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I TCUHC9D ".Vo Fa t or Swa?s Lr; No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spragce, Sheldon F. Sackett. Publishers Charles A. Spragie - - -Sheldon F. Sackett - - - Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press fs eiclnsively entitled to the use for publica tion of all r.ews dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: -. '. Arthur W. Strps, Inc., Portland, Security Bldg. Ean Tranclnco. Sharon Bldg. ; Is Angeles. W P.ic Bids. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Fcrd-Parons-.Stecher.li!f-., New York, 271 MaJison Ave.; . ' Chicago. 360 N. Mirhigan Ave. Entered at the Postoffice at Salem, Ortgon, an Second-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office, SIS S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Mall Subscription Rates, in Advance. Withia Oregon: Dallr and Sunday, 1 Mo. SO cents; 2 Mo. $1.2,5 S Mo. ti.Si: 1 year 14.00. Else where 60 cents per Mo. or $5.00 tor 1 year in advance. By City Carrier: 50 cents a month; $5.50 a year In advance. Per Copy 2 cecta. On tiains and News Stands 5 cents. Railroad Unions WITH railroad rates at such high levels that traffic is being lost to trucks and buses, and with general bus- 'ITH railroad rates at such high levels that traffic is iness falling off so that gross and net earnings of the roads are off around 30 from 1929, the railroad unions seem to have chosen an inauspicious time to start a campaign for a six-hour day with eight-hour pay. Conditions are far different from 1916 when the roads were burdened with traffic and President Wilson yielded to the threat of a tie up and induced congress to enact the eight-hour law for railroad employes. Since 1922. the country has lost its fear of a railroad strike; and with the vast growth of motorized transportation the country is lesa and less dependent on railroad service. The complaint of the railroad unions ia that with business so light many of 'their younger men get few calls and so are in dire circumstances. One reason for this is the rigid seniority rule of the railroad brotherhoods. The "bumping" practice results in displacing the youngest em ploye. Instead of dividing up the work so all employes may get part-time work the railroad unions drop the junior em ploye so the senior employes get the full time jobs at the regular rates of pay. The railway employes have the largest stake in the railroad business of any group. They get nearly one-half of every dollar taken in by the roads, and their proportion has been increasing. In 1916, 38 cents out of every dollar of op erating income went to labor; in 1928, 43 cen' went to la bor, and in 1929. 45 cents. The average yearly wage of the railway tmplove has also increased very generously. In 1916 the figure was $892; in 1928, 81,707, and in 1929, $1742, only a little under the war-time peak of $1820. The basis of the appeal of rrit-a s-.? v,.. r. .v, r-.i . . ., , i 11 , . , if it will ever be proven it makes roading in the past fifteen years does not bear out this con- anv difference. Providing we sleep tention. In 1916, the last year of the ten-hour day the total j well and pet up refreshed, it mat number of employes on the railroads was 1,647.097, while ' ters not what the posture is. the number in 1928 was only 1,656,686, although the tons! f611 serJat!a8t c?nd of revenue freight hauled one mile had increased 70 billion j ?LXX llrS fJld or nearly 20' 'f . In brief, using practically the same number of men and paying them nearly 100 more in wages the roads were able to haul about 20 more freight but 10 less passenger business. It scarcely seems possible that this operating" efficiency can continue to show such steady im provement. The present railroad problem in America threatens to grow more acute. The roads are operating on a plateau of high rates and high wages. If the business were growing the wages could be continued at high levels and even in creased, or hours might be shortened. But the business is at a standstill. Cheaper or more convenient modes of trans port are sucking business from the railroads. The job laid out for railroad employes from top to bottom is to hold the business and the wages they now enjoy. Getting nearly a half of each dollar of operating income the employes have a far larger interest than the stockholders whose dividends in 1928 were $431,030,910 as compared with not quite seven times that amniint. wbirri wenf ra!lml loKnr- Farmers and manufacturers and shippers of all classes ; are looking for reductions in railroad freight rates. Theyi see those rates still 50 higher than 41916, although the prices of their own commodities mav have reached or cone ' below pre-war levels. They are in no mood to have railway operating costs increased, taking up the slack which might have been returned to them in lower freight rates. The rail way unions ought to sense this mood