?No Favor: Sicays Us; . .From First Statesman, Martn zs, isoi THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Snucrr, Sheldon F. Sxcbctt, Publisheri ".-.. Chasxes A. SnucuB - ..-..- Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - - 'Managing Editor . i Member of the Associated Press : ! i The Associated Press Is xelitslvelr nrftlsd to tha dm for publica tion of all Mil dispatch credited to it or not otherwise credited In thla paper. , Pacific Coast Advertising Representative.: Kan Francisco Sharon Bide: r -r East Advertising Representatives; Ford-Parsons-Stecber.Ine., ; Chicago, sse . E a H aaa ayn miiii - Entered at the Poeloffiee at Salem, Oregon, ae SeeondXlaee Matter. Publieked every morning except Monday. Business office, Z15 S. Commercial street. STTRSCTRIPTION RATES : -wn RnKarintion rLfit in Advance. WHliin Oregon! ... vr...,-v.. v, w hers 60 cents per Mo. or li.69 tor I year In advance. By City Carrier t SO cent a month: I3. a year In advance, rcr . Copy 3 cents. On trains and News Stands cents. . m Unifying State Agriculture Activities v ONE of the most potent arguments against the cabinet form of government at the last election was that the legislature already possessed power to effect: most i Df the consolidations proposed, and that it was better to let this body undertake the task than to perform it b constitution al amendment at one fell swoon. j 1 : ! j i The opportunity presents itself in the consolidation bill which would substitute a 1 single department of agriculture Sot some 14 boards, offices and committees. .The governor, Instead of appointing a score of men, would select one com petent man for director and the latter would have direct responsibility over the varied activities of the department, through four subordinate division heads. The bill which Rep. MacPherson read may need some alteration, but its general idea is sound. It should,! unify and simplify the work and ought in the end to work for economy. In consolidated offices fewer clerks would be re quired, less floor space. In addition there would be more compact organization so that the work could move forward very efficiently. . S. I L ! Some years ago Washington state; made such a ! console idation. California has had it a long time! Only four or five states continue with such a multiplicity of separate j of f ices on related subjects as Oregon. The legislature has a good opportunity to consider the bill carefully, to consult with farmers and others affected, and to enact a law which will be highly serviceable, t : ' j I V Bids for New Pumper THE city council is calling for bid3 for an automobile for the use of the fire chief and for a 600-gallon pumper, j More equipment. Our fire-fighting department seems to think chiefly in terms of more equipment. The equipment is probably needed with a nice new fire station in South Salem all dressed up but lacking both men and equipment. - Are there other needs than equipment? We believe so. Better skill in the use of present equipment for one thing; perhaps additional men to handle it. What good will more pumpers be if the chief still has to grab a nozzle and get into the smoke instead of staying outside and acting as field general for the men fighting the fire? j The automobile is perhaps all right too, ! especially If ,the chief can get a five-minutes handicap and hunt j up the fire, so the trucks may know just where to go. ' Very frankly we are dissatisfied with our fire organi zation; not with particular men; but with the failure to function at critical moments. Salem is paying higher per capita than most other cities pf the state. We are not satis fied that the results justify: the big -expenditures. We would not stint the money; but the city is entitled to maximum protection for the money it pays out. It is squarely up to the men in the jobs from the council fire committee down to get on their toes and) take stock of themselves and their plant; otherwise there will have to be a new deal all around. Added outlays for pumpers do not substitute for effi ciency. J : ! The Intangibles Tax Refund . GOOD faith requires that the state refund to the tax payers the amount of the intangibles tax collected un der the 1929 law. The court declared; the law unebnstitu ; tional, and common honesty demands that the money be re turned. Such a law passed, I then the legislature may prop erly consider the matter of re-enacting the Id law, with modifications to conform to the edict of the court. It might be well if the legislature would! rewrite the whole structure of excise-intangibles-income ; taxes in the light of the decision of the court and the reaction of the : public to certain faults in these laws. The income tax rate :for example is too high; the exemption for intangibles too low. Could not a general income tax be prepared, jone for individuals and one for corporations? j j . , .