The OREGON STATES31AN. Salem, urcgoru Sunday Morning. November 9, 1938
PAGE FOUR
- "Xo Favor Sicays Us: No Fear Shall Atce" '
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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"When the Small
fflHERE is developing a field
X eral. public seems to know little about. It is personar bor
" rowing by the wage earner or salaried employe, outside of
! the commercial bank. A bank lends usually only to its de-
: gwa.ii.uie, iiiusb pciiuite rebuilt; nui pie ocvuuij, ouu
v business or farm loans to personal loans. There are thous
'"' Ands of neoDle without bank accounts, manv more who have
rn snitahlp rrirv tn tfft
v who are simply afraid to seek a loan from the banker. So
there has developed the. personal finance business which
runs into the billions.
People are familiar with installment buying, and the
, extension of credit to purchasers of automobiles, radios, sets
of books and furniture. That is incurred to buy something
" ; new. The other form of personal borrowing is to pay for
d .nast Wna'orndebtednessilTHe r-frrtjose covers most every.
thing-rpforvg? uo doctor! Ibnisstofe'JljaV'tajeel, -helping
some relative, all good and worthy objects. The small loan
agencies, it is estimated, loan close to three billion dollars
a -year in cash to borrowers who need money for just such
reasons. v j ,
These borrowers are worthy people ; hup there are many
who trade upon their necessities and press hard upon their
extremity. Oregon fortunately has enacted the uniform
small loan act, also the credit union act. The former in par
' ticular has done a great deal to drive out the loan shark who
battens on the usurious charges made against his helpless
victims. The legal rate in this state, 3 per cent PER
MONTH, seems exorbitant ; but when one realizes that the
loan shark will charge from 20 to 40 per month, it is
seen that tins' legal rate is relatively modest.
People do not realize the volume of business which con
cerns of this tvr do Thev rpa thf bio hanlr with massive
-stone fronts, and j think they
offices, located inconspicuously so the distressed borrower
may enter unobserved. In one Portland paper last Friday
there were over two columns of classified ads for these
small loan concerns, and those ads may be seen every day.
This is another indication of the volume of personal fi
nancing. ,
The average loan will run somewhere between $o(r and
S100. It is secured bv assignment of waires. chattels or en
dorsement of others and is repaid monthly, and the heavy
interest charge is concealed in the monthly payments or in
the heavy fees that may be charged as extras. The rate has
to be higher than bank rates because the amounts are small,
the expense of collection may be large, and the risk may be
, .greater. The pity is that this heavy rate falls on the poor
devil least able to bear it, the fellow who has not been able
to keep even as he went along, let alone lay up something
for a rainy day.
Here is plainly a field which calls for continued explor
ation to see if the plainly anti-social rate even though legal
ized under the small loan act may not be lowered. To put
the rate down arbitrarily merely invites in the loan shark
and unlicensed lender with his 120 to 480 per annum.
The Russell Sage foundation
remedial legislation: but there
The whole subject is treated quite well in the November
-issue of Survey Graphic. So far no real solution of the prob
lem has been offered, the small loan act serving merely to
mitigate the evil.
The first thine of importance is that the people should
know of this vast reservoir
wage earners; and realize something of its cost to the bor
rower.
Rally to the
THERE should be no hesitation . in Salem and Marion
county in responding to the call for reorganizing the
Red Cross chapter here. Surely we have not forgotten its
war-time service. The Red Cross almost alone emerged from
the war without criticism. Then we "gave till it hurt." Now
all we are asked to give is a lonely dollar that the great or
ganization may continue to be prepared for any emergency
whether of peace or war.
The Red Cross knows what to do and how to do it when
disaster strikes. It is a Japanese earthquake or a Missis
sippi valley flood? Is it a great fire or widespread drouth?
Swiftly the Red Cross mobilizes its forces of relief.' From
the nearest depot city its stores of tents and blankets and
supplies go out. Nurses already listed are quickly recruited.
Best of all, trained administrators go to the spot to handle
the relief work sympathetically yet efficiently and econom
ically so there is no great waste such as always accompanies
impromptu relief work.
