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PAGE FOUR ; f The OREGON STATES2IAN, Salesu Orercn, Wednesday Hernia?; December 10, 193D " it .J Vo Favcr Steaix Us: No Fear Shall Awe?' -r: 1 From First Statesman. March 23, 1S51 - - t THE STATESMAN PUBJJSHING CO. . Chakles A. Sfkagce. Sheldon F. Sackett, PubliMJkert Chakles A. SntACtrs '. ' -, - Ediior-ilanagtr Sheldon F. Sackett - . .. - - --, Uanagimg Editor- H;..:?.f:"'.,-,-.l5".llfmber of tbe Associated Press V :VK'Y. The AMOclated Prea ta eaclitnlrrty entitlaa to tha we for publica tion of ail am iHxratrbes credited to it or sat othrwte credited ta this paper.. . . ' : : . Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: j Arunr w. tuypea, im . San. Frai-i "Eastern Advertising RepraenUtires: SVd-Fraana-Stecher.Ine.. New York, Ill Madlaoa Ave.; Chicago. N, Mh-hlean Entered nt le PottoffUe at Salem, Ongvn, u Secvnd-Clasa Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Biainett pffi tlSS. Commertial Street. . ' J V SUPSCRIPTION RATES: ' 'J Mall. Sul-serlptlon Rat, In Advance. Within Oregon: Dally and Sunday, t Mx 5 rents; 3 It. fl.SS Ma tUt: 1 yw Else where cents per Mo. or I5.S for 1 rr In adranca. By City Carriers cent, a month :ti.S a year. in adranca. Par Copy S cents. Oa trains and N.ws Stand & cents. j , ? Time Not Essence of College Contract ; PRESIDENT ehins, the youthful prexy at the Univer sity of Chicago, is announcing- a program by 'which the university will become an institution of learning rather than just a BiL factory. College degrees will be awarded not merely upon completion of four years of work,, but upon evidence that the people have really assimilated something. Time ia not the essence of earning a degree, the test being whether: the work has been .successfully done. : Just how this will set with the lounge lizards and the sorority house ahieks has not been- disclosed,1 The "rah, rah" Journalists have not yet given the plan the once over. An editorial writer in the St, Louis Post-Dispatch, thinks Pres. Hutchins baa reckoned without his constituency when he thus gums, up the works of class numerals and class me morials, commenting as follows : j - - ;. . True enough,' the natter of examinations and grading will require attention In the -establishment of the University of Chicago's timeless system of. education, -bat the farther Presi- ' - dent Hutchins aisd his fellow - workers rgs Into the experiment the clearer ft will, be that there are many other fixtures tradi tional in college, life whose alteration la of grayer consequence. Take for instance the class-daffces. A-leading-argument la tavof ef the f oar-year system. The green freshman frost Silo Springs has never been te anything but a barn dance until be escorts -his first sorority-pledge blind, date to th Freshman Frolle, or 'frantic,' n it U more property knowa: on some campuses. Tear by year, through the Sophomore Cotillion and the Junior : v Prom, tbe metamorphosis takes plaice sntil oa the night of the . Senior BaU a Hntsned . product,., consummate in : a' tuxedo, he steps on clouds In the grand march and glides about from star to star In an ethereal whirl of satins, end shawls, system which can work . a - wonder like that must net, be discarded without serious thought. Then there are the yearlings' green" caps, the Jackets which belong to graduation year and the other paraphernalia of class dress. Does President Hutchins think he can -dismiss them "with , the ware of a hand? Also, be had better -give -some thought to what will become of senior benches, class fences and the like, or be will hare chaos on his. hands. If be abolishes freshmen, how does he suppose the Greek letter nameplate will get ahln ed, the phone and doorbell answered, senior laundry bass car ried to the campus posteffice,: floors waxed, books returned to the library or Anything else done around arfraternlty houseT . ' We submit -President Hutehlns doesnt know what shoals lie ahead of him' V , ! v . o SCAR Garrison Viuard, Germany, describes the that country; millions unemployed, destitution . prevalent, despair taking hold of the people. Yet with the hunger and want which abound everywhere the German tariff on wheat has been increased fourfold in the past year. Villard writes: The great land barons, although they are protected by tar iff s twice as high as those they had before the war, demand still higher tariffs." ... . . ' : ; ; , In the market news of Sunday's Oregonian there was this significant paragraph: i "Germany has. extended ' through January the compulsory : ( milling regulations requiring the milling of "8 ft -per cent of na tire wheat and has amended the bread law to make compuls ory the utlllxatlon of 30 per cent of rye flour tin wheat loares -abore 200 grams and te permit the utilisation of 10 per cent ef potato flour In bakery, goods.; Restaurants and hotels are' v permitted to use only rye bread.'" : How indescribably silly all this seems German people starving and even those .able to buy food having to eat a -loaf hose flour is. 30 rye flour. It reads like the flour restrictions of war times.. .. . , : r- . '. . . Yet in.the United States, in Canada', in Argentine, in Australia - millions upon millions of bushels of wheat are piled up in warehouses, offered at prices unbelievably low, the lowest since the panic days of the 90's. In France the wheat price is around $1.70 because : France too has prac tically barred importation of wheat through high tariffs and compulsory milling restrictions. The wheat price in Ger many must be nearly the same. In England, where there is no tariff, the price is 82c at seaports. ; 1 The anomaly, of this situation should be apparent to everyone, farrier tariffs are one factor (not the only one by any means) but -an important factor in the world-wide . depression which President Hoover unctuously says is worse in other countries than our own. With a world tottering on the brink of economic chaos we cling to the now outworn political theories of Mark Hanna days. I v : , If congress would stop appropriating hundreds of mll - lions for 'relief" and initiate steps for a 'lower and - more rational tariff, the country and the world might take heart again. . . - :.,- ' . Cathedral Not a Vaudeville BEN Lindsey deserved to be: bundled miceremoniously out of the. cathedral of St John the Divine following his absurd antics in trying jto turn a church service into a joint debate. He had no more business trying to make his reply to Bishop Manning there than: some agitator has to get up ' in the middle of a. political meeting and denounce -the speak er; less in fact, because this was the bishop's own service in his own church. r : ; ,- Lindsey hasn't been denied privilege of answer. He can hirs his own hall, drum up his own crowd, write his own books and magazine articles. He has barnstormed 6ie coun try with bis. bedate on companionate marriage, addressing big crowds without any interference from anyone. His pub lished books have circulated widely. i ' - r Lindsey claims Bishop Manning lied about him. That surely isn't the first -experience of the. IdndV ha has en countered in his long and turbulent public career. If he made a monkey out of himself every- time some one de nounced his theories he'd have been put in a cage long ago. Perhaps Lindseywas indulging Jn a little stage play. He may have wanted to boost the sales- of .his book or to work up some new lecture dates. By fabricating a little tin - halo of cheap martyrdom around his head maybe he thought he could pump up the gate' receipts. 1 H - 'Many will denounce the church for its exhibition of bigotry; but that is nothing new either. People ho go to their own church want to hear their own doctrines without any disturbers edging in a few words. Lindsey knew ec clesiastical tolerance enough not to dare it in such an un ceremonious and uninvited fashion. If Lindsey wants to de bate the bishop he ought to ehaHenge iuni. Until he does he -win have to confera to crdinary ' decorum either in a church or a hall wKere it is the other" man's meeting. Now wo are learalss wtat :that 'treelom ot speech? plank, in tin Joseph platform ccazt: tree talk orer.tho telephone without cost to the taxpaysra. , mttia it. awl mi-tit hhik writing to The Nation from prevailing critical conditions in . - t ' ;.4 .-.,. Poor Appetites in. Children By C C. DAUER. M D.. llarion County .Health1 Unit One ef the most common com' plaints that n mother has con cerning ier child Is that ahe can not get aim to oat. .This Is espe cially true with aa only child or with an oyer anxious parent. Fro- Queatly one hears the story that tnonaraer tbe parent trtee the less the child oats. One thing leads to another until themother becomes frantic In her attempts to ImproTe the appetite . of bier child. ; - i ; ' : . . The problem is nearly -always a' psychological owe. yet It to Im portant that tbe child first be ex amined - by the family physician to exeludo the possibility of any disease. Badly infected tonsils and adenoids, bowel onsets In In fants, one set of some infectious disease and -many