-.'. The probability is that with the members so skittish over Political Power legislation, nothing will: be done on ' taxes save what has to be done. j j -, saasaMMaaawpaaaasBst - ! Free Textbooks AS a firm believer in free textbooks even before it be came a political issue in Oregon, we think the. legisla ture should consider carefully the conditions jindcr which the added burden is imposed on the districts There are some districts which are just too noor to do much more than pay a teacher several months a year. Some city dis tricts are in serious plight, Salem for example. How this district can take on the burden of free textbooks imme diately is a genuine problem. The legislature: in a burst ought to study all the factors qualify the phraseology of the law, or give districts a term f yeara in which to introduce free textbooks. The last session of the legislature dumped a big burden . on the schools in the' -transportation act. Free texts will add another. Then local boards are .blamed if school taxes mount. We need to temper the If all the surreys that are old Colombia will be 11 badly efts surveyed every year bf fresh crops .of engineering student. Surveys are one ot the best ways to kill off a subject and spend money as may be suggested. They are the political equivalent of a commission. , i . :, :i 1 WALDO 1IILLS, Jan. SI. The Happy : Hour club ot the Ever green school district met In regu lar session Friday evening. At the business meeting it was decided to hold a pie social February SO to raise funds for farther school Improvement. Following the bust aers meeting an unusually good program was enjoyed. It Included: "America," club; vocal solos. Johnny Orerhend, with Mrs. Olen Howe at the piano; violin and piano trio, Edith and Ethel Knight No Fear Shall Ate f ! : Los Ancele& XV. Pac. Bid. New Tork, XU Madison Av.J w, ancnigaa va. DallT and tS? 1 vr 14.00., Ele- i ! . of ipatriraonioua generosity of the ! situation and cither wind to the shorn lamb. proposed are carried oat the poor bruised as the OAC campus which . i and Maxlae Harmon; 'reading. Ethel Kalght; play, "Damaging Evidence. Ida Land, Edith Knight, Mardon Oveross, Harvey Kaser: accordlan solo. Melvln Kaser; piano solo, Maxlne Har mon. 'i ' : After playing games nntil 10 o'clock, lunch was served to 100 persons. . CTTOIIt rr$rvirvT!a. srv.TrrcT 6ILVERTON, Jan. Si Frank u. I'owen nas been elected pres ident Of the Christian church choir with Mrs. Carl Specht, vice president and Ulas Florence Pat. tyjohn secretary-treasarer. Bur- ion uurpny u - directing the choir. The Christian church choir has a - splendid group of singers ana it is attracting considerable lavoraoia notice locauy. HEALTH Tcday'a Jt& jit Is not possible to regard the teeth as structures Trnolly separ ate trom the entire human or ganism. T a e eondltloa o t the whole body li reflected to the very- lt t I L When there ' Is per fect health, yon will find perfect teeth. . Diet la r one of the funda mental factors ' In -the upkeep of the r body. But it ta not iDDQPLl w had only to eat to live life would be simple. Dietetic care is particularly Im portant In the formative, period, that is. during the pre-natal and Infant stages. A plentiful supply of milk, of the mineral bearing fruits and vegetables, are the chlf requirements during i this tlnie. - .' ' , To be on the safe side a mother must live by the simple rules ot dmt and general health during preenancr. Her baby must have tbe benefits of breast feeding- and direct sunlight. f . -i - Of course, during the lone win ter; months, when there is little sunshine, growing; children need thej protective vitamins found In cod-liver oil, orange and tomato juice, along with the milk diet. These foods reinforce the hone and tooth building forces in the little bodies. ; i x , All the common rules of health must be observed If a child Is to jhave sound teeth. If he eats candy to his heart's content. If he Is permitted to sit up late at night, if he spends his days play ingj Indoors, instead' of out-of-doors in the sunshine-, then, good mothers, yon are lading up fu ture misfortune for your child. From the time baby's teeth be gin to appear they should be cleansed with clean gauze wet with -water or salt solution. By the time the child la three years old, he should have about 20 tem porary teeth. Now Is the time to begin visiting the dentist, i for these teeth wiU perhaps need re pairing. Let a child be the proud possessor