There is no organization we know of that gives as much
back to your conscience as the Red Cross gives you for that
dollar. It gives you the satisfaction of knowing that there
will be immediate and full relief in any great calamity in this
country; it assures you and your relatives here or elsewhere
that tire is this great agency organized for instant action
in case disaster strikes you or yours. A man is a better cit
izen, a better American if he is a member of the American
Red Cross whose ministry of mercy knows neither friend
nor foe, .whose healing touch has eased pain and lightened
distress at home and abroad.
Join up. Make this rejuvenated Marion county chapter
one of the live organizations of the state.
Business
IX-PRESIDENT Coolidge
"The soundness of a system
cess. The -political reaction that
compared with the social reaction that might be expected If the
. , - people lost confidence in our economic system."
That is precisely what is happening. People out of work
v are ' losing confidence in the economic system. It is not
; enough to say that we have always gotten through similar
periods of depression. The question is, cannot we adapt our
economic system so as to avoid these recurring periods of
unemployment and industrial paralysis.'
Nor can we let Mr. Coolidge off with. this rather smug
remark : "That system has worked greatly for. the benefit
I of the people."-What we are havingnow is the reactiogf from
' the Wall street debauch which Mr. Coolidge while presi-
' dent did much" to foster; For years whenever the stock mar
. ket hesitated in the big bull movement from '1928 to 1929,
-ir. uoouage or jur( jieuon
Man Borrows'
of financing which the gen-
at o KnnV ttnA trinimarida more
do most of the loaning, and
has done much in promoting
is a vast work yet to be done.
of borrowing, mass credit for
Red Cross
and Politics
writes:
is best demonstrated by its sue-
has been encountered la slight
wouiu issue, uyuuuuc
HEALTH
Today's Talk 1 j
By R. S. Copebtnd. 31. D. '
Not Ions -ago -one of my
younger colleagues had . dinner
with me. ..During the course or
conrersa-
tion tne sub
ject of rheum
atlsm was
mentioned. - Im
mediately, be
became alert.
and told me of
his crest Inter
est la. this dis
ease. It seems
that as a child
my friend had
been , afflicted
with rheuma-
DQCLLAiS inrolted , his
r heart. At that
time rery little was known con
cerning the disease, and much of
the prescribing was done la the
dark. He had; been sent to a re
sort similar to Carlsbad. ' As 'a
ch'ild he rirldly recalls returning
summer after summer and al
ways seeing: new faces, new rie
tlms of the disease.
Fortnnatelyi "wa haTe made
great advances; In this: disease. Of
coarse there Is yet much to be
learned. However It can be said
that the complications of rheum
atism in children hare been
greatly reduced.
The greatest problem 01
"Acute Rheumatic Ferer" as it
is called, is 1 Its actidn on the
heart. It often Involves the
valves of the iheart. leaving- be
hind permanent damage. Most
adult cardiac gases turned down
by insurance companies can oe
traced to rheumatism had as a
child. !
Rheumatism In children Is now
much more universally recognis
ed than formerly. At- one time
it . was beUeveil the disease did
1$X rqocujrt to the "ynf. , Their,
true nature was not recognized
when the term "growing pains"
was applied. LAnr child com
plaining of pain in the arms or
legs or Joints; was lightly dis
missed. "Thai child is growing
too fast." This was a frequent
explanation of' the- mother who
rarely consulted a physician. I
want most emtohaticallr to Im
press you with ithe fact that there
is no such thing as growing
pains. Such pains are due to
rheumatism, j
Rheumatism lis a disease- caus
ed by a definite type of bacteria.
It may occur in the very young
but rarely in children under fiveH
years of age. ;Heredity is a fac
tor perhaps, and In most of the
cases a history: ef rheumatism in
the family is given.
