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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Sakm. Oregon. Thursday Morning. October 15, 130 "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Aiof From First SUtesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Cea&xes A. Spkacux, Sheldon F, SUcmir. Publish- Chakxxs A. SHUCua - - - Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackktt - - Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is exdnstrely entitled te ths m Cor publica tion of aU new dispatches credited to It or est otherwise credited be this paper. Padfle Coast Advertising Representatives: . Arthur W. etrpes. Inc., Portland, Security Bids. Baa Francisco. Sharon Bids.; Los Angeles, w. Pac Bide Eastern Advertising Representatives t Fsrd-Farsons-Steeber.Inc- New fork, 171 Madlsoa At.; Chicago, Set N. Michigan Av. Entered at the Potto ff ice at Salem, Oregon, a Second-CUut Hatter. PublUhed every morning except Monday. Business office, tlS S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Man Subscription Rates, la Advance. Within Oregon : Dally and Sunday, 1 Mo. 50 cents; S Mo. $1.25 Mo. fl.tt; 1 year Klse where cents per Mo. or IS.te for 1 year ia ad ranee. By City Carrier: 60 cents a month; $$.( a rear la advance. Par Copy 1 cents. On trains and News Stands I cents. To Disaffected Republicans ' IF JULIUS Meier is elected governor it will be by virtue of the votes of disaffected republicans. Now you registered republicans who are deserting your party to vote for Meier, just what sound reasons have you for doing so? The ans wers to this question which we have noted include responses somewhat like these: First. "We want a change." A change from what? If I. L. Patterson had lived 90 of you would be loyally supporting him, and pointing with pride to the constructive, conservative achievements of his administration. Gov. Norblad has in the main continued the Patterson policies. The state business has been conducted honestly and economical'. Tax reforms have been accomplished, property tax levies have been reduced and will be cut still farther if the income tax is adopted. There have been no abuses in administration of state institutions; wherever mal-adminis-tration appeared it has been promptly and skilfully cor rected. No matter who is governor he will have a hard task to make the government machinery move as smoothly and as efficiently as in the Patterson-Norblad quadrennium. But you are getting a change, if that is what you want; because Metschan is by no means the candidate of any state house machine. There will be many new faces at the state house no matter who is elected. Second. "We want a new deaL" Come now, isn't this what you mean: tii.es are hard, and you want more income. But how will changing govern ors increase your business, raise your wages or give you a better job? If a change in governors 'will bring about great er prosperity, why not change every year? The fact is that whoever is governor will have very scant effect on business in Oregon UNLESS THE GOVERNOR DRIVES' THE STATE INTO FOOLISH EXPENDITURES OF FUNDS OR FOOLISH BOND ISSUES. That effect would be adverse. Third. "Metschan got the nomination the wrong way." How did he get it? Joseph died, Metschan wasn't re sponsible for that, was he? The law empowered the repub lican state central committee to nominate a candidate. The committee met, and after balloting fruitlessly for 17 bal lots, Metschan was nominated on the 18th ballot. There was no "frame-up." The committee was not packed. In 29 coun ties the state committeemen had already been chosen when Joseph died. In seven counties no organization meeting had been held, and Metschan as state chairman designated a man in each county, not to serve as state committeeman, but to call the precinct committeemen together to choose their own state committeemen. Of these seven, five of them sever did vote for Metschan. Metschan was nominated by the duly constituted state committee, uncontrolled and unbossed, which balloted for 18 ballots before reaching a decision. Whoever might have been nominated would have had to get the nomination the same way : through the vote of the committee. Fourth. The committee scrapped the Joseph platform." The committee did nothing, and said nothing about a platform. The law gave it no power to draft a platform, nor endorse one already drawn. Judge McMahan, pinch-hittmg for the Telegram and Julius Meier, "handed down an opin ion" to the effect that the committee had no power to draw up a platform. Now, Mr. Disaffected Republican, do you know that the Republican party of Oregon has no way of adopting a plat form? Joseph had a platform, so did Corbett and Norblad, and others. Joseph had a plurality, but only a third of the votes cast. That did not make the Joseph platform the plat form of the Republican party of the state. There is no way under the Oregon law for any party to draft a platform. Joseph's platform was personal; there was nothing holy or sacred about it, and nothing that bound