of their own custom ers, and plan by constructive effort with the management to build up efficiency so that rates may be towered without lowering of wage scales, if that be possible. The unions are ill-advised in starting a campaign for a six-hour day with eight-hour pay on the railroads at the present time. If the railroads have any gravy left over the shippers want lower freight rates. That might get more business back to the roads and give more of the unemployed men jobs. Those Terrible Proxies OULD-BE-congressman Delzell has been making quite a to-do about the rebates of taxes to the United States Steel corporation and other large concerns, seeking to win office by imputing to Congressman Hawley a sinister mo tive in approving of the rebates which were first authorized by the bureau of internal revenue after exhaustive study, and tfeen audite'd by experts employed by the joint commit tee of congress. Delzell doesn't say these refunds of taxes were improper, but alleges that the refunds were approved by the committee with Hawley voting the proxies of other members. The simple truth is that many meetings of the commit tee were held in determining whether or not it should ap prove of the findings of the treasury bureau. Finally the committee did approve of a settlement which seemed highly advantageous to the government, of the 1917 taxes. Then when the 1918 and later years came up for review the com mittee met again and went over the matter. When the next meeting was called to formally approve the refunds, various members told Congressman Hawley they were satisfied with the bureau's recommendations, and for him to so re port to other members of the committee; and the majority was in favor of such approval. Congressman Garner of Texas, minority leader, is the chief agitator against Hawley on the matter, but when the matter of proxies was brought oi proxies Decause some uhimluukat might want to be away and he could represent him. Here is the- dialogue as taken from the Congresional Record: "Mr. Moore of Virginia: I have been interested la th gentleman's- statement. It seems to me that a great step in ad vance may be taken by abolishing the proxy rule. Recently, ia a very wise decision the Speaker said that proxies could not be used in the House. They cannot be need in the standing committees. Why should they be used la this Joint committee, which has the power to prevent payment of these refunds untU they are approved by the committee?' "Mr. Garner: l will say to the gentlemaa from Virginia that If proxies are abolished It would not Influence me a bit, because I have attended every meeting of the committee on ways and means while I was able te go, as well as every meeting at the joint committee. But X repeat, that if the gentlemaa from New York (Mr. Cullen) should want te go to Mew York aad it was desired to rote the full Democratic membership the geBttanaa might say: 'Mr. Chairman, will you permit Mr. Owner te east my vote for me?" We do not want to stead la hit way. That la the reason I think proxies are tiled."' Thus it appears that the grievous sta of the whole mat ter is in the use of Republican proxies, although Democratic - Editor-Manager Managing Editor in Wrong Move the unions is that this will nr ti, v. :,..- :i t up Garner defended the use HEALTH Today's Talk By R. S. Copeland, M. D. "Do you sleep on your left side, or is the right side the beet side to ! sleep on?" was Question asked me the other day. I scratched m y head and ap peared Terr thoughtful, but to be perfectly frank I could not recall on which tlds I do sleep. Nam erous text-books, In riit lgations and article have been writ ten on this sub ject and It seems no two authorities agree. As a matter of tact I do not believe It makes much difference whether we sleep on the right side or on the left side. Sleep Is brought about by fa tigue and the body attempts to rest by the relaxation afforded during sleep. If you. are accus- Tif by no mean, force TOUreif to change to the right side. The position you assume when going to sleep Is not the position in which you find yourself on awakening. The body changes its position many times- during the night. Have you ever watched children sleep, and noticed their various contortions? They will as sume different positions, tossing about quite frequently, yet they are thoroughly relaxed and are resting In their sleep. Some authorities advise sleep ing on the back, and then again others do not. Some advise sleep ing on the abdomen and others warn against, stating It is danger ous. If we were to listen to all the advice, we would not know how to sleep and the thought of that alone would probably keep a good many of us awake. The most frequent question ask ed Js whether it is safe to sleep on the left side. This question arises because of the location of the heart on the left side.' Most persons believe It is not advisable to sleep on the left side