Important causes or this dis
ease are living in damp places,
exposure to cold and wet. Impro
per food and ! clothing,! and un
hygienic conditions. Neverthe
less, it may be seen In all classes
of people, but is most common
am ones t tho3e who are poorly
housed. j
Attack may occur at all sea
sons, and one attack usually
leads to another. The Joints
most commonly- involved are the
ankles, knees, small joints of
the foot, wrist and elbow. The
pain may be : slight and easily
overlooked. When the Joint be
comes Involved it getg red and
hot to the touch and Is painful
on motion. The Joint does not
swell but becomes stiff. The
ri'ease may be ushered rn with
high temperature, and severe
pain. When this happens, the
trouble is so pronounced that the
case is likely to twelve the pro
per attention and care.
It Is the other type. the. ease
with very little complaint, often
nothing but . the so-called "grow
ing pains." that is likely to be
neglected. It is of particular Im
portance for the welfare of the
child that all buch doubtful and
mild cases should be carefully
checked by the doctor. It is es
sential to determine the presence
,of any heart murmurs. All chil
dren with a history of such at
tacks, with repeated colds and
sore throats, should have careful
throat examinations. If there are
repeated attacks of tonsilitis. It
may be necessary to have the ton
sils removed, f
Answers to Health Queries
B. B. Q. Is it dangerous to
use a deodorant to cheek perspir
ation?
2 Is it possible to reduce by
taking- Epsom Baits and hot baths
daily?
ments that merely raised; the fever of the speculators.
Hoover is now reaping the kick-back of the Coolidge pros
perity which had a false foundation.
When business was good Coolidge was willing to cash
political dividends on prosperity; when it turns off bad the
ex-president says "business must work-out its own salva
tion." If it does, it ought to kick the political harpies who
will gather round to say "we
no matter what their party. ,
A County Agent for Marion County
JOHN Ramage of Woodburn, Marion county farmer, !s
quoted in the Oregon Farmer as- follows :
"We need a county agent and 'we're going to get one. If we
dont get one this year, we're going to keep right on until we
do." .
The farmers are carrying on the fight to obtain the
services of a county agent for Marion county. The universal
experience of counties is that the office justifies itself. The
editor knows of one county where the office of county agent
was long contested, created and then ' abolished and then
created again. This year when farmers and ' business men
in that county held meetings to cut taxes to the very bone,
the unanimous opinion was that the office of county agent
had proven itself and should be continued.
Marion county farmers at Woodburn, Silverton, Turner
and other places are asking the county court to make the
appropriation necessary to establish the office. The States
man feels this request should be granted, and believe that
other economies could be made so the total budget would
not be increased.- This is one expense which is an invest
ment, as the counties employing county agents have learned
from experience. , .; ' i
Mr. Ramage has the right idea; the farmers should
persist until 'their wishes are recognized,
Friday's Oregoalan gave four columns by eight laches da Its
front page to photos of characters in a fS.Ze-marder. That's the
worst thing we seen In the Oregonian an fall, wholly oat of keep
ing with , its usual make-up. Isn't that space now reserved for euc
eeaafal candidates? .
' Graphs of ante accidents shew
December rather sharply, in other
hit and killed are much better than
!'.
"GIRL UNAFRAID" fegfSS
CHAPTER 44
To Ardeth the loneliness was
harder to bear after that glimpse
of Ken and the baby.
In the daytime it was not eo
bad. Then she was busy with
the shop and the customers. But
at night when Ah Ling had
slipped into her smart sport coat,
pulled her new beret over the
marcelled waves of her hair and
departed for her Chinatown
home, then the gray specter of
loneliness crept in to fill the
small, quiet store.
The big chair nnder the lamp
spoke of Ken ... She - did not
like to see Tom sitting there
when he called on her In the
evenings.
Many . nights now, when she
lay staring wide-eyed Into the
dark, listening to the mice
scampering in the store room.
To the footsteps of some, late
wanderer passing the door. See
ing the first gray traces of dawn
creeping through the little alley
window.
Loneliness almost tangible
tilling the shop like a dread
presence, driving her out to walk
the stseets like a homeless thing.
When the dark mood struck
A. No.
X While these measure may
be reducing to some extent the
treatment Is apt to be very weak
ening. Cut down on sweets and
starches and take some regular
daily, exercise, xln this way you
will reduce safely and sanely.