other diseases may be the cause of a lack of ap petite. If so, thejie conditions must first be corrected and there is an Immediate return, to normal appetite. i s ' . ' Nearly ereryone baa observed the perrerse character . of chil dren.. esneeinUV- thoan abent two or three years of age. He wants to do exactly the thing yon ask him not to do or does, not do what you askr hlm. This" Is espe cially true mo far aa the child's eating Is concerned; that. Is, he refuses to eat what you ask him to eat The best policy is to make as few remarks aa possible, mere ly set the food before him and from force of habit ' he wul eat the- food. The child yery easily senses any anxiety on the part of the parent and he immediately shows this perrerse -streak by re fusing to eat. . He often -gets a "real kick" out of stirring up his mother by. refusing to eat. So the best T plan is to- keep -tlu. gire him a certain time to. eat and then remore -hla plate no matter how much be bee eatea.. As soon as he realises how nttle hla par-, ant cares he is apt to eat just to "show them." -s A common fault Is to contin ually , make comments to ' others in the presence of the chUd about hi lack-of appotite. Soon the child Is. made-to bellere that he really is as .had aa be is painted. A good rule to make Js. aerer to make comments -. conee ruing any fault in the presence of the child. Staffing: food or forcing : the child to eat la a rery poor way to get him. to eat. It Is sure to lead to more . serious consequences. The child soon deretops aa aver sion to comiar to a meal' Instead of , approaching the meal with pleasure. Often a child-will not eat cer tain food, because - one or both of . the parents refuses - to eat that particular article of diet. Many a parent has learned to eat jplnach or some other green vegetable in order not to set a bad example to the child. .The parent should nev er make- any remarks about' not liking certain foods because the child will sooa. believe . that he too will not' like them.: Drugs or medicines except cod liver oil : should never be- given to stimulate a child's appetite ex cept when ordered by a physician. ' Usually .one can . help the child without the use of: medicines ex cept, of course,: where tome dis ease exists. Common sense and : a great amount of patience go fur ther than any other aids In this difficult situation. : f Yesterdays- ; .... Of Old Oregon Town Talks from Tbe States man. Onr Fatbere Bead - December 10, 1905 . J. F. Uaruh, North Oak and Broadway,, sustained . bruises to his body and limbs when a stag ing in a nswly constructed build ing collapsed. . ( ' The Sisters ' of the Sacred Heart Academy are baring the street lawn in front of their property on Cottage street com pleted - and a new cement curb put In. . ; - . - - : Several - Salem firms - were among the successful .bidders -on the "lobs of Temodellng, repairing and. renovating- some ef the a"ov emment - buildings - at Chemawa. Among: them were: A. It. yraser. Capital Improvement . company, frank M. Brown and the Chas. K. - Spauldlng company. Oregon. Cedar Camp No, EZIS, Modern Woodmen ot America, elected the following- officers: W. W. HUU venerable consul; S. C. Bodley. adriser:. E. E.- i II aliens banker; F. LL Buell, escort; F. A, Turner, - clerk; L. C Hockett. watchman; .E. L, Xrrln, , sentry; A." Lw .Brown, manager for, ' two years; - Prof. M. Davis,- manager for three years, t...- ,- m 1 TODAY'S PROBLEM... One number exceeds another number by T. If f times the smaller be diminished -by- S times the larger, the remainder Is. . What are the numbers? Today's answer, tomorrow. ; Yesterday's answer: SO. feet. Scio Yomen Hold Bazaar SCIO, Dec ! The Ladies Aid society of the Christian church held a bazaar Saturday In. -the vacant store building - aext- to Wesley's store. : A turkey dinner was served at noon, llany beautiful and useful articles were sold netting a alee sum for the society. - . - s ; " GOia TO SWESX PLEASANT VIEW, Dec 1 . Mrs. Susan Neal Of OakrlJre, who has been visiting -here with rela tives for the past three weeks, has gone Tto. Sweet Home to visit her son and daughter-la-law, Ur. and Mrs. Arris Neal and her nephew, Hugh Cook, who are eperatlsg a pool kail and restaurant at that placsWv ' - III I n, L. s - v -6 3) : ? 'l, f 'At JCVDr CT T riU" 1 WllitJ Nancy HoUenbeek is the young and beautiful daughter of a poor but socially accepted family, she Is warned by her mother against marrying poverty Nancy, becom ing cynical, gives up - handsome Mat Tully and begins aa affair with: Jack' Beamer. . married ; to wealth. Jack plans to divorce bis wife and marry Nancy. On a trip to Yellowstone. Nancy meets Ro ger Decatur, a ranger.' The Por ters, . rien but ami relatives, ar rive. .