the party or any later candidate to it. Fifth. "Do not like Metschan." You may not like his personality, his habits, manner isms, his cut of features or his personal approach. Very well, but if it is a matter of personal and moral reputation, then your vote assuredly would not go to Julius Meier. Sixth. "Want to crack the pewer trust." And you think you can do it with a millionaire whose personal and financial interests and whose actual contacts have always been with big business, with men of great wealth, utility magnates? Say, brother, the power trust will still be here for succeeding generations of political porch climbers to crack long after Meier is out of politics. Wake up, you are just opening the door to admit to the political pie counter a bunch of" political has-beens who have caught the Meier band-wagon for a free ride to a meal-ticket. You disaffected republicans, before you vote for Julius Meier, try to figure out for yourself just why you are do ing it, and what good you are going to do yourself or the state or your party by so doing. Shutting your eyes and swinging a club blindly will not help you or whomever you hit. Even if loyalty to your party carries no weight with you, you ought to have some loyalty to the state to protect and conserve its best interests. Think it over. HEALTH Today's Talk By B. 8. Copeland, 1L D. ream We occasionally hear soma mother say her baby has "sprue," I or "thrush." Thes are the names used to describe a con dition of the month to which children, par. ticularly ba bies, ar liable. A similar form ot sore month 1 found in . au . ages, and is known to the doctors as "stomtltte." Grown people often develop single ulcers or "canker sores. sprue appera as small white nicer on the tongue, gums and tne root or us month. These ul cers resemble small particles of curdled milk, if neglected, the ulcere may spread through-the whole digestive system, but usu ally they are confined to the mouth. The First Symptom The child complains first of pain or tenderness of the gums. The Inner surfaces of the cheeks and the guma are spotted with white patches. When, wiped off these patches leave small raw spots, small ulcers. As the trouble goes on the gums become very sensitive. Lf ter they are swollen and spongy and bleed when touched. In fact, the mouth Is so sore that the child eannot take solid food. Lack of cleanliness Is general ly the cause of sprue. Unclean spoons, unclean feeding bottles, unclean utensils used In the pre paration of the feedings, some form of neglect, Is at the founda tion of the trouble. Prevention and Treatment Prevention is better than cure In all human Ills. It is doubly true ot digestive ailments of children. The bottles, nipples and all -utensils used In prepar ing the baby's food must be kept scrupulously' clean. After each feeding the mouth, should be cleaned with an alkaline wash. Lime water or a solution of bi carbonate ot soda can bo need. Add a teaspoonful of soda to a glass of water. A piece ot soft cloth or ab sorbent cotton wrapped about the finger may be used to wash the mouth. This must be done care fully because of the soreness. Re peat the treatment every hour or two. The doctor wUl advise you about the food and prescribe .ap propriate treatment to build up the general health. Answer to Health Queries Mrs. W. T. F. Q. Is there any safe way to overcome the habit of chewing tobacco. The patient in Question Is a slave to the habit and I am afraid it will undermine his health. A. No. The patient should use his will power to break the habit, which Is not only Injuries to the health, but most unpleas ant as well. e e e Q. What do you advise for nicer of the stomach? A. Send self-addressed, and stamped envelope for full partic ulars and repeat your question. Yesterdays ... Of Old Oregon Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Bead October 1ft, 1005 The high school -team opened the football season by playing the collece team at McMinn- ville. The local boys lost by score ot to 0. Howard" Catlln did the best work for Salem. Percy T. Megargel, who is crossing the country In an auto mobile, the tteo Mountaineer, Is due to pass through Salem October 20. He is now is Poca- tello, Idaho. Hiss Olive Mitchell entertain ed a few friends at her home on Cottage street, in honor of Miss Gall Souter of Tacoma, who u the guest ot Miss Bessie Schults. Klondike hearts were played. Bills against Marion county for the month totaled tS.041.Sl, ac cording to report et the commis sioners' court. Today's Thought. . . That Lutheran Message NOW President Hoover has the Catholics on his trail be cause of the text of the message he sent to the Luth erans. Father Burke, secretary of the National Catholic Welfare conference, gives out a statement saying, the pres ident has violated the spirit of his oath of office in his mes--sage. It was a greeting to the Lutherans who on October 81st celebrate the reading of the Augsburg Confession 400 years ago. from which date so many of the changes in point of view from older, conceptions