of his own toothbrush and dentifrice and learn to brush his! own teeth. -v The teeth should be brushed af tfer every meal. They should be brushed from the gums upward or downward, not across. In order to remove every particle ot food thait may lodge between i the teeth. Rub the gums every day with a clean cloth or toothbrush. This hardens the gums and stim ulates the circulation there. A child can bo easily taught these simple rules for teeth? protec tion. Ve plenty of hard foods, as well as nourishing foods. The teeth and Jaws need exercise as much as do the muscles. Body ex ercise is necessary for everyone, even for the baby. Let . the baby klqk freely. He loves it and needs it See that the members of your family have all the sunlight andT rresh air they possibly can. Have even the youngest three- year-old visit the dentist at least every six months. Let him find the cavities when they are small and when they can be taken care I j painlessly. Everything that can be done to promote the gen eral health should he done, for on! it, as I have saldi before, de pend sound teeth. Editorial Gomment From Other Papers i XOT ALWAYS EASY Munlclnal nower nroiecta oft. enj are very successful, given en gineering ana administrative di rection of a caliber equal to that of j private utUitles. There are numerous outstanding examples of i successfully operated munici pal power slants la the Pacific northwest. ; ; The citr of Hood River anm time ago decided to exBarfmnt with municipal generation of power, despite the fact that a large private plant : Is In- opera tion at its very door. Hood River felt that charxes for street licit. log were too high, so an engineer 1 a. ,1 was empioyeu, equipment pur chased and a generating plant Installed In connection with the f suu.ubu uoid springs domestic waiter project. On Monday, January 6, the water system was temporarily yuv vuv ot aervice ny a break, caused, it la rendrted. i h at. tempts to secure additional pres- auro at me water wneel that had been Installed at the city's Wil son street reservoir. Th lag and closing of turbine gate vaives produced a surge that re suited In a break in the pipe line about a mile above Tucker's bfidge. As a result Hood River residents were served with water pumped electrical! v rrnm tfc nit reservoir for about 2i hours. wane rural customers were with out water entirely. j , s 4 Last Monday a test was made ot the new street lights, supplied wua mumcipauy generated cur rent. The Hood River News frankly states that the lights were "very dim as compared with ether street lights". ? I NOW the mnnlHnil lighting project Is being held In apeyance wmie consulting engi neers attempt to design a valve. Of system of rellaf vai k. will prevent further breaks ot vais auna. The supposition is that thSV will anPMiJuf n)i.n,l.. Jlood River will be out the amount of money expended In its- street Hrhtlnsi vtntn,. wUl return service ottered by the private iiuiuy company, j. . ; ; . : I This U not Intended as criti cism or 1100a Rivers venture in municipal newer daTinnmi but rather as an example of dif ficulties oftn a city nndertakas . tn utiU. tv,. power . Dusiness "on It ' own j r h j ; ; KIOMPTNQ Hlg HELPER ; j ' fipf- ti till ; :;-; ; 1:v' - ::-4 m OMisr 3v v,,n Kf rmw SiraOcmis. Us. Btmu Swttla wtfw itmn. j ' ' - ! VTM - ll 1 1 Viuruci dl Bhlma Martin, cUed "Blm, young reporter, is anxious to aid her fathers small-town newspa per, the Kingcliffe Banner. She rejects the marriage proposals of Walter Vance, assistant chief-of-police. Walter asks Blm not to attend a party given by wealthy Emily; Hardy, j CHAPTER IL Emily Hardy was the leader and center of activity In the lit tle society- colony which lived on and about Fine Hill. Nature had given her a pass able amount ot good looks of the somewhat full-blown type; life had given her a husband, Peter Hardy, who was little and gray and mousy and immensely rich and who had learned to keep his place and sign checks without asking stupid questions; exper ience had given her an off-hand, hall-fellow manner which was sometimes was described as "gracious," and boredom had given her a craving fox celebri ties." : -j - She was a careless hostess, all things considered; she opened her enormous house, put at the beck and call of everyone who entered there, her servants,- her food, ; her wine cellar, her ram bling landscaped gardens and her bathing r beach at the foot of Eagle's Nest on the east side of the mountain. - After which she left her guests pretty much to themselves, popping up occasion ally to boom In her light baritone "everybody happy?' i On Lowland Drive, which crossed the grounds ot Eagle's Nest and