A. McO. Q. How
purchase Insulin?
ean one
A. Insulin should only be tak
en under proper medical supervi
sion. Your doctor will tell you
Just what Is necessary if your
condition warrants this treat
ment. Anxious. Q.
woman of 61. 4
weigh?
-What should a
ft. 11 in. tall
A. She should weigh about
131 pounds.
did it" dear .out of the picture,
the curve rises fa November and
words, yoar chances -of getting
a month ago. We de a ood deed
HEADED FOR THE TOR ;
Kin FtMWW
It had no pity. Nothing could
lighten it. Tom's clumsy kind
nesses, filled her with secret ex
asperation. No comfort in Mary
Eastwood's blunt common sense.
No company in Carolyn For
sythe's prim, bright home.
She wandered through the
dark like an exile, her heart
swelling with unshed tears.
Why had this dreary empti
ness faUen to her lot? she asked
herself In hot rebellion. Why had
nnhappiness struck like a blight
across these warm young years,
rendering them' sterile, and for
lorn? She had the desperate need of
clinging to something. Of be
longing. It was this, perhaps,
which sent 3 her one night, wan
dering through the old neighbor
hood of the Harrison flat.
Not since that stormy nlgbt
two years ago had she been here.
Fell street . . . the Fell street
of her ehUdhood dingier than
ever.
The corner grocery store with
cellar steps guarded by an iron
rail, where she had hidden In
hide and seek games with Nell.
Filled as always - with sodden
newspapers and rubbish
Rows of wooden houses, shab
bier, more wea'therbeaten than
she remembered them. The cor
ner where Ken had always stop
ped the ear. Down there in the
middle of the block in grey ugli
ness, the Harrison flat. Long
bleak windows. The warped
wooden steps.
The front door, banded with
panes of colored glass. She re
membered how she and Bet had
pressed their noses first to one
pane, then another, looking out
on a street turned uncannily
purple, or murky red or a dis
mal and cold blue.
The doorway was like a black
cave, thick with gloom ...
Her heart leaped. Someone
stood there, fitting the key In
the, lock. Blur of white face. A
man's form running down the
stairs.
Neil's voice, shaking incred
ulous, "Ardeth It's yon!"
Dismay and smothered excite
ment pounding her heart. Oat
of the past . . . Neil! Neil, tall,
before her! His white Intense
face black eyes boring down In
to her own. .
"I thought I was dreaming
hearing your step on the side
walk I'd know it anywhere. I
listened for you so long . , ."
Then, with, smothered force.
"Why are rout here, Ardeth T
Why did yoa cojme? -
His very force repelled her as
It had always done. She found
herself repenting the whim which
sent her back here into the past.
Her tone was defensively light.
"Oh, fust taking a walk to get
the cobwebs- out of my .brain.
I'm Indoors so much now, you
know. Just happened to find my
self walking down this way "
A breathless silence when each
studied the other. A thrill went
through the girl at the dynamic
force of-htm. Uke yet changed
from the Nell she remembered.
Black hair-falling in a heavy
shock over hi white forehead.
Black eyes looking from straight
black .brows.
She' found herself suddenly
eager to get away. Fumbling
with her parse. Trying to re
button her glove. -i -
"So yotr came back. Ardeth
Nell was saying softly; - ' .
She tried to treat it lightly.
"They say the murderer comes
back to the scenes of his crime.
Whatdo we - hear of the Har
rmoas,s?feU?" i
' He told her, impatient at jthe
turn lhe had given the conversation.-,:
; .-. V, ;
Bet was engaged. Going to be
married, next - spring. - Tom - had
hart his hand they had been
afraid' of blood- poisoning, but
be ' was all right now. Aunt Stel
had gone" up on the river with'
Fan and Paul for the last school
vacaUoas.
And all the time the man's
banting - black- eye--wore drink
ing her in, drawing her down
1
into his heart as though he
would never let her go.
Abruptly, "You'll come in, Ar
deth? Granny's heart would be
broken if she knew you'd come
by without coming into see her."