-Nancy plans to use them as chaperones oa a mountain trip to meet Roger. I He appears the first night. The Porters are uot pleased. Nancy and Roger-take long rides over the , mountain trails. .They fall in love, bat Nancy tells ROger she will oar marry for wealth. She prepares to leave the mountain camp. CHAPTER XXL Thr butler idea helped, v ThU time next year she wouldn't be salvaging old clothes. She would leave - them . for the maid: vita a nice little apology about the mad; This little dress, is a sight stlU it was awfully expensive, and it wul be sweet when it Is fresh ened again . . . I wonder if you'd care to bother? . It ' should Just fit you " Nancy bad long since decided not : to be patronizing with servants, like Mama and Mrs. Craig, nor snippy like Aunt EUle. r She would be chummy, like Gil Neal's mother, who was so Important socially that she could afford to ask about the waiter's wife and cuddle the washlady's baby ..... She even whistled, almost con tentedly, while she got into her traveling - dress,, .biscuit-colored crepe de chine that wouldn't show the dust, - and - pulled : the wide brown straw hat over her, russet wares. Butcher knees .felt weak again when sow thought of trying to explain to Roger, Roger would n't understand.'. . . j ; I She found him by the deserted corral, his -long, graceful . body propped against a fence post, blond, uncovered bead ehtntng In the sua. . Tbe last mule train was Just disappearing around the bend:.;-- - ,j '; : - -: He was. unashamedly reUered to' sea hen T didn't know what to think when you didn't ahow up. "I was afraid you were mad ; His bright blue eyes rested oa her with, love and longing.. "Now that you're aere,? they said, "nothing matters not eyea miss ing our ride." - " - . ; . Nancy. o.uinned. It was going to be even harder that - ahe- had thought. - Oh, no . why should X be - angry t" - she murmured, avoiding his-eyes.. : f . "But ao ride todayT You're. all dressed up! Well, X tell you what, IT1 get mr car and: we'U have a picnic Maybe 111 do a Uttle fishings- v ' . -I couldn't Roger; not today. I wouldn't hare time I Just have a few minutes. . . . This is good bye." She tried to say it lightly. "I've ditched, the damned porters too much, so they're ditching me. I'm going back to Tosemlte oa the morning, stage." - -YOU WHAT?" . Tm going back to Aunt Ellis at the Awahnee. What else -CAN X dot ; The Porters wont take me on -.with them I. angled tor aa Invitation hard enough. Oh,. Ro ger,. Isn't it BEASTLY? When we were having, such a "perfect time Swear for see. won't yon?" US said slowly. "Too wouldn't go-back now if yoa cared lor me as I do lor you. You know Z cant my lob" -I can't help it." -: "You promised " - ; c "No I dldat not really. I meant I'd go on with the Porters because they were going, but don't you see that I can't now? Ifs -because I spent every minute here with, you that I'm not want" ed to go on. Good' heavens, did n't" I move heaven, and earth to even get to Tuolomnev Meadows ha' the first place? J, cant keep up this mad tearing all over after you. You'll hare to get another girt1 ..-..,.- . - THE STU1VIBLING BLOCIi SpP MB! 7 ,; .. 1 L-jS V StUl he leaned against the fen-co pulling at a piece of leather in his hand. His arrogant shoul ders were drooping. The light had gone out of his bright eyes. Quite suddenly Nancy knew she couldn't bear the thought of another girt tor htm. "Help me, help me!" she prayed to the God she ..bothered so seldom. "Help me now keep me from crying all over him!" She beat her hands . together weakly. "Couldn't, we couldn't we go somewhere and. talk?" He looked at her lizard ckia pumps. ' "Spoil your shoes." ' "Well, then in your car. I have more than two .hours, ana I'm all packed can't we have those last two hours, Roger?" . If yoa like." Methodically be pulled the can-' vas that served for garage off his battered roadster. Fished a large not overdeaa rag out of the back and dusted the -seat. "Not any too de luxe, Nancy. Sure ., you wont spoil your-drees?" "It doesnt matter." . Shedalmbed in;' and he started the motor. . Expertly be - backed the little car out of its parking place between .: two trees,' larned into the road, drove fast as chuck holes would permit, past swampy meadows yellow with cream eupe, over small streams, around fallen timber. ;. ,: v. "This isn't a very