went on up the moun tain in a southerly direction, there resided other members of the colony the Frosts; Bunny Balrd, the artist; the Trents. It was the usual thing when Emily Hardy entertained, for a string of motors to rush up from New York, SO miles down the river. And . sometimes Eagle's Nest was overrun with report ers and camera-men and even movie men, for young Mrs. Har dy gathered In notes ones from all over the world and cared, not a whit that some of them were rather more notorious than no ted; I Just so they , promlesd a break In the monotony ot living. On the evening that Blm strol led up the drive and across the terrace to keep her dinner en gagement, however, there, were present only the members of the Pine Hill colony, together with the guests ot honor, the Baron and the Baroness von Wlese. I Bun felt 'a thriirof anticipa tion as she laid aside her cape her one and only evening wrap In a little room at the back of the long, wide corridor which ran the length of the house, nodded to Imogene, Emily's personal maid who was In attendance there, and followed the sound of voices. to the Ubrary. Emily boomed a greeting and turned Blm over to the Baron, a bald-headed and decrepit old fel low who stumbled up from his chair and nearly tell over as he bent from the waist to kiss the back of Bim's hand, muttering the; while his pleasure in a lan guage not quite German and not quite French and not quite Eng lish but a mixture of all three. The old man sank hack heav ily on bis cushions, running a sUk handkerchief over his fore head. "Egscue, pits, Ma'm'selle. I have id, the sickness la the feedt. How yon say, goudtt" "Oh, I'm' sorry," Blm murmur ed. An old man too eld tor Em's shlndys. Something pathetle about him, too; something al most bewildered. Only his eyes were very cold almost fishy as they, took her in, appraised her as if she were a piece of bric-a-brac tagged with a price. Municipal ownership is not al ways the bed of roses that Its proponents would have us be lieve, The-Dallas Chronicle." L7 1 ' T i - ctgic b l NC&L j She flushed and wis turning away when Em , caught her arm. "You must meet thej Baroness, dear. Handsome my word. Ted is sunk already. Em's 'whisper was almost a bellow; and Blm flashed a glance at Mary Frost, who was, as she saw, pretending not to have heard. She followed Em to an isolated diran where Ted Frost's dark head,! sleek and shining as lacquer, iwas bent above a young woman.) ' 1 They were so deep in conversa tion that they failed to see the two who approached or If they did see they gave no si&n. Stand ing there those few seconds with Em fussing at her elbow, Blm bad opportunity to study the pair and she thought she never had seen a woman as beautiful as the Baroness or a man so apprecia tive as Ted. I i The Baroness was tail and the clinging lines ot her black gown, cut too low, according! to King cliffe standards, made her seem more slender than she! was act ually. Her hair was blue-black with a smooth, lazy wave falling across her ears and her eyes were long and dark, and, in contrast with her dead white makeup, en ormous. She looked, Blm thought, like one of the brilliant flowers late iummer had coaxed Into bloom; like an American beauty or a crimson dahlia. ! .She wondered if Ted were thinking this too as he leaned forward, his handsome, slightly dissipated face a-glow. Ted was the play-boy of Fine Hill; Ted drank too much and gambled too much and his flirtations werea tradition. Still he had. reformed within the past year; ! it must have been at least a year since Kingcliffe had had an occasion to whisper and speculate and look the other, way for Mary Frost's sake . . Poor, Mary . . . Patient Penelope, always waiting, always forgiving . . . i "Baroness - Em's boom was almost timid for once. But she had to speak a second time be fore that dark, exquisite head raised slowly, gave them an in different 1 stare. ' "Baroness Miss Bhlma Mar tin -great little .friend of mine" Always scrupulously uncon ventional that was Em. 1 "Ohr' The - Baroness voice was Indifferent; she might as Trying to Turn Over an OLD Leaf ALL SALEMl CHURCHES COOPERATING Judge O. P. By WINIFRED VAN DUZER well, I Bim thought, have1 said, "What of it?" ... : . . v'. Before the girl . could : utter a word the lovely head turned. The intruders were dismissed with the shrug of one white shoulder. "Well!" Bim felt like reaching over - j and clawing that perfect shoulder; then she felt like shrieking with laughter. -Airs!" she gurgled into Em's ears. : "I never--" - ' "Sh!" Em, pulling ' her down the room boomed out quickly, "Everybody here? Oh, Bob and Millicent Trent. My dear, they'll be the