She wanted to refuse. She was
suddenly filled with panic. She
crushed it down and went Into
the dark: house with mm, reel
lng the years drop away at the
remembered smell of the musty
hall. Filled with the ridiculous
fancy that she was walking into
a trap.
CHAPTER 43
Neil flung open the door un
der the stairs.
"Look, 'Granny " he cried.
"See who I've brought!"
He pushed the girl before him
into the kitchen. The room was
shadowy, as she remembered it
One stove Ud had been removed
and tongues of flame played
about the opening- lighting the
room with a red dusk. Hunched
over It. gating down into the
fire's heart, was Granny Burke,
At the sight of the girl, she
gave a little crooning cry and
rose - with a swiftness surprising
in one so old.
"Now praise the day! You
don't be tellin me you've
brought my girl back again!
She quavered. "Is It ydur old
sweetheart, lad, that you bring
In! Come closer, my dear, air
let me see you. My eyes ain't
what they used to be!
The red-rimmed eyes peering
up into her face, the hand, un
comfortably clawlike reaching up
to pat her cheek.
Tire smile stiffened on Ar
deth s lips and she checked a
backward movement. She forced
herself to stoop and brush the
old woman a face with her lips,
But when she would have
eeated herself on a chair oppos
ite. Granny pulled her down be
side her.
"Sit where the light falls on
you, dearie, bo's I can see you.
Lawsy me, what a grand young
lady you've come to be."
"Seems like old times to hate
Ardeth back with us, doesn't it.
Granny," Neil put In.
"It do Indeed!'' The little gray
head nodded vigorously. "Many
the time I missed you, my dear.
The house is so still now. Some
Roosians livin' upstairs!' She
sniffed disdainfully. "Not like it
was In the old days- with yon
an' the lad scamperin' in an'
out after school botherin' me
for bread nan' batter. Oeh, the
pretty pair of sweethearts yon
made him so dark an, you so
fair. He's never had any girt
but you, dearie, though there's
many the one set her cap for
him . . .r
Nodding and winking shrewd
ly. The wrinkled hand - patting
her knee, less, Ardeth had the
curious conviction, through af
fection than to feel the quality
of her dress.
She ' crashed the ' thought as
unworthy. She forced herself to
be blight and friendly. Turning
her gase from Granny's shrivel
led face to Neil's brooding black
gaze watching from the shadows
opposite., r
8he . answered Granny's point
ed questions as easily as pos
sible, and all the time within her
mind, was growing a feeling of
dismay. She had the impression
of moving through a vaguely un
pleasant dream, j
The eld magic was gone. What
had been a haven from. Aunt
Stel's acid tongue was a stuffy,
untidy kitchen. ' What had been
a dame ef fairytales had become
only as old- women who - pawed
her unpleasantly and smelted of
onions. -:
ITo be continued)
If far'eallfn- 1ant m eve
acre. J gain ti per cent, how
mast I self It to lose 40 per cent?
Answer Tuesday. Yesterday's
answer: f 31,561.
1 TODAY'S
PROBLEM...
BITS for
By B. J.
preparedness and Peace: j
. H
" The Salem Rotarians on Wed
nesday listened to what was
scheduled In their weekly bulletin
aa s talk on preparedness by
Corporal Robert Ingleston. Mem
bers of other service clubs who
have heard the corporal, as well
as the Rotarians. would tell you,
if you asked them, that the bul
letin writer is not a rood head
writer that they heard a peace
talk, more than one on preparedness.-
......
And no one who has heard the
corporal will be able to adequate
ly describe either the message or
the manner of Its delivery. He is
gni generis 4n hi line; individual.
rr onnra the reader knows how
i Marc Antony, according to Shake
speare, protested mat ne was
an orator that he Jnst talked
on. In plain blunt, truthful words
and ell the while was writing
himself the greatest orator of his
time.