both of religion and government," the president said, continuing: "The effects of these historical events are reflected in our national life and Institutions, In religion through the predom inant numbers of adherents to protestant faiths and in govern ment through the principle of separation ot church and state. It is fitting we should commemorate the persons and events f I na which mighty forces hare sprung." The wording is perhaps unfortunate and the Catholic quibblers may prof ess offense because of it. But no one ser iously believes the president entertained any intention of S offending any religious sect nor of making a favorite of any. The message was doubtless merely one of the usual ' daUr grist which the president's secretary has to prepare and send out. Perhaps the president nearer even saw this : one, which was written by George Akerson, his secretary, fc though Hoover is not trying to evad. inj respoasibjity. on There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough ot lndolenoe. Maria Edgeworth. A Problem For You For Today ; Jones and smith had equal sums ot money; Jones lost IS and Smith earned 17. Then they had together $36. How much had each at first? Answer tomorrow. 1 ISHE BEYOND REACH? T o ? I I -zs aw n r r--r - , mrr--i i II c- - - 'W , - ------- - II v ursssr : come wv - - ' ' fMP" . WVJM HERE . . y a minute, FygM 9 IMKaS TKm SjKix. Imt. Orm BrSw. rigka mmt BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS "GIRL UNAFRAID" SYNOPSIS Ardeth works In a ahoD and is belnc wooed br Nll Burka. tier horns Ufa Zar from pleasant She lives with an aunt and a snooping girl cousin. Nell is all right until she spies a well riding: a horse. Nell chides Ardeth Jealously. The next day Ar deth sees a picture of Ken Gleason. the man on the horse. In the rotogra vure section and her heart thumps. But Ardeth comes to earth with the usual bickering with Bet abqut stock ings. Jeanette Parker calls at the store where Ardeth works and offers the latter a job In the "swell" shop she starting. Ardeth accepts. Nell ob jects to Ardeth's plans and they have a row. Ardeth meets Ken when he visits the shop. Shortly after, knowing mat Jeanette has left for the day, Ken calls at the shop, feigning that, he had planned to drive Jeanette' home. He asks Ardeth to go instead. Next day. Ken plans a fowrsome of Ardeth, Jeanette. hi friend, Tom Corbett.- and himself. Jeanette and Tom are unable to go, so Ken is alone with Araetn. Tney picnic together,' their hearts racing with each other's near ness. Unable to resist. Ken kisses Ar aetn. wnen sne mentions cecils, bis face darkens, life to pretty Ardeth Carroll meant working ia a shop, am unhappy heme with her aunt, aad the court (up or Nell. Whesi days go br with no word from Ken. Ardeth feels she was Just another flirtation. Ce cils calls at the shop and when Ar aetn overnears iter taiaiag or Ken, bar heart drops. That night, aha is over joyed to una an waiting lor ner. Al ter a very happy evening together. Ken tells her he couldn't star away any longer. He comes to the shop with Tom Corbett and Joins Cecils la the tea-room. Ardeth is consumed with Jealousy. Looking np from her work, she Is surprised to find Tom leaning across the case, gaslng at her. One morning, scanning through society's scandal sheet, "The 8py," Ardeth sees a rererence to iua i engagement to Cecil e. Then she understood that ominous something which had come between them at the mention of Cs- cile. Returning home, she finds Ken waiting wtth his car. He begs her to let him explain. CHAPTER 23 As the hand of her wrist watch went slowly around the dial, apprehension flooded Ardeth's mind. Imagination persisted in painting accidents Ken's car had collided with another he was hurt wanting her Reason scornfully thrust this aside. Oh, that was absurd! Wo men always borrowed trouble! Calamity Jane that's what Ken would call her. He'd been detained at the of fice. Any minute now he'd come about the corner. She grew self-conscious at the glances of passers-by. It any one she knew should set her, how silly she'd look! With: cold fingers she fitted the kex to the lock and re-ent ered the shop. Surprisingly dark In here af ter the gray light ot the street She sat down quietly on a tah bnrette facing the window, but after a moment she found her self pacing the floor. Up the soft thick carpet of the outer shop . . . Into the smok erie . . . back again, with nerv ous measured steps, following a winding path which dodged the couches and screen and teakwood tabourettes. Her nerves were taut. Some how symbolic, this restless wait ing in the dark. Why did she air ways have this fear where Ken was concerned? Forever lurking under the sweet security of their love. Afraid . . . She was afraid. A little whimper broke from her. "Oh, Ken please . . .' The sound ot her own voice speaking In the shadowy room jolted her back to reason. Here! This was silly t Ridicu lous to be carrying on like this. She would not strain toward the window. She'd go back and wait for him to phone or come. Determinedly calm she walked into the smokerle, pulled a lamp cord and sat down under its mel- This Akerson was reported to be on his way. to join the company of ex-Hooverites. He is credited with being respbn- BiDie lor some Dig Diunaers, noiaoiy tne snuo vo oenaior Johnson over the luncheon. to the senate foreign affairs committee. He is an exuberant Nordic, which may account for his slopping over in congratulating the Lutherans. This latest bungle may win him the bounce, but more likely it will prolong his tenure. The affair is of no significance or importance, and Father Burke may well calm his fears. Nobody wants to burn the fiery cross nowadays, least of aU a president look ing ahead to another term. ow glow to wait. Suddenly she remembered that this was where Ceclle usually sat when she came down here. Abruptly Ardeth stood up. eyes dialated, lips parted. Memory was stirring. A brief filing that aternoon which had aid little attention to the time. Mary Eastwood rolling after Phyllis Hawkins as she was leaving. "Of course you will be at Cecie's dinner tonight at Taits. PhiT" With one of those intuitive flashes which leaps the hurtles ot reason and argument, Ardeth knew that Ken was not coming. While she waited for him here la the lonely shop, he was with Cecile in the beach cafe. Jealously tearing her with hot fingers. Anger shaking through her. And a sick self-contempt. Oh what a fool what a poor blind fool she had been! How they . would laugh Nell Aunt Stel and if they could see now! Aunt Sters derisive cackle: "He's like many another young felow takln his fun with a poor girl before he marries a rich one!" "Oh!" She covered her face with her hands. "Oh!" Pulling on her hat regardless. Dragging on her coat. Shutting the front door with a crash which threatened its glass. Then stoplng in the doorway her heart leaping in her mouth at the sight of a passing car which slowed abruptly as the driver saw her. And suddenly Ardeth found herself very cool and calm and collected, smilng back at Tom Corbett. She had crossed the pavement . . . was looking up at him. "You're too consciencious. Miss Carroll!" he chlded. "What time Is this to be quitting work?" "We had a new shipment of perfumes. I wanted to get them assorted," she heard herself ex plaining smoothly. "Going home now? Let me drive you." "Oh it Isn't far! It's hardly worth while." He smUed. "Let's make It far ther. Let's make It worth while. I wonder la It, too much to hope you have no engagement tonight? That you'd go to dinner with me? As she hesitated he grew pleading. "Any place you say. Somewhere where we can dance? How's Tails? Aw, Miss Carroll, I'ce been feeling lucky all day -don't spoil the spell!" She laughed and impulsively got in the car beside him. "Taits" she sail and then laughed a lit tle shrilly. Before she reached the hotel she was already regretting" her action. Petty to spy on Ken like this. She didn't want to be petty", if Ken had hurt her. Then at the memory of Cecile's lovely cruel smile her lips tightened. That Ken coud do this to her! Anyway, she'd have to go on with it now, ahe told herself grimly as she dressed In her sky top room while Tom smoked and waited in the car before the ho tel. She'd show Ken that she was no doormat! At least her pride could be saved. It a girl was a fool enough to break her heart over a man who was only play ing about, she had so one to. blame but herself! She wouldn't be a patient Griselda weeping in corners ! A lovely reflection which look ed at her from the mirror. Anger had lent Ardeth more vivid beau ty. Darkening the amber of her eyes, glowing In "heightening col or on her cheeks. The sleeveless sup of yeuow satin played ud to the strange golden quality of her and when she went down stairs she was slim and lovely and troubling to the senses of men. Troubling certainty to the honest heart of Tom Corbett as she slip- pea into the seat beside him. As they drove toward the beach she was determinedly gay. Whimsical charming, not per muting herself to think. It .was la these moments that she real- wed that a new Ardeth Carroll had been born an Ardeth deep er, far more subtle than the girl of a few moments before. Some precious faith had slipped away. They reached the great wood en place standing in its shadowy gardens. Tall windows glowing with light. Thin straius of music filtering into the night. Bitter excitement rising like a tide on Ardeth's heart as Tom drove tne machine along the curving drive to the entrance. So many times had she come here with Ken. Just the two of them, dancing . . . Ken holding her so close she could feel his heart beat. Looking up into the dark blue of his eyee, seeing his smiling Hps silently frame "I love you." She dropped her head quickly as Tom helped her from the car Wallace prairie: o.,;nnin the article of Fred S Perrlne la the Quarterly of the Oregon Historical society: From Franchere we giean iu than from either of the others. The first record regaroing w Willamette states that on May t, 1111. (note