good road, but U's kind of pretty." His one contribution ta conversation. Nancy. bad nothing to say, either. She sat bolt upright, a fixed smile curving her red lips, eyes straight ahead. The family would have' knowa that something: was happening to Nancy. Something, new and strange, and" a little, frightening, Her velvety brown eyes, sweet and shallow, had turned dark and faintly startled, Here in the mountains, with' the wind whipping her soft hair into tumbl ed ringlets, and without her-accustomed careful make-up, she was - younger, : more appealing. Her pose was- shattered. She was n't -euro ot herself any more. "I eaoaldat nave-come,", she was-thinking. "It wUl only make ft harder . . I shouldn't even hare said good-bre. . . I hare the rotteoest luck, always liking the wrostg people. .- . This" Is worse than any of them . . , a -ranger ; .'. If I didn't feel so terrible I could laugh . . v losing my head over a ranger, and Jack Beamer counting the mlantes - until I get back . . . it's so hard .... I'm such" a fool , . - - : He-stepped the ear. la a sandy g-ully that sloped down ; to the river. :,j';rr .,.:.-'-...,' -:::'; 8he looked down at the llsard skin pumps. Her last decent shoes. How the family, would gasp over all the -ruined clothes. "Yes let's." Why think ot shoes- when ' you're tasting year last hour of madness, going bsck in a few short moments to sanity, and-a common sense-marriage?' GaUantly she stepped into the soft sand, climbed over a. bould er, slid down-a rock path. . "Wait 111' help yen." . So. independent to the last, she increased her pace, slithered over some long; lush grass and sat with more -emphasis than she bad intended -on a - grassy shelf, lust out of the spray from a minia ture Vernal Falls, Gravely he dropped down be side her, bis brown, slender band covering one of hers. - "See. there- are : violets nere little teeny tiny white- ones, Ja the grass!" sho cried, Just -to -be saying something. . -He looked at her, long and in tently, so that her color rose, and she- looked away, pretending to wateh-the 'falls. ."Help met He!p; me!" ahe formed the - words silently, mov ing', her- Ups, but even as - ahe prayed bo knew she was beyond help. Ito-ger.JDecaturS'.arms were closing -around her. His mouth was on hers. "I do lore you V she whisper ed. "I do I do!" And' clung to him, sobbing as she haa't cried since ahe was a chill. Zlaney, who i li m a 4 i . By HAZEL I JVINC.STON had long since decided love was Just one of Mother Nature's tricks, and' nothing -was- worth crying over, anyway. For years to come the-faint woody smell of fresh violets was to fill her with exquisite torture longing regret. . The car was all ready, plenty of oil and gas, tires -tested, lug gage neatly packed. Essie- and Gladys were sitting in the back seat, mannish straw hats straight on their heads, feet firmly plant ed, waiting. Mrs. Porter was also waiting.-;: -!. For .the second time la ten minutes Mr. Porter lifted the hood, of the engine. He seemed loath to start," "Well, I. guess it's all right. We can go now," he said. - .; Y.yl--,;.;- "AU ri-ht! Of- course it's all right!" his wife snapped. She glared at him, suspicion la her china blue eyes. "I told yon that before you looked. Why should n't it be all right, a fine engine like that? And if you're .holding up our whoje trip for that Nancy HoUenbeek. you got a Ions wait, Herman, and the girls and I will go insiae again. You needn't think she'll come- to say rood- bye. Not that one. We ain't so ciety enough for her. But a tough hostler , " "Ranger, mama," Gladys! cor rected. , i Anyhow; a common ranger Is good enough. Such ideas. I was opposed from the first. Why can't you girls ' be company for each -other? Always wantlnar others. and what for? Whenever it's strangers. Ifs Just . the same. Didn't the neighbor, kids break that pink tea: set Uncle t Ben brought from New York last win ter? Real genuine Havlland china it was,, and that bottle of 4 Ger man eoiogne the ' same way smasnea, the very nrst thing " "Mama, dear, that was years M " .... "Always .the same. Always get ting lmpoeed on, this family. I nope this teaches you a lesson. When -1 see Mrs. Watson again I'll have something, to ssy" : "Mama, please" ,;:,''; , :. -'. I - :-T; "Mama, you dba't care how you hurt us f-Essie was close to tearaV i - "I don't care, it is a shame the way that girl treated you tike dirt. 