That's Corporal Ingleston. He
told the Rotarians about the
halting of the last,, supreme Ger
man push in the neighborhood of
Chateau Thierry; about the : en
gagements in which the largely
untrained and unprepared Ameri
can soldiers took their first ma
jor part in the work they had
come to perform; were killed like
rats by the deadly fire of the
shock troops who were the flower
of the Kaiser's army
V V
And how they went on, the
thin ranks that were left of them,
nor stopped to count their losses;
regardless of the exact rules of
all military leaders but they
went on, and on.
V
(Serious i business t -Hils. -Hard
boiled -Retatlansr -were forced id
use their handkerchiefs to wipe
away unbidden tears, at times
but there were more smiles than
tears. The corporal has a sense
of humor and a way of playing up
the high lights of ridiculous situ
ations that would do credit to
Mark Twain.
m
The person who has not heard
CorpoTal Ingleston tell the story
of the German shelling of De
Busse hospital has missed a rare
treat. (Perhaps the Bits man
has De Busse spelled wrongly.)
That hospital, with 150 or more
American women nurses and a
lot of American doctors, was lo
cated by a mistaken order closer
to the first line fronts than any
such hospital ever was before;
closer than was intended.
The Germans thought it was a
supply depot. They shelled it.
The report came up to the Amer
ican regiments that the Heines
were shooting up that hospital;
that they already killed 50 Amer
lean nurses. The report grew as
it traveled. When It arrived at
the place of a bunch of southern
hill billies It was 100 American
girls the Germans had already
killed.
a
These men, the most unlikely
looking soldiers who ever handled
an American gun, fresh from
their southern backwoods homes,
had the usual southern respect
for womanhood. Ther went wild:
plumb crary. "Let's go!" they
yelled. They went, over barbed
wire entanglements, machine gun
nests everything. And some of
the French "Blue Devils" who
were there to see that they ob
served at least a few of the rules
of modern warfare, went with
them.
The corporal said the hill bil-
lieswould be going yet. had not
some of their superior officers.
wno hastened to herd back all
who grot through alive, been un
usually good foot racers. And
that wild bunch of crazy men ac
tually turned the tide of that
great and, as It proved, decisive
engagement, that led directly up
to the armistice. And it started
through the rumor of the killing
of the American nurses. And no
nurses or doctors had been killed,
though the Germans began shell
Ingihe hospital, thinking it was
an ammunition supply depot.
Am j
Corporal Ingleston saw all that.
and a lot more, and photograph-
LAY SERMON
THE ROLE OF THE DREAMER,
-we are the munic-raakera, anl we
are th. dretunera of dreama.
Wandering- by ton. eea-breakera,
and alttlns- by deaolate atreama,
Wovld-loaera and world-foraakera,
on whom the pale moon gleama.
But we ar. the movers and ahakera
of the world forever. It letmi."
I alwava thoueht aa too. that
the dreamers were the fashioner
of human destiny, and that art In
muaie or ouiioing or painting or
poem marked the , height of the
human attainment. Do
that poem by John Boyle O'Reilly
-xne cry or the Dreamer"?
' "For a dreamer Uvea forever.
But J. B. S Haldane ' Rrttlah
scholar and scientist, writing In
Bepiemoer Harpers, sets all this
theory down as fallacious. He
says: "The dreamer of dreams
can at most replace " ne set of
symDOiic ideas bv anotbar
Cross by the Crescent. tr the
mother of the gods by the mother
of God ... If the dreamers and
music-makers hv
altered the world by Imposing
iuur Bpeciaj a reams on It, the
raised the level of human life."
xiaiaane sava th twn whvt ia
done most for humanity are the
inventors -of fire and rtt ar!n1
ture. He sets down only four real
ty important inventions prior to
1400 A.D. tha aertnn.
Iron, paved roads. Toting; and re
ligious intolerance. Irnn
machinery .possible; paved .roads
enlarged tha atat-
possible . the republican form of
religious intolerance
enrorced unlformltv :
the spread of a common culture.
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HENDRICKS
ed ss much of It as one' man
could. He tells it like Marc An
tony might, if he could be called
back' from the fields of asphodel
beyond the, stars.
