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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning December 12, 1930 1 i M f i "M Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall Ave From First Statesman. March 28, 1851 5 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. ; Charles A. SpracuC. Sheldon F. Sxcxm, Publisher Charles A. SftAcrs - - - - J Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett ... V. Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press ! 7. The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to th. dm for pabllea Joe ot all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur XV. Btv Pes. Int . Portland. Semrity Bids. Baa Pranriro. Sharon Bids.: ! AtvcHsa, W. pac Bldg. Eastern Advertising Rep resents tires : Ford-Parsons-St ecbr. Inc., New York. 171 Madison Ave.; Chicago. SCO K. Michigan Ava. Entered at the Potto ff ice at Salem, Oregon, at Seeond-Clatt Matter.' Published every morning except Monday. Business office, 15 S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION BATES: Mall Subscription Rates, In Advance. Within Oregon r Daily and Sunday. 1 Mo. 60 cents; 1 Mo. $1.25 C Mo. $1.25: 1 year f 4.00t Else where (0 cents per Ho. or $5.00 for 1 year In advance. By City Carrier: SO cents a month: $5.50 a year la advance. Per Copy t cents. On trains and News Stands 5 cents. Preventing Tuberculosis THEN AND NOW i Thrift and Truth TOOR hair-trigger work with injunction suits and man- JL damus proceedings the Capital Journal is pre-eminent among newspapers of the state. Whether it is to stop pay ments of ten dollars on city bills or to force a four thousand dollar special election on the county to put over its pet for public office, the Capital Journal is pop-gun with legal pro- .eeedings invoking constitutional guarantees and statutory prohibitions (except Mr. Volstead's) ; sometimes pro bono publico and sometimes pro bono Journalo. So we have been quite astounded in recent days with its apparent overlooking of one section 2233 of the Oregon code which relates to false representation in tne public prints, invoking pains and penalties of the law on an ad vertisement of any sort regarding merchandise, securities, service or anything so offered to the public, which adver tisement contains any assertion, representation or state ment of fact which is untrue, deceptive or misleading". For ' in connection with its alleged "thrift" campaign it seems I to us our esteemed evening competitor is violating the spirit if not the letter of this law. t Take the preliminary advertisement on its front page of December 1: "Bronxe bust statuettes of Lindbergh valued at $5. and a cash present of fifty cents to be given away free by the Capital Journal In the first place any such valuation on this bronze bank seems absurd. It might sell for a dollar in the stores; but if you take a look at it you will certainly agree that to be truly "valued at $5. it would have to contain several dollars on its insides, unless you attach great sentimental value to the Lindbergh psysiognomy. In the second place the Capital Journal is NOT giving away this bronze statuette-bank nor the fifty cents. The only thing it is giving away free is a lot of front page and inside page publicity space; receiving in consideration a fine advertising schedule amounting to some $600 or more. Take the following from its news story of Dec. 5th: "In addition to the basic offer of 50 cents extra and a statuette of Colonel Lindbergh, the Capital Journal offers the following prises: $10 for the oldest person opening an account," etc. Why not tell the truth, Capital Journal, and say that these prizes are . not given BY the Capital Journal but by those promoting the sales campaign? Asrain on December 9th we read in the Capital Journal: "You are also eligible to try to win one of the several special frizes offered by this newspaper In the campaign." "BY THIS NEWSPAPER." No, the correct preposi tion should be THROUGH this newspaper which is quite a different matter. The Statesman doesn't bring thi3.up out of any sour grapes. This campaign was first offered to The Statesman, but we specified very clearly the conditions on which the advertising would be accepted,, requiring that the offers be referred to as being made by the donors THROUGH the newspaper. A small matter perhaps, but we thought