'I am going to speak my bum atrs. Witioa. Yes,. I am. I mean it. My conscience wouldn't let mo do any different. If it was pae of my girls-I'd expeet ber to do it to met". Mrs. Porter's flow ery toque wobbled on the back of her bead, two bright spots burn ed in ber cheeks - - vSo." Mr. Porter murmured, with a last lingering look toward the anvas cabins from which he had been momentarily expecting Nancy to emerge. But she was not in sight, so he steoned on th starter and blew a long; melodi ous farewell on the horn, effect ively- orownlnr out further con versation. - - ' The Porters, rid or their unan preclatlre .guest, were pa their way. -,,, - t " .- e e e . "Love at first s!a-ht.", Rorer was murmuring, and the war his voice- broke oa the words -made Nancy's eyes brim afresh and the pouaoug start again in her heart. "I thought it was a Joke X didn't know It ever happened, but, my dear, it does. It does ".. She- lifted her head from, bis shoulder and began to rub a din gy powder puff rather ffutilely over bar pink nose. "I know it's t-terrible. But well get over it. r .-- "Get over it?" ho echoed, laushlng, but ahe-did not laurh. srjjras erring ajala, helplessly. iis two nancs pTipped her shoul ders roughly. "Look here. -girl, what are you sayia?? Who's go lag to get over It?" " "B-EotSu cf us." ''sail. Nancy. and.laU her wet facs trtlnst t!ai f 'iff i -'.-yK ? coai sieeve again. - - CTo be continue!).. . BITS for BREAKFAST By It J. HENDRICKS Slavery in Oregon: Most readers of the Bits for Breakfast column know there waa slavery In the old - Oregon country. Leria and Clark found many Indian slaves; eo did later comers. Jason Lee, after became in 1SS4. had k family of Indian slaves wished upon him by Dr. MeLoughlin. who suggested that he take them In as wards at the old mission, lft miles below what became Salem. a V ' Jason Lee. was willing, but they must -first be given their freedom. That was agreeable to Dr. SfeLoegblln. So slavery waa abolished in Xh- Orerea Country, by Jason Lee and Dr. MeLeughUa who stood for all the' law inhere was then -one representing the Stars and Stripes and the other British Hag. W !.- But negro " slaves came, after that. Captain Clark had with him York, his alave and body guard a negro of -large sixo and great strength.' Negroes came with the first covered wagon- trains slaves. John P. Gaines, the sec ond governor of the Oregon ter ritory, though be was a whig, brought a number of. slaves, ar riving August IS, 1860. He kept them at his "governor's mansion" on bis donation claim, near what la now the -Skyline orchard. He bad regular quarters for the glares, back of the "mansion.'" and a number of them died and were burled on the place. - Tbe "mansion" stUl . stands, thougb the slave Quarters bare long since disappeared " -.-! V- . Tn the late fifties and early sixties, Salem though -then a town bf less than 10U0 people (the census of 1870 showed only L lSt), bad more negroes than the present city of IS.SOO -has. They were former slaves and their chil dren. -The "Little Central" school house, that stood on a part of the ground of the present sen tor high school, was built tor ne gro children; for in those days the- white -people- would not al low their children to attend a school in which there were col ored youngsters. The ''Little Cen tral." was a "Jim Crow" school house at first. V V V There was another time in the history of Salem when this city, though ft had only 2600 to 8000 people (the census of 1880 show ed 2538), harbored a larger col ored population than it does now. It was In the late eighties and early nineties. The condition was brought about partly by the com ing of R. S. Wallace, father of our Paul Wallace. His sister waa a missionary teacher in the south. Due to that fact, Mr. Wal lace brought e number ot negroes from the section of the south where his sister worked, I i : ; He came In 1884 or. 18S&: bought the water system.-started the Capital National (now the First National) bank, and opened up the extensive Wallace orch ards over la Polk county. .He pro vided quarters for the negroes, and they worked in the orchards. The negroes in that period main tained a church, of which Rev. Geora-e Wasbinartoa was pastor. It was located' out In North Sa lem; not far from the- present Highland school. George Wash ington was a sincere Christian man. -'.- For a long time, up to 1884, HI Gorman, a: giant negro, who had been a slave, was the motive power of -The- Statesman.