Since beginning the above, the
Bits man learns that Corporal In
gleston, who comes from Ohio, is
here to remain over Armistlea
day, and that he Is to be the cb W
attraction at the Bligh theater
Tuesday and Wednesday. He
should not omit the De Busse
story,. Likely he will not. It-Is
a masterpiece. I - Tou will cry
some, perhaps, but you will laugh
more, if you have a spark of the
sense, of humor: if "you are for
tunate enougu to near ii.
! ,
i And even this is not what the
Bits man started out to write,
for this Sunday space. He wanted
to tell you about the American
War Mothers of Salem; and
there is not much space left for
it. This branch of the great or
ganization of devoted women is
going strong now; has a much
greater membership than ever,
before. ' It is under the leader
ship of Mrs. A. A. Lee. And, by
the way, her son, Lloyd A. Lee,
was there, around Chateau Thier
ry, when Corporal Ingleston was.
He saw much of what the corpor
al saw and photographed and de
scribes. Ask him, 'If you doubt
the truth of It and more of it
than any man, living or dead,
could tell.
1 "
'Well, the other day, at a reg
ular meeting of the Salem branch
of the American War Mothers, a
member made a suggestion. She
said she though it would be in
teresting for each mother to
bring and read her favorite letter
we
to the ultimate depths.
mm
The good mother who made the
suggestion did not get even a
chance to make the motion; nor
could she have secured a second.
The mothers sat there and shook
their heads. They said nothing.
It wa&Joo sacred a subject to
talk about. Not one ot them
couia navereaa a tetter sucn as
havcrs4uctln her throat.
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That's all, all the available
space. Any reader can supply the
a mother like any member of the
American War Mothers' organiz
ation. "
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But Corporal Ingleston can tell
a true story about the sons of
those mothers "over there," and
make you both cry and laugh, and
feel proud. And you will laugh
moce'than you will cry at the
telling. I
Yesterdays
' ... Of Old Oregon
Town Talks from The States
man Onr Fathers Read
- November 0, lSOS
The new city republican cen
tral committee-is composed of L.
R. .Stlnson, chairman; Henry C.
Tarpley, W. E. Richardson, Paul
Hauser or H. J. Bigger: Frank
Davey, J. E. McCoy, Charles L.
Parmenter and Hamlin Smith.
Word hag been received from
Washington that land at Siletz
may be "closed of settlement bT
means of the homestead entry be
cause the government thinks the
land, being mountainous and
covered with timber, will not be
suitable .for building of homes.
The Greater Salem chamber of
commerce is making preparation
to entertain: a delegation of Port
land' business men at its next
meeting.'
The large 40-foot launch, pro
perty of Captain Skinner of In
dependence, made a trip to Sa
lem yesterday. In the future,
Captain Skinner plans to make
regular dally trips between the
two points.
The ladies of the "500" club
win meet at the home of Mrs. s.
C. Dyer. -
which meant long and tedious
hand work with apparatus. Intel
lectuals, who do most of the his
torical and critical writing are
not hand workers, they usually
have contempt for hand labor;
that may account for the low es
teem In which manual labor has
been held in comparison with the
work of the "dreamer." But the
men who really do things that
contribute the greatest to human
living are the hand workers, so
Mr. Haldane thinks.
Thomas Carlyle may have had
something Uke this In mind when
he expressed the opinion that the
stone bridge hi father had built
in Ecclefechan would outlive bis
own work, It has, for Carlyle. ex
cept as a stylist, barely survived
his own generation.- It is some
thing of the "old clash between
Martha and Mary, which Christ
rebuked and Kipling put In poetic
form. " ..-(;-
Religion has always been on
the -side of the dreamer, because
religion usually required an af
firmation not baaed on cold fact.
Perhaps religion should take more
Into account the non-dreamer, the
worker, the artificer, the builder,
who If he dees Ignore the bliss
of the future Is doing his part to
make the present world more
habitable and more enjoyable.
Haldane at least has given a chal
lenge to the friends of the dream
er; and one that. ihnnlJ K .t-
d!i snd not lightly cast aside.
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