the significance of the May i date; 32 years berore the vote on the provisional gov ernment), a party consisting of Alexander McKay nd Robert Stuart, partners, and Ovid de Montlgny and Gabriel Franchere, clerks, together with a Clatsop chief. Coal po. set out for a trip up the Columbia. On May 6, 1811, they passed for the first time the mouth of the Willam ette. Coalpo informed them that about a day's Journey up this riv er there was a considerable fall, beyond which the country abound ed in deer. elk. bear, bearer and otter. S - (McKay, Stuart, Montigny and Franchere were all historic char acters; loomed large in the great era of the fur trade, and some of them thereafter. Stuart was state treasurer of Michigan in after days, '40-'41, and afterwards In dian agent. Franchere, who fin ally established a fur trading firm in New York, was invited to go to Washington by- the famous Senator Thomas H. Benton, in 1346. to tell what he knew about j the Oregon question, which was j so hot then that it almost led to a third war between the United States and Great Britain; a war! that was averted by the fact that Jesse Applegate was in Oregon and talked with Dr. John Mc Loughlln.1 "No further record regarding the Willamette occurs until after a lapse of six months, when on Nov. 10, 1811, three ot the Cana dian boatmen deserted and were captured by the chief of a tribe of Indians on the "Willamette. They were not located until Nov. 18, when a ransom was paid for them and they were taken back to As toria, where the party arrived the 24th. S "No doubt the Willamette country was discussed pro and con. for on Dec. 6. 1811, Robert Stuart, (partner), Francis Benja min Pillett and Ronald McGillis, clerks, and a few of the men, ac companied by a guide, set out for the Willamette, which thr Indians had told them abounded in beav er. On this trip they were accom panied by Mr. Regis Brugiere, who had arrived overland from Canada, and who expected to fol low his vocation ot trapping. (He had been a country merchant in Canada and a trader on the Sas katchewan, where he had lost his outfit. He is not listed as either staying at or going from Fort George (Astoria), and history car lest he see jhat her eyes had filled. (To be continued.) loses sight of him after hit visit to the Willamette.) "How long this party remained up the Willamette we cannot tell, as there Is no mention ot their coming back, or of the results of their trip. All we know, however, U that Robert Stuart and McGilHs were back in Astoria prior to March SO, 181L They evidently had a successful trip, and made reports that warranted a further exploration pf the Willamette, for on April i, 181, Dopald McKen ile (partner) "started with Wil liam W. Matthews clerk) and fire or six men as hunters to make an excursion up the Willam ette. How long this party re mained is only a matter of con jecture, as we hare no record ot the trip, its duration, or amount of territory covered. We only know that McKentie went up the Willamette till he reached its east fork, which is now called the Mc Kentie river. (In the lata '20's and early '30 'a he was governor of Assiniboia, for about eight years.) . "He returned, however, befora June 29 or SO, 1815, for on one of these dates he set out for Snake river, where he established a post near the mouth of the Payette, which was later called Fort Boise. S "By the end of the year 1812. provisions were beginning to pet low at Astoria, and as the valley of the Willamette was a veritable hunter's paradise, a party headed by William Wallace and J. C. Hal sey (clerks) started for there on November 23, 1812. This party consisted of the two clerks men tioned and 14 men, and was sent for the express purpose of estaH lishing a trading post on the Wil lamette. (Wallace was a Cana dian. The last heard of him was at Moose Lake, Canada, in June, 1814. Halsey, while intoxicated, was killed near Liberty, Mo., by being knocked from his hort-e while riding through tue woods, in the summer of 1842. -He acci dentally struck the limb of a tree. He was a hard drinker.) "On the 25h of January, 1813, McKenzie, who had abandoned lm esablishment on the Payette, ar rived at Astoria, and brought the news that war had been declared between th United States and Great Britain. This caused no end of excitement at Astoria, and led the Astorians to believe that tho supply ship, which they were ex pecting, would not arrive. Tfca supply of provisions was very short, and now their numbers had been augmented by the arrival of McKenzie and his men. They were compelled to reduce the ra tion of each man o four ounces of flour and a half pound of dried fish per day, and It was even thought best to send some of the men to pass the rest of the winter with Wallace and Halsey on tho Willamette, where game was plen tiful. By this time Wallace and Halsey's party had spent some (Continued on page 8) a WHEN YOU NEED A SAFE DEPOSIT BOX Whenever you and your wife go out la the evening no matter where. 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