- He ran the press, and counted out the papers. He could count up to 10. No more. But 1ft tens made a hundred so he got along all right. Old Hi went before the ma chine age, with a steam engine to run the press. He had a numer ous famUy. w Hi could bold more bad whis key than most ot the hard drink ers of even those days, when, a man. like the Scotchman, was never drank as long as he could lie on the earth without roUlng off. Hi was proud of bis children -more especially of the members or the ram.Uy who were more white (or yellow) than the oth ers. (Though .he had never heard of "Scarlet SUter Mary" or "Green Pastures.") - . j The negro population of Salem la 1IZ0 wai given la the census as 82; 22 - males and 21 fe males.. But it must be remember ed that a person for census pur. poses with any negro blood at all is classed as a negro.- The south- era members i of congress look out for that. su SL ". . : wnen tne race- tabulations are finisaed at Washington for the I7G3G3 l JUST A SAMPLE OF OUR USUAL LOW PRICES BRAN 63 lb. sacks,. 70c T.1ILL RUN i 3 ft. sacks, 75c v HcIIcd 0t5, GO lb. A cc;l:ts clcds cf Hay '.i . A.T7iiit2 & Sons 1SS0 census, it will be found that there are not . as many negroes here as there were 10 years ago; not a total of 63. The Oregon census book for 1120 does not list the Indian. Chinese. Japan ese ("and ail other." meaning all such,) population ef Salem sep arately but bunches them at 124. There is practically no In dian population here now; that Is, full bloods, as there was In the early days.. And we have few Chinese, though we bad a real "China town" la the eighties and nine ties, and top to less than 20 years ago. The eld "China towa" was on State street, the north aide, from Liberty to Court. Salem in those days had at one tune per haps as many as 500 Chines res idents. But we hsve more Japan ese than ever. We perhaps have more than 124 "all such" now; but they- are mostly Japanese. -- Thus it will be seen that Salem is almost a 10ft per cent white city, and nearly as completely aa American city. We have practic ally no "foreign born," as the term means for the' big eastern cities people who still speak the languages - of their home coun tries, and maintain their old cus toms and ways of living. Our "foreign born" have been natur alised, most of them, and their children have already all! been made orer in the "melting pot." : - f . All tbe above was suggested by an article tbe Bits man finds In the Oregon Historical Society Quarterly for March to June, If If. in which Fred Lockley pre sented "Some Documentary Rec ords of Slavery la Oregon." He said: "Though Oregon is far north of the Mason and Dixon line, yet slaves were held in Ore gon in the days ot tbe provision al government." He could, of course, have added that slavery (Indlann slavery) was customary before the ' days of the provision al government, and that negro slavery existed in the territory at least up to the summer of 1853. S ' (This will be continued tomor row.) I Mission Group ;j Meets Thursday HAZEL GREEN, Dec. ft The Women's missionary association Will have new adventures. ("Trav eling in Porto Rico. Thursday, December 11, at 2 o'clock at the G. G. Looney home. The program will be: Worship service, "As a witness I must render loving service," Rer. 8. A. Long. f. "An American Stranger Under the Stars and Stripes," Mrs. C. A. Van Cleave. " "A Land ot Beauty," Mrs. W. Q. Davis. "Finders No Longer Keepers," Mrs. Orrnie Luckey. j "Learning to Know the Porto Ricans," Mrs. Pearl Van Cleave. "Crops, Crops, ETery where and Very Little to Eat," Mrs. Louis Wampler. i Christmas 'songs; quarterly business meeting; -President Mrs, Iris Van Cleave la charge. Hubbard Pupils Enjoy Evening HUBBARD, Ore.. Dec. ft The seventh ' and . eighth grades en- Joyeda party in the musts room at the school house Friday even ing. . Merry games followed by refreshments made a Jolly even ing for all. t J. R. Bldgood. superintendent of - the high school and grades, was in charge of the party in the absence ot the teacher. Earl E. Rlnehart, who was called to Albany- on business. - Pupils present were Iris Moo- maw, Bessie, Jessie and Gladys IngtllsMIldred Coleman. Edith Ainsworth, Freda Voget, Helen Claypool Gordon Rich, James Bldgood, John DImlck. Lester Barrett,- Robert Beckman, Wil liam Cutting and William Heck- er, '.. CUE3T AT AURORA AURORA, Dee. I Mr. and Mrs. William Abel of Canby and Mr. and Mrs. Chester GUbreath. and daughter Joan, motored to Vancouver, wash. Sunday to vis it the parents of Mrs. Abel and Mrs. Gllbreath. A recent guest of the Gllbreath home waa Esther Hermans, ' assistant secretary of we cnamper of cam m area at Longview, Washington., j SCRATCHLFEED 1C3 lb. sacks. $1.85 BEET PULP 1C3 l czdL3, rd XSs tzj ZItzm a priec .-.