death of me, those two seasoned' love birds. - Ah, 1 here they are." Bim observed with interest the process of introductions, Milli cent, fluttering, little, well-meaning bungler trying to carry it off when 1 she mistook the old Bar on's Intention and snatched away her hand, leaving his salute to fall VDon emotv air: Bob'a stiff f low's j direction: Em dragging Millicent toward the divan; Milli cent taring no better with the Baroness that she herself had fared i Milicent's fluttering con fusion; fury leaping in the half, mad eyes of Bob. " "SometMng's going to break at Eagle's Nest!" Couldn't she get Walter's gloomy prophecy out of her mind? Was this it? Would Bob Trent make a scene because he fancied, though with reason,! that; the Baroness Ton Wleae had snubbed his wife? The wife he adored with fanatical de votion? . i Everybody j In Kingcliffe made allowance for Bob. Poor boy, gassed at Verdun, he was ill much ! of the; time and mentally unstable always. Anything might set him off. Would he say some thing,: do something violent? Bim held her breath. : Then, Em's heavy voice cut through the tension; some! one rustled; guests drew together. The moment was bridged and Blm breathed again. "Silly," shei kept repeating. "Nothing can happen nothing can break. Darn old Walter get ting on, my nerves." -. The table in the dining room seemed miles long: with Em at the head, the Baroness at her right, the Baron at her left. Blm drew the place between the Bar! on and Ted and directly oppos- jpr pm & . VM OsrtMsava Messsf Ccbhoiv, Speaker BITS for BREAKFAST -By It. J. ITENDRICKS r History of our library: ; I (Continuing from yesterday:) At that ttrst meeting of brary board representing the city. May t, 111. It was noted in the minutes that the historic E. M. Walte residence had been sold to the Deaconess hospital tor $011. It was moved to Its present location. S South Win ter street. With that buUdlng, the Deaconess hospital was start ed. Thus the Salem .woman's club may be said to . have been the mother of that pioneer hos pital, which has in the mean time served so many thousands of sick and needy people :mm:mm At that first meeting. Dr. IL II. Olinger, Charles L. McNary and Russell Catlln were made the building committee for the new hospital, and George M. Post was employed as architect, and the work of construction soon went forward. : . : s s There was I an interesting Inci dent as the building progressed. It was found that the truss . de signed to hold the roof was not strong enough for the purpose. The roof sagged. The contractor blamed the specifications; said they were faulty.; and demanded extra money for the, fault,.' But It developed that the truss; speci fications were made by Ralph Mod jeska, famous railroad and bridge engineer, a son of Helena Modjeska, world ) renowned Pol ish (then American) actress, at that time having a home in Cal ifornia. Modjeska, the engineer. was - temporarily in Portland. That reference settled the point, The contractor ' corrected his work to correspond with the specifications, at his own expense and nothing has been since heard about the sagging of the library building roof. V v In February, 1912, an entry was made in the minutes of the library board to the effect that the city needed the room In the council chamber occupied by the library. They were ordered to move. The, notation says the books were moved; to the Ecker- lln building. But The library was they were not. ordered out but It did not go. -I S On September 12 and 13, 1912, no hooks were served to the pub lic they, were being moved to the new library building. On the 14th, the library was open 14 ite Bunny Balrd ! whose eye she caught with a smile of sheer re lief.- . f Bunny , was. Inclined to be vague la some respects,, what with his philosophical maunder ings about this and that and his pictures which her painted in sea sons ot feverish activity and his periods ot glooming about his studio bungalow, above Lowland Drive. But he was very renulne. very much the thoroughbred and Blm adored mm as she : would have adored an older brother. Just ; now he was, she knew. as ; happy as it was possible for him to be alnce f.m, in' a, burst of rare generosity, had seated Laura Allan on ? is rig L Laura Allan, who never; turned a hand in Bunny's direction, was the sum total of all ; his hopes his crown Jewels, his pearl of great price. I . - j Over the soup Bim studied Laura her aristocratic profile, coldand clear-cut as a cameo; her aloof little smile; the glow that flickered and dimmed In her hatel eyes. Why did Bunny love her so? Why did he wait year after year hoping to win her? ' Laura was not really one of the