on the theory that it interferes with the action of the heart. This theory has never been proven and appears to me to be very doubtful. I would advise you to sleep on whichever side suits you. No catastrophe ever ocmrred from slenine on the left side. I douht accomplished by many bodily posi tions. As a result of these studies it would be ridiculous to advise any healthy individual to spend the night in one position. It is rare indeed for one position to be maintained during the night a sleep. Even If you decided you should sleep on your right side it would be necessary to strap yon down to guarantee that position. This would be the only method I. know of to keep you In that one position. This method will not be recom mended, of course. Give yourself plenty of fresh air at night. Do not pile on the bed clothes too thickly. Do not crowd your stomach with a lot of unnecessary food before retiring. Go to bed to sleep and leave it to your Instinct to determine the Psitlop your tired body i to take, Yesterdays Of Old Oregon Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Bead October 24, 1005 Prof. A. J. Collier, formerly head of the science department of Willamette university, was in Sa lem yesterday. He is now a Government geologist, and re sides in Washington, D. C. Memorial services were held at the friends' church at Rosedale Sunday for Richard Patly, who was drowned in the Newsho river near Emporia, Kansas, October 7. The new rea-saw ordered by the Spaulding logging company has arrived and will be installed immediately. Tim on Ford and his brother. Charles D. Ford, left for Los An geles, where the former will seek rest and return of his health. W. S. Hubbell of Seattle, who has been visiting at the home of T. A. Livesley, will return to his home today. Today's Thought. . . Manners the final and per fect flower of noble characters William Winter. A Problem For You For Today The amount of DeLong'a mon ey for five years at eight per cent is 40 mora than its amount for four years at six per cent. How much has he? Answer to morrow. Yesterdayt answer: He lost $1. Joe McCarthy, former Chicago Cub boss, is the eleventh manager of the New York Yankees. Miller Hugglns lasted the longest. His reign was IS years. Proxies are entirely praiseworthy I On such shallow hasis is the democratic candidate in warn aia juuie campaign ror congress. The people of the first district know. Mr. Hawley too well to question his honor and integrity In matters involving one dollar or I nonarea millions. "j ; " THE LIFE LINE King fawn SjKt.'fc. QttM Brittfc rfrM ntcwt TttQl. . ' "GIRL UNAFRAID" CHAPTER SO They were in the cabin with the others. Ken was ripping the envelope of a telegram. He looked up, his face ashen. "It's from the doctor. Mother's very ill. I'll have to go." A sense of disaster crashing in on Ardeth. For a moment the true Import of the message es caped her. It seemed like a dra matic parry to Ken's last words to her. He spoke of marriage and was Immediately snatched away. Then her heart went out in a warm gush of pity, he looked so white, so stunned. But there was nothing she could do. He did not need her. While Kea hastily changed In to other clothes while Tom drove his car up to the road to be in readiness she could only stand, feeling her heart shaken by a sense of fear. Hearing the excited repressed voices of Che others. Ken came running downstairs in hat and overcoat. His eyes went as blankly over her as they did over the others. He answer ed Mary's questions mechanical ly, in agony to be off. He refused Tom's offer to go along, brnskly. He'd be all right. He didn't need anyone. Headlights dancing oa the snow the roar of hi motor quickly dying out. He was gone. And the little) group In the cabin seemed oddly foreign. "Poor Ken," murmured Mary. "If it's the end It will go hard with Ken. He's devoted te his mother." Was it her fancy, though Ar deth, or did Mary's gaze brush her compassionately for a mom ent as she spoke? Later that night when she lay awake on the narrow cot which had been prepared for her, Ar deth found herself recalling the Incidents with a sinking heart. Why should Mary pity her? Sup pose Ken's mother Oh, no! nev er think of that! Never wish to draw her own happiness through Ken's sorrow. Wide eyes fastened on the low bright stars looking in the win dow, she tried to follow Ken In fancy on his lonely ride. Plung ing down the black mountains Did he feel this great pitying love she felt for him? Did it bring him comfort? Hours later Ken reached the end of his journey. Dark and si lent the city lay, drenched in rain. Heavy, sluggish drops, like heavy tears. Like a painful dream as he reached the apartment he shared with his mother. As he fitted the key in the lock, the door opened. He had expected a nurse . . . the doctor, perhaps. Something of a small shock to find Cecile Parker before him. Cecile, in a soft, grey blue chiffon thing which made her white oval of face and the Naples yellow waves of her hair soft and appealing. Gone, the orange lipstick. The mauve eye shadow was missing, too. and her pale grey eyes met his la sweet est sympathy. In response to his amased ques tion she answered in a low voice. "I've been here since five. As soon as she was takea 1U." "How la she?" Ken's voice was a queer croak. The girl shrugged slightly. "Very weak she may know rou." Bat Ceeue was mistaken. As soon as Kea entered the bedroom where he found a white uniform ed nurse in attendance, his mother opened her eyes. Fever bright, the shrunken eyes looked up Into hla anxious race. ' "The end Ken " The young fellow choked. "Why, Spider Kelly!" his tongue the first district carrying, for- irssb. jl-s ? j j 1 Ken suddenly became aware faltered over the old nickname. "Where's your grit! I'm here, dearest, yon must get well! You can't throw me down like this!" The faintest flicker of a smile touched the wrinkled face. A shallow sigh. The eyelids closed. At Ken's gasp the nurse leap ed to the bed. Then her low en couraging whisper, bringing the color to the man's face. "She's asleep. Best thing could happen. Here Bit here. If she wakes and finds you here it's better than medicine." Hours ticked away by the lit tle china clock on the bureau. Hours, when the man sat unstir ring in the chair, his brown hand warm over the wrinkled one on the bed. All the world receeded, leaving only this lighted room an is land of reality floating in a sea of chaos. Now and then he was aware of others floating into his range of vision. The stout dark figure of the doctor. The white starched nurse. Cecile, slender and lovely as she stole noiselessly In to tuck a cushion behind his back. The long vigil became a night mare. At first, his thoughts clus tered entirely about that frail old figure on the bed. Then, as the first sharp edge of anxiety dull ed as hour after hour passed in shallow breathing and no change came over the gray face on the pillow. Ken's tired mind became vague- dreamy. The drive down the mountains after a day of vigorous exercise had left him worn out. That day was it possible that it was only a few short hours ago that he had been up In Tom's moun tain cabin, laughing, joking with Mary and Fred and Phyllis? Dancing with Ardeth Ardeth Unconsciously he shook his head and closed his eyea as though to shut away the Image of her face. The thought of Ardeth did not belong here in this room where hla mother battled death. (To be continued) He slept for moments at a time. Troubled sleep, shot with disturbing dreams. He waa driv ing like a fiend hurtling down steep black roads like a falling comet. Ardeth was clinging to him and crying . . . He woke with a guilty start. Leaned forward, holding his breath. No change. The face against the'pUlow so worn so small. The satin quilt lifting so shallowly over the shrunken chest. . To the nurse's whispered sug gestion that he slip away and get some rest he vigorously shook his head. Sat upright. Blinking wearily at the bed. The night lifted. The sky out side the window became a hard cold blue. The bleak light et of Cecile standing beside him. morning erept la te dim the gold of the night light 1930 Pacific International Features Boys' and Girls' Club Work Daring the 20th Annual Paci ile International Livestock Exposition, Portland, Oct. 25 Nor. 1, upwards of 1000 boys and girls will increase their knowledge and experience in modern, improved farm prac tices. In addition to the 4-H Club and Smith-Hughes Junior Ag ricultural activities conducted United MEMBER BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. Furs against gold: "it is the oldest industry in J the world, fur hunting, fur trad ing," says Agnes C. Laut in one of her books. "The Fur Trade of America." "The cave man, who slew a beast with a club to take a pelt for his own covering, was the world's first manufacturer; and his discovery that a pelt would make clothes lor himself and his family led far afield to the exploration of half the world. V "It waa the little beaver led discoverers up the St. Lawrence to the Great Lakes, and from the Great Lakes down north to Hudson bay and down south from the Mississippi to the Rio Grande, and down the Macken zie to the Arctic, and across the mountains down the Columbia to the Pacific. It was the little beaver led Peter Skene Ogden's fur brigade from the mouth of the Columbia across what are now the states of Montana, Ida ho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, northern California. . b "And it was the little sable led the Cossacks across Russia to what is now Kamchatka; and it was the sea otter that lea tne Rnaflians. Americans. Soaniards Englishmen around the world in crazy little cockle-shell sail boats to explore the Pacific coast from the Golden Gate to Bering sea It is a page of romance unequal led' in all history.' She might have added that it