it rather important, so important in fact that we do not grieve over losing a nice piece of business. We are frank to say that the Capital Journal has been extremely strict in its standards so far as 'Truth in Ad Yertising" goes and it is a painful surprise; to observe its present dereliction from the straight and narrow path. Thrift is a good thing and thrift campaigns are good stimulators of the saving habit, and our banks and savings and loan associations are good institutions in which to trust sayings; but there should be good conscience even in laud able promotions. . Is it Stage Play 7 MANY newspapers in commenting on the treason trials in Moscow express the belief that the whole thing is stage play put on by Stalin to bolster his declining power. Perhaps. The Soviets are masters in the art of propaganda.; They know that intrigue and insidious words are more ef fective than artillery. TVia VQaia rf Vio ri-inla ven Tmrhlv rlpsertion on the nart Aliv wwa V .j . , f .1 v - m of the engineer-professors from the communistic program. The fellows probably did connive in hopes of starting some counter revolution which would unseat the Stalin party. With that as a basis the trials were made into a great drama with all of Russia listening in. The inclusion of France and England in the preposter aha scheme for aidincr the revolution was designed for home consumption just like our state department frequently has waved the Russian red iiag to scare tne Americans with, if."- ' The fact that the men escaped the death penalty is the . t ttrost : indication that in large measure the trials were dramas for frightening the disaffected in Russia. The win ter is a critical one for the Stalin party and a coalescing oi the discordant groups might mean his quick downfall. North Santiam on Map" O ALEM and Marion county will rejoice in the final de- Ocision of the state highway commission j to include the North Santiam route in the highway system of the state. The commission acceded to the request of the Marion coun ty court at its meeting this week, and thus the long period of contention over the road is at an end. 1 The road is very practical from an engineering stand point, will prove nearly an all-year' connection between the valley and eastern Oregon, and the low grade and low pass make the route very desirable from every angle. While state money is not available now owing to the state's en gagements on the south Santiam road, Marion county and federal money will be used on the road next year, each put ting up $100,000. j . '-y- This road will become increasingly important as an ar tery of travel as time goes on. j I - . - - snerce commission. A copy of the petition was received by the public jerries commission here Tuesday; ; j . The petition ! alleged that the proposed relocation of the rail road would provide more , ade quate service for that territory lying south of Klamath Falls and the Tnle Lake district, and would make the line - accessible to the tows of Malin and adja cent country. i The greater part of the line to be relocated under the petition la la Modoc gad Klesaatm. emit. ues, , t i. ' .' ' By VERNON A. DOUGLAS.' M. D. County Health Officer In Marlon county there oeeurrs nearly every year in the neigh borhood of 20 deaths due to pul monary tuber-1 eulosia. These ra to rtunate people are not sick for mere ly a few days. Their illness runs i n t o months and years. They are often in the prime of life and bread win ners for famil ies. It is not difficult to see! what a great economic loss r. . uoagu this means to any community. We make a great commotion over a few deaths from diphtheria or a fire In which two or three- people lose their lives and largely ignore or take for granted this great loss due to tuberculosis. These . patients - for the moat part contracted their disease In childhood from persons with whom they lived for some time father, mother, aunts and rela tives. Their case is usually not discovered early and as a result many others are exposed before, the danger is recognised. It is es timated . that in Marion county mere are at least 1000 contacts of tuberculosis cases. These con tacts are potential cases and at some period in their life when an extra strain is placed on the body through overwork, lack of food or illness, they may devel op the disease which was really contracted many years previ ously. The old forms of bone and gland tuberculosis are largely disappearing because as a rule these were due to milk which came from cattle who had bovine tuberculosis. Through the tuber culin test these diseased cattle hare been largely eliminated. The problem of the human form of tuberculosis, however. Im not so simple. Wiping out chron ic diseases: such as. tuberculosis is always a slow process because so many factors are. involved. There is the difficulty in early diagnosis. The economic factor plays an important role. A per son who has picked up tubercu losis bacteria earlier in life may develop tuberculosis because he is out of work, unable to buy generously of food or clothing and may be very poorly housed. There appears to be a definite relation between low inadequate wages and the incidence of tuber culosis. The disease attacks so often young adults and heads of famil ies who can little afford, and still who cannot afford not to take the necessary time off for treatment. During past years manr persons have felt that there was a certain stigma attached to having tu berculosis. This has now passed, however, and more persons go to their doctors early for examina tion. A health department can do a great deal to bring about a de cline in the tuberculosis death AnJWlCBy fiJrh VETOING reQfX? 1 .-' ' - - r IjftSjjL ( t O0WT SEE VWA . VJOSSJV? V llTf AUMAVS TD 11 GET Ttyrr- BJU& .lj rSSA UTTLE drcHESV53 BvACK P .j mtZ ! CAN I ASUU! J I GET . t N yZ g' . , . l t fs, r . j M hall .y "FOREST LOVE" Sgfe CHAPTER XTHI. "Water!" whispered Aunt El- lie, prostrate in-ier chair. "Damn!" Louise swore under her breath. Just like Aunt Ellie to feel faint because they were talking about something else and forgetting her. But she damp ened Annt Elite's brow dutiful ly, and brought her warm milk and placed a shawl over her fat shoulders. it naa been that way ever since Nancy left the valley. As soon as anyone spoke to Louise, or showed the least sign of wish ing to include her in a bridge game, or asking her to dance, Aunt Elite felt faint. jrirsi sne a close ner eyes, then she'd sigh. Then, it no one made solicitous inquiries at once he would plaoe one hand firmly over her frizzed bangs, and the other would paw the air feebly . . . "Louise . . . faint , . That always made a lovely w smw a.uu suawaaa aasaa, rate. But it needs also the coop- commotion with bellhops rushing I aBllL a J . M . .111 Va eratton of the community. Educa tion is an important weapon. Parents must know that children should not be exposed to tuber culosis cases. The patient . at home must also learn to protect others by properly disposing of sputum, using his own dishes and following doctor's orders. Pub lic health nurses are of great as sistance in helping patients pro tect the famUy and the commun ity as well as bring about their, own early and complete recovery. Every week at the health center in Salem there is conducted a chest clinic at which contacts of Kuberculosls which doctors have discovered are examined for ear ly signs of the disease and advice Is given on how to prevent its with ammonia and smelling salts and hotel guests pausing sym pathetically . . . "It there any thing we can do?" "Oh, thank you ... no notnmg, Lou would murmur politely. leading the old lady to ward the elevators when she wanted to shake the old fraud until her teeth rattled and scream. "Yes, help me knock her down and Jump on her. will you? Then, with Aunt Ellle safe In her room, with eau de cologne on her forehead and chocolates and mineral water close at hand, she could hut the communicating door and have an hour aione with her tortured thoughts. "I'm getting terribly bitter, Things can't go on like this. I SS22BJL. and food. VTate G.N. Asks Right To Relocate Its Southern Lines Partial relocation of ' Its pro posed line la Klamath county. Ore., and Modoc and Lassen counties, CallL, has been re oaested by t the Crest Northern Railroad company In a petition for an amended certificate, of public- convenience and necessity tned' with the Interstate corn- tuberculin test is done and when this is negative the parent can usually be assured that the child has no tuberculosis Infection. . There are many other weapons of' tuberculosis, of course, and they must all be used. Among having to toady to Aunt Elite and be a poor relation ... I hate men. too. l wisn i could have gone mrougn college and taken social service work ... or even stenog- rapny; it's better than living like this. I wonder now mama Is. I e fresh Jr' de: wish the davenport and the frig- MTTi lnBilATiftl fi fa tnsif i vi aa4 s I - : 7" r r: r:r?: "ia . aoout that ranger , " . . , Bn met. it would be Just like f f C?ra ?lay tneir1Tf1 Jack Beamer to find Out where h2 ?i!r,ferat!; cr".wnlch be is and motor up . . . Mrs. uMf il?. ,.,?WIr Ml1 Tege; Porter wouM talk. for. of course, tables from afar at all seasons of ah. i-oa. .w.t.. the year, shorter hours of work- she's lust the kind. ani .h.M ins; and more recreation to assist body repairs. Active cases must continue to be foUowed up care fully. Christmas seals on your Christ mas packages indicate that you are interested in wiping oat tu berculosis. In Marion county ev ery person should buy at least 20. The money is used to help pay for supervising nursing ser vice for the nearly loe cases of know he's married." The days were bearable thousrh. It wss the nights that, were ter rible. In the daytime she could at least sit on the veranda., con scious that she looked cool and crisp and rather lovely,- without Nancy to divert Interest. There's a sweet looking girl," she knew the prosperous business men In golf pants who turned buck to look again were thinkinr. And tuoercurosis and 1000 contacts lah .m.i.. .i. in me county ai au times. j turned back to look mm wars thinking. And. she knew the ath letic girls with sunburned noses and scuffed shoes envied her her smooth Ivory skin and trim, un scarred slippers. , After all. it was rather fun staying in the best hotel, wearing Immaculate linens and organdies, lips carefully tinted geranium, Dec la. 1905 ! hair brushed till It was The state horns how-inr vim I uark brown satin . . . not even two out of three from thm rmh I Aunt Ellle could spoU that. club last nlghL Rolling for the I 1 Bnt "ateats! The nights champions were: W. ; N. Catena. I weP terrtblev Blaeny quiet nights Yesterdays ...Of Old Oregon Town Talks from The States naa Our, Fathers Bead J. D. Sutherland, Judge Bean. S. Koser, Prof. Clarke and Mr. Davidson. 1 with Aunt .Ellie, who slept too much during the day. wakeful, and fidgety until midnight. Road district 28 has voted I U5 for conviction of the thief or a special tax levy of It mills fori thieves. improvement t the Halls ferry road along the ot Baiem. river southwest The J. C. Lee eomoanr of, Sa lem Is offering $400 worth of mining stock free with every . The B. F. West home at Union and Summer was scene of an ear ly morning fire. o o i TODAY'S PROBLEM... I- share of its stock bought before tne lint ot the year. - ., -, . -- . I i Lead fa 11.2 S times it titin Following theft of several la-las water. How much Is a cubic dies, wraps at Chemawa hall foot of lead worth at Ee a nound? Thanksgiving. eveninr. the M..B. ITodar's aaawer tomorrow. Tea. A. lodge has offered a reward ft Iterday's answeri 114.17 ctt in. "LOUISE! Are you in bed yet? I feel I'm not going to sleep. You better ring for my warm milk and tell them I don't mean skim milk, a little cream in it. I've got to have my nourishment though I don't knew what for with the husband tfve gtt . . . HOSPITAL for rheumatism! Humph. I kn'ow why he went .'. . pretty nurse. I know men, you can't trust them after all I've done for him all these years!" And when she finally dozed. juouise at her window looking out into the star-flecked night list ening . . . listening . . . - Sometimes she heard laughter. Sometimes dance music, once the tinkle of a mandolin and a man's voice singlnr out there In the dark. "Funiculi. Funicular" , . , the nights were , the worst. Mall came for Nancv. A rrar envelope from Mat Tully. What in the world could be in it? Why should he be rwitlng now after the way Nancy treated him? Not for worlds would Lonise onen a letter addressed to her sister hut she picked It up, weighed It in ner nanas. held It arainst her cheek. There were Jack Beamer's let ters, too. She hid those hastily in a suitcase. Aunt Ellle must not notice them before Nancy came back. ' . Three weeks. Aunt Ellie was determined to stick it out as long as Uncle Joseph staved in the hospital, but she was already re penting or navmg brought her nieces, delighted to think that Nancy was continuing her vaca tion at the Porters' expense. 'Such a fine opportunity for Nancy," she said, whenever she thought of It, which was not verv often. Out of sight, out of mind with Aunt Ellie. She even forgot to tell Louise the joke about silly Mrs. Porter tipping a stage driv er. And now they were home aaraln and Nancy still with the Porters. At least, she said she was but Jack Beamer's letters had abrupt ly ceased. No more came to the house to be forwarded to Nancv. Perhaps' that meant that Nancy was keeping him Informed of her address, writing every day or so to him while she neglected the family. But that wasn't likely. Nancy was not given to letter-writing. Jack Beamer had a stock farm somewhere in Nevada. Could Nancy have been foolish enough to visit -him there, on one of his wild bouse parties? Surely she wouldn't be so foolish . . . - And yet,' having spent a couple ot days getting acquainted with the stolid Porters. Louise- could hardly Imagine Nancy staying on with them so long. A few days perhaps to get the trip to Tuo lumne Meadows, but hardly three weeks ... unless she was having some sort of affair with that ranger, and even that was Im probable . . i I wish Nancy would come on home. I don't want her staying in Reno with those Porter peo ple!" mama fussed. Oh., she's all right. Mama. stop WORRYING," Louise answ ered . patiently, at least once ev ery half -hour. If she could only think so! If Nancy would only write .... a real letter. e : Nancy Hollenbeck Nancy Hol- enbeck that waschewed her pen and scowled at the scrawled sheet at the desk before her. "Oh, Lord. I don't know what to say." she yawned, and covered her pink mouth with an ink-stained finger. "You don't know my famUy. Roger. The devil himself couran i reason . wun tnem once they get an idea In their beads. Now t if the Porters ' ruin every thing by writing . from Talae the day. I wrote from Reno . . . oh, dear" She groaned, and laugh ed sad threw him a kiss. . Roger Decatur, scrawled tnli length on the- bed, pushed the eve ning papers aside and raised him self on one elbow.- so that h could gets better look at Nancy. "I wish you'd cut out the monk ey business and tell them the truth." he said, a little wistfully. "Why?" "You know why. I don't like secrets, Nancy. It it sort of cheapens things. Tou and I . . . sneaking ", He broke off, embarrassed at Nancy's whoop of Joy. "Darling, do you mean you're afraid I don't look like your lawfully wedded wife? You sound Just like mama! You're going to have something in common after all, you're- both a0 so RESPECTABLE!" "Just the same, I wish you'd tell them." "Roger, dear. I will after a while." "But I mean now." Nancy's soft red mouth quiv ered ever so slightly. She pushed the russet curls back from her forehead with a tired gesture. "If you won't understand that I Just don't want to worry them right now, with dad half sick and mama worrying over one thing and another " When her voice broke he felt a brute. After all, it was her af fair really. He hadn't any people. No one but Nancy . . . his wife whether the world knew it or not. "Nancy it's all right, old lady. I guess you're the boss. Make up?" BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Slavery ,1a Oregon The compact or constitution ot the Oregon provisional govern ment, adopted by vote at tne Champoeg meeting of July 5, 1841, provided: -Article 4. There shaU be neither slavery nor in voluntary servitude - in said ter ritory." W But the legislature (legislative committee of nine members) ot 1844 took a whack at the mat ter. Peter H. Burnett, one of the leaders of the 1842 immigration. later supreme judge and after wards the first governor ot Cal ifornia, was a. member of that legislature. He was opposed to slavery and liquor. He wrote the dry law that was enacted. V Under his leadership, the 1844 legislature passed an act outlaw ing both : slavery and free ne groes. It required, within three years, the removal from the em bryo state of any slave or tree ngro or mulatto with a penalty of whipping with not less than 20 nor more than 20 stripes, ev ery six months, till any such ne gro or mulatto left the country. This was at the June session. At the December session the law was reenacted. but the pen alty changed. If any free negro or mulatto would not leave the country, he or she might be hired out to the lowest bidder that is the bidder who offered to get him or her out of the cfruntryln the lowest number of days. The Bits man finds no record of the enforcement of the law by such hiring. But the provi sion that no negro or mulatto should be or remain in Oregon was carried clear over to the state constitution, and It remain ed there until 1928 when the people voted it out; though they had refused to vote it out in 1916. and every other attempt had failed to get rid of it. How ever, It, became a dead letter af ter the adoption of the 14th and 16th amendments to the consti tution of the United States. S U -V It would take a whole shelf of books to cover the history of Oregon's participation In the slavery questions that shook the country in the forties, fifties and sixties. That sinister black curse ' kept back the settlement of the Oregon country; halted the ad mission of this country as a ter ritory; held up the admission of Oregon as a state. " - It made the situation that threatened the creation of jthe Pacific republic- proposed to comprise the territory west of the Rockies., and that territory to be outside the limits of the UniUd States. The pioneers of Oregon many of them were from slave: states, were largely instrumental in averting the danger of that movement. "U The way the provision against free negroes got into the Oregon constitution was this: When the vote on Its adoption was taken, the second Monday In November, 18E7, there were three proposi tions on the ballot. I. "a First, on the adoption of the . constitution. This received a majority-ot 2080 votes. On the sec ond proposition, slavery or a free state, the vote was 2845 votes for slavery and 7727 against, or for a free state. On the third, only (Continued on page 7) He came back and took her in hits arms, rumpling her bright hair, holding her closer . . .clos er. Nancy relaxed with a soft lit tle sigh. Her head was on his shoulder, her cheek next to his. She shut her eyes and the ugly hotel room -disappeared ... so did her half-written letter to ma ma. "I do love you. I do!" she whispered. . "Nothing matters hut us." ! Nothing matters but us she really felt that way; when Rog er s arms were about her, his brown cheek against hers. Hadn't she run off and married him without even a trousseau, and not knowing or caring where they were going, or how they were go- L . - . a m . ng to lire, xsotnmg mauerea, not the hot, dusty ride I out of the valley, nor the Bonanza Hotel, with Its splotched wall paper and squeaky bed. Nothing was real but Roger . . . Roger and love. It was as if she were living, real ly living for the first time in her life, and all the other things, the things that used to matter so much, were half forgotten dreams. "If anyone had told jne that I'd ever start off on a wedding trip with two suitcases full of dirty clothes and four pairs of scuffed shoes, I'd have said they were CRAZY!" she told Roger on that, first giddy, care-free day. "Why, you're all right. Yon look beautiful to me," he said soberly. He meant it, poor dear. Nancy could hardly keep from kissing him- riding through the main street' in Reno in his dusty, weather-beaten car. Her heart beat high. She thought ot mama . . . how surprised she'd be . . . Louise, too would never believe she'd have the courage to go through with it neither would the girls, May Belle Craig and the others . . . poor make-shifts they were getting . , .Imitation love. "Nobody can say I'm not a good sport!" she thought, with a funny little glow of pride. For so long she had thought of her self as spoiled and selfish and glorified in It. But now she wss different, evervthlne was differ ent when she was with Roger, (To be continued) Shipley's Wa 'Rnv All ntff Tt,.V..A. 5WX3CJC3S3C FOR 'KERCHIEFS FOR MEN 23, 50, 75c, 1.00 , a r ft !.miH11 fflptfurm, ) 5 . Practical gifts for the youngsters' Christmas This Christmas, undoubtedly, you are planning to give 4 number of gifts which will be amusing or entertaining to rour boys and girls. And that , is as it should be. But do not overlook the value afforded by a Gift Savings Account opened for each c them here at the United States National. One dollar (or more if yon wish) Is all you need for thi initial deposit On such a basig you can easily afford to opeJ n Account for, each child. v j ThV United States National Bank Solcm, Oregon - ZIEUBER z UNITED STATES NATIONAL GROU?