyes were pleading. "Ah, sweetheart I've been nearly crazy we can't talk here! Sweetheart, please" She got In the car. (To be continued) Yesterdays ... Of Old Oregon Iowa Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read October O. lBOS The (LOtt bushels of oats In the Macleay farmers' pool "was soia tnis week to Albers Bros. The net prices realised was 31 cents. Pupils of Mrs. Myra A. Wig gins held an art exhibit at her Oak Knoll studio. Oak and Win ter streets. A four-foot rise ia the Santiam was disastrous to the Jefferson Mill in a! cMnntnT a v - w . WWAH broke and their big boom above uenga went out, and with it between f 00,600 and 700,000 ieet ox one logs. Assurance that Portland and Salem will be connected by an el- ccvtm: uae wunux a year. Indians saw her. They came in and Mrs. Canfield felt sure they would be killed in their cots. She threw her apron over her face so as to not see this grue some sight, but the Indians took this from her and forced her to look on while they committed their fiendish work. Mf. Canfield recovered, and they made their escape and came to the Willam ette valley. "At The Dalles the Baker fam ily were taken down th Colum bia river in boats ... In the faU of 1848 they came up the valley and bought a 'squatter's right to a fine piece of. land just northeast of Salem on what is known as the Garden road. Mr. Baker chose this location be cause, of the better school advan tages offered by the eld Insti tute, later the Willamette univer sity. (This was probably the first family that settled in what became Salem because the his toric school was here; and the survivors of that family are here yet, and have been contributing to the stability and prosperity of this community for 82 years. The names of those who have fol lowed them, for the same rea son, and their accomplishments, would fill several books; and the procession comes on, and will mount with the years.) S ' Tha first cabin Mr. Isaac Ba ker built for his family was of logs and the beds were just bunks built along the walls with field fern gathered for 'padding, not event put into bed ticks. This cabin was built without a nail, even to the door hinges and fas tenings." e "a There might be added the fact that the boy. Joe Baker, now ia his 92nd year, and hale and hearty, and still needing no glasses when he reads these lines, when the family needed some lumber to make things more comfortable about the first log house, found that laborers wera so scarce that the mission saw mill was short of log out of which to gt the materials re quired. . So the boy,, who was a husky lad, offered his services, and he helped cut the trees for the logs, down in the forest close to the river, where the Marion county poor farm is now, and aided in hauling them to the mill, with oxen. The mill was where the Larmer warehouse now stands, on Broadway, which Is the exten sion of North Liberty street. S S Mr. Baker of course saw the first dwelling built In what is now Salem, diagonally across the road front the mill, now 960 Broadway, and still standing, just as it was then, excepting for an adition that forms the south west part, and the loss of the upper porch which was taken away when the adition was built. The postoffice was in the old house then; and It was used for many purposes; among other things, for the territorial treas urer's office. Mr. Baker says he thought that was the finest house (he had ever seen. It was, when It was built, the finest house in what Is now Oregon, or anywhere west of the Rockies and north of tbe Spanish (Califor nia) line. ' Samoa may get Citizenship and Some Self -Rule PAGO PAGO, American Sa moa, Oct. 8 (AP) Congress will be asked to give Samoans an organic act providing for Ameri can citizenship and a large meas ure of self-government, the Sa- moan congressional committee announced today In a prelimin ary report read to an assembly of all chiefs of American Samoa. The report was unanimously adopted. It recommended also that the toso (annual meeting or cmeis) be given the standing of a legislative body, that fed eral judges from Honolulu sit here to hear appeals from the highest Sasaoan court and that the president be free to appoint a civilian or active or reserve of fleer of the army or navy as gov ernor of Samoa, Scissored Squibs Editorial Bits from tl Press of the State How easy It Will be to solve great problems when all decent people fight rottenness Instead of one another tAfn.rA u t vv v a . fTrfbune. Last month as usual saw dalrw. men of the Lower Columbia Dairy association obtain, a pre mium overA Portland prices tot their high class product. Forty three cents a pound was paid for grade A butter and tha bulk of the butter produced by dairymen of the association la grade A. Re gardless.of slumped butter mar kets through the country and general talk of business, depres sion in the past few months, the public demand for high quality Products seems to have contin ued, and the dairymen of the Lower Columbia are better off as a result. Astoria Budget. Today's Thought . . . I lore children. They do not prattle of yesterday; their Inter ests ixm au of today and the to morrows 1 love children .h- lard Mansfield. 9