was trading in furs that led Gray to the Columbia river, giving the United States one of the strong est monuments of title to the great country drained by this no ble river and its branches; that of discovery. And the same lure led Astor's men to the mouth of that river: two clerks of whom. William Wallace and J. C. Hal sey headed the party which built the first house erected by white men in the Willamette valley; the fort and post to send the first returns of the Astor enter prise to Fort Astoria; the loca tion of which brought the first nctual settler, Baptisue DeLoar, to this valley here, close by the northern suburbs of Salem; the Wallace prairie that was the lo cation of the building erected for the Orepon Institute, that by c'.ianee of name became 'Willam ette universitv. It was the lure of the little heaver that led Jedediah Smith from the region of the Great Salt Lake through the desert wastes down the Colorado to what is ixoir California; thence, to north ern California; back over the Sierra Nevadas to the Salt Lake section, back again by the same route, then to Oregon by the coast route the first white man to explore those two ways to the Pacific and up to the southwest ern section of what is now our state. As though it called to her, his mother opened her eyes. Her voice, a shade stronger than it had been last night, brought his anxious face leaning over her. "Cecile . . ." she whispered. "I want both my children here with me . . ." Ken suddenly became aware of Cecile standing close beside him. His mother managed a faiut smile at them both. A sick lurch at Ken's heart . . . He had the feeling of a net closing- down about him. (To be Continued) at the Exposition other fea tures combine to make this the greatest event in the hie tory of Pacific International, The United States National knows of no better way te arouse the interest and en thusiasm of the younger gen eration in matters agricult ural than a visit to this year' Exposition. w , The States National Bank Salem, Oregon UNITED STATES NATIONAL GROUP HENDRICKS The same lure led Sm !a 1829, after he had lo-t by i . dian massacre nearly ail of two trapping partie?. froi.i Fort Vancouver to visit a . ond time the region of t , s . called Flatheads of the us;-; Columbia, and to inspire t!a-. tribes to send a delegation their chiefs in 1931 to Ft. 1,, in search of the whit God and the white man's I:-.. . of Heaven, arousing th .: with their Macedonian ea'i BuUInj; fn the coming t! tnissionaries 91 years aqo f .... lowing the hunters and pers; followed by the sur and added the Pacific coast the domain of the United s- extended the arc of t'.ia : public from the crest Rockies to the shores of of western ocean. S w S So we owe to the liitia uca.-. the fact that the etaia a: i stripes float over us, an! i,.v the emblem of the empire (..f Great Britain. It was an b arising in the springs of grr , tude that inspired the Orecou editor's in convention aembieu a score or more years ago, change the name of Oregon frc the Webfoot to the Beaver eta; which handle holds to this day. A worthy one, too. because tt beaver stands for thrift and in dustry, intelligence and Inven tive genius, above any of tii" lower animals. c There is a new era la x-.o international fur trade. It w;n speeded up by the World wai. Fur farming, under the urge o American genius, together wi.u the protection and conservation, of fur bearing animals, Ik.h transferred the seat of empire of the fur business to our o a country, which has long been t-. greatest and best market. Now, at the great fur sales :i St. Louis and New York, trans actions in magnitude far ove -topping anything in that traiU known In the old days of the pio neer mountain men, take plari regularly, as a matter of cour-i-. : Americans have learned all the tricks of the trade. The;, know how to tan and treat a... I dye aud manufacture all t'.a hide3. pelts and skins that au found in every country and so. - tion of the globe. Arid our peo ple are producing hotter ar.l more reliable furs than the be t that have come from anv of t: fire continents. They oat-F;- sia Persia; beat to a frazzle ti wild tribes of Asia. A . Tex doctor produces bettor karat. I fur bearing animals t ;un t'- desert tribes of central A-h -saw. ". V There are sections of ; North American conti-ie it wh-. - the beaver has been piotect- t and conserved until the little inial is becoming a njUmce. in structing streams ail cam:-..; the destructive overflow 3; f -tile lands. Even :Lie t'i buffalo herds are getting :o merous in some sections ". Ths oldest Industry ia 1.. world Is becoming tha ne and one of the greatest In th t young land of genius aud enter prise, and the treating and dye ing and manufacturing of furs is making a large and Increasing contribution to the solving of the difficult questions ef unemploy ment, S This machine age, wit tie aid of American inventive gen (Continued oa page I)