Pine Hill crowd; Indeed she attended ! Em's parties In defi ance of the emphatic wishes of her father, crusty old Judge Al lan. Laura was a riddle, a mys tery. Sometime, Bim felt, 1 she might know; sometime she might become really acquainted with the girl she had j played with as a child. ' - I r . At Laura's right was Bob Trent, white-faced. emaciated, still glowering at the Baroness, still with the hint of frenzy slid ing over his countenance. Beside Bob Trent wac Marr Frost-nlear Mary, grown a little gray, a lit tle wrinkled, mpre than a little faded, with her frustrated years. Everyone in the world loved Mary and was her friend and Mary was a friend to alL Never a syllable of criticism on Mary's lips, never a hint of dislike la (Continued on page 11) we Lest Sunday February 1 7:30 sVasssaV hours, according to the notation on the minutes. And so it has served since, growing every year, every day., la November, 1912. the Salem school district and the city li brary work were combined, un der a contract that has since ex isted; and there has been most satisfactory service. The city li brarian has general charge of the whole; the care and repairing of the books, etc., etc. .. - Anne D. Swezey was for a long time in charge ot the institution,, as librarian, up to j February. 1917. Then came Floija M. Case, who was' librarian until October, 1923, when Mis Maud i E. Cov ington, the present librarian, took charge. Miss 8wezey married and quit library work. jMtss Case went from Salem tot Lockport, Ills., and Is now at Mishawaka, Indiana, in charge of that city's library. Before Miss Swezey. Es- sae M. Culver served ;t he Salem library for . a time. She Is now executive secretary of the state library commission ot Louisiana, ar Baton Rouge.- m ' m ' m was some There contention concerning the name of Salem's library. It Is officially the Salem public library. But there is a bronze plate Just above the cor ner stone of the building.; State and Winter streets lettered "Carnegie Library,. 1912."; The placing of even this was not re quired In our case by the offi cials of the Carnegie foundation, though in other like clrcumstan- ces it was supposed to be. In Sa- lem, it was voluntary j tainly : a worthy ' mark! And cer of gratl- tude. . , 1 mm ' ' How far has the Salem public library progressed? What does the 20th annual report show? A good many things. Ta be brief. It shows a grand total of 41, 246 books and pamphlets,. These are accounted for by 27,176 books and. pamphlets an January 1, '31, at f the main building, and 14,070 in the public schools. Of the latter, 9870 are In the jun ior high and grade- schools and 4200 in the senior high school. ! ; : It shows, Jan. 1, 13,410 reg ular patrons. It shows a total circulation for last year ot 162, 712 , books, of whlchj J20.036 were from the main library and 42.674 from the school depart- r ments, the latter divided like this: 12,191 from the senior high, 17,265 from the Junior high schools, and 13,218 from the, grade schools. .. j I "a a 1 That Is surely some growth. from the book social at the Geer home In 1901, when SO looks were given. The report at the end of the first year under city ad ministration showed 9978 books In the main library. With a pop ulation about twice that Ot 1910, the circulation for last) rear was about 17 times that of .the first year. Last year 2015 volumes were borrowed by the Salem li brary from the state library, , most of them for students. Besides all the above, it is es- 1 tlmated that last year 74,269 ad- ults and 28,963 children,, or a to tal of 103,233 patrons used the reading room. The library was open 30t days ot 12 hours a day, and three hours on Sundays. The auditorium or club room was used for 128 meetings. Story hour attendance was 973. The expenses ot the main library for last year were $14,021.31. Last year 17S new volumes were add ed as gifts. The highest circula tion for one day was 810. ; VI ; Of the $14,098 expenses latt year, $6730.10 -went Ifor salar ies; the rest for booki and per lodlcals, binding, heat, I light, up keep, etc. outside or the amount budgeted by the city, the library takes in about $2000 a! year now, for- tines, lost books, tees of ouH elders, etc. 1 Who are the-outsiders? They are those residing outside of Sa lem, who pay $1 a year each for -active membership. A bright, small girl whose hornet is In the country .wanted Santa Claus to bring her $1, so she might have a membership card and get books to i read. Santa brought the SI. The proudest moment jot her life was when she paid for and re ceived the coveted card. Now she can have books to read. 1 (Continued tomorrow